Chapter Summaries

Tang San attacked Dai Huabin at Shrek Academy in revenge for an earlier beating, while Tang Ya decided to investigate before acting against him. Kong Ming'an chose to leave Tang San alone as a valuable specimen, but Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo interrupted Kong Ming'an and Zhang Lexuan at the door.

• Tang San ambushed Dai Huabin without his guards, overpowered him, and beat him until the Academy Patrol Team intervened.
• Tang Ya identified Tang San's technique as a Tang Sect secret and decided to report the incident before investigating him further.
• Kong Ming'an told Zhang Lexuan that Tang San should be left to develop without preferential treatment, provided he did not die.
• Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo knocked on the door, interrupting Kong Ming'an and Zhang Lexuan.

Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming went to Zhang Lexuan’s room to summon her for a meeting with the Mingmeng Chamber of Commerce, while Zhang Lexuan hid Kong Ming'an inside. After her aides left, Zhang Lexuan and Kong Ming'an discussed their tangled relationship, and he failed to convince her to keep its boundaries clear.

• Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming discussed Zhang Lexuan’s exhaustion while knocking at her closed door.
• Zhang Lexuan answered from inside and told Wu Ming that Ju Zi would arrive in three hours to discuss the chamber’s future cooperation with the Academy.
• Han Ruoruo suspected something was wrong when she heard suppressed breathing and a faint sound like the Blood Red Chain, but she left with Wu Ming.
• Inside the room, Zhang Lexuan clung to Kong Ming'an and said she understood what he liked, while he called it an illusion.
• Kong Ming'an told Zhang Lexuan that he could not be her master, controller, user, husband, partner, and lover at once, but she asked why not.

After spending the preparation period with Kong Ming'an, Zhang Lexuan met Ju Zi, who gave her evidence of corruption among Outer Court teachers and hinted they were alike. Meanwhile, Kong Ming'an reviewed the new students’ records and saw how Tang San’s assignment to Zhou Yi’s class could draw him into Zhang Lexuan’s coming purge.

• Zhang Lexuan and Kong Ming'an continued their intimate encounter during the three hours allotted for preparation.
• Ju Zi met Zhang Lexuan at Shrek Academy and presented evidence of misconduct by veteran Outer Court teachers, including Zhou Yi.
• Ju Zi said she wanted nothing in return and told Zhang Lexuan they were the same, prompting Zhang Lexuan to wonder how many people were around Kong Ming'an.
• Kong Ming'an reviewed the new students’ records and noted that Tang San had been assigned to Zhou Yi’s class and flagged for close observation.

Kong Ming'an reviewed Shrek's freshmen and noticed Wang Dong'er was missing, then found her enrolled at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. He suspected the Plane Will had placed her in his path because of his interest in Tang San's Divine Sense.

• Kong Ming'an judged Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao promising candidates for long-term cultivation and observation.
• Kong Ming'an searched Shrek's student and applicant lists but could not find Wang Dong'er.
• Kong Ming'an asked Meng Hongchen for the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's enrollment roster.
• Kong Ming'an found Wang Dong'er listed as a third-year student in the Soul Tool Operations Department, enrolled for two years.
• Kong Ming'an inferred that Wang Dong'er had reached Mingdu after Da Ming and Er Ming disappeared and wondered whether the Plane Will had deliberately brought her to him.

Wang Dong'er arrived at the Kong Family Chamber of Commerce for the Sun Moon club's final assessment to become a core member, hoping the status would help her investigate her fathers' disappearance. As she began her first connection to the Ling Shu Network, Kong Ming'an and his companions watched her soul, preparing to interfere with Tang San's Asura God Seat.

• Wang Dong'er recalled how her training at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy had strengthened her and why becoming a club core member mattered to her search for her Big Daddy and Second Daddy.
• Wang Dong'er entered the Kong Family Chamber of Commerce and followed a staff member to a laboratory for her assessment.
• Wang Dong'er removed her Soul Tools, entered the Test Chamber, and connected to the Ling Shu Network for the first time.
• Kong Ming'an and the white-haired girl entered the laboratory and observed Wang Dong'er's soul while they bantered intimately.
• The Ice Empress watched Kong Ming'an and the girl with displeasure as the group prepared to interfere with Tang San's Asura God Seat.

Kong Ming'an examined Wang Dong'er and discovered that her incomplete soul was being sustained by a fading remnant of Tang San's Divine Power and Divine Sense. He realized he might be able to study and manipulate that power, leaving him with a plan to use it as a model for advancing his own abilities and potentially challenging Tang San for the Sea God Seat.

• Meng Hongchen teased Kong Ming'an about Wang Dong'er before he explained that she could be considered a Daughter of the God King.
• Kong Ming'an determined that Wang Dong'er's soul was missing half of itself and reconstructed how Xiao Qi's soul had been divided into Wang Dong'er and Wang Qiuer, eventually becoming Tang Wutong in the original course of events.
• Kong Ming'an explained that Tang San's blue-gold Divine Power and fading Divine Sense had formed a symbiotic bond with Wang Dong'er's Remnant Soul, but would dissipate within two or three years.
• Kong Ming'an rejected Meng Hongchen's suggestion to extract the Divine Power by killing Wang Dong'er, since separating them would likely destroy all three.
• Kong Ming'an realized he could try to incorporate his own power into the remnant Divine Power and Divine Sense, analyze them, and possibly use them to seize the Sea God Seat from Tang San.

After three months of research, Kong Ming'an completed his work on the sleeping Wang Dong'er and woke to find Meng Hongchen by his side. At Shrek Academy, Tang San struggled through Zhou Yi's punishing training when a god trial update appeared in his mind.

• Kong Ming'an spent three months researching Wang Dong'er and finally infused the last trace of energy into her.
• Kong Ming'an slept for around ten hours with his head on Meng Hongchen's lap, then learned that the Ice Empress had gone to find the Snow Empress.
• Kong Ming'an invited Meng Hongchen outside and used a Space Gate to transport them and Wang Dong'er's Test Chamber away from the Laboratory.
• Tang San endured Zhou Yi's extreme training at Shrek Academy, which she had imposed after their class was cut to fewer than ten students.
• Tang San kept running under a burden four times heavier than standard as Zhou Yi demanded he win the Freshman Assessment or leave Shrek Academy.
• A voice in Tang San's soul announced that his God Trial had been updated.

Tang San received an easier Sea God Fourth Trial and pushed himself to exhaustion to complete it, believing his main body had intervened. Kong Ming'an had actually seized control of the trial by stabilizing Wang Dong'er's Sea God Martial Soul, leaving the story with Tang San unconscious and Kong Ming'an holding the Sea God Trial's authority.

• Tang San discovered that the Sea God Fourth Trial had changed to running laps and surpassing his limits, with an Asura Divine Power infusion as the reward.
• Tang San accelerated through his brutal training, while Zhou Yi decided to give him pills to boost his potential so he could win the Freshman Assessment.
• Tang San completed the trial at sunset and collapsed unconscious on the track.
• The chapter revealed that Kong Ming'an had reconstructed Wang Dong'er's Sea God Martial Soul and embedded his spiritual imprint in it.
• Kong Ming'an used the Sea God Martial Soul to fool the trial system and take control of the Sea God Trial while God Realm Tang San could not interfere.

Kong Ming'an used his control over the Sea God Trial to plan to interfere with the Asura God Seat. Unaware that Kong Ming'an might disrupt his plan, Tang San transferred Asura Divine Power to his lower-realm Avatar to reduce the strain on himself and prepare to reclaim it later.

• Kong Ming'an realized the Sea God Trial's preset functions could let him interfere with the Asura God Seat, and he wondered whether Tang San had delivered it into his hands.
• Xiao Wu asked Tang San whether he could still suppress the Asura God Seat, and Tang San reassured her despite his exhaustion and barely contained killing intent.
• Tang San recalled that the God of Destruction had forced him from the God Realm Committee and taken his authority over the God Realm Core.
• Tang San sensed that his lower-realm Avatar had completed another God Trial and began sending it a small amount of Asura Divine Power as a reward.
• Tang San noticed the transfer was taking longer and assumed his Avatar had gained greater capacity, so he continued sending power until it reached its limit.

Kong Ming'an extracted Asura Divine Power from the sleeping Tang San and condensed it into a God-Bestowed Soul Ring. Back in his laboratory, he absorbed it safely and gained his fifth Soul Ring, which he called the Asura God Ring.

• Kong Ming'an used the Sea God Martial Soul to draw Asura Divine Power from Tang San and condense it into a dark red God-Bestowed Soul Ring.
• Kong Ming'an cut off the energy extraction, concealed what had happened with an illusion, and left Shrek Academy with Meng Hongchen and Wang Dong'er.
• At the Kong Family Chamber of Commerce laboratory, Kong Ming'an began absorbing the Asura God Ring, and his control prevented its energy and killing intent from harming him.
• Kong Ming'an completed the absorption and displayed five Soul Rings, with the newly added fifth ring carrying Asura Divine Power.

After absorbing a God-Bestowed Soul Ring, Kong Ming'an realized it contained a fragment of the Asura God Seat's Origin that God Realm Tang San had meant for Lower Realm Tang San. He considered how he could use future fragments to seize control of the Asura God Seat, then focused on sensing its other holders.

• Kong Ming'an absorbed the dark red Soul Ring and discovered that it contained Asura God Seat Origin rather than ordinary Asura Divine Power.
• Kong Ming'an reasoned that God Realm Tang San had granted the Origin to Lower Realm Tang San to ease his own struggle to control the Asura God Seat.
• Kong Ming'an realized he had intercepted the grant and could potentially absorb more Origin from future grants, eventually gaining control of the Divine Seat.
• Kong Ming'an turned his attention to the Asura God Ring's ability to sense other holders of the Asura God Seat Origin.

Kong Ming'an used the Asura God Seat Origin to observe Tang San and Xiao Wu in the God Realm, then followed a connection to an unknown holder in another plane. The First Generation Asura God crossed into the Douluo Plane to confront him, only to discover that his Divine Seat Origin had become Kong Ming'an's.

• Kong Ming'an sensed the faint Origin within Lower Realm Tang San transforming his body in Shrek's medical ward.
• Kong Ming'an reached the God Realm, identified Xiao Wu as a bearer of the Asura God Seat Origin and Asura Divine Sword, and observed God Realm Tang San struggling to suppress the Seat's backlash.
• Kong Ming'an traced a fifth connection to a white-haired, red-eyed middle-aged man in an unfamiliar plane, who noticed his gaze.
• Kong Ming'an withdrew to his main body, sent a distress signal to the God Realm, and escaped the Laboratory to a clearing outside Mingdu.
• The middle-aged man emerged from the Asura God Ring's Origin and tried to reclaim it, but found that his Divine Seat Origin had become Kong Ming'an's.

Kong Ming'an summoned the God of Destruction after the First Generation Asura God traced their connection, and the two gods clashed over the Asura God's repeated projections. The Asura God then revealed he wanted to learn whether Kong Ming'an's unusual cultivation path could help him advance further.

• The God of Destruction repeatedly annihilated the First Generation Asura God's projections until the Asura God stopped trying to speak through them.
• Kong Ming'an explained how he intercepted the Asura God Seat Origin transmitted by Tang San and how the First Generation Asura God had tracked him.
• The God of Destruction demanded to know why the Asura God had approached his Divine Seat inheritor, and the Asura God claimed he had followed Kong Ming'an's gaze back to him.
• The God of Destruction questioned why Kong Ming'an had risked taking the Asura God Position, while the Asura God observed that Kong Ming'an valued control over power given to him.
• The Asura God pointed to Kong Ming'an's unusual Soul Rings and said he wanted to explore the possibility of advancing further through Kong Ming'an's cultivation path.

The Asura God explained why he had left the God Realm and why Kong Ming'an’s unusual power made him worth investigating. Before departing for the God Realm, he gave Kong Ming'an extensive knowledge about Divine Seats and Divine Artifacts, including plans for the Asura Divine Sword.

• The Asura God said that the Traditional Divine Seat System offered no clear way to advance beyond God Kings, which had driven him to leave the God Realm and search the Universe for greater possibilities.
• The Asura God told Kong Ming'an that his ability to steal the God Seat Origin as a Soul Ancestor made him an unprecedented mystery worth studying.
• The Asura God said he would return to the God Realm and use the God Seat Origin to locate Tang San, a journey expected to take at least five or six years by Douluo Plane time.
• The Asura God apologized for frightening Kong Ming'an and dispersed his projection, sending a torrent of information through the Asura God Ring.
• Kong Ming'an used his two Silver Radiance Soul Rings, led by Ling Shu, to organize the information and discovered it contained Divine Seat and Divine Artifact forging methods, including blueprints for the Asura Divine Sword.

After surviving the encounter with the Asura God and the God of Destruction, Kong Ming'an returned to his laboratory, arranged for Wang Dong'er to leave, and began exploring the idea of creating a master-bound Natal Artifact. He then remembered he had broken his contract with Zhang Lexuan by neglecting it for three months.

• Kong Ming'an returned safely to the Mingdu Laboratory, where Meng Hongchen had been preparing to activate the Highest Emergency Protocol.
• Kong Ming'an arranged for the sleeping Wang Dong'er to leave the laboratory after her three-month operation had given her a Sea God Martial Soul.
• Kong Ming'an proposed combining a Divine Seat with a Divine Artifact and using a Soul Ring to create a master-bound Natal Artifact, then asked Ling Shu to test the idea.
• Kong Ming'an discovered that he had failed to fulfill his contract with Zhang Lexuan for three months.

Zhang Lexuan’s relentless work and violent thoughts alarmed Kong Ming'an, who discovered she had gone three months without rest. She accepted his order to rest on the condition that he stay with her.

• Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming were relieved when Zhang Lexuan said she would rest, then returned to work while Han Ruoruo faintly heard chains inside the office.
• Kong Ming'an found Zhang Lexuan exhausted and reaching for the Blood Red Chain, and refused to let her continue their indulgence.
• Zhang Lexuan blamed Kong Ming'an for breaking his promise and admitted she had worked nonstop for three months because he had not visited.
• Zhang Lexuan confessed that she wanted to kill the corrupt people implicated by Ju Zi's evidence, but stayed busy to suppress those impulses and rebuild Shrek.
• Kong Ming'an told Zhang Lexuan she needed real rest, ordered her to rest, and promised to stay with her.

Kong Ming'an cared for Zhang Lexuan as she fell asleep, while Shrek's publicized Freshman Assessment semifinal brought Huo Yuhao face-to-face with Dai Huabin. Huo Yuhao overwhelmed Dai Huabin with his Spiritual Eye and began beating him in revenge, leaving the match in progress.

• Zhang Lexuan fell asleep in Kong Ming'an's arms after promising to take him to watch a show.
• Kong Ming'an settled Zhang Lexuan on the sofa, covered her with his coat, and watched her sleep.
• Shrek's Freshman Assessment semifinals drew a large public crowd after Zhang Lexuan partnered with the Mingmeng Chamber of Commerce to promote the tournament.
• Huo Yuhao's team faced Dai Huabin's team, whose members included Zhu Lu and Cui Yajie.
• Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Eye overwhelmed Dai Huabin and his teammates with a flood of information, leaving them unconscious or struggling to remain upright.
• Huo Yuhao identified himself as Dai Huabin's younger brother, then kicked him repeatedly as revenge.

Huo Yuhao brutally retaliated against Dai Huabin during their match, while Xiao Xiao and Ning Tian overwhelmed Tang San in the other semifinal. Cornered and desperate, Tang San swallowed Zhou Yi’s pill and lost himself to a violent surge of killing intent.

• Huo Yuhao recalled Dai Huabin’s past abuses as he beat him down, while Du Busi stopped the referee from intervening.
• Kong Ming'an praised Huo Yuhao’s developing Law Cultivator style as Zhang Lexuan pointed out that the other semifinal was nearing its end.
• Xiao Xiao and Ning Tian used the Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron and precise support skills to pin Tang San down after knocking his teammates out of the arena.
• Tang San, whose cultivation had risen to level forty after his God Trial, swallowed the pill Zhou Yi had given him.
• The pill unleashed a surge of Soul Power and killing intent, leaving Tang San surrounded by Blood Mist and devoid of clarity.

The referee exposed Tang San’s use of a forbidden Blood Soul Pill, voided his results, and announced an investigation into its source. Shrek’s public response to the scandal expanded into a reckoning over Zhou Yi’s abuses, ending with the academy announcing her sentence: public lingchi.

• The referee stopped Tang San from attacking, showed footage of him taking a forbidden pill, and disqualified him.
• The referee identified the pill as a Blood Soul Pill and vowed that Shrek would investigate its source and punish those responsible.
• Zhang Lexuan told Kong Ming'an that the assessment scandal was only the opening prelude.
• Reports about Dai Huabin’s humiliation and Tang San’s cheating fueled public backlash against Shrek.
• Shrek published evidence of Zhou Yi’s abuses, admitted its oversight, announced compensation and a faculty review led by Zhang Lexuan, and sentenced Zhou Yi to public lingchi.

Shrek publicly executed Zhou Yi by Lingchi after exposing her abuse of students, while the broadcast spread across the Douluo Three Kingdoms. As the public believed the purge was over, Zhang Lexuan began an even harsher Judgment against Shrek's own members.

• Qian Duoduo told Fan Yu that Mu En would not spare Zhou Yi, while Fan Yu continued kneeling and pleading.
• Han Ruoruo read Zhou Yi's crimes to the crowd, including expelling hundreds of students and inflicting abusive training and punishments.
• A former student whose brother had died after Zhou Yi's abuse began Lingchi, destroying Zhou Yi's cultivation while keeping her alive.
• The Mingmeng Chamber of Commerce spread news and footage of the execution throughout the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
• Zhang Lexuan continued the purge by beginning a Judgment against Shrek's internal members.