Chapter Summaries

Xiling transported Bella and the Ghost Emperor to a forest outside Shrek City, then used his domain to prevent the Ghost Emperor from manipulating space and left Bella to fight him. Bella overwhelmed the Ghost Emperor, and as Shrek’s powerful fighters hurried toward the battle, he realized he needed to escape.

• Xiling used his third soul skill to transport himself, Bella, and the Ghost Emperor to a forest outside Shrek City, where his domain suppressed the Ghost Emperor’s control over space.
• Xiling disappeared and left Bella to face the Ghost Emperor, who defended himself with nine skulls and unleashed a net of ghostfire.
• Bella blocked the ghostfire with a void barrier, then struck the skulls with lightning and disrupted their formation.
• The Ghost Emperor fused the skulls into a giant one and fired a powerful beam of ghostfire, but Bella countered with a red dragon’s breath attack and overwhelmed it.
• Bella’s flames burned the giant skull and left the Ghost Emperor’s skeletal body exposed as powerful figures from Shrek City approached.
• The Ghost Emperor saw the approaching auras and decided he had to flee before they reached the battlefield.

Bella killed the Ghost Emperor with a Dimensional Slash, then confronted Qiangu Dongfeng in his office and warned him against harming certain people or pursuing forbidden plans. She left Qiangu Dongfeng facing the threat that she could kill him despite the protection of Qiangu Dieting.

• The Ghost Emperor fled after Bella absorbed his ghostfire, but she cut through the planar barrier with a Dimensional Slash and erased him.
• Yun Ming, Yali, Zang Xin, Qiangu Dongfeng, and other powerful Soul Masters arrived and were shocked by Bella's strength before she left without speaking to them.
• At the orphanage, Xiling watched the sky close and reflected that Bella had used Dimensional Slash better than he could, while Na Nali praised Bella.
• Qiangu Dongfeng returned to Spirit Pagoda headquarters and found Bella waiting in his office, having bypassed its defenses.
• Bella warned Qiangu Dongfeng not to touch certain people or pursue certain plans, threatening to kill him and challenge Qiangu Dieting if he did.

After Bella’s victory weakened Qiangu Dongfeng and strengthened the Leng Family, Xiling left Shrek City for the Far North. There, he entered the forbidden zone and began drawing in its dangerous Honkai Energy, alarming the researchers and guards.

• Bella returned to Xiling after threatening Qiangu Dongfeng, while Na Nali eagerly offered to serve her.
• Xiling stayed in Shrek City before leaving for the Far North, and Bella remained behind to spend time with Leng Yaozhu.
• Yun Ming admitted that Bella could defeat him under normal combat conditions, pushing Di Tian to second place in the rankings and boosting the Leng Family’s standing in the Spirit Pagoda.
• One month later, Xiling crossed the Far North and entered the violet-black forbidden zone, where he used the Void Core to draw in Honkai Energy.
• Researchers and Titled Douluos stationed nearby noticed the energy surging, and a black-haired girl insisted that no one could absorb it safely.

Xiling absorbed the Honkai Energy in the Far North, revealing a vast abyss full of Honkai Beasts before losing consciousness and falling into the snow. As the beasts surged out and the Titled Douluo fled, Xiling drifted through a void toward a mysterious purple sphere.

• The Honkai Energy receded from the abyss, exposing tens of millions of Honkai Beasts and a colossal creature with power comparable to a Limit Douluo.
• Xiling's consciousness was pulled into darkness, and he began drifting through an endless void.
• The research team and several Titled Douluo saw the monsters in the abyss and rushed toward the source of the drained Honkai Energy.
• Xiling fell into the snow unconscious as the Honkai Beasts broke free and charged out of the abyss.
• A Titled Douluo used Martial Soul Possession to retreat with the group, and they fled toward the Northern Legion's garrison.
• Xiling drifted through a cosmic void until a cracked purple sphere illuminated by a pillar of light appeared before him.

Xiling woke in the Northern Legion after a painful vision of Sirin and fragmented memories, but he could not recall what had happened in the Far North. After being questioned by Guo Zhenfeng, he met Ling Zichen, who had brought him back and wondered why the energy near him had left him unharmed.

• Xiling suffered a burst of pain as strange memories flooded his mind, and he called out Sirin’s name before an ethereal voice answered.
• God King-level powerhouses in six Divine Realms felt a supreme will guide them toward a way out of a black hole.
• Xiling awoke in a recovery ward at the Northern Legion’s camp and was taken to an interrogation room after medical staff saw he was conscious.
• Guo Zhenfeng questioned Xiling, checked Leng Yaozhu’s letter of recommendation, and ordered him to stay in the barracks.
• Ling Zichen entered Xiling’s ward, identified herself as the person who had brought him back, and questioned why the nearby energy had not harmed him.

Ling Zichen deduced that Xiling had created the restricted zone and unleashed its energy, while Xiling tried to deny it. She confronted him with the clues she had gathered, leaving him cornered by her conclusion.

• Ling Zichen asked Xiling whether he had absorbed the restricted zone's energy and offered to pay for an explanation or study him, but he refused and used spatial power to send her away.
• After appearing on a road near the barracks, Ling Zichen concluded that Xiling was connected to the energy's disappearance and resolved to investigate further.
• Xiling meditated and realized that recovering Honkai Energy had not increased his strength because only corrupted Soul Masters granted him experience.
• Over the next three days, Guo Zhenfeng confirmed Xiling's identity through the Spirit Pagoda, while Ling Zichen persistently watched him.
• As Xiling prepared to leave, Ling Zichen challenged him with her deduction that he had created the restricted zone and produced its energy.
• Ling Zichen explained that Xiling's knowledge of the classified crater, his arrival near the energy's path, and his immunity to its corrosion proved he had unleashed the attack and returned to recover its energy.

Xiling incapacitated Ling Zichen and isolated her memories of Honkai Energy before continuing his journey toward the Blood God Legion. In the desert, he killed a swarm of Sand Demon Bugs and returned to his tent to rest.

• Xiling admitted that Ling Zichen had correctly deduced his purpose and warned her that Honkai Energy could bring calamity to the world.
• Xiling used Spatial Isolation to render Ling Zichen unconscious and isolate her memories of Honkai Energy, then left her behind.
• Xiling traveled west from the Far North and crossed the continent toward the Extreme West and the Blood God Legion.
• In the desert, Xiling drove off one Sand Demon Bug, but a swarm led by a fifty-thousand-year-old bug attacked him.
• Xiling used six Subspace Spears to kill the Sand Demon Bug King and the rest of the swarm, then went into his tent to rest.

Xiling crossed the Heaven's End Mountains without using his martial soul or Soul Power and reached the Blood God Legion to enlist. After presenting Leng Yaozhu's recommendation letter, he was taken in for an assessment that would determine within three days whether he could stay.

• Xiling followed the map into the snowy mountains and trekked across the difficult terrain under the enlistment rules.
• Xiling climbed a steep cliff by leaping and kicking footholds into the rock, then reached the military camp on the summit.
• Four soldiers emerged from the snow and aimed their soul ray guns at Xiling, who explained that he had come to enlist.
• A female soldier checked Xiling and his recommendation letter, then escorted him into the camp and told him his place would be decided within three days.
• A young woman with the rank of lieutenant began arranging Xiling's assessment and warned him that fewer than one-third of recruits stayed in the Blood God Legion.

Xiling began a military assessment that required him to protect a female captain while advancing through a dangerous underground trial without Soul Power. After he fought his way through bat-filled tunnels, the captain ran ahead into a cavern swarming with bats.

• Xiling chose a longsword for the assessment despite the young woman's warning and learned that he would have to fight without Soul Power.
• A female captain took charge of Xiling's assessment and brought him into a simulated trial where he had to protect her as they advanced.
• Xiling discovered he could still use the Void Core after Soul Power became inaccessible, then followed the captain into an abyss and onto a net above the darkness.
• Xiling led the way through a dark passage and cut down bats that attacked them.
• Xiling and the captain entered a vast cavern filled with bats, and the captain sprinted deeper into it as the bats swooped toward her.

Xiling protected the female captain from waves of bats and a giant snake in the cave, then reprimanded her for putting them both at risk. When the monster Ba An emerged, Xiling prepared to fight it while the captain moved away.

• Xiling cut down the bats surrounding the female captain and killed a group of six-clawed bats with his sword.
• Xiling threw his longsword to kill a massive snake before it could bite the female captain, then recalled the weapon with his mental power.
• Xiling told the female captain that her reckless actions could endanger her comrades, and she admitted that she had been wrong.
• Yellow mist filled the cave as Ba An emerged, and Xiling told the female captain to hide while he prepared to face it.

Xiling faced Ba An without Soul Power, then used Honkai Energy from his Void Core to summon a Subspace Spear and kill it with one strike. A succubus emerged next, but Xiling shattered her curse and pierced her before she could use her other abilities.

• Xiling cleaved Ba An's Abyssal Demon Flame with his sword, but Ba An's scales resisted his attacks and its claw broke the blade.
• Xiling dodged Ba An's blows and kicked it into a cavern wall, leaving only a minor dent in its chest.
• Xiling revealed four purple-and-gold Soul Rings and formed a Subspace Spear using Honkai Energy from his Void Core.
• Xiling sent the Subspace Spear through Ba An, shattering its body into motes of light.
• A succubus emerged from the central hole and tried to curse Xiling, but he broke the curse and pierced her with the Subspace Spear.

Xiling passed the Blood God Legion’s assessment and was assigned to the Special Service Division pending a higher-level evaluation. After registering and settling into his quarters, he learned that senior officers were reviewing footage of his assessment.

• Xiling killed the succubus, passed the assessment, and returned with the female captain to the camp.
• The young woman registered Xiling and was shocked when he revealed his Level 44 Soul Ancestor cultivation and four purple-gold soul rings.
• The captain introduced herself as Long Yuxue and guided Xiling to his quarters, explaining the camp and its rules.
• Xiling revealed the abundant food Leng Yaozhu had packed for him, then settled in and ate.
• More than a dozen Blood God Legion officers, including two generals, watched footage of Xiling climbing through the Endless Mountains.

Long Yuxue showed the officers Xiling’s extraordinary assessment footage, and the Blood God Legion commissioned him as a captain. He was assigned to the Special Operations Department as a staff officer and deputy head of the Reconnaissance Section, with Long Yuxue overseeing his special training.

• Long Yuxue presented Xiling’s assessment footage to Long Tianwu, Xu Weitao, and the other officers, who were stunned by his strength and combat ability.
• Long Yuxue told Xiling that his assessment score was ready and escorted him to the commissioning ceremony at Blood God Legion headquarters.
• Xu Weitao announced that the legion had promoted Xiling directly to captain in recognition of his exceptional performance and placed the insignia on his uniform.
• Xu Weitao assigned Xiling to the Special Operations Department as a staff officer and deputy head of the Reconnaissance Section, with one month of special training before he took up the post.
• Long Yuxue told Xiling that she would be his special training instructor and that he would follow her arrangements.

Xiling explained his knowledge of the Abyss and learned that his captain rank depended on passing special training. After a week of instruction, Long Yuxue took him to begin practical combat training in the Abyss.

• Xiling recounted the Abyss's history and the Federation's costly war against its creatures, and Long Yuxue explained the Special Operations Division's duties and how Xiling could lose his rank.
• Over a week of training, Xiling mastered Long Yuxue's lessons and helped her reach Soul Power level forty.
• Xiling dismissed camp gossip about his promotion and said he would prove himself through his results rather than act impulsively.
• Long Yuxue announced that Xiling's training would move to practical combat and said she would take him to choose equipment.
• At the quartermaster's office, Long Yuxue spent two hundred merits on two Abyssal isolation passes so they could resist the Abyss's destructive aura and use their Martial Souls.

Xiling accompanied Long Yuxue into a C-rank abyssal passage, where his spatial abilities let him kill every abyssal creature they encountered with ease. At the second node, he considered whether his spatial domain could close the abyssal passages and decided that earning merit points this way was too slow.

• Long Yuxue insisted that Xiling take several Soul Tools, then brought him to the abyss entrance, where he used Spatial Displacement to carry them there instantly.
• Long Yuxue equipped her battle armor and led Xiling into a C-rank passage after the Blood God Legion’s protection system confirmed their identities.
• Xiling killed a Devouring Lizard and then annihilated a group of more than a dozen, earning one hundred and sixty merit points.
• Xiling’s Subspace Spear killed a giant Devouring Lizard before Long Yuxue could finish warning him, and she reminded him to be careful.
• At the second node, Xiling considered whether his spatial domain could close the abyssal passages, then judged his merit-point progress too slow and thought about targeting something bigger.

Xiling and Long Yuxue pushed through the passage as Xiling revealed overwhelming abilities and killed thousands of abyssal creatures. When the Abyssal Tide arrived, he brought Long Yuxue back to the Blood God Legion’s defenses, where a massive gray-black torrent battered the shields.

• Xiling evaded a Six-Clawed Demon’s ambush with Spatial Folding and killed it with a Subspace Spear.
• Xiling removed his aura-concealing equipment and slaughtered waves of abyssal creatures with a gaze that froze them and burst their heads.
• Xiling and Long Yuxue reached an empty passage, where Xiling announced that the Abyssal Tide had arrived.
• Long Yuxue tried to flee, but Xiling sensed a gaze within the tide and brought them both back to the Blood God Legion’s defensive position.
• The Abyssal Tide struck the defenses, and the gray-black torrent battered the barrier as it flickered under the impact.

A Level Three Abyssal Tide overwhelmed the first line of defense, forcing Long Yuxue and Xiling to retreat as the Blood God Legion prepared for battle. When the Black Empress attacked the front line to open a breach, Xiling confronted her and wounded her with Dimensional Slash, driving her back into the abyss.

• Long Yuxue led Xiling to the second line of defense as the Blood God's Heart shielded the retreat from the Level Three Abyssal Tide.
• After two hours, the Destruction Energy assault subsided, the shield vanished, and the Blood God Legion opened fire on the advancing abyssal creatures.
• A lieutenant colonel's forces destroyed several Ba An, but the Black Empress broke through the front line and drew a call for a Titled Douluo.
• Xiling ignored Long Yuxue's warning and confronted the Black Empress, breaking her shield with a powerful punch.
• Xiling struck with Dimensional Slash, severing the Black Empress's wings and badly injuring her before she escaped into the rear.

Xiling used the Void Realm to annihilate the Black Empress Clan and most of the abyssal vanguard, then exhausted himself recovering as a powerful attack surged from the Abyssal Passage. Long Yuxue shielded him, while a three-word Battle Armor Master struggled to stop the incoming strike.

• Xiling trapped the wounded Black Empress Clan with Spatial Imprisonment and unleashed the Void Realm, killing her and more than ninety percent of the abyssal creatures on the battlefield.
• Long Yuxue and the Blood God Legion watched in shock as Xiling returned to her side and sat down to recover most of his depleted Soul Power.
• A furious roar came from the Abyssal Passage, and a grayish-white current blocked the Legion's attacks and erased the lingering spatial turbulence.
• When a grayish-white beam targeted Xiling, Long Yuxue moved in front of him, and Xiling opened his eyes to see her protecting him.
• Bella sensed danger to Xiling from the orphanage in Shrek City, while a three-word Battle Armor Master arrived and repeatedly struck the beam but could only slow it.

A mysterious blue-white attack saved Xiling and wiped out the level-three Abyssal Tide, after which Blood Eight brought him to Blood God Camp. The Blood Gods watched footage of Xiling’s battle and learned he was not yet eleven and had come from the Spirit Pagoda.

• A blue-white streak neutralized the attack threatening Xiling, destroyed the Abyssal creatures, and struck the far end of the Abyssal Passage before fading away.
• Bella confirmed Xiling was safe, while Long Yuxue recovered from shielding him and accepted his thanks.
• Xiling told the Three-Word Battle Armor Master that someone backing him had launched the attack, and she took him to headquarters.
• Blood Eight revealed her identity as the eighth-ranked Blood God and introduced Xiling to Blood Seven, Blood Five, Blood Six, and Blood Three.
• Xiling told the Blood Gods he was nearly eleven, had recently arrived, and came from the Spirit Pagoda; Blood Eight then showed them footage of his battle.

The Blood Gods questioned Xiling about his ability to erase abyssal energy and learned that his spatial power suppressed energy of a lower level. Cao Dezhi made Xiling an auxiliary member of the Blood God Camp, and Long Yuxue came to take him to the operations department to receive his reward.

• Blood Three asked Xiling how he and the person behind him had annihilated the abyssal energy, and Xiling explained that his spatial power suppressed it because its energy level was higher.
• Blood Two and Cao Dezhi arrived, watched the footage, and Cao Dezhi recognized the blue-white attack as the same one that had killed the Ghost Emperor.
• Xiling credited the soldiers and Blood Gods who fought at the abyssal passage, earning their approval, and Cao Dezhi appointed him an auxiliary member of the Blood God Camp.
• Xiling refused Cao Dezhi's suggestion to stop fighting and focus on cultivation, since battle suited him better and his meditation progress had slowed sharply.
• Long Yuxue visited Xiling and invited him to the operations department to receive his reward for his merits.