Chapter Summaries

Xu Yuan gathered intelligence in Demon Sound City and learned of a Dragon Plane controlled by Demon Monarch Arcci, which the Nine Great Dragon Kings wanted him to investigate. He later reached Bale City, where he began assessing reports about Bale’s unusual power.

• Xu Yuan learned that the Demon Plane held a sacred forbidden ground and obtained special metal materials in Demon Sound City.
• Xu Yuan discovered that Arcci controlled a passage to a Dragon Plane, and the Nine Great Dragon Kings asked him to find a way inside.
• Xu Yuan agreed to gather intelligence about the Dragon Plane and learned that the Dragon Soul Mark could support three bursts of power.
• Xu Yuan traveled to Bale City and learned that Demon Lord Bale had gained forbidden-ground power and could reportedly unleash strength approaching the Greater Demon level.

Xu Yuan investigated the Demon Plane’s forbidden lands and learned from Xiao Jia that the Dragon Plane’s dragons suffered a bloodline curse that limited their strength. Xiao Jia traced the defect to a great upheaval ten thousand years ago, but neither he nor the dragons knew what had caused it.

• Xu Yuan concluded that Demon Lord Bale’s Thunder Secret Technique might be a law gained in a forbidden land, though he remained unsure whether the lands held Deity inheritances.
• Xu Yuan asked Xiao Jia whether the Dragon Plane had dragons capable of rivaling Demon Monarchs, and Xiao Jia said Arcci had enslaved the dragons because none could.
• Xiao Jia told Xu Yuan that his apparently strong bloodline was incomplete and would develop problems when he reached the Lord Level.
• Xiao Jia explained that dragons had been cursed with a bloodline defect since a great upheaval ten thousand years earlier, when all Overlord-level dragons died.

Xu Yuan learned that a cataclysm had submerged the Dragon Plane for ten years and may have damaged its cultivation system, though Xiao Jia’s bloodline showed no defects. He brought Xiao Jia to Shrek City to study whether Mountain Dragon King inheritance could change him, while Ya Li realized the Demon Plane connected Shrek to countless other Realms.

• Xiao Jia told Xu Yuan that the Dragon Plane had suffered a cataclysm ten thousand years earlier, when the sky cracked and the sea submerged the continent for ten years.
• Xu Yuan and the Nine Great Dragon Kings suspected damage to the Dragon Plane’s cultivation system, but the Mountain Dragon King found no defect in Xiao Jia’s bloodline.
• The Light Dragon King and the other Dragon Kings warned Xu Yuan not to enter the Dragon Plane, so he decided to gather more information before investigating.
• Xu Yuan took Xiao Jia to Shrek City to observe how he changed after receiving the Mountain Dragon King’s bloodline inheritance.
• Ya Li learned about the Dragon Plane and realized the Demon Plane served as a transit platform linking Shrek Academy to countless Realms.

Xu Yuan brought Xiao Jia from the Demon Plane to Sea God Island so Yun Ming and Tree Elder could examine his damaged bloodline. After learning that the Dragon Plane’s laws had been stripped from Xiao Jia’s bloodline, Xu Yuan prepared to use the Dragon Soul Mark, and Yun Ming opened the way to the Dragon Valley Small World.

• Ya Li discussed using the Demon Plane to gather resources and urged Shrek to work with other factions to explore it.
• Xu Yuan took Xiao Jia through the Demon Gate to Sea God Island for Yun Ming and Tree Elder to examine.
• Yun Ming found Xiao Jia’s bloodline strong but lacking the oppressive presence of Zhuo Shi’s, while Tree Elder sensed that it had lost the support of the Dragon Plane’s laws.
• Xu Yuan arranged a bloodline baptism for Xiao Jia and asked Yun Ming to help activate the Dragon Soul Mark.
• Yun Ming took control of the mark with the Power of Heaven and Earth, sensed its resonance with the Dragon Valley Small World, and shouted, “Open!”

Yun Ming used Tree Elder’s power to reconnect Dragon Valley Small World to the Douluo Plane and stabilize a gateway from Sea God Island. Gu Yue and Qian Gu Dongfeng noticed the spatial disturbance, while Xu Yuan entered Dragon Valley with the Nine Great Dragon Kings’ dragon qi protecting him.

• The Nine Great Dragon Kings approved Xu Yuan’s actions and welcomed the prospect of Dragon Valley receiving more life force and passing on dragon inheritances.
• Yun Ming opened a space passage, and Tree Elder drew Dragon Valley Small World back into connection with the Douluo Plane.
• Yun Ming established a gateway near Sea God Island and stabilized it with the Golden Ancient Tree’s power.
• Gu Yue sensed Dragon Valley’s return and considered what its reconnection might mean for the Soul Beast revenge plan.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng and Zang Xin noticed the spatial fluctuations near Sea God Island and wondered what Yun Ming was doing.
• Xu Yuan entered the gateway protected by nine streams of dragon qi and called for Xiao Jia to follow.

Xu Yuan brought Xiao Jia to Dragon Valley so he could undergo a bloodline cleansing and escape the Dragon Plane’s influence. After showing him the Mountain Dragon King’s remains, Xu Yuan told Xiao Jia to sense the Bloodline Essence within the Dragon Bone and try to absorb it.

• Xiao Jia fell through the portal and landed in Dragon Valley, where Xu Yuan explained that the dragons there had all perished.
• Xu Yuan told Xiao Jia that he would stay in Dragon Valley as a guardian after receiving a bloodline cleansing.
• Xiao Jia felt the Dragon Souls’ grief and learned from their impressions that the once-mighty Dragon Valley had been destroyed in a single day.
• Xu Yuan led Xiao Jia past the Dragon God’s resting place to the Mountain Dragon King’s enormous remains.
• Xu Yuan urged Xiao Jia to sense and absorb the Bloodline Essence left in the Dragon Bone to break free of the Dragon Plane’s restraints.

Xiao Jia began inheriting the Mountain Dragon King's bloodline while Xu Yuan explored the Dragon Graveyard and learned that the Nine Great Dragon Kings wanted him to help restore the dragon race through living descendants. The Dragon Kings revealed that unhatched pure-blooded dragons had been preserved in Dragon Eggs and explained that the Asura God's slaughter had created an evil essence that Xu Yuan suspected became the Rakshasa God.

• Xiao Jia burned his Ironclad Dragon bloodline to withstand the Mountain Dragon King's bloodline suppression, and the Dragon Bone acknowledged him and began transforming his body.
• Xu Yuan explored the Dragon Graveyard while Xiao Jia underwent the inheritance, and the Nine Great Dragon Kings appeared before him in human form.
• The Mountain Dragon King told Xu Yuan that Soul Spirits could not truly restore the dragon race and asked him to help raise living descendants.
• The Mountain Dragon King revealed that Dragon Eggs containing unborn dragons had been sealed in Dragon Valley.
• The Light Dragon King explained that the Asura God had slaughtered the dragons and separated an evil essence after his power deteriorated, leading Xu Yuan to suspect that it became the Rakshasa God.

The Dark Dragon King explained the Dragon God's fall and the universe's ranks for God-level lifeforms, giving Xu Yuan a clearer sense of the power he might one day reach. Xu Yuan left with renewed hope that he could grow stronger without relying on a God Position, while the Dark Dragon King urged him to focus on cultivating as a Soul Master.

• The Light Dragon King recounted how the Asura God used slaughter gathered from Dragon Clan worlds to split the weakened Dragon God into the Golden and Silver Dragon Kings.
• The Dark Dragon King clarified that the Dragon God had offered no resistance and that the Asura God's excessive slaughter later caused him to split off power and create the Rakshasa God.
• Xu Yuan reasoned that the Dragon God stood far beyond ordinary God Kings, and the Dark Dragon King explained the universe's ranks from the Tenth Order through the Eighteenth Rank.
• Xu Yuan realized that he could potentially cultivate toward God King strength without a God Position and wondered whether such power might eventually let him establish a God Realm.
• The Dark Dragon King admitted he did not know how the Dragon God advanced beyond the divine-ring system and advised Xu Yuan to focus on the Soul Master path.

Xu Yuan explained that the Douluo Plane was being drained by the Abyss, which had helped drive Soul Beasts toward extinction alongside competition for the Realm’s energy. The Nine Great Dragon Kings asked Shrek to protect the True Dragon eggs and revealed they planned to search Dragon Valley for those still alive.

• The Light Dragon King suggested a Hundred-rank Soul Master might stimulate the Douluo Plane to advance, and Xu Yuan explained that Yun Ming already had God Level power but could not safely break through.
• Xu Yuan told the Nine Great Dragon Kings that the Douluo Plane was depleted because the Abyss had been consuming it for at least six thousand years.
• The Light Dragon King reasoned that the Realm’s energy demands and its support for Soul Masters had also contributed to Soul Beasts’ decline.
• The Mountain Dragon King asked Xu Yuan to have Shrek keep future Soul Masters from targeting True Dragon hatchlings, offering revived Dragon Soul Soul Spirits as an alternative.
• The Mountain Dragon King said Dragon Valley had once held over a hundred Dragon Eggs, but their remaining vitality was unknown, and Xu Yuan agreed to let the Nine Great Dragon Kings search for them.

Xu Yuan returned from Dragon Valley and told Yun Ming about the nine Dragon Souls and what they had taught him about God-level cultivation. Their discussion led Yun Ming to reconsider his path and Xu Yuan to suggest a way Soul Masters could advance beyond Level 95.

• Xu Yuan left Dragon Valley, returned to Sea God Island, and explained to Yun Ming that the nine dragon auras belonged to Dragon Kings who had become Soul Spirits.
• Xu Yuan shared the Dragon Kings’ knowledge of God-level beings, and Yun Ming concluded that a God Realm was necessary for condensing a God Position and that a God King could be reached through cultivation.
• Yun Ming reconsidered his cultivation path and grew confident that his talent gave him the potential to reach God King Rank.
• Xu Yuan asked whether Yun Ming planned to pioneer the Soul Master path, then proposed that after Level 95 Soul Masters should reap the rewards of their cultivation by gradually making their Martial Souls part of themselves.

Xu Yuan explained his theory that Soul Masters could approach godhood by nurturing their Martial Souls and Soul Rings, using the Martial Soul to touch laws. Yun Ming grasped the proposed path but could not enter seclusion while the threat from the Holy Spirit Cult’s God-Slaying Missiles remained unresolved.

• Xu Yuan proposed that Super Douluos and Ultimate Douluos should feed their power and insights back into their Martial Souls, using them to perceive laws and approach the God Level.
• Xu Yuan suggested that Soul Rings should also be actively cultivated, allowing existing rings to grow toward Hundred Thousand Year or Ferocious Beast levels and their Soul Skills to approach laws.
• Tree Elder listened to Xu Yuan and Yun Ming discuss the cultivation system and isolated their conversation with a barrier.
• Yun Ming summarized Xu Yuan’s theory and said he understood how the Martial Soul and Soul Rings could lead to a God Level breakthrough.
• Yun Ming wanted to enter seclusion to pursue the breakthrough, but the unresolved threat of the Holy Spirit Cult’s two God-Slaying Missiles left him furious.

Xu Yuan explained how Heaven and Earth Runes could help Soul Masters improve their Soul Rings, then showed Yun Ming the Dream Realm Space and asked whether God Origin Realm Spiritual Power could maintain awareness inside and outside it. Yun Ming studied the space and confirmed that he had already reached the God Origin Realm.

• Yun Ming grew angry at the Evil Soul Masters and agreed that Xu Yuan’s proposed cultivation path seemed promising, though he had a crisis to handle.
• Xu Yuan explained that his Heaven and Earth Runes had increased the age of his Fifth Soul Ring and could potentially help Soul Masters cultivate their Soul Rings using core Runes extracted from existing ones.
• Yun Ming asked for the method of condensing Heaven and Earth Runes, and Xu Yuan said he had already organized it.
• Xu Yuan drew Yun Ming into the Dream Realm Space, where Yun Ming examined its near-real qualities and considered how an illusory world might help him understand heaven and earth.
• Xu Yuan asked whether Yun Ming could maintain unified awareness inside and outside the space, and Yun Ming connected with his true body, revealing that his Spiritual Power had reached the God Origin Realm.

Yun Ming unified his consciousness with his true body, forcing Xu Yuan’s Dream Realm Space close to reality’s flow of time and showing Xu Yuan how to refine it. Xu Yuan then connected the change to his divided consciousness and learned that the Evil Soul Masters had obtained level-twelve God-Slaying Missiles, leaving Shrek’s crisis unresolved.

• Yun Ming unified his consciousness across Xu Yuan’s Dream Realm Space and the outside world, reducing the space’s time advantage until Xu Yuan preserved only a 1.1-times difference.
• Xu Yuan explained that he was materializing the Dream Realm Space and wanted to keep it from being assimilated by the Douluo world, then said he could now explore the process himself.
• Xu Yuan realized that practicing unified consciousness could help transform his space, condense his Spiritual Power, and refine his divided thoughts and Phantom Star Soul Skill.
• Xu Yuan asked Yun Ming about the crisis, guessed that the Evil Soul Masters were behind it, and learned that they threatened Shrek.
• Xu Yuan guessed that the Evil Soul Masters had obtained level-twelve God-Slaying Missiles, and Yun Ming recognized that Xu Yuan might know of them through his father, Xu Zhi.

Xu Yuan confronted Yun Ming over the Federation’s attempted attack on Shrek and argued that Shrek should abandon its political neutrality. Yun Ming explained how Shrek’s traditions restrained its powerful members, while Xu Yuan remained concerned that the God-Slaying Missiles had delayed Yun Ming’s cultivation as the Abyss crisis loomed.

• Xu Yuan realized the God-Slaying Missiles had been part of an extermination plan against Shrek and questioned whether the Federation could fairly hold its own councilors accountable.
• Xu Yuan argued that Shrek’s strength and contributions meant it should not be bound by neutrality or concern for its reputation.
• Yun Ming explained that Shrek’s traditions restrained its powerful members, contrasting them with the Holy Spirit Cult, the Spirit Pagoda, and the War God Hall.
• Yun Ming revealed that Chen Xinjie had driven the Parliament’s changes and had used his influence as a corps commander to pressure forces behind the implicated councilors.
• Xu Yuan asked whether the threat of the God-Slaying Missiles still prevented Yun Ming from entering seclusion and improving his cultivation.

Xu Yuan warned Yun Ming that the Holy Spirit Cult sought godhood through the Blood River God-Slaying Array, which required millions of souls, but Yun Ming remained undecided about how to respond. Meanwhile, Lan Muzi and Feng Wuyu broke through, and Feng Wuyu unexpectedly completed Heavenly Forging, triggering a tribulation above Sea God Lake.

• Xu Yuan told Yun Ming that the Holy Spirit Cult intended to use the Blood River God-Slaying Array to consume souls and raise its controller to the God Level.
• Yun Ming considered the threat but did not decide whether Shrek should take the risk of drawing out the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Lan Muzi broke through with his Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Core, and Feng Wuyu emerged from seclusion with a more powerful aura.
• Feng Wuyu's Spiritual Manifestation revealed that he had completed Heavenly Forging, and Xu Yuan recognized that a tribulation was beginning.
• Feng Wuyu carried the dark-red metal away from the Golden Ancient Tree and arrived above Sea God Lake.

Feng Wuyu drew down a four-element Thunder Tribulation after Heavenly Forging a piece of Dark Sun Stone, while Xu Yuan analyzed whether the metal could withstand the ordeal. Feng Wuyu faced the first lightning strikes with his Blazing Fire True Body, but the chapter ended before the tribulation’s outcome was known.

• Shrek’s disciples and Qian Gu Dongfeng learned that a Heavenly Forging had drawn an Elemental Lightning Tribulation over the Inner Courtyard.
• Xu Yuan identified the four elements in the tribulation as fire, metal, earth, and light, which seemed compatible with Dark Sun Stone.
• Feng Wuyu absorbed the Dark Sun Stone into his body and prepared to face the tribulation himself.
• Feng Wuyu met the descending Four-Colored Thunder with his Blazing Fire True Body and dragon breath.
• Feng Wuyu shattered bolts of lightning with a claw strike, but scattered lightning seeped into his fire dragon form.

Feng Wuyu completed Heavenly Forging and became Shrek’s first Divine Craftsman, while Lan Muzi revealed that he had reached Soul Power Level 93 after fusing with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Spirit. The chapter left Xu Yuan learning that the Soul Spirit came from the academy’s hidden inheritance.

• Xu Yuan realized that a Heavenly Forging Thunder Tribulation could temper both the metal and its forger, and Jue expressed a desire to undergo the process.
• Feng Wuyu survived the Four-Colored Thunder Tribulation and completed the Heavenly Forging of the Dark Sun Stone.
• Yun Ming congratulated Feng Wuyu on becoming Shrek’s first Divine Craftsman, and Feng Wuyu chose to return to the front lines rather than continue his seclusion.
• Xu Yuan learned that Lan Muzi had reached Level 93 after fusing with a new Soul Spirit.
• Lan Muzi revealed his red Soul Ring and explained that the academy had preserved a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Spirit inheritance.

Lan Muzi explained Shrek Academy’s Soul Spirit recovery technology and revealed that its recovered Soul Spirits included powerful Hundred Thousand Year examples. After describing his own Fire Elemental Spirit, he began considering which of the academy’s Soul Spirits might suit Xu Yuan, but his expression turned conflicted.

• Lan Muzi explained that major powers researched Soul Spirits and that Shrek had recovered the Soul Spirits of its past Pavilion Masters and Pavilion Elders.
• Xu Yuan realized that Shrek’s long history could account for its large collection of Hundred Thousand Year Soul Spirits.
• Lan Muzi summoned his Hundred Thousand Year Fire Elemental Spirit and explained how it had evolved to Ultimate Fire and Ultimate Yang.
• Lan Muzi said the Spirit had accumulated Soul Power during its recovery and had helped him reach Level 93.
• Xu Yuan asked which Hundred Thousand Year Soul Spirits the academy possessed, and Lan Muzi began assessing his compatibility before looking conflicted.

Lan Muzi helped Xu Yuan consider the academy's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Spirits, but struggled to identify one suited to his three distinct Martial Souls. Xu Yuan reviewed Shrek's extensive collection and, after finding options for his companions, discovered a Soul Spirit suited to himself near the end of the list.

• Lan Muzi explained why Xu Yuan's Heaven Origin Brush, Heaven Origin Five Elements Spear, and Brain Martial Souls made it difficult to choose a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Spirit.
• Lan Muzi warned Xu Yuan to act quickly when considering the Soul Spirit Pagoda, then gave him information about Shrek's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Spirits.
• Xu Yuan returned to his dormitory, messaged Xu Shengqun to ask about the Soul Spirit Pagoda, and began reviewing Shrek's collection.
• Xu Yuan found thirty-three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Spirit entries and identified possible matches for Ye Xinglan, Fang Yuan, and Wu Siduo.
• Xu Yuan found no suitable Soul Spirit for himself among most of the entries, but spotted one near the end of the list.

Xu Yuan considered which Soul Spirit to fuse with the Heaven Origin Brush’s sixth Soul Ring and decided the Void Beast’s pure spatial power best supported his Five Elements arts and Dream Realm Space. He weighed that choice against the cost of committing his remaining Soul Spirit slot and the effect on his Spiritual Power growth.

• Xu Yuan reviewed his three Martial Souls and identified the Heaven Origin Brush’s sixth Soul Ring as his only truly vacant slot for a new Soul Spirit.
• Xu Yuan clarified that the Heaven Origin Brush used the Five Elements to transform all things, while the Heaven Origin Five Elements Spear consumed all things to strengthen itself.
• Xu Yuan chose the Void Beast as his leading candidate because its spatial power could advance his Five Elements arts and help make Dream Realm Space real.
• Xu Yuan noted that he could currently fuse with at most five Soul Spirits and that choosing a hundred-thousand-year Soul Spirit would commit him to cultivating its Martial Soul.
• Xu Yuan worried that leaving the Brain Martial Soul without new Soul Rings would slow his progress toward the Spirit Domain Realm, and he had not decided whether to make the Void Beast provide the Heaven Origin Brush’s later Soul Rings.