Recaps

Ling Xiao’s disclosures about Shrek, the Holy Spirit Cult, and the Golden Ancient Tree brought powerful factions to Star Luo City as the tournament continued. Mu En revealed the Far North’s role in Yan Shaozhe’s death, while Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao set out for revenge and both Shrek and the Sun-Moon Team advanced to the finals.

• Ling Xiao watched Shrek defeat Tianling Academy, then spread information about Shrek, the Sun-Moon Empire, and the Holy Spirit Cult through the Myriad Demon King.
• Xu Jiujiu won the Soul Devouring Carving Knife for Ling Xiao, who cleansed its curse and uncovered the Life Gold inside.
• The leaked information alarmed the factions and exposed details about Shrek’s Golden Ancient Tree and the Holy Spirit Cult, prompting Mu En and the cult’s leaders to investigate.
• Long Xiaoyao met Mu En, who revealed that Thunder Spirit had killed Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo during the mission to the Far North.
• Ye Xishui told Long Xiaoyao that Yan Shaozhe was their descendant, and Long Xiaoyao vowed to avenge him by killing Thunder Spirit and attacking the Far North.
• Du Busi challenged Xuan Zi in Star Luo City, while Ling Xiao warned Xu Jiujiu against buying an Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone for Meng Hongchen.
• Shrek and the Sun-Moon Team advanced to the finals, and the Sun-Moon Team planned how to counter Ma Xiaotao, Xu Sanshi, and Huo Yuhao.

Ling Xiao exposed Shrek’s ties to the Holy Spirit Cult and drew its leaders and human factions toward a campaign against the Far North, while secretly preparing to seize Shrek’s Tree of Life. The arc ends with Mu En joining the campaign in exchange for Shrek’s detained students and elders, then discovering the team’s defeat and injuries.

• Shrek lost the tournament after Ma Xiaotao’s rampage, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong defeated the Hongchen Siblings, and the Sun-Moon Team won the remaining matches.
• Zhongli Wu accused Xuan Zi of serving the Holy Spirit Cult, and Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao arrived and demanded that the factions join their campaign against the Far North.
• Ling Xiao confirmed that he and the two Emperors came from the Far North, exposed Yan Shaozhe’s connection to Long Xiaoyao, and escaped after revealing his plan to lure Mu En and the Holy Spirit Cult north.
• Ling Xiao recruited Di Tian and the ferocious beasts to seize Shrek’s Tree of Life while the human factions fought, and Gu Yuena later ordered them to hand it to Ling Xiao’s group.
• The Myriad Demon King spread an account of Ye Xishui’s past with Mu En and Long Xiaoyao, including how she drove a wedge between them and helped the Holy Spirit Cult grow.
• Ling Xiao spread rumors that Mu En had betrayed Shrek, prompting Mu En to reach Star Luo City, where he offered to go to the Far North if Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao released Shrek’s students and elders.
• Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao released Shrek’s people and announced that Mu En and Shrek would join the campaign, and Mu En found the students injured and learned that Shrek had lost.

Ling Xiao defeated the forces invading the Far North, while Shrek Academy fell under a coordinated assault and the Golden Ancient Tree changed hands. After claiming the Tree of Life, Ling Xiao began confronting Ah Yin about Tang San’s past and the fate of her son.

• Ling Xiao and the Far North Soul Beasts defeated the invading Soul Masters, while Du Busi’s self-destruction killed nearly all the remaining humans and Mu En’s soul returned to the Golden Ancient Tree.
• Xuan Zi brought Huo Yuhao and the others back to Shrek as the Sun-Moon Empire and the Holy Spirit Cult assembled to seize the Golden Ancient Tree.
• The Sun-Moon Empire bombarded Shrek Academy, and Xuan Zi was gravely wounded trying to stop the Sun Moon Divine Needle from striking the tree.
• Mu En returned through the Golden Ancient Tree, trapped the invading forces, and sacrificed his spirit to give Shrek’s students time to escape.
• The Holy Spirit Cult took the Golden Ancient Tree, but the Body Sect seized it from them before Di Tian’s Ferocious Beasts intervened and drove the human forces from the battlefield.
• Di Tian told Ling Xiao that Tang San had intervened at Shrek and handed him the Tree of Life, then promised to follow him in helping revive the Soul Beast Clan.
• Ling Xiao brought the Tree of Life to the Far North and entered its consciousness, where he told Ah Yin he had come to save it.
• Ling Xiao told Ah Yin that Tang Hao had intended to claim her Soul Ring and Soul Bone, then claimed her newborn son had died and Tang San’s soul had taken his body.

Ling Xiao strengthened his power, gathered soul-beast allies, and moved against Tang San’s plans while helping Wang Qiu'er recover Tang Wutong’s memories. He led Gu Yuena and Di Tian to Dragon Valley, where the Dragon God emerged and confronted him.

• Ling Xiao completed complementary dual Soul Cores with the Snow Empress’s guidance, then learned that Huo Yuhao lost Electrolux after Tang San tampered with the origin essence he absorbed.
• Ling Xiao helped Di Tian reach 930,000 years of cultivation by absorbing his heavenly tribulation, then set out with Bi Ji to find the missing Auspicious Beast.
• Ling Xiao confronted Huo Yuhao and Wang Qiu'er in Shrek City, killed Huo Yuhao and Xuan Zi, and brought Wang Qiu'er and Bi Ji to the Tree of Life.
• Ah Yin helped awaken Tang Wutong’s memories within Wang Qiu'er before her remaining soul vanished, while the Clear Sky Sect returned and unsettled the empires.
• Ling Xiao lured the Demon Empress and Evil Monarch to the Extreme North, killed the Evil Monarch, and absorbed the Demon Empress’s failed tribulation to reach 960,000 years of cultivation.
• Ling Xiao joined Di Tian and Gu Yuena in Dragon Valley, where the Mountain Dragon King helped them find the hidden Dragon God.
• The Dragon God emerged after Ling Xiao accused him of causing the soul beasts’ plight, then swept the Ice and Snow Emperors away and demanded an explanation.