Chapter Summaries

Jing Hongchen learned that Huo Yuhao had disappeared and feared he had died in the shockwaves of the Divine Beasts’ battle. Meanwhile, Jiang Bai and Ye Guyi hunted Evil Soul Masters as Huo Yuhao and Du Busi fought through a thunderous realm toward a hidden temple, where a purple figure sensed divine power linked to the Sea God.

• Jing Hongchen found a Soul Tool recording Huo Yuhao leaving with Fan Yu, then learned Fan Yu was unconscious and Huo Yuhao was presumed dead after the battle’s shockwaves engulfed them.
• Jiang Bai told Ye Guyi that Du Busi was probably still alive and suggested they continue hunting Evil Soul Masters.
• Huo Yuhao and Du Busi struggled through the Land of Destruction Inheritance, where Huo Yuhao learned from Electrolux that the temple ahead was their way out.
• Huo Yuhao gave Du Busi life force, and Du Busi used Golden Awakening to carry him through the more dangerous thunderclouds toward the temple.
• A purple figure noticed Huo Yuhao and Du Busi reach the temple and sensed divine power in Du Busi, identifying its aura as the Sea God’s.

Huo Yuhao and Du Busi reached the Destruction Divine Hall, where the Destruction God King prepared to test Huo Yuhao before the Life Goddess intervened. Meanwhile, Tang San searched for Huo Yuhao, and Shrek mobilized to confront the Sun Moon Empire over his disappearance, drawing the Star Luo Emperor’s attention.

• Du Busi and Huo Yuhao arrived at the palace, and the Destruction God King sent Du Busi back into the thunder to temper himself.
• The Destruction God King prepared to strike Huo Yuhao with divine thunder, but the Life Goddess appeared and claimed Huo Yuhao as one of her chosen ones.
• Tang San failed to locate Huo Yuhao and grew furious over the destruction of Da Ming and Er Ming’s physical bodies by the Sun Moon Empire.
• Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er learned that Huo Yuhao had disappeared and called a Sea God Pavilion meeting.
• Xuan Zi led Shrek’s elders toward the Sun Moon Empire, while Xu Jiawei watched, expecting Shrek’s move to end its neutrality.

Jing Hongchen and Yan Shaozhe tried to contain the crisis after Shrek arrived in the Mingdou Mountains demanding Huo Yuhao, amid rumors that Shrek would bring the Star Luo Empire’s army. Meanwhile, Jiang Bai and Ye Guyi fled an approaching Soul Douluo on Mystic Ice.

• Lin Jiayi told Jing Hongchen that Shrek had arrived at the Mingdou Mountains and was demanding Huo Yuhao, so Jing ordered him to move the meeting elsewhere.
• Jing Hongchen learned that rumors said Shrek would come with the Star Luo Empire’s army if Huo Yuhao did not appear, and he realized the situation could spark a continental war.
• Yan Shaozhe blamed the rumor for putting Shrek in danger, ordered the others to leave the Mingdou Mountains, and went to Level Nine to issue a statement.
• Xuan Zi dismissed Yan Shaozhe’s concerns and remained focused on bringing Huo Yuhao back, while Ye Guyi and Jiang Bai discussed the possibility of war.
• Jiang Bai sensed an approaching Soul Douluo and sped away with Ye Guyi on Mystic Ice, leaving the Evil Soul Master coughing in their exhaust.

An Evil Soul Master reported a mysterious attacker to Zhang Peng while Du Busi escaped the lightning temple with Huo Yuhao, who was still recovering from the God King’s lightning. Du Busi reunited with Jiang Bai and Ye Guyi, then vowed to destroy the Clear Sky Sect, unaware that its leaders were already badly weakened.

• An Evil Soul Master told Zhang Peng that a fast-moving stranger had been targeting Evil Soul Masters, and Zhang Peng agreed to report the matter to the Supreme Leader.
• Du Busi escaped the lightning ordeal with Huo Yuhao, who remained paralyzed as lightning coursed through his body.
• Du Busi contacted Jiang Bai and teleported to his location, where he met Jiang Bai and Ye Guyi.
• Jiang Bai said Huo Yuhao would recover once he finished absorbing the lightning, and Huo Yuhao identified his pursuers as the Clear Sky Sect’s two leaders.
• Du Busi vowed to tear down the Clear Sky Sect and break the leaders’ bones, while Jiang Bai noted that they were already badly injured.

Jiang Bai told Du Busi that two powerful Clear Sky Sect members had lost their bodies in the Sun Moon Empire’s attack, and Huo Yuhao asked Du Busi to help restrain the empire. When the Nightmare Douluo ambushed the group, Huo Yuhao killed and purified him, then gave Ye Guyi the remaining power to strengthen her.

• Jiang Bai explained that the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Tools had destroyed the two beasts’ bodies, though their souls had been rescued.
• Huo Yuhao reviewed reports about the coming confrontation between Shrek and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, then asked Du Busi to repay his debt by helping him.
• Jiang Bai told Du Busi that the God-Slaying Cannon was spent and might have power for at most one more shot.
• The Nightmare Douluo trapped the group in an illusion and charged at the apparently helpless Huo Yuhao while Du Busi hesitated.
• Huo Yuhao killed and purified the Nightmare Douluo, then offered the remaining power to Ye Guyi after Jiang Bai nodded.

Huo Yuhao arrived at the Mingdou Mountains and refused to return to Shrek, declaring that he would also stay away from the Douluo Continent for now. As Xuan Zi confronted him, an unseen figure appeared nearby and challenged Xuan Zi’s weakness.

• Jing Hongchen told Xuan Zi that Huo Yuhao had gone missing and explained that Fan Yu had been gravely injured by a ferocious beast.
• Xuan Zi gave Jing Hongchen three days to find Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao arrived and said he was there to settle his affairs with the Douluo Continent.
• Jing Hongchen asked Xuan Zi to return Xiao Hongchen, and Xian Lin'er brought Xiao Hongchen back safely.
• Huo Yuhao refused to return to Shrek, gave Xian Lin'er a blueprint for a ninth-level soul tool, and said he would not return to the Douluo Continent anytime soon.
• Xuan Zi suspected the Sun Moon Empire had brainwashed Huo Yuhao and grew furious, while an unnoticed figure on a nearby tree criticized Xuan Zi for becoming weak.

Du Busi confronted Xuan Zi and Jing Hongchen, then revealed that he had reached the Limit Realm and defeated Xuan Zi. He spared Xuan Zi, sent the Shrek representatives home with him, and asked them to warn the Clear Sky Sect that he was coming.

• Xuan Zi accused Du Busi of leading Huo Yuhao away from Shrek, while Du Busi told him to leave and informed Jing Hongchen that the exchange student arrangement was no longer necessary.
• Xuan Zi challenged Du Busi, and the two flew into the sky as their auras shook the forest and forced the garrisons below to their knees.
• Du Busi explained that his body was his Martial Soul and released an aura that climbed to the Limit Realm, shocking Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, and Jing Hongchen.
• Du Busi used his Thunderclap divine skill to strike Xuan Zi through the ground and scatter the clouds over the forest.
• Du Busi spared Xuan Zi and ordered Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er to take him home and tell him to pursue the Limit Realm.
• Du Busi told the Shrek representatives to contact the Clear Sky Sect and warn its members that he would visit them soon.

Jiang Bai and Ye Guyi left the Sun Moon Empire after Du Busi’s display of strength disrupted its war plans, and Jiang Bai collected a prototype Battle Armor from Xuan Ziwen. The chapter ended with Kong Deming appearing as Jiang Bai returned to Ye Guyi.

• Jiang Bai told Ye Guyi that Du Busi’s Limit Realm strength had deterred the Sun Moon Empire from starting a war and that its weapon could not reliably hit him.
• Jiang Bai said his work in the Sun Moon Empire was nearly finished and planned to return to the Douluo Continent with Ye Guyi to gather resources.
• Jiang Bai used Du Busi’s spatial token to return to Mingdu and visited Xuan Ziwen at the Illustrious Virtue Hall.
• Xuan Ziwen gave Jiang Bai a prototype Battle Armor arm, which Jiang Bai tested with his Ultimate Ice.
• Jiang Bai returned Jing Hongchen’s and Kong Deming’s tokens to Xuan Ziwen and left, then greeted Kong Deming when he rejoined Ye Guyi.

Jiang Bai left the Sun Moon Empire with Ye Guyi and entrusted Huo Yuhao with schematics and plans tied to the path to godhood. He headed toward the Heaven Dou Empire, asking Du Busi whether he looked forward to the world ten thousand years in the future and whether it would still have Evil Soul Masters.

• Kong Deming let Jiang Bai leave Mingdu and told him to protect Ye Guyi, while ordering Ye Yulin to conceal their traces from the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Jiang Bai used the Spatial Token to summon Du Busi, who took Jiang Bai and Ye Guyi to Shadow, the Body Sect's camp inside the Sun Moon Empire.
• Jiang Bai gave Huo Yuhao an armguard containing Xuan Ziwen's schematics and information about solving the ore problem, then asked him to take charge of what came next.
• Jiang Bai privately told Huo Yuhao that he was unlikely to inherit a Divine Position, and learned that Huo Yuhao planned to visit the Body Sect and return to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Jiang Bai said he might head to the Heaven Dou Empire, then asked Du Busi whether the world ten thousand years later would still have Evil Soul Masters.

Jiang Bai and Ye Guyi boarded a ship crowded with Evil Soul Masters and learned Du Busi was fighting a hundred-thousand-year Indestructible Thunder Eel so Long Aotian could absorb its soul ring. The wounded eel resisted becoming a soul spirit, and Du Busi asked Huo Yuhao to persuade it.

• Jiang Bai and Ye Guyi set out for the Icefire Yin Yang Well and boarded a Body Sect ship bound for Maple Leaf City.
• Dugu Ling explained that Du Busi had let a group of Evil Soul Masters board the ship and had gone out to fight an Indestructible Thunder Eel.
• Dugu Ling said Du Busi had taken Long Aotian and Huo Yuhao with him, and Jiang Bai inferred that Long Aotian might absorb a hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
• Du Busi told the wounded Indestructible Thunder Eel that its injury would kill it within thirty years and offered to make it a soul spirit.
• The Indestructible Thunder Eel refused to trust humans, so Du Busi asked Huo Yuhao to explain the soul spirit process.

Huo Yuhao persuaded the Indestructible Thunder Eel to become Long Aotian’s soul spirit, and Long Aotian swore to avenge it. After the ritual, Huo Yuhao and Long Aotian joined the battle against the Holy Spirit Cult members aboard the ship, while Du Busi watched the sea.

• Huo Yuhao convinced the Indestructible Thunder Eel that becoming a soul spirit would let it survive and be passed down, and the eel agreed to the ritual.
• The Indestructible Thunder Eel demanded that Long Aotian swear to seek justice for it if he reached the Limit Realm, and Long Aotian took the Martial Soul Oath.
• The Indestructible Thunder Eel became Long Aotian’s soul spirit, granting him a Trunk Soul Bone and enough soul power to rise from rank seventy to rank seventy-three.
• The three Evil Soul Master leaders aboard the ship planned to seize it and kill its occupants after discovering the crew had raised their fare.
• Du Busi teleported Huo Yuhao and Long Aotian above the ship, then sent them into the ongoing fight as he stayed behind to guard.
• Long Aotian activated the Indestructible Thunder Eel’s domain and charged an Evil Soul Master while Du Busi counted four figures at sea.

The Body Sect prepared for a fight against four Sea Soul Masters who had been ordered by a divine oracle to capture Huo Yuhao. As the attackers launched their ambush, Huo Yuhao and Du Busi used Fixed-Mounted Soul-Conducting Bombs against the concealed Manta Ray Douluo.

• Ye Guyi told Du Busi that her soul power was about to break through, and he promised to find her a suitable soul beast after they returned.
• Du Busi told Jiang Bai that four Sea Soul Masters were nearby: two Limit Douluos and two level 98 experts.
• The four Sea Soul Masters discussed their divine oracle and decided to capture Huo Yuhao while their Limit Douluos held Du Busi back.
• Huo Yuhao recognized that the attackers were Sea Soul Masters and asked Du Busi to use three Level 8 Fixed-Mounted Soul-Conducting Bombs.
• Manta Ray Douluo charged his eighth soul skill underwater, mistook the bombs drifting toward him for rubbish, and was struck by three explosions.

Vast Sea Douluo and his brothers fought Du Busi and Huo Yuhao while Jiang Bai, Ye Guyi, and Long Aotian defended the ship from the attackers’ followers. Jiang Bai trapped a Soul Emperor in his Winter Solstice Domain, but the opponent unleashed Divine Slaughter’s Domain as the fight continued.

• Vast Sea Douluo attacked Du Busi after sensing Manta Ray Douluo’s death, while Spirit Turtle Douluo shielded his brothers and the second brother charged toward the ship.
• Huo Yuhao used his mental power and Ultimate Ice to stop the second brother, then prepared to fight Spirit Turtle Douluo.
• Jiang Bai assigned the approaching Soul Douluo to Long Aotian as Ye Guyi and Long Aotian fought the attackers’ followers on the ship.
• A Soul Emperor ambushed Jiang Bai, who activated his Winter Solstice Domain and froze the opponent’s illusory daggers with an ice decoy.
• The Soul Emperor was struck by Jiang Bai’s icy palm, then unleashed Divine Slaughter’s Domain.

Jiang Bai and his allies fought the Soul Emperor and the Sea Soul Masters, using a divine-rank Ice Burst Technique to kill Birdman Douluo and opening the way for Du Busi to slay two more Limit Douluo. With the four leaders dead and the remaining enemies routed, the group neared Maple Leaf City as three nearby Titled Douluo withdrew.

• Ye Guyi and Jiang Bai confronted the Soul Emperor, while Long Aotian, Dugu Ling, and Jiang Bai worked together to weaken and freeze him.
• Jiang Bai sent the frozen Soul Emperor to Huo Yuhao, whose Ice Empress hurled him into Birdman Douluo; the divine-rank Ice Burst Technique reduced Birdman Douluo to ash.
• Huo Yuyao stunned Spirit Turtle Douluo, allowing Du Busi to kill him and take his hundred-thousand-year soul beast skull.
• Du Busi killed Vast Sea Douluo with Thunderclap Severing Strike and collected twelve Soul Bones from the two fallen Limit Douluo.
• The Sea Soul Masters lost their will to fight, and three Titled Douluo nearby retreated after Du Busi warned them away.
• Jiang Bai identified the retreating figures as possible Heavenly Soul or Star Luo Empire Douluo as the group approached Maple Leaf City.

After Du Busi’s victory over two Limit Douluos shook Shrek Academy, Xuan Zi broke through to the Limit Realm by absorbing the Golden Tree’s essence. The Sea God’s Light briefly shone on him, while Tang San blamed Xuan Zi for damaging his plans and the Destruction God King watched Tang San’s interference from the shadows.

• After learning that Du Busi had defeated two Limit Douluos, Yan Shaozhe directed Shrek Academy’s intelligence resources toward the Body Sect.
• Xuan Zi broke through from Level 98 to the Limit Realm after absorbing the Golden Tree’s essence, and the Sea God’s Light shone down on him.
• Tang San realized Xuan Zi’s breakthrough had damaged the Golden Tree and set back the Blue Silver Emperor’s recovery by several hundred years.
• Tang San recalled that Huo Yuhao had killed his Soul Emperor-level contingency on Sea God Island with the Ice Burst Technique.
• The Destruction God King told the Life Goddess that he had found evidence of Tang San interfering in the mortal world.
• After the Sea God’s Light vanished, Yan Shaozhe and the elders congratulated Xuan Zi, and Yan Shaozhe expected Shrek’s influence to recover.

Xuan Zi ordered Shrek to find Huo Yuhao and bring him back, while cutting resources to Xian Lin'er's Soul Engineering Department. After learning that Du Busi had killed two Limit Douluos, Xuan Zi reconsidered confronting the Body Sect, and Yan Shaozhe suggested contacting the Clear Sky Sect.

• Xuan Zi ordered Shrek to locate Huo Yuhao, declared him a traitor, and told the elders to bring him back alive for punishment.
• Xuan Zi suspended the Soul Engineering Department's resources and used his Limit Douluo pressure to silence Xian Lin'er when she defended Huo Yuhao and the department.
• Yan Shaozhe gave Xuan Zi intelligence reporting that Du Busi had killed two Limit Douluos, each of whom possessed two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings.
• Xuan Zi doubted the report but recognized that Du Busi's strength could not be ignored, and Yan Shaozhe proposed contacting the Clear Sky Sect over its apparent conflict with the Body Sect.