Chapter Summaries

Yuwen Tuo confronted Ma Sino and Su Yunlang over their role in his past suffering, killing Ma Sino and crippling Su Yunlang. He left with Xiao Xiao and Yuwen Qiu to take his revenge to Shrek Academy.

• Ma Sino summoned his Thunder Staff and attacked Yuwen Tuo, Xiao Xiao, and Yuwen Qiu with his eighth soul skill before fleeing toward Shrek Academy.
• Yuwen Tuo split the City Lord's Mansion with the Flame Emperor Blade and killed Ma Sino with a single slash.
• Yuwen Tuo spared Su Yunlang but destroyed most of his soul rings, sealed his dantian, and ordered him to continue awakening martial souls for Heaven Dou Empire children.
• Yuwen Tuo left the ruins with Xiao Xiao and Yuwen Qiu and set off for Shrek Academy.

Yuwen Tuo returned to Shrek Academy with Yuwen Qiu and Xiao Xiao to settle their old scores. Xiao Xiao destroyed the statues of the first generation of Shrek Seven Devils, and Yan Shaozhe emerged to confront them.

• Cai Meier lamented that Shrek Academy had received only a third as many applications as usual after losing the Academy Tournament to Ghost Valley.
• Yuwen Tuo returned to Shrek Academy with Yuwen Qiu and Xiao Xiao, who promised to help him settle his grievances.
• A registration teacher mistook Xiao Xiao for a prospective student and Yuwen Tuo and Yuwen Qiu for her older siblings, provoking her anger.
• Xiao Xiao revealed her seven Soul Rings and destroyed the statues of the first generation of Shrek Seven Devils with her Three Lives Soul-Quelling Cauldron.
• Yuwen Tuo called for Yan Shaozhe and Ma Xiaotao, and Yan Shaozhe came out, determined to kill him.

Yuwen Tuo confronted Shrek’s thirteen Titled Douluo, while Ma Xiaotao challenged him to settle their personal feud. As the battle approached, both tried to protect uninvolved students, and Wei Na secretly met Xuan Ziwen at the Tang Sect.

• Yuwen Tuo assessed Shrek’s gathered fighters, including Ma Xiaotao, who revealed that she had broken through and had been waiting for him.
• Long Aotian arrived to support Yuwen Tuo and explained that their allies were positioned outside the city while Wei Na went to meet someone in secret.
• Ma Xiaotao asked to fight Yuwen Tuo alone, and Yan Shaozhe allowed her to challenge him.
• Yuwen Tuo offered to spare Shrek students who left, and Ma Xiaotao ordered the Outer Court teachers and students to evacuate.
• Wei Na entered the Tang Sect courtyard and introduced herself to Xuan Ziwen.

Yuwen Tuo and Ma Xiaotao fought at Shrek after the Outer Court evacuated, and Yuwen Tuo proved overwhelmingly stronger. He left Ma Xiaotao gravely wounded, but her Phoenix True Body kept her from dying immediately.

• Ma Xiaotao ordered Shrek's Outer Court teachers and students to evacuate before her battle with Yuwen Tuo began.
• Ma Xiaotao attacked Yuwen Tuo with her Ultimate Fire, but he caught and shattered her flames with ease.
• Yuwen Tuo's Vermillion Phoenix Disarming armor left Ma Xiaotao's Phoenix Cloud Piercing Strike without effect, and his Flame Emperor Blade badly wounded her Phoenix True Body.
• Ma Xiaotao's Bloodthirsty Phoenix Claw failed to harm Yuwen Tuo, and he cut deeply into her right arm before engulfing her in flames.
• Yuwen Tuo used Rainbow Seven Absolute Flames to destroy Ma Xiaotao's wings, pierce her heart, and seal her Soul Power.
• Ma Xiaotao's Phoenix True Body kept her alive despite her severe injuries, and she taunted Yuwen Tuo as her aura weakened.

Yuwen Tuo tortured Ma Xiaotao as she endured his attacks and asked for forgiveness, then she revealed that she had used her injuries to power a counterattack. She unleashed Phoenix Nirvana to break through his defenses and deliver her Seal of Affection, hoping to bind him to her.

• Yuwen Tuo attacked Ma Xiaotao with his Flame Emperor Blade, and she let the blade pierce her while enduring its many saber energies.
• Cai Meier objected to Yuwen Tuo's cruelty, but Ma Xiaotao said she wanted him to vent his anger and asked whether he could forgive her.
• After Yuwen Tuo kicked her away and declared he would erase Shrek, Ma Xiaotao revealed her Blood River Grand Array and said she had endured his slashes to prepare her counterattack.
• Ma Xiaotao used Phoenix Nirvana, amplified to Limit Douluo level by the array, while Yuwen Tuo relied on his Rebirth Through Fire skill to withstand the flames.
• Ma Xiaotao revealed that she only needed to breach Yuwen Tuo's defenses long enough for her Seal of Affection to enter his heart and make him belong to her.

Yuwen Tuo resisted Ma Xiaotao’s Seal of Affection and used the link between their flames to drain her cultivation power, redirecting it to Xiao Xiao and Long Aotian. He began returning the demonic flames he had once taken from Ma Xiaotao.

• Ma Xiaotao imprinted the Seal of Affection on Yuwen Tuo’s heart, and he appeared to fall in love with her.
• The Snow Empress tried to stop the seal, but Electrolux recognized it as the power of a god.
• Yuwen Tuo revealed that his Noble Carriage Sword heart was dissolving the seal and admitted that he still loved Ma Xiaotao but would not abandon his revenge.
• Yuwen Tuo summoned the Ice Empress to shield himself, Ma Xiaotao, Xiao Xiao, Long Aotian, and Qiu'er from Shrek’s rescuers.
• Yuwen Tuo used the flame connection to drain Ma Xiaotao’s cultivation power and transfer it to Xiao Xiao and Long Aotian.
• Yuwen Tuo reclaimed his own power and began returning Ma Xiaotao’s demonic flames.

Shrek Academy’s attempt to free Ma Xiaotao ended with her transformed into a Demon Phoenix and attacking her former allies. As Yuwen Tuo watched, Ma Xiaotao killed several reinforcements while Qiu'er prevented Shi Xing from intervening.

• Cai Meier, Qian Duoduo, Yan Shaozhe, Song Yunzhi, and Lin Huiqun broke the Ice Emperor Bodyguard and found Ma Xiaotao unconscious in Yuwen Tuo’s grasp.
• Yuwen Tuo returned Ma Xiaotao to Yan Shaozhe, but she awoke with black eyes and blasted him with Demon Flame.
• Yuwen Tuo revealed that Ma Xiaotao had become a Demon Phoenix, and she charged at the Shrek group, killing the Ghost Sunflower Douluo with her flames.
• Yuwen Tuo explained to Xiao Xiao that he had filled Ma Xiaotao with Demon Flame, temporarily giving her power greater than her peak while controlling her.
• Ma Xiaotao’s Phoenix Sky Howl Strike stunned Yan Shaozhe, Cai Meier, the Demon Spider Douluo, and the Rake Douluo, while Song Yunzhi rescued Yan Shaozhe and Cai Meier but failed to save the others.
• Qiu'er attacked Shi Xing with the Golden Dragon Spear and kept him from helping Shrek, then taunted him as their confrontation continued.

Qiu'er, Long Aotian, and Xiao Xiao fought Shrek’s elders to protect Yuwen Tuo while Ma Xiaotao rampaged. Xiao Xiao’s cauldrons could no longer shield her from Qian Duoduo’s Turret Warfare, leaving her exposed to his cannon barrage.

• Qiu'er used her strength-enhancing Soul Skills to keep Shi Xing from reaching the battlefield.
• Long Aotian blocked Gong Changlong from attacking Yuwen Tuo and fought him in a fierce physical clash.
• Zhuang Yusen healed Yan Shaozhe while Cai Meier guarded them, and Lin Huiqun and Song Yunzhi tried to subdue Ma Xiaotao.
• Qian Duoduo attacked Yuwen Tuo, but Xiao Xiao blocked the cannon blast and restrained him with Three Lives Soul-Quelling.
• Xiao Xiao countered Qian Duoduo’s accusations by comparing her championship Soul Bone to those won by Tang San and others, then struck him with Mental Aurora.
• Qian Duoduo deployed Turret Warfare, forcing Xiao Xiao to recall her Three Lives Soul-Quelling Cauldron and leaving her exposed to his cannons.

Xiao Xiao used Spiritification to separate Qian Duoduo’s soul from his body and overwhelm him in a battle of mental strength, while Shrek’s fighters struggled against Ma Xiaotao, Long Aotian, and Qiu’er. When Ape Douluo attacked Yuwen Tuo from behind, Yuwen Tuo killed him instantly without turning around.

• Xiao Xiao used Spiritification to evade Qian Duoduo’s cannon fire, then forced his soul out of his body and began fighting him directly.
• Xiao Xiao’s superior Mental Power let her shatter Qian Duoduo’s Oolong Shield with the Three Lives Soul-Quelling Cauldron.
• Cai Meier surveyed the battle as demonized Ma Xiaotao suppressed Song Lao and Lin Lao, Long Aotian fought Gong Changlong evenly, and Xiao Xiao and Qiu’er pressed Qian Duoduo and Shi Xing.
• Ape Douluo rushed Yuwen Tuo from behind despite Cai Meier’s warning.
• Yuwen Tuo struck Ape Douluo’s hand with the Profound Sun Blazing Flame Finger, then killed him with a compressed flame bullet.

Yuwen Tuo forced Ma Xiaotao to unleash Phoenix Nirvana against Shrek, nearly destroying the academy before he attacked the exhausted Sea God Pavilion elders. He killed Lin Huiqun, while Song Yunzhi survived, leaving Shrek’s defenders facing the collapse of Sea God Pavilion.

• Yuwen Tuo discovered that Ma Xiaotao’s kills had completed his Divine Examination tally, then blocked Mu En’s attempt to restore her sanity with Sea God’s Light.
• Yuwen Tuo used the remaining demonic flames to force Ma Xiaotao to unleash Phoenix Nirvana, despite her brief return to awareness and the danger to her life.
• Song Yunzhi and Lin Huiqun combined their ultimate skills to confront Ma Xiaotao’s attack, and their clash devastated Shrek Academy’s Outer Court.
• Yuwen Tuo captured the fallen Ma Xiaotao, then ambushed the exhausted elders with the Emperor Sword and Ice Emperor’s Wrath after Cai Meier warned them.
• Lin Huiqun was killed and Song Yunzhi survived the attack, while Yuwen Tuo’s Divine Examination tally rose to 5/4.

Qiu'er defeated Shi Xing after enduring his devastating Time-Space Collapse technique and stealing his Time-Space Power with Fate Plunder. With Shi Xing swallowed by his own black hole and the threat ended, Yuwen Tuo's divine examination mark changed to 6/4.

• Qiu'er overwhelmed Shi Xing with her Golden Dragon Spear and severely injured him with Golden Dragon Burst.
• Shi Xing unleashed his ninth soul skill, Time-Space Collapse, creating a black hole that threatened Qiu'er, Xiao Xiao, and Long Aotian.
• Yuwen Tuo stabilized Xiao Xiao, while Qiu'er switched to her Three-Eyed Golden Lion Martial Soul and used Fate Plunder on Shi Xing.
• Qiu'er stole Shi Xing's Time-Space Power, leaving him unable to control or withstand the black hole.
• Shi Xing was swallowed by the black hole, which Qiu'er then made disappear, freeing Xiao Xiao and Long Aotian.

Xiao Xiao burned Qian Duoduo’s soul to ashes and brought his head to Yuwen Tuo as a gift. Yan Shaozhe, Cai Meier, and Zhuang Yusen confronted Yuwen Tuo and Qiu'er, and the battle resumed with both sides unleashing their strongest abilities.

• Xiao Xiao used Reincarnation Annihilation to burn Qian Duoduo’s soul to ashes, then removed his head and gave it to Yuwen Tuo.
• Cai Meier charged at Yuwen Tuo, but he fought her off and rejected her plea to stop killing.
• Yan Shaozhe recovered with Zhuang Yusen’s help and confronted Yuwen Tuo alongside Cai Meier and Zhuang Yusen.
• Qiu'er and Xiao Xiao joined Yuwen Tuo, making the confrontation three against three.
• Yan Shaozhe, Cai Meier, and Zhuang Yusen unleashed their Ninth Soul Skills, while Yuwen Tuo and Qiu'er answered with Transcendence of Samsara.

Xiao Xiao used Supreme Cauldron to weaken Shrek’s defenders, but Yuwen Tuo and Yuwen Qiu’s Beyond Reincarnation created a black hole that consumed nearly all of Shrek Academy. As the Golden Tree faced destruction, a powerful lightning strike interrupted the battle.

• Xiao Xiao activated Supreme Cauldron, disrupting Yan Shaozhe and Cai Meier’s combined attack and reducing Mu En’s Sea God’s Light.
• Yuwen Tuo and Yuwen Qiu’s Beyond Reincarnation clashed with the defenders’ attacks, creating an expanding black hole that began swallowing Shrek Academy and its disciples.
• Yuwen Tuo revealed that Beyond Reincarnation’s Spacetime Power was far stronger than Shi Xing’s and vowed to destroy Shrek Academy.
• Mu En appeared before Yuwen Tuo and begged him to stop, but the black hole swallowed the academy’s buildings and Song Yunzhi, raising Yuwen Tuo’s divine trial progress to 8/4.
• A mysterious voice and a powerful lightning bolt struck the black hole, blasting the combatants apart.

After Yuwen Tuo devastated Shrek Academy, Niu Tian arrived and prepared to punish him for endangering the Golden Tree. Just as Niu Tian and Yuwen Tuo’s allies were about to clash, a powerful figure reached through a dimensional rift to challenge Niu Tian.

• Xu Sanshi rescued Jiang Nannan from the rubble while Bei Bei and Xi Xi surveyed the ruins of Shrek Academy.
• Niu Tian arrived with Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong, and Yuwen Tuo recognized him as the master of the Clear Sky Sect.
• Huo Yuhao confronted Yuwen Tuo over Shrek’s destruction and the deaths of Shi Xing, Qian Duoduo, Lin Huiqun, Song Yunzhi, and Yan Shaozhe’s Titled Douluos, as well as Ma Xiaotao’s crippling.
• Yan Shaozhe asked Niu Tian to protect Shrek, and Niu Tian declared that Yuwen Tuo’s attack on the Golden Tree justified divine punishment.
• The Snow Empress and Qiu'er prepared to help Yuwen Tuo, but a flaming armored hand tore through space behind him and an unseen figure rebuked Niu Tian.

The Flame Lord intervened to stop Niu Tian from attacking Yuwen Tuo, forcing both sides to withdraw. Yuwen Tuo left Shrek City with his companions, while Shrek’s survivors vowed to rebuild and seek revenge.

• The Flame Lord confronted Niu Tian and warned that he would fight to protect Yuwen Tuo, so Niu Tian agreed to let Yuwen Tuo leave if he spared Wutong and the Golden Tree.
• Yuwen Tuo thanked the Flame Lord, threatened Yan Shaozhe, and departed with Qiu'er, Xiao Xiao, and Senior Brother.
• Huo Yuhao tried to pursue Yuwen Tuo, but Niu Tian stopped him and urged him to become stronger before seeking revenge.
• Tang Wutong reassured Huo Yuhao that the Tang Sect had survived because Yuwen Tuo had confined the destruction to Shrek Academy.
• Cai Meier and Yan Shaozhe encouraged the survivors to rebuild Shrek Academy, while Yan Shaozhe planned to retaliate against Yuwen Tuo.
• Yuwen Tuo and his companions met Cao Jinxuan and the others outside Shrek City after Long Aotian had kept them from joining the battle.

After Shrek Academy’s defeat, Yuwen Tuo took Ma Xiaotao’s remaining Cultivation Power and shared it with Cao Jinxuan and Na Na. He accepted Ma Xiaotao’s apology before she died, ending his personal hatred for her, and his group buried her with a plain tombstone.

• Yuwen Tuo told Cao Jinxuan that Shrek Academy had been defeated, while admitting to himself that destroying it completely would take much longer.
• Yuwen Tuo released the dying Ma Xiaotao and agreed to talk with her after taking most of her remaining Cultivation Power for Cao Jinxuan and Na Na.
• Ma Xiaotao apologized to Yuwen Tuo, and he told her he no longer hated her because his revenge against her was complete.
• Ma Xiaotao died after forcing four soul bones from her body, including a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, and left them behind as relics.
• Cao Jinxuan and Na Na buried Ma Xiaotao and raised a tombstone that simply read “Tomb of Ma Xiaotao.”

Yuwen Tuo and Qiu'er overfulfilled their trials, gaining divine affinity and stronger Soul Rings, before setting out with Xiao Xiao to find her Eighth Soul Ring. After three days spent refining Xiao Xiao’s absorbed Soul Power, they arrived at a barren mountain near Gengxin City, where Qiu'er recognized a Soul Beast’s painful vigil.

• Yuwen Tuo received thirty percent Fire God Affinity for overfulfilling his Fifth Trial, bringing his total to sixty percent, and was assigned to break through to Titled Douluo within three years.
• Qiu'er completed her Fifth Trial, rose to Rank 87, and gained enough Soul Ring age for her third and fourth rings to become black; her next trial also required her to reach Titled Douluo within three years.
• Yuwen Tuo told Cao Jinxuan and Na Na to return to the Body Sect with Long Aotian, while he took Xiao Xiao and Qiu'er to seek Xiao Xiao’s Eighth Soul Ring.
• Yuwen Tuo warned Na Na that he, Xiao Xiao, and Qiu'er might be forced out of Heavenly Soul and told her not to blame Snow Heart Emperor, who had refused his plan.
• During their three-day journey to a barren mountain near Gengxin City, Yuwen Tuo helped Xiao Xiao convert Ma Xiaotao’s impure Soul Power into Heavenly Sound True Qi, making her a Quasi Soul Douluo.
• Qiu'er recognized the place as the group arrived and remarked that the Soul Beast staying there must be in pain.

Yuwen Tuo, Xiao Xiao, and Qiu'er found the Gilded Sword Phoenix, a badly injured Soul Beast nearing her two-hundred-thousand-year tribulation, and tried to persuade her to become Xiao Xiao's Soul Spirit. Though the Gilded Sword Phoenix refused because she hated humans, Xiao Xiao offered her a reason to reconsider by saying she could restore the mountain range.

• Qiu'er explained that the mined-out mountain range had once been home to many Soul Beasts and identified the Gilded Sword Phoenix as Xiao Xiao's target.
• Qiu'er used the Eye of Destiny to draw the Gilded Sword Phoenix out of her cave, and the Phoenix confronted the group with hostility toward humans.
• Qiu'er showed the Gilded Sword Phoenix Di Tian's reverse scale and explained how Yuwen Tuo had helped Soul Beasts and created the Soul Spirit Method.
• Qiu'er urged the Gilded Sword Phoenix to become Xiao Xiao's Soul Spirit so she could survive the coming tribulation and eventually become a Companion Divine Beast.
• The Gilded Sword Phoenix refused and turned to leave, but Xiao Xiao asked her to reconsider, promising she could restore the mountain range.

Xiao Xiao persuaded Gilded Sword Phoenix to hope for her homeland’s restoration, then accepted a trial of surviving three attacks to prove her worth as a future god. Gilded Sword Phoenix opened with Sword Feather Storm, and Xiao Xiao countered with the Three Lives Soul-Quelling Cauldron’s tremor.

• Xiao Xiao compared Gilded Sword Phoenix’s despair with Yuwen Tuo’s perseverance against powerful enemies and urged her to rebuild her homeland.
• Xiao Xiao proposed that they could restore the mountain range by moving undeveloped ore deposits from other continents once they became gods.
• Gilded Sword Phoenix demanded that Xiao Xiao survive three moves to prove her potential, or face death.
• Xiao Xiao accepted the challenge despite Yuwen Tuo and Qiu’er’s concern, and Yuwen Tuo encouraged her while preparing to intervene if necessary.
• Gilded Sword Phoenix unleashed Sword Feather Storm, and Xiao Xiao activated her Weapon Soul True Body and used Cauldron’s Tremor to blast many feather blades away.

Xiao Xiao faced the Gilded Sword Phoenix’s trial and survived her first two attacks with clever use of her cauldron and Spiritification. The Gilded Sword Phoenix prepared her strongest body-and-soul attack, while Yuwen Tuo secretly stood ready to intervene if Xiao Xiao could not withstand it.

• Xiao Xiao used the Three Lives Soul-Quelling Cauldron’s vibrations to weaken and redirect the Gilded Sword Phoenix’s Feather Blades, earning approval for passing the first move.
• The Gilded Sword Phoenix unleashed Thousand Blades Absolute Peak, and Xiao Xiao walked through its blades using Spiritification, passing the second move.
• The Gilded Sword Phoenix transformed into human form and explained that Thousand Blades Return to Silence would crush both body and soul.
• Xiao Xiao ended Spiritification, strengthened her cauldron’s defenses, and faced the enormous sword formed from the gathered ores.
• Yuwen Tuo secretly prepared to save Xiao Xiao if she could not withstand the attack, even if they had to abandon the soul ring.