Chapter Summaries

After conquering Shrek Academy, Huo Yuhao claimed Sea God Pavilion and arranged to reward Sun Moon Empire soldiers with access to the Golden Ancient Tree’s cultivation rooms. He captured Mu En’s soul for future use, while Xuan Zi reported the Sun Moon Army’s victory to the Dou Ling Emperor.

• Huo Yuhao brought Wang Yiheng, Ju Zi, and others to Sea God Pavilion and declared that the Sun Moon Empire now owned it.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the Golden Ancient Tree’s 108 underground rooms offered varied cultivation environments and ordered Ju Zi to create a merits-to-contribution-points system.
• Huo Yuhao asked the Golden Ancient Tree to release Mu En’s soul, then sent Mu En through an Undead Gate to be made into an undead creature.
• Xuan Zi told Dou Ling Emperor Xue Linghao that the Sun Moon Army had won again and that Huo Yuhao had killed Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui.

Xuan Zi urged Dou Ling Emperor Xue Linghao to cede territory and seek peace with the Sun Moon Empire, arguing that a truce would buy time to prepare. As a peace delegation secretly set off for Mingdu, Xu Jiujiu worried about her continued powerlessness, while Tang San meditated in the Sea God Temple.

• Xuan Zi told Xue Linghao that the Sun Moon Empire could not be resisted and proposed ceding territory to secure a temporary peace.
• Xue Linghao rejected the idea as a disgrace, but reconsidered after Xuan Zi argued that Empress Xu Tianzhen might use negotiations to strengthen her authority over Huo Yuhao.
• Xue Linghao worried that Huo Yuhao might not be loyal, and Xuan Zi said they had no choice but to gamble on it.
• Xue Linghao convened his cabinet, whose ministers supported seeking peace, then secretly sent a delegation bearing valuable gifts to Mingdu.
• Xu Jiujiu heard of the Sun Moon Empire's crushing victory and feared she would remain a puppet, while Tang San sat meditating in the Sea God Temple.

Tang San secretly examined Wang Dong’s memories and learned that Huo Yuhao had helped the Sun Moon Empire defeat Shrek Academy using Spirit Souls. He summoned the other Shrek Seven Devils to discuss the defeat, but they argued over whether the Divine Realm Rules allowed them to intervene.

• Tang San ended his secluded cultivation and secretly browsed Wang Dong’s memories to assess events on Douluo Continent.
• Tang San learned that Huo Yuhao had killed Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao, and that the Sun Moon Army had occupied Shrek City and Shrek Academy after Yan Shaozhe surrendered.
• Tang San concluded that Spirit Souls had inspired the Sun Moon Empire’s victory and planned to claim credit for inventing them, then promote them to gain Faith Power.
• Tang San summoned the other six devils to the Sea God Temple and told them about Shrek Academy’s defeat.
• Ma Hongjun demanded punishment for the Sun Moon Empire, while Oscar reminded him that the Divine Realm Rules barred gods from interfering in worldly affairs.

Tang San claimed that he had invented the prototype for Spirit Souls and suggested that a god, likely from the Destruction Faction, had helped the Sun Moon People develop them. He left Dai Mubai to stay behind so they could discuss how to deal with Yuhao, while accusing the God of Destruction of involvement in Spirit Souls’ spread.

• Tang San rebuked Ma Hongjun for suggesting that the gods intervene in the Lower Realm, and Ma Hongjun privately thought Tang San was a hypocrite.
• Tang San praised Yuhao’s strength, while Dai Mubai lamented that his descendant had helped the Sun Moon Bandits seize Shrek Academy; Zhu Zhuqing urged Dai Mubai to be patient with Yuhao.
• Dai Mubai secretly asked Tang San how to bring Yuhao back to the clan and onto the right path, and Tang San said they would discuss it later.
• Tang San told the group that he had researched sacrificed soul beast souls and that his findings had become the prototype for Spirit Souls.
• Tang San claimed that a god had likely helped the Sun Moon People develop modern Spirit Souls, suggested the god belonged to the Destruction Faction, and warned the others not to spread his suspicion.

Tang San proposed blocking Huo Yuhao’s path to godhood until he regretted refusing the Dai family’s offer, while the God of Destruction learned of the plan from Ma Hongjun. The chapter ended with the God of Destruction dismissing Tang San’s accusations as petty blame-shifting.

• Ning Rongrong condemned the God of Destruction, and Oscar assured Tang San that he would help find evidence against him.
• After the others left, Dai Mubai asked Tang San how Huo Yuhao could be persuaded to acknowledge his ancestry and return to the clan.
• Tang San proposed isolating Huo Yuhao’s aura from the Divine Realm so he could not become a god, expecting him to regret the decision as he and his loved ones aged.
• Tang San cited Zhou Weiqing’s past refusal of the Asura Godhood as proof that Huo Yuhao would eventually give in to fear of death.
• Ma Hongjun reported the Shrek Seven Devils’ conversation to the God of Destruction, who accused Tang San of trying to blame him for Shrek Academy’s loss.

Ma Hongjun agreed to keep gathering intelligence for the God of Destruction, hoping to regain enough power to reunite with Bai Chenxiang. After the Sun Moon Empire’s victory over Shrek, Huo Yuhao advised Xu Tianzhen to negotiate peace with the Dou Ling Empire, and talks ended in a bitter dispute over how much territory it would cede.

• The God of Destruction ordered Ma Hongjun to continue gathering intelligence and promised to help him become a First Level God and reunite with Bai Chenxiang.
• News of Huo Yuhao’s defeat of Shrek spread through the Sun Moon Empire, raising his standing among its people.
• Xu Tianzhen asked Huo Yuhao whether she should meet the Dou Ling Empire’s peace delegation, and he advised accepting peace in exchange for at least one-third of its territory and a treaty lasting two and a half years.
• Xu Tianzhen agreed to arrange negotiations, and Xue Lingxun led the Dou Ling delegation to meet Sun Moon officials headed by Xu Guozhong.
• The Sun Moon officials demanded that the Dou Ling Empire surrender two-thirds of its territory, and the negotiations grew heated as they threatened to resume the war.

The Dou Ling Empire and Sun Moon Empire signed a treaty requiring Dou Ling to cede territory and pay reparations in exchange for two and a half years of peace. After returning to Lingdou City, Xue Linghao accepted the humiliating terms and tasked Xuan Zi with finding allies and preparing to resist the Sun Moon Empire.

• Xu Guozhong and Xue Lingxun finalized a treaty that gave the Sun Moon Empire one-third of Dou Ling territory, thirty billion Gold Soul Coins, and two and a half years of peace.
• The Sun Moon Empire announced the treaty, and Xue Lingxun's delegation returned safely to Lingdou City.
• Xue Linghao lamented the treaty's costs, while Xuan Zi urged him to endure criticism and use the peace to rebuild and seek victory.
• Xue Linghao entrusted Xuan Zi with winning powerful allies and arranging negotiations to recover prisoners of war.
• Xuan Zi found Wang Dong and asked her to help the academy by persuading the Clear Sky Sect to support Shrek Academy.

Wang Dong agreed to ask the Clear Sky Sect to help Shrek Academy, and Xuan Zi decided to accompany her after visiting Di Tian. Meanwhile, the Sea God Douluo obeyed Sea God’s order not to intervene, and Wang Dong arrived at the Clear Sky Sect with Xuan Zi.

• Xuan Zi asked Wang Dong to seek the Clear Sky Sect’s aid for Shrek Academy, warning that the peace treaty would leave the Dou Ling Empire and Shrek vulnerable in two and a half years.
• Wang Dong said she could not decide for the sect herself, and Xuan Zi agreed to go with her after first visiting Di Tian in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• A messenger told the Sea God Douluo that the Sun Moon Empire had conquered Shrek Academy and urged him to intervene.
• The Sea God Douluo prayed for guidance, then ordered his people to wait and see and pass on Sea God’s oracle.
• Da Ming and Er Ming welcomed Wang Dong as she arrived at the Clear Sky Sect with Xuan Zi.

Xuan Zi asked Da Ming and Er Ming to send the Clear Sky Sect to help Shrek Academy resist the Sun Moon Empire, but they refused because the sect had suffered heavy losses before and its members resented Shrek. Wang Dong accepted that she could not ask the sect to help, but insisted she would still save her friends and fellow disciples held by the Sun Moon Empire.

• Da Ming and Er Ming recognized Xuan Zi and learned that he had come to ask the Clear Sky Sect for military support.
• Xuan Zi urged Da Ming and Er Ming to help Shrek Academy prepare for the Sun Moon Empire's advance, but they decided that the sect could not risk another costly intervention.
• Da Ming refused Xuan Zi's request, saying the Clear Sky Sect would defend itself if the Sun Moon Army attacked.
• Wang Dong pleaded for help, but Da Ming explained that survivors of the previous campaign resented Shrek Academy and could not be ordered to fight again.
• Wang Dong accepted that the sect should not be forced to support Shrek Academy, then declared that she would rescue her friends and fellow disciples held by the Sun Moon Empire.

Wang Dong and Xuan Zi left the Clear Sky Sect after Da Ming and Er Ming refused to support Shrek Academy. In Zi Huang City, Feng Ling gathered the Holy Spirit Cult’s Evil Soul Masters and prepared them for an eventual reckoning, secretly following Huo Yuhao’s orders to let the cult be destroyed.

• Wang Dong decided to rescue Xiao Xiao and the other Shrek students herself, and Xuan Zi offered his life to persuade the Clear Sky Sect to aid them.
• Da Ming and Er Ming refused to support Shrek Academy, so Wang Dong and Xuan Zi left the Clear Sky Sect.
• Feng Ling told the Holy Spirit Cult’s elders and worshippers that the cult had withdrawn to Zi Huang City and would seek revenge on Huo Yuhao.
• Feng Ling rebuked members who suggested fleeing or surrendering, while secretly awaiting Ye Guyi and the others to destroy the Holy Spirit Cult on Huo Yuhao’s orders.

Feng Ling became the new Church Master of the Holy Spirit Church while secretly welcoming the news that the Angel Soul Engineer Legion would destroy it that night. The legion arrived through a strange black door, led by Ye Guyi, and launched its descent upon the Evil Soul Masters.

• The Tenth Offering and the other elders urged Feng Ling to become Church Master, and she accepted while hiding her hatred of the Holy Spirit Church.
• Feng Ling learned that the Angel Soul Engineer Legion was about to arrive and that the Holy Spirit Church would be destroyed that night.
• The Tenth Offering announced Feng Ling's appointment to the church members, who cheered beneath the underground palace's soundproof barrier.
• A black door appeared and opened onto the Angel Soul Masters, their undead forces, and Ye Guyi, whose golden presence terrified the Evil Soul Masters.
• Ye Guyi flew through the door, followed by the other Angel Soul Masters.

Ye Guyi and the Angel Soul Masters attacked the Holy Spirit Cult’s underground palace, while Huo Yuhao watched from the pavilion and recognized that Tang San had been using the cult to stage a heroic spectacle. As Feng Ling’s elders and offerings closed in on Ye Guyi, the Tenth Offering was struck from behind by a lightning-charged hand.

• Ye Guyi led the Angel Soul Masters into the underground palace, where their sacred aura terrified the Evil Soul Masters.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection to observe the attack and concluded that Tang San had arranged for the Holy Spirit Cult to play the villains and build his reputation.
• Feng Ling rallied the Evil Soul Masters and ordered them to kill the Angel Soul Masters before Sun Moon forces arrived.
• Ye Guyi and the other Angel Soul Masters rode soul spirits into battle, destroying resentful spirits and burning Evil Soul Masters to ash.
• Feng Ling and her elders and offerings rushed Ye Guyi, and the Tenth Offering seized an opening to attack—only for a lightning-charged hand to strike his back.

The Nether Lightning Douluo attacked and killed the Tenth Offering, then evaded Nan Gongwan and two other attackers while Ye Guyi fought off the Holy Spirit Cult’s siege. Feng Ling secretly prepared to help Ye Guyi, and her attack left the surrounding elders and Offerings in chaos.

• The Nether Lightning Douluo used lightning to break the Tenth Offering’s sabotaged defensive barrier, and Ye Guyi killed the wounded Offering with the Angel Holy Sword.
• Nan Gongwan and two Offerings turned on the Nether Lightning Douluo, but he transformed into lightning and avoided their attacks.
• Ye Guyi used the Angel Holy Sword to hold off Feng Ling and the Holy Spirit Cult’s elders and Offerings while the Angel Soul Engineer Legion fought the other Evil Soul Masters.
• Feng Ling told Ye Guyi to prepare, transformed into a Purple-Black Phoenix, and fired beams from a purple sun that blasted apart Soul Tool Barriers and wounded the surrounding elders and Offerings.

Ye Guyi and her allies slaughtered the Holy Spirit Church’s Evil Soul Masters in the Underground Palace. Huo Yuhao then ordered her to strike the Holy Emperor Statue, and Qian Renxue recognized Tang San’s aura on it.

• Feng Ling ambushed the Holy Spirit Church elders and worshippers, then helped Ye Guyi attack them.
• Ye Guyi used Judgment to shatter the enemies’ Soul Tool Barriers and kill many Evil Soul Masters, replenishing her strength with purifying power.
• Nan Gongwan betrayed two worshippers by poisoning them, and Ye Guyi finished them off.
• Ye Guyi led the Angel Soul Engineer Legion in killing the remaining Evil Soul Masters, leaving only Feng Ling, Nan Gongwan, and Nether Lightning Douluo alive.
• Huo Yuhao told Ye Guyi to strike the Holy Emperor Statue, and Feng Ling led her to the altar.
• Qian Renxue sensed Tang San’s aura in the statue and asked Ye Guyi to hand over control so she could strike it herself.

Qian Renxue took control of Ye Guyi and destroyed the Holy Emperor Statue, leaving Tang San to discover the Angel God’s aura among its ashes. Tang San blamed the God of Destruction, suppressed his anger, and planned to strengthen his position through the Asura God Position Inheritors and a coming war.

• Ye Guyi agreed to Qian Renxue’s request, and Qian Renxue took control of her body.
• Qian Renxue used the Angel Holy Sword to split the Holy Emperor Statue and burn it to ashes.
• Huo Yuhao led the group away and had the Plane Consciousness reveal the statue’s destruction to Tang San.
• Tang San sent divine consciousness to the Lower Realm and found the statue’s ashes steeped in the Angel God’s aura.
• Tang San suspected the God of Destruction was helping Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong regain their god positions, but he restrained himself and planned to recruit the Asura God Position Inheritors to Shrek Academy ahead of a war.

Tang San visited the Seven Elemental Gods and tried to turn them against the God of Destruction by warning that his plan to expand the Divine Realm could leave it vulnerable to a predicted calamity. The Seven Elemental Gods questioned his claims, and Tang San said he had a witness who could prove them.

• Tang San went to the Fire God Temple, where he found the Seven Elemental Gods sharing a meal prepared by Emotion God Rong Nianbing.
• The Fire God invited Tang San to join them, and he ate with the Seven Elemental Gods.
• After the meal, Tang San claimed that the God of Destruction was using his punishment to consolidate power and push through an expansion of the Divine Realm.
• Tang San warned that the expansion would consume God Realm Spiritual Power needed to face the great calamity he had foreseen.
• The God of Space and the other Elemental Gods questioned whether the God of Destruction could expand the Divine Realm without the Divine Realm Committee's approval.
• Tang San said he had a witness who could prove the God of Destruction was plotting to expand the Divine Realm.

Tang San brought Zhou Weiqing before the Seven Elemental Gods to confirm the God of Destruction’s secret plan to expand the Divine Realm. Zhou Weiqing revealed the Mind Power Pillars but resisted publicly betraying his master, so Tang San proposed waiting until the plan was activated to gather irrefutable evidence before the other Three Great God Kings.

• Tang San summoned the Seven Elemental Gods to the Sea God Temple and called Zhou Weiqing as a witness.
• Zhou Weiqing arrived, learned Tang San wanted him to explain the God of Destruction’s scheme, and described the plan and the Mind Power Pillars to the Seven Elemental Gods.
• Fire God suggested destroying the Mind Power Pillars, but Tang San argued they would simply be rebuilt if the God of Destruction did not change his mind.
• Darkness God proposed reporting the conspiracy to the Divine Realm Committee, but Zhou Weiqing objected to betraying his master.
• Tang San proposed waiting until the God of Destruction activated all one hundred and eight Mind Power Pillars, then intervening before the other Three Great God Kings to secure undeniable proof.

Tang San won the gods’ approval for a plan that would deplete God Realm Spiritual Power and let him blame God of Destruction for the consequences. In the Dou Ling Empire, Xuan Zi proposed promising the soul beasts territory in exchange for Di Tian launching a Tide of Beasts against the Sun Moon Empire, leaving Xue Linghao stunned by the cost.

• Tang San persuaded the gods to accept limited depletion of God Realm Spiritual Power as a way to undermine God of Destruction’s plan to expand the Divine Realm.
• Xuan Zi reopened Shrek Academy in Lingdou City with support from Xue Linghao, but worried that the Dou Ling Empire would lack allies in the coming war.
• Fan Yu told Xuan Zi that the Holy Spirit Cult had been destroyed, and Xuan Zi blamed the Sun Moon Empire while ordering Fan Yu to recruit as many students as possible.
• Xuan Zi considered seeking help from Sea God Island and the soul beasts, then decided to offer Di Tian a share of Douluo Continent in exchange for a Tide of Beasts.
• Xue Linghao objected that the offer would hand human territory to a foreign race, but Xuan Zi argued that the empire needed outside support to survive the war.

Xuan Zi persuaded Dou Ling Emperor Xue Linghao to secretly plan to betray the soul beasts after using their forces to defeat the Sun Moon Empire, and Xue Linghao agreed to his strategy. Xuan Zi then offered Di Tian half the Douluo Continent for the soul beasts’ full support in the coming war, leaving Di Tian to test his motives.

• Xuan Zi warned Xue Linghao that Di Tian might ally with the Sun Moon Empire and urged him to secure the soul beasts’ support.
• Xuan Zi proposed breaking the agreement after the war, weakening the soul beasts, and later subjugating them; Xue Linghao accepted the plan as Dou Ling Emperor.
• Xuan Zi told Xue Linghao to proceed with conscription and tax increases despite the hardship this would impose on the people.
• Xuan Zi met Di Tian in the Star Dou Great Forest and promised that Shrek Academy would support the soul beasts occupying half the Douluo Continent if they sent all their forces to defeat the Sun Moon Empire.
• Di Tian questioned whether Xuan Zi feared the soul beasts might grow strong enough to wipe out humanity, while Xuan Zi replied that Shrek Academy’s divine ancestors would deter such a move.

Di Tian considered Xuan Zi’s proposal to lead a Tide of Beasts against the Sun Moon Empire, then followed Huo Yuhao’s advice to agree while planning a fake attack. Meanwhile, Zhou Yi and the blood-robed group arrived in Lingdou City, where Cui Ya Jie and Zhu Lu admired her appearance without her human-skin mask.

• Xuan Zi urged Di Tian to help Shrek Academy defeat the Sun Moon Empire, promising benefits for the Soul Beast Clan and a possible chance to become a god.
• Di Tian withheld his answer and told Huo Yuhao about Xuan Zi’s proposal.
• Huo Yuhao told Di Tian to agree and promised to create a fake Tide of Beasts when the war began.
• Zhou Yi led the blood-robed group into Lingdou City after removing her human-skin mask, and Cui Ya Jie and Zhu Lu commented on her beauty.