Chapter Summaries

Eva launched a coordinated invasion that shattered the Spirit Theocracy’s border defenses and brought the Fairytale Empire’s army to Spirit City. With Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue missing, the city’s defenders faced Eva’s overwhelming divine pressure as the siege began.

• Eva ordered the Fairytale Empire’s seven legions to advance, and they attacked the Spirit Theocracy’s border before dawn.
• The Fairytale Empire’s forces, including the Clear Sky Sect, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, the Elephant Armor Sect, Skywater Academy, Blazing Fire Academy, and Canghui Academy, broke through multiple defensive lines.
• Officials found Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue missing from the Pope Palace and Worship Hall, and the Worship Hall’s senior elder ordered the Spirit Theocracy to hold its defenses.
• Several days later, the Fairytale Empire’s army surrounded Spirit City, and Eva approached at its head.
• Eva unleashed her divine aura over Spirit City, causing the palace guard knights and Soul Masters on the walls to drop their weapons and collapse.

The Fairytale Empire occupied Spirit City after Eva’s divine pressure left its defenders unable to resist, and Eva returned to Bright Moon City to oversee the new government. With Bibi Dong presumed dead and her revenge ended, Xiao Wu decided to leave the army and return to the Star Dou Great Forest to cultivate.

• Eva’s army broke through Spirit City’s gates and took control of the city’s administrative district, military garrisons, supplies, and Pope Palace in less than half a day.
• Eva ordered Spirit City placed under curfew, then flew back to Bright Moon City and directed officials to process records, detainees, and amnesty applications.
• Xiao Wu wondered whether Bibi Dong had died in the divine battle, then accepted that her enemy was gone and decided to return to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm enthusiastically urged Xiao Wu to abandon military service and focus on cultivation so she could pursue godhood.
• The next morning, Xiao Wu submitted her resignation to a military official, who told her the army needed capable people and had planned to promote her.

Xiao Wu left Bright Moon City and returned toward the Star Dou Great Forest while Ariel used her Sea God's Power to restore Sea God Island. The island's survivors returned to Ariel, who began healing them as the chapter ended.

• Xiao Wu rejected her supervisor's offer to reconsider, signed her resignation, and left Bright Moon City for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ariel raised Sea God Island from the sea, restoring its reefs, shores, palace, and seven Sacred Pillars.
• Ariel announced that Sea God Island had reappeared and invited its followers and subjects to return.
• Xiao Bai led the Demon Soul Great White Sharks back to the island, followed by the Merfolk Clan and the surviving Sea God Island Soul Masters.
• Ariel spread crimson-gold light across the island and began healing the injured survivors, including a Soul Master who had lost an arm.

Ariel healed the survivors on Sea God Island, raised Xiao Bai's cultivation to two hundred thousand years, shielded her from the resulting Heavenly Tribulation, and appointed her the island's new priest. Ariel then confronted the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, and their battle began with her striking his fist and grazing his old wound.

• Ariel used Sea God's Authority to heal the injured Soul Masters, merfolk, and Demon Soul Great White Sharks, then restored Xiao Bai's old injuries and raised her cultivation to two hundred thousand years.
• Ariel shielded Xiao Bai from the Heavenly Tribulation, after which Xiao Bai pledged her loyalty to Ariel and accepted appointment as Sea God Island's new priest.
• Ariel ordered Xiao Bai to rebuild Sea God Island and call back its scattered residents while she was away.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King sensed Ariel's approach, confirmed his wife and daughter were safely outside his territory, and prepared to fight her.
• Ariel met the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King above the sea and attacked with her trident, forcing him back and leaving a scorch mark across his old waist wound.

Ariel defeated the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King by eroding his weapon and defenses with Sea God's Power, then pierced his chest and began breaking apart his Law of Wrath. As he confirmed his wife and daughter were beyond the coming blast radius, he began compressing his collapsing Divine Power for self-destruction.

• Ariel and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King exchanged blows with their trident and spear as her Sea God's Power gradually marked and weakened his defenses.
• Ariel shattered the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's spear and pierced his eroded chest, slowing his Divine Power and wounding him at an old injury.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King launched a final full-powered strike, but Ariel blocked it and pierced his chest, causing cracks to spread through his Divine Seat and Law of Wrath.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King recognized Ariel as the Sea God, his superior god, and checked that his wife and daughter had left the sea region and were outside the blast radius.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King began drawing his remaining Divine Power into his collapsing Divine Seat to trigger self-destruction.

Ariel survived the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's self-destruction, though the blast devastated his territory and injured her. Far away, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale Queen received the Divine Examination Mark he had prepared, while she told Lan Fozi that her father had gone to the God Realm.

• Ariel raised the Sevenfold Sea God's Barrier around the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King as he compressed the fragments of the Law of Wrath into a core.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King detonated his power, shattered all seven barriers, and sent the weakened shockwave into Ariel.
• Ariel was hurled hundreds of zhang before stabilizing herself, and the blast left the Deep Sea Demonic Whale Territory as a vast hollow stripped of seawater.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale Queen and Lan Fozi sensed the distant explosion, and a tear fell as a dark-blue Divine Examination Mark appeared on the Queen's forehead.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale Queen remembered that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had left the mark in her soul to guide her Divine Examination if he fell.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale Queen told Lan Fozi that her father had gone to the God Realm and said they could see him again after Lan Fozi became a god.

Ariel returned to Sea God Island after defeating the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, then rested in a newly built temple while healing the lingering damage from the battle. On the continent, Eva issued decrees to absorb former Spirit Hall institutions and end the autonomous rule of duchies and kingdoms, enforcing the order after one duchy resisted.

• Ariel returned to Sea God Island and told Xiao Bai that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King would not return and that the sea's order would be rebuilt.
• Ariel ordered the islanders to rest, then went to Sea God's Temple and circulated Sea God's Power to remove the shockwave remnants from her meridians.
• Eva ordered the remaining Spirit Hall personnel registered and willing members incorporated into the Fairytale Empire's Awakening Bureau.
• Eva decreed that autonomous duchies and kingdoms dissolve their administrations and join the empire's prefecture-and-county system, while their lords lost administrative and military authority.
• Several territories resisted the decree, but the Fairytale Empire's army quickly disarmed the first duchy's private troops and forced its lord to sign a submission document.
• After the defeat, the watching duchies and kingdoms sent another group of envoys to Bright Moon City.

After unifying the continent, Eva issued sweeping reforms to Soul Master education, including compulsory free schooling, district-based enrollment, and a vocational academy open to ordinary people. The chapter leaves Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing working in the Government Affairs Office as the new systems are put into practice.

• Every duchy and kingdom submitted to Eva, bringing the continent under a unified administrative framework.
• Ning Fengzhi, Tang Xiao, and Yu Yuanzhen worried that Eva’s decrees against local autonomy and private Martial Soul awakenings threatened the sects, but they could find no way to resist.
• Eva issued a decree requiring free compulsory education, abolishing work-study places and Soul Master subsidies, and assigning junior academies district enrollment.
• Eva established Bright Moon Vocational Technical Academy, which would teach trades such as Soul Tool technology to youths regardless of Martial Soul or Soul Power Level.
• Ning Rongrong reviewed academy enrollment districts while Zhu Zhuqing checked administrative files in the Government Affairs Office.
• A clerk brought Zhu Zhuqing registration lists from the Awakening Bureaus in three western commanderies for her to verify.

Ning Rongrong reviewed reforms that brought the Soul Master Academies under central control, while Zhu Zhuqing adjusted to administrative work. Far away, Tang San found Cinderella traveling with Pinocchio and Levin, reunited with her, and learned she had received a goddess's Divine Examination.

• Ning Rongrong recommended redrawing academy enrollment zones to prevent individual academies from monopolizing students.
• Ning Rongrong asked Zhu Zhuqing whether she had adjusted to her administrative work, and Zhu Zhuqing said she had.
• Tang San found Cinderella by a stream with Pinocchio and Levin after following clues from her letters across the continent.
• Cinderella greeted Tang San, who told her he had searched for her for a long time and missed her.
• Cinderella told Tang San she had made friends while traveling and received a goddess's Divine Examination, which left him astonished.

Tang San and Cinderella learned that they had both received Divine Examinations and agreed to continue their paths together. Meanwhile, Tang Hao remained lost in grief and drink, while Tang Yuehua quietly cared for him at the Clear Sky Sect’s new base.

• Cinderella told Tang San that she had obtained a Divine Examination, and he revealed that he had inherited the Asura God's examination; they agreed they could become gods together.
• Cinderella introduced Tang San to Pinocchio and Levin, and Tang San said he would accompany her while she continued her Divine Examination.
• Tang Hao drank alone in his secluded courtyard, feeling aimless after Spirit Hall's destruction and believing Ah Yin would never return.
• Tang Yuehua brought Tang Hao food and medicinal soup, and he drank it while she watched over him in silence.

After learning that Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong had secretly married, Tang Yuehua wondered if she could draw Tang Hao close as well. She drugged him with Dream Drunk and made him mistake her for Ah Yin, but the chapter ended as he pinned her down and she cried, “Brother Hao, don't!”

• Tang Yuehua read a report that Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong had secretly married and reflected on how they had finally overcome their hesitation.
• Tang Yuehua dressed to resemble Ah Yin and brought Tang Hao food and a flask of specially prepared wine.
• Tang Hao drank the wine, and Tang Yuehua helped him to bed as Dream Drunk began to distort his perceptions.
• Tang Hao mistook Tang Yuehua for Ah Yin and called her “Brother Hao” after she addressed him that way.
• Tang Yuehua leaned forward, and Tang Hao rolled over and pinned her beneath him as she cried, “Brother Hao, don't!”

Tang Hao woke to discover that he had spent the night with Tang Yuehua while intoxicated, leaving him shaken and guilty as she privately viewed the encounter as a first step toward him. Later, former Spirit Hall members asked Florian to gather the survivors, but he refused and declared Spirit Hall finished.

• Tang Hao woke beside Tang Yuehua, remembered the night, and apologized while she reassured him and left for her courtyard.
• Tang Yuehua privately celebrated her perceived success and decided to give Tang Hao time to process what happened.
• Tang Hao remained alone in his courtyard, struggling with his feelings and wondering how to face Tang Yuehua.
• Zheng Huai'an and about thirty former Spirit Hall members approached Florian by the Golden Blue River and asked him to rebuild Spirit Hall's remaining forces.
• Florian refused Zheng Huai'an's request and said Spirit Hall was already finished.

Florian stopped Zheng Huai'an and his former Spirit Hall followers from using Qian Daoliu’s name to recruit people, then warned them to abandon the effort. At the Angel Clan Territory, Qian Hantian organized a continent-wide search for the living but sealed Qian Renxue.

• Zheng Huai'an tried to force Florian to serve as a figurehead for rebuilding Spirit Hall and surrounded him with more than thirty Soul Masters.
• Florian revealed his nine Soul Rings and Title Douluo rank, then used the Radiant Unicorn’s power to immobilize the group.
• Florian warned Zheng Huai'an and the others never to recruit in Spirit Hall’s name or use Qian Daoliu’s disciple as a banner, then released them.
• Qian Hantian met with Angel Clan elders in Gutres Hills and learned that Qian Renxue’s Divine Seat remained intact, suggesting she was alive but sealed or asleep.
• Qian Hantian ordered Angel Clan branches to search the entire continent for a resonance with Qian Renxue, while avoiding conflict with the Fairytale Empire.

Qian Hantian organized clan teams to search the continent, while Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang searched Bright Moon City for a site to rebuild Shrek Academy. Flender chose and rented a cheap, remote plot outside the city, then began registering the academy despite Yu Xiaogang’s concerns about attracting students.

• Qian Hantian ordered each branch to register its deployable clan members within three days and instructed the teams to avoid unnecessary conflict and exposure during their searches.
• Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang explored Bright Moon City as Flender explained his plan to rebuild Shrek Academy after its former students had dispersed.
• Yu Xiaogang suggested they investigate land designated for education, and the three spent several days inspecting potential school sites.
• Flender chose an inexpensive, spacious plot in a village outside Bright Moon City, despite Yu Xiaogang warning that its remoteness and lack of shops could deter students and parents.
• Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang let Flender proceed, and after paying the rent, Flender began registering Shrek Academy.

Flender failed to register his academy because he did not meet the Fairytale Empire's new operating requirements, so Yu Xiaogang investigated the Teacher Qualification Certificate assessment. The chapter ended with Yu Xiaogang returning with a large stack of exam reference books, leaving Flender to face the studying ahead.

• Flender applied to register an academy, but a Ministry of Education employee rejected his application for failing to meet the new qualification requirements.
• Flender returned home and showed Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong the regulations, which required certified teachers, approved facilities, and compulsory courses.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that Eva's government had standardized academy requirements and said the group should prepare to comply.
• Yu Xiaogang visited the Teacher Qualification Certificate Consultation Office and learned that the assessment involved a written test and interview, with additional requirements for higher certification.
• Yu Xiaogang bought the assessment reference books and brought them home, where Flender was dismayed by the size of the study stack.

Flender reluctantly committed to studying for a teaching qualification so he could rebuild Shrek Academy, while Tang Yuehua visited Tang Hao and Ning Rongrong put off her father’s marriage discussions. The chapter ended with Ning Rongrong returning to the Government Affairs Office and asking Zhu Zhuqing why she was still working.

• Yu Xiaogang reminded Flender that he could not recover the rent for the leased land, and Liu Erlong urged him not to abandon his plan to rebuild Shrek Academy.
• Flender agreed to study for the teaching qualification with Yu Xiaogang while Liu Erlong supervised construction, and they planned to find reference books and exam guides.
• Tang Yuehua brought food to Tang Hao and calmly encouraged him to eat, and Tang Hao silently accepted the meal.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Ning Rongrong whether she had found a suitable man among the Soul Masters he had introduced, and she said she would revisit the matter after a busy stretch at work.
• Ning Rongrong returned to the Government Affairs Office, found Zhu Zhuqing working through the midday break, and asked why she had not gone back.

Flender and Yu Xiaogang took the written Teacher Qualification Examination, but only Yu Xiaogang qualified for the interview. As Yu Xiaogang prepared for the next stage, Zhu Zhuqing was assigned to serve as an examiner and ordered to attend closed training.

• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing discussed their government work, including academy instructor records and Awakening Bureau rosters.
• Flender and Yu Xiaogang sat the written Teacher Qualification Examination, then went for drinks while worrying about their results.
• Flender learned he had not qualified for the interview, while Yu Xiaogang earned a place on the interview list.
• Yu Xiaogang bought books and began preparing for the interview, while Flender accepted that he might not earn a certificate himself.
• Ning Rongrong gave Zhu Zhuqing notice that she had been selected as an interviewer and had to attend seven days of closed training.

Zhu Zhuqing was assigned to examine teacher-certification candidates and unexpectedly found her former teacher Yu Xiaogang among them. Yu Xiaogang completed the interview’s initial questions, but his response to a hypothetical student opposing the Fairytale Empire’s education policies left the interview underway.

• Ning Rongrong told Zhu Zhuqing she had been selected as an examiner and explained that she would undergo seven days of closed training before the interview.
• On interview day, Flender anxiously accompanied Yu Xiaogang to the Ministry of Education examination site, where Yu Xiaogang went inside alone.
• Yu Xiaogang entered the examination room and was surprised to see Zhu Zhuqing among the three examiners, while she briefly reacted to seeing him before returning to her scoring sheet.
• Yu Xiaogang described his teaching experience and said teachers should adapt instruction to each student’s abilities and guide students’ values and patriotism.
• Asked how he would handle a talented student who opposed the Fairytale Empire’s education policies, Yu Xiaogang said he would investigate the reason, counsel the student, and report persistent dissent under academy regulations.

Yu Xiaogang completed his teacher qualification interview and left to wait for the results with Flender and Liu Erlong. Later, Eva reviewed the examination results and announced plans for a decree to encourage childbirth, abolish slavery, and prohibit human trafficking, leaving officials to consider the broad interests it would affect.

• Yu Xiaogang answered the examiners’ questions about teaching and combat training, then was told the results would be announced within seven working days.
• Flender and Liu Erlong met Yu Xiaogang after the interview, and he suggested they discuss it after returning.
• Eva received the final teacher qualification examination report and learned that regional academies were being integrated into a district-based enrollment system.
• Eva summoned department heads to the Government Affairs Office and announced a decree to encourage childbirth, abolish slavery, and prohibit human trafficking.
• The household registration official warned Eva that abolishing slavery and human trafficking would threaten powerful vested interests, and Eva judged the officials’ concerns manageable.

Eva’s decree abolishing slavery and human trafficking prompted noble families to plan ways to obstruct its enforcement, while Ning Rongrong confirmed that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had complied. The Clear Sky Sect publicly supported the decree, prompting other forces to reconsider their positions as slaveholding nobles grew angrier.

• Half a month after Eva ordered it drafted, the Fairytale Empire issued a decree providing childcare subsidies, abolishing slavery, banning human trafficking, freeing existing slaves, and requiring their registration within three months.
• Marquis Qin and other nobles discussed how the decree threatened their mines and estates, and a young noble proposed delaying registration and disguising workers’ ownership to evade enforcement.
• Ning Rongrong visited Ning Fengzhi, who said the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had registered its slaves and signed labor contracts with them.
• The Clear Sky Sect’s elders agreed to support the decree publicly, and the sect submitted an open letter declaring its support to Bright Moon City’s Government Affairs Hall the next day.
• The Clear Sky Sect’s declaration made neutral forces reconsider whether to cooperate, while the anger of slaveholding sects and nobles shifted toward the decree’s supporters.