Recaps

Niu Tian and Tai Tan decided that Clear Sky Sect would leave its seclusion and join the Firmament Tribunal gathering in Shrek City. The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect also prepared to attend after Ning Yuanzhi persuaded its Supreme Elder to emerge from seclusion.

• Niu Tian agreed that Clear Sky Sect would enter the world, while Tai Tan accepted rules to stay in human form and leave negotiations to his elder brother.
• Niu Tian and Tai Tan led Second Elder, Third Elder, and core disciples out of Clear Sky Sect toward Shrek City.
• Ning Yuanzhi concluded that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect needed its Supreme Elder to help secure an Outer Pavilion seat at the gathering.
• Ning Yuanzhi knelt before the Supreme Elder, who emerged from seclusion and agreed to accompany the delegation and protect the sect's standing.
• Ning Yuanzhi organized a delegation with the Supreme Elder, four Soul Douluo, and two Titled Douluo, as news of the sect's departure spread across the continent.

Shrek City filled with powerful factions gathering for a contest over seats in the Outer Nine, while Chen Xuan and Yan Shaozhe watched the arrivals from Sea God Pavilion. The chapter ended with Niu Tian and Tai Tan leading the Clear Sky Sect into the city.

• Yan Shaozhe reported that faction leaders and more than fifty Titled Douluos had gathered in Shrek City for the contest.
• Kong Deming arrived on behalf of the Sun Moon Empire, and Chen Xuan recognized him as a powerful force who could outmatch him.
• The Crown Prince of Heavenly Soul and Purple Lightning Douluo agreed to wait before speaking at the meeting.
• The Elder Prince of Star Luo planned to secure two Outer Nine Seats and seek Douling's support, while Heavenly Sun Douluo promised Douling would not leave empty-handed.
• Niu Tian and Tai Tan led the Clear Sky Sect into Shrek City beneath its ancient hammer-emblem banner.

Chen Xuan and the leaders of the major factions established the Firmament Tribunal’s core rotation and filled its Outer Nine Seats. The smaller sects were left without a voice as the nine places went to powerful figures from the empires and sects.

• Chen Xuan told Yan Shaozhe that Niu Tian and Tai Tan of the Clear Sky Sect were immensely powerful Limit Douluos, and that their presence would help keep the factions in check.
• The major factions gathered at Sea God Pavilion, where Mu En presided over the establishment of the Firmament Tribunal.
• Chen Xuan set a five-year hosting rotation for the four core sects, placing Shrek first, the Clear Sky Sect second, the Illustrious Virtue Hall third, and the Body Sect fourth; Du Busi accepted the order.
• Mu En announced that the Outer Nine Seats would go to those who could demonstrate their strength, and powerful representatives claimed all nine seats for their empires and sects.
• The smaller and mid-sized sects watched the seats fill and were left with no opportunity to speak.

Chen Xuan established the Firmament Tribunal’s governing structure, bureau responsibilities, headquarters rules, and Nine-Tier Ranks. The chapter ended with detailed appointment and promotion procedures for its first members.

• Chen Xuan confirmed the nine Outer Nine Seats and declared the twenty-one-seat Arbitration Council the continent’s highest decision-making body.
• Chen Xuan defined the authority of the Awakening, Inspection, and Criminal Law Bureaus, including continent-wide awakenings, oversight, and equal enforcement of laws.
• Chen Xuan separated deliberative and executive roles, then established five-year rotating headquarters oversight and temporarily suspended Shrek’s veto while it managed the headquarters.
• Yan Shaozhe announced the Nine-Tier Ranks, and Chen Xuan set quotas, review requirements, and limits for council members recommending initial appointments.
• Chen Xuan restricted appointments to Earth Token and below for the first two years and established service, evaluation, and nomination requirements for promotions.

Chen Xuan secured approval for the Firmament Tribunal’s structure, staffing rules, and future contribution rewards, officially establishing the new order. After the meeting, he proposed student exchanges between Shrek and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy and offered to meet Jing Hongchen at the border to discuss them.

• Chen Xuan outlined how the Tribunal’s thirty-two branch stations would be staffed and how candidates from nations and sects could serve without using their authority for private gain.
• Chen Xuan detailed contribution-point rules and rewards offered by Shrek, the Body Sect, Illustrious Virtue Hall, and the Clear Sky Sect, with exchanges opening after two years and the stations and bureaus were established.
• Kong Deming, Niu Tian, Du Busi, Tai Tan, the nine outer-seat Arbiters, and Mu En accepted the rules, and Chen Xuan declared the Firmament Tribunal officially established.
• After the meeting, the forces departed to prepare their personnel recommendations, which were due within seven days.
• Yan Shaozhe brought Jing Hongchen to meet Chen Xuan, who proposed student exchanges between Shrek and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy and offered to meet at the Sun Moon Empire’s border to discuss the plan.

Chen Xuan decided to seek Ye Guyi and the Spirit-Eating Engraving Knife in the Star Luo Empire, hoping to save the child and obtain Life Gold to restore his aging body and break through Rank 98. After leaving Shrek alone, he crossed the border disguised as a merchant.

• Chen Xuan and Jing Hongchen discussed a possible exchange between Shrek and the Sun Moon Empire, and Jing Hongchen agreed to consult Illustrious Virtue Hall.
• Chen Xuan resolved to find Ye Guyi and bring her to Shrek before Evil Soul Masters could force her into hiding.
• Chen Xuan decided that obtaining the Spirit-Eating Engraving Knife and refining its Life Gold could restore his body and help him advance beyond Rank 98.
• Chen Xuan told Yan Shaozhe he would leave for the Star Luo Empire and instructed him and Mei'er to oversee the Tribunal's first personnel.
• Chen Xuan departed Shrek alone at night, then entered the Star Luo Empire at dawn disguised as a traveler in a merchant caravan.

Chen Xuan bought the Spirit-Eating Engraving Knife in Star Luo City and discovered that an ancient remnant soul was fused with its Life Gold. He brought the knife back to Shrek and placed it beneath the Golden Ancient Tree, where its golden light began suppressing the evil presence.

• Chen Xuan paid one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins for the Spirit-Eating Engraving Knife at the Starlight Auction House’s underground black market.
• Chen Xuan crushed the knife’s attacking evil intent and stripped away much of its Evil Qi, but found a remnant soul fused with the Life Gold in the Blade Core.
• Chen Xuan sealed the knife in his Storage Soul Tool and flew back to Shrek City, where he gave A-Huang two chicken legs.
• Chen Xuan consulted Mu En, who agreed that the Golden Ancient Tree and the Sea God’s Light might purify or suppress the remnant soul.
• Chen Xuan placed the Wooden Box beside a thick root of the Golden Ancient Tree, and its golden light pressed down the gray mist as the remnant hissed inside.

Chen Xuan’s Godly Taotie Bull evolved after devouring the purified Slender Carving Knife and Mu En’s Dragon Dan, while Chen Xuan and Mu En both broke through. The chapter ended with Chen Xuan forming Dual Soul Cores and Mu En beginning to transform his Martial Soul into the Light Dragon King as both men meditated beneath the ancient tree.

• Mu En used the Radiant Holy Dragon’s Power of Light to destroy the final remnant of evil intent in the Wooden Box, purifying the Slender Carving Knife.
• The Godly Taotie Bull swallowed the jade-green Slender Carving Knife and evolved into its ancient Taotie form, absorbing most of the knife’s life force.
• Mu En gave Chen Xuan a Dragon Dan, and the Taotie Spirit absorbed the Radiant Holy Dragon phantom and drew the Miasma out of Mu En’s body.
• Chen Xuan’s Taotie Spirit completed its evolution, and his first Soul Core split into a Yang Core in his upper dantian and a Yin Core in his middle dantian.
• Mu En gained insight and began transforming his Radiant Holy Dragon Martial Soul toward the Light Dragon King as he and Chen Xuan meditated beneath the ancient tree.

The Golden Ancient Tree absorbed Sea God's Light and Life Gold, becoming the Half-Life Tree and rejuvenating Chen Xuan and Mu En while helping several Shrek elders advance. Chen Xuan then discovered that Little Black Dog had appeared as a half-blooded Taotie, and he explained Yu Xiaogang’s story to him.

• The Golden Ancient Tree transformed into the Half-Life Tree, increasing Shrek City's spiritual energy and nourishing plant-type martial souls.
• Elder Zhuang and other Shrek elders meditated beneath the tree, and Elder Zhuang broke through to level ninety-six.
• Chen Xuan and Mu En awoke rejuvenated, looking decades younger.
• Little Black Dog appeared in Chen Xuan’s arms and claimed he was a half-blooded Taotie who had nearly become pure-blooded.
• Elder Zhuang joked that Little Black Dog resembled Grandmaster’s martial soul, Luo Sanpao, and Chen Xuan told Little Black Dog Yu Xiaogang’s story.

Chen Xuan and Mu En unleashed their transformed powers, bathing Shrek City in life force and terrifying the soul beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest. Di Tian sensed their auras from afar and recognized the ancient dragon bloodline in Mu En’s power.

• Little Black Dog realized Elder Zhuang had compared him to Yu Xiaogang and angrily stomped on him before resting beneath the Golden Ancient Tree.
• Chen Xuan and Mu En revealed their nine-ring configurations and summoned the phantoms of Taotie and the Light Dragon King.
• The combined aura spread across Shrek City, strengthening the Inner Court disciples and helping several break through their cultivation bottlenecks.
• The soul beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest trembled under the distant pressure until Di Tian released his aura and silenced them.
• Di Tian sensed the two auras from Shrek City and recognized the ancient dragon bloodline within Mu En’s power.

After Chen Xuan and Mu En emerged from seclusion, Shrek's senior figures gathered to report their breakthroughs and plans for the Firmament Tribunal. Mu En put those plans aside and mobilized Shrek's forces and resources to purge Evil Soul Masters across the continent.

• Di Tian sensed Chen Xuan and Mu En's evolved martial souls and dual soul cores, but the Lord told him not to worry because the two men would not live much longer.
• Shrek's elders gathered beneath the ancient tree, where they reported breakthroughs gained during Mu En's seclusion, including Elder Lin reaching rank ninety-seven and Yan Shaozhe reaching rank ninety-six.
• Yan Shaozhe told Chen Xuan that the nations and sects had submitted personnel lists and station plans, and that Jing Hongchen had proposed talks in Maple Leaf City.
• Mu En halted discussion of the plans and ordered Yan Shaozhe to muster every member of the Inner Court Inquisitorial Legion and summon Shrek's Titled Douluos back within seven days.
• Mu En ordered Yunzhi to transfer one-twentieth of Shrek's heritage reserves into battle supplies and Huiqun to hand over the Treasure Appreciation Pavilion's decade of savings.

Mu En mobilized Shrek and the righteous factions to prepare for a continent-wide purge of Evil Soul Masters. He ordered Chen Xuan to lead one front toward the Sun Moon Empire while he remained with the original three empires, and declared that Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao would face judgment.

• Mu En ordered Treasure Appreciation Pavilion's profits and savings sent to Sea God Pavilion and assigned leaders to organize troops, branch stations, supplies, and reinforcements within ten days.
• Mu En summoned top experts to an alliance gathering and threatened those who refused or secretly aided Evil Soul Masters with expulsion or extermination.
• Mu En told Chen Xuan they would advance on two fronts to eradicate the Evil Soul Masters, and said Ye Xishui must die while Long Xiaoyao could be spared if he repented.
• Chen Xuan left Sea God Pavilion with Little Black Dog, who boasted that it could swallow the two Limit Douluo if they met.

Shrek called on the continent’s major factions to form an alliance and eradicate Evil Soul Masters. The Body Sect and Clear Sky Sect agreed to attend, while Jing Hongchen considered Shrek’s invitation on behalf of the Illustrious Virtue Hall.

• Qian Duoduo sent the Outer Nine Seats a message announcing the campaign against Evil Soul Masters and summoning them to an alliance gathering within ten days; the major factions replied that they would join.
• Xian Lin'er invited the Body Sect, Clear Sky Sect, and Illustrious Virtue Hall to send elite forces to Shrek.
• Du Busi sensed the powerful auras from Shrek, ordered the Body Sect to recall its Titled Douluo, and prepared to attend the gathering.
• Niu Tian and Tai Tan recognized that Xuanzi had achieved Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores and that Mu En had advanced as well, then agreed to send a Clear Sky Sect delegation.
• Jing Hongchen read Xian Lin'er's invitation, acknowledged that Xuanzi had broken through, and headed to the Worship Hall.

Kong Deming committed the Illustrious Virtue Hall and Sun Moon Empire forces to Shrek’s campaign against the Evil Soul Masters, and the continent’s powers gathered in Shrek City. Mu En addressed the assembled forces, warning that the purge would bring bloodshed and that Limit Douluos stood behind the Evil Soul Masters.

• Kong Deming ordered Jing Hongchen to bring Soul Engineers and royal worshippers, deploy two Soul Engineer Corps, and tell Shrek that the Illustrious Virtue Hall would join the battle.
• Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo discussed the coalition’s strength, while Xian Lin'er warned that Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao and their backers remained a threat.
• Ten days later, Du Busi and Tai Tan led core sect forces to Shrek City as the Three Empires, major sects, healing and auxiliary Soul Masters, and Soul Engineer Corps assembled.
• Chen Xuan and Little Black Dog prepared to move as Mu En stood before the assembled forces with the Light Dragon King’s phantom behind him.
• Mu En reminded the crowd of the Evil Soul Masters’ long history of atrocities and admitted that the coming purge would cause casualties, with Limit Douluos backing their enemies.

Mu En rallied Shrek’s forces for a continent-wide purge of Evil Soul Masters, then the army split into routes. Chen Xuan led the Sun Moon and Douling divisions toward the Sun Moon Empire, where he planned to clear the Ming Dou Mountains before meeting Elder Kong.

• Mu En called on the assembled fighters to join the purge and promised battle spoils and generous pensions for those who fell.
• Mu En divided the army, assigning Chen Xuan to lead the Sun Moon and Douling routes while other commanders took the remaining forces.
• Chen Xuan set out with Jing Hongchen, Ye Yulin, Lu Yun, and the soul master and soul engineer corps following him.
• Ye Yulin told Chen Xuan that Elder Kong was waiting at Illustrious Virtue Hall and described the planned route through the Ming Dou Mountains.
• Chen Xuan ordered the scouts to probe ahead and the Terror Claw Corps to bring up the rear as the army advanced through the western valley.
• Little Black Dog sensed that others were also responding to the army’s movement, and Chen Xuan welcomed the prospect of the Evil Soul Masters gathering together.

Zhongli Wu gathered the Holy Spirit Cult’s surviving elders and worshippers after learning that Shrek and the Firmament Tribunal had launched a continent-wide campaign to destroy the cult. He revealed that Mu En and Xuanzi had both broken through, leaving the cult facing coordinated attacks from Shrek’s allies.

• Zhongli Wu, the Holy Spirit Cult elders, and the worshippers assembled in the cult’s underground headquarters, where the blood pool churned ominously.
• Duanmu Yao and Three-Eyed Ghost Jackal Douluo had recovered much of their strength after the cult replenished its resources, but they remained terrified of Shrek and the Firmament Tribunal.
• Zhongli Wu showed the gathered cult members images of Shrek’s forces mobilizing with weapons, supplies, and support from their allies.
• Zhongli Wu announced that Mu En had survived and broken through, while Xuanzi had reached the Ultimate realm and was commanding the campaign.
• Zhongli Wu described how Mu En, Xuanzi, the Body Sect, and the Clear Sky Sect were leading forces to sweep the continent and eradicate the Holy Spirit Cult’s bases.

Zhongli Wu ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to abandon its strongholds and scatter into dangerous forests to evade Mu En, Xuanzi, and the Tribunal. After Ye Xishui enforced the retreat, she visited Long Xiaoyao and told him the threat facing the cult.

• Zhongli Wu erupted at the cult's leaders and ordered members to abandon public strongholds, disperse, and hide.
• Zhongli Wu directed cult forces near the Evil Demon Forest to withdraw toward its depths and sent large strongholds in the former Three Empires fleeing into Soul Beast forests.
• Zhang Peng asked about low-ranking members who could not escape, and Zhongli Wu ordered them killed to prevent their capture.
• Ye Xishui repeated Zhongli Wu's orders, and the elders, Worship Hall members, and Feng Ling's Evil Phoenix Guard began evacuating and erasing evidence.
• Ye Xishui told Duanmu Yao and Three-Eyed Ghost Jackal Douluo that their foundations had recovered, then visited Long Xiaoyao and warned him that Mu En, Xuanzi, and the Tribunal threatened the Holy Spirit Cult.

Ye Xishui discussed the threat from Mu En with Long Xiaoyao, who promised to act if she reached her breaking point but warned that he did not want that day to come. She then explained to Zhongli Wu that the Holy Spirit Cult would retreat and try to outlast the purge by exploiting its immense cost and the allied forces’ exhaustion.

• Ye Xishui told Long Xiaoyao that Mu En intended to kill her, and Long Xiaoyao said he would act if she could no longer hold on.
• Ye Xishui told Zhongli Wu that Long Xiaoyao would not act and that even the two of them together could not defeat Mu En and Xuanzi.
• Ye Xishui explained that the Holy Spirit Cult would endure a prolonged purge because the continent-wide campaign would strain manpower, resources, and money.
• Zhongli Wu realized that noble lords could lose faith in the campaign as their coffers dwindled.

Ye Xishui and Zhongli Wu planned to endure the Firmament Tribunal’s campaign by hiding Holy Spirit Cult forces and keeping the Sun Moon Empire as a secret ally. As the purge turned into a prolonged search through the wilderness, Chen Xuan’s army traveled west through the Star Luo Empire toward the Ming Dou Mountains.

• Ye Xishui told Zhongli Wu to maintain secret ties with Xu Chenghan and warned that the Holy Spirit Cult would survive the Firmament Tribunal.
• Zhongli Wu ordered Feng Ling to tell hidden Holy Spirit Cult outposts to wait for an opportunity to act, giving them hope so they would stay concealed.
• Evil Soul Masters scattered into the Evil Demon Core, forests, and remote lands as the continent’s purge shifted into a prolonged shadow struggle.
• Ye Xishui vowed that her old grudges with Mu En would be settled and declared that the war had only just begun.
• Chen Xuan’s army traveled west from Shrek City through the Star Luo Empire, heading toward the Ming Dou Mountains and a rendezvous with Kong Deming.

Chen Xuan led his army across the Star Luo Empire, clearing scattered Evil Soul Master hideouts while explaining that the campaign would establish the Firmament Tribunal’s authority and protect future martial soul awakening reforms. He revealed that the Holy Spirit Cult’s main forces had fled to the Evil Demon Forest, guarded by the 790,000-year-old Evil Emperor.

• Chen Xuan diverted his army through remote mountain regions, where scouts found and captured several abandoned or low-ranking Evil Soul Master strongholds.
• The army continued west for more than ten days, eliminating signs of Evil Soul Master activity but finding few powerful enemies.
• When Little Black Dog questioned the cost and purpose of the campaign, Chen Xuan explained that crushing the Evil Soul Masters’ influence would help secure support for universal martial soul awakening and other new policies.
• Chen Xuan said the Holy Spirit Cult’s core forces had withdrawn into the Evil Demon Forest and identified its guardian as the Evil Emperor, a 790,000-year-old Ferocious Beast with the Light of Space-Time.

Chen Xuan weighed the forces arrayed against his army and chose to avoid a direct fight while they slowly cleared Evil Soul Master strongholds. After five months of westward advance, news arrived that Beibei and his mother were safe, leaving Chen Xuan relieved that the original story could be changed for the better.

• Chen Xuan explained that his side could not risk a prolonged battle against the Evil Emperor, Long Xiaoyao, and Ye Xishui, so he planned to wear them down instead.
• Chen Xuan and the army spent five months advancing through the Star Luo Empire, clearing abandoned Evil Soul Master strongholds and rescuing civilians.
• Chen Xuan learned from a message that Elder Mu's forces in the Heaven Dou Empire had also found the major strongholds abandoned.
• Chen Xuan told Lu Yun that Beibei had been born safely and that his mother was safe, and said Elder Mu had chosen the baby's name.

Chen Xuan reached the frontier town at the foot of the Ming Dou Mountains and recruited Chef Ju and his family, including the infant Ju Zi, to go to Shrek City. His army then entered the mountain pass toward the Sun Moon Empire, where scouts found abandoned Evil Soul Master strongholds.

• Chen Xuan arrived with the troops at the western side of the Ming Dou Mountains and ordered them to rest in the frontier town before crossing the pass.
• Chen Xuan ate at Chef Ju’s restaurant, praised his cooking, and invited him and his family to work and live in Shrek City.
• Chef Ju agreed to go with Chen Xuan after Lu Yun explained his authority and the opportunities Ju Zi might have in Shrek City.
• The army entered the Ming Dou Mountains in formation and advanced through the narrow pass.
• On the third day, Chen Xuan sent the Evil Lord Corps to investigate abnormal Soul Power fluctuations, and they found abandoned Evil Soul Master strongholds.

Chen Xuan and his allies began a border-based martial soul awakening pilot in the Sun Moon Empire while preparing to encircle the Evil Soul Masters in the Northern Border. The Bluestone City station opened and enrolled talented children, and the chapter ended with scouts bringing five people back from the north.

• Chen Xuan met Kong Deming and planned to expand awakening stations inward from the Sun Moon Empire's borders, bypassing Bright Capital City.
• Chen Xuan ordered reinforcements and defenses around the Northern Border while Jing Hongchen arranged a Soul Tool Detection Array.
• The Bluestone City martial soul awakening branch station opened, and Lin Xiaoman's level-seven innate Soul Power earned her an offer to study in Shrek City.
• Three days later, Evil Lord Corps scouts escorted five people back from the north, and Lu Yun hurried to report their arrival.

Chen Xuan ordered an expanded search of the Northern Border for Holy Spirit Cult remnants, while mixed forces led by Riftwind Douluo and Hansu Douluo uncovered a hidden underground outpost. The chapter leaves them confronting the remains of a mass atrocity carried out with the Blood Marrow Devouring technique.

• Chen Xuan ordered captured Holy Spirit Cult remnants interrogated and expanded the border search with teams led by Titled Douluo Soul Masters and Titled Soul Engineers.
• Riftwind Douluo and Hansu Douluo led mixed squads in a mountain-clearing operation and ordered their forces to search in groups.
• A dog martial soul Soul Douluo detected a huge underground cavity filled with corpse stench and sinister blood aura.
• Riftwind Douluo ordered the mountain sealed while he led a team into the underground outpost.
• Riftwind Douluo and his team found 127 mummified corpses and barrels of blood plasma, recognizing the site as a place where the Holy Spirit Cult had practiced Blood Marrow Devouring.

Riftwind Douluo’s team uncovered an underground Evil Soul Master stronghold and buried its civilian victims, while Chen Xuan’s search teams found seven more across the Northern Border. Interrogations revealed that the captured Soul Douluo knew only of peripheral bases, leaving the Holy Spirit Cult’s core strongholds hidden deep in the Evil Demon Forest.

• Riftwind Douluo defeated the Evil Soul Masters at an underground stronghold and ordered the burial of 127 desiccated civilians beneath a monument.
• Lu Yun reported the capture and civilian deaths to Chen Xuan, who ordered future victims buried where they were found and demanded information about the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Over the next half month, search teams uncovered seven more strongholds, capturing 347 Evil Soul Masters and finding 1,008 desiccated corpses in total.
• Chen Xuan learned from Lu Yun’s interrogation report that the captured Soul Douluo knew only of minor strongholds and could not identify the main headquarters’ entrance.