Recaps

Chen Xuan reformed Shrek’s Inquisitorial Legion and pushed the academy to adopt Soul Tools, uncovering a Holy Spirit Cult plot in the process. After Mu En sent him west, Chen Xuan reached Azure Mist and began watching over the young Zhang Lexuan.

• Chen Xuan woke in Xuanzi’s body, realized he could prevent the catastrophe that would kill Zhang Lexuan and the Inner Court disciples, and set out to protect Beibei’s family.
• Chen Xuan uncovered corruption and dangerous assignments in the Inquisitorial Legion, ordered a full audit, suspended its field missions, and required Soul Tool training and equipment.
• Chen Xuan pushed through academy-wide Soul Tool reforms, securing cooperation from Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er while directing the Soul Tool Department to expand its teaching and recruitment.
• Chen Xuan and the Sea God Pavilion elders arrested more than twenty people tied to the Legion’s corruption, then traced the intermediary Gray Harrier to a warehouse outside Shrek City.
• Chen Xuan fought Duanmu Yao and other Holy Spirit Cult members, while Shrek’s elders and department heads defeated several attackers before Zhongli Wu negotiated their retreat.
• Chen Xuan warned that the Holy Spirit Cult posed a larger threat, then Mu En gave him the Internal Affairs Token and ordered him to leave academy duties to Song Yunzhi.
• Chen Xuan traveled to Azure Mist, met former disciple Lu Yun, and spent an evening aboard a pleasure boat before deciding to watch the Zhang Family without rushing.
• Chen Xuan disguised himself as a beggar and waited near Zhang Residence, where nine-year-old Zhang Lexuan crossed a bridge and approached him.

Chen Xuan takes Zhang Lexuan as his disciple and reforms Shrek while preparing for a summit with the continent’s major powers. He abolishes the Inquisitorial Legion and establishes the Firmament Tribunal, leaving factions to decide whether to join.

• Chen Xuan learned the Zhang Family was innocent and the Zhao Family had pursued its ancestral property, then reprimanded Lu Yun for attacking without permission.
• Chen Xuan revealed himself to Zhang Lexuan’s family and accepted her as his personal disciple, promising to protect her and arranging for the family to move to Shrek City.
• Chen Xuan proposed reforms to Shrek’s teaching staff and a plan to expand Shrek City, and Mu En approved them and assigned him to lead the expansion.
• Delegations from the Three Empires, the Sun Moon Empire, and major sects arrived in Shrek City as Chen Xuan prepared for Zhang Lexuan’s discipleship ceremony.
• Zhang Lexuan completed her ceremony before the assembled powers, and the factions dispersed peacefully without Jing Hongchen firing his Ninth-level Fixed Soul Cannon Shells.
• Chen Xuan and the elders established the Firmament Tribunal with Shrek, Illustrious Virtue Hall, the Body Sect, and the Clear Sky Sect as its core factions.
• Mu En announced the abolition of Shrek’s Inquisitorial Legion, and Chen Xuan presented the Tribunal’s structure and proposed universal martial soul awakenings for children.
• Du Busi agreed to join the awakening effort and named Jinpeng as his successor, while Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming prepared to attend the summit and the Clear Sky Sect considered whether to claim its core seat.

Chen Xuan and Mu En established the Firmament Tribunal, then led a coalition to purge the Holy Spirit Cult. The cult’s main forces evaded them, leaving Chen Xuan’s army to uncover scattered strongholds and civilian casualties without finding the headquarters.

• Niu Tian and Tai Tan brought the Clear Sky Sect to Shrek City, where Chen Xuan and Mu En established the Firmament Tribunal and appointed its Outer Nine Seats and bureaus.
• Chen Xuan purified the Slender Carving Knife, evolved his Taotie Spirit, and formed a second Soul Core as Mu En advanced toward the Light Dragon King.
• Mu En ordered the coalition to attack the Holy Spirit Cult, and Chen Xuan led the Sun Moon and Douling routes with Jing Hongchen and their forces.
• Zhongli Wu ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to abandon strongholds and scatter as Ye Xishui warned that the cult could not defeat Mu En and Xuanzi directly.
• Chen Xuan spent months clearing abandoned strongholds and rescuing civilians while the cult’s core forces withdrew toward the Evil Demon Forest.
• Chen Xuan met Kong Deming, opened a martial soul awakening station in Bluestone City, and sent forces to search the Ming Dou Mountains.
• Riftwind Douluo’s team found an underground stronghold where the Holy Spirit Cult had drained civilians’ blood, and Chen Xuan ordered the victims buried and the cult investigated.
• Chen Xuan’s search teams uncovered seven more strongholds, capturing 347 Evil Soul Masters and finding 1,008 desiccated corpses, but the captives could not reveal the main headquarters’ entrance.

The allied forces defeated the Holy Spirit Cult’s first assault, while new gifted children and exchanges between Shrek and Illustrious Virtue Hall reshaped the continent’s alliances. As Mu En prepared an all-out attack on the Evil Demon Forest, a space-time catastrophe struck the Divine Realm ahead of schedule.

• Chen Xuan’s forces tested the new Soul Tool Linkage Array, then Ye Xishui attacked the allied camp and Mu En arrived to face her.
• Chen Xuan unleashed Taotie Descent, forcing Ye Xishui, Zhongli Wu, and Long Xiaoyao to flee into the Evil Demon Forest as Mu En ordered a siege.
• The Deep Sea Demon Empress revealed that she had secretly served as the Holy Spirit Cult’s First Elder to pursue vengeance against the world protected by Tang San.
• More than four hundred children underwent martial soul testing, and Yan Shaozhe, Song Huaiyuan, and Du Busi claimed Ma Xiaotao, Song Yu, and a boy with a Body Martial Soul for their factions.
• Shrek and Illustrious Virtue Hall arranged student exchanges, and Huan Hongchen, Yun, and Song Yu traveled to Shrek while Xian Lin’er led Shrek’s students toward the Sun Moon Empire.
• Chen Xuan and Mu En concluded that extraordinary children were appearing in response to pressure from beyond, and Mu En ordered an assault on the Evil Demon Forest in three days.
• Mu En assigned the allied forces their positions around the forest, while Ye Xishui ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to abandon its outposts and retreat into the Underground Palace.
• Tang San planned to use Xiao Wu’s child to seize the continent’s fortune, but a space-time disturbance struck the Divine Realm and forced him and the gods to defend it.