Recaps

Gu Mingyuan forced the Snow Empress out of the God-Sealing Platform after she refused to meet him, then confronted her about her distrust and challenged her to a fight. The Snow Empress's blizzard failed to stop him, and his spear pierced her supposedly intangible soul body, leaving her pinned in midair.

• Gu Mingyuan asked Electrolux to extract the Snow Empress from the God-Sealing Platform, and Electrolux pulled her out without disturbing the seal on her origin source.
• The Snow Empress demanded to know where the Ice Empress was and accused Gu Mingyuan of coveting her soul ring and soul bone.
• Gu Mingyuan activated his martial souls and challenged the Snow Empress, while Electrolux sealed the Ice Empress's mouth when she tried to stop the fight.
• The Snow Empress unleashed Emperor Cold Heaven: Snow Dance Shining Sun, but Gu Mingyuan endured the blizzard with his Golden Jade Body and built up Jade-Shaking Force.
• Gu Mingyuan hurled a golden spear that pierced the Snow Empress's palm and pinned her soul body in midair.

Gu Mingyuan defeated the Snow Empress and persuaded her to join him, then worked with Electrolux to bind her to him through a contract and restore her form. The chapter ended as the Snow Empress’s soul became a tangible soul spirit.

• Gu Mingyuan struck the Snow Empress with his Kingkiller glove, wounding her despite her spectral body.
• The Ice Empress emerged in human form, begged the Snow Empress to stop fighting, and helped persuade her to join Gu Mingyuan’s group.
• Gu Mingyuan offered the Snow Empress his hand, and she accepted after discovering he could touch her soul.
• Electrolux began a contract ritual with the Snow Empress, using Gu Mingyuan’s blood essence and spiritual power.
• Electrolux released the God-Sealing Platform’s restrictions, and its embryo’s life force and ice origin reshaped the Snow Empress into a tangible soul spirit.

Gu Mingyuan was overwhelmed by the power surging through the newly established channel while the battle at Mingde Hall’s underground warehouse forced Xuan Zi and Du Busi into a disadvantage. Kong Deming stopped the fighting and demanded compensation from the Body Sect, then turned to Xuan Zi for Shrek’s response.

• Gu Mingyuan felt the force of a seven-hundred-thousand-year soul beast’s origin source surge through the channel, and frost rapidly spread across his body.
• The Imperial Family Soul Engineer Corps’ firepower drove Xuan Zi and Du Busi back, while Yan Shaozhe protected Tang San and Huo Yuhao.
• Feng Ling and Zhongli Wu wounded Xuan Zi before Kong Deming halted the bombardment.
• Kong Deming threatened to fire Fixed-Installation Soul Cannon Shells at random across the original three empires unless the Sun Moon Empire received an accounting.
• Du Busi admitted the Body Sect had acted and agreed to apologize and pay for the stolen supplies, but he disputed responsibility for the missing hundred-thousand-year embryo.
• Kong Deming demanded Shrek’s position from Xuan Zi after Jing Hongchen pressed for full reimbursement of the embryo’s auction price.

Xuan Zi halted the confrontation and promised Shrek Academy would investigate the disaster and compensate the Sun Moon Empire, while warning against attacks on civilians. In the Undead Half-Plane, Gu Mingyuan completed his third soul ring, allowing the Snow Empress to possess the newly summoned White Demon and test its formidable power.

• Xuan Zi promised to convene a Sea God Pavilion Meeting and offer compensation, but warned Kong Deming that Shrek would not tolerate attacks on civilians.
• Zhongli Wu lamented that the conflict had ended before the Holy Cult could gather more dead souls, and Xuan Zi ordered Yan Shaozhe to withdraw with Tang San and Huo Yuhao.
• Electrolux and the Snow Empress contained the origin energy in Gu Mingyuan, allowing his orange-gold third soul ring to form.
• The Snow Empress became a soul spirit, reunited with the Ice Empress in Gu Mingyuan's Sea of Spirit, and thanked Electrolux.
• Gu Mingyuan used Demon Summoning-White Demon to summon a powerful demon body, which the Snow Empress possessed and wielded with the strength of a rank-ninety-five Hyper Douluo.
• Gu Mingyuan urged the Snow Empress to try the second soul ring's skill, Possession.

Gu Mingyuan possessed the White Demon, gained its physical enhancements, and discovered he could wield Ultimate Ice before giving the Ice Empress her turn. In Ming Capital, Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen began investigating the missing 100,000-Year Embryo while discussing the damage and thanking the Holy Spirit Sect for its aid.

• The Snow Empress possessed Gu Mingyuan with the White Demon, granting him enhanced physical abilities and demonic armor.
• Gu Mingyuan followed the Snow Empress’s guidance and formed Ultimate Ice, shaping it into an ice spike.
• The Ice Empress urged the Snow Empress to return so she could try possessing the White Demon, and Gu Mingyuan agreed to let her take her turn.
• At Mingde Hall, Jing Hongchen asked Kong Deming about the missing 100,000-Year Embryo, and Kong Deming concluded Du Busi and Xuan Zi had not taken it.
• Kong Deming ordered an investigation into everyone connected to the convoy and its route, while Jing Hongchen proposed seeking compensation from the Body Sect and Shrek.
• Kong Deming thanked Zhongli Wu and Feng Ling for helping stop Du Busi and Xuan Zi, and Zhongli Wu affirmed the Holy Spirit Sect’s support for the empire.

After the Sun Moon Empire agreed to settle its debt with the Holy Spirit Cult, Huo Yuhao worried that Tang San would dominate Shrek Academy, while Gu Mingyuan tested the White Demon with the Ice Empress and triggered a talent draw. The draw stopped on a brilliant golden light, leaving his new talent unknown.

• Kong Deming accepted Zhongli Wu's offer for the Holy Spirit Cult to assist the empire in future conflicts, then ordered Jing Hongchen to clean up the ruins and remember the attack.
• Huo Yuhao asked the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm whether Shrek Academy would now treat Tang San as supreme, and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm reassured him that Tang San's mortal body could not match Huo Yuhao's potential.
• Gu Mingyuan let the Ice Empress test the White Demon, and she said she wanted another demonic body so she and the Snow Empress could fight together.
• Gu Mingyuan said he might summon more demonic bodies as his cultivation improved, and his system began a talent draw after detecting his completed Soul Ring fusion.
• The talent draw passed over white, blue, and purple lights before settling on golden light.

Gu Mingyuan gained a talent that hid him from distant detection, but Electrolux warned that the ruined Mingde Hall warehouse was likely guarded, so Gu Mingyuan considered a cautious escape. At Shrek Academy, Xuan Zi reported the Sun Moon Empire crisis to the Sea God Pavilion elders while bringing back the mysterious blue-haired Tang San.

• Gu Mingyuan drew the golden talent No Such Person, which concealed his location and condition from long-range detection when he hid his aura.
• Electrolux warned Gu Mingyuan that guards and Soul Engineers likely surrounded the collapsed warehouse, so Gu Mingyuan sat back down and considered using concealment to leave.
• Xuan Zi returned to Shrek Academy with Tang San and summoned the Sea God Pavilion elders, who questioned the unfamiliar boy.
• Xuan Zi reported that the Holy Spirit Cult had won first place in the Seven Great Sects' reselection and that the Body Sect had placed second.
• Xuan Zi recounted the Body Sect's raid on Mingde Hall, the dispute over the hundred-thousand-year embryo, and Kong Deming's threat to bombard civilians with Fixed-Installation Soul Cannons.
• Elder Song asked Xuan Zi whether Zhongli Wu and Feng Ling had caused his wounded left arm.

Tang San forced Xuan Zi to reveal his return to the Sea God Pavilion, then proved his identity to the skeptical elders. He began demonstrating the Sea God's Golden Thirteen Halberds, leaving the council watching his divine art.

• Tang San grew impatient as the elders debated the Sun Moon Empire and Mingde Hall, and Xuan Zi interrupted them to announce that he had encountered Ancestor Tang San.
• Tang San revealed his identity and displayed his Sea God divine sense and golden trident mark, startling the elders.
• Xuan Zi explained that he had found a suitable body for Tang San, while the elders quietly accepted that the body's original owner was gone.
• Elder Lin questioned whether the boy was truly Tang San, and Mu En confirmed that he could sense the divine presence.
• Tang San declared that the Sea God and Asura God were his divine positions, then began demonstrating the Golden Thirteen Halberds with an ordinary iron trident.

Tang San revealed his divine combat techniques to Shrek’s elders and demanded to inspect the academy’s Soul Bone treasury. Meanwhile, Gu Mingyuan escaped Mingde Hall under cover of Snow Empress’s diversion, leaving Jing Hongchen to face White Demon’s icy attack.

• Tang San demonstrated his combat techniques, convincing the Sea God Pavilion elders of his identity as the ancestor.
• Tang San told Mu En that he had descended to protect Shrek during the coming upheavals and ordered a catalog of every Soul Bone in the treasury.
• Gu Mingyuan and Snow Empress planned their escape from Mingde Hall, with Snow Empress controlling White Demon to draw away the guards.
• White Demon charged out of the Undead Half-Plane, drawing the guards’ attention while Gu Mingyuan used No Such Person to evade detection and slip out of the Core Area.
• Jing Hongchen rushed toward White Demon, and Snow Empress slashed at him with an Ice Sword before withdrawing through the contract and dissolving White Demon.
• Jing Hongchen hurriedly deployed three linked defensive shields to meet the incoming icy Sword Light.

After securing the Snow Empress and escaping Jing Hongchen, Gu Mingyuan realized Tang San might target the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and prepared to travel to Sunset Forest first. Yu Xiaogang also urged Huo Yuhao to find the garden, though he could not remember its exact location and relied on Tian Meng to search for it.

• Jing Hongchen was thrown back by a strange ice-covered figure, which vanished from the ruins before he could identify it.
• Gu Mingyuan reviewed his gains from the night and worried that Tang San would claim the Immortal Herbs in Sunset Forest.
• Gu Mingyuan ordered Wu Zhu to prepare a long-distance Flying Soul Tool and a detailed map of the Heavenly Soul Empire for his trip.
• Yu Xiaogang told Huo Yuhao to go to Sunset Forest and reach the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before Tang San could take its Immortal Herbs.
• Yu Xiaogang admitted he had forgotten the Well's exact location and asked Tian Meng to use Spiritual Detection to find it.

Huo Yuhao agreed to search the Sunset Forest for immortal herbs rather than rely on Tang San, while Tang San chose a stored hundred-thousand-year soul bone at Shrek Academy. Yan Shaozhe secretly withheld the academy’s most valuable soul bones, judging Tang San’s current usefulness to Shrek as negligible.

• Yu Xiaogang urged Huo Yuhao to seek the immortal herbs before Tang San could claim them, and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm advised preparing supplies for a journey to the Sunset Forest.
• Huo Yuhao accepted their plan and agreed to leave after informing the teacher leading the team and gathering provisions.
• Yan Shaozhe presented Tang San with a catalog of Shrek’s stored soul bones and explained why only three hundred-thousand-year soul bones remained available.
• Tang San rejected the fire-attribute and Evil Soul Master soul bones, then selected the hundred-thousand-year Rock Armor Giant Ape Right Arm Bone.
• After leaving the council chamber, Yan Shaozhe revealed that he had concealed the academy’s supreme soul bones with Mu En’s approval and considered Tang San less useful than the hundred-year lone bamboo on Sea God Island.

Tang San obtained his second soul ring and prepared to travel to Sunset Forest to retrieve immortal herbs that might help Mu En. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao followed Yu Xiaogang into the forest, where the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm realized Yu Xiaogang had lost his way.

• Tang San fused the Hundred Thousand Year Rock Armor Giant Ape right arm bone, reached the rank-twenty bottleneck, and chose an Iron-Scaled Sea Python as his second soul-ring target.
• Cai Mei'er helped Tang San defeat the sea python, and Tang San gained the second soul skill Sea Dragon Bind.
• Tang San told Mu En he wanted to visit his medicinal garden in Sunset Forest, and Mu En sent Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi to accompany him.
• Tang San gave Yan Shaozhe a list of containers and storage tools to prepare for gathering the garden's herbs.
• Huo Yuhao received leave from Shen Heng and traveled toward Sunset Forest with Yu Xiaogang guiding him.
• After Huo Yuhao repeatedly followed changing directions and returned to the same stream, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm accused Yu Xiaogang of being lost.

Gu Mingyuan reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Snow Empress and persuaded Youyou that he was a descendant of the man who left a book there ten thousand years earlier. After examining his martial art and the Tang Sect Master Token, Youyou began to accept his claim, though he had borrowed the token from Tang Ya without her consent.

• Gu Mingyuan traveled into Sunset Forest, and Snow Empress used White Demon’s ultimate cold to clear a path through the poison formation into the valley.
• Gu Mingyuan found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and approached Youyou, asking to collect herbs and see the book left there.
• Youyou told Gu Mingyuan that he had to prove he was the book’s owner’s descendant and pass the trials before reading it.
• Gu Mingyuan showed Youyou his jade-colored Golden Jade Body and claimed its changes were refinements developed by later generations.
• Gu Mingyuan presented Tang Ya’s Tang Sect Master Token, which he had taken to borrow, and Youyou inspected it as her suspicion began to fade.

Gu Mingyuan passed Youyou’s first trial by consuming Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, and Youyou called A Jiao to test his strength next. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao cautiously entered the Poison Miasma while Tang San’s growing unease drove him to order an immediate trip to Sunset Forest.

• Youyou gave Gu Mingyuan Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, which he consumed and absorbed to sharpen his perception; she declared that he had passed the first trial and summoned A Jiao for the next one.
• Huo Yuhao used his Ultimate Ice to move carefully through the Poison Miasma, following the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s directions while Yu Xiaogang suggested a dangerous route to the left.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned Huo Yuhao away from the dead-end valley, and Huo Yuhao continued through the safer gaps in the mist.
• Tang San’s unease made him suspect Huo Yuhao had reached Sunset Forest, so he ordered Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe to leave for the forest immediately despite the delayed herb containers.

Xu Jiawei discovered that Shrek’s unusual purchases and movements pointed toward a legendary Herb Garden near Sunset Forest, drawing the attention of the Sun Moon Empire and Holy Spirit Cult. As rival powers began investigating, an infernal delicate apricot formed a flame woman beside the Scorching Yang Spring.

• Xu Jiawei compared Shrek’s supply orders with the Dai Family Old Records and ordered agents to investigate Sunset Forest without revealing themselves.
• Star Luo agents recruited hunters and guides near Heaven Dou City, alerting Jing Hongchen and Feng Ling, who each dispatched personnel to watch Shrek’s activity.
• Lang Ya told Du Busi that Mingde Hall had delayed settling disputed accounts and sent Soul Engineers to Heaven Dou City, prompting Du Busi to order them followed.
• The infernal delicate apricot drew scalding water from the Scorching Yang Spring and shaped it into a tall flame woman wielding Flame Twin Blades.

Gu Mingyuan fought A Jiao’s Flame Woman and used the Extreme Cold Ice Spring to learn Snow Empress’s Emperor Sword technique. He destroyed the Flame Woman with a single sword strike, leaving A Jiao’s trial unresolved.

• Gu Mingyuan endured the Flame Woman’s saber attacks and crushed her shoulder with a Serious Punch, but she recovered in the Scorching Yang Spring.
• Gu Mingyuan crossed the herb garden and entered the Extreme Cold Ice Spring, resisting its cold with White Demon’s possession and his elemental damage reduction.
• Snow Empress guided Gu Mingyuan in drawing the spring’s extreme-cold essence into a sword and taught him her innate supreme art, Emperor Sword.
• A Jiao sent the Flame Woman to attack Gu Mingyuan at the ice spring, but he used Emperor Sword-Ice Extreme Unparalleled to shatter her and her twin sabers.

Gu Mingyuan used the Extreme Cold Ice Spring’s Origin Source to destroy the Flame Woman with a single sword strike, alarming the spirit plants and Huo Yuhao. As Huo Yuhao cautiously approached the valley, rival groups searched Sunset Forest and Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe flew toward its depths with a young boy.

• Gu Mingyuan froze the Flame Woman and the surrounding ground by drawing on the Extreme Cold Ice Spring’s Origin Source.
• Huo Yuhao sensed the powerful Ultimate Ice from above the valley, and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned him to hide his presence and avoid using Spiritual Detection.
• Huo Yuhao suppressed his Soul Power and stealthily crept down toward the springs.
• Star Luo Imperial Family operatives, Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineers, and Xishui Alliance agents searched Sunset Forest for the herb garden.
• A disguised Star Luo operative recognized Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe as they flew overhead with a blue-haired boy, but they continued toward the forest’s depths.

Shrek's Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe escorted Gu Mingyuan into Sunset Forest, drawing the attention of several powers who suspected a hunt for immortal herbs. After passing the trials at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Gu Mingyuan received permission to read the herb record and began asking Youyou to guide him through the garden.

• A forest watcher spotted Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe escorting an unfamiliar blue-haired boy toward the depths of Sunset Forest and reported it to his manager.
• Xu Jiawei, Jing Hongchen, Feng Ling, and Du Busi each received reports of powerful groups converging on Sunset Forest and ordered further surveillance or investigation.
• Gu Mingyuan emerged from the Extreme Cold Ice Spring after drawing its cold power into his sword, astonishing A Jiao and the watching spirit plants.
• Youyou confirmed that Gu Mingyuan had passed both trials and gave him the herb record, explaining that he could choose up to seven origin source medicines.
• Gu Mingyuan verified the record matched his Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record legacy, then asked Youyou to show him around the garden as A Jiao nervously guarded her Ten-Thousand-Year Blazing Gel.

Gu Mingyuan chose four medicinal treasures at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then met Huo Yuhao, who arrived hoping to claim the garden’s immortal herbs. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao asking Youyou what trial he must pass to obtain them.

• Gu Mingyuan took a singular velvet sky chrysanthemum and received Ice-Cold Rain Dew from the octagonal mysterious ice grass.
• Gu Mingyuan selected a netherworld night-blooming cereus and a silver-veined purple lingzhi, which Electrolux said would suit him.
• Gu Mingyuan considered whether the ancient plant Soul Beasts could become Soul Spirits and leave the valley with him.
• Huo Yuhao descended into the garden, recognized Gu Mingyuan, and was angered when he saw that Gu Mingyuan had already collected medicinal treasures.
• Gu Mingyuan asked Youyou whether her Aromatic Immortal Pill counted as one of the seven portions, and Huo Yuhao bowed to her and asked how to pass the trial for the immortal herbs.

Huo Yuhao tried to prove his Tang Sect identity to Youyou, but Gu Mingyuan denied his claim and struck Yu Xiaogang’s soul body with an ice ball. Gu Mingyuan collected another immortal pill while Huo Yuhao held back, and Yan Shaozhe, Xuan Zi, and Tang San continued through the valley’s poisonous miasma.

• Yu Xiaogang urged Huo Yuhao to demonstrate Tang Sect techniques, and Huo Yuhao showed Youyou his jade hands and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.
• Youyou doubted Huo Yuhao’s identity after Gu Mingyuan denied that he belonged to the Tang Sect, and she concealed the inheritance book again.
• Yu Xiaogang manifested a soul body and claimed authority as Tang San’s teacher, but Gu Mingyuan hit him in the forehead with an ice ball.
• Huo Yuhao shielded Yu Xiaogang and urged him to retreat into the Sea of Spirit, while Youyou handed Gu Mingyuan a purple immortal pill.
• Gu Mingyuan stored his fifth immortal treasure and postponed his remaining selections, while Huo Yuhao suppressed his request for medicine.
• Yan Shaozhe cleared a path through the seven-colored poison miasma as Xuan Zi protected Tang San with a soul power barrier.

Tang San arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe, where he confronted Gu Mingyuan and rebuked Yu Xiaogang. He then revealed his identity to Youyou and confirmed that he had left the book at the valley ten thousand years earlier.

• Tang San guided Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi through the poison formation to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where they found Gu Mingyuan and Huo Yuhao.
• Xuan Zi demanded that Gu Mingyuan return to Shrek, but Gu Mingyuan refused and said he was in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Yu Xiaogang accused Gu Mingyuan of attacking him, but Tang San scolded Yu Xiaogang and told him to go back.
• Huo Yuhao urged Yu Xiaogang to stop, and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm withdrew its support, forcing Yu Xiaogang's Soul Body back into Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness.
• Tang San recited passages and trials from the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record to Youyou, then revealed that he had discovered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and left the book there ten thousand years earlier.
• Tang San's Sea God Divine Sense made Youyou recognize him, and he surveyed the medicinal gardens.

Tang San tried to seal the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s treasures and demand back two herbs Gu Mingyuan had taken, but Gu Mingyuan proposed publicizing Tang San’s return and founding a Sea God Church. Tang San refused, fearing that news and faith would alert his other self in the Divine Realm, and he began to suspect Gu Mingyuan knew his secret.

• Tang San ordered Shrek Academy to guard the Herb Garden and seal its treasures, then learned Gu Mingyuan had selected five medicinal items.
• After hearing Gu Mingyuan had taken the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and Silver-Veined Purple Lingzhi, Tang San demanded that he hand them over.
• Gu Mingyuan recognized Tang San as the Sea God and offered to return the herbs if he could announce Tang San’s return and establish a Sea God Church.
• Tang San rejected the proposal and realized that public attention and faith could alert his counterpart in the Divine Realm.
• Tang San feared Gu Mingyuan was deliberately trying to expose him and wondered what the boy knew.

Gu Mingyuan confronted Tang San, Xuan Zi, and Yan Shaozhe in Sunset Forest, then summoned White Demon to protect himself when Tang San ordered the two Shrek elders to seize him. White Demon’s ice sword drove Yan Shaozhe back, and Xuan Zi attacked her as she turned to block him.

• Gu Mingyuan accused Tang San of trying to silence him and reminded Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe that Shrek had abandoned him.
• Gu Mingyuan summoned White Demon, who drew an Ice Sword from the Extreme Cold Ice Spring as Tang San recognized the threat and ordered Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe to seize him.
• Yan Shaozhe attacked White Demon with Bright Phoenix flames while Xuan Zi moved around her to grab Gu Mingyuan.
• White Demon’s Ice Sword cut through Yan Shaozhe’s flames and forced him to retreat with a tear in his sleeve and frost on his arm.
• Xuan Zi reached for Gu Mingyuan, but White Demon turned to intervene and covered her arms in ice armor as Xuan Zi struck at her with Taotie Soul Power.

Snow Empress’s White Demon body forced Xuan Zi back with a close-range strike, while Tang San challenged Gu Mingyuan to a Spiritual Power wager. Gu Mingyuan accepted, leaving the contest about to begin.

• Snow Empress used White Demon’s demonic power and Ultimate Cold to clash with Xuan Zi’s palm and drive him back.
• White Demon rebuilt her ice armor from the Extreme Cold Ice Spring as Yan Shaozhe hesitated and Xuan Zi questioned what she was.
• Tang San judged that forcing his way past White Demon to reach Gu Mingyuan would be difficult and challenged him to a one-on-one Spiritual Power contest.
• Gu Mingyuan pointed out that the wager favored Tang San, but then accepted his challenge.
• Tang San prepared to test Gu Mingyuan’s Spiritual Power.

Gu Mingyuan struck Tang San’s Sea God Phantom, badly injuring Tang San and forcing him to accept limits on harvesting the immortal herbs. Gu Mingyuan escaped Sunset Forest, but a Star Luo Empire scout spotted him, and Gu Mingyuan began spreading word that Tang San was the reincarnated Sea God.

• Tang San projected a Sea God Phantom to intimidate Gu Mingyuan and Huo Yuhao, but Gu Mingyuan’s gauntleted punch struck the phantom and wounded Tang San’s Divine Soul.
• Gu Mingyuan warned Tang San not to harvest the garden’s immortal herbs to extinction and threatened to expose his rebirth and herb plundering; Youyou agreed to preserve a parent plant of each kind.
• White Demon held Xuan Zi back while Gu Mingyuan escaped into the Poison Miasma, then vanished after Gu Mingyuan disappeared.
• Xuan Zi failed to find Gu Mingyuan in the poison formation and returned after Yan Shaozhe warned that something was wrong with Tang San.
• Gu Mingyuan left Sunset Forest using [No Such Person], while a Star Luo Empire scout recognized his profile and searched through wanted and missing-person portraits.
• After Elder Yi warned him about the scout, Gu Mingyuan began loudly claiming that Tang San was the reincarnated Sea God and that Shrek intended to unite the continent.