Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• As the Martial Soul Department selection nears its end, a Soul Elder attacks Xiao Xiao with a wide-area skill. He suddenly collapses, and his attack misses her. The spectators attribute it to bad luck, while the academy’s senior staff suspect Xiao Xiao’s luck is unusually strong.
• Xuan Zi asks Huang Jinxu to let him take Xiao Xiao as a disciple. Huang refuses, and Xuan Zi backs down without his usual insistence. Huang privately wonders whether Xuan Zi’s interest is influenced by Xiao Xiao’s exceptional fortune, since Xuan Zi’s martial soul consumes the luck around him.
• The Martial Soul Department’s five places go to Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Huang Qiuqiu, Xiao Xiao, and Jiang Nannan.
• In the Soul Tool Department selection, Huo Yuhao and Ning Tian qualify. Wang Dong is eliminated because she cannot make soul tools, despite her greater combat strength. He Caitou is badly injured when a soul tool he is building explodes; Huang Jinxu’s use of his fortune is blamed for his ongoing run of misfortune.
• Mu En privately instructs Qian Duoduo to add Wang Dong to the reserve roster. She is included, bringing the roster to eight.
• The chapter closes with Huang Jinxu wondering whether the coming incident will still occur with Xuan Zi leading the team. In the Star Dou Great Forest, the Ferocious Beasts watch the Auspicious Beast wield the Power of Destiny and react with interest.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Xiao is established as exceptionally fortunate, and her luck protects her during the selection. Xuan Zi’s bid to mentor her exposes a possible conflict of interest; Huang Jinxu firmly refuses.
• Huang Jinxu continues to investigate how fortune shapes events and suspects Xuan Zi may benefit from Xiao Xiao’s luck.
• Xuan Zi shows unexpected restraint after Huang Jinxu’s rejection, while revealing his growing interest in Xiao Xiao.
• Wang Dong is eliminated on technical grounds but is quietly reinstated as a reserve through Mu En’s intervention.
• He Caitou suffers another devastating setback, underscoring how badly his luck has turned.
• Xu Sanshi protects Jiang Nannan, helping her secure a place.

Significant themes

• Fortune and fate: Luck directly affects the selection, from Xiao Xiao’s protection to He Caitou’s accident, and may shape relationships and future events.
• Power and merit: Selection rules reward specialized skills as well as strength, leaving Wang Dong out despite her combat ability.
• Hidden motives and influence: Huang Jinxu questions whether Xuan Zi’s intentions are purely benevolent, while Mu En’s private instruction quietly changes the roster.

Plot points and events

• Huang Jinxu reflects on the Auspicious Beast’s growing command of Destiny’s Power. The Soul Beast Clan hopes she may eventually ease their hundred-thousand-year tribulations, though Huang suspects those calamities are punishment tied to the Dragon God and may be beyond her power to change.
• Shrek Academy assembles an inspection mission led by Xuan Zi, with its tournament competitors and reserve members. Dai Yueheng is absent; he has reached the Star Luo Empire and says he will accept punishment after the tournament.
• Through a mental incarnation, Huang observes that Ma Xiaotao has reached Soul Saint. Her advance was aided by a treasured soul bone and Mu En’s Sea God’s Light, but her Phoenix flames have weakened and her Evil Fire has begun returning—now with greater potential. Huang fears she might gain Ultimate Fire by embracing darkness, at the cost of losing herself.
• Huang chooses not to intervene in Ma Xiaotao’s fate. He contrasts her knowingly risky choices with Tang Ya’s unwitting fall into darkness.
• In his true body, Huang confronts Dai Hao over an earlier offense. Dai Hao, overwhelmed by Huang’s power, apologizes and offers severe compensation—even a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone—while threatening to execute his son Dai Huabin. The chapter ends before the dispute is settled.

Character developments and interactions

• Huang Jinxu appears as both a detached observer and a formidable negotiator. He weighs the risks of Ma Xiaotao’s path but refuses to guide her, while demanding accountability from Dai Hao.
• Ma Xiaotao has made a major advancement, but it brings a renewed and more potent Evil Fire. Her future power may depend on embracing the very darkness that threatens her identity.
• Dai Hao shifts from anger to fear and remorse after misjudging Huang, and blames Dai Huabin for the crisis.
• Tang Ya and Ma Xiaotao serve as contrasting examples of people drawn toward darkness: Tang Ya did not understand her Martial Soul’s nature, whereas Ma Xiaotao knowingly took the risk.

Significant themes

• Destiny and limits: The Auspicious Beast offers hope, but some suffering may be rooted in forces beyond any individual’s control.
• Power’s cost: Ma Xiaotao’s advancement may come at the expense of her former strength and sense of self.
• Responsibility and consequences: Dai Hao’s rash judgment leads to a confrontation he cannot control.
• Choice and intervention: Huang distinguishes between people’s circumstances and choices, deciding that some fates are not his to alter.

Plot points and events

• Huang Jinxu spares the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion, wary of the God of War and Tang San’s plans. Instead, he intends to use Huo Yuhao’s hardship to turn him against the mansion.
• Dai Hao, humiliated by his sons’ conduct, gives up on his existing heirs—including Dai Luoli—and resolves to seek more power and produce a “perfect” successor.
• Dai Yueheng wakes beside Zhu Lu. The two have formed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and he plans to return with her to claim his place as heir. Zhu Lu remains troubled by her lingering feelings for Dai Huabin, but Dai Yueheng assures her their families will protect them.
• Xuan Zi leads Shrek Academy’s contestants toward the Death Messenger. Huang Jinxu observes, while the Star Dou Great Forest’s beasts investigate a location where even the Auspicious Beast cannot perceive or influence destiny.
• When the Myriad Demon King’s scout cannot detect anything, Di Tian goes personally. He teleports to the site, drawing Huang Jinxu’s attention.

Character developments and interactions

• Huang Jinxu shifts from direct retaliation to manipulation, viewing Huo Yuhao as a means to undermine the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion.
• Dai Hao responds to shame with ambition and a desire for greater control, abandoning his sons as potential heirs.
• Dai Yueheng gains confidence from his alliance with Zhu Lu and sees their shared Martial Soul Fusion Skill as leverage in the succession struggle. Zhu Lu is caught between her new bond with Dai Yueheng and her remaining attachment to Dai Huabin.
• Di Tian’s curiosity about the mysterious site overrides caution. His arrival prompts Huang Jinxu to investigate what the Beast God may be seeking.

Significant themes

• Manipulation and agency: Huang Jinxu plans to shape Huo Yuhao’s response to adversity, while Dai Yueheng uses schemes to secure Zhu Lu and advance his claim.
• Power and succession: Dai Hao’s humiliation fuels his pursuit of strength and a flawless heir; Dai Yueheng sees family alliances as a path to inheritance.
• Destiny and the unknown: The site’s resistance to the Auspicious Beast’s influence suggests a force beyond the usual workings of fate—and attracts the attention of powerful observers.

Key events

• Di Tian senses the Plane Will reshaping events through Plane Power. Huang Jinxu, who came to protect his daughter, realizes the intervention is giving Huo Yuhao a chance to contend for Fortune, but it does not excuse Xuan Zi’s earlier failures.
• The Death Messenger triggers a series of explosions as he escapes. Xuan Zi stabilizes the rock walls and pursues him, but fails both to protect the students fully and to capture the attacker.
• Without Dai Yueheng to shield the Shrek Seven Devils, the group suffers worse injuries than in the original timeline. Chen Zifeng loses an arm, Gongyang Mo a leg, and Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi are badly hurt. Others are injured, though Ning Tian and several people protected by Soul Tools escape serious harm.
• Ning Tian thanks Huo Yuhao for the jade pendant he gave her; it breaks while saving her life. Huo Yuhao is relieved to see her unharmed.
• Huang Jinxu notices that Huo Yuhao did little during the incident and Electrolux did not intervene. He does not realize that Electrolux is studying the Laws of both worlds so he can teach Huang Jinxu how to forge a Divine Artifact.

Character developments and interactions

• Huang Jinxu reassesses Xuan Zi, concluding that even when clearheaded, he remains incompetent. He also chooses not to interfere with the Plane Will’s intervention.
• Xuan Zi acts more promptly than before but divides his attention, fails to prevent severe injuries, and lets the Death Messenger escape.
• Huo Yuhao and Ning Tian grow closer. Huo Yuhao’s concern for her is clear, and the combination of his earlier gift and his rescue of her deepens her feelings into love. Their Martial Soul Fusion Skill has also been made possible after Electrolux removed a restriction on Huo Yuhao.
• Electrolux is absent from the crisis because he is focused on understanding the two worlds’ Laws and preparing to repay Huang Jinxu’s debt.

Significant themes

• Fate and intervention: The Plane Will creates an opportunity for Huo Yuhao but does not erase human responsibility.
• Consequences of failure: Xuan Zi’s divided attention and delayed response leave the students badly hurt and the attacker free.
• Affection shaped by shared experiences: Huo Yuhao’s gift and timely concern strengthen Ning Tian’s existing feelings, while the Martial Soul Fusion Skill quietly influences their bond.
• Protection and sacrifice: Dai Yueheng’s absence changes the battle’s outcome, while Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi put themselves at risk to protect others.

Key plot points and events

• Huang Jinxu freezes the fleeing Death Messenger but lets Xuan Zi capture him, then urges the Shrek group to prioritize treating the injured students. He also points out that collecting the children’s severed limbs quickly may let Elder Zhuang reattach them.
• Huang Jinxu returns to Di Tian, who asks when he will claim the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape’s Soul Rings. Huang says it can wait: his Second Martial Soul is incomplete, and he has stalled at rank ninety-eight despite searching for a way to advance.
• Huang warns Di Tian once more that he should lie low for decades. Di Tian takes the warning seriously and leaves with the Auspicious Beast.
• Huang confirms that the Plane Will has intervened more than he expected, and is pleased that its activity may draw attention away from other matters.
• In the Divine Realm, Tang San uses the Divine Realm Center to observe the tournament and discovers that events have defied his plans. Furious, he realizes his barrier failed: Huo Yuhao did not fuse martial souls with Wang Dong, but instead did so with Ning Tian. Wang Dong has also become dependent on Huo Yuhao rather than drawing him into Tang San’s intended scheme.

Character developments and interactions

• Huang Jinxu shows practical compassion by putting the injured students’ recovery ahead of the pursuit. He remains secretive about his plans and his struggle to break through to Limit Douluo.
• Di Tian grows more convinced that Huang Jinxu has unusual power or divine connections. Huang’s repeated warning prompts him to withdraw with the Auspicious Beast.
• Xuan Zi is embarrassed but grateful: Huang’s intervention allows him to capture the Death Messenger and preserve some dignity.
• Tang San is revealed as controlling and deeply invested in manipulating Huo Yuhao’s relationships. His anger exposes how badly he reacts when his plans fail.

Significant themes

• The roots of evil: Huang argues that organized Evil Soul Masters arise from persistent social structures, but condemns them for preying on common people rather than challenging oppression.
• Control versus unpredictability: Tang San’s carefully engineered plans are disrupted by forces and choices he cannot fully control.
• Responsibility and compassion: Huang’s focus on saving and treating the injured contrasts with the pursuit of power and manipulation driving other characters.

Key plot points and events

• Tang San discovers that the isolation he placed on Huo Yuhao has been broken. He initially suspects the Plane Will, but concludes it lacks the strength to overcome his safeguard.
• He considers whether a Divine Realm god intervened, then rules out the likely candidates and turns to the Douluo Continent’s past.
• Tang San wonders whether remnants of the Angel God or Rakshasa God could be responsible—especially whether Bibi Dong survived in some form, hidden in the Rakshasa Secret Realm.
• He decides to bring his father back to the Douluo Plane early and make him its Plane Master, hoping to secure the Plane Core and eliminate possible threats.
• In reality, Electrolux broke Tang San’s restriction by locating its central weakness and dismantling it. Tang San senses Electrolux but dismisses him as too weak to matter.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang San grows increasingly suspicious and defensive. Though now a God King, he remains unsettled by the possibility that Bibi Dong might have survived, revealing that their old conflict still haunts him.
• Bibi Dong is absent from the present action, but Tang San’s fear of her shapes his decisions. He recalls her as exceptionally talented and unpredictable, and admits he is unsure he could have defeated her under the same conditions.
• Electrolux quietly proves more capable than Tang San expects. His successful attack on the safeguard creates a concealed threat, since Tang San does not yet recognize him as the culprit.
• Tang San also recalls Qian Renxue, whose death he personally witnessed, contrasting his certainty about her fate with his doubts about Bibi Dong’s.

Significant themes

• Overconfidence and blind spots: Tang San underestimates Electrolux because he misjudges both his ability and the weakness in his own methods.
• The persistence of old trauma: Bibi Dong’s past influence continues to shape Tang San’s thinking long after her apparent death.
• Uncertainty and hidden threats: The possibility of surviving remnants, concealed realms, and overlooked weaknesses makes the past an ongoing danger.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Unaware of events in the Divine Realm, the people of Douluo Continent prepare for the Soul Master Tournament.
• Huang Jinxu arrives in the Star Luo Empire and exchanges two promised Pills—the Primordial Bone-Shaping Pill and Star Origin Pill—for high-quality Soul Beast Inner Cores collected by the imperial family. The cores will help him create a Second Martial Soul after the tournament.
• Xu Jiawei hopes to build a closer relationship with Huang Jinxu and considers whether the Pills might help treat his hidden injuries, but Huang Jinxu leaves to visit the Sun Moon Empire’s delegation.
• At the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy’s lodgings, Huang Jinxu encounters Ji Juechen, now a Soul Emperor. Though twenty-two and too old to compete in the tournament, Ji has come to watch and hopes to meet Huang.
• Huang recognizes the unusual path Ji has taken: Ji has repeatedly tempered a crude sword made of Heavenly Meteoric Iron with Soul Power until it has fused with his Martial Soul. Huang believes this could eventually lead Ji to forge his Martial Soul into a Divine Artifact.
• Impressed by Ji’s independent achievement, Huang offers to take him as a disciple.

Character developments

• Huang Jinxu continues pursuing his plans for a Second Martial Soul, but also shows genuine admiration for Ji Juechen. Unlike his earlier disciple choices, he considers Ji out of personal respect rather than for strategic reasons.
• Ji Juechen has advanced far beyond his former limits, partly thanks to Huang’s past advice and Mysterious Water Potions, which raised his innate talent. More importantly, he has developed an unconventional sword-cultivation path through persistence and personal insight.
• Xu Jiawei seeks to secure Huang’s continued support, especially in the hope of healing his concealed injuries.

Significant themes

• Talent shaped by effort: Huang’s past help gave Ji a stronger foundation, but Ji’s achievements stem from his own conviction and labor.
• Unconventional paths to power: Ji’s sword and Martial Soul have become one, paralleling Kong Deming’s research into Life-Bound Soul Tools, though Ji reached a similar path intuitively.
• Mentorship and recognition: Huang’s offer reflects his recognition of Ji’s rare potential and the bond formed through their earlier encounter.
• Political rivalry: The Sun Moon delegation’s exposed, noisy lodgings show how hostility between the Sun Moon and Star Luo Empires affects even tournament arrangements.

Character interactions

• Xu Jiawei courteously welcomes Huang, completes their exchange, and tries to extend their relationship; Huang remains polite but focused on other business.
• Huang and Ji reunite warmly. Ji credits Huang with helping him improve his talent and find direction, while Huang is astonished by how far Ji has advanced.
• Huang mentions Kong Deming as a point of comparison, but Ji does not know who he is. Huang then offers Ji a place among his disciples.

Key plot points and events

• Huang Jinxu gives Ji Juechen time to decide whether to become his disciple, warning that the Sun Moon Empire may regard him as a traitor for following a wanted criminal.
• Huang senses Kong Deming nearby and appears in the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy’s room, where Kong and Jing Hongchen are meeting.
• Kong asks whether Huang has forged a Level 10 Soul Tool. Huang demonstrates Starbreaker and explains its properties, revealing it is a Level 10—or even quasi-Level 11—Life-Bound Soul Tool.
• Huang and Kong discuss how Soul Master cultivation can strengthen later Soul Tool research. Kong then raises the upcoming tournament, noting that the Sun Moon Empire has a Soul Saint competing and asking whether Shrek can match them.

Character developments

• Ji Juechen is thrilled by the prospect of becoming Huang’s disciple but hesitates over the political cost.
• Huang Jinxu displays both extraordinary technical skill and respect for Kong, crediting his former teacher’s guidance for his achievement.
• Kong Deming accepts that Huang has surpassed him in Soul Tool development, while recognizing the value of Huang’s research philosophy.
• Jing Hongchen is shaken by Huang’s accomplishments, which intensify his doubts about his own lifelong work and provoke resentment.

Significant themes

• Ambition and sacrifice: Ji must weigh personal growth against loyalty and reputation.
• Mentorship and legacy: Huang’s success builds on Kong’s teachings, showing how knowledge passes between generations.
• Innovation and humility: Huang’s breakthrough challenges the Sun Moon Empire’s confidence in its Soul Tool supremacy.
• Conviction under pressure: Huang’s achievements unsettle Jing Hongchen’s beliefs about his own worth and expertise.

Character interactions

• Huang gently gives Ji time rather than pressing him for an answer.
• He greets Kong warmly, offers him homemade wine, and presents his invention almost like a student seeking his teacher’s approval.
• Kong responds with pride and a rueful admission that Huang has gone further than he has.
• Jing watches the exchange and draws a troubling comparison between Huang’s effortless talent and his own years of research.
• Kong shifts the conversation from invention to the rivalry between Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Empire in the tournament.

Key events and plot points

• Huang Jinxu asks Kong Deming whether he deliberately sent Ji Juechen to him. Kong admits he did: he recognized Ji’s unusual potential and hoped he would challenge Huang and advance Soul Tool research.
• Kong’s pursuit of a “Godslaying” Soul Tool began with Huang’s earlier encouragement. He now intends to follow the same path, aiming to develop a Rank 11 Soul Tool.
• Huang says he has surpassed Kong for now, but expects his disciple Huo Yuhao to visit the Sun Moon Empire and learn from Kong. Kong agrees, despite recognizing that he may be training someone who will not remain loyal to the empire.
• Kong leaves once his questions are answered. Neither he nor Huang cares much about the current tournament; the next one, five years away, will be the more important contest over the Douluo Plane’s accumulated fortune.
• Jing Hongchen asks whether Huang and Kong truly made a Level 10 Soul Tool. Huang says the right approach makes it achievable and suggests Jing might manage it in time.
• Huang and Jing complete their exchange: Jing gives Huang a Dragon Core, and Huang hands over Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, whose Ultimate Ice power is immediately apparent.

Character developments and interactions

• Kong Deming is revealed as an ambitious, open-minded researcher. Rather than resent Huang’s lead, he is pleased that Soul Tools may have a path to god-slaying and is eager to compete with his former student.
• Huang Jinxu remains confident but respects Kong’s talent. He also trusts Kong enough to send Huo Yuhao to study under him.
• Jing Hongchen is impressed by the Level 10 Soul Tool claim and cautious about what the future may bring, telling Huang he hopes they never become enemies.
• The conversation between Huang and Kong is collegial but competitive: each wants the other to push Soul Tool development further. Huang and Jing’s trade is cordial, though Jing’s remark hints at possible future conflict.

Significant themes

• Innovation through rivalry: Competition and mentorship motivate the characters to surpass their limits.
• Knowledge beyond allegiance: Kong values advancing Soul Tools enough to teach a potential opponent.
• Long-term ambition: The tournament’s immediate results matter less than the future struggle over power and fortune.
• Uncertain alliances: Scientific cooperation coexists with the possibility that today’s partners may become tomorrow’s enemies.

Plot points and events

• Huang Jinxu completes his deal with Jing Hongchen, who immediately orders him out and identifies him as the Sun Moon Empire’s most wanted criminal. Huang leaves without protest.
• At Shrek Academy’s lodgings, Huang finds Dai Yueheng and Zhu Lu. Using his Illusory Moon Star Eyes, he sees that Dai Yueheng has changed his fate and that his Fortune is now tied to the Star Luo Imperial Family—suggesting he may become emperor. Huang suspects outside intervention, possibly by Tang San.
• Dai Yueheng is waiting anxiously to face his father over recent events. His father, Dai Hao, has not arrived because Huang’s earlier beating left him badly injured.
• Huang reassures Dai Yueheng that he has already settled his grievance with the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion. He offers to speak on Dai Yueheng’s behalf when Dai Hao arrives.
• Huang praises Dai Yueheng as a more suitable heir than his younger brother, Dai Huabin. Once he senses Shrek’s people approaching, he tells Dai Yueheng to welcome them and withdraws his spiritual avatar.

Character developments and interactions

• Huang Jinxu remains wary and strategic: he recognizes Dai Yueheng’s unlikely rise, suspects someone is guiding events, and helps him partly out of admiration and partly as a low-risk “casual move.”
• Dai Yueheng shows courage in resisting the path previously expected of him, but still feels guilt and fear about confronting his father. Huang’s reassurance restores his confidence.
• Zhu Lu is present with Dai Yueheng, though she has little direct involvement in the conversation.
• Jing Hongchen shifts from negotiation to hostility as soon as the deal is concluded.
• Huang contrasts Dai Yueheng favorably with Dai Huabin and promises to intercede with their father, strengthening his connection with Dai Yueheng.

Significant themes

• Fate and agency: Dai Yueheng appears to have changed a destiny that once seemed fixed, raising questions about who—or what—helped him.
• Fortune and political power: His new connection to the Star Luo Imperial Family suggests that personal fate may be bound to the empire’s future.
• Strategy and uncertainty: Huang’s offer is both sincere and calculated; he acts without knowing what consequences it may bring.
• Guilt, courage, and reconciliation: Dai Yueheng’s struggle to face his father shows that acting bravely does not immediately erase fear or remorse.

Plot points and events

• Shrek Academy’s delegation arrives for the Soul Master Tournament. Huang Jinxu notes that Ma Xiaotao is the only original Shrek Seven Devil present and that the Death Messenger’s self-destruction has worsened her Evil Fire and left her tainted by a persistent darkness.
• Qian Duoduo explains that Mu En chose not to send more people. Huang agrees that Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng should be enough to lead the team, then returns to prepare his Second Martial Soul.
• Back at Shrek, Mu En rewards those who faced danger and arranges healing Soul Bones for students who lost their legs.
• Convinced that the Evil God interfered in the recent disaster and is targeting Shrek, Mu En decides to act before he is ready—even if it costs his life.
• Before confronting the threat, Mu En visits Huang Jinxu’s Restaurant and leaves Nan Shuishui a Storage Soul Tool for Huang Jinxu to pass to Bei Bei. It contains valuable cultivation resources, including two high-level light-attributed Dragon-Type Soul Bones.
• Mu En then visits Yan Shaozhe, whose Soul Power has recovered to Soul King level but whose Martial Soul remains damaged. He asks whether Yan resents him for failing to heal him.

Character developments and interactions

• Ma Xiaotao remains powerful but is increasingly burdened by Evil Fire and a deep-seated darkness from the Death Messenger’s blast.
• Huang Jinxu stays focused on his own plans, while accepting Mu En’s decision about the tournament team.
• Mu En shifts from cautious preparation to determined action, believing Shrek is under direct threat. He also makes final arrangements to protect Bei Bei and those connected to him.
• Nan Shuishui initially distrusts Mu En, but recognizes him as Dragon God Douluo and accepts the items he leaves.
• Yan Shaozhe is startled by Mu En’s visit. He has felt abandoned since becoming crippled, setting up a painful confrontation about their relationship.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and legacy: Mu En accepts the possibility of death and leaves resources behind to protect the next generation.
• Responsibility and protection: He prioritizes restoring injured students and safeguarding Shrek against a powerful enemy.
• Estrangement and regret: Mu En’s question to Yan Shaozhe reveals unresolved guilt and bitterness over the lack of care after Yan’s fall.
• Hidden corruption and looming danger: Ma Xiaotao’s dark taint and the Evil God’s suspected interference suggest threats that cannot be addressed by ordinary means.

Plot points and events

• Yan Shaozhe apologizes to Mu En for nearly getting him killed, explaining that he did not know Huang Jinxu had been trying to save him. Mu En accepts the apology and offers him a choice: regain his former strength quickly, or heal the damage to his foundation and pursue greater advancement over time.
• Yan Shaozhe chooses to heal his foundation. Mu En gives him Life Force from the Golden Ancient Tree, which should let him recover his cultivation, though his sight will not return quickly.
• Mu En warns Yan Shaozhe never to move against Huang Jinxu and tells him to think carefully before acting. He doubts that Yan Shaozhe has truly changed, but still regards him as Shrek Academy’s most suitable fiercely loyal defender.
• Mu En’s parting words make Yan Shaozhe realize his teacher may be near death. An invisible force prevents him from following, and he breaks down in grief and regret.
• Mu En gives instructions to Shrek Academy’s senior members but keeps the reason for his urgency from them, since it involves Deities. He then meets Long Xiaoyao, his old friend and former partner in the Black and White Dragons.
• Mu En says he intends to wound a Deity before he dies. Long Xiaoyao, despite being among the continent’s strongest Soul Masters, admits that a Deity would likely defeat him in a single exchange. Mu En invites him to watch, but warns him to stay away.

Character developments and interactions

• Yan Shaozhe expresses remorse and obedience, but his motives remain uncertain. His grief at the thought of Mu En’s death reveals how deeply he respects and cares for his teacher, despite his lingering resentment.
• Mu En balances compassion with realism: he helps Yan Shaozhe recover but distrusts his capacity for change and sets a firm boundary regarding Huang Jinxu. He also prepares the academy for his likely death without explaining the danger.
• Long Xiaoyao recognizes Mu En’s deteriorating condition and confronts him. Their exchange conveys their long history and mutual respect, while Long’s response highlights the limits of even the greatest human Soul Masters.

Significant themes

• Regret and responsibility: Yan Shaozhe recognizes that his impulsive actions may have contributed to the crisis.
• The difficulty of changing character: Mu En doubts that Yan Shaozhe’s suffering has truly reformed him.
• Loyalty and protection: Mu En safeguards both Shrek Academy and Yan Shaozhe, even as he mistrusts the latter.
• Mortality and defiance: Faced with death and overwhelming divine power, Mu En chooses to make one final stand.
• Limits of human power: Long Xiaoyao’s admission underscores the immense gap between Soul Masters and Deities.

Plot points and events

• Long Xiaoyao learns Mu En intends to challenge a Deity. Though the plan seems impossible, he recognizes Mu En’s resolve and agrees to witness his “final dance.”
• Before acting, Mu En sends a Spiritual Power incarnation to meet Huang Jinxu in the Star Luo Empire’s capital, where the Soul Master Tournament is underway. Shrek has advanced easily, led by Dai Yueheng.
• Huang Jinxu has been studying fortune and misfortune. He is beginning to see how misfortune might be controlled—and potentially used to taint an entire plane, strengthening his path toward becoming a Limit Douluo and connecting with the Heavenly Lone Star.
• Mu En tells Huang Jinxu that he will attack the Evil God he believes has repeatedly controlled him and threatens Shrek Academy. Huang Jinxu questions him about what lies beneath the Golden Ancient Tree; Mu En’s anger and response confirm that he senses the Evil God there.
• Huang Jinxu stays behind, partly because the Snow Empress auction is approaching. He promises to protect Shrek Academy if Mu En fails.
• Once his incarnation returns, Mu En tells Xuan Zi he will keep him clearheaded and cure the flaw in his Martial Soul, then unleashes a dazzling radiance as he begins his plan.

Character developments

• Mu En accepts that his life is nearing its end and turns his remaining strength toward confronting the being he sees as an Evil God. His resolve is driven by guilt over past actions and a desire to protect Shrek.
• Huang Jinxu advances his understanding of misfortune and imagines using it on a plane-wide scale. He also recognizes that Mu En’s belief about the Evil God may be a way for Mu En’s mind to face an unbearable truth.
• Long Xiaoyao shifts from disbelief to support, choosing to witness Mu En’s final attempt.
• Xuan Zi is positioned to inherit responsibility for Shrek and may finally have his Martial Soul flaw cured.

Character interactions

• Long Xiaoyao and Mu En share a final, trusting exchange: Long accepts Mu En’s decision and wants to see what he can accomplish.
• Mu En asks Huang Jinxu to safeguard Shrek and explains his intended confrontation; Huang responds with loyalty and encouragement.
• Huang probes Mu En about the Golden Ancient Tree, learning from his reaction that Mu En senses a threat beneath it.
• Mu En turns to Xuan Zi with reassurance and a promise of treatment before launching into action.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and legacy: Mu En uses his final opportunity to defend Shrek and pass responsibility to others.
• Truth, denial, and conviction: Mu En’s conviction that he is fighting an Evil God may help him act, even as Huang suspects it obscures a deeper reality.
• Misfortune as power: Huang’s research turns a destructive force into a possible tool for personal advancement—and perhaps a threat to entire realms.
• Faith in the future: Huang’s promise to protect Shrek and Mu En’s trust in his companions offer hope amid the danger.

Key plot points

• Mu En begins his final plan to stop the Divine Sense threatening Shrek Academy. He draws power from the Golden Ancient Tree, then sacrifices his body and merges his soul’s power into Xuan Zi.
• Mu En’s sacrifice awakens Xuan Zi’s Taotie bloodline and raises him first to Limit Douluo, then briefly to Demigod. The Golden Ancient Tree and Mu En’s remaining Spiritual Power push Xuan Zi’s Spiritual Power toward the god-level Divine Origin Realm.
• The plan is for Xuan Zi to devour the Deity’s Divine Sense. Mu En’s soul power is also meant to suppress Xuan Zi’s ferocity and keep him from losing his identity.
• Observers realize the Divine Sense is not from an Evil God, as Mu En had claimed, but from the Sea God. That distinction matters: an Evil God’s power would corrupt Xuan Zi.
• The Silver Dragon King judges that Xuan Zi’s attempt will succeed because the Sea God is distant and cannot intervene in time. She stays hidden, intending to pursue Xuan Zi later if the Sea God fails to deal with him.

Character developments and interactions

• Mu En makes the ultimate sacrifice for Shrek, placing his trust in Xuan Zi and turning his own Spiritual Power into the key to the plan.
• Xuan Zi accepts Mu En’s power and vows to devour the threat. His strength rises dramatically, but the transformation risks making him an uncontrollable monster.
• Long Xiaoyao shifts from anticipation to alarm, recognizing both the plan and the danger it poses. He is also puzzled that the power resembles the Sea God’s.
• Ye Xishui is intrigued rather than afraid, seeing Xuan Zi’s transformation as a possible path to greater power for herself.
• Di Tian understands Mu En’s strategy but questions why he called the target an Evil God. His contempt for Mu En remains.
• The Silver Dragon King observes from the Subspace, weighing the potential benefit against the risk and choosing patience.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and loyalty: Mu En gives everything he has to protect Shrek Academy.
• Power and its cost: Xuan Zi’s near-divine strength could save them—or turn him into a catastrophe.
• Trust and control: Mu En’s plan depends on Xuan Zi remaining himself despite an immense infusion of power.
• Uncertainty and misdirection: The revelation that the target is the Sea God, not an Evil God, casts doubt on Mu En’s explanation and reshapes the stakes.

Key plot points and events

• Mu En’s sacrifice releases an immense power that many recognize as belonging to the Sea God. This shocks Shrek Academy, whose leaders cannot reconcile that with Mu En’s claim that he is fighting an Evil God.
• Yan Shaozhe insists the power must be an Evil God’s disguise, protecting the Sea God’s reputation and calming the academy. Powerful observers, however, know the aura is genuine.
• Ye Xishui deduces that Mu En had altered his own memories. Unable to accept the Sea God’s wrongdoing, he convinced himself the Sea God was an Evil God so he could act against him without confronting that truth.
• Mu En’s sacrifice temporarily gives Xuan Zi divine-level Spiritual Power, Demigod cultivation, and full access to his Taotie Bloodline. Xuan Zi is meant to devour the being entangled with Mu En’s soul.
• When Xuan Zi begins devouring, he realizes the soul fragment is truly the Sea God’s—not an Evil God’s. He is horrified and unsure whether to continue, but he has already gone too far to stop: the power and his bloodline’s instincts will overwhelm him.

Character developments and interactions

• Mu En is revealed as a man who concealed painful knowledge from himself by reshaping his memories. His final plan makes Xuan Zi’s choice appear open, though Xuan Zi is effectively committed.
• Xuan Zi shifts from determined avenger to confused participant when he recognizes the Sea God. Despite his doubts, he cannot reliably control the power he has inherited.
• Yan Shaozhe tries to contain the academy’s panic by presenting a protective explanation rather than questioning the Sea God.
• Ye Xishui, who understands Mu En’s character and past better than the others, sees through the contradiction. She hints at Mu En’s earlier choices but withholds the details.
• Long Xiaoyao is unsettled by Mu En’s behavior and asks Ye Xishui for an explanation; her account helps him make sense of it. Shrek’s leaders, meanwhile, accept Yan Shaozhe’s reassurance, while powerful outsiders remain skeptical.

Significant themes

• Self-deception and memory: Mu En alters his memories to make an unbearable truth psychologically survivable.
• Faith versus truth: Shrek’s devotion to the Sea God clashes with evidence that challenges its cherished image.
• Sacrifice and manipulation: Mu En’s sacrifice serves his plan, but Xuan Zi’s apparent freedom to choose is undermined by the power driving him.
• Reputation and denial: Yan Shaozhe protects the academy’s beliefs by dismissing the truth as deception, showing how institutions can resist disturbing revelations.

Key plot points and events

• Mu En and Xuan Zi’s desperate plan is underway: Xuan Zi gives up control to instinct and trusts Mu En, while Taotie’s Devouring Power consumes the Sea God’s Divine Sense. They accept that even if they fail, their lives may be the price of damaging it.
• Tang San abruptly feels his soul’s essence being wounded. He first suspects the Destruction God King, but discovers the source is Shrek Academy on the Douluo Continent.
• A full day has passed there while Tang San investigated. Mu En anticipated Tang San’s interference: after Tang San forced Wang Dong onto the Soul Tool Department’s tournament roster, Mu En recognized his influence and played along, then used the Sea God’s Light in the Golden Ancient Tree to obstruct Tang San’s backup plan.
• Tang San’s hidden Divine Sense in Mu En contains both part of his soul essence and a portion of the Sea God’s authority. He intended to use it after Mu En’s sacrifice to prepare for his parents’ return and ultimately weaken the Douluo Plane so his father could become its master.
• Realizing the plan—and the Sea God’s authority—is at risk, Tang San considers descending to the continent. He pauses when the Destruction God King questions him, then activates the Divine Sense and power he planted in Wang Dong.

Character developments and interactions

• Mu En emerges as a patient, strategic opponent. Though far weaker than Tang San, he uses careful observation and planning to exploit the difference in their experience.
• Xuan Zi shows trust in Mu En by surrendering control and accepting the danger of the plan.
• Tang San shifts from supreme confidence to panic as he discovers that events have escaped his control. His past success, the narration suggests, has left him untested by genuine hardship.
• The Destruction God King notices Tang San’s probing and checks whether something has gone wrong; Tang San conceals the crisis while preparing to act through Wang Dong.

Significant themes

• Power versus experience: Tang San’s divine strength contrasts with Mu En’s hard-earned resilience and planning.
• Control and its limits: Tang San tries to orchestrate events from the Divine Realm, but Mu En turns those interventions against him.
• Sacrifice and trust: Xuan Zi accepts the possible cost of the plan and relies on Mu En’s judgment.
• Fortune versus hardship: Tang San’s protected rise is contrasted with Mu En’s long, painful life, suggesting adversity has made Mu En the more capable schemer.

Key plot points

• Tang San, acting through Wang Dong, abruptly leaves the ongoing tournament and rushes toward Shrek Academy after sensing that his divine power there is being threatened.
• Huang Jinxu recognizes Tang San’s panic and uses questions and apparent devotion to delay him. He then sends his true body to the academy, while leaving a Spiritual Power avatar behind to manage the match.
• Tang San orders Huang Jinxu to stop the supposed Evil God at Shrek, then follows himself. He cannot descend in his true form without drawing the Divine Realm’s attention and risking exposure.
• At Shrek, Xuan Zi is still struggling to devour the Sea God’s Divine Sense. Mu En tells him to protect the academy and sacrifices his remaining Spiritual Origin to strengthen Taotie’s Devouring Power.
• Xuan Zi understands that Mu En is giving himself up. He burns his own Spiritual Origin as well, accepting that his power and cultivation may be permanently diminished, and resolves to devour the divine presence.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang San becomes increasingly desperate as he realizes that losing or having his power refined would leave him in serious danger. His control of Wang Dong is forceful, and his divine status prevents him from simply attacking Huang Jinxu.
• Huang Jinxu reveals a shrewd, independent streak beneath his loyal-believer façade. He buys time for Mu En’s plan while carefully maintaining the appearance of obedience to Tang San.
• Mu En makes his final sacrifice, entrusting Shrek Academy’s future to Xuan Zi.
• Xuan Zi moves from confusion and hesitation to determined self-sacrifice, choosing to burn his Spiritual Origin and face the consequences.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and duty: Mu En and Xuan Zi risk their remaining power to protect Shrek.
• Loyalty versus conscience: Huang Jinxu outwardly serves Tang San but acts to support Mu En’s cause.
• Power and constraint: Even a God King must weigh the political consequences of acting openly in the Divine Realm.
• Resolve under pressure: Xuan Zi’s decision marks a turning point from uncertainty to commitment.

Key plot points and events

• Xuan Zi burns his Taotie bloodline, Spiritual Power, and Demigod cultivation to strengthen his Devouring Power enough to break through the Sea God’s protection and devour Tang San’s Divine Sense. Tang San’s furious threat is cut off when his Divine Sense disappears.
• Xuan Zi’s cultivation and life force begin to collapse, but the power he has consumed restores and transforms him. His Soul Power and Spiritual Power stabilize at the Demigod realm, his Taotie power grows stronger, and several Soul Rings increase in rank.
• Observers—including Long Xiaoyao, Ye Xishui, Huang Jinxu, and Di Tian—are astonished. Di Tian considers recruiting Xuan Zi, while Huang Jinxu judges him nearly unmatched in the mortal world.
• The Golden Ancient Tree reveals that Xuan Zi has also seized part of the Sea God’s Authority. It asks Huang Jinxu to persuade Xuan Zi to break its restraints, allowing it to escape to Electrolux’s Undead Demiplane.
• Expecting Tang San to arrive soon, Huang Jinxu tells Xuan Zi to attack him. He plans to use the staged beating to preserve his cover and appear loyal to Xuan Zi’s side.

Character developments and interactions

• Xuan Zi makes a desperate, costly gamble that turns into an extraordinary power-up. He moves from near-ruin to a Demigod with transformed abilities and a portion of divine authority.
• Huang Jinxu shifts from shocked observer to schemer. He sees Xuan Zi as a potential means of freeing the Golden Ancient Tree and considers drawing the Demon Empress into the conflict.
• The Golden Ancient Tree reveals its interest in Xuan Zi’s newly acquired authority and seeks his help escaping its confinement.
• Di Tian is impressed by Xuan Zi’s victory over a divine power and considers an alliance.
• Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui witness Xuan Zi’s feat with disbelief, while Long Xiaoyao reflects on how remarkable his final battle was.

Significant themes

• Power gained through sacrifice: Xuan Zi risks his life and burns away his own strength to defeat Tang San’s Divine Sense.
• Unpredictable transformation and luck: His apparent collapse becomes a dramatic rise in power.
• Deception and divided loyalties: Huang Jinxu’s plan depends on pretending to be an enemy so he can maintain his cover.
• Resistance to divine authority: Xuan Zi’s victory gives powerful figures hope that Tang San’s influence can be challenged.

Plot points and events

• Acting on Huang Jinxu’s request and Mu En’s arrangements, Xuan Zi fights Huang Jinxu. Although Huang appears to lose, Di Tian and others realize he is concealing his strength and staging the fight.
• Watching Xuan Zi display Demigod-level power, Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao decide to search for remnants left by the Angel and Rakshasa Gods, hoping divine power could help them advance.
• Nan Shuishui rushes in, believing Xuan Zi is attacking her husband. Huang secretly tells her he is acting, but Nan still attacks Xuan Zi. Xuan Zi sends her flying without seriously harming her, and both spouses then pretend to be unconscious.
• Tang San arrives in Wang Dong’s body, furious at what he sees. He accuses Xuan Zi of defiling a god. Xuan Zi instead calls him an Evil God and threatens to destroy another fragment of his Divine Sense, leaving Tang San stunned and briefly questioning his own identity.

Character developments and interactions

• Xuan Zi acts out of loyalty to Mu En and grows more confident in his newly acquired power. He is willing to reject the Sea God’s authority to defend Mu En’s memory.
• Huang Jinxu and Nan Shuishui coordinate their deception, though Nan’s protective anger leads her to strike Xuan Zi anyway.
• Di Tian, Ye Xishui, and Long Xiaoyao recognize the fight is a performance but do not know why. Xuan Zi’s strength prompts Ye and Long to consider pursuing divine relics.
• Tang San arrives expecting to confront an enemy, but Xuan Zi’s accusation upends his certainty and briefly unsettles him.

Significant themes

• Power and divine remnants: Xuan Zi’s strength inspires others to seek power beyond ordinary cultivation.
• Loyalty and betrayal: Xuan Zi’s allegiance to Mu En outweighs his reverence for the Sea God, while Tang San sees the apparent defiance of Shrek members as betrayal.
• Identity and authority: The chapter closes on the unsettling conflict between Tang San’s claim to divine status and Xuan Zi’s refusal to recognize him as the Sea God.

Key plot points and events

• Xuan Zi convinces Shrek Academy’s leaders that Mu En attacked because he believed Tang San was an Evil God impersonating the Sea God. They accept this explanation because it is what they want to believe.
• Furious, Tang San attacks Xuan Zi with the Sea God Trident technique. Xuan Zi withstands the blow using Taotie’s Devouring Power and a mysterious Authority, while the clash endangers ordinary people in Shrek City.
• Xuan Zi uses the blocked attack and Tang San’s apparent disregard for the civilians as further “proof” that Tang San is an impostor. Tang San cannot easily defeat him: Xuan Zi can absorb his power, and Wang Dong’s body cannot withstand much more of Tang San’s strength. Tang San retreats.
• In the Divine Realm, Tang San is occupied by the Destruction God King and the Life God King, who insist on treating him after he suddenly coughs blood. He claims the illness came from researching a fusion of his two godhoods.
• Tang San realizes that the destruction of his Divine Sense has also cost him his Sea God Authority and reduced his cultivation. He fears the Authority may let its new holder manipulate his remnants or escape the Douluo Plane. But investigating risks exposing his ambitions, and his treatment keeps him from acting immediately.

Character developments and interactions

• Xuan Zi grows bolder as he turns Tang San’s attack into evidence for his accusation, gaining confidence from his ability to resist and absorb divine power.
• Tang San shifts from righteous fury to frustrated retreat, then privately swears revenge. His confidence is shaken by the loss of his Authority and his inability to intervene freely.
• Shrek’s leaders rally around Xuan Zi’s explanation, choosing a version of events that preserves their faith in the Sea God.
• Destruction and Life unintentionally hinder Tang San by insisting on treating him, while he hides the real cause of his condition.
• The closing passage hints that Xuan Zi, now fused with a strand of Sea God Divine Sense, is especially interested in the divine power hidden within Wang Dong’s soul.

Significant themes

• Truth shaped by belief: Shrek’s leaders accept a convenient explanation, while Tang San’s claim to divine legitimacy is undermined by how he acts.
• Power and accountability: A battle among the strongest puts ordinary people at risk, prompting Xuan Zi to challenge the morality of Tang San’s conduct.
• Vulnerability beneath authority: Tang San’s divine status cannot prevent his defeat, loss of power, or dependence on others.
• The cost of ambition and secrecy: Tang San’s fear that investigation will expose his plans leaves him trapped between pursuing his stolen Authority and protecting his larger scheme.