Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Meng Hongchen notices that Di Qiu’er’s figure has changed and asks how. Qiu’er blames her growth on eating soul-beast meat, then blushes and changes the subject.
• The Tang Sect learns it has drawn Shrek in the Promotion Tournament. Xu Sanshi accuses the Sun Moon Empire of rigging the draw; Bei Bei cautions that they have no proof.
• Huo Yuhao argues the draw is part of a scheme to eliminate one of the two strongest teams. Jiang Nannan reminds everyone that they are officially representing the Tang Sect, not Shrek. Bei Bei refocuses the group on preparing to win.
• The Shrek–Tang Sect match begins, watched eagerly by Chen Mo.
• In the Divine Realm, Xiao Wu watches the tournament and asks Tang San who will win. Distracted by the sharp decline in faith power from marine soul beasts, Tang San suspects the God of Destruction is interfering.
• Tang San avoids telling Xiao Wu what is troubling him. Unable to choose between his old school and the sect he founded, he leaves to contact Zhou Weiqing, having devised a plan against the God of Destruction.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Hongchen is curious and teasingly inquisitive; Di Qiu’er is embarrassed and guards the truth about her diet.
• Xu Sanshi reacts impulsively to the draw, while Bei Bei tries to keep the team measured and focused. Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong readily accept the conspiracy explanation; Jiang Nannan’s reminder exposes the conflict between their personal loyalties and their official role.
• Tang San is preoccupied, secretive, and politically calculating. His loyalties are divided between Shrek and the Tang Sect, while Xiao Wu remains trusting and unaware of his concerns.

Significant themes

• Loyalty and divided identity: The Tang Sect members feel connected to Shrek, despite competing under another banner; Tang San faces the same dilemma.
• Suspicion and political maneuvering: The draw fuels fears of Sun Moon interference, while Tang San suspects a separate threat within the Divine Realm.
• Secrecy and self-interest: Characters conceal motives or information, especially Tang San, whose private ambitions shape his actions.

Tang San planned to steal Divine Realm Willpower to strengthen himself and undermine the God of Destruction, so he asked Zhou Weiqing to watch for a chance to act. The God of Destruction secretly overheard their conversation and learned that Zhou Weiqing had betrayed him.

• Tang San decided to stop waiting and use the Thought Power Pillars to steal Divine Realm Willpower, but realized he needed the God of Destruction to leave the Divine Realm first.
• Tang San summoned Zhou Weiqing and asked him to report immediately if the God of Destruction showed signs of leaving.
• The First Generation God of Devastation spotted Zhou Weiqing entering Tang San's residence and alerted the God of Destruction.
• The God of Destruction and the First Generation God of Devastation concealed themselves outside the Sea God's Mansion and eavesdropped on Tang San persuading Zhou Weiqing to spy on his master.
• The God of Destruction confronted the First Generation God of Devastation afterward, dismissed his apology, and condemned Zhou Weiqing for betraying him.

Key plot points and events

• The God of Destruction suspects Tang San is preparing to act against him. He decides to leave the Divine Realm with the Goddess of Life on an inspection tour, intending to lure Tang San into making a move and expose any violation of the Divine Realm’s rules.
• Zhou Weiqing attends an emergency meeting where the God of Destruction announces the departure. Believing this gives Tang San an opening, Zhou eagerly rushes to inform him.
• Tang San accepts the news without suspicion and prepares to launch his plan. He gives Zhou a Sea God Token, a communication artifact made by the Fire God, so Zhou can alert him if the God of Destruction returns.
• Tang San reveals that the Fire God agreed to help after the Water God—his wife and a friend of Tang San—persuaded him.
• Zhou asks whether he can stop spying for Tang San if the Destruction God’s expansion plan fails, saying his conscience troubles him. Tang San’s reaction suggests he considers Zhou trapped in his service.

Character developments and interactions

• God of Destruction uses Zhou’s betrayal as an opportunity to set a trap for Tang San, while concealing his intentions behind an ordinary meeting.
• Zhou Weiqing eagerly plays the informer but shows lingering loyalty and guilt toward his former master. His question about leaving Tang San’s service reveals that he may not be fully committed.
• Tang San is confident in his preparations and trusts Zhou too readily. He also treats Zhou’s attempt to withdraw as unacceptable, viewing him as someone who cannot simply leave his faction.
• Tang San’s domestic priorities appear in a brief scene: he wants a son to inherit his mantle and plans to raise him more strictly than his daughter, Xiao Qi.

Significant themes

• Manipulation and counterplots: The God of Destruction and Tang San each believe they can exploit the other’s moves.
• Loyalty, betrayal, and conscience: Zhou is caught between his allegiance to Tang San and gratitude toward the God of Destruction.
• Factional influence: Tang San’s ties to the Water and Fire Gods hint that supposedly neutral alliances may be shifting.
• Inheritance and gender expectations: Tang San’s preference for a male heir exposes his assumptions about family and succession.

Tang San deceived Zhou Weiqing into reporting on the God of Destruction, then secretly rescued Tang Hao and Ah Yin and brought them to a strong section of the Divine Realm barrier. With the God of Destruction and Goddess of Life watching from afar, Tang San prepared to use his power of faith to restore his parents and further his plan to control Douluo Star.

• Tang San told Zhou Weiqing to spy on the God of Destruction and report through the Sea God Token, and Zhou Weiqing agreed.
• Tang San secretly rescued Tang Hao and Ah Yin from the Annihilation Thunder Pool while the God of Destruction watched him through a crystal ball.
• The God of Destruction showed the Goddess of Life Tang San's actions, and she realized Tang San had violated the rules to help his family.
• Tang San took his weakened parents to a thick section of the Divine Realm barrier and offered them his power of faith to rebuild their physical bodies.
• Tang San switched to his Asura divine position and prepared to begin, believing the God of Destruction and Goddess of Life were away.

Tang San secretly siphoned the Divine Realm’s power of faith to strengthen himself and his parents, but the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life caught him in the act. Confronted, Tang San denied the theft and blamed the Silver Dragon King, while the God of Destruction noticed Tang Hao and Ah Yin absorbing faith as well.

• Tang San used the Thought Power Pillar to drain the Divine Realm’s power of faith, diverting most of it to himself and some to Tang Hao and Ah Yin.
• Zhou Weiqing kept watch near Destruction Castle while the First Generation God of Devastation and the God of Envy secretly observed him.
• The God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life discovered Tang San’s theft through the Divine Realm Center and returned to stop him.
• The God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life interrupted Tang San, and Tang San reacted with shock at their sudden arrival.
• Tang San denied stealing power of faith and claimed he was repairing the barrier after an attack by the Silver Dragon King.
• The God of Destruction rejected Tang San’s excuse and questioned why Tang Hao and Ah Yin were present and absorbing power of faith.

The God of Destruction confronted Tang San for secretly freeing Tang Hao and Ah Yin, and demanded that the three face trial before the God Realm Members' Assembly. Tang San refused to surrender, and as the God Kings prepared to clash, Lie Yan, Ji Dong, and other gods arrived to intervene.

• The God of Destruction caught Tang San with Tang Hao and Ah Yin and challenged Tang San's excuses for releasing them.
• Tang San could not explain what blood or injuries his parents had suffered for the Divine Realm, so the God of Destruction announced he would bring them before the God Realm Members' Assembly.
• The God of Destruction attacked with his Destruction Scepter, and Tang San raised the Asura Sword to oppose him, though he knew he was outmatched.
• The Goddess of Life rejected Tang San's plea and told him to surrender, while Tang San cursed her and the God of Destruction in his thoughts.
• Lie Yan, Ji Dong, and several First-Level Gods arrived and urged the two God Kings to stop fighting and discuss the matter.

The God of Destruction convened an expanded God Realm Committee meeting to judge Tang San and his parents for stealing the Divine Realm’s power of faith. Tang San’s appeals to the gods collapsed when the God of Destruction showed clear recordings of his actions, though Tang San still claimed they were fabricated.

• The God of Destruction proposed an expanded committee meeting, and the Goddess of Life, Lie Yan, and Ji Dong voted to hold it over Tang San’s objection.
• The God of Destruction accused Tang San and his parents of stealing the Divine Realm’s power of faith, while Tang San denied it and attacked the Goddess of Life’s credibility.
• Rong Nianbing and the Seven Elemental Gods supported Tang San after he performed an indignant defense of his character.
• The God of Destruction played a Crystal Ball recording showing Tang San entering Destruction Castle in disguise, rescuing Tang Hao and Ah Yin, and stealing the power of faith.
• The gods who had supported Tang San turned against him, but Tang San shouted that the recording was fabricated and accused the God of Destruction of slander.

The God Realm Committee judged Tang San and his parents for violating its rules, and the Goddess of Life supported punishment while softening the sentence against Tang Hao and Ah Yin. The vote stripped Tang San of his law-enforcement position and sentenced his parents to punishment and exile to the Mortal Realm.

• Rong Nianbing urged Tang San to admit his guilt, and the God of Destruction proposed stripping him of his law-enforcement status and imprisoning him while condemning Tang Hao and Ah Yin to divine form annihilation.
• Tang San challenged the severity of the sentence and requested a vote, hoping to reduce his punishment.
• The Goddess of Life backed Tang San's punishment but proposed sparing his parents divine form annihilation and instead stripping them of divine power, punishing them, and sending them to the Lower Realm.
• The God of Destruction, the Goddess of Life, Ji Dong, and Lie Yan voted for the proposal, while Tang San voted against it.
• The God of Destruction announced that Tang San would be stripped of his authority and imprisoned, while Tang Hao and Ah Yin would lose their divine power, endure forty-nine heavenly thunders, and be cast into the Mortal Realm.

After Tang San carried out the God Realm Committee’s punishment on Tang Hao and Ah Yin, the God of Destruction sent them back to Douluo Star and confined Tang San. Meanwhile, the Tang Sect prepared to face the Sun Moon Team in the tournament quarterfinals, and Yan Shaozhe planned to negotiate an early team battle.

• The Goddess of Life restored Tang Hao and Ah Yin, and the Thunder God punished them with forty-nine bolts of lightning.
• Tang San stripped his parents of their divine power, lowering them to rank 97 Super Douluo, before the God of Greed sent them back to Douluo Star and the God of Destruction confined Tang San in the Sea God's Mansion.
• The tournament draw matched the Tang Sect Team against the undefeated Sun Moon Team in the quarterfinals, leaving the Tang Sect members discouraged about facing Chen Mo.
• Yan Shaozhe urged the Tang Sect to regain its confidence and proposed offering soul bones to persuade the Sun Moon Team to move directly to a team battle.
• Xiao Hongchen asked Chen Mo whether he should sweep through Shrek's seven fighters or give them hope first, and Chen Mo advised him to snuff that hope out afterward.

Chen Mo negotiated with Yan Shaozhe to have the Sun Moon Team and Tang Sect Team skip the individual elimination competition in exchange for soul bones. After Yan handed over the agreed treasures and the teams forfeited, they prepared to settle the match in a team battle, leaving Xu Tianran confident but Xu Tianzhen worried about Shrek’s team-fighting strength.

• Yan Shaozhe asked Chen Mo to have the Sun Moon Team and Tang Sect Team forfeit the individual elimination competition, offering soul bones in exchange.
• Chen Mo demanded ten ten-thousand-year soul bones, including a complete set and an external soul bone, plus two hundred-thousand-year soul bones, and refused to accept them after the match.
• Yan Shaozhe handed Chen Mo nine soul bones over thirty thousand years old, one external soul bone, and two hundred-thousand-year soul bones, and Chen Mo arranged the teams’ forfeits with the Organizing Committee.
• Chen Mo confirmed that Jing Hongchen and his teammates accepted the plan, and referee Liao Mengkai announced that the teams would proceed directly to the team competition.
• Yan Shaozhe returned to the Tang Sect rest area believing Shrek would win, while Jing Hongchen assured Xu Tianran that the Sun Moon Team would prevail and Xu Tianzhen warned that Shrek excelled at team battles.

The Tang Sect Team used Xu Sanshi’s Xuanming Displacement to place Chen Mo among six attackers, but Chen Mo’s team turned the tactic around and overwhelmed Xu Sanshi. Chen Mo brushed off Shrek’s assault and shattered Jiang Nannan’s Invincible Golden Body, leaving the battle still underway.

• Huo Yuhao proposed swapping Xu Sanshi with Chen Mo so the Tang Sect Team could attack Chen Mo together while Sun Moon focused on Xu Sanshi.
• At the match’s start, Jiang Nannan brought Xu Sanshi to the center of Shrek’s formation, and Xu Sanshi used Xuanming Displacement to swap places with Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo told Di Qiu'er to leave him to handle Shrek and help the others deal with Xu Sanshi.
• Di Qiu'er shattered Xu Sanshi’s defensive soul tool and joined the others in attacking him, targeting his injured kidneys.
• Huo Yuhao and the others attacked Chen Mo, but he countered them; Jiang Nannan used Gravity Control and attacked with Silver Short Swords.
• Chen Mo punched through Jiang Nannan’s Invincible Golden Body.

Chen Mo knocked Jiang Nannan unconscious while Xu Sanshi fought the Sun Moon Empire team and awakened his Black Tortoise bloodline. Xiao Hongchen revealed his Three-Legged Golden Toad martial soul, and Xu Sanshi struggled to hold off the others as they prepared to overwhelm him.

• Chen Mo shattered Jiang Nannan's Invincible Golden Body with one punch, and the referee carried her unconscious from the arena.
• Xu Sanshi became enraged at Jiang Nannan's defeat and awakened his Black Tortoise bloodline.
• Xiao Hongchen trapped the soul-cannon barrage, revealed his Three-Legged Golden Toad martial soul avatar, and drew praise from the audience and Jing Hongchen.
• Xiao Hongchen redirected the cannon shells at Xu Sanshi, who endured the explosions with Black Tortoise Shield Formation before Chen Mo's Golden Dragon Spear pierced his defense.
• Xu Sanshi used Black Tortoise Displacement to escape, then spread water to absorb some of the poison mist as Meng Hongchen and the others continued holding back.

Chen Mo overwhelmed the Tang Sect Team’s coordinated attacks and defeated Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Bei Bei, and their teammates. The referee declared the Sun Moon Team the winner after confirming that the Tang Sect Team could no longer fight.

• Bei Bei led the Tang Sect Team’s assault, but Chen Mo blocked his strongest attack and seized his fist.
• Chen Mo sent Evil Eye after Huo Yuhao, and Evil Eye defeated the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s spiritual defense, leaving Huo Yuhao bleeding and without spiritual detection.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm identified Evil Eye as the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Ruler, ranked second among the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts, and urged Huo Yuhao to surrender.
• Xiao Xiao trapped Chen Mo with the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, but he shattered it, injuring her through the backlash.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong used their Martial Soul Fusion Skills against Chen Mo, who defeated Bei Bei and blasted the pair away with a dark green ray.
• Di Qiu'er and the Sun Moon Team subdued Xu Sanshi and the remaining Tang Sect members, and the referee announced the Sun Moon Team’s victory.

After the Tang Sect Team lost to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy, Zhongli Wu plotted to recruit Chen Mo into the Holy Spirit Cult, while Shrek’s leaders considered a rematch and suspected betrayal. The chapter left the defeated team facing an inquiry into whether one of its members was a traitor.

• Yan Shaozhe watched Shrek’s defeat and realized the academy had lost its chance at the championship.
• Zhongli Wu decided Chen Mo should become the Holy Spirit Cult’s Holy Son and ordered Zhang Peng to arrange for their people to approach him through Xu Tianran.
• Jing Hongchen praised Chen Mo and took the Sun Moon team to a victory banquet, while Di Qiu’er said she regretted not fighting Wang Dong’er.
• Song Yunzhi tried to encourage the defeated Tang Sect Team, and Cai Mei’er said Yan Shaozhe had gone to demand a rematch.
• Song Yunzhi told Huo Yuhao and the others that she suspected a traitor was among them.

Song Yunzhi suspected there was a mole among the Tang Sect members, while Yan Shaozhe unsuccessfully demanded that Shrek advance to the semifinals. That night, Chen Mo continued forging at the Illustrious Virtue Hall, still falling short of the level he sought.

• Song Yunzhi suspected He Caitou, Jiang Nannan, and Xiao Xiao of being possible moles, while Bei Bei and Xian Lin'er defended the Tang Sect members.
• Yan Shaozhe argued that Shrek should advance to the semifinals, but the Tournament Organizing Committee refused.
• Jing Hongchen challenged Yan Shaozhe's demands, and Yan Shaozhe left in anger but continued filing appeals.
• Chen Mo forged rare metal in the First Exclusive Laboratory, hoping to reach grandmaster level and improve his battle armor.
• Chen Mo examined his latest work and found it was high-grade Thousand Refinement, still short of his goal.

Ning Tian considered marrying Chen Mo to secure her sect’s future, while Wu Feng struggled with her hidden love for Ning Tian. Ning Tian arranged to meet Chen Mo, and he agreed to go.

• Ning Tian asked Wu Feng what she thought of Chen Mo and said she wanted him to become her husband.
• Ning Tian explained that Chen Mo’s strength and ties to the Sun Moon Empire could protect the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect as Shrek Academy declined.
• Wu Feng realized Ning Tian’s plan threatened her hopes of staying by her side and lamented that she was a woman.
• Ning Tian took Wu Feng to visit the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy to buy soul tools and meet Chen Mo.
• Meng Hongchen told Chen Mo that Ning Tian had requested a meeting and offered rare metals, and Chen Mo agreed to go.

At the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy, Chen Mo negotiated a large soul-tool order with Ning Tian on behalf of the Illustrious Virtue Hall. Ning Tian secured permission to buy all available Class 8 Milk Bottles, but Chen Mo refused to sell the sect Class 6 Invincible Shields.

• Chen Mo met Ning Tian and explained that the Illustrious Virtue Hall would sell outsiders soul tools up to Class 7, with certain strategic items restricted.
• Ning Tian requested Fixed Soul Cannon Shells, Milk Bottles, Invincible Shields, and other offensive soul tools for the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Chen Mo offered up to three hundred Class 5 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells per purchase and agreed to sell Class 8 Milk Bottles.
• Ning Tian eagerly agreed to buy every Class 8 Milk Bottle available, while Chen Mo and Meng Hongchen welcomed the chance to clear the old stock.
• Ning Tian asked to buy Class 6 Invincible Shields, but Chen Mo refused to break the sales rules, leaving her to proceed with the permitted order.

Chen Mo finalized a major Soul Tool order with Ning Tian, while Wu Feng hid her jealousy over their closeness. At the Bright Moon Hotel, Bei Bei found Tang Ya with the Holy Spirit Sect, but she did not recognize him and stabbed him before Yan Shaozhe intervened.

• Chen Mo and Ning Tian finalized an order worth 1.5 billion gold soul coins, and Wu Feng concealed her hostility toward him by blaming his defeat of the Tang Sect.
• Bei Bei left the Bright Moon Hotel with Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, and Xiao Xiao, then collided with Tang Ya and recognized her.
• Tang Ya could not remember Bei Bei, Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, or Xiao Xiao, while her companions identified themselves as members of the Holy Spirit Sect.
• Bei Bei tried to embrace Tang Ya, but a Holy Spirit Sect member shoved him away and Tang Ya stabbed him in the chest with her Dark Purple Blue Silver Vines.
• Yan Shaozhe drove Tang Ya back and caught the wounded Bei Bei before he hit the ground.

Yan Shaozhe confronted Tang Ya after she injured Bei Bei, but the Holy Spirit Cult intervened and Zhongli Wu arrived to protect Zhang Peng. An unknown expert’s distant attack drove Zhongli Wu and the others away, while Shrek’s group returned to the hotel to treat Bei Bei.

• Tang Ya ignored Yan Shaozhe’s questions after injuring Bei Bei, and Yan Shaozhe blocked her group from leaving.
• Zhang Peng intercepted Yan Shaozhe’s attack and led Tang Ya and the Holy Spirit Cult members away from the hotel.
• Elder Song attacked Zhang Peng, but Zhongli Wu arrived and forced Shrek’s people to defend themselves.
• Chen Mo struck from more than a dozen kilometers away with the Great Wilderness Prison Finger, causing Zhongli Wu and the others to flee.
• Song Yunzhi urged Shrek’s group to leave Mingdu, and they returned to the hotel, where a healing Soul Saint treated Bei Bei.

Bei Bei learned that Tang Ya had become an Evil Soul Master and persuaded Yan Shaozhe to delay Shrek’s return until after the semifinals so he could see her. At the semifinals, the Sun Moon Team prepared to face the Holy Spirit Sect, which Chen Mo identified as a disguise for the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Bei Bei woke and searched for Tang Ya, then learned from Yan Shaozhe and Huo Yuhao that she had become an Evil Soul Master.
• Yan Shaozhe ordered the Shrek group to prepare to leave for the academy, but Bei Bei pleaded to stay until after the next day’s matches, and Yan Shaozhe agreed.
• At the semifinals in Mingdu Square, Xu Tianran regretted that the draw had matched the Sun Moon Team against the Holy Spirit Sect.
• Bei Bei watched the Holy Spirit Sect’s rest area, hoping Tang Ya would appear, while Wang Dong and Jiang Nannan discussed the team’s lost rest area.
• Chen Mo explained to Xiao Hongchen that the Holy Spirit Sect was a disguise for the Holy Spirit Cult and ordered Ye Guyi to attack at full strength in the Individual Elimination Competition.