Chapter Summaries

Mu En vanished with Xu Cheng and Di Tian into a mysterious space, leaving Shrek Academy and its allies uncertain whether a deity was involved. With the Clear Sky Sect, the Star Luo Empire, and many factions choosing to retreat, Shrek faced the agonizing choice of abandoning Mu En or risking its destruction.

• Xu Cheng asked Mu En whether he would risk destroying Mingdu, and Mu En sensed danger and tried to retreat.
• Mu En, Xu Cheng, and Di Tian vanished into another space, alarming the fighters and throwing Shrek Academy into panic.
• Da Ming and Er Ming suspected that divine power had been involved, then ordered the Clear Sky Sect to retreat and report the matter to Tang San.
• Xu Jiawei decided to withdraw the Star Luo Empire's forces, while Xuan Zi tried to stop them and other factions also chose to flee.
• Elder Lin and Elder Zhuang urged Shrek to retreat, despite Xuan Zi's protest that Mu En would be left to face the Sun Moon Empire alone.

Tang San was caught spying on the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and nearly killed, but Er Ming rescued him. As the Sun Moon Empire celebrated its victory over Shrek Academy, Ning Tian and Elder Zhu realized the Clear Sky Sect’s powerful figures were involved.

• Xuan Zi ordered Shrek Academy’s forces to scatter and retreat, while Kong Deming sent Sun Moon Empire forces after them and alerted Mingdu’s defenses.
• Tang San waited for Xuan Zi near the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, planning to guide him inside and take revenge on Ning Tian’s family.
• Ning Tian confronted Tang San at a hotel belonging to her sect, and Grandpa Zhu trapped him with bamboo after Tang San failed to escape.
• Tang San fought back with the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, but Grandpa Zhu’s bamboo pierced his shoulder and overwhelmed him.
• Er Ming shattered the bamboo, rescued Tang San, and vanished with him, prompting Elder Zhu to identify him as the Titan Giant Ape and suspect the Clear Sky Sect secretly controlled the continent.
• Ning Hao arrived with the returning Sun Moon Empire forces and told Ning Tian and Elder Zhu that they had won.

Zhang Lexuan confronted Shrek Academy’s retreating forces and revealed that she was a princess of the Sun Moon Empire who had turned against Shrek after learning of Mu En’s crimes. She refused to return to the academy and condemned its leaders for sacrificing young disciples while neglecting their duties.

• Ning Hao left the fortified Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, while Ning Tian said that keeping everyone safe was their victory.
• At Mingdu’s southern defenses, Xuan Zi accused Zhang Lexuan of betraying Shrek Academy, but she asked him about her origins and saw that the senior figures would not meet her eyes.
• Zhang Lexuan summoned Silver Moon and revealed that her surname was Xu and that she carried the blood of the Sun Moon Empire’s Imperial Family.
• Zhang Lexuan accused Mu En of arranging the slaughter of her adoptive Zhang Family and trying to bind her to Shrek, and said she would target only Mu En rather than attack the other teachers.
• Zhang Lexuan reminded Xuan Zi that his negligence had left more than a dozen people dead in the Star Dou Great Forest and condemned his drinking and failures as deputy commander of the Inspection Corps.
• Zhang Lexuan denounced Shrek’s senior figures for sending young disciples on dangerous missions while doing little themselves, and declared that Shrek should have perished long ago.

Mu En surrendered his Storage Soul Tool to Xu Cheng in exchange for Shrek Academy’s escape from Mingdu, then died in the Undead World. Xu Cheng kept Mu En there as the others fled, and Ma Xiaotao continued fighting for the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Yan Shaozhe urged Xuan Zi and Zhang Lexuan to break through before Di Tian and Xu Cheng could finish off Mu En.
• Ma Xiaotao killed a Soul Saint with her evil fire and identified herself as the Holy Spirit Cult’s Ma Xiaotao before hunting the Heaven Dou Empire fighters.
• Mu En watched Shrek’s forces attempt to escape on Xu Cheng’s Light Screen and discussed the academy’s flaws with him.
• Xu Cheng demanded Mu En’s Storage Soul Tool in exchange for the other Shrek members’ safe departure, and Mu En handed over his ring.
• Xuan Zi led Shrek Academy’s members out of the city while Xu Cheng kept Mu En in the Undead World.
• Mu En’s soul left his body and drifted away, and Xu Cheng smiled over the ring and the Undead World’s increased energy.

Xu Cheng ordered a review of the armory accounts and used his system reward to make Tang San in the Divine Realm forget he had sent divine sense to the lower realm. As Tang San began planning another attempt to influence the continent, Da Ming and Er Ming faced the losses from their failed battle and learned that Tang San had awakened.

• Ju Zi reported heavy losses among the Soul Engineer Corps and their weapons, and Xu Cheng chose not to punish the troops while ordering a thorough audit of the armory ledgers.
• Ju Zi told Xu Cheng that the Clear Sky Sect had rescued Tang San after the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect encountered him, and Xu Cheng used his system reward to erase the Divine Realm Tang San’s memory of sending divine sense below.
• Xu Cheng told Ju Zi to begin carrying out the harvesting plan the next day.
• Tang San in the Divine Realm wondered what he had forgotten, then planned to influence the continent through the Abyss Plane and a new strand of divine sense.
• Da Ming and Er Ming learned that their battle had killed nine Titled Douluos and left seven severely injured, and they decided to beg forgiveness over the failed rescue of Wang Dong'er.
• A Clear Sky Sect disciple reported that Tang San had awakened, leaving Da Ming and Er Ming stunned.

A disguised Tang San convinced Da Ming and Er Ming that he was the God King, then learned about Xu Cheng’s artificial soul rings and the Silver Dragon King’s refusal to hand over Xiao Qi’s soul fragment. The real Sea God Tang San appeared to issue orders, leaving everyone confused about which Tang San was genuine.

• A Clear Sky Sect disciple told Da Ming and Er Ming that a young man claiming to be Tang San knew the sect’s secrets, including the Rear Altar.
• The disguised Tang San welcomed Da Ming and Er Ming, who knelt and reported that Xu Cheng had created artificial soul rings and that the Silver Dragon King would only give Xiao Qi’s soul fragment to Tang San himself.
• Shocked by Xu Cheng’s invention, Tang San ordered Da Ming and Er Ming to prepare the Rear Altar so he could contact the Divine Realm.
• The real Sea God Tang San appeared, ordered them to rely on the Abyss Plane against its approaching threat, and sealed the Rear Altar against further contact.
• After the Sea God vanished, Er Ming questioned which Tang San was the real one, while the disguised Tang San stared in bewilderment.

Tang San’s new divine sense learned that the Sun Moon Empire had crushed the continental alliance and discovered he could not contact the Divine Realm from the Rear Altar. Meanwhile, Tang San faced warnings from the Divine Realm’s committee, and the Sun Moon Empire’s investment scam wiped out the sect’s Gold Soul Coins.

• Da Ming and Er Ming mistook Tang San’s newly arrived divine sense for the real God King, who ordered them to imprison the older strand and briefed himself on the continent’s crisis.
• Tang San learned that his original self had sealed the Rear Altar’s passage to the Divine Realm, leaving them unable to contact him.
• The God of Destruction and Evil confronted Tang San over interfering in the mortal world and warned him not to meddle with the Douluo Plane again.
• Tang San’s new divine sense praised the ledger’s huge profits and welcomed the Sun Moon Empire’s apparent absence from the investment boom.
• An elder reported that the trading firms had vanished and the sect’s invested Gold Soul Coins were gone, leaving Da Ming stunned.

After the continental alliance’s defeat, Xu Jiawei watched the Sun Moon Empire use its stolen wealth to seize control of Star Luo’s businesses and supply chains. At Shrek Academy, the surviving elders appointed Xuan Zi as Sea God Pavilion Master and chose Bei Bei as a future successor, while Yan Shaozhe feared the academy could no longer challenge the Sun Moon Empire.

• Xu Jiawei learned that Sun Moon merchants were buying Star Luo shops, supplies, and Soul Bones, tightening their control over the empire’s economy.
• Xu Jiawei recalled Star Luo’s heavy losses in the recent defeat and concluded that he had little will or means to resist the Sun Moon Empire’s financial takeover.
• Xu Jiawei dismissed court after the finance minister could offer no solution, and he left the hall looking like an old man.
• At Shrek’s Sea God Pavilion, Elder Lin called for a new leader after Elder Mu’s death, and the elders appointed Xuan Zi as Sea God Pavilion Master.
• Elder Lin nominated Bei Bei as a future Pavilion Master, citing his inherited radiant sacred dragon, while Yan Shaozhe worried that Shrek had been devastated and could not contend with the Sun Moon Empire.

Xu Cheng examined the Dragon Core and explained how it could let him condense a black hole-level soul core far earlier than normal. He planned to use it to break through to Soul Saint, then revealed the second item he had obtained: a fragment of the Rakshasa Demon Scythe.

• Xu Cheng identified the treasure as a Dragon Core and explained its power to strengthen the body, accelerate cultivation, and support soul-core condensation.
• Tian Meng and Electrolux reacted with surprise to the Dragon Core, while Ice Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned Xu Cheng that condensing a soul core at Soul Saint would be difficult.
• Xu Cheng said the Dragon Core would strengthen his physique enough for him to attempt a soul core, and he worried that the women around him were growing strong and restless.
• Ice Empress reflected on Xu Cheng's sincerity toward his allies after seeing him develop the Artificial Soul Ring.
• Xu Cheng revealed the second item from his haul: a fragment of the Rakshasa Demon Scythe.

Xu Cheng and Electrolux assembled two fragments of the Rakshasa Demon Scythe, awakening Bibi Dong’s weakened divine sense in the Netherworld Realm. Electrolux explained that Xu Cheng could bind her as a soul entity and restore her strength if he found the final fragment.

• Xu Cheng revealed that Mu En’s ring contained a letter confirming another Rakshasa Demon Scythe fragment was in the Clear Sky Sect.
• Electrolux joined two scythe fragments and suppressed the weapon’s murderous aura with his power over death.
• Bibi Dong’s divine sense emerged from the Demon Scythe and questioned where she had appeared.
• Electrolux told Bibi Dong that she was in the Netherworld Realm, where souls passed through the cycle of rebirth.
• Electrolux explained that Xu Cheng could control Bibi Dong as a soul entity, nourish her through the Eye of Destiny, and raise her potential by recovering the final fragment.

Xu Cheng and Electrolux subdued Bibi Dong’s remnant divine sense, and Xu Cheng proposed a deal: he would help her kill Tang San and restore her body if she served him until he became a god. Bibi Dong rejected his confidence in killing Tang San, and Xu Cheng warned her that Tang San had become a God King with powerful forces at his command.

• Bibi Dong tried to crush Xu Cheng and Electrolux with her divine pressure, but Electrolux used his authority over death to overpower her.
• Electrolux shattered Bibi Dong’s divine sense, gathered its fragments, and trapped them in a ball of black mist.
• Xu Cheng drew Bibi Dong’s remnant into his Sea of Consciousness while the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Ice Empress watched.
• Xu Cheng released Bibi Dong from the black-mist cage and offered to help her kill Tang San and restore her body if she served him until he attained godhood.
• Bibi Dong laughed at Xu Cheng’s claim that he could kill Tang San, and Xu Cheng warned her that Tang San was a God King and God Realm Enforcer whose subordinates could defeat her.

Xu Cheng forced Bibi Dong to sign a binding contract in exchange for helping her kill Tang San. After making her call him “Master,” he sent her into the depths of his Sea of Consciousness.

• Bibi Dong recognized the Destruction Scepter and agreed to negotiate with Xu Cheng, believing he might one day rival Tang San.
• Xu Cheng summoned a contract that would bind Bibi Dong’s divine sense to his Sea of Consciousness, and she objected to its harsh terms.
• Xu Cheng overwhelmed Bibi Dong with his spiritual power and offered her a choice between signing the contract or having her divine sense cleansed in the Netherworld Realm.
• Bibi Dong signed the contract with Xu Cheng, binding her soul to his survival and placing herself under his control.
• Xu Cheng demanded that Bibi Dong address him as her master, and she reluctantly called him “Master” before retreating into the Sea of Consciousness.

After Ye Xishui could no longer provide the Evil Emperor with souls, he ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to leave the Evil Demon Forest. Ye Xishui agreed to move the cult’s headquarters to Mingdu, trusting its Holy Son Xu Cheng despite Zhongli Wu’s doubts.

• Ye Xishui confronted the Evil Emperor, explaining that the Holy Spirit Cult could no longer pay its annual tribute of souls.
• The Evil Emperor rejected the cult’s other treasures and gave its members three hours to leave the Evil Demon Forest.
• Ye Xishui ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to gather its valuables and prepare to relocate.
• Zhongli Wu asked Ye Xishui where the cult should go, and she chose Mingdu because Xu Cheng was a prince of the Sun Moon Empire.
• Zhongli Wu warned that Xu Cheng might have ulterior motives, but Ye Xishui insisted he was suited to lead the Holy Spirit Cult.

Ye Xishui revealed why she was willing to let Xu Cheng take control of the Holy Spirit Cult, while Long Xiaoyao chose to stay with her until her death. In Mingdu, Xu Cheng inspected the nearly complete Starlink Railway and considered expanding the Imperial Works Department’s authority.

• Ye Xishui told Long Xiaoyao that she did not love Zhongli Wu’s father and would accept any future for the Holy Spirit Cult under Xu Cheng, as long as it helped overthrow the continent’s rulers.
• Long Xiaoyao asked where he should go after Ye Xishui died, and she invited him to join her; he agreed.
• Xu Cheng inspected the first silver-white Starlink subway train and told the researchers to add more luxurious carriage classes.
• The minister of works explained that Starlink already reached nearly every important building beneath Mingdu and that ordinary fares would be affordable.
• Xu Cheng considered expanding the railway into other provinces and giving the Imperial Works Department a larger role in construction.

Xu Cheng considered expanding the Starlink Railway beneath the sea while traveling with Bibi Dong and Meng Hongchen. In the Vast Continent, the God of Destruction recruited Zhou Weiqing for godhood trials, unaware that Tang San was secretly maneuvering him as a pawn.

• Xu Cheng admired the Starlink Railway's speed and planned to negotiate with the Sea Princess's clan to extend it beneath the sea.
• Meng Hongchen guarded Xu Cheng from Bibi Dong, who denied wanting to steal him and silently restrained her anger.
• Zhou Weiqing mourned his departed loved ones and regretted refusing Tang San's offer of the Asura Divine Seat.
• The God of Destruction told Zhou Weiqing that becoming a god might let him find a way to resurrect his loved ones, then offered him trials.
• Zhou Weiqing accepted the trials, while Tang San watched from a spatial rift and called him a hidden pawn.

Xu Cheng prepared to leave Mingdu for the Far North and considered beginning Destruction’s inheritance trials, while Meng Hongchen and several other women planned a surprise for him. The chapter ended with Xu Cheng pushed into a hotel room full of women, realizing he was in trouble.

• Xu Cheng told Meng Hongchen he had to go to the Far North and decided he should reach Soul Saint first, then considered starting the Sea God Trials for Destruction’s inheritance.
• Meng Hongchen teased Xu Cheng about their nighttime plans and revealed that Ma Xiaotao had told her about his preferences.
• Xiao Hongchen spied on Xu Cheng and Meng Hongchen, shattered his Telescope in anger, and swore that he and Xu Cheng could not coexist.
• Ma Xiaotao, Zhang Lexuan, Nana, and Ju Zi discussed a plan to exhaust Xu Cheng before he left Mingdu.
• Bibi Dong complained that an actress had portrayed her poorly and insisted she should play herself in any future production.
• Meng Hongchen pushed Xu Cheng into Room 302, where he found several women waiting for him.

Xu Cheng accepted the Holy Spirit Cult’s relocation to Mingdu and charged Zhongli Wu’s followers for an expensive new headquarters, using the funds to support construction and the Starlink Railway. After Bibi Dong attacked him over his criticism of her past, Xu Cheng punished her through their contract and decided to have Electrolux purify her Divine Sense once she obtained the final Divine Artifact Fragment.

• Nana told Xu Cheng that the Holy Spirit Cult wanted to move its Main Altar to Mingdu, and he agreed while ordering records of its members to be compiled.
• Myriad Souls Douluo and Abomination Douluo discussed their losses after their soul-based powers weakened, while Zhongli Wu led the Holy Spirit Cult’s procession to Mingdu.
• Xu Cheng sold Zhongli Wu a headquarters plan for twenty million Gold Soul Coins and arranged temporary lodging for the migrants.
• Xu Cheng directed the six-million-Gold-Soul-Coin deposit to the construction crew and planned to put the remaining payment toward the National Treasury and railway construction.
• Bibi Dong confronted Xu Cheng after he accused her of venting her suffering on the continent; when she threatened him, he used their contract to force her to her knees.
• Xu Cheng told Electrolux he would level up quickly and purify Bibi Dong after she obtained the final Divine Artifact Fragment, before traveling to the Far North.

Xu Cheng urged Jing Hongchen to redirect the Sun Moon Empire’s production toward high-end weapons, space technology, and cultivating talent. Meanwhile, financially ruined Xu Jiawei decided to hand his empire over to Xu Cheng rather than repay its grasping nobles, and summoned the princess.

• Xu Cheng persuaded Jing Hongchen to scale back low-tier weapons production and focus on godslaying research, mecha, and space development.
• Xu Cheng said satellites and rockets could advance communication, control of the continent, and eventual interstellar travel.
• Xu Cheng identified talent as the Sun Moon Empire’s greatest need and pointed to artificial soul rings as a way to strengthen its soul masters.
• Xu Jiawei erupted at ministers demanding more than four hundred million gold soul coins after a joint investment scam collapsed and the empire’s finances failed.
• Xu Jiawei resolved to give his territory to Xu Cheng and let the nobles face him, then dismissed court and summoned the princess.

Duke Robin'er opposed Salok and Lingwen's plan to pressure Xu Jiawei, warning that their greed could destabilize the Star Luo Empire. Xu Cheng accepted Destruction's inheritance path, entered the Destruction Palace, and began climbing the Destruction Staircase to strengthen himself.

• Robin'er challenged Salok and Lingwen's efforts to exploit the weakened Star Luo Empire, then left after warning them that their schemes could ruin it.
• Destruction explained that Xu Cheng could train in the Destruction Palace and receive the divine seat directly once he reached level ninety-nine.
• Destruction departed, and Xu Cheng used the Destruction Scepter to enter the Destruction Palace.
• Xu Cheng climbed to the 253rd step of the Destruction Staircase and sat down to cultivate as Destruction Power strengthened his body and control.

After reaching level seventy on the 333rd step, Xu Cheng discovered that he could administer his own divine trial and grant himself its rewards. He maxed out the rewards and began absorbing a God-Given Soul Ring, while Tian Meng and the Ice Empress kept watch.

• Xu Cheng broke through to level seventy after nine days on the divine trial staircase and worried about finding a suitable seventh Soul Ring.
• Xu Cheng accessed the Destruction Temple’s Examiner Panel and realized that he could control the trial rewards himself.
• Xu Cheng granted himself maximum rewards, gaining twenty percent affinity with destruction power, increased Soul Ring and Soul Bone ages, and two God-Given Soul Rings.
• Xu Cheng decided to save one God-Given Soul Ring and use the others for the Sun and Double Pupils, then began absorbing one as Tian Meng and the Ice Empress stood guard.
• Tian Meng and the Ice Empress watched the enormous phantom behind Xu Cheng and wondered whether becoming a god was really difficult.