Chapter Summaries

Xu Cheng planned to pressure Shrek Academy by supporting limits on soul-beast hunting, while the Star Dou Great Forest’s rulers used the Sun Moon Empire’s Artificial Soul Rings as grounds to restrict human access. Di Tian set hunting quotas and assigned overseers, leaving Xiong Jun to watch Shrek Academy for violations.

• Xu Cheng told Jing Hongchen he intended to visit the Far North and win over the Titan Snow Demon King, but planned to visit the Star Dou Great Forest first to make life harder for Shrek Academy.
• Xu Cheng argued that Artificial Soul Rings gave the forest a reason to oppose soul-beast slaughter, even as he acknowledged that the Sun Moon Empire would profit from selling them.
• Xiong Jun, the Myriad Demon King, and Bi Ji condemned Shrek Academy’s exploitation of the forest, and Di Tian confirmed that the Sun Moon Empire had successfully created Artificial Soul Rings.
• Di Tian ordered restrictions on human access and set monthly and semiannual hunting quotas, while forbidding the hunting of hundred-thousand-year soul beasts.
• Di Tian appointed the Myriad Demon King as Overseer and sent Xiong Jun to watch Shrek Academy, ordering him to kill anyone who tried to circumvent the restrictions.

The Sea God Pavilion Elders debated how Shrek Academy could cope with the Star Dou Great Forest’s new restrictions on hunting soul beasts. The Sun Moon Empire’s artificial soul rings emerged as their only practical option, but its newly announced prices threatened to drain Shrek’s resources.

• Elder Bai explained that the Beast Arena could not feasibly breed enough soul beasts, while Xian Lin'er and Cai Mei'er argued over whether the Soul Tool Department should control it.
• Elder Song revealed a letter from the Clear Sky Sect, and the Elders recognized that Shrek would have to compete with other powers for access to soul beasts.
• The Elders considered the Star Dou Great Forest’s restrictions, including its ban on hunting hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, and worried about the impact on Bei Bei and Shrek’s students.
• Elder Lin warned that Shrek could not fight the Star Dou Great Forest and its allies, so Xuan Zi proposed using the Sun Moon Empire’s artificial soul rings.
• Xuan Zi read the artificial soul ring prices aloud, including one million Gold Soul Coins for a ten-thousand-year ring, and the Elders angrily realized the Sun Moon Empire was exploiting Shrek’s need.

Xu Cheng and Xue Ling'er traveled to the Far North as Shrek Academy, the Clear Sky Sect, and other forces began hunting its soul beasts after the Star Dou Great Forest banned Soul Rings. Xu Cheng found the Titan Snow Demon King and the Ice Jade Scorpion Leader surrounded by powerful humans, just as they prepared to sacrifice themselves rather than let the Far North’s soul beasts be taken.

• The Abyssal Sage King rediscovered the Douluo Plane and hurried the Abyss Plane toward it, hoping to devour its resources and reach the God King realm.
• Xu Cheng considered the Abyss Plane’s approach, then left his godhood state and continued traveling with Xue Ling'er toward the Far North.
• The Ice Empress agreed to let the Sun Moon Empire incorporate and protect the Far North in exchange for access to its mineral resources.
• Xu Cheng detected multiple human groups and signs of fighting in the Far North, including powerful figures from Shrek Academy and the Body Sect.
• The Titan Snow Demon King and the Ice Jade Scorpion Leader faced a group of powerful humans, and the Ice Jade Scorpion Leader urged A-Tai to escape and seek the Snow Empress and Ice Empress.

Xuan Zi and Du Busi bargained over the captured Far North Soul Beasts while the beasts tried to escape. Their flight was stopped, and Xiao Bai began speaking about her relationship with A-Tai as the humans closed in.

• Xuan Zi and Du Busi negotiated over the Titan Snow Demon King, the Ice Jade Scorpion, and other Soul Beasts, while nearby factions withdrew or waited for scraps.
• The Ice Jade Scorpion Clan Chief ordered Xiao Bai and A-Tai to flee north as the clan sacrificed itself, and the Titan Snow Demon King and Xiao Bai launched attacks to break through.
• Du Busi suppressed the Ice Jade Scorpion's attempted detonation, while a powerful human woman forced Xiao Bai back and the humans subdued the fleeing beasts.
• Xiao Bai told A-Tai that she envied the hopes and recognition their adoptive Mother had given him, while the Ice Empress questioned why they were chatting during the crisis.

The Ice Empress took over Xu Cheng’s body and confronted the Titan Snow Demon King after he revealed his love for the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress’s feelings for her. She ordered outsiders to leave the Far North and rescued the captured Soul Beasts, leaving Shrek’s plans in ruins.

• The Titan Snow Demon King confessed that he loved the Snow Empress and revealed that the Ice Empress loved her too, shocking the gathered Soul Beasts and humans.
• The enraged Ice Empress took control of Xu Cheng’s body and rebuked the Titan Snow Demon King for gossiping while the Far North faced danger.
• The Ice Empress gave outsiders half an hour to leave the Far North and threatened to hunt down anyone who backed Soul Beast hunters.
• Xuan Zi and Du Busi recognized Xu Cheng’s connection to the Ice Empress and objected to returning the Soul Beasts Shrek had already taken.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress returned the captured Soul Beasts, including those being escorted by Xian Lin'er, and shattered Shrek’s plans.

Xu Cheng drove Shrek Academy and the other human forces out of the Far North, then asked the assembled soul beasts to submit the region to the Sun Moon Empire. He explained that the empire sought the Far North’s mineral resources rather than its soul beasts, and the beasts accepted his intentions after the Ice Empress confirmed that artificial soul rings existed.

• Elder Song and Xuan Zi ordered the human forces to withdraw after Xuan Zi revealed that Xu Cheng had assembled the Rakshasa Demon Scythe and summoned the Rakshasa God’s divine sense.
• The Titan Snow Demon King said nearly every Far North species had assembled, and Xu Cheng announced that he intended to bring the region under the Sun Moon Empire’s rule.
• The Titan Snow Demon King accepted Xu Cheng’s proposal on the condition that the soul beast clans would not be slaughtered, while Xiao Bai and the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan’s chief reacted to the news.
• Xu Cheng explained that artificial soul rings made hunting soul beasts unnecessary and that the empire wanted the Far North’s metal and mineral resources.
• The Ice Empress explained that the hunting humans belonged to factions hostile to the Sun Moon Empire, and the gathered soul beasts grew grateful and respectful toward Xu Cheng.

Ice Empress warned the Far North’s soul beasts that humanity, especially the Sun Moon Empire, would overwhelm them in a war because human technology and production advanced far faster than soul beasts could grow stronger. She introduced Xue Ling'er as Snow Empress and revealed that Xu Cheng had greatly improved Snow Empress’s chances of becoming a god.

• Ice Empress told the soul beasts that she had willingly become Xu Cheng’s soul ring and described the human world’s rapid development.
• She explained that the Sun Moon Empire’s mass-produced soul tools and Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells could devastate the soul beasts, leaving the Titan Snow Demon King and Xiao Bai stunned.
• Ice Empress said humanity’s creativity made its future potential even greater, while keeping Xu Cheng’s Level 11 weapon plan secret.
• Ice Empress introduced Xue Ling'er as Snow Empress, prompting Xiao Bai to call her “Mother.”
• Ice Empress scolded A-Tai for failing to protect Snow Empress, and A-Tai explained that he had lured away a powerful human attacker.
• Ice Empress said Snow Empress had turned misfortune into good fortune and was now almost certain to become a god because of Xu Cheng.

Xu Cheng considered how to secure the Far North and summoned the Ice Silkworm Clan Chief to offer the clan a place in the Sun Moon Empire’s official ranks. The chief accepted, while Xu Cheng saw the clan’s spiritual abilities as a way to strengthen surveillance Soul Tools and mecha.

• Xu Cheng assessed the empire’s troop shortages and planned how to garrison the Far North using forces from Mingdu and the Star Dou Great Forest.
• A-Tai, Xiao Bai, the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan Chief, the Ice Silkworm Clan Chief, and Xu Cheng gathered at the Core of the Far North.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm appeared in Xu Cheng’s Sea of Consciousness and explained why the Ice Silkworm Clan had survived by hiding and being sly.
• The Ice Silkworm Clan Chief recognized Tian Meng, and the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan Chief explained Xu Cheng’s rescue of the Far North and the matters concerning the Snow Empress and Ice Empress.
• Xu Cheng invited the Ice Silkworm Clan to join the Sun Moon Empire and clarified that its members would be incorporated into the official ranks.
• The Ice Silkworm Clan Chief eagerly accepted, and Xu Cheng considered how the clan’s spiritual power could support surveillance Soul Tools and mecha.

Xu Cheng secured the Ice Silkworm Clan’s loyalty by promising protection and a place in the Sun Moon Empire, then organized the Far North’s defenses with human troops and soul beasts. The Ice Silkworm Clan began operating surveillance tools, while Xu Cheng’s preparations for the region continued.

• Xu Cheng promised the Ice Silkworm Clan Chief that Far North soul beasts would no longer be allowed to eat the clan and offered the Ice Silkworm Clan official status in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Cheng demonstrated a surveillance soul tool and explained that only spiritual-type soul beasts could operate it, prompting the Ice Silkworm Clan Chief to pledge undying loyalty to Sun Moon.
• Xu Cheng and Xiao Bai explained to the Titan Snow Demon King that the Far North’s soul beasts would provide mineral and metal resources in exchange for protection.
• Qing Zhi arrived with the expeditionary soul engineer forces, and Xu Cheng assigned them to the southern Far North while explaining the Ice Silkworm Clan’s spiritual strength.
• Qing Zhi reported that the troops had brought everyday soul tools and supplies, and Xu Cheng wondered whether the soul beasts would watch movies.

Xu Cheng and the Snow Empress reached the Sea Princess Clan’s territory and found Shrek Academy hunting its soul beasts. As the clan fell into danger, Xu Cheng chose to wait and study its spiritual power before intervening.

• The Snow Empress revealed that her consciousness had recovered and explained to the Ice Empress why she wanted the Far North to shift its loyalty to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Cheng spotted the Sea Princess Clan’s territory and considered how its spiritual power might help him investigate spatial power.
• Xuan Zi led Shrek Academy’s elders and students in capturing sea soul beasts, until the Sea Princess emerged and demanded that the humans leave.
• Xuan Zi attacked the Sea Princess while the Shrek forces overwhelmed her clan, and Elder Song argued with him over capturing the soul beasts.
• Xu Cheng watched from above and refused to intervene yet, wanting to study the Sea Princess Clan’s spiritual power as the battle turned against them.

Three years after promising a continent-wide war, Xu Cheng toured the Sun Moon Empire’s first interstellar warship, Sky Dome, and reviewed how its leaders and allies had advanced. At a command meeting, Jing Hongchen announced his retirement and recommended Xiao Hongchen as his successor.

• Xu Cheng secured the Sea Princess Clan’s cooperation, including permission to gather seabed scrap metal, and departed after discussing ocean-resource development.
• Three years later, Xu Cheng rode a space elevator to Sky Dome, the first Star Radiance Class interstellar warship, and inspected its systems and escort ships.
• Meng Hongchen welcomed Xu Cheng aboard and told him that Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao had returned from the Destruction Temple for further training.
• Xu Cheng entered a command meeting where Jing Hongchen announced that he planned to retire to the academy and asked Xu Cheng to appoint Xiao Hongchen as his replacement.

Xu Cheng visited the Netherworld Realm as the Abyss Plane's arrival neared, while Tang San discovered the Sun Moon Empire's rapid technological rise and tried to attack it. The God of Destruction stopped him, leaving Tang San furious and outvoted by the Divine Realm Committee.

• Xu Cheng and Xiao Hongchen discussed the coming Abyss Plane invasion, the Sun Moon Empire's growth, and the upcoming Continental Soul Master Competition.
• Xu Cheng entered the Netherworld Realm and told Electrolux that the Abyss Plane would arrive soon.
• Tang San saw the Sun Moon Empire testing interstellar warships and realized Shrek Academy and the Clear Sky Sect had declined while the empire's power and influence had grown.
• Tang San prepared to unleash Divine Punishment against the Sun Moon Empire, but the God of Destruction appeared and suppressed his attack.
• The God of Destruction told Tang San that the Divine Realm Committee had approved noninterference in mortal progress unless the Sun Moon Empire developed a God-Slaying Weapon, then explained that he supported Xu Cheng's plan to address the future spatial storm.

Xiao Hongchen commanded the Sun Moon Empire's fleet in its first space battle, defeating the Abyss Plane's advance force and discovering that its creatures could jump through space and evolve by devouring. The Abyssal Sage King studied the battle, recognized the fleet as a threat, and ordered the Abyss Plane to accelerate its advance, which was expected to reach Douluo Star in one year.

• A vortex opened beyond Douluo Star, and thousands of Abyssal Creatures poured into space as Xiao Hongchen ordered the fleet to battle stations.
• Xiao Hongchen took command of the escort ships, organized them into a diamond formation, and ordered the fleet to attack the Abyssal Creatures.
• Xiao Hongchen deployed Red Dust Shadow and killed the three gorgons, but they regenerated, while one gorgon began evolving by devouring its allies.
• Xiao Hongchen used the fleet's barrier and Red Dust Annihilation to destroy most of the Abyssal force, and a gorgon's self-destruction damaged the barrier without breaking it.
• The Abyssal Sage King examined the advance force's final images, recognized the Sun Moon Empire's technology as a potential threat, and ordered the Abyss Plane to accelerate its approach and prepare its forces.

Xu Cheng prepared for the coming conflict with Tang San while overseeing the Sun Moon Empire’s growing space force and political influence. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Wang Dong'er completed a daring Spirit Forging that fused her Martial Souls into a Light Goddess Butterfly Signal Axe.

• Xu Cheng examined captured Abyssal Creatures with short-range spatial-jump abilities and told Xiao Hongchen to keep developing the Sun Moon Empire’s space force.
• Xu Cheng considered Tang San’s investigation, the Divine Realm’s shifting alliances, Shrek Academy’s decline, and the Sun Moon Empire’s growing power before appointing Old Ma as captain of the main ship until Lexuan took over.
• Wang Dong'er used nine-stage Spirit Forging to reshape her Martial Soul, while Xu Cheng and the Ferocious Beasts watched.
• Wang Dong'er successfully forged the Light Goddess Butterfly and Clear Sky Hammer together into a crimson battle-axe, which she named Light Goddess Butterfly · Signal Axe.
• Wang Dong'er told Xu Cheng she had made the axe because he had once suggested it, and Xu Cheng wiped her face before telling her to use the towel herself.

Zhongli Wu and Ye Xishui agreed to lure Xu Cheng into the Holy Spirit Cult and capture him, blaming him for the cult’s losses and the souls’ passage into reincarnation. Xu Cheng learned of their plot and prepared to have Wang Dong'er repair the Rakshasa Demon Scythe, while she claimed the Rakshasa God Sense as her temporary companion.

• Zhongli Wu lamented the laws and military raids that had crippled the Holy Spirit Cult, and Nangong Wan reported that their black-market channels had dried up.
• Zhongli Wu proposed inviting Xu Cheng to discuss the succession and then trapping him, and Ye Xishui supported the plan after revealing her resentment toward him.
• Ye Xishui told the elders that she had glimpsed Xu Cheng beside a mysterious figure while her soul was departing, and the Holy Spirit Cult elders rallied behind the plot.
• Fire Phoenix Corps soldiers delivered Xu Cheng a message about the Holy Spirit Cult’s scheme, which he said he had already uncovered.
• Xu Cheng asked Wang Dong'er to repair the Rakshasa Demon Scythe, and she asked to keep the Rakshasa God Sense with her temporarily.

Shrek Academy’s leaders struggled with dwindling enrollment, a depleted treasury, and the Sun Moon Empire’s growing strength as they prepared for a tournament six months away. Mu Jin saw the Martial Soul Department’s decline deepen, while the soul beasts’ blockade pushed Shrek toward relying on the Sun Moon Empire’s Artificial Soul Rings.

• Xian Lin'er unveiled the Level 9 melee soul tool Heavenbreaker as Bei Bei reported that most of the Heaven Dou Empire’s top young talents had chosen the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Elder Song reported that Di Tian’s soul beasts had tightened their patrols, and Xuan Zi received a message of support from the Clear Sky Sect.
• Bei Bei proposed restarting the ultimate individual soldier plan, but Xian Lin'er, Cai Mei'er, and Xuan Zi refused and told him to focus on reaching Limit Douluo strength.
• Mu Jin taught a nearly empty class while struggling with delayed salary payments and watched the Martial Soul Department’s teachers resent the Soul Tool Department’s lavish resources.
• Mu Jin overheard Cai Mei'er fail to secure funding from Xuan Zi and saw rare metals being delivered for the Soul Tool Department as the soul-beast blockade left Shrek increasingly dependent on Artificial Soul Rings.

Xu Cheng attended the Holy Spirit Cult’s banquet and let its leaders reveal their plan to force him to restore their privileges, only to expose that the gathering had been trapped in his illusion. As Ye Xishui attacked him, Xu Cheng drained the Death God Tower’s power, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Xu Cheng descended into the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters with Nangong Wan and entered a council hall filled with its leaders, who expected to seize control of him.
• Zhongli Wu presented Xu Cheng with a proclamation restoring the Holy Spirit Cult’s freedom to commit crimes and demanding that he make it the Sun Moon Empire’s State Religion.
• Xu Cheng refused, and Ye Xishui accused him of weakening the cult by making the Law of Death continue the cycle of reincarnation, then demanded he surrender his authority over death.
• Ye Xishui ordered the cult members to bow to their Holy Lord, but the statue revealed Xu Cheng’s face as the hall transformed into an illusion of the Imperial Palace surrounded by Sun Moon Empire forces.
• Zhongli Wu realized Xu Cheng’s illusion had ensnared the entire gathering, including two Limit Douluos, while Xu Cheng revealed he was not a Soul Saint.
• Ye Xishui launched an attack with the Death God Tower, but its power vanished before it could strike Xu Cheng.

Xu Cheng used the Netherworld Realm’s authority and the Sun Moon Empire’s forces to defeat the Holy Spirit Cult, then ordered its surviving members executed and announced its reorganization as the Holy Church. As he turned toward a coming conflict with Shrek, Ye Guyi attempted to reforge the angel godhood through faith and her own blood.

• Xu Cheng revealed his Death God's authority, suppressed the Holy Spirit Cult leaders, and trapped Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui in the palace with the Fire Phoenix Corps Legion.
• Xu Cheng’s Netherworld Realm Judgment struck Long Xiaoyao, and visions of the cult’s crimes shattered his resolve and ended his resistance.
• Nana and Cain fought the cult leaders while the Fire Phoenix Corps Legion overwhelmed them; Xu Cheng ordered proven criminals killed and renamed the Holy Spirit Cult the Holy Church.
• Xu Cheng told Nana to prepare for the Continental Elite Tournament and said he would settle things with Shrek.
• Ye Guyi gathered faith at an ancient altar and tried to reforge the angel godhood by driving Qian Renxue’s divine seat fragment into her heart, while Xu Cheng watched.

Ye Guyi completed her transformation into the Angel God, took Xu Cheng to the Angel Ancestral Grounds, and revealed an Angel Legion she had prepared for him. Later, Ji Juechen and Ma Xiaotao fought to a draw in the Sun Moon Empire's royal Dueling Arena.

• Ye Guyi mastered her divine power, saw the continent's faith flowing to her, and addressed Xu Cheng as her Master.
• Ye Guyi led Xu Cheng into the Angel Ancestral Grounds, bound him with Faith Shackles, and said her Divine Examination had been to resist him before drawing him into her secret chamber.
• Ye Guyi gave Xu Cheng divine blood, awakening his power to command her faith-nurtured battle angels, and Gu Yuena entered the chamber and found them together.
• Ji Juechen and Ma Xiaotao faced off in the royal Dueling Arena, where their Titled Douluo battle drew a huge crowd.
• Ji Juechen used his annihilation sword techniques against Ma Xiaotao's phoenix flames, and Ma Xiaotao conceded before the fight could cause further damage; they declared the match a draw.

Xu Cheng’s companions discussed the Sun Moon Empire’s future and celebrated the Paper Boat Festival before Zhang Lexuan asked to destroy Shrek Academy herself. Three months later, Shrek’s team arrived in Mingdu for the tournament and was overwhelmed by the Sun Moon Empire’s prosperity, while Bei Bei remained determined to win.

• Ye Guyi assured Xu Cheng’s women that she would not compete with them for him, and Zhang Lexuan and Ju Zi discussed the empire’s ambitions and the future of soul tools.
• Xu Cheng and his companions watched paper boats drift along a river in Mingdu, and he made three wishes: to solve spatial technology problems, deal with Tang San, and survive.
• Zhang Lexuan spent the night with Xu Cheng in a captain’s uniform, then asked when he would unify the continent and said she wanted to destroy Shrek Academy herself.
• Xu Cheng agreed that Zhang Lexuan could take part in Shrek’s destruction and explained that he planned to settle matters with Shrek and the Clear Sky Sect after the tournament.
• Three months later, Bei Bei’s Shrek team arrived in Mingdu by Starlink Railway and was astonished by the city’s advanced technology and prosperity.
• Bei Bei urged the team to find a hotel and prepare for the tournament, while Xuan Zi and Xian Lin'er discussed the team’s resolve and strength.