Recaps

Chen Ping suspected the Holy Spirit Cult had provoked the unrest in Star Dou Forest and ordered preparations for a possible beast tide. In the forest, Di Tian and the other powerful soul beasts discovered that more than five hundred hundred-thousand-year soul beasts had been hunted in half a month, and Bi Ji questioned why humans would do this during their war.

• A senior student told Chen Ping that soul beasts in Star Dou Forest had grown restless and were attacking human soul masters together.
• Chen Ping suspected the Holy Spirit Cult was behind the unrest and ordered a warning sent to City Lord Shi Xing to prepare for a possible beast tide.
• Chen Ping hurried to convene a Sea God Pavilion Meeting.
• Di Tian tore open a fissure in the sky above Star Dou Forest, but nothing appeared before it closed.
• Di Tian told Bi Ji that another hundred-thousand-year soul beast had died, and a cyan horse-faced man reported that more than five hundred had been hunted in half a month.
• Bi Ji asked whether the killings were suspicious, since the human war was already intensifying.

Chen Ping recognized that the Holy Spirit Cult had engineered the Star Dou Forest massacre to provoke Di Tian into launching a beast tide against Shrek. As a blood-red storm gathered over the forest, Chen Ping refused to let Di Tian dictate humanity’s course and prepared to fight, while Xuan Zi revealed that he and Du Busi had made progress on Chen Ping’s plan.

• Xiong Jun demanded bloody retaliation for the deaths of Star Dou Forest’s Soul Beasts, while Bi Ji questioned the suspicious attack and Di Tian allowed the Ferocious Beasts’ anger to rise.
• Chen Ping concluded that the Holy Spirit Cult had provoked the conflict and accepted that Shrek would have to face the beast tide rather than smooth things over as a misunderstanding.
• A blood-red sky and torrential rain appeared over Star Dou Great Forest, and Xuan Zi and Shi Xing recognized that the beast tide was likely unavoidable.
• Chen Ping declared that Shrek would fight the Soul Beasts if Di Tian intervened in humanity’s war, and explained that he needed to make Di Tian withdraw through the cost of the conflict.
• Chen Ping asked Xuan Zi about the item he had assigned him and Du Busi to study, and Xuan Zi said their research had made progress.

Shrek Academy had transformed Shrek City’s four walls into hidden War Fortresses by embedding them with vast quantities of rare metals. The chapter explained that enormous mines in Star Dou Forest supplied more metal than the academy could use or sell, so the Elders chose to reinforce the city rather than keep expanding their warehouses.

• Shrek City’s walls had been rebuilt with soul tools and detection systems concealed beneath their ordinary exterior.
• Chen Ping’s map of super mining areas in Star Dou Forest had provided Shrek Academy with an overwhelming supply of rare metals.
• Shrek’s Soul Tool Department had struggled to use or sell the surplus without disrupting the market or exposing the mines.
• Shrek’s Elders had decided to hollow out the city walls and pack them with rare metals, turning them into four War Fortresses.

Shrek Academy prepared Shrek City for the approaching Star Dou Forest beast tide as Di Tian’s darkness spread across the sky. The soul beasts reached the city’s southern walls, and Xuan Zi and the Sea God Pavilion Elders arrived to face them.

• The Elders approved reinforcing Shrek City's walls with rare metals, and the depot inside the South City Wall became a Staff Headquarters.
• Elder Song, Xuan Zi, and Du Busi monitored the beast tide through High-Altitude Detectors as the sky over Star Dou Forest darkened unnaturally.
• Shrek City's City Defense Army deployed defensive soul tools and locked down the city, preparing its three thousand soul masters and seven thousand ordinary members for battle.
• The soul beast army advanced toward the southern walls in formation, and Shi Xing felt excited to test Shrek City's defenses against it.
• Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, and the other Sea God Pavilion Elders descended onto the southern walls as the vanguard approached within ten kilometers.

Xuan Zi confronted Di Tian above Shrek City as Star Dou Forest’s beast tide threatened the academy. Di Tian blamed humans for the deaths of more than five hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, while Xuan Zi accused evil soul masters from the Sun Moon Empire and denied that Shrek had broken the treaty.

• Xuan Zi assessed the enormous beast tide and feared the Sun Moon Empire would exploit Shrek’s forces being trapped in the city.
• Xuan Zi left Elder Song in command and rose into the sky, using his roar to halt the soul beast army briefly.
• Xuan Zi and Di Tian clashed their auras above the city without letting their power reach the forces below.
• Di Tian accused humans of breaking the treaty by hunting more than five hundred-thousand-year soul beasts in Star Dou Forest.
• Xuan Zi blamed the killings on evil soul masters from the Sun Moon Empire and argued that their actions did not mean Shrek had broken faith.

Di Tian demanded that Shrek answer for the deaths of the Star Dou Forest’s hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, then attacked when Xuan Zi could not provide evidence. The beasts charged Shrek City as Di Tian overwhelmed Xuan Zi, who prepared to try a powerful new move.

• Di Tian challenged Xuan Zi’s accusations, pointing out that Shrek had no proof that evil soul masters killed the soul beasts.
• Xuan Zi provoked Di Tian by noting that he had also failed to catch the culprits, and Di Tian decided Shrek would pay for the deaths.
• Di Tian ordered the soul beasts outside Shrek City to attack, while he and Xuan Zi began fighting in the sky.
• Di Tian’s first strike staggered Xuan Zi, then his dark clouds swallowed Xuan Zi’s yellow clouds and left him at a severe disadvantage.
• Xuan Zi revealed that he had learned a stronger move over the past two months and released his soul power without activating his Martial Soul Avatar.

Xuan Zi used Energy Armorization to form Taotie Armor and faced Di Tian in a fierce exchange. Though Di Tian wounded him, Xuan Zi broke scales from Di Tian’s arm, proving he could injure the world’s strongest fighter, while recognizing that his incomplete cultivation still left him at a disadvantage.

• Xuan Zi condensed his soul power into Taotie Armor, using the Energy Armorization technique he had received through Chen Ping.
• Di Tian attacked with a space-rending dragon claw, and Xuan Zi met it with a concentrated punch.
• The collision cracked Xuan Zi’s armor and injured his arm, but Xuan Zi’s punch broke more than a dozen scales from Di Tian’s arm and drew blood.
• Di Tian was stunned to discover that a Level 98 Soul Master had injured him.
• Xuan Zi realized Energy Armorization had protected him from Di Tian’s Ultimate Darkness and that he would need to break through Level 99 to challenge Di Tian fully.

Di Tian questioned whether Soul Beasts had kept pace with human innovation and renewed his assault on Xuan Zi, while Chen Ping worried that Xuan Zi could not hold out alone. As Shi Xing organized Shrek City’s defenses against the approaching Beast Tide, the defenders prepared to hold the southern wall at all costs.

• Di Tian reflected that the Star Dou Forest had made no meaningful technological advances and decided a Beast Tide could slow human progress before charging Xuan Zi again.
• Chen Ping doubted Xuan Zi could withstand Di Tian until Huo Yuhao returned, and wished he could equip Xuan Zi with Heavenly Forging Battle Armor.
• Shi Xing rallied the distracted defenders and ordered the Soul Tool emplacements and Soul Masters to prepare for battle.
• Shrek City’s defenders and Shrek Academy’s Inner Court students took positions along the heavily fortified southern wall as the Soul Beasts prepared to attack head-on.

As the beast tide approached Shrek City, Shi Xing waited until it reached five hundred meters before activating the city's ground traps. The traps killed thousands and wounded tens of thousands of soul beasts, and Shi Xing ordered the next wave of traps as poison gas spread beneath the horde.

• Shi Xing held fire while the beast tide advanced to within five hundred meters of Shrek City.
• Shi Xing activated the Slowdown Traps, Hovering Mines, Ground Spike Traps, and Laser Traps, which disrupted and slaughtered the charging soul beasts.
• Hovering Mines exploded among the wounded beasts, bringing casualties close to ten thousand and wounding about fifty thousand.
• Shi Xing ordered the Acute Poison Traps, electromagnetic traps, frost traps, and Flame Explosion Traps to activate.
• Dense, low-lying poison gas spread through the beast tide without reaching the guards atop Shrek City's walls.

Chen Ping’s poison and soul-tool traps devastated the Star Dou Forest beast tide before it could reach Shrek City. Bi Ji ordered a withdrawal, but the beasts were trapped in the ten-kilometer killing zone and faced a rout.

• Chen Ping’s Jade Phosphorus Seven-Absolute Flower poison powder spread through the beast tide, killing many ten-year soul beasts and weakening the hundred-year beasts.
• Bi Ji condemned the humans’ tactics as the poison mist disrupted the advance, while Chen Ping defended Shrek City’s use of any means necessary against an invasion.
• Electromagnetic traps discharged through the beast tide, followed by Frost Traps and Flame Explosion Traps detonating across the ten-kilometer position.
• The rear beasts realized they had entered an ambush but could not retreat safely or destroy the traps without harming their own forces.
• Bi Ji ordered the beast tide to withdraw as Xiong Jun and the Myriad Demon King watched the soul-tool traps inflict devastating losses.

Shrek's defenders repelled the beast tide's first wave with hidden Trap Soul Tools, then used Soul Tool Cannon Howitzers to devastate the Soul Beasts clearing mines. Bi Ji recognized that Shrek had anticipated their tactics as the bombardment continued.

• The Trap Soul Tools beneath Shrek City's southern approach killed nearly seventy thousand Soul Beasts while leaving the city guard with only one minor injury.
• Shi Xing and Chen Ping understood that the Soul Beasts would clear the traps and return, but Shrek lacked enough Soul Tools to prepare all four directions.
• Soul Beasts began clearing the mines ten kilometers beyond Shrek City, and the Soul Tool Cannon Howitzers fired High-Explosive Shells at them from beyond their reach.
• Shi Xing rallied the city defense troops and ordered a second volley, which sent more shells into the Soul Beast packs.
• Bi Ji watched the bombardment devastate the mine-clearing Soul Beasts and realized Shrek had anticipated their response.

Shrek City's new soul weapons inflicted heavy losses on the beast tide, but Bi Ji healed the wounded and declared that humanity's growing power threatened the soul beasts' survival. Elder Song urged her to withdraw, but Bi Ji defended Di Tian's decision to wage war.

• Shrek City's cannons and trap soul tools killed nearly ten thousand soul beasts, forcing the army to retreat more than twenty kilometers.
• Shi Xing ordered the City Guard to cool the cannon barrels with fire hoses.
• Bi Ji rose above the soul beast army and used her healing power to restore wounded beasts, drawing strength from their soul rings.
• Elder Song confronted Bi Ji and urged her to end the attack before the beast tide suffered devastating losses.
• Bi Ji said humanity's weapons threatened the soul beasts with extinction and insisted that Di Tian had been right to launch the war.

Xuan Zi was on the verge of being killed by Di Tian when the Sea God's Mark let him draw on the power of Shrek's former Pavilion Masters, restoring his strength and raising him to the level of a Limit Douluo. He faced Di Tian again, now empowered to fight back.

• Elder Song returned to Shrek City's battlements after her plea to Bi Ji failed to stop the conflict.
• Di Tian shattered Xuan Zi's Taotie Armor and pursued him as he fell, intending to kill him.
• Xuan Zi activated the Sea God's Mark, and a golden spear flew from Shrek City to knock Di Tian back.
• The power of the Pavilion Masters who had Returned to the Tree flowed into Xuan Zi, healing his injuries and restoring his armor.
• Xuan Zi reached the pinnacle of rank 99, transformed the golden spear into a giant chicken drumstick, and challenged Di Tian to fight.

Xuan Zi used the Golden Tree’s stored power to defeat and seal Di Tian inside the Taotie Domain, leaving Shrek City’s defenses without the tree’s golden protection. After a four-hour pause, the Soul Beasts launched a second offensive at night, spreading their attack across Shrek City’s walls.

• Di Tian recognized that Xuan Zi had only temporarily borrowed the Sea God Pavilion Masters’ power, then attacked him with Myriad Dragon Flame.
• Xuan Zi’s Taotie phantom swallowed the Dragon Flame and bit Di Tian’s tail, drawing him whole into the Taotie Domain.
• The Golden Tree’s stored power was exhausted, and its golden radiance protecting Shrek City disappeared while Di Tian remained sealed.
• The Soul Beasts abandoned their immediate assault and rested for over four hours as the sky grew dim.
• The Ferocious Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest chose a night attack on multiple sides of Shrek City, while the city’s soldiers relied on Soul Tool Mining Lamps to see through the blocked moonlight.

Zi JI transformed into the Hell Demon Dragon King and used corrosive yin water to destroy the soul tool traps beneath Shrek City's South City Wall. As the beast tide surrounded the city, Shrek's defenders used High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools to target the attacking soul beasts with precise artillery fire.

• Shi Xing spotted a purple-black-armored woman charging toward the South City Wall and ordered the defenders to open fire.
• Yan Shaozhe attacked the woman with Bright Phoenix Light Beams, but she dodged and transformed into the Hell Demon Dragon King, Zi JI.
• Zi JI sent yin water surging into Shrek's defenses, destroying the buried soul tool traps and clearing the Fourth Route for the beast tide.
• The soul beast armies converged beneath the South City Wall, completing their encirclement of Shrek City.
• Shrek's cannon howitzers precisely bombarded the densest groups of soul beasts, and the ferocious beasts realized the defenders were tracking them with High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools.

Shrek's defenders and the Star Dou Forest Soul Beasts clashed as artillery and Elder Song's attacks devastated the Beast Tide. When Zi JI sent Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts after Ning Tian, Chen Ping used a conch to send them crashing down, while Elder Song wounded Bi Ji again.

• Yan Shaozhe and the Hell Demon Dragon King began fighting as Shrek's forces and the Soul Beasts joined battle.
• Shi Xing ordered three volleys of High-Explosive Shells into the Soul Beast army, and Bi Ji used area healing while Elder Song harassed her.
• Ning Tian stayed on the battlements and enhanced Shrek's Titled Douluos, including Yan Shaozhe.
• Zi JI ordered Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts to attack Ning Tian, but Chen Ping's pale-gold conch sent them plummeting into the Beast Tide.
• Elder Song struck Bi Ji again while Bi Ji's attention was drawn to the falling Soul Beasts.

The Star Dou Forest sent a thousand-strong aerial force carrying other soul beasts to bombard Shrek City as part of a coordinated land, water, and air assault. Bi Ji grew uneasy at the pale-gold conch in Chen Ping's hand, while the flying attackers approached Shrek's heavily armed defenders.

• Bi Ji sensed that Chen Ping's pale-gold conch could force even hundred-thousand-year soul beasts out of the sky.
• The Star Dou Forest launched flying soul beasts above its ground army, with each flyer carrying two soul beasts that hurled attacks at Shrek City from the air.
• The Myriad Demon King had devised the aerial bombing formation to counter Shrek's flying soul tools by letting carried soul beasts handle attacks while flyers dodged.
• The aerial force neared Shrek's battlements, but the City Guard showed no fear, giving the flying soul beasts an ominous feeling.

Shrek's City Guard used Air-Prohibiting Conches to knock the flying Soul Beasts from the sky, then bombarded their landing sites and forced the beast tide to retreat again. Dawn found Shrek's defenders exhausted, with heavy casualties and dwindling weapons and ammunition, while the Titled Douluos still conserved their strength for the battle ahead.

• The Soul Engineers of Shrek City's City Guard blew Air-Prohibiting Conches, sending the flying Soul Beasts crashing to the ground.
• Shrek's City Guard shelled the fallen beasts, killing many and causing the beast tide's invasion plan to fail again.
• Star Dou Forest's beast tide retreated after losing at least forty thousand Soul Beasts.
• The battle left more than two hundred soldiers wounded or dead and damaged or destroyed many Soul Tool Cannon Howitzers.
• Shrek's defenders ran low on ammunition and were exhausted, while the Titled Douluos took turns resting and held back their full strength.

Shrek City endured a costly siege as Shi Xing assessed its dwindling supplies and the Soul Beasts weighed the city’s defenses against their own mounting losses. The Ferocious Beasts concluded that they needed new tactics, though Xiong Jun doubted they could devise the underhanded schemes needed to break through.

• Shi Xing inspected Shrek City’s defenses and worried that exhausted soldiers and limited resources might not withstand several more attacks.
• Shrek estimated that it needed to inflict at least three hundred thousand Soul Beast casualties to force the beast tide to retreat, while the Emerald Swan’s healing kept the attackers fighting.
• The Ferocious Beasts questioned whether they could breach Shrek City without Di Tian after its traps, Air-Prohibiting Conch, and other defenses thwarted their assaults.
• The Myriad Demon King called for new tactics, while Xiong Jun complained that Soul Beasts could not easily devise the devious schemes humans used.

Shrek gathered valuable Soul Rings and Soul Bones from the earlier fighting as the Soul Beasts launched another assault. Bi Ji sent the Emerald Swans to heal the advancing beasts, which reached Shrek’s walls, but the city’s thick rare-metal plating foiled their plan to blast open weak points.

• Xuan Ziwen led students in all-terrain vehicles to collect ownerless Soul Rings from the Soul Beasts killed in the previous assault.
• Shrek's defenders found two Thousand-Year Soul Bones and two Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones beneath the South City Wall.
• The Soul Beasts launched another attack, and Bi Ji ordered the Emerald Swans to heal the wounded as they crossed Shrek's bombardment zone.
• The Soul Beasts reached the battlements and unleashed long-range attacks while Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts shielded their vanguard.
• The Soul Beasts' attacks shattered the outer bricks and exposed half-meter-thick rare-metal plates built into Shrek City's walls, thwarting their plan to break through.

The Soul Beast army committed its powerful fighters to a coordinated assault on Shrek City, while Shrek’s defenders countered the Myriad Demon King’s living siege ladders with incendiary bombs. The attack on the western and northern walls faltered in flames, but Shi Xing remained wary because Zi JI had not appeared.

• The four Ferocious Beasts launched an all-out attack with powerful Soul Beasts following them toward Shrek City’s walls.
• Xiong Jun charged the eastern wall, where Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo went to meet him.
• The Myriad Demon King transformed into a Demon-Eyed Tree, deflected Soul Cannon Shells, and drove enormous vines into Shrek’s western and northern walls for the Soul Beasts to climb.
• Shi Xing ordered soldiers to throw High-Temperature Incendiary Bombs, setting the vines and the Soul Beasts beneath them ablaze.
• Shi Xing worried that the Hell Demon Dragon King, Zi JI, had still not appeared.

The Hell Demon Dragon King, Zi JI, unleashed Yin Water rain that extinguished Shrek’s incendiary bombs and worsened the beast tide’s assault on Shrek City. As the city’s defenses began to buckle, an army of undead attacked the rear of the beast tide.

• Zi JI summoned a freezing torrential downpour that extinguished the incendiary bombs and weakened Shrek’s auxiliary soldiers.
• The Soul Beasts used the Myriad Demon King’s vines to climb the western and northern walls while Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo struggled against Xiong Jun at the eastern wall.
• Bi Ji’s healing helped Soul Beasts recover from the bombardment at the southern wall, increasing the pressure on Shrek’s defenders.
• The Myriad Demon King noticed commotion at the rear of the beast tide and saw an undead army armed with Soul Tools attacking the Soul Beasts.

Chen Ping unleashed a vast, soul-tool-equipped Undead Army into the beast tide, where the undead slaughtered soul beasts and turned the fallen into new fighters. Bi Ji realized the losses could doom Star Dou Great Forest even if the soul beasts won, while the battle continued to spread fear through their ranks.

• The Myriad Demon King was horrified to find tens of thousands of undead equipped with soul tools and sealed milk bottles attacking the beast tide.
• Chen Ping directed the Undead Army between the west and north, where its troops swept through the weaker soul beasts and rose again after being destroyed as long as their soulfire remained.
• Chen Ping watched the Gates of the Undead pour out reinforcements and reflected that immature technology and limited preparation had kept his legion from reaching its full potential.
• Bi Ji saw the undead assault from the air, learned where the army had come from, and ordered her clan members to heal as many injured soul beasts as possible.
• As slain soul beasts rose to join the Undead Legion, fear spread through the beast tide, and Bi Ji recognized that further fighting could bring about the destruction of Star Dou Great Forest.

The Soul Beast army and undead forces withdrew from their battle near Shrek City as Di Tian broke free of Xuan Zi’s seal and prepared to attack again. Du Busi and the Body Sect’s reinforcements arrived through Huo Yuhao’s Super Teleportation, confronting Di Tian in defense of the city.

• The Liches’ undead reinforcements weakened the Soul Beast armies, prompting the Emerald Swan to order a temporary retreat and encirclement of the undead.
• The undead withdrew through their Spatial Portals, while the Ferocious Beasts held back from pursuing them because they sensed a deadly aura beyond the portals.
• Di Tian broke free of Xuan Zi’s seal, and Xuan Zi returned to human form badly injured after containing him.
• The Soul Beast army assembled for another assault as Di Tian’s pressure descended on Shrek City.
• Du Busi arrived with the Body Sect’s reinforcements, having been transported there by Huo Yuhao’s Super Teleportation, and challenged Di Tian.

Du Busi used One Hand Supporting the Sky to block Di Tian’s Black Dragon Annihilation from reaching Shrek City, revealing that he had mastered the Body Aspect. Watching the clash, Chen Ping considered the technique’s secrets and wondered how he could obtain Ring Detonation.

• Di Tian unleashed Black Dragon Annihilation, and the Soul Beast army withdrew from Shrek City.
• Du Busi transformed into a giant and raised One Hand Supporting the Sky to shield the city from Di Tian’s attack.
• Du Busi’s giant hand began to corrode, but armor formed over it and held off the attack before it could reach Shrek City.
• Du Busi laughed and announced that he had mastered the Body Aspect.
• Chen Ping watched the battle and considered Energy Armorization, the Demon Whale King’s techniques, and how he might obtain Ring Detonation.