Chapter Summaries

Chen Ping pushed his eighth soul ring beyond 600,000 years until it turned pale gold, while Ye Xishui arrived at Shrek City with the Holy Spirit Cult and demanded that Chen Ping be handed over. Xuan Zi confronted her, and her anger at his taunts erupted into an attack.

• Chen Ping continued absorbing his artificial eighth soul ring as it surpassed 600,000 years and turned pale gold.
• Ye Xishui’s demonic voice swept across Shrek City, prompting Xuan Zi to activate the city’s defenses and confront her.
• Ye Xishui announced that she had come to kill Chen Ping, citing both his injury to her and her hatred of Mu En.
• Xuan Zi mocked Ye Xishui for avoiding Shrek while Mu En was there, enraging her.
• Ye Xishui summoned a blood-colored, twelve-winged figure and slashed at Xuan Zi.

The Holy Spirit Cult attacked Shrek City, but Ning Tian and Wu Feng bolstered the defenders with their Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda. Long Xiaoyao overcame his hesitation and joined the assault, prompting Du Busi to confront and rebuke him as the battle continued.

• Ning Tian and Wu Feng took positions on Shrek City's wall, and Xuan Zi blocked Ye Xishui's attack as the Holy Spirit Cult and Shrek forces clashed.
• Yan Shaozhe discovered that Zhang Peng had reached level 97, and the two secretly held back while the other fighters battled in earnest.
• Long Xiaoyao hesitated to attack Shrek City but charged after Ye Xishui softly urged him to act.
• Du Busi stopped Long Xiaoyao and condemned him for betraying Mu En by helping Ye Xishui capture Chen Ping.
• Long Xiaoyao transformed into a black dragon and struck at Du Busi, who withstood the blow with Ning Junping's enhancement.
• Ye Xishui challenged the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect for supporting Shrek.

Ning Junping rejected Ye Xishui’s threats and affirmed that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect would stand with Shrek City against the Holy Spirit Cult and the Sun Moon Empire. Ye Xishui focused on killing the badly wounded Xuan Zi, leaving him struggling to survive her accelerating attacks.

• Ning Junping argued that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect would face annihilation if it abandoned Shrek City to the Holy Spirit Cult and the Sun Moon Empire.
• Ye Xishui decided to break the stalemate by defeating Xuan Zi, whose fall would leave Shrek City without strength to resist a Limit Douluo.
• Xuan Zi fought Ye Xishui with Ning Tian’s enhancement, but her relentless attacks cracked his armor and broke his left arm.
• Ye Xishui taunted Xuan Zi about Mu En and vowed to kill him before hunting down Chen Ping.
• Ye Xishui outpaced Xuan Zi and slashed his abdomen, pressing her attack so he could not repair his Energy Armorization.

Matriarch Ye of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect revealed her Nine Heart Begonia and healed Xuan Zi, turning the battle for Shrek into a war of attrition. After a day and night of fighting, the Holy Spirit Cult had lost four Evil Soul Titled Douluos while Shrek’s forces remained unscathed.

• Matriarch Ye healed Xuan Zi with a thousand-year Soul Skill, restoring his wounds and broken arm.
• Ye Xishui realized that Matriarch Ye’s healing could keep Xuan Zi and Du Busi fighting unless they were killed outright or exhausted their Soul Power.
• Zhongli Wu struggled against Shrek’s fighters as healing and support repeatedly erased the Holy Spirit Cult’s progress.
• After a day and night, four Evil Soul Titled Douluos had been killed, while Shrek’s forces remained uninjured.
• The Holy Spirit Cult’s failure to target support Soul Masters left its forces losing a battle of attrition, with at least three of the four dead Titled Douluos slain by supported surprise attacks.

The Sea God Family arrived at Shrek after waiting for the Holy Spirit Cult to weaken, and Sea Emperor Douluo Hai Wuliang offered to cooperate with Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao to capture and kill Chen Ping. Long Xiaoyao tried to disrupt the deal, but Ye Xishui accepted the Sea God Family’s offer, angered by Long Xiaoyao’s defiance.

• The Sea God Family revealed that it had stayed near Shrek, waiting for the Holy Spirit Cult and Shrek to weaken before moving against Chen Ping.
• Sea Emperor Douluo Hai Wuliang arrived with five other Soul Masters, including Sea Dragon Douluo Hai Bodong and the remaining Seven Sacred Pillars.
• Hai Wuliang and Hai Bodong pledged to capture Chen Ping, extract information from him, and kill him in exchange for the Holy Spirit Cult’s cooperation.
• Long Xiaoyao opposed the Sea God Family’s plan, while Ye Xishui agreed to cooperate and resented his attempt to undermine her.

Sea Emperor Douluo Hai Wuliang pressed toward Shrek City and demanded to know where Chen Ping was, while Shi Xing used his space-time powers to hold him back. The delay gave Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao time to complete their martial soul fusion, blending ultimate frost and phoenix evil fire into a new balance.

• Long Xiaoyao accepted Ye Xishui's point, and Sea Emperor Douluo Hai Wuliang advanced toward Shrek City as Long Xiaoyao held Xuan Zi and Du Busi back.
• Shi Xing blocked Hai Wuliang and evaded his first grab with Time Acceleration and Time Deceleration, then refused to reveal Chen Ping's whereabouts.
• Hai Wuliang revealed his nine soul rings and reached for Shi Xing, who used Reversing Time and Space, Reversing the Future to push the attack backward at the cost of nearly breaking his martial soul.
• Shi Xing held Hai Wuliang back for several seconds while Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao completed their martial soul fusion inside Shrek City.
• The Evil Fire Phoenix and Ice Jade Scorpion merged their dark-red flames and ice-blue frost into a balanced power that combined burning ice and soul-freezing flame.

Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao unleashed a god-level ice-and-fire fusion attack against Sea Emperor Douluo, forcing Hai Wuliang to invoke the Sea God Helmet and temporarily reach level-100 power. He counterattacked with the Deep Sea Emperor Halberds, sending a colossal wave into the fusion skill.

• Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao formed an ice-and-fire fusion attack that Ning Junping enhanced, while Ning Tian's Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda failed to affect it.
• The fusion skill reached god-level power and began burning and freezing Sea Emperor Douluo as it approached him.
• Hai Wuliang activated the Sea God Helmet, drawing on the distant sea and temporarily raising his combat strength to level 100.
• Hai Wuliang summoned the Deep Sea Emperor Halberds and used Heaven-Shaking-Wave Kill to send a massive wave crashing toward the fusion attack.

Chen Ping emerged from seclusion as Sea Dragon Douluo attacked Wu Feng and threatened to take him from Shrek Academy. Revealing his powerful eight-ring cultivation, Chen Ping prepared to face Hai Bodong, who launched a killing strike.

• Sea Dragon Douluo moved to seize Chen Ping while Shrek's strongest fighters were occupied, and Wu Feng rushed to stop him.
• Sea Dragon Douluo struck Wu Feng aside, but her Dark Gold Flame Dragon Claw pierced his palm and drew blood.
• Chen Ping arrived at Shrek's city wall, displayed an extraordinary eight-ring configuration, and warned that unauthorized visitors to Shrek City would be killed.
• Chen Ping used his Eighth Soul Skills, Coiling Knot and Ring Fusion, to unite his Martial Soul forms and concentrate his Soul Power into a single attack.
• Ning Tian enhanced Chen Ping as Hai Bodong transformed and lunged at him with his Seventh Soul Ring activated.

Chen Ping killed Sea Dragon Douluo Hai Bodong with a single overwhelming throw of the Three Fiends Knotting Staff, shocking both armies. As Hai Wuliang continued fighting, Mu En revealed that he was still alive and stepped in to take over.

• Chen Ping hurled the Three Fiends Knotting Staff at Sea Dragon Douluo Hai Bodong, destroying his body and soul in one strike.
• Zhongli Wu recognized Chen Ping's attack as a killing move capable of threatening a Limit Douluo.
• Hai Wuliang saw Hai Bodong's death, broke Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao's Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and continued fighting despite his severe wounds.
• Mu En's voice and radiant power spread from Shrek Academy as he told the younger fighters to leave the battle to him.
• Xuan Zi recognized Mu En, and the Holy Spirit Cult and Sea God Family realized that he was still alive.

Mu En revealed that he had reached the Quasi-God Realm by condensing a third soul core and turned the battle in Shrek’s favor. Sea Emperor Douluo escaped with help from the Sea God Helmet, while Mu En confronted Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui and condemned their past.

• Sea Emperor Douluo attacked Chen Ping, but Mu En appeared and effortlessly repelled his halberds with the power of his third soul core.
• Mu En sealed Sea Emperor Douluo in space, declared that Shrek would abolish the Sea God Pavilion, and began killing him to establish his authority.
• The Sea God Helmet released god-level power, shattered Mu En’s spatial seal, and let Sea Emperor Douluo flee toward the sea with the other Sea God Family members.
• Mu En acknowledged Chen Ping as the reason he had survived, then told Long Xiaoyao that he had lost hope in him and accused Ye Xishui of turning him into a puppet.
• Mu En told Ye Xishui that he regretted ever falling for her, while she trembled and screamed in response.

Mu En revealed that he had seen through Ye Xishui’s schemes and knowingly let her separate him and Long Xiaoyao. Ye Xishui blamed the plan on the dead Old Ghost Zhongli, leaving Mu En unable to prove whether her explanation was true.

• Ye Xishui accused Mu En of abandoning her, and Mu En explained that he had recognized her staged betrayal and attempted suicide.
• Mu En said he had believed Ye Xishui truly loved Long Xiaoyao and had let events unfold to give them a chance at happiness.
• Long Xiaoyao realized Ye Xishui had planned to control him and ensnare Mu En, while Ye Xishui claimed Old Ghost Zhongli had ordered her to divide them.
• Ye Xishui insisted she had acted to protect Mu En and Long Xiaoyao from the Holy Spirit Cult, but Mu En challenged her claim that Zhongli would have killed them.
• Ye Xishui demanded that Mu En kill her rather than keep questioning her, using Zhongli’s death to make her account difficult to disprove.

Chen Ping recognized that Ye Xishui’s story about Old Ghost Zhongli was impossible because Zhongli had been trapped in Qiankun Asking Love Valley at the time. Ye Xishui continued trying to win Long Xiaoyao’s sympathy, but Mu En exposed another contradiction, leaving her lies in tatters.

• Chen Ping compared Ye Xishui’s timeline with Old Ghost Zhongli’s imprisonment and realized her account could not be true.
• Ye Xishui claimed Zhongli had forced her to bear his son and that she had kept Long Xiaoyao at her side to protect his reputation.
• Long Xiaoyao took Ye Xishui’s hands as he believed her story, while Mu En sighed at his credulity.
• Mu En challenged Ye Xishui, explaining that Zhongli had already been trapped in Qiankun Asking Love Valley for over eighty years when she and Mu En were young.
• Ye Xishui was shaken as Mu En’s evidence dismantled her fabricated story.

Ye Xishui confessed that she had manipulated Long Xiaoyao and deceived both him and Mu En, leaving Long Xiaoyao devastated by the truth. When she attacked Chen Ping with the Death God Tower and fled, Long Xiaoyao sacrificed himself to block the redirected beam, allowing Ye Xishui to escape and leaving her for Chen Ping to face another time.

• Ye Xishui admitted that she had staged the events that bound Long Xiaoyao to her and had used him as a tool.
• Ye Xishui remotely fired the Death God Tower's Eternal Annihilation Light at Chen Ping, and Chen Ping redirected the beam through Spatial Portals toward her.
• Long Xiaoyao intercepted the beam and was erased, apologizing to Mu En as he died to give Ye Xishui a chance to escape.
• Ye Xishui and the Holy Spirit Cult's powerhouses fled, and Mu En told Chen Ping that Ye Xishui would be left for him to deal with.

Mu En explained that he could not leave Shrek City because his bond with the Golden Ancient Tree was keeping it from awakening and threatening the continent. Chen Ping learned that Ye Xishui escaped because Mu En could not risk the tree’s awakening and her Bright Phoenix Nirvana let her survive.

• Mu En pointed out Long Xiaoyao’s fallen Soul Bones and told Chen Ping that he could not leave Shrek City.
• Mu En explained that the Golden Ancient Tree was preparing to awaken after sensing his new third Soul Core, and that its awakening could bring catastrophe to the continent.
• Mu En revealed that he was keeping the tree dormant by making it believe he was preparing to return to it, while his Soul Power recovered faster than the tree could consume it.
• Mu En said that he could not pursue Ye Xishui without risking the Golden Ancient Tree’s awakening and showed Chen Ping the Bright Phoenix Feather that marked her use of Nirvana.
• Chen Ping understood that Long Xiaoyao’s sacrifice and Ye Xishui’s Bright Phoenix Nirvana had allowed her to escape.

Chen Ping reflected on the danger Ye Xishui and Hai Wuliang still posed and resolved to grow strong enough to stop them. With Mu En stationed at Shrek, Zhang Peng sought to defect to the Academy, while Mu En praised Chen Ping’s achievements and teased him about succeeding as Pavilion Master.

• Chen Ping worried that Ye Xishui and Hai Wuliang could still threaten the continent and resolved to become powerful enough to oppose them.
• Zhang Peng asked whether Chen Ping’s offer still stood, and Chen Ping welcomed his move to Shrek.
• Mu En thanked Shi Xing for holding off the Sea Emperor Douluo and sent him to finish clearing the battlefield before attending the meeting.
• Chen Ping joked that he would usurp Mu En’s position, and Mu En told him that becoming Pavilion Master after his death would be succession, not usurpation.
• Mu En reflected that Chen Ping’s fame would grow after word spread that he had slain the Level 98 Sea Dragon Douluo and the Level 99 Dragon Emperor Douluo.

After learning how Chen Ping’s achievements had transformed Shrek during his seclusion, Mu En struggled to believe the reports but recognized how every event had strengthened the Academy. The chapter ended with Hai Wuliang fleeing across the sea, bitterly vowing that the Sea God Family’s enemies would face divine wrath.

• Mu En heard reports from Chen Ping, Xuan Zi, and others about the war, the beast tide, and Shrek’s recent gains.
• Mu En traced how Chen Ping’s actions had connected and strengthened Shrek’s defenses, alliances, and fighters.
• Mu En accepted that the reports were true and realized Chen Ping’s influence and cultivation had surpassed anything he had expected.
• Mu En met Shrek’s younger generation, including Zhang Lexuan, and recognized their contributions to the fight against the evil soul masters.
• Hai Wuliang raced across the sea with the cracked Sea God Helmet and vowed that the Sea God Family’s enemies would face divine wrath.

After the Sea God Family’s defeat, Hai Wuliang vowed to report Shrek Academy’s strength to the Sea God and rely on his hidden arrangements. At Shrek, Chen Ping decided to enter the Divine Realm to obtain immortal spirit qi and unlock the Death God Tower’s full power.

• Hai Wuliang ordered the Sea God Family’s Consecrated Elders to prepare sacrificial materials so he could report the battle to Lord Sea God.
• Hai Wuliang struck the Fourth Consecrated Elder for suggesting caution and claimed the Sea God had left arrangements across the Douluo Continent, including ties to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Huo Yuhao found Chen Ping contemplating the Death God Tower and asked whether he was thinking about Long Xiaoyao.
• Chen Ping told Huo Yuhao he planned to travel to the Divine Realm through the passages connected to Qiankun Asking Love Valley.
• Chen Ping explained that he needed immortal spirit qi to activate the Death God Tower without limit and help defend against Ye Xishui, the returning Sea Emperor Douluo, and the Clear Sky Sect.

Chen Ping decided to enter the Divine Realm alone to gather Immortal Spirit Qi and limit Tang San’s influence, while preparing to seek Di Tian’s knowledge of the realm. Meanwhile, Ye Xishui attacked Skystar City and began slaughtering its inhabitants to heal herself and gain divine favor.

• Chen Ping refused Huo Yuhao’s offer to accompany him to the Divine Realm, explaining that he would go alone and could seek help from Ning Rongrong or Ma Hongjun if necessary.
• Chen Ping told Huo Yuhao that Elder Yi was preparing to open a rift to the Divine Realm and that he would visit Di Tian in Star Dou Forest for information.
• After waking on Zhongli Wu’s back near Skystar City, Ye Xishui demanded revenge and announced that she would use the city’s residents to heal her wounds.
• Ye Xishui broke through Skystar City’s defensive shield with her Blood Soul Demon Claw and ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to kill everyone in the city.
• Ye Xishui crushed buildings, absorbed the rising souls, and began recovering as Skystar City’s people screamed in terror.

Chen Ping returned to the Qiankun Asking Love Valley determined to enter the Divine Realm and stop Ye Xishui, despite Di Tian warning him of the danger. After preparing a cautious probe mission, he opened a tiny portal and sent a satellite probe into the Divine Realm.

• Chen Ping revealed the true appearance of the Qiankun Asking Love Valley and recalled his argument with Di Tian about risking a trip to the Divine Realm.
• Chen Ping remained determined to save lives, gain the Immortal Spirit Qi needed to power the Death God Tower, and prepare for the threat of Tang San.
• Di Tian accepted Chen Ping’s resolve, shared what he knew about the Divine Realm, and let him leave the Star Dou Forest.
• Chen Ping used lunar landing technology as a model and prepared a Level 9 Floating Satellite Probe and an Eight-Legged All-Terrain Rover made by Mo Fang and Xuan Ziwen.
• Chen Ping opened a tiny portal to the Divine Realm and sent the Floating Satellite Probe through it.

Chen Ping discovered that the Divine Realm destroyed his probes through immense, continuous pressure rather than a god directly attacking them. His sturdier probe transmitted images identifying its landing place as the Divine Beast Forest before it came under further attack.

• Chen Ping saw his first satellite probe’s modules fail one by one and realized it had been crushed gradually rather than instantly destroyed by a powerful being.
• Chen Ping sent his remaining Octopus Eight-Legged Soul Tool Probe Vehicle into the Divine Realm, where it survived long enough to transmit images and a diagnostic report.
• Chen Ping examined the first image and saw dark soil, leaves, metal fragments, and the crushed remains of his satellite probe.
• Chen Ping examined the second image and recognized the dense forest as the Divine Beast Forest.
• Chen Ping recalled the Divine Beast Forest’s powerful population, including more than a hundred beings considered divine beasts, and considered what their presence meant.