Chapter Summaries

Lu Yu warned Shrek’s group that the Holy Spirit Cult’s rank-98 leader had entered the Star Dou Great Forest, then tried to flee with Huo Yutong. When Elder Yi sensed a large, wild Gold of Life in the Soul Beast fighting near the Core Area, Lu Yu turned back toward the battle.

• Evil Soul Masters reported finding Shrek’s Inspection Corps and suspected an elder was with them, then decided to alert the Holy Spirit Cult’s leader.
• Lu Yu chose to warn Shrek’s group about the rank-98 cult leader and avoid the Silver Hero Beast while he and Huo Yutong searched the forest.
• Lu Yu used his Spirit Eyes to carve a warning into a tree for Wang Dong and her companions, prompting a rank-91 Sea God Pavilion Elder to urge them to inform Xuan Zi.
• Lu Yu and Huo Yutong started escaping in the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron as two powerful figures fought near the Core Area.
• Elder Yi sensed abundant life force resembling Gold of Life inside one of the fighting Soul Beasts, so Lu Yu abruptly turned the cauldron back toward the battle.

Xuan Zi led a Shrek group hunting in Star Dou Great Forest and urged them to attack the Soul Beasts protecting a Golden Hawksbill Turtle, promising to intervene if danger arose. The turtle, Dai Yan, secretly planned to steal treasures from the Lake of Life so she could eventually defeat Di Tian.

• Xuan Zi complained that Zhang Lexuan had restricted his food and welcomed the chance to roast drumsticks during the hunt.
• A Shrek teacher warned that attacking the thirty-thousand-year Golden Hawksbill Turtle could attract powerful Soul Beasts, but Xuan Zi said its allies would be manageable and told the group to hunt without him.
• Xuan Zi said he would monitor the group with his Spiritual Power and step in if they faced danger, so the seven-ring Soul Douluos set out to attack the turtle's protectors.
• Dai Yan, a gifted Golden Hawksbill Turtle who had once reached hundred-thousand-year cultivation, recalled secretly stealing nourishment from the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and avoiding Di Tian.
• Dai Yan realized Di Tian's absence might leave the Lake of Life unguarded and decided to seek its treasures to grow strong enough to defeat him.

Dai Yan, a fallen Golden Hawksbill Turtle, used her self-created support skills to protect her Path Protectors against Shrek Academy’s Soul Masters. Shrek’s fighters suffered heavy losses and fled, calling for Xuan Zi.

• Dai Yan recalled stealing Gold of Life from the Lake of Life, which drained her Life Force and reduced her cultivation to thirty thousand years.
• Dai Yan entered the Mixed Zone with her Ancient Song Fragrant Phoenix Bird and other Path Protectors, expecting an old man to save her.
• Shrek Academy’s Soul Masters attacked Dai Yan and damaged the patina on her shell, provoking her to send her Path Protectors into battle.
• Dai Yan used a Remote Invincible Shield to protect her sister and help her knock a Soul Douluo teacher away.
• Dai Yan supported her Path Protectors with Invincible Shields and other skills, leaving Shrek’s group badly injured and fleeing while calling for Xuan Zi.

Lu Yu arrived in time to see Dai Yan use a powerful ranged Invincible Shield and decided that Xiao Xiao should receive the Golden Hawksbill Turtle’s Soul Ring, though he doubted he could claim it yet. Meanwhile, Xuan Zi’s drunken chase after a rare chicken left Shrek’s group vulnerable, and after hearing they had been attacked, he charged off to confront Dai Yan while an unknown watcher spotted an injured Soul Douluo.

• Lu Yu saw Dai Yan’s Invincible Shield and weighed giving her Soul Ring to Xiao Xiao or Ning Tian before choosing Xiao Xiao.
• Lu Yu realized he still needed a way to obtain Dai Yan’s gold of life and Soul Ring, then saw Xuan Zi charging toward her as a Taotie.
• Xuan Zi drank the borrowed wine, spotted a ten-thousand-year Black-Legged Phoenix-Clawed Chicken, and left the hunting group to catch it.
• Xuan Zi returned to find the barbecue wrecked and a wounded Shrek teacher reporting that Dai Yan had injured the group and scattered its members.
• Xuan Zi activated his Martial Soul Avatar and rushed to fight Dai Yan, leaving the injured Soul Douluo behind.
• An unseen watcher in the woods heard that Soul Douluos nearby were missing or unaccounted for and watched the wounded teacher eagerly.

Xuan Zi attacked the Golden Hawksbill Turtle, while her friend Xun Feng rescued her and escaped after faking a powerful strike. Xuan Zi killed the arriving Soul Beasts, then convinced himself the missing Shrek teachers and students were still alive and went looking for them, as a black-robed corpse bomber arrived at the battlefield.

• Xuan Zi ambushed the Golden Hawksbill Turtle and battered her with his Taotie Martial Soul, while her distress call summoned a small-scale beast tide.
• Xun Feng attacked Xuan Zi with her Golden Emperor Heaven-Shaking Sound, then faked a devastating strike to cover her and the Golden Hawksbill Turtle's escape.
• A black-robed figure used corpse bombs to kill Soul Beasts that had surrounded the fallen Shrek members and laughed at the corpses he could claim for merit.
• Xuan Zi killed the Soul Beasts that arrived, then decided the missing Shrek members were probably alive and left to search for them.
• The black-robed figure returned to the battlefield and wondered why corpses were everywhere he went.

Lu Yu tried to claim the dying Golden Hawksbill Turtle and Ancient Song Fragrant Phoenix Bird as Soul Rings, offering to save them and reveal a path to eternal life. The two initially refused, but after Lu Yu and Huo Yutong left, the Golden Hawksbill Turtle emerged and agreed to become his Soul Ring first.

• Lu Yu caught up with the injured Golden Hawksbill Turtle and Ancient Song Fragrant Phoenix Bird and offered to remove the Gold of Life draining the turtle’s life in exchange for their freedom.
• The Golden Hawksbill Turtle trapped Lu Yu, but he escaped with Teleportation and threatened them with a Class 8 stationary Soul Tool, prompting the two Soul Beasts to bargain over who should sacrifice herself.
• Lu Yu summoned Huo Yutong’s Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion soul body and showed them her divine power, but the Golden Hawksbill Turtle rejected the offer, and the Ancient Song Fragrant Phoenix Bird refused to accept it without her sister.
• Lu Yu and Huo Yutong walked away, and the two Soul Beasts stayed behind despite the chance to become divine beasts.
• The Golden Hawksbill Turtle emerged in front of Lu Yu and said she was willing to become his Soul Ring first because she had less than a year to live.

Lu Yu recovered the gold of life from the Golden Hawksbill Turtle, restored her and the Ancient Song Phoenix-Scented Bird, then absorbed the treasure and split its evolved blade between himself and Huo Yutong. While Lu Yu teased Huo Yutong about repeatedly repairing her Sea of Consciousness, Xuan Zi unexpectedly encountered Yan Shaozhe elsewhere in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• The Golden Hawksbill Turtle and the Ancient Song Phoenix-Scented Bird signed Lu Yu's soul contract, agreeing to serve him before becoming Soul Spirits for designated people.
• Lu Yu removed the gold of life from the Golden Hawksbill Turtle and used its energy to heal her, restoring her cultivation to a hundred thousand years.
• Lu Yu infused the Ancient Song Phoenix-Scented Bird with life force, then asked both Soul Beasts to guard him while he absorbed the gold of life.
• Elder Yi split the evolved Blade of Life's Watch into two parts, and Lu Yu merged one into Huo Yutong's Sea of Consciousness, creating a mental connection between them.
• Lu Yu told Huo Yutong that repeated repairs could expand her Sea of Consciousness and possibly evolve her Spirit Eyes, leaving her frightened as Tian Meng and the Ice Empress grinned.
• Xuan Zi, searching for his teammates elsewhere in the Star Dou Great Forest, unexpectedly ran into Yan Shaozhe.

Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi defeated a hundred-thousand-year soul beast and prepared to face the nearby Holy Spirit Cult, while Xuan Zi secretly tried to find his missing teammates. He hid the group in a cave, then left, and a black figure returned to find its corpse-filled cave gone.

• Yan Shaozhe intercepted Xuan Zi, and together they defeated a hundred-thousand-year soul beast and obtained its soul ring and fire-attribute soul bone.
• A Sea God Pavilion Elder warned that the Holy Spirit Cult's level-98 leader was nearby, but Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi chose to stay and confront the threat.
• Xuan Zi persuaded Yan Shaozhe to go hunting soul beasts alone, then led the others to a cave and concealed its entrance with earth attribute power.
• Xuan Zi left to search for his missing teammates, and a black figure carrying corpses returned to find the cave's rock face in place of its corpse warehouse.

The Death Messenger lured Shrek’s hunting party into a trap and destroyed them with exploding corpses while Xuan Zi was away. Xuan Zi returned to find twenty companions dead and blamed Zhongli Wu and the Holy Spirit Cult.

• The Death Messenger confirmed that Shrek members were hiding in his former corpse warehouse and prepared a second route for his scheme.
• Two elders left Teacher Feng and the guards behind to pursue a Soul Beast, trusting that Xuan Zi was keeping watch outside.
• The Death Messenger sent a corpse disguised in Shrek’s uniform into the cave, where it detonated alongside the corpses on its cart and killed those inside.
• The two elders found a cave filled with recently slain Soul Beasts, then died when the corpses exploded and brought down the mountain.
• Xuan Zi returned to the destroyed base and counted twenty dead members of the hunting party, then swore vengeance on Zhongli Wu and the Holy Spirit Cult.

Zhongli Wu learned that Shrek had brought powerful experts into the Star Dou Great Forest, but he ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to pursue the Auspicious Beast before Shrek could catch up. Meanwhile, Lu Yu waited for a Soul Beast perfectly suited to Huo Yutong’s Spirit Eyes and was shocked when Tian Meng’s promised beast appeared as a huge golden retriever.

• Zhongli Wu learned that Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, and many Shrek experts were in the forest, and he ordered the cult to avoid a direct fight until it found the Auspicious Beast.
• Zhongli Wu discovered that the Death Messenger had gone off alone and accused him of desertion and leaking the operation’s secrets.
• After receiving word that the Auspicious Beast was near the small beast tide, Zhongli Wu sent a Soul King to hold Shrek back and led the cult toward the beast.
• Tian Meng and the Ice Empress continued expanding Huo Yutong’s Sea of Consciousness with the Gold of Life while Lu Yu and two Soul Beasts watched.
• Tian Meng sensed a fifteen-thousand-year Soul Beast suited to Huo Yutong’s Spirit Eyes, and Lu Yu hid nearby to await it.
• A huge golden, dragon-horned, three-eyed retriever sprang out of the woods, and Lu Yu recognized it as the superb Soul Beast and angrily called for Tian Meng.

Lu Yu warned the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and the Scarlet King that powerful enemies were nearby, then fled with Huo Yutong and the Golden Hawksbill Turtle. Zhongli Wu and Feng Ling arrived to capture the Auspicious Beast, and after defeating her and the Scarlet King, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion cried for Di Tian to save her.

• Lu Yu recognized the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and warned her and the Scarlet King that Super Douluos were nearby, but they dismissed him.
• Lu Yu took Huo Yutong and the Golden Hawksbill Turtle underground after sensing someone approaching.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion refused to retreat, and the Scarlet King stayed with her.
• Zhongli Wu and Feng Ling arrived and attacked the two Soul Beasts.
• The Scarlet King and Three-Eyed Golden Lion were knocked down, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion called for Di Tian.

Di Tian arrived to rescue the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Scarlet King, then defeated Zhongli Wu and Feng Ling’s attacks and pursued them. As Di Tian prepared to kill Zhongli Wu, an enormous nine-ringed monster charged in, and Zhongli Wu mistook its accidental intervention for a heroic rescue by a fellow Evil Soul Master.

• The Scarlet King shielded the Three-Eyed Golden Lion from Zhongli Wu and Feng Ling’s attacks, and Di Tian forced his way through a fissure to protect them.
• Zhongli Wu and Feng Ling attacked Di Tian, but he knocked them aside and ordered the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to take the wounded Scarlet King to the Lake of Life.
• Di Tian burned the surrounding Evil Soul Masters and chased Zhongli Wu, who merged with Feng Ling using a secret art to flee.
• Di Tian’s Dragon Flame brought Zhongli Wu down, and he believed he was doomed as Di Tian prepared to strike.
• A nine-ringed monster with a human head and sheep’s body charged at Zhongli Wu, but crashed into Di Tian’s claw instead.
• Zhongli Wu wrongly believed the monster had risked its life to save him and promised to make it a Grand Supreme Elder of the Holy Spirit Cult.

Zhongli Wu fought Xuan Zi, who blamed him for Shrek’s deaths, and convinced him the Holy Spirit Cult was not responsible. When Xuan Zi tried to leave, Di Tian blocked him, forcing Zhongli Wu to share the Holy Spirit Cult’s secret pills so they could face him together.

• Xuan Zi attacked Zhongli Wu after accusing the Holy Spirit Cult of killing Shrek’s people, and Zhongli Wu knocked him down using power gained by burning Feng Ling’s life force.
• Zhongli Wu denied responsibility and warned Xuan Zi that Shrek would become vulnerable if its remaining high-level fighters died.
• Zhongli Wu swore a Martial Soul Oath, and Xuan Zi stopped attacking and agreed to spare him.
• Xuan Zi tried to leave, but Di Tian kicked him back and declared that neither human would escape.
• Zhongli Wu gave Xuan Zi secret pills that could temporarily raise his strength to Limit Douluo level at the cost of decades of his lifespan.

Xuan Zi and Zhongli Wu struggled to hold off Di Tian, while Yan Shaozhe helped Wang Dong capture the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. Wang Dong promised Yan Shaozhe a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, and he claimed the identity of the Holy Spirit Cult’s Holy Son as he prepared to proceed against the Auspicious Beast.

• Xuan Zi swallowed Zhongli Wu’s secret pills, temporarily reached rank 99, and joined Zhongli Wu in barely resisting Di Tian.
• Wang Dong led Yan Shaozhe toward a Soul Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest and promised to raise his first four Soul Rings to ten thousand years.
• Yan Shaozhe attacked the wounded Three-Eyed Golden Lion and knocked her down, then blasted aside the gravely wounded Scarlet King.
• The Scarlet King warned that killing the Auspicious Beast would bring Di Tian’s wrath and a beast tide, but Wang Dong offered to raise Yan Shaozhe’s ninth Soul Ring to a hundred thousand years.
• Yan Shaozhe claimed he was the Sun Moon Empire’s Holy Spirit Cult Holy Son and dismissed the threat of Di Tian and the beast tide.

Wang Dong knocked the Three-Eyed Golden Lion unconscious while trying to use Attribute Guidance, and Di Tian killed Yan Shaozhe before turning back to find divine power invading the Auspicious Beast’s soul. Di Tian took her to the Star Dou Great Forest’s forbidden zone and ordered a search for the human who had warned her, while Feng Ling spotted Yan Shaozhe’s Phoenix Nirvana flames and headed toward his rebirth point.

• Yan Shaozhe stopped Wang Dong from killing the Auspicious Beast after his Bright Phoenix martial soul began rejecting him, then agreed to let her conduct Attribute Guidance.
• Wang Dong struck the Auspicious Beast unconscious with her hammer and disappeared as Di Tian arrived; Di Tian tore Yan Shaozhe apart, but Yan Shaozhe’s Phoenix Nirvana ability triggered.
• Di Tian sensed divine power trying to steal the Auspicious Beast’s fortune, heard the Scarlet King recount a warning from a human traveling with a Golden Hawksbill Turtle and an Ancient Song Fragrant Phoenix Bird, and flew with the injured pair toward the forbidden zone.
• Di Tian ordered the Myriad Demon King to find and invite the human who had warned the Auspicious Beast.
• Xuan Zi, Zhongli Wu, and Feng Ling fled; after Zhongli Wu forced Feng Ling to conceal her aura, she recognized the Phoenix Nirvana flames and went to intercept Yan Shaozhe at his rebirth point.

Feng Ling captured Yan Shaozhe after his phoenix rebirth and began corrupting his Bright Phoenix Martial Soul by preparing to humiliate him publicly. As Yan Shaozhe broke through to rank 96, Lu Yu tried to leave the Star Dou Great Forest but was stopped by a Red-Patterned Dragon Scales Vine carrying Di Tian’s invitation.

• Feng Ling drugged Yan Shaozhe after he reappeared from his Bright Phoenix egg and injected him with a Corruption Potion, but his Martial Soul suppressed it.
• Feng Ling decided to record Yan Shaozhe’s humiliation and show it during the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament to shatter his mind and corrupt his Martial Soul.
• Mu En sensed nothing unusual and headed toward Shrek, believing Yan Shaozhe was leading a promising Soul Hunt that might help him break through.
• As Feng Ling began filming Yan Shaozhe’s humiliation, his Bright Phoenix dimmed, an evil aura appeared in his Martial Soul, and he broke through to rank 96.
• Lu Yu escaped the battle site on the Golden Hawksbill Turtle, but a Red-Patterned Dragon Scales Vine blocked his way and invited him to the Forbidden Zone on Di Tian’s behalf.

Lu Yu agreed to help the Ferocious Beasts save the unconscious Three-Eyed Golden Lion after Di Tian promised a 300,000-year Soul Beast sacrifice. At the Lake of Life, Di Tian revealed that the Auspicious Beast was resisting divine power linked to the Sea God and asked Lu Yu to awaken her.

• Lu Yu initially refused to enter the forbidden zone, but agreed after Di Tian promised him a willing 300,000-year Three-Headed Crimson Demon Hound sacrifice.
• The Red-Patterned Dragon Scales Vine guided Lu Yu and the Golden Hawksbill Turtle through the Star Dou Great Forest to the Lake of Life.
• Lu Yu found the unconscious Three-Eyed Golden Lion and the badly weakened Scarlet King surrounded by Di Tian, Xiong Jun, Bi Ji, and the Myriad Demon King.
• Xiong Jun threatened Lu Yu, but Di Tian struck him aside with a Dragon King Claw and warned the other Ferocious Beasts not to interfere.
• Lu Yu explained that he suspected the Sea God because someone with the Butterfly God Inheritance and apparent Sea God Bloodline had entered the forest.
• Di Tian said the Sea God's Daughter had attached divine power to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and asked Lu Yu to awaken her, promising a reward.

Lu Yu discovered that a divine soul fragment was beginning to possess the Auspicious Beast and learned how to remove it using Ice God's divine power. He bargained with Di Tian for payment, ending by threatening to let the Auspicious Beast be possessed if Di Tian refused his demands.

• Lu Yu used Ghost Possession to examine the Auspicious Beast and found a soul fragment that Elder Yi identified as part of the same soul as Wang Dong.
• Elder Yi explained that the fragment had not yet merged with the Auspicious Beast and could be cut away using Ice God's divine power, though the treatment would also cost some of her fortune power.
• Lu Yu told Di Tian he could treat the Auspicious Beast, then demanded the Scarlet King's sacrifice and half of the Auspicious Beast's fortune power in exchange.
• Di Tian agreed to the fortune-power demand, but Lu Yu added a further demand for half of the gold of life remaining beneath the lake.
• Lu Yu sat on the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and warned Di Tian that he would let the Auspicious Beast be possessed by the Daughter of the Sea God if Di Tian did not comply.

Lu Yu separated the Sea God divine power from the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and persuaded Di Tian to provide treasures for her and Huo Yutong. Their fusion produced a human-form Auspicious Beast with twin martial souls, who repaid Huo Yutong by kissing Lu Yu and teasing her to say thanks.

• Lu Yu removed the blue-gold power from the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and handed its sealed split soul to Di Tian.
• Huo Yutong joined the Three-Eyed Golden Lion in a golden cocoon, exchanging life force and destiny power as Di Tian supplied gold of life and a three-hundred-thousand-year Dragon Clan head soul bone.
• The Auspicious Beast used the fusion to begin reincarnating, choosing Golden Dragon and Three-Eyed Golden Lion martial souls after experiencing Huo Yutong's memories.
• The cocoon released Huo Yutong and a human-form Auspicious Beast who looked like her, prompting Di Tian to accuse Lu Yu of causing the change.
• The Auspicious Beast changed her appearance to match Huo Yutong's, kissed Lu Yu, and told Huo Yutong to thank her.

Huo Yutong watched the Auspicious Beast imitate her and kiss Lu Yu before Di Tian caught up with them, while Lu Yu escaped the Star Dou Great Forest. Three days later, Feng Ling returned to Zhongli Wu with the Death Messenger, whose claim that he had killed Shrek’s group was verified, as Feng Ling secretly planned to ruin Yan Shaozhe.

• The Auspicious Beast kissed Lu Yu while wearing Huo Yutong’s face, accidentally knocked Huo Yutong onto the ice, and then helped her up as they pretended to be happy together.
• Di Tian pursued Lu Yu, who escaped with Huo Yutong on the Golden Hawksbill Turtle, then caught the Auspicious Beast and punished her with an iron rod.
• Feng Ling returned to the Holy Spirit Cult hideout after hiding from the Ferocious Beasts for three days and told Zhongli Wu she had drained Soul Beasts on the way back.
• The Death Messenger claimed he had killed everyone from Shrek by himself, and Zhongli Wu used a secret art to verify the story before rewarding him.
• Feng Ling secretly cherished recordings of her tormenting Yan Shaozhe and planned to reveal them at a tournament to drive him toward becoming an Evil Soul Master.