Recaps

Long Yeyue overruled Yun Ming's objections and persuaded him to accept the Spirit Pagoda's conditions for Xiao Chen, Na'er, and Gu Yue to study at Shrek. Cai Yue'er went to contact Leng Yaozhu and finalize their enrollment, while Yun Ming remained unsure whether the costly deal would benefit the academy.

• Long Yeyue arrived at the Sea God Pavilion and backed Cai Yue'er's plan to bring Xiao Chen and the other two to Shrek.
• Yun Ming objected to the Spirit Pagoda's harsh enrollment conditions and worried about unfair treatment for Inner Court students and the trio's ties to the Spirit Pagoda.
• Long Yeyue argued that Shrek should invest in the three teenagers and dismissed Yun Ming's concerns about the cost and public humiliation.
• Long Yeyue invoked Heavenly Favored, causing Yun Ming to relent and agree to accept the conditions.
• Long Yeyue ordered Cai Yue'er to contact Leng Yaozhu and finalize the trio's enrollment, while Yun Ming wondered whether her judgment was right.

Three years after Shrek accepted Leng Yaozhu’s conditions, Xiao Chen had become a level-56 Soul King and repeatedly defeated Gu Yue in the Spirit Pagoda’s virtual combat space. As Gu Yue tried to draw him closer, he turned to leave until she invited him to her place.

• Shrek accepted every condition Leng Yaozhu had proposed, and Xiao Chen welcomed the agreement as a chance to enter the Shrek Inner Court and reach Sea God Island.
• Three years later, Xiao Chen defeated Gu Yue again in the Spirit Pagoda’s virtual combat space, bringing their record to 10–0.
• Gu Yue reflected on Xiao Chen’s immense advantages and resolved to win his affection and beat Na’er in their wager.
• Xiao Chen emerged from his combat pod and tried to leave, saying he had something important to handle.
• Gu Yue stopped Xiao Chen and invited him to her place, insisting she was not asking him to fight.

Xiao Chen refused Gu Yue’s invitation to visit her home, suspecting she was trying to draw him into a trap. He went to the forging room to use his Minecraft diamonds to make a Diamond Armor Set before entering Shrek Academy.

• Gu Yue invited Xiao Chen to her home, but he flatly refused and remained unmoved when she insisted.
• Gu Yue claimed her father wanted to meet Xiao Chen because of his Martial Soul, but Xiao Chen dismissed the excuse and said he had other arrangements.
• Gu Yue gave up for the moment and resolved to find another chance to draw Xiao Chen to her side.
• Xiao Chen headed to the forging room and laid out the twenty-four diamond ingots he had won at the Tianhai Grand Competition.
• Xiao Chen prepared to forge a complete Diamond Armor Set to strengthen himself before going to Shrek Academy.

Xiao Chen used the Command Block to craft a set of diamond armor, then destroyed the Crafting Table to limit its effect on the Douluo Plane. He questioned the Command Block’s growing encroachment and ended without learning what it wanted.

• After gathering twenty-four diamonds, Xiao Chen summoned a Crafting Table with the Command Block.
• Xiao Chen crafted a full set of miniature diamond armor and stored it in his Storage Soul Tool.
• Xiao Chen destroyed the Crafting Table with a miniature Wither Head so it would not remain and burden the Douluo Plane.
• Xiao Chen realized the Command Block could now appear directly on the Douluo Continent, signaling a new stage of encroachment.
• Xiao Chen questioned the Command Block about its purpose, but it gave no response.

Xiao Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er entered Shrek Academy as special students admitted directly to the Inner Court, where Ya Li welcomed them and arranged a secluded villa. Xiao Chen intended to pursue the Golden Ancient Tree and leave once he had dealt with it.

• Leng Yaozhu brought Xiao Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er to Shrek, where they were exempted from examinations and admitted directly to the Inner Court.
• Ya Li received the three on Yun Ming's behalf and promised to oversee their studies and daily lives.
• Ya Li guided them past Huo Yuhao's statue; Gu Yue briefly concealed her hostility toward him.
• Ya Li showed the three their private villa and warned them to keep its location discreet to avoid provoking other Inner Court students.
• Ya Li gave them their schedules and offered to help with problems, while Xiao Chen remained focused on finding the Golden Ancient Tree.

Xiao Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er began their Shrek Inner Court studies in a separate class taught by Ya Li, who learned how far their cultivation and secondary professions had advanced. Their first lesson was set to be challenge matches against Inner Court students who wanted to test the trio after their special admission.

• Shrek Academy created a separate class for Xiao Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er because of their age and cultivation differences, and Ya Li became their homeroom teacher.
• Ya Li explained that the trio would rapidly cover Outer Court foundations before beginning the Inner Court curriculum.
• Ya Li discovered that Xiao Chen was a rank-fifty-eight Soul King and sixth-rank blacksmith, while Gu Yue and Na'er were rank-forty-six Soul Ancestors with fifth-rank secondary professions.
• Ya Li announced that their first lesson would be challenge matches against Inner Court students who had proposed the competition as a welcome.
• Xiao Chen recognized the matches as a way for the trio to silence objections to their special admission and accepted the prospect of fighting.

Xiao Chen accepted Shrek’s day-long challenge match and defeated the first challenger, Feng Yanchen, in a single attack. He stood in the Arena and challenged the remaining Inner Court students to come forward.

• Ya Li brought Xiao Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er to Shrek’s Arena, where she explained the rules and told them they could fight without restraint.
• Xiao Chen stepped onto the platform amid jeers, and Feng Yanchen, a level-sixty-two Soul Emperor and Two-Word Battle Armor master, challenged him.
• Xiao Chen revealed his Wither Martial Soul and five Soul Rings, including two gold ones, shocking Feng Yanchen and the spectators.
• Xiao Chen’s three Wither Heads overwhelmed Feng Yanchen’s wind blades and incapacitated him before he could summon his Battle Armor.
• Xiao Chen claimed victory and called for the next challenger.

Xiao Chen defeated seven Shrek Inner Court students in succession, while Gu Yue and Na'er each fought across ranks and earned victories. The battered Inner Court crowd fell silent as a man and a woman watched the three youngsters from a corner of the arena.

• Pei Si challenged Xiao Chen, but Xiao Chen defeated the Soul Emperor with a single Wither Head strike before Pei Si could use his Battle Armor.
• Five more Inner Court students took turns challenging Xiao Chen, and he defeated all of them, bringing his streak to seven consecutive victories.
• Gu Yue defeated a rank fifty-five Soul King and a rank sixty-four Soul Emperor, then left the stage when her Soul Power ran low.
• Na'er defeated a Soul Emperor with her Silver Dragon Spear but stayed onstage, determined to face one more challenger.
• The Inner Court students watched the three youngsters' victories in defeat and frustration, while a man and a woman observed Xiao Chen and Na'er from a corner.

Xiao Chen completed an unprecedented winning streak against the Shrek Inner Court, defeating a Soul Saint, while Gu Yue and Na'er also finished their challenge matches. After the three compared their results and Xiao Chen slipped away from their argument, they left the arena and saw Ya Li waiting for them.

• Yun Ming and Ya Li watched Xiao Chen's matches, and Yun Ming said Ya Li should focus on teaching Xiao Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er.
• Xiao Chen defeated a Bright Phoenix Soul Saint who shattered his Two-Word Battle Armor and burned his life force to survive Xiao Chen's fifth soul skill, then finished with a record of nine victories.
• Na'er used the Silver Dragon Spear and the Silver Dragon King origin to defeat two Soul Emperors, making sure her record surpassed Gu Yue's.
• Na'er and Gu Yue argued over who had performed better and turned to ask Xiao Chen to judge, but he had already left.
• Gu Yue and Na'er hurried after Xiao Chen, and the three saw Ya Li waiting outside the arena.

After Xiao Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er finished their matches, Ya Li took them to Sea God Island, where Xiao Chen asked about cultivating inside the Golden Ancient Tree and learned he was not yet eligible. The visit ended with Ya Li embracing Yun Ming at a pavilion, leaving Xiao Chen to recognize the academy's dean behind the staged encounter.

• Ya Li praised Xiao Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er, then canceled their theory classes and invited them to Sea God Island.
• Xiao Chen suspected Ya Li had arranged the trip for another reason, but followed her with Gu Yue and Na'er across Sea God Lake.
• On Sea God Island, Xiao Chen spotted the Golden Ancient Tree and asked Ya Li if he could cultivate inside it; she said only meritorious Inner Court students qualified.
• Ya Li led the group to a pavilion and embraced a man in white, whom Xiao Chen recognized as Yun Ming.

Yun Ming tried to recruit Xiao Chen and Na'er after watching their matches, but the three youngsters reacted with indifference and suspicion. Xiao Chen rejected Yun Ming's offer to become his disciple, leaving Yun Ming's recruitment plan in ruins.

• Ya Li introduced Yun Ming as the Sea God Pavilion Master and the continent's strongest person, but Xiao Chen, Na'er, and Gu Yue showed no interest.
• Yun Ming praised the three for their arena performances, but they remained silent, and Na'er grew wary when he addressed her by name.
• Yun Ming asked Na'er to demonstrate her Silver Dragon Spear techniques, but she refused and kept her distance.
• Yun Ming asked Xiao Chen whether he had a teacher, and Xiao Chen named Zhen Hua as his forging teacher.
• Yun Ming directly offered to take Xiao Chen as his disciple, but Xiao Chen refused without giving a reason.
• Yun Ming abandoned his lofty manner and realized his talent recruitment plan had probably failed.

Yun Ming challenged Xiao Chen to a spar, claiming he would suppress his cultivation and offer guidance. Xiao Chen used Wither to detonate its Charged Explosion against him, and Yun Ming emerged from the blast realizing he had badly underestimated the attack.

• Ya Li tried to ease the tension and reminded Yun Ming of his Sea God Pavilion duties, but Yun Ming singled out Xiao Chen and challenged him to fight.
• Yun Ming promised to match Xiao Chen's Soul Power and avoid Soul Skills, and Xiao Chen accepted the spar in the pavilion clearing.
• When Yun Ming offered Xiao Chen the first move, Xiao Chen retreated and summoned Wither instead of fighting at close range.
• Yun Ming struck Wither with the Qingtian Divine Spear, expecting to shatter the Detached Martial Soul and cause Xiao Chen backlash.
• Wither endured the spear thrust and used Xiao Chen's fifth Soul Skill, Charged Explosion, engulfing Yun Ming in destructive black mist.
• Yun Ming walked out of the mist ashen-faced and admitted to himself that he had been careless and failed to dodge.

Yun Ming conceded defeat to Xiao Chen and abandoned his plan to make him a disciple. Ya Li then let Xiao Chen remain her student while studying independently, and he immediately left to handle his own affairs.

• Yun Ming admitted defeat after deciding that continuing to rely on his physical strength would amount to bullying Xiao Chen, and he gave up on teaching him.
• Xiao Chen bluntly rejected Yun Ming's advice to follow the righteous path, prompting Yun Ming to leave before he lost his temper.
• Ya Li told Xiao Chen that ordinary classes could limit his talent and proposed letting him manage his own cultivation and schedule.
• Na'er and Gu Yue asked to receive the same freedom, but Ya Li said the arrangement applied only to Xiao Chen.
• Xiao Chen accepted the arrangement and left, ignoring Na'er's protests that he should stay.

Xiao Chen relaxed at the villa until Gu Yue and Na'er confronted him for leaving them behind, then spent the evening teasing Na'er while Gu Yue watched enviously. Gu Yue left upstairs in silence, still uncertain of her place in Xiao Chen’s life.

• Xiao Chen lounged at the villa, drinking coffee and scrolling through his phone instead of cultivating.
• Gu Yue and Na'er stormed in and demanded to know why Xiao Chen had left them behind after class.
• Na'er tried to take Xiao Chen's phone, but he used his Wither Martial Soul to evade her and kept it out of her reach.
• Xiao Chen subdued Na'er and sat on her back while she pleaded for him to get off.
• Gu Yue watched Xiao Chen treat Na'er warmly, then went upstairs without saying anything.

Di Tian visited Gu Yue to urge her to merge with Na'er, but she refused and warned him against coercing her other half. He then reported that strange gray-skinned attackers had inflicted heavy losses on the Star Dou Great Forest's Core Area, leaving Gu Yue baffled by their inexplicable nature.

• Di Tian appeared in Gu Yue's room and urged her to restore her complete form by merging with Na'er.
• Gu Yue refused, explaining that forcing the merger would trigger a backlash and doom the soul beasts, and she warned Di Tian not to use Xiao Chen to pressure Na'er.
• Gu Yue told Di Tian that Xiao Chen might be this era's Child of Destiny, so provoking him could bring the Douluo Plane's hostility.
• Di Tian reported that unknown humans had attacked the Star Dou Great Forest's Core Area and caused heavy losses.
• Di Tian described gray-skinned attackers with primitive weapons, no martial souls or soul rings, beast-like cultivation, and bodies that vanished when killed.
• Gu Yue listened to Di Tian's account in disbelief and asked whether he had gone mad.

Gu Yue learned that Di Tian had defeated four gray-skinned invaders who seemed to have no souls, and ordered him to guard Star Dou and investigate further. After a sleepless night, she met Xiao Chen the next morning, who asked her to tell Ya Li that he would leave campus and miss classes for a while.

• Di Tian reported that five gray-skinned invaders had attacked the soul beasts, killing many before he defeated four and captured their standard-bearer.
• Di Tian told Gu Yue that the invaders had no martial souls and that the captive seemed to have no soul, leaving their origins and purpose unclear.
• Gu Yue ordered Di Tian to guard the captive, search the Core Area for more invaders, and preserve the balance with humanity.
• Gu Yue spent the night considering how to strengthen her position, take control of the Spirit Pagoda, win Xiao Chen over, and reunite with Na'er.
• The next morning, Xiao Chen asked Gu Yue to tell Ya Li that he would leave campus and miss classes for a while.

Xiao Chen planned to sneak into the Golden Ancient Tree to seek a gift that could help him control the Command Block and save the Douluo Plane. After Gu Yue agreed to tell Ya Li he would be away, Xiao Chen teleported into a cultivation chamber inside the tree, where its voice identified him as both the cause of the plane’s collapse and the world’s only hope.

• Xiao Chen asked Gu Yue to tell Ya Li he would leave for about ten days, but he refused to reveal that he planned to enter the Golden Ancient Tree.
• Gu Yue cooked breakfast for Xiao Chen and Na'er, and Xiao Chen accepted her offer to make his breakfast from then on.
• After Gu Yue and Na'er left for lessons, Xiao Chen used the Command Block to locate the Golden Ancient Tree and teleported into one of its cultivation rooms.
• The Golden Ancient Tree spoke to Xiao Chen, calling him the root of the plane’s collapse and the sole hope for the world’s rebirth.

Xiao Chen met Elder Jin, the Golden Ancient Tree, and demanded compensation before hearing why he had been summoned. Elder Jin explained that Ah Yin, Tang San’s birth mother, was secretly parasitizing its true body and asked Xiao Chen to use the Command Block to destroy her.

• Xiao Chen bluntly demanded compensation from Elder Jin before discussing anything else.
• Elder Jin admitted that it had probed Xiao Chen’s soul and readily agreed to compensate him.
• Xiao Chen pressed Elder Jin to explain why the Plane Spirit had sent him, and Elder Jin blamed the Plane Spirit for leaving out the reason.
• Elder Jin revealed that Ah Yin was secretly eroding the Golden Ancient Tree, the Douluo Plane’s Life Core.
• Elder Jin asked Xiao Chen to use the Command Block to destroy Ah Yin, claiming only he could defeat her.

Xiao Chen learned that Ah Yin was secretly consuming the Golden Ancient Tree and that Elder Jin and the Plane Spirit had expected him to wound her with the Command Block. Since his current permissions prevented him from using its offensive commands, he postponed the fight and began cultivating in Elder Jin’s chamber while Elder Jin went to prepare his promised rewards.

• Xiao Chen pieced together Tang San’s plan for Tang Hao and Ah Yin to seize control of the Douluo Plane, and Elder Jin confirmed that Ah Yin had eroded nearly half of his essence.
• Elder Jin revealed that he and the Plane Spirit had planned for Xiao Chen to wound Ah Yin with the Command Block before Elder Jin struck, but Xiao Chen explained that he could not use its offensive commands yet.
• Xiao Chen told Elder Jin to resist Ah Yin’s erosion and contact him when the threat became urgent, promising to help if he became capable of using the Command Block.
• Elder Jin offered Xiao Chen double compensation and a gift, which he would receive after breaking through to Soul Emperor and reaching level sixty.
• Xiao Chen began cultivating in the sealed chamber, and Elder Jin went to a hidden Sea God Pavilion treasury to choose what to take for him.

Elder Jin raided Shrek Academy’s treasure vault for rare items to compensate Xiao Chen while he cultivated to rank sixty. It tried to make Xiao Chen the Douluo Plane’s Child of Nature, but Wither and the Command Block rejected the Seed of Life, leaving the status unbestowed.

• Elder Jin secretly took a Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Left Arm Bone, a white dragon’s Dragon Core, and a two-hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant Head Soul Bone from Shrek’s vault.
• Xiao Chen cultivated in the chamber and broke through to rank sixty in less than a day.
• Elder Jin offered Xiao Chen the status of Child of Nature, and Xiao Chen agreed after learning he could give it up later.
• Elder Jin sent the Seed of Life toward Xiao Chen, but Wither and the Command Block repelled it before it could merge with him.
• Xiao Chen realized both Martial Souls rejected the Seed of Life and accepted that he could not become the Child of Nature.

Xiao Chen failed to receive the Child of Nature title, but Elder Jin used the Golden Ancient Tree to grant him a sixth Soul Ring and paid him the rest of his compensation. After examining his new Soul Skill and treasures, Xiao Chen chose to give the White Dragon Dragon Core to Gu Yue and teleported home to wait for her.

• Xiao Chen explained that his Wither and Command Block Martial Souls rejected the Seed of Life, so Elder Jin abandoned the Child of Nature plan.
• Elder Jin used the Golden Ancient Tree to raise Xiao Chen's Soul Power to rank sixty-two and give him the sixth Soul Ring, whose Soul Skill was Wither Rose.
• Xiao Chen discovered that Wither Rose could seal a slain creature's soul in a flower, reproduce its abilities, and inflict a Wither effect on nearby creatures.
• Elder Jin transferred Xiao Chen's compensation, including two Soul Bones, a White Dragon Dragon Core, and treasured Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, then left to guard against the Blue Silver Emperor.
• Xiao Chen decided to give the Dragon Core to Gu Yue as payment for her meals, teleported to the villa, and waited for her to return from class.

Xiao Chen returned to the villa and told Gu Yue he had deduced that her Martial Soul was a Seven-Colored Dragon rather than an Elemental Envoy, unaware that her true identity was the Silver Dragon King. After Gu Yue concealed her alarm with a fabricated backstory, Xiao Chen gave her a White Dragon Core as payment for caring for him, leaving her with the powerful gift.

• Xiao Chen returned to the villa, where Gu Yue and Na'er arrived and Na'er complained that she had to attend classes.
• Xiao Chen asked Gu Yue about her Martial Soul and said he suspected it was a Seven-Colored Dragon, causing her to fear he had discovered her Silver Dragon King identity.
• Gu Yue claimed her Martial Soul was a Seven-Colored Dragon and invented a story about hiding it because her secluded family had many enemies.
• Xiao Chen explained his deduction by citing Gu Yue's elemental abilities and her mother, the Purple Dragon Douluo, while Gu Yue hid her frustration.
• Xiao Chen opened a wooden box and gave Gu Yue a White Dragon Core as payment for her care.

Gu Yue accepted the Dragon Core Xiao Chen gave her as wages for cooking, while Na'er grew jealous and vowed to learn cooking to win back his favor. The two sisters silently competed over Xiao Chen as he brushed off their attempts to draw him closer.

• Gu Yue recognized the Dragon Core as a powerful light-aligned White Dragon's core and accepted it, imagining Xiao Chen had sought it out for her.
• Xiao Chen said he had casually bought the Dragon Core at auction and was giving it to Gu Yue as wages for cooking, dashing her romantic assumptions.
• Gu Yue led Xiao Chen toward the living room and offered to make lunch, but he avoided her attempt to take his wrist.
• Na'er asked Xiao Chen for a gift, but he said he had nothing for her and teased her for being jealous of Gu Yue.
• Na'er resolved to study cooking and surpass Gu Yue, while Gu Yue privately dismissed her rival and claimed Xiao Chen for herself.

Xiao Chen discovered that the Command Block had gained a strange gray Soul Ring and changed into a Chain Command Block, though he later learned to convert it back. After agreeing to go shopping with Gu Yue and Na'er, he spotted Yuanen Yehui working in a coffee shop.

• Xiao Chen found a gray Soul Ring attached to the Command Block, which had transformed into a Chain Command Block.
• An aged phantom lamented that another plane had fallen and urged a boy to hurry.
• Xiao Chen experimented with the Command Block and learned its Conversion Method, but could not determine the gray Soul Ring's purpose.
• Gu Yue invited Xiao Chen for a stroll, and Na'er asked him to go shopping; Xiao Chen agreed, prompting Na'er and Gu Yue to argue over who had won.
• Xiao Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er walked through Shrek Inner City's shopping district, where Xiao Chen recognized Yuanen Yehui working in a coffee shop.

Xiao Chen realized he could protect the Douluo Plane by feeding other planes to the Command Block, then spent Valentine’s Day shopping with Gu Yue and Na’er. When Gu Yue asked about his future partner, he said he would remain single because love carried too many risks, leaving both girls disappointed.

• Seeing Yuanen Yehui, Xiao Chen devised a plan to use her future ability to open a passage to the Demon Plane and feed other planes to the Command Block.
• Xiao Chen joined Gu Yue and Na’er on a shopping trip through Shrek’s inner city, where Gu Yue bought supplies and Na’er sampled street food.
• As night fell, the three reached the riverbank and saw couples celebrating Valentine’s Day, prompting Gu Yue and Na’er to compete silently for Xiao Chen’s attention.
• Gu Yue asked Xiao Chen what kind of partner he wanted, and he replied that he would never have one.
• Xiao Chen explained that love brought uncertain risks and unwanted entanglements, leaving Gu Yue and Na’er to reconsider their chances of winning his affection.