Chapter Summaries

Huo Yutong revealed her Silver Grade Body Martial Soul Second Awakening and defeated Gu Tong, helping Shrek advance to the semifinals as Long Aotian conceded. As the tournament’s remaining factions prepared for a joint operation against the Sun Moon Empire, Qian Chaoguang arranged a rare-metal delivery with Chen An and secretly followed him toward the military warehouse.

• Gu Tong attacked Huo Yutong with a powerful mental technique, but she revealed her Soul Saint cultivation, Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and Silver Grade Second Awakening before overwhelming him.
• Zheng Zhan shielded Gu Tong with his Unbreakable Divine Shield, which Huo Yutong’s attack badly damaged, and announced her victory.
• Long Aotian conceded for the Body Sect, and the semifinalists were set as Shrek Academy, the Holy Spirit Cult, the Sky Dragon Gate, and the Tang Sect.
• Qian Chaoguang proposed friendly exchanges between Shrek and the Body Sect, and Long Aotian and Vina agreed to discuss closer ties with their elders.
• Xu Tianran reflected on Shrek’s strength and declared that the tournament’s top teams would either submit to him or die, while the four allied factions assembled powerful forces for a decapitation operation.
• Qian Chaoguang met Chen An, approved a plan to collect rare metals during the Mingdu Elite Soul Engineer Tournament finals, and secretly followed him after their meeting.

Qian Chaoguang followed Chen An to uncover a scheme to steal rare metals from the Sun Moon Empire’s strategic military arsenal, then entered the semifinal against the Holy Spirit Sect alone. He killed Ji Li instantly and began fighting Wang Xiaolei, whose soul skills unleashed a mass of bone claws and overwhelming resentment.

• Qian Chaoguang tracked Chen An to a secret meeting, where Chen An and Li Chong arranged to steal rare metals from the Sun Moon Empire’s strategic military arsenal for a ten-million-Gold-Soul-Coin reward.
• The Tang Sect defeated Sky Dragon Gate in the morning semifinal, while Shrek prepared to face the Holy Spirit Sect in the afternoon.
• Qian Chaoguang entered the arena alone to face the Holy Spirit Sect’s seven members, shocking the crowd, Xu Tianran, and Zhongli Wu.
• Qian Chaoguang killed Ji Li with a single slash before Ji Li could unleash his Martial Soul, revealing a level of power that stunned Zhongli Wu and Long Aotian.
• Qian Chaoguang faced Wang Xiaolei next, and Wang Xiaolei activated an Invincible Barrier and several soul skills that summoned bone claws and filled the arena with the wails of vengeful spirits.

Qian Chaoguang killed Wang Xiaolei and Hongdou before forfeiting the remaining individual matches to face the four remaining Holy Spirit Sect fighters at once. He opened the team battle by killing Gu Yu, but Lu Genggeng, Tang Dai, and Yan Feng closed in on him as he began to counter their assault.

• Qian Chaoguang seized and purified Wang Xiaolei's Whip of Death, and Divine Punishment burned Wang Xiaolei away completely.
• Qian Chaoguang froze Hongdou's poison with Eternal Frozen Domain and killed her with Ice Emperor's Wrath.
• After defeating three Holy Spirit Sect fighters, Qian Chaoguang forfeited the remaining individual matches and demanded a team battle against the four left.
• Qian Chaoguang and the four Holy Spirit Sect fighters introduced themselves; Lu Genggeng, Tang Dai, Yan Feng, and Gu Yu then released their Martial Souls as the match began.
• Qian Chaoguang bypassed Lu Genggeng and Tang Dai, forced Gu Yu out of Nothingness with Light Impact, and killed him with Eight-Point Light Wheels.
• Lu Genggeng, Tang Dai, and Yan Feng converged on Qian Chaoguang, who raised five layers of Holy Guardian before unleashing a dragon roar.

Qian Chaoguang single-handedly defeated and killed all seven Holy Spirit Cult fighters in the semifinal, revealing the Dragon Emperor Shocking Territory Realm and his divine Light power. The tournament crowd hailed him as the God of Light, while the Holy Spirit Cult swore revenge and Qian Chaoguang rested after the exhausting battle.

• Qian Chaoguang unleashed the Dragon Emperor Shocking Territory Realm, destroying Tang Dai and gravely injuring Lu Genggeng while Yan Feng escaped the attack.
• Yan Feng transformed into a Bone Dragon and fought Qian Chaoguang, but Qian Chaoguang baited him into a decisive charge and invoked Blessing of the God of Light.
• Qian Chaoguang used Divine Wrath to annihilate Yan Feng in body and soul, completing the Holy Spirit Cult team's total defeat.
• Zhongli Wu threatened revenge for Yan Feng's death, while the audience acclaimed Qian Chaoguang as the God of Light and began sending Faith Power into his Divine Fire of Light.
• Qian Chaoguang told Huo Yutong he would make the Holy Spirit Cult pay, then confronted Zhang Peng, who left without attacking under the watch of a hidden Shrek powerhouse.
• After returning to the hotel, Qian Chaoguang skipped cultivation and slept to recover from the battle's toll.

Xu Tianran and the Douluo forces prepared competing plans as Qian Chaoguang entered the underground soul engineer tournament on behalf of the Xishui Alliance. The final began in Mingdu’s western outskirts, while Qian Chaoguang’s allies prepared to exploit the coming chaos for their larger operation.

• The Star Luo Empire, Heaven Dou Empire, Body Sect, and Shrek Academy used underground tunnels to smuggle allied groups out of sealed Mingdu, while the Sky Dragon Gate stayed behind in Taotie Hotel.
• Xu Tianran ordered heightened surveillance of Shrek and the Body Sect and prepared defenses, believing the two groups would not leave together.
• Nangong Wan promised Qian Chaoguang a Rank Nine Fixed Soul Cannon Shell and Cosmos Star Silver if he won the Xishui Alliance’s final; Qian Chaoguang accepted while concealing his plans.
• Qian Chaoguang traveled with He Caitou and Huo Yutong to the western outskirts and secretly issued orders through the Soul Network for the planned raid on the Imperial Palace and Illustrious Virtue Hall.
• The three factions introduced their competitors and rewards, including Ye Guyi on the Ordinary Alliance’s team, and Ye Yulin began the three-double-hour Soul Tool crafting round.

During the soul engineer tournament, Qian Chaoguang and his allies launched their long-planned assault on the Sun Moon Empire’s Imperial Palace and Illustrious Virtue Hall. The chapter ended with Qian Chaoguang’s team infiltrating the arsenal while Electrolux prepared to relocate three hidden vaults.

• Qian Chaoguang forged a close-combat soul tool at the tournament while Huo Yutong worked on a humanoid soul tool, leaving the judges intrigued by their methods.
• Nana coordinated a covert transaction and ordered the Undead Empire’s forces to prepare for the Harvest Plan as the attack on the Imperial Palace began.
• Du Busi, Elder Xuan, and Yan Shaozhe confronted Long Xiaoyao, and Elder Xuan revealed that Long Xiaoyao was Yan Shaozhe’s biological grandfather before the three attacked him.
• Electrolux and Wu Xinping prepared spatial formations to move three Illustrious Virtue Hall vaults while Qian Chaoguang’s team waited for the arsenal guards to leave.
• Ji Juechen silently killed guard Li Chong, and Qian Chaoguang’s group entered the arsenal and killed two more guards as they reached the underground facility.

Qian Chaoguang’s forces broke into the Sun Moon Empire’s underground arsenals and began looting vast stores of rare metals and weapons while he crafted a new soul tool for the tournament. During the assault on Xu Tianran, Zhang Lexuan shattered his defenses, then Song Lao struck through his remaining protections, leaving Xu Tianran gravely wounded and fading toward death.

• Qian Chaoguang sent undead porters into the first two warehouse levels, where they collected rare metals, and led his team through the guarded doors into a vast arsenal stocked with weapons and ammunition.
• Qian Chaoguang continued crafting a new long-bladed soul tool at the tournament while Ye Yulin watched his unusual technique, and Feng Ling and evil soul master elders observed the fighting from the rest area.
• Long Xiaoyao fought Du Busi, Xuan Zi, and Yan Shaozhe as allied forces attacked the Imperial Palace, while Zhang Lexuan led a strike team toward Xu Tianran’s Imperial Study.
• Zhang Lexuan used her hundred-thousand-year Blood Moon Eclipse to break Xu Tianran’s Rank 9 barrier and force him to reveal that he could fly and had reached Titled Douluo strength.
• Song Lao launched a surprise attack on Xu Tianran, and Shadow Douluo Xue Chen sacrificed himself to slow her strike before it shattered Xu Tianran’s defenses and left him gravely wounded.

Song Lao’s strike left Xu Tianran dying, and the coalition withdrew after the Imperial Palace’s defenses activated. While Ju Zi took command and the Sun Moon Empire reeled, Qian Chaoguang’s forces looted Illustrious Virtue Hall; Electrolux prepared to destroy its underground facilities, and the chapter ended as Imperial guards returned to find the academy armory already stripped.

• Song Lao’s attack shattered Xu Tianran’s body and soul, and Jing Hongchen carried him and Ju Zi into the Imperial Palace’s Safe House.
• The palace defenses deployed Class 8 and Class 9 Soul Tool Cannons, so Zhongli Wu, Du Busi, Xuan Zi, and the other attackers withdrew along their planned routes.
• Ju Zi issued orders in Xu Tianran’s place, while Song Lao and Xuan Zi concluded that Xu Tianran’s injuries would prove fatal.
• Qian Chaoguang continued crafting at the tournament as Ye Yulin and the other judges struggled to understand his methods.
• Electrolux led the Undead Legion through Illustrious Virtue Hall, where Xuan Ziwen helped them remove its research materials and prepared Earth Dragon Turns Over to demolish the underground complex.
• Electrolux counseled Xuan Ziwen about the moral burdens of war, and Imperial soul engineers returned to the academy after the palace battle ended.

Xu Guozhong discovered that Qian Chaoguang had emptied and sabotaged the imperial arsenal, while Ju Zi concealed Xu Tianran’s grave condition amid Mingdu’s unrest. At the Soul Tool Master Tournament, Qian Chaoguang won his first elimination match with a single spatial slash, leaving Ye Yulin fascinated by his blade.

• Xu Guozhong returned to the arsenal, found Li Chong missing, and discovered that the elevator and inner door had been sabotaged after Qian Chaoguang stole the supplies.
• Ju Zi told Xu Tianran’s subordinates that he needed to rest while healing Soul Masters struggled to keep his failing body alive.
• Qian Chaoguang, Huo Yutong, and He Caitou finished first, second, and third in the Core Array skills assessment, while an Audu Merchant Guild contestant was eliminated.
• Qian Chaoguang entered the elimination match against Zhao Shouze of the Audu Merchant Guild, who wielded a long-handled battle blade.
• Qian Chaoguang killed Zhao Shouze with one spatial slash, and Ye Yulin studied the Space Blade with keen interest.

Qian Chaoguang defeated Ye Guyi in the semifinal while secretly revealing his true identity to her and arranging a fake death so he could protect his disguise inside the Holy Spirit Cult. The chapter ended with Feng Ling applauding as the spectators believed Qian Chaoguang was an evil soul master.

• Huo Yutong defeated the Audu Merchant Guild's blue-skirted fighter with one punch, and He Caitou surrendered his match to her, giving the Xishui Alliance three of the top four places.
• Qian Chaoguang faced Ye Guyi in the semifinal and easily deflected her sword strikes before she revealed her Sacred Angel Martial Soul and attacked with Holy Light.
• Qian Chaoguang summoned A Fan and two other Undead Creatures to restrain Ye Guyi, then revealed that he was the God of Light and convinced her he was secretly infiltrating the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Qian Chaoguang and Ye Guyi staged her capture and apparent death, with his Undead Creatures dragging her through the Gate of the Undead.
• Qian Chaoguang publicly claimed to have consumed Ye Guyi's soul, convincing the spectators that he was an evil soul master, and Feng Ling applauded.

Qian Chaoguang won the Mingdu Elite Soul Engineer Tournament for the Xishui Alliance, collected his rewards, and escaped Feng Ling’s attempt to recruit him as the Holy Spirit Cult’s Holy Son. Two Rank Nine Fixed Soul Cannon Shells then devastated the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy and Imperial Palace, while Qian Chaoguang’s allies watched from outside Mingdu and the Holy Spirit Cult assessed the damage.

• Qian Chaoguang defeated his final opponent, and his junior sister conceded, making him the tournament champion and securing the Xishui Alliance’s rare-metal smuggling rights.
• Ye Yulin gave Qian Chaoguang the Sun Moon God Needle and offered to buy the blueprints for his blade and Huo Yutong’s Humanoid Soul Tool.
• Nangong Wan presented Qian Chaoguang with his rewards, while Feng Ling revealed her evil aura and tried to recruit him into the Holy Spirit Cult as its Holy Son.
• A Rank Nine Fixed Soul Cannon Shell exploded beneath Illustrious Virtue Hall, destroying most of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy, while another blast wrecked the Imperial Palace.
• Qian Chaoguang, Huo Yutong, He Caitou, and Chen An teleported away, leaving Nangong Wan a note as the Body Sect, Heavenly Soul, Shrek, and Star Luo watched the explosions from outside Mingdu.
• Zhongli Wu and the Holy Spirit Cult survivors emerged from the Imperial Palace ruins and discussed the blast and Xu Tianran’s condition.

Qian Chaoguang brought Ye Guyi and Chen An to his demi-plane, revealed his identity, and arranged their futures while reviewing the spoils from Illustrious Virtue Hall. In the Sun Moon Empire’s Safe House, Ye Xishui told Ju Zi and Kong Deming that Xu Tianran could not be healed but might be turned into an Undead creature, leaving the empire’s succession in their hands.

• Qian Chaoguang ordered the expansion of the Great Library, laboratories, and storage areas, and outlined plans to convert their seized resources into equipment and advance the Divine Kingdom Plan.
• Chen An and Ye Guyi signed Soul Contracts; Qian Chaoguang sent Chen An to develop in the Dou Ling Empire and kept Ye Guyi in the demi-plane.
• Qian Chaoguang reflected that the explosion had destroyed the Sun Moon Imperial Palace, Illustrious Virtue Hall, and the empire’s secret vaults, while leaving most academy students and Soul Tool Masters alive.
• Ye Xishui told Ju Zi and Kong Deming that Xu Tianran had at most half a month to live and could not be saved.
• Ye Xishui proposed turning Xu Tianran into an Undead creature to preserve his mind, estimating a seventy-to-eighty-percent chance of success and warning of irreversible effects.

Ye Xishui revealed that Xu Tianran was already dead and planned to turn his body into a puppet for the Holy Spirit Cult, while Kong Deming struggled to stabilize the Sun Moon Empire after the disaster. At West Mountain, Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong entered Qiankun Questioning Valley and began investigating its connection to the God Realm.

• Ye Xishui told Zhongli Wu that Xu Tianran’s shattered soul could not be restored and that she would make his body into a controllable Undead puppet.
• Xuan Zi and Du Busi left together to find Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong, while Du Busi proposed closer exchanges between Shrek and the Body Sect.
• Kong Deming took charge of the Sun Moon Empire’s provisional government, ordered relief and reconstruction, and concealed Xu Tianran’s death from the public.
• Zhongli Wu told Kong Deming that Ye Xishui would return a puppet Xu Tianran within three days and urged him to prepare for war and suppress opposition.
• Zhongli Wu explained that Qiankun Questioning Valley could trap powerful intruders, and Kong Deming accepted the Holy Spirit Cult’s plan to ambush those caught there.
• At West Mountain, Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong entered Qiankun Questioning Valley and used prepared instruments to study its unusual space and connection to the God Realm.

Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong entered Qiankun Questioning Valley and reached its core, where the controller tested their love by forcing Huo Yutong to choose who would die. She chose herself and passed, while Qian Chaoguang began his trial and resisted a strike despite his powers being sealed.

• Qian Chaoguang used Divine Sense to analyze Qiankun Questioning Valley’s shifting space and discussed its structure and dangers with Electrolux.
• Qiankun Questioning Valley drew Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong through the fog to a golden-and-silver lake, then transported them to its crystal-like core.
• Qian Chaoguang sensed the valley’s central control room and concluded that Ning Rongrong was likely its controller.
• The valley began its Sincere Adventure trial, and Huo Yutong told the controller she loved Qian Chaoguang and believed he loved her.
• When asked which of them should die, Huo Yutong chose herself and defiantly refused to explain, passing the first trial of true heart.
• Qian Chaoguang was selected next, rejected the controller’s question, and endured a golden strike that barely left a fading mark on his body.

Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong challenged Ning Rongrong over her cruel test, forcing her to let them proceed to the next trial. They entered a mission to protect Dai Hao, and Qian Chaoguang revealed a White Tiger Token that left the duke shaken.

• Qian Chaoguang endured Ning Rongrong’s soul lashes and condemned her for manipulating the trial-takers and disgracing the Original Shrek Seven Monsters.
• Ning Rongrong panicked and sent Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong into the second trial, an adventure to rescue Dai Hao from an assassination attempt.
• Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong decided to protect Dai Hao, then joined his patrol disguised as White Tiger Guards.
• Qian Chaoguang confronted Dai Hao and gave him an old White Tiger Token, which Dai Hao recognized as the token entrusted to his former family butler, Qi Chen.

Qian Chaoguang warned Dai Hao that the Sun Moon Empire had tracked him and prepared an ambush, then led the White Tiger Guards through successive air raids and a devastating mountain-collapse attack. With Huo Yutong’s cannon fire and Qian Chaoguang’s defenses and Holy Light bridge, the group crossed the shattered mountain road and continued toward camp as Dai Hao witnessed their extraordinary abilities.

• Qian Chaoguang revealed that Old Zhu had been dead for eight years, then warned Dai Hao that enemy forces were waiting ahead and that a High-Altitude Surveillance Soul Tool had tracked his movements.
• Dai Hao confirmed the surveillance device and ordered his troops to turn back toward camp.
• Huo Yutong used more than a hundred Class 6 Floating Soul Tool Cannons to intercept the Sun Moon Empire’s cluster munitions aimed at the White Tiger Guards.
• Qian Chaoguang warned the unit about a Rank 8 Mountain Collapse and Earth Crack Fixed Soul Cannon Shell, while Dai Hao and Qian Chaoguang protected the soldiers from the blast and falling rocks.
• Qian Chaoguang formed a Holy Light bridge across the destroyed mountain road, allowing Dai Hao and the White Tiger Guards to cross the gap together.
• Huo Yutong’s cannons shot down a new wave of High-Explosive Bombs as Dai Hao watched in shock at her and Qian Chaoguang’s power.

Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong cleared the White Tiger Duke’s crisis and entered the final trial, where they met Rong Nianbing. He offered Huo Yutong his Divine Throne, and she asked whether becoming a god would let her bring her loved ones to the God Realm.

• Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong drove off the Sun Moon ambushers, and Dai Hao thanked them for saving him.
• Qian Chaoguang warned Dai Hao to return to Star Luo City and see his wife, then he and Huo Yutong vanished as the trial declared their adventure complete and raised their soul power by one level.
• During their teleportation to the final trial, Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong encountered Rong Nianbing, who gave them Nine Colors Divine Pills as compensation and introduced himself as the God of Emotion.
• Rong Nianbing explained that Huo Yutong was highly compatible with his Divine Throne and asked her to inherit it, while Qian Chaoguang was not compatible.
• Huo Yutong questioned the God Realm’s limited Divine Thrones and its gods’ reluctance to leave their comfortable lives, then asked whether she could bring her loved ones with her if she became a god.
• Rong Nianbing said Huo Yutong could bring closely connected people to the God Realm and described how he had brought his eight wives and teacher.

Huo Yutong refused Rong Nianbing’s Divine Throne because she feared being separated from Qian Chaoguang, prompting Rong Nianbing to investigate why Tang San had left Bai Chenxiang behind. The siblings returned safely to Shrek, carrying new rewards and knowledge, as the Sun Moon Empire’s turmoil continued to foreshadow a coming war.

• Huo Yutong explained that Tang San had not brought Bai Chenxiang to the God Realm, and Rong Nianbing admitted he did not know why.
• Huo Yutong declined Rong Nianbing’s Divine Throne to avoid the risk of separation from Qian Chaoguang, so Rong Nianbing gave them other rewards and sent them out of Qiankun Questioning Valley.
• After the siblings left, Rong Nianbing told his teacher that he suspected something was wrong with Tang San, citing what he had learned about Ma Hongjun.
• Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong reappeared beside Xuan Zi and Du Busi, who had joined forces against the Holy Spirit Cult and waited for them while sharing food and wine.
• Xuan Zi escorted the siblings back toward Shrek City while Du Busi pursued them and pressed Qian Chaoguang about the Body Sect succession.
• The group reached the vicinity of Shrek City as the Sun Moon Empire remained in political turmoil and a continent-wide war drew nearer.

After helping finalize a deep cooperation agreement between Shrek Academy and the Body Sect, Qian Chaoguang secluded himself in the Undead Subplane to refine his cultivation and break through to Soul Saint. He reached the decisive stage of compressing all his Soul Power and began forcing energy into the first acupoint of the Zhou Tian Star Realm.

• Xuan Zi and Du Busi attended the Sea God Pavilion Meeting, where Shrek Academy and the Body Sect agreed to exchange students and teachers and grant Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong honorary sect master titles if they inherited the Body Seed.
• Qian Chaoguang entered seclusion in the Undead Subplane, clarified that the Nameless Ancient Technique and blade arts formed his foundation, and recognized light and immortality as complementary forces.
• Qian Chaoguang drew all his Soul Power into a sphere in his dantian and compressed it with the Golden Body Art as the Golden Ancient Tree and three Charging Towers supplied immense energy.
• As Qian Chaoguang emptied his body of Soul Power, a crystal-like point formed within the sphere, spatial cracks appeared, and Electrolux witnessed the Demi-plane resonate with the Laws and Great Dao.
• Qian Chaoguang inscribed his understanding of light and immortality into the sphere, forming a Yin Yang diagram, while the deep fusion between Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Qian Chaoguang was temporarily severed.
• Qian Chaoguang absorbed the prepared Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and drove the energy of the Water Fire Dragon King Torso Bone toward the first acupoint of the Zhou Tian Star Realm.

Qian Chaoguang advanced the Nameless Ancient Technique to its third Qi Refining level, forming a Golden Core and becoming a Soul Saint. At a Sea God Pavilion meeting, he revealed that the newly crowned Xu Tianran was a corpse being controlled by the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Qian Chaoguang completed his advancement, forming a Golden Core, lighting seven acupoints, and reaching the Soul Saint realm.
• A month after the Mingdu bombing, Xu Tianran ascended the Sun Moon Empire's throne and kept a low profile while the continent remained tense and quiet.
• The Sea God Pavilion and representatives of the Body Sect and two empires examined blurry footage of Xu Tianran's coronation and debated whether he was an impostor or had been revived.
• Qian Chaoguang arrived with clearer footage and pointed out signs that Xu Tianran's eyes, movements, and skin showed he was dead.
• Qian Chaoguang explained that the Holy Spirit Cult had revived Xu Tianran as a corpse puppet and was likely controlling his actions.