Chapter Summaries

Lie Yan broke with her usual abstentions and joined the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life in ruling against Tang San over Ah Yin’s improper appointment as a God Officer. Tang San personally destroyed Ah Yin’s soul while sending it toward Douluo Continent, and the God of Destruction then prevented him from leaving to face a second arbitration.

• The Goddess of Life voted to uphold the rules, and Ji Dong voted against the motion, expecting Lie Yan to abstain.
• Lie Yan instead voted in favor, giving the motion three of five votes and requiring Tang San to strip Ah Yin of her God Officer status and send her back to Douluo Continent.
• Lie Yan condemned Tang San for exploiting his authority, and the God of Destruction and Goddess of Life pressed him to carry out the ruling.
• Tang San pierced Ah Yin’s soul with the Sea God Trident and sent it through a passage to Douluo Continent, where the unstable energies tore it apart.
• The God of Destruction sealed the committee hall and announced that his own arbitration against Tang San had yet to begin.
• The Goddess of Life calmed the two God Kings and ordered the God of Destruction to state the matter for his arbitration.

The God Realm Committee stripped Tang San of his acting-controller status and placed the God Realm Central Core Key in joint custody, while Ji Dong pretended to side with Tang San as part of a plan with Lie Yan. The God of Destruction sent the God of Lust to Ma Hongjun, who learned that Tang San had sabotaged his chance to inherit the Fire God's Divine Throne, and Ma Hongjun erupted in fury before the Goddess of Ice and Snow intervened.

• The God of Destruction proposed removing Tang San as acting controller, and Lie Yan and the Goddess of Life supported the motion while Ji Dong appeared to oppose it.
• The Goddess of Life cast the deciding vote, and Tang San handed over the God Realm Central Core Key before leaving with Ji Dong, who pretended to ally with him.
• Lie Yan explained to the God of Destruction that she and Ji Dong were united against Tang San, and the God of Destruction went to seek someone important.
• The God of Lust confronted Ma Hongjun and learned that he grieved over being separated from Bai Chenxiang and their unborn child after ascending to the God Realm.
• The God of Lust told Ma Hongjun that Tang San had secretly caused his failure to inherit the Fire God's Divine Throne, and Ma Hongjun erupted in rage.
• The Goddess of Ice and Snow's Sigh descended and suppressed Ma Hongjun's power, telling him to stay his hand.

Rong Nianbing and the God of Lust revealed to Ma Hongjun that Tang San had deceived him about the God Realm’s rules and his Fire God trial, driving Ma Hongjun to embrace the God of Destruction’s faction. The chapter ended with Tang San concealing his recent losses from Xiao Wu as they discussed their conflict with the God of Destruction and their daughter Xiao Qi.

• Rong Nianbing told Ma Hongjun that Tang San had lied about bringing relatives to the God Realm and had manipulated the Fire God inheritance so Ma Hongjun would remain loyal to him.
• The God of Lust explained that Ma Hongjun’s Fire God trial had not been a genuine path to inheritance, and Ma Hongjun broke down after recalling warnings from Zhu Qing and Boss Dai.
• Ma Hongjun unleashed a devastating burst of power, absorbed the Fire Source Vein, and told Rong Nianbing to inform the God of Destruction that he was now his dog.
• Rong Nianbing told Ma Hongjun that his descendant Ma Xiaotao was a student at Shrek Academy, and Ma Hongjun accepted the news without visible emotion.
• Tang San returned from seclusion and hid his losses and Ah Yin’s death from Xiao Wu, who urged him to deal decisively with the God of Destruction.
• Tang San defended his restraint to Xiao Wu, and they wondered how Xiao Qi was faring on Douluo Continent.

Tang San failed to locate Wang Dong and Qiu'er, then discovered that his Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and its rare plants had been devastated. While he mobilized his Sea God followers to investigate, Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong assessed earthquake damage and organized relief efforts.

• Tang San tried to use his Sea God powers to check on Xiao Qi, but he could not contact Wang Dong or the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and realized his Divine Sense could no longer find them.
• Tang San discovered that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had been depleted and its medicinal garden and surrounding Bi Lin flowers had disappeared.
• Tang San checked on Da Ming and Er Ming at Clear Sky Sect and learned that Wang Dong had vanished, though they did not know what had happened to her.
• Tang San contacted the Sea God High Priest, who swore an oath to carry out his orders and began moving the Sea God Family into action.
• Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong traveled toward Shrek City, surveying damage from the earthquake while Huo Yutong processed disaster reports and mobilized relief supplies.

After the earthquake devastated Shrek City and much of the former Heaven Dou Empire, Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong joined the relief effort and found that even the continent’s available grain could not sustain the survivors. Qian Chaoguang considered forcibly taking supplies if the Sun Moon Empire failed to help, while Zhongli Wu worried about a powerful Sacred Angel appearing among his enemies.

• Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong arrived at Shrek City, where Soul Masters and the Eternal God Cult were treating the wounded and sheltering refugees with Water of Life.
• Qian Chaoguang found Xuan Zi overseeing cleanup and reconstruction, and they discussed how the earthquake might leave the former Heaven Dou Empire vulnerable to famine and invasion.
• Huo Yutong calculated that the Pixiu Merchant Guild and Shrek Academy could not supply enough grain to sustain the disaster-stricken region until the next harvest.
• Qian Chaoguang blamed himself if the earthquake had been caused by their operation against Ah Yin and considered taking grain by force if the Sun Moon Empire would not provide relief.
• In Mingdu, Zhongli Wu grew angry over the losses at Dongyang City and feared the Four-Winged Sacred Angel could become a Six-Winged Angel capable of threatening the Holy Spirit Cult.

After the Heaven Dou Empire’s last province was devastated by an earthquake and Shrek Academy’s Golden Ancient Tree withered, the Sun Moon court debated how to exploit the crisis. The empire chose disaster relief and a propaganda campaign instead of attacking Shrek, while Di Tian reported the alliance and the threat posed by the boy to his lord.

• Feng Ling reported that an earthquake had devastated the Heaven Dou Empire’s remaining province and that Shrek Academy’s Golden Ancient Tree had withered.
• Zhongli Wu urged an immediate assault on Shrek, but the Prime Minister argued that Shrek’s strength made such an attack too dangerous and proposed using disaster relief to win over the province’s people.
• The Minister of Military Affairs proposed blaming Shrek for the disaster, and Xu Tianran ordered troops to deliver relief supplies while the empire spread the accusation and prepared a Heaven Worship Ceremony.
• Feng Ling departed to carry out Xu Tianran’s orders, while the Minister of Military Affairs and the Prime Minister took charge of propaganda and the ceremony.
• Di Tian told his lord that he had formed a temporary alliance with the Angel God’s descendant and suspected that the boy behind the Golden Ancient Tree’s withering wielded part of the Angel God’s Authority.
• Di Tian’s lord warned him against impulsive action after more than five hundred thousand Soul Beasts had died in battle.

Di Tian agreed to build a relationship with Qian Chaoguang, believing he might be the Soul Beast race’s chance to break its deadlock. After Wang Dong woke from two months in a hibernation pod, Qian Chaoguang told her that her origins—not her physical health—were causing her rejection of Soul Tools and could bring a crisis to the continent.

• Di Tian accepted the mysterious voice’s instructions and watched the Second Martial Soul Granting Method restore a dying bear-type Soul Beast.
• Wang Dong woke in the Research Department’s hibernation pod after two months and struggled to understand her restraints and the nutrient solution.
• Electrolux introduced himself to Wang Dong as Qian Chaoguang’s teacher, then left to oversee the Third Generation Charging Tower.
• Qian Chaoguang explained that Wang Dong’s backlash had ruptured most of her meridians and cracked her Sea of Spirit, and that Sacred Life Essence was helping treat her injuries.
• Qian Chaoguang told Wang Dong that her rejection of Soul Tools and her Martial Soul came from her origins, which could endanger her, Xiao Tong, Shrek Academy, and the Douluo Continent.

Qian Chaoguang told Wang Dong that her father had manipulated her and caused disasters across the continent, then gave her the choice to sign a Soul Contract and remove the Thought Imprint in her soul. Wang Dong agreed, and after a painful operation Qian Chaoguang extracted and destroyed the imprint, leaving her unconscious but stable.

• Qian Chaoguang explained to Wang Dong that her father had caused widespread war and suffering, and that both of her parents were still alive.
• Wang Dong chose to sign a Soul Contract with Qian Chaoguang so she could learn the truth and escape confinement.
• Qian Chaoguang began removing the Thought Imprint and its Divine Sense brand from Wang Dong’s soul, using the Soul Network to help her endure the pain.
• After several dozen hours, Qian Chaoguang pulled the imprint’s core and its tendrils from Wang Dong’s soul and burned them away.
• Wang Dong briefly woke and convulsed before passing out again, while Qian Chaoguang confirmed her condition was stable and told Dragon One the treatment was finished.

Qian Chaoguang told Wang Dong that he had removed Tang San’s Thought Imprint from her soul and revealed that Tang San and Xiao Wu were her biological parents. He then began explaining that Wang Dong’s memories and personality had been altered, leaving her with questions about her origins and her connection to Qiu’er.

• Huo Yutong helped Qian Chaoguang recover after he removed the Thought Imprint from Wang Dong, and she cared for him while he rested.
• Three days later, Wang Dong awoke, drank coffee with Qian Chaoguang, and asked him about the Thought Imprint and her parents.
• Qian Chaoguang showed Wang Dong the trident mark in her Sea of Spirit, and she deduced that Tang San and Xiao Wu were her biological parents.
• Wang Dong explained that she had recognized clues about Tang San during the painful removal, and she thanked Qian Chaoguang for saving her from the imprint’s influence.
• Qian Chaoguang revealed that Wang Dong and Qiu’er would have been the same person if he and Electrolux had not intervened, and he said Tang San had cut away Wang Dong’s original memories, personality, and soul before her sixth birthday.
• Wang Dong realized her childhood memories had been fabricated, and Qian Chaoguang began explaining that her body and soul were Tang San’s daughter’s but her personality was not.

Qian Chaoguang explained how Tang San’s plans had erased Tang Wutong and led to Wang Dong’s new personality, and comforted Wang Dong as she broke down over her past. He removed Tang San’s restraints from her but kept her protected from the God Realm, then went to inspect the Second Martial Soul Granting research, where the team had developed a theory that martial souls were projections of souls.

• Qian Chaoguang told Wang Dong that Tang San had removed Tang Wutong’s memories and personality to create a weapon, and Wang Dong wept as she grieved the life she had lost.
• Qian Chaoguang removed Tang San’s imprints and restraints from Wang Dong, but warned Huo Yutong that she still needed protection from the God Realm’s gaze.
• Huo Yutong reported progress on the Second Martial Soul Granting Method and the Interference Bomb, and Qian Chaoguang approved unlimited research funding.
• Qian Chaoguang visited the Second Martial Soul Research Project Team and reviewed experiments showing that Martial Souls granted after birth could recover strength as their host’s cultivation nourished the Soul Beast’s soul.
• The Martial Soul Research Department concluded that artificially granted Beast Martial Souls were projections of Soul Beast souls transformed by Laws.

The Undead Empire’s researchers advanced a method for granting people a second Martial Soul, potentially allowing ordinary people to cultivate and enabling the empire to produce powerful Spirit Masters on a large scale. With the Sun Moon Empire pausing its military campaign and its rivals contesting its propaganda, Qian Chaoguang decided to use the lull to cultivate and fill his Ice God Martial Soul’s remaining Spirit Ring slots.

• The Undead Empire’s researchers concluded that Martial Souls depended on a connection to Law, and their Conceptual Projection Blocking Device successfully prevented a test subject’s Martial Soul from manifesting.
• The Second Martial Soul Granting Method reached a high success rate for thousand-year and ten-thousand-year soul beasts, and Qian Chaoguang ordered a review of his forces to select recipients.
• Wang Dong returned to her former appearance, accepted Qian Chaoguang’s cultivation instructions, and chose to remain in seclusion beside the Golden Ancient Tree in the Demi-plane.
• The Sun Moon Empire annexed the Heaven Dou Empire’s final province and paused its advance, while the Star Luo and Dou Ling Empires pushed back against its accusations against Shrek Academy.
• With external affairs quiet, Qian Chaoguang chose to seclude himself and seek high-age Spirit Rings for his Ice God Martial Soul as he approached rank eighty-three.

Qian Chaoguang tested Spirit Domain, a new cultivation ground controlled by an artificial Auxiliary Soul, and used its Third Generation Charging Tower to condense and rapidly strengthen an artificial soul ring. The process pushed his cultivation past rank eighty-three, and he continued advancing as his soul ring reached the blood-red level with eight and a half golden patterns.

• Qian Chaoguang entered the Research Department’s new cultivation ground, where its Auxiliary Soul introduced itself and played Electrolux’s recording about its limited intelligence.
• Qian Chaoguang named the Auxiliary Soul Spirit Domain and activated adaptive cultivation assistance and soul ring condensation and age-increase modes.
• Qian Chaoguang began cultivating with his Ice God Martial Soul and condensed a white artificial soul ring using the gathered Heaven and Earth Origin Power.
• Spirit Domain deployed the Third Generation Charging Tower, drawing in vast energy that Qian Chaoguang used to increase the soul ring’s age and his cultivation.
• Qian Chaoguang broke through to rank eighty-three and continued toward rank eighty-four as the ring became blood-red with eight and a half golden patterns, while his Golden Body Art also improved.

After a year of cultivation and research, Qian Chaoguang remained unable to break through the limits of his Soul Rings or Golden Core, while the Undead Empire’s forces and technology advanced rapidly. He ended the chapter back in Shrek City, repeatedly failing to achieve Heavenly Forging as he tried to reproduce the materials of the Angel God Armor.

• Qian Chaoguang formed a Soul Ring with nine golden patterns, but it stopped just short of one million years, leaving him unable to explain the limit.
• The Sun Moon Empire consolidated its control over the former Heaven Dou Empire while the Star Luo and Dou Ling Empires fortified their borders and prepared for a future war.
• After reaching rank ninety, Qian Chaoguang found that his body rejected newly condensed Soul Rings and suspected that advancing further required him to comprehend Power Liberation.
• Ji Juechen became the first of the Undead Empire’s cultivators to reach rank ninety-one and earned the title Sword God, while Ye Guyi followed as the Titled Douluo known as Angel.
• The Undead Empire’s upper ranks rapidly improved through new Soul Ring methods, and its scientific research began producing major breakthroughs.
• Qian Chaoguang repeatedly failed at Heavenly Forging despite refining a formula based on Soul Refined Jade Silver and several rare materials.

Qian Chaoguang concluded that the God Realm was preventing him from completing Heavenly Forging, then learned that the Sun Moon Empire had attacked Lingdou City and set out to disrupt its plan. He reached the city with Ye Guyi and Ji Juechen and prepared to ambush the soul tool emplacement guarding the attackers’ retreat.

• Qian Chaoguang reasoned that Heavenly Forging required an Elemental Lightning Tribulation beyond the God Realm’s control, so he could not complete it while remaining on Douluo Star.
• Qian Chaoguang received word that the Imperial Dragon and Evil Monarch Soul Tool Master Legions had attacked Lingdou City with a Rank Nine Fixed Soul Cannon Shell.
• Qian Chaoguang sent Huo Yutong to notify Xuan Zi and Xu Sanshi, then took Ye Guyi and Ji Juechen toward Lingdou City to interfere with the Sun Moon Empire’s plan.
• Qian Chaoguang and his companions saw that the Dou Ling Empire’s palace had been destroyed and its capital was in chaos as the two legions attacked its defenders.
• Qian Chaoguang located the soul tool emplacement thirty li from Lingdou City and moved with Ji Juechen to cut off its retreat while Ye Guyi watched from nearby.

Qian Chaoguang and Ji Juechen raided a Sun Moon Empire soul tool position, killed its defenders, and salvaged its equipment. Meanwhile, the Imperial Dragon and evil monarch legions captured Lingdou City, where their commanders treated the Pixiu Merchant Guild as a trusted ally.

• Ji Juechen used Annihilation to pierce the linked shield, and Qian Chaoguang joined him in attacking the fifty Soul Engineers inside the position.
• Qian Chaoguang endured the Soul Tool barrage and killed the defenders, including an eighth-rank Soul Tool Master whose Humanoid Soul Tool he had scanned.
• Qian Chaoguang summoned Silver Skeletons and ordered the Wailing Banshee to strip the position of everything valuable.
• The Imperial Dragon and evil monarch Soul Tool Master Legions overwhelmed Lingdou City's resistance and looted the city without indiscriminately killing its civilians.
• Xu Tianyuan and Xia XuanChen visited the Pixiu Merchant Guild and Taotie Hotel, reassured their employees, and enjoyed a meal while treating the guild as a trusted partner.

Xu Tianyuan and Xia XuanChen withdrew from the devastated Lingdou City with their troops, only to find their soul tool position missing and face Ji Juechen’s devastating ambush. As the two legions focused on fighting him, an unseen attacker began descending from above.

• Xu Tianyuan ordered the Imperial Dragon and Evil Monarch Soul Tool Master Legions to withdraw from Lingdou City after they looted the city with no losses.
• Qian Chaoguang instructed Ye Guyi to follow the legions while Ji Juechen waited to attack them from the front.
• Xu Tianyuan and Xia XuanChen found their prepared soul tool position had vanished and hurriedly formed linked defensive formations.
• Ji Juechen emerged and killed dozens of Soul Tool Masters with a powerful sword strike before cutting through the legions’ barrage.
• Xu Tianyuan and Xia XuanChen ordered their forces to intensify their attacks, while a human-shaped shadow carrying a sword descended through the sunlight above them.

Ye Guyi destroyed the Sun Moon Empire’s linked defenses with her Ninth Soul Skills, while Qian Chaoguang attacked the surviving Soul Tool Masters. Qian Chaoguang killed Prince Xu Tianyuan and claimed his corpse and Storage Soul Tool, leaving the legionaries grieving and eager for revenge.

• Ye Guyi used Heavenly Kingdom Descent and Divine Grace: Judgment to break the Linked Defense Shield and kill dozens of Soul Engineers.
• Xia XuanChen sensed Qian Chaoguang’s ambush and twice protected Xu Tianyuan, first with his hammer and then with a Golden Hawksbill Beast Core.
• Xu Tianyuan rallied the surviving Soul Tool Masters and ordered them to surround Qian Chaoguang with a linked attack and defense.
• Qian Chaoguang evaded the legion’s attacks, split its linked defense with Xuanhui, and beheaded Xu Tianyuan.
• Qian Chaoguang collected Xu Tianyuan’s soul, corpse, and Storage Soul Tool as the Soul Tool Masters cried out and charged to avenge their commander.

Qian Chaoguang defeated the Sun Moon Empire’s soul engineers, let most of them escape with news of his strength, and killed Commander Xia Xuanchen while marking his soul for a possible future return. He then joined Xu Sanshi in Lingdou City, where they began confronting the chaos left by the destruction of the Douling Empire’s palace.

• Xia Xuanchen ordered his surviving soul engineers to retreat, then stayed behind to protect them as Qian Chaoguang watched.
• Xia Xuanchen accepted death without resistance, and Qian Chaoguang killed him, preserved his body, and marked his soul for possible reincarnation.
• Huo Yutong brought Xu Sanshi to Lingdou City, where Qian Chaoguang explained the situation and urged him to help restore order.
• Qian Chaoguang and his companions entered Lingdou City after showing the city guards his Shrek Inner Court token.
• Qian Chaoguang berated and kicked a city officer who refused to leave the gate to help quell the disorder, then Xu Sanshi took out a necklace bearing the Dou Ling insignia.

After the destruction of Lingdou City’s Imperial Palace, Xu Sanshi took control of the city and exposed the Dou Ling Empire’s leaders as unprepared and self-serving. He accepted the throne to keep the empire from collapsing, appointed the diligent clerk Luo Lan as prime minister, and Qian Chaoguang warned the remaining officials that he would punish incompetence.

• Xu Sanshi used his imperial pendant to rally the City Defense Army and help restore order in Lingdou City.
• Qian Chaoguang confronted the assembled officials and showed that the Imperial Prime Minister knew nothing about the city’s military, supplies, or disaster relief.
• Luo Lan, a low-ranking Grain Official, provided useful information, so Xu Sanshi killed the former prime minister and appointed Luo Lan to replace him.
• Luo Lan and the officials asked Xu Sanshi to inherit the throne, and Xu Sanshi agreed after Qian Chaoguang explained that a rebel army was preparing to revolt.
• After the minor officials left, Qian Chaoguang warned the remaining senior officials that he was an expert at killing.

Qian Chaoguang used force to secure Xu Sanshi’s authority and arranged support for the struggling Dou Ling Empire, then returned to Shrek Academy. There, Bei Bei begged him to save Tang Ya, whose life force had rapidly dwindled, and Qian Chaoguang found her gravely weakened.

• Qian Chaoguang crushed the Imperial Palace ruins with his power and forced Dou Ling’s officials to cooperate with Xu Sanshi.
• Xu Sanshi accepted responsibility for the empire, while Qian Chaoguang promised him military, financial, and administrative support.
• At the Sea God Pavilion Meeting, Qian Chaoguang postponed becoming Pavilion Master and sent Nana and other administrators to help Xu Sanshi.
• Bei Bei knelt before Qian Chaoguang and begged him to save Tang Ya, explaining that her vitality, blood, and qi had been draining away for half a month.
• Qian Chaoguang flew with Bei Bei to the Tang Sect and found Tang Ya frail and near death.