Chapter Summaries

Li Chen concealed his abilities while living as the carefree son of Federation Speaker Li Yuntian, then reached Soul Elder and prepared to use the Tree of Sorrow’s third Soul Skill. He sent his spiritual form through a space-time gate to seek lovers in earlier Douluo eras and left the outcome unknown.

• Li Chen accepted praise for winning a mecha design competition, slept through class, and went home with Mo Lan.
• Li Chen discussed Shrek Academy’s federal subsidies with Li Yuntian and explained why the speaker’s reform proposal kept failing.
• Li Chen summoned his Tree of Sorrow martial soul and revealed that he had deliberately concealed his talent while waiting to reach level 30.
• Li Chen activated Reincarnation and Renewal of Fate and sent his spiritual form through the Gate of Space and Time to search earlier timelines for suitable lovers.

Li Chen used the Tree of Sorrow to offer Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao reincarnation, and they accepted just before their deaths. He returned to the Dragon King era with a Dark Holy Dragon Bloodline and the Bright Phoenix Martial Soul, then discovered that the world had changed and Long Xiaoyao was alive in this era.

• After Xu Tianran detonated ten Class 9 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells and four High-Energy Compression Soul Tool Arrays, Ju Zi declared Ye Xishui dead, but Li Chen sensed that Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao had survived and pursued them outside Mingdu.
• Ye Xishui told Long Xiaoyao that she had always loved him, that they had a child, and that Yan Shaozhe was their descendant; Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui prepared to give their power to Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong.
• Li Chen appeared in Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui's Seas of Consciousness and offered them reincarnation, and they swore to meet again in another life.
• The Giant Tree of Sadness absorbed Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui's Soul Power as they turned into light and disappeared, leaving Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong bewildered and enraging Tang San.
• Li Chen returned to the Dragon King era and received the Dark Holy Dragon Bloodline and the Bright Phoenix Martial Soul as rewards for successfully reincarnating Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui.
• Li Chen saw a news report that Long Xiaoyao would challenge Zhuo Shi in three days and suspected that Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui had reincarnated into the Dragon King era.

Li Chen discovered that Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui had reincarnated in the current era, then arranged for Ye Zhaolu to attend Long Xiaoyao’s challenge against Shrek’s Red Dragon Douluo. He called Long Xiaoyao afterward and asked whether he wanted a wife.

• Li Chen found Long Xiaoyao’s profile and realized the War God was Long Xiaoyao reincarnated.
• Li Chen used the Tree of Sorrow to locate Ye Xishui’s reincarnation, Ye Zhaolu, a deputy director at the Federal Research Institute.
• Li Chen visited Ye Zhaolu and persuaded her to attend Long Xiaoyao’s challenge against Shrek’s Red Dragon Douluo in two days.
• Li Chen obtained Long Xiaoyao’s communicator number and called him, asking whether he wanted a wife.

Li Chen introduced Long Xiaoyao to a photograph of Ye Zhaolu, and Long Xiaoyao immediately fell for her and asked Li Chen to arrange a meeting. Afterward, Li Chen discovered that matchmaking had strengthened his Soul Power, Soul Skill, bloodline, and Bright Phoenix, leaving him convinced he could improve himself by bringing reincarnated people together.

• Li Chen introduced himself to Long Xiaoyao, who politely welcomed his friendship but said he had no interest in women.
• Li Chen showed Long Xiaoyao a photograph of Ye Zhaolu, and Long Xiaoyao was overcome by her beauty and asked Li Chen to arrange a meeting.
• Long Xiaoyao promised to protect Li Chen and eagerly prepared for his challenge at Shrek, while Chen Xinjie and Yu Guanzhi wondered who had made him fall in love.
• Li Chen returned to his room and discovered that his Soul Power had risen, his third Soul Skill’s cooldown had shortened, and his Dark Holy Dragon bloodline had evolved into the Darkness Holy Dragon King.
• Li Chen realized that helping reincarnated people find love could improve his abilities and embraced his role as the Red Thread Immortal of the Dragon King era.

Li Chen brought Ye Zhaolu to meet Long Xiaoyao before his challenge to Zhuo Shi, and the two felt an inexplicable familiarity with each other as Li Chen suggested they might have been lovers in past lives. Meanwhile, Tang San sensed Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao’s presences and was shocked that they seemed to have returned from the dead.

• Li Chen picked up Ye Zhaolu and took her by flying car to Shrek City, where Long Xiaoyao was preparing for his challenge to Zhuo Shi.
• Long Xiaoyao nervously greeted Ye Zhaolu, and the three went to the VIP lounge while reporters photographed their meeting.
• Li Chen prompted Ye Zhaolu to explain déjà vu, then suggested that reincarnation might explain her familiarity with Long Xiaoyao.
• Long Xiaoyao became emotional at Li Chen’s suggestion, and Ye Zhaolu admitted she felt unusually comfortable around him.
• Tang San sensed Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao inside Tang Wulin and wondered in shock how the two had returned after dying long ago.

Tang San and Huo Yuhao discovered that Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao had returned on Douluo Star and speculated that the God of Love’s power was responsible. Meanwhile, Cai Yue'er confronted Long Xiaoyao and demanded to know why he was eating with Ye Zhaolu.

• Tang San sensed two old acquaintances through Tang Wulin and asked him to visit the guest building so he could investigate.
• Tang San told Huo Yuhao that Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao seemed to have appeared on Douluo Star, and they suspected the God of Love’s power had revived them.
• Tang San decided to keep observing the situation and considered having Tang Wulin approach Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao.
• Li Chen ate with Long Xiaoyao and Ye Zhaolu, hoping their relationship would deepen and strengthen him.
• Cai Yue'er burst into the dining room, pointed at Ye Zhaolu, and angrily demanded to know why Long Xiaoyao was eating with her.

Long Xiaoyao rejected Cai Yue'er’s advances and defended his friends when she ordered Ye Zhaolu and Li Chen out of Shrek. After Cai Yue'er attacked him, Ye Zhaolu revealed her Bright Phoenix Martial Soul and rank-96 strength, overwhelming Cai Yue'er’s silver moonlight.

• Cai Yue'er confronted Long Xiaoyao for dining with Ye Zhaolu and Li Chen, while Long Xiaoyao insisted he had never asked her for help.
• Long Xiaoyao told Cai Yue'er to keep her distance and said he had invited Ye Zhaolu and Li Chen as his friends.
• Cai Yue'er ordered Ye Zhaolu and Li Chen to leave Shrek, but Long Xiaoyao defended them and demanded that Cai Yue'er leave instead.
• Cai Yue'er tried to slap Long Xiaoyao, and Ye Zhaolu caught her hand and challenged her conduct as a Shrek Elder.
• Ye Zhaolu revealed her Bright Phoenix Martial Soul and nine Soul Rings, shocking Long Xiaoyao with her rank-96 strength.
• Ye Zhaolu unleashed her Soul Power, and her scorching light overwhelmed Cai Yue'er's silver moonlight.

Ye Zhaolu revealed that she was a rank-96 Super Douluo and drove Cai Yue'er away, leaving Long Xiaoyao disheartened by the gap between their abilities. Li Chen reassured Long Xiaoyao that Ye Zhaolu likely liked him, and Long Xiaoyao decided to defeat Zhuo Shi and win her over.

• Ye Zhaolu revealed her Bright Phoenix Martial Soul and suppressed Cai Yue'er's Silver Moon Martial Soul, forcing Cai Yue'er to withdraw and leave.
• Li Chen realized Ye Zhaolu was a twenty-eight-year-old rank-96 Super Douluo, while Ye Zhaolu explained that research mattered more to her than being a Soul Master.
• Long Xiaoyao felt humiliated by Ye Zhaolu's strength and left to pay for the damage after Cai Yue'er departed.
• Li Chen called Long Xiaoyao and suggested that Ye Zhaolu's willingness to listen to his boasting showed she liked him.
• Long Xiaoyao regained his confidence and vowed to defeat Zhuo Shi and win Ye Zhaolu over.

Li Chen discovered that his Tree of Sorrow Martial Soul contained a Marriage Fate Shop and resolved to grow stronger before Shrek faced a future attack. Meanwhile, Cai Yue'er asked Long Yeyue to help Zhuo Shi defeat Long Xiaoyao, leaving Long Yeyue confident that her plan would humble him.

• Li Chen thanked Long Xiaoyao for his support and considered how he could use the young War God as an ally for his father.
• Li Chen recalled that Qiangu Dongfeng would attack Shrek with rank-12 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells in four years, threatening his father’s position and his own safety.
• Li Chen discovered the Marriage Fate Shop, saw that its items included treasures from Fox Spirit, and decided to save coins for the Dream Memory Hammer.
• Cai Yue'er told Long Yeyue that Long Xiaoyao had rejected her after she arranged his match with His Holiness Scarlet Dragon.
• Long Yeyue promised to teach Zhuo Shi how to counter Long Xiaoyao’s Dark Holy Dragon Martial Soul, and Cai Yue'er urged him to crush Long Xiaoyao’s pride.

Shrek Academy hosted a public duel between Zhuo Shi and Long Xiaoyao, where Zhuo Shi initially gained the upper hand by unleashing his Nine Crimson Dragon Forms. Long Xiaoyao revealed that his Dark Holy Dragon could absorb the energy of Zhuo Shi’s attacks and blasted him away, leaving Zhuo Shi accusing Long Yeyue of misleading him.

• Tang Wulin expected Zhuo Shi to win, while Gu Yue warned that Long Xiaoyao’s true-dragon bloodline could make the fight unpredictable.
• Zhuo Shi confronted Long Xiaoyao over his treatment of Cai Yue'er, and the two began fighting before a referee could intervene.
• Zhuo Shi and Long Xiaoyao transformed into their dragon forms and took the battle into the sky above the stadium.
• Zhuo Shi surprised Long Xiaoyao with a sudden attack and pummelled him with the Nine Crimson Dragon Forms as Shrek’s supporters cheered.
• Long Xiaoyao absorbed the energy from Zhuo Shi’s attacks and released a powerful beam that blasted Zhuo Shi away, prompting him to accuse Long Yeyue of setting him up.

Long Xiaoyao defeated Zhuo Shi in their match, exposing Shrek's embarrassment and prompting Long Yeyue to attack him. Ye Zhaolu intervened to shield Long Xiaoyao, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Long Xiaoyao used his Darkness Domain and powerful attacks to overwhelm Zhuo Shi in the sky.
• Gu Yue recognized Long Xiaoyao's talent and decided to accelerate her plan to enter the Spirit Pagoda.
• Li Chen told Ye Zhaolu that Long Xiaoyao wanted to invite her to dinner, and she agreed to go.
• Long Xiaoyao knocked Zhuo Shi into the arena, pinned him down, and demanded that he surrender.
• Long Yeyue tried to strike Long Xiaoyao, but Ye Zhaolu shielded him with blazing light-flame.

Long Yeyue’s intervention in the Shrek spar injured Ye Zhaolu and provoked Long Xiaoyao, while Yu Guanzhi prevented the dispute from becoming a full fight. The match ended without a winner, and the footage spread across the continent as Gu Yue wondered about the powerful Dark Holy Dragon she had sensed.

• Long Yeyue attacked Long Xiaoyao after Zhuo Shi lost, but Ye Zhaolu blocked her strike and was injured.
• Long Xiaoyao tried to attack Long Yeyue, but Ye Zhaolu and Yu Guanzhi restrained him, and Yu Guanzhi accused Long Yeyue of bullying the War God Temple.
• Long Yeyue left with Zhuo Shi, ending the match without an announced winner, while Cai Yue'er and the students watched in dismay.
• As the crowd dispersed, Gu Yue sensed a powerful Dark Holy Dragon nearby and wondered how a hatchling could surpass Di Tian in bloodline.
• Footage of the clash spread across the continent, and Speaker Li Yuntian hoped the conflict would weaken Shrek.

After Long Xiaoyao’s duel with Zhuo Shi, Chen Xinjie and Guan Yue stripped him of his War God position and ordered him to apologize to Shrek, leaving the other War Gods distrustful of their leaders. Yu Guanzhi sought help from Li Chen, who revealed that his father, the Federation Speaker, had already gone to challenge the decision.

• Chen Xinjie convened the War Gods and, through Guan Yue, condemned Long Xiaoyao’s conduct and proposed removing him from his position and demanding a public apology to Shrek.
• Ao Rui and Long Tianwu objected to the proposed punishment, but Chen Xinjie and Guan Yue rebuked them and silenced the other War Gods.
• Chen Xinjie approved Long Xiaoyao’s removal, prompting the War Gods to fear that their leaders favored Shrek over their own temple.
• Yu Guanzhi angrily challenged Chen Xinjie over the order, but Chen insisted it was an order and ended the call.
• Yu Guanzhi met Li Chen outside Long Xiaoyao’s room, and Li revealed that his father had gone to the War God Temple to discuss the punishment.

Li Yuntian challenged Chen Xinjie's authority by demanding an anonymous vote on Long Xiaoyao's punishment, and the War Gods split their votes against Chen's decision. Afterward, Li Chen discovered Leng Yaozhu had arrived with Gu Yue, who recognized him as the Darkness Holy Dragon King cub.

• Li Yuntian confronted Chen Xinjie over dismissing Long Xiaoyao and proposed an anonymous War God Temple vote.
• Yu Guanzhi cast the first opposing vote, and opposition rose to half of the War Gods, prompting Li Yuntian to rescind Long Xiaoyao's punishment.
• Chen Xinjie crushed his communicator in anger, while Yu Guanzhi celebrated the challenge to his authority.
• Li Chen saw Long Xiaoyao showing off to Ye Zhaolu and gained three levels of Soul Power as their relationship advanced.
• Leng Yaozhu stopped Li Chen with Gu Yue and asked him to show his martial soul, while Gu Yue recognized him as the Darkness Holy Dragon King cub.

Leng Yaozhu discovered that Li Chen had a Bright Phoenix second Martial Soul with innate full Soul Power, then recruited him as her disciple to bolster the declining Leng Clan. After Leng Yaozhu left, Gu Yue confronted Li Chen and asked whether he belonged to the Dark Holy Dragon Clan.

• Leng Yaozhu examined Li Chen and discovered his Bright Phoenix Martial Soul and innate full Soul Power.
• Leng Yaozhu inspected Li Chen's Lone Bamboo and fox Soul Spirits and criticized his poor cultivation choices.
• Leng Yaozhu speculated that the thousand-year demon fox had transformed into Li Chen's second Martial Soul.
• Leng Yaozhu offered to take Li Chen as her disciple, and he accepted.
• After Leng Yaozhu left, Gu Yue pressed Li Chen against the wall and asked whether he was from the Dark Holy Dragon Clan.

Li Chen manipulated Gu Yue into sealing his bloodline and agreeing to teach him, then secured Long Xiaoyao and Ye Zhaolu’s support against funding Shrek Academy. At Shrek, Cai Yue'er revealed evidence that Long Xiaoyao might be the Dragon Emperor Douluo from ten thousand years ago and an Evil Soul Master.

• Gu Yue mistook Li Chen for a surviving member of the Dark Holy Dragon royal line, sealed his bloodline, and promised to train him and help him grow.
• Li Chen left Shrek with Long Xiaoyao and Ye Zhaolu, and discovered that his Soul Power had risen to level 38.
• Li Chen asked Long Xiaoyao to oppose a proposed funding allocation to Shrek, and Long Xiaoyao agreed with support from the Northwest Legion and War God Temple.
• Ye Zhaolu joined their opposition, citing Shrek's impact on funding for the Federal Research Institute and other Federation institutions.
• Yun Ming confronted Long Yeyue and Cai Yue'er over Shrek's public-relations crisis, and Long Yeyue learned that Chen Xinjie had already overturned her arrangements.
• Cai Yue'er presented documents claiming that Long Xiaoyao was the Dragon Emperor Douluo from ten thousand years ago and was therefore an Evil Soul Master.

Cai Yue'er accused Long Xiaoyao of being the reincarnation of the Dragon Emperor Douluo Long Xiaoyao, but Yun Ming and Long Yeyue questioned whether the evidence could justify a conviction. Cai Yue'er secured permission to investigate him, while Li Chen completed his departure from school to begin studying under Leng Yaozhu.

• Cai Yue'er presented Huo Yuhao's drawing of the Giant Tree of Sadness and argued that Long Xiaoyao had reincarnated, but Yun Ming and Long Yeyue said the claim was difficult to prove and could not establish guilt in this life.
• Long Yeyue advised Cai Yue'er to find evidence of a crime committed in this life, and Cai Yue'er asked to step down temporarily to investigate Long Xiaoyao herself.
• Yun Ming approved Cai Yue'er's investigation after Long Yeyue supported her, while Cai Yue'er privately resolved to destroy Long Xiaoyao if she could not have him.
• Li Chen told Li Yuntian that Leng Yaozhu had accepted him as her disciple, then arranged to study away from Mingdu Advanced Soul Master Academy while keeping his student records there.
• Li Chen said goodbye to Xiao Pang and his other classmates, promised to treat them during the holidays, and left with Leng Yaozhu in her car.

Li Chen and Gu Yue began studying under Leng Yaozhu at the Spirit Pagoda, where Gu Yue tried to recruit Li Chen as her subordinate. After Tang Wulin confronted Gu Yue and Xie Xie attacked Li Chen, Li Chen injured Xie Xie, while Cai Yue'er headed to Mingdu to frame Long Xiaoyao as an Evil Soul Master.

• Leng Yaozhu brought Li Chen and Gu Yue to the Spirit Pagoda headquarters and arranged to teach them Soul Master training and second professions.
• Gu Yue gave Li Chen a silver bracelet for protection and explained more about the dragon race.
• Tang Wulin found Gu Yue dining with Li Chen, argued with her about leaving Shrek, and left after she rejected his complaints.
• Xie Xie lured Li Chen into an alley and attacked him, but Li Chen crushed his wrist and kicked him away.
• Cai Yue'er flew toward Mingdu, intending to frame Long Xiaoyao as an Evil Soul Master.

Li Chen settled into life at the Spirit Pagoda, discovered a new power tied to his Tree of Sorrow, and watched Long Xiaoyao and Ye Zhaolu grow closer. The chapter left Long Xiaoyao waiting nervously as Ye Zhaolu prepared to tell him something important.

• Bai Haoze and Bai Zhicen teased Li Chen until Leng Yaozhu caught them and sent them away, then brought him breakfast and explained his training schedule.
• Li Chen checked the Marriage Fate Shop and found he needed three more coins to redeem the Dream Memory Hammer, which could awaken reincarnated people’s past-life memories.
• Li Chen discovered that his Tree of Sorrow had produced a golden token mark that could command reincarnated people to obey him.
• Li Chen considered whether changing events far in the past could erase God King Tang, but decided that altering the timeline might cost him too much power.
• After half a month of increasingly frequent dinners, Long Xiaoyao picked Ye Zhaolu up from work, and she said she had something important to tell him.

Ye Zhaolu asked Long Xiaoyao how he would treat Evil Soul Masters, and he said he would spare cooperative people with mitigating circumstances but kill her if she were one. Meanwhile, Cai Yue'er arranged a plot to destroy Long Xiaoyao’s reputation, and two Holy Spirit Cult Heavenly Kings entered Mingdu to ambush him.

• Ye Zhaolu described an Evil Soul Master victim at the affiliated hospital and asked Long Xiaoyao whether people tainted by evil power deserved to die.
• Long Xiaoyao said he would incapacitate Evil Soul Masters and spare cooperative, non-murderous ones when possible, but he would kill Ye Zhaolu if she were an Evil Soul Master.
• Cai Yue'er watched Long Xiaoyao and Ye Zhaolu on surveillance, then killed a Holy Spirit Cult informant after he confirmed that two Heavenly Kings were coming to Mingdu.
• Cai Yue'er planned to expose evidence of Long Xiaoyao meeting the Heavenly Kings so the War God Temple would be disgraced.
• Two Holy Spirit Cult Heavenly Kings entered Mingdu and hid along Long Xiaoyao’s route back to the War God Temple.