Recaps

Houtu questioned Hongjun about the Witch Clan’s destined calamity, while Gu Yuena studied the Primordial World and found its weakest beasts stronger than top Soul Beasts from the Douluo Continent. On the Douluo Continent, Qiangu Dongfeng tried to cultivate the Ancestral Dragon Scripture, but its overwhelming power destroyed the dragon soul in his Martial Soul, leaving the Spirit Pagoda searching for someone who could learn it.

• Houtu asked Hongjun whether sending the Witch Clan to the Underworld of reincarnation could spare them from the calamity, and Hongjun considered how their departure would affect the Demon Clan.
• Gu Yuena killed a giant wolf and reflected that even an ordinary Primordial World beast rivaled a top Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast from the Douluo Continent.
• At the Spirit Pagoda, Qiangu Dongfeng volunteered to test the Ancestral Dragon Scripture, and Qiangu Dieting allowed him to try.
• The Scripture’s power suppressed Qiangu Dongfeng, annihilated the dragon soul in his Coiling Dragon Staff, and nearly shattered his Martial Soul before he stopped cultivating and spat blood.
• Qiangu Zhangting offered to try the Scripture, but Qiangu Dongfeng and Qiangu Dieting refused; Qiangu Dongfeng decided to have the Spirit Pagoda’s dragon-Marsial-Soul holders test it instead.

Long Yeyue banned Shrek Academy disciples from cultivating the Ancestral Dragon Scripture and used the sky screen to promote Shrek. As factions across the continent reacted to her message, Tang Wulin continued cultivating the Mysterious Heaven Skill, which Tang San secretly preferred.

• Long Yeyue failed to cultivate the Ancestral Dragon Scripture and ordered Shrek disciples not to study it, threatening expulsion for anyone who disobeyed.
• Zhuo Shi questioned the ban, but Long Yeyue insisted that Shrek disciples should cultivate the Mysterious Heaven Skill passed down by Tang San instead.
• The sky screen allowed people across Douluo to leave messages, and Long Yeyue publicly condemned the Primordial World while claiming Shrek had taught gods.
• Qiangu Dongfeng mocked Long Yeyue’s claims, while the Netherworld Ghost Twin Emperors argued that creating reincarnation could be a path to merit and redemption.
• Tang Wulin ignored the debate and cultivated the Mysterious Heaven Skill, while Tang San praised Long Yeyue and reflected on how he had deliberately weakened the version he passed down.

Long Yeyue and Qiangu Dieting clashed over whether Soul Masters should study the Ancestral Dragon Scripture, while Xu You sent Gu Yuena to find Fuxi and offer him a new cultivation method for humans. Gu Yuena reluctantly set out, and Xu You hoped his plan to teach humanity through Fuxi would not draw unwanted attention.

• Qiangu Dieting argued that the Primordial World ranked higher than Douluo and that studying the Ancestral Dragon Scripture could benefit all Soul Masters, prompting Long Yeyue to accuse him of misleading them and remind him of her past slap.
• Long Yeyue invoked Sea God Tang San and his Great Dao inheritance, leaving Qiangu Dieting furious until Qiangu Dongfeng pointed out that the sky-screen scene had changed.
• After cultivating under Xu You's guidance, Gu Yuena made rapid progress with the water-attribute Great Dao and recognized how little she had understood her own powers.
• Xu You gave Gu Yuena a golden beast-hide scroll containing the Dragon Transformation Scripture and ordered her to find Fuxi in a settlement a hundred li east and bring him to be his disciple.
• Gu Yuena feared that humans who learned to cultivate might someday threaten the Dragon Clan, but Xu You tapped her on the head and insisted she follow his order, so she left with the scroll.
• Xu You reflected that he could teach humans through Fuxi and borrow some of humanity's fortune, reasoning that he had only modified a technique Fuxi would have created.

Soul Masters across the continent began cultivating the Dragon Transformation Art, and Wang Jinxi gained power and dragon scales after practicing it. The chapter ended with Long Yeyue declaring its practitioners Evil Soul Masters and calling for them to be judged.

• Tang Wulin suppressed his interest in the Dragon Transformation Art after Old Tang assured him that the Mysterious Heaven Skill was superior.
• Wang Jinxi practiced the Dragon Transformation Art, rose from rank seventeen to rank twenty, and developed dragon scales and an intimidating dragon aura.
• Zhang Yangzi worried that Wang Jinxi's Martial Soul might evolve and sever their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but Wang Jinxi said their connection remained.
• Soul Masters around the continent reported that the Dragon Transformation Art strengthened them and could even prolong the lives of some practitioners.
• Long Yeyue denounced the Dragon Transformation Art as a heretical method that turned humans into Soul Beasts and classified its practitioners as Evil Soul Masters.