Chapter Summaries

Wang Dong was captured by the Death God's Emissary but manifested a divine power that let her kill him and free his corpse slaves. After collapsing from exhaustion, she awoke in the forest beside Xu Sanshi and screamed when she realized his hand was resting on her chest.

• The Death God's Emissary seized Wang Dong and fled through an explosive-filled tunnel, but a voice from Wang Dong's trident mark emerged and struck him with a Golden Dragon Spear.
• Wang Dong used the spear's Unmoving Gale to bind and kill the twelve corpse slaves, freeing the souls trapped inside them.
• Elder Xuan reached the tunnel exit and found the Death God's Emissary dead; Wang Dong claimed the spear was her family's divine artifact before collapsing from depleted Soul Power and Spiritual Power.
• Elder Xuan returned Wang Dong to the others and ordered the teams to head to the military camp, then continue to Star Luo City for the tournament.
• Wang Dong woke at noon with her head resting against Xu Sanshi and his hand on her chest, then screamed and sat upright.

Wang Dong recovered, and Wang Yan decided that the Outer Court students would fill in for the injured Dai Yueheng at the competition. Before the group could leave for the Northwestern Army Group camp, the Holy Spirit Cult ambushed them, and Elder Xuan faced Wuyun and the newly revealed Vice Pontiff Feng Ling.

• Wang Dong woke her companions, reassured them that she was fine, and learned that Dai Yueheng would need time to recover.
• Wang Yan told the Outer Court students that one of them would represent Shrek Academy in Dai Yueheng's place at the competition.
• Beibei and Xu Sanshi encouraged the students to take the opportunity, while Jiang Nannan teased Xu Sanshi.
• Elder Xuan raised a barrier as black arrows and dark clouds swept over the group, and a cloaked Titled Douluo-level Evil Soul Master attacked.
• Feng Ling appeared and revealed her powerful Evil Phoenix Martial Soul, prompting Elder Xuan to recognize her as Yan Shaozhe's former lover and the Holy Spirit Cult's Vice Pontiff.
• Elder Xuan demanded that any other hidden attackers reveal themselves, fearing for the Shrek students if more enemies were present.

The Holy Spirit Cult ambushed Elder Xuan’s group, and Zhongli Wu framed the unconscious Ma Xiaotao as the traitor who had exposed them. As Mu En sent Shrek’s elders to the Mingdou Mountain Range, Huo Yuhao realized Ma Xiaotao was in danger and set out after her.

• Zhongli Wu and the Holy Spirit Cult surrounded Elder Xuan’s group, then claimed Ma Xiaotao had revealed their location.
• Ma Xiaotao denied betraying Shrek, but Feng Ling knocked her unconscious, making the Shrek students believe she had defected.
• Elder Xuan began burning his Source of Life and urged the Shrek students to survive as battle loomed.
• Mu En learned from Fan Yu that Elder Xuan’s group had been ambushed and ordered Shrek’s elders to rescue the survivors.
• Huo Yuhao gathered his companions, realized Ma Xiaotao was the person in danger, and watched Titled Douluo experts race toward the Mingdou Mountain Range.

Huo Yuhao set out with Zhongli Yu to rescue Ma Xiaotao, but Shi Xing ambushed them at Shrek City's gate and sent Huo Yuhao into a space-time turbulence. Zhongli Yu attacked the city in grief as Shrek's experts arrived.

• Huo Yuhao's companions insisted on joining him, so he placed them in his Divine Might Space and left with Zhongli Yu for the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• Gou Luanshi reported Huo Yuhao's departure to Uncle Shi, and Zhongli Yu carried Huo Yuhao toward Shrek City's gate.
• Shi Xing used the city's cannons to attack Huo Yuhao and Zhongli Yu, then revealed himself as the Time Douluo and tried to capture them.
• Shi Xing trapped the pair in Space-Time Turbulence; Huo Yuhao pushed Zhongli Yu away and vanished with Shi Xing, while Zhongli Yu escaped the effect.
• Grieving and enraged, Zhongli Yu transformed into her Death God Demonic Puppet form, smashed through the city gate, and charged toward Shi Xing as a giant light dragon descended.

Shrek Academy’s battered competitors reached Star Luo City ahead of the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Competition, while the rescue leaders mourned Xuan Zi’s sacrifice and learned that Ma Xiaotao had joined the Holy Spirit Cult. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao remained trapped in Shi Xing’s Space-Time Turbulence and prepared to test his techniques against the Time Douluo.

• Wang Yan reported that Xuan Zi had stayed behind to save the students, while Body Sect Titled Douluo had helped them escape at the cost of two of their own lives.
• Dai Yueheng told Xian Lin'er that Ma Xiaotao had signaled the Holy Spirit Cult and joined them after being exposed, prompting Yan Shaozhe to end the accusations and order the students to recover for the competition.
• Elder Zhuang began treating the seven less severely injured competitors so they could fight in Shrek’s first match, while Yan Shaozhe awaited reinforcements from the academy.
• Huo Yuhao faced Shi Xing inside Space-Time Turbulence, where the Time Douluo’s domain suppressed many of Huo Yuhao’s abilities.
• Huo Yuhao said he wanted to test several techniques on Shi Xing despite the restrictions of the domain.

Huo Yuhao defeated Shi Xing in the Space-Time Turbulence, but Shi Xing’s Time Reversal de-aged him and sent him toward the past. As the turbulence spat Huo Yuhao out, Bibi Dong warned him not to alter history, leaving his destination unknown.

• Huo Yuhao used Planetary Devastation to summon a gigantic meteor, but Shi Xing reversed it with his ninth soul skill.
• Shi Xing used Time Reversal amplified by his head soul bone to turn Huo Yuhao into a child and summon the soul beasts connected to his past.
• Bibi Dong, Ice Empress, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and Myriad Demon King appeared and helped Huo Yuhao kill Shi Xing.
• Myriad Demon King devoured Shi Xing and left his soul bones, while Huo Yuhao kept the ten-thousand-year head soul bone.
• Bibi Dong told Huo Yuhao the effect would likely last a week and warned him against changing history.
• The Time Reversal manifestations faded, the Space-Time Turbulence ended, and Huo Yuhao was spat out into an unknown destination.

After being thrown from the Space-Time Turbulence, Huo Yuhao landed in the Sun Moon Empire as a five-year-old and was taken in by a local couple. Meanwhile, in the original Worldline, Wang Yan prepared Shrek Academy’s reserve team for the competition’s opening elimination round.

• Huo Yuhao landed on a beach, discovered that he had reverted to about five years old, and learned that he was near the Sun Moon Empire’s border.
• Huang Bin and Lihua found Huo Yuhao and brought him to their town, where Lihua took him home after learning he had no local family.
• The townspeople fawned over Huo Yuhao, and Huang Bin and Lihua served him a meal whose grilled fish reminded him of his own recipe.
• Huo Yuhao considered the risk of changing history and decided to let events unfold, while hoping Ma Xiaotao would be safe in the original Worldline.
• Wang Yan told Shrek Academy’s reserve team that the competition’s first round would be a seven-versus-seven elimination match and urged them to win while reinforcements were away.

Shrek Academy’s leaders privately worried about their injured main team and hoped the reserve students could survive the first elimination match. Meanwhile, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy interpreted Shrek’s young lineup as an insult, while Xiao Hongchen suspected an accident and prepared to face Shrek’s under-fifteen students.

• Yan Shaozhe and Wang Yan reassured the reserve team that their opponents were unlikely to field many Soul Kings and sent them back to rest before the elimination rounds.
• After the reserve students left, Wang Yan asked the injured Shrek members how soon they could fight, and they estimated that recovery would take three to seven days.
• Yan Shaozhe warned the team to keep the outer court reinforcements’ identities secret and hoped the reserve students could win their first match.
• Xu Sanshi and Wang Dong’er began cultivating together, deciding they had to trust Wang Yan’s words and prepare for the competition.
• The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s elders told their students that Shrek’s young lineup showed contempt for them and warned Ma Rulong not to lose.
• Xiao Hongchen argued that Shrek might have suffered an accident, then said his only opponent was himself.

Huo Yuhao settled into Huang Bin and Lihua’s home and met their daughter, Ju Zi, whom he hoped to save from the tragic future he remembered. After earning Ju Zi’s sympathy and spending the evening with her by the sea, he declared that he wanted to become an ally of justice.

• Huo Yuhao helped at Huang Bin’s restaurant, where Lihua introduced him to customers as their newly adopted son.
• Ju Zi returned home, and Huo Yuhao resolved to protect her and recruit her military talent for the force he planned to build.
• Ju Zi resisted sharing her parents’ affection with Huo Yuhao, but he pretended he would leave, then told her a painful story about his parents.
• Ju Zi felt sorry for Huo Yuhao, accepted him as her little brother, and took him to play by the sea after dinner.
• Ju Zi showed Huo Yuhao her orange martial soul and asked what he wanted to become; Huo Yuhao answered that he wanted to be an ally of justice.

Huo Yuhao secretly followed Ju Zi’s class on its first soul-ring hunt, then transported the group from a weak local forest to the dangerous Demon Forest. The students and teachers realized where they were only after encountering powerful soul beasts, while Huo Yuhao watched from hiding.

• Huo Yuhao used Kingly Authority to learn the location of Ju Zi’s academy and left Lihua’s restaurant under Simulation Soul Skill concealment.
• Huo Yuhao infiltrated the academy, found Ju Zi’s class, and followed the students and their teachers toward a nearby soul beast forest.
• Huo Yuhao discovered that Time Reversal’s effects weakened as he spent soul power, but decided to stay and find Ju Zi a suitable soul ring.
• Huo Yuhao used Tsukuyomi and Kamui: Byakugan to transport the students, teachers, and carriages to the Demon Forest.
• The group encountered powerful soul beasts, including an Emerald Demon Bird, which attacked one teacher and destroyed his Soul Guidance Cannon.

The Star Luo Empire opened the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Competition before a vast crowd. Shrek Academy’s young reserve team was announced for the opening knockout match against Heaven Spirit Advanced Soul Master Academy, leaving its members nervous as their opponents took the stage.

• The Star Luo Emperor ordered citizens into Star Luo Plaza and welcomed representatives from 133 academies before declaring the competition open.
• The announcer explained the first-round knockout format and named Shrek Academy and Heaven Spirit Advanced Soul Master Academy as the first match.
• Dai Yueheng and Yao Haoxuan encouraged Shrek Academy’s five reserve members to overcome their nerves and represent the academy proudly.
• Heaven Spirit Advanced Soul Master Academy’s pale and unsteady contestants emerged from the contestant area to take the stage.

Shrek Academy’s reserve team prepared to face Heaven Spirit Advanced Soul Master Academy in an elimination match, while Ju Zi watched from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy stands and remembered meeting Xiao Hongchen years earlier. The flashback revealed Huo Yuhao had secretly followed the childhood encounter, and the chapter left Ju Zi competing in the tournament as the War Goddess.

• Ling Luochen rallied Xu Sanshi and the other Shrek competitors, and the reserve team set out to win the elimination match.
• Xu Sanshi led Shrek’s seven competitors onto the stage, where the opposing academy and other spectators were stunned by the young team’s lineup.
• Ju Zi watched Wang Dong from the Sun Moon stands and recalled being warned about her by someone from her past.
• Ju Zi remembered entering the Demon Forest as a child, where Jing Hongchen rescued her group and Xiao Hongchen became interested in her.
• Jing Hongchen helped the children obtain suitable Soul Rings, while Huo Yuhao secretly followed them from Divine Might Space.
• Ju Zi attended the tournament as a Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy competitor, and Huo Yuhao worried that her strategic talent would threaten Shrek.

Huo Yuhao entered the Demon Forest with Jing Hongchen’s group and found a Fire Evil Tyrant suitable for Ju Zi’s first soul ring. As the beasts attacked, he hid Ju Zi in the Divine Might Space and recognized that the Fire Evil Tyrant was the Evil Emperor’s daughter-in-law.

• The Ice Empress emerged from Huo Yuhao’s Divine Might Space and concealed their presence while her aura drove nearby soul beasts away.
• Huo Yuhao followed Jing Hongchen and the others deeper into the Demon Forest, then hid when chaotic Soul Power fluctuations approached.
• A wounded ten-thousand-year Devouring Dragon fled into view, pursued by a Fire Evil Tyrant’s powerful red beam.
• The Devouring Dragon unleashed Devour Heaven and Earth, and Huo Yuhao used a spatial vortex to protect Ju Zi by drawing her into the Divine Might Space.
• Jing Hongchen shielded the group from the Fire Evil Tyrant, while Huo Yuhao recognized it as the mate of the Evil Emperor’s youngest son.

Huo Yuhao rescued Ju Zi after her teachers abandoned her, then subdued a Ten-Thousand-Year Fire Evil Tyrant and began forming a soul spirit contract so she could gain its power. The contract was completed, but Ju Zi’s fusion with the beast’s immense Soul Power remained uncertain.

• Jing Hongchen ordered the group to retreat and left Ju Zi behind, while Huo Yuhao decided the two teachers who abandoned her would not survive.
• Huo Yuhao reassured Ju Zi inside Divine Might Space and asked whether she wanted the Fire Evil Tyrant as her soul ring.
• Huo Yuhao emerged to bind the Devouring Dragon and Fire Evil Tyrant with his Immortal Law Spirit Wood, then used Kotoamatsukami to make the Fire Evil Tyrant obey him.
• Huo Yuhao released Ju Zi and began transforming the Fire Evil Tyrant into her soul spirit, guiding her through a contract ritual based on Electrolux’s teachings.
• Huo Yuhao completed the contract between Ju Zi and the Fire Evil Tyrant, then prepared to control its Soul Power and help Ju Zi fuse with it.

Ju Zi successfully gained a ten-thousand-year first soul ring and turned the Fire Evil Tyrant into a soul spirit, but Huo Yuhao encountered a Hundred-Thousand-Year Evil Eye Tyrant while escaping Demon Forest. The chapter ended as Huo Yuhao summoned the Myriad Demon King's soul ring and revealed his Immortal Spirit Body before the battle.

• Ju Zi completed the equal contract, gained a ten-thousand-year first soul ring, and summoned the Fire Evil Tyrant as her soul spirit.
• Huo Yuhao found the Fire Evil Tyrant's crystal core and realized its escaped Divine Sense might draw danger to them.
• Huo Yuhao headed toward Demon Forest's outer reaches, but a spiritual illusion and negative emotions halted him.
• Huo Yuhao broke the illusion and confronted a sixteen-tentacled Hundred-Thousand-Year Evil Eye Tyrant seeking revenge for its favored concubine.
• Huo Yuhao summoned the Myriad Demon King's soul ring and unleashed the aura of his Immortal Spirit Body.

Huo Yuhao used his released Soul Cutting Blade, Emperor Lotus Ice Wheel Moon, to kill a Hundred Thousand Year Evil Eye Tyrant and destroy its Divine Sense. He fled as the Evil Emperor awakened and searched the Demon Forest for his son.

• Huo Yuhao attacked the Evil Eye Tyrant with his Wood Dragon, Soul Shock, and Amaterasu, but the beast resisted and counterattacked with Evil Eye Gaze.
• Huo Yuhao released Emperor Lotus Ice Wheel Moon, transformed the Wood Dragon with Ultimate Ice, and trapped the Evil Eye Tyrant in the Everfrost Domain.
• Huo Yuhao killed the frozen Evil Eye Tyrant with the Soul Cutting Blade, collected its soul bone, and destroyed its Divine Sense inside its origin crystal.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed the resulting red soul ring into the fifth soul ring in his Sea of Spirit and departed before the Evil Emperor could find him.
• The Evil Emperor sensed its son's death, unleashed a terrifying Spiritual Power cry across the Demon Forest, and revealed a colossal blood-red eye in the sky as it searched for its child.

After escaping the Evil Eye Tyrant’s attack, Huo Yuhao returned with Ju Zi to find her parents gone and learned that her mother had been badly injured when soldiers forcibly conscripted her father. He vowed to make Ju Zi happy and rode after the conscription unit to rescue her father from Dai Hao.

• Huo Yuhao escaped the Evil Eye Tyrant’s devastating attack and returned to Ju Zi inside the Divine Might Space, exhausted and near the end of his time in the past.
• Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi returned to the restaurant and found it wrecked, then learned that soldiers had taken the town’s eligible men and beaten Ju Zi’s mother, Lihua.
• Huo Yuhao followed Ju Zi to the clinic, where they found Lihua unconscious and gravely injured; Ju Zi cried herself unconscious in Huo Yuhao’s arms.
• Huo Yuhao carried Ju Zi back to the restaurant, vowed to make her happy, and rode after the conscription unit to rescue her father from Dai Hao.

Huang Bin was forced into the Sun Moon Empire army, where Duke White Tiger’s surprise attack left him gravely wounded and captured. As Huo Yuhao raced to rescue him, he received alchemy knowledge and a faster horse from Xiao Huohuo, while Dai Hao prepared to execute the prisoners of war.

• Huang Bin and other townsmen were forced into military service and assigned to the Sun Moon Empire army’s logistics unit.
• The White Tiger Army attacked the camp, and Huang Bin was wounded and trampled during the battle.
• Huo Yuhao met Xiao Huohuo and an old man beside a campfire, received healing pills and alchemy knowledge, and borrowed a swift white horse to continue his rescue.
• Huang Bin woke bound among the prisoners of war as Dai Hao ordered their execution.

Huo Yuhao broke into Dai Hao’s army camp and fought through its soldiers to rescue Huang Bin from execution. He escaped with Huang Bin despite severe wounds, while Dai Hao’s troops pursued them.

• Huo Yuhao disrupted Huang Bin’s execution with a Soul Shock and charged into the camp alone.
• Dai Hao ordered his guards to bring Huang Bin to safety and watched Huo Yuhao fight through the army.
• Huo Yuhao used his Soul Cutting Blade and Twin Martial Souls to break through the formations, then revealed himself as Dai Hao’s father.
• Huo Yuhao used Kingly Authority to command the White Tiger guards to attack Dai Hao, then grabbed Huang Bin and prepared to escape.
• Huo Yuhao fought his way to the camp gates using Spiritual Interference and Soul Shock, suffering multiple wounds as he protected Huang Bin.
• Huo Yuhao escaped on horseback with Huang Bin, and Dai Hao ordered the army to pursue them.

Huo Yuhao returned Huang Bin to Ju Zi, then faded from the past timeline after entrusting her future to Jing Hongchen. Seven years later, Ju Zi arrived in Star Luo for the competition where Huo Yuhao had promised they would meet again, but he was nowhere to be seen.

• Huo Yuhao reached Ju Zi's academy with Huang Bin while pursued by Duke White Tiger's soldiers, and Jing Hongchen killed most of the pursuers.
• Huo Yuhao told Ju Zi he had brought back her father, and she held him as his body faded away.
• Huo Yuhao gave Jing Hongchen a Hundred Thousand Year Evil Eye Soul Bone for Ju Zi and left her instructions about her healing pills, soul spirit, and Soul Tool studies.
• Huo Yuhao promised to meet Ju Zi again at the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Competition in Star Luo, then disappeared.
• Seven years later, Ju Zi awoke alone in the Star Emperor Hotel after dreaming of Huo Yuhao and wondered where he was.