Chapter Summaries

Ye Xiao awakened the Epiphyllum Sword and discovered that teaching others had raised his sword comprehension to a level that transformed his understanding of the Angel Sword Technique. A warning then announced that everyone’s essence, Qi, and spirit would fall to zero in twelve years, as a future sky screen opened on Qiankun Asking Love Valley.

• Ye Xiao awakened an Ultimate Ice Martial Soul, the Epiphyllum Sword, while Ye Guyi watched over him.
• Ye Xiao discovered his Teaching Panel and realized that teaching Ye Guyi had raised his comprehension to 10, letting him deduce the Angel Sword Technique to version 2.0.
• Ye Guyi asked Ye Xiao about his new insight into her sword technique as they fled through the trees.
• A voice announced that the gods’ interference with other planes would be punished by reducing every living being’s essence, Qi, and spirit to zero in twelve years, and opened a screen showing the future.
• Ye Xiao and Ye Guyi recognized the screen’s lake as Qiankun Asking Love Valley, while Ning Rongrong feared that the Divine Realm would blame her for her future interference in the lower realm.

The heavenly screen showed Ye Xiao killing Ning Rongrong and facing Tang San, while the gods and people of the Douluo Universe reacted to the future scene. It then announced that, as punishment for the gods’ repeated interference, the universe’s living beings would immediately have their essence, Qi, and spirit reduced to zero.

• Destruction attacked Tang San after suspecting him of causing the heavenly screen’s warning, but Tang San denied responsibility.
• The heavenly screen showed Ye Xiao carrying a sleeping child as Ning Rongrong called for Third Brother, then revealed Ye Xiao’s introduction as a powerful Sword Dao master.
• Ye Xiao stomped Ning Rongrong to death before Tang San’s Divine Sense and declared that he could at least strike back at Tang San.
• Xuan Zi demanded punishment for Ye Xiao, while Mu En and Ning Fengya suspected Tang San’s actions had caused the heavenly screen’s warning.
• Ye Xiao revealed his eight-ring Soul Douluo power and prepared to fight Tang San, but the heavenly screen announced that all living beings’ essence, Qi, and spirit would be reduced to zero immediately.

After the sky screen exposed Tang San’s interference in the lower realm, a real punishment reduced the gods’ cultivation and threatened to erase all power in the universe in 12 years. Tang San proposed that the Divine Realm try to break through the universal barrier and escape, leaving Destruction and the others uncertain whether it could work.

• Destruction confronted Tang San after the sky screen revealed his future actions, but a divine notice punished the universe and crimson lightning reduced the gods’ cultivation to First-Level God.
• Destruction attacked Tang San, who warned that he would interfere with the lower realm if they tried to kill him.
• Tang San urged Destruction to focus on undoing the punishment and argued that the warning applied only to this universe.
• Life, Lie Yan, and Ji Dong arrived, learned that Tang San had been plotting against the lower realm, and discussed keeping him under guard.
• Tang San proposed mobilizing the Divine Realm to break through the universal barrier and leave the universe, while Destruction admitted he did not know if they could succeed.

The gods agreed to seal Tang San and the Shrek Seven Devils while keeping a plan to break through the cosmic barrier as a fallback. On the heavenly screen, Ye Xiao quickly rebuilt his cultivation after the reset, and Ning Fengya declared him an ally of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect while denouncing Ning Rongrong as an evil devil.

• Ji Dong reassured the gods that they still had twelve years and proposed treating the barrier-breaking plan as a fallback.
• Destruction offered to seal Tang San and the Shrek Seven Devils, and Tang San agreed to the arrangement.
• Ye Xiao revealed that his cultivation relied on Sword Qi, then rapidly restored his level and condensed a yellow Soul Ring while carrying Ye Guyi.
• Ye Guyi recalled that Ye Xiao had offered to help her cultivate Sword Heart through an embarrassing assisted cultivation method.
• Meng Hongchen eagerly volunteered to try Ye Xiao's cultivation method, and Ning Fengya declared Ye Xiao the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect's closest friend.
• Ning Fengya claimed that the Ning Rongrong worshipped by the sect was an evil devil wearing their ancestor's face.

Ye Xiao celebrated the surge in people wanting to learn from him, then learned that Gu Yuena had been punished for interfering with the lower realm. Gu Yuena committed to seeking the creator of self-condensing Soul Rings, while the heavenly screen introduced Wang Qiu'er, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong.

• Ye Xiao considered how to improve his strength and develop an easier version of the Angel Sword Technique.
• The heavenly screen announced that a god had interfered with the Douluo Plane again and would be reduced to the equivalent of a level 99 Limit Douluo.
• The Divine Realm gods determined that Tang San had not been punished and discussed who might have caused the interference.
• Gu Yuena revealed that the punishment had lowered her cultivation and cleared her injuries, then ordered Di Tian to accompany her beyond Star Dou.
• Gu Yuena buried Xiong Jun with an attack and tasked Myriad Demon King with finding the creator of self-condensing Soul Rings.
• The heavenly screen introduced Wang Qiu'er, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong after the young couple left Qiankun Asking Love Valley.

Ye Xiao confronted Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Wang Qiu'er in the Qiankun Asking Love Valley, claiming Wang Dong and Wang Qiu'er as his targets. After killing or incapacitating their allies, he broke Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, while a sky-screen audience learned of Tang San's role in splitting Xiao Qi's soul.

• Huo Yuhao questioned Ye Xiao about retaining his strength after everyone's levels were reset, and Ye Xiao said he had cultivated back to it.
• Xiao Wu and Destruction realized that Tang San had split Wutong's soul into three, with fragments tied to the Auspicious Beast and the child of destiny.
• Ye Xiao asked Wang Qiu'er if she remembered who she was, and her two battling consciousnesses left her collapsed.
• Xiao Xiao and the Shrek group defended Wang Dong, but Ye Xiao's sword struck them down; Ning Tian and Wu Feng withdrew.
• Ye Xiao killed Huo Yuhao by shattering his bones and subdued Wang Dong, while Huo Yuhao's life faded.
• At the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, the duchess ordered Huo Yun'er killed and identified Dai Yuhao as Huo Yuhao after hearing Ye Xiao's words.

The sky screen showed Ye Xiao threatening Wang Dong and reflecting on punishing Tang San’s family, while the Divine Realm and Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect reacted to the revelations. Ye Xiao and Ye Guyi retreated to their hidden mountain base, where he planned to develop abilities unlike those shown in the future.

• Ye Xiao threatened Wang Dong and considered destroying the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect because Ning Rongrong had attacked him.
• Tang Wutong grew angry at the possibility that one of her future selves would die to Ye Xiao, while Ning Rongrong doubted her own strength and Oscar resented Ye Xiao.
• Ji Dong said Ye Xiao posed no immediate threat to the Divine Realm, and Life noted that the sky screen’s revelations had already changed the future.
• Ning Fengya ordered the sect to claim that Ning Rongrong had been possessed by an evil demon and to distance the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect from her.
• Ye Guyi praised Ye Xiao and carried him to their secret base outside Mingdu after asking what he would do now that the sky screen had exposed him.
• Ye Xiao said they would hide while he tried to devise different abilities and eventually pass them on to others.

Ye Xiao watched his future self spare Wang Qiu'er and prepare to enjoy the chaos while the gods assessed how quickly he could regain his strength. A new announcement then revealed that a level-50 True Sting would arrive somewhere in the universe within a month, and Ye Xiao began planning for the threat.

• In the sky-screen playback, Ye Xiao spared Wang Qiu'er, who decided to return to the Star Dou Forest, then gained another white Soul Ring as he went to Ye Guyi.
• Life, Destruction, Ji Dong, and Lie Yan discussed how quickly Ye Xiao could rebuild his cultivation and how dangerous he would be to the Divine Realm.
• The ethereal voice announced that a True Sting, chosen as the assessment enemy, would appear at a random location within a month of the level reset.
• Ye Xiao recognized the True Sting as a potentially multiplying bug and warned Ye Guyi that it could reproduce and split without limit.
• Ye Xiao decided the level-50 bug might be a more manageable trial than the werewolves or centaur-like enemy, and considered using the extra time to teach others his sword dao.

After running out of food, Ye Xiao and Ye Guyi left their cave to find Ye Xiao a Soul Ring. Ye Xiao hoped to develop Sword Qi and an indestructible sword body, and the chapter left them facing a promising Soul Beast in the Soul Hunting Forest.

• Ye Xiao explained that his future self’s indestructible sword body would let him turn cultivation methods into Sword Dao techniques, but admitted he had not created it yet.
• Ye Xiao and Ye Guyi decided to hunt for a Soul Ring, and Ye Xiao said he wanted an enhancement-type Soul Skill but was not too concerned about the result.
• Ye Guyi and Ye Xiao disguised themselves as a young man and a little girl before entering the Soul Hunting Forest near Mingdu.
• Ye Guyi spotted a roughly three-hundred-year-old Silverleaf Azure Antelope and judged its sharpness-attributed horns well suited to Ye Xiao’s Sword Martial Soul.

After absorbing his Soul Ring, Ye Xiao gained a Soul Skill that could release sword Qi and watched a future scene in which he offered the Snow Empress and Ice Empress guidance in his cultivation technique. The vision left Ye Guyi jealous, and she demanded to know when Ye Xiao had met the Snow Empress.

• Ye Xiao discovered that his new Soul Skill gave him a chance to release sword Qi with each swing, and he celebrated his luck with Ye Guyi.
• A heavenly screen showed future Ye Xiao meeting with the Snow Empress and Ice Empress, who had become his Sword Spirits.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress learned that Ye Xiao intended to guide them in his technique, and the Ice Empress playfully leapt into his arms.
• Ye Guyi asked Ye Xiao when he had met the Snow Empress, pulled him into her arms, and pinched his cheeks in jealousy.

Ye Xiao learned that a level-50 True Sting had appeared somewhere in the universe and set out with Ye Guyi, the Ice Empress, and the Snow Empress to prepare for the threat. In Mingdu, he reunited with Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan, and Ye Guyi confirmed that she and Ye Xiao were together.

• The sky announced that the first assessment had begun and that a True Sting had landed at a random location in the universe.
• Ye Xiao said he would establish a faction, spread the Dao, find Ji Juechen, and use the Sword Cloud Guard to conquer a city.
• Ye Xiao and Ye Guyi arrived in Mingdu and found the Sword Cloud Guard training under Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan.
• Ye Xiao teased Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan, while Ji Juechen noticed that Ye Xiao had grown stronger.
• Jing Ziyan asked about Ye Guyi and Ye Xiao's relationship, and Ye Guyi said they were together while taking Ye Xiao's hand.

Ye Xiao returned to the Sword Cloud Guard and taught its members the Cloud Sword Art, which the heavenly screen broadcast across the Douluo Universe. After mastering it and developing Geng Metal Sword Qi, Ye Xiao fainted in Ye Guyi’s arms, while the Divine Realm’s God Kings recognized the art’s extraordinary potential.

• Ye Guyi admitted her relationship with Ye Xiao, and Jing Ziyan teased them before Ji Juechen asked why Ye Xiao had returned.
• Ye Xiao learned that the Sword Cloud Guard had 200 full members and 1,200 reserves, then began teaching them the Cloud Sword Art.
• The heavenly screen broadcast the lesson, and people throughout the Douluo Universe began memorizing the cultivation method.
• Ye Xiao discovered that the public lesson counted toward his teaching panel, mastered the Cloud Sword Art, and blasted a hole in the ground with Geng Metal Sword Qi.
• Ye Xiao exhausted his spiritual power and fainted in Ye Guyi’s arms.
• The Destruction God King judged that the Cloud Sword Art could let even people without Soul Power cultivate toward becoming Titled Douluo.

Mu En ordered Shrek Academy to spread its Monster Heart Sutra and retrieve Ye Xiao and Ye Guyi, while Ye Xiao planned to expand the Sword Cloud Guard by teaching the Cloud Sword Technique across Mingdu. His challenge to the Xu Clan prompted Emperor Xu Lin to summon Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen, who found themselves surrounded by guards.

• Xuan Zi dismissed Ye Xiao's technique, but Mu En saw its value for mass cultivation and ordered Elder Lin to spread Shrek's Monster Heart Sutra in Shrek City.
• Mu En asked Elder Song to bring Ye Xiao and Ye Guyi to Shrek Academy without harming them.
• Ye Xiao introduced Sword Qi Ring Condensation and told Ji Juechen to loosen recruitment and teaching requirements so everyone in Mingdu could learn the Cloud Sword Technique.
• Ye Xiao said the Xu Clan might no longer remain in power, and Jing Ziyan warned that Emperor Xu Lin would not permit the technique to spread.
• Xu Lin ordered his people to bring Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen to him; guards blocked the pair's way, and Ji Juechen accepted the consequences of learning Ye Xiao's sword.

Mu En planned to bring Ye Xiao under Shrek Academy’s control, while the Divine Realm debated whether it could ease Ye Xiao’s future hostility with a God Trial. In the sky-screen scene, Ye Xiao explained the danger of an endlessly splitting bug and revealed his three black Soul Rings as he prepared to conquer Mingdu.

• Mu En told Lin Huiqun to proceed with capturing Ye Xiao, avoid hurting him, and use a girl to pressure him if necessary.
• Lie Yan warned the gods that Ye Xiao’s sword methods might break the Douluo Plane’s rules, and Ji Dong proposed offering God Trials to him and his friends to ease their resentment.
• Destruction urged the gods to wait and see rather than interfere with the lower realm.
• Ye Xiao warned Jing Ziyan and the others that an endlessly splitting bug could overwhelm them, and said they needed to build a force, train for self-protection, and search for signs of the bug.
• When Jing Ziyan asked how they would conquer Mingdu, Ye Xiao told her to ask Ji Juechen and revealed his Epiphyllum Sword with three black Soul Rings.

The Divine Realm gods agreed to give Ye Xiao access to their records through a series of God Trials, hoping the knowledge would help him face the coming Swarm Disaster. In the heavenly screen, Xu Tianran plotted to lure Ye Xiao to the Sun Moon Empire by threatening to execute Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan, while Ye Xiao slipped into the imperial palace.

• The Goddess of Life proposed granting Ye Xiao a blank godly seat and access to Divine Realm records through trials, and the other God Kings agreed.
• Ye Xiao dismissed Jing Ziyan’s warnings and left to scout the imperial palace, promising to take Ye Guyi to the Evil Demon Forest later.
• Jing Ziyan was arrested and brought before the old emperor, where Xu Tianran argued that Ye Xiao mattered more than the prisoners.
• Xu Tianran proposed announcing that Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan would be executed in half a month to draw Ye Xiao to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Tianran said he would have Ye Xiao father a child before arranging his death ahead of the apocalypse, and the old emperor ordered the prisoners sent to the dungeon.
• The heavenly screen showed Ye Xiao, dressed in white, slipping into the imperial palace.

The sky screen revealed Xu Tianran’s plans to seize the throne and his collusion with the Holy Spirit Cult, prompting Xu Lin to strip him of his crown prince status and confine him. It also showed Ye Xiao killing Xu Tianran and Ju Zi before resolving to attack the Sun Moon Empire and Holy Spirit Cult, while Ye Xishui ordered Zhongli Wu to capture him alive.

• The sky screen showed Xu Tianran plotting to take the throne and Ju Zi planning to become empress and unify the continent.
• The sky screen revealed that Xu Tianran had colluded with the Holy Spirit Cult, and Ye Xiao killed Xu Tianran and Ju Zi in the vision.
• Xu Tianran begged Xu Lin for mercy, but Xu Lin removed him as crown prince and ordered him confined to the cold palace.
• At the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters, Ye Xishui ordered Zhongli Wu to capture Ye Xiao alive.
• The sky screen showed Ye Xiao deciding to attack the Sun Moon Empire and Holy Spirit Cult after confirming their alliance.
• Ye Xiao woke with his head on Ye Guyi’s lap and felt embarrassed as the sky screen exposed his thoughts.

Ye Xiao stormed the Sun Moon Imperial Palace, declaring that he had come to carry out justice against Xu Lin. As the guards attacked and the officials weighed surrender, Ye Xiao demonstrated that his sword could split Soul Tool beams and willingly faced a Sword of Judgment.

• Mu En recognized Ye Xiao’s Ultimate Ice and ordered Yan Shaozhe and Elder Song to search for him after the sky screen ended.
• Ye Xiao entered the imperial hall and accused Xu Lin of colluding with the Holy Spirit Cult and sacrificing common people as blood food.
• At the Sun Moon Royal Academy, Meng Hongchen took Ye Xiao’s affectionate nickname as a sign they would become close, while Xiao Hongchen worried about her reaction to the sky screen.
• Nearly two-thirds of the ministers knelt, prompting Xu Lin to warn them against betraying the nation while accepting the prime minister’s suggestion not to judge them by future events.
• A guard’s beam struck Ye Xiao’s raised sword and split into explosions; Ye Xiao then let the captain’s Sword of Judgment hit his chest as sword Qi surrounded him.

Ye Xiao survived the Sword of Judgment, froze the Sun Moon Empire’s imperial palace, and faced the Shrek Six Monsters’ divine clones. After they appeared to destroy him, he reformed from Sword Qi and severed Zhu Zhuqing’s arm.

• Xu Lin ordered the Sword of Judgment fired at Ye Xiao, but Ye Xiao emerged unharmed and killed eighteen guards with a flash of his sword.
• Ye Xiao unleashed Epiphyllum’s Birth and Extinction, freezing the imperial palace, while Xu Lin ordered Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen executed in one month.
• Destruction and Life discussed Ye Xiao’s ability to wield the power of heaven and earth as the Shrek Six Monsters descended in divine clones.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing attacked Ye Xiao alongside Tang San, whose Clear Sky Hammer appeared to smash Ye Xiao into specks of light.
• Ye Xiao reformed from Sword Qi and severed Zhu Zhuqing’s arm despite Tang San pulling her away with the Blue Silver Emperor.

Ye Xiao used his sword Qi transformations and ice domain to overwhelm the six descended Shrek members. He killed Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dai Mubai, then turned toward Tang San and Xiao Wu as Tang San pleaded to reconcile.

• Ye Xiao copied Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing’s forms and grew four arms wielding ice swords before attacking the six Shrek members.
• Ye Xiao killed Ma Hongjun with a freezing strike while Tang San’s Blue Silver Overlord Spears pierced Ye Xiao’s body, only for Ye Xiao to regenerate through sword Qi.
• Ye Xiao unleashed a torrent of cold moon sword Qi, freezing Oscar into an ice sculpture and shattering him.
• Ye Xiao summoned the Ice and Snow Emperors to hold off Tang San and Xiao Wu while he fought the Hell White Tiger.
• Ye Xiao severed Zhu Zhuqing’s and Dai Mubai’s heads after beating them apart from their fusion.
• Tang San, trapped fighting the Ice and Snow Emperors, offered to reconcile as Ye Xiao looked toward him and Xiao Wu.

After the sky-screen battle ended with Ye Xiao defeating Tang San, Ye Xiao and Ye Guyi discussed where to go and how to survive the Sun Moon Empire’s hostility. Meanwhile, Ning Fengya ordered the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect to focus its search for Ye Xiao and Ye Guyi on the Sun Moon Empire.

• Ye Xiao complained that he could not copy the sword technique from the sky screen, but planned to develop an early version of the Indestructible Sword Body using Geng Metal Sword Qi and the Soul Power Meditation Method.
• Ye Guyi worried that the sky-screen events had made enemies of the continent, and Ye Xiao suggested seeking help from the Far North.
• Ye Xiao told Ye Guyi that his future self had revealed a way to bargain with the Snow Empress, though he kept his supposed future-sight ability secret.
• Ning Fengya celebrated Ye Xiao’s victory over Tang San and concluded that he would become invincible if protected for twelve years.
• After the elders reported they could not find Ye Xiao or Ye Guyi, Ning Fengya ordered most disciples in the Dou Ling and Star Luo Empires to search the Sun Moon Empire.