Chapter Summaries

Ning Yuanshan feared that war between the Sun Moon Empire and the original Douluo Three Kingdoms would destroy the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, but Kong Deming revealed that the Worship Hall opposed war and proposed a federal system instead. Kong Deming invited the sect to help found the federation and promised it a powerful place in its parliament.

• Ning Yuanshan considered the sect’s options as Kong Xuan warned that the Sun Moon Empire’s hawks wanted war and the original Douluo Three Kingdoms could not withstand its forces.
• Kong Deming told Ning Yuanshan that the Worship Hall opposed launching a war and had chosen to cooperate with his sect and the Star Luo Empire.
• Kong Deming argued that forced unification would leave the continent trapped in prolonged resistance and turmoil, then proposed a federal system.
• Kong Xuan explained that the federation would let representatives govern together and unite the continent through cooperation, shared technology, and parliamentary contests.
• Kong Deming invited the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect to become a co-founder of the federation and promised it a seat of considerable weight in parliament.

Kong Deming and Kong Xuan invited Ning Yuanshan to consider joining a federation, and Ning Yuanshan postponed his decision because of the sect’s obligations to the Dou Ling Empire. Kong Xuan then presented an Aromatic Silk Beauty, leaving Ning Yuanshan stunned by the chance to evolve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

• Kong Deming told Ning Yuanshan that the federation invitation required no immediate answer, and Ning Yuanshan said he would consider it carefully.
• Kong Xuan presented Ning Yuanshan with a jade box as a gift.
• Ning Yuanshan recognized the flower in the box as the legendary Aromatic Silk Beauty.
• Kong Xuan explained that the Aromatic Silk Beauty could help the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda evolve into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Yuanshan recalled the sect’s ten-thousand-year search for the herb and reacted with shock and excitement.

Kong Xuan secured the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s support for the federation by gifting Ning Yuanshan an Aromatic Silk Beauty, then helped Kong Deming obtain century-long city leases in the Dou Ling and Heavenly Soul Empires. After returning to the Worship Hall, Kong Deming received a sound-recording Soul Tool from Ye Yulin, whose contents seemed to hold serious significance.

• Kong Xuan gave Ning Yuanshan the Aromatic Silk Beauty, and Ning pledged the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s full support for building the federation.
• Kong Deming and Ning Yuanshan agreed to work together, welcoming the sect into the federal undertaking.
• Kong Deming negotiated a century-long lease for the city of Heavenly Spring from the Dou Ling Empire without paying rent.
• Kong Deming and Kong Xuan traveled to the Heavenly Soul Empire and secured a century-long lease for the city of Clear Stream.
• Kong Deming and Kong Xuan returned to the Worship Hall, where Du Busi and Ye Yulin met them; Ye Yulin presented a sound-recording Soul Tool, and Kong Deming asked where it came from.

Kong Deming and Kong Xuan learned from a recording that Yan Shaozhe and Feng Ling had helped arrange the attempt on Kong Xuan’s life, and Kong Deming resolved to confront Shrek Academy publicly. Meanwhile, Yan Shaozhe anxiously gathered news at Shrek, fearing his connection to Feng Ling would be exposed.

• Du Busi and Ye Yulin told Kong Deming and Kong Xuan that a Holy Spirit Cult member had been caught near the Worship Hall and left behind a recording Soul Tool.
• Kong Deming played the recording, which captured a Holy Spirit Cult member accusing Feng Ling of working with Yan Shaozhe to arrange an attack on Kong Xuan.
• Kong Xuan pieced together that Feng Ling had sent Nangong Wan to persuade the Heavenly Soul and Dou Ling Empires to dispatch four Titled Douluos against him.
• Kong Deming angrily agreed to go openly to Shrek City with Du Busi and demand an explanation from Shrek’s Sea God Pavilion.
• Yan Shaozhe secretly gathered reports at Shrek Academy and learned that Kong Xuan had survived, the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters had been destroyed, and Kong Deming and Kong Xuan were in Lingdou City and Heaven Dou City.

Yan Shaozhe fled Shrek Academy after lying to Cai Mei'er about a mission, but Kong Deming and Du Busi soon arrived and publicly accused him of colluding with Evil Soul Masters to ambush Kong Xuan. Shrek’s experts were shaken by the accusation and began to suspect it might be true, while Yan Shaozhe’s whereabouts remained unknown.

• Yan Shaozhe told Cai Mei'er he had uncovered the Holy Spirit Cult’s movements, then flew away from Shrek Academy under the pretense of investigating them.
• Kong Deming and Du Busi appeared over Shrek Academy and unleashed their immense pressure as a voice demanded that Yan Shaozhe come out.
• Xuan Zi recognized Kong Deming and tried to calm the visitors, but Du Busi accused Yan Shaozhe of conspiring with Evil Soul Masters and others to ambush Kong Xuan.
• Du Busi demanded to know where Yan Shaozhe was, while Xuan Zi and the other Shrek Titled Douluo struggled to believe the accusation.
• The Shrek experts recalled Yan Shaozhe’s earlier extreme remarks about eliminating Kong Xuan and began to fear that he really had colluded with the Holy Spirit Cult.

Xuan Zi learned that Yan Shaozhe had left Shrek Academy just before Kong Deming and Du Busi arrived to accuse him of colluding with the Holy Spirit Cult. Mu En appeared with the Golden Ancient Tree’s power, but Kong Deming played evidence implicating Yan Shaozhe and demanded that he face them.

• Cai Mei'er told Xuan Zi that Yan Shaozhe had left the academy that morning to investigate a lead about the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Mu En emerged above the Golden Ancient Tree and used its accumulated power to confront Kong Deming and Du Busi.
• Kong Deming played a recording in which Feng Ling was identified as the Holy Spirit Cult’s deputy leader and Yan Shaozhe as the one who contacted the cult about intercepting Kong Xuan.
• Shrek’s elders and students reacted with shock, while Kong Deming dismissed their objections and pointed to Feng Ling’s past connection with Yan Shaozhe.
• Kong Deming demanded that Yan Shaozhe come out and confront him face-to-face.

Kong Deming demanded that Shrek answer for Yan Shaozhe’s alleged collusion with the Holy Spirit Cult, but Yan was nowhere to be found. Mu En ordered Yan wanted and agreed to Kong Deming’s demand that Shrek build a city for the Sun Moon Empire’s Worship Hall near the Star Dou Great Forest, leaving the details to be coordinated later.

• Kong Deming searched Shrek Academy for Yan Shaozhe, and Xuan Zi admitted that Yan was not there.
• Mu En ordered the Shrek Inspection Corps to find Yan and declared that he would be treated as an Evil Soul Master and killed if he resisted.
• Kong Deming rejected Mu En’s resolution and said he would not wait indefinitely for Shrek to find Yan.
• Kong Deming demanded that Shrek build a city at the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest for the Sun Moon Empire’s Worship Hall.
• Mu En agreed to the demand, and Kong Deming said the city should be completed within two years.

Kong Deming left Shrek after warning the academy that he would kill Yan Shaozhe if he found him first, while Shrek’s reputation continued to collapse over Yan Shaozhe’s disappearance. More than four years later, Kong Xuan returned to Rock Mountain Village with Kong Ling and announced that he would go to Ming Mountain Valley to visit a friend.

• Kong Deming told Shrek to abandon its superior attitude and warned that Yan Shaozhe would not survive if he found him first, then flew away with Du Busi.
• Du Busi complained that the expedition had ended without a fight, and Kong Deming explained that he would not attack ordinary Shrek students and teachers.
• Yan Shaozhe’s alleged collusion with Evil Soul Masters spread across the continent, and Shrek’s reputation rapidly declined as he remained missing.
• More than four years after the last tournament, Kong Xuan, now a seventeen-year-old Soul Saint, returned to Rock Mountain Village with Kong Ling ahead of the next tournament.
• Kong Xuan told Zhou Yan that he planned to visit Ming Mountain Valley and, after reassuring him, said he and Kong Ling would leave right away.

Kong Xuan and Kong Ling reached the secluded Qiangu Clan and reunited with Kong Xuan’s childhood friend, Qiangu Fuliu. After they caught up, Kong Xuan revealed that he had come to ask the clan to emerge from seclusion.

• Kong Xuan gave the guards Qiangu Fuliu’s old coin pouch, prompting them to summon the young clan leader.
• Qiangu Fuliu recognized Kong Xuan and welcomed him and Kong Ling into Ming Mountain Valley despite the clan rules.
• Qiangu Fuliu showed Kong Xuan and Kong Ling around the secluded valley and brought them to his room.
• Kong Xuan, Kong Ling, and Qiangu Fuliu spent about two hours reminiscing and discussing their lives.
• Kong Xuan told Qiangu Fuliu that he had come to invite the Qiangu Clan to emerge from seclusion.

Kong Xuan urged Qiangu Fuliu to help bring the Qiangu Clan out of seclusion and adapt to the changing continent, and Fuliu agreed to introduce him to his father. At the council hall, patriarch Qiangu Fengxing assessed Kong Xuan and Kong Ling and recognized their exceptional abilities, but had not yet heard their request.

• Qiangu Fuliu said the clan’s ancestral injunction made emerging from seclusion impossible, while Kong Xuan warned that isolation could leave the clan behind as the Soul Tool tide reshaped the continent.
• Kong Xuan asked Fuliu to arrange a meeting with the patriarch, and Fuliu agreed to take him to his father.
• Fuliu entered the council hall and told Qiangu Fengxing that his friends wished to meet him; Fengxing invited them inside.
• Kong Xuan and Kong Ling greeted Qiangu Fengxing, who was impressed by Kong Ling’s Soul Emperor cultivation and unsettled by his inability to sense Kong Xuan’s depths.

Kong Xuan and Kong Ling visited Qiangu Fengxing to invite the Qiangu Clan out of seclusion, but he refused because of the clan’s ten-thousand-year rule. Kong Xuan revealed his battle armor’s immense power and Kong Ling demonstrated her ultimate fire, leaving Qiangu Fengxing and Qiangu Fuliu stunned.

• Kong Xuan formally invited Qiangu Fengxing to end the Qiangu Clan’s seclusion, but Qiangu Fengxing refused, citing the clan’s ancestral instruction.
• Kong Xuan donned his battle armor, which raised his apparent Soul Power to the peak of Soul Douluo.
• Kong Xuan revealed that his actual cultivation was level 74 and explained that his armor enhanced him to the peak of level 89.
• Kong Ling displayed her six Soul Rings and summoned a blazing orange sphere that Qiangu Fengxing recognized as ultimate fire.

Kong Xuan demonstrated Battle Armor and Soul Spirits to persuade Qiangu Fengxing to bring the Qiangu Clan into the changing world, then revealed he would become the Spirit Pagoda’s first Pagoda Master. Qiangu Fengxing’s resistance gave way to interest and surprise as Kong Ling explained that her brother had also proposed Battle Armor.

• Kong Ling summoned her flame Soul Spirit, and Kong Xuan explained how Soul Spirits preserved part of a Soul Beast’s soul and intelligence.
• Kong Xuan warned Qiangu Fengxing and Qiangu Fuliu that the Qiangu Clan risked falling behind if it ignored Battle Armor and Soul Spirits.
• Qiangu Fengxing asked in what capacity Kong Xuan and Kong Ling had come, and Kong Xuan said he was inviting the clan on behalf of the Spirit Pagoda.
• Kong Xuan identified the Spirit Pagoda as an organization dedicated to researching and promoting Soul Spirits, then said he was expected to become its first Pagoda Master.
• Kong Xuan revealed that he had founded and perfected the Soul Spirit System, and Kong Ling added that he had proposed Battle Armor and led its initial development.

Kong Xuan and Kong Ling persuaded Qiangu Fengxing to let Qiangu Fuliu travel beyond Ming Mountain Valley and see the changing world for himself. Fuliu joined the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, where he met Kong Xuan’s team as they welcomed An Le back after her breakthrough to Soul Emperor.

• Qiangu Fengxing decided to send Qiangu Fuliu outside the valley to gather information that could help the clan decide whether to change.
• Kong Xuan promised to protect Fuliu, and the siblings took him out of Ming Mountain Valley the next morning.
• After seeing the outside world and reaching Mingdu, Fuliu enrolled at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy with Jing Hongchen’s approval.
• Kong Xuan introduced Fuliu to his companions and considered adding him to the team for the tournament six months away.
• Shui Ling returned with An Le, whose reunion with the group was warmly celebrated.
• Kong Xuan congratulated An Le on reaching Soul Emperor rank sixty.

An Le returned after years of traveling as a healer, bringing Ye Guyi, a Holy Angel Soul Master, to meet Kong Xuan and his companions. The group agreed to join the Spirit Pagoda after the tournament, while Gu Yuena told Kong Xuan that the Snow Empress had sent word.

• An Le thanked Kong Xuan for guiding her to use her Hope Angel Martial Soul to grow stronger through healing, and said she planned to rest before traveling to the Star Luo Empire.
• An Le introduced Ye Guyi, who had saved her from Evil Soul Masters and possessed a Holy Angel Martial Soul.
• Kong Xuan invited everyone to join the Spirit Pagoda after the tournament, and Xu Wei and the others agreed.
• Kong Ling reassured Xu Tianyi that he could serve in the military while joining the Spirit Pagoda, and he accepted the invitation.
• After An Le explained Soul Spirits to Ye Guyi, Ye Guyi eagerly agreed to join the Spirit Pagoda.
• As the group headed to the academy’s Soul Fighting Arena, Gu Yuena stayed behind and told Kong Xuan that the Snow Empress had sent word.

Gu Yuena told Kong Xuan that Snow Empress had discovered a hidden divine miracle tied to the Ice God in the Far North, possibly containing her godhood inheritance. Kong Xuan traveled north with Gu Yuena and Meng Hongchen, met Snow Empress and the Titan Snow Demon King, and learned the miracle lay within a concealed ancestral space guarded by the Titan Snow Demon Clan.

• Gu Yuena reported that Snow Empress had found a divine miracle in the Far North that might contain the Ice God's godhood inheritance.
• Kong Xuan decided to investigate the miracle with Gu Yuena and brought Meng Hongchen, whose ultimate ice attribute might make her a suitable inheritor.
• Kong Xuan, Gu Yuena, and Meng Hongchen traveled through Iceheart City into the Far North and encountered the Titan Snow Demon King with Snow Empress on its shoulder.
• Snow Empress explained that the Titan Snow Demon King Clan carried the Ice God's bloodline and guarded an independent space in its ancestral grounds.
• Snow Empress said she had sensed the pure, primordial power of ultimate ice and a deadly threat within the hidden space, leading her to conclude that it held the Ice God's divine miracle.

Kong Xuan, Gu Yuena, Meng Hongchen, and the Snow Empress traveled to the Titan Snow Demon Clan’s ancestral land to investigate a hidden space bearing the Ice God’s presence. They discovered that only those with ice-attribute power could enter, and Gu Yuena demonstrated that she could provide it as they prepared to proceed.

• Gu Yuena condemned the Divine Realm’s restrictions on Soul Beasts, while the Snow Empress worried that the gods might not accept her after her transformation into a human.
• Kong Xuan agreed to investigate the hidden space, and the Snow Empress had the Titan Snow Demon King carry the group to the clan’s ancestral land.
• At a dusky-blue iceberg, Kong Xuan sensed a divine presence and found that a powerful restriction allowed only Soul Masters with ice-attribute power to enter.
• The Snow Empress feared that the restriction still excluded her despite her transformation, and Kong Xuan proposed that they enter and investigate.
• Gu Yuena gathered ice power into a crystal-clear icicle and stated that she possessed ice-attribute power.

Kong Xuan and his companions entered the Ice God's divine realm and found the Ice God Spear, which might contain the god's inheritance. The Snow Empress agreed to be the first to touch it.

• Gu Yuena entered the ice wall, and Kong Xuan followed with Meng Hongchen by using his Ice Dragon King External Soul Bone.
• Kong Xuan arrived in an ice palace and saw the Ice God Spear standing on an empty throne.
• Gu Yuena identified the spear as the Ice God's divine artifact and sensed that it held the god's origin and possibly its inheritance.
• Kong Xuan, Meng Hongchen, and the Snow Empress climbed the stairs to the throne, where flight was forbidden but no trial hindered them.
• Kong Xuan invited the Snow Empress to touch the spear first, and she accepted.

The Snow Empress received the Ice God's Top-Level Five Trials, while Gu Yuena condemned the gods' prejudice against soul beasts. Meng Hongchen then touched the Ice God Spear and received the Ice God Six Trials, giving her and Kong Xuan hope of ascending to the Divine Realm together.

• The Snow Empress grasped the Ice God Spear and was granted the Top-Level Five Trials by the Ice God's phantom.
• The Snow Empress told Kong Xuan, Gu Yuena, and Meng Hongchen about her trials, and Gu Yuena angrily called the result evidence of divine prejudice.
• Kong Xuan considered why the Ice God's top-level trials numbered five rather than seven, then encouraged Meng Hongchen to try.
• Meng Hongchen grasped the Ice God Spear, and its divine light surged as it granted her the Ice God Six Trials.
• Meng Hongchen told Kong Xuan they could become gods together, and Kong Xuan rejoiced at her inheritance.

After Meng Hongchen received the Ice God’s inheritance, Kong Xuan tried gripping the Ice God Spear and was granted the same Top-Level Five Trials. The Ruyi Golden Cudgel then destroyed the Ice God’s remnant soul and erased the trials, declaring that Kong Xuan needed no divine inheritance.

• The Snow Empress congratulated Meng Hongchen and accepted that the Ice God had chosen her, while Kong Xuan promised to help break the barrier preventing Soul Beasts from becoming gods.
• Kong Xuan used his Ice Dragon King-powered claw to grip the Ice God Spear and was pulled into his Sea of Consciousness.
• The Ice God’s remnant soul recognized Kong Xuan’s Ice Dragon King legacy and granted him the Top-Level Five Trials.
• The Ruyi Golden Cudgel appeared and shattered the Ice God’s remnant soul, erasing Kong Xuan’s trial information.
• Electrolux and Yun Ming recognized the cudgel’s independent consciousness, and Yun Ming told Kong Xuan that he did not need another divine inheritance.

Kong Xuan and Gu Yuena left the Far North after Meng Hongchen and Snow Empress received their Ice God trials, while Kong Xuan worried that his clash with the Ice God's remnant soul had affected the inheritance. In Mingdu, Crown Prince Xu Tianran arrived at the Worship Hall with Ju Zi, intent on pursuing an important objective.

• Kong Xuan touched the dimmed Ice God Spear and sensed that the Ice God's presence remained, though the artifact trembled in his hand.
• Meng Hongchen revealed that her first trial required her to endure the Far North's winds and snow for three days, while Snow Empress's required her to kill ten ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts in one day.
• Gu Yuena teased Kong Xuan that the Ice God had lowered the trials' difficulty after he overwhelmed her remnant soul.
• Kong Xuan and Gu Yuena said farewell to Meng Hongchen and Snow Empress, then departed for Mingdu while Snow Empress promised to protect Meng Hongchen.
• Ju Zi pushed Xu Tianran's wheelchair into the Worship Hall, where the crown prince arrived with an important objective.