Chapter Summaries

Kong Xuan prepared the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team to face Shrek Academy in the finals and announced that he would join the final team battle. Meng Hongchen returned from her Divine Examination and revealed that she had become a twenty-year-old Soul Douluo with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.

• Kong Xuan told the team to showcase the Soul Spirit System in the finals and urged the individual competitors not to hold back.
• Kong Xuan named the seven-person lineup for the final team battle, including himself.
• Meng Hongchen returned after half a year away, and she and Kong Xuan reunited as their teammates welcomed her.
• Meng Hongchen demonstrated her Martial Soul Possession and revealed eight Soul Rings, including a red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.

Zhongli Wu confirmed that Shrek had withheld information about Yan Shaozhe and set out to lure Kong Deming into the West Mountain trap. At the tournament final, Bei Bei forfeited Shrek’s individual matches, leaving the championship to be decided in the team battle.

• Zhongli Wu watched the Ming Yue Grand Hotel and confirmed that Shrek had not told Kong Deming what they learned about Yan Shaozhe.
• Zhongli Wu headed for the Worship Hall, intending to draw Kong Deming into the West Mountain trap alongside Xuan Zi.
• Two days later, the Continental Youth Advanced Soul Master Soul Fighting Tournament final began, and Qiangu Fuliu and Bei Bei took the stage for the first individual match.
• Bei Bei announced that Shrek Academy forfeited the individual matches and would proceed directly to the team match.
• After both teams assembled on the stage, Qiangu Fuliu told his teammates to leave Bei Bei to him.

Xuan Zi became trapped in a strange mist on West Mountain that suppressed his spiritual power, prevented flight, and made him circle back despite his attempts to escape. Realizing he had been lured into a confinement, he regretted not passing the message to Kong Deming, unaware that Kong Deming was trapped in the same mist.

• Xuan Zi found a grayish-white mist spreading through West Mountain, and it reduced his spiritual detection range to less than ten meters.
• Xuan Zi tried to fly out, but an invisible pressure forced him back to the ground, so he used Martial Soul Possession and charged through the forest instead.
• Xuan Zi ran for half an hour through the mist but found himself still deep in West Mountain.
• Xuan Zi recognized a tree he had destroyed earlier and realized he had been circling in the mist.
• Xuan Zi recalled Cai Mei'er's warning and regretted not sending word to Kong Deming, unaware that Kong Deming was also trapped in the mist.

The final showdown began as Shrek Academy faced the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s overwhelming lineup, including Kong Xuan as a Soul Saint. As Bei Bei and Qiangu Fuliu clashed head-on, Xu Sanshi used Xuanming Displacement to infiltrate the enemy formation, where Kong Ling launched a blazing attack at him.

• Both teams revealed their Soul Rings, showing Shrek’s two Soul Emperors and five Soul Kings against the Sun Moon Team’s Soul Saint Kong Xuan, five Soul Emperors, and Huo Yuhao as a Soul King.
• Qiangu Fuliu attacked Bei Bei, who met the Coiling Dragon Staff with a direct punch, and their collision proved evenly matched.
• Huo Yuhao shared his Spiritual Detection with his teammates while Shui Ling spread nearly invisible Puppeteering Spirit Threads across the arena.
• Xu Sanshi used Xuanming Displacement to switch places with Huo Yuhao and appeared deep in the Sun Moon Team’s formation.
• Kong Xuan refrained from attacking Xu Sanshi, but Kong Ling struck him with her third Soul Skill, Sun Wheel Slash.

Huo Yuhao endured Shrek Academy’s coordinated attack by revealing his second martial soul, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, and its four-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring. He unleashed the Eternal Frozen Domain across the arena, leaving Bei Bei stunned and vulnerable to Qiangu Fuliu’s counterattack.

• Dai Huabin intercepted Xu Tianyi while Xiao Xiao and Jiang Nannan trapped Huo Yuhao with Cauldron Seal and Gravity Control.
• Wang Dong concentrated her Butterfly God Slash into one hundred and eight attacks aimed at the immobilized Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao revealed the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion and used Ice Emperor’s Protection to withstand every slash.
• Huo Yuhao activated the Eternal Frozen Domain, freezing the arena and shocking the Shrek members with his Ultimate Ice.
• Bei Bei lost focus in the freezing domain, and Qiangu Fuliu struck his blocking arm with the Coiling Dragon Staff, sending him flying.

Cao Jinxuan used Time Reversal to erase Huo Yuhao’s Eternal Frozen Domain and free the Shrek fighters, but Shui Ling restrained them as Xu Wei attacked Cao. The referee blocked the assassination and eliminated Cao, while Kong Xuan ordered the Sun Moon Team to end the battle in earnest.

• Huo Yuhao’s Eternal Frozen Domain froze Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Jiang Nannan and trapped the rest of Shrek in its cold.
• Cao Jinxuan activated Time Reversal, rewinding the arena and freeing Shrek from the frozen domain.
• Shui Ling used Spirit Thread: Thousand Weaves to bind the Shrek fighters as Xu Wei launched a silent attack on Cao Jinxuan.
• Referee Zheng Zhan blocked Xu Wei’s dagger, and Cao Jinxuan was eliminated from the match.
• Kong Xuan told his team to stop playing around and finish the battle, prompting the Sun Moon Team to prepare in earnest.

The Sun Moon Team unleashed several Soul Spirits, using their domains and destructive attacks to overwhelm Shrek Academy’s fighters. Xu Tianyi badly injured Dai Huabin, and all five remaining Shrek team members suddenly spat blood for reasons they could not understand.

• Shui Ling’s Soul Spirit appeared as Huo Yuhao renewed his Eternal Frozen Domain, while Xu Wei summoned his Thunder-Patterned Giant Bear and spread the Thunderstorm Domain over Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Jiang Nannan.
• Kong Ling’s Heaven-Burning Skylark attacked Xu Sanshi with a torrent of intense fire, forcing him to endure the clash between its flames and his Black Tortoise Shield.
• Xu Tianyi’s Annihilation Shadow-Devouring Beast eroded Dai Huabin’s defenses, allowing Xu Tianyi to strike him in the chest with Dragon Brilliant Flash and send him crashing to the ground.
• All five remaining Shrek team members abruptly shuddered and spat blood, leaving them injured and unable to identify the cause.

Shui Ling’s Fate Thread Grafting spread Dai Huabin’s injuries across Shrek’s team, leaving them overwhelmed by the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. Cai Mei'er conceded the final, and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy was declared champion as spectators speculated that it had mastered reliable Soul Spirit fusion.

• Shui Ling’s Fate Thread Grafting spread Dai Huabin’s injuries to the other Shrek team members through invisible spirit threads.
• Kong Xuan halted the battle and warned Bei Bei that his Martial Soul Avatar could overwhelm the arena’s protective shield.
• Cai Mei'er conceded the final on Shrek Academy’s behalf.
• Zheng Zhan declared the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy the tournament champion.
• Spectators discussed the Sun Moon team’s Soul Spirits and speculated that the academy had mastered reliable Soul Spirit fusion.

After noticing that Kong Deming had missed the final, Kong Xuan learned he had gone alone to West Mountain to investigate a lead on Yan Shaozhe. Suspecting the report was a trap, Kong Xuan left for West Mountain while Kong Ling and Du Busi stayed behind.

• Kong Xuan told his teammates to accept the award and deliver the Spirit Pagoda’s invitations while he investigated Kong Deming’s absence.
• Kong Xuan and Kong Ling went to the Worship Hall and asked Du Busi where Kong Deming had gone.
• Du Busi said Kong Deming had followed a report that Yan Shaozhe would appear at West Mountain and had gone there alone.
• Kong Xuan recognized West Mountain as a place that could threaten a Limit Douluo and decided to hurry there.
• Kong Ling stayed behind after Kong Xuan refused to bring her, and Du Busi remained to guard the Worship Hall.
• Kong Xuan assured them he could handle the danger and flew toward West Mountain.

Kong Deming and Xuan Zi were lured into the Holy Spirit Cult’s trap at West Mountain, where Qiankun Asking Love Valley’s strange fog suppressed their abilities. As they ventured deeper, a gold-and-silver halo seized them and carried them toward an unknown destination.

• Kong Xuan suspected the Holy Spirit Cult had used the false lead about Yan Shaozhe to lure Kong Deming into Qiankun Asking Love Valley.
• Kong Deming found his spiritual power, spatial abilities, and attempts to retrace his route suppressed by the fog, so he pressed onward.
• Zhongli Wu waited at the western end of West Mountain with Feng Ling, Yan Shaozhe, and a group of powerful Holy Spirit Cult members.
• Yan Shaozhe’s past was revealed: after leaving Shrek Academy, he met Feng Ling in the Dou Ling Empire and joined the Holy Spirit Cult under Ye Xishui’s arrangements.
• Xuan Zi and Kong Deming were swallowed by a gold-and-silver halo that overcame their resistance and carried them upward into the dense fog.

Kong Xuan entered the white-mist domain at West Mountain, used the Sea-Calming Divine Needle’s power to break its flight-restriction law, and found Kong Deming and Xuan Zi in Qiankun Asking Love Valley. After reuniting with his grandfather, he unleashed his power against the gold and silver lakes to force the hidden deity to reveal herself, but she had not appeared by the chapter’s end.

• Kong Xuan sensed divine-level energy within the white mist and plunged into it to find Kong Deming.
• Kong Xuan broke the mist’s flight restriction with the Sea-Calming Divine Needle’s power and traced the source of the domain’s will.
• Kong Xuan reached Qiankun Asking Love Valley, where Kong Deming and Xuan Zi saw him arrive by flying through the mist.
• Kong Xuan reassured Kong Deming that he was safe, then declared that he had come because the valley was dangerous.
• Kong Xuan struck the gold and silver lakes with the Sea-Calming Divine Needle’s power and demanded that the hidden deity come out.

Kong Xuan challenged the phantom claiming to be the God of Love and revealed that she was actually Ning Rongrong, the Nine-Colored Goddess. Xuan Zi recognized the Shrek ancestor, while Ning Rongrong was left stunned by Kong Xuan’s identification.

• The phantom introduced herself as the God of Love and opened a passage for Kong Xuan, Kong Deming, and Xuan Zi to leave because they did not qualify for her inheritance.
• Kong Deming and Xuan Zi regretted that their lives devoted to cultivation had left them unqualified for the divine inheritance.
• Kong Xuan refused to leave and accused the phantom of pretending to be the God of Love.
• The phantom panicked when Kong Xuan called her Ning Rongrong, revealing her identity as the Nine-Colored Goddess.
• Xuan Zi recognized Ning Rongrong as an ancestor of Shrek Academy, while Kong Xuan realized his bluff had confirmed his guess.

Kong Xuan confronted Ning Rongrong about Tang San and revealed that he knew the secret purpose behind her presence in the lower realm. Tang San ignored her plea for help, and Kong Xuan manifested the power of the Sea-Calming Divine Needle as Ning Rongrong’s consciousness fragment faced destruction.

• Kong Xuan asked Ning Rongrong where Tang San was, and his knowledge of her secret plan left her shaken.
• Ning Rongrong tried to contact Tang San, while Xuan Zi realized Kong Xuan was speaking of Shrek’s legendary ancestor.
• Tang San received Ning Rongrong’s plea and saw Kong Xuan’s situation, but decided that intervening to save her consciousness fragment was not worth the risk.
• Tang San concealed his decision from Xiao Wu and resolved to help the Abyss Plane establish its connection to the Douluo Continent.
• Ning Rongrong’s hope faded when Tang San failed to appear, and Kong Xuan summoned a tangible manifestation of the Sea-Calming Divine Needle’s power.
• Kong Xuan warned Ning Rongrong that she would not want her consciousness fragment destroyed there.

Kong Xuan forced Ning Rongrong to use the Qiankun Asking Love Valley’s authority to draw the Holy Spirit Cult’s fighters into the valley. As the Yin Yang Love Query began, Xuan Zi recognized the missing Yan Shaozhe among the captives.

• Ning Rongrong feared the damage to her divine consciousness and asked Kong Xuan what he wanted; he offered to spare her if she brought the Evil Soul Masters into the valley.
• Ning Rongrong sensed the Holy Spirit Cult fighters at West Mountain’s edge and used her authority to pull them into the Qiankun Asking Love Valley.
• Kong Xuan told Kong Deming and Xuan Zi to watch what happened next, while Xuan Zi questioned who Kong Xuan really was.
• Long Xiaoyao, Ye Xishui, and the other Holy Spirit Cult fighters were swept into the valley, trapped in bubbles, and taken into the golden lake.
• Ning Rongrong showed the captives on a water curtain, and Xuan Zi recognized the missing Yan Shaozhe among them.

During the Yin Yang Love Query’s true-heart trial, Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao confessed their love for each other, while Feng Ling revealed she had once loved Yan Shaozhe. Yan Shaozhe was punished for claiming to love three women, and Zhongli Wu declared that he no longer loved Feng Ling.

• Ning Rongrong began the true-heart trial, and Ye Xishui admitted she loved Long Xiaoyao.
• Long Xiaoyao confessed his love for Ye Xishui, and they passed the first round.
• Feng Ling said she no longer loved anyone and named Yan Shaozhe as the person she had once loved.
• Yan Shaozhe claimed to love Cai Mei'er, Xian Lin'er, and Feng Ling, and Ning Rongrong struck him with lightning for desecrating love.
• Zhongli Wu said he had once loved Feng Ling but no longer did because she was not worth it.

During the Questioning Love trial, Kong Xuan ordered Ning Rongrong to ask Ye Xishui how she was related to Yan Shaozhe. Ye Xishui revealed that Yan Shaozhe was her grandson and Long Xiaoyao’s, leaving the group stunned and Yan Shaozhe in turmoil.

• Kong Xuan interrupted the trial and told Ning Rongrong to ask Ye Xishui about her relationship with Yan Shaozhe.
• Ning Rongrong asked the question, and Ye Xishui decided to reveal the family secret before she might die.
• Ye Xishui told Yan Shaozhe to call her Grandma, shocking everyone.
• Long Xiaoyao suspected Yan Shaozhe was his and Ye Xishui’s grandson, and Ye Xishui confirmed it.
• Long Xiaoyao rejoiced, while Yan Shaozhe rejected the revelation and Zhongli Wu struggled to accept that Yan Shaozhe was his nephew.
• Feng Ling felt ashamed and horrified by the implications of her entanglement with Yan Shaozhe and Zhongli Wu.

Kong Xuan agreed to let Xuan Zi confront Yan Shaozhe after Qiankun Asking Love Valley’s deadly trials killed the other Evil Soul Masters. Yan Shaozhe survived and emerged as a Level 98 Super Douluo, whereupon Xuan Zi attacked him.

• Kong Deming mocked Xuan Zi after Ye Xishui revealed Yan Shaozhe’s blood ties to the Holy Spirit Cult, leaving Xuan Zi unable to defend him.
• Ning Rongrong began the Dare round and asked Kong Xuan whether he meant to temper the entrants or kill them; Kong Xuan said their deaths would be fitting and promised Ning Rongrong safe passage back to the Divine Realm.
• Xuan Zi asked Kong Xuan to leave Yan Shaozhe to him so he could cleanse Shrek’s ranks, and Kong Xuan agreed.
• Ning Rongrong made the trials lethal, and Long Xiaoyao, Ye Xishui, Zhongli Wu, Feng Ling, and the other entrants died, leaving Yan Shaozhe as the sole survivor.
• Xuan Zi attacked Yan Shaozhe as soon as he emerged, but Yan Shaozhe evaded the charge with his Bright Phoenix Martial Soul.
• Xuan Zi recognized that Yan Shaozhe had broken through to Level 98, though he remained confident he could defeat him.

Xuan Zi fought Yan Shaozhe in Qiankun Asking Love Valley, where Yan Shaozhe transformed into an Evil Soul Master with a Blood Phoenix Martial Soul. Xuan Zi ultimately killed him with his ninth Soul Skill, but suffered grievous injuries.

• Xuan Zi gained the upper hand against Yan Shaozhe and shattered his Bright Phoenix Martial Soul Avatar with a heavy punch.
• Yan Shaozhe's Martial Soul mutated into a Blood Phoenix, and he revealed his Evil Soul Master powers and blamed Mu En for his downfall.
• Yan Shaozhe used the Blood Phoenix's blood-draining abilities to weaken Xuan Zi and turn the fight in his favor.
• Xuan Zi unleashed his ninth Soul Skill, Swallow Heaven and Devour Earth, and killed Yan Shaozhe at the cost of a severe wound.

After Yan Shaozhe’s death, Xuan Zi accepted that Shrek Academy needed to change, and Ning Rongrong’s split-off divine consciousness returned to the Divine Realm. As Kong Deming and Kong Xuan watched the lake, a mysterious gold-and-silver figure began to form above it.

• Xuan Zi suppressed his fatal injuries, asked Kong Deming and Kong Xuan not to target Shrek Academy, and decided to return to Shrek and reform it.
• Kong Xuan withdrew the barrier isolating Ning Rongrong from the Divine Realm, and she asked what his relationship with Tang San was.
• Kong Xuan left Ning Rongrong’s question unanswered, and her split-off divine consciousness departed in a pillar of nine-colored light.
• Kong Deming began to speak to Kong Xuan, but the gold-and-silver lake suddenly boiled and its waters rose into the sky.
• The golden and silver droplets gathered into a humanoid figure whose divine fluctuations surpassed those of Ning Rongrong’s split-off consciousness.

The God of Love revealed that Tang San and Ning Rongrong had suppressed her and tried to seize her godhood, then entrusted Kong Xuan with the chance to choose its successor. She also disclosed the location of her husband the Fire God's inheritance, leaving Kong Xuan concerned that reaching it would bring him into Tang San's ocean domain.

• The God of Love identified herself as a remnant soul and accused Tang San and Ning Rongrong of trying to take her godhood.
• The God of Love gave Kong Xuan a pearl that allowed entry to Qiankun Asking Love Valley and offered him control over who could attempt her inheritance trials.
• The God of Love explained that she lacked the divine power to offer other rewards, but revealed that the Fire God's complete inheritance system could support multiple trial participants.
• The God of Love denied rumors that the Fire God had betrayed her and said he had fallen protecting her in battle.
• The God of Love infused the pearl with a power that pointed toward the Fire God's inheritance deep in the ocean, and Kong Xuan worried that Tang San's influence there could cause trouble.