Chapter Summaries

Mu En confronted Yan Shaozhe for sending additional competitors to the tournament, then asked the Sea God Pavilion elders who would go to Mingdu to negotiate Xuan Zi’s release. When no one volunteered and Mu En considered going himself, Xian Lin'er offered to make the trip.

• Mu En reprimanded Yan Shaozhe for defying his order to send no further support to the tournament, and Yan Shaozhe defended his decision as an effort to protect the reserve students.
• Mu En asked Wang Yan to explain the Sun Moon Empire’s demands: Shrek had to send a decision-maker to discuss Xuan Zi’s ransom and an exchange between the academies.
• An elder proposed attacking Mingdu to rescue Xuan Zi, but others warned that the capital’s defenses and Kong Deming’s strength made an assault too dangerous.
• Mu En asked who would go to Mingdu, but the elders remained silent until he asked whether he would have to make the trip himself.
• Yan Shaozhe and the elders urged Mu En not to go, and Xian Lin'er volunteered to travel to Sun Moon.

Xian Lin'er accepted responsibility for negotiating Xuan Zi's return from Sun Moon, while Mu En worried over Shrek Academy's decline and reconsidered his plans. At the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Electrolux awakened Kong Xuan's seemingly lifeless Soul Bone with life energy, revealing a powerful head soul bone.

• Xian Lin'er volunteered to negotiate for Xuan Zi's return, and Mu En gave her authority and academy resources for the mission.
• After the Sea God Pavilion Meeting, Mu En reflected on the elders' reluctance to act and worried that Shrek Academy's strength and spirit were fading.
• Kong Xuan tried to fuse with the deadwood Soul Bone but could not make his Soul Power penetrate it.
• Electrolux used life energy from the gold of life to peel away the Soul Bone's dead outer shell and reveal its emerald, life-filled form.
• Yun Ming recognized the awakened Soul Bone as a head soul bone.

Kong Xuan learned that his transformed Head Soul Bone came from an extinct, hundred-thousand-year-old Ancient Tree of Life and began fusing with it after promising Yun Ming to help prevent Soul Beasts from being hunted for Soul Spirits. Meanwhile, Xian Lin'er traveled alone to Mingdu and, shocked by the Sun Moon Empire's advanced everyday use of Soul Tools, headed for the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

• Yun Ming identified Kong Xuan's Soul Bone as a Head Soul Bone from an Ancient Tree of Life and described how the Spirit Pagoda had turned from easing human-Soul Beast conflict to hunting Soul Beasts.
• Kong Xuan promised to improve Electrolux's Soul Spirit System to help prevent history from repeating itself, then began fusing with the Soul Bone.
• After the Sea God Pavilion Meeting, Xian Lin'er chose to travel without academy personnel and left Shrek Academy for the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xian Lin'er crossed the Ming Dou Mountain Range and arrived in Mingdu, where she saw the vast, unwalled city and its widespread Soul Tool technology.
• Xian Lin'er recognized how far Shrek and the original Douluo Three Kingdoms lagged behind in Soul Tool development and set her sights on the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

Xian Lin'er arrived alone at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy to negotiate with Jing Hongchen about the exchange between the academies and Xuan Zi. Their meeting was interrupted by a pillar of exceptionally pure life energy rising from the advanced cultivation area, leaving Xian Lin'er wondering whether it could save Mu En.

• Xu Wei met Xian Lin'er at the academy gates and offered to guide her to Dean Jing Hongchen.
• Xian Lin'er told Jing Hongchen she had full authority over the exchange and the matter concerning Xuan Zi.
• Jing Hongchen sent a long-range communication Soul Tool to notify Kong Deming that he needed to discuss the specifics with Xian Lin'er.
• A brilliant emerald-green pillar of immense life energy erupted from the advanced cultivation area, astonishing Jing Hongchen and Xian Lin'er.
• Xian Lin'er wondered whether the life energy could restore Mu En, then dismissed the hope because the Sun Moon Empire was unlikely to help him.

Kong Xuan fused with an eight-hundred-thousand-year Ancient Tree of Life Head Soul Bone, whose sudden release of life energy swept across the academy and nearly drained him of Soul Power. After recovering with Yun Ming’s help, he explained the Soul Bone’s powerful healing skills to his teacher, then faced Jing Hongchen and an unfamiliar Xian Lin'er.

• The newly fused Head Soul Bone released an emerald halo across the academy, rapidly growing plants and soothing or healing students.
• Kong Xuan nearly collapsed when the Soul Bone drained his Soul Power, but Yun Ming replenished it from Kong Xuan’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Kong Xuan learned that the Head Soul Bone came from an eight-hundred-thousand-year Ancient Tree of Life and granted Divine Light of Spiritual Healing and the domain skill Life Prayer.
• Jing Hongchen and Xian Lin'er arrived after the life-energy phenomenon ended, and Jing Hongchen asked Kong Xuan if he had caused it.
• Kong Xuan acknowledged the commotion and asked Jing Hongchen who the unfamiliar woman with him was.

Xian Lin'er met with Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen to negotiate Xuan Zi's release, offering a student exchange program and apologizing to Kong Xuan and Ren Jun for Xuan Zi's attack. The talks ended with Xian Lin'er asking Kong Deming to name his conditions for returning Xuan Zi.

• Kong Xuan insisted on joining the negotiations because Xuan Zi had attacked him, and Jing Hongchen allowed him to come along.
• Kong Deming convened Jing Hongchen, Kong Xuan, Ren Jun, and Xian Lin'er to discuss the price Shrek Academy would pay to ransom Xuan Zi.
• Xian Lin'er proposed a long-term student exchange arrangement, and Jing Hongchen agreed in principle while leaving details for later discussion.
• Xian Lin'er apologized to Kong Xuan and Ren Jun on Shrek's behalf, but Kong Xuan said Xuan Zi should apologize in person.
• Xian Lin'er said Xuan Zi would be punished upon his return and asked Kong Deming to state his conditions for releasing him.

Xian Lin'er negotiated with Kong Deming to ransom Xuan Zi, ultimately agreeing to provide four valuable Soul Bones despite Shrek Academy’s lack of the two hundred-thousand-year bones he demanded. Kong Deming then brought Xuan Zi into the conference room, where Xian Lin'er saw that he was alive but severely diminished and dazed.

• Kong Deming demanded two Soul Bones over fifty thousand years old and two over a hundred thousand years old in exchange for Xuan Zi.
• Xian Lin'er rejected the terms and offered two fifty-thousand-year, one seventy-thousand-year, and one eighty-thousand-year Soul Bone, but Kong Deming refused and threatened to take Xuan Zi’s own bones.
• Xian Lin'er recognized Shrek Academy’s vulnerability and agreed to obtain the four Soul Bones, then asked to see Xuan Zi.
• Kong Deming used his power to bring Xuan Zi into the conference room, and Xian Lin'er saw him looking weak, disheveled, and hollow-eyed.
• Kong Deming said he had not tortured Xuan Zi and that Xuan Zi had brought his condition upon himself.

Xian Lin'er came to Sun Moon to secure Xuan Zi’s release, while Kong Deming used the threat of renewed imprisonment to keep him in check. Kong Deming let them return to Shrek but demanded the promised Soul Bones and revealed he had recorded their ransom negotiations as leverage.

• Xuan Zi erupted in fury at Kong Deming, but his threat to imprison him again made Xuan Zi’s fighting spirit collapse.
• Xian Lin'er told Xuan Zi that Mu En had ordered the academy to bring him back at any cost, and Xuan Zi fell silent.
• Kong Deming told Xian Lin'er she could take Xuan Zi back to Shrek, provided the academy sent the promised Soul Bones.
• Kong Deming played a recording of their ransom negotiations and warned that he could expose it if Shrek failed to deliver the Soul Bones.
• As Xian Lin'er prepared to leave with Xuan Zi, a sudden change occurred and altered everyone’s expressions.

The Body Sect’s Du Busi arrived at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy with more than twenty experts to take Huo Yuhao, prompting Kong Deming to confront him. As Xuan Zi considered joining Du Busi against Kong Deming, Xian Lin'er resolved to stop him if he attacked.

• Du Busi called for Jing Hongchen, and Kong Deming led the academy’s group outside to meet the unexpected visitors.
• Kong Xuan told Kong Deming that he had previously stopped Lang Ya and Yu Tao from taking Huo Yuhao to the Body Sect.
• Du Busi announced that he had come to take Huo Yuhao, while academy Soul Engineers raised their soul tools in response.
• Kong Deming appeared beside Jing Hongchen and declared that Huo Yuhao was his disciple.
• Xuan Zi considered attacking Kong Deming alongside Du Busi, but Xian Lin'er warned him and decided she would stop him if he tried.

Kong Deming defeated Du Busi and imprisoned him and his companions with the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield after Du Busi tried to take Huo Yuhao by force. Xian Lin'er agreed to return to Shrek Academy and bring Kong Deming the Soul Bones.

• Du Busi confirmed Kong Deming’s identity but insisted on settling whether he could take Huo Yuhao with a fight.
• Du Busi transformed into a giant and attacked Kong Deming with a powerful punch, which Kong Deming blocked with a spatial shield.
• Kong Deming activated the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield, trapping Du Busi and the twenty-odd powerhouses accompanying him.
• The silver barrier shrank until it vanished, and Kong Deming reappeared beside Kong Xuan at the academy.
• Kong Deming ordered Xian Lin'er to return to Shrek Academy for the Soul Bones, and she set out with Xuan Zi.

After Kong Deming captured the Body Sect members, Kong Xuan reassured Huo Yuhao and discussed the upcoming student exchange at Shrek Academy with his classmates. Kong Xuan then visited Kong Deming and asked about two more people caught sneaking into the Worship Hall.

• Kong Deming said he would detain the captured Body Sect members for a few days, while Jing Hongchen celebrated his strength and status.
• Kong Xuan told Huo Yuhao that Kong Deming was unharmed and urged him to focus on cultivation.
• Kong Xuan told the students they would likely join an exchange visit to Shrek Academy and reassured them that powerful escorts would protect them.
• Gu Yuena promised that her clan's elders would help if Shrek attacked, while privately weighing whether to send Di Tian or Xiong Jun.
• Kong Xuan visited Kong Deming in the Worship Hall and asked about two people caught trying to sneak inside.

Kong Deming released Du Busi from the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield and negotiated an agreement for Huo Yuhao to join the Body Sect while continuing to learn Soul Tools. Du Busi accepted, and Kong Deming promised to free the other Body Sect members before raising another matter.

• Kong Deming explained to Kong Xuan that he had eliminated the intruders who tried to breach the Worship Hall’s core.
• Kong Deming used his spatial power to bring the weakened Du Busi out of the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield.
• Du Busi demanded a fair fight, but Kong Deming calmly invited him to attack and then offered to talk.
• Kong Xuan and Kong Deming told Du Busi that Huo Yuhao could join the Body Sect later while remaining Kong Deming’s disciple and studying Soul Tools.
• Du Busi agreed to take Huo Yuhao as his disciple and asked for his sect members to be released.
• Kong Deming promised to free the Body Sect members and said he had one more matter to discuss.

Kong Deming and Kong Xuan tried to persuade Du Busi to cooperate with the Sun Moon Empire by providing Battle Armor to the Body Sect. Du Busi weighed the offer and its risks, while Kong Deming suddenly looked toward the sky outside the Worship Hall.

• Kong Xuan suggested that Body Martial Soul users could become Soul Engineers, but Du Busi angrily refused to let the Sun Moon Empire take over the Body Sect.
• Kong Deming calmed Du Busi and proposed cooperation, then introduced him to the power of Battle Armor.
• Du Busi became tempted by Battle Armor and asked what the Body Sect would have to provide in return.
• Kong Deming explained that he wanted the Body Sect to protect Battle Armor's secrets, while Kong Xuan warned that the sect risked being left behind if it refused.
• Du Busi considered the offer, and Kong Deming suddenly looked toward the sky outside the Worship Hall.

Niu Tian confronted Kong Deming and Du Busi in the sky above Mingdu, demanding to know what had happened to his younger brother Tai Tan. Kong Xuan confirmed that Tai Tan was dead, leaving Niu Tian facing the news of his brother’s death.

• Kong Deming and Du Busi went to meet a newly arrived Limit Douluo, and Kong Xuan followed them into the sky.
• The visitor fixed his attention on Kong Xuan, whose teacher Yun Ming helped him withstand the man’s pressure.
• Kong Xuan recognized the visitor as Niu Tian, chief sect master of the Clear Sky Sect, and Niu Tian asked what had happened to Tai Tan.
• Kong Xuan noted that Niu Tian had come without a divine decree, revealing that Tai Tan had sought him under one.
• Niu Tian demanded an explanation, and Kong Xuan told him that Tai Tan was dead.

Kong Xuan told Niu Tian that Tai Tan was dead and warned him not to attack, revealing confidence that he could withstand even divine power. As Niu Tian began drawing on power from the Divine Realm, the story shifted to Tang San, who had learned that the God of Destruction knew his greatest secret and considered him a dangerous enemy.

• Kong Xuan told Niu Tian that Tai Tan had died, and Niu Tian struggled to believe that Kong Xuan and Kong Deming could have killed him.
• Kong Xuan defended Tai Tan's death as the consequence of his attack and warned Niu Tian that those who killed would themselves be killed.
• Niu Tian revealed his azure dragon form, but Kong Xuan urged him to consult the person behind him before attacking.
• Niu Tian halted his attack and began radiating golden power, while Kong Xuan assured Kong Deming that he could handle power borrowed from a god.
• Tang San learned that the God of Destruction knew his greatest secret and regarded him as his greatest opponent.

Tang San learned that Niu Tian had gone to confront Kong Xuan and, frightened by his previous defeat, ordered Niu Tian to withdraw. Niu Tian retreated, leaving Du Busi astonished, while Kong Deming renewed his proposal to cooperate with him.

• Tang San received Niu Tian’s message that Tai Tan had fallen and that Niu Tian was preparing to avenge him by confronting Kong Xuan.
• Remembering how Kong Xuan had destroyed his Divine Descent, Tang San warned Niu Tian that Kong Xuan could rival a God King and ordered him to retreat.
• Niu Tian suppressed his anger, threatened that the matter was not over, and flew away from Kong Xuan.
• Du Busi watched Niu Tian leave in disbelief and began to view Kong Deming and Kong Xuan with awe.
• Kong Deming thanked Du Busi for his assistance and asked what he thought of the cooperation he had proposed.

Du Busi agreed to cooperate with Kong Deming’s Worship Hall after securing conditions to protect the Body Sect and keep it out of war. After the Body Sect members returned home, Kong Deming told Kong Xuan that the fleet for a long voyage was ready, though finding the new continent without detailed nautical charts would be difficult.

• Du Busi agreed to cooperate with the Worship Hall on Soul Tool research under four conditions, including secrecy, protection for his disciples, and freedom to return home if war broke out.
• Kong Deming accepted all of Du Busi’s conditions, and Kong Xuan explained that the Worship Hall and Sun Moon Empire’s military operated separately.
• Kong Deming returned the more than twenty Body Sect experts to the plaza, and Du Busi led them back to their sect to settle matters before resuming discussions.
• Kong Deming and Kong Xuan discussed the value of the Body Sect’s forging talent and the danger posed by Limit Douluos, including the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Kong Deming told Kong Xuan that the long-voyage fleet was ready, but the lack of detailed nautical charts would make finding the continent difficult.

Kong Xuan urged Kong Deming to search overseas for a new continent, while Kong Deming distributed Soul Bones and Kong Xuan grew stronger. Nine months later, the Sun Moon and Shrek academies met in Maple Leaf City for their first student exchange, where Kong Xuan recognized He Caitou as the Sun Moon Empire's fugitive prince.

• Kong Xuan told Kong Deming to search for a distant continent, and Kong Deming resolved to find it if it held a god's inheritance.
• Xian Lin'er delivered four promised Soul Bones, and Kong Deming gave one to Ren Jun and one to Kong Xuan; Ren Jun chose a sixty-thousand-year Gale Cheetah left arm bone, while Kong Xuan chose a hundred-and-thirty-thousand-year Starlight Pegasus right leg bone.
• Kong Xuan fused two Soul Bones in a few days, raising his Soul Power to rank fifty-seven at thirteen years old.
• Nine months later, Jing Hongchen and the Sun Moon exchange delegation gathered in Maple Leaf City to meet Shrek Academy's delegation for the two-year student exchange.
• Kong Xuan recognized Shrek student He Caitou as the Sun Moon Empire's fugitive prince and noticed that his right leg was a prosthetic Soul Tool.
• The Sun Moon and Shrek delegations faced each other in the square as tension rose between them.

Yan Shaozhe and Jing Hongchen exchanged barbed remarks before leading their students from the two academies to Shrek. After Yan Shaozhe introduced Shrek’s legendary founders and Seven Monsters, Kong Xuan asked him about rumors concerning the academy.

• Jing Hongchen needled Yan Shaozhe about Xuan Zi and warned that Elder Kong might intervene if Sun Moon students were harmed.
• Jing Hongchen flew away with Shrek’s students and teachers, while Yan Shaozhe used his Bright Phoenix wings to lead the Sun Moon group toward Shrek City.
• The Sun Moon students followed using their Flying Soul Tools, and Yan Shaozhe tested their speed during the journey.
• At Shrek City’s eastern gate, Yan Shaozhe showed the visitors statues of the Golden Iron Triangle and the original Shrek Seven Monsters, claiming all seven had ascended to godhood.
• Kong Xuan acknowledged Shrek’s legends, then asked Yan Shaozhe to clarify rumors about Shrek.

During the exchange visit, Kong Xuan unsettled Yan Shaozhe by revealing that Sun Moon knew Mu En was a living Limit Douluo and Shrek founder descendant, then raised the scandalous claim that Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong were paternal first cousins. Yan Shaozhe denied the story and led the visitors onward in silence.

• Kong Xuan asked Yan Shaozhe whether Bei Bei was Mu En's great-great-grandson, and Yan Shaozhe confirmed Mu En was a Limit Douluo.
• Yan Shaozhe explained Mu En's descent from Shrek founders Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong and praised Yu Xiaogang's Martial Soul research.
• Kong Xuan claimed an ancient book said Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong were paternal first cousins who had chosen to be together but intended to have no children.
• Yan Shaozhe angrily threatened Kong Xuan, then dismissed the claim as an unreliable fabrication by Shrek's enemies.
• Yan Shaozhe ended the discussion and continued leading the Sun Moon visitors through the academy without further introductions.