Recaps

Xi Xi and Ling Luochеn led the team toward the Star Dou Great Forest, where Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen learned that Shrek had permission to cross the core zone. Di Tian ordered them out of the Lake of Life, and the group escaped the core zone and continued east.

• Xi Xi introduced herself and Ling Luochеn, and the team members shared their levels and Soul Skills.
• Xi Xi gave Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen Soul Tool Rings containing concealing uniforms and told them to meet at the Sea God Pavilion the next day.
• Ling Luochеn linked everyone together with chains, and the group used their Flying Soul Tools and Soul Tool Thrusters to race toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen learned that the team was flying through the forest's core zone and that Shrek had an agreement with Di Tian.
• Di Tian appeared in the group's path and ordered them to leave the Lake of Life within ten breaths.
• The group sped out of the core zone and continued east.

Huo Yuhao and the group reached a coastal town where the sea was unnaturally still and no life appeared beneath its surface. After disguising themselves and splitting up to gather information, Huo Yuhao headed alone to the docks, where a strange wave rose far out at sea.

• Huo Yuhao and the others traveled to the coast and sensed something unsettling beyond the sea.
• Ling Luochеn led the group toward a nearby town, where they noticed the docks were deserted and the water had no waves or visible life.
• Xiao Xiao and the others disguised themselves to conceal their identities before entering the town.
• The group split up to gather information while Huo Yuhao maintained a Spiritual Detection connection with them.
• Huo Yuhao went alone to the docks, and a strange wave surged several thousand meters away beneath the sea.

Huo Yuhao confronted a massive tsunami approaching the seaside town while his companions organized evacuations and searched for him after their spiritual link broke. With the seawater receding and danger building, the group flew out over the sea to investigate.

• Huo Yuhao sensed the approaching tsunami, covered himself in a black trench coat, and summoned a black sword as life energy radiated from him.
• Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong'er, and Wang Qiu'er headed toward the harbor while helping civilians evacuate under the oppressive force shaking the town.
• Jiang Nannan sent Ling Luochen and Xi Xi with Shadow Garden members to attack nearby Evil Soul Master strongholds, then evacuated residents herself.
• At the harbor, the group found no trace of Huo Yuhao and discussed the receding seawater, missing Sea Soul Beasts, and the possibility that he had gone to investigate.
• Wang Qiu'er and Wang Dong'er took off toward the sea, and the others followed with their Flying Soul Tools to investigate the danger.

Huo Yuhao uncovered that an Evil Soul Master had devoured the souls of Sea Soul Beasts and was controlling them to attack him. He killed the beasts with sword Qi and split the approaching tsunami, revealing tens of thousands of black-robed figures behind it.

• Huo Yuhao absorbed the energy of Sea Soul Beast Soul Rings as the backward-flowing seawater and an approaching tsunami threatened him.
• Dozens of powerful Sea Soul Beasts surrounded Huo Yuhao, and he discovered evil Soul Power and black skulls controlling them.
• Huo Yuhao destroyed the skulls in the beasts’ Seas of Consciousness and realized that a powerful Evil Soul Master had devoured their souls.
• Huo Yuhao sent Spiritual Power bombs through his sword Qi, destroying the Sea Soul Beasts’ Seas of Consciousness and causing their bodies to burst apart.
• The masked imperial preceptor suffered Spiritual Power backlash as Huo Yuhao’s sword Qi split the tsunami and exposed tens of thousands of black-robed figures.

Huo Yuhao, disguised as Shadow, shattered the Sea Soul Beasts’ attack and severely injured Zhongli Wu, but the Holy Spirit Cult leader recovered by devouring the vengeful souls in his broken staff. As Zhongli Wu pursued the fleeing students, Xiao Xiao was left behind and targeted.

• Shadow used a devastating sword strike to tear through the sea, then closed the spatial rifts as the students watched in shock.
• Zhongli Wu confronted Shadow, but Huo Yuhao struck him into the sea and broke his bone staff, leaving him badly injured.
• Zhongli Wu absorbed the staff’s vengeful souls to heal himself, then headed toward Jiang Nannan and the others to devour them.
• Huo Yuhao sensed Zhongli Wu’s approach and warned Jiang Nannan, prompting the students to flee in several directions.
• Xiao Xiao and the others helped Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen escape using the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, but Zhongli Wu destroyed Xiao Xiao’s Flying Soul Tool.
• Zhongli Wu appeared beside Xiao Xiao and said she smelled good before declaring that he would start with her.

Zhongli Wu seized Xiao Xiao and attacked Wang Dong'er and Wang Qiu'er, but Shadow arrived in time to rescue Xiao Xiao and overpower him. After the three girls escaped, Huo Yuhao turned his attention to Zhongli Wu and prepared to fight.

• Zhongli Wu emerged from the sea, captured Xiao Xiao in a hand of black Qi, and attacked Wang Dong'er and Wang Qiu'er as they tried to save her.
• Wang Dong'er and Wang Qiu'er combined their attacks to break Zhongli Wu's black skull Soul Skill, but he trapped them in his black Qi domain.
• Zhongli Wu's enormous black hand crushed the girls' counterattack, but Huo Yuhao reached through the hand holding Xiao Xiao and seized Zhongli Wu by the neck.
• Huo Yuhao freed Xiao Xiao, returned the Golden Dragon Spear to Wang Qiu'er, and broke the black Qi domain while Wang Dong'er carried Xiao Xiao away with Wang Qiu'er.
• After the three girls escaped, Huo Yuhao faced Zhongli Wu and announced that he would beat him to death or be beaten himself.

Huo Yuhao killed Zhongli Wu by destroying his soul-energy backup plan with the Sword Qi Silver Dragon, though a mysterious presence appeared after he left. Meanwhile, Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao insisted on searching for the missing Yuhao despite their injuries.

• Zhongli Wu revived after Huo Yuhao broke his neck and unleashed black Qi that drained nearby Soul Beasts and gathered their energy.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Shock to destroy Zhongli Wu's skulls, then pierced and absorbed the red energy balls with his Sword Qi.
• Huo Yuhao gave Zhongli Wu five seconds to speak, then sent the Sword Qi Silver Dragon to grind him to pieces.
• Huo Yuhao sensed a spatial disturbance and left; afterward, a head emerged from the bloodied sea where he had stood.
• Jing Ziyan found Wang Dong'er, Wang Qiu'er, and Xiao Xiao, who said Shadow had saved them from Zhongli Wu.
• Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong'er refused to rest and argued that they had to find Huo Yuhao, before a strand of Spiritual Power connected the group.

Huo Yuhao reunited with Xiao Xiao and the others after the Evil Soul Master’s attack, and the group returned to the town at night to investigate further. They checked into the town’s only open inn, where a strange voice asked if they wanted to hear her sing.

• Huo Yuhao reunited with Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong'er, and Wang Qiu'er at the harbor and explained that his Spiritual Power had been disrupted.
• Ling Luochеn and Xi Xi reported that the Evil Soul Master hideouts they destroyed were decoys, and the group decided to investigate the town further.
• Huo Yuhao and the others returned to the town after nightfall and went to its only open inn, posing as a Soul Hunting group.
• Huo Yuhao paid the innkeeper for all the available rooms while asking about the strange events that had frightened the residents.
• An eerie gust extinguished the lobby’s candles, and a woman’s chilling voice came from the innkeeper asking whether the group wanted to hear her sing.

Huo Yuhao and the others heard the innkeeper describe a nightly song and a black shadow that had been appearing in town, but Ning Tian questioned why the townspeople had concealed the story during the day. Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection then revealed a black shadow approaching the inn as the song began, leaving the group facing the very phenomenon they had doubted.

• The innkeeper startled Huo Yuhao's group by offering to sing, and Huo Yuhao calmed everyone before asking him to explain the town's troubles.
• The innkeeper said that after Sea Soul Beasts had died by the shore, a strange song began sounding at midnight, a black shadow was spotted, and livestock and other things went missing.
• Jing Ziyan, Xi Xi, Ling Luochеn, and the others discussed whether the innkeeper's account was true after going to their room.
• Ning Tian pointed out that the innkeeper's easy disclosure contradicted the townspeople's effort to hide the story from outsiders during the day.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to connect the group and spotted a black shadow approaching the inn as its strange song rang across town.

A mysterious spiritual-type Soul Beast attacked Huo Yuhao and his companions with a song, knocking most of them unconscious. Huo Yuhao shattered the creature’s illusion and revealed a beautiful Sea Princess mermaid, leaving Xiao Xiao stunned by the sight of a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast.

• A black figure’s spiritual song shattered the inn’s window and severed Huo Yuhao’s spiritual link with his companions.
• Tian Meng identified the figure as a spiritual-type Soul Beast at least a hundred thousand years old, and Huo Yuhao agreed to try making her a Soul Spirit.
• The black figure’s spiritual attack knocked out Huo Yuhao’s companions, while Xiao Xiao resisted and tried to protect him.
• The black figure dispelled Xiao Xiao’s Soul Skill, but Huo Yuhao reassured her and took over the fight.
• Huo Yuhao snapped his fingers and shattered the illusion, revealing an unconscious group on a moonlit beach and the black figure as a Sea Princess mermaid.

Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao questioned a distressed mermaid princess who asked them to rescue her mother. While Huo Yuhao probed her memories, she revealed that she had seen a god, and a strange red flame began consuming her spiritual body.

• The mermaid princess admitted she wanted help rescuing her mother and used spiritual pressure to force Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao to listen.
• Huo Yuhao entered the mermaid princess's mind and punished her when she tried to probe his spiritual power.
• The mermaid princess offered Huo Yuhao Mermaid Tear Pearls and recounted how the sea had suddenly boiled and heated up last month.
• The mermaid princess began to say what she had seen at the surface, then cried, “I saw... a god!”
• A dazzling red flame appeared and began engulfing the mermaid princess's spiritual body.

Huo Yuhao rescued the mermaid princess from mysterious soul flames and agreed to help her find her captive people, despite Xiao Xiao's fears about facing a deity. After securing their sleeping companions inside a portable tent Soul Tool, Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao prepared to leave with the princess.

• The mermaid princess saw a god in Huo Yuhao's mental illusion, and soul flames erupted from her body; Huo Yuhao pulled the flames away before they killed her, but their source severed its connection to him.
• The mermaid princess thanked Huo Yuhao, and he explained to Xiao Xiao that she had drawn him into an illusion and that he had helped her survive the flames.
• The mermaid princess asked Huo Yuhao to use his mental abilities to locate her captive people while she held off a deity, offering her Soul Ring and Soul Bone as payment; Huo Yuhao agreed to go after they secured their companions.
• Xiao Xiao suggested fleeing while the mermaid princess was off guard, but Huo Yuhao warned that she was monitoring them and said they would look for an opportunity later.
• Xiao Xiao assembled a portable tent Soul Tool, and Huo Yuhao carried Ling Luochе and the others inside, checked on them, and activated the alert system.
• Huo Yuhao asked Xiao Xiao if she was afraid, and she embraced him and said she was not afraid with him there.

Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao reached a fire island while helping the mermaid princess search for her people, and a phoenix cry suggested Ma Xiaotao might be there. The mermaid princess took Xiao Xiao hostage as leverage, while Huo Yuhao entered the island alone and Jiang Nannan prepared to support him.

• The mermaid princess gave Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao protective water spheres and led them into the deep sea toward an island filled with flames and Ultimate Fire.
• A phoenix cried out from the island, raising the possibility that Ma Xiaotao was there, so Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao decided they needed to investigate.
• The mermaid princess trapped Xiao Xiao in her sphere and took her into the fire forest as a bargaining chip, leaving Huo Yuhao to search for her people alone.
• Huo Yuhao transformed into a black robe and disappeared into the island.
• At the shore, Jiang Nannan told Ling Luochеn and Xi Xi that support was coming and set out to assist Lord Shadow; they named the operation God Hunt.

Xiao Xiao was brought through the sea of fire to a clearing, where she found the missing Ma Xiaotao in Deep Meditation and met the Deity who had summoned her. The Deity kept Xiao Xiao captive and said an unknown existence would come looking for her.

• The mermaid princess carried Xiao Xiao through the flames to a cool clearing, where Xiao Xiao recognized the woman meditating beneath a tree as Ma Xiaotao.
• The Deity ordered the mermaid princess to bring Xiao Xiao before him, and Xiao Xiao confirmed that Ma Xiaotao was in Deep Meditation.
• The Deity pinned Xiao Xiao in place when she tried to contact Ma Xiaotao, while the mermaid princess asked him to spare her mother and people.
• The mermaid princess left after the Deity promised to honor her request once everything was over.
• The Deity recognized Xiao Xiao as a student of Shrek Academy, kept her from leaving, and said an unknown existence would come looking for her.

Xiao Xiao was held on the island by a Deity while she cultivated, and Huo Yuhao prepared to free the mermaid princess’s people. After testing the mermaid princess’s motives, he spared her and set out with her to fulfill his promise.

• The Deity told Xiao Xiao to stay put, and she began cultivating while watching for a chance to contact Ma Xiaotao.
• Xiao Xiao used Devour Heaven and Earth to absorb the island’s elemental force, while the red-haired man praised her talent and remembered Shrek’s Dean.
• Huo Yuhao decided to avoid the Deity for now and free the mermaid princess’s people, then called the mermaid princess out of the burning forest.
• Huo Yuhao put a sword to the mermaid princess’s neck as she explained why she had taken his companion to the Deity.
• Huo Yuhao accepted the mermaid princess’s explanation, put away his sword, and went with her to fulfill his promise.

Huo Yuhao confronted the mermaid princess Lia and told her he would help rescue her clanspeople, who had disappeared from Fire Island. He led her beneath the island to an underwater cavern and revealed that they were hidden beyond a waterspout.

• Huo Yuhao suppressed the flames, summoned his dragon throne, and forced the mermaid princess to apologize for underestimating him.
• Huo Yuhao warned the mermaid princess not to try any tricks and promised to rescue her clanspeople if she kept her promise.
• The mermaid princess Lia accepted the possibility of sacrificing her life to save her mother and clanspeople.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Lia's clanspeople had been moved into the air beneath Fire Island, and he guided her into an underwater cave.
• Huo Yuhao created a waterspout at the cavern's entrance and told Lia that her clanspeople were inside.

Huo Yuhao brought the Mermaid Princess Liya through an illusion formation to where her captured people were held. After she found her mother suspended in a blood-chain cage, Electrolux and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm prepared to free them, while Liya’s promised sacrifice remained imminent.

• Huo Yuhao guided Liya through the vortex at the illusion formation’s core and brought her to the hidden sinkhole.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Electrolux met Liya, reminded her of her agreement to sacrifice herself after her people were rescued, and showed her the unconscious merfolk.
• Liya recognized her mother, the Sea Princess, hanging bloodied from four chains that drained pale golden blood from her.
• Electrolux examined the Divine Power binding the cage and said he could undo it with some help.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm declared that the caged bird would fly that day.

Electrolux and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm used powerful magic to open the Undead Demiplane and move Liya’s people to safety. The Mermaid Queen and her blood chains were taken into the demiplane as well, where Electrolux said the chains would corrode and her mother would be safe.

• Electrolux reassured Liya and joined the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm in preparing to rescue her people.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm unleashed his Spiritual Power and transformed into a staff in Electrolux’s hand.
• Electrolux cast an incantation, placing runes on the chains, the surrounding stone, the sinkhole’s barrier, and Liya’s people.
• A terrifying bloody maw appeared to devour Liya’s people, but Electrolux revealed that it was the entrance to his Undead Demiplane.
• The bone gate rose into the air, and the Mermaid Queen and her chains vanished into the demiplane with Liya’s people.

Electrolux and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm rescued Liya and escaped after alerting a Deity, while Ma Hongjun prepared to confront Huo Yuhao on Fire Island. As their battle filled the sky with flames, Ma Xiaotao abruptly attacked Xiao Xiao from behind.

• Liya agreed to become Yuhao’s Soul Spirit, and Electrolux and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm teleported her away when their actions alerted a Deity.
• Ma Hongjun awoke on Fire Island and asked Xiao Xiao to take Ma Xiaotao and flee if the coming battle went badly.
• Huo Yuhao revealed himself to Ma Hongjun, who attacked him with Divine Power-tempered Phoenix Flame.
• Huo Yuhao dodged and countered the flames with sword Qi as Ma Hongjun summoned a huge phoenix that filled the battlefield with steam.
• Ma Xiaotao opened her eyes beneath a tree and launched an Ultimate Fire claw attack at Xiao Xiao’s back.

Ma Xiaotao, having lost her memories, attacked Xiao Xiao while Huo Yuhao fought Ma Hongjun and split his Fire Phoenix in two. Ma Hongjun emerged from the sea and resumed the battle with Huo Yuhao, whose clash with the god shattered the space above the sea.

• Ma Xiaotao strangled Xiao Xiao, threatened to kill her, and trapped her inside a cage of flames.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed Ma Hongjun’s Phoenix Flame attacks with sword light and split the Fire Phoenix in two, sending it crashing into the sea.
• Xiao Xiao told Ma Xiaotao that Huo Yuhao was a Deity and urged her to survive, but Ma Xiaotao rejected her warnings and did not recognize her.
• Ma Hongjun burst from the sea, praised Huo Yuhao’s strength, and said he had to kill him because a higher power wanted him dead.
• Huo Yuhao and Ma Hongjun resumed their fight, trading sword and fire attacks until the space above the sea began to shatter.

A clash on the fire island unleashed a catastrophic blast that left Ma Xiaotao and Xiao Xiao unconscious but protected by Xiao Xiao’s pendant. Qian Renxue learned that Shadow was in trouble, while Zhang Lexuan mobilized Shadow Garden and Shrek’s leaders to respond to a reported Deity.

• Ma Xiaotao escaped the collapsing fire island with Xiao Xiao as the battlefield’s energy tore through the surrounding land and sea.
• A wave of spatial collapse overwhelmed Ma Xiaotao and Xiao Xiao, but a holy shield from Xiao Xiao’s pendant protected them before they lost consciousness.
• Qian Renxue sensed that the necklace she had given Shadow had activated, and she and Bibi Dong agreed to go help him.
• Zhang Lexuan received an alert that a Deity had appeared and ordered Shadow Garden members to gather and head to Si’s location.
• Zhang Lexuan summoned Shrek Academy’s deans and pavilion elders to an emergency meeting at the Sea God Pavilion.

Zhang Lexuan organized a rescue mission after Xiao Xiao sent a distress message, learning that Shadow was battling a Deity and creating an opportunity to reach the stranded group. As Shrek’s elders and Shadow Garden members headed toward the sea, Jiang Nannan, Ling Luochеn, and Xi Xi prepared to monitor the fight and support Shadow.

• Zhang Lexuan told the Sea God Pavilion elders that Xiao Xiao had sent a distress message and warned that the enemy might be a Deity.
• Cai Mei'er and Yan Shaozhe proposed rescuing Xiao Xiao and the others while the enemy was distracted, and Zhang Lexuan revealed that Shadow was fighting the Deity.
• Zhang Lexuan led the elders to the sea, leaving Zhou Yi in charge of Shrek Academy, while Shadow Garden members also mobilized.
• Jiang Nannan confirmed that Xi Xi had sent the Shadow Garden sisters to safety and prepared to support Shadow.
• Ling Luochеn set up an observation Soul Tool on an ice floe, and Xi Xi used it to look toward the battlefield.

Huo Yuhao defeated Ma Hongjun and granted the Phoenix God’s request for death, while Jiang Nannan, Xi Xi, and Ling Luochе fled before Shrek’s reinforcements arrived. On a distant island, Xiao Xiao recovered from the battle and found Ma Xiaotao staring at a scorched feather.

• Huo Yuhao overwhelmed Ma Hongjun, whose God Ring shattered as his divine body and Martial Soul failed.
• Ma Hongjun accepted death, and Huo Yuhao beheaded him with his black longsword.
• Jiang Nannan, Xi Xi, and Ling Luochе saw Shrek’s reinforcements approaching and fled across the sea to find Xiao Xiao and Ma Xiaotao.
• Xiao Xiao emerged from her Soul Suppressing Cauldron with minor injuries and wondered whether Huo Yuhao’s pendant had protected her.
• Xiao Xiao found Ma Xiaotao kneeling on the beach and staring at a scorched, broken feather.

Xiao Xiao reunited with Jiang Nannan, Ling Luochen, and Xi Xi after Ma Xiaotao injured her and flew toward Flame Island. The group learned Ma Xiaotao had lost her memory and feared she was heading to confront Shadow, while Yuhao's signal appeared near the pier.

• Ma Xiaotao struck Xiao Xiao away, then flew toward Flame Island with tears in her eyes.
• Xiao Xiao's tracking Soul Tool alerted her to Jiang Nannan and her companions approaching, and they reunited.
• Jiang Nannan discovered Xiao Xiao's burn and Ling Luochen treated the Ultimate Fire poison with ice.
• Xiao Xiao told them Ma Xiaotao had injured her and seemed to have lost her memory after being taken by a Deity.
• Jiang Nannan guessed Ma Xiaotao was heading to take revenge on Shadow and said Yuhao's signal was near the pier.

Huo Yuhao killed Ma Hongjun, but the Deity’s corpse burned to ashes before he could preserve it. He then hid on an unnamed island with the Mermaid Princess and her people, preparing to absorb a Soul Ring.

• Ma Xiaotao followed traces of flame toward Fire Island, determined to kill Huo Yuhao and avenge Ma Hongjun.
• Huo Yuhao watched Ma Hongjun’s corpse burn to ashes, then vanished with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Electrolux as the Shrek group arrived.
• Zhang Lexuan gave Yan Shaozhe and the others Soul Tools and sent them to find Xiao Xiao and the other survivors.
• Huo Yuhao reached an unnamed island, where Electrolux established a magic array that concealed it from the sea.
• Electrolux opened the Undead Demiplane and brought out the Mermaid Princess, her mother, and their people.
• Huo Yuhao asked the Mermaid Princess whether she was ready to sacrifice herself.