Chapter Summaries

Xu Xingyu retrieved the Origin Primordial Crystal he had created while serving as the Star Lord, then left the Simulation space with Buer. After they departed, the space collapsed and announced that Xu Xingyu had passed the Dragon God Preliminary Trial, lifting the restrictions on Dragon Valley.

• Xu Xingyu separated the Origin Primordial Crystal from the simulated planetary core and explained its creation and abilities to Buer.
• Xu Xingyu told Buer that years as the Star Lord had raised his body and spirit to the Third-Level God rank, while his spiritual power was close to the God Level.
• Buer opened a spatial gate, and she and Xu Xingyu left the Simulation space hand in hand.
• The Simulation space destabilized after their departure, and a voice declared that Xu Xingyu had passed the Dragon God Preliminary Trial and could challenge the Dragon God Trial.
• The voice lifted the restrictions on Dragon Valley, and the Simulation space shattered as its energy returned to where it belonged.

Xu Xingyu returned from the Origin Primordial Realm to the Spirit Contract Pagoda, shaken by the hundreds of millions of years he had experienced and grateful that his saved memories had preserved his identity. Gu Yuena reunited with him in tears, and the chapter ended with Xu Xingyu comforting her while Buer watched and wished to join them.

• Xu Xingyu emerged from the spatial gate into the Spirit Contract Pagoda and reflected on how the immense passage of time might have changed him.
• Xu Xingyu sensed someone approaching, and Gu Yuena burst into the chamber and embraced him in tears.
• Xu Xingyu comforted Gu Yuena as she recalled fearing that he would lose himself in the Origin Primordial Realm.
• Xu Xingyu stroked Gu Yuena's hair and lifted her into his arms, reassuring her that he had returned.
• Buer watched Xu Xingyu and Gu Yuena reunite and wished she could join their embrace.

After escaping the Origin Primordial Realm, Xu Xingyu reunited with Gu Yuena and learned what had happened during his six-month absence. He planned to recover and then lead the group to Dragon Valley, while Gu Yuena demanded compensation for her worry.

• Gu Yuena welcomed Xu Xingyu back, and Buer interrupted their reunion to remind them she was still there.
• Gu Yuena told Xu Xingyu she had claimed he was in Deep Meditation and that Wang Dong'er had sensed something was wrong through their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Gu Yuena reported the girls' cultivation progress and explained that Gu Qiuxi was refining the Golden Dragon King Bloodline while postponing work on the Blank God Position.
• Xu Xingyu learned Dragon Valley's seal was still intact and decided to rest before gathering the group to retrieve what lay inside.
• Gu Yuena asked Xu Xingyu for compensation, and Buer fled to her true form as her parents resumed their intimacy.

After spending the night together, Xu Xingyu left Gu Yuena to visit the young girls he had promised to comfort. Gu Yuena reflected on the mysterious plot against him, then sensed that Dragon Valley’s seal had suddenly come undone.

• Xu Xingyu woke beside Gu Yuena, bathed, and prepared to leave for the young girls he had promised to see.
• Gu Yuena encouraged Xu Xingyu to spend time with the young girls and promised to wait for him.
• Xu Xingyu told Gu Yuena that being with her was the happiness of his life, and Gu Yuena quietly returned the sentiment after he left.
• Gu Yuena worried about the unknown being who had trapped Xu Xingyu in a Simulation space and resolved to find out who was behind it.
• Gu Yuena sensed a strange fluctuation and discovered that Dragon Valley’s seal had suddenly come undone.

Wang Dong'er and Xu Xingyu's other lovers gathered after learning he had emerged from Deep Meditation and wanted to speak with them. The girls bickered while waiting, then Xu Xingyu arrived and greeted them.

• Wang Dong'er chose a pink-and-blue dress and hurried to the gathering place to meet Xu Xingyu.
• Ma Xiaotao and Xu Jiujiu arrived early, and Ma Xiaotao realized Xu Xingyu had invited all his girls rather than her alone.
• Jiang Nannan, Xu Yanxue, and Gu Qiuxi arrived, and Wang Dong'er and Ma Xiaotao exchanged barbs before Jiang Nannan calmed them down.
• Jiang Nannan heard familiar footsteps, and Xu Xingyu appeared and greeted the girls after half a year away.

Xu Xingyu reunited with the girls after six months of secluded cultivation, and they showed off how much their trials had improved their cultivation. Gu Qiuxi, worried that she lagged behind them, asked to train at the place where Xu Xingyu had cultivated, leaving him to answer her request.

• Wang Dong'er and Xu Yanxue rushed over to embrace Xu Xingyu when he returned, while the other girls watched enviously.
• Xu Xingyu praised the girls' progress as they described their trials and displayed their Soul Rings.
• Xu Xingyu comforted Gu Qiuxi about her four Soul Rings, explaining that her divine position would ultimately suit her best.
• Gu Qiuxi asked Xu Xingyu if she could cultivate at the place where he had spent his seclusion after sensing that his spiritual power and Qi and blood had reached God Level.
• Gu Qiuxi waited expectantly for Xu Xingyu to respond, hoping the place could help her catch up with the other girls.

Xu Xingyu told the women about his perilous time in the Origin Primordial Realm and revealed that he was a God Examination candidate with a God King-level trial. The group suspected a imprisoned Divine Realm figure had set a trap there, and Gu Qiuxi asked who he was.

• Xu Xingyu refused to take Gu Qiuxi to the Origin Primordial Realm and explained that he had nearly died there without Gu Yuena and Buer's help.
• Xu Xingyu confessed that he was a God Examination candidate, that the Origin Primordial Realm held the Douluo Continent's Plane Core, and that his god positions were God King-level while the women's were his vassals.
• The women reacted with alarm and concern, especially about the effects of Xu Xingyu having been forced to become a planet for hundreds of millions of years.
• Wang Dong'er suspected that an imprisoned Divine Realm figure had prepared the Simulation space as a trap, possibly to steal the Star Lord's origin.
• Xu Xingyu agreed to look for clues in the Origin Primordial Realm, and Gu Qiuxi asked who they meant by “that person.”

Xu Xingyu and Wang Dong'er explained that her father was Tang San, a god who had used her to interfere with the Douluo Continent and undermine Xu Xingyu. They left the others with the truth about their past and urged them to focus on cultivation before seeking more details.

• Wang Dong'er revealed that Tang San was her father and had treated her as a tool to control the Douluo Continent.
• Xu Jiujiu and Ma Xiaotao questioned how Tang San could interfere in the mortal world, and Wang Dong'er explained that he secretly exploited his influence in the Divine Realm.
• Xu Xingyu said other God Kings had exposed Tang San's actions, leading to his imprisonment and his forced arrangement of Xu Xingyu and Wang Dong'er's engagement.
• Wang Dong'er explained that Tang San had secretly placed divine consciousness in her to control her and attack Xu Xingyu's forces, until Xu Xingyu used a divine artifact to free her.
• Wang Dong'er said she had joined the Spirit Contract Pagoda for revenge and had genuinely fallen in love with Xu Xingyu.
• Xu Xingyu assured the group that their account was true and advised them to focus on cultivation before asking for more details.

After Xu Xingyu revealed more about the gods’ plans, Wang Dong'er, Xu Yanxue, and Gu Qiuxi stayed behind while the others returned to consider whether to continue their God Examinations. Gu Qiuxi exposed a scheme in which Tang San would use Wang Dong'er to devour her, leaving Wang Dong'er determined to oppose her father.

• Xu Xingyu told the others they could abandon their God Examinations, though they would have to give up their godly positions, and sent them back to think things over.
• Xu Yanxue and Wang Dong'er argued over Wang Dong'er's connection to Tang San, and Xu Xingyu tried to settle them by pulling them into his arms.
• Wang Dong'er reflected on how Tang San had cursed her and treated her as a chess piece, while Xu Yanxue affirmed she would support Xu Xingyu's choices.
• Gu Qiuxi said her Destiny Connection memories showed that Tang San would split Wang Dong'er's soul and use her to make her devour Gu Qiuxi.
• Xu Xingyu promised Wang Dong'er he would help her defeat Tang San, and Wang Dong'er vowed to use the Sea God Trident against him.
• Xu Yanxue teased Wang Dong'er for still being on the First Trial, and the two began arguing again.

Xu Xingyu’s Dragon God Martial Soul resonated with Dragon Valley, causing a vast spatial rift to open in the Heavenly Soul Empire. Gu Yuena arrived, recognized the rift as an entrance to Dragon Valley, and entered it while the gathered experts remained unable to pass.

• Xu Xingyu released his Dragon God Martial Soul, whose roar resonated across the continent and stirred a phenomenon in the north.
• A kilometer-wide spatial rift opened in the Heavenly Soul Empire, releasing seven-colored mist that the nearby experts identified as materialized dragon Qi.
• One expert absorbed the dragon Qi and found that it improved his vitality, elemental understanding, and Soul Power bottleneck.
• The experts failed to enter the rift because a restriction blocked them, then Gu Yuena appeared through a silver portal.
• Gu Yuena recognized the rift as a connection to Dragon Valley and wondered why it had appeared after Xu Xingyu escaped the Origin Primordial Realm.
• Gu Yuena passed through the rift and entered Dragon Valley.

Gu Yuena entered Dragon Valley to scout it for Xu Xingyu and found the supposed graveyard transformed into a lively paradise. She discovered a Super Divine Artifact forged from the Dragon Ascension Pillar, but could not determine who had changed Dragon Valley before an unknown voice welcomed her.

• Dragon Valley welcomed Gu Yuena because it sensed her Silver Dragon King bloodline, and she observed calm dragon souls guarding a distant valley.
• Gu Yuena traveled to the valley to investigate the Dragon Graveyard and found thriving plants, playful true dragon souls, and a seven-colored lake.
• Gu Yuena discovered a black tower with purple-gold dragon patterns at the lake's center and recognized it as a Super Divine Artifact made from the Dragon Ascension Pillar.
• Gu Yuena considered whether the Five Great God Kings had remade Dragon Valley, but concluded they were unlikely to have done so.
• An unknown speaker welcomed Gu Yuena to Dragon Valley.

In the Divine Realm, a watching couple discovered that Gu Yuena had encountered the Time Dragon King's inheritor in Dragon Valley. The golden-haired woman revealed that her master was Starry Dragon Emperor, leaving Gu Yuena demanding to know more about him.

• A man in black and his wife learned that Gu Yuena had met the Silver Dragon King and settled in to watch the encounter from the Divine Realm.
• Gu Yuena sensed the golden-haired woman's Time Dragon King bloodline and asked where she had received the inheritance.
• The woman said her master had given her the Time Dragon King's Godhood Inheritance and that she had become the current Time Dragon King.
• Gu Yuena grew angry that a powerful Dragon King's inheritor had a master and demanded to know who it was.
• The golden-haired woman calmly answered that her master was Starry Dragon Emperor.

Gu Yuena learned that Ya'an Lili, a young Time Dragon King, would become Xu Xingyu’s servant when his future self met her past self, a secret tied to Dragon Valley and the Dragon God Trial. After Gu Yuena left to bring Xu Xingyu, a gray-haired woman appeared and asked whether Lili should reveal more, but Lili said time would reveal everything.

• Gu Yuena rejected Ya'an Lili’s claim that the Starry Dragon Emperor had made her his servant, until Lili displayed his exclusive Master-Servant Dragon Mark.
• Ya'an Lili explained that Xu Xingyu’s future self would meet her past self, and Gu Yuena realized the truth involved time and the Dragon God Trial.
• Ya'an Lili gave Gu Yuena her name and swore by the Dragon God that her claims were true.
• Gu Yuena left Dragon Valley to bring Xu Xingyu, while Ya'an Lili spoke with a gray-haired woman who had emerged from the earth.
• The gray-haired woman asked whether Ya'an Lili would reveal more, and Lili replied that time would eventually reveal everything.

Xu Xingyu and Gu Yuena planned a trip to Dragon Valley, choosing companions and arranging to include promising disciples from the Earth Dragon Sect. After they settled on a departure date, Xu Xingyu received shocking news that Mu En was close to death.

• Xu Xingyu recalled the changes to Dragon Valley and Gu Yuena's report about its transformation and the inheritor of the Time Dragon King.
• Xu Xingyu chose Xu Yanxue, Gu Qiuxi, Xu Sanshi, and Dugu Yanran to accompany him, with plans to assess Xu Sanshi as a possible Vassal God.
• Gu Yuena proposed bringing Earth Dragon Sect disciples to Dragon Valley, and Xu Xingyu agreed to give the sect several places on the trip.
• Xu Xingyu and Gu Yuena settled on a date for the journey, but the next day Xu Xingyu heard that Mu En was close to death.

Shrek Academy's elders and students gathered to farewell the dying Mu En, while Xuan Zi brought Bei Bei, Tang Ya, Xu Xingyu, and Wang Dong'er into the Sea God Pavilion to see him. Mu En's passing left the academy facing uncertainty over whether Xuan Zi could lead it as the next Sea God Pavilion Master.

• Zhang Lexuan and sixty-six Inner Court disciples sat outside the Sea God Pavilion to bid farewell to Mu En.
• Xuan Zi led Xu Xingyu, Wang Dong'er, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya inside, surprising the disciples who had not been allowed to enter.
• The visitors saw Mu En near death, and Bei Bei wept as Tang Ya comforted him.
• Xu Xingyu worried that Xuan Zi lacked the character and leadership needed to succeed Mu En, despite his strength and bloodline.

Mu En prepared to die, reassured those gathered, and gave Shrek’s leaders and his descendants instructions for the future. He entrusted Bei Bei with the Radiant Sacred Dragon bloodline and apologized to Tang Ya for Shrek’s failure to protect the Tang Sect, leaving her with the academy’s promise of support.

• Mu En reflected on Wang Dong'er's connection to Sea God Tang San and felt glad that Xu Xingyu and his companions might bring change to Shrek Academy.
• Mu En told those present that he was content with his long life and asked them to see him off with smiles, while Yan Shaozhe and Cai Mei'er knelt in grief.
• Bei Bei cried out to his great-great-grandfather, and Mu En rose to give Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, Cai Mei'er, Xian Lin'er, and Qian Duoduo instructions for Shrek Academy's future.
• Mu En encouraged Bei Bei, entrusted him with a charge, and infused him with the Radiant Sacred Dragon bloodline to stabilize his Martial Soul Mutation.
• Mu En apologized to Tang Ya for Shrek’s inaction as the Tang Sect declined, urged her to reclaim its former glory, and promised that she and Bei Bei could seek the academy’s help.
• Tang Ya thanked Mu En through tears and knelt before him.

Mu En made Xu Xingyu and Wang Dong'er promise to support Shrek Academy, then gave his final blessing to the academy before merging with the Golden Ancient Tree. His death left Shrek facing an uncertain future without its longtime guardian.

• Mu En asked Xu Xingyu and Wang Dong'er to preserve the friendship between Shrek Academy and the Spirit Contract Pagoda and help Shrek if it faced trouble.
• Xu Xingyu agreed, and Wang Dong'er agreed for his sake.
• Mu En invoked Shrek's ancestors, transformed into a white dragon, and filled Sea God Island with golden light that strengthened its inhabitants.
• Yan Shaozhe urged everyone on Sea God Island to meditate and absorb Mu En's final gift.
• Mu En flew to the Golden Ancient Tree and merged with it, ending his life as Dragon God Douluo Mu En.

Xu Xingyu prevented Mu En from merging permanently with Buer by having her prepare purification and a puppet as alternatives. After learning the truth about Tang San and Shrek’s history, Mu En chose to become Buer’s puppet so he could protect Shrek in future crises.

• Xu Xingyu arranged for Buer to learn the Power of Purification and prepared a puppet as another option for Mu En.
• Buer revealed herself to Mu En and explained that she had withheld full support from Shrek because of its history with Tang San.
• Buer shared memories showing Mu En Tang San’s actions against her and the Douluo Continent, shattering Mu En’s faith in his ancestor.
• Mu En overcame his despair, apologized to Buer, and resolved to help reform Shrek Academy.
• Buer offered Mu En reincarnation or a puppet body, and Mu En chose the puppet so he could help Shrek in the future.

Mu En merged with the Golden Ancient Tree’s puppet and regained a physical body, then asked to tell Shrek about its past sins. Elsewhere, Long Xiaoyao had also become undead, and a pale-faced woman declared that he would never leave her again.

• Mu En entered the puppet, which changed into a youthful body resembling his former appearance and could transform into a physical dragon.
• Buer explained that the puppet’s strength was comparable to a God Officer, though Mu En’s powers had not reached the God Level and his soul still needed to fuse with the body.
• Mu En asked to speak with Shrek about its past sins, but he could not decide whom to trust and left the matter for Xuan Zi to face as Sea God Pavilion Master.
• Buer let Mu En contact Xuan Zi mentally and kept Xu Xingyu’s identity secret from him.
• In the Evil Demon Forest, a pale-faced woman told Long Xiaoyao that she had finished making him undead and that he could never leave her again.

Ye Xishui reflected on how her love for Long Xiaoyao and the former cult leader’s abuse drove her into darkness. She explained that the Long Xiaoyao beside her was an undead puppet made from his body and a memoryless half of his soul, leaving him to remain at her side.

• Ye Xishui recalled how the former cult leader arranged an ambush for Long Xiaoyao and Mu En, then abused her when neither man appeared for their duel.
• Ye Xishui blamed Long Xiaoyao for her suffering and made him a chief elder of the Holy Spirit Cult, while secretly keeping him close because she loved him.
• Gu Yuena killed Long Xiaoyao while he was protecting Ye Xishui, and Ye Xishui preserved his body and soul before fleeing.
• Ye Xishui used the Holy Spirit Cult’s records to remake Long Xiaoyao’s body as an undead creature and placed his memoryless soul inside it.
• Ye Xishui kept Long Xiaoyao’s memories in the other half of his soul, leaving the undead puppet loyal to her and capable of independent thought.