Chapter Summaries

The Skill Assessment eliminated another contestant, after which He Caitou won his strength match and Huo Yutong faced Lan Ruoruo. Huo Yutong’s strange gray soul ring inflicted intense pain on Lan Ruoruo, who rushed in with a Short Blade as the fight continued.

• He Caitou and Huo Yutong finished the nine Core Array techniques first and second, and the judges eliminated the weakest contestant who had failed to complete them.
• He Caitou defeated his opponent in under two minutes, and Third Elder warned Huo Yutong not to hold back if she faced the bald fighter.
• Huo Yutong and Lan Ruoruo introduced themselves and took their positions for their match.
• Lan Ruoruo charged with a concealed Short Blade as Huo Yutong planted her staff and chanted, causing Lan Ruoruo intense pain.
• Lan Ruoruo pushed through the pain, reached Huo Yutong, and raised her Short Blade to strike.

Huo Yutong defeated Lan Ruoruo by combining undead spells that filled the arena with copies of herself and left her opponent terrified. After revealing how she had won, Huo Yutong suspected the academy's operation had failed and silently signaled Tang Wulin that they needed to retreat.

• Lan Ruoruo pierced Huo Yutong with her Short Blade, but Huo Yutong's body dissolved and dozens of undead copies of her appeared across the stage.
• Huo Yutong used the copies and Lan Ruoruo's fear to approach and kill her with a staff.
• Zhong Liwu praised Huo Yutong, awarded her the Short Blade, and promised her a Level 8 Soul Tool for each match she won.
• Huo Yutong explained that she had combined Ancient Sound Noise, Undead Phantom Soldier, and Fear Halo using Electrolux's Multiple Chanting technique.
• Huo Yutong asked about flashes and explosions near the Royal Palace, and Zhong Liwu dismissed them as harmless troublemakers.
• Huo Yutong exchanged a discreet glance with Tang Wulin, and they realized the academy had likely failed and they needed to find a chance to retreat.

Huo Yutong and Ye Guyi faced off after Ye Guyi revealed her Holy Angel Martial Soul by defeating Huang Zheng. Huo Yutong tried to convince Ye Guyi to trust her and help her survive the Holy Spirit Cult, but Ye Guyi demanded that Huo Yutong defeat her first.

• Huo Yutong drew He Caitou in the semifinal, and they staged a match before He Caitou conceded.
• Ye Guyi defeated Huang Zheng and revealed her rare Holy Angel Martial Soul, prompting Huo Yutong to resolve to save her.
• Huo Yutong faced Ye Guyi and threatened to turn her into a puppet while secretly warning her that the Holy Spirit Cult's leaders were too powerful for her to challenge.
• Zhong Liwu explained that Huo Yutong's summoned undead possessed holy attributes, while Feng Ling said they would not let her die.
• Huo Yutong contacted Ye Guyi telepathically and urged her to trust her, but Ye Guyi attacked and demanded that Huo Yutong defeat her first.

Huo Yutong defeated Ye Guyi with undead magic after her Holy Sword failed to harm the Bone Dragon. She left the arena as Ye Yulin announced Shou Mengyao as the winner.

• Ye Guyi's Holy Sword struck Huo Yutong's Bone Dragon but failed to injure it, and the backlash sent her flying.
• After Shrek Academy's signal appeared, Huo Yutong summoned ten groups of undead and used Death Hymn to overwhelm Ye Guyi.
• Ye Guyi countered with Angel's Dance and charged Huo Yutong, who formed a red magic circle and had a giant seize Ye Guyi and drag her inside.
• Huo Yutong dismissed her undead and waited on the stage while Ye Yulin considered attacking her but feared the Evil Soul Masters.
• Ye Yulin announced that Shou Mengyao had won for the Xishui Alliance.

Huo Yutong won the competition and claimed its prizes, including the Sun Moon God Needle, but a sudden attack by two dragon-shaped Limit Douluo created chaos and gave her and Tang Wulin a chance to escape. Zhong Liwu discovered Shou Mengyao and Jian Yechen were missing, while Ye Xishui arrived to hear what had happened.

• Nangong Wan declared Huo Yutong the champion, and An Litong and Shangguan Weier accepted the wager's outcome before leaving with their people.
• Ye Yulin handed Huo Yutong the Rank 9 Soul Tool Sun Moon God Needle, and she put away the prizes as Tang Wulin warned her that the Holy Spirit Cult had blocked their exits.
• Huo Yutong called Ye Yulin over, then two enormous dragons burst from underground and unleashed powerful domains across the competition grounds.
• The dragons attacked the Holy Spirit Cult as Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui rushed toward the scene, then vanished in a burst of light; Huo Yutong, Tang Wulin, Shou Mengyao, and Jian Yechen were gone.
• Zhong Liwu realized Shou Mengyao and Jian Yechen had disappeared, and Ye Xishui arrived as he began explaining what had happened.

After escaping the finals, the Shrek group entered the mountains west of Mingdu, where Huo Yutong realized they were traveling in circles and an unnatural fog began to spread. In the palace, Zhong Liwu revealed that the mountains held a deadly secret realm prepared to trap and kill them.

• Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong reunited with the Shrek group and warned Beibei that the Sun Moon Empire had two Limit Douluo, so Xuan Zi led everyone westward.
• Two Black-clothed Men drained the blood of a murdered couple into a lake, activating a strange gold-and-silver phenomenon.
• Huo Yutong noticed that the group was going in circles, and Xuan Zi ordered everyone to camp together and keep watch until dawn.
• A thick fog spread through the mountains as the Shrek group rested, while the West Mountain began to change around them.
• Zhong Liwu told Xu Tianran that Shrek had entered the secret realm and explained that he had stationed Little Phoenix and four elders at its exit to kill any survivors.

Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong discovered that divine power filled the fog in West Mountain, then Tang Wulin recognized the golden-silver light as Heaven and Earth Asking Love Valley. The group was pulled into Sun Moon Lake, where they began to fall toward the golden sun inside individual barriers.

• Huo Yutong found that the fog blocked her Spiritual Detection, and Electrolux warned Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong that it contained divine sense and power.
• Electrolux offered to use his Super Divine Tool to break the formation, but Tang Wulin decided they should investigate first.
• Huo Yutong and Xuan Zi realized the group was no longer walking in circles and could leave West Mountain in about a day.
• Golden-silver light engulfed the group, resisted the elders' abilities, and began pulling several people away.
• Tang Wulin identified the place as Heaven and Earth Asking Love Valley and warned everyone to answer truthfully, especially about love.
• The group was dragged into Sun Moon Lake and, enclosed in golden-silver barriers, began falling toward the golden sun at its center.

Tang Wulin and his companions began the God of Love’s True Heart Adventure, where each was asked whether they had a lover and punished for unsatisfactory answers. Huo Yutong openly named Tang Wulin as the person she loved most, while the mysterious voice faltered at her sincere answers.

• A golden beam selected Wu Feng, and the God of Love’s voice asked her whether she had a lover while Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong communicated through their shared Divine Sense.
• Huo Yutong told Tang Wulin that she could no longer contact Electrolux, leaving them without his help against the Secret Realm.
• Wu Feng and the others were questioned in turn, and golden blades appeared before Wu Feng and Ning Tian as the trials inflicted severe punishments.
• Wang Dong denied having a lover, endured repeated lashes, and was allowed to pass after insisting that her answer was sincere; Di Yun'er also passed.
• Huo Yutong answered that Tang Wulin was her lover and the person she loved most, and said she would choose to die rather than let him die.
• The mysterious voice asked what Huo Yutong liked about Tang Wulin, then awkwardly abandoned the question when she eagerly prepared to explain.

Rongrong and the long-haired man planned to make Huo Yutong one of their own, while dismissing her suspicions about Tang Wulin. After Huo Yutong passed the first Truth Questioning round, Tang Wulin passed by refusing to choose between his lover and parents, then conceded immediately when the next trial paired him against Huo Yutong and Wang Dong.

• Rongrong questioned the long-haired man about Tang Wulin, but he denied any blood relation and said he wanted to claim Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon King bloodline.
• Huo Yutong passed the first Truth Questioning round by affirming her unwavering feelings for Tang Wulin.
• When asked whether he would save Huo Yutong or his parents, Tang Wulin chose to die himself and passed, though the voice increased the Third Round’s difficulty.
• The Deep Adventure Second Shift began, and the wheel selected Tang Wulin to fight two opponents.
• The wheel chose Huo Yutong and Wang Dong as Tang Wulin’s opponents, so he conceded and vanished.

Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong began a Deep Adventure in which they had to rescue Duke White Tiger from an imminent attack. Tang Wulin helped Huo Yutong see that saving Dai Hao would preserve her chance for revenge, and they warned him of the ambush before losing contact.

• Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong arrived in a mountain range and learned that their assessment required them to protect Duke White Tiger from an enemy attack.
• Huo Yutong struggled with having to save Dai Hao, but Tang Wulin reminded her that he needed to stay alive for her to take revenge herself.
• Huo Yutong used Spiritual Detection Sharing to locate Dai Hao's party and discovered Sun Moon Empire High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools watching them.
• Huo Yutong warned Dai Hao of the ambush and showed him the enemy surveillance, convincing him to order his party back to the military camp.
• Dai Hao asked the mysterious helpers who they were and what he should do next, but Huo Yutong had already cut off contact.

Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong ambushed an enemy force preparing to fire on Dai Hao’s group, using their abilities to turn the attackers’ weapons against them. Their combined assault killed most of the Soul Sages and Soul Douluo, and struck down one Titled Douluo, leaving the remaining enemies to face them.

• Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong raced toward twelve enemies, including a Tier 9 Soul Engineer, and arrived as the group prepared to fire Soul Cannons at Dai Hao’s forces.
• Huo Yutong’s Spiritual Power confused the enemies, causing their shells to launch off target, while a Spiritual attack killed a Soul Douluo.
• Tang Wulin attacked the Tier 9 Soul Engineer, who activated an Invincible Shield and prepared a counterattack with his Soul Cannon.
• Huo Yutong’s Spiritual Clone used Soul Gaze to put the Tier 9 Soul Engineer into a stupor, causing his charged Soul Cannon to explode and kill him.
• Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong merged their Soul Powers and unleashed Frozen Thorn Frost Forest, killing the Soul Sages and Soul Douluo and striking down one Titled Douluo.

After helping Duke White Tiger, Huo Yutong was separated from Tang Wulin and sent to the Third Round True Heart Adventure. She was forced to fight an invincible Blue-Gold Figure who repeatedly killed and revived her, and she kept charging at him in hopes of passing the trial and reuniting with Tang Wulin.

• Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong's Martial Soul Fusion Skill killed most of the enemy group, but a mysterious voice then declared their assistance in Duke White Tiger's operation successful and began the Third Round True Heart Adventure.
• A beam transported Huo Yutong to a golden plaza, where a Blue-Gold Figure told her she had to defeat him before she could take the trial.
• The Blue-Gold Figure sealed Huo Yutong's Martial Soul and Soul Skills, then killed her repeatedly, each time causing her to revive in the plaza.
• Huo Yutong tried to flee but was caught and killed again, then realized she had to fight despite having no apparent chance of winning.
• After attacking again and being killed once more, Huo Yutong became excited by the possibility that repeated attempts might make the fight easier and charged at the Blue-Gold Figure again.

Tang Wulin was forced by Heaven and Earth Asking Love Valley to attack illusions of people at Shrek Academy, but he searched for a way to resist the control through his divine consciousness. The trial’s controllers discussed his unexpected divine consciousness and paused the other contestants’ trials while focusing on him and the Golden Dragon King matter.

• The valley’s voice told Tang Wulin that his answer had made the Third Round harder and forced him to kill illusions of his family and friends at Shrek Academy.
• Tang Wulin’s uncontrolled body killed the academy gatekeepers and attacked students, teachers, classmates, and staff while he struggled to stop himself.
• Tang Wulin recalled Electrolux’s explanation about divine consciousness in the valley and tried using the divine consciousness in his Sea of Consciousness to resist the control.
• Rongrong noticed that Tang Wulin’s divine consciousness carried the aura of the Goddess of Life, and Third Brother said he wanted to collect it for later use.
• Rongrong admitted that controlling Tang Wulin was taxing, so Third Brother ordered her to suspend the other contestants’ trials and focus on the Golden Dragon King matter.

Tang Wulin was forced by the illusion’s controller to slaughter people he cared about, including his teacher Mu En, while struggling to regain control. Just as he prepared to watch a frail woman die, Huo Yutong arrived and called the woman “Mom.”

• Tang Wulin failed to break through the spiritual control and killed Mu En, while the woman controlling him blamed him for his teacher’s death.
• Tang Wulin stormed Sea God’s Pavilion and killed Beibei, Xu Sanshi, He Caitou, Jiang Nannan, Xuan Zi, Elder Song, Old Lin, Old Zhuang, Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, Qian Duoduo, and Cai Mei'er.
• Tang Wulin found a frail woman he had never met, pierced her with his spear, and feared the trial would end with her death.
• Huo Yutong entered Sea God’s Pavilion, and Tang Wulin recognized her as the real Huo Yutong despite her bloodied, exhausted state.
• Huo Yutong looked at the wounded woman and called her “Mom.”

After enduring countless deaths, Huo Yutong was sent into a burning Shrek Academy and told that killing the invasion’s mastermind would resurrect her mother. Driven by grief and a blood-red dagger’s influence, she reached Sea God’s Pavilion, where she found Tang Wulin standing over Huo Yun’er, pierced by his spear.

• The Blue-Gold Figure gave Huo Yutong a blood-red dagger and said her mother would be resurrected if she killed the mastermind behind the attack on Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yutong found Wang Yan and Fan Yu dead by Sea God Lake, then killed the Evil Soul Masters who had killed them.
• The dagger drained the Evil Soul Masters’ bodies as Huo Yutong crossed the lake and headed for Sea God’s Pavilion, her killing intent growing stronger.
• Huo Yutong found the dead elders, deans, and Shrek Seven Devils along the way and closed their eyes before entering Sea God’s Pavilion.
• Huo Yutong found Tang Wulin holding a spear that pierced Huo Yun’er and called out to her mother in confusion.

Tang San manipulated Huo Yutong and Tang Wulin in Heaven and Earth Asking Love Valley, trying to make Huo Yutong kill Tang Wulin with the Blood Soul Dagger. Huo Yutong resisted the dagger’s influence and defended her faith in Wulin, prompting Tang San to prepare to take control more forcefully.

• Tang San watched from the clouds and revealed his plan to use the Blood Soul Dagger and Huo Yutong’s grief to make her kill Tang Wulin.
• Unable to break free from his controlled state, Tang Wulin falsely told Huo Yutong that his feelings for her had always been a lie.
• Tang Wulin threw Huo Yun'er’s corpse before Huo Yutong, and she broke down in grief as a voice urged her to kill him.
• Under the dagger’s influence, Huo Yutong approached Tang Wulin and raised the weapon toward his heart.
• Huo Yutong stopped and insisted that Wulin would never have deceived her, so the voice abandoned its gentler approach and declared it would not give up its spoils.

Huo Yutong resisted Tang San’s command to kill Tang Wulin and stabbed herself instead, while Tang San revealed his identity and tried to make her regret defying him. Electrolux broke through Tang San’s seal and appeared to protect Huo Yutong and Wulin, claiming he could contend with the God King.

• Tang San’s Blood Soul Dagger forced Huo Yutong to attack Tang Wulin, but she redirected the dagger into her own chest.
• Tang Wulin caught Huo Yutong and tried to heal her, but the dagger absorbed his Life Force; a familiar voice then told him what to do.
• Tang San admitted to Huo Yutong that he was Sea God Tang San and claimed she had lost the chance to become his successor.
• Huo Yutong refused to regret saving Tang Wulin and accused Tang San of resenting her resistance because it had disrupted his control.
• Electrolux broke through Tang San’s seal, promised to protect Huo Yutong and Wulin, and challenged Tang San’s mastery of his inherited Divine Authority.

Electrolux took control of Tang Wulin’s body during his fusion with Huo Yutong and used a Super Divine Tool to break Tang San and Ning Rongrong’s control over Heaven and Earth Asking Love Valley. He brought the trapped people back to the Gold-Silver Lake, where Tang San demanded to know how he had done it.

• Huo Yutong’s divine consciousness formed a small gray-white tower, severing Tang San’s spiritual connection with her.
• Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong fused into the Heavenly Ice Dragon Emperor, and Tang Wulin let Electrolux take control of his body.
• Tang San and Ning Rongrong admitted that Electrolux had thwarted their efforts to control Huo Yutong and Tang Wulin.
• Electrolux summoned a Super Divine Tool and expanded the gray-white tower to block Tang San’s restraints and envelop the world.
• Electrolux transported Tang Wulin and the others to the Gold-Silver Lake and explained that he had severed the gods’ connections to their divine consciousness and power in the valley.

Tang San and Electrolux battled while Tang San relied on Ning Rongrong’s support, but Electrolux had been searching for Heaven and Earth Asking Love Valley’s Secret Realm core rather than trying to defeat him. After Electrolux struck the core, Tang San and Ning Rongrong rushed to protect it, and Electrolux summoned two dragon skeletons to attack them.

• Tang San summoned his golden trident and called on Ning Rongrong to boost him with her Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Electrolux and Tang San fought to a stalemate as the Shrek students watched, unable to intervene.
• Tang Wulin raised the Gray Staff and sent a torrent of souls into the sun, revealing that Electrolux had located the Secret Realm core.
• Tang San recognized Electrolux’s plan to destroy the Secret Realm and urged Ning Rongrong to reinforce its core with divine power.
• Electrolux summoned two dragon skeletons, empowered them with red and blue lights, and sent them charging at Tang San as Tang San unleashed blue vines against them.

Tang Wulin used the Golden Dragon King's Eleventh Seal to supply Electrolux with divine power, triggering a bloodline resonance that threw Tang San's power into disarray. Electrolux exploited the opening to break Heaven and Earth Asking Love Valley, destroying Tang San's divine consciousness before he could learn Tang Wulin's identity.

• Tang Wulin offered to unleash the Golden Dragon King's power so Electrolux would have enough divine power to survive, and Electrolux agreed despite warning that it would hurt.
• Tang Wulin detonated the Eleventh Seal, and Electrolux drew its Blood Gold energy to strengthen his staff and their attack.
• When Electrolux's power clashed with Tang San's, Tang Wulin's God King bloodline awakened and resonated with Tang San's bloodline.
• Tang San and Ning Rongrong realized Tang Wulin's bloodline came from Tang San and Xiao Wu, leaving Tang San stunned that he might have another son.
• Electrolux concentrated Tang Wulin's power against Tang San's disordered divine power, shattering Heaven and Earth Asking Love Valley and erasing Tang San's divine consciousness.