Chapter Summaries

Gula defeated Chen Yu in the Forging Room, while Mu Ye discovered Mu Yi’s exceptional Extreme Wood Body Martial Soul and began teaching him the Body Sect’s Innate Body Forging Art. Mu Yi started circulating a Vitality Pill’s energy as Mu Ye instructed him to draw wood-aligned elements into his body.

• Gula used his Soul Skills to defeat Chen Yu, who left the Forging Room humbled by the gap between their combat abilities.
• Mu Ye brought Mu Yi to the wilderness and confirmed that Mu Yi had an exceptionally pure Body Martial Soul with the Extreme Wood Attribute.
• Mu Yi told Mu Ye that he had existed for less than a year but had a physical state closer to that of a six-year-old child.
• Mu Ye declared that Mu Yi was at the ideal age to learn the Innate Body Forging Art and began teaching him the Body Sect’s Innate Secret Technique.
• Mu Yi swallowed a Vitality Pill and followed the circulation route Mu Ye guided through his body.
• Mu Ye instructed Mu Yi to use his Martial Soul to draw wood-aligned elements into his body and temper his flesh and blood.

Mu Yi began tempering his body with Mu Ye’s guidance, while Gula learned that the final assessments had been changed to teams and was assigned a group of unusual students. The group chose the Tang Sect as their next destination, leaving Shen Yi uncertain about Gula’s motives.

• Mu Ye guided Mu Yi through his first cultivation of the Innate Secret Technique, and Mu Yi’s Life Gold fused with his heart as his body absorbed life force.
• Mu Ye gave Mu Yi weighted equipment and assigned him daily cultivation and basic training after Mu Yi’s body became much heavier.
• An observation teacher told Gula that the academy had changed the final assessments to team format because of new Evil Soul Master activity.
• Gula joined Na’er, Bai Yuan, Xu Xiaoyan, Gu Yue, and Wu Siduo at the station and realized the academy had grouped several difficult-to-place students together.
• Gula chose the Tang Sect as the team’s next destination, and Shen Yi wondered whether he had picked it deliberately to defy the academy’s intentions.

Gula led his team to challenge the Tang Sect Branch, despite Shen Yi’s warnings. The challenge prompted alarm across the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy, and Li Han prepared the branch’s reserve team and training mechs to respond.

• Shen Yi warned Gula against targeting the Tang Sect, but he bought tickets to the next city and continued with the plan.
• Gula led his team to the Tang Sect Branch and declared that Shrek Academy’s students had come to challenge its elites.
• A guard reported the challenge to Li Han, who saw Gula waiting outside and ordered him to stabilize the situation.
• Tang Sect Headquarters and Shrek Academy contacted each other, while Cai Yue'er confirmed that Gula's squad was responsible and Yun Ming decided to let matters play out.
• As Gula taunted the Tang Sect from outside, Li Han ordered Wang Sheng and the reserve team to gather with the branch’s training mechs.

Gula and the Shrek team faced the Tang Sect branch’s six Yellow Rank Mechs in a demonstration match. Bai Yuan devoured the energy core of one mech, while Gu Yue immobilized another, leaving the battle underway.

• Yang Ming welcomed Gula and the Shrek team to the Tang Sect branch and led them to its training platform.
• Li Han introduced the six Yellow Rank Mechs and began the match against Gula’s team.
• Gula ordered the team to scatter as the mechs fired their Soul Tool Cannons, then assigned Bai Yuan to attack the left-wing mech.
• Bai Yuan dodged the mech’s vibration blade and used Abyss Maw—Devour to drain its Soul Tool Core, disabling it.
• Gu Yue approached another mech and used Space Lock to freeze it and stop its controls.

Gula and the Shrek group defeated six Yellow Rank Mechs at the Tang Sect branch and left without Teacher Shen. Gula then chose Starry Sky Soul Master Academy as their next destination, hoping to use the coming Star Power Tide to advance his cultivation.

• Gu Yue disabled one mech, while Na'er, Wu Siduo, and Xu Xiaoyan helped the group overwhelm the attackers; Gula crippled the last intact mech with his Earthquake skill.
• Gula mocked Li Han's mech technology before teleporting the group away, leaving the Tang Sect to seek reimbursement for the damaged mechs.
• Xu Xiaoyan realized Teacher Shen was still inside the Tang Sect, but Gula said she could leave on her own and proposed finding another academy to challenge.
• Gula found information about Starry Sky Soul Master Academy and decided its Star Observation Platform and the coming Star Power Tide could help him pursue a breakthrough.
• Gula told Xu Xiaoyan to prepare for the opportunity, and she asked whether the academy would accept their challenge; he assured her he had a way.

Gula’s team arrived at Starry Sky Soul Master Academy for an exchange, where Bai Yuan sensed the academy’s Starlight Power and wondered whether he could devour it. Li Zhilong welcomed them to the Star Observation Platform and proposed a friendly spar before their scheduled three days of access.

• After leaving the Tang Sect, Bai Yuan and his teammates ate and traveled to the next city, and Bai Yuan reached rank fifty by absorbing Soul Power without harming his opponents.
• Three days later, Gula contacted Starry Sky Academy from its gates while Bai Yuan and the others waited.
• Li Zhilong greeted the visiting team and cautiously assessed Bai Yuan, whose presence felt dangerous despite his young appearance.
• As Li Zhilong guided them to the Star Observation Platform, Gula sensed Starlight Power and Bai Yuan became interested in its unusual energy.
• Li Zhilong showed the team the platform’s Soul Fighting Arena and proposed a friendly spar before their three days of usage rights began.

Bai Yuan lost control of his Abyss Maw while devouring the Starlight Essence at Starry Sky Academy, nearly draining the opposing team and the Star Observation Platform. Gula apologized and offered compensation, while the exchange match was postponed until the students recovered and the platform replenished its energy.

• Li Zhilong explained that the Star Observation Platform stored violent impurities from starlight, and Bai Yuan sensed that his martial soul wanted to devour them.
• Gula chose a six-versus-seven team battle, and Bai Yuan stepped forward alone while his teammates stayed back.
• Bai Yuan absorbed the platform's Starlight Essence and the Starry Sky Academy students' attacks, then began draining their soul power as his hunger overwhelmed him.
• Gu Yue jolted Bai Yuan out of his trance, and Gula destroyed the opposing team's combined Yinghuo Concealed Kill Arrow with sword qi.
• Gula apologized and offered to compensate for the damage, while Li Zhilong said the students would recover after resting and the exchange match would be postponed until the platform replenished its Starlight Essence.

Bai Yuan defeated Starry Sky Academy’s seven Soul Masters without using his Devouring Ability, earning Shrek Academy three days of access to the Star Observation Platform. Gu Yue sensed a pitch-black figure within his martial soul, and Bai Yuan wondered about the creature-like memory awakened by his Fourth Soul Skill.

• Bai Yuan challenged the seven Starry Sky Academy students alone, wagering that Shrek Academy would leave if he lost and gain three days at the Star Observation Platform if he won.
• Bai Yuan revealed four Black Soul Rings and fought using other soul skills as Xing Yao led the team in the Seven Stars Aligned Formation.
• Bai Yuan overcame the formation and knocked out all seven students without injuring them, securing Shrek Academy’s victory.
• Gu Yue told Bai Yuan she had sensed a pitch-black figure within his martial soul, and Li Zhilong granted Shrek Academy three days at the platform after its Starlight Essence recovered overnight.
• Bai Yuan recalled that his Fourth Soul Skill had awakened a desire resembling the memory of a creature.

During the millennium Starlight Tide, Bai Yuan helped Gula and Xu Xiaoyan absorb the Power of Stars at the Star Observation Platform. As Xu Xiaoyan’s martial soul began to transform, Gula drew in the tide to attempt to condense his first Soul Core, leaving him at the center of a human vortex.

• On the inn rooftop, Bai Yuan told Gula he suspected the Abyss Maw concealed an unconscious aggregate tied to the true Abyss Plane, and Gula agreed to wait for answers while Bai Yuan cultivated.
• The Shrek group returned to Heavenly Star Sea Academy for the Starlight Tide, and Xu Xiaoyan sensed the Power of Stars through her Astrology Martial Soul.
• Li Zhilong activated the Star Observation Platform as Gu Yue completed a Starlight Guiding Array, while Bai Yuan used his Devouring Domain to direct the starlight toward Gula and Xu Xiaoyan.
• At the tide’s peak, Xu Xiaoyan’s Star Wheel Ice Staff began changing as she absorbed the starlight, and Gu Yue urged her to guide and master her martial soul.
• Gula held back from breaking through rank forty-nine and tried to condense his first Soul Core, absorbing the Power of Stars through his Groudon and Celebi Martial Souls until he became a human vortex.

Xu Xiaoyan’s Martial Soul evolved as Gula condensed a Radiant Star Soul Core, and the team prepared for him to absorb his Fifth Soul Ring. The chapter left Gula beginning his fusion with the Espeon soul spirit.

• Xu Xiaoyan’s Star Wheel evolved into a Star Staff, and she used it to help stabilize Gula’s soul-core formation.
• Gula fused starlight with his Soul Power and the Earth Stone Tablet’s energy to form the gold-and-silver Radiant Star Soul Core.
• Gula demonstrated the soul core’s Star Orbit Guidance and Starlight Charging traits, while Bai Yuan’s Devouring Martial Soul reacted to Gula’s power by rejecting it.
• Gula revealed that his Espeon soul spirit was ready, then sat down as it plunged toward him to begin the Fifth Soul Ring fusion.

Gula gained the Fifth Soul Skill, Radiant Domain, and used Ancient Memory to evolve Espeon and the Great Earth Demonic Bear. After the evolution, the Star Observation Platform’s accumulated starlight poured into Gula, leaving him unresponsive as dawn broke.

• Espeon merged with Gula’s martial soul, granting him Radiant Domain, which strengthened allies and burned enemies within its thirty-meter radius.
• Gula activated Ancient Memory, a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring skill that used time and illusion to uncover and manifest the best bloodline evolutions for soul spirits.
• Gula drew on the Star Observation Platform’s Power of Stars and his Spiritual Power to guide Espeon and the Great Earth Demonic Bear through painful transformations.
• Espeon evolved into a Six-Winged Angel, while the Great Earth Demonic Bear became a Titan Great Bear with the Gravity Titan Bloodline.
• The Star Observation Platform’s remaining starlight flooded into Gula, whose eyes turned silver-white as Na’er called out to him and dawn arrived.

After Shrek Academy’s defeat by Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy sparked outrage across the continent, Shen Yi brought Gula and the others back to Shrek. Long Yueyue proposed sending a stronger team to win a public friendly match and restore the academy’s reputation.

• Gula and the others saw reports that Tang Wulin’s team had lost to Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy, and Na'er watched the footage in distress.
• Shen Yi took the group off the moving train and hurried them back to Shrek after contacting her teacher.
• The group returned to Shrek City and faced protesters condemning the academy and Tang Wulin’s team.
• At Sea God Pavilion, elders argued over the defeat while Yun Ming insisted that restoring Shrek’s reputation was the urgent priority.
• Long Yueyue arrived and proposed sending a true representative team to Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy for a public friendly match and winning decisively.

Sea God Pavilion chose Gula and the first-year students to represent Shrek Academy against Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy. Gula offered to secure four victories in exchange for four Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirits, prompting Yun Ming to challenge him about the risk of exposing his identity as a clone.

• Long Yueyue and the elders decided to send a new exchange team to Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy and considered Gula and Bai Yuan as candidates.
• Shen Yi brought Gula, Wu Siduo, and the other students to Sea God Pavilion, where Yun Ming appointed them to clear Shrek's name.
• Gula revealed that he had condensed a Soul Core and offered to defeat Sun Moon's six-person team alone if the academy supplied four Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirits for him and his companions.
• Gula removed his Shrek badge, asserted that he was primarily a Spirit Pagoda disciple, and demanded compensation for fighting on Shrek's behalf.
• The elders condemned Gula's demands, and Yun Ming asked whether he feared that his identity as a clone would be exposed.

Gula negotiated four one-against-six matches in exchange for four top-tier soul spirits, and Yun Ming accepted the deal to protect Shrek Academy’s reputation. As Shrek’s team arrived in Radiant City, they faced a public campaign mocking the academy ahead of the next day’s match.

• Gula claimed he would recycle exposed avatars and demanded four top-tier soul spirits in exchange for four one-against-six matches.
• Yun Ming agreed to the exchange and scheduled the matches for noon the next day at the Soul Spirit Pagoda.
• Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy’s leaders accepted Shrek’s challenge, intending to use two Martial Soul Fusion Skills to defeat Shrek publicly.
• Gula and the others arrived in Radiant City and saw advertisements and souvenirs ridiculing Shrek and its recent defeat.
• Gula burned a mocking newspaper and told Wu Siduo that the team would make the city change its tune after the match.

Bai Yuan challenged Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy to four one-against-six matches, forcing Long Chen to accept before the packed arena. As the match began, Bai Yuan unleashed his Devouring Domain and revealed five black soul rings and a terrifying three-headed, six-armed avatar, shocking the spectators.

• Gula sent Bai Yuan forward to challenge Sun Moon Team to four matches against all six members.
• Bai Yuan taunted Sun Moon Team into accepting, and Long Chen agreed despite realizing the challenge was a trap.
• Jing Hongchen recognized that Shrek had planned the challenge and worried that Sun Moon Academy was in trouble.
• Bai Yuan activated his Devouring Domain, draining Long Chen's Soul Power and trapping the Sun Moon Team.
• Bai Yuan transformed into a three-headed, six-armed form and summoned a towering avatar, revealing five black soul rings that stunned the crowd.

Bai Yuan overwhelmed Sun Moon Team with his devouring powers, defeating their fighters and breaking their Martial Soul Fusion attack. He returned to Shrek’s team as the Sun Moon students watched in shock, while Gula hinted that this was only the beginning.

• Bai Yuan neutralized Xue Liushuang’s sword aura, shattered Jian Mochen’s arms, destroyed Kuang Zhantian’s Martial Soul, and endured You Dingqi’s hammer.
• Long Chen called for one decisive attack, and Weng Daimin and Xue Liushuang fused their Martial Souls into the Ice Snow Goddess.
• Bai Yuan used Abyss Formless to evade the Ice Snow Goddess’s sword, then used Ultimate Devour to drain and destroy the fusion, knocking Weng Daimin and Xue Liushuang unconscious.
• Bai Yuan summoned the Dark Phantom and fused it with his manifestation, draining the remaining Sun Moon fighters’ Soul Power until they collapsed.
• Bai Yuan returned to Shrek’s team after calling Sun Moon Team utterly vulnerable, while Zhuo Shi and Cai Yue'er celebrated and Gula said it was only the beginning.
• Long Chen struggled to his feet and stared at Bai Yuan in disbelief, asking what kind of monster Shrek had sent.

Mu Yi entered the arena for Shrek Academy and withstood two Martial Soul Fusion Skills from the Sun Moon Team using his Golden Awakening. He counterattacked by draining You Dingqi’s vitality and summoning vines to restrain the opposing team while strengthening himself.

• A Food Type Soul Douluo restored the injured Sun Moon Team members, and Long Chen ordered his team to open the next match with two fusion skills.
• Gula sent Mu Yi to fight for Shrek Academy, and Long Chen’s team immediately unleashed the Heavenly Tiger and Ice Snow Goddess fusion skills against him.
• Mu Yi used Golden Awakening to endure both attacks without being moved.
• Mu Yi struck You Dingqi with Withered Glory Palm, draining vitality and obstructing his movement, then knocked Long Chen back when the team tried to surround him.
• Mu Yi used Nature’s Call to bind several Sun Moon Team members with vines and draw life energy into his body.

Mu Yi used his Vajra Wood Soul Spirit and Sole Dominance to break the Sun Moon Team’s Martial Soul Fusion Skills and defeat the team. Sun Moon Academy’s leaders debated whether to continue the competition, fearing further injuries to their students.

• Long Chen and the Ice Snow Goddess and Sky Tiger phantoms attacked Mu Yi, but his Vajra Indestructible skill blocked their blows.
• Mu Yi unleashed Sole Dominance, drained Soul Power from the Sun Moon Team, and replenished his own energy.
• Mu Yi shattered both Martial Soul Fusion Skills with a pair of punches, leaving the Sun Moon Team members unable to fight.
• Mu Yi returned to Shrek’s side as the arena fell silent, and Zhuo Shi and Cai Yue'er praised his strength and potential.
• Gula said the business was settled, while Sun Moon Academy’s leaders argued over whether to continue despite the risk of further harm to their students.

After Bai Yuan and Mu Yi’s victories left Sun Moon Academy’s morale shattered, Cai Yue’er used amplified crowd sentiment to pressure Mo Hongchen into forfeiting the remaining matches. Shrek Academy was declared the winner, and Yun Ming watched the outcome in Sea God Pavilion with some of his usual concern eased.

• Cai Yue’er directed a middle-aged man to amplify remarks praising Shrek and urging Sun Moon Academy to conserve its strength.
• Mo Hongchen weighed the humiliation of surrender against the casualties and loss of morale that continued fighting would bring.
• The dean of students announced that Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy forfeited the remaining matches, giving Shrek Academy the victory.
• Shen Yi smiled in relief as the arena fell silent after the announcement.
• Yun Ming and others watched the match’s events on a light screen in Sea God Pavilion, and Yun Ming looked less burdened.

After Shrek’s victory, Yun Ming defended the team’s unusual abilities and reaffirmed Sea God Pavilion’s trust in them. Mo Hongchen then tried to recruit the young fighters, but Bai Yuan instead steered Sun Moon Academy toward Yin Wansheng, while the others refused to switch allegiances.

• Ya Li, Zhuo Shi, and Cai Yue'er praised Shrek’s fighters, while Cai Yue'er voiced concern about their mysterious powers.
• Yun Ming argued that Bai Yuan, Mu Yi, and Liu Niandao had shown restraint and protective hearts, and urged the elders to trust and guide them.
• Mo Hongchen invited Shrek’s group to Sun Moon Academy’s Soul Tool Technology center and offered Mu Yi and Bai Yuan powerful resources to join or develop there.
• Gula considered the offer but had Bai Yuan decline on Shrek’s behalf and recommend Yin Wansheng as a promising candidate for Sun Moon Academy to recruit.
• Mo Hongchen agreed to secretly assess Yin Wansheng, while Gula gained a way to observe Sun Moon Academy and give Yin Wansheng time to develop.
• Gula, Mu Yi, and Liu Niandao each refused Mo Hongchen’s further recruitment pitch, citing their teachers or plans to join the Tang Sect.