Chapter Summaries

Bōxǐ joined the Star Luo Empire and entered the Youth Soul Master Competition, where he defeated Hua Lantang and was named Monster Academy’s Ninth Heavenly King. His victory secured him access to the empire’s resources while leaving Tang Wulin and the Shrek Academy delegation wary of a powerful new opponent.

• Bōxǐ accepted Dai Tianling’s offer to serve the Star Luo Empire in exchange for research autonomy and resources.
• Dai Tianling entered Bōxǐ into the Individual Match and promised to make him Monster Academy’s Ninth Heavenly King if he proved worthy.
• Bōxǐ faced Hua Lantang, revealing five Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings and using overlapping domains and water-based skills to overwhelm him.
• Bōxǐ defeated Hua Lantang in under a minute, leaving the Wolf King badly injured and unconscious.
• Dai Tianling ennobled Bōxǐ as the Ninth Heavenly King, while Tang Wulin and the Shrek Academy delegation watched with concern.

Tang Wulin joined the Tang Sect Soul Combat Hall to stop Green Skull from attacking the Star Theater, while Gula secretly followed him. Gula prevented a Level Seven Fixed-Load Soul Tool Cannon Shell from firing by stealing it into System Space, and learned the location of the Tang Sect Soul Combat Hall's base.

• Tang Wulin answered an emergency summons and went to a hidden courtyard, while Gula secretly followed him to discover the Soul Combat Hall's base.
• Black One told the gathered Soul Combat Hall members that Green Skull planned to attack the Star Theater, and they set up an ambush there.
• The Soul Combat Hall members intercepted Green Skull's attackers outside the theater and began defeating them.
• A Green Skull leader ordered his armored subordinates to prepare a Level Seven Fixed-Load Soul Tool Cannon Shell, and Tang Wulin reported the threat to Black One.
• Gula used spatial power to take the launch base and cannon shell into System Space before they could fire, leaving the Soul Combat Hall members unable to explain their disappearance.
• Black One ordered the incident kept confidential, and Gula withdrew with the cannon shell and the location of the Soul Combat Hall's base memorized.

Gula searched the mountains around Star Luo City for Dragon Valley but found no stable entrance. At the Royal Stadium, Bōxǐ challenged Long Yue for the foremost Heavenly King position, and their battle left off as Long Yue unleashed his sixth Soul Skill and Bōxǐ prepared to respond.

• Gula secretly investigated the Soul Combat Hall base and searched the surrounding mountains for Dragon Valley, then returned to Star Luo City when he found no stable passage.
• Dai Yun'er confronted Bōxǐ about his origins, and he openly admitted he was a Federation man who had smuggled himself in.
• Long Yue demanded that Bōxǐ apologize to Dai Yun'er, but Bōxǐ refused and challenged him to fight for leadership of the Heavenly Kings.
• Long Yue and Bōxǐ began fighting at Royal Stadium, using their Martial Souls, domains, Soul Skills, and battle armor against each other.
• Long Yue unleashed his sixth Soul Skill, Mountain Dragon King's Wrath, and Bōxǐ met the attack with blue light shining from his eyes.

Bōxǐ defeated Long Yue in a three-hour battle, establishing himself as the foremost of the Nine Heavenly Kings. Afterward, Dai Tianling and Dai Yueyan moved to build a relationship with him, while Dai Yun'er followed the unconscious Long Yue.

• Bōxǐ avoided Long Yue’s powerful attack and trapped him in an Endless Water Dragon, wearing down his defenses and Soul Power with sustained pressure and precise strikes.
• After three hours, Long Yue ran out of strength and collapsed, while Bōxǐ remained standing despite damage to his Battle Armor.
• The Royal Stadium erupted in shock as spectators and officials recognized Bōxǐ’s victory over the Six-Ring Long Yue.
• Dai Yun'er ran after the medical team carrying Long Yue, but Dai Tianling ordered Dai Yueyan to stay and prioritize the empire’s ties with Bōxǐ.
• Dai Tianling congratulated Bōxǐ and offered healing assistance, while Dai Yueyan apologized for Dai Yun'er's past behavior and expressed his admiration.
• Bōxǐ accepted their gestures, and the conversation ended with Dai Tianling reassured that Bōxǐ would cooperate with the empire.

After Bōxǐ revealed a fabricated lineage as the child of a human-form Sea God Grass Soul Beast and a human Dragon Soul Master, Dai Tianling accepted him as a rare source of God-level bloodline. The emperor began arranging a secret marriage alliance, while Bōxǐ recognized that the revelation had made him valuable to the Star Luo Empire.

• Dai Tianling questioned Bōxǐ about his origins and his extraordinary Martial Soul.
• Bōxǐ claimed that his mother was a Hundred Thousand Year Sea God Grass who took human form and that his father wielded a Top-tier Dragon Clan Martial Soul.
• En Ci judged Bōxǐ's Sea God Grass aura genuine and told Dai Tianling that his descendants might inherit a stable God-level bloodline.
• Dai Tianling abandoned his plan to betroth Dai Yun'er to Long Yue and decided to seek a marriage alliance between Bōxǐ and a Dai Clan woman.
• Dai Tianling escorted Bōxǐ out and ordered his minister to secretly compile a list of eligible Dai Clan women.

Bai Yuan defeated Dai Yueyan in the first quarter-final by absorbing his attacks and draining his soul power without releasing his martial soul. Dai Yueyan conceded, while Long Yue watched Bai Yuan leave with renewed humiliation and a fierce desire to fight.

• The quarter-final lineup revealed that Shrek Academy had five entrants and Monster Academy had three, prompting Star Luo spectators to claim Wu Siduo as one of their own.
• Dai Yueyan activated his White Tiger Martial Soul and One-Word Battle Armor before attacking Bai Yuan with a series of soul skills.
• Bai Yuan opened his Devouring Domain, absorbed Dai Yueyan's attacks, and steadily drained his soul power.
• Dai Yueyan unleashed White Tiger Demon Breaking Kill, but Bai Yuan stopped it with his fist and devoured its energy.
• Dai Yueyan admitted defeat, and the referee declared Bai Yuan the victor.
• Dai Yun'er worried over Dai Yueyan and chose not to ask Long Yue to avenge him after seeing Long Yue's anger and humiliation.

Gu Yue used precise elemental control and her Two-Word Battle Armor to neutralize Long Yue’s attacks, then admitted defeat when she claimed her soul power was exhausted. Long Yue won the quarter-final match, but Gu Yue’s display left the Star Luo audience stunned and Long Yue humiliated.

• Long Yue unleashed the Mountain Dragon King’s bloodline pressure, but Gu Yue remained unmoved and equipped her Two-Word Battle Armor, Dragon Moon.
• Long Yue attacked with his Mountain Dragon King soul skills, and Gu Yue countered them with precise control of wind, fire, earth, ice, light, and teleportation.
• As Long Yue prepared to use his Sixth Soul Skill, Gu Yue withdrew her soul power fluctuations and admitted defeat.
• The referee declared Long Yue the victor, while the audience recognized that Gu Yue had not fought at full strength.
• Long Yue left the arena shaken by humiliation and self-doubt despite his victory.

Tang Wulin defeated Wu Siduo in a Shrek Academy quarter-final match after overpowering her White Tiger form and enduring her Hell White Tiger fusion attack. Wu Siduo admitted defeat, advancing Tang Wulin while leaving him with his strength still largely intact.

• En Ci told Dai Tianling that Long Yue’s repeated setbacks could help him rebuild his spirit and better control his Mountain Dragon King Martial Soul.
• Tang Wulin and Wu Siduo began their quarter-final match, and Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon Claw overwhelmed her White Tiger Martial Soul.
• Wu Siduo activated her Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Technique and struck Tang Wulin with Hell Stab.
• Tang Wulin bound the Hell White Tiger with his Golden-Patterned Blue Silver Emperor and blocked its attack with Golden Dragon Sky Breaker.
• As Wu Siduo’s Soul Power ran low and the Hell White Tiger weakened, she admitted defeat, and the referee declared Tang Wulin the winner.

Gula defeated Bōxǐ in the final quarterfinal match after using his Groudon martial soul and Sun Angel to purge the arena of water vapor, leaving Bōxǐ unable to fight effectively. The semifinalists were set as Gula, Tang Wulin, Long Yue, and Bai Yuan.

• Wu Zhangkong warned Gula that Bōxǐ was a dangerous opponent and urged him not to underestimate him.
• Gula revealed five Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings and summoned his Groudon martial soul, shocking the Star Luo spectators and officials.
• Gula and Bōxǐ clashed with their domains and elemental attacks, fighting to a stalemate for an hour.
• Gula fused his Sun Angel Soul Spirit with his Radiant Domain, evaporating the water vapor and weakening Bōxǐ's abilities.
• Gula struck Bōxǐ with a final blow and won the match, while Star Luo officials framed Bōxǐ's loss as a result of environmental disadvantage.
• Gula, Tang Wulin, Long Yue, and Bai Yuan advanced to the semifinals.

Bōxǐ recovered from his defeat and gained the Monster Academy Heavenly Kings’ respect, while Dai Yun’er struggled with her father’s apparent plan for her to marry him. In the two-on-two final, Gula and Ye Xinglan faced Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan, and the fight reached its climax as Gula unleashed his Radiant Domain and Sun Angel.

• Bōxǐ accepted the Monster Academy Heavenly Kings’ growing friendship, and Long Yue acknowledged that Bōxǐ had come close to defeating Gula.
• Dai Yun’er returned to her room and cried over the prospect of a political marriage to Bōxǐ, whom she found cold and difficult to imagine as a husband.
• Gula and Ye Xinglan faced Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan in the two-on-two championship final, where Xu Xiaoyan’s Star Staff and Gu Yue’s elemental attacks pressured their opponents.
• Ye Xinglan broke through Xu Xiaoyan’s Absolute Star Prison, but Gu Yue struck her with a Spear of Annihilation and forced her back.
• Xu Xiaoyan pinned Gula with starlight while Gu Yue gathered a devastating Elemental Storm, prompting Gula to open his Radiant Domain and summon the Sun Angel.

Gula and Ye Xinglan won the two-on-two final after Gu Yue detonated her Elemental Storm and then admitted defeat to protect Xu Xiaoyan. At the Tang Sect headquarters, Tang Wulin learned from Old Tang that unsealing his sixth layer to face Long Yue could endanger his life, leaving him to confront the coming match without that power.

• Gula broke Xu Xiaoyan’s Starlight Chain, and Gu Yue unleashed an indiscriminate Elemental Storm that both teams survived behind their shields.
• Gu Yue admitted defeat rather than risk Xu Xiaoyan’s safety, and the referee declared Gula and Ye Xinglan the champions.
• Gula helped the battered Ye Xinglan off the arena, while she recognized Gu Yue’s mercy and felt grateful.
• Tang Wulin considered selling Fusion Alloy to buy spiritual items for unsealing his sixth layer before facing Long Yue.
• Old Tang warned Tang Wulin that unsealing the layer early could endanger his life and told him to accept losing rather than overdraw his future.

Long Yue overwhelmed Tang Wulin and nearly killed him after Tang refused to surrender, but Zhuo Shi intervened and carried Tang away for treatment. En Ci subdued the rampaging Long Yue, leaving Dai Tianling wary and demanding that Star Luo explain what happened.

• Long Yue attacked Tang Wulin at full strength, shattered his defenses, and badly injured him.
• Long Yue demanded that Tang surrender, but Tang forced himself to stand and refused.
• Long Yue lost control and struck at Tang, so Zhuo Shi appeared, stopped the attack, and took the unconscious Tang away.
• Dai Tianling demanded that En Ci remove Long Yue from the arena and grew wary of the danger he posed.
• En Ci subdued Long Yue with a strike between his eyebrows and laid his unconscious disciple down.

Bai Yuan defeated Long Yue by devouring his power, awakening the Abyssal Gluttony Martial Soul with Gula’s help and the protection of Zhuo Shi and Cai Yue'er. He emerged vastly stronger, while Long Yue was left unconscious but unharmed at his core.

• Sacred Heal Douluo repaired Tang Wulin's injuries and said he needed quiet time to recover, while Dai Yueyan arranged the best treatment.
• Gula conceded the semifinal to Bai Yuan, who understood that he had been given the chance to face Long Yue in the final.
• Bai Yuan absorbed Long Yue's attacks and bloodline power, then used Abyss Feast: Gluttony Devours Origin to drain nearly all of Long Yue's Soul Power and knock him unconscious.
• Gu Yue supplied spiritual treasures, and Zhuo Shi and Cai Yue'er shielded Bai Yuan while Gula used Ancient Memory: Bloodline Tracing to guide his awakening.
• Bai Yuan consumed the treasures and awakened the Abyssal Gluttony Martial Soul, then thanked Zhuo Shi and Cai Yue'er as Zhuo Shi asked whether it was the Taotie Martial Soul.

After Bai Yuan won the Individual Match, Gula identified his True Dragon Soul Bone as an ancient remnant from Dragon Valley and agreed it could be traded for Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon King blood essence. Tang Wulin accepted the deal but postponed giving the blood until after Shrek Academy’s Team Match, leaving him to recover with the soul bone awaiting him.

• Bai Yuan received the Star Luo Empire’s champion reward, and Gula appraised the True Dragon Left Leg Soul Bone as far older and more valuable than its fifty-thousand-year energy level suggested.
• Bai Yuan proposed trading the soul bone to Tang Wulin for one drop of his blood essence, while Gula agreed that learning about the Golden Dragon King bloodline was worth more to them.
• Bai Yuan brought the soul bone to Tang Wulin, and Tang San advised him that the ancient bone could strengthen and stabilize his Golden Dragon King power.
• Tang Wulin agreed to exchange one drop of blood essence for the soul bone after the Team Match so the trade would not weaken him before the competition.
• Bai Yuan left the soul bone with Tang Wulin, who resolved to use its power and his Golden Dragon King strength in the Team Match.

After recovering and fusing a True Dragon Left Leg Soul Bone, Tang Wulin reached rank forty-four and entered the Team Match against Monster Academy. The match began with Long Yue charging at Bai Yuan, but Tang Wulin intercepted him and held off his attack with the Soul Bone’s defensive skill.

• Tang Wulin recovered, fused the fifty-thousand-year True Dragon Left Leg Soul Bone, and advanced to rank forty-four.
• Monster Academy and Shrek Academy fielded their teams as the crowd watched, with Bōxǐ serving as Monster Academy’s tactical core and Bai Yuan and Tang Wulin drawing Long Yue’s attention.
• Bai Yuan warned Tang Wulin that Bōxǐ’s domain was dangerous and told him to handle Long Yue.
• At the referee’s signal, Long Yue activated Gravity Domain and charged toward Bai Yuan, but Tang Wulin stepped in to face him.
• Tang Wulin used Immovable as a Mountain to withstand Long Yue’s strike, then unleashed Blue Silver Tyrant Transformation to prevent him from circling away.

Tang Wulin and Shrek Academy fought Monster Academy in a fierce team battle, struggling against Su Mu’s aura control, Bōxǐ’s domains, and Ye Zhi’s support. Shrek disrupted the enemy’s boosts and forced Long Yue back, but Bōxǐ began gathering water vapor into a huge vortex that threatened to unleash a devastating attack.

• Tang Wulin chained Blue Silver Emperor vines and Golden Dragon Shakes the Earth to restrain Long Yue, while Wu Siduo engaged Dai Yueyan and Su Mu’s auras slowed and drained Shrek’s team.
• Xu Xiaoyan countered Su Mu’s auras, Ye Xinglan attacked him, and Yuanen Yehui blocked his Reversal Aura from diverting Wu Siduo’s attack.
• Teng Teng targeted Xu Lizhi, but Bai Yuan’s Abyss Domain collided with Bōxǐ’s Steam Domain and forced Teng Teng to retreat.
• Bōxǐ added Deep Sea High Pressure as Ye Zhi boosted Monster Academy’s fighters, intensifying the pressure on Shrek and Long Yue’s assault on Tang Wulin.
• Ye Xinglan severed the force of Su Mu’s Reversal Aura long enough for Xu Xiaoyan to interrupt Ye Zhi’s support, and Tang Wulin struck Long Yue back with Golden Dragon Shocking Heaven.
• Bai Yuan used Ultimate Devour against Bōxǐ, who replenished his power and began forming a massive water vortex with Endless Water Dragon.

Tang Wulin awakened the Golden Dragon Spear during Shrek’s desperate battle against Monster Academy, turning the tide against Long Yue as Bōxǐ’s enormous water dragon devastated the arena. With most fighters eliminated, Bōxǐ launched a final water-based attack while Tang Wulin and Bai Yuan remained in the fight.

• Xu Xiaoyan and Tang Wulin failed to stop Bōxǐ’s growing Endless Water Dragon, while Long Yue crushed Tang Wulin’s Blue Silver Golden Light Array.
• Yuanen Yehui opened Hell Gate, forcing both teams to divide their attention as demons attacked and cursed Monster Academy’s fighters.
• Bai Yuan transformed into his Abyssal Gluttony Dharma Image and fought Bōxǐ in a fierce stalemate, while Tang San guided Tang Wulin to awaken the Golden Dragon Spear.
• Tang Wulin struck Long Yue with the Golden Dragon Spear and sent him flying, while Teng Teng eliminated Xu Lizhi before Ye Xinglan wounded Teng Teng in retaliation.
• Bōxǐ’s completed water dragon swept across the arena, eliminating or incapacitating most remaining fighters as Yuanen Yehui, Hua Lantang, and others were also taken out.
• Bōxǐ retreated from Bai Yuan and unleashed Waving God Shock Kill, forcing Tang Wulin back as the battle continued with four fighters remaining.

Tang Wulin, Bai Yuan, and Bōxǐ’s battle ended with Monster Academy conceding defeat, securing Shrek Academy’s victory in the competition. Afterward, Tang Wulin joined a Tang Sect expedition to Dragon Valley, where Gula and his six clones secretly followed; Gu Yue and Di Tian also entered through a separate breach.

• Tang Wulin forced his way through Bōxǐ’s waterspout, but Bōxǐ held him off with regenerating water whips while Bai Yuan drained Long Yue and knocked him unconscious.
• Bai Yuan attacked Bōxǐ from behind as Tang Wulin struck from the front, leaving Bōxǐ wounded and prompting him to concede the team match to Shrek Academy.
• The referee declared Shrek Academy the winner, and the team received the Soul Forged Metal prize before Tang Wulin later gave Bai Yuan the promised source essence blood.
• Tang Wulin joined a Tang Sect expedition led by Black One, whose members learned Dragon Valley’s entry rules and prepared to enter the hidden realm.
• Elder Wu opened Dragon Valley’s entrance, and Gula and his six clones secretly slipped inside after the Tang Sect team.
• The chapter revealed that Gu Yue and Di Tian had also entered Dragon Valley through a separate gap.

Gula and his six companions entered Dragon Valley, where Martial Souls were suppressed, and harvested dragon clouds and souls to strengthen themselves. At the Dragon Tomb, Gula began a dangerous ritual to evolve their Soul Spirits, but Gu Yue arrived and threatened to stop them.

• Gula led the group through Dragon Valley, where they could use only their physiques and Bloodline Power, and ordered them to absorb dragon clouds and dragon souls.
• Bai Yuan’s Taotie bloodline drew in vast amounts of dragon energy and cowed the true dragon souls guarding the Dragon Tomb.
• Gula gathered the seven in formation and opened a fragile Forest Sea Space domain, combining stored Soul Skills into an energy-gathering array.
• The array pulled dragon clouds and souls into a seven-colored energy pool so the Soul Spirits in Gula’s incarnations could evolve.
• Gu Yue arrived, saw the group plundering her people’s remains, and prepared to attack Gula’s unstable domain.

Gula stalled Gu Yue’s attack by threatening to destroy Dragon Valley and tempting her with claims about the Dragon God and a way to become a true Dragon God. While Gu Yue pursued the Dragon God Core’s inheritance, Gula resumed absorbing the dragon souls and evolving his incarnations; Gu Yue then knocked out Tang Wulin and Dai Yun’er as they reached the valley.

• Gu Yue attacked Gula’s domain and tried to drive away the dragon souls, but Gula countered her with a Telekinesis Storm and threatened to detonate the unstable domain.
• Gula persuaded Gu Yue to leave by revealing her goal of inheriting the Dragon God’s power, claiming the Dragon God might still be alive, and offering a way for her to become a true Dragon God.
• Gu Yue entered the core Dragon Tomb valley to test the Dragon God Core’s power, while Gula stabilized his domain and resumed absorbing the dragon souls and Dragon Clouds.
• The dragon energy triggered transformations in Gula’s incarnations, including Bai Yuan’s evolution into an Abyssal World Devourer Beast and Bōxǐ’s evolution into a Deep Sea Dragon Emperor Shark.
• Gu Yue absorbed the Dragon God Core’s power but doubted whether inheritance could make her the true Dragon God, then sensed Tang Wulin and Dai Yun’er approaching.
• Gu Yue struck Tang Wulin and Dai Yun’er down with a wave of dragon might and continued absorbing the core’s power, troubled by Gula’s words.