Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao rejected He Caitou’s Extreme Individual Soldier Plan and challenged his reasons for pursuing revenge against the Sun Moon Empire. Later, Huo Yuhao secretly used the Eye of Eternity’s True Name Liberation on a new root of the Golden Tree, leaving his confrontation with the figure inside it unresolved.

• He Caitou explained the Extreme Individual Soldier Plan, but Huo Yuhao dismissed it as a weapon of war and refused to participate.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he knew He Caitou belonged to the Sun Moon Empire’s imperial family and questioned whether revenge or taking the throne would prevent war.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Sea God Island, where he identified Zhang Lexuan as one of the disciples involved in the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast incident.
• Huo Yuhao borrowed Tian Meng’s power and, with the Ice Empress’s support, went to the Golden Tree’s roots to leave a mark on his first clash with Tang San.
• Huo Yuhao found a newly born root and unleashed the Eye of Eternity’s True Name Liberation, sending a golden beam into it as his body weakened.

After secretly planting a mark connected to the Eternal Tree, Huo Yuhao recovered and joined Shrek Academy’s preparations for the Soul Master Tournament. Dai Yueheng forced Dai Huabin to apologize to Huo Yuhao, who remained wary of Dai Yueheng’s friendliness as Xuan Zi returned.

• A figure sensed that part of the Eternal Tree’s authority had vanished but failed to discover the cause, while Huo Yuhao escaped after planting a mark and returned to his dormitory badly injured.
• Nearly half a month later, Xuan Zi introduced the Shrek Seven Monsters and the reserve disciples who would accompany them to the upcoming tournament.
• Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng selected teams for a friendly match, and the two sides fought while Huo Yuhao watched.
• Dai Yueheng approached Huo Yuhao with Dai Huabin and ordered his younger brother to apologize publicly and thank Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao rejected Dai Yueheng’s offer of wholehearted cooperation, and Xuan Zi returned.

As the team set out for the Soul Master Tournament, Xuan Zi explained that Inner Court disciples served as Shrek Overseers, taking dangerous missions to police Soul Masters across the continent. Huo Yuhao challenged the terms of joining, leaving Xuan Zi unable to answer whether the other Core Disciples could enter the Inner Court immediately.

• Dai Yueheng warned Dai Huabin not to provoke Huo Yuhao again, while Dai Huabin privately vowed revenge.
• Xuan Zi led the academy team out of Shrek City toward Star Luo City and explained that Inner Court disciples who refused their duties had to leave and swear an oath of secrecy.
• Beibei, Xu Sanshi, He Caitou, Xie Huanyue, Dai Huabin, and Zhu Lu agreed to shoulder the Inner Court's responsibility, while Jiang Nannan asked Xuan Zi what that responsibility entailed.
• Xuan Zi revealed that Inner Court disciples served as Shrek Overseers, investigating serious wrongdoing and completing thirty missions before graduating.
• When Xuan Zi asked who would join, Huo Yuhao asked whether Lan Susu, Lan Luoluo, Cao Jinxuan, and the others could enter the Inner Court immediately, leaving Xuan Zi speechless.

Huo Yuhao and the Shrek students questioned the fairness and safety of the Shrek Monitoring Group’s mission before setting out to eliminate the Hand of Death bandits in the Mingdou Mountain Range. The reserve team entered the bandits’ den after the main team had already begun fighting, and the battle was nearly over.

• Huo Yuhao, Jiang Nannan, and Wang Dong'er challenged Xuan Zi and Dai Yueheng over the mission’s purpose, fairness, and risks to Outer Court students.
• Xuan Zi assigned the Outer Court students to support Dai Yueheng’s team in a mission against the Hand of Death, a bandit group led by an Evil Soul Master called the Messenger of Death.
• The students traveled to the Mingdou Mountain Range, where Xuan Zi left them to proceed under Wang Yan’s command; Zhang Lexuan went after them to protect the Outer Court students.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to help the reserve team locate the bandits’ den, and Wang Yan led them into the cave after an explosion and fighting broke out inside.
• The reserve team found Ma Xiaotao’s group slaughtering the bandits, with Dai Yueheng, Chen Zifeng, and Xixi fighting brutally; Wang Yan ordered everyone to attack as only a few bandits remained.

The Shrek teams were devastated when the Messenger of Death detonated corpses in the cave, killing Yao Haoxuan and severely injuring several others before abducting Huo Yuhao. Huo Yuhao disrupted the Messenger’s control of his Corpse Slaves until Xuan Zi arrived and killed the enemy; Zhang Lexuan brought the exhausted but living Huo Yuhao back to the group.

• The Messenger of Death detonated the bandits’ corpses, killing Yao Haoxuan and badly injuring Chen Zifeng, Gongyang Mo, Xixi, and Dai Yueheng.
• Xuan Zi captured the Messenger of Death, but the Soul King escaped his attacks, seized Huo Yuhao, and fled underground as Yao Haoxuan’s corpse exploded.
• Zhang Lexuan pursued the Messenger while Xuan Zi evacuated the others and dug after them through the collapsed passage.
• Huo Yuhao broke free, used Purification Flame to turn the Messenger’s twelve Corpse Slaves against him, and wounded him before Xuan Zi arrived.
• Xuan Zi killed the Messenger and the Corpse Slaves, and Zhang Lexuan confirmed that Huo Yuhao was unconscious but not fatally injured.

After the Messenger of Death’s attack killed three Shrek students and badly injured others, Wang Dong’er, Zhang Lexuan, and Jiang Nannan challenged Xuan Zi over his failures and his insistence on protecting Shrek’s glory. Back at Shrek Academy, Xuan Zi resigned from his leadership posts, and Mu En began addressing the Sea God Pavilion meeting about the disaster.

• Huo Yuhao woke as Wang Dong’er and the others gathered around him, while Wang Yan reported that Yao Haoxuan, Chen Zifeng, and Gongyang Mo had died and described the survivors’ injuries.
• Xuan Zi ordered Wang Yan and Zhang Lexuan to take the team to the tournament, with the reserve members expected to compete until replacements arrived.
• Wang Dong’er, Zhang Lexuan, and Jiang Nannan confronted Xuan Zi about his absence during the attack, the students’ deaths, and his prioritization of Shrek’s glory over their lives.
• Xuan Zi took Xixi and the three fallen students back to Shrek Academy, while Zhang Lexuan led the remaining team toward the Soul Master Tournament.
• At Shrek Academy, Xuan Zi grieved over the deaths, then told the Sea God Pavilion that he would resign as deputy commander of the Shrek Monitoring Group and withdraw from the Pavilion.
• Yan Shaozhe and the other Pavilion members urged Xuan Zi to stay, and Mu En began discussing the Monitoring Group’s readiness for sacrifice and the unusual circumstances of the attack.

After Mu En refused to send reinforcements, Shrek Academy’s team arrived in Star Luo City and confronted the academy’s privileges and expectations. The chapter left Wang Yan alone with his doubts as the students prepared to fight for their own convictions rather than Shrek’s glory.

• Mu En persuaded Xuan Zi to remain in the Sea God Pavilion and decided not to send more competitors to the tournament.
• Wang Yan led the injured Shrek team into crowded Star Luo City, where they received rooms at the Star Emperor Hotel.
• Lan Susu, Lan Luoluo, and Wang Dong'er questioned whether Shrek’s tournament privileges and political power could be called fair.
• Wang Yan explained the tournament’s elimination and round-robin formats, then urged the team to give everything for Shrek’s glory.
• Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, and others said they would fight for their own convictions, while Beibei pledged himself to the academy’s honor.
• Jiang Nannan said the competitors would bear the humiliation if they lost, and Wang Yan was left wondering how Shrek Academy had fallen into this state.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er decided to leave Shrek Academy after the Soul Master Tournament, while letters from Huo Yuhao drew the attention of the Body Sect and Mingde Hall to Shrek's talented students. The Holy Spirit Cult also focused on the tournament and its Holy Son, as Huo Yuhao prepared to bid farewell to his past and consider the future of soul beasts.

• Wang Dong'er told Huo Yuhao she wanted to leave Shrek Academy, and they agreed to make the tournament their final gift to the academy before departing.
• Huo Yuhao caught Xiao Xiao, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian eavesdropping, and Wang Dong'er gathered them to ask for their thoughts.
• Du Busi learned from a letter that three Shrek substitutes had awakened Body Martial Souls and ordered the Body Sect elders to prepare while he went to Star Luo City.
• Jing Hongchen read a letter about Huo Yuhao's Spirit Attribute martial soul and Soul Tool talent, then decided to visit Shrek Academy personally.
• Zhongli Wu ordered a search for people with abilities like the Messenger of Death's Corpse Explosion and planned to send Zhang Peng after the Holy Son, but Long Xiaoyao stopped him.
• The Snow Empress confirmed she had delivered Huo Yuhao's letters, discussed his departure and the fate of soul beasts with him, and left as Wang Dong'er woke and clung to him.

The Star Luo Empire opened the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Duels Tournament, and Shrek Academy sent Beibei and six teammates to face Heavenly Spirit Academy. As the match was about to begin, Shrek’s young lineup surprised the audience and Emperor Xu Jiawei.

• Xu Jiawei lifted restrictions on the viewing grounds, addressed the gathered crowd, and declared the tournament open.
• The host announced that Shrek Academy would face Heavenly Spirit Academy in the first elimination-round match.
• Beibei and the other Shrek competitors struggled with the pressure of the crowd and the academy’s glory, while Xu Sanshi dwelled on Jiang Nannan’s rejection.
• Wang Yan urged the team to use Shrek’s reputation as a weapon, and Beibei led the seven competitors onto the platform.
• The audience and Xu Jiawei were surprised by Shrek’s unusually young lineup as the referee prepared to start the match.

Shrek Academy’s depleted lineup narrowly defeated Heavenly Spirit Academy, leaving Wang Yan worried about the later rounds. After learning about He Caitou’s support skills, Wang Yan asked Huo Yuhao whether he could secretly use Spiritual Detection Sharing to help the team cheat.

• Beibei ordered his team to attack with everything they had, and they eventually won a hard-fought elimination match against Heavenly Spirit Academy.
• Wang Yan took Beibei’s team to the Star Emperor Hotel and discussed the injured members’ recovery and the team’s next matches.
• Wang Yan asked the students to explain their Soul Skills, and He Caitou revealed that his cigar Martial Soul provided several kinds of support.
• Wang Yan realized He Caitou could strengthen the team but remained concerned about the lack of a primary control Soul Master.
• Wang Yan asked Huo Yuhao whether his Spiritual Detection Sharing could reach the arena, and Huo Yuhao questioned whether he was being asked to help everyone cheat.

After Shrek Academy won its match, Wang Yan took the reserve team to an auction house and argued that they should embrace Soul Tools. Huo Yuhao challenged the idea of Soul Master glory and Wang Yan’s theories about Soul Beasts, leaving the group to consider how their traditions had failed them.

• Shrek Academy won its match, though some spectators booed and mocked the team.
• Wang Yan led the reserve team to an auction house and explained why Soul Tools could protect them and improve their fighting ability.
• Jiang Nannan questioned why Elder Xuan had not equipped the team with Soul Tools before the deadly mission in the Mingdou Mountain Range, and Zhang Lexuan told everyone to listen first.
• Wang Yan discussed Soul Beasts and persuaded Beibei, Xu Sanshi, Xie Huanyue, Dai Huabin, and Zhu Lu to accept using Soul Tools, while Jiang Nannan said she already used them.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Wang Yan’s belief in Soul Master glory and his claims about human origins, then asked whether the Soul Tools used in the match had tasted good.

Huo Yuhao and his companions attended a Soul Tool auction in Star Luo City, where Wang Yan bought several items. When the cursed Spirit Devouring Engraving Knife came up for sale, Huo Yuhao unexpectedly bid on it, leaving his companions unsure what he intended to do with it.

• Wang Yan brought the group into the Starlight Auction House, where they concealed their identities before entering a Soul Tool auction.
• Wang Yan bought a Grade Three Soul Tool Paralysis Ray, several other Soul Tools, and a Grade Four Milk Bottle.
• Qingya presented the final item, the Spirit Devouring Engraving Knife, and warned that its thirty-seven previous owners had all died, with nine becoming Evil Soul Masters.
• Wang Yan abandoned his idea of buying the knife after hearing its history and He Caitou's warning.
• Huo Yuhao raised his paddle and bid one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins for the Spirit Devouring Engraving Knife, while Wang Dong'er and the others wondered why he wanted it.

Huo Yuhao bought the Spirit Devouring Engraving Knife and used Electrolux, Tian Meng, and the Ice Empress to purify its Gold of Life. Electrolux fused the Gold of Life with Huo Yuhao, then fell into a long slumber after warning him not to attempt breaking the seal in Wang Dong'er’s Spiritual Sea yet.

• Huo Yuhao paid one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins for the Spirit Devouring Engraving Knife, and Xu Jiujiu ordered Qingya to invite the Shrek Academy group and Huo Yuhao’s companions to the Top-tier Auction.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong'er the knife might help deal with the demon in her mind and asked her to guard him while he purified it.
• Tian Meng defended Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Sea, the Ice Empress counterattacked the knife’s vicious aura, and Electrolux used Purification Light to cleanse its Gold of Life.
• Electrolux fused the purified Gold of Life into Huo Yuhao, creating a Divine Mark on his forehead, and said he would sleep for a long time.
• Electrolux warned Huo Yuhao that the seal in Wang Dong'er's Spiritual Sea was too powerful to break yet and advised him to wait until his Spiritual Power was higher.

Huo Yuhao used the Gold of Life to heal himself and expand his Spiritual Sea into the embryonic form of a Spiritual Plane, then prepared with Shrek Academy for its second Round Robin match. The chapter ended as He Caitou revealed his Soul Tool Cannon Platform Tactic against Thousand Spirits Academy.

• Huo Yuhao used the Gold of Life and Eye of Eternity to heal his body and expand his Spiritual Sea, but Electrolux told him he could not yet break Tang San's seal or use the Divine Sense to restore him.
• Wang Dong'er stayed with Huo Yuhao after he pretended to have internal injuries, and Huo Yuhao later wondered how he would oppose Tang San without following the Divine Realm's path.
• Wang Yan selected He Caitou, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, and Ning Tian for Shrek Academy's team battle against Thousand Spirits Academy.
• Thousand Spirits Academy used its four Rhino Shield Soul Ancestors to defend while An Lengye froze the field and Feiyu Yan empowered Shen Ce's Thousand Strike Spear for an attack on Beibei.
• He Caitou unveiled his Soul Tool Cannon Platform Tactic as Thousand Spirits Academy's spear attack gathered momentum.

He Caitou’s Soul Tools and the team’s counterattack failed to prevent Beibei from being run through by the Thousand Strike Spear, forcing the match to stop and leaving Shrek Academy with a victory by forfeit. As Beibei was taken for treatment, the spectators’ faith in Shrek faltered, and Zhang Lexuan questioned whether the academy had been wrong to cheat.

• He Caitou shattered Thousand Spirits Academy’s defensive formation while Xu Sanshi used Darkwater Displacement to take Beibei’s place, but the Thousand Strike Spear turned toward Beibei and pierced his abdomen.
• Xu Sanshi accused Thousand Spirits Academy of attempted murder, and Wang Yan demanded that the match stop so Beibei could receive treatment.
• Star Luo Emperor Xu Jiawei summoned the Medicine Immortal Enshrinement to treat Beibei and declared the match a draw, after which Thousand Spirits Academy’s team leader conceded defeat.
• The spectators watched Thousand Spirits Academy leave in dejection, while Shrek Academy returned to the hotel in silence and the referee announced its victory.
• Zhang Lexuan wondered whether Beibei’s injury was the price of cheating and concluded that Shrek Academy needed to change, though she felt bound to serve it.

Mu En refused to send reinforcements after learning Beibei had been injured, while Wang Yan forfeited Shrek Academy’s next match to protect the team. In the fourth round, Huo Yuhao and Ling Luochen faced Changning Academy alone, and Huo Yuyao stunned the arena by revealing a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring before freezing all seven opponents.

• Mu En learned that Beibei had been seriously injured, but told Cai Mei'er not to send reinforcements and ordered Xuan Zi to watch over the students.
• Wang Yan forfeited Shrek Academy’s match against Zhengtian Academy so the injured team could rest.
• Wang Yan brought Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen to the fourth-round match against Changning Academy, while Beibei and Dai Yueheng remained at the hotel.
• Huo Yuhao and Ling Luochen chose to fight Changning Academy’s team battle alone, and Xu Sanshi angrily objected to Huo Yuhao’s criticism of Beibei’s sacrifice.
• Huo Yuhao revealed a sixth, hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, then transferred Ultimate Ice to Ling Luochen, who froze Changning Academy’s seven members.

Huo Yuhao used a spectacular simulated attack to defeat Changning Academy without seriously injuring its members, then Shrek Academy prepared for the elimination rounds. As the team faced a difficult draw and debated whether to use He Caitou’s Cigars, Qingya invited them to a top-tier auction and gave Huo Yuhao and several others separate invitations.

• Huo Yuhao defeated Changning Academy’s seven members with a simulated attack, and the referee announced victory for Huo Yuhao and Ling Luochen.
• Meng Hongchen admired Huo Yuhao while Xiao Hongchen protested, and Shrek Academy finished the round robin in second place behind Zhengtian Academy.
• Wang Yan told Shrek Academy that their Round of 16 opponent was Dou Ling Royal Academy and explained the two-day elimination rules.
• Huo Yuhao, Ma Xiaotao, and Ling Luochen refused He Caitou’s Cigars, while Dai Yueheng and Xu Sanshi agreed to use them.
• Qingya delivered auction invitations to Shrek Academy and gave Huo Yuhao and several others separate invitations to the top-tier auction.

Huo Yuhao and the Shrek Academy group attended a Top-tier Auction at the Starlight Auction House, where Dai Yueheng and Wang Yan bought powerful Soul Tools. When an Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone with the fixed skill Ice Explosion Technique appeared, Ice Empress reacted strongly within Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Sea.

• Wang Yan led the group to the Starlight Auction House and instructed them to observe quietly and avoid trouble.
• Qingya escorted the group to Room Seven in Auction Hall One and explained the private bidding arrangements and the Sun Moon Empire’s Light-Guiding Screen.
• Xu Jiujiu opened the auction, and Dai Yueheng spent more than one million Gold Soul Coins on the Eighth-level Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade.
• Wang Yan decided to buy a destructive Fixed-Load Soul Tool Cannon after He Caitou explained its value, while other bidders acquired Soul Bones, Rare Metals, and powerful Soul Tools.
• Ice Empress erupted within Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Sea when Xu Jiujiu presented a jade-green Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone with the fixed Soul Skill Ice Explosion Technique.

Huo Yuhao warned the Starlight Auction House that the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone could only be absorbed by someone with Ultimate Ice, leading Xu Jiujiu to reconsider its auction. The chapter left the Deity Conferring Platform’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo on display as Huo Yuhao suspected it held greater significance and knew its advertised fusion method carried hidden dangers.

• Huo Yuhao told Ling Luochen he would yield the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone to her, but warned that fusing with it without Ultimate Ice could kill her.
• Huo Yuhao showed Xu Jiujiu his Ice Jade Empress Scorpion tattoo and explained the Soul Bone’s absorption condition, prompting her to investigate the auction item.
• Xu Jiawei learned of Huo Yuhao’s origins and abilities and decided Star Luo Empire should befriend him, while Xu Jiujiu returned to the auction.
• Huo Yuhao, Ling Luochen, and Wang Yan abstained from bidding, and Xu Jiawei won the Soul Bone at an overwhelming price.
• Xu Jiujiu introduced the Deity Conferring Platform and its sealed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo, explaining that it might grant a Soul Master a second martial soul if absorbed.
• Huo Yuhao recognized that the proposed fusion could leave hidden dangers, while the auctioneer warned that a failed fusion would kill the Embryo and release its Soul Ring and Soul Bone.

Huo Yuhao recognized the Deity Conferring Platform as the Golden Dragon King’s Divine Core and planned to obtain it despite lacking the funds. After the platform vanished during a battle outside Star Luo City, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy could not determine who had taken it.

• Tian Meng helped Huo Yuhao realize that the Deity Conferring Platform contained the Golden Dragon King’s Divine Core, which could possess anyone who tried to fuse with it.
• Huo Yuhao decided to find a way to acquire the platform and resolved to make Mingde Hall suffer again in exchange for preventing the Body Sect from destroying it.
• Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu visited the Shrek Academy group, thanked Huo Yuhao for warning them about the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone, and offered Shrek the Soul Bone as a tournament prize.
• Xu Jiawei promised the tournament’s best performer a choice of treasure from the Star Luo Royal Treasury and invited Huo Yuhao to the imperial palace.
• The Deity Conferring Platform sold for 150 million, and Huo Yuhao secretly followed a snow-white figure after the guests left.
• Elder Ma told Xiao Hongchen that the Deity Conferring Platform had disappeared from a secret passage, though Hall Master Jing, Du Busi, and Xuan Zi had all been drawn there without appearing to be responsible.