Chapter Summaries

Nan Xuanyu and the fourth-years overwhelmed Sima Xian and the sixth-years in a crushing sparring victory. As the team celebrated, Lan Mengqin and the others hugged Nan Xuanyu, leaving Qian Lei rejected and dismayed.

• Qian Lei charged at Sima Xian with his Source Dragon Meteor Hammer while the fourth-years prepared to attack together.
• Nan Xuanyu’s Ancestral Dragon Frenzy dispersed Rong Yuxuan’s domain as Lan Mengqin restored her teammates’ energy and the fourth-years launched a coordinated assault.
• Yuan En Huihui, Dong Qianqiu, and Tang Yuge’s attacks broke through the sixth-years’ defenses, while Qian Lei’s Behemoths defeated Sima Xian’s Dark Gold Skeleton Kings.
• Nan Xuanyu used his Dragon Capture Hand to slam Sima Xian and throw the Mystic Turtle Shield soul masters away, prompting Ying Luohong to end the match.
• Lan Mengqin hugged Nan Xuanyu, then pushed Dong Qianqiu and Tang Yuge into his arms as Qian Lei unsuccessfully tried to join the celebration.

After the fourth-years won the competition, Elder Tree, Wang Tianyu, and Ying Luohong questioned Nan Xuanyu about his extraordinary Soul Rings and discovered his Divine Origin Realm Spiritual Power. Nana arrived after the others left, and Nan Xuanyu embraced her.

• Ying Luohong announced that the fourth-years had won the competition and would represent the academy in exchange matches at the branch academies.
• Elder Tree, Wang Tianyu, and Ying Luohong visited Nan Xuanyu and asked him to reveal his seven Eight-colored Gold-rimmed Soul Rings.
• Nan Xuanyu explained that his bloodline could raise his Soul Ring ages as his Soul Power advanced, and said the rings had reached the Fierce Beast level.
• Wang Tianyu and Elder Tree warned Nan Xuanyu to conceal his Soul Rings, stay at Shrek Academy, and avoid the mission because hostile forces might target him.
• Nan Xuanyu used water and Spiritual Power to hide his Soul Rings, revealing to Wang Tianyu that his Spiritual Power had reached the Divine Origin Realm.
• Nana appeared through a doorway, dismissed Elder Tree, Wang Tianyu, and Ying Luohong, and Nan Xuanyu embraced her.

Nan Xuanyu learned about the branch academy’s role and traveled with his companions to Senluo Star for an exchange and sparring visit. There, Lin Mohua revealed that he was Nan Xuanyu’s senior disciple brother in the Life School and asked whether the Ring of Life marked him as Elder Tree’s chosen successor.

• Nana praised Nan Xuanyu’s Divine Origin Realm Spiritual Power, and the two embraced and kissed.
• Tang Zhenhua explained the branch academy’s military role, its relationship with the Federation, and why its students could serve as fleet commanders.
• Nan Xuanyu learned that the branch academy was on Senluo Star, then prepared with his companions and traveled there under Xiao Qi’s guidance.
• Lin Mohua welcomed the visitors and arranged their accommodations before taking Nan Xuanyu alone into a forest.
• Lin Mohua pointed to Nan Xuanyu’s Ring of Life and sternly asked whether he was the successor Elder Tree had chosen.

Nan Xuanyu refused to surrender the Ring of Life when Lin Mohua demanded it, and he fought back with enough force to injure the god-level expert. Elder Tree appeared and revealed that Lin Mohua had been testing him, then recognized how extraordinary Nan Xuanyu’s strength had become.

• Lin Mohua warned Nan Xuanyu about the burdens of leading the Life School and demanded that he hand over the Ring of Life.
• Nan Xuanyu refused, summoned his Ancestral Dragon Martial Soul, and warned Lin Mohua that his disappearance would be noticed.
• Lin Mohua attacked, and Nan Xuanyu countered with the Heavenly Saint Rending Abyss Halberd, knocking Lin Mohua into a tree and injuring him.
• Nan Xuanyu pressed his attack until Lin Mohua called for Elder Tree and stopped fighting.
• Elder Tree healed Lin Mohua and explained that Lin Mohua had been testing Nan Xuanyu, then wondered how the Seven-ring Soul Sage had gained such power.
• Elder Tree suspected Nan Xuanyu’s Spiritual Power had reached the Divine Origin Realm, explaining why his strength exceeded his Soul Power Level.

Elder Tree and Lin Mohua brought Nan Xuanyu to the academy’s artificial Ice and Fire Twofold Pool, where he began sensing the plants and absorbing its Life Energy. As Nan Xuanyu cultivated, a mysterious senior appeared to greet Lin Mohua.

• Elder Tree told Nan Xuanyu that he had chosen him to become the Life School’s helmsman, and Lin Mohua pledged his support.
• Lin Mohua took Nan Xuanyu and Elder Tree to the academy’s Ice and Fire Twofold Pool, where Nan Xuanyu’s strong affinity for Life Energy became clear.
• Elder Tree explained the pool’s origins and offered Nan Xuanyu a plant as a meeting gift; Nan Xuanyu began sensing for one suited to him.
• Lin Mohua realized the Eternal Tree had chosen Nan Xuanyu, and he and Elder Tree agreed to protect him as he grew.
• Nan Xuanyu entered a vivid world of elemental energy and absorbed Life Energy until a mysterious senior appeared before Lin Mohua.

Er Ming recognized Nan Xuanyu’s Ancestral Dragon Bloodline and invited him to cultivate at the Ice and Fire Twofold Pool, though Nan Xuanyu had to return for Shrek Academy’s sparring match. After learning the match rules, Nan Xuanyu planned to secure victory without revealing his full strength, and the team arrived at the mountaintop arena.

• Elder Tree introduced Nan Xuanyu as his chosen inheritor to Er Ming, who sensed a familiar aura in the boy and asked about his family and martial soul.
• Nan Xuanyu revealed his Ancestral Dragon Bloodline, and its aura nearly forced Er Ming to his knees, convincing him that Nan Xuanyu was descended from an old friend.
• Er Ming offered to take Nan Xuanyu to undergo the Ice Fire Golden Body and promised he could return to cultivate there, but Nan Xuanyu explained that he had to compete for Shrek Academy.
• Elder Tree took Nan Xuanyu back, where Nan Xuanyu learned the sparring match format and planned tactics while resolving not to reveal his true strength.
• Nan Xuanyu and the others arrived at the large martial arena on the highest peak near the Shrek Academy branch campus.

Nan Xuanyu represented Shrek Academy in a sparring competition against Federal Central Academy and faced its captain, Yan Kailun, in the opening match. Nan Xuanyu defeated Yan Kailun with a single Dragon Capture Hand, leaving the arena stunned.

• Nan Xuanyu and his companions entered the packed arena, where they saw Beast Kings Er Ming and Da Ming among the spectators.
• Xiao Qi explained that Shrek’s fourth-years had replaced the sixth-years after defeating them, and both teams introduced their competitors.
• The captains submitted their lineups, and Nan Xuanyu was matched against Federal Central Academy captain Yan Kailun in the first one-on-one match.
• Nan Xuanyu revealed his Ancestral Dragon power, suppressing Yan Kailun’s bloodline as Yan Kailun unleashed Earth Stomp and transformed with his Martial Soul Avatar.
• Nan Xuanyu seized Yan Kailun with Dragon Capture Hand and threw him out of the arena, instantly winning the match.

Nan Xuanyu’s victory revealed the overwhelming strength of his bloodline, prompting Da Ming and Er Ming to suspect he was descended from powerful beings they knew. Dong Qianqiu then faced Qing Luo, whose higher cultivation put Shrek Academy under pressure, but the fight continued with Dong Qianqiu using her combat skills and Fierce Beast-level soul ring to counter her opponent.

• Nan Xuanyu defeated Yan Kailun, and Da Ming and Er Ming sensed that Nan Xuanyu’s bloodline surpassed their own and speculated about his origins.
• Da Ming and Er Ming discussed Dong Qianqiu’s connection to Tianyu and resolved to protect him, while wondering whether his family was still alive.
• Lin Mohua announced Dong Qianqiu’s match against Qing Luo, who revealed herself to be an Eight-ring Soul Douluo with a Heavenly Net Fan martial soul.
• Dong Qianqiu evaded Qing Luo’s attacks with her Ice Spear, then released her Orange-gold fifth soul ring and used purple scales to resist Qing Luo’s threads.
• Da Ming and Er Ming recognized the aura of the Demon Queen in Dong Qianqiu’s Fierce Beast-level soul spirit and wondered why the Demon Queen had chosen to become a human’s soul spirit.
• Dong Qianqiu continued wearing down Qing Luo through superior combat techniques as Qing Luo treated the match as training and held back her strength.

Dong Qianqiu defeated Qing Luo with the Demon Queen’s Demonic Reversal, and Nan Xuanyu carried her off the field, embarrassing her in front of the audience. Lan Mengqin then began her match against An Yu and gained the upper hand with her icy mist and Snow Girl Martial Soul.

• Dong Qianqiu absorbed Qing Luo’s attack, turned her Heavenly Net Seal against her with Demonic Reversal, and forced her to concede.
• Nan Xuanyu used Dragon Capture Hand to carry Dong Qianqiu from the arena, then let her fall into his arms; she blushed and ran to Lan Mengqin.
• Lin Mohua announced Lan Mengqin’s match against An Yu, who attacked with Shadow Arrows from his Shadow Demon Bird Martial Soul.
• Lan Mengqin concealed herself in icy mist, disrupted An Yu with strange zither notes, and sent a giant beast of pale-green mist charging at him with Blizzard.

Lan Mengqin defeated An Yu in the third one-on-one match, giving Shrek Academy a 3–0 lead over Federal Central Academy. Qian Gu Yourou and Xi Chenluo then faced Tang Yuge and Yuan En Huihui in the two-on-two match, which ended with Tang Yuge seizing Qian Gu Yourou’s Coiling Dragon Staff as Yuan En Huihui fired an arrow at her.

• Lan Mengqin used Bi Ji’s guidance and her combined abilities to freeze An Yu and nearly trap him in a green pillar of light before Lin Mohua rescued him.
• Lin Mohua declared Shrek Academy the winner, and he reassured Federal Central Academy’s students that their opponents were exceptionally talented.
• Qian Gu Yourou and Xi Chenluo volunteered for the two-on-two match against Tang Yuge and Yuan En Huihui.
• Xi Chenluo launched Qian Gu Yourou forward, and she attacked Tang Yuge with the Coiling Dragon Staff.
• Tang Yuge grabbed the Coiling Dragon Staff, forcing Qian Gu Yourou to retreat in Two-character Battle Armor, while Yuan En Huihui fired an arrow at her.

Shrek Academy defeated Federal Central Academy in their final sparring match, then began the thirty-three-round beast battle on Senluo Star. Liu Feng won the first round against a ten-thousand-year Blood-eyed Golden Leopard, and a ten-thousand-year Earth Bear entered the arena next.

• Tang Yuge and Yuan En Huihui overwhelmed Xi Chenluo and Qian Gu Yourou, forcing Lin Mohua to stop the spar.
• Lin Mohua declared Shrek Academy the winner, and both teams shook hands before Shrek returned to its lodgings to prepare for the beast battle.
• Nan Xuanyu led his companions to the arena the next morning, where Liu Feng took the first turn against a ten-thousand-year Blood-eyed Golden Leopard.
• Liu Feng countered the leopard's rapid attacks and defeated it with his White Dragon King Spear, earning Shrek the first round.
• A ten-thousand-year Earth Bear entered the arena as the continuous beast battle moved into its second round.

Liu Feng defeated several powerful Soul Beasts with help from the Thorn Dragon soul spirit, then Qian Lei won against an Emerald Demon Bird. Qian Lei began his sixth match against an Ironback Dragon, whose charge faltered when he transformed into his Golden Behemoth true form.

• Liu Feng used Teleportation and his White Dragon King Spear to defeat the Earth Bear, then faced a Golden-eyed White Ape.
• Liu Feng and the Thorn Dragon trapped and defeated the Golden-eyed White Ape after it used its clone-swapping ability.
• Liu Feng rushed through the Blazing Demon Lion’s flames and struck it down with the Thorn Dragon’s help, forcing Qi Ruixuan to intervene.
• Qian Lei used Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon to catch the Emerald Demon Bird and replicate it, winning the fifth match.
• Qian Lei transformed into his ten-meter Golden Behemoth true form as an Ironback Dragon charged, causing the dragon’s momentum to weaken.

Qian Lei won several rounds using his Dragon Devouring Beast and learned that he had to control its viciousness, while Yuan En Huihui and Tang Yuge helped Shrek Academy build a strong lead. Dong Qianqiu faced a sixty-thousand-year Sky Fox, who revealed that she wanted to see the Demon Queen soul spirit.

• Qian Lei defeated the Ironback Dragon and drove a Blue Bird away with his replicated Emerald Demon Bird, completing three consecutive victories.
• A Golden Lion Tiger questioned Qian Lei about his Dragon Devouring Beast, and Elder Tree explained its origins before she warned Qian Lei to control its influence.
• Er Ming said Nan Xuanyu's bloodline could suppress the beast and counted Qian Lei as having passed eleven rounds, allowing him to leave the field.
• Yuan En Huihui defeated an Emerald Demon Bird with the Phantom Spirit Dragon's demon-sealing power, then won six more matches before losing his seventh.
• Tang Yuge won eight consecutive matches, bringing Shrek Academy's victories to twenty-five.
• Dong Qianqiu faced a transformed sixty-thousand-year Sky Fox, who said she wanted to see the Demon Queen soul spirit.

Dong Qianqiu defeated the Sky Fox but lost to the Demon Claw Rat, after which Lan Mengqin won the next match. Nan Xuanyu faced Chi Qiu to secure the record-breaking victory, but Chi Qiu surrendered and prostrated himself before Nan Xuanyu’s Ancestral Dragon aura.

• Dong Qianqiu froze the Sky Fox with Demon Queen’s bloodline power and defeated it, then lost to the faster Demon Claw Rat after exhausting herself.
• Nan Xuanyu comforted Dong Qianqiu, and Lan Mengqin defeated the Demon Claw Rat with her zither music and Jade Phoenix.
• The Golden Lion Tiger offered to count the streak through the thirty-third match and sent Chi Qiu to face Nan Xuanyu for the record-breaking victory.
• Nan Xuanyu stripped Chi Qiu’s fire affinity and released his Dragon’s Roar, suppressing Chi Qiu with his Ancestral Dragon aura.
• Chi Qiu transformed into a crimson dragon, prostrated himself before Nan Xuanyu, and surrendered before Nan Xuanyu’s Dragon Capture Hand could strike.

Nan Xuanyu and his companions broke Shrek Academy’s sparring record, and Er Ming rewarded the group with soul bones while privately confirming that Beast God Di Tian had survived and become Nan Xuanyu’s soul spirit. The group began choosing their rewards, and Er Ming learned that Di Tian had survived his tribulation but needed the secret kept from the Federation.

• Jinni asked Da Ming what was happening, and Da Ming said the Soul Beast lineage might have hope before Er Ming announced that Shrek Academy had broken the record.
• Er Ming congratulated Nan Xuanyu’s group, offered each of them a soul bone, and brought them to a treasure cave to choose among Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones.
• Er Ming asked Nan Xuanyu whether he knew Beast God Di Tian, and Di Tian emerged from Nan Xuanyu’s forehead and revealed that he had survived his tribulation and become Nan Xuanyu’s soul spirit.
• Liu Feng chose a spatial-attribute left leg soul bone, while Yuan En Huihui, Lan Mengqin, and Dong Qianqiu selected soul bones suited to their abilities.
• Er Ming asked Dong Qianqiu to exchange the nearly Hundred Thousand Year Hell Demon Dragon trunk bone, but she refused.

Nan Xuanyu and his companions chose rare Soul Bones from Er Ming, while Tang Yuge’s lineage puzzled him. Qian Lei fused with a golden skull Soul Bone whose spirit claimed to be the Golden Sacred Dragon and Beast God Di Tian’s teacher, leaving Er Ming skeptical.

• Er Ming let Dong Qianqiu keep the Hell Demon Dragon torso bone after Nan Xuanyu confirmed she was his girlfriend, and Dong Qianqiu and Lan Mengqin began absorbing their Soul Bones.
• Demon Queen explained that Dong Qianqiu’s Soul Bone would grant her the Power of Destruction, a force also held by Nan Xuanyu’s Heavenly Saint Rending Abyss Halberd.
• Tang Yuge returned with two Soul Bones to balance yin and yang, and Er Ming gave them to her in exchange for a favor to Senluo Star.
• Nan Xuanyu asked Er Ming about Tang Yuge’s background after Er Ming said he could not sense the Titan Giant Ape lineage in her.
• Qian Lei fused with a golden skull Soul Bone, whose spirit claimed to be the Golden Sacred Dragon and Beast God Di Tian’s teacher.
• Er Ming rejected the claim and pressed his hand to Qian Lei’s forehead as the spirit addressed him as its Lord Beast King.

Er Ming exposed the Money Beast as a thieving soul beast that had fused with Qian Lei as a skull bone, but the creature recognized Nan Xuanyu as the Dragon God. It recounted the fall of the Dragon Clan and revealed that it had once been a parasite on the Dragon God.

• A Money Beast emerged from Qian Lei’s ear and admitted it had disguised itself as a skull bone after hiding in Er Ming’s treasure cave.
• Er Ming explained the Money Beast’s theft and illusion abilities, offered Qian Lei a torso bone as compensation, and said the skull bone could not be removed.
• Nan Xuanyu suggested replacing the skull bone with a metal one, but the Money Beast recognized the Dragon God’s aura on him and begged him to remember their past.
• The Money Beast described how human deities defeated the Divine Beasts, Shura God split the Dragon God apart, and the fallen creatures’ bloodline auras gave rise to Soul Beasts and human soul masters on Douluo Star.
• The Money Beast revealed that it had been a parasite on the Dragon God and had gained intelligence after being nurtured by his God King aura.

Nan Xuanyu freed the Treasure Hunting Beast from Qian Lei and accepted its Divine Sense Slavery Contract, gaining a loyal companion with powerful treasure-hunting abilities. After Qian Lei obtained a suitable soul bone, the group returned to their quarters and learned they had been placed on the Inner Court evaluation list.

• The Treasure Hunting Beast told Nan Xuanyu that it had served him in the God Realm and survived the war as the only one of its kind.
• Nan Xuanyu used the Dragon God’s aura to release the Treasure Hunting Beast from Qian Lei, leaving Qian Lei weakened.
• The Treasure Hunting Beast offered Nan Xuanyu a Slavery Contract through its Divine Sense, and Nan Xuanyu accepted it.
• Er Ming took Qian Lei deeper into the cave dwelling, where Qian Lei found and fused with a suitable soul bone.
• Nan Xuanyu learned that the Treasure Hunting Beast could detect treasures and transform into other forms, though it had not recovered its former power.
• Er Ming sent the group out of the Treasure Cave, and Nan Xuanyu and his companions learned they would be evaluated for a chance to become the new Shrek Seven Devils.

Nan Xuanyu and his companions learned that defeating Senluo Branch Academy had been a test for becoming the Shrek Seven Devils, and Nan Xuanyu received three drops of the Eternal Tree’s Life Essence. Er Ming took Nan Xuanyu and Qian Lei to the Ice and Fire Twofold Pool, where the Treasure Hunting Beast began examining the herbs.

• Xiao Qi told Nan Xuanyu and the others that their victory over Senluo Branch Academy had preserved their qualification to become the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Nan Xuanyu told his companions to keep the Shrek Seven Devils and Thirty-Three Sky Wings secret, and most of them left to continue their Dou Tianzhe missions.
• Elder Tree gave Nan Xuanyu three drops of the Eternal Tree’s Life Essence and warned him to save one for his attempt to reach the god level.
• Er Ming took Nan Xuanyu and Qian Lei toward the Ice and Fire Twofold Pool, while the Treasure Hunting Beast and Di Tian discussed the Dragon God Core.
• At the Ice and Fire Twofold Pool, the Treasure Hunting Beast examined an herb and then moved between the Yang Spring and Ice Spring.

The Treasure Hunting Beast used the Yang Spring and Cold Spring to grow a Golden Thread Fruit, then helped Nan Xuanyu enter the Ice and Fire Twofold Pool to cultivate. After consuming Eternal Tree Life Essence, the Treasure Hunting Beast erupted with power and connected its spiritual aura to Nan Xuanyu.

• The Treasure Hunting Beast combined water from the Yang Spring and Cold Spring to make drops that grew a four-petaled herb into a seven-petaled plant bearing a Golden Thread Fruit.
• The Treasure Hunting Beast explained that a true Ice and Fire Twofold Pool could produce Chaos Water, but Er Ming's pool lacked the life origin needed to create it.
• Nan Xuanyu ate the Golden Thread Fruit, and the Treasure Hunting Beast fused with him to protect him as he jumped into the pool.
• Er Ming left Qian Lei behind, and Qian Lei sat down to meditate while Nan Xuanyu cultivated underwater amid the pool's extreme heat and cold.
• The Treasure Hunting Beast asked Nan Xuanyu for a drop of Eternal Tree Life Essence, swallowed it, and erupted in emerald flames as the springs froze and its spiritual aura connected with Nan Xuanyu.