Chapter Summaries

Ye Xiaobao awakened Sun Wukong’s divine soul, slaughtered the Evil Spirit Orca clan, and passed the Sea God’s Fourth Trial. After absorbing the Evil Spirit Orca King’s hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, he became a six-ringed Soul Emperor, while Bo Saixi prepared a more difficult fifth trial to investigate his other divine inheritance.

• Ye Xiaobao transformed his martial soul into the Great Sage Equal to Heaven and challenged the Evil Spirit Orca King.
• Bo Saixi sensed another god’s aura in Ye Xiaobao and decided his fifth trial would pit him against all Seven Sacred Pillar Douluo at once.
• Ye Xiaobao killed the Evil Spirit Orca clan and finished off the Evil Spirit Orca King despite its plea for mercy.
• The Sea God declared Ye Xiaobao had perfectly passed the Fourth Trial, but Sun Wukong absorbed the ten-percent Sea God affinity reward.
• Ye Xiaobao absorbed the Evil Spirit Orca King’s hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, became a six-ringed Soul Emperor, and claimed its hundred-thousand-year left leg bone.

Ye Xiaobao rejected the Evil Spirit Orca King's soul bone after Sun Wukong warned him that soul bones would hinder his immortal cultivation, then returned to Sea God Island with Little White. Bo Saixi revealed that his Fifth Trial of the Sea God was to defeat the Seven Sacred Pillars working together.

• Sun Wukong told Ye Xiaobao not to absorb the Evil Spirit Orca King's soul bone and advised him to study the Grand Celestial Art of Immortality and reach the God Realm.
• Ye Xiaobao promised Little White an Eighth-Grade Spirit Mushroom in exchange for taking him to the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, but postponed the trip until his Soul Power reached level seventy.
• Ye Xiaobao rode his Somersault Cloud with Little White back to Sea God Island, and Little White offered to guide him to the Deep Sea Demon Whale King whenever he was ready.
• Ye Xiaobao told Bo Saixi that Spirit Hall's past attack on Sea God Island had not been his teacher's order and had nothing to do with him.
• Bo Saixi told Ye Xiaobao that his Fifth Trial required him to defeat the Seven Sacred Pillars working together.

Ye Xiaobao spent three days cultivating the Grand Celestial Art of Immortality before arriving at Sea God Mountain to begin the Fifth Trial of the Sea God. Bo Saixi sensed that his spiritual power had surpassed hers, and the trial was about to begin.

• Bo Saixi gave Ye Xiaobao three days to rest before the Fifth Trial, which would require him to defeat the Seven Sacred Pillar Douluo together.
• Xiao Bai warned Sea Dragon Douluo that the Seven Sacred Pillar Douluo had little chance against Ye Xiaobao, angering him.
• Ye Xiaobao cultivated for three days, then gave Dong Bo a Hundred Thousand Year right-arm soul bone from the Sky Azure Bull Python.
• Sea Dragon Douluo urged Bo Saixi to revoke Ye Xiaobao's qualification for keeping them waiting, but Sea Lance Douluo asked him to be patient.
• Bo Saixi sensed Ye Xiaobao only when he neared the summit and realized his spiritual power had surpassed hers.
• Ye Xiaobao reached the summit, apologized for the delay, and Bo Saixi asked whether he was ready for the Fifth Trial.

Ye Xiaobao suppressed the Seven Sacred Pillars with the Golden Cudgel, disrupting the Sea God's control over the surrounding waters and frightening a powerful sea beast into fleeing. He then offered the Seven Sacred Pillar Douluo a challenge: break his barrier within three minutes or he would pass the trial.

• Sea Dragon Douluo secretly activated the Seven Sacred Pillars to draw on their power and challenge Ye Xiaobao.
• Ye Xiaobao raised the Golden Cudgel and suppressed the Seven Sacred Pillars, while the Sea God Trident lost its glow and a colossal whale fled Sea God Island.
• Sea Dragon Douluo realized the pillars had lost contact and, after Bo Saixi ordered the trial to begin, attacked Ye Xiaobao alongside the other six Douluo.
• Ye Xiaobao blocked all seven Douluo's soul skills with a golden barrier and said he would concede if they broke it within three minutes.

Ye Xiaobao passed the Sea God Fifth Trial after Sea Dragon Douluo failed to break his barrier and was expelled from Sea God Island for defying Bo Saixi. Ye Xiaobao returned to find Dong Bo at Rank 93, while Sea Dragon Douluo left the island and Bo Saixi hoped he would eventually understand her intentions.

• Sea Dragon Douluo attacked Ye Xiaobao's barrier with his Martial Soul Avatar and Ninth Soul Skill, but Bo Saixi stopped the attack and declared that Ye Xiaobao had passed the trial.
• Bo Saixi stripped Sea Dragon Douluo of his position among the Seven Sacred Pillars and expelled him from Sea God Island after he defied her orders.
• Ye Xiaobao perfectly passed the Sea God Fifth Trial and received ten percent Sea God affinity, which Sun Wukong absorbed; Bo Saixi questioned why she could not sense Ye Xiaobao's affinity.
• Ye Xiaobao returned home and praised Dong Bo for reaching Rank 93 after receiving a hundred-thousand-year soul bone.
• Sea Dragon Douluo rejected the other Sea Douluo's consolation and flew away from Sea God Island, while Bo Saixi hoped he would later understand her intentions.

Sea Dragon Douluo met Tang Hao at sea and learned that he had come to Sea God Island seeking help. After discovering that Tang Hao wanted to kill Ye Xiaobao, Sea Dragon Douluo proposed using the Deep Sea Demon Whale King to stop Ye Xiaobao's Sea God inheritance.

• Sea Dragon Douluo encountered Tang Hao aboard a ship bound for Sea God Island and confirmed that Tang Hao was from the Clear Sky Sect.
• Sea Dragon Douluo asked Tang Hao whether he knew Ye Xiaobao, and Tang Hao revealed that he intended to kill him.
• Sea Dragon Douluo told Tang Hao that Ye Xiaobao was undergoing the Sea God's inheritance and that Bo Saixi had driven him from the island because of Ye Xiaobao.
• Sea Dragon Douluo proposed attacking while Ye Xiaobao faced the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, which he said was required for the Nine Trials of the Sea God.

Ye Xiaobao began his sixth Sea God Trial, facing Bo Saixi in battle after she agreed not to use the sea’s or temple’s power. Meanwhile, Tang Hao and Sea Dragon Douluo watched from a nearby island and considered using Ye Xiaobao’s future fight with the Deep Sea Demon Whale King as an opportunity to strike.

• Sea Dragon Douluo persuaded Tang Hao to wait for Ye Xiaobao to face the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, then led him to an island near Sea God Island to keep watch.
• Bo Saixi changed Ye Xiaobao’s sixth trial to defeating her and allowed him unlimited attempts; Ye Xiaobao accepted and followed her out to sea.
• Tang Hao and Sea Dragon Douluo saw Bo Saixi and Ye Xiaobao fly away, and Sea Dragon Douluo guessed that Ye Xiaobao’s trial required him to endure against her.
• Ye Xiaobao attacked Bo Saixi with his Great Sage Equal to Heaven Martial Soul, but she revealed her nine soul rings and manifested her Sea God Martial Soul.
• Ye Xiaobao used Transformation Method to become the Great Sage and blocked the Sea God Trident with his Golden Cudgel, surprising Bo Saixi with his god-tier Martial Soul.

Ye Xiaobao was undergoing the Sea God's sixth trial when the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud revealed that he was a foreign god, prompting the Sea God to seize control of Bo Saixi's avatar and bind him. As the Sea God tried to draw him into the Shroud for judgment in the God Realm, Sun Wukong took over Ye Xiaobao's body to fight.

• Ye Xiaobao immobilized Bo Saixi with the Golden Cudgel's technique, but she broke free and summoned her Sea God Avatar.
• The Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud released the Sea God's divine sense, which recognized Ye Xiaobao as someone from another world and questioned his purpose.
• The Sea God took control of Bo Saixi's avatar, summoned the Sea God Trident, and bound Ye Xiaobao with Formless Wind and Waves.
• The Sea God revealed that the God Realm had sensed Ye Xiaobao's arrival and ordered him taken there for judgment.
• Sun Wukong awakened within Ye Xiaobao and took over his body as the Sea God began pulling him into the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.

Ye Xiaobao escaped the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and transformed into Sun Wukong, who mocked the Sea God and easily countered his first two Golden Thirteen Lances. The Sea God launched a devastating third attack, but Sun Wukong remained unimpressed as the strike raced toward him.

• The Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud exploded, freeing Ye Xiaobao, who transformed into Sun Wukong.
• Sun Wukong blocked the Sea God Trident with his Golden Cudgel and mocked the Sea God's power.
• Sun Wukong shattered the Sea God's first Golden Thirteen Lances technique with a finger.
• Sun Wukong summoned monkey soldiers to fight the Sea God's phantoms, and they survived the phantoms' explosions unharmed.
• The Sea God hurled his Golden Trident with the First Lance: Never to Return, blasting Bo Saixi away as Sun Wukong dismissed the attack.

Sun Wukong defeated the Sea God’s Divine Sense and shattered the Sea God Trident, then returned control of his body to Ye Xiaobao. Bo Saixi offered her life in exchange for Ye Xiaobao’s promise to spare Sea God Island.

• Sun Wukong caught the Sea God Trident, threw it back, and badly injured the Sea God and Bo Saixi.
• The Sea God joined his Divine Sense with the Sea God Trident and launched his strongest attack, but Sun Wukong answered with the Golden Cudgel.
• The Golden Cudgel shattered the Sea God Trident, and Sun Wukong froze and swallowed the Sea God’s fleeing Divine Sense.
• Sun Wukong returned control to Ye Xiaobao, who asked Bo Saixi whether they still needed to fight.
• Bo Saixi said she would trade her life for Ye Xiaobao’s promise not to attack Sea God Island.

Ye Xiaobao received a sea chart from Bo Saixi after learning the Deep Sea Demon Whale King had left the area. In Heaven Dou City, Xue Qinghe summoned Tang San, revealed an interest in his identity as Tang Hao’s son, and left Tang San uncertain of his intentions.

• Ye Xiaobao asked Bo Saixi for the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's location, and she told him it had fled into the deep-sea region.
• Ye Xiaobao requested and received a chart of the waters around Sea God Island, then flew back toward the island.
• Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun celebrated Shrek Academy's victory over the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team before preparing to travel to Spirit City.
• A cloaked middle-aged man injured Dai Mubai with his voice and ordered Tang San to accompany him; Tang San followed while leaving marks for Shrek Academy to find.
• The middle-aged man brought Tang San to a luxurious residence, where Xue Qinghe introduced himself and said he wanted to see Tang Hao's son for himself.

Qian Renxue summoned Tang San, recognized that he was Tang Hao’s son, and suspected he possessed twin Martial Souls, but ordered Serpent Spear Douluo not to harm him. After Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that his identity had been exposed, he rejected his teacher’s advice and decided never to seek him out again.

• Qian Renxue questioned Tang San about his Martial Soul, identified him as Tang Hao’s son, and sent him away after deciding he did not have the Haotian Hammer Martial Soul.
• Flander met Tang San outside Qian Renxue’s residence and brought him, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun back to Shrek Academy.
• Qian Renxue told Serpent Spear Douluo that Tang San’s black fourth soul ring suggested he possessed twin Martial Souls, then forbade anyone from attacking him.
• Tang San worried that Shrek Academy was no longer safe and told Yu Xiaogang that his identity had been exposed.
• Yu Xiaogang suggested that Tang San might join the Heaven Dou Empire and seek revenge on Spirit Hall, but Tang San dismissed the idea and resolved not to seek Yu Xiaogang’s help again.

Shrek Academy set out for Spirit City, and Dai Mubai asked Tang San to help him claim the Star Luo Empire's throne. Their convoy was ambushed in a canyon, where the Golden Iron Triangle fought three Soul Douluo while Zhao Wuji defended the students, until Meng Shu and two companions intervened.

• Shrek Academy's core staff and students departed for Spirit City to compete in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
• Dai Mubai asked Tang San to help him take the throne of the Star Luo Empire, and Tang San agreed while considering how Tang Hao could help.
• Liu Erlong stopped the convoy in a barren canyon after sensing an ambush, and dozens of masked Soul Masters appeared.
• Flander, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang summoned their Sacred Dragon Martial Soul Fusion Skill to fight the black-clad leader and two Soul Douluo.
• Zhao Wuji gathered Tang San, Dai Mubai, and the others to defend the convoy as the remaining attackers charged.
• Meng Shu, an elderly man with a dragon-headed staff, arrived with an elderly woman and a young woman and ordered the fighters to stop.

Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang joined the battle to protect the Shrek team, but Spirit Hall's Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo arrived and revealed that the attack targeted the Clear Sky Sect remnants. The chapter ended with Chrysanthemum Douluo breaking the Gai Shi Dragon Serpent couple's Martial Soul Fusion Skill and Meng Yiran rushing to help them.

• Meng Shu joined the fight against the black-clad Soul Douluo, forcing the attackers to retreat.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo appeared, and Chrysanthemum Douluo accused Tang San and the others of being Clear Sky Sect remnants.
• Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang challenged Chrysanthemum Douluo and unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Dragon Serpent Strike.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo resisted the poisonous dragon's poison and overwhelmed it with his sixth soul skill, Golden Core Flowing Radiance.
• The poisonous dragon dispersed, leaving Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang pale as Meng Yiran hurried to support them.

Qian Renxue intervened when Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo attacked Tang San and the others, forcing the Spirit Hall forces to withdraw. Tang San was left wondering who Qian Renxue was and why she had saved him.

• Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang led Meng Yiran away after Chrysanthemum Douluo warned them to keep quiet about the encounter.
• Ghost Douluo broke Liu Erlong, Flander, and Yu Xiaogang's Sacred Dragon Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Zhao Wuji shielded them from Chrysanthemum Douluo's attack.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo preserved Zhao Wuji's life but seized Tang San and prepared to kill him.
• Serpent Spear Douluo attacked Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Qian Renxue ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to leave the tournament participants unharmed.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo withdrew, while Tang San wondered whether Qian Renxue was connected to Xue Qinghe and why she had rescued him.
• Serpent Spear Douluo warned Qian Renxue that saving Tang Hao's son could be difficult to explain to Bibi Dong.

After Spirit Hall attacked Shrek, Tang San revealed that he was Tang Hao’s son and chose to remain with the team as they traveled to Spirit City. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong planned the Martial Soul Empire’s expansion while preparing for the Rakshasa Ninth Trial, and Qian Renxue returned to the Worship Hall to continue her Angel trials.

• Qian Renxue ordered Serpent Spear Douluo and Porcupine Douluo to watch the Shrek Team and prevent another attack.
• Tang San revealed his Haotian Hammer and admitted to Shrek that he was Tang Hao’s son; despite Yu Xiaogang suggesting he leave, Tang San stayed with the team.
• Bibi Dong decided not to target Tang San because of Qian Daoliu’s order and her Rakshasa God trial, and approved a plan to help Zhu Zhuqing take control of the Star Luo Empire.
• Bibi Dong planned to establish the Martial Soul Empire and attempt the Rakshasa Ninth Trial after its founding, relying on Ye Xiaobao to protect it if she failed.
• Qian Renxue returned to Qian Daoliu, who told her to stay in the Worship Hall and focus on advancing to Soul Douluo and completing the Angel’s Second Trial.

Oscar reunited with Flander, Zhao Wuji, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun after the Shrek team arrived in Spirit City. Their reunion grew tense over Spirit Hall, and the chapter left Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun stunned by the rapid progress Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing had made.

• The Shrek group arrived in Spirit City, where a Spirit Hall cardinal welcomed them and arranged their hotel stay.
• Oscar visited his former teachers and classmates, and Dai Mubai asked him to choose between Shrek and Spirit Hall.
• Flander stopped Dai Mubai from questioning Oscar about the conflict with Spirit Hall, while Oscar remained uncertain which side he would choose.
• Oscar revealed that he had reached level forty-five Soul Power and confirmed it with a testing crystal, astonishing the group.
• Oscar explained that a secret realm arranged by Spirit Hall had accelerated his cultivation, though he could not share more.
• Dai Mubai pressed Oscar about Zhu Zhuqing, and Oscar said she had refused to see him and had reached level forty-four Soul Power.

Oscar told Shrek Academy that Spirit Hall’s top students had reached Soul Power ranks 55 and 56, and Flander’s team prepared for the tournament despite drawing Blazing Fire Academy. The Four Elements Academies then merged into a formidable team, while Ye Xiaobao spoke with Ning Fengzhi at the opening ceremony and asked whether he remembered Oscar.

• Oscar told Zhao Wuji that Hu Liena and Yan had reached Rank 55 and Xie Yue had reached Rank 56, and he credited their rapid growth to cultivating near a spring with Ye Xiaobao.
• Flander arranged for Dai Mubai to pay for someone to visit Ma Hongjun, then warned Dai that Zhu Zhuqing would never accept him if he kept fooling around.
• Flander drew Blazing Fire Academy as Shrek Academy’s first opponent, and Tang San proposed that Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun sit out to conceal their strength.
• The Blazing Fire and Divine Wind Academies appeared united with the other elemental academies, and the Divine Wind Team revealed that all its members were Soul Ancestors.
• Bibi Dong explained to Ning Fengzhi that she had allowed the Four Elements Academies to merge, and Ye Xiaobao said Spirit Hall’s team would be difficult to defeat before asking if Ning remembered Oscar.

Ye Xiaobao tried to help Oscar and Ning Rongrong get together, but Chen Xin objected and Ning Fengzhi deferred the decision. Meanwhile, Shrek Academy faced the threat of Star Luo Royal Academy, and Flander worried about the tournament’s sponsorship money.

• Ye Xiaobao suggested Oscar as a suitable match for Ning Rongrong, but Ning Fengzhi put off the decision and Chen Xin declared that he did not approve.
• Star Luo Royal Academy won its match without Davis or Zhu Zhuqing fighting, and Davis taunted Shrek Academy and Dai Mubai.
• Dai Mubai admitted to Tang San that Star Luo’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill made their team a serious threat, prompting Tang San to consider using a hidden weapon to injure Davis or Zhu Zhuqing.
• Flander worried that Shrek Academy would fail to place in the top three and lose sponsorship money, then showed Liu Erlong the ugly, advertisement-covered uniforms he had prepared.

Flander made Shrek’s staff and students wear ugly, sponsor-covered uniforms, using a staged appeal about the academy’s finances to win their agreement. The team then learned it would face the Star Luo Royal Team first and Spirit Hall next, leaving Shrek worried about early elimination.

• Flander told Liu Erlong that everyone at Shrek had to wear the uniforms and that placing in the tournament’s top three would bring more sponsorship money.
• Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, and Tang San objected to wearing the uniforms, but Flander pretended to despair over Shrek’s finances until the students agreed.
• Shrek arrived at the venue in its advertisement-covered uniforms, drawing ridicule from other academies while Flander proudly defended his designs.
• The tournament draw matched Shrek against the Star Luo Royal Team first and Spirit Hall second, prompting Ma Hongjun to accuse the draw of being rigged.
• Flander complained about the tournament’s points system, while Ye Xiaobao sneezed in the stands and speculated that someone was cursing him.