Chapter Summaries

Cao Dezhi and Zang Xin revealed a second Martial Soul Fusion Skill after Cao Dezhi was injured fighting Qian Gu Huang Yu. As their crimson fusion attack filled the arena, Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena prepared a powerful combination of their own.

• Cao Dezhi was sent flying by Qian Gu Huang Yu's attack, and both fighters were left exhausted and injured.
• Zang Xin helped Cao Dezhi recover, and Cao Dezhi persuaded him to use their hidden move, trusting Yun Ming to handle the finals.
• Cao Dezhi and Zang Xin embraced beneath their swords, which fused into a crimson pillar that stirred irritation throughout the arena.
• Qian Gu Die Ting recognized that the crimson attack was different from Emotion Touching Heaven, while Bei Gong Li said Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena had a move that could threaten even him.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu transformed her Lightning Scepter into the Spear of Thunder as Gu Yuena compressed wind, fire, water, and earth into four spheres and sent them into the spear.

Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena used a four-colored lightning tribulation to defeat Cao Dezhi and Zang Xin in the two-on-two finals. Jun Sheng Bai rescued the defeated pair, confirming Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena as champions.

• Gu Yuena merged wind, fire, water, and earth into Qian Gu Huang Yu's lightning, creating a docile four-colored tribulation that shocked Beddon and Jiang Mingxu.
• Cao Dezhi and Zang Xin revealed their white longsword Martial Soul Fusion Skill and clashed with Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena's four-colored Spear of Thunder.
• The four-colored lightning exploded, and Gu Yuena teleported the blast behind Cao Dezhi and Zang Xin after shielding herself and Qian Gu Huang Yu.
• Jun Sheng Bai protected Cao Dezhi and Zang Xin with his White Jade-colored Chains, conceding the championship to Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena.
• Gu Yuena admitted she had released some of her power to teleport the explosion, and Qian Gu Huang Yu joked that the assistance did not count as cheating.

Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena defeated Cao Dezhi and Zang Xin with their four-colored lightning, which Qian Gu Huang Yu named the Spear of the End. The Spirit Pagoda celebrated the win while Shrek began planning how to counter the technique in the upcoming Seven-on-Seven finals.

• Jun Sheng Bai protected Cao Dezhi and Zang Xin from the four-colored lightning, and the Limit Douluos watching recognized that its power surpassed a Heavenly Forged Lightning Tribulation.
• Cao Dezhi and Zang Xin accepted their defeat, and Jun Sheng Bai announced Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena as the winners of the two-on-two finals.
• Zang Xin congratulated Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena before Jun Sheng Bai took him and Cao Dezhi away.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu named the four-colored lightning the Spear of the End, and the Spirit Pagoda group celebrated their victory at the Mingyue Hotel.
• Beddon comforted the discouraged Shrek group, and Guan Yue proposed separating Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena during the Seven-on-Seven finals.

Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena discussed the limits of their colored lightning with Spirit Pagoda leaders, while Divine Craftsman Jiang Mingxu proposed using it to imitate Heavenly Forging. The Spirit Pagoda planned to test the technique after the competitions, keeping the possibility from the two girls for now.

• Zang Xin and Cao Dezhi decided to regroup and bring Yun Ming into their strategy after their defeat.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu told Qian Gu Die Ting and the others that she and Gu Yuena had successfully tested four-colored lightning, which was actually a Godhood Tribulation.
• Leng Yang Jun congratulated Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena on their expected wins in all four major competitions, and Bei Gong Li offered them rewards.
• Qian Gu Die Ting received word that Divine Craftsman Jiang Mingxu had arrived and asked Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena to step aside before meeting him.
• Jiang Mingxu proposed striking Soul-Forged metal with the girls' four-colored lightning to try to achieve Heavenly Forging, and Bei Gong Li agreed that it was worth testing.
• After Jiang Mingxu left, Qian Gu Die Ting and Leng Yang Jun discussed producing Heavenly Forged metal without him, while Bei Gong Li said they should keep the idea from the girls until the competitions ended.

Jiang Mingxu’s declining forging ability threatened his status, while Jun Sheng Bai lamented the loss of five Immortal Herbs. Qian Gu Huang Yu learned that Yun Ming had replaced Cao Dezhi as her final opponent, and Spirit Pagoda prepared for the match and a likely full Shrek team in the next battle.

• Jiang Mingxu tried to use the Four-colored Lightning Tribulation to improve his Heavenly Forging success rate, fearing the loss of his influence and position.
• Jun Sheng Bai mourned the five Immortal Herbs Ning Qing Lan had taken, and Beddon suggested trading Yun Ming’s potential Orange Soul Spirit for more herbs.
• Qian Ren Xue told Qian Gu Huang Yu that Yun Ming had replaced Cao Dezhi in the Soul Spirit Battle finals, and Qian Gu Die Ting explained that the competition committee had approved the transfer without Spirit Pagoda’s consent.
• Gu Yuena and Qian Gu Huang Yu concluded that Shrek, Tang Sect, and War God Hall had joined forces against Spirit Pagoda, and Qian Gu Huang Yu resolved to use the match to display her Soul Armor.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng and the others considered how Yun Ming’s return could affect their team-battle tactics, and Gu Yuena proposed observing his abilities.

Cao Dezhi explained to Zang Xin and Guan Yue why the factions’ long-standing scheming shaped the competition, and urged them to become strong enough to change things in the future. Yun Ming entered the Soul Spirit Battle final against Qian Gu Huang Yu, where the arena’s excitement grew around his return and the match began amid their unexpectedly cordial exchange.

• Cai Yuer laughed at the prospect of Qian Gu Huang Yu’s reaction, while Zang Xin and Guan Yue worried that Shrek’s victory would be undeserved because Yun Ming had already been eliminated from the Soul Spirit Battle.
• Cao Dezhi told Zang Xin and Guan Yue that the factions had manipulated competitions for years, and urged them to grow strong enough to reform Shrek and the Tang Sect.
• Yun Ming said he had been startled when his teacher ordered him into the final, then declared that they needed to become stronger and make their voices heard.
• Shrek and the Tang Sect promoted Yun Ming’s return, causing attention and ticket prices for the final to rise.
• Qian Gu Die Ting announced the final between Yun Ming and Qian Gu Huang Yu, and the two greeted each other cordially as the crowd cheered.

Qian Gu Huang Yu and Yun Ming began the Soul Spirit Battle final, revealing their Mountain Dragon and Evil Eye Tyrant Soul Spirits. Yun Ming’s spatial and spiritual attacks trapped Tai Kun, leaving the match unresolved.

• Qian Gu Die Ting started the final as Qian Gu Huang Yu and Yun Ming summoned their Soul Spirits.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu revealed her Mountain Dragon, while Yun Ming summoned a silver Evil Eye Tyrant close to reaching hundred-thousand-year cultivation.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant’s Mental Power Field distorted the arena, but Tai Kun countered its spiritual attack with a dragon roar.
• Tai Kun charged with Blade of Mountains and Rivers, but the Evil Eye Tyrant vanished before impact.
• Yun Ming’s Evil Eye Tyrant used Spatial Imprisonment to bind Tai Kun with silvery-white chains.

Yun Ming revealed his Space-attribute Soul Spirits and used them to turn the battle against Tai Kun and Di Xuan. Just as Star Swallowing Whale, Mobydick attacked Tai Kun, the Mountain Dragon broke free of Spatial Imprisonment by manifesting crystalline battle armor.

• Qian Gu Huang Yu summoned Thunderclap Nether Vine, which fired a bolt of dark-purple lightning at the Evil Eye Tyrant.
• Yun Ming sent out the Aurora Mantis, which used Aurora Profound Heaven Transformation to block Di Xuan's lightning attack.
• Yun Ming summoned Star Swallowing Whale, Mobydick, whose Starlight Domain spread across the arena and strengthened its Extreme Void Annihilation attack on Tai Kun.
• Tai Kun manifested yellow crystal battle armor and enormous wings, shattering the Evil Eye Tyrant's Spatial Imprisonment.

Qian Gu Huang Yu’s soul spirits revealed Rank 3 Soul Armor and overwhelmed Yun Ming’s team, forcing him to concede. The Spirit Pagoda won the Soul Spirit Battle championship, leaving the audience stunned by the new technology.

• Tai Kun used its Rank 3 Soul Armor and Soul Suppressing Domain to overpower the Star Swallowing Whale and break its attack.
• Beddon, Jun Sheng Bai, Chen Yi, and Yu Hao Sheng reacted with shock to the Soul Armor, which Jun Sheng Bai said the Tang Sect could not replicate.
• Di Xuan donned Rank 3 Soul Armor, shattered the Aurora Mantis’s defense, and forced Yun Ming to recall it.
• Di Xuan used its Space Jump Domain to evade the Evil Eye Tyrant’s attack, then trapped it with vines and prepared to strike.
• Tai Kun pinned the Star Swallowing Whale as Di Xuan prepared a finishing attack, and Yun Ming conceded to protect his soul spirits.
• Qian Gu Die Ting announced Qian Gu Huang Yu’s victory, giving the Spirit Pagoda the Soul Spirit Battle championship.

After Qian Gu Huang Yu defeated Yun Ming, she and the Spirit Transmission Seven planned for the next day’s team battle, knowing Yun Ming had nearly recovered. Meanwhile, Qian Gu Die Ting faced three Limit Douluos demanding the method behind Soul Armor and pretended he knew nothing about it.

• Bei Gong Li took Qian Gu Huang Yu back to the Spirit Pagoda’s combat conference room after Yun Ming conceded.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena shared an intimate moment before Leng Yao Zhu redirected the group to prepare for the Seven-on-Seven Team Battle.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu warned that Yun Ming’s condition seemed almost fully recovered, and the team discussed how to counter his Sky-Piercing Spear.
• Beddon, Jun Sheng Bai, and Yu Hao Sheng confronted Qian Gu Die Ting and demanded the method for crafting Soul Armor.
• Qian Gu Die Ting claimed he did not understand Soul Armor himself, prompting Beddon to suspect he was asking them to pay more.

Qian Gu Die Ting revealed a carefully prepared report presenting Gu Yue Chun Qiu as Soul Armor’s creator, while withholding the technology’s production method. As the leaders argued over Soul Armor, Chen Yi Ming and Bei Gong Li proposed a military presence in Mingdu, and the meeting ended with the creation of the Three Purity Education Team.

• After Beddon, Jun Sheng Bai, and Yu Hao Sheng paid a considerable price, Qian Gu Die Ting remembered a report about Soul Armor and gave each of them a top-secret copy.
• Beddon and the others read that Gu Yue Chun Qiu had developed Soul Armor with Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena as assistants, but the report revealed no method for making it.
• Yu Hao Sheng asked Qian Gu Die Ting to make Soul Armor’s creation method public, and Qian Gu Die Ting rejected the request by contrasting the present with Spirit Ice Douluo’s past decision to reveal the Soul Spirit incantation.
• Chen Yi Ming and Bei Gong Li arrived, and Chen Yi Ming proposed that the military headquarters establish an elite force to defend Mingdu.
• Yu Hao Sheng backed Chen Yi Ming’s proposal, and the leaders established the Three Purity Education Team under the military headquarters to suppress Evil Soul Masters, enemy agents, and lawbreakers while educating citizens.

Beddon and the other leaders negotiated with Qian Gu Die Ting over Soul Armor, agreeing to let the Spirit Pagoda station troops in Mingdu and offering access to their treasure vaults in exchange for help obtaining the Gu Yue Family’s secret arts. The chapter ended with the leaders learning that even Rank 2 Soul Armor cost nearly as much as a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone and offered no boost to a Limit Douluo.

• Beddon and the other leaders demanded the Soul Armor manufacturing method, but Qian Gu Die Ting said only Gu Yue Chun Qiu could disclose the Gu Yue Family’s secret arts.
• Qian Gu Die Ting asked them to show Gu Yue Chun Qiu sincerity by letting the children choose championship rewards from their treasure vaults.
• Jun Sheng Bai agreed to let Qian Gu Huang Yu, Gu Yuena, and Le Qian Xue choose three immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, while secretly planning to prevent them from obtaining the best ones.
• Qian Gu Die Ting explained that only Rank 2 Soul Armor could be reliably made and that its metal and labor costs approached the price of a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Beddon questioned the price and wondered how much Heaven-grade metal Rank 4 Soul Armor would require.

The factions opposed to the Sun Moon Federation reacted to the Spirit Pagoda’s Soul Armor research and prepared for war, while Li Renwang strengthened his Holy Spirit Cult faction by evolving Lan Xiao’s Martial Soul. The chapter ended as Lan Xiao awoke from the transformation and was told to test his new power before the coming conflict.

• Qian Gu Die Ting claimed that Rank 4 Soul Armor required vast amounts of Heavenly Forged metal to conceal how far the Spirit Pagoda’s research had progressed.
• At the Sun Moon Federation Council, Li Renwang, Dragon Lord, and Ghost Emperor discussed killing key figures and using a grand gift against their enemies.
• Xige objected to Dragon Lord’s Messiah Plan consuming his faction’s followers, but Li Renwang ordered him to stand united and bring Lan Xiao to him.
• Lan Xiao thanked Li Renwang for curing his son and recalled how the Federation’s institutions had failed to help his family.
• Li Renwang enveloped Lan Xiao in purple light and completed the second evolution of his Martial Soul.
• Lan Xiao regained consciousness, sensed that he had changed, and heard Li Renwang tell him to experience his new power.

Lan Xiao’s Martial Soul evolved and his cultivation reached Rank 98, but Li Renwang had secretly consumed fifty years of his lifespan to make it happen. As the Holy Spirit Cult prepared for the Day of Divine Descent and the Federation reacted to Soul Armor’s debut, Cai Yuer’s jealousy of Qian Gu Huang Yu and Yun Ming’s affection for her deepened.

• Lan Xiao thanked Li Renwang for his awakening and breakthrough, unaware that the process had cost him about fifty years of his lifespan.
• Li Renwang explained the Holy Spirit Cult’s three awakening methods to Xige and revealed that he used lifespan awakenings on his followers.
• Li Renwang rallied the cultists, declaring that the Day of Divine Descent had arrived and that they would judge the Federation.
• The Spirit Pagoda announced that Rank 2 Soul Armor technology was mature and open for preorders, while Cao Dezhi, Yun Ming, Zang Xin, and Guan Yue discussed the Soul Spirit Battle and Qian Gu Huang Yu.
• Cai Yuer, still in love with Yun Ming, blamed Qian Gu Huang Yu for taking his favor and other things she valued.

As the Seven-on-Seven finals were postponed, Qian Gu Huang Yu, Gu Yuena, and Qian Ren Xue discussed the political impact of Soul Armor and their plan to control its release. Qian Gu Huang Yu intended to equip her side with Rank 4 Soul Armor before offering Rank 3 armor to other factions, hinting that she had further plans.

• Leng Yang Jun told Qian Gu Huang Yu and the others that the finals had been postponed while the Tower Master, Shrek, and the Tang Sect discussed Soul Armor.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu explained to Gu Yuena and Qian Ren Xue that Rank 2 Soul Armor was public, while her Rank 3 armor remained a prototype and Rank 4 armor would not yet be revealed.
• Qian Ren Xue said Ya Li had asked her about Soul Armor, and Gu Yuena added that Shui Qingli had also asked her about it.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu revealed that Ning Qing Yu had requested several sets of Soul Armor to repay the sect, which Qian Gu Huang Yu suspected would benefit the Tang Sect and the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu outlined a plan to use Rank 2 armor to distract other factions, then provide Rank 3 armor after her side had equipped enough Rank 4 armor.

Shrek and the Spirit Pagoda faced off in the Seven-on-Seven finals, where Yun Ming stunned the audience by revealing himself as an eighteen-year-old Three-word Battle Armor Master. The match had just begun, and Yun Ming unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar as he charged Qian Gu Huang Yu.

• Beddon announced the finals between Shrek Academy and the Spirit Pagoda after Shrek's warm-up event.
• Yun Ming and his teammates discussed their confidence and lined up against the Spirit Pagoda, whose formation placed Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena apart.
• Yun Ming taunted Qian Gu Huang Yu, and Beddon started the match.
• Yun Ming charged Qian Gu Huang Yu and manifested crystal-clear Three-word Battle Armor with the Void Condensation Armor ability.
• Yun Ming unleashed his two-hundred-thousand-year Martial Soul Avatar, revealing power beyond that of an ordinary Super Douluo.

Yun Ming launched an all-out attack on Qian Gu Huang Yu, but she countered his maneuver with a newly mastered Liquid Battle Armor technique. The chapter ended with her Battle Armor binding his leg as she prepared to stop his attack.

• Yun Ming teleported in and attacked Qian Gu Huang Yu with Illusionary Light Stab while using Purple Demon Eye to distract her.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu blocked Yun Ming's strongest spear strike with her Spirit Blade, then finished preparing Spear of Thunder and used Universal Pull to draw him back.
• Yun Ming used the pull to attack Qian Gu Huang Yu's left side, hoping to rebound off her Spirit Blade and escape.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu put away the Spirit Blade and melted her Flash Moon Battle Armor into liquid whips that bound Yun Ming's right leg.
• Beddon and Jun Sheng Bai recognized Qian Gu Huang Yu's Liquid Battle Armor technique as one Bei Gong Li had developed.

Qian Gu Huang Yu gained the upper hand against Yun Ming by trapping his leg with Liquid Soul Armor, while Guan Yue and the Qian Gu brothers fought nearby. Cao Dezhi and Zang Xin’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill enabled Guan Yue to strike Qian Gu Qing Feng, sending him flying toward the Shrek Team.

• Qian Gu Huang Yu trapped Yun Ming’s right leg with Liquid Soul Armor, forcing him to withdraw his Three-word Battle Armor and escape before her Spear of Thunder struck.
• Yun Ming countered the Spear of Thunder with White Jade Carries the Sky, but the collision injured him and sent him flying backward.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng and Qian Gu Qing Feng cornered Guan Yue after he could not intervene in Yun Ming’s fight with Qian Gu Huang Yu.
• Cao Dezhi and Zang Xin used Emotion Touching Heaven, Vacuum Seal, to freeze Qian Gu Qing Feng, while Guan Yue revealed that he had deliberately baited Qian Gu Dong Feng.
• Guan Yue struck Qian Gu Qing Feng with Mysterious Jade Shock, sending him flying toward the Shrek Team.

Shrek’s plan to overwhelm Qian Gu Qing Feng nearly succeeded, but Gu Yuena arrived with Qian Ren Xue, Leng Yao Zhu, and Leng Yulai to split Cao Dezhi from Zang Xin. Qian Gu Qing Feng then trapped Cao Dezhi and Guan Yue with his sixth Soul Skill as the battle turned against Shrek.

• Cao Dezhi, Zang Xin, Guan Yue, Zhuo Shi, Feng Wuyu, and Cai Yuer attacked Qian Gu Qing Feng after Guan Yue blasted him into their formation.
• Qian Gu Qing Feng used Purgatory Roar against Zhuo Shi, Feng Wuyu, and Cai Yuer, forcing Zang Xin to break off his attack and protect them.
• Cao Dezhi used the Killing Intent Domain and Severing Emotions with Guan Yue to badly injure Qian Gu Qing Feng, while Qian Gu Dong Feng arrived to support him.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu told Yun Ming that she believed Qian Gu Qing Feng, then revealed that Gu Yuena had arrived with Qian Ren Xue, Leng Yao Zhu, and Leng Yulai.
• Gu Yuena used Spatial Division to separate Cao Dezhi from Zang Xin, and Qian Gu Qing Feng unleashed dark purple spirits that left Cao Dezhi and Guan Yue's eyes vacant.

Gu Yuena divided the battlefield while Qian Ren Xue’s Angel Domain weakened Cao Dezhi and Qian Gu Dong Feng launched a powerful assault on Guan Yue. The Shrek fighters were left struggling as the Spirit Pagoda gained the advantage in the central battle.

• Qian Gu Qing Feng used Cursed Soul Grievance to disrupt Cao Dezhi and Guan Yue with resentful souls.
• Gu Yuena raised a spatial barrier that divided the combatants into outer, central, and separate battlefields.
• Qian Ren Xue flew toward Cao Dezhi and Zang Xin, and her Angel Domain dissolved Cao Dezhi’s Killing Intent Domain and Qian Gu Qing Feng’s undead souls.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng summoned the Evil-Breaking Dragon and enhanced himself and it with several Soul Skills.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng and the Evil-Breaking Dragon attacked Guan Yue from both sides, while Qian Ren Xue pressed Cao Dezhi with sacred power and extreme heat.