Recaps

Nan Fusheng, Fors, and Xu Xiaoyan visited Tianding Starry Sky Soul Master Academy to arrange a sparring match for their assessment. Li Yunlong brought them to the Star-Gazing Platform, where an elderly man and a purple-haired young man arrived, leaving Xu Xiaoyan poised to discover Nan Fusheng’s surprise.

• Li Yunlong welcomed Nan Fusheng and his companions into Tianding Starry Sky Soul Master Academy and revealed that he had graduated from Shrek Academy.
• Nan Fusheng explained the assessment’s sparring requirements, and Li Yunlong arranged suitable opponents at the academy.
• Xu Xiaoyan asked how Nan Fusheng knew Li Yunlong, and Nan Fusheng said they had met while he was traveling during school breaks.
• Li Yunlong led the group to the academy’s open-air Star-Gazing Platform and hinted that Nan Fusheng had prepared a surprise for Xu Xiaoyan.
• An elderly man and a purple-haired young man arrived on the platform, both wearing Monocles.

Nan Fusheng brought Xu Xiaoyan to the Star-Gazing Platform, where she absorbed Star Power and transformed her Martial Soul into a Star Staff. She emerged with stronger abilities and a new Assault-Control role, then embraced and kissed Nan Fusheng.

• Ye Lingfeng introduced his grandson Ye Lingyun, a Rank 54 Soul Master, as the opponent for Nan Fusheng's group.
• Li Yunlong prepared the Star-Gazing Platform, and Xu Xiaoyan stepped onto it to undergo an experiment.
• The platform gathered Star Power around Xu Xiaoyan for more than an hour as her Martial Soul began to change.
• Xu Xiaoyan's Martial Soul shed its Ice Attribute and became a Star Staff, changing her three Spirit Skills and making her an Assault-Control System Soul Master.
• Xu Xiaoyan embraced and kissed Nan Fusheng, relieved that she had grown stronger and overcome her sense of inadequacy.

Xu Xiaoyan and Fors helped Nan Fusheng defeat Ye Lingyun in her final assessment, where she displayed her new Spirit Skills. She then learned a carefully embellished account of Nan Fusheng’s past visit to the Star-Gazing Platform and felt moved by what she believed he had suffered.

• Xu Xiaoyan and Fors competed to hug Nan Fusheng before Li Yunlong reminded them about Xu Xiaoyan’s final assessment.
• Nan Fusheng restrained Ye Lingyun, Xu Xiaoyan supported him with Star Wheel Ice Chain, and Fors defeated Ye Lingyun with Five Elements Divine Light.
• Xu Xiaoyan demonstrated her new Second Soul Skill, Starlight Feedback, and Third Soul Skill, Brilliant Starlight.
• Nan Fusheng asked Ye Lingfeng for information on promising Spirit Masters and officials in Tianding City, and Ye Lingfeng listed three young candidates.
• Xu Xiaoyan asked Li Yunlong about Nan Fusheng’s agreement, and Li Yunlong claimed Nan Fusheng had been badly injured after seeking to experiment on the Star-Gazing Platform.
• Xu Xiaoyan believed Nan Fusheng had endured great pain and resolved to keep what she had learned to herself.

Cai Xukun revealed that Nan Fusheng’s doppelganger had secretly attacked Tianling City’s Security Team, then set off. Meanwhile, Tang Wulin and his companions attacked a young Five-Ring Soul King near the Tianling Spirit Pagoda, but their attempt to subdue him went wrong when he unleashed his full power.

• Cai Xukun explained that Nan Fusheng’s doppelganger had ambushed a rival and the Tianling City Security Team, then told his audience they would set off.
• Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, Xie Xie, Xu Li Zhi, and Ye Xinglan planned to provoke a Spirit Pagoda Law Enforcement Team and impersonate the Inspection Team to escape.
• The five friends disguised themselves in white uniforms and surrounded a young Spirit Master outside the Tianling Spirit Pagoda.
• Tang Wulin and his companions used their Martial Souls and Tang Wulin’s Blue Silver Golden Light Array to suppress the young man’s water-based abilities.
• Ye Xinglan and Xie Xie nearly struck the young man lethally, prompting him to blast them away with streams of pitch-black water and reveal five pitch-black Soul Rings.

Tang Wulin and his companions were mistaken for Evil Soul Masters after they attacked Cai Xukun, who accused them of ambushing Tianling City's Security Team. Cai Xukun fought them with strange black Water Spheres, leaving Xu Lizhi trapped beneath one as the group struggled to free him.

• Tang Wulin tried to explain that attacking Cai Xukun had been a misunderstanding, but Cai Xukun accused the group of being Evil Soul Masters and planning the Security Team ambush.
• Cai Xukun revealed his rank and whale-like martial soul, then attacked the five with his first soul skill, Kun Ball.
• Tang Wulin's Blue Silver Golden Light Array failed to dispel the black Water Spheres, which changed direction to pursue their targets.
• Tang Wulin crushed one sphere with his Golden Dragon Claw and discovered that its droplets absorbed Soul Power and blood essence.
• Ye Xinglan and Xie Xie were splashed, while Xu Lizhi became trapped under a giant Water Sphere that resisted Tang Wulin's attack and grew when Ye Xinglan touched it.
• Gu Yue said she could not free Xu Lizhi safely because the sphere absorbed Soul Power and freezing it could injure his head.

Tang Wulin and his companions tried to free Xu Lizhi from Cai Xukun’s strange black Water Sphere and learned that Cai’s Martial Soul resembled the legendary Kun. Tang Wulin attacked, but Cai absorbed his power and struck him down, leaving the fight unresolved.

• With Xu Lizhi running out of air, Tang Wulin rallied the others to defeat Cai Xukun instead of backing down.
• Ye Xinglan identified Cai’s whale-like Martial Soul as resembling the ancient Kun, said to possess Ultimate Dark and Water attributes.
• Tang Wulin charged Cai while Gu Yue gathered the surrounding elements for an attack.
• Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon Shocks the Heavens swallowed Cai’s arm, but Cai seized his Golden Dragon Claw and drained his Soul Power.
• Cai phased his right arm through Tang Wulin’s defense and punched him in the abdomen, forcing Tang Wulin to one knee.

Cai Xukun overwhelmed Tang Wulin and his companions with his strength and Dark Water, leaving them drained and unconscious or barely able to stand. He demanded that the remaining three surrender while his livestream viewers debated whether they were Evil Soul Masters.

• Cai Xukun hurled Tang Wulin into Ye Xinglan, then trapped Xie Xie with black water that drained his Soul Power and blood energy until he passed out.
• Cai Xukun set Xie Xie aside and reflected that he had engineered the group's earlier mistakes to justify teaching them a lesson.
• Gu Yue attacked Cai Xukun with a five-element sphere, but his Dark Water swallowed the Elemental Storm and spread across the ground, draining the group's strength.
• The Water Sphere around Xu Lizhi broke apart, leaving him unconscious, and Cai Xukun demanded that Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, and Ye Xinglan surrender.
• Cai Xukun checked his livestream chat as viewers reacted to the fight and urged him to capture the youths as Evil Soul Masters.

Tang Wulin turned the Law Enforcers’ arrival into a chance to avoid being taken to the Spirit Pagoda, then led his companions in a sudden attack on their three Mechas. After disabling all three, Tang Wulin and Ye Xinglan fled with the others.

• Three yellow Mechas arrived, and Tang Wulin accused Cai Xukun of attacking his group while Cai Xukun insisted they had attacked him first.
• The Law Enforcers ordered both sides to return to the Spirit Pagoda so they could check the surveillance footage, and Cai Xukun agreed to go with them.
• As the group traveled, Xu Lizhi woke up and gave Tang Wulin a Red Bean Bun; Tang Wulin signaled Gu Yue and Ye Xinglan to prepare to escape.
• Tang Wulin, Ye Xinglan, and Gu Yue attacked the three Mechas, disabling two and destroying the third.
• Tang Wulin and Ye Xinglan fled, while Xu Lizhi carried the unconscious Xie Xie and Gu Yue escaped with them.

Tang Wulin and his companions fled Cai Xukun after he accused them of being Evil Soul Masters, but Wu Changkong arrived and shielded them from his attack. When Cai Xukun slandered Shrek Academy and Wu Changkong’s teacher, Wu demanded an apology and prepared to fight.

• Cai Xukun used his livestream to portray Tang Wulin and his companions as attackers and pursued them with his fourth soul skill.
• Wu Changkong blocked Cai Xukun’s Water Spheres with his soul skills and explained that the children were his disciples taking the Academy’s Final Exam.
• Cai Xukun rejected Wu Changkong’s explanation, accused him and the children of being Evil Soul Masters, and linked them to the Tianling City Security Team tragedy.
• Wu Changkong demanded that Cai Xukun retract his insults against Shrek Academy and his teacher, then pointed the Skyfrost Sword at him.
• Cai Xukun challenged Wu Changkong, who faced him with seven Soul Rings as the dispute became a battle over the Academy’s honor.

Wu Changkong fought Cai Xukun after Cai provoked him by insulting Shrek Academy, only to discover the power of Cai’s Kun Martial Soul. Cai broke through to Spirit Emperor during Wu’s strongest attack, leaving the two ready to continue their battle.

• Wu Changkong attacked Cai Xukun with Frost Mark, but Cai’s Kun Ball swallowed the attack and absorbed some of Wu’s Soul Power.
• Cai Xukun used Kun-Kun Meteor Shower to strike Wu Changkong with attacks that drained Soul Power and caused dizziness through spiritual damage.
• Wu Changkong used Frost Language Ice Wheel, but Cai Xukun’s Kun-Kun Destruction Kill shattered six giant swords and threatened him with destructive black light.
• Wu Changkong activated Sky Ice and Martial Soul Avatar, then slashed at Cai Xukun with his giant Skyfrost Sword.
• Cai Xukun blocked Wu Changkong’s attack, broke through to Spirit Emperor, and revealed his Two-word Battle Armor before challenging Wu to continue.

Cai Xukun used his assumed Spirit Pagoda identity to send the Law Enforcement Team after the fleeing Evil Soul Masters, then fought Wu Changkong with his Blackie Sword and Extreme Kun Shield. Their clash escalated into a devastating exchange, leaving the outcome of their battle unresolved.

• Cai Xukun showed the Spirit Pagoda token to three Purple-rank Mechas and sent them to pursue the fleeing Evil Soul Masters.
• Cai Xukun revealed his Blackie Sword and Extreme Kun Shield and amplified himself with Kun-Kun Demon God Transformation.
• Wu Changkong countered Cai Xukun with Frost Condensation and Skyfrost Slash, and the two battled while exchanging attacks.
• Wu Changkong unleashed four soul skills together and brought down a giant Skyfrost Sword in an attempt to end the fight quickly.
• Cai Xukun threw aside his shield and met Wu Changkong's strike with Power of Kun, Kun-Kun Destruction Kill, and Kun-Kun Demon God Transformation, creating a huge void and setting off Spirit Pagoda alarms.

Cai Xukun and Dapeng defeated Wu Changkong in their aerial battle. Cai Xukun caught the unconscious Wu Changkong before he could fall, while Dapeng returned to his body.

• Wu Changkong and Cai Xukun clashed, and Wu Changkong realized he was being overpowered despite using his full strength.
• Dapeng approached with a Kun Ball, dodged Wu Changkong’s Frost Marks with dancing footwork, and joined Cai Xukun’s attack.
• Cai Xukun drove Wu Changkong downward, where Dapeng threw its Kun Ball and phased through the Skyfrost Sword to strike his chest.
• Dapeng drained and sealed Wu Changkong’s Soul Power, causing him to lose consciousness and fall from the air.
• Cai Xukun caught Wu Changkong, praised Dapeng, and reflected on how the intended Kunpeng Soul Spirit had turned into a chicken.

Cai Xukun handed the captured Wu Changkong to Tianling City's Security Team and continued his livestream, while Wu Changkong woke up in custody and faced accusations of aiding Evil Soul Masters. Wu Changkong learned that his students had escaped, but his own fate remained uncertain as the captain confronted him with the charges.

• Cai Xukun learned that the Purple-rank Mechas had failed to catch Tang Wulin and the others, then transferred Wu Changkong to Tianling City's Security Team.
• Cai Xukun's livestream audience praised his strength, and he announced he would pause streaming to cultivate while leaving the escaped attackers to the Security Team.
• Wu Changkong woke in a holding cell with Soul Power Sealing Cuffs and was brought in for interrogation.
• Xing Daorong challenged Wu Changkong's claim that he was a Shrek Academy teacher and listed charges including aiding Evil Soul Masters and attacking the Spirit Pagoda Law Enforcement Team.
• Wu Changkong asked about his students, and Xing Daorong told him they had escaped before demanding that he answer for the accusations.

Wu Changkong was detained after attacking Cai Xukun, and a shaved head left him unable to prove his identity to the Security Team. Meanwhile, Tianling City’s Spirit Pagoda put its Law Enforcement Brigade on alert and chose not to intervene on his behalf, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Xing Daorong questioned Wu Changkong, doubted his Shrek Academy identity document, and showed him that his long blue hair had been shaved off.
• Wu Changkong grieved over his lost hair and Long Bing, while Xing Daorong refused to let him display his Martial Soul and continued detaining him.
• The Tianling City Spirit Pagoda Tower Master reprimanded his officials for failing to respond to the threat and ordered the Law Enforcement Brigade into orange alert status.
• The Tower Master confirmed the streamer was the disciple of the Skysea City Spirit Pagoda Tower Master and ended the meeting without ordering the children or streamer brought in.
• The Tower Master refused his son’s suggestion to help Wu Changkong, then spoke of needing outside pressure and hinted at a five-year plan.

Nan Fusheng’s group and Tang Wulin’s group each had one match left in their Final Exams and headed for Ming Capital. Ye Xinglan suggested that Tang Wulin’s group challenge a prestigious academy there, once a rival of Shrek Academy.

• Xu Xiaoyan learned that Nan Fusheng’s group had won nine matches and planned to save their final match for Ming Capital.
• Shen Yi confirmed that Nan Fusheng’s group only needed one more match before returning to the academy and passing the exam.
• After the incident in Tianling City, Tang Wulin’s group stopped challenging random Soul Masters and began challenging Soul Master Academies instead.
• Tang Wulin contacted his martial uncle, Zhen Hua, for help after learning that Wu Changkong had been captured.
• Tang Wulin’s group traveled toward Ming Capital with one match remaining, and Ye Xinglan suggested they challenge a renowned academy there.

Tang Wulin and his team agreed to challenge the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy for extra exam points, with Wu Changkong warning that a loss would make them fail. At the academy gates, Wu Changkong publicly provoked the students into a match, and a middle-aged man led the team inside, confident his academy would win.

• Ye Xinglan proposed holding the final exam round at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy, and Tang Wulin agreed.
• Wu Changkong joined the team and offered each of the five students full marks and ten extra points if they won, but warned that losing would mean failure and his resignation.
• Tang Wulin and the others reached Ming Capital and went to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy with Wu Changkong.
• Wu Changkong used a Soul Tool Amplifier to challenge the academy's strongest students under twenty, then left Tang Wulin holding the device as its recorded taunt played repeatedly.
• A blond middle-aged man confronted Tang Wulin and led the team inside, believing his academy's current class was the strongest in a thousand years.

Ao Hongchen prepared Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy for a heavily publicized match against Shrek Academy, while Shenwei and four teammates entered the Great Soul Arena to face Tang Wulin and the others. The match was about to begin before a massive crowd, with Shenwei confident he could defeat the opposition alone.

• Ao Hongchen decided to teach Lu Fa whether or not Lu Fa agreed to become his disciple, and planned to persuade him to focus on blacksmithing.
• Ao Hongchen chose Xue Liushuang, Weng Daimin, Jian Mochen, and Kuang Zhantian to join Shenwei, and told Dang Hongchen to warn them not to underestimate Shrek Academy.
• Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy publicized the match across the Federation and arranged to host it in its enormous Great Soul Arena.
• Xue Liushuang asked Shenwei about tactics, but Shenwei declared that he would defeat the opponents by himself.
• Dang Hongchen reminded the team to take the match seriously, then sent them toward the arena as the crowd roared and cheered for Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy.

Tang Wulin and four Shrek Academy students faced Kamui and the World-Shaking Seven Stars in a hostile arena, but Kamui stopped the crowd from abusing them. After the referee explained the rules and both teams traded taunts, the match began with the teams in triangular formations.

• Tang Wulin released his golden ring and blood essence as the crowd’s hostility overwhelmed the Shrek team.
• Kamui silenced the audience with Lightning Flash and told them he would not accept a victory earned through despicable methods.
• Dang Hongchen raised a soundproof barrier, explained that the match would continue until one side was defeated unless someone faced severe harm, and accepted Tang Wulin’s taunts.
• Tang Wulin and Kamui introduced their teams, then both sides retreated and formed triangular battle formations.
• Dang Hongchen started the match between Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy.

Shenwei overwhelmed Tang Wulin with lightning and brute force, despite Tang Wulin’s confidence that his Golden Dragon King bloodline would suppress him. The chapter left Tang Wulin badly electrocuted as Gu Yue and the others rushed to help.

• Tang Wulin and Shenwei charged at each other while their teammates watched.
• Shenwei revealed four black ten-thousand-year Soul Rings and used Thunder Dragon Power to strengthen himself.
• Shenwei’s lightning and punch broke through Tang Wulin’s attack, sending him flying and electrocuting him.
• Shenwei chased Tang Wulin and struck him in the face, leaving him reeling and foaming at the mouth.
• Gu Yue teleported to catch Tang Wulin, but the residual lightning shocked her too.

Shenwei overwhelmed Shrek’s team with his speed and strength, knocking Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and then Ye Xinglan out of the fight. Gu Yue attacked him while teleporting, and Shenwei turned his attention to eliminating her.

• Shenwei charred Tang Wulin unconscious, then evaded Gu Yue’s counterattack and hurled Ye Xinglan aside.
• Shenwei dodged Xie Xie’s daggers and kicked him into the arena barrier, knocking him unconscious; Dang Hongchen had Tang Wulin and Xie Xie taken out for treatment.
• Gu Yue and Ye Xinglan regrouped with Xu Lizhi while the audience cheered Shenwei, and Shenwei stopped Xue Liushuang and the other Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy fighters from joining the battle.
• Xu Lizhi gave Gu Yue and Ye Xinglan buns to boost their attributes, and the two attacked Shenwei together.
• Shenwei overpowered Ye Xinglan’s sword strike, forced her to one knee, and kicked her away as Gu Yue attacked him with repeated elemental hand seals.
• Shenwei declared that he would eliminate Gu Yue and challenged her to see whether her teleportation or his speed was faster.

Shenwei used his Myriad Phenomena Thunder Domain to counter Gu Yue’s teleportation and defeat her, then eliminated Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi. The World-Shaking Seven Stars won as the crowd celebrated Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy’s victory.

• Shenwei expanded his Myriad Phenomena Thunder Domain across the arena and used its lightning to pursue Gu Yue wherever she teleported.
• Shenwei struck Gu Yue with his Dragon Claw, and their collision briefly weakened the Dragon Transformation on his claw.
• Shenwei caught Gu Yue repeatedly and knocked her unconscious with a punch to the abdomen.
• Ye Xinglan charged Shenwei after Gu Yue was eliminated, but he knocked her and Xu Lizhi off the arena.
• Dang Hongchen declared the World-Shaking Seven Stars victorious, and the crowd in Ming Capital cheered for Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy.

Tang Wulin and his companions left Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy after Shenwei defeated them, only for Shenwei to announce that the World-Shaking Seven Stars would challenge Shrek Academy. Wu Changkong accepted the challenge and took the defeated students back, while Tang Wulin blamed himself for their loss.

• Tang Wulin and the others left the academy after losing to Shenwei, but found a crowd gathered to see the World-Shaking Seven Stars.
• Shenwei asked Tang Wulin whether they were Shrek Academy’s weakest students, and Tang Wulin affirmed it to downplay the defeat.
• Shenwei announced that the World-Shaking Seven Stars would visit Shrek Academy and challenge them when their captain returned.
• Wu Changkong arrived in a Soul-Powered Car, accepted the challenge, and took Tang Wulin and his companions back to Shrek Academy.
• Shenwei’s recording of the exchange spread across Ming Capital and the Soul Network as Tang Wulin confessed his regret to Wu Changkong.

After Tang Wulin’s team failed its assessment against Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy, Wu Changkong told them they had to retake it. Shen Yi told Nan Fusheng’s group about the defeat and offered extra points if they challenged the academy, and Fors agreed to go there as their assessment endpoint.

• Wu Changkong comforted Tang Wulin’s team after their loss and explained that they had to retake the assessment within the same time limit.
• Shen Yi learned that Wu Changkong’s team had failed against Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy and told Nan Fusheng’s group about it aboard the Soul Train.
• Nan Fusheng asked whether Shen Yi wanted his group to challenge the academy, and she offered full marks and fifty extra points each if they won.
• Fors agreed to challenge Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy, and Nan Fusheng said they would head there after the train arrived.
• Nan Fusheng contacted Shenwei and told him to leave the academy rather than risk exposing their abilities against Fors.

Fors, Nan Fusheng, and their companions arrived at Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy to challenge it after Shenwei’s team had defeated Shrek’s previous challengers. With Shenwei unavailable, Long Chen volunteered to represent his team.

• Shen Yi drove Nan Fusheng, Fors, Xu Xiaoyan, and herself to Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy in a High-altitude Flying Car.
• Fors announced that she was a Shrek Academy student and challenged the academy, drawing a crowd eager to see another match.
• A blond-haired teacher accepted the challenge, confirmed the challengers’ average age was fourteen, and said the match would be broadcast live throughout Ming Capital.
• Fors took Shen Yi’s communicator and told Cai Yue'er that she intended to challenge the academy; Cai Yue'er gave her permission before hanging up.
• Dang Hongchen learned Shenwei was away, so Long Chen volunteered to take his place in the match.

Cai Yue'er concealed Fors's talent from the Sea God Pavilion and planned to take her as a disciple, while deciding that Fors's challenge against the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy could benefit her either way. Fors, Nan Fusheng, and Xu Xiaoyan entered the packed Great Soul Arena to face the hostile crowd, and the match was about to begin.

• Cai Yue'er recalled hiding Fors's information so other Pavilion Elders would not claim her, and resolved to make Fors her disciple.
• Cai Yue'er accepted Fors's challenge against the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy, believing either a victory or defeat could work to her advantage.
• The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy's middle-aged representative led Nan Fusheng and the others through a Soul Power-enhancing chamber to the Great Soul Arena waiting area.
• Fors led Nan Fusheng and Xu Xiaoyan into the arena after they agreed she could have some fun in the match.
• The trio faced a nearly full arena as spectators jeered at Shrek Academy, and a voice announced that the match was about to begin.