Chapter Summaries

Shrek Academy faced the Heavenly Armor Sect in the second round, and Zhu Lu and Tang Ya won their opening two-on-two match with a coordinated display that left their opponents injured but alive. As Jiang Nannan and Xiao Xiao prepared to fight next, a hooded figure watched Zhu Lu and Huo Yuhao with barely restrained killing intent.

• The second-round draw matched Shrek Academy against the Heavenly Armor Sect, and both captains drew the same formats as in Shrek Academy’s previous match.
• Zhang Lexuan assigned Zhu Lu and Tang Ya to the first two-on-two match, and they defeated Han Yu and Han Fei while holding back enough to leave them with superficial wounds.
• A hooded figure watched Zhu Lu, then turned its scarlet gaze toward Huo Yuhao and released a trace of killing intent, which Huo Yuhao sensed before the figure disappeared into the crowd.
• Huo Yuhao flirted with Ma Xiaotao in the audience, and Zhang Lexuan interrupted them as they sat apart in surprise.
• Jiang Nannan and Xiao Xiao went to the stage to face the Heavenly Armor Sect’s next pair of competitors.

Jiang Nannan and Xiao Xiao defeated the Heavenly Armor Sect’s team, advancing Shrek Academy to the third round after the opposing team conceded. Later, Huo Yuhao reunited with Nana and began organizing a Sun God Cult presence in Mingdu by distributing food to poor residents, then spoke privately with Zhang Lexuan.

• Jiang Nannan and Xiao Xiao used their skills together to defeat Han Yao and Han Shou in the match.
• Han Zhanhu conceded the remaining match, and Shrek Academy advanced to the third round.
• Nana entered Mingyue Hotel and introduced herself as Huo Yuhao’s missionary and the chief person in charge of preaching for the Sun God Cult in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Huo Yuhao gave Nana supplies and instructed her to recruit suitable believers in Mingdu by sharing food with the poor and presenting it as the Sun God’s blessing.
• Huo Yuhao spoke privately with Zhang Lexuan, who left the meeting room looking solemn but anticipatory.

In Mingdu, Nana distributed food and arranged free medical care for poor residents on behalf of the Sun God Cult, while Black Water received orders to recruit Chen An. Huo Yuhao prepared to leave with Zhang Lexuan for the Jingyang Mountain Range as he considered how to secure the Level 9 Fixed Soul Tool Shells beneath Mingde Hall.

• Shrek Academy advanced past Star Luo Royal Soul Master Academy after Xu Jiujiu announced her team's surrender.
• Nana gave food to Old City District residents who thanked the Sun God and registered 1,300 people for free medical treatment.
• Black Water was ordered to find Chen An at Qingse Hotel, reveal the traits of an Evil Soul Master, and recruit him.
• Huo Yuhao learned that 1,300 people had registered and considered how to obtain the sixteen Level 9 Fixed Soul Tool Shells beneath Mingde Hall.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan left Mingyue Hotel for the Jingyang Mountain Range.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan flew into the Jingyang Mountain Range to enter the Moon Secret Realm, but the Holy Spirit Cult ambushed them on the way. Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi drove off the surviving attackers, and Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan reached a hiding place near Jingyang Peak as the realm’s entrance began to open.

• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan flew beneath the moonlight, teased each other about the illusion in which they had married, and entered the Jingyang Mountain Range.
• A six-person Holy Spirit Cult assassin squad attacked Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan, but Yan Shaozhe arrived and killed three Soul Douluo with a phoenix beam.
• Xuan Zi pursued the two fleeing Titled Douluo while Yan Shaozhe chased the dark phoenix, revealed as the Evil Phoenix Douluo, and told Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan to continue their mission.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan used his Simulation Soul Skill to reach a hiding place near Jingyang Peak, where moonlight began gathering as the Moon Secret Realm entrance prepared to open.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan entered the Moon Secret Realm, where Zhang Lexuan's Crescent Moon Gem drew them through a barrier and into the God Realm. There, the Goddess of Life revealed that Zhang Lexuan was the Moon God's successor, while Huo Yuhao recognized the God of Destruction.

• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan watched the soul beasts enter a Silver White Light Ring, then followed them into the Moon Secret Realm.
• Huo Yuhao noticed a Sun Divine Mark on his brow and a crescent-shaped mark on Zhang Lexuan's after touching her forehead.
• Huo Yuhao led Zhang Lexuan to the realm's Protective Barrier, where her Crescent Moon Gem fused with a moon-shaped pattern and pulled them inside.
• The Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction watched Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan arrive in the God Realm, where their powers were sealed.
• The Goddess of Life identified herself as Aunt Green and told Zhang Lexuan she would inherit the Moon God position; Huo Yuhao recognized the God of Destruction.

In the God Realm, Huo Yuhao condemned Tang San for stopping Douluo Continent’s unification and harming its development, winning the God of Destruction’s approval. The Goddess of Life completed Zhang Lexuan’s inheritance, and the pair returned to the Secret Realm as their worried teachers arrived.

• Zhang Lexuan learned that the God Realm resembled Douluo Star, and Huo Yuhao explained why he believed Tang San had obstructed the continent’s progress.
• Huo Yuhao argued that the God Realm needed to develop, prompting the God of Destruction to agree that Tang San was a hypocrite.
• The Goddess of Life completed Zhang Lexuan’s Yue Shen inheritance, while the God of Destruction told Huo Yuhao that Yue Shen’s power was linked to the sun.
• The God of Destruction sensed that Huo Yuyao carried an unknown God King-level Divine Charm and decided to investigate whether another God Realm existed.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan returned to the Secret Realm, realized several days had passed, and saw their teachers rushing toward them.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan returned safely to Mingdu after spending days in the Moon Secret Realm, where Zhang Lexuan gained the Yue Shen Divine Position Inheritance. The academy celebrated her prospects as a future guardian, while the team prepared for the finals’ yet-unannounced format and Huo Yuhao faced a playful punishment from Ma Xiaotao, Wang Dong'er, Zhu Lu, and Ning Tian.

• Xuan Zi and the Shrek Academy elders welcomed Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan back, and Yan Shaozhe explained that the Evil Phoenix Douluo had escaped while Elder Xuan killed two Titled Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan returned to Mingyue Hotel, where Ma Xiaotao and the other Shrek competitors greeted them with relief.
• At a meeting, Zhang Lexuan revealed her Divine Mark and confirmed that she had received the Yue Shen Divine Position Inheritance with Huo Yuhao's help, prompting Elder Song to promise her a complete set of Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Shrek had defeated the Radiant Sect and that the finals' format would be announced the following evening, possibly as a single-elimination tournament.
• Ma Xiaotao took Huo Yuhao to her room, where she, Wang Dong'er, Zhu Lu, and Ning Tian pounded him with pillows for making them worry.

Huo Yuhao tested how the Sun God’s power affected Zhang Lexuan, awakening her Yue Shen God’s Examination and learning that her task was to wait. He confessed his feelings, and Zhang Lexuan accepted his bouquet and kissed him, while Beibei arrived with news that Princess Jiujiu wanted to meet them.

• Huo Yuhao asked Zhang Lexuan about her God’s Examination, then used the Power of the Sun to test the Divine Mark on her forehead.
• The Sun’s power transformed Zhang Lexuan’s abilities, allowing her to drain life from plants and restore it more strongly, and her Divine Mark assigned her the task of “waiting.”
• After Zhang Lexuan recovered, Huo Yuhao confessed his feelings and offered her a Lily Bouquet; she accepted it and kissed him but asked him to keep their relationship private for now.
• Beibei interrupted them and told Huo Yuhao that Princess Jiujiu of the Star Luo Empire wanted to arrange a meeting.
• Beibei left wondering whether he should call Huo Yuhao brother-in-law.

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Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan met Xu Jiujiu, who asked Shrek Academy to investigate eight missing Star Luo Empire teams, and Huo Yuhao warned that the Sun Moon Empire might have forces waiting outside Mingdu. Meanwhile, the competition organizers approved a single-elimination finals format, and Xu Tianran revealed plans to use the bracket to weaken Shrek Academy and pit it against the Holy Spirit Sect.

• Huo Yuhao joked with Zhang Lexuan about how he and Beibei would address each other, then went with her to meet Xu Jiujiu.
• Xu Jiujiu told Zhang Lexuan and Huo Yuhao that eight eliminated Star Luo Empire teams had not returned, and Huo Yuhao agreed to have Shrek experts investigate.
• Huo Yuhao warned Xu Jiujiu and Nebula Douluo Manyi that the Sun Moon Empire might have stationed powerful forces and Level 9 weapons around Mingdu.
• The organizing committee passed a single-elimination format by one vote after the Sun Moon chairman's deciding vote, despite Star Luo's unanimous opposition.
• Xu Tianran discussed the missing Star Luo teams with Ju Zi and ordered her to replace Snow Demon Sect with Holy Spirit Sect in Shrek Academy's planned matchups.

Shrek Academy learned that the finals would use single elimination and attended the draw ceremony, where Huo Yuhao drew number five and Shrek was paired with Heavenly Dragon Sect. Xu Tianran watched the teams leave and instructed Juzi to summon the Sea God Family’s leader to the Eastern Palace.

• Zhang Lexuan explained the single-elimination finals format and took the Shrek students to the Mingdu Soul Dueling Arena for the draw.
• Shrek encountered the Holy Spirit Sect, while Posei Yuan asked Clear Sky Sect to let the Sea God Family face Shrek; Tang Wei refused.
• Huo Yuhao drew number five for Shrek Academy, and the other teams drew their numbers, including Sea God Family at ten and Clear Sky Sect at eight.
• Yu Longxiao drew number five for Heavenly Dragon Sect, matching them against Shrek Academy in the next round.
• After the draw, Xu Tianran told Juzi to summon the Sea God Family’s team leader to the Eastern Palace and said everything was under control.

Huo Yuhao and Shrek Academy learned that the Sun Moon Empire intended to arrange increasingly powerful opponents for them, while Xu Tianran tried to enlist the Sea God Family by promising to help them face Shrek Academy. The chapter ended with Xu Tianran ordering the Holy Spirit Cult to kill captured Star Luo Empire teams with royal ties and send their heads back after the competition.

• Xuan Zi and Elder Song found no evidence that the Sun Moon Empire had ambushed the missing Star Luo Empire teams and suspected the Holy Spirit Cult had captured them.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan compared reports and concluded that the disappearances targeted the Star Luo Empire, while the Heaven Dou Empire's teams had returned safely.
• Ma Xiaotao presented intelligence showing that the Heavenly Dragon Sect's main roster consisted entirely of Soul Emperors, and Ning Tian identified Yu Longxiao as a powerful young Soul Master.
• Huo Yuhao warned Shrek Academy that the Heavenly Dragon Sect would be their weakest opponent in the finals because the Sun Moon Empire planned to match them against stronger teams.
• Xu Tianran offered Sea Soul Douluo a cooperative relationship, promising to arrange powerful opponents for Shrek Academy and promote the Sea God's faith throughout the empire if he became emperor.
• Xu Tianran rejected a plan to deal with Xu Tianming immediately and ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to kill captured Star Luo Empire members with royal ties, preserve their heads, and return them after the competition.

Huo Yuhao investigated the Holy Spirit Cult’s abduction of Star Luo teams while the competition finals began, and Shrek Academy faced the Heavenly Dragon Sect in the opening match. Beibei and Tang Ya battled Xing Yan and Yu Guyang, revealing Beibei’s Radiant Holy Dragon and Tang Ya’s formidable Blue Silver Grass as the fight continued.

• Huo Yuhao secretly sent Elder Song and Xuan Zi to investigate the Rising Sun City prison and asked Black Water to seek information inside the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Xu Jiujiu sent Nebula Douluo back to the Star Luo Empire to warn Xu Jiawei about the missing teams, while the Continental Advanced Youth Soul Master Fighting Competition finals began in Mingdu.
• Huo Yuhao and Yu Longxiao agreed to decide Shrek Academy’s match against the Heavenly Dragon Sect using the 2-2-3 Battle Strategy, and Huo Yuhao sent Beibei and Tang Ya into the first match.
• Tang Ya trapped Xing Yan with her Dark Jade Blue Silver Grass, weakened his flames, and attacked him with her Blue Silver Overlord Spear, but Xing Yan broke free with his Sixth Soul Skill and shattered the spear.
• Yu Guyang attacked Beibei with Thunderous Force, but Beibei’s golden light neutralized the lightning, and Beibei charged at him.

Beibei and Tang Ya defeated the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s first pair through close combat and poison, then Beibei overcame Yu Guyang in a grueling duel. As Yu Tianlong and Yu Longxiao prepared to face Shrek, Wang Dong’er and Huo Yuhao entered the stage, drawing the Sea God Family’s attention and hostility toward Huo Yuhao.

• Beibei outmaneuvered Yu Guyang in close combat while Tang Ya’s poison weakened Xing Yan, who burned it away with Crimson Dragon Flame before surrendering to her.
• Beibei defeated Yu Guyang by turning intangible to evade his Blue Lightning Dragon Soul Spear, then overpowered him; Yu Guyang thanked him before collapsing, and Shrek Academy won the round.
• Yu Tianlong acknowledged Beibei’s lineage and challenged him to a future spar, which Beibei accepted.
• Yu Tianlong and Yu Longxiao entered the stage for the next match, and Wang Dong’er and Huo Yuhao emerged from Shrek’s Waiting Area to face them.
• The Sea God Family recognized Huo Yuhao as the man who had destroyed Lord Sea God’s statue, and Chen Wan Yun ordered the group to destroy him if they faced Shrek later.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er fought Yu Tianlong and Yu Longxiao in a high-stakes tournament match, with Huo Yuhao overwhelming their attacks through Ultimate Ice and powerful soul skills. He left the crowd stunned by switching places with Yu Tianlong, who was struck by his own attack, and the chapter ended with Yu Longxiao realizing her grandnephew had taken the hit.

• Zhongli Wu asked Xu Tianran for permission to make a request involving the coming match, and Xu Tianran agreed.
• Yu Tianlong opened the fight with lightning attacks, but Huo Yuhao froze and shattered his Ice Flame Dragon Breath.
• Huo Yuhao wounded Yu Tianlong, froze him against the shield, and destroyed Yu Longxiao's Ice-Splitting Skybreaker Slash with his Dark Gold Terror Claws.
• Yu Tianlong and Yu Longxiao combined their attacks to trap Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao used a spatial switch to place Yu Tianlong in the attack zone instead.
• The Unbreakable Douluo protected the person in the blast, and the audience discovered Huo Yuhao stood safely beside Wang Dong'er while Yu Tianlong had taken the hit.
• Yu Longxiao flew to check on Yu Tianlong, who stared at her in silence when she asked whether he was alright.

Huo Yuhao defeated the Heavenly Dragon Sect in the tournament, revealing three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and a devastating spiritual attack that prompted the Sun Moon Empire and Holy Spirit Cult to discuss eliminating him. After the morning matches, Huo Yuhao left the Mingyue Hotel alone to meet Black Water about the Sun Moon Empire's armory.

• Yu Tianlong withdrew after the Unbreakable Douluo intervened, and Yu Longxiao burned her Soul Power to enter a pseudo-Martial Soul Avatar state.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his six Soul Rings and used Evil Eye Gaze to overwhelm Yu Longxiao, but Yan Shaozhe intervened and saved her.
• The Unbreakable Douluo declared Shrek Academy the winner, and spectators erupted in cheers as Huo Yuhao left the Competition Stage with Wang Dong'er.
• Xu Tianran and Zhongli Wu agreed that Huo Yuhao must be eliminated, while the Sea God Family discussed defenses against his spiritual attacks.
• After the morning matches ended, Huo Yuhao left the Mingyue Hotel alone to meet Black Water about the Sun Moon Empire's armory.

Huo Yuhao met with Black Water to gather intelligence on Sun Moon Empire arsenals and the Holy Spirit Cult, then learned that Xuan Ziwen wanted to leave Mingde Hall and join Shrek Academy. He arranged to raid Mingde Hall’s arsenal on the night of the finals, when its defenses would be weakened by the planned attack on Xu Tianran.

• Huo Yuhao met Black Water, who reported on a military supply warehouse controlled by Xu Guozhong, the Soul Tool Master tournament finals, and Mingde Hall’s stockpile of powerful Fixed Soul Tool Shells.
• Huo Yuhao tasked Black Water with investigating the disappearance of Star Luo Empire teams and gave him spiritual herbs, while learning that the Holy Spirit Cult’s elders and disciples had used Undead Souls infused with the Power of the Sun.
• Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen told Huo Yuhao that Xuan Ziwen wanted to leave Mingde Hall, and Yan Shaozhe promised to bring him to Shrek Academy and offer him leadership of its Soul Engineering Department.
• Huo Yuhao asked Xuan Ziwen to provide Mingde Hall’s personnel distribution and hidden arsenal location so he could steal its Fixed Soul Tool Shells; Ji Juechen agreed to pass the request along.
• Huo Yuhao told Yan Shaozhe that the raid would take place on the night after the Soul Fighting Competition finals, when Mingde Hall’s powerful Soul Tool Masters would be drawn away to defend Xu Tianran.

Jing Ziyan told Xuan Ziwen about Huo Yuhao’s plan to seize Mingde Hall’s high-yield shells, and Xuan Ziwen agreed to help under the condition that no one was killed. Huo Yuhao then rallied Shrek Academy, the Body Sect, and the Star Luo Empire to prepare a larger assassination attempt against Xu Tianran, while a strange disturbance appeared on an island patrolled by Sea God Family members.

• Jing Ziyan relayed Huo Yuhao’s requests to Xuan Ziwen, who agreed to help secure the arsenal shells if the operation caused no bloodshed.
• A Mingde Hall official assigned Xuan Ziwen security duty during the Soul Fighting Competition semifinals and finals, giving him access to the hall’s security arrangements.
• Huo Yuhao told Shrek Academy’s allies that Xu Tianran was likely a Titled Douluo protected by a powerful Soul Tool, and warned that the Holy Spirit Cult could interfere with an assassination.
• Golden Body Douluo and Xu Jiujiu agreed to join the plan, with Xu Jiujiu requesting that Ice Wind Douluo come to Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao warned that the Sea God Family might support Xu Tianran and proposed calling Martial Ancestor to strengthen their forces; Xuan Zi agreed to expand the plan.
• On a Sea God Family patrol, an unseen force briefly darkened a beach and shattered discarded coconut shells before the waves erased the traces.

Yu Mengdi fought Bai Tao in the tournament, using her Judgment Angel Martial Soul to defeat him and end the Sea God Family’s aura of invincibility. The Radiant Sect won the match but forfeited the rest, leaving the Sea God Family as the official winner while the crowd celebrated Yu Mengdi’s victory.

• Xu Tianran learned that one of the Emperor’s sons had arrived and allowed him to proceed, while privately reflecting on the Emperor’s failing health.
• Yu Mengdi faced Bai Tao in an individual battle and used her Judgment Domain and Angel, Deification Slash to overpower his stronger attacks.
• Yu Mengdi sacrificed herself to strengthen her final strike, and Unbreakable Douluo intervened before it could kill Bai Tao, but her Judgment Domain pierced him as it vanished.
• Sea Soul Douluo treated Bai Tao and took him away, while Unbreakable Douluo declared the Radiant Sect the match winner and the Sea God Family the overall winner after the Radiant Sect forfeited its remaining battles.
• The spectators and rival teams applauded Yu Mengdi, and Huo Yuhao and Ye Guyi silently resolved not to fall behind her.
• Xu Tianran ordered Ju Zi to have Imperial Physician Douluo stabilize Bai Tao, concerned that a Sea God Family death could disrupt his plans.

Xu Tianming forced his way into the Purple Radiance Palace to see his unconscious father and discovered that the Medical Hall’s diagnosis of a bloodline mutation was a lie. He left determined to find a way to remove the sinister mark in the Emperor’s Spiritual Sea, and realized that Blazing Phoenix Douluo of Shrek Academy might help.

• Xu Tianming used his Soul Power and threats to pass the Eastern Palace guards and enter the Purple Radiance Palace.
• Xu Tianming found his father unconscious and learned that the Medical Hall claimed a bloodline mutation had damaged the Emperor’s Martial Soul.
• Xu Tianming detected that the Emperor’s bloodline was normal and found a sinister mark on the barrier of his Spiritual Sea.
• Xu Tianming concluded that Xu Tianran and the Holy Spirit Cult had conspired to keep the Emperor unconscious, then told the Medical Hall Soul Masters to inform him of any changes.
• Xu Tianming left the palace and realized that Blazing Phoenix Douluo of Shrek Academy might be able to remove the sinister energy.