Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao traveled with Shrek Academy’s teams to the Star Luo Empire’s western border, where they prepared to hunt the Hand of Death bandits. That night, he secretly entered the Mingdou Mountain Range, summoned an undead army, and empowered it with sacred light as the bandits emerged from their cave.

• Huo Yuhao served the group a feast before they practiced flying Soul Tools and traveled with Xuan Zi to the Star Luo Empire’s military camp.
• Dai Yueheng reunited with his father, Dai Hao, and Zhang Lexuan explained that the team’s mission was to eliminate the Hand of Death bandits and their Evil Soul Master leader.
• While the others meditated, Huo Yuhao asked Electrolux to help him capture the leader and slipped into the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• Huo Yuhao followed a Dark Cave Worm to a grove of Warm Mist Trees and found the bandit camp near a cave.
• Huo Yuhao summoned a Bone Dragon and more than a thousand undead, then used the Power of the First Star Ring to fill them with sacred light as the bandits emerged.
• Huo Yuhao ordered the undead to attack the bandits, who stood frozen at the sight of the radiant army.

Huo Yuhao used sunlight-enhanced undead to destroy a bandit stronghold, then captured Death God's Envoy and transformed him into a controlled servant named Black Water. After burying the merchants and returning to the Military Camp, Huo Yuhao reflected on the limits of his stored sunlight and the cost of his necromancy.

• Huo Yuhao ordered the higher-ranking undead to make way so the lower-ranking Skeletons, Zombies, and Banshees could test their sunlight-enhanced abilities against the bandits inside the cave.
• The lower-ranking undead combined their defenses, revived after being destroyed, and broke through the bandits' fortifications before Huo Yuhao sent the Death Knights after the fleeing leader.
• Electrolux stopped Death God's Envoy from detonating the corpses, but Death God's Envoy escaped through a hidden passage and fled toward a river with twelve Corpse Slaves.
• Huo Yuhao confronted Death God's Envoy beside the river, purified the twelve Corpse Slaves, and replaced Death God's Envoy's soul with another soul, binding Death God's Envoy's soul inside a Corpse Slave.
• Huo Yuhao named the body Black Water, gave him a blueprint, and returned to the cave to bury the merchant caravan members and reap the bandits' souls.
• Huo Yuhao found that enhancing one thousand undead had nearly exhausted his stored sunlight, then returned to the Military Camp before dawn and resumed meditating.

Huo Yuhao challenged Dai Yueheng's account of Dai Hao's rise through the military ranks, triggering a confrontation that Zhang Lexuan stopped. The Shrek group followed Wang Yan to the Hand of Death Bandit Group's stronghold and found its members already dead, leaving the mission unexpectedly over.

• Dai Yueheng praised Dai Hao's military career, but Huo Yuhao questioned how Dai Hao could have risen so quickly without anyone recognizing his White Tiger Martial Soul.
• Dai Yueheng and Ma Xiaotao surged with Soul Power, but Zhang Lexuan suppressed them and ordered everyone to stop causing trouble.
• Wang Yan led the group toward the bandits' stronghold, and Huo Yuhao recognized the Warm Mist Tree grove and pointed out footprints leading onward.
• Xuan Zi called the group to the stronghold, where they found the Hand of Death Bandit Group's members dead around and inside the cave.
• Xuan Zi said he would inform Dai Hao before taking everyone directly to Star Luo City.

Shrek Academy’s team arrived in Star Luo City for the Soul Fighting Competition, where they reunited with Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Zhu Lu. Meanwhile, Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu uncovered a conspiracy among southwest nobles and planned to use the competition to move against them, suspecting the Sun Moon Empire was manipulating events.

• Xuan Zi declared the monitoring mission complete and led the group to Star Luo City, where Zhang Lexuan confirmed the Main Team had completed its task.
• The team entered Star Luo City and reached the Star Emperor Hotel, where Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Zhu Lu joined them as spectators.
• Dai Yueheng left the hotel after glancing at Huo Yuhao and Zhu Lu, while Huo Yuhao wondered whether Mu En had brought the three girls to the city.
• Xu Jiujiu reported that southwest nobles were corrupt, obstructing free Martial Soul awakenings, and working with Duke White Tiger's Mansion and Spirit Cat Duke's Mansion.
• Xu Jiawei suspected the Sun Moon Empire was using the White Tiger Family as a distraction and planned to provoke the southwest nobles into exposing their ties to it during the competition.

Dai Yueheng returned to Duke White Tiger's Mansion and discovered that his family had given away the Golden Blade Tiger Soul Bone intended for him to compensate for Dai Huabin. As he prepared to leave, Zhu Yuhan arrived, and her soul power began drifting toward Dai Yueheng.

• Dai Yueheng returned to Duke White Tiger's Mansion and overheard Zhu Changming and the Duchess discussing Zhu Yuhan's Martial Soul Fusion potential with Dai Huabin and warning about the Royal Family's spies.
• At a banquet celebrating Dai Yueheng's return and selection for the Soul Fighting Competition, the Duchess claimed his promised Soul Bone would be given after he graduated from Shrek's Inner Court.
• Dai Yueheng learned from Dai Dianfeng that the Golden Blade Tiger Right Leg Bone meant for him had been used as compensation for Dai Huabin, and he demanded a replacement with a Tearing Attribute.
• Dai Yueheng threatened to kill Dai Huabin if his replacement Soul Bone was inferior, then told Dai Dianfeng he wanted a tiger-type Soul Bone with the Tearing Attribute or one at least 30,000 years old.
• The next morning, Zhu Changming brought Zhu Yuhan to Duke White Tiger's Mansion, where Dai Yueheng felt his bloodline react to her and her soul power began drifting toward him.

Dai Yueheng and Dai Huabin learned that both brothers could perform Martial Soul Fusion with Zhu Yuhan, complicating her engagement and drawing the brothers into a family dispute. Meanwhile, Shrek prepared its first Soul Fighting Competition lineup, and He Caitou revealed the powerful effects of his four Food System soul skills.

• Zhu Yuhan discovered that Dai Yueheng, not Dai Huabin, had met her, and their soul powers also merged; Dai Dianfeng urged the family to bring Dai Huabin back while encouraging Dai Yueheng to pursue her.
• Dai Huabin learned from Dai Dianguang that Dai Yueheng could perform Martial Soul Fusion with Zhu Yuhan, and Dai Dianguang hurried him back to the family estate.
• At Star Luo Royal Soul Master Academy, Dai Huabin fought Dai Luoli until Titan Douluo Cheng Gang stopped the match, and Dai Luoli resolved to keep pushing his Blood Tiger Martial Soul toward awakening.
• Wang Yan and Zhang Lexuan selected Dai Yueheng, Chen Zifeng, Ling Luochen, Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, Jiang Nannan, and Xu Sanshi for Shrek's first elimination match.
• He Caitou demonstrated his four cigar-based soul skills, which enhanced spiritual power, strength, defense, and soul power quality, and explained that the cigars remained effective for two days.

Shrek Academy prepared for the Soul Fighting Competition while Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy arrived in Star Luo City, intent on defeating Shrek and reclaiming a wounded Hundred-Thousand-Year Sea Soul Beast. At Duke White Tiger’s Mansion, Dai Yueheng and Dai Huabin clashed over Zhu Yuhan, who chose Yueheng, before Dai Hao’s return interrupted the dispute.

• Wang Yan planned for Caitou to supply cigars that would strengthen Shrek’s competitors, and Ma Xiaotao explained that consuming Food System Soul Skills before matches was permitted by an unwritten rule.
• Pan Tianxing’s Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy team arrived at the Star Emperor Hotel, where Xiao Hongchen and Ma Rulong argued over trading soul-tool technology for a Hundred-Thousand-Year Sea Soul Beast.
• Pan Tianxing left to register the team, while Ma Mingzhu told Ma Rulong that Lord Starry Sky Douluo would accept him as a disciple if he won the championship.
• Dai Yueheng declared that he wanted to marry Zhu Yuhan, prompting Dai Huabin to confront him and Zhu Changming to insist that Yuhan’s betrothal to Huabin should stand.
• Zhu Yuhan announced that she wanted to marry Dai Yueheng, but Dai Dianchen threatened to cancel the marriage alliance before the White Tiger Drumbeats announced Dai Hao’s return.

Dai Hao returned to the White Tiger estate, learned of Dai Huabin’s ambush at Shrek Academy, and punished him before agreeing to let the matter rest. Meanwhile, Xu Jiawei launched a covert operation against the Southwest Nobles, and the chapter ended with an elderly woman seeking permission to exterminate them.

• Dai Hao proposed testing Dai Yueheng and Dai Huabin’s Martial Soul Fusion Degrees with Zhu Yuhan, and their families agreed.
• Zhu Ruiying told Dai Hao that Dai Huabin had ambushed a disciple of the Blazing Phoenix Douluo, so Dai Hao struck Dai Huabin with his belt before Zhu Changming stopped him.
• Dai Huabin apologized to Dai Hao, who sent Zhu Ruiying to take him for treatment and said he might apologize to Shrek Academy himself.
• Xu Jiawei ordered a Star Guard Commander to begin the operation against the Southwest Nobles and planned to seize their direct lineages and reclaim military power.
• Dai Yueheng and Dai Huabin returned to their teams as Star Luo City filled with visitors ahead of the Soul Fighting Competition.
• An elderly woman watching the Southwest Nobles’ movements asked Shattered Star to seek the emperor’s permission to exterminate them.

The All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Competition began in Star Luo City, with Shrek Academy facing Heavenly Spirit Advanced Soul Master Academy in the opening match. Huo Yuhao unleashed Phoenix Meteor Shower to defeat all seven opponents at once, and Shrek advanced to the next round.

• Xu Jiawei officially opened the competition, and Dai Hao announced that Shrek Academy would face Heavenly Spirit Advanced Soul Master Academy in the first match.
• Huo Yuhao persuaded Dai Yueheng to let the Reserve Team start the match, and Ling Luochen and Chen Zifeng agreed.
• After the referee started the match, Huo Yuhao revealed his External Soul Bone and a Ten Thousand Year third Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao used Phoenix Meteor Shower, forcing referee Cheng Gang to intercept the attack before it struck the Heavenly Spirit Academy team.
• Cheng Gang declared Shrek Academy the winner, and Huo Yuhao offered his teammates a buffet at the Star Emperor Hotel.

Huo Yuhao’s victory drew attention from Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy and Star Luo’s rulers, while Xu Jiawei convened Morning Court to respond to a border provocation and expose the Southwest Nobles’ treason. The chapter ended with the Southwest faction condemned and Dai Hao leaving a private meeting with Xu Jiawei looking troubled.

• Huo Yuhao exchanged a brief challenge with Xiao Hongchen, while Pan Tianxing urged Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy to study his fighting style.
• Xuan Zi introduced Huo Yuhao to Xu Jiawei and revealed that Blazing Phoenix Douluo was his teacher, unsettling Dai Hao.
• Zhang Lexuan told Shrek Academy’s team that Reserve Team members would compete against weaker Round Robin opponents to gain experience.
• Xu Jiawei announced that the Sun Moon Empire had sent more than ten thousand soldiers to harass the border, then ordered Dai Hao to remain in the capital.
• Xu Jiawei accused the Southwest Nobles led by Haifeng Duke of treason, revealed that their allied officials had been arrested, and declared the nobles would be executed after the competition.
• After Morning Court, Xu Jiawei summoned Dai Hao to the Imperial Study, and Dai Hao emerged with an unreadable expression.

The White Tiger and Spirit Cat families agreed to surrender military and commercial power to avoid being implicated in the Southwest Nobles’ treason, while Xu Jiujiu prepared to trade a captured Sea Soul Beast for Sun Moon Empire technology. As the Soul Fighting Competition’s Round Robin approached, Huo Yuhao met Xiao Hongchen and surprised him by asking about his grandfather, Jing Hongchen.

• The Spirit Cat Duke sent Zhu Changming to meet Duke White Tiger’s Mansion after learning the Southwest Nobles had been condemned for treason.
• Dai Hao and Zhu Changming agreed that the White Tiger Family would give up part of its military authority and the Spirit Cat Family would surrender some commercial power.
• Xu Jiujiu explained that the Star Luo Empire planned to trade its captured Sea Soul Beast for Soul Guiding Technology, while pretending it might grant an additional Martial Soul.
• Wang Yan announced that Shrek Academy would begin the Round Robin with a lineup including Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Beibei.
• Huo Yuhao encountered Xiao Hongchen in the dining hall restroom and asked about his grandfather, Jing Hongchen, leaving Xiao Hongchen confused.

Shrek Academy began its Round Robin match against Yunluo Academy, and Wang Dong defeated Ma Yingjun in an Individual Battle by revealing her Clear Sky Hammer and its powerful control skill. The other academies recognized her as a serious threat, while Meng Hongchen became fascinated by her.

• Xiao Hongchen and Huo Yuhao greeted each other warmly, and Xiao told Meng Hongchen that Huo Yuhao was their grandfather's fan.
• Ma Xiaotao and Yunluo Academy's captain drew the yellow lot, making Shrek Academy's match an Individual Battle.
• Wang Yan sent Wang Dong out first, and she faced Yunluo's Ma Yingjun on the Competition Stage.
• Ma Yingjun attacked Wang Dong with Soul Tool blasts, but Wang Dong shattered their effects with her hammer and revealed her Goddess of Light Butterfly Martial Soul and Clear Sky Hammer.
• Wang Dong trapped Ma Yingjun in the Clear Sky Hammer's Dark Gold Light, and Cheng Gang stopped the skill before it could cripple him and declared Shrek Academy the winner.
• Ma Mingzhu warned Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy that Wang Dong would be a major opponent, while Meng Hongchen watched her intently.

Huo Yuhao defeated Moon and then outmaneuvered Yunluo Academy's Captain, Situ Yu, using his strength, flight, and ice magic. The chapter ended with an Ice Arrow poised before Situ Yu's forehead, leaving the arena stunned.

• Wang Dong withdrew from her match with Ma Yingjun, giving Yunluo Academy the second match by forfeit.
• Huo Yuhao caught Moon's blades, crushed them, and won after she conceded.
• Situ Yu challenged Huo Yuhao and declared that Yunluo Academy would forfeit its remaining matches if he lost.
• Huo Yuhao dodged Situ Yu's turret barrage by flying above him, then trapped his legs in ice.
• Huo Yuhao stopped Situ Yu's attempted escape with an Ice Arrow held just before his forehead.

Huo Yuhao defeated Situ Yu, advised him on improving his turret technique, and learned about Artistic Conception and Self-Created Soul Skills. After the Shrek team watched Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy demonstrate its Soul Tools, two Body Sect members sought Huo Yuhao, but Elder Xuan was waiting when they met.

• Huo Yuhao defeated Situ Yu and advised him to use a prepared Turret Base instead of remaining rooted in place.
• Huo Yuhao told the Shrek team that he had created his Ice skill, and Zhang Lexuan explained Artistic Conception and its role in Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Shrek Academy watched Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy display its Soul Tools, prompting Zhang Lexuan to urge the Main Team to consider the academy's reforms.
• Lang Ya and Yu Tao approached the Shrek group at the Star Emperor Hotel and asked to speak with Huo Yuhao.
• Zhang Lexuan brought Huo Yuhao to meet Lang Ya and Yu Tao, where they found Elder Xuan waiting with a roasted chicken leg and a gourd of juice.

Lang Ya and Yu Tao tried to recruit Huo Yuhao for the Body Sect, but Xuan Zi and Zhang Lexuan warned him about the sect’s history with Shrek Academy. Du Busi confronted Xuan Zi over Huo Yuhao, and Mu En and Feng Xin intervened to prevent a fight near Star Luo City and invite them to talk.

• Xuan Zi stopped Lang Ya and Yu Tao from leaving and questioned them about their interest in Huo Yuhao; they argued that the Body Sect could awaken and nurture his Body Martial Soul.
• Du Busi attacked Xuan Zi at the Star Emperor Hotel, then Lang Ya and Yu Tao urged Huo Yuhao to consider joining the Body Sect before departing.
• Zhang Lexuan told Huo Yuhao about the Body Sect’s past conflict with Mu En and the Star Dou Great Forest soul-beast tide, while Huo Yuhao suggested cooperation between the sect and Shrek Academy.
• Du Busi demanded that Xuan Zi hand over Huo Yuhao and threatened to kill him, but Mu En’s golden manifestation and Feng Xin’s arrival stopped them from fighting.
• Feng Xin invited Xuan Zi and Du Busi to the Worship Hall to talk, and both men agreed to follow her.

At the Star Luo Empire competition, Du Busi revealed that he sought a successor for the Body Sect’s inheritance, and Mu En proposed letting Huo Yuhao meet him and exploring cooperation between their factions. After Dai Huabin lost the bloodline match to Dai Yueheng, his rage awakened a dark power and drew the attention of a mysterious evil soul master.

• Ma Mingzhu agreed to remain in Star Luo City while Pan Tianxing returned to Mingdu to report the extraordinary golden light.
• Du Busi told Mu En, Xuan Zi, and Ice Crystal Douluo that he had come seeking a successor for the Body Sect’s Seed of Inheritance, and Mu En offered to arrange a meeting with Huo Yuhao and discuss cooperation.
• Zhu Changming revealed that Dai Yueheng had a higher Bloodline Fusion Degree with Zhu Yuhan, and Dai Huabin left the family gathering in anger.
• Dai Huabin unleashed his rage in a forest, where his Soul Power showed traces of black and a mysterious Black-Robed Man praised his natural awakening.
• The Black-Robed Man stopped Dai Huabin from escaping, introduced himself as Gui, and told him to return whenever resentment and hatred filled his heart again.

Dai Huabin discovered Dai Yueheng's engagement to Zhu Yuhan and withdrew into darkness, while Xu Tianran assessed the Star Luo Empire's political upheaval and plotted to strengthen his claim to power. He entrusted Chen Yan with a strategy for the coming court session, promised Ju Zi a future military command, and ended the chapter weighing a consequential choice.

• Dai Huabin hurried home to report his suspicion that Old Ghost was an Evil Soul Master, but overheard the elders arranging Dai Yueheng's marriage to Zhu Yuhan and saw the pair leave together.
• Dai Huabin hid in the darkness as the Soul Guiding Lamps dimmed, while Du Busi told Lang Ya and Yu Tao to avoid Shrek Academy and wait for further orders.
• Chen Yan informed Xu Tianran that the Star Luo Empire had destroyed the Southwest Nobles and reclaimed the region, prompting Xu Tianran to infer that the Star Luo Emperor had maneuvered Dai Hao out of command.
• Xu Tianran instructed Chen Yan to advocate a military strike that would help restore Dai Hao's authority and deepen the rift between him and the Star Luo royal family.
• Xu Tianran promised to recommend Chen Yan for a Southern Army post and told Ju Zi to study military affairs, saying he intended to make her commander-in-chief once he held the empire's power.
• After Ju Zi left, Xu Tianran considered whether to agree to the demands before him.

Wang Yan and Zhang Lexuan took Shrek Academy’s students to an auction to introduce them to Soul Tools, and Huo Yuhao argued that Soul Tools could strengthen Soul Masters just as Soul Rings and Soul Bones did. The auction ended with Ning Tian buying the feared Spirit Devouring Engraving Knife for Huo Yuhao, who said he could handle its dangerous power.

• Wang Yan and Zhang Lexuan brought the Shrek group to an underground auction and explained that the academy would add Soul Tool training to its curriculum.
• Huo Yuhao defended Soul Tools as products of human ingenuity, and Ning Tian described how Soul Tool technology had transformed the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Huo Yuhao bought a paralyzing Soul Light Ray Emitter to take apart, while Zhang Lexuan and Wang Yan purchased Soul Tools for the students to practice with.
• Zhang Lexuan won the Milk Bottle Soul Tool for He Caitou with a bid of thirty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Ning Tian outbid Huo Yuhao for the Spirit Devouring Engraving Knife and said she was buying it for him, while Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao warned him of its dangers.
• Huo Yuhao assured them he could resist the knife’s evil power, and Qingya sold it to Ning Tian after no other bidders came forward.

After the auction, Huo Yuhao considered using Magic Soul Rings to free Soul Masters from their reliance on Soul Beast Soul Rings and began investigating the Planar Consciousness’s role in Douluo Continent’s rules. He cleansed the Spirit Devouring Engraving Knife with the Sun God Pillar, renamed it the Life Carving Knife, and used its Life Force to strengthen his body and feed the pillar.

• Huo Yuhao asked Wang Dong whether Soul Tools made her uncomfortable, and Wang Dong privately wondered whose disgust she had felt and who the girl resembling her was.
• Huo Yuhao proposed creating Magic Soul Rings to Electrolux, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Ice Empress discussed the Planar Consciousness and humanity’s origins.
• Huo Yuhao realized that the Sun God Pillar might let him establish Magic Soul Rings and spread Soul Master cultivation across the continent.
• Ning Tian gave Huo Yuhao the Spirit Devouring Engraving Knife as a return gift and warned him to be careful with it.
• Huo Yuhao used the Heavenly Eye’s sunlight to destroy the knife’s fierce spirit and transformed the weapon into the Life Carving Knife.
• Huo Yuhao used the knife’s Life Force to strengthen his body, then sent most of its remaining energy to the Sun God Pillar to replenish the Second Star Ring.

Huo Yuhao used a position-exchange skill and a powerful group illusion to overwhelm Thousand Spirit Advanced Soul Master Academy, helping Shrek Academy win its team battle almost immediately. The team then prepared for its next opponent while Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy began planning how to counter Shrek.

• Huo Yuhao told Zhang Lexuan that using the carving knife had gone smoothly, though he worried that the Second Star Ring still needed far more Life Energy than expected.
• Ma Xiaotao and Shen Ce drew lots, and Shrek Academy faced Thousand Spirit Advanced Soul Master Academy in a team battle.
• Huo Yuhao exchanged places with Shen Ce, then trapped the opposing team with his Illusion Soul Bone Skill; Xu Sanshi, Beibei, Xiao Xiao, and Yao Haoxuan eliminated Shen Ce.
• Dai Yueheng used White Tiger Meteor Shower against the immobilized opponents, and referee Cheng Gang stopped the attack and declared Shrek the winner.
• Pan Tianxing and Ma Mingzhu took Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy away to plan against Shrek, while Wang Yan briefed Shrek on its next opponent, Golden Leaf.