Chapter Summaries

Shrek Academy faced Zhengtian Academy in the third round of the round robin, and Huo Yuhao and Ling Luochen took the first match under the 2-2-3 format. Their coordinated Ultimate Ice attacks overwhelmed Zhengtian’s two strongest fighters, leaving the Shrek team’s next match ahead.

• Zhang Lexuan selected Jiang Nannan for the lineup, and Wang Yan assigned the 2-2-3 pairings while Huo Yuhao predicted that format.
• Ma Rulong told Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen that they had been chosen for Shrek Academy’s exchange student program, with Xiao Hongchen as captain.
• Ma Xiaotao drew the 2-2-3 format, and Wang Yan sent Huo Yuhao and Ling Luochen into the opening match against Ye Wuqing and Yu Mengdi.
• Ling Luochen froze Yu Mengdi’s attacks and trapped her in an Ice Prison while Huo Yuhao paralyzed her with a Soul Tool and struck her with Spiritual Shock.
• Huo Yuhao unleashed the Ice Jade Scorpion’s extreme cold to freeze Ye Wuqing and Yu Mengdi, and Ling Luochen followed with ice spikes until the referee rescued Ye Wuqing.
• Spectators dubbed Huo Yuhao and Ling Luochen the Shrek Twin Ice Controllers, and Ling Luochen teased Huo Yuhao about Sister Qing ending matches once she entered the field.

Shrek Academy defeated Zhengtian Academy in the deciding match when Yao Haoxuan and Jiang Nannan overwhelmed Tang Xiaolei and Blood Wolf. The victory ended the round and left the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy reassessing its plans for Yao Haoxuan’s abilities.

• Ling Luochen stopped teasing Huo Yuhao, and Cheng Gang declared Shrek Academy the winner of its match against Ye Wuquing and Yu Mengdi.
• Yao Haoxuan and Jiang Nannan faced Tang Xiaolei and Blood Wolf, with Yao Haoxuan shielding Jiang Nannan and enduring Tang Xiaolei’s arrows.
• Jiang Nannan used Teleport and Waist Bow to knock Blood Wolf unconscious, then survived Tang Xiaolei’s Gust Arrow with Invincible Golden Body.
• Yao Haoxuan used Spatial Devour to swallow Tang Xiaolei’s final two arrows, and Cheng Gang declared Shrek Academy the winner of the round.
• Ma Rulong warned the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy team about Yao Haoxuan’s soul skill, and Pan Tianxing called for a new strategy meeting.

After Shrek Academy advanced to the Round of 16, Wang Yan announced that they would face Dou Spirit Royal Soul Master Academy, and the team received invitations to a prestigious auction. At the auction house, Huo Yuhao used a new image-transmitting Soul Tool to make his teammates more wary of Soul Tool technology.

• Shrek Academy won its remaining group matches and advanced to the Top 16, while Xiao Xiao broke through to level 30.
• Wang Yan announced that Shrek's first elimination-round opponent was Dou Spirit Royal Soul Master Academy and selected Huo Yuhao for the Team Battle while Ma Xiaotao stayed out.
• Qingya delivered invitations from Starlight Auction House, and Huo Yuhao revealed that the auction house was backed by the Star Luo Royal Family.
• Zhang Lexuan led the group to the Red-level Auction, where Wang Yan spoke warmly with Qingya after her promotion to Black-level Auctioneer.
• Huo Yuhao identified the auction room's Light Guiding Screen as Sun Moon Empire Soul Tool technology and let the team worry about its implications.

At the Starlight Auction House’s Red-level Auction, Shrek Academy bought several items while Huo Yuhao warned that the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone could only be absorbed by an Ultimate Ice Soul Master. After a prisoner died trying to absorb it, Xu Jiawei decided to have the empire buy the bone itself.

• Qingya showed the Shrek group the auction room’s Soul Tool Screen, and Huo Yuhao explained how civilian soul tools could win ordinary people’s support.
• Dai Yueheng bought the Overlord Tiger Refining Soul Blade for 1.56 million Gold Soul Coins, and Wang Yan bought twelve Rank 6 Fixed Soul Tool Cannon Shells for 655,000.
• Zhang Lexuan used funds authorized by Xuan Zi to buy three soul bones and a rare metal for more than twenty million Gold Soul Coins.
• Xu Jiujiu presented an Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone as the Final Auction Item, and Huo Yuhao warned that only an Ultimate Ice Soul Master could safely absorb it.
• Xu Jiawei had an Ice Attribute prisoner test the soul bone, and the prisoner exploded; Xu Jiawei then decided to buy the soul bone for the empire.

Shrek Academy won the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone at the auction, and Xu Jiawei later gifted it to the academy after Huo Yuhao revealed its restriction. The Final Lot was a sealed Deep Sea Demonic Whale embryo advertised as a way to gain a second martial soul, while Zhang Lexuan watched Ma Xiaotao and Huo Yuhao grow closer and felt increasingly lonely.

• Zhang Lexuan bid thirty-one million Gold Soul Coins and secured the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone for Shrek Academy.
• Xu Jiujiu unveiled a Deity Confinement Platform containing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast embryo, which Ice Empress identified as a Deep Sea Demonic Whale recovering inside a Whale Pearl.
• Xu Jiujiu claimed the embryo could grant an absorber an additional martial soul and opened bidding at one hundred million Gold Soul Coins.
• Zhang Lexuan and Wang Yan decided Shrek Academy would not bid on the embryo, and Xu Jiawei visited their room with Xu Jiujiu.
• Xu Jiawei thanked Huo Yuhao for identifying the soul bone's restriction and gifted it to Shrek Academy.
• As the students joked and placed bets together, Zhang Lexuan watched Ma Xiaotao and Huo Yuhao and felt her hopes of closeness slipping away.

Xu Jiawei’s auction scheme secured soul tools and technology from Mingde Hall while Huo Yuhao obtained a poison-attribute cannon shell for Electrolux to study. Far away, a Sea Soul Beast woman learned that her daughter had been gravely wounded by four Sea God Enshrined and set out in fury.

• Xu Jiawei explained why he was courting Huo Yuhao and Shrek Academy, then learned that Mingde Hall was trading soul tools and technology for funds.
• Mingde Hall won the Deity Confinement Platform with a bid of 150 million, while Xu Jiawei revealed that the supposed embryo was actually a living Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Huo Yuhao borrowed a poison-attribute Fixed Soul Tool Cannon Shell from He Caitou and gave it to Electrolux to study.
• Huo Yuhao told the Ice Empress that he hoped the Magic Soul Ring system would prevent soul beasts from being hunted to extinction, then considered visiting the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• A Sea Soul Beast woman received a message saying that four Sea God Enshrined had attacked her daughter and left her badly wounded.
• The woman flew away in a rage, vowing vengeance against the Sea God Enshrined.

Huo Yuhao inspired Shrek Academy to take the Round of 16 match seriously, then absorbed the Heaven Spirit Royal Soul Master Academy’s charged Level 7 Thunder Cannon with his Gate of Angels. The attack’s energy appeared in Electrolux’s dark world, where it illuminated the Undead Creatures.

• Wang Yan reminded Shrek’s team that a true master always had the heart of an apprentice, and his words stirred both Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy.
• Huo Yuhao predicted that the Heaven Spirit Royal Soul Master Academy would use a Level 7 Thunder Cannon, and Shrek’s team agreed to wait for the attack rather than disrupt its preparations.
• The Heaven Spirit Royal Soul Master Academy built a defensive wall and assembled its Thunder Cannon while Shrek’s team stood ready with Invincible Shields.
• Huo Yuhao summoned the Gate of Angels and devoured the Thunder Cannon’s blast, leaving Lonely Bamboo Sword and the spectators stunned.
• Dai Yueheng and the other Shrek members charged the bewildered Heaven Spirit Royal Soul Master Academy team after Huo Yuhao told them to take over.
• Electrolux watched the cannon’s blue radiance enter his world and illuminate the Undead Creatures and the three Undead Bone Dragons.

Huo Yuhao defeated Dou Spirit Royal Academy with the disguised Gate of Angels, then received Ma Xiaotao’s advice about his relationships with several girls. Dai Huabin’s attempt to meet Zhu Lu failed, and he joined the Holy Spirit Church as Gui Wujing’s disciple.

• Huo Yuhao concealed that his Gate of Angels was a transmission gate to the Undead Demigod Plane, and Shrek’s team defeated Dou Spirit Royal Academy.
• Zhu Lu massaged Huo Yuhao while he recovered, and Ma Xiaotao later warned him to consider his feelings for Zhu Lu, Wang Dong, and Ning Tian.
• Shrek’s group saw Dai Huabin competing for Star Luo Royal Soul Master Academy, and he noticed Zhu Lu attending to Huo Yuhao.
• Dai Huabin asked to meet Zhu Lu, but she refused, and Huo Yuhao passed her decision on to him.
• Dai Huabin went to the outskirts of Star Luo City, where Gui Wujing revealed he was a Level 98 Great Elder of the Holy Spirit Church and accepted Dai Huabin as his disciple.

As Shrek prepared for the semifinals, Huo Yuhao shared intelligence about their rivals and Xu Jiujiu prepared a secret advantage for a possible match against them. In a forest, a mysterious Evil Soul Master found Ye Guyi, revealed that his lord was Huo Yuhao, and told her to seek him at Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy.

• Huo Yuhao helped Shrek Academy's merchants launch the Soul Fighting Shopping Festival, and Emperor Xu Jiawei made it an annual event.
• Shrek's Main Team defeated Heaven Spirit Royal Soul Master Academy in the Individual Battles, then advanced to the Top 4 when Zhengtian Academy conceded.
• Wang Yan and Zhang Lexuan briefed Shrek on the semifinal opponents and finals format, while Ma Xiaotao prepared to compete.
• Xu Jiujiu told Xu Jiawei she had gathered Star Power for a surprise, and Xu Jiawei considered secretly manipulating the draw.
• Ye Guyi attacked a masked Mysterious Person and his Corpse Puppet, then discovered both had been transformed into beings of light.
• The Mysterious Person told Ye Guyi to find Huo Yuhao at Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy and said the Sea God Family were his lord's enemies; Ye Guyi watched him leave and repeated Huo Yuhao's name.

Shrek Academy defeated Star Luo Royal Soul Master Academy in the Semifinals’ Team Battle after Ma Xiaotao revealed she was a Soul Saint and overwhelmed the opposing team. Huo Yuhao copied Xu Jiujiu’s Star’s Protection, and Shrek advanced to the Finals after Xu Jiujiu conceded the Individual Competition; Xu Sanshi remained trapped in a defensive Soul Tool.

• Xu Jiawei presided over the draw, which paired Ma Xiaotao’s Shrek Academy against Xu Jiujiu’s Star Luo Royal Soul Master Academy.
• Ma Xiaotao led Shrek’s assault and revealed her seventh black Soul Ring, shocking the spectators and her opponents.
• Xu Jiujiu used a Level 7 Absolute Defense Soul Tool on Ma Xiaotao, but Huo Yuhao switched places with her and was sealed inside instead.
• Ma Xiaotao unleashed Phoenix Meteor Shower against Xu Jiujiu’s Star’s Protection while Huo Yuhao copied the defensive Soul Skill.
• Xu Jiujiu conceded the Team Battle and Individual Competition, sending Shrek Academy to the Finals.
• Shrek’s members realized they had forgotten Xu Sanshi, who was still trapped inside the Absolute Defense Soul Tool.

After Shrek’s morning match, Huo Yuhao helped Ma Xiaotao absorb her Evil Fire while Ning Tian reconsidered her feelings and her future obligations to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. Electrolux proposed using the Auspicious Beast’s Power of Destiny to summon the Planar Consciousness, and Huo Yuhao ended by promising Ma Xiaotao a chance to evolve her martial soul after the tournament.

• Huo Yuhao told Xu Sanshi that Jiang Nannan had noticed his absence, lifting Xu Sanshi’s spirits, while the Sun Moon team prepared for its afternoon match against Dio Academy.
• Yao Haoxuan advised Ning Tian to become friends with Huo Yuhao and consider asking him to help her avoid a forced marriage alliance at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s future Sect Competition.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire, then spoke with Electrolux about using the Auspicious Beast’s Power of Destiny to summon the Planar Consciousness without attracting Tang San’s attention.
• Electrolux said the Planar Consciousness could transfer only through a connection to a Special Plane, and he agreed to search for a Spatial Node.
• After Ma Xiaotao finished bathing, she teased Huo Yuhao, and he told her that he would take her somewhere after the tournament to help evolve her martial soul and eliminate the Evil Fire.

Huo Yuhao explained his new sense of destiny to Ma Xiaotao, while Shrek Academy prepared a plan to defeat Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy in the final. The championship match began with the teams assembled at Star Luo Plaza, where Xuan Zi unexpectedly joined Shrek’s rest area.

• Huo Yuhao told Ma Xiaotao that he would likely study in the Sun Moon Empire for two and a half years and revealed that his sense of hidden things came from his contact with the Auspicious Beast.
• Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy crushed Dio Academy in the Team Battle, while Ma Rulong later defeated the Sky-Shaking Axe student in the Individual Battle, setting up the final against Shrek Academy.
• Zhang Lexuan and Wang Yan planned to use Xu Sanshi’s Darkwater Displacement to switch an opponent, then wear down Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy with Star’s Protection before launching Shrek’s main assault.
• The finalists arrived at a rain-soaked Star Luo Plaza, where the crowd overwhelmingly cheered for Shrek Academy and Xu Jiawei announced two million Gold Soul Coins and three Soul Bones as the championship prize.
• Xu Jiujiu reminded Dai Hao that Dai Luoli was studying at Star Luo Royal Soul Master Academy, surprising Dai Hao with news of his young son’s talent.
• Huang Jinxu arrived as referee, and Xuan Zi appeared in Shrek’s rest area, startling the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy delegation before the final began.

Shrek Academy defeated Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy in the tournament final after Huo Yuhao’s tactics and Ma Xiaotao’s overwhelming Martial Soul Avatar attack left their opponents unable to continue. Shrek was crowned champion, while Xiao Hongchen promised Huo Yuhao they would settle the score in five years in Mingdu.

• Huo Yuhao directed Xu Sanshi to exchange places with Meng Hongchen, and Shrek’s members attacked her while Xiao Hongchen rushed to protect her.
• Huo Yuhao used Star’s Protection to block the Sun Moon team’s barrage, then Dai Yueheng broke Meng Hongchen’s Invincible Shield and knocked her unconscious.
• Ma Xiaotao transformed into her Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul Avatar and unleashed a Phoenix Meteor Shower that exhausted the Sun Moon team and devastated half the Competition Stage.
• Pan Tianxing surrendered the team battle and the remaining matches, and Heavenly Fiend Douluo declared Shrek Academy the champions.
• Xiao Hongchen told Huo Yuhao they would settle the score in five years in Mingdu, while Shrek’s students celebrated their victory.

After Shrek Academy won the tournament, Huo Yuhao gave Dai Luoli two medicinal herbs and held hands with Ma Xiaotao on their way back to the hotel. The group left Star Luo City, while Huo Yuhao moved his mother’s grave into the Undead Demigod Plane so Electrolux could try to summon her soul.

• Xu Jiawei honored his promise by giving Shrek Academy ten soul bones to choose from, and Wang Yan selected three high-quality ones; Zhang Lexuan distributed the cash prize among the students who had competed.
• Huo Yuhao met Dai Luoli and gave him Tiger Blood Ginseng for himself and Cold Star Ice Soul Grass for Old Chen’s granddaughter, then advised him to follow Xu Jiujiu and wait for Dai Yueheng and Dai Huabin to clash.
• Huo Yuhao took Ma Xiaotao’s hand and told her he had gotten lost; she squeezed his hand back as their fingers interlocked.
• After Shrek Academy departed, Xu Jiawei ordered Xu Jiujiu to issue a Treasure Hunt Mission with a reward of one hundred million Gold Soul Coins, while Dai Hao summoned Dai Luoli and arranged a celebratory banquet.
• Dai Luoli gave Old Chen the Cold Star Ice Soul Grass, and Jing Hongchen praised Huo Yuhao’s words about a Grandmaster keeping an apprentice’s heart before entering the chamber that held the Soul Beast Embryo.
• Huo Yuhao asked Electrolux to move his mother’s grave, and Electrolux drew the grave through a black door into the Undead Demigod Plane so he could try to call forth her soul.

Shrek Academy welcomed home the Soul Fighting Competition champions and brought them to the Sea God Pavilion, where Yan Shaozhe announced their rewards and plans for a lecture conference promoting Soul Tools. After the meeting, Ma Xiaotao told Huo Yuhao that Sister Lan Mei was getting married, while reminding him not to forget what she had said at the Star Emperor Hotel.

• Yan Shaozhe and the other deans welcomed Xuan Zi and the returning students at Shrek East Gate, then announced that the team would receive academy rewards at the Sea God Pavilion.
• Yan Shaozhe explained that the academy would hold a lecture conference where the champions would speak to students about reforms centered on Soul Tools.
• Golden Ancient Tree motes strengthened the students, and Huo Yuhao broke through to Rank 35 before the group entered the Sea God Pavilion.
• Yan Shaozhe awarded the Inner Court competitors easier graduation assessments, gave Zhang Lexuan Reserve Sea God Pavilion Member Status, promoted Wang Yan to Inner Court teacher, and granted the Reserve Team cultivation retreats and Soul Ring assistance.
• Yan Shaozhe permitted Beibei, Jiang Nannan, Xu Sanshi, and He Caitou to take the Inner Court Exam early.
• Ma Xiaotao told Huo Yuhao that Sister Lan Mei was getting married and reminded him not to forget what she had said at the Star Emperor Hotel.

Huo Yuhao proposed an interview format for Shrek Academy’s Lecture Conference to promote the Soul Engineering Department and Soul Tools, while Jiang Nannan discovered how Xu Sanshi had secretly helped her mother. The conference ended with Huo Yuhao introduced as a bearer of the title Lifetime Shrek Seven Devils, leaving the students stunned.

• Huo Yuhao explained to Wang Dong that the academy hoped to promote Soul Tools and received material for his Lecture Conference speech.
• Beibei learned Tang Ya had reached Level 40, and she agreed to take the Inner Court entrance exam while insisting on earning her future Soul Rings herself.
• Jiang Nannan overheard her mother explain that Xu Sanshi had helped cure her illness and secretly supported her, then returned to the academy shaken by what she learned.
• The Four Great Deans opened the Lecture Conference, and the champion teams introduced themselves and spoke about their competition experiences.
• He Caitou urged Support System students to use Soul Tools to protect themselves and their teammates, and Du Weilun said the academy would support Soul Tool education.
• Du Weilun introduced Huo Yuhao as a bearer of the title Lifetime Shrek Seven Devils, astonishing the students.

After Huo Yuhao’s speech inspired hundreds of Shrek students to enter enlightenment, he began his Cultivation Retreat and learned that a Divine Soul Seed within Tang San’s statue might target the Golden Ancient Tree. The White Dragon Soul offered to guide him to the Dragon Graveyard in exchange for help burying her family, and Huo Yuhao accepted while planning his next moves against Tang San’s family.

• Huo Yuhao’s remarks at the Lecture Conference prompted hundreds of students to enter enlightenment, so Yan Shaozhe ended the event and arranged for them to be protected.
• Cai Meier assigned Huo Yuhao to write more sayings for the academy, then took him and the other students to Sea God Pavilion for their Cultivation Retreat rewards.
• Mu En led the students to hidden Cultivation Rooms, where the Golden Ancient Tree’s powers helped them enter deep meditation; Huo Yuhao found the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone in his room.
• Electrolux told Huo Yuhao that a dormant Divine Soul Seed inside Tang San’s wooden statue could be seeking to possess the Golden Ancient Tree, and they discussed using the Planar Consciousness against it.
• The White Dragon Soul awakened and offered to take Huo Yuhao to a small plane if he helped bury her parents in the Dragon Graveyard; Huo Yuhao agreed and began plotting to attack Tang San’s family.

Huo Yuhao studied how soul rings were formed with Electrolux and began creating an Artificial Soul Ring using soul power and the Sun God Pillar’s energy. He successfully made a usable framework and pattern conductors, but the ring still lacked a Soul Skill Imprint, and its ability to help Soul Masters advance remained uncertain.

• White Dragon told Huo Yuhao to summon him whenever he needed help, and Huo Yuhao explained his plan to use a hidden plane for the Planar Consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed light and life energy from the Cultivation Room into the Sun God Pillar while Electrolux explained the structure and formation of soul rings.
• Electrolux proposed creating empty soul rings that could later receive replaceable Soul Skill Imprints, and Huo Yuhao began practicing with a simulated Ten-Year Soul Ring.
• After his first framework shattered when he injected soul power, Huo Yuhao added patterns to stabilize it and successfully formed a framework that held together.
• Huo Yuhao used power from the Sun God Pillar as pattern conductors and joined them to the framework, creating an Artificial Soul Ring without a Soul Skill Imprint.
• Mu En sensed Huo Yuhao drawing energy from the Golden Ancient Tree and allowed him to continue his cultivation.

Huo Yuhao absorbed the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone and learned that his unusual Martial Soul could undergo a Golden Grade Second Awakening, prompting Du Busi to seek cooperation with Shrek Academy. After Huo Yuhao revealed his mysterious call toward the Star Dou Great Forest, Mu En decided they needed to go there, while Du Busi left to consider an exchange of techniques.

• Huo Yuhao absorbed the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone as Ice Empress infused it with Origin Power from his Torso Soul Bone.
• Huo Yuhao returned from Cultivation Retreat, and Mu En told the students that Du Busi had been waiting to meet him.
• Mu En set the students’ training plans, and Huo Yuhao explained that he felt a familiar call guiding him toward the Star Dou Great Forest; Mu En concluded they needed to visit it.
• Wang Dong and the other students arrived after their own retreats, and Huo Yuhao considered whether to bring Wang Dong to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Du Busi examined Huo Yuhao’s Martial Soul and confirmed it could undergo a Golden Grade Second Awakening, then discussed exchanging Body Sect methods with Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the Body Sect needed successors, and Mu En predicted Du Busi would agree to cooperate; Huo Yuhao then left while Mu En privately weighed the danger of involving Di Tian.

Huo Yuhao led Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Zhu Lu into the Star Dou Great Forest to help them obtain soul rings, and Zhu Lu gained her Third Soul Ring from a Nether Concealment Beast. After Zhu Lu kissed Huo Yuhao, the group continued toward a Terror Claw Bear that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had located.

• Huo Yuhao agreed to let Wang Dong join the trip to help Xiao Xiao obtain her Third Soul Ring, and Yan Shaozhe led the group to the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to guide the group through the forest and searched for a suitable Terror Claw Bear for Xiao Xiao.
• A Nether Concealment Beast ambushed the group, but Huo Yuhao defeated it and offered it to Zhu Lu as her Third Soul Ring.
• Zhu Lu absorbed the Nether Concealment Beast's Soul Ring and kissed Huo Yuhao on the cheek to thank him.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm found a Terror Claw Bear nearby, and Huo Yuhao led the group toward it while Yan Shaozhe watched them depart.