Chapter Summaries

A Green Skull Mecha Corps assault on the Soul Guidance Train forced the Shrek students and Star Luo guards to defend themselves. Chen Yan and Gu Yuena crushed the attackers, but the red mecha’s pilot marked them as targets before reinforcements arrived and the enemy retreated.

• The Green Skull Mecha Corps attacked the Soul Guidance Train, and Cai Yue'er used silver light to save most of its carriages while Old Cai confronted the red God Grade Mecha.
• Wu Zhangkong ordered the students to protect themselves and rescue civilians as Star Luo guards fought the outnumbering attackers.
• Gu Yuena redirected incoming attacks while Chen Yan went after the enemy mechas with his Golden Dragon Spear.
• Chen Yan and Gu Yuena destroyed the attacking mechas, including the Black Grade Mechas, while the red mecha pilot observed them and resolved to target the young Shrek talents.
• A distant shriek announced approaching reinforcements, and the Green Skull Mecha Corps received orders to retreat.

After Green Skull attacked the delegation, Chen Yan and the others reached Star Luo City under heavy escort and prepared for a state reception. At the imperial palace banquet, Gu Yuena’s beauty stunned the gathering as she arrived beside Chen Yan.

• The Star Luo Empire sent mechas to protect the delegation, while Chen Yan left and made the two Black Grade Mechas disappear.
• The delegation learned that Green Skull had attacked to provoke conflict between the Federation and the Star Luo Empire, then traveled safely to Star Luo City.
• Chen Yan and Gu Yuena stayed at the Star Luo Grand Hotel until they were summoned to meet the Star Luo Emperor.
• Gu Yuena helped Chen Yan dress for the reception, and ceremonial cars carried the delegation to the imperial palace.
• Gu Yuena entered the palace holding Chen Yan’s arm, drawing the attention of the Star Luo Emperor and the nobles.

At the Star Luo Empire banquet, Chen Yan protected Gu Yuena from nobles seeking to provoke him, then danced with her. The chapter ended as the music stopped and they reluctantly let go of each other’s hands.

• Dai Tianling invited Gu Yuena to dance, but she refused and said Chen Yan was her dance partner.
• Star Luo Empire nobles tried to block Chen Yan and Gu Yuena, so Chen Yan used a Mental Impact that made them back down.
• Dai Tianling watched Chen Yan’s display and worried about the Star Luo Empire’s future dangers.
• Gu Yuena led Chen Yan onto the dance floor, where they danced together as the nobles watched.
• When the music ended, Chen Yan and Gu Yuena stopped dancing and reluctantly released each other’s hands.

After Chen Yan and Gu Yuena’s dance at the Star Luo ball, they slipped away while Dai Yun’er questioned her father about his intentions toward Gu Yuena. The Nationally Watched Competition then began, and Shrek’s enhanced young contestants stunned the Star Luo Empire with their strength.

• Chen Yan and Gu Yuena finished their dance to widespread applause, then disappeared from the party as the other Shrek students went shopping.
• Dai Yun’er confronted Dai Tianling about whether he meant to make Gu Yuena her new imperial consort, and he insisted he had only wanted to protect her from the nobles.
• Dai Tianling told Dai Yun’er it was time for her to find a husband, so she summoned her Martial Soul and fled.
• The Nationally Watched Competition opened at the crowded Star Luo Great Stadium, where Shrek’s group entered through the contestants’ passage.
• Chen Yan’s Dragon Blood Pills had helped the group’s Martial Souls evolve and their cultivation rise; Xu Hao’s Martial Soul became a Dragon Turtle.
• Shrek’s young contestants made a dazzling entrance, alarming Dai Tianling and En Ci, while Chen Yan and Gu Yuena remained mysterious because they had not shown their soul rings.

Dai Tianling and En Ci worried about Star Luo's future after learning of Shrek's powerful young students, while a Green Skull attack shook Star Luo City. At the tournament, Chen Yan crushed Long Yue in a test of strength and warned his teammates to forfeit if they faced him.

• Dai Tianling considered keeping the Netherworld Ghost Cat student in Star Luo, but En Ci said Shrek and the Dai Clan would not allow it.
• The Green Skull organization attacked the Celestial Star Theater, prompting Dai Tianling to order an investigation and tighter security.
• Long Yue and the Monster Academy team entered the tournament waiting area, where Long Yue challenged Chen Yan to a test of strength.
• Chen Yan overpowered Long Yue in their handshake, then left with Gu Yuena and his teammates.
• Chen Yan told his teammates to forfeit if they faced Long Yue, estimating that Long Yue was slightly weaker than Wu Zhangkong without battle armor.

Yue Zhengyu faced Long Yue in the competition, where the six-ring Soul Emperor overwhelmed the arena with his power. Yue Zhengyu tried to endure and reveal Long Yue’s abilities for his teammates, then found an opening and charged at him with his Holy Sword as Long Yue activated his second Soul Skill.

• Chen Yan warned the Shrek students that Long Yue could lose control because of his powerful bloodline.
• Shrek’s students won their matches against Monster Academy, and Yue Zhengyu was chosen to face Long Yue.
• Long Yue released his martial soul and revealed that he was a Six Rings Soul Emperor.
• Long Yue used his first Soul Skill, Mountain and Rivers, to fill the arena with rising peaks.
• Yue Zhengyu used Angel Descent to evade the attacks and then charged at Long Yue with his Holy Sword.
• Long Yue activated his second Soul Skill, River, as Yue Zhengyu attacked.

Long Yue defeated Yue Zhengyu, and the Star Luo Empire’s media and experts celebrated him as a destined hero while Shrek Academy continued to outperform Monster Academy’s younger members. After the round-robin stage ended, the tournament prepared to begin its elimination rounds, leaving Chen Yan troubled by the young female attendants surrounding the contestants.

• Long Yue overwhelmed Yue Zhengyu with a torrent of water and a punch, knocking him into the protective shield and defeating him.
• Star Luo Empire media and experts praised Long Yue as a once-in-ten-thousand-years talent destined to lead the empire, while online arguments continued over Shrek Academy’s victories against Monster Academy.
• Dai Yun'er urged Dragon Madman to punish Shrek Academy, but he told Monster Academy to avoid risking its strength against Shrek’s leader.
• Ten days later, the round-robin stage ended, and the remaining contestants from Monster Academy and Shrek Academy advanced to the elimination rounds.
• The organizers built a huge single arena and outfitted the contestants’ waiting area with luxurious sofas, food, drinks, and young female attendants, leaving Chen Yan unable to relax.

As the one-on-one finals of the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament began, Chen Yan was introduced as Shrek Academy’s captain and faced Star Luo Royal Academy’s Si Ma Xian. The match started with Si Ma Xian revealing his Bull Horn Dragon martial soul and five purple soul rings.

• Gu Yuena glared at waitresses who flirted with Chen Yan, while Dai Yun'er criticized him and Long Yue considered the likely path to the championship.
• Fang Er opened the finals ceremony and announced that the first day would feature one-on-one knockout matches.
• Fang Er introduced Chen Yan, whose popularity with the crowd nearly rivaled the emperor’s.
• Fang Er introduced Si Ma Xian, a twenty-year-old Star Luo Royal Academy student who had once been accepted by Monster Academy and remained undefeated in the tournament.
• The referee started the match, and Si Ma Xian released his Bull Horn Dragon martial soul with five purple soul rings.

Chen Yan defeated Si Ma Xian with overwhelming physical strength, securing the match for Douluo Continent. En Ci and Dai Tianling realized Chen Yan could be strong enough to win the individual competition and claim Star Luo’s prized soul bone.

• Si Ma Xian charged Chen Yan using Gravity Control, but Chen Yan stopped him with one hand between his horns.
• Si Ma Xian used Dragon God's Tail Swing, but Chen Yan caught his tail, threw him into the barrier, and injured him.
• After the two fighters hesitated under the crowd’s pressure, Chen Yan knocked Si Ma Xian unconscious with a hand chop.
• Fang Er declared Chen Yan the victor as the crowd cheered his effortless defeat of a Fifth Ring Soul King.
• En Ci estimated that Chen Yan had at least Soul Sage-level strength, while he and Dai Tianling feared he would win the individual competition and take the national treasury’s soul bone.

Chen Yan reached the individual competition final against Long Yue after Shrek Academy claimed three of the final four places. Dai Tianling offered the finalists rewards and declared the match underway, leaving Chen Yan and Long Yue facing each other on the platform.

• Wu Siduo and Li Mingxuan advanced, giving Shrek Academy three of the final four places and prompting fierce debate among Star Luo citizens.
• Officials arranged for Long Yue to face Li Mingxuan and Chen Yan to face Wu Siduo; Wu Siduo surrendered, while Long Yue defeated Li Mingxuan but nearly lost control.
• Dai Tianling welcomed Shrek Academy, announced a soul bone and additional rewards for the winner, and invited Chen Yan to join the Empire as a viscount if he won.
• Chen Yan and Long Yue walked onto the competition platform and took their positions five hundred meters apart.

Chen Yan revealed his six Soul Rings and overwhelmed Long Yue in the final, knocking him down and pinning him under a relentless barrage. Just as officials called for Long Yue to yield, a masked Mysterious Man in a Gray Robe intervened and blocked Chen Yan’s attack.

• Fang Er introduced the final between Chen Yan and Long Yue, noting that Chen Yan’s abilities were unknown while Long Yue wielded the Mountain Dragon King martial soul.
• Long Yue summoned his Two-Word Battle Armor and Double-Tipped Spear, and Chen Yan revealed three purple and three black Soul Rings.
• Chen Yan outmatched Long Yue’s spear techniques and pierced through his Immovable as a Mountain defense.
• Chen Yan knocked Long Yue to the edge of the stage and suppressed him with attacks on his vital points as a staff member called for him to yield.
• A Mysterious Man in a Gray Robe appeared and blocked Chen Yan’s attack.

A masked Demi-god attacked Chen Yan during the match, but Gu Yuena intervened and battled him after his strike destroyed the arena. The attacker trapped them inside his Netherworld Rebirth Domain, where an army of undead emerged to threaten Gu Yuena and Chen Yan.

• A masked man struck at Chen Yan with deathly energy, and the attack shattered the arena and its protective barrier.
• Gu Yuena appeared and sent an earth dragon at the masked man, then sealed the surrounding space and assailed him with ice blades.
• The masked man activated his Netherworld Rebirth Domain, forcing En Ci, Dai Tianling, and the others outside its gray boundary.
• Dai Tianling suspended the match and ordered guards to evacuate the spectators while En Ci identified the fighters as Demi-gods.
• Skeletons, zombies, and enormous soul-beast remains crawled from the ground inside the domain and surrounded Gu Yuena and Chen Yan.

Gu Yuena and Chen Yan fought off Nether King Douluo Ha Luosa when he attacked them in the arena. Ha Luosa escaped through a spatial tunnel, leaving the damaged venue and a wary Star Luo Guard behind.

• Ha Luosa attacked Gu Yuena with a gray sword gleam, and Chen Yan revealed his Three-Word Battle Armor and formidable soul rings.
• Ha Luosa summoned twelve Death Knights to hold Gu Yuena back while he tried to break free of the spatial stagnation.
• Gu Yuena overwhelmed the Death Knights, and Chen Yan absorbed energy from one as Ha Luosa watched several of them get absorbed.
• Ha Luosa opened an escape route and fled into a spatial tunnel as Gu Yuena sent a seven-element attack after him.
• Ha Luosa's domain vanished, the arena returned to view, and the Star Luo Guard surrounded Chen Yan and Gu Yuena before Cai Yue'er arrived.

After Gu Yuena rescued Chen Yan from Ha Luosa, she took him away to check his injuries while the attack sparked tensions between the Douluo delegation and the Star Luo Empire. Ha Luosa escaped to recover, and the tournament continued with Chen Yan crowned champion as Gu Yuena became famous across the empire.

• Gu Yuena teleported away with Chen Yan to examine him, while the Federation delegation demanded an explanation from Dai Tianling for the attacks.
• Tang Bingyao warned Dai Tianling that the delegation would reconsider how long it stayed in Star Luo, and Dai blamed Green Skull for the incidents.
• Ha Luosa crawled from the rubble of a destroyed mountain, decided to recover, and vanished into the mountains.
• Gu Yuena checked Chen Yan for injuries, and the two became intimate after he protested her examination.
• The Star Luo authorities resumed the tournament and awarded Chen Yan the individual championship and its rewards, including a Ten Thousand Year Head Soul Bone.
• Photos and information about Gu Yuena spread across the Star Luo Empire, where she attracted widespread attention.

After Gu Yuena and Chen Yan displayed extraordinary strength, Yun Ming warned Shrek to watch Gu Yuena as the academy’s study tour continued across the Star Luo Continent. The students finished their travels and boarded a ship back to the Douluo Continent, leaving their half-year journey behind.

• Cai Yue'er told Yun Ming that Gu Yuena had shown Limit Douluo strength and Chen Yan had unleashed Super Douluo power, so Yun Ming ordered Shrek to keep a close eye on Gu Yuena.
• Shrek shortened its study tour after repeated attacks, while Monster Academy’s tournament victories drew criticism because Chen Yan and Gu Yuena had not competed again.
• Shrek’s group traveled across the Star Luo Continent, exploring its landscapes and culture and confronting members of the Green Skull organization with Chen Yan and Gu Yuena’s help.
• The students gathered around a bonfire in the desert, where Gu Yuena rested against Chen Yan and Xu Hao’s requests for Chen Yan to sing went unanswered.
• After half a year, Xu Hao celebrated the return voyage as Shrek’s teachers and students boarded a passenger ship for the Douluo Continent.

The Inner Courtyard prepared for Shrek Academy’s Sea God's Fate Matchmaking Conference as students gossiped about Gu Yuena’s participation and Yun Ming arrived with the academy’s leaders. The conference was about to begin, while Li Mingxuan faced Li Xuanya’s suspicions about a supposed date with his sister-in-law.

• Xu Hao asked Sun Siyuan how things were going with Song Ya, then envied his apparent romantic progress.
• Li Xuanya silently confronted Li Mingxuan until he tried to leave, then accused him of rushing off on a date with his sister-in-law.
• Inner Courtyard students discussed Gu Yuena joining the Sea God's Fate Matchmaking Conference and recalled how Chen Yan had beaten challengers who pursued her.
• Students and staff decorated Sea God Lake, and Outer Courtyard students gathered to watch the conference begin.
• Yun Ming and Ya Li arrived on the pleasure boat, while Zhuo Shi and Feng Wuyu teased Yun Ming about being one of the few happily partnered people among them.
• Yun Ming threatened to take Zhuo Shi and Feng Wuyu to the barren mountains for a beating, and both men quickly backed down.

Lan Muzi and Tang Yinmeng hosted the Sea God's Fate Matchmaking Conference on Sea God Lake, introducing the rules and the masked Inner Courtyard participants. The male students competed fiercely for positions on the lotus leaves while the female students settled in calmly, and the conference reached its opening stage.

• Yun Ming directed everyone’s attention to the center of Sea God Lake, where Lan Muzi and Tang Yinmeng descended in pillars of light and introduced themselves as the hosts.
• Wu Zhangkong watched Lan Muzi and Tang Yinmeng, recalling his own student days and a woman from his past.
• Lan Muzi welcomed the Inner Courtyard participants and explained that students had to claim lotus-leaf positions across the lake without falling into the water.
• The male and female students took their places in cloaks and veiled dresses, concealing their identities from the spectators.
• The male students fought over preferred positions while the female students politely yielded to one another, and the illuminated lotus leaves transformed the lake into the matchmaking stage.

Lan Muzi began the Sea God Fate Matchmaking Conference’s first segment, Mutual Appreciation, in which the male students tried to remove the female students’ Bamboo Hats. After the first participant was easily defeated by a powerful female Soul Sage, Yue Zhengyu revealed his face and prepared to make his move.

• Lan Muzi explained the rules of Mutual Appreciation, and the female students formed a line across the lake.
• Male student number one removed his mask and attacked the girls with a wave of water.
• A female Soul Sage halted the wave, shaped the water into a tiger, and knocked male student number one into the lake.
• Lan Muzi warned the male students to be cautious and reminded them that the girls were stronger on average.
• Yue Zhengyu revealed his handsome face, introduced himself to the girls, and offered to unveil their Bamboo Hats.

Yue Zhengyu used a tiny angel spirit to win over the girls at the matchmaking conference, removing six bamboo hats and setting a new record. The other contestants struggled to match him, and Ding Xiaoling stopped a later contestant’s attack before the segment continued.

• Yue Zhengyu summoned a tiny angel and sent her to ask the girls to remove their bamboo hats.
• Ding Xiaoling removed her hat to comfort the angel, while another girl pushed the spirit away.
• Yue Zhengyu bypassed the unreceptive girl and stopped after winning over six girls, the most anyone had managed so far.
• A male contestant refused to reveal his face, then launched an attack that Ding Xiaoling stopped with a powerful pull.
• Xu Lizhi surrendered when his turn came, and the mutual appreciation segment continued with more than ten girls still veiled.

Chen Yan removed Gu Yuena’s bamboo hat during the Sea God Fairies Matchmaking Conference, but she took off his mask and kissed him in front of everyone. After the first segment ended, the conference began its second segment, where the female students would decide which male participants could stay.

• Number Forty-Three swiftly crossed to Gu Yuena and removed her bamboo hat, revealing her face to the crowd.
• Gu Yuena removed Number Forty-Three’s mask, revealing Chen Yan, and then kissed him in front of the participants and elders.
• Chen Yan told Gu Yuena to wait for him before leaving, and she agreed.
• Tang Yinmeng announced the Love at First Sight segment, in which the female students would use Soul Guidance lamps to choose which male students remained.
• Lan Muzi warned that if none of the female students left any lamps lit, they would forfeit the Matchmaking Conference as Yue Zhengyu became the first male participant to face their decision.