Chapter Summaries

The Sea God Pavilion elders held a meeting at Shrek Academy, where Mu En and Xuan Zi remained characteristically casual while officials gave their reports. A request from the Clear Sky Sect revealed that Wang Dong’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill partner was expected to give her a soul bone, prompting the elders to question who that partner was.

• Mu En arrived early and read a magazine while waiting for the Sea God Pavilion meeting to begin.
• Xuan Zi entered with a chicken leg, and the elders waited in silence for the red-robed youth before Mu En opened the meeting.
• Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, and the other elders reported on their departments’ work and plans.
• Elder Lin reported that the Clear Sky Sect wanted a soul bone delivered to its young master, Wang Dong, through the Treasure Appreciation Fair.
• Elder Lin explained that the Clear Sky Sect hoped Wang Dong’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill partner would personally give her the soul bone, and the elders questioned whether she could fuse with someone else.

Shrek Academy’s elders discovered that the soul bone sent by the Clear Sky Sect contained ancient Light Dragon King blood, prompting speculation about Wang Dong’s identity and the Sea God’s trials. Mu En ordered the academy to keep its suspicions secret and arranged for Jiang Lan to receive a red card to the Treasure Appreciation Fair so the soul bone would not remain in Shrek’s hands.

• Yan Shaozhe recalled that Wang Dong’s team had faced two Martial Soul Fusion Skill teams during the final assessment, renewing questions about her unknown partner.
• Elder Lin presented the Glow of Gold soul bone, and Mu En’s contact with it revealed a trace of ancient Light Dragon King blood that stirred the dragon-linked elders.
• Mu En and the elders reasoned that the soul bone likely came from the Clear Sky Sect’s private collection, then connected it to Wang Dong, the Sea God Eight Trials, and the possibility of a new god.
• Mu En forbade the elders from sharing their speculations and directed Yan Shaozhe to give Jiang Lan a red card for the Treasure Appreciation Fair.
• Yan Shaozhe worried the move could provoke the Clear Sky Sect or the Beast Sect, but Mu En insisted Shrek should not keep the soul bone or become involved in any resulting conflict.

Hai Ling suspected that the Sea God had chosen him as a future heir and was using his trials to prepare him for divine succession. After learning Shrek’s tournament lineup, he resolved to find a way to make the academy lose and went to the Shrek Monitoring Group’s mission archives to look for an opportunity.

• Hai Ling recalled his mysterious childhood, his Sea God trials, and his suspicion that Tang San’s generous rewards concealed a price and a plan to pass on the Sea God’s position.
• Hai Ling told Xuan Zi that his sixth trial required him to lead Shrek to victory in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament, while privately deciding he needed Shrek to lose.
• Yan Shaozhe named the provisional main and reserve teams, including Wang Dong, and Mu En urged him to treat the Beast Sect students fairly.
• Hai Ling left the elders’ meeting before the discussion ended and went to the Shrek Monitoring Group’s mission archives.
• Hai Ling searched for a chance to prevent Shrek Academy from winning the championship.

Shrek Academy opened the school year with a theory-based promotion assessment, while Wang Rui sensed subtle changes in fate and considered investigating Sea God Island. Huo Yuqing’s fear of Dai Huabin surfaced, but Wang Rui comforted her and offered to help her fight him, leaving her with renewed warmth and confidence.

• Wang Yan announced that second-year students would take cultivation inspections and a written theory exam instead of practical combat.
• Wang Rui finished the exam early, sensed that fate had subtly changed, and decided he might need to investigate Sea God Island.
• Ning Tian noticed that Huo Yuqing had become much stronger, and Huo Yuqing admitted she believed she could now defeat Dai Huabin.
• Seeing Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu, Huo Yuqing felt fear that caused a point of light in her Sea of Consciousness to turn ash-gray.
• Wang Rui held Huo Yuqing’s hand and offered to help her challenge Dai Huabin, easing her distress as another point of light turned pale pinkish-purple.

An Wen invited Huo Yuqing and the others to Shrek City’s Treasure Appreciation Fair, but Wang Rui withdrew after receiving an urgent summons from his alternate body. Disguised as Di Feng, he met Jing Hongchen in Mingdu, where Jing asked for help treating his daughter and protecting his family’s team on its trip to Star Luo City; Wang Rui left his answer open and asked whether Jing had brought his daughter.

• An Wen handed out invitations to the Treasure Appreciation Fair, and the group decided to visit it before eating at the Moon Shadow Merchant Guild.
• Wang Rui received an urgent message from Jing Hongchen and told Huo Yuqing he could not go, promising to take her out alone the following week.
• At the Moon Shadow Merchant Guild, Jing Hongchen waited anxiously for Di Feng, who arrived and questioned his request to regrow his daughter’s severed arm.
• Jing Hongchen offered rare metals and mining rights in exchange for an introduction to the Beast Sect’s healers and asked Di Feng to accompany the Imperial Soul Engineer Academy team to Star Luo City.
• Wang Rui suspected Jing Hongchen was concealing part of his motive, accepted neither request outright, and asked whether Jing had brought his daughter.

Wang Rui used the Eye of Destiny to uncover Xi Hongchen’s death and forced survival, then persuaded Jing Hongchen to arrange exchange studies between the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and the Beast Sect. He secured three tournament slots and demanded whatever Xi Hongchen had obtained in the Extreme North Land.

• Wang Rui saw that Xi Hongchen had died in the Far North and been kept alive by the Sun-Moon Twin Martial Soul’s Yin-Yang Mirror, with a fate connection to the Snow Empress.
• Wang Rui inferred that Jing Hongchen planned to send his daughter and grandchildren away from the Sun Moon Empire amid the succession struggle and urged him to choose the Beast Sect over Shrek Academy for exchange studies.
• Jing Hongchen agreed to the Beast Sect exchange after Wang Rui offered access to its cities, research, and pill-refining knowledge.
• Wang Rui requested three Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy tournament slots for Lan Fuzi and another disciple, and Jing Hongchen agreed to let them train at Mingde Hall.
• Wang Rui offered to have Emerald Elixir Hall repair Xi Hongchen’s meridians and regenerate her severed limb, then demanded what she had gained in the Extreme North Land.

Wang Rui secured the Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone and considered the risks of helping Xi Hongchen before turning his attention to the Holy Spirit Cult. Lan Fuzi’s history as a displaced Deep Sea Demon Whale and her struggle to hold power in the cult left her facing a gathering of Titled Douluo and fearing she would lose her position as Holy Maiden.

• Wang Rui examined the Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone, speculated about Xi Hongchen’s talents and past, then sealed the bone in a box.
• Wang Rui left the reception room to deal with matters involving the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Lan Fuzi recalled fleeing the Sea God’s forces with her mother, becoming human, and learning to navigate human society under Di Feng’s guidance.
• Lan Fuzi described how the Demon Empress made her and Lan Lingtong the Holy Maiden and Holy Son, leaving her to struggle for real authority in the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Lan Fuzi faced the cult’s Titled Douluo elders and feared she was about to lose her position as Holy Maiden.

Wang Rui’s Holy Spirit Cult was revealed as a tool for containing and manipulating Evil Soul Masters, while Lan Fuzi faced a bid to replace her as Holy Maiden with Tang Ya. After a Shrek raid threatened the cult’s standing, Zhongli Wu planned retaliation, and Wang Rui awakened a fox-headed corpse in the Mist Sea that set its sights on Shrek near the Mingdou Mountains.

• Wang Rui’s doctrine divided the Holy Spirit Cult’s Evil Soul Masters into factions that either restrained their Martial Souls’ malice or embraced slaughter, while his agents manipulated both sides.
• Zhongli Wu challenged Lan Fuzi’s position as Holy Maiden and introduced Feng Ling’s adopted daughter Tang Ya, whose Martial Soul had evolved into the Dark Blue Silver King.
• Lan Fuzi exposed the damage Shrek’s Monitoring Group had inflicted on the cult and secured Zhongli Wu’s promise to retaliate, then announced an upcoming tournament selection and the Holy Son’s trip to Mingdu.
• Wang Rui visited the Mist Sea and awakened an ancient fox-headed female corpse, which told him to go east because an enemy’s servant would soon arrive there.
• A masked cult member opened the ancient coffin and was compelled by the Fox-Headed Female Corpse to strangle himself, after which she set out toward Shrek near the Mingdou Mountains and Star Luo Empire border.

After exhausting himself projecting his consciousness into Di Feng, Wang Rui devised a plan to undermine Tang San’s faith through Douluo-themed mystery boxes, though he lacked the workers to carry it out. When his roommates returned arguing over a valuable soul bone, Jiang Lan revealed she had already bought it.

• Wang Rui recovered from controlling Di Feng and considered taking Huo Yuqing on an outing.
• Wang Rui imagined using mystery boxes featuring Tang San to stir negative emotions and weaken the faith supporting the Sea God, but set the plan aside because the Beast Sect lacked manpower.
• An Wen and Wang Dong returned to the dorm arguing over who should buy the Glow of Gold Soul Bone, while Huo Yuqing, Ma Xiaotao, Bai Chenxiang, and Jiang Lan joined them.
• Wang Rui learned that An Wen and Wang Dong had argued over the soul bone and had come back to raise the money for it.
• Jiang Lan admitted that she had bought the Glow of Gold Soul Bone, leaving An Wen and Wang Dong dismayed.

At the Treasure Appreciation Fair, Wang Dong struggled with an unexplained compulsion to keep a dragon-bloodline soul bone, and Jiang Lan intervened to protect her. The group exchanged it for an Emerald Swan External Soul Bone, while Wang Rui sent a letter and Huo Yuqing hinted she had found something valuable.

• Jiang Lan gave Wang Dong the Glow of Gold Left Arm Bone, but Wang Dong's intense desire for it worried her and An Wen.
• Wang Rui offered an eighty-thousand-year Radiant Unicorn soul bone and then an Emerald Swan External Soul Bone in exchange, while Wang Dong suffered a severe headache and struggled to reject the Glow of Gold.
• Jiang Lan took the jade box from Wang Dong and arranged the exchange, weakening the compulsion and easing Wang Dong's pain.
• Wang Dong told her friends that something seemed to be controlling her mind, and they promised to keep the exchange secret before she and An Wen left.
• Wang Rui sent a letter by bat, and Huo Yuqing asked about the Emerald Swan soul bone before teasing that she had found something good at the fair.

Lu Mingyou asked the Goddess of Life for help treating Wang Dong, whose soul was severely incomplete and whose body may have been deliberately altered. The goddess gave Lu Mingyou a piece of the Life God Armor to stabilize him and prepare to investigate further after a Divine Realm Committee meeting, where the Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction planned to confront Tang San.

• Lu Mingyou visited the Goddess of Life and explained that Wang Dong had lost more than half of his soul and might have been deliberately harmed.
• The Goddess of Life said she could examine Wang Dong through a piece of the Life God Armor and that its divine power would stabilize him for at least ten years.
• Lu Mingyou took a pair of emerald wings from the projected armor and bowed to the Goddess of Life.
• After Lu Mingyou's visit ended, the Goddess of Life mourned her disciple's limited lifespan, while the God of Destruction comforted her.
• The God of Destruction said he would make Tang San pay at the Divine Realm Committee meeting for tampering with the Golden Dragon King's seal and stealing the Golden Dragon Spear, and the Goddess of Life did not object.

Huo Yuqing awakened a new ability that let her see other people’s emotions, then joined Wang Rui and their allies for the core disciples’ collective free-for-all assessment. The battle began with Wang Rui assigning the group their opponents and Huo Yuqing preparing to face Dai Huabin.

• Wang Yan gathered the core disciples and led them to the Soul Duelling Zone for their assessment.
• Huo Yuqing used her new emotion-seeing vision on Beibei and sensed his sorrow, anger, fear, and lingering love.
• Wang Rui told Huo Yuqing that Tang Ya had become an Evil Soul Master and defected.
• The Taotie Douluo announced that the last seven students standing in the unrestricted free-for-all would win.
• Wang Rui assigned the group their opponents, told Huo Yuqing to handle the Hell White Tiger, and the students began fighting.

Huo Yuqing and her teammates overwhelmed the other Core Disciples with coordinated debuffs and attacks, rapidly eliminating opponents. The battle continued as Xiao Xiao trapped an attacker and Huo Yuqing confronted Dai Huabin, while Wang Rui’s team’s intentions remained unclear to him.

• A fourth-year lion Soul Elder charged Xu Sanshi and Beibei but was terrified by Huo Yuqing’s Spiritual Shock and thrown out of the arena by Xuan Zi.
• Huo Yuqing, Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, Wang Dong, and An Wen combined their abilities to weaken and attack their opponents, and Wang Dong’s strike eliminated eight students.
• Wang Dong and An Wen pursued the remaining opponents while Xiao Xiao blocked an Agility Attack Soul Elder who tried to attack Ning Tian.
• Xiao Xiao used the Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron to stop the Agility Attack Soul Elder from retreating, while Xuan Zi eliminated Xie Huan Yue.
• Dai Huabin questioned Huo Yuqing about her intentions after mistaking Wang Rui’s team’s restraint for an alliance, and Huo Yuqing prepared to attack him.

Huo Yuqing confronted Dai Huabin in the tournament and used her Ice Empress powers to match him despite their gap in Soul Power. After Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu formed the Hell White Tiger, Huo Yuqing exhausted her Soul Power and drew on her spiritual strength to overturn and throw the giant beast, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Huo Yuqing punched Dai Huabin and knocked him to the ground, surprising Xuan Zi.
• Dai Huabin charged Huo Yuqing with his enhanced White Tiger martial soul, but she blocked and countered him with Ice Emperor's Pincer.
• Huo Yuqing used Spiritual Detection to fend off Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu, then struck Zhu Lu with her scorpion tail.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu combined into the Hell White Tiger while Wang Rui and Xu Sanshi continued fighting nearby.
• Huo Yuqing summoned the Ice Jade Scorpion phantom and, after exhausting her Soul Power, used the Gold of Life and her Spiritual Power to overturn and hurl the Hell White Tiger.

Huo Yuqing and Wang Rui defeated the Hell White Tiger in the melee, leaving the students and teachers stunned. The Sea God Pavilion elders then debated the reserve team, with the Academy’s plans for its future taking precedence over old clan ties.

• Huo Yuqing exhausted herself defeating the Hell White Tiger and collapsed into Wang Rui’s arms after confirming that she had won.
• Wang Dong, An Wen, Xiao Xiao, and the others reacted to Huo Yuqing’s strength and the revelation of her hidden Martial Soul.
• Xuan Zi declared the assessment excellent and awarded the six students who remained on the arena extra points.
• Mù Jǐn celebrated that five students from her class had survived and gave them an extra day off.
• Xuan Zi argued that older students such as Beibei and Xu Sanshi should be added to the reserve team, while Yan Shaozhe defended keeping Xiao Xiao as a cultivation priority.
• Mu En stated that Shrek Academy would not let itself be left behind, even as the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda risked being surpassed by time.

Wang Rui reflected on Huo Yuqing as Soul Beasts’ hope and comforted her after her revenge against Dai Huabin, while keeping Wang Yan from investigating her Martial Soul. After waking, Huo Yuqing learned more about Ice Empress’s Soul Bone skills and prepared to go out with Wang Rui.

• Wang Rui watched Huo Yuqing sleep and resolved that she could not seek anyone else’s help for revenge after choosing not to ask him.
• Huo Yuqing woke after nearly a day of sleep as Wang Rui kept Wang Yan from questioning her about her Martial Soul and abilities.
• Huo Yuqing told Tian Meng and Ice Empress she had reclaimed what Dai Huabin owed her and would still reclaim what was owed to her mother.
• Ice Empress explained that Eternal Frozen Domain and Ice Emperor’s Descent were unique Soul Bone skills, and described the latter’s limits at Huo Yuqing’s current cultivation.
• Huo Yuqing teased Wang Rui by chilling him with her hands, then asked where they would go for fun.

Wang Dong, Jiang Lan, Ma Xiaotao, and Bai Chenxiang visited the Moon Shadow Merchant Guild, where a Martial Soul authentication mishap raised Bai Chenxiang’s suspicions about Jiang Lan’s origins. After shopping, Wang Dong was summoned to meet An Wen on the fifth floor to collect his soul bone.

• Wang Dong and his companions explored the Moon Shadow Merchant Guild while Bai Chenxiang studied its hidden Soul Tool systems and noticed its unusual attendants.
• Ma Xiaotao led the group to apply for membership cards, and the attendant’s crystal ball displayed Wang Dong’s Twin Martial Souls and produced a garbled image when Jiang Lan authenticated hers.
• The attendant registered Jiang Lan’s Martial Soul as Thunderous Hell Vine, prompting Bai Chenxiang to suspect Shrek had concealed its true nature and connect Jiang Lan to a former student with a Lightning Leopard Martial Soul.
• The group shopped on the first floor, buying clothes, perfumes, small goods, and stuffed dolls before a broadcast summoned Wang Dong to meet his guardian, An Wen, on the fifth floor.