Chapter Summaries

The Soul Master Tournament began as the major powers watched the Sun Moon team, whose seat for Jin Tianming remained empty. Shrek Academy was assigned the opening match against an unknown academy, while Lei Ze quietly burned with anger over Jin Tianming’s absence.

• Jing Hongchen restrained himself from attacking Xiao Hongchen and warned him to behave during the tournament.
• Mo Yan noticed Jin Tianming’s empty seat and told Dugu Luo she expected the tournament to be troublesome.
• Xu Jiujiu asked Wen Yu about Jin Tianming, but Wen Yu reassured her that it was too early to worry.
• Lei Ze hid his fury from Ning Tian and Wu Feng, blaming Jin Tianming for taking the chance to die for the main body before him.
• The referee announced Shrek Academy’s match against an unknown academy as the tournament’s opening battle.

Dugu Luo faced the opposing team alone and appeared not to activate her Martial Soul, prompting the seven members to attack her. She stopped them all without moving, leaving the arena stunned and the other teams wary of her.

• Mo Yan sent Dugu Luo to fight the opposing team by herself.
• Xu Jiujiu and Wen Yu discussed Dugu Luo’s poison mastery and the limits of her abilities.
• The seven opponents released their Martial Souls and demanded that Dugu Luo stop looking down on them.
• Dugu Luo counted to three as the opponents charged, then asked when they had decided she had not activated her Martial Soul or respected them.
• The seven attackers suddenly fell and became unable to move, while Dugu Luo remained standing and the arena fell silent.

Dugu Luo overwhelmed her opponents with poison, winning the match for the Shrek Team and revealing that her entire body was a source of deadly toxins. Huo Yuhao was injured after trying to inspect her, while Du Busi rejected an elder’s suggestion to pursue her.

• Tang San watched Dugu Luo’s poison with alarm, while Zhang Lexuan and Mo Yan discussed how quietly she had released it.
• Huo Yuhao used his Spirit Eyes to examine Dugu Luo, declared her a walking poison miasma, and began bleeding from his eyes.
• Dugu Luo realized her poison had paralyzed the referee, withdrew it, and the referee announced the Shrek Team’s victory over seven unconscious opponents.
• Dugu Luo told the referee that the defeated students would recover after a week, then returned to her team.
• Du Busi compared Dugu Luo to her mother and slapped a Body Sect elder for suggesting they act against her; the elder asked him to slap him again.

Dugu Luo’s poison stunned the spectators, while Tang San decided to search the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion for divine power. Lei Ze unexpectedly volunteered to fight alone, leaving the other teams wondering what had changed him.

• Wen Yu told Xu Jiujiu that Dugu Luo’s body was filled with poison she could control precisely, making her a dangerous weapon.
• Dugu Luo returned to Mo Yan, while Tang San grew wary of her and arranged to visit the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion with Dai Huabin that night.
• As the competition continued, Lei Ze volunteered to fight for the Heavenly Soul Team and walked onto the arena alone.
• Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Vina wondered what had provoked Lei Ze, while Mo Yan, Black, Bai Yu, and Wen Yu watched in surprise.
• Wen Yu remarked that Lei Ze seemed to have gone from weakness to extreme rage.

Lei Ze entered the Soul Master Tournament alone for the Heavenly Soul Team and unleashed terrifying Ultimate Lightning against the opposing seven-man team. His transformation drew intense attention from Shrek's spectators, who suspected it was connected to Jin Tianming.

• Lei Ze surprised the tournament audience and his teammates by taking the arena alone, while the opposing captain mocked his challenge.
• Lei Ze ignored the captain's taunts and asked the referee to begin the match.
• The opposing team revealed its martial souls and soul rings, led by a five-ring Soul King.
• Lei Ze's restraint broke, and he flooded the arena with destructive blue Ultimate Lightning.
• Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo recognized Lei Ze's power, while Mo Yan suspected his change was tied to Jin Tianming.
• Bai Yu and Black felt the lightning's pressure from Shrek's resting area, and Black noted that both Dragon Soul Clones were powerful.

Lei Ze overwhelmed seven opponents with his lightning in the Soul Master Tournament, then attacked Jin Tianming, a member of his family, and revealed his anger toward him. Wen Yu stopped their confrontation and urged them to settle their feud through competition.

• Lei Ze charged through the seven opponents in a flash of lightning and electrocuted them, winning the match.
• Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Princess Vina were stunned by Lei Ze’s strength, and Ning Tian told Vina this was the second time they had discovered how powerful Xiao Ze was.
• Lei Ze sensed something and sent a lightning serpent toward the Sun Moon Team, but Jin Tianming blocked it with a spatial barrier.
• Jin Tianming taunted Lei Ze, who admitted he was genuinely angry with him despite not having been directly offended.
• Wen Yu stepped between them and urged them to settle their family grievances through the tournament, while the audience began gossiping about their connection.

Wen Yu stopped Lei Ze and Jin Tianming from fighting at the tournament, and Lei Ze reluctantly left the arena. After treating the injured contestants, Wen Yu returned to her team while Lei Ze brooded over his unresolved personal anger.

• Wen Yu intervened between Lei Ze and Jin Tianming, while Mo Yan and Zhang Lexuan noticed Jin Tianming had mastered Extreme Space.
• Wen Yu warned that she would join Jin Tianming to stop Lei Ze, and Lei Ze suppressed his anger and walked off the arena.
• Jin Tianming returned to the Sun Moon Team, and Wen Yu apologized to the audience and healed the contestants Lei Ze had knocked unconscious.
• Xu Jiujiu asked Wen Yu about the conflict between Lei Ze and Jin Tianming, but Wen Yu declined to explain.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng asked Lei Ze what was wrong, and he said it was a personal matter before falling silent again.

Jin Tianming’s display of spatial power impressed the Sun Moon team, while the White Tiger Duke’s family reeled from Dai Yueheng’s injury and White Tiger Madam fainted after seeing Tang San with Dai Huabin. Long Xiaoyao then confronted Jin Tianming about the space element and unleashed a terrifying pressure in his room.

• Xiao Hongchen asked Jin Tianming to teach him the spatial technique, but Jin teased him about his brain, and Jing Hongchen backed up the joke by frightening him with his Soul Power.
• Jing Hongchen told Jin Tianming that he had informed Kong Deming about the space element, and Jin accepted that the information would reach him sooner or later.
• At the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion, White Tiger Madam grieved over Dai Yueheng’s severed arm while Dai Hao shut himself away drinking.
• Dai Huabin brought Tang San to see his mother, and White Tiger Madam fainted when she saw Tang San with her son.
• While Jin Tianming worked on his Soul Tool, Long Xiaoyao appeared at his window, questioned him about the space element, and covered the room in overwhelming pressure after Jin confirmed it.

Long Xiaoyao confronted Jin Tianming about Shengyangyue’s Authority of Space and Ye Xishui, then attacked Jin after learning she had died. A mysterious woman intervened, while Mo Yan watched from the Shrek Academy hotel and chose not to help.

• Long Xiaoyao questioned Jin Tianming about his use of Shengyangyue’s Authority of Space, and Jin confirmed he had inherited it.
• Long Xiaoyao asked where Ye Xishui was, and Jin told him she was dead and had died to give his master a chance to ascend to godhood.
• Long Xiaoyao erupted in grief and anger and lunged at Jin Tianming, who prepared to flee using his martial soul and spatial transference.
• A cold, mysterious woman emerged from the shadows and stopped Long Xiaoyao from attacking Jin.
• At the Shrek Academy hotel, Mo Yan watched the confrontation and told Dugu Luo she would not save Jin.

Long Yaoqing confronted Long Xiaoyao at the Sun Moon Hotel and crippled him with her Ultimate Ice after he tried to kill Jin Tianming. When Star Luo’s Titled Douluo intervened, she struck one down and demanded that they choose whether to fight her or let her finish Long Xiaoyao.

• Star Luo’s Titled Douluo sensed Long Xiaoyao attacking at the Sun Moon Hotel but initially stayed away, hoping he would eliminate Jin Tianming.
• Jing Hongchen shielded Jin Tianming and asked what had happened, and Jin Tianming dismissed Long Xiaoyao as a man seeking revenge over his dead beloved.
• Long Xiaoyao lost control and launched a lethal Dark Element attack at Jing Hongchen and Jin Tianming, but Long Yaoqing froze and shattered it.
• Long Yaoqing trapped Long Xiaoyao with Ultimate Ice and blasted off his left shoulder, leaving him unable to mobilize his Soul Power.
• The Star Luo Titled Douluo arrived, but Long Yaoqing struck their spokesman with an ice-blue laser and demanded that the others either stop her together or stand aside.

Long Yaoqing confronted Long Xiaoyao while the Star Luo Empire's Titled Douluo refused to intervene, leaving him at her mercy. She blasted off his right shoulder and continued torturing him as the others debated whether to alert Shrek Academy.

• The Star Luo Empire's Titled Douluo held back after realizing Long Yaoqing had subdued them without releasing her martial soul or soul rings.
• Long Xiaoyao called on the Star Luo Titled Douluo for help, but they stayed back and gave him no answer.
• Long Yaoqing mocked the Titled Douluo and froze Jing Hongchen into an ice sculpture for criticizing her.
• Long Yaoqing fired an ice laser at Long Xiaoyao, blasting off his right shoulder and leaving him screaming in pain.
• The Star Luo Titled Douluo discussed notifying Shrek Academy, but none dared leave or challenge Long Yaoqing.

Long Yaoqing killed Long Xiaoyao after he threatened Shrek Academy and Tang San, then left Jin Tianming to handle the aftermath. When Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo told Mo Yan what happened, she calmly agreed to go see whether Senior Long could still be saved, while privately anticipating the spectacle.

• Long Yaoqing dismembered Long Xiaoyao and gave him a chance to speak, but he threatened her with Shrek Academy and Tang San.
• Jin Tianming mocked Long Xiaoyao, and Long Yaoqing killed him with an ice-blue beam.
• Long Yaoqing refused to thaw Jing Hongchen, warned the Star Luo Empire's Titled Douluo with a glance, and vanished.
• A Star Luo Empire Titled Douluo informed the Shrek Team of Long Xiaoyao's death, prompting Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo to visit Mo Yan.
• Mo Yan said she would go see whether Senior Long could still be saved, while secretly looking forward to watching what happened.

Mo Yan, Zhang Lexuan, and Han Ruoruo inspected the aftermath of Long Xiaoyao’s death at the Sun Moon Team’s hotel, where Mo Yan fixated on the missing head and how to explain the corpse to Shrek Academy. The group agreed to speak with the Sun Moon Team immediately, and when the Star Luo Empire requested a witness, Mo Yan and Jin Tianming called for Wen Yu.

• Mo Yan and the others entered Jin Tianming’s room and found Long Xiaoyao’s severed limbs scattered across the bloodied ice.
• Mo Yan asked Jin Tianming where Long Xiaoyao’s head was, then reproached him for not preventing it from exploding because she needed to bring the body back to Shrek Academy.
• A Star Luo Empire Titled Douluo asked Mo Yan how Shrek would respond, and she redirected the question to Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo.
• Zhang Lexuan proposed speaking with Senior Jing Hongchen immediately, and Han Ruoruo agreed.
• Mo Yan and Jin Tianming decided to confront the Sun Moon Team at once, but a Star Luo Empire Titled Douluo asked to witness the negotiation.
• Mo Yan and Jin Tianming agreed that Wen Yu should come as the witness.

Mo Yan and Jin Tianming forced Wen Yu to serve as a witness for their negotiations by threatening to implicate her in the attempted assassination of Xu Jiawei. Wen Yu reluctantly agreed, and the waiting Titled Douluo realized the negotiations were about to begin.

• Wen Yu refused to help Mo Yan and Jin Tianming until they used her private remarks and the attempted assassination of Xu Jiawei to pressure her.
• Wen Yu agreed to act as a witness, though she warned that Xuan Zi or Yan Shao Zhe might hold her responsible afterward.
• Jin Tianming supported Mo Yan's proposal, and Wen Yu angrily went to change clothes.
• Shattering Star Douluo and Xuan Ji Douluo objected to Wen Yu serving as witness, but Wang Xian'er defended her choice.
• Wen Yu emerged with Jin Tianming and Mo Yan, and the Star Luo Empire's Titled Douluo recognized that the negotiations were about to begin.

Jing Hongchen confronted Shrek Academy over Long Xiaoyao’s death, accusing the academy of threatening Jin Tianming and demanding an explanation. When no one challenged his accusations, he realized that everyone in the meeting, including the supposed witness, seemed to be on the same side.

• Jing Hongchen shivered under a blanket after Long Yaoqing’s Ultimate Ice left him severely chilled, while Xiao Hongchen mocked him.
• Jin Tianming entered the meeting room with Mo Yan, Zhang Lexuan, and Han Ruoruo, and Jing Hongchen hid the true cause of his condition.
• Zhang Lexuan demanded that the Sun Moon Empire explain Long Xiaoyao’s death in Jin Tianming’s room.
• Jing Hongchen angrily accused Shrek Academy of needing to explain why a Limit Douluo had entered Jin Tianming’s room at night.
• Zhang Lexuan asked what explanation Jing Hongchen wanted, while the others remained calm and Jin Tianming appeared to ignore the dispute.
• Jing Hongchen realized the people in the room, including Wen Yu, seemed to be aligned against him.

Zhang Lexuan and Jing Hongchen began discussing Shrek's compensation, while Mo Yan revealed that Tang San had destroyed Mu En's soul. The negotiation ended with Mo Yan ordering Jing Hongchen to rewrite his already enormous compensation list and demand even more.

• Zhang Lexuan invited Jing Hongchen to decide what compensation Shrek should provide, and he asked what Mu En would think of her opposing Shrek.
• Mo Yan told Jing Hongchen that Tang San had destroyed Mu En's soul, leaving him stunned.
• Wen Yu interrupted their conversation and urged everyone to return to negotiating compensation.
• Zhang Lexuan gave Jing Hongchen a blank sheet and told him to write down whatever he wanted, promising to cover any shortfall herself.
• Jing Hongchen listed an enormous amount of resources, but Mo Yan called it too little and told him to rewrite it more ruthlessly.

Mo Yan and Jin Tianming used Jing Hongchen’s compensation negotiations to set up an impossible claim against Shrek Academy. Mo Yan explained that the plan would damage Shrek’s reputation, inflame its conflict with the Sun Moon Empire, and help her faction seize control of the academy.

• Mo Yan rejected Jing Hongchen’s initial compensation demands and threatened him until he wrote a much harsher list.
• Mo Yan approved the revised demands and asked Wen Yu to witness them; Wen Yu left to make arrangements with her teacher and the Titled Douluo.
• Jing Hongchen realized that Mo Yan and Jin Tianming had another purpose behind their negotiation.
• Zhang Lexuan explained to Han Ruoruo that the impossible demands were meant to intensify conflict between Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Empire.
• Mo Yan said she planned to use Long Xiaoyao’s death and the worsening conflict to purge opponents within Shrek and seize control of the academy.

Elder Song faced Shrek Academy’s new crisis after Star Luo Empire returned Long Xiaoyao’s corpse, while Tang San absorbed a hidden divine trace in White Tiger Duke’s Mansion and began plotting around an arriving guest. The chapter ended with Shrek’s elders uncovering the horrifying condition of Long Xiaoyao’s body.

• Elder Song decided to inspect Long Xiaoyao’s body and keep its return secret from the confined Xuan Zi and Yan Shao Zhe.
• Tang San absorbed the divine consciousness hidden in Huo Yuhao’s former room, advanced to Soul King, and gained three purple and two black soul rings.
• Tang San learned that the White Tiger Duke was preparing a banquet for an honored guest and headed to the Duke’s study with a new plan.
• Dragon Soul Clan spies watched Tang San throughout the mansion without his knowledge.
• Zhang Lexuan told Mo Yan that Star Luo Empire had returned Long Xiaoyao’s corpse, but Mo Yan remained unconcerned.
• Elder Song and the other elders lifted the sheet covering Long Xiaoyao’s body and recoiled at its horrific condition.

Shrek Academy's elders learned that the Sun Moon team demanded enormous compensation and access to the Golden Tree after Long Xiaoyao's head was taken, leaving Elder Song unsure whether to accept. At the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, Xuan Ji Douluo prepared to share a secret with Dai Hao, but Tang San was caught eavesdropping and Xuan Ji threatened to kill him.

• Shrek's elders discovered that Long Xiaoyao's head was missing and read a letter explaining that a mysterious Limit Douluo had taken it as a warning.
• The elders learned that the Sun Moon team demanded ten Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, rare resources, and access to the Golden Tree or its origin.
• Gong Changlong wanted to attack the Star Luo Empire, but Elder Zhuang stopped him by warning that the Limit Douluo could kill him.
• Elder Song asked whether Shrek should accept the demands, while the elders remained silent and uncertain.
• Xuan Ji Douluo visited Dai Hao at the White Tiger Duke's Mansion and began preparing to reveal an important secret in private.
• Xuan Ji caught Tang San eavesdropping from a ceiling beam, and Dai Hao identified him as an ally before Xuan Ji said he should kill him anyway.

At the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, Tang San revealed to Dai Hao that Huo Yuhao and Huo Yutong were his twin children. Meanwhile, Elder Song received Mo Yan's refusal to handle Shrek Academy's treaty crisis and found a way forward.

• Xuan Ji Douluo tried to kill Tang San for being a Shrek student, but Dai Hao stopped him by revealing that Tang San was Dai Huabin's beloved.
• Tang San told Xuan Ji Douluo that he was also a Clear Sky Sect disciple, easing the elder's suspicions.
• Elder Song showed the Sea God Pavilion elders a document stating that she alone held responsibility for Academy affairs until the Soul Master Tournament ended.
• Dugu Yan delivered Mo Yan's message that she would not handle the compensation treaty, though she would keep the Limit Douluo from visiting the Academy; Elder Song found a way to respond.
• Tang San told Dai Hao that Huo Yuhao and Huo Yutong were his son and daughter, born as dragon-phoenix twins.