Chapter Summaries

Wang Yan warned the Shrek Team that the Sun Moon Royal Team might wield Spiritual Metal Soul Tools, then led them toward the evening auction. In the corridor, Huo Yuhao reunited with Su Ming, while Bei Bei accused him of bringing the Body Sect to Shrek and hastening Mu En’s death.

• Wang Yan told the Shrek Team to conceal their strength and explained that Spiritual Metal could let lower-level Soul Engineers wield Soul Tools comparable to higher-level ones.
• Wang Yan said the Blacksmith Association might auction Spiritual Metal or related Soul Tools during the tournament and assigned Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong to investigate.
• Huo Yuhao recognized Su Ming in the corridor and greeted him, while Meng Hongchen became captivated by Wang Dong.
• Bei Bei identified Su Ming as someone from the Body Sect and accused him of bringing the sect to Shrek, causing Mu En’s remaining lifespan to be cut short.

Su Ming and the Sun Moon Royal Team encountered Shrek, whose members were largely uninjured, and Su Ming resolved to defeat them head-on. As both teams prepared for the competition, Bei Bei insisted he would face Su Ming, while Elder Ma urged the Sun Moon team to pursue the championship and its Spiritual Metal prize.

• Bei Bei grew angry at Su Ming's presence, while Huo Yuhao and Wang Yan recognized the connection between the Body Sect and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.
• Su Ming noticed that Shrek had suffered few injuries and speculated that Mu En's death had changed how Yan Shaozhe protected the students.
• Elder Ma led the Sun Moon Royal Team away without a confrontation, and Wang Yan restrained Bei Bei before agreeing he could fight Su Ming if he entered the competition.
• Meng Hongchen questioned Su Ming about Wang Dong, and Xiao Hongchen suggested that Huo Yuhao would have a better future as a Soul Engineer with the Body Sect.
• Elder Ma revealed that the champion would receive ten opportunities to commission custom Spiritual Metal, and Xiao Hongchen declared that they had to win.

Elder Ma warned the Sun Moon Royal Team that Shrek Academy had dominated past tournaments and urged them to fight seriously for the Spiritual Metal rewards. At the opening ceremony, Xu Jiawei announced the tournament format and prizes, including custom-made Spiritual Metal for the top three teams, and introduced an exhibition match and forging demonstration.

• Elder Ma reminded Xiao Hongchen and the Sun Moon Royal Team that they could not underestimate Shrek Academy and explained how valuable the tournament's custom-made Spiritual Metal rewards would be.
• The Sun Moon Royal Team rested before the opening ceremony, while Su Ming noted that Shrek's full-strength lineup would have been a clear championship favorite without him.
• The competing teams entered Star Luo Square, where Xiao Hongchen criticized the standing-only spectator area and its expensive admission.
• Xu Jiawei arrived with the empress and officials, welcomed the teams, and outlined the elimination round, group matches, Promotion Tournament, and finals.
• Xu Jiawei announced the imperial rewards and the Blacksmith Association's Spiritual Metal prizes for the top three teams.
• Xu Jiawei introduced an exhibition match between Shrek Academy and a randomly selected team, along with a forging demonstration.

Su Ming used Forging Faith to help a Body Sect disciple demonstrate Spiritual Metal to the tournament crowd, then watched Shrek Academy defeat Tianling Academy in the Exhibition Match. As the elimination rounds continued, Xu Jiawei accepted that the Star Luo Empire could not stop Spiritual Metal from reaching the Sun Moon Empire and decided it must instead block the Sun Moon Royal Team.

• Su Ming watched three Body Sect Forging Masters demonstrate their skills, and Forging Faith helped one achieve Thousand Forgings First Grade before two hundred thousand spectators.
• The newly promoted Forging Master explained that Spiritual Metal could resonate with and guide a Soul Master's Martial Soul, prompting the audience to take notice.
• Shrek Academy and Tianling Academy began the Exhibition Match, and Huo Yuhao joined Shrek's six official members while concealing the truth about his first Soul Ring.
• Ma Xiaotao and the Shrek Team defeated Tianling Academy, ending the Exhibition Match with a display of overwhelming firepower.
• The Sun Moon Royal Team won its elimination matches while Elder Ma tracked the teams and assessed their access to Spiritual Metal.
• Xu Jiawei accepted that the Star Luo Empire could not stop Spiritual Metal from flowing to the Sun Moon Empire and resolved to block the Sun Moon Royal Team.

Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu planned to use the Dou Ling Team to probe the Sun Moon Royal Team, which suspected it had been placed in a difficult group deliberately. In the opening match, Ma Rulong weakened the Dou Ling Team before reserve member Xiao Hongchen revealed his five-ring Soul King strength and defeated two opponents.

• Xu Jiawei assigned the Dou Ling Team to Xu Jiujiu's group so they could probe the Sun Moon Royal Team and, if possible, keep it out of the top three.
• Ma Rulong and Elder Ma concluded that the Star Luo Royal Team and Dou Ling Team had been grouped with them to target the Sun Moon Royal Team.
• The Sun Moon Royal Team drew an individual elimination match against the Dou Ling Team, and Ma Rulong eliminated one Soul King and two Soul Ancestors before Chi Hengyu defeated him.
• Xiao Hongchen entered as the Sun Moon Royal Team's second competitor, startling Xu Jiawei and the other teams by revealing five Soul Rings.
• Xiao Hongchen defeated Chi Hengyu with nine Rank 5 Soul Cannons, then used liquid metal and flames to blast away Han Linger, prompting the Dou Ling Team captain to catch her.

Xiao Hongchen overwhelmed the Dou Ling Team with 108 Rank 5 Soul Cannons, and the Sun Moon Royal Team continued trading fighters against the remaining opponents. Zhang Wei entered the arena as the next fighter, prompting the Shrek Team to realize he had once been their classmate before being expelled from Shrek.

• Xiao Hongchen defeated Xiao Feng with a barrage from his 108 Rank 5 Soul Cannons, leaving the Dou Ling Team and the gathered Soul Engineers stunned by his skill and firepower.
• Elder Ma sent Mi Jia to fight Qian Yuan, who defeated him with his Claw Bear martial soul.
• Chen Fei used his flying abilities against Qian Yuan but was eliminated after exhausting his skills to defeat him.
• Gu Zhujian eliminated Chen Fei with one sword strike, leaving himself as the Dou Ling Team's last fighter.
• Elder Ma chose Zhang Wei over Su Ming to face Gu Zhujian, and Zhang Wei stepped onto the arena.
• Dai Yueheng and Ling Luochen recognized Zhang Wei as a former Shrek classmate who had been expelled, and they confirmed he was a citizen of the Star Luo Empire.

Zhang Wei faced Gu Zhujian in the tournament, revealing the power of his Body Martial Soul and Spiritual Metal gauntlets. Gu Zhujian countered with his Level 6 Purple Thunder Sword, and the battle remained unresolved as their attacks collided.

• Dai Yueheng recognized Zhang Wei as a Star Luo Empire native on the Sun Moon Royal Team and reacted with hostility, while Zhang Wei sensed his killing intent.
• Wang Yan learned that Zhang Wei had a Body Martial Soul called Gall and questioned why Zhou Yi had expelled him.
• Zhang Wei activated all four Soul Skills and used a tiger’s roar and a barrage of Tiger Strikes to overwhelm Gu Zhujian’s Purple Blazing Bamboo.
• Gu Zhujian drew the Spiritual Metal Purple Thunder Sword, a Level 6 Soul Tool that amplified his Martial Soul, and unleashed his Sword Qi Dragon.
• Zhang Wei answered Gu Zhujian’s attack with a fearless roar and a punch backed by his Tiger Soul phantom.

Zhang Wei fought Gu Zhujian to a draw before both were eliminated, securing the Sun Moon Royal Team’s victory. After the match, the team continued winning while Xu Jiawei struggled to learn more about its lineup, and Wang Yan questioned why Shrek had expelled Zhang Wei.

• Zhang Wei’s will strengthened during his battle with Gu Zhujian, but the fight did not trigger a Second Awakening of his Martial Soul.
• Gu Zhujian unleashed his Thunder Sword Domain and final sword strike, while Zhang Wei repeatedly countered with Tiger Soul Fist until both fighters fell.
• Su Ming prepared to take Zhang Wei for treatment, but the Eight Arms Elder took him away, and Su Ming suggested the Elder intended to teach him.
• Wang Yan criticized Shrek for expelling Zhang Wei and vowed to report the matter to the academy’s higher-ups.
• The Sun Moon Royal Team won its next two matches while revealing little about its abilities, and Xu Jiawei grew anxious about how little he had learned.

The Star Luo Royal Team faced the Sun Moon Royal Team in a team battle, while Xu Jiujiu expected her team’s Soul Kings to force out the opponents’ trump cards. The match began with Su Ming entering the arena and revealing a ten-thousand-year third soul ring, leaving the spectators and rival teams stunned.

• After the Star Luo Royal Team defeated the Dou Ling Team, Xu Jiawei scheduled its match against the Sun Moon Royal Team, and the teams drew a team battle.
• Xu Jiujiu rallied the Star Luo Royal Team, confident that its strength gave it a strong chance of victory.
• Su Ming volunteered to fight for the Sun Moon Royal Team, and Elder Ma chose a rush strategy while keeping Ma Rulong’s Level 7 Soul Tool hidden.
• Xu Jiawei and Wang Yan were surprised that Su Ming entered the match, while Bei Bei told Wang Yan that Su Ming had been stronger than him a year earlier.
• At the start of the match, Su Ming revealed yellow, purple, and black soul rings, and the ten-thousand-year ring shocked Xu Jiawei, Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and the other teams.

Su Ming used his Spiritual Metal-enhanced Soul Tools and Star Tree Spirit to overwhelm the Star Luo Royal Team and secure a decisive victory. After the match, Shrek’s Wang Yan considered Xu Sanshi’s swapping Soul Skill as a counter, while the team questioned how Su Ming could become a Star Tree despite being a Body Sect disciple.

• Xu Jiujiu boosted her team with her Star Shine Technique and raised a group barrier, but Su Ming transformed into a towering Star Tree Giant.
• Su Ming repeatedly struck the Star Luo Royal Team from across the arena, while Zhang Wei added eight waves of Fist Force and the others bombarded the ground with Soul Cannons.
• The Sun Moon Royal Team crushed the Star Luo Royal Team in under a minute, and Xu Jiawei realized Su Ming possessed at least ten pieces of Spiritual Metal.
• Xu Jiawei concluded that the Sun Moon Royal Team was no longer a threat because its Spiritual Metal was concentrated in Su Ming and Zhang Wei, then resolved to cultivate forging masters.
• Wang Yan discussed using Xu Sanshi’s swapping Soul Skill against Su Ming, but Xu Sanshi doubted he could swap with the enormous Star Tree Giant.
• A Shrek teammate pointed out that Su Ming was a Body Sect disciple and asked how his Martial Soul could have become a Star Tree.

After Su Ming overwhelmed Xu Jiujiu's team with a Star Tree Giant, Huo Yuhao and Wang Yan debated whether Soul Spirits could explain the feat, while Tian Meng and Ice Empress questioned how much power Soul Spirits could provide. Xu Jiawei comforted Xu Jiujiu and concluded that the Body Sect would balance its support between the Sun Moon Empire and the other nations.

• Wang Yan considered whether Su Ming had Twin Martial Souls but could not explain how he had developed them safely.
• Tian Meng identified Su Ming's power as coming from Wisdom Soul Rings, and Huo Yuhao recognized them as Soul Spirits.
• Wang Yan and the Shrek Team became excited about using Soul Spirits in battle, while Tian Meng and Ice Empress argued that Su Ming's own abilities mattered more than his Soul Spirit.
• Tian Meng concluded that Su Ming's ability to condense the Star Tree Giant was the real feat worth investigating.
• Xu Jiawei comforted Xu Jiujiu after her team was swept aside and reasoned that the Body Sect would keep its support balanced between the Sun Moon Empire and the other nations.

Xu Jiawei and the Star Luo Royal Family scrambled to prepare after the Blacksmith Association unexpectedly announced a spiritual metal auction. As the auction began, teams gathered to bid on rare items, beginning with a powerful level 8 soul tool.

• Jing Hongchen kept spiritual metal from all soul engineers below level 9, including his own grandchildren, while the Sun Moon Royal Team grew more determined to win the championship.
• The Blacksmith Association announced an unanticipated auction of spiritual metal, prompting Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu to make urgent preparations.
• After the sixteen-day round-robin ended, Xu Jiujiu opened the Starlight Auction, where ten pieces of Thousand Forgings First Grade spiritual metal were bundled with ten Blacksmith Association branch slots.
• Su Ming asked Elder Ma about the Sun Moon Royal Team's funds, and Elder Ma said Mingde Hall could afford the bidding or sell level 8 soul tools if needed.
• Xu Jiujiu presented the first item, the level 8 Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade, and explained its soul-bone skill and reduced energy consumption.

The auction continued as Shrek Academy and the Body Sect competed for valuable lots, including a powerful blade and Soul Tool ammunition. Su Ming later bid for Star Soul Iron, which the Body Sect sought to keep out of Mingde Hall’s hands.

• Yan Shaozhe urged Dai Yueheng to bid for the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade, but Eight Arms outbid Shrek and secured it for the Body Sect.
• Xu Jiujiu introduced a set of twelve Level 6 Fixed Soul Tool Cannonballs, and He Caitou urged Yan Shaozhe to buy them for Shrek to study.
• Yan Shaozhe joined the bidding war for the cannonballs, and Shrek ultimately won the set at a higher-than-expected price.
• The auction sold several more lots, including three Soul Bones, a rare metal, and a Level 8 long-range Soul Tool.
• Su Ming bid for Star Soul Iron, and the Body Sect moved to acquire it before Mingde Hall could claim it.

Su Ming and others set their sights on the rare Ice Scorpion Left Arm Bone at the auction, but Huo Yuhao challenged its legitimacy before bidding began. The chapter ended with Yan Shaozhe asking Huo Yuhao to prove his claim, and Huo Yuhao revealing an Ice Scorpion pattern on his back.

• Su Ming learned that the Body Sect had secured the Star Soul Iron and reflected on its value for battle armor.
• Xu Jiujiu unveiled the Ice Scorpion Left Arm Bone and explained that it was an ice-attribute soul bone with the Ice Explosion skill.
• The Ice Empress urged Huo Yuhao to acquire the bone, while Su Ming and Meng Hongchen also expressed interest in it.
• Huo Yuhao asked the auction house to pause the sale, claiming the soul bone had a problem.
• Yan Shaozhe asked Huo Yuhao for evidence, and Huo Yuhao removed his upper garment to reveal an Ice Scorpion pattern on his back.

Huo Yuhao warned that the Ice Scorpion Left Arm Bone could only be absorbed by an Extreme Ice Soul Master, while Su Ming challenged the auction house’s attempt to manipulate its price. After Su Ming revealed Spiritual Alloy, Xu Jiawei agreed to sell the Soul Bone privately to the Body Sect for fifteen million Gold Soul Coins.

• Huo Yuhao told Xu Jiujiu that absorbing the Ice Scorpion Soul Bone without an Extreme Ice Soul Master’s constitution would cause the person to explode and die.
• Xu Jiawei decided to withdraw the Soul Bone from the auction and give it to Shrek Academy, but the auction continued to protect the auction house’s reputation.
• When the bidding reached thirty million Gold Soul Coins, Su Ming offered ten pieces of Thousand Forgings First Grade metal and accused the auction house of manipulating the price.
• Su Ming revealed that he could produce Spiritual Alloy, prompting Xu Jiawei to realize the Star Luo Royal Family had mishandled the situation.
• Xu Jiawei disclosed the Soul Bone’s danger to Su Ming, but Su Ming insisted on taking it, so Xu Jiawei offered to sell it privately to the Body Sect for fifteen million Gold Soul Coins.

The Star Luo Royal Family unveiled a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo as the auction’s final item, stunning the guests with the possibility that it could grant a second Martial Soul. As the auction house prepared to hand the Blacksmith Association’s quota auction over to the association, Su Ming sent a message to Duan Lin.

• Su Ming stopped pressing the auction house over the Ice Scorpion Left Arm Bone, leaving Xu Jiujiu to begin the final item’s auction in an awkward atmosphere.
• Xu Jiujiu revealed that the final item was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo sealed in the Rank 9 Soul Tool Platform of Deification.
• Xu Jiujiu explained that the embryo might be directly absorbed to grant a Martial Soul, though the chance was low and absorption was best attempted by a Level Ninety Soul Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao considered whether the embryo could give him a Third Martial Soul, while Yan Shaozhe imagined Zhang Lexuan using it to gain a second Martial Soul and advance rapidly.
• Xu Jiujiu confirmed that the Blacksmith Association would run its own auction for the branch quota after the main auction, and Su Ming sent Duan Lin a message through the Soul Tool Communicator.

The factions prepared to bid for the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo as Xu Jiawei planned to use the auction’s proceeds and Mingde Hall’s Soul Tools to advance the Star Luo Empire’s Soul Guide research. When bidding began at one hundred million Gold Soul Coins, the Sun Moon Royal Team struggled to decide whether to commit more of its funds.

• During the break, VIP Box 3 counted one hundred million Gold Soul Coins in assets, while Wang Yan urged Yan Shaozhe to pursue the Platform of Deification as a permanent tool for capturing more embryos.
• Xu Jiujiu told Xu Jiawei that the bidders had offered many Soul Tools, and he planned to establish a Spirit Guide Hall with the auction’s gains.
• Xu Jiujiu opened bidding on the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo and the Platform of Deification at one hundred million Gold Soul Coins, with minimum increases of one million.
• Elder Ma urged Xiao Hongchen to give up, but Xiao Hongchen offered to add thirty million Gold Soul Coins after learning that the Body Sect expected to spend one hundred and fifty million.

The Body Sect won the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo for 130 million Gold Soul Coins, and Duan Lin began auctioning ten Blacksmith Association branch slots. Mingde Hall secured four slots as seven sold, leaving three up for competition.

• VIP Box 1, representing the Body Sect, won the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo with a bid of 130 million Gold Soul Coins, while Xu Jiawei was relieved it had not gone to Mingde Hall.
• Duan Lin explained that the Blacksmith Association would offer ten branch slots, each with Spiritual Metal, and limit its expansion to fourteen branches for at least a century.
• VIP Box 3 won the first branch slot for 20 million Gold Soul Coins, and VIP Box 2 won the second for 18 million.
• The next five slots sold for between 19 million and 22 million Gold Soul Coins, with Mingde Hall securing four of the seven slots sold.
• Elder Ma told Mingde Hall to use its remaining funds to make purchases in the Douluo Three Kingdoms, while the final three slots drew fierce competition from other factions.

The auction for the remaining forging slots drove prices higher, and Duan Jin revealed that Su Ming had founded the Forging system. Su Ming then prompted him to unveil Spiritual Alloy, while the final slot sold for thirty million Gold Soul Coins to the Xuan Ming Sect.

• The Heavenly Dragon Gate bought the eighth slot for twenty-five million, and the Dou Spirit Royal Family won the ninth for twenty-eight million.
• Duan Jin presented Sinking Silver with Six-Foot Radiance, explained that Spiritual Forging came after Thousand Forgings, and named Su Ming as the founder of the Forging system.
• Su Ming's identity shocked the auction guests, and he sent Duan Jin a message announcing his progress in Fusion Forging and the creation of Spiritual Alloy.
• Duan Jin announced that three pieces of Spiritual Alloy would be auctioned, then opened bidding for the final slot at twenty million Gold Soul Coins.
• After half an hour of bidding and exchanges, the Xuan Ming Sect bought the final slot for thirty million Gold Soul Coins.

After the auction, Su Ming asked Electrolux how he could absorb the Ice Scorpion Left Arm Bone and learned he would need to develop the Lich Martial Soul first. The Promotion Tournament began the next morning, with the Sun Moon Royal Team drawn against Zheng Tian Academy.

• Duan Lin auctioned three pieces of Jade Silver, which were won by the Star Luo Royal Family, Shrek Academy, and Mingde Hall.
• Meng Hongchen asked Su Ming to customize Spiritual Alloy for her, but he refused, citing the Body Sect's plans for its distribution.
• Su Ming asked Electrolux to modify the Ice Scorpion Left Arm Bone, and Electrolux advised him to possess and cultivate the Lich Martial Soul before attempting to fuse with it.
• Electrolux said Su Ming could develop the Lich Martial Soul and prepare to absorb the Soul Bone within a few months.
• The Promotion Tournament began in Star Luo Square, and the Sun Moon Royal Team drew Zheng Tian Academy as its opponent.