Chapter Summaries

Chen Ping finalized Shrek Academy’s lineup for the Team Battle against Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, choosing to fight for a match point rather than conserve strength. The match began with Sun Moon’s shield formation countering Xu Sanshi’s Netherworld Displacement, leaving both teams poised to clash.

• Chen Ping kept Jiang Nannan, Bei Bei, and Wu Feng on the bench, then finalized Shrek Academy’s lineup with himself, Ma Xiao Tao, Dai Yueheng, Yao Haoxuan, Xu Sanshi, He Caitou, and Ning Tian.
• Chen Ping rejected Wang Yan’s plan to sacrifice the Team Battle and persuaded him to hand over tactical control.
• Xu Jiawei and Dai Hao discussed Shrek’s lineup and the possibility that Chen Ping had a hidden trump card.
• Both teams took the stage, and Huang Jinxu ordered the match to begin.
• Xu Sanshi charged at the front of Shrek’s formation, while Lin Xi replaced Ma Rulong at the front of Sun Moon’s cone formation and deployed a shield that blocked their view of Xu Sanshi.

Chen Ping and Shrek Academy countered the Sun Moon Team’s opening barrage with anti-air fire, smoke, and Ma Xiao Tao’s Phoenix Meteor Shower. As the battle intensified, Chen Ping activated his Touch Dragon Staff’s third soul skill, Concealed Sand and Hidden Needles.

• Chen Ping wore a string of Level Four Milk Bottles as the Sun Moon Team launched a coordinated volley of soul-guided Light Balls.
• He Caitou fired a Quad Anti-Aircraft Cannon while Dai Yueheng used White Tiger Meteor Shower to intercept the volley, causing multicolored smoke to fill the air.
• Ma Rulong warned that Chen Ping seemed to have Twin Martial Souls, but Xu Jiawei and Dai Hao doubted that explanation after sensing his Soul Power Aura and seeing his unchanged soul rings.
• Xu Sanshi advanced behind the Profound Netherworld Shield Array, blocking the shockwaves as the Sun Moon Team sent a second wave of attacks.
• Ma Xiao Tao unleashed Phoenix Meteor Shower, overpowering the enemy fire and sending flaming meteors into the Sun Moon Team’s formation.
• Chen Ping lit the third soul ring on his Touch Dragon Staff and activated Concealed Sand and Hidden Needles.

Chen Ping used his Touch Dragon Staff and Milk Bottles to unleash a rapid series of poison attacks that disrupted the Sun Moon Team, giving Shrek an opening to press its assault. The Sun Moon Team weathered Shrek’s charge with Invincible Shields and launched a counterattack with Level 7 Soul Guidance Devices.

• Chen Ping struck Xiao Hongchen’s shadow with Concealed Sand and Hidden Needles, stacking poison while Ma Rulong kept the Sun Moon Team under Ma Xiao Tao’s Phoenix Meteor Shower.
• Chen Ping’s Potent Toxin triggered three Poison Bubbles that burst around Xiao Hongchen, forcing several Sun Moon Team members’ defensive devices to activate and corroding the equipment of two others.
• Chen Ping retreated behind Xu Sanshi to replenish his Soul Power from Milk Bottles as Ma Xiao Tao and Dai Yueheng charged with Ning Tian’s boosts.
• Lin Xi used two Invincible Shields to block Ma Xiao Tao’s attack and contain her Phoenix Evil Fire.
• The Sun Moon Team fired a Level 7 golden-red beam and a volley of blue-violet electric bolts at Shrek.

Xu Sanshi unleashed Profound Netherworld Tortoise Awakening during the Team Battle, using its Divine Beast Imprints to displace Xiao Hongchen past the Sun Moon Team’s intact shield and into Shrek Academy’s territory. Xu Sanshi surrendered after exhausting himself, while Yao Haoxuan seized Xiao Hongchen and refused his request to start over.

• Xu Sanshi used Profound Netherworld Tortoise Awakening to absorb Mika’s piercing beam and transform into his ultimate form.
• Bei Bei explained that Xu Sanshi’s soul skills carried Divine Beast Imprints in that state.
• Xu Sanshi’s Profound Netherworld Tortoise Roar immobilized the fighters, and his shields struck Xiao Hongchen after he liquefied his body with Golden Affinity.
• Xu Sanshi used the Divine Beast Imprints to displace Xiao Hongchen into Shrek Academy’s territory despite the intact group shield, then surrendered from exhaustion.
• Xiao Hongchen asked to go back and start over, but Yao Haoxuan grabbed him and refused to let him return.

Xiao Hongchen and Lin Xi were knocked out of the fight, while Ma Rulong was badly burned as the Shrek Team fought back against the Sun Moon Team. The Sun Moon Team split the battlefield with a Lightning Cage, but Dai Yueheng broke free and Ma Xiao Tao faced a two-pronged attack.

• Xiao Hongchen deployed 128 Level Five Soul Guidance Cannons, but Yao Haoxuan crushed them with his Great Gravity Field and flung him into the arena barrier.
• Lin Xi’s inner Invincible Shield vanished while she was trapped with Ma Xiao Tao’s Phoenix Fire Line, leaving her severely burned and sent to the Medical Area by Heavenly Fiend Douluo.
• Ma Rulong charged at Ma Xiao Tao but was badly burned by her Phoenix Flame.
• The Sun Moon Team and Mika created a blue-violet Lightning Cage around the five Shrek members, separating the battlefield.
• Chen Fei attacked Ma Xiao Tao alongside Ma Rulong, while Ma Xiao Tao countered Chen Fei’s Brilliant Golden Light Sphere with her Phoenix Fire Line.
• Dai Yueheng broke the weakened Lightning Cage after using Holy Domain Wall three times and ramming it with his White Tiger Body Barrier.

Mika revealed a full-body Soul Guidance Device armor set and fought Dai Yueheng as the team battle intensified. Dai Yueheng and Meng Hongchen were forced to surrender after their lethal attacks were intercepted, and Chen Ping then faced the Sun Moon Team’s Chen brothers.

• Mika donned heavy Soul Guidance Device armor and clashed with Dai Yueheng using a matching greatsword.
• Meng Hongchen summoned her Vermilion Eyed Ice Toad and threatened Dai Yueheng with Ice Toad Poison, prompting him to surrender while unleashing White Tiger Destruction Kill.
• The Heavenly Fiend Douluo used a Black Star to stop both attacks, and Dai Yueheng and Meng Hongchen left the field.
• Yao Haoxuan charged Mika and punched him back, allowing Chen Ping to strike at him with his heavy staff.
• Chen An tried to block Chen Ping’s blow with his Lightning Shortswords, while Chen Fei attacked from range; Chen Ping knocked aside Chen Fei’s Light Balls and confronted the brothers.

The chaotic battle turned against Ma Xiao Tao when Ma Rulong summoned a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast and Mika eliminated He Caitou. Ma Xiao Tao unleashed her Black Flame Phoenix, killing the beast and destroying Ma Rulong’s left arm before Heavenly Fiend Douluo stopped her attack.

• Chen Ping switched back to the Mammoth Staff and charged the Chen Brothers while Ma Rulong battled Ma Xiao Tao without Chen Fei’s support.
• Ma Rulong summoned a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast from his helmet to attack Ma Xiao Tao.
• Mika destroyed He Caitou’s Soul Guidance Fortress, forced him out of the match, and drove Ning Tian away from danger.
• Ma Xiao Tao unleashed her Black Flame Phoenix, killing the giant ape instantly and forcing Ma Rulong to surrender.
• Heavenly Fiend Douluo stopped Ma Xiao Tao’s attack after it sublimated Ma Rulong’s left arm, while Ma Xiao Tao left the arena close to Evil Fire Backlash.

Chen Ping unleashed his ten-thousand-year Shadow Clone Slaughter skill, bringing down ten enormous Mammoth Staffs and devastating the Soul Arena. The fighters were left badly injured, and the arena itself collapsed as Ning Tian landed.

• Ma Rulong received treatment for his severed arm while Ma Xiao Tao and Huo Yuhao focused on suppressing her Evil Fire.
• Mika defeated Yao Haoxuan with his shoulder cannon and kicked him out of Martial Soul Possession, leaving Chen Ping as Shrek’s only capable fighter.
• Mika and the Chen Brothers attacked Chen Ping, but Yao Haoxuan used his remaining Soul Power to activate the Great Gravity Field and slow them.
• Chen Ping activated Shadow Clone Slaughter, draining his Soul Power as nine afterimages copied his attack and joined his real staff in crashing down on the arena.
• The ten staffs blasted all five fighters across the field and left them gravely injured; Ning Tian avoided the attack with her Flying Soul Guidance Device.
• Ning Tian landed on the shattered arena, causing it to collapse completely beneath her.

Chen Ping’s single staff strike destroyed the arena and secured Shrek Academy’s victory, leaving spectators and rivals stunned by the strength of a Three-Ring Soul Master. As the team celebrated, Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiao Tao sensed a possible Martial Soul resonance, while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned Huo Yuhao not to compare himself with Chen Ping.

• Chen Ping’s strike shattered the Soul Arena and knocked five opponents out, and Heavenly Fiend Douluo declared Shrek Academy the winner.
• Dai Hao, Xu Jiawei, and the Sun Moon Team struggled to accept that Chen Ping had hidden five Soul Skills and defeated them with overwhelming force.
• Ma Xiao Tao cheered for Chen Ping, while Huo Yuhao cooled her Evil Fire and sensed a strange resonance between their Martial Souls.
• Huo Yuhao questioned the Ice Emperor about Chen Ping’s growing strength, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told him that Chen Ping was not someone he should compare himself with.

After the Soul Arena was destroyed, the remaining tournament matches moved to the ruins, where Shrek defeated the Sun Moon Team in the Individual Match and secured the championship. Shrek's victory left Wang Yan struggling to believe they had won.

• Heavenly Fiend Douluo announced that the Individual Match would take place on the Soul Fighting Ruins after a one-minute recovery period, and both teams submitted seven contestants.
• Chen Ping and Yao Haoxuan returned to Shrek's resting area, while the Sun Moon Team faced the Individual Match with five fighters unavailable and Ma Rulong missing an arm.
• Wang Yan registered Ma Xiao Tao, Dai Yueheng, Bei Bei, Jiang Nannan, Wu Feng, Caitou, and Chen Ping for Shrek's lineup.
• Chen Ping rested beside Ning Tian and Wu Feng, who promised to fight well in the Individual Match.
• Dai Yueheng defeated four Soul Kings and injured another before withdrawing; Jiang Nannan finished that opponent, and Wu Feng won a one-against-two fight to secure Shrek's victory.
• Heavenly Fiend Douluo announced Shrek's two-to-zero win over the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, while Wang Yan stood in disbelief.

Shrek Academy won the tournament, and Wang Yan explained the hardships behind the team’s depleted lineup. After accepting their awards, the team quietly returned to Shrek, where the four deans awaited their champions.

• Heavenly Fiend Douluo Huang Jinxu declared Shrek Academy the tournament champion, and Wang Yan told the audience that the team’s official members had been injured while fighting Evil Soul Douluo.
• The audience and the Sun Moon Team applauded Shrek as the team celebrated its victory.
• Wang Yan collected three Soul Bones and the champion’s Gold Soul Coin reward for Shrek Academy.
• The Shrek group left Star Luo City quietly the next morning and headed back to the academy.
• Qian Duoduo, Cai Meier, Yan Shaozhe, and the other dean welcomed the returning team, reflecting on Mu En’s prediction that the Reserve Team would win.

The Shrek Team returned to Shrek Academy after winning the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament and were welcomed by the deans. Chen Ping accompanied them to Sea God Pavilion, where he began investigating the Golden Ancient Tree and felt its life force restore his exhausted body.

• The Shrek Team landed, and Yan Shaozhe and the other deans greeted them; Qian Duoduo enthusiastically hugged Chen Ping and noticed his increased height and strength.
• The deans told the team that their championship would be recorded in Shrek Academy’s history and that the Sea God Pavilion Meeting had decided to present their rewards inside Sea God Pavilion.
• The team crossed Sea God Lake by boat and reached Sea God Island, where Chen Ping sensed the Golden Ancient Tree’s immense life force and wondered whether Ah Yin had already taken it over.
• An aged voice invited everyone into Sea God Pavilion, and the building lit up with golden radiance that enveloped the visitors.
• Chen Ping circulated his Soul Power as the Golden Ancient Tree’s gentle aura entered his body and quickly dispelled his exhaustion.

Chen Ping and the Shrek students absorbed the Golden Ancient Tree’s Power of Light, which strengthened and healed them as they entered the Sea God Pavilion. There, they found Mu En and Shrek’s senior figures waiting with the academy’s core members.

• Chen Ping and the Shrek students sat down to absorb the Golden Ancient Tree’s Power of Light, with Bei Bei and Wu Feng reacting especially strongly.
• Ning Tian reflected on the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School’s plans for Wu Feng and how those plans had failed in the original timeline but were progressing better now.
• Electrolux woke inside Chen Ping and urged him to absorb more; Chen Ping’s Soul Power rose as the light cleansed his body.
• The golden light faded, and Xu Sanshi recovered enough to get off his stretcher after his Profound Netherworld Tortoise Awakening had drained him.
• Chen Ping and the others entered the Sea God Pavilion, where they saw Xuan Zi, Mu En, the Four Deans, and Shrek’s senior figures gathered around a long table.

Yan Shaozhe announced the Academy's recognition and rewards for the tournament champions and their teachers. Wang Yan received access to the Sea God Pavilion Library for three years and hurried off to use it, while the Reserve Team remained for its rewards.

• Yan Shaozhe praised Ma Xiao Tao, Dai Yueheng, and Yao Haoxuan for their mission and tournament contributions, then sent them away with a reminder to keep the Sea God Pavilion confidential.
• Ma Xiao Tao, Dai Yueheng, and Yao Haoxuan agreed that Chen Ping had carried them and left to rest and reunite with their friends.
• Yan Shaozhe promoted Wang Yan to Special Grade Teacher and gave him Teacher Mu Jin's Senior Teacher promotion notice to deliver.
• Yan Shaozhe awarded Wang Yan three years of access to the Sea God Pavilion Library, and Wang Yan eagerly asked to go there at once.

Yan Shaozhe and Mu En announced rewards for the seven Reserve Members after their tournament victory, including Soul Bones and the lifetime title of the Shrek Seven Devils. Mu En also approved an early Inner Court Assessment for four students under rules designed to promote Soul Tool use, and he recognized Chen Ping’s grasp of the power behind setting rules.

• Yan Shaozhe praised the Reserve Members for winning the tournament and announced that each would receive a Soul Bone.
• Yan Shaozhe gave Chen Ping an unconditional selection from the Red Card at the Treasure Appraisal Meeting in place of his additional Soul Bone reward.
• Yan Shaozhe announced that the team would receive the lifetime title of the Shrek Seven Devils, and the students thanked the academy.
• Mu En praised the students and approved Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, and He Caitou to take the Inner Court Assessment early, allowing them to use Soul Tools except Standard Soul Guidance Shells.
• Mu En aligned the assessment standards with those of the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Tournament, and Chen Ping understood that the rule change could push Shrek students toward Soul Tool use.
• Mu En recognized Chen Ping’s understanding of the influence that came from setting rules and considered him suited to Shrek’s future administration.

After the competition, Mu En assigned the students to teachers and kept Chen Ping, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian on Sea God Island to cultivate under him. He rewarded Chen Ping with a Golden Apple and promised him a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone once he reached the Soul Saint Realm, then brought the three students to Sea God Pavilion’s Cultivation Chamber.

• Mu En assigned Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, Lin Er, Duo Duo, and He Caitou to teachers and ordered Chen Ping, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian to remain on Sea God Island and cultivate under him.
• Duo Duo reminded Chen Ping that he had missed three meals for the Auspicious Beast, and he realized he needed to placate his financial backer.
• Mu En praised Chen Ping’s contributions to the inspection mission, the team, and the New Flying Soul Guidance Device, then gave him a Golden Apple.
• Mu En promised Chen Ping a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone to claim after reaching the Soul Saint Realm, so Chen Ping could use his Martial Soul to devour it.
• Mu En transported Chen Ping, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian to the Cultivation Chamber and assigned rooms to the two girls, but struggled to choose one for Chen Ping.

Chen Ping entered Shrek Academy’s Spiritual Power cultivation room to address his weakness, while Wu Feng and Ning Tian began Deep Meditation in rooms suited to their martial souls. Mu En tried to help Chen Ping set aside his worries by reminding him how wealthy he had become.

• Chen Ping asked Mu En for a room that could improve his Spiritual Power, recalling how his Sea of Consciousness had nearly shattered in the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• Mu En sent Chen Ping into a room lined with one thousand and one Fearful Demonic Dragon skulls, whose eye sockets glowed with Spiritual Power.
• Wu Feng entered a room saturated with Fire Element energy and began cultivating on its meditation cushion, while Ning Tian entered a room suited to her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Mu En explained that the underground world had one hundred and eight cultivation rooms and that the three students had been granted early opportunities for Deep Meditation.
• Chen Ping examined the dragon skulls, considered how he might obtain dragon blood, and lamented his many unfinished tasks before Mu En asked how to get rid of worries.
• Chen Ping answered that getting rich overnight would do it, and Mu En pointed out that his tournament winnings and compensation had already made him extraordinarily wealthy.

Mu En overwhelmed Chen Ping’s Sea of Consciousness with the Spiritual Power of 1,001 Fearful Demonic Dragon skulls, forcing him to endure and condense it. While Chen Ping resisted, Mu En suggested he pursue Body Sect-style Blood Qi Power cultivation and asked whether he wanted to learn a way to combine it with Spiritual Power.

• Mu En snapped his fingers and awakened the 1,001 Fearful Demonic Dragon skulls, whose Spiritual Power threatened to shatter Chen Ping’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Chen Ping calmed himself, sat on the meditation cushion, and compressed his Sea of Consciousness to withstand the Spiritual Power torrent.
• Mu En told Chen Ping that his physical power resembled the Body Sect’s Blood Qi Power and that he might be suited to developing it.
• Mu En offered to teach Chen Ping a method of combining Blood Qi Power with Spiritual Power and asked whether he was willing to learn.

Chen Ping became Mu En's last disciple and learned Reign Over The World during a month of Deep Meditation, while Electrolux discovered that the System Spirit was hiding in Chen Ping as “Xitong.” After returning to his dormitory, Chen Ping prepared to use the Life Carving Knife to strengthen his Sea of Consciousness before showing off his progress at the upcoming class matches.

• Chen Ping accepted Mu En as his master, becoming the Last Disciple of Dragon God Mu En and learning the method of Reign Over The World.
• Electrolux spoke with the System Spirit in Chen Ping's Sea of Consciousness and learned how it had hidden under the identity of “Xitong” after its chosen Son of Luck was targeted.
• Chen Ping awoke from a month of Deep Meditation at level thirty-six, with stronger spiritual power and the ability to move objects.
• Chen Ping delivered the Cocktail Acupuncture Method and supplements to Bei Bei, then used his spiritual power to clean his dormitory.
• Electrolux told Chen Ping that the Life Carving Knife's Gold of Life could expand his Sea of Consciousness, and Chen Ping took out the knife to begin.

Chen Ping absorbed the Life Carving Knife as Electrolux fused it with his Sea of Consciousness, creating a new eye between his brows. The painful transformation expanded and strengthened Chen Ping’s Spiritual Power, leaving him with a newly formed Vertical Pupil.

• Chen Ping pressed the Spirit Devouring Engraving Knife to his forehead and absorbed its life force, strengthening his body and increasing his Soul Power cultivation potential.
• The Life Carving Knife stabbed into Chen Ping’s brow, flooding his Sea of Consciousness with life aura and expanding it into a verdant ocean.
• Electrolux chanted as the knife melted into Chen Ping, and his gray divine consciousness bead fused with the Gold of Life inside Chen Ping’s forehead.
• A gray-and-gold Vertical Pupil formed between Chen Ping’s brows while the fusion caused him extreme pain and tore apart and recombined his Spiritual Origin.
• Chen Ping’s Spiritual Power proved strong enough to endure the transformation after his recent enhancements.