Chapter Summaries

Su Yu arranged the Top Eight brackets so the Sun Moon Royal Team would face the Holy Spirit Sect Team, then ordered Huo Yuhao to kill all seven Evil Soul Masters. Huo Yuhao killed Ji Li with a single mental attack, and the match continued as Wang Xiaolei took the arena.

• Su Yu used the lot draw to place the Sun Moon Royal Team against the Holy Spirit Sect Team in the Top Eight Competition.
• Su Yu told Huo Yuhao to kill all seven members of the Holy Spirit Sect Team, and Huo Yuhao agreed.
• Xu Tianran considered Zhongli Wu's proposal involving the Snow Empress but feared the Holy Spirit Cult might gain an uncontrollable powerhouse.
• Huo Yuhao defeated Ji Li with a single mental attack that shattered Ji Li's Sea of Consciousness and killed him.
• The referee issued Huo Yuhao a warning, and Zhang Peng sent Wang Xiaolei to fight next.

Huo Yuhao defeated Wang Xiaolei with Ultimate Ice, killing the Evil Soul Master despite his defenses. He then provoked the Holy Spirit Cult and challenged its members, while Yan Feng recognized that Huo Yuhao had Soul Douluo-level combat power.

• Huo Yuhao revealed his orange and red Soul Rings and used Ultimate Ice to break through Wang Xiaolei’s defenses, killing him with his Fifth Soul Skill.
• Zhang Peng and Yan Feng reacted with killing intent, and Huo Yuhao taunted the Evil Soul Masters and declared that he could slaughter them all.
• Zhang Peng sent a team member to fight Huo Yuhao first, hoping to wear him down before Yan Feng attacked.
• The spectators cheered Huo Yuhao, while Unbreakable Douluo focused on keeping him alive as the tournament grew more volatile.
• Yan Feng recognized Huo Yuhao’s Soul Douluo-level combat power, and Huo Yuhao challenged the Evil Soul Masters with a cry of, “Who else?”

Huo Yuhao used his Ultimate Ice Battle Armor to kill Tang Dai and Gu Yu, demonstrating overwhelming strength and revealing that his armor was far beyond the technology Shrek understood. Yan Feng, the Holy Spirit Cult’s last competitor, stepped onto the stage as Huo Yuhao prepared to face him.

• Huo Yuhao challenged Tang Dai, who entered the arena under Zhang Peng’s orders despite knowing he was outmatched.
• Huo Yuhao summoned his Ultimate Ice Battle Armor, shocking the observers with its power and leaving Shrek’s leaders worried about the gap in battle armor technology.
• Huo Yuhao smashed through Tang Dai’s defenses and caused him to explode inside a Level 6 Invincible Shield.
• Huo Yuhao prevented Gu Yu from surrendering by using Mental Illusion, then killed him with a mental attack.
• Huo Yuhao called out Yan Feng, and the final Holy Spirit Cult competitor stepped onto the stage in fear.

Huo Yuhao defeated Yan Feng after the Evil Soul Master unleashed the Ice Bone Dragon, absorbed resentful spirits, and attempted to merge with a True Dragon Remnant Soul. Huo Yuhao won seven matches in a row and eliminated the Holy Spirit Sect’s entire lineup, while Xu Tianran sensed the National Teacher’s intense emotional reaction.

• Yan Feng transformed into the Ice Bone Dragon and absorbed departed souls and resentful spirits to heal and strengthen himself.
• Huo Yuhao unleashed his fully enhanced Intermediate Battle Armor and attacked Yan Feng with a fused blizzard.
• Yan Feng revealed a True Dragon Remnant Soul and tried to devour it, but Huo Yuhao interrupted him with Soul Shock and Mental Confusion.
• Huo Yuhao pierced the Ice Bone Dragon with his scorpion tail, froze Yan Feng with Ultimate Ice, and killed him with the Ice Explosion Technique.
• Unbreakable Douluo declared Huo Yuhao the winner, completing his seventh consecutive victory and wiping out the Holy Spirit Sect’s lineup.
• Xu Tianran sensed the National Teacher’s intense emotional fluctuations from the viewing platform.

Zhongli Wu pressed Xu Tianran to help the Holy Spirit Cult capture the Snow Empress, prompting Xu Tianran to expose her identity and mobilize the Sun Moon Empire’s forces. As the tournament arena became a standoff, Su Yu and Jing Hongchen opposed Yan Shaozhe’s proposal to enlist the Snow Empress, revealing their overwhelming power and battle armor.

• Zhongli Wu urged Xu Tianran to support an attack on the Snow Empress, while Xu Tianran resolved to exploit the conflict to weaken the Holy Spirit Cult and secure Illustrious Virtue Hall’s battle armor technology.
• During the Snow Demon Sect and Proud Sword Sect match, Xu Tianran halted the contest and identified the Snow Woman as the Snow Empress, prompting Zhongli Wu to mobilize Soul Engineer Legions and surround the arena.
• Long Xiaoyao, Xuan Zi, and Yan Shaozhe confronted the threat, while Yan Shaozhe proposed that the Snow Empress join Shrek in reconciling humans and soul beasts.
• Su Yu rejected Yan Shaozhe’s proposal, released his powerful soul rings, and assembled battle armor made of fifteen Eighth Level Soul Tools, silencing the arena with his strength.
• Jing Hongchen backed Su Yu, revealed his genuine Super Battle Armor, and challenged Yan Shaozhe to offer sincerity before expecting the Snow Empress to mediate the conflict.

Su Yu revealed Illustrious Virtue Hall’s plans to reduce the conflict between humans and soul beasts through Soul Spirits, self-condensed Natal Soul Rings, and Universal Cultivation Methods, winning the Snow Empress’s interest. Yan Shaozhe attacked as she seemed ready to cooperate with Illustrious Virtue Hall, and Su Yu met him in battle while Jing Hongchen held Zhongli Wu back.

• Jing Hongchen challenged Shrek’s proposal and announced that Illustrious Virtue Hall would offer concrete measures to ease the conflict between Soul Masters and soul beasts.
• Su Yu summoned the Thunder Hell Vine and Blue Silver Emperor as Soul Spirits, explaining that Soul Spirits could grant multiple Soul Rings but could not end soul-beast hunting.
• Su Yu revealed his Natal Soul Ring and described Illustrious Virtue Hall’s Universal Cultivation Methods, which would let Soul Masters condense Soul Rings using soul-beast essence blood instead of killing soul beasts.
• Su Yu said the Soul Spirit cultivation system needed the Snow Empress’s cooperation, and the Snow Empress was moved by his proposal.
• Yan Shaozhe accused Su Yu of luring the Snow Empress into a trap and attacked him; Su Yu used his Blue Silver True Body and lightning abilities to counter.
• Jing Hongchen blocked Zhongli Wu while Long Xiaoyao watched Su Yu battle Yan Shaozhe.

Su Yu fought Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi while a tournament-wide battle erupted, revealing his Blood Essence Soul Rings and the strength of his Soul Spirits. The fighting paused after the Douluo Three Kingdoms forces escaped and Xu Tianran prevented a renewed clash, but Su Yu stopped the Body Sect from leaving to announce a major secret.

• Su Yu used Unity of Heaven and Man and his Soul Spirits to battle Yan Shaozhe, then revealed four Blood Essence Soul Rings and fought Xuan Zi with his bloodline power.
• Xuan Zi urged Yan Shaozhe to end the fight as Shrek faced mounting pressure, and the major factions launched into battle; Jing Hongchen struck Zhongli Wu with ten Ninth Level Soul Guidance Cannons.
• Huo Yuhao, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen joined the melee, while the Snow Empress held back several Titled Douluo; an explosion at a Ten Thousand Gold Chamber of Commerce branch gave Xuan Zi and the Douluo Three Kingdoms forces a chance to escape.
• Su Yu and the Illustrious Virtue Hall forces turned toward the Holy Spirit Cult, but Xu Tianran declared Zhongli Wu was not an Evil Soul Master, easing the standoff and preventing further fighting.
• Xu Tianran allowed the Body Sect and smaller teams to leave but kept Shrek, the Tang Sect, and several other teams; Su Yu stopped the departing groups and announced that he had a major secret to share.

Su Yu exposed Yan Shaozhe’s ties to the Holy Spirit Cult during the chaos at the Soul Fighting Tournament, and the revelations helped bring the competition to an end as the Sun Moon Empire detained the remaining teams. Su Yu returned to the Black Market Soul Engineer Tournament, while Xuan Zi’s group fled west and later learned how powerful Su Yu had become.

• Su Yu revealed that Ma Xiaotao and Feng Ling had become Evil Soul Masters, then claimed Yan Shaozhe was descended from the Holy Spirit Cult’s Supreme Leader and Chief Consecrator, prompting Long Xiaoyao to demand his source.
• Du Busi and several teams left the tournament, Xu Tianran ended the competition and ordered arrests, and Su Yu arranged for Illustrious Virtue Hall to take custody of the Shrek team members.
• Xu Tianran learned that Xuan Zi’s group had fled west and ordered troops to pursue and encircle them.
• Su Yu went to the Odu Merchant Association’s Black Market venue and chose to make an Eighth Level Soul Tool for the final round.
• In a valley in the Sun Moon Mountain Range, Wang Xian’er and Xu Jiujiu learned that Su Yu had fought Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi alone, leaving them shocked and despairing.

Su Yu won the Soul Engineer Tournament’s earlier final by creating an Eighth Level Soul Tool, while Huo Yuhao gathered intelligence linking the Three Great Black Markets to powerful nobles and the Holy Spirit Cult. As the combined championship began, Su Yu’s exceptional forging made Nan Gongwan suspect Illustrious Virtue Hall had sent him to target the Holy Spirit Cult, and she began to recognize Huo Yuhao as well.

• Su Yu completed an intricate Eighth Level alloy greatsword, securing victory in the Odu Merchant Association arena’s final round.
• Huo Yuhao told Su Yu that the Three Great Black Markets had deep connections to major noble families, and Su Yu identified nobles tied to the Xishui Alliance as the main targets.
• Huo Yuhao compiled his findings and gave them to Jing Hongchen, who ordered Old Ma to investigate the listed noble families without informing Xu Tianran.
• Su Yu refined the basic Visualization Method and developed a preliminary framework for condensing Fusion Soul Rings.
• At the combined Soul Engineer Tournament final, Su Yu began forging with high-grade Rare Metals while Nan Gongwan’s chief Soul Engineer judged his skill close to that of a Ninth-Level Soul Engineer.
• Nan Gongwan concluded that Su Yu was likely targeting the Holy Spirit Cult on Illustrious Virtue Hall’s behalf and suspected that Contestant Number Eighty-Eight was Huo Yuhao.

Su Yu exposed the Holy Spirit Cult’s presence at the Soul Engineer Tournament and won the championship, then launched Illustrious Virtue Hall’s operation against the Xishui Alliance. As the battle erupted, Su Yu reached for Nan Gongwan and the dangerous Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon shells he carried.

• Nan Gongwan realized Su Yu and Huo Yuhao had come to investigate the Xishui Alliance, while Su Yu warned him not to act recklessly and used the Power of Fate to survey the arena.
• Su Yu informed Huo Yuhao and Ye Yulin that Nan Gongwan was a Titled Douluo-level Evil Soul Master and that the Holy Spirit Cult’s Vice Cult Leader and another elder were present.
• Su Yu completed the Eighth Level Soul Tool Star Light, Huo Yuhao finished a seventh-level Soul Tool Engraving Knife, and the Xishui Alliance’s contestant ruined his own creation.
• Huo Yuhao withdrew from the practical combat assessment, and Ye Yulin declared Su Yu the champion and demonstrated his Sun Moon Divine Needle.
• Su Yu, Huo Yuhao, and Ye Yulin launched Illustrious Virtue Hall’s operation; Ye Yulin attacked Feng Ling, while Su Yu transformed and reached for Nan Gongwan to seize his Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon shells.

Su Yu and his allies battled Nan Gongwan, Feng Ling, and Ming Lei Douluo in Ming Capital, while Su Yu seized Nan Gongwan’s Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon shells and helped defeat the Holy Spirit Cult members. Nan Gongwan surrendered, and Feng Ling remained bound and incapacitated as powerful figures arrived at the scene.

• Su Yu caught Nan Gongwan in a Blue Silver Grass hand and used Mental Shock to interrupt him while he activated his Martial Soul Avatar and attacked with poison.
• Su Yu used Space Power to take the bracer containing Nan Gongwan’s Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon shells, then escaped the Heavenly Thunder Child’s explosion as Feng Ling and Ming Lei Douluo fought Ye Yulin and Huo Yuhao.
• Kong Deming and Zhongli Wu arrived, and Ye Yulin attacked Ming Lei Douluo with the Sun Moon Divine Needle while Huo Yuhao helped create an opening.
• Su Yu used the Blue Silver Senluo Thunder Domain and Electrolux’s Ultimate Light to suppress Feng Ling, purify her evil power, and leave her bound and unable to resist.
• Nan Gongwan gave up fighting and put on the Soul Tool handcuffs Huo Yuhao offered him.

After capturing Nan Gongwan and Feng Ling, Su Yu used Electrolux to uncover the Saint Emperor’s identity and the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters. He then returned to cultivate, guiding the Death Spirit Saint Soul Grass through its first Life and Death Cycle as its intelligence awakened.

• Jing Hongchen asked Su Yu why he had captured the two Evil Soul Masters, and Su Yu explained that Nan Gongwan could reveal Holy Spirit Cult secrets while Feng Ling might provide information about the Saint Emperor.
• Su Yu questioned Feng Ling about the Saint Emperor, and Electrolux searched her soul’s memories before Su Yu burned her body and soul with Purification Fire.
• Electrolux revealed that the Saint Emperor was a deep-sea soul beast with roughly eight hundred thousand years of cultivation and that the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters lay in the Evil Demon Forest.
• Su Yu memorized how the Holy Spirit Cult contacted the Saint Emperor, left Nan Gongwan for Illustrious Virtue Hall to interrogate, and returned to his dormitory.
• Su Yu used Life Force to push the Death Spirit Saint Soul Grass past ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years of cultivation, awakening its intelligence and beginning its transformation through the cycle of life and death.

Su Yu’s Reincarnation Grass completed its life-and-death transformation and survived its first Heavenly Tribulation, then merged into him as a Soul Spirit. As Zhongli Wu grew wary of Illustrious Virtue Hall’s Soul Spirit research, Su Yu received the God of Life’s reward for completing his fourth trial.

• The Reincarnation Grass spent three days cycling between life and death, then raised its cultivation to 101,000 years and drew a Heavenly Tribulation.
• Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen sensed the tribulation, while Zhongli Wu and Kong Deming arrived to watch Su Yu and the grass.
• Su Yu studied the tribulation, formed a Lightning Rune, and transformed his evil Rune into a tribulation Rune that detected calamities targeting him.
• Zhongli Wu considered seizing the Reincarnation Grass, but Kong Deming threatened him, so he watched as it survived the tribulation.
• The Reincarnation Grass merged into Su Yu as a Soul Spirit, prompting Zhongli Wu to fear Illustrious Virtue Hall’s Soul Spirit development and plan to damage its reputation.
• Su Yu received the God of Life’s message that his fourth trial was complete, along with guidance from the God of Life.

After completing the Fourth Trial, Su Yu met the God of Destruction and God of Life in the God Realm, where they urged him to create the Godhood of Wisdom. He cultivated in the Source of Life Pool, then proposed devouring the Abyss for the energy needed to condense his Godhood, leaving the God of Destruction furious at the Sea God.

• Su Yu completed the Fourth Trial, received divine power, and arrived in the God Realm as a Spiritual Body.
• The God of Destruction revealed that he had arranged Su Yu’s trials to guide him toward creating his own Godhood, and asked him to pursue the Godhood of Wisdom.
• The God of Life let Su Yu cultivate in the Source of Life Pool, where he replenished the Blade of Life and improved the runes in his Sea of Consciousness.
• The God of Life sent Su Yu back after a month had passed on Douluo Continent, and the God of Destruction warned him that condensing a Godhood required immense energy.
• Su Yu asked the gods to help him devour the Abyss, which he had sensed was linked to Douluo’s fate.
• The God of Destruction blamed the Sea God for linking the Abyss to Douluo Continent and vowed to reclaim control of the God Realm Central Hub.

Su Yu planned to locate and eventually devour the Abyss, securing the God of Destruction’s promise to restrain Tang San while asking Kong Deming and Snow Empress for help. In the Far North Land, Huo Yuhao completed his seventh Soul Ring through the Soul Spirit cultivation system, and Su Yu began sensing his own fated connection to the Abyss.

• The God of Destruction agreed to watch Tang San and prevent him from interfering with the Douluo Continent after Su Yu asked him to block the God Realm’s connection temporarily.
• Su Yu told Kong Deming about the Abyss and asked him to help create a Rank Nine Soul Tool that could detect spatial fluctuations; Snow Empress agreed to help place it in the Far North Land.
• Su Yu and Jing Hongchen waited for Huo Yuhao to finish condensing his Soul Core, and Huo Yuhao broke through to level seventy and agreed to try the Soul Spirit cultivation system.
• Su Yu, Huo Yuhao, and Snow Empress traveled to the Far North Land, where Snow Empress provided her essence blood for Huo Yuhao to refine.
• Huo Yuhao formed a seventh Soul Ring, advanced to level seventy-one, and passed the God of Life’s trial.
• Su Yu used the Power of Fate to deduce the connection between himself and the Abyss, gradually sensing their fated link.

Su Yu received the God of Life’s fifth trial and traveled with Huo Yuhao and Snow Empress to the Star Dou Great Forest to promote his Soul Spirit cultivation system. Di Tian agreed to cooperate, while Shrek’s returning elders arrived at the Sea God Pavilion without their captured geniuses and faced anxious questions.

• Su Yu sensed that the God Realm’s influence over Douluo Continent had weakened, then received the fifth trial to comprehend beneath the Golden Ancient Tree and communicate with the Plane Will.
• After hearing the God of Destruction’s request to release Shrek’s people, Su Yu planned to trade their release for rewards and use the deal to divide Shrek from other factions.
• Su Yu, Huo Yuhao, and Snow Empress traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Di Tian and the Beast Kings met them by the Lake of Life.
• Su Yu explained the Soul Spirit cultivation system, and Huo Yuhao demonstrated that his Soul Spirits had bestowed his first six Soul Rings while Snow Empress’s bloodline power had formed his seventh.
• Di Tian agreed to cooperate with Su Yu in promoting the system among soul beasts.
• Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, and Qian Duoduo returned to the Sea God Pavilion without Shrek’s missing geniuses, leaving Lin Lao and the other elders demanding an explanation.

After Shrek’s elders learned that the Sun Moon Royal Team had crushed Shrek in the tournament and that Illustrious Virtue Hall had pioneered the Soul Spirit system and battle armor, they discussed how to protect Shrek’s standing and responded to rumors about Yan Shaozhe’s ancestry. In the Far North Land, Su Yu continued developing his powers and nurturing the Reincarnation Grass, then prepared to use its next Heavenly Tribulation to advance his understanding of tribulations.

• The Sea God Pavilion elders recognized the Sun Moon Royal Team’s victory and the Soul Spirit cultivation system as major threats to Shrek’s status, and Qian Duoduo urged them to develop the Soul Tool Department and investigate battle armor.
• Lin Lao asked where Su Tong, the other students, and Fan Yu were, and Xuan Zi said Illustrious Virtue Hall had detained them along with contestants from other factions.
• Old Song told Yan Shaozhe that rumors claimed he was descended from an Evil Soul Master, but reassured him that his origins did not reflect his character or erase his contributions to Shrek.
• Su Yu returned to the Far North Land with the Snow Empress, tracked the abyss through the Power of Fate, and raised the Reincarnation Grass to 200,000 years using Life Source Fluid.
• Su Yu decided to take the Reincarnation Grass to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after its next Heavenly Tribulation and after Kong Deming delivered the spatial detector; he also described Illustrious Virtue Hall’s new communications infrastructure project.
• As thunderclouds gathered over the Reincarnation Grass, Su Yu allowed the Thunder Hell Vine to absorb the tribulation’s power but ordered it to help the Reincarnation Grass bear the added pressure.

Su Yu helped the Reincarnation Grass and Thunder Hell Vine survive their two-hundred-thousand-year Beast King tribulation, then arranged safeguards and discussed the Sun Moon Empire’s expansion and exploration plans with Kong Deming. After sending his teacher away, Su Yu left for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to raise the Reincarnation Grass to Nine Revolutions and advance to Soul Douluo.

• The Thunder Hell Vine devoured the heavenly tribulation while the Reincarnation Grass converted death power into Life Force and transformed under the tribulation’s pressure.
• The Reincarnation Grass and Thunder Hell Vine passed the two-hundred-thousand-year Beast King tribulation, and Su Yu’s Fifth Soul Ring turned orange.
• Kong Deming delivered thirty-six linked spatial detectors, which Su Yu installed in the Far North Land and entrusted to the Snow Empress’s guardianship.
• Su Yu and Kong Deming discussed the Sun Moon Empire’s plans to conquer the Heaven Dou and Dou Ling Empires, explore other continents, and send candidates to cultivate at the Sea God Pavilion.
• Kong Deming gave Su Yu a Ninth Grade Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon emplacement, and Su Yu left for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to complete the Reincarnation Grass’s Nine Revolutions and break through to Soul Douluo.

Su Yu met Kuang Tie in Sunset Forest’s poisonous miasma and learned that the Iron Blood Sect’s elders descended from the Blacksmith Association of Gengxin City. Seeing an opportunity to cooperate and revive blacksmithing, Su Yu asked Kuang Tie to teach him forging and proposed restoring the profession, leaving Kuang Tie bewildered.

• Kuang Tie used the poisonous miasma to temper his Mental Power and body while searching for a Spirit Attribute soul beast, but avoided the deadly poison of the Azure Phosphorous Seven Absolutes Flower.
• Su Yu encountered Kuang Tie and revealed that he was a Soul Saint from Illustrious Virtue Hall, prompting Kuang Tie to recognize the famed fighter.
• Su Yu suggested that the Iron Blood Sect and the Sun Moon Empire might have common ground, and Kuang Tie considered cooperation because his sect had little loyalty to the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
• Kuang Tie explained that the Iron Blood Sect had been founded by descendants of Gengxin City’s blacksmiths and described the blacksmith ranks and the profession’s decline.
• Su Yu asked to learn forging from Kuang Tie and proposed reviving blacksmithing, leaving Kuang Tie unsure how it could be done.

Su Yu persuaded Kuang Tie to help develop spiritual forging techniques as a new path for blacksmiths, then cultivated Reincarnation Grass in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for a year. During his seclusion, the Sun Moon Empire conquered the Heaven Dou and Dou Ling Empires, and its cultivation and Battle Armor programs advanced.

• Su Yu explained that blacksmithing should be redefined around Grandmaster-level Forging Masters and introduced Kuang Tie to Spiritual Metal as a basis for forging techniques suited to Battle Armor.
• Su Yu secured Kuang Tie's cooperation in supporting the Sun Moon Army's attack on the Heaven Dou Empire and developing spiritual forging, then left him a piece of Spiritual Metal and purified the toxins in his body.
• Su Yu entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, reported his agreement with Kuang Tie to Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen, and began cultivating Reincarnation Grass.
• Su Yu cultivated in seclusion for a year, raising Reincarnation Grass to nine hundred thousand years and helping it survive its ninth Heavenly Tribulation.
• The Sun Moon Empire occupied the Heaven Dou Empire and brought the Dou Ling Empire under its control, while the Universal Cultivation Method spread and mass-produced Elementary Battle Armor doubled the strength of its three great Soul Engineer legions.
• Illustrious Virtue Hall prepared to bring the remaining detained Shrek Inner Court geniuses, including Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, Huo Yuhao, and Bai Feng, to Shrek Academy to fulfill the prior transaction.