Chapter Summaries

Zhou Sichen shared a warm farewell with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, then used their curiosity about his seventh-rank Soul Tool Armor to mislead them about its origin. He left them considering a possible exchange of confidential information between Shrek Academy and Mingde Hall.

• Zhou Sichen, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen left the Imperial Palace and toasted their friendship at a tavern, where Xiao Hongchen subtly questioned Zhou about Shrek Academy.
• Meng Hongchen moved to Zhou Sichen's side and admired him, while Xiao Hongchen noticed her feelings and considered whether they could help him learn about Shrek Academy.
• Xiao Hongchen asked who had made Zhou Sichen's seventh-rank full-body Soul Tool Armor, and Meng Hongchen concluded that Zhou's teacher must have created it.
• Zhou Sichen falsely claimed that the armor was his teacher's latest research, prompting the siblings to reassess Shrek Academy's Soul Tool capabilities.
• Zhou Sichen set a boundary on what he could reveal, then hinted that friends might exchange information; Xiao Hongchen decided to consult his grandfather about the possibility.

Zhou Sichen advised Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to focus on refining their Martial Souls rather than relying heavily on medicines to raise their Soul Power. He revealed that Meng Hongchen’s Martial Soul backlash could become life-threatening and said Shrek Academy could solve it, strengthening the siblings’ resolve to become Exchange Students there.

• Zhou Sichen advised Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to cultivate their Martial Soul abilities and limit their use of medicines that increased Soul Power.
• Xiao Hongchen admitted that Zhou Sichen’s previous defeat of their Martial Soul Fusion Skill had made the siblings recognize their shortcomings and resolve to improve.
• Xiao Hongchen asked why Zhou Sichen’s cultivation was so solid, and Zhou Sichen attributed his strength to refining his Martial Soul and carefully weighing the benefits and drawbacks of external aids.
• Zhou Sichen explained that Meng Hongchen’s Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad carried powerful ice and fire poison whose backlash would worsen with her cultivation and might endanger her life.
• Xiao Hongchen asked Zhou Sichen to help Meng Hongchen, and Zhou Sichen said Shrek Academy could solve her problem, prompting both siblings to thank him and strengthen their resolve to become Exchange Students.

Zhou Sichen learned that Mingde Hall had made new Soul Tool breakthroughs, distributed the tournament’s Soul Bones, and checked on Ma Xiaotao’s recovery before leading Shrek’s champions home. The team returned safely to Shrek Academy and was invited to the Sea God Pavilion to receive its rewards and meet Yan Shaozhe’s teacher.

• Zhou Sichen inferred from the Hongchen Siblings’ remarks that Mingde Hall had made new Soul Tool breakthroughs.
• Zhou Sichen gave the tournament’s three Soul Bones to Gongyang Mo, Cao Jinxuan, and Xu Sanshi, then learned from Ye Guyi that Ma Xiaotao’s Fire Phoenix bloodline had stabilized.
• Xuan Zi led the Shrek group out of Star Luo City, and they reached Shrek Academy three days later without encountering an ambush.
• Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, Cai Meier, Qian Duoduo, and Fan Yu welcomed the returning champions at the academy gates.
• Yan Shaozhe announced that the Sea God Pavilion Council would distribute the team’s rewards at the Sea God Pavilion, where his teacher was waiting.

Yan Shaozhe brought the returning Shrek Team to Sea God Pavilion, where the building’s golden light restored their strength and astonished the newcomers. Inside, the students met the academy’s senior leaders and learned that Sea God Pavilion was its highest decision-making body, leaving them in awe of Shrek Academy’s power and legacy.

• Yan Shaozhe led the group along Sea God Island’s paths to the modest-looking Sea God Pavilion, surprising Wang Dong and the others.
• Yan Shaozhe announced their arrival, and Mu En invited everyone inside as Sea God Pavilion blazed with golden light that refreshed the group and resonated with Wang Dong’s Martial Soul and Beibei’s bloodline.
• Xuan Zi and the deans entered the hall, where Zhou Sichen and Ye Guyi greeted Mu En and reported the team’s tournament gains, including a partnership with the Star Luo Imperial Family, encounters with the Body Sect, and newly acquired Soul Tools.
• Ma Xiaotao and the other students entered Sea God Pavilion and saw the elders and deans assembled around the reclining figure, while Zhou Sichen and Ye Guyi attended Mu En.
• Yan Shaozhe explained that Sea God Pavilion was the academy’s highest decision-making body, and the Outer Court students bowed to the elders in astonishment.

Yan Shaozhe rewarded the tournament team with access to the Golden Tree Underworld, doubled cultivation resources, and the lifelong title of Shrek Seven Devils for seven Main Team Members. Zhou Sichen led the group into the Underworld, where Wang Dong felt an inexplicable connection to the statue of Tang San.

• Yan Shaozhe announced that the team would receive deep meditation in the Golden Tree Underworld and doubled cultivation resources, and that the Preliminary Team Members could take the Inner Court Assessment early after reaching Four Rings.
• Yan Shaozhe granted Zhou Sichen, Ye Guyi, Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, Gongyang Mo, Ling Luochen, and Dugu Xianmeng the lifelong title of Shrek Seven Devils, disappointing the Preliminary Team Members who had hoped to inherit it.
• Yan Shaozhe asked Zhou Sichen to lead the group to the Golden Tree Underworld, and Zhou Sichen opened the passage through the Golden Ancient Tree mural with the Power of Light.
• The group arrived in a vast underground hall filled with statues and mysterious passageways, where Wang Dong felt a strange familiarity with the statue of Tang San.

Zhou Sichen guided the team members into deep meditation rooms, then gave Mu En a drop of Gold of Life to help his failing body. Mu En entered the Golden Tree Underworld to absorb it, leaving Zhou Sichen and Ye Guyi in the Sea God Pavilion hall.

• Zhou Sichen explained the purpose of the deep meditation rooms and urged the team members to find and follow their own paths.
• Zhou Sichen assigned rooms to Cao Jinxuan and the others, then encouraged Beibei to begin his meditation and promised to tell Tang Ya he was away.
• Zhou Sichen returned to Mu En and revealed a drop of Gold of Life, claiming he had acquired it during the trip to the Star Luo Empire.
• Mu En sensed the Gold of Life's powerful vitality and accepted it from Zhou Sichen, hoping it would improve his condition.
• Mu En entered the Golden Tree Underworld to absorb the Gold of Life, leaving Zhou Sichen and Ye Guyi in the hall.

Jing Hongchen weighed the threat posed by Shrek Academy while Zhou Sichen returned to Shrek and resumed cultivating with his companions. Zhang Lexuan asked Zhou Sichen to help her cultivate through a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and he later considered arranging Soul Tool studies at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy for Moxuan and Huo Yuhao.

• Xiao Hongchen told Jing Hongchen that he and Meng Hongchen planned to study at Shrek as exchange students, and Jing Hongchen warned Meng to put the Sun Moon Empire's interests first.
• Jing Hongchen privately concluded that Shrek's Soul Tool advances and its cooperation with the Star Luo Imperial Family threatened the Sun Moon Empire.
• Zhou Sichen and Ye Guyi returned to Shrek, where Zhang Lexuan asked Zhou Sichen to copy her Martial Soul and help her cultivate; he agreed.
• Zhou Sichen and Ye Guyi met Moxuan in the cafeteria, where Moxuan described his Soul Tool progress and Huo Yuhao's preparations for the Third-Rank Soul Engineer assessment.
• Zhou Sichen considered giving Moxuan and Huo Yuhao opportunities to study Soul Tools at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

Zhou Sichen arranged for Moxuan to study Soul Tools and considered using his enhancement ability to strengthen the Undead Legion. He later met Tang Ya, who confessed that her Bluesilver Grass could cultivate through Life Devouring, and the chapter ended as he comforted her over the dangerous choice.

• Zhou Sichen arranged an exchange student place at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy for Moxuan, and Ye Guyi suggested testing Moxuan's group enhancement on the Undead Legion.
• Zhou Sichen told Ye Guyi he planned to visit the Body Sect to seek a solution to his incomplete Second Awakening, and she worried about the danger of his trip.
• Zhou Sichen returned to Shrek Academy and told Tang Ya that Beibei was in seclusion and would likely emerge in about a month.
• Tang Ya confided that her Bluesilver Grass possessed a Devouring Bloodline and that Life Devouring could raise her Soul Power quickly, though she feared being treated as an Evil Soul Master.
• Zhou Sichen asked whether Tang Ya wanted him to dissuade her or support her decision, then reassured her that he understood her conflict and valued the trust she had placed in him.

Zhou Sichen warned Tang Ya about the risks of growing stronger by devouring life force, then privately considered using her future corruption to infiltrate the Holy Spirit Cult. He visited Huo Yuhao afterward and offered him a place in an exchange program at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, which Huo Yuhao eagerly accepted.

• Zhou Sichen told Tang Ya that devouring human life could corrupt her and said he would stop her if she became an Evil Soul Master, while Tang Ya insisted on taking revenge herself.
• After Tang Ya left, Zhou Sichen considered turning her future role as the Blue Silver Saintess into a way to infiltrate and eventually control the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Zhou Sichen visited Fan Yu's laboratory, where Huo Yuhao said he was preparing for the Third-Rank Soul Engineer assessment.
• Zhou Sichen offered Huo Yuhao a place in Shrek Academy's exchange program with the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Huo Yuhao immediately accepted the chance to study at the academy.

Zhou Sichen reflected on Huo Yuhao’s unusual bond with Wang Dong and the hidden forces shaping their fortunes, then agreed to cultivate with Zhang Lexuan to help her reach the Titled Douluo realm. At lunch, Wu Ming asked to cultivate with Zhou Sichen too, but learned he had already promised Zhang Lexuan nightly sessions for six months, leaving her and Han Ruoruo stunned.

• Zhou Sichen praised Huo Yuhao’s Soul Tool talent and encouraged him to keep progressing.
• Zhou Sichen considered how his arrival and the Plane Consciousness had affected fortune and Wang Dong’s feelings toward Huo Yuhao.
• Zhang Lexuan asked Zhou Sichen to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to help her reach Level 90, and he agreed to cultivate with her each night for six months.
• Zhou Sichen joined Zhang Lexuan, Han Ruoruo, and Wu Ming at the cafeteria, where Wu Ming described the brutal training and asked him to help her advance through cultivation together.
• Zhou Sichen declined Wu Ming’s request because of his nightly commitment to Zhang Lexuan, shocking Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo.

Zhou Sichen and Ye Guyi planned to test her strength against an Undead Bone Dragon after discussing a possible Sun-Moon-Star Martial Soul Fusion Skill. In the Undead Demiplane, Ye Guyi began fighting a powerful dragon as Zhou Sichen and Electrolux watched.

• After dinner, Zhou Sichen returned to the villa and opened a passage to the Secret Chamber, where Ye Guyi emerged from the Undead Demiplane and ate the food he had brought.
• Ye Guyi suggested that Zhang Lexuan, He Caitou, and Xu Jiujiu might create a Three-Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Zhou Sichen decided to visit Xu Jiujiu to discuss it.
• Ye Guyi finished eating and asked Zhou Sichen to open the passage so she could challenge the Undead Bone Dragons.
• In the Undead Demiplane, Zhou Sichen chose a battlefield with three King-level Undead Bone Dragons and told Ye Guyi to start with the weakest one.
• Ye Guyi spread her angel wings and faced the chosen Undead Bone Dragon in the air while Zhou Sichen and Electrolux watched.

Ye Guyi fought the Undead Bone Dragon in the sky, using her Angel Domain and fused Angel's Light Halberd to counter its attacks. After the bone dragon broke free of her spirit array and unleashed Myriad Dragon Flames, Ye Guyi summoned her Sacred Dragon Manifestation, and the two powers clashed.

• Ye Guyi transformed with Angel True Body and spread Angel Domain, weakening the Undead Bone Dragon while it shielded itself with sacred power.
• Ye Guyi cut through the bone dragon's Dragon Breath with Angel Sacred Sword, then blocked its counterattack with Angel's Shield.
• Ye Guyi trapped the Undead Bone Dragon with Holy Light Spirit Array and fused her sword and shield into Angel's Light Halberd.
• The Undead Bone Dragon destroyed the spirit array, ignited golden flames, and charged Ye Guyi with Myriad Dragon Flames.
• Ye Guyi summoned Sacred Dragon Manifestation from her Holy Light Dragon Turtle Right Arm Soul Bone, and the golden dragon held back the bone dragon's assault.

Ye Guyi defeated the Undead Bone Dragon with a powerful fused halberd attack, then returned to the Secret Chamber to recover. In the Undead Demiplane, Zhou Sichen and Elder Yi discussed testing Elder Yi’s early Soul Spirit Contract method and continued researching ways to strengthen their undead forces.

• Ye Guyi used Sacred Spirit Slash to overpower the Undead Bone Dragon’s final charge and leave it gravely injured.
• Zhou Sichen restored the wounded Undead Bone Dragon with his gray Soul Ring, and it submitted to him again.
• Ye Guyi returned to Zhou Sichen and vowed to keep training against the Undead Bone Dragons before leaving the demiplane to recover in the Secret Chamber.
• Elder Yi told Zhou Sichen he had devised a preliminary method for forming a Soul Spirit Contract, and Zhou Sichen proposed beginning experiments with Shrek Academy students.
• Zhou Sichen and Elder Yi discussed replacing Soul Rings and the obstacles to reform before resuming their research into Necromancy and the Undead Legion.

Zhou Sichen cultivated a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Zhang Lexuan, helping her advance toward becoming a Titled Douluo, and proposed a Sun-Moon-Star fusion with He Caitou and Xu Jiujiu. After a busy half month, Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe approved the plan, while Zhou Sichen continued to balance his growing bonds with Shrek Academy against his own firm ambitions.

• Zhou Sichen and Zhang Lexuan spent the night cultivating their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, discovering that it greatly improved their Soul Power growth.
• Zhou Sichen proposed that Zhang Lexuan research a Sun-Moon-Star Three-Martial Soul Fusion Skill with He Caitou and Xu Jiujiu, and Zhang Lexuan agreed if he could settle the arrangements.
• Zhou Sichen spent the following half month researching Soul Tools, training with Ye Guyi in the Undead Demiplane, and continuing fusion cultivation with Zhang Lexuan.
• Zhou Sichen explained the fusion plan to Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe, who approved it and agreed that bringing Xu Jiujiu to Shrek would repay Star Luo for its support.
• Zhou Sichen recognized that his affection and respect for Mu En and Shrek Academy had grown, but remained determined to follow his own path if the academy ever opposed him.

Zhou Sichen traveled to Star Luo to persuade Xu Jiujiu to attend Shrek Academy and help develop a Three-Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Xu Jiujiu and Xu Jiawei agreed to the plan, and as she prepared to leave with Zhou Sichen, she felt both anticipation and unease about their journey together.

• Zhou Sichen left Sea God Island alone for Star Luo after telling Xuan Zi he planned to bring Xu Jiujiu back and later help others obtain Soul Rings.
• Zhou Sichen explained his Three-Martial Soul Fusion Skill idea to Xu Jiujiu, who agreed to attend Shrek Academy despite doubts about whether the skill could work.
• Xu Jiawei approved Xu Jiujiu's enrollment and planned to publicize her attendance as part of Star Luo's cooperation with Shrek Academy.
• Xu Jiawei teased Zhou Sichen and Xu Jiujiu about their marriage contract, and Zhou Sichen agreed not to forget Star Luo's support.
• Xu Jiujiu packed for the trip and asked to ride Zhou Sichen's personal transport, while privately anticipating their time together and worrying about his other admirers.

Zhou Sichen brought Xu Jiujiu to Shrek Academy and discussed his plans for a Soul Spirit Method that could benefit both Soul Masters and Soul Beasts. After arriving, Xu Jiujiu settled into a villa on Sea God Island and toured the academy with Zhou Sichen, growing more impressed by its facilities and its people.

• As Zhou Sichen flew Xu Jiujiu toward Shrek Academy on Hellfire, she suggested using contracts to tame Soul Beasts, and he shared his preliminary ideas for a mutually beneficial Soul Spirit Method.
• Zhou Sichen considered how human greed could lead Soul Masters to hunt Soul Beasts for Soul Bones, while Xu Jiujiu grew increasingly admiring and dependent on him during their two-day journey.
• Yan Shaozhe welcomed Xu Jiujiu to Shrek Academy and arranged for her to stay in a villa on Sea God Island.
• Zhou Sichen helped Xu Jiujiu settle in, took her to the cafeteria, and showed her Sea God Island’s cultivation grounds and facilities.
• At Sea God Lake, Xu Jiujiu praised Shrek Academy’s environment and teased Zhou Sichen about copying it for Star Luo, while he explained that its legacy could not easily be replicated.

Ma Xiaotao told Zhou Sichen and Xu Jiujiu that her meditation had brought her close to Level 74 and helped her master Extreme Fire, then agreed to show Xu Jiujiu around Shrek Academy. Meanwhile, Du Busi and Yu Tao questioned whether Zhou Sichen’s cryptic words signaled that Shrek had found someone suitable to inherit the Body Sect’s Seed of the Body.

• Ma Xiaotao reunited with Xu Jiujiu and heard Zhou Sichen explain his plan for a Three-Martial Soul Fusion Skill and Xu Jiujiu’s role in it.
• Ma Xiaotao offered to show Xu Jiujiu around Shrek Academy while He Caitou remained in deep meditation.
• Ma Xiaotao reported that she was nearing Level 74, had nearly mastered Extreme Fire, and had broken through to seven rings.
• Zhou Sichen left Xu Jiujiu with Ma Xiaotao, then joined Ye Guyi to fight the Undead Bone Dragon.
• Yu Tao reported his encounter with Zhou Sichen to Du Busi, who wondered whether the Dragon God Douluo was alive and what Zhou Sichen’s cryptic message meant.
• Du Busi and Yu Tao suspected that Shrek might know about the Seed of the Body’s inheritance or had found a potential heir.

Dai Yueheng and the other Inner Court students emerged from seclusion with stronger abilities, while Zhou Sichen set out with Ling Luochen and Gongyang Mo for the Far North to obtain their Soul Rings. During the journey, he explained his Soul Spirit Method, leaving them eager to become its first participants as the group approached the region where he planned to put it into practice.

• Dai Yueheng, Ling Luochen, and Dugu Xianmeng made breakthroughs during seclusion, while Gongyang Mo remained at the Level 60 bottleneck awaiting a Soul Ring.
• Dai Yueheng prepared to graduate and return to the Star Luo Empire, while Dugu Xianmeng grew closer to Ye Guyi through shared cultivation.
• Zhou Sichen took Ling Luochen and Gongyang Mo toward the Far North on Hellfire, intending to find Ling Luochen an Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Ring and a suitable Soul Ring for Gongyang Mo.
• Ling Luochen and Gongyang Mo worried about the danger of hunting Ice Jade Scorpions, but Zhou Sichen reassured them and explained his Soul Spirit Method as an alternative approach.
• Ling Luochen and Gongyang Mo eagerly accepted the prospect of becoming the method’s first participants, while Tian Meng and the Ice Empress discussed how it could advance Zhou Sichen’s plans for humans and Soul Beasts.

Zhou Sichen taught Ling Luochen and Gongyang Mo the Soul Spirit Method’s contract process, then brought them into the Far North to find suitable Soul Beasts. He left the pair in a cave and returned with an Ice Jade Scorpion for Ling Luochen and a subdued Ice Soul Twin-Headed Dragon for Gongyang Mo, both ready for Soul Spirit Contracts.

• Zhou Sichen used the Eyes of the Soul to imprint the Soul Spirit Method’s contract process into Ling Luochen and Gongyang Mo’s minds, then used the Eyes of Life to relieve their mental exhaustion.
• Ling Luochen and Gongyang Mo spent two days practicing the method before Zhou Sichen brought them into the Far North on Ah Da.
• Zhou Sichen left Ling Luochen and Gongyang Mo in a cave and traveled toward the Ice Jade Scorpion clan while the pair prepared to wait safely.
• The Ice Empress wore the Ice Emperor Armor and brought Zhou Sichen an Ice Jade Scorpion with Thirty Thousand Five Hundred Year of cultivation.
• With Tian Meng’s help, Zhou Sichen found and subdued a thirty-thousand-year Ice Soul Twin-Headed Dragon for Gongyang Mo; the Ice Empress persuaded it to submit to the Soul Spirit Method.

Zhou Sichen guided Ling Luochen and the Ice Jade Scorpion through the first Soul Spirit Contract, successfully making the Scorpion her Sixth Soul Ring’s Soul Spirit. With the method proven, Gongyang Mo and the Ice Soul Twin-Headed Dragon prepared for their turn.

• Zhou Sichen returned to the cave with the Ice Jade Scorpion and Ice Soul Twin-Headed Dragon, astonishing Ling Luochen and Gongyang Mo with their obedience.
• Ling Luochen volunteered to undergo the Soul Spirit Contract, and Zhou Sichen carefully guided the Ice Jade Scorpion through the ritual’s preparations.
• Zhou Sichen and Ling Luochen completed the equal-contract ritual, and the Ice Jade Scorpion’s body dissolved as its symbols and power entered Ling Luochen.
• Ling Luochen gained a powerful black Sixth Soul Ring and summoned the Ice Jade Scorpion as her Soul Spirit, then celebrated the successful fusion with Zhou Sichen.
• Gongyang Mo eagerly pleaded for his turn, and Zhou Sichen invited him and the Ice Soul Twin-Headed Dragon to begin.