Chapter Summaries

Shrek Academy defeated Zhengtian Academy in the first match of the third round, with Chen Junting and Gongyang Mo eliminating their opponents through swordsmanship and soul guidance devices. Xu Sanshi and Jiang Nannan began the next match against Tang Xiaolei and Blood Wolf, and the fight remained underway as Xu Sanshi deflected Tang Xiaolei’s arrow.

• Cheng Gang eliminated Yu Mengdi, and Chen Junting and Gongyang Mo finished off the remaining Zhengtian Academy fighters with soul guidance devices.
• Cheng Gang announced Shrek Academy’s victory in the first match of the third round.
• Xu Sanshi and Jiang Nannan took the stage to face Tang Xiaolei and Blood Wolf in the next match.
• Jiang Nannan attacked Blood Wolf with a kick and Class 4 daggers, while Tang Xiaolei shot an arrow at Xu Sanshi.
• Xu Sanshi used his Profound Nether Turtle Shell Shield to withstand Tang Xiaolei’s arrow and knock it aside.

Shrek Academy defeated Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy in the round-robin match after Xu Sanshi and Jiang Nannan endured Tang Xiaolei’s powerful arrows. Xu Sanshi revealed his Black Tortoise bloodline and survived a near-breaking blow, then leaned on Jiang Nannan as the crowd celebrated Shrek’s victory.

• Tang Xiaolei fired a tracking arrow at Xu Sanshi, but Jiang Nannan teleported in and blocked it with her Invincible Golden Body.
• Xu Sanshi knocked Blood Wolf away, and Jiang Nannan used her soul skills to throw him to the ground and eliminate him.
• Xu Sanshi released his Black Tortoise bloodline, startling Xiao Hongchen and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy students.
• Tang Xiaolei fired his final two arrows, and Xu Sanshi fused his first three soul rings to block them with the Black Tortoise Shield.
• Cheng Gang declared Shrek Academy the winner after Tang Xiaolei conceded, and Jiang Nannan supported the exhausted Xu Sanshi.

Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng returned to the competition after recovering and overwhelmed Changning Advanced Soul Master Academy in a two-person Team Battle. Shrek continued winning its remaining Round Robin matches, giving Wang Dong and Wu Feng chances to fight.

• Chen Junting predicted that Shrek's strong Outer Academy students would unsettle Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, while Xiao Hongchen and Elder Ma remained confident in their Soul Tools.
• The next day, recovered captains Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng volunteered to fight Changning Advanced Soul Master Academy, and Wang Yan agreed to let them take the field together.
• Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng released their Soul Emperor auras, leaving most of Changning Team weak at the knees, and Cheng Gang declared Shrek the winner before their attacks could land.
• Shrek won its next three Round Robin matches, and Wang Dong and Wu Feng fought freely while the opposing academies avoided using heavy blows.

While Chen Junting and the others rested at Nine Treasures Pavilion, Body Sect Master Du Busi arrived to demand Huo Yuhao, overwhelming Tai Yu and Elder Song. Elder Song announced that a stronger opponent would face Du Busi.

• Wang Dong gave up a chess game against Huo Yuhao, and Chen Junting told the group that the Starlight Auction would begin the next day.
• Du Busi’s voice shook Star Luo City, and Chen Junting identified Huo Yuhao as his target.
• Tai Yu confronted Du Busi, who accused the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect of bullying and taking Body Sect disciples before attacking.
• Tai Yu transformed into a Great Strength Gorilla, but Du Busi’s dark-green palm overwhelmed him until Elder Song intervened.
• Du Busi defeated Elder Song in their brief clash, and she said someone qualified would fight him next.

Du Busi challenged Ye Xuanji in Star Luo City, and the two Rank-98 Super Douluo began a battle that shook the sky. With Ning Bo Wen’s support strengthening Ye Xuanji, Du Busi threatened to unleash his Life-Bound Poison and slaughter the city unless Huo Yuhao was handed over, but an unknown voice interrupted them.

• Du Busi refused Ye Xuanji’s offer to stop fighting and revealed his three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings as the two flew into the sky to battle.
• Chen Junting warned Huo Yuhao that Du Busi’s powerful Body Martial Soul, Soul Rings, and Soul Bones gave him an advantage over Ye Xuanji.
• Wang Dong revealed that her Big Dad and Second Dad were both Rank-99 Limit Douluo, and Ning Bo Wen arrived with Zhiyong at his side.
• Du Busi overpowered Ye Xuanji in a clash of Soul Skills, but Ning Bo Wen used his Eight Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda to boost Ye Xuanji’s strength beyond Du Busi’s.
• Du Busi demanded Huo Yuhao and Tai Yu and threatened to release his Life-Bound Poison to kill everyone in Star Luo City, until an unknown voice ordered them to stop.

Du Busi abandoned his attempt to seize Huo Yuhao after Star Luo City’s Titled Douluo intervened, then plotted to abduct him from Shrek later. The Star Luo Emperor summoned Du Busi to discuss a secret deal between the empire and the Body Sect, and Du Busi agreed to hear him out.

• Elder Song warned Du Busi that the Body Sect’s future would be threatened if he died, so he withdrew and vowed to try again.
• Ma Rulong and Xiao Hongchen assessed the continent’s top fighters, while Elder Ma asserted that the Sun Moon Empire would prevail through its national weapons.
• Du Busi told Lang Ya and Yu Tao that he would return to the Body Sect, gather allies, and have Old Jin sneak into Shrek to abduct Huo Yuhao after the competition.
• Old Man Xu arrived and said the Star Luo Emperor wanted to make a secret deal with the Body Sect, prompting Du Busi to agree to meet him.

The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect gave Chen Junting five hundred million Gold Soul Coins to bid on the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo at the Starlight Auction. After Shrek’s team discussed its upcoming match against Dou Ling Royal Soul Master Academy, Qingya invited them to the auction, and Wang Yan agreed to take everyone.

• Ning Bo Wen gave Chen Junting a golden card containing five hundred million Gold Soul Coins to use at the auction.
• Chen Junting and Huo Yuhao joined Shrek’s team, where Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng warned them about the Body Sect.
• Wang Yan told the team that their next opponent was Dou Ling Royal Soul Master Academy, which had five Soul Kings.
• Qingya delivered invitations from Starlight Auction House and invited Shrek’s team to attend the auction.
• Wang Yan accepted the invitations and agreed to take the team to the auction.

Wang Yan led the Shrek group to Starlight Auction House, where Qingya escorted them to a luxurious private room and explained the auction. The auction began with Xu Jiujiu serving as auctioneer, and Dai Yueheng revealed that she was a princess of the Star Luo Empire.

• Wang Yan and the Shrek group arrived at Starlight Auction House, where Qingya led them through a hidden passage to Auction Hall No. 1.
• The group entered Door No. 7, sampled the refreshments, and listened as Qingya explained the auction rules.
• Qingya sat beside Wang Yan, and Xu Sanshi laughed at Wang Yan's awkwardness before the auction's opening announcement redirected everyone's attention.
• Xu Jiujiu appeared on the screen as the auctioneer, and Dai Yueheng identified her as a princess of the Star Luo Empire.
• Chen Junting suggested that Xu Jiujiu's presence meant the auction would feature valuable items, raising the group's expectations.

The Starlight Auction continued as Ning Tian bought three Soul Bones and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect won a powerful Level 8 Soul Tool. The eighth item, a rare Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone, drew Huo Yuhao’s attention and left Ling Luochen hoping to bid for it.

• Ning Tian bought all three Soul Bones despite their poor compatibility with Chen Zifeng and the others, then joined Chen Junting in winning the Heaven-Opening Earth-Splitting Cannon for seven million five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Xu Sanshi teased Ning Tian about joining the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, while Wang Dong and Beibei discussed Huo Yuhao’s exceptional treatment there.
• Gongyang Mo promised to pay for the group’s midnight snack after securing a ten-million-Gold-Soul-Coin quota.
• Xu Jiujiu unveiled the eighth auction item, an Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone from a beast over fifty thousand years old, and described its Ice Explosion Soul Skill.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the Ice Jade Scorpion bone, and Ling Luochen looked to Chen Junting and Ning Tian before beginning to speak.

Chen Junting and Huo Yuhao warned Starlight Auction House that the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone could only be absorbed by a soul master with Ultimate Ice, disrupting the auction house’s plan to use it to build ties with Shrek Academy and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. Xu Jiawei decided to give the Soul Bone to them, while Chen Junting set a trap involving the auction’s inflated bidding and left confident that Xu Jiawei had taken the bait.

• Chen Junting warned that absorbing an Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone without Ultimate Ice could cause fatal backlash, and Wang Yan angrily confronted Qingya over the danger to Ling Luochen.
• Huo Yuhao confirmed that only a soul master with Ultimate Ice could absorb the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone, and Xu Jiujiu asked him to explain the claim to protect Starlight Auction House’s reputation.
• Xu Jiujiu told Xu Jiawei about the warning, and he abandoned his plan to sell the Soul Bone privately, deciding instead to give it to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and Shrek Academy.
• The Soul Bone’s auction price rose to thirty million Gold Soul Coins, prompting Meng Hongchen to stop Xiao Hongchen from bidding further.
• Chen Junting told Qingya that the auction house had bought its own Soul Bone, warned against repeating the scheme, and privately remarked that Xu Jiawei had taken the bait.

Xu Jiujiu unveiled the Snow Emperor Embryo, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo that might grant its owner a second Martial Soul, and the bidding began at one hundred million Gold Soul Coins. Chen Junting bid two hundred million and outmaneuvered Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, leaving Xu Jiawei to accept that the Star Luo Imperial Family’s plans had been disrupted.

• Xu Jiujiu revealed the Snow Emperor Embryo and announced its one-hundred-million-Gold-Soul-Coin starting bid.
• After the embryo was said to potentially grant a second Martial Soul, Xiao Hongchen resolved to buy it and persuaded Elder Ma to trade Soul Tools as collateral.
• Bidders raised the price to one hundred and fifty million Gold Soul Coins while Chen Junting waited for his moment.
• Chen Junting instructed Qingya to bid two hundred million Gold Soul Coins, shocking Shrek Academy and stopping Xiao Hongchen from continuing.
• Xu Jiujiu learned Chen Junting had placed the winning bid through the backing of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and Xu Jiawei accepted that the auction’s outcome could not be changed.

After winning the Snow Emperor Embryo, Chen Junting heard Xu Jiawei explain that he had auctioned it to fund the Star Luo Empire’s efforts to catch up in soul tool technology. Xu Jiawei considered Chen Junting’s suggestion to rob Mingde Hall, then saw Du Busi as a possible candidate to carry out the plan.

• Wu Feng questioned Chen Junting about buying the Snow Emperor Embryo, and he privately favored making it his Seventh Soul Ring and Soul Bone rather than gaining a second martial soul.
• Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu visited the Shrek group, offered them recruitment into the Star Luo Empire, and gifted them the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone as thanks for warning the auction house.
• Xu Jiawei handed the Snow Emperor Embryo to Chen Junting and explained that he had auctioned it to raise funds for catching up with Mingde Hall’s soul tool technology.
• Chen Junting suggested robbing Mingde Hall for its technology, and Xu Jiawei later told Xu Jiujiu he considered the risky idea worthwhile.
• Du Busi appeared before Xu Jiawei, who privately identified him as a possible candidate for the plan.

Du Busi learned that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had bought the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo and planned to rob them while also attacking Mingde Hall. Chen Junting joined Shrek Academy for its round-of-sixteen match against Douling Royal Advanced Soul Master Academy, where Ma Xiaotao’s overwhelming aura unsettled the opposing captain.

• Du Busi decided the Body Sect would return to discuss robbing the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and Mingde Hall in one operation.
• Ye Xuanji, Ning Bo Wen, and Zhiyong took the Snow Emperor Embryo from Chen Junting for safekeeping until he could absorb a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Chen Junting met Ning Tian for breakfast and considered finding a way to let the Snow Emperor retain her consciousness as a Soul Spirit.
• Wang Yan selected Ma Xiaotao, Gongyang Mo, Chen Zifeng, Ling Luochen, Chen Junting, Jiang Nannan, and Huo Yuhao to represent Shrek against Douling Royal Advanced Soul Master Academy.
• Ma Xiaotao ignored Gu Zhu Jian’s offered handshake, and he realized her aura suppressed him.

Shrek faced Soul Spirit Team’s Thunderous Cannon and won by using Jiang Nannan to sabotage it from inside the barrel. The cannon exploded, and the match ended with Shrek victorious while the Soul Spirit members narrowly avoided the blast.

• Soul Spirit Team arranged its members around Gu Zhu Jian as he prepared a concealed Thunderous Cannon, while Ma Xiaotao opened the match with Phoenix Meteor Shower.
• Xiao Feng hid Soul Spirit Team behind purple mist as Gu Zhu Jian and his teammates assembled the cannon, and Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to identify the threat.
• Chen Junting and Chen Zifeng attacked through Qian Yuan and Chi Hengyu’s defenses, but Gu Zhu Jian trapped the Shrek members with Purple Radiance Bamboo.
• Shrek unleashed a coordinated assault that shattered the bamboo, while Jiang Nannan used Huo Yuhao’s cover to teleport into the cannon barrel and block it with her Golden Body.
• Gu Zhu Jian fired the Thunderous Cannon, which exploded; Cheng Gang protected Soul Spirit Team, and Shrek was declared the winner.
• Elder Ma explained that Jiang Nannan had caused the cannon to explode, leaving the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy members astonished.

Wang Yan reprimanded Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng for underestimating Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and changed Shrek Academy’s plans to preserve their strength. Chen Junting then faced Qian Yuan in the Individual Elimination Tournament, where their battle left Shrek confident that Chen Junting’s Darkgolden Claw gave him an advantage.

• Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng argued over who would compete first in the Individual Elimination Tournament.
• Wang Yan warned the team that Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy might have powerful hidden Soul Tools, and Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng admitted their mistakes.
• Wang Yan ordered Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng to preserve their strength and assigned Chen Junting to compete first in the Individual Elimination Tournament.
• Chen Junting fought Qian Yuan, whose Dreadclaw Bear Martial Soul let him trade powerful attacks with Chen Junting’s sword techniques.
• Shrek’s students noted that Chen Junting’s Darkgolden Claw External Soul Bone gave him a likely advantage against Qian Yuan’s Dreadclaw Bear.

Chen Junting defeated Qian Yuan by exploiting the Dark Golden Claw Bear’s bloodline suppression, then faced Gu Zhu Jian in a fierce battle amid a Purple Bamboo Forest. He broke Gu Zhu Jian’s techniques and ended the match with his sword at Gu Zhu Jian’s throat.

• Chen Junting used his Dark Golden Claw Bear claws and Seven Kills Sword to suppress and defeat Qian Yuan.
• Gu Zhu Jian entered the Soul Fighting Stage to challenge Chen Junting, and the two began their match.
• Gu Zhu Jian filled the stage with a Purple Bamboo Forest, but Chen Junting cut through its attacks and found Gu Zhu Jian within it.
• Chen Junting wounded Gu Zhu Jian and trapped them both in a Soul Tool cage, then broke Gu Zhu Jian’s Irresistible Force with a precise sword strike.
• Gu Zhu Jian unleashed Myriad Bamboos Soaring to the Clouds as Chen Junting answered with Sword Domain Raging Waves and a Soul Tool barrage, devastating the bamboo forest.
• Chen Junting used a sorrowful sword strike to daze Gu Zhu Jian, then placed his Seven Kills Sword against Gu Zhu Jian’s throat and declared him defeated.

After Shrek advanced to the Top Four, Chen Junting discussed the Snow Emperor Embryo with Electrolux and learned that she could still become human. Electrolux offered an equal contract method for making her Chen Junting’s companion and teacher, then asked whether Chen Junting would inherit his mantle.

• Xixi defeated Han Ling'er, and the Soul Spirit Team lost all three Individual Battle matches and was eliminated.
• Shrek crushed Zhengtian Academy to advance to the Top Four, and Zhengtian later forfeited its next match.
• Chen Junting studied the Snow Emperor Embryo while Electrolux explained that the Snow Emperor’s interrupted transformation into human form could continue.
• Chen Junting told Electrolux that he wanted the Snow Emperor as a companion and teacher, not a puppet, and hoped to revive her if he became a god.
• Electrolux created an equal contract and explained that Chen Junting’s Soul Ring absorption was a compulsory, unequal contract.
• Electrolux asked Chen Junting if he was willing to inherit his mantle.

Chen Junting accepted Electrolux’s mantle and explored the Necromancer Demigod Plane, then joined Shrek Academy’s preparations for the semifinals. The chapter ended with the semifinalists studying their possible opponents ahead of the live draw.

• Chen Junting agreed to learn Electrolux’s Light, Necromancy, and Summoning magic, but promised to use it to strengthen his array formations and help Electrolux revive himself.
• Electrolux opened his Necromancer Demigod Plane and gave Chen Junting its undead creatures as a gift.
• Chen Junting toured the plane, sorted through his accumulated insights, and realized he needed stronger Seven Kills Sword Momentum to fuse his killing intent and ferocious aura.
• Ning Tian comforted Chen Junting at the Star Emperor Hotel, where Xu Sanshi and the others arrived for the semifinal strategy meeting.
• Wang Yan distributed information on Diao Academy, the Star Luo Royal Academy, and Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, then analyzed their members and tactics with the Shrek students.

The four teams gathered for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Duelling Competition semifinals, and Wang Yan agreed to Chen Junting’s plan to use Xu Sanshi to remove a key opponent from the match. The draw paired Shrek Academy against Star Luo Royal Academy, leaving Wang Yan to order his team to act according to the plan.

• Xu Jiawei opened the semifinal ceremony in Star Luo City and announced that he would oversee the draw.
• Chen Junting persuaded Wang Yan to let Xu Sanshi replace a Soul Ancestor so he could target an opposing core member in the semifinal.
• Wang Yan told Xu Sanshi to swap Princess Jiujiu off the stage if Shrek Academy drew Star Luo Royal Academy.
• Ma Xiaotao and Xu Jiujiu drew matching number-one balls, pairing Shrek Academy against Star Luo Royal Academy.
• Wang Yan told the team to act according to the plan.

Shrek Academy faced Star Luo Royal Academy in the team battle, where Xu Sanshi used a Soul Tool and his swapping Soul Skill to exchange places with Xu Jiujiu and eliminate her from the stage. His move ruined Xu Jiujiu’s preparations, leaving the remaining Star Luo members to confront him and the referee to intervene.

• Xu Jiujiu provoked Shrek, and Ma Xiaotao responded with open mockery as both teams took their positions.
• Xu Jiujiu told Star Luo Team to use their defensive Soul Master to counter Xu Sanshi’s expected swapping tactic.
• When the match began, Xu Sanshi put on a Soul Tool, ran off the stage, and activated his Fourth Soul Skill.
• Xu Sanshi swapped places with Xu Jiujiu, leaving her outside the stage and eliminating Star Luo Team’s core member.
• Xu Jiujiu realized her preparations had failed, while Huang Jinxu prepared to act as Star Luo Team focused on Xu Sanshi.