Chapter Summaries

Shrek Academy overwhelmed Star Luo Team in the first semifinal Team Battle after Xu Jiujiu was eliminated, forcing Star Luo Team to concede. Ma Xiaotao taunted Xu Jiujiu afterward and said she would fight them again in the Individual Battle.

• Huang Jinxu rescued Xu Sanshi from Star Luo Team, and Ma Xiaotao immediately attacked the remaining opponents with her Phoenix Flames.
• Ma Rulong and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team discussed Xu Sanshi's unexpected technique and warned that Shrek's versatility had to be taken seriously.
• Huang Heyun sent Holy Wing and Chen Xiaojie to block Shrek, but Shrek's attacks knocked both unconscious.
• Huang Heyun and three teammates combined their power through the Nine Revolutions Soul Transformation Device and launched Demonic Tiger Shocks the Heavens, but Shrek dodged the attack.
• Xu Jiujiu conceded, and Huang Jinxu declared Shrek Academy the winner of the Team Battle.
• Ma Xiaotao mocked Xu Jiujiu and said she would beat Star Luo Team in the Individual Battle.

Shrek Academy opened the finals against Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy with a seven-person formation that let Ma Xiaotao unleash an overwhelmingly powerful, team-enhanced attack. The first Team Battle remained unfinished as Ma Xiaotao withdrew after exhausting herself, leaving six Shrek members to face the Hongchen Siblings.

• Star Luo conceded the semifinal, and Chen Junting and Wang Yan prepared Shrek for the final against Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Xu Jiawei announced the finals, and Huang Jinxu set the best-two-out-of-three rules before the Team Battle began.
• Chen Junting’s formation and six Invincible Barriers protected Shrek as Ma Xiaotao gathered the team’s power and unleashed her Phoenix Meteor Shower and Phoenix Piercing Cloud Strike.
• Ma Xiaotao’s attacks overwhelmed Sun Moon Team, severely injuring everyone except the Hongchen Siblings and leaving the stage scorched.
• Ma Xiaotao failed to injure Meng Hongchen because her defensive soul tool blocked the strike, then withdrew from the stage, leaving six Shrek members against the siblings.

Shrek Academy won the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Duelling Competition after Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy forfeited, and the champions returned to Shrek. At the Sea God Pavilion, Mu En welcomed them with a powerful light that strengthened their cultivation, while Chen Junting discovered a new Intent of Vastness.

• Elder Ma protected Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen from Shrek's attacks, then announced Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's forfeit, making Shrek the champion.
• Xiao Hongchen vowed to avenge Meng Hongchen, and Chen Junting accepted his challenge before Shrek celebrated the victory.
• Jing Hongchen praised Shrek's new soul-tool techniques and ordered Elder Ma to invite Shrek to a three-year student exchange.
• Ning Bo Wen and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect representatives parted from the Shrek group, and Yan Shaozhe announced that the champions would receive their rewards at the Sea God Pavilion.
• The Sea God Pavilion's golden light enveloped the students; Chen Junting cultivated, perceived a new Intent of Vastness, and advanced to rank 46.
• An aged voice invited everyone into the Sea God Pavilion.

Shrek Academy rewarded its tournament champions, promoted Wang Yan, and granted the Outer Academy students special opportunities. Mu En revealed that he was the Sea God Pavilion Master and led the students to the seclusion chambers beneath the Golden Ancient Tree.

• Yan Shaozhe gave Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng minor demerits for their injuries, but waived the demerits from their records and let the Main Team receive its rewards.
• Yan Shaozhe promoted Wang Yan to Special Grade Teacher and opened the Sea God Pavilion's Library Pavilion to him for half a year.
• Yan Shaozhe awarded Chen Junting a Soul Bone and promised the Outer Academy students a seclusion opportunity, help obtaining their next Soul Rings, and a chance to take the Inner Academy assessment if they had surpassed Soul Ancestor.
• Mu En dismissed the other elders and academy leaders, then Beibei revealed him as the Sea God Pavilion Master and Wu Feng recognized him as Dormitory Manager Grandpa.
• Mu En led the students to the hall containing the seclusion passages beneath the Golden Ancient Tree.

Chen Junting comprehended the Seven Kills Domain and formed the Sword Intent of Slaughter during seclusion in the Golden Ancient Tree, then entered deep meditation again. As Mu En welcomed an unexpected visit from the Body Sect, Du Busi confronted Xuan Zi outside Shrek Academy.

• Chen Junting entered a room filled with killing intent, took the Left Leg Bone, and began cultivating while Mu En urged the students to find their own paths.
• Yan Shaozhe questioned Mu En about using the Golden Ancient Tree’s limited seclusion rooms for so many students, and Xian Liner rebuked him before Mu En explained that the children would need to defend the kingdoms against the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xian Liner told Mu En that the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy had proposed a three-year exchange of ten students from each side, and Mu En reacted with keen interest.
• Chen Junting tempered his Seven Kills Sword Momentum into the Seven Kills Domain and formed the Sword Intent of Slaughter, then entered deep meditation as Mu En sent Primordial Qi toward him.
• Beibei, Wang Dong, and Huo Yuhao emerged from seclusion and learned that Chen Junting had entered a second deep meditation; Mu En calmed them when Du Busi called for Xuan Zi at Shrek Academy.
• Du Busi mocked Xuan Zi’s sweeper disguise, Xuan Zi roared back, and Mu En invited the arriving Body Sect members inside.

After nearly three months of meditation, Chen Junting learned that the Blue Silver Emperor Seed was helping the Golden Ancient Tree evolve while subtly assimilating it, and that the seed could eventually transform Electrolux's demigod plane. He reaffirmed his goals to Mu En, then returned to Sea God Island and reunited with Ning Tian.

• Electrolux told Chen Junting that the Blue Silver Emperor Seed inside the Golden Ancient Tree was using its power to help the tree evolve into a Life Core while gradually assimilating it.
• Chen Junting realized the seed's plan was to occupy the Golden Ancient Tree after lowering its defenses, and learned that transplanting the seed could help the Necromancer Demigod Plane advance into a true plane.
• Chen Junting told Mu En he intended to make the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect the number one sect and become a god, then left the Sea God Pavilion.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng waited for Chen Junting by Sea God Lake until he returned on his Seven Kills Sword and embraced Ning Tian.
• Wu Feng quietly left Chen Junting and Ning Tian alone as they reunited.

Chen Junting met Ning Tian by Sea God Lake, discussed Yuhao’s exchange to Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and the Body Sect’s failed attempt to seize him, then prepared to absorb a divinity-tainted Soul Bone. He successfully began fusing with Chen Xin’s Left Leg Bone as his Seven Kills Domain and Sword Intent of Slaughter countered its murderous Evil Thoughts.

• Chen Junting and Ning Tian discussed Yuhao being selected for an exchange program at Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and the Body Sect’s failed attempt to capture him.
• Chen Junting told Ning Tian he planned to absorb the Soul Bone that night, and she agreed to protect him.
• Chen Junting opened the Soul Sealing Soul Guidance Device and revealed a Left Leg Bone tainted by Rakshasa Divinity, once belonging to Chen Xin.
• Chen Junting’s Sword Intent of Slaughter and Seven Kills Domain fought off the Soul Bone’s murderous Evil Thoughts, and he regained clarity.
• Chen Junting fused the Left Leg Bone into his body, circulating its Soul Power as his cultivation rose and his meridians strengthened.
• Electrolux watched Chen Junting absorb the Soul Bone, then put away his staff and vanished from the Sea of Spirit.

Chen Junting and the others discussed their upcoming soul-ring hunt, while Beibei revealed that Tang Ya had reached rank 40 and was struggling with her state of mind. They found Tang Ya secretly using her devouring Blue Silver Grass, and Chen Junting knocked her unconscious so Beibei could take her for help.

• Chen Junting told the group he had reached rank 50 and planned to hunt for a fifth soul ring with Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao, while Wang Dong asked to join and was refused.
• Beibei revealed that Tang Ya had reached rank 40, and Chen Junting noticed her changed demeanor and warned that her heart was in disorder.
• Beibei explained that Tang Ya had grown increasingly troubled since the Soul Duelling Competition, and the group realized her rapid cultivation might signal a deeper problem.
• That night, Tang Ya used her devouring Blue Silver Grass on a patch of grass and confessed that she could no longer suppress her desire to avenge her parents and the Tang Sect.
• Beibei urged Tang Ya to return with him, but Chen Junting knocked her unconscious and told Beibei to seek help from Mystic Ancestor.

Beibei brought the unconscious Tang Ya to Sea God Pavilion and begged Mu En to save her after she began absorbing life force from plants. Mu En chose to help her by cleansing her soul rings, a method that also gave Chen Junting ideas for studying his martial soul and Artificial Soul Rings; Tang Ya agreed, and the procedure began.

• Beibei knelt before Mu En with Tang Ya in his arms, while Yan Shaozhe argued that her growing signs of evil required action.
• Mu En defended Tang Ya, saying Shrek owed her a debt, and stopped Yan Shaozhe from condemning her.
• Mu En revived Tang Ya and explained that Shrek's Ring Cleansing Secret Method could remove her existing soul rings so she could absorb new ones.
• Mu En told Chen Junting the method might help him understand how his soul rings had fused into his martial soul and inspire his work on Artificial Soul Rings.
• Tang Ya agreed to undergo Ring Cleansing, and Mu En activated the platform as her three soul rings appeared.

Tang Ya underwent Ring Cleansing, losing her Soul Skills but gaining a renewed path for her Martial Soul, while Chen Junting explained that her latent Devouring Ability could still exist. Later, Chen Junting and Ning Tian planned to trade support for Tang Sect Hidden Weapons’ production methods, leaving Huo Yuhao resolved to prioritize the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s interests.

• Mu En cleansed Tang Ya’s three Soul Rings and told her to choose her future Soul Rings carefully.
• Tang Ya summoned her Blue Silver Grass and discovered that her Soul Skills were gone, while Chen Junting noted that her Martial Soul still had latent Devouring Ability.
• Chen Junting explained that Mu En had infused Tang Ya with the Golden Ancient Tree’s energy, giving her Martial Soul a better path for growth.
• Chen Junting proposed that Beibei and Tang Ya share the Tang Sect Hidden Weapons’ production methods in exchange for the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s research and new soul guidance device designs.
• Huo Yuhao questioned the plan, but Chen Junting argued that it protected the sect’s interests, and Huo Yuhao resolved to put the sect first.

Chen Junting led the group into the Star Dou Forest to help Tang Ya and Xiao Xiao obtain soul rings. After Tang Ya absorbed a golden banana tree's ring, a Titan Giant Ape attacked their camp, and Chen Junting crippled it so Xiao Xiao could absorb its soul ring.

• Elder Song flew Chen Junting, Huo Yuhao, Tang Ya, and Xiao Xiao to the Star Dou Forest, where Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to find plant-type soul beasts for Tang Ya.
• Chen Junting's group hunted two hundred-year plant-type soul beasts, and Tang Ya's cleansed soul rings absorbed their patterns and lingering spiritual power.
• Huo Yuhao found a golden banana tree at night, and Tang Ya absorbed its roughly thousand-year soul ring before the group collected its fruit.
• A Titan Giant Ape charged their camp, and Chen Junting used his Seven Kills Domain and soul bone skill to sever its limbs and leave it helpless.
• Xiao Xiao killed the Titan Giant Ape with her Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron and began absorbing its purple soul ring as Chen Junting guarded her.

Chen Junting’s group encountered three Evil Soul Masters attacking a Dark Golden Claw Bear in the Star Dou Forest. Elder Song defeated the Zhongli Three Brothers, killing one and capturing the other two.

• Three identical old men arrived in the Star Dou Forest to carry out their Cult Master’s mission and began hunting Soul Beasts.
• Chen Junting’s group encountered a Crested Phoenix-tailed Snake, and Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to investigate what had driven it into their path.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm detected a Dark Golden Claw Bear over forty thousand years old being attacked by three Soul Douluo Evil Soul Masters who enslaved Soul Beast souls.
• Elder Song took Chen Junting, Huo Yuhao, Tang Ya, and Xiao Xiao to the battle, where Chen Junting recognized the attackers as the Zhongli Three Brothers.
• Elder Song crushed the brothers’ Beast Souls, killed one of them, and captured the remaining two.

Chen Junting persuaded the dying Dark Golden Claw Bear to become his fifth soul spirit with the Ice Empress's help and Electrolux's Soul Contract. As the ritual ended, an unusually large black soul ring appeared, and the bear roared with renewed life in Chen Junting's Sea of Spirit.

• Chen Junting offered the dying Dark Golden Claw Bear a chance to continue living as his soul spirit, but it initially rejected him.
• Elder Song questioned Zhongli Di and Zhongli Ren, who revealed that they served the Holy Spirit Cult under Zhongli Wu.
• Chen Junting asked Huo Yuhao to persuade the Dark Golden Claw Bear, and the Ice Empress used her authority to win its agreement.
• The Dark Golden Claw Bear accepted Chen Junting's conditions, and Chen Junting summoned Electrolux to perform the Soul Contract ritual.
• Electrolux guided the bear's spiritual essence into a golden light that flowed into Chen Junting, producing an unusually large black soul ring and a renewed roar from the bear.

Chen Junting and Mad King prepared to visit the Dark Golden Claw Bear’s den while Elder Song searched an area where Electrolux had detected and tampered with formations. Elsewhere, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion discovered evidence of humans torturing and killing Soul Beasts and joined Scarlet King in vowing retaliation.

• Chen Junting woke after making a pact with the Dark Golden Claw Bear, named it Mad King, and agreed to take it to see its final wish.
• Elder Song led Chen Junting, Huo Yuhao, and the others deeper into the Star Dou Forest’s Mixed Zone.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion killed a Twin Cyclops Giant and sensed that humans had tortured and slaughtered Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts in the area.
• Scarlet King arrived, recognized the signs of the slaughter, and joined the Three-Eyed Golden Lion in demanding that the humans answer for it.
• Electrolux told Chen Junting he had tampered with the formations, and Mad King appeared to say farewell before suddenly looking toward something nearby.

Chen Junting and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion were trapped in Golden Runes, where Electrolux used the Evil Soul Masters’ arrangement as cover to begin Attribute Induction and obtain the Power of Destiny. The exchange of memories ended in a burst of golden light, but the chapter left the result of the induction unresolved.

• Elder Song and Chen Junting encountered Scarlet King and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who accused humans of slaughtering soul beasts in the Star Dou Forest.
• Elder Song showed Scarlet King the Zhongli Three Brothers’ Staffs, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion confirmed that her group was not responsible for the killings.
• Golden Runes suddenly trapped Chen Junting and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and Scarlet King and Elder Song argued over who was responsible for the danger.
• Chen Junting revealed that Electrolux had planned to use the situation to perform Attribute Induction and help him obtain the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s Power of Destiny.
• Electrolux began the induction as Chen Junting pressed his Eye of Life against the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s third eye, causing their life energy and memories to flow between them.
• Golden light burst from Chen Junting and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion as their memory exchange ended, just before the induction’s outcome was revealed.

Electrolux intercepted a Sea God's Light aimed at the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and discovered Tang San’s plans to manipulate her into sacrificing herself. He concealed and altered the methods before the group left Star Dou Forest, while the Three-Eyed Golden Lion departed with Scarlet King.

• Electrolux used Chen Junting’s forming Eye of Destiny to intercept and seal the Sea God's Light before it could reach the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Chen Junting and Electrolux examined the Sea God's Light and found Wang Dong'er's appearance template, a method that stimulated love, and another means intended to ensure the Three-Eyed Golden Lion sacrificed herself.
• Chen Junting asked Electrolux to cripple Tang San’s methods, and Electrolux concealed most of the Sea God's Light while sending the Three-Eyed Golden Lion an altered template and the sealed light.
• Scarlet King carried the struggling Three-Eyed Golden Lion away toward the core region, while Elder Song collected Chen Junting and called off the hunt for Huo Yuhao's Fourth Soul Skill.
• Elder Song and the others left Star Dou Forest and hurried toward Shrek Academy.

After three Evil Soul Masters slaughtered Soul Beasts in Star Dou Forest, Di Tian ordered a seven-day killing of any humans who entered the forest. The Three-Eyed Golden Lion revealed the Soul Spirit method, while Shrek Academy's leaders learned of the Holy Spirit Cult's strength and debated the danger it posed.

• Scarlet King told Bi Ji that Evil Soul Masters had slaughtered Soul Beasts, and Di Tian declared that humans entering Star Dou Forest would be killed for seven days.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion asked whether humans and Soul Beasts could coexist if Soul Spirits replaced hunting, then explained the method to Di Tian and Bi Ji.
• Di Tian ordered Scarlet King to contact Xiong Jun so he could investigate a Soul Beast about to give birth, while the Three-Eyed Golden Lion considered entering the human world after digesting her memories.
• Elder Song returned to Shrek Academy with Chen Junting and the other students, then took Chen Junting to Sea God Pavilion to report what happened.
• Elder Song told Mu En and the Shrek leaders about the Holy Spirit Cult, including its ten or more Titled Douluo and its rank 98 cult leader, leaving them alarmed and uncertain about the cult's aims.

Chen Junting revealed the Soul Spirit method to Shrek Academy’s elders, and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect negotiated control of its development in exchange for Shrek’s support and the Ring Cleansing Secret Method. He planned to use Soul Spirits to strengthen the continent and build faith for his eventual ascension to godhood, and offered the Blade of Life’s Vigil to help evolve them.

• Ye Xuanji arrived at Sea God Pavilion to support Chen Junting, who introduced Mad King and explained how Soul Spirits could provide soul rings, aid in battle, and inherit and evolve after their masters died.
• Ye Xuanji presented the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s cooperation proposal, and after debating Yan Shaozhe, Mu En agreed to give the sect control of Soul Spirits while Shrek provided research support, its endorsement, and the Ring Cleansing Secret Method.
• Mu En explained that he accepted the deal to help Shrek regain its advantage over the Sun Moon Empire, then urged the elders to seek suitable Twilight Soul Beasts; Zhang Lexuan suggested negotiating with Star Dou Forest’s Core Circle, but Mu En called it difficult.
• After leaving Sea God Pavilion, Chen Junting told Ye Xuanji to find suitable Twilight Soul Beasts and promised to contract Soul Spirits for him once they obtained the Ring Cleansing Secret Method.
• Chen Junting produced the Blade of Life’s Vigil to supply vitality for evolving Soul Spirits, and Ye Xuanji questioned whether he was willing to part with it.

Chen Junting revealed to Ye Xuanji that Electrolux lived within his Sea of Spirit and had taught him, prompting Ye Xuanji to urge him toward godhood. Over the following days, Shrek and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect advanced their secret Soul Spirit research, Huo Yuhao gained a powerful Soul Spirit, and Chen Junting prepared to enter the Inner Court.

• Chen Junting introduced Electrolux to Ye Xuanji and explained how Electrolux had guided his cultivation and research into Array Formations and Soul Spirits.
• Ye Xuanji thanked Electrolux, urged Chen Junting to keep striving toward godhood, and praised him as a disciple with the makings of a god.
• Shrek Academy and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect began cooperating in secret and established an underground Soul Spirit research laboratory as the unrest in the Star Dou Forest subsided.
• Mu En and other Senior Elders investigated the Star Dou Forest, but found the Evil Soul Masters' site destroyed and brought back only a Seven-tailed Three-eyed Demonic Fox for Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao formed a Soul Spirit contract with the Seven-tailed Three-eyed Demonic Fox, reached Soul Ancestor, and gained Mind Control, while Chen Junting advanced his Array Formation work and distributed Formation Pattern Soul Guidance Devices.
• Chen Junting applied to enter the Inner Court and was approved; he teased Ning Tian about joining him, but she said she would wait and come find him in about a year.

Chen Junting went to the Inner Court Assessment with friends watching, only to discover Zhang Lexuan would test him in combat. Their fight began with Chen Junting and his Dark Golden Claw Bear Soul Spirit displaying a powerful killing aura and blocking Zhang Lexuan’s Moon Fall.

• Chen Junting agreed to let Tang Ya and the others watch his assessment, while Tang Ya grew wary of Zhang Lexuan’s closeness with Beibei.
• Zhang Lexuan led the group to the Assessment Area and revealed that she would be Chen Junting’s opponent, using the test to examine his coordination with his Soul Spirit.
• Chen Junting summoned the Seven Kills Sword and the Dark Golden Claw Bear Soul Spirit, the Mad King, while Zhang Lexuan released her martial soul and prepared to fight.
• Zhang Lexuan attacked with Moon Fall, but the Mad King revealed its Sword Intent and blocked the golden crescent.
• Chen Junting stepped forward and activated his fifth soul skill, Mountain and River Shift: Circular Killing Array.