Chapter Summaries

Xuan Zi introduced the reserve team to the Shrek Academy Monitoring Group and assigned them a mission to eliminate the Hand of the Death God bandits. As the group prepared to depart, Wang Dong resisted being carried by Yao Haoxuan, prompting Ma Xiaotao to lose her temper.

• Xuan Zi allowed Chen Feng to bring Snow Empress and explained that joining the Monitoring Group would expose the reserve team to mortal danger; all seven reserve members chose to join.
• Ma Xiaotao gave the reserve members Observer's Rings, and Wang Yan explained that their mission was to find and eliminate the Hand of the Death God in the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• Wang Yan warned the team about Evil Soul Masters, and Ma Xiaotao reassured the frightened reserve members before announcing their departure.
• Ma Xiaotao assigned official team members to carry reserve members, pairing Wang Dong with Yao Haoxuan.
• Wang Dong rejected Yao Haoxuan and asked Ma Xiaotao to carry her, but Ma Xiaotao refused, and Wang Dong continued to resist as Ma Xiaotao grew angry.

Chen Feng led Shrek’s team through the Mingdou Mountain Range using his Spiritual Power to locate the Hand of the Death God Bandit Group’s hideout. After preparing for battle, the team set out toward the bandits’ cave.

• Ma Xiaotao pressured Wang Dong to obey orders, and Chen Feng tied her to Gongyang Mo with a rope so she could be towed through the air.
• Chen Feng’s group reached the Mingdou Mountain Range, where they rested before he used his Spiritual Power to find traces of the bandits.
• Chen Feng tracked the clues to a cave five hundred meters northwest and told the team to prepare for battle.
• Chen Feng asked Yao Haoxuan to protect the Snow Empress and the reserve team while the main team prepared to attack.
• Wang Yan told everyone to change into their Shrek Observer uniforms, and Chen Feng gave the Snow Empress a hooded robe to wear.

Ma Xiaotao led the official team into the Death's Hand Bandit Group's lair, where the team slaughtered the bandits and survived the Death Messenger's corpse explosions. Chen Feng killed the fleeing Evil Soul Master, and the reserve team arrived after the battle was over.

• Ma Xiaotao ignored Wang Yan's attempt to command the battle and led the official team toward the bandits' cavern while Yao Haoxuan protected the reserve team.
• Ma Xiaotao and the others found human skins and a child's corpse in the cave, then Ma Xiaotao incinerated the guards who attacked them.
• Chen Feng, Ma Xiaotao, and the team fought through the bandits, with Chen Feng freezing many of the corpses to prevent them from exploding.
• The Death Messenger triggered chained corpse explosions, but Chen Feng and the others protected the team, and Chen Feng saved Gongyang Mo with ice armor.
• The Death Messenger tried to escape through an underground passage, but Chen Feng teleported after him and killed him with Ultimate Ice.
• The reserve team entered the cavern after the fighting ended and saw Chen Feng, Ma Xiaotao, and the others coming out.

After arriving in Star Luo City for the Soul Battle Competition, Chen Feng helped the injured Ling Luochen recover and continued studying Snow Empress’s sealed Origin Power. Meanwhile, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy prepared to challenge Shrek Academy, and its elders asked Ma Rulong to state the team’s goal.

• The Shrek Academy group reached Star Luo City, registered for the competition, and checked into the Star Emperor Hotel.
• Chen Feng cultivated with Ma Xiaotao, then visited Ling Luochen and helped her refine her healing pill after she explained that she had protected Xixi during the Corpse Explosion.
• Snow Empress asked Chen Feng whether he had finished studying her, and he reassured her that he was nearing a solution before continuing to examine her seal.
• The Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy held an overnight meeting and reviewed Shrek Academy’s lineup, identifying Chen Feng and Ma Xiaotao as its unfamiliar leaders.
• An elder urged Ma Rulong to declare the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy’s goal for the competition.

The Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy team discussed defeating Shrek Academy, while Xiao Hongchen dismissed their rivals and focused on his own handsomeness. The next morning, Chen Feng and Snow Empress encountered Xiao Hongchen in the hotel corridor, where Chen Feng’s aura terrified him and Meng Hongchen was captivated by Chen Feng’s appearance.

• Ma Rulong rallied the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy team to target Shrek Academy, but Xiao Hongchen scorned the warning that they should not underestimate their opponents.
• The next morning, Chen Feng took Snow Empress to breakfast at the Star Emperor Hotel and returned toward their room afterward.
• Xiao Hongchen encountered Chen Feng in the hallway and boasted that he would end Shrek Academy’s undefeated legend.
• Snow Empress called Xiao Hongchen an idiot, and Chen Feng released his Soul Breaking Blade Intent, leaving Xiao Hongchen gasping and shaken.
• Meng Hongchen came out of her room, and Chen Feng withdrew his aura and left with Snow Empress while Meng Hongchen blushed over how handsome he was.

Xiao Hongchen became wary of Shrek Academy’s Chen Feng and resolved to learn more about him, while Meng Hongchen remained infatuated. At the hotel, Chen Feng planned how to help the Snow Empress safely use her sealed power, but Ma Xiaotao’s arrival interrupted them and the Snow Empress tried to keep him from leaving.

• Xiao Hongchen scolded Meng Hongchen for swooning over a Shrek Academy competitor, then decided to ask Elder Ma for information about Chen Feng.
• Xiao Hongchen’s fighting spirit was ignited by the powerful presence of someone his age, while Meng Hongchen hoped to get to know the handsome boy.
• Ma Xiaotao woke to find Chen Feng missing, worried, and went to look for him at the Star Emperor Hotel.
• Chen Feng explained that he would make a small passage in the Snow Empress’s seal so she could refine her power and release some of it in emergencies without destroying her fragile body.
• Ma Xiaotao entered Chen Feng’s room and tried to take him to breakfast, then invited him to stay with her that night.
• The Snow Empress clung to Chen Feng’s leg and pleaded with him not to go, hoping he would finish working on her seal first.

Chen Feng and Snow Empress resumed their experiment after Ma Xiaotao left, while Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen studied intelligence about Chen Feng and Ma Xiaotao. The All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Battle Competition began in Star Luo City, and Shrek Academy faced Changning Academy in the opening elimination match.

• Snow Empress clung to Chen Feng until Ma Xiaotao left for breakfast, then asked Chen Feng to continue their experiment.
• Xiao Hongchen requested information on Shrek Academy, and Meng Hongchen became interested in Chen Feng after reading that he and Ma Xiaotao were suspected to be a couple.
• The All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Battle Competition began in Star Luo City, with Emperor Xu Jiawei declaring the event officially open.
• The host announced that Changning Academy would face Shrek Academy in the first elimination match, and both teams stepped onto the stage.

Shrek Academy stunned the competition with Ma Xiaotao’s Soul Saint cultivation and Chen Feng’s powerful Soul King abilities. As spectators and rival teams reacted to their strength, Xiao Hongchen resolved to defeat Chen Feng, while Meng Hongchen watched him with shining eyes.

• Ma Xiaotao revealed that she was a Soul Saint, and Chen Feng displayed five Soul Rings, including two black rings, shocking the crowd.
• Spectators erupted in support of Shrek Academy, while Xu Jiawei asked for information about Chen Feng and Ma Xiaotao.
• A minister reported that Chen Feng had Twin Martial Souls and that Ma Xiaotao was Yan Shaozhe’s final disciple.
• The rival academies feared Shrek Academy’s lineup, and Ma Rulong worried that Ma Xiaotao might defeat the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy as Zhang Lexuan had before.
• Xiao Hongchen recognized Chen Feng’s strength and vowed to defeat him, while Meng Hongchen gazed at Chen Feng with shining eyes.

Chen Feng and Shrek Academy crushed Changning Academy in the first-round elimination match, then the chapter followed the competition through the end of the elimination stage. On the first day of the round-robin stage, Shrek prepared to rely mainly on its reserve team, and Ma Xiaotao began to speak to Chen Feng.

• Chen Feng, Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, and the other Shrek main team members defeated all seven Changning Academy contestants within three breaths, and the referee declared Shrek the winner.
• Chen Feng told Wang Yan that watching other matches was a waste of time unless a Soul Saint-level expert appeared, while the others reacted to his strength and swagger.
• Chen Feng and six other main team members returned to the Star Emperor Hotel instead of watching the matches, while Wang Yan kept Wang Dong behind to study the competition.
• The elimination stage ended after three days, leaving nearly two hundred competitors injured and more than a dozen dead as the round-robin stage approached.
• On the first day of the round-robin stage, Shrek planned to use reserve team members with only a few main team members held back as safeguards.
• At the Star Emperor Hotel, Ma Xiaotao began telling Chen Feng, “later...”

Chen Feng and Ma Xiaotao spent the gloomy day together at the hotel while Shrek Academy’s reserve team prepared to face Tian Ling Advanced Soul Master Academy in the first round-robin match. The draw selected individual elimination, and Nanmen Yun'er went out first as Chen Feng and Ma Xiaotao remained at the hotel.

• Chen Feng and Ma Xiaotao became affectionate at the hotel and agreed that they would practice their cultivation method once a week.
• Wang Yan told Shrek Academy’s seven reserve members they would face Tian Ling Advanced Soul Master Academy while the main team conserved its strength.
• Dai Yueheng, Yao Haoxuan, and Xixi stayed with the reserve team as Chen Feng, Ling Luochen, Ma Xiaotao, and Gongyang Mo remained at the hotel.
• Dai Yueheng and Tian Ling’s captain drew a yellow ball, setting the match format as individual elimination.
• Wang Yan chose Nanmen Yun'er to compete first, and she nervously walked toward the arena.

After Shrek Academy’s reserve team defeated Tian Ling Advanced Soul Master Academy, Chen Feng went to a Star Luo City auction with Ning Tian and Wu Feng, intending to acquire the Soul Devouring Engraving Knife made from Gold of Life. The auction began with the three inside, but the item had not yet appeared.

• Ma Xiaotao complained that too many people liked Chen Feng, and he comforted her before she fell asleep.
• Bei Bei defeated Tian Ling Advanced Soul Master Academy’s captain with his lightning attacks, securing Shrek Academy’s victory.
• Ma Rulong worried that Shrek Academy’s official team had revealed too little for Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy to prepare against them, while Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen discussed Bei Bei’s Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Chen Feng left the Star Emperor Hotel for a Soul Tool auction, and Ning Tian and Wu Feng joined him.
• Chen Feng led Ning Tian and Wu Feng into the underground auction house, where they received number plates and took their places as the auction began.

Chen Feng, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng attended a Soul Tool auction at the Starlight Auction House, where Wu Feng tried to grow closer to Chen Feng and Ning Tian bid on several items. The auction reached its second-to-last item, a Milk Bottle, while Chen Feng continued waiting for the Soul Devouring Engraving Knife.

• Chen Feng, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng settled into a private VIP room for the Level Four auction.
• Wu Feng moved closer to Chen Feng, and Ning Tian teased her while helping her start a conversation with him.
• Wu Feng told Chen Feng that Wu Yue had neglected cultivation and lost his core disciple privileges, and Chen Feng praised Wu Feng's progress to Soul Elder.
• Qing Ya opened the Soul Tool auction, and Ning Tian bought a Paralyzing Soul Ray for two thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Chen Feng watched without bidding as Ning Tian competed for several Soul Tools, and another private-room guest also placed bids.
• Ning Tian bid twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins on the second-to-last item, a Soul Power-restoring Milk Bottle.

At the Starlight Auction House, Chen Feng prepared to bid on the Soul Devouring Engraving Knife, which was made from Gold of Life and carried a dangerous curse. Vina's mysterious Teacher recognized the material and urged her to obtain the knife, prompting her to bid before Chen Feng could.

• Muxue complained about Ning Tian's high bid, while Vina explained why the strategy made sense.
• Qing Ya sold the Grade 4 Soul Tool Milk Bottle for twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins and introduced the auction's grand finale.
• Qing Ya revealed that the Soul Devouring Engraving Knife was a genuine Ranked Engraving Knife, but warned that its curse could cause deadly backlash.
• Chen Feng told the girl in the golden gown to bid one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, while Ning Tian cautioned him about the knife's danger.
• Vina's mysterious Teacher recognized the knife's Gold of Life and urged her to acquire it, so Vina placed a bid.

Chen Feng and Vina competed for the Soul Devouring Engraving Knife, which Electrolux needed to strengthen his fading Divine Sense. With Ning Tian’s financial backing, Chen Feng won the knife for four million Gold Soul Coins, leaving Vina and Electrolux unable to obtain it.

• Chen Feng suspected Electrolux was bidding against him and raised his offer for the Soul Devouring Engraving Knife.
• Vina, acting on Electrolux’s advice, continued bidding while Muxue questioned why she wanted the dangerous knife.
• The bidding climbed to one million Gold Soul Coins, and Chen Feng asked Ning Tian to help him buy the knife.
• Ning Tian used the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s wealth to raise the bid to four million Gold Soul Coins, and the auctioneer sold the knife to Chen Feng’s party.
• Vina apologized to Electrolux for losing the auction, and Electrolux accepted that they had done their best.
• Chen Feng thanked Ning Tian, who said that friends naturally helped each other.

After buying the Soul Devouring Engraving Knife, Chen Feng purified the Gold of Life hidden inside it and absorbed one portion to transform his body. He showed the remaining pieces to Ice Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, who had awakened from the changes.

• Ning Tian paid for the auction items while Chen Feng left the Starlight Auction House with her and Wu Feng.
• Vina pursued Chen Feng after Electrolux sensed Gold of Life on him, but Electrolux warned her not to continue.
• Chen Feng returned to the Star Emperor Hotel, refined the Soul Devouring Engraving Knife in his Yin-Yang Furnace, and revealed its Gold of Life core.
• Chen Feng divided the Gold of Life into eight pieces, absorbed one, and gained greatly enhanced recovery and the ability to withstand soul rings up to sixty-five thousand years.
• Ice Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm woke to Chen Feng's transformation, and he showed them the seven remaining pieces of Gold of Life.

After absorbing some of the Gold of Life, Chen Feng woke stronger and more striking than before, drawing Ma Xiaotao’s attention when she visited him. Their reunion turned into a passionate embrace, but Chen Feng reminded her that they had a match to attend first.

• Ma Xiaotao noticed Ling Luochen’s satisfied air and wondered who her partner was, but did not consider Chen Feng.
• Chen Feng finished absorbing the Gold of Life’s vitality overnight and woke feeling stronger.
• Snow Empress questioned Chen Feng about his cultivation and sealing problem, and he explained why he had thrown her out of the bedroom.
• Ma Xiaotao arrived at Chen Feng’s room, was struck by his appearance, and pulled Snow Empress away before embracing and kissing him.
• Chen Feng stopped Ma Xiaotao and reminded her that they had breakfast and a match against a strong opponent before they could continue.

Shrek Academy faced Zhengtian Academy in the second round of the round-robin stage, with Ma Xiaotao and Chen Feng arriving late after spending the morning together. The match began as a seven-versus-seven battle, and Ma Xiaotao charged at Zhengtian Academy after both teams released their Martial Souls.

• Ma Xiaotao dragged Chen Feng into the bedroom, and they arrived at Star Luo Plaza after the rest of Shrek Academy had gathered.
• Wang Yan and the others waited anxiously for Chen Feng and Ma Xiaotao before the match against Zhengtian Academy.
• Xu Jiawei heard intelligence about Zhengtian Academy’s captain Ye Wuqing and its Soul King members, Yu Mengdi and Tang Xiaolei.
• Ma Xiaotao and Ye Wuqing drew a seven-versus-seven team battle, and Wang Yan left the lineup’s tactics to the team.
• Chen Feng, Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, Xixi, Gongyang Mo, Dai Yueheng, and Yao Haoxuan took the field against Zhengtian Academy.
• Both teams released their Martial Souls, and Ma Xiaotao charged toward Zhengtian Academy with her phoenix wings spread.

Ma Xiaotao overwhelmed Zhengtian Academy with her Phoenix Soul Skills, winning the match and astonishing the spectators and officials. As Shrek Academy’s strength drew greater attention, Vina recognized Chen Feng from the auction and considered how difficult it would be to approach him.

• Ma Xiaotao destroyed Ye Wuqing’s Golden Leaf Dance with Phoenix Fire Line, then stunned and defeated all seven Zhengtian Academy students with Phoenix Sky Howl Strike before the referee could intervene.
• Ling Luochen watched Ma Xiaotao bask in the crowd’s cheers and privately vowed that her Martial Soul would soon evolve and let her catch up.
• The charred referee and Zhengtian Academy’s students recovered after the attack, while Xu Jiawei ordered guardian Douluo to referee future Shrek Academy matches and grew more wary of the academy.
• Vina recognized Chen Feng as the Shrek Academy member who possessed the Gold of Life, and Electrolux noted his increased strength and the presence of Xuan Zi guarding the team.
• Vina’s cousin approached and followed her gaze to Chen Feng on the arena.

Ma Xiaotao’s overwhelming strength helped Shrek Academy win its match and prompted other teams to concede during the round robin. After the tournament bracket was drawn, Shrek prepared to face Dou Ling Royal Academy in the round of sixteen, but a visitor from Starlight Auction House interrupted their meeting.

• Ma Xiaotao defeated all seven Zhengtian Academy opponents with her fourth soul skill, securing Shrek Academy’s victory without the other starters acting.
• Shrek’s opponents conceded in the next two round-robin rounds, and the round robin ended with the sixteen-team bracket decided.
• Wang Yan told the Shrek team that Dou Ling Royal Academy was their round-of-sixteen opponent, prompting Ma Xiaotao to dismiss them as weaklings.
• Chen Feng calmed Ma Xiaotao, and Wang Yan explained that Dou Ling Royal Academy had five Soul Kings and two Soul Ancestors, all equipped with soul tools.
• A representative from Starlight Auction House knocked on the conference room door and announced their arrival.

Qing Ya delivered Starlight Auction House invitations to Shrek Academy’s team, and Wang Yan revealed that the academy had provided a letter of credit for the trip. The students decided to attend the evening auction and returned to their rooms to wait.

• Ma Xiaotao opened the meeting room door, and Qing Ya invited Shrek Academy’s team to a top-tier auction that night.
• Wang Yan praised the auction house for delivering fifteen invitations despite the hotel being sealed off, and Ning Tian explained its imperial backing.
• Dai Yueheng, Ma Xiaotao, Chen Feng, Ling Luochen, and the other students took invitations and discussed attending the auction.
• Chen Feng asked about the team’s arrangements, and Wang Yan revealed that the academy had issued him a letter of credit.
• Wang Yan warned the students to buy only what they needed, then finished the meeting; Chen Feng and the others returned to their rooms to await evening.