Chapter Summaries

Ye Wen watched Shrek’s team arrive at Dai Hao’s military camp and saw the White Tiger Duke’s courteous public face give way to private contempt. He stayed hidden, waiting to see how the Evil Soul Masters would threaten the team without Huo Yu'er.

• Ye Wen traveled to the Star Luo Empire and concealed himself in its military camp, expecting the Shrek team and Evil Soul Masters to appear.
• Ye Wen saw Dai Huabin serving in the camp and judged that his repentance could not erase the harm he had caused Huo Yu'er's mother.
• Wang Yan led the Shrek Inspection Group into Dai Hao's tent, where Dai Yueheng whispered to the White Tiger Duke and Dai Hao greeted the visitors respectfully.
• Wang Yan asked Dai Hao's subordinates for clues, then left with the students after they rested and received the intelligence.
• After Shrek's group departed, Dai Hao dropped his friendly demeanor and criticized Dai Yueheng for failing to gain command of the team.

Ye Wen watched Dai Yueheng boast about Dai Hao to Ma Xiaotao and recorded their conversation, realizing that Ma Xiaotao admired Dai Hao. The Shrek group regrouped after resting, and Wang Yan called the students over to discuss their plan.

• Ye Wen recorded Dai Hao's daily life, intending to prepare Huo Yu'er for carrying out her revenge.
• Dai Yueheng told Ma Xiaotao that Dai Hao had risen from a lowly soldier to a celebrated commander and hero of the Star Luo Empire.
• Ma Xiaotao asked how many wives Dai Hao had, and Dai Yueheng said he had only ever had one wife and was disciplined about women.
• Ma Xiaotao said she admired Dai Hao and urged Dai Yueheng to learn from him, while Ye Wen thought of the moment as an instant kill for Huo Yu'er.
• Wang Yan called the recovered Shrek students together to discuss their plan.

Wang Yan deduced that the Evil Soul Masters’ base was nearby, but Ye Wen criticized his decision to search for them and then launch a direct assault. Ma Xiaotao led the inner courtyard students toward the cave while Wang Yan and the reserve team waited outside, leaving Ye Wen to watch from hiding.

• Wang Yan explained that a rare plant suggested the enemy were Evil Soul Masters stationed nearby, and Ma Xiaotao began trusting his analysis.
• Wang Yan proposed searching for traces in the dark, and Ye Wen judged the plan reckless because the enemy would know the area and might have sentries.
• Ma Xiaotao led the fourteen tournament team members to search, and they found the Evil Soul Masters’ base in a cave only a few hundred meters away.
• Wang Yan assigned Ma Xiaotao and the inner courtyard students to enter the cave and attack if his intelligence proved correct, while he and the reserve team stayed outside.
• Ma Xiaotao’s group checked their ordinary protective gear before entering, and Ye Wen continued watching from the shadows.

Ye Wen watched as the Evil Soul Master’s Corpse Explosions devastated Ma Xiaotao’s team, killing one student and leaving the others badly injured. Xuan Zi killed the attacker and prepared to take the survivors back to Shrek Academy, but froze when a young man appeared in the passageway.

• Ye Wen observed the cave from the mountain and reflected on poison as a way to fight enemies hiding in confined spaces.
• The Evil Soul Master detonated chained Corpse Explosions, killing one of the seven Shrek students and poisoning and injuring the others.
• Xuan Zi rushed into the cave, seized the Evil Soul Master with Soul Power, and strangled him to death.
• Ma Xiaotao struggled to her feet in shock, while Dai Yueheng urged Xuan Zi to treat the poisoned students.
• Xuan Zi gave the survivors antidote pills and suppressed their poison with Soul Power before deciding to take them back to Shrek Academy.
• A refined young man in a moon-white coat entered the passageway, and Xuan Zi recognized him.

Ye Wen confronted Xuan Zi and the injured Shrek students, but Xuan Zi mistook Ye Wen’s intentions and attacked him. Ye Wen effortlessly sent Xuan Zi outside the cave, then told him to eat something and calm down before he lost his patience.

• Xuan Zi warned Ma Xiaotao and the other students to stay back while he cautiously asked Ye Wen what he wanted.
• Ye Wen said he had not come by chance, but Xuan Zi wrongly concluded that Ye Wen planned to destroy Shrek’s future and attacked him.
• Xuan Zi urged the students to flee while he tried to draw Ye Wen away from them.
• Ye Wen snapped his fingers and teleported Xuan Zi outside the cave, leaving Ma Xiaotao and the others stunned.
• Xuan Zi returned and stood between Ye Wen and the students, but Ye Wen told him to eat something and settle down.

Ye Wen persuaded the injured Shrek students to accept his treatment despite Xuan Zi’s suspicions. He healed the poisoned students and revived one who had died, leaving Xuan Zi to reconsider whether Ye Wen meant Shrek harm.

• Ma Xiaotao urged Xuan Zi to let her take the injured students back for treatment, but Ye Wen warned that some might die without his help.
• Dai Yueheng and Ling Luochen asked Ye Wen to treat the students and promised compensation, while Xuan Zi objected.
• Ye Wen reassured Xuan Zi that he had another motive but would not harm Shrek, then offered to revive the dead student as well as heal the injured.
• Ye Wen used his Soul Skill to heal the injured students and revive the one who had stopped breathing.
• Xuan Zi lowered his guard and wondered whether Ye Wen truly bore Shrek no ill will.

Ye Wen restored Ma Xiaotao and six other Shrek students, then charged Shrek a huge fee for saving them. Xuan Zi signed a repayment agreement and, after discovering Ye Wen had charged even students whose injuries needed little treatment, resolved to turn the debt into a way to strengthen their loyalty to the academy.

• Ye Wen checked that Ma Xiaotao and the other six students had recovered, and they thanked him for saving their lives.
• Ye Wen demanded one hundred million Gold Soul Coins per student, and Xuan Zi agreed to an installment plan totaling eight hundred million over four years.
• Xuan Zi signed a promissory note, and Ye Wen left with the agreement.
• Ling Luochen and Dai Yueheng realized their injuries had been minor and argued with Xuan Zi about being charged for treatment they scarcely needed.
• Xuan Zi recognized Ye Wen's trap but resolved to spare the students the cost and use the debt to make them more devoted to Shrek.

Ye Wen warned Xuan Zi that the Holy Spirit Cult had infiltrated the Sun Moon Empire and that Shrek faced a grave threat after Mu En died. As Ye Wen considered Ma Xiaotao’s future, her evil fire flared up, and he used Ultimate Ice to suppress it.

• Xuan Zi canceled the inner court students’ debt, and Ye Wen stayed to barbecue with them.
• Ye Wen told Xuan Zi that the Holy Spirit Cult had infiltrated the Sun Moon Empire and that it had a Peerless Douluo.
• Xuan Zi realized Shrek could face the Holy Spirit Cult’s revenge after Mu En died and resolved to take Ye Wen’s warning back to him.
• Ye Wen noticed Ma Xiaotao and speculated about her bloodline before her evil fire began acting up.
• Ye Wen tapped Ma Xiaotao on the forehead and used Ultimate Ice.

Ye Wen suppressed Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire and negotiated a deal with Xuan Zi that protected Heavenly Path Academy while giving Shrek a chance to develop another Peerless Douluo. He then examined Ma Xiaotao and discovered that her Ultimate Fire had been contaminated by an external evil fire, which he believed was part of Tang San’s scheme.

• Ye Wen suppressed Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire and warned her not to dwell on her Martial Soul’s flaw.
• Ye Wen offered Xuan Zi a deal that could help Shrek produce another Peerless Douluo, and Xuan Zi accepted after reading the lenient terms.
• Ye Wen required Shrek not to suppress Heavenly Path Academy’s commercial activities, to allow academic exchanges, and to respect students’ choices after graduation.
• Ma Xiaotao eagerly followed Ye Wen’s instructions as he began treating her Martial Soul’s side effects.
• Ye Wen examined Ma Xiaotao’s Ultimate Fire and discovered it had been contaminated by external evil fire, which he suspected Tang San had caused.

Ye Wen cured Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire, restoring her Ultimate Fire and lifting the threat to her life. As Ma Xiaotao grew closer to him, she learned his academy would enter the tournament with Jiang Nannan and Tang Ya among his disciples, prompting two people to rush over in shock.

• Ma Xiaotao woke after Ye Wen’s treatment and discovered that her evil fire had been replaced by pure flames.
• Ma Xiaotao cried with joy, and Xuan Zi felt relieved that Shrek’s hope of an Ultimate Martial Soul had survived.
• Ma Xiaotao approached Ye Wen and asked whether his academy would compete in the Soul Master Tournament.
• Ye Wen said his five disciples would form the main team and warned Ma Xiaotao to be careful if she met them.
• Ye Wen named Jiang Nannan and Tang Ya as two of his older disciples, and two people stood up in shock and hurried over.

Ye Wen confronted Beibei and Xu Sanshi about their past treatment of Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan, crushing their hopes of romance. He then offered them a chance to win the women back by proving they could defeat them, leaving both young men with renewed hope.

• Beibei and Xu Sanshi rushed toward Ye Wen, then apologized after realizing his status as a Peerless Douluo.
• Ye Wen told Beibei that Tang Ya had lost her love for him because he had helped the Clear Sky Sect take away her final honor as Tang Sect Master.
• Beibei realized his great-grandfather had sent him into a scheme that cost him Tang Ya, and his helpless anger left him bleeding from his bitten lip.
• Ye Wen reminded Xu Sanshi that he had once barged in and caused a scene when Jiang Nannan was becoming his disciple, then said she could never love him after what he had done to her.
• Ye Wen offered to stop interfering and even help bring the couples together if Beibei and Xu Sanshi could defeat Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan.

Xuan Zi returned to Shrek Academy with news that the Holy Spirit Cult had allied with the Sun Moon Empire and possessed a Level 99 Peerless Douluo. Mu En convened the Pavilion Elders, warned Xuan Zi to prioritize Shrek’s survival over its glory, and arranged added protection for the tournament while Xuan Zi reported Ye Wen’s abilities.

• Xuan Zi escorted Shrek’s students to Star Luo Imperial City before returning to Mu En with urgent news.
• Mu En convened the Sea God Pavilion Elders, and Xuan Zi revealed that the Holy Spirit Cult supported the Sun Moon Empire and had a Level 99 Peerless Douluo.
• Mu En admitted he had noticed signs of the Holy Spirit Cult but had held back because of Shrek’s circumstances and his own limited lifespan.
• Mu En told Xuan Zi that Shrek could seek help from Heavenly Path Douluo and urged him to value Shrek’s survival above its glory.
• The Pavilion Elders assigned two Level 97 Super Douluo to protect the tournament while Xuan Zi worked to improve his strength.
• Xuan Zi reported Ye Wen’s Twin Martial Souls and terrifying wisdom, further alarming Shrek’s top powers.

Ye Wen prepared Heavenly Path Academy for the Soul Master Tournament in Star Luo's imperial capital and planned to use Huo Yu'er to make a striking impression. He assigned her the challenge of defeating an entire opposing team alone and allowed her to use her Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul and secret weapon.

• Huo Yu'er criticized Star Luo's imperial capital, and the girls discussed the differences between the three nations and the Sun Moon Empire.
• Ye Wen rented a private residence for Heavenly Path Academy instead of accepting special treatment from the Star Luo Emperor.
• Ye Wen read the tournament rules and learned that the first round would be a seven-versus-seven elimination match against one of 133 academies.
• Ye Wen assembled an all-girl team that included his five female disciples and two girls from the Body Sect.
• Ye Wen told Huo Yu'er to defeat the entire opposing team alone, and she tried to pass the task to Jiang Nannan and Tang Ya.
• Ye Wen allowed Huo Yu'er to use his secret weapon and Heavenly Snow Woman as her primary combat martial soul, urging her to show the continent Heavenly Path Academy's strength.

Huo Yu'er and Heavenly Path Academy prepared to make their tournament debut, drawing intense attention because Ye Wen had named the thirteen-year-old with the lowest Soul Power as captain. As their match against Hundred Leaves Academy was about to begin, the team still had not entered Martial Soul Possession.

• Huo Yu'er accepted Ye Wen's guidance and resolved to embrace her role as Heavenly Path Academy's captain.
• Ye Wen sat beside Star Luo Emperor Xu Jiawei and assured him that Heavenly Path Academy's prodigies would impress him.
• Major factions learned that Huo Yu'er was Ye Wen's disciple and that her Spirit Eyes Martial Soul made her an exceptional Body Martial Soul user.
• Tang Ya encouraged the nervous Huo Yu'er before Jiang Nannan led the team toward their first match.
• Huo Yu'er and the other girls entered the stage against Hundred Leaves Academy, drawing cheers and astonished stares from the audience.
• Hundred Leaves Academy entered Martial Soul Possession, but Huo Yu'er and her teammates showed no reaction, prompting the referee to demand that they prepare.

Huo Yu'er revealed her Ultimate Ice martial soul and a seven-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring during Heavenly Path Academy's match against Hundred Leaves Academy. The Star Luo Emperor learned that the ring came from the Snow Empress, leaving him stunned as the battle had barely begun.

• Huo Yu'er told the referee to proceed, and the Hundred Leaves Academy team hesitated while Heavenly Path Academy's girls stepped off the platform.
• Ma Xiaotao recognized Huo Yu'er's power as Ultimate Ice, and Wang Yan and Tang Wulin realized Shrek had lost a remarkable talent.
• Huo Yu'er transformed, and the chill from her Ultimate Ice made the Hundred Leaves Academy members' plant martial souls tremble.
• Huo Yu'er revealed a red Soul Ring with seven golden lines, prompting the Star Luo Emperor to ask Ye Wen about it.
• Ye Wen explained that Huo Yu'er's Soul Ring came from the seven-hundred-thousand-year Snow Empress, one of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Extreme North Ice Plains.

Huo Yu'er defeated the Hundred Leaves Team with her Ultimate Ice and surrendered the match before the Star Luo Emperor sought an alliance with Ye Wen. Ye Wen accepted Xu Jiujiu as a disciple and gave her an immortal herb, while the Emperor watched enviously.

• Huo Yu'er used Emperor Palm and Flash Step to freeze six members of the Hundred Leaves Team, prompting their captain to surrender.
• The Star Luo Emperor recognized Huo Yu'er's potential and tried to build rapport with Ye Wen.
• The Star Luo Emperor asked Ye Wen to accept his younger sister Xu Jiujiu as a disciple, and Ye Wen agreed.
• Ye Wen invited Xu Jiujiu to join Heavenly Path Academy and cleansed her with immortal herbs that night.
• The Star Luo Emperor watched Xu Jiujiu refine the herbs' medicinal power and envied her opportunity.

Ye Wen’s protective Divine Sense incinerated an attacker who targeted Huo Yu’er, prompting the Star Luo Emperor to investigate and mistake Ye Wen for a Rank 9 Soul Tool Master. The investigators returned unable to identify the culprit beyond suspecting an Evil Soul Master, and the Star Luo Emperor asked Ye Wen what he thought.

• Ye Wen sensed an attack on Huo Yu’er, and a beam of light shot into the sky as his contingency protection destroyed the attacker.
• The Star Luo Emperor dispatched two protectorate Douluo to investigate after Ye Wen asked him to find the person who had attacked his disciple.
• Ye Wen claimed the beam came from a life-saving Soul Tool and said he had reached Rank 9 as a Soul Tool Master, exciting the Star Luo Emperor.
• The two Douluo reported that the culprit had been reduced to ashes and that residual Soul Power suggested the attacker was likely an Evil Soul Master.
• The Star Luo Emperor asked Ye Wen what he thought of the investigators’ findings.

Ye Wen left the Star Luo Imperial Palace after warning the Star Luo Emperor to strengthen security, then focused on his disciples’ competition and accepted Xu Jiujiu’s invitation to the Starlight Auction House. He arrived at the lavish venue with his disciples and two young girls from the Body Sect.

• Ye Wen declined to recruit the two Titled Douluo and advised the Star Luo Emperor to improve the Imperial City’s security after an Evil Soul Master had infiltrated his residence.
• News spread that Ye Wen had casually killed an attacking Titled Douluo, while Huo Yu'er’s team won its following matches with her held back as the final Trump Card.
• Huo Yu'er complained to Ye Wen that standing idle on the competition stage was embarrassing, but he refused to let her fight.
• Xu Jiujiu visited Ye Wen with an invitation to the Starlight Auction House, and Ye Wen accepted after remembering that the auction held useful items for his disciples.
• Ye Wen invited Xu Jiujiu to lunch, then brought his disciples and two young girls from the Body Sect to the lavish auction house that evening.

Ye Wen and his group attended an auction where a new Sun Moon Empire display technology alarmed the continent’s major powers. Xu Jiujiu joined them in Ye Wen’s private room as the auction began.

• An attendant led Ye Wen and his group to a private room, where a Light-Guiding Screen surprised the girls.
• The attendant explained that the Sun Moon Empire’s screen used a special mineral, and Ye Wen dismissed the technology as limited and costly.
• The major powers and Shrek’s Pavilion Elders realized that ordinary people using Soul Tools could erase the Sun Moon Empire’s weakness in lower-level combat.
• One Dao Protector left to report the situation while Old Song stayed behind to keep watch.
• Xu Jiujiu entered Ye Wen’s room, greeted him as her master, and joined the group.
• A woman appeared on the screen, and the auction began.

Ye Wen watched the auction of a powerful Rank 8 Soul Tool and a set of Fixed Soul Guided Cannon Shells, while Xu Jiujiu considered how his Soul Tool expertise might benefit the Star Luo Empire. The cannon shells drew intense interest from Soul Engineers during inspection, but no one bid when the auction began.

• Ye Wen dismissed Xu Jiujiu's offer to buy the Overlord Tiger Soul Refining Blade, which Dai Yueheng later purchased for 1.56 million Gold Soul Coins.
• The auctioneer presented twelve Fixed Soul Guided Cannon Shells, and dozens of Soul Engineers rushed to inspect them without touching them.
• Xu Jiujiu asked Ye Wen whether he could make Rank 9 Soul Guided Cannon Shells, and Ye Wen said he could but saw no need.
• The auctioneer warned that the shells' encrypted formations could trigger self-destruction and opened bidding at 650,000 Gold Soul Coins.
• No one bid on the shells, and Xu Jiujiu turned to Ye Wen for an explanation.