Chapter Summaries

Shrek’s leaders doubted the Sun Moon Empire’s claims about Soul Spirits and Overlevel Spirit Ring Absorption, but the empire prepared a nationwide broadcast to demonstrate them. As the demonstration began, Xiao Xiao watched the officials and spirit beasts gather and started questioning whether her choices had been wrong.

• Du Wilun told Yan Shaozhe that the Sun Moon Empire had announced Soul Spirits nationwide and planned to broadcast a demonstration of Overlevel Spirit Ring Absorption.
• Yan Shaozhe insisted the claims must involve deception, perhaps using a Ten Thousand Year Ice Silkworm, and ordered Du Wilun to attend with Xiao Xiao and expose the supposed conspiracy.
• The Sun Moon Empire completed its preparations, gathering its emperor, princes, officials, Kong Deming, and powerful Soul Masters at the Hall of Souls.
• Xiao Xiao watched Qian Fengqin, Lan Susu, Lan Luoluo, and two Ten Thousand Year Spirit Beasts appear, and began to wonder whether she had made the wrong choices.

Xiao Qiang helped Lan Susu, Lan Luoluo, and Qian Fengqin merge with powerful Soul Spirits during a Sun Moon Empire broadcast. Their successful fusions and stronger Spirit Rings proved that Soul Spirits could enable absorption beyond normal limits, stunning Du Wilun and Shrek.

• Du Wilun dismissed the Sun Moon Empire’s claim about overlevel Spirit Ring absorption and assured Xiao Xiao that Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo had been deceived.
• Xiao Qiang gave Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo fifteen-thousand-year Green Willow Tree Soul Spirits, then prepared a thirty-thousand-year Sky Dragon Horse Soul Spirit for Qian Fengqin.
• Du Wilun sensed the immense energy in the Soul Spirits and predicted that the three women would die, but Sun Moon Empire guards stopped him from interfering.
• After two and a half shichen, Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo completed their fusions safely, and their martial souls mutated as their Spirit Ring configurations rose to three purple and one black.
• Qian Fengqin also completed her fusion, turning her first two Spirit Rings purple, and the observers realized Soul Spirits enabled Spirit Ring absorption above normal limits.

Lan Susu, Lan Luoluo, and Qian Fengqin demonstrated the power of their newly absorbed Soul Spirits, shocking Shrek and the Sun Moon Empire. The chapter left Xiao Xiao and Ning Tian considering what the Soul Spirit system could offer them, while Shrek’s Du Wilun prepared to report what he had witnessed.

• Lan Susu, Lan Luoluo, and Qian Fengqin emerged from Soul Spirit fusion with powerful spirit ring configurations, and Du Wilun realized their absorption was genuine rather than simulated.
• Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo tested at Soul Power level forty-three, while Qian Fengqin reached level fifty-two.
• The three released their Soul Spirits: two Green Willow Trees and a Sky Dragon Horse, which helped them demonstrate combat abilities alongside their masters.
• Xiao Qiang explained how Soul Spirits could assist their masters and provide combat support without using spirit ring slots, prompting Ning Tian to see their potential for the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School.
• Du Wilun told Xiao Xiao that Shrek could not replicate the absorption method, and Xiao Xiao reflected that the Hall of Souls offered a way to improve her spirit ring configuration despite her repeated refusals to join it.

Xiao Qiang explained Soul Spirits’ advantages and the Hall of Souls’ escalating loan program to the Sun Moon Empire. Du Wilun realized the loans could draw Soul Masters into enormous debts that they could repay only by advancing as Soul Engineers.

• Xiao Qiang described how Soul Spirits granted extra abilities, produced multiple Spirit Rings, and could upgrade weaker rings.
• Xiao Qiang announced that the Hall of Souls would sell Hundred Year Soul Spirits for one thousand Gold Soul Coins and offer Rank 10 Soul Masters loans with deferred repayment.
• Xiao Qiang outlined larger loans for stronger Soul Spirits, with further deferments available to borrowers who reached Rank 30 and Rank 50.
• Du Wilun was stunned as he calculated how Soul Masters could use their growth and Soul Engineer earnings to repay the escalating debts.

Du Wilun reported that the Hall of Souls’ loan-purchase Soul Spirits could break the nobles’ control over spirit rings, prompting the Sea God Pavilion to discuss how Shrek should respond. The meeting ended with a proposal to send Xiao Xiao undercover to the Hall of Souls.

• Du Wilun realized that the Hall of Souls’ Soul Spirits would give ordinary soul masters access to powerful spirit rings and undermine the great nobles’ control of cultivation resources.
• Du Wilun contacted the Sea God Pavilion and reported what he had learned about Soul Spirits.
• Mu En convened a Sea God Pavilion meeting and demanded a plan for dealing with the Hall of Souls.
• A Sea God Pavilion member proposed sending Xiao Xiao undercover to the Hall of Souls.

Shrek’s Sea God Pavilion decided to send Xiao Xiao undercover to obtain the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Spirit technology, promising her extraordinary rewards. When Du Wilun summoned her and pleaded for Shrek, Xiao Xiao refused, saying the Hall of Souls no longer needed a Saintess.

• Yan Shaozhe objected to Elder Cao’s proposal to send Xiao Xiao undercover because she was Shrek’s only current wielder of Twin Martial Souls.
• Elder Cao explained that Soul Spirits and Soul Bones could raise Spirit Ring absorption limits far beyond what Shrek had expected, and warned that Hundred Thousand Year Soul Spirits might transform the balance of power.
• The Sea God Pavilion realized that Soul Spirit technology could eventually leave Shrek obsolete and decided Xiao Xiao must bring the technology back.
• Mu En approved sending Xiao Xiao undercover and promised her three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Rings from her sixth Spirit Ring onward.
• Du Wilun summoned Xiao Xiao, knelt before her, and urged her to fight for Shrek, but Xiao Xiao said the Hall of Souls no longer needed a Saintess.

Xiao Xiao arrived at the Hall of Souls seeking to meet Xiao Qiang, but his younger sister Xiao Lan challenged her to a fight instead. Xiao Lan defeated Xiao Xiao easily and revealed a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring, leaving Xiao Xiao stunned.

• A Hall of Souls guardian hesitated to let Xiao Xiao meet Xiao Qiang after she revealed her Twin Martial Souls, until Xiao Lan arrived and took charge.
• Xiao Lan refused to let Xiao Xiao see her brother unless Xiao Xiao could last three minutes in a fight against her.
• Xiao Xiao entered the arena with her three soul rings and challenged Xiao Lan, confident in her strength as a member of the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Xiao Lan revealed five powerful soul rings and knocked Xiao Xiao away with a single kick, then said Xiao Xiao was not worth specially cultivating.
• Xiao Xiao argued that her Twin Martial Souls gave her great potential, so Xiao Lan replaced her soul rings with a red Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring and asked whether Twin Martial Souls were rare.

Xiao Xiao discovered that the Hall of Souls would not offer her meaningful work and left after being assigned humiliating duties. Xiao Qiang explained that he had never intended to invest heavily in her, then Meng Hongchen stormed into his office with a list.

• Xiao Lan told Xiao Xiao that she could join the Hall of Souls from the bottom, but Xiao Xiao remained determined to try for Shrek’s sake.
• A Hall of Souls envoy told Xiao Xiao that, because she came from Shrek, she would spend five years attending to the Saintess’s daily needs; Xiao Xiao left.
• Xiao Qiang learned that Xiao Xiao had departed and told an elder he lacked the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Spirits needed to cultivate every Twin Martial Soul possessor.
• Xiao Qiang reflected that Xiao Xiao had been an uncertain investment and was now unnecessary after the Qian Feng Family joined and Xiao Lan awakened Twin Martial Souls.
• Meng Hongchen stormed into Xiao Qiang’s office, angrily clutching a list.

Xiao Qiang planned to form a Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy and field four teams at the next All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Tournament to sweep the top four places. He explained that Soul Spirits and Spirit Bones could make even newly recruited Soul Kings powerful enough to defeat Shrek’s team.

• Meng Hongchen angrily brought Xiao Qiang files on pretty female students under seventeen with Three-ring Soul Master strength, but Xiao Qiang and Xiao Hongchen agreed the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy had few suitable candidates.
• Xiao Qiang said he would not compete in the next tournament and revealed he had proposed establishing a Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.
• Xiao Qiang planned to enter teams from Mingde Hall, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, and the Hall of Souls, aiming to deny Shrek even fourth place.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen questioned whether they had enough talent to support four teams, and Xiao Qiang assigned prospective team members and said their strength would be sufficient.
• Xiao Qiang explained that Soul Spirits produced Spirit Bones and that six Spirit Bones, a twenty-thousand-year Soul Spirit, and the Sun Moon Empire’s medicines could help recruits reach Soul King strength within three years.

Xiao Qiang and Xiao Hongchen planned to use beautiful Soul Masters and Soul Spirits to showcase the Hall of Souls at the tournament, and considered recruiting candidates from the Ordinary Alliance. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao endured brutal captivity until his will to survive triggered his martial soul’s second awakening, giving him a chance to escape.

• Xiao Qiang explained how a Soul King fighting alongside a Soul Spirit could contend with a Soul Sage and argued that the tournament team should aim to win impressively.
• Xiao Hongchen recalled learning little at Shrek Academy beyond running, then suggested finding suitable Three-ring Soul Masters through the Ordinary Alliance.
• An overseer repeatedly whipped Huo Yuhao at the cotton plantation, where forced labor, starvation, and damaging drugs had pushed his cultivation to rank forty-eight.
• Near death, Huo Yuhao resolved to survive and take revenge, triggering his martial soul’s second awakening as his eyes turned blood-red.
• Huo Yuhao restrained an approaching supervisor and used his mutated Mysterious Heaven Skill to drain the man’s Soul Power and life energy.

Huo Yuhao awakened as an Evil Soul Master but was nearly killed by the plantation overseers’ artillery barrage, forcing him to hide while badly wounded. Meanwhile, Xiao Qiang visited the Ordinary Alliance’s Pingfan Grand Hotel and demanded a meeting with its leader, Shangguan Weier.

• Huo Yuhao drained an overseer’s Soul Power and life force, prompting the plantation workers to recognize him as an Evil Soul Master and summon reinforcements.
• A Soul Sage ordered a full-power Soul Cannon barrage, which destroyed the area and blew off Huo Yuhao’s right arm, but Huo Yuhao survived by hiding with his Invincible Golden Body and Simulation Spirit Skill.
• Huo Yuhao struggled to conceal his bleeding and avoid discovery as his Soul Power continued to drain.
• Xiao Qiang arrived at the Pingfan Grand Hotel and learned that the Ordinary Alliance was one of the powerful forces in the Soul Engineer Tournament.
• Xiao Qiang displayed his disguised Titled Douluo soul rings, and the staff agreed to invite alliance leader Shangguan Weier to meet him.
• Liu Yeqing led Xiao Qiang to a lavish room filled with beautiful women and explained that the Ordinary Alliance’s customs treated women as substitutes for furnishings.

Xiao Qiang infiltrated the Ordinary Alliance, learned that its influence came from a network of powerful families rather than one master, and forced its leader Shangguan Weier to submit to the Hall of Souls. He left her in charge and tasked her with finding young, powerful female soul masters for him.

• Xiao Qiang used his Titled Douluo identity to gain access to the Ordinary Alliance, where Liu Yeqing offered him private services and furniture.
• Shangguan Weier arrived and asked why Xiao Qiang had come, and he used his Sharingan to control her and question her about the Alliance.
• Shangguan Weier explained that the Ordinary Alliance had grown through the combined connections of influential officials, nobles, and their descendants, with no single master behind it.
• Xiao Qiang revealed his identity as the Spirit Hall Master and ordered Shangguan Weier to bring the Ordinary Alliance under the Hall of Souls; she agreed to submit.
• Xiao Qiang kept Shangguan Weier as the Alliance’s manager and ordered her to find at least thirty beautiful female soul masters aged seventeen or younger with Soul Power of level twenty-seven or higher.

Xiao Qiang oversaw the creation of Soul Spirits for thirty female Soul Masters before Kong Deming visited him to discuss the Kong Family’s struggling future. Kong Deming proposed that Xiao Qiang pursue Zhang Lexuan, hoping she would leave Shrek for the Kong Family as her mother once left the Sun Moon Empire for love.

• Nana reported that all thirty new Soul Masters had successfully absorbed their Soul Spirits, and Xiao Qiang dismissed her.
• Kong Deming told Xiao Qiang that he had settled the trouble caused by Xiao Qiang taking over the Ordinary Alliance.
• Kong Deming explained that the Kong Family lacked capable successors and feared its decline after he was gone.
• Kong Deming revealed that Zhang Lexuan had refused to join the Kong Family or sever her ties with Shrek despite his efforts to persuade her.
• Kong Deming suggested that Xiao Qiang could win Zhang Lexuan over by making her fall in love, as her mother had once done.

Kong Deming arranged for Zhang Lexuan to stay with Xiao Qiang and hoped he would win her over, while Xiao Qiang warned her he would remove her Soul Power-restricting collar. Zhang Lexuan attacked him as soon as he freed her, but Xiao Qiang instantly struck her down.

• Kong Deming told Xiao Qiang to try to win Zhang Lexuan over and said he would handle the matter with the Ordinary Alliance.
• The next day, Zhang Lexuan was brought to Xiao Qiang's office to stay by his side.
• Xiao Qiang offered to remove Zhang Lexuan's collar, and she swore she would not attack him if she was lying.
• After Xiao Qiang removed the collar, Zhang Lexuan released her Martial Soul Avatar and used her eighth soul skill, Blood Moon Eclipse, to attack him.
• Xiao Qiang punched Zhang Lexuan and sent her flying, saying she was no stronger to him than Dai Yueheng had been.

Xiao Qiang defeated Zhang Lexuan after she attacked him, then kept her under Soul Power restrictions while weighing the risks of helping Kong Deming’s family. After Zhang Lexuan recovered and remained silent for months, she suddenly disappeared.

• Zhang Lexuan attacked Xiao Qiang after removing her collar, and he defeated her with a single punch.
• Mu Qingxue put the collar back on Zhang Lexuan and dragged her away for treatment.
• Xiao Qiang refused to change his rules for Zhang Lexuan and considered why helping Kong Deming could turn them into enemies.
• Zhang Lexuan took more than a month to recover and then stayed silent for over three months.
• A Hall of Souls elder told Xiao Qiang that Zhang Lexuan had disappeared that morning.

Zhang Lexuan, trapped and weakened in the Demonic Forest, faced death until Xiao Qiang arrived and saved her. A Rank 98 Holy Spirit Cult elder then confronted them, explaining his hatred of Shrek and revealing that a Shrek Titled Douluo had slaughtered his family by mistake.

• Zhang Lexuan fought through the Demonic Forest with her Soul Power restrained, eventually exhausting herself against a twenty-thousand-year Black Demon Bear.
• Xiao Qiang kicked the Black Demon Bear away just before it could kill Zhang Lexuan.
• Xiao Qiang sensed an approaching enemy, and the Holy Spirit Cult’s Second Worship, the Titled Ghost, revealed himself as a Rank 98 Titled Douluo.
• The Titled Ghost claimed his grudge was against Shrek, whose members he believed deserved to die.
• The Titled Ghost said a Shrek Titled Douluo had massacred the Ye Family 102 years earlier after mistaking them for another family, and that the massacre had driven him to become what he was.

The Vengeful Spirit Douluo recounted how Elder Xuan slaughtered his family and left him to drown, fueling his revenge against Shrek. He trapped Xiao Qiang and Zhang Lexuan in his Despair Domain, but Xiao Qiang secretly freed Zhang Lexuan’s Soul Power and urged her to escape.

• Zhang Lexuan struggled to defend Shrek but believed the Vengeful Spirit Douluo’s accusation against Elder Xuan.
• The Vengeful Spirit Douluo described how Elder Xuan killed his family, mistakenly left him bound in a river, and unknowingly led to his transformation after a ghost’s soul merged with his Flame Martial Soul.
• The Vengeful Spirit Douluo unleashed his Despair Domain and threatened to leave Zhang Lexuan to be eaten by soul beasts.
• The Vengeful Spirit Douluo demanded that Xiao Qiang hand Zhang Lexuan over, and Zhang Lexuan gave up hope of escaping.
• Xiao Qiang broke the collar restricting Zhang Lexuan’s Soul Power and told her to flee.

Xiao Qiang removed Zhang Lexuan’s Soul Power-suppressing collar and told her to escape while he held off Vengeful Spirit Douluo, a Rank 98 enemy he admitted he could not defeat. When Vengeful Spirit Douluo sent summoned souls after Zhang Lexuan, Xiao Qiang cut them down and stood between her and danger.

• Xiao Qiang restored Zhang Lexuan’s Soul Power and told her to run when the fight began, while he stayed behind to delay Vengeful Spirit Douluo.
• Xiao Qiang resisted Vengeful Spirit Douluo’s Despair Domain with his Psychological Suggestion Domain and denied that he was protecting Zhang Lexuan out of affection.
• Zhang Lexuan left after Xiao Qiang urged her to go, but Vengeful Spirit Douluo summoned four Soul Douluo and four Soul Sage souls to capture her.
• Fear from the Despair Domain left Zhang Lexuan unable to flee as the eight summoned souls closed in.
• Xiao Qiang appeared in front of Zhang Lexuan and used the Sword of Judgment and Ice Jade Emperor’s Might to cut down all eight souls.

Xiao Qiang drove Zhang Lexuan out of the battle and faced the level ninety-eight Vengeful Spirit Douluo, whose Night Parade of One Hundred Demons began corroding Susanoo. Xiao Qiang used light and fire as a feint to build a thundercloud, then prepared Lightning Release: Kirin to strike the Evil Soul Master.

• Xiao Qiang dispelled the Despair Domain’s effects on Zhang Lexuan and ordered her to flee while he held off the Vengeful Spirit Douluo.
• Xiao Qiang destroyed a Titled Douluo’s summoned soul with light blades, then blocked the Vengeful Spirit Douluo’s attack with Susanoo.
• The Vengeful Spirit Douluo entered his Martial Soul Avatar state and used Night Parade of One Hundred Demons to corrode Susanoo.
• Xiao Qiang used Extreme Light: Blazing Sun to counter the demons, while secretly evaporating moisture to form a thundercloud.
• The Vengeful Spirit Douluo realized Xiao Qiang’s plan as Xiao Qiang activated Lightning Release: Kirin.

Xiao Qiang’s lightning attack failed to kill the Vengeful Spirit Douluo, who revealed his second awakening and prepared to kill Xiao Qiang and Zhang Lexuan. When Zhang Lexuan’s moon martial soul fused with Xiao Qiang’s Sharingan, he unleashed an incomplete Infinite Tsukuyomi that caught the Douluo in its power.

• Xiao Qiang used the Sword of Judgment to draw lightning from the sky and form a Qilin that struck the Vengeful Spirit Douluo, leaving Xiao Qiang nearly drained of Soul Power.
• The Vengeful Spirit Douluo survived by using the second awakening of his Gold-grade Body Spirit and claimed his strength approached rank ninety-nine.
• Zhang Lexuan returned and offered to sacrifice herself so the Vengeful Spirit Douluo would spare Xiao Qiang, explaining that she had come back to repay an old debt.
• Zhang Lexuan sent Soul Power into Xiao Qiang to replenish him, and their powers fused into a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Xiao Qiang used Zhang Lexuan’s moon martial soul to turn the moon crimson with his Sharingan, casting an incomplete Infinite Tsukuyomi that became the Vengeful Spirit Douluo’s final experience.