Chapter Summaries

Xiao Qiang and Jing Hongchen discussed the Holy Spirit Cult’s threat after Mu Qingxue’s breakthrough, while the Snow Empress brought in captured Evil Soul Masters. Xiao Qiang learned that Xu Tianran had ordered them to kill his group and resolved to remember the grudge, while Mu Qingxue asked to take the captives.

• Mu Qingxue revealed that two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones and the recent battle had helped her advance from Level 93 to Level 95.
• Jing Hongchen warned Xiao Qiang that the Holy Spirit Cult would be difficult to fight directly and that they needed to weaken its forces first.
• The Snow Empress brought Feng Ling and other Holy Spirit Cult members she had captured while they were monitoring Xiao Qiang’s group.
• Xiao Qiang used the Sharingan to question Feng Ling and learned that Xu Tianran had ordered the group to kill them after their battle with Shrek.
• Jing Hongchen explained that Xiao Qiang had threatened Xu Tianran’s chance of inheriting the throne by helping the Emperor regain hope and health.
• Mu Qingxue asked Xiao Qiang for the captured Evil Soul Master Titled Douluo so she could purify them and strengthen her cultivation.

Xiao Qiang and Tian Meng planned to capture Zi Ji for her Spirit Ring and Soul Bone, then prepared to sneak into the Star Dou Great Forest. Tian Meng took control of Xiao Qiang’s body and set out to confront the soul beasts connected to his past.

• Tian Meng explained that Zi Ji could provide Xiao Qiang with a Dragon-type Spirit Ring and Soul Bone to strengthen his physique and aid his future cultivation.
• Xiao Qiang interrogated the Holy Spirit Cult’s Titled Douluo, gave the Third Consecrator to Mu Qingxue, and kept the other captives under control for a future attack on the cult.
• Xiao Qiang and his companions returned to the Sun Moon Empire, where Xu Tianran feared them but was reassured when Feng Ling reported that no fight had occurred.
• After nearly two months, Xiao Qiang took the Hongchen Family Treasury and high-grade Soul Tools from Mingde Hall, then traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• As Xiao Qiang prepared to capture Zi Ji in secret, Tian Meng asked to use his body and took control of it.
• Tian Meng opened a case containing four peak Rank 9 Soul Tools and declared that he would now control everything.

Tian Meng captured Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest and fought Ten Thousand Monster King and Zi Ji with Xiao Qiang’s support. After imprisoning them in Electrolux’s Undead Space, Tian Meng defied Di Tian and called himself Soul Annihilation.

• Tian Meng used his Soul Tools to capture more than half of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts outside the Lake of Life.
• Di Tian and the other Fierce Beasts split into groups to investigate the disappearances.
• Xiao Qiang and Tian Meng targeted Ten Thousand Monster King and Zi Ji, with Tian Meng charging Ten Thousand Monster King.
• Tian Meng battered Ten Thousand Monster King with a brick and sword case while Xiao Qiang’s spear kept Zi Ji from intervening.
• Tian Meng restrained Ten Thousand Monster King and Zi Ji with black chains and sent them into Electrolux’s Undead Space.
• Tian Meng answered Di Tian’s furious roar by declaring himself Soul Annihilation.

Tian Meng escaped Di Tian with Zi Ji and Ten Thousand Monster King, then returned to the Sun Moon Empire after confirming Di Tian could not track them into the Undead Demiplane. Di Tian blamed the Body Sect and Shrek for the abduction and launched a beast tide against Shrek City.

• Tian Meng evaded Di Tian, poisoned the Star Dou Great Forest, and brought Zi Ji and Ten Thousand Monster King into the Undead Demiplane.
• Tian Meng prepared Soul Cannon Shells in case Di Tian followed them, but after three hours he found no trace of Di Tian and decided to return to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Tian Meng planned for Xiao Qiang to absorb Zi Ji’s spirit ring and spirit bone, then Ten Thousand Monster King’s spirit bone and a dragon-type spirit bone.
• Di Tian told Bi Ji that the Body Sect had taken Zi Ji and Ten Thousand Monster King, then ordered the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts to gather against Shrek City.
• Du Busi confronted Di Tian and denied that the Body Sect had attacked the Fierce Beasts, but Di Tian accused him and Shrek of slaughtering soul beasts and ordered the beast tide to begin.

Di Tian led a furious Beast Tide against Shrek City, forcing Shrek and the Body Sect into a desperate battle. Mu En’s remnant soul sacrificed itself to save Shrek, and the fighting ended with Di Tian forced to negotiate after several Fierce Beasts were captured, though Shrek and the Body Sect suffered heavy losses.

• Di Tian led millions of soul beasts toward Shrek City, where Shrek’s soul masters prepared to defend the city without reliable Soul Tools.
• As the Beast Tide became a meat-grinder battle, Shrek called for reinforcements from the Three Douluo Kingdoms while Du Busi fought Di Tian and Bear Lord.
• Mu En’s remnant soul emerged from the Golden Tree, merged with Xuan Zi, and empowered him to swallow Di Tian.
• Du Busi and Shrek’s Titled Douluo counterattacked, and after eight Titled Douluo died, Bear Lord and Scarlet King were captured alive.
• Body Sect members and others captured Bi Ji, forcing Di Tian to negotiate and halt the Beast Tide.
• Elder Song of Shrek and Golden Peng of the Body Sect died, leaving Shrek and the Body Sect with fewer than twenty Titled Douluo combined.

Xiao Qiang turned Zi Ji into a Soul Spirit, gaining dragon wings and rising to level eighty-nine. After testing his new strength and learning that Ten Thousand Monster King's soul bone could help him form Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Spirit Cores, the story shifted to Xiao Sheng returning from Dragon Valley.

• Xiao Qiang brought Zi Ji out of the Undead Demiplane and decided to make her his Soul Spirit and mount.
• With Tian Meng, Ice Empress, and the others suppressing Zi Ji's resistance, Xiao Qiang absorbed her and gained an External Soul Bone and enough Soul Power to reach level eighty-nine.
• Xiao Qiang tested his dragon wings by flying on Zi Ji's back with his Soul Spirits.
• Snow Empress judged Xiao Qiang's body strong enough to form Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Spirit Cores with Ten Thousand Monster King's soul bone, though some risk remained.
• Xiao Sheng returned from Dragon Valley and saw that Xiao Qiang had established a Hall of Souls.

Xiao Sheng returned from Dragon Valley with ten powerful true dragon Soul Bones, and Xiao Qiang helped him absorb several before guiding him through a series of rapid breakthroughs. Xiao Sheng reached level seventy-five as a Soul Sage, and Xiao Qiang prepared to teach him how to condense a Soul Core before sending him to spar with Xiao Hongchen.

• Xiao Sheng gave Xiao Qiang ten true dragon Soul Bones, including the Mountain Dragon King's Torso Bone, and Xiao Qiang chose the Torso Bone for himself while directing Xiao Sheng to absorb the other five suitable Bones.
• Xiao Sheng fused with five true dragon Soul Bones and reached level fifty, so Xiao Qiang gave him a hundred-thousand-year Ice Demon Dragon Eagle to absorb as a Soul Spirit.
• Xiao Sheng fused with the Ice Demon Dragon Eagle and reached level fifty-eight, then Xiao Qiang fed him a sixty-thousand-year Earth Dragon Golden Gourd.
• Xiao Sheng broke through to level seventy-five and became a Seven-Ring Soul Sage with four black and three red Soul Rings.
• Xiao Qiang told Xiao Sheng he would teach him to condense a mixed Soul Core and then have him spar with Xiao Hongchen.

After Xiao Hongchen defeated Shrek’s students, Du Wilun and Ning Tian worried that Shrek would fall in the next tournament. Xiao Qiang arrived with his younger brother Xiao Sheng for a match, but Xiao Sheng’s Bone Dragon Spirit prompted Du Wilun to call him an Evil Soul Master, and Ning Tian challenged that judgment.

• Xiao Hongchen swept Shrek’s team, including a Soul Sage, and Du Wilun worried that Shrek might not even place second in the next tournament.
• Ning Tian assessed the strength of Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and another young Soul King with a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring, while considering ways to bring the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School closer to Xiao Qiang’s Hall of Souls.
• Xiao Qiang told Du Wilun that Shrek would not reach fourth place because sects, including the Hall of Souls and Mingde Hall, could enter the next tournament.
• Xiao Qiang introduced his younger brother Xiao Sheng as a Soul Sage opponent for Xiao Hongchen, who accepted the challenge.
• When Xiao Sheng released his Bone Dragon Spirit, Du Wilun declared him an Evil Soul Master, and Ning Tian questioned the basis for that claim by citing a Bone Dragon Soul Master who had helped Tang San.

Xiao Qiang forced Du Wilun to fight Xiao Sheng after Du Wilun slandered him, and Xiao Sheng revealed overwhelming strength with three Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Rings. Du Wilun was defeated and realized Shrek might not even place fourth in the next All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Tournament.

• Ning Tian pointed out that Du Wilun's claim about Bone Dragon Martial Souls also implicated the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Tang San.
• Xiao Qiang knocked Du Wilun to his knees and threw him into the arena, ordering Xiao Sheng to teach him a lesson.
• Xiao Sheng revealed seven spirit rings, including three Hundred Thousand Year rings, astonishing the venue and Xiao Xiao.
• Du Wilun fought Xiao Sheng with his Martial Soul Avatar and eighth spirit skill, but Xiao Sheng defeated him with his Dragon Roar Nine Heavens.
• Du Wilun concluded Shrek would struggle to place second, and Xiao Qiang said Shrek would not even place fourth because Mingde Hall and the Hall of Souls would compete.

Du Wilun warned Shrek’s Sea God Pavilion that Xiao Qiang’s scheme could leave Shrek outside the tournament’s top four and undermine its standing as the continent’s premier academy. Du Busi ordered Shrek to arm its tournament team with its reserves of soul bones and treasures, then named the likely participants before preparing to enter seclusion.

• Xiao Qiang left Du Wilun shaken after arguing that Shrek risked losing its reputation if it failed to place among the tournament’s top four, and Du Wilun sent the warning to Shrek.
• Du Busi, Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, and Xian Lin'er discussed the Sun Moon Empire’s plan and Shrek’s poor chances against Xiao Qiang and the other powerful contestants.
• Du Busi ordered Shrek to distribute one high-quality soul bone and two top-grade heavenly treasures to each tournament participant.
• Du Busi selected Ao Tian, Vina, Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Ning Tian, Wang Dong, and Huo Yuhao as the likely team, while deciding Huo Yuhao would receive no soul bone.
• Du Busi said his cultivation had begun to stir after the battle with Bear Lord and that he would enter seclusion to attempt a breakthrough to Limit Douluo.

Du Busi entered seclusion after sensing a chance to become a Limit Douluo, while Xiao Qiang began cultivating to condense a second Soul Core at Rank Eighty-Nine. After two and a half months, Xiao Qiang formed an Extreme Ice Soul Core and reached the Demigod level.

• Du Busi said his cultivation had loosened and entered seclusion to pursue a breakthrough.
• Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe doubted that Xiao Qiang could condense a second Soul Core before Rank Ninety.
• Xiao Qiang left Snow Empress on guard and entrusted Mu Qingxue and the others with his affairs before entering seclusion.
• Xiao Qiang planned to strengthen his forces and eliminate Holy Spirit Cult threats before seeking the Evil Emperor's spirit ring and soul bone.
• After two and a half months, Xiao Qiang used Snow Empress's Snow Pill as a blueprint to condense an Extreme Ice second Soul Core and reach the Demigod level.

After reaching Rank 90, Xiao Qiang helped Bai Qingshan obtain a hundred-thousand-year Soul Spirit and laid out a path for him to become a Titled Douluo. At Shrek Academy, Xuan Zi volunteered to guard the students as they went to hunt spirit rings for the upcoming tournament.

• Xiao Qiang emerged from seclusion, confirmed that nothing major had happened, and celebrated reaching Rank 90 with a meal.
• Bai Qingshan told Xiao Qiang he had reached Rank 60 and wanted a powerful sixth spirit ring, so Xiao Qiang brought out the hundred-thousand-year Aromatic Silk Beauty for him to absorb.
• Xiao Qiang explained how Bai Qingshan could use further hundred-thousand-year spirit rings, medicines, and other methods to progress toward becoming a Titled Douluo, and urged him to stay nearby.
• At Shrek Academy, Long Aotian and Bei Bei both reached Rank 70 ahead of the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Tournament.
• As Zhang Lexuan prepared to lead the team into the soul beast forest, Xuan Zi volunteered to guard their spirit ring hunt.

Xuan Zi volunteered to replace the Body Sect Titled Douluo as the sole protector for Zhang Lexuan’s Spirit Ring hunt, while Zhang Lexuan feared his past recklessness would endanger the group. The Titled Douluo departed despite her plea to stay, and Zhang Lexuan resigned herself to risking her life for Shrek.

• Xuan Zi offered to accompany Zhang Lexuan, Bei Bei, Vina, and the others to the Star Dou Great Forest and hold the line during their Spirit Ring hunt.
• Vina and the Body Sect Soul Masters rejoiced at having the level-ninety-eight Xuan Zi protect them, and the Body Sect Titled Douluo agreed to leave the duty to him.
• Zhang Lexuan tried to persuade the Titled Douluo to stay as extra protection because she remembered how Xuan Zi had mishandled her previous Spirit Ring hunt.
• The Titled Douluo dismissed her concern and left, while Bei Bei redirected the conversation to protect Zhang Lexuan and preserve Shrek’s dignity.
• Zhang Lexuan privately reflected that Bei Bei had never loved her and decided to treat the dangerous hunt as repayment for what she owed Shrek.

As Shrek’s group traveled into the Star Dou Great Forest with Xuan Zi, Zhang Lexuan struggled with her feelings for Bei Bei while Huo Yuhao’s closeness with Wang Dong’er provoked Mu Xue’s jealousy. The group’s quiet journey ended when a Fierce Beast roared and called out Xuan Zi.

• Bei Bei tried to reassure Zhang Lexuan, but she pulled away and wondered whether she would see someone she cared about again before she died.
• Xuan Zi had Huo Yuhao roast soul beast meat for the group, and Huo Yuhao brought portions to Mu Xue and Wang Dong’er.
• Wang Dong’er accused Huo Yuhao of approaching her because of her beauty, and Mu Xue grew jealous and warned him against pursuing another woman.
• The group continued through the forest the next morning until a Fierce Beast roared, “Xuan Zi! You still dare to come here!”

Bear Lord forced Xuan Zi away from the stranded Shrek and Body Sect students near the Star Dou Great Forest’s core region. With Zhang Lexuan unable to lead everyone out safely, the group decided they had to quickly absorb weaker Spirit Rings, sacrificing their future potential for a chance to survive.

• Bear Lord confronted Xuan Zi and demanded that he come elsewhere to fight, warning that a battle near the students could cause soul beasts to attack them.
• Xuan Zi agreed to leave with Bear Lord, abandoning the Shrek and Body Sect students near the forest’s core region.
• Zhang Lexuan recognized that she was the group’s only eight-ringed Soul Douluo and said she could not safely lead everyone out alone.
• Long Aotian understood that the group had to raise its strength quickly by absorbing Spirit Rings, even if they were poorly suited to them.
• The stranded soul masters accepted that their sixth Spirit Rings would have to be thousand-year rings, while Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Ring configuration left his future prospects especially bleak.

Shrek and Body Sect’s fleeing geniuses encountered the Zhongli Three Brothers, three Soul Douluo-level Evil Soul Masters who intended to kill them. Zhang Lexuan stayed behind to hold them off, revealing a transformation that made the brothers recognize her as the Saintess.

• Bei Bei apologized to Zhang Lexuan for not supporting her earlier, and she told him she might not return and urged him to escape with Long Aotian if danger arose.
• Princess Veena tried to negotiate with the Zhongli Three Brothers, but they said they had come to target Shrek and the Body Sect.
• Long Aotian confronted the brothers, who revealed their Soul Douluo cultivation, Rank 8 Soul Tools, and scores of Beast Souls.
• Zhang Lexuan ordered the others to leave and stepped forward to face the three Evil Soul Masters alone.
• Zhang Lexuan transformed, drew her Moon Spirit as a blade, and used a Hundred-Thousand-Year soul skill as the brothers recognized her as the Saintess.

Du Busi emerged from seclusion as a Limit Douluo and learned that Xuan Zi had taken Long Aotian and other geniuses to hunt for Spirit Rings. After Yan Shaozhe revealed Xuan Zi’s history of disastrous failures, Du Busi questioned how Shrek had kept him in power.

• Du Busi broke through to the Limit Douluo realm and reflected on the losses the Body Sect suffered during the Beast Tide.
• Du Busi learned that Long Aotian had gone to the Star Dou Great Forest with Xuan Zi to hunt for Spirit Rings.
• Yan Shaozhe warned Du Busi to check on the group and recounted how Xuan Zi’s earlier Spirit Ring expedition left only four of twelve Shrek geniuses alive.
• Yan Shaozhe told Du Busi that Zhang Lexuan had begged Xuan Zi to stay at Shrek, and that Shrek later kept him despite another failure.
• Du Busi learned that Xuan Zi had failed to protect Shrek’s tournament contestants from an Evil Soul Master, who escaped, and asked whether Xuan Zi was the Supreme Elder of the Evil Soul Masters.

Du Busi learned of Xuan Zi’s repeated failures and led Shrek and Body Sect elders to rescue the missing students. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Long Aotian was killed by a Hundred-Thousand-Year Crystal Bear, and Bei Bei stepped forward to attack it as Vina faced death.

• Yan Shaozhe told Du Busi about Xuan Zi’s failures, including letting a Five-ring Soul King escape and losing students on several forest expeditions.
• Du Busi learned that Evil Soul Masters had once abducted Ma Xiaotao, Wu Ming, and Han Ruoruo while Xuan Zi arrived too late.
• Du Busi ordered Shrek and Body Sect Soul Douluos and Titled Douluos to fly to the Star Dou Great Forest and rescue the missing students.
• The Hundred-Thousand-Year Crystal Bear gravely wounded Long Aotian as he tried to protect Vina and the other Body Sect members.
• Long Aotian died beneath the Crystal Bear’s claws, and Vina’s Wail of the Banshee failed to stop it.
• Bei Bei attacked the Crystal Bear with Elegant Fist, Thoughts Flowing Like a Spring.

Bei Bei’s desperate attack briefly stunned the Hundred-Thousand-Year Crystal Bear, but it caught the fleeing Shrek and Body Sect group and slaughtered most of them. After the bear warned Shrek against entering the Star Dou Great Forest again, the Zhongli Three Brothers revealed that they had captured Zhang Lexuan and planned to take her to serve the Holy Son.

• Bei Bei poured his power into a longing-fueled attack that stunned the Crystal Bear, and the group fled while he weakened.
• The Crystal Bear caught the group and killed Wang Yanfeng, then killed Mu Xue and the others despite a Shrek Titled Douluo’s attempt to intervene.
• The Crystal Bear warned that Shrek and the Body Sect had broken their agreement by attacking Zi Ji and the Ten Thousand Monster King, and threatened another Beast Tide if they returned.
• The Zhongli Three Brothers said they had narrowly avoided the crisis after dealing with Zhang Lexuan and invited her to serve the Holy Son alongside the other Saintesses.

Zhang Lexuan was taken to the Holy Spirit Cult, while Du Busi and the survivors mourned the catastrophic losses from the Star Dou Great Forest. Back at Shrek, Xuan Zi asked to leave the Sea God Pavilion as punishment, leaving Du Busi speechless.

• The Zhongli Three Brothers captured Zhang Lexuan and took her to the Holy Spirit Cult to offer her to its Saint Son.
• Du Busi learned that only Bei Bei, Vina, Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong'er, and Huo Yuhao had survived, and he chose to withdraw rather than risk another battle with the Soul Beasts.
• Huo Yuhao mourned Mu Xue, and Wang Dong'er explained that their changed Martial Souls made their old Martial Soul Fusion Skill too uncertain to use against the Crystal Bear.
• Du Busi confronted Xuan Zi at the Sea God Pavilion over the losses, and Xuan Zi requested to leave the pavilion as punishment.