Chapter Summaries

Xiao Qiang witnessed Duke White Tiger Dai Hao’s confrontation with the Duchess and learned that he was secretly poisoning her. Ice Empress then borrowed Xiao Qiang’s body for a private plan involving the Duchess, her concubine, and Snow Empress.

• Dai Hao returned to the mansion and argued with the Duchess, who accused him of repeated affairs and challenged his claim to the dukedom.
• Dai Hao attacked the Duchess, but her Star Crown barrier stopped him, and she warned she could report him to the Star Luo Emperor.
• Dai Hao ordered a subordinate to increase the poison killing the Duchess and learned that Huo Yun’er had died and Huo Yuhao had left the mansion.
• Xiao Qiang used Mental Probe to witness the events and realized the Duchess had been poisoned because Dai Hao’s infidelity had shattered their marriage.
• Ice Empress asked to borrow Xiao Qiang’s body and forbade him and Tian Meng from watching what she planned to do.

Ice Empress borrowed Xiao Qiang’s body to grow closer to Snow Empress, and Xiao Qiang later discovered that his Soul Power had surged overnight. At the match against Thousand Spirits Advanced Soul Master Academy, Xiao Qiang faced the opposing team alone and began confronting An Lengye’s powerful Frost Cyclone.

• Ice Empress asked Snow Empress to try the massage technique they had seen, and Snow Empress agreed while Ice Empress borrowed Xiao Qiang’s body.
• Xiao Qiang reclaimed his body the next morning and found his Soul Power close to level fifty, then asked Ice Empress to repeat whatever had accelerated his cultivation.
• Xiao Qiang volunteered to fight Thousand Spirits Advanced Soul Master Academy alone, and Ma Rulong allowed him to proceed.
• At the match, Xiao Qiang caught Shen Ce’s strongest spear attack with one hand, extinguished its flames, and left Shen Ce and his teammates shaken.
• An Lengye unleashed her enhanced Frost Cyclone as a final gamble, and Xiao Qiang faced it by declaring, “Gale, submit to me!”

Xiao Qiang defeated Qianling Academy in seconds, and the crowd began questioning Shrek after believing he had a hundred-thousand-year sixth spirit ring. Xuan Zi's drunken insult toward the Star Luo Empire left Zhang Lexuan and Yan Shaozhe to deal with the fallout, while Xiao Qiang turned his attention to the Spirit Devouring Fierce Blade at the Starlight Auction House.

• Xiao Qiang's words made An Lengye lose control of her blizzard, which swept through Qianling Academy and completed the team's defeat.
• The spectators believed Xiao Qiang was a Soul Emperor with a hundred-thousand-year sixth spirit ring, and his suggestion led some to question Shrek's teaching.
• Xuan Zi silenced the crowd, claimed only Tang San had previously achieved a hundred-thousand-year sixth ring, and insulted the spectators.
• The Medicine Immortal Douluo challenged Xuan Zi, who threatened her and the Star Luo Empire before offering a dismissive apology.
• Zhang Lexuan tried to repair relations with the Star Luo Emperor but made no promise of Shrek's support, and the two sides parted on bad terms.
• Yan Shaozhe arrived and was dumbfounded by Xuan Zi's conduct, while Xiao Qiang focused on the Spirit Devouring Fierce Blade at the Starlight Auction House.

Xiao Qiang won the Spirit Devouring Engraving Knife at the Starlight Auction House, using Mind Suggestion to prevent Wang Yan from bidding on Huo Yuhao’s behalf. He planned to recruit a five-ring Soul King with an Angel Spirit by offering her the chance to purify the knife’s Evil Soul Master remnant.

• Xiao Qiang attended the Starlight Auction House to buy the Spirit Devouring Engraving Knife, while Brother Sky Dream recognized Huo Yuhao among the Shrek Academy group.
• Huo Yuhao asked Wang Yan to bid on the knife because Electrolux believed it could help awaken his spirit, and Wang Yan considered spending his savings to help him.
• Xiao Qiang used Mind Suggestion to make auctioneer Qing Ya finish the bidding before Wang Yan could raise the price, securing the knife for one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Huo Yuhao thanked Shrek for its supposed kindness, while Xiao Qiang privately noted that Wang Yan had been the one who wanted to help him.
• After receiving the knife, Xiao Qiang explained that he would recruit a five-ring Soul King with an Angel Spirit by offering her the chance to purify the Evil Soul Master remnant inside it.

Xiao Qiang arrived at Zheng Tian Academy during its match against Shrek and witnessed Xuan Zi threaten Yu Mengdi, causing her attack to miss and Shrek to win. After Mu Qingxue explained that Shrek hunted Angel Spirit users who reached the seventh ring, Xiao Qiang offered to recruit her and Yu Mengdi as Saintesses in his planned faction.

• Yu Mengdi overwhelmed Shrek's Bai Fan until Xuan Zi threatened her, making her Angel, God Sealing Slash miss.
• Bai Fan took advantage of Yu Mengdi's missed attack to defeat her and then her remaining teammate.
• Xuan Zi warned Yu Mengdi against opposing Shrek and ordered her to limit her sixth spirit ring to a thousand years.
• Mu Qingxue told Yu Mengdi that Shrek hunted Angel Spirit users who reached the seventh ring and that their family had been killed by Shrek.
• Xiao Qiang entered and offered to make Mu Qingxue and Yu Mengdi Saintesses in his planned faction.

Xiao Qiang recruited Mu Qingxue by offering her immense cultivation resources in exchange for eventual loyalty, and she accepted the position of Great Consecrator. The chapter ended with Yu Mengdi asking what position and rewards she would receive.

• Mu Qingxue asked Xiao Qiang about his faction and the benefits of joining, and he offered to take her and Yu Mengdi safely to the Sun Moon Empire and help her purify Evil Soul Masters.
• Xiao Qiang showed Mu Qingxue the Spirit Devouring Fierce Blade, and she revealed she had reached rank sixty-eight five years earlier and rank seventy at twenty-one.
• Xiao Qiang asked Tian Meng to strengthen Psychological Suggestion or Ring Fusion so he could impose a binding restriction on Mu Qingxue.
• Xiao Qiang offered Mu Qingxue three Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Rings, a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, and the title of Great Consecrator in exchange for her loyalty after receiving the promised treasures.
• Mu Qingxue accepted Xiao Qiang's offer, and he welcomed her as his future Divine Angel and Great Consecrator.
• Yu Mengdi asked whether she could become a consecrator and receive a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring, but Xiao Qiang told her to remain the Saintess and cultivate without pressure.

Xiao Qiang refused to give Yu Mengdi a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring for now, but promised her and Ye Guyi generous treatment as Saintesses. After helping purify the Spirit Devouring Engraving Knife, he discovered that purifying Evil Soul Masters with an Angel Spirit might yield Soul Power and leave him at level fifty.

• Xiao Qiang explained that his limited Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Souls were reserved for top geniuses and promised Yu Mengdi soul rings of at least sixty thousand years.
• Mu Qingxue asked Xiao Qiang to take Ye Guyi with them, and he promised her the same Saintess status and rewards as Yu Mengdi.
• Mu Qingxue, Yu Mengdi, and Ye Guyi used their Angel Spirits to suppress the remnant soul inside the Spirit Devouring Engraving Knife, which counterattacked with power accumulated over three thousand years.
• Mu Qingxue fused her soul rings into a single Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring and suppressed the remnant soul while Xiao Qiang studied the process with his Sharingan and Tian Meng's help.
• Xiao Qiang copied Mu Qingxue's Angel Spirit and helped the three women purify the knife, transforming it into the Blade of Life.
• Xiao Qiang received a surge of Soul Power from the purification and broke through from level forty-nine to level fifty, prompting him to wonder whether the Holy Spirit Cult could be used to gain strength.

Xiao Qiang prepared to absorb Silver Wolf’s spirit ring as his fifth ring, while Brother Sky Dream warned that compressing it to a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring would exceed Xiao Qiang’s physical limits. Snow Empress’s Snow Pill let him endure the absorption, and the ring’s mental shock awakened his Mangekyo Sharingan and pushed his spiritual power into the Spiritual Domain Realm.

• Yu Mengdi told Xiao Qiang that Xuan Zi had threatened her not to defeat Shrek, but Xiao Qiang put exposing the cheating aside to focus on his breakthrough.
• Brother Sky Dream agreed to compress Silver Wolf’s spirit ring into a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring, but warned that the absorption would be equivalent to a seventy-five-thousand-year ring and exceed Xiao Qiang’s limits.
• Snow Empress gave Xiao Qiang a Snow Pill that increased his absorption limit by ten thousand years, and he swallowed it before beginning the absorption.
• Brother Sky Dream used his spiritual origin to compress Silver Wolf’s ring into a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring, and Xiao Qiang absorbed it safely with Snow Empress’s help.
• The ring’s powerful mental shock stimulated Xiao Qiang’s brain, causing his Sharingan to evolve into the Mangekyo Sharingan and his spiritual power to break through into the Spiritual Domain Realm.

After his Mangekyo Sharingan awakened, Xiao Qiang explained its powers and three possible paths to immortality to Tian Meng and the Ice Empress. At the auction, he dodged Meng Hongchen’s questions about his rapid cultivation with a teasing explanation.

• Xiao Qiang discovered that absorbing the Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring had awakened his Mangekyo Sharingan and tested its draining eye techniques.
• Xiao Qiang told Tian Meng and the Ice Empress that his new abilities could help them achieve immortality through cellular preservation, transferring consciousness to new bodies, or using backup metal bodies.
• Xiao Qiang demonstrated a blue Susanoo, then tested his Soul Power and found that he had reached level fifty-six.
• Xiao Qiang rested for several days before attending the auction, where Meng Hongchen questioned him about his rapid cultivation.
• Meng Hongchen pressed Xiao Qiang for an explanation, and he whispered that there was a bed in his room.

Xiao Qiang stopped bidding on the Ice Scorpion Soul Bone after the price exceeded his limit, and the Star Luo Empire bought it back to recruit Ling Tian. Ling Tian and his family joined the empire, with Ling Tian set to use the Soul Bone in his attempt to become a Titled Douluo.

• Meng Hongchen blushed and shoved Xiao Qiang away after he whispered to her, while Xiao Qiang claimed he had offered to lend her his Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow bed.
• Xiao Qiang bought the Tyrannical Tiger Soul Refining Saber, Fixed Soul Cannon Shells, and several other auction items.
• Xiao Qiang stopped bidding when the Ice Scorpion Soul Bone reached thirty million Gold Soul Coins, and the Star Luo Empire secured it.
• Xu Jiujiu told Xu Jiawei that Ling Tian, an ice-type Soul Douluo close to becoming a Titled Douluo, could use the Soul Bone to advance and join the empire.
• Ling Tian agreed to serve the Star Luo Empire, and the Ling Family joined him as Xu Jiawei presented him with the Ice Scorpion Soul Bone.

At the Starlight Auction House, Xiao Qiang watched Jing Hongchen win a Hundred-Thousand-Year soul beast embryo, while Huo Yuhao brooded over his lack of power and money. After the auction, Xuan Zi dismissed Xiao Qiang as a ruined talent and declared he would never be admitted to Shrek Academy, even if he knelt.

• Princess Xu Jiujiu presented a Hundred-Thousand-Year soul beast embryo that might grant its owner a Second Martial Soul, and Electrolux warned Huo Yuhao about the dangers of absorbing it.
• Huo Yuhao grew resentful as he compared his current lack of talent and support with how events had gone in the original story.
• Jing Hongchen bid one hundred and fifty million Gold Soul Coins for the embryo, which Xiao Hongchen realized was intended for him.
• Xiao Hongchen confronted Xiao Qiang over the Hongchen Family Treasury, while Jing Hongchen explained that the family remained wealthy despite Xiao Qiang taking items from it.
• Yan Shaozhe reported his findings about Xiao Qiang to Xuan Zi, who dismissed Xiao Qiang's cultivation and condemned his use of spirit rings on his Second Martial Soul.
• Xuan Zi declared that Xiao Qiang would not be allowed into Shrek Academy, even if he knelt.

Ling Luochen sought help from Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe after the Ice Scorpion Soul Bone killed her grandfather, Ling Tian. The Star Luo Emperor decided to conceal what happened and use the dangerous soul bone against the Sun Moon Empire.

• Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe dismissed Xiao Qiang as a genius who had ruined his prospects by giving his Second Martial Soul spirit rings too early.
• Ling Luochen begged Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe to save her grandfather, explaining that the Ice Scorpion Soul Bone he had absorbed was freezing his body.
• Ma Xiaotao’s flames failed to help Ling Tian, and Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe found no way to remove the soul bone without killing him.
• Ling Tian died after suffering the Ice Scorpion Soul Bone’s backlash for a day, and Ling Luochen used Shrek’s reputation to demand compensation from the Star Luo Empire.
• Xu Jiawei told Xu Jiujiu to offer Shrek more benefits and keep the news secret so he could use the soul bone to harm the Sun Moon Empire.

The Star Luo Emperor planned to use the Ice Scorpion soul bone to sabotage the Sun Moon Empire, while Shrek’s leaders finalized their lineup for the tournament final. As the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy prepared to face Shrek, Xiao Qiang revealed a strategy built around his flashbang and Powerful Sunglasses.

• The Star Luo Emperor ordered Xu Jiujiu to use the Ice Scorpion soul bone to trap the Sun Moon Empire, depending on whether its academy won or lost the tournament.
• Wang Yan recommended Xu Sanshi and Jiang Nannan for Shrek’s final lineup, but Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi chose Xu Sanshi and Bei Bei instead.
• Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi decided that Bei Bei needed to compete and gain prestige as Shrek prepared to face the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Xiao Qiang told his teammates to close their eyes and rely on his Mental Probe during the final, then gave them Powerful Sunglasses.
• Xiao Qiang demonstrated his fifth soul skill, Element Control, which combined lightning, fire, and light into a powerful flashbang.

At the start of the final, Huo Yuhao secretly shared his vision with Shrek’s team, while Xiao Qiang used a blinding attack and a position swap to ambush them. Xu Sanshi was gravely wounded, and Xiao Qiang killed Ning Feng and Bai Fan before Shrek’s furious roar interrupted him.

• Huo Yuhao secretly activated Vision Sharing so Shrek’s members could observe their opponents more clearly.
• Xiao Qiang launched Extreme Light: Blazing Sun, blinding Shrek’s team and causing Huo Yuhao to faint.
• Xiao Qiang swapped places with Xu Sanshi and maintained Sun Moon’s shared Mental Probe as their team attacked.
• Ma Rulong and the other Sun Moon Soul Engineers pierced Xu Sanshi’s defenses, leaving him gravely wounded before Heavenly Fiend Douluo intervened.
• Xiao Qiang shot Ning Feng and Bai Fan through the head with Soul Guide Piercing Spears, killing them.
• A furious voice roared at Xiao Qiang for killing Shrek members and threatened him with death.

Xiao Qiang killed two Shrek students and used Bei Bei as a shield when Elder Xuan intervened, prompting Jing Hongchen to expose Shrek’s double standards. The chapter ended with Jing Hongchen revealing a recording of Huo Yuhao secretly using Vision Sharing.

• Elder Xuan attacked Xiao Qiang after seeing him kill two Shrek students, but Xiao Qiang restrained Bei Bei and used him to block the strike.
• Jing Hongchen fired a Soul Cannon to protect Xiao Qiang’s group and condemned Elder Xuan for interfering when Shrek’s students were losing.
• Elder Xuan demanded that Xiao Qiang pay with his life, claiming Bai Fan and Ning Feng had exceptional potential, while spectators pointed out Shrek’s history of killing opponents.
• Elder Xuan silenced the audience with his pressure and insisted Xiao Qiang must die, so Xiao Qiang stabbed Bei Bei.
• Xiao Qiang accused Shrek of cheating, and Jing Hongchen revealed a recording of Huo Yuhao secretly using Vision Sharing during the earlier match.

Jing Hongchen exposed Huo Yuhao’s cheating, but Yan Shaozhe tried to pass it off as the student’s private choice. Xiao Qiang then brought Yu Mengdi forward, and Xuan Zi’s admission that he had threatened her turned the crowd against Shrek.

• Jing Hongchen used a bug with no Soul Power fluctuations to replay Huo Yuhao’s Vision Sharing and prove he had helped Shrek cheat.
• Yan Shaozhe claimed Huo Yuhao had acted alone, and Huo Yuhao tearfully accepted responsibility while saying he had wanted to protect his friends.
• Xiao Qiang refused to let Shrek dismiss the matter and asked why Yu Mengdi’s decisive attack against Shrek had missed.
• Yu Mengdi accused Xuan Zi of forcing her to accept only a Thousand-Year Spirit Ring as her sixth ring or face death.
• Xuan Zi called the threat a joke, but spectators interpreted his words as Shrek abusing its power and suspected the academy had cheated before.

Xiao Qiang challenged Yan Shaozhe’s claim that Spirit Hall had enslaved Soul Masters, exposing how free Spirit Awakening had later become a source of exploitation under the nobles. The crowd turned on Yan Shaozhe after learning Spirit Hall had once awakened spirits without charge.

• Yan Shaozhe explained that Xuan Zi had sought to prevent the Angel Spirit and Spirit Hall from rising again, claiming Spirit Hall had enslaved Soul Masters ten thousand years earlier.
• Xiao Qiang asked whether Spirit Hall had charged for Spirit Awakening, and Yan Shaozhe said it had not.
• The chapter explained how Spirit Hall’s Angel Spirit had once driven free Spirit Awakening, while nobles later profited by charging commoners for the service.
• The venue erupted as Soul Masters compared the Gold Soul Coins they had paid, and one Soul Elder lamented that his sister had suffered because his family could not afford Spirit Awakening.
• Yan Shaozhe was left speechless as the crowd’s anger shattered their favorable view of Shrek.

Xiao Qiang used Shrek’s past victory over Spirit Hall to expose suspicions of cheating, then helped Jing Hongchen pressure Shrek into surrendering Zhang Lexuan in exchange for Bei Bei. The chapter ended with Xiao Qiang fitting Zhang Lexuan with an explosive Soul Tool collar to ensure her cooperation.

• Elder Xuan silenced the crowd, but Xiao Qiang challenged Shrek’s account of its victory over Spirit Hall and accused the team of cheating with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Yan Shaozhe offered terms for Bei Bei’s release, and Jing Hongchen demanded another copy of the resources Shrek had previously provided.
• After Shrek handed over the resources, Jing Hongchen refused to release Bei Bei and demanded Zhang Lexuan as an exchange.
• Zhang Lexuan volunteered to exchange herself for Bei Bei, and Elder Xuan sealed her Soul Power before Jing Hongchen restrained her with Soul Tools.
• Xiao Qiang fitted Zhang Lexuan with an explosive Soul Tool collar and warned her not to resist if she wanted Bei Bei to remain safe.

After Zhang Lexuan was captured, Xiao Qiang was disqualified when Heavenly Fiend Douluo bowed to Xuan Zi’s pressure, and the match continued with Shrek at a severe disadvantage. Ma Xiaotao prepared to unleash a Hundred Thousand Year spirit skill against the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, but Jing Hongchen conceded before she could strike.

• Xiao Qiang secured Zhang Lexuan with a collar and returned the injured Bei Bei to Shrek’s side for treatment.
• Heavenly Fiend Douluo let the match continue under Xuan Zi’s pressure, then disqualified Xiao Qiang for attacking before the referee restarted it.
• Jing Hongchen accused Shrek and the Star Luo Empire of cheating, while Xuan Zi insisted the referee had acted on his own.
• Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, and Ling Luochen faced Ma Rulong and the other five Soul Kings; Ling Luochen and Dai Yueheng were defeated, leaving Ma Xiaotao alone.
• Ma Xiaotao merged her six spirit rings into a blood-red Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring, but Jing Hongchen conceded the match before she could attack.

After Shrek won the team battle, Ma Xiaotao collapsed from using Ring Fusion, leaving Shrek badly weakened. Wang Yan and Yan Shaozhe planned to stall until Chocolate helped her recover, while Xuan Zi provided Spirit Defense Soul Tools to counter Xiao Qiang’s attacks.

• Heavenly Fiend Douluo stopped Ma Xiaotao’s attack, and Yan Shaozhe fed her Chocolate and carried her off the stage.
• Xiao Qiang learned from Sky Dream that Ring Fusion’s backlash came from Ma Xiaotao’s lack of experience with a hundred-thousand-year soul skill.
• Shrek’s team realized that a Soul King and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda soul master had died, while Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi were severely injured and Ma Xiaotao was depleted.
• Wang Yan and Yan Shaozhe told Shrek to stall while Chocolate’s soul skills helped Ma Xiaotao recover.
• Xuan Zi gave Shrek two Spirit Defense Soul Tools that could block mental attacks and intense light, and urged them to hold on until Ma Xiaotao recovered.