Chapter Summaries

Meng Hongchen dominated Shrek’s remaining one-on-one fighters, but Dai Yueheng outmaneuvered her and nearly killed her with a concealed attack. Xiao Qiang intervened to save Meng Hongchen, and the referee declared Dai Yueheng the winner without disqualifying the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

• Jing Hongchen chose Meng Hongchen to begin the one-on-one matches, and Xiao Qiang warned her to be cautious against Dai Yueheng.
• Meng Hongchen defeated Ling Luochen, Jiang Nannan, He Caitou, and Dai Huabin while Shrek used antidote chocolate to help its fighters endure her poison.
• Dai Yueheng fought Meng Hongchen and used White Tiger Annihilation Kill as a feint before striking her with his once-a-day Absolute Defense soul bone ability.
• Xiao Qiang pulled Meng Hongchen away from Dai Yueheng’s attack and blocked the strike, then challenged the Heavenly Fiend Douluo over the referee’s bias.
• The Heavenly Fiend Douluo declared Dai Yueheng the winner of the match but allowed the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy to continue competing.

Ma Xiaotao faced Ma Rulong in the tournament’s decisive match and used a food-type Spirit ability to awaken her Black Fire Phoenix form. An Evil Soul Master in the audience recognized her as the Holy Cult’s Saintess.

• Shrek forfeited the one-on-one match after Ning Tian surrendered to Lin Xi, setting up the two-two-three format.
• Yan Shaozhe gave Ma Xiaotao a Chocolate containing an eighth Spirit ability, and she joined Ning Tian to face Ma Rulong and Lin Xi.
• Ma Rulong used Spirit Bones to charge the Sword of Judgment and countered Ma Xiaotao’s Phoenix Piercing Cloud Strike with dark flames.
• Ma Xiaotao swallowed the Chocolate’s Berserk ability, absorbed the darkness, and surged to rank seventy as a Black Fire Phoenix.
• An Evil Soul Master in the audience recognized Ma Xiaotao as the Holy Cult’s returned Saintess.

Ma Xiaotao’s Black Fire Phoenix transformation let her defeat Ma Rulong and Lin Xi, but left her in urgent danger. Xuan Zi took her back to Shrek for treatment, while Dai Yueheng and Ling Luochen prepared to face the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy in the final match.

• The Holy Spirit Cult elder saw Ma Xiaotao’s transformation and contacted Xiao Bai, then dismissed the Death Messenger’s protests and prepared to report the Saintess’s appearance.
• Ma Xiaotao’s corrupted flames overwhelmed Ma Rulong and Lin Xi until the referee intervened, and Xuan Zi restrained her after she won.
• Yan Shaozhe found that he could only suppress Ma Xiaotao’s darkness briefly, so Xuan Zi carried her to Shrek to seek Mu En’s help.
• Xuan Zi warned that the referee should protect Shrek’s students if the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy threatened them, leaving the Heavenly Fiend Douluo worried about the danger.
• Dai Yueheng and Ling Luochen entered the final match wearing Spirit Defense Soul Tool helmets, and Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu expected Shrek to win.

Xiao Hongchen took Xiao Qiang’s place in the match against Dai Yueheng and Ling Luochen, betting his share of King of Trees Red Grape Fruit on the chance to defeat Shrek. He launched a massive volley of Soul Cannons, but Dai Yueheng used chocolate-enhanced speed and defense to reach him and unleash White Tiger Annihilation Kill.

• Meng Hongchen admitted she was afraid of Dai Yueheng, so Jing Hongchen assigned Xiao Qiang and Xiao Hongchen to fight.
• Xiao Hongchen offered Xiao Qiang a year of his King of Trees Red Grape Fruit in exchange for taking the match, and Xiao Qiang agreed to support him with Mental Probe Sharing.
• Xiao Hongchen assembled and charged 128 Class 5 Soul Cannons, alarming Dai Yueheng and Ling Luochen.
• Dai Yueheng used Acceleration Chocolate and Teleportation Chocolate to close the distance, while observers suspected Shrek had enhanced his speed.
• Dai Yueheng used Soul Skill Amplification Chocolate to strengthen White Tiger Body Protection, repelled Xiao Hongchen’s cannon fire, and attacked with White Tiger Annihilation Kill.

Xiao Qiang exposed Shrek’s cheating by striking Mo Xuan with a long-range Spirit Shock, disabling the hidden boosts supporting Dai Yueheng and Ling Luochen. He then confronted Dai Yueheng with Mirror Flower Water Moon, leaving Dai Yueheng confused about what was real.

• Dai Yueheng used White Tiger Body Protection to repel Xiao Hongchen’s Soul Cannons and attacked him with White Tiger Annihilation Kill, but Xiao Qiang rescued Xiao Hongchen and threw him out of the arena.
• Xiao Qiang accused Dai Yueheng of cheating and challenged him to leave the arena or be forced out.
• Xiao Qiang located Mo Xuan with Mental Probe and hit him with Spirit Shock, crippling him and ending the boosts he had been providing to Dai Yueheng and Ling Luochen.
• Dai Yueheng rushed Xiao Qiang, but his tiger-claw strike sent Ling Luochen flying instead.
• Xiao Qiang approached Dai Yueheng and asked when Dai Yueheng had assumed he had not used Mirror Flower Water Moon.

Dai Yueheng broke Xiao Qiang’s Mirror Flower Water Moon during a desperate gamble, ending the illusions that had let Xiao Qiang attack from a distance. Believing he had secured the match, Dai Yueheng demanded Xiao Qiang surrender, while Xiao Qiang silently assessed the loss of his Soul Tool.

• Yan Shaozhe worried that Dai Yueheng’s careless strike had left Ling Luochen unable to fight, but decided Shrek still had the advantage because Dai Yueheng was a Soul Emperor.
• Xiao Hongchen complained as Meng Hongchen tightened his bandages, then asked Uncle Qin whether Dai Yueheng could still win; Uncle Qin said Shrek retained the advantage.
• Xiao Qiang summoned one hundred and twenty-eight Grade 5 Soul Cannons and used Xiao Hongchen’s spirit skills to launch an attack at Dai Yueheng.
• Dai Yueheng used his Beast-type Spirit’s sense of smell to find Xiao Qiang, endured the Soul Guide Rays, and pursued him, but Xiao Qiang used Jiang Nannan’s teleportation skill to escape.
• Dai Yueheng secretly broke Xiao Qiang’s Mirror Flower Water Moon with an enhanced White Tiger Radiant Wave while feigning an attack with White Tiger Annihilation Kill.
• Dai Yueheng told Xiao Qiang to surrender, claiming that without Mirror Flower Water Moon he had no way to defeat him, while Xiao Qiang silently examined the broken Soul Tool.

Xiao Qiang defeated Dai Yueheng in the second match of the third final of the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Tournament, giving the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy the victory. Shrek lost the match and had no one left to enter the final bout.

• Dai Yueheng reasoned that Xiao Qiang’s copied martial souls were limited and prepared to exploit his restrictions.
• Dai Yueheng prolonged the fight, then ate a Berserk Chocolate to restore his combat strength and launch a final attack.
• Xiao Qiang met Dai Yueheng’s White Tiger Annihilation Kill head-on with Ice Jade Emperor’s Might, breaking Dai Yueheng’s attack and snapping his right arm.
• Heavenly Fiend Douluo Huang Jinxu rescued Dai Yueheng, ending the match and confirming Xiao Qiang’s victory.
• The arena recognized that Shrek had no one left to compete in the final match, meaning Shrek had lost.

After losing the tournament final, Shrek was accused of cheating, but the Star Luo Empire declared Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy the winner. Yan Shaozhe tried to defend Shrek by claiming its missing team members had died fighting a powerful Evil Soul Master, and Xiao Qiang challenged his story.

• Yan Shaozhe accused Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy of cheating, and Jing Hongchen countered by pointing to Shrek's suspicious actions and Dai Yueheng's unexplained teleportation.
• A Guardian Douluo told Heavenly Fiend Douluo that the Star Luo Emperor wanted Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy to win, so Heavenly Fiend Douluo announced it as the tournament champion.
• Yan Shaozhe took the microphone and told the angry spectators that Shrek had sent its team to fight an Evil Soul Master in the Mingdou Mountains, where four of its seven members died.
• Xiao Qiang questioned whether the Evil Soul Master could have been a Titled Douluo if two Soul Emperors and five Soul Kings had needed to fight it.

At a public confrontation, Xiao Qiang pressed Yan Shaozhe to reveal the strength of the Evil Soul Master who defeated Shrek’s team. Yan Shaozhe admitted the enemy had been a Soul King without a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring, and Xiao Qiang left him speechless by asking whether he had many Ten Thousand Year Spirit Rings.

• Shrek supporters in the crowd urged Yan Shaozhe to defend the academy’s reputation and explain what level of Evil Soul Master its students had faced.
• Yan Shaozhe said Shrek had fought a powerful Evil Soul Master, but not a Titled Douluo.
• Xiao Qiang asked whether the enemy had been a Soul Douluo or Soul Sage, and Yan Shaozhe denied both.
• Xiao Qiang guessed the Evil Soul Master had been a Soul King, and Yan Shaozhe confirmed it while claiming his soul skills were formidable.
• Yan Shaozhe admitted the Soul King had no Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring, and Xiao Qiang asked whether he had many Ten Thousand Year Spirit Rings.

Xiao Qiang exposed Shrek’s humiliating defeat by a Soul King and challenged its claims about hunting Evil Soul Masters, while a Holy Spirit Cult elder mistakenly concluded that Xuan Zi was the cult’s undercover Supreme Elder. The chapter left Death Messenger fleeing after escaping his captors, as Xiao Qiang continued to mock Shrek before the arena.

• Xiao Qiang pressed Yan Shaozhe until he implicitly confirmed that a Soul King with no Ten Thousand Year Spirit Rings had nearly defeated Shrek’s team.
• A Holy Spirit Cult elder decided that Xuan Zi was the cult’s Supreme Elder and ordered Death Messenger’s senior brother to release him.
• Death Messenger thanked his teacher for supposedly making him a Holy Son, then blew up his senior brother and fled, believing the cult planned to refine him into a vengeful spirit.
• Xiao Qiang accused Shrek of possibly hunting Angel Spirit masters under the pretext of eliminating Evil Soul Masters, while Yan Shaozhe defended Shrek and Xu Jiawei affirmed that Tang San’s war against Spirit Hall had been righteous.
• Xiao Qiang mocked Shrek for losing to a Soul King and complained that he himself had struggled against the team.

Yan Shaozhe blamed Wang Yan for Shrek’s disastrous loss to Xiao Qiang’s team, while Xuan Zi returned with Ma Xiaotao and learned Mu En could only temporarily suppress the darkness in her body. Xuan Zi then brought Yan Shaozhe to the Sea God Pavilion and urged him to announce what Shrek had achieved.

• Yan Shaozhe persuaded Wang Yan to accept responsibility for Shrek’s defeat and told the Star Luo Emperor that Wang Yan’s command errors had caused the team’s losses.
• Yan Shaozhe proposed using the Ice Scorpion soul bone as a tournament prize to harm the Sun Moon Empire’s young geniuses.
• Mu En told Xuan Zi that he could only temporarily suppress the dark aura intertwined with Ma Xiaotao’s flames, and Xuan Zi blamed himself for the deaths and injuries.
• Mu En comforted Xuan Zi by saying Ma Xiaotao could still recover and Shrek had preserved its glory by winning the match.
• Xuan Zi proposed honoring the surviving team members in the Sea God Pavilion, then pulled Yan Shaozhe inside and told him to announce their achievement.

Yan Shaozhe told the Sea God Pavilion Elders that Shrek Academy had lost the tournament to Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, leaving Xuan Zi devastated and Mu En alarmed by the losses and Zhang Lexuan’s capture. After hearing Yan Shaozhe’s plan to use an Ice Scorpion soul bone against Xiao Qiang, Mu En decided to go to the Sun Moon Empire and meet him.

• Xuan Zi insisted that the elders formally recognize the team’s efforts, but Yan Shaozhe announced that Shrek Academy had taken second place behind Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Yan Shaozhe explained that Xiao Qiang had defeated Dai Yueheng and Ling Luochen, prompting Xuan Zi to blame himself for the deaths of four Shrek Seven Devils before the elders shifted the blame to Dai Yueheng.
• Mu En asked for a full account of the tournament and was shaken to learn that Bei Bei was severely injured, Zhang Lexuan had been taken by the Sun Moon Empire, and Ma Xiaotao had become an Evil Soul Master.
• Yan Shaozhe said he had arranged for an Ice Scorpion Left Arm Bone to tempt Xiao Qiang, hoping he would die after fusing with it.
• Mu En decided to travel to the Sun Moon Empire to bring Zhang Lexuan back and meet Xiao Qiang.

Mu En decided to travel to the Sun Moon Empire to deal with Xiao Qiang, believing Shrek could not afford another loss to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. After he left, Shrek's Elders tried to reassure one another, while Xiao Qiang's group reached the empire and began distributing their soul bone prizes.

• Mu En explained that Shrek needed to preserve its reputation and cultivate top talents, then insisted on going after Xiao Qiang despite the danger to his failing body.
• Xuan Zi and the Sea God Pavilion Elders grieved as Mu En departed for the Sun Moon Empire, and Xuan Zi later tried to reassure them before going off to drink alone.
• The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy group returned to the Sun Moon Empire quickly and began resting and distributing the Star Luo Empire's soul bones.
• Xiao Qiang recognized the Ice Scorpion left arm bone among the prizes and wondered why it was there.

After the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy won the tournament, Xiao Qiang exposed the Ice Scorpion Soul Bone as a trap, and Jing Hongchen took the team to safety at a military camp. The Sun Moon Emperor learned that his academy had defeated Shrek Academy and rewarded the participants, seeing the victory as a chance to improve his reputation.

• Jing Hongchen offered the Ice Scorpion Soul Bone to Meng Hongchen, but she urged him to give it to Xiao Qiang, who warned Jing Hongchen that only a soul master with an Extreme Ice martial soul could safely absorb it.
• Jing Hongchen kept the Ice Scorpion Soul Bone from the other prizes, distributed the ordinary Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones to two main team members, and led the group to a military camp.
• At the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Legion camp, Jing Hongchen asked Commander Xu to use the military communications line to contact the imperial capital.
• The Sun Moon Emperor recalled how Xu Tianran had helped him seize the throne and how he had surrendered power to the great nobles to secure their support.
• A eunuch informed the Sun Moon Emperor that the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy had defeated Shrek Academy and won the tournament.
• The Sun Moon Emperor celebrated and declared that every tournament participant would receive the title of count, with additional rewards for those who had earned merit.

The Sun Moon Emperor celebrated the victory over Shrek and rewarded the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team, while Jing Hongchen told Xiao Qiang about the emperor’s past and advised him to choose the Silver Dragon Staff. The chapter ended with the emperor rejoicing and Crown Prince Xu Tianran unable to smile.

• The Sun Moon Emperor announced a general amnesty and ordered rewards for the students who defeated Shrek.
• Jing Hongchen awarded the main team members the title of count, though Xiao Qiang and the Hongchen siblings were not impressed.
• Jing Hongchen told Xiao Qiang that the emperor’s rise to the throne had been engineered with help from Xu Tianran and that the nobles knew the truth.
• Jing Hongchen explained that the Silver Dragon Staff could help Xiao Qiang sense and control the spatial element, and urged him to choose it from the Royal Treasury.
• The Sun Moon Emperor celebrated the victory, while Xu Tianran remained unhappy.

Xu Tianran learned that the emperor had regained some strength after the Sun Moon Empire defeated Shrek Academy, threatening Xu Tianran’s plans to inherit the throne. Meanwhile, Xiao Qiang received the Silver Dragon Staff, gained access to spatial power, and planned to rely on Nana to find Evil Soul Masters so he could reach Rank 60.

• Xu Tianran learned that the emperor had stood again after hearing of the Sun Moon Empire’s victory over Shrek Academy, and worried that his brothers and supporters would turn against him.
• Xu Tianran considered recruiting Jing Hongchen and his fifteen-year-old disciple Xiao Qiang after learning Xiao Qiang had defeated a Shrek Soul Emperor.
• Xiao Qiang chose the Silver Dragon Staff from the Royal Treasury and used its spatial power to open a Space Wormhole to a location he had marked with Mental Probe.
• Xiao Qiang asked Brother Sky Dream to study the staff’s spatial power and create a small space, while he planned to reach Rank 60 by killing Evil Soul Masters.
• Nana sneezed at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and wondered if she had caught a cold.

Kong Deming recognized Xiao Qiang’s talent and entrusted him with powerful resources, revealing Zhang Lexuan’s connection to the Sun Moon royal family. The chapter ended with Mu En arriving at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

• Xiao Qiang went to the academy archives to search for Nana but was summoned to Jing Hongchen’s office.
• Jing Hongchen introduced Xiao Qiang to Kong Deming, who praised his talent and examined his condition.
• Kong Deming gave Xiao Qiang a token granting access to imperial forces and the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield.
• Kong Deming revealed that Zhang Lexuan was his granddaughter, descended from a royal family member who had fled with a Zhang noble from the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Mu En arrived outside the gates of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, leaning on his cane.

Mu En infiltrated Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy to retrieve Zhang Lexuan and seize Xiao Qiang, but Kong Deming exposed him and challenged his claim to Zhang Lexuan. The confrontation ended with Xiao Qiang demanding that Mu En pay Mingde Hall's admission fee.

• Mu En entered Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, inspected its Soul Tools, and headed for Jing Hongchen's office while planning to take Xiao Qiang and Zhang Lexuan back to Shrek.
• Mu En opened Jing Hongchen's office door and found Kong Deming protecting Jing Hongchen and Xiao Qiang with the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield.
• Mu En said he had come to reclaim his student, Zhang Lexuan, and Kong Deming recognized him as Dragon God Douluo Mu En.
• Kong Deming refused to let Mu En take Zhang Lexuan, arguing that her Moon Spirit marked her as Sun Moon Empire lineage and accusing Shrek of exploiting her family's destruction.
• Xiao Qiang told Mu En to pay Mingde Hall's admission fee first.

Xiao Qiang stopped Mu En and Kong Deming from fighting by warning Mu En that his injuries and the Sun Moon Empire’s defenses could prevent him from returning to Shrek alive. Mu En agreed to pay an entrance fee, but Xiao Qiang demanded three hundred thousand-year soul bones.

• Xiao Qiang interrupted Kong Deming before he could attack Mu En, and Mu En held back because Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming were present.
• Xiao Qiang warned Mu En that fighting or forcing his way through could get him killed and leave Shrek without its pillar of support.
• Mu En sensed a deadly threat from Mingde Hall’s defenses and considered the danger his death would pose to Shrek and the original three Douluo kingdoms.
• Xiao Qiang rejected Mu En’s threat to take him hostage and laid out the choice between paying the fee and risking a fight.
• Mu En asked the price of the entrance fee, and Xiao Qiang demanded three hundred thousand-year soul bones.

Mu En and Xiao Qiang haggled over the price for Shrek’s exchange student program, with Xiao Qiang demanding three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones. Mu En finally agreed to the exchange program, but Xiao Qiang declared that he would not go.

• Mu En offered one fifty-thousand-year Soul Bone and told Kong Deming that Xiao Qiang could negotiate for him.
• Kong Deming left the negotiation to his grand-disciple, and Xiao Qiang demanded three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones.
• Mu En raised his offer from one Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone to two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones and one fifty-thousand-year Soul Bone, but Xiao Qiang refused.
• Mu En agreed to let Shrek’s exchange student program proceed as normal.
• Jing Hongchen accepted the exchange program, and Xiao Qiang said he would not go.