Chapter Summaries

Madara attacked the Soul Master camp and fought through its defenders while seeking the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus. He killed the butcher-like leader, leaving the surviving Soul Masters facing him in chaos.

• Madara killed the sentry outside the camp, triggering an alarm that brought hundreds of Soul Masters out of their tents.
• Madara warned the gathered Soul Masters to leave, then charged into their ranks and slaughtered those in his path.
• Madara blocked many Soul skills with blood energy and used Uchiha Rebound to send powerful attacks back at the crowd.
• Madara unleashed Sweep the Thousand Armies, blasting apart the front row before evading the Soul Masters' counterattacks.
• Madara cut his way toward the bald butcher-like Soul Master, who fell to his knees and begged for mercy.
• Madara beheaded the butcher-like Soul Master as the other Soul Masters watched from a distance.

Madara slaughtered the soul masters who surrounded him, then faced a Soul Saint who attacked him with a bow. The Soul Saint’s arrow failed to penetrate Madara’s Susanoo, leaving the archer in despair.

• The soul masters renewed their assault on Madara, driven by greed for his strength, and he charged into the crowd, killing those who came near.
• Madara dodged a burly five-ring Spirit King’s attack, disarmed him, and killed him with his scythe.
• A hidden Soul Saint shot an arrow at Madara, but Madara caught it and identified the archer’s location.
• Madara’s fireball forced the Soul Saint to flee, but Madara blocked his escape route.
• The Soul Saint attacked Madara with Eagle-Eye Aim and Charged Arrow, but Madara’s Susanoo stopped the arrow and he casually redirected it into the ground.

Madara killed the bow-wielding Soul Saint with Amaterasu and waited for Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation to arrive at the snow lotus. When Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan reached the deserted camp, Madara confronted them and launched an attack.

• The bow-wielding Soul Saint tried to kill Madara at close range, but Madara burned his arrow and then him with Amaterasu.
• Madara returned to camp, dismissed the surviving soul masters, and waited for Spirit Hall’s group to come for the snow lotus.
• Several days later, Madara sensed Spirit Hall’s approach and went outside to meet them.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan realized the camp was deserted and saw Madara waiting for them.
• Madara identified himself as the one who would kill them and charged, beginning the battle.

Madara overwhelmed Yan while mocking Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation, but Yan survived and Xie Yue and Hu Liena fused into a Fox Person to challenge him. The Fox Person attacked Madara, who remained confident as the fight continued.

• Yan charged Madara, but Madara struck him down and mocked the Golden Generation, angering Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena.
• Yan used Flame Demon Transformation and Flame Violent Fist, but Madara dodged his attacks and taunted him.
• Madara used the scythe to numb Yan’s arm, then grabbed and slammed him into the ground.
• Yan used his Fourth Spirit Ring to blast Madara away before Madara could kill him.
• Xie Yue and Hu Liena fused into a Fox Person, which attacked Madara with its paired curved weapons.

Madara overwhelmed the Golden Generation’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill and defeated Xie Yue and Hu Liena. He turned his attention to Yan, who challenged him, and began carving humiliation onto his face.

• Madara blocked the Fox Person’s twin Curved Sabers with his War Fan and scythe, then wounded it with a blood-red Kunai.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue unleashed a spinning crescent strike, but Madara used Uchiha Rebound to send the Curved Sabers flying back.
• Madara knocked aside the Fox Person’s attacks and struck it down, splitting it back into Xie Yue and Hu Liena.
• Yan taunted Madara to draw him away from Xie Yue and Hu Liena, accepting that he would be the first of the Golden Generation to face him.
• Madara grabbed Yan by the hair and carved his face with a blood-red Kunai as Yan struggled.

Madara left Yan and the other members of Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation badly wounded before reinforcements arrived and Bishop Lin attacked him. Madara revealed Susanoo and turned the fight around, then sensed Bishop Lin and launched an attack at him.

• Madara mocked Yan and chose to spare him, while Xie Yue and Hu Liena helped the wounded Yan.
• Bishop Lin arrived with Spirit Hall reinforcements and confronted Madara to defend the Golden Generation.
• Bishop Lin attacked Madara with explosive black-and-white chess pieces, driving him into a barrage of blasts.
• Madara emerged unharmed inside Susanoo and swept through the Spirit Hall fighters with its enormous arm.
• Madara spotted Bishop Lin hiding in the distance and sent three tomoe spinning toward him with destructive force.

Bishop Lin used his Star Chess Formation and falling-star attacks to trap and bombard Madara, but Madara revealed a mountain-sized second-stage Susanoo and crushed the formation. Bishop Lin’s Martial Soul Avatar failed to stop Susanoo’s descending foot, leaving his defeat imminent.

• Bishop Lin escaped Madara’s Yasakani no Magatama with Star Shift and joined his subordinates in fighting Susanoo.
• Bishop Lin trapped Susanoo with Star Chess Formation and unleashed black-and-white falling stars while the other Spirit Hall fighters attacked.
• Madara expanded Susanoo to mountain size, broke the formation with a stomp, and dwarfed Bishop Lin’s attacks.
• Yan watched Madara’s power and vowed to repay the humiliation one day.
• Bishop Lin activated his Martial Soul Avatar and tried to explode his chess pieces, but his attack had no effect as Susanoo’s foot descended toward him.

Madara reached the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus and discovered Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow beneath it. Using the Ice God's Curse to filter the marrow’s energy, he endured a painful tempering that strengthened his body and left him with the lotus and a small remnant of the marrow.

• Madara let Spirit Hall's Golden Generation escape, hoping the hatred he had planted would eventually turn them into worthy opponents.
• Madara climbed a remote snowy peak with Kurama to find the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus before it bloomed.
• Kurama sensed something beneath the lotus, and Madara uncovered a millstone-sized chunk of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Madara used the Ice God's Curse to transform the marrow’s frigid energy and absorb it, enduring repeated destruction and restoration of his body.
• Madara exhausted the marrow’s useful energy, then collected the bloomed snow lotus and the remaining palm-sized piece of ice marrow.

Madara returned to Li Jia’s inn with the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus and discovered that Mumu had nearly killed Pan Chui with a boulder during a game. After leaving the Land North of the Stream, Madara trained Mumu on the road to Heaven Dou City, where he arrived to deliver Xue Qinghe’s task.

• Madara returned to Li Jia’s inn after seven days and learned Mumu had been causing trouble while he was away.
• Madara found Pan Chui recovering from a boulder that Mumu had dropped onto his chest during their game.
• Mumu demonstrated that his martial soul could control a tree strong enough to lift a boulder, and Madara decided to take him hunting for a soul ring.
• Madara packed the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus, said goodbye to his friends, and left the Land North of the Stream with Mumu.
• Madara traveled toward the Heaven Dou Empire’s capital, training Mumu and having him spar with Spirit Beasts along the way.
• Madara arrived at Heaven Dou City to deliver the task Xue Qinghe had entrusted to him.

Madara delivered the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus to Xue Qinghe, who offered him the promised reward and an invitation to an auction. Madara then returned to Shrek Academy, reunited with Tang San and the Shrek Seven Devils, and introduced his disciple Mumu.

• Madara brought Mumu to Xue Qinghe's residence with the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus, while First Prince's informants followed them.
• Xue Qinghe said his father's health had recovered, so Madara threatened him with a kunai until Xue Qinghe ordered his guards to stand down.
• Xue Qinghe promised Madara the full reward and invited him to the auction house, and Madara accepted before leaving.
• Madara hurried back to Shrek Academy with Mumu and told him that he had family, but no home.
• Madara reunited with Tang San and the Shrek Seven Devils, then introduced Mumu as his disciple and told him to call the others big brothers and sisters and Tang San his Martial Uncle.

Madara returned to Shrek Academy, then confronted Xue Qinghe at the Heaven Dou Auction House and exposed his disguise. He warned Xue Qinghe to leave his companions alone, then chose the auction’s Life Spring Water as the promised gift.

• Madara told Tang San he would stay until the Continental Elite Soul Master Competition and hinted that he had a surprise for him.
• Madara reunited with the Shrek Academy teachers and friends, then went to the Heaven Dou Auction House in Heaven Dou City.
• Madara accused Xue Qinghe of not being the real eldest prince and blocked his attempt to kill him.
• Madara fought Xue Qinghe and demanded that he keep away from Madara’s companions.
• Madara noticed the Life Spring Water’s dense life force and asked Xue Qinghe to give it to him, which Xue Qinghe reluctantly agreed to do.

Madara took Mumu to Sunset Forest to obtain a First Spirit Ring from a five-hundred-year Spirit Devouring Vine, forcing him to fight for it himself. Mumu absorbed the ring and later demonstrated his new skill, Tree Binding Eternal Burial, at Shrek Academy.

• Madara brought Mumu to Sunset Forest to hunt a Spirit Devouring Vine selected as his First Spirit Ring.
• Madara gave Mumu a kunai and ordered him to kill the vine, and Mumu fought desperately despite being battered and trapped.
• Madara cut Mumu free when the vine had nearly subdued him, and Mumu severed its roots and absorbed its yellow Spirit Ring.
• At Shrek Academy, Mumu used Tree Binding Eternal Burial to bind a boulder in trees and drag it underground.
• Madara praised Mumu's progress and noted that the Spirit Devouring Vine had given his wood martial soul a trace of the ability to devour stamina and Soul Power.

The Shrek Seven Devils returned to the academy after reaching the four-ring Soul Ancestor realm, and Madara tested Oscar’s strength before the group discussed their new spirit skills. After seeing Zhu Zhuqing’s Netherworld Shadow Clone, Madara copied it and filled the dining hall with powerful duplicates of himself.

• The Shrek Seven Devils returned, and Madara challenged Oscar to test his progress.
• Oscar opened the Fourth Gate, Gate of Pain, impressing Madara and earning his approval.
• Tang San reported that Oscar had gained the Excited Pink Sausage spirit skill.
• Zhu Zhuqing demonstrated her Netherworld Shadow Clone spirit skill at Madara’s request.
• Madara used his Third Spirit Skill to create a dozen powerful copies of himself, astonishing everyone at dinner.

At dinner, Madara learned about Tang San’s Blue Silver Prison and Mumu’s ability to absorb Soul Power from Blue Silver Grass. After Grandmaster introduced the Continental Elite Soul Master Competition and its substitutes, Madara went to test Wang Zi’an’s progress and left him stunned by the power of his own First Spirit Skill.

• Tang San demonstrated his ten-thousand-year Fourth Spirit Skill, Blue Silver Prison, and Mumu covered its cage with saplings that absorbed Soul Power from Blue Silver Grass.
• Flender announced a discussion of the Continental Elite Soul Master Competition, and Grandmaster explained the competition and introduced four potential substitutes from Erlong’s academy.
• Grandmaster said Wang Zi’an had been injured in training and asked Madara to check on him; Madara found him practicing at the rear mountain.
• Wang Zi’an demonstrated his Gale Roll, and Madara asked whether he had completed the change in the nature of his wind-attribute Soul Power.
• Madara unleashed Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation and told the stunned Wang Zi’an that this was the minimum power expected of a First Spirit Skill.

Madara led Shrek Academy into the Continental Elite Soul Master Competition and confronted Ye Zhi Qiu and Canghui Academy at registration. After Ye Zhi Qiu attacked him with his sixth spirit skill, Madara revealed that he had only destroyed a Shadow Clone and surrounded him with more than a dozen clones.

• Madara led Shrek Academy to register for the competition, where the team encountered Ye Zhi Qiu and students from Canghui Academy.
• A Canghui student provoked Ma Hongjun, and Madara prompted him to strike back, escalating the confrontation.
• Ye Zhi Qiu summoned his Blackwater Turtle martial soul and charged at Madara, who easily dodged his attacks while Ma Hongjun mocked him.
• Ye Zhi Qiu unleashed his sixth spirit skill, Mystic Water Giant Wave Surge, and appeared to freeze Madara in a block of ice.
• Madara's frozen figure disappeared as a Shadow Clone, and he revealed himself with more than a dozen clones behind him before asking Ye Zhi Qiu how many he could take on.

Madara’s Shadow Clones defeated Ye Zhi Qiu, and Shi Nian confronted Shrek Academy after Xue Qinghe refused to intervene in their personal feud. Canghui Academy withdrew, but Grandmaster warned that Shi Nian’s Remnant Dream martial soul could cast illusions, a threat Madara believed he could counter with the Sharingan.

• Madara’s Shadow Clones kicked Ye Zhi Qiu around until he was left dizzy, sprawled on the ground, and unable to rise.
• Shi Nian arrived with Xue Qinghe and accused Shrek Academy of bullying Canghui Academy, but Madara argued that the fight was a personal grudge between team leaders.
• Shi Nian stepped forward to seek justice, and Grandmaster, Flender, and Liu Erlong approached to support Madara and Shrek Academy.
• Xue Qinghe calmed both sides and asked them not to fight at the competition venue, so Shi Nian withdrew and challenged Shrek Academy to settle things in the arena.
• Flender praised Shrek Academy’s victory, while Grandmaster warned that Shi Nian’s Remnant Dream martial soul could cast illusions.
• Madara welcomed the prospect of facing Shi Nian’s illusions, confident that his Sharingan could counter them.

Madara watched Shrek Academy dominate Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s second team in the qualifiers, then fought off Heaven Dou Academy teachers who came to protest the injuries. He warned everyone not to challenge Shrek without defeating him first.

• Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, the Heaven Dou Spirit Hall bishop, and other dignitaries attended the opening ceremony before the qualifiers began.
• Madara asked Tang San about Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s second team, and Tang San agreed with Madara’s prediction that Shrek would defeat them quickly.
• Shrek Academy overwhelmed Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s second team in their first match.
• Heaven Dou Academy teachers tried to confront Shrek over their students’ injuries, but Madara blocked their way and fought them.
• Madara defeated the teachers and declared that anyone seeking trouble with Shrek Academy had to beat him first.

After Shrek Academy defeated Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s second team, Madara’s actions drew attention from rival academies and Xue Qinghe. He began the Shrek Seven Devils’ final special training, assigning each student exercises to strengthen their abilities.

• Tang San defended Shrek Academy’s actions against accusations of breaking the rules, and the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team left in embarrassment.
• Other academies heard about Madara’s strength and warning not to provoke Shrek Academy, while Xue Qinghe worried about the trouble Madara was causing.
• Madara had Wang Zi'an demonstrate how purifying and specializing Soul Power increased the power of his Spirit Skill.
• Madara instructed Ma Hongjun to focus on raising his flame temperature and assigned Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu reaction and agility training.
• Madara paired Zhu Zhuqing with Dai Mubai to practice dodging his White Tiger Meteor Shower, while the other students received their own demanding training.

Madara learned that Elephant Armored Academy had agreed with Spirit Hall’s Bishop Sajins to target Shrek, then confronted Hu Yan Zhen and wagered that he could make him bleed within three strikes. Madara’s Blood Slash wounded Hu Yan Zhen, who warned Hu Yan Li never to provoke him again.

• The Grandmaster told Shrek Academy that Elephant Armored Academy, a team of defensive Soul Masters, would be their next opponent and asked Tang San to discuss tactics.
• Madara secretly visited Elephant Armored Academy’s quarters and overheard Hu Yan Zhen say he had agreed with Bishop Sajins of Spirit Hall to have the team strike Shrek hard.
• Hu Yan Li challenged Madara, but Madara blasted him through a wall; Hu Yan Li soon emerged with no serious injuries.
• Madara demanded that Hu Yan Zhen leave his family alone and wagered that he could make him bleed within three attacks.
• Madara struck Hu Yan Zhen three times with his bloodflame-covered scythe, wounded him, and left as Hu Yan Zhen stopped his students from pursuing him.
• Hu Yan Zhen warned Hu Yan Li never to provoke Madara again.

Shrek Academy defeated Elephant Armored Academy after Tang San used Blue Silver Grass to execute a successful strategy. Madara learned about Martial Soul Fusion Skills, then watched Mumu demonstrate her control over trees and fused his Susanoo with her wooden figure.

• Madara warned Tang San to watch for Elephant Armored Academy's tricks, while Hu Yan Li rallied his team to avenge Hu Yan Zhen.
• Tang San concealed the arena with Blue Silver Grass and led Shrek Academy to drive every Elephant Armored Academy member off the stage.
• Madara asked Zhu Zhuqing and Dai Mubai about their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, then questioned Grandmaster about how compatibility affected its power.
• Mumu showed Madara that she could control natural trees and create a wooden figure four or five meters tall.
• Madara combined his Susanoo with Mumu's wooden figure, forming an azure-armored giant with burning blue eyes.