Chapter Summaries

Flender warned Shrek Academy that the Five Elemental Academies would be dangerous opponents and urged the team to win every Qualifying Round match while Gu Xuan and Rongrong stayed out. Shrek watched Godwind Academy and Skywater Academy win decisively, while Flender explained how the Heaven Dou Empire’s schools favored specialized teams over balanced ones.

• Flender identified Thunder Academy, Godwind Academy, Skywater Academy, and Blazing Fire Academy as threats, and told Shrek to aim for a perfect Qualifying Round record without Gu Xuan and Rongrong competing.
• Shrek left the Rest Area to boos from spectators whose match had been forfeited, then heard the crowd erupt into chants as the team appeared.
• Flender pointed out Godwind Academy and Skywater Academy among the teams competing, and Shrek watched every Godwind member fly as they defeated their opponents with diving attacks.
• Skywater Academy’s all-women team faced opponents who were visibly unsettled by their beauty and won quickly without showing off.
• Ma Hongjun asked why the Five Elemental Academies used teams of one attribute, and Flender explained that Heaven Dou schools favored specialization while Star Luo schools emphasized balance.

Flender explained the Extreme, Balanced, and Fusion approaches to spirit master combat and warned Shrek that Spirit Hall was its greatest opponent. After Shrek completed ten straight victories, the team prepared to face Blazing Fire Academy, while Flender began explaining what he had learned about the elemental academies.

• Flender explained that Shrek combined individual extremity with team balance, and that Spirit Hall’s teams secretly followed the Fusion approach.
• Shrek finished the tenth qualifying round undefeated and claimed first place alongside the four undefeated elemental academies other than Elephant Armored Academy.
• Elephant Armored Academy had lost to the other four elemental academies and fallen to five wins and five losses.
• Shrek prepared to face Blazing Fire Academy in the eleventh round, drawing a large crowd and boosting the academy’s fame and Flender’s earnings.
• Flender advised the team not to underestimate Blazing Fire Academy and said his observations had helped him understand the elemental academies’ true capabilities.

Flender warned Shrek Academy that Blazing Fire Academy used coordinated roles within its fire-based team and urged them not to risk too much in the qualifying rounds. Tang San received another starting position as Shrek faced Blazing Fire Academy, whose captain Huo Wushuang and vice-captain Huo Wu led a powerful lineup.

• Flender explained that the elemental academies had adopted specialized roles while maintaining the Extreme Flow approach, and warned Shrek about Blazing Fire Academy’s offense.
• Flender gave Tang San another chance to start, saying Yu Xiaogang had secured the opportunity and that Tang San needed to make an impact.
• The host announced Shrek Academy versus Blazing Fire Academy, and both teams entered the central arena to loud cheers.
• The chapter introduced Huo Wushuang as Blazing Fire Academy’s level 42 Fire Dragon assault captain and described the team’s other specialized fighters.
• The chapter revealed Huo Wu as the level 43 control-type vice-captain, whose martial spirit was Fire Shadow.

Tang San took two Spirit Medicines from Yu Xiaogang before Shrek Academy faced Blazing Fire Academy, temporarily raising his Soul Power to level 38. The match began with both teams launching their opening moves, while Tang San waited for the moment Yu Xiaogang had planned.

• Dai Mubai and Huo Wushuang exchanged taunts before the match, each predicting the other team's winning streak would end.
• Yu Xiaogang gave Tang San two Spirit Medicines and told him they could raise his Soul Power by three levels within twenty-four hours.
• Tang San took the medicines before the match and reached level 38, though his Soul Power remained unstable.
• Both teams released their Martial Souls and took their formations as the referee started the match.
• Dai Mubai, Tailong, and Huang Yuan charged forward while Blazing Fire Academy strengthened its members with sparks and sent Huo Yun and Huo Yu toward Oscar.
• Tang San and Huo Wu remained still as the opening clash began, with Tang San waiting to act at the crucial moment Yu Xiaogang had chosen.

Shrek Academy fought Blazing Fire Academy, whose support-control tactics and Huo Wu's Resisting Fire Ring disrupted Shrek's formation and left Dai Mubai surrounded. The chapter ended with four Blazing Fire Academy fighters closing in on Dai Mubai as Tang San lay burned black and gray.

• Dai Mubai and Huo Wushuang clashed head-on while Tailong and Huang Yuan attacked the Fire Leopard Spirit Master, who received a concentrated burst of support and countered.
• Dai Mubai lured Huo Wushuang into a triangular encirclement with Tailong and Huang Yuan, then activated White Tiger Vajra Transformation.
• Huo Wu used her third spirit skill, Resisting Fire Ring, to blast Dai Mubai, Huang Yuan, Tailong, Jing Ling, and Ma Hongjun away and break Shrek's formation.
• The fire ring left Tang San behind, but its residual force burned him black and gray.
• Huo Wushuang, two Agility Attack Type Spirit Masters, and another Assault System Spirit Master rushed Dai Mubai from four directions, revealing Blazing Fire Academy's trap.

Dai Mubai faced a coordinated attack from four Blazing Fire Academy fighters but concealed his full strength and broke through their formation. He sent the Fire Leopard Spirit Master flying into his teammates’ attack, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Blazing Fire Academy’s Support System Spirit Masters enhanced the attacks of four fighters targeting Dai Mubai.
• Dai Mubai noticed Huo Wu’s smug expression and chose to charge through the Fire Leopard Spirit Master’s concentrated Seven Star Bullets.
• Dai Mubai used precise movements to pass through the bullets without being hit.
• The Fire Leopard Spirit Master turned his bullets back toward Dai Mubai and tried to stop him with Fire Howl.
• Dai Mubai rammed the Fire Leopard Spirit Master from behind and sent him flying, forcing his teammates to redirect their attacks to avoid hitting him.

Dai Mubai and the Shrek Team turned the battle against Blazing Fire Academy, but Huo Wu used the support of two teammates to prepare a powerful fourth spirit skill aimed at Dai Mubai. As Huo Wu’s Huo Wu Blazing Sun locked onto him, Dai Mubai smiled, ready to reveal what he had been concealing.

• Dai Mubai used a technique taught by Gu Xuan to turn the Fire Leopard Spirit Master's attack against him and leave Blazing Fire Academy's attackers weakened.
• Huo Wu used her Resisting Fire Ring to blast the Shrek Team away and give her teammates time to regroup.
• Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, and Salas recognized that Dai Mubai's footwork was a technique rather than a spirit bone ability, while Xue Ye watched Shrek with approval.
• Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu signaled each other, and Blazing Fire Academy's two Support System Spirit Masters channeled their third spirit skills into Huo Wu.
• Huo Wu combined their support with her fourth spirit skill, Huo Wu Blazing Sun, forming a blazing white fireball that locked onto Dai Mubai.
• Dai Mubai smiled as the Shrek Team grew anxious, knowing he no longer needed to conceal his power.

Dai Mubai lured Blazing Fire Academy into believing its fire attacks countered him, then survived Huo Wu’s fourth soul skill with Ma Hongjun’s Phoenix Evil Fire. Blazing Fire Academy conceded, giving Shrek Team victory over its second Five Element Academy.

• Dai Mubai signaled Shrek Team to hold position and advanced alone toward Blazing Fire Academy’s seven members.
• Huo Wu unleashed her fourth soul skill, a blazing attack that locked onto Dai Mubai and engulfed him.
• Dai Mubai emerged unharmed behind a barrier of Ma Hongjun’s Phoenix Evil Fire, revealing that it absorbed and suppressed the opponents’ flames.
• Dai Mubai explained that he had baited Blazing Fire Academy into wasting its Soul Power and misjudging Shrek Team’s abilities.
• Huo Wu conceded the match, and Shrek Team defeated Blazing Fire Academy.

Shrek Team defeated Blazing Fire Academy, cementing their status as the Qualifying Rounds’ strongest contenders and leaving Tang San stunned that he had barely participated. Afterward, Huo Wu challenged Feng Xiaotian to defeat Shrek Team if he wanted to date her.

• Shrek Team defeated Blazing Fire Academy without suffering injuries, while Tang San worried about facing Yu Xiaogang after failing to contribute.
• The teams returned to the Rest Area, where Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu acknowledged that the fatty’s flames had countered Blazing Fire Academy too effectively.
• Feng Xiaotian told Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu that Godwind Academy’s attributes might let them defeat Shrek Team.
• Huo Wu asked Feng Xiaotian whether he wanted to date her, and he admitted that he had always liked her.
• Huo Wu promised to date Feng Xiaotian if he defeated Shrek Team, then left with Huo Wushuang.

After Shrek Academy’s victory over Blazing Fire Academy, Huo Wu left in humiliation and promised to date Feng Xiaotian if he defeated Dai Mubai. The next day, Shrek faced Canghui Academy with all five substitutes in the lineup, and the match stalled after both sides released their martial spirits.

• Huo Wu stormed away after losing, while Huo Wushuang followed her and Feng Xiaotian realized she had offered him a chance to date her if he defeated Dai Mubai.
• Feng Xiaotian excitedly vowed to prove himself worthy of Huo Wu.
• Shrek Academy returned to the competition and faced Canghui Academy as its twelfth opponent.
• Flender selected all five substitutes to compete, with Oscar and Dai Mubai joining them and Dai Mubai ordered not to act unless necessary.
• The commentator predicted Shrek’s victory, angering Canghui Academy, whose captain was its only Soul Ancestor and had a white first soul ring.
• Both teams released their martial spirits, but while the other matches began fighting, Shrek and Canghui stood facing each other without attacking.

Shrek Academy and Canghui Academy faced off as Canghui revealed its seven gem Martial Souls and began a powerful combined technique. With Tang San commanding Shrek, the chapter ended as Canghui's fighters disappeared inside a towering pillar of light.

• Tang San took command of Shrek Academy's team while Dai Mubai stayed out of the match.
• Canghui Academy's captain moved to the center of a practiced formation as the other six members expanded it in unison.
• The seven Canghui fighters revealed their rare, differently colored gem Martial Souls.
• Canghui's captain raised his fourth spirit ring while the other six activated their third spirit rings, combining their powers into a huge seven-colored pillar that hid them from view.
• Xue Ye wondered whether the display was a Seven-in-One Spirit Ability Fusion Technique, and Ning Fengzhi judged that it was a different but powerful fusion skill.

Canghui Academy unleashed a dazzling Seven Asura Illusion that swallowed Shrek Academy’s team, while spectators mistook it for the legendary Seven-in-One Spirit Ability Fusion Technique. Yu Xiaogang dismissed it as a lesser fusion technique and stopped Liu Erlong from rushing onto the arena, leaving Shrek’s team trapped inside the illusion.

• Ning Fengzhi observed Canghui Academy’s seven Control System Spirit Masters and suspected their compatible martial souls had enabled a group technique.
• Canghui Academy activated the Seven Asura Illusion, enveloping the arena and swallowing Shrek Academy’s team as Tang San’s teammates kept to his instructions.
• Dai Mubai prepared to act while the audience, commentators, and other academies watched in stunned silence.
• Yu Xiaogang hurried down from the stands, ready to surrender, and Liu Erlong followed him in alarm.
• Liu Erlong urged Yu Xiaogang to forfeit and rescue the students, but he restrained her and said Canghui Academy had only used a Seven-in-One Fusion Technique.
• Liu Erlong questioned whether a Seven-in-One Fusion Technique was different from the legendary Seven-in-One Spirit Ability Fusion Technique.

Yu Xiaogang assured Liu Erlong that Tang San and the Shrek Academy Team could withstand Canghui Academy’s Seven-in-One Fusion Technique. Tang San struck back with Purple Demon Eyes, breaking the Seven Asura Illusion and leaving both teams incapacitated as the match ended in chaos.

• Yu Xiaogang explained that Canghui Academy’s seven Control System Spirit Masters relied on mental control, and he confidently told Liu Erlong that Tang San’s team could endure their fusion technique.
• Canghui Academy trapped Tang San and the other Shrek Academy members in the Seven Asura Illusion and taunted them over their past humiliation.
• Tang San mocked his opponents, unleashed Purple Demon Eyes, and collapsed after blood poured from his eyes, mouth, and nose.
• The seven-colored light vanished, leaving Dai Mubai standing while the other Shrek Academy members and all seven Canghui Academy members fell to the arena floor.
• Senior experts judged Canghui Academy’s condition to be Spirit Ability Backlash, and the referee announced the result amid the crowd’s uproar.

Tang San and the seven Canghui Academy contestants suffered severe injuries after Shrek Academy won their match, prompting a joint investigation. Back at the academy, Liu Erlong told the six other Shrek participants to hide and coached Tang San to claim he knew nothing about the victory.

• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that he could not see, and Yu Xiaogang panicked when he saw blood at the corners of Tang San's eyes.
• Canghui Academy reported that its seven contestants had become unable to think, while Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall formed an investigation team and sent Healing System Soul Masters to treat both teams.
• Liu Erlong ordered the six Shrek students who had competed to go into guarded seclusion before investigators arrived.
• Tang San woke and said his left eye could vaguely see, but his right eye remained blind.
• Liu Erlong instructed Tang San to tell investigators that he did not know how Shrek had broken the fusion technique, while Yu Xiaogang objected that she was playing dirty.

Salas and Ning Fengzhi led an investigation into Canghui Academy’s seven contestants becoming idiots, while Salas hoped to use the case to eliminate Yu Xiaogang and expel Shrek Academy from the tournament. Liu Erlong hosted the investigators and explained the academy’s poverty, leaving Salas visibly furious over the terrible tea.

• Tang San agreed to answer questions by claiming he did not know anything.
• Salas and Ning Fengzhi arrived at Shrek Academy with their attendants to investigate the incident at Canghui Academy.
• Salas intended to use the investigation to target Yu Xiaogang and remove Shrek Academy from the tournament, while Ning Fengzhi’s presence threatened to thwart his plan.
• Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang welcomed the investigators and led them to a conference room.
• Salas disliked the poor tea, and Liu Erlong explained that Shrek Academy spent its funds on training students and could afford little else.

Salas confronted Liu Erlong over the injuries to Canghui Academy’s team and demanded that Shrek Academy’s competitors be questioned. Liu Erlong refused, challenged the committee to disqualify Shrek, and threatened to appeal to the Pope, leaving Salas poised to act against the academy.

• Salas accused Shrek Academy’s students of turning all seven Canghui Academy competitors into idiots and demanded an investigation.
• Liu Erlong claimed Shrek’s team had also been badly injured and refused to let its students be questioned while they received treatment.
• Ning Fengzhi urged Salas to consider the students’ injuries and asked Liu Erlong whether a less-injured student could testify.
• Liu Erlong insisted Shrek had only defended itself against Canghui Academy’s Seven-in-One Spirit Ability Fusion Technique and said she would appeal to the Pope if the academy were disqualified.
• Salas’s Temple Knights and red-robed cardinals prepared to act as he accused Shrek of refusing the committee’s investigation and told Liu Erlong to go appeal immediately.

Yu Xiaogang used a Pope’s Token to stop Salas from expelling Shrek Academy and demanding an investigation into the injured students. Salas backed down and left, conceding that the investigation would be dropped.

• As Salas began announcing Shrek Academy’s punishment, Yu Xiaogang warned him and threw him an object.
• A Temple Knight tried to intercept the object, but Salas stopped the attack and ordered the Temple Knights out.
• Salas recognized the object as a Pope’s Token and respectfully returned it to Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Salas to delay any investigation until Shrek Academy’s injured students recovered and received fair treatment.
• Salas apologized, abandoned the investigation, and left with his people.

Yu Xiaogang used the Pope's Token to make Salas back away from investigating Shrek Academy, then told Liu Erlong that Tang San's father had given it to him. Shrek rested by forfeiting two matches, returned to winning, and faced Skywater Academy in the final Qualifying Round match with third place at stake.

• Liu Erlong persuaded Salas to accept that Canghui Academy's students had suffered Spirit Ability Backlash, and Yu Xiaogang assured him the tournament was fair.
• After Salas and Ning Fengzhi left, Liu Erlong confronted Yu Xiaogang about his connection to the woman who gave him the Pope's Token, and he said Tang San's father had given it to him, identifying him as Haotian.
• Shrek Academy forfeited its next two matches to let its students rest, ending its undefeated streak and frustrating Feng Xiaotian's hopes of impressing Huo Wu.
• Shrek resumed competing and kept winning as the twenty-seven-round Qualifying Rounds neared their end, with Thunder Academy, Godwind Academy, Shrek Academy, Blazing Fire Academy, and Skywater Academy set to advance.
• Shrek Academy prepared to face Skywater Academy in the final round, with third place depending on the result.

Shrek Academy prepared to face Skywater Academy in the final round of the Qualifying Rounds as Feng Xiaotian warned them that Spirit Hall’s team was formidable. The chapter left Shrek’s members wary of their future opponents and introduced the all-female Skywater Academy team.

• Shrek Academy chose Dai Mubai, Xiao Wu, Ma Hongjun, Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar, Tailong, and Huang Yuan to face Skywater Academy, while Gu Xuan and Ning Rongrong stayed on the bench.
• Feng Xiaotian visited Shrek Academy to encourage them, hoping they would reach the Grand Finals so he could meet them and pursue Huo Wu.
• Dai Mubai questioned Feng Xiaotian about Spirit Hall, and Feng Xiaotian said his team had little hope of defeating its representatives before leaving.
• Dai Mubai concluded that Spirit Hall’s team must be exceptionally strong, and Shrek’s members grew more concerned about the Grand Finals.
• Skywater Academy’s female students watched Dai Mubai, and one girl admired him as the team prepared to face Shrek.

Skywater Academy captain Shui Bing'er prepared to face Shrek Academy in the final Qualifying Round match, while her teammate Shui Yue'er openly showed interest in Dai Mubai. The teams introduced themselves and took their battle formations as the match was about to begin.

• Shui Bing'er warned Skywater Academy that Shrek had not lost a match and urged her teammates to fight at full strength.
• Shrek Academy and Skywater Academy entered the arena as the host presented their match as the day's main event.
• Shui Bing'er frowned when she saw Shrek's familiar lineup without its rumored powerful captain.
• Dai Mubai and Shui Bing'er exchanged their names, levels, and spirit master roles, while Shui Yue'er introduced herself and openly admired Dai Mubai.
• The referee ordered both teams to release their martial souls, and the teams formed their battle lines.