Chapter Summaries

Xu Tianxi rejected Xu Tianran’s attempt to recruit him and left with the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s geniuses, while Xu Tianran agreed to accompany Liao Mengkai to the Xi Shui Alliance headquarters. Xu Tianxi then reached the besieged underground base, where Jing Hongchen and Ye Yulin awaited his report before beginning the assault.

• Xu Tianxi told Xu Tianran that he would not take part in the princes’ struggle and left with his followers atop the Silver Moon Wolf King.
• Xu Tianran warned Lin Jiayi that the Royal Academy’s talents should serve the Empire, but Lin Jiayi deferred the matter to Jing Hongchen and departed.
• Xu Tianran asked Liao Mengkai to take him to the Xi Shui Alliance headquarters, and Liao agreed while insisting he was only a soldier.
• Xu Tianran privately resented Kong Tianxi’s influence and questioned why the Hall of Worship had allowed him to gather so many followers.
• Xu Tianxi told Lin Jiayi he had no intention of standing with Xu Tianran and would not waste time dealing with him.
• Xu Tianxi arrived at the underground encirclement, where Jing Hongchen and Ye Yulin asked how things had gone before launching the general attack.

After reporting the destruction of a Xi Shui Alliance branch, Xu Tianxi proposed using seized resources to fund the fight against Evil Soul Masters and outlined a plan for an official Sun Moon Empire force called the Ming Soul Guard. Ye Yulin set aside the proposal to confront the remaining Xi Shui Alliance leaders.

• Xu Tianxi reported that his group had wiped out a Xi Shui Alliance branch, killing four Evil Soul Saints and capturing its supplies.
• Xu Tianxi argued that the spoils should cover his group's labor and medical costs, noting that the Xi Shui Alliance's wealth exceeded one hundred million Gold Soul Coins.
• Xu Tianxi criticized the practice of labeling children Evil Soul Masters based on their Martial Souls and argued that judgment should depend on their actions.
• Xu Tianxi proposed creating the official Ming Soul Guard to combat Evil Soul Masters, with powerful Soul Engineers leading operations and younger members gaining experience.
• Ye Yulin raised the matter of the Xi Shui Alliance encirclement and challenged Nangong Wan and Netherworld Douluo to surrender or face execution.

The Sun Moon Empire’s forces trapped Nangong Wan and the Netherworld Douluo in Mingdu, then used a coordinated ambush to kill Nangong Wan and overwhelm the Netherworld Douluo. The Netherworld Douluo was still fighting as more attackers joined the battle.

• Ye Yulin, Jing Hongchen, and Xu Tianxi confronted Nangong Wan and the Netherworld Douluo, who threatened to use a Level 9 Fixed Soul Cannon Shell if forced into a corner.
• Xu Tianxi coordinated secretly with Liao Mengkai and another ally while Xu Tianran distracted the two Evil Soul Masters with an offer to negotiate.
• Xu Tianxi’s illusion created an opening for Liao Mengkai to strike Nangong Wan with the Ninth Level Devil God Blade, killing him with a single attack.
• The Netherworld Douluo defended himself against Liao Mengkai and then used Netherworld Ten Thousand Swords to block Xu Tianxi’s Cold Moon Gaze.
• A female attacker unleashed the Eighth Soul Skill, Moon Radiance, while Ye Yulin and Jing Hongchen sent Soul Engineers and concentrated Soul Guidance Rays against the Netherworld Douluo.

Zhang Lexuan and Xu Tianxi helped the Soul Engineers slaughter the Evil Soul Masters at the Xi Shui Alliance headquarters, then fought the Netherworld Douluo together. As Xu Tianxi moved to finish the fallen Douluo, Zhang Lexuan worried that his plans to restore the Spirit Hall would make him destroy Shrek.

• Zhang Lexuan's Moonlight Soul Skill and the Soul Engineers' attacks killed more than three hundred Evil Soul Masters, including two Soul Douluo.
• Zhang Lexuan used Blood Moon Eclipse against the Netherworld Douluo, while Xu Tianxi amplified her attack with his Moon Martial Soul.
• The Netherworld Douluo's swords shattered, but his sword qi wounded Zhang Lexuan and left her without strength; Xu Tianxi caught her with a net-shaped Soul Tool.
• Zhang Lexuan told Xu Tianxi that she had chosen both of Kong Deming's options: killing Evil Soul Masters and secretly protecting him.
• Xu Tianxi charged the fallen Netherworld Douluo with Soul Tools, while Zhang Lexuan wondered how she could save Shrek from his ambitions.

After the battle, Xu Tianxi killed the surviving Netherworld Douluo and let Yu Mengdi and Ye Guyi absorb his remaining power, helping Yu Mengdi reach Soul Emperor while urging Ye Guyi to strengthen herself. The battlefield was cleared, and Meng Hongchen invited Xu Tianxi to study a rare metal with her.

• Xu Tianxi found the badly wounded Netherworld Douluo in the crater and killed him with the Level 9 Devil God Blade.
• Xu Tianxi called Ye Guyi and Yu Mengdi to absorb the Titled Douluo’s remaining Soul Power, but Ye Guyi hesitated because she had already absorbed a great deal.
• Yu Mengdi absorbed the Netherworld Douluo’s power and broke through to Level 60, while Xu Tianxi teased Ye Guyi into joining the effort.
• Ye Guyi drove her Holy Sword into the Netherworld Douluo and resolved to cultivate until she reached the Soul Sage realm within two years.
• Electrolux observed that the Holy Unicorn had grown stronger and said he had an idea for helping Soul Spirits and Soul Masters improve together.
• After Xu Tianxi froze the remains for storage, Meng Hongchen showed him Magic-Patterned Moonmirror Stone and invited him to study it with her.

Xu Tianxi accepted Meng Hongchen’s invitation to study forging and promised to take her to the Far North Land to seek a suitable Soul Spirit. After Xiao Hongchen and Xu Sanshi teased him about Meng’s affection, Xiao told him that a Shrek Academy delegation was on its way to negotiate, leaving Xu to decide whether to watch its arrival.

• Xu Tianxi accepted Meng Hongchen’s invitation and offered to accompany her to the Far North Land to find a suitable Soul Spirit.
• Meng Hongchen agreed to go and asked Xu Tianxi about the Soul Rings a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast could provide and how she might prepare to absorb one.
• Meng Hongchen left to find Jing Hongchen, while Xu Tianxi reflected on her enthusiasm and his planned marriage to the Star Luo Royal Family.
• Xiao Hongchen and Xu Sanshi teased Xu Tianxi about Meng Hongchen, and Xu turned the teasing back on Xiao by offering to find him a bride.
• Xiao Hongchen told Xu Tianxi that a Shrek Academy delegation and representatives of other factions would arrive within a few days to negotiate.

Ning Tian explained why the empires and allied sects were supporting Shrek’s rescue effort and revealed the negotiators’ ransom priorities. Xu Tianxi then suggested a way for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to gain combat ability, but left Ning Tian waiting for the rest of his explanation.

• Xu Tianxi asked Ning Tian about the Shrek rescue envoy, and she explained that her sect had sent people partly to support Shrek and explore Soul Tool cooperation.
• Ning Tian described the empires’ positions: Heaven Dou strongly supported Shrek, Dou Ling needed Shrek’s influence, and Star Luo sent few senior officials while calling for calm negotiations.
• Ning Tian revealed that the proposed ransom prioritized Qian Duoduo, Lin Huiqun, Zhang Lexuan, and Xiao Xiao, while Shrek expected her, Wu Feng, and Hu Yanbashan to be ransomed by their own groups.
• Xu Tianxi said Xiao Xiao would not be easy to take away and discussed whether she could benefit from the group’s newly developed goods, prompting Ning Tian to ask what they were.
• Xu Tianxi advised Ning Tian to have her family capture a powerful soul beast for her fifth ring, claiming it could let her lineage’s auxiliary Soul Masters gain combat ability.
• Xu Tianxi began to explain his proposal but deliberately stopped mid-sentence, leaving Ning Tian frustrated.

Xu Tianxi revealed the Soul Spirit contract to Ning Tian, who saw that it could solve her sect’s lack of combat power and began considering an alliance with the Sun Moon Empire. The chapter ended with Meng Hongchen catching Xu Tianxi and the others and asking when they would leave for the Far North Land.

• Ning Tian offered Xu Tianxi three million Gold Soul Coins as an advance payment and promised to keep the Soul Spirit secret.
• Xu Tianxi explained that a Soul Master could form an Equal Contract with a soul beast, which would become a Soul Spirit capable of fighting using the Soul Master’s Soul Power.
• Ning Tian realized Soul Spirits could give Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Soul Masters combat power and considered asking her sect to obtain powerful soul beasts.
• Xu Tianxi warned Ning Tian that the technology remained classified, and Ning Tian suggested moving to the Sun Moon Empire while admitting she could only try to influence her father and the sect.
• Ning Tian wondered whether Xu Sanshi and the Xuanming Sect might align with the Sun Moon Empire, then concluded that her sect could not afford to oppose it.
• Meng Hongchen caught Xu Tianxi, Xiao Hongchen, and Xu Sanshi and asked when they would leave for the Far North Land.

Xu Tianxi and the Hongchen Siblings learned that the Sun Moon Emperor would reward them for winning the Tournament and defeating Shrek and the Xi Shui Alliance. Xu Tianxi accepted the title of Marquis Yue, though he was dismayed to learn that the ceremony would parade the victors through Mingdu City and wait for Shrek's arrival.

• Xu Tianxi stopped Meng Hongchen from absorbing a Forty-Thousand-Year Soul Bone, urging her to save the right-arm slot for a stronger one from the Far North Land.
• Ye Yulin and Eunuch Wang arrived to celebrate the team’s victory and announce the emperor’s plans to confer noble titles.
• Eunuch Wang told Xu Tianxi that he would receive a hereditary marquis title, while the participating students would become barons and Ma Rulong and the Hongchen Siblings would become viscounts.
• Xiao Hongchen asked to give his title to Meng Hongchen so she could become an earl, but Meng Hongchen stopped him and asked what title Xu Tianxi would receive.
• Xu Tianxi agreed to the single-character title Marquis Yue after hearing that the ceremony would be a grand parade through Mingdu City, timed to ensure the other empires learned of it.

Xu Tianxi accepted his marquisate and visited the Worship Hall, where Yu Mengdi gained Luan Feng as a mentor and was paired with a powerful soul beast. As Shrek’s negotiation delegation approached, news arrived that it included Heaven Dou royalty, Body Sect masters, and Clear Sky Sect Titled Douluo.

• Eunuch Wang presented Xu Tianxi with his marquisate privileges and Honorary War Emblem, while the Hongchen Siblings received emblems as well.
• Ye Yulin told Xu Tianxi that Zhang Lexuan had volunteered to join the Ming Soul Guard and protect him when he fought Evil Soul Masters.
• Xu Tianxi asked Ye Yulin to help Yu Mengdi obtain a sacred-attribute soul beast, and Ye Yulin agreed to introduce her to other senior soul engineers.
• Xu Tianxi, Yu Mengdi, and the Hongchen Siblings visited the Worship Hall, where Luan Feng accepted Yu Mengdi as her disciple and invited Meng Hongchen to train with the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Legion.
• Xu Tianxi and Xiao Hongchen visited Xu Sanshi in the hospital after Ji Juechen defeated him in a sparring match.
• After Xu Tianxi contracted Yu Mengdi with the sixty-thousand-year Holy Light Griffin King, he learned that Shrek’s negotiation team was arriving with Heaven Dou royalty, Body Sect masters, and Clear Sky Sect Titled Douluo.

The Shrek and Three Great Empires’ People-Recovery Delegations arrived in Mingdu and were met with hostility from Jing Hongchen as the Sun Moon Empire celebrated its tournament victory. The chapter ended with Xu Tianxi appearing before the crowd as Marquis Yue, drawing startled reactions from the Shrek delegation.

• Wei Na, Mu Xue, Lang Ya, and Huo Yuhao flew to Mingdu, where Lang Ya encouraged Huo Yuhao to study Soul Tools with the Heavenly Soul Empire’s masters.
• Jing Hongchen, Wang Yiheng, Liao Mengkai, and Xu Tianran received the delegations, and Jing Hongchen clashed with a Guardian Douluo over Shrek’s status.
• Prince Xue Yu intervened, and the Sun Moon representatives announced that the tournament champions would receive noble titles at a public celebration.
• Jing Hongchen brought the delegations to watch the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s victory parade, where Ma Rulong, Lin Xi, and the other team members rode out to cheering crowds.
• Xu Tianxi appeared in moon-white robes atop a Silver Moon Fierce Wolf, and the Shrek delegation reacted with surprise when they saw his face.

At the Sun Moon Empire’s title-conferring ceremony, Shrek’s delegation confronted Xu Tianxi, while representatives of the Body Sect and Clear Sky Sect discussed opposing the empire. Lang Ya then recognized Xu Sanshi among the Sun Moon Empire’s guests, prompting Wei Na to approach Xu Tianxi for a conversation.

• Yan Shaozhe and Xian Liner watched Xu Tianxi pass through Mingdu City, and Xian Liner accused him of trying to kill Xiaotao.
• Jing Hongchen dismissed Shrek’s anger as Xu Tianxi and the other students received titles at the ceremony.
• Wei Na and Mu Xue planned to travel to the Far North Land to hunt soul beasts after their visit.
• The Clear Sky Sect’s Fourth and Fifth Elders considered assassinating Xu Tianran but decided against acting rashly, while Lang Ya mistakenly took their comments as an offer of cooperation.
• Lang Ya recognized Xu Sanshi with the Sun Moon Empire’s guests and warned Wei Na, who approached Xu Tianxi to ask him for guidance.

Wei Na visited Xu Sanshi to learn why he was in the Sun Moon Empire, then spoke with Xu Tianxi about local affairs and Soul Tools. Prince Xue Yu hurried Wei Na and Mu Xue away after Meng Hongchen interrupted, reminding Wei Na that she had a fiancé.

• Xu Tianxi told Wei Na that Xu Sanshi had traveled to save the woman he loved and invited her to speak with him.
• Xu Sanshi explained that he had come to help Jiang Nannan, while Xiao Hongchen confirmed his injuries had not healed.
• Xu Tianxi assured Wei Na that Xu Sanshi had been free to come and go, then discussed history and Soul Tools with Wei Na and Mu Xue.
• Meng Hongchen arrived and demanded tuition for Xu Tianxi's guidance, while Prince Xue Yu left a Gold Soul Card and quickly escorted the two women away.
• Prince Xue Yu privately reminded Wei Na not to forget that she had a fiancé.

Prince Xue Yu learned that Wei Na and Mu Xue admired Marquis Yue’s expertise and considered how the Sun Moon Empire might use ties with the Three Great Empires to advance its Soul Tool technology. As Shrek’s ties to the Holy Spirit Cult further alienated the Heavenly Soul Empire, Xu Tianxi reflected on the political fallout before Ye Yulin asked him about his conversation with the women.

• Wei Na and Mu Xue praised Marquis Yue’s knowledge, and Prince Xue Yu learned that Xu Sanshi had come to the Sun Moon Empire to rescue Jiang Nannan.
• Wei Na explained that Marquis Yue had befriended Xu Sanshi and could gain support from powerful experts and future Super Douluo through his relationships with the Three Great Empires.
• Prince Xue Yu and Wei Na discussed limiting Shrek’s influence and supporting Dio Academy, while Prince Xue Yu warned Wei Na not to forget her engagement to Long Aotian.
• A Guardian Douluo summoned Prince Xue Yu to discuss the negotiations, and Prince Xue Yu became angry when he saw Heaven Dou and Dou Ling Titled Douluo enthusiastically surrounding Yan Shaozhe.
• Wei Na considered asking the Body Sect to join Dio Academy for the Mingdu Tournament, while Xu Tianxi reflected on Xuan Zi’s ties to the Holy Spirit Cult and Shrek’s worsening relations with the Heavenly Soul Empire.
• Ye Yulin joined Xu Tianxi and asked how his conversation with Wei Na and Mu Xue had gone, and Xu Tianxi urged him to discuss business.

Xu Tianxi warned Ye Yulin about Wei Na and the negotiations, then persuaded him to push Kong Deming toward becoming a Super Douluo. He left a Clone behind and returned to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy to help the Golden Hawksbill.

• Xu Tianxi told Ye Yulin that Wei Na had a Mental Attribute Body Martial Soul, Twin Martial Souls, and a likely inherited Snow Lotus Martial Soul, and warned him to protect the Old Emperor.
• Ye Yulin described the Empire's security and negotiation forces, while Xu Tianxi cautioned him that a Linked Soul Guided Array would not make them safe from Limit Douluo.
• Xu Tianxi urged Ye Yulin to encourage Kong Deming to complete the cultivation of his Second Martial Soul and break through to Super Douluo.
• Xu Tianxi created a Clone to remain with Ye Yulin and hurried to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Xu Tianxi discussed his plans to travel to the Far North with the Ice Empress and Snow Empress, then found the Golden Hawksbill in the Aquarium and offered to remove the Gold of Life from its belly.

Xu Tianxi freed the Golden Hawksbill from the Gold of Life and gained Ba Xin’s support for forming Soul Spirit contracts with her clan. Ba Xin then explained that Xu Tianxi’s Martial Soul still held dormant Destruction Qi and described three ways to awaken it.

• Xu Tianxi extracted the Golden Hawksbill’s Gold of Life, restored his vitality, and absorbed the crystal’s Golden Origin Power into his Black Tortoise Shield.
• The Golden Hawksbill told Ba Xin how he had found the Gold of Life beneath the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xu Tianxi proposed a Soul Spirit contract between one of his clan brothers and a Bixi, and Ba Xin agreed to trust his intentions after he promised not to harm her clan.
• Ba Xin noticed Xu Tianxi’s Martial Soul had not fully awakened and said it could be awakened by reaching Titled Douluo, absorbing a Destruction-attribute Soul Ring, or performing a special ritual with a talented, respectable woman.
• Xu Tianxi recognized the final method’s implications and questioned why he had sought the Golden Hawksbill if the ritual still required the same kind of procedure.

After Ba Xin advised Xu Tianxi that activating his bloodline could transform both his Martial Soul and a partner’s physique, he returned to the ennoblement banquet and arranged to take Xu Sanshi to sea for a Soul Spirit. Later, Xu Tianxi presented Kong Deming with the Gold of Life to help him break through, leaving Kong Deming startled as its Life Energy filled the Laboratory.

• Ba Xin explained that Xu Tianxi’s yin-yang union method could release his Martial Soul’s potential and might also transform a woman’s physique.
• Xu Tianxi left the Aquarium and returned to the banquet, where he reassured Xiao Hongchen and arranged for Xu Sanshi to accompany him to sea to find a top-tier ocean Soul Beast.
• After the banquet ended, Xu Tianxi followed Ye Yulin to the palace’s Worship Hall and met Kong Deming in the Laboratory.
• Xu Tianxi complained about the banquet’s social demands, and Kong Deming urged him to focus on studying Soul Tools.
• Xu Tianxi gave Kong Deming the Gold of Life and asked him to use it to break through to Super Douluo, releasing dense Life Energy throughout the Laboratory.

Xu Tian Xi prepared for a journey to the Far North with Kong Deming and Ye Yulin, then carried out Kong Deming’s order to execute Shrek captives. The chapter ended with Money Duoduo dead and Lin Huiqun facing the same decision.

• In the bathhouse, Xu Tian Xi asked Ye Yulin to teach him about Level 9 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells and told Kong Deming that the Snow Empress was already on their side.
• Kong Deming agreed to accompany Xu Tian Xi and Ye Yulin to the Far North after they dealt with the visitors from the Original Three Kingdoms.
• Kong Deming rejected Shrek’s demands for two people and ordered Money Duoduo and Lin Huiqun killed and their Soul Bones sent to Shrek.
• Xu Tian Xi entered the dungeon and killed the weakened Money Duoduo with the Level 9 Devil God Blade.
• Xu Tian Xi asked Ye Yulin whether he would kill Lin Huiqun or leave the task to him.

Xu Tianxi revealed his revenge against Shrek and killed Lin Huiqun after explaining that Xuan Zi was an Evil Soul Master who might reclaim the Sea God Pavilion Master position. As negotiations between Shrek and the Sun Moon Empire stalled, the Sun Moon side offered Lin Huiqun and Qian Duoduo’s corpses for six ten-thousand-year soul bones, leaving Yan Shaozhe and Xian Liner unconscious with grief and rage.

• Xu Tianxi told Lin Huiqun that his mother, Kong Xiyue, had died in the Star Dou Great Forest incident caused by Xuan Zi and that he sought revenge against Shrek and Yan Shaozhe.
• Xu Tianxi revealed that Xuan Zi was an Evil Soul Master mole who might return to claim the Sea God Pavilion Master position, then beheaded Lin Huiqun and extracted her soul bones while Ye Yulin collected Qian Duoduo’s.
• Xu Tianxi decided to give Lin Huiqun’s Hundred Thousand Year head soul bone to Ji Juechen and told Yu Mengdi to accept Luan Feng’s offer to train with the army.
• Xu Tianxi and his companions watched Ye Yulin and Yan Shaozhe trade insults during the negotiations, while Sun Moon Empire representatives refused to yield.
• On the seventh day, the Sun Moon Empire offered to return Lin Huiqun and Qian Duoduo’s corpses in exchange for six ten-thousand-year soul bones, and Yan Shaozhe and Xian Liner vomited blood and fainted after seeing them.

Ning Tian offered the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s surrender to the Sun Moon Empire, while Xu Tianxi and the senior leaders discussed its terms and the fate of Xu He. Xu Tianxi then brought Zhang Lexuan to Shrek’s imprisoned students and revealed that Qian Duoduo and Lin Huiqun had been killed, pressuring them to choose between surrender and death.

• Ning Tian asked Xu Tianxi whether her sect could gain benefits by surrendering, and Xu Tianxi promised to make inquiries in exchange for details about its strength.
• Xu Tianxi told Kong Deming and Ye Yulin that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had seven Titled Douluo, would relocate to Mingdu during the next Tournament, and wanted access to his spirit soul experiment.
• Kong Deming ordered Xu He kept under watch rather than killed, and the leaders discussed ending Shrek’s negotiations after Qian Duoduo and Lin Huiqun were killed.
• Xu Tianxi and Kong Deming brought Zhang Lexuan to the imprisoned Shrek students, where she tearfully told them that Qian Duoduo and Lin Huiqun were dead.
• Kong Deming admitted that he had ordered the captives’ deaths, and Xu Tianxi warned the students that surrender was their remaining chance to stay alive.