Chapter Summaries

Shrek’s battle plan to bring down Xu Tianxi failed when he pierced Bei Bei and used him to deflect Ma Xiaotao’s attack. Xu Tianxi overwhelmed Shrek’s fighters, leaving Ma Xiaotao alone against him as the match neared its end.

• Bei Bei restrained Xu Tianxi while Ma Xiaotao, Yu Yang, and Hu Yanbashan launched coordinated attacks, but Xu Tianxi broke free and impaled Bei Bei with his spear.
• Xu Tianxi hurled Bei Bei into Ma Xiaotao’s black phoenix attack, forcing her to redirect it before Shattered Star Douluo carried Bei Bei off the stage.
• Xu Tianxi knocked Ling Luochen into Ning Tian, sending both Shrek team members off the stage, while Ma Rulong and Xiao Hongchen defeated Yu Yang and Hu Yanbashan.
• Meng Hongchen poisoned Jiang Nannan and drove her from the fight, leaving Ma Xiaotao as Shrek’s only remaining fighter.
• Xu Tianxi taunted Ma Xiaotao about her defeated teammates and challenged her to fight alone.

Ma Xiaotao broke through Xu Tianxi’s Absolute Defense Soul Guided Device as the Sun Moon Battle Team prepared to kill her with powerful cannons. The planned execution triggered a massive battle across Star Luo Square, and black-clad Evil Soul Masters intervened to pull Ma Xiaotao away from the cannonfire.

• Xu Tianxi trapped Ma Xiaotao in a Rank 7 Absolute Defense Soul Guided Device while the Sun Moon Battle Team defeated the remaining Shrek competitors.
• Xu Tianxi secretly prepared the Heaven and Earth Opening Cannon and ordered Ma Rulong to charge a Super Energy-Gathering Soul Cannon, while Shrek’s allies prepared to intervene.
• Ma Xiaotao unleashed the full power of her Evil Fire Phoenix, cracked the barrier, and began transforming into a Dark Phoenix as Xu Tianxi finished charging his cannon.
• Xu Tianxi fired the Heaven and Earth Opening Cannon, blasting Shattered Star Douluo out of the arena, while Ma Rulong fired at Ma Xiaotao and Shrek’s powerhouses rushed to the stage.
• Xu Tianxi and Xiao Hongchen fired Rank 6 and Rank 7 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells at the Shrek forces, setting off explosions across Star Luo Square as Jing Hongchen and other Soul Engineers joined the fighting.
• Black-clad Evil Soul Masters arrived, and their leader used black Soul light to block the cannonfire and pull Ma Xiaotao away.

The Star Luo Empire, Xuanming Sect, and Body Sect joined forces against the Holy Spirit Cult after its Evil Soul Masters attacked the arena. As Xu Tianxi defied Crown Prince Xu Tianran’s order to stand aside, he fired a Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon toward Feng Ling’s battle.

• Zhongli Wu led the Holy Spirit Cult in attacking the spectators after Ma Xiaotao was rescued, and Emperor Xu Jiawei summoned Star Luo’s Guardian Douluo to defend the city.
• Xiao Changfeng and the Xuanming Sect arrived to fight the Evil Soul Masters, while Xu Jiawei used the Star Crown’s Star Shine Art to strengthen their allies.
• Golden Body Douluo Golden Roc led the Body Sect into battle, adding more powerful fighters to the coalition surrounding the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Xu Tianran urged Ye Yulin to attack Star Luo’s forces and support the Holy Spirit Cult, but Xu Tianxi opposed him and aimed his cannon at Feng Ling.
• Xu Tianxi ignored Xu Tianran’s order to stop and fired twelve Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon shots toward Feng Ling’s battlefield.

Xu Tianxi killed Ma Xiaotao amid the battle for Star Luo City, while Ye Xishui’s intervention was checked by Xu Xiaoyun. Xu Tianxi ended the chapter demanding that Cai Meier and Du Weilun surrender or die.

• Xu Tianxi fired twelve Level 7 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons at Feng Ling, and Ma Xiaotao fell from Feng Ling’s grasp amid the blast.
• Ye Xishui unleashed her power against Xu Tianxi and the others, but Xu Xiaoyun intervened and fought her in the sky above Star Luo City.
• Xu Tianxi pursued Ma Xiaotao and wounded her with repeated slashes as Cai Meier, Du Weilun, and Ye Yulin hurried to intervene.
• Ma Xiaotao’s Phoenix Explosive Strike failed to stop Xu Tianxi, who pierced her chest and then severed her head with his blade.
• Xu Tianxi pointed his bloodied blade at Cai Meier and Du Weilun and demanded that they surrender or die.

Xu Tianxi killed Ma Xiaotao, Du Weilun, and Cai Meier during the battle against Shrek and the Holy Spirit Cult, while Kong Deming slaughtered Shrek’s fighters elsewhere on the battlefield. As Xu Tianxi and Ye Yulin set out to collect more Soul Bones, Kong Deming arrived carrying Zhang Lexuan.

• Xu Tianxi attacked Du Weilun and Cai Meier after they refused to surrender, killing Du Weilun with a combined soul-ring and spiritual attack.
• Ye Yulin trapped Cai Meier while Xu Tianxi bombarded her with Fixed Soul Cannon Shells, and Kong Deming killed Shrek’s elite fighters across the battlefield.
• Xu Tianxi killed the badly wounded Cai Meier and vowed to send Yan Shaozhe after her and Du Weilun.
• Xu Tianxi and Ye Yulin collected six Soul Bones from Cai Meier and Du Weilun, then agreed to retrieve Ma Xiaotao’s Soul Bones as well.
• Kong Deming arrived carrying the despairing Zhang Lexuan and praised Xu Tianxi for killing three people in a row.

Xu Tianxi reunited with Zhang Lexuan after Shrek’s defeat, while the battle between the three great powers and the Holy Spirit Cult reached a stalemate. The Star Luo Hall of Worship Master sacrificed himself by detonating his Soul Core, leaving Xu Tianxi and the others fleeing the immense blast.

• Kong Deming confirmed that most of Shrek’s forces had been killed or captured, and Xu Tianxi recognized Zhang Lexuan as his aunt.
• Xu Tianxi explained that he had come to the Sun Moon Empire for revenge and said he would not kill Zhang Lexuan unless she stood in his way; Kong Deming then knocked her unconscious and stored her away.
• The Star Luo forces gained the advantage against the Holy Spirit Cult with support from Wang Xian’er and a Level Ninety-Seven Star Crown powerhouse.
• Ye Xishui demanded that Kong Deming help the Holy Spirit Cult, but he denied their alliance until Long Xiaoyao emerged and called for the battle to end.
• When negotiations failed, the Hall of Worship Master burned his life force, transformed his Soul Core into a Star Diamond, and detonated it toward Long Xiaoyao, Ye Xishui, and their allies.
• Kong Deming used a Silver Moon to carry Xu Tianxi and the others away as the Star Diamond exploded in the sky.

After the battle in Star Luo, Xu Tianxi and the others escaped the destruction, learned that the Holy Spirit Cult had suffered heavy losses, and assessed the immense casualties and Shrek’s defeat. Xu Tianxi broke through to level 50, while the Sun Moon Empire prepared to exploit its captured Shrek experts and newly acquired Soul Bones.

• Kong Deming reassured Xu Tianxi that the Holy Spirit Cult’s leaders had been badly injured and that the surviving Evil Soul Masters were fleeing rather than gathering vengeful souls.
• Kong Deming told Xu Tianxi that the Profound Nether Sect would have to leave Xuanming City and promised to arrange a new place for them to live.
• Meng Hongchen photographed the fading explosion with an Image Recording Soul Tool while Jing Hongchen discussed the future potential of Soul Tool technology with Kong Deming.
• Xu Tianxi recovered from the battle, broke through from level 49 to level 50, and considered searching the ruins for Ma Xiaotao’s Soul Bones.
• Xiao Hongchen told Xu Tianxi that the Tournament had ended, more than two hundred thousand people had died, and Shrek’s visiting experts had been wiped out.
• Xiao Hongchen said the Sun Moon Empire had obtained many Soul Bones, including a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, and was holding Shrek captives for a possible exchange.

Xu Tianxi organized a rescue effort in the devastated Star Luo Square, persuading Sun Moon Empire Soul Guidance Masters to produce and distribute Mental Detection Soul Tools. After rescuing more than a thousand people and several Zheng Tian Academy students, he learned that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had detected three fire-attribute Soul Bones nearby.

• Xu Tianxi asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to locate survivors and Soul Bones, then urged Ye Yulin to share Mental Detection Soul Tools with the rescue teams despite the risks to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Ye Yulin agreed, summoned Rank 9 Soul Guidance Masters, and worked with Jing Hongchen and the academy members to produce Detection Goggles while Meng Hongchen and others recorded the rescue effort.
• Xu Tianxi used his Soul Power and Xuanming Sect healing methods to save survivors throughout the day, with support from Meng Hongchen and supplies from the Xuanming Sect.
• Xu Tianxi and Meng Hongchen rescued Tang Xiaolei and Ye Wuqing, gave them supplies, and learned that Yu Mengdi and Yan'er were also trapped nearby.
• Xu Tianxi's group rescued Yu Mengdi and Yan'er, then Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sensed three fire-attribute Soul Bones and asked whether they belonged to the woman Xu Tianxi was seeking.

Xu Tianxi recovered from the rescue effort with the help of Faith Power, then continued saving people while Xu Jiawei assessed the disaster and praised the Sun Moon Empire’s aid. The chapter ended with Yan Shaozhe refusing to believe Xian Liner’s account of what had happened in Star Luo City.

• Xu Tianxi cultivated under the moonlight, and Electrolux helped him recover as Faith Power from the people he had saved strengthened him further.
• Xu Tianxi and his companions recovered soul bones from buried remains, then returned to rescuing people as Meng Hongchen, Ye Wuqing, and Yu Mengdi resolved to follow his example.
• Xu Jiawei ordered the Imperial family and officials to contribute to disaster relief, learned that Jiu Jiu had helped with rescues, and praised the Xuanming Sect and Xiao Changfeng for defending Star Luo City.
• Xu Jiawei learned that Sun Moon Soul Guidance Masters and Kong Tianxi were helping with rescue work and distributing Mental Detection Goggles, then summoned Jiu Jiu for an important discussion.
• Yan Shaozhe shouted that Xian Liner’s account of the events in Star Luo City was impossible.

After learning that Shrek's team had suffered heavy losses, the Sea God Pavilion elders decided to suspend the Supervision Group and focus on rescuing their captured allies. Seven days later, Jing Hongchen and Ye Yulin discussed smuggling and received an invitation from the Star Luo Emperor to a banquet honoring the Sun Moon Empire delegation.

• Xian Liner recounted how the Sun Moon Empire killed Xiaotao, Mei'er, and others, captured Lin Huiqun, Qian Duoduo, and Lexuan, and how Long Xiaoyao helped her and Bei Bei escape.
• Old Song knocked Xian Liner and Yan Shaozhe unconscious after they tried to leave and seek revenge, while the remaining elders grieved Shrek's losses.
• Old Song decided Shrek would temporarily stop sending out the Supervision Group and would work to rescue the captured elders and Lexuan.
• Seven days later, Xu Tianxi rested after helping with disaster relief, and Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, Ma Rulong, and the others joined him.
• Jing Hongchen told Ye Yulin that he had placed hidden tricks in the Detection Goggles and vowed to use evidence to expose the people smuggling Mingde Hall Soul Tools.
• Shattered Star Douluo arrived with the Star Luo Emperor's invitation to a banquet for the Sun Moon Empire delegation.

Xu Tianxi rejected Xu Tianran’s invitation and attended Xu Jiawei’s palace banquet with the Sun Moon Battle Team, where Star Luo’s royals thanked them for helping during the disaster. The gathering ended with Xu Jiujiu questioning whether Star Luo and Shrek had ever truly been allies.

• Xu Tianxi declined Xu Tianran’s invitation to the Eastern Palace and agreed to attend Xu Jiawei’s banquet for the Tournament honors and rewards.
• Xu Tianxi and the Sun Moon Battle Team entered the palace, where they greeted members of the other Tournament academies.
• Xu Jiawei personally welcomed Jing Hongchen and Ye Yulin alongside Xu Jiujiu and Dai Yueheng.
• Xu Jiujiu thanked Xu Tianxi and the Sun Moon Battle Team for helping Star Luo, while Dai Yueheng told Ma Rulong he had withdrawn from Shrek and would serve as his father’s guard.
• Xu Jiujiu assured Xu Tianxi that Star Luo would judge his disputes with Shrek fairly, then questioned Xiao Hongchen’s claim that Star Luo and Shrek were allies.

Xu Jiawei weighed the Star Luo Empire’s weakness against the Sun Moon Empire and decided to win over Xu Tianxi to preserve his family’s legacy. After the banquet’s matches, Xu Jiawei awarded the Sun Moon Battle Team first place and invited Xu Tianxi to see a special gift.

• Xu Jiujiu welcomed the Sun Moon Battle Team and announced that the three academies would hold one-on-one matches before receiving their rankings and awards.
• Xu Jiujiu warned Xu Tianxi that she sensed something was wrong, while he noticed Dai Yueheng cultivating ties with the Sun Moon team.
• In a secret chamber, Xu Jiawei told Xu Heng that he planned to gamble on Xu Tianxi and use the Star Crown Lineage’s inheritance treasure to secure the Xu family’s future.
• At the banquet, Ma Rulong defeated Dio Academy’s captain, Xiao Hongchen defeated Huang Heyun, and Xu Jiujiu beat Meng Hongchen’s poison strategy before Xu Jiawei declared their match a draw.
• Xu Jiawei announced the academy rankings, presented the championship prize to Xu Tianxi, and invited him to see a special thank-you gift.

Xu Tianxi received a powerful Star Crown baptism that strengthened his Moon Martial Soul, and Xu Jiawei discovered his true level and hidden Body Martial Soul. Xu Jiawei offered to help Xu Tianxi secure the Sun Moon throne in exchange for preserving the Xu Clan through a political marriage to Princess Jiu Jiu, sealing the proposal with the Star God Heavenly Pearl.

• Xu Jiawei brought Xu Tianxi to the Star Crown Lineage's cultivation ground, while Xu Heng escorted Jing Hongchen away from its secrets.
• Xu Tianxi underwent a baptism at the Star Altar, and his Moon Shadow absorbed starlight until it became clearer and more powerful.
• Xu Jiawei realized Xu Tianxi was only a Quasi Soul King with a mutated Eye Martial Soul, powerful Spiritual Power, and a completed Second Awakening.
• Xu Jiawei offered to help Xu Tianxi overcome obstacles to the Sun Moon throne, asking him to preserve the Xu Clan and marry Princess Jiu Jiu.
• Xu Jiawei presented the Star God Heavenly Pearl as Jiu Jiu's dowry, and Xu Tianxi accepted the arrangement, promising that the Star Crown Lineage's glory would endure.

Xu Jiawei arranged for Xu Jiujiu to go to the Sun Moon Empire and receive the Star God Heavenly Pearl’s final baptism, while Tang Ya decided to leave Shrek for Heaven Dou City to rebuild the Tang Sect. Xuan Zi set out to protect her, and Bei Bei asked Gong Changlong to accompany them.

• Xu Jiawei saw off the Sun Moon Battle Team and agreed with Jing Hongchen to arrange an exchange between the academies.
• Xu Jiawei told Xu Jiujiu he would support her journey to the Sun Moon Empire and give her the Star God Heavenly Pearl’s remaining baptism as he prepared to seek a breakthrough himself.
• Tang Ya told Bei Bei she would withdraw from Shrek and go to Heaven Dou City, explaining that she wanted to rebuild the Tang Sect and could no longer remain at the academy.
• Tang Ya left Shrek, and Xuan Zi volunteered to travel to Heaven Dou City to protect her and repay his debt to Mu En.
• Bei Bei failed to stop Xuan Zi from leaving, then called Gong Changlong, who agreed to accompany Xuan Zi and Tang Ya.

Xu Tianxi fused with the Dark Gold Terror Claw Soul Bone and entered the Jingyang Mountains with Ye Yulin to find a Silver Moon Wolf King for his Fifth Soul Ring and Soul Spirit experiments. After revealing his low cultivation level and unusual strength, he fought a wolf pack and sent the Silver Moon Wolf King crashing to the ground.

• Xu Tianxi fused with the Dark Gold Terror Claw Right Palm Bone aboard Jing Hongchen's aircraft, and Ye Yulin agreed to accompany him into the Jingyang Mountains.
• Xu Tianxi told Ye Yulin that he had been rank forty-nine during the competition and planned to capture a Silver Moon Wolf King with over fifty thousand years of cultivation.
• Xu Tianxi consulted Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Electrolux about finding a Silver Wolf Soul Beast and testing Soul Spirit contracts, while Electrolux warned him about the Star God Heavenly Pearl's unusual power.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm located a Silver Wolf Soul Beast with about ten thousand years of cultivation, and Xu Tianxi flew off to confront it and its Golden Wolf companions.
• Xu Tianxi defeated three ten-thousand-year Golden Wolf Kings, then used Dark Gold Terror Claw, Tyrant Tiger Slash to blast the Silver Moon Wolf King backward.

Xu Tianxi captured four wolf kings and discussed inheritable Soul Spirits, forging, and Soul Tool research with Ye Yulin as they traveled deeper into the Central Mountains. After three days, they found another pack of powerful wolves, and Xu Tianxi prepared to restrain them so Ye Yulin could capture them.

• Xu Tianxi defeated and captured the Silver Moon Wolf King and three Golden Wolf Kings, then led Ye Yulin toward the mountains’ depths.
• Xu Tianxi told Ye Yulin he hoped to develop inheritable Soul Spirits and asked about skilled blacksmiths; Ye Yulin pointed him toward Dragon Hammer in Mingde Hall.
• Ye Yulin invited Xu Tianxi to discuss Starry Sky Soul Tools, and the two explored ways to improve the Eye of Dread with a detection device.
• After three days of travel, Xu Tianxi sensed wolf Soul Beasts nearby, and Ye Yulin flew with him toward their location.
• Xu Tianxi asked Ye Yulin to set up a Soundproof Curtain while he used a special method to restrain the wolf pack.

Xu Tianxi and Ye Yulin captured the wolf pack with Xu Tianxi’s powerful mental technique, then returned to Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. There, they learned that Jing Hongchen had gone to confront Prince Xu Guozhong over Soul Tools trafficked from Mingde Hall, while Xu Sanshi arrived to help Xu Tianxi.

• Xu Tianxi immobilized the wolf pack with Mirror Flower Water Moon, allowing Ye Yulin to capture the Silver Moon Wolf King and the other wolves.
• After escaping with the captured soul beasts, Xu Tianxi explained the technique’s heavy Spiritual Power cost, and Ye Yulin promised him research funding and a laboratory.
• Xu Tianxi returned to the academy and found Xu Sanshi enrolled in the Practical Soul Tool Control Department after coming to help rescue Jiang Nannan.
• Xu Sanshi agreed to stay and help Xu Tianxi, who then asked Xiao Hongchen where Jing Hongchen had gone.
• Xiao Hongchen said Jing Hongchen had entered the imperial palace to confront Prince Xu Guozhong over Soul Tools trafficked from Mingde Hall, and Xu Tianxi and Ye Yulin recognized the prince as the culprit.

Jing Hongchen failed to secure Xu Guozhong’s death sentence after Xu Tianyuan and other imperial figures intervened, leaving the case to be revisited in three days. In Heaven Dou City, Tang Ya attacked the Ironblood Sect with increasingly dark powers, drawing the attention of Zhongli Wu’s Holy Cult, who recognized her as a potential Holy Maiden.

• Jing Hongchen told Ye Yulin, Xu Tianxi, and Xiao Hongchen that Xu Tianyuan had defended Xu Guozhong, and the emperor stripped Xu Guozhong of his position, ordered thirty strokes, and delayed further judgment for three days.
• Tang Ya struggled to rebuild the Tang Sect in Heaven Dou City as the Ironblood Sect pressured her and her hatred pushed her toward revenge.
• Tang Ya reached the Ironblood Sect, declared she had come to collect its debt, destroyed its plaques, and killed two disciples with dark Blue Silver Grass that consumed their blood energy.
• Xuan Zi watched Tang Ya’s attack while Gong Changlong judged her an Evil Soul Master and considered ending her relationship with Bei Bei.
• Zhongli Wu sensed Tang Ya’s growing aura, went with Zhang Peng to investigate, and identified her as a potential Holy Maiden for the Holy Cult.

Tang Ya massacred the Ironblood Sect as her mutated Blue Silver Grass devoured its members, while Zhongli Wu mistook Xuan Zi for a longtime Holy Spirit Cult spy and prepared to welcome him home. Zhongli Wu captured Gong Changlong and took Xuan Zi and Tang Ya toward Dou Ling, leaving Xuan Zi unconscious and unaware of the cultists’ misunderstanding.

• Tang Ya transformed into an Evil Soul Master and slaughtered Ironblood Sect disciples, rapidly growing stronger by devouring their Life Force.
• Zhongli Wu and Zhang Peng concluded that Xuan Zi had secretly served the Holy Spirit Cult for more than two hundred years and ordered their followers to welcome him as a Supreme Elder.
• Tang Ya killed Tie Tang and the Ironblood Sect’s elders, but Tie Li overpowered her and prepared to kill her before Xuan Zi intervened.
• Zhang Peng and other Evil Soul Masters subdued Tie Li and introduced themselves to Xuan Zi, who denied knowing them and insisted he was a genuine Shrek Person.
• Zhongli Wu defeated Gong Changlong, declared Xuan Zi the cult’s Taotie Supreme Elder, and knocked Xuan Zi and Tang Ya unconscious with mist.
• The Holy Spirit Cult’s followers carried Xuan Zi, Tang Ya, and Gong Changlong away toward Dou Ling.

After the Holy Spirit Cult fled to the Dou Ling Empire, Zhongli Wu convinced Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui that Xuan Zi had secretly served the cult for centuries. Ye Xishui corrupted Xuan Zi’s Taotie bloodline and began restoring his strength, while Xu Guozhong begged Xu Tianran to protect him from the consequences of his mistakes.

• Zhongli Wu brought the injured Xuan Zi to the Holy Spirit Cult’s refuge and claimed he had been a loyal infiltrator within Shrek for two hundred years.
• Long Xiaoyao named Xuan Zi the Holy Spirit Cult’s first Supreme Elder, and Ye Xishui took responsibility for healing him.
• Ye Xishui extracted Xuan Zi’s remaining Taotie Bloodline, corrupted his Martial Soul, and restored his power to the Soul Sage level.
• Long Xiaoyao contributed two drops of Black Dragon blood essence to Xuan Zi while worrying that his recovery would strengthen the cult.
• Xu Guozhong knelt before Xu Tianran and pleaded for help after being caught in a major mistake, offering his loyalty in exchange.