Chapter Summaries

Guang’s team defeated the Sun Moon Team, and his 100,000-year Azure-Eyed Light Dragon mount forced them to surrender. Later, Xu Jiawei received news that Dai Luoli had survived and now served Xu Yun, leaving Huo Yuhao’s younger brother connected to the Star Luo princess.

• Jing Ziyan and Xu Xin incapacitated Ma Rulong’s team with Bright Magic while Guang’s group survived the Hongchen siblings’ Martial Soul Fusion Skill behind Light’s Blessing.
• Guang revealed his 100,000-year Azure-Eyed Light Dragon mount and explained the Hall of Light God’s Equality Contract to the referees.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen surrendered and forfeited the next day’s individual matches after realizing Guang could fight at Titled Douluo level.
• The crowd cheered for the Hall of Light God, and Huo Yuhao’s Luck Value rose to 2.2 million as he considered letting the Hall win the competition.
• Xu Jiawei read a confidential report stating that Dai Luoli had disappeared after Dai Tao’s death and was later found by Xu Yun, who took him in as a servant.

Xu Jiawei ordered a marriage decree after learning that Dai Luoli was serving at the Princess's Residence, while Huo Yuhao learned his little brother was alive and rushed to celebrate. The chapter ended as two strange men arrived and Wang Yan asked who they were.

• Xu Jiawei recalled Huo Yuhao's blood-arrow attack and ordered an imperial marriage decree for the princess.
• Xiao Hongchen offered the Hall Master of Light the Level 8 Sword of Judgment, but the Hall Master refused it and had Azure-Eyed carry Xiao Hongchen away.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er woke up pretending to sleep until Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Huo Yuhao that someone connected to Dai Luoli had waited outside since the previous night.
• Huo Yuhao learned that his little brother was alive, then kissed Wang Dong'er and excitedly told Zhuge Lan the news.
• Two unusual men arrived, and Wang Yan asked them to identify themselves.

The Body Sect invited Zhuge Lan and Huo Yuhao to join, and both agreed to visit after the competition. Zhuge Lan then arranged for the Hall Master of Light to bring the Sword of Judgment to the arena, where the remaining teams prepared to compete.

• Lang Ya and Yu Tao mistook Zhuge Lan’s eyes for a Body Martial Soul and invited him to the Body Sect, and Zhuge Lan agreed to go with Huo Yuhao after the competition.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his Spirit Eyes, prompting Lang Ya to invite him too, and Huo Yuhao accepted after Zhuge Lan mentioned the benefits of a second awakening.
• Zhuge Lan noticed the Sword of Judgment in the Hall of Light’s courtyard and arranged for the Hall Master of Light to bring it along and frame Huo Yuhao for trying to steal it.
• The remaining four teams gathered in the contestants’ lounge as the crowd cheered, and Huo Yuhao realized Zhuge Lan had been turning off the Luck Value notifications before they could increase his balance.

Zhuge Lan and Ning Tian turned the opening match into a public demonstration of Chakra and Soul Spirits, then distributed opportunities to cultivate and join the Spirit Pagoda. The match itself had not begun when the chapter ended, as the audience scrambled for Ning Tian’s tokens.

• Zhuge Lan drew lots for the teams and persuaded the captains and Emperor Xu Jiawei to change the first Shrek Team versus Spirit Pagoda Team match into an individual elimination match.
• Before fighting Ning Tian, Zhuge Lan demonstrated Chakra and announced that he would leave powerful abilities to inheritors in the Sacred Fire Cult, earning a large amount of Luck Value.
• Ning Tian summoned Emperor Ice Penguin and offered one thousand Spirit Master slots to people with Mental Power attributes, prompting the crowd to bid for them.
• Ning Tian explained Soul Spirits and had Emperor Ice Penguin scatter one thousand ice crystals among the audience, while Xu Jiawei’s subordinates tried to restore order.

Zhuge Lan turned Ning Tian’s challenge into a rigged game of rock-paper-scissors, then conceded so Beibei could fight Wu Feng. Beibei defeated Wu Feng and publicly condensed a 100,000-year Sixth Soul Ring, leaving the audience watching a live demonstration of a Soul Spirit Bestowing Soul Ring.

• Zhuge Lan told Ning Tian what she would throw in rock-paper-scissors, won, and called for the next contestant.
• Zhuge Lan conceded as soon as Wu Feng took the stage, and Beibei stepped forward to fight her.
• Beibei and Wu Feng exchanged powerful attacks, but Beibei’s combined abilities overwhelmed Wu Feng and sent her past the arena boundary.
• Beibei explained that his attack had combined the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, the Bright Holy Dragon, a 100,000-year Soul Skill, and Elder Xuan’s King's Descent.
• Beibei sat down after the match and used his Soul Spirit to condense a 100,000-year Sixth Soul Ring in front of the audience.

Shrek defeated Spirit Pagoda in the semifinal, prompting Xu Jiawei to move the Ice God Temple versus Hall of Light God match to that afternoon. The two rival teams began their seven-versus-seven battle, with Hall of Light God gaining a powerful boost before Ling Luochen trapped its charging fighters in an ice maze.

• Beibei left the platform after condensing his sixth Soul Ring, and Tang Ya defeated Ning Yu with her Extreme Darkness and Extreme Poison abilities.
• Wang Dong'er beat Ning Zhou with her Soul Rings and Soul Tool, while Xiao Xiao and Ma Xiaotao displayed their formidable strength.
• Huo Yuhao's overwhelming abilities prompted Ning Huang to surrender, and Ning Tian withdrew Spirit Pagoda from the team battle, giving Shrek the semifinal victory.
• Xu Jiawei scheduled Ice God Temple versus Hall of Light God for that afternoon, and Hall Master of Light requested an immediate seven-versus-seven match.
• Wang Yuguo strengthened Hall of Light God with seven auras as its fighters charged, while Xu Sanshi and Jiang Nannan helped Ling Luochen create an icy mist and seal the attackers inside an Ice Maze.

Hall Master of Light broke Ling Luochen’s Ice Maze, turning the battle into a three-versus-four as the Ice God Temple team tried to protect its remaining support fighter. Xu Sanshi trapped Hall Master of Light and Ji Juechen in a swamp, but struggled to find a way to overcome Hall Master of Light’s defenses.

• Ling Luochen’s maze separated the opposing fighters, allowing Long Xiangyue and the Lan Susu sisters to trap Jing Ziyan, Xu Xin, and Wang Yuguo and force them off the platform.
• Hall Master of Light unleashed Element Annihilation Halo, destroying the Ice Maze and knocking several fighters down beside the eliminated trio.
• Ye Guyi charged Ning Bufan, but Xu Sanshi used Earth Dragon Binds Heaven to swap places with her and intercept Hall Master of Light and Ji Juechen.
• Xu Sanshi used Earth Mysterious Turtle Armor, Earth’s Blessing, Mysterious Turtle Returns to Ruins, and Earth Mysterious Turtle Domain to hold the two fighters in a black-water swamp.
• Hall Master of Light shielded Ji Juechen from Earth Dragon Golden Gourd, while Xu Sanshi realized he needed to defeat Hall Master of Light quickly and called for Jiang Nannan’s help.

The tournament battle escalated when Ling Luochen summoned the Ice God’s power and Hall Master of Light answered by invoking the Goddess of Light. Mu En confronted the divine apparition, while Star Luo City’s residents and powerful Soul Masters witnessed the two gods facing off in the sky.

• Hall Master of Light battered Xu Sanshi while Jiang Nannan’s close-quarters skills and Ling Luochen’s mirror trapped and pressured Ye Guyi.
• Ling Luochen copied Huo Yuhao through her ice mirror, and the imitation’s attack forced Ji Juechen to strike before he was ready.
• Jiang Nannan sacrificed her strength to weaken Ye Guyi, and Huang Jinxu intercepted Ji Juechen’s blow before Ling Luochen released the Ice God’s condensed faith power.
• Zhang Lexuan stopped the fight and declared the combatants eliminated, but Hall Master of Light invoked the Goddess of Light in response to Ling Luochen’s divine power.
• Mu En appeared with the Ice God’s phantom to face the Goddess of Light, drawing the attention of Star Luo City and its gathered Titled Douluo.

After the Ice God Temple’s match with the Hall of Light God, Huo Yuhao decided to fight for Shrek in the finals out of gratitude to his teachers and friends. He left the spiritual world and met Dai Luoli, his little brother, with a spirited young woman beside him.

• Mu En declared the Ice God Temple’s defeat, and Hall Master of Light gave Xu Jiawei an Awakening Stone as compensation.
• Huang Jinxu announced that the finals would take place the next day after the competitors had time to recover.
• Huo Yuhao told Zhuge Lan he wanted to fight for Shrek, and Zhuge Lan and the others supported his decision.
• Huo Yuhao forgot to have Zhuge Lan open the System Panel before leaving the locked spiritual world.
• Huo Yuhao met Dai Luoli and the young woman beside him after Wang Dong'er and the others said Princess Jiujiu had sent them.

Huo Yuhao reunited with Dai Luoli, gave him cultivation resources, and learned that his White Tiger Martial Soul was an incomplete mutation with a spiritual attribute. At the tournament final, Shrek and the Hall of Light God negotiated limits on their strongest abilities before the battle began.

• Huo Yuhao apologized to Dai Luoli for the accident that had brought trouble to him, and Dai Luoli said it had led him to meet Xu Yun and receive a marriage bestowed by His Majesty.
• Huo Yuhao gave Dai Luoli Yi Jin Jing techniques and cultivation supplies, while his companions showered Dai Luoli and Xu Yun with gifts.
• Zhuge Lan identified Dai Luoli's Blood Tiger Martial Soul as an incomplete mutation, and Huo Yuhao considered using an Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid to awaken its spiritual attribute.
• Shrek fielded Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, Ma Xiaotao, Xiao Xiao, Beibei, Tang Ya, and Gongyang Mo for the final, while Zhuge Lan watched from the resting area with Electrolux.
• Before the match, Huo Yuhao and Hall Master of Light agreed not to use several powerful abilities and asked Huang Jinxu to announce the start again.

The Shrek Team and the Hall of Light God’s team opened their final with a fierce exchange of cannon fire, undead, and opposing powers. Huo Yuhao’s barrage depleted its stored energy, but the battle continued with Gongyang Mo eliminated and Cheng Gang protecting Jing Ziyan from Frostmourne.

• Hall Master of Light’s team formed a defensive array while Huo Yuhao unveiled hundreds of precharged Soul Tool cannons and fired an Extreme Ice barrage.
• Ye Guyi and Ji Juechen were frozen by the cannon fire, and Hall Master of Light revealed his powers of light and darkness before summoning an undead army through spatial gateways.
• Huo Yuhao’s cannons ran out of stored energy, and he packed them away while his Frostmournes struck Hall Master of Light’s staff and shut down the gateways.
• Ma Xiaotao, Beibei, Wang Dong'er, Tang Ya, and the other fighters engaged their opponents as both teams exchanged attacks across the platform.
• Hall Master of Light struck Gongyang Mo with dark aura, and Huang Jinxu carried him off the field as the first elimination.
• Huo Yuhao sent an Armor Piercing Frostmourne toward Jing Ziyan, but Cheng Gang intercepted it and froze his palm.

Huo Yuhao drove Cheng Gang and the others from the field while Ma Xiaotao and her teammates fought the Hall of Light’s group, using Tang Ya’s poison and Xiao Xiao’s domains to trap them. As the trapped fighters launched a desperate counterattack, Wang Dong’er faced Ji Juechen and unleashed her strongest slash.

• Huo Yuhao collected Jing Ziyan and Xu Xin’s Invincible Shields, then used Frostmourne to bring Cheng Gang back and take Xu Xin and the Soul Tools off the field.
• Ma Xiaotao’s Extreme Fire clashed with Ye Guyi’s sacrificial power, while Beibei’s battle with Ji Juechen escalated into a sword-and-dragon showdown.
• Tang Ya spread her Eternal Silence Poison Domain across the platform, and Xiao Xiao layered her Jade Bamboo Cauldron domains overhead to prevent Ye Guyi’s group from escaping.
• Ji Juechen broke free of Xiao Xiao’s bamboo restraint with Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell and drew another Dark Gold Longsword from his Storage Ring.
• Jing Ziyan and Wang Yuguo warned that their purification could last only minutes, so they and their teammates activated desperate power-ups and charged Tang Ya and Xiao Xiao.
• Wang Dong’er engaged Ji Juechen with her Light and Blazing Sun domains and unleashed Blazing Fire Dragon God Slash with Fire’s Joy.

Wang Dong'er and Beibei eliminated several Hall of Light fighters while Ji Juechen’s attack sent Ma Xiaotao into a staged frenzy. Huo Yuhao and the Hall Master of Light intervened, leaving them facing off as Huo Yuhao revealed his Martial Soul Bone Armor True Body.

• Wang Dong'er redirected her fire-dragon attack to help Beibei eliminate Wu Hongchen, while Ji Juechen’s sword strike was deflected by Beibei’s Indestructible Vajra Body.
• Ji Juechen’s black beam tainted Ma Xiaotao’s flames, and she charged through Ye Guyi and toward the stands before Xuan Zi restrained her and removed the swords embedded in her chest.
• Wang Dong'er defeated Wang Yuguo, Jing Ziyan surrendered, and Ji Juechen’s Undead Finger knocked Xiao Xiao and Tang Ya unconscious while Wang Dong'er resisted its mist.
• Huo Yuhao and the Hall Master of Light appeared from a spatial rift, and Wang Dong'er joined Huo Yuhao in confronting the Hall Master.
• Huo Yuhao summoned the Water Dragon King and fused his soul rings and soul bones into blue-gold armor, revealing his Martial Soul Bone Armor True Body.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er clashed with Hall Master of Light in a battle that forced powerful Titled Douluo to intervene, while Ji Juechen's apparent death proved temporary. The seven-versus-seven match was declared a draw, and Hall Master of Light conceded before leaving the arena.

• Hall Master of Light invoked the Reincarnation Spirit Furnace and challenged Huo Yuhao with an attack at Titled Douluo level.
• Wang Dong'er joined Huo Yuhao, and they used their Water and Fire Dragon King Claws against Hall Master of Light's Six Paths Cycle and God Slaying Claw.
• The clash produced a shockwave that Rank 97 Tian Yang Douluo, Rank 98 Xuan Zi, and other Titled Douluo contained, while Hall Master of Light shattered and Ji Juechen collapsed unconscious.
• Hall Master of Light returned through a spatial portal fully restored, and Huang Jinxu declared the team battle a draw while offering additional matches.
• Hall Master of Light asked whether Huo Yuhao could have survived the clash without Xuan Zi's help, then praised him and left with the Hall of Light God members.

After Shrek won the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Competition, Zhuge Lan handled the rewards and Huo Yuhao declined Lang Ya’s invitation to join the Body Sect. The group planned to visit the Star Dou Great Forest to negotiate with Di Tian, though Yu Tao warned that the Beast God was too dangerous for them.

• Hall Master of Light protected the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy siblings from Xuan Zi and agreed to accompany him to the Star Dou Great Forest in exchange for the Sword of Judgment.
• Huang Jinxu declared Shrek Academy the champion, and Zhuge Lan gave Huo Yuhao only a small share of the Luck Value he had earned.
• Xu Jiawei awarded Shrek six Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, which Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er passed to Wang Yan to distribute among the team.
• Lang Ya and Yu Tao urged Huo Yuhao and Zhuge Lan to join the Body Sect, but Huo Yuhao refused because the group had been invited to meet Di Tian.
• Yu Tao warned Huo Yuhao and the others that Di Tian was a demigod-level Beast God and that even the Body Sect Master would avoid provoking him.

Lang Ya agreed to report the proposed Soul Spirit cooperation to the Body Sect, while Zhuge Lan arranged Shrek’s next moves and helped Ye Guyi reconsider her judgment of evil-attributed Soul Masters. The next morning, leaders from the Four Great Empires and their religious factions gathered to plan a joint visit to the Star Dou Great Forest, with Huo Yuhao keeping the negotiations on track.

• Lang Ya promised to report the cooperation proposal to the Body Sect’s Sect Master and ask him to visit the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Zhuge Lan told Xuan Zi to return the Sword of Judgment to Shrek, send Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er to Bright Hall as exchange students, and bring Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen there as hostages.
• Zhuge Lan spoke with Ye Guyi about judging people by their actions rather than their intentions, and she set aside her doubts about the Holy Necromancer claim.
• Leaders from the Ice God Temple, the empires, the Hall of Light God, and the Sacred Fire Cult gathered at the courtyard to discuss cooperation with the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tian Yang Douluo offered to protect the Sacred Fire Cult, but Huo Yuhao sent Wang Yan and Han Ruoruo to lead him inside and defuse the gathering tension.
• Xu Jiawei asked the Sacred Fire Cult to join the negotiations, while Zhang Lexuan and Hall Master of Light explained their factions’ existing arrangements with the Spirit Pagoda.

Huo Yuhao and the Sea God Pavilion’s experts entered the Star Dou Great Forest to discuss cooperation with Di Tian, but the Beast God demanded an explanation for the Water Dragon King’s aura on Huo Yuhao. Mu En revealed demigod power to deter a fight, leaving Di Tian facing a choice between negotiation and a devastating battle.

• Huo Yuhao agreed that the Sacred Fire Cult would help provide Soul Rings, then joined the Hall Master of Light and other experts on the journey to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xuan Zi and more than ten Sea God Pavilion elders joined the group, and they entered the forest’s core region, where Di Tian and the ferocious beasts confronted them.
• Xiong Jun demanded that Di Tian attack the humans, but Mu En struck at him and Di Tian intercepted the blow before sending Xiong Jun flying.
• Huo Yuhao revealed the Water Dragon King Left Claw, rib bone, and Martial Soul after Di Tian questioned the Dragon King aura on him.
• Di Tian threatened to keep Huo Yuhao from leaving unless he explained how he obtained the Water Dragon King’s remains, and Mu En advanced into the demigod realm with the Ice God’s phantom overhead.

Di Tian confronted Huo Yuhao over the Water Dragon King, then learned that Soul Spirits could reduce Soul Beast hunting through voluntary contracts. Hall Master of Light also brought out Azure-Eyed Light Dragon, whose own account supported the idea of cooperation.

• Di Tian took Huo Yuhao, Hall Master of Light, and Ning Tian to the Lake of Life while Mu En remained with the other Soul Beasts.
• Huo Yuhao explained the Water Fire Dragon King’s remains and introduced the Soul Spirits, prompting Di Tian to initially suspect that humans had imprisoned their souls.
• Huo Yuhao described the Soul Spirit Equality Contract, and Di Tian realized it could provide reusable Soul Rings and reduce the slaughter of Soul Beasts.
• Hall Master of Light showed Di Tian Azure-Eyed Light Dragon, who said it had voluntarily contracted with Guang and gained 20,000 years of cultivation through the arrangement.

The Hall Master of Light revealed his Equality Contract and spiritual-power system to Di Tian, then demanded that the Silver Dragon King become his mount. After Di Tian repeatedly failed to kill or trap him, the Hall Master instead demanded that Di Tian sign a contract and become his mount, leaving Di Tian weighing his options.

• The Azure-Eyed Light Dragon explained that its Equality Contract let it live as the Hall Master of Light’s equal and return to a Mount Space at will.
• Di Tian learned that the Hall Master of Light cultivated spiritual power without Soul Rings, but that few people could convert to the system, and he agreed not to obstruct willing Soul Beasts from signing Mount contracts.
• The Hall Master of Light demanded that the Silver Dragon King become his mount, so Di Tian attacked and apparently destroyed him.
• The Hall Master repeatedly returned through a spatial portal after Di Tian tried killing and trapping him, while Huo Yuhao explained that he could attack at Titled Douluo level and summon a deity’s phantom.
• The Hall Master of Light demanded that Di Tian sign an Equality Contract and become his mount, while Di Tian threatened to slaughter humanity and the Hall Master challenged him to prove he could.

Hall Master of Light convinced Di Tian and the Silver Dragon King to form an Equality Contract, then revealed his connection to Huo Yuhao and his multiple divine inheritances. Di Tian refused to become Huo Yuhao’s Soul Spirit but left briefly and returned with another Soul Beast as a possible match.

• Hall Master of Light claimed he could resurrect the Dragon God and persuaded the Silver Dragon King to approve an Equality Contract with Di Tian.
• Di Tian agreed to contract with Hall Master of Light and Zi Ji, after first testing the contract on another Soul Beast.
• The contract linked Di Tian with both Hall Master of Light and Huo Yuhao, and Huo Yuhao explained that they shared a soul as separate entities.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his Ice God inheritance and Destruction God trials, then asked Di Tian to become his Soul Spirit, but Di Tian refused because he had to guard the Silver Dragon King.
• Di Tian offered to bring Huo Yuhao someone else who might agree to become his Soul Spirit, then returned carrying a Soul Beast.