Chapter Summaries

Zi Yao took command of Sun Moon Royal Academy’s tournament team despite Ma Rulong’s objections and reorganized the lineup, reserving the finals for the Hongchen Siblings and Wang Dong. The team’s preparations ended with Ye Guyi asking to participate.

• Jing Hóngchén ordered Ma Rulong to follow Zi Yao’s arrangements, while Elder Ma pressured Jing Hóngchén about the consequences of losing to the Imperial Family.
• After Jing Hóngchén left, Ma Rulong challenged Zi Yao’s authority, but Zi Yao took the captain’s seat and assigned Mika, Chen Fei, and Lin Xi to early rounds.
• Zi Yao said the Hongchen Siblings and Wang Dong would fight in the finals, prompting Ma Rulong to object to Wang Dong’s participation.
• Zi Yao released the force of his Extreme Ice domain, silencing the team and warning them not to undermine his orders.
• Ma Rulong left with the other Starting Team Members, and Ye Guyi asked to participate.

Ye Guyi joined Zi Yao’s team for the Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament, hoping competition would help her overcome her slow cultivation. After revealing her Angel Soul, she and Wang Dong clashed over who would share a room with Zi Yao, and the chapter ended with Wang Dong preparing to sleep beside him.

• Ye Guyi told Zi Yao that her cultivation had stalled at Level Fifty-Five and asked to compete in the tournament to gain battle experience and a breakthrough.
• Zi Yao agreed, introduced Ye Guyi to Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Wang Dong, and asked her to reveal her Angel Soul.
• Ye Guyi summoned her Angel Soul, and Wang Dong responded by displaying her Light Goddess Butterfly while dismissing Ye Guyi’s two wings.
• Zi Yao announced that the team should sleep and warned everyone to keep Ye Guyi’s Angel Soul secret as a future trump card.
• When Zi Yao and Ye Guyi faced sharing the last room, Wang Dong offered Ye Guyi her room and insisted on sharing Zi Yao’s bed, separated from him by blankets and a body pillow.
• Zi Yao returned from a shower to find Wang Dong without her disguise, combing her pink-blue hair beside the arranged bed.

Zi Yao and Wang Dong discussed her rapid cultivation and the secret of her Second Martial Soul before waking up and heading to the competition with their companions. At the arena, Zhou Yi prepared Shrek’s reserve team for what she called the academy’s greatest crisis in ten thousand years.

• Wang Dong revealed that she had reached Rank 45 after adding two Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings to her Clear Sky Hammer, and Zi Yao explained why he believed this could help cultivators grow faster.
• Wang Dong asked Zi Yao about the opportunity he had found during his six-month absence, but he refused to tell her.
• Zi Yao and Wang Dong woke up after an awkward night sharing a bed, then changed and left their room together.
• Zi Yao, Wang Dong, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Ye Guyi headed to a VIP private room to watch the competition.
• Zhou Yi addressed Shrek’s reserve team and warned them that they shared responsibility for protecting the academy’s glory during its greatest crisis in ten thousand years.

Shrek’s team prepared to compete despite lacking reinforcements, while Zhou Yi explained the tournament rules and the Star Luo Imperial Family’s aid. Zi Yao’s team settled into their private room, where he warned Ma Rulong to stop provoking him or lose his place in the tournament.

• Zhou Yi told Huo Yuhao and the others that Elder Xuan was seeking reinforcements and that the Medical Immortal Douluo would help treat three injured Starting Team Members.
• Dai Huabin claimed his father had contacted the Star Luo Imperial Family, and he insisted on competing in Shrek’s first match despite Huo Yuhao pointing out the slap mark on his face.
• Zhou Yi explained the tournament format and ordered Shrek’s team to enter the arena for the opening match.
• Shrek’s team crossed paths with Zi Yao’s group, and Zhou Yi told her students to focus on the main team rather than the reserves.
• Zi Yao’s team received breakfast in their private room, and Zi Yao warned Ma Rulong that another insult would get him removed from the tournament.

Zi Yao finalized the Sun Moon team roster and promised permanent Mingde Hall seats to the sidelined members. At the tournament, Shrek defeated Dou Ling Advanced Academy through Huo Yuhao’s simulated Soul Ring aura and a surprise attack, while the Star Luo Emperor grew suspicious of Shrek’s unusual tactics.

• Zi Yao chose Xiao Xiafeng over Mika for the final Starting Team Member position because the team needed auxiliary defense.
• Zi Yao offered the unselected Starting Team Members permanent disciple seats in Mingde Hall, ending their resentment and winning their support.
• Huo Yuhao and Shrek faced Dou Ling Advanced Academy, and his simulated Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring aura stunned their opponents long enough for Beibei, Dai Huabin, and the others to knock them offstage.
• Xu Jiawei and his prime minister questioned Shrek’s atypical opening strategy and suspected a hidden reason behind it.
• Dai Huabin complained about Shrek’s cautious tactics, while Zhou Yi praised Huo Yuhao’s convincing aura simulation.
• The arena announced the next match between Sun Moon Royal Academy and Heavenly Soul Advanced Academy.

The Sun Moon Team entered the tournament, but Heavenly Soul Advanced Academy conceded before the match began after its captain delivered Princess Vina’s blessing to Zi Yao, a young Count. Xu Jiujiu became curious about Zi Yao’s connection to Vina and ordered an investigation, while Shrek’s representatives worried about the Sun Moon Team’s future strength.

• Zi Yao led the Sun Moon Team into the arena, where Mika, Chen Fei, the Hongchen Siblings, Wang Dong'er, and Ye Guyi revealed their Soul Rings and impressed the spectators.
• The Heavenly Soul Team conceded, and its captain told Zi Yao that Princess Vina had sent her blessings because she could not attend.
• Zi Yao asked the captain to thank Vina, prompting Wang Dong and the spectators to question his connection to the princess and his title as a Count.
• Zhou Yi worried to Xuan Zi that the Sun Moon Team's young talents could threaten Shrek in the next tournament, but Xuan Zi dismissed her concern.
• Xu Jiujiu ordered a Guard to gather information about Zi Yao and discussed with Xu Jiawei why Vina had publicly supported a Sun Moon Team member.

After the Star Luo National Academy match, Xu Jiujiu privately questioned Zi Yao about his title and loyalties. Zi Yao revealed that he planned to establish a faction and invited her to its opening ceremony.

• Xiao Hongchen learned that Zi Yao had recently become a Count of the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Xu Jiujiu led the Star Luo National Academy team to a hard-fought draw in its match.
• Zi Yao and Wang Dong encountered Xu Jiujiu in the corridor, where she asked to speak with Zi Yao alone about Vina.
• Xu Jiujiu asked Zi Yao whether his title connected him to the Heaven Dou Empire or whether he belonged to a Hidden Sect.
• Zi Yao said his title came from a transaction with Vina, denied belonging to a Hidden Sect, and invited Xu Jiujiu to his future faction's opening ceremony.

Zi Yao planned to establish a power that could gather faith while considering Huo Yuhao’s path to godhood. Before Shrek’s match against Zhengtian Academy, Zhou Yi kept Huo Yuhao off the field but ordered him to support the team with Spirit Detection from outside the arena, leaving him conflicted.

• Xu Jiujiu welcomed Zi Yao’s ambition to establish a new power and invited the Sun Moon Team to the Starlight Auction.
• Zi Yao considered building a power of faith and helping the geniuses of his generation become gods, while reflecting on Huo Yuhao’s prospects for inheriting a divine throne.
• The Sun Moon Royal Team won several tournament matches with five Soul Kings, making Zhou Yi uneasy about its strength.
• Zhou Yi decided to keep Dai Yueheng and Ma Xiaotao hidden for Shrek’s match against Zhengtian Academy and summoned Huo Yuhao.
• Zhou Yi told Huo Yuhao he would not compete because Xiao Xiao was more useful, then ordered him to use Spirit Detection from outside the arena to support Ling Luochen.
• Huo Yuhao objected that the plan might break the rules, but Zhou Yi invoked his duty to Shrek, leaving him conflicted.

Huo Yuhao refused Zhou Yi’s order to use his Spirit Detection support, deciding that Shrek’s glory did not justify unfair conduct. Shrek replaced him and Xiao Xiao with Dai Yueheng and Ling Luochen for the Zhengtian Academy match, where Beibei and Xu Sanshi narrowly defeated Yu Mengdi and Yang Yifan.

• Huo Yuhao asked Zi Yao for advice, and Zi Yao told him to make his own choice and refuse if he believed the order was wrong.
• Huo Yuhao told Zhou Yi he would not follow her plan, and Zhou Yi dismissed him from the competition.
• Zhou Yi sent Dai Yueheng and Ling Luochen to join the reserve team in place of Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao, while Ma Xiaotao remained sidelined because of her Evil Fire.
• Beibei and Xu Sanshi faced Yu Mengdi and Yang Yifan in the opening match against Zhengtian Academy.
• Beibei and Xu Sanshi narrowly won by using the Golden Sacred Dragon and the awakening of the Black Tortoise.

Zhou Yi’s strategy kept Dai Yueheng’s strength hidden as Shrek advanced, while the Sun Moon Empire team visited Starlight Auction House’s highest-tier auction hall. The chapter ended as Qing Ya introduced the auction house’s Light-guided Screen.

• Zhou Yi sent Jiang Nannan and Ling Luochen to exhaust Ye Wuqing, and they lost after suffering injuries from his Golden Leaf attacks.
• Zhengtian Academy conceded the third match, leaving Dai Yueheng’s Soul Emperor strength unrevealed.
• Huo Yuhao silently questioned why he should risk his life for an academy that had not supported him.
• The Sun Moon Empire team defeated Changning Academy and advanced into the top eight.
• Zi Yao used Xu Jiujiu’s invitation to bring the team into Starlight Auction House’s No. 1 Auction Hall.
• Qing Ya showed the group the Light-guided Screen, and Xiao Hongchen recognized it as a Sun Moon Empire creation powered by special ore.

At the Starlight Auction, the guests watched the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade sell for 1.6 million Gold Soul Coins before the twelve Rank 6 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells struggled to attract bids. Zhou Yi waited to bid on the shells near the end, but a bidder from No. 1 Auction Hall interrupted her plan.

• Zi Yao considered sharing scientific knowledge from his previous life with Xuan Ziwén and watched Xu Jiujiu begin the auction.
• Xu Jiujiu introduced the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade, and No. 2 Auction Hall bought it for 1.6 million Gold Soul Coins.
• Xu Jiujiu offered twelve Rank 6 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells, but the audience initially placed no bids.
• Xiao Hongchen argued that the shells could change the course of a battle and were worth more than the blade.
• Zhou Yi waited to bid on the shells as the countdown neared its end, but someone in No. 1 Auction Hall bid 660,000 Gold Soul Coins first.

Shrek bid 1.5 million Gold Soul Coins for Fixed Soul Cannon Shells, then learned their research value was limited by self-destructing secrecy arrays. At the auction, Ling Luochen became interested in a powerful Ice Scorpion Soul Bone, while Ma Xiaotao offered to help her buy it in exchange for suppressing her Evil Fire.

• Zhou Yi outbid Zi Yao for the Fixed Soul Cannon Shells, spending 1.5 million Gold Soul Coins.
• He Caitou explained that the shells would self-destruct if dismantled, and Zhou Yi worried about covering the cost.
• Zi Yao passed on the remaining Soul Bones and Rare Metals, while a Level 8 Heaven and Earth Cannon sold for more than seven million Gold Soul Coins.
• Xu Jiujiu presented a jade-green Ice Scorpion Left Arm Bone with the Ice Explosion Soul Skill, which was usable only by Ice Attribute Soul Masters.
• Ling Luochen considered borrowing from Shrek to buy the Soul Bone, but hesitated because repayment could bind her to the academy.
• Ma Xiaotao offered to help Ling Luochen buy the Soul Bone if Ling Luochen would help suppress her Evil Fire.

Huo Yuhao learned that the Ice Scorpion Soul Bone required an Extreme Ice constitution to absorb safely, and Zi Yao warned Xu Jiujiu about the danger. He proved his knowledge by revealing his own Extreme Ice Soul Bone, leaving Xu Jiujiu convinced and sworn to keep the matter secret.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Huo Yuhao that anyone without an Extreme Ice constitution could die or be crippled while absorbing the Ice Scorpion Soul Bone.
• Zi Yao warned Xu Jiujiu that the auctioned Soul Bone had dangerous requirements, then demonstrated its Extreme Ice power.
• Zi Yao revealed his own Blue Ice Colored Soul Bone, and Xu Jiujiu recognized it as a likely Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Xu Jiujiu thanked Zi Yao, promised to keep his secret, and returned with him to private room No. 1.
• Xiao Hongchen asked Zi Yao why he had met Xu Jiujiu, while Wang Dong muttered that he feared Zi Yao had caused trouble.

Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu decided to finish the auction and present the Ice Scorpion Soul Bone to Shrek as a championship reward, while Xu Jiujiu also gave the Sun Moon Team a chance to bid. The final item was revealed as a Platform of Gods containing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast embryo, leaving Zi Yao worried that Ice Bear King Xiaobai had been trapped.

• Xu Jiujiu told Xu Jiawei that Zi Yao had warned her about the Soul Bone, and Xu Jiawei chose to bid for it and give it to Shrek as a gift.
• Xu Jiawei agreed to Xu Jiujiu's suggestion to announce the Soul Bone as a championship reward and let the Sun Moon Team bid.
• Zhou Yi followed the bidding for Shrek, but a bid of thirty million Gold Soul Coins put the Ice Scorpion Soul Bone beyond their reach.
• Xu Jiujiu revealed that the final auction item was a Platform of Gods containing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast embryo.
• Zi Yao feared the embryo might be connected to Ice Bear King Xiaobai, while Xiao Hongchen eagerly anticipated gaining the treasure's power.

The Starlight Auction House presented a sealed Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast Embryo, drawing wealthy bidders toward its record-breaking price. Zi Yao warned Xiao Hongchen against buying it, and Xiao Hongchen ultimately gave up as the bidding resumed.

• Xu Jiujiu displayed the Platform of Gods, and guests rushed to mortgage treasures while money poured into Star Luo City.
• Xu Jiujiu confirmed the Soul Beast Embryo’s appraisal to Xiao Hongchen and offered Mingde Hall a reduced handling fee.
• Elder Ma said Jing Hóngchén had ordered Mingde Hall to gather about one hundred and fifty million Gold Soul Coins to secure the embryo.
• Zi Yao warned Xiao Hongchen that the embryo might not grant a useful Second Martial Soul and that its price was far too high.
• Xiao Hongchen decided not to bid, and Wang Dong and Ye Guyi also stayed out of the auction.
• Xu Jiujiu resumed bidding on the Platform of Gods at a starting price of one hundred million Gold Soul Coins.

Dai Huabin secretly bid 140 million Gold Soul Coins for the Hundred Thousand Year Embryo, while Huo Yuhao watched with hatred and the Body Sect failed to obtain it. When the Dai Family demanded installment payments, Xu Jiawei ordered the Platform of Gods held as collateral and sent a message to Dai Hao about the purchase and military pay.

• Dai Huabin bid through another private room, raising the price to 140 million Gold Soul Coins and winning the Hundred Thousand Year Embryo over the Body Sect.
• Huo Yuhao watched Dai Huabin's actions with icy hatred, while Lang Ya and Yu Tao lamented that the Body Sect could not afford another bid.
• Xu Jiujiu learned that Dai Huabin had won the Platform of Gods and warned Xu Jiawei that the purchase could bring trouble to Star Luo.
• Xu Jiujiu reported that Dai Huabin planned to pay only half up front and the rest in installments, angering her over the Dai Family's arrogance.
• Xu Jiawei ordered the auction house to hold the Platform of Gods as collateral and secretly inform Dai Hao, offering to deliver the embryo as a reward and asking whether the military pay was sufficient.

The semifinal matchups were set as Shrek faced Heavenly Soul Emperor Ao Academy and Star Luo Royal Academy faced Sun Moon Royal Academy. In Star Luo City, Dai Hao reprimanded Dai Huabin for causing trouble over the Platform of Gods and explained that the Duke's Mansion's wealth was committed to the military, while Dai Huabin resolved to seek his father's approval through the tournament.

• Shrek defeated Dou Spirit Royal Academy in the team match, then Ma Xiaotao won her Individual Match using only her first four Soul Skills.
• Zi Yao sent Ma Rulong into competition early, and Sun Moon Royal Academy advanced steadily to the top four.
• The organizers arranged the semifinals as Heavenly Soul Emperor Ao Academy against Shrek and Star Luo Royal Academy against Sun Moon Royal Academy, and Zi Yao agreed.
• Dai Hao confronted Dai Huabin and Dai Yueheng over the Platform of Gods, refusing to let the Duke's Mansion buy it because its wealth was needed for the border war.
• Dai Hao explained that he had invested most of the White Tiger Fief's tax revenue in the military to preserve the Dai Family's power, then said he would stay in Star Luo City until the tournament ended.
• Dai Huabin hoped to win back Dai Hao's approval through the tournament and asked Dai Yueheng to help him.

Zi Yao prepared the Sun Moon Team to face Star Luo Royal Academy, while Shrek’s semifinal team battle against Heavenly Soul Emperor Ao Academy ended in victory. Ma Xiaotao’s uncontrolled outburst revealed her Evil Fire and Sixth Soul Skill, leaving Zhou Yi furious as the story moved toward the coming finals.

• Zi Yao ordered the Sun Moon Team’s starting lineup and planned to eliminate Star Luo Royal Academy in the team battle before watching Shrek compete.
• Shrek and Heavenly Soul Emperor Ao Academy began their semifinal team battle, with Jiang Peng leading the opposing team against Shrek’s Soul Emperors and Soul Kings.
• Ma Xiaotao overwhelmed two Soul Kings, then fought Jiang Peng after he charged at Shrek’s rear members with his strongest Soul Skill.
• Jiang Peng struck Ma Xiaotao down, but she erupted with Evil Fire, used Phoenix Meteor Shower, and knocked him unconscious before Di Ao Academy surrendered.
• Zhou Yi scolded Ma Xiaotao for revealing her Evil Fire and Sixth Soul Skill, and Ma Xiaotao insisted she had fought as she pleased because she was unhappy.

Ma Xiaotao dismissed Zhou Yi’s warning, while Zhou Yi watched the Sun Moon Team face Star Luo Royal Academy and saw Xu Jiujiu reveal the power of Star Guardian. The match left the Sun Moon Team on the brink of defeat, with Ma Rulong sealed and Star Luo’s defenses holding against Zi Yao’s counterattack.

• Ma Xiaotao refused to heed Zhou Yi’s warning about becoming a target, so Zhou Yi told her to watch Star Luo Royal Academy’s match.
• Xu Jiujiu greeted Zi Yao before the match, then used her Star Crown to boost her teammates and disrupt the Sun Moon Team.
• Xiao Xiafeng blocked the starlight attacks with a Soul Tool shield and handed out Soul Skill buns, while Ma Rulong charged forward with Rank 7 Soul Guidance laser cannons.
• Xu Jiujiu trapped Ma Rulong inside a Starlight Ring, a Rank 7 Absolute Defense Soul Tool.
• At Zi Yao’s command, Xiao Hongchen deployed over a hundred Soul Guidance cannon barrels and bombarded Star Luo’s team.
• Xu Jiujiu gathered her teammates behind Star Guardian, strengthened an Assault System Soul Master with the Nine Transformations Soul Transformation Instrument, and left Zhou Yi convinced the Sun Moon Team would lose.

Zi Yao led his divided team against Xu Jiujiu’s starlight-enhanced Star Luo fighters, revealing the power of his ten-thousand-year First Soul Ring. He incapacitated Chen Xiaojie, while spectators from Shrek were left stunned and speculated that Zi Yao had Twin Martial Souls.

• Zi Yao rejected Mika’s suggestion to surrender and said they could turn the team battle around by defeating Xu Jiujiu.
• Wang Dong drew the defense Soul King’s attention while Zi Yao pierced his shield with the Blue Silver Overlord Spear, but Chen Xiaojie rescued him.
• Xu Jiujiu ordered Chen Xiaojie to hold Zi Yao back and sent the other fighters to attack Mika, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiafeng.
• Chen Xiaojie attacked Zi Yao with Extreme Lightning Bird, but Zi Yao grabbed him through the lightning and used his First Soul Skill to leave him unable to fight.
• Zhou Yi, Ma Xiaotao, Beibei, and others were shocked by Zi Yao’s ten-thousand-year First Soul Ring, and Xiao Xiao suggested that he had Twin Martial Souls.