Chapter Summaries

Dai Yueheng introduced the Reserve Team to the Inspection Team’s extensive Soul Tool supplies, including poisons intended for enemies and for use against Evil Soul Masters. Elder Song then briefed the group on a dangerous mission to eliminate the Death God Emissary near Mount Dou Ming, where Huo Yuhao reacted strongly to learning that Dai Hao commanded the nearby Star Luo Empire forces.

• Dai Yueheng showed the Reserve Team the Inspection Team’s standard gear, defensive Soul Tools, cannon shells, and survival supplies.
• Dai Yueheng and Ma Xiaotao explained the restrictions on the interrogation poison Half-Day Life, while Lin Yi revealed that Body as Offering to Demon could poison an Evil Soul Master who tried to exploit its user.
• Elder Song described a mission to wipe out bandits led by the powerful Evil Soul Master known as the Death God Emissary in Mount Dou Ming.
• Lin Yi assessed the mission as dangerous, and Elder Song said the Star Luo Empire’s garrison would provide intelligence and maps.
• Lin Yi told the group that Dai Hao, Dai Yueheng’s father, commanded the garrison, and Huo Yuhao visibly reacted while Wang Dong shielded him from the others’ notice.

The Shrek students traveled toward the Star Luo military camp, where Lin Yi accepted compensation from the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion and declared the dispute settled. Huo Yuhao’s Ice Empress recognized Snow Empress’s aura in Lin Yi’s power, leaving her determined to learn how he possessed it.

• Wang Yan and He Caitou helped the Reserve Team learn to fly, and Lin Yi challenged Huo Yuhao to a cooking contest during their rest.
• Lin Yi’s chilled drinks and attentive service helped him win the contest, so Huo Yuhao acknowledged his victory and honored their wager.
• Elder Song used Lin Yi’s Blue Silver vines to tow the group at high speed, and they later reached the Star Luo military camp and met Dai Hao.
• The Ice Empress recognized Snow Empress’s aura in the snowflakes Lin Yi used to chill drinks, and Sky Dream urged her to ask Huo Yuhao to investigate.
• Dai Yueheng gave Lin Yi the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion’s compensation, and Lin Yi accepted it and declared that the matter was settled while the two young masters would remain ordinary Shrek students.

Lin Yi led the Shrek team into Mount Dou Ming to hunt Death’s Hand, an Evil Soul Master bandit group, after revealing his extensive record of missions. After locating the bandits, he took command and prepared the team to attack.

• Wang Yan led the Shrek group to Mount Dou Ming with sparse intelligence on Death’s Hand, a bandit group of roughly three hundred people led by an Evil Soul Master above Soul King rank.
• Ma Xiaotao arranged the team’s formation, and Huo Yuhao used Spirit Detection Sharing to help guide them through the terrain.
• Gongyang Mo revealed that Lin Yi had completed 142 Inspection Team Missions, most of them hunts, and that Evil Soul Masters made up about ninety percent of his targets.
• Lin Yi detected the bandits’ trail and took command, reorganizing the formation and ordering everyone to prepare for danger.
• Lin Yi confirmed the bandits’ location, ordered the team to check their equipment, and led the Main Team Members forward while Wang Yan stayed responsible for the Reserve Team.

Lin Yi and the Shrek team fought their way through a Death's Hand hideout filled with evidence of horrific crimes, then survived a corpse-explosion Soul Skill and captured its remaining bandits. Lin Yi executed the prisoners and led the team out of the cave, leaving them to continue toward the Star Luo Imperial Capital for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Competition.

• Lin Yi and the Main Team Members entered the cave, killed the guards, and found human skins and an infant's corpse; Ma Xiaotao burned the remains as they continued fighting.
• Lin Yi collected the dead Soul Masters while the team defeated the bandits, and the sight of the battlefield left Beibei, Huo Yuhao, and the other Reserve Team Members unable to fight.
• The Death's Hand leader triggered Corpse Explosion, coating the cave and the team in blood and gore, but Lin Yi used Extreme Snow to freeze and clear the mess.
• Lin Yi directed Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, Chen Zifeng, and Xixi to capture the remaining bandits, then used Palm Thunder to stop their Soul King leader when he lunged at Huo Yuhao.
• Lin Yi bound and killed the Soul King, then used blades of light to execute the captured bandits and told Beibei that this was how they would deal with them.
• The team left the cave after recovering from the mission and prepared to travel to the Star Luo Imperial Capital for the competition.

After the mission, Elder Song brought the exhausted Shrek team to Star Luo City, where they rested before the competition. While Huo Yuhao learned that Lin Yi’s Extreme Snow was linked to Snow Empress, a perfected Wood Clone revealed how Lin Yi managed his many cultivation paths and gathered corpses for further use.

• Elder Song judged Lin Yi’s actions during the mission justified and offered to fly the team to Star Luo City.
• Wang Yan arranged the team’s rooms at the Star Emperor Royal Hotel and told everyone to rest before discussing the competition.
• Lin Yi took a hot bath and fell asleep, while Huo Yuhao returned to his room after Ice Empress asked to speak with him.
• Ice Empress told Huo Yuhao that Lin Yi’s Extreme Snow carried Snow Empress’s aura and surpassed her own Extreme Ice.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm argued that Lin Yi’s many cultivation paths would eventually become too difficult to manage, and Ice Empress asked Huo Yuhao to investigate Snow Empress’s connection to him.
• Lin Yi’s perfected Wood Clone collected the stiffened corpses in a Mount Dou Ming cave, confirming that the sleeping Lin Yi had secretly left it behind.

Lin Yi had Electrolux perform Soul Searching on a captured Evil Soul Master, awakening his Holy Necromancer Second Martial Soul in the process. The memories revealed the name Holy Spirit Cult and a possible connection to the Sun Moon Empire, leaving Lin Yi with a new lead and an early plan.

• Lin Yi discovered the Death God Emissary had attacked Huo Yuhao because Huo Yuhao stood above the Evil Soul Master's escape passage.
• Lin Yi consulted Electrolux, who explained that the corpse's owner was only a Corpse Witch and agreed to search his soul for clues about the growing number of Evil Soul Masters.
• Electrolux demonstrated Soul Searching and fully awakened Lin Yi's Holy Necromancer Second Martial Soul, then transferred the Evil Soul Master's memories to him.
• Lin Yi learned that the Soul King had once been invited to join the Holy Spirit Cult and that the cult member had recommended the Sun Moon Empire as a refuge.
• Lin Yi considered whether the Sun Moon Empire protected Evil Soul Masters and quietly began forming a plan.

Wang Yan told the Shrek team that the academy had restricted the Main Team Members during the tournament and limited Lin Yi to support abilities. Lin Yi then explained the resolution of the attempt on Huo Yuhao’s life, gained Huo Yuhao’s promise to help him in the future, and entered Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness to speak with the Ice Empress.

• Wang Yan announced Sea God Pavilion’s rules limiting the Main Team Members’ participation and forbidding Lin Yi from revealing his combat strength.
• Beibei and Xu Sanshi rallied the Reserve Team Members, while Lin Yi asked Huo Yuhao to speak with him privately.
• Lin Yi told Huo Yuhao that Dai Huabin had arranged the assassination and that Lin Yi had settled the matter with Dai Yueheng and the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion.
• Lin Yi explained that he valued Huo Yuhao and wanted his help against a powerful future enemy, and Huo Yuhao agreed to help him.
• At the Ice Empress’s urging, Huo Yuhao asked Lin Yi about the Snow Empress, and Lin Yi deduced the Ice Empress’s presence before entering Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness to greet her.

Lin Yi confronted Ice Empress in Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness, warned her not to attack, and promised to prove Snow Empress was safe after the competition. At the opening match of the tournament, Huo Yuhao appeared to defeat Tian Ling Advanced Soul Master Academy alone by imitating Lin Yi’s terrifying aura and Soul Ring display, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Lin Yi told Ice Empress that Snow Empress was alive and had given him Extreme Snow, but Ice Empress demanded proof and threatened to keep him there.
• Lin Yi warned Ice Empress that his Blood Contract linked his life to Snow Empress’s and threatened the Ice Scorpion clan if she harmed him.
• The Star Luo Empire opened the competition, and Shrek was assigned to face Tian Ling Advanced Soul Master Academy in the first match.
• Lin Yi sent Huo Yuhao onto the platform alone despite Beibei’s concerns, and Huo Yuhao told the referee that no other Shrek competitors would take the stage.
• Huo Yuhao transformed his appearance into Lin Yi’s and displayed six intimidating Soul Rings, forcing Tian Ling Advanced Soul Master Academy to surrender.
• Huo Yuhao returned to his own form, and the referee declared Shrek the winner as the crowd stared in shock.

After Huo Yuhao’s arena performance drew attention, Wang Yan asked the Shrek reserve team to reveal their Soul Skills so he could plan tactics. Lin Yi discovered that He Caitou was secretly Xu He, a prince of the Sun Moon Empire’s former ruling dynasty, and gained his trust before the Round Robin began.

• Xu Jiawei ordered an investigation into Huo Yuhao and Lin Yi, while Xiao Hongchen’s sister Meng Hongchen admired Lin Yi.
• Wang Yan asked Beibei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, and He Caitou to explain their Soul Skills, and Lin Yi swore to keep their abilities secret.
• Lin Yi tried He Caitou’s Spirit Excitation Thick Cigar and learned that it could improve his control over Spiritual Power.
• After the team discussed tactics, Lin Yi took He Caitou to his room and privately asked whether his Second Martial Soul was the sun.
• He Caitou revealed that he was Xu He, a surviving prince of the Sun Moon Empire’s former ruling dynasty who had been adopted by Fan Yu after a bloody purge.
• Lin Yi comforted He Caitou, gained his trust, and asked him for cigars and future help as the Round Robin approached.

Lin Yi and Beibei entered the team battle against Yun Luo Advanced Soul Engineer Academy with only two competitors, and Lin Yi’s extraordinary Soul Rings stunned the spectators. Beibei faced the three close-combat Soul Engineers while Lin Yi calmly withstood the rear team’s barrage, leaving the match underway with Shrek in control.

• Lin Yi insisted that only he and Beibei would compete, despite Wang Yan warning that the choice was risky.
• Yun Luo Academy’s captain Situ Yu and his teammates equipped themselves with Soul Tools, while Shang Yue led the close-combat charge.
• Beibei revealed his powerful Soul Rings and rushed Shang Yue and two other attackers as Lin Yi stayed behind.
• Situ Yu’s team fired a barrage of Soul Tool attacks at Lin Yi, who remained unharmed behind his Golden Protection.
• Beibei held off the three close-combat Soul Engineers with ease while Lin Yi’s barrier shielded him from the ranged attacks.

Beibei and Lin Yi defeated Yunluo Academy in the opening Round Robin match, with Lin Yi’s defense allowing Beibei to eliminate the opposing team one by one. After the match, Xu Jiawei recognized Lin Yi’s resemblance to the legendary Shrek support captain Lin Qingxuan, and Lin Yi confirmed that Lin Qingxuan was his father.

• Lin Yi protected Beibei while Beibei eliminated Yunluo Academy’s close-combat Soul Engineers one at a time.
• Beibei used his Ten Thousand Year Soul Skill and Purple Radiant Thunder to defeat Yunluo’s remaining four fighters, securing Shrek Academy’s victory.
• Xu Jiawei recalled the undefeated Shrek support captain Lin Qingxuan and noticed his similarities to Lin Yi.
• Lin Yi confirmed to Wang Yan that Lin Qingxuan was his father, leaving Wang Yan astonished.

Lin Yi led Shrek through a string of Round Robin victories while keeping most of the team’s strength hidden. His tactical display against Thousand Spirits Academy impressed Wang Yan and left rival Xiao Hongchen brooding as Meng Hongchen became fascinated with Lin Yi.

• Lin Yi chose Beibei, Xu Sanshi, and Huo Yuhao to join him against Thousand Spirits Academy, then promised to spar with the main team members when they complained about being benched.
• Xu Sanshi swapped places with Shen Ce, allowing Beibei to eliminate Thousand Spirits Academy’s captain before he could use a Soul Skill.
• Xu Sanshi stunned the other six opponents and swapped Beibei into position to finish them, giving Shrek a tactical victory in under a minute.
• Wang Yan stopped objecting to Lin Yi’s decisions and focused on gathering intelligence as Shrek won its next three matches with only a few members appearing.
• Xiao Hongchen grew distressed by Lin Yi’s talent, while Meng Hongchen admired Lin Yi and brushed off her brother’s warning that he was their enemy.

Shrek Academy faced Zheng Tian Academy in the fifth round, and Lin Yi’s pressure caused Ye Wuqing to faint and Shangguan Can to concede, securing Shrek’s place in the next stage. Afterward, Lin Yi considered his dwindling time to grow stronger and learned that his cultivation had advanced toward forming a Soul Core.

• Wang Yan warned Shrek’s teams that Zheng Tian Academy captain Ye Wuqing was a formidable Soul King, and Lin Yi decided the lineup would depend on the match format.
• Lin Yi assigned Xu Sanshi and Beibei to the first match, himself and Huo Yuhao to the second, and Chen Zifeng, Xixi, and He Caitou to the third; Xu Sanshi and Beibei won the opening match.
• Ye Wuqing unleashed his Golden Leaf techniques against Lin Yi and Huo Yuhao, but Lin Yi’s Golden Tree pressure weakened his attacks.
• Lin Yi and Huo Yuhao combined their auras to overwhelm Ye Wuqing, who fainted, and Shangguan Can conceded; Shrek won and secured advancement from the group.
• Lin Yi reflected on the time remaining before his deadline and synchronized with his Doppelganger, learning that his Soul Power had become fully liquid and that he might form a Soul Core after reaching Rank 50.

Lin Yi was confronted by Cheng Gang, a Guardian Douluo who mistakenly believed he was a transformed Fierce Beast, and was injured when Cheng Gang discovered the truth. Elder Song subdued Cheng Gang, and Lin Yi decided to demand an explanation from the Star Luo Empire.

• Lin Yi lamented that his Soul Power had regressed within level forty-nine as his fusion with Extreme Snow improved its quality.
• Cheng Gang appeared in Lin Yi's room and accused him of being the Myriad Demon King, a Fierce Beast disguised as a human.
• Cheng Gang examined Lin Yi, confirmed he was human, and angrily threw him into the room's Soul Power barrier, injuring him before leaving.
• Lin Yi called for Elder Song, who captured Cheng Gang and sealed his Soul Power.
• Lin Yi told Elder Song to deliver a letter and Cheng Gang to the Star Luo imperial palace so the empire would answer for threatening a Shrek Academy Main Team Member.

Xu Jiawei decided how Star Luo would respond after Cheng Gang attacked Lin Yi, while Shrek Academy finished the Round Robin undefeated and prepared to face Dou Ling Royal Academy in the elimination round. The chapter ended with Shrek’s team confident in its chances as someone knocked on their meeting-room door.

• Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu read Lin Yi’s letter and discussed Cheng Gang’s attack, with Xu Jiawei recognizing that Lin Yi’s polite wording also put pressure on Star Luo.
• Xu Jiawei ordered Cheng Gang to enter ten years of seclusion and asked Xu Jiujiu about preparations for the auction at Starlight.
• Shrek won its final two Round Robin matches without Lin Yi and advanced from its group in first place, leaving other academies uncertain about the Main Team Members’ strength.
• Huo Yuhao reached Level 30 and received congratulations from the Shrek team.
• Wang Yan announced that Dou Ling Royal Academy would be Shrek’s opponent in the Round of Sixteen and explained its lineup and the elimination-round format.
• A knock interrupted the confident gathering in Shrek’s meeting room.

Shrek's team accepted invitations to the Starlight Auction House, where Lin Yi discovered the auction was an imperial property and joined the bidding. The first lot, a Soul Tool suited to Dai Yueheng, prompted Lin Yi to offer two million Gold Soul Coins as a graduation gift for him.

• Qing Ya delivered invitations to Shrek, and Lin Yi explained that the Starlight Auction House belonged to the Star Luo Imperial Family.
• Lin Yi and the Shrek team attended the auction, where Qing Ya guided them to a private room and explained the Light Guide Screen.
• Princess Xu Jiujiu opened the auction and presented the first lot, the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade, an eighth-grade close-combat Soul Tool.
• Lin Yi bid one million Gold Soul Coins for the blade and told Dai Yueheng he would give it to him as an early graduation present.
• After another bidder raised the price, Lin Yi casually bid two million Gold Soul Coins.

Lin Yi bought several auction items, including weapons, Soul Bones, and a powerful Soul Tool, then offered to buy Huo Yuhao an Ice Scorpion Soul Bone with the Ice Explosion skill. The chapter ended with Lin Yi promising Chen Zifeng a chance to win his investment through a game, without yet revealing what they would play.

• Lin Yi won the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade and twelve Fixed Soul Cannon Shells, then bought five more auction items, spending twenty-eight million Gold Soul Coins in total.
• Lin Yi told his companions he had brought fifty million Gold Soul Coins from his family and had nearly thirty million more in personal spending money.
• Lin Yi explained to Beibei why he considered Soul Bones better investments than Gold Soul Coins.
• Lin Yi recognized the final auction item as an Ice Scorpion Soul Bone with the Ice Explosion skill and offered to buy it for Huo Yuhao, though he wanted to study it first.
• Chen Zifeng asked Lin Yi to invest in him, and Lin Yi offered him a chance to win that investment in a game.

Lin Yi won the Ice Scorpion Soul Bone at auction and learned that the final lot was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast embryo resembling the Snow Empress embryo he had seen before. He decided the embryo was worth studying, while the auction prepared to sell it for more than one hundred million Gold Soul Coins.

• Lin Yi used repeated coin tosses to give Chen Zifeng a chance to earn his investment, while Chen Zifeng kept tossing the coin after the auction began.
• Lin Yi outbid other buyers for the Ice Scorpion Soul Bone, spending twenty-two million Gold Soul Coins and bringing his total purchases to eight items for fifty million.
• Xu Jiujiu arranged a special channel for Sun Moon to bid with high-level Soul Tools as collateral, then introduced the auction’s grand finale.
• Lin Yi recognized the final lot as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast embryo held by a Rank 9 Soul Tool called the Platform of Conferring Gods.
• Lin Yi told the Shrek students that absorbing the embryo to gain a Second Martial Soul could harm their futures, and he intended to study it instead.

At the Starlight Auction House, Lin Yi disrupted Star Luo’s plan to sell a hundred-thousand-year embryo to Xiao Hongchen, driving its final price to two hundred million Gold Soul Coins. After Xu Jiujiu compensated Shrek with waived auction costs and a doubled championship reward, Lin Yi left on tense terms with the princess.

• Lin Yi recognized that Star Luo had intended to use the embryo auction to obtain Soul Tools from the Sun Moon Empire and began bidding to interfere.
• Xiao Hongchen bid against Lin Yi, using a Rank 9 Soul Tool and then a Rank 8 Soul Tool as collateral to keep raising his offer.
• Lin Yi’s final bid brought the embryo’s sale price to two hundred million Gold Soul Coins, earning Xu Jiawei a huge return.
• Xu Jiujiu delivered Lin Yi’s purchases and offered to cover his fifty million Gold Soul Coin expenses, then promised to double Shrek’s championship reward.
• Lin Yi accepted the offer for Shrek but rebuked Xu Jiujiu after she warned him about the competition, then left through the secret passage and called her an immature princess.

Shrek swept through Dou Ling Royal Academy and Zheng Tian Academy to reach the semifinals, where they faced Star Luo Royal Academy. Xu Jiujiu tried to restrain Lin Yi with a defensive soul tool as Shrek launched its opening attack, leaving the team battle poised for a clash.

• Lin Yi and Shrek’s team trapped Dou Ling Royal Academy’s captain with Xu Sanshi’s Mysterious Dark Displacement, then Lin Yi immobilized the other six with Golden Imprisonment for a swift team victory.
• Lin Yi won three individual elimination matches, and Dou Ling Royal Academy surrendered; Zheng Tian Academy also surrendered its match against Shrek.
• Shrek advanced to the semifinals and faced Star Luo Royal Academy, whose guardian referee was the Heavenly Fiend Douluo, Huang Jinxu.
• Xu Jiujiu enhanced her teammates with the Star Crown’s Star Shine Technique and asked Lin Yi to take one move without dodging; Lin Yi agreed while Shrek’s team prepared to attack.
• Xu Jiujiu unleashed two barriers, trapping Lin Yi inside one and surrounding her team along with Ma Xiaotao and Xixi with the other; Lin Yi recognized the device as an Absolute Defense Soul Tool.