Chapter Summaries

Chen Ming gave Meng Hongchen an Ice Scorpion Soul Bone, and Snow Empress helped her transform her ice attribute into an Ultimate Ice attribute. Meng Hongchen awakened stronger, with white hair and red eyes, but her frozen clothes and bed shattered, leaving her naked in front of Chen Ming.

• Chen Ming identified the Ice Scorpion Left Arm Bone’s fixed Soul Skill as the Ice Explosion Technique and decided it would help Meng Hongchen overcome her weakness against poison-resistant enemies.
• Snow Empress explained how she could suppress the Soul Bone’s instincts, and Chen Ming and Jing Hongchen gained Meng Hongchen’s agreement to absorb it and attempt an Ultimate Ice transformation.
• Meng Hongchen absorbed the Soul Bone, strengthening her ice attribute and prompting Snow Empress to offer the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow to help her reach an Ultimate Attribute.
• With Meng Hongchen’s consent, Snow Empress used the marrow and her own origin to trigger an Ice-Fire Reversal, transforming Meng Hongchen’s ice attribute and greatly increasing her Soul Power.
• Meng Hongchen awakened with permanently changed white hair and red eyes, while Jing Hongchen left the room; her frozen clothes and bed then shattered, leaving her naked as she and Chen Ming stared at each other.

During the tournament, Shrek’s Tang Ya revealed her Dark Blue Silver King and was widely branded an Evil Soul Master, while Meng Hongchen swept Qianling Soul Master Academy and advanced the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy. At the Starlight Auction House, Chen Ming and Huo Yuhao secretly spied on Shrek’s neighboring room, where Wang Shisan reacted furiously to a Mingde Hall Soul Tool whose smuggling Jing Hongchen recognized as his cousin’s work.

• Tang Ya displayed her blood-draining Dark Blue Silver King for Shrek, alarming opponents and damaging the academy’s reputation.
• Meng Hongchen defeated all seven Qianling Soul Master Academy members, forcing them to forfeit their individual matches.
• The top-eight matchups were announced, and the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy received an invitation to the Starlight Auction House.
• Chen Ming and Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to spy on Shrek Academy’s neighboring auction room with help from the Snow Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• Xu Jiujiu introduced the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade, prompting Wang Shisan to threaten whoever had sold the Mingde Hall Soul Tool abroad.
• Jing Hongchen realized the auctioned blade had been smuggled out by his cousin Qian Hongchen and felt embarrassed by Wang Shisan’s accusation.

Chen Ming bought a Blazing Winged Flying Dragon Left Leg Bone and shared some of his wealth with his companions, while Wang Shisan reclaimed a leaked Soul Cannon. The auction’s eighth item was revealed to be a crystal-sealed heart from an extraordinarily powerful Fierce Beast, leaving Chen Ming and the other bidders eager to learn more.

• The Star Luo Empire auctioned Level 6 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells, which Qian Duoduo bought for Shrek, and Chen Ming privately doubted he could reverse-engineer their technology.
• Chen Ming bought a Blazing Winged Flying Dragon Left Leg Bone for 6.3 million Gold Soul Coins, hoping to complete a Soul Bone set.
• Chen Ming revealed he carried over twenty-five million Gold Soul Coins and gave one-million-coin cards to Huo Yuhao, Yuan Ensi Tai, and Meng Hongchen, while giving Xiao Hongchen only one hundred coins.
• Wang Shisan spent 9.5 million Gold Soul Coins to recover the Heaven-Opening Earth-Splitting Cannon, a leaked weapon made by Jing Hongchen and sold by Qian Hongchen.
• Xu Jiujiu presented the auction’s eighth item: a crystal containing a slowly beating heart said to belong to an extraordinarily powerful Fierce Beast.

Chen Ming tried to buy a Golden Crystal Heart, but a planted bidder from the Star Luo Empire drove the price up and won it after Chen Ming stopped bidding. As the auction moved on to a highly prized pair of Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Palm Bones, Chen Ming and Electrolux were secretly planning to rob the planted bidder.

• Electrolux explained that the Golden Crystal Heart held the essence and bloodline power of a Golden Behemoth King, and urged Chen Ming to win it.
• Chen Ming bid ten million Gold Soul Coins for the Golden Crystal Heart, then competed with a planted bidder who kept raising the price.
• After the planted bidder raised the price to twelve million, Chen Ming stopped bidding, and Xu Jiujiu sold the heart to the bidder in High-Class Private Room Four.
• Electrolux sent a Banshee to infiltrate the planted bidder's room, while Chen Ming and Electrolux discussed disguises and undead for robbing him.
• Xu Jiujiu introduced a pair of External Palm Bones from a mated pair of Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bears, explaining their immense power and the risks of absorbing them.
• Bidders rapidly drove the Palm Bones' price from thirty million Gold Soul Coins past one hundred and twenty million.

Chen Ming recruited Du Busi and the Body Sect to help stage a scheme around the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Palm Bones, which the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Team bought for two hundred million Gold Soul Coins. After settling the payment with cash and Soul Tools, Wang Shisan arranged for the auction house to hold the bones temporarily, and the group left amid tension with Shrek Academy.

• Chen Ming told Wang Shisan to drive up the bid and revealed that he expected someone to try stealing the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Palm Bones after the auction.
• Chen Ming contacted Du Busi through the Banshee and recruited him and the Body Sect to cooperate in the scheme for a share of the proceeds and Soul Tools.
• Wang Shisan and Du Busi traded bids until the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Team won the Palm Bones for two hundred million Gold Soul Coins.
• Chen Ming and Wang Shisan paid with cash and more than a hundred Soul Tools, then asked Xu Jiujiu to keep the Palm Bones in the auction house under a written contract.
• Wang Shisan calmed his team after they encountered the Shrek Academy group, whose Dai Huabin openly showed his hostility toward them.

Wang Shisan killed a Star Holy Sword Titled Douluo who tried to seize the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear palm bone, while Du Busi fought three Star Luo Empire offerings inside the Starlight Auction House. The fighting drew Xuan Zi into the open as he pursued Xu Jiujiu, leaving Chen Ming and Electrolux surprised by his return.

• Wang Shisan shattered a Soul Douluo's soul, then defeated the Star Holy Sword Titled Douluo with Rank 7 soul cannon shells and took two soul bones.
• Du Busi, disguised in a black robe, fought Heavenly Fiend Douluo Huang Jinxu, Xuanji Douluo, and Giant Hammer Douluo over a promised fortune.
• Du Busi revealed his Body Martial Soul avatar to neutralize Heavenly Fiend Douluo's Lone Star Fiend skill, then stopped fighting.
• Shattered Star Douluo emerged from underground carrying the dying Nebula Douluo Man Yi and the frightened Xu Jiujiu, and warned the others that Xuan Zi was approaching.
• Xuan Zi appeared with a gaunt torso and grafted limbs, demanded the group's goods, and boasted about establishing New Shrek.
• Chen Ming and Electrolux recognized Xuan Zi, who had disappeared for nearly a year, and wondered why he had come to Star Luo City.

Xuan Zi attacked Star Luo City as an Evil Soul Master, and Du Busi fought him after accepting the Star Luo Empire’s request for help. Du Busi gained the upper hand in their physical clash, but Xuan Zi’s Taotie True Body kept the battle going and resisted the other Douluos’ energy attacks.

• The Shattered Star Douluo asked Du Busi to protect the Star Luo Empire from Xuan Zi, offering payment after Man Yi was gravely wounded shielding Xu Jiujiu.
• Du Busi transformed and attacked Xuan Zi with Hell Poison Dragon Drill, but Taotie devoured the energy and poison.
• Du Busi charged Xuan Zi with a massive physical strike and broke Xuan Zi’s right arm, though he suffered internal injuries.
• Xuan Zi entered the Taotie True Body and fought Du Busi, while the Shattered Star Douluo and Heavenly Fiend Douluo failed to help because Taotie countered their energy attacks.

Xuan Zi escaped after Du Busi and the other Titled Douluo forced him into an illusory form, but a black-robed figure riding a Bone Dragon then seized Xu Jiujiu and stole two Soul Tools containing the auction’s wealth. As Wang Shisan prepared to fire a Level 9 Soul Cannon Shell, the Shattered Star Douluo begged the attackers to stop and promised compensation.

• Dai Hao attacked Xuan Zi, but the Star Crown Soul Master protected him with Starlight Power before Xuan Zi’s devouring nearly dragged him into Taotie’s maw.
• The Star Crown Soul Master replenished Du Busi’s soul power, allowing Du Busi to tear off one of Xuan Zi’s legs and wound him as he tried to escape.
• Soul Cannon Shells struck Xuan Zi’s illusory body, but he broke through the Titled Douluo’s interception and vanished beyond the horizon.
• A black-robed figure atop a Bone Dragon incapacitated Xuanji Douluo, seized Xu Jiujiu, and stole two Soul Tools containing valuable auction goods and Gold Soul Coins.
• The Star Crown Soul Master enhanced the Titled Douluo against the Bone Dragon, but its Ultimate Ice froze and shattered the Shattered Star Douluo’s attack.
• Electrolux, controlling Chen Ming’s body, blocked Wang Shisan’s Soul Cannon Shells with an ice wall, and the Shattered Star Douluo pleaded with Wang Shisan not to fire his Level 9 Soul Cannon Shell.

Wang Shisan withdrew his Level 9 Soul Cannon Shell after Du Busi intervened, and Xu Jiawei took responsibility for the Star Luo Empire’s response. In the Undead Demi-plane, Chen Ming explained to Snow Empress how Tang San had seized control of Douluo Continent and was obstructing anyone’s path to godhood, leaving her alarmed by the danger facing Huo Yuhao and the world.

• The Bone Dragon and the black-robed man escaped through a gate after their soul attack briefly froze everyone, and Wang Shisan nearly aimed his cannon shell at Shattered Star Douluo.
• Du Busi persuaded Wang Shisan to stand down, while Wang Shisan demanded that the Star Luo Empire answer for his stolen belongings.
• Shattered Star Douluo and the Star Crown Sect’s Titled Douluo handled the injured and aftermath, and Xu Jiawei arrived and placed Star Luo City under martial law.
• Electrolux released his possession of Chen Ming, and Chen Ming thanked him and Snow Empress for helping secure the stolen items.
• Chen Ming told Snow Empress that Tang San had infiltrated the continent’s major powers, eroded its World Consciousness and Source of Life, and blocked the path to godhood.
• Chen Ming warned that Tang San was trying to control Huo Yuhao, the era’s strongest potential candidate for becoming a god.

Chen Ming encouraged Snow Empress to regain her resolve and pursue strength despite Tang San’s control over the Douluo World. He then learned that the Golden Crystal Heart could help Little Dark undergo Ancestral Reversion into a Behemoth, while Electrolux warned that powerful observers were watching them.

• Chen Ming told Snow Empress he would rely on Electrolux’s help without abandoning his own growth, and Snow Empress vowed to keep striving for the Divine Domain.
• Chen Ming released his Soul Spirits and showed them the Golden Crystal Heart and Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Palm Bones; Little Dark eagerly claimed the crystal’s power could make him far stronger.
• Electrolux said he could guide Little Dark’s Ancestral Reversion into a Behemoth and potentially transform the Palm Bones, but told Chen Ming to wait until the competition ended.
• Electrolux warned Chen Ming that Xuan Zi and two or three Peerless Douluo had secretly observed them, so their next moves needed care to avoid Tang San’s intervention.

Xu Jiawei’s crackdown on Star Luo City to appease the Sun Moon Empire devastated the city’s reputation and drove away its residents. When the tournament resumed, Ma Xiaotao advanced against Di'ao Academy but lost control after using Phoenix Nirvana, leaving Jiang Peng dead and the semifinal in chaos.

• Xu Jiawei promised the Sun Moon Empire 206.3 million Gold Soul Coins in compensation and approved mass arrests and extortion during martial law.
• After a week of abuses and clashes, more than ten thousand people had been arrested, the city’s soldiers had suffered heavy losses, and frightened residents fled Star Luo City.
• As the semifinal between Shrek Academy and Di'ao Academy resumed, Jiang Peng defeated Ling Luochen and a replacement Soul King before facing Ma Xiaotao.
• Jiang Peng nearly cut Ma Xiaotao in half with his Sixth Soul Skill, but she used Phoenix Nirvana to reconnect her body.
• Ma Xiaotao’s suppressed Evil Fire drove her into a frenzy, and she burned the defeated Jiang Peng to ash before attacking the Soul Douluo referee.
• The Shattered Star Douluo knocked Ma Xiaotao unconscious, ending her rampage as spectators witnessed her evil aura and loss of control.

After Ma Xiaotao’s loss of control, Shrek and Di'ao Academy continued their match as a lethal revenge battle, and Xu Sanshi revealed the blood-soaked truth behind his Black Tortoise awakening. The chapter left Xuan Zi eager to recruit Xu Sanshi for New Shrek while Zhongli Xuansha tried to keep him from causing more trouble.

• After Ma Xiaotao was removed from the arena, Di'ao Academy’s students continued fighting Shrek to avenge Jiang Peng, and both teams lost students in the ensuing bloodbath.
• When Qian Duoduo sent Xu Sanshi into the match, Xu Sanshi used Black Tortoise Awakening and Black Tortoise Descent to devour Di'ao Academy’s last Soul King, then killed two Soul Ancestors.
• Chen Ming realized Xu Sanshi’s Black Tortoise awakening had been artificially stimulated and learned that Xue Lingdai had sacrificed herself as the awakening’s furnace vessel.
• Xu Sanshi’s past revealed that he blamed Jing Hongchen and the Sun Moon Empire for his parents’ deaths and had joined Shrek to gain power for revenge.
• In the stands, Xuan Zi insisted that Xu Sanshi should join New Shrek, while Zhongli Xuansha rebuked him and focused on carrying out the Holy Emperor’s oracle.

After Shrek Academy’s match left the crowd disgusted, Yan Shaozhe killed a Di'ao Academy teacher and Xu Jiawei intervened to protect him, further damaging his reputation. That night, Chen Ming told Huo Yuhao to hold back against Dai Yueheng and prepare to kill Dai Huabin during Shrek’s later match, giving Huo Yuhao a chance to reveal himself and begin his revenge.

• A Di'ao Academy teacher declared war on Shrek after his team was wiped out, and Yan Shaozhe killed him before Shattered Star Douluo could retaliate.
• Xu Jiawei protected Yan Shaozhe, prompting Shattered Star Douluo and the spectators to condemn his intervention.
• Dai Hao considered using Xu Jiawei’s lost support to seize power while Huo Yuhao watched him with killing intent.
• Chen Ming brought Yuan Ensi Tai to Huo Yuhao’s room and told Huo Yuhao not to fight Dai Yueheng in the next match.
• Chen Ming planned for Huo Yuhao to kill Dai Huabin when Shrek formed Hell White Tiger, then help him confront the White Tiger Duke’s family and move his mother’s grave.

Chen Ming gave Huo Yuhao a hundred-thousand-year Frost Giant Deer Soul Bone and Yuan Ensi Tai a Titan Snow Demon Head Bone, and both absorbed them successfully. After noting Huo Yuhao and Yuan Ensi Tai’s potential compatibility, Chen Ming questioned why Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’er could achieve perfect fusion through multiple Martial Souls, leaving Huo Yuhao suspecting that Wang Dong’er was the source of the anomaly.

• Chen Ming urged Huo Yuhao to survive the Star Luo Empire Royal Academy Team’s round and offered him a Frost Giant Deer Left Leg Bone to help him face Dai Huabin.
• Huo Yuhao accepted the Soul Bone after learning Chen Ming already had a better-fitting hundred-thousand-year bone in his left leg.
• Chen Ming gave Yuan Ensi Tai a hundred-thousand-year Titan Snow Demon Head Bone, and both Yuan Ensi Tai and Huo Yuhao absorbed their Soul Bones under Chen Ming’s protection.
• Huo Yuhao and Yuan Ensi Tai discovered their ice attributes had some Soul Power compatibility, though Huo Yuhao judged their fusion rate to be around fifty percent or less.
• Chen Ming challenged Huo Yuhao to explain why his Spirit Eye and Ice Jade Scorpion could each achieve one-hundred-percent fusion with Wang Dong’er’s Light Goddess Butterfly and Clear Sky Hammer.
• Huo Yuhao considered the mismatch between his own changing Martial Souls and their perfect fusion with Wang Dong’er, then concluded that Wang Dong’er might be the one with a problem.

Chen Ming and Huo Yuhao discussed the suspiciously perfect fusion rate between Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er, then Chen Ming led the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy team into a team battle against the Star Luo Empire Royal Academy Team. The match left Xiao Hongchen launching an attack at Xu Jiujiu in his massive assembled soul-tool armor.

• Chen Ming warned Huo Yuhao to resist Wang Dong'er's soul-power influence and test whether their martial souls still maintained a one-hundred-percent fusion rate.
• Xu Jiawei told Dai Hao that the Star Luo Empire needed to measure the Sun Moon Empire's strength, while placing the blame for the lost treasures on Xu Jiujiu.
• Chen Ming, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, Ma Rulong, Ye Guyi, Lin Xi, and Mika entered the arena to face Dai Yueheng, Xu Jiujiu, and the Star Luo Empire Royal Academy Team.
• Chen Ming charged the opposing formation, but Dai Yueheng and Huang Heyun used Xu Jiujiu's support to halt his advance as the enemy's wind and fire controllers attacked.
• Ye Guyi neutralized the Fire Meteors while Xiao Hongchen assembled towering soul-tool armor and fired two azure beams at Xu Jiujiu.

The Sun Moon Empire team overwhelmed the Star Luo Empire team as Xiao Hongchen broke their defenses and Chen Ming crushed Dai Yueheng’s combined power. Dai Hao conceded and carried his gravely injured son away, leaving the Star Luo team defeated.

• Sheng Yi’s wings barely withstood Chen Ming’s Soul Cannon after Xu Jiujiu diverted her support, allowing Chen Ming to smash Dai Yueheng and Huang Heyun together.
• Dai Yueheng used his Soul Bone skill and the Nine Transformations Soul Transformation Instrument to combine four Soul Masters’ power, but Meng Hongchen froze his attack with Cold Fire.
• Chen Xiaojie trapped Xiao Hongchen in an Absolute Defense Soul Tool, but Xiao Hongchen shattered it with one finger and incapacitated Chen Xiaojie.
• Xiao Hongchen broke Sheng Yi’s wings, removed Xu Jiujiu’s Star Guardian, and left the Star Luo team exposed.
• Chen Ming shattered Dai Yueheng’s power link, brutally injured him, and used him to shield himself from Heavenly Fiend Douluo’s warning attack.
• Dai Hao carried Dai Yueheng away and declared that the Star Luo Empire conceded, while Wang Shisan watched him closely.

After Shrek Academy’s team chose to fight the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Yan Shaozhe secretly met with Xuan Zi to obtain Holy Spirit Cult seeds that could awaken the students’ potential. Yan Shaozhe agreed to distribute them for Shrek’s glory and accepted Xuan Zi’s offer to help transform his own martial soul.

• Xu Jiawei broke down after the Star Luo Empire’s crushing defeat, while many Star Luo officers refused to attend the finals.
• Qian Duoduo urged Shrek’s team to concede and preserve its strength, but Yan Shaozhe invoked Shrek’s school rules and persuaded the students to fight.
• Yan Shaozhe secretly contacted Xuan Zi, and the two declared their loyalty to Shrek despite their rejection of the academy’s current leadership.
• Xuan Zi gave Yan Shaozhe Seeds of the Holy Spirit and described how they could awaken Ma Xiaotao’s, Xu Sanshi’s, and Tang Ya’s potential.
• Yan Shaozhe asked whether his Bright Phoenix Martial Soul could be transformed, and Xuan Zi offered to help after the tournament.
• Yan Shaozhe took the seeds and shared blood with Xuan Zi, both toasting to Shrek’s glory.

The Grand Competition finals began amid dwindling crowds and political tension as Shrek Academy faced the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy. Shrek launched a coordinated surprise attack on Chen Ming, but the Golden Terrapin appeared and effortlessly blocked their strikes.

• Xu Jiawei presided over the finals while Dai Hao and many Star Luo Empire nobles boycotted the match.
• Chen Ming told Huo Yuhao that Chen Jie would lure Dai Hao to the finals, urged him to kill Dai Huabin, and gave him Bibi Dong’s relic dagger.
• Both teams fielded seven members, and Shattered Star Douluo started the team battle after ignoring Chen Ming’s request to inspect Ma Xiaotao.
• Ma Xiaotao opened with Phoenix Meteor Shower, while Xu Sanshi used Black Tortoise Displacement to swap Chen Ming into the center of Shrek’s formation.
• Ling Luochen froze Chen Ming’s feet as Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu formed the Hell White Tiger and Xu Sanshi struck with Turtle God Bash.
• Chen Ming summoned the Golden Terrapin, which dispelled the ice and shrugged off the attacks, while Xu Sanshi suffered backlash from its pure Black Tortoise bloodline.

Chen Ming’s Golden Terrapin overwhelmed Shrek’s attacks, while Xu Sanshi and Ma Xiaotao underwent dangerous transformations. Chen Ming then summoned Little Dark, whose clash with Shattered Star Douluo shattered the arena’s Soul Tool formation and left the referee believing the bear had gone out of control.

• The Golden Terrapin struck Xu Sanshi, triggering his Black Tortoise Re-awakening and a monstrous transformation, while Xuan Zi celebrated and Zhongli Xuansha condemned him for acting before the match ended.
• Ma Xiaotao embraced her evil fire and attacked the Golden Terrapin, but its shield stopped her Phoenix Cloud-Piercing Strike; Ling Luochen, Bei Bei, and Long Xiaoyun also failed to break through.
• Chen Ming dismissed the Golden Terrapin and summoned Little Dark, whose immense pressure shattered Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu’s Hell White Tiger and left both terrified.
• Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo tried to enter the arena, but Wang Shisan and Jing Hongchen blocked them as Little Dark struck Shattered Star Douluo with a Dark Gold Dreadclaw.
• Shattered Star Douluo’s clash with Little Dark’s claw tore apart the Soul Tool formation and injured its supporting Soul Masters; Chen Ming pretended not to control the bear, and Shattered Star Douluo began to believe him.

The arena battle escalated as Chen Ming’s Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear restrained Shattered Star Douluo and the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy pressed its attack on Shrek Academy. With Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu left exposed, Huo Yuhao chose Yuan Ensi Tai to join him against them.

• Chen Ming’s Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear tied down Shattered Star Douluo while Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen attacked the weakened Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’er supported Yuan Ensi Tai against Bei Bei, Long Xiaoyun, Dai Huabin, and Zhu Lu, while Bei Bei unleashed his Bright Sacred Dragon power.
• Long Xiaoyun injured himself to draw out dark power, but Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’er disrupted his attack, and Ma Rulong blasted him off the arena.
• Yuan Ensi Tai seized Bei Bei’s lapse in concentration and struck him so hard that he and Long Xiaoyun both lost their ability to fight.
• Dai Hao rescued Bei Bei, Long Xiaoyun, and Xu Sanshi from the arena as Qian Duoduo and Yan Shaozhe began treating them.
• With Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu facing their combined opponents, Huo Yuhao released Wang Dong’er’s hand and asked Yuan Ensi Tai to fight beside him.