Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong faced Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen in the tournament final, relying on the Frost Dragon’s bloodline pressure and a plan to join forces. As the Hongchen Siblings adapted to their tactics, Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong moved to attempt their never-before-successful Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Xiao Hongchen and Jiang Yuheng exchanged teasing remarks before the match, while Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong agreed to attempt their risky fusion skill.
• Huang Jinxu started the final, and Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen launched coordinated Soul Tool attacks as Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong released their martial souls.
• Jiang Yuheng’s Frost Dragon suppressed the Hongchen Siblings’ martial souls, and he engaged Meng Hongchen while Wang Dong distracted Xiao Hongchen.
• Xiao Hongchen abandoned his attack to help Meng Hongchen, but Jiang Yuheng broke away and ran toward Wang Dong, who flew to meet him.
• Xiao Hongchen urged Meng Hongchen to join him in challenging the Frost Dragon as Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong prepared to fuse their martial souls.

Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, defeating the Hongchen Siblings and winning the match. The fusion ended with Jiang Yuheng unconscious and badly injured, leaving Wang Dong terrified for him.

• The Hongchen Siblings fused their Martial Souls and prepared a powerful attack as Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong struggled to activate their own fusion.
• Jiang Yuheng switched places with Wang Dong and used Frost Dragon Armor to take the Hongchen Siblings' attack despite his depleted strength.
• Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong completed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, summoning the Ice Dragon Knight Regiment and a frost woman who shattered Hongchen's Affection.
• Heavenly Fiend Douluo declared Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong the winners after the fusion woman appeared before the Hongchen Siblings.
• The fusion ended, and Wang Dong found Jiang Yuheng unconscious and soaked in blood, then knelt beside him and called his name.

Shrek Academy won the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament after a spectacular final against Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. Jiang Yuheng woke the next day with severe injuries and found Wang Dong watching over him.

• Heavenly Fiend Douluo Huang Jinxu declared Shrek Academy the winner and champions, while the crowd and Star Luo Emperor Xu Jiawei celebrated.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen accepted the loss and applauded their opponents, and the teams learned Jiang Yuheng would recover after several days of rest.
• Wang Dong stayed behind to care for Jiang Yuheng instead of attending the award ceremony, and Xiao Xiao and Huo Yuhao offered to help them return to the hotel.
• Star Luo Emperor Xu Jiawei closed the award ceremony to the public as the crowds dispersed and security at the Star Emperor Hotel increased.
• Jiang Yuheng woke at noon the next day, reflected on Xiao Hongchen's progress and their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and saw Wang Dong sleeping nearby.
• Jiang Yuheng called Wang Dong softly, and she woke to ask why he was staring at her.

Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong confessed their feelings and agreed that he would reveal his remaining secret later. After the tournament, Shrek Academy headed home with its rewards, while the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team leader reported to the Mingde Hall Master, who revealed that people had already tried to steal the Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast Embryo.

• Jiang Yuheng told Wang Dong he had recognized her identity from her Light Goddess Butterfly Martial Soul, and they admitted they had fallen for each other.
• Jiang Yuheng said he had been attracted to Wang Dong before they first met but was not ready to explain why, so Wang Dong claimed the win until he came clean.
• Shrek Academy received four Spirit Bones and, after Xuan Zi refused to choose the rewards, Wang Yan selected them on the academy's behalf.
• Shrek Academy quietly flew out of Star Luo City and headed home, while Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy had already returned to the Sun Moon Empire.
• The Sun Moon team leader apologized to the Mingde Hall Master for failing to win, but the Hall Master praised the team's gains and said three groups had tried to break into Mingde Hall to steal the Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast Embryo.

The Mingde Hall Master killed a spy after the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo was brought to Mingde Hall and began planning how to turn it into a Soul Spirit. Meanwhile, Shrek’s victorious team returned to the academy and was welcomed to Sea God’s Pavilion, where Yan Shaozhe announced their rewards and addressed his teacher inside.

• The Mingde Hall Master killed the team leader teacher, who had brought the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo to Mingde Hall and was secretly a court spy.
• Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, Cai Mei'er, Qian Duoduo, and Fan Yu waited at Shrek Academy’s entrance to welcome Xuan Zi and the returning team.
• Fan Yu worried over Jiang Yuheng’s back wound until He Caitou and Wang Dong explained his condition, and He Caitou told Fan Yu that the team had won the tournament.
• Yan Shaozhe announced that the team’s achievements had earned them rewards at Sea God’s Pavilion, and he led them across Sea God Lake to Sea God Island.
• At the pavilion entrance, Yan Shaozhe bowed and told his teacher that the team had returned, surprising most of the students.

Shrek Academy welcomed the tournament participants to the Sea God's Pavilion, where its golden light strengthened most of them but rejected Jiang Yuheng. Yan Shaozhe began announcing rewards and reprimands, while Jiang Yuheng questioned whether the Selected Members' contributions would be properly rewarded.

• An aged voice invited the group into the Sea God's Pavilion, whose golden light restored and purified the participants, but dispersed around Jiang Yuheng.
• Huo Yuhao neared Level 30, while Wang Dong gained greater purity in her Power of Light and kissed Jiang Yuheng on the cheek before entering the Pavilion.
• Yan Shaozhe introduced the Pavilion's role and began announcing the academy's rewards to the assembled disciples.
• Yan Shaozhe criticized the seven Selected Members for failing to protect their juniors, praised Jiang Yuheng and the others for saving them, and said the Selected Members' merits and faults canceled out, leaving them without rewards.

Sea God's Pavilion announced rewards for the tournament participants, then revealed that Jiang Yuheng had been appointed its next master. The chapter ended with Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, and He Caitou receiving approval to attempt the Inner Court assessment early.

• Yan Shaozhe dismissed the graduating Inner Court disciples and reminded the remaining students that Inner Court members faced higher expectations.
• Yan Shaozhe made Wang Yan a Special-Grade Teacher and granted him access to Sea God's Pavilion's Library for one year.
• Yan Shaozhe awarded six Spirit Bones to Huo Yuhao and the others, but they showed no interest in claiming them.
• The current Sea God's Pavilion Master announced Jiang Yuheng's appointment as the next Pavilion Master, stunning the elders and students.
• The Pavilion Master approved Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, and He Caitou to take the Inner Court assessment early after the academic year.

Mu En assigned Jiang Yuheng, Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao to cultivate under his guidance on Sea God Island, then showed them the Golden Tree. He left Jiang Yuheng without a cultivation room, and explained that he and Xuan Zi were betting on Jiang Yuheng’s potential to advance Spirit Masters.

• Mu En assigned the four youngsters to stay on Sea God Island and arranged instructors for the other students and their teachers.
• Jiang Yuheng recognized Mu En as the old man who lounged outside the New Student Dormitory, and Mu En joked with the youngsters about Dormitory 108.
• Mu En led the four youngsters into a vast hall beneath the Golden Tree and explained its importance to Shrek Academy.
• Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao entered their assigned cultivation rooms, while Mu En left Jiang Yuheng without one because the Golden Tree seemed to reject him.
• Jiang Yuheng told Mu En he resented being given responsibility without his consent, and Mu En apologized but said he did not regret his decision.
• Mu En told Jiang Yuheng that he and Xuan Zi believed in his potential because his soul tool research and Soul Spirit concept could lead Spirit Masters toward a brighter future.

Mu En entrusted Jiang Yuheng with helping reform Shrek Academy and named him its next Pavilion Master, while defending his trust in him against Yan Shaozhe’s suspicions. Tang Ya attempted to leave Shrek City for the Heaven Dou Empire, but Jiang Yuheng intercepted her, and she insisted she would not stay.

• Mu En explained that Jiang Yuheng’s Soul Tool work and Soul Spirit idea convinced him Shrek Academy needed reform, then left him the Sea God Pavilion Vice Master Token.
• Jiang Yuheng returned from Sea God Island to focus on becoming a Level 6 Soul Engineer and reaching rank forty Soul Power.
• Yan Shaozhe questioned Jiang Yuheng’s motives, but Xian Lin'er and Mu En defended him, with Mu En declaring him the next Pavilion Master recognized by himself and Xuan Zi.
• Tang Ya prepared to leave Shrek Academy for the Heaven Dou Empire, hoping to find a way to grow stronger and revive the Tang Sect.
• Jiang Yuheng intercepted Tang Ya at the entrance to Shrek City, and she told him she would leave no matter what.

Tang Ya left for Heaven Dou City to pursue revenge and revive the Tang Sect, while Jiang Yuheng gave her an unusual energy-carrying accessory. Wang Dong emerged from deep meditation at level 38, reunited with Jiang Yuheng, and joined him in choosing the Spirit Pagoda path; the chapter ended with Du Busi arriving at Sea God's Pavilion.

• Jiang Yuheng saw Tang Ya off as she left for the Heaven Dou Empire, and she asked him to explain her departure to Bei Bei.
• Jiang Yuheng gave Tang Ya a Gold Dot Medal Accessory and explained its function, then wished her a safe journey and return.
• Wang Dong completed a true fusion with her Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone, reached level 38, and reunited joyfully with Jiang Yuheng.
• Wang Dong and Jiang Yuheng wrote their chosen paths in Mu En's hands, and both revealed that they had chosen the Spirit Pagoda.
• Du Busi arrived as agreed and announced himself as the Body Sect Master.

Du Busi arrived at Shrek Academy and demanded to see Jiang Yuheng, prompting a tense standoff with Xuan Zi. Jiang Yuheng agreed to meet him and headed for the Outer Court after Mu En assured Xuan Zi that Du Busi would not harm him.

• Yan Shaozhe ordered Weilun to return all students to their classrooms, then rushed to Sea God's Pavilion when he recognized Du Busi's voice.
• Jiang Yuheng told Wang Dong that Du Busi had come because of Huo Yuhao.
• Du Busi confronted Xuan Zi above Shrek Academy and displayed his overwhelming strength, revealing three Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings.
• Mu En explained that Du Busi and Xuan Zi were using the might of Super Douluo beyond ordinary Martial Soul Avatars.
• Jiang Yuheng used a Soul Tool Loudspeaker to tell Du Busi he would meet him at the Outer Court, and Du Busi promised not to endanger Shrek Academy.
• Mu En urged Xuan Zi to let Jiang Yuheng go, assuring him that the Body Sect needed his help.

Jiang Yuheng negotiated with Du Busi over Huo Yuhao joining the Body Sect, revealing Huo Yuhao’s Twin Martial Souls and Extreme Ice before demonstrating his own Time Domain. He left Du Busi with three requests to consider as the price of Huo Yuhao’s entry.

• Jiang Yuheng prepared with Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao before meeting Du Busi at the Outer Court rest area.
• Du Busi offered to make Huo Yuhao his Personal disciple, but Jiang Yuheng said that treatment was not enough.
• Jiang Yuheng revealed that Huo Yuhao had Twin Martial Souls and Extreme Ice, and Huo Yuhao released his Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Martial Soul.
• Du Busi eagerly promised to announce Huo Yuhao as his Personal disciple, but Jiang Yuheng showed that he still wanted more.
• Jiang Yuheng activated his Time Domain and told Du Busi that Huo Yuhao’s entry required him to agree to three requests.

Jiang Yuheng secured the Body Sect’s support by offering Huo Yuhao its Inheritance Seed and proposing an attack on Mingde Hall, while Du Busi joined the Spirit Pagoda as an honorary tower master. Back at Shrek Academy, Mu En praised the alliance and prepared Xuan Zi to manage the Sea God Pavilion after his death.

• Jiang Yuheng asked Du Busi to give Huo Yuhao the Body Sect’s Inheritance Seed and appoint him as the next sect master, then proposed that the Body Sect help attack Mingde Hall.
• Jiang Yuheng presented the Sea God Pavilion Vice Master’s token, and Huo Yuhao demonstrated the Soul Spirits; Du Busi agreed to both conditions and requested to become an honorary Spirit Pagoda tower master.
• Jiang Yuheng and Du Busi discussed the attack on Mingde Hall and Huo Yuhao’s future arrangements with the Body Sect.
• Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao worried that Du Busi had agreed too readily, but Jiang Yuheng said the Body Sect Master was simply decisive.
• Xuan Zi led the Four Little Ones to Sea God’s Pavilion, where Mu En praised their new ties with the Body Sect and said Xuan Zi would temporarily manage the pavilion after his death.

Jing Hongchen, Dean of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, visited Shrek Academy and entered Sea God's Pavilion at Mu En's invitation. After Jing Hongchen and Xuan Zi debated the future of Soul Tools and Shrek's students, Mu En ordered Xuan Zi to bring him upstairs to meet the student at the center of their wager.

• Mu En and Xuan Zi decided not to take Huo Yuhao or Jiang Yuheng as disciples, while Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao became disciples of Mu En and Xuan Zi.
• Mu En sensed another visitor and told Xuan Zi to invite him into Sea God's Pavilion.
• Xuan Zi exposed Jing Hongchen's concealment and invited him inside, and Jing Hongchen accepted after Xuan Zi provoked him.
• Xuan Zi and Jing Hongchen debated whether Soul Tools would shape the future and wagered that a Shrek student would change the Douluo Continent within twenty years.
• Mu En spoke from upstairs, causing Jing Hongchen to rise, and instructed Xuan Zi to bring him to the second floor.

Jing Hongchen met Mu En at Sea God's Pavilion, where they compared the strengths of Mingde Hall and Shrek Academy and discussed the exchange students. The chapter ended with Jing Hongchen guaranteeing the students’ safety and offering to serve as a hostage until they returned from the next tournament.

• Jing Hongchen warned Mu En and Xuan Zi that his three Level Nine Soul Tools could devastate Shrek City, while Mu En assured him that Sea God's Pavilion treated him as a guest.
• Jing Hongchen greeted Mu En as Dragon God Douluo and said the Sun Moon Empire also had a senior figure like him.
• Mu En asked Jing Hongchen to compare Mingde Hall and Sea God's Pavilion, and Jing Hongchen argued that Spirit Masters held the advantage in close combat while Soul Tools could win at long range and in war.
• Mu En acknowledged Soul Tools’ inevitable development but warned that powerful Spirit Masters would still be needed to wield the strongest ones.
• Mu En warned Jing Hongchen that he would visit the Sun Moon Empire’s capital if Soul Tools were used against Shrek City again.
• Jing Hongchen guaranteed the exchange students’ safety and proposed another exchange in two years, offering to stay at Shrek Academy as a hostage until the students returned after the tournament.

Mu En secured a student exchange with Jing Hongchen, then extorted Rare Metals from him before letting him leave Shrek. After explaining his declining vitality and plans for the next two years, Mu En asked Wang Dong to choose his path, leaving Wang Dong’s answer unresolved.

• Mu En and Jing Hongchen agreed to exchange students between Shrek and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy in two years, including Jiang Yuheng.
• Mu En demanded Rare Metals or a Level Nine Soul Tool from Jing Hongchen as the price for leaving Sea God's Pavilion, and Jing Hongchen paid in Rare Metals.
• Jing Hongchen confronted two companions outside Shrek over the losses, then warned them to explain themselves to Your Majesty before leaving.
• Mu En distributed much of the Rare Metals to Jiang Yuheng and instructed Xuan Zi to take Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao to the Star Dou Great Forest for Spirit Rings.
• Mu En told Jiang Yuheng, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong that his vitality was fading, outlined their obligations over the next two years, and asked Wang Dong what he would choose.

Mu En explained the coming threat of Soul Tool warfare and sent Jiang Yuheng, Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain Soul Rings, with Xuan Zi following secretly. As the group traveled, Xiao Xiao discussed her plans for her martial souls and Soul Rings.

• Mu En told Wang Dong that Jiang Yuheng would eventually study at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy while she remained at Shrek, and warned that war over Soul Tools would come.
• Xuan Zi sent Jiang Yuheng, Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao toward the Star Dou Great Forest to find suitable Soul Beasts, warning that his intervention would cost them assessment points.
• The four traveled for two days and reached the forest, where Wang Dong used the outing to draw overworked Jiang Yuheng away from his duties.
• Huo Yuhao asked Xiao Xiao about her Soul Ring plans, and she said she wanted rings for her Nine Phoenix Auspicious Phoenix Flute as well as control or defensive abilities for her Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron.
• Huo Yuhao promised to stay by Xiao Xiao, and she kissed him on the cheek, prompting Jiang Yuheng to complain while Wang Dong teased him.

Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong, and Jiang Yuheng joked about soul-beast contracts and their romantic reputations as they traveled toward the Star Dou Great Forest. At the forest’s edge, Jiang Yuheng felt that someone was watching him.

• Huo Yuhao praised Xiao Xiao’s analysis of her Martial Soul and discussed searching for a suitable spiritual-type soul beast to form a Soul Spirit contract.
• Wang Dong said Jiang Yuheng’s Frost Dragon Martial Soul could help persuade soul beasts, and Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao teased Wang Dong and Jiang Yuheng about their closeness.
• Huo Yuhao took Xiao Xiao’s hand and thanked her, prompting Wang Dong to complain that they were acting like a couple in front of the others.
• Xiao Xiao revealed that she wrote popular romance essays about Wang Dong and Jiang Yuheng, who argued playfully while Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao laughed.
• The four reached the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, where Jiang Yuheng felt someone watching him.

Jiang Yuheng led Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao into the Star Dou Great Forest to find a suitable Soul Beast for Huo Yuhao, while an unseen presence watched them. When a Darkgold Dreadclaw Bear appeared, Jiang Yuheng suggested Xiao Xiao make it her Soul Spirit.

• Jiang Yuheng instructed the group to stay near the forest’s outskirts, and Huo Yuhao used Spirit Detection and Spirit Sharing to scout ahead.
• Jiang Yuheng released his Frost Dragon’s aura to scare away nearby low-level Soul Beasts as the group searched.
• A Tiger Demon Cat ran to Jiang Yuheng for protection while a powerful bear tracked it to the group.
• Jiang Yuheng identified the bear as a Darkgold Dreadclaw Bear and proposed that Xiao Xiao make it her Soul Spirit, potentially gaining extra Spirit Rings and a Spirit Bone.

Xiao Xiao bonded with a Darkgold Dreadclaw Bear Soul Spirit and gained a rare Right Palm Bone. After Xuan Zi explained its power, Jiang Yuheng, Wang Dong, and Huo Yuhao all declined it, agreeing it suited Xiao Xiao best.

• Jiang Yuheng used his Frost Dragon bloodline to subdue the Darkgold Dreadclaw Bear, and Xiao Xiao successfully bonded with it as her Soul Spirit.
• Xiao Xiao discovered that the Soul Spirit granted her two powerful soul skills and that she had obtained its rare Right Palm Bone.
• Xuan Zi explained that the bone could grant a growing Darkgold Dreadclaw ability and might rival an External Soul Bone.
• Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong declined the bone because they already had suitable arm Spirit Bones, while Huo Yuhao urged that Xiao Xiao receive it.
• Jiang Yuheng said the bone suited Xiao Xiao and mattered less than their friendship, and Xuan Zi thanked him on her behalf.