Chapter Summaries

Wu Xuan agreed to join his Second Senior Sister’s expedition to hunt soul beasts, then faced Huo Yuhao and the others in a six-against-one training match. The spar began with the Tang Sect team working together to counter his speed and Wind Blades.

• Wu Xuan told the elders he had not chosen a soul beast for his eighth ring, and Xuan Zi promised to search for Hundred-Thousand-Year wind-attribute soul beasts.
• Yan Shaozhe and Cai Mei'er invited Wu Xuan to join his Second Senior Sister’s expedition into the Star Dou Great Forest’s Core Zone, and Wu Xuan agreed.
• Mu En told Huo Yuhao, Beibei, and the others that they could represent the Tang Sect if they endured Wu Xuan’s attacks for the time it took an incense stick to burn; Xuan Zi added restrictions on Wu Xuan’s abilities.
• Beibei led the six into formation, and Wu Xuan began the spar by rushing at Huo Yuhao before Xu Sanshi switched places with him using Mysterious Turtle Replacement.
• He Caitou fired a Class 6 high-explosive shell that destroyed Wu Xuan’s Wind Blades, while Beibei attacked with Thunder Dragon Claw, prompting Wu Xuan to say he would get serious.

Wu Xuan demonstrated his Annihilation Thunder and overwhelmed the defenses of Xu Sanshi and He Caitou before turning his attack on Jiang Nannan. As Beibei, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong'er prepared a counterattack, Beibei transformed into a Holy Light Dragon and charged Wu Xuan.

• Wu Xuan formed a violet-black Lightning Ball with his Annihilation Thunder and hurled it at He Caitou, but Xu Sanshi intercepted the attack with his Mysterious Turtle Shell Shield.
• Wu Xuan's Lightning Ball shattered Xu Sanshi's shield and engulfed him and He Caitou in lightning, prompting Xuan Zi to pull both of them out of the battle.
• Wu Xuan used Light Spirit Wind to pursue Jiang Nannan and struck her, but her Invincible Golden Body let her survive long enough for Beibei, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong'er to prepare.
• Huo Yuhao spread Frost Invasion throughout the arena with Wang Dong'er's help, but Wu Xuan quickly resisted its effects.
• Beibei summoned the Holy Light Dragon's power, armored himself in golden scales, and charged forward.

Wu Xuan defeated Huo Yuhao and the others in a sparring match, prompting Xuan Zi to criticize their lack of teamwork. After the match, Wang Dong'er asked Wu Xuan about Wang Qiuer, and Huo Yuhao revealed that Wang Qiuer had come to the Inner Court specifically to find him.

• Wu Xuan used his Dragon Emperor's Shaking Domain Realm and Hurricane Great Hand to defeat Beibei, while Jiang Nannan, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong'er also attacked him.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er surrendered after their Golden Road beam failed to break through Wu Xuan's wind barrier.
• Xu Sanshi accused Wu Xuan of going too hard on He Caitou, and Xuan Zi explained that Wu Xuan had won through careful tactics while the others failed to work together.
• Mu En sent the six students to rest and told them they would spar again the next day, while Wu Xuan left after challenging them to defeat him.
• Wang Dong'er told Wu Xuan that she had no elder sister and no relationship with Wang Qiuer, and Huo Yuhao said Wang Qiuer had come to the Inner Court specifically to find Wu Xuan.
• Wu Xuan was shocked that Wang Qiuer had identified him despite his efforts to stay hidden.

Wu Xuan defeated Huo Yuhao and the others again, then learned that Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er would join his soul hunt with Cai Mei'er and Elder Song. The group gathered at Shrek Academy the next morning to head for the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but Wu Xuan crushed their attack with One Qi Great Hand Explode and ended the sparring match.
• Xuan Zi told the students they had to find their final tournament team member themselves and that the academy would reclaim their Shrek Seven Devils titles in two months.
• Wu Xuan met Cai Mei'er and Elder Song, who explained that Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er would join the soul hunt and Elder Song would secretly provide protection.
• Cai Mei'er said Elder Song would guide Wu Xuan into the Great Danger Land if the hunt failed to find a suitable eighth-ring soul beast, and Wu Xuan promised to retreat if an attack on a Fierce Beast failed.
• Wu Xuan waited at Shrek Academy's gate the next morning as Wang Qiuer, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong'er arrived for the trip to the Star Dou Great Forest.

Zhang Lexuan led the group of Inner Court students toward the Star Dou Great Forest, where they shared their Soul Ring needs and prepared for the expedition. After reaching the forest’s edge, they rested over a meal before preparing to enter.

• Zhang Lexuan, Wu Xuan, Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, Li Yongyue, Mo Xuan, and Wang Qiuer introduced their Martial Souls, cultivation levels, and Soul Ring requirements.
• Zhang Lexuan arranged the group's formation, and the students traveled together to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Wu Xuan and Wang Qiuer briefly shared a mysterious connection when their gazes met, stirring the Power of Destiny between them.
• Zhang Lexuan assigned the group to gather food, and Wu Xuan and Huo Yuhao caught fish while Zhang Lexuan, Wang Qiuer, and Mo Xuan hunted wild chickens.
• Wu Xuan cooked chicken soup, and the group ate and rested at the forest's edge before their planned entry.

Wu Xuan led the group into the Star Dou Great Forest’s Mixed Zone and used Aura Perception to locate a suitable soul beast for Li Yongyue. After Wu Xuan defeated a nineteen-thousand-year Purple Shadow Lion and Li Yongyue began absorbing its Soul Ring, Wang Qiuer discovered that Wu Xuan’s Spiritual Power had reached the tangible and material realm.

• Wu Xuan and Zhang Lexuan led the group through the Outskirts Zone and into the Mixed Zone, where Zhang Lexuan assigned everyone’s formation.
• Wu Xuan detected a Purple Shadow Lion about eight or nine hundred meters ahead, and Zhang Lexuan confirmed that its nineteen-thousand-year cultivation suited Li Yongyue.
• Wu Xuan used Light Spirit Wind to strike the Purple Shadow Lion down, and Li Yongyue killed it and began absorbing its black Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Zhang Lexuan praised Wu Xuan’s ability to find soul beasts and asked him to handle future command decisions, and he agreed.
• Wang Qiuer asked how Wu Xuan had found the lion, and he explained that Aura Perception was an Innate Soul Skill strengthened by his Spiritual Power.
• Wang Qiuer realized Wu Xuan’s Spiritual Power had reached the tangible and material realm and reacted with disbelief.

Wu Xuan’s group encountered six Ghost Wing Ice Butterflies, and Wang Qiuer volunteered to lure them while the others prepared to attack. Wu Xuan trapped the butterflies, and Wang Qiuer killed the strongest one before facing the remaining five.

• Li Yongyue finished absorbing a Purple Shadow Lion soul ring and gained her sixth soul skill.
• Wu Xuan warned the group that six fast flying soul beasts were approaching, and Huo Yuhao identified them as Ghost Wing Ice Butterflies.
• Wang Qiuer revealed her Golden Dragon Spear and insisted on fighting the Evil Soul Beasts, while Zhang Lexuan organized the group’s attack.
• Wang Qiuer moved away to lure the butterflies, and Wu Xuan used Jadeite Wind to trap all six in jade-green crystals.
• Wang Qiuer struck down the sixty-thousand-year butterfly with her Golden Dragon Spear, then shattered the remaining butterflies’ Extreme Ice Blades head-on.

Wang Qiuer and the Shrek Academy group swiftly killed five Ghost Wing Ice Butterflies, allowing Huo Yuhao to absorb two Soul Rings. After Huo Yuhao reached rank fifty, he began absorbing his fifth ring while the group camped at the boundary of the Mixed Zone and Core Zone.

• Zhang Lexuan restrained two Ghost Wing Ice Butterflies while the five beasts unleashed their combined Ghost Vibration Wave.
• Wu Xuan teleported Wang Qiuer into the attack, and her Golden Dragon Roar shattered three butterflies and left the other two dying.
• Huo Yuhao killed one weakened butterfly for its Soul Ring and borrowed Wu Xuan’s Platform of Deification to absorb the second.
• Wang Qiuer thanked Wu Xuan for helping her land the decisive strike, and he dismissed her gratitude casually.
• Zhang Lexuan arranged for the group to camp for the night while Huo Yuhao absorbed his fourth Soul Ring and reached rank fifty.
• Huo Yuhao began absorbing his fifth Soul Ring as Wu Xuan noticed Wang Qiuer watching him.

Wu Xuan’s group faced a huge pack of Blood Red Baboons while Huo Yuhao continued absorbing his fifth soul ring. After the battle, Wu Xuan kept a wounded baboon alive to test Wang Qiuer, but she showed no interest in its soul ring.

• Wu Xuan sensed more than two hundred Blood Red Baboons approaching and warned the group, who stayed to protect Huo Yuhao.
• Wu Xuan killed the Blood Red Baboon King with a single Wind Dragon attack, causing many of the unaffected baboons to flee.
• Wang Qiuer, Wang Dong'er, and the others fought the remaining baboons, with Wang Qiuer killing several and helping Li Yongyue.
• Wu Xuan defeated the forty-six-thousand-year Blood Red Baboon that had lost its arms, then captured it alive for his test of Wang Qiuer.
• Zhang Lexuan offered the captured baboon's soul ring, but Wang Qiuer dismissed it as useless to her Golden Dragon Bloodline.

Wu Xuan investigated the battle between three suspected Evil Soul Masters and a Dark Gold Fearsome Claw Bear, then attacked the brothers and sealed away the dying bear. Wang Qiuer followed him into the Core Zone as the rest of the group continued searching for soul rings.

• Huo Yuhao absorbed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass's fifth soul ring and chose the Blood Red Baboon for his Spirit Eyes.
• At dawn, Wu Xuan sensed that three Soul Douluo were hunting a Dark Gold Fearsome Claw Bear and suspected they were Evil Soul Masters.
• Wu Xuan flew toward the Core Zone, and Wang Qiuer followed him despite Zhang Lexuan's order to return.
• Wu Xuan found the wounded sixty-thousand-year Dark Gold Fearsome Claw Bear facing the three brothers Zhong Li Tian, Zhong Li Di, and Zhong Li Ren.
• Wu Xuan struck the brothers with Annihilation Storm, destroying their captured beast souls, then used the Platform of Deification to seal the unconscious bear.

Wu Xuan and Wang Qiuer fought the Zhongli brothers after they summoned their natal beast souls to seize his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones. The chapter left the brothers’ Crimson Gold Lion and Nether Ghost Tiger cut down by Wu Xuan’s Wheel of Prairie Fire, while Wang Qiuer continued battling the Ghost Shadow Leopard Emperor.

• The Zhongli brothers transformed into gray mist and unleashed their blood-colored beast souls against Wu Xuan, who scattered them with Annihilation Wind.
• The brothers summoned their Crimson Gold Lion, Nether Ghost Tiger, and Ghost Shadow Leopard Emperor, hoping to take Wu Xuan’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones.
• Wang Qiuer arrived and wounded the Ghost Shadow Leopard Emperor with the Golden Dragon Spear, then joined Wu Xuan against the brothers.
• Wu Xuan told Wang Qiuer to hold off the Ghost Shadow Leopard Emperor while he attacked the other two natal beast souls.
• Wu Xuan used his Golden Scale Griffin Left Leg Soul Bone skill, Wheel of Prairie Fire, to cut the Crimson Gold Lion and Nether Ghost Tiger in half and burn them away.

Wu Xuan and Wang Qiuer overwhelmed three Evil Soul Masters, killing Zhong Li Tian and Zhong Li Di and seemingly killing Zhong Li Ren. After the fight, they turned to the berserk beast souls while Wu Xuan collected the Soul Douluos’ valuable spoils.

• Wu Xuan destroyed Zhong Li Tian and Zhong Li Di’s bonded beast souls, then cut both men in half with his Jadeite Wind axe.
• Wang Qiuer pierced the Ghost Shadow Leopard Emperor with her Golden Dragon Spear, forcing Zhong Li Ren to summon his reserve beast souls and flee.
• Wu Xuan shattered the gemstone on Zhong Li Ren’s staff and struck him with Annihilation Light, while Wang Qiuer pinned him to the ground with her spear.
• The injured Ghost Shadow Leopard Emperor escaped after Zhong Li Ren’s body vanished, and Wu Xuan stopped Wang Qiuer from pursuing it so they could deal with the berserk beast souls.
• Elder Song praised Wu Xuan and Wang Qiuer, while Wu Xuan looted four soul bones, including Zhong Li Ren’s twenty-thousand-year Head Soul Bone, along with herbs and Gold Soul Coins.

After Wang Qiuer absorbed the sixty-thousand-year Dark Gold Fearsome Claw Bear’s soul ring, she and Wu Xuan set out to rejoin Zhang Lexuan’s group. Their journey was interrupted by the arrival of the nineteen-thousand-year Soul Devouring Spider Emperor, and they faced the powerful Evil Soul Beast.

• Wang Qiuer killed the Dark Gold Fearsome Claw Bear and absorbed its soul ring in about four hours while Wu Xuan harvested its corpse.
• Wu Xuan and Wang Qiuer ate Old Liu’s braised beef, then used Wu Xuan’s aura perception to locate Zhang Lexuan’s group.
• Two hostile auras approached, and the fleeing Ghost Shadow Leopard Emperor collapsed near Wu Xuan and Wang Qiuer.
• Dark green venomous spiders devoured the Ghost Shadow Leopard Emperor as the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor advanced.
• Wu Xuan identified the nineteen-thousand-year Soul Devouring Spider Emperor, which threatened to extract their souls, and Wang Qiuer declared it deserved to die.

Wu Xuan and Wang Qiuer fought the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor in the Abyss. Wang Qiuer’s Golden Dragon Fearsome Claw pierced the spider emperor’s powerful defense, leaving its carapace cracked.

• The Soul Devouring Spider Emperor attacked Wu Xuan and Wang Qiuer with swarms of spiderlings, but Wu Xuan crushed them with Soul Pressure.
• The Soul Devouring Spider Emperor charged Wu Xuan with scythe-like legs, and Wu Xuan damaged them with his Soul Breaking Spear and Sharpness of Light.
• Wang Qiuer unleashed her Golden Dragon Fearsome Claw as Wu Xuan fought the spider emperor head-on.
• Wu Xuan switched martial souls and escaped just before Wang Qiuer’s attack landed, causing the spider emperor to shield itself with Magic Spider Origin.
• Wang Qiuer’s Golden Dragon Fearsome Claw tore through the spider emperor’s protective silk and cracked its carapace.

Wu Xuan and Wang Qiuer triggered Martial Soul Resonance while fighting the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor. Wu Xuan shattered the Spider Emperor’s domain, leaving her injured and exposed.

• Wang Qiuer entered the poisonous mist and was poisoned, so Wu Xuan cleared the mist and treated her with Spirit Gathering Wind.
• Wu Xuan and Wang Qiuer’s Soul Power resonated, then their Spiritual Power fused when they held hands again.
• The Soul Devouring Spider Emperor escaped Wu Xuan’s emerald flames and attacked them with eight Moon Blades, which Wu Xuan destroyed with Annihilation Thunder.
• Wu Xuan charged the Spider Emperor and shattered her scythe blades with a silver-powered punch.
• The Spider Emperor trapped Wu Xuan in her Soul Devouring Domain and attacked with Abyss Slash of Space Tear.
• Wu Xuan used Mountain Suppressing Universe Break and the Soul Breaking Spear’s Destruction Domain to break the Spider Emperor’s domain and wound her.

Wu Xuan unleashed Sunflare within his Blazing Domain and killed the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor, then claimed its Right Arm Soul Bone. After recovering his Soul Power, he learned from Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that the beast had been cultivated for 199,800 years.

• Wu Xuan trapped the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor in his Blazing Domain as Wang Qiuer tried to enter, but Elder Song stopped her.
• Elder Song entered the domain, sensed the danger, and fled as Wu Xuan unleashed Sunflare.
• Wu Xuan's Sunflare burned the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor to death and produced a nineteen-thousand-year soul ring.
• Wu Xuan took the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor's Right Arm Soul Bone and asked Elder Song to guard him while he recovered.
• After recovering most of his Soul Power with medicinal liquid, Wu Xuan awakened Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and learned the beast's cultivation had reached 199,800 years.

Wu Xuan absorbed the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor’s Soul Ring into the Soul Breaking Spear as its age advanced to two hundred thousand years. While he cultivated, Wang Qiuer and Elder Song killed three approaching Wolf Apes and discovered that they had dropped three identical spatial Left Leg Soul Bones, leaving their distribution for the return to the academy.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s origin power advanced the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor Soul Ring to two hundred thousand years, and Wu Xuan absorbed it into the Soul Breaking Spear’s fourth slot.
• As Wu Xuan endured the Soul Ring’s power, Wang Qiuer sensed three Wolf Apes approaching, and Elder Song attacked them.
• Wang Qiuer and Elder Song killed the three Wolf Apes, with Wang Qiuer’s Golden Dragon Spear and Elder Song’s Azure Light Blades finishing the survivors.
• Elder Song recovered three identical Left Leg Soul Bones with spatial fluctuation, then proposed that the academy decide how to distribute them.

Wu Xuan completed the absorption of a two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Devouring Spider Emperor soul ring and returned to Sea God Island, where he revealed the danger posed by Evil Soul Masters. He left the Sea God Pavilion after explaining his new soul skills and receiving responsibility for selecting the academy’s tournament candidates.

• Wang Qiuer showed little interest in the soul bone Elder Song offered as compensation.
• Zhang Lexuan’s group reached the crater as Wu Xuan finished absorbing the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor soul ring, and Elder Song led everyone out of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Wu Xuan returned to Sea God Island and told Mu En, Xuan Zi, and Cai Mei'er how he had killed three Evil Soul Master Soul Douluo and drawn out the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor.
• Elder Song proposed suspending Inspection Hall missions because powerful Evil Soul Masters had reappeared, and Mu En agreed to raise the proposal at the Sea God Pavilion Council.
• Wu Xuan described his soul skills, Eternal Wound and Life Devour, and Mu En told him to select the academy’s candidates for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament.

Wu Xuan selected Shrek Academy’s team for the newly renamed All-Continent Youth Soul Master Competition, while the Tang Sect decided to enter separately. At Sea God Pavilion, the teams learned the tournament format and their assigned roles, with Wang Qiuer named vice-captain.

• Elder Song asked Mu En to decide who would receive a Soul Bone fused from three similar Left Leg Soul Bones, and Mu En awarded it to Wang Qiuer as the academy’s investment in her.
• Wu Xuan asked Xiao Xiao for teammate recommendations, and they settled on Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, Lan Susu, and Lan Luoluo as additions to their team.
• Wu Xuan informed the candidates about the competition, but Wang Qiuer left without giving him a definite answer.
• Beibei confirmed that his group would represent the Tang Sect, while Yan Shaozhe announced Wu Xuan as Shrek’s captain and Wang Qiuer as vice-captain.
• Yan Shaozhe explained that the tournament would use individual elimination matches followed by seven-versus-seven team matches, with individual victories worth one point and the team match worth five.

Cai Mei'er and Yan Shaozhe arranged an individual elimination match between the two teams, with Wu Xuan barred from participating because of his strength. Qian Gu Ming and Dai Huabin challenged Wang Qiuer’s appointment as vice-captain, and the chapter ended as Yan Shaozhe prepared to referee a fight between the three.

• Cai Mei'er announced that the teams would compete in an individual elimination match that afternoon, with Wu Xuan excluded.
• Wu Xuan assessed the New Shrek Team’s strength and believed it could win even without him.
• Qian Gu Ming and Dai Huabin questioned Wang Qiuer’s appointment as vice-captain and demanded that she prove her strength.
• Wang Qiuer rejected Qian Gu Ming’s assumption that she was related to Wang Dong'er and released a powerful aura that made both challengers wary.
• Yan Shaozhe agreed to referee a fight between Wang Qiuer, Qian Gu Ming, and Dai Huabin, and the three took their places on the training ground.