Chapter Summaries

Wang Qiuer overwhelmed Dai Huabin and Qian Gu Ming in their sparring match, breaking through their coordinated attacks and injuring Dai Huabin with a single kick. Yan Shaozhe caught Dai Huabin as he flew toward the railing, and Zhu Lu rushed to his side.

• Yan Shaozhe started the match, and Wang Qiuer's opening stomp shook the training ground as she charged forward.
• Qian Gu Ming and Dai Huabin combined their soul skills to attack Wang Qiuer, but she threw her Golden Dragon Spear at Dai Huabin.
• Dai Huabin's Comet Burst slowed the spear, but Qian Gu Ming struck it away after intercepting it with his Evil Breaking Dragon's Soul.
• Wang Qiuer broke Dai Huabin's White Tiger Blazing Light Wave with a punch and shattered his body-protection barrier with a sweeping kick.
• Yan Shaozhe caught the injured Dai Huabin before he hit the railing, and Zhu Lu hurried to his side.

Wang Qiuer defeated Qian Gu Ming in a sparring match, then challenged Wu Xuan. Their first head-on clash shattered the arena floor, leaving the contest unresolved.

• Wang Qiuer overpowered Qian Gu Ming with the Golden Dragon Spear and won after he conceded.
• Wang Qiuer reset Qian Gu Ming's dislocated arms, and he thanked her as Nanmen Yun'er came to support him.
• Wang Qiuer challenged Wu Xuan, who accepted, and Yan Shaozhe began their sparring match.
• Wang Qiuer used her dragon eyes to lock onto Wu Xuan, who met her golden fist with his Mysterious Crystal Claw.
• Wu Xuan and Wang Qiuer's fists collided, cracking the arena tiles and blasting open a crater beneath them.

Wu Xuan and Wang Qiuer fought fiercely in the arena, with Wang Qiuer breaking through several of his wind attacks but eventually suffering injuries from his Soul Scattering Wind and Hurricane Strangler. When Yan Shaozhe was about to declare Wu Xuan the winner, Wang Qiuer charged again, and Wu Xuan kicked her Golden Dragon Spear out of her hands.

• Wu Xuan's Finger Wind Dragon was smashed apart by Wang Qiuer's kick, and she used Dragon's Strength to charge at him.
• Wu Xuan trapped Wang Qiuer with Jade Clear Wind Fire Burn, but she shattered the crystals with Golden Dragon Explode and escaped the chain blasts.
• Wang Qiuer's Golden Dragon Roar met Wu Xuan's Hurricane Strangler and Soul Scattering Wind, leaving her injured and exhausted while Wu Xuan remained unharmed.
• Wu Xuan told Yan Shaozhe the outcome was decided, but Wang Qiuer roared that she had not lost and charged at him again.
• Wu Xuan kicked the Golden Dragon Spear from Wang Qiuer's hands, sending it flying into the ground.

Wang Qiuer attacked Wu Xuan after their sparring match, but he defeated and pinned her until Yan Shaozhe stopped the fight. Humiliated and in tears, Wang Qiuer ran from the training ground, while Wu Xuan returned to Mu En and the others.

• Wang Qiuer used her Dragon Bloodline to attack Wu Xuan, who defended himself and warned her to stop.
• Wang Qiuer continued attacking, and Wu Xuan countered with physical strikes before sweeping her down and pinning her.
• Wu Xuan asked Wang Qiuer to admit defeat, but she refused and struggled as tears filled her eyes.
• Yan Shaozhe ended the sparring match, and Wu Xuan released Wang Qiuer.
• Wang Qiuer shouted that she hated Wu Xuan and ran out of the training ground in tears.
• Wu Xuan returned to Mu En, Xuan Zi, and Cai Mei'er as Qian Gu Ming praised him for defeating Wang Qiuer.

Mu En revealed that his life force would last less than four months and began preparing Wu Xuan to lead Shrek. He then explained how the Golden Tree became the Sea God Pavilion’s ultimate trump card, leaving Wu Xuan with the secret of its alliance with Shrek.

• Yan Shaozhe canceled the practical combat competition and told the students to gather at the training grounds the next morning.
• Mu En asked Wu Xuan to add Xie Huanyue to the reserve team and said he would teach him to manage the Sea God Pavilion, Shrek Academy, and Shrek City.
• Mu En revealed that his life force would last less than four months, and Wu Xuan resolved to learn from him and carry on his responsibilities.
• Mu En explained that the Golden Tree held immense Life Energy and Quasi-God-level Soul Power but lacked offensive ability.
• Mu En recounted how Fierce Beasts once attacked the Golden Tree, which lent its power to that era’s Sea God Pavilion Master, leading to an alliance between the tree and Shrek.

Mu En guided Wu Xuan to connect with and control the Golden Tree’s power, then laid out the rules for using it. Wu Xuan revealed his plan to build a second Soul Core, and Mu En explained that the Yin Yang Complementary Method required an exceptionally strong body and bloodline.

• Mu En explained how the Sea God Pavilion Masters nourished the Golden Tree and why he intended to merge with it at the end of his life.
• Mu En guided Wu Xuan into meditation, and Wu Xuan sensed the Golden Tree’s core and a faint blue net he suspected was connected to Ah Yin.
• After three days, Wu Xuan mastered the Golden Tree’s power and learned the rules governing when and where it could be invoked.
• Wu Xuan told Mu En he planned to construct a second Soul Core through the Yin Yang Complementary Method after obtaining his eighth ring.
• After discussing Wang Qiuer’s Golden Dragon Bloodline, Mu En said the method was nearly impossible for ordinary humans without an exceptionally strong body and powerful bloodline.

Mu En gave Wu Xuan the purified Dragon Pill and taught him about Shrek Academy before Wu Xuan began refining it and practicing the Descent Secret Method. His cultivation was interrupted when the Wind God and Space God summoned him, despite his existing agreement to pursue the God of Destruction’s inheritance trial.

• Mu En explained how the Dragon Pill had helped him become a Limit Douluo and gave it to Wu Xuan, asking him to learn the Descent Secret Method as well.
• Wu Xuan spent ten days studying Sea God Pavilion and Shrek Academy’s affairs with Mu En, while the elders worried about Mu En’s declining health.
• Wu Xuan entered seclusion, refined one-tenth of the Dragon Pill over several days, and gained greatly enhanced physical strength.
• Wu Xuan began practicing the Descent Secret Method, but his Spiritual Power was pulled from his body into a space where the Wind God and Space God awaited him.
• Wu Xuan told the Wind God and Space God that he had already agreed to participate in the God of Destruction’s inheritance trial.

Wind God and Space God explained the two methods of divine inheritance to Wu Xuan, then Wind God proposed that he pursue a second God Position alongside God of Destruction’s. Wu Xuan accepted the opportunity and received the token for Wind God’s Nine Trials.

• Space God and Wind God explained that gods could pass on their positions through trials or by granting a Divine Nature Seed, and Wu Xuan described God of Destruction’s gifts.
• Wind God lamented losing a potential inheritor, but Space God reminded him of a theory for combining two God Positions through Wu Xuan’s Twin Martial Souls.
• Wind God proposed that Wu Xuan balance the powers of two gods and use them to reach a higher level of divinity.
• Wu Xuan agreed to consider Wind God’s inheritance, and Wind God placed a jade-green token in his hand to begin the Wind God Nine Trials.

As Mu En reached the end of his life, he entrusted Shrek Academy to Wu Xuan and helped Beibei stabilize his Holy Light Dragon bloodline. Mu En then passed away in a display of golden light, leaving the academy’s disciples with a final gift.

• Mu En asked the elders to help Wu Xuan and told them to let the young man lead the academy.
• Mu En stabilized Beibei’s Holy Light Dragon bloodline, and Xuan Zi carried the unconscious Beibei deeper into Sea God Pavilion.
• Mu En entrusted the Vice Dean position of the Martial Soul Department to Zhang Lexuan.
• Wu Xuan emerged from seclusion in the form of his Golden Scale Griffin and promised to take responsibility for the academy.
• Mu En transformed into a giant white dragon and passed away as his body became golden Light Spots.
• The Light Spots settled on the Inner Court disciples, purifying their bodies and condensing their Soul Power.

Wu Xuan chaired his first Sea God Pavilion Council and proposed redirecting the Inspection Hall toward Evil Soul Masters and Evil Soul Beasts while leaving corrupt officials and nobles to the kingdoms. He revealed a long-distance text communication Soul Tool as leverage for forcing the kingdoms to enforce the law, and the elders unanimously approved his reform.

• Wu Xuan opened the council by honoring Mu En and set out four matters for discussion.
• Wu Xuan proposed stricter team requirements for Inspection Hall missions and an end to missions against corrupt officials and nobles.
• Wu Xuan explained that the kingdoms should handle their own corrupt officials and nobles while the Inspection Hall focused on Evil Soul Masters and Evil Soul Beasts.
• Wu Xuan demonstrated a Rank 5 communication Soul Tool that could send text between Shrek Academy and the kingdoms’ capitals.
• Wu Xuan warned that he would intervene if the kingdoms failed to punish lawbreakers, and the elders unanimously supported his reform.

Wu Xuan led the elders through Shrek Academy’s enrollment plans, departmental changes, and the distribution of Mu En’s Soul Bones. The meeting ended with Beibei receiving a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone entrusted for temporary use, while Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruo Ruo selected other Soul Bones.

• Wu Xuan proposed expanding Soul Tool Department enrollment and allowing talented applicants to enter through self-recommendation, followed by a three-month advancement assessment.
• Wu Xuan said the Soul Tool Department could recruit willing students after the assessment, and Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo accepted his plan.
• Wu Xuan announced that half the academy-owned industries’ income would go to the Soul Tool Department and that it would provide two custom-made Soul Tools to the Inspection Corps.
• Wu Xuan assigned new academy roles, including making Cai Mei'er dean of the Martial Soul Department, Zhang Lexuan vice dean, Han Ruo Ruo a chief instructor, and Ma Xiaotao deputy master of the Inspection Hall.
• Wu Xuan entrusted Mu En’s Hundred Thousand Year Right Arm Soul Bone to Elder Lin Huiqun for Beibei’s use, with instructions that the academy reclaim it after Beibei’s lifespan ended.
• Wu Xuan approved Soul Bones for Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruo Ruo, who chose an Eighty Thousand Year Torso Soul Bone and a Seventy Thousand Year Head Soul Bone, respectively.

After becoming Sea God Pavilion Master, Wu Xuan approved important documents and agreed to let Ye Guyi join the Shrek team traveling to Ming Capital for the expanded tournament. The Shrek group met the Tang Sect team near the capital and learned that its new member, Tang Tian, came from Haotian Fort.

• Wu Xuan reviewed and approved important documents in his new office as Sea God Pavilion Master.
• Ye Guyi asked to travel to Ming Capital for the tournament, and Wu Xuan appointed her deputy team leader while telling her to follow his plans.
• Wu Xuan led the Shrek team toward Ming Capital using his Soul Skill to propel their Flying Soul Tools.
• The Shrek team descended outside Ming Capital's territory and encountered Beibei, Huo Yuhao, and the Tang Sect team taking a meal.
• Beibei introduced Tang Tian as the Tang Sect's new member, and Wu Xuan recognized that he came from Haotian Fort.

The Shrek group reached Ming Capital after Tang Tian drove off the arrogant Heavy Sky Sect team. At the Mingyue Grand Hotel, Wu Xuan and Ye Guyi recognized the Evil Soul Masters among the arriving teams, including a girl Wu Xuan suspected was Tang Ya.

• Feng Ling of the Heavy Sky Sect insulted Huo Yuhao's group and tried to approach Wang Dong'er, so Tang Tian struck him and defeated the sect members with his black hammer.
• The Heavy Sky Sect party fled, and the Shrek group set off for Ming Capital with Wu Xuan's help.
• The Shrek group arrived at the Mingyue Grand Hotel and received an exclusive welcome passage as the previous tournament's champions.
• Zhang Lexuan recognized Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng, while Wu Xuan suspected the veiled girl beside him was Tang Ya and Ye Guyi identified the team as Evil Soul Masters.
• The Shrek group entered a VIP room and began completing registration forms, appearance records, and physical examinations.

Wu Xuan and the Shrek team arrived in the Sun Moon Empire for the tournament, where they discovered that the Holy Spirit Cult had openly entered the competition. Wu Xuan warned Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao of the threat but reassured them that Long Xiaoyao had promised not to attack during the tournament, then met with Xu Jiujiu and Man Yi.

• The welcoming girls registered the Shrek team, and one was shocked to learn Wu Xuan had Seven-ring Soul Sage cultivation.
• Xu Jiujiu greeted Wu Xuan and learned that the five former Shrek reserve members would compete for the Tang Sect; Wu Xuan then led his team to Mingyue Hotel.
• Wu Xuan sent Ye Guyi to gather information and met with Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao to discuss the Holy Spirit Cult's tournament team and its suspected ties to the Sun Moon Imperial Family.
• Wu Xuan revealed that Teacher Mu had told him Long Xiaoyao had joined the Holy Spirit Cult, then reassured Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao that Long Xiaoyao would not attack them during the tournament.
• Xu Jiujiu arrived with her protector, Man Yi, to meet Wu Xuan after the group had spent over two hours discussing tournament arrangements.

Wu Xuan warned Xu Jiujiu that the Holy Spirit Cult had powerful Evil Soul Masters and might be cooperating with the Sun Moon Empire, prompting discussion of future cooperation. Their talks were interrupted by news that Beibei had been injured, and Wu Xuan and Ma Xiaotao went to see him.

• Xu Jiujiu questioned Wu Xuan about the Tang Sect's Godly Zhuge Crossbow Cannons and Shrek's Soul Tool advances, and Wu Xuan revealed that Shrek's two Soul Tool Department deans had become Level Nine Soul Engineers.
• Xu Jiujiu asked about deeper cooperation, and Wu Xuan said it was possible before warning her that the Holy Spirit Cult had several Super Douluo-level Evil Soul Masters and might be working with the Sun Moon Empire.
• A Tang Sect messenger reported that Beibei had been injured by an Evil Soul Master, so Wu Xuan and Ma Xiaotao left the meeting and went to the Tang Sect's room.
• Ma Xiaotao found Beibei pale and injured, demanded to know who had hurt him, and grabbed Xu Sanshi when he tried to calm her.

Wu Xuan confronted the Tang Sect members over Beibei’s injuries and learned that Tang Ya had joined the Holy Spirit Cult. He rejected their pleas to save her, declared that Evil Soul Masters would die, and left with Ma Xiaotao, promising she could join him later.

• Wu Xuan arrived with Ma Xiaotao and demanded to know who had injured Beibei, threatening to kill the Tang Sect members if they hid an Evil Soul Master.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that Tang Ya had injured Beibei and argued that she might have been coerced, while Xu Sanshi and Beibei pleaded for her to be saved.
• Wu Xuan rejected their pleas, arguing that Evil Soul Masters chose their path and that sparing them could lead to more deaths; Beibei collapsed after calling Wu Xuan a weakling and criticizing him as Mu En’s successor.
• Wu Xuan shoved Huo Yuhao aside, declared that Evil Soul Masters had only one fate before him, and left with Ma Xiaotao.
• Ma Xiaotao asked Wu Xuan to call her when he went after the Evil Soul Masters, and he promised he would.

The Shrek Team arrived at the tournament grounds, where Wu Xuan sensed powerful newcomers and watched Xu Tianran and Ju Zi open the Continental Young Soul Master Elite Tournament. The opening ceremony ended with the first preliminary match announced, while Shrek had a bye for the day.

• The Shrek Team left Mingyue Grand Hotel and traveled under heavy military escort to the tournament grounds, where Shrek Academy received the rest area closest to the stage.
• Wu Xuan sensed two Limit Douluo auras and identified one unfamiliar presence as someone from Haotian Fort.
• Xu Tianran arrived with Ju Zi, Jing Hongchen, officials, and guards, then ascended to the podium as spectators cheered him.
• Long Xiaoyao silenced the crowd with his overwhelming presence, and Ju Zi declared the tournament open on Xu Tianran's behalf.
• Officials announced the tournament rules and called for the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and the Dragon Slaying Sect to send seven competitors each.

Wu Xuan watched the Sun Moon Team dominate the first round while Xu Tianran and the Holy Spirit Cult resolved to kill him after learning he was a teenage Soul Sage. Unaware of their plans, Wu Xuan left the arena and prepared to pursue his own objectives in Ming Capital.

• Meng Hongchen opened the Individual Elimination Match and helped the Sun Moon Team secure an easy first-round victory.
• Jing Hongchen told Xu Tianran and Zhongli Wu that Wu Xuan had reached Soul Sage cultivation before age eighteen and had defeated Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen in the past.
• Xu Tianran ordered that Wu Xuan be eliminated, and Zhongli Wu offered to have the Holy Spirit Cult carry out the assassination.
• Wu Xuan left the arena after exchanging a brief look with Xu Tianran, whose killing intent toward him intensified.
• Wu Xuan planned to destroy the Evil Soul Masters in the Xi Shui Alliance, obtain Sealed Milk Bottle technology, and raid the Sun Moon Empire's underground armory.

Wu Xuan sat out Shrek Academy’s first match and assigned Wang Qiuer to lead the team while he prepared a raid on the Xi Shui Alliance. He and Ma Xiaotao, Zhang Lexuan, and Ye Guyi infiltrated the Youthful Hotel, killing the guards and staff as they moved inside.

• Wu Xuan told the Shrek Team he would leave matches through the quarterfinals to them and placed Wang Qiuer in charge, though she objected to being ordered around.
• Wu Xuan revealed that the Xi Shui Alliance had gained powerful Evil Soul Masters and planned to strike its headquarters while its forces were occupied with an underground competition.
• Wu Xuan, Ma Xiaotao, Zhang Lexuan, and Ye Guyi disguised themselves as Youthful Hotel waiters and approached the hotel after the second round of eliminations began.
• Wu Xuan killed the four guards at the entrance, and Ye Guyi stored their bodies as the group entered through the main entrance.
• Wu Xuan killed a middle-aged hotel employee and led the group deeper into the hotel, killing everyone they encountered.

Wu Xuan and Zhang Lexuan's group infiltrated the Xi Shui Alliance's Soul Engineer Tournament and discovered two Holy Spirit Cult Titled Douluo among the guests. Wu Xuan launched an attack, sealing the underground plaza behind a curtain of wind.

• Wu Xuan led Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, and Ye Guyi down to the tournament, where they passed the guards by posing as transferred workers.
• The group explored the lavish tournament hall and learned that it held more than two hundred and sixty contestants and over two thousand spectators.
• Wu Xuan warned the others that the tournament might contain few Evil Soul Masters, but they prepared to attack anyway.
• Wu Xuan recognized two elders who arrived at the hall as Nether Lightning Douluo and Nightmare Demon Douluo of the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Wu Xuan unleashed emerald light, disorienting everyone in the hall and trapping the underground plaza behind a strange curtain of wind.