Chapter Summaries

After Shrek’s team returned from the tournament, the Sea God Pavilion’s golden light helped Wu Xuan break through to Soul Power Rank Forty-Nine. The Academy praised the team’s championship victory but reprimanded the Inner Court disciples for their earlier mission failure, leaving Dai Yueheng ready to begin his graduation assessment.

• The Sea God Pavilion’s golden light restored and strengthened the group, and Wu Xuan’s cultivation reached Soul Power Rank Forty-Nine.
• Ma Xiaotao led the team into the Sea God Pavilion, where Yan Shaozhe explained its role and announced that the Academy would reward them for winning the tournament.
• Yan Shaozhe gave Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, Chen Zifeng, and Ling Luochen major demerits for failing to protect their teammates during the inspection mission, though the demerits would not be recorded if they completed enough black-rank missions.
• Yan Shaozhe recognized the four Inner Court disciples’ contributions to the championship and promised each a soul bone after they completed enough black-rank missions.
• Dai Yueheng learned that he could begin preparing for his Inner Court graduation assessment and left the Sea God Pavilion.

Yan Shaozhe rewarded Wang Yan and the reserve team for winning the tournament, naming the students the Shrek Seven Devils and granting Wu Xuan lifelong leadership. He kept Wu Xuan’s title secret until Wu Xuan could protect himself, then asked the hidden person at the table’s end whether they had anything to add.

• Yan Shaozhe promoted Wang Yan to special-grade teacher and granted him a year of access to the Sea God Pavilion Library.
• Yan Shaozhe awarded the seven reserve team members four Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, one for each of them, and named them the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Yan Shaozhe appointed Wu Xuan the lifelong Leader of the Shrek Seven Devils, a decision the others accepted as deserved.
• Yan Shaozhe told Wu Xuan that the academy would keep the lifelong title quiet until Wu Xuan reached Soul Sage and could protect himself.
• Yan Shaozhe addressed the person reclining at the far end of the table and asked whether they had further instructions.

Mu En revealed his identity as Sea God Pavilion’s master and brought Wu Xuan and the others to cultivate inside the Golden Tree. He gave Wu Xuan a secret art for turning compressed wind into Azure Flame, then left him to study it in a chamber filled with Hurricane Cores.

• Mu En ordered Beibei, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan to take the Inner Court assessment after the academic year and assigned teachers to them, while Wu Xuan, Xiao Xiao, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong stayed on Sea God Island to cultivate.
• Mu En revealed himself as the old gatekeeper and explained that Sea God Pavilion had been carved from the Golden Tree.
• Mu En sent Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Huo Yuhao to separate meditation rooms, then asked Wu Xuan what wind meant to him.
• Mu En explained how extreme compression and friction could make wind manifest as destructive Azure Flame and gave Wu Xuan a scroll describing the cultivation method.
• Wu Xuan entered a chamber lined with 108 Hurricane Cores, where Mu En told him to comprehend the Azure Flame Secret Art.

Mu En settled Huo Yuhao’s placement in the Soul Tool Department and arranged for several students to cultivate in seclusion. After Beibei returned, Tang Ya reunited with him, while Zhang Lexuan gained a breakthrough after realizing her feelings for Beibei had become familial; Tang Ya then postponed her plan to leave the academy until Wu Xuan emerged from seclusion.

• Mu En rejected Yan Shaozhe’s suspicions about Huo Yuhao, confirmed that Huo Yuhao would study Soul Tools under Xian Lin'er, and ordered several students to cultivate in seclusion.
• Beibei returned to Shrek Academy, and Tang Ya embraced him before Zhang Lexuan quietly left them alone.
• Zhang Lexuan’s state of mind sublimated, allowing her Soul Power to break through to Rank 84, and Mu En sent her to cultivate in seclusion.
• Beibei told Tang Ya about the competition and Wu Xuan’s Twin Martial Souls and Shrek Seven Devils title, prompting Tang Ya to celebrate his Tang Sect ties.
• Tang Ya announced she wanted to withdraw from the academy and rebuild the Tang Sect in Heaven Dou City, but Beibei persuaded her to wait until Wu Xuan left seclusion and she could speak with him.

Wu Xuan reached a breakthrough in his cultivation, revealed his path, and became Mu En’s final disciple. He refused the soul bone Mu En offered in favor of a future soul bone from a Hundred Thousand Year Rouge Dragon, and Mu En agreed to help him obtain it.

• During deep meditation, Wu Xuan’s Soul Power reached the Rank 50 bottleneck as his understanding of his abilities transformed.
• Mu En asked Xiao Xiao about her path, and she declared that she would become a proactive support-type Battle Soul Master to support Wu Xuan.
• Mu En gave Xiao Xiao an eighty-thousand-year soul bone, and she accepted it before preparing to fuse with it.
• Wu Xuan emerged from meditation and demonstrated his Azure Flame Secret Art, forming the words “Suppress evil, sweep away demons.”
• Mu En offered Wu Xuan a ninety-eight-thousand-year Hurricane Eagle Falcon soul bone and asked him to inherit his legacy; Wu Xuan accepted Mu En as his teacher.
• Wu Xuan showed Mu En a map to a Hundred Thousand Year Rouge Dragon and asked to claim its soul bone as his reward, and Mu En agreed to pursue it for him.

Wu Xuan and Xiao Xiao gained new mentors as Shrek Academy prepared to take them to the Star Dou Great Forest, but the Body Sect arrived to confront Xuan Zi. Huo Yuhao learned the sect had come for him and firmly chose to remain with Shrek and the Tang Sect.

• Wu Xuan declined the Hurricane Eagle Falcon's Left Leg Soul Bone, and Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao finished absorbing their soul bones.
• Mu En told Xuan Zi to take Wu Xuan, Xiao Xiao, and Huo Yuhao to the Star Dou Great Forest, then discussed Evil Eye soul beasts as possible soul-ring sources for Wu Xuan.
• Xiao Xiao became Xuan Zi's final disciple, and the Body Sect arrived at Shrek Academy demanding to see him over his treatment of their members.
• Xuan Zi and Old Poison faced off in the sky as their allies gathered, revealing the Body Sect's force of more than twenty experts and the sect leader's three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• Mu En told Huo Yuhao the Body Sect wanted him because of his Body Martial Soul and Extreme Martial Soul, but Huo Yuhao refused to leave Shrek or the Tang Sect.

Xuan Zi fought Du Busi to stop the Body Sect from taking Huo Yuhao, but their battle ended when Mu En revealed himself as the Sea God Pavilion Master. Du Busi withdrew after Mu En confirmed that Huo Yuhao had refused to join the Body Sect.

• Xuan Zi and Du Busi clashed in the sky, unleashing powers that threatened to tear open space.
• Du Busi claimed the Body Sect was emerging into the world and demanded that Shrek return its member, but Xuan Zi said Huo Yuhao had joined the Tang Sect and would not join another sect.
• Du Busi threatened Shrek Academy, while Tang Ya silently vowed to become strong enough to defend the Tang Sect from insults.
• Mu En spread Sea God's Light from the Sea God Pavilion and revealed that he was still alive, identifying himself to Du Busi as Dragon God Douluo.
• Mu En told Du Busi that Huo Yuhao had refused to join the Body Sect and offered to let him leave without further consequences.
• Du Busi ordered the Body Sect members to withdraw, and Shrek Academy quickly returned to peace.

Jing Hongchen visited Shrek Academy to discuss exchange studies and was brought into the Sea God Pavilion, where he met its hidden leader, Mu En. He compared the strengths of Soul Tools and Soul Masters, leaving the conversation convinced that the Sun Moon Empire would prevail in a war.

• Jing Hongchen arrived outside Shrek City, and Mu En ordered Xuan Zi to invite him into the Sea God Pavilion.
• Xuan Zi recognized Jing Hongchen as the master of Mingde Hall and escorted him through Shrek City.
• Jing Hongchen argued that Soul Tools would eventually surpass Soul Masters, while Xuan Zi cited Shrek's recent tournament victory.
• Mu En summoned Jing Hongchen to the Sea God Pavilion's second floor, and Jing Hongchen warned that his Level Nine Soul Tools could destroy Shrek City if he were attacked.
• Jing Hongchen met Mu En and said Xuan Zi would win at close range, but Jing Hongchen could prevail at long range and the Sun Moon Empire would win a war.

Mu En and Jing Hongchen negotiated a student exchange between Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, scheduled to begin in two years. Before leaving the Sea God Pavilion, Jing Hongchen surrendered his Level Nine Soul Tool, Red Dust Blessing, as the price of entry.

• Mu En warned Jing Hongchen not to aim Soul Tools at Shrek City again and heard his proposal for an exchange program.
• Mu En and Jing Hongchen agreed that Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen would come to Shrek while Shrek sent students, including Huo Yuhao, to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy in two years.
• Jing Hongchen offered to serve as a hostage until the exchange ended after the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament, and Mu En accepted the arrangement.
• Mu En demanded a Level Nine Soul Tool as Jing Hongchen's ticket for entering the Sea God Pavilion and threatened to keep him there until the exchange began if he refused.
• Jing Hongchen gave Mu En Red Dust Blessing, a triggered defensive Soul Tool that could protect Soul Masters of any level.

Jing Hongchen surrendered the Level Nine Soul Tool Red Dust Blessing to Mu En and fled after discovering that Shrek Academy had seized his hidden Soul Tools. Wu Xuan and Xiao Xiao returned toward class, where Xiao Xiao quietly promised to stay by his side, while the Ice Empress scolded Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

• Jing Hongchen explained Red Dust Blessing's Invincible Shield, and Mu En took the Soul Tool and allowed him to leave.
• Jing Hongchen discovered that his eight hidden fixed-installation Soul Tools had vanished and their triggering formations had been destroyed.
• Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo told Mu En that they had seized the Soul Tools, and Mu En gave Red Dust Blessing to Xian Lin'er for research.
• Wu Xuan told Xiao Xiao that he would fight Evil Soul Masters for killing his parents, and Xiao Xiao quietly vowed to stay by his side.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm complained that Wu Xuan had attracted Xiao Xiao's affection, and Ice Empress kicked him back into his true body and reprimanded him.

Wu Xuan returned to Class One after helping Shrek Academy win the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, then confronted Tang Ya when she tried to recruit him into the Tang Sect. He revealed that his Soul Breaking Spear belonged to the Breaking Clan, not the Tang Sect, and left Tang Ya behind.

• Wu Xuan returned to Class One, where his classmates welcomed him, and Wang Yan ended the lesson early.
• Xiao Xiao told the class that Wu Xuan and she had represented Shrek Academy in the tournament and that Wu Xuan had led the team to victory.
• Wu Xuan invited his classmates to dinner at Qingyun Hotel and arranged a two-thousand-Gold-Soul-Coin budget.
• Tang Ya stopped Wu Xuan and told him that his second martial soul made him a surviving direct descendant of the Tang Sect.
• Wu Xuan challenged Tang Ya about the Tang Sect's treatment of its subordinate clans and revealed that his mother had been targeted by the sect.
• Wu Xuan told Tang Ya that his Soul Breaking Spear came from the Breaking Clan, then left.

Wu Xuan led Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao into the Star Dou Great Forest to search for suitable Soul Beasts. After a Tiger Demon Cat attacked them, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong badly injured it, and Wu Xuan sensed stronger Soul Beasts ahead, including one that might suit Xiao Xiao.

• Xuan Zi left the group and told Wu Xuan to lead the others through the forest.
• Wu Xuan challenged Wang Dong for joining the trip, but Huo Yuhao explained that Wang Dong's cooperation and Martial Soul Fusion Skill would help them.
• The four traveled into the Star Dou Great Forest, where Xiao Xiao sought a defensive Thousand Year Soul Ring and Huo Yuhao asked Wu Xuan to watch for spiritual-type Soul Beasts.
• After two days without finding a suitable Soul Beast, Huo Yuhao sensed an approaching Tiger Demon Cat.
• The Tiger Demon Cat pounced on Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao's Spirit Shock and Wang Dong's Butterfly God's Light brought it down alive.
• Wu Xuan sensed several powerful Soul Beasts ahead and continued onward, believing one might suit Xiao Xiao.

Wu Xuan rescued Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong from a ten thousand year Tiger Demon Cat, killing it with his Green Flame. As a black bear approached, Wu Xuan and the others prepared for another fight.

• Wu Xuan warned Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong that a ten thousand year Tiger Demon Cat was attacking, and Wang Dong dodged its deadly strikes with Huo Yuhao's help.
• The Tiger Demon Cat resisted Huo Yuhao's Spirit Shock and forced Wang Dong to beg Wu Xuan for help.
• Wu Xuan killed the injured Tiger Demon Cat riding on the larger beast with an emerald short spear, then pierced the ten thousand year Tiger Demon Cat's heart with Green Flame.
• Xuan Zi watched from a distance and reflected on Wu Xuan's progress with the Azure Flame Secret Art while continuing to protect the group.
• Wu Xuan sensed another powerful soul beast, and a gigantic black bear entered their view.

Wu Xuan defeated a Dark Gold Fearsome Claw Bear and helped Xiao Xiao claim it as her third soul ring. Xiao Xiao began absorbing the ring while Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong watched.

• A Dark Gold Fearsome Claw Bear devoured the thousand-year Tiger Demon Cat and approached the ten-thousand-year corpse, so Wu Xuan attacked it.
• The bear shattered Wu Xuan’s battle-axe, but Wu Xuan used his Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Left Arm Bone to destroy its forelimb and then hurled it into a tree with a whirlwind.
• The wounded bear survived and staggered back out, and Wu Xuan proposed it as Xiao Xiao’s third soul ring.
• Wu Xuan incapacitated the bear with Soul Blast, and Xiao Xiao killed it with her Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron.
• Xiao Xiao began absorbing the bear’s roughly three-thousand-five-hundred-year soul ring as Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong watched.

Wu Xuan and Xuan Zi discovered a rare right palm External Soul Bone after Wu Xuan defeated a Dark Gold Fearsome Claw Bear. Wu Xuan gave it to Xiao Xiao, but Xuan Zi advised her to wait until she reached level forty before absorbing it.

• Xuan Zi agreed to take the group deeper into the forest after Xiao Xiao finished absorbing her Soul Ring, and Wu Xuan reminded him that he could absorb a Soul Ring below a Hundred Thousand Year.
• Xuan Zi dissected the Dark Gold Fearsome Claw Bear and found its right palm External Soul Bone.
• Wu Xuan refused to give the Soul Bone to Huo Yuhao or Wang Dong and chose Xiao Xiao as its recipient.
• Huo Yuhao cooked a feast for the group, then continued cooking when Xiao Xiao woke and asked for food.
• Xuan Zi told Xiao Xiao to wait until she reached level forty before absorbing the palm bone, and she agreed.

Wu Xuan’s group camped in the Star Dou Great Forest, met a party led by Mo Feiyun, and declined to travel with them. The next day, Wu Xuan led his companions north into the Mixed Zone, where he sensed powerful auras that might belong to Hurricane Eagle Falcons.

• Wu Xuan’s group ate roasted Soft Bone Rabbits at their camp, and Xuan Zi secretly joined them for dinner.
• Wu Xuan sensed an approaching party led by Mo Feiyun and allowed them to camp at least fifty meters away.
• Mo Feiyun told Vina and Mu Xue that Wu Xuan’s aura made him feel as if his martial soul had met a natural predator.
• The next morning, Wu Xuan refused Mo Feiyun’s offer to travel together, and the two groups went their separate ways.
• Wu Xuan led Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Dong north toward the mountainous Mixed Zone and sensed powerful auras that might belong to Hurricane Eagle Falcons.

Wu Xuan and his companions fought off a panicked herd of Berserk Fire Bulls, then Xuan Zi captured the eighty-thousand-year Hurricane Eagle Falcon Wu Xuan had sought. Wu Xuan killed it and began absorbing its soul ring as Xuan Zi guarded him.

• Wu Xuan and the others encountered a charging herd of Berserk Fire Bulls, and Wu Xuan led the group in fighting them off.
• Wu Xuan ordered Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao to spread out, and the four quickly killed nearly half the herd before the rest fled.
• Xuan Zi saw a green light strike down the Ten Thousand Year Berserk Fire Bull King and rushed to intercept it.
• Wu Xuan recognized the attacker as the eighty-thousand-year Hurricane Eagle Falcon, and Xuan Zi captured it with his earth-based powers.
• Wu Xuan killed the unconscious Hurricane Eagle Falcon and began absorbing its black soul ring while Xuan Zi watched over him.

After absorbing his fifth Soul Ring, Wu Xuan gained the Heaven-Splitting Wind skill and joined the others in searching the Mixed Zone for a suitable Soul Beast for Huo Yuhao. The group encountered a fleeing man who had deliberately led a powerful Flame Lion King toward them, and Wu Xuan killed him with a barrage of Wind Blades.

• Wu Xuan awakened and described Heaven-Splitting Wind, a skill with powerful destructive force and low Soul Power consumption.
• Wu Xuan and the others harvested the frozen Berserk Fire Bulls and resumed searching for a Soul Beast for Huo Yuhao.
• Wu Xuan sensed two approaching auras, but a Flame Lion King pursued the group and drove a charred man toward them.
• Wu Xuan recognized that the man had been following them and deliberately lured the Flame Lion King to their location.
• Wu Xuan unleashed Heaven-Splitting Wind, killing the man and sending the Flame Lion King fleeing.

Wu Xuan killed a Flame Lion King with his fifth soul skill, then helped Huo Yuhao find a suitable Spirit Attribute Soul Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest. Huo Yuhao absorbed a Fear Demon Dragon's soul ring and gained its Fear skill, and the group prepared to leave the Mixed Zone.

• Wu Xuan killed the Flame Lion King with Heaven-Splitting Wind, leaving Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao stunned.
• Huo Yuhao secretly picked up the Soul Tool dropped by the Soul King, and the group rested before continuing their search.
• The group found a nearly three-thousand-year-old Fear Demon Dragon, which Wu Xuan pinned to the ground with an emerald-green short spear.
• Huo Yuhao killed the Fear Demon Dragon and absorbed its soul ring, gaining the Fear soul skill.
• The group decided to have Xuan Zi take them out of the Mixed Zone.

After two years of training under Mu En, Wu Xuan reached Soul King level and inherited King's Descent, earning permission to join the Shrek Inspection Corps. Meanwhile, Tang Ya disappeared from Shrek Academy, and the other Shrek Seven Devils advanced in cultivation.

• Wu Xuan told Mu En about his training in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Mu En cautioned him against letting hatred and bias shape his actions.
• Wu Xuan asked to join the Shrek Inspection Corps, but Mu En required him to train for two more years and prove himself first.
• Wu Xuan studied Shrek Academy's secret arts under Mu En and the Sea God Pavilion elders, while his abilities and Spiritual Power rapidly improved.
• Tang Ya withdrew from Shrek Academy and vanished, while Beibei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao strengthened their cultivation over the next two years.
• After a half-year seclusion, Wu Xuan reached level fifty-nine Soul King and demonstrated King's Descent against Mu En.
• Mu En judged Wu Xuan qualified, gave him a token, and told him to do what he believed was right.