Recaps

Di Tian observed Qian Renxue’s rise while forcing Star Dou’s soul beasts to study Soul Tools, and Scarlet King became the first to build a working core. Huo Yuhao survived the destruction of Mingde Hall with a new Ice Serpent Martial Soul, then discovered new fusion skills with Wang Dong that ended in the appearance of a mysterious man’s phantom.

• Di Tian observed Qian Renxue’s birth and childhood, as Bibi Dong killed Qian Xunji and Qian Daoliu took charge of the awakened Angel heir.
• Di Tian ordered powerful soul beasts to learn human technology, and Scarlet King studied under Elder Lin until it completed a stable Level 2 Soul Tool core.
• Di Tian expanded Soul Tool trades through Gu Yu, while a series of blasts devastated Mingde Hall and killed many Soul Engineers.
• Huo Yuhao escaped the wreckage with a giant Soul Tool and acquired an Ice Serpent as his restored second Martial Soul after the God Sealing Platform shattered.
• Du Busi’s Body Sect forces withdrew after attacking Mingde Hall, while Jing Hongchen concealed his collapse and spread a death warrant against the Body Sect in Shrek Academy’s name.
• Du Busi failed to recover the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo and ordered suspected Body Sect members imprisoned, while Huo Yuhao took Wang Dong to test his new Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong fused the Ice Serpent with the Clear Sky Hammer to create Slumber of Eternal Frost Silence, Hammer of Heavenly Punishment, then formed another fusion with the Light Goddess Butterfly.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’s second fusion produced a huge cocoon whose light revealed the phantom of a tall, burly man.

Huo Yuhao’s challenge match at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy ended when Gu Yu defeated him, while Gu Yu rescued Ye Guyi and exposed the Empire’s ties to the Holy Spirit Cult. Xu Tianran secured an alliance with the cult, and Gu Yu later pressured Wang Dong to steal something from Huo Yuhao.

• Jing Hongchen arranged a challenge match, and Huo Yuhao defeated a succession of Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy students in the arena.
• Gu Yu rescued Ye Guyi from the guards and an Evil Soul Master, then let her kill the wounded enemy and recover her strength.
• Huo Yuhao defeated Shen Musu and twenty Level 6 Soul Engineers before Gu Yu challenged him and revealed his powerful Spirit Rings.
• Gu Yu defeated Huo Yuhao with Dragon God Slash, and Huo Yuhao accepted the loss while planning to flee with the academy’s resources.
• Kong Deming defended Gu Yu to Xu Tianran and warned him that Ye Xishui and the Holy Spirit Cult posed a grave danger to the Empire.
• Xu Tianran visited Ye Xishui, offered the cult official status and imperial resources, and begged her to accept him as her adopted son.
• Zhongli Wu joined Xu Tianran in forging an alliance with the Holy Spirit Cult, and Ye Xishui ordered them out of the hall.
• Gu Yu met Wang Dong at night and demanded that she take something from Huo Yuhao, threatening to expose him to Jing Hongchen if she refused.

Huo Yuhao and his companions were exposed over the stolen Metal Man Core, while Shrek struggled to respond to Xiao Hongchen’s dominance. The story left Xiong Jun pursuing strength through forging and Shrek’s students preparing a risky plan to reach Xiao Hongchen.

• Wang Dong shifted the Metal Man Core into He Caitou’s ring, and the inspectors arrested him while Huo Yuhao was detained and pressured to confess.
• Jing Hongchen’s interrogators threatened Wang Qiu’er until Huo Yuhao gave a confession implicating Shrek, while Wang Qiu’er revealed that she had exaggerated her cries to help him.
• Di Tian persuaded Ning Fengzhi to cooperate with the Divine Dragon Sect’s Soul Tool purchases by offering rare treasures, then planned to use the sect’s routes and reputation to conceal the dealings.
• Di Tian’s simulation ended with Qian Renxue’s death and Xiong Jun’s execution, while the real Xiong Jun discovered that forging metal eased his cultivation bottleneck and committed himself to the craft.
• Tang San’s Divine Thought failed to breach the barrier around Douluo, and his arrival at the Clear Sky Sect sent the elders into alarm as Xiong Jun hid among them.
• Shrek’s elders debated how to counter Xiao Hongchen and whether to recall Huo Yuhao, but Qian Duoduo objected that Shrek had treated him unfairly and put him at risk.
• Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, and Xiao Xiao devised a plan to use Jiang Nannan’s abilities to create an opening against Xiao Hongchen, while concealing their intention to awaken Xu Sanshi’s Black Tortoise bloodline.

Shrek Academy clashed with the Sun Moon Empire over its detained students, and Jing Hongchen’s escape from Shrek triggered a crisis that ended in a Holy Spirit Cult ambush. Xuan Zi fled with Huo Yuhao and several students, while Elder Song and the wounded Shrek elders stayed behind to make a final stand.

• Jiang Nannan challenged Xiao Hongchen, and Xu Sanshi’s awakened Black Tortoise bloodline let him defeat Xiao after a fierce battle that Xuan Zi stopped before it devastated the arena.
• After the Sun Moon Empire detained Huo Yuhao, He Caitou, Wang Dong, Wang Qiu’er, and other exchange students, Xuan Zi led Shrek experts to Ming City and seized a legion’s Soul Tools to force their release.
• Xu Tianran released the Shrek exchange students but kept He Caitou, so Xuan Zi threatened Ming City and warned that He Caitou must not be harmed.
• Gu Yu helped Jing Hongchen rescue Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen from Shrek, then planted bombs at the Ancient Golden Tree, which Mu En’s spirit protected from the blast.
• Xu Tianran ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to ambush Shrek in Soul Burial Valley, where Zhongli Wu’s forces killed and wounded Shrek elders and gravely injured Xuan Zi.
• The Death God Tower killed Cai Mei’er, and Xuan Zi’s attempted last stand failed when his power collapsed under the Holy Spirit Cult’s assault.
• Xuan Zi escaped through a hidden tunnel with Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Wang Qiu’er, and a surviving teacher, leaving Elder Song and the wounded elders behind.
• Elder Song and the Shrek elders refused to join the Holy Spirit Cult and sacrificed themselves in battle, while Elder Song launched a final strike at Zhongli Wu.