Chapter Summaries

Xuan Zi found Wang Dong alive beside the dead Death God Envoy and heard her account of a mysterious angelic swordswoman who had rescued her. As Xuan Zi accepted the explanation and took Wang Dong back, Kraken recognized that Tang San had secretly killed the Death God Envoy to protect his daughter.

• The Shrek team was devastated by an ambush: Dai Yueheng, Chen Zifeng, Ling Luochen, Gongyang Mo, and Xixi were critically injured, while Wang Dong remained missing.
• Xuan Zi reached the underground chamber and found the Death God Envoy dead and Wang Dong alive but shaken.
• Wang Dong told Xuan Zi that a radiant older sister with a sword had killed the Death God Envoy and disappeared.
• Xuan Zi suspected a powerful soul master with an Angel Martial Soul and accepted Wang Dong's account as he led her back.
• Kraken recognized that Tang San had secretly used divine power to kill the Death God Envoy and conceal his intervention.

Huo Yuhao used a newly recorded healing skill to stabilize the five Shrek team members injured by Yao Haoxuan’s corpse explosion, then collapsed from exhaustion. Xuan Zi returned, rescued the wounded from immediate danger, and faced the consequences of the attack as Wang Dong reunited with Xiao Xiao.

• Huo Yuhao used his replication healing skill on Gongyang Mo, Ling Luochen, Dai Yueheng, Chen Zifeng, and Xixi, slowing the death energy and stabilizing their injuries.
• Beibei transferred Soul Power to Huo Yuhao, while Ning Tian enhanced his strength, Soul Power, and spiritual power.
• Xuan Zi returned with Wang Dong, learned that Yao Haoxuan’s body had exploded and injured five official team members, and realized an Evil Soul Master had planted a second trap.
• Huo Yuhao collapsed after finishing Xixi’s treatment, and Beibei caught him.
• Xuan Zi gave the five wounded team members pills and used his Soul Power to stabilize them and move them out of immediate danger.
• Xiao Xiao reunited with the unharmed but shaken Wang Dong as they looked over the injured team and the unconscious Huo Yuhao.

After the official team was devastated by an Evil Soul Master, Xuan Zi and Wang Yan decided that Shrek’s reserve team would compete in the tournament. Wang Yan began preparing tactics as the reserve team waited to hear the decision.

• Xuan Zi told Wang Yan that Haoxuan had died and that the Evil Soul Master had been executed, while the female soul master who saved Wang Dong had disappeared.
• Wang Yan warned that the five surviving official team members were too badly injured to compete when the tournament began in three days.
• Xuan Zi rejected forfeiting and ordered the reserve team to take the official team’s place, citing its members’ abilities and Ma Xiaotao’s strength.
• Wang Yan agreed to assess the reserve team and devise tactics, while Xuan Zi arranged continued treatment for the injured official team members.
• Huo Yuhao sat recovering in the reserve team lounge as the seven reserve members waited in tense silence.

After Shrek’s official team was incapacitated, Xuan Zi and Wang Yan named a new seven-person lineup to carry the academy through the tournament. With less than three days before the first match, the team began urgent tactical preparation as Kraken watched and wondered who they would face.

• Xuan Zi announced that the reserve players would become Shrek’s main team, and Wang Yan named Ma Xiaotao captain, Beibei vice-captain, five other members, and Nanmen Yun'er as first substitute.
• Wang Yan warned the team about the formidable opponents and the pressure on Shrek, and all seven vowed they were not afraid.
• Xuan Zi set the goal of winning every possible match and finishing every fight, then assigned Wang Yan to develop tactics while he oversaw coordination.
• Wang Yan began assessing the team’s skills and assigning roles, with Nanmen Yun'er told to remain ready as a substitute.
• Kraken observed the team’s preparations through a water mirror and considered their strengths and uncertainties while awaiting the first-match draw.

Huo Yuhao used Spirit Replication to disguise Shrek’s soul rings as an intimidating forest of red rings, but Tianling Academy revealed that all seven of its members possessed genuine Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings. The match began with Shrek badly outmatched and Lie Hong threatening Wang Dong.

• Huo Yuhao used Spirit Detection to sense Tianling Academy’s concealed strength and Lie Hong’s targeted killing intent toward Wang Dong.
• Huo Yuhao disguised Shrek’s soul rings as Hundred-Thousand-Year rings, briefly shocking the crowd and frightening Tianling Academy before the deception provoked them.
• Lie Hong, Leng Shuang, and Tianling Academy’s other five members revealed genuine Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, stunning the arena.
• Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Detection showed that Tianling Academy’s fighters were far stronger than expected, while their aura overwhelmed Shrek’s team and stirred Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire.
• Lie Hong threatened to kill Wang Dong, and the referee started the match as a faint purple-gold light flashed in Wang Dong’s eyes.

Ma Xiaotao led Shrek’s desperate attack on Lie Hong, but his Blood Flame Burning City overwhelmed their defenses. Beibei sacrificed himself to eliminate Ming Hui, leaving both teams down key fighters as the battle continued.

• Ma Xiaotao charged Lie Hong while Beibei intercepted Ying Xi and Xiao Xiao and Wu Feng protected Ning Tian and Huo Yuhao.
• Lie Hong unleashed Blood Flame Burning City, overwhelming Xiao Xiao’s barrier and Wu Feng’s flames and eliminating both Shrek fighters.
• Ying Xi bypassed Beibei and attacked Ning Tian, but Beibei broke free and intercepted him.
• Beibei traded blows with Ying Xi and struck Ming Hui with a Thunder Dragon Claw, eliminating Ming Hui.
• Beibei collapsed from Ying Xi’s attack and was eliminated by the referee.

Ning Tian used a hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape Left Arm Bone to eliminate Ying Xi, while Ma Xiaotao sacrificed herself to take out Lie Hong and Shi Yan. The battle became three against three, but Tianling Academy held a clear advantage and launched another attack on Shrek’s exhausted survivors.

• Ying Xi tried to attack Ning Tian from behind, but she revealed her Titan Giant Ape Left Arm Bone and shattered his wind blade with a strength-amplified punch, eliminating him.
• Ma Xiaotao unleashed a devastating explosion that eliminated Lie Hong and Shi Yan, then collapsed and was eliminated herself.
• The arena was left with Ning Tian, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong facing Leng Shuang, Lei Xiao, and Man Ling.
• Leng Shuang ordered her teammates to avenge their captain as she, Lei Xiao, and Man Ling attacked Shrek’s remaining fighters.

Xuan Zi pursued Blue King through the deep sea and into a dry tunnel, believing he was closing in on his prey. Blue King revealed that he had lured Xuan Zi to Sunset Forest and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower was located.

• Kraken fled toward a deep-sea trench, and Xuan Zi pursued him through the water using the devouring power of his Taotie Spirit.
• Kraken led Xuan Zi through the seabed toward a tunnel, intending to lure him into a trap.
• When Kraken burrowed into the tunnel, Xuan Zi followed and unknowingly passed through a barrier that shut out the seawater.
• Several days later, Xuan Zi caught up with the waiting Blue King in a dry chamber.
• Blue King pointed out that the tunnel was strangely dry and revealed that it led to Sunset Forest and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Huo Yuhao and Ning Tian turned the tide long enough to defeat Lei Xiao, but Leng Shuang and Man Ling trapped Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong after Huo Yuhao exhausted his Soul Power. As Leng Shuang prepared a finishing attack, the violet-gold power inside Wang Dong erupted.

• Huo Yuhao used Spirit Replication to restore a little of Ning Tian and Wang Dong's strength, then struck Lei Xiao with Soul Shock.
• Ning Tian used her Titan Giant Ape Left Arm Bone to punch Lei Xiao out of the battle.
• Leng Shuang's cold wave and Man Ling's Ghost Vines restrained Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, but Huo Yuhao burned through the vines with a replicated Phoenix Fire Line.
• Huo Yuhao exhausted his Soul Power and could no longer fend off Leng Shuang and Man Ling's attacks.
• As Leng Shuang prepared a killing blow, Wang Dong's violet-gold light erupted and she demanded to know who had given them permission to touch Huo Yuhao.

Wang Dong awakened a powerful purple-gold form and, with Huo Yuhao and Ning Tian’s support, defeated Man Ling and badly wounded Leng Shuang. The transformation then faded, leaving Wang Dong unconscious and the exhausted Shrek fighters facing Leng Shuang’s final attack.

• Wang Dong transformed into a purple-gold Butterfly God, suppressing Leng Shuang’s ice and Man Ling’s ghost vines.
• Huo Yuhao created recovery Spirit Rations, and Ning Tian and Huo Yuhao boosted Wang Dong’s strength and speed.
• Wang Dong blocked Leng Shuang and Man Ling’s combined attack, then struck them with Radiant Butterfly Goddess Slash.
• Man Ling was severely wounded and eliminated, while Leng Shuang suffered a serious injury to her left arm.
• Wang Dong’s power faded, and Huo Yuhao caught her as she collapsed unconscious.
• Leng Shuang prepared one final strike against Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong while Ning Tian and Huo Yuhao remained exhausted.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong unexpectedly fused their martial souls and unleashed Golden Road, defeating Leng Shuang and eliminating Tianling Academy. The referee awarded Shrek Academy the victory, while Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong lay unconscious and badly injured.

• Leng Shuang unleashed Ice Prison Blood Lotus Kill, Absolute Zero Piercing, and the remaining force of Ice Prison Wither against Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong.
• Wang Dong touched Huo Yuhao's hand, and their powers resonated into a martial soul fusion that produced Golden Road.
• Golden Road destroyed Leng Shuang's attacks and eliminated her, but the remaining cold energy struck Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, leaving them unconscious.
• Ning Tian remained the only Shrek competitor conscious, and the referee declared Shrek Academy the winner after all Tianling Academy members lost the ability to fight.
• Xuan Zi ordered Wang Yan to bring Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong back immediately for treatment, especially Wang Dong.

Kraken watched Shrek defeat Tianling Academy and suspected Tang San had engineered Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’s Golden Road fusion skill to bind them together. Xu Tianran approached Kraken to ask about the seven hundred-thousand-year soul beasts he had provided, and Kraken demanded ten of the Sun-Moon Empire’s newest powerful Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons in exchange.

• Kraken watched medical personnel carry away Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Ning Tian, then concluded Tang San had used divine power to stage their Golden Road fusion skill and bind Huo Yuhao to Wang Dong.
• Xu Tianran secretly joined Kraken in the VIP box and asked why he had equipped Tianling Academy with seven hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, soul rings, and soul bones.
• Kraken said Tianling Academy had given him nothing and that he had used spare products from his Breeding Farm to test Shrek Academy.
• Xu Tianran offered to pay for hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, soul rings, or soul bones for the Sun-Moon Empire.
• Kraken demanded ten of the empire’s newest mobile, ultra-long-range Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons capable of threatening ordinary Titled Douluo, shocking and angering Xu Tianran.

Kraken pressed Xu Tianran to trade Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon technology for hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, arguing that the beasts were valuable resources beyond the continent’s limited quotas. Xu Tianran agreed in principle to negotiate, while Kraken departed and left him to consider the deal.

• Kraken explained how the continent’s powers divided limited hundred-thousand-year soul beast hunting quotas and argued that extra beasts could strengthen the Sun-Moon Empire without using its existing quotas.
• Xu Tianran questioned the cost of surrendering strategic Soul Tool technology and asked how many beasts Kraken could offer and whether other terms were possible.
• Kraken said he would also consider receiving information about a Deity Inheritance Site, then argued that Soul Tool technology was replaceable while living soul beasts could immediately strengthen the empire’s combatants.
• Xu Tianran considered providing inferior or altered technology, but Kraken warned that deception could provoke a visit from countless soul beasts.
• Xu Tianran agreed in principle to further negotiations through the empire’s council of elders and Mingde Hall, with the first transaction’s terms and samples still to be settled.
• Kraken said he would remain in Star Luo City, pointed to Tianling Academy’s arena performance as evidence of the beasts’ value, and vanished.

With Shrek Academy’s injured students near death and the next tournament match only three days away, Ye Lien of the Spirit Hall Empire offered to treat them with her Nine Heart Begonia. Xuan Zi reluctantly accepted, and her powerful healing began stabilizing the students’ conditions.

• Wang Yan told Xuan Zi that the Star Luo Imperial House’s healers could not treat the students’ foundational injuries, while Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire threatened to erupt again.
• Ye Lien arrived and offered treatment without conditions, asking only that Shrek continue competing; Xuan Zi suspected her motives but agreed after she swore upon her martial soul.
• Ye Lien revealed nine black Soul Rings and used Nine Heart Begonia: Healing to treat the injured students throughout the medical ward.
• Dai Yueheng, Ling Luochеn, Gongyang Mo, Xixi, Chen Zifeng, and the others began recovering, while Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire was suppressed.
• Ye Lien focused her strongest healing on Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Ning Tian, stabilizing their conditions as Xuan Zi and Wang Yan watched.

After Shrek’s injured fighters struggled through matches against opponents empowered by farmed Soul Rings, the team faced growing exhaustion and financial pressure. They went to the Starlight Auction House to buy equipment, where Xixi’s chance to regain her mobility appeared in the form of a Level 7 Soul Tool set, but bidding quickly began to climb.

• Ye Lien’s healing restored the main team enough to fight, while Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Ning Tian needed weeks to recover, so Shrek returned to a seven-person lineup led by Dai Yueheng.
• Dai Yueheng and the others found that opponents with artificially strengthened first Soul Rings made their matches far more arduous, while Xuan Zi urged them to endure and Wang Yan warned that their next opponent, Yunluo Advanced Soul Engineer Academy, specialized in Soul Tools.
• Xuan Zi and Wang Yan brought the exhausted Shrek group to the Starlight Auction House to seek practical equipment using their dwindling funds and winnings from secret bets.
• The auctioneer presented the Level 7 Soul Tool Gale Phantom set, which could restore and enhance Xixi’s mobility, and Wang Yan bid nine hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins after Xuan Zi’s approval.
• Two other bidders immediately raised the price to one million and then one million one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.

Shrek spent heavily at the Starlight Auction House to acquire Soul Tools for its injured and under-equipped members, while a mysterious bidder repeatedly drove up the prices. The team left with little flexible money and growing suspicions about the rival bidder, as Xixi vowed to make the costly purchase worthwhile.

• Wang Yan bid up to Xuan Zi's four-million limit and won the Gale Phantom Soul Tool set for Xixi after a mysterious bidder repeatedly raised the price.
• Shrek bought an Immovable Rampart, three Spirit Turtle's Blessings, and Bee Stinger after further costly bidding, spending nearly eleven million Gold Soul Coins on the five purchases.
• The mysterious box focused on Soul Bones and rare healing items, prompting Wang Yan to wonder whether the bidders were from the Sun-Moon Empire, the Star Luo imperial family, or Spirit Hall.
• Shrek stopped bidding on the finale items because its funds were nearly exhausted, and the auction ended with other boxes winning a suspected Class 8 Soul Tool fragment and ancient jade.
• Shrek left the auction house with its Soul Tools and less than fifteen million Gold Soul Coins remaining; Xixi promised not to waste the team's sacrifice.

Xuan Zi sent his team back to their quarters on alert before confronting Kraken at the Starlight Auction House. Their exchange left Xuan Zi suspecting Kraken was preparing for Heavenly Tribulation, while Kraken dismissed Shrek’s warnings and departed.

• Xuan Zi ordered Wang Yan to distribute the new equipment and told Dai Yueheng to lead the team back to their quarters under the highest alert.
• After the others left, Xuan Zi went to the auction house’s private garden and found Kraken watching Dragon Carp in a pavilion.
• Xuan Zi questioned Kraken about bidding against his disciple and buying Soul Bones and rare herbs, suggesting they might be needed for Heavenly Tribulation.
• Kraken warned Xuan Zi not to meddle in matters he could not control and dismissed the continent’s rules.
• Xuan Zi restrained himself from attacking as Kraken left, then remained alone in the pavilion, angered and shaken.

Shrek Academy defeated the Heavenly Soul Imperial Academy and advanced to the final four, where they learned they would face the formidable host team, Star Luo Imperial Academy. Xuan Zi ordered the injured team to recover and prepare targeted tactics against their heavily enhanced opponents.

• Shrek Academy defeated the Heavenly Soul Imperial Academy in a brutal quarterfinal and secured a place in the final four.
• Xuan Zi and Wang Yan arranged treatment for the injured Shrek competitors at their temporary quarters.
• Wang Yan revealed that Shrek's semifinal opponent was Star Luo Imperial Academy, led by the Soul Emperor Xu Jiujiu.
• Wang Yan reported that all seven Star Luo competitors had at least one ten-thousand-year soul ring configuration and a soul bone over ten thousand years old.
• Dai Yueheng argued that Shrek could exploit Star Luo's limited experience and target Xu Jiujiu's Star Crown, while Xuan Zi warned the team not to underestimate them.
• Xuan Zi ordered Wang Yan to prepare three tactical plans and directed the team to recover, coordinate, and master their new equipment before the semifinal.

Shrek Academy’s semifinal against Star Luo Imperial Academy turned into a massacre when Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire consumed her and unleashed a black sea of flames. The judges awarded Shrek the victory, while Ma Xiaotao escaped and the surviving spectators were left in chaos.

• Xu Jiujiu deployed her Star Radiance domain, and Star Luo’s team overwhelmed Shrek’s fighters with their superior strength and equipment.
• Chen Xiaojie bypassed Xixi and struck Beibei so severely that the referee ruled him unable to continue.
• As Shrek’s remaining fighters struggled, Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire transformed into black flames and consumed the Star Luo team and Shrek’s other fighters, leaving Xu Jiujiu gravely wounded.
• Ma Xiaotao escaped through the arena barrier, while Beibei remained under treatment and the crowd erupted into panic.
• The judges declared Shrek Academy the winner because Ma Xiaotao’s attack had eliminated Star Luo Imperial Academy before she left the field.

Ye Lien used the Nine Heart Begonia to save Xu Jiujiu after the battle in Star Luo Plaza. Far from the city, Kraken erased Ma Xiaotao’s consciousness, took control of her body, and headed toward the Star Dou Forest.

• Ye Lien healed Xu Jiujiu’s severe burns with the Nine Heart Begonia, and Xu Jiujiu regained consciousness.
• Ye Lien quietly left the arena as Xu Jiawei and the Star Luo Imperial House celebrated the princess’s survival.
• Kraken stopped Ma Xiaotao as she flew wildly over the mountains and destroyed her remaining sense of self with his mental power.
• Kraken sent a fragment of his soul into Ma Xiaotao and took control of her body and evil fire.
• Kraken’s fragment examined Ma Xiaotao’s power and flew in her body toward the Star Dou Forest.