Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao suspected that the fragment of his soul he had lost had entered Dai Luoli and contributed to his Martial Soul’s second evolution. As the tournament semifinals began in Ming Capital, Tang Sect faced the Sun Moon Team, and Xiao Hongchen transformed after the match started.

• Huo Yuhao learned that Dai Luoli’s Martial Soul had evolved half a year earlier and suspected the lost strand of his soul was connected to the change.
• Dai Luoli told Huo Yuhao how he and his mother had endured hardship after helping Huo Yuhao and his mother.
• Tang Sect’s members heard spectators favoring Xu Tinglan and resolved to defeat the Sun Moon Team.
• The Sun Moon Team and Tang Sect entered the semifinals, and Xiao Hongchen faced Beibei in the first individual elimination match.
• Zheng Zhan started the match, and Xiao Hongchen’s body transformed as golden light and an ancient divine beast’s pressure surrounded him.

Beibei fought Xiao Hongchen, whose Battle Armor and Soul Guidance weapons countered Beibei’s dragon techniques despite Huo Yuhao’s off-field support. Beibei survived the battle but was left near death, and Huo Yuhao resolved to abandon his remaining moral reservations about covert tactics.

• Xiao Hongchen revealed his seven Soul Rings, while Beibei used Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection Sharing and Black and White Glory to evade attacks and withstand a powerful cannon blast.
• Beibei closed in and struck Xiao Hongchen with Dragon Emperor Evil-Breaking Crack, but Xiao Hongchen fused with his [Supreme] Battle Armor and trapped Beibei’s arm.
• Beibei unleashed Radiant Thunder Fury and Dragon Emperor Quaking Domain, creating a massive assault that forced Zheng Zhan to struggle through the arena’s energy.
• Xiao Hongchen survived the attack in his battered Battle Armor, while Beibei collapsed with barely perceptible breathing.
• Huo Yuhao, seeing Beibei’s condition and Xiao Hongchen’s armor, decided to discard his remaining moral reservations about secret actions.

Xiao Hongchen defeated Beibei with his Crimson Gold Battle Armor, then faced Dai Luoli in the next match. Dai Luoli unleashed a powerful Martial Soul Fusion Skill that pierced a ninth-grade defensive Soul Tool, leaving Xiao Hongchen in danger as Xu Tinglan intervened.

• Xiao Hongchen won the first individual elimination match after his armor blocked Beibei’s Dragon Emperor Quaking Domain, and Beibei was carried away unconscious.
• Dai Luoli challenged Xiao Hongchen, and the two argued over whether Soul Tools and other inherited powers counted as external advantages.
• Dai Luoli revealed his Blood Tiger Martial Soul and fought Xiao Hongchen while in a Berserk state, growing stronger despite his injuries.
• Dai Luoli used the Three-Eyed Howling Heaven Record, a Martial Soul Fusion Skill aided by Huo Yuhao, and its attack pierced the Unbreakable Divine Shield.
• Jing Hongchen called for the match to stop, and Xu Tinglan entered the Competition Platform through a Chaos Rift and swallowed the attack with his Chaos Black Tortoise Shield.

After Dai Luoli defeated Xiao Hongchen with a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Jing Hongchen challenged the result, and Xu Tinglan revealed that Dai Hao had lost an arm. Huo Yuhao reeled from the news but regained control, while Xu Tinglan prepared to expose the Tang Sect.

• Dai Luoli used a Martial Soul Fusion Skill to defeat Xiao Hongchen, and the referee declared the Tang Sect the winner of the second individual match.
• Jing Hongchen demanded an investigation, but Zhang Lexuan and Wang Dong defended the Tang Sect and challenged him to accept the result.
• Xu Tinglan threw Dai Hao's severed right arm into the Tang Sect's preparation area and told Huo Yuhao that it belonged to his greatest enemy.
• Huo Yuhao nearly rushed onto the platform in grief and anger, but Wang Dong stopped him, and Huo Yuhao asked Wang Dong to take command.
• Xu Tinglan promised that Xiao Hongchen would not compete in the team battle, then warned the crowd that he would not wrong the innocent or spare vile dogs.

Xiao Xiao recalled how Beibei had driven her to shatter her Martial Soul in a match that did not matter, and questioned Shrek’s choices as she watched the Tang Sect consider Xu Tinglan’s warning. Xu Tinglan reassured the defeated Xiao Hongchen, then sent Xi Yue to fight Wang Dong, whose transformed Martial Soul appeared as the match began.

• Wang Dong argued that Xu Tinglan was bluffing about evidence of the Tang Sect’s cheating, while Xiao Xiao remembered the match five years earlier that left her severely injured and her Martial Soul shattered.
• Xiao Xiao regretted risking her future for Shrek’s honor and questioned why the teachers had let them fight under the Tang Sect’s name.
• Xu Tinglan told the ashamed Xiao Hongchen that he did not regret giving him an Immortal Herb and Battle Armor, and said the Tang Sect’s conduct was not his fault.
• Xi Yue chose to compete in the next match, and Huo Yuhao warned that her two Ultimate Attributes made her extremely dangerous.
• Wang Dong entered the arena to face Xi Yue, and her Martial Soul transformed into the Radiant Dragon God Butterfly after she awakened the Golden Dragon King bloodline.

Xi Yue used her Fate-based soul skill to strip Wang Dong of her martial soul, forcing her to surrender, then defeated the remaining Tang Sect competitors. After the crowd hailed her as the Goddess of Light, Xu Tinglan sent her to sit on the bench by the water dispenser.

• Xi Yue overwhelmed Wang Dong's attacks and used Sun-Swapping Fate-Shifting to cancel Wang Dong's Martial Soul Possession, leaving her unable to use Soul Power.
• Wang Dong surrendered when Xi Yue threatened her with the Golden Dragon Spear.
• Xu Sanshi, Xiao Xiao, and He Caitou were defeated in succession as Huo Yuhao conserved his Soul Power.
• Xi Yue withdrew from the platform after defeating the Tang Sect team, and the crowd cheered for her as the Goddess of Light.
• Xu Tinglan reprimanded Xi Yue for being too powerful and ordered her to sit on the bench by the water dispenser.

Xu Tinglan challenged all seven Tang Sect members at once, drawing the furious team into an unprecedented group battle. After the two sides took their positions, the match began with the Tang Sect releasing their martial souls and He Caitou distributing enhancement cigars.

• Xu Tinglan entered the stage and mocked the Tang Sect by inviting all seven members to fight him together.
• Beibei, Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Xu Sanshi, Xiao Xiao, He Caitou, and Dai Luoli agreed to face Xu Tinglan as a team.
• Xu Sanshi asked Xu Tinglan to return to the Mysterious Underworld Sect, but Xu Tinglan said he had forgotten to read the letter and criticized the sect's lack of ambition.
• Referee Zheng Zhan began the match after the Tang Sect arranged its formation and Xu Tinglan took his position.
• The Tang Sect members released their martial souls, and He Caitou handed out cigars that could enhance their abilities.

Xu Tinglan overwhelmed the Tang Sect team with Universe Eternal Treasure and used its domain to reveal Huo Yuhao’s past. The chapter leaves Dai Luoli wondering whether Huo Yuhao’s vow to destroy the ducal estate’s bloodline included him.

• Xu Tinglan revealed his Seven Soul Rings and donned the Three-Word Battle Armor, Martial Imperial Honor, before unleashing Universe: Reversing Eternal Treasure.
• Xu Sanshi, Beibei, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong attacked Xu Tinglan, but his Yin-Yang Wild Waves and defenses stopped them.
• Wang Dong used Solo Dance in Frost, Rainbow Garment of Light, but Xu Tinglan knocked her back and she disintegrated into motes of light.
• Xu Tinglan suppressed the Tang Sect team and used Universe Eternal Treasure Domain to show Huo Yuhao standing outside a ducal estate and swearing to sever its bloodline.
• Dai Luoli saw Huo Yuhao’s vow and wondered whether his brother would kill him too.

The Eternal Treasure showed Huo Yuhao vowing revenge against the White Tiger Duke Mansion for the suffering of his mother, leaving those who knew him to reconsider how much of his past he had concealed. It then showed Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong being ambushed and Ma Xiaotao killing their attackers, while Yan Shaozhe recognized his own indirect role in the incident.

• Huo Yuhao swore to return to the White Tiger Duke Mansion and make its people pay for what he and his mother had endured.
• Xu Jiujiu realized Huo Yuhao was connected to the White Tiger Duke Mansion by a blood feud, while Dai Luoli felt hurt that Huo Yuhao had not sought him and their mother out.
• He Caitou and Beibei reacted to learning about Huo Yuhao's hidden past, and Beibei reflected on all the help he had given his junior brother.
• Huo Yuhao sensed killing intent as he and Wang Dong left the Shrek Treasure Appraisal Pavilion, and six Soul Masters pursued them toward Shrek City.
• Ma Xiaotao arrived with crimson wings and killed the Soul Emperor and five Soul Kings who had ambushed Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong.
• Yan Shaozhe recalled how he had treated Huo Yuhao after Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire affected him and recognized that he had indirectly participated in the assassination incident.

Yan Shaozhe planned to use an attack on Huo Yuhao to win his gratitude, while the audience watched Huo Yuhao survive Dai Huabin’s attempted assassination and secretly copy Sun Moon Academy’s Soul Guidance Core blueprints. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao preparing the Tang Sect for its match against the Sun Moon Team and insisting they should cripple their opponents.

• Yan Shaozhe learned that Dai Huabin planned to attack Huo Yuhao and decided to let the scheme unfold so Ma Xiaotao could rescue him and earn Shrek Academy favor with the Duke’s Mansion.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong survived the assassins, returned to the academy, and accused Dai Huabin of arranging the attack.
• Huo Yuhao secretly copied Sun Moon Academy’s Soul Guidance Core blueprints and handed them to Fan Yu, provoking outrage among the Sun Moon audience.
• At the Tang Sect’s meeting before the tournament match, Huo Yuhao ordered the team to follow Shrek’s plan and show no restraint against the Sun Moon Team.

A treasure revealed Huo Yuhao and the Tang Sect planning to cheat, prompting Shrek’s elders to intervene and face down Xu Tinglan and the Sun Moon Empire’s forces. The recording exposed the Tang Sect’s actions to the spectators, who turned against them.

• A revealed conversation showed Huo Yuhao planning to use Spiritual Detection Sharing and a Martial Soul Fusion Skill to gain an unfair advantage, while Dai Luoli questioned whether it broke the rules.
• Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi led Shrek’s Super Douluo elders toward the competition grounds, but Xu Tinglan warned them not to interfere and Long Xiaoyao and other powerful figures appeared.
• Faced with Xu Tinglan’s Battle Armor, Long Xiaoyao, and dozens of Ninth-Grade Soul Tools, Elder Song ordered the Shrek elders to retreat for the children’s safety.
• The Mottled Eternal Treasure replayed the Tang Sect’s earlier match, revealing Huo Yuhao’s Simulation Soul Skill, the Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and his admission that he knew Wang Dong had seen through him.
• The spectators condemned Huo Yuhao and the Tang Sect, and praised Jing Hongchen and Xu Tinglan for exposing their cheating.

The Eternal Treasure revealed Huo Yuhao as the one who caused a devastating explosion in Ming Capital, where countless civilians died, and showed the Tang Sect discussing how to conceal its responsibility. Xu Tinglan said Mingde Hall knew the culprit’s identity and was confident it could prevent the disaster, while the Sun Moon Empire’s people erupted in fury.

• Zhang Lexuan defended the Tang Sect Team, but Wang Dong accused Jing Hongchen of going back on his word and spectators condemned them both.
• The Eternal Treasure showed a massive explosion destroying more than a third of Ming Capital and killing many people shortly after the competition.
• Xu Tinglan explained that the Eternal Treasure could perceive the future, identified the disaster’s culprit, and said Mingde Hall could prevent it.
• Xu Jiujiu and Vina wondered whether foreign visitors had plotted the explosion, while the spectators waited to learn who was responsible.
• The image revealed Huo Yuhao admitting that he caused the explosion, and he said he did not regret it because he believed it would prevent greater suffering from war.
• Beibei proposed concealing the Tang Sect’s involvement and blaming the Body Sect, while Xu Sanshi objected but admitted he liked the idea; Sun Moon citizens cursed Huo Yuhao for killing civilians.

Xu Tinglan used the Mottled Eternal Treasure to show evidence of the future, deepening public outrage toward Huo Yuhao and the Tang Sect. The images revealed the Body Sect’s coming losses, and Du Busi asked Xu Tinglan to tell him what would happen to his sect.

• Ju Zi accused Huo Yuhao of sacrificing civilians to protect the Dai Family’s army, and the crowd’s anger toward him and the Tang Sect grew.
• Vina and Long Aotian realized the Body Sect’s secrets had been exposed by Huo Yuhao and suspected the projected events were real.
• Xu Tinglan invoked the Power of Fate to reveal a future scene in which Du Busi gave Huo Yuhao the Body Sect’s Secret of the Body.
• The vision showed Du Busi saying that one-third of the Body Sect had died in battle and its most promising young members had perished, leaving him without an heir.
• Du Busi asked Xu Tinglan to tell him the Body Sect’s future, and Xi Yue sent the Power of Fate into Xu Tinglan.

Xu Tinglan revealed how Huo Yuhao’s actions led to the Body Sect’s future decline, convincing Du Busi and the gathered spectators of the truth. He then used Yin-Yang Wild Waves to strip Huo Yuhao of his Soul Bones and cultivation, leaving him blind and powerless.

• Xu Tinglan told Du Busi that the Body Sect would dwindle to three disciples and become subordinate to Shrek, and Du Busi believed him after learning how Huo Yuhao’s actions had caused the coming conflict.
• Ju Zi explained that Huo Yuhao had secretly destroyed Ming Capital, making Mingde Hall and the Body Sect fight each other while Shrek benefited.
• Du Busi realized the future could be changed, while the spectators condemned Huo Yuhao for betraying those who had helped him and for killing innocent people.
• Xu Tinglan used Reverse Eternal Treasure, let Universe establish fate to suppress Huo Yuhao, and condemned him for refusing to repay the Body Sect and Beibei.
• Xu Tinglan forcibly severed Huo Yuhao’s Soul Bones, including two hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones, then drained his Soul Power until he was blind and powerless.

Xu Tinglan stripped Huo Yuhao of his powers and Mandate of Heaven, then transformed the stolen energy into seals for Dahuang. After the Sun Moon Team won the tournament by default, Xu Tinglan prepared to meet with the Body Sect and discuss the uncertain political situation.

• Xu Tinglan stripped Huo Yuhao of his meridians, Soul Power, Soul Bones, Soul Rings, and Mandate of Heaven, then refused to absorb the resulting platinum-white Soul Ring.
• Xu Tinglan gave the Soul Ring's energy to Dahuang, raising the Golden-Maned Flame Lion's cultivation toward the Hundred-Thousand-Year level.
• The Snow Demon Sect and Holy Spirit Sect forfeited, allowing the Sun Moon Team to claim the Spirit Master Tournament championship, while the Tang Sect Team was imprisoned.
• Xu Tinglan told Jing Hongchen that Huo Yuhao had lost Fate's favor and would be unable to cause trouble, then agreed to meet the Body Sect.
• Xu Tinglan summoned Ning Mochen and brought him with Jing Hongchen to meet Du Busi and Long Aotian, while Du Busi reconsidered his plans to pass the Secret of the Body to Vina or Huo Yuhao.

Xu Tinglan and Ning Mochen told Du Busi what became of the Body Sect’s disciples and argued that the Heaven Dou Empire exploited sects and soldiers instead of earning their loyalty. Du Busi was left questioning whether the Body Sect should sacrifice itself to protect the empire.

• Du Busi asked Xu Tinglan whether the Silver Disciples had all died, and Xu confirmed that Vina survived while the others died in battle.
• Xu Tinglan told Long Aotian that he had been a Skin Martial Soul Soul Saint who died saving Vina, then revealed that Vina later seduced Huo Yuhao.
• Du Busi rebuked Long Aotian for dwelling on love and asked Xu Tinglan what the Body Sect should do.
• Ning Mochen warned Du Busi that the Heaven Dou Empire valued sects only for their usefulness, citing the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s past sacrifices and the confiscation of its hidden weapons.
• Xu Tinglan challenged Du Busi’s belief in heroic sacrifice by asking why the empire made soldiers pay for Spirit Awakening despite demanding their lives in battle.

Xu Tinglan gave Du Busi information about the coming Abyss invasion and received Body Sect manuals in return. Meanwhile, Yan Shaozhe persuaded the Douluo Three Kingdoms to advance their plan to assassinate Xu Tianran that night, leaving Xue Leng to prepare for the strike.

• Xu Tinglan convinced Du Busi that the Heaven Dou Empire had exploited Soul Masters and handed over secret Body Sect combat manuals, including the Vajra Body-Forging Technique and the method for Unity of Heaven and Man.
• Xu Tinglan warned Du Busi, Jing Hongchen, Ning Mochen, and Long Aotian that the Abyss Plane would descend in four thousand years, then displayed his Martial Souls and Super Douluo aura.
• Zhang Lexuan and Yan Shaozhe proposed using the Ninth-Grade Soul Tools still installed near the Eastern Suburb Competition Arena as an opportunity to assassinate Xu Tianran.
• Xu Jiujiu, Vina, Xue Leng, and Yan Shaozhe agreed to carry out the assassination that night with more than thirty Title Douluo, including eight Super Douluo from Shrek.
• Yan Shaozhe ordered the others not to tell the wavering Du Busi about the plot, and Xue Leng left to disguise himself before the attack.

Xu Tinglan learned that the Douluo Three Kingdoms’ Title Douluo planned an assassination and met Xue Leng, who warned him while offering Tianhe’s allegiance. As a separate assault targeted Xu Tianran at the imperial palace, five Title Douluo confronted Xu Tinglan, who stood with the Snow Empress and Xi Yue in battle armor.

• Xue Leng revealed his identity as the prince-lord of Tianhe Province and warned Xu Tinglan that the Douluo Three Kingdoms’ Title Douluo planned an assassination that night.
• Xue Leng said he represented Tianhe and criticized Heavenly Soul and Star Luo for excluding Dou Ling from their spoils after the failed invasion of the Sun Moon Empire.
• The Dragon Emperor Douluo and Silver Guards faced Xuan Zi, Elder Song, Tianwu, the Heavenly Sun Douluo, and other attackers outside Xu Tianran’s study, while Xu Tianran suspected Ye Xishui wanted both sides weakened.
• The Star-Shattering Douluo, Xian Lin'er, Qian Duoduo, and two other Title Douluo confronted Xu Tinglan in a Ming Capital street.
• The Snow Empress and Xi Yue joined Xu Tinglan, and all three donned battle armor as the Star-Shattering Douluo wondered whether the Sun Moon Empire could mass-produce such armor.

Xu Tinglan fought Star-Shattering Douluo, Giant Hammer Douluo, and Giant Strength Douluo after they confronted him, overwhelming the three with his sword and the Two-Yi Halo domain. He defeated Star-Shattering Douluo with Fate Judgment and the Emperor Sword, leaving the other two Douluos suppressed.

• Xian Lin'er challenged Star-Shattering Douluo over his failed spatial seal, and he demanded that Giant Hammer Douluo and Giant Strength Douluo help kill Xu Tinglan.
• Xu Tinglan welcomed the three opponents and fought them with the Demon-Severing Monster-Slaying Sword and Two-Yi Halo domain.
• Xu Tinglan's Chaos Black Tortoise phantom suppressed Giant Hammer Douluo and Giant Strength Douluo, while Yin-Yang Wild Waves wounded Star-Shattering Douluo.
• Star-Shattering Douluo transformed with Star-Shattering Light Avatar and unleashed Star-Shattering World Destruction, but Xu Tinglan endured the attack with Indestructible Vajra Body.
• Xu Tinglan used Fate Judgment to break through Star-Shattering Douluo's defenses, then killed him with the Emperor Sword.

Xu Tinglan and his allies defeated the Star Luo Empire’s attackers, killing Xian Lin'er, Qian Duoduo, and the Star-Shattering Douluo before collecting their souls. After capturing Giant Strength Douluo and Giant Hammer Douluo, Xu Tinglan decided not to continue toward the eastern imperial palace and planned to target Dai Hao and Xuanji Douluo later.

• The Star-Shattering Douluo fell, and the Snow Empress froze Qian Duoduo until he shattered.
• Xi Yue and Xu Tinglan’s forces overwhelmed Xian Lin'er, whose weakened self-destruction killed her without harming them.
• Electrolux opened the Undead Half-Plane and took the souls of the Star-Shattering Douluo, Xian Lin'er, and Qian Duoduo.
• Xu Tinglan shackled Giant Strength Douluo and Giant Hammer Douluo and sent them into the Undead Half-Plane.
• Xu Tinglan decided not to go to the eastern imperial palace and planned to kill Dai Hao and Xuanji Douluo after the unrest ended.