Chapter Summaries

After Xiao Hongchen defeated the Tianyan Team, Wang Yan tried to recruit Xu Tinglan to Shrek, hoping to strengthen his team for the tournament. Xu Tinglan refused to meet Wang Yan at first, but Xiao Hongchen’s curiosity led them both to Shrek’s suite, where Wang Yan prepared to speak with them.

• Xiao Hongchen defeated the Tianyan Team without using his Fifth Soul Skill, then returned to the hotel with the Sun Moon Team.
• Wang Yan asked Xu Sanshi to bring Xu Tinglan to him and planned to use Shrek’s privileges and ties to the Star Luo Empire to recruit him.
• Xu Sanshi found Xu Tinglan, who refused to meet him until Xiao Hongchen persuaded him to go along.
• Xu Tinglan refused Wang Yan’s invitation, but Xiao Hongchen said he wanted to meet Shrek’s team leader, so Xu Sanshi led them to Wang Yan’s suite.
• Wang Yan welcomed Xu Tinglan and Xiao Hongchen and invited them to sit down for a proper talk.

Wang Yan tried to recruit Xu Tinglan into Shrek, but Xu rejected him and Xiao Hongchen mocked Shrek’s offer. After the Sun Moon Team returned to its lounge, Wang Yan called an emergency meeting and proposed forfeiting their next match against a powerful opponent.

• Wang Yan offered Xu Tinglan the captaincy of Shrek’s Reserve Team and promised him the future leadership of the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Xu Tinglan refused Wang Yan’s offer and declared that he would eventually stand above the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Xiao Hongchen pretended to want to join Shrek, then mocked Wang Yan and left with Xu Tinglan.
• Xu Tinglan and Xiao Hongchen returned to the Sun Moon Lounge, where Xiao Hongchen noted that Shrek’s next opponent was strong.
• Wang Yan called an emergency meeting and advised the Shrek team to preserve their trump cards and forfeit the next match.

Shrek faced Zhengtian Academy after drawing a two-two-three format that undermined Wang Yan’s team-battle plan, but Beibei refused to surrender and took command. As the opening small-team match began, Xu Sanshi and Xie Huanyue defeated Zhengtian’s Yu Mengdi, whose Angel martial soul impressed Xiao Hongchen and Xu Tinglan.

• Wang Yan urged Shrek’s reserve team to surrender, but Beibei refused and insisted on leading the matches to defend Shrek’s honor.
• Xiao Hongchen and Xu Tinglan watched from nearby as Beibei rallied the six others and told them to fight with everything they had.
• Xu Tinglan explained that a team in a two-two-three format should focus on building two strong teams rather than three weaker ones, and Xiao Hongchen understood her point.
• Yu Mengdi revealed her Angel martial soul and entered the match against Xu Sanshi and Xie Huanyue.
• Xu Sanshi and Xie Huanyue won the small-team battle, and Xiao Hongchen noticed the strength of Xu Sanshi’s Divine Beast Bloodline.

Xu Tinglan watched Shrek and Zhengtian Academy’s second team match, where Xiao Xiao shattered her martial soul to protect He Caitou and help him finish charging his cannon. Shrek lost the match, and Xu Tinglan suspected Beibei had treated Xiao Xiao as expendable.

• Xu Tinglan explained that members of the Mysterious Underworld Sect rarely inherited concentrated Divine Beast Bloodlines, and he suspected Xu Sanshi had undergone Yin-Yang Fusion Awakening for the tournament.
• Beibei sent He Caitou and Xiao Xiao into the second match and told them to prioritize their safety while he, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong handled the deciding stage.
• Tang Xiaolei attacked He Caitou with arrows from his Purple Glory Bow while his teammate transformed into a Blood Wolf, and Xiao Xiao stepped in to defend He Caitou.
• Xiao Xiao used her Nine Phoenix Flute to slow the opponents, then shattered her Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron to block their attack as He Caitou completed his Super Energy Gathering Soul Cannon charge.
• The referee declared Zhengtian Academy the winner, and Xu Tinglan condemned Beibei and Shrek for allowing Xiao Xiao to risk her martial soul when the match was not a match point.

After Xiao Xiao's Martial Soul shattered and Shrek's sacrifice drew applause, Xu Tinglan's attempt to expose Shrek's indifference failed to turn the audience against the academy. Beibei, Wang Dong, and Huo Yuhao began the third team match against Zhengtian Academy, where Huo Yuhao revealed the Sky Dream Finger and switched to his Ice Jade Scorpion Martial Soul.

• Xu Tinglan resented Shrek's treatment of its students and considered exposing the academy to weaken its reputation.
• The referee praised Shrek's fighters, and the audience applauded while Wang Yan wept.
• Beibei, He Caitou, Wang Dong, and Huo Yuhao vowed to defend Shrek's honor, and Beibei, Wang Dong, and Huo Yuhao entered the third match.
• Beibei traded insults with Ye Wuqing before the match began.
• Huo Yuhao used Simulation to disguise his Soul Rings, then unleashed the Sky Dream Finger and switched to his Ice Jade Scorpion Martial Soul.

Shrek defeated Zhengtian Team after Beibei, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong unleashed their powerful abilities. Wang Yan then addressed the crowd, explaining that Shrek’s main team had been badly injured while fighting Evil Soul Masters, while Xu Tinglan suspected Wang Yan was using the story to promote Shrek.

• Beibei unleashed his Tyrant Emperor Lightning Domain, and Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong combined their powers to seal Beibei and Ye Wuqing’s Martial Souls.
• Tian Meng controlled Huo Yuhao’s Ice Jade Scorpion body to suppress Zhengtian Team’s fire Soul Master, while Wang Dong struck Ye Wuqing with the Clear Sky Hammer.
• The referee declared Shrek the winner, and Xu Tinglan told the stunned Sun Moon Team that Shrek’s recruits had four Twin Martial Souls and two Bloodline Martial Souls.
• Wang Yan told the crowd that Shrek’s main team had been injured and one member killed while fighting Evil Soul Masters in the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• Xu Tinglan decided Wang Yan was promoting Shrek rather than defending the students, activated his Titanium Wings, and flew toward the Competition Platform.

Xu Tinglan confronted Wang Yan on the competition platform and forced him to reveal the truth about Shrek’s mission against Evil Soul Masters. Wang Yan admitted the enemy was only one Soul King with twelve Corpse Slaves, leaving the audience and rival academies doubtful of Shrek’s account.

• Xu Tinglan took the Amplifying Soul Tool, challenged Wang Yan, and reminded him that he had promised Xu Tinglan a place as leader of the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Beibei woke and protested that the leadership position belonged to him, while Huo Yuhao tried to reassure him and Xu Sanshi pretended to faint.
• Xu Tinglan asked how many Evil Soul Masters Shrek had encountered and threatened to expose Wang Yan’s earlier actions using a Recording Soul Tool.
• Wang Yan admitted through the amplified tool that Shrek had faced one Soul King Evil Soul Master and twelve Corpse Slaves.
• Wang Yan insisted the Corpse Slaves and their explosive technique had been dangerous, but the audience and other academies viewed Shrek’s mission and concealment with suspicion.

Xu Tinglan exposed Shrek’s poor equipment for its Inner Court students and condemned Wang Yan for blaming them, turning the audience against Shrek. When the Heavenly Fiend Douluo attacked him, Xu Tinglan blocked the strike with the Ninth-Grade Soul Tool Moon God Radiance and demanded accountability, while Wang Yan feared Elder Xuan would retaliate.

• Xu Tinglan questioned Wang Yan about the Soul Tools Shrek’s Inner Court students used on their mission, and Wang Yan fell silent as he realized the question would expose Shrek.
• Xu Tinglan revealed that the students had carried no Soul Tools beyond Storage Rings, prompting the crowd to accuse Shrek of disregarding their lives.
• Wang Yan defended Shrek’s practice of sending students into missions without Soul Tools, claiming teachers had more to consider, and Xu Jiawei decided the Star Luo Empire had to intervene.
• The Heavenly Fiend Douluo attacked Xu Tinglan, but Xu Tinglan activated the Ninth-Grade Soul Tool Moon God Radiance and dissolved the blood-red star.
• Xu Tinglan blamed Shrek’s teachers for the students’ deaths and injuries, including Chen Zifeng’s lost arm and Gongyang Mo’s crushed legs, and Wang Yan collapsed as the Dou Ling team praised its academy for providing Invincible Barriers.
• Wang Yan silently warned Xu Tinglan that Elder Xuan valued Shrek’s honor and would make him pay.

Xu Tinglan’s intervention forced Heavenly Fiend Douluo to stop the confrontation, while a hidden powerhouse severed the Title Douluo’s hand. At Shrek’s lounge, Xuan Zi admitted that the adults’ obsession with the academy’s honor had burdened the students and acknowledged Xiao Xiao’s resolve.

• Xu Jiawei sensed a powerful presence at the Star Emperor Hotel and urged Senior Huang to let the tournament proceed without further conflict.
• Xu Tinglan declared Shrek the winner, but a silver moon cut off Heavenly Fiend Douluo’s right hand, and Huang Jinxu thanked the unseen attacker for sparing his life.
• Wang Yan tried to leave amid the crowd’s criticism, and Huo Yuhao comforted him while He Caitou remained silent.
• Xuan Zi told Wang Yan that Shrek’s teachers had placed their fears and concern for the academy’s honor on the students, then praised Xiao Xiao’s resolve.

Xu Tinglan and Kong Deming discussed how their public attack on Shrek could damage its reputation, and the Sun Moon Team returned to competition that afternoon. Xu Tinglan and Jiang Nannan began their match against the Galaxy Team by combining their domains, leaving their opponents struggling under immense gravity.

• Kong Deming praised Xu Tinglan’s actions and revealed that he had restrained Xuan Zi with spatial sealing during the confrontation.
• The tournament resumed, and Huo Yuhao and Beibei watched the Sun Moon Team’s match from the Star Emperor Hotel roof while Shrek’s injured members recovered.
• Xu Tinglan drew the Galaxy Team for the Sun Moon Team’s first match of the afternoon, and he and Jiang Nannan stepped onto the Competition Platform.
• Xu Tinglan activated the Canglan Domain as Jiang Nannan used her Mysterious Yellow Flag to expand her Gravity Control domain.
• The Galaxy Team’s two Soul Kings were caught in the overlapping domains, and the increased gravity sharply reduced their movement.

Jiang Nannan and Xu Tinglan used the Gravity Domain and the Super Energy Gathering Soul Cannon to defeat the Galaxy Team, with Xu Tinglan saving an opponent from the cannon’s blast. Huo Yuhao secretly vowed to make Xu Tinglan pay for insulting Shrek, while Xu Tinglan sensed hostility from someone watching him.

• Jiang Nannan brought out the Super Energy Gathering Soul Cannon while Xu Tinglan's Gravity Domain weakened the Galaxy Team's attacks and slowed their movements.
• Xu Tinglan caught the defense-type Soul Master's weakened shield, and the Black Cat Soul Master charged at Jiang Nannan as she prepared the cannon.
• Jiang Nannan used Invincible Golden Body and Teleportation to evade the Black Cat Soul Master's attack and fire the cannon at the Galaxy Team.
• Xu Tinglan kicked the Black Cat Soul Master out of the arena and blocked the cannon with his Black Tortoise Shield, prompting the Galaxy Captain to concede.
• Huo Yuhao praised Jiang Nannan's Soul Skills, then secretly vowed to repay Xu Tinglan for insulting Shrek and Teacher Wang Yan.
• Xu Tinglan sensed hostility from the Star Emperor Hotel rooftop and wondered if a Star Luo spy was watching him.

Xu Tinglan watched Huo Yuhao from the Star Emperor Hotel rooftop before the Sun Moon Team advanced through the group stage and attended a top-tier auction. There, Xu Tinglan outbid Dai Yueheng for a Soul Tool made by Mingde Hall, leaving Dai Yueheng furious.

• Xu Tinglan recalled how the Body Sect had suffered because of Shrek and Huo Yuhao, while Huo Yuhao noticed Xu Tinglan watching him from the rooftop.
• The Sun Moon Team and Shrek Team finished the round-robin stage at the top of their groups, and Beibei took over leadership of Shrek's team.
• Xiao Hongchen received a highest-tier invitation to the Starlight Auction House, and the Sun Moon Team went to the auction.
• The auction presented the Tyrant Tiger Soul-Refining Blade, an eighth-rank melee Spirit Bone Soul Tool made by Mingde Hall, and Dai Yueheng bid for it.
• Xu Tinglan raised the bid to one million six hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, provoking Dai Yueheng's angry outburst.

Xu Tinglan drove up the price of a Soul Tool Dai Yueheng wanted, deliberately denying the Shrek heir a weapon suited to him. As the auction moved on to dangerous cannon shells, Xiao Hongchen revealed he was saving money for an item that surprised Xu Tinglan.

• Dai Yueheng bid against Xu Tinglan for the Tyrant Tiger Soul-Refining Blade, which Xu Tinglan wanted to keep from the White Tiger heir.
• Xu Tinglan connected his hostility toward Dai Yueheng to the failed assassin sent by the White Tiger Duke and Star Luo's conduct during the competition.
• Ma Xiaotao mocked Dai Yueheng, and Huo Yuhao calmed the confrontation by reminding her that her injuries had not healed.
• Xu Tinglan's bids pushed the blade to 1.84 million Gold Soul Coins, and Dai Yueheng lost the auction.
• Xu Jiujiu introduced twelve Fixed Soul-Guided Cannon Shells, and Xiao Hongchen told Xu Tinglan he was saving money for an item called the Heavenly King Imperial Yang Pill and the Golden Soul Body-Forging Pill.

At the Starlight Auction, Xu Tinglan used a late bid to secure a set of twelve Fixed Soul-Guided Cannon Shells, while Shrek missed the sale by 5,000 Gold Soul Coins. Xiao Hongchen then told Xu Tinglan about two Divine Pills that could strengthen a soul master enough to absorb a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, leaving Xu Tinglan wondering why the pills had appeared in place of an expected auction item.

• He Caitou urged Wang Yan to buy the twelve Fixed Soul-Guided Cannon Shells as research samples for Shrek’s Soul Tool Department.
• Wang Yan bid 655,000 Gold Soul Coins at the last moment, but another bidder won the shells for 660,000.
• Xu Tinglan’s bid secured the full set for the Sun Moon team, and Xiao Hongchen praised his timing.
• Xiao Hongchen explained that the Heavenly King Imperial Yang Pill and Golden Soul Body-Forging Pill could greatly strengthen a soul master’s physique and might enable a Soul Saint to absorb a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Xu Tinglan recalled that the two pills were not among the original auction items and wondered whether they had replaced the Soul Beast Embryo.

The auction introduced a powerful Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone, drawing the interest of Huo Yuhao, Ling Luochen, and Meng Hongchen. Xu Tinglan warned Meng that it might require Ultimate Ice and helped her bid against the likely Shrek contender.

• Xu Jiujiu presented the fifty-to-seventy-thousand-year-old Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone, which enhanced ice abilities and granted Ice Explosion.
• Huo Yuhao and Ling Luochen both hoped to obtain the Soul Bone, while Meng Hongchen also wanted it for her ice-and-poison martial soul.
• Xu Tinglan suspected the Soul Bone could only be absorbed by an Ultimate Ice soul master and told Meng Hongchen to buy it before Shrek could.
• The auction price rose past twenty-five million Gold Soul Coins as two anonymous bidders competed.
• Xu Tinglan lent Meng Hongchen his black card, and she continued bidding despite Xiao Hongchen's concerns.

Kong Deming revealed himself at the auction and bid on an Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone, which ultimately went to the Sun Moon Team for thirty-one million five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins. The next lot was two Divine Pills said to derive from Sea God Tang San’s formulas, and Xu Jiawei planned to use them to trap Sun Moon Academy’s wealthy geniuses.

• Kong Deming appeared to protect Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, while Jing Hongchen emerged from hiding and greeted him.
• Kong Deming joined the bidding for the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone as Xu Tinglan realized the Star Luo Royal Family risked provoking the Two Emperors of Ice and Snow.
• The Sun Moon Team won the Soul Bone for thirty-one million five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, and Xu Jiawei viewed the purchase as part of a plan to weaken and profit from Mingde Hall.
• Xu Jiujiu presented two Divine Pills, explaining that they were believed to come from formulas inherited from Sea God Tang San and could improve Soul Masters’ physical constitutions.
• Xiao Hongchen eagerly told Xu Tinglan he wanted the Golden Soul Body-Forging Pill for his Three-Legged Golden Toad, while Xu Jiawei saw the pills as bait for Sun Moon Academy.
• Beibei and Huo Yuhao stood in reverence at the mention of Sea God Tang San, while Dai Yueheng resented the Star Luo royal family for keeping the pills secret.

Jing Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen prepared to buy the two sets of Divine Pills, while Xu Tinglan questioned the Star Luo Royal Family’s reasons for auctioning them and suspected a trap. Xu Jiujiu defended the decision, and her claim that Star Luo lacked outstanding talents provoked a reaction from Dai Yueheng in Shrek’s private room.

• Xiao Hongchen urged Jing Hongchen to buy the Divine Pills, and Jing Hongchen asked whether Soul Tools could offset their price.
• A woman in black explained that Mingde Hall masterpieces would be assessed at official prices with a ten percent service fee, prompting Xu Tinglan to criticize Starlight Auction House’s terms.
• Xu Tinglan asked Xu Jiujiu why the Star Luo Royal Family did not reserve the Divine Pills for its own talents, and she blamed the difficulty of obtaining Scarlet Soul Rings.
• Xu Tinglan cited Star Luo’s ties to Shrek and challenged Xu Jiujiu’s explanation, but she claimed the pills would go to a peerless genius and invoked the Sea God.
• Xu Tinglan suspected the Divine Pills were another trap, while Dai Yueheng reacted angrily to Xu Jiujiu’s claim that Star Luo lacked outstanding talents and Ma Xiaotao teased him.

Xu Tinglan exposed the Star Luo Royal Family’s plan to sell the Divine Pills to the Sun Moon Empire, forcing Xu Jiujiu to defend the decision despite the empire’s own gifted citizens. The auction guests began to suspect the pills were a trap, while Xu Tinglan reminded Xiao Hongchen that Star Luo had no reason to help their rival.

• Dai Yueheng grew furious after Xu Jiujiu’s remarks implied Star Luo had no outstanding young talents, while Xiao Hongchen openly dismissed Star Luo’s younger generation.
• Xu Tinglan challenged Xu Jiujiu by naming Dai Yueheng and revealing that Huo Yuhao, a Star Luo citizen with twin top-tier martial souls, had been attacked by State-Protecting Douluo Cheng Gang.
• Xu Jiujiu’s reaction confirmed Huo Yuhao’s identity, and Beibei and Ma Xiaotao expressed concern and anger over Cheng Gang’s attack.
• Xu Jiujiu argued that Huo Yuhao’s birthplace did not prove his circumstances and defended selling the Divine Pills to the Sun Moon Empire rather than risking them on an unverified person.
• Xu Tinglan accused the royal family of favoring profit over its own people, prompting Shrek’s guests to suspect the pills were suspicious and Xiao Hongchen to recognize the sale might be a trap.
• Xu Tinglan rebuked Xiao Hongchen for failing to realize that Star Luo would not willingly sell Divine Pills to an empire it wanted to defeat.

After the auction scandal, Star Luo Emperor Xu Jiawei decided to sell the Divine Pills to Shrek students after removing their hidden poison, expecting their desperation in the tournament to make them take the risk. Xu Tinglan dismissed the pills and remained determined to kill Dai Yueheng without them.

• Xu Jiawei appeared at the auction, awarded the Divine Pills, and ended the event before the Star Moon Team could buy them.
• In private, Xu Jiawei revealed that the complete pill set contained an undetectable compound poison and ordered Xu Jiujiu to remove it before selling the pills to Huo Yuhao at a steep discount.
• Xu Jiawei argued that Shrek's students would likely take the pills because their first-place tournament standing was at risk, and said even Elder Xuan had failed to detect a problem.
• Jing Hongchen planned a cleanup after learning that Sun Moon Empire Soul Tools had been sold to Star Luo, then urged Xiao Hongchen to learn from Xu Tinglan.
• Xu Tinglan returned to the lounge, rejected the Divine Pills as unworthy of their price, and said he could kill Dai Yueheng without them.

Xu Tinglan clashed with Shrek over Dai Yueheng’s Tyrant Tiger Blade and challenged the team’s loyalties before the argument erupted into a fight. Shrek then crushed the Dou Spirit Royal Team, with Dai Yueheng brutally injuring its captain and provoking the Sun Moon Team.

• Dai Yueheng accused Xu Tinglan of stealing his Tyrant Tiger Blade, and Xu Tinglan replied that he had bought the soul tool at auction.
• Huo Yuhao called Xu Tinglan a traitor, but Xu Tinglan challenged the Shrek group over their own divided loyalties and the old conflicts among the kingdoms.
• Ma Xiaotao threatened the Sun Moon Team, and Xu Tinglan drew the Demon-Slaying Sword to cut through her Evil Fire before Elder Ma and Wang Yan stopped the confrontation from escalating.
• Shrek defeated the Dou Spirit Royal Team, and Dai Yueheng broke the opposing captain’s limbs before roaring at the Sun Moon Team.