Chapter Summaries

Xu Jiawei weighed the fallout from Shrek Academy’s clash with Cheng Gang and recognized Huo Yuhao as a frightening threat, while nobles and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy reacted to the incident. The chapter ended with Xu Jiawei ordering an investigation into Princess Wei Na as tensions gathered around Shrek and Duke White Tiger’s Mansion.

• Xu Jiawei learned that Cheng Gang had been badly injured, arranged compensation for him, and refused to revoke Shrek Academy’s competition qualification because Shrek had been the victim.
• Xu Jiawei considered using the incident to weaken Duke White Tiger’s Mansion, then read Huo Yuhao’s report and decided that the boy could not be allowed to remain if he could not be recruited.
• Xu Jiawei discovered that Wei Na was a princess of the Heaven Dou Empire and ordered a hidden guard to investigate her time at Shrek Academy.
• Star Luo’s nobles and experts took sides over the incident, while Nan Qiuqiu praised Huo Yuhao and Nan Shuishui considered matching him with her daughter.
• Ma Lao summoned the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team to an overnight meeting, and Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen were stunned by the report about Huo Yuhao.

After Shrek Academy’s battle left its team badly depleted, Huo Yuhao took charge and concealed how he had manipulated events. Back in his room, he secured Zhou Yi’s soul for a future scheme and began refining the Soul Devouring Engraving Knife with his Mana.

• Ling Luochen proposed that Huo Yuhao become team leader, and the others agreed as the team assessed Ma Xiaotao’s weakness and Ling Luochen and Xu San Shi’s injuries.
• Wei Na reported that Ma Xiaotao was exhausted and would remain weak for a while, while Ling Luochen and Xu San Shi feared they might miss the finals.
• Huo Yuhao sent the team to rest, leaving Shrek Academy with only six available fighters for the upcoming matches.
• Huo Yuhao praised Eunuch Gao’s ghost for helping stage the night’s events and returned him to the Ghost Banner Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao kept Zhou Yi’s soul as bait to draw out Fan Yu, then began using his Mana to refine the Soul Devouring Engraving Knife.

Shrek Academy entered the second round of the Soul Master Competition with a depleted lineup, and Huo Yuhao discovered that their referee was the Titled Douluo Huang Jinxu. The match against Tianming Advanced Soul Master Academy was set to be a team battle, while Huo Yuhao privately considered Huang Jinxu a valuable target because of his Star Fate.

• Shrek Academy arrived with six contestants, while Ling Luochen served as their injured teacher and Wei Na stayed behind to care for the unconscious Ma Xiaotao.
• Ling Luochen told the team that their opponent was Tianming Advanced Soul Master Academy, and Huo Yuhao reassured her that they would win regardless of the opponent's strength.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the referee as Huang Jinxu, a Titled Douluo with the Heavenly Fiend Lone Star, Punishment and Injury, and Star Fate configurations.
• Huang Jinxu watched Huo Yuhao closely because Xu Jiawei had appointed him to referee, fearing other referees could not stop Huo Yuhao if he lost control.
• Huo Yuhao and Tianming's captain drew lots, and Huang Jinxu announced that Shrek Academy and Tianming Advanced Soul Master Academy would compete in a team battle.

Huo Yuhao faced Tianming Team alone after its captain taunted Shrek Academy over the previous night's incident. As the match began, Huo Yuhao summoned his Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul and unleashed a powerful poison attack on all seven opponents.

• The Tianming Team captain provoked Huo Yuhao by questioning Shrek Academy's strength after the previous night's incident.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the arena and declared that he would fight Tianming Team alone.
• Tianming Team fielded its Main Team of seven, and its captain accused Huo Yuhao of arrogance before the match began.
• Tianming Team formed a defensive formation with Soul Tools ready to counter Huo Yuhao's expected charge.
• Huo Yuhao summoned his Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul and, with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's help, released a ten-thousand-year Frost Centipede Poison attack over the team.

Huo Yuhao overwhelmed Tianming Team with his poisonous mist and won the match after Huang Jinxu declared them unable to fight. He warned Tianming’s instructor against provoking Shrek Academy, then left the arena as Huang Jinxu worried about his growing power.

• Huo Yuhao’s poisonous mist penetrated Tianming Team’s defenses, corroded the seven members, and left them screaming in pain.
• Huang Jinxu dispersed the mist and declared Tianming Team unable to fight, awarding the match to Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao’s Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul absorbed the remaining cold poison, but Tianming Team’s members fell unconscious and needed healing.
• When Tianming Team’s leading instructor accused him of trying to kill them, Huo Yuhao asked whether they had died and warned that anyone who provoked Shrek should be prepared for destruction.
• Huo Yuhao threatened to ask his teacher, the Sea God Pavilion Master, to let him join a vanguard against Tianming Advanced Soul Master Academy, silencing its instructor.
• Huang Jinxu ended the confrontation and left the arena, inwardly reflecting on Huo Yuhao’s power and Shrek Academy’s influence.

After Huo Yuhao defeated Tianming Team, he returned to refining the Soul Devouring Engraving Knife while the Body Sect secretly protected him. The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy planned to prepare against his poison and exploit tensions between Shrek, Star Luo Empire, and Duke White Tiger's Mansion, as Wei Na reported that Ma Xiaotao had awakened.

• Shrek Team praised Huo Yuhao after the match, and he warned the group to stay together and avoid danger while they were out in Star Luo City.
• Lang Ya and Yu Tao secretly continued following Huo Yuhao under Du Busi's orders, with another Body Sect elder also guarding him and Wei Na.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the hotel to refine the Soul Devouring Engraving Knife and considered how his harsh victory would force Star Luo Empire and Duke White Tiger's Mansion to compensate Shrek.
• Wei Na told Huo Yuhao that Ma Xiaotao had awakened, and he hurried to visit her.
• Ma Lao told Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy to prepare poison-resistant Soul Tools and concluded that Ma Xiaotao might not compete again, while the academy secretly considered worsening tensions among Shrek, Star Luo Empire, and Duke White Tiger's Mansion.

Ma Xiaotao returned to the conference room and learned that rumors about Shrek Academy’s losses in the Ming Dou Mountain Range were spreading through Star Luo City. Huo Yuhao arranged for the Star Luo Imperial Family to investigate the escaped Death God Messenger, while privately recognizing that the rumors were being pushed by someone else.

• Ma Xiaotao told the group that she could use only thirty percent of her strength for the next month after exhausting herself in battle.
• Xiao Xiao reported that people were accusing Shrek Academy of neglecting its students and declining after four team members died and another was captured in the Ming Dou Mountain Range.
• Wei Na pointed out that only insiders knew about the incident, prompting Ma Xiaotao to question who had leaked it.
• Ling Luochen named the escaped Death God Messenger and the deceased Teacher Zhou Yi as people who knew about the incident, but Ma Xiaotao ruled Zhou Yi out.
• Ma Xiaotao prepared to search for the Death God Messenger, but Huo Yuhao stopped her and proposed asking the Star Luo Imperial Family to investigate.
• Huo Yuhao privately suspected that someone was deliberately spreading the rumors and knew the Death God Messenger had only recently returned to the Ming Dou Mountain Range.

Xu Jiawei struggled to balance Shrek Academy, Duke White Tiger's Mansion, and the Sun Moon Empire, so he sent Xu Jiujiu to build a relationship with Huo Yuhao. In the Ming Dou Mountain Range, the Death God Messenger reached rank sixty-one, gained a zombie-making soul skill, and prepared to seek the Holy Spirit Cult's support while taking Bei Bei with him.

• Huo Yuhao refused Xu Jiawei's hint to focus on stopping the rumors and insisted that the Death God Messenger had to die.
• Xu Jiawei learned Duke White Tiger's Mansion and the Sun Moon Empire's academy had helped spread the rumors, then sent Xu Jiujiu to build a good relationship with Huo Yuhao.
• The Death God Messenger absorbed a ten-thousand-year Carrion Vulture Soul Ring and broke through to rank sixty-one.
• The Death God Messenger used his Sixth Soul Skill, Corruption Conversion, to turn the Carrion Vulture's corpse into a flying Zombie Vulture.
• The Death God Messenger took Bei Bei aboard the Zombie Vulture and planned to seek backing from the Holy Spirit Cult, vowing to return to Shrek Academy and Duke White Tiger Dai Hao.

As Shrek Academy investigated the Death God Messenger, Huo Yuhao secretly searched Star Luo City for the imperial tomb and gained information about how intimacy with Ma Xiaotao and Wei Na might heal injuries. After Shrek won its third-round match, Zhu Lu stopped Huo Yuhao and asked to speak with him alone.

• Jin Qiuer and the others joined the search for the Death God Messenger while Huo Yuhao investigated Star Luo City's feng shui and Fortune flow, hoping to locate the imperial tomb.
• Ma Xiaotao and Wei Na visited Huo Yuhao, and Ling Luochen discovered that their Martial Soul Fusion Skill seemed to help heal Ma Xiaotao's injuries.
• Huo Yuhao and Jin Qiuer won their matches in Shrek Academy's third-round contest, with Huo Yuhao defeating his opponent without using poison.
• After the match, Zhu Lu stopped Huo Yuhao and nervously asked to talk with him alone.

Zhu Lu sought Huo Yuhao out to apologize for Dai Huabin, but their martial souls triggered a forced fusion that gave Huo Yuhao the power of the Hell White Tiger. He discovered the fusion’s immense strength and ended the chapter teasing Zhu Lu about what he would do with her.

• Zhu Lu privately apologized to Huo Yuhao because she had been unable to stop Dai Huabin, and clarified that she was only Dai Huabin’s fiancée.
• Zhu Lu activated her Spirit Cat martial soul and urged Huo Yuhao to acknowledge their martial soul resonance, prompting him to reveal his twin martial souls.
• Huo Yuhao forcibly initiated a martial soul fusion with Zhu Lu, transforming into a Hell White Tiger form and gaining access to her soul skills and a doubled boost to his powers.
• Huo Yuhao sensed that the fusion could let him fight a Super Douluo, while a third eye at his brow remained unable to open fully.
• Zhu Lu questioned Huo Yuhao about his twin martial souls, the Hell White Tiger fusion, and his connection to Duke White Tiger’s Mansion, and Huo Yuhao warned her that she knew too much.

Huo Yuhao used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to probe Zhu Lu’s memories and revealed that he was Duke White Tiger’s illegitimate son, whose mother had been killed by the Duke’s family. Zhu Lu learned that their feud could not be reconciled, and Huo Yuhao demanded a more practical guarantee of her silence.

• Ling Luochen waited outside the private room because she feared the Zhu and Dai families might harm Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao used the Martial Soul Fusion Skill to control Zhu Lu and inspect her memories, then called her his sister-in-law.
• Huo Yuhao showed Zhu Lu memories of how Dai Huabin and the Duchess had oppressed him and Huo Yun’er, revealing his identity as Duke White Tiger’s illegitimate son.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Zhu Lu’s clan had begun cultivating other connections to the Dai Family because Dai Huabin’s position as heir was uncertain.
• Zhu Lu explained that she had hoped their Martial Soul Fusion Skill would ease the conflict between Huo Yuhao and Dai Huabin, but realized their hatred was irreconcilable.
• Zhu Lu promised not to reveal Huo Yuhao’s secret, but he rejected her assurance and demanded something practical to keep her silent.

Huo Yuhao used what he learned from Zhu Lu’s memories to plan against Duke White Tiger’s Mansion, then left a Golden Centipede-like power inside her to keep her from exposing him. Back at Shrek Academy’s hotel, he found that Fan Yu had arrived to look after the team and asked where Zhou Yi was.

• Huo Yuhao learned from Zhu Lu’s memories that Duke White Tiger’s Mansion was behind the events in the Ming Dou Mountain Range and considered using the information to damage Shrek Academy’s reputation.
• Ling Luochen warned Huo Yuhao to stay away from Zhu Lu and people from Duke White Tiger’s Mansion and the Zhu Family, and he agreed to return to the hotel.
• Zhu Lu discovered a Golden Centipede gnawing at her tongue and realized Huo Yuhao had placed it inside her to monitor and threaten her.
• When Dai Huabin called for her, Zhu Lu hid her fear and decided not to let him or her family notice anything unusual.
• Huo Yuhao and Ling Luochen returned to the hotel, where Huo Yuhao greeted Fan Yu and asked whether Zhou Yi had returned with him.

After Huo Yuhao revealed Zhou Yi’s body and recounted what had happened, Xuan Zi and Fan Yu blamed the Star Luo Empire and Duke White Tiger’s Mansion for her death and Ma Xiaotao’s injury. Xuan Zi stormed toward the imperial palace to seek justice, with Fan Yu following and Huo Yuhao’s hidden clone tracking them.

• Huo Yuhao showed Fan Yu Zhou Yi’s corpse, and Fan Yu broke down in grief.
• Huo Yuhao told Xuan Zi and Fan Yu what he and his companions had witnessed in Star Luo City.
• Xuan Zi and Fan Yu erupted in anger, vowing to make the Star Luo Empire and Duke White Tiger’s Mansion answer for their actions.
• Xuan Zi smashed through the Star Emperor Hotel and flew toward the Star Luo Imperial Palace, while Fan Yu followed on his Flying Soul Tool.
• Huo Yuhao helped the pale Ma Xiaotao back to her room as a hidden Centipede Leg Clone followed Xuan Zi and Fan Yu.
• Xuan Zi killed the Imperial Guard Commander and nearby guards with a single palm strike when they tried to stop him at the palace.

Xuan Zi stormed into Star Luo’s imperial city to avenge Zhou Yi, killing imperial guards and clashing with the empire’s strongest fighters. He stopped his attack after Emperor Xu Jiawei offered to negotiate, but the confrontation left relations between Shrek Academy and the Star Luo Empire on the brink of collapse.

• Xuan Zi broke into the imperial city, killed an Imperial Guard Commander and a squad of guards, and rejected Shattered Star Douluo’s demand for an explanation.
• Xuan Zi unleashed his Sixth Soul Skill, Taotie Trample, and Shattered Star Douluo and Huang Jinxu combined their powers to block it.
• Xuan Zi prepared to use his Ninth Soul Skill, prompting Shattered Star Douluo and Huang Jinxu to plead with him to stop.
• Xu Jiawei arrived and offered to discuss the matter, and Xuan Zi halted his attack after Fan Yu warned him not to kill the emperor.
• Huo Yuhao watched through the Centipede Leg Clone and wanted Xuan Zi to continue, while Electrolux observed that the conflict had driven Shrek and the Star Luo Empire to the brink of a total break.

Huo Yuhao’s plan left Xuan Zi convinced that Zhou Yi’s death demanded a forceful response, and Xuan Zi gave Duke White Tiger’s Mansion three days to hand over the culprit and compensate Shrek Academy. The Duchess was blamed and isolated by the mansion’s leaders, so she resolved to move early to secure the dukedom for Hua Bin.

• After Xuan Zi and Fan Yu entered the imperial palace, Huo Yuhao withdrew his Centipede Leg Clone, satisfied that his objective was mostly achieved.
• Star Luo Empire increased security at Star Emperor Hotel, while Jin Qiuer returned and regretted missing the chance to accompany Xuan Zi to the palace.
• Xuan Zi and Fan Yu flew to Duke White Tiger’s Mansion, where Xuan Zi defeated its Titled Douluo ancestor and destroyed its Soul Guidance Cannons.
• Xuan Zi gave Duke White Tiger’s Mansion three days to hand over the person responsible for Zhou Yi’s death and apologize and compensate Shrek Academy.
• The Titled Douluo ancestor ordered the Duchess to handle the matter and warned her not to further damage relations with Shrek Academy.
• After the mansion’s upper echelons abandoned her, the Duchess decided to act ahead of schedule to ensure Hua Bin inherited the position of Duke White Tiger.

Xuan Zi settled Zhou Yi’s death with Fan Yu and returned to Shrek Academy’s team as they prepared for the competition. After Jin Qiuer and Huo Yuhao won their individual match, the Star Luo Empire and Duke White Tiger’s Mansion delivered seven Soul Bones as compensation, leaving the team to decide how to divide them.

• Xuan Zi told Fan Yu that the matter would end with the punishment of Duke White Tiger’s Mansion, and Fan Yu returned to Shrek Academy after accepting the decision.
• Xuan Zi apologized to the Shrek Academy students and promised to protect them, though Huo Yuhao discovered he had left the hotel after claiming he would stay nearby.
• Jin Qiuer defeated five opponents in the individual match before running out of Soul Power, and Huo Yuhao defeated the remaining two.
• The Star Luo Empire and Duke White Tiger’s Mansion delivered seven Soul Bones as compensation, and Jin Qiuer refused to take one.
• The team assigned Soul Bones to Huo Yuhao, Ma Xiaotao, Wei Na, and Ling Luochen, with Wei Na receiving the forty-thousand-year head Soul Bone.

After the team received Soul Bones, Ling Luochen struggled with whether to ask Huo Yuhao to heal her injuries, then finally went to him for help. Shrek Academy won its group and advanced to the round of sixteen, while Ling Luochen’s condition improved enough to suggest she could recover before the finals.

• Xu San Shi withdrew from choosing a Soul Bone, while Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Ling Luochen, and others selected Bones suited to them.
• Duke White Tiger's Mansion sent the corpse of a Soul Douluo identified as Zhou Yi's assassin, and Xuan Zi accepted it and ended the investigation.
• Ling Luochen worried that her injuries would keep her from the finals, then absorbed her Soul Bone while Ma Xiaotao's lustful fire affected her.
• After the team’s Soul Bone absorption, Xiao Xiao reached level thirty, and Ling Luochen later went to Huo Yuhao to ask him to help heal her injuries.
• Shrek Academy won seven consecutive matches and advanced from the group in first place, followed by Nova Team.
• Ling Luochen collected the round-of-sixteen match table with her complexion improved, and the tournament moved into the elimination stage.

Huo Yuhao and Shrek Academy received Xu Jiujiu’s invitation to the Top Auction before the Elimination Tournament, where their first opponent was set to be Zhengtian Academy. Xu Jiujiu personally escorted them to their private box, while Huo Yuhao wondered whether the Snow Empress Embryo would appear.

• Shrek Academy was matched against Zhengtian Academy for the Elimination Tournament, while Nuohua Advanced Soul Master Academy drew Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• The team learned that elimination matches would consist of a team battle and a separate individual match, where the losing team could still advance by defeating all seven opponents with at most three members.
• Xu Jiujiu personally invited Shrek Academy to the Top Auction, mentioning that an important treasure would be offered.
• Xu Jiujiu welcomed the group at Starlight Auction House, and Xu San Shi awkwardly praised her hospitality before realizing Wei Na was also a princess.
• Ma Xiaotao spoke briefly with Xu Jiujiu, then Shrek Academy followed her to their private box.

Shrek Academy and Xu Jiujiu settled into their box at the Starlight Auction House, where Xu Jiujiu explained the auction rules before the event began. Huo Yuhao examined the alluring auctioneer with his abilities and recognized her unusual Fate Configurations, including Life Offering Spirit Cat.

• Shrek Academy received Box Seven, and the group sat down with Xu Jiujiu as Jin Qiuer kept her distance from Huo Yuhao.
• Xu Jiujiu introduced the Top Auction rules, while Wei Na repeatedly intercepted her attempts to question Huo Yuhao.
• The auction began, and a seductive woman in a red dress appeared on the Soul Tool screen as the auctioneer.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection and Qi Observation Technique on the auctioneer, saw her Fortune and three Fate Configurations, and wondered about Life Offering Spirit Cat.

Huo Yuhao and the others attended a top-tier auction where the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team eagerly bought valuable materials from the Far North Beast Tide. Huo Yuhao discovered that the auction’s competition brought him Fortune and began considering how to develop his visualizations.

• Zi Jin introduced a Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade, but Wang Dong, Jin Qiuer, Ma Xiaotao, and Huo Yuhao each declined to buy it.
• The auction’s second item was a ninety-thousand-year Highland Werewolf left claw, which the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy soul engineers judged valuable for crafting Soul Tools.
• The auction offered more Beast Tide materials and a sixty-thousand-year soul bone, drawing intense bidding from soul engineers who found the goods cheaper than in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Sun Moon Empire soul engineers bought many materials and sold their Soul Tools to fund purchases, while the Star Luo Empire expected to benefit from acquiring those discarded Soul Tools.
• Huo Yuhao gained Fortune from the auction competition and considered adding more visualization targets because his Visualization White Tiger and Visualization Black Tortoise had reached a bottleneck.