Chapter Summaries

The Third Prince dominated the Soul Master Competition’s opening ceremony, while Huo Yuhao secretly gained a vast amount of Fortune from the crowd’s homage. The Third Prince announced extraordinary prizes, including a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone for the winning team, and handed the matches over to Hongchen Qing.

• The Third Prince received the homage of the Sun Moon Empire’s officials, Titled Douluo, soldiers, and spectators, alarming representatives from the other nations and Long Xiaoyao.
• Xuan Zi judged that Shrek Academy should stay out of Sun Moon Empire affairs, while Huo Yuhao used the Fortune-Seizing Art to gain Fortune from the ceremony.
• The Third Prince welcomed the contestants and announced the Soul Engineer Assembly and the Soul Duel Competition’s rewards, including Rank 9 Soul Tools and a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone for first place.
• The Third Prince displayed a left arm Soul Bone to prove its age, then assigned the following matches to Hongchen Qing.

The Soul Master Competition began with the Mingdu Royal Soul Engineer Academy facing the Dragon Slaying Sect, while Shrek Academy resented being passed over for the opening match. Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen revealed they were both Soul Sages, and Xiao defeated all seven opponents at once, leaving the contest poised for a future clash with Huo Yuhao.

• Jing Hongchen opened the tournament and announced the match between Mingdu Royal Soul Engineer Academy and Dragon Slaying Sect.
• Wu Ming, Hua Yao, and Xu San Shi criticized the Sun Moon Empire for assigning the opening match to its own team, while Huo Yuhao remained calm.
• The Dragon Slaying Sect captain insulted the opposing soul engineers, but Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen revealed seven soul rings each, stunning the crowd.
• Xiao Hongchen used his sixth soul skill, Gold's Wither, to seal all seven Dragon Slaying Sect members in metal and win the match.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen challenged Huo Yuhao with their gazes, but Huo Yuhao only smiled and nodded, frustrating Xiao Hongchen.

Huo Yuhao led Shrek Academy to defeat the She Family Battle Team in a controlled match, then watched as the tournament revealed a startling number of young Soul Saints among the other teams. The audience and Shrek Academy were left wondering why so many powerful competitors had appeared.

• Jing Hongchen announced Shrek Academy's match against the She Family, and Huo Yuhao led the team onto the arena.
• The She Family Battle Team charged with seven Soul Kings, but Xu San Shi held their assault while Shrek's support and attackers defeated them in two minutes.
• Huo Yuhao graciously praised the She Family captain after the match, earning the team's gratitude and Xuan Zi's approval.
• The Body Sect Battle Team revealed three Soul Saints, including captain Long Aotian with a red soul ring, prompting Xuan Zi to warn that the sect must be watched.
• Several teams, including the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School, the Sun Moon Xu Family, the Earth Dragon Gate, the Holy Spirit Sect, and the Star Luo Zhu Family, displayed young Soul Saints.
• The audience and Shrek Academy grew numb and bewildered as more teams took the stage, wondering whether the continent's changes had left them behind.

The Third Prince offered a hundred-thousand-year soul bone as the Soul Master Competition’s champion reward, alarming Kong Deming. He revealed that the reward and nine soul bones given to the Worship Hall were artificial, dangerous tools meant to bind the empire’s powerful figures to him.

• Kong Deming confronted the Third Prince about using a hundred-thousand-year soul bone as the competition prize, but the Third Prince refused to explain himself.
• The Third Prince gave Kong Deming a Storage Ring containing nine soul bones and demanded that the Worship Hall kneel to him.
• Kong Deming discovered the nine soul bones and accepted the Third Prince’s authority before leaving.
• The Third Prince revealed that the soul bones were artificially refined from living soul beasts and could bring absorbed soul masters under his control.
• The Third Prince summoned several Imperial Concubines to his palace and continued the music and dancing.

After the Elimination Tournament, Huo Yuhao skipped Mingdu’s auction and secretly visited Yu Manwu, where she uncovered his identity and tried to bargain for greater power. He knocked her unconscious and erased the memories she was not supposed to have.

• The Elimination Tournament ended with many teams eliminated, and the competitors received a rest day while Mingdu hosted a major auction.
• Shrek Academy attended the auction, but Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong stayed away; Huo Yuhao’s useful purchases had already been intercepted through the Third Prince.
• Huo Yuhao visited Yu Manwu at the Sun Moon Harem and gained more black Phoenix Qi, bringing his understanding of the Fire Attribute closer to a threshold.
• Yu Manwu deduced that Huo Yuhao was not the Third Prince and recognized him as Shrek Academy’s team captain.
• Yu Manwu asked Huo Yuhao to support her ambition as he had supported the Third Prince, but Huo Yuhao knocked her unconscious and erased the memories she should not have had.

Huo Yuhao learned that the Dou Ling Xie Family had secretly fielded a Soul Saint and became curious about the family’s origins and inherited Martial Souls. The group Advancement Tournament was about to begin, with the teams’ remaining members and match results determining who advanced.

• The Advancement Tournament’s sixteen groups adopted a points system, with teams also needing to preserve members and earn net wins to secure advancement.
• Zhang Lexuan and the others investigated the teams, and Hua Yao reported that eleven teams had Soul Saints, including the secretly powerful Dou Ling Xie Family.
• Huo Yuhao learned that several teams had multiple Soul Saints and noted that the Xie Family’s strength and history were unclear.
• Huo Yuhao recalled that the Dou Ling Xie Family inherited the Moon Blade and Flame Lord Martial Souls, which he suspected came from Xie Yue and Yan’s descendants.
• Huo Yuhao wondered whether the Xie Family’s Soul Saint had uncovered a special legacy and considered the Flame Lord’s possible Ultimate Martial Soul bloodline.

Huo Yuhao and Xiao Hongchen met before their first Advancement Tournament matches and wagered a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone against a Seventh Level Soul Tool on which team would win faster. The Shrek Academy Battle Team won almost immediately, leaving Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen stunned.

• Huo Yuhao's Heavenly Mandate Fate Configuration charmed Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen when the teams met before their matches.
• Xiao Hongchen challenged Huo Yuhao to see which team could defeat its opponent first, and Meng Hongchen wagered a Seventh Level Soul Tool.
• Huo Yuhao accepted the wager and offered a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone if Shrek Academy lost.
• The teams separated and began their matches against different opponents.
• The neighboring referee announced Shrek Academy's victory, leaving Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen bewildered.

Huo Yuhao won Shrek Academy’s opening team battle by defeating all seven opponents before they could activate their martial souls, shocking both teams and the spectators. After Meng Hongchen fulfilled her wager and became infatuated with Huo Yuhao, he went to scout the Body Sect, whose ordinary disciples proved formidable.

• Huo Yuhao rushed the opposing team before they finished activating their martial souls and won Shrek Academy’s match almost instantly.
• Hua Yao, Wu Ming, and Shrek’s teammates reacted in disbelief at Huo Yuhao’s strength, while Wang Dong felt she could never catch up to him.
• Meng Hongchen agreed to fulfill her wager, then became entranced by Huo Yuhao; Xiao Hongchen worried about the consequences for their family and planned to tell their grandfather, Jing Hongchen.
• Huo Yuhao joined Zhang Lexuan, Wu Ming, and Hua Yao to scout the other tournament teams while the rest of Shrek Academy stayed at the hotel.
• The group watched the Body Sect send seven Soul Emperor disciples into a two-two-three match, where their powerful combat techniques impressed the spectators.

Huo Yuhao watched the Heavenly Soul Bai Family Team win its match, then reunited with Bai Bingjie and cultivated the Light Attribute through her and her family’s Yingluo Embroidered Ball martial souls. He reflected on his uneven mastery of thirteen attributes and, after insisting that he was kind, unexpectedly increased his mastery of the Kindness Attribute.

• The Heavenly Soul Bai Family Team, led by Bai Bingjie, overwhelmed its opponents with Yingluo Embroidered Ball attacks and won after the referee intervened to protect the opposing team.
• Huo Yuhao told Zhang Lexuan, Hua Yao, and Wu Ming that Bai Bingjie had been an early member of his Huo Alliance at Shrek Academy, then left to meet her.
• Huo Yuhao reunited with Bai Bingjie and cultivated the Light Attribute through her and the female Believers in her family, strengthening their martial souls as well.
• Huo Yuhao reviewed his mastery of thirteen attributes and wondered why his Kindness Attribute ranked near the bottom.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Huo Yuhao he lacked kindness, so Huo Yuhao declared that his kindness was true kindness and gained a trace of mastery over the Kindness Attribute.

Shrek Academy’s Reserve Team defeated the Star Luo Che Family in its second tournament match, showcasing the team’s strength and Bai Shanshan’s newly mutated martial soul. The chapter ended with Shrek securing the victory and Jin Yu and Hu Yanxue arguing over whose attack was stronger.

• Huo Yuhao briefed the Main Team on the Star Luo Che Family’s lineup and predicted the Reserve Team would win.
• Bai Shanshan trapped all seven opponents in her Red Thread Web, which withstood both the captain’s blade and a fire attack.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Bai Shanshan’s martial soul had mutated to possess water and fire attributes, while several observers suspected he had caused the change.
• Jin Yu and Hu Yanxue struck the trapped Che family members together, knocking all seven off the stage and winning the match for Shrek Academy.
• Jin Yu and Hu Yanxue claimed superiority over each other’s strength and destructive force after the referee announced Shrek’s victory.

Huo Yuhao and the Shrek Academy group watched matches by the Body Sect, Holy Spirit Cult, and Dou Ling Xie Family, assessing powerful rivals and their hidden strengths. The chapter left the Dou Ling Xie Family’s Soul Saint unseen, while its two Soul Emperor fighters impressed Huo Yuhao with their martial souls.

• Other factions admired Shrek Academy’s Reserve Team but began considering whether they could end Shrek’s long championship reign.
• The Body Sect’s Wang Yanfeng defeated all seven opponents alone, showing off his rank 72 Soul Saint strength and silver-level Body Soul awakening.
• Xuan Zi warned that the Body Sect had grown powerful, and the Shrek group took comfort in having Huo Yuhao on their side.
• The Holy Spirit Cult competed openly under its own name and won without Tang Ya or Bei Bei appearing, while Xuan Zi refrained from intervening.
• Huo Yuhao chose to watch the Dou Ling Xie Family, but its hidden Soul Saint did not appear; two Soul Emperors with Moon Blade and Flame Lord martial souls competed instead.

Huo Yuhao watched the Advancement Tournament while Shrek Academy’s teams continued winning, and he learned more about Cai Meier, Wu Ming, and Hua Yao. Meanwhile, Death God Messenger unleashed his Soul Zombie horde and sent it toward Shrek Academy.

• Huo Yuhao rotated Shrek Academy’s Main Team and Reserve Team through the tournament matches, and they won every match.
• Huo Yuhao watched other divisions with Xian Lin'er, Cai Meier, and the others, gathering intelligence and growing closer to Cai Meier, Wu Ming, and Hua Yao.
• Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Xu Tianzhen fought repeatedly to adapt to their newly gained Soul Saint strength, while the Sun Moon Xu Clan’s other contestants kept their abilities concealed.
• Xuan Zi and the Shrek Academy staff struggled to understand the continent’s increasingly mysterious forces.
• Death God Messenger awakened more than a hundred powerful Soul Zombies and ordered them to attack Shrek Academy.
• Death God Messenger rode a Zombie Dragon as the corpse horde charged out of the mountain forest toward Shrek Academy.

Death God Messenger led a horde of powerful zombies in a surprise assault on Shrek Academy, where the alarm brought the elders to defend the campus. He revealed that he wanted to capture the three living Hundred-Thousand-Year Beast Kings inside the academy.

• Death God Messenger's zombies evolved into fast, powerful Green Corpses, and he secretly cultivated them in the Star Luo Empire.
• Death God Messenger concealed his horde in black mist and led it over Shrek Academy's walls, where the zombies began killing the guards.
• The guard captain activated the alarm before he died, awakening the academy and bringing Yan Shaozhe, Qian Duoduo, and the elders to the wall.
• Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo struggled to hold back the zombies, while two elders hurried back into the academy to hunt those that had broken inside.
• Death God Messenger arrived on the Zombie Dragon, identified himself as a former Evil Soul Master, and said he had come for Shrek Academy's three living Hundred-Thousand-Year Beast Kings.

Death God Messenger and his zombies attacked Shrek Academy while its elders fought to stop them. Three zombies reached the Beast Circle, where Han Ruoruo and Lan Susu’s group confronted them, just as the three Beast Kings began a sacrifice that shocked Death God Messenger.

• Old Song and three other Super Douluo attacked Death God Messenger, but his Zombie Dragon fought them off with corrosive Corpse Qi Dragon Breath.
• Two elders and the academy’s fighters intercepted most of the zombies, but three dug into the Beast Circle despite Gong Changlong’s efforts.
• Han Ruoruo, Lan Susu, Lan Luoluo, Cui Yajie, and Lu Lu blocked the three zombies near the Beast Kings’ enclosure and prepared to hold them back.
• Lan Susu and the other girls followed Huo Yuhao’s instructions and silently readied his contingency plan while Han Ruoruo vowed to protect them.
• The three Beast Kings awakened, and three blood-red pillars of light rose inside the academy, prompting Death God Messenger to recognize a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast sacrifice.

The three Beast Kings sacrificed themselves to Han Ruoruo, Cui Yajie, and Lu Lu, while Gong Changlong moved to protect them from the zombies. At Shrek Academy’s gate, Death God Messenger revealed his enhanced power and used his Eighth Soul Skill to break the academy’s defensive line.

• The three Beast Kings sacrificed themselves to Han Ruoruo, Cui Yajie, and Lu Lu, and Gong Changlong learned what was happening from Lan Luoluo and Lan Susu.
• Gong Changlong told Lan Luoluo and Lan Susu to hide, then attacked the three zombies surrounding the sacrifice barrier.
• Death God Messenger revealed his two purple, five black, and two red soul rings, then strengthened the Zombie Dragon with four soul skills.
• Death God Messenger marked the four pavilion elders with his Second Soul Skill, causing Old Song to suffer amplified damage when she clashed with the Zombie Dragon.
• Death God Messenger unleashed his Eighth Soul Skill, Devil's Horror, killing some Soul Saints, incapacitating the Soul Douluo, and leaving Shrek Academy’s defensive line to collapse under the zombie horde.

The Death God Messenger’s mental attack crippled Shrek Academy’s defenders and caused heavy casualties, but Yan Shaozhe unleashed his Light Phoenix power to destroy most of the zombies and drive the attackers away. The Death God Messenger escaped with the Zombie Dragon, and Qian Duoduo pursued him while Yan Shaozhe remained behind, devastated and gravely weakened.

• The Death God Messenger’s Devil’s Horror overwhelmed most of Shrek Academy’s Soul Masters, leaving only Yan Shaozhe, Qian Duoduo, and four Pavilion Elders able to fight.
• Yan Shaozhe burned his Soul Power and used his Light Phoenix Martial Soul Avatar to scorch the zombies and badly injure the Zombie Dragon.
• The Death God Messenger used Smoke Magic to flee with the Zombie Dragon, while Old Song chased after them and fewer than half the zombies escaped over the academy walls.
• Yan Shaozhe’s Martial Soul Avatar shattered after the zombies inside the academy were destroyed, and Qian Duoduo caught him as he fell.
• Yan Shaozhe urged Qian Duoduo to pursue the Death God Messenger, and Qian Duoduo flew out after him while Yan Shaozhe stayed among the dead and wounded.

Shrek Academy repelled Death God Messenger’s assault, but five hidden corpses attacked the Golden Ancient Tree while its defenders were distracted. As the tree erupted with golden light, Death God Messenger revealed his accusation against Tang San and launched another attack on the pursuing elders.

• Yan Shaozhe ordered Gong Changlong and the other elders to secure Shrek Academy while some elders went to support Old Song’s pursuit of Death God Messenger.
• Five corpses emerged from Sea God Lake and attacked the Golden Ancient Tree; three held off its guardian while two used Corpse Explosion Technique inside the tree.
• Death God Messenger fought Old Song, Qian Duoduo, and the other pursuers, then claimed that Tang San’s destruction of Spirit Hall and Slaughter City had allowed Evil Soul Masters to flourish.
• A golden beam erupted from the Golden Ancient Tree, and Death God Messenger revealed that he had been stalling for time before unleashing his ninth soul skill, Touch of Death.

Qian Duoduo fought Death God Messenger, whose corpse poison and space-moving artifact spirit overwhelmed his defenses. Death God Messenger shattered Qian Duoduo’s Oolong Shield, leaving his fate uncertain, while Huo Yuhao was with Xian Lin'er in Mingdu.

• Death God Messenger used his Touch of Death to separate the Shrek Academy group and attacked Qian Duoduo with corpse poison, but Qian Duoduo’s Soul Guidance Barrier stopped it briefly.
• Qian Duoduo fired a powerful level-eight soul cannon at Death God Messenger, who evaded it using the Three Lifetimes Wolf Ape’s Space Movement.
• Death God Messenger struck Qian Duoduo’s Invincible Shield with Myriad Extinction Corpse Poison Palm, and Qian Duoduo escaped after three seconds, leaving three activated level-eight shells behind.
• Death God Messenger used Space Movement to send the shells in front of Qian Duoduo, and their explosion damaged the wolf ape artifact spirit and shattered Qian Duoduo’s defenses.
• Death God Messenger broke Qian Duoduo’s Oolong Shield, and Qian Duoduo lost consciousness while thinking of Xian Lin'er.
• In Mingdu, Huo Yuhao was with Xian Lin'er, who lost consciousness after he broke through another layer of her defenses.

After the Death God Messenger escaped, Shrek Academy’s leaders returned with the gravely poisoned Qian Duoduo and assessed the damage from the attack. The Messenger planned to weaken Shrek’s Soul Tool Department and expand his forces in the Dou Ling Empire, while the academy prepared for recovery and awaited Xuan Zi’s return.

• Old Zhuang found that Qian Duoduo had been struck by a deadly poison and could only keep him stable until the Golden Ancient Tree could treat him.
• The Death God Messenger concluded that the Golden Ancient Tree’s Sea God Divine Power could draw God King Tang’s attention, and decided to target Fan Yu to weaken Shrek Academy’s Soul Tool Department.
• The Death God Messenger headed for the Dou Ling Empire with his remaining zombies and planned to send Eunuch Gao with Zhou Yi’s soul to Fan Yu.
• Shrek Academy’s leaders agreed to summon Xuan Zi back, repair the damage, and deal with the severe losses among their higher-level fighters.
• Han Ruoruo joined the Sea God Pavilion, Cui Yajie and Lu Lu became disciples of Old Lin and Old Zhuang, and Lan Luoluo and Lan Susu received soul bones.

After spending the night with Huo Yuhao, Xian Lin'er woke beside Zhang Lexuan, who urged her to accept what had happened and continue. At a tournament match, Huo Yuhao considered Zhang Lexuan’s affinity for the Evil Attribute while the Star Luo Zhu Family dominated its team battle.

• Xian Lin'er woke and worried that her visit to Huo Yuhao had been exposed, but Zhang Lexuan reassured her and encouraged her to move forward.
• Xian Lin'er fell asleep again beside Zhang Lexuan, while Zhang Lexuan privately questioned her loyalty to Shrek Academy and considered how her power might grow by continuing with Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao watched the tournament and reflected that Zhang Lexuan suited the Evil Attribute, which he had infused into her Moon Martial Soul.
• Zhu Lu led the Star Luo Zhu Family in a team battle and swiftly defeated all seven opponents.
• Cai Meier complained that the Dai Family had held Zhu Lu back and recalled the families’ past conflict with Shrek Academy.