Chapter Summaries

After the Third Prince revealed that he was a Limit Douluo, the Sun Moon Empire celebrated while other nations feared war and sought Shrek Academy’s reassurance. At a meeting with Shrek and foreign representatives, Cai Meier claimed that a God Trial could explain how someone might become a Limit Douluo at a young age, leaving Xu Jiujiu wondering whether Huo Yuhao had received one.

• The Third Prince’s revelation spread across the continent, prompting celebration in the Sun Moon Empire and alarm among rival nations and factions.
• Kong Deming began considering war, while rumors about the Third Prince’s rapid rise were suppressed by arrests.
• Xu Jiujiu asked Shrek Academy whether Xuan Zi could defeat the Third Prince, and Xian Lin’er claimed Xuan Zi was investigating and was as strong as Mu En had been.
• Tu Xijun asked how the Third Prince had reached Limit Douluo at such a young age, and Cai Meier answered that a God Trial could enable such a breakthrough.
• Xu Jiujiu privately wondered whether Huo Yuhao had already obtained a God Trial, but his expression revealed nothing.

The Third Prince announced faction and martial-soul rankings with lavish soul-bone rewards, using his revealed strength to protect participants and attract talent to the Sun Moon Empire. Huo Yuhao told Ju Zi that the rankings were part of a plan for coming continental chaos and assigned her a talent-splitting project across the three empires, promising to help her reach Titled Douluo afterward.

• The Third Prince declared that everyone on the Top Ten Factions List would act under his protection and invited them to move to the Sun Moon Empire.
• The Third Prince established academy, family, sect, and World's Number One lists, offering soul bones and imperial positions as rewards.
• Ju Zi asked Huo Yuhao why the Third Prince had revealed his strength and introduced the lists and rewards.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the continent would fall into chaos and that the Third Prince's strength and the lists would help control the situation.
• Huo Yuhao assigned Ju Zi a talent-splitting project across the three empires and promised to help her break through to Titled Douluo after it was complete.

The Sun Moon Empire began the first Soul Engineer Competition, drawing certified soul engineers from all four empires to compete in public trials. Watching the event, Huo Yuhao warned Xian Lin'er and the others that the Sun Moon Empire was using it to establish itself as a sacred authority among soul engineers.

• The Sun Moon Empire opened registration for the Soul Engineer Competition, attracting participants and covertly sent competitors from the other three empires.
• Jing Hongchen oversaw the competition as Chief Judge while Third Level Soul Engineers began an elimination trial engraving Soul Guidance Core Arrays.
• Many contestants failed their attempts and were eliminated, while Sun Moon Empire soul engineers generally performed better than competitors from the other empires.
• Xian Lin'er brought Huo Yuhao to watch the competition, accompanied by Hua Yao and Wu Ming.
• Huo Yuhao told the women that the Sun Moon Empire intended to make itself a Holy Land for soul engineers, much as Shrek Academy was for soul masters.

Huo Yuhao warned Xian Lin'er, Wu Ming, and Hua Yao that the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Engineer Competition could draw talent away from the other empires and strengthen the Third Prince's influence. After Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen impressed the crowd, Huo Yuhao's group returned to the hotel and found Fan Yu waiting there.

• Huo Yuhao explained that the Sun Moon Empire could use the competition to attract Soul Engineers and undermine the other three empires.
• The elimination rounds continued, and two young competitors, Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, passed the Sixth Level Soul Engineer test with modified Soul Guidance Core Arrays.
• Jing Hongchen beamed at the siblings' success but stopped smiling when people suggested Meng Hongchen become the Third Prince's future queen.
• Xian Lin'er warned Huo Yuhao that Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen could become his future opponents.
• Huo Yuhao and the others returned to the hotel, where Fan Yu greeted them, leaving Huo Yuhao wondering who Eunuch Gao had gone to kill.

Shrek Academy sent Fan Yu and Soul Tool Department students to the Soul Engineer Competition to strengthen its department and broaden the students’ experience. Huo Yuhao cultivated alone, advanced his water, fire, wind, and earth attributes, and moved closer to the Zen Master realm.

• Shrek Academy’s elders approved Fan Yu’s team for the Soul Engineer Competition, hoping to develop its Soul Tool Department and recruit talented soul engineers.
• Fan Yu and the students joined the Shrek Academy Battle Team’s private rooms after all of them passed the Elimination Tournament.
• Huo Yuhao told Eunuch Gao that Fan Yu had appeared in Mingdu, so Eunuch Gao returned to the Sun Moon Empire and headed there.
• Huo Yuhao meditated on a Blue Silver Emperor cushion and advanced his water, fire, wind, and earth attributes, strengthening his body, spiritual power, and Demon Buddha Method.
• Huo Yuhao found that the four attributes could draw together and potentially fuse, and he concluded that advancing three more attributes might let him achieve the Zen Master realm.

Huo Yuhao and the others watched the Soul Engineer Competition, which exposed the Sun Moon Empire’s overwhelming advantage and drove Dai Huabin and other factions to seek soul engineers. In the imperial palace, the Third Prince ordered a crackdown designed to disguise his agents recruited by foreign powers, leaving Jing Hongchen to carry out his plans.

• Wang Dong became so sick watching the competition that Xiao Xiao had to carry her out, while the results showed how far the other three countries lagged behind the Sun Moon Empire in soul engineering.
• Dai Huabin, shaken by the Sun Moon Empire’s strength and Zhu Lu’s distance, resolved to recruit outstanding soul engineers, as did the other countries’ factions.
• Jing Hongchen reported that the Third Prince’s arranged soul engineers had been recruited abroad and that other Sun Moon Empire soul engineers had also joined foreign factions.
• The Third Prince ordered the unplanned recruits and their associates arrested publicly, while directing that the families of his own agents be arrested and secretly protected to strengthen those agents’ standing abroad.
• Jing Hongchen promised to pursue the traitors and personally bring back Xuan Ziwen’s head.

The Third Prince told Kong Deming he would become a god within ten years and ordered an enthronement ceremony before the finals. The Soul Master Competition finals then began, with the Star Luo Royal Academy Team preparing to face the Sun Moon Xu Family Team in the first match.

• Kong Deming asked whether the Third Prince would expel the Holy Spirit Cult, and the Third Prince instead offered its factions the position of Right Prime Minister in exchange for their loyalty.
• Kong Deming asked about the Third Prince's connection to the God Trial, and the Third Prince said he would ascend within ten years.
• The Third Prince told Kong Deming to arrange an enthronement ceremony before the finals, then left with the soul beast egg.
• Jing Hongchen opened the Soul Master Competition finals and announced the first match between the Sun Moon Xu Family Team and the Star Luo Royal Academy Team.
• Xu Jiujiu encouraged the Star Luo Royal Academy Team and promised the empire would honor them and protect their families if they fell.
• Ink Shadow Douluo called both teams onto the stage for the first bout, a team battle.

Xu Tianzhen led the Sun Moon Xu Family Team against the Star Luo Royal Academy Team, overwhelming them with her Soul Saint strength and hidden weapon techniques. Tang Ya recognized the techniques as Tang Sect inheritance and suspected the Third Prince had obtained the sect’s secret manuals, while Xu Tianzhen’s explosive hidden weapons engulfed the Star Luo team.

• The Star Luo Royal Academy Team chose to fight the Sun Moon Xu Family Team head-on to defend the Star Luo Empire’s honor and show its resolve.
• Xu Tianzhen unleashed her Sun Martial Soul and Soul Saint aura, then used Demon Shadow Mysterious Trace to charge at the opposing team.
• Tang Ya recognized Xu Tianzhen’s movement technique and Flower Rain Across the Sky hidden weapon attack as Tang Sect techniques, and concluded that the Third Prince had obtained the Tang Sect’s inheritance.
• The Star Luo Royal Academy Team dodged most of Xu Tianzhen’s Bone Penetrating Soul Nails, but several members were injured.
• Xu Tianzhen threw a large number of round hidden weapons, and their explosions filled the stage with fire and red smoke.

Xu Tianzhen’s Sun Moon Xu Family Team defeated the Star Luo Battle Team with a modified Thunder Fire Bomb, prompting Xu Jiujiu to forfeit the next two matches. The Sun Moon team advanced to the top sixteen, and the chapter ended as Shrek Academy and Zhengtian Academy prepared to face each other.

• Xu Tianzhen’s explosions filled the arena with poisonous sand, and Shangguan Wei'er confronted Xu Jiujiu and Man Yi when they accused the Sun Moon Xu Family Team of using a forbidden fixed Soul Tool.
• Shangguan Wei'er revealed that Xu Tianzhen’s weapon had caused no Soul Power fluctuations, while Ink Shadow Douluo cleared the red mist and showed the Star Luo Battle Team injured and afflicted with fire poison.
• Celadon Douluo declared the Sun Moon Xu Family Team the winner, and Xu Jiujiu apologized before forfeiting the next two matches.
• Xu Jiujiu and Man Yi left to check on their teammates, who were expected to recover after receiving treatment for the poison.
• Huo Yuhao recognized Xu Tianzhen’s weapon as a modified Thunder Fire Bomb, and Shrek Academy and Zhengtian Academy were called to prepare for the next match.

Zhengtian Academy’s team considered conceding against Shrek Academy, but their leading teacher insisted they compete and claimed she had arranged for Shrek to let them put on a good showing. Huo Yuhao held his team back so Zhengtian could display its strength, and Shrek won after an intense match, with the captains leaving as friends.

• Zhengtian Academy’s captain proposed conceding, but the leading teacher ordered the team to compete and said she had connections at Shrek Academy.
• The Zhengtian team entered the arena believing Huo Yuhao and Shrek would cooperate with their performance.
• Xu San Shi offered to finish the match quickly, but Huo Yuhao told his teammates to let Zhengtian show its strength to support the academy faction.
• Shrek and Zhengtian fought intensely, and Zhengtian lost with honor.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhengtian’s captain shook hands and became friends.

After Huo Yuhao helped Zhengtian Academy avoid an immediate defeat, Yu Mengdi thanked him over dinner and reflected on her feelings for him. She got him drunk and took him to a hotel room, where she planned to give him private lessons.

• Huo Yuhao met Yu Mengdi at a restaurant after the match and discussed how he had shown mercy to Zhengtian Academy at her request.
• Yu Mengdi thanked Huo Yuhao and said she hoped Shrek Academy would support Zhengtian Academy in the future.
• As they drank, Yu Mengdi teased Huo Yuhao and recalled how her admiration for him had endured over the years.
• Yu Mengdi used her sobriety medicine and deliberately got Huo Yuhao drunk.
• Yu Mengdi helped Huo Yuhao to a nearby hotel, booked a room, and locked the door behind them.

After a night of cultivation with Yu Mengdi, Huo Yuhao left with new insight into the Light Attribute, while Yu Mengdi neared a breakthrough. The round of sixteen began with the Sun Moon Xu Family Team facing the Heavenly Soul Bai Family Team, where Luan Fei revealed her Soul Saint strength and Demon Jade Hand.

• Huo Yuhao left Yu Mengdi after their night of cultivation, and she was too weak to rise from bed to properly say farewell.
• The round of sixteen began with the Sun Moon Xu Family Team facing the Heavenly Soul Bai Family Team, and Tang Ya watched the Sun Moon team closely because of their use of Tang Sect secret techniques.
• Bai Bingjie and Xu Tianzhen began their duel while Bai Bingjie warned her teammates to prioritize their safety and preserve the family’s strength for Huo Yuhao.
• Luan Fei revealed her Flying Luan martial soul and seven soul rings, then charged into the Heavenly Soul Bai Family’s formation.
• Luan Fei attacked the opposing team with Demon Jade Hand, a lethal technique from the Heavenly Demon Codex that she had cultivated using soul beasts.

The Sun Moon Xu Family Team defeated the Heavenly Soul Bai Family Team after Xu Tianzhen unleashed her Blood Sun Martial Soul True Body. Shrek Academy then faced the Star Luo Dai Family Team, where Dai Huabin challenged Huo Yuhao but was abruptly swapped into Xu San Shi’s position.

• Luan Fei used Demon Jade Hand and Demon Shadow Mysterious Trace to defeat the six remaining members of the Heavenly Soul Bai Family Team.
• Xu Tianzhen activated Heavenly Demon Form during her Sun True Body, overpowering Bai Bingjie’s Yingluo Embroidered Ball True Body until Celadon Douluo rescued her.
• Ink Shadow Douluo declared the Sun Moon Xu Family Team the winner, and Xu Tianzhen celebrated despite her exhaustion.
• Huo Yuhao and the Shrek Academy Battle Team prepared to face Dai Huabin and the Star Luo Dai Family Team, while Dai Huabin planned to use a Class Seven Absolute Defense Soul Tool against Huo Yuhao.
• When the match began, Dai Huabin challenged Huo Yuhao to fight one-on-one, but Xu San Shi used Profound Netherworld Shift to switch places with him, and Wang Dong mocked him.

Huo Yuhao’s team overwhelmed Dai Huabin while Huo Yuhao left to help Xu San Shi, who faced the Star Luo Dai Family Team alone. Xu San Shi’s powerful attack failed to knock down the team’s vice-captain, and the battle remained unresolved.

• The Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron pinned Dai Huabin, and Wang Dong and Jiang Nannan attacked him while Huo Yuhao went to help Xu San Shi.
• Dai Huabin broke free long enough to charge after Huo Yuhao, but Wang Dong struck the back of his head with the Clear Sky Hammer and knocked him down.
• Cao Jinxuan joined the attacks, while Wei Na offered to heal Dai Huabin so the others could keep fighting him.
• The Star Luo Dai Family Team formed a military battle formation and charged Xu San Shi, who activated Profound Netherworld Domain, Xuanming Shield Array, and Profound Turtle Charge.
• The vice-captain combined three soul skills with his teammates’ support and withstood Xu San Shi’s attack, though he was forced back several steps.

Huo Yuhao intervened when the Dai Family’s vice-captain unleashed a dangerous secret technique to rescue Dai Huabin. Huo Yuhao revealed seven hundred-thousand-year soul rings, overwhelmed the attack, and left the arena audience questioning Shrek Academy’s conflict with the Dai Family.

• Xu San Shi’s attack badly injured the Dai Family vice-captain and his teammates, so the vice-captain gathered their soul power to use a secret technique.
• Huo Yuhao told Xu San Shi to leave the fight to him as the vice-captain formed a Scarlet Flame Tiger Head and launched it at Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao revealed seven red soul rings and released an aura that shattered the tiger attack and left the Dai Family members unwilling to fight.
• Huo Yuhao declared that Shrek welcomed challenges and said he had learned how to step over ants without crushing them.
• The spectators reacted in disbelief to Huo Yuhao’s soul rings and speculated about the growing hostility between Shrek Academy and Duke White Tiger’s Mansion.

After Shrek defeated the Star Luo Dai Family team, Xu Jiujiu judged that the Duchess and Duke White Tiger’s Mansion might be challenging the imperial family’s rule. She also suspected Huo Yuhao’s seven soul rings were genuine, while Shrek’s leaders accepted the consequences of humiliating the Dai Family.

• Huo Yuhao and Xu San Shi withdrew their martial souls after Shrek won, and Huo Yuhao reflected on Xu San Shi’s awakened Xuanwu Bloodline, domain skill, and soul bone.
• Dai Huabin was carried away badly humiliated, and the Star Luo Dai Family’s representative fled the arena without confronting Shrek.
• Xu Jiujiu told Man Yi that the Duchess had taken control of Duke White Tiger’s Mansion and might seek the throne, so she chose not to intervene.
• Xu Jiujiu suspected Huo Yuhao’s seven soul rings were real because the imperial family’s records linked unusual soul rings to Godhood Inheritance holders.
• Hua Yao questioned whether Shrek should antagonize Duke White Tiger’s Mansion, while Cai Meier and Xian Lin'er defended Huo Yuhao’s actions as a response to past injuries and humiliation.

The quarterfinalists were decided, while Huo Yuhao celebrated his victory over Dai Huabin and Tang Ya sought a way to turn the Third Prince’s orders to her advantage. She proposed helping Zhongli Wu hunt a God Inheritance holder in exchange for resources, as Ju Zi prepared to act with reinforcements from the White Lotus Sect.

• Shrek Academy, Mingdu Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Body Sect, Sun Moon Xu Family, Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School, Holy Spirit Cult, Earth Dragon Gate, and Star Luo Zhu Family advanced to the quarterfinals.
• Huo Yuhao drank Dai Hao Demon’s blood and spent the night with Zhu Di, Zhu Lu, Zhu Min, and the other women.
• The Third Prince ordered Tang Ya and Zhongli Wu to make a show of action, and Tang Ya asked Long Xiaoyao for help, but he refused to get involved.
• Ye Xishui’s Blood Soul Clone advised Tang Ya to cooperate with Zhongli Wu and pointed out that Zhongli Wu could not move the Holy Spirit Cult to Mingdu.
• Tang Ya messaged Zhongli Wu, offering to help hunt a God Inheritance holder in exchange for resources.
• Ju Zi met the White Lotus Sect followers Huo Yuhao had sent as reinforcements.

The Star Moon Xu Family Team faced the Zhu Family Team in the third round of the finals, with Luan Fei and Zhu Lu clashing at extraordinary speed. The Zhu Family Team’s other members then revealed their strength by blocking Xu Tianzhen’s hidden weapons, leaving the match still underway.

• Xu Jiujiu attended the match with Man Yi to support Zhu Lu as the Sun Moon Xu Family Team faced the Star Luo Zhu Family Team.
• Luan Fei fought Zhu Lu at Soul Douluo-level speed, but her Demon Jade Hand was wounded and she admitted she could not match Zhu Lu’s speed.
• Xu Tianzhen joined the fight and attacked with Flower Rain Across the Sky and Bone Penetrating Soul Nails.
• The four male members of the Zhu Family Team used their martial souls and rapid claw strikes to block every hidden weapon, astonishing the audience.

Xu Tianzhen’s Sun Martial Soul attacks were countered by the Zhu Family Team, which trapped her with a desire-inducing formation while Zhu Lu and Zhu Lei pressured Luan Fei. Ye Guyi then revealed her Six-Winged Angel martial soul, suppressing the Zhu team’s darkness and alarming the spectators; Tang Ya realized the Third Prince had prepared against the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Xu Tianzhen used Boundless Radiance and Solar Gaze, but Zhu Zi blocked the attack with her Evil-Repelling wings while Zhu Lei joined Zhu Lu against Luan Fei.
• The four male Zhu Family members combined their abilities to trap Xu Tianzhen in an illusion of Huo Yuhao, leaving her briefly bewitched.
• Ye Guyi revealed her Six-Winged Angel martial soul, and its sacred light weakened the darkness-affiliated Zhu Family Team.
• Xian Lin'er, Cai Meier, Yu Mengdi, the Dou Ling Xie Family, and the Holy Spirit Cult reacted to Ye Guyi’s six wings and pure sacred aura.
• Tang Ya realized that the Third Prince had secretly cultivated Ye Guyi and was already guarding against the Holy Spirit Cult.

Ye Guyi’s divine aura helped the Sun Moon Xu Family Team defeat the Star Luo Zhu Family team, while Zhongli Wu plotted to kill her. The Shrek Academy Battle Team then faced the Mingdu Royal Soul Engineer Academy Battle Team, as the Third Prince found an ordinary-looking soul beast egg.

• Ye Guyi’s divine aura weakened the Zhu family fighters’ abilities and helped free Xu Tianzhen from their illusion, prompting Xu Tianzhen to attack them with Thunderbolt Fire and a Zhuge Repeating Crossbow before Celadon Douluo rescued them.
• Luan Fei injured Zhu Lei, and Zhu Lu surrendered and forfeited the next two matches, sending the Sun Moon Xu Family Team into the top four and eliminating the Star Luo Zhu Family team.
• Luan Fei vowed to surpass Zhu Lu, while Zhu Lu left the stage and Xu Tianzhen went to change her clothes.
• Zhongli Wu recognized Ye Guyi’s Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul and plotted to have her killed during an operation carried out in Tang Ya’s name.
• The Shrek Academy Battle Team faced the Mingdu Royal Soul Engineer Academy Battle Team, with Bai Shanshan replacing Cao Jinxuan at Cai Meier’s request.
• The Third Prince searched through soul beast eggs and picked out an ordinary-looking one, announcing that he had found it.