Chapter Summaries

Shrek Academy faced Mingdu Royal Soul Engineer Academy in the team battle, where Meng Hongchen used poison to stop Jiang Nannan and Wang Dong. Huo Yuhao’s power nullified the poison, and Meng Hongchen prepared to test the battle technique taught by the Third Prince against their close-range attack.

• Jing Hongchen expected the Sun Moon Empire team to win as the team battle began.
• Xiao Hongchen ordered Mingdu Royal Soul Engineer Academy to bombard Shrek’s advancing formation with Soul Guidance Cannons.
• Meng Hongchen entered the fight and spread ice poison across the arena, but Bai Shanshan pulled Jiang Nannan and Wang Dong back with her Red Thread.
• Bai Shanshan linked the team with her Sixth Soul Skill, and Huo Yuhao sent his power to Jiang Nannan and Wang Dong, protecting them from Meng Hongchen’s poison and ice.
• Jiang Nannan rushed Meng Hongchen with a Soul Bone dagger as Wang Dong prepared to strike with the Clear Sky Hammer, and Meng Hongchen announced her Ice Fire Saint Heart Slash.

Meng Hongchen’s cold-poison slash shattered Jiang Nannan’s armor, but Huo Yuhao’s Soul Power kept her in the fight. After Jiang Nannan reprimanded Xu San Shi for abandoning his position, she returned to support Wang Dong, while Meng Hongchen drew her twin blades and prepared to fight at full strength.

• Meng Hongchen coated her saber with the Zhuqing Ice Toad’s cold poison and struck Jiang Nannan, destroying her Class 6 Soul Guidance Armor and knocking her back.
• Xu San Shi abandoned his position to rush to Jiang Nannan, leaving Huo Yuhao and Wei Na exposed until Huo Yuhao blocked the Soul Guidance Rays with an ice wall.
• Jiang Nannan stood up, slapped Xu San Shi for disobeying the battle plan, then tore off her damaged armor and charged back toward Meng Hongchen.
• Meng Hongchen realized Huo Yuhao’s Soul Power had protected Jiang Nannan from the full force of the slash and cold poison, while Wang Dong attacked her with the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Meng Hongchen dodged Wang Dong’s attack, drew her second Ice Fire Dual Blade, and began her Ice Toad Cold Poison technique.

Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen trapped Shrek Academy’s team in a nine-element storm using the Dipper Number Sky Net, a soul tool set based on blueprints from Third Prince. Huo Yuhao countered it with the Frost Centipede Dragon Spear, freezing the spheres and shattering the storm.

• Meng Hongchen attacked Wang Dong and Jiang Nannan with Cold Poison mist, but Xiao Hongchen called her back before she could secure a kill.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen activated a spatial-blocking barrier and deployed the Dipper Number Sky Net, trapping the Shrek team in an Element Storm.
• Bai Shanshan tested the storm with her threads, which were shredded, while the Shrek team failed to break through its elemental power.
• Huo Yuhao summoned the Frost Centipede Dragon Spear and froze all one hundred and eight soul tool spheres.
• Huo Yuhao swept the Element Storm apart with spear shadows, leaving Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen stunned.

Huo Yuhao and Wei Na countered the Mingdu Royal Soul Engineer Academy team’s trump card and faced Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill with their own. Wei Na’s Golden Lotus Treasure Phase dissolved the attack and ended the duel, leaving Xiao Hongchen to concede.

• Huo Yuhao froze the 108 Soul Tool spheres of the Dipper Number Sky Net, breaking Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen’s trump card.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen joined hands and unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Hongchen's Fondness.
• Huo Yuhao and Wei Na fused their Soul Power to create the pseudo Martial Soul Fusion Skill Golden Lotus Treasure Phase.
• Hongchen's Fondness fired a torrent of reddish-gold energy at Wei Na, but her Life Bloom soothed and dissolved the attack.
• The golden snow lotus dispelled Hongchen's Fondness, and Xiao Hongchen admitted defeat as the fighters felt its calming healing effect.

After Shrek Academy won the team battle, Xiao Hongchen challenged Huo Yuhao in the two-two-three round, but Xu San Shi asked to fight in his place. Huo Yuhao trusted him, strengthening the team's unity, and Xu San Shi faced Xiao Hongchen on the arena alongside Bai Shanshan.

• Shrek Academy won the team battle, and both teams prepared for the two-two-three matches.
• Xiao Hongchen called Huo Yuhao onto the arena, but Xu San Shi asked Huo Yuhao to let him take the match.
• Huo Yuhao agreed, and Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Bai Shanshan, and Jiang Nannan came to trust Xu San Shi's choice.
• Xu San Shi promised to make up for his past mistake, then went onto the arena with Bai Shanshan.
• Xiao Hongchen questioned why Huo Yuhao had not come, and Xu San Shi declared that he would defeat Xiao Hongchen before they began fighting.

Xu San Shi awakened the Xuanwu bloodline in his Xuanming Turtle Martial Soul and endured Xiao Hongchen’s Golden Toad Soul Guidance Cannon to close the distance. He unleashed Xuanwu Roar, leaving Xiao Hongchen dazed and unable to escape.

• Xiao Hongchen assembled his Golden Toad Soul Guidance Cannon and fired at Xu San Shi.
• Xu San Shi blocked the cannon with his Xuanming Shield and advanced through its continuous attacks as his Xuanwu bloodline awakened.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the Divine Beast Bloodline in both Xu San Shi’s Xuanming Turtle and Xiao Hongchen’s Three-legged Golden Toad Martial Souls.
• As the cannon paused to recharge, Xu San Shi fused his first four soul rings and transformed his shield into the Xuanwu Shield.
• Xu San Shi used Xuanwu Roar to shatter Xiao Hongchen’s metal defenses and leave him dazed, while Huo Yuhao explained the skill to Wang Dong.

Xu San Shi and Bai Shanshan teamed up to trap and attack Xiao Hongchen, but Xiao Hongchen survived the assault without his Soul Tools and revealed a powerful golden-body cultivation method and fist technique. He threw Xu San Shi aside and challenged the recovering Shrek deputy captain to face his anger.

• Xu San Shi used Xuanwu Roar to control Xiao Hongchen, then forced himself to move and attacked with Xuanwu Power despite the cost to his body.
• Bai Shanshan revealed her hidden thread trap and used it to bind one of Xiao Hongchen's teammates before attacking him with a soul guidance dagger.
• Xu San Shi smashed Xiao Hongchen and his Soul Tools with his shield, but Xiao Hongchen regained control after three seconds and lifted the shield with his bare hands.
• Xiao Hongchen threw Xu San Shi away and struck him with three punches using Wuji Fist Technique, while Bai Shanshan's cannon fire failed to injure him.
• Xiao Hongchen tore off his ruined uniform and challenged Xu San Shi as the Shrek deputy captain got back to his feet.

Xu San Shi fought Xiao Hongchen but was overwhelmed until he unleashed Xuanwu Descent, a deadly technique that could cost either fighter their life. Huo Yuhao admitted defeat to stop the ritual, and Ink Shadow Douluo knocked Xu San Shi unconscious and caught Xiao Hongchen’s attack.

• Xiao Hongchen chased Xu San Shi around the arena, tearing through Bai Shanshan’s Red Threads as Huo Yuhao secretly scraped away both fighters’ Fortune.
• Meng Hongchen told the Mingdu Royal Soul Engineer Battle Team that Xiao Hongchen used the Devouring Gold Divine Art and Wuji Fist Technique, which the Third Prince had bestowed upon him.
• Xu San Shi stopped fleeing and unleashed Xuanwu Descent, confronting Xiao Hongchen despite the danger.
• Huo Yuhao admitted defeat after recognizing that Xuanwu Descent required a life as its sacrifice.
• Ink Shadow Douluo interrupted the ritual, knocked Xu San Shi unconscious, and caught Xiao Hongchen’s fist; Huo Yuhao explained the technique’s cost to Wang Dong and the others.

After Xu San Shi's reckless gamble ended the previous duel, Huo Yuhao stepped forward to fight for Shrek Academy, and Meng Hongchen chose to face him despite the risks. The chapter ended as she launched her attack and Huo Yuhao warned that she would have few chances to strike.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Xu San Shi's desperate use of Xuanwu Descent could have caused irreversible consequences, and Jiang Nannan's feelings toward Xu San Shi fell again.
• Ink Shadow Douluo and Celadon Douluo awkwardly tried to befriend Xiao Hongchen, who fled the arena.
• Imperial Physician Douluo treated Xu San Shi, whose injuries were not serious, while the Shrek team accepted their disadvantage in the next round.
• Huo Yuhao entered the arena alone, and Meng Hongchen surprised the audience by choosing to confront him rather than avoid him.
• Meng Hongchen attacked Huo Yuhao with her Ice Fire Dual Blades, and Huo Yuhao summoned the Frost Centipede Dragon Spear and warned that she would have few chances to strike.

Huo Yuhao battled Meng Hongchen, who used the Mystic Ice Marvel technique to absorb his Ultimate Ice and escape his suppression. He wounded his own left arm to free her from the danger, but her counterattack struck the injury with the Zhuqing Ice Toad’s cold poison.

• Huo Yuhao shattered Meng Hongchen’s Ice-Fire Whirlwind, but Meng Hongchen appeared nearby in her Martial Soul Avatar and attacked him.
• Huo Yuhao pinned Meng Hongchen’s Zhuqing Ice Toad avatar to the ground with his Ultimate Ice.
• Meng Hongchen used Mystic Ice Marvel to absorb Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice, risking freezing to death as her avatar cracked.
• Huo Yuhao struck his own left arm with the Frost Centipede Dragon Spear, stopping Meng Hongchen from absorbing more Ultimate Ice and freeing her from its suppression.
• Meng Hongchen released the absorbed Ultimate Ice and the Zhuqing Ice Toad’s cold poison, which struck Huo Yuhao’s injured left arm.

Huo Yuhao defeated Meng Hongchen after injuring himself to spare her from Ultimate Ice, then explained his commitment to respecting life and pursuing peace between nations. The teams reconciled after the match, but a physician revealed that a sinister force in Huo Yuhao’s wound had left his left arm unusable until it could be dispelled.

• Huo Yuhao stood back up with an injured left arm and praised Meng Hongchen’s abilities, then offered to end the match because she was too exhausted to continue.
• Huo Yuhao told Meng Hongchen that every life and everyone’s dignity deserved respect, and that understanding between opponents could bring peace to the continent; Meng admitted defeat.
• The Mingdu Royal Soul Engineer Academy team withdrew from the remaining rounds, and Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen apologized to and thanked the Shrek Academy team.
• The Imperial Physician Douluo said he could not remove the sinister cold force in Huo Yuhao’s wound, leaving Huo Yuhao unable to use his left arm until he dispelled it.
• Xiao Hongchen promised to find a cure and offered to give Huo Yuhao his own left arm if no other solution could be found.

The Body Sect easily defeated Earth Dragon Gate, while the Holy Spirit Cult upset the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School with Bei Bei’s overwhelming strength. Bei Bei began the individual battles against Shrek’s horrified onlookers, then knocked Wu Feng out of the arena in three punches.

• The Body Sect defeated Earth Dragon Gate without difficulty, establishing itself as a championship favorite.
• The Holy Spirit Cult defeated the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School in the team battle, with Bei Bei leading the way.
• Tang Ya sent Bei Bei into the individual battles to build his reputation, while Shrek’s former members watched without daring to intervene.
• Wu Feng challenged Bei Bei and declared herself the Red Dragon King, but Bei Bei sent her off the arena in three punches.

Ning Tian used her transformed Nine Treasures Heavenly Dragon Pagoda and soul tools to challenge Bei Bei, but her spiritual attack failed and she was rescued before he could kill her. Nanmen Yun'er then entered the arena and began fighting Bei Bei with her Wind Fire Dual Blades.

• Ning Tian took the stage with high-level soul tools, intending to wear Bei Bei down and create an opening for Nanmen Yun'er.
• Ning Tian flew above the arena and bombarded Bei Bei, who endured the attacks and revealed his bat-wing External Soul Bone to pursue her through the air.
• Ning Tian held back her Heavenly Dragon Markings, then struck at Bei Bei's Spiritual Sea with Soul Seizing Flowing Light.
• Bei Bei's spiritual power shattered Ning Tian's attack and countered, forcing Ink Shadow Douluo to rescue her and declare her defeated.
• Ning Tian warned Nanmen Yun'er that Bei Bei was too dangerous to fight head-on, and Nanmen Yun'er took the stage with her Wind Fire Dual Blades.
• Nanmen Yun'er and Bei Bei began a fierce fight as the Jade Green Luan clashed with the evil dragon.

Nanmen Yun'er fought Bei Bei with her Azure Luan bloodline techniques, but his overwhelming strength left her struggling to break his defense. She unleashed her Azure Luan True Body and ultimate technique, Azure Luan Sky Soar, as the fight continued.

• Bei Bei gained the upper hand against Nanmen Yun'er, whose Azure Luan Jade Transformation Art helped her withstand his attacks.
• Nanmen Yun'er used the Wind Fire Jade Blade Secret Method, but Bei Bei tore apart its seven blade auras and barely suffered a shallow wound from the strongest strike.
• Ma Xiaotao compared Bei Bei's strength to Huo Yuhao's, prompting Ling Luochen and the others to wonder whether Bei Bei possessed an Ultimate Martial Soul.
• Nanmen Yun'er activated her Azure Luan True Body, revealing the power of her fully awakened Divine Beast Bloodline.
• Nanmen Yun'er launched her Azure Luan ultimate technique, Azure Luan Sky Soar, at Bei Bei.

Bei Bei defeated Nanmen Yun'er with his Evil Dragon Martial Soul, securing his team's place in the top four as Tang Ya renewed her hostility toward Shrek Academy. After the Sun Moon Empire announced that the Third Prince's enthronement ceremony would follow the finals, the prospect of Shrek Academy receiving the champion's award from the new emperor drew more supporters.

• Bei Bei survived Nanmen Yun'er's powerful attack, Dragonified, and defeated her before Ink Shadow Douluo intervened to stop him from choking her.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng checked on Nanmen Yun'er, while Wu Feng vowed that they would defeat Bei Bei in the future.
• Tang Ya covered Bei Bei after he returned to human form and declared that her revenge against Shrek Academy and Ma Xiaotao had only begun.
• Shrek Academy, Sun Moon Xu Family Team, Body Sect Battle Team, and Holy Spirit Cult Team became the four remaining teams.
• The Sun Moon Imperial Palace announced that the Third Prince would hold his enthronement ceremony after the finals and present the champion's award, prompting more spectators to support Shrek Academy.

After the Mingdu team lost to Shrek, the Third Prince dismissed the defeat as inevitable because Huo Yuhao was an Ultimate Attribute Soul Master and rewarded Xiao Hongchen with a bloodline-focused cultivation art. He then revealed that Meng Hongchen’s dangerous martial soul cultivation had already caused Cold Poison to enter her body.

• Jing Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen each tried to take responsibility for the Mingdu team’s loss, but the Third Prince stopped them and explained Huo Yuhao’s strength.
• The Third Prince sent everyone away except the Hongchen siblings, then examined them with a spiritual fluctuation.
• The Third Prince gave Xiao Hongchen the Toad Skill, which could uncover bloodline potential and promote the mutation and evolution of toad-type martial souls, and allowed him to share it with his clan.
• Xiao Hongchen thanked the Third Prince and declared that he was his god.
• The Third Prince told Meng Hongchen that Cold Poison had entered her body because of her previous cultivation negligence.

Meng Hongchen learned that Cold Poison from her martial soul defect threatened her life, but the Third Prince revealed that Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice could help cure her. He sent the Hongchen siblings to Shrek Academy to seek treatment and test the academy’s neutrality, while the chapter revealed that Huo Yuhao had been posing as the Third Prince.

• Meng Hongchen admitted that Cold Poison had invaded her internal organs, and the Third Prince warned that cultivating further could kill her.
• The Third Prince explained that Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice could suppress and eventually expel Meng Hongchen’s Cold Poison.
• The Third Prince ordered Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to seek treatment from Huo Yuhao and join Shrek Academy if possible, testing whether the academy treated people equally.
• The Hongchen siblings pledged loyalty to the Sun Moon Empire as they left to infiltrate Shrek Academy.
• After the siblings departed, a youth revealed that he was Huo Yuhao, who had been impersonating the Third Prince.

Huo Yuhao obtained a rare Snake Egg carrying a trace of the Holy Spirit Feathered Serpent bloodline and sent it to the Wisdom Secret Realm. The chapter then showed how the Third Prince’s harem used the Demon Soul Method to grow stronger at the cost of the women’s lifespans, ending with one woman becoming a Soul Emperor through a Demon Ring.

• Huo Yuhao opened the secret chamber’s metal cabinet and took out a Winged Serpent egg with a trace of the Holy Spirit Feathered Serpent bloodline.
• Huo Yuhao sent the Snake Egg into the Wisdom Secret Realm and stayed behind to make further preparations, while the Third Prince left for the harem.
• The Third Prince returned to a harem where women and snake demons cultivated together, with the women’s strength rising as their lifespans were consumed.
• A beauty broke through to Quasi-Soul Emperor, and her snake demon helped her form a black Demon Ring that made her a true Soul Emperor.

Huo Yuhao used the Demon Soul Method to transform the Little Mutated Frost Centipede into a flawless copy of himself. He left the centipede disguised and injured with imitation Cold Poison, intending it as a gift for Bei Bei and Tang Ya.

• Huo Yuhao reflected that the complete Demon Soul Method could unite soul masters and demon beasts, but he planned to keep it secret and spread it later through an avatar.
• The Third Prince inspected the harem’s cultivation progress, selected a dozen beauties, and began cultivating with them.
• Huo Yuhao summoned the Little Mutated Frost Centipede, which had reached fifty-thousand-year-level cultivation, and began transforming it into his double.
• The Little Mutated Frost Centipede gained Huo Yuhao’s Martial Soul traits, appearance, Soul Power, armor, weapon, and seven red soul rings, becoming indistinguishable from him.
• Huo Yuhao wounded the centipede and gave it imitation origin Cold Poison, then told it to scream before deciding the disguise was ready as a gift for Bei Bei and Tang Ya.

The Sun Moon Xu Family Team faced the Body Sect Battle Team in the first semifinal, as both teams revealed their strength. Wang Yanfeng's Horizontal Training repelled the Xu team's hidden-weapon attack, leaving the match poised for the next exchange.

• The Third Prince opened the semifinals by declaring that competitors would be judged by their strength, and Jing Hongchen began presiding over the matches.
• The Sun Moon Xu Family Team and the Body Sect Battle Team entered the arena with their strongest available lineups for the first team battle.
• Xu Tianzhen, Luan Fei, and Ye Guyi opened with Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannon fire, but Wang Yanfeng smashed the beams aside with his hands.
• The three women launched hidden weapons using Flower Rain Across the Sky, Bat Wing Reincarnation, and Soul-Chasing Life-Snatching, but Wang Yanfeng's bronze body blocked every weapon.
• Xian Lin'er identified Wang Yanfeng's defense as a Body Sect combat technique, while Xiao Hongchen joked that his own Golden Body looked better; Wang Yanfeng named his technique Horizontal Training.