Chapter Summaries

Yan Shaozhe brought Shrek Academy’s team back toward the academy after three Title Douluo-level Evil Soul Masters appeared in Star Luo City, while Qin Yue assigned Qian Canghai and Elder Yi missions against the Holy Spirit Cult and the Valley of Love and Emotion. At a Sea God Pavilion meeting, the Elders learned that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect was gathering treasures and decided to compete for Qin Yue’s allegiance.

• Yan Shaozhe met the arriving Xuan Zi and led the Shrek Academy group away from Star Luo City in carriages.
• Qin Yue returned to Shrek with the main group while Qian Canghai stayed behind to handle the Star Luo branch and prepare to investigate the Holy Spirit Cult in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Qin Yue gave Qian Canghai the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife, while Elder Yi was tasked with secretly investigating the Valley of Love and Emotion and the possible remnant soul of the God of Love.
• The Shrek Academy Elders prepared to commend the tournament team and recognize Qin Yue’s victory over Ma Rulong.
• Gong Changlong revealed that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect was selling assets and gathering Heavenly Treasures, prompting the Sea God Pavilion Elders to compete with the sect for Qin Yue’s loyalty.

After learning that the Star Crown Sect had been exterminated by attackers whose corpses were identified as Evil Soul Masters, Qin Yue considered whether the Holy Spirit Cult’s Worship Hall was responsible. Yan Shaozhe then summoned the students to meet the Sea God Pavilion Elders, and Qin Yue hoped Shrek Academy would know more about the attack.

• Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi rushed to Sea God Island before the returning students had received their rewards.
• A Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect disciple told Ning Tian and the others that the Star Crown Sect had been wiped out, including its Sect Master Xu Hanxing.
• The disciple reported that investigators found unidentified corpses belonging to Evil Soul Masters, but the attackers’ identities and origins remained unknown.
• Qin Yue considered whether powerful members of the Holy Spirit Cult’s Worship Hall had attacked the sect, but doubted the theory because of the mismatch in strength.
• Yan Shaozhe invited the students to Sea God Pavilion to meet its Elders, and Qin Yue hoped they could explain the Star Crown Sect’s destruction.

Yan Shaozhe brought the Shrek Team to Sea God Island and welcomed them into Sea God Pavilion, where golden light healed them and helped several members break through. The Main Team received its commendations first, and Qin Yue’s Reserve Team then entered the Council Hall to meet the academy’s Elders.

• Yan Shaozhe led the team to Sea God Pavilion and bowed to his teacher, whose voice invited them inside.
• Golden light enveloped the Shrek Team, healing their exhaustion and injuries while Gongyang Mo, Ling Luochen, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong broke through in cultivation.
• Ma Xiaotao led the seven Main Team members into the Council Hall to receive their commendations, then left with them.
• Yan Shaozhe brought Qin Yue, the other Reserve Team members, and Mu Jin into the Council Hall, where Qin Yue greeted Elder Gong Changlong.
• Yan Shaozhe explained that Sea God Pavilion was Shrek Academy’s highest decision-making body and introduced the gathered Elders.

Yan Shaozhe rewarded Mu Jin and the seven Reserve Team members for their tournament performance, while Mu En sent Qin Yue to the Underground Training Room to test Deep Meditation. Qin Yue learned that Yan Shaozhe now understood why he had chosen the Annihilation Chamber, and the chapter left him preparing to train there.

• Yan Shaozhe promoted Mu Jin to Special Grade Teacher and granted her Inner Court teaching duties, Sea God Island access, Spirit Gathering Platform access, and help obtaining her Seventh Soul Ring.
• Yan Shaozhe gave the seven Reserve Team members Inner Court Core Disciple treatment, set their entry conditions, and assigned each guidance from an Elder or vice dean.
• Yan Shaozhe dismissed the others, and Mu En spoke privately with Qin Yue about the fame he had gained in the tournament.
• Mu En sent Qin Yue to the underground hall and explained that the Lightning, Elemental, and Annihilation Chambers had effects matching their names.
• Mu En said Yan Shaozhe had realized Qin Yue chose the Annihilation Chamber because of his self-created soul skill, Hell Stab, and Qin Yue reflected on its long charge time and heavy Soul Power cost.

Qin Yue entered Shrek Academy’s Lightning Chamber to strengthen his lightning and refine his understanding of his Martial Soul Avatar. As he absorbed the chamber’s lightning in Deep Meditation, his cultivation began to approach level 46 while the elders discussed the greater value of gaining insight into his path.

• Qin Yue chose the Lightning Chamber first, reasoning that strengthening his lightning would also improve Hell Stab.
• Qin Yue entered the chamber, studied its many kinds of lightning, and released fine streaks from his body to merge with them.
• Qin Yue began Deep Meditation and devoured every lightning strand in the room, clarifying an idea about his Martial Soul Avatar.
• The chamber’s dense Thunder Attribute Heaven and Earth Origin Power drove Qin Yue’s cultivation toward level 46.
• Mu En told Yan Shaozhe and the other elders that Qin Yue might gain several Soul Power levels, but he hoped Qin Yue would focus on understanding his path instead.

After forty-five days in the Lightning Chamber, Qin Yue emerged with improved control over his body and Soul Power cultivation at level forty-nine. Mu En presented him with a Spirit Bone for Qin Yan and a notebook of past Sea God Pavilion Masters’ experience as his championship rewards.

• Qin Yue woke from Deep Meditation and discovered he could precisely regulate his strength, including conserving energy or unleashing an overload.
• Qin Yue learned his Soul Power cultivation had risen from level forty-five to level forty-nine during his forty-five days in the Lightning Chamber.
• Qin Yue told Mu En he planned to use his remaining cultivation opportunities, mostly in the Lightning Chamber.
• Mu En gave Qin Yue a roughly sixty-thousand-year-old Fire-Bathed Thunder Rhino Left Leg Bone, which Qin Yue intended for Qin Yan.
• Mu En presented Qin Yue with a notebook containing the accumulated experience of past Sea God Pavilion Masters as his personal championship reward.

Mu En gave Qin Yue access to Sea God Pavilion’s cultivation notebook in exchange for a promise to help Shrek through one future calamity, then revealed that the Star Crown Sect had once relied on a Level 98 elder to defeat four Holy Spirit Cult Super Douluo. The chapter left Mu En confronting Jing Hongchen, Hall Master of Ming Virtue Hall, after he appeared inside Sea God Pavilion and claimed he had come to inspect Shrek’s student-exchange proposal.

• Mu En explained that he had only a few years left and let Qin Yue read Sea God Pavilion’s succession notebook, asking him to help Shrek during one future calamity.
• Mu En revealed that Xu Yanxing, a Level 98 Super Douluo of the Star Crown Sect, had likely defeated four Holy Spirit Cult worshippers when the sect faced destruction.
• Qin Yue accepted the notebook and promised to help Shrek through one great calamity unless the situation was beyond saving.
• Mu En suddenly transported himself and Qin Yue to Sea God Pavilion’s first floor, where he captured Jing Hongchen as he tried to escape.
• Jing Hongchen identified himself as the Hall Master of Ming Virtue Hall and claimed he had come to inspect the proposed exchange between Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy.

Jing Hongchen faced Mu En in Sea God Pavilion and accepted that Shrek Academy could overpower Ming Virtue Hall with the Golden Tree’s support. He agreed to arrange exchanges between the academies and offered Qin Yue compensation for Ma Rulong’s scheme.

• Jing Hongchen warned Mu En that his triggered Level 9 Soul Tools would activate if he were attacked, but Mu En dismissed the threat inside the Golden Tree.
• Mu En revealed his name and warned Jing Hongchen not to target Shrek City again, or he would visit the Sun Moon Empire’s capital.
• Jing Hongchen said Ming Virtue Hall would win a war against Sea God Pavilion, while Qin Yue agreed that Soul Tools were most effective in the hands of powerful Soul Masters.
• Jing Hongchen proposed exchanges between the academies and promised Shrek students would be safe at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy.
• Qin Yue explained that Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen were already at Shrek, but Mu En said their presence did not settle the separate matter of Ma Rulong’s scheme.
• Jing Hongchen offered Qin Yue compensation and presented his Level 9 triggered defensive Soul Tool, Red Dust Protection.

Jing Hongchen left Sea God Pavilion after surrendering two Level 9 Soul Tools, and Mu En warned Qin Yue about the danger of a battle with him before entrusting him with the academy’s future. The next morning, Qin Yue investigated Tang Ya’s plant-devouring power and confronted her after finding withered plants near the academy.

• Jing Hongchen surrendered Red Dust Protection to Qin Yue and another Level 9 Soul Tool to Mu En as the price of leaving Sea God Pavilion.
• Mu En explained that Jing Hongchen’s trigger-type Level 9 Soul Tools could devastate Shrek Academy, then told Qin Yue he planned to hunt the Evil Soul Masters responsible for destroying the Star Crown Sect.
• Qin Yue decided to warn Mu En about God King Tang but kept his suspicions to himself while he sought evidence of Tang Ya using her devouring power.
• Qin Yue found patches of inexplicably withered plants around the academy and returned to Shrek Academy.
• At breakfast, Qin Yue mentioned the withered plants to Bei Bei and Tang Ya, and Tang Ya realized he had uncovered her secret and froze in fear.

Qin Yue revealed that Tang Ya had been devouring plants’ life force to cultivate, leading her to confess and fear punishment. He then offered a possible solution, hinting that Blue Silver Grass could evolve, and left Tang Ya and Bei Bei shaken by what they had never been told.

• Qin Yue privately told Bei Bei and Tang Ya that Tang Ya had been cultivating by devouring nearby plants’ life force.
• Tang Ya admitted what she had done, and Bei Bei was stunned to learn that she was considered an Evil Soul Master.
• Tang Ya accepted responsibility and insisted that Bei Bei had known nothing about her actions.
• Qin Yue clarified that he had come to explain how to address Tang Ya’s problem, not to arrest her.
• Qin Yue cited records that Tang San had also used life-devouring abilities and suggested that evolving Tang Ya’s Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul could solve the problem.
• Tang Ya and Bei Bei realized that Blue Silver Grass might evolve and wondered why Tang Ya had never learned of it.

Qin Yue explained how Blue Silver Grass could evolve into the Blue Silver King and Blue Silver Emperor, leaving Tang Ya with hope of restoring the Tang Sect after revealing the location of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor. Bei Bei promised not to approach it until he was fully prepared.

• Qin Yue told Tang Ya and Bei Bei that Blue Silver Grass had three stages, culminating in the Blue Silver Emperor, which Tang San's Martial Soul had evolved into after awakening.
• Tang Ya nearly collapsed when she learned Tang San had evolved his Blue Silver Grass, and Qin Yue said the change did not depend on bloodline.
• Qin Yue revealed that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had located a Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor that might explain how to evolve Blue Silver Grass Martial Souls.
• Qin Yue warned Bei Bei and Tang Ya that the Blue Silver Emperor near Skysea City was exceptionally powerful and should not be alerted before they were prepared.
• Bei Bei and Tang Ya thanked Qin Yue, and Bei Bei promised to wait until he was fully prepared before seeking the Blue Silver Emperor.

Qin Yue broke through to level 50 and completed the Thunder God’s First Trial, receiving a major enhancement to his body, Martial Soul, and Soul Rings. After assessing his new power, he remained on Sea God Island with his Ultimate Amplification increased to 35%.

• Qin Yue cultivated beneath the Dragon Core for a month and naturally broke through to level 50.
• The Thunder God’s First Trial declared completion and rewarded Qin Yue with 5% Thunder God Affinity, 5% Ultimate Amplification, increased Soul Ring age limits, and deep tempering.
• The reward strengthened Qin Yue’s Martial Soul and Soul Rings, raising his First Soul Ring to around fifteen thousand years and his Third to thirteen thousand years.
• Qin Yue accidentally blasted two small pits into the floor when lightning shot from his eyes after the tempering.
• Qin Yue realized his Ultimate Amplification had risen from 30% to 35% and considered how the trait reflected a Martial Soul’s strength.

After reaching his first cultivation bottleneck during the Thunder God Trial, Qin Yue received a God-Bestowed Soul Ring but stored it away so he could absorb the Thunder Giant Skull first. He fused with the Spirit Bone, rose to level fifty-three, and gained a powerful skill that could tear apart enemies’ soul skills and spiritual power.

• The Thunder God Trial assigned Qin Yue the task of reaching level sixty within one year and offered a Spirit Bone age increase as a reward.
• Qin Yue received a God-Bestowed Soul Ring upon reaching a cultivation bottleneck, then returned it to his Sea of Spirit rather than absorb it immediately.
• Qin Yue absorbed the Thunder Giant Skull, suppressing its lightning and spiritual attacks with his Black Thunder Armor and Spirit Consciousness.
• Qin Yue fused with the skull and advanced to level fifty-three as its remaining Soul Power strengthened him.
• Qin Yue gained Wrath of the Giant: Divine Judgment, which amplified his Thunder Attribute soul skills and let them tear apart enemies’ soul skills and spiritual power.

After absorbing the Thunder Giant Skull, Qin Yue prepared to test his limits by absorbing the God-Bestowed Soul Ring as his Fifth Soul Ring. The trial reached the 80,000-year level, leaving him trembling and drenched in sweat as he struggled against overwhelming pain.

• Qin Yue absorbed the Thunder Giant Skull and gained a tiny chance to devastate another being’s soul with Thunder or spiritual-attribute soul skills.
• Qin Yue rested before attempting the God-Bestowed Soul Ring, deciding it suited his Fifth Soul Ring because he already had targets chosen for his Sixth and Seventh.
• Qin Yue summoned the God-Bestowed Soul Ring, and its trial began with stages corresponding to increasingly powerful soul rings.
• Qin Yue endured the trial through the 50,000-year and 60,000-year levels, suppressing the pain by tensing his muscles.
• The cocoon raised the trial to the 80,000-year level, and Qin Yue trembled and sweated as the pain overwhelmed him.

Qin Yue completed the God-Bestowed Soul Ring trial, gaining an 83,000-year Fifth Soul Ring and breaking through to level 55. After Qin Yue left Sea God Island, Mu En considered his rapid growth and questioned what the Tang Sect knew about evolving Blue Silver Grass Martial Souls.

• Qin Yue absorbed the cocoon of light into his Fifth Soul Ring and gained the large-scale Soul Skill Thunder Nightmare Thousand Prisons.
• Qin Yue's Soul Power rose to level 55, and he left Sea God Island after completing his trial.
• Mu En inferred that Qin Yue's rapid advancement came from absorbing a Spirit Bone and felt relieved that Qin Yue was growing stronger.
• Mu En recalled learning from the Blue Silver Emperor how Blue Silver Grass could evolve into a Blue Silver King, but not into a Blue Silver Emperor.
• Mu En wondered why the Tang Sect had no record of the evolution method and sensed he might someday meet a Soul Master with a Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul.

Qin Yue revealed that Wang Dong was a girl, embarrassing both Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao before the group set off for Star Dou Forest to obtain Soul Rings. After they left, Qian Duoduo appeared as their backup and angrily suspected Yan Shaozhe of scheming over Huo Yuhao.

• Qin Yue teased Wang Dong with a detail about the Light Goddess Butterfly, prompting Xiao Xiao and Huo Yuhao to realize Wang Dong was a girl.
• Wang Dong fled south toward Star Dou Forest after Qin Yue teased him about his relationship with Huo Yuhao, and Huo Yuhao followed after more teasing from Qin Yue and Xiao Xiao.
• Qin Yue, Xiao Xiao, and Huo Yuhao left Shrek Academy to catch up with Wang Dong on the way to Star Dou Forest.
• Qian Duoduo emerged from the academy as backup, equipped with a Level 9 Soul Tool and supported by Shrek experts ready to intervene.
• Qian Duoduo, having overheard Qin Yue's revelation, angrily accused Yan Shaozhe of scheming over Huo Yuhao.

Qin Yue warned Xiao Xiao against adding low-quality Soul Rings and an eight-thousand-year Spirit Bone to her second martial soul, while Huo Yuhao revealed that his Ice Jade Scorpion's first Soul Ring was ten thousand years old. The group reached the outskirts of the Star Dou Forest, where Qin Yue claimed he possessed a thunder-attribute treasure that could overcome the cultivation slowdown caused by an Ultimate Attribute.

• The group reached the outer region of the Star Dou Forest, and Huo Yuhao asked Xiao Xiao about her plans for Soul Rings.
• Xiao Xiao explained that she wanted to add several Soul Rings to her Nine Phoenixes Flute and had an eight-thousand-year left arm bone ready to absorb.
• Qin Yue warned Xiao Xiao that early Soul Rings for her second martial soul and low-age Spirit Bones could waste her potential, and he told her that Huo Yuhao's first Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Ring was ten thousand years old.
• Huo Yuhao admitted that his Soul Ring was an unrepeatable coincidence and said he did not plan to add more Soul Rings to his Ice Jade Scorpion for now.
• Qin Yue said Ultimate Attributes slowed cultivation between levels 30 and 70, then boasted that his thunder-attribute treasure could restore an Ultimate Lightning Soul Master's cultivation speed.
• Huo Yuhao concealed his disappointment and asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm in his Sea of Spirit whether it knew of a similar treasure.

Qin Yue accompanied Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao toward Star Dou Forest as they discussed their Soul Ring plans and the forest’s dangers. He warned them that its ruler, Di Tian, was powerful enough to thwart any attempt by the empires to destroy the forest.

• Xiao Xiao said she planned to strengthen the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron’s control or defensive abilities, while Huo Yuhao planned to search for a suitable spiritual-type Soul Beast.
• Xiao Xiao explained that Qin Yue’s overwhelming presence made students feel too intimidated to approach him, despite his many strengths.
• The group reached Star Dou Forest, where Huo Yuhao sensed the forest’s unfathomable pressure.
• Qin Yue told the others that the four empires could not destroy Star Dou Forest because Di Tian would strike at their leaders.
• Qin Yue identified Di Tian as the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, an 890,000-year Soul Beast stronger than an ordinary rank 99 Limit Douluo.

Huo Yuhao led Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Qin Yue through the Star Dou Forest’s Outer Zone to hunt Soul Beasts while keeping the group cautious and close together. On their way out at dusk, a powerful Ten Thousand Year Demon Tiger Cat blocked them, and Qin Yue incapacitated it with a glare.

• Huo Yuhao explained the danger posed by Di Tian and ordered the team to stay close, patrol only near the Outer Zone, and leave the forest each night.
• Huo Yuhao used his Soul Beast aura to drive away weaker creatures as the group advanced and rested on a mound.
• A two-thousand-year Demon Tiger Cat attacked, and Huo Yuhao defeated it with Spiritual Shock before the group continued onward.
• With no suitable Soul Beasts found, Huo Yuhao led everyone out of the forest as night approached.
• A Ten Thousand Year Demon Tiger Cat blocked their route, and Qin Yue struck it down with lightning from his eyes.

Qin Yue subdued a Ten Thousand Year Demon Tiger Cat and then agreed to help Xiao Xiao obtain a Soul Ring from a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear. The bear reacted to his attack with a defensive skill, but Qin Yue caught it from behind.

• Qin Yue forced the Ten Thousand Year Demon Tiger Cat to behave and promised to release it when they left the Star Dou Forest.
• Huo Yuhao warned that a roughly two-thousand-year-old Soul Beast was approaching, and the group spotted a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.
• Huo Yuhao deduced that the bear was exceptionally strong, while Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao considered it suitable for Xiao Xiao's Third Soul Ring.
• Qin Yue warned Xiao Xiao that absorbing the bear's Soul Ring could be extremely painful, but agreed to help after she pleaded.
• Qin Yue appeared behind the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and caught it in a crushing bear hug after it activated its defensive soul skill.