Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao faced Yunluo Academy in a Team Battle, but Shrek sent only the two of them onto the stage. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao drinking wine before the match began, leaving the arena stunned by Shrek's arrogance.

• Huo Yuhao and Yunluo Academy's captain drew red, selecting a Team Battle.
• Xiao Xiao joined Huo Yuhao on the stage while the rest of Shrek's team stayed in the Rest Area.
• Xiao Xiao told the referee that two people were enough and questioned Yunluo Academy's crown-wearing strategy.
• Huo Yuhao drank from a crystal wine flask as the crowd erupted and Wang Yan covered his face.

Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao faced Yunluo Advanced Soul Tool Master Academy in the tournament, and Huo Yuhao’s provocative calm left the opposing team determined to fight for its honor. Xiao Xiao then unleashed a vast display of sword auras, secretly powered by Huo Yuhao’s Simulation Soul Skill.

• Ma Rulong apologized to Xiao Hongchen for doubting his law-abiding nature, while Meng Hongchen excitedly praised Huo Yuhao for drinking on the Arena.
• Yunluo Academy’s captain ordered his team to protect their Spiritual Seas and follow their tactics, but Huo Yuhao’s taunt pushed them to fight for their academy’s honor.
• The referee began the match and watched Huo Yuhao closely, mindful of the injuries his earlier mental attacks had caused Tianling Academy’s contestants.
• Yunluo Academy’s members deployed their Soul Tools, and a saber-wielding student rushed toward Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao.
• Huo Yuhao placed a hand on Xiao Xiao’s shoulder without releasing his martial soul, and Xiao Xiao commanded countless sword auras to attack Yunluo Academy.
• Huo Yuhao used his Simulation Soul Skill to make Xiao Xiao appear to command the sword auras herself.

Huo Yuhao helped Xiao Xiao unleash a sword attack powerful enough to overwhelm Yunluo Academy and astonish the tournament audience. The referee declared Shrek Team the winner, while the Sun Moon team speculated that Huo Yuhao had amplified Xiao Xiao’s attack.

• Huo Yuhao controlled Xiao Xiao’s Ten Thousand Swords Returning to the Origin so its power reached the level of a Soul Emperor, and the referee shielded Yunluo Academy’s contestants from the sword qi.
• The sword qi stopped, leaving the arena floor riddled with holes and the Yunluo Academy contestants terrified but unharmed.
• The Star Luo Emperor, the White Tiger Duke, and the other teams reacted with shock to Xiao Xiao’s attack.
• Old Ma argued that Huo Yuhao had amplified Xiao Xiao’s ability and that she was likely a Soul King, while the Sun Moon team compared her and Huo Yuhao with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen.
• Huo Yuhao asked the referee to announce the result, and the referee declared Shrek Team the winner.

After Shrek’s quick victory, Huo Yuhao’s teammates watched the tournament from the hotel rooftop and discussed his deliberately restrained sword technique. Huo Yuhao reassured them that their hidden strength could help them face the remaining matches.

• Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao left the Arena after their victory as the crowd cheered and mistakenly dubbed Xiao Xiao the “Female Sword God.”
• Meng Hongchen admired Huo Yuhao and resolved to make him an ally, while Xiao Hongchen angrily insisted he would compete against Skyfire Advanced Soul Master Academy.
• On the Star Emperor Hotel rooftop, Huo Yuhao told Qiu'er that he had recently learned the sword move and had deliberately held back its power.
• Beibei teased Xu Sanshi while the reserve team watched the matches through telescopes, prompting Jiang Nannan to scold Xu Sanshi and the two men to start bickering.
• Ning Tian and Wang Dong worried about facing teams with multiple Soul Kings, but Huo Yuhao said Beibei and Xu Sanshi had not yet shown their true strength.

Beibei revealed that he and Xu Sanshi had hidden their strength as designated successors to the Shrek Seven Devils, and Huo Yuhao reassured the worried Qiu'er. After the first round of the Round Robin ended, Wang Yan led the team out into Star Luo City's busy streets without saying where they were going.

• Wang Dong wondered whether Beibei and Xu Sanshi had concealed their strength during their usual sparring, and Beibei explained their status as designated Shrek Seven Devils and the training and service expected of them.
• Beibei defended Xu Sanshi's talent, surprising Ning Tian and the others, while Qiu'er worried about humanity's growing strength compared with the soul beasts.
• Huo Yuhao noticed Qiu'er's concern, reassured her, and told the group they could feel confident against opponents without a Soul Emperor.
• The first round of the Round Robin ended after two days, leaving many teams under pressure to win their upcoming matches.
• After dinner, Wang Yan led the Shrek team out of the Star Emperor Hotel and told them to follow him without revealing their destination.

Wang Yan brought the Shrek group to Star Luo City’s largest auction house to show them how Soul Tools could protect and strengthen them. The group entered after Wang Yan secured their access, while Wang Dong refused to join them.

• Wang Yan explained that Soul Tools could have reduced the injuries from the Evil Soul Master battle and offered to have the academy buy suitable equipment for the students.
• Wang Dong rejected Wang Yan’s advice and returned to the hotel, while Huo Yuhao led the others into the auction house.
• Wang Yan gave the students numbered badges and explained that he had used Shrek’s name to bypass the lengthy admission process.
• The group descended into the underground auction house and saw its lavish golden corridor.

Huo Yuhao and his companions attended a low-tier Starlight Auction focused on Soul Tools, where Wang Yan bought several items. The auctioneer announced a mysterious grand gift as the final item, and Huo Yuhao became interested as a red-covered cart arrived onstage.

• An etiquette attendant led Wang Yan and the others into Hall 12 and explained the auction's tiers and masks.
• Wang Yan explained the colored masks, while Huo Yuhao realized this was not the auction he remembered and that the Ice Jade Scorpion Spirit Bone would not appear here.
• Qing Ya introduced herself as the auctioneer and announced that the final item would be a mysterious grand gift.
• Wang Yan bought more than a dozen low-ranked Soul Tools, while Huo Yuhao showed little interest in them.
• Qing Ya announced the mysterious grand gift, and a large cart covered in vivid red cloth rolled onto the stage.

Huo Yuhao bought the cursed Soul Devouring Engraving Knife at auction, confident he could deal with its curse. After returning to his room, he contacted the blade with his Spiritual Power, and its savage aura began tearing through his Spiritual Sea.

• Qing Ya revealed that the Soul Devouring Engraving Knife was ranked ninety-ninth among the continent’s List Ranked Engraving Knives and warned that its curse made it dangerous.
• Huo Yuhao bid one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, assured Wang Yan he could resolve the curse, and won the blade when no one else bid.
• Back in his room, Huo Yuhao opened the jade box and called into his Spiritual Space, where he learned Ilyas was still asleep.
• Huo Yuhao enveloped the blade with his Spiritual Power, but it devoured his power and sent a vicious aura toward his Spiritual Sea, splitting his Spiritual Power apart.

Huo Yuhao’s companions drove the Soul Devouring Fierce Blade’s hostile aura from his Spiritual Sea, and Ilyas purified the Gold of Life within the Engraving Knife. Ilyas then guided Huo Yuhao to begin fusing with it, filling his body with its life force.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, Ice Empress, and Snow Empress defended Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Sea against the blade’s fierce aura.
• Ilyas awoke, recognized the Gold of Life, and took control of Huo Yuhao’s body.
• Ilyas purified the Soul Devouring Engraving Knife, removing its black air and turning it into clear green crystal.
• Ilyas returned control to Huo Yuhao and told him to press the Engraving Knife against his forehead.
• Huo Yuhao followed Ilyas’s instructions, and the Engraving Knife released a dense life force that flooded his body and Spiritual Sea.

Huo Yuhao absorbed the Soul Devouring Engraving Knife’s immense life aura, transforming his body and expanding his Spiritual Sea. Ilyas stabilized his Divine Sense within the Gold of Life, while the knife dissolved into Huo Yuhao and continued releasing life aura.

• Life aura from the Soul Devouring Fierce Blade cleansed and strengthened Huo Yuhao’s body, meridians, and cultivation foundation.
• The Soul Devouring Engraving Knife pierced Huo Yuhao’s forehead, sending a surge of life aura into his Spiritual Sea.
• Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Sea expanded into an emerald-green ocean, and Tian Meng, Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and the Ice Bear King watched in shock.
• Ilyas explained that the Gold of Life gave his Divine Sense a vessel, and he urged the four spirit beasts to release some sealed power to strengthen Huo Yuhao.
• Ilyas vanished through an azure gate, and Ice Empress, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and Snow Empress discussed the potential of Divine Sense.
• The Soul Devouring Engraving Knife melted into azure-green liquid and entered Huo Yuhao, releasing another wave of life aura through his body.

Huo Yuhao endured the painful fusion of the Engraving Knife and awakened a strange third eye, which stirred the original owner's memories of Huo Yun'er. The resulting soul fusion made Huo Yuhao a true native of the Douluo Continent and removed the Plane Rule's barrier to his future ascension to godhood.

• The Engraving Knife transformed Huo Yuhao's forehead wound into an azure eye while his Spiritual Origin was torn apart and restored by the Gold of Life.
• Huo Yuhao saw memories of a woman and realized she was Huo Yun'er, whose death as his mother had remained in the original owner's consciousness.
• Ilyas examined Huo Yuhao and concluded that destiny had guided his soul fusion, while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the others steadied his Spiritual Space.
• Huo Yuhao's transmigrated consciousness merged with the original owner's residual consciousness, giving his soul Douluo Star's law imprint and resolving his outsider status.
• The Plane Rule would no longer obstruct Huo Yuhao from becoming a God when he reached the peak of power.

Huo Yuhao emerged from Deep Meditation with a changed temperament, then led Shrek Academy into its second tournament match against Thousand Spirit Advanced Soul Master Academy. The draw selected the Individual Competition, leaving Shrek confident and its opponents worried about facing Huo Yuhao.

• Tang San sensed his connection to the Child of Destiny on Douluo Continent grow blurred, but dismissed his concern and returned to his private activities.
• The reserve team found Huo Yuhao in Deep Meditation, and he woke to tease Xu Sanshi about his talent and lack of hard work.
• Wang Yan led Shrek Academy to Star Luo Square for its match against Thousand Spirit Advanced Soul Master Academy, where the crowd cheered Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao.
• Huo Yuhao and the Thousand Spirit captain drew the match format, and the yellow ball revealed an Individual Competition.
• Wang Yan felt relieved at the draw, while the Thousand Spirit captain worried about facing Shrek's still-unrevealed team members after Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao.

Huo Yuhao faced An Leng Ye of Thousand Spirit Academy in the opening match of the one-on-one elimination round. After hearing her captain’s mistaken analysis of his abilities, Huo Yuhao watched her deploy her Frost Bear Martial Soul and charge at him.

• The referee announced a one-on-one elimination format, and Huo Yuhao stepped forward as Shrek Academy’s first contestant.
• Thousand Spirit Academy’s captain sent An Leng Ye to fight Huo Yuhao, believing his strength lay mainly in spiritual support and planning for her to attack from a distance.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection and lip-reading to overhear the captain’s tactics, and recognized that An Leng Ye wore a Mental Defense Soul Tool.
• Wang Yan explained that An Leng Ye and Fei Yu Yan used Martial Soul Mimicry to become control-type fighters, but the individual format separated their Ice-Fire Dual Control.
• An Leng Ye summoned her Frost Bear, raised an icy wall around herself, and sent the bear charging at Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao faced An Leng Ye’s Frost Bear and used his Ultimate Ice and the Ice Bear King’s pressure to overpower it. The Frost Bear knelt and prostrated itself, and An Leng Ye surrendered after losing control of her martial soul.

• An Leng Ye sent the Frost Bear charging at Huo Yuhao, whose body remained unharmed by its ice attack.
• Huo Yuhao blocked the Frost Bear’s paw with one hand and ordered it to kneel.
• The Frost Bear obeyed Huo Yuhao and then prostrated itself under his pressure.
• An Leng Ye told her captain that she could not control her martial soul.
• Huo Yuhao threatened to crush the Frost Bear, and An Leng Ye surrendered.

Huo Yuhao dominated the first two individual matches against the Thousand Spirit Academy Team, suppressing both opponents’ simulated martial souls with his Ultimate Ice and overwhelming Spiritual Power. After An Leng Ye admitted defeat, he subdued Fei Yu Yan’s fire tiger and again demanded that she surrender or have her martial soul crushed.

• An Leng Ye admitted defeat after Huo Yuhao suppressed her Frost Bear, and the referee awarded the first match to the Shrek Team.
• An Leng Ye told the Thousand Spirit captain that Huo Yuhao had innately suppressed her Frost Bear, and the captain guessed Huo Yuhao’s martial soul had an ice attribute.
• The Thousand Spirit captain sent Fei Yu Yan into the second match, believing her fire attribute and Mental Defense Soul Tool gave her a chance against Huo Yuhao.
• Fei Yu Yan’s Blazing Tiger Avatar struck Huo Yuhao, but his Eternal Freeze Domain extinguished the flames without harming him.
• Huo Yuhao blocked the Crimson Flame Tiger’s claw, severed Fei Yu Yan’s connection to her simulated martial soul, and demanded that she admit defeat or have it crushed.

Huo Yuhao forced Fei Yu Yan to surrender, leaving the Thousand Spirit Team bewildered by his ability to counter their martial souls. Captain Shen Ce entered the third match to salvage his academy’s dignity, but Huo Yuhao read his attacks and prepared to counter his spear technique.

• Huo Yuhao demanded Fei Yu Yan surrender or have her martial soul crushed, and she surrendered.
• The referee declared Huo Yuhao the winner of the second match, and the audience erupted in cheers.
• Shen Ce volunteered for the third match, hoping to restore some dignity to Thousand Spirit Academy.
• Shen Ce revealed his Thousand Strike Spear and hurled it at Huo Yuhao with Electric Arc Flash, but Huo Yuhao dodged it using Mental Detection.
• Shen Ce charged and used Phantom Twin Spear Thrust, but Huo Yuhao identified the real Shen Ce through his omnidirectional vision.

Huo Yuhao defeated Shen Ce with a concealed use of Lost Illusion, then forced Thousand Spirit Academy to forfeit the rest of the match. Shrek was declared the winner, while the watching teams struggled to understand Huo Yuhao’s abilities.

• Huo Yuhao used a concealed prop to make Shen Ce pass through it, activating Lost Illusion and knocking him unconscious.
• Huo Yuhao forced the referee to announce Shen Ce’s defeat, and Shen Ce woke up unable to understand how he had lost.
• Thousand Spirit Academy’s remaining contestants lacked the will to fight, and their supervising teacher forfeited the remaining matches.
• The referee declared Shrek the victor, prompting the crowd to celebrate Huo Yuhao’s one-against-seven performance.
• Ma Rulong remarked that Huo Yuhao’s spiritual abilities were bizarre.

After Huo Yuhao defeated the Thousand Spirit Team, Shrek’s members questioned how he had silently incapacitated Shen Ce and suppressed the other opponents. The chapter revealed how his concealed Lost Illusion and overwhelming spiritual power made the skill nearly impossible to defend against, leaving Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen wary of facing him.

• Huo Yuhao returned from the arena after defeating the Thousand Spirit Team, astonishing Shrek’s teammates and competitors.
• The Sun Moon Team concluded that its Mental Defense Soul Tools had failed to protect against Huo Yuhao’s abilities and worried about his strength.
• Wang Yan asked Huo Yuhao how he had knocked Shen Ce unconscious, and Huo Yuhao explained that he had concealed Lost Illusion with Simulation.
• Huo Yuhao explained that his suppression of An Leng Ye and Fei Yu Yan’s simulated martial souls depended on a special technique only he could use.
• Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen assessed how they would fare against Huo Yuhao and realized they would likely fall for his concealed attack.

Wang Yan briefed Shrek Academy on Zhengtian Academy’s formidable team and planned the match lineup. Huo Yuhao proposed pairing Xu Sanshi with He Caitou instead of Beibei, then outlined a tactic that could let them win without revealing He Caitou’s full strength.

• Wang Yan explained that Zhengtian Academy had three Soul Kings, four Soul Ancestors, and a powerful, arrogant captain.
• Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen said their injuries had not healed enough for them to fight at full strength, so Wang Yan counted on Huo Yuhao again.
• Wang Yan named the provisional team battle lineup and suggested pairing Beibei with Xu Sanshi for a Two-Two-Three match.
• Huo Yuhao urged Wang Yan to send Xu Sanshi and He Caitou out first, arguing that Xu Sanshi’s defense could protect He Caitou’s powerful long-range attacks.
• Huo Yuhao reasoned that Zhengtian Academy’s strongest member would likely sit out the opening match and explained a tactic that might end the battle before He Caitou had to reveal his strength.

Shrek Academy prepared to face Zhengtian Academy, a formidable traditional Soul Master team, in the third Round Robin round. The draw selected the Two-Two-Three Battle Method, leaving Xu Sanshi eager to take the stage.

• Huo Yuhao explained his match plan, and Beibei, Xu Sanshi, and Wang Yan reacted with approval and excitement.
• Shrek Academy traveled to Star Luo Square, where the team arrived calm and ready for its match against Zhengtian Academy.
• Wang Yan reviewed the team’s growth and reflected on Sea God Pavilion’s decision to send the Reserve Team to compete.
• The referee introduced Zhengtian Academy captain Ye Wuqing as a level fifty-eight assault-type Soul King with a Golden Leaf Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhengtian Academy’s captain drew the Two-Two-Three Battle Method, prompting Xu Sanshi to eagerly claim that the match was his home ground.