Recaps

After the reserve team defeated the main team, Xuan Zi sent the tournament group to Star Luo City and Mu En flew off to inspect the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Tools. Jiang Yi went shopping with Ling Luochen, while a white-haired girl watched from nearby and resolved to save Bing'er.

• Xuan Zi rebuked Ma Xiaotao and the main team for underestimating their younger opponents, then announced that the team would leave for Star Luo City the next morning.
• Xian Lin'er called out Yan Shaozhe for breaking their bet, and Mu En ruled that the Soul Tool Department would receive the same enrollment quota as the Martial Soul Department next year.
• Mu En left to inspect the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Tools in a flying wheelchair and asked Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er to oversee the academy.
• Ling Luochen met Jiang Yi outside Shrek Academy and invited him to walk with her through Shrek City’s commercial district.
• Xixi secretly followed Jiang Yi and Ling Luochen to record their date, while a white-haired girl watched them and vowed to save Bing'er before walking away without buying a goose leg.

Ling Luochen lured Jiang Yi to the Rose Hotel and tried to set up a romantic night together. After secretly mixing a blue potion into wine and drinking from a red potion herself, she waited for Jiang Yi, who emerged from the bathroom surrounded by icy mist.

• Ling Luochen suggested that she and Jiang Yi stay at the Rose Hotel, and he agreed to follow her there.
• Xixi arranged for the hotel to claim that only one room remained, and Ling Luochen and Jiang Yi took Room 404.
• Ling Luochen bathed behind a one-way glass wall while Jiang Yi watched from the bedroom, then she consulted Dongdong's Guide when he showed no interest.
• Ling Luochen mixed half of a blue potion and the rest of the bottle into red wine, drank from a red potion herself, and sat waiting for Jiang Yi.
• Jiang Yi left the bathroom with icy mist drifting behind him.

Jiang Yi outmaneuvered Ling Luochen after she tried to use special wine and a guide to seduce him, and they spent the night together. The next morning, Xuan Zi led the group out of Shrek Academy for training, while Bei Bei, Dai Huabin, and Xu Sanshi resolved to grow strong enough to represent the academy in the future.

• Ling Luochen gave Jiang Yi drugged wine and tried to kiss him, but he had pretended to pass out and pinned her down instead.
• Jiang Yi teased Ling Luochen about her unusual cultivation method, and they spent the night together after she discovered Xixi's guide and potions were fake.
• At dawn, Jiang Yi and Ling Luochen joined the others at Shrek Academy's plaza, where Xixi realized her plan had worked and Ling Luochen confronted her.
• Xuan Zi arrived with a refined middle-aged man and led the group out of the academy on foot, calling the journey training while praising the Shrek Inspectorate.
• Wu Feng watched the group depart, while Bei Bei, Dai Huabin, and Xu Sanshi encouraged one another to represent the academy in five years.

Shrek’s team reached the western border of the Star Luo Empire and met Duke White Tiger Dai Hao, whose bruised face revealed that someone had beaten him. Huo Yutong struggled to face her father, while Dai Hao questioned Dai Yueheng about whether he or Huabin had offended anyone.

• Du Leisi silenced two guards gossiping about Dai Hao’s recent humiliation, then led the White Tiger Guard to meet the approaching visitors.
• Jiang Yi and Tang Wutong arrived with the Shrek teams, and Dai Yueheng reunited with Du Leisi before leading everyone into the military camp.
• Huo Yutong recognized Dai Hao as the father who had abandoned her mother, but Jiang Yi steadied her and concealed her distress.
• Dai Hao welcomed the Shrek students and arranged for them to receive information about the Hand of Death and lodging for the night.
• After the others left, Dai Hao asked Dai Yueheng whether he and Huabin had offended anyone, and Dai Yueheng admitted that Huabin had caused trouble at the academy.

Huo Yutong found comfort in Jiang Yi and the others while struggling to look beyond revenge, and the Shrek students set out to hunt Evil Soul Masters in the Mingdou Mountain Range. After Wang Yan was ambushed and captured by the Death God Envoy, the Shrek group rushed toward the screams as the enemy prepared to use him as bait.

• Huo Yutong confided her emptiness to Electrolux, then felt needed when Jiang Yi asked her to grill chicken legs with him.
• Jiang Yi and Tang Wutong ate forty-eight chicken legs together while Huo Yutong found a little warmth among her companions.
• Ma Xiaotao led the Shrek students into the Mingdou Mountain Range, where Dai Yueheng praised Dai Hao and Huo Yutong privately rejected his claims of devotion.
• After Wang Yan screamed nearby, Ma Xiaotao organized the group to move toward him while Xuan Zi followed behind.
• The Death God Envoy tortured the captured Wang Yan and used his screams to lure the Shrek students closer so he could make more corpse slaves.

Ma Xiaotao and the others pursued the Hand of Death into its cave hideout, where they found evidence of horrific slaughter and attacked the Evil Soul Masters. After rescuing Wang Yan, they learned the group had walked into a trap, and the corpses around them began exploding.

• Tian Meng used Spirit Detection to guide Ma Xiaotao and the others as they chased the Hand of Death to its cave.
• The group found the cave filled with mutilated corpses, and Huo Yutong performed a requiem for the dead.
• Ma Xiaotao and the others charged deeper into the cave and killed the Hand of Death members they encountered.
• Ning Tian spotted Wang Yan bound to a pillar, and Yao Haoxuan rescued him and revived him.
• Wang Yan warned that they were trapped as the corpses on the stone island glowed red and detonated.

A corpse-explosion ambush left Shrek’s main team devastated, but Jiang Yi protected the others and killed the Death God Envoy. With Xuan Zi gone, Jiang Yi led the remaining students to camp for the night, while Snow Empress prepared to infiltrate them despite her unstable transformation.

• Several hundred corpses exploded in the cavern, and Jiang Yi used Eternal Freeze Domain to protect Ling Luochen and Xixi while the blast gravely wounded Dai Yueheng and Chen Zifeng and injured others.
• Xuan Zi caught the Death God Envoy, but the envoy used Wang Yan’s corpse to distract him and then attacked Huo Yutong; Jiang Yi stopped him, and Huo Yutong absorbed him with her undead vortex.
• Xuan Zi suppressed Wang Yan’s corpse explosion, carried the injured away, and appointed Jiang Yi captain of the remaining students for the upcoming competition.
• Jiang Yi and the others made camp for the night, while Snow Empress emerged from hiding and began sneaking toward them after shrinking into a child.

Jiang Yi encouraged Ma Xiaotao after the failed mission, and their exchange turned intimate. Meanwhile, the Snow Empress came to rescue the Ice Empress, only to learn that the Ice Empress had chosen Jiang Yi as her master.

• Jiang Yi arranged for the Ice Empress and Tian Meng to keep watch before checking on Ma Xiaotao.
• Jiang Yi scolded Ma Xiaotao for dwelling on the failed mission and urged her to focus on winning the championship.
• Ma Xiaotao asked Jiang Yi to use his Ultimate Ice to suppress her Evil Fire, and the two became intimate.
• The Snow Empress sneaked into camp and tried to attack the barracks after sensing the Ice Empress's Ultimate Ice aura.
• The Ice Empress stopped the Snow Empress's attack and took her into the forest to talk.
• The Snow Empress asked why the Ice Empress had not let her kill Jiang Yi, and the Ice Empress said he was her master.

Ice Empress tried to convince Snow Empress that Jiang Yi treated her sincerely, but Snow Empress refused to join him and left after briefly restraining Ice Empress. Later, Jiang Yi treated Ma Xiaotao, while Ning Tian approached Tang Wutong and revealed a familiar, teasing side that made Tang Wutong recognize her as Ning Auntie.

• Ice Empress told Snow Empress that Jiang Yi treated her sincerely and invited her to come to his side, but Snow Empress refused, believing Ice Empress had been brainwashed.
• Snow Empress attacked Ice Empress and held her in place, but released her after Ice Empress insisted she would not leave Jiang Yi; Snow Empress then vanished into the forest.
• Tian Meng watched the sisters' secret meeting and gleefully noted that Ice Empress would be in trouble for hiding it from Jiang Yi.
• Jiang Yi used Soul Power containing Ultimate Ice on Ma Xiaotao, then left her to recover as she continued to feel the effects of her Evil Fire.
• Ning Tian arrived beside Tang Wutong, enclosed them in a barrier with her Nine Treasures Glazed Tower, and teased her until Tang Wutong recognized her as Ning Auntie.

Ning Rongrong comforted Tang Wutong while possessing Ning Tian, then returned to the residence and was mistaken by Jiang Yi for Ning Tian acting out a role-play. The chapter left Ning Rongrong embarrassed and stuck in the misunderstanding as Jiang Yi continued treating her as Ning Tian.

• Ning Rongrong revealed to Tang Wutong that she had come to investigate the Love God's fall and was using Ning Tian's body because her true body had encountered trouble.
• Ning Rongrong reassured Tang Wutong that her parents in the God Realm were likely safe, comforted her, and told her stories until she fell asleep.
• Ning Rongrong returned to the residence in Ning Tian's body, where Jiang Yi suddenly kissed her and pinned her against a Blue Silver wall.
• Ning Rongrong tried to send Jiang Yi away by pretending to feel unwell, but he pressed her against a Blue Silver door and continued their intimacy.
• Jiang Yi called her Rongrong and mentioned Oscar, prompting Ning Rongrong to reveal her divine aura and demand to know whether Ning Tian had told him her identity.
• Jiang Yi dismissed her concern as convincing role-play, leaving Ning Rongrong stunned that he thought she was pretending to be her ancestor.

Jiang Yi’s group continued toward the tournament after a night at camp, while Mu En returned to Shrek Academy with a captured Hell Demon Dragon and assigned Xuan Zi to guard it. Mu En also put Xian Lin'er in charge of teaching Jiang Yi Soul Tools and ordered the Soul Tool Department to seek an exchange with Sun Moon Royal Academy.

• Jiang Yi acted as Tang San with Ning Rongrong, and she eventually stopped resisting, treating the encounter as a dream because neither of them was the real person.
• The next morning, Jiang Yi ate breakfast with the group, then summoned Xiao Lan to carry them onward.
• At Sea God Pavilion, Xuan Zi tried to resign after another disastrous mission, but Mu En ordered him to raise soul beasts instead.
• Mu En bound the captured Hell Demon Dragon with golden chains and sent it into Shrek’s Soul Hunting Forest for Xuan Zi to guard.
• Mu En declined to send more elite disciples to the tournament, appointed Xian Lin'er as the reserve team’s supervising mentor, and assigned Jiang Yi to study Soul Tools under her.
• Mu En told Xian Lin'er to submit an exchange application to Sun Moon Royal Academy after the tournament, and she gladly agreed.

Jiang Yi and the Shrek team arrived in Star Luo City for the tournament, where Xian Lin'er announced their lineup and gave Jiang Yi command. She then privately tried to persuade him to join the Soul Tool Department, leaving his decision unresolved.

• Jiang Yi brought the group into Star Luo City and led them to their suite at the Star Emperor Grand Hotel.
• Xian Lin'er greeted the team and announced that the seven reserve members would replace Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, and Xixi as main contestants, while the three would serve as substitutes.
• Xian Lin'er put Jiang Yi in charge of the tournament's decisions and offered academy funding for Soul Tools.
• Xian Lin'er pulled Jiang Yi into her room and urged him to join the Soul Tool Department, promising personal instruction and a leadership position.

Jiang Yi agreed to join the Soul Tool Department, then took his teammates to Star Luo City's lantern festival. After they returned to the hotel, Tang Wutong ate a huge pile of snacks and argued with Jiang Yi over his teasing.

• Jiang Yi agreed to join the Soul Tool Department after Xian Lin'er offered him the dean position, and he flattered her before leaving.
• Jiang Yi joined Xiao Xiao, Tang Wutong, and Huo Yutong for the lantern festival, where Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan also came along.
• Jiang Yi bought six Sea God lanterns, and the group wrote wishes on them before releasing them into the sky.
• The six returned to the hotel after exploring the festival, and Tang Wutong ate a huge pile of snacks.
• Jiang Yi teased Tang Wutong about her appetite, and she retorted that he was the real bottomless pit.

Jiang Yi took Huo Yutong to visit her mother’s grave outside Star Luo City, where she shared her experiences and found comfort in his care. Meanwhile, Meng Hongchen recognized Jiang Yi in Shrek’s team information and became infatuated with him.

• Jiang Yi noticed Huo Yutong was missing her mother and carried her out of the hotel for a nighttime ride.
• Meng Hongchen saw Jiang Yi carrying Huo Yutong beneath the moon and fantasized about him being her heroic lover.
• Xiao Hongchen brought Meng Hongchen Shrek’s team information, and she recognized Jiang Yi as the team captain and hurried to the meeting.
• Huo Yutong knelt at Huo Yuner’s grave and told her about the past year while Jiang Yi waited nearby.
• Huo Yutong thanked Jiang Yi, called him her Third Brother, and flew back with him, resolved to live well for her mother.

Jiang Yi led Shrek Academy to a shocking opening victory at the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament by disguising his team as seven Title Douluos with nine white soul rings each. Their instant defeat of Heavenly Soul Academy left rival academies guessing about Shrek’s real strength, while Xiao Hongchen noticed his younger sister had disappeared.

• Jiang Yi held back Ma Xiaotao, Ning Tian, and Ling Luochen, then took Tang Ya, Jiang Nannan, Tang Wutong, and Xixi onto the stage for Shrek’s opening match.
• Jiang Yi’s team revealed nine white soul rings apiece, stunning the crowd and Heavenly Soul Academy’s contestants.
• Jiang Nannan and the others swiftly knocked all seven Heavenly Soul Academy members out of the arena, eliminating them.
• The crowd celebrated Shrek’s victory while rival academies speculated about the team’s true abilities and the hidden soul rings.
• Xiao Hongchen noticed his younger sister was missing, while a white-haired loli secretly followed Jiang Yi’s team back toward the hotel.

Meng Hongchen fell in love at first sight with Jiang Yi, while Ma Xiaotao went to his room seeking help with her Evil Fire and found herself hiding under his bed as he arrived with Ling Luochen. The chapter left Jiang Yi preparing to cultivate with Ling Luochen using a new method, unaware that Ma Xiaotao was listening beneath them.

• Meng Hongchen rushed toward Jiang Yi, but Xiao Hongchen stopped her and confiscated the romance novels she had been carrying.
• Meng Hongchen later bought a new novel from a mysterious merchant in the hotel restroom.
• Ma Xiaotao, struggling to suppress her Evil Fire, went to Jiang Yi's room and hid under the bed when she heard him approaching with Ling Luochen.
• Ling Luochen told Jiang Yi that she and Ma Xiaotao had become enemies after Ma Xiaotao misunderstood her refusal to help suppress the Evil Fire.
• Jiang Yi said Ma Xiaotao had misunderstood and promised Ling Luochen a new method to speed up her absorption of his ice attribute.

Jiang Yi helped Ling Luochen absorb Mysterious Ice Dew, while Ma Xiaotao secretly listened and Snow Empress watched the hotel, determined to rescue Ice Empress. As the tournament advanced, Xu Jiujiu traded intelligence plans against Shrek and Sun Moon Royal Academy grew confident that Shrek’s team could be beaten.

• Jiang Yi applied Mysterious Ice Dew to Ling Luochen and used Soul Power to keep its icy medicinal force from overwhelming her.
• Ma Xiaotao overheard them from under the bed, retreated without confronting them, and left to fetch Soul Tools.
• Snow Empress watched the hotel, vowed to rescue Ice Empress, and was observed by a suspicious old woman.
• Xu Jiujiu learned Shrek’s main team had been injured, then ordered her maid to offer Sun Moon Royal Academy intelligence in exchange for Soul Tools.
• Shrek advanced through the first round with overwhelming victories, while Sun Moon Royal Academy’s reserve team also swept its matches.
• Ma Rulong told Xiao Hongchen that their intelligence showed Shrek had only one Soul Emperor and two Soul Kings, raising their hopes of defeating them.

Jiang Yi and Tian Meng completed the Thousand Mechanisms Umbrella, a Soul Tool combining Tang Sect hidden weapons with Soul Tool mechanisms. Jiang Yi showed it to Xian Lin'er and asked how Shrek could catch up to the Sun Moon Empire in Soul Tools.

• While Xian Lin'er waited outside the forging room, Jiang Yi relaxed as Ice Empress massaged his back and kept quiet about Snow Empress.
• Tian Meng finished the icy-blue Thousand Mechanisms Umbrella, which transformed into eighteen forms and fired hidden weapons such as Dragon Whisker Needles and Rainstorm Pear Blossom Needles.
• Jiang Yi emerged and showed Xian Lin'er how the umbrella worked, explaining that it combined Tang Sect hidden weapons with Soul Tools.
• After testing the umbrella, Xian Lin'er recognized its connection to Tang Sect hidden weapons, and Jiang Yi asked how Shrek could catch up to the Sun Moon Empire in Soul Tools.

Jiang Yi persuaded Xian Lin'er that Shrek should combine Tang Sect Hidden Weapons with Soul Tools to compete in accessible, mid- and low-level weaponry, and she agreed to join the Tang Sect as his student. After their discussion, Xian Lin'er privately doubted that Jiang Yi could truly care for a woman decades older than him.

• Jiang Yi explained that Shrek lacked mid- and low-level Soul Tools and showed Xian Lin'er how the Thousand Mechanisms Umbrella could help close the gap with the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xian Lin'er worried that Tang Sect Hidden Weapon techniques could not be shared, but Jiang Yi said Xiao Ya had agreed to teach some mechanical techniques and invited her to join the Tang Sect.
• Xian Lin'er bowed to Jiang Yi as her teacher, while asking to remain his senior sister outside the Tang Sect; he began explaining the umbrella's mechanisms to her.
• After discussing the design, Jiang Yi left to help Tang Ya prepare for the tournament, and Xian Lin'er watched him go with affection before telling herself she was too old for him to like her.

Jiang Yi gave Tang Ya a Thousand Mechanisms Umbrella and prepared Shrek Academy for the round-robin stage of the tournament. After intimidating Xiao Hongchen into revealing that Star Luo had exposed Shrek’s strength, he left Tang Wutong to verbally defeat him.

• Jiang Yi presented Tang Ya with the Thousand Mechanisms Umbrella, and she eagerly tested its Tang Sect Hidden Weapons.
• Xixi explained the round-robin match formats as Shrek Academy prepared for its first match of the stage.
• Jiang Yi said Ling Luochen was in seclusion and assigned Xiao Ya to start if Shrek drew a one-on-one match.
• Jiang Yi used his Domination Domain and icy pressure to force Xiao Hongchen to reveal that Star Luo had told Sun Moon Royal Academy about Shrek’s strength.
• Tang Wutong mocked Xiao Hongchen over Sun Moon Royal Academy’s history against Shrek until he collapsed, and a white-haired girl emerged and found him in the hallway.

Tang Ya entered the team battle against Yunluo Academy alone and used the Thousand Mechanisms Umbrella to defeat all seven opponents, revealing it as a Tang Sect Soul Tool developed with Shrek's Soul Tool Department. The demonstration stunned the spectators and Sun Moon Royal Academy, leaving Shrek's rivals to reconsider its strength.

• Jiang Yi drew a team battle against Yunluo Academy, and Shrek sent Tang Ya onto the stage alone.
• Tang Ya used Blue Silver Grass and the Thousand Mechanisms Umbrella's hidden weapons to defeat all seven Yunluo Academy members in moments.
• After Yunluo Academy's captain asked what had defeated them, Tang Ya announced that the umbrella was a new Tang Sect Soul Tool developed on the foundation of Hidden Weapons.
• Xian Lin'er praised Tang Ya and Shrek's Soul Tool Department, making the announcement audible to the audience and other academies.
• Xiao Hongchen and the Sun Moon Royal Academy team realized the umbrella's transformations and low Soul Power requirements could challenge their assumptions about Shrek's Soul Tool technology.

After Tang Ya won her match with help from Jiang Yi’s Thousand Mechanisms Umbrella, Xian Lin'er treated the team to a feast and tried to recruit them into the Soul Tool Department. Tang Ya agreed to join and work on Hidden Weapons, while the others declined or were overlooked, including Xixi.

• Xu Jiawei asked Xu Jiujiu how confident she was against Shrek, and she said her confidence rose from fifty to ninety percent if they used the Nine-Turn Soul Transformation Instrument.
• Tang Ya returned to the rest area after winning her match and credited Jiang Yi’s Thousand Mechanisms Umbrella for making the victory easier.
• Xian Lin'er took the team to Oscar Restaurant for a celebratory feast, where Xixi ate her fill while remaining overlooked by the others.
• Xian Lin'er offered to establish a Hidden Weapon research branch for Tang Ya and Jiang Yi, and Tang Ya agreed to join the Soul Tool Department.
• Ning Tian, Jiang Nannan, and Xiao Xiao declined Xian Lin'er's recruitment offer, while Xixi was forgotten again.

Xian Lin'er urged the students to adapt to Soul Tools, and Jiang Yi found the badly injured Snow Empress in his room, leaving Ice Empress scrambling to explain herself. Meanwhile, Gu Yuena completed her transformation into a human and prepared to enter the God Realm, but an urgent report said Aunt Zi had been taken by a white-bearded old man.

• Xian Lin'er explained that Soul Masters needed to adapt to Soul Tools and offered to take everyone to an auction the next day.
• Jiang Yi found the unconscious, injured Snow Empress in his room, and Tian Meng sealed the room off with her spiritual power.
• Ice Empress panicked over Snow Empress's injuries, then turned to find Jiang Yi and Tian Meng watching her and demanding an explanation.
• Gu Yuena transformed into a silver-haired girl after surviving a heavenly lightning tribulation and told Di Tian she would enter the God Realm to rescue someone.
• A golden streak arrived and reported to Di Tian that Aunt Zi seemed to have been taken away by a white-bearded old man.

Di Tian learned that Zi Ji had been captured by Shrek, but Gu Yuena stopped him from attacking and decided to rescue her herself. Meanwhile, Snow Empress recovered in Star Luo City, and Jiang Yi told Ice Empress to leave and return to her friend.

• Three-Eyed Golden Lion told Di Tian that a light dragon claw had taken Zi Ji, and Scarlet King admitted that Shrek had overpowered him.
• Di Tian summoned Bear Lord, who confessed he had neglected his duties and begged Gu Yuena for mercy.
• Gu Yuena sensed that Zi Ji was alive, prevented Di Tian from launching a beast tide, and said she would go rescue her herself.
• Tian Meng and Ice Empress resealed Snow Empress's rampaging origin power and helped her recover.
• Ice Empress confessed to Jiang Yi that she had left to help Snow Empress, and Jiang Yi comforted her before telling her to leave.

Jiang Yi manipulated Ice Empress into staying with him and used her concern for Snow Empress to draw her into his plan. Snow Empress woke to find Ice Empress missing and, mistaking what she heard behind a barrier for torture, prepared to intervene before Jiang Yi confronted her.

• Jiang Yi offered Ice Empress her freedom and told her to return to the Far North with Snow Empress, but Ice Empress refused to leave him.
• Ice Empress insisted that she and Snow Empress stay together, and Jiang Yi hinted he could make Snow Empress remain if Ice Empress accepted a hardship.
• Jiang Yi carried Ice Empress away, and Tian Meng joined him as Snow Empress slept nearby.
• Snow Empress woke, realized her origin power had been sealed, and discovered a spiritual barrier around the bathroom.
• Snow Empress heard Ice Empress pleading and whip cracks inside the bathroom, then tried to break in before Jiang Yi greeted her from behind.