Chapter Summaries

The Star Luo Imperial Family put a sealed Pure-Blood Fire Dragon egg up for auction, drawing the interest of powerful factions and prompting Shrek Academy to realize it could not compete. The Star Luo Emperor planned to let Mingde Hall win the egg and use the proceeds to fund an operation against it, hoping to delay the Sun Moon Empire.

• Xu Jiujiu announced a viewing period and allowed auction guests to exchange collateral for funds, while Xuan Zi recognized the Fire Dragon egg as an extraordinary prize.
• Xuan Zi concluded that Shrek Academy lacked the funds to compete, and Huo Yuhao reasoned that neither the egg nor the Ice Dragon External Soul Bone would be easy to use.
• Xu Jiujiu told the Star Luo Emperor that Mingde Hall and other factions had exchanged Soul Tools and supplies for auction funds, with Mingde Hall showing the strongest interest.
• Xu Jiujiu explained that Shattering Star Douluo had been badly injured when he tried to chip the Crimson Crystal, and the Star Luo Emperor decided to sell the hazardous egg rather than keep it.
• The Star Luo Emperor ordered Xu Jiujiu to use one hundred million Gold Soul Coins to fund an Adventurer's Guild mission against Mingde Hall in three months, hoping to disrupt the Sun Moon Empire.

The Sun Moon Empire won the auction for the Fire Dragon Egg, triggering a pursuit that ended with Xuan Zi discovering the Soul Engineers had carried a decoy. Meanwhile, Shrek Academy advanced to the tournament’s top four, though Ma Xiaotao’s worsening evil fire left her increasingly dangerous.

• VIP Room No.2, representing the Sun Moon Empire, won the Fire Dragon Egg auction for two hundred million Gold Soul Coins, and rival factions began tracking the group.
• Shrek Academy defeated Heaven Spirit Royal Advanced Soul Master Academy after Ma Xiaotao severely injured its captain, Gu Zhujian, and several other students.
• Huo Yuhao recognized that Ma Xiaotao’s excessive violence likely came from her worsening evil fire, while Wang Yan decided to limit her participation in future matches.
• Shrek Academy defeated a weaker opponent and advanced to the top four of the tournament.
• A group of factions attacked the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineers, but Xuan Zi seized their Storage Soul Tool and discovered it contained decoy Fire Sub-Dragon corpses rather than the Fire Dragon Egg.
• Xuan Zi realized the true holders had escaped by another route and vowed to confront Mingde Hall as the Fire Dragon Egg conflict temporarily subsided.

Huo Yuhao and Shrek Academy learned their semifinal draw had paired them against Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, while Star Luo National Academy defeated Dio Academy to reach the finals. Wang Yan planned Shrek’s tactics and chose to send Ma Xiaotao into battle, and the chapter ended as Shrek and Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy prepared for their team match.

• Huo Yuhao studied Heavenly Fiend Douluo Huang Jinxu and Xu Jiujiu with the Eye of Truth as the four captains drew semifinal lots.
• Xu Jiujiu and Jiang Peng drew Number One, leaving Gongyang Mo and Ma Rulong’s teams to face each other in the semifinals.
• Wang Yan weighed Shrek’s chances against Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and worried about Ma Xiaotao’s unstable condition.
• Xu Jiujiu led Star Luo National Academy to defeat Dio Academy in both the team battle and individual competition, advancing to the finals.
• Wang Yan assigned Shrek’s lineups for the team battle, individual matches, and Two-Two-Three tiebreaker, including Ma Xiaotao in the first match.
• Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy arrived for their semifinal team battle the following day.

Ma Xiaotao opened Shrek Academy’s team battle against Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy with a devastating attack that killed Lin Xi, while Ma Rulong and Xiao Hongchen countered with powerful Soul Tools. As Xiao Hongchen’s cannon barrage threatened Ma Xiaotao, Xu Sanshi switched places with her, and Heavenly Fiend Douluo intervened to save him.

• Ma Xiaotao charged at Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy with several enhanced soul skills and killed Lin Xi after his shield failed to stop her.
• Ma Rulong fired two seventh-rank Soul Tools, injuring Ma Xiaotao slightly and trapping Shrek Academy’s other members in a lightning prison.
• Ma Xiaotao began preparing Phoenix Meteor Shower while Xiao Hongchen amplified 128 fifth-rank Soul Cannons and shattered her attack with their barrage.
• Xu Sanshi used Darkwater Displacement to replace Ma Xiaotao in the bombardment’s path, and Heavenly Fiend Douluo barely blocked Xiao Hongchen’s attack before it hit him.

Ma Xiaotao unleashed a Soul Bone attack that killed two Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy members, but Shrek Academy surrendered and lost the team battle. Huo Yuhao realized Ma Xiaotao had secretly become an Evil Soul Master, while the teams left the arena to prepare for the next day's Individual Elimination Match.

• Ma Xiaotao broke free of the Golden Net and used her evil-energy-filled Right Arm Bone to send a flaming phoenix into the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy formation.
• The phoenix pierced the team's Soul Tool defenses and killed two soul engineers, while Ma Rulong survived after its flames ran out.
• Xixi and the other Shrek Academy members surrendered and left the field, and Heavenly Fiend Douluo declared Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy the winner.
• Huo Yuhao recognized that Ma Xiaotao had used her Soul Bone to contain evil energy and had secretly become an Evil Soul Master.
• After the teams returned to Star Emperor Hotel, Wang Yan arranged Shrek Academy's plans for the next day's Individual Elimination Match and asked Gongyang Mo to urge Ma Xiaotao to restrain herself.

Ma Xiaotao faced Ma Rulong in the Individual Elimination Match as Xuan Zi watched over Shrek Academy. The Sword of Judgment exposed her evil energy, but her power transformed into a stable Dark Phoenix, and she killed Ma Rulong with a concealed Soul Bone Skill.

• Xuan Zi appeared in Shrek Academy's resting area and warned Wang Yan that no one would dare interfere with Ma Xiaotao.
• Ma Xiaotao and Ma Rulong began the match, and Ma Rulong used the Chapter of Sacrifice to wield the eighth-grade Sword of Judgment.
• Ma Rulong's Sword of Judgment drew out the darkness in Ma Xiaotao's evil energy, turning her Phoenix Flames black and exposing her power to the spectators.
• Xuan Zi overwhelmed the venue with his aura and blamed the transformation on the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's Soul Tool.
• Ma Xiaotao's power settled into a stable Dark Phoenix, and she killed Ma Rulong with a concealed Soul Bone Skill.

After Ma Rulong died and Ma Xiaotao was taken away for treatment, Shrek Academy continued the Individual Elimination Match against the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. Meng Hongchen poisoned Ling Luochen and forced Chen Zifeng to concede before her Vermilion Ice Toad, leaving Shrek facing another loss.

• Xuan Zi took Ma Xiaotao and the Sword of Judgment, while the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's Level 9 Soul Engineer carried Ma Rulong's body away and urged Xiao Hongchen to grow stronger.
• Wang Yan sent Ling Luochen to fight Meng Hongchen, who poisoned her and won the match.
• Chen Zifeng attacked Meng Hongchen, but she endured his assault behind an Invincible Shield and made him collapse from poison before he could finish her.
• Wang Yan recognized Meng Hongchen's Martial Soul as the Vermilion Ice Toad and explained that Ling Luochen had not lost unfairly.

Shrek Academy struggled through the Individual Elimination Match against Xiao Hongchen, who defeated Xu Sanshi and forced Jiang Nannan to withdraw before conceding rather than fight Beibei. With Shrek nearly out of fighters, Wang Yan assembled a battered lineup for the Two-Two-Three tiebreaker, which was about to begin.

• Wang Yan sent Xu Sanshi against Xiao Hongchen, but Xiao's Soul Tools overwhelmed him even after Xu awakened his Black Tortoise bloodline, leaving him too injured to fight again.
• Jiang Nannan used her special Soul Skills to challenge Xiao Hongchen, exhausted her soul power, and left the stage after evading his attack.
• Xiao Hongchen conceded the Individual Elimination Match before facing Beibei and told him he would make Shrek Academy lose decisively in the tiebreaker.
• Wang Yan assigned Jiang Nannan and Gongyang Mo to the first two-on-two match, Beibei and Xixi to the second, and Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and Ning Tian to the final three-on-three match.
• Ling Luochen and Chen Zifeng's poison was suppressed but still kept them from fighting, and the Heavenly Fiend Douluo called both teams to begin the first two-on-two match.

Shrek Academy lost the semifinal against Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy after Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Mortal Coil. Sun Moon advanced to the finals, leaving Star Luo National Academy to face the siblings and their devastating power.

• Jiang Nannan and Gongyang Mo exhausted their strength against Xiao Xiafeng and Mijia’s defenses and conceded their match.
• Beibei and Xixi fought Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, with Beibei overextending his Golden Holy Dragon power and collapsing.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen revealed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Mortal Coil, and Xixi charged at them despite the danger.
• Heavenly Fiend Douluo rescued Xixi from Mortal Coil, whose poisons also threatened the arena’s protective shield and its Soul Masters.
• Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy defeated Shrek Academy and advanced to the finals, while spectators wondered whether Star Luo National Academy could stop the Hongchen siblings.

Mu En stopped Xuan Zi from interfering in the tournament and told him Shrek Academy’s young disciples had to face setbacks and grow. After Shrek’s defeat, Wang Yan addressed the crowd, blaming himself and explaining the injuries and losses that had left the team weakened, while Huo Yuhao prepared to leave Star Luo City.

• Mu En sealed Ma Xiaotao’s Soul Power, rebuked Xuan Zi for wanting to overturn the tournament result, and said the young disciples needed to learn from defeat.
• Mu En told Xuan Zi that he and Shaozhe had neglected their duties and shared responsibility for Ma Xiaotao’s condition.
• Wang Yan spoke to the crowd at Star Luo Plaza, apologized for Shrek Academy’s loss, and said its young Reserve Team had competed because the Main Team had been injured by Death God's Emissary.
• Wang Yan recounted the attack and the team’s losses, exaggerating Death God's Emissary’s strength and atrocities while emphasizing the Inner Court Disciples’ courage.
• Death God's Emissary, hiding in Star Luo City, wondered at Wang Yan’s account as he and other Evil Soul Masters sought opportunities to hunt Soul Masters.
• Huo Yuhao prepared to leave Star Luo City, while Mu En took Xuan Zi back to the Academy and worried that Shrek’s glory could become its undoing.

After Shrek Academy’s crushing tournament defeat, Mu En welcomed the returning contestants to the Sea God Pavilion and urged them to overcome their shame and prepare for the next competition. He then offered to personally guide their cultivation until they were ready to return to the Outer Court.

• Wang Yan led Shrek Academy’s group away from Star Luo City after the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy won the championship.
• Xuan Zi brought the contestants to the Sea God Pavilion, where Mu En’s golden light healed their injuries and strengthened their cultivation.
• Mu En told Wang Yan and the returning students that the tournament loss would not bring them punishment, and he dismissed Wang Yan and four Inner Court Disciples.
• Mu En urged the remaining students to reclaim Shrek Academy’s honor at the next tournament in five years.
• Mu En offered to personally guide the students’ cultivation until he judged them ready to return to the Outer Court.

Mu En brought Huo Yuhao and the other six members of the Reserve Team into the Sea God Pavilion’s underground cultivation rooms, promising them resources despite their tournament defeat. Huo Yuhao recognized that the reward tied him more closely to Shrek Academy, and the chapter ended as Dread Dragon skulls tested him with spiritual pressure.

• Huo Yuhao explained why he had not been surprised by Mu En’s hidden abilities, and Mu En led the group through a spatial passage into the Sea God Pavilion’s underground world.
• Mu En revealed that the underground rooms offered special cultivation environments and explained that he was granting the Reserve Team a rare opportunity to develop their potential.
• Mu En hoped the students would overcome their defeat and eventually face the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, while his decision signaled that Shrek Academy was investing in them despite opposition and established practice.
• Mu En assigned each student a cultivation room, and the group entered their rooms as Huo Yuhao worried that Shrek Academy’s support would complicate his plan to leave after the Outer Court.
• Huo Yuhao entered his assigned room, where Dread Dragon skulls surrounded him and unleashed spiritual pressure that barely affected him.

Huo Yuhao analyzed the Dread Dragon skulls’ fear-inducing Spiritual Power and revealed his own power had reached the Tangible but Formless level. Mu En abandoned his attempt to influence him and offered other benefits, and they reached an understanding.

• Huo Yuhao used the Eye of Truth to discover that foreign Spiritual Power carrying fear had been sealed into most of the Dread Dragon skulls and was forced into its targets’ Spiritual Seas.
• Huo Yuhao concluded that his Secondary Awakening had raised his Spiritual Power enough to analyze the Dread Dragons’ ability and that he would not need a Dread Dragon for his Third Soul Ring.
• Mu En put the skulls’ Spiritual Power back to sleep and recognized that Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Power level made his original plan to manipulate him too risky.
• Huo Yuhao confirmed his Body Martial Soul had undergone a Secondary Awakening but refused Mu En’s request to see it, explaining that activating it harmed his vitality.
• Huo Yuhao told Mu En he planned to travel after graduating rather than enter the inner courtyard, and Mu En offered him cultivation benefits and an introduction to the Body Sect.
• Huo Yuhao accepted Mu En’s offer, and the two reached an understanding.

Huo Yuhao entered the Star Dou Great Forest with a Titled Douluo to hunt a powerful Spiritual Attribute Soul Beast for his Third Soul Ring, while concealing the full extent of his strength. As Three-Eyed Golden Lion headed toward the forest’s outskirts, the chapter revealed that fate was drawing her and Huo Yuhao toward their first encounter, though neither knew it.

• Huo Yuhao told the Titled Douluo that he wanted a Spiritual Attribute Soul Beast with at least eight thousand years of cultivation, preferably a Dream-Eating Demonic Bird or Big-Headed Spirit Ape.
• Huo Yuhao concealed that he could absorb a Soul Ring far older than he admitted, limiting what he showed to stay within Mu En’s expectations.
• Huo Yuhao and the Titled Douluo continued deeper into the Mixed Zone to search for a suitable Soul Beast.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion woke hungry and ran from the core region toward the forest’s outskirts, followed by a fiery-red figure.
• The narration revealed that fate was guiding Huo Yuhao and Three-Eyed Golden Lion toward an encounter, though neither understood the forces shaping their paths.

Huo Yuhao found and killed a newly transformed Thousand-Shadow Illusionary Spirit Butterfly, then began absorbing its Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring. A Shrek Titled Douluo drew away the approaching Scarlet King, while Huo Yuhao finished absorbing the ring and awoke to find the Three-Eyed Golden Lion staring at him through his protective shield.

• Huo Yuhao identified a Thousand-Shadow Illusionary Spirit Butterfly by tracking the false Light Dust Butterfly it had created.
• The Shrek Titled Douluo exposed the butterfly's cocoon with Golden Wing Dance, and Huo Yuhao killed the weakened butterfly after it emerged.
• Huo Yuhao began absorbing the butterfly's Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring as the Titled Douluo sensed a powerful Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast nearby.
• The Titled Douluo left Soul Tools around Huo Yuhao and flew off to draw away the approaching Scarlet King, who charged toward him to protect the Emperor Auspicious Beast.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion lost the Ten-Thousand Year Aurora Ape she had been chasing and hurried after Scarlet King; Huo Yuhao completed his absorption and found her watching him through the protective shield.

After becoming a Soul Elder and gaining the Thousand Shadow Illusory Soul, Huo Yuhao encountered the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who had chased down and eaten the Ten-Thousand Year Aurora Ape. Curious about the fate that drew her to him, she used Gaze of Destiny on Huo Yuhao, unaware that his connection to destiny could make the skill dangerous.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion caught the Ten-Thousand Year Aurora Ape, knocked it unconscious, and ate it before noticing Huo Yuhao inside his Soul Tool barrier.
• Huo Yuhao completed his fusion with the Thousand-Shadow Illusionary Spirit Butterfly Soul Ring, reached Level 33, and learned the Thousand Shadow Illusory Soul skill.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion shattered Huo Yuhao's sixth-grade Soul Tool barrier and asked why he was not afraid of her; Huo Yuhao replied calmly while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm panicked and Electrolux offered to take over if danger came.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion studied Huo Yuhao, then fired her Gaze of Destiny at him to inspect and alter his fortune, not knowing the skill could not safely affect someone so closely connected to destiny.

Huo Yuhao’s encounter with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion triggered the Attribute Attraction ritual, letting him absorb much of her fortune and establish a Soul Contract that protected his secrets. He escaped the Star Dou Great Forest with Electrolux’s help and reunited with the Shrek Titled Douluo, while Di Tian learned that the Auspicious Beast had lost half her fortune.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s Gaze of Destiny connected her fortune to Huo Yuhao’s, and the Attribute Attraction ritual began drawing her fortune toward him.
• Huo Yuhao used a Soul Contract prepared with Electrolux’s magic to prevent their deepest memories from merging, while their mental contact exchanged information.
• Electrolux took control of Huo Yuhao and used the Undead Demigod Plane to escape, leaving the dazed Three-Eyed Golden Lion behind.
• Di Tian sensed that the Auspicious Beast had lost half her fortune and ordered Scarlet King to bring her back.
• The Shrek Titled Douluo found Huo Yuhao a hundred li from Shrek City and was relieved that he had survived.

Mu En visited the Body Sect to negotiate an alliance against the Sun Moon Empire, offering Huo Yuhao as a potential disciple in exchange for its support. Du Busi agreed to cooperate in a war but demanded a chance to assess Huo Yuhao and compensation for the resources invested in him.

• Du Busi sensed Mu En entering the Body Sect’s main hall and challenged him over his visit.
• Mu En warned that the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Tools and its possible alliance with Evil Soul Masters threatened both the Body Sect and Shrek Academy.
• Mu En revealed that Huo Yuhao had independently achieved a Second Awakening of his Spirit Eyes, astonishing Du Busi.
• Mu En offered to arrange Huo Yuhao’s willing entry into the Body Sect if it allied with Shrek Academy against the Sun Moon Empire.
• Du Busi agreed to cooperate against the Sun Moon Empire but insisted on meeting Huo Yuhao and negotiating compensation for the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy.
• Mu En left satisfied, while Du Busi remained in the hall, frustrated by the expected cost of the deal.

Tang Ya left Shrek Academy after losing faith in its support for the Tang Sect, while Mu En arranged Huo Yuhao’s transfer to the Body Sect in exchange for resources. Afterward, Jing Hongchen visited Shrek to reclaim the Sword of Judgment, an exchange program was established, and an Evil Soul Master attack left Mu En near the end of his life.

• Tang Ya withdrew from Shrek Academy, and Mu En accepted her departure while considering Beibei’s future and the resources from the Body Sect.
• Mu En presented Huo Yuhao to Du Busi, who examined him, recognized his exceptional potential, and took him away after handing over the agreed resources.
• Jing Hongchen entered Shrek Academy to retrieve the Sword of Judgment, and Mu En confronted him and made him leave something behind for trespassing.
• Jing Hongchen’s departure was followed by a three-year student exchange between Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Evil Soul Masters attacked Shrek City but failed to capture Ma Xiaotao, and the battle nearly exhausted Mu En’s remaining lifespan.

Du Busi brought Huo Yuhao to the Body Sect, where Huo Yuhao demonstrated his Golden-tier Martial Soul Secondary Awakening and its elemental control abilities. Du Busi accepted him as his final disciple and left Long Aotian to train him while he investigated other threats.

• Du Busi brought Huo Yuhao to his private training ground and told him to demonstrate his Martial Soul Secondary Awakening.
• Huo Yuhao used the Eye of Truth to control surrounding elements, unleash numerous attacks, and seal Du Busi inside an Elemental Formation Array before Du Busi broke it.
• Du Busi gave Huo Yuhao pills to recover and instructed him to study the Body Sect's records and develop his Golden-tier Awakening abilities.
• Du Busi named Huo Yuhao his final disciple, introduced him to Long Aotian, and told Long Aotian to train and guide him until the apprenticeship ceremony.
• Du Busi left to investigate the Sun Moon Empire, soul tools, Evil Soul Masters, and the Evil Soul Beast Forest, delighted that Huo Yuhao could inherit the Body Sect's legacy.