Chapter Summaries

Shrek Team’s brutal victory over the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team exposed the contestants’ rapid growth and triggered a dispute over tournament rules. Xue Qinghe appointed Ye Renxin as a healing referee, leaving future teams free to fight without restraint as Shrek returned to its preparation area convinced it had done nothing wrong.

• Mu Ci saw that Yu Tianheng, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun had increased their strength using Thousand-Year Blood Ginseng, which had aged their bones and burned away their potential.
• Xue Ye condemned Shrek Academy’s attack, but Yu Yuanzhen defended Yu Tianheng, and Shrek’s leading teacher refused to admit the team had broken any rules.
• Xue Qinghe asked Ye Renxin to heal the injured Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team, and Ye Renxin restored all seven with his Nine-Heart Begonia martial soul.
• Xue Qinghe appointed Ye Renxin as a specially invited healing referee, and Xue Ye and Yu Yuanzhen agreed that contestants no longer needed to hold back.
• Yu Xiaogang praised Yu Tianheng and insisted to Flender and Liu Erlong that Shrek had violated no rules.

As the tournament preliminaries continued, the Blazing Fire Team prepared to face Shrek Academy while Feng Xiaotian revealed his fiancée and their Martial Soul Fusion Skill. The chapter ended with both teams sizing each other up before the match.

• Qian Renxue arranged for Ye Renxin to serve as a special invited referee, and the organizing committee condemned Shrek Academy's brutal tactics while allowing teams to fight at full strength.
• Yu Tianheng, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun reacted angrily to the announcement, while Flender worried that their tempers were being affected by their Martial Souls.
• Mu Ci met Feng Xiaotian and Yun Wu, learned they possessed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and watched them leave for the preparation area.
• Huo Wu kissed Mu Ci for encouragement before the Blazing Fire Team's match against Shrek Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang warned Tang San that Blazing Fire Academy was a formidable opponent, while Tang San resented Mu Ci and Ma Hongjun and Yu Tianheng voiced confidence in Shrek's three Spirit Kings.

Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang battled the Shrek Team with only the two of them, and Huo Wu revealed her extraordinary awakened strength. The chapter ended with her overpowering Yu Tianheng as Tang San recognized her Silver-Level Second Awakening.

• Yu Xiaogang corrected Yu Tianheng for calling Huo Wu his aunt instead of his grandaunt, and Tang San and Huo Wu introduced themselves before the match.
• Huo Wu sent everyone except Huo Wushuang off the arena and said the two of them would face the Shrek Team alone.
• Huo Wu blocked Yu Tianheng's lightning blade with her bare hand and used Phantom Control to delay Dai Mubai with eight controllable phantoms.
• Huo Wushuang charged at Shrek's rear line with his fifth soul skill, forcing Tang San to reveal his ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring and defend Oscar's group.
• Huo Wu fused with her martial soul through a Silver-Level Second Awakening, boosting her power to the level of a Spirit Emperor and breaking Yu Tianheng's bones with a slight force.

Huo Wu’s Silver-Level Awakening let her overpower Yu Tianheng and Dai Mubai, while Ye Renxin explained the hidden potential of Body Martial Souls to the VIPs. She then broke through Tang San’s attacks and confronted him as Huo Wushuang charged toward Ma Hongjun.

• Huo Wu snapped Yu Tianheng’s bone blades and blasted him from the arena, while begonia petals kept him alive.
• Huo Wu shattered Dai Mubai’s meteor attacks and knocked him unconscious with a kick that broke his arms and chest bones.
• Ye Renxin told Yu Yuanzhen and Ning Fengzhi that Huo Wu’s power came from a secret method awakening the potential of Body Martial Souls.
• Tang San’s distraction let Huo Wushuang burn through his vines, send Xiao Wu and the others flying, and charge at Ma Hongjun.
• Huo Wu destroyed Tang San’s Dark Blue Silver Devouring Formation, confronted him about his questions and familiar stare, and raised her aura with a Soul Bone phantom.

Huo Wu’s awakened power helped Blazing Fire Academy defeat Shrek, and Tang San revealed what he knew about Body Martial Souls while recovering. The preliminaries ended with Skywater Academy set to face Shrek in the final match, which was about to begin.

• Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang stopped attacking after Shrek surrendered, giving Blazing Fire Academy the victory and leaving Tang San and Ma Hongjun badly injured.
• A Nine-Heart Begonia Spirit Master healed the Shrek students, and Tang San explained Body Martial Souls to Yu Xiaogang and the other teachers.
• Mu Ci praised Huo Wu, while she urged Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er to give Shrek a hard match.
• The preliminaries produced five advancing teams: Plant, Skywater, Blazing Fire, Godwind, and Shrek; Thunder Academy had to yield its place.
• The final preliminary draw paired Skywater Academy with Shrek, and the host announced their match before a cheering crowd.

Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er defeated the Shrek Team by immobilizing them with a domain and destroying them with Ultimate Ice. At Shrek Academy, Yu Xiaogang spiraled into despair over his failing theories, then resolved to seek knowledge about Twin Martial Souls from a woman in Spirit City; meanwhile, Tang San visited Moonlight Pavilion to meet its Pavilion Master.

• Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er used the Azure Sea Spirit Wave Domain to slow the Shrek Team, then froze all seven members and shattered them with Ice Explosion Technique.
• Yu Xiaogang raged over his outdated martial soul theories and asked Liu Erlong whether he was truly useless.
• Liu Erlong encouraged Yu Xiaogang to seek strength and reminded him that Tang San might not know everything.
• Yu Xiaogang decided to go to Spirit City and uncover knowledge about Twin Martial Souls from a woman there.
• Tang San arrived at Moonlight Pavilion in Heaven Dou City, revealed his Spirit King power to the guards, and asked to see the Pavilion Master.

Tang San told Tang Yuehua that Tang Hao had been captured by Spirit Hall and urged her to pass information to the Clear Sky Sect. Meanwhile, the Qualifying Tournament began at the Royal Hunting Park, where Mu Ci and Xue Qinghe discussed their plans before Mu Ci headed to his team.

• Tang San revealed to Tang Yuehua that he was Tang Hao’s son and said Spirit Hall had captured his father after Dugu Bo defeated him.
• Tang San told Tang Yuehua that Bibi Dong planned to execute Tang Hao after the tournament finals, then stopped her from rushing back to the sect and asked her to relay information about Xue Qinghe.
• Mu Ci and Xue Qinghe discussed Xue Ye’s expected death, the forces prepared to support Xue Qinghe’s ascent to the throne, and their plans for the tournament.
• The Qualifying Tournament opened as fifteen teams gathered at the Royal Knights’ Grand Drill Ground for a fourteen-round, single-elimination-style series of individual bouts within each team match.
• Mu Ci saw his vice-captain Yan Jing calling him and asked Xue Qinghe whether he needed to visit the VIP stand, where Xue Ye had saved him a seat.

Mu Ci attended the Qualifying Tournament, discussed the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and Martial Soul Evolution Pills with Ning Fengzhi, and learned that Plant Team would face Shrek Team. As the featured match began, Mu Ci prepared to take the field against Tang San’s team.

• Mu Ci checked on Plant Team, learned they had drawn Skywater Academy, and went to the VIP stands while Yan Jing’s group prepared to compete.
• Xue Ye welcomed Mu Ci to the VIP stands, and the Qualifying Tournament began with Blazing Fire Team defeating Fabia Academy after its opponents conceded.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Mu Ci about obtaining Martial Soul Evolution Pills for the Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Mu Ci offered to refine them after the tournament if Ning Fengzhi agreed to certain conditions.
• Shrek Academy drew Plant Academy, and Tang San decided to use the match to gauge Mu Ci’s strength after Yu Xiaogang rejected Oscar’s suggestion to surrender.
• Plant Team drew Shrek Team, and Mu Ci told Yan Jing he would personally compete in the next day’s featured match.
• The second round began, and the final featured match was announced as Plant Team versus Shrek Team.

Mu Ci faced Yu Tianheng in the Spirit Fighting Arena and revealed that his body-controlling Martial Soul Domain let him form bone blades without releasing his Martial Soul or Soul Rings. After decisively defeating and injuring Yu Tianheng, Mu Ci forced Shrek to surrender, and Dai Mubai volunteered to fight next.

• Yu Tianheng challenged Mu Ci instead of surrendering, surprising the spectators who knew Mu Ci had never fought during the preliminary rounds.
• Mu Ci formed jade-white bone blades from his elbows, and Ye Renxin explained that a Martial Soul Domain let Mu Ci control and adjust his body.
• Mu Ci and Yu Tianheng clashed with their bone blades, but Mu Ci's cyan-gold attack overwhelmed Yu Tianheng's purple-black lightning blade and wounded his arms.
• Mu Ci cut off Yu Tianheng's bone blades and held a blade to his neck until Yu Tianheng surrendered.
• Flender urged Shrek to forfeit the next match, but Dai Mubai declared that he would fight.

Mu Ci defeated Dai Mubai with overwhelming physical strength and left Tang San’s Dark Blue Silver Grass powerless, but Tang San feigned surrender and attacked with his Eight Spider Lances. Mu Ci moved behind him at a speed Tang San could barely perceive, preparing to respond.

• Dai Mubai entered the arena, transformed with three Soul Skills, and charged Mu Ci, who matched his size and caught his claws.
• Mu Ci slashed Dai Mubai across the chest and sent him flying, while Flender urged Tang San to withdraw from the match.
• Tang San took the arena and found his Dark Blue Silver Grass unable to respond to Mu Ci’s Cyan-Gold Soul Power.
• Tang San appeared ready to surrender, then revealed his Eight Spider Lances and attacked Mu Ci, hoping to use Devour to steal his talent.
• Mu Ci vanished from Tang San’s sight and appeared behind him as the spectators condemned Tang San’s attack.

Mu Ci crushed Tang San's Eight Spider Lances, forced Shrek Team to concede, and helped Plant Team win the Qualifying Tournament. At the Clear Sky Sect, the elders voted to rescue Tang Hao during the finals to protect his four inherited Spirit Bones.

• Mu Ci snapped Tang San's Eight Spider Lances, then drove him from the arena and challenged Ma Hongjun to continue fighting.
• Flender conceded for Shrek Team, and the referee declared Plant Team the winner.
• Shrek Team surrendered against Tianshui, Blazing Fire, and Godwind, and Xue Ye announced that Xue Qinghe would lead Heaven Dou Empire's teams to Spirit City.
• Tang Yuehua returned to the Clear Sky Sect, where Seventh Elder opposed rescuing Tang Hao and the elders argued over his fate and his four inherited Spirit Bones.
• Tang Xiao called a vote, and five elders approved a plan to rescue Tang Hao on the day of the finals.

Mu Ci revealed that Qian Renxue was the real Crown Prince Xue Qinghe and that he and Qian Renxue planned to take control of the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall after the Elite Tournament. The chapter ended with bandits attacking a carriage and forcing its female passenger to step outside.

• Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect elders agreed to investigate Qian Renxue’s impersonation of Xue Qinghe, with Tang Xiao heading to Spirit City and the Second Elder leading a team to the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Tang Yuehua delivered a cloth bag from Tang San’s child to Tang Xiao, who immediately left to handle urgent matters.
• Mu Ci told his family and allies that the Heaven Dou Empire would come under his and Qian Renxue’s control after the Elite Tournament.
• Qian Renxue revealed her true appearance, and Mu Ci explained that she was Spirit Hall’s young master and the Crown Prince Xue Qinghe everyone knew.
• Mountain bandits stopped a carriage, assaulted its driver, and threatened the woman inside until she came out.

Yu Xiaogang was captured by bandits despite summoning her Dark Demon Dragon, while Dugu Yan broke through to Spirit Emperor during the teams’ journey to Spirit City. Mu Ci took Dugu Yan to Star Dou Forest to find her next soul ring, and Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo arrived at Qian Renxue’s carriage after Dugu Bo left.

• Yu Xiaogang intimidated the bandits with her Dark Demon Dragon, but the leader rallied his men and captured her after a fight.
• The fifteen teams left Heaven Dou City for Spirit City, and Dugu Yan broke through to Spirit Emperor inside the Imperial Dou Team’s carriage.
• Qian Renxue told the group that Hu Liena had already reached Spirit Emperor and would be a major rival in the tournament.
• Mu Ci took Dugu Yan to Star Dou Forest to find a suitable soul beast for her next soul ring.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo arrived at Qian Renxue’s carriage at night, and Dugu Bo left after she told him she would handle them.

Qian Renxue learned that Spirit Hall planned to ambush the tournament teams and ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to recall the attackers. In Star Dou Forest, Mu Ci and Dugu Yan discovered Xiao Wu condensing her Fourth Soul Ring, and Mu Ci captured her just as she tried to leave with Er Ming.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo told Qian Renxue that the Pope had ordered an ambush targeting the Shrek Team, and Qian Renxue ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to call off the attack.
• Mu Ci used his domain to locate a disturbance in Star Dou Forest and brought Dugu Yan toward it, believing he had found a Soul Beast suited to her.
• Mu Ci and Dugu Yan watched Xiao Wu secretly condense her Fourth Soul Ring and learned that she was a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Er Ming arrived after Xiao Wu finished condensing her Soul Ring, and Xiao Wu thanked him before preparing to return to the human world.
• Mu Ci used roots to capture Xiao Wu, then appeared with Dugu Yan as Er Ming roared at him to release her.

Mu Ci defeated the Titan Giant Ape with a single attack while keeping Xiao Wu alive as leverage, and Liu Erlong arrived furious, mistaking him for the one who had taken her daughter. The chapter ended with Liu Erlong demanding Xiao Wu back and threatening Mu Ci.

• The Titan Giant Ape used its Gravity Control Domain, but Mu Ci shielded Dugu Yan and warned the beast that Xiao Wu could be crushed.
• Mu Ci released Xiao Wu from his immediate protection and challenged the Titan Giant Ape to attack him.
• Mu Ci revealed his powerful Soul Rings and fused his first five rings, then overwhelmed the Titan Giant Ape with an azure-gold giant hand.
• Mu Ci and Dugu Yan discussed the gap between the Titan Giant Ape and the Titan Snow Demon King while Xiao Wu remained bound to a tree.
• Liu Erlong flew in, saw Xiao Wu bound to the tree, and angrily accused Mu Ci of taking her daughter.

Mu Ci forced the Sky Azure Bull Python to sacrifice himself for Dugu Yan’s hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, promising to release Xiao Wu and the Titan Giant Ape. As the sacrifice began, Di Tian woke beneath Life Lake, sensed what was happening, and reached toward the surface in alarm.

• Mu Ci explained that Xiao Wu had separated from Liu Erlong to condense her Soul Ring, then revealed that another hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast was approaching.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python arrived and demanded that Mu Ci release Xiao Wu and the Titan Giant Ape, but Mu Ci overpowered him with his Soul Rings and demanded that he sacrifice himself to Dugu Yan.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python agreed to sacrifice himself after Mu Ci threatened to kill all three Soul Beasts and take their Soul Bones.
• Mu Ci told Dugu Yan to accept the sacrifice, and the Sky Azure Bull Python began burning his essence, energy, and spirit as a crimson pillar of light enveloped them.
• Deep beneath Life Lake, Di Tian awoke, saw the sacrifice through the void, and reached toward the surface while shouting for the human to stop.

Dugu Yan received the Sky Azure Bull Python’s sacrifice, greatly strengthening her Abyssal Ancient Dragon Martial Soul, while Mu Ci released Xiao Wu and Er Ming. Er Ming attacked Mu Ci in a final act, prompting Di Tian to intervene, but Mu Ci escaped and left Di Tian and Bi Ji astonished by the power of his Abundant World Tree.

• The Sky Azure Bull Python completed its sacrifice to Dugu Yan, raising her Soul Power to level sixty-five and granting her a Hundred-Thousand-Year Right Arm Bone.
• Dugu Yan explained that the sacrifice had driven her Abyssal Ancient Dragon Martial Soul to its current limit by strengthening its Dragon Race bloodline.
• Mu Ci freed Xiao Wu and Er Ming, then left Star Dou Forest with Dugu Yan after telling Xiao Wu to take her brother and go.
• Er Ming hurled Xiao Wu into the forest and set itself ablaze before charging Mu Ci, who struck it with Spotted Dragon Touch.
• Di Tian emerged through a spatial rift and attacked, but Mu Ci summoned Jianmu True Body to block his claw and fled with Dugu Yan.
• Di Tian and Bi Ji arrived beside the injured Er Ming and sensed the extraordinary status and power of Mu Ci’s Abundant World Tree.

Di Tian questioned Xiao Wu about Mu Ci and decided that Mu Ci might be the key to the Soul Beast master's recovery, while Bi Ji saved Liu Erlong's life. Mu Ci returned to camp with Dugu Yan and her new hundred-thousand-year soul ring, and Liu Erlong later woke alone in the forest.

• Bi Ji healed the dying Titan Giant Ape, and Di Tian forced it and Xiao Wu to explain what they knew about Mu Ci.
• Di Tian concluded that Mu Ci's extraordinary life aura might help the Soul Beast master's recovery and ordered Bi Ji to take Xiao Wu and the Titan Giant Ape to the Core Area; Bi Ji preserved Liu Erlong's life at Xiao Wu's request.
• Mu Ci told Dugu Yan that Di Tian was an eight-hundred-thousand-year-old Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, then returned with her to the convoy carrying her hundred-thousand-year soul ring and soul bone.
• Mu Ci warned the group that Di Tian could likely defeat both Grand Pontiff and Snow Empress, and Snow Empress agreed that the Beast God was formidable.
• Bibi Dong learned that Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo had withdrawn from the ambush, accepted responsibility for the failed plan, and wondered how to face Qian Renxue.
• Liu Erlong recovered enough to leave the pit where she had fallen and called out for Xiao Wu, but no one answered.

After Liu Erlong discovered Xiao Wu was gone, she struggled to leave Star Dou Forest and carry the news back to Shrek. In Spirit City, Mu Ci met with Bibi Dong, confirmed that he and Qian Renxue were together, and was interrupted by Qian Renxue as Bibi Dong asked him to care for her daughter.

• Liu Erlong realized Xiao Wu had been killed or taken by Mu Ci and set out to leave Star Dou Forest to warn Shrek.
• The tournament teams arrived in Spirit City, where the finals began with a knockout round and Mu Ci's team drew a Star Luo Empire team.
• Mu Ci left the Plant Team's area, and Qian Renxue hurried toward Pope Palace after learning where he had gone.
• Mu Ci met Bibi Dong in Pope Palace and learned that the Calming Pills had helped her feel more relaxed.
• Bibi Dong asked whether Mu Ci and Qian Renxue were together, and Mu Ci confirmed that they were.
• Bibi Dong asked Mu Ci to take good care of Qian Renxue, but Qian Renxue arrived and told her to stay out of her affairs.

Mu Ci told Qian Renxue the painful story behind her birth, and her grief triggered a dangerous Martial Soul Reversal that he stopped with his Abundance Domain. Qian Daoliu confirmed Qian Renxue was stable, accepted Mu Ci as her husband, and the story then shifted to the tournament’s round of eighteen.

• Qian Renxue overheard Mu Ci and Bibi Dong speaking, ran off crying, and Mu Ci followed her to comfort her.
• Mu Ci told Qian Renxue that Bibi Dong had once loved Yu Xiaogang and explained how Qian Xunji imprisoned her, forced their separation, and fathered Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue realized her birth was tied to Bibi Dong’s trauma, and her extreme grief began causing a Martial Soul Reversal.
• Mu Ci used his Abundance Domain to purify the harmful power and put Qian Renxue into a deep sleep.
• Qian Daoliu arrived after the Angel God Statue warned him of Qian Renxue’s near-mutation, heard what had happened, and told Mu Ci to call him Grandfather.
• The narration noted that eighteen teams had advanced after the first round and a day of rest.