Chapter Summaries

The Shrek group reached the western border and met the exhausted White Tiger Duke, Dai Hao, whose grief over his murdered son reminded Huo Yuhao that Dai Hao knew of his younger half-brother but not him. With Liu Yuan’s help, Huo Yuhao calmed himself and turned cold toward Dai Hao, rejecting him as a father.

• Xiao Xiao teased and fed Wang Dong'er while she wore Soul Tools to cope with her psychological illness.
• Liu Yuan and Huo Yuhao explained Wang Dong'er's condition, and Yao Haoxuan asked Liu Yuan for dating advice before Ma Xiaotao and the others mocked him.
• Xuan Zi brought the group to the western border, where they met Dai Hao and learned that his second son had been murdered, likely by the Hand of Death bandits.
• Wang Dong'er tried to comfort Huo Yuhao by noting that Dai Hao knew he had three sons, but Huo Yuhao revealed that Dai Hao also knew about a fourth son younger than him.
• Liu Yuan calmed Huo Yuhao, who steadied himself and decided he no longer needed Dai Hao as a father.

The Shrek teams raided the Hand of Death bandits’ cave, but a hidden Titled Evil Soul Master ambushed them and severely damaged the Main Selection Team’s Spirit Seas before Xuan Zi drove him off. The chapter ended with Xuan Zi taking the injured seniors back for treatment and ordering the Reserve Team to continue to Star Luo City.

• Dai Yaoheng dismissed Liu Yuan’s caution as the Shrek Inspectorate entered the bandits’ cave, where Liu Yuan’s team found evidence of the bandits’ atrocities and fought their way inward.
• Liu Yuan removed most of the corpses before the Death Messenger detonated them, reducing the blast and helping the Main Selection Team survive.
• Dai Yaoheng attacked the Death Messenger to avenge his brother, but a hidden Titled Evil Soul Master struck him unconscious and threatened the other Shrek students.
• Ma Xiaotao and Liu Yuan raised defenses against the Titled Evil Soul Master, but his maggots shattered them before Xuan Zi arrived and forced the enemy to flee.
• Liu Yuan discovered that the Main Selection Team members had suffered severe Spirit Sea damage, with Dai Yaoheng’s condition the worst.
• Xuan Zi took the injured students back to Shrek for treatment and told Wang Yan to lead the Reserve Team to Star Luo City once Ma Xiaotao woke.

After the Reserve Team survived a disastrous encounter with a Titled Douluo-level Evil Soul Master, Xuan Zi faced punishment for failing to protect Shrek’s students. Mu En ordered him to resign from his posts, guard Liu Yuan from then on, and cut off one finger.

• Liu Yuan reassured the Reserve Team, while Di Qiu'er promised to take the field and defeat their opponents.
• Xuan Zi arrived at the military camp with six unconscious Inner Court students, and Dai Hao learned that the Hand of Death had a Titled Douluo-level Evil Soul Master.
• Xuan Zi told Dai Hao that Dai Yaoheng would likely never wake again, then left the camp as Dai Hao ordered the news sealed.
• Xuan Zi knelt before the Golden Ancient Tree, and Mu En summoned him to account for the mission's disastrous outcome.
• Xuan Zi accepted responsibility and asked to resign from every academy post; Mu En agreed on the condition that he protect Liu Yuan at all times.
• Mu En ordered Xuan Zi to cut off one of his fingers.

Mu En punished Xuan Zi, rejected efforts to prioritize tournament prestige over the Inspection Team’s duties, and promised heavy compensation to the injured students. In Star Luo City, Liu Yuan and the Reserve Team prepared for the tournament, confident they could win without reinforcements.

• Xuan Zi severed his little finger as punishment, and Mu En ordered him to return to Star Luo City while warning him to protect the students.
• Mu En rebuked Yan Shaozhe for putting Shrek’s tournament glory ahead of its duties and sent him away from the Sea God Pavilion.
• Mu En ordered spiritual-power treasures and ten-thousand-year head spirit bones for the six injured students, and arranged compensation for Yue Heng’s family.
• At the Star Emperor Hotel, Wang Yan rejected Ma Xiaotao’s offer to fight before she had recovered, while Liu Yuan assured him that he and Di Qiu'er could handle the tournament.
• Di Qiu'er volunteered to take on the opening team battle alone, but Liu Yuan said he would make a move if the opposing team consisted of Soul Ancestors.

Liu Yuan led Shrek Academy’s Reserve Team into the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament, where they faced Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy in the opening match. Liu Yuan defeated the entire opposing team with one move, leaving Shrek’s tournament run underway.

• Shrek Academy’s Reserve Team arrived at Star Luo Square, where they spotted Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy and drew its team’s hostile attention.
• The Star Luo Emperor opened the tournament, and Shrek was announced as the opponent for Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy in the first match.
• Liu Yuan led Shrek’s seven contestants onto the arena, drawing recognition from Xu Jiawei and puzzlement from Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy over Shrek’s formation.
• After the match began, Liu Yuan used Light Energy Aggregation as Tianling’s team attacked him, while Shrek’s other six members held back.
• Liu Yuan unleashed Nine-Curved Vine Dragon, Imperial Extreme Nine Palaces, and his Vine Dragons swallowed all seven opponents, annihilating Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy in one move.

Liu Yuan led Shrek to an effortless elimination-round victory, then drew the attention of Xiao Hongchen while touring Star Luo City with Wang Dong'er and Di Qiu'er. Three days later, Di Qiu'er began Shrek's round-robin match against Yunluo Advanced Soul Engineer Academy by knocking out its first fighter without summoning her Martial Soul.

• Liu Yuan defeated all seven Tianling Academy fighters in one move, securing Shrek's elimination-round victory.
• Wang Dong'er persuaded Liu Yuan to tour Star Luo City with her and Di Qiu'er, while Xiao Xiao took Huo Yuhao elsewhere with Bei Bei and He Caitou left behind.
• Xiao Hongchen confronted Liu Yuan and declared him the only Shrek Reserve Team member worthy of being his opponent, but Liu Yuan dismissed him.
• Shrek advanced to the round robin and faced Yunluo Advanced Soul Engineer Academy; Di Qiu'er volunteered to fight all seven opponents alone.
• Di Qiu'er defeated Ma Yingjun with a single strike from the Golden Dragon Spear, knocking him unconscious.

Di Qiu'er overwhelmed Yunluo Academy with her Golden Dragon Spear and bare-handed strength, defeating its contestants one after another. She finished captain Situ Yu by smashing through his Soul Tool artillery, leaving Shrek with six victories and Yunluo's team defeated.

• Di Qiu'er instantly defeated Ma Yingjun, shattered his Soul Tool shield, and challenged Yunluo Academy's next contestant.
• Yunluo's captain sent six more students against Di Qiu'er, and she defeated them in no more than three moves each.
• The referee announced Shrek's six victories, and Yunluo captain Situ Yu introduced himself before the final match began.
• Situ Yu unfolded his Soul Tool artillery platform and launched a barrage of shells that covered the arena.
• Di Qiu'er charged through the bombardment, punched apart Situ Yu's cannon beam, and sent him crashing into the protective barrier.

Di Qiu'er defeated Situ Yu, and Shrek’s team watched the tournament while worrying about the strength of their rivals. Xuan Zi arrived without reinforcements, then forced Star Luo Emperor Xu Jiawei to publicly explain Shrek’s losses and vowed to let Star Luo Royal Academy pursue the championship.

• Di Qiu'er defeated Situ Yu, and Ma Rulong recognized that she was only a Soul Ancestor before Xiao Hongchen declared that Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy would still win the tournament.
• Bei Bei and the others watched the day’s matches and worried that rival teams could overwhelm Shrek if they restrained Ma Xiaotao, Liu Yuan, and Di Qiu'er.
• Xuan Zi appeared on the rooftop without reinforcements, explained Mu En’s decision, and told the students to do their best without surrendering.
• Xuan Zi stopped Xu Jiawei’s carriage, overpowered Cheng Gang, and demanded that the Star Luo Emperor publicly explain Shrek’s losses after the round-robin matches.
• Xu Jiawei agreed, then ordered Huang Jinxu to train Jiujiu and the others so Star Luo Royal Academy could seize the championship from Shrek.

With no reinforcements coming, Wang Yan briefed Shrek’s team and agreed to let Ma Xiaotao compete once. Liu Yuan and the others received an invitation to the Starlight Auction House from Xu Jiujiu, while Ma Xiaotao suspected the princess had come to assess their strength and chose to enter seclusion.

• Xuan Zi told Wang Yan that the Sea God Pavilion would send no reinforcements, and Wang Yan analyzed the tournament intelligence for Liu Yuan and the others.
• Ma Xiaotao insisted on competing once during the round robin, and Wang Yan agreed to let her go all out in that match.
• Xu Jiujiu met Liu Yuan and Di Qiu'er in the corridor and handed Liu Yuan an invitation to the Starlight Auction House.
• Liu Yuan introduced Xu Jiujiu as the Star Luo Emperor’s youngest sister, and Ma Xiaotao bluntly dismissed her after she delivered the invitation.
• Ma Xiaotao suspected Xu Jiujiu had come to probe Shrek’s strength, declined to join the others at the auction, and decided to enter seclusion.

Liu Yuan bought the cursed Spirit-Eating Carving Knife for its Gold of Life, purified it, and fused it into his Martial Soul Natal Weapon. After Electrolux prepared Godheads and explained the power of faith, Liu Yuan used the life energy of his Origin Willow to awaken faith among the undead and began imagining a Tree of Faith spanning countless worlds.

• Liu Yuan surprised the auction hall by buying the Spirit-Eating Carving Knife, then told the Shrek group that its Gold of Life resonated with his Origin Willow.
• Xuan Zi arrived as Liu Yuan’s assigned bodyguard, and Liu Yuan purified the carving knife’s curse with the power of light.
• Electrolux separated the Godheads’ Power of Faith from their Divine Will and laws, then concealed Liu Yuan’s trip to the Undead Demiplane from Xuan Zi.
• Liu Yuan fused the purified Blade of Life into his Martial Soul Natal Weapon, whose surge of vitality matured immortal herbs and blessed the Undead Demiplane’s creatures.
• Electrolux recognized that the undead creatures’ gratitude had produced faith, so Liu Yuan placed Godheads in the Origin Willow Clone and his Martial Soul Natal Weapon to channel it.
• Liu Yuan realized his Martial Soul Natal Weapon might become a Tree of Faith connecting countless worlds, but he needed more Godheads to pursue the idea.

Ma Xiaotao revealed her new Quasi Soul Saint strength as Shrek Academy defeated Qianling Academy, while Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice drew attention. In the next round, Xiao Xiao trapped Zhengtian Academy’s Yang Yifan in her cauldron, and Bei Bei continued fighting Yu Mengdi as she unleashed Angel’s Blessing.

• Ma Xiaotao told Liu Yuan she had advanced to Rank 70 and offered to handle Shrek Academy’s match against Qianling Academy.
• Ma Xiaotao’s overwhelming aura and Phoenix Meteor Shower forced Qianling Academy to lose, while Huo Yuhao suppressed an ice attack with his Ultimate Ice.
• Liu Yuan agreed to give the other Shrek members chances to fight and arranged Bei Bei and Xiao Xiao for the first match against Zhengtian Academy.
• Xiao Xiao stunned Yang Yifan and trapped him under the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron, while Bei Bei kept Yu Mengdi from reaching her.
• Yu Mengdi activated Angel’s Blessing and summoned the faint image of a Six-Winged Angel as her battle with Bei Bei intensified.

Bei Bei and Xiao Xiao led Shrek to victory over Zhengtian Academy, then Liu Yuan and Di Qiu'er decisively defeated its remaining fighters. The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy recognized Shrek’s three Ultimate Martial Soul users as a threat, and Elder Ma proposed using powerful Soul Tools to counter them.

• Bei Bei transformed his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon into a Radiant Sacred Dragon, defeated Yu Mengdi, and joined Xiao Xiao in defeating Yang Yifan to win Shrek’s first match against Zhengtian Academy.
• Ye Wuqing and Tang Xiaolei entered the next match, where Liu Yuan revealed his Ultimate Wood Martial Soul and Di Qiu'er revealed her Golden Dragon Martial Soul, shocking the audience and the observing academies.
• Liu Yuan stopped Ye Wuqing’s close-range attack with a Soul-Breaking Spear, while Di Qiu'er overwhelmed Tang Xiaolei; Ye Wuqing surrendered, and the referee declared Shrek the winner.
• After the match, Liu Yuan and Huo Yuhao noticed the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy watching them, while the Shrek team returned to rest.
• Xiao Hongchen worried about how to face Liu Yuan and Di Qiu'er, and Elder Ma advised the Sun Moon team to counter Shrek with Soul Tools, including Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannonballs.

As Shrek Academy’s reserve team continued winning, Body Sect elders Yu Tao and Lang Ya tried to claim Huo Yuhao as family because of his Body Martial Soul and suspected Ice Jade Scorpion bloodline. Their attempt to take him by force ended when Xuan Zi beat them and sent them away.

• Wang Dong'er defeated a Rank 41 Soul Ancestor, while Di Qiu'er teased her about only winning favorable battles.
• Yu Tao and Lang Ya decided Huo Yuhao belonged with the Body Sect after Lang Ya identified his Spirit Eye and suspected Ice Jade Scorpion bloodline.
• Yu Tao and Lang Ya stopped Shrek’s group and demanded that Huo Yuhao go with them, but Huo Yuhao rejected their claim of kinship and Liu Yuan blocked Yu Tao’s grab.
• Yu Tao struck Wang Yan and insulted his teacher, prompting Liu Yuan to call for Elder Xuan.
• Xuan Zi overwhelmed Yu Tao and Lang Ya, beat them severely, and ordered Shrek’s group to return.

After Shrek’s round-robin matches ended, Wang Yan briefed the team on the knockout rules and their first opponent, Dou Ling Royal Academy. An invitation to a top-tier auction arrived, and Liu Yuan asked whether Shrek could secure more than its fifty million Gold Soul Coins in funding.

• Xiao Xiao broke through to Rank 30 while the team prepared for the knockout stage.
• Wang Yan explained that Shrek would face Dou Ling Royal Academy and outlined the team battle and individual elimination rules.
• Liu Yuan recognized that the upcoming auction could offer the Snow Empress Embryo and considered using Ice Empress’s Soul Bone to approach it safely.
• Qing Ya from Starlight Auction House delivered a top-tier auction invitation, and Wang Yan agreed that the team should attend.
• Wang Yan revealed that the academy had fifty million Gold Soul Coins available, and Liu Yuan asked if they could obtain more.

Liu Yuan sought 200 million Gold Soul Coins from Xuan Zi for the auction, while Xuan Zi arranged with Xu Jiawei to intercept a Level-9 Soul Engineer and seize his Soul Tools. At the Starlight Auction House, Xu Jiujiu opened the auction with the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade as the first lot.

• Liu Yuan asked Xuan Zi for 200 million Gold Soul Coins to prepare for the auction, and Xuan Zi left to find a way to raise the money.
• Liu Yuan and the Shrek group entered Room Seven at the Starlight Auction House, where Qing Ya demonstrated a Light-Guiding Screen powered by ore from the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xuan Zi inspected the auction list and asked Xu Jiujiu about the Hundred-Thousand-Year Humanoid Soul Beast Embryo.
• Xu Jiawei offered Xuan Zi the embryo in exchange for ambushing the Level-9 Soul Engineer escorting it back to the Sun Moon Empire and dividing the captured Soul Tools and technology; Xuan Zi agreed.
• Xu Jiujiu began the auction, surprising the Shrek group, and presented the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade as the first lot.

Liu Yuan and Huo Yuhao warned the Starlight Auction House that the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone could kill anyone without Ultimate Ice, leading the auction house to buy it back for one hundred million Gold Soul Coins. The auction then revealed its finale, a sealed embryo of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, which Liu Yuan was determined to obtain as the bidding began.

• Wang Yan bought an eighth-rank close-combat Soul Tool and twelve sixth-rank Fixed Soul Guidance Cannonballs, while Liu Yuan explained how the Sun Moon Empire might control the sale of Soul Tools.
• Xu Jiujiu presented an Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone, and Liu Yuan warned Qing Ya that anyone without Ultimate Ice who tried to absorb it would explode; Huo Yuhao confirmed the warning with his Ice Jade Scorpion Martial Soul.
• Xiao Hongchen urged the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy to obtain the Soul Bone for Meng Hongchen, but they stopped bidding when the price reached one hundred million Gold Soul Coins.
• Xu Jiawei revealed that the Starlight Auction House had bought back the Soul Bone and decided to keep it for a future exchange with Taotie Douluo.
• Xu Jiujiu unveiled the finale: a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo sealed in a Rank Nine Soul Tool, which could yield a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone or potentially grant a new Martial Soul.

The Starlight Auction House auctioned a Hundred-Thousand-Year Humanoid Soul Beast Embryo, and Xiao Hongchen won it for two hundred million Gold Soul Coins by trading Soul Tools. Elder Ma secretly carried it out of Star Luo City toward the Sun Moon Empire, but a mysterious old man intercepted him.

• Xiao Hongchen persuaded Elder Ma to exchange Soul Tools for funds and bid on the embryo after the auction offered collateral-backed loans.
• Liu Yuan explained the embryo’s potential value to Shrek’s team, while Xuan Zi told him he planned to profit from the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy and secure the embryo for him afterward.
• Xu Jiawei raised the price to squeeze more money from Xiao Hongchen, who finally won the embryo with a bid of two hundred million Gold Soul Coins.
• Xiao Hongchen gave the embryo to Elder Ma and sent him through a secret route to deliver it to his grandfather in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Liu Yuan told Di Qiu'er that someone had already set out, while Elder Ma flew out of Star Luo City with the embryo and a Level 8 Flight Soul Tool.
• A nine-fingered old man appeared beside Elder Ma, and Elder Ma’s three Level 7 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannonballs failed to harm him.

Xuan Zi ambushed Elder Ma, seized the Hundred-Thousand-Year Humanoid Soul Beast Embryo, and delivered it to Liu Yuan, while also bringing Huo Yuhao the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone. Liu Yuan enlisted Electrolux to study the Snow Empress Embryo and sought information about gaining a second Martial Soul; the chapter ended as Shrek Academy prepared to face Dou Ling Royal Academy in the knockout round.

• Xuan Zi defeated Elder Ma, confiscated his Soul Tools and blueprints, and retrieved the Hundred-Thousand-Year Humanoid Soul Beast Embryo before Huang Jinxu arrived with an Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone for Shrek Academy.
• Xuan Zi delivered the Snow Empress Embryo to Liu Yuan, who used his Ice Jade Empress Scorpion Soul Bone, Martial Soul, and Nature Domain to calm the Snow Empress inside the God Sealing Platform.
• Liu Yuan asked Electrolux to research whether the Snow Empress could become his second Martial Soul and form a Self-Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Electrolux took the embryo into the Undead Demiplane.
• Huo Yuhao received the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone, then shared the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's methods for creating a Wisdom Soul Ring and granting a second Martial Soul with Liu Yuan.
• Wang Dong'er and Di Qiu'er bickered over Liu Yuan before the Shrek Academy team headed to Star Luo Square, where it was matched against Dou Ling Royal Academy.
• Wang Yan selected Ma Xiaotao, Liu Yuan, Di Qiu'er, Bei Bei, He Caitou, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong'er for the team battle, while Gu Zhu Jian told Qian Yuan to follow Dou Ling Royal Academy's risky plan.

Xu Jiawei publicly explained Shrek Academy’s losses to Evil Soul Masters before the match, and the Dou Ling Royal Academy faced Shrek with respect. The match began with Ma Xiaotao attacking, but Dou Ling’s team completed a Seven-in-One Fusion Skill and summoned a Soul Douluo-level Dreadclaw Bear Avatar to confront her Phoenix Cloud-Piercing Strike.

• Xu Jiawei told the crowd that Shrek Academy’s Main Selection Team had suffered heavy losses while carrying out an Inspection Team mission against terrifying Evil Soul Masters, prompting cheers for Shrek.
• Liu Yuan realized Xuan Zi had arranged for Xu Jiawei to explain Shrek’s weakened lineup, while Xiao Hongchen and Ma Rulong discussed the academy’s losses.
• Gu Zhu Jian expressed respect for Ma Xiaotao and Shrek before the referee started the match, and Dou Ling’s team formed a circle around Tang Niuniu.
• Ma Xiaotao opened with Phoenix Meteor Shower, while Dou Ling’s team used golden barriers and gathered its Soul Power for a Seven-in-One Fusion Skill.
• Liu Yuan and the Shrek team tried to interrupt the formation, but Dou Ling’s Invincible Barriers held until Ma Xiaotao’s Phoenix Cloud-Piercing Strike broke through them.
• Dou Ling’s team completed its fusion skill, creating a Soul Douluo-level Dreadclaw Bear Avatar that brought its claws down against Ma Xiaotao’s phoenix attack.

Liu Yuan and Wang Dong'er used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Heaven and Earth Great Grinding, to defeat Dou Ling Royal Academy's Seven-in-One Fusion Skill and leave its members unconscious. The chapter ended with Shrek Academy standing victorious, though Liu Yuan and Wang Dong'er were exhausted.

• Ma Xiaotao was defeated by the Dreadclaw Bear Avatar, and a Wood Dragon caught her as she flew backward.
• Xuan Zi told Wang Yan that Liu Yuan and Di Qiu'er still had trump cards, then realized Liu Yuan could also use a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Wang Dong'er.
• Liu Yuan and Wang Dong'er joined forces and transformed into Heaven and Earth Great Grinding as the Dreadclaw Bear Avatar attacked Shrek's team.
• Heaven and Earth Great Grinding crushed the Dreadclaw Bear Avatar into primordial energy and exhausted Gu Zhu Jian and the other seven members of Dou Ling Royal Academy.
• Liu Yuan and Wang Dong'er landed back on the ground, panting, while Dou Ling Royal Academy's unconscious members could not continue the battle.