Chapter Summaries

Shrek Academy advanced to the semifinals after Zhengtian Advanced Soul Master Academy forfeited, then drew Star Luo Royal Academy as its next opponent. The semifinal began with Xu Jiujiu trapping Ma Xiaotao inside an Absolute Defense Soul Tool, where Ma Xiaotao prepared to unleash her fury.

• Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy members discussed the threat posed by Liu Yuan and Wang Dong'er's Martial Soul Fusion Skill after Dou Ling Royal Academy forfeited its individual matches.
• Liu Yuan and Di Qiu'er cultivated together, then Di Qiu'er punished Wang Dong'er for teasing her while Shrek's teammates secretly watched and laughed.
• Wang Yan told Shrek Academy that Zhengtian Advanced Soul Master Academy had forfeited, advancing them to the semifinals, and gave the team information about the other semifinalists.
• The semifinal draw matched Shrek Academy against Star Luo Royal Academy, whose captain Xu Jiujiu claimed her team had a sixty percent chance of winning.
• Xu Jiujiu used an Absolute Defense Soul Tool to trap Ma Xiaotao and her Phoenix Meteor Shower, prompting Ma Xiaotao to cry out in anger.

Shrek Academy battled Star Luo Royal Academy, whose Soul Tools and carefully planned tactics trapped several Shrek fighters and isolated Liu Yuan. Liu Yuan defeated the opposing Soul Kings and broke Star Guardian with the Jupiter God, forcing Xu Jiujiu to surrender and securing Shrek’s semifinal victory.

• Xu Jiujiu used Soul Tools and Star Guardian to split the battlefield, trapping Ma Xiaotao, Di Qiu'er, and Huo Yuhao’s group while surrounding Liu Yuan.
• Liu Yuan summoned a Wood Man and Wood Dragon, overcame Huang Heyun and Dugu Shangshan, and knocked Huang Heyun out of the arena.
• Huo Yuhao froze two wind-and-fire Soul Kings with Eternal Frozen Domain, then collapsed from exhausting his Soul Power.
• Liu Yuan transformed into the Jupiter God and shattered Star Guardian with successive axe strikes.
• Ma Xiaotao and Di Qiu'er broke free of their Soul Tool prisons, and Xu Jiujiu surrendered on behalf of Star Luo Royal Academy.

After Shrek defeated Star Luo Royal Academy, Xu Jiujiu urged Liu Yuan to win the final and Xu Jiawei considered how to secure Shrek’s support. Shrek then faced the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy in the championship match, which began with a barrage of Soul Tools aimed at Shrek’s team.

• Xu Jiujiu congratulated Liu Yuan and wished Shrek luck in the final, while Xu Jiawei realized Liu Yuan and Di Qiu'er might be connected to Shrek’s highest-ranking figures.
• The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy overwhelmed Di'ao Academy, and Ma Rulong’s skill with Soul Tools impressed Liu Yuan and the Shrek team.
• Before the final, Xu Jiawei and Dai Hao watched from the city wall as Liu Yuan reassured Huo Yuhao about his family’s past; Xuan Zi overheard Dai Hao’s doubts about Shrek and grew angry.
• Huang Jinxu announced the final’s rules, and Shrek and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy took their positions at opposite ends of the arena.
• At Huang Jinxu’s command, the Sun Moon team unleashed a sweeping barrage of Soul Power orbs toward Shrek.

Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy fought a fierce team battle, with Liu Yuan, Ma Xiaotao, Di Qiu'er, and Huo Yuhao breaking through the engineers’ ranged attacks. The Sun Moon team retreated under Meng Hongchen’s ice technique, but Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen escaped Shrek’s final ice-and-fire assault using teleportation rings.

• Xiao Hongchen unleashed 128 Level-5 soul tools, but Liu Yuan’s wooden defenses and Ma Xiaotao’s Phoenix Meteor Shower helped Shrek charge into the Sun Moon team.
• Di Qiu'er and Wang Dong'er attacked Chen Fei, who was injured after grabbing the Golden Dragon Spear, while Ma Xiaotao fought Ma Rulong and Xiao Xiafeng.
• Ma Rulong summoned the Sword of Judgment, but Liu Yuan’s Wood Man and Ma Xiaotao’s Dragon-Phoenix Joint Strike defeated him, and Liu Yuan seized the sword.
• Huang Jinxu intervened as Shrek pressed its advantage, while Meng Hongchen revealed her Jade White Toad martial soul and forced the Sun Moon team to retreat.
• Huo Yuhao froze Meng Hongchen’s rain-filled mist, and Ma Xiaotao followed with another Phoenix Meteor Shower, engulfing the arena in ice and fire.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen escaped the attacks’ coverage using Level-7 Soul Tool Teleportation Rings.

Shrek Academy defeated Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy in the championship team battle after Liu Yuan and Di Qiu'er countered the Hongchen siblings' Martial Soul Fusion Skill, forcing the opposing team to concede the remaining matches. Afterward, Liu Yuan kept the Sword of Judgment and agreed to pay compensation, then let Huo Yuhao know he could study it after Liu Yuan finished examining it.

• The Hongchen siblings used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Red Dust Attachment, against Shrek, and Liu Yuan and Di Qiu'er answered with their own fusion skill, the Light of Fate.
• Huang Jinxu blocked Liu Yuan and Di Qiu'er's attack with his body, and Huang Jinxu declared Shrek Academy the winner after the Hongchen siblings fell unconscious.
• Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy conceded the remaining matches, and Huang Jinxu declared Shrek Academy the tournament champion.
• The Sun Moon vice team leader and Ma Rulong asked Liu Yuan to return the Sword of Judgment, but Liu Yuan said it had been destroyed and offered compensation; he later agreed to pay ten million Gold Soul Coins.
• Huo Yuhao asked Liu Yuan to let Shrek study the Judgment Domain, and Liu Yuan agreed after he had finished studying it himself.

Liu Yuan and Electrolux discussed using Snow Empress and the Origin Willow to create a Self-Martial Soul Fusion Skill, while Liu Yuan prepared for the tournament awards ceremony. After Huo Yuhao revealed his identity and the abuse he and his mother suffered at the White Tiger Duke Mansion, Xuan Zi stormed the mansion to demand justice, leaving Dai Hao arriving as the Duchess lay pinned beneath Xuan Zi’s pressure.

• Liu Yuan asked Electrolux about Snow Empress and proposed using the Sword of Judgment to research a fusion between Snow Empress and the Origin Willow Martial Soul.
• Wang Dong'er woke Liu Yuan to invite him shopping, and he later joined the Shrek Academy delegation as Wang Yan distributed three tournament Soul Bones to Bei Bei, He Caitou, and Xiao Xiao.
• Liu Yuan brought Huo Yuhao to Xuan Zi and asked him to seek justice; Huo Yuhao revealed that his surname had originally been Dai and that Dai Hao was his biological father.
• Dai Hao told Xu Jiawei about the Duchess’s illness and the White Tiger Duke Mansion’s troubles, while Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu discussed arranging a new marriage for Dai Hao if the Duchess died.
• Eunuch Huang informed Xu Jiawei that Shrek Academy had attacked the White Tiger Duke Mansion, and Xuan Zi confronted the Duchess while protecting Liu Yuan and Huo Yuhao.
• The Duchess insulted Xuan Zi, who crushed her to the ground with his pressure, and Dai Hao rushed back to the mansion and pleaded with Xuan Zi to show mercy.

Huo Yuhao confronted Dai Hao and the Duchess over his mother, and Liu Yuan killed the Duchess while Xuan Zi backed them against the White Tiger Duke Mansion and the Star Luo Emperor. After the group returned to the Star Emperor Hotel, Huo Yuhao explained the past to Wang Yan, while Jing Hongchen learned that Elder Ma had been intercepted and killed.

• Xuan Zi forced Dai Hao to face Huo Yuhao, and Huo Yuhao revealed that he was Huo Yun'er's son and rejected Dai Hao as his father.
• Dai Hao blamed the Duchess for mistreating Huo Yun'er, and Huo Yuhao demanded her death; the Duchess cursed Huo Yuhao and was struck down again by Xuan Zi.
• Xu Jiawei arrived to stop Xuan Zi, but Liu Yuan pierced the Duchess through the brow and killed her; Xu Jiawei accepted the killing rather than challenge Shrek Academy.
• Xuan Zi, Liu Yuan, and Huo Yuhao left the mansion, and Dai Hao thanked Liu Yuan; Xu Jiawei reprimanded Dai Hao but chose not to retaliate against Shrek.
• At the Star Emperor Hotel, Huo Yuhao told Wang Yan what had happened, and Wang Yan supported his revenge and said the academy would back him.
• At Mingde Hall, Jing Hongchen learned that Elder Ma had never returned to the Sun Moon Empire and told the deputy team leader that Mingde Hall would handle the matter.

After Shrek’s champions returned, Mu En welcomed them at the Sea God Pavilion and granted the teams honors, Soul Bones, and secluded cultivation rooms. He gave Di Qiu'er, Huo Yuhao, and Liu Yuan special Soul Bones, then sent them to begin cultivation.

• Jing Hongchen vowed to investigate Shrek’s strength and worried that three Soul Masters with ultimate attributes threatened the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xuan Zi brought the returning team to Shrek, where the deans welcomed them and announced their rewards would be presented at the Sea God Pavilion.
• At the Sea God Pavilion, Liu Yuan reassured Gongyang Mo and the others that their injuries while fighting Evil Soul Masters did not make them sinners, earning Mu En’s praise.
• Mu En granted the Main Selection Team secluded cultivation and offered the Reserve Team lifetime Shrek Seven Devils titles, Soul Bones, and cultivation rooms.
• Mu En gave Di Qiu'er a Tyrant Dragon right arm bone, Huo Yuhao an Orbital External Soul Bone, and Liu Yuan a hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver King left arm bone.
• Mu En assigned Liu Yuan, Di Qiu'er, and Huo Yuhao separate secluded cultivation rooms and told them to report which paths they chose after emerging.

Liu Yuan accepted Ning Fengzhi’s mission to explain how the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda could evolve, then traveled with Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to collect immortal herbs. The group reached the guarded treasure site and prepared to enter by force.

• Liu Yuan found Ning Fengzhi’s mission offering three-quarters of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s immortal herbs in exchange for a method to evolve the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Fengzhi explained his worries about Spirit Hall’s recovery and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s position after Qian Xunji’s death and the Clear Sky Sect’s decline.
• Ning Fengzhi accepted Liu Yuan’s requested reward, and Liu Yuan explained that Aromatic Silk Beauty could evolve the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Fengzhi summoned Chen Xin and Gu Rong, and the four traveled to Sunset Forest to find the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Liu Yuan located the basin, and Chen Xin and Gu Rong prepared to take Ning Fengzhi and Liu Yuan past its poison formation despite the site having an owner.

Dugu Bo confronted Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Liu Yuan over the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, but Chen Xin and Gu Rong killed him after he refused to surrender the treasure. Liu Yuan began refining his body in the spring while Ning Fengzhi prepared to use an immortal herb to evolve his Martial Soul.

• Dugu Bo discovered the intruders at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and demanded to know why the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had come.
• Ning Fengzhi offered Dugu Bo a place as a Supreme Elder, but Dugu Bo refused and vowed to protect the treasure land and its herbs.
• Gu Rong shifted the battle outside the valley, where Chen Xin and Gu Rong overwhelmed Dugu Bo and Chen Xin severed his head before he could self-destruct.
• Liu Yuan showed Ning Fengzhi the immortal herbs, gave him the Aromatic Silk Beauty, and explained its potential to evolve the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Liu Yuan consumed the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, then plunged into the spring to undergo the Ice and Fire Golden Body Refinement.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong returned to protect Ning Fengzhi as he began absorbing the Aromatic Silk Beauty.

After returning from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Liu Yuan completed his seclusion, reached level fifty, and reunited with Di Qiu'er at Shrek. He then met the Snow Empress in his Undead Demiplane and explained how Huo Yuhao, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and the Ice Empress had helped bring about her current situation.

• Gu Rong recovered Dugu Bo's two ten-thousand-year Soul Bones and other belongings, and Ning Fengzhi decided to give them all to Liu Yuan in gratitude for restoring the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Liu Yuan returned to his original world with the ten immortal herbs awarded by the platform, cultivated in seclusion, and unknowingly received golden energy from the Golden Ancient Tree.
• Mu En accepted the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's exchange proposal and said Huo Yuhao would join only if the Mingde Hall master's grandchild was among their exchange students.
• Liu Yuan emerged from seclusion at level fifty and learned that Di Qiu'er had reached level forty-eight after absorbing the Tyrant Dragon Soul Bone.
• Mu En asked Liu Yuan and Di Qiu'er about their chosen paths, and they answered, respectively, faith and destiny; he then planned for Liu Yuan to obtain a Soul Ring with the other Inner Court students.
• At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Liu Yuan met the Snow Empress, learned she needed the God Sealing Platform to survive, and told her about Huo Yuhao, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and the Ice Empress.

Liu Yuan harvested immortal herbs, refined tailored pills for himself and his companions, and used two rare herbs to strengthen his Martial Soul and advance his Purple Demon Eye. After returning to Sea God Island, he gave six companions their pills and prepared to guard them as they absorbed them.

• The Snow Empress agreed to become Liu Yuan's second Martial Soul after asking to see the Ice Empress, while Electrolux continued working with her on Liu Yuan's Self-Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Liu Yuan harvested and planted herbs around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then refined eight pills tailored to himself, Ma Xiaotao, He Caitou, Bei Bei, Xiao Xiao, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong'er, and Di Qiu'er.
• Liu Yuan swallowed his own pill, strengthening his Origin Willow Martial Soul and Soul Power, then consumed Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and advanced his Purple Demon Eye to great mastery.
• Liu Yuan returned to Sea God Island and found Wang Dong'er, Di Qiu'er, Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, Bei Bei, and He Caitou waiting anxiously outside his room after failing to find him.
• Liu Yuan reassured them and distributed six individually prepared pills, telling everyone to absorb them in his living room while he stood guard.

Liu Yuan’s elixir helped his companions break through and evolve their Martial Souls, then cured Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire. After Shrek Academy approved a Soul Beast hunt in the Star Dou Forest, the group departed under Xian Lin’er and Elder Song, but Elder Song suddenly sensed danger.

• Liu Yuan refreshed his tasks, chose to retain a mission to defend Ming Capital from zombies, and watched Di Qiu’er, Wang Dong’er, Huo Yuhao, and He Caitou gain cultivation breakthroughs as Xiao Xiao and Bei Bei evolved their Martial Souls.
• Liu Yuan gave Ma Xiaotao an elixir that completely eliminated her Evil Fire, though its flames burned a hole through her roof.
• Shrek Academy approved a Star Dou Forest hunt for Soul Rings for Liu Yuan’s group of seven and Ma Xiaotao, with Xian Lin’er and Elder Song leading them.
• Xian Lin’er instructed the eight students to stay close to their escorts before the party set off, but Elder Song suddenly shouted for Xian Lin’er to protect the children.

The Body Sect’s Du Busi arrived at Shrek Academy to confront Xuan Zi over his punishment of Lang Ya and Yu Tao, and the two old rivals fought to a standstill. As the conflict escalated, Mu En revealed that he had asked Huo Yuhao to join the Body Sect, then invoked the Golden Ancient Tree and appeared before Du Busi.

• Du Busi led more than twenty Body Sect experts to Shrek Academy, where he and Xuan Zi traded insults over Xuan Zi’s missing finger and the punishment of Lang Ya and Yu Tao.
• Du Busi and Xuan Zi transformed and clashed above the academy, while Mu En transported Liu Yuan and the others to Sea God Pavilion.
• Mu En asked Huo Yuhao to join the Body Sect because its guidance suited his Ice Jade Empress Scorpion bloodline, but Huo Yuhao refused.
• Du Busi and Xuan Zi exchanged powerful attacks and ended their clash at a draw; Mu En explained that Xuan Zi had forged a Martial Soul Natal Weapon during his seclusion.
• Mu En told Liu Yuan to watch as he invoked the Golden Ancient Tree, rose from his wheelchair, and appeared before Du Busi.

Mu En revealed himself to drive Du Busi and the Body Sect away from Shrek Academy, then Liu Yuan’s group entered the Star Dou Forest to hunt Soul Beasts. They found Xiao Xiao a thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and He Caitou a ten-thousand-year Stone-Spotted Hawksbill Turtle, and both Soul Rings were obtained.

• Mu En used the Sea God’s Light to halt Du Busi, revealed that he was alive and Huo Yuhao’s teacher, and refused to let the Body Sect take Huo Yuhao against his wishes.
• Du Busi withdrew with the Body Sect after warning that he would pursue Huo Yuhao once Mu En died, and Mu En postponed the group’s Soul Beast hunt until the threat had passed.
• Liu Yuan and the others set out for the Star Dou Forest, where they shared their Soul Ring requirements and Di Qiu’er offered a lead on a Spiritual-attribute Soul Beast.
• On the fifth day in the Mixed Zone, Huo Yuhao spotted a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear trying to crack a Stone-Spotted Hawksbill Turtle’s shell, and Liu Yuan recognized that the turtle could suit He Caitou.
• Ma Xiaotao restrained the bear and Xiao Xiao killed it to obtain her thousand-year Soul Ring; Liu Yuan then gave He Caitou his Golden Dragon Spear to kill the turtle and claim its ten-thousand-year Soul Ring.

During the group’s overnight rest, Xiao Xiao absorbed a rare External Soul Bone from the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, while Liu Yuan secretly woke Di Qiu'er to hunt a suitable fifth Soul Ring. Xian Lin'er defeated a twenty-thousand-year Golden Giant Rhinoceros and brought it down before Di Qiu'er.

• Huo Yuhao cooked the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, and the group shared dinner while Xiao Xiao and He Caitou recovered from absorbing their Soul Rings.
• Xiao Xiao awakened at rank forty, and Huo Yuhao discovered an External Soul Bone in the bear’s right paw; Liu Yuan gave it to her to absorb.
• Xiao Xiao successfully absorbed the External Soul Bone and accidentally sliced through the roasting rack when she tested its blades.
• After the students settled into the treehouse, Liu Yuan woke Di Qiu'er and led her with Xian Lin'er to a Golden Giant Rhinoceros suited to her fifth Soul Ring.
• Xian Lin'er silently defeated the twenty-thousand-year Golden Giant Rhinoceros and told Di Qiu'er the Soul Beast was hers.

Wang Dong'er woke to find that Di Qiu'er had become a Soul King, and the group continued searching Star Dou Forest for suitable Soul Rings. Di Qiu'er led them to several soul beasts, where Ma Xiaotao and Xiao Xiao obtained their desired Soul Rings and Liu Yuan claimed the Soul Sealing Tree.

• Wang Dong'er woke and learned that Di Qiu'er had hunted a Golden Giant Rhinoceros for her fifth Soul Ring.
• After several days of fruitless searching, Di Qiu'er suggested visiting the Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff territory and told Liu Yuan about a nearby Xiezhi and Soul Sealing Tree.
• The group found a Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff fighting a Xiezhi near a Soul Sealing Tree, and Xian Lin'er killed the Xiezhi and severely wounded the tree.
• Xian Lin'er caught the fleeing Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff and beat it into submission, allowing Ma Xiaotao to kill it and absorb its Soul Ring.
• Liu Yuan approached the wounded Soul Sealing Tree, knocked out a young Xiezhi that attacked him, and had Xiao Xiao kill it for her Soul Ring.

After the group returned to Shrek Academy with their new Soul Rings, Mu En arranged for Liu Yuan, Di Qiu'er, and Ma Xiaotao to undergo lightning tribulations in the Thunderclap Mountain Range. Liu Yuan began his fifth Soul Pattern tribulation while the others and Elder Song waited nearby.

• Xuan Zi captured a Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff with awakened dragon blood, and Bei Bei absorbed its Soul Ring to become a Rank 52 Soul King.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed the nearly thirty-thousand-year Soul Ring of a Spirit Silver Beast after Ice Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm defeated it spiritually, reaching Rank 42 and becoming a Soul Ancestor.
• The group returned to Shrek Academy, where Mu En asked Liu Yuan whether he and Di Qiu'er could draw lightning tribulations while integrating their fifth Soul Patterns; Liu Yuan said they could.
• Elder Song took Liu Yuan, Di Qiu'er, and Ma Xiaotao to the Thunderclap Mountain Range, and Liu Yuan volunteered to undergo his tribulation first.
• Liu Yuan sat down, summoned the Origin Willow and his five Soul Rings, and prepared to begin the tribulation.

Liu Yuan endured and survived a brutal lightning tribulation, then helped Di Qiu'er recover after her own. At midnight, he accepted a mission to save an unborn Dragon Egg in exchange for the First-generation Sacred Dragon King's Judgment Dragon Wings and vanished from his room.

• Liu Yuan fused his fifth Soul Pattern into Origin Willow and fought through increasingly dangerous rounds of lightning, ultimately restoring his Martial Soul Natal Weapon and overcoming the tribulation.
• Di Qiu'er and Ma Xiaotao each completed their lightning tribulations, and Liu Yuan used Origin Willow and its life force to heal Di Qiu'er.
• After the group returned to the Nine Dragon Mountain Range, Liu Yuan saw a mission asking him to save a Dragon Egg and offering the First-generation Sacred Dragon King's Judgment Dragon Wings as its reward.
• Liu Yuan claimed the mission immediately, and the platform concealed his disappearance from Di Qiu'er, Elder Song, Xuan Zi, and Ma Xiaotao.

Liu Yuan explored Dragon Valley, where Dragon Clouds nourished his body and elemental powers, before an Energy Earth Dragon guided him through the dragon graveyard. The First-generation Sacred Dragon King appeared and began by apologizing, leaving Liu Yuan stunned and uncertain what the repentance concerned.

• Liu Yuan discovered Dragon Valley suppressed his Soul Power, then drew down Dragon Clouds and absorbed their energy to strengthen his body and spiritual power.
• An Energy Earth Dragon approached Liu Yuan and led him toward the center of Dragon Valley, using its light to make other energy dragons yield.
• Liu Yuan followed the Energy Earth Dragon to a vast valley filled with the bones of countless true dragons.
• The First-generation Sacred Dragon King appeared before Liu Yuan, greeted him, and apologized, leaving Liu Yuan bewildered.