Chapter Summaries

Long Yaochen helped Xu Jiawei dismiss Elder Ma’s accusation that Xuan Zi had stolen the Sun Moon Empire’s auction items, arguing that he had no evidence. After checking on the still-unconscious Wang Dong'er, Long Yaochen examined a ring and felt an extreme chill surge through his spiritual power.

• Elder Ma demanded that the Star Luo Empire force Shrek to return the auction items and apologize, but Xu Jiawei questioned why the empire should be responsible when Elder Ma had not reported his itinerary.
• Long Yaochen and Xuan Zi mocked Elder Ma’s unsupported accusation, and Xu Jiawei ruled that the injuries proved only that Elder Ma had been attacked, not that Xuan Zi was responsible.
• Elder Ma accused Star Luo of shielding Shrek and stormed out after Xu Jiawei told him to provide evidence.
• Xu Jiawei said Star Luo would handle Cheng Gang’s matter and that discussions about cooperation could wait until after the tournament; Long Yaochen left with Xuan Zi and Qian Duoduo.
• Long Yaochen checked on Wang Dong'er, whose life aura was stable though she remained unconscious, then returned to his room and felt a powerful chill enter his spiritual power from a ring.

Long Yaochen and Electrolux examined the Snow Empress’s sealed embryo and discussed the risks of converting her into a Soul Spirit. The Ice Empress awakened the Snow Empress’s consciousness and revealed herself, leaving the Snow Empress shocked by her altered state.

• Long Yaochen brought the Sealing God Platform out of his storage ring after Xuan Zi sealed the room.
• Electrolux examined the platform and confirmed that the Snow Empress’s consciousness and origin remained intact, but warned that opening the seal could endanger Long Yaochen.
• Electrolux said he could attempt to convert the Snow Empress’s rebuilt embryo into a Soul Spirit Core if she willingly cooperated, while keeping most of her power sealed.
• Electrolux used spiritual power to awaken the Snow Empress, who angrily demanded to know what the humans wanted.
• The Ice Empress manifested beside Long Yaochen and called to the Snow Empress, who recognized her and asked what the human had done to her.

Ice Empress persuaded Snow Empress to become a Soul Spirit, and Long Yaochen prepared to begin the conversion. As immense icy power surged into him beneath the Crimson Moon, he lost consciousness while Xuan Zi watched anxiously outside.

• Ice Empress told Snow Empress how Long Yaochen and Electrolux had helped her choose the Soul Spirit path, and Snow Empress agreed to try it with her.
• Electrolux explained that Snow Empress's power would need to remain mostly sealed and that the outcome could not be predicted, while Long Yaochen promised she would remain herself.
• Long Yaochen recovered his strength, then began undoing the Sealing God Platform's outer seal with Electrolux as Snow Empress cooperated.
• The Crimson Moon appeared as the seal awakened, and a flood of extreme cold entered Long Yaochen, causing him to close his eyes and lose awareness.
• Xuan Zi saw frost spread across the door while the Crimson Moon covered the room in red light and the Sealing God Platform's golden patterns went dark.

Wang Dong'er woke from a dream in which a blue-gold figure calling her Xiao Qi gave her an unexplained mission, and she learned Long Yaochen had entered secluded cultivation. As Shrek prepared for the knockout stage, Wang Dong'er discovered her Soul Power had risen to level thirty-five but remained troubled by the dream.

• Wang Dong'er dreamed that a blue-gold figure called her Xiao Qi, declared her his daughter, and began entrusting her with an unknown mission.
• A blazing golden light broke into the dream, and Wang Dong'er woke murmuring Long Yaochen's name.
• Ma Xiaotao told Wang Dong'er that Senior Wang Xian'er had treated Long Yaochen and that he was in secluded cultivation.
• At Shrek's strategy meeting, Wang Yan assigned Ma Xiaotao to compete while Long Yaochen cultivated, and Ma Xiaotao promised to win the championship for him.
• Wang Dong'er told Wang Yan she could fight, then realized her Soul Power had risen two ranks to level thirty-five as the mark on her brow loosened.

With Long Yaochen in seclusion, Ma Xiaotao and Ning Tian entered Shrek’s knockout team battle against Douling Royal Academy. As the match began, Douling erected a fortified defense and started assembling a seventh-grade Thunder Cannon.

• Ma Xiaotao told Long Yaochen to focus on his seclusion and said she would handle the competition.
• Douling Royal Academy learned Long Yaochen was absent but prepared to use its Fortress Cannon Tactic against Shrek.
• Ma Xiaotao persuaded Wang Yan to let her fight with Ning Tian as Shrek’s only two team-battle participants.
• Ma Xiaotao dismissed Gu Zhujian’s complaint that Shrek was underestimating Douling, and the referee started the match.
• Douling’s team raised layered defenses and assembled a massive cannon, which Xiao Hongchen identified as a seventh-grade Thunder Cannon.

Ma Xiaotao faced Douling Royal Academy’s assembled Thunder Cannon and overwhelmed it with her Phoenix skills. Shrek Academy won, and chief referee Huang Jinxu said he would personally referee its next match.

• Ning Tian used three Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda boosts on Ma Xiaotao, then jumped off the arena as Douling Royal Academy assembled its Thunder Cannon.
• Ma Xiaotao unleashed her Sun Burning Evil Flame Phoenix and used Phoenix Bathing in Fire, Phoenix Soaring to the Heavens, and Phoenix Meteor Shower while the cannon charged.
• Douling Royal Academy fired the Thunder Cannon, but Ma Xiaotao used Phoenix Cloud-Piercing Strike to pierce through its lightning beam and crash into the team as flaming meteors struck the arena.
• Huang Jinxu protected the fighters from the flames as the arena was devastated, leaving the seven Douling Royal Academy members charred but alive.
• Huang Jinxu declared Shrek Academy the winner and said he would personally referee its next match.

Shrek advanced to the tournament final after Ma Xiaotao led the team past Justsky Academy and Star Luo Royal Academy, while Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy prepared to face them. As the final approached, Long Yaochen remained sealed in ice, but the crystals at his door began to melt, signaling that he was waking.

• The Star Luo royal family sent Shrek a fire-element Heavenly Treasure as an apology, and Shrek accepted it along with the Gold Soul Coins returned for the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone.
• Ma Xiaotao defeated Ye Wuqing and helped Shrek beat Star Luo Royal Academy, sending Shrek into the final against Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Elder Ma told Sun Moon Academy to fight with style and avoid injuries, while Xiao Hongchen accepted their likely defeat and Huo Yuhao angrily blamed Sun Moon and the Holy Spirit Cult for failing to eliminate Long Yaochen.
• Huo Yuhao asked Old Tang when he could claim the promised opportunity, and Old Tang said it would come after the tournament.
• Xuan Zi continued guarding Long Yaochen until the ice crystals on his door trembled and flowed back inside.

Long Yaochen awoke in his transformed Sea of Spirit and learned that the Snow Empress had become a Soul Spirit, with most of her power sealed in a Snow Bead. After Electrolux explained the fusion and its limits, Long Yaochen returned to reality, where an angry voice confronted him.

• Long Yaochen woke in his Sea of Spirit, where a Snow Bead orbited the Crimson Moon and the Ice Empress reunited with the Snow Empress.
• The Snow Empress tested her rebuilt body and said she still felt like herself, while Electrolux appeared weakened from overseeing the fusions.
• Electrolux explained that the Snow Bead held the Snow Empress’s consciousness and origin, with most of her power sealed until Long Yaochen could bear it.
• Electrolux said the Snow Empress’s arrival had stabilized the Crimson Moon enough for the Ice Empress to fight, though both Empresses’ strength depended on Long Yaochen’s capacity.
• Long Yaochen returned to reality and heard someone open the door and angrily call him a bastard.

After waking from seclusion, Long Yaochen reunited with Ma Xiaotao and revealed that he had reached level fifty and gained the Snow Empress’s genuine seven-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring. He began testing a new ability as Ma Xiaotao chased the fleeing Snow Empress around the training ground.

• Ma Xiaotao confronted Long Yaochen for entering seclusion without telling her, and he promised to inform her first next time.
• Ma Xiaotao led Long Yaochen to the private training ground, where he said his cultivation had reached level fifty.
• Long Yaochen used Martial Soul Possession and showed Ma Xiaotao his orange-gold Soul Ring.
• Long Yaochen revealed that the Soul Ring belonged to the Snow Empress, and Ma Xiaotao tried to cuddle her while she dodged.
• Long Yaochen raised his hand and prepared to test Emperor Palm: Great Cold Without Snow.

Long Yaochen discovered that combining Empress Palm with Crimson Moon Flash let him freeze Ma Xiaotao, then joined with Snow Empress to unleash the technique’s true power. After Ma Xiaotao broke free, Long Yaochen vanished and left Xu Sanshi to face her anger.

• Long Yaochen used Crimson Moon Flash and Empress Palm to freeze Ma Xiaotao, who soon shattered the ice with her flames.
• Snow Empress explained that Long Yaochen had not yet mastered Empress Palm, and he decided that the skill needed feelings.
• Snow Empress joined with Long Yaochen and guided his palm strike, freezing Ma Xiaotao’s flames and covering her in ice.
• Xu Sanshi arrived and found Long Yaochen beside Ma Xiaotao’s ice sculpture.
• Long Yaochen disappeared with Crimson Moon Flash, and Ma Xiaotao broke free and shouted after him.

The Body Sect’s Yu Tao and a big-headed Soul Douluo tried to take Huo Yuhao, claiming his Spirit Eye was an unawakened body martial soul, but a hidden ninth-grade Soul Tool forced them to withdraw. Elder Ma then prepared the Sun Moon team’s tactics for the final and assigned Ma Rulong a pair of powerful Soul Tools.

• The big-headed man and Yu Tao confronted Huo Yuhao in the Sun Moon team’s meeting room and urged him to leave the academy to learn the Body Sect’s cultivation method.
• Yu Tao attacked Huo Yuhao, but a ninth-grade Soul Tool locked onto him and made the Body Sect pair retreat.
• Elder Ma identified the visitors as members of the Body Sect, and Huo Yuhao resolved to investigate body martial souls after the tournament.
• Elder Ma told the team to aim to push the final into the individual and two-two-three matches because they were unlikely to beat Shrek in a team battle.
• Elder Ma brought out an eighth-grade Soul Tool and its paired seventh-grade Soul Tool and told Ma Rulong to wield them in the final.

Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy prepared for the tournament final, with Shrek fielding its strongest fighters. As the team battle began, Bei Bei faced Huo Yuhao with killing intent, while Huo Yuhao focused on Long Yaochen.

• Xu Sanshi joked about deliberately losing a team battle to profit from the betting odds, and Ma Xiaotao threatened to throw him into Sun Moon's artillery barrage.
• Long Yaochen noticed Wang Dong'er acting strangely, while Bei Bei said he intended to cripple Huo Yuhao and settle their past; Long Yaochen promised him the chance.
• Shrek entered the arena with Long Yaochen, Ma Xiaotao, and Dai Yueheng among its seven fighters, and Sun Moon arrived led by Ma Rulong.
• Before the match, Bei Bei met Huo Yuhao's gaze with killing intent, and Huo Yuhao looked toward Long Yaochen before Huang Jinxu started the team battle.

Long Yaochen revealed his second Martial Soul, a crimson moon bearing a dark dragon, and stunned the spectators with two extraordinary Soul Rings. He then bypassed Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Detection to attack Meng Hongchen, but her Invincible Barrier stopped him, and the Sun Moon Team trapped his illusory form with concentrated fire.

• Huo Yuhao linked the Sun Moon Team with Spirit Detection while both teams prepared for the finals battle.
• Long Yaochen transformed and revealed his second Martial Soul, shocking the audience and the Star Luo Emperor.
• Long Yaochen’s two unusual Soul Rings appeared, and he used crimson moonlight to vanish from Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Detection.
• Long Yaochen appeared beside Meng Hongchen and struck her Invincible Barrier with the Empress Palm, covering it in frost.
• The Sun Moon Team fired at Long Yaochen, but his Crimson Moon Mirror Image made the beams pass through him.
• Huo Yuhao ordered continued fire coverage, and Xu Sanshi activated his Fourth Soul Skill, Mysterious Underworld Displacement.

Shrek used Xu Sanshi’s Mysterious Underworld Displacement and coordinated attacks to keep the Sun Moon Team occupied while Bei Bei isolated Huo Yuhao. Huo Yuhao revealed his Ice Jade Scorpion Martial Soul, and he and Bei Bei charged at each other.

• Xu Sanshi switched places with Xiao Xiafeng, then switched with Ma Xiaotao to place her inside the Sun Moon formation.
• Ma Xiaotao attacked Ma Rulong while Dai Yueheng, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, Long Yaochen, and Ning Tian kept the Sun Moon Team’s fighters occupied.
• Huo Yuhao took command through Spirit Detection Sharing, then noticed Shrek’s fighters were deliberately stalling their opponents.
• Bei Bei approached Huo Yuhao after a Tang Sect hidden weapon missed him, and told him that only the two of them remained.
• Huo Yuhao withdrew his Spirit Eye and revealed his Ice Jade Scorpion Martial Soul, while Bei Bei activated Wrath of Thunder.
• Bei Bei and Huo Yuhao charged at each other using Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.

Huo Yuhao faced Bei Bei while Long Yaochen fought Meng Hongchen, but Long Yaochen struck at Huo Yuhao from behind just as Huo Yuhao prepared a spiritual attack. Huo Yuhao's blood-red eyes released a horde of wronged souls that the Crimson Moon devoured, leaving the arena stunned and Wang Yan suspecting Huo Yuhao was an evil soul master.

• Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei exchanged attacks, and Bei Bei used Tang Sect techniques to knock Huo Yuhao back and taunt him.
• Huo Yuhao switched from the Ice Jade Scorpion martial soul and gathered spiritual power through his Purple Demon Eye while Long Yaochen watched from his fight with Meng Hongchen.
• Long Yaochen vanished and appeared behind Huo Yuhao, ready to strike while Huo Yuhao's attention remained fixed on Bei Bei.
• Huo Yuhao's eyes turned scarlet, and bloody mist filled the arena as countless wronged souls surged toward Long Yaochen.
• The Crimson Moon drew in the wronged souls and cleansed their spiritual power, briefly overwhelming Long Yaochen with the influx and giving Huo Yuhao time to escape.
• Wang Yan saw Huo Yuhao's bleeding eyes and the wronged souls and shouted that Huo Yuhao was an evil soul master.

Long Yaochen’s Crimson Moon absorbed the vengeful souls Huo Yuhao unleashed, while Shrek and Sun Moon Academy fought on and Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen began a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. As Electrolux taught Long Yaochen an incantation to release the souls, Long Yaochen sent Snow Empress outside to deal with the looming threat.

• Huo Yuhao’s vengeful souls drew accusations of evil Soul Master methods, but Huang Jinxu did not stop the match.
• Xiao Xiafeng attacked Ning Tian to prevent her from cleansing Long Yaochen, and Jiang Nannan knocked Xiao Xiafeng away.
• Ma Rulong struck Ma Xiaotao with the Judgment Sword, but her flames burned off its darkness and she turned to attack him.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen began a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, forming a crimson-gold three-legged toad.
• Electrolux explained how Crimson Moon could release the vengeful souls and taught Long Yaochen an incantation to guide them.
• Long Yaochen called on Snow Empress to go outside and deal with the approaching threat.

Long Yaochen and the Snow Empress disrupted the Sun Moon team’s fusion skill and cleared the wronged souls from the arena. Long Yaochen confronted Huo Yuhao about his hatred, then joined the Snow Empress in unleashing Great Cold Without Snow as Huo Yuhao remained unable to answer.

• The Snow Empress froze Meng Hongchen and broke apart the Red-Gold Three-Legged Toad fusion, leaving Xiao Hongchen staggering from the backlash.
• Long Yaochen’s Crimson Moon drew the wronged souls into itself, clearing the blood mist from the arena.
• Long Yaochen stopped Bei Bei from approaching Huo Yuhao and asked why Huo Yuhao hated him so much.
• Huo Yuhao accused Long Yaochen of looking down on him and the Tang Sect, trampling his dignity, and taking what should have been his.
• Long Yaochen told Huo Yuhao that he resented Long Yaochen for being the one who stood there instead of him, then began Great Cold Without Snow with the Snow Empress.

Long Yaochen forced the hidden Old Tang to reveal himself, but Old Tang tore open a spatial rift and escaped with the frozen Huo Yuhao. Shrek defeated Sun Moon Academy in the team battle, while Meng Hongchen remained trapped in ice as the later matches still awaited.

• Long Yaochen's Emperor Palm froze Huo Yuhao until Old Tang borrowed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's spiritual power and opened a spatial rift to escape with him.
• Ma Xiaotao shattered Ma Rulong's Class 8 Judgment Sword and knocked him off the stage, while Dai Yueheng tore away Mi Jia's armor and blasted him out.
• Shrek's remaining members defeated Sun Moon Academy, and Huang Jinxu declared Shrek the winner of the team battle.
• Xiao Hongchen demanded that Long Yaochen unfreeze Meng Hongchen, but Long Yaochen refused until the competition ended and told him to explain the wicked soul master on his team.

Xiao Hongchen demanded that the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy withdraw so he could focus on saving Meng Hongchen, who remained trapped in ice. Elder Ma accepted the withdrawal, ending the academy’s remaining matches.

• Xiao Hongchen ordered the medical staff to carry Meng Hongchen back and told Elder Ma that he wanted to withdraw from the competition to save her.
• Xiao Hongchen confronted Elder Ma over prioritizing the championship while Meng Hongchen remained frozen and the team lay injured.
• Elder Ma recalled Jing Hongchen threatening him after the semifinal and giving him one last chance to redeem himself by winning the championship.
• Elder Ma announced that the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy was withdrawing from the remaining 2-2-3 and individual elimination matches.
• The referees confirmed the decision with Xu Jiawei, who approved the withdrawal.

Shrek won the tournament after Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy withdrew, and Long Yaochen freed Meng Hongchen from the ice. As Shrek celebrated its title, Star Luo’s investigation into Huo Yuhao’s use of wronged souls threatened Sun Moon’s tournament results.

• Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy withdrew from the remaining matches, making Shrek the champions.
• Long Yaochen thawed Meng Hongchen, and a physician confirmed she would recover after resting.
• Huang Jinxu ordered Sun Moon to remain in Star Luo City while officials investigated Huo Yuhao’s use of Evil Soul Master methods, warning that the academy’s results could be revoked.
• Long Yaochen taunted Elder Ma about the Sealing God Platform and the embryo before returning to Shrek.
• Ma Xiaotao accepted the championship trophy with her teammates, and the Shrek team raised it as Huang Jinxu announced their victory.