Chapter Summaries

Xiao Bai awakened and tested Bai Yuan’s mastery of Strife, Destruction, and space, exposing him to Burning Wind’s overwhelming aura and deepening his insight into Destruction. The chapter then moved to Star Luo Stadium, where the individual competition final was about to begin before a vast crowd.

• Gu Yuena sent Di Tian and the Soul Beasts away, determined to claim the Golden Dragon King after Bai Yuan and Long Yue finished their final.
• Xiao Bai appeared in Bai Yuan’s room, said his recovery had improved, and asked Bai Yuan to demonstrate his control over Strife, Destruction, and space.
• Bai Yuan displayed precise spatial manipulation and controlled the two powers separately, earning Xiao Bai’s approval.
• Xiao Bai brought Bai Yuan into an illusory space, where Burning Wind’s aura overwhelmed him and left him unconscious after he sensed the true meaning of Destruction.
• Bai Yuan woke the next morning and found that his understanding of Destruction had deepened, while Xiao Bai stayed and lounged on his bed.
• Star Luo Stadium filled with spectators as the individual competition final approached.

Bai Yuan and Long Yue’s final became a heavily publicized contest carrying political weight for the Star Luo Empire, the Federation, Shrek Academy, and the Spirit Pagoda. As the arena filled and the stakes were announced, the duel was about to begin.

• Bai Yuan arranged for Leng Yaozhu to secure the Soul Guidance Network broadcast rights, promising that he would win.
• Gu Yue, Ye Xinglan, Yuanen Yehui, and the others watched the preparations and expressed confidence in Bai Yuan while wishing they could stand on the stage themselves.
• Star Luo Emperor Dai Tianling, Zhuo Shi, Mu Ye, and other dignitaries gathered as the match took on significance beyond the tournament title.
• Holy Dragon Douluo En Ci arrived as referee and silenced the crowd before introducing the finals.
• Dai Tianling welcomed the audience, described the duel as a testament to friendly exchange, and revealed that the individual champion would claim a Soul Bone.

The individual finals of the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament began with Bai Yuan facing Long Yue. After Bai Yuan waited for Long Yue to recover fully, Long Yue unleashed a full-powered punch that Bai Yuan caught head-on, leaving their battle underway.

• Dai Tianling announced the tournament's generous prizes, including a ten-thousand-year Soul Bone, an imperial title, and academy benefits for the victor's family.
• Red Dragon Douluo Zhuo Shi worried about the Star Luo Empire's growing influence and resolved to report what he had seen to the Sea God Pavilion.
• Dai Tianling declared the individual finals open, and Bai Yuan and Long Yue entered the arena to cheers from their supporters.
• Long Yue asked why Bai Yuan had not attacked, and Bai Yuan said he had been waiting for Long Yue to recover to his peak.
• Long Yue transformed with the Mountain Dragon King martial soul and charged with a powerful punch, which Bai Yuan caught with his palm, creating a shockwave that shook the arena barrier.

Bai Yuan awakened overwhelming power and dominated Long Yue, whose Mountain Dragon King abilities could not break through Bai Yuan’s Space Severing and Destruction. Long Yue retreated and launched a three-pronged attack with Mountains and Rivers and Swamp, leaving Bai Yuan surrounded.

• Bai Yuan’s enhancements erupted, forcing Long Yue backward and making the Mountain Dragon King instinctively submit to his higher bloodline.
• Bai Yuan struck Long Yue with overwhelming force, shattering his dragon scales and driving him into the ground.
• Long Yue retreated and unleashed Mountains and Rivers, but Bai Yuan’s Space Severing and Destruction erased the attack without him moving.
• Dai Yuner reconsidered her plan to make Bai Yuan take the blame for her marriage arrangement and considered him as a possible prince consort.
• Long Yue used Mountains and Rivers as cover, cast Swamp, and trapped Bai Yuan between the collapsing terrain and the spreading mire.

Long Yue unleashed the Mountain Dragon King’s power and his Two-Word Battle Armor against Bai Yuan, who revealed his own Two-Word Battle Armor. Long Yue’s Heavy Pressure failed to affect Bai Yuan, leaving the duel poised for its next exchange.

• Bai Yuan erased Long Yue’s swamp soul skill with a Core Flame and challenged him to show his strongest state.
• Long Yue lost control, transformed with the Mountain Dragon King’s power, and summoned his Mountain Dragon Battle Armor.
• Bai Yuan revealed his Black Calamity Battle Armor, stunning the spectators and the Shrek group.
• Gu Yuena warned that humans who tried to wield the Dragon King’s power would eventually suffer its backlash.
• Long Yue unleashed his Heavy Pressure across the arena, but Bai Yuan walked through the gravity field untouched.

Bai Yuan overwhelmed Long Yue in their individual match, forcing Long Yue to unleash his Earth Vein power and transform into a towering beast. Long Yue’s final assault met Bai Yuan’s Spear of Divine Retribution and tricolored explosion, which engulfed him and his summoned mountains, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Bai Yuan battered Long Yue in close combat, growing stronger as Long Yue’s Mountain Dragon Battle Armor shattered.
• Long Yue used his Fifth Soul Skill, Earth Vein, absorbing the earth’s energy and transforming into a massive armored beast.
• Long Yue charged with a double-tipped spear, but Bai Yuan summoned the Spear of Divine Retribution and pierced through Long Yue’s weapon and chest armor.
• Long Yue unleashed his Sixth Soul Skill, Mountain Suppression, summoning mountains and the phantom of the Mountain Dragon King for a desperate attack.
• Bai Yuan released a tricolored sphere of light that swallowed Long Yue’s assault and began destroying the mountains and dragon phantom.

Bai Yuan defeated Long Yue in the ruined arena and subdued the Mountain Dragon King martial soul with the Core Flame’s will. The match ended with Long Yue badly injured, the Star Luo crowd stunned, and En Ci unable to announce the result.

• The arena’s explosion injured spectators and left Long Yue and Bai Yuan hidden in a crater of smoke and dust.
• Long Yue admitted defeat, but attacked Bai Yuan again after hearing his warning about controlling his martial soul.
• Bai Yuan used the Core Flame’s aura to suppress Long Yue and halt his attack, leaving him unconscious.
• Bai Yuan emerged from the ruins, and the spectators realized he had won the match.
• Bai Yuan urged the referee to announce the result and called for medical help as rescuers rushed to Long Yue.
• En Ci struggled to speak while Star Luo spectators and viewers watched in stunned helplessness.

Bai Yuan was declared champion after defeating Long Yue, and he climbed to claim the Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone. He revealed a Phoenix Family badge instead of presenting himself as belonging to Shrek, leaving Shrek’s officials stunned as he continued toward his reward.

• Shrek’s rest area worried that Bai Yuan might leave for Spirit Pagoda, while Zhuo Shi decided to promote his ties to Shrek.
• En Ci announced Bai Yuan as champion of the Continental Young High-Ranking Soul Master Elite Competition and invited him to receive a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Bai Yuan waved to the broadcast cameras and revealed a Phoenix Family badge, startling Shrek and amusing Star Luo Empire spectators.
• Gu Yue smiled at Bai Yuan, while Ye Xinglan wondered whether joining Spirit Pagoda would bring her closer to him.
• Tang Wulin and Xie Xie watched Bai Yuan, and Tang Wulin said that Bai Yuan had shown him Shrek’s limits could be broken.
• Bai Yuan climbed the sunlit steps toward the award platform as the crowd chanted his name.

Bai Yuan won the individual championship and claimed a seventy-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape Left Arm Soul Bone, overcoming a hidden restriction placed on its box. After he left the stadium, Emperor Dai Tianling reflected on his failed attempt to test Bai Yuan and arranged to visit the princess and En Ci.

• Bai Yuan broke the Holy Light Dragon restriction on the jade box and claimed the Titan Giant Ape Left Arm Soul Bone.
• Star Luo's officials swallowed their anger as Bai Yuan publicly thanked the empire and left the stadium with the Shrek group.
• Emperor Dai Tianling watched Bai Yuan depart and concluded that his test had failed to produce the result he wanted.
• Dai Tianling learned that the princess was with State Preceptor En Ci and decided to visit them.

Bai Yuan navigated Shrek’s attempt to claim credit for his championship while celebrating with the team, and the victory banquet ended with nearly everyone—including Gu Yue—drunk. He remained sober and arranged for the others to be carried back to their rooms.

• Zhuo Shi considered keeping Bai Yuan at Shrek, while Bai Yuan sensed his intentions and planned to return to the Spirit Pagoda and claim the promised Soul Bone.
• At the victory banquet, Shrek publicized Bai Yuan’s success as the result of its own cultivation and announced that Long Yue’s withdrawal made Tang Wulin and Xu Lizhi the doubles champions.
• Yue Zhengyu praised Bai Yuan, apologized for offending him, and passed out after drinking three glasses; Xie Xie took a photo of him.
• Gu Yue and Ye Xinglan competed in a drinking contest and both collapsed, while Tang Wulin and Xu Lizhi also succumbed to the feast and alcohol.
• Bai Yuan was the only one left sober, so he asked a waiter to have the others carried back to their rooms.

After Bai Yuan’s victory shattered the pride of Monster Academy’s Seven Heavenly Kings, En Ci comforted them and warned Dai Tianling that the continent was approaching upheaval. Dai proposed an exhibition team battle against Shrek, but En Ci worried Bai Yuan might defeat them alone; the chapter leaves his role in the coming chaos uncertain.

• En Ci urged Long Yue and the other Heavenly Kings to learn from their defeat and sent them to rest.
• Long Yue vowed to catch up to Bai Yuan as the seven left the dean’s office together.
• Dai Tianling told En Ci that Monster Academy had suffered severe losses, and En Ci warned that the continent was about to change.
• Dai proposed a closing exhibition match between Monster Academy’s Seven Heavenly Kings and the Shrek Seven Devils to restore confidence and the Empire’s dignity.
• En Ci questioned whether Bai Yuan could defeat the opposing team alone and said he would ask Shrek whether they agreed to the match.
• Dai left to visit Shrek, while En Ci reflected that Bai Yuan might become a crucial force in the chaos ahead.

Gu Yue woke in a hotel room and remembered how drunkenly she had clung to Bai Yuan, leaving her mortified. After Leng Yaozhu warned Bai Yuan about the Qiangu Family and urged him to be careful in Star Luo, he prepared to head toward Dragon Valley in disguise.

• Gu Yue woke up beside Bai Yuan and recalled that, while drunk, she had grabbed his sleeve, hugged his thigh, and refused to let him leave.
• Gu Yue hid beneath the blanket in embarrassment and told Bai Yuan to get out.
• Leng Yaozhu congratulated Bai Yuan on his victory and warned him that the Qiangu Family might target him in Star Luo.
• Bai Yuan spoke with Xiao Bai, who said his recovery was nearly complete and that he could accompany Bai Yuan to Dragon Valley.
• Bai Yuan donned the Black Calamity Set, concealed his presence, and slipped out through the hotel lobby unnoticed.

Bai Yuan used the Black Calamity Set to bypass Dragon Valley’s laws and entered the forbidden realm undetected. He reached a vast graveyard of dragon bones, while an ancient nine-colored dragon soul sensed his arrival and wondered if he came from the God Realm.

• Bai Yuan and Xiao Bai detected Dragon Valley’s hidden law fluctuations, and Bai Yuan understood that the realm sealed entrants’ martial souls and expelled those above five rings.
• Bai Yuan put on the Black Calamity Set and passed through Dragon Valley’s entrance while its laws failed to detect him.
• A nine-colored dragon soul deep in Dragon Valley sensed an entrant beyond the realm’s rules and questioned whether it was someone from the God Realm.
• Bai Yuan passed a Tang Sect Title Douluo guarding a stone gate without drawing his attention, then entered the deeper valley.
• Bai Yuan surveyed the valley’s countless dragon skeletons, and Xiao Bai remarked that the dragons must have endured a bitter battle.

Bai Yuan reached the Dragon God Core in Dragon Valley and subdued the Dragon God’s will with his God Calamity Wings. He met the Dragon God and offered to help Soul Beasts rise again by fighting through the God Realm.

• Bai Yuan told Xiao Bai that the Dragon God had destroyed the pure-blooded dragons and left the dragon race to suffer the consequences.
• Bai Yuan and Xiao Bai passed the Mountain Dragon King’s remains and found the abyss containing the Dragon God Core.
• The Dragon God’s will attacked Bai Yuan, but his God Calamity Wings suppressed it until the Dragon God invited him inside.
• Bai Yuan met the Dragon God’s soul at the bottom of the abyss and offered to help Soul Beasts rise again by slaughtering their way through the God Realm.

Bai Yuan confronted the Dragon God over its past slaughter of its clan and the restrictions it placed on Soul Beasts, then took the ancient power it offered. He left determined to have someone collect the dragon bones, while the silent Dragon God was left alone with its regret.

• Bai Yuan told the Dragon God he knew what entering the place meant and challenged it to discuss something it had failed to accomplish.
• The Dragon God offered Bai Yuan an item and urged him to leave, but Bai Yuan questioned its indifference to the dead dragons in the valley.
• Bai Yuan took the ancient power and condemned the Dragon God for killing the six Dragon Kings, destroying its clan, and preventing Soul Beasts from becoming gods.
• Xiao Bai watched with contempt and killing intent as the Dragon God stayed silent rather than answer Bai Yuan's accusations.
• Bai Yuan said someone would collect the dragon bones and walked into the mist, leaving the Dragon God alone with its remorse.

Gu Yuena and Di Tian entered Dragon Valley seeking the Dragon God Core, and the ancient Dragon God sensed their arrival. They found a dark-armored figure and a terrifying translucent presence beside the Dragon God Soul, leaving Di Tian demanding to know who they were.

• Gu Yuena and Di Tian discovered that someone from the Tang Sect had recently visited Dragon Valley, then entered through its spatial barrier.
• Gu Yuena declared that she would obtain the Dragon God Core and inherit the Dragon God's will, while Di Tian vowed to follow her.
• Gu Yuena and Di Tian crossed the sea of dragon bones, and Gu Yuena blamed the God Realm and humans for the dragon clan's destruction.
• The Nine-Colored Dragon Soul sensed Gu Yuena and invited her to approach as she reached the abyss and saw the Dragon God Core.
• Gu Yuena spotted a dark-armored figure and a translucent, dark-gold-patterned being beside the abyss, and Di Tian shielded her before demanding their identities.

Gu Yuena confronted Bai Yuan in the dragon clan’s forbidden ground, where Xiao Bai subdued her and Di Tian without attacking. Bai Yuan began to reveal what the Dragon God had done, leaving Gu Yuena shaken and questioning the Soul Beasts’ long struggle.

• Gu Yuena demanded to know why Bai Yuan had come to the forbidden ground, and he admitted he wanted the Dragon God Heart too.
• Bai Yuan asked Xiao Bai not to kill Gu Yuena and Di Tian, and Xiao Bai’s presence overwhelmed them and suppressed their ability to fight.
• Gu Yuena asked Bai Yuan what he wanted, and he offered to explain what the Dragon God had done before they decided whether to fight.
• Bai Yuan began his accusation, and Gu Yuena angrily rejected it before asking whether reviving the Soul Beasts had been wrong.

Bai Yuan revealed that the Dragon God had caused the dragon clan’s destruction and the ban on Soul Beasts becoming gods, shattering Gu Yuena’s convictions. The Dragon God offered Bai Yuan the Dragon God’s Heart to help the Soul Beasts oppose the God Realm, while Gu Yuena objected and the Dragon God reminded her that she lacked the Golden Dragon King’s power.

• Gu Yuena and Di Tian reeled as Bai Yuan accused the Dragon God of destroying the dragon clan, and the Dragon God confirmed that the accusations were true.
• The Dragon God admitted that he had established the law preventing Soul Beasts from becoming gods and had abandoned everything.
• The Dragon God asked Bai Yuan to help the Soul Beasts defeat the God Realm, but Bai Yuan said they were not strong enough to fight it yet.
• The Dragon God offered Bai Yuan the Dragon God’s Heart, explaining that it held the essence left after his fall and powered the dragon clan’s graveyard.
• Gu Yuena protested that she should lead the Soul Beasts’ revival and questioned Bai Yuan’s unknown identity, but the Dragon God said she could not use the Golden Dragon King’s power.

Gu Yuena seized the Dragon God's Heart and transformed into a thousand-meter silver dragon, while Bai Yuan secretly planted Core Flame intent in the core. She turned on Bai Yuan, demanded to know who he was, and attacked after he challenged her.

• Gu Yuena and Bai Yuan raced to claim the Dragon God's Heart, while Xiao Bai stopped Di Tian from interfering.
• Gu Yuena took the core, unaware that Bai Yuan had secretly embedded Core Flame intent in its energy before withdrawing his hand.
• Di Tian celebrated Gu Yuena's victory as she absorbed the Dragon God's Heart and transformed into a giant silver dragon.
• Gu Yuena declared that she would devour the Golden Dragon King and aimed a dragon claw at Bai Yuan, demanding to know who he was.
• Bai Yuan challenged Gu Yuena to find out for herself, and she roared that he could not defeat her in her dragon form.

Bai Yuan fought Gu Yuena in Dragon Valley, where its laws compressed their strength, then summoned the Spear of Divine Retribution and drove her back. He opened a rift to the lands beyond the valley and sent the silver dragon through it, where she vowed revenge.

• Bai Yuan unleashed his Core Flame Domain and attacked Gu Yuena, striking the silver dragon with a punch that rattled her soul.
• Gu Yuena struck back, but Bai Yuan endured her blow and told her he was done playing.
• Bai Yuan formed the Spear of Divine Retribution and repeatedly struck Gu Yuena, forcing her to retreat to the edge of the deep pit.
• Bai Yuan opened a spatial rift toward the lands of Star Luo and dragged Gu Yuena through it.
• Gu Yuena vowed revenge as the rift pulled her away.