Chapter Summaries

Xu Tianyao defended the Sun Moon Empire’s match conduct by arguing that Xiao Hongchen’s Soul Cannon formation was not a Soul Tool. His denial left Shrek Academy’s students and elders stunned, and he ended by asking Dean Qian why he thought the cannons were Soul Tools.

• Xu Tianyao argued that the Sun Moon Empire accepted Shrek Academy’s rules but objected to the host interpreting them unfairly.
• Xu Sanshi confronted Xu Tianyao over Xiao Hongchen’s apparent use of Soul Tools after Jiang Nannan was carried away injured.
• Xu Tianyao pointed to the Soul Fighting Arena and claimed no Soul Tool had appeared in the match.
• Xu Sanshi leaped onto the arena and pointed out the Soul Cannon barrels beside Xiao Hongchen, but Xu Tianyao insisted they were not Soul Tools.
• Xuan Zi asked Qian Duoduo to confirm whether the cannon platform was a Soul Tool, while Qian Duoduo questioned whether Xu Tianyao was well.
• Xu Tianyao asked Qian Duoduo why he also thought the objects on the arena were Soul Tools.

Xu Tianyao challenged Shrek Academy’s claim that Xiao Hongchen had broken the rules by using a Soul Tool, arguing that the turret was actually a manifestation of his martial soul ability. He left Yan Shaozhe, Qian Duoduo, and the Shrek students embarrassed after they realized their accusation had no basis.

• Qian Duoduo explained the required steps for manufacturing a genuine Soul Tool, including inscribing a core formation and testing the completed device.
• Xu Tianyao asked which part of Xiao Hongchen’s turret had met those manufacturing requirements and argued that it was created by his Three-Legged Golden Toad martial soul.
• Xu Tianyao pointed out that the turret was not a Soul Tool, so using it had not violated the competition rules.
• Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo realized they had wrongly accused Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, while the Shrek students’ anger turned to embarrassment.

Xu Tianyao refuted Shrek Academy’s accusations by explaining that Xiao Hongchen’s weapon was a martial soul imitation, not a real Soul Tool, and Yan Shaozhe confirmed Xiao’s victory. With the challenge stage about to begin and no one volunteering, Xu Sanshi stepped forward to face Xiao Hongchen.

• Xu Tianyao explained the principles of Soul Tool technology and warned the students not to let others exploit their trust and emotions.
• Meng Hongchen kissed Xu Tianyao in front of the arena, drawing another stunned silence from the crowd.
• Yan Shaozhe stopped the commotion, awarded Xiao Hongchen the first match point, and announced the rules for the points challenge.
• Shrek Academy’s students hesitated to challenge Xiao Hongchen, wary of losing after Jiang Nannan’s defeat.
• Xu Sanshi volunteered to fight Xiao Hongchen, determined to help Jiang Nannan regain face.

Xu Sanshi and Xiao Hongchen fought to a draw in the assessment, while the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy’s other students showed Shrek Academy that their strength was uneven. Xu Tianyao arranged help for Xiao Ding to relocate the Xiao Clan, and Mu En allowed them to leave despite knowing about their cooperation with the Sun Moon Empire.

• Xu Sanshi and Xiao Hongchen battled to a draw after neither could overcome the other's defenses, and Xiao Hongchen withdrew from further challenges to recover.
• Four students from the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy competed on the first day, and Shrek Academy students regained confidence after seeing the gap between the strongest contenders and the rest.
• Xu Tianyao introduced Xu Jianxun to Xiao Ding and arranged for him to assist with the Xiao Clan's relocation.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Xiao left Shrek City under Xu Jianxun's and the hidden guards' escort.
• Mu En reviewed information about Xiao Ding and Xu Jianxun, then let the Xiao Clan depart despite considering them traitors.

Meng Hongchen used shattered ice crystals to conceal her poison while fighting a powerful Thunder Dragon Soul Ancestor in her Shrek Academy assessment. The poison entered his body, but he began gathering lightning to clear the obscuring ice fog and find her.

• Meng Hongchen faced a graduating Outer Court disciple with a Thunder Dragon martial soul, whose lightning overwhelmed her ice attacks.
• Meng Hongchen changed tactics and allowed his attacks to shatter her ice, filling the arena with fine ice-crystal powder.
• Meng Hongchen activated Ice Toad Poison and Ice Poison Ring, sending hidden toxin through the powder into her opponent.
• The Thunder Dragon soul master grew wary in the ice fog and summoned his martial soul, gathering lightning to disperse it and locate Meng Hongchen.

Meng Hongchen defeated Chen Ming by using Ice Refraction to evade his Thunder Dragon Breath while her Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad poison took effect. Yan Shaozhe confirmed she had not cheated, leaving Shrek’s students angry and confused as he dismissed their complaints.

• Chen Ming blasted Meng Hongchen with Thunder Dragon Breath, but she dodged between ice mirrors created by Ice Refraction.
• As Chen Ming maintained his attack, Meng Hongchen’s poison entered his body and numbed his limbs.
• Meng Hongchen froze Chen Ming with ice spikes, and the referee declared her the winner.
• Shrek’s students accused the match of being rigged, but Yan Shaozhe inspected the arena and recognized the poison.
• Yan Shaozhe upheld Meng Hongchen’s victory and returned to discuss her martial soul with the academy’s deans and teachers.

Meng Hongchen continued fighting after defeating Chen Ming, using her Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad poison and clever tactics to defeat five more challengers. With six points, she rose to first place on the leaderboard, leaving the students stunned by the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy’s standing.

• Meng Hongchen challenged the spectators to face her, and Zhou Quan entered the arena with his Green Bamboo Vine martial soul.
• Meng Hongchen used ice mirrors as decoys and spread her poison through Zhou Quan’s vines, forcing him to concede.
• Meng Hongchen defeated a series of challengers, including a Soul Elder, a flying martial soul user, a defensive Soul Ancestor, and a speed-attack fighter.
• No one else stepped forward, so the referee awarded Meng Hongchen six points for her victories.
• The scoreboard placed Meng Hongchen first, followed by Chu Xing and Ye Wuchen, with Xiao Hongchen and Ma Rulong also in the top five.

Meng Hongchen withdrew after earning six points, prompting Shrek Academy to recall its strongest core students to reclaim first place. Xu Tianyao entered the arena to face Bei Bei, and their match began with Xu Tianyao’s Sunlight Martial Soul rapidly heating the protected platform.

• Meng Hongchen withdrew from the competition after securing six points and returned to Xu Tianyao and Xiao Hongchen.
• Yan Shaozhe ordered Shrek’s completed assessment students, including Bei Bei and He Caitou, to return and offered an outstanding Inner Court evaluation to whoever could take first place from Meng Hongchen.
• The referee announced Xu Tianyao as the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy’s next assessment student, and Xu Tianyao went to the platform despite Meng Hongchen’s warning about the challenge ahead.
• Bei Bei volunteered to fight Xu Tianyao, explaining that he wanted to test the genius Mu En had praised.
• The match began, Bei Bei summoned his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul, and Xu Tianyao released his Sunlight Martial Soul, heating the platform until the referee activated the protective barrier.

Xu Tianyao defeated Bei Bei in the tournament, proving the gap between them and earning a point. Xuan Zi then called for a five-ring Soul King who had already qualified for the inner court to challenge Xu Tianyao next.

• Xu Tianyao revealed four extraordinary soul rings, while Xuan Zi recognized the threat he posed to Bei Bei and Shrek’s Outer Court.
• Bei Bei attacked Xu Tianyao with his Thunder Dragon skills, but Xu Tianyao countered his close-combat moves and endured his strikes with Sunlight Battle Body.
• Bei Bei unleashed Wrath of Thunder and charged at Xu Tianyao, who knocked him off the platform with a punch and won the match.
• Bei Bei acknowledged that his great-grandfather had been right about Xu Tianyao being a monster, while the scoreboard awarded Xu Tianyao one point.
• Xuan Zi ordered Du Weilun to summon a sixth-year Soul King from the inner court, arguing that he still technically counted as an Outer Court disciple.

Xu Tianyao defeated five more Shrek challengers to reach six consecutive victories, while Shrek’s students struggled to find anyone willing to face him. Wang Yan, a powerful Soul King, entered the arena, and Xu Tianyao proposed that their fight determine whether he needed to continue the assessments.

• Xu Tianyao defeated five Shrek Soul Ancestors in succession, bringing his total to six points and tying Meng Hongchen for first place.
• Shrek’s morale collapsed as Xu Tianyao asked for another challenger and no one answered.
• Du Weilun returned with Wang Yan, a sixth-year student and five-ring Soul King with the Explosive Flame Dragon martial soul.
• Wang Yan accepted the challenge and exchanged taunts with Xu Tianyao on the Soul Fighting Platform.
• Xu Tianyao told Yan Shaozhe and the Shrek seniors that defeating Wang Yan would prove the remaining assessments were meaningless, then began to ask a question.

Xu Tianyao challenged Wang Yan, a Rank 53 Soul King, for the right to claim first place in Shrek Academy’s assessment. Xuan Zi accepted the terms, and the chapter ended as Wang Yan unleashed his Blazing Flame Dragon Martial Soul and the match began.

• Xu Tianyao asked Shrek Academy to award him first place if he defeated Wang Yan, and Xuan Zi accepted the challenge on the academy’s behalf.
• Yan Shaozhe promised Wang Yan access to the inner academy treasury and a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone if he won.
• Wang Yan demanded that the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy withdraw from the first-place contest if Xu Tianyao lost, and Xu Tianyao agreed.
• The referee confirmed the stakes, then started the match between Xu Tianyao and Wang Yan.
• Wang Yan released his Blazing Flame Dragon Martial Soul and revealed his five soul rings.

Xu Tianyao fought Wang Yan, a five-ring Soul King, in the assessment and endured the Blazing Flame Dragon’s carefully laid traps and explosions. After judging Wang Yan’s abilities, Xu Tianyao revealed his fourth soul skill, and Xuan Zi watched his transformation closely.

• Wang Yan used the Blazing Flame Dragon’s fire attacks and flame marks to trap Xu Tianyao in a platform-wide explosion, but Xu Tianyao emerged with his Sunlight Battle Body intact.
• Wang Yan summoned a fire dragon and pressed Xu Tianyao in close combat, using partial dragonification to strengthen his attacks and defense.
• Wang Yan provoked Xu Tianyao to reveal his ten-thousand-year soul skills, and Xu Tianyao ended the exchange and activated his fourth soul skill.
• Xu Tianyao’s Explosive Flame Titan’s Power formed heavy armor and enormous golden-red fire fists, while Xuan Zi watched from the high platform.

Xu Tianyao overwhelmed Wang Yan in the assessment match and crippled him despite Yan Shaozhe’s intervention. He declared that the Wang Family could come after Prince Ming of the Sun Moon Empire if they wanted revenge.

• Xu Tianyao used his enhanced fourth soul skill to punch Wang Yan into the arena barrier and shatter his dragon scales.
• Wang Yan activated his fifth soul skill, Explosive Flame Dragon Body, but Xu Tianyao’s repeated punches broke through his dragonified defenses.
• Wang Yan collapsed, and Xu Tianyao dragged him across the arena and stepped on his face after the scoreboard awarded Xu Tianyao first place.
• Yan Shaozhe intervened and warned Xu Tianyao that crippling Wang Yan would make the Wang Family his enemy.
• Xu Tianyao ignored Yan Shaozhe, stomped between Wang Yan’s legs, and identified himself as Prince Ming of the Sun Moon Empire before challenging the Wang Family to seek revenge.

Xu Tianyao defeated Wang Yan and secured first place in the assessment, but his victory intensified tensions with Shrek Academy. Yan Shaozhe brought him to the Sea God Pavilion, where Mu En and the injured Wang Yan were waiting.

• Xu Tianyao crippled Wang Yan, and the referee declared him the assessment winner without requiring him to enter the remaining matches.
• Sun Moon students celebrated while Shrek students protested, but Yan Shaozhe silenced the dispute.
• Xuan Zi threatened Xu Tianyao, who challenged him to act, until Mu En ordered Yan Shaozhe to bring Xu Tianyao to the Sea God Pavilion and distribute the promised rewards.
• Yan Shaozhe escorted Xu Tianyao through the inner academy, where students recognized him as the victor who had defeated Wang Yan.
• Xu Tianyao entered the Sea God Pavilion and saw Zhuang Lao treating Wang Yan, while Mu En sat nearby with Zhang Lexuan standing behind him.

After Xu Tianyao won the assessment, Mu En defended him, gave him a five-million-Gold-Soul-Coin Shrek card, and offered him access to the Treasure Pavilion. Xu chose a rare Soul Bone as a gift for his fiancée Mengmeng, leaving Mu En nostalgic for his own youth.

• Mu En told Xu Tianyao that Shrek would handle any complaint from the Wang Family and would not demand an apology for Wang Yan’s injuries.
• Mu En awarded Xu a Shrek Gold Card with a five-million-Gold-Soul-Coin limit and invited him to bring the Sun Moon exchange students to the Treasure Pavilion auction.
• Mu En presented Xu with a choice of four Soul Bones, including a fifty-eight-thousand-year Far North Snow Eagle leg bone that granted speed and brief aerial movement.
• Xu chose the Snow Eagle leg bone for Mengmeng, his fiancée, because its ice attributes and abilities would suit her and make the Soul Bone a meaningful gift.
• Mu En accepted Xu’s choice and reminisced about his own youth.

After Xu Tianyao left Sea God Island, Zhang Lexuan and Mu En discussed his generosity and the trouble his attack on Wang Yan had brought to Shrek Academy. The academy’s leaders learned that Wang Yan’s injuries had permanently damaged his cultivation and future prospects, then accepted responsibility for the incident.

• Xu Tianyao left Sea God Island after giving away the soul bone, and Mu En told Zhang Lexuan that his gift showed how much Meng Hongchen mattered to him.
• Zhang Lexuan worried that Wang Yan’s injury would bring the Wang Family’s complaints to Shrek Academy first.
• Elder Zhuang reported that Wang Yan would survive and move normally, but his Martial Soul foundation was severely damaged, his cultivation might fall to Soul Ancestor level, and the final kick had also harmed his prospects for having children.
• The elders recognized that Xu Tianyao had deliberately crippled Wang Yan and that the Wang Family would view the injury as a grave humiliation.
• Xuan Zi admitted responsibility for changing the arrangements and summoning Wang Yan, while Yan Shaozhe accepted blame and offered to handle negotiations and compensation.

Mu En ordered Shrek Academy to accept responsibility and offer the Wang Family compensation to prevent retaliation from escalating into war. After learning that the Wang Family patriarch had already left home, he sent Qian Duoduo to protect and confine the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy delegation.

• Mu En rejected Yan Shaozhe’s initial compensation plan as insufficient and ordered him to seek a noble title for Wang Yan through the Heavenly Soul Emperor and personally apologize to the Wang Family.
• Mu En warned that Wang Family retaliation against Xu Tianyao or the Sun Moon delegation could give the Sun Moon Empire a pretext for war, and ordered everyone to leave Xu Tianyao alone.
• Yan Shaozhe received a secret letter reporting that the Wang Family patriarch had left home after learning of the incident.
• Mu En ordered Qian Duoduo to guard and protect the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy delegation around the clock, and Qian Duoduo hurried to their residence.

Wang Qiangu arrived outside Shrek City with members of the Wang Family after Wang Yan was crippled, but he restrained his anger and planned to hold Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon delegation accountable without provoking a war. He prepared to enter the city publicly and demand compensation and apologies.

• A Wang Family member reported that Shrek had heavily guarded the Sun Moon exchange students’ residence, where Xu Tianyao remained.
• Wang Qiangu considered the risk that killing or abducting Xu Tianyao could spark a war and endanger the Wang Family.
• Wang Qiangu rebuked a Soul Sage who suggested seizing Xu Tianyao and explained the consequences of doing so.
• Wang Qiangu said the family would bring Wang Yan home and demand an explanation from Shrek over the changed rules and Xuan Zi’s wager.
• Wang Qiangu planned to seek compensation and an apology from Shrek, and to obtain an apology from a Sun Moon delegation representative to restore the Wang Family’s standing.

Wang Qiangu brought the Wang Family to Shrek City to demand compensation and restore the family’s reputation, while ordering his people not to fight. As the crowd gathered at Shrek’s outer court, Xu Tianyao prepared a possible way to satisfy the Sun Moon exchange group’s demand for an apology without bowing himself.

• Wang Qiangu ordered the Wang Family to publicize Wang Yan’s injuries, endure any provocations, and avoid attacking anyone.
• Wang Qiangu led nine Wang Family members into Shrek City beneath their banners, and the news of his arrival spread through the city.
• A teacher reported Wang Qiangu’s arrival to Qian Duoduo and the exchange group, and Xu Tianyao concluded that the Wang Family had come to collect a debt rather than kill him.
• Xu Tianyao quietly instructed Little Tang to act as a member of the exchange group, while Qian Duoduo kept watch at the doorway.
• Yan Shaozhe met Wang Qiangu before the gathered crowd and invited him and the Wang Family inside to discuss their demands.

Wang Qiangu publicly accused Shrek Academy of responsibility for Wang Yan’s injuries and used the growing rumors across Shrek City to pressure the academy. Mu En then invited the Wang Family to Sea God Pavilion to hear about Wang Yan’s condition, and Wang Qiangu agreed to go.

• Wang Qiangu demanded that Yan Shaozhe discuss Wang Yan’s injuries publicly and listed how Shrek had summoned Wang Yan, changed the assessment rules, and accepted the wager.
• Wang Qiangu accused Shrek of leaving Wang Yan with a damaged martial soul, seventeen fractures, and impaired ability to have descendants, while Yan Shaozhe promised the academy would take responsibility.
• Wang Qiangu’s relatives spread Wang Yan’s story around Shrek City, where residents added increasingly exaggerated rumors.
• Mu En invited Wang Qiangu and the Wang Family to Sea God Pavilion and said Zhuang Lao would explain Wang Yan’s condition.
• Wang Qiangu withdrew his Soul Power and agreed to follow Yan Shaozhe to Sea God Pavilion.