Chapter Summaries

Qiangu Yunche searched Star Luo City and spotted a powerful woman from the Body Sect before running into Ma Xiaotao, whose injuries had nearly healed. After he invited her for a drink, Ma Xiaotao became tipsy and confronted him over their past encounter.

• Li Jing took charge of reviewing the factions seeking Soul Spirits, while the Soul Fighting Tournament resumed under Huang Heyun's leadership.
• Qiangu Yunche discovered a group from the Body Sect led by a gauze-covered woman whose spiritual power and Soul Power suggested she was a Super Douluo.
• The woman noticed Qiangu Yunche watching her and nodded to him before departing with her group.
• Qiangu Yunche met Ma Xiaotao, who had recovered from her injuries and gone out to clear her head, and invited her to a tavern.
• Ma Xiaotao drank fruit wine until Qiangu Yunche took the barrel away, then accused him of denying what had happened between them.

Ma Xiaotao confronted Qiangu Yunche over the way his gifts had eclipsed her status and the evil fire still threatening her future. After he urged her to take responsibility for her past choices, she challenged him to a drinking contest and ended the night completely drunk as he carried her to the Star Luo Grand Hotel.

• Ma Xiaotao angrily drove away the tavern onlookers after they misunderstood her words to Qiangu Yunche.
• Ma Xiaotao told Qiangu Yunche that his gifts to Han Ruoruo and the others had cost her the glory she once held, while her evil fire still threatened her cultivation and future.
• Qiangu Yunche reassured Ma Xiaotao that no one denied her talent or effort, but criticized her for risking harm to others by cultivating despite her out-of-control evil fire.
• Ma Xiaotao challenged Qiangu Yunche to drink without using Soul Power, and he agreed in the hope that she would let go of some of her resentment.
• After Ma Xiaotao drank herself senseless, Qiangu Yunche carried her to the top floor of the Star Luo Grand Hotel and regretted drinking with her.

Qiangu Yunche returned a drunken Ma Xiaotao to the team, then reassured jealous Ling Luochen about what had happened. He also learned that Mu En wanted him to visit the Sea God Pavilion and offered to accompany him to negotiate with Di Tian in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Qiangu Yunche brought the intoxicated Ma Xiaotao back to Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xixi, who had been sent to find her.
• Wang Yan scolded Ma Xiaotao for drinking while injured, but let her rest after she promised to behave.
• Ling Luochen confronted Qiangu Yunche about Ma Xiaotao, then listened as he explained that he had found her while investigating Evil Soul Masters.
• Qiangu Yunche told Ling Luochen that Evil Soul Masters and Body Sect experts had gathered in Star Luo City and that he intended to kill the Evil Soul Masters.
• Ling Luochen relayed Mu En's invitation to visit the Sea God Pavilion and his offer to accompany Qiangu Yunche to the Star Dou Great Forest to negotiate with Di Tian about supplying Soul Spirits.
• Qiangu Yunche agreed that the Sea God Pavilion's help could support his plans to promote Soul Spirits.

The veiled woman brought Vina to Star Luo City to pursue a powerful Mermaid Soul Spirit suited to Vina’s spiritual Martial Soul, and encouraged her to meet the strong boy they had seen earlier. Vina agreed to contact Princess Jiujiu and discussed her unwanted potential engagement to Ao Tian with her teacher.

• The veiled woman praised Vina’s cultivation and explained how her Twin Martial Souls could let her advance quickly once she could bear powerful Soul Rings.
• The veiled woman told Vina that Lang Ya had reported a ninety-thousand-year spiritual-type Mermaid among the Soul Spirits released in Star Luo City, and Vina agreed to ask Princess Jiujiu for help obtaining it.
• The veiled woman said the boy they had seen was exceptionally strong and suggested Vina get acquainted with him, making Vina blush.
• Vina revealed that her imperial father planned to arrange her marriage to Ao Tian, and the veiled woman promised no one would force her into it.
• Vina asked which was more handsome, Ao Tian or the boy from the street, and the veiled woman said the boy was more outstanding.

Xu Jiujiu reunited with Vina at the Starlight Auction House and learned that Vina had come with Heavenly Spirit Douluo and Body Sect members to obtain a Soul Spirit. Vina revealed her second martial soul and asked to buy the ninety-thousand-year Mermaid Soul Spirit, but Xu Jiujiu said the decision-makers had just arrived.

• Xu Jiujiu received a mysterious letter and summoned Qiangu Yunche to the Starlight Auction House.
• Xu Jiujiu greeted Vina and met her teacher, Heavenly Spirit Douluo, and Body Sect members Yu Tao and Lang Ya.
• Vina revealed that she and her companions had come to acquire Soul Spirits, and Xu Jiujiu realized they represented an alliance between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Body Sect.
• Vina showed her second martial soul, her brain, and Xu Jiujiu recognized that it was an exceptional spiritual-attribute body martial soul.
• Vina asked Xu Jiujiu to sell her the ninety-thousand-year Mermaid Soul Spirit, but Xu Jiujiu said other people had authority over the decision.
• Someone knocked at the door as Xu Jiujiu told Vina that the decision-makers had arrived.

Qiangu Yunche and Li Jing met Vina and the Heavenly Spirit Douluo, whose group sought a Mermaid Soul Spirit for Vina. After Yu Tao insulted Li Jing and threatened to capture her, Qiangu Yunche attacked him and asked the Heavenly Spirit Douluo for permission to punish the Body Sect outsiders.

• Xu Jiujiu introduced Qiangu Yunche and Li Jing to Vina and the Heavenly Spirit Douluo, and said Qiangu Yunche was her prospective boyfriend.
• The Heavenly Spirit Douluo recognized Li Jing as a Mermaid princess and asked whether she would trade a Mermaid Soul Spirit for Vina.
• Li Jing explained that her mother had intended to kill the Deep Sea Ghost Shark King that the Heavenly Spirit Douluo's group hunted.
• Yu Tao demanded that the group capture Li Jing, insulted Soul Beasts, and disparaged Qiangu Yunche.
• Qiangu Yunche struck Yu Tao through the wall, seized him by the throat, and asked the Heavenly Spirit Douluo if he could teach the Body Sect outsiders a lesson.

Qiangu Yunche forced Heavenly Spirit Douluo to compensate for Yu Tao’s attack on Vina and the Mermaid princess, while securing a promise that Yu Tao would stay away from the Star Luo Empire. The Body Sect agreed to provide a rare Soul Bone, and Vina apologized to Xu Jiujiu before leaving with Heavenly Spirit Douluo.

• Qiangu Yunche held Yu Tao after stopping his attack, and Heavenly Spirit Douluo apologized and offered compensation on the Body Sect’s behalf.
• Qiangu Yunche accepted a fifty-thousand-year Soul Bone in exchange for sparing Yu Tao, on the condition that Yu Tao would not return to the Star Luo Empire.
• Heavenly Spirit Douluo promised the Body Sect would deliver a Star Glory Dragon Right Arm Bone within three days and postponed the Mermaid Soul Spirit trade talks.
• Vina apologized to Xu Jiujiu before leaving with Heavenly Spirit Douluo, while Xu Jiujiu recognized the Soul Bone offer as an effort to gain her favor.

Qiangu Yunche reunited with Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming in Star Luo City and revealed that he already possessed two Beast Soul Rings and planned to hunt the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. The women had suspected his hidden strength, and the chapter ended with Qiangu Yunche reassuring Han Ruoruo about their age gap.

• Xu Jiujiu absorbed the Star Glory Dragon Right Arm Bone, bringing her total to three top-grade soul bones.
• Han Ruoruo, Wu Ming, and Zhang Lexuan arrived in Star Luo City, and Zhang Lexuan left to meet Wang Yan and the others.
• Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo embraced Qiangu Yunche and told him their cultivation ranks had reached eighty-six and seventy-eight.
• Qiangu Yunche explained that he was a quasi-Soul Sage but had delayed obtaining his seventh soul ring because he needed to hunt a powerful ocean Beast.
• Qiangu Yunche revealed that he already had two Beast Soul Rings and intended to hunt the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's wife.
• Han Ruoruo said she and Wu Ming had suspected his secret after Mu En sensed a true dragon's aura and they considered what had happened to the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King.

Qiangu Yunche told Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming that he had enslaved the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King to prepare for awakening his second Martial Soul. Their teasing about locking him in a secret chamber turned intimate, and his whispered suggestion left both women stunned and blushing.

• Qiangu Yunche explained that the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King's power and soul were sealed within him, and that he had kept it to prepare for his second Martial Soul.
• Wu Ming accused Qiangu Yunche of not trusting her and Han Ruoruo, then joked that they could seal his cultivation and keep him in a secret chamber.
• Han Ruoruo explained the Angel Clan's supposed connection to secret chambers and mentioned the Rakshasa God Bibi Dong's history.
• Wu Ming bit Qiangu Yunche's collarbone while hinting that she and Han Ruoruo had once considered locking him away, and Han Ruoruo accidentally alluded to tying Wu Ming up.
• Qiangu Yunche asked to join them next time, prompting Han Ruoruo to pinch him and Wu Ming to bite him as both women grew flustered.
• Qiangu Yunche whispered a suggestion to Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming, leaving them looking at each other with flushed faces and no answer.

Qiangu Yunche was teased by Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming after they comforted each other, then spent the following days with the women around Star Luo City as Shrek’s official team took over the tournament. Ling Luochen and Ma Xiaotao dazzled the crowd, while a sinister observer noticed Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire Phoenix and Vina tried to persuade Xu Jiujiu to sell her the Mermaid Soul Spirit.

• Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming sent Qiangu Yunche to sleep on the couch, promising he could be intimate with them after his fourteenth birthday.
• Qiangu Yunche accompanied Xu Jiujiu to public events, visited Ling Luochen, traded barbs with Ma Xiaotao, and toured Star Luo City with Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming.
• Ling Luochen’s official Shrek team replaced the reserve members, relieving Wang Yan and the young reserves of the pressure to compete.
• Ling Luochen and Ma Xiaotao impressed the tournament audience, while a hidden observer praised Ma Xiaotao’s evil aura and caused her to feel a sudden chill.
• Vina offered Xu Jiujiu money, a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone, and even a night in her room in exchange for the Mermaid Soul Spirit, while the Heavenly Spirit Douluo recognized that Xu Jiujiu was stringing her along.

Xu Jiujiu revealed that the ninety-nine-thousand-nine-hundred-and-ninety-year Mermaid Soul Spirit would be auctioned, and Vina reluctantly accepted the costly terms. At a top-tier auction three days later, Ling Luochen sought the Ice Jade Scorpion left arm bone, but Wang Dong argued that Huo Yuhao needed it too.

• Xu Jiujiu told Vina that the Mermaid Soul Spirit would appear at the auction and could only be traded for other items, leaving Vina dismayed by the likely expense.
• Three days later, Shrek Academy defeated Justsky Academy in the three-versus-three match, and the top-tier auction began.
• The Ice Jade Scorpion left arm bone appeared, and Ling Luochen asked Wang Yan to use the academy's purchasing voucher to bid for it.
• Wang Dong reminded Wang Yan that Huo Yuhao also needed the bone for his ice-element second Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao felt unable to compete with Ling Luochen, while Wang Dong believed the bone could help correct the elemental imbalance in his Martial Soul.

At the auction, Wang Yan’s hesitation over the Ice Jade Scorpion left arm bone strained relations between Huo Yuhao and the inner courtyard students, while Ling Luochen won it after Huo Yuhao withdrew. The next item, a ninety-thousand-year Mermaid Soul Spirit, went to Vina in a costly deal.

• Wang Dong urged Huo Yuhao to compete with Ling Luochen for the soul bone, and Ling Luochen declared she would bid against him as an individual.
• Wang Yan realized his hesitation had alienated the inner courtyard students, while Huo Yuhao saw that Ling Luochen’s ownership of the bone had effectively been settled from the start.
• Wang Dong offered to use her wealth to help Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao stopped her and withdrew from the contest.
• Ling Luochen won the Ice Jade Scorpion left arm bone for twenty-five million Gold Soul Coins, then left the auction.
• Vina purchased the ninety-thousand-year Mermaid Soul Spirit for twenty million Gold Soul Coins and a ninety-thousand-year soul bone.

Dai Yueheng reacted with anger when the Star Luo Imperial Family auctioned the White Tiger inner core, while Wang Dong confessed to Huo Yuhao that strange dreams and a subconscious calling were changing her behavior. The chapter left them preparing to return to the hotel so Huo Yuhao could investigate her Sea of Spirit.

• Dai Yueheng recognized the inner core as a White Tiger Soul Beast relic and grew suspicious of the Star Luo Imperial Family's changed attitude toward the White Tiger Duke Mansion.
• Ma Xiaotao noticed Dai Yueheng's reaction and began to suspect the inner core's significance.
• Huo Yuhao caught up with Wang Dong outside the auction house and asked why she had been acting strangely.
• Wang Dong told Huo Yuhao that dreams and a voice in her subconscious urged her toward a mission that seemed to require leaving him.
• Huo Yuhao proposed examining Wang Dong's Sea of Spirit with his spiritual power, and Wang Dong agreed to return to the hotel with him.

After an explosion at the Star Emperor Hotel left Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong with soul injuries, Medicine Immortal Douluo found their lives safe but could not say whether they would recover. Her examination also revealed that Wang Dong was a girl, leaving the Shrek group puzzled and Qiangu Yunche wondering what had caused the accident.

• Qiangu Yunche learned that an explosion had badly injured Huo Yuhao and left Wang Dong unconscious, while Xuanzi had beaten Giant Strength Douluo Cheng Gang before Star-Shattering Douluo intervened.
• Medicine Immortal Douluo Wang Xian'er examined Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong and said their soul injuries were serious, though a force within each of their Seas of Spirit protected their core consciousness.
• Qiangu Yunche visited the pair with Xu Jiujiu and secretly probed them with spiritual power before asking Medicine Immortal Douluo whether they could recover.
• Medicine Immortal Douluo said Wang Dong was a girl, and Han Ruoruo explained that the Light Goddess Butterfly martial soul appeared only in women.
• Qiangu Yunche wondered how Huo Yuhao would react to Wang Dong's exposed identity and continued to suspect that something about the accident did not add up.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong suffered severe soul injuries after an explosion at the Star Emperor Hotel, and Medicine Immortal Douluo could not promise they would recover. While examining them, she revealed that Wang Dong was a girl, leaving the Shrek Academy team shocked and Qiangu Yunche more suspicious about what had happened.

• Qiangu Yunche learned that Huo Yuhao had been badly injured and Wang Dong had fallen into an unresponsive sleep after an explosion, prompting Xuanzi to nearly beat Giant Strength Douluo Cheng Gang to death.
• Medicine Immortal Douluo Wang Xian'er told Xuanzi and the others that Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong had serious soul injuries, though protective forces in their Seas of Spirit kept them alive for now.
• Qiangu Yunche accompanied Xu Jiujiu to visit the injured pair and secretly probed their condition with spiritual power.
• Medicine Immortal Douluo said Wang Dong was a girl because her Light Goddess Butterfly Martial Soul appeared only in women, and Beibei asked the others not to reveal his background.
• The Shrek team learned Wang Dong's secret, while Qiangu Yunche wondered how Huo Yuhao would react and grew more suspicious about the incident.

Ma Xiaotao warned Qiangu Yunche and Xu Jiujiu about risks to the Star Luo Empire, and learned of their ambition to unite the continent. More than twenty days into the tournament, the four semifinalists were set and the finals format was announced.

• Ma Xiaotao joined Qiangu Yunche and Xu Jiujiu in their carriage and urged them to protect the Star Luo Empire against internal problems while the Sun Moon Empire posed a threat.
• Xu Jiujiu revealed that Star Luo intended to unite the continent and argued that removing potential dangers within the empire was necessary to that goal.
• Qiangu Yunche said he supported unification as part of his path to godhood and would sweep aside anyone who opposed him.
• Ma Xiaotao left the carriage, and Xu Jiujiu told Qiangu Yunche to return home with her.
• More than twenty days into the tournament, Shrek Academy, Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, Star Luo National Academy, and Di'ao Academy advanced to the semifinals.
• The tournament announced a finals format combining a team battle, an individual elimination match, and a two-two-three battle, with the first team to win two matches taking the victory.

Xu Jiujiu entered the tournament as Star Luo National Academy’s captain and influenced the semifinal draw, setting her team against Di'ao Academy while Shrek Academy faced Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy. The match against Di'ao began with Xu Jiujiu revealing a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, stunning Star Luo Plaza.

• Xu Jiujiu took the stage for the semifinal draw, prompting Ma Xiaotao, Ma Rulong, and Jiang Peng to reconsider Star Luo National Academy’s strength.
• Xu Jiawei opened the draw, and Xu Jiujiu used a flash of starlight to take the golden lot Jiang Peng had targeted.
• Xu Jiujiu and Jiang Peng each drew number one, while Ma Xiaotao and Ma Rulong both drew number two, pairing Star Luo National Academy against Di'ao Academy and Shrek Academy against Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy.
• Xu Jiujiu told Qiangu Yunche she was excited to display the imperial family’s splendor before joining her teammates on the stage against Di'ao Academy.
• When the match began, Xu Jiujiu revealed a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, shocking the audience and Jiang Peng.

Xu Jiujiu used her Star Crown and starlight attacks to keep Jiang Peng at bay while the other fighters battled across the arena. As Jiang Peng realized she had been leading him around, he lost his temper and hurled his Heaven-Shaking Axe at her.

• Jiang Peng steeled himself against Xu Jiujiu’s hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and ordered his teammates to defeat Star Luo National Academy’s other fighters.
• Jiang Peng accepted twin brothers’ enhancements, then released his Heaven-Shaking Axe and attacked Xu Jiujiu with a heavy overhead strike.
• Xu Jiujiu enhanced her teammates with the Star Shine Technique and unleashed explosive starlight that forced Jiang Peng to keep attacking.
• Ma Rulong and Xiao Hongchen praised Xu Jiujiu’s abilities, while Elder Ma criticized Xiao Hongchen’s arrogance.
• Meng Hongchen told Xiao Hongchen that Qiangu Yunche had invited him to eat with them, and Xiao Hongchen misunderstood her words before noticing her affectionate glances with Yunche.
• Jiang Peng realized Xu Jiujiu had been leading him around, activated his third Soul Skill, and threw his Heaven-Shaking Axe at her.

Xu Jiujiu used her evolved Star Crown abilities to outmaneuver and severely wound Jiang Peng, then unleashed a devastating attack against Di'ao Academy. The chapter ended as her Jade Light Shatters Space collided with Jiang Peng and his teammates' combined counterattack, engulfing Star Luo Plaza in white light.

• Xu Jiujiu transformed into starlight to evade Jiang Peng's Heaven-Shaking Axe, but he redirected it behind her with his first Soul Skill.
• Xu Jiujiu used Dipper Shifts Stars to swap positions with Jiang Peng, causing his own axe to carve open his shoulder.
• Xu Jiujiu gathered the stars above the arena as Huang Heyun fled the stage and Jiang Peng urged Di'ao Academy's remaining fighters to attack together.
• Jiang Peng used his soul bones and Dark Demon Shakes Heaven to launch his strongest strike alongside his teammates' attacks.
• Xu Jiujiu unleashed Jade Light Shatters Space, and the attacks collided as blinding white light swept across Star Luo Plaza.

Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy prepared for their match after seeing the devastating power of Xu Jiujiu's Jade Light Shatters Space. The chapter ended as Ma Rulong's team activated their full-body Soul Tools and formed up to fight.

• Wang Yan asked whether Ling Luochen and Ma Xiaotao could withstand Jade Light Shatters Space, and both said they could, though Ma Xiaotao warned that doing so would break her Evil Fire Seal.
• Elder Ma urged the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy's main team to defeat Shrek or at least make the match close, while Xiao Hongchen questioned why he and Meng were not being rotated in.
• Xiao Hongchen judged that the seven main team members would struggle against Shrek without him and Meng, but he accepted that he could not change the lineup.
• The Star-Shattering Douluo was appointed referee for the match after the Heavenly Calamity Douluo suffered minor injuries saving Di'ao Academy's members.
• Ma Rulong gave the signal, and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy's seven members formed up and activated their full-body Soul Tools.