Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong recovered enough to fight Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, but their attacks failed against Xiao’s Rashomon defenses. Cornered by a metal torrent, they unleashed a new Martial Soul Fusion Skill, summoning the Goddess of Light.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm used his source power to stabilize Wang Dong’s injuries, then fell asleep after entrusting the rest to Ice Empress.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong embraced and used the Golden Road, but Xiao Hongchen blocked it with three Rashomon gates.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong followed with Ice Emperor’s Wrath and Butterfly Goddess Light, but Xiao’s gates repaired themselves and resisted their attacks.
• Xiao Hongchen transformed the Rashomon gates into a metal torrent and sent it crushing toward Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong.
• Meng Hongchen blocked their escape into the air, so Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong fused the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion and Light Goddess Butterfly Martial Souls.
• Their fusion transformed into a radiant woman as the Goddess of Light descended.

The Goddess of Light overwhelmed the Red Dust siblings after Tang San’s divine power emerged through her, forcing Xiao Hongchen to send Meng Hongchen away and fight for his own survival. As the chapter ended, she pierced through the defenses surrounding a decoy while Xiao Hongchen hid underground behind layers of concealment and protection.

• The Red Dust siblings fused into a three-legged toad and unleashed Red Dust Attachment, but the Goddess of Light erased the attack with her Golden Trident.
• The Goddess of Light used Indefinite Wind Wave to freeze Jing Hongchen, Kong Deming, and Heavenly Fiend Douluo, while Xiao Hongchen ended the fusion and teleported away with Meng Hongchen.
• Xiao Hongchen hurled Meng Hongchen out of the arena to save her, then stayed behind to face the Goddess of Light.
• Xiao Hongchen wrapped himself in metal defenses, burrowed underground in liquid-metal form, and used Mirror Flower Water Moon and the Eye of Fate to conceal himself.
• The Goddess of Light struck the apparent Xiao Hongchen with Never Return, shattering his metal barriers as a Level 9 Defensive Bracelet activated around the real Xiao Hongchen underground.

Xiao Hongchen survived the Golden Trident attack by escaping underground, while Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong were declared the winners after the Goddess of Light vanished. As Heavenly Fiend Douluo prepared to announce Shrek’s victory, Xiao Hongchen called for him to wait.

• The Golden Trident destroyed Xiao Hongchen’s spiritual afterimage and devastated the competition stage, alarming the spectators and his allies.
• Xiao Hongchen revealed that he had survived underground using a Level 9 Defensive Bracelet and damage reduction, though the attack had affected his spiritual afterimage.
• Jing Hongchen received Xiao Hongchen’s message confirming he was alive and warning them not to break the rules by entering the stage.
• The Goddess of Light said Shrek had won, then departed with Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong as the Douluo Plane began rejecting her presence.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong realized they had won, and the crowd erupted in celebration as Heavenly Fiend Douluo prepared to announce the result.
• Xiao Hongchen’s weak but firm voice came from the crater and told Heavenly Fiend Douluo to wait.

Xiao Hongchen crawled out of the crater and resumed his fight with Huo Yuhao, overwhelming him with his Mecha Soldier. The Heavenly Fiend Douluo stopped Xiao Hongchen from killing Huo Yuhao, then declared the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy the tournament champion.

• Xiao Hongchen emerged from the crater battered but alive and climbed into his Humanoid Soul Tool.
• Xiao Hongchen rushed Huo Yuhao and aimed his main cannon at his forehead after Huo Yuhao's Soul Shock failed and left him unconscious.
• The Heavenly Fiend Douluo blocked Xiao Hongchen's cannon blast and was injured by its force.
• The Heavenly Fiend Douluo declared Shrek Team unable to continue and named the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy the champion.

Xiao Hongchen and the Sun Moon Team celebrated their championship after defeating Shrek, while Wang Dong carried the unconscious Huo Yuhao away. The devastated Shrek team struggled with their losses, and Xuan Zi decided to resign as Sea God Pavilion Elder.

• Wang Dong carried the unconscious Huo Yuhao off the stage as Xiao Hongchen wished them luck and left the arena.
• Meng Hongchen clung to Xiao Hongchen and cried, then the Sun Moon Team congratulated him and celebrated their championship.
• Wang Dong asked Wang Yan to leave her alone and get Huo Yuhao treated, while the Shrek teammates quietly grieved their defeat and injuries.
• Xuan Zi watched the broken Shrek team and decided to resign as Sea God Pavilion Elder when he returned.

At Clear Sky Fortress, the Sect Masters reacted to danger involving Xiaodong and ordered Tang Xiaogang to secretly protect him at Shrek Academy. In the imperial city, Xu Jiawei and Dai Hao discussed the Sun Moon Empire’s Humanoid Soul Tool and its threat to the Three Douluo Kingdoms, with Dai Hao hinting that they should take action.

• The black-haired giant sensed danger to Xiaodong and prepared to go to him, but the long-haired giant stopped him, saying that a powerful person had intervened.
• After waiting three days without a message from the Sea God statue, the giants agreed to send an elder to protect Xiaodong instead of going themselves.
• The long-haired giant ordered Tang Xiaogang to travel to Shrek Academy and secretly protect the young sect master, and Tang Xiaogang eagerly accepted.
• Xu Jiawei asked Dai Hao to assess the Humanoid Soul Tool that Xiao Hongchen had used, and Dai Hao warned that mass production could give the Sun Moon Empire forces comparable to Soul Saint legions.
• Dai Hao suggested killing someone by drawing a finger across his throat, while Xu Jiawei considered the threat posed by the Sun Moon Empire’s technology.

Xu Jiawei and Dai Hao considered contacting a powerful figure in the Sun Moon Empire to obtain Humanoid Soul Tool technology. Meanwhile, Xiao Hongchen and the tournament champions entered the Star Luo treasury and selected three Soul Bones for Xu Tianzhen, Ye Guyi, and Meng Hongchen.

• Xu Jiawei suggested contacting someone in the Sun Moon Empire who might help them acquire Humanoid Soul Tool technology.
• The Star Luo Imperial Family invited the champions to its treasury and assigned Star-Shattering Douluo and Azure Phoenix Douluo to accompany them.
• Xiao Hongchen noticed that the treasury had hidden its most valuable Soul Bones, including its finest Head and Trunk Soul Bones.
• Xiao Hongchen chose a thirty-thousand-year Earth King right-leg bone for Xu Tianzhen, a forty-thousand-year Radiant Earth Dragon left-leg bone for Ye Guyi, and a fifty-thousand-year Ice Shadow Sparrow left-leg bone for Meng Hongchen.

The Sun Moon Team received tournament rewards and began its journey home, while Shrek Academy returned with serious losses after its defeat. Xuan Zi arrived at Shrek missing an arm and a leg, leaving Yan Shaozhe to ask about his injuries.

• Xiao Hongchen gave Soul Bones to Xu Tianzhen, Ye Guyi, and Meng Hongchen, and Xu Tianzhen kissed him in front of the team.
• Jing Hongchen announced that the team would share two million Gold Soul Coins in prize money and personal funds.
• Meng Hongchen and Ye Guyi advanced to level fifty-four, while Xu Tianzhen advanced to level forty-nine after absorbing their Soul Bones.
• The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy team packed its belongings and set off for the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xuan Zi led the eight remaining Shrek team members back to Shrek Academy and collected a sixty-thousand-year Ice Bear Right Arm Bone for Huo Yuhao.
• Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, and Fan Yu met the returning Shrek team, and Yan Shaozhe began asking Xuan Zi about his missing arm.

After the tournament left Shrek’s students injured and Ma Xiaotao unconscious, Mu En examined the survivors and explained how Huo Yuhao might save her. He also investigated Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’s fusion skill, suspecting it was connected to divine power, while growing wary of the Sun Moon Empire.

• Wang Yan reported that Xu Sanshi and Jiang Nannan had died, and Yan Shaozhe reprimanded Dai Yaoheng and Ling Luochеn before taking Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong to Sea God Pavilion.
• Xuan Zi resigned from his post, and Mu En assigned him to manage the inner court cafeteria while renewing his condition that Xuan Zi pass on his Godly Taotie Bull Martial Soul.
• Mu En treated Ma Xiaotao and explained that Huo Yuhao could use Ultimate Ice to suppress her evil aura once his cultivation caught up with hers.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong recreated their fusion skill, but they could not remember what happened after they lost consciousness during the match.
• Mu En recalled discovering Huo Yuhao’s extraordinary Soul Bone and suspected the Goddess of Light fusion skill was connected to a god, while deciding Shrek should accelerate its exchange program with the Sun Moon Empire.

Mu En took Huo Yuhao as his last disciple and arranged for him and Wang Dong to cultivate in Sea God Pavilion. At the meeting, the elders accepted Xuan Zi’s resignation and planned an exchange with the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, assigning Huo Yuhao to study its Soul Tool technology.

• Mu En healed Huo Yuhao, made him his last disciple, and invited him and Wang Dong to cultivate in Sea God Pavilion.
• Xuan Zi announced he would resign from his Sea God Pavilion and Shrek Inspectorate positions, and Mu En accepted his decision.
• Mu En proposed Gong Changlong as a reserve Sea God Pavilion member, and the elders approved.
• Xian Lin'er reported that Jing Hongchen had mocked Shrek and withdrawn his interest in an exchange, but Mu En decided she should negotiate with him and require Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to participate.
• Mu En ordered Qian Duoduo to prepare the Ultimate Soldier Plan and tasked Huo Yuhao with studying Mingde Hall’s Soul Tool technology, especially its Humanoid Soul Tool system.

Xiao Hongchen and the Sun Moon Team returned home to a hero’s welcome, then faced the emperor’s court to receive rewards for winning the tournament. Xu Guoren began granting the team hereditary titles and Gold Soul Coins.

• Xiao Hongchen and the Sun Moon Team returned to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, where students celebrated them as champions.
• Xiao Hongchen learned that recordings of his tournament matches had become a hit through the immersive Virtual Helmet, making Super Dream Company rich.
• Jing Hongchen summoned the fourteen team members and told them Xu Guoren wished to meet them.
• Xiao Hongchen and the team entered the Imperial Palace and paid their respects before Xu Guoren, Kong Deming, Xu Tianran, and the court.
• Xu Guoren praised the team for defeating Shrek Academy, granted Ma Rulong a hereditary viscount title and five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, and began awarding the other members hereditary baron titles and money.

Xu Guoren betrothed Princess Tianzhen to Xiao Hongchen and granted him access to the Sun Moon Empire’s Royal Secret Vault. Xiao chose a Hundred Thousand Year Silver Dragon Head Soul Bone, learning that its immense spiritual requirements had made it impossible for anyone to absorb.

• Xu Guoren betrothed Princess Tianzhen to Xiao Hongchen and declared him the imperial son-in-law once she turned fifteen.
• Xu Guoren granted Xiao Hongchen permission to choose one item from the lowest level of the Royal Secret Vault.
• Xiao Hongchen dismissed the vault’s ordinary soul bones and searched its display of Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones for a metal-elemental one.
• Xiao Hongchen noticed a silver skull soul bone, and Kong Deming identified it as the Hundred Thousand Year Silver Dragon Head Soul Bone.
• Kong Deming recounted how the Silver Dragon had attacked the empire’s mineral veins and Soul Tool bases before nine Ninth-Level Soul Engineers and a Soul Tool army killed it.
• Kong Deming explained that attempts to absorb the Silver Dragon’s soul ring had ended in death and that its head soul bone required Spiritual Power at the tangible-yet-formless level.

Xiao Hongchen chose a powerful Silver Dragon Skull in the imperial vault, then returned to Hongchen Mansion and was trapped by Ye Guyi’s plan. The chapter ended with Ye Guyi restraining him and carrying out her plan to be with him before Xu Tianzhen became his fiancée.

• Xiao Hongchen chose the Silver Dragon Soul Bone despite Kong Deming's warning about its possible remnant soul.
• Xiao Hongchen returned to Hongchen Mansion, escaped Xu Tianzhen, and drank tonic wine that Guyi had provided.
• Xiao Hongchen sensed someone under his bed, but Ye Guyi bound him with a Hexagram Array and handcuffed him with a Level 5 Soul Tool.
• Ye Guyi sealed the room and told Xiao Hongchen she could not hold back because Xu Tianzhen was about to become his fiancée.
• Ye Guyi restrained Xiao Hongchen to the bed and carried out her plan.

Xiao Hongchen turned the tables on Ye Guyi after she had restrained him, and the two spent the night together. In the morning, Xiao Hongchen brought her clothes, while Ye Guyi remained embarrassed and sore from the previous night.

• Xiao Hongchen snapped the Level Five Soul Tool handcuffs and revealed that he had let Ye Guyi take the lead so he could tease her.
• Xiao Hongchen overpowered the exhausted Ye Guyi, and she eventually begged him to slow down before falling asleep in his arms.
• At dawn, Xiao Hongchen noticed Ye Guyi was pretending to sleep and got up to dress, reflecting that he had reached Level Sixty without further awakening his Three-Legged Golden Toad Martial Soul.
• Ye Guyi woke, complained that she was sore, and asked Xiao Hongchen to fetch clothes because her own had been torn.
• Xiao Hongchen brought Ye Guyi a dress and underwear from her room, then stared as she took them, prompting her to tell him to turn around.

After spending the night together, Xiao Hongchen helped Ye Guyi return to her room and hide her condition. Meng Hongchen learned what happened and demanded that Xiao Hongchen take responsibility for Ye Guyi, while he remained engaged to Xu Tianzhen.

• Ye Guyi dressed and left Xiao Hongchen's room, then used her Holy Angel Martial Soul to ease her discomfort.
• Xiao Hongchen hid the bloodstained bedding and covered for Ye Guyi when Nana called him to breakfast.
• Meng Hongchen questioned Xiao Hongchen about Ye Guyi's absence, and he admitted that they had been together the previous night.
• Xiao Hongchen told Meng Hongchen that he and Ye Guyi were a couple, though he was still engaged to Xu Tianzhen.
• Meng Hongchen told Xiao Hongchen to take responsibility for Ye Guyi and went to see her, while Xiao Hongchen urged her to keep the matter from Xu Tianzhen.

Xiao Hongchen asked Jing Hongchen to let him speak with the Soul Beast sealed in the God Sealing Platform, while warning his grandfather that Mingde Hall might be vulnerable to underground attacks. The chapter ended as Xiao identified the sealed being as Snow Empress and prepared to partially undo the seal so they could talk.

• Xiao Hongchen told Jing Hongchen he had reached level sixty and asked to speak with the Soul Beast, while clarifying that he did not intend to use the embryo as his Sixth Soul Ring.
• Jing Hongchen led Xiao Hongchen through a hidden passage into Mingde Hall’s heavily defended underground chamber.
• Xiao Hongchen warned Jing Hongchen that enemies might dig beneath Mingde Hall and target the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo, prompting Jing to reconsider the defenses.
• Xiao Hongchen approached the God Sealing Platform and identified the sealed Soul Beast as Snow Empress, shocking Jing Hongchen.
• Xiao Hongchen told Snow Empress he could let her out, then explained to Jing Hongchen that he intended to undo only part of the seal so they could speak.

Xiao Hongchen persuaded the Snow Empress to accept a pact in exchange for freedom and the Myriad-Year Profound Ice Marrow. The chapter ended with both of them confirming a contract that made her his guardian for one hundred years.

• Jing Hongchen loosened part of the God Sealing Platform’s seal, allowing the Snow Empress to manifest and attack Xiao Hongchen.
• Xiao Hongchen stopped Jing Hongchen from retaliating and explained that he had already gained a Second Martial Soul and wanted to save her, not take her Soul Ring or Soul Bone.
• Xiao Hongchen offered to free the Snow Empress and provide the location of the Myriad-Year Profound Ice Marrow in exchange for one hundred years as his guardian.
• The Snow Empress accepted the pact after considering the contract’s terms and her limited alternatives.
• Xiao Hongchen invoked Electrolux’s ancient contract spell, and both he and the Snow Empress confirmed the agreement.

Xiao Hongchen tricked Snow Empress into sealing their contract with a kiss, then Jing Hongchen released her from the God Sealing Platform. Snow Empress agreed to protect Xiao Hongchen for a hundred years, and they planned to restore her strength with the Myriad-Year Profound Ice Marrow.

• Xiao Hongchen told Snow Empress that a kiss was required to complete their contract, and she reluctantly agreed.
• Xiao Hongchen and Snow Empress kissed, completing a contract that increased his Spiritual Power and improved her source with life force from the Gold of Life.
• Xiao Hongchen assured Jing Hongchen that Snow Empress would not harm them, and Jing Hongchen removed the seal on the God Sealing Platform.
• Snow Empress shattered the God Sealing Platform and emerged with less than thirty percent of her power remaining.
• Xiao Hongchen introduced Snow Empress as his protector for the next hundred years, and Snow Empress agreed to protect him.
• Xiao Hongchen proposed that they go to the Myriad-Year Profound Ice Marrow to help Snow Empress restore her strength.

Xiao Hongchen, Jing Hongchen, and Snow Empress traveled to the Earth Dragon Sect to retrieve the Myriad-Year Profound Ice Marrow. They reached the Cold Well, and Snow Empress carried Xiao Hongchen into its depths as he set his sights on a nearby Ice Pole Divine Crystal cavern.

• Jing Hongchen agreed to accompany Xiao Hongchen and Snow Empress, and they set out for Dragon City in the Heaven Dou Empire.
• On the flight, Snow Empress marveled at Jing Hongchen's Soul Tool and reflected on how far humans had advanced.
• Snow Empress sensed the Cold Well in the Earth Dragon Sect's rear courtyard, and Jing Hongchen concealed the trio with a level-nine concealment Soul Tool.
• Xiao Hongchen and Snow Empress entered the Cold Well while Jing Hongchen stayed behind to prevent the sect from disturbing them.
• As the water grew colder, Snow Empress shielded Xiao Hongchen and carried him deeper into the well.
• Xiao Hongchen asked Snow Empress to take him to a cavern containing Ice Pole Divine Crystal before they reached the Myriad-Year Profound Ice Marrow.

Xiao Hongchen and the Snow Empress gathered Ice Pole Divine Crystals and entered a cave of Myriad-Year Profound Ice Marrows so she could recover. Though Xiao Hongchen believed she was nearly restored, the Snow Empress secretly continued absorbing the marrows to strengthen herself for a breakthrough.

• Xiao Hongchen opened the Gate of the Undead, and the Snow Empress used it to move the cave’s Ice Pole Divine Crystals into his semi-plane.
• The Snow Empress carried Xiao Hongchen through the spring to a chamber filled with Myriad-Year Profound Ice Marrows.
• Xiao Hongchen retreated into the Undead Semi-Plane while the Snow Empress absorbed the marrows, rapidly regaining her mature form.
• When Xiao Hongchen told her she could stop, the Snow Empress claimed she had recovered most of the way and kept absorbing marrows in secret.
• The Snow Empress planned to use the marrows to break through to seven hundred thousand years and prepare to survive the ensuing tribulation.