Chapter Summaries

Mu En ordered the Sea God Pavilion to send Shrek Academy students to gain battle experience against the Holy Spirit Cult while warning that he would cripple any team leader whose negligence caused another disaster. He appointed Yan Shaozhe to lead the first group to the Dou Ling Empire's border, where they would join Star Luo and Heaven Dou forces.

• Mu En asked the Sea God Pavilion members whether Shrek Academy should intervene in the war, and Yan Shaozhe argued that helping Star Luo and Heaven Dou would restore the academy's reputation and train its students.
• The Sea God Pavilion members agreed to send students into battle, and Mu En approved small-scale engagements while forbidding another disaster like the Star Dou Great Forest and Death God Envoy incidents.
• Mu En warned that he would cripple the martial soul of any team leader whose students suffered another preventable tragedy.
• Mu En ordered Yan Shaozhe to lead the first team to the Dou Ling Empire's border and said the other elders would take over after one month.
• After Mu En left, Yan Shaozhe urgently asked Xian Lin'er to equip every student with offensive and defensive Soul Tools.

Yan Shaozhe led Shrek Academy students to join the war against the Holy Spirit Cult after securing Soul Tools for them and rallying them to fight. At the Dou Ling Empire's border, he allied with Star Luo and Heaven Soul forces, while Bei Bei prepared to confront Tang Ya and the coalition set out to face the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo told Yan Shaozhe that the Soul Tool Department had already prepared equipment for the Inner Court students, and he agreed to take them to collect it.
• Yan Shaozhe rallied students to join the war, with only those at Soul Ancestor rank or above allowed to participate, then led them toward the battlefield.
• Bei Bei resolved to find Tang Ya and try to bring her back, while Xu Sanshi traveled with burning hatred for the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Yan Shaozhe's group reached the Dou Ling Empire's border and joined Star Luo and Heaven Soul forces, who said the Sun Moon Empire had declined to fight the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Yan Shaozhe declared that Shrek Academy would confront the Holy Spirit Cult, while the allied Titled Douluos silently doubted his sincerity.

Yan Shaozhe led Shrek Academy’s students into the Dou Ling Empire to confront the Holy Spirit Cult, whose leaders prepared Ma Xiaotao and Tang Ya to fight their former academy. Bound by contracts to Huo Yuhao, the two followed his orders, and Tang Ya asked whether she could kill Bei Bei and devour his evolved martial soul.

• Yan Shaozhe agreed to lead Shrek Academy’s forces into the Dou Ling Empire, and Star Luo and Heaven Soul joined them to confront the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Feng Ling met the Shrek forces and ordered Ma Xiaotao and Tang Ya to kill their former academy’s students.
• Ma Xiaotao and Tang Ya secretly asked Huo Yuhao what to do through their Master-Servant Contracts, and he told them to follow Feng Ling’s orders.
• Tang Ya asked Huo Yuhao whether she could kill Bei Bei and devour him to strengthen her Blue Silver Grass.
• Huo Yuhao told Tang Ya to decide for herself, then urged both Saintesses to provoke a full war between Shrek Academy and the Holy Spirit Cult.

As Shrek’s war with the Holy Spirit Cult began, Ma Xiaotao and Tang Ya led the cult’s Evil Soul Masters in a targeted assault that killed Shrek students. Yan Shaozhe tried to intervene but Feng Ling blocked him, leaving the battle escalating around him.

• After arguing with Yan Shaozhe, Feng Ling sent Ma Xiaotao and Tang Ya to lead the Holy Spirit Cult’s attack.
• Yan Shaozhe recognized Ma Xiaotao’s fused Ultimate Fire and Ultimate Darkness and considered abducting her, but Feng Ling reminded him that Mu En had handed her over to the cult.
• Ma Xiaotao unleashed Black Flame while Tang Ya’s Dark Blue Silver Grass drained several Shrek students, and ten Soul Ancestor-level students died within moments.
• Feng Ling stopped Yan Shaozhe from rescuing the students, so he ordered Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming to support them.
• Han Ruoruo held off the cult’s stronger fighters while Wu Ming entered her Golden Crow True Body state and charged toward Ma Xiaotao and Tang Ya.
• The Star Luo and Heaven Soul Titled Douluo watched in shock as Yan Shaozhe fought Feng Ling despite the agreement keeping Super Douluo out of the battle.

Yan Shaozhe ignored the agreement to keep Super Douluo out of the battle and led Shrek, Star Luo, and Heaven Soul forces against the Holy Spirit Cult. Feng Ling escaped with Zhang Peng and Wu Yun, while the story ended with Mu En sensing that something had gone wrong.

• Yan Shaozhe rejected Unbreakable Douluo Zheng Zhan's warning and entered his Light Phoenix Martial Soul Avatar to attack Feng Ling.
• Unbreakable Douluo, Giant Hammer Douluo, and the other Titled Douluo joined Yan Shaozhe, forcing the Holy Spirit Cult forces to retreat as Ma Xiaotao, Tang Ya, and Wu Ming sustained injuries.
• Feng Ling ordered a retreat, then escaped with Zhang Peng and Wu Yun while Yan Shaozhe turned to attack Nangong Wan and another Evil Soul Master.
• At Shrek Academy, Mu En felt a wave of unease as he watched the Golden Ancient Tree.

Zhongli Wu prepared to retaliate against Shrek Academy after Yan Shaozhe’s attack, but Ye Xishui initially forbade him from escalating the conflict. She ultimately let him lead the Holy Spirit Cult elders toward the border, while Huo Yuhao predicted that the clash would make war unavoidable.

• Zhongli Wu learned that Feng Ling and the two Saintesses had been injured and that two Holy Spirit Cult Titled Douluo had been killed, so he gathered the Cult’s powerful elders to attack Yan Shaozhe.
• Ye Xishui ordered Zhongli Wu to end the matter, warning that killing Yan Shaozhe could provoke Mu En and that it was not yet time for an all-out war with Shrek Academy.
• Zhongli Wu refused to back down, and Ye Xishui finally allowed him and the elders to go after Yan Shaozhe.
• Ma Xiaotao and Tang Ya reported their completed mission to Huo Yuhao, and Tang Ya regretted failing to absorb Bei Bei’s Life Force and Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao told Ma Xiaotao and Tang Ya to wait, predicting that Zhongli Wu and Yan Shaozhe would keep escalating the conflict; he also expected Tang Ya to target Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi with her Dark Blue Silver Grass.

After Yan Shaozhe’s actions embroiled Shrek in the war against the Holy Spirit Cult, Mu En sent the Sea God Pavilion members to support him and realized Yan had deliberately escalated matters to shield himself from punishment. Hearing that Yan and Shrek’s students had been attacked, Xuan Zi decided to take his search party to fight the Holy Spirit Cult, despite Mu En’s orders to focus on finding Immortal Herbs.

• Xu Jiawei ordered Star Luo’s worshippers to support Yan Shaozhe rather than let the Holy Spirit Cult kill him.
• At the Heavenly Soul Emperor’s request, Du Busi led Body Sect Titled Douluo to protect Yan Shaozhe.
• Mu En sent the Sea God Pavilion members to support Yan and realized Yan had caused trouble deliberately to prevent him from punishing him.
• An Outer Academy teacher told Xuan Zi that Yan had been injured, students had suffered casualties, and Du Busi had driven off Zhongli Wu and the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Xuan Zi ordered the teachers accompanying him to leave their Immortal Herb search and help Shrek fight the Holy Spirit Cult.

Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe’s actions ignited a continent-wide war, while Xu Tianran welcomed refugees and prepared to capitalize on the fighting. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao showed Gu Yuena the completed Two-Word Battle Armor, and they planned to teach others how to make it.

• Xuan Zi joined the fighting, and his actions helped turn the conflict between Shrek, the Holy Spirit Cult, and other powers into a full-scale war.
• Mu En was furious at Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe but held back from punishing them, while Du Busi and Xuan Zi’s victories forced the Holy Spirit Cult onto the defensive.
• Zhongli Wu ordered attacks in the Star Luo and Heaven Soul Empires, prompting civilians to flee to the Sun Moon Empire, where Xu Tianran arranged their settlement.
• Xu Tianran privately welcomed the war as an opportunity for the Sun Moon Empire to build strength while Battle Armor development neared completion.
• Huo Yuhao demonstrated that his Two-Word Battle Armor let him defeat a Seven-Ring Soul Sage and likely overpower an ordinary Eight-Ring Soul Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena agreed to teach the Two-Word Battle Armor process to Teacher and Dean Jing and prepare Xue'er and Meng Hongchen to develop their own armor.

Huo Yuhao’s Battle Armor and manufacturing ideas excited the Sun Moon Empire’s Rank Nine Soul Engineers, who saw them as a path to technological and military dominance. He also advised Xu Tianran to sell Soul Tools to the empire’s enemies at terms that would drain their resources and discourage their own development.

• Jing Hongchen and the Rank Nine Soul Engineers celebrated Huo Yuhao’s Battle Armor and discussed how the war between Shrek, the Holy Spirit Cult, Star Luo, and Heavenly Soul had become a tool for recruitment and political purges.
• Kong Deming told Huo Yuhao that construction of the lathe he had proposed was nearly complete, and the Soul Engineers praised his plans for assembly-line Soul Tool production.
• Huo Yuhao recalled advising Xu Tianran to sell Soul Tools to Star Luo, Heavenly Soul, and the Holy Spirit Cult in exchange for rare metals or full prices in Gold Soul Coins.
• Xu Tianran followed Huo Yuhao’s advice, using favorable terms to make his rivals depend on the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Tools and undermine their own Soul Tool industries.

Shrek Academy suffered heavy casualties and fell further behind the Sun Moon Empire after discovering its Soul Tools could be mass-produced, forcing it to buy them. Huo Yuhao showed his Two-Word Battle Armor to his friends, while he still had not chosen a name for it.

• The Holy Spirit Cult's wealth from occupying the Dou Ling Empire let it buy powerful Soul Tools, prompting Star Luo and Heaven Soul to spend heavily on their own forces.
• Shrek Academy's inferior Soul Tools led to severe casualties, so the academy bought Soul Tools from the Sun Moon Empire and discovered the products were identical.
• Mu En grew silent and aged visibly after learning that the Sun Moon Empire might have mastered mass production and that Shrek had fallen far behind.
• Xiao Hongchen asked to try Huo Yuhao's Battle Armor, but Huo Yuhao explained it was exclusive to him.
• Xu Tianran suggested Xiao Hongchen make his own Battle Armor, but Xiao Hongchen said he could only create One-Word Battle Armor while Huo Yuhao wore Two-Word Battle Armor.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that Gu Yuena had helped design and forge his Battle Armor, and he still had not decided what to name it.

Huo Yuhao helped the Sun Moon Empire grow stronger while secretly prolonging the war between its rivals. As the Soul Master Competition approached, Xu Tianran planned to open it to sects so the empire could display its power, and Huo Yuhao welcomed the challenge.

• Gu Yuena realized the Snow Empress had won the Girl Squad’s support and designed Battle Armor for the girls to strengthen her own standing.
• Huo Yuhao secretly used Ma Xiaotao and Tang Ya to keep the war between the Holy Spirit Cult, Shrek, Star Luo, and Heaven Soul going, leaving most of his enemies impoverished over four years.
• Xu Tianran hosted a banquet for Huo Yuhao, Xiao Hongchen, and Ji Juechen and proposed allowing eligible sects to enter the upcoming Soul Master Competition.
• Huo Yuhao supported Xu Tianran’s plan to showcase the Sun Moon Empire’s strength and advance its unification of the continent.
• Xu Tianran asked whether Huo Yuhao could win against the stronger competition, and Huo Yuhao said he hoped for formidable opponents.

Huo Yuhao’s strength and Mirror Flower, Water Moon left Xu Tianran, Xiao Hongchen, and Ji Juechen convinced that no competitor his age could match him. After Xu Tianran announced that sects could enter the Soul Master Competition, the Holy Spirit Cult prepared to compete while Mu En worried that Shrek Academy might struggle to reach the top four.

• Ji Juechen, Xu Tianran, and Xiao Hongchen said Huo Yuhao’s Mirror Flower, Water Moon was nearly impossible to escape, and Huo Yuhao said nothing about his overwhelming Spiritual Power.
• Xu Tianran decided to announce that sects could participate in the Soul Master Competition, prompting factions across the continent to pause their conflicts.
• Zhongli Wu and Feng Ling decided the Holy Spirit Cult would enter, with the Blue Silver Saintess leading its team and Zhang Peng serving as team leader.
• Zhongli Wu planned to follow the Holy Spirit Cult team in secret and told the Blue Silver Saintess to target Shrek’s contestants if they met.
• Mu En worried that Shrek would face the Sun Moon Empire’s strongest young fighters and other sects, and accepted that reaching the top four would be a major achievement.

As sects across the continent prepared to enter the Soul Master Competition, the Clear Sky Sect joined with plans to claim the championship and restore its reputation. At the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, Huo Yuhao continued strengthening himself, fearing Tang San’s return and the coming war of unification.

• Sects across the continent selected contestants after the competition rules allowed sects to participate, and the Body Sect chose Long Aotian as its captain.
• Niu Tian and Titan persuaded the Clear Sky Sect elders to enter the competition and seek the championship to reassert the sect’s strength.
• Five years after arriving at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, Huo Yuhao struggled to keep Gu Yuena, the Snow Empress, and other girls at bay while continuing his cultivation.
• Huo Yuhao worried that Tang San would regain contact with Douluo Continent and use his mother’s soul to force him into submission.
• Huo Yuhao began reforging his Battle Armor as he prepared for the Sun Moon Empire’s coming march toward unification.

Gu Yuena and Snow Empress prepared to spar while the Girl Squad watched and placed bets. Meanwhile, the Holy Spirit Cult and Shrek’s teams encountered each other on the way to Mingdu, where Tang Ya and Ma Xiaotao were delighted to see Huo Yuhao again after five years.

• Gu Yuena asked Snow Empress to spar after they discussed Huo Yuhao’s attempt to raise his Battle Armor to the Three-Word level.
• The Girl Squad gathered to watch the match, and Meng Hongchen invited them to bet on the winner.
• Di Qiu'er supported Gu Yuena while Wang Dong'er backed Snow Empress, and the other girls split their support between them.
• Zhongli Wu led the Holy Spirit Cult’s contestants toward Mingdu, where they encountered Shrek’s team and Death God Envoy threatened Bei Bei and the others.
• Bei Bei watched Tang Ya with sadness, while Tang Ya and Ma Xiaotao rejoiced that they could see their master, Huo Yuhao, again after five years.

Tang Ya and Bei Bei faced the prospect of meeting again in the Soul Master Competition, while participants arriving in Mingdu marveled at the Sun Moon Empire’s prosperity and Huo Yuhao’s everyday inventions. The chapter ended with an Earth Dragon Sect group learning that the empire’s leaders aimed to improve ordinary people’s lives.

• Tang Ya glared at Bei Bei and resolved to kill him and devour his Life Force and Soul Power if they met during the competition.
• Bei Bei feared Tang Ya and doubted he could ever bring her back from the Evil Soul Masters.
• The competition participants arrived in Mingdu and saw people from different nations living peacefully amid the capital’s prosperity.
• Nan Qiuqiu admired the city and asked a stall owner about a pink lamp made by Huo Yuhao.
• The stall owner demonstrated that the Soul Tool Lamp stored sunlight and provided light without requiring Soul Power.
• The stall owner explained that Huo Yuhao and the Crown Prince created useful non-offensive Soul Tools to improve ordinary people’s lives.

Nan Shuishui and the Earth Dragon Sect witnessed Mingdu’s prosperity and the Sun Moon Empire’s respect for ordinary people, making her question whether she had been right to refuse Xu Tianran. Xu Tianran and Huo Yuhao discussed how the empire’s policies were drawing sects toward it, and they concluded that the Original Douluo Three Kingdoms might collapse without a war.

• Nan Shuishui saw Mingdu’s prosperity and its people’s pride in the Sun Moon Empire, and questioned her earlier refusal to relocate the Earth Dragon Sect.
• Xu Tianran told Huo Yuhao that many sects were negotiating to join the Sun Moon Empire after seeing its progress.
• Huo Yuhao explained that sects risked losing their standing if they chose poorly, while the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and other early allies had secured favorable terms.
• Huo Yuhao noticed a Tianhun Sect member harassing a stall owner, and the City Management Team arrested the troublemaker for bullying an ordinary person.
• Xu Tianran explained that Huo Yuhao’s policies for free awakenings and accessible Soul Tools had inspired further measures that improved ordinary people’s lives and attracted migrants.
• Xu Tianran said the Sun Moon Empire’s transformation could cause the Original Douluo Three Kingdoms to collapse without war.

Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe surveyed Mingdu and saw how the Sun Moon Empire’s prosperity was drawing sects toward defection. Jing Hongchen revealed that he had become a Super Douluo and provoked Xuan Zi, while Yan Shaozhe hurried him away before he could start a fight.

• Yan Shaozhe told Xuan Zi that Mingdu had more than ten Soul Douluo, dozens of Soul Sages, and at least three Rank Nine Soul Engineers keeping order.
• Yan Shaozhe warned that many sects were discussing defection to the Sun Moon Empire, worsening the outlook for Star Luo and Heaven Soul and threatening Shrek Academy’s future.
• Xuan Zi agreed not to cause trouble before the Soul Master Competition ended, though Yan Shaozhe feared he would act afterward.
• Jing Hongchen approached Xuan Zi and announced that he had recently broken through to Rank Ninety-Five and become a Super Douluo.
• Jing Hongchen taunted Xuan Zi about the gifts Shrek Academy had given the Sun Moon Empire, and Yan Shaozhe pulled Xuan Zi away before he could attack.

Xuan Zi reacted furiously after Jing Hongchen revealed that he had become a Super Douluo, while Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo recognized how far the Sun Moon Empire had advanced in Soul Tool technology. Huo Yuhao prepared for Shrek to cause trouble after the competition and ordered Ma Xiaotao and Tang Ya to help provoke a clash between the Holy Spirit Cult and Shrek Academy.

• Xuan Zi raged over Jing Hongchen's breakthrough, while Qian Duoduo admitted that Shrek Academy could no longer match the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Tool technology.
• Jing Hongchen told Xu Tianran and Huo Yuhao that Xuan Zi had nearly attacked him, and Huo Yuhao warned that Xuan Zi would likely seek revenge after the competition.
• Xu Tianran assigned Jing Hongchen to watch Xuan Zi, and Jing Hongchen vowed to kill him if he caused trouble in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Ma Xiaotao and Tang Ya told Huo Yuhao that Zhongli Wu had ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to disrupt the Sun Moon Empire and that elders were being summoned from the Dou Ling Empire.
• Huo Yuhao asked Ma Xiaotao and Tang Ya to find the elders' hiding places and arranged for the Holy Spirit Cult to face Shrek Academy, while Tang Ya vowed to kill Bei Bei and the others.

Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi feared Huo Yuhao might overshadow them again at the Soul Master Competition, and their hopes of catching up vanished when he appeared as an eight-ring Soul Douluo. Huo Yuhao thrilled the Sun Moon Empire crowd and defeated the Dragon Slaying Sect captain with one punch, winning the opening match.

• Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi discussed their unease about the competition and wondered if five years of cultivation had allowed them to catch up to Huo Yuhao.
• Crown Prince Xu Tianran announced the opening match between the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy and the Dragon Slaying Sect, and Huo Yuhao entered the arena to thunderous cheers.
• Huo Yuhao revealed eight Soul Rings, including two hundred-thousand-year rings, stunning the crowd and leaving the Dragon Slaying Sect captain terrified.
• Huo Yuhao charged forward and knocked the Dragon Slaying Sect captain out of the arena with one punch, and the referee declared him the winner.

After Huo Yuhao effortlessly won the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy’s opening match, the spectators struggled to comprehend the gulf between his strength and their own. His victory left rivals plotting against him and several proud geniuses questioning their worth.

• Huo Yuhao defeated the Dragon Slaying Sect’s strongest fighter without using a soul skill, and the sect conceded defeat.
• Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and Dai Huabin watched Huo Yuhao with shock and resentment, while Dai Huabin resolved to kill Zhu Lu when Shrek Academy faced the Star Luo Royal Academy.
• Xuan Zi noticed Zhongli Wu’s killing intent toward Huo Yuhao and decided to approach him about a plan to kill Huo Yuhao.
• Du Busi celebrated his decision to give Huo Yuhao the Body Martial Soul Cultivation Method, believing their goodwill would protect the Body Sect’s future.
• Long Aotian saw Wei Na watching Huo Yuhao and realized his own strength was insignificant by comparison, shattering his Dao Heart.