Chapter Summaries

Xuan Zi’s negligence during the attack left Shrek’s students dead and gravely injured, and the survivors confronted him as he tried to get them to safety. He then blamed Ning Tian and Leng Qiuyu for staying outside the cave and used his pressure to threaten them.

• Zhou Yi regretted rejecting Fan Yu’s Soul Tools and cursed Xuan Zi for failing to protect the group.
• Xuan Zi carried the surviving students out as the cave collapsed, then broke down after seeing the casualties.
• Yao Haoxuan and Chen Zifeng died after asking Xuan Zi why he had failed to save them, and Wang Yan urged him to get the injured treated.
• Xuan Zi noticed Ning Tian and Leng Qiuyu were unharmed and questioned them, prompting Ning Tian to challenge his accusation.
• Xuan Zi accused Ning Tian of betraying Shrek and directed most of his pressure at Leng Qiuyu, demanding to know whether she had deliberately stayed out of the fight.

After Xuan Zi attacked Leng Qiuyu, she refused to help Ma Xiaotao suppress her Evil Fire, while Wang Yan failed to persuade her. Dai Yueheng suggested taking the injured Shrek members to Star Luo City, and Xuan Zi flew there with everyone, unaware that Ning Tian was considering how Leng Qiuyu might expose Shrek’s crimes to Huo Yuhao.

• Xuan Zi crushed Leng Qiuyu with his pressure, but Wang Yan stopped him by warning that Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire was worsening.
• Xuan Zi withdrew his pressure and ordered Leng Qiuyu to help Ma Xiaotao, but she refused and mocked him and Shrek.
• Wang Yan apologized to Leng Qiuyu and pleaded for her to save Ma Xiaotao, but she rejected his appeal.
• Dai Yueheng asked Xuan Zi to take the injured group to Star Luo City so Wang Xian’er could treat them.
• Xuan Zi carried the Shrek members, including Leng Qiuyu and Ning Tian, toward Star Luo City while Dai Huabin grieved over his injury and Ning Tian considered Shrek’s likely downfall.

Ning Tian kept her plan to expose Shrek Academy secret while Xuan Zi rushed his injured disciples to Star Luo City for treatment before the Soul Master Competition. Huo Yuhao recognized Shrek’s battered delegation and realized the Shrek Destruction Plan was about to begin.

• Ning Tian decided Leng Qiuyu would cooperate with Huo Yuhao and the others to expose Shrek during the Soul Master Competition, but concealed her intentions until success was certain.
• Xuan Zi chose to take his injured disciples to Star Luo City for Wang Xian'er’s treatment and planned to return to Shrek alone to accept the blame.
• Xuan Zi’s group reached Star Luo City and was confronted by the Star Luo Empire’s Titled Douluo for flying over the capital.
• Wang Yan calmed Xuan Zi and negotiated with the Star Luo Douluo, who agreed to descend and talk to avoid endangering the city.
• Meng Hongchen asked Huo Yuhao about Shrek’s delegation, and he recognized Dai Huabin and inferred that the group had been badly injured.
• Huo Yuhao concluded that the Shrek Destruction Plan was about to officially begin.

After Shrek’s disastrous encounter with an Evil Soul Master, Xuan Zi clashed with the Star Luo Empire’s Titled Douluo before Wang Xian’er treated the survivors. Xuan Zi then forced Leng Qiuyu to suppress Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire and left for Shrek Academy, entrusting the competition to Wang Yan and Zhou Yi.

• Wang Yan told the Star Luo Titled Douluo that the Evil Soul Master had killed most of Shrek’s team, and Xuan Zi revealed that the attacker had been only a Soul King who escaped.
• Granny Manyi mocked Xuan Zi and Shrek, provoking Xuan Zi until Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu arrived and calmed the confrontation.
• Wang Xian’er treated the Shrek students but could not restore Dai Huabin’s removed kidney or cure Ma Xiaotao’s condition.
• After the Star Luo delegation left, Xuan Zi threatened Leng Qiuyu into suppressing Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire.
• Xuan Zi told Wang Yan and Zhou Yi to oversee the group while he returned to Shrek Academy to arrange replacements for the competition.

After Xuan Zi left the injured Shrek team to compete with its reserve members, Ning Tian and Xu Jiujiu discussed Shrek’s wrongdoing with Leng Qiuyu. Leng Qiuyu considered turning to the Sun Moon Empire for help, since Star Luo would not challenge Shrek.

• Xuan Zi left for Shrek City, while Wang Yan told the dispirited reserve team to rest and prepare to compete the next day.
• Ning Tian invited Leng Qiuyu out, where they encountered Xu Jiujiu and confirmed that both women possessed Huo Yuhao’s Diary Copy.
• Xu Jiujiu learned that Leng Qiuyu had been brought in to suppress Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire and concluded that Ma Xiaotao was the real Evil Soul Master behind the earlier deaths blamed on Tang Ya.
• Leng Qiuyu said she wanted Shrek to pay, and Xu Jiujiu admitted that Star Luo would not dare openly seek justice against Shrek.
• Ning Tian suggested Leng Qiuyu seek help from the Sun Moon Empire, and Leng Qiuyu weighed that option rather than remain at risk under Shrek’s control.

Xu Jiujiu and Ning Tian maneuvered over their factions’ positions as Shrek Academy’s downfall loomed, and Xu Jiujiu proposed an alliance with the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Huo Yuhao reassured Leng Qiuyu that her family would be protected after she agreed to testify against Shrek.

• Xu Jiujiu told Leng Qiuyu where the Sun Moon Empire’s contestants were staying and asked her not to implicate the Star Luo Empire, then Leng Qiuyu left.
• Ning Tian and Xu Jiujiu discussed their factions’ plans and warily considered Shrek Academy’s likely fall after Zhang Lexuan and Leng Qiuyu testified.
• Xu Jiujiu offered to make the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect the Star Luo Empire’s State Religion if it allied with her empire, but Ning Tian said the sect elders would need to decide.
• Huo Yuhao, Xiao Hongchen, and the others condemned Shrek for threatening Leng Qiuyu and using her to suppress Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire.
• Huo Yuhao said they would protect Leng Qiuyu’s family from retaliation, easing her fears about testifying against Shrek.

Huo Yuhao and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy exposed Shrek’s recent failure, stirring public doubt in Star Luo City as the Soul Master Competition began. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao greeting Bei Bei when the two academies crossed paths.

• Leng Qiuyu agreed to stay with Shrek temporarily so she could strike at the academy during the competition.
• Kong Deming promised to rescue Leng Qiuyu’s family, while Jing Hongchen decided to publicize Shrek’s failure.
• Jing Hongchen discovered that the Star Luo Royal Family was also spreading the story, and rumors across Star Luo City damaged Shrek’s reputation.
• Wang Yan encouraged Shrek’s reserve team before they headed to the opening rounds of the competition.
• Huo Yuhao met Bei Bei as the Sun Moon and Shrek contestants set out for the venue and greeted him warmly.

Huo Yuhao reunited with Shrek’s reserve team as a contestant for the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, and Xiao Hongchen confronted Bei Bei over their past hostility. Wang Dong’er and Xiao Xiao then faced Zhou Yi, who insulted them and threatened them on Shrek’s behalf.

• Bei Bei recognized Huo Yuhao and recalled how their earlier conflict, Tang Ya’s fall, and Shrek’s recent losses had damaged his faith in the academy.
• Huo Yuhao told Xiao Hongchen that Bei Bei had once wanted to kill him, prompting Xiao Hongchen to threaten Shrek’s team and challenge them to face the Sun Moon academy in the tournament.
• Xu Sanshi defended Shrek, while Xiao Hongchen mocked the reserve team’s losses and warned that he would personally settle the score if they met in the tournament.
• Wang Yan considered whether Shrek’s reserve team could advance far, given its strong fighters and support abilities.
• Wang Dong’er asked whether Zhou Yi had come with Shrek, and Zhou Yi stepped forward to insult Wang Dong’er and Xiao Xiao for joining the Sun Moon academy and threaten them with a confrontation.

Zhou Yi threatened the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy team, while Zhang Lexuan and Ling Luochen revealed that they had joined it and would oppose Shrek in the competition. Huo Yuhao comforted Zhang Lexuan, then taunted Bei Bei about rumors that Tang Ya had become an Evil Soul Master as the team left for the competition.

• Zhou Yi told He Caitou not to hold back against the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy and said casualties were normal in competition.
• Wang Yan rebuked Zhou Yi for treating the tournament like a battlefield, but Old Ma dismissed Shrek's threats.
• Zhang Lexuan identified herself as the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy's team leader, and Ling Luochen said she was now one of its regular team members.
• Bei Bei accused Zhang Lexuan of betraying Shrek, and Zhang Lexuan grew colder as she remembered her family's murder and her connection to Bei Bei's ancestors.
• Huo Yuhao comforted Zhang Lexuan, then asked Bei Bei whether Tang Ya had fallen and become an Evil Soul Master.

Shrek's reserve team entered the competition amid rumors about the academy and growing hostility toward Huo Yuhao. As the tournament began, Huo Yuhao exposed He Caitou's identity and speculated in his Diary that Shrek intended to control the Sun Moon Empire.

• Wang Yan led Shrek's reserve team toward the competition, while Dai Huabin, Xu Sanshi, and He Caitou grew jealous of Huo Yuhao and resolved to kill him during the tournament.
• Shrek's team arrived to hear spectators spreading rumors that the academy raised Evil Soul Masters and had made the Tang Sect Master a scapegoat.
• Xu Jiawei welcomed the academies and officially opened the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Master Competition.
• Huo Yuhao sensed the malice of Dai Huabin, Xu Sanshi, and He Caitou, then wrote in his Diary that He Caitou was really Xu He, former Crown Prince of the Sun Moon Empire.
• Huo Yuhao speculated in his Diary that Shrek might install He Caitou as emperor and Zhang Lexuan as Grand Elder to secretly control the Sun Moon Empire.

Xu Tianzhen and Xu Jiujiu reacted to Huo Yuhao exposing He Caitou as the missing Sun Moon Empire Crown Prince, while Wang Yan prepared Shrek’s reserve team for the tournament. Shrek’s first match began with Bei Bei and Dai Huabin arguing onstage, leaving Huo Yuhao amused by the spectacle.

• Xu Tianzhen realized He Caitou was Xu He and considered killing him, while Xu Jiujiu concluded that Huo Yuhao was right to scheme against Shrek.
• Wang Yan warned Shrek’s reserve team that other academies would target them and urged them to win quickly and ruthlessly.
• Shrek’s seven reserve members entered the arena to loud cheers before Bei Bei outlined their strategy against Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy.
• Dai Huabin rejected Bei Bei’s orders and claimed he could defeat their opponents alone, prompting Bei Bei to confront him.
• Xu Sanshi and He Caitou stopped Bei Bei and Dai Huabin as the crowd watched their argument and Huo Yuhao smiled.

Shrek defeated Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy after Bei Bei and Dai Huabin opened the match with powerful attacks and He Caitou finished assembling his Soul Tool. The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy then sent only Xiao Hongchen and Huo Yuhao to face all seven opponents.

• Bei Bei and Dai Huabin ended their argument and charged at Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy with Ning Tian's support.
• Bei Bei and Dai Huabin knocked two opponents out of the arena, and Jiang Nannan and Zhu Lu joined the fight while Xu Sanshi stayed ready to protect Jiang Nannan.
• He Caitou completed his Soul Tool and fired, prompting the Sky Fiend Douluo to block the shell and declare Shrek the winner.
• Xiao Hongchen proposed that he and Huo Yuhao fight as a two-person team, and the Sun Moon academy members agreed.
• Xiao Hongchen dragged Huo Yuhao onto the stage and announced that the two of them would fight all seven members of their opposing team.

Xiao Hongchen and Huo Yuhao faced seven opponents in the tournament, with Huo Yuhao's illusion drawing their attacks toward the referee while Xiao Hongchen prepared his cannon platform. The opponents were saved from Xiao Hongchen's cannonballs by Sky Fiend Douluo, leaving the match's outcome uncertain as Xiao Hongchen asked who had won.

• Xiao Hongchen challenged the Shrek Reserve Team by declaring that he and Huo Yuhao would fight alone, provoking the crowd and the Shrek members.
• Xu Jiawei watched with amusement, having arranged for the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy to compete after Shrek Academy in hopes of embarrassing Shrek.
• The opposing academy's seven contestants attacked, but Huo Yuhao's Mirror Flower, Water Moon illusion made them mistake Sky Fiend Douluo for their target.
• Xiao Hongchen taunted the opponents while assembling his cannon platform, and Sky Fiend Douluo realized Huo Yuhao was influencing them with his Spiritual Power.
• Xiao Hongchen fired his cannonballs as Huo Yuhao dispelled the illusion, and Sky Fiend Douluo blocked the attack before it could hit the seven contestants.
• Xiao Hongchen put his arm around Huo Yuhao and asked who the winner was.

Xiao Hongchen and Huo Yuhao defeated their opponents, and a group of beautiful girls cheered for Huo Yuhao, drawing the crowd’s jealousy and Xiao Hongchen’s resentment. At Shrek’s waiting area, Wang Yan tried to reassure the team by claiming their rivals had advanced through pill-taking at the cost of their futures.

• Sky Fiend Douluo declared Xiao Hongchen and Huo Yuhao the winners of their match.
• Snow Empress cheered for Huo Yuhao, and Gu Yuena, Meng Hongchen, Wang Dong'er, Di Qiu'er, Xu Tianzhen, Ye Guyi, and others joined her.
• Xiao Hongchen complained that the cheerleaders had praised Huo Yuhao without naming him, then stepped away from Huo Yuhao when he noticed the crowd’s jealous stares.
• Snow Empress and Gu Yuena defended their cheering, while Huo Yuhao felt overwhelmed by their attention.
• At Shrek’s waiting area, Wang Yan claimed Xiao Hongchen and Huo Yuhao had swallowed pills and risked damaging their foundations to gain strength.

Wang Yan persuaded Shrek’s reserve team that Huo Yuhao and Xiao Hongchen’s rapid cultivation was probably false strength, urging them to fight for the championship. Meanwhile, Granny Manyi recognized Huo Yuhao from the Far North, while Xu Jiujiu concealed his role in Wind Granny’s death and the blame he had placed on Shrek.

• Wang Yan questioned Bei Bei about Huo Yuhao’s first Soul Ring, then guessed it had been a hundred-year ring with a skill that changed its color.
• Wang Yan told the reserve team that Huo Yuhao and Xiao Hongchen had likely relied on pills, and inspired Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, He Caitou, and Dai Huabin to believe they could win the championship.
• Ning Tian silently doubted Wang Yan’s claim that the reserve team could defeat the powerful opponents, despite the others embracing their mission.
• Granny Manyi recognized Huo Yuhao as the young man she had met in the Far North and asked Xu Jiujiu why he was competing for the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy.
• Xu Jiujiu claimed Huo Yuhao might have pretended to attend Shrek to avoid trouble, while privately recalling that he had killed Wind Granny and hidden his involvement by blaming Shrek.

The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy dismissed the other teams as weak, while Xiao Hongchen threatened Bei Bei and Xu Jiawei considered how Shrek might face them. At a Sea God Pavilion meeting, Xuan Zi resigned from his leadership posts over the deaths of five Shrek Inner Court geniuses, but the elders were left stunned and angry.

• Xiao Hongchen agreed with Ma Rulong that the other contestants were weak and boasted that Huo Yuhao's support would let him defeat any opponent.
• Huo Yuhao suggested that the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy leave the venue, and Xiao Hongchen threatened Bei Bei as they departed.
• Xu Jiawei ordered his subordinates to investigate the Soul Power Levels of Huo Yuhao, Xiao Hongchen, and the other Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy contestants.
• Xuan Zi announced that he would resign as deputy leader of the Shrek Supervision Group and permanently withdraw from the Sea God Pavilion because of his repeated failures as a team leader.
• Yan Shaozhe tried to dissuade Xuan Zi, but the other elders silently blamed him for the deaths of five Inner Court geniuses.

After the Death God Envoy killed five Shrek Inner Court students, Xuan Zi tried to resign, but Mu En stopped him and reassigned him to teach in the Inner Court. Mu En ordered all Inner Court disciples to receive custom Flying and defensive Soul Tools, and Yan Shaozhe questioned the decision.

• Mu En worried that Shrek would be vulnerable after his death, since Xuan Zi was the only available successor and Bei Bei and Zhang Lexuan were still away.
• Xuan Zi announced that he would leave the Sea God Pavilion after the Death God Envoy incident and listed the losses and injuries he needed to explain to the victims' families and colleagues.
• Mu En stopped Xuan Zi from resigning, removed him as vice leader of the Shrek Supervision Group, and ordered him to teach Inner Court students instead.
• Mu En declared that Shrek had to find and eliminate the Evil Soul Master who had killed five Inner Court students.
• Mu En ordered every Inner Court disciple to obtain a custom Flying Soul Tool and defensive Soul Tool from Xian Lin'er, prompting Yan Shaozhe to question the decision.

Mu En overruled Yan Shaozhe, defended the Soul Tool Department, and decided Shrek would not send reinforcements to the Soul Master Competition. He arranged an exchange with the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, while Xuan Zi secretly resolved to secure the championship at any cost.

• Xian Lin'er confronted Yan Shaozhe, and Mu En reprimanded him for resisting change and ordered him to repay the Soul Tool Department for its Soul Tools.
• Cai Meier and Xuan Zi urged Mu En to send Inner Court students to help the weakened competition team, but he refused and accepted the possibility of losing.
• Mu En argued that Shrek had become complacent about its decade-spanning winning streak and needed to face the growing strength of Soul Tools.
• Mu En told Xian Lin'er to propose an exchange program with the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, offering ten exchange students in return for access to advanced Soul Tool technology.
• Mu En appointed Fan Yu vice head of the Soul Tool Department and ordered Xuan Zi to return to Star Luo City, while Xuan Zi secretly vowed to win the championship regardless of the cost.

Huo Yuhao and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy accepted an invitation to the Starfall Auction House, while Wang Yan confronted Shrek Academy’s students over their rejection of Soul Tools. The chapter ended with Wang Yan challenging Ma Xiaotao to answer for failing to protect Gongyang Mo.

• Xuan Zi flew toward Star Luo City after telling the Shrek reserve team to protect the academy’s glory.
• Qingya invited the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy to an auction, and Huo Yuhao decided to attend with Xiao Hongchen and the others.
• Wang Yan urged Shrek’s students to buy Soul Tools, and He Caitou said Invincible Barriers could have prevented deaths in the Corpse Explosion.
• Zhu Lu thanked Ning Tian for the Invincible Barrier, while Dai Huabin secretly resented Ning Tian for not giving one to him.
• Ma Xiaotao claimed Shrek’s Soul Masters were unrivaled without Soul Tools, and Wang Yan confronted her about stopping Gongyang Mo from borrowing an Invincible Barrier.

Wang Yan persuaded Shrek’s team to accept Soul Tools after Ma Xiaotao’s refusal to borrow Ning Tian’s Invincible Barrier had contributed to Gongyang Mo’s death. At the Starlight Auction House, Huo Yuhao and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy watched the top-tier auction begin with a Ranked Engraving Knife.

• Wang Yan reminded the team that Ma Xiaotao’s rejection of Ning Tian’s offer had helped lead to Gongyang Mo’s death, and Ma Xiaotao could not defend herself.
• Wang Yan urged the Shrek team to accept Soul Tools and said he would push the Sea God Pavilion to support their research and use; Dai Yueheng and the others agreed.
• Huo Yuhao’s group arrived at the Starlight Auction House, where auctioneer Qingya accompanied them in their private room.
• Xiao Hongchen recognized the Light-Guiding Screen as a Sun Moon Empire product, while Huo Yuhao felt awkward amid the girls’ attention.
• Xu Jiujiu opened the auction and presented a Ranked Engraving Knife as the first item.