Chapter Summaries

Yuwen Tuo refused Ling Luochen’s offer to help him leave Shrek, then reached Star Luo City with the group for the Soul Duel Tournament. Xiao Xiao and Ma Xiaotao confronted each other over him, and Yuwen Tuo rejected Ma Xiaotao before Gong Changlong intervened.

• Yuwen Tuo told Ling Luochen he would not flee Shrek yet, because he wanted to clear his name and leave openly, and the group continued toward Star Luo City.
• Yuwen Tuo and the others arrived in Star Luo City, where the defending champions were welcomed and housed by the Star Luo Imperial Family.
• Xiao Xiao reunited with Yuwen Tuo at the hotel, but Ma Xiaotao arrived and tried to take him to her room to check for injuries.
• Xiao Xiao and Ling Luochen challenged Ma Xiaotao, and Yuwen Tuo pushed them behind him and told Ma Xiaotao that she no longer had any reason to concern herself with him.
• Gong Changlong appeared and warned them that their argument was bringing disgrace to Shrek in Star Luo City.

Yuwen Tuo arranged for Xiao Xiao to use Huo Yuhao’s Body Martial Soul to draw the Body Sect to Star Luo City, where Jiang Peng could help contact them. As Shrek prepared for the tournament, Ma Xiaotao tried to keep Yuwen Tuo close, while he focused on the Body Sect’s arrival.

• Ma Xiaotao invited Yuwen Tuo inside and offered him a gift, but he took Xiao Xiao’s hand instead, angering her.
• Xiao Xiao told Yuwen Tuo that she had found Jiang Peng and passed along the information without mentioning Yuwen Tuo.
• Jiang Peng and his lackey realized Xiao Xiao had likely used them, though Jiang Peng claimed he had knowingly played along.
• Yuwen Tuo had directed Xiao Xiao to contact Jiang Peng so the Body Sect would come to Star Luo City and learn about Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Eye.
• Zhou Yi gathered the Shrek team and explained that most of the main team could not compete; Ma Xiaotao promised to protect Yuwen Tuo, who remained focused on the Body Sect.

During Shrek’s tournament preparations, Yuwen Tuo refused to fight for the academy, rejecting appeals to its honor and a warning from Gong Changlong. Ma Xiaotao offered to take on his responsibilities, while Yuwen Tuo left the meeting determined to follow his own path.

• Zhou Yi explained that she wanted the team to conserve Ma Xiaotao and Luochen’s strength and avoid revealing too much about them to opponents using Soul Tools.
• Yuwen Tuo refused to compete for Shrek unless the academy offered him a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, prompting Zhou Yi and Huo Yuhao to challenge him.
• Dai Yueheng confronted Yuwen Tuo, but Ma Xiaotao stepped between them and volunteered to handle his share of the matches.
• Yuwen Tuo tried to leave, and Gong Changlong appeared and urged him to let go of past grudges, promising that the academy would compensate him and that he would personally handle Yuwen Tuo’s Soul Rings.
• Yuwen Tuo declined Gong Changlong’s offer and left to rest, while Gong Changlong let him go.

After leaving Shrek’s team, Yuwen Tuo was approached by a Star Luo princess, a Douling Royal Academy captain, and a Sun Moon Empire teacher, each seeking information or trying to recruit him. He rejected them all and remained intent on going to the Heaven Dou Empire to find the answers he wanted.

• Zhou Yi explained the tournament rules to Wang Dong and the others after Yuwen Tuo left the team.
• A golden-haired princess questioned Yuwen Tuo about his village and their possible connection, but he dismissed her and walked away.
• Guzhu Jian introduced himself as captain of the Douling Royal Academy team and challenged Yuwen Tuo to a future match, but Yuwen Tuo brushed him off.
• Ma Lao of the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy offered to take Yuwen Tuo to the empire and reveal information about his past, but Yuwen Tuo refused.
• Ma Lao warned Yuwen Tuo that Star Luo was tied to his past suffering before leaving, and Yuwen Tuo wondered why the Heaven Dou Empire had not come for him.

Ma Xiaotao offered Yuwen Tuo a powerful soul bone as compensation, but he refused it and named the Sun Moon Empire's Royal Soul Engineer Academy as the team he wanted to face. Meanwhile, the academy's leaders discussed Shrek's weakened lineup and Yuwen Tuo's place in their plans as they prepared for the first round.

• Ma Xiaotao visited Yuwen Tuo, showed him her purified Ultimate Fire, and offered him a sixty-thousand-year Fire Demon Bloodthirsty Terror Claw Bear left arm bone.
• Yuwen Tuo refused the soul bone, and Ma Xiaotao warned him to stay away from Xiao Xiao before preparing to leave.
• Yuwen Tuo stopped Ma Xiaotao and said he wanted to face the Sun Moon Empire's Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Ma Lao complained that Shrek had entered the tournament with only three upper-year students, while Xiao Hongchen dismissed Shrek's reserve team and mocked Yuwen Tuo.
• Ma Lao said he wanted to bring Yuwen Tuo back to support Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen agreed that a helper would be useful before Ma Lao began assigning the first-round lineup.

Star Luo Emperor Xu Jiawei opened the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Duel Tournament as representatives from across the continent gathered. As the first match began, Wei Na and her companion learned that the Spirit Eye Martial Soul user was with Shrek and entered the arena.

• Xu Jiawei confirmed the tournament preparations with his prime minister and discussed the competition with the Empress and Xu Jiujiu.
• Xu Jiujiu told the Empress that the Sun Moon and Dou Ling Empires had also contacted the mysterious child whose background could unsettle the continent.
• Jiang Peng met Wei Na and a tall, red-haired man, who had come to verify intelligence about the child.
• Xu Jiawei declared the tournament officially open, and the citizens celebrated as ceremonial cannons fired.
• Wei Na asked Jiang Peng about the child with the Spirit Eye Martial Soul, and he pointed out the child entering the arena with Shrek.

Shrek Academy opened the tournament with an easy win over Tianling Academy, as Huo Yuhao used Simulation to frighten their opponents with fake Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings. Wei Na and Long Aotian recognized his potential and decided that the Body Sect should take him away.

• Ma Xiaotao reassured Shrek’s reserve team before they faced Tianling Academy in the first-round team battle.
• Yuwen Tuo spotted Wei Na and Long Aotian with Di'ao Academy and recognized their importance.
• Huo Yuhao led Shrek’s unusual formation, and his Simulation skill made his six soul rings appear to be genuine Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• Long Aotian saw through the deception, and Wei Na identified Huo Yuhao’s exceptional Spirit Eye martial soul and expressed the Body Sect’s interest in him.
• Tianling Academy’s stunned members stayed together and were defeated when Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong used their Golden Road Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

After Huo Yuhao refused the Body Sect’s offer to join them, Yuwen Tuo intervened when Yu Tao tried to seize him. Yuwen Tuo entered Lang Ya’s Sea of Consciousness and asked whether the Body Sect would take him in as well.

• Huo Yuhao and the Shrek group returned to their hotel, where Lang Ya and Yu Tao blocked their way and demanded to speak with him.
• Wei Na and Long Aotian introduced themselves and the others as members of the Body Sect, then offered to bring Huo Yuhao back because of his Spirit Eye Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao firmly refused, saying he would remain with Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect.
• Yu Tao tried to grab Huo Yuhao as he left, but Yuwen Tuo caught his wrist.
• Yuwen Tuo connected with Lang Ya’s mind, entered his Sea of Consciousness, and asked whether the Body Sect would take him home too.

Yuwen Tuo used a soul-imprint message to reveal his Innate Sword Soul and ask the Body Sect to rescue him from Shrek Academy. Lang Ya and the others learned that Shrek’s powerful allies made Star Luo City their only chance, and Yuwen Tuo urged them to bring Du BuSi before the tournament ended.

• Yuwen Tuo gave Lang Ya his Noble Carriage Sword, revealed that it was his Body Martial Soul, and urged the Body Sect to take him home.
• Lang Ya stopped Yu Tao from fighting Gong Changlong and let Huo Yuhao and the Shrek group leave, despite the Body Sect’s surprise.
• Huo Yuhao thanked Yuwen Tuo, while Xiao Xiao defended him and reminded the others that they had isolated him.
• Lang Ya told Wei Na, Long Aotian, and Yu Tao that Yuwen Tuo—not Huo Yuhao—was the person the Body Sect should bring back because he possessed Twin Martial Souls and an Innate Sword Soul.
• Yuwen Tuo’s recorded message described how Shrek Academy had trapped and humiliated him, then warned the Body Sect to return with Du BuSi and rescue him in Star Luo City before the tournament ended.

The Body Sect decided to summon its Sect Master’s teacher to bring its child back from Shrek, while Yuwen Tuo joined Shrek’s team on an outing to the Auction House. There, Zhou Yi prepared to equip the students with Soul Tools, and the group registered for the auction.

• Wei Na agreed to report Yuwen Tuo’s information to the Sect Master, and Long Aotian sent Yu Tao to summon his teacher before the tournament ended.
• Shrek defeated Yunluo Academy, and Xu Sanshi invited Yuwen Tuo to join the team on an outing.
• Ma Xiaotao offered to buy Yuwen Tuo something at the Auction House, but he took Xiao Xiao’s hand and went with her instead.
• Zhou Yi brought the students to the Auction House so they could obtain Soul Tools and gave each of them a numbered bidding plaque.

At a Starlight Auction House Soul Tool auction, Jiang Peng confronted Yuwen Tuo with a warning about his family elders while disguising it as friendly advice. When a carving knife made of Life Gold appeared, Yuwen Tuo recognized the material’s significance.

• Zhou Yi and the Shrek group entered the masked auction, where Qing Ya introduced a Level 3 Soul Tool Paralysis Ray that could paralyze Soul Masters below Soul King rank.
• Jiang Peng joined the group, teased Yuwen Tuo about his earlier bidding tactics, and hinted that Yuwen Tuo should be ready to leave with his family elders.
• Zhou Yi bought a Level 4 Milk Bottle for twenty-five thousand Gold Soul Coins, while Yuwen Tuo declined to buy the Paralysis Ray for Xiao Xiao.
• A carving knife made of Life Gold appeared, catching Yuwen Tuo’s interest because the material had helped Huo Yuhao open his Second Sea of Consciousness.

Yuwen Tuo bought the cursed Soul Devouring Engraving Knife for one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, recognizing its value as Life Gold. Back at the hotel, he awakened its baleful aura and used the Xuanyuan Sword's Holy Dao Power to begin purifying it.

• Qing Ya explained that the Soul Devouring Engraving Knife was a cursed Ranked Carving Knife whose previous owners had met terrible fates, and opened bidding at one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Yuwen Tuo bid the starting price despite warnings from Xiao Xiao, Ling Luochen, Ma Xiaotao, and Zhou Yi, and said he would pay with his own money.
• Qing Ya sold the knife to Yuwen Tuo, who collected it and left the remaining auction items alone.
• Yuwen Tuo returned to the hotel and fed a trace of Soul Power into the knife, releasing its vicious aura.
• Yuwen Tuo summoned the Xuanyuan Sword, whose golden Holy Dao Power dispersed the evil aura, and declared that he would purify the knife.

Shrek defeated Thousand Spirit Academy after Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice broke its signature ice-fire tactic, while Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy noticed evidence that his supposed Soul Emperor strength was an act. Back at the hotel, Yuwen Tuo agreed to attend Shrek’s match against Righteous Heaven Academy and asked to fight alongside Ling Luochen, leaving Gong Changlong to approve their participation if the draw used the two-two-three format.

• Huo Yuhao’s Ice Jade Scorpion suppressed An Lengye and Fei Yuyan’s ice-fire control, and Shrek defeated Thousand Spirit Academy.
• Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy inferred that Huo Yuhao was not a Soul Emperor after Xu Sanshi switched places with him to block Shen Ce’s attack.
• Gong Changlong kicked open Yuwen Tuo’s door and ordered him to attend Shrek’s next match against Righteous Heaven Academy.
• Yuwen Tuo agreed to watch the match after realizing Righteous Heaven Academy had someone whose abilities interested him.
• Yuwen Tuo asked to fight with Ling Luochen in the first round if the match used the two-two-three format, and Gong Changlong approved the plan.

Yuwen Tuo and Ling Luochen entered the first match of Shrek Academy’s contest against Righteous Heaven Academy, where they faced Yu Mengdi and Yang Yifan. As Yu Mengdi revealed her angel Martial Soul, the other empires’ spectators showed they knew something about Yuwen Tuo’s background and reacted with interest or hostility.

• Shrek Academy and Righteous Heaven Academy drew the 2-2-3 match format, and Yuwen Tuo volunteered to fight alongside Ling Luochen.
• Yu Mengdi and Yang Yifan took the field against Ling Luochen and Yuwen Tuo, and Yu Mengdi revealed her powerful angel Martial Soul.
• Star Luo Emperor Xu Jiawei and the Star Luo Empress discussed Yuwen Tuo’s mysterious inheritance, while Meng Hongchen declared her interest in marrying him.
• Guzhu Jian and the Dou Ling Empire Royal Academy’s imperial-affiliated Soul Masters regarded Yuwen Tuo as a threat who should be killed.
• Jiang Peng urged his team to cheer for Yuwen Tuo as the match began.

Yuwen Tuo and Ling Luochen defeated Yang Yifan and Yu Mengdi in a coordinated ice-and-fire assault that lasted only forty-seven seconds. Their performance left the spectators and Ma Rulong impressed by how effectively they fought together.

• Yang Yifan confidently predicted victory, but Yu Mengdi warned him not to underestimate Yuwen Tuo’s unusual Soul Ring configuration.
• Yuwen Tuo and Ling Luochen joined hands and combined their fire and ice attacks into a tornado that trapped and defeated Yang Yifan.
• Yu Mengdi used her Angel God Sealing Slash to break the tornado, but Yuwen Tuo pursued her through the air with Ling Luochen’s support.
• Yuwen Tuo absorbed the Angel Sacred Flame from Yu Mengdi’s attack, kicked her down, and Ling Luochen froze her before Yuwen Tuo struck her out of the arena.
• The referee declared Ling Luochen and Yuwen Tuo the winners, and Ma Rulong noted that the match had taken just forty-seven seconds.

Yuwen Tuo’s performance impressed the watching empires, while Ling Luochen and Ma Xiaotao struggled with their feelings about their close coordination. After learning that Yuwen Tuo was a Body Sect member, Du Busi set out with Jin Peng to reclaim him, as Ma Xiaotao entered the next tournament match and swiftly overwhelmed Righteous Heaven Academy.

• Meng Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and leaders from the Sun Moon and Star Luo Empires praised Yuwen Tuo’s strength, while Guzhu Jian seethed with jealousy.
• Ma Xiaotao questioned Ling Luochen’s perfect coordination with Yuwen Tuo, and Ling Luochen realized he had grown beyond the younger-brother role she had given him.
• Wei Na condemned Shrek for crippling Yuwen Tuo, and Yu Tao told Du Busi that Yuwen Tuo had asked the Body Sect to reclaim him publicly.
• Du Busi ordered Jin Peng to accompany him to take back Yuwen Tuo and Huo Yuhao from Shrek.
• Zhou Yi sent Ma Xiaotao into the second match, where her seven rings revealed she was a Soul Saint.
• Ma Xiaotao swept Tang Xiaolei and his teammate off their feet in one exchange.

Yuwen Tuo left the tournament early to cleanse the Soul Devouring Engraving Knife with Angel Sacred Flame, while Ma Xiaotao’s overwhelming victory strengthened Shrek’s position as the favorite. An invitation to a major auction arrived, and Yuwen Tuo decided to let Xiao Hongchen buy the Ice Sky Snow Woman Embryo before pursuing it by another route.

• Ma Xiaotao returned from her match looking for Yuwen Tuo, but Bei Bei explained that he had taken leave for the day and the next.
• Yuwen Tuo used the Angel Sacred Flame he had absorbed from Yu Mengdi’s attack to cleanse the remaining curse from the Soul Devouring Engraving Knife.
• Ma Xiaotao swiftly defeated Changning Academy’s seven members with her Ultimate Fire, leaving them severely burned.
• Ma Lao warned the Sun Moon Empire team that Ma Xiaotao’s strength approached that of a Titled Douluo, while Xiao Hongchen vowed to surpass Shrek.
• Qing Ya delivered invitations to a grand auction hosted by Princess Jiu Jiu, and Yuwen Tuo planned to have Xiao Xiao track the auction items.
• Yuwen Tuo decided to let Xiao Hongchen buy the 700,000 Year Ice Sky Snow Woman Embryo and resolved to obtain the Snow Empress through another plan.

The auction’s final lots sparked fierce bidding, while Yuwen Tuo purified Life Gold and used it to expand his Sea of Consciousness and create a second one. With the Ice Empress able to return at her peak for an hour, he gained a powerful protector and planned to use her against someone from Shrek.

• Dai Yueheng bought the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade, Zhou Yi bought Fixed Soul Cannon shells for Shrek, and Private Room No. 2 won the Ice Jade Scorpion left arm bone for thirty million Gold Soul Coins.
• The 100,000 Year Soul Beast Embryo drew bidding above one hundred million, and Xiao Hongchen offered one hundred and fifty million from his own funds to secure it.
• Wei Na ordered Lang Ya to investigate Private Room No. 2 after it won both the soul bone and the embryo, while Long Aotian and the others could not match its bid.
• Yuwen Tuo absorbed the Life Gold into his Sea of Consciousness, doubling its size and forming a second, crimson Sea of Consciousness.
• The Ice Empress awakened, learned what the Life Gold could do, and agreed that Yuwen Tuo could summon her at her peak for about an hour without cost.
• Yuwen Tuo resolved to use the Ice Empress as protection and plot the death of someone from Shrek.

Xiao Xiao told Yuwen Tuo that Xiao Hongchen had bought both the Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone and the 100,000 Year Soul Beast Embryo, and Yuwen Tuo planned to seek Du Busi’s help. Du Busi arrived in Star Luo City, confirmed that Xuanyuan Sword was Yuwen Tuo’s Body Martial Soul, and offered to take him away, but Yuwen Tuo insisted on leaving openly so Shrek could not brand him a traitor.

• Xiao Xiao reported that one buyer had won both the Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone and the 100,000 Year Soul Beast Embryo, and Yuwen Tuo deduced that the buyer was Xiao Hongchen.
• Yuwen Tuo considered asking Du Busi for help with the soul bone and other items, when Du Busi suddenly entered through the window with an overwhelming aura.
• Du Busi examined Xuanyuan Sword and confirmed it was Yuwen Tuo’s Body Martial Soul, then promised to seek justice for the years Shrek had mistreated him.
• Du Busi offered to take Yuwen Tuo away immediately, but Yuwen Tuo refused to flee and said he wanted to leave openly to prevent Shrek from smearing his name.

Yuwen Tuo told Du BuSi his plan to damage Shrek’s reputation during the tournament and asked for help obtaining the 100,000 Year Soul Beast Embryo. He offered Du BuSi three merits in exchange for the embryo, hoping to claim Snow Empress, and Du BuSi agreed.

• Yuwen Tuo explained how he intended to make Shrek’s championship disgraceful, and Du BuSi promised to support his plan.
• Yuwen Tuo proposed that Du BuSi help take the embryo and Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone from Xiao Hongchen before they reached the Illustrious Virtue Hall.
• Yuwen Tuo offered Du BuSi a fifty-thousand-year Destructive Impact Left Arm Bone and the Tan Shen Secret Manual as merits for the Body Sect.
• Du BuSi praised the secret manual’s power and potential to break through Level Ninety-Nine, then agreed to exchange Yuwen Tuo’s three merits for the embryo.