Chapter Summaries

Shrek Academy advanced to the tournament semifinals, where Ma Xiaotao made her first appearance and revealed her Soul Saint cultivation and Ultimate Fire Martial Soul. The match against Star Luo Imperial Academy began with both teams facing off, leaving Ma Xiaotao’s strength on display and the battle underway.

• Shrek Academy defeated Dou Ling Imperial Soul Master Academy and later swept aside Righteous Heaven Academy to reach the semifinals.
• Yan Jingzhe told Wang Yan to let Ma Xiaotao compete, and Ma Xiaotao eagerly agreed.
• At the public draw, Shrek Academy was matched against Star Luo Imperial Academy for the semifinal team battle.
• Ma Xiaotao led Shrek’s starting members onto the stage as Xu Jiujiu brought out the Star Luo team.
• When the match began, Ma Xiaotao revealed seven Soul Rings and her Fire Phoenix Martial Soul with Ultimate Fire, shocking the crowd and Xu Jiujiu.
• The prime minister suggested killing Ma Xiaotao, but Xu Jiawei rebuked him and warned him against undermining unity.

Ma Xiaotao faced all seven members of Star Luo Imperial Academy alone and overwhelmed their defenses with her Ultimate Fire. Shrek won the match, and Ma Xiaotao left the stage after sharing a respectful moment with Xu Jiujiu and spotting Yan Jingzhe in the stands.

• Xu Jiujiu recognized Ma Xiaotao's Soul Saint strength and Ultimate Fire, then told her teammates to avoid confronting her directly.
• Ma Xiaotao's flames broke through Star Luo Imperial Academy's shield walls, and her Cloud-Piercing Phoenix Strike drove the team into a defensive formation.
• Xu Jiujiu used Starshine Protection to heal and shield her teammates, while Ma Xiaotao's Shrek teammates watched from the sidelines.
• Ma Xiaotao transformed with Phoenix Avatar and unleashed Phoenix Meteor Shower, shattering Starshine Protection and knocking six Star Luo students out of the combat area.
• Ma Xiaotao helped Xu Jiujiu to her feet, and Heavenly Fiend Douluo declared Shrek Academy the winner.
• Ma Xiaotao waved to the cheering crowd, spotted Yan Jingzhe applauding in the stands, and led her teammates away.

Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy prepared for the tournament final, with both sides planning how to counter Ma Xiaotao. The team battle began with Ma Rulong carrying a mysterious black-sheathed sword.

• Star Luo Imperial Academy conceded the one-on-one matches, sending Shrek Academy to the finals against Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy.
• Elder Ma ordered Ma Rulong and Xiao Hongchen to hold Ma Xiaotao back while Meng Hongchen poisoned Shrek's other members.
• Yan Jingzhe caught Shrek's team celebrating before the final, reprimanded them, and told Wang Yan to review their tactics.
• Xu Jiawei announced the tournament rewards, and Huang Jinxu explained the three-match final format.
• Wang Yan encouraged Shrek's seven starters as they entered the stage opposite Sun Moon's team, led by Ma Rulong and his unfamiliar black-sheathed sword.
• Huang Jinxu started the team battle.

The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy used Meng Hongchen’s Ice Toad Poison to cripple Shrek’s formation while Ma Rulong and Xiao Hongchen fought Ma Xiaotao. After Ma Xiaotao knocked Ma Rulong out, Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen began a Martial Soul Fusion Technique.

• Ma Rulong and Xiao Hongchen attacked Ma Xiaotao together as Dai Yueheng led Shrek’s fighters against the rest of the Sun Moon Team.
• Meng Hongchen spread poisonous purple mist that froze Chen Zifeng and Yao Haoxuan and left Gongyang Mo and Xi Xi unable to fight.
• Ma Xiaotao grabbed Ma Rulong’s Judgment Sword, burned through its dark aura, and punched him out of the fight.
• Ma Xiaotao dodged Xiao Hongchen’s soul tool beams and forced him to retreat beside Meng Hongchen.
• Meng Hongchen told Xiao Hongchen to use their Martial Soul Fusion Technique, and their toad Martial Souls began to merge in dark golden light.

Ma Xiaotao defeated the Sun Moon Team’s fusion technique and helped Shrek Academy win the tournament. After the victory, Feng Ling led the Shrek Seven Monsters to select Soul Bones, and the team returned to the hotel to celebrate.

• Ma Xiaotao used her seventh Soul Ring and Phoenix Piercing Strike to destroy Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen’s Red Dust Longing fusion, winning the team battle for Shrek Academy.
• Heavenly Fiend Douluo declared Shrek Academy the team battle victors, while Yan Jingzhe spoke with Feng Ling about her mission and the danger surrounding a Soul Beast embryo.
• Ma Xiaotao defeated five Sun Moon Team members in the one-on-one matches, and Dai Yueheng knocked the remaining two off the arena.
• Heavenly Fiend Douluo announced Shrek Academy as the tournament’s champions after its two consecutive round victories.
• Feng Ling led the Shrek Seven Monsters, accompanied by Princess Xu Jiujiu, to the Star Luo Vault, where they selected three Soul Bones before returning to the hotel to celebrate.

Yan Jingzhe sent Shrek’s team around a hidden enemy and stayed behind to face Dragon Emperor Douluo Long Xiaoyao. Their first clash shook the surrounding hills, and both fighters were blasted backward.

• Yan Jingzhe sensed a powerful enemy ahead and told Feng Ling to lead Shrek’s team away while he stayed behind.
• Long Xiaoyao revealed himself as a level ninety-nine Limit Douluo and said he had come to test Yan Jingzhe on someone else’s behalf.
• Yan Jingzhe and Long Xiaoyao released their Soul Rings and collided with their opposing powers of light and darkness.
• Yan Jingzhe drew the Radiant Sword as Long Xiaoyao wielded the Dark Sacred Dragon Scythe, and they launched a direct attack.
• Their phantoms clashed, unleashing a powerful shockwave that hurled both men nearly a hundred meters backward.

Yan Jingzhe defeated Long Xiaoyao in a clash of their strongest attacks, though he had not used his full strength. After Long Xiaoyao and the Body Sect’s Great Elder Jin Peng left, Yan Jingzhe flew after Feng Ling and the others.

• Long Xiaoyao transformed into a Dark Sacred Dragon and attacked Yan Jingzhe with Black Dragon Devours the Heavens.
• Yan Jingzhe used Light Phoenix True Form and Blade of Light Judgment to meet Long Xiaoyao’s attack, and their powers collided in a battle that devastated the surrounding hills.
• The two fighters were blasted apart, and Long Xiaoyao admitted defeat after recognizing that Yan Jingzhe’s yin-yang complementary Soul Core had been operating at less than half capacity.
• Long Xiaoyao bowed to Yan Jingzhe and departed.
• Yan Jingzhe called out the hidden Jin Peng, who declined to fight and fled after witnessing Long Xiaoyao’s defeat.
• Yan Jingzhe put away the Radiant Sword and flew in the direction Feng Ling had led the group.

After Feng Ling diverted the Shrek group to evade a Rank 99 opponent, Yan Jingzhe caught up and revealed that Dragon Emperor Douluo Long Xiaoyao had challenged him. The champions returned to Shrek Academy to a warm welcome, while Yan Jingzhe called for a Sea God Pavilion meeting to prepare for the faction behind Long Xiaoyao.

• Feng Ling told Huo Yuhao that a powerful opponent had intercepted their route and that Yan Jingzhe had ordered the group to leave first.
• Yan Jingzhe caught up with the group and identified their opponent as Long Xiaoyao, who had been sent to test Yan Jingzhe's strength.
• Yan Jingzhe led the group back to Shrek City, where Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, and students welcomed the tournament champions.
• Yan Jingzhe told Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er that Long Xiaoyao's return suggested a faction was acting behind him and that the Sea God Pavilion Elders needed to prepare.
• Yan Jingzhe arrived at the Sea God Pavilion and went upstairs to meet the waiting Elders.

Yan Jingzhe told the Sea God Pavilion elders that Long Xiaoyao had tested his strength and revealed the Holy Spirit Cult’s existence. He secured Shrek Academy’s support for his Soul Spirit Method and planned to persuade the Snow Empress to become his second martial soul and soul spirit.

• Yan Jingzhe reported that Long Xiaoyao had intercepted him, fought him twice, and fled after Yan Jingzhe narrowly won.
• Yan Jingzhe identified the Holy Spirit Cult as an organization of Evil Soul Masters, and Mu En assigned Lin Huiqun to investigate it, especially in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Yan Jingzhe revealed that Jin Peng of the Body Sect had watched the battle and was likely interested in Huo Yuhao and the soul beast embryo.
• Yan Jingzhe explained that the embryo was crucial to his Soul Spirit Method, which could let soul masters obtain soul rings without hunting soul beasts, and Mu En offered Shrek Academy’s full support.
• As the elders discussed investigating the Holy Spirit Cult, Yan Jingzhe planned to ask the Snow Empress to become his second martial soul and soul spirit, with Huo Yuhao and the Ice Empress helping persuade her.

After the Sea God Pavilion meeting, Yan Jingzhe reassured Mu En that he had plans for the Soul Spirit Method, and Mu En promised Shrek Academy’s support. Over dinner with Xian Lin'er and Feng Ling, Yan Jingzhe described his hope of building a force to promote peace between humans and Soul Beasts, then returned home as the two women made clear they wanted him to stay with them instead of entering seclusion.

• Elder Song told Yan Jingzhe that his era had begun, and Mu En later promised that he and Shrek Academy would support him.
• Mu En asked Yan Jingzhe about the Soul Spirit Method, and Yan Jingzhe bowed and admitted that he had plans he had not revealed.
• Xian Lin'er and Feng Ling waited for Yan Jingzhe, linked arms with him, and took him to the Inner Courtyard Canteen for dinner.
• Yan Jingzhe told Xian Lin'er and Feng Ling that he might negotiate with the Soul Beast Clan and establish a force to promote peace between humans and Soul Beasts.
• Back at home, Yan Jingzhe paused before going to the cultivation room, and Xian Lin'er and Feng Ling signaled that they wanted him to stay downstairs.

Yan Jingzhe agreed to spend the evening with Xian Lin'er and Feng Ling before seeking Huo Yuhao’s help the next morning. He released the Snow Empress from the Sealing God Platform, and after reuniting with the Ice Empress, she heard Yan Jingzhe propose a mutually beneficial deal.

• Xian Lin'er and Feng Ling persuaded Yan Jingzhe to postpone his cultivation and spend the evening with them.
• Yan Jingzhe went to Huo Yuhao the next morning and brought him to the cultivation room to help with a task involving the Ice Empress.
• Yan Jingzhe opened the Sealing God Platform and lifted the seal on the Snow Empress’s embryo.
• The Snow Empress emerged in human form, and the Ice Empress flew out of Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Spirit to embrace her.
• The Ice Empress explained that Yan Jingzhe had bought the Snow Empress at auction, and Yan Jingzhe offered to discuss a deal that could benefit them both.

Yan Jingzhe persuaded Snow Empress to become his second Martial Soul and Soul Spirit by promising her an equal partnership and a path to godhood. After she agreed, he planned to negotiate with Di Tian in the Great Star Dou Forest and spread the Soul Spirit Method.

• Yan Jingzhe proposed that Snow Empress become his second Martial Soul and Soul Spirit, explaining that they would be partners and that she could regain her freedom after his death.
• Yan Jingzhe claimed the Faith Ascension Method could help him become a god, and Electrolux appeared to confirm that he had mastered it.
• Ice Empress and Skydream Iceworm urged Snow Empress to accept, and Snow Empress agreed to become Yan Jingzhe's Soul Spirit.
• Snow Empress returned to the Sealing God Platform to seal herself until Yan Jingzhe was ready to call for her.
• Yan Jingzhe told Huo Yuhao to keep the discussion secret and said they would go to the Great Star Dou Forest the next day to negotiate with Di Tian and obtain Huo Yuhao's Soul Ring.

Yan Jingzhe brought Huo Yuhao and Shrek Academy’s elders to the Lake of Life to negotiate with Di Tian about the Soul Spirit Method. After explaining how Soul Beasts could form contracts with Soul Masters without being killed, Yan Jingzhe prepared to demonstrate the first equal Soul Spirit.

• Mu En, Xuan Zi, Elder Song, Elder Lin, Elder Zhuang, Yan Jingzhe, and Huo Yuhao traveled to the Great Star Dou Forest and stopped ten thousand meters from the Lake of Life.
• Yan Jingzhe released his aura, drawing Di Tian, Bi Ji, Myriad Demon King, Xiong Jun, and Zi Ji out from the Lake of Life.
• Di Tian challenged the Shrek group’s presence, and Yan Jingzhe said they had come to negotiate rather than wage war.
• Yan Jingzhe released Snow Empress from the Sealing God Platform, and she explained that she had come to seek the ferocious beasts’ help with the Soul Spirit Method.
• Yan Jingzhe explained that Soul Beasts could become Soul Spirits without losing their lives or consciousness, and Di Tian warned that he would destroy Shrek City if the group deceived him.
• Yan Jingzhe said the first equal Soul Spirit would appear and asked Elder Yi for help.

Electrolux presided over Snow Empress’s transformation into a Soul Spirit, merging her consciousness and power with Yan Jingzhe. The ritual succeeded, revealing a new path that the watching beasts recognized as hope for the Soul Beast Clan.

• Electrolux appeared before Di Tian and the other fierce beasts and announced that he would oversee the Soul Spirit transformation.
• Electrolux summoned Snow Empress and began reshaping her into a Soul Spirit under an equal contract with Yan Jingzhe.
• Snow Empress entered Yan Jingzhe, where her Ultimate Ice balanced against the light of his Radiant Phoenix Martial Soul and formed his second Martial Soul, the Ice Sky Snow Maiden.
• Yan Jingzhe confirmed the ritual had succeeded, and Snow Empress appeared before the gathered beasts.
• Di Tian and the other fierce beasts witnessed the result and recognized the Soul Spirit Method as hope for the Soul Beast Clan.

Yan Jingzhe secured Di Tian’s support for promoting Soul Spirits and began organizing the independent Spirit Pagoda with Shrek Academy’s backing. He left to establish its framework, while Di Tian agreed to spread the Soul Spirit Method among Soul Beasts and search for a spiritual-attribute Soul Beast for Huo Yuhao.

• Yan Jingzhe proposed a Soul Spirit organization to supervise contracts and recruit trustworthy Soul Masters, and Di Tian agreed that Soul Beasts should have representatives in its leadership.
• Yan Jingzhe asked Di Tian to tell the Great Star Dou Forest’s Soul Beasts about the Soul Spirit Method and credit him as its creator; Di Tian agreed to help in exchange for future aid.
• Yan Jingzhe asked Di Tian to find a ten-thousand-year spiritual-attribute Soul Beast so Huo Yuhao could receive a Soul Spirit in a demonstration three days later.
• At Shrek Academy, Yan Jingzhe explained the Spirit Pagoda’s role to the Sea God Pavilion and gained Mu En’s approval and Shrek’s support.
• Yan Jingzhe named himself Pagoda Master, assigned Xian Lin'er and Feng Ling to technical development, and proposed Wang Yan as deputy and Huo Yuhao as a future successor.
• Xian Lin'er and Feng Ling agreed to handle the Spirit Pagoda’s research and equipment, and Xian Lin'er began a notebook for the project.

Yan Jingzhe returned to the Icefire Yin Yang Well to obtain the Star Anise Mysterious Ice Grass as a Soul Spirit for his Ice Sky Snow Maiden Martial Soul. After the Snow Empress explained Soul Spirits, the Star Anise Mysterious Ice Grass agreed to go with him, though Yan Jingzhe made clear it had no real choice.

• Over three months, Yan Jingzhe developed a Soul Guidance Device that could turn Soul Beasts into Soul Spirits, while Huo Yuhao gained a Purple Spirit Bei Soul Spirit and the Spirit Pagoda headquarters began construction beside the Great Star Dou Forest.
• Yan Jingzhe traveled to Sunset Forest and entered the Icefire Yin Yang Well valley to seek the Star Anise Mysterious Ice Grass for his unringed Ice Sky Snow Maiden Martial Soul.
• Yan Jingzhe released his rank ninety-nine Limit Douluo aura, forcing the Immortal Herbs to submit, then told Youyou that he had not come for her.
• Yan Jingzhe summoned the Snow Empress, who explained Soul Spirits and their independence, continued existence, and freedom of choice to the Immortal Herbs.
• The Star Anise Mysterious Ice Grass agreed to become Yan Jingzhe's Soul Spirit after he said he would take it whether it agreed or not, and it explained to Jiaojiao that it longed to see the outside world.

Yan Jingzhe turned Star Anise Mysterious Ice Grass into his second Soul Spirit, gaining a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and an unusual ice-blue right-foot Soul Bone. He left the Icefire Yin Yang Well for the Far North, while the remaining Immortal Herbs considered whether to follow Star Anise’s example.

• Star Anise Mysterious Ice Grass offered Yan Jingzhe its Extreme Cold Ice Spring essence as weapon material before beginning its sacrifice.
• Yan Jingzhe used the Equal Contract to transform Star Anise Mysterious Ice Grass into a Soul Spirit, and an ice-blue Soul Bone appeared on his right foot.
• Yan Jingzhe gained his first Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, and the Ice Sky Snow Maiden’s Ultimate Ice chilled the entire valley.
• Yan Jingzhe warned the other Hundred-Thousand-Year Immortal Herb Soul Beasts that this might be their final chance to become Soul Spirits, then vanished into the void.
• The Immortal Herbs reflected on the freedom and risks of becoming Soul Spirits as Yan Jingzhe set out for the Far North.

Yan Jingzhe accompanied Snow Empress to the Far North, where she performed her Ice Sky Snow Maiden Dance and summoned the reverence of the local Soul Beasts. As thousands of beasts gathered and bowed before her, a passage opened through the crowd.

• Yan Jingzhe teased Snow Empress about their first target being her adopted godson, Xiao Bai, and followed her deeper into the Far North.
• Snow Empress performed her Ice Sky Snow Maiden Dance above an iceberg, transforming the surrounding landscape into a vast blue scene and leaving Yan Jingzhe captivated.
• After Snow Empress finished dancing, Yan Jingzhe sensed countless powerful life auras approaching across the ice plain.
• Tens of thousands of Far North Soul Beasts rushed toward Snow Empress, stopped before her, and prostrated themselves in reverence.
• The Soul Beasts continued gathering into a vast ring around Snow Empress, and a broad passage suddenly opened through the crowd.

Snow Empress reunited with Little White and Atai in the Far North, explained the Soul Spirit Method, and arranged for Little White to join Yan Jingzhe and Atai to lead the region. After Little White’s sacrifice succeeded, Yan Jingzhe and Snow Empress prepared to leave, ending with her teasing that she might dance for him again depending on her mood.

• Little White and Atai greeted Snow Empress, who dismissed the other Soul Beasts and explained how she had become Yan Jingzhe’s Soul Spirit and why she had returned.
• Little White agreed to become Yan Jingzhe’s third Soul Spirit, while Atai promised to protect the Far North and spread knowledge of the Soul Spirit Method.
• Yan Jingzhe guided Little White’s sacrifice through the Equal Contract formation, gaining two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and a two-hundred-thousand-year External Soul Bone.
• Yan Jingzhe said he needed six more Soul Rings and planned to return to Shrek Academy before searching for Sea Soul Beasts, while Snow Empress dismissed Atai.
• Yan Jingzhe asked Snow Empress to perform the Ice Sky Snow Maiden Dance again, and she flew off, saying it depended on her mood as he chased after her.

Yan Jingzhe and Snow Empress traveled to Dragon City so he could obtain materials for forging divine artifacts. He pressured Earth Dragon Gate's sect master, Nan Shuishui, into exchanging the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal for a ten-thousand-year subdragon Soul Bone, and she agreed to take him to the forbidden grounds.

• Yan Jingzhe persuaded Snow Empress to dance for him before they flew to Dragon City to seek the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow and Ice Extreme Divine Crystal.
• Yan Jingzhe and Snow Empress arrived at Earth Dragon Gate and asked to meet its sect master, Nan Shuishui.
• Yan Jingzhe offered Nan Shuishui a ten-thousand-year subdragon Soul Bone in exchange for the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal.
• When Nan Shuishui hesitated, Yan Jingzhe warned that he would take the crystal by force if she refused.
• Nan Shuishui agreed to the exchange and led Yan Jingzhe and Snow Empress toward the forbidden grounds.