Chapter Summaries

After Xiao Xiao and Meng Hongchen eliminated each other, Xiao Hongchen forfeited the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy’s remaining individual matches and moved the contest directly to the team battle. The chapter ended with the individual battles over and the decisive team battle about to begin.

• Yan Jingzhe recalled how he had found Xiao Xiao the sixty-thousand-year Seven-Colored Rainbow Eagle Soul Spirit to complement her Nine Phoenix Flute.
• Xiao Hongchen supported his injured sister Meng Hongchen and decided that the academy would stop risking contestants in individual matches.
• Xiao Hongchen announced that the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy was forfeiting its remaining individual battle slots and proceeding to the team battle.
• Emperor Xu Tianran praised Xiao Hongchen’s decision, while Jing Hongchen voiced concern about Shrek’s powerful Soul Spirits.
• Referee Zheng Zhan confirmed the forfeit and declared the individual battles finished.

Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy began their team battle after officials delayed it to give the weakened Sun Moon team time to recover. Shrek countered the Sun Moon team's opening assault, and the match remained underway.

• Zheng Zhan postponed the team battle by half an hour, claiming the arena and its protective barrier needed repairs.
• Yan Shaozhe stopped Bei Bei from protesting and said Shrek's exhausted members could use the delay to recover.
• Zheng Zhan started the team battle, and Xiao Hongchen ordered the Sun Moon Team to form up and attack from range.
• Huo Yuhao shared his Spiritual Detection with Shrek as the team countered the Sun Moon assault: Xu Sanshi held the front, Bei Bei intercepted cannon fire, and Jiang Nannan restrained Chen Fei.
• Xiao Xiao disrupted Zhang Xing's control field, He Caitou slowed the enemy with gravity and fired his cannon, and Wang Dong'er struck Mika back.
• Xiao Hongchen saw Shrek's battle line remain unscathed and watched with a cold glint in his eyes.

The Sun Moon Royal Team launched a coordinated Soul Guidance assault, but Shrek countered with precise teamwork and revealed Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er's Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen answered with their own fusion skill, and the two attacks collided in a devastating midair clash that left both pairs struggling to sustain their powers.

• Lin Xi fortified the Sun Moon Team with overlapping defensive formations as Xiao Xiafeng boosted their equipment and Xiao Hongchen ordered a synchronized charge.
• The Sun Moon Team attacked with floating cannons, Mika's mecha, tracking missiles, interference, and Meng Hongchen's freezing field.
• Huo Yuhao analyzed the enemy's weapons while Xu Sanshi, Bei Bei, Wang Dong'er, Jiang Nannan, Xiao Xiao, and He Caitou disrupted the assault.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er embraced and unleashed the Martial Soul Fusion Skill Brilliance Amidst Decay—Golden Road.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen fused their Martial Souls to create Red Dust Longing and collided with Golden Road above the arena.
• The collision shattered the arena floor and strained Lin Xi's shield as both pairs' fusion skills eroded and their Soul Power dwindled.

Shrek defeated the Sun Moon Team after Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er’s Martial Soul Fusion Technique exhausted both sides, leaving Bei Bei, Xiao Xiao, and Jiang Nannan to subdue the remaining opponents. As the arena celebrated Shrek’s victory, Yan Jingzhe left for the next battlefield to protect little Angel.

• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er’s fusion technique collided with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen’s, leaving all four exhausted.
• Bei Bei, Xiao Xiao, and Jiang Nannan seized the opening and restrained the remaining Sun Moon Team members.
• Shrek’s fighters overwhelmed the five restrained opponents, and the referee declared Shrek Academy the winner.
• Shrek’s Reserve Team and supporters celebrated while the Sun Moon Academy’s supporters reacted with dismay.
• Yan Jingzhe assessed Shrek’s victory and hurried toward the next battlefield to protect little Angel.

Ye Guyi faced Huang Zheng in the finals of another tournament and revealed her Holy Angel Martial Soul to counter his Evil Attendant possession. The Holy Spirit Cult elders decided to kill her after the match, while Yan Jingzhe arrived in secret and waited for them to act.

• Ye Guyi deflected Huang Zheng’s Soul-Chasing Claw blades with her Seven-Star Golden Sword.
• Huang Zheng revealed his Evil Attendant Martial Soul and unleashed his evil power against Ye Guyi.
• Ye Guyi unsealed her Holy Angel Martial Soul, dispersed Huang Zheng’s evil aura, and vowed to purify him.
• The Holy Spirit Cult Vice Sect Master restrained the Four Great Elders from attacking Ye Guyi until the match ended, while Shangguan Wei'er sensed their killing intent.
• Yan Jingzhe entered the stands unnoticed, saw the Holy Spirit Cult’s hostility, and waited in hiding for them to attack.

Ye Guyi defeated Huang Zheng in the Bright City Soul Engineer Elite Tournament, securing the championship for the Plain Alliance. The Holy Spirit Cult Vice Sect Master then rejected the wager’s terms regarding Ye Guyi, forcing Shangguan Weier and the Rank-9 Soul Engineers to confront him.

• Ye Guyi used her Holy Angel powers to defeat Huang Zheng and purify his Evil Soul Origin, winning the duel.
• Shangguan Weier and three Rank-9 Soul Engineers stepped onto the stage to protect the weakened Ye Guyi and declared the Plain Alliance the tournament champion.
• Shangguan Weier demanded that the Duskwater Alliance honor the wager, and the Holy Spirit Cult Vice Sect Master admitted the defeat and accepted its terms.
• The Vice Sect Master claimed Ye Guyi had to stay because she was fated with the Holy Spirit Cult, and Shangguan Weier and the Soul Engineers prepared to resist.
• Ye Yulin grew angry as the Holy Spirit Cult openly defied the tournament rules.

Yan Jingzhe arrived at the Underground Duel Arena as the Holy Spirit Cult threatened to abduct Ye Guyi after the tournament. His presence unsettled the Vice Sect Master and the Four Great Elders, leaving the confrontation poised to erupt.

• Ye Yulin warned the Holy Spirit Cult Vice Sect Master not to break tournament rules by seizing Ye Guyi inside the arena.
• The Vice Sect Master agreed to hold back inside the venue but threatened to intercept Ye Guyi after she left, while the Four Great Elders prepared an ambush.
• Ye Yulin admitted he had no authority to protect Ye Guyi outside the tournament grounds and withdrew his Soul Power.
• Yan Jingzhe emerged from the stands and stood in front of Ye Guyi and Shangguan Wei'er, drawing everyone's attention.
• Yan Jingzhe challenged the Holy Spirit Cult Vice Sect Master for openly showing himself as an Evil Soul Master, and the Vice Sect Master and elders sensed his deadly power.

Yan Jingzhe exposed Holy Spirit Cult Vice Sect Master Li Feiyu’s murderous past and gave Ye Guyi a pill to restore her strength. When Li Feiyu threatened him with the Cult’s alliance with the Sun Moon Imperial House, Yan Jingzhe revealed a majestic Light Phoenix Martial Soul.

• Li Feiyu tried to probe Yan Jingzhe’s strength but could not sense its limits, then demanded to know his identity.
• Yan Jingzhe identified Li Feiyu and revealed that he had massacred three cities fifty years earlier before fleeing to the Sun Moon Empire.
• The arena erupted in shock, and the Four Great Elders shifted around Li Feiyu as he demanded to know who Yan Jingzhe was.
• Yan Jingzhe ignored Li Feiyu, gave Ye Guyi a pale golden pill, and helped her recover her Soul Power.
• Li Feiyu threatened Yan Jingzhe with the Holy Spirit Cult’s alliance with the Sun Moon Imperial House.
• Yan Jingzhe manifested a radiant white Phoenix Martial Soul whose pure light dispelled the arena’s evil aura.

Yan Jingzhe revealed his Radiant Phoenix Martial Soul and three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, terrifying the Underground Duel Arena and forcing the Holy Spirit Cult to concede. He led Ye Guyi, Shangguan Wei'er, and the others away while the crowd reeled from his appearance.

• Yan Jingzhe revealed nine Soul Rings, including three red Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, and illuminated the arena with his Light Power.
• Ye Yulin recognized Yan Jingzhe as Shrek Academy's Radiant Douluo, while Li Feiyu realized the danger he posed to the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Yan Jingzhe challenged the Holy Spirit Cult to attack together, but Li Feiyu and the elders stayed silent and conceded defeat.
• Yan Jingzhe declared the matter over and led Ye Guyi, Shangguan Wei'er, and the Plain Alliance away from the arena.
• The crowd erupted in discussion as Li Feiyu watched them leave, unable to stop them and left with fear and humiliation.

Yan Jingzhe protected Ye Guyi and the Plain Alliance after the Holy Spirit Cult’s attack, then arranged for Ye Guyi to join him at Shrek Academy. He left the group with protective Light Marks and departed through a spatial rift, while the Plain Alliance returned to its headquarters.

• Yan Jingzhe warned Ye Guyi and Shangguan Wei'er that the Holy Spirit Cult would target Ye Guyi and urged them to stay vigilant.
• Plain Alliance reinforcements arrived, and Shangguan Wei'er invited Yan Jingzhe to the alliance headquarters, but he declined.
• Yan Jingzhe placed Light Marks on the group so the marks could warn them and hinder attackers until he came to help.
• Yan Jingzhe told Ye Guyi to meet him at the Elite Tournament arena the next day and return to Shrek Academy with him.
• Yan Jingzhe tore open a spatial rift and left, astonishing the Plain Alliance members with his power.
• Shangguan Wei'er comforted Ye Guyi about leaving her teammates, then led the group back to the Plain Alliance headquarters.

Yan Jingzhe explained why he had intervened to protect Ye Guyi and said he would face Ye Xishui if she came after her. In the imperial palace, Xu Tianran defended his alliance with the Holy Spirit Cult and warned Ju Zi that the Soul Engineer Elite Tournament finals might be disrupted.

• Yan Jingzhe told Xian Lin'er and Feng Ling that he had protected Ye Guyi from Li Feiyu and believed Shrek Academy offered her the best future.
• Yan Jingzhe said he would face Ye Xishui if she came after Ye Guyi.
• Xu Tianran ordered Ju Zi to investigate the tournament and ensure its Rare Metal resources remained under imperial control.
• Xu Tianran explained that he allied with the Holy Spirit Cult to gain powerful fighters for his plan to conquer the continent.
• Xu Tianran warned Ju Zi to stay near him after the finals because forces from the former Douluo Continent might disrupt the tournament.

The tournament finals began with Shrek Academy facing the Holy Spirit Cult amid the spectators’ subdued hostility and the teams’ unresolved grudges. As Bei Bei and the first Holy Spirit Cult contestant took the stage, Yan Jingzhe, Elder Xuan, and Du Bushi prepared a rescue and planned to act after the match.

• Spectators watched without enthusiasm because every Sun Moon Empire team had been eliminated, while Shrek’s team wrestled with their feelings about Tang Ya’s fall to the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Bei Bei tried to approach Tang Ya, but Yan Shaozhe restrained him to prevent rumors that Shrek was colluding with Evil Soul Masters.
• Zheng Zhan announced the final between Shrek Academy and the Holy Spirit Cult, and their captains stepped forward as the first contestants.
• Yan Jingzhe told Du Bushi and Elder Xuan that the captives were held in a water prison beneath Rising Sun City’s southern wall and that Xian Lin'er and Feng Ling were preparing to rescue them.
• Yan Jingzhe reassured Elder Xuan that Yan Shaozhe would lead the students out when their group acted after the match began to end.

Shrek Academy defeated the Holy Spirit Cult to win the tournament, but the celebration was interrupted by a confrontation between Long Xiaoyao and the Heaven Soul Empire’s allies. Yan Jingzhe appeared to face Long Xiaoyao in the skies, setting the stage for a clash between peak powers.

• Bei Bei defeated two Holy Spirit Cult Evil Soul Masters before fighting Tang Ya to a mutual incapacitation, after which Shrek forfeited its remaining individual matches.
• Huo Yuhao helped Shrek Academy defeat the Holy Spirit Cult in the final team battle, and Zheng Zhan declared Shrek the tournament champion.
• Long Xiaoyao appeared above the arena as Sun Moon Empire guards surrounded Xu Tianran’s platform and evacuated the spectators.
• Du Bushi confronted Long Xiaoyao, declaring the Body Sect an equal partner and protector sect of the Heaven Soul Empire.
• Long Xiaoyao called for Xuan Zi to emerge and proposed settling their conflict in the skies, but Elder Xuan said he was not Long Xiaoyao’s opponent.
• Yan Jingzhe appeared in a pillar of sacred light and challenged Long Xiaoyao to fight in the skies, and Long Xiaoyao accepted.

Yan Jingzhe and Long Xiaoyao led the Titled Douluo of their factions into battle in the sky, following the ancient rule that kept their fighting away from civilians. Below, Bei Bei charged toward Tang Ya when the Shrek Academy Team encountered the Holy Spirit Cult Team, and Yan Shaozhe intervened to shield him as the Seven Monsters joined the fight.

• Yan Jingzhe and Long Xiaoyao gathered their allies above the city and reminded them to keep the Titled Douluo battle in the sky.
• Long Xiaoyao and Yan Jingzhe clashed with their Dark Sacred Dragon and Light Phoenix powers as the other Titled Douluo joined the battle.
• The ground battle began as Yan Shaozhe's Shrek Academy Team encountered the retreating Holy Spirit Cult Team led by Zhang Peng.
• Bei Bei recognized Tang Ya and charged toward her, ignoring the danger.
• Yan Shaozhe blocked Zhang Peng from attacking Bei Bei, and Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, Xu Sanshi, and the others joined the fight against the Evil Soul Masters.

The allied forces launched a massive assault on the Sun Moon Empire’s arena, while Yan Jingzhe and Long Xiaoyao restrained each other in the sky. As the ground battle stalled at the platform’s defenses, a girl powered by Long Aotian and allied enhancers unleashed a blood moon before Xu Tianran.

• Yan Jingzhe and Long Xiaoyao fought high above the city, containing their attacks and leaving the ground battle to the forces below.
• Shrek Academy and the allied empires launched an all-out attack, sending an elite squad toward the raised platform to assassinate Xu Tianran.
• Long Aotian led the assault, using his Body Martial Soul to resist Soul Tools and his moonlight to suppress the enemy’s artillery.
• The allied forces struggled against the platform’s defensive barriers and the Sun Moon Empire’s Evil Soul Masters and high-level Soul Engineers.
• A girl called for a boost, used Long Aotian’s shoulder to leap into the air, and received enhancement power from the allied forces.
• The girl transformed the moon into a blood moon with her hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, and Xu Tianran recognized her as an eight-ring Soul Douluo.

Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao launched a surprise attack on Xu Tianran, but he survived behind a peak ninth-grade defensive Soul Tool. The attackers retreated under Soul Guidance Cannon fire, leaving Xu Tianran vowing revenge against Shrek Academy and the three great empires.

• Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao struck Xu Tianran with Blood Moon Eclipse and Flames Scorching the Heavens as Ju Zi shielded him.
• Xu Tianran revealed his nine Soul Rings and activated a peak ninth-grade defensive Soul Tool, which blocked the combined attack.
• The blast destroyed the platform and nearby buildings, but Xu Tianran, Ju Zi, and the court ministers survived inside the barrier.
• Zhang Lexuan ordered the retreat as Sun Moon Empire Soul Guidance Cannons fired, and she and Ma Xiaotao escaped into the ruins.
• Xu Tianran condemned Shrek Academy and the three great empires, while Ju Zi urged him to return to the rear safe zone.

Xu Tianran turned the battle against Shrek and the Three-Nation Allied Army by revealing a hidden formation of heavy Soul Guidance Cannons and ordering it to fire on their trapped Titled Douluo. Du Busi and Xuan Zi joined forces to defend against the barrage, but the chapter ended before the attack’s outcome was known.

• Du Busi and Xuan Zi attacked Zhongli Wu and Kong Deming as the aerial battle intensified, while Shrek and the Three-Nation Allied Army gained the upper hand.
• Xu Tianran ordered his subordinate to prepare a contingency as his forces began losing ground.
• Heavy Soul Guidance Cannons emerged from beneath the arena and surrounding walls, trapping the Allied Army’s Titled Douluo in the sky.
• Xu Tianran ordered the cannons to fire, sending a vast barrage of destructive beams toward the encircled experts.
• Du Busi and Xuan Zi unleashed their strongest Soul Rings and combined their defenses to shield the trapped allies.

Du Busi and Xuan Zi’s combined defenses collapsed under Xu Tianran’s Soul Guidance Cannon barrage, but Yan Jingzhe summoned the Radiant Tower to save the Titled Douluo. With the assassination of Xu Tianran failed, Yan Jingzhe prepared one last strike to cover the allies’ retreat.

• Du Busi and Xuan Zi joined their ultimate defenses to shield the allied Titled Douluo from Xu Tianran’s artillery barrage.
• The cannon fire shattered their barrier and left the defenders exposed to the remaining beams.
• Yan Jingzhe summoned the Radiant Tower, whose divine barrier stopped the bombardment and protected the Titled Douluo.
• Xuan Zi revealed that the Radiant Tower was a genuine divine artifact, shocking Du Busi and the other experts.
• Yan Jingzhe saw that Xu Tianran had survived Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao’s assassination attempt, and Xuan Zi ordered a retreat.
• Yan Jingzhe gathered Soul Power for one final strike against Xu Tianran to disrupt the battlefield and cover the allies’ escape.

Yan Jingzhe's group failed to assassinate Xu Tianran but escaped after Long Xiaoyao blocked Dawn of Light. At the secret rendezvous point, Xuan Zi discovered Yan Shaozhe and the Shrek Seven Monsters were missing.

• Yan Jingzhe attacked Xu Tianran with Dawn of Light, but Long Xiaoyao intervened and stopped the strike with a dark shield.
• Xu Tianran thanked Long Xiaoyao, vowed revenge on Shrek and the three empires, and learned that Yan Jingzhe's group had escaped under cover of the collision.
• Yan Jingzhe led Xuan Zi, Du Busi, and the others along their planned escape route to a secret rendezvous point, where they reunited with Princess Xu Jiujiu and Princess Vina.
• Du Busi told Princess Vina that the assassination had failed because Long Xiaoyao had guarded Xu Tianran.
• Xuan Zi realized Yan Shaozhe and all of the Shrek Seven Monsters were missing and demanded to know where they had gone.

Yan Jingzhe returned alone to search for Shrek’s missing members while Yan Shaozhe and Zhang Peng fought fiercely above the battlefield. Below, the Shrek Seven Monsters overwhelmed Tang Ya and the Holy Spirit Cult, and Huo Yuhao’s spiritual attack left Tang Ya stunned and unable to continue attacking.

• Xu Jiujiu told Xuan Zi that she and Princess Vina did not know why the missing Shrek members had not reached the rendezvous.
• Yan Jingzhe refused Xuan Zi’s offer to accompany him and went alone to retrace the evacuation route and search for the missing members.
• Yan Shaozhe and Zhang Peng traded powerful Soul Skills, then activated their Martial Soul Avatars and clashed in the sky.
• Bei Bei, Huo Yuhao, and the other Shrek Seven Monsters worked together to suppress Tang Ya and the Holy Spirit Cult members on the ground.
• Huo Yuhao unleashed a spiritual attack that disrupted Tang Ya’s consciousness and halted her attacks.