Chapter Summaries

Xuan Zi led Shrek Academy’s team into a cave to eliminate the Death Messenger and his Death's Hand bandits. After the students slaughtered the bandits, the Death Messenger triggered corpse explosions that killed two team members and left several others badly injured.

• Xuan Zi manipulated the students, briefed them on their mission, and led them out of Shrek Academy.
• The team visited Dai Hao’s military camp for intelligence on the Death Messenger, then entered the cave where the bandits were hiding.
• The seven main team members overwhelmed the bandits, while the reserve members stayed behind to deal with stragglers.
• The Death Messenger appeared and caused the bandits’ corpses to swell and explode throughout the cave.
• The blasts killed Yao Haoxuan and the Level 5 Soul Engineer; Chen Zifeng lost a leg, Xixi suffered severe burns, and Dai Yueheng, Ling Luocheng, and Gongyang Mo were injured.

The Death Messenger devastated Shrek’s main team before Xuan Zi intervened, but escaped after triggering another explosion. Wang Yan led the badly depleted group toward Star Luo City, where Xu Tianchen arrived and met Emperor Xu Jiawei ahead of the tournament.

• Xuan Zi rushed into the cave and found Yao Haoxuan dead and several other Shrek members gravely injured.
• The Death Messenger revealed himself, and Xuan Zi pulled him from the cave, but the attacker made Yao Haoxuan’s corpse swell and escaped as smoke.
• Xuan Zi shielded the survivors from the blast, accidentally collapsed the cave, then took Xixi and Chen Zifeng back to Shrek for treatment.
• Wang Yan, left with Dai Yueheng, Ling Luocheng, Gongyang Mo, and the reserve team, worried about Shrek’s chances and led them toward Star Luo City.
• Xu Tianchen arrived at Star Luo City, exchanged greetings with Xu Jiawei, and entered the imperial palace with the visiting academies and welcoming party.

Xu Tianchen assessed the tournament field and the Sun Moon team's strength while Shrek struggled with injuries and too few available competitors. Mu En allowed Ma Xiaotao to join the Shrek Team after agreeing to suppress her unstable Evil Fire, and Xuan Zi flew her to Star Luo City.

• Xu Tianchen learned that Shrek had registered only ten members, including just three regular team members, and considered exposing what had happened to them.
• Ma Xiaotao rushed into the Sea God's Pavilion and begged the elders to let her compete in the tournament.
• Yan Shaozhe refused because Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire had recently erupted, but Mu En overruled him and agreed to suppress it for a time.
• Mu En took Ma Xiaotao into a room in the Golden Ancient Tree and paid a heavy personal cost to help stabilize her Evil Fire.
• Xuan Zi flew Ma Xiaotao to Star Luo City to join the already-registered Shrek Team.

The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy faced Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy in the opening match of the tournament. As both teams took the stage and released their spirit rings, Ma Rulong and Ji Juechen revealed the strength behind the reigning champions, leaving the crowd and their opponents stunned.

• Xu Jiawei announced that the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy would face Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy in the opening match.
• Xu Tianchen predicted that Tianling Academy would last no more than three minutes against his academy.
• Ma Rulong selected himself, Ji Juechen, Ye Guyi, the Hongchen Siblings, and two main-team members for the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy's lineup.
• Ma Rulong and Ji Juechen planned to lead the fight while most of their teammates held back, aiming to finish within three minutes.
• Ma Rulong revealed six spirit rings and his shoulder-mounted cannons, while Ji Juechen summoned a longsword and five spirit rings, shocking the crowd and unnerving Tianling Academy.

The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, Star Luo Royal Academy, and Shrek Academy each overwhelmed their opponents in the tournament’s opening matches. Shrek’s victory left Ma Rulong wary of Ma Xiaotao and Ji Juechen eager to face her.

• Ma Rulong and Ji Juechen led the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy to defeat all seven opponents in a minute and a half.
• Xu Jiujiu led the Star Luo Royal Academy onto the arena, where its all-Soul-King lineup defeated its opponents in under three minutes.
• Shrek Academy drew a weak opposing team, and Ma Xiaotao rejected Wang Yan’s plan to use Huo Yuhao’s simulated rings and Golden Road.
• Ma Xiaotao led six Reserve Team members into the match and single-handedly knocked down all seven opponents in less than two minutes.
• Ma Rulong watched Ma Xiaotao with apprehension while Ji Juechen eagerly polished his Soul Tool Longsword.

Mingdu Academy narrowly lost its first round-robin match to Diao Academy after Xu Tianzhen revealed her ultimate fire and took down Diao Academy’s captain. Xu Tianchen then declined an invitation to the Starlight Auction House and arranged for the students to attend without him.

• Mingdu Academy faced Diao Academy in an individual match and lost by one point after Xu Tianzhen and Jiang Peng defeated each other.
• Xu Jiawei praised Xu Tianzhen to Xu Tianchen, while Xu Tianchen recognized the attempt to sow discord between them.
• Xuan Zi ordered Wang Yan to recruit Xu Tianzhen for Shrek Academy, then learned she was the Sun Moon Empire’s eldest princess and considered eliminating her.
• He Caitou watched Xu Tianzhen, hoping to learn how she had raised her sun martial soul to ultimate fire.
• Xu Tianchen received an invitation to the Starlight Auction House, decided not to attend, and sent Elder Ma and Zheng Zhan with the students instead.

The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy defeated the Dou Ling Royal Academy in a two-two-three match, while Shrek Academy prepared to face Zhengtian Academy. Wang Yan decided Shrek could use Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection Sharing if needed to protect the academy's glory, and Dai Yueheng and He Caitou began their first round against two Zhengtian Soul Kings.

• Ji Juechen and Ye Guyi defeated Gu Zhujian and Chen Xiaofeng in the first two-on-two round.
• Ma Rulong and Xiao Hongchen beat the Dou Ling Royal Academy's Terrorclaw Bear Soul King and his partner in under three minutes, securing the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy's victory.
• Wang Yan proposed that Huo Yuhao assist Shrek's contestants with Spiritual Detection Sharing if the match went badly, and the silent students did not object.
• Wang Yan decided Shrek would use the assistance only if needed to defend its glory.
• Dai Yueheng and He Caitou entered the arena for Shrek's first round against Zhengtian Academy's Yu Mengdi and Tang Xiaolei.

Shrek Academy defeated Zhengtian Academy in the first two bouts, while Xu Tianchen’s group attended a Gold-Level Starlight Auction. After Xu Tianchen bought three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, the next item made him and most of his companions visibly uneasy.

• Yu Mengdi and Dai Yueheng fought in the opening bout, but Shrek Academy narrowly defeated Zhengtian Academy.
• Ma Xiaotao and Jiang Nannan defeated Ye Wuqing and Blood Wolf, giving Shrek Academy the match.
• Xu Tianchen led his team to the Gold-Level Auction, where Xu Tianzhen recognized Xu Jiujiu on the light screen.
• The auction presented a Virtue Hall soul tool, but Xu Tianchen dismissed concerns about it leaving the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Tianchen bought three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, then reacted with displeasure to the following item.

Xu Tianchen bought a rare sixty-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone after the World-Opening Cannon was sold, then watched the auction unveil a hundred-thousand-year Deep Sea Demonic Whale King Trunk Soul Bone as its grand finale. Xu Tianzhen and the Hongchen Siblings eagerly wanted the final item, while Xu Tianchen doubted the comparison to Tang San’s Soul Bone would justify its immense value.

• Xu Tianchen learned that Xu Tianchen had bought the Rank-8 World-Opening Cannon for nine million Gold Soul Coins.
• Xu Jiujiu introduced a sixty-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion left arm bone with the Ice Explosion skill, and Xu Tianchen won it for forty-two million Gold Soul Coins.
• Xu Jiujiu unveiled the auction’s final item, a hundred-thousand-year Trunk Soul Bone from a Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
• Xu Tianchen questioned the guests’ excitement over the Soul Bone, but Xu Tianzhen and the Hongchen Siblings said they wanted it because it was a hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone.

Xu Tianchen’s group watched the hundred-thousand-year Deep Sea Demonic Whale King soul bone sell for 130 million gold soul coins before returning to the Star Emperor Hotel. As the quarterfinals began, Xu Tianchen wagered a Rank-9 Soul Tool with Xu Jiawei that the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy would quickly defeat Diao Academy, leaving Xu Jiawei to consider what equal stake to offer.

• Xu Tianchen and the others dismissed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King soul bone as a poor match for Xu Tianzhen, while Shrek Academy’s Wang Yan resolved to win it for the academy.
• Bidding for the soul bone surged, and the buyers in Private Room Seven won it for 130 million gold soul coins.
• Xu Tianchen’s group collected their auction purchases and returned to the Star Emperor Hotel as four Sun Moon Empire academies advanced to the round of sixteen.
• The quarterfinals began with the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy facing Diao Academy, and Xu Tianchen told Xu Jiawei that Diao Academy would last only minutes.
• Xu Tianchen wagered a Rank-9 Soul Tool on a swift victory, and Xu Jiawei accepted before wondering what prize could match its value.

Xu Tianchen wagered two Soul Bones against Red Dust Protection, and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy won its team battle with a six-turret barrage. Jiang Peng then challenged Ji Juechen to a decisive Individual Match, which began with their weapons colliding.

• Xu Jiawei offered a seventy-thousand-year-old left arm Soul Bone and a forty-thousand-year-old right leg Soul Bone against Xu Tianchen's Red Dust Protection.
• Ji Juechen blocked Jiang Peng's attack while Ma Rulong and the others assembled six turrets and blasted Diao Academy's fighters off the stage.
• Xu Tianchen collected the Soul Bones after the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy won, while Xu Jiawei regretted the wager.
• Jiang Peng challenged Ji Juechen and agreed that both teams would concede the remaining Individual Matches if they lost the duel.
• Jiang Peng and Ji Juechen began their Individual Match, clashing the Heaven-Shaking Axe against Ji Juechen's Soul Tool Longsword.

Ji Juechen defeated Jiang Peng to send the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy into the semifinals, where Shrek Academy also advanced after beating Star Luo Royal Academy. The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy then faced Mingdu Academy, whose captain chose to fight after Ma Rulong urged the team to show what they could do.

• Ji Juechen used his Instant Movement Ring to appear behind Jiang Peng and win their match, ending Diao Academy's tournament run.
• The semifinal draw matched Shrek Academy against Star Luo Royal Academy and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy against Mingdu Academy.
• Wang Yan left Ma Xiaotao out of Shrek Academy's lineup because her evil fire remained unstable, and Gongyang Mo took her place.
• Gongyang Mo's support helped Shrek Academy defeat Star Luo Royal Academy, which then forfeited the individual match and sent Shrek into the finals.
• Ma Rulong rejected Mingdu Academy's captain's plan to forfeit, and both teams entered the arena to begin their semifinal match.

The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy defeated Mingdu Academy and advanced to the final against Shrek Academy. As the final began, Huo Yuhao secretly supported Shrek with Spiritual Detection Sharing, but Ma Rulong evaded Xu Sanshi’s substitution attack and countered with cannon fire.

• Mingdu Academy’s captain asked Ma Rulong to carry their hopes into the final, and Ma Rulong promised to win the championship for the empire.
• Xu Tianchen and Ye Yulin watched the two academies’ students mingle, while Xu Tianchen looked forward to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy ending Shrek’s era.
• At the final, Huo Yuhao saw Dai Hao on the imperial city wall and struggled to contain his hatred, while Dai Yueheng was delighted by his father’s arrival.
• Wang Yan arranged for Huo Yuhao to support Shrek from below the stage, and Huo Yuhao used a thirty-thousand-year skull bone’s Spiritual Penetration to share Spiritual Detection with two teammates at a time.
• Xu Sanshi targeted Ma Rulong with Black Tortoise Substitution, but Ma Rulong dodged with Flash Step and fired cannon shells toward Shrek’s formation.
• Ma Xiaotao called the Sun Moon Empire’s people crafty, and Xu Tianchen challenged the Star Luo Emperor over her insult.

During the tournament, Huo Yuhao secretly transmitted spiritual guidance to Shrek Academy’s fighters until Xu Tianchen exposed him and threatened to withdraw the Sun Moon Empire. The match was suspended, leaving Huo Yuhao pale and Wang Yan collapsed in the waiting area.

• Ma Rulong ordered the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy to open fire, while Dai Yueheng and Ma Xiaotao fought with unusually sharp awareness aided by Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection.
• Xu Tianchen detected Huo Yuhao’s concealed spiritual fluctuations and led Xu Jiawei, Xu Jiujiu, Xu Tianzhen, and Dai Hao down from the city wall toward Shrek Academy’s waiting area.
• Dai Hao and Xu Jiawei sensed Huo Yuhao transmitting spiritual guidance, and Xu Tianchen severed the transmission with his spiritual power, leaving Huo Yuhao shaken and pale.
• Xu Tianchen publicly accused Shrek Academy of cheating and threatened to pull the Sun Moon Empire out of the tournament.
• Xu Jiawei ordered the match suspended, while Wang Yan collapsed and Xu Tianchen strode toward his academy’s waiting area.

After Huo Yuhao was accused of cheating and taken for questioning, Xu Tianchen used the Sun Moon Imperial Team’s feigned injuries to pressure Xu Jiawei into compensation. Xu Jiawei then prepared to seek help from the Worship Hall in case Xuan Zi interfered.

• Xu Jiujiu announced that the match had been suspended for a suspected cheating incident, and the spectators demanded fairness and the truth.
• Huo Yuhao fainted under the crowd’s contempt, then Dai Hao ordered the Organizing Committee to take him for questioning despite briefly catching him as he stumbled.
• Xu Tianchen confronted Xu Jiawei over the Sun Moon Imperial Team’s injuries, and Ma Rulong led the team in theatrically pretending to be hurt.
• Xu Jiawei agreed to provide three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones and treatment from the Medicine Immortal Douluo in exchange for Xu Tianchen staying and allowing an impartial investigation.
• Xu Jiawei told Xu Jiujiu he would consult the Worship Hall’s Hall Master in case Xuan Zi caused trouble.

After the cheating scandal, the Star Luo Empire and Shrek Academy reached a deal that made Huo Yuhao, Wang Yan, and He Caitou scapegoats and expelled them from the tournament. The Heng-Ha Duo watched Huo Yuhao’s disgrace and decided to bring him to the Body Sect, where they planned to enforce its rules.

• Xuan Zi returned to Shrek’s waiting area, learned the academy had been exposed, and stormed off to confront the tournament organizers, but a decrepit figure blocked his way.
• Xu Tianchen questioned the investigation’s findings, accepted three soul bones from Xu Jiawei, and approved the decision to blame Wang Yan and He Caitou’s teammate Huo Yuhao for the cheating.
• Xu Jiawei ordered Dai Hao to arrest Wang Yan and He Caitou, while Huang Jinxu announced that all three men were expelled from Shrek Academy and barred from the tournament.
• Huang Jinxu announced that the finals would resume in one hour as Xu Jiujiu tried to calm the spectators, who continued whispering about the disgraced Shrek members.
• Yu Tao asked Lang Ya whether they would still recruit Huo Yuhao, and Lang Ya decided they would take him to the Body Sect and teach him to follow its rules.

Shrek Academy faced the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy in a match dominated by cannon fire, and Shrek’s fighters were eliminated one by one. Ma Xiaotao remained alone against the opposing team and launched a fierce attack on Ma Rulong.

• Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy began their match, with the Sun Moon team bombarding Shrek with Soul Guidance Cannons.
• Xu Sanshi was blasted off the arena while protecting Gongyang Mo, and Huang Jinxu removed Gongyang Mo after his barrier weakened.
• Ye Guyi trapped Jiang Nannan with her Holy Light Spirit Array and threw her out of the arena.
• The Sun Moon team blasted Bei Bei and Ling Luocheng out, then Xiao Hongchen’s giant cannon broke Dai Yueheng’s White Tiger Protective Barrier and sent him off the arena.
• Ma Xiaotao refused to surrender, stunned Ma Rulong with Phoenix Roaring Sky Strike, and unleashed her Phoenix Cloud-Piercing Strike.

Ma Xiaotao lost control of her evil fire during the match, and Xuan Zi intervened to stop her. Zheng Zhan provoked Xuan Zi by repeating rumors about the ambush of Shrek's students, and a mysterious gold-and-silver beam struck Xuan Zi as he attacked Zheng Zhan.

• Ma Xiaotao's Phoenix Meteor Shower knocked her and the Sun Moon Royal Academy students down, allowing Ye Guyi to attack her with her Holy Sword.
• Ma Xiaotao's evil fire overwhelmed her, and Xuan Zi shielded her from Ma Rulong and Ji Juechen's attacks before knocking her unconscious.
• Zheng Zhan confronted Xuan Zi, declared Shrek had lost, and defended the Sun Moon Empire students from his accusations.
• Zheng Zhan repeated rumors that Xuan Zi had arranged the attack on Shrek's students, enraging Xuan Zi and prompting him to attack.
• A gold-and-silver beam shot from the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy's waiting area and sent Xuan Zi flying before he could strike Zheng Zhan.

After the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy won the team battle, Meng Hongchen dominated the individual competition by defeating three Shrek competitors with her poison. Dai Yueheng stepped forward to face her as Shrek’s strongest remaining fighter.

• Xu Jiawei declared the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy the team battle’s winner after Ye Yulin stopped Xuan Zi with the Sun-Moon God Needle.
• Meng Hongchen entered the individual competition as the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy’s first competitor, while Xu Sanshi represented Shrek Academy.
• Meng Hongchen poisoned Xu Sanshi and won the first match.
• Jiang Nannan replaced Xu Sanshi but fell to Meng Hongchen’s lingering poison, giving Meng Hongchen a second victory.
• Bei Bei challenged Meng Hongchen but was incapacitated by her Red-Eyed Ice Toad Poison, earning her a third win.
• Dai Yueheng stepped forward to fight Meng Hongchen after Shrek Academy’s first three competitors lost.

Dai Yueheng lost to Meng Hongchen, and Shrek Academy then conceded the remaining matches after Ma Rulong defeated Ling Luocheng. The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy won the tournament, and Xu Tianchen summoned its members to distribute the champion Soul Bones.

• Dai Yueheng used his Soul Skills and weapons against Meng Hongchen, but her poison weakened him and her Ice-Fire Poison Dragon Drill knocked him down for the win.
• Ling Luocheng entered the arena, and Meng Hongchen conceded before Ma Rulong defeated Ling Luocheng with his Soul Guidance Cannons.
• Xuan Zi conceded Shrek Academy's remaining matches, and Huang Jinxu announced the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy as champion.
• Xu Tianchen congratulated Ma Rulong and presented him with the Champion's Trophy during the awards ceremony.
• Xuan Zi took Shrek Academy's students and rewards away to seek help for Ma Xiaotao, while Xu Tianchen summoned the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy members to distribute the Soul Bones.