Chapter Summaries

After Huo Yuhao and Jing Hongchen left the Star Dou Great Forest under Di Tian’s guarantee, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion secretly longed to visit the human world. In Star Luo City, Shrek Academy prepared for its first elimination match while Huo Yuhao waited with Xiao Hongchen, who challenged him to predict how quickly Shrek would win.

• Di Tian promised Huo Yuhao and Jing Hongchen safe passage if they released the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and Huo Yuhao accepted.
• Di Tian found no trace of the Evil Soul Master, then returned deeper into Star Dou with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who privately resolved to visit the human world someday.
• Xuan Zi ordered Shrek Academy’s competitors to defeat their opponents quickly, with reserve members filling in for unavailable students.
• Xuan Zi told Mo Xuan to prepare to support Bei Bei and the others from a distance.
• In the spectator area, Xiao Hongchen asked Huo Yuhao to bet on how long Shrek Academy would take to win its first elimination match.

Huo Yuhao and Jing Hongchen arranged to use an Anti-Cheating Soul Guidance Device to monitor Shrek Academy during the tournament. Xu Jiawei reluctantly approved its use, and Jing Hongchen began recording the contestants’ Soul Power fluctuations as Shrek Academy prepared to face Blue Cloud Advanced Soul Master Academy.

• Meng Hongchen criticized Xiao Hongchen for encouraging Huo Yuhao to gamble, and Huo Yuhao told Xiao Hongchen to gamble with others in Star Luo City.
• Huo Yuhao anticipated that Shrek Academy might cheat to win its opening match and planned to expose them with the Anti-Cheating Soul Guidance Device.
• Jing Hongchen asked Xu Jiawei to allow the device at the tournament, while Cheng Gang supported the request and Xu Jiawei hesitated because he had secretly favored Shrek in the draw.
• Star Luo’s Rank 8 Soul Engineers examined the device, confirmed it could prevent cheating, and Xu Jiawei approved its use.
• Jing Hongchen began recording each contestant’s Soul Power fluctuations as Shrek Academy and Blue Cloud Advanced Soul Master Academy entered the arena, and Huo Yuhao wondered whether Blue Cloud’s appearance resulted from Xu Jiawei’s interference.

The Anti-Cheating Soul Guidance Device detected outside interference during Shrek Academy’s match, and officials caught three Shrek graduates assisting the team. Xuan Zi denied that Shrek had cheated and publicly called the accusation absurd, leaving the match halted as the dispute escalated.

• Jing Hongchen’s device detected unexplained Soul Power fluctuations during the match between Shrek Academy and Blue Cloud Advanced Soul Master Academy, prompting the Heavenly Fiend Douluo to stop the fight.
• Nation Protecting Douluo Cheng Gang captured three elderly spectators who had used soul skills to interfere, then discovered they were Shrek Academy graduates.
• Jing Hongchen urged Cheng Gang to announce the cheating accusation, while Cheng Gang hesitated because of Star Luo’s ties to Shrek Academy.
• Xuan Zi arrived, heard the explanation, and insisted Shrek Academy could not have cheated.
• Xuan Zi addressed the spectators and denounced the accusation as a joke while the match remained suspended.

After Shrek Academy withdrew from the tournament, Xu Jiawei ordered an investigation to protect both the imperial family and the academy. Huo Yuhao told Jing Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen that a premonition from his mutated martial soul had led him to prepare the Anti-Cheating Soul Guidance Device.

• Xuan Zi accused the tournament of corruption and announced Shrek Academy's withdrawal, fearing its injured main team and weaker reserves would lose.
• Xu Jiawei, angered that Xuan Zi blamed the hosts, ordered Xu Jiujiu to find someone else to take responsibility and clear the names of Shrek Academy and the empire.
• Jing Hongchen left the arena with Huo Yuhao and the other two, condemning Xuan Zi for denying Shrek Academy's cheating.
• Huo Yuhao explained that his martial soul mutation gave him a premonition of Shrek Academy's cheating, so he had arranged for the Anti-Cheating Soul Guidance Device to be activated.
• Xiao Hongchen lamented that Huo Yuhao's growing strength might leave him forever behind, while Meng Hongchen urged him to be happy for his junior brother.

After Shrek Academy withdrew from the tournament, Xuan Zi blamed the Sun Moon Empire and decided to stay in Star Luo City to watch the remaining matches. Meanwhile, Xu Jiawei dealt with the fallout among citizens who had lost their fortunes betting on Shrek, and Huo Yuhao attended a Soul Tool auction to seek a Life Spirit Gold carving knife.

• Wang Yan questioned Xuan Zi about withdrawing, and Xuan Zi defended the decision while blaming the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Tools for disrupting his cheating plan.
• Xuan Zi said he would explain the withdrawal to the Sea God Pavilion Elders and tell the students that Shrek Academy had encountered foul play; he then decided to stay and watch the tournament.
• A minister told Xu Jiawei that many citizens had attempted suicide after losing their fortunes betting on Shrek, and Xu Jiawei ordered officials to handle the aftermath and save them.
• Jing Hongchen’s group, including Huo Yuhao, arrived at Starlight Auction House, where Huo Yuhao hoped to obtain a Life Spirit Gold carving knife.
• Qing Ya opened the auction and announced that it would mainly feature Soul Tool-related items.

At the Star Luo Auction House, Huo Yuhao bought the infamous Soul Devouring Carving Knife despite warnings that it had killed all thirty-seven of its owners. After the auction, he persuaded Jing Hongchen to let him attempt to fix it, and the chapter ended as they examined its dangerous aura.

• Qing Ya presented the Soul Devouring Carving Knife, and Jing Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen explained its deadly reputation.
• Huo Yuhao bid one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, insisting that fragments of the future showed the knife would benefit him.
• Electrolux revealed that the knife was forged from Life Spirit Gold and promised to resolve its existing problems.
• Huo Yuhao convinced Jing Hongchen to let him study the knife, with Jing agreeing to watch over him.
• Jing Hongchen took out the carving knife, whose fierce aura filled the room as the group prepared to examine it.

Huo Yuhao purified the Soul Devouring Carving Knife with Electrolux’s help and renamed it the Life Guardian Blade. Meanwhile, Three-Eyed Golden Lion told Di Tian she planned to enter seclusion, while secretly hoping to explore the human world and find Huo Yuhao.

• Jing Hongchen warned Huo Yuhao to stop if the cursed carving knife proved too dangerous, but Huo Yuhao insisted he could handle it.
• Electrolux took control of Huo Yuhao and used Purification Light to erase the carving knife’s evil curse.
• Jing Hongchen confirmed the knife now carried a soothing life aura, and Huo Yuhao renamed it the Life Guardian Blade.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion told Di Tian she would enter seclusion to become stronger, but she actually planned to sneak into the human world and seek out Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao fused with the Life Guardian Blade and gained the Eye of Destiny, while the Three-Eyed Golden Lion plotted to escape during a fake seclusion. The chapter left Huo Yuhao heading to a group meal with Meng Hongchen as Bei Bei spotted him in Star Luo City.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion agreed to enter seclusion but secretly planned to use it as a chance to escape the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Huo Yuhao used the Life Guardian Blade to strengthen his body and gained the Eye of Destiny, becoming a level-thirty-four Soul Elder.
• Electrolux explained that Huo Yuhao could use the Eye of Destiny to alter people's fates and could continue to be nourished in his Sea of Consciousness or the Life Guardian Blade.
• Meng Hongchen invited Huo Yuhao to the academy's group meal, and they left together to look around Star Luo City.
• Xu Sanshi asked Bei Bei for relationship advice and considered buying Jiang Nannan Soft Bone Rabbits as a gift.
• Bei Bei spotted Huo Yuhao in Star Luo City and called out to him.

Huo Yuhao reunited with Bei Bei and revealed that he was a reserve team member of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. At the Star Luo Imperial Palace, Xuan Zi urged Xu Jiawei to help the Star Luo Team defeat the Sun Moon team and proposed a plan to target one competitor.

• Bei Bei greeted Huo Yuhao and introduced him to Xu Sanshi.
• Huo Yuhao told Bei Bei that he studied at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and was a reserve team member.
• Meng Hongchen joined Huo Yuhao, praised him while speaking with Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi, then left with him for a gathering.
• Xu Sanshi joked about winning Jiang Nannan over with Soft Bone Rabbits, while Bei Bei teased him.
• Xuan Zi told Xu Jiawei that the Star Luo Team needed to defeat the Sun Moon team and ordered him to focus its attacks on one competitor while protecting its own members.

Xu Jiawei rejected Xuan Zi’s proposal to deliberately kill Sun Moon students and instead planned to wear down the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy through the tournament. Meanwhile, Meng Hongchen brought Huo Yuhao to dinner after discussing Star Luo City and joking about becoming empress.

• Xu Jiawei argued that killing Sun Moon contestants would provoke the empire, endanger Xu Jiujiu, and burden Dai Hao.
• Xuan Zi urged Xu Jiawei to target Sun Moon, then accepted his refusal and asked for another plan.
• Xu Jiawei proposed arranging Sun Moon teams to fight each other, sending strong teams to expose the Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s trump cards, and having the Star Luo Team face them last.
• Xuan Zi suggested changing the rules to restrict Soul Tools, and Xu Jiawei agreed to consider safer restrictions despite the lack of precedent.
• Meng Hongchen led Huo Yuhao through a hotel, criticized Star Luo City’s development, and joked that she would appoint him marshal if she became emperor.
• Meng Hongchen and Huo Yuhao joined Jing Hongchen and the others for dinner.

The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy discussed suspected matchup manipulation by the Star Luo Empire, then learned a new rule would limit Soul Tool cannons and weaken key fighters. Huo Yuhao was tasked with leading the team and proposed using Soul Tool rays with his Mental Detection Sharing to improve their accuracy.

• Ma Rulong and Huo Yuhao suspected that the Star Luo Empire was manipulating the tournament matchups, and Huo Yuhao predicted the targeting would continue without going too far.
• Jing Hongchen announced that the Soul Duel Tournament had restricted contestants to using only a small number of Soul Tool cannons.
• Xiao Hongchen and Ma Rulong protested that the new rule would greatly weaken their combat strength.
• Jing Hongchen told Huo Yuhao not to use Ultimate Ice or augment Meng Hongchen, and said the team’s championship hopes depended on him.
• Huo Yuhao suggested that the team use more Soul Tool rays and rely on his Mental Detection Sharing to improve their accuracy.

Mu En criticized Shrek Academy’s cover-up of Xuan Zi’s misconduct and warned Yan Shaozhe that the academy’s lies would eventually be exposed. He tasked Yan Shaozhe with arranging an exchange-student program with the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, while the tournament continued under a new restriction on Soul Guidance Cannons.

• Mu En questioned Yan Shaozhe about Shrek Academy withdrawing from the tournament to conceal Xuan Zi’s cheating, and pointed out that Shrek students were protesting the supposed shady dealings.
• Yan Shaozhe defended the academy’s concealment, while Mu En warned that Shrek’s false story would eventually collapse and damage the students’ faith in it.
• Mu En told Yan Shaozhe to discuss sending Shrek students to study Soul Tools at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, explaining that Soul Tools had advanced enough to threaten even him.
• Xu Jiawei announced a new tournament rule restricting Soul Guidance Cannons, prompting an uproar among spectators as Xuan Zi watched from beside him.
• Ma Rulong reported that the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy had drawn Dou Ling Royal Advanced Soul Master Academy, and Huo Yuhao recalled its Thunder Cannon trump card.

The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy faced the Dou Ling Royal Advanced Soul Master Academy in a seven-versus-seven match, while Wang Dong’s teasing of Xiao Xiao sparked rumors among Star Luo royal girls. Huo Yuhao used his simulated soul skill to hide the Sun Moon team just as Dou Ling began assembling its Thunder Cannon, leaving the match poised for its opening strike.

• Ma Rulong led the Sun Moon team onto the stage to face Gu Zhu Jian and the Dou Ling team, while Xu Jiawei and Xuan Zi predicted Sun Moon would win despite the new rules.
• Wang Dong poked Xiao Xiao’s waist to ask what she thought of the match, and Xiao Xiao blushed and misunderstood her intentions.
• Star Luo royal girls saw Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao together and labeled Wang Dong a cringe guy for apparently taking advantage of Xiao Xiao.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection Sharing to tell his teammates to accept his Simulated Soul Skill, then made the Sun Moon team appear to have seven soul rings each.
• Gu Zhu Jian ordered his team to assemble the Thunder Cannon quickly, but the Sun Moon team vanished from the stage before they could finish.

Huo Yuhao used Spirit Burning to drain the Dou Ling Battle Team’s Spiritual Power, allowing the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy to break through its defenses and win quickly. The victory left Xu Jiawei and Xuan Zi astonished because Dou Ling’s trump card never appeared.

• Wang Chiheng raised Vajra Barriers while Qing Feng formed thorn-covered earthen walls, and Tang Niuniu enhanced Qing Feng’s skill.
• Huo Yuhao warned his teammates about Dou Ling’s defenses and launched Spirit Burning while the Sun Moon team remained concealed.
• Xiao Feng used Purple Illusion Realm, but Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and the other Sun Moon members attacked through the barriers as Huo Yuhao’s spiritual assault wore down Dou Ling’s defenders.
• Wang Chiheng and Qing Feng collapsed, and Heavenly Fiend Douluo removed them from the stage before the Sun Moon team defeated the rest of Dou Ling.
• Heavenly Fiend Douluo declared Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy the winner, while Xuan Zi and Xu Jiawei were surprised by how quickly the match ended.

After Sun Moon crushed Dou Ling, Long Aotian recognized Huo Yuhao as a gifted Body Martial Soul user and invited him to join the Body Sect. Jing Hongchen blocked the approach, but Long Aotian insisted that the Body Sect was best qualified to teach him.

• Xu Jiawei and Xuan Zi discussed Sun Moon's strength and planned for the Star Luo Team to defeat them.
• Long Aotian watched Huo Yuhao leave the stage and decided to recruit him into the Body Sect.
• Long Aotian told Vina about the Body Martial Soul genius, then left to approach Huo Yuhao himself.
• Long Aotian invited Huo Yuhao to join the Body Sect, and Jing Hongchen stepped in to stop him.
• Long Aotian argued that Body Martial Soul users belonged with the Body Sect, which Jing Hongchen knew had unmatched expertise in the field.

Huo Yuhao rejected Long Aotian’s offer to join the Body Sect and stayed at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. At the Starlight Auction House, he decided to bid on an emerald green soul bone with the Ice Explosion skill, while Xu Jiujiu announced its starting price.

• Long Aotian urged Huo Yuhao to join the Body Sect, but Huo Yuhao refused to leave the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Long Aotian left after telling Huo Yuhao that the Body Sect would welcome him if he changed his mind, and Jing Hongchen resolved to help him achieve a second awakening.
• Huo Yuhao and the Sun Moon delegation watched the top-tier auction at the Starlight Auction House, where Xu Jiujiu introduced the lots.
• Jing Hongchen recognized the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade as Mingde Hall craftsmanship and suspected a traitor in Mingde Hall.
• Huo Yuhao decided to bid on the emerald green soul bone after the Ice Empress urged him to buy it for its Ice Explosion skill.
• Jing Hongchen promised to reimburse Huo Yuhao, and Xu Jiujiu opened bidding at twelve million Gold Soul Coins.

Shrek Academy’s group tried to buy an Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone, which they hoped would improve Ling Luochen’s ice abilities and help with Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire. When Room Two kept raising the bid, Xuan Zi entered the auction hall and appealed to them to let Shrek have the soul bone.

• Wang Yan urged Xuan Zi to secure the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone for Shrek Academy.
• Xuan Zi agreed that the soul bone could strengthen Ling Luochen’s ice attribute and help her ease Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire.
• Xu Sanshi offered to contribute money so he could stop helping Ma Xiaotao and spend more time pursuing Jiang Nannan.
• Xuan Zi and Room Two repeatedly raised their bids until Room Two offered thirty million Gold Soul Coins.
• Xuan Zi activated Martial Soul Possession, entered the auction hall, and asked Room Two to stop driving up the price and give the soul bone to Shrek Academy.

At the Starlight Auction House, Xuan Zi tried to stop Huo Yuhao from bidding on the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone, prompting Jing Hongchen and Sun Moon's Soul Engineers to confront him. The standoff turned violent, and Xu Jiujiu tried to stop the two sides before Rank 9 Soul Cannon Shells could cause casualties.

• Xuan Zi demanded that Huo Yuhao give up bidding on the soul bone, and Jing Hongchen refused to let Shrek Academy break the auction rules.
• Jing Hongchen confronted Xuan Zi, who threatened to go berserk if he could not obtain the soul bone for his student.
• Xu Jiawei told Xu Jiujiu to wait as he suspected Jing Hongchen had a trump card.
• Jing Hongchen called Ye Yulin and Luan Feng, who appeared through a hole blasted in the auction house roof and warned Xuan Zi about their Rank 9 weapons.
• Xuan Zi lunged at Jing Hongchen, whose Hongchen Blessing protected him, while Ye Yulin and Luan Feng drew Rank 9 Soul Cannon Shells.
• Xu Jiujiu shouted for them to stop fighting before the weapons could cause casualties.

Jing Hongchen and Ye Yulin forced Xu Jiawei to choose between abolishing the Soul Tool New Rules and facing the Sun Moon Divine Needles and a Rank 9 Soul Cannon Shell. Xu Jiawei abolished the rules, and Xuan Zi agreed to stand down so the students would remain safe.

• Jing Hongchen ordered Ye Yulin to use the Sun Moon Divine Needles on Xuan Zi while Luan Feng held the Rank 9 Soul Cannon Shell.
• Xu Jiawei urged Xuan Zi and the Sun Moon representatives to stand down and return to fair bidding, and Xuan Zi agreed for the students' safety.
• Ye Yulin demanded that Xu Jiawei abolish the Soul Tool New Rules, while Jing Hongchen pretended to calm him and pressed Xu Jiawei to respond.
• Xu Jiawei blamed his ministers for the rules and announced that they were abolished, including the restriction on soul cannons.

After the auction resumed, Huo Yuhao won the soul bone for thirty million Gold Soul Coins, while Xuan Zi withdrew from bidding and agreed to discuss plans with Xu Jiawei. The final item was revealed as a 100,000 Year Soul Beast Embryo, and Huo Yuhao resolved to secure the Snow Empress and prevent her from wasting her power.

• Xuan Zi told Wang Yan that Shrek Academy could not outbid Mingde Hall and withdrew from the soul bone auction.
• Xuan Zi revealed that Xu Jiawei had secretly contacted him and that they would discuss their next steps after the auction.
• Jing Hongchen assured Huo Yuhao that Mingde Hall would pay for anything he wanted, and Huo Yuhao won the soul bone for thirty million Gold Soul Coins.
• Xu Jiujiu introduced the final auction item, a 100,000 Year Soul Beast Embryo.
• Huo Yuhao decided to secure the Snow Empress and ensure she would produce a soul bone and make better use of her soul rings.