Chapter Summaries

Shrek entered the Heaven Dou division tournament under heavy attention, with Yuan Yu's level-sixty-five Soul Emperor status drawing particular interest from spectators and officials. Shrek's first match was set against Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team, and both teams took the ring as the referee prepared to start.

• Shrek entered the arena, where Huo Wu, Shui Bing'er, Xue Qinghe, and Salas took notice of Yuan Yu for different reasons.
• Emperor Xue Ye declared the tournament open, and Ning Fengzhi praised an unnamed team whose members included Tang San.
• Salas drew Shrek Academy's badge, making its match against Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team the first public bout.
• Tang San chose Dai, himself, Xiao Wu, Tai Long, Jing Ling, Jiang Zhu, and Yuan Yu to start, leaving Huang Yuan, Oscar, and Ning Rongrong off the lineup.
• Yuan Yu handed his Wine Gourd to Ning Rongrong and joined Shrek's starters on the ring, where he faced the rival who had challenged him at registration.

Yuan Yu and Shrek’s team took control of their match against the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team, using terrain and coordinated attacks to counter their opponents’ strategy. At seventeen seconds, the Royal team had broken free in places and threatened Shrek’s rear line, while Yuan Yu finally drew his Sun Wheel Blade.

• The Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team released their Martial Souls and planned to hold Yuan Yu off while attacking Shrek’s back line.
• Yuan Yu raised a Rock Ridge and used wind to disrupt the Royal team’s charge as Dai Mubai and Tai Long fought their attackers.
• Tang San trapped the Royal team with his ten-thousand-year fourth Spirit Skill, Blue Silver Cage, and directed Shrek’s counterattack.
• The Royal team’s three Power Attack Soul Masters broke free and charged Tang San, but Xiao Wu, Jing Ling, and Tai Long intercepted them.
• The Royal control-type Soul Master spread Dark Red Light across the ground, freeing two Agility Attack Soul Masters, while Yuan Yu drew his Sun Wheel Blade at seventeen seconds.

Shrek Academy defeated the Royal Second Team in just twenty-three seconds, with Yuan Yu protecting the formation while Tang San and the others controlled and finished the match. After the victory, cracks appeared along the six patterns of Yuan Yu’s Sun Wheel Blade, and the patterns sank deeper into it.

• Yuan Yu deflected the Royal Second Team’s final attacks, allowing Tang San to bind them with Blue Silver Grass and Dai Mubai, Xiao Wu, Jing Ling, and Tai Long to knock them out of the arena.
• The referee declared Shrek Academy the winner after twenty-three seconds, and the Royal Second Team received treatment for their injuries.
• Dai Mubai acknowledged the defeated captain’s decision to put his injured teammate first, while the teams left the arena.
• Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, and Xue Qinghe discussed Shrek’s strength and its chances in the Preliminary Tournament and Finals.
• In the waiting room, Yuan Yu discovered six hairline marks on the Sun Wheel Blade, and its six patterns lit up before sinking deeper into the blade.

After the tournament match, Yuan Yu’s Sun Wheel Blade transformed as its six awakened elemental patterns entered a nine-section wheel inside it, revealing a new form called the Myriad Phenomena Origin Embryo. The next morning, Shrek Academy learned its second-round opponent would be Elephant Armor Academy.

• Tang San examined the lines on Yuan Yu’s Sun Wheel Blade and concluded that the blade was changing rather than being damaged.
• At dinner, the Flame Pattern and Water Pattern drew in nearby elements, convincing Tang San that the transformation involved the six elements.
• On the hill behind Shrek Academy, Yuan Yu and Tang San watched the six patterns enter a nine-section wheel, then saw the blade separate into Elemental Light Streams and re-form.
• Yuan Yu found that the blade could not yet transform at will and named the inner wheel the Myriad Phenomena Origin Embryo for now.
• Flender was caught preparing to charge admission for an exhibition of Yuan Yu’s Martial Soul, and the academy received its second-round draw against Elephant Armor Academy.

The Shrek team prepared to face Elephant Armor Academy, whose seven Diamond Mammoth Soul Masters could advance as a powerful, heavily defended formation. As both teams released their Martial Souls and Elephant Armor Academy began its charge, Yuan Yu stood ready to test his changed Sun Wheel Blade.

• Huyan Zhen arrived to watch the match, and Xue Qinghe confirmed that Yuan Yu was among Shrek's starters.
• Tang San chose Yuan Yu, Dai Mubai, himself, Xiao Wu, Zhuqing, Ma Hongjun, and Ning Rongrong to face Elephant Armor Academy's formation.
• Flender warned Shrek that Huyan Li might possess a Spirit Bone, and Tang San outlined a plan to disrupt Elephant Armor Academy's line.
• Yuan Yu told his teammates that his Sun Wheel Blade had changed and warned them to stay away if it came apart.
• Huyan Li taunted Yuan Yu as the two teams entered the arena, then Elephant Armor Academy released its Martial Souls and charged at Shrek.

Shrek faced Elephant Armor Academy in a team battle, where Yuan Yu held back Huyan Li and two Diamond Mammoth Soul Masters while his teammates attacked the formation. After Shrek broke their ranks and drove most of them back, Huyan Li revealed a Head Spirit Bone and seized the Sun Wheel Blade, only for Yuan Yu’s six elemental patterns to flow out along his phantom trunk.

• The Elephant Armor Team advanced together, and Yuan Yu used Rock Walls and elemental techniques to hold back Huyan Li and two teammates.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu targeted an Elephant Armor member’s joints while Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun pressured the formation from the other side.
• Tang San trapped the team’s legs with Blue Silver Cages, but the Elephant Armor members closed ranks and broke free.
• Tang San ordered Yuan Yu to ease his resistance, and Shrek used the resulting opening to blast three opponents to their knees and drive the others toward the arena’s edge.
• Huyan Li revealed a Head Spirit Bone, charged Yuan Yu, and wrapped his phantom trunk around the Sun Wheel Blade.
• Yuan Yu held on as the six elemental patterns inside the Sun Wheel Blade flowed outward along Huyan Li’s phantom trunk.

Yuan Yu revealed that his Sun Wheel Blade could separate into elemental streams and re-form, then helped Shrek defeat Elephant Armor Academy. After the match, the energy absorbed by his Martial Soul advanced him to level sixty-six, while the six slots of his phantom wheel continued turning.

• Yuan Yu's Sun Wheel Blade broke apart and re-formed beyond Huyan Li's phantom elephant trunk, astonishing the spectators.
• Yuan Yu broke Huyan Li's Head Spirit Bone defense with his sheathed blade, and Tang San ordered Shrek to break the Elephant Armor Team's formation.
• Shrek's fighters separated and overwhelmed the Elephant Armor Team, and the referee declared Shrek the winner.
• Yuan Yu absorbed energy from the battle and advanced to level sixty-six, then told Huyan Li to get faster if he wanted to seize the blade in the Finals.
• Huyan Li led his defeated team away, while the six glowing slots of Yuan Yu's Nine-Slot Round Wheel continued turning.

Yuan Yu tested the Sun Wheel Blade’s new Scattered Form and discovered that its Myriad Phenomena Origin Embryo could absorb lingering elemental Soul Power. After the tests, Huo Wu challenged him to fight when Shrek next faced Blazing Fire Academy.

• Yuan Yu used Scattered Form to slip the Sun Wheel Blade through restraints, and Tang San recorded its range, limits, and recovery time.
• Yuan Yu named the blade’s inner framework the Myriad Phenomena Origin Embryo and discovered it could absorb unclaimed elemental energy to accelerate his cultivation.
• Tang San, Liu Erlong, and Zhao Wuji tested the Origin Embryo’s limits, finding that it rejected imprinted Soul Power, poison, plant life force, and unrelated abilities.
• Flender gave Yuan Yu ten replacement uniforms from the Crown Prince’s Residence, and Yuan Yu recognized Qian Renxue’s message in the accompanying card.
• Huo Wu confronted Yuan Yu after the matches and challenged him to fight when Shrek faced Blazing Fire Academy.

Shrek won its third, fourth, and fifth straight matches as Yuan Yu and Tang San’s tactics drew attention from rival academies. Yuan Yu reached level 67, Xiao Wu, Ma Hongjun, and Ning Rongrong reached level 40, and the chapter ended as a thread of Spiritual Power swept toward Yuan Yu near Canghui Academy.

• Tang San used Blue Silver Cage and coordinated hand signals to help Shrek defeat its third-round opponents in under two minutes.
• Tang San began changing his signals daily after rival team leaders started recording them, and Shrek’s fourth-round opponents surrendered before the match began.
• Yuan Yu redirected fire, water, and wind attacks back at three elemental Soul Masters, helping Shrek win its fifth straight match.
• Huo Wu, Feng Xiaotian, and Shui Bing'er studied Yuan Yu, while Yuan Yu memorized the elemental academies’ techniques and formations.
• Yuan Yu broke through to level 67, and Xiao Wu, Ma Hongjun, and Ning Rongrong each reached level 40.
• Flender planned to take the three new level-forty Soul Masters to obtain Spirit Rings, while a thread of Spiritual Power from Canghui Academy swept toward Yuan Yu.

Yuan Yu and Shrek confronted Shi Nian after he probed Yuan Yu with his mental power, and Flender arranged precautions against Canghui Academy’s Soul Sage. Tang San went alone to the Strength Clan to inspect faulty Hidden Weapons parts, but Shi Nian trapped him in an illusion and attacked him with Remnant Dream.

• Yuan Yu detected Shi Nian’s Spiritual Power probing his Sun Wheel Blade and warned him not to reach for it again.
• Flender ordered Shrek’s members to travel in groups and arranged escorts, while Yuan Yu said he could not contact Azure Luan and Ling Yuan.
• Tang San received Tai Tan’s message about faulty Hidden Weapons parts and decided to visit the Strength Clan that night.
• Yuan Yu gave Tang San a wisp of Mist to signal him if he encountered danger, but Tang San left the academy alone.
• Shi Nian trapped Tang San in a gray illusion, revealed his seven Spirit Rings, and attacked him with Remnant Dream.

Shi Nian trapped Tang San in Remnant Dream, using visions of his dead friends and family to break his mind. Tang San saw through the illusion and waited until Shi Nian approached, ending the chapter as he launched the Yama King Post at him.

• Shi Nian used Remnant Dream to show Tang San visions of Xiao Wu and the Shrek Academy members dead among the ruins.
• Shi Nian shifted the illusion to Holy Soul Village, where Tang San saw his fallen companions and Tang Hao attacked by Spirit Hall knights.
• Tang San recognized details in the visions as false through his Purple Demon Eyes and concealed his awareness from Shi Nian.
• Tang San feigned exhaustion while waiting for Shi Nian to come within range of the Yama King Post.
• Shi Nian approached Tang San to finish him, and Tang San fired the Yama King Post at Shi Nian's chest.

Tang San killed Shi Nian with the Yama King Post and recovered a Head Spirit Bone, then returned to Shrek Academy with Flender and Yuan Yu. The academy kept the discovery secret and left for Sunset Forest at dawn to find fourth Spirit Rings for the students who had reached rank forty.

• Shi Nian's poison spread through his body, and he died after Tang San refused to give him an antidote.
• Tang San carefully recovered Shi Nian's Head Spirit Bone from the poisonous remains and found it had mental and illusion attributes.
• Flender and Yuan Yu found Tang San, helped dispose of the poisoned remains, and returned with him to the academy.
• Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Liu Erlong agreed to keep Shi Nian's death and the Spirit Bone secret, while Tang San stored it until after the tournament.
• Flender told Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, and the others that they would leave for Sunset Forest at dawn to seek fourth Spirit Rings.

Ning Rongrong obtained her fourth Spirit Ring from a Scale Armor Beast and gained a defensive boost. After the group celebrated, Zhao Wuji spotted a King of the Earth in the forest and identified it as Ma Hongjun’s next Spirit Ring target.

• Ning Rongrong tracked a Scale Armor Beast to a scree slope, where the group worked together to expose its belly armor and kill it.
• Ning Rongrong absorbed the beast’s Spirit Ring and reached level forty-one.
• Ning Rongrong’s fourth Spirit Skill, Defense, gave the group a fifty percent defense boost.
• Yuan Yu gathered water and earth energy with his blade but said it still needed fire.
• Zhao Wuji spotted a King of the Earth, and Tang San identified it as Ma Hongjun’s Spirit Ring target.

Ma Hongjun and the others defeated a roughly 4,500-year-old King of the Earth, and Ma Hongjun absorbed its spirit ring to gain his fourth Soul Skill, Phoenix Sky-Shaking Strike. Yuan Yu reached level sixty-eight while helping control the fire, and Xiao Wu remained the only one of the three needing a spirit ring who had not received one.

• Tang San warned Ma Hongjun that the King of the Earth's stinger carried dangerous fire poison, and the group attacked its joints and exposed armor.
• Yuan Yu deflected the King of the Earth's fire attack, giving Ma Hongjun an opening to strike its underside as Dai Mubai, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing helped bring it down.
• Ma Hongjun absorbed the King of the Earth's spirit ring, reached level forty-one, and demonstrated his new Soul Skill, Phoenix Sky-Shaking Strike.
• Yuan Yu put out the trees Ma Hongjun had accidentally set alight and reached level sixty-eight by absorbing the surrounding elements.
• Liu Erlong counted the group and saw that Xiao Wu was the only one of the three who still needed a spirit ring.

Xiao Wu revealed that she was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast in human form and asked Yuan Yu to guard her while she condensed her fourth spirit ring. After the Shrek team returned to Heaven Dou City with its members’ spirit rings secured, the next match was set against Blazing Fire Academy.

• Xiao Wu told Yuan Yu about her nature as a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, and Yuan Yu agreed to protect her secret and guard the valley while she formed a ring.
• Yuan Yu concealed the valley as Xiao Wu condensed her fourth spirit ring, then drove away a Wind Wolf that approached.
• Xiao Wu gained the fourth spirit skill Invincible Golden Body and returned to camp, where Tang San accepted her explanation without pressing her for details.
• Yuan Yu was caught with his wine gourd by Liu Erlong, who ordered him to run fifty laps when they returned to the academy.
• The Shrek team returned to Heaven Dou City, and Huo Wu challenged Yuan Yu ahead of their match against Blazing Fire Academy.

In the sixth round of the Preliminary Tournament, Shrek faced undefeated Blazing Fire Academy, and Yuan Yu confronted Huo Wu while Tang San’s fireproof Blue Silver Grass disrupted the opposing team’s tactics. After Shrek eliminated Blazing Fire’s two support Soul Masters and pressured its remaining fighters, Huo Wu began a Ring Fusion attack aimed at Yuan Yu.

• Shrek and Blazing Fire Academy sent their lineups onto the central arena, and Yuan Yu revealed that he had reached level sixty-eight.
• Dai Mubai clashed with Huo Wushuang as Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing attacked the rear line, while Huo Wu used her Ring of Resistance to repel them.
• Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass emerged unharmed from Huo Wu’s flames and reached for Blazing Fire’s support Soul Masters.
• Yuan Yu struck Huo Wu’s Fire Shadow with his scabbard, then used Water Breathing to disperse incoming flames and fill the arena with mist.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu knocked both support Soul Masters out, while Ma Hongjun launched the Fire Leopard Soul Master into the air.
• Huo Wu gathered her teammates’ flames into her fourth Soul Skill, forming a white-hot fireball and challenging Yuan Yu to face it.

Yuan Yu and the Shrek team defeated Blazing Fire Academy by redirecting Huo Wu’s Sunflare into the sky. The battle helped Yuan Yu’s Sun Wheel Blade complete its six-pattern cycle and raised his Soul Power to level sixty-nine, while Huo Wu vowed to face him again in the Finals.

• Huo Wu used Ring Fusion to unleash her Sunflare at Yuan Yu, while Huo Wushuang, Huo Yun, and Huo Yu supported the attack.
• Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ning Rongrong helped hold back the Sunflare as Yuan Yu used the Sun Wheel Blade’s elemental patterns to redirect its flames upward.
• Tang San disrupted Blazing Fire Academy’s formation, and Yuan Yu used Mist Breathing and Flame Breathing to send the Sunflare beyond the arena barrier.
• Tang San and Dai Mubai eliminated Huo Yun, Huo Yu, and Huo Wushuang, and Huo Wu conceded the match to Shrek Academy.
• Yuan Yu absorbed the Sunflare’s remaining Fire Elemental Power, completed the Sun Wheel Blade’s six-pattern circle, and advanced to level sixty-nine.
• Huo Wu promised to fight Yuan Yu again in the Finals, and Liu Erlong told him to return to the academy because his blade had changed.

Yuan Yu tested the Sun Wheel Blade’s new Six-Pattern Inner Wheel, confirming its improved elemental switching and reassembly while noting its limits. After Qin Ming reported that Canghui Academy had submitted an unusual roster, the chapter ended as seven gem-wielding opponents entered the arena.

• Yuan Yu tested the Sun Wheel Blade’s Scattered Form with Tang San and Zhao Wuji, finding that it could reassemble farther away and escape a gravity field, but failed after three rapid uses.
• Yuan Yu switched between the blade’s six elements in a single breath and used them in quick succession to lift, shatter, and deflect stones.
• Tang San and Ma Hongjun tested the blade against restraints and fire, showing that Yuan Yu could escape some attacks but remained vulnerable to binding and overwhelming area attacks.
• Yuan Yu noticed that the sun pattern had caught light energy from Huo Wu’s Sunflare, but he could not activate it without completing the Seventh Trial.
• Qin Ming told the group that Canghui Academy had submitted seven starters with gem Martial Souls and no substitutes, and the seven opponents appeared in the arena the next day.

Canghui Academy trapped Shrek in the Seven Asura Illusions, forcing each member to face a personal nightmare. Yuan Yu used his Six-Pattern Inner Wheel to locate and steady his companions while Tang San traced the illusion’s spiritual-power core and launched an attack against it.

• Canghui Academy activated its seven-person fusion skill, swallowing Shrek in a multicolored illusion that showed each member their deepest fears.
• Yuan Yu recognized that his wasteland was false, used the Six-Pattern Inner Wheel to establish a safe mist-covered area, and awakened Shrek’s members.
• Ning Rongrong boosted the group’s defenses, and Tang San contacted them through blue silver grass while searching for the illusion’s core.
• Tang San traced the overlapping layers of spiritual power toward their central stream, while Canghui’s captain sent chains to attack Yuan Yu and the others.
• Tang San told everyone to close their eyes and asked Yuan Yu to hold off the chains for three breaths; Yuan Yu agreed, and Tang San struck the illusion’s center with purple-gold light from his Purple Demon Eyes.

Tang San and Yuan Yu helped Shrek defeat Canghui Academy after Tang San shattered the Seven Asura Illusions and the Canghui team suffered mental backlash. On the way back, Yuan Yu advanced to level sixty-nine and received the location of the Myriad Phenomena Seventh Trial, which would begin at level seventy.

• Tang San found the core of the Seven Asura Illusions while Yuan Yu and the others defended against the Canghui team's mental assault.
• Tang San used Blue Silver Grass to disrupt the Canghui captain's stance, then broke the illusion's core with Purple Demon Divine Light.
• Yuan Yu cut an exit through the collapsing illusion, and Tang San pulled the Shrek team out as the seven Canghui members collapsed from mental backlash.
• Salas accused Shrek of deliberate injury, but the Tournament Judging Panel ruled that Canghui's fusion soul skill had backfired and declared Shrek the winner.
• Tang San treated his eyes after the match, while Yuan Yu reflected on the Rosy Cloud Pattern's improved integration during the carriage ride back.
• Yuan Yu reached level sixty-nine, awakened the Sun Pattern, and learned that his seventh trial would begin at level seventy at the place where light was first born.