Chapter Summaries

Tang San defeated Huo Yun and Huo Yu to claim six straight wins, though his injuries and dwindling strength began to show. Huo Wu entered the arena and concentrated the power of her first three spirit rings into her fourth, preparing a powerful attack against him.

• Tang San used the Eight Spider Lances and hidden blue silver grass to knock Huo Yun past the red flag, earning his fifth win.
• Huo Yun revealed that Tang San’s use of the Eight Spider Lances had increased, while Yuan Yu estimated Tang San had about sixty-five percent of his soul power remaining.
• Huo Yu used fiery phantoms and a meteor shower to pressure Tang San, but Tang San raised a net of blue silver grass to drag him down and win his sixth match.
• Huo Wu entered the arena and fused the power of her first three spirit rings into her fourth as Tang San, Yuan Yu, and Huo Wushuang braced for her attack.
• Huo Wu gathered white fire above her palms and told Tang San to take her attack.

Tang San survived Huo Wu's Sunflare by shielding her with his Eight Spider Lances, but his injuries forced him out of the match. Huo Wu conceded afterward, giving Shrek the victory, and Shrek prepared to face Thunderclap Academy.

• Huo Wu launched Huo Wu's Sunflare, then tackled Tang San to keep him inside the arena and trap him in its blast.
• Tang San shielded Huo Wu with his Eight Spider Lances, which cracked under the explosion, and the referee ruled Huo Wu the winner because Tang San could not continue.
• Huo Wu conceded the match, and the referee declared Shrek the winner after Blazing Fire Academy left the arena.
• Yuan Yu and Xiao Wu helped Tang San off the arena, while Yuan Yu gave Huo Wu medicine and told her to apologize to Tang San.
• Shrek received its next opponent, Thunderclap Academy, and Dai Mubai said he would face Yu Tianxin.

Tang San accepted Huo Wu’s apology and burn ointment after their previous fight, while Dai Mubai defeated Thunderclap Academy’s remaining fighters and overcame Yu Tianxin in a fierce duel. That night, Yuan Yu’s cultivation advanced as the barrier to level seventy-five began to loosen.

• Jiang Zhu and Yuan Yu treated Tang San’s burns, and Huo Wu later apologized and gave him Blazing Fire Academy’s burn ointment.
• Huang Yuan lost to a Thunderclap Academy fighter, but Jing Ling defeated two opponents before Lei Tian beat him.
• Dai Mubai defeated Lei Tian and Thunderclap’s next two fighters, then faced Yu Tianxin as Thunderclap’s final competitor.
• Dai Mubai endured Yu Tianxin’s lightning attacks and used White Tiger Meteor Shower to knock him out of bounds.
• Dai Mubai and Yu Tianxin exchanged respectful words and agreed to fight again in the Finals.
• Yuan Yu cultivated outside the tent, and the barrier to level seventy-five Soul Power began to loosen.

Shrek remained undefeated through thirteen Promotion Tournament matches, setting up a final-day showdown with Divine Wind. After Feng Xiaotian agreed to a decisive last duel with Yuan Yu, Yuan Yu broke through to level seventy-six and awakened a new feature of his Wind Pattern.

• Zhu Zhuqing defeated three opponents in the tenth match before conceding, and Shrek extended its winning streak to ten.
• Xiao Wu defeated three close-combat fighters in the eleventh match, while Tai Long, Jing Ling, Huang Yuan, and Yuan Yu helped Shrek win the twelfth.
• Shrek and Divine Wind both won all thirteen matches, while Feng Xiaotian became the tournament's most successful fighter outside Shrek.
• Feng Xiaotian visited Shrek's camp and agreed with Tang San that the first six bouts would be individual matches, followed by a final duel between himself and Yuan Yu.
• Yuan Yu broke through to level seventy-six, and a slender, twin-tailed line of green light emerged from the Wind Pattern on his Seven-Pattern Dharma Wheel.

On the final day of the Promotion Tournament, Shrek and Divine Wind kept their matches in sync as Yuan Yu faced Feng Xiaotian. Feng Xiaotian’s prepared wind currents and escalating slashes tested Yuan Yu until Yuan Yu revealed a green banner form of his Seven-Pattern Dharma Wheel, just as the twenty-fifth slash descended.

• Jing Ling, Zhu Zhuqing, Ma Hongjun, Tang San, and Dai Mubai each won their matches against Divine Wind, while Huang Yuan lost his match and the teams’ scores remained tied.
• Yuan Yu left his Wine Gourd with Xiao Wu and entered the arena to face Feng Xiaotian.
• Yuan Yu revealed his seven Spirit Rings and level seventy-six Soul Power, while Feng Xiaotian used wind blades to fill the arena with turbulent currents and obscure his approach.
• Feng Xiaotian began his Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes, and Yuan Yu blocked each strike while waiting for the sequence to build its force.
• As Feng Xiaotian’s twenty-fifth slash fell, Yuan Yu revealed a green banner form of the Seven-Pattern Dharma Wheel, drawing the attention of Ning Fengzhi and Salas.

Yuan Yu defeated Feng Xiaotian by redirecting the force of his thirty-sixth slash with a newly manifested Wind Banner, securing Shrek Academy's fourteenth victory and first place in the Promotion Tournament. The teams prepared to travel to Spirit City for the Finals, while Salas left with news of Yuan Yu's strength and evolving Martial Soul.

• Feng Xiaotian struck Yuan Yu with thirty-five increasingly powerful slashes, while Yuan Yu endured the assault with his blade and Rock Aspect.
• Yuan Yu manifested the Wind Banner, redirected the wind around Feng Xiaotian, and deflected his thirty-sixth slash before knocking him from the air.
• Feng Xiaotian conceded defeat, and the Referee declared Shrek Academy the winner of the final match and the Promotion Tournament.
• Yuan Yu named the new manifestation the Wheel Wind Banner and discussed its limits with Tang San.
• Xue Ye announced that the fifteen teams would travel to Spirit City in three days, and Salas left with information about Yuan Yu's level and Martial Soul.

After Shrek won the Promotion Tournament, the teams received their Finals tokens and set out for Spirit City under a royal escort. On the seventeenth day of the journey, Azure Luan warned Yuan Yu that many Soul Masters were gathering ahead.

• Flender secured Shrek's rewards and a written promise of royal assistance with future Spirit Beast hunts, while Tang San and Yuan Yu discussed the Wind Banner and the Seven-Pattern Dharma Wheel.
• Huo Wu thanked Tang San for saving her and apologized to Yuan Yu before returning his medicine bottle.
• Xue Ye gave the teams their Finals Qualification Tokens and announced that Xue Qinghe and five hundred Royal Knights would escort them to Spirit City; Yuan Yu received a Papal order and a new outfit from Xue Qinghe.
• Shrek's team prepared for the journey, and the fifteen teams departed the Royal Hunting Grounds three days later.
• On the seventeenth day, Azure Luan reported that many Soul Masters were mobilizing ahead, and Yuan Yu looked toward the mountain pass.

Yuan Yu and the convoy were ambushed in a mountain valley by falling boulders and coordinated black-clad Soul Masters. After Yuan Yu helped defend the convoy, two Soul Sages targeted Tang San, and a golden petal bearing Grandpa Chrysanthemum’s markings landed on Yuan Yu’s blade.

• Yuan Yu warned the Royal Knights about an ambush ahead, and the convoy tightened its formation as the academies prepared to fight.
• Boulders tumbled into the valley, and the Royal Knights, Ning Fengzhi, Yuan Yu, and Shrek’s fighters protected the convoy and its wounded.
• Hundreds of black-clad Soul Masters attacked from both cliffs, but the Royal Knights and the academies organized their defense.
• Two Soul Sages and their allies targeted Tang San, while Yuan Yu used his wind and rock patterns to block their approach.
• A golden petal landed on Yuan Yu’s Sun Wheel Blade, and he recognized its markings as Grandpa Chrysanthemum’s.

Yue Guan trapped Yuan Yu in a cage of golden petals while Spirit Hall forces targeted Tang San, but Dugu Bo and other Titled Douluos intervened. As Yuan Yu and Ling Yuan tried to break the cage, Yuan Yu drew the Sun Wheel Blade from the Wheel's center and found that the Wheel kept turning.

• Yue Guan arrived with the Spirit Hall attackers and trapped Yuan Yu in a cage of singular velvet sky chrysanthemum petals.
• Xue Qinghe sent a hundred Royal Knights to support Shrek, and Dugu Bo intervened to stop Yue Guan's attack on Tang San.
• Gui Mei tried to seize Tang San, but Azure Luan blocked his path with an arrow.
• Ling Yuan attacked Yuan Yu's cage and helped him open a small gap, but Yue Guan sealed it again.
• Yuan Yu drew the Sun Wheel Blade from the Wheel's center, but the Wheel continued turning.

Yuan Yu broke through to level seventy-seven and helped Tang San’s group repel Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and their attackers in the canyon. The convoy reached Spirit City, where Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan waited for Yuan Yu, while Bibi Dong ordered him to return and see her.

• Under Yue Guan’s pressure, Yuan Yu reached level seventy-seven and sustained the Seven-Pattern Dharma Wheel for three breaths after separating it from the Sun Wheel Blade.
• Yuan Yu used the wheel’s wind pattern to expose Gui Mei, then coordinated with Tang San and Azure Luan to force Gui Mei to retreat.
• With six Titled Douluos and the Royal Knights ready to fight, Yue Guan withdrew his attack, and the black-clad Soul Masters left the valley.
• Qian Renxue told Yuan Yu she had known nothing about the operation, and Yuan Yu warned her that the person who wanted Tang San dead had not appeared.
• The convoy reached Spirit City, where Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan waited for Yuan Yu and Yan demanded payment for his Training Ground wall.
• Bibi Dong read Yue Guan and Gui Mei’s report about Yuan Yu’s three-breath feat and ordered that he come see her.

Yuan Yu returned to Spirit City with the Shrek team, reunited with Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan, and learned that the canyon ambush had reached the Papal Hall. After the Pope summoned him alone, he went to meet Bibi Dong and asked who had ordered the attack.

• Yuan Yu reunited with Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena at the city gate, where Hu Liena found lingering damage in his meridians.
• Yuan Yu introduced the Shrek team to his old friends, and Yan and Tang San agreed to face each other without holding back in the arena.
• Yuan Yu passed familiar shops and streets on the way to the inner city, where the Worship Hall had kept his old courtyard available.
• A Red Cardinal summoned Yuan Yu to the Papal Hall, and Yuan Yu told Tang San he would learn who ordered the canyon ambush.
• Yue Guan let Yuan Yu into the Papal Hall, where Bibi Dong greeted him coldly after his long absence.

Yuan Yu confronted Bibi Dong about Spirit Hall’s attempt to kill Tang San and persuaded her to rescind the assassination orders and permit talks about the old grievances. He left with the sealed ceasefire order to show Tang San, while Bibi Dong began investigating who had expanded the Canyon operation.

• Yuan Yu asked Bibi Dong who had ordered Tang San’s interception, and she admitted that she had given the order because she saw him as a future threat to Spirit Hall.
• Yuan Yu proposed halting attacks on Tang San and Shrek and reviewing the history involving Ah Yin, Tang Hao, and the Previous Pope; Bibi Dong agreed to give negotiations a chance.
• Bibi Dong healed Yuan Yu’s damaged meridians and issued a sealed order rescinding the assassination order and forbidding attacks on Shrek during the Finals without authorization.
• Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan and Gui Mei to investigate how the Canyon mission orders had been carried out and to hold accountable those who altered or expanded them.
• Yuan Yu told Bibi Dong he planned to return to his old courtyard after the competition, then left with the Ceasefire Order to deliver it to Tang San.

Yuan Yu delivered Bibi Dong’s Papal Decree to Tang San, who accepted its authenticity and agreed to consider talks with his father after the tournament. Yuan Yu returned to the Worship Hall, advanced to level seventy-eight, and received a mysterious note arranging a meeting that night.

• Yuan Yu told Tang San that Bibi Dong had withdrawn the order against him and agreed to let both sides address their past after the Finals.
• Tang San examined the Papal Decree, judged it genuine, and agreed to seek contact with Tang Hao after the tournament.
• Yuan Yu assured the Shrek team that he would keep competing for them even after moving back to the Worship Hall.
• Yuan Yu returned to the Worship Hall, where Ling Yuan scolded him and Golden Crocodile Douluo checked his injuries.
• Yuan Yu trained on the Nine-Colored Stone Platform and rose from level seventy-seven to level seventy-eight.
• Yuan Yu received a Golden Feather carrying a note that set a meeting for that night on the old courtyard’s rooftop.

Yuan Yu and Qian Renxue reunited on the Worship Hall roof, shared wine, and reviewed evidence about the Canyon operation. After Qian Renxue welcomed him back, the Spirit City Finals began the next morning.

• Qian Renxue met Yuan Yu on the roof, treated his injured hand, and shared the Green Bamboo Brew she had kept for six years.
• Qian Renxue showed Yuan Yu duplicate operation orders and explained that Osen had altered them, while Bibi Dong’s order had targeted Tang San and spared Yuan Yu.
• Yuan Yu said he trusted Qian Renxue and had returned partly to drink the wine she saved for him.
• Qian Renxue’s Soul Power activated a forming circular Artifact Aspect on Yuan Yu’s Myriad Phenomena Wheel, which briefly revealed the flow of Soul Power.
• Qian Renxue welcomed Yuan Yu back, and the Spirit City Finals officially began the next morning.

At the Finals, Shrek learned that three Spirit Bones would go to the tournament champion and advanced after Blazing Fire Academy withdrew. Huo Wu revealed that Blazing Fire had joined Godwind Academy to form a stronger team, setting up a new opponent for Shrek.

• Yuan Yu and Shrek entered the Finals as the rules and the three Spirit Bone prizes were announced.
• Tang San drew Blazing Fire Academy as Shrek's first opponent, but Blazing Fire withdrew and Shrek advanced without a match.
• Yuan Yu noticed that Huo Wushuang, Huo Yun, Huo Yu, and Huo Wu had joined Godwind Academy.
• Huo Wu told Tang San that Blazing Fire and Godwind had combined their strongest fighters and that she planned to defeat Shrek fairly.
• Feng Xiaotian led Huo Wu away to finish arranging the new team's roster.

Godwind Academy defeated its first Finals opponent with a newly combined roster, while Spirit Hall Academy’s Golden Generation dominated its match. Hu Liena challenged Yuan Yu to a private training bout that night after learning he had reached Level 78.

• Godwind Academy fielded Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and other former Blazing Fire members, then defeated a Star Luo team in half an incense stick with coordinated wind and fire attacks.
• Shrek advanced through the first two rounds without fighting because Blazing Fire withdrew and Shrek had earned a second-round bye.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, Yan, and Spirit Hall Academy defeated a Kingdom team in two minutes and forty-seven seconds without losing a member.
• Hu Liena gave Yuan Yu a training-ground token and arranged to settle their old draw in a private bout that night.
• Hu Liena warned the Shrek team that Yuan Yu had reached Level 78, surprising them, and refused their request to watch the training match.

Yuan Yu tested Hu Liena’s Bewitchment and illusion techniques, revealing a new Artifact Aspect that helped him locate her true body. Hu Liena and Tang San agreed that negotiations could begin without erasing past crimes, and Shrek Academy learned its next opponent was Star Luo Royal Academy.

• Yuan Yu and Hu Liena tested their Bewitchment and breaking techniques, and Yuan Yu used the Sun-Aspect Mirror to find her through her Fifth Soul Skill’s illusion.
• Xie Yue called the match a draw, and Hu Liena asked Yuan Yu to tell Tang San she wanted people in the same city to stop assassinating one another outside the competition.
• Yuan Yu relayed Hu Liena’s words, and Tang San said he would distinguish possible negotiations from the Canyon’s crimes and would go to the Papal Hall with Yuan Yu after the competition.
• Flender announced that Shrek Academy’s next opponent was Star Luo Royal Academy.

Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing revealed that their match against the Star Luo Imperial Team would decide their standing in the deadly imperial succession contest. Yuan Yu and Tang San planned to counter Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun’s strategy, and the chapter ended as the arena match began.

• Dai Mubai revealed that he was the Third Prince of Star Luo and that he and Zhu Zhuqing faced lifelong imprisonment or death if they lost the succession contest.
• Zhu Zhuqing showed the team her competition token, and Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu promised they would not let her be taken back.
• Tang San predicted the Star Luo team would target Dai Mubai, and the Shrek team chose Yuan Yu, Tang San, Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Oscar to compete.
• Yuan Yu confronted Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun before the match, declaring that he would handle the other five opponents while Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing faced the siblings.
• Dai Weisi ordered his team to take Dai Mubai out first as the Referee started the match.

Yuan Yu and Tang San helped eliminate all five members of the Star Luo Imperial Team except Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun, while Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing continued fighting them. The chapter left the four rivals facing off as both pairs began their Hell White Tiger martial soul fusion.

• Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Yuan Yu worked together to eliminate the two Black Tiger Soul Masters and the Wind Falcon brothers.
• Xiao Wu and Yuan Yu broke the support-type Soul Master's Light Shield and sent her out of the arena.
• Yuan Yu defeated the final Black Tiger Soul Master, eliminating all five Star Luo fighters in less than half an incense stick's time.
• Yuan Yu and Tang San withdrew from the fight and prepared the arena for Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Dai Weisi, and Zhu Zhuyun to decide the match.
• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun fused into a Hell White Tiger, and Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing began forming a second one.

Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing defeated Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun in a Hell White Tiger clash, while Yuan Yu protected the arena and broke through to Level 79. Shrek celebrated its win, and Hu Liena challenged the team ahead of the finals.

• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing exploited their tighter fusion to wound Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun and drive them toward the arena boundary.
• Yuan Yu used the Sun-Aspect Mirror of Light, Wheel Wind Banner, Azure Sky, and Four-Sided Rock Aspect to contain the collision’s force and reach Level 79.
• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun’s fusion broke apart beyond the boundary, while Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing remained inside, giving Shrek Academy the victory.
• Dai Weisi acknowledged Dai Mubai’s win, and Zhu Zhuqing left a Healing Potion for Zhu Zhuyun, who remarked that her sister had changed.
• Tang San checked Yuan Yu’s meridians and learned that the Myriad Phenomena Wheel could now turn on its own for ten breaths.
• A Spirit Hall Academy member delivered Hu Liena’s Challenge Letter, in which she warned Shrek not to expect to find her real body in the finals.