Chapter Summaries

Shrek, Spirit Hall, and New Godwind reached the final three, and the teams learned the format for the championship rounds. Spirit Hall and New Godwind began coordinating to wear Shrek down, leaving Yuan Yu ready to enter the individual contest.

• Shrek defeated a Star Luo Kingdom academy without Yuan Yu fighting, while Spirit Hall and New Godwind also won their matches.
• Bibi Dong unveiled three Spirit Bones as the tournament prizes before announcing the final-three competition format.
• Tang San placed Jing Ling, Huang Yuan, and Yuan Yu early in Shrek's individual-round lineup and drew the third opening slot for Shrek.
• Tang San realized Hu Liena and Huo Wu planned to wear Shrek down by cooperating, then potentially conceding when their teams faced each other.
• Spirit Hall's first fighter conceded immediately to Huo Wushuang, and Yuan Yu handed his Wine Gourd to Xiao Wu as Shrek was called to send out its fighter.

Yuan Yu faced a succession of opponents from Spirit Hall Academy and New Godwind Academy, defeating them without leaving his stone slab. After beating Yan and Xie Yue, he prepared to face Huo Wu, who challenged him to reveal how much Soul Power he had left.

• Jing Ling and Huang Yuan weakened Huo Wushuang before Yuan Yu sent him out of the arena with a shockwave.
• Yuan Yu defeated a Spirit Hall Academy Heavy Shield Soul Ancestor and Huo Yun of New Godwind Academy, then sent out several more opponents with his patterns and techniques.
• Yan attacked Yuan Yu with his Flame Lord Martial Soul, but Yuan Yu absorbed the heat of Yan's fifth skill and knocked him beyond the boundary.
• Xie Yue challenged Yuan Yu with his Moon Blades, but Yuan Yu used the Thunder Pattern to numb his wrist and tapped him out of the arena.
• Huo Wu entered as the next opponent, asked how much Soul Power Yuan Yu had left, and lit all four of her Spirit Rings.

Yuan Yu defeated Huo Wu, Feng Xiaotian, and Hu Liena in successive matches, securing first place for Shrek Academy and a direct berth in the championship match. Spirit Hall Academy and New Godwind Academy were left to fight for the remaining spot.

• Huo Wu attacked Yuan Yu's Myriad Phenomena Wheel with Ring Fusion, but he absorbed and compressed her Sunflare in the Flame-Aspect Treasure Furnace before releasing it beyond the arena.
• Huo Wu conceded and left the arena, then Feng Xiaotian challenged Yuan Yu with his Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes.
• Yuan Yu used the Wheel Wind Banner to redirect Feng Xiaotian's momentum and broke his attack rhythm, then tapped him out of the arena with his scabbard.
• Hu Liena trapped Yuan Yu in an illusion of their old training ground, but he found her position and they stopped each other in a brief exchange before she conceded.
• The referee declared Shrek Academy the winner of the individual successive matches, and Yuan Yu learned that Spirit Hall Academy and New Godwind Academy would fight for the last place in the championship match.

Spirit Hall Academy defeated New Godwind Academy with Hu Liena and Xie Yue’s Demon Charm, setting up the championship match against Shrek the next morning. Shrek planned for the final, while Yuan Yu received an unsigned message telling him to win and come home for dinner.

• Spirit Hall Academy’s Demon Charm trapped New Godwind Academy in red mist, and Yan and Xie Yue helped force Feng Xiaotian out of bounds.
• Huo Wu conceded, and Spirit Hall Academy shared Recovery Potions with the defeated team.
• Huo Wu urged Yuan Yu to win the championship, while she and Feng Xiaotian challenged him to meet them again.
• Shrek chose its lineup and discussed how to withstand Spirit Hall Academy’s plan to use Demon Charm against Yuan Yu.
• Yuan Yu read an unsigned message on the Golden Feather telling him to win and come home for dinner.
• The next morning, Shrek and Spirit Hall Academy left their courtyards for the championship arena.

Shrek and Spirit Hall Academy began the championship match, with Spirit Hall trapping Yuan Yu inside Demon Charm and a Four-Extreme Soul-Locking Array while Shrek's other members fought Yan's team. Yuan Yu and Tang San found ways to disrupt the formation, but as Yuan Yu prepared to break free, the Wheel's central axis cracked and Demon Charm's killing strike descended.

• Yuan Yu entered the arena at Level 79 as both teams revealed their Martial Souls and Spirit Hall Academy began the match.
• Spirit Hall's four Soul Ancestors formed a Four-Extreme Soul-Locking Array around Yuan Yu while Hu Liena and Xie Yue used Demon Charm to trap him in red mist.
• Tang San coordinated Shrek's defense as Dai Mubai, Xiao Wu, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Ning Rongrong engaged Yan and the other Spirit Hall members.
• Tang San used Purple Demon Eyes to locate the array's weak link and sent Xiao Wu after the control-type Soul Ancestor sustaining its spiritual threads.
• Yuan Yu used the Wheel's aspects to redirect the array's forces and slashed the briefly stalled spiritual thread, but the Wheel's central axis developed a hairline crack.
• Demon Charm raised Full Moon and brought a killing strike down on Yuan Yu.

Yuan Yu broke through to Level 80 and helped Shrek defeat Spirit Hall Academy, winning the tournament championship. As Shrek received the awards, Xiao Wu dropped the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, exposing her identity as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Transformation to Bibi Dong and the others.

• Yuan Yu sustained the independently rotating Myriad Phenomena Wheel, broke through to Level 80, and used its four Artifact Aspects to help Tang San dismantle Spirit Hall Academy's formation.
• Yuan Yu defeated Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Demon Charm, while Shrek's other members forced Yan and the remaining opponents out of the arena.
• The referee declared Shrek Academy the champion, and Bibi Dong accepted Spirit Hall Academy's defeat and directed her team to seek treatment.
• Tang San shook Hu Liena's hand, and the teams celebrated before Shrek received the three Spirit Bones and assigned them to Tang San, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ma Hongjun.
• Xiao Wu stumbled after the awards ceremony and dropped the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, revealing her aura as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Transformation; Bibi Dong, Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and Chen Xin noticed.

After Xiao Wu's identity as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was exposed, Yuan Yu used Bibi Dong's Ceasefire Order to prevent Spirit Hall from seizing her. Xiao Wu recognized Bibi Dong as her mother's killer, and Yuan Yu received a Divine Trial to protect Xiao Wu and negotiate a ceasefire through the night as Tang Hao arrived above Spirit City.

• Bibi Dong ordered Xiao Wu seized, but Hu Liena invoked the Ceasefire Order and Yuan Yu showed that it still protected Shrek's members.
• Yuan Yu and Ning Fengzhi argued that Xiao Wu's tournament eligibility could be reviewed later, while the order's terms prevented her arrest that day.
• Xiao Wu revealed that she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit and accused Bibi Dong of killing her mother; Bibi Dong admitted it.
• Yuan Yu received the Myriad Phenomena Eighth Trial, which required him to protect Xiao Wu, kill no one, and establish a workable ceasefire agreement before sunrise.
• A colossal Clear Sky Hammer descended through the clouds, and Bibi Dong identified its wielder as Tang Hao.

Tang Hao’s arrival nearly devastated the square, but Yuan Yu, Azure Luan, and Ling Yuan redirected his hammer into an empty training ground. Tang Hao agreed to talks with Bibi Dong, who revealed that she had killed Qian Xunji.

• Tang Hao struck toward the Papal Hall, and Yuan Yu used his artifacts to divert the Clear Sky Hammer while Azure Luan and Ling Yuan helped steer it into an empty training square.
• Yuan Yu explained to Tang Hao that he had blocked both Spirit Hall and Tang Hao whenever their attacks threatened others, and Tang Hao chose not to strike again.
• Tang San persuaded Tang Hao to stay and seek answers about his mother and the Previous Pope, while Yuan Yu, Bibi Dong, Chen Xin, and Ning Fengzhi negotiated safeguards for talks.
• Tang Hao and Bibi Dong agreed to meet in the Papal Hall side hall with Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Ning Fengzhi present, while Chen Xin guarded outside.
• Bibi Dong told Tang Hao that Qian Xunji had survived his attack and that she had killed him.

Tang Hao recounted Ah Yin’s sacrifice, while Bibi Dong and Yuan Yu reviewed the disputed deaths and corrected the record of Qian Xunji’s death. Xiao Wu confronted Bibi Dong over her mother, and the group began setting terms for a five-year ceasefire to keep their personal blood debts from drawing others into conflict.

• Tang Hao told Tang San that Ah Yin had sacrificed herself to save him and left behind a seed from which she might recover, and promised to take him to her after they left Spirit City.
• Bibi Dong confirmed Qian Xunji had ordered the pursuit of Ah Yin, agreed to investigate five disputed deaths, and acknowledged that she had killed Qian Xunji and blamed Tang Hao.
• Yuan Yu separated the pursuit deaths, Qian Xunji’s death, and Xiao Wu’s mother’s death into distinct blood debts, while Xiao Wu vowed revenge on Bibi Dong.
• Yuan Yu proposed a five-year ceasefire under which Bibi Dong would stop hunting Xiao Wu and neither woman would involve others in settling their personal debt.
• Bibi Dong accepted the proposal and told Yuan Yu to write the terms.

Tang Hao, Bibi Dong, Tang San, and Xiao Wu signed a five-year armistice, while Tang San gained access to records about his mother’s case. Yuan Yu completed his eighth trial, received a God-given Spirit Ring, and later told Qian Renxue the truth about her father’s death.

• Tang Hao, Bibi Dong, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ning Fengzhi, and Yuan Yu finalized and signed a five-year armistice, including terms ending the hunt for Tang Hao, Tang San, and Xiao Wu.
• Bibi Dong ordered Gui Mei to revoke their warrants, and Tang San arranged to inspect Spirit Hall’s sealed files about Ah Yin.
• Yuan Yu completed the Eighth Trial of Myriad Phenomena, received a hundred-thousand-year God-given Spirit Ring and Darkness Origin, and rose three Soul Power levels to level eighty-three.
• Tang Hao led Tang San and Xiao Wu from Spirit City, while the Shrek team planned to reunite at the academy in five years.
• Yuan Yu told Qian Renxue that Tang Hao had wounded her father, Qian Xunji, but Bibi Dong had delivered the final blow; Qian Renxue stayed with him through the night.

Tang San, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ma Hongjun absorbed their Spirit Bones, while Spirit Hall issued an armistice protecting Tang Hao, Tang San, and Xiao Wu. After the Shrek group parted ways, Yuan Yu stayed in Spirit City, where the Dark Elemental Temple opened.

• Tang San absorbed the Spirit-Concentrating Wisdom Skull, reached rank forty-four, and stored Shi Nian's Illusion Wisdom Skull for later study.
• Zhu Zhuqing absorbed the Wind-Chasing Left Leg Bone and reached rank forty-three, while Ma Hongjun absorbed the Flame Right Arm Bone and reached rank forty-four.
• Spirit Hall issued an Armistice Order protecting Tang Hao, Tang San, and Xiao Wu, and Yuan Yu checked that Spirit City had stopped surveillance of Xiao Wu.
• The Shrek group celebrated with Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin, then separated the next morning as Tang San and Xiao Wu left with Tang Hao to visit Ah Yin.
• Yuan Yu gave Qian Renxue a marked Golden Feather before she returned to Heaven Dou City, then learned from Gui Mei that the Dark Elemental Temple had opened.

Tang San discovered his mother Ah Yin’s surviving Blue Silver Grass, trained under the waterfall, and awakened his Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline and first domain. Meanwhile, Yuan Yu entered the Darkness God’s Temple with Bibi Dong, where a figure resembling the dead Qian Xunji appeared and addressed her.

• Tang Hao showed Tang San and Xiao Wu the Blue Silver Grass stalk that was Ah Yin, and Xiao Wu promised to seek help for her recovery in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xiao Wu left to reunite with Da Ming and Er Ming, while Tang San began training with the Clear Sky Hammer beneath a waterfall.
• Tang San practiced Chaotic Wind for six months and studied old Spirit Hall records, finding that key evidence about Ah Yin’s sacrifice remained sealed.
• The Blue Silver King helped Tang San awaken his Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline and Blue Silver Domain, raising his Soul Power to rank fifty-two and granting him a fifth Spirit Ring.
• Yuan Yu entered the Darkness God’s Temple with Bibi Dong and encountered a figure in papal robes who looked like Qian Xunji and called Bibi Dong his accomplished disciple.

Yuan Yu and Bibi Dong destroyed the Rakshasa malice corrupting the Divine Temple, allowing its Darkness Origin to return and raising Yuan Yu to level eighty-five. After Bibi Dong ordered the Spirit Hall to prevent unauthorized hunts of transformed spirit beasts, Yuan Yu prepared to travel to Slaughter City for the tainted Darkness Origin underground.

• Yuan Yu used the Netherlight Lamp and Bibi Dong's power to break the Rakshasa-tainted Purple Crystal and restore the temple's Darkness Origin.
• The cleansing drained Yuan Yu's Soul Power, but the returning Darkness Origin pushed him through two breakthroughs to level eighty-five.
• Yuan Yu declined to pry into Bibi Dong's past, and she left his questions unanswered while accepting the medicine he offered.
• Bibi Dong ordered every Branch Hall to report mature transformed spirit beasts to the Papal Hall and forbade using Xiao Wu's status to evade the ceasefire.
• Yuan Yu told Qian Renxue he planned to enter Slaughter City after his Moon Pattern stabilized, and she asked him to return alive.
• Yuan Yu set out on the Nine-Colored Stone Platform toward Slaughter City to retrieve the tainted Darkness Origin underground.

After awakening the Blue Silver Emperor, Tang San entered Slaughter City as Tang Yin, while Yuan Yu arrived as Myriad Phenomena and quickly drew attention with his strength. Yuan Yu survived his first arena match and recognized Tang San, as the King of Slaughter ordered Rakshasa Blood added to Yuan Yu’s drink.

• Tang San completed his waterfall training, awakened the Blue Silver Emperor in the Blue Silver Forest, and reached Soul Power level fifty-two before entering Slaughter City as Tang Yin.
• Hu Liena entered Slaughter City as Hell Envoy, and Yuan Yu arrived as Myriad Phenomena with Soul Power level eighty-five.
• Yuan Yu gave up his newcomer protection, fought off three men who tried to rob his Wine Gourd, and signed up for the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• Yuan Yu defeated seven opponents and incapacitated two in the arena, where Hu Liena recognized him and Tang San recognized his Wine Gourd.
• Yuan Yu recognized Tang San by the callus on his hand and addressed him as Tang Yin as they passed each other.
• The King of Slaughter ordered an envoy to add Rakshasa Blood to Yuan Yu’s blood wine.

Yuan Yu won his hundredth match in Slaughter City, and Tang Yin and Hu Liena soon reached the same milestone. When the King of Slaughter tried to offer them a way to avoid the Hell Road, Yuan Yu exposed and severed hidden Rakshasa Aura beneath the arena, forcing the road open; the three landed at its entrance as bats approached.

• Yuan Yu survived an elaborate ambush during his hundredth match, defeating seven opponents while Tang Yin helped stop one of the two survivors from escaping.
• Tang Yin and Hu Liena each completed their hundredth victory over the next twelve days.
• The King of Slaughter offered the three the title of Asura God and a chance to avoid the Hell Road, but Hu Liena and Tang Yin demanded the Divine Slaughter's Domain, while Yuan Yu said he had come to find something beneath the road.
• Yuan Yu poured Bloody Mary onto the arena floor and used the Moon-Aspect Netherlight to locate and sever the Rakshasa Aura hidden below it.
• The King of Slaughter opened the Hell Road, and Yuan Yu, Tang Yin, and Hu Liena landed together at its entrance as bats approached.

Tang Yin, Hu Liena, and Yuan Yu fought through Hell Road, defeated its monsters, and absorbed the darkness corrupting the Blood Pool. After they gained Divine Slaughter's Domain and emerged, Hu Liena recognized the marks on Tang Yin's back and drew a blade against him.

• Tang Yin, Hu Liena, and Yuan Yu crossed a narrow path through a Bat swarm and killed the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King.
• Yuan Yu used his Water Breathing to form the Water-Aspect Mystic Bottle and clear a path through the Rakshasa-corrupted vapor rising from the Blood Pool.
• The three defeated the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent, and Tang Yin caught its golden-red Inner Core.
• Yuan Yu absorbed the darkness's source into the Myriad Phenomena Wheel, reaching levels eighty-six and eighty-seven as all three gained Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Hu Liena saw the Eight Spider Lance marks on Tang Yin's back, called him Tang San, and drew a Short Blade.

Tang San and Hu Liena left Hell Road without fighting, while Bibi Dong reaffirmed the armistice and Yuan Yu delivered the Darkness Origin to the Divine Temple. After recovering from his injuries, Yuan Yu reunited with Qian Renxue, whose concern for him revealed a growing closeness between them.

• Yuan Yu stopped Hu Liena and Tang San from fighting, and Tang Hao and Yue Guan arrived to escort their companions away in separate directions.
• Hu Liena reported her journey through Hell Road to Bibi Dong, who approved her decision and assigned her to train in Divine Slaughter's Domain in three months.
• Yuan Yu delivered the Darkness Origin to the Divine Temple, warned Bibi Dong about the King of Slaughter's aura, and then slept for two days.
• Tang Hao took Tang San to Moonlight Pavilion, where Tang Yuehua welcomed him and began teaching him to put away his killing intent.
• Qian Renxue treated Yuan Yu's poisoned shoulder, gave him the White Jade Wine Flask, and asked him not to call her “Sis” so often.

Yuan Yu completed the Thunder Pattern, advanced to level eighty-nine, and prepared to attend the five-year reunion at Shrek. After catching up on the fragile peace between Spirit Hall and its opponents, he left with a promise to return to Spirit City for Bibi Dong’s task.

• Yuan Yu completed the Thunder-Aspect Sky Drum on his ninth attempt, calibrated the Myriad Phenomena Wheel, and reached level eighty-nine.
• Yuan Yu told Azure Luan Douluo and Ling Yuan that he would go to Shrek for the five-year reunion.
• Tang Hao, Bibi Dong, Xiao Wu, and the forest’s guardians maintained the armistice, while Tang San graduated from Moonlight Pavilion and received the released Ah Yin Case files.
• Yuan Yu visited Bibi Dong and Hu Liena, and Bibi Dong instructed him to return to Spirit City after the reunion for a task.
• Yuan Yu met Qian Renxue, shared a drink with her, and left for Shrek the next day.

Five years after parting, Tang San reunited with his Shrek companions at the expanded academy, where Yuan Yu revealed his immense strength and the group discussed Tang San’s plan to establish the Tang Sect. The reunion ended with an invitation from Xue Qinghe for Tang San and Yuan Yu to visit the palace.

• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun challenged the unrecognizable Tang San at the academy gate until his Hidden Weapons and Eight Spider Lances proved who he was.
• Tang San and his companions shared news of their progress, while Oscar and Ning Rongrong reunited after his dangerous journey to the Far North.
• Yuan Yu arrived with wine, revealed that he and Tang San had crossed Hell Road together, and disclosed that he had reached level eighty-nine with eight Spirit Rings.
• The Shrek group honored Xiao Wu’s place at their reunion and read her letter asking Tang San to wait for her and come get her.
• Tang San announced that he would establish the Tang Sect, and Yuan Yu agreed to support him if the sect investigated past crimes without punishing innocent Spirit Hall members.
• An attendant delivered Xue Qinghe’s invitation for Tang San and Yuan Yu to visit the palace the next day.

Tang San and Yuan Yu laid the groundwork for the Tang Sect and set rules to prevent its members from harming uninvolved people while pursuing old cases. At the imperial palace, they discovered signs of a poisoning plot and learned that Qian Renxue had been injured and trapped in the Xue Ye case.

• Tang San planned to recruit the Strength Clan, while Ning Fengzhi offered the Tang Sect its first order and Flender offered academy graduates in exchange for priority access to hidden weapons.
• Yuan Yu and Tang San drafted rules limiting retaliation against uninvolved Spirit Hall members and requiring evidence and accountability.
• Yuan Yu recognized that Xue Qinghe's invitation bore Qian Renxue's damaged, bloodstained Golden Feather lamp seal, suggesting she had been forced to use it.
• Tang San identified poison residue on medicine being carried into the palace and deduced that separate substances were being combined to poison Xue Ye.
• At the Eastern Palace, a guard reported that Xue Ye had vomited blood again, and Yuan Yu spotted a bloodstained golden feather hidden in Xue Qinghe's sleeve, revealing that Qian Renxue was injured.