Chapter Summaries

Ma Hongjun and Zhu Zhuqing absorbed their Soul Bones while Bai Jin and the others defended them from two returning Soul Douluos. After the attackers were defeated and the new Soul Bone skills emerged, the convoy set out for Sunset Forest to find Soul Beasts for the remaining two Shrek members at level forty.

• Ma Hongjun absorbed the Flame Right Arm Bone and Zhu Zhuqing absorbed the Windchaser Left Leg Bone, with Ning Rongrong and Bai Jin helping them endure the process.
• Two Soul Douluos attacked the post station, but Bai Jin, Chen Xin, and the others defeated them while protecting the Soul Bone absorptions.
• Ma Hongjun and Zhu Zhuqing completed their absorption and revealed their new Soul Bone skills.
• Ma Hongjun knocked the blood-winged Soul Douluo unconscious with his new fire attack, and Flender charged him for the damage to the wall.
• After resting, the convoy headed for Sunset Forest to find Soul Beasts for the two Shrek members still at level forty.

Ning Rongrong led the group in hunting a six-thousand-year-old Black-Shelled Dragon Turtle and obtained her Fourth Soul Ring. After reaching level forty-one, she and the others heard a beast’s roar and saw crimson fire deeper in the forest, where Bai Jin pointed them toward their next target.

• Ning Fengzhi left Ning Rongrong with Chen Xin and asked Bai Jin to keep an eye on her.
• Bai Jin identified a six-thousand-year-old Black-Shelled Dragon Turtle, and Ning Rongrong chose it for her Fourth Soul Ring.
• Ning Rongrong directed the group’s attack, and the others exposed the turtle’s weak point so she could kill it with a short knife.
• Ning Rongrong absorbed the turtle’s Soul Ring, gained a fifty-percent defense boost as her Fourth Soul Skill, and reached level forty-one.
• A roar and crimson fire rose from deeper in the forest, and Bai Jin indicated that the group had found their next target.

Ma Hongjun fought and killed a Scarlet Flame Earth Dragon in Sunset Forest, then absorbed its Soul Ring and gained his fourth Soul Skill, Phoenix Roaring Sky Strike. With Ning Rongrong and Ma Hongjun both strengthened, Shrek left the forest for Heaven Dou City and a long-overdue parting.

• Bai Jin identified a roughly seventy-two-hundred-year-old Scarlet Flame Earth Dragon, and Ma Hongjun chose it for his Fourth Soul Ring.
• Ma Hongjun attacked the Earth Dragon, while Ning Rongrong, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing supported him and opened a wound in its back.
• Bai Jin used Azure to divert the Earth Dragon's explosive flames, allowing Ma Hongjun to strike its wound and finally kill it.
• Ma Hongjun endured the Earth Dragon's fire while absorbing its deep purple Soul Ring, reaching forty-first-rank Soul Power and gaining Phoenix Roaring Sky Strike.
• Shrek left Sunset Forest for Heaven Dou City, where a long-overdue parting awaited.

After returning to Shrek Academy, the companions shared their plans and parted to face their futures, agreeing to reunite in five years. Bai Jin then received a letter from Hu Liena saying she wanted to go to Slaughter City, putting his hoped-for vacation in doubt.

• Dai Mubai told the academy about Tang San and Xiao Wu, and Grandmaster explained that Tang San was with Tang Hao while Xiao Wu had returned to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The Shrek companions discussed their futures, and Bai Jin encouraged Oscar to believe that a Food System Soul Master could fight head-on.
• Grandmaster mapped out the group’s separate journeys, and Dai Mubai proposed that they all meet at the academy in five years.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing left for the Star Luo Empire, Ning Rongrong departed with Chen Xin and Oscar, and Ma Hongjun stayed to train.
• Bai Jin reassured Flender that the Shrek Seven Devils would return, then received Hu Liena’s letter saying she wanted to go to Slaughter City.

Hu Liena earned Bibi Dong’s permission to enter Slaughter City and set out with Bai Jin, who was assigned to escort her while hunting Qiu Ren, a dangerous Soul Douluo. Along the way, Bai Jin tested her combat skills, and Hu Liena continued toward Slaughter City after surviving a bandit attack.

• Hu Liena trained without her Martial Soul or Soul Skills, and Bai Jin challenged her with a staff to expose her weaknesses.
• Hu Liena explained to Bibi Dong that she wanted to discover what she could do without Soul Skills or teammates, and Bibi Dong gave her permission to go to Slaughter City.
• Bibi Dong assigned Bai Jin to escort Hu Liena and hunt Qiu Ren, a Level 89 Soul Douluo with a Black Coffin Martial Soul who had abducted people near Slaughter City.
• Three days later, Hu Liena and Bai Jin left Spirit City, and Xie Yue and Yan saw them off as Hu Liena took Xie Yue’s Short Blade.
• During a roadside camp, Bai Jin tested Hu Liena’s hearing and reflexes, and she fought off six bandits while blindfolded.
• Hu Liena resumed practicing with her eyes covered as the carriage continued toward Slaughter City.

Bai Jin and Hu Liena reached the entrance to Slaughter City, where Bai Jin defeated Qiu Ren and destroyed his Black Coffin. Hu Liena entered the city to begin its trials while Bai Jin remained at the entrance.

• Bai Jin and Hu Liena arrived at a tavern near Slaughter City, where Hu Liena fought off the patrons who attacked them.
• Qiu Ren emerged from a Black Coffin and attacked Bai Jin, while Bai Jin told Hu Liena to watch the bartender and keep him from escaping.
• Bai Jin used his Azure Blue eyes and Soul Skills to expose Qiu Ren's position, destroy the coffin, and defeat him with Unlimited Void and He.
• Bai Jin's Soul Power rose from level eighty-five to level eighty-six after the battle, and he complained that the bounty should be doubled.
• Bai Jin explained the trials inside Slaughter City, and Hu Liena entered the tunnel to begin them.

Bai Jin defeated two Evil Soul Masters, rescued miners, and reached level eighty-eight before learning that Tang San had entered Slaughter City under a new name. He received a letter from Xue Qinghe warning that Emperor Xue Ye's health was failing and summoning him to Heaven Dou City for their five-year appointment.

• Bai Jin defeated the Cold Corpse Soul Douluo and Bone Bell Soul Douluo at an abandoned mine, then used precise control of his powers to rescue seven trapped miners.
• Bai Jin's Soul Power reached level eighty-eight, and reports told him Hu Liena was nearing level fifty-nine while Xie Yue and Yan had reached level sixty-one.
• Bai Jin learned that Tang San had entered Slaughter City under the name Tang Yin and recognized him despite his changed appearance.
• Bai Jin met Tang Hao and Tang San near the rebuilt tavern, learned Xiao Wu had returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, and said he would still fight her if they crossed paths.
• Xue Qinghe sent Bai Jin a letter summoning him to Heaven Dou City on the day of their five-year appointment and warning him that Emperor Xue Ye's health was failing.

Five years after the tournament, Tang San reunited with his Shrek companions, who initially mistook him for a stranger because the Blue Silver Emperor's awakening had changed his appearance. As the friends welcomed him back, Bai Jin received an urgent summons from the Crown Prince and left for the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, where danger was gathering.

• Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun reunited outside Shrek Academy and fell into their old playful scuffle.
• Tang San arrived, and the companions attacked him before Bai Jin recognized him and revealed he was one of them.
• The Shrek friends welcomed Tang San back, while he explained that Xiao Wu remained in the Star Dou Great Forest and he would bring her back someday.
• A Royal Knight delivered the Crown Prince's urgent summons, and Bai Jin read a hidden message ordering him to enter the palace that night.
• Bai Jin left for the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, and Chen Xin told Ning Rongrong that the Crown Prince was Bai Jin's team member.

Bai Jin met with Xue Qinghe as she prepared to seize control of the Heaven Dou Palace before Emperor Xue Ye died. The group reached the palace just as Chen Xin, Dugu Bo, Yang Wudi, and Tang San arrived, leaving the impending coup poised to collide with their intervention.

• Bai Jin inspected Xue Qinghe's palace coup plan and learned that Emperor Xue Ye's poison had left him near death.
• Xue Qinghe outlined how Ci Xue and She Long would secure the palace while she obtained the Imperial Jade Seal and accused Xue Beng and Prince Xue Xing of rebellion.
• Bai Jin declared he would stop anyone who tried to kill Xue Ye or Qian Renxue, then challenged her to consider whether she wanted the throne as Xue Qinghe or as herself.
• Qian Renxue put on the crown prince's cloak and led Bai Jin, She Long, and Ci Xue toward the palace.
• At the barred east Gate, Chen Xin arrived with Dugu Bo, Yang Wudi, and Tang San, who exchanged a look with Bai Jin.

Ning Fengzhi, Bai Jin, and their allies entered the palace to treat the gravely poisoned Xue Ye, while Xue Qinghe tried to control access to the Emperor. Tang San spotted a tear in Xue Qinghe’s disguise and uncovered a lock of golden hair.

• Ning Fengzhi arrived at the palace with Chen Xin, and Bai Jin persuaded Xue Qinghe to open the Gate for Dugu Bo and Yang Wudi.
• Xue Qinghe ordered Xue Beng seized, but Bai Jin stopped the guards from attacking and opened the Hall Gate.
• Bai Jin described the poison in Xue Ye’s body, and Tang San directed Dugu Bo and Yang Wudi as they began treatment with Ning Fengzhi’s support.
• Ning Fengzhi refused to stand aside for Xue Qinghe, and the two faced each other as She Long confronted Chen Xin.
• Tang San noticed a faint fragrance and a cut beside Xue Qinghe’s ear, then used Blue Silver Grass to tear his disguise and reveal golden hair.

Qian Renxue revealed her identity as a Spirit Hall Soul Saint and confronted Tang San in Emperor Xue Ye’s palace. After he refused to join Spirit Hall, she attacked him, and Tang San answered with his Clear Sky Hammer as Bai Jin watched.

• Qian Renxue shed her disguise, revealed her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul, and told Ning Fengzhi that the real Xue Qinghe had died twenty years earlier.
• Tang San challenged Qian Renxue’s guarantees and refused her offer to join Spirit Hall, citing Spirit Hall’s role in his mother’s death and Xiao Wu’s near-death.
• Qian Renxue attacked Tang San with her angelic sword, cutting through his Blue Silver Emperor vines and forcing him back with her strike.
• Tang San drew his Clear Sky Hammer, while Bai Jin watched and urged them to show whether they had improved over the past five years.

Tang San fought Qian Renxue in the palace corridor, using his domains, Blue Silver Emperor, Clear Sky Hammer, and hidden weapons against her Angel Domain and overwhelming power. Qian Renxue nearly killed him after winning the exchange, but Bai Jin stopped her; She Long and Ci Xue then launched a deadly attack on them.

• Tang San opened with concealed Blue Silver Emperor vines and hidden weapons, but Qian Renxue used her Angel Domain to suppress him and deflect his attacks.
• Tang San struck Qian Renxue with the Blue Silver Overlord Spear and attacked with his Clear Sky Hammer and Eight Spider Lances, but she drove him back with her wings.
• Tang San briefly disrupted Qian Renxue with the Purple Demon Eye, but her Angel's Roar injured him before she knocked him across the corridor.
• Qian Renxue summoned her Angel Phantom and overpowered Tang San's Clear Sky Hammer, then stopped her sword just short of his neck when Bai Jin caught the blade.
• She Long attacked Bai Jin with his Snake Lance as Ci Xue fired venomous spines at Bai Jin and Tang San.

Bai Jin fought She Long and Ci Xue in the palace, using his Soul Rings and abilities to overpower both Titled Douluo. As Chen Xin and Dugu Bo watched, Ci Xue revealed that lethal, colorless poison had already entered Xue Ye's Bedchamber, and Xue Ye began convulsing.

• She Long's spear and Ci Xue's poison struck Bai Jin's Limitless barrier, but Bai Jin shielded the nearby guards and revealed his eight Soul Rings.
• Bai Jin used Azure to disrupt She Long's Snake Lance attack, punched him through the corridor, and redirected Ci Xue's poison into the sky and toward an uninhabited valley.
• She Long and Ci Xue attacked together, but Bai Jin seized the Snake Lance, struck Ci Xue with it, then punched She Long and sent both Titled Douluo crashing into the Garden.
• Chen Xin and Dugu Bo watched as Bai Jin continued fighting, with Chen Xin noting that Bai Jin was struggling to hold back his power.
• Ci Xue revealed that colorless poison dust had slipped into the Bedchamber, and Xue Ye began convulsing on the bed.

Tang San, Yang Wudi, and Dugu Bo fought to purge the layered poisons from Emperor Xue Ye while Bai Jin defended the Bedchamber from poison dust and two Titled Douluo. Xue Ye survived the first round of treatment, and Bai Jin felt his Soul Power barrier nearing a breakthrough as the battle continued.

• Tang San, Yang Wudi, and Dugu Bo used Silver Needles, Soul Power, and competing poisons to drive the pufferfish poison and older toxins from Xue Ye.
• Tang San spread Blue Silver Emperor leaves across the roof to catch poison dust, while Bai Jin drew the dust out of the Bedchamber and blasted it into the sky.
• Ci Xue and She Long prepared to fight Bai Jin, as Imperial Guards arrived and aimed crossbows at the Bedchamber.
• Chen Xin deflected the guards' bolts with his Seven Kill Sword and warned them not to fire again.
• Xue Ye spat out black blood, and Tang San found that his weak pulse had returned; Yang Wudi said two more rounds of treatment were needed.
• Bai Jin felt his barrier between Level 89 and Level 90 crack and urged Ci Xue and She Long to press him harder.

Bai Jin fought She Long and Ci Xue to protect Xue Ye's Bedchamber, broke through to Level 90, and defeated both Titled Douluo. As Qian Renxue approached the chamber, he blocked her way and told her it was time to clock out.

• Ci Xue and She Long combined their attacks, forcing the Snake Lance close to Bai Jin before he dodged and countered them.
• Bai Jin used Six Eyes True Body to read their coordinated assault, then threw She Long back and stopped Ci Xue's spinning Pufferfish avatar.
• Bai Jin defended Xue Ye's Bedchamber from their combined attack and broke through to Level 90, though he still had no ninth Soul Ring.
• Bai Jin opened Unlimited Void and struck with Purple, shattering both Martial Soul Avatars and leaving She Long and Ci Xue unable to rise.
• Chen Xin and Dugu Bo reacted to Bai Jin's breakthrough as Xue Ye's heartbeat steadied inside the Bedchamber.
• Qian Renxue put away the Angel Holy Sword and approached the chamber, but Bai Jin blocked her and told her it was time to clock out.

Qian Renxue’s coup failed, but Bai Jin stopped her from fighting and persuaded her to leave Heaven Dou with She Long and Ci Xue. Before departing, she warned him that Spirit Hall was sending Soul Masters after Xiao Wu in the Star Dou Great Forest, leaving Bai Jin and Tang San at odds over her escape.

• Qian Renxue attacked Bai Jin with her Angel True Body, but he restrained her and carried her away from the Bedchamber.
• Bai Jin reminded Qian Renxue that her years in Heaven Dou had still mattered, and she chose to leave with She Long and Ci Xue.
• Qian Renxue told Bai Jin that Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and three thousand Soul Masters were gathering in the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Xiao Wu, then gave him a secret-message feather.
• Tang San challenged Bai Jin for allowing Qian Renxue to escape, and Bai Jin said he had never promised to kill her.
• Emperor Xue Ye woke and coughed inside the Bedchamber.

Xue Ye recovered from the poisoning and entrusted Ning Fengzhi with teaching Xue Beng, who was appointed to oversee court affairs. As Bai Jin left the palace, he received an urgent report that Spirit Hall had sent Yue Guan and Gui Mei into the Star Dou Great Forest with over two thousand Soul Masters to hunt Xiao Wu.

• Xue Ye woke with Xue Beng at his bedside, learned from Ning Fengzhi that Qian Renxue had infiltrated the palace, and told Ning Fengzhi to teach Xue Beng.
• Bai Jin told Tang San that he had let Qian Renxue go because he owed her, and promised to protect Xiao Wu if Spirit Hall came after her.
• Bai Jin healed Tang San, helping him break through to Level 60, while Chen Xin and Dugu Bo teased him about choosing a title.
• Xue Beng arranged shelter and food for people stranded by the palace lockdown after Bai Jin urged him to help them.
• Xue Ye appointed Xue Beng to oversee court affairs, and Bai Jin left the palace despite Prince Xue Xing's objections.
• A Spirit Hall messenger gave Bai Jin a report that Yue Guan and Gui Mei had entered the Star Dou Great Forest with more than two thousand Soul Masters to hunt a young woman with a scorpion-tail braid.

Tang San and Bai Jin raced to the Star Dou Great Forest after learning that Spirit Hall’s Soul Hunting team was pursuing Xiao Wu. They found signs of the encirclement and detected Xiao Wu’s faint, blood-tinged aura deep in the forest, then hurried toward her.

• Tang San learned that Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo had led Spirit Hall’s Soul Hunting team into the Star Dou Great Forest seven days earlier to capture Xiao Wu.
• Bai Jin used Boundless Passage to carry Tang San rapidly toward the forest while their friends prepared to follow with a second group.
• Bai Jin discovered a hidden report about a spatial Soul Beast in the forest’s core region but chose to prioritize finding Xiao Wu.
• Bai Jin and Tang San crossed the blockade and subdued six Spirit Hall patrol Soul Masters, while Tang San tracked the team using Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum pollen and signs in the forest.
• Bai Jin forced a stampeding herd of Soul Beasts to part, and Tang San sensed Xiao Wu’s faint, blood-tinged aura in the depths of the forest.

Bai Jin and Tang San reached Xiao Wu as Spirit Hall forces pursued her, and Bai Jin helped her while defying the order to capture her. As Yue Guan and Gui Mei joined the confrontation, Gui Mei emerged from Tang San’s shadow and activated the Lockdown Spikes.

• Bai Jin incapacitated more than thirty Spirit Hall Soul Masters and continued toward Xiao Wu with Tang San.
• Xiao Wu fought through six Soul Saints and aerial pursuers while carrying an injured Soft Bone Rabbit, until Tang San pulled her clear of their attacks.
• Tang San reunited with Xiao Wu, and Bai Jin purged the poison from her wound and gave her an Antidote Pill.
• Bai Jin rejected the Soul-Hunting Order, while Yue Guan arrived with more forces and confronted him.
• Gui Mei surfaced from Tang San’s shadow and activated the Lockdown Spikes as Yue Guan’s Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum bloomed.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei trapped Tang San, Xiao Wu, Bai Jin, and Er Ming in Two Extremes Stillness Domain while Spirit Hall Soul Masters attacked. Bai Jin shattered the domain just as Xiao Wu began sacrificing herself to save Tang San, and he reached her as Reverse Cursed Technique took effect.

• Yue Guan and Gui Mei used Two Extremes Stillness Domain to immobilize the group, and three Soul Saints attacked Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• Tang San forced himself to move, used a Hidden Weapon to deflect a spear, and extended his Eight Spider Lances to weaken the Soul Power Cage around Xiao Wu.
• Bai Jin found a weakness in the domain, broke its Lockdown Spikes, and freed Tang San enough to knock the cage away with the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Xiao Wu began a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast sacrifice for Tang San, and Bai Jin shattered the domain completely to reach her.
• Bai Jin cast Reverse Cursed Technique over Xiao Wu as her red flames continued to rise.