Chapter Summaries

Xu Jiujiu met Pantalone in the Fatui’s underground camp, where he offered the Star Luo Empire a sweeping railway and logistics agreement. He revealed the Fatui Executives’ goals and began outlining three conditions, leaving Xu Jiujiu to consider the first: publicly partnering with the Fatui and supporting the Adventurers’ Guild.

• Xu Jiujiu’s carriage entered a hidden underground complex, where Owl Bro served her tea and dismissed her attendants.
• Pantalone presented a proposal to build railways and troop tunnels across Star Luo in exchange for a share of commercial taxes and fifty years of operating rights.
• Xu Jiujiu questioned the Fatui’s real motives and rejected the idea of using Star Luo to oppose Shrek Academy.
• Pantalone described the Fatui Executives’ separate ambitions and warned that Star Luo’s power was threatened by the rising White Tiger Duke’s Mansion and other rivals.
• Pantalone stated that his first condition was a public partnership with the Fatui and support for Adventurers’ Guild branches that would handle the empire’s communications.

Owl Bro negotiated the Fatui’s expansion into the Star Luo Empire with Xu Jiujiu and explained his plan to make Credit Points central to the continent’s economy. The negotiations ended as Xu Jiujiu saw a Soul Guidance Train arrive in the underground station.

• Xu Jiujiu accepted the Fatui’s plan to establish a communication network and offered one million Gold Soul Coins in initial funding.
• Owl Bro asked the Star Luo Empire to recognize the Fatui, grant them wilderness prospecting rights, and approve an academy; Xu Jiujiu insisted on attending the academy herself.
• Owl Bro outlined his plan to control Soul Guidance Train routes for fifty years and require Credit Points for Fatui goods and services.
• Xu Jiujiu concluded that the imperial family needed to control the Titled Douluo’s lifelines to preserve their loyalty.
• Xu Jiujiu and Owl Bro reached the underground station, where a snow-dusted Soul Guidance Train emerged and stopped before them.

Jiang Hao and the Clones returned from the Far North with Dottore’s new potions and showed them to Xu Jiujiu at the underground hub. After escorting her back, Jiang Hao discussed the gathering support for the venue and proposed a spectacular duel to display the Fatui’s Soul Tools.

• Jiang Hao, Underworld Child, and Banner Bro arrived aboard Nether Bro’s ice-coated Train, and the workers began unloading the crates.
• Owl Bro brought Xu Jiujiu to see the new goods, and Ice Bro demonstrated how the extreme-cold potion temporarily enhanced an ice-type Martial Soul.
• Nether Bro warned Xu Jiujiu not to drink the ice potion and showed her a Mental Surge Potion, which she declined to test and proposed taking back to the empire for study.
• Owl Bro showed Xu Jiujiu the underground hub before the group escorted her back to the platform late that night.
• Jiang Hao noted that several major factions had secretly sent people to support the venue and suggested holding a spectacular duel to showcase the Fatui’s Soul Tools.

Jiang Hao and the Fatui held the first Soul Tool match at the Nine Treasures City expo, drawing the attention of several factions. The opening duel pitted the Fatui Debt Collector against Shrek’s He Caitou, and it ended its first exchange with the Debt Collector apparently vanishing.

• Ning Tian arrived to oversee security, and Jiang Hao explained that the matches would showcase the Fatui’s weapons to merchants and the Star Luo Imperial Family.
• The invited factions took their seats, and Jiang Hao recognized Long Aotian, the young Sect Master of the Main Body Sect, among Vina’s party.
• Mai Dou announced that consecutive match victories could earn challengers a Soul Bone, then the draw paired the Fatui Debt Collector with He Caitou.
• He Caitou flew into the arena with an array of Soul Tools, while the Debt Collector entered wearing a black robe and carrying two curved blades.
• He Caitou fired a Soul Tool shell as soon as the match began, but it passed through the Debt Collector and struck the arena’s protective barrier.

Shadow Bro defeated He Caitou in the Soul Tools competition, while Fan Yu faced Shrek’s decision to cut the Soul Tool Department’s resources and began questioning his future there. At the infirmary, two Master's Bros secretly drew He Caitou’s blood for the Artificial Martial Soul project.

• Shadow Bro used his concealment and Soul Tool Clones to disarm He Caitou and knock him unconscious in four seconds.
• Fan Yu protested the result, but Owl Bro showed the crowd descriptions of the Debt Collector Cloak and Hunting Blade that confirmed Shadow Bro had used Soul Tools.
• Xuan Zi threatened to cut off the Soul Tool Department’s resources, leaving Fan Yu discouraged and considering whether to leave Shrek.
• Fan Yu went to the infirmary to check on He Caitou and saw two Master's Bros draw his blood.
• The two Master's Bros planned to extract He Caitou’s Martial Soul Affinity Factor for the Artificial Martial Soul project.

Jiang Hao brought the Fatui trio to victory over the Star Luo Empire before accepting Ning Tian’s invitation to visit the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. He learned the sect was preparing to marry an elder’s granddaughter to Duke Minghuo, unaware that Jiang Hao had already destroyed the duke’s territory, and the chapter ended with Jiang Hao questioning Ning Tian’s modest lodgings.

• The Cryo Fatui Skirmisher, Electrohammer Vanguard, and Fatui Pyro Gunner defeated the Star Luo Empire’s team in ten minutes, continuing the Fatui’s winning streak.
• Ning Tian invited Jiang Hao and his companions to visit the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and they rode a Soul Guidance Elevator up to the sect.
• Ning Tian revealed that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect would marry an elder’s granddaughter to Duke Minghuo to strengthen its political influence in the Dou Ling Empire.
• Jiang Hao learned through his mental link that Duke Minghuo had escaped the destruction of his territory and had not yet discovered that his household had been wiped out.
• Wooden Door Bro asked Ning Tian about Qingzhu, a Fatui member with a Wind Sword Martial Soul, and Ning Tian agreed to ask around.
• Ning Tian led the group to a sparsely decorated side hall on the rear mountain, where Jiang Hao asked if she lived there.

Ning Tian asked Jiang Hao to postpone the competition so her friend’s wedding could be witnessed by the major powers, and he agreed. Afterward, the Fatui debated how to deal with the Netherflame Duke, but they left the decision until the next day.

• Ning Tian explained the marriage alliance and asked Jiang Hao to delay the next match and invite the Fatui to the ceremony.
• Jiang Hao said the Fatui had already planned to postpone the match and would unveil something new the day after tomorrow.
• Ning Tian returned to her room and examined the Fire Element Shotgun and ammunition her father had left her.
• Jiang Hao met with the Fatui, who debated whether to kill the Netherflame Duke openly, stage a public incident, or ambush him after the wedding.
• Owl Bro advised the group to wait and see what happened the next day.

Feng Qingshu swallowed a fatal poison rather than be forced to marry the Netherflame Duke, while Xu Jiujiu and the sect’s guests gathered for the wedding. Hidden nearby, Banner Bro and the others discovered an armed escort delivering food to prisoners and followed it toward the dungeon.

• Feng Qingshu’s father told her that the sect had arranged her marriage to the Netherflame Duke and warned her not to disrupt the wedding.
• Feng Qingshu swallowed a One-Day Fatal Poison and reflected on the life and freedom she would lose.
• Xu Jiujiu watched the bridal procession and considered how marriage alliances might benefit the Star Luo Empire.
• Yan Qianqiu hosted the wedding gathering in Ning Zhiyuan’s absence, while guests including Dai Yueheng waited for the ceremony.
• Banner Bro, Nether Bro, and their companions spotted an armed food-delivery escort and suspected Ning Zhiyuan was holding prisoners.
• Shadow Bro concealed the group in shadow, and they followed the escort toward the dungeon.

Shadow Bro and his companions uncovered the mutilated prisoners in the Dungeon, while Jiang Hao witnessed Ning Tian’s forced wedding to the Netherflame Duke. Wooden Door Bro and Blind Bro intervened to protect Ning Tian, and Blind Bro’s attack exposed the duke as an Evil Soul Master.

• Shadow Bro’s Soul Skill revealed him and his companions in the Dungeon, where they knocked out the guards and found Ning Fengzhi, a dead Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect elder, and an injured Fire Dragon Tribe Titled Douluo imprisoned inside.
• Jiang Hao learned of the prisoners’ condition and saw Ning Tian being escorted toward her wedding with the Netherflame Duke.
• Ning Tian rejected the marriage, tore off her bridal veil, and demanded to know where her father was.
• Wooden Door Bro stopped a guard from attacking Ning Tian, shattered his sword, and condemned him for drawing it against someone weaker.
• Blind Bro challenged the Netherflame Duke and struck him with a Decay Attribute attack, causing the duke’s Evil Fire and Evil Soul Master aura to erupt before the assembled guests.

The Netherflame Duke unleashed his power after accusing the guests of ruining his wedding, and Shrek Academy’s students fought back. Yan Qianqiu intervened and nearly killed Jiang Hao, but his Soul Tools protected him as Ning Tian watched him survive.

• The Netherflame Duke denied being an Evil Soul Master, then attacked the viewing stands with tormented souls as Xu Jiujiu’s guard urged her not to get involved and Long Aotian carried Vina away to fetch help.
• Wooden Door Bro and Ghost Bro used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to trap the Netherflame Duke, allowing Blind Bro to strike him with White-Eyed Azure Dragon Break.
• Ning Tian hit the Netherflame Duke with a charged Soul Guidance Ray, but Yan Qianqiu snapped the weapon and blasted her aside.
• Jiang Hao met Yan Qianqiu’s attack with a punch that shattered his left hand, then survived the follow-up thanks to his Invincible Shield and Angel’s Blessing Soul Tools.
• Ning Tian smiled at the angelic protection around Jiang Hao and said that going all-in was a kind of wisdom.

Marionette, Banner Bro, Nether Bro, Ning Tian, and Jiang Hao joined the fight against the Netherflame Duke and Yan Qianqiu. As Ning Tian reached her limit, the Vision Jiang Hao had given her awakened with Anemo, while Dottore prepared to begin an experiment into the nature of divinity and Visions.

• Marionette arrived on the Relic Dragon Beast and launched guided missiles and a laser at the Netherflame Duke and Yan Qianqiu.
• Banner Bro brought the wounded Ning Zhiyuan to Ning Tian’s residence, then attacked the Netherflame Duke with the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Ning Tian boosted her allies as Nether Bro used Fate Link and his water weapon to attack Yan Qianqiu and suppress his flames.
• Marionette and Jiang Hao joined the assault, with Jiang Hao using Cell Activation to boost the Fatui members and his Clones.
• Ning Tian endured her injuries, awakened Anemo from the Vision Jiang Hao had given her, and fastened it to her waist.
• In the Far North, Dottore began planning an experiment to investigate what awakened Visions and what divinity meant.

Ning Tian and Marionette helped defeat Yan Qianqiu, while Du Busi arrived to save the disguised Body Sect members and kill the Netherflame Duke. Du Busi then gave the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s members three days to leave freely, and Yan Qianqiu died after his power drained away.

• Ning Tian attacked Yan Qianqiu with Wind Blades, and Marionette froze his Flaming Serpent before the other Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect elders arrived.
• The Netherflame Duke struggled against Banner Bro and his companions, who claimed to be Du Busi’s sons, until Du Busi appeared and killed him with a giant hand.
• Du Busi’s arrival stopped the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect from continuing the fight, while Feng Qingzhu collapsed in tears and Xu Jiujiu recognized that victory was secure.
• Du Busi announced that sect members could leave within three days and threatened to crush anyone who tried to stop them.
• Wind Hammer and Red Flame chose to leave the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and Yan Qianqiu died after losing his strength in rage.
• Du Busi reflected on the sect’s interference in its disciples’ freedom to love and wondered whether Jiang Hao would have joined them if he had not interfered years earlier.

The Fatui and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect strengthened their alliance as Ning Zhiyuan offered the Fatui a major share of his sect’s financial business. Jiang Hao rejected Du Busi’s offer to join the Main Body Sect and revealed that he planned to target Shrek Academy.

• Owl Bro offered the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect ten Fatui Tiller Series units led by Relic Dragon Beasts to help replace its lost fighting strength.
• Ning Zhiyuan thanked the Fatui, pledged the sect’s trading houses and banks to cooperate with them, and promised to make the Fatui its staunchest ally.
• Du Busi warned Jiang Hao that powerful merchants might target him and invited him to join the Main Body Sect, but Jiang Hao refused.
• Jiang Hao told Du Busi he planned to cultivate, obtain his Second Soul Ring, and protect the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect by blocking its enemies’ gates.
• Jiang Hao named Shrek Academy as his first target, and Du Busi offered to help when the time came.

Two and a half years after joining the Adventurers’ Guild, Huo Yuhao continued taking low-level commissions to support his mother and considered hunting his first Soul Ring. After he left the guild, Jiang Hao’s Clones regained their movement, and Xingzi, Blind Bro, and Wooden Door Bro reunited at Flatbread Bro’s stall.

• Huo Yuhao turned in more than a hundred Soft Bone Rabbit heads and asked Katheryne to exchange his reward for medicinal herbs for his mother.
• Katheryne told Huo Yuhao he had reached Soul Power Level ten and offered to arrange a discounted Soul Hunting team, but he declined because he needed his earnings for his mother’s medicine.
• Huo Yuhao accepted a commission to clear Soft Bone Rabbits from Aru Village and decided to try hunting a Hundred-Year Soft Bone Rabbit on the forest’s outskirts the next day.
• After Huo Yuhao left, most of the people in town, who were Jiang Hao’s Clones, became able to move again.
• Xingzi arrived by carriage, Blind Bro got out from among his wings, and Wooden Door Bro appeared at Flatbread Bro’s lamb-offal stall.

Red Moon Bro’s group followed Huo Yuhao into the Star Dou Great Forest while trying to keep their mission secret. Tang Ya and Bei Bei found Huo Yuhao roasting rabbits, and Tang Ya tried to buy one, leaving Bei Bei to pay.

• Wooden Door Bro visited Qingzhu on the city wall and fought her after she unleashed her sixth Soul Skill.
• Red Moon Bro’s group followed Huo Yuhao into the Star Dou Great Forest, intending to keep him from handling Godslayer alone and to steer him toward Tang Ya and Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao killed four Soft Bone Rabbits and began roasting them, drawing Red Moon Bro’s group close enough for Tang Ya to spot them.
• Red Moon Bro showed Huo Yuhao his green Adventurer’s Certificate and explained that the group meant him no harm.
• Tang Ya offered Huo Yuhao a Gold Soul Coin for a rabbit, but he insisted on Credit Points, so she called Bei Bei over to pay.

Huo Yuhao met Ye Hongyue’s group while roasting rabbits in the Soul Beast forest and offered to help them find cicada nymphs with his Spirit Eyes. Tang Ya and Bei Bei revealed they were members of the Tang Sect, and Ye Hongyue introduced himself as a level-thirty Battle Soul Elder.

• Bei Bei paid Huo Yuhao one Credit Point, and Huo Yuhao released Tang Ya.
• Huo Yuhao shared roast rabbit with Ye Hongyue’s group and learned they had come to catch plump cicadas.
• Huo Yuhao introduced himself and offered to help Ye Hongyue’s group locate cicada nymphs in exchange for a share of the commission pay.
• Tang Ya asked to join them with Bei Bei, saying they could use the Tang Sect’s Purple-Gold Demon Eyes to find the nymphs.
• Bei Bei introduced himself as the Tang Sect’s senior disciple with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul.
• Ye Hongyue introduced himself as a twelve-year-old, level-thirty Battle Soul Elder with the Red Moon Martial Soul, prompting Tang Ya to question how assault and control could be combined.

Ye Hongyue's group overwhelmed the Wind Baboon and secretly captured the opportunity tied to the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. After Huo Yuhao woke, Ye Hongyue offered him a Soul Ring Condensation Potion and invited him to join the Fatui's Seedling Plan.

• The group introduced themselves, and Bei Bei and Huo Yuhao realized how far their strength surpassed theirs.
• The Wind Baboon attacked Huo Yuhao, but the group killed it almost instantly with multiple Soul Skills.
• Banner Bro and Ice Crystal Bro used a Spirit-Gathering Array and potions to draw spiritual energy, while Electrolux awakened and absorbed the wandering souls.
• Two hours later, Ye Hongyue woke Huo Yuhao and explained that he had taken the sleeping group into the Red Moon Space.
• Ye Hongyue offered Huo Yuhao a Soul Ring Condensation Potion, and when Huo Yuhao said he could not afford it, Ye Hongyue invited him to join the Fatui's Seedling Plan.

Red Moon Bro explained the Fatui's Seedling Plan and gave Huo Yuhao a Soul Ring Condensation Serum, which Huo Yuhao used to form a three-hundred-year Soul Ring. The group then prepared to attend Shrek Academy, and Red Moon Bro offered Huo Yuhao a recommendation letter before Wooden Door Bro revealed that they had dozens more.

• Red Moon Bro explained that the Fatui trained talented commoner Soul Masters and offered them a serum that let them condense their own Soul Rings.
• Huo Yuhao crushed the serum and formed a Soul Ring that reached its limit at three hundred years.
• Red Moon Bro and the others returned from the moon's domain, and Tang Ya and Bei Bei later woke up from Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's attack.
• Tang Ya invited Huo Yuhao to join the Tang Sect, while Red Moon Bro said the group was going to study at Shrek Academy.
• Red Moon Bro gave Huo Yuhao a blank recommendation letter, and Wooden Door Bro revealed he had twenty or thirty more, stunning Tang Ya.

Tang Ya celebrated absorbing her third Soul Ring, but Red Moon Bro challenged the Tang Sect's inherited theories and showed her evidence that her Soul Ring choices were harming her Blue Silver Grass. The chapter ended with him suggesting Tang San's Martial Soul had been a Blue Silver Grass Sovereign, not ordinary Blue Silver Grass.

• Tang Ya absorbed her third Soul Ring, Spider Web Restraint, and proudly demonstrated it to Bei Bei.
• Red Moon Bro questioned Tang Ya's choice of poison- and animal-attribute Soul Rings, and she defended the Tang Sect's teachings by citing Yu Xiaogang and Tang San.
• Red Moon Bro revealed that Yu Xiaogang had remained below level twenty-nine until he was fifty, shocking Tang Ya and Bei Bei and shaking their faith in the stories they had learned.
• Red Moon Bro used the Book of All Knowledge to show Tang Ya that her Soul Rings duplicated Blue Silver Grass's natural abilities and that poison could damage her cultivation.
• When Tang Ya asked why her Martial Soul had not evolved like Tang San's, Red Moon Bro suggested Tang San had possessed a Blue Silver Grass Sovereign strengthened by extraordinary life force.

Huo Yuhao and his companions arrived at Shrek City to register for the academy, where their unusual Martial Souls and high Soul Power stunned the admissions senior. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao revealing his Purple Adventurer's Certificate and leaving the senior wondering whether he was human.

• Tang Ya left after Ye Hongyue's words planted doubts about her sect's founder and legacy.
• Huo Yuhao and his companions arrived at Shrek City and joined the line to register at Shrek Academy.
• Ye Hongyue registered with a Red Moon Martial Soul and level-thirty-eight Soul Power, then helped Blind Bro register with his level-forty-one White-Eyed Azure Dragon Martial Soul.
• Xingchen Bro registered with his Starry Sky Holy Angel Martial Soul, while Zhou Wen and Zhou Lang reported level-twenty-eight Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao registered with level-fifteen Soul Power and then showed the senior his Purple Adventurer's Certificate, shocking him.