Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Six Fatui airships, using technology adapted from the Train, lift off and impress Du Busi, who jokes that the Body Sect should get some of its own.
• Aboard one ship, Yan Shaozhe escorts Du Busi while the Fatui’s advanced equipment and weapons are displayed.
• Meanwhile, Banner Bro has infiltrated the Holy Spirit Cult as the supposed Evil Soul Master Fan Zi. His pure Evil Martial Soul has impressed the cult’s leaders, and Zhongli Wu asks him to enter the competition for the vacant Holy Son position.
• Distracted by information about the airship, Banner Bro agrees without listening. He realizes too late that he has accepted a dangerous role that he had previously refused.
• Two days later, Xianglong City is under heavy attack. Xu Jiujiu expects the Sun Moon Empire to launch a full assault soon, after several days of probing raids.
• Dai Hao apologizes for failing to hold the defenses, but Xu Jiujiu reassures him. Yan Shaozhe arrives, and Xu Jiujiu is relieved to have a powerful ally against the enemy’s Titled Douluo.

Character developments and interactions

• Du Busi is delighted by the airship and its weaponry, treating it as both a marvel and a way to advertise the Body Sect’s power.
• Banner Bro remains focused on his undercover mission, but his absent-minded agreement puts him in danger of becoming a prominent, vulnerable figure within the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Zhongli Wu sees Banner Bro as an ideal Holy Son candidate because of his strength and unusually pure Evil Martial Soul.
• Xu Jiujiu demonstrates calm leadership under pressure, consoling Dai Hao while assessing the enemy’s strategy.
• Dai Hao accepts responsibility for the military setbacks; Xu Jiujiu refuses to blame him.
• Yan Shaozhe’s arrival gives Xu Jiujiu renewed confidence as the city braces for a major assault.

Significant themes

• Technological wonder and military power: The airships represent the Fatui’s growing advantage and astonish even experienced figures.
• Undercover work and unintended consequences: Banner Bro’s distraction turns a simple response into a major commitment that could compromise his mission.
• War and leadership: Xu Jiujiu must protect civilians and hold the city despite mounting losses and a stronger enemy.
• Ambition and danger within the cult: The Holy Spirit Cult’s leadership role is coveted, but its violent internal politics make the Holy Son position perilous.

Key plot points and events

• A missile strikes Xianglong City’s wall while Xu Jiujiu is preparing to leave. Yan Shaozhe arrives in time to shield her from the blast.
• The Sun Moon Empire launches a major assault with its fast-moving Demonic Soul Engineer Legion and flying Soul Tools. Its forces advance behind linked defensive barriers while Mad Bull Douluo Wang Yiheng directs the attack.
• Star Luo defenders answer with Katyusha Soul Tool launchers. Their powerful, long-range rocket barrage tears through the enemy formation, though the attackers’ layered defenses allow them to keep advancing.
• Wang orders a newly assembled Rapid Soul Tool Artillery Platform into action. He is impressed by the range and maneuverability of Star Luo’s missiles.
• Xu Jiujiu urges Yan Shaozhe to attack, but he refuses: at least two Titled Douluo are hidden among the enemy, and a direct strike could expose Star Luo’s strongest fighters and leave its defenders vulnerable.
• As the assault presses closer, a huge ship appears overhead, floating through the sky.

Character developments

• Xu Jiujiu shifts from directing the defense to fearing that Xianglong City will fall, and relies on Yan Shaozhe’s judgment despite her urgency.
• Yan Shaozhe shows his speed and protective instincts, but remains cautious and waits for a better opportunity rather than entering the battle recklessly.
• Wang Yiheng is a disciplined commander who values his soldiers’ lives and recognizes the threat posed by Star Luo’s advanced artillery.
• Luanfeng is impatient and dismissive of the casualties, contrasting sharply with Wang’s concern for his troops.

Significant themes

• Technology reshapes warfare: Soul Tool missiles, artillery, flying units, and defensive barriers determine the battle’s pace and reach.
• Strategy over brute force: Yan Shaozhe’s restraint reflects the danger of committing powerful fighters without knowing the enemy’s full strength.
• Conflicting views of sacrifice: Wang treats his soldiers as people he trained and must protect; Luanfeng sees their deaths as acceptable service to the empire.
• Escalating uncertainty: The mysterious flying ship’s arrival suggests that the battle is about to change again.

Character interactions

• Yan Shaozhe rescues Xu Jiujiu and reassures her, but later rejects her plea to attack, explaining the hidden threat.
• Wang and Luanfeng clash over the pace of the assault and the value of the soldiers’ lives.
• The Star Luo defenders and Sun Moon attackers exchange increasingly heavy fire as each side’s technology counters the other’s.

Plot points and events

• Du Busi’s newly forged Tiger Gate Cannon devastates the Sun Moon Empire’s aerial forces. Its magnetic interference disables their Soul Tools, sending many soldiers crashing from the sky.
• Xu Jiujiu recognizes Du Busi and is baffled by his presence, since the Body Sect had been friendly with the Heaven Dou Empire.
• When Fire Phoenix Douluo Luanfeng attacks the warships, Yan Shaozhe joins the battle, and Ma Xiaotao dives into the enemy formation. Both unleash powerful attacks on the Sun Moon troops.
• Du Busi intercepts Luanfeng, easily overpowers her, and drives her into the ground. Yan Shaozhe engages Mad Bull Douluo, whose forces are being torn apart.
• With the enemy barrier gone and Katyusha Soul Guidance Bombs raining down, Mad Bull Douluo withdraws his elite troops and sends regular infantry forward as a delaying force.
• Xu Jiujiu opens the city gates. The White Tiger Army charges out and quickly routs the poorly matched Sun Moon infantry as both sides exchange long-range fire.

Character developments and interactions

• Du Busi demonstrates the Tiger Gate Cannon’s power and the immense gap between himself and an ordinary Titled Douluo. He mocks Luanfeng’s decision to challenge him at close range.
• Yan Shaozhe and Ma Xiaotao fight together, with Yan framing the clash as a test between teacher and student. Ma Xiaotao eagerly competes to see who can defeat more enemies.
• Mad Bull Douluo shows himself to be a pragmatic commander: he sacrifices borrowed infantry to preserve his own elite soldiers and his position as their leader.
• Xu Jiujiu moves from shock at the unexpected reinforcements to action, committing the White Tiger Army to the fight.

Significant themes

• Technology reshapes warfare: the Tiger Gate Cannon and Soul Guidance Bombs can disable or overwhelm forces that would otherwise be formidable.
• Power and tactical judgment matter: Luanfeng’s direct assault fails against Du Busi’s superior strength, while Mad Bull’s retreat reflects a more calculating response.
• Military command depends on preserving forces: Mad Bull regards his trained elites as the foundation of his authority and effectiveness.
• The battle exposes moral ambiguity: Yan Shaozhe dismisses abstract notions of good and evil, viewing conflict through the lens of interests.

Key plot points

• The Fatui arrive at Xianglong City with reinforcements and supplies, helping drive back the Sun Moon Empire’s attack. Du Busi is frustrated that the battle ends before he can fight more.
• Ma Xiaotao and Yan Shaozhe return from the front, and Xu Jiujiu must decide whether to hold Xianglong City, retake the lost positions, or seek peace.
• Jiang Hao reveals Fatui intelligence: the Sun Moon Empire’s attacks may be a diversion while it builds a devastating Soul Tool in the Mingdou Mountain Range. If completed, it could devastate Star Luo’s forces and threaten its people.
• Xu Jiujiu worries the intelligence could be a trap designed to lure Star Luo’s army into an uphill assault. Dai Hao argues that the potential threat is too great to ignore and urges an attack before the weapon is finished.
• After leaving the military meeting, Xu Jiujiu sees refugees and hears a child ask her to avenge him. Confronted with the suffering of her people, she decides an attack is necessary.
• She seeks guidance through the Fatui’s Adventurers’ Guild and receives Elder Brother’s answer: “Fight.”

Character developments and interactions

• Xu Jiujiu moves from cautious uncertainty to resolve, prompted by both the strategic danger and the plight of civilians.
• Jiang Hao acts as a trusted Fatui adviser, sharing crucial intelligence and urging action against a future threat.
• Dai Hao makes a forceful appeal to protect the nation, arguing that the risk of doing nothing outweighs the danger of an attack. His patriotic words surprise Jiang Hao and the others, given his history of abandoning his family.
• Xu Jiujiu and Dai Hao disagree less over the threat than over the risks, but his argument deepens her consideration of the cost of delay.
• Ma Xiaotao and Yan Shaozhe return from combat, while Du Busi reacts impatiently to the brief fighting.

Significant themes

• Security versus caution: Leaders must weigh the danger of a possible trap against the catastrophic consequences of allowing a superweapon to be completed.
• Responsibility to civilians: Xu Jiujiu’s decision is shaped not only by military strategy but by the refugees’ suffering and their need to trust their protectors.
• The cost of inaction: The chapter argues that waiting can be as perilous as fighting when a threat is growing.
• Patriotism and moral complexity: Dai Hao speaks passionately for his country despite a personal history that complicates his public image.

Key plot points and events

• In the Mingdou Mountain Range, Holy Spirit Cult leader Ye Xishui announces that the disciple who contributes the most undead to the Death God Tower will become the cult’s next heir. The tower is still under construction and can only contain resentful spirits.
• The competition quickly turns brutal: disciples attack and kill one another to steal captured souls. Ye Xishui approves of the violence and offers an extra favor to whoever provokes the most attacks.
• Banner Bro contributes a modest number of undead, then heads into the forest. Seeing the dead Soul Beasts left behind, he discovers that corpses can be revived as undead in his Undead Demiplane, giving him a way to strengthen his Myriad Souls Banner.
• He investigates a burst of holy Soul Power and finds five Soul Kings dead. A young woman ambushes him, stabbing him through the chest. He recognizes her as Ye Guyi, a wielder of the Angel Martial Soul.
• Though badly wounded, Banner Bro uses a Gate of the Undead to send Ye Guyi into the Undead Plane and escapes. Ye Xishui arrives, heals him, and warns him to take better care of himself.

Character developments and interactions

• Banner Bro is resourceful, spotting a way to turn battlefield casualties into new undead. His encounter with Ye Guyi reveals a powerful escape-and-capture ability, but also his willingness to risk his life.
• Ye Xishui openly embraces the cult’s ruthless nature, yet shows unexpected concern for Banner Bro, whom she says is already destined to be heir. She is intrigued by his Gate of the Undead.
• Ye Guyi is introduced as a formidable Angel Martial Soul user. She kills five Soul Kings and attacks Banner Bro without hesitation, but is overwhelmed and transported to the Undead Plane.
• The cult’s disciples are driven by greed and ambition, treating even fellow members as prey.

Significant themes

• Ruthlessness and corruption: The Holy Spirit Cult rewards betrayal and violence, making ambition more important than loyalty.
• Death as a resource: Souls and corpses are collected, traded, and repurposed to advance the tower and strengthen Banner Bro’s forces.
• Power and survival: Banner Bro’s ingenuity lets him survive an ambush, while Ye Xishui’s intervention shows that even the powerful can depend on allies.

Plot points and events

• Banner Bro escapes after getting Ye Guyi away from Ye Xishui, then returns to the Undead Demiplane, where Ye Guyi has been badly wounded and nearly overwhelmed by Undead Creatures.
• He clears the creatures away and captures her. Unable to detonate her Soul Power in the demiplane, Ye Guyi believes she has no way to resist.
• Banner Bro asks whether she wants to live, then gives her food, water, and weapons. He says he wants to test whether her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul grows stronger by killing evil creatures.
• As Ye Guyi refuses to cooperate and prepares to die, her Angel bloodline seems to take control. It compels her to pick up a sword and attack an Undead Rat. Killing it restores a small amount of Soul Power.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Guyi is exhausted, wounded, and fiercely defiant. She would rather die than submit to an Evil Soul Master, but her Angel Martial Soul overrides her choice and drives her to fight.
• Banner Bro shifts from captor to experimenter: he spares Ye Guyi for the moment, supplying what she needs to test her powers rather than simply killing her.
• Master’s Bro and the Clones, observing through Banner Bro, are eager to obtain or replicate the Angel bloodline. Their curiosity turns Ye Guyi’s ordeal into an experiment.
• Banner Bro and Ye Guyi remain adversarial: he controls her circumstances, while she rejects his authority and insists on preserving her dignity.

Significant themes

• Agency versus instinct: Ye Guyi cannot choose either to die or to surrender freely; her bloodline compels her to fight.
• Survival and coercion: Banner Bro offers the means to stay alive, but only within a situation he controls.
• Power as something to exploit: The Clones treat Ye Guyi’s rare lineage as a research opportunity, underscoring the danger of reducing people to their abilities.
• The conflict between purity and evil: Ye Guyi’s Angel power reacts violently to undead creatures, even when she is too exhausted to act willingly.

Key plot points and events

• Ye Guyi fights Undead Creatures without using Soul Power or Soul Skills. Each kill weakens her opponent and gives her a tiny amount of Soul Power and growth, though the Undead Demiplane continually restores its creatures.
• Banner Bro tests her endurance by sending Undead Vultures to harass her until she collapses. He then draws two syringes of her Angel-bloodline-rich blood for Master Bro’s Martial Soul Reconstruction research.
• Seeing that killing undead helps Ye Guyi recover and advance, Banner Bro plans to use the Demiplane as an accelerated training ground. He supplies Soul Power through two Milk Bottles, restores her reserves, and helps her break through to level fifty. He leaves her in a protected circle, warning that undead will attack if she steps beyond it.
• Back at camp, Banner Bro returns to his tent, where Xiaocui serves him. Amid the Holy Spirit Cult’s brutality toward captives, he tells her to stay inside his tent for her safety.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Guyi demonstrates exceptional stamina and a powerful instinct to fight evil, but the ordeal eventually overwhelms her and she collapses. Her unusual gains from combat suggest she can progress far faster than through ordinary cultivation.
• Banner Bro treats Ye Guyi as both a valuable research subject and a training project, carefully arranging resources to keep her fighting. He also shows concern for Xiaocui, protecting her from the dangers around the camp.
• Xiaocui hints that she is prepared for the sexual abuse common in the cult, but Banner Bro rejects her offer and warns her not to leave his tent.

Significant themes

• Growth through hardship: Ye Guyi’s dangerous battles produce unusually rapid advancement.
• Power and exploitation: Her blood and fighting ability are valuable to the Clones’ larger plans, while captives in the Holy Spirit Cult are routinely abused.
• Moral ambiguity and protection: Banner Bro’s treatment of Ye Guyi is instrumental, yet he offers Xiaocui genuine protection within a violent environment.
• A world transformed by outsiders: Banner Bro reflects that thousands of transmigrators have entered this version of Douluo, making the world increasingly unlike its original setting.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• Shrek Academy holds a funeral for its former leaders, pushing a golden coffin into Sea God Lake. The ceremony underscores how much the academy has changed since the recent conflict.
• Xuan Zi praises the students who remain and threatens to expel anyone who tries to leave. Even so, roughly two or three hundred students—especially many freshmen—have already withdrawn with their parents.
• Freshman Class One is now effectively run by the rebellious “Red Moon Bro” and his companions. After beating Zhou Yi, they have stripped her of authority and sent her to handle logistics; Wang Yan is the class’s nominal teacher but has little power.
• Red Moon leads the class to the school leadership’s address, then reports back to Wang Yan. Wang Yan explains that the Freshman Elimination Tournament is approaching and describes how teams will be formed.
• Students quickly form teams around the strongest or most popular classmates. Poker Bro turns down Huang Chutian, choosing instead to team with Wooden Door Bro and Mantis Bro.
• Xiao Xiao, a new student with Twin Martial Souls but only two Soul Rings, considers her tournament prospects. With most classmates already teamed up, the only remaining options are Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao.

Character developments

• Xiao Xiao feels trapped at Shrek: she regrets enrolling without checking whether Jiang Hao and Owl Bro were there, and she is uneasy about the academy’s new atmosphere. She nevertheless focuses on finding a strong tournament team.
• Red Moon Bro has consolidated control over Class One, acting as its self-appointed monitor and boss. His confidence and coercive leadership leave both students and teachers intimidated.
• Wang Yan is reduced to a powerless, cautious observer, while Zhou Yi has lost her teaching role.
• Wang Dong is forced through punishing daily training in heavy iron armor and remains bewildered about why Red Moon’s group singled her out.
• Poker Bro enjoys Huang Chutian’s repeated “Dad” calls but prioritizes his own team and tournament ambitions.

Significant themes

• Institutional decline and instability: The funeral, departures, and emptying classrooms reflect Shrek’s weakened standing after its clash with the Fatui.
• Power replacing authority: Red Moon’s group controls the class through strength, while official teachers can do little to restrain them.
• Belonging and uneasy loyalty: Xiao Xiao is caught between her ties to Jiang Hao and Owl Bro and her new place at Shrek.
• Competition and self-interest: Team formation is driven by strength, status, and the hope of winning a Soul Bone.

Character interactions

• Xuan Zi addresses the remaining students with praise but also threatens those who might leave.
• Red Moon publicly takes charge, while Wang Yan accepts his report and teaches the tournament rules without challenging him.
• Xiao Xiao watches Red Moon’s group warily and hopes to join a powerful team.
• Huang Chutian pleads with Poker Bro to take him along, but Poker Bro rejects him in favor of Wooden Door Bro and Mantis Bro.
• With the other students already paired off, Xiao Xiao turns her attention to Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao, though she is wary of both.

Key plot points and events

• Huo Yuhao asks Xiao Xiao to team up for the class exercise. She agrees, accepting the risk despite the rumors that he has mutilated both Dai brothers.
• Wang Dong is left without a partner and asks to join them, completing the original trio. Red Moon Bro promptly schedules a fight against his group.
• In the afternoon match, Bro Xingchen attacks from the air with a huge shotgun and a grenade. Wang Dong gets Xiao Xiao out of danger but kicks Huo Yuhao down in the process.
• Bro Xingchen follows with a powerful wing strike that sends Wang Dong tumbling. Xiao Xiao uses her revised First Soul Skill, Heartfire Stomp, to attack and create an opening, but warns that she is running low on Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao uses Red Moon Rises, trapping Blind Bro in a dark spiritual space. Red Moon Bro quickly breaks him out, leaving Huo Yuhao stunned that the technique he struggled to learn is easy for its creator to escape.

Character developments

• Huo Yuhao remains isolated at the academy because students fear him, though he has gained protection and status through Xuan Zi. He is eager to show off his new control skill, but its quick counter undermines his confidence.
• Xiao Xiao takes a chance on Huo Yuhao and proves capable under pressure, using her new Soul Skill strategically despite its heavy cost.
• Wang Dong joins the team and shows quick reflexes and strong flying ability, though her forceful rescue leaves Huo Yuhao resentful.
• Bro Xingchen demonstrates overwhelming confidence and unconventional firepower, while Red Moon Bro shows how easily experienced Soul Masters can counter Huo Yuhao’s copied technique.

Significant themes

• Reputation and isolation: Huo Yuhao’s revenge against the Dai brothers has made him feared, even as powerful academy leaders protect him.
• Learning versus mastery: Huo Yuhao can imitate a technique, but the creator’s superior understanding lets him counter it effortlessly.
• Teamwork under pressure: The trio reunites and must rely on one another’s different strengths in battle.
• Comedy and parody: Exaggerated weapons, game-like attack calls, and Huo Yuhao’s fourth-wall-style thoughts give the fight a deliberately absurd tone.

Character interactions

• Xiao Xiao chooses Huo Yuhao over the other unpicked students; Wang Dong then asks to join them, restoring the trio.
• Bro Xingchen provokes the team into a match and attacks them, forcing Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao to respond.
• Xiao Xiao calls for Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’s help as her Soul Power dwindles.
• Huo Yuhao’s attempt to trap Blind Bro with Red Moon Rises is quickly undone by Red Moon Bro, who teases the limits of Huo Yuhao’s newly acquired skill.

Key plot points and events

• Huo Yuhao’s confidence falters when the bosses counter the Soul Skills he copied from them. Red Moon Bro expands a domain that seals the arena, while Blind Bro unveils his Azure Dragon form and powerful fourth Soul Skill.
• Blind Bro’s attack sends Xiao Xiao off the stage, though she is unharmed. Huo Yuhao then attacks Red Moon Bro, whose Weightlessness skill cancels existing force and momentum.
• Yuhao turns that counter into an opportunity: he uses the floor and copied skills from both the Hell Spirit Cat and Blue Silver Grass to launch himself back at Red Moon Bro. The bosses realize how readily his unusual eyes let him copy their abilities.
• Bro Xingchen doubles gravity, forcing Wang Dong—already low on Soul Power—to crash to the ground. Yuhao copies Weightlessness and tries to keep the fight going, but Blind Bro blasts him out of the arena.
• Wang Dong surrenders and is also knocked out of the match. Bro Xingchen heals the group and restores their strength. Yuhao laments that he failed to give the bosses a proper fight.

Character developments and interactions

• Huo Yuhao shifts from shaken by the bosses’ counters to resourceful and playful, combining copied abilities with improvisation. Despite his impressive performance, he remains dissatisfied with himself.
• Red Moon Bro uses his domain and Weightlessness to counter Yuhao, then recognizes the danger of Yuhao’s copying ability.
• Blind Bro escalates the match with his previously unused fourth Soul Skill and ultimately knocks Yuhao out. He admits that Yuhao is nearly impossible to fight unless his Soul Power runs out.
• Xiao Xiao responds quickly with her cauldron to blunt Blind Bro’s attack, but is forced off the stage.
• Wang Dong, weakened and burdened by her iron vest, falls under the increased gravity and eventually surrenders.
• Bro Xingchen supports Red Moon Bro, manipulates gravity against the team, and later heals everyone.

Significant themes

• Adaptation and ingenuity: Yuhao turns opponents’ techniques and battlefield conditions to his advantage.
• The risks of overwhelming power: His copying ability astonishes the bosses, but his confidence and stamina remain vulnerabilities.
• Cooperation and counterplay: The bosses combine their abilities to control the arena and defeat Yuhao and Wang Dong.
• Self-criticism: Yuhao judges himself harshly even after demonstrating remarkable skill.

• Xiao Xiao receives blunt advice—and comfort. After the fight, Bro Xingchen criticizes the defensive focus of her Second Soul Skill, saying it lacks the soul-targeting offense of her First. His words recall a powerful battle with Jiang Hao and the comrades she later lost, bringing her to tears. Red Moon Bro scolds Xingchen for his tactlessness, then reassures Xiao Xiao. Their familiar presence cheers her, and she senses in them something of Owl Bro.
• Zhu Lu breaks with Dai Huabin. Near Sea God Lake, Dai Huabin—injured and leaning on a crutch—slaps and abuses Zhu Lu, accusing her of resenting his condition. He urges her to seduce and poison the man who injured him, threatens her family, and speaks of enslaving her clan. Zhu Lu finally sees through the gentle, refined image she once cherished. She slaps him, kicks him into the lake, ends their relationship, and leaves, declaring that her family is no less powerful than his.
• Dai Huabin’s cruelty escalates. As he struggles in the water, Dai Huabin offers the group money to rescue him. Blind Bro extends a bamboo staff, but Dai Huabin uses the chance to demand that they capture Zhu Lu for him, promising them access to her. When Xingchen protests, Dai Huabin insults him as a lowly, nonhuman servant.
• Xingchen prepares to retaliate. Dai Huabin’s insult hits a nerve, and Xingchen’s expression turns ominous. Knowing Dai Huabin’s recently reattached injury is vulnerable to healing Soul Skills, Xingchen implies he will use one to make him “recover faster,” setting up punishment rather than a genuine rescue.
  Character developments and themes: Xiao Xiao is reminded of past loss but is comforted by the group’s affectionate familiarity. Zhu Lu gains resolve and rejects both Dai Huabin and his family’s domination. Dai Huabin’s injury does not soften him; it exposes his entitlement, misogyny, and reliance on threats. The chapter contrasts genuine care with coercion, and explores how idealized images of loved ones can collapse when cruelty becomes undeniable.

Key plot points

• After apologizing, Dai Huabin is healed by Xingchen—but the treatment leaves him permanently castrated. He spots Huo Yuhao in the crowd, blames him, and vows revenge before fleeing across Sea God Lake.
• With the confrontation over, the group decides to eat together in Shrek City rather than drink before the Freshman Assessment.
• At the restaurant, Xu Sanshi boasts about treating everyone and orders the most expensive wine. Pot Bro serves him extremely strong industrial alcohol, and Xu soon becomes visibly drunk.
• The group jokes about rumors of a man in the city who targets handsome young men. When they look for Xu Sanshi, he has disappeared.

Character developments and interactions

• Dai Huabin is left humiliated and furious, with Huo Yuhao as the target of his revenge.
• Huo Yuhao remains quiet after the fight, then watches Pot Bro cook with open fascination.
• Xu Sanshi is jovial and generous, unaware that Pot Bro is one of the people behind his past injury. He also privately worries about the Xuanming Sect and misses his father, despite reassuring himself that the sect must be safe.
• Bei Bei is troubled by his stalled cultivation and the loss of Soul Power. Seeing Tang Ya content beside him eases his distress, and he begins to accept their life together despite her missed cultivation opportunities.
• Tang Ya eagerly enjoys the food; the others tease Xu Sanshi into buying drinks and trade jokes about his ability to protect himself.

Significant themes

• Revenge and humiliation: Dai Huabin’s injury deepens his hostility toward Huo Yuhao.
• Hidden danger beneath comedy: The group’s banter and Xu Sanshi’s drunkenness obscure the possibility that he is in trouble.
• Attachment and uncertainty: Bei Bei finds comfort in Tang Ya, while Xu Sanshi’s unease about his father and sect lingers beneath his carefree act.

Key plot points and events

• A masked body thief escapes through the city sewers with Xu Sanshi. Bro Xingchen, Red Moon Bro, Blind Bro, Tang Ya, and Bei Bei pursue him, but he gets away. During the chase, Bei Bei becomes separated from the others.
• Bei Bei senses the presence of an Evil Soul Master and follows a young woman, hoping to uncover a larger group. He trails her to an abandoned courtyard where she cares for several hungry, impoverished children.
• The woman is an Elf Demi-Human, shunned and abused because of her appearance. She tells the children she has saved enough money to take them away from Shrek City and find work farming.
• Bei Bei begins to question his assumption that Evil Soul Masters are inherently wicked. He decides to wait until morning and ask the Shrek Inspection Corps to investigate.
• Before he can act, Inspection Corps members raid the courtyard. A captain kills the woman with a Soul Guidance Greatsword, while his men reveal they had exploited her and planned to turn her in for money. The captain declares the children accomplices and discusses killing or arresting them for a reward.
• Horrified by the murder and the men’s cruelty, Bei Bei attacks, his dragon’s roar announcing his fury.

Character developments and interactions

• Bei Bei shifts from eager, self-serving confidence—he hopes a heroic arrest will impress Tang Ya and earn Shrek’s praise—to empathy and doubt after seeing the woman’s compassion. The Inspection Corps’ brutality turns that doubt into outrage.
• The young woman is introduced as a suspected enemy but is revealed to be a vulnerable caretaker trying to feed and protect the children. Her kindness contrasts sharply with the officials’ abuse of power.
• Tang Ya panics when Bei Bei disappears during the pursuit and wants to enter the sewer after him; Red Moon Bro restrains her and suggests returning to Shrek to plan a rescue.
• The Inspection Corps captain and his men present themselves as enforcers of justice, but their dialogue exposes greed, sexual exploitation, and contempt for the poor. They treat the children as targets for profit rather than people in need.
• The children depend on the young woman for food and safety. Their pleas and grief make the consequences of the raid immediate and personal.

Significant themes

• Prejudice and moral complexity: Being labeled an Evil Soul Master—or marked as a demi-human—does not determine someone’s character.
• Abuse of authority: The supposed protectors exploit the powerless and use the language of law to justify violence and profit.
• Compassion and responsibility: The woman’s care for the children prompts Bei Bei to reconsider his assumptions and choose patience over an impulsive arrest.
• Appearance, stigma, and vulnerability: Physical traits caused by Martial Soul mutations expose people to rejection, exploitation, and danger.
  The chapter closes the academy arc and previews several Clones planned for the next arc, including the Arena Auction House Martial Soul.

Plot points and events

• Bei Bei discovers Shrek’s Inspection Corps slaughtering children and beating a young woman. Their captain claims the victims are Evil Soul Masters and tries to recruit Bei Bei, offering him a path to the Inner Court if he helps kill the children.
• Horrified, Bei Bei refuses and attacks, but the captain and his group overpower him. Their cruelty shatters his faith in the honor of Shrek Academy.
• A mysterious voice offers Bei Bei strength in exchange for acceptance. He agrees, and his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon transforms: its blue lightning turns purple, surrounded by a blood-red aura.
• Empowered, Bei Bei unleashes Tang Sect techniques and a storm of poisoned Hidden Weapons. He kills nearly the entire group, including a Six-Ring Soul Emperor, while the captain survives long enough to summon help with a signal flare.
• As footsteps approach, Bei Bei collapses against the courtyard wall, exhausted.

Character development

• Bei Bei’s principled outrage gives way to decisive, lethal action. His belief in Shrek’s nobility is badly shaken, and he accepts a mysterious power to punish those he sees as corrupt.
• The captain presents himself as a protector of Shrek’s authority but reveals his hypocrisy through his treatment of the victims and his attempt to manipulate Bei Bei with status and rewards.

Themes

• Institutional corruption: The Inspection Corps uses the language of justice to justify brutality.
• Justice and vengeance: Bei Bei seeks to correct wrongdoing, but his sudden embrace of overwhelming, murderous power blurs the line between justice and vengeance.
• Power and corruption: The mysterious force grants Bei Bei strength, but its blood-red aura and his extreme violence suggest a dangerous cost.
• Innocence and moral responsibility: The children’s vulnerability makes Bei Bei’s decision to resist—and his horror at their deaths—central to the conflict.

Character interactions

• The captain tries to coax Bei Bei into joining the corps, then threatens and attacks him when Bei Bei refuses.
• Bei Bei’s defense of the children and the injured girl directly pits his moral convictions against the corps’ claims of authority.
• The mysterious voice exploits Bei Bei’s anger by offering him the power to impose his own idea of justice.

Plot points and events

• Bei Bei is found bloodied in an alley after a deadly fight. A highest-level Shrek Academy warning flare brings Shrek City’s lord, Shi Xing, to the scene.
• Shi Xing sees the bodies of Inspection Corps members and an almost unrecognizable young woman. Bei Bei admits he killed the Corps members, accusing them of abusing their authority and preying on women. The woman, he says, was an Evil Soul Master who had harmed no one.
• Shi Xing treats the deaths as a grave offense and suspects Bei Bei of protecting an Evil Soul Master. Guards ready their weapons, but Xuan Zi arrives and shields Bei Bei from scrutiny, dismissing the dead as insignificant and emphasizing Bei Bei’s status as Shrek’s promising future.
• Bei Bei offers himself for arrest, believing his corrupted Martial Soul and killings make him deserving of punishment. Xuan Zi refuses, insisting that neither the corruption nor the deaths make Bei Bei a bad person.
• When Xuan Zi calls the dead woman a lowly slave and dismisses her suffering, Bei Bei confronts him, demanding to know whether justice and fairness depend on a person’s status.

Character developments

• Bei Bei moves from shock and guilt toward anger and moral clarity. He expects Shrek to judge him by the same standards applied to others, then realizes that its leaders protect the powerful while devaluing the vulnerable.
• Xuan Zi shows deep personal affection for Bei Bei, but that concern becomes open favoritism. He excuses Bei Bei’s actions while dehumanizing the woman he killed.
• Shi Xing begins by investigating the scene and defending the Inspection Corps’ authority. He is challenged by Bei Bei’s accusation that its members abused their power.

Character interactions

• Bei Bei directly confronts Shi Xing, claiming the slain Corps members were corrupt bullies rather than worthy representatives of Shrek.
• Xuan Zi intervenes on Bei Bei’s behalf and verbally belittles Shi Xing, making clear that Bei Bei’s importance to the academy outweighs the deaths.
• Bei Bei’s exchange with Xuan Zi becomes the chapter’s emotional climax: his plea for equal judgment meets Xuan Zi’s class-based contempt for the dead woman.

Significant themes

• Hypocrisy in justice: Shrek’s leaders invoke rules and honor selectively, protecting an elite student while dismissing others.
• Class and human worth: The chapter exposes a hierarchy in which Bei Bei is valued for his lineage and promise, while the woman is reduced to her status as a slave.
• Moral responsibility: Bei Bei’s guilt contrasts with the institution’s unwillingness to examine its own abuses.
• Power and protection: Shrek’s ideals of justice appear hollow when its authority serves its own members rather than the vulnerable.

Key plot points and events

• Bei Bei rejects Xuan Zi’s defense of Shrek’s brutal treatment of people suspected of being Evil Soul Masters. Xuan Zi argues that the world belongs to the strong and that it is better to kill an innocent person than let an Evil Soul Master escape.
• Xuan Zi offers to take Bei Bei back to Shrek to suppress his evil energy. Bei Bei refuses, breaks away, and runs into the rain. Mu En stops the others from pursuing him, confident Bei Bei will return.
• In the old district, a kind young woman shelters the drenched Bei Bei at her father’s food stall and gives him towels and hot soup. The stall’s patrons tease her, while warning her to avoid Shrek’s soldiers.
• Inspection Corps members arrive. One strikes the girl after she accidentally spills soup on his armor, then demands a protection fee from her father.
• The girl questions the fee, saying she has never heard that local businesses must pay it. Her father angrily insists it is required, then secretly offers the guards all his money to appease them.
• The guards seize the girl and claim she may be an Evil Soul Master in disguise, setting up a likely confrontation.

Character developments and interactions

• Bei Bei moves from disbelief and grief to open defiance. His flight shows how deeply Shrek’s teachings and actions have shaken his faith.
• Xuan Zi reveals a ruthless, authoritarian worldview, treating suspected Evil Soul Masters as expendable and expecting Bei Bei to accept that logic.
• Mu En protects Bei Bei from being chased, though he assumes Bei Bei will eventually return.
• The young woman shows compassion toward Bei Bei and courage in challenging the guards’ demands.
• Old Wang, her father, appears gentle but becomes harsh when she risks provoking the guards; his fear is evident in his attempt to buy their goodwill.
• The guards abuse their authority through violence, extortion, and a baseless accusation against the girl.

Significant themes

• Justice versus expediency: Shrek’s leaders justify killing possibly innocent people as a necessary cost of fighting evil.
• Power and oppression: The guards exploit ordinary residents, while fear forces people like Old Wang to submit.
• Disillusionment and moral awakening: Bei Bei’s crisis of faith contrasts with the young woman’s instinctive kindness and willingness to question injustice.
• Compassion amid brutality: The food stall offers Bei Bei a brief refuge, but the guards’ arrival shows how precarious kindness is in this world.

Key plot points and events

• A Shrek Inspection Corps officer falsely claims a shopkeeper’s daughter may be an Evil Soul Master, then uses that excuse to assault her. When the shopkeeper begs for help, Bei Bei intervenes.
• Bei Bei kills the officers with extreme violence after finding the girl injured and her clothes torn. He covers her and destroys the man responsible, but the Purple Lightning Evil Dragon Emperor urges him to kill more.
• The girl asks Bei Bei to kill her, yet he regains control of himself and suppresses his Martial Soul’s influence. He concludes that evil comes from people’s choices, not from their Martial Souls.
• Before leaving Shrek City, Bei Bei gives the girl his name and declares that he will make the world’s evils suffer. The next day, rival accounts circulate: Shrek-affiliated papers portray him as a murderous Evil Soul Master, while the Adventurers’ Guild exposes the Inspection Corps’ abuse.
• Tang Ya attacks the newspaper office spreading the accusations and demands to know where Bei Bei is. Under pressure, a captive reveals that the City Lord ordered the false story.

Character developments

• Bei Bei acts on his outrage at the girl’s abuse, but his brutality and the Dragon Emperor’s bloodlust threaten to overwhelm him. He reasserts control by holding to his convictions and embraces the role of an avenger.
• The girl endures severe injuries but shows resolve, even asking Bei Bei to kill her. Despite her suffering, she warns him to flee and tries to protect him.
• Tang Ya reveals fierce loyalty to Bei Bei and a willingness to use frightening force in pursuit of him and the truth.

Significant themes

• Justice versus institutional corruption: The Shrek Inspection Corps abuses its authority, while the City Lord manipulates the press to discredit Bei Bei.
• Personal responsibility: Bei Bei insists that evil lies in people’s intentions and actions, not in a Martial Soul itself.
• Violence and self-control: His desire to punish the guilty risks becoming the Dragon Emperor’s indiscriminate bloodlust; his convictions are what keep him in control.
• Truth and propaganda: Conflicting reports show how powerful institutions can distort events, while evidence and public scrutiny can challenge their version.

Character interactions

• The shopkeeper pleads with the officers to release his daughter, but they ignore him.
• Bei Bei confronts the officers, protects the girl, and later responds gently to her warnings and despair.
• The girl urges Bei Bei to escape, while he identifies himself and explains his resolve before leaving.
• Tang Ya threatens and attacks the newspaper staff; their interrogation exposes the City Lord’s role in the smear campaign.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Shrek Academy’s reputation is in crisis after a newspaper publishes a false, damaging story about Bei Bei. Elder Xuan Zi confronts Xian Shi Xing, who denies approving the article and blames an unnamed subordinate.
• Bei Bei has left Shrek City, Tang Ya has fled after killing someone, and Jiang Nannan is also gone. Red Moon Bro’s group has received no news about Xu Sanshi, though they believe an old man may release him eventually.
• The group returns to Shrek Academy for the Freshman Elimination Tournament. Their late arrival irritates teacher Wang Yan, but their explanation—that they went looking for the blind Blind Bro—is accepted.
• In the first match, Red Moon Bro’s team faces Class Seven’s Xie Huanyue and the Lan twins. The twins attempt to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but Bro Xingchen separates them before they can execute it. Blind Bro attacks Xie Huanyue, whose durability lets him withstand the assault, but Red Moon Bro then traps Xie and both sisters in his ability. The team wins quickly.
• After spectators question whether the opponents were simply too weak to escape Red Moon Bro’s Illusion Realm, Xiaoxiao challenges the critic to try it himself. The next match is announced: Huang Chutian’s team versus Huo Yuhao’s.

Character developments and interactions

• Xuan Zi is furious that a fellow Shrek elder may have helped damage the academy’s reputation; Shi Xing is frightened and insists he was not responsible.
• Red Moon Bro’s group treat the tournament casually but demonstrate sharp teamwork. Bro Xingchen disrupts the twins’ fusion attempt, Blind Bro pressures Xie Huanyue, and Red Moon Bro removes all three opponents from the field.
• Wang Yan tries to assert authority over the trio, then backs down rather than risk escalating the exchange.
• Xie Huanyue is confident in his new, formidable lineup, but his team’s planned strategy is thwarted before it can take effect.
• Xiaoxiao stands up for Red Moon Bro after a spectator dismisses his ability, turning the criticism back on the challenger.

Significant themes

• Reputation and misinformation: The false newspaper story has serious consequences for Shrek Academy and its members.
• Loss and uncertainty: Several prominent students are absent, while Xu Sanshi’s fate remains unresolved.
• Teamwork and tactical control: The match is decided not by brute force alone but by disrupting the opponents’ coordination.
• Confidence versus demonstrated ability: The spectators’ doubts are contrasted with Red Moon Bro’s decisive victory, while the chapter ends by setting up another test of the teams’ strength.

Plot points and events

• Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Dong face Huang Chutian’s team in an arena match. Huang Chutian is already intimidated by Huo Yuhao’s reputation, while his teammates Sun Ce and Cui Yajie believe the group should be manageable.
• Sun Ce attacks Huo Yuhao with his Mantis Soul Skill. Huo Yuhao counters with a copied version of the attack, then uses Weightlessness to lift the opposing team into the air.
• Cui Yajie tries to use her spiritual charm on Huo Yuhao, but his mental strength overwhelms her, and she is knocked out of the arena.
• Xiao Xiao uses her cauldron’s Soul Skills to send Huang Chutian flying off the arena. Wang Dong defeats the remaining Mantis Soul Master with a strong aerial attack.
• Huo Yuhao explains that he deliberately avoided ending the match immediately so his teammates could earn points. Huang Chutian is so demoralized by the explanation that he faints.
• Watching from above, Xuan Zi praises Huo Yuhao’s talent. Dai Huabin worries that, without his partner, he can no longer use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Mu Jin urges him to prove his own ability and questions him about Zhu Lu’s departure from the academy.

Character developments

• Huo Yuhao demonstrates his ability to copy others’ Soul Skills and his control over a match. He also shows that he considers his teammates’ success, though his blunt explanation crushes Huang Chutian’s confidence.
• Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong contribute decisively, showing they can capitalize on Huo Yuhao’s setup and handle their own opponents.
• Huang Chutian goes from nervous to completely demoralized, realizing Huo Yuhao had been holding back.
• Dai Huabin is shaken by Huo Yuhao’s performance and anxious about losing the advantage of his former partnership.

Themes

• Teamwork: Huo Yuhao gives his teammates opportunities to score rather than taking the victory alone.
• Talent and reputation: Huo Yuhao’s reputation unsettles his opponents before the fight even begins, and his performance reinforces his standing.
• Confidence and defeat: Huang Chutian’s psychological collapse shows how a perceived gap in ability can be as damaging as a physical loss.
• Accountability: Mu Jin challenges Dai Huabin to stop dwelling on Huo Yuhao and answer for Zhu Lu’s departure.

Character interactions

• Xiao Xiao taunts Huang Chutian before the match, while Huo Yuhao’s calm response to his questions makes the defeat even more humiliating.
• Cui Yajie targets Huo Yuhao with her spiritual ability, but he turns the attack back against her.
• Xuan Zi praises Huo Yuhao to himself, while Mu Jin confronts Dai Huabin and presses him about Zhu Lu.

Key plot points

• Zhu Lu, traveling alone toward the Star Luo Empire after leaving Shrek Academy, finds Bei Bei collapsed in the rain. He is covered in blood and clutching the severed heads of two Shrek Inspection Corps members.
• Bei Bei has been attacking Inspection Corps members after witnessing their abuses. Exhausted, he accepts Zhu Lu’s help and recovers in her carriage.
• He learns Zhu Lu has broken with Dai Huabin and intends to return home to ask her father to end their engagement.
• Zhu Lu confirms that Bei Bei is now wanted. Shrek Academy’s reputation is also collapsing as the Adventurers’ Guild and newspapers expose the Inspection Corps’ misconduct.
• Zhu Lu plans to go home, but Bei Bei proposes that they head toward Cassell College instead. He believes it may hold knowledge that could help Tang Ya cultivate her Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
• When Zhu Lu falls asleep, Bei Bei takes the reins and drives them onward.

Character developments and interactions

• Bei Bei has shifted from a Shrek student into a fugitive resisting the Inspection Corps’ abuses. Though physically spent, he is determined to find a way to help Tang Ya and considers Cassell College a possible new direction.
• Zhu Lu has rejected both Dai Huabin and the political marriage binding her to him. She shows compassion by rescuing Bei Bei, despite knowing he may be wanted, and begins to consider a future outside her former arrangement.
• Their relationship develops through mutual aid: Zhu Lu nurses Bei Bei and shares her decision to leave Shrek; Bei Bei later takes over driving so she can rest. He also keeps his own family at a distance, fearing Shrek will retaliate against them.

Significant themes

• Institutional corruption and accountability: The Inspection Corps’ abuses and Shrek’s damaged reputation drive Bei Bei’s actions and shape the characters’ choices.
• Independence and self-determination: Zhu Lu refuses an imposed engagement, while Bei Bei seeks a path beyond Shrek.
• Compassion amid conflict: Despite their danger and exhaustion, the two offer each other practical support.
• A search for new beginnings: Cassell College represents a possible alternative to Shrek and a chance for Bei Bei to pursue knowledge that could help Tang Ya.