Chapter Summaries

Shrek’s students demanded a life-and-death waiver for their exhibition match against the Spirit Pagoda, and Li Zha’s side signed it without hesitation. Half a month later, the teams met in the opening match of the Skysea Alliance Grand Competition, where Wu Changkong realized Shrek was in serious danger.

• Ye Xinglan and the other Shrek students protested the Spirit Pagoda’s incomplete lineup, demanded a network-wide livestream and a life-and-death waiver, and planned to feign injuries before fighting back.
• Na'er signed the waiver for herself, Gu Yue, Li Zha, and four names she obtained from Leng Yaozhu.
• Hundreds of thousands of visitors arrived in Skysea City for the Skysea Alliance Grand Competition, whose winners were promised guaranteed admission to Shrek Academy.
• Li Zha, Gu Yue, and Na'er took the stage with four other Spirit Pagoda competitors to face Ye Xinglan and her Shrek teammates in the opening match.
• Tang Wulin and Xie Xie watched from the crowd, while Wu Changkong recognized the danger and hurried to warn Shen Yi.

Li Zha and Na'er faced Shrek Academy's team in a life-and-death match, where their overwhelming soul rings and strength stunned the crowd. Li Zha defeated all seven Shrek contestants, and the battle left Shrek City erupting in fury.

• Wu Changkong tried to stop the match, but Shen Yi let it begin before he could warn her about Li Zha.
• Shrek's seven contestants revealed their martial souls and three rings each, but Li Zha showed three ten-thousand-year rings while Na'er revealed three thousand-year rings.
• Na'er declared that she and two teammates could beat Shrek's seven, and Li Zha said he would either kill them or be killed.
• Ye Xinglan attacked Li Zha, but he knocked away her Stargod Sword and kicked her into the stage; Na'er swallowed the recovery buns Xu Lizhi threw to her.
• Shrek's team coordinated attacks against Li Zha, but he defeated all seven, and the broadcast showed him holding them up as Shrek City erupted in anger.

Li Zha and Na'er brutally defeated the Shrek Team in the Skysea Alliance Grand Competition, and Yu Yuancheng died after Na'er struck him. As Ye Xinglan lay gravely injured, Leng Yaozhu stopped Shen Yi and Wu Changkong from intervening, while Cai Yue'er watched the slaughter in a rage.

• Li Zha overwhelmed the Shrek Team, leaving Ye Xinglan and Yu Yuancheng gravely injured and the others unconscious, while Xu Lizhi begged them to surrender.
• Li Zha rejected the announcer's attempt to end the fight and told the audience that Shrek had demanded a life-and-death waiver and insulted Skysea City and the Spirit Pagoda.
• Na'er struck Yu Yuancheng on the head, and Li Zha dropped his lifeless body onto the arena floor.
• Na'er struck Ye Xinglan in the chest after she tried to signal surrender, leaving her barely able to breathe.
• Shen Yi and Wu Changkong tried to stop the fight, but Leng Yaozhu pinned them in their seats and declared that outsiders could not interfere before the match ended.
• Cai Yue'er watched the livestream and flew into a rage.

After Na'er killed Ye Xinglan in the livestreamed life-and-death match, Li Zha ended the fight without killing the remaining Shrek students. Enraged Shrek leaders then moved against the Spirit Pagoda, and Qiangu Dongfeng blocked their advance with a soul guidance legion.

• At Sea God Pavilion, Yun Ming ordered the leaders to wait for the match to unfold, while Cai Yue'er and Long Yeyue demanded retaliation against the Spirit Pagoda.
• Na'er rejected Ye Xinglan's pleas for mercy and killed her with the Silver Dragon Spear.
• After Wu Changkong pleaded for the fighting to stop, Li Zha spared the remaining Shrek students and the host declared the Spirit Pagoda Team victorious.
• Long Yeyue flew toward Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, followed by Cai Yue'er and Yun Ming, despite Ya Li's warning against starting a war.
• Qiangu Dongfeng and a soul guidance legion blocked Long Yeyue and Cai Yue'er as Qiangu Dongfeng challenged Shrek over its intentions.

After Li Zha killed a Shrek prodigy in a public match, Yun Ming prevented Shrek and the Spirit Pagoda from going to war by proposing a joint Genius Training Camp. He invited Li Zha to join, but Leng Yaozhu refused, wary that Shrek might retaliate against her student.

• Long Yeyue confronted Qiangu Dongfeng over the deaths of Shrek students, and the Spirit Pagoda assembled more than a hundred Black-Grade Mechas.
• Yun Ming stopped Long Yeyue and Qiangu Dongfeng from clashing, then proposed a joint training program to repair Shrek’s public image and improve both sides’ prodigies.
• Qiangu Dongfeng agreed to the program but said Li Zha and two others might not participate because they were not his students.
• Yun Ming explained to Long Yeyue and Cai Yue'er that war would cost Shrek dearly, and argued that actual-combat training could help Shrek’s students counter Li Zha.
• Yun Ming called Leng Yaozhu to invite Li Zha and other Spirit Pagoda prodigies to the camp, but Leng Yaozhu refused, fearing Shrek would target her student.

Leng Yaozhu refused Yun Ming’s attempts to take Li Zha and her other students out of her protection, but considered Ya Li’s offer of a Shrek training camp with valuable resources. After learning Shrek might send One-Word Battle Armor Masters to compete, Li Zha and the others recognized the camp would be a serious challenge.

• Leng Yaozhu told Yun Ming that anyone who harmed her students would have to fight her to the death.
• Ya Li took over Yun Ming’s call with Leng Yaozhu and offered the training camp winners custom One-Word Battle Armor and access to Shrek’s resources.
• Leng Yaozhu asked where the camp would take place, then ended the call without agreeing.
• Leng Yaozhu told Li Zha, Na'er, and Gu Yue about the camp, and Na'er and Gu Yue questioned Shrek’s offer.
• Li Zha asked about the camp’s conditions, and Leng Yaozhu suspected Shrek would include One-Word Battle Armor Masters among its participants.

After Li Zha and Na’er humiliated Shrek’s students, Leng Yaozhu predicted that Shrek would create a multi-part genius training camp to restore its reputation. As Xu Lizhi grieved Ye Xinglan’s death and feared being blamed at Shrek, he walked toward Leng Yaozhu, apparently ready to leave the academy behind.

• Leng Yaozhu explained that Shrek would likely test cultivation, martial souls, combat ability, and battle armor to reclaim its reputation after Li Zha’s victory.
• Na’er found that videos of her and Li Zha defeating Shrek’s students had gone viral, with many mocking comments from users whose addresses were mostly in Mingdu.
• Shen Yi blamed Xu Lizhi for failing to report the planned duel and ordered him to make a public self-criticism when they returned to Shrek.
• Xu Lizhi mourned Ye Xinglan and worried that Shrek would make him a scapegoat, then stood up and walked toward Leng Yaozhu.

Xu Lizhi asked to join the Spirit Pagoda after Ye Xinglan’s death, and Li Zha persuaded Leng Yaozhu to accept him as a protected, transactional recruit. Later, Li Zha discovered that killing Shrek students had earned him a soul core prototype, which could eventually strengthen him enough to challenge a One-Word Battle Armor Master.

• Xu Lizhi knelt before Leng Yaozhu and asked to join the Spirit Pagoda, offering his food-type support abilities in exchange for protection and cultivation resources.
• Leng Yaozhu questioned Xu Lizhi’s loyalty, but Li Zha argued that he was talented and could become a future support mainstay, so Leng Yaozhu agreed to take him in.
• Xu Lizhi left for the Skysea City Spirit Pagoda, while Na'er and Gu Yue speculated about his motives and Li Zha explained how his insecurity shaped his choices.
• Xie Xie and Tang Wulin watched Li Zha’s group leave and wondered whether Shrek was as powerful as they had believed.
• During cultivation, Li Zha noticed a vortex in his dantian and learned from the system that killing Shrek students had earned him a soul core prototype because of Shrek’s karmic ties to Tang San.
• Li Zha realized that condensing the soul core could refine his soul power and help him fight a One-Word Battle Armor Master.

Li Zha discovered that an early-forming soul core was slowing his cultivation, and Leng Yaozhu proposed that training near Shrek Academy’s Golden Tree could offset the effect. At the forging competition, Li Zha took the platform as the Skysea City administrator worried about the fallout from his team’s earlier victory, and Tang Wulin approached him.

• Li Zha told Leng Yaozhu about the soul power vortex in his dantian, and she confirmed it was an embryonic soul core.
• Leng Yaozhu warned Li Zha to keep the soul core secret and said Shrek’s Golden Tree could provide the energy needed to support his cultivation.
• Li Zha realized he had spent his time with Mu Ye on his Second Awakening instead of studying forging, then went to compete.
• The Skysea City administrator and Long Huantian discussed the attention Li Zha had brought to the city and the political consequences of Shrek members being killed.
• Li Zha reached his forging table, where Tang Wulin approached him.

Li Zha entered the under-fifteen blacksmith competition and forged titanium gold far beyond the elimination round’s requirements. He completed Spirit Forging in front of the stunned contestants and judges, then left the venue, declaring that he would not compete in later rounds.

• Tang Wulin greeted Li Zha and praised his victory over the Shrek students, while Mu Xi watched him warily after their earlier encounter.
• Li Zha chose the difficult titanium gold for the elimination round and began forging with Samadhi True Fire.
• Li Zha completed Hundred Refinement in under fifteen minutes and continued hammering until he achieved high-grade Thousand Refinement.
• Li Zha kept forging beyond the judges’ expectations, and Mu Chen suspected he was attempting Spirit Forging.
• With five minutes left, Li Zha produced golden light and completed Spirit Forging, creating titanium gold containing a dragon soul’s phantom.
• Li Zha told Mu Chen he would not enter the later rounds, left the forged metal behind, and departed as Mu Chen watched him go.

Li Zha won the forging competition after completing Spirit Forging, then traveled with Leng Yaozhu, Gu Yue, and Na'er to Mingdu for the Genius Training Camp. After Xu Yucheng challenged him and threatened Na'er, Li Zha kicked Xu Yucheng flying.

• Li Zha's Spirit Forging crushed the other contestants' hopes, while Tang Wulin doubted his path to Shrek and Mu Xi watched Li Zha leave.
• Leng Yaozhu told Li Zha and Gu Yue that the Genius Training Camp would be held in Mingdu, where participants would train, fight for access to the Golden Tree, and later serve on the front lines.
• Li Zha was declared the forging champion, and reporters dubbed him the Eight-Armed Asura after he ended Shrek's long-running record of invincibility.
• Leng Yaozhu flew Li Zha, Gu Yue, and Na'er to Mingdu, where the governor showed them the underground training facilities and they encountered Shrek students.
• Xu Yucheng and Wu Siduo introduced themselves and challenged Li Zha, then Xu Yucheng threatened Na'er with his soul-attacking abilities, so Li Zha kicked him flying.

Li Zha fought Shrek students at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy, defeating Xu Yucheng despite his soul attacks and knocking him unconscious. When a Shrek One-Word Battle Armor Master stepped in to protect Xu, Li Zha accused Xu of being an Evil Soul Master.

• Li Zha kicked Xu Yucheng into a wall, and Wu Siduo challenged him to fight.
• Na'er fought Wu Siduo with her Silver Dragon Spear while Li Zha advanced on Xu Yucheng.
• Xu Yucheng unleashed soul attacks, but they had no effect on Li Zha.
• Li Zha beat Xu Yucheng unconscious, recalling an old man who had once used soul attacks on him.
• A Shrek One-Word Battle Armor Master stepped forward to protect Xu, and Li Zha called Xu an Evil Soul Master.

Li Zha accused Shrek of long-standing ties to evil soul masters and argued that Xu Yucheng could be one of them. As Shrek students began doubting their academy, Li Zha engulfed the unconscious Xu Yucheng in Samadhi True Fire.

• Zhang Ping denounced Li Zha’s claim that Shrek had ties to evil soul masters and demanded evidence.
• Li Zha cited Tang San, Tang Ya, Ma Xiaotao, Mu En, Yan Shaozhe, and Feng Ling as evidence of Shrek’s connections to the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Li Zha questioned whether Shrek’s Inspection Corps had truly eliminated evil soul masters and warned that Xu Yucheng’s martial soul might become corrupted.
• Yue Zhengyu confirmed that Xu Yucheng had an evil aura, and Yuanen Yehui reacted nervously when Yue sensed the stronger aura of her fallen angel martial soul.
• Shrek students began questioning their academy as Zhang Ping accused Li Zha of trying to tarnish Shrek’s reputation.
• Li Zha declared that he would kill an evil soul master and covered Xu Yucheng with Samadhi True Fire.

Li Zha purified Xu Yucheng’s Dark Demon Scythe, prompting Yuanen Yehui to seek his help with her own Fallen Angel martial soul. After Shrek’s group withdrew, Ya Li gave Li Zha Golden Tree essence, and the chapter ended with the Great Sage Equal to Heaven token reacting to Yuanen Yehui.

• Li Zha used Samadhi True Fire to burn away the evil aura in Xu Yucheng’s Dark Demon Scythe, and Yue Zhengyu thanked him.
• Yuanen Yehui realized Li Zha might be able to purify her Fallen Angel martial soul and help her mother, while Zhang Ping led Shrek’s group away.
• Na’er mocked the departing Shrek students, and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy students celebrated their victory.
• Ya Li greeted Leng Yaozhu and gave Li Zha a bottle of Golden Tree essence to aid his cultivation.
• Yuanen Yehui waited in Li Zha’s room, showed him her Fallen Angel martial soul, and asked him to help it evolve as his Great Sage Equal to Heaven token stirred.

Yuanen Yehui agreed to leave Shrek Academy and join Li Zha’s Spirit Pagoda, hoping he could purify her Fallen Angel martial soul. Li Zha transformed it into the Yama Angel and gave her the Great Sage Equal to Heaven tablet, which began changing her Titan Giant Ape martial soul.

• Li Zha agreed to help Yuanen Yehui only if she joined the Spirit Pagoda, and she accepted.
• Yuanen Yehui submitted her withdrawal application, and Ya Li approved it after recognizing Li Zha’s influence.
• Li Zha used Samadhi True Fire to purify Yuanen Yehui’s Fallen Angel martial soul, transforming it into the Yama Angel.
• Yuanen Yehui thanked Li Zha, then realized he had seen her naked when her clothes burned away during the transformation.
• Li Zha gave Yuanen Yehui the Great Sage Equal to Heaven tablet, and her Titan Giant Ape martial soul manifested as its fur began turning gold.

Li Zha helped Yuanen Yehui purify her mother’s fallen angel martial soul, and the Great Sage Shrine Tablet caused the Yuanen Family’s Titan Giant Ape martial souls to begin evolving. Yuanen Zhentian agreed to move the clan to the Spirit Pagoda and went to capture a Holy Spirit Cult spy, whom Li Zha hoped to kill for Karmic Flame Points.

• Yuanen Yehui’s Titan Giant Ape martial soul evolved after Li Zha’s intervention, and she asked him to help her mother, who had survived and remained sealed in the Yuanen Family’s territory.
• Li Zha told Leng Yaozhu about the situation, and she agreed to take him and Yuanen Yehui to the family’s ancestral home in Shangling City.
• Li Zha purified Yehui’s fallen angel martial soul, and the Great Sage Shrine Tablet caused the Yuanen Family’s Titan Giant Ape martial souls to begin evolving.
• Yuanen Zhentian returned to find the clan changing, thanked Li Zha, and agreed to move the Yuanen Family from Shrek to the Spirit Pagoda and help him fight Evil Soul Masters.
• Yuanen Zhentian revealed that a Holy Spirit Cult high-ranking Douluo had been stealing intelligence and promised to capture him, then left to pursue the suspect while Li Zha asked to kill him himself.

Li Zha redeemed Nezha’s Wind Fire Wheels and tested his ability to fly, while Tang Wulin traveled to Shrek City to seek Wu Changkong’s help getting into the academy. Wu Changkong recognized a middle-aged man at the restaurant as the Dark Hummingbird.

• Li Zha received 1,600 Karmic Flame Points for purifying Xu Yucheng’s and Yuanen Yehui’s Martial Souls and redeemed the Wind Fire Wheels.
• Li Zha used the Wind Fire Wheels to fly high above the ground and practiced moving through the air with his Fire-Tipped Spear and Heaven-and-Earth Silk.
• Tang Wulin decided to go to Shrek City, and Tang San promised to use his connections and arrangements to help him enter Shrek Academy.
• Tang Wulin booked a train ticket, told Xie Xie he was leaving, and traveled to Shrek City the following day.
• Wu Changkong took Tang Wulin to a restaurant near Shrek Academy, where he noticed a middle-aged man and identified him as the Dark Hummingbird.

Wu Changkong recognized Dark Hummingbird, the Evil Soul Master who had killed Long Bing, but Yuanen Zhentian defeated and captured him before he could kill Tang Wulin. Wu Changkong followed Yuanen Zhentian to the Yuanen Family to demand a chance to kill Dark Hummingbird himself, while Tang San sensed a startling change in the family’s Titan Giant Ape bloodline.

• Wu Changkong spotted Dark Hummingbird at a restaurant near Shrek Academy and secretly alerted Shen Yi.
• Dark Hummingbird recognized Wu Changkong, taunted him about Long Bing, and knocked him aside before trying to kill Tang Wulin.
• Yuanen Zhentian seized Dark Hummingbird, crushed his wrist, and defeated him with a single punch.
• Wu Changkong flew to the Yuanen Family, and Tang Wulin followed after Tang San said the family’s evolved Titan Giant Ape bloodline was unfamiliar to him.
• Yuanen Zhentian let Wu Changkong enter but warned him not to touch Dark Hummingbird; Tang Wulin arrived at midnight, and Tang San’s divine consciousness shuddered as he crossed the threshold.

Tang San was stunned by the Yuanen Family’s evolution into Golden Ancient Apes, while Wu Changkong confronted Long Bing’s murderer, Dark Hummingbird. Li Zha began burning Dark Hummingbird’s soul with Netherworld Flame and livestreamed the execution across the continent.

• Tang San saw the Yuanen Family’s Titan Giant Apes turning into Golden Ancient Apes and wondered whether Er Ming had hidden a secret from him.
• Wu Changkong found Dark Hummingbird bound in the Yuanen Family grounds and tried to kill the man who had killed Long Bing, but Yuanen Zhentian stopped him.
• Li Zha arrived and halted the clansmen who were about to cut out Dark Hummingbird’s tongue.
• Li Zha used Netherworld Flame to burn Dark Hummingbird’s soul, leaving him conscious and screaming in agony.
• Li Zha set up a livestream and began broadcasting Dark Hummingbird’s execution across the continent.

Li Zha livestreamed his torture and killing of Dark Hummingbird, provoking the Holy Spirit Cult and drawing Leng Yaozhu into the scene. Leng Yulai learned that Li Zha was Leng Yaozhu’s student and agreed to use herself to lure them into a trap.

• Li Zha livestreamed Dark Hummingbird’s torture, mocked him, and asked viewers to report Evil Soul Masters.
• Viewers across the continent watched the livestream, while people in Eastsea City cheered Li Zha on and Guang Long marveled that he had survived him.
• Dark Blood Demon, Dark Bell, Na Nali, and Dark Phoenix, Leng Yulai watched the broadcast at the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters and realized Hummingbird had been captured by a powerful opponent.
• Leng Yaozhu appeared on the livestream, called Li Zha her student, and urged him to turn it off.
• Dark Bell, Na Nali, proposed that Leng Yulai lure Leng Yaozhu and Li Zha out, and Leng Yulai agreed before vowing to kill them both.