Chapter Summaries

Chen Tianyuan and Electrolux purified the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife, restoring it to the Blade of Life. Electrolux told Chen Tianyuan to fuse with its gold of life, then controlled the Blade of Life as Chen Tianyuan stabbed it into his heart and it sank inside him.

• Chen Tianyuan returned to his room in Zhang Lexuan's home and let Electrolux take control of his body.
• Electrolux used his spiritual power to dissolve the knife's malevolent thoughts and purify its curse, revealing the blue-gold Blade of Life.
• Electrolux explained that Chen Tianyuan's spiritual power was too weak to open a second sea of consciousness, and proposed that he fuse with the gold of life instead.
• Chen Tianyuan asked whether the Blade of Life could extend Mu En's lifespan, but Electrolux said Mu En's failing body could not withstand its vitality.
• Following Electrolux's instructions, Chen Tianyuan stabbed the Blade of Life into his heart, and Electrolux controlled its release of vitality as it sank into Chen Tianyuan and his wound healed.

After merging with the Blade of Life, Chen Tianyuan became a source of vitality and visited Mu En at the Sea God Pavilion. Mu En showed him the Golden Tree's meditation chambers and passed on Sovereign's Descent, but Electrolux warned him not to let hatred guide his path.

• The Blade of Life transformed Chen Tianyuan's body and Sea of Consciousness, while Electrolux explained that its vitality could help him recover from severe injuries.
• Chen Tianyuan returned to the Sea God Pavilion, where the Golden Ancient Tree responded to his vitality and began absorbing it as Mu En's old injuries slowly healed.
• Mu En took Chen Tianyuan to the Golden Tree's hidden meditation chambers and explained their importance to Shrek Academy.
• Mu En told Chen Tianyuan that talent alone could not make him powerful and passed on Sovereign's Descent, his creation and cultivation insights.
• Chen Tianyuan reflected on his lingering hatred and childhood oath, but Electrolux told him not to let hatred blind his heart.

Chen Tianyuan cultivated in the Golden Ancient Tree’s chamber, where an exchange of his vitality for ultimate light strengthened his martial soul. When his ultimate lightning and light soul power threatened to destroy his Sea of Consciousness, Electrolux intervened and fused them into an unstable purple-gold soul power.

• Electrolux warned Chen Tianyuan not to let hatred consume him, and Mu En sent him to cultivate in a room inside the Golden Ancient Tree.
• Chen Tianyuan absorbed the room’s light element as his Purple Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul changed to a gilded silver hue and his Light Dragon Clan bloodline took control.
• The Golden Ancient Tree absorbed Chen Tianyuan’s excess vitality and returned light element, raising it to ultimate light and strengthening his martial soul.
• Chen Tianyuan’s light soul power challenged his ultimate lightning, and their crude fusion with life energy created a new power that split open his Sea of Consciousness.
• Electrolux took control, dissolved the dangerous new power, and fused Chen Tianyuan’s ultimate light and weakened ultimate lightning into unstable purple-gold soul power.

Electrolux escaped with Chen Tianyuan into the Undead Demiplane after Douluo Star's will nearly destroyed Chen Tianyuan's Sea of Consciousness. He repaired the damage and contained the clashing soul powers, leaving Chen Tianyuan alive but warned not to risk his life again.

• Electrolux opened a spatial rift and carried Chen Tianyuan into the Undead Demiplane, causing the attack on Chen Tianyuan's Sea of Consciousness to stop.
• Electrolux used the gold of life to repair Chen Tianyuan's Sea of Consciousness after Douluo Star's planar will attacked him.
• Chen Tianyuan's ultimate lightning and ultimate light soul powers separated and collided inside his meridians, so Electrolux used his spiritual power to keep them apart.
• Tang San observed the mortal world from above the clouds as Electrolux continued stabilizing Chen Tianyuan's energies.
• Chen Tianyuan regained awareness in his intact Sea of Consciousness, and Electrolux warned him that he might not be able to save him next time.

Chen Tianyuan let his Martial Soul absorb ultimate light in the Golden Ancient Tree chamber, risking death as his Ultimate Lightning and Ultimate Light Soul Powers clashed. A silvery radiance saved him, and he realized his Body Martial Soul had awakened for a second time.

• Chen Tianyuan returned from Electrolux's Undead Demiplane to the chamber inside the Golden Ancient Tree, where the concentrated light elements reignited the conflict between his Soul Powers.
• Chen Tianyuan stopped suppressing his Martial Soul and let it absorb the light elements, causing his meridians to rupture as the vitality from the gold of life repeatedly repaired them.
• Chen Tianyuan's Purple Lightning Tyrant Dragon transformed toward ultimate light, but the gold of life stopped releasing vitality and his Ultimate Lightning erupted as his body began to fail.
• A silvery radiance appeared around Chen Tianyuan, suppressed both Soul Powers, and prompted the gold of life to release vitality again, healing his injuries.
• Chen Tianyuan sensed the silvery phantom behind him and recognized that his Body Martial Soul had undergone its second awakening.

Chen Tianyuan fused his ultimate light and ultimate lightning soul powers into a stronger purple-gold power, triggering a dragon’s roar that shook Shrek Academy and suppressed beast martial souls. Tang San noticed his talent from the Divine Realm and hoped Chen Tianyuan would join the Tang Sect.

• Chen Tianyuan followed Electrolux’s advice and realized ultimate light and ultimate lightning shared the power to destroy evil, but their currents still resisted fusion.
• A current of attributeless soul power appeared in Chen Tianyuan’s dantian, obstructing the fusion until Electrolux told him to disperse it and compress the two ultimate currents with spiritual power.
• Chen Tianyuan’s ultimate light and ultimate lightning soul powers fused into a stable purple-gold current, and his martial soul began an ultimate transformation.
• Chen Tianyuan’s dragon roar shook Shrek Academy and suppressed its beast martial soul users, drawing Mu En and the academy’s Titled powerhouses to the Sea God Pavilion.
• Huo Yuhao, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and the Ice Empress sensed the overwhelming dragon might, while Tang San watched from the Divine Realm and considered Chen Tianyuan a potential asset against the God of Destruction.

Chen Tianyuan emerged from nine days of cultivation with an evolved, half-step god-level Thunderclap Saint Dragon martial soul and rank 45 soul power. After learning he could return to the Golden Ancient Tree by earning contribution points, he went to eat, while Mu En assigned Xuan Zi to appoint him captain of the reserve Seven Monsters.

• Yan Shaozhe realized that the aura from the Golden Ancient Tree belonged to a soul master with a god-level martial soul.
• Chen Tianyuan absorbed the Golden Ancient Tree's light element, awakened his Light Dragon Clan bloodline, evolved his martial soul into the Thunderclap Saint Dragon, and advanced to rank 45.
• Chen Tianyuan completed a silver-level second awakening of his body martial soul and gained a physique he judged to be at the Soul Emperor level.
• Chen Tianyuan learned from Mu En that his cultivation had lasted nine days and one hour, and that Inner Court students could earn contribution points for further chances to cultivate inside.
• Chen Tianyuan returned home to change and then went to the Inner Court dining hall to eat.
• Mu En agreed that Xuan Zi would appoint Chen Tianyuan captain of the reserve Seven Monsters for the upcoming Soul Fighting Tournament.

Xuan Zi held a free-for-all to select the new Shrek Seven Devils, leaving seven candidates before announcing that one more had to be eliminated. He used Chen Tianyuan as the standard for the final cut, while Bei Bei weighed which candidates the team could not afford to lose.

• Xuan Zi ordered twenty-seven Core Disciples to fight until only seven remained, and Huo Yuhao quickly joined forces with Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao.
• The free-for-all ended with Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, He Caitou, Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao still in the arena.
• Xuan Zi announced that one more candidate had to be eliminated, angering Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi.
• Chen Tianyuan arrived, and Xuan Zi said the candidates could avoid another elimination if one of them proved stronger than him.
• Bei Bei considered the candidates' strengths and concluded that Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao should stay, leaving He Caitou as the likely choice.

Chen Tianyuan prevented Xuan Zi from forcing a member of the new Shrek Seven Monsters out and joined the Soul Fighting Tournament as a substitute. Mu En then revealed that Chen Tianyuan was his chosen successor to the Sea God Pavilion and that an old betrothal promise involving Zhang Lexuan had been transferred to him, while He Caitou thanked him for standing up for the team.

• Xuan Zi considered eliminating He Caitou to make room for Chen Tianyuan, but Chen Tianyuan refused a spot among the main competitors and said the newly chosen Seven Monsters should remain together.
• Chen Tianyuan asked Wang Yan about tournament substitute slots and volunteered to compete as a substitute.
• Mu En rebuked Xuan Zi for mishandling the situation and told Chen Tianyuan that he had been named the next-generation Sea God Pavilion Master Successor.
• Mu En explained that Chen Tianyuan had inherited a betrothal promise involving Zhang Lexuan, leaving him stunned.
• At a barbecue by the lake, He Caitou thanked Chen Tianyuan for defending the team, and Chen Tianyuan resolved to gradually correct Shrek Academy's faults.

Xuan Zi gathered the outer court students and seven Inner Court students for a three-team training match, introducing Chen Tianyuan as a reserve for the tournament. Chen Tianyuan revealed that his ultimate lightning martial soul had evolved into the Thunderclap Saint Dragon, and the chapter ended as the teams began their free-for-all.

• Xuan Zi brought the students together, and the Inner Court members were startled when Chen Tianyuan’s presence made their martial souls tremble.
• Ma Xiaotao and the other Inner Court students introduced themselves, followed by Bei Bei’s group and Chen Tianyuan.
• Chen Tianyuan said he was a level 45 Soul Ancestor and revealed his martial soul had evolved from ultimate lightning into the Thunderclap Saint Dragon.
• Xuan Zi assigned the students to three teams, with Gongyang Mo choosing Chen Tianyuan first, Dai Yueheng choosing Chen Zifeng, and Ma Xiaotao choosing Huo Yuhao.
• The three teams took their positions, and the free-for-all began as Chen Tianyuan’s Thunderclap Saint Dragon released ultimate lightning and ultimate light.

Chen Tianyuan received powerful enhancements from Gongyang Mo and fought Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng at once, overpowering Dai Yueheng with his ultimate lightning. He unleashed his strongest attack, forcing Ma Xiaotao to flee the Soul Fighting Arena and leave the match.

• Gongyang Mo enhanced Chen Tianyuan with four Soul Skills, raising his power to the level of a Soul Emperor.
• Chen Tianyuan repelled Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng, then used his speed and ultimate lightning to pierce Dai Yueheng’s defenses and incapacitate him.
• Ma Xiaotao attacked Chen Tianyuan and Gongyang Mo with her Phoenix Meteor Shower, while Gongyang Mo shielded them with Green Protection.
• Chen Tianyuan warned Gongyang Mo to retreat after five counts and charged his fourth Soul Skill as the barrier broke.
• Chen Tianyuan unleashed Purple-Gold Heavenly Thunder Flash, and Ma Xiaotao fled the arena to avoid the attack, eliminating herself from the match.

Chen Tianyuan’s team won the friendly match after he endured Dai Yueheng’s strongest attack, and Chen Tianyuan warned Bei Bei that Tang Ya might become an Evil Soul Master. Bei Bei agreed to ask Great Ancestor to examine her martial soul.

• Wang Yan realized that Gongyang Mo’s support had amplified Chen Tianyuan’s dragon martial soul beyond what he had expected.
• Dai Yueheng used White Tiger Demon God Transformation and challenged Chen Tianyuan to withstand one final strike.
• Chen Tianyuan endured Dai Yueheng’s White Tiger Annihilation Strike with Dragon Transformation, his body martial soul’s silver-level awakening, and Gongyang Mo’s support.
• Dai Yueheng conceded, and Xuan Zi declared Gongyang Mo’s team the winner.
• Chen Tianyuan told Bei Bei that Tang Ya might become an Evil Soul Master, and Bei Bei said he would ask Great Ancestor to examine her martial soul.

Chen Tianyuan and Gongyang Mo discovered that cultivating together increased Gongyang Mo’s cultivation speed but had no effect on Chen Tianyuan. As Shrek Academy’s students left for the tournament, Xuan Zi explained the Shrek Inspection Corps’ dangers and responsibilities, and the reserve Shrek Seven Devils chose to join.

• Gongyang Mo told Chen Tianyuan and Wang Yan that his rainbow dragon martial soul reacted to Chen Tianyuan and that his support skills became twice as effective on him.
• Chen Tianyuan and Gongyang Mo cultivated together overnight; Gongyang Mo’s cultivation speed increased by about ten percent, while Chen Tianyuan noticed no change.
• As the Shrek students departed, Xuan Zi explained that Inner Court members served in the Shrek Inspection Corps and risked their lives fighting evil Soul Masters.
• Dai Yueheng described the Corps’ work and its motto of matching strength with responsibility and kindness.
• Xuan Zi gave the reserve Shrek Seven Devils the choice to join the Corps or withdraw, and they all chose to join.

Xuan Zi led the Shrek Inspectors on a mission to the Mingdou Mountains to find and eliminate the Death Messengers, a band of brigands led by an Evil Soul Master. After traveling to the Star Luo border and practicing with military Flying Soul Tools, the group prepared to continue by flying together under Xuan Zi’s guidance.

• Xuan Zi briefed the students on the inspection mission, and Wang Yan distributed Shrek Inspector Rings containing their equipment.
• Ma Xiaotao explained that the Death Messengers preyed on merchants in the Mingdou Mountains and that the mission was to kill them all.
• Dai Yueheng obtained military Flying Soul Tools from the border encampment, and the students practiced using them.
• Chen Tianyuan explained that he had his own Flying Soul Tool, redesigned by Fan Yu to extend its flight time.
• The group flew toward the Mingdou Mountains and stopped in a forest at sunset when the Outer Court students became exhausted.
• Wang Yan linked the group with a special rope, and Xuan Zi prepared to lead them through the air.

Xuan Zi flew Chen Tianyuan and the Shrek students to the western border of the Star Luo Empire, where Dai Yueheng reunited with Du Leisi and arranged for them to meet his father. The group entered the military camp at the foot of the Mingdou Mountains as dawn broke.

• Xuan Zi used his twelve-thruster Flying Soul Tool to carry the group at high speed, leaving Chen Tianyuan and the others severely nauseated.
• Xuan Zi landed the group near the western border, then disappeared after telling Dai Yueheng to handle the troops who came to investigate.
• Dai Yueheng identified himself to Du Leisi, who recognized him as the White Tiger Duke's eldest son and confirmed that his father was at the camp.
• Dai Yueheng explained how the Mingdou Mountains, Mingdou Great Forest, and a massive defensive wall protected the border from the Sun Moon Empire and Soul Beasts.
• After resting, Chen Tianyuan and the others flew to the military camp and followed Du Leisi toward the central command tent to meet the marshal.

The Shrek group met the White Tiger Duke, rested, and received intelligence about the Death Hand Bandit Group before entering the Mingdou Mountains. As they searched for the bandits, Wang Yan discovered signs that their target was nearby.

• Dai Hao welcomed Wang Yan and the Shrek students to the military camp and promised to provide intelligence and maps.
• After six hours of rest, Wang Yan learned that the Death Hand Bandit Group had about three hundred members and was led by an unidentified Evil Soul Master.
• Ma Xiaotao organized the group’s formation as they entered the Mingdou Mountains without military support.
• Chen Tianyuan asked Electrolux whether Xuan Zi was nearby, but Electrolux sensed no one within a kilometer.
• Wang Yan noticed Wenlan Trees in the area and concluded that the bandit group was likely nearby.

Wang Yan led the Shrek group to a cave where the Death Hand Bandit Group was hiding, and Chen Tianyuan warned that their Evil Soul Master leader might use Corpse Explosion. The group stormed the hideout and slaughtered its defenders, but a Soul Ancestor Evil Soul Master emerged from a hidden tunnel and was struck by Chen Tianyuan’s ultimate lightning.

• Wang Yan used the freshly dug Wenlan Tree cores and Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection to follow the bandits’ trail to a cave on a hillside in Sun Moon Empire territory.
• Chen Tianyuan warned the group about Corpse Explosion and arranged for Huo Yuhao to destroy the bodies of any Soul Masters they killed.
• Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng led the attack into the cave, where the group killed the guards and fought their way through more than a hundred bandits.
• Chen Tianyuan felt unexpectedly excited while killing, as Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng competed to kill the most bandits.
• A Soul Ancestor-level Evil Soul Master emerged from a hidden tunnel to attack the group from behind, but Chen Tianyuan blasted him in the head with ultimate lightning.

Chen Tianyuan warned the group about Corpse Explosion, but Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng left their victims’ bodies untreated, causing blasts that killed Yao Haoxuan and left several Shrek Inner Court disciples crippled or gravely injured. Chen Tianyuan killed the Death Messenger, and Xuan Zi began stabilizing the survivors while admitting his responsibility.

• Chen Tianyuan warned Ma Xiaotao to burn the bodies of the Evil Soul Masters, while Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei dealt with corpses along the route.
• The Death Messenger’s Corpse Explosion technique detonated the bodies left by Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng, killing Yao Haoxuan and crippling Chen Zifeng, Ling Luochе, Xixi, Ma Xiaotao, and Dai Yueheng.
• Chen Tianyuan attacked the Death Messenger, who dodged Xuan Zi’s strike and began triggering an explosion in Yao Haoxuan’s remains.
• Xuan Zi contained the blast in Yao Haoxuan’s corpse, and Chen Tianyuan used the opening to kill the Death Messenger.
• Gongyang Mo grieved and confronted Xuan Zi, while Wang Yan urged Xuan Zi to take the wounded back to the academy for treatment.
• Xuan Zi stabilized the survivors and admitted that he could not escape responsibility for what happened.

After the main team was devastated by an Evil Soul Master, Shrek Academy’s reserves prepared to compete in the Soul Fighting Tournament while the academy’s leaders dealt with the losses. Chen Tianyuan and the others arrived in Star Luo City, where the tournament was about to begin.

• Outside the cave, Wang Yan told the reserves they would have to represent Shrek Academy until reinforcements arrived, and Bei Bei encouraged them to compete.
• Zhuang Yusen reported that the injured students’ conditions had stabilized, though several had suffered permanent or severe injuries.
• Xuan Zi offered to resign from his academy posts, but Mu En and the other elders persuaded him to stay.
• Mu En refused to send more Inner Court students to the tournament and ordered the Inspection Corps to receive Flying Soul Tools and Class 5 or higher Soul Tool Shields.
• Chen Tianyuan and the others reached Star Luo City, where Shrek Academy had been given rooms at the Star Emperor Hotel.

Before Shrek Academy’s first tournament match, Wang Yan worried about the team’s chances, while Chen Tianyuan received a late-night invitation from Xu Jiujiu. She revealed that the Star Luo imperial family had acquired a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo and offered to sell it to him for ninety million gold soul coins.

• Wang Yan explained the tournament format and urged the students to save Chen Tianyuan and Gongyang Mo as trump cards for especially strong opponents.
• A court maid summoned Chen Tianyuan to Xu Jiujiu’s residence, where he met her and Nebula Douluo Manyi.
• Manyi shielded the residence from eavesdroppers, and Xu Jiujiu asked Chen Tianyuan about his ultimate lightning martial soul.
• Xu Jiujiu described the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo and offered to sell it to Chen Tianyuan for ninety million gold soul coins.