Recaps

Shrek’s team suffered catastrophic losses, then Xuan Zi’s attempts to secure its tournament progress led to a massacre and public disgrace. Qin Xiao gained the Blade of Life’s Watch and pursued an Ice Jade Scorpion bone at auction, where the final lot appeared to contain the Snow Empress.

• Wang Yan led Shrek’s team to investigate the Reaper’s Hand, but Ma Xiaotao’s group entered a cave and fell victim to the Death Messenger’s corpse explosions.
• Xuan Zi arrived too late to save Xixi, Yao Haoxuan, and Chen Zifeng, while Wang Yan found Dai Yueheng and Ling Luochеn gravely injured and Ma Xiaotao mentally unresponsive.
• Xuan Zi returned to Shrek Academy with the survivors, accepted responsibility for the deaths, and remained in charge of escorting the weakened team to the tournament.
• Qin Xiao bought the cursed Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife, and Electrolux purified it into the Blade of Life’s Watch, which Qin Xiao fused into an Eye of Life.
• Xuan Zi persuaded Xu Jiawei to arrange Shrek’s advancement, but after Yunluo Academy refused to lose its match, Xuan Zi killed its dean and students.
• Xu Jiawei concealed Xuan Zi’s crimes as Shrek advanced by forfeit, while Qin Xiao persuaded Elder Ma to spread claims tying Shrek to match-fixing and the Yunluo massacre.
• At the auction, Jing Hongchen bought the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone for Qin Xiao after the Ice Empress urged him to obtain it.
• Xu Jiujiu presented the God-Sealing Platform, and Qin Xiao identified the swirling air inside as the Snow Empress, which the Ice Empress dismissed as a joke.

Qin Xiao navigated the auction’s aftermath and the turmoil surrounding Shrek, while Ma Xiaotao’s loss of control and Mu En’s declining health deepened the crisis. The Sun Moon team reached the final against the Star Luo team, where Qin Xiao helped break one barrier as Ma Rulong attacked another.

• Jing Hongchen bought the hundred-thousand-year soul beast embryo and Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone, then gave Qin Xiao the soul bone after learning he had an ultimate ice martial soul.
• Mu En confronted Xuan Zi over his violence and the Yunluo Academy deaths, while the Medicine Immortal Douluo treated Ma Xiaotao and warned that her condition remained unstable.
• Ma Xiaotao lost control during Shrek’s match with the Heavenly Soul Imperial Academy, killing several opponents, and Mu En carried her from the arena as Shrek withdrew from the tournament.
• Qin Xiao killed Dai Huabin with the White Tiger Dagger, and Dai Hao recognized it as the token he had given Huo Yun'er.
• Feng Ling escaped with Ma Xiaotao after Mu En intercepted eight soul cannon shells aimed at Star Luo City, and Mu En later merged with the Golden Ancient Tree to protect Shrek.
• Qin Xiao refused Lang Ya and Yu Tao’s offer to join the Body Sect, then used his abilities to help the Sun Moon team defeat the Dou Ling team and advance to the final.
• Qin Xiao helped the Sun Moon team escape Xu Jiujiu’s Absolute Defense, and Ma Rulong’s Sword of Judgment struck the Star Luo team’s strengthened Star’s Protection as its stars began to dim.

Qin Xiao and Meng Hongchen joined Shrek Academy’s exchange program, where Qin Xiao defeated Zhou Yi and helped Wang Dong use soul tools. Meanwhile, the Holy Spirit Cult exploited Xuan Zi’s massacres to turn the empires against Shrek, and Meng Hongchen began her arena match with Xu Sanshi.

• Xu Jiawei declared the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy the tournament champion, while Jing Hongchen warned that the Body Sect wanted Qin Xiao and Xuan Zi continued killing villagers as two cloaked men recorded him to discredit Shrek.
• Tang Ya massacred the Iron Blood Sect to avenge her family, then agreed to leave with the black-robed man and grow strong enough to pursue further revenge.
• Jing Hongchen approved the exchange program, and Qin Xiao and Meng Hongchen traveled to Shrek Academy with the Sun Moon delegation.
• Qin Xiao challenged Zhou Yi over her treatment of him, defeated her with soul tools, and secured a soul bone and compensation before Shrek expelled her.
• Qin Xiao and Meng Hongchen joined Mu Jin’s class, while Shrek’s elders learned Xuan Zi was missing and ordered a broad search.
• Qin Xiao made Wang Dong a pendant that let him use soul tools, and Mu En warned Shrek’s elders that a powerful evil presence had entered the academy.
• Zhongli Wu ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to use recordings of Xuan Zi’s killings to turn the empires against Shrek, and Xu Jiawei sent Cheng Gang to deliver the evidence to the academy.
• Meng Hongchen accepted Xu Sanshi’s challenge, then began their arena match by firing Soul Cannons at him before charging with a saber.

Mu En died after saving Xuan Zi, leaving Shrek Academy to face the Three Great Empires and the Sun Moon Empire to pursue its own plans. The Body Sect raided the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, took Qin Xiao, and Du Busi began trying to recruit him.

• Du Busi attacked Shrek Academy over Xuan Zi’s massacres, but Mu En possessed Xuan Zi and drove him away before sacrificing himself to destroy the power of destruction.
• Xuan Zi admitted responsibility for the deaths, severed ties with Shrek Academy, and challenged the Three Great Empires’ powerhouses, while Shrek refused to hand him over.
• Wang Dong came to Qin Xiao for help with her curse, and Qin Xiao made her a new pendant that restored her ability to use soul tools.
• Fan Yu attacked Xuan Ziwen in an attempt to kill Qin Xiao, but Xuan Ziwen defeated him, and the Sun Moon Empire arrested Fan Yu and the Shrek students.
• Jin Peng came to take Qin Xiao back to the Body Sect, but Qin Xiao wounded him with his Eye of Life and forced him to spare Xuan Ziwen.
• Du Busi’s forces raided Virtue Hall, seized the hundred-thousand-year soul beast embryo, and escaped while Jing Hongchen defended the academy.
• Du Busi met Qin Xiao at the Body Sect and offered to develop his martial soul and support his soul-tool interests, but Qin Xiao insisted on hearing a tangible offer.