Chapter Summaries

After Yunluo Academy’s teachers reported that their Dean and students had been murdered, suspicion fell on Shrek Academy and its leader, Xuan Zi. An investigation convinced Xu Jiawei that Xuan Zi was responsible, leaving him certain that the killer had acted after learning Yunluo Academy had changed its mind.

• Yunluo Academy’s teachers interrupted the tournament and told Xu Jiawei that an attacker had killed their Dean and more than a dozen students.
• The teachers accused Shrek Academy, citing a bull’s bellow, while Xu Sanshi demanded evidence and Xu Jiawei ordered them to leave so the tournament could continue.
• Dai Hao threatened the teachers with punishment for disrupting the tournament, and they reluctantly left the arena.
• Spectators blamed Shrek Academy for the massacre, while Wang Yan led Shrek’s team away from the arena.
• Dai Hao told Xu Jiawei that the killer had overwhelmed Yunluo Academy’s Dean in one move and was likely a powerful Titled Douluo, Xuan Zi.
• Xu Jiawei concluded that Xuan Zi had committed the massacre after learning Yunluo Academy had changed its mind.

After Xuan Zi’s attack on Yunluo Academy, Star Luo’s emperor and the Shrek students condemned his actions, but he refused to accept blame. The round-robin ended with Shrek advancing amid widespread suspicion, and Qin Xiao urged Elder Ma to spread rumors that would further damage Shrek’s reputation.

• Xu Jiawei refused to publicize Xuan Zi’s crimes until the tournament ended and decided that Star Luo teams would not face Shrek in the remaining matches.
• Wang Yan planned to report the incident to Shrek’s leaders, while the team members told Xuan Zi they would rather lose fairly than win through his violence.
• Xuan Zi dismissed the students’ objections, insisting that Shrek could not afford to lose and that his strength gave him the right to act as he pleased.
• The round-robin tournament ended with sixteen teams advancing, while Shrek reached the top sixteen without fighting because its opponents surrendered.
• Qin Xiao persuaded Elder Ma to spread fabricated claims linking Shrek to match-fixing and Yunluo Academy’s deaths, naming Xuan Zi as the culprit.

Qing Ya invited the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy to the Starlight Auction House’s Top-Tier Auction, where Qin Xiao arranged for Jing Hongchen to join them. The auction began with a powerful Level-Eight blade, and Qin Xiao wondered who would buy it in Dai Yueheng’s absence.

• Qing Ya delivered invitations to Qin Xiao and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, prompting Qin Xiao to ask Elder Ma to invite a heavyweight guest.
• Qin Xiao led the academy team to the auction, where they found Jing Hongchen waiting and Qing Ya escorted them to VIP Room Six.
• Wang Yan arrived with Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, Wang Dong, and the others, while Xu Sanshi teased Wang Yan about Qing Ya.
• Meng Hongchen fussed over Qin Xiao in the VIP room, and the Top-Tier Auction began with Xu Jiujiu presenting the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade.
• Qin Xiao recalled that Dai Yueheng had bought the blade in the original novel and wondered who would claim it now that Dai Yueheng was absent.

At the auction, Qin Xiao advised Jing Hongchen on why powerful soul tools were being sold abroad, then accepted Jing Hongchen’s offer to buy him an item and chose the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone. The chapter ended as Xu Jiujiu presented the bone’s age and fixed skill as supposed weaknesses, prompting the guests to recognize the sales pitch as reverse psychology.

• Dai Huabin admired the Level 8 Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade but could not afford it, and another guest bought it for 1.5 million Gold Soul Coins.
• Jing Hongchen bought twelve Fixed Soul Cannon Shells for 700,000 Gold Soul Coins so he could inspect their serial numbers and investigate who had supplied them.
• He Caitou persuaded Wang Yan not to bid on the shells because he feared spending the Academy’s money after Shrek’s team had performed poorly.
• Jing Hongchen grew angry when the auction offered a Level 8 long-range soul tool and Qin Xiao explained that Soul Engineers sold abroad for higher prices, advising the Sun Moon Empire to offer them better rates.
• Qin Xiao chose the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone after Jing Hongchen offered to pay for an auction item, while the Ice Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm reacted angrily to seeing it.
• Xu Jiujiu described the bone’s ice-attribute restriction, fixed soul skill, and age of fifty to seventy thousand years as weaknesses, and the guests recognized her claims as reverse psychology.

At the Starlight Auction, Jing Hongchen won the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone for twenty million gold soul coins, while Xu Jiawei learned the Sun Moon Empire had bought it. The auction then unveiled a Level 9 Soul Tool called the God-Sealing Platform, which contained a mass of swirling air that Qin Xiao identified as the Snow Empress.

• Meng Hongchen asked Xiao Hongchen to buy the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone, but he said it would cost too much, while the Ice Empress warned Qin Xiao that it required an Ultimate Ice martial soul to absorb.
• The Ice Empress urged Qin Xiao to obtain the bone after hearing that its fixed skill was Ice Explosion, and Jing Hongchen decided to buy it for him.
• Jing Hongchen bid twenty million gold soul coins, ending the auction for the bone, and Xu Jiawei was surprised to learn that the Sun Moon Empire had won it.
• Xu Jiujiu introduced the final lot, a Level 9 Soul Tool called the God-Sealing Platform, which held a trapped mass of swirling air.
• Qin Xiao told the Ice Empress that the swirling air was the Snow Empress, but the Ice Empress laughed and dismissed the claim as a joke.

At the Starlight Auction, Xu Jiujiu revealed that a hundred-thousand-year soul beast embryo might grant its absorber a second martial soul, drawing the Sun Moon Empire delegation’s interest. Jing Hongchen decided to bid for it, while Xu Jiawei planned to use the auction and a later heist mission to disrupt Virtue Hall’s progress.

• Xu Jiujiu revealed that the sealed embryo was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast recultivating into human form and might grant a martial soul, while warning that fusion required an expert at the Soul Douluo level.
• Qin Xiao expected Jing Hongchen to pursue the embryo but kept his knowledge of the coming Virtue Hall raid to himself; the Ice Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned that the embryo’s will could make fusion deadly.
• Wang Yan persuaded the Shrek team not to bid, while Qing Ya offered to buy Virtue Hall soul tools at a discount and Jing Hongchen rejected her offer.
• Jing Hongchen declared that he intended to obtain the embryo and the God-Sealing Platform, and Xu Jiujiu reported his identity to Xu Jiawei.
• Xu Jiawei decided to continue the auction and ordered Xu Jiujiu to post a hundred-million-Gold-Soul-Coin Virtue Hall Treasure Heist mission three months later, hoping to hinder the Sun Moon Empire.

Xu Jiawei rejected Xu Jiujiu’s plan to capture Jing Hongchen and ordered the Star Luo Empire to protect him, while the auction proceeded and Jing Hongchen bought the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo. After the sale, Xu Jiujiu let Jing Hongchen leave with the embryo and soul bone, but said Xu Jiawei had arrangements to prevent him from taking the embryo easily.

• Xu Jiawei told Xu Jiujiu that Shrek might be unable to help the Star Luo Empire and refused to attack Jing Hongchen, warning that the empire had to protect him instead.
• Xu Jiujiu opened the auction, and Jing Hongchen raised his bid for the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo to one hundred and fifty million gold soul coins.
• A big-headed man used his ability to control the auctioneer and learned that the bidder was from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy; he refused his thick-armed brother’s plan to rob the auction house and decided to report back to their sect.
• Jing Hongchen paid one hundred and seventy million gold soul coins for the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone and the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo, then left with his companions.
• Xu Jiujiu’s two Titled Douluo asked whether they would let Jing Hongchen take the items, and Xu Jiujiu said Xu Jiawei had arrangements and the embryo would not be easy to take.

At Sea God's Pavilion, Mu En and Elder Zhuang planned to celebrate Shrek Academy's tournament team, but Yan Shaozhe revealed the team's scandalous actions in the Star Luo Empire. After learning that Xuan Zi had demanded a rigged tournament result and slaughtered Yunluo Academy's team and dean, Mu En decided to go to Star Luo City himself to confront him.

• Mu En told Elder Zhuang that Shrek Academy should celebrate its tournament competitors regardless of their results, and Yan Shaozhe arrived with news from the Star Luo Empire.
• Yan Shaozhe presented a letter from Emperor Xu Jiawei, which revealed that Xuan Zi had demanded a guaranteed top-four finish and that the Shrek Team's match had been exposed as rigged.
• Elder Zhuang read that Xuan Zi had killed all fourteen members of Yunluo Academy's main and substitute teams, as well as its dean, after the academy refused to rig a match.
• Elder Zhuang and Yan Shaozhe asked Mu En how to respond, and Mu En refused to send Elder Zhuang to retrieve Xuan Zi.
• Mu En announced that he would travel to Star Luo City to bring Xuan Zi under control and teach him a lesson.

Jing Hongchen gathered Qin Xiao, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen to discuss the auction treasures, including the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone and a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo. He revealed that Qin Xiao already had twin martial souls, leaving Xiao Hongchen stunned and jealous.

• Mu En accepted that the Medicine Immortal Douluo could not save the two injured children, and Yan Shaozhe lamented Shrek Academy's losses.
• Elder Ma brought Qin Xiao to meet Jing Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Xiao Hongchen after the auction.
• Jing Hongchen said the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo would stay with him for Xiao Hongchen, while Qin Xiao and Meng Hongchen could compete for the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone.
• Qin Xiao argued that Xiao Hongchen was not strong enough to protect the embryo, and Jing Hongchen agreed that it was safer in his hands.
• Jing Hongchen revealed that Qin Xiao already had twin martial souls, including the rare ultimate ice martial soul Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, and Xiao Hongchen realized he had been outmatched.

Qin Xiao revealed that the soul bone required an ultimate ice martial soul and accepted it for himself, while explaining why the cash-strapped Star Luo Empire had auctioned it. The next tournament draw matched Shrek Academy against the Heavenly Soul Imperial Academy, whose team resolved to fight despite fearing Shrek’s powerful backers.

• Qin Xiao declined to explain his other secrets and warned that only someone with an ultimate ice martial soul could safely fuse with the soul bone.
• Jing Hongchen gave Qin Xiao the soul bone, and Qin Xiao returned to his room with it.
• The next round-of-sixteen schedule paired the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy with the Heavenly Soul Royal Soul Engineer Academy, and Shrek Academy with the Heavenly Soul Imperial Academy.
• The Heavenly Soul Imperial Academy team suspected Xu Jiawei had deliberately matched them against Shrek Academy and feared Shrek’s powerful supporters.
• The team’s teacher insisted they must fight to protect their academy’s and empire’s reputations, but fell silent when a student asked what would happen if Shrek’s backers attacked anyway.

Xuan Zi tried to manipulate Shrek’s match against the Heavenly Soul Royal Team and injured Wang Yan, but Mu En arrived and confronted him over the damage he had done to Shrek’s reputation. Medicine Immortal Douluo began treating Ma Xiaotao, whose recovery remained uncertain.

• Wang Yan told the Shrek Team they would face the Heavenly Soul Royal Team, and Xuan Zi arrived drunk and insisted they would not lose.
• Xuan Zi dismissed the alliance with Heavenly Soul, Dou Ling, and the Star Luo Empire, threatened to provoke a war, and snapped Wang Yan’s arm when Wang Yan tried to stop him.
• Mu En arrived in Star Luo City, condemned Xuan Zi for ruining Shrek’s reputation, and took him outside to talk.
• Medicine Immortal Douluo introduced herself to Bei Bei and examined Ma Xiaotao, warning that her mental condition might be difficult to treat.
• Medicine Immortal Douluo surrounded herself and Ma Xiaotao with a dome of green light and began her treatment.

Mu En confronted Xuan Zi over his actions, while Qin Xiao gained strength and Ma Xiaotao recovered enough to insist on competing in Shrek’s next match. The chapter ended with Xu Jiawei appearing before the tournament crowd to apologize for his improper actions.

• The Medicine Immortal Douluo’s life energy healed Wang Yan’s broken arm, while she treated Ma Xiaotao and restored her senses.
• Mu En challenged Xuan Zi to explain his mistakes, but Xuan Zi defended his decisions and was ordered to confine himself in the Sea God’s Pavilion.
• Mu En met with Xu Jiawei at the Imperial Palace to discuss how to address the crisis.
• Qin Xiao acquired the Ice Explosion Technique Soul Skill and gained two levels of Soul Power.
• The Medicine Immortal Douluo warned Mu En that a stable energy connected to Ma Xiaotao’s Martial Soul remained beyond her ability to treat, and Ma Xiaotao persuaded Mu En to let her fight in the next match.
• Xu Jiawei opened the tournament day by asking the crowd to hear him as an equal and apologizing for his improper actions.

Xu Jiawei publicly reframed Shrek Academy’s losses and the Tianling match-fixing as acts of sacrifice and respect, while blaming Yunluo Academy’s deaths on Evil Soul Masters. His speech restored public support for Shrek and the empire, and the chapter ended as Shrek and Heavenly Soul Imperial Academy prepared to fight.

• Xu Jiawei revealed that Shrek’s team had suffered devastating casualties while fighting Evil Soul Masters, presenting them as heroes who had saved thousands of civilians.
• Several Evil Soul Masters realized that Xu Jiawei’s account matched the destruction of their branch, while Qin Xiao and Shrek’s team questioned the embellished story.
• Xu Jiawei claimed Tianling Academy had deliberately lost to honor Shrek, apologized for the resulting scandal, and cleared Shrek of responsibility for the Yunluo Academy deaths.
• A concealed Evil Soul Master tried to object but was restrained by his companions, and the crowd instead called for a campaign against Evil Soul Masters.
• Xu Jiawei concluded his speech and introduced the match between Shrek Academy and Heavenly Soul Imperial Academy; Ma Xiaotao joined Shrek’s lineup as both teams took their positions.

Ma Xiaotao and the Shrek Team faced the Heavenly Soul Team, whose coordinated Soul Kings weakened her and isolated her from her teammates. As the Heavenly Soul captain revealed that another Soul King was attacking the others, Ma Xiaotao feared her teammates could not handle the fight.

• Ma Xiaotao revealed her six soul rings, and the Heavenly Soul Team attacked after an Auxiliary Soul Master weakened the Shrek fighters.
• The Heavenly Soul captain, a Green-Scaled Eagle Soul Master, and a Silver-Armored Rhinoceros Soul Master focused their assault on Ma Xiaotao.
• Ma Xiaotao struck the rhinoceros Soul Master with Phoenix Fire Line, but the Heavenly Soul control Soul Master protected him with Ice Armor.
• The captain stunned Ma Xiaotao briefly with Tiger Roaring in the Mountain Forest as the Green-Scaled Eagle Soul Master bombarded her with wind blades.
• An enormous ice wall separated Ma Xiaotao from Bei Bei and the others, while another Heavenly Soul power attack Soul Master engaged them.
• The Heavenly Soul captain told Ma Xiaotao that an agility attack Soul King and the team's other Soul Masters were also supporting the attack, leaving her pale with worry.

Ma Xiaotao’s teammates were defeated by the Heavenly Soul Team, leaving her alone in the arena. Haunted by memories of fallen comrades, she unleashed her black evil flames, killed the Explosive Ape Soul Master, and then attacked the rest of the opposing team.

• The Heavenly Soul Team overwhelmed Shrek’s fighters, knocking Xu Sanshi, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Dai Huabin, and finally Bei Bei out of the match.
• Ma Xiaotao saw visions of her dead teammates and refused to surrender as the Heavenly Soul Team prepared to attack her together.
• Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire erupted, raising her cultivation to level seventy and giving her overwhelming strength.
• Ma Xiaotao killed the Explosive Ape Soul Master with Phoenix Fire Line, shocking the Heavenly Soul Team and the spectators.
• Holy Spirit Cult members recognized Ma Xiaotao as a potential saintess, while Xu Jiawei chose to let the match continue.
• Ma Xiaotao launched Phoenix Meteor Shower at the remaining Heavenly Soul Team members as their captain ordered them to scatter.

Ma Xiaotao killed several Heavenly Soul Team members after they surrendered, until Mu En knocked her unconscious and took her away. Shrek withdrew from the tournament, and Qin Xiao went to the White Tiger Duke’s residence to wait for Dai Huabin.

• Ma Xiaotao burned the Heavenly Soul Team’s ice-attribute Control System Soul Master and Silver-Backed Rhinoceros Soul Master to death despite the team conceding.
• The Heavenly Soul teacher attacked Ma Xiaotao, but Mu En intervened, knocked her unconscious, and carried her out of the arena.
• Wang Yan apologized and announced Shrek Academy’s withdrawal from the tournament, while the tournament committee postponed the remaining matches until the next day.
• Qin Xiao left the hotel alone and hid near the White Tiger Duke’s residence, intending to confront Dai Huabin.
• Dai Huabin arrived at the Duke’s residence as evening fell.

Qin Xiao confronted Dai Huabin over his abuse of Huo Yuhao and killed him with the White Tiger Dagger, intending the weapon to serve as a message to the White Tiger Duke. Dai Huabin’s body was brought to the Duke’s Mansion, where Dai Hao and the Duchess went to see him.

• Qin Xiao used mental simulation to confront Dai Huabin as Huo Yuhao and reminded him of Huo Yun'er’s death.
• Qin Xiao repeatedly struck Dai Huabin with Soul Shock until Dai Huabin begged for forgiveness and kowtowed.
• Qin Xiao stabbed Dai Huabin through the heart with the White Tiger Dagger and left his body in the street.
• Duke’s Mansion guards found Dai Huabin dead and took his body back to the mansion.
• Dai Hao and the Duchess heard that Dai Huabin had returned, then went to the Front Hall to see him.

Dai Hao discovered Dai Huabin dead in the Front Hall and recognized the dagger in his chest as the Token of Love he had given Huo Yun'er. The Duchess exposed Dai Hao's past complicity in Huo Yun'er and Huo Yuhao's mistreatment, and Dai Hao killed the witnesses before warning her not to mention Huo Yun'er again.

• Dai Hao and the Duchess found Dai Huabin dead in the Front Hall, and Dai Hao questioned the guards about his death.
• Dai Hao pulled the dagger from Dai Huabin's chest and recognized it as the Token of Love he had given Huo Yun'er.
• The Duchess accused Dai Hao of suspecting Huo Yuhao was not his son and of allowing Huo Yun'er and Huo Yuhao to be abused.
• Dai Hao killed the servants and guards who had heard the Duchess's accusations, then promised to care for one guard's wife and daughter.
• Dai Hao warned the Duchess that he would not tolerate her bringing up Huo Yun'er again.

After killing Dai Huabin, Qin Xiao watched as Ma Xiaotao lost control of her evil fire and fled Shrek’s hotel. Mu En pursued her, but Feng Ling and eight Soul Cannon operators forced him to choose between saving Star Luo City’s citizens and stopping Ma Xiaotao from being taken.

• Dai Hao left to seek the emperor’s help, while the Duchess mourned Dai Huabin and feared Dai Luoli would inherit the Duke’s Mansion.
• Meng Hongchen brought Qin Xiao a meal, and Jing Hongchen promised to cover up Qin Xiao’s role in Dai Huabin’s death while urging him to grow stronger.
• Qin Xiao and Jing Hongchen spotted Ma Xiaotao bursting from Shrek’s hotel in black flames, and Mu En flew after her.
• Ma Xiaotao attacked Mu En, but when he pursued her, Feng Ling struck from hiding and confronted him.
• Feng Ling revealed eight operators armed with Level Eight Fixed-Mounted Soul Cannons and demanded Mu En choose between protecting Star Luo City and pursuing Ma Xiaotao.
• Feng Ling signaled the operators, and all eight Soul Cannons fired at once.

Mu En saved Star Luo City from the soul cannon barrage but failed to rescue Ma Xiaotao, and his injuries worsened until he was near death. After Dai Huabin was reported assassinated and the tournament continued without Shrek, Mu En returned to the Academy, where Xian Lin'er vowed to avenge him and Ma Xiaotao.

• Mu En intercepted every soul cannon shell aimed at Star Luo City, allowing Feng Ling to escape with Ma Xiaotao, and his old injuries worsened.
• A letter from the White Tiger Duke's Mansion informed Mu En and the students that Dai Huabin had been assassinated outside the mansion.
• Mu En secretly coughed up black blood and discovered corpse spots on his arm, realizing he had little time left.
• The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy advanced to the semifinals, and Elder Ma assigned Qin Xiao, Xiao, and Meng to compete against the Dou Ling Team.
• Mu En brought the students back to Shrek Academy and admitted to Yan Shaozhe that he had failed to bring Ma Xiaotao back.
• Xian Lin'er declared that she would destroy the evil soul masters and avenge Mu En.