Chapter Summaries

Mu En announced that he would merge his soul with the Golden Ancient Tree to guard Shrek Academy for another hundred years, then began the process while his power spread through the school. Xuan Zi returned too late, learned what Mu En had endured, and left to hunt Evil Soul Masters, unaware that Mu En had not died.

• Mu En rebuked Xian Lin'er for rashly declaring that she would eradicate the Evil Soul Masters, then learned that Xuan Zi had not returned to Shrek Academy as ordered.
• Mu En announced that he would merge with the Golden Ancient Tree to extend his life and protect Shrek, and Yan Shaozhe took him to its core as the others stood guard.
• Mu En began merging with the Golden Ancient Tree, and golden light spread through Shrek Academy, sharing his cultivation with its teachers and students.
• Xuan Zi returned drunk, learned from Elder Zhuang that his actions had contributed to Mu En's decline, and fell to his knees in grief.
• Xuan Zi vowed to avenge Mu En by hunting the Evil Soul Masters and left Shrek Academy before anyone could tell him that Mu En was still alive.

Mu En completed his fusion with the Golden Ancient Tree and discovered it gave him the power to enhance another person, while Xuan Zi remained away from Shrek. At the tournament, Qin Xiao’s Spiritual Sharing helped the Sun Moon team fire accurately over the Dou Ling team’s defenses, leaving Lone Bamboo Sword protected by an Invincible Shield as the attack continued.

• Mu En told Shrek’s elders that he had succeeded in fusing with the Golden Ancient Tree and gained the ability to temporarily strengthen another person; Xian Lin'er explained that Xuan Zi had left again, and Mu En decided not to worry about him.
• At Star Luo Plaza, Ma Rulong introduced the Dou Ling team’s key members to Qin Xiao and the Sun Moon team before the two sides took their positions.
• The Dou Ling team formed a defensive wall with Chi Hengyu’s shield and Qing Feng’s earth power while Lone Bamboo Sword prepared a metal disc behind the defenses.
• Ma Rulong recognized that the Dou Ling team was preparing a powerful attack and relied on Qin Xiao’s Spiritual Detection and Spiritual Sharing to guide the Sun Moon team’s soul cannons.
• The Sun Moon team fired over the defenses and concentrated their shots on Lone Bamboo Sword, who activated an Invincible Shield to protect himself.

The Dou Ling Team’s Invincible Shields failed to protect them from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s relentless Soul Cannon bombardment, aided by Qin Xiao’s precise targeting. In the stands, two Body Sect members recognized Qin Xiao’s golden eyes as a rare Eye Martial Soul and decided to bring him back to their sect after the match.

• Lone Bamboo Sword initially withstood Ma Rulong’s Class 6 Soul Cannons with his Invincible Shield, but he soon realized the blasts were still targeting him and called for help.
• Qing Feng, Tang Niuniu, and the other Dou Ling Team members used their remaining Invincible Shields to protect Lone Bamboo Sword as the bombardment continued.
• Ma Rulong, Xiao Hongchen, Mi Jia, and the other Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy members mocked the Dou Ling Team for letting themselves become trapped targets, while Qin Xiao helped them hit their opponents accurately.
• A thick-armed man and his large-headed brother discussed Qin Xiao’s unusual stillness in the arena, and the large-headed man identified his glowing golden eyes as a likely Eye Martial Soul.
• The large-headed man concluded that Qin Xiao was a Body Martial Soul heir who belonged to the Body Sect and said they would guide him back after the match.

The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy defeated the Dou Ling Team after Ma Rulong’s Level 7 Soul Cannon forced their captain to concede. Qin Xiao then met two Body Sect members who tried to recruit him, but he rejected them and left them arguing that the sect could help him become a stronger soul master.

• Lang Ya and Yu Tao discussed waiting until the competition ended before approaching Qin Xiao, whom they believed could become a powerful Body Sect member.
• Ma Rulong’s team overwhelmed the Dou Ling Team, and Lone Bamboo Sword conceded to prevent further injuries.
• The referee declared the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy the winner, and Ma Rulong and Xiao Hongchen taunted the Star Luo Royal Team.
• Qin Xiao returned to the hotel, hoping his revealed martial soul would draw the Body Sect’s attention and give him more options.
• Lang Ya and Yu Tao visited Qin Xiao and said they had watched him because his eyes were a body martial soul with a mental attribute.
• Qin Xiao refused to join the Body Sect, and Lang Ya argued that the Sun Moon Empire could make him a soul engineer but not a powerful soul master.

Qin Xiao rejected Lang Ya and Yu Tao’s offer to join the Body Sect and fought off Yu Tao using his simulation skill. Elder Ma arrived and drove the two intruders away, but he worried that the Body Sect would return with stronger reinforcements.

• Yu Tao angrily challenged Qin Xiao after he declined the Body Sect’s offer, while Lang Ya tried to persuade him by promising guidance and a second awakening for his martial soul.
• Qin Xiao refused again, and Yu Tao attacked him; Qin Xiao used mental Simulation to evade the blow and strike Yu Tao into a wall.
• Lang Ya identified Qin Xiao’s skill as a simulation ability derived from a Far North ice silkworm and praised him.
• Elder Ma appeared with soul cannons aimed at Lang Ya and Yu Tao, forcing them to flee through a hole Yu Tao punched in the wall.
• Elder Ma checked that Qin Xiao was unharmed and worried that the Body Sect would return with stronger experts.

The Body Sect’s interest in Qin Xiao alarmed Elder Ma, while Jing Hongchen vowed that Virtue Hall was prepared to face any challenge. Elsewhere, Bei Bei discovered Tang Ya had vanished, Ma Xiaotao was taken to the Holy Spirit Cult, and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy faced the Star Luo Royal Team in the Final Tournament.

• Elder Ma warned Jing Hongchen that Body Sect experts had approached Qin Xiao, and Jing Hongchen said he was ready to oppose them.
• Bei Bei found Tang Ya’s room empty, then fled the Female Dormitory Building after its residents mistook him for a pervert.
• Feng Ling brought Ma Xiaotao to Zhongli Wu, who recognized her pure evil aura and assigned Feng Ling to train her.
• Zhongli Wu told Feng Ling about a blue silver grass soul master with a devouring attribute whom he intended to bring to the Holy Spirit Cult.
• The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and the Star Luo Royal Team entered the Final Tournament arena, and the Heavenly Fiend Douluo ordered them to prepare.

The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy faced the Star Luo Royal Team, whose star-crown support strengthened its fighters against soul-tool fire. Qin Xiao’s spiritual detection let Xiao Hongchen aim through the Wind-Fire Dual Control duo’s interference, while Chen Xiaojie used the distraction to rush in; the match remained underway.

• Xu Jiujiu summoned her star crown and used its golden mist to support the Star Luo Royal Team as the Sun Moon team opened fire.
• Huang Heyun blocked the initial soul-cannon barrage and Mi Jia’s level 5 shot with his dark-gold defenses and soul skills.
• Dugu Shangshan charged toward the Sun Moon team while the Wind-Fire Dual Control duo used tornadoes and fire to obstruct the soul engineers.
• Qin Xiao’s spiritual detection let Xiao Hongchen fire accurately through the tornado, and the Sun Moon team’s cannons battered Dugu Shangshan as he tried to dodge.
• Chen Xiaojie exploited the distraction to flash toward the Sun Moon team with his Lightning Falcon martial soul.

Qin Xiao’s Mental Simulation concealed the Sun Moon Team until Xu Jiujiu used starlight to expose them, after which she deployed an Absolute Defensive Soul Tool to trap them. The barrier came down with Ma Rulong, Qin Xiao, and Meng Hongchen inside, leaving the Star Luo Team expecting to finish off the remaining Sun Moon fighters.

• Qin Xiao used Mental Simulation to create false images, making Chen Xiaojie hesitate while Ma Rulong’s simulated Soul Cannon appeared to target him.
• Dugu Shangshan charged the Sun Moon Team’s formation, but the real Ma Rulong struck him with a Level 7 Soul Cannon and blasted him into the arena barrier.
• Xu Jiujiu recognized the illusion and used her Star Attraction Technique to reveal the seven Sun Moon Team members’ locations.
• Qin Xiao dispelled the Mental Simulation, and the Sun Moon Team appeared with their charged Soul Cannons ready.
• Xu Jiujiu released an Absolute Defensive Soul Tool that absorbed the Sun Moon Team’s barrage and descended to trap them.
• Ma Rulong doubled back to remain inside the barrier with Qin Xiao, and Meng Hongchen stayed with them as the barrier landed.

Qin Xiao used the Blade of Life's Watch to shatter Absolute Defense and free the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team, astonishing both teams and the spectators. The Star Luo Team regrouped behind Xu Jiujiu's Star's Protection as the match continued.

• Ma Rulong prepared to use the Sword of Judgment to break Absolute Defense, but Qin Xiao stopped him and offered to try another way.
• Qin Xiao concealed his actions with mental simulation, opened the Eye of Life, and used the Blade of Life's Watch to carve cracks into Absolute Defense.
• Absolute Defense shattered, allowing the trapped Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team to escape; Xu Jiawei blamed a supposed flaw in the soul tool and struck the minister responsible for it.
• Meng Hongchen, Ma Rulong, Xiao Hongchen, and the others praised Qin Xiao, while Jing Hongchen assumed Qin Xiao had found a flaw in the barrier.
• Xu Jiujiu ordered the Star Luo Team to fall back, then surrounded her teammates with Star's Protection, guarded by eighteen stars.

Qin Xiao identified the Star Luo Team’s Nine-Turn Soul Attribute Converter as the means for Xu Jiujiu to gather her teammates’ strength and strengthen Star’s Protection. Ma Rulong unleashed his Level 8 Soul Tool, the Sword of Judgment, against the barrier, leaving the outcome of the clash unresolved.

• Qin Xiao explained that the Star Luo Team was using the Nine-Turn Soul Attribute Converter to pool its soul power and counterattack.
• Qin Xiao urged Ma Rulong to use the Sword of Judgment, and Ma Rulong raised the weapon and struck the barrier maintained by 108 soul masters.
• Xu Jiawei recognized the Sword of Judgment as a Level 8 Soul Tool and lamented that Ma Rulong’s strength threatened his hopes of winning the tournament.
• Huang Heyun urged Xu Jiujiu to give up, but she refused and ordered the team to pour their soul power into the converter.
• Huang Heyun, Chen Xiaojie, and the Wind-Fire Dual Control pair channeled their strength into Xu Jiujiu, who amplified Star’s Protection.
• Ma Rulong struck the strengthened Star’s Protection with the Sword of Judgment, and its shining stars began to dim one after another.

The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy won the tournament after the Star Luo Royal Team conceded, but Jing Hongchen warned that the Body Sect might target Qin Xiao. Elsewhere, Xuan Zi massacred a town while hunting Evil Soul Masters, and two hidden observers recorded him to manipulate events and discredit Shrek.

• Xu Jiawei stopped the match and declared the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team the tournament champions.
• Xiao Hongchen eagerly inspected the prize Soul Bones, and the team set out for Mingdu that night.
• Jing Hongchen told the team that the Body Sect wanted Qin Xiao and warned that its dangerous members might be planning something.
• Xuan Zi refused to spare an Evil Soul Master who held a child hostage, then killed them both and burned the town.
• Two cloaked men revealed that they had recorded Xuan Zi's slaughter and planned to lure him into more killings to turn the public against him and Shrek.

Lang Ya and Yu Tao reported Qin Xiao’s potential to the Body Sect, prompting Jin Peng to plan a consultation with the Sect Master and a possible raid on Virtue Hall to bring him back. After Qin Xiao returned to Mingdu, Jing Hongchen kept the academy’s students at a distance from Crown Prince Xu Tianran’s court, while Tang Ya stood before her former home and resolved to slaughter the Iron Blood Sect.

• Lang Ya and Yu Tao told Jin Peng that Qin Xiao’s body martial soul and talent could make him a future powerhouse, and Jin Peng ordered the sect’s traveling children home while considering a raid on Virtue Hall.
• Qin Xiao and the others returned to Mingdu as champions, where Xu Tianran welcomed them and Ju Zi presented the empire’s reward of two million gold soul coins per person.
• Jing Hongchen declined Xu Tianran’s palace banquet and warned the students to avoid entanglement with the imperial family and other powers.
• Tang Ya arrived at the Iron Blood Sect’s gatehouse, which had replaced the Tang Sect’s former home, and mourned her family and sect.
• The Mysterious Man urged Tang Ya to avenge her loved ones, and she wiped away her tears and resolved to kill every member of the Iron Blood Sect.

Tang Ya attacked the Iron Blood Sect to avenge the Tang Sect, while Qin Xiao released one seal on the Seed of Destruction and evolved his Spirit Eyes into the Pupil of Destruction. In the Divine Realm, the God of Destruction celebrated disrupting Tang San’s plans, and Tie Li confronted Tang Ya after she slaughtered nearly the entire sect.

• Tang Ya killed the Iron Blood Sect guards and stormed inside, slaughtering its disciples and two Soul King elders with her Blue Silver Grass and hidden weapons.
• Qin Xiao released one layer of the Seed of Destruction’s seal, endured its power reshaping his body, and awakened the Pupil of Destruction.
• Qin Xiao reassured Tian Meng and the Ice Empress that the destructive power was under control, while Electrolux thanked him for protecting his place in the Third Eye.
• Tang San raged after losing contact with Douluo Continent and learning the Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament had ended, then remembered another trump card.
• The God of Destruction appeared in the Destruction Temple and celebrated having interfered with Tang San’s scheme.
• Tie Li arrived at the bloodied Iron Blood Sect courtyard, transformed with his martial soul, and charged at the smiling Tang Ya.

Tang Ya avenged her parents by killing Tie Li, then agreed to join the black-robed man after learning another enemy remained beyond her reach. Three days later, Jing Hongchen considered Shrek Academy’s exchange-student proposal as a chance for Qin Xiao to learn cultivation methods, while keeping his Ultimate Ice martial soul secret.

• The black-robed man captured Tie Li, sealed his power, and let Tang Ya torture him to death with Dragon Whisker Needles.
• After Tang Ya avenged her parents, the black-robed man revealed that a city defense commander had also helped attack the Tang Sect, and Tang Ya agreed to leave with him to gain strength for further revenge.
• City defense troops arrived at the Iron Blood Sect and reported the massacre after their commander recalled an old incident.
• Elder Ma gave Jing Hongchen a letter from Mu En proposing a three-year exchange program between the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and Shrek Academy.
• Jing Hongchen decided the exchange could help Qin Xiao learn to cultivate his Ultimate Ice martial soul, but planned to consult Elder Kong and warned himself that Qin Xiao must keep that secret from Shrek.

Jing Hongchen approved sending Qin Xiao and Meng Hongchen to Shrek Academy as exchange students, while warning them to keep Qin Xiao’s twin martial souls secret. Shrek Academy accepted the exchange, and Mu En called the program a chance to embrace the rise of soul tools.

• Jing Hongchen approved Shrek Academy’s exchange proposal after discussing it with Kong Deming, who postponed his plan to take Qin Xiao as a disciple.
• Qin Xiao reached Level 5 as a Soul Engineer, then accepted Jing Hongchen’s offer to study at Shrek Academy and pursue its insights into ultimate martial souls.
• Meng Hongchen volunteered to go with Qin Xiao, while Jing Hongchen refused Xiao Hongchen and ordered him to focus on his cultivation.
• Jing Hongchen warned Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen to keep Qin Xiao’s twin martial souls secret, then said the exchange students would leave for Shrek City in one week.
• Xiao Hongchen learned Qin Xiao had reached Level 43 and wondered how he advanced so quickly despite taking similar medicines and resources.
• Yan Shaozhe delivered Shrek Academy’s reply to Mu En, confirming that both academies would send ten exchange students.

Mu En urged Yan Shaozhe to support soul tools and arrange Shrek Academy’s exchange students, while Xuan Zi slaughtered a village after mistaking its inhabitants for evil soul masters. As Xuan Zi’s enemies gathered evidence of his massacres, Qin Xiao departed for Shrek with Meng Hongchen, leaving a jealous Ju Zi behind.

• Mu En explained to Yan Shaozhe that soul tools could strengthen soul masters and instructed him to send Fan Yu and He Caitou among Shrek Academy’s exchange students.
• Yan Shaozhe told Mu En that Xuan Zi and Ma Xiaotao were still missing, and Mu En worried that trouble was approaching Shrek.
• Xuan Zi threatened a village for information about an evil soul master, killed its inhabitants, then found evidence suggesting they might have been innocent before rationalizing his actions.
• Two cloaked evil soul masters discussed recording Xuan Zi’s village massacres and split up so one could report to their leader while the other continued to provoke him.
• Ju Zi tearfully said goodbye to Qin Xiao, then learned Meng Hongchen would share his carriage on the journey to Shrek and left in distress.
• Meng Hongchen called Qin Xiao into the carriage, and he joined her as the exchange group prepared to depart.

Qin Xiao and Meng Hongchen arrived at Shrek Academy as exchange students and were assigned to Zhou Yi’s first-year class. After Zhou Yi began her lesson, Qin Xiao realized she intended to test the newcomers during the next class on the playground.

• Elder Ma led the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy exchange group into Shrek, where Yan Shaozhe, Qian Duoduo, and Xian Lin'er welcomed them.
• Du Weilun assigned Qin Xiao and Meng Hongchen to the first-year class taught by Zhou Yi.
• Zhou Yi brought Qin Xiao and Meng Hongchen into class and introduced them without giving them a chance to speak; Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao recognized them from the tournament.
• Qin Xiao and Meng Hongchen sat in the back as Zhou Yi taught, and Qin Xiao judged her lesson dull.
• Zhou Yi announced that the class would continue on the playground, and Qin Xiao suspected she planned to challenge the newcomers.

Qin Xiao challenged Zhou Yi’s physical training methods, arguing that pills offered Soul Engineers a more efficient way to strengthen themselves. He left Zhou Yi and the Class One students stunned when Meng Hongchen revealed that he was thirteen and rank forty-three.

• Xiao Xiao greeted Qin Xiao and Meng Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen recognized her from the Soul Master Tournament before Wang Dong called her away.
• Zhou Yi ordered the students to run fifty laps, then confronted Qin Xiao and Meng Hongchen when they questioned the exercise.
• Qin Xiao explained that Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy students used pills to improve their strength, and he criticized Zhou Yi’s training as inefficient.
• Zhou Yi dismissed medicinal cultivation as an external crutch, but Qin Xiao challenged her for disparaging one method to praise another.
• Zhou Yi asked Qin Xiao’s rank, and Meng Hongchen revealed that the thirteen-year-old was rank forty-three, shocking Zhou Yi and the students.

Zhou Yi forced Wang Dong to spar with Qin Xiao without soul tools, expecting the Soul Elder to defeat him. Qin Xiao knocked Wang Dong unconscious with one punch, leaving Zhou Yi to reassess his strength and speculate about his background.

• Zhou Yi challenged Qin Xiao to fight Wang Dong under the Martial Soul Department's rule forbidding soul tools, and Qin Xiao accepted.
• Wang Dong reluctantly faced Qin Xiao, and both revealed their martial souls and soul rings before the match began.
• Wang Dong charged and struck Qin Xiao, but her fist hit his exceptionally tough body and left her stunned.
• Qin Xiao punched Wang Dong in the chest and sent her flying unconscious, while Zhou Yi caught her and handed her to the other students.
• Zhou Yi acknowledged that she had underestimated Qin Xiao and guessed that his physique came from rare medicines and an exceptional family background.

Qin Xiao challenged Zhou Yi after she tried to belittle him and threatened to expel him, then began leaving Shrek Academy with Meng Hongchen. Du Weilun intervened to preserve the exchange program, but Zhou Yi confronted Qin Xiao again, and he revealed that he knew she was wearing a false mask.

• Meng Hongchen defended Qin Xiao's talent and background, and Qin Xiao demanded that Zhou Yi apologize for insulting him.
• Zhou Yi refused to apologize, implied Qin Xiao had bullied the weaker Wang Dong, and threatened to expel him; Qin Xiao mocked her and started for the gate with Meng Hongchen.
• Du Weilun stopped them, rebuked Zhou Yi, and reminded her that driving out the Sun Moon Empire exchange students could endanger Shrek students studying there.
• Du Weilun asked Qin Xiao to stay, but Qin Xiao cited Zhou Yi's conduct and pretended to fear how she might treat him.
• Zhou Yi accused Qin Xiao of slandering her and appealed to Du Weilun, but Qin Xiao asked why she wore a false mask if her conscience was clear.
• Zhou Yi reacted in shock and asked how Qin Xiao had discovered her disguise.