Chapter Summaries

Mu En sacrificed himself to erase the hidden power of destruction, leaving Xuan Zi responsible for protecting Shrek Academy as the Golden Ancient Tree and Sea God's Pavilion collapsed. As Elder Ma prepared to take the exchange students back to the Sun Moon Empire, Wang Dong visited Qin Xiao to thank him for letting her use Soul Tools.

• Xuan Zi returned to Sea God's Pavilion, where Mu En revealed that he had spent his remaining strength protecting Xuan Zi from the power of destruction hidden in Du Busi's attack.
• Mu En told Xuan Zi to support Yan Shaozhe from behind the scenes and warned him to stay wary of evil soul masters, and Xuan Zi promised to protect Shrek Academy.
• Mu En directed the destructive power into the Golden Ancient Tree, which rapidly lost its vitality and collapsed as Mu En disappeared.
• Du Busi saw the golden pillar of light and realized Mu En had died, then decided to travel to the Sun Moon Empire to retrieve a promising disciple and pursue a hundred-thousand-year soul beast embryo.
• Elder Ma resolved to leave Shrek City with the exchange students after sensing Mu En's fall, while Meng Hongchen stayed with Qin Xiao.
• Wang Dong visited Qin Xiao, thanked him for letting her try Soul Tools, and bowed to him.

Wang Dong gave Qin Xiao rare materials worth about a million Gold Soul Coins and decided to study Soul Tools. Meanwhile, Tang San blamed the God of Destruction for the Golden Tree’s destruction and attacked him in a fury.

• Wang Dong pledged to learn Soul Tool crafting and gave Qin Xiao a large collection of rare materials as thanks.
• Wang Dong left to sign up at the Soul Tool Department, while Meng Hongchen remarked that Qin Xiao had won her over.
• The God of Destruction struck Tang San after Tang San let his attention wander during their battle.
• Tang San accused the God of Destruction of destroying Shrek Academy’s Golden Tree, which had been vital to Tang San’s plan to gain power in the Divine Realm.
• The God of Destruction mocked Tang San for the Golden Tree’s destruction, and Tang San charged at him with the Asura God Sword and Sea God Trident.

Tang San returned to the Divine Realm after abandoning his fight with the God of Destruction, then learned that Mu En and the Golden Ancient Tree had been destroyed and Shrek Academy faced a crisis. He revealed his failed plan to raise the Douluo Continent into a rival Divine Realm, but still intended to recruit the unidentified Plane's Child through Xiao Qi, and invited Xiao Wu to watch their daughter.

• Tang San unleashed his attacks on the God of Destruction, then fled to the Divine Realm when he could not overpower him.
• Tang San returned to Xiao Wu in a distraught state and asked to be left alone while she worried about Xiao Qi.
• Elder Ma led Qin Xiao, Meng Hongchen, and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy exchange delegation away from Shrek Academy after explaining that Mu En had died, Xuan Zi had become an Evil Soul Master, and Shrek was in danger.
• Seven days after the delegation left, envoys from the Star Luo, Heaven Dou, and Dou Ling Empires arrived near Shrek City to demand an explanation from Shrek Academy.
• Tang San told Xiao Wu that Mu En and the Golden Ancient Tree had been destroyed and explained his failed plan to make the Douluo Continent a Divine Realm.
• Tang San refused to bring Xiao Qi back, said he still planned to gain the Plane's Child's support, and invited Xiao Wu to look at their daughter with him.

Tang San and Xiao Wu used Tang San’s divine blood to locate Xiao Qi in Shrek City, where they discovered she had begun studying Soul Tools. The chapter left Tang San furious over her new path and demanding to know who taught her to make them.

• Tang San failed to locate Xiao Qi at first, then cut his palm and used his divine blood to trace her whereabouts.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu found Xiao Qi inside Shrek City's Soul Tool Department experimental building.
• Wang Dong completed her first Class 1 Magic Array after studying Soul Engineer knowledge since Qin Xiao left.
• Xiao Wu celebrated Xiao Qi's success, but Tang San erupted in anger because she was studying Soul Tools instead of the Tang Sect's hidden weapons.
• Tang San demanded to know who had told Xiao Qi to study Soul Tools.

Tang San discovered that his curse had pushed Wang Dong away from soul tools, but his attempt to inspect her was destroyed by the God of Destruction, reigniting their feud. Wang Dong resolved to seek Qin Xiao’s help, while envoys from the Three Great Empires confronted Shrek Academy and demanded that Xuan Zi be punished for slaughtering thousands.

• Tang San told Xiao Wu that he had cursed Song Xiao Qi to reject soul tools, and Xiao Wu condemned him before leaving.
• Tang San sent his divine sense to investigate Wang Dong, but the power of destruction destroyed it and shattered the light screen; Wang Dong’s pendant also broke, causing her curse to flare up.
• Tang San blamed the God of Destruction and vowed to kill him, while the God of Destruction returned to the Life Divine Temple and went out to face Tang San’s challenge.
• Wang Dong decided she would not give up on soul tools and hurried to find Qin Xiao for help.
• Envoys from the Three Great Empires confronted Yan Shaozhe over Xuan Zi’s massacre, rejected his assurances, and demanded that Xuan Zi appear and receive punishment.

Yan Shaozhe tried to settle the Three Great Empires’ demand for Xuan Zi’s punishment, but the envoys rejected Shrek Academy’s offers and threatened to cut off its resources. Elder Zhuang challenged the envoys’ assumption that Shrek could be contained, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Yan Shaozhe offered the envoys access to Shrek Academy’s treasury, but the Heaven Dou Empire envoy urged the other two to stay firm and punish Xuan Zi.
• The envoys rejected Yan Shaozhe’s offer, and Shrek’s pavilion elders appeared on the city walls as Elder Lin threatened force.
• Yan Shaozhe stopped Elder Lin and declared that Shrek Academy would not answer the Three Great Empires’ demands or hand over its own elder for punishment.
• The Heaven Dou Empire envoy warned that the Three Great Empires could cut off Shrek Academy’s supplies, trade, and access to new talent, making the pavilion elders reconsider their position.
• Elder Zhuang argued that Shrek Academy’s experts could not be trapped or starved into submission and asked how the Three Great Empires would respond if Shrek established its own nation.

Xuan Zi protected a Heaven Dou envoy and severed his ties with Shrek Academy, offering himself to the three empires to spare the academy from war. At the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Elder Ma reported that Mu En had truly died, leaving Jing Hongchen stunned.

• Shrek students shouted their opposition to war with the three empires, and Yan Shaozhe stopped Elder Lin from suppressing them.
• Elder Lin attacked the Heaven Dou envoy, but Xuan Zi intervened and declared he would no longer be part of Shrek Academy.
• Xuan Zi admitted responsibility for the deaths he had caused and invited the three empires to challenge him at the mountain where their borders met.
• Yan Shaozhe chose not to help Xuan Zi, saying he respected his sacrifice and would remember the day; a young woman in Shrek's inner court wept upon hearing the news.
• At the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Elder Ma told Jing Hongchen that Mu En was dead after possessing Xuan Zi to drive Du Busi away.

Jing Hongchen learned of Mu En’s death and discussed Qin Xiao’s supposed gains from Shrek Academy, while Du Busi planned a major move for the Body Sect. Five days later, Wang Dong reached the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and was stopped at the gate just as someone recognized her.

• Jing Hongchen mourned Mu En’s death, then asked Meng Hongchen and Qin Xiao what they had gained in Shrek Academy.
• Qin Xiao claimed he had obtained insights into cultivating ultimate martial souls and requested rare ice-attribute resources; Jing Hongchen agreed to provide medicines and search for ten-thousand-year ice marrow.
• Du Busi learned that Xuan Zi had left Shrek Academy and told the Heaven Dou Empire’s envoy he would kill him after visiting the Sun Moon Empire.
• Du Busi declared that he would make a major move to bring the Body Sect back into the world.
• Wang Dong arrived at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, argued with the gatekeeper who mistook her for a beggar, and prepared to attack before a voice called her name.

Wang Dong reunited with He Caitou at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and told Fan Yu that Zhou Yi had been expelled from Shrek Academy. Fan Yu was left shocked and desperate to know what had happened to Zhou Yi.

• Wang Dong recognized He Caitou at the academy gate, paid the gatekeeper to let her enter, and followed He Caitou inside.
• Wang Dong explained that she had come to find Qin Xiao for help with her curse, since she had not found anyone in Mingdu who could lift it.
• Fan Yu recognized Wang Dong and asked whether Shrek Academy had sent her, but Wang Dong said she had come for personal reasons.
• Fan Yu asked Wang Dong about Zhou Yi, and Wang Dong told him that Zhou Yi had been expelled after a major uproar at the academy.
• Fan Yu asked whether Wang Dong had seen Zhou Yi leave, and Wang Dong said she had not seen her since the day of the expulsion.

Fan Yu learned that Zhou Yi had been expelled after attacking an exchange student, and he blamed himself for giving her the Absolute Defense soul tool. He planned to return to Shrek Academy, but Wang Dong told him about the academy’s recent upheavals, leaving him to reconsider as Wang Dong asked He Caitou to find Qin Xiao.

• Wang Dong told Fan Yu that Zhou Yi had been expelled after she tried to kill an exchange student and was defeated with Fixed-Mounted Soul Cannons.
• Wang Dong explained that Du Weilun had been unable to stop Zhou Yi because she trapped him with Absolute Defense, which Fan Yu had given her.
• Fan Yu blamed himself, then ordered He Caitou to pack so they could return to Shrek Academy.
• Wang Dong told Fan Yu that Xuan Zi had become an Evil Soul Master and severed ties with Shrek Academy, and that Mu En had died in a battle with Du Busi.
• Wang Dong urged Fan Yu to stay and master Soul Tool knowledge because Shrek Academy urgently needed strength, and Fan Yu asked to be left alone.
• Wang Dong asked He Caitou to find out where Qin Xiao was.

Wang Dong found Qin Xiao at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and asked him to help with her curse, which had destroyed the pendant he gave her. After taking her 8.8 million Gold Soul Coins, Qin Xiao told her to return in two days for an answer.

• He Caitou could not take Wang Dong to Qin Xiao, but drew her a map to Xuan Ziwen's laboratory and wondered whether Qin Xiao was the exchange student who fought Teacher Zhou.
• A Holy Spirit Cult subordinate reported that Xuan Zi had expelled himself from Shrek Academy and challenged the Three Great Empires' powerhouses; Zhongli Wu ordered him to offer Xuan Zi a place in the cult.
• Wang Dong found Qin Xiao outside the Laboratory Building and explained that her curse had flared up again, destroying the pendant and making her unable to use soul tools.
• Qin Xiao agreed to help Wang Dong, accepted her 8.8 million Gold Soul Coins, and told her to meet him again in two days.

Qin Xiao promised to make Wang Dong a Level 2 soul tool pendant for 8.8 million Gold Soul Coins, then learned that the academy was preparing for war against the Three Great Empires and possibly Shrek Academy. Xuan Ziwen warned that the coming conflict could leave only one power standing on the Douluo Continent.

• Qin Xiao left Wang Dong in the rain without his umbrella and went to the laboratory to prepare materials for her pendant.
• Qin Xiao told Ju Zi that Wang Dong had offered him 8.8 million Gold Soul Coins for a custom low-grade soul tool, and Ju Zi laughed when she realized the soaked person was the wealthy client.
• Xuan Ziwen arrived late after a Virtue Hall meeting and told Qin Xiao that Soul Engineers had been ordered to remain ready for battle.
• Qin Xiao and Xuan Ziwen discussed the likely war against the Three Great Empires and possibly Shrek Academy, which Xuan Ziwen said could leave only one voice on the continent.

Qin Xiao and Xuan Ziwen discussed the coming war while Qin Xiao began making a Soul Tool, and Fan Yu concluded that Qin Xiao had fought Zhou Yi and vowed to kill him. Wang Dong learned of Fan Yu’s plan and rushed to warn Qin Xiao, but Xuan Ziwen stopped her at the laboratory door.

• Qin Xiao refused Xuan Ziwen’s offer to inherit the laboratory and told him to return safely from the war.
• Fan Yu investigated the exchange delegation and deduced that Qin Xiao was the one who fought Teacher Zhou.
• Fan Yu announced that he would kill Qin Xiao, and He Caitou and Wang Dong tried to dissuade him.
• Fan Yu told He Caitou and Wang Dong to leave before he acted, and Wang Dong instead ran to warn Qin Xiao.
• Ju Zi blocked Wang Dong from entering Qin Xiao’s laboratory, and Xuan Ziwen stopped her and asked what had happened.

Wang Dong warned Xuan Ziwen that Fan Yu planned to kill Qin Xiao, and Xuan Ziwen caught and defeated Fan Yu when he attacked the laboratory. Elder Ma arrived, and the academy arrested Fan Yu and the Shrek exchange students, leaving Fan Yu hoping He Caitou could escape and bring help.

• Wang Dong told Xuan Ziwen that Fan Yu intended to kill Qin Xiao, and Xuan Ziwen confirmed an attack was underway near his laboratory.
• Fan Yu attacked Xuan Ziwen with Soul Cannons, but Xuan Ziwen blocked them and pierced Fan Yu's shoulders with modified soul tools.
• Xuan Ziwen explained that Qin Xiao had invented the Electric Light Poison Dragon Drill, which helped his weapons break Fan Yu's Invincible Shield.
• Elder Ma arrived, subdued Fan Yu, and spoke with Xuan Ziwen, who left the matter for the hall master to handle.
• The guards arrested Fan Yu and the Shrek exchange students after discovering they were preparing to leave, while Fan Yu hoped He Caitou had escaped to seek help.

Fan Yu’s failed attack left Shrek Academy’s exchange students imprisoned, while Wang Dong waited for Qin Xiao and received the soul-tool pendant she had requested. The Body Sect prepared to seize a soul beast embryo and recover a missing child, and He Caitou began suspecting that Wang Dong had betrayed Shrek Academy.

• Fan Yu fainted after Shrek’s imprisoned students and the Sun Moon Empire guards blamed him for the attack.
• Xuan Ziwen told Ju Zi that Fan Yu had been brought to justice, while Wang Dong watched their close relationship from the laboratory.
• Du Busi learned that the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo was in the Virtue Hall Underground Base and that the missing Body Sect child was at the Royal Soul Engineer Academy, then assigned Elder Jin to retrieve the child.
• Wang Dong told Qin Xiao that Shrek’s students and teachers had been arrested, and Qin Xiao gave her the completed pendant that let her use soul tools.
• After Wang Dong left, He Caitou saw her and concluded that she might have betrayed Shrek Academy in exchange for a reward.

He Caitou escaped the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, convinced Wang Dong had betrayed Shrek, while Qin Xiao revealed that he had let He Caitou live to carry news back to the academy. Jin Peng then broke into the laboratory to take Qin Xiao to the Body Sect, but Qin Xiao wounded him with his Eye of Life and refused to back down.

• He Caitou abandoned his plan to attack Wang Dong when guards approached, then slipped away to report what he had seen to Shrek Academy.
• Xuan Ziwen questioned Qin Xiao about sparing He Caitou, and Qin Xiao explained that his survival could worsen relations between Shrek Academy and the Clear Sky Sect.
• Jin Peng broke through the laboratory roof and demanded that Qin Xiao return to the Body Sect, warning Xuan Ziwen not to resist.
• Xuan Ziwen tried to protect Qin Xiao, but Jin Peng shattered his Invincible Shield and seized him by the throat.
• Qin Xiao revealed his Eye of Life and cut Jin Peng's wrist, forcing him to release Xuan Ziwen.
• Jin Peng acknowledged that Qin Xiao had breached his defenses, while Qin Xiao declared that merely cutting him was not enough.

Jin Peng recognized Qin Xiao’s value and took him from the Laboratory after promising to spare Xuan Ziwen. As Jin Peng held off the Academy’s experts, an explosion and flames erupted from the forbidden grounds where the Underground Base was located.

• Jin Peng asked Qin Xiao about his third eye, and Qin Xiao explained that it had appeared after he woke with an itchy head.
• Jin Peng compromised, sparing Xuan Ziwen and taking Qin Xiao with him, while Qin Xiao reassured Xuan Ziwen they would meet again.
• Jin Peng handed Qin Xiao to a black-clad Titled Douluo and charged at Elder Ma to draw the Academy’s experts away.
• Elder Ma and other Academy experts attacked Jin Peng with Soul Guidance Rays and Fixed-Mounted Soul Cannons, but he kept them occupied.
• An enormous explosion shook the Academy’s forbidden grounds, and flames rose above the Underground Base.

The Body Sect attacked Virtue Hall and escaped with the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo after Du Busi forced Jing Hongchen to choose between pursuing them and protecting the academy. Elder Ma found Xuan Ziwen badly injured in the ruined laboratory and feared that Qin Xiao had been killed.

• Elder Ma realized the Body Sect had planned the raid and rushed toward the underground base, but Jing Hongchen arrived as the attackers emerged with their spoils.
• Jing Hongchen confronted Du Busi and attacked him with soul tools, while Du Busi transformed and fought back head-on.
• A Body Sect Strongman reported that they had secured their target, and Jing Hongchen recognized the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo on the tray.
• As Jing Hongchen prepared to fire his Class 9 soul cannons, Du Busi unleashed a devastating green storm across Virtue Hall and escaped with his followers.
• Jing Hongchen activated his Class 9 defensive soul tool to protect the academy, while Elder Ma entered the laboratory and found Xuan Ziwen injured and Qin Xiao missing.

After learning Qin Xiao was alive and had been taken by the Body Sect, Xuan Ziwen and Jing Hongchen considered seeking help to rescue him. Meanwhile, Du Busi reunited with Jin Peng, recovered the hundred-thousand-year soul beast embryo, and met the fearless Qin Xiao.

• Xuan Ziwen told Elder Ma that Qin Xiao was alive and the Body Sect had taken him to make him a disciple, then asked to accompany Jing Hongchen to seek help from Elder Kong.
• Jing Hongchen freed Xuan Ziwen from Jin Peng’s seal and decided the empire’s help was needed to deal with the Body Sect.
• After a night of travel, Jin Peng offered Qin Xiao food, but Qin Xiao refused it to maintain his proud, unyielding act.
• Du Busi arrived with Body Sect experts and showed Jin Peng the hundred-thousand-year soul beast embryo he had taken from Jing Hongchen.
• Jin Peng introduced Qin Xiao to Du Busi, who became interested when Qin Xiao met his gaze without fear.

Du Busi tested Qin Xiao with his killing intent, then learned Qin Xiao might possess a gold-grade second awakening and tried to recruit him into the Body Sect. Qin Xiao rejected his empty promises, leaving Du Busi to send the others back to the sect and ask what would persuade him.

• Du Busi tried to intimidate Qin Xiao, but Qin Xiao remained unaffected by his killing intent.
• Jin Peng warned Du Busi that Qin Xiao might have a gold-grade second awakening and described how Qin Xiao’s third eye had wounded him.
• Du Busi withdrew his pressure, welcomed Qin Xiao to the Body Sect, and was rebuffed when Qin Xiao sat beneath a tree.
• Du Busi offered to develop Qin Xiao’s martial soul and support his soul-tool interests, but Qin Xiao stayed silent until Du Busi promised to offer something tangible.
• Du Busi sent Jin Peng and the other Body Sect experts back to the sect, then asked Qin Xiao what he wanted.