Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao assembled their team for a sparring match against Dai Yueheng’s side, then prepared tactics to exploit their opponents’ weaknesses. The match began in the Assessment Zone, with both teams ready to fight for the right not to call themselves pigs.

• Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng selected their teammates, and Huo Yuhao chose Yao Haoxuan, Ling Luochеn, and Bei Bei for Ma Xiaotao’s side.
• Xuan Zi gave both teams ten minutes to plan and declared that the losing side had to shout, “I’m a pig.”
• Huo Yuhao assigned Ma Xiaotao to target a signal-marked opponent, directed Bei Bei and Wang Dong to hold back Xixi, and tasked Ning Tian with support and Yao Haoxuan with battlefield control alongside Ling Luochеn.
• Wang Dong asked about the missing Soul Tool Department member, and Ma Xiaotao said the team could do without a soul engineer.
• Xuan Zi started the match and ordered both teams not to hold back.

Huo Yuhao’s team faced Dai Yueheng’s side, and Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection and a concealed spiritual attack to knock out Gongyang Mo, stripping the opposing team of its support. Ma Xiaotao then unleashed Phoenix Meteor Shower, while Huo Yuhao’s Simulation made the meteors appear behind Dai Yueheng’s defenders.

• Ma Xiaotao charged forward in formation as Gongyang Mo and Ning Tian boosted their respective teammates.
• Huo Yuhao shared Spiritual Detection with his team, then used a concealed Soul Shock to knock Gongyang Mo unconscious.
• Xuan Zi removed Gongyang Mo from the battlefield, causing his team’s support effects to disappear.
• Ma Xiaotao unleashed Phoenix Meteor Shower against Dai Yueheng and his teammates.
• Dai Yueheng activated several White Tiger skills to shield his team, but Huo Yuhao’s Simulation made the phoenix meteors appear behind them.

Huo Yuhao used his Simulation Soul Skill to trap Dai Yueheng’s team, then fought Chen Zifeng with the Mysterious Heavy Ruler. He overwhelmed Chen with his strength and suppressed soul power, but Xuan Zi rescued Chen before Huo Yuhao could finish him.

• Huo Yuhao’s illusion made Dai Yueheng believe the Phoenix Meteor Shower was coming from the opposite direction, forcing him to choose between escape and protecting his teammates.
• Dai Yueheng used Absolute Defense to shield his team from the meteors, but Ma Xiaotao attacked him while he was weakened and began to overpower him.
• Dai Yueheng urged Chen Zifeng to attack Huo Yuhao, and Huo Yuhao stopped Ling Luochеn and Yao Haoxuan from intervening so he could face Chen himself.
• Huo Yuhao met Chen Zifeng’s Soul Chasing Sword with the Mysterious Heavy Ruler, then used Ning Tian’s strength boost to send Chen flying and press the attack.
• Huo Yuhao’s ice-white flames and weapon suppressed Chen Zifeng’s soul power and scorched his hands, so Xuan Zi intervened and rescued Chen.

Huo Yuhao helped lead his team to victory in a training match, impressing Xuan Zi and exposing Dai Yueheng’s poor leadership. As the group prepared to travel to Star Luo City, Huo Yuhao focused on his revenge against the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion and received a warning from Electrolux to keep his heart calm.

• Huo Yuhao’s tactics and strength helped Ma Xiaotao’s team defeat Dai Yueheng’s side, and Xuan Zi stopped the match before Ma Xiaotao could continue attacking Dai Yueheng.
• Huo Yuhao mocked Dai Yueheng’s excuse for underestimating him, and Xuan Zi ordered the defeated team members to call themselves pigs and reprimanded Dai Yueheng.
• Xuan Zi assessed the teams’ performances and decided that Huo Yuyao’s talent made him especially valuable, though he worried that Huo Yuhao had no connection to Shrek Academy.
• Xuan Zi told everyone to pack for their trip to Star Luo City, and Huo Yuhao wondered whether he would encounter Dai Hao and vowed to destroy the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion.
• Electrolux warned Huo Yuhao not to let hatred disturb his heart, and Huo Yuhao resolved to keep growing stronger and face Tang San and the Divine Realm.

As Shrek’s main and reserve teams left the academy, Xuan Zi warned the reserve students about the sacrifices made by Inner Academy disciples and praised the Shrek Inspection Corps. Huo Yuhao privately condemned Shrek Academy’s political interference and exploitation, leaving the group on their journey with his bitter thoughts about the institution.

• Huo Yuhao and the Shrek teams left the academy at dawn with Xuan Zi and Wang Yan accompanying them.
• Xuan Zi gathered the reserve team and explained that many Inner Academy disciples had died fighting for the academy’s ideals.
• Xuan Zi described the Shrek Inspection Corps’ battles against evil soul masters and its actions against officials in the Former Douluo Three Kingdoms.
• Huo Yuhao privately criticized Shrek Academy for claiming neutrality while acting as a political authority and shaping the history of the continent.

The narrator condemned Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect for exploiting the Federation, claiming moral authority, and hiding their actions behind the banner of protecting others. The chapter ended with Shrek pressuring the Douluo Federation to join a war against the Crimson Domain without sharing the intelligence behind its demands.

• The narrator argued that the Tang Sect’s rise depended on resources and support extracted from the Three Original Empires and Shrek Academy’s influence.
• The narrator accused Shrek Academy of double standards, monopolizing talent and resources, cheating in tournaments, and shielding its students from consequences.
• The narrator described Shrek students breaking Federation laws, stealing military aircraft and Tang Sect warships, and blaming the Federation after Shrek was bombed.
• The narrator accused Lan Xuanyu of secretly advancing Shrek’s interests in the Dragon-Horse Star System while withholding information from the Federation.
• After the Crimson Mother threatened the Dragon-Horse Twin Stars and potentially the Douluo Plane, Shrek pressured the Douluo Federation to send reinforcements and criticized it for hesitating.

Xuan Zi gave the Reserve Team Shrek inspector equipment and assigned them a mission to eliminate a group of Evil Soul Masters, hoping the experience would make Huo Yuhao feel loyalty to Shrek. Huo Yuhao accepted the lead and prepared to use the assassination skills from his previous life.

• After Xuan Zi and the Inner Academy seniors spoke about Shrek's honor, Wang Yan handed the Reserve Team inspector rings and Ma Xiaotao explained their equipment and purpose.
• Ma Xiaotao described missions against the Bloodthirsty Demons and the Death Messenger, and Huo Yuhao recognized the latter from the original story.
• Xuan Zi assigned Huo Yuhao to lead the six Reserve Team Members against the Bloodthirsty Demons, planning to use the mission to build Huo Yuhao's attachment to Shrek.
• Huo Yuhao smiled as memories of his former life as a highly successful assassin returned, and he resolved to show Xuan Zi his expertise.

Huo Yuhao infiltrated the Bloodthirsty Demons’ hideout by disguising himself as an Evil Soul Master and scouting their hollowed-out base. After discovering their cruel methods, he prepared a special substance to use against them.

• Huo Yuhao killed an Evil Soul Master returning from a village massacre, rescued the little girl he was carrying, and told the Reserve Team Members to hide while he scouted ahead.
• Huo Yuhao used his Simulation Soul Skill to disguise himself as the dead man and fooled four Evil Soul Masters guarding the forest.
• Huo Yuhao killed the four men and used Spiritual Detection to map the Bloodthirsty Demons’ three-level hideout inside the hollow hill.
• Huo Yuhao found the main ventilation shaft and told Yao Lao that he planned to use a substance he had previously refined to kill the Evil Soul Masters.

Huo Yuhao incapacitated and killed all fifty-four Bloodthirsty Demons with an aphrodisiac, completing the mission while clashing with Xuan Zi over his tactics. Xuan Zi barred him from competing in the tournament’s first three days and ordered him to stay out of the coming battle against the Death Messenger.

• Huo Yuhao poured an aphrodisiac into the Evil Soul Masters’ ventilation shaft and returned to the group, explaining his plan to Xuan Zi and the others.
• Huo Yuhao led the team to the cave and gave them antidote pills before they approached the entrance.
• Several naked Evil Soul Masters ran out of the cave, and Huo Yuhao killed them before entering to finish off the rest.
• Huo Yuhao returned with the Bloodthirsty Demons’ leader’s severed head and announced that all fifty-four Evil Soul Masters had been executed.
• Xuan Zi criticized Huo Yuhao for acting alone, but Huo Yuhao defended his strategy as the safest way to defeat their stronger enemies.
• Xuan Zi ordered Huo Yuhao to prepare food instead of joining the coming battle against the Death Messenger and barred him from the tournament’s first three days.

Shrek Academy’s team entered the Mingdou Mountain Range to hunt the Death's Hand Bandit Group, using military intelligence and Wang Yan’s tracking skills to locate its hideout. As they found the lair, an unseen threat began closing in on them.

• Xuan Zi brought the students to the Star Luo Empire’s western border, where Dai Yueheng received intelligence about the bandits from the stationed troops.
• The team learned that Death's Hand had roughly three hundred members, left no survivors, and was led by a Soul Master of at least Soul King level.
• Ma Xiaotao led the team into the Mingdou Mountain Range while Huo Yuhao was forbidden to fight and the reserve members were ordered to observe.
• Wang Yan found a Wenlan Tree stripped of its heartwood and concluded that the bandits’ camp was nearby.
• Wang Yan, Ma Xiaotao, and the other main team members tracked down the bandits’ hideout, unaware that a deadly threat was approaching.

Huo Yuhao chose not to warn the Shrek team, while Xuan Zi sent him to catch rare Lanqiu Chickens for a victory feast. Shrek’s mission to attack the Death Hand bandits turned disastrous when a hidden enemy made the corpses explode, engulfing the team in a blast.

• Ning Tian identified a flock of Lanqiu Chickens, and Xuan Zi ordered Huo Yuhao to gather helpers and catch them for dinner.
• Wang Yan’s group followed clues to a cave, where Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, and Chen Zifeng led the attack on the Grim Reaper’s Hand Bandit Group.
• The Shrek team found grotesque evidence of the bandits’ atrocities, including human skins and an impaled infant, and fought their way into the cave.
• As the Shrek fighters slaughtered the bandits, the violence clouded their judgment while Xuan Zi watched from across the mountain, eating and drinking.
• A voice calling itself the Death Messenger announced that the intruders would become Corpse Slaves, and the dead Evil Soul Masters swelled and exploded, engulfing the Shrek team in shock waves.

A Corpse Explosion devastated the Cave, killing or gravely injuring Shrek Academy’s students before Xuan Zi arrived. The Strongest Soul King escaped with Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng, while Xuan Zi and Wang Yan were left facing the catastrophe.

• Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan combined their Soul Skills to shield one another from the explosions, but all three were thrown back once Xu Sanshi’s Black Tortoise Shield shattered.
• The blasts killed Gongyang Mo, Xixi, and Yao Haoxuan, while Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng lost consciousness and Chen Zifeng suffered a deadly injury.
• Xuan Zi rushed into the Cave and found the students amid the bloody aftermath, then seized the black-robed Strongest Soul King.
• The Strongest Soul King hurled Yao Haoxuan’s remains at Xuan Zi, who deflected them into Chen Zifeng, causing another explosion that killed Chen Zifeng.
• The Strongest Soul King used the confusion to seize the unconscious Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng and escape, while Wang Yan watched in horror.

The Death Messenger fled the Mingdou Mountain Range with Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng, but Huo Yuhao intercepted and killed him. Huo Yuhao then used the Death Messenger’s poisonous blood to frame someone for Dai Yueheng’s injuries as Xuan Zi approached.

• The Death Messenger escaped through a collapsing tunnel and flew away with Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng, then dropped Ma Xiaotao to lighten his load.
• A black-and-white Fire Lotus nearly struck the Death Messenger, and Huo Yuhao appeared and froze the two Kun Kuns he was carrying.
• The Death Messenger held Dai Yueheng hostage, but Huo Yuhao used his eye technique to distract him and severed Dai Yueheng’s legs.
• Huo Yuhao beheaded the Death Messenger and collected his poisonous blood.
• Huo Yuhao applied the poison to Dai Yueheng’s wounds and severed legs before Yao Lao warned him that Xuan Zi had arrived.

Huo Yuhao returned with the wounded Dai Yueheng and reported that he had killed the Death Messenger, while Xuan Zi realized Ma Xiaotao was still missing and left to search for her. The survivors mourned their dead, then prepared to rest briefly before traveling to the Northwest Group Army camp and onward to Star Luo City.

• Xuan Zi found the Death Messenger dead and Dai Yueheng legless, and Huo Yuhao claimed he had killed the Evil Soul Master after an ambush.
• Huo Yuhao told Xuan Zi that the Death Messenger had severed Dai Yueheng’s legs, then Xuan Zi discovered Ma Xiaotao was missing and went to look for her.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and the others returned to the cave with Dai Yueheng and found Wang Yan, Ling Luochеn, Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan gathering the dead.
• Wang Yan collapsed and cried, and Ling Luochеn and the others joined him in mourning the Shrek students killed by the Death Messenger.
• Huo Yuhao told the survivors to rest briefly before going to the Northwest Group Army camp and then Star Luo City.

Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng found an injured Shrek inspector with an Evil Fire Phoenix martial soul and carried her away, believing he had found a holy maiden for the Holy Church. In the cave, Huo Yuhao burned the remains of the dead, and after learning the team’s losses, Xuan Zi ordered the survivors to continue to Star Luo City for the tournament.

• Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng heard explosions at the Grim Reaper's Hand hideout and decided not to intervene, then caught an injured masked Shrek inspector falling from the sky.
• Zhang Peng recognized the woman’s fiery aura as an Evil Fire Phoenix martial soul and carried her out of the Mingdou Mountain Range, celebrating his find as a holy maiden for the Holy Church.
• Huo Yuhao used his Profound Ice Cold Flame to burn the unidentifiable remains in the cave, while Wang Yan, Ling Luochеn, and the others mourned.
• Wang Yan told Xuan Zi that Xixi, Gongyang Mo, Yao Haoxuan, and Chen Zifeng had died, Dai Yueheng had lost his legs, Ling Luochеn was recovering, and Ma Xiaotao was still missing.
• Xuan Zi refused to withdraw Shrek Academy from the tournament and ordered Wang Yan to take the survivors to Star Luo City after a day of rest, while he brought Dai Yueheng back for treatment.

After Xuan Zi prioritized Shrek Academy’s reputation over Dai Yueheng’s treatment, Wang Yan and the students faced the tournament with a depleted team, while Huo Yuhao refused to compete under his suspension. At the Sea God Pavilion meeting, the elders began confronting the losses from the mission, including Dai Yueheng’s permanent disability and Ma Xiaotao’s disappearance.

• Xuan Zi took Dai Yueheng to Shrek Academy to manage the incident and prepare for the tournament, leaving Wang Yan to lead the remaining students.
• Wang Yan admitted the students would have to compete, and Huo Yuhao refused after revealing that Xuan Zi had suspended him from matches for the first three days.
• A day later, Xuan Zi learned that Dai Yueheng’s condition had stabilized but that his severed legs could not be replaced with prosthetics.
• Yan Shaozhe accompanied Xuan Zi to the Sea God Pavilion meeting, where the elders discussed Dai Yueheng’s injuries, the deaths of four Inner Academy students, and Ma Xiaotao’s disappearance.
• Mu En called for the discussion to stop and watched as Xuan Zi took his seat among the elders.

At the Sea God Pavilion Meeting, Mu En stopped Xuan Zi from resigning and pushed through new protections for Inner Academy disciples. The meeting ended with Mu En striking Xuan Zi after learning Huo Yuhao had refused to compete because of Xuan Zi’s earlier ban.

• Xuan Zi offered to resign as deputy commander of the Shrek Inspection Corps and leave the Sea God Pavilion, but Mu En confronted him and ordered him to keep teaching in the Inner Academy.
• Mu En required every Inner Academy disciple to have a custom Flying Soul Tool and Defensive Soul Tool made, and decided the reserve team would compete without reinforcements.
• Xuan Zi described Huo Yuhao’s solo mission to eliminate the evil soul masters, prompting the elders to debate his methods.
• Qian Duoduo reported that Huo Yuhao had refused to compete because Xuan Zi had previously barred him from competing over his methods.
• Mu En struck Xuan Zi, who fainted as Yan Shaozhe called for Elder Zhuang to help him.

In Star Luo City, Huo Yuhao confronted Xuan Zi over Shrek Academy’s disastrous battle against evil soul masters and refused to rejoin the tournament without conditions. Mu En asked what it would take to persuade him, and Huo Yuhao began to state his demands.

• Du Busi visited Huo Yuhao and praised his perception, while Huo Yuhao explained that he considered the Body Sect his home but wanted to settle his own grudges himself.
• Du Busi asked whether Huo Yuhao was unharmed after the battle with the evil soul masters, and Xuan Zi and Mu En entered the room.
• Xuan Zi lifted Huo Yuhao’s suspension and asked him to lead the reserve team in upcoming matches, but Huo Yuhao refused.
• Huo Yuhao criticized Xuan Zi for suspending him after his successful solo mission while leading students into a disastrous battle that caused deaths and injuries.
• Mu En asked what Huo Yuhao required to compete, and Huo Yuhao said he had conditions because the dead Inner Academy students had been his friends and classmates.

Huo Yuhao negotiated the right to represent both Shrek Academy and the Body Sect, promising to lead Shrek to the championship. As the team prepared for the tournament’s opening knockout round, he asked to face the opposing team alone.

• Huo Yuhao proposed competing officially for Shrek Academy while representing the Body Sect in individual matches, and Mu En accepted after considering the alliance’s strategic value.
• Huo Yuhao declared that he would lead Shrek Academy to the championship to prove his strength near the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion.
• Wang Yan briefed Shrek Academy’s competitors on the tournament format and warned that the first round was a seven-against-seven knockout match.
• Huo Yuhao stood and asked Wang Yan for permission to fight the opening match alone against all seven opponents.

Huo Yuhao claimed authority as Shrek Academy’s captain and defended his plan to face seven opponents alone. At the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Xiao Hongchen learned Huo Yuhao was competing and vowed to defeat Shrek, driven by anger over his sister giving Huo Yuhao his soul engineer notes.

• Huo Yuhao told Wang Yan that Xuan Zi had appointed him captain and said he was confident he could defeat Ma Xiaotao or Dai Yueheng.
• Elder Ma told the Sun Moon team that Shrek Academy had registered mostly Reserve Team members, interpreting the lineup as contempt for their academy.
• Xiao Hongchen snatched the roster from Ma Rulong after hearing Huo Yuhao’s name and remembered how Meng Hongchen had given Huo Yuhao his treasured notes.
• Xiao Hongchen promised to give his all to knock Shrek Academy’s team from their saddles, and Elder Ma endorsed his resolve.