Chapter Summaries

Xu Cheng injured Du Busi in their aerial clash, prompting the Body Sect to withdraw with Huo Yuhao. Before leaving, Xu Cheng revealed Huo Yuhao's parentage to Dai Hao and warned that he might one day return with the Sun Moon Empire's army to take revenge.

• Xu Cheng's strike injured Du Busi, and the spectators realized the fifteen-year-old had challenged and defeated a major powerhouse.
• Du Busi acknowledged Xu Cheng's strength, then took Huo Yuhao away as the Body Sect withdrew.
• Xu Cheng told Dai Hao that Huo Yuhao was his son, born to Huo Yun'er, and suggested he might one day lead an invasion against the White Tiger Duke's estate.
• Xu Cheng called the Sun Moon Team onto his mecha and departed, leaving Xu Jiawei to watch the confrontation end.

Wang Yan accused Xuan Zi of being a Holy Spirit Cult spy, but Mu En redirected his suspicions toward Xu Cheng and reassured the Pavilion Elders. After Wang Yan left, Mu En and the Elders discussed the Sun Moon Empire’s powerful soul tools and the need to develop Shrek’s own technology.

• Yan Shaozhe blamed Wang Yan for the team’s round-of-sixteen defeat, and Wang Yan accused Xuan Zi of being a Holy Spirit Cult spy.
• Wang Yan recounted the evidence behind his suspicion, including what Xu Cheng had told him about Xuan Zi’s past.
• Mu En suggested Xu Cheng had planted the suspicion to sow discord and assured Wang Yan that Xuan Zi was no spy.
• Mu En praised Wang Yan’s honesty and granted him one month of free access to the Sea God Pavilion’s library.
• After Wang Yan and Yan Shaozhe left, Mu En and the Pavilion Elders discussed the Sun Moon Empire’s soul tools, mechas, and missiles.

After Shrek’s defeat by the Sun Moon Team, Mu En argued that Shrek should strengthen its Soul Tool Department and send students to learn from the Sun Moon Empire. Qian Duoduo and Fan Yu received new funding and research priorities, leaving the department newly supported but facing the daunting task of narrowing the technological gap.

• Mu En reassured Shrek’s elders that an exchange with the Sun Moon Empire was meant to broaden students’ understanding of soul tools, not let them surpass centuries of development at once.
• Mu En called for Shrek to develop its Soul Tool Department alongside the Martial Soul Department, and Elder Lin pledged the Treasure Gathering Pavilion’s full support.
• Fan Yu reflected on the Soul Tool Department’s poor facilities, underfunding, and lack of committed teachers while Qian Duoduo summoned him.
• Qian Duoduo told Fan Yu that the department would receive fifty million Gold Soul Coins in annual funding and could seek separate research grants.
• Qian Duoduo said Mu En wanted the department to pursue missile interception, stealth penetration, and information detection research, then raised the Sun Moon Empire exchange student list.

He Caitou balked at being sent to the Sun Moon Empire as an exchange student, while Xu Cheng reflected on his growing influence and plans to build the empire’s military strength. The chapter left him consolidating support among the Soul Engineer Corps and Mingde Hall as he prepared for the future.

• Fan Yu told He Caitou that he would join the exchange program, but He Caitou feared Xu Cheng would recognize him in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Cheng lamented that his attempt on the Star Luo Emperor had cost the team its Soul Bone rewards, while Nana and Meng Hongchen pointed out the gains from their tournament victory.
• Xu Cheng explained that his provocation of the White Tiger Duke was meant to attract talented recruits to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Cheng directed Ju Zi to invest the team’s Star Luo betting winnings in Mingde Hall’s Soul Tool research and considered how to develop the empire’s military forces.
• Xu Cheng assessed the loyalty of the Fire Phoenix and Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps, as well as Mingde Hall, as the foundations of his growing power.

Tang San secretly reincarnated on Douluo Star as an eleven-year-old orphan, intending to rebuild his power while avoiding Evil and Goodness. He began his plan by seeking work at a blacksmith’s shop in Heaven Dou City, where his talent impressed the struggling smith.

• Tang San sent a sliver of his divine soul to Douluo Star, entering a dead child’s body with Blue Silver Grass and Clear Sky Hammer Martial Souls.
• Tang San arrived at a blacksmith’s shop and asked Tie Niu for a job rather than food.
• Tie Niu doubted the scrawny boy could handle blacksmithing but let him try a small hammer while he went to fetch food.
• Tang San swung the hammer skillfully, startling Tie Niu, who agreed to take him on as an apprentice.
• Tie Niu explained that Soul Tools had driven blacksmiths to the brink, leaving his shop dependent on basic iron goods.

Tang San worked at Tie Niu’s smithy while preparing to enter Shrek Academy, but learned that Spirit Hall no longer existed and that awakening a martial soul cost a fortune. He went to find the Tang Sect for help and found its Heaven Dou City entrance sealed and abandoned.

• Tang San proposed making Godly Zhuge Crossbows, but Tie Niu showed him an old blueprint that surpassed his own designs.
• Over a month, Tang San trained to the second level of the Mysterious Heaven Skill and made weakened hidden weapons using iron from Tie Niu’s smithy.
• Tang San asked Tie Niu where he could awaken his martial soul, and Tie Niu explained that Spirit Hall had been destroyed and awakenings now cost a hundred Gold Soul Coins.
• Tang San asked about the Tang Sect in Heaven Dou City, and Tie Niu directed him to its sealed, dilapidated entrance.

Tang San headed for the Sun Moon Empire to awaken his martial soul, while Fan Yu confronted Yan Shaozhe over Shrek Academy’s soul tool exchange students. Yan Shaozhe reluctantly agreed to reconsider the delegation after Fan Yu threatened to call another Sea God Pavilion Meeting.

• Tang San left Tie Niu’s home after eating there for a month and traveled by caravan toward the Sun Moon Empire, believing he could awaken his martial soul there.
• Tie Niu and his wife grieved over Tang San’s departure and his ungrateful note.
• Ma Xiaotao asked Yan Shaozhe to let her study soul tools in the Sun Moon Empire, but he warned that the empire was a dangerous place for her.
• Fan Yu challenged Yan Shaozhe’s exchange-student list, arguing that it excluded talented Inner Court students and undermined the Soul Tool Department.
• Fan Yu demanded that Zhang Lexuan, Chu Qingtian, and Mo Xuan be included; Yan Shaozhe refused to send Zhang Lexuan or Mo Xuan.
• Fan Yu threatened to ask Dean Qian to convene another Sea God Pavilion Meeting, and Yan Shaozhe reluctantly agreed.

The Heaven Dou Emperor learned that the Holy Spirit Cult was recruiting followers in his capital and ordered an investigation and border closures, while Vina suspected the Holy Son was behind the scheme. At Shrek, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Ma Xiaotao mistook Wang Yan’s newfound cheerfulness for evidence that he had been controlled, though Wang Yan had simply forgotten his earlier suspicions of Xuan Zi.

• The Heaven Dou Emperor read a report about the Holy Spirit Cult’s preaching in the capital and ordered its footholds rooted out and the borders sealed.
• Vina suspected the Holy Spirit Cult’s Holy Son had devised the recruitment scheme and told her father that her second martial soul awakening had brought her cultivation to rank forty.
• Ma Xiaotao told Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao that she had no news about Wang Yan beyond his month of access to the Sea God Pavilion’s books.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao feared Xuan Zi had killed or controlled Wang Yan, and Ma Xiaotao explained that the Holy Spirit Cult used illusions and drugs to control people.
• Wang Yan greeted the three students cheerfully, reinforcing their suspicions, then admitted to himself that he had forgotten to explain what happened and no longer believed Xuan Zi was a traitor.

Zhongli Wu and his subordinates watched Ma Xiaotao before fleeing when Xuan Zi arrived, while Xuan Zi asked Xiao Xiao to become his disciple and left her terrified. Ma Xiaotao then questioned Zhang Lexuan about a disastrous expedition ten years earlier, but Zhang Lexuan begged her to stop.

• Zhongli Wu watched Ma Xiaotao with the Zhongli brothers, then ordered them to withdraw when he sensed Xuan Zi approaching.
• Xuan Zi offered to take Xiao Xiao as his disciple, but Wang Dong and Ma Xiaotao asked him to let her think it over.
• After Xuan Zi left, Xiao Xiao panicked, and Wang Dong promised to contact her fathers and take her to the Clear Sky Sect for summer vacation.
• Ma Xiaotao asked Zhang Lexuan what had happened during the Star Dou Great Forest expedition ten years earlier, when most of the group died.
• Zhang Lexuan recalled the deaths of her junior brothers and sisters and begged Ma Xiaotao not to ask any more.

Ma Xiaotao was abducted by Evil Soul Masters as Shrek Academy debated whether Zhang Lexuan should join the exchange to the Sun Moon Empire. Zhang Lexuan was left shocked by the alarm and wondered whether the abduction was connected to Ma Xiaotao's questions about the Star Dou Great Forest tragedy.

• Ma Xiaotao was surrounded by black-robed figures who called her their Saintess and ordered her to return with them.
• Jing Hongchen gave Xu Cheng the proposed exchange list, and Xu Cheng added Zhang Wen, Ma Rulong, and Bai Wennian while doubting Zhang Lexuan would come.
• Xiao Hongchen won a match at the Sun Moon Imperial Academy and sneezed as he wondered who was talking about him.
• Fan Yu argued with Yan Shaozhe over Shrek Academy's exchange list, and Mu En asked Zhang Lexuan whether she wanted to go.
• An academy level-one alarm reported that Evil Soul Masters had abducted Ma Xiaotao and gravely injured Du Weilun, prompting the Pavilion Elders to rush to the scene.
• Zhang Lexuan stayed behind, recalling that Ma Xiaotao had asked her the previous day about the Star Dou Great Forest tragedy.

Tang San was imprisoned after border guards discovered he had no identification while screening travelers for Holy Spirit Cult spies. When Princess Vina questioned him, his claim that he had lived homeless and begged in the capital was challenged by his well-fed appearance, exposing his deception and threatening to spread his reputation as an ungrateful wretch.

• Border guards detained Tang San because he lacked identification, while the rest of the caravan passed through after bribing the captain.
• The captain struck Tang San and warned him to stay quiet before the caravan left him behind.
• Vina and Mu Xue questioned the prisoners, and Vina warned them that the Holy Spirit Cult was luring people away.
• Tang San told Vina he was homeless and had survived by begging, while hiding that Tie Niu and his wife had taken him in.
• Nana gave Tang San a mirror, and his sturdy, healthy appearance undermined his story and exposed his ingratitude toward Tie Niu's family.

Vina uncovered Tang San’s ingratitude and ordered him punished before releasing him. At the Sun Moon Imperial Academy, Xu Cheng received a Martial Soul Fusion Skill reward and began plotting to use it to substantiate a theory about Zhang Lexuan’s origins.

• An attendant told Vina that Tang San had drained Tie Niu’s savings after being taken in, and Mu Xue condemned him for disgracing his namesake.
• Vina initially ordered Tang San released, but Mu Xue urged her to seek justice for Tie Niu and His Wife, so Vina ordered thirty strokes of the cane and had him thrown outside.
• Xu Cheng examined his tournament reward: he and someone with complementary martial soul attributes could gain a Martial Soul Fusion Skill by circulating soul power together.
• Xu Cheng considered using his sun martial soul and Zhang Lexuan’s moon martial soul to support his theory that she was connected to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Cheng decided to ask his father whether any infants had gone missing from the Imperial Palace, intending to prepare evidence about Zhang Lexuan’s background.

Xu Cheng asked Xu Zhen and the Xu family elder whether a baby girl from their bloodline had disappeared around thirty years earlier. They uncovered a likely match connected to Xu Baili’s family, but the chapter ended before they learned what became of her.

• Xu Cheng asked Xu Zhen whether a baby girl from the Xu family had been left outside the palace during the coup, and Xu Zhen recalled his first love and explained that Xu He was the last surviving descendant of his eldest brother.
• Xu Zhen asked Xu Changnian to bring the Xu family genealogy into the palace so they could investigate the missing girl.
• Xu Changnian recalled that Xu Baili’s newborn daughter had disappeared around thirty years earlier, and Xu Cheng reacted with surprise.
• Xu Zhen remembered holding the baby at a banquet and said her eldest brother, Xu Jiangnian, now commanded the Sun Moon Empire’s Royal Soul Engineer Corps.

Xu Cheng considered his next Soul Ring while Tang Ya struggled with the addictive urge to devour life and the weakness of the Tang Sect techniques. A mysterious woman entered Tang Ya’s consciousness and claimed that the Tang Sect techniques came from her world, where Tang San had stolen them.

• Xu Cheng recalled Xu Zhen’s suggestion to win Zhang Lexuan’s heart and decided he should visit the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain his sixth Soul Ring.
• Tang Ya suffered pain in her Sea of Consciousness, and Meng Hongchen comforted her as Tang Ya confessed that devouring life was becoming addictive.
• Tang Ya practiced the Mysterious Heaven Skill to suppress her urge, and a woman’s voice suddenly spoke to her from the room.
• The woman told Tang Ya that she was a former inner sect senior sister whose soul had entered Tang Ya’s consciousness after death.
• The woman claimed Tang San had secretly learned the Tang Sect’s inner sect techniques and was punished for stealing them, leaving Tang Ya stunned.

Tang Wen revealed that Tang San had passed down incomplete Tang Sect techniques, then took Tang Ya as her disciple and named her the true Tang Sect Master. Xu Cheng noticed Tang Ya’s improved condition and planned a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest, while Tang San struggled as a beggar in Heaven Dou City and plotted to awaken his Martial Soul.

• Tang Wen told Tang Ya that Tang San had stolen the Tang Sect’s arts and passed down incomplete versions, then offered to train her as the true Tang Sect Master.
• Tang Ya accepted Tang Wen as her master and pledged to revive the real Tang Sect.
• At the Sun Moon Imperial Academy, Xu Cheng examined Tang Ya and found that her devouring aftereffects had vanished and her meridians had improved.
• Xu Cheng invited the others to visit the Star Dou Great Forest next month so he could obtain a Soul Ring, and Tang Ya asked to visit her parents along the way.
• Tian Meng told Xu Cheng that a soul was hidden inside Tang Ya’s mind, and Xu Cheng decided to keep watch.
• In Heaven Dou City, Tang San recovered from his injuries and brooded over his failure to awaken a Martial Soul.

Xu Cheng asked Electrolux to save Elder Cheng, and Electrolux began the treatment. At Shrek, Mu En questioned Xuan Zi’s absence during Ma Xiaotao’s abduction, then assigned Zhang Lexuan to travel to the Sun Moon Empire as an exchange student to investigate.

• Xu Cheng let Electrolux take control of his body and entrusted him with saving Elder Cheng.
• Electrolux used emerald light to encase Elder Cheng in a cocoon and began treating him.
• Mu En questioned Xuan Zi about why he had not joined the pursuit of Ma Xiaotao, and Xuan Zi said a powerful fallen-angel soul master had detained him.
• Mu En ordered Qian Duoduo to strengthen Shrek’s defenses with soul cannons and admitted he doubted Xuan Zi’s ability to lead the Sea God Pavilion.
• Mu En asked Zhang Lexuan to go to the Sun Moon Empire as an exchange student, and she agreed so she could search for Ma Xiaotao and investigate the incident.

Zhang Lexuan decided to travel to the Sun Moon Empire to study Soul Tools despite Yan Shaozhe’s objections, while Mu En approved her choice. Xu Cheng healed Elder Cheng, who began discussing research with Electrolux, and the Snow Empress came to find Xu Cheng but revealed she could not use her abilities.

• Zhang Lexuan chose to go to the Sun Moon Empire, and Mu En overruled Yan Shaozhe’s objections and allowed her to leave.
• Xu Cheng restored Elder Cheng’s vitality, and Elder Cheng and Electrolux went to the laboratory to discuss their research.
• The Snow Empress waited outside Mingde Hall until Xu Cheng came and took her with him.
• The Snow Empress told Xu Cheng that she could not use her abilities, and Xu Cheng discovered that she did not know what awakening a Martial Soul meant.

Xu Cheng learned that the Snow Empress had become a child with a dormant original soul and a trace of divinity after assuming human form. He also reviewed the finalized exchange roster and planned to visit the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters to retrieve Ma Xiaotao before Zhongli Wu could interfere.

• Xu Cheng, the Ice Empress, and Tian Meng found the Snow Empress acting like a young child and asked Electrolux to examine her.
• Electrolux determined that the Snow Empress's soul was intact, but a trace of divinity had caused her original soul to fall dormant while a new soul matured.
• Xu Cheng decided to awaken the Snow Empress's martial soul.
• Jing Hongchen showed Xu Cheng the finalized exchange roster, which was led by Zhang Lexuan.
• Jing Hongchen told Xu Cheng that the Holy Spirit Cult had taken Ma Xiaotao from Shrek Academy, and Xu Cheng planned to visit headquarters the next day to retrieve her.

Xu Cheng found Ma Xiaotao imprisoned by the Holy Spirit Cult and offered her a choice between becoming mindless or working for him. Ma Xiaotao agreed to work for him, and Xu Cheng prepared to mark her mind before the Cult injected her with its drug.

• Ma Xiaotao refused to join the Holy Spirit Cult until Nangong Wan approached with a syringe of the cult’s brainwashing liquid.
• Xu Cheng appeared and froze Nangong Wan and the needle in place before Ma Xiaotao could be injected.
• Xu Cheng offered Ma Xiaotao a choice between becoming a walking corpse and working for him while keeping her mind.
• Ma Xiaotao accepted Xu Cheng’s offer, and he told her to pretend the injection had left her numb and without memories.
• Xu Cheng said he would brand Ma Xiaotao’s mind to prevent her from escaping between assignments, and she agreed.

Xu Cheng marked Ma Xiaotao with a spiritual imprint and sent her toward the Star Dou Great Forest while the Holy Spirit Cult believed its brainwashing had made her a Saintess. In Heaven Dou City, Tang San secretly followed Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao into a forest, where Wang Dong caught him and pinned him to the ground.

• Xu Cheng placed a dark-red pattern on Ma Xiaotao’s lower abdomen, then left as she pretended to accept her new identity as the Holy Spirit Cult’s Saintess.
• Nangong Wan told Zhongli Wu that Ma Xiaotao had forgotten Shrek, and Zhongli Wu ordered him to keep Xu Cheng away from her.
• Xu Cheng explained the spiritual imprint to Ma Xiaotao, sent her to wait near the Star Dou Great Forest, and demonstrated that he could control her movements.
• Wang Dong reassured Xiao Xiao that Clear Sky Sect experts were protecting them as they walked through Heaven Dou City.
• Tang San followed Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao into a forest, where Wang Dong accused him of being Xuan Zi’s spy and a powerful aura slammed him into the dirt.