Recaps

After a powerful blast shook the Star Emperor Hotel, Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s students gathered outside Shrek’s conference room. Wang Yan admitted Shrek was responsible, offered compensation, and eased the hotel manager’s concerns, while Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen pushed for punishment.

• An explosion shattered the windows in the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s conference room, and Ma Rulong recognized that it had come from Shrek’s conference room.
• Shrek’s reserve members and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s students gathered outside the damaged room as Star Luo Empire officials arrived.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen accused Shrek of breaking the tournament rules and urged the manager to handle the incident impartially.
• Wang Yan apologized on Shrek’s behalf, offered gold soul coin cards to compensate disturbed students, and promised to pay for hotel damage.
• The manager reconsidered pursuing the matter after Wang Yan offered compensation and decided to accept Shrek’s proposal.

Elder Ma challenged Shrek Academy to account for the explosion at the Star Emperor Hotel, refusing to accept Wang Yan and the hotel manager’s proposed settlement. Wang Yan steered the crowd into Shrek’s conference room, where they found Chen Ping bare-chested and apparently ready to explain the damage as a few punches.

• The Star Emperor Hotel manager offered compensation to students whose cultivation had been disturbed, but Elder Ma objected to Shrek and the hotel settling the incident without the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Elder Ma cited tournament rules against Soul Skills, Soul Tools, and Soul Fighting in the accommodation area, then demanded that Shrek hand over the culprit.
• Wang Yan tried to stop Elder Ma while secretly guiding the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and the watching students into Shrek’s conference room.
• The crowd saw Bei Bei and bare-chested Chen Ping, whose swollen, crimson right arm drew their attention; the room showed no clear signs of fighting or an explosion.
• Chen Ping opened his eyes and said the tournament rules did not forbid a student from casually throwing a couple of punches.

Chen Ping silenced the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy students by crushing adamantine with his bare hand, demonstrating his strength without using soul power. He left the conference room while Ma Rulong demanded the detector records and Meng Hongchen watched him with a faint blush.

• The supervisor recognized Chen Ping as the Shrek student who had asked about the soul power fluctuation detector.
• Meng Hongchen and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy students mocked Chen Ping's claim that one punch had shattered the conference-room windows, and Chen Ping corrected her that he had thrown only one punch.
• Chen Ping walked toward Meng Hongchen, prompting Xiao Hongchen and Ma Rulong to move in front of her.
• Chen Ping crushed a piece of adamantine into a ball with his bare hand, stunning the assembled Soul Masters and making the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy students part to let him pass.
• After Chen Ping left, Xiao Hongchen examined the metal ball and Ma Rulong demanded the seventh-floor detector records, while Meng Hongchen watched Chen Ping's retreating figure and blushed.

Chen Ping used his blood qi to demonstrate overwhelming physical strength at the Star Emperor Hotel, embarrassing the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and concealing the true extent of his team's abilities. Afterward, he returned to his room to recover the blood qi he would need for the tournament the next day.

• Xiao Hongchen failed to move the ball of adamantine Chen Ping had squeezed, while Ma Rulong's detector showed no soul power fluctuations from Chen Ping's punch.
• Wang Yan argued that Chen Ping had not violated tournament rules and offered compensation, while Elder Ma led the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy group away.
• The female supervisor arranged repairs and compensation for Shrek Academy, leaving the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy group feeling ignored.
• Chen Ping drank potent supplements and went to sleep after his blood-qi-fueled display left him severely weakened.
• Chen Ping recalled how years of body tempering had nurtured blood qi he could concentrate to multiply his physical strength, and he had used the display to mislead rival teams about Shrek Academy's capabilities.

After Chen Ping’s feat of squeezing adamantine into a ball spread through the tournament teams, Shrek Academy arrived for the first knockout round under heightened scrutiny. The story left the young Shrek team waiting in the competitors’ area as other academies feared drawing them.

• Elder Ma doubted Chen Ping could crush genuine adamantine through physical strength alone, while Xiao Hongchen confirmed the metal was pure and had been squeezed by hand.
• Meng Hongchen admitted that Chen Ping’s strength made Shrek’s reputation believable, prompting Xiao Hongchen to worry that she was attracted to him.
• News of Chen Ping’s feat and a recording of it spread through the Star Emperor Hotel and reached nearly all the tournament teams.
• Xu Jiawei arranged the tournament arena before the imperial city, where the emperor and officials could watch the opening knockout matches.
• Chen Ping and six other Shrek students waited with Wang Yan in the competitors’ area, and the other academies feared facing them.

At the tournament’s opening ceremony, Chen Ping reassured Shrek Academy’s Reserve Team that his rumors and intimidation plan would make their opponents fear them. As Shrek entered its first knockout match against Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy, its opponents were already visibly terrified, while Chen Ping and his teammates acted casually before the watching crowd.

• The Star Luo Emperor declared the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament open, and the host announced Shrek Academy’s first match against Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy.
• Chen Ping told Shrek’s Reserve Team that rumors about their strength had spread among all 133 teams and urged them to carry out his plan.
• The seven Tianling competitors struggled to reach the stage and lined up awkwardly because they feared Chen Ping’s rumored feats of strength.
• Chen Ping explained that he had spent Gold Soul Coins to spread praise of Shrek and build its image as invincible.
• Chen Ping led Shrek onto the stage, followed by the other six Reserve Team members, who appeared so casual that spectators wondered if they were taking the match seriously.

Chen Ping and Shrek’s reserve team faced Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy in the tournament’s first knockout match. Shrek’s teammates left Chen Ping alone on the stage, while their boasts and indifference made Tianling’s students fear the unknown as the referee prepared to start.

• Shrek’s reserve team entered the arena with Chen Ping, alarming the Tianling students who recognized him from the previous day’s rumors.
• Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Wu Feng, Ning Tian, and He Caitou teased Tianling’s team by implying Chen Ping would fight them alone and defeat them quickly.
• The referee explained the team-battle rules and ordered both teams to retreat to opposite ends of the field.
• Shrek’s six reserve members strolled off the arena, leaving Chen Ping facing Tianling’s seven students by himself.
• Tianling’s students formed their formation as Chen Ping yawned, and the referee hesitated with his hand still raised.

Chen Ping challenged all seven Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy students to withstand one punch, then shattered the arena floor with a blow powered by physical strength alone. Terrified by the display, the Tianling team fled or fainted, leaving Chen Ping’s challenge unanswered.

• Chen Ping faced the seven Tianling Academy members and told them to take one punch each, promising to leave the stage if any of them endured it.
• Chen Ping punched the arena floor, shaking the venue and leaving a web of cracks nearly twenty meters wide.
• Xiao Hongchen and Ma Rulong watched the destruction through a Soul Power fluctuation detector and feared Chen Ping’s strength.
• Chen Ping walked toward the Tianling team and asked who wanted to take his punch first.
• One Tianling student forfeited and fled, prompting the others to panic, run away, or faint.

Chen Ping overwhelmed Tianling Academy with a single Earthquake Vibration Fist, secretly breaking his own arm in the process. After healing enough to reveal his hand, he addressed the stunned crowd as the tournament’s opening match ended.

• Chen Ping concealed his shattered arm while using the Living Being Carving Knife’s life force to repair it, as spectators mistook his strained grin for confidence.
• His punch terrified Tianling Academy’s students and referee, while the audience believed Chen Ping was an invincible physical fighter.
• Chen Ping urged the stunned referee to announce the result, and Tianling’s teachers carried their unconscious students off the arena.
• The spectators gaped at the damage to the arena and Shrek Academy’s calm team as the match was declared over.
• After his arm’s bones had barely rejoined, Chen Ping greeted the audience and welcomed them to the tournament.

Chen Ping concealed his exhaustion after his one-punch victory with Ning Tian and Wu Feng's help, while his performance prompted investigations and shattered Xiao Hongchen's confidence. He slept in the two young women's hotel room for two days and a night before waking.

• Chen Ping asked Ning Tian and Wu Feng through Sound Transmission to support him and conceal his weakness as Shrek's Reserve Team left the arena.
• Xu Jiawei ordered an investigation into Chen Ping's background, while a middle-aged man from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect demanded an investigation after seeing him embrace Ning Tian and Wu Feng.
• Xiao Hongchen struggled to accept Chen Ping's overwhelming strength and doubted his own standing as a prodigy.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng brought Chen Ping to their hotel room, where he fell asleep after severely overdrawing his Blood Qi.
• Wang Yan obtained a spare key card for Chen Ping's room, allowing Ning Tian and Wu Feng to stay there while Chen Ping occupied their bed.
• Chen Ping woke after two days and a night, and Ning Tian scolded and tickled Wu Feng for calling out loudly when they returned.

Ning Tian and Wu Feng sneaked into Chen Ping’s room to retrieve Ning Tian’s dress, only to discover Chen Ping was awake and the situation grew embarrassing. After Wu Feng teased them, Chen Ping and Ning Tian teamed up to tickle her, leaving the room with a romantic awkwardness between Chen Ping and Ning Tian.

• Ning Tian brought Wu Feng into Chen Ping’s room to retrieve her pleated dress without waking him.
• Wu Feng helped Ning Tian roll Chen Ping aside while Ning Tian searched the bed for her dress.
• Ning Tian found the dress trapped beneath Chen Ping and tickled his waist while trying to pull it free, causing him to reveal he was awake.
• Ning Tian blamed Wu Feng, and Wu Feng teased Chen Ping and Ning Tian about the dress.
• Chen Ping suggested that he and Ning Tian punish Wu Feng, and they tickled her until she begged for mercy.

Wang Yan reported that Yao Haoxuan might return for the Reserve Team’s second round-robin match and reviewed the team’s prospects and tactics. Chen Ping stopped Wang Yan from considering a rule-breaking strategy, leaving Wang Yan remorseful but relieved.

• Wang Yan told the Reserve Team that Yao Haoxuan’s injuries were healing quickly enough that he might compete in their second round-robin match.
• Wang Yan said Chen Ping’s overwhelming first-match victory had convinced other academies that Shrek’s Reserve Team was exceptionally powerful.
• Wang Yan reviewed the other academies’ matches and asked Bei Bei and the others to explain their Soul Skills so he could plan for the round-robin stage.
• After learning that Ning Tian’s and He Caitou’s support effects could stack, Wang Yan suggested that the team secretly use He Caitou’s Cigars during matches.
• Chen Ping objected that cheating would dishonor the team, reminding Wang Yan that Shrek had asked the Reserve Team to show how far it could go.
• Wang Yan recognized that his suggestion could mislead the students and felt remorseful and relieved that Chen Ping had stopped him.

Wang Yan apologized for his mistake, while Chen Ping humiliated Xiao Hongchen after the meeting. As the tournament entered its round-robin stage, Chen Ping led Shrek Academy into the arena and noticed a strange, predatory look from the wine-red-haired girl beside Xiao Hongchen.

• Wang Yan admitted he was wrong to condone cheating and apologized to his students, who respected him more for it.
• Xiao Hongchen challenged Chen Ping, but Chen Ping mocked his strength and compared him to the defeated students from Tianling Academy.
• Chen Ping reflected that without Shrek Academy's resources, he might never have qualified for the tournament and would not have been worth the compensation paid for a dead student.
• The first knockout round ended after more than a dozen students died, and spectators and competing academies gathered to watch Shrek Academy's first round-robin match.
• Chen Ping led Shrek Academy into Star Luo Plaza and noticed the wine-red-haired girl beside Xiao Hongchen staring at him like a hunter looking at prey.

Shrek Academy faced Yunluo Academy in a one-on-one knockout match, and Chen Ping volunteered to compete first so he could preserve his teammates’ trump cards while bluffing their opponents. The chapter ended with Ma Yingjun eagerly accepting Chen Ping’s promise to use the match to test flying soul tools, while Yunluo’s team hoped to avoid injury by yielding.

• The host announced Shrek Academy’s matchup with Yunluo Advanced Soul Engineer Academy, and Bei Bei went onstage to draw the format.
• The captains drew an individual knockout match, and Chen Ping stepped forward as Shrek’s first competitor.
• Wang Yan and the others learned through sound transmission that Chen Ping intended to use the match to keep Shrek’s trump cards hidden and continue his bluffing strategy.
• Yunluo’s first competitor, Ma Yingjun, nervously recognized Chen Ping and begged him to go easy, admitting he was a fan who had watched a recording of Chen Ping forcing back the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Chen Ping put on flying soul tools and told Ma Yingjun he only needed to test their maneuverability, and Ma happily agreed while Yunluo’s team sought to avoid injuries.

Ma Yingjun tried to survive Chen Ping’s arena challenge long enough to claim they had been evenly matched, but Chen Ping effortlessly dodged his barrage with an unusually agile Flying Soul Tool. Ma Yingjun launched a surprise ground-level glide to evade Chen Ping’s dive, and the crowd’s astonished cries left him wondering what had happened.

• Ma Yingjun armed himself with Soul Tools and opened fire as Chen Ping swept across the arena on his Flying Soul Tool.
• Chen Ping easily evaded Ma Yingjun’s Soul Guidance Rays and Soul Cannons, while spectators from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy noticed his Flying Soul Tool’s extraordinary maneuverability.
• Ma Yingjun unleashed one final volley, shed his other Soul Tools, and skimmed along the arena floor to avoid Chen Ping’s dive.
• The audience cried out in astonishment, and Ma Yingjun realized their reaction might not be about his maneuver.

Chen Ping used daring aerial maneuvers with his Flying Soul Tool to overtake and defeat Ma Yingjun without hurting him, astonishing the spectators. Elder Ma recognized the threat posed by Shrek’s growing Soul Tool technology and worried that it could undermine the Sun Moon Empire’s preparations for war.

• Chen Ping stopped Ma Yingjun by performing a sudden aerial rise and reversal, then tapped him on the head to signal his defeat.
• Ma Yingjun thanked Chen Ping for sparing him, declared himself a fan, and left the arena.
• Spectators marveled at Chen Ping’s Cobra and Pendulum maneuvers and the strength of his Thousand Refinement Flying Soul Tool.
• Elder Ma worried that Shrek’s advances in Soul Tool design could surpass the Sun Moon Empire and weaken its prospects in a future continental war.

Chen Ping’s display intimidated Yunluo Academy into forfeiting six matches in exchange for autographs, allowing Shrek to keep its bluff intact. Meanwhile, in the Divine Realm, a sea-blue-robed young man noticed Huo Yuhao’s unexpected presence and a new Martial Soul resonance, but his attempt to investigate the mortal world was interrupted.

• Chen Ping defeated Yunluo Academy’s Ma Yingjun, and the referee declared Shrek Academy the winner of the first individual knockout match.
• Yunluo Academy’s captain offered to forfeit its next six matches if Chen Ping signed the team’s uniforms, and Wang Yan accepted while maintaining Shrek’s composed front.
• Chen Ping signed the uniforms, and Wang Yan privately hoped to delay further difficult matches until Yao Haoxuan and other injured teammates could return.
• In the Divine Realm, a sea-blue-robed young man noticed that Huo Yuhao was still at Shrek Academy and that his Martial Soul was resonating with a fire-attribute Soul Master’s.
• The young man opened a water mirror to investigate, but it shattered before he could see more, and he cursed the force that had disrupted it.

After their first match, Chen Ping and the others suspected Wang Yan was hiding how strong their upcoming opponents were. From the hotel rooftop, they observed the other teams and learned that many tournament contestants had used drugs to reach higher ranks early.

• Wang Yan told the team to rest instead of watching other academies, while saying Chen Ping's victory had kept their strength hidden.
• Chen Ping, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng concluded Wang Yan was trying to shield them from discouraging news about formidable opponents.
• Chen Ping led Ning Tian and Wu Feng to the rooftop, where Bei Bei and He Caitou were observing matches through telescopes.
• Chen Ping reported seeing several teams fielding Soul Kings and Soul Ancestors, including one team with four Soul Kings.
• Chen Ping explained that many lower-potential Soul Masters used drugs to overdraw their potential for tournament success, while top talents generally reached Soul King through cultivation.

Chen Ping explained how he used an elaborate doping regimen to overcome his low innate soul power, and revealed that rare treasures had helped restore and improve his aptitude. His teammates reconsidered their judgment of tournament competitors who used drugs to gain strength early, while Chen Ping remained confident they could still win.

• Xu Sanshi asked Chen Ping why he knew so much about doping, and Chen Ping explained that he used eighteen different drugs in a carefully timed injection cycle.
• Chen Ping revealed that he had started with innate level two soul power and had reached level thirty-three by age thirteen.
• Chen Ping said Mystic Water Pills and a Golden Apple had improved his cultivation aptitude and reduced the harm caused by his injections.
• The others realized Chen Ping had taken risks to earn resources and fell silent as they reconsidered the Soul Masters who doped to support their families.
• Chen Ping told the group that their opponents could not overdraw their martial soul quality or soul skills, and said they still had a chance to win.

After revealing that Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi could awaken their martial-soul bloodlines, Chen Ping learned Bei Bei wanted help finding a safer drug regimen for Tang Ya. Chen Ping agreed to prepare one when they returned to the academy, while recognizing that Tang Ya was secretly trying to grow strong enough to avenge her parents and reclaim the Tang Sect grounds.

• Chen Ping identified Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi's hidden trump card as awakening their martial-soul bloodlines and warned that using it would leave them unable to fight for about a week.
• Bei Bei visited Chen Ping privately and asked whether his method of combining drugs could reduce the side effects of drawing out potential.
• Bei Bei explained that Tang Ya felt pressure as a core disciple and had considered using Tang Sect methods to stimulate her potential.
• Chen Ping realized Tang Ya likely wanted to become strong enough to kill the Iron Blood Sect members who murdered her parents and reclaim the Tang Sect grounds.
• Chen Ping agreed to devise a drug regimen tailored to Tang Ya when they returned to the academy and promised to minimize its side effects.

Wang Yan took Shrek’s Reserve Team to an auction house and proposed equipping them with soul tools to strengthen them for the tournament. The team agreed, and Wang Yan promised the academy would reimburse their purchases.

• Wang Yan led the seven Reserve Team members through Star Luo City to an auction house, hoping to help them relax and introduce them to soul tools.
• Wang Yan explained that academies increasingly combined Soul Masters with soul tools and urged the team to try using them.
• Wu Feng said she and Ning Tian supported soul tools because the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect already used them extensively.
• Xu Sanshi and Bei Bei said the Inspection Corps mission had shown them how defensive soul tools could save lives, so they no longer resisted using them.
• Jiang Nannan admitted she could not afford soul tools, and Xu Sanshi offered to buy them for her before she angrily rejected him.
• Wang Yan promised the academy would reimburse reasonable soul tool purchases, and the team cheered.

Chen Ping and Wang Yan attended the Starlight Auction House, where Wang Yan bought Soul Tools for the Reserve Team and spent over a hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins. The auction’s final lot was wheeled out under a red cloth, leaving Chen Ping curious about what it might be.

• Wang Yan led Chen Ping and the others into the underground Starlight Auction House after securing admission through the academy.
• Qing Ya opened the auction, and Wang Yan bought numerous Soul Tools, distributing them among the group.
• Wang Yan bid twenty-five thousand Gold Soul Coins for a Level Four Milk Bottle, despite Chen Ping and Ning Tian already having plenty.
• Qing Ya announced a mysterious final lot, and Chen Ping wondered whether it might be a powerful Fixed Soul Cannon Shell.
• Three men wheeled a red-cloth-covered cart onto the stage, and Chen Ping watched closely as the lot remained concealed.

At the Starlight Auction House, Qing Ya introduced the final lot as a rare treasure that could remove medicinal impurities and might evolve a Martial Soul, despite her reluctance to auction another unsellable “family heirloom.” The lot was revealed to be a caged Dragon Girl, and the chapter ended with the audience recognizing her as a half-human, half-Soul Beast being.

• Qing Ya announced a starting bid of eight hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins for the final auction item.
• Qing Ya recalled how selling the Spirit Devouring Fierce Blade had earned her a commission but also led her jealous colleagues and superior to saddle her with another difficult lot.
• Qing Ya explained that the mysterious item could clear medicinal residue from Soul Engineers’ bodies and might offer a chance at Martial Soul Evolution.
• Qing Ya removed the covering and revealed a young, scale-covered girl lying inside an iron cage.
• Wang Yan recognized the girl as a Dragon Girl, and Qing Ya confirmed that the auction’s final item was a legendary half-human, half-Soul Beast being.

Chen Ping saw a chance to obtain dragon blood from the Dragon Girl put up for auction, while Qing Ya explained why the lot was dangerously cursed. The bidders backed away after learning that the intelligent Dragon Girl still held enough Cursing Power to kill anyone who tried to use her.

• Chen Ping realized the Dragon Girl’s blood could be used to make a Dragon Blood Potion and hoped to obtain enough for one.
• Qing Ya explained that Dragon Girls could transform a human’s constitution and Martial Soul, but capturing one brought a deadly curse.
• The audience grew excited at the Dragon Girl’s low opening bid until Qing Ya revealed that this one still possessed powerful Cursing Power.
• The bidders lost interest after learning the Dragon Girl could curse someone to death and was intelligent enough to thwart attempts to use her as a cultivation vessel.

Chen Ping bid eight hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins for the cursed dragon girl, surprising the Shrek group and upsetting Ning Tian and Wu Feng. He explained that he wanted to study her blood and curse and employ her at his massage shop, while the two girls blushed after he mistook their concern for fear that he would be cursed.

• Qing Ya opened bidding on the dragon girl at eight hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, but the auction hall initially stayed silent.
• Chen Ping bid the starting price, startling the Shrek group and prompting Ning Tian and Wu Feng to react with disappointment and anger.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng questioned Chen Ping about buying the dragon girl, and Wu Feng asked whether he was lusting after her.
• Chen Ping explained that he wanted to study the dragon girl's blood and curse power and have her help prepare medicines at his massage shop.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng claimed they had only been worried about the curse, while Chen Ping thanked them and left them embarrassed by his misunderstanding.