Recaps

Mu En agreed to help Yan Shaozhe obtain advanced soul tools and devised a plan to prepare Shrek for Lu Yu's team. He sent two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones as offers to restrict Lu Yu's team and learn some of his soul skills, confident Yan Shaozhe could win.

• Yan Shaozhe asked Mu En to help him acquire Level 8 and Level 9 Soul Tools from Qian Duoduo for Shrek's competitors.
• Mu En gave Yan Shaozhe funds and instructions to buy advanced soul tools from the Clear Sky Sect, and Yan Shaozhe secretly planned to keep some money for himself.
• Mu En assessed Lu Yu's likely abilities and estimated the strength of Lu Yu's team, then decided Shrek needed extra advantages.
• Mu En took two reserved Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones from the storeroom and sent one to the Heavenly Dragon Sect to discourage its two Soul Kings from competing.
• Mu En sent Lu Yu the other soul bone in exchange for permission to reveal some of Lu Yu's soul skills to Shrek, believing Yan Shaozhe could then defeat him.

Lu Yu received Mu En’s revised plan for the Soul Fighting Tournament and agreed to reveal some Soul Skill information, while the Heavenly Dragon Sect asked his team to promote its alliance. After accepting the deal, Lu Yu planned a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest to help team members complete their soul ring configurations.

• Lu Yu read Mu En’s letter, agreed to reveal every listed Soul Skill, and added a reminder for Mu En to drink less fake liquor and look after his health.
• The Heavenly Dragon Sect messenger said the sect could not provide team members, and Lu Yu told him the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect was not aiming for the championship.
• The messenger asked Lu Yu’s team to field two dragon Soul Masters enhanced by the sect’s secret art in exchange for Soul Bones, including a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone if they reached the finals or lost to Shrek Academy.
• Lu Yu accepted the advertising deal and realized Mu En was trying hard to secure a victory.
• After seeing the messenger off, Lu Yu planned a visit to the Star Dou Great Forest to tip off Di Tian and help team members with incomplete soul ring configurations.

Nan Qiuqiu underwent dragonman enhancement, while Vina discovered that her martial souls could fuse with Huo Yutong’s and urged them to test the skill. Lu Yu joined their hands and proposed trying a Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill instead.

• Nan Qiuqiu chose dragonman enhancement, and Lu Yu injected her with high-purity dragon blood that made her lose consciousness.
• Lu Yu carried the unconscious Nan Qiuqiu back to her room, then heard Vina asking Huo Yutong to test a martial soul fusion skill.
• Vina told Lu Yu that her Snow Lotus and Brain martial souls could both fuse with Huo Yutong’s soul power.
• Vina explained that she had fled a planned marriage alliance with the Body Sect and wanted to strengthen her position through her power and tournament success.
• Lu Yu clasped Vina’s hand and proposed that they attempt a Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill instead.

Lu Yu, Huo Yutong, and Vina formed a Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill, unleashing a massive surge of spiritual energy from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s branch. In the Divine Realm, Tang San continued plotting against the Soul Beasts until the eruption on the Douluo Continent drew a giant face of lightning before him.

• Lu Yu revealed that he and Huo Yutong could fuse Martial Souls, and Vina realized the three of them might be able to perform a Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Vina agreed to test the fusion, and Lu Yu guided her and Huo Yutong as their Soul Powers combined through their Brain and Spirit Eyes Martial Souls.
• Huo Yutong and Vina transformed into golden-white light and entered Lu Yu, whose Soul Power surged toward level 80 as the Gold of Life reappeared in his brain.
• Lu Yu released an enormous pillar of spiritual light from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s branch, sending a powerful fluctuation across Dragon City.
• Tang San plotted an ambush against the Soul Beasts with Da Ming and Er Ming, then felt a tremor from the Douluo Continent and saw a giant face of lightning in front of him.

Tang San tried to keep Destruction from claiming the unknown person who had contacted the Divine Realm, while Lu Yu and his companions recovered from an exhausting fusion attack in Dragon City. Vina mistook Huo Yutong’s hostility for a sign that they could team up over Lu Yu, and the chapter ended with Huo Yutong rejecting her offer.

• Tang San realized the person communicating with the Divine Realm was the elusive talent who had repeatedly disrupted his plans, and he tried to claim priority over the person’s inheritance.
• Destruction challenged Tang San’s attempt to stall, then left confident that the unknown person’s ascension would strengthen his own faction.
• Lu Yu, Huo Yutong, and Vina collapsed after their Spiritual Light Cannon drained their strength, and Huo Yutong’s Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sensed a brief connection to the Divine Realm.
• Xiao Xiao, Xu Tianzhen, Tang Ya, and Jiang Nannan arrived as Ning Tian secured the area and alerted the Heaven and Earth Dragon Sect.
• Vina assumed she and Huo Yutong could join forces to win Lu Yu’s affection, but Huo Yutong rejected her and told her to go away.

Vina abandoned her imperial ambitions and joined Lu Yu’s group after he promised to help evolve her Martial Souls and provide Immortal Herbs. The group learned that Lu Yu, Huo Yutong, and Vina could use a Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Lu Yu revealed he had contacted the Divine Realm and might inherit a First-Level God’s position.

• Vina rejected Huo Yutong’s offer to merely watch and pledged allegiance to Lu Yu, deciding to leave behind the imperial family that had hindered her cultivation.
• Lu Yu offered Vina a Soul Contract, evolution to Ultimate Ice, awakening of her Body Martial Soul, and Immortal Herbs, and she agreed and signed.
• Lu Yu’s teammates gathered, and he explained that he, Huo Yutong, and Vina had successfully tested a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Lu Yu announced that he had contacted the Divine Realm and could obtain at least a First-Level God’s inheritance, leaving Vina confident she had made the right choice.

After Vina absorbed the Octagonal Profound Ice Crystal, her snow lotus martial soul gained ultimate ice and powerful sealing abilities. The Primordial Immortal Herb revealed its identity and offered to become Vina’s soul spirit, and Vina angrily accepted its offer.

• The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass confirmed the group could communicate with the Divine Realm, and the immortal herbs emerged for them to choose from.
• Vina absorbed the Octagonal Profound Ice Crystal and discovered that her evolved snow lotus could seal the healing, soul-power recovery, and purification effects of her skills inside her allies.
• Lu Yu explained that Vina’s sealed support skills filled the group’s need for a healer, then let her choose two immortal herbs.
• The Primordial Immortal Herb revealed that it could delay heavenly tribulations and transform directly at one hundred thousand years, while the Aromatic Silk Beauty warned Vina that it rejected other plants.
• The Primordial Immortal Herb argued that Vina’s connection to two godhood inheritors made her certain to reach the Divine Realm, and Vina chose it as her soul spirit despite resenting its repeated insults.

Lu Yu helped Vina absorb the Primordial Immortal Herb as a Soul Spirit, raising her cultivation to rank 45 and granting powerful Soul Skills that enhanced and compressed Soul Power. After testing the Snow Lotus’s explosive abilities, he prepared the team to travel to the Star Dou Great Forest and asked Vina and Tang Ya to meet him privately that night.

• Lu Yu chose to place the Primordial Immortal Herb Soul Bone in Vina’s torso so it could greatly enhance her Soul Power while leaving her head slot open for a spiritual-type Soul Bone.
• Lu Yu transformed the Primordial Immortal Herb into a Soul Spirit for Vina, whose cultivation rose from rank 40 to rank 45 and whose Snow Lotus Martial Soul gained four Soul Rings.
• Lu Yu tested the Snow Lotus’s Primordial Compressed Bomb through Jiang Nannan, whose attack produced a crater with power comparable to a high-ranking Fixed Soul Cannon Shell.
• Lu Yu explained that the Snow Lotus’s Soul Skills could help the team fight above their ranks, though their heavy Soul Power costs required planning and support.
• Lu Yu told everyone to pack for a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain Soul Rings, then asked Vina and Tang Ya to meet him in his room that night to discuss matters in Heaven Dou City.

Lu Yu and Vina revealed how the Tang Sect lost its Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones and holdings after its gifted Sect Master died, leaving Tang Ya to learn that Heaven Dou City’s major factions had profited from her sect’s ruin. Tang Ya asked Lu Yu to limit their revenge to the Iron Blood Sect, while Vina warned that pursuing the other factions could bring Titled Douluo against them.

• Lu Yu told Tang Ya he would help her reclaim the Tang Sect’s legacy, and Vina recalled that Heaven Dou City’s factions had fought over the sect’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones.
• Vina explained that a former Acting Sect Master leased Soul Bones to powerful factions under contracts meant to protect the Tang Sect’s holdings while a gifted successor grew strong.
• The successor awakened a Blue Silver King Martial Soul, became a Titled Douluo, and then died with her wife; the Tang Sect’s leased Soul Bones and businesses were subsequently lost to Heaven Dou City’s factions.
• Tang Ya realized that the city’s upper ranks had helped destroy the Tang Sect and begged Lu Yu to target only the Iron Blood Sect.
• Vina warned Lu Yu that attacking the other factions could draw the city’s Soul Douluo and Titled Douluo into the fight.

Lu Yu planned a two-stage raid against the Titled Douluo holding the Tang Sect’s Soul Bones and put Vina through a brutal process to awaken her Body Martial Soul. When a Blue Silver Grass Evil Soul Master attacked again that night, Tang Ya began feasting on the intruder while Vina tried to summon Huo Yutong for help.

• Lu Yu dismissed retreating from the Titled Douluo as a loser’s choice and outlined his team’s preparations and backup plans for the raid.
• Lu Yu decided to have Vina gather intelligence and split the fighting into two attacks, and Tang Ya thanked him for helping her pursue revenge and recover Soul Bones.
• Lu Yu subjected Vina to repeated cycles of being sealed off from her memories and immersed in the Cold Spring, then promised to expand her Sea of Consciousness to hasten her awakening.
• As Vina rested in Lu Yu’s room, a Blue Silver Grass Evil Soul Master attacked, but Lu Yu’s Purple Vines intercepted the vines bursting through the floor.
• Tang Ya began eating the captured intruder and silenced Vina when she asked to share; Vina used her Brain Martial Soul to contact Huo Yutong, but received no response.

Tian Meng and the Ice Empress kept Huo Yutong away from Lu Yu because her sealed Ultimate Ice energy could harm the Blade of Life, while other women crowded into Lu Yu’s room. After several interruptions, Lu Yu sealed the room and began cultivating with Wu Feng and Nan Qiuqiu, leaving Vina bound and wondering if she would get a turn.

• Tian Meng and the Ice Empress decided not to send Huo Yutong to Lu Yu because breaking her seal could unleash her stored Ultimate Ice energy and freeze the Blade of Life.
• Vina’s attempt to summon Huo Yutong failed as Tang Ya attacked Lu Yu, then hid in a wardrobe when she heard someone at the door; Jiang Nannan was already hiding there.
• Ning Tian entered and buffed Lu Yu, Vina, and herself, then interrupted Lu Yu’s Soul Skill with a cleansing skill and hid in the wardrobe when Wu Feng arrived.
• Wu Feng brought Nan Qiuqiu to Lu Yu for help with the pain of her Dragonman Transformation, but Lu Yu tied both women up after repeated interruptions and sealed the room.
• Lu Yu began cultivating with Wu Feng and Nan Qiuqiu while Vina remained tied to the bed, watching and hoping she would get a turn.

Lu Yu and his companions prepared to enter Heaven Dou City after Vina uncovered the locations of two Tang Sect Soul Bones. The group planned to raid the holders and avenge Tang Ya’s parents before withdrawing.

• Lu Yu opened Nan Qiuqiu’s Sea of Consciousness with the Blade of Life, while Huo Yutong and Xiao Xiao waited outside his sealed room.
• Vina fled after realizing the others might have seen the ice formation she had left in the room, and Xu Tianzhen found Jiang Nannan, Tang Ya, and Ning Tian hiding in a wardrobe before burning the room down.
• Outside Heaven Dou City, Wu Feng reached level 35 with Ultimate Fire, while Nan Qiuqiu reached level 45 after absorbing Immortal Herbs.
• Vina reported that a level-92 Titled Douluo near the palace held a Hundred Thousand Year Tang Sect Soul Bone, and the city defense officer had another Tang Sect Soul Bone.
• Lu Yu assigned Tang Ya and Vina to enter openly while he and Huo Yutong infiltrated the city; the others would wait outside to support them.
• Tang Ya vowed to avenge her parents as the group prepared to seize the Soul Bones and withdraw.

Tang Ya returned to Heaven Dou City with Vina and Huo Yutong, then attacked the Iron Blood Sect to avenge the Tang Sect. After killing the sect members, she faced the City Gate Officer, who tried to seize her and the Tang Sect's secret manuals; Tang Ya drained the battlefield to strengthen herself and launched a new attack using her growing Blue Silver Soul Bone.

• Vina entered Heaven Dou City with Tang Ya while the City Gate Officer recognized Tang Ya and secretly followed them, hoping to take the Tang Sect's secret manuals.
• Tang Ya entered the former Tang Sect grounds and used Blue Silver Grass and bamboo spears to kill the Iron Blood Sect's guards and many of its members.
• Tang Ya killed Tie Tang and Tie Li, wiping out the Iron Blood Sect, but felt empty after completing her revenge.
• The City Gate Officer confronted Tang Ya, demanded the Tang Sect's secret manuals, and blocked her attacks with his Soul Skill.
• Tang Ya drained energy from the corpses and vegetation across the grounds, raising her Soul Power to Soul King level.
• Tang Ya activated her growth-capable Blue Silver Soul Bone and used Blue Silver Link to send countless Parasitic Seeds swelling into spears toward the City Gate Officer.

Tang Ya avenged her parents by killing the City Gate Officer, while Lu Yu disguised the scene to frame an Evil Soul Master and lure a Holy Spirit Cult official into an ambush. The official escaped, but Huo Yutong and Lu Yu prepared a long-range Spiritual Shock attack as he fled with knowledge of Slaughter City's location.

• Tang Ya used her Blue Silver Overlord Spears and parasitic seeds to kill the City Gate Officer, then collected five Soul Bones from his body.
• Tang Ya thanked Vina for helping her take revenge, and they left the Tang Sect's former grounds with Lu Yu.
• Lu Yu planted a phantom disguised as an exhausted Evil Soul Master and used Simulation to hide the group as they departed.
• A black-robed Holy Spirit Cult official arrived, mistook the phantom for a promising Holy Son candidate, and was trapped by Lu Yu's ice ambush.
• The official escaped a fierce battle with severe injuries, and Huo Yutong and Lu Yu prepared a long-range Spiritual Shock attack against him.

Lu Yu and Huo Yutong killed Slaughter Douluo after leaving Heaven Dou City, then asked Elder Yi to search his shattered soul for information about the Holy Spirit Cult and Slaughter City. The group headed to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Soul Rings, where Lu Yu suggested asking Di Tian to catch the beasts they needed.

• Lu Yu and Huo Yutong exhausted the plants protecting a noble with Life Link, killed him, and took his Soul Bone.
• Lu Yu spotted Slaughter Douluo outside Heaven Dou City and killed him with a Spiritual Shock before he could defend himself.
• Lu Yu recovered some of Slaughter Douluo's soul fragments, and Elder Yi extracted details about his past, the Holy Spirit Cult, Slaughter City, and Feng Ling's plans in Star Luo City.
• Lu Yu and the others collected Slaughter Douluo's dropped Soul Bones and Soul Tools, then set out for the Star Dou Great Forest to find Soul Rings for Huo Yutong, Xu Tianzhen, and Vina.
• Huo Yutong worried that Vina's rejection of plant-type Soul Rings and the shortage of time would make the hunt difficult, so Lu Yu proposed asking Di Tian to catch the Soul Beasts.

Lu Yu brought Huo Yutong and their companions to the Star Dou Great Forest to meet the Auspicious Beast and seek her help with hunting Soul Beasts. The Auspicious Beast arrived, reunited with Huo Yutong, and insulted the others while claiming she was voicing Huo Yutong’s true feelings.

• Lu Yu led the group to the Mixed Zone and told Huo Yutong to use her Power of Destiny to contact the Auspicious Beast.
• After a day, the Auspicious Beast charged into the group, broke through Huo Yutong’s Ice Seal Technique, and embraced Lu Yu and Huo Yutong.
• The Auspicious Beast declared herself Huo Yutong’s older sister and mistook Wu Feng and Nan Qiuqiu for human-form Soul Beasts.
• Lu Yu explained who Wu Feng and Nan Qiuqiu were, prompting the Auspicious Beast to recall them and mock them as weak former opponents.
• The Auspicious Beast recognized the others from Huo Yutong’s memories and insulted each of them, then told Huo Yutong she had spoken for her.

Lu Yu warned Di Tian that the Clear Sky Sect and Holy Spirit Cult might come to the Star Dou Great Forest seeking the Ice God's lost soul, but Di Tian dismissed the threat. Lu Yu then offered immortal herbs in exchange for ten-thousand-year soul beasts, and Di Tian agreed by claiming the beasts were traitors who deserved execution.

• The Auspicious Beast teased Huo Yutong about secretly calling Xiao Xiao a dwarf, and Xiao Xiao attacked before the Auspicious Beast stopped her cauldron with one hand.
• Lu Yu asked the Auspicious Beast to contact Di Tian so he could discuss a serious matter.
• Lu Yu warned Di Tian that the Clear Sky Sect and Holy Spirit Cult might target the Star Dou Great Forest while searching for a wisp of soul, but Di Tian said he could defeat them.
• Lu Yu asked Di Tian to help him hunt several ten-thousand-year soul beasts, and Di Tian angrily refused at first.
• Lu Yu opened three jade boxes of legendary immortal herbs, and Di Tian changed his mind, calling the requested soul beasts traitors who could be executed.

Lu Yu negotiated with Di Tian for Immortal Herbs, Soul Beasts, and Soul Bones, then proposed a partnership to strengthen the Star Dou Great Forest’s Dragon Clan with bloodline technology. The Auspicious Beast ended Di Tian’s connection and took Lu Yu and Huo Yutong to retrieve Soul Bones herself.

• Di Tian agreed to trade three top-tier Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bones for Lu Yu’s three Immortal Herbs.
• Lu Yu revealed that Wu Feng and Nan Qiuqiu had gained Dragon Clan bloodlines through a Soul Tool made by his teacher, astonishing Di Tian with their strength.
• Lu Yu proposed that the Star Dou Great Forest provide Dragon Clan blood while his side used its technology to strengthen the bloodlines of earth dragons and Sub-Dragons.
• Di Tian accepted the cooperation, requiring the work to take place in the Star Dou Great Forest and forbidding experiments that endangered Sub-Dragons.
• The Auspicious Beast cut off Di Tian’s connection, then took Lu Yu and Huo Yutong toward the forest’s heart to collect more Soul Bones.

The Auspicious Beast tricked Bi Ji into giving her a key and a pink herb, then lured Lu Yu and Huo Yutong into Di Tian’s secret Soul Bone chamber. She ambushed Lu Yu with the herb and sealed his soul power, claiming she was helping Huo Yutong, who demanded to know what she was planning.

• The Auspicious Beast learned from Bi Ji that Di Tian was away gathering Dragon Clan members and led Lu Yu and Huo Yutong to a pit filled with Soul Bones.
• The Auspicious Beast gave Bi Ji the three Immortal Herbs promised to Di Tian and asked for a pink herb and the secret chamber key.
• Bi Ji handed over the herb and key, then sent the Scarlet King to deliver the Auspicious Beast’s instructions and protect the others.
• The Auspicious Beast brought Lu Yu and Huo Yutong into the secret chamber, where Lu Yu cautiously approached a huge wooden box of Soul Bones.
• The Auspicious Beast used Fate Judgment and her Golden Dragon Martial Soul to knock Lu Yu into the box, then fed him powder from the pink herb that sealed his soul power.
• Huo Yutong sensed through her Eye of Destiny that the Auspicious Beast meant to help her, but asked what she was trying to do.

The Auspicious Beast drugged Lu Yu and entered the wooden box after Huo Yutong decided to keep her vow of abstinence until her revenge. Huo Yutong was trapped outside, where the Auspicious Beast's transmitted feelings and images helped her develop a new combat skill, while another creature watched from the Lake of Life.

• The Auspicious Beast prepared a wooden box with herbs that sealed Soul Power and urged Huo Yutong to pursue Lu Yu, but Huo Yutong remembered her vow and left.
• The Auspicious Beast entered the box alone and persuaded Lu Yu to stay by promising him a chance to play with the Golden Dragon and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Huo Yutong could not find a way out of the sealed chamber and tried to block the sounds, but the Eye of Destiny sent her the Auspicious Beast's feelings and images.
• As Lu Yu and the Auspicious Beast fought with their ultimate powers, Huo Yutong observed their battle and gradually formed a new combat skill.
• A creature at the spring eye in the Lake of Life opened its eyes and watched the battle after consuming three immortal herbs.

After three days of deep meditation, Huo Yutong revealed a new emotion-based spiritual combat skill and struck back at Tian Meng for misleading her about Lu Yu’s past. Lu Yu and the Auspicious Beast searched the soul bone stockpile, and the chapter ended with the Auspicious Beast uncovering a purple thousand-year soul bone.

• Lu Yu and the Auspicious Beast emerged from the wooden crate and found Huo Yutong in deep meditation after three days.
• Huo Yutong showed that she could channel emotion into others, making Tian Meng attack the Auspicious Beast before the Auspicious Beast’s anger overwhelmed her.
• Huo Yutong realized Tian Meng had misled her about Lu Yu and Xu Tianzhen, then unleashed a powerful palm strike at Tian Meng.
• The Auspicious Beast opened the stockpile and found three two-hundred-thousand-year soul bones, while Lu Yu revealed a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear external soul bone among the bones outside.
• The Auspicious Beast found another Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear soul bone, and Lu Yu collected four external soul bones before preparing to leave.
• The Auspicious Beast dug up a wooden box and uncovered a purple, hook-shaped thousand-year soul bone.

Lu Yu returned from the Forbidden Zone with Soul Bones, while Huo Yutong, Jiang Nannan, and Xu Tianzhen absorbed new Soul Rings. The chapter ended with Lu Yu asking Jiang Nannan whether her new Soul Skill required skillful play.

• Lu Yu decided to keep the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger tailbone rather than equip it, and Bi Ji caught the Auspicious Beast trying to escape with him.
• Lu Yu and Huo Yutong returned safely to camp, where the others confronted Huo Yutong for sneaking off to eat.
• The Scarlet King offered Huo Yutong a sixty-thousand-year Dream Tapir Tiger, and she absorbed it to reach level 43 and gain the Nightmare Power Soul Skill.
• Jiang Nannan and Xu Tianzhen absorbed their Soul Beasts, reaching levels 52 and 53 respectively.
• Xu Tianzhen demonstrated her Invincibility Lollipop Soul Skill and described how it complemented her Sun Martial Soul, prompting Lu Yu to ask Jiang Nannan about her skill.

Lu Yu distributed powerful Soul Bones to his teammates after their journey through the Star Dou Great Forest, strengthening their abilities with new Soul Skills. The group then headed to Star Luo City for the Soul Fighting Tournament, where Lu Yu also intended to question Feng Ling about Slaughter City.

• Jiang Nannan demonstrated her Twin Phantom Soul Skill, and Lu Yu praised the Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul’s abilities.
• Lu Yu gave Jiang Nannan a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear left palm bone and Left Arm Bone, and gave Tang Ya a hundred-thousand-year Left Leg Bone with Life Sharing and Plant Connection.
• Lu Yu gave Vina a two-hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Soul Bone, which granted her a spiritual power field and a sealing ray.
• Lu Yu distributed Soul Bones to Xiao Xiao, Xu Tianzhen, Wu Feng, and Nan Qiuqiu, while Huo Yutong and Ning Tian kept their previously arranged bones.
• After everyone absorbed their Soul Bones, the group left the Star Dou Great Forest for Star Luo City, where Lu Yu planned to seek information about Slaughter City from Feng Ling.

Yan Shaozhe assembled Shrek Academy’s heavily equipped tournament team and appointed Dai Yueheng its captain. He discovered that Heaven Dou Dragon City Academy’s former Shrek students had advanced rapidly, assumed they had used pills that sacrificed their potential, and dismissed them as no threat.

• Ma Xiaotao questioned the team’s Soul Tools, and Yan Shaozhe reprimanded her and stripped her of the captaincy.
• Yan Shaozhe reviewed Shrek’s fourteen contestants, including its powerful main team and reserves, and believed the lineup could win the championship.
• Dai Yueheng presented intelligence on rival academies, and Yan Shaozhe appointed him captain after praising his initiative.
• Yan Shaozhe read Heaven Dou Dragon City Academy’s roster and noticed that several former Shrek students had made rapid gains in cultivation.
• Yan Shaozhe concluded that the Heaven Dou contestants had used pills that sacrificed their potential and thought their team could not win.

Yan Shaozhe plotted to use the competition to get revenge on Lu Yu, then showed Shrek's students profiles of former academy members whose rapid cultivation shocked them. The group wrongly accused Lu Yu and the others of being Evil Soul Masters or spies, and Dai Huabin offered to use his mother's connections to help execute them.

• Yan Shaozhe considered exploiting Dai Huabin's grudge and the duchess's Imperial Family connections to arrange an accident for Lu Yu during the competition.
• Yan Shaozhe gave the Shrek students profiles showing Lu Yu, Xiao Xiao, Huo Yutong, Tang Ya, and others had advanced rapidly after leaving the academy.
• Dai Huabin recognized Lu Yu, Xiao Xiao, and Huo Yutong as his former New Student Competition opponents and revealed their cultivation had once been just over level twenty.
• Xu Sanshi and the others speculated that the former students were Evil Soul Masters, while Wang Dong suggested Tian Zhen was a Sun Moon Empire spy.
• Yan Shaozhe backed Wang Dong's claim and accused Tian Zhen and Lu Yu of being Holy Spirit Cult agents sent to corrupt Shrek's geniuses.
• Dai Huabin offered to ask his mother to use her connections to help Yan Shaozhe execute the alleged Evil Soul Masters.