Recaps

Minghui led Shrek Academy to victory, advanced the Soul Spirit System, and sent Arthas to study among the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineers. Arthas gained Xu Tianran’s favor while secretly maintaining ties to Shrek, and the exchange competition began with him named as Shrek’s final contestant.

• Minghui won the tournament for Shrek Academy, defeated Xiao Hongchen, and helped Ma Xiaotao after the Sword of Judgment infected her with darkness.
• Minghui and Shrek’s elders arranged a student exchange with Jing Hongchen, while Huo Yuhao gained a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear’s External Soul Bone and later formed an equal contract with a Purple Spirit Wolf Soul Spirit.
• Minghui introduced the Soul Spirit System to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Di Tian, gained the support of Soul Beasts, and helped the academy repel a Holy Spirit Cult attack.
• Minghui created his clone Arthas, who joined Huo Yuhao and He Caitou at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and impressed Xuan Ziwen with his Soul Tool work.
• Arthas traveled with Ju Zi and Keke to test Soul Tools, protected them from Soul Beasts, and was arrested after Wang Shaojie accused him of wrongdoing.
• Xu Tianran stopped the torture of Arthas, arranged Xu Mochen’s death to obtain replacement legs, and recruited Arthas by granting him protection and access to Mingde Hall.
• Arthas replaced Xu Tianran’s legs with the Third Prince’s thighs and Soul Bones, then treated the Emperor and received royal provisions while secretly sending his Soul Tool blueprints to Shrek.
• Minghui reached Rank 61 and began cultivating with Ling Luochen, while Shrek and Sun Moon Academy held an exchange competition in which Huo Yuhao and He Caitou fought before Arthas was announced as Shrek’s final contestant.

Arthas stayed at Mingde Hall, gained the Sun Moon Empire’s favor, treated Meng Hongchen and Kong Deming, and joined Project Zero’s research. Meanwhile, Minghui strengthened Shrek Academy and prepared a plan to steal the Empire’s military Soul Tools as the tournament approached.

• Arthas swept the Mingde Hall assessment, restored Nana’s soul, and helped her destroy a Holy Spirit Cult branch before announcing he would stay at Mingde Hall.
• Arthas defeated Xiao Hongchen in a spar and gave Jing Hongchen research that revealed his reverse Nine Revolutions Soul Transformation Device and a possible treatment for Meng Hongchen.
• At the imperial banquet, Arthas confronted the Ancestral Hall elders, endured the Emperor’s punishment, and presented medicinal pills to the Emperor and Xu Tianran.
• Arthas treated Kong Deming with refined medicine and helped Meng Hongchen temper her body, then broke through to rank 60 and obtained his sixth Soul Ring during a wolf hunt.
• Minghui killed the Silver Moon Wolf Emperor, gained its Soul Ring and Soul Bone, and shared its meat with Shrek Academy, which sent a portion to Arthas.
• Arthas examined Mingde Hall’s students and helped redirect Project Zero toward researching Doukai and improving Soul Tool technology.
• Minghui gained new Soul Spirits and Soul Bones, then warned Shrek’s Sea God Pavilion that the Sun Moon Empire planned to imprison tournament participants from the original Three Great Empires.
• Minghui proposed drawing away the Empire’s forces and stealing its military Soul Tools, then arranged for his family and disciples to work at Shrek City’s Soul Spirit Hall as Lin Jiayi searched for Arthas.

Minghui built the Soul Spirit Hall team, uncovered Tang San’s interference, and helped Huo Yuhao save Wang Dong’er before leading his team into the tournament. As the matches began, rival empires and secret factions watched Mingdu, while Minghui’s team advanced toward a showdown with the Holy Spirit Sect.

• Arthas treated Ju Zi’s poison, and she asked him to help her escape Xu Tianran’s control as they used their apparent closeness to serve their interests.
• Minghui brought Wang Qiu’er into the Soul Spirit Hall and revealed that she was the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, while the God Realm punished Tang San for interfering in her affairs.
• Minghui and the Shrek group fought Evil Soul Masters in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Wang Qiu’er gained a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Soul Spirit and External Soul Bone.
• Minghui helped Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’er reach the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where they passed trials and used the Lovesick Heartbreak Red to protect Wang Dong’er’s life.
• Minghui and Wang Qiu’er formed the Dragon of Destiny Transformation, then Minghui assembled the Soul Spirit Hall tournament team as Arthas returned to Mingdu with Ju Zi and Keke.
• Minghui warned Shrek’s allies that the Sun Moon Empire planned to seize contestants and wage war, while Xu Jiujiu and others agreed to gather intelligence and resist it.
• Soul Spirit Hall entered the tournament, and Minghui’s team defeated the Earth Dragon Sect and Iron Sword Sect as rival factions surveyed Mingdu.
• Minghui’s team drew Shrek Academy and the Holy Spirit Sect in the round-robin group, then Minghui caught and froze Jili after discovering his Spiritual Power storage Soul Tool.

Minghui helped Shrek and the other factions escape Mingdu, then endured the Valley of Asking Love trials and clashed with Tang San’s divine avatar. After the God Realm punished Tang San and Ning Rongrong, Minghui gained a seventh Soul Ring, began building the Soul Spirit Council, and left Wang Dong’er’s unexplained unconsciousness unresolved.

• Minghui defeated Yan Feng and exposed the Holy Spirit Sect’s Evil Soul Masters before Soul Spirit Hall advanced through the tournament and beat the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy in the semifinals.
• Minghui and the others planned their escape from Mingdu as Jing Hongchen fled, Shrek reached the finals, and the fighting broke out across the city’s gates.
• Minghui looted Mingde Hall, freed the captured contestants, and helped his companions escape to West Mountain before the Valley of Asking Love drew them into its trials.
• Minghui accepted Wang Qiu’er’s love and chose her and Zhang Lexuan when Ning Rongrong’s trial threatened them, while the group later refused the Wheel’s assigned romantic challenges.
• Minghui revealed that Arthas was his clone, brought Ju Zi into the Undead Plane, reclaimed Arthas’s power, and escaped the city with Beibei and Xu Sanshi as Tang San’s trial pulled them back into the valley.
• Minghui fought Tang San’s avatar under crushing pressure as the women were forced to compete over him, then pierced the avatar with a Space-Time Ray that alarmed the gods.
• The God of Destruction challenged Tang San and secured his confinement in the Forbidden God Zone, while Minghui left the valley and obtained a hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant as his seventh Soul Ring.
• Minghui proposed a Council for the Soul Spirit System, condensed his first Soul Core, and examined the still-unconscious Wang Dong’er without detecting Tang San’s hidden Divine Sense.