Recaps

The Death Messenger triggered chained corpse explosions in the cave, devastating Shrek’s Main Team despite Xuan Zi’s intervention. A disguised Evil Soul Master escaped through a secret passage with Bei Bei, while Wang Sheng Jia mistook Xuan Zi’s delayed responses for proof that he was the Holy Church’s Great Enshrined.

• The Death Messenger detonated the corpses, grievously injuring the Main Team while Tang Yin and the Reserve Team avoided most of the blast through quick reactions and defenses.
• Xuan Zi entered the cave and found Yao Haoxuan, Gongyang Mo, Xixi, Chen Zifeng, Ling Luochеn, Ma Xiaotao, and Dai Yueheng badly injured.
• Yao Haoxuan’s remains began swelling again, and the second explosion killed Xixi and Chen Zifeng before Xuan Zi could stop it.
• Xuan Zi seized a black-robed Evil Soul Master, but the enemy turned to smoke, attacked Bei Bei, and escaped with him through a secret passage.
• Wang Sheng Jia concluded that Xuan Zi was the Holy Church’s Great Enshrined and helped Zhou Yi treat the survivors.

The Death Messenger abducted the badly injured Bei Bei and used false clues and threats to keep Xuan Zi chasing him. Xuan Zi eventually found Bei Bei alive, while the Death Messenger escaped through the Underground River.

• Xuan Zi killed the remaining bandits, but the Death Messenger escaped through a secret passage with Bei Bei.
• The Death Messenger detonated corpse bombs and sent twelve Corpse Slaves to explode as they covered his retreat.
• Xuan Zi followed the Death Messenger’s broadcasting Soul Tools, believing a Level 7 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell threatened Bei Bei.
• Xuan Zi transformed into his Martial Soul Avatar and searched the area, while the Death Messenger abandoned his flying Soul Tool and plunged into the Underground River.
• Xuan Zi found Bei Bei alive in a crevice, with no shell nearby, and realized the Death Messenger had fooled him twice.
• The Death Messenger swam upstream through the Main Branch of the Underground River, reflecting that he had never possessed a Level 7 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell.

Mu En addressed the Shrek Academy leaders after the expedition disaster, keeping Xuan Zi in the Sea God Pavilion and ordering Soul Tool defenses for the students. He rearranged the tournament teams and later reassured Zhang Lexuan about Bei Bei’s recovery, urging her to visit him in Star Luo City.

• Yan Shaozhe reported that four Inner Court students had died, several others were injured or poisoned, and Bei Bei had been taken to Star Luo City for treatment.
• Xuan Zi offered to resign over his responsibility for the expedition, but Mu En refused to let him leave the Sea God Pavilion and told him to train more inspectors.
• Mu En ordered every Inner Court disciple to receive custom Soul Tools and required the tournament team to carry shields for protection.
• Mu En moved Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, He Caitou, and Jiang Nannan onto the Main Team, while Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng joined the Reserve Team.
• Tang Ya prepared to visit Tang Yin, while Mu En told Zhang Lexuan that Bei Bei would recover with the Medicine Immortal Douluo’s help and encouraged her to visit him.

At the academy’s send-off banquet, Huo Yuhao was surprised by the attention he received before Meng Hongchen led him away to celebrate his thirteenth birthday. Jing Hongchen and the others gathered to mark the occasion, leaving Huo Yuhao moved by the family and support he had found.

• At the send-off banquet, senior girls crowded around Huo Yuhao with offers of marriage and inherited titles, while he realized he had come dressed far more casually than the other team members.
• Meng Hongchen arrived, took Huo Yuhao by the hand, and led him out as onlookers inferred that they shared a master.
• Meng Hongchen told Huo Yuhao it was his thirteenth birthday and reassured him that he was no longer alone.
• Huo Yuhao entered a private room where Jing Hongchen, Feng Yu, Feng Bujue, Xiao Hongchen, and Feng Tingting had gathered to celebrate him.
• Jing Hongchen explained that he had calculated Huo Yuhao’s birthday from his bone-age data and teased that he had come to deter others from poaching his student.
• Feng Bujue said the Barrier-Breaking Pill could support his advancement toward rank seventy, while the Ice Empress reflected on Huo Yuhao’s friendships and rejected the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s offer of companionship.

Huo Yuhao visited his mother Huo Yun'er's grave in Star Luo City, where Electrolux discovered that a god-level power was manipulating fate to erase her remnant soul. Electrolux rescued the soul and told Huo Yuhao that rare treasures or god-level power might give him a slim chance to revive her.

• Huo Yuhao and the Sun Moon Empire team arrived in Star Luo City for the tournament and checked into the Star Emperor Hotel.
• Huo Yuhao went to the servants' burial ground near the White Tiger Duke's Mansion to pay respects to his mother, accompanied by Meng Hongchen.
• Electrolux sensed that a powerful force manipulating fate was stripping Huo Yun'er's remnant soul from the world and linked the action to Huo Yuhao's encounter with Wang Dong.
• With help from the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, Electrolux used runes to retrieve Huo Yun'er's remnant soul and bring it into Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness.
• Electrolux told Huo Yuhao that his mother's soul would weaken over three to five years, but rare treasures or god-level power could offer a small chance of revival.

Huo Yuhao gave Meng Hongchen a Sequence 9 Assassin potion, which she drank and successfully used to enhance her combat abilities. As she tested her new skills, Xiao Hongchen arrived and demanded to know what she had given Huo Yuhao.

• Huo Yuhao recovered from the simulation and felt encouraged by Electrolux’s claim that his mother’s remnant soul might still be revived.
• Meng Hongchen respected Huo Yuhao’s reluctance to explain his secrets, then asked about the ability-enhancing item he had mentioned.
• Huo Yuhao gave Meng Hongchen a Sequence 9 Assassin potion as a first-meeting gift and explained its risks and effects.
• Meng Hongchen drank the potion while Huo Yuhao waited outside her room, thinking about Tang Yin and the person acting behind him.
• Meng Hongchen emerged thrilled by her success, then tested her enhanced movements and Stealth in the training room.
• Xiao Hongchen entered the training room and asked what Meng Hongchen had given Huo Yuhao, offering to give him double.

The Shrek delegation learned that their injured Main Team members would miss the tournament’s opening matches, while Wang Yan and Xuan Zi tried to steady the Reserve Team. Tang Yin offered to reach four rings overnight and fight powerful opponents, and Xuan Zi pledged to help him.

• Wang Xian'er assessed the injured students and said the three Main Team members would need at least six days before they could fight, while Bei Bei would recover faster.
• Wang Sheng Jia reported that rumors about the Main Team’s reduced numbers had spread, and Wang Dong warned that the tournament’s opening knockout round began the next day.
• Wang Yan urged the Reserve Team to trust their strength, but Xuan Zi demanded that Wang Dong win and threatened to bar the students from the Inner Court if Shrek’s reputation suffered.
• Tang Yin said he could use the Blue Silver Secret Art to reach four rings overnight and promised to protect Shrek’s glory.
• Wang Yan questioned Tang Yin about tournament rules and his method, and Xuan Zi praised him and offered to remove any obstacles.

Xu Jiawei explained to Xu Jiujiu that Shrek Academy’s weakened team could threaten its standing if another soul master academy defeated it, and urged her to help the Star Luo Empire challenge Shrek’s dominance. Xu Jiujiu planned to strengthen her tournament team and influence the matchups, while Xu Jiawei considered how to handle Dai Hao and his sons.

• Xu Jiujiu read the report on Shrek Academy’s young replacement players and asked whether the Star Luo Empire should seize the chance to pursue the championship.
• Xu Jiawei argued that Shrek could accept defeat by a soul engineering academy but not by another soul master academy, since the latter would undermine its influence over talented soul masters.
• Xu Jiawei told Xu Jiujiu to add Li Jie to her team, and she welcomed the chance to use his abilities against soul tools.
• Xu Jiujiu proposed arranging difficult opponents for both Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy, while Xu Jiawei suggested grouping the latter with the Heaven Dou Empire Royal Soul Master Academy.
• Xu Jiawei warned Xu Jiujiu to keep Li Jie’s strategic abilities secret if the team could not succeed, then thought about Dai Hao and his sons fighting for Shrek Academy.

Tang Yin and Xuan Zi discussed raising Tang Yin’s cultivation by absorbing corpses, then set their sights on a powerful clan mausoleum. On the tournament’s first morning, Feng Yu prepared to draw lots for the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy as Shrek’s team arrived at breakfast.

• Xuan Zi urged Tang Yin to grow stronger for the sake of the Douluo Continent, convincing him that absorbing corpses would serve the greater good.
• Tang Yin realized that powerful Soul Master corpses were buried in clan mausoleums, and Xuan Zi proposed raiding a top Star Luo clan’s mausoleum.
• At the Royal Star Hotel, Huo Yuhao asked Feng Yu whether he would draw lots for the tournament, and Feng Yu promised to secure a favorable draw.
• The Shrek team entered the dining hall and drew the attention of the other participating teams while Huo Yuhao remained unnoticed among them.

Huo Yuhao discovered that Wang Sheng Jia was a Holy Spirit Cult mole inside Shrek Academy, while the teams gathered for the knockout tournament. Shrek drew the formidable Zhengtian Academy, and Emperor Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu hinted that an expert might be involved in the matchups.

• Huo Yuhao read Wang Sheng Jia's thoughts and learned that he served the Holy Spirit Cult, which hoped to recruit Tang Yin and Ma Xiaotao.
• Shrek's team recognized Huo Yuhao among the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy's competitors, and Xu Sanshi dismissed him as a publicity stunt.
• The competing teams arrived at Star Luo Plaza, where Wang Yan revealed that Shrek's opening opponent was Zhengtian Advanced Soul Master Academy.
• Tang Yin urged Shrek to rely on Tang Sect Secret Arts, but Bei Bei called for everyone to use their full strength and Wang Yan briefed them on captain Ye Wuqing.
• Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu discussed Zhengtian Academy's matchup against Shrek and suggested that another expert might be involved.

Tang Yin led Shrek Academy’s reserve team into its elimination match against Zhengtian Advanced Soul Master Academy and quickly overwhelmed their formation with his Eight Spider Lances and poison. As the battle erupted, he incapacitated Blood Wolf, while Emperor Xu Jiawei watched in shock.

• Huo Yuhao and the others learned that Zhengtian Academy relied on defensive Soul Skills that stacked across its team, earning it the reputation of Iron Bucket Academy.
• Tang Yin rallied Shrek’s young lineup before the match and assigned Xiao Xiao to hold off Ye Wuqing while promising her entry into the Tang Sect.
• The referee started the elimination match, and Tang Yin surged toward Zhengtian Academy’s back line with his Eight Spider Lances.
• Tang Yin pierced Blood Wolf several times, injected him with poison, and drained his Soul Power and life force until he collapsed.
• Xu Jiawei and the watching officials were shocked as Tang Yin continued wreaking havoc across the arena.

Tang Yin and Shrek Academy’s team gained the upper hand against the Imperial Academy team as Xu Jiawei recognized Tang Yin’s Blue Silver Grass and suspected his connection to the Tang Sect. Ye Wuqing launched a devastating attack at Tang Yin, but Yu Mengdi ended up in the path of the Golden Leaf storm.

• Xu Jiawei identified Tang Yin as a likely Tang Sect member and told Xu Jiujiu that Shrek Academy would set the public narrative about cultivating an Evil Soul Master.
• Xiao Xiao used three triggered Level-Two Soul Tool Shields to withstand Ye Wuqing’s thrust before he destroyed her Cauldron Martial Soul and knocked her unconscious.
• Tang Yin slipped into the opposing team’s back line while He Caitou provided ranged fire, then pierced Shangguan Can with his spider lances.
• Ye Wuqing rushed to defend his teammates and unleashed three ranged soul skills together in a storm of Golden Leaves aimed at Tang Yin.
• Tang Yin vanished from the Leaf Formation, leaving Yu Mengdi standing at its center as Ye Wuqing realized he had attacked his own teammate.

Shrek Academy defeated Zhengtian Academy, though Tang Yin struggled against Yu Mengdi’s Angel Martial Soul. Afterward, Xuan Zi claimed Shrek’s students were reserve members and that Tang Yin was still injured from fighting an Evil Soul Master, prompting the crowd to applaud rather than question the explanation.

• Ye Wuqing’s attack backfired, while Tang Yin and his teammates eliminated Zhengtian Academy’s fighters and helped He Caitou fire the Super Energy-Gathering Cannon.
• He Caitou blasted Yu Mengdi off the platform, and Tang Yin’s poison defeated Ye Wuqing, securing Shrek Academy’s victory.
• Huo Yuhao left the rest area, planning to help Tang Yin absorb his fourth Soul Ring with the Quill of Alzuhod.
• Xuan Zi arrived and told the crowd that Shrek’s competitors were reserve members and that Tang Yin was fighting while injured from protecting them against an Evil Soul Master.
• Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu recognized Xuan Zi’s speech as a way to control the narrative, while the spectators applauded and chose not to challenge it.

After Shrek Academy defeated Zhengtian Academy, Tang Yin declared his ambition to revive the Tang Sect and hunt a ten-thousand-year Cave Demon Spider for his fourth soul ring. The Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy then prepared to face Iron Bucket Academy, with Huo Yuhao poised to support Xiao Hongchen.

• Shrek Academy celebrated its victory, and Tang Yin invited the other teams to join the Tang Sect.
• Zhou Yi praised Tang Yin, who announced he would pursue a ten-thousand-year Cave Demon Spider as his fourth soul ring.
• Xu Jiujiu praised Xiao Xiao's courage, while Xu Jiawei explained the obstacles to Shrek Academy developing its Soul Engineer Department.
• Xiao Hongchen led the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy team toward its match against Iron Bucket Academy, as spectators doubted the young team's strength.
• Xu Sanshi dismissed Huo Yuhao as decoration, but Xiao Hongchen asked him to provide every special effect before the match began.

Xiao Hongchen and the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy faced the Tiantong Military Soul Master Academy, intending to make a dramatic showing and draw attention to Feng Tingting. Xiao stunned the arena by revealing seven Soul Rings, including two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, just as the opposing team charged.

• Xiao Hongchen and Huo Yuhao reviewed their plan to win decisively and use Xiao's display to draw attention away from the team's secrets and toward Feng Tingting.
• The Tiantong Military Soul Master Academy's students taunted Xiao Hongchen and Feng Tingting before both teams assembled and the match began.
• The Tiantong team activated synchronized Soul Skills that enlarged and strengthened its members, then charged at Xiao Hongchen's group.
• Xiao Hongchen revealed seven Soul Rings, including two red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, and his aura surged to Soul Saint strength.
• The crowd, the emperor, and the referee reacted in shock, while Tang Yin concluded that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast must have sacrificed itself for Xiao Hongchen.

Xiao Hongchen used Huo Yuhao’s spiritual support to unleash a devastating Soul Guidance Ray, and Huang Jinxu intervened to protect Tiantong Academy before declaring the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy the winner. The victory stunned the spectators and drew the Star Luo Emperor’s attention, while Xiao Hongchen nearly collapsed afterward from spending most of his soul power.

• Huo Yuhao’s upgraded Spiritual Detection and Spiritual Sharing helped Xiao Hongchen control and strengthen his converging Soul Guidance Rays.
• Huo Yuhao’s Soul Shock and Psychiatrist’s Intimidation briefly froze the Tiantong Academy team, allowing Xiao Hongchen to fire his Red Clustered Soul Guidance Ray at their captain.
• Huang Jinxu blocked the attack before it could hit Tiantong Academy’s captain and declared the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy the winner.
• Tang Yin questioned Xiao Hongchen’s age and cultivation, while Wang Yan agreed that the boy’s power seemed extraordinary and Xu Jiawei ordered a detailed investigation of the team.
• In a corridor after the match, Feng Tingting scolded Xiao Hongchen for nearly draining his soul power, and Huo Yuhao warned that other teams would now target him.

Dai Hao discovered that Evil Soul Masters had drained the remains of his ancestors, while Wang Dong lamented being left out of the tournament and her unresolved troubles. At Black Rock Ridge, a meteor shower struck as Tang Yin hunted a Cave Demon Spider, and Xuan Zi sent him flying toward safety.

• Dai Hao found his ancestors' tombs ransacked and realized the energy had been drained from their bones, suspecting Evil Soul Masters.
• Wang Dong complained that Tang Yin had kept her from competing and resolved to ask Meng for a custom Soul Tool, while grieving over her other problems.
• Xuan Zi brought Tang Yin to Black Rock Ridge to hunt a ten-thousand-year Cave Demon Spider and described the forest's dangers.
• A meteor shower suddenly descended, and Xuan Zi transformed into his Godly Taotie Bull avatar and hurled Tang Yin away from the impact.
• The meteors collided with Xuan Zi in a massive explosion, while Huo Yuhao watched from the Royal Star Hotel and read his notes predicting that Tang Yin might land in a Lone Bamboo forest.

After a meteor devastated Black Rock Ridge's Soul Hunting Forest, a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo sacrificed itself and fused a weak Soul Ring and an unexpected torso bone into Tang Yin. The chapter left Tang Yin furious after the fusion pushed his Soul Power down to Level 39 and he discovered the Soul Ring's ability.

• Badly injured by the meteor, Xuan Zi rushed to find Tang Yin and take him to Star Luo City for treatment.
• Xuan Zi saw a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo begin sacrificing itself and recognized the ritual.
• The bamboo's sacrifice quickly gave Tang Yin a weak white Soul Ring, while a nearby 10-Year Wind Baboon Torso Bone fused into his body.
• The torso bone drained Tang Yin's Soul Power, dropping him from Level 41 to Level 39 and leaving his body misshapen.
• Xuan Zi urged Tang Yin to inspect his new Soul Skill, and Tang Yin's face darkened after sensing it.

Huo Yuhao reflected on the limits of the Quill of Alzuhod before Meng Hongchen visited him in disguise to discuss acting and potion digestion. He explained his Spectator pathway and the dangers of losing control, leaving Meng Hongchen wondering whether his abilities could help others digest potions.

• Huo Yuhao realized the Quill of Alzuhod could not reliably kill powerful figures, so he wrote a vague final sentence that caused the quill to vanish.
• Meng Hongchen secretly entered Huo Yuhao's room in an assassin outfit and claimed she had come to discuss cultivation.
• Huo Yuhao described how acting as a Spectator and interpreting people had helped him advance through the Telepathist and Psychiatrist Sequences.
• Huo Yuhao warned Meng Hongchen that potion users risked mental corruption and could eventually become monsters or Evil Soul Masters.
• Meng Hongchen asked whether Huo Yuhao's Spectator pathway could help other people digest potions.

Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen discussed how recognition from a higher-level Spectator might help digest her Assassin Potion, then she hid behind his curtains when Xiao Hongchen arrived. Xiao Hongchen described her brutal sparring session and shared news about Wang Tingting’s growing influence, while he left knowing Meng Hongchen was still in Huo Yuhao’s room.

• Huo Yuhao agreed with Meng Hongchen’s theory that recognition from a higher-level Spectator could aid Potion digestion and suggested five principles for acting as an Assassin.
• Meng Hongchen prepared to leave Huo Yuhao’s room but hid behind the curtains when someone knocked.
• Xiao Hongchen arrived with a bruise and told Huo Yuhao that Meng Hongchen had used her new Assassin abilities to beat him in a sparring match.
• Xiao Hongchen offered Huo Yuhao advice about a limited-edition gift for Meng Hongchen, but Huo Yuhao redirected the conversation to Wang Tingting’s newspaper.
• Xiao Hongchen said Wang Tingting’s match had attracted over three hundred thousand spectators and strengthened her Martial Soul, then left while suspecting Meng Hongchen was hidden in Huo Yuhao’s room.

Huo Yuhao and his companions learned that their team had been placed in a difficult round-robin group, while Xu Jiujiu sought Vina’s help in organizing an Anti-Xiao Alliance to stop Xiao Hongchen from reaching the elimination rounds. The chapter ended with Emperor Xu Jiawei ordering a renewed investigation into Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Huo Yuhao.

• Feng Tingting showed Huo Yuhao, Meng Hongchen, and Xiao Hongchen the first issue of her tournament newspaper, which highlighted Xiao Hongchen’s two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• Feng Yu told the group that the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy had drawn Group Eight, alongside several formidable teams and Jiang Peng of Di'ao Academy.
• Vina protested the group assignments to Xu Jiujiu, who offered her five years of extra profits from a rare-metal mine in exchange for help.
• Xu Jiujiu asked Vina to form an Anti-Xiao Alliance and have rival academies probe Xiao Hongchen, potentially injuring him before the elimination rounds; Vina said she would take the proposal back for consideration.
• Xu Jiawei ordered a top-secret undercover agent to investigate Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Huo Yuhao again.

Huo Yuhao investigated why his cultivation had slowed, then discovered that his and Wang Dong’s martial souls had an unusually strong resonance that could create a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. He refused to deepen their connection, sold her soul tools, and warned her not to tell Tang Yin; meanwhile, Tang Yin returned to the Shrek team and faced questions about his soul-hunting trip.

• Huo Yuhao learned from the Ice Empress that ultimate-ice cultivation consumed much of his gains and that the Far North or ten-thousand-year cold marrow could accelerate it.
• Meng Hongchen disguised herself as Huo Yuhao and left Wang Dong alone with Huo Yuhao, who was disguised as Meng Hongchen, to discuss her soul-tool commission.
• Wang Dong released her Light Goddess Butterfly martial soul, and Huo Yuhao realized their strong resonance could form a Martial Soul Fusion Skill and might be part of a hidden scheme to bind them.
• Huo Yuhao sold Wang Dong two high-energy-gathering soul cannons and five trigger-activated shields for twenty thousand gold soul coins, rejected a closer connection, and told her not to mention the encounter to Tang Yin.
• Tang Yin rejoined the Shrek Academy team, where Wang Yan, Xu Sanshi, Zhou Yi, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya questioned him about his soul-hunting trip and fourth Soul Ring.

Tang Yin concealed his disappointing fourth soul ring and soul bone while Shrek prepared for the group round-robin, and he confirmed Wang Dong’s connection to Meng Hongchen through her reaction. As Shrek’s first match began, Xu Jiawei and Dai Hao discussed the mysterious attack on the Dai Family Mausoleum and a way to catch the culprit.

• Tang Yin reassured Shrek’s team that they would win, while privately worrying that his rank had fallen to thirty-nine and that his weak new soul ring could not be destroyed in time for the tournament.
• Tang Yin asked Wang Dong whether she had experienced martial soul resonance with Meng Hongchen; Wang Dong denied it and grew more suspicious of his motives.
• Two days later, Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to examine Shrek’s team before their first group-round-robin match and noticed Tang Yin’s cloak and weakened soul power.
• Xu Jiawei hoped the match would make Tang Yin reveal his fourth soul skill, while Xu Jiujiu suggested increasing the pressure in a later match.
• Dai Hao told Xu Jiawei that someone had destroyed the detection tools around the Dai Family Mausoleum, and Xu Jiawei offered an unranked Recording Soul Tool that might help them catch the intruder.

Tang Yin used Divine Slaughter's Domain to defeat Shrek Academy's opponents, prompting Huo Yuhao to suspect a link between him and Tang San and plan to target him. The Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy then drew Shashui Academy for a team battle, whose members intended to test Xiao Hongchen's true abilities.

• Tang Yin stunned the opposing Soul King with Divine Slaughter's Domain, then led Shrek Academy to victory without releasing his Soul Rings.
• The Ice Empress identified Tang Yin's ability as Divine Slaughter's Domain, once wielded by Tang San, and Huo Yuhao suspected Tang Yin had a connection to him.
• Huo Yuhao decided to focus his plans on Tang Yin, hoping a crushing setback might lead him to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and its Immortal Herbs.
• Huang Jinxu and Li Jie discussed Tang Yin's domain and Xiao Hongchen's capabilities before Huang Jinxu announced a team battle between the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy and Shashui Academy.
• Di'ao Academy gathered Group Eight's other team leaders to coordinate an effort to probe Xiao Hongchen, and Huo Yuhao warned him that Shashui Academy's three front-line Soul Kings were strong.

The Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy faced Shashui Academy, whose fighters used Martial Soul Mimicry and coordinated Soul Skills to counter the opening barrage. Huo Yuhao detected that their three giants were preparing a powerful combined attack, but they instead began joining together into something grotesque, leaving both teams stunned.

• Xiao Hongchen revealed his seven Soul Rings while Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection and a mental communication channel to coordinate the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy's opening barrage.
• Shashui Academy's Shui Shasha, Shi Fan, and Shi Mao manifested a Water Giant, Sand Man, and Mud Man through Martial Soul Mimicry, while their support Soul Ancestor buffed the team and left the arena.
• Shashui Academy's three giants intercepted the Soul Tool barrage with their fourth Soul Skills, then released resonating Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Skills.
• Huo Yuhao warned his teammates that the three Soul Skills might form a powerful combination and used Spiritual Sharing to mark the giants' movements and weaknesses.
• The three giants unexpectedly began joining together with cement-like slurry, and Huo Yuhao reduced and pixelated the image after the grotesque sight shocked him and his teammates.