Chapter Summaries

Ma Rulong’s team tried to counter Xiao Hongchen and Huo Yuhao with a coordinated barrage, but Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen evaded it and turned the fight around. As the battle continued, Meng Hongchen moved to harass Ma Rulong and Mi Jia while Huo Yuhao and Xiao Hongchen prepared a decisive attack.

• Xiao Hongchen unleashed a powerful clustered beam, but Ma Rulong’s team blocked it with a Level 5 Invincible Shield.
• Lin Xi used Light of Spiritual Marking to reveal Huo Yuhao, and the three opponents fired their full barrage at him.
• Huo Yuhao shot Lin Xi as his Invincible Shield expired, then passed the sniper rifle to Xiao Hongchen while Meng Hongchen carried him through attacks with Ice Refraction.
• Meng Hongchen cut down Thunder Punishment with her ice-attribute rapier, and Huo Yuhao erased the marks and vanished again.
• Huo Yuhao took the sniper rifle back from Xiao Hongchen and shot Lin Xi out of the fight, prompting Ma Rulong to order his team to take to the air.
• Meng Hongchen advanced on Ma Rulong and Mi Jia to keep them occupied while Huo Yuhao and Xiao Hongchen prepared their finishing attack.

Huo Yuhao helped Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen defeat Ma Rulong and Mijia, then used the victory to gather chaos qi from the crowd. Afterward, Ma Rulong urged Huo Yuhao to strengthen his cultivation and sniper rifle before the tournament.

• Ma Rulong and Mijia trapped Meng Hongchen between a mental barrier and an Invincible Shield, but she activated her own shield and endured their attacks until their defenses gave way.
• Huo Yuhao destroyed Ma Rulong's mental barrier Soul Tool, locked onto Ma Rulong and Mijia, and guided Xiao Hongchen's concentrated Soul Guidance Ray to defeat them.
• Xiao Hongchen struck a triumphant pose and recited a poem, while Huo Yuhao supplied the special effects and read the spectators' thoughts to harvest chaos qi.
• Wang Shaojie persuaded Zimu that acting like a lapdog could help him win Ju Zi over, and Zimu decided to follow his example.
• Ma Rulong complained that Huo Yuhao had made the match unfair, then advised him to obtain his third ring and develop a higher-level live-ammunition sniper rifle.

Huo Yuhao and Jing Hongchen planned to address the power and compatibility problems facing the Live Ammunition Soul Guidance Sniper Rifle, while Huo Yuhao’s battle footage made him popular with girls and a target of jealous male students. Wang Shaojie continued spreading his Simp Bible at the academy.

• Jing Hongchen explained that an Excited-State Human Soul Power Configuration Milk Bottle could power soul tools, but its stored soul power dissipated too quickly to be practical.
• Huo Yuhao planned to study Divine Soul Unity and use it to make attributeless Milk Bottle soul power compatible with the Ultimate Cooling Array, while Feng Yu coordinated a new project with a level 8 soul engineer.
• Huo Yuhao focused on meditation and cultivation as footage of his three-on-three battle spread throughout the academy.
• Girls discussed trying to win Huo Yuhao over, while male students jeered at him and blamed him for raising the cost of relationships.
• Wang Shaojie bragged that Hu Mei let him eat her leftovers, and Zimu considered seeking advice from him while Ju Zi questioned what the gesture proved.

Tang Yin dominated Shrek Academy’s battle royale by using the Eight Spider Lances to drain and poison his opponents, while Xuan Zi defended his methods and chose the Reserve Team. The chapter ended with Tang Yin, Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, He Caitou, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Dong selected, as Xuan Zi prepared to escort the students to the competition.

• Xuan Zi and Wang Yan discussed the Main Team’s strength and Tang Yin’s role in suppressing Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire.
• Tang Yin used hidden weapons and venom to eliminate He Caitou, prompting Fan Yu to protest, but Xuan Zi insisted Tang Yin had not broken the rules.
• As the students attacked him, Tang Yin unleashed the Eight Spider Lances’ devouring ability, draining his opponents and restoring his own strength.
• Tang Yin defeated Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill and overwhelmed the other students, while Xuan Zi rejected Wang Yan’s concern that the devouring ability resembled an evil soul master’s skill.
• Xuan Zi selected He Caitou, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Dong for the remaining Reserve Team places, and said he would escort the students to the competition.

With the tournament approaching, Huo Yuhao discussed his third Soul Ring with Jing Hongchen and chose a ten-thousand-year Silver Ying Beast despite the risks. Meanwhile, Meng Hongchen worried she was holding him back, and Wang Shaojie got a drunk Lin Xi to reveal how important Huo Yuhao had become to the team.

• Huo Yuhao met the main and reserve teams and learned Feng Tingting had joined the reserve team to support his sniper rifle with her Soul Power boost.
• After the reserve team’s extreme-pressure test, Meng Hongchen felt she depended too much on Huo Yuhao, while Feng Bujue returned from a Soul Hunting trip with a lead about his missing father.
• With the tournament about twenty days away, Huo Yuhao discussed third Soul Ring candidates with Jing Hongchen and Feng Yu, rejecting Group Weakness and an Evil Eye Tyrant in favor of the Silver Ying Beast’s Imprint.
• Huo Yuhao argued that his spiritual power and enhanced constitution would let him risk absorbing the ten-thousand-year Silver Ying Beast, leaving Jing Hongchen uncertain about the danger.
• Wang Shaojie got a drunken Lin Xi to say that Huo Yuhao’s tactical importance had surpassed Ma Rulong’s, despite being a Level 2 Soul Engineer.

Huo Yuhao reached Soul Power rank 30, absorbed a Ten-Thousand-Year Silver Ying Beast as his third Soul Ring, and gained the Imprint ability. Back in his dorm, he developed an immature Class 3 Ultimate Absorption Array as his Sea of Consciousness began to stir.

• Huo Yuhao reached rank 30 and learned from Electrolux that his changing Sea of Consciousness could eventually let him accommodate the mysterious droplet and yield usable objects.
• Jing Hongchen gave Huo Yuhao a Ten-Thousand-Year Silver Ying Beast, bought for five million Gold Soul Coins, and arranged for him to absorb it under supervision.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed the Silver Ying Beast successfully and gained Imprint, which could copy and store one opponent’s Soul Skill for later use, up to three times a day.
• Jing Hongchen sensed Huo Yuhao had reached the Soul Elder level and admired his rapid progress as a Soul Engineer and his steady temperament.
• Huo Yuhao adapted a Class 4 absorption array’s mistaken stroke into an unfinished Class 3 Ultimate Absorption Array, then felt something stir in his Sea of Consciousness.

Huo Yuhao advanced to Psychiatrist and explored the altered Sea of Consciousness, where he recovered an Assassin Potion and an illusory quill called the Quill of Alzuhod. He kept the potion despite his Spirituality’s warning and learned that the quill could make its stories real, along with a history of deadly consequences.

• Huo Yuhao advanced to Psychiatrist and learned abilities including Intimidation, Frenzy, Psychological Suggestion, and Soothing.
• Huo Yuhao entered his transformed Sea of Consciousness and retrieved an illusory, inkless quill, causing the other objects to vanish into the darkness.
• Huo Yuhao heard a strange whisper that muddled his consciousness and concluded that gaining the objects had come with a price.
• Huo Yuhao identified one object as a Sequence 9 Assassin Potion, found no side effects in its description, and decided to keep it despite his Spirituality’s warning.
• Huo Yuhao learned that the Quill of Alzuhod could make written stories real and had caused the deaths of previous owners, researchers, and Angels.

After Huo Yuhao revealed his ten-thousand-year third soul ring, he discussed the risks and promise of an independent power-enhancing item with Meng Hongchen, then learned that the team had finished its Level Six Live Ammunition Soul Guidance Sniper Rifle. During a day off, Meng Hongchen heard female students plotting to pursue Huo Yuhao and decided to use academy publications to protect his focus and reputation.

• Xiao Hongchen visited Huo Yuhao, who used Psychological Suggestion to make him believe he had been terrified into soiling himself.
• Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen asked Huo Yuhao about his breakthrough, and Xiao Hongchen complained that Ma Rulong had been tormenting him during tactical drills.
• Huo Yuhao asked Meng Hongchen what she thought of a dangerous but powerful item outside the soul master system, and she explained its potential to raise a soul master's limits.
• Xiao Hongchen told Huo Yuhao that the team had completed its Level Six Live Ammunition Soul Guidance Sniper Rifle, and the three collected it before dining with Feng Tingting.
• Meng Hongchen overheard female students planning to ambush or seduce Huo Yuhao, then told Feng Tingting to rein in the content of Soul Engineer Genius and other periodicals.

Shrek Academy’s teams entered the Mingdou Mountain Range for an inspection mission, while Tang Yin praised Xuan Zi and Wang Sheng Jia privately doubted the Inspection Corps’ methods. The chapter ended with the Death Messenger preparing an ambush despite Wang Sheng Jia’s warning to flee.

• Dai Hao greeted the Shrek group, and Dai Yueheng told Ma Xiaotao that their father had only one wife.
• Tang Yin asked Ma Xiaotao to let him absorb her addictive Evil Fire again, while Wang Sheng Jia recalled secretly warning the Death Messenger to leave.
• Dai Yueheng described his inspection missions and the Corps’ ideals, but Wang Sheng Jia thought students sometimes killed innocents to meet graduation requirements.
• Dai Huabin challenged Tang Yin’s strength, and Tang Yin said his poisons and improved Divine Slaughter’s Domain would let him face Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Xuan Zi praised the Inspection Corps and announced that Inner Court students could attend the Sea God’s Fate matchmaking event; Tang Yin flattered him, while Ning Tian resolved to keep her team at a distance.
• The Death Messenger heard that his men had hung corpses throughout the area and dismissed Wang Sheng Jia’s warning as he watched the Western Group Army’s encampment.

Shrek's main team and Reserve Team fought Evil Soul Masters in a cavern while Tang Yin taunted the spectators into joining the battle. The Lan sisters and Dai Huabin went forward, but Ning Tian and Wu Feng stayed back with Xuan Zi, who sampled Tang Yin's wine.

• Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, and the main team overwhelmed the Evil Soul Masters, while the Reserve Team followed behind to finish off wounded enemies.
• Tang Yin and He Caitou argued over whether soul tools or Tang Sect hidden weapons were better as the Reserve Team cleared the battlefield.
• Tang Yin challenged the spectator team to fight, and Zhou Yi encouraged the Lan sisters to attack the weaker enemies.
• Dai Huabin entered the cavern after Zhou Yi shamed him, while Ning Tian and Wu Feng remained with Wang Sheng Jia and Xuan Zi.
• Tang Yin offered Xuan Zi Tang Sect wine, and Xuan Zi tasted it and praised its strength.

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.