Recaps

At Shrek Academy’s freshman assessment, Huo Yutong challenged Dai Huabing to a wager that the loser would kneel and kowtow. Huo Yutong intimidated a thousand-year Frost Giant Python with her simulated hundred-thousand-year soul ring aura and declared that Dai Huabing had lost.

• Huo Yutong confronted Dai Huabing and wagered that the loser of the assessment would kneel and kowtow.
• Dai Huabing accepted the wager, then fought a thousand-year soul beast fiercely and lost points for trying to kill it.
• Huo Yutong chose a thousand-year soul beast for her assessment, and the teachers brought in a Frost Giant Python.
• Huo Yutong used her Simulation Soul Skill to make her soul ring appear hundred-thousand-year-old, terrifying the Frost Giant Python into cowering in the arena.
• Huo Yutong withdrew her martial soul, told Dai Huabing she had lost, and ordered her to kneel.

Huo Yutong left Dai Huabing kneeling after winning their assessment, then returned to the Soul Guidance Department, where imperial tensions and a class rivalry were taking shape. As Ning Tian gathered classmates through his wealth and connections, Huo Yutong focused on improving her soul-tool skills.

• Dai Huabing kowtowed to Huo Yutong, who walked away without looking back, while Dai Huabing refused Zhu Lu's help and left the arena on her own.
• Jin Hongchen praised the accuracy of Huo Yutong's simulated hundred-thousand-year soul-ring aura, and Old Gong complained that the assessment had frightened his soul beasts.
• Gu Xingyue returned to class and slept through Wang Yan's lesson, while Huo Yutong's class received a Sun Moon Empire teaching assistant amid hostility from students of the other empires.
• Ning Tian treated more than a dozen classmates to dinner and began building support with benefits and connections.
• Huo Yutong relied on her teammates and technically minded classmates for support, then studied the soul-tool blueprints Fan Yu had given her.

Shrek Academy began selecting seven reserve team members for the Continental Soul Master Tournament, and Xuan Zi appeared to test the candidates by inviting them to attack. After several students failed to move her, she pressed the entire training ground down with crushing gravity, while Gu Xingyue remained standing with an elemental lotus in his hand.

• The Outer Court grew tense as students prepared for the reserve team selection, and all who had signed up gathered at the training ground.
• Xuan Zi revealed herself as a Sea God Pavilion elder and ordered the students to attack her so she could judge their strength.
• He Caicai fired a soul cannon at Xuan Zi, who stopped and crushed the beam with one hand.
• Xu Shanshi charged with her Black Tortoise Shield as Bei Bei attacked with lightning enhanced by Gu Xingyue, but Xuan Zi repelled them both.
• Jiang Nan struck Xuan Zi and tried to bind and throw her with his bandages, but she broke free and sent him flying.
• Xuan Zi pressed down on the training ground with immense gravity, pinning the attackers while Gu Xingyue stayed upright with an elemental lotus in his hand.

Xuan Zi tested the Outer Court students in combat and discovered that Huo Yutong possessed Ultimate Ice. She declared Huo Yutong and Gu Xingyue Shrek’s Twin Stars, ending the spar with Shrek’s future looking transformed by three ultimate attributes under one roof.

• Gu Xingyue attacked Xuan Zi with a self-created purple-green elemental lotus, but she took the blast without injury and challenged the students to fight her.
• Xuan Zi suppressed her cultivation to the Soul Emperor level and began eliminating students with Eight Trigrams Palm and an elemental meteor hammer.
• Jiang Nan, Xu Shanshi, and Huo Yutong coordinated against Xuan Zi, with Huo Yutong using Spiritual Detection to help the students track her movements.
• Huo Yutong confronted Xuan Zi with an ice-attribute palm strike, and Xuan Zi recognized her power as Ultimate Ice.
• Xuan Zi celebrated the discovery of Huo Yutong’s Ultimate Ice alongside Gu Xingyue’s Ultimate Lightning and Ultimate Life, and named them Shrek’s Twin Stars.

Xuan Zi brought the Outer Court Reserve Team to the Inner Court, where they met the disciples and were assigned a combat match. After a golden-haired Inner Court disciple questioned the mismatch in strength, Xuan Zi defended the training and warned everyone about the Body Sect and its master.

• Xuan Zi led the seven Reserve Team members across Sea God Lake and introduced them to the Inner Court disciples.
• Gongsun Mo teased Xu Shanshi by asking about her scent, then revealed she had been joking and welcomed her as a future training partner.
• Xuan Zi assigned seven Inner Court disciples to fight the seven Reserve Team members in an assignment-free combat match.
• A golden-haired Inner Court disciple questioned whether the strength gap made the match unfair.
• Xuan Zi said harsh opponents were part of life beyond the academy and warned everyone to stay far away from the Body Sect's master.

Gu Xingyue received powerful battle armor and new abilities just before the match against the seven Inner Court disciples, transforming the battle’s odds. He opened the fight by unleashing a lightning storm that swallowed the arena.

• The Reserve Team doubted they could defeat the Inner Court disciples until Gu Xingyue argued that Huo Yutong’s abilities gave them a chance and said he would direct the fight.
• Gu Xingyue received One-Word Battle Armor, Dragon King Era Battle Armor Technology, two armor-related bonuses, and Heart of Elements.
• Gu Xingyue entered the arena with Huo Yutong and told her she was his lucky general before challenging the Inner Court disciples.
• Gu Xingyue assembled his battle armor, astonishing the Inner Court disciples, the Reserve Team, and Xuan Zi with its power.
• Gu Xingyue used Thunder Prison Storm, filling the arena with dark purple lightning that rivaled a Soul Sage’s full-power strike.

Gu Xingyue used his Battle Armor to defeat seven Inner Court disciples in a single Thunder Prison Storm, leaving the arena stunned. He left with Huo Yutong while Xuan Zi chose not to question him, and he anticipated that Mu En might soon gain Battle Armor as well.

• Gu Xingyue unleashed Thunder Prison Storm, overwhelming the seven Inner Court disciples’ combined defense and knocking them all unconscious in an instant.
• The reserve team and Xuan Zi watched in shock as Gu Xingyue withdrew his Battle Armor and told the others to snap out of it.
• Gu Xingyue invited Huo Yutong to leave with him, and they walked back toward the Outer Court together.
• Xuan Zi refrained from questioning Gu Xingyue, then ordered the reserve team to take the injured disciples to the infirmary and run ten laps before dinner.
• Gu Xingyue thought that Xuan Zi would report what she had witnessed and imagined Mu En recovering with the Evergreen Life Vine and eventually wearing Battle Armor.

After the battle, Gu Xingyue joined Huo Yutong in her workshop, where they cooked a meal together and shared a warm moment. In Huo Yutong’s sea of consciousness, the Ice Empress urged Tianmeng to help Huo Yutong study soul tools, while Gu Xingyue praised Huo Yutong’s cooking as they sat down to eat.

• Gu Xingyue followed Huo Yutong to her private soul tool workshop and discovered the small kitchen behind the workbench.
• Gu Xingyue and Huo Yutong prepared dinner together while Huo Yutong wished their peaceful moment could last.
• The Ice Empress questioned Tianmeng about why Huo Yutong lacked powerful armor, then ordered Tianmeng to study soul tools with her.
• Huo Yutong finished cooking and served Gu Xingyue a meal at the table.
• Gu Xingyue tasted Huo Yutong’s soup and called her the Cooking God of their age.

After discovering Huo Yutong's Ultimate Ice martial soul, Yan Shaozhe brought her to meet Mu En, who accepted her as a disciple and offered to teach her and Gu Xingyue King's Presence. The pair left the Sea God Pavilion together, with Huo Yutong reassured that she could learn the technique.

• Yan Shaozhe found Gu Xingyue and Huo Yutong by Sea God Lake and asked Huo Yutong to meet someone important.
• Gu Xingyue accompanied Huo Yutong to the Sea God Pavilion, where Mu En asked her to become her disciple.
• Huo Yutong accepted Mu En as her master, and Mu En announced that she would teach King's Presence to Huo Yutong and Gu Xingyue.
• Mu En explained that King's Presence combined Spiritual Power and soul power, and told both students to begin practicing with her the next day.
• Yan Shaozhe asked Gu Xingyue about the armor Xuan Zi had mentioned, and Gu Xingyue told her she would find out in a few days.
• Huo Yutong asked whether she could learn King's Presence, and Gu Xingyue assured her she could as they walked back together.

Gu Xingyue revealed Battle Armor to Mu En and explained that it could greatly enhance soul masters, with the potential to be widely produced. Mu En asked about its manufacture and Gu Xingyue said he intended to monopolize the technology.

• After training, Gu Xingyue went to Mu En's room and said the armor he had worn in combat would surprise her.
• Mu En recognized that Gu Xingyue's armor resembled a Life-Bound Soul Tool and recalled a Sun Moon Empire consecrator's offer to design her a Class 9 soul tool if Shrek formed an alliance.
• Gu Xingyue manifested his One-Word Battle Armor and explained that Soul Kings could wear a complete set, while its later stages could become a soul master's second life.
• Mu En wondered whether higher stages of Battle Armor could let her face two Limit Douluos alone.
• Gu Xingyue said One-Word Battle Armor could be manufactured under current conditions, but perfecting the forging would take time.
• When Mu En asked what he planned to do with the technology, Gu Xingyue said he would monopolize it.

Xu Jiawei arranged a covert attack on Shrek Academy, intending to frame the Sun Moon Empire, while Xuan Zi led Gu Xingyue and the Reserve Team toward Star Luo City. The group raced toward the tournament as Gu Xingyue questioned Shrek’s approach to Evil Soul Masters.

• Xu Jiawei told her younger brother that their arrangements for an attack on Shrek Academy were ready.
• Xu Jiawei ordered her forces to disguise themselves as Sun Moon Empire radicals and use smuggled fixed soul cannons to attack Shrek.
• Xuan Zi gave the Reserve Team flying soul tools and led them southwest toward Star Luo City.
• Xuan Zi gathered the slow-flying group with her soul power and accelerated their journey.
• Gu Xingyue asked Xuan Zi about Shrek’s missions against Evil Soul Masters and criticized its methods.
• Xuan Zi accelerated again, and the group sped toward Star Luo City.

Xuan Zi led Shrek Academy to Star Luo City, where its team met the Sun Moon Empire team led by Jin Hongchen before the competition. Though the two sides had become allies and exchanged valuable gifts and techniques, their students still prepared to face each other in the arena.

• Xuan Zi and Shrek Academy arrived in Star Luo City as the Sun Moon Empire team entered under Jin Hongchen’s leadership.
• Jin Hongchen greeted Xuan Zi and brought her a powerful defensive soul tool prepared by the Sun Moon Empire’s chief consecrator.
• The two sides exchanged gifts, including soul tools from the Sun Moon Empire and cultivation methods and soul ring techniques from Shrek Academy.
• The main teams met, and their members faced one another with competitive hostility despite the improved relations between their academies.
• Gu Xingyue reflected on the altered world and set aside thoughts of war as the competition took priority.

Shrek Academy arrived at the Star Emperor Hotel, where Gu Xingyue recognized members of the Body Sect and learned they planned to enter the tournament. The Body Sect’s acting sect master, Du Busì, ordered her team to target Shrek, while Feng Aotian was kept hidden as their trump card.

• A golden-eyed girl from the Sun Moon Empire declared Gu Xingyue her lifelong rival, but he ignored her and Huo Yutong dismissed her as no threat.
• Shrek Academy arrived at the Star Emperor Hotel, where Gu Xingyue recognized Lang Ya, Yu Tao, and other members of the Body Sect.
• Xuan Zi said the Body Sect planned to enter the tournament and criticized them for appearing after causing a major disaster.
• At the Body Sect’s lodgings, Du Busì ordered her members to recover and defeat Shrek’s elites.
• Du Busì told Feng Aotian to stay hidden until the final rounds and said she would protect her if she killed Shrek students during matches.
• Gu Xingyue sneezed at the hotel and wondered who was talking about him.

The Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament began in Star Luo City, where the Body Sect took the opening match instead of Shrek. Gu Xingyue led Shrek’s Reserve Team onto the platform and stunned the crowd by revealing three thousand-year Soul Rings as the battle against Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy began.

• Xu Jiawei welcomed the crowd and declared the tournament officially open.
• The Body Sect defeated its opponent in only a few moves, while Xuan Zi suspected the changed match order had political significance.
• Gu Xingyue led Shrek’s Reserve Team onto the platform to face Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy.
• At the start of the match, Gu Xingyue revealed three purple Soul Rings, shocking the spectators and Xiao Hongchen.

Shrek Academy swiftly defeated Skywind Academy, drawing the Body Sect's attention to a student with a Noumenon Martial Soul. Du Busì confronted Xuan Zi and transformed into her enormous Noumenon True Body, demanding that Mu En appear.

• Huo Yutong shared Spiritual Detection as the Shrek Reserve Team overwhelmed Skywind Academy and eliminated all seven opponents without injury.
• Golden Body recognized a Shrek student as a rare Spirit-Type Noumenon Martial Soul and urged Du Busì to reclaim her for the Body Sect.
• Du Busì agreed that Shrek had insulted the Body Sect and rose into the air to halt the tournament.
• Xuan Zi confronted Du Busì, and the two exchanged accusations before their auras pressured the arena.
• Du Busì manifested her hundred-meter Noumenon True Body and demanded that Mu En come forward.

Du Busì attacked Xuan Zi in Star Luo City, and the battle escalated when Jin Hongchen’s soul guidance cannons joined the fight. As Du Busì and the Golden Body Douluo targeted the cannon array, Jin Hongchen ordered a volley at the elder.

• Du Busì unleashed three hundred-thousand-year soul rings and fought Xuan Zi in the sky above Star Luo City.
• Xuan Zi questioned why Du Busì would risk war with Shrek over Huo Yutong, but Du Busì insisted the Body Sect would take whatever it wanted.
• Jin Hongchen deployed thousands of soul guidance cannons and fired at Du Busì to support Shrek Academy.
• Du Busì charged Jin Hongchen, but Xuan Zi struck her back and blocked her path.
• Golden Body Douluo flew toward Jin Hongchen, but the cannons targeted him, and Jin Hongchen ordered them to fire.

A mysterious former Body Sect master arrived at the arena and tried to take Huo Yutong, but an ancient consciousness within Huo Yutong fought back. The woman revealed her Ultimate Douluo power, leaving Xuan Zi and Du Busì to face the return of a figure thought long dead.

• Xu Jiawei ordered the court guardians to stop the battle as its shock waves threatened Star Luo City.
• A white-haired woman in a wheelchair appeared and tried to pull Huo Yutong toward the Body Sect, but Huo Yutong resisted with her Ice Jade Scorpion Emperor.
• An ancient black-robed consciousness took control of Huo Yutong and exchanged attacks with the woman, who revealed her Ultimate Douluo aura.
• Xuan Zi and Du Busì paused their battle, and Du Busì celebrated her eldest sister's arrival.
• Xuan Zi recognized the woman as the former Body Sect master, once a paralyzed rival of Mu En who had secretly survived and reached Ultimate Douluo.

Du Bisi attacked Shrek Academy’s students to take Huo Yutong, but Mu En arrived and forced the Body Sect to withdraw. Xuan Zi was left weakened after burning her origin, and Xu Jiawei suspended the competition for three days while recognizing that the Star Luo Empire had been powerless in its own capital.

• Jin Hongchen and Xuan Zi confronted Du Busì, Golden Body Douluo, and Du Bisi as the Body Sect attacked.
• Du Bisi struck Xuan Zi into the arena wall, and Xuan Zi burned her origin to raise her power and protect the students.
• Xu Jiawei and several Star Luo Empire retainers arrived, but Du Bisi threatened Shrek’s Reserve Team and prepared to attack Huo Yutong.
• Mu En appeared and confronted Du Bisi, who withdrew with the Body Sect without taking Huo Yutong.
• Mu En told Xuan Zi to recuperate for three months, then spoke with Gu Xingyue and Jin Hongchen about the attack and future cooperation.
• Xu Jiawei suspended the competition for three days and left for the imperial palace, aware that the Star Luo Empire had failed to control events in its own arena.

After the Continental Soul Master Tournament resumed, Gu Xingyue led Shrek Academy against the Star Luo Imperial Soul Master Academy. He revealed his Battle Armor, overwhelmed the opposing team, and defeated Xu Jiu after breaking through Star's Protection.

• The tournament resumed three days after the arena was repaired, but many academies had withdrawn, and Shrek’s Reserve Team rapidly defeated its remaining opponents.
• The draw paired Shrek Academy with the Star Luo Imperial Soul Master Academy while the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy faced the Body Sect.
• Xu Jiu trapped Dai Yue'er inside a Class 7 defensive soul tool, but Gu Xingyue stepped forward and donned his Battle Armor, raising his aura to the middle Soul King stage.
• Gu Xingyue used Gongsun Mo’s Rainbow Bridge to accelerate, then knocked two Star Luo team members out before Xu Jiu could support them.
• Xu Jiu activated Star's Protection, but Gu Xingyue’s Thunder Prison Storm shattered its eighteen stars, and his final punch sent Xu Jiu to the arena’s edge.

The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy defeated the Body Sect and then beat Shrek in the final, with Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire Phoenix mutating during the battle. Afterward, Mu En sealed Ma Xiaotao’s cultivation until his evil fire could be dealt with.

• Jin Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen used their martial soul fusion skill to secure the Sun Moon Empire’s victory over the Body Sect.
• Jin Hongchen wondered where Gu Xingyue’s soul tool armor came from and planned to finish handing over the Level 9 Soul Tool before exploring possible cooperation.
• Shrek and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy began the final, and Ma Xiaotao charged Ma Rulong while the Sun Moon team’s soul tools pinned down Shrek’s other fighters.
• Ma Rulong’s Sword of Judgment suppressed Ma Xiaotao’s flames, which turned black as his martial soul mutated into an Evil Phoenix.
• The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy defeated Shrek after Ma Rulong knocked the remaining Ma Xiaotao out of the arena.
• Mu En told Ma Xiaotao his martial soul had irreversibly mutated and sealed his cultivation until the evil fire could be dealt with.

Gu Xingyue defeated Xiao Hongchen and the Hongchen siblings in the tournament, helping Shrek remain champion before joining the group at an auction in Star Luo City. There, he considered whether to warn the Sun Moon Empire about the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Embryo or obtain it himself.

• Gu Xingyue accepted ice water from Huo Yutong, then went to compete against Xiao Hongchen.
• Xiao Hongchen attacked with his soul tools, but Gu Xingyue's lightning defeated him almost instantly.
• Gu Xingyue and Huo Yutong defeated the Hongchen siblings in the two-on-two match, and Shrek won the tournament.
• The group went to an auction hosted by the Star Luo Empire, where Gu Xingyue recalled the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Embryo's trap for the Sun Moon Empire.
• Gu Xingyue weighed warning the Sun Moon Empire or securing the embryo, which contained the Snow Empress, as the first auction lot appeared.

Gu Xingyue and Huo Yutong competed for a mysterious carving knife that contained Life Gold, a treasure Gu Xingyue wanted to strengthen his path toward godhood. Huo Yutong yielded the bidding to him, and after he won the knife, their private exchange drew teasing from their companions.

• Gu Xingyue waited through the early auction items, which held little interest for him, while Jin Hongchen noticed Sun Moon Empire soul tools being sold in Star Luo Empire and vowed to report the smuggling.
• The auctioneer presented a carving knife that its previous owners had been unable to wield, and Jin Hongchen warned Xiao Hongchen that it was a cursed knife he could not master.
• Electrolux explained the knife's Life Gold to Huo Yutong and her companions, and Huo Yutong decided to let Gu Xingyue have it despite Tianmeng's reluctance.
• Gu Xingyue won the carving knife after Huo Yutong lowered her paddle, then asked whether she knew its secret, and she admitted she knew a little.
• Gu Xingyue quietly invited Huo Yutong to his room after the auction, and Bei Bei told the pair to mind how their behavior looked.

Gu Xingyue bid against Jin Hongchen for a hundred-thousand-year soul beast embryo that could potentially grant a second martial soul. Shrek won it for two hundred million gold soul coins, while Xiao Hongchen concealed her disappointment at losing the chance to obtain it.

• The auctioneer revealed that the final item was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast embryo sealed inside a Class 9 soul tool, and explained its possible benefits.
• Jin Hongchen resolved to buy the embryo for the Sun Moon Empire, while Gu Xingyue realized it was the Snow Empress and decided to secure it for Shrek.
• Xuan Zi considered the embryo unnecessary for Gu Xingyue and Huo Yutong, but Gu Xingyue raised his bidding paddle.
• Gu Xingyue and Jin Hongchen bid against each other until Shrek won the embryo for two hundred million gold soul coins.
• Jin Hongchen apologized to Xiao Hongchen for failing to win the embryo, and Xiao Hongchen proclaimed her confidence while privately mourning the lost chance at a second martial soul.

Zhongli Wu planned to join the Body Sect against Shrek while abusing her captive husband, Feng Ling. In the Star Luo Empire, Gu Xingyue and Huo Yutong shared the Life Gold, gained its benefits, and prepared to return to the academy.

• Zhongli Wu ordered the Holy Spirit Church to cooperate with the Body Sect in attacking Shrek Academy.
• Zhongli Wu summoned Feng Ling and forced him to submit, while he secretly vowed to kill her and remembered the Light Phoenix woman he loved.
• Gu Xingyue told Huo Yutong that they would absorb the Life Gold together, and his system rewarded him with the Goddess of Life's blessing and a completed Four-Word Battle Armor set.
• Huo Yutong used Electrolux's power to purify the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife and divide the Life Gold between herself and Gu Xingyue.
• Gu Xingyue and Huo Yutong absorbed their shares through the night, strengthening their bodies and cultivation before setting out to return to the academy.

Gu Xingyue showed Mu En a Four-Word Battle Armor and offered it to her, explaining that several deities had granted him things he could not discuss. Mu En accepted the armor and returned with him to the hall, where Xuan Zi prepared everyone to head back to the academy.

• Gu Xingyue arrived at the hall, where Xuan Zi noticed that he had grown stronger and that the Life Element gathered around him.
• Mu En appeared, transported herself and Gu Xingyue to a forest, and asked him what he wanted to discuss.
• Gu Xingyue revealed a Four-Word Battle Armor and said that deities had given it to him, though they would not let him explain further.
• Gu Xingyue offered the armor to Mu En, who accepted it after considering her restored strength and long lifespan.
• Mu En returned with Gu Xingyue to the hall, and Xuan Zi ordered everyone to assemble and return to the academy.