Chapter Summaries

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.

Shrek Academy’s team was ambushed by Du Bisi and ten other Titled Douluos, who demanded Huo Yutong and threatened to seize the hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast embryo. Mu En overwhelmed Du Bisi with her power, but Zhongli Wu arrived with eleven more Titled Douluos, leaving Mu En facing a much larger force while sensing a familiar hidden presence nearby.

• Xu Jiawei watched Shrek Academy leave by carriage and approved the plan to proceed with an ambush.
• Xuan Zi stopped the carriages at a forest, where Du Bisi and ten other Titled Douluos surrounded Shrek Academy and demanded Huo Yutong.
• Mu En transformed into the Light Holy Dragon, used Dragon Emperor Shakes the Domain Realm to suppress the Body Sect’s fighters, and sent Du Bisi crashing through the forest with a punch.
• Du Busì attacked Mu En, but Mu En stood firm and repelled her without moving.
• Zhongli Wu arrived with eleven Titled Douluos, including three Hyper Douluos, and the Body Sect fighters rallied.
• Mu En sensed a familiar aura concealed in the distance and prepared to face the gathered enemies, confident that only a Limit Douluo could challenge her.

Mu En faced Du Bisi, Long Xiaoyao, and Ye Xishui as Shrek’s enemies gathered around them and fought over Huo Yutong and another soul master with an ultimate martial soul. The three forces reached a standoff, and Mu En stepped forward, preparing to fight all three Limit Douluos alone.

• Mu En decisively suppressed Du Bisi in their fight while Du Busì held back, wary of Zhongli Wu and the Evil Soul Masters.
• Long Xiaoyao appeared and declared that she and Mu En were no longer sisters, while Ye Xishui joined her and demanded the Evil Phoenix soul master and a soul master with an ultimate martial soul.
• Du Bisi offered to leave if Mu En handed over the Body Sect disciple, but Zhongli Wu urged her to join forces against Shrek.
• Ye Xishui rejected further discussion and prepared to fight, leaving Mu En, Du Bisi, Long Xiaoyao, and Ye Xishui facing one another.
• Mu En advanced with her battle armor and golden wings blazing, resolving to defeat three Limit Douluos alone.

Mu En battled Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao while Du Bisi seized Huo Yutong, intent on taking her as the Body Sect’s successor. Gu Xingyue tried to intervene, but Du Bisi overpowered him, and the chapter left Huo Yutong in her grasp as the God of Destruction complained about the Sea God in the Divine Realm.

• Ye Xishui unleashed her blood sea, but Mu En drove her back with Dragon Emperor Evil-Breaking Rend.
• Long Xiaoyao joined Ye Xishui against Mu En while Du Bisi rushed toward the Shrek students and captured Huo Yutong.
• Gu Xingyue threatened Du Bisi with a trace of creation power, but she knocked him aside before Huo Yutong threatened to sever her own meridians.
• Zhongli Wu arrived and attacked Du Bisi, who struck her down and left the three Revered Elders too afraid to intervene.
• Du Bisi declared Huo Yutong a worthy successor for the Body Sect and prepared to take her away while Mu En remained trapped in battle.
• In the Divine Realm, the God of Destruction cursed the Sea God for talking back to her.

The God of Destruction raged about the Sea God while the God of Life tried to calm her. When the Ancient Tree of Life pointed to the Douluo Continent as the source of an extraordinary successor, the Sea God rushed to stop Destruction from investigating, and the two confronted each other.

• The God of Destruction complained that the Sea God and the Gods of Good and Evil had opposed her, while the God of Life suggested secretly beating up the Sea God.
• The Ancient Tree of Life glowed and stirred, and the God of Life sensed it had found a successor to a divine position connected to the Douluo Continent.
• The God of Destruction began probing the Douluo Plane with her divine sense, prompting the Sea God to fly to Destruction and Life's temple.
• The Sea God accused the God of Destruction of unlawfully interfering with the lower realms, but Destruction drew her Scepter of Destruction and threatened her.
• The Sea God urged the God of Destruction to talk calmly and warned that fighting would violate the Divine Realm's rules.

The God of Destruction and the God of Life discovered that Gu Xingyue, a young man at Shrek Academy, possessed a mysterious Life Blessing and the nascent Power of Creation. When they sensed he was caught in a dangerous battle, the God of Destruction sent the God of Gluttony to protect him indirectly.

• The Sea God confronted the God of Destruction over her scan of the Douluo Continent, but the God of Destruction and the God of Life accused her of acting suspiciously before she left.
• The God of Destruction ordered the God of Life to identify the person sensed by the Ancient Tree of Life, and he found Gu Xingyue at Shrek Academy.
• The God of Life discovered that Gu Xingyue bore a God King-level Life Blessing he did not remember granting and a nascent form of the Power of Creation.
• The God of Destruction sensed that Gu Xingyue was in danger during a battle and resisted intervening directly in the lower realm.
• The God of Destruction summoned the God of Gluttony and ordered him to protect Gu Xingyue through a Titled Douluo chosen as his Divine Attendant.