Chapter Summaries

Shrek Academy issued bounties for Huo Yuhao and his companions, while Yan Shaozhe brought the reserve team to a Star Luo City auction to seek useful Soul Tools. Huo Yuhao’s group also reached the auction house, where they began waiting for the treasures he had come to obtain.

• Shrek Academy accused Huo Yuhao, Ma Xiaotao, Xie Huanyue, Cui Yajie, and others of betraying the academy, then ordered Ma Xiaotao, Huo Yuhao, and the others captured.
• Yan Shaozhe and Wang Yan led the reserve team, including the returning Dai Yueheng, to the Starlight Auction House to find practical Soul Tools for the tournament.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the normal timeline with his companions, learned that Shrek had placed bounties on him, Xie Huanyue, and Cui Yajie, and brought the group to Star Luo City.
• Ning Tian used her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect identity to register the group for the auction, where they received purple masks and seats near the platform.
• Qing Ya opened the special Soul Tool auction, and Huo Yuhao recognized her and entered meditation while waiting for the items he wanted.

At the Starlight Auction, Ning Tian outbid Wang Yan for a Milk Bottle, while Huo Yuhao bought the dangerous Soul Devouring Engraving Knife for three hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins. He left the auction pleased with his prize and promised Xie Huanyue a surprise.

• Wang Yan bought more than a dozen Soul Tools for the Shrek group during the auction.
• Ning Tian bid against Wang Yan for a Class 4 Milk Bottle, but Huo Yuhao told her to let Wang Yan have it after the price reached one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Qing Ya introduced the Soul Devouring Engraving Knife, and He Caitou explained its deadly danger to the Shrek group.
• Huo Yuhao bid three hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins for the engraving knife, and Qing Ya sold it to him.
• Xie Huanyue asked Huo Yuhao what he would do with the knife, and Huo Yuhao promised him a surprise.

Huo Yuhao purified the Soul Devouring Fierce Blade, used Gold of Life to help Xie Huanyue, and underwent a transformation that expanded his Sea of Spirit and awakened the Eye of Destiny. Meanwhile, Wang Dong’s aversion to Soul Tools persisted, Xu Sanshi’s Martial Soul Fusion attempt was interrupted, and Huo Yuhao went to the competition venue hoping to meet Ju Zi.

• Bibi Dong absorbed the Ferocious Spirit’s evil thoughts, and Huo Yuhao gave Xie Huanyue Gold of Life to replenish the lifespan consumed by his soul skills.
• Electrolux used the Gold of Life to stabilize his divine consciousness and guide Huo Yuhao through a painful expansion of his Sea of Spirit.
• Huo Yuhao’s spiritual origin reformed, his third eye emerged, and he gained access to the Holy Necromancer’s abilities.
• Wang Dong told Xu Sanshi that an inexplicable consciousness made her reject Soul Tools, and their Martial Soul Fusion cultivation was interrupted when a force blasted him away.
• Wang Yan led Shrek Academy to its second match, while Huo Yuhao went to Star Luo Plaza with Xie Huanyue and others to seek out the Sun Moon team and see Ju Zi.

Shrek Academy defeated Thousand Spirits Academy in a one-sided team battle, while Huo Yuhao learned that Ma Xiaotao had joined the Holy Spirit Cult and planned to rescue her. He then reunited with Ju Zi at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy after seven years apart.

• Beibei and Shen Ce drew a team battle, and Wang Yan sent six teammates to compete alongside Beibei.
• Dai Yueheng overwhelmed Thousand Spirits Academy with boosted attacks, and Shen Ce conceded the match to Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Zhongli Yu had been captured and Ma Xiaotao had joined the Holy Spirit Cult, so he planned to rescue her after the tournament.
• The Sun Moon Team discussed Shrek Academy's strengths, and Ju Zi warned that Cao Jinxuan's time-stopping ability could threaten Xiao Hongchen.
• Huo Yuhao entered the Sun Moon Team's meeting and announced that he had come to help them win the championship.
• Ju Zi recognized Huo Yuhao, threw herself into his arms, and wept over their seven-year separation as Xiao Hongchen watched in shock.

Huo Yuhao sought to join the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and prove himself in its afternoon match. After explaining his past to his companions, he revealed his plan to use the resources of the mortal world to bring down the Sea God, Tang San, leaving them stunned by the conflict ahead.

• Huo Yuhao persuaded Elder Ma to let him prove his strength in the Sun Moon Team’s afternoon match, while Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen remained suspicious of him.
• Huo Yuhao introduced Ju Zi to his companions over a meal and explained how a time-based soul skill had sent him into the past, where he had met her.
• Huo Yuhao told the group that Shrek’s city defense officer had attacked him because of his ties to the Holy Spirit Cult and Gou Luanshi’s grandfather.
• Huo Yuhao described deities as prisoners of the Cosmic Law and announced that he intended to use the resources of the mortal world to drag Tang San down from his pedestal.
• Huo Yuhao’s companions were left stunned as the servers arrived, and he began eating while they processed his plan.

Huo Yuhao used his Spiritual Power to sweep the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s opponents one by one, then made Wang Yan forget his identity. After returning to the hotel, he received treatment for his injuries and reunited intimately with Ju Zi.

• Huo Yuhao entered the match under the alias Huo Yuanjia and defeated all seven opponents with Soul Shock, winning the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s round-robin contest.
• Wang Yan recognized Huo Yuhao and tried to leave to inform the dean, but Huo Yuhao used Kingly Authority to make him forget everything about him.
• Xiao Hongchen asked Elder Ma to let him compete next, but Elder Ma refused and Meng Hongchen stopped him from arguing.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the Star Emperor Hotel with Ju Zi and the others, and Ju Zi and Ning Tian treated his serious injuries with recovery abilities.
• After Ning Tian left, Huo Yuhao embraced Ju Zi, heard that her parents were well, and kissed her.

Huo Yuhao and his companions were confronted by Protector Douluo Cheng Gang, who mistook Huo Yuhao for a transformed Fierce Beast. Huo Yuhao’s group killed Cheng Gang with their martial soul fusion skill, and a figure appeared from the Silver Dragon Scales as the chapter ended.

• Huo Yuhao led Ju Zi and the others away from Star Luo City after sensing someone watching them.
• Protector Douluo Cheng Gang confronted Huo Yuhao and accused him of being one of the Ten Great Fierce Beasts.
• Cheng Gang attacked, so Huo Yuhao, Xie Huanyue, Cui Yajie, and Ning Tian combined their power into a martial soul fusion skill.
• The fusion skill devastated the outskirts of the city and killed Cheng Gang, shocking Ju Zi and the spectators at Star Luo Plaza.
• The Silver Dragon Scales on Huo Yuhao’s chest lit up, and a graceful figure appeared before the group.

Gu Yuena explained that Huo Yuhao and his companions’ Martial Soul Fusion Skill had exceeded one hundred percent fusion, then left after checking on them. After looting Cheng Gang’s corpse and distributing his soul bones, the group advanced through the tournament to the elimination stage, where Qing Ya arrived to see Wang Yan.

• Gu Yuena told Huo Yuhao that his group’s fusion skill had reached its terrifying strength through a martial soul mutation and rushed away after denying she had come to save him.
• Huo Yuhao brought his companions and Cheng Gang’s corpse into the Pocket Dimension, where he and Xie Huanyue found Gold Soul Coins and ten-thousand-year soul bones.
• Huo Yuhao distributed the soul bones, giving the matched Meteor Falcon leg bones to Nanmen Yun'er, who kissed him before Wu Feng grew jealous.
• Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy won all seven round-robin matches and advanced to the elimination stage as group leaders.
• Wang Yan learned that Shrek would face Dou Ling Royal Academy in the round of sixteen, then Qing Ya arrived from the Starlight Auction House to speak with him.

Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and Shrek Academy attended the Starlight Auction House’s top-tier auction, while Huo Yuhao arranged invitations for himself and five companions. The auction began with an eighth-ranked Soul Tool from Mingde Hall, and Huo Yuhao expected Dai Yueheng to buy it before it was defeated in the tournament.

• Elder Ma agreed to let the Sun Moon Team attend the auction, and Huo Yuhao secretly left to obtain invitations for the six later arrivals.
• Qing Ya welcomed both academy teams, and Wang Yan became visibly captivated by her.
• Huo Yuhao and his five companions entered the auction under black cloaks using their recorded identities and watched from a private room.
• Princess Xu Jiujiu opened the auction and introduced the Overlord Tiger Soul Tempering Blade, an eighth-ranked close-combat Soul Tool made by Mingde Hall.
• Xiao Hongchen dismissed the blade as discarded exhibition-room stock, while Huo Yuhao told his companions it was only average and predicted Dai Yueheng would buy it.

At the Starlight Auction, Shrek Academy bought several items, including an overpriced World-Splitting Cannon after Qing Ya kissed Wang Yan. The auction’s Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone drew Ling Luochen’s interest, but Wang Yan had exhausted his spending authority, leaving its fate uncertain as bidding began.

• Wang Yan explained Mingde Hall’s importance, and Dai Yueheng bought the Overlord Tiger Soul Tempering Blade for 1.56 million Gold Soul Coins.
• Shrek Academy bought another auction item, then Wang Yan spent eight million Gold Soul Coins on the World-Splitting Cannon after Qing Ya encouraged him.
• Princess Jiujiu presented the Ice Jade Scorpion left arm bone, and Ice Empress urged Huo Yuhao to obtain it because it carried the rare Ice Blast Technique.
• Wang Yan offered to help Ling Luochen acquire the soul bone, but he had already exhausted his authority and could not advance more funds.
• Ling Luochen asked Wang Yan how much more he could spend as bidding opened at ten million Gold Soul Coins.

Wang Yan failed to secure the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone for Ling Luochen, who nearly accepted a debt and service obligation from Xu Jiawei before Huo Yuhao secretly warned her away. Huo Yuhao then bought the soul bone for thirty million Gold Soul Coins, while Ling Luochen left disappointed in Shrek Academy and the chapter ended as the Snow Empress embryo was about to appear.

• Wang Yan asked Ling Luochen to use her credit limit to bid on the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone, but Meng Hongchen quickly raised its price beyond Shrek's means.
• Qing Ya led Ling Luochen to meet Xu Jiawei, who offered to buy the soul bone for her in exchange for a future favor to the Star Luo Royal Family.
• Huo Yuhao secretly warned Ling Luochen not to accept Xu Jiawei's offer, and she refused the emperor's proposal.
• Huo Yuhao returned to his room and bid thirty million Gold Soul Coins, winning the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone after Meng Hongchen stopped bidding.
• Qing Ya told Wang Yan that the Star Luo Royal Family would offer an Ice Silkworm Torso Bone if Shrek won the championship, and Ling Luochen left the room disappointed in him and the Academy.

Huo Yuhao recognized that the final auction item was the Snow Empress sealed as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast embryo and resolved to reclaim her. As Xiao Hongchen bid to secure the embryo, Ning Tian followed Huo Yuhao’s instructions and raised the price to three hundred million Gold Soul Coins.

• Princess Jiujiu revealed the Platform of Deification containing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast embryo, and the bidders realized it could yield a soul ring, soul bone, and martial soul.
• The Ice Empress warned Huo Yuhao that forcibly fusing with the embryo could leave part of the Snow Empress’s consciousness intact, but Huo Yuhao decided he had to reclaim her.
• Shrek’s group withdrew from the bidding, and Wang Yan obtained Qing Ya’s paired voice transmission Soul Tool before leaving the auction.
• Xiao Hongchen bid one hundred and fifty million Gold Soul Coins and insisted the embryo was worth the expense, while Mingde Hall prepared to sell Soul Tools to fund the purchase.
• A rival bid raised the price to two hundred million, and Xiao Hongchen tried to counter with two hundred and fifty million.
• At Huo Yuhao’s instruction, Ning Tian bid three hundred million Gold Soul Coins using funds secured from the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Ning Tian’s group won the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast embryo for six hundred million Gold Soul Coins, drawing the attention of rival factions and disrupting the Star Luo Emperor’s plans. Huo Yuhao got the group out safely through Divine Might Space and promised to strengthen Ning Tian’s martial soul and Soul Rings, while the threat to her sect remained.

• Xiao Hongchen withdrew after the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect bid six hundred million Gold Soul Coins for the embryo.
• Xu Jiawei learned that Ning Tian had placed the winning bid and ordered efforts to make the interested factions clash.
• Two Body Sect members used mental control to make an auctioneer investigate the buyer, while Xiao Hongchen and Elder Ma planned to pursue the group after the auction.
• Huo Yuhao’s group escaped through Divine Might Space with the Platform of Deification as black-clad decoys disguised as members of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect left by another exit.
• Huo Yuhao told Ning Tian to take the name Ning Tiantian and promised to evolve her martial soul and give her several Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.

Huo Yuhao met Ling Luochen on the Star Emperor Hotel rooftop and offered to evolve her martial soul and give her a soul spirit in exchange for helping him rescue someone and eventually leaving Shrek. The next day, the Shrek and Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy teams met on their way to Star Luo Plaza, where Cao Jinxuan taunted Xiao Hongchen.

• Wang Yan entrusted the Fixed Soul Guidance Shells and World-Splitting Cannon to He Caitou after Shrek's auction purchases.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that Ling Luochen could not safely absorb the Ice Jade Scorpion left arm bone and offered to help her attain Ultimate Ice instead.
• Huo Yuhao showed Ling Luochen his companions' rare martial souls, then offered her an Ice Jade Scorpion soul spirit that could provide soul rings and might produce a soul bone.
• Ling Luochen agreed to help Huo Yuhao rescue someone after she returned to the Academy and to leave Shrek after graduating from the Inner Court.
• The Shrek and Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy teams headed downstairs together, and Cao Jinxuan mocked Xiao Hongchen.

Wang Dong mocked Xiao Hongchen and charmed Meng Hongchen before Huo Yuhao's group watched Shrek prepare for its round-of-sixteen match against Dou Ling Royal Advanced Soul Master Academy. As the match began, Ling Luochen reconsidered her loyalty to Shrek, while Huo Yuhao predicted Shrek would win if Wang Dong competed.

• Wang Dong taunted Xiao Hongchen by calling him a mister and teasing him about his looks, then praised Meng Hongchen and left her smitten.
• Huo Yuhao's group joined Ju Zi's team at the competition venue to watch Shrek face the Dou Ling Royal Advanced Soul Master Academy.
• Wang Yan laid out Shrek's tactics, but Ling Luochen recalled Huo Yuhao's criticism of the academy and questioned its ideals.
• The referee called both teams to the preparation area, and Wang Yan led Shrek's competitors out to loud cheers from the crowd.
• Huo Yuhao told Cui Yajie that Shrek would definitely win if Wang Dong took the field.

Shrek Academy advanced to the semifinals, where the four remaining teams gathered for the draw before the team battles. Huo Yuhao said he would fight for the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy if its team lost, and the chapter ended as the semifinal draw began.

• Dai Yueheng led Shrek Academy past the Dou Ling Team in the team battle and then won the individual elimination match, sending Shrek into the top eight.
• Shrek defeated Zhengtian Academy in the quarterfinals, while Huo Yuhao stayed back to rest and discussed the Sun Moon Team's chances with Ju Zi.
• Huo Yuhao told Ju Zi he would enter the individual matches and 2-2-3 battle if Xiao Hongchen and the others lost the team battle; after Ju Zi sent him away, he spent the night with Wu Feng.
• The four semifinal teams gathered at Star Luo Plaza for the team-battle draw, and Dai Yueheng, Ma Rulong, Diao Academy's captain, and Princess Jiujiu took the stage.

Huo Yuhao volunteered to lead the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy against Star Luo National Academy, claiming he could counter Princess Jiujiu’s Star Crown martial soul. With Jing Hongchen’s support, he took the field with his teammates as the semifinal team battle began.

• The Star Luo Emperor drew the semifinal matchups: Star Luo National Academy faced the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, while Shrek Academy faced Diao Academy.
• Ma Rulong said he could not assess Princess Jiujiu’s strength, and Huo Yuhao volunteered to fight alongside Ju Zi, promising to disappear from her life if he lost.
• Jing Hongchen arrived and told Xiao Hongchen and his sister to trust Huo Yuhao, who said Princess Jiujiu’s Star Crown was a martial soul he could counter.
• Princess Jiujiu and Huo Yuhao exchanged wary looks before the teams entered the stage, where Star Luo National Academy formed a protective formation with barriers shielding their heads.
• The Heavenly Fiend Douluo started the battle, and Star Luo National Academy raised its head-protecting barriers against Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Power attacks.

The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team revealed its formidable Soul Rings against Star Luo National Soul Master Academy, and the match began with both sides testing their strengths. Huo Yuhao held back to give his teammates practice as Star Luo’s Soul Kings pinned down the Huo Yuhao Team’s attackers.

• Princess Jiujiu revealed her Star Crown Martial Soul and all six of her teammates showed themselves to be Soul Kings, while their mental defense headsets blocked Huo Yuhao’s Soul Shock.
• Xie Hunyue, Cui Yajie, and Ju Zi displayed startling Soul Ring configurations, and Shrek’s reserve team recognized Huo Yuhao and discussed how he had helped his companions’ Martial Souls evolve.
• The Huo Yuhao Team charged under Ning Tian’s Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda amplification while Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Sharing to coordinate them.
• Huang Heyun and a fire controller checked Xie Hunyue, Dugu Shangshan held off Cui Yajie, a wind controller trapped Wu Feng, and Chen Xiaojie wounded Nanmen Yun’er.
• Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi stayed back as Huo Yuhao let his weaker teammates gain match practice, while Princess Jiujiu waited for a chance to use her Class 7 Soul Tool.

Orange’s firepower and Cui Yajie’s Nine-tailed Immortal Fox turned the battle against the Star Luo Team, while Huo Yuhao trapped Princess Jiujiu with Xie Huanyue inside an Absolute Defense Barrier. Huo Yuhao then subjected Jiujiu to an illusion recreating her childhood cruelty toward Dai Hao’s concubine, leaving her to experience the same abuse.

• Orange used her Soul Tool revolvers and Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection Sharing to support Cui Yajie, Wu Feng, and Nanmen Yun'er.
• Princess Jiujiu activated an Absolute Defense Soul Tool, but Huo Yuhao used his spatial ability to pull her into the barrier with himself and Xie Huanyue.
• Cui Yajie summoned her Nine-tailed Immortal Fox and unleashed Soul Beast Cannon, which overwhelmed Holy Wing and the Star Luo Team members linked by a Nine Revolutions Soul Transformation Device.
• Cui Yajie joined Nanmen Yun'er’s fight as Xie Huanyue battered Jiujiu inside the barrier and Huo Yuhao concealed their struggle with Simulation.
• Huo Yuhao broke Jiujiu’s spiritual defense, and Xie Huanyue stopped her from crying out before Huo Yuhao trapped her in Tsukuyomi.
• Huo Yuhao made Jiujiu relive her childhood memory of cheering as Dai Hao’s concubine was whipped, then transformed the illusion so Jiujiu experienced the beating herself.

Huo Yuhao’s team defeated Star Luo National Academy, and Huo Yuhao used an illusion to torment Princess Jiujiu before she was rescued. After learning the Star Luo royal family’s role in his mother’s death, he traveled to the empire’s National Treasury to gather resources for his companions.

• Huo Yuhao’s team defeated Star Luo National Academy, while Huo Yuhao’s illusion left Xu Jiujiu unconscious and the Star Luo Emperor called an end to the match.
• Heavenly Fiend Douluo broke the Absolute Defense Barrier and freed Xu Jiujiu, and the referee declared Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy the winner.
• Huo Yuhao carried the injured Nanmen Yun’er back to the hotel and urged Wu Feng and Ning Tian to treat the match’s injuries as their own responsibility.
• Huo Yuhao chose a first-grade pill formula to treat Nanmen Yun’er and resolved to obtain medicinal ingredients from the Star Luo Empire’s National Treasury.
• Huo Yuhao used Divine Might Space to reach the National Treasury, while Xu Jiujiu awoke in the imperial physicians’ quarters and recalled her illusion.