Chapter Summaries

Lu Jingming defeated Tang San's team in the Simulated Universe, while Ning Rongrong suspected he might be real despite the others' doubts. After consolidating his new level of strength, he encountered a bold blonde A-Rank student challenging him at Saint Freya Academy.

• Lu Jingming used Eternal Corridor to decompose Tang San, and Ning Rongrong and Oscar surrendered, ending the Shrek Seven Devils' challenge in failure.
• Ma Hongjun lamented the defeat, while Tang San questioned whether he should continue focusing on Hidden Weapons; Flender comforted the group.
• Dai Mubai and Xiao Wu concluded that Lu Jingming was only a construct of the illusory world, but Ning Rongrong recalled Grandpa Sword's belief that people encountered there could be real.
• Lu Jingming refined the Soul Power from his Hundred-Thousand-Year soul ring and soul bone, stabilizing his cultivation at level fifty-five as Haiyuan City prepared for the tournament.
• A blonde A-Rank student who had challenged the other S-Rank students confronted Lu Jingming and challenged him, saying only Miss Zhigeniao remained.

Ye Guyi challenged Lu Jingming to a fight at Saint Freya Academy, while he reflected on her Sacred Angel Martial Soul and the danger posed by the Holy Spirit Cult. Lu Jingming planned to train her by sending her to hunt Evil Soul Masters, confident he could protect her.

• Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo warned Ye Guyi that she could not defeat Lu Jingming, but she insisted on challenging him.
• Lu Jingming accepted Ye Guyi's challenge and told her to log into the Simulated Universe.
• Lu Jingming recalled that Shangguan Wei'er had sent Ye Guyi from the Peaceful Alliance to Haiyuan City after the Xishui Alliance attacked and exposed the threat of Evil Soul Masters.
• Lu Jingming recognized that Ye Guyi's Sacred Angel Martial Soul could gain Soul Power from killing Evil Soul Masters and could potentially restore the Angel God's divine position.
• Lu Jingming planned to train Ye Guyi by sending her to hunt Evil Soul Masters and vowed to fight the Holy Spirit Cult if it came after her.

Lu Jingming recruited Möbius to help build the Demon King Alliance and World Serpent as he prepared for an eventual conflict with Sea God Tang San. Their plans were interrupted when Ji Yingying contacted him about an assassination contract targeting Huo Yuhao, leaving Lu Jingming to decide whether Wuchang Division should accept it.

• Lu Jingming reflected on the God Realm’s support for Sea God Tang San and told Möbius they would need to rely on themselves against the gods.
• Möbius appeared beside Lu Jingming, teased him about becoming her experimental subject, and discussed studying the gods and improving the Fusion Warrior procedure.
• Lu Jingming gave Möbius an Ice Blue Gemstone and told her to build the Demon King Alliance and forge World Serpent; Möbius accepted leadership roles in both.
• Ji Yingying contacted Lu Jingming through a Communication Soul Tool and asked whether Wuchang Division should accept an assassination contract.
• Ji Yingying revealed that the target was Shrek Academy outer court disciple Huo Yuhao, the client was the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion, and the reward was two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins; Lu Jingming suspected Dai Huabin had commissioned it.

Lu Jingming approved Ji Yingying’s plan to send assassins after Huo Yuhao, while Möbius went to watch. After leaving Shrek City with Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao sensed an ambush, but the assassins spotted his Spiritual Detection and attacked with gray mist.

• Lu Jingming told Ji Yingying to take the assassination mission but send a team that could withdraw if necessary.
• Möbius said she would go watch the ambush, and Lu Jingming allowed her to go.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong exchanged for a valuable soul bone at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion and headed back toward Shrek Academy.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned Huo Yuhao of killing intent outside Shrek City, so he secretly alerted Wang Dong and prepared to flee.
• A spiritual-type assassin detected Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection, and the assassins sent gray mist surging toward him and Wang Dong.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong were ambushed by a team of powerful assassins outside Shrek City and fought desperately to survive. After Beibei and Xu Sanshi rushed to their aid, the chapter ended with Jiang Nannan leaving Ningguang to join the rescue.

• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong tried to flee, but Black Fourteen intercepted them as White Thirteen ordered four Soul Kings to attack.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection and a Fixed Soul Device while Wang Dong shared her Soul Power, and they fought back against the assassins.
• White Thirteen unleashed Thousand Mist Blades, but Huo Yuhao invoked Wrath of the Ice Emperor and froze the attack, leaving him and Wang Dong nearly powerless.
• Beibei and Xu Sanshi saw the distress signal and raced out of Shrek City, while three rescuers appeared on the battlefield.
• Jiang Nannan recognized the signal might concern Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, and Ningguang gave her permission to go help them.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong were ambushed outside Shrek City, but Beibei, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan arrived to help. As the battle continued, Huo Yuhao took Black Fourteen’s blade while saving Wang Dong, and Beibei retaliated with a powerful attack.

• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong fell from the sky, and Xu Sanshi used Mystic Turtle Exchange to bring them safely to the group.
• Wang Dong explained that assassins had ambushed them, while Huo Yuhao suspected Dai Huabin had arranged the attack.
• White Thirteen unleashed Yellow Springs Beckon, impairing the group’s senses, as Xu Sanshi used Mystic Turtle Power to draw in the mist and restrain several assassins.
• Black Fourteen emerged from Wang Dong’s shadow and attacked; Huo Yuhao pushed her away but was struck by the spider blade and severely wounded.
• Beibei attacked Black Fourteen with a golden thunder dragon, and the two attacks collided in a violent explosion.

Huo Yuhao was gravely injured when Wuchang Division assassins attacked him, and an unknown powerhouse rescued the fleeing assassins after overpowering Xuan Zi. The Shrek staff took Huo Yuhao back for treatment, while Beibei and Xu Sanshi followed and Jiang Nannan returned to Shrek City.

• A Titled Douluo’s arrival forced White Thirteen and the other assassins to flee, but a giant invisible serpent swallowed them and knocked Xuan Zi into a crater.
• Xuan Zi emerged badly injured, and Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, and Qian Duoduo arrived as he left to treat himself.
• Qian Duoduo stopped Huo Yuhao’s bleeding while Wang Dong rushed to him in tears, and Beibei explained the attack to Yan Shaozhe.
• Yan Shaozhe suspected someone had hired the Wuchang Division and took Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong back to Shrek Academy for treatment.
• Beibei and Xu Sanshi followed them, while Jiang Nannan declined and returned to Shrek City.

Jiang Nannan learned that the Wuchang Division was affiliated with Qunyu Pavilion, while Huo Yuhao survived the attack but suffered a grave injury. Shrek Academy struggled to decide how to respond as its investigation pointed toward Dai Huabin and the powerful White Tiger Lineage.

• Jiang Nannan asked Ningguang about the Wuchang Division, and Ningguang explained that it and Qunyu Pavilion were colleagues whose assassins had not targeted her juniors on Ningguang's orders.
• Ningguang asked whether Jiang Nannan would make Shrek Academy's reserve team, and Jiang Nannan confidently said she would pass before joking that she would serve as Ningguang's dowry maid.
• Möbius rescued White Thirteen, Black Fourteen, and the other attackers, who said their mission was complete even though Huo Yuhao had survived.
• Lu Jingming learned from Ji Yingying what had happened to Huo Yuhao and reflected that luck could not protect someone from a stronger opponent, then went out for a late-night snack with Liu Ying.
• Elder Zhuang told Yan Shaozhe and the others that Huo Yuhao's life was safe but his injury was severe, while Yan Shaozhe said the Wuchang Division had carried out the attack as hired assassins.
• Yan Shaozhe's investigation pointed toward Dai Huabin, but Shrek Academy hesitated to punish him because of insufficient evidence and the White Tiger Lineage's influence.

Huo Yuhao learned that Shrek Academy's Golden Tree might heal his injuries, while Snow Empress was captured during her transformation by a black-robed Rank 9 Soul Engineer. Möbius killed the Soul Engineer and took the Platform of Deification, leaving Snow Empress's embryo in her hands.

• Yan Shaozhe ordered everyone to keep Huo Yuhao's condition secret, and Wang Dong found him lying in bed, devastated by his injuries.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Ice Empress told Huo Yuhao that the Golden Tree's Life Energy might heal him, giving him a small measure of hope.
• Snow Empress used a Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus to take human form in the Far North after failing to find Ice Empress.
• A black-robed Rank 9 Soul Engineer interrupted Snow Empress's transformation and bound her embryo with the Platform of Deification.
• Möbius confused the Soul Engineer about his purpose, then killed him with a green-lightning spike.
• Möbius caught the falling Platform of Deification and examined Snow Empress's bound embryo as Lu Jingming appeared beside her.

Lu Jingming persuaded the captured Snow Empress to join World Serpent by revealing that a God from the God Realm had plotted against her and that Ice Empress’s soul remained inside a human. Snow Empress agreed to seek revenge with them, but the identity of the God and the human remained unknown.

• Snow Empress refused to cooperate after Möbius mocked her, and Lu Jingming tried to persuade her by pointing out the suspicious circumstances of her capture.
• Lu Jingming introduced Möbius as World Serpent’s master and himself as its Sixth Throne, then offered to help Snow Empress survive her coming heavenly tribulation.
• Lu Jingming told Snow Empress that Ice Empress’s soul ring and soul bone had been absorbed by a human, prompting Snow Empress to agree to join World Serpent and seek revenge.
• Lu Jingming revealed that a God from the God Realm had targeted Snow Empress because of her fortune and clarified that Ice Empress’s soul had not perished.
• Möbius reduced the golden Platform of Deification to ash and suggested taking Snow Empress for training.

Lu Jingming freed Snow Empress and fused her with the Pseudo-Herrscher of Ice Core, making her World Serpent’s Fifth Throne, the King of Cacophony. After she agreed to travel to Haiyuan City, Lu Jingming returned from his projection and joked with The Great Black Tower.

• Snow Empress emerged from her failed transformation, and Lu Jingming explained World Serpent’s long-term goal of opposing the gods.
• Möbius gave Snow Empress the Ice Blue Gemstone, which fused with her and transformed her into a powerful Herrscher of Ice.
• Lu Jingming named Snow Empress World Serpent’s Fifth Throne, and she thanked him for saving her and granting her new power.
• Möbius offered to study Snow Empress, but Lu Jingming warned her to avoid experiments and told her to go to Haiyuan City.
• Möbius gave Snow Empress a World Serpent ring and departed, while Lu Jingming’s projection dissipated.
• Lu Jingming woke in Haiyuan City beside The Great Black Tower, then teased her as her puppets served tea and massaged her.

Tang San investigated a disturbance on Douluo Continent, but God of Destruction interrupted him, and Tang San returned with a fragment of mysterious purple energy. In Haiyuan City, Lu Jingming and The Great Black Tower used that energy to locate the God Realm and prepared for the next stage of their plan.

• Tang San sent his divine consciousness to the Far North to investigate a failed move in his plan, but a black serpent erased the traces and struck back.
• Tang San captured some purple energy and returned to Sea God Palace, where he faced a warning from God of Destruction.
• Xiao Wu questioned Tang San about the unfamiliar energy, while he concealed his plans involving Xiao Qi and Douluo Continent.
• Some of the purple energy leaked into the God Realm as Tang San and Xiao Wu spoke.
• The Great Black Tower told Lu Jingming that she had used the Thousand Realms Equinox to locate the God Realm, and he agreed to obtain what she wanted in return.

As Haiyuan City prepared to host the 2024 All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Competition, Lu Jingming learned that San Yueqi and Ye Guyi had gone to the Mingdou Mountain Range to seek out Evil Soul Masters. He was reassured that Dan Heng had accompanied them, while the danger posed by the Death Messenger remained ahead.

• Xu Jiawei's backing and Haiyuan City's concessions secured the competition venue, and Lu Jingming oversaw the city's rapid expansion and preparations.
• At Saint Freya Academy, Lu Jingming noticed San Yueqi was missing from the team's coordination practice.
• Zhigeniao explained that San Yueqi had joined Ye Guyi in the Mingdou Mountain Range, where Evil Soul Masters had resisted the White Tiger Army.
• Lu Jingming recognized that the mountain range's Evil Soul Master was the Death Messenger, a formidable foe who had nearly defeated Shrek Academy's official team.
• Zhigeniao told Lu Jingming that Dan Heng had gone with San Yueqi and Ye Guyi, reassuring him that Dan Heng was strong enough to protect them.

San Yueqi, Ye Guyi, and Dan Heng entered a cave in the Mingdou Mountain Range to hunt Evil Soul Masters, only to find evidence of horrific crimes and discover that Shrek Academy’s team had already been caught in a deadly battle. Xuan Zi arrived and subdued the Death Messenger, but the team lay gravely injured after a corpse explosion.

• San Yueqi, Ye Guyi, and Dan Heng flew to the Evil Soul Masters’ cave, where they noticed signs that someone had arrived before them.
• The three found human skins and an infant’s corpse inside the cave, then hurried toward sounds of fighting deeper within.
• Dan Heng shielded San Yueqi and Ye Guyi when Xuan Zi rushed past them into the cave amid violent explosions.
• San Yueqi, Ye Guyi, and Dan Heng reached the cavern and found Shrek Academy’s team badly wounded by the Death Messenger’s Corpse Explosion.
• Xuan Zi held the black-robed Death Messenger, whom Ye Guyi recognized as the Soul King she had come to defeat.

Ye Guyi purified the escaped Evil Soul Master and Saint Freya Academy offered to take Shrek Academy’s wounded to Haiyuan City for treatment. Meanwhile, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy team arrived in the city and marveled at its Soul Tool Technology, which they linked to Lady Black Tower and the Simulated Universe.

• The Evil Soul Master escaped Xuan Zi’s grasp in black mist, seized Huo Yuhao, and was destroyed by Ye Guyi’s Holy Light Shines.
• Wang Yan reported that Yao Haoxuan had died, Xixi was severely injured, Gongyang Mo had lost both legs, and Chen Zifeng had lost an arm.
• San Yueqi offered to bring the wounded to Haiyuan City for treatment, and Xuan Zi agreed to leave at once.
• Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen were astonished by Haiyuan City’s advanced Soul Tool Technology.
• An elderly man explained that Lady Black Tower’s Simulated Universe had transformed Soul Master training and Soul Engineer research, earning her widespread respect.

Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy and Shrek Academy settled into Daydream Hotel in Haiyuan City before the competition. Shrek's injured main team could not compete yet, leaving Wang Yan to rely on the anxious reserve team while false hopes of reinforcements bought them time.

• Xiao Hongchen and the other Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy members admired Lady Black Tower's reputation as they entered Daydream Hotel.
• Elder Ma led Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy through registration and into the luxurious Star Sea Phantom Dream suite.
• Beibei asked Wang Yan when Shrek Academy's reinforcements would arrive, while the reserve team worried about competing before a huge audience.
• Haiyuan City's treatment team stabilized Xixi and the other injured Shrek members, but Chen Zifeng had lost an arm and Gongyang Mo both legs, ruling them out of the competition for now.
• Wang Yan admitted that the academy's other potential competitors would arrive too late and hoped Beibei and the reserve team could hold on until Ma Xiaotao's group recovered.

As Shrek Academy prepared to compete without Ma Xiaotao at full strength, Lu Jingming reflected on Haiyuan City’s growth while Gu Yue considered whether its research could help save the soul beast race. The chapter left Gu Yue with a new purpose in Haiyuan City and Lu Jingming nearly certain that she was investigating Black Abyss White Flower.

• Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng reassured Beibei and the reserve team that they could handle the early tournament rounds, and Wang Yan explained the unchanged competition format.
• San Yueqi told Lu Jingming about the Evil Soul Masters’ atrocities in the Mingdou Mountain Range, while Lu Jingming considered Shrek Academy’s injuries and access to Haiyuan City’s medical Soul Tools.
• Lu Jingming watched Haiyuan City from the Daydream Hotel and reflected on its safety, rapid development, and the support Möbius could bring.
• Gu Yue joined Lu Jingming and admitted she did not dislike Haiyuan City, having begun to see humans and soul beasts as more than enemies.
• Gu Yue hoped The Great Black Tower’s research could let humans cultivate without hunting soul beasts, and she resolved to seek Lu Jingming and The Great Black Tower’s help in saving her race.
• Lu Jingming concluded that Gu Yue had likely come to investigate Black Abyss White Flower and its opposing powers.

Lu Jingming reflected on the soul beast race’s decline and kept his alternative method for human soul masters to gain soul rings secret as the 2024 All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Master Competition began in Haiyuan City. Lu Qingluan escorted the contestants to the Eye of the Sea Abyss, where the massive competition venue stunned them.

• Lu Jingming considered how the Dragon God’s prohibition on soul beasts becoming gods, human soul masters’ hunting, and the loss of soul beast fortune had brought the race close to extinction, and he chose not to reveal his alternative soul-ring method yet.
• As the competition opened in Haiyuan City, Lu Qingluan arrived with hundreds of Golden Guards to escort the participating teams, whose members were impressed by their advanced armor and strength.
• Ma Xiaotao identified Lu Qingluan as a Soul Sage, prompting the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy team to take Shrek Academy more seriously.
• Lu Qingluan led the teams through the cheering crowds toward the seaside, leaving Meng Hongchen, Huo Yuhao, and the others wondering why the venue was there.
• At the shore, the contestants saw the enormous Eye of the Sea Abyss and its huge audience, and Lu Qingluan announced it as the competition venue and Haiyuan City's greatest Soul Tool Technology achievement.

The contestants and spectators arrived at the Eye of the Sea Abyss, Haiyuan City's extraordinary artificial island built for the Soul Master Competition. Saint Freya Academy made a dramatic final entrance, and Zhigeniao's popularity sent the crowd into a frenzy.

• The contestants were stunned by the Eye of the Sea Abyss, a massive floating venue equipped with advanced Soul Tools and customizable arenas.
• Lu Qingluan guided the contestants onto Soul Tool Battleships and led each team to its resting area on the island.
• Wang Yan examined the Shrek Academy team's resting room and found its match analysis, Soul Tool databank, treatment pod, and simulation functions.
• Spectators entered the stands or watched from the shoreline, while Wei Qianqian and Lan Yu praised the venue from their seats.
• Lu Jingming led Saint Freya Academy onto the island, and Zhigeniao's greeting drew deafening cheers from the crowd.

Saint Freya Academy arrived at the Eye of the Sea Abyss as the 2024 Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament opened in Haiyuan City. As Lu Jingming led his team toward their first match, the crowd’s overwhelming chants for Zhigeniao left Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy visibly rattled.

• Meng Hongchen admired Lu Jingming, while Beibei recognized him from their earlier encounter outside the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ma Xiaotao and Wang Yan warned Beibei and the others not to underestimate Saint Freya Academy and its Soul Tools.
• Chang Li welcomed the crowd, and Emperor Xu Jiawei officially declared the tournament open.
• Chang Li announced the knockout draw and called Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy and Saint Freya Academy to compete.
• The crowd chanted Zhigeniao’s name, unnerving Tianling’s competitors as Lu Jingming led Saint Freya Academy’s seven-member team toward the stage.