Chapter Summaries

Lu Jingming and Gu Yue attacked Xu Jiujiu’s team, but Xu Jiujiu used powerful Soul Tools and Star Crown abilities to withstand their assaults. The chapter ended with Star Guardian still holding against Gu Yue’s Final Sky Overture.

• Xu Jiujiu used Star Attraction Technique to guide her Starfall Technique toward Lu Jingming and his teammates, but San Yueqi purified the targeting effect and shielded them with Pure White Prayer.
• Lu Jingming charged Xu Jiujiu, and Wang Shiying and Yi Chen used their Wind Rises, Fire Ignites fusion skill, but Lu Jingming neutralized it with his Judgment Heavenly Spear.
• Xu Jiujiu trapped Lu Jingming inside a seventh-grade Absolute Defense Soul Tool, whose golden cube resisted his Decomposition Power.
• Gu Yue unleashed Final Sky Overture, sending a cyan dragon and hundreds of wind attacks at Xu Jiujiu’s team.
• Xu Jiujiu protected herself and her teammates with Star Guardian, and the barrier absorbed the barrage while using only one of its eighteen stars’ energy reserves.

Liu Ying fought off Star Luo Royal Academy’s five-person encirclement inside the Star Guardian barrier, then faced Huang Heyun after Xu Jiujiu restored and enhanced her teammates’ power. The chapter ended with Liu Ying and Huang Heyun exchanging repeated blows as his team’s Nine Transformations Soul Instrument let them pool Soul Power into him.

• Yi Chen and Wang Shiying combined their wind and fire abilities around Liu Ying, but Liu Ying burst through their attack and struck Saint Wing, who shielded Xu Jiujiu.
• Liu Ying activated Secondary Burn, filling the barrier with emerald flames, then repelled Huang Heyun and Dugu Shangshan with a powerful punch into the arena floor.
• Liu Ying charged at Xu Jiujiu, who used Star Brilliance to restore and strengthen her teammates and helped them link together with the Nine Transformations Soul Instrument.
• Huang Heyun drew on his teammates’ pooled Soul Power and fought Liu Ying at Soul Emperor-level strength, trading powerful attacks with her inside the damaged arena.

Lu Jingming and Jing Xi broke Star Luo Royal Academy’s defenses, and Liu Ying’s attack secured Saint Freya Academy’s quarterfinal victory. After the remaining quarterfinals set the semifinal lineup, Huo Yuhao cultivated with a spiritual Soul Tool gem but was troubled by memories of his mother’s suffering.

• Lu Jingming shattered the golden cube while Jing Xi broke the Star Guardian, and he caught the injured Xu Jiujiu as she fell.
• Liu Ying struck Huang Heyun and the other Star Luo Royal Academy fighters with a blazing aerial kick, leaving them unable to continue.
• Dan Heng declared Saint Freya Academy the winner, and Star Luo Royal Academy later conceded the individual elimination round.
• Saint Freya Academy, Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, Shrek Academy, and DiAo Academy advanced to the semifinals.
• Huo Yuhao cultivated with the Crimson Gem, which replenished Electrolux but also brought back painful memories of Huo Yun'er’s death.

Möbius tested Huo Yuhao’s resilience to negative emotions while Lu Jingming allowed her to proceed. At the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament, Saint Freya Academy drew Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy in the semifinals, and their team battle began with a barrage from the Sun Moon team.

• Möbius observed Huo Yuhao’s strong spiritual will and discussed experimenting on him with Lu Jingming, who warned her not to go too far.
• The four semifinal captains drew lots, pairing Saint Freya Academy against Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.
• Lu Jingming and the teams took the arena, where Meng Hongchen teased Lu Jingming and San Yueqi asked if Meng liked him.
• Dan Heng started the match, and Lin Xi raised a golden defensive barrier as Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy unleashed a concentrated Soul Tool barrage at Saint Freya Academy.

Lu Jingming’s team attacked the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy in the semifinals, with Gu Yue and San Yueqi supporting their allies through elemental attacks and defenses. The battle continued as Meng Hongchen intercepted Lu Jingming, Liu Ying survived Ma Rulong’s trump-card barrage, and Lin Xi stopped Jing Xi’s ambush on Ma Rulong.

• Zhigeniao enhanced her team’s Soul Power, attack power, and speed as Gu Yue countered the Sun Moon Team’s Soul Tool barrage with Elemental Torrent.
• San Yueqi placed Maiden’s Privilege ice marks on the advancing Lu Jingming, Jing Xi, Liu Ying, and Castorice, while Lu Jingming broke Lin Xi’s shield and Meng Hongchen intercepted him with twin swords.
• Liu Ying blasted the Sun Moon Team’s formation, but Ma Rulong repelled her, trapped her in Thunder Prison, and struck her with a seventh-grade Soul-Guided Cannon; San Yueqi’s ice shield and Liu Ying’s mech defenses kept her unharmed.
• Jing Xi used Flowing Light Evening Shadow to ambush Ma Rulong, but Lin Xi redirected her sword light with a Soul Tool and blocked it with his Invincible Shield.

Jing Xi, Liu Ying, and Castorice overwhelmed the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy team, while Lu Jingming faced Meng Hongchen and defeated her Ice Fire Poison Dragon Drill. Meng Hongchen claimed Lu Jingming’s lightning had paralyzed her and clung to him as he held her.

• Jing Xi struck Ma Rulong with her sword lights, and Liu Ying knocked him into a crater while Castorice’s domain weakened the Sun Moon team.
• Xiao Hongchen unleashed a barrage of Soul-Guided Cannons, but Liu Ying, Jing Xi, and Castorice defeated Mika, Chen Fei, Lin Xi, and Xiao Xiafeng.
• Lu Jingming told Meng Hongchen that her frost poison could not affect him, and she decided to make one final attack.
• Meng Hongchen used her fifth soul skill, Ice Fire Poison Dragon Drill, but Lu Jingming pierced through it with his lightning-wrapped Black Abyss Spear.
• Lu Jingming caught Meng Hongchen as she fell, and she clung to him, saying his lightning had paralyzed her.

Saint Freya Academy defeated Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy in the semifinal team battle, then advanced to the finals after Lu Jingming beat their challengers in the individual matches. Shrek Academy also advanced, setting up a final between the two academies.

• Lu Jingming and his teammates defeated Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, and Xiao Hongchen collapsed after seeing Meng Hongchen in Lu Jingming’s arms.
• San Yueqi scolded Lu Jingming over his flirtation with Meng Hongchen, while the others reacted to his relationships and Jing Xi chose to let matters unfold naturally.
• Shrek Academy overwhelmed DiAo Academy in its team battle, with Ma Xiaotao defeating Jiang Peng.
• The next morning, Xiao Hongchen challenged Lu Jingming but was knocked out of the arena after Lu countered his metal abilities; Meng Hongchen forfeited when her turn came.
• Saint Freya Academy and Shrek Academy both won their semifinal matches and advanced to the final.

The finals between Saint Freya Academy and Shrek Academy began, but Huo Yuhao was shaken by Duke White Tiger Dai Hao’s presence and the Crimson Gem’s influence. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm steadied him, and the chapter ended as both teams prepared to begin the first match.

• Haiyuan City prepared for the finals as crowds gathered to watch Saint Freya Academy face Shrek Academy.
• Shrek Academy named Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, Ling Luochen, Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Beibei, and Xu Sanshi for its lineup, while Xixi yielded her place to Beibei and Xu Sanshi.
• Huo Yuhao spotted Duke White Tiger Dai Hao, his father, and the Crimson Gem stirred painful emotions that Dai Hao did not know Huo Yuhao was his son.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm used his Origin Power to calm Huo Yuhao, who refused to discard the gem because he believed it could refine his spiritual power and aid his growth.
• Huo Yuhao reassured Wang Dong as Dan Heng announced the finals rules and the teams took their positions.
• Ma Xiaotao and Lu Jingming faced off confidently, while Lu Jingming believed Saint Freya Academy would win because he knew Shrek Academy’s abilities and possessed greater strength.

Saint Freya Academy and Shrek Academy traded powerful attacks until Lu Jingming summoned a meteor with his Soul Bone Skill. Ma Xiaotao destroyed it with Phoenix True Body, but Lu Jingming attacked her while she was exhausted, and Xu Sanshi began a Mystic Turtle Exchange to intervene.

• Gu Yue, San Yueqi, Dai Yueheng, and Ma Xiaotao opened the match with barrages of Soul Skills, while Zhigeniao strengthened her team and Xu Sanshi and San Yueqi raised shields to protect their teammates.
• Jing Xi's platinum dragon overpowered Beibei's lightning-infused golden dragon, then forced Xu Sanshi's shield formation back after breaking through his black vortex.
• Lu Jingming used Heavenly Movement Myriad Manifestations to tear open space and drag a meteor fragment from the starry sky toward Shrek Academy.
• Ma Xiaotao activated Martial Soul Avatar and burned the meteor to ashes with Phoenix True Fire, exhausting her strength in the process.
• Lu Jingming appeared above Ma Xiaotao and launched Heavenly Strike Judgment as Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and the others feared she would be eliminated.
• Xu Sanshi roared, "Mystic Turtle Exchange!"

Lu Jingming survived Shrek Academy’s coordinated ambush by using Echo of the End to dispel several attacks and Holy Spear Reverse Return to withstand Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill. As Lu Jingming’s allies turned the battle against the remaining Shrek fighters, the match continued amid the arena-wide counterattack.

• Xu Sanshi used Mystic Turtle Exchange to transport Lu Jingming into Shrek Academy’s formation, where Dai Yueheng, Beibei, Ling Luochen, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong attacked him together.
• Lu Jingming used Echo of the End to dispel Dai Yueheng’s, Beibei’s, and Ling Luochen’s released soul skills, then activated Holy Spear Reverse Return to block Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’s Heavenly Emperor’s Hammer.
• Lu Jingming caught the Heavenly Emperor’s Hammer without injury and forced Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’s humanoid phantom to dissipate.
• Liu Ying struck Ma Xiaotao out of the air, Jing Xi hurled Beibei against the arena barrier, and Castorice attacked Dai Yueheng with her scythe.
• San Yueqi froze Ling Luochen with Memory Drift Ice, while Gu Yue trapped Xu Sanshi in a tornado-like torrent of air.

Shrek Academy neared defeat until Ma Xiaotao donned the Blazing Heaven Holy Armor and fought Liu Ying at the cost of her life force. As their clash intensified, Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao prepared to join the battle.

• Saint Freya Academy suppressed Shrek Academy's fighters, and Liu Ying knocked Ma Xiaotao out of her Martial Soul Avatar.
• Ma Xiaotao summoned the Blazing Heaven Holy Armor despite Wang Yan's warning, burning her life force to regain the strength to fight.
• Liu Ying activated Death Star Overload, and Zhigeniao's Thousand Sound Concerto raised Liu Ying's fifth soul ring to a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Ma Xiaotao and Liu Ying clashed at tremendous speed, their flames and impacts shaking the arena.
• Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao decided to act, revealing Wang Dong's wings and the Ice Jade Scorpion pattern on Huo Yuhao's back.

Lu Jingming revealed his Twin Martial Souls and used his Self Soul Fusion Skill, Holy Spear Countercurrent, to defeat Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’s Light Goddess form. He then struck Ma Xiaotao with his spear, leaving Xuan Zi enraged and ready to intervene.

• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong fused into the Light Goddess, while Lu Jingming revealed a white holy spear alongside his black lance.
• Gu Yue wounded Xu Sanshi with a gale of blades as Lu Jingming combined his two spears into Black Abyss White Flower and announced his Self Soul Fusion Skill, Holy Spear Countercurrent.
• The Light Goddess charged Lu Jingming, but his spear erased her energy and caused Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong to collapse unconscious.
• Lu Jingming threw Black Abyss White Flower across the arena, and it pierced Ma Xiaotao’s chest, extinguishing her flames and sending her falling.
• Xuan Zi saw Ma Xiaotao fall and surged toward the stage in fury.

Mu En confirmed that Lu Jingming had saved Ma Xiaotao, and Shrek Academy forfeited the remaining matches after its team was incapacitated, handing Saint Freya Academy the tournament victory. Mu En decided to make Huo Yuhao his personal disciple, while Ye Wuqing and Yu Mengdi prepared to join Lu Jingming in Haiyuan City.

• Mu En's Golden Tree avatar reassured Xuan Zi that Ma Xiaotao was alive, and Lu Jingming's White Flower power healed her wound while leaving her unconscious.
• Wang Yan conceded Shrek Academy's remaining matches, and Dan Heng announced Saint Freya Academy as the tournament champion.
• Mu En blamed Xuan Zi's past mistakes for weakening Shrek Academy and chose Huo Yuhao as his future successor, planning to take him as a personal disciple and heal his injuries.
• Ye Wuqing and Yu Mengdi told Lu Jingming they would join him in Haiyuan City after completing their graduation applications.

After the tournament, Lu Jingming summoned Ganyu to help manage the Qunyu Pavilion’s Stigmata business and protect it from threats. Ganyu arrived as a Rank 98 Super Douluo, and Lu Jingming began restoring Yae Miko from her Little Fox form.

• Haiyuan City awarded Shrek Academy three ten-thousand-year Stigmata and Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy one after Saint Freya Academy won the tournament.
• Lu Jingming decided to summon Ganyu to support Ningguang and Keqing with the growing Stigmata business.
• Ganyu appeared in the Living World, recognized Keqing and Ningguang, and eagerly offered to help with work.
• Lu Jingming explained that Ganyu was a Rank 98 Super Douluo with an Ice Qilin martial soul and Ultimate Ice attribute.
• Yae Miko pounced into Ganyu’s arms, and Lu Jingming used True Power to restore her from her Little Fox form.

After restoring Yae Miko, Lu Jingming appeased her with a promise of future punishment and began sharing the Stigmata project’s profits with major factions while guarding its core technology. As Stigmata reshaped the soul master world, Jing Hongchen considered sending Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen to Saint Freya Academy to strengthen ties with Haiyuan City.

• Yae Miko returned to human form and confronted Lu Jingming over what he had done while she was a fox, but spared him because of the Stigmata on his hand and warned that he would still be punished.
• Lu Jingming announced that major factions could invest in the Stigmata project, while Haiyuan City retained control of its production technology.
• The Star Luo Empire, Princess Vina of the Heaven Dou Empire, the Dou Ling Empire, and Shrek Academy sought shares in the Stigmata project, and Lu Jingming welcomed their participation.
• Jing Hongchen examined the Stigmata awarded to Meng Hongchen and recognized that Haiyuan City’s technology could transform the continent and challenge the Sun Moon Empire’s position.
• Jing Hongchen asked Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen whether they wanted to study at Saint Freya Academy.

Jing Hongchen arranged an exchange program between Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy and Saint Freya Academy, and Lu Jingming approved it. Meanwhile, Body Sect Master Du Busi led his elders toward Shrek City to claim Huo Yuhao as a disciple.

• Jing Hongchen decided to send Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen to Saint Freya Academy, rebuking Xiao Hongchen when he doubted its teaching standards.
• Lu Jingming approved the exchange program, hoping Saint Freya Academy students could learn practical Soul Tool crafting at Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.
• Du Busi eyed Haiyuan City's Stigmata but decided the Snow Moon Douluo and Haiyuan City's defenses made seizing it too risky.
• Du Busi ordered Jinpeng and the Body Sect elders to accompany him to Shrek City and bring back Huo Yuhao, whom they considered a rightful disciple because of his Spirit Eyes Body Soul.
• The Body Sect set out for Shrek City, encouraged by reports that Xuan Zi remained injured after his clash with the Snow Moon Douluo.

Shrek Academy punished the official team for its disastrous competition mission and rewarded the reserve team, while Mu En accepted Huo Yuhao as his disciple and promised to heal his disability. The chapter ended as Poison Old Monster arrived with a host of powerful allies and confronted Xuan Zi at Shrek Academy.

• Yan Shaozhe gave Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, Ling Luochen, and Xixi major demerits, and told Gongyang Mo and Chen Zifeng that the academy would provide replacement Soul Tools rather than use the Golden Tree's Life Origin to restore their limbs.
• Yan Shaozhe rewarded Huo Yuhao, Beibei, Wang Dong, Xiaoxiao, He Caitou, Jiang Nannan, Xu Sanshi, and their teacher Wang Yan for their efforts in the competition.
• Mu En assigned the reserve members to mentors, then revealed himself to Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiaoxiao as the true authority of Sea God Pavilion.
• Mu En offered to take Huo Yuhao as his disciple and help repair his disability, and Huo Yuhao accepted by kowtowing to him three times.
• A powerful voice called for Xuan Zi across Shrek Academy as a terrifying pressure swept over the school, and Yan Shaozhe rushed to investigate.
• Xuan Zi raised a yellow barrier around Shrek Academy and recognized the newcomer as Poison Old Monster.

Du Busi and the Body Sect confronted Shrek Academy, and Du Busi overpowered Xuan Zi while demanding Huo Yuhao. The chapter ended with Xuan Zi, enraged after Du Busi exposed his lingering injuries, charging into battle again.

• Xuan Zi and Shrek Academy's experts faced Du Busi and the Body Sect outside the Academy.
• Du Busi accused Xuan Zi of injuring two Body Sect elders who had tried to take Huo Yuhao, and Xuan Zi defended his actions.
• Du Busi revealed his nine Soul Rings, including three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, and struck Xuan Zi down in their clash.
• Du Busi mocked Xuan Zi's lingering injuries from the Snow Moon Douluo's Sword Intent, and Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming recalled witnessing that earlier battle.
• Humiliated and furious, Xuan Zi charged at Du Busi again, and Du Busi eagerly welcomed the fight.

Du Busi and Xuan Zi's battle tore open space above Shrek Academy and threatened the academy with a spatial black hole. Mu En's unease proved justified when an unknown Limit Douluo intervened, leaving Du Busi stunned by Shrek's hidden strength.

• Du Busi and Xuan Zi clashed with devastating force, tearing open spatial cracks that sliced through a nearby mountain.
• Du Busi mocked Xuan Zi, then attacked him with a corrosive green sphere that forced Xuan Zi to repair the surrounding spatial cracks.
• Du Busi and Xuan Zi unleashed their strongest attacks, creating a spatial black hole above Shrek Academy.
• A golden light and dragon's roar appeared, and an unknown powerhouse repaired the black hole and restored the sky.
• Du Busi recognized the intervention as the work of a Limit Douluo and realized Shrek Academy had another one besides Xuan Zi.

Mu En revealed himself as a living Limit Douluo and forced Du Busi to abandon the Body Sect’s pursuit of Huo Yuhao. The Snow Empress then arrived as a demigod and demanded that Shrek Academy hand Huo Yuhao over, leaving the two sides on the brink of conflict.

• Mu En appeared in golden radiance, revealed that he had survived his battle with Du Busi’s brother, and warned Du Busi to stop pursuing Huo Yuhao, his personal disciple.
• Du Busi conceded and withdrew the Body Sect from its claim on Huo Yuhao.
• The Snow Empress descended amid freezing winds and snow, while Ice Empress recognized her and Electrolux sensed that a demigod had arrived.
• The Snow Empress identified herself as World Serpent’s Fifth Throne and King of Cacophony, then demanded that Shrek Academy hand over Huo Yuhao.
• Xuan Zi rejected the Snow Empress’s threat, and the confrontation remained unresolved.