Arc 40The Tournament’s Turning Tide

Oscar broke with Shrek and defeated Tang San after awakening his Behemoth bloodline, while Ye Lingling shared her power and life with him. The tournament continued with the New Botanical Team’s victories, Zhu Zhuyun joining them, and Bibi Dong displaying her overwhelming strength as Shrek prepared for its next match.

  • Little Nine’s allies ambushed Shrek’s airship, but Qian Renxue and the Firmament Knights arrived to help the survivors escape the attack.
  • After Ye Lingling was cursed, Oscar helped cleanse her damaged Nine-Hearted Begonia and discovered that Tang San had given Ning Qingfeng the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid Oscar believed was meant for him.
  • Oscar confronted Ning Fengzhi and Tang San, rejected Ning Rongrong, and went to Spirit Hall with Ye Lingling, where Bibi Dong punished them for trading away Oscar’s Secret Method.
  • Oscar and Ye Lingling trained under extreme gravity, awakened their Qi and Blood Power, and received a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Spirit Bone and an ancient Behemoth bone fragment.
  • Shrek’s team defeated Seiya’s Spirit Hall team, while Bibi Dong recognized Xiao Wu’s disguised identity and later met with Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong.
  • Oscar formed a new team with Qian Renxue’s guards and Ye Lingling, then unleashed a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear fusion against Shrek and defeated Tang San’s Holy Tiger War God by manifesting a Behemoth form.
  • Ye Lingling shared her lifespan and power with the near-death Oscar, transforming her Nine-Hearted Begonia, and Oscar promised to marry her and took her to Spirit Hall.
  • Huo Wu and other girls joined Little Nine’s Botanical Academy Team, which defeated the Star Luo Royal Team as Little Nine crippled Dai Weisi’s Martial Spirit and Zhu Zhuyun chose to leave her family.
  • Zhu Zhuyun joined the New Botanical Team, Bibi Dong subdued the empires’ spectators with her Haki Domain, and the tournament’s next matchups were drawn.
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Ch. 976A Sudden Attack

As the expedition came under attack from an alliance of powerful factions, Qian Renxue ordered the airships to regroup while Shrek’s airship crashed. Little Nine’s group built a massive underground-rooted tree fortress and took Shrek hostage, leaving the attackers unable to strike without endangering their own allies.

  • Botanical Academy and several other teams’ airships veered toward Shrek’s, prompting Qian Renxue to order the guards onto full alert and request help from Spirit Hall.
  • Little Nine and his allies attacked Shrek’s airship, severed its support ropes, and forced it to crash while more than a hundred Titled Douluo-level attackers emerged from the clouds.
  • Flender confronted Suosite after Shrek escaped the wreck, while Meng Shu warned Tang San not to use his hidden weapons and Tang San surrendered.
  • Little Nine and his companions fused their Martial Spirits into a giant tree, bound Shrek’s members with vines, and dragged them inside as the tree’s roots dug deep underground.
  • The black-clad attackers recognized Shrek’s members as allies and hesitated to attack, allowing the hostages to restrain their assault.

Ch. 977Target: Ye Lingling!

Qian Renxue and Botanical Academy’s hostages prevented one ambush from turning into a battle, but a second attack struck the academy airships. An assassin cursed Ye Lingling and fled, leaving Oscar and Yu Tianheng racing to get her to Botanical Academy for treatment.

  • Qian Renxue arrived with the Firmament Knights, and Little Nine drove back the disguised Titled Douluo who tried to approach the hostages.
  • After a signal revealed a second ambush, the Firmament Knights commander led most of his force to defend the academy airships, leaving a squad with Qian Renxue.
  • A spatially teleporting Titled Douluo attacked Ye Lingling aboard the First Heaven Dou Team’s airship, but Oscar shattered his Spirit Skill with a punch.
  • The assassin knocked Ye Lingling off the airship, and Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan combined their Martial Spirits with the other team members to create a powerful Thunder Shenron.
  • The Titled Douluo used a curse on Ye Lingling and escaped, while Yu Tianheng caught her and Oscar and rushed toward Botanical Academy for help.

Ch. 978The Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid Reappears

Jiang Zhu used a borrowed immortal-grade treasure herb to remove the Curse from Ye Lingling’s Martial Spirit, though its damage remained and Ye Lingling was relieved rather than upset. After learning that forces behind Shrek had helped orchestrate the ambush, Dugu Yan pressed Oscar to decide whether he would fight Shrek in the tournament and hinted that he would discover a startling secret about their new bun Spirit Master.

  • Jiang Zhu told Oscar that Ye Lingling’s Martial Spirit could be cleansed with an immortal-grade treasure herb, and Qian Renxue arranged to borrow one from Dugu Bo in exchange for Oscar’s Secret Method.
  • Jiang Zhu removed the Curse from Ye Lingling’s Nine-Hearted Begonia, but much of the Martial Spirit remained damaged; Ye Lingling said she was glad because it reminded her of her grandmother’s death.
  • Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire’s rescue forces arrived, and Qian Renxue’s group continued toward Martial Spirit City aboard Spirit Hall’s aerospace carrier.
  • Dugu Yan told Oscar that the ambush had also targeted Botanical Academy and that Yu Tianheng had learned the Shrek students were unaware of their allies’ scheme.
  • Dugu Yan demanded that Oscar decide whether he would oppose Shrek in the finals, then hinted that he should sense Shrek’s new bun Spirit Master and discover the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid inside him.

Ch. 979Brotherhood Severed

Oscar confronted Ning Qingfeng after sensing the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid inside him, then discovered his former Shrek teammates had accepted the herb’s transfer. Dugu Yan exposed Tang San’s explanation as a lie, leaving Oscar’s break with Shrek deepened.

  • Huo Wu and the others waited at Martial Spirit City after Dugu Yan invited them to watch a show, and the Shrek members arrived.
  • Oscar seized Ning Qingfeng and demanded to know where he had gotten the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid.
  • Ma Hongjun and the Shrek members attacked Oscar, while Dugu Yan’s team intercepted them; Ning Rongrong fired both her Zhuge Divine Crossbow and back-mounted crossbow at Oscar.
  • Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan treated Oscar’s wounds, and his broken mask revealed his identity to Ning Rongrong and Ma Hongjun.
  • Oscar rejected Ma Hongjun’s concern and accused his former teammates of betraying him by accepting Ning Qingfeng’s herb.
  • Tang San claimed he had given Ning Qingfeng a second Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, but Dugu Yan said the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had never held two, exposing his lie.

Ch. 980Bearing Thorns to Beg Forgiveness

Oscar confronted Ning Fengzhi about the truth behind his past, then rejected Ning Rongrong and left with the Heaven Dou Team. He later knelt at Spirit Hall's gate to seek forgiveness for trading away his teacher's Secret Method, and Ye Lingling joined him after learning what he had done.

  • Yu Tianheng condemned Tang San, while Oscar demanded the truth from Ning Fengzhi and threatened Ning Qingfeng.
  • Qian Daoliu attacked Chen Xin, and Ning Fengzhi admitted to Oscar that the truth was as Oscar suspected.
  • Ning Rongrong wept and tried to keep Oscar from leaving, but Oscar rejected her; Dugu Yan rebuked Ning Rongrong and led the Heaven Dou Team away.
  • Oscar went to Spirit Hall and knelt at its gate, where Ye Lingling joined him after learning he had traded away his teacher's Secret Method to save her.

Ch. 981Spirit Beast Bloodlines

Bibi Dong and Wang Hao punished Oscar and Ye Lingling while arranging support to help Oscar develop his Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear bloodline. Meanwhile, Sword Douluo warned Ning Fengzhi that Qian Daoliu had overwhelmed him, and they suspected the taboo man had helped Qian Daoliu grow stronger.

  • Bibi Dong ordered Oscar and Ye Lingling to kneel in a Gravity Domain for three days after Oscar traded away a Secret Method.
  • Wang Hao explained that the punishment would help correct dangers from Ye Lingling's incomplete Body Refinement method and decided to give Oscar treasure number 137392, an ancient Behemoth bone fragment.
  • Wang Hao revealed that Oscar's Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear bloodline was reverting toward its ancestral form and that the Behemoth bone could accelerate it.
  • Ning Fengzhi treated Sword Douluo, who said Qian Daoliu had defeated him despite his Asura God's inheritance and might not have used his full strength.
  • Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo suspected that the taboo man had enabled Qian Daoliu's extraordinary strength.

Ch. 982Tempering the Body with Gravity

Oscar and Ye Lingling endured gravity training that awakened their Qi and Blood Power and taught them to form Blood Rings, then recovered from the punishment and left Spirit Hall. Five days later, Shrek's group arrived at the enormous tournament arena in Martial Spirit City and realized how formidable Spirit Hall's Soul Masters might be.

  • A Gravity Domain Soul Master increased the pressure on Oscar and Ye Lingling, and Oscar and Ye Lingling used their Martial Spirit fusion to temper Ye Lingling's body.
  • The burly man taught Oscar to awaken his Qi and Blood Power and form a Blood Ring, while Ye Lingling awakened Qi and Blood Power that added a marking to her first Spirit Ring.
  • The burly man pushed the gravity to one hundred times normal, then left Oscar and Ye Lingling a ten-thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Spirit Bone and an ancient Behemoth bone fragment.
  • After Ye Lingling healed them, Oscar and Ye Lingling bowed toward Spirit Hall and departed.
  • Five days later, Tang San, Flender, and the Shrek group arrived at Martial Spirit City's enormous arena and learned it hosted matches for Spirit Elder-level Soul Masters.
  • Flender and the others worried that Spirit Hall's Soul Masters might be too powerful for Shrek to defeat in the tournament.

Ch. 983Group Fusion Skill

Shrek faced Spirit Hall's team in the tournament opener and weathered a barrage of Meteor Fists before Xiao Wu teleported them clear. After the referee dismissed Alice's protest over Shrek's Spirit Bones, Dai Mubai led the team in a Fusion Skill that transformed him into a giant white tiger, while Seiya's team prepared to fight back.

  • Dai Mubai drew the first-match lot for Shrek, pairing them with Spirit Hall's team led by Alice and vice-captain Seiya.
  • Seiya's team copied and unleashed a torrent of Meteor Fist attacks, forcing Shrek onto the defensive.
  • Xiao Wu used her improved Teleportation Spirit Skill to transport the whole Shrek team a thousand zhang away from the barrage.
  • Alice accused Shrek of cheating by using numerous high-quality Spirit Bones, but the referee dismissed her protest because the rules did not forbid them.
  • Dai Mubai and his teammates combined their Spirit Power, turning him into a giant white tiger through an eleven-in-one Fusion Skill.
  • Seiya and his companions mistook the transformation for a Martial Spirit Fusion Skill at first, then decided their team could handle it.

Ch. 984Clash of Martial Spirit Fusion Skills

The Shrek Team and Spirit Hall's team escalated their fierce match by unleashing powerful group Martial Spirit Fusion Skills. The chapter ended with both sides fielding fused warriors as the battle continued.

  • Seiya fused his teammates' Spirit Power and clashed with Dai Mubai's Beast King Roar, creating a massive crater.
  • Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing transformed into the flying Hell White Tiger, but Seiya fused with Agen and drove them back with repeated Flying Donkey Meteor Fists.
  • Tang San called the Shrek Team together, and its main fighters unleashed the Seven-in-One Holy Tiger War God.
  • Seiya's group tried to reach Captain Alice, but Tang San and the Holy Tiger War God pursued them to stop their fusion.
  • Seiya and five teammates fused with Alice into the Human Donkey Transformation, while the remaining five Spirit Hall fighters formed the Human Eagle Transformation.

Ch. 985A Tired Old Plot!

The Shrek Team defeated Seiya’s team, but Seiya and his teammates unexpectedly fused seven domains and gained a powerful new ability before leaving the arena. Bibi Dong discovered that Xiao Wu was a transformed hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast and recognized the scheme involving her, Tang San, and the Clear Sky Clan, but decided to watch how it unfolded.

  • Tang San unleashed his Noble Ring domain, weakening Seiya and his teammates, while the Shrek Team pinned them down and won the match after the referee counted to ten.
  • Seiya and his teammates fused their seven domains into one, transforming into a ten-armed, half-human, half-donkey form with power surpassing the Shrek Team’s Holy Tiger War God.
  • Tang San and the Shrek Team left the arena, and Seiya learned from his other teammates that their team had lost despite successfully fusing their domains.
  • The audience from the two great empires grew alarmed at Spirit Hall’s teams possessing multiple Martial Spirit Fusion Skills and domains.
  • Bibi Dong sensed Xiao Wu’s killing intent, saw through her disguise as a hundred-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit Emperor, and recognized the Clear Sky Clan’s scheme.

Ch. 986Clash Between Love Rivals

The Shrek Team reeled from Spirit Hall’s domains and self-created skills before Yu Xiaogang was summoned to the Pope’s Palace, with Liu Erlong insisting on accompanying him. Bibi Dong met them and traded provocative barbs with Liu Erlong while concealing her feelings for Yu Xiaogang.

  • The Shrek Team discussed Spirit Hall’s widespread domains, powerful Martial Spirit Fusion Skills, and numerous self-created Spirit Skills.
  • A guardian knight delivered Bibi Dong’s invitation to Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong decided to go with him.
  • Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong traveled through the knight’s spatial portal to the Pope’s Palace, astonishing the Shrek Team with the portal’s range.
  • Bibi Dong dismissed the guardian knight after seeing Liu Erlong arrive beside Yu Xiaogang.
  • Liu Erlong taunted Bibi Dong about her relationship with Yu Xiaogang, and Bibi Dong retorted that Liu Erlong was still a virgin.

Ch. 987"Lies!"

Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang left Bibi Dong after Luo Sanpao joyfully reunited with her and revealed his grievances against Liu Erlong. Back at her residence, Bibi Dong brought Luo Sanpao to Wang Hao, whose connection to Yu Xiaogang’s Martial Spirit left her convinced that her beloved was hiding something.

  • Luo Sanpao escaped Yu Xiaogang’s control, ran to Bibi Dong, and complained that Liu Erlong had kept him from visiting her.
  • Liu Erlong left with Yu Xiaogang after Bibi Dong insisted Luo Sanpao stay with her until after the finals.
  • Yu Xiaogang denied thinking about Bibi Dong and warned Liu Erlong that Shrek Team would struggle to win the tournament against Spirit Hall and other strong teams.
  • Bibi Dong returned to her residence with Luo Sanpao, where Wang Hao was writing through his Spirit Guidance Device clone.
  • Luo Sanpao called Wang Hao “Master,” and Bibi Dong took this as proof of a mysterious connection between them.
  • Wang Hao cautioned Bibi Dong about meeting Yu Xiaogang, but she ignored his denial that he was Yu Xiaogang and remained convinced by Luo Sanpao’s reaction.

Ch. 988True Thunder Shenron

The First Heaven Dou Team defeated a Spirit Hall team with an enormous eleven-in-one Thunder Shenron powered by storm clouds, then drew the Shrek Team for the next elimination round. As a thunderstorm threatened to strengthen their opponents, Yu Tianheng and his teammates returned from a late-night outing looking grim.

  • Little Nine's Botanical Academy Team used an eleven-in-one fusion skill to wear down and defeat a fast Spirit Hall team.
  • Yu Tianheng's First Heaven Dou Team formed Thunder Shenron, drew lightning from rain clouds, and forced its Spirit Hall opponents to concede.
  • A lightning-specialist Titled Douluo safely dispersed Thunder Shenron's gathered power, and the Heaven Dou Team withdrew from the fusion skill.
  • The draw paired the First Heaven Dou Team against the Shrek Team, and Yu Tianheng boasted that his team would win under the cloudy weather.
  • Tang San reassured Dai Mubai that his Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum-enhanced body could resist lightning, but later foresaw thunderstorms that could empower Thunder Shenron.
  • Yu Tianheng and the other Heaven Dou Team members left their manor late at night and returned with grim expressions.

Ch. 989Betrayal!

After Yu Tianheng and his teammates deliberately incapacitated themselves to avoid facing Shrek, Oscar expelled them from the First Heaven Dou Team and sought a replacement lineup. With Qian Renxue’s help, he selected six loyal guards and arranged for Ye Lingling to restore her Nine-Hearted Begonia before the battle.

  • Old Whitehead revealed that Yu Tianheng and the others could recover within thirty minutes, confirming that their injuries were not serious.
  • Oscar expelled Yu Tianheng and the others from the First Heaven Dou Team and asked Dugu Yan to leave with them to avoid suspicion.
  • Oscar borrowed Dugu Bo’s immortal-grade medicinal treasure so Ye Lingling could restore her Nine-Hearted Begonia before the battle.
  • Oscar met Qian Renxue and her fifty elite guards, then tested their Spirit Power compatibility.
  • Oscar selected Luo Gen, Sun Yuan, Zhang Yi, Jieks, Duo'er, and Augus as the team’s six new members.

Ch. 990A Match of Equal Standing!

Oscar confronted Ning Rongrong and Shrek before leading the heavily reshuffled First Heaven Dou Team into battle. He planned to counter Shrek’s fusion techniques as the teams took their positions, while Tang San struggled to prepare for Oscar’s unknown abilities and new teammates.

  • Ning Rongrong challenged Oscar over his relationship with Ye Lingling and claimed the Nine-Colored Divine Goddess’s inheritance would be hers; Ye Lingling called herself Oscar’s fiancée, and Oslo mocked Ning Rongrong’s entitlement.
  • Oscar reflected on how Ning Rongrong had misunderstood his efforts and their unequal standing, then pushed past her and continued toward the arena with Ye Lingling and the others.
  • Yufeng and Oslo accused Shrek of using underhanded tactics to force changes to the First Heaven Dou Team, and Yang Wuwei protested the team’s compromised victory.
  • Oscar ordered Oslo, Yufeng, and Sinuo to tie down Shrek’s fighters and target Yu Xinming, then told Qian Renxue’s six guards to let him control their Martial Spirits.
  • Tang San and Shrek studied Oscar’s unfamiliar lineup but could not devise a reliable plan, so Tang San decided they would respond as the fight unfolded.

Ch. 991Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear

The Shrek Team tried to stop Oscar and the new Heaven Dou Team from completing a powerful Martial Spirit Fusion Skill, but Oslo and his companions held them back with their own fusion attack. The chapter ended as Oscar’s completed fusion revealed an enormous Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear before the shocked spectators.

  • Ning Rongrong boosted Dai Mubai and the other Shrek fighters as they charged Oscar’s group, but Oscar and Ye Lingling began a deep-level Martial Spirit fusion beneath a blood-colored halo.
  • Tang San warned the Shrek Team, and Oslo and his companions used a rain of energy arrows to force Dai Mubai’s group to retreat while they protected Oscar.
  • Tang Zhen identified Oscar’s Blood Ring as a special power rather than a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring, while Tang Yuehua and the spectators from the two empires reacted with alarm.
  • Tang San formed the Holy Tiger War God with the Shrek Team and charged Oscar’s group, but Oslo and his companions slowed them with explosive arrows.
  • Oslo and his companions attacked Yu Xinming, while Tang Long and the others protected him with their merged Spirit Power.
  • Oscar’s Eight-in-One Martial Spirit Fusion Skill took shape, revealing an enormous Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear that stunned the spectators.

Ch. 992Thunder Warhammer

Oscar used the six soldiers’ Martial Spirits to awaken his Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear bloodline and fought Tang San’s Holy Tiger War God. After Shrek struck him with a lightning pillar, Oscar discovered that the ancient Behemoth bone in his body absorbed the lightning, and the chapter ended as the Holy Tiger War God gathered power for another attack.

  • Oscar transformed into a towering Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, while Ye Lingling’s Nine-Hearted Begonia helped him endure the bloodline awakening.
  • Tang San sent the Holy Tiger War God to attack, but Oscar’s claws badly damaged it and overwhelmed its defenses.
  • Tang San regrouped with Tang Long and the others, who formed a Thunder Warhammer and gathered lightning from the storm clouds.
  • Chen Yuan and his companion conceded and left the arena, while the Holy Tiger War God fired a pillar of lightning at Oscar.
  • Oscar kept the lightning inside his body and discovered that the ancient Behemoth bone absorbed it as Bibi Dong watched.
  • The Holy Tiger War God began gathering lightning for another strike.

Ch. 993Ultimate Transcendence

Oscar endured Tang San’s increasingly powerful lightning-war-hammer assault until a surprise spiritual attack left him near death. He expelled Ye Lingling and the others, then merged the Behemoth bone fragment into his bloodline and began transforming into an enormous, ancient vicious form as Tang San launched a thirty-seventh hammer strike.

  • Bibi Dong recognized that the lightning, Oscar’s bloodline, and the Behemoth bone fragment had triggered a rare opportunity for him.
  • Tang San took control of the Holy Tiger War God and hammered Oscar’s Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear form, building power with the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer Technique.
  • Tang San struck Oscar with Purple Demon Annihilation Divine Light and smashed apart the bear’s head, inflicting severe backlash that rapidly drained Oscar’s remaining lifespan.
  • Oscar expelled Ye Lingling and the other six, then drew out the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear’s power and merged the Behemoth bone fragment into his bloodline.
  • Oscar’s blood and mist formed a huge, archaic, vicious shape, and Tang San answered with the technique’s thirty-seventh strike.

Ch. 994King of Divine Beasts!

Oscar transformed into a Behemoth and defeated Tang San’s team, but the battle left him near death. Ye Lingling used her once-in-a-lifetime Sharing Spirit Skill to give him her strength and lifespan, while Oscar’s Behemoth bloodline and Ye Lingling’s immortal treasures began transforming her Nine-Hearted Begonia.

  • Oscar manifested a Behemoth form that suppressed Beast Martial Spirits and clashed with Tang San’s Holy Tiger War God.
  • Oscar broke through the Holy Tiger War God’s defenses and forced Tang San to disperse the fusion, winning the battle before his Behemoth form collapsed.
  • Oslo revealed that Oscar had already been near death, shocking Ning Rongrong and leaving Ye Lingling grieving.
  • Ye Lingling used her Sharing Spirit Skill to transfer her lifespan and power to Oscar, visibly restoring him as she began to share in his power.
  • Oscar’s Behemoth bloodline entered Ye Lingling’s Nine-Hearted Begonia, and the power of her immortal treasures began mutating it.

Ch. 995The Victor Becomes King, the Loser an Outlaw

After Heaven Dou conceded the match, Oscar declared that he would marry Ye Lingling, whose Martial Spirit had transformed into a white lotus at the cost of half her lifespan. Oscar warned Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan about the danger of the immortal herbs, then took Ye Lingling to join his teacher at Spirit Hall, leaving Shrek with a victory they could barely celebrate.

  • Ye Lingling's two precious herbs transformed her Nine-Hearted Begonia into a white lotus and aged her by decades, while Oscar understood her feelings through their Sharing Spirit Skill.
  • Dugu Yan entered the arena and explained that the Crown Prince had ordered Heaven Dou to concede, prompting Oslo to realize that powerful factions could not afford a Shrek defeat.
  • Oscar promised to marry Ye Lingling after the tournament and asked Dugu Bo to let her keep the Clear Water Pure Lotus until her unstable Martial Spirit settled.
  • Dugu Yan asked Dugu Bo to give Ye Lingling the herb as dowry, but he refused because the coming war made him wary of giving up his safeguards.
  • Oscar advised Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to refine the immortal herbs out of their bodies, warning that each herb had an owner; Dugu Bo promised to consider it.
  • Oscar took Ye Lingling to Spirit Hall, while the Shrek members remained behind, troubled by their victory and its dishonorable circumstances.

Ch. 996Seven Asura Domain

Yu Tianheng struggled to accept his clan’s decision to make the Heaven Dou Team concede, while the tournament continued amid disputes over team substitutions. Dieying unveiled a Seven-in-One Martial Spirit Fusion Skill against Dai Weisi’s Star Luo Royal Team, transforming her Seven Asura Illusion Realm into a vast domain.

  • Yu Yuanzhen explained that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had forced the Heaven Dou Team to concede because Yu Tianheng’s Thunder Shenron depended too heavily on thunderstorms, and Yu Tianheng admitted he understood the decision but could not accept it.
  • Huo Wu and the other girls joined the Botanical Academy Team to form the New Botanical Team, prompting Flender to protest and Bibi Dong to permit the empires’ teams to exchange members while Spirit Hall’s teams made no changes.
  • The Star Luo Empire combined its three remaining teams’ strongest members into Dai Weisi’s Spirit Emperor lineup, while Shrek and the New Botanical Team drew opponents for the third round.
  • Dieying identified the Star Luo Royal Team’s Mirror of Reflection Spirit Master as her target because she wanted to study his spatial ability.
  • Dieying unleashed a Seven-in-One Martial Spirit Fusion Skill, expanding her Seven Asura Illusion Realm across the arena and creating forty-nine demonic Asura figures.

Ch. 997Their Composure Cracked!

The Star Luo Royal Team struggled against the Botanical Team after the Asura Domain made mirror traversal far more costly, so Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun launched a coordinated assault to reach the Nine-Hearted Begonia support members. Little Nine stopped their Hell White Tiger with one arm, but the team’s mirror-based feint left the tiger poised to strike Ye Ren.

  • Li Yang reported that the Asura Domain had increased the Spirit Power cost of mirror traversal at least tenfold, and Zhu Zhuyun ordered the Star Luo Royal Team to attack Huo Wu’s position.
  • Huo Wu repelled the first assault with her Resist Fire Ring and formed a Magma Domain, but the attackers used water pythons to cool her magma and push through.
  • Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun fused into a Hell White Tiger and charged the Botanical Team’s center, expecting Little Nine to be vulnerable without his enlargement Secret Method.
  • Little Nine blocked the Hell White Tiger’s paw with one arm, then hurled the tiger toward Huo Wu, leaving Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun stunned.
  • The Hell White Tiger emerged from a mirror behind the Botanical Team and lunged at Ye Ren, their primary target and a key support member.

Ch. 998Divine Inheritance

Little Nine defeated the Star Luo Royal Team’s Hell White Tiger and studied Dai Weisi’s Evil Eye White Tiger Martial Spirit to uncover the secret behind its fusion with the Hell Civet. Zhu Zhuyun revealed that their households shared a divine inheritance and, unwilling to return to the Star Luo Empire, considered Little Nine as a possible guide.

  • Jiang Zhu knocked the Hell White Tiger’s attack aside and drove it back, while Little Nine transformed and repeatedly slammed it into the ground until it began to disintegrate.
  • The Star Luo Royal Team’s fighters withdrew, and Little Nine knocked Dai Weisi unconscious after learning he had shifted most of the backlash onto Zhu Zhuyun.
  • Ye Ren healed Zhu Zhuyun while Jiang Zhu went to support the others, and Little Nine examined Dai Weisi’s Evil Eye White Tiger Martial Spirit.
  • Little Nine found a mysterious power that acted as a catalyst for the Hell White Tiger fusion, and Zhu Zhuyun showed strong interest in it.
  • Zhu Zhuyun told Little Nine that the Dai and Zhu households shared a divine inheritance, with the Evil Eye White Tiger bearing its main power and the Hell Civet bearing speed.
  • Zhu Zhuyun explained that she could not safely return to the Star Luo Empire and considered Little Nine a promising guide to another path.

Ch. 999Sharing One Husband

Little Nine and the New Botanical Team defeated the Star Luo Royal Team, while Zhu Zhuyun secured Dai Weisi’s refined Martial Spirit power. After Dai Mubai banished Zhu Zhuyun from the Star Luo Empire, she joined the New Botanical Team’s side.

  • Little Nine crippled Dai Weisi’s Martial Spirit, refined its origin power, and gave it to Zhu Zhuyun, who sealed it away for later absorption.
  • The New Botanical Team defeated the Star Luo Royal Team, and Dieying captured the mirror Martial Spirit for study.
  • Zhao Chenggang protested Dai Weisi’s crippling, but Suosite countered by demanding that the Shrek Team be disqualified over its earlier killings; both withdrew their protests.
  • Zhu Zhuyun refused to return to her family and challenged Dai Mubai to banish her from the Star Luo Empire.
  • Dai Mubai banished Zhu Zhuyun, and Huang Yuan reacted with envy to the empire’s custom of sisters sharing a husband.

Ch. 1000Haki Suppresses the Seven Kill Sword

Zhu Zhuyun joined the New Botanical Team after offering to help Huang Yuan win Zhu Zhuqing, while secretly hoping to pursue Little Nine. At the tournament draw, Bibi Dong warned the empires with her Haki Domain, and Ning Fengzhi’s hidden manipulation of luck secured Shrek a favorable matchup at the cost of a clansman’s life.

  • Zhu Zhuyun asked to join the New Botanical Team and offered to help Huang Yuan win Zhu Zhuqing, prompting Jiang Zhu and the others to agree.
  • Huo Wu warned Zhu Zhuyun not to scheme against the team, while Zhu Zhuyun secretly planned to pursue Little Nine.
  • Bibi Dong unleashed her Haki Domain over the two empires’ spectator areas, forcing their experts down and alarming Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo.
  • Dai Mubai drew the weaker Spirit Hall team for Shrek, while the New Botanical Team and Golden Team faced each other.
  • Ning Fengzhi revealed that a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan member had manipulated luck to favor Shrek and died from the backlash, leading Ning Fengzhi to reassess Bibi Dong’s threat.
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