Chapter Summaries

Kong Xuan settled into the Shrek Inner Court and spoke with Zhang Lexuan near the Sea God Pavilion about her recovery and her choice to remain at Shrek. He then sent Yun Ming’s spiritual power toward the Golden Ancient Tree to investigate Tang San’s contingency, fulfilling his promise to his teacher.

• Ren Jun showed Kong Xuan and the other Sun Moon exchange students around the Inner Court and explained its facilities and informal study system.
• The exchange students moved into private dormitories and adapted to Inner Court life, while its students continued avoiding them.
• Kong Xuan met Zhang Lexuan beneath the Golden Ancient Tree, congratulated her on becoming a Sea God Pavilion reserve member, and asked whether she would return to Sun Moon.
• Zhang Lexuan said Shrek was her home and that she hoped Shrek and Sun Moon would not become enemies.
• After Zhang Lexuan left, Kong Xuan stopped outside the Sea God Pavilion and released Yun Ming’s spiritual power toward the Golden Ancient Tree to examine Tang San’s contingency.

Yun Ming secretly examined the Golden Ancient Tree and found no sign that an outside will had taken control of it, leaving Kong Xuan unsure whether Tang San's plan had begun. Yun Ming nevertheless chose to trust Kong Xuan and sever his ties with Shrek, and Kong Xuan silently reaffirmed his promise to help his teacher live again.

• Yun Ming sent his spiritual power into the Golden Ancient Tree and found no trace of an outside will occupying it.
• Kong Xuan was shocked that the tree showed no signs of Tang San's plan and worried he could no longer prove his claim.
• Yun Ming told Kong Xuan he believed him, citing Tang San's attempted murder of Kong Xuan at the Clear Sky Sect.
• Yun Ming rejected Shrek's conduct and declared that he would no longer intervene in its affairs.
• Kong Xuan accepted Yun Ming's trust and renewed his resolve to help his teacher rebuild his body after becoming a god.

Kong Xuan led the Sun Moon exchange students to the Star Dou Great Forest to begin their Soul Spirit collaboration, accompanied by Kong Deming. At the Lake of Life, Kong Deming revealed his new Two-Word Battle Armor, Silver Moon, and faced Di Tian as a Level 99 Limit Douluo.

• Ma Sheng returned to Shrek Academy, and Cai Mei'er approved the exchange students' trip to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Kong Xuan, Kong Ling, Xu Wei, Ji Juechen, Ma Sheng, and Ren Jun set out for the forest with Gu Yuena.
• Kong Deming arrived through a spatial gateway, trusted Kong Xuan's plan, and transported the group inside his Life-Bound Soul Tool.
• Kong Deming used spatial passages to reach the Lake of Life, where the Ferocious Beasts' pressure confronted him.
• Kong Deming donned his Two-Word Battle Armor, Silver Moon, and its power raised him from Level 96 to Level 99.
• Di Tian appeared before Kong Deming and remarked that humans had produced another supreme expert.

Kong Xuan brought Kong Deming and three Soul Masters to the Star Dou Great Forest to fulfill their promise and demonstrate successful Soul Spirit technology. Di Tian arranged for three suitable Soul Beasts to be brought to the Lake of Life, then asked who would undergo fusion first.

• Di Tian recognized Kong Deming and, after Gu Yuena reassured him, withdrew his pressure and stopped treating the group as a threat.
• Kong Xuan told Di Tian that Soul Spirit research had succeeded and that Kong Ling and two other Soul Masters needed Soul Rings.
• Di Tian summoned the Myriad Demon King and asked him to find a fire-attribute, a lightning-attribute, and an attribute-free attack-type Soul Beast.
• The Myriad Demon King brought a Heaven-Burning Skylark, a Thunder-Patterned Giant Bear, and a Mysterious Iron Saber-Toothed Tiger to the Lake of Life.
• Di Tian confirmed that the Soul Beasts met the requirements and asked who would undergo Soul Spirit fusion first.

Kong Xuan guided Kong Ling through the first Soul Spirit fusion, which appeared to fail before the Heaven-Burning Skylark reformed as her Soul Spirit and granted her a choice of Soul Skills. After explaining the method’s benefits and limitations, Kong Xuan prepared to help Xu Wei and Ji Juechen before discussing Soul Spirit technology with Di Tian.

• Kong Xuan chose Kong Ling to attempt fusion with the willing Heaven-Burning Skylark and began the Soul Spirit ritual.
• The Heaven-Burning Skylark’s body died and its spiritual form vanished, making everyone believe the fusion had failed.
• Golden symbols surged into Kong Ling, and the Heaven-Burning Skylark reappeared as her Soul Spirit alongside a black Soul Ring.
• Kong Ling said she had chosen the Heaven Burning Soul Skill and explained that Soul Spirits offered a choice of skills and could aid their masters in battle.
• Kong Xuan described Soul Spirit options and limits, estimated a success rate above ninety percent if the Soul Beast did not resist, and told Di Tian they would discuss the method after Xu Wei and Ji Juechen fused.

Kong Xuan secured the Star Dou Great Forest’s support for the Spirit Pagoda and planned to promote Soul Spirits in two or three years. Meanwhile, Yan Shaozhe entered the Sun Moon Empire and tracked the Holy Spirit Cult to the Xishui Alliance, where Nangong Wan detected someone spying on him.

• Xu Wei and Ji Juechen completed their Soul Spirit fusions, gaining powerful Soul Skills.
• Kong Xuan explained the fusion ritual’s requirements, offered to teach the Ferocious Beasts, and invited them to join the Spirit Pagoda.
• Di Tian agreed that Star Dou would join the Spirit Pagoda, and Kong Xuan said preparations and promotion would take time.
• Yan Shaozhe crossed into the Sun Moon Empire, investigated border cities, and learned that the Xishui Alliance was controlled by Evil Soul Masters.
• Nangong Wan reviewed the Xishui Alliance’s affairs and addressed an unseen watcher behind his office curtains.

Yan Shaozhe confronted Nangong Wan about the Holy Spirit Cult and forced the Xishui Alliance leader to reveal the cult’s strength. He left with alarming intelligence about its ranks and two supposed Limit Douluos, then asked for the vice cult leader’s name.

• Yan Shaozhe entered Nangong Wan’s office and declared that he had come to investigate the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Nangong Wan denied belonging to the cult, but Yan Shaozhe’s level 95 strength and light attribute overwhelmed him, and he begged for mercy.
• Nangong Wan admitted that he led the Xishui Alliance and served as the Holy Spirit Cult’s second elder.
• Nangong Wan said the cult had more than twenty Titled Douluo-level fighters, including a level 98 cult leader and a level 97 vice cult leader.
• Nangong Wan claimed the cult’s two supreme elders were level 99 Limit Douluos, alarming Yan Shaozhe.
• Yan Shaozhe asked Nangong Wan for the vice cult leader’s name.

Yan Shaozhe learned that Feng Ling was the Holy Spirit Cult’s deputy leader and the cult leader’s wife, then forced Nangong Wan to summon her to the Xishui Alliance headquarters. When Feng Ling arrived, she recognized Yan Shaozhe and ordered Nangong Wan out, leaving their reunion unresolved.

• Yan Shaozhe questioned Nangong Wan about Feng Ling and learned that she wielded the Evil Phoenix Martial Soul and was married to the Holy Spirit Cult’s leader.
• Yan Shaozhe ordered Nangong Wan to summon Feng Ling and threatened him against sending any warning.
• Nangong Wan sent a Soul Tool message claiming an emergency required Feng Ling’s presence, and she arrived the following day.
• Feng Ling sensed something was wrong and confronted Nangong Wan before Yan Shaozhe appeared in the office.
• Feng Ling recognized Yan Shaozhe and told Nangong Wan to get out, while he left relieved that he had survived.

Yan Shaozhe reunited with Feng Ling in Mingdu and learned how deeply the Holy Spirit Cult had grown before asking her to pass along a message. Nine months later, as the exchange program neared its end, Wang Dong confessed her feelings to Huo Yuhao.

• Yan Shaozhe met Feng Ling, urged her to leave the Holy Spirit Cult, and warned that the cult's power threatened him in Mingdu.
• Feng Ling told Yan Shaozhe that the Holy Spirit Cult had agreed to cooperate with Xu Tianran and advised him to return to Shrek.
• Yan Shaozhe decided to return to Shrek the next day and asked Feng Ling to pass along a message.
• Nine months passed, and the Shrek and Sun Moon exchange program approached its end.
• Wang Dong followed Huo Yuhao beside Sea God Lake and confessed that she liked him.

Huo Yuhao rejected Wang Dong’s confession and told her to ask her father what he had done. He then told Kong Xuan he would challenge Dai Huabin as the younger brother Dai Huabin had once bullied, and Kong Xuan encouraged him to proceed under the protection of the Sun Moon Empire’s Worship Hall.

• Wang Dong confessed her feelings to Huo Yuhao and insisted he take responsibility because he had seen her body, but Huo Yuhao rejected her and told her to ask her father what he had done.
• Huo Yuhao left Wang Dong behind, and Kong Xuan appeared and praised his firm rejection.
• Huo Yuhao told Kong Xuan he wanted to challenge Dai Huabin before the semester ended.
• Huo Yuhao said he would face Dai Huabin as the younger brother he had bullied at the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion, and explained that Dai Huabin bore responsibility for his mother’s suffering and death.
• Kong Xuan supported Huo Yuhao’s decision and assured him that his identity as the Worship Hall master’s personal disciple would protect him, and Huo Yuhao resolved to carry out his revenge.

Huo Yuhao challenged Dai Huabin to settle their past grievances before leaving Shrek Academy. Dai Huabin accepted and attacked first, but Huo Yuhao evaded him with an illusion and appeared behind him, poised to strike.

• Dai Huabin mistook Huo Yuhao's challenge for a bid to make a name for himself and accepted, determined to reclaim his reputation.
• Huo Yuhao and Dai Huabin met in Small Soul Fighting Arena No. 21 without a referee, each intent on defeating the other.
• Dai Huabin unleashed three enhancement Soul Skills and charged Huo Yuhao with a powerful tiger-claw attack.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection Sharing, Simulation, and Mental Interference to make Dai Huabin's claws pass through an illusion.
• Huo Yuhao appeared behind the momentarily stunned Dai Huabin as his first strike of revenge was about to land.

Huo Yuhao used concealment, spiritual control, and Soul Tools to fight Dai Huabin rather than meet his enhanced strength head-on. After Dai Huabin’s sweeping bombardment failed to reveal him, Huo Yuhao announced that his counterattack was next.

• Huo Yuhao appeared behind Dai Huabin and fired a Level 5 Paralysis Ray Gun, but Dai Huabin dodged the shot by twisting aside in midair.
• Dai Huabin retreated and searched the arena for Huo Yuhao, who remained hidden with his Simulation Soul Skill and taunted him through a spiritual transmission.
• Dai Huabin unleashed his Fourth Soul Skill, White Tiger Meteor Shower, to bombard the entire arena and force Huo Yuhao out of hiding.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection and multiple Soul Tool Thrusters to evade the meteor shower without being hit.
• After the attack ended with Huo Yuhao still concealed, he told Dai Huabin that it was his turn.

Huo Yuhao unleashed a seventy-two-cannon Soul Tool barrage, then used his Weakening Soul Skill and the Myriad Phenomena Web-Weaving Spider’s Sensory Overload to stop Dai Huabin’s charge. With Dai Huabin incapacitated and the match’s outcome apparently decided, Huo Yuhao resolved that his revenge had only just begun.

• Huo Yuhao fired all seventy-two Soul Cannons at Dai Huabin, who spotted his hidden position by sensing the heat and charged through the barrage.
• Dai Huabin endured the attacks and pushed forward, while Huo Yuhao put away his turret and canceled Simulation rather than retreating.
• Huo Yuhao used his Third Soul Skill, Weakening, to drain Dai Huabin’s strength and disperse his White Tiger Protection Barrier.
• Huo Yuhao revealed the Myriad Phenomena Web-Weaving Spider, whose Sensory Overload struck Dai Huabin with a flood of sensations and left him kneeling in agony.
• With Dai Huabin unable to continue and no referee present, Huo Yuhao considered the fight far from over and his revenge not yet begun.

Huo Yuhao defeated Dai Huabin and continued beating him, while Kong Xuan stopped Shrek students from intervening by claiming the two were brothers. The chapter ended with Dai Huabin conscious but badly injured, unable to clearly concede as Huo Yuhao stood over him.

• Huo Yuhao approached the kneeling Dai Huabin and punched him with his metal gauntlets, then continued beating him after winning the fight.
• Shrek students protested and tried to enter the arena, but Kong Xuan used his presence to hold them back and cited the arena rules.
• Kong Xuan told the crowd that Huo Yuhao and Dai Huabin were brothers, leaving the Shrek students stunned.
• Huo Yuhao stopped the beating after venting his hatred, leaving Dai Huabin severely injured but alive.
• Dai Huabin regained consciousness and struggled to respond when Huo Yuhao asked whether he was conceding.

Huo Yuhao revealed his identity as Dai Huabin’s half-brother and defeated him in the Soul Fighting Arena, declaring that he would seek justice from the White Tiger Duke’s family. As Huo Yuhao left with Kong Xuan and the Sun Moon exchange students, news of his Soul Spirit began spreading through Shrek Academy.

• Huo Yuhao taunted Dai Huabin until Dai recognized him as the neglected illegitimate son he had once bullied in the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion.
• Huo Yuhao lifted his foot from Dai Huabin’s face and vowed to confront Dai Huabin’s mother and the White Tiger Duke to demand justice for himself and his mother.
• Huo Yuhao flew to the stands and joined Kong Xuan and the Sun Moon exchange students, who responded to his revealed past with respect.
• Kong Xuan offered Huo Yuhao quiet support, and Huo Yuhao followed him out of the arena after looking back at Dai Huabin.
• Dai Huabin’s teammates carried him to the infirmary, while news of the match and Huo Yuhao’s crystal spider spread through Shrek Academy.
• With Kong Xuan’s deliberate promotion, Shrek students began hearing about Soul Spirits, and interest in them spread beyond the Sun Moon exchange students.

Kong Xuan and the Sun Moon delegation departed Shrek Academy after their two-year exchange, but an unseen attacker abducted Kong Xuan in midair on the journey home. The others landed in the mountain forest and prepared to defend themselves while Ma Sheng and Ren Jun searched for him.

• Ren Jun and Cai Mei'er exchanged formal farewells as the Sun Moon delegation prepared to leave Shrek City.
• Kong Xuan and the others flew toward the Sun Moon Empire, while Cai Mei'er, Qian Duoduo, and Yan Shaozhe watched them depart.
• Kong Xuan sensed someone following the group and alerted Ma Sheng and Ren Jun.
• As Ma Sheng and Ren Jun moved to protect Kong Xuan, he vanished without warning in front of his companions.
• Ma Sheng ordered everyone to land and gather together, warning that a prepared Titled Douluo was responsible.

Kong Xuan was abducted into a spatial domain by a Level 95 Super Douluo who planned to kill him, but he remained calm and identified the ambush. The old man launched a lethal spatial slash, and Kong Xuan prepared to end the confrontation.

• Kong Xuan realized he had been separated from his group and trapped in an artificial white space.
• A white-haired Level 95 Super Douluo appeared, wielding the spatial Tool Martial Soul Realm Control Orb.
• Kong Xuan recognized the old man's strength and mocked him, prompting the old man to reveal his intent to kill him for his talent and Sun Moon origins.
• Kong Xuan sensed three more Titled Douluos waiting outside the spatial domain, surprising the old man.
• The old man unleashed Realm Control: Space-Rending Slash at Kong Xuan's neck, and Kong Xuan sighed and thought it was time to end things.

Kong Deming appeared in the white-haired elder’s spatial domain just before the elder could kill Kong Xuan, revealing that he had reached level 97 and could overwhelm the four attacking Titled Douluo. When the elder attempted to flee with his spatial soul skill, Kong Deming forcibly pulled him back, leaving him horrified and unable to escape.

• The white-haired elder’s Space Rending Slash vanished, and Kong Deming appeared between him and Kong Xuan.
• Kong Xuan addressed Kong Deming as his grandfather, and Kong Deming said Kong Xuan could have defended himself even without help.
• The elder realized Kong Xuan might be able to threaten Titled Douluo and regretted attacking without bringing more allies.
• Kong Deming revealed his level 97 strength and challenged the elder for daring to touch his grandson.
• The elder used his Eighth Soul Skill, Empty Cicada Shadow Escape, and urged his three companions to run.
• Kong Deming manipulated space to force the fleeing elder back into the domain, leaving him shocked.

Kong Deming captured the four Titled Douluo who had attacked Kong Xuan and reunited with the Sun Moon group. He led everyone toward Mingdu, intending to interrogate the prisoners and wary that more attackers might appear.

• Kong Deming immobilized the Level 95 Super Douluo with Silver Moon Soul-Fixing Light and sealed him with the God Sealing Rings, cutting off his Martial Soul and Soul Power.
• Kong Deming trapped the three other fleeing Titled Douluo inside the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield and gathered all four prisoners for questioning.
• Kong Deming and Kong Xuan found the group in a mountain clearing, where Ma Sheng, Ren Jun, and the nine students had been on guard.
• Kong Xuan reassured Kong Ling and Meng Hongchen that he was unharmed and said Kong Deming had dealt with the attackers.
• Kong Deming ordered everyone to hurry back to Mingdu, and the Sun Moon group flew toward the empire.

Kong Deming identified the leader of the ambush on Kong Xuan as Shi Bing, a royal worshipper of the Dou Ling Empire, and confronted him about the attack. Shi Bing denied that the operation involved his empire, but Kong Deming threatened to treat it as an act of war.

• Kong Xuan returned safely to Mingdu and cultivated at home, reaching Level 68 Soul Power at age seventeen.
• Kong Deming told Kong Xuan that the ambush leader was Shi Bing, a Level 95 Super Douluo and royal worshipper of the Dou Ling Empire.
• Kong Deming brought the imprisoned Shi Bing before Kong Xuan and demanded to know why he had attacked his grandson.
• Shi Bing claimed the ambush was his personal action and had nothing to do with the Dou Ling Empire, but refused to explain his reasons.
• Kong Deming suppressed Shi Bing with his Level 97 presence and warned that he would hold the Dou Ling Empire responsible for the attack.