Chapter Summaries

Qian Chen returned to Shrek Academy after helping Ning Tian join Watch Valley and entrust its finances to her, while the academy calmed after the assassination attempt. He watched Huo Yuhao and his companions head to class, then saw an opportunity to begin his plan when Shrek Academy gathered core disciples to select a reserve team for the Shrek Seven Devils.

• Qian Chen appointed Ning Tian to manage Watch Valley's finances and businesses, and Pan Long promised to support her investments.
• Qian Chen returned to Shrek Academy, where Zhang Lexuan told him patrols had eased students' fears; he said Ning Tian had joined Watch Valley and donated ten billion Gold Soul Coins.
• More than a month later, Qian Chen worried about Tang San's scrutiny and decided to make sending Huo Yuhao to the Body Sect his main plan.
• Huo Yuhao went to class with Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Qiu'er, while Dai Huabin resented him from a distance.
• Xuan Zi gathered Shrek's young core disciples and announced that the last seven standing in the arena would become reserve members of the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Qian Chen activated his Spiritual Web soul-bone skill and drew Qian Guyi into it as he prepared to start his plan for Huo Yuhao.

Qian Guyi formed a team for the Shrek Seven Devils reserve selection after Qian Chen used his Spiritual Web to instruct her and Huo Yuhao’s group to work together. When a rival team of more than twenty students challenged them, Qian Guyi revealed five Soul Rings and astonished the academy staff as a fourteen-year-old Soul King.

• Qian Chen linked Qian Guyi, Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, Wang Qiu'er, Xiao Xiao, and Jiang Nannan with his Spiritual Web and told them to form a team led by Qian Guyi.
• Qian Guyi gathered Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, Wang Qiu'er, Xiao Xiao, and Jiang Nannan, then agreed to let Xu Sanshi and He Caitou join as well.
• Dai Huabin urged the other students to unite against Qian Guyi's team, and Yang Youxing led the resulting group of more than twenty students.
• Qian Guyi rejected Yang Youxing's offer to disband and ordered her team to release their Martial Souls.
• Qian Guyi revealed five Soul Rings, including two black rings, prompting academy staff to exclaim that she was a fourteen-year-old Soul King.

Qian Guyi led her team through a dominant opening against Yang Youxing’s side, eliminating the Lan sisters and knocking out Yang Youxing with her Angel Holy Sword. Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu summoned the Hell White Tiger after Huo Yuhao refused to join Wang Dong’er’s fusion skill, leaving Wang Qiu’er retreating before its overwhelming power.

• Xuan Zi regretted that the students had formed two large teams, while Yan Shaozhe reassured him that Shrek would nurture its chosen Seven Devils into tournament winners.
• Huo Yuhao used Ultimate Ice and Spiritual Sharing as Qian Guyi organized her team and led its charge against Yang Youxing’s group.
• Qian Guyi’s Angel’s Roar disrupted the opposing team, allowing her to throw Lan Luoluo and Lan Susu out of the arena while Wang Qiu’er knocked Zhu Lu down.
• Yang Youxing sent four summoned Soul Beasts after Qian Guyi, but her Angel Holy Sword knocked him unconscious and injured nearby opponents.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu began their Hell White Tiger fusion, but Huo Yuhao declined Wang Dong’er’s offered hand, leaving her hurt and the fusion uninterrupted.
• The Hell White Tiger emerged, and Wang Qiu’er retreated to her team after recognizing that its power surpassed her own.

Qian Guyi's team defeated Dai Huabin's larger group by combining their attacks and Xu Sanshi's Xuanming Displacement, prompting the remaining opponents to concede. With the match requiring seven people to remain, Qian Guyi then left the arena herself and was declared eliminated.

• Dai Huabin rallied his teammates around the Hell White Tiger, while Qian Guyi ordered her team to attack it.
• Xu Sanshi used Xuanming Displacement to redirect the opposing team's attacks onto Xie Huanyue, then was beaten until Jiang Nannan rescued him.
• Xuan Zi intervened before Qian Guyi's team could strike the Hell White Tiger, dispelled the fusion skill, and removed Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu from the arena.
• Qian Guyi confronted the seven remaining opponents, who surrendered, and Wang Dong'er offered to concede so the team would meet the seven-person limit.
• After He Caitou also offered to leave, Qian Guyi told everyone to stay and flew out of the arena, where the referee declared her eliminated.

Qian Guyi agreed to join Shrek Academy’s tournament team as a substitute after negotiating compensation for the risks of exposure. Xuan Zi announced the final Seven Devils roster and began preparations for their training.

• Xuan Zi named the seven students who remained in the selection match as the Shrek Seven Devils and added Qian Guyi, Dai Huabin, and Zhu Lu as substitutes.
• Qian Chen and Zhang Lexuan opposed having Qian Guyi fight in the tournament because her Holy Angel Martial Soul could expose her to Evil Soul Masters.
• Qian Guyi agreed to join the team if the academy let her take eligible Inspection Corps missions against Evil Soul Masters and gave her a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone with a light, holy, or fire attribute.
• Xuan Zi announced Xu Sanshi, He Caitou, Jiang Nannan, Wang Qiu'er, Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, and Huo Yuhao as the Seven Devils, with Qian Guyi, Dai Huabin, and Zhu Lu as substitutes.
• Xuan Zi congratulated the seven students and told them they would begin training with him and the current Shrek Seven Devils the next day.

After the Shrek Seven Devils reserve selection, Qian Chen began designing a Linked Surveillance Soul Tool to gather evidence against Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe. He finished an early Core Array prototype and told Zhang Lexuan his plan as they walked back to Sea God Island.

• Xuan Zi took the ten students to the memorial for Inner Court students killed or wounded in the Inspection Corps and began educating them about Shrek's glory.
• Qian Chen went to the Soul Tool fabrication laboratory, where he planned a Soul Tool that could record and store images and sound to help expose Xuan Zi.
• Qian Chen used the circulation of his Infinite Memory Soul Bone Skill as a guide while engraving a new Soul Tool Core Array.
• He Caitou returned to the laboratory to make replacement Soul Tools and told Qian Chen that Xuan Zi had left the students in Ma Xiaotao's care after two matches.
• Zhang Lexuan found Qian Chen working, waited for him to finish, and left with him for dinner and a walk back to Sea God Island.
• Qian Chen explained to Zhang Lexuan that his Surveillance Soul Tool was intended to record evidence of Xuan Zi's assassination attempt on Ning Tian and help bring Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe down.

Qian Chen built and secretly installed surveillance Soul Tools while preparing to keep the Shrek team safe from Xuan Zi before the Soul Master Tournament. He persuaded Xuan Zi to let him take several key members to the Star Dou Great Forest, but Xuan Zi objected when Qian Chen included Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochеn.

• Wang Dong'er returned to the residence in tears, but Tang San's divine sense stopped her from explaining what was wrong to Zhang Lexuan and Qian Chen.
• Qian Chen told Zhang Lexuan that Wang Dong'er had secrets and might not be in control of her own body, and Zhang Lexuan asked him to help if he could.
• Qian Chen developed a Level 4 Linked Surveillance Soul Tool that could record and replay images and sounds, then secretly placed dozens around the academy.
• As the Soul Master Tournament approached, Qian Chen worried about Xuan Zi taking the team to the tournament and decided to accompany several members to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Qian Chen persuaded Xuan Zi to hand over the promised hundred-thousand-year light-attribute Soul Bone for Qian Guyi and said he would take her to Star Luo City later.
• Qian Chen announced that Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochеn, his disciples, and Wang Qiu'er would also travel with him, but Xuan Zi objected to losing Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochеn from the team.

Qian Chen took Qian Guyi, Ma Xiaotao, and Ling Luochen through the Star Dou Great Forest so Guyi could gain her sixth Soul Ring, while Xuan Zi led the remaining Shrek Team toward an Evil Soul Master mission before Star Luo City. The chapter ended with the Shrek group suffering through several days of travel on cumbersome Flying Soul Tools.

• Qian Chen persuaded Xuan Zi to let Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen travel with him, and the two chose to leave with Qian Chen.
• Qian Guyi fused with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, broke through to rank sixty, and prepared to hunt for her next Soul Ring.
• Qian Chen led seven companions into the Star Dou Great Forest, giving Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, and Qian Guyi Flying Soul Tools and ordering them not to kill Soul Beasts except the one needed for Guyi's Soul Ring.
• Xuan Zi made Dai Yueheng the Shrek Team's temporary captain, and Dai Huabin struggled with jealousy over his brother's promotion.
• Xuan Zi rejected Wang Yan's suggestion to skip the Death Messenger mission and ordered the ten remaining Shrek Team members to eliminate the Evil Soul Masters.
• Wang Yan supplied the group with Flying Soul Tools, and the Shrek Academy members endured several days of slow, exhausting flight toward the Ming Dou Mountain Range.

Shrek Academy rested at Dai Hao’s Western Army Group base before setting out to destroy the Death Messenger’s group in the Ming Dou Mountain Range. Xuan Zi sent Dai Yueheng and the Shrek Team into the lair without him, while Dai Huabin insisted on fighting beside his brother.

• Dai Yueheng suggested that the exhausted Shrek Academy group spend the night at Dai Hao’s base, and Xuan Zi agreed.
• Dai Hao welcomed the group, explained that the people in cages were prisoners captured from the Sun Moon Empire, and hosted a banquet.
• Xu Sanshi spoke with Jiang Nannan about her circumstances, while Dai Yueheng received congratulations for becoming captain and Dai Huabin silently vowed to surpass him.
• After a night’s rest, Dai Hao saw Shrek Academy off, and Wang Yan located the Death Messenger’s lair on the map.
• Xuan Zi ordered Dai Yueheng to lead the team into the lair and dismissed Wang Yan’s concerns, choosing to remain behind and eat.
• Dai Huabin moved up beside Dai Yueheng in the team’s formation, and Dai Yueheng told him to stay behind him.

The Shrek Team was devastated by a trap in the Death Messenger’s lair, and the Death Messenger abducted Dai Huabin while Xuan Zi struggled to save the survivors. Xuan Zi brought the wounded back to Dai Hao’s camp and reported Dai Yueheng’s injury and Dai Huabin’s disappearance.

• The Death Messenger revived fallen corpses and detonated dozens of them, leaving the Shrek Team dead, crippled, or severely injured.
• Xu Sanshi used Xuanming Displacement to move Jiang Nannan to safety, then remained surrounded by the corpses.
• The Death Messenger seized Dai Huabin and fled deeper into the cavern as Xuan Zi arrived; poisoned mist forced Xuan Zi to abandon pursuit and evacuate the team.
• Xuan Zi took the surviving students to the Western Army Group’s camp for help, where he told Dai Hao that Dai Yueheng had lost an arm and Dai Huabin had been abducted.

After the ambush, Dai Hao and Xuan Zi rushed the poisoned Shrek students to Star Luo City for treatment. Wang Xian'er found that the corpse poison was beyond her ability to cure, leaving Xuan Zi worried about the students’ survival and Shrek’s ability to compete in the Soul Master Tournament.

• Dai Hao arrived at the cave with cavalry and healing Soul Masters, but found no trace of Dai Huabin and lost two Soul Saints inside.
• Dai Hao ordered the wounded Shrek students transported to Star Luo City, and Xuan Zi agreed to escort them.
• After three days of travel, the wounded reached the Star Luo Empire Grand Hotel, where Wang Xian'er examined them.
• Wang Xian'er said the poison had spread into the severely poisoned students’ organs and marrow, leaving them unable to cultivate and at risk of dying within days.
• Xuan Zi asked Wang Xian'er to prioritize Jiang Nannan’s treatment so she could compete, while worrying that Shrek lacked enough tournament participants.

Qian Chen and seven Shrek Academy students arrived in Star Luo City and learned that Death Messenger’s attack had killed most of the students Xuan Zi led and left the survivors gravely poisoned. After hearing Jiang Nannan’s account, Qian Chen was asked to save the injured students.

• Xuan Zi left his students in Wang Xian'er’s care and returned to Shrek Academy, saying Qian Chen was bringing another group.
• Qian Chen arrived in Star Luo City with Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochеn, Qian Guyi, Wang Qiu'er, Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, and Huo Yuhao, who had advanced after training in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• A man told Qian Chen that Shrek Academy had suffered heavy casualties, and Qian Chen took his group to the Star Luo Empire Hotel to investigate.
• Jiang Nannan told Qian Chen that Death Messenger’s corpse explosions and poison mist had killed everyone Xuan Zi led except her, Xu Sanshi, Zhu Lu, Dai Yueheng, Gongyang Mo, and Wang Yan, while Dai Huabin had been abducted.
• Qian Chen grew furious at Xuan Zi’s role in the disaster, Ma Xiaotao challenged Jiang Nannan’s account, and Jiang Nannan begged Qian Chen to save the injured students.

Qian Chen searched his memories for a corpse poison antidote formula and had the Star Luo Empire refine it, while concealing his own divine skills from Medicine Immortal Douluo Wang Xian'er. After everyone else left, he secretly used Absolute Purification to cure the poisoned students and Divine Light of Life to restore Jiang Nannan, leaving her fully healed.

• Qian Chen gave Wang Xian'er a corpse poison antidote formula and persuaded her to have the Star Luo Empire refine it.
• Qian Chen sent the seven students to their rooms, then asked Jiang Nannan to recount what had happened on the journey to Star Luo City.
• Jiang Nannan told Qian Chen that Xuan Zi had disappeared after bringing them to the Star Luo Empire Hotel.
• Wang Xian'er returned with a jade bottle of antidote pills, and Qian Chen asked her to leave the meeting room.
• Qian Chen sealed the room, hid the pills, knocked several poisoned students unconscious, and used Absolute Purification to remove the poison from them and Jiang Nannan.
• Qian Chen used Divine Light of Life to restore Jiang Nannan to peak health.

Qian Chen healed the poisoned students and learned that Xuan Zi had abandoned them and returned to Shrek Academy. After arranging for Wang Yan to lead the remaining students, Qian Chen flew back to confront Xuan Zi and strip him of his authority.

• Qian Chen used Absolute Purification to remove the corpse poison from the injured students, and Wang Xian'er healed their remaining wounds.
• Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, Zhu Lu, and Wang Yan woke recovered, while Dai Yueheng and Gongyang Mo discovered that their missing limbs had not been restored.
• Wang Xian'er revealed that Xuan Zi had returned to Shrek Academy instead of rescuing Dai Huabin, angering the students.
• Qian Chen ordered Wang Yan to take charge of the students and approved Dai Yueheng and Zhu Lu's requests to return home.
• Qian Chen flew to Shrek Academy, intending to strip Xuan Zi of his power and standing.

After learning that Xuan Zi’s leadership had left the Shrek team devastated, Qian Chen planned to reduce Xuan Zi’s power without driving him from Shrek Academy. He asked Yan Shaozhe to support Zhang Lexuan and Bing Ling for promotion, offering Ma Xiaotao a Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower in exchange.

• Qian Chen returned to Shrek Academy and told Zhang Lexuan that Xi Xi, Chen Zifeng, Yao Haoxuan, Gongyang Mo, and Dai Yueheng had been devastated under Xuan Zi’s leadership, though the survivors had been treated.
• Qian Chen told Zhang Lexuan that he intended to bring down Xuan Zi’s standing and power, and explained why killing or expelling him could leave Shrek Academy vulnerable to an empire.
• Qian Chen went to Yan Shaozhe and Cai Mei’er’s residence and reported Xuan Zi’s losses and his abandonment of the team.
• Qian Chen proposed that Zhang Lexuan replace Xuan Zi, that he become dean of the Martial Soul Department, and that Bing Ling take his former position; he cited Zhang Lexuan’s strength and Bing Ling’s cultivation and evolved Martial Soul.
• Qian Chen offered Yan Shaozhe a Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower for Ma Xiaotao if he supported the promotions.

Qian Chen secured Yan Shaozhe, Qian Duoduo, and Xian Lin'er's support for Zhang Lexuan and Bing Ling to take key academy positions, then confronted Xuan Zi at an emergency Sea God Pavilion Meeting over the disastrous tournament expedition. The chapter ended with Xuan Zi facing pressure to explain the students' deaths and injuries after Qian Chen revealed that he had cured the survivors' corpse poison.

• Yan Shaozhe agreed to give Ma Xiaotao the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower in exchange for helping Qian Chen promote Lexuan and Bing Ling.
• Qian Chen told Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er about the team's losses and gave them Level 7 Imperial Armor and an Attack Ray in return for their support at the Sea God Pavilion Meeting.
• Qian Chen decided not to seek support from Elder Zhuang, Elder Song, and Elder Lin because Zhang Lexuan and Bing Ling already had good standing with them.
• Xuan Zi returned to Shrek Academy and summoned an emergency Sea God Pavilion Meeting.
• Qian Chen announced that four students had died, two were crippled, three were seriously injured, and one had been abducted, then explained that he had cured the survivors' corpse poison.
• Xuan Zi struggled to explain the expedition's events as the elders condemned him, while Zhang Lexuan clarified that they had only heard a preliminary account.

After Xuan Zi recounted the students’ deaths during the expedition, the Sea God Pavilion accepted his resignation from academy management and reassigned his responsibilities. Qian Chen was approved to lead Shrek Academy’s Soul Master Tournament team, with instructions to visit the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion in Star Luo City.

• Xuan Zi recounted the expedition and tried to excuse his failure to prevent the Corpse Explosion by saying Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochеn might have helped.
• Xuan Zi offered to resign from his duties and focus on cultivation, and the Sea God Pavilion members supported his decision despite his shock.
• Xuan Zi accepted his resignation and left the Sea God Pavilion, while the others unanimously appointed Zhang Lexuan to manage the Inner Court and Inspection Corps and Bing Ling and Qian Chen to serve as Martial Soul Department deans.
• Qian Chen nominated himself to lead Shrek Academy’s team at the Soul Master Tournament, and the Sea God Pavilion approved him.
• Yan Shaozhe instructed Qian Chen to visit the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion when he reached Star Luo City.

Qian Chen helped Shrek Academy shift blame for the failed mission onto Teacher Liang, then left for Star Luo City to lead the Shrek Team in the Soul Master Tournament. He arranged the team around Huo Yuhao, hoping to disrupt Tang San’s plans and draw the Body Sect’s attention.

• Yan Shaozhe blamed faulty intelligence for the failed mission and proposed expelling Teacher Liang as a scapegoat for Xuan Zi.
• Qian Chen asked Zhang Lexuan to recruit Teacher Liang for Watch Valley and introduce him to Pan Long after Qian Chen left.
• Qian Chen said farewell to Zhang Lexuan and rode his Seven Kill Sword to Star Luo City.
• Qian Chen arrived at the Shrek Team’s hotel and announced that he would lead the team in the tournament.
• Qian Chen told Wang Yan to build the team’s tactics around Huo Yuhao and have him explain his abilities in private.

Qian Chen gave Ma Xiaotao a Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower to purify her Evil Fire and then went to the White Tiger Duke's Mansion. There, the enraged Duchess Zhu Jing ordered his arrest, and Dai Hao agreed to have him seized.

• Qian Chen gave Ma Xiaotao the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower and asked Ling Luochеn to guard her while she absorbed it.
• Ma Xiaotao decided to serve Watch Valley out of gratitude to Qian Chen as well as for her feelings for Bing Ling.
• Qian Chen headed to the White Tiger Duke's Mansion to fulfill Yan Shaozhe's assignment.
• Dai Hao returned home after failing to find Dai Huabin, while Zhu Jing mourned Dai Yueheng's injury and demanded that Dai Hao rescue their missing son.
• When Zhu Jing ordered the guards to seize Qian Chen, Dai Hao stopped them, then agreed to have Qian Chen arrested and brought in a prisoner-of-war cage.

Qian Chen went to the White Tiger Duke's Mansion intending to drive a wedge between it and Shrek Academy, but Dai Hao ordered the guards to seize him. After Qian Chen slaughtered dozens of guards and defeated Dai Hao and Zhu Jing's Hell White Tiger, the remaining guards lost their will to fight.

• Qian Chen waited at the mansion gates, planning to tell Zhu Jing how Shrek Academy had protected Xuan Zi.
• Dai Hao ordered more than a hundred guards to seize Qian Chen, who killed over thirty after they attacked him.
• Dai Hao and Zhu Jing arrived, learned of the deaths, and led the regrouped guards to confront Qian Chen.
• Dai Hao and Zhu Jing fused into the Hell White Tiger and urged the guards to attack Qian Chen for a reward.
• Qian Chen revealed his nine Soul Rings, used Fear Roar to daze the Hell White Tiger, and carved a massive wound through it with the Seven Kill Sword.
• Dai Hao and Zhu Jing screamed as the damage to their fusion skill fed back to them, while the guards again neared a rout.