Recaps

Shrek met the Imperial Fighting Team again at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Yu Tianheng and his teammates mocked them and challenged them to a seven-on-seven match. Chu Feng stayed out of the fight, noticed Dugu Yan seemed threatened, and left Tang San’s group to face the confident team as the referee began the sparring match.

• Meng Shenji welcomed both teams and reminded Yu Tianheng that friendship should come before competition.
• Yu Tianheng and the Imperial Fighting Team taunted Shrek and challenged Chu Feng, who agreed to face Yu Tianheng after the seven-on-seven match.
• Yu Tianheng whispered to Dugu Yan, whose alarmed reaction led Chu Feng to suspect she had been threatened.
• Chu Feng stepped aside and left Tang San and the other six Shrek members to fight the Imperial Fighting Team.
• The referee explained that killing blows were forbidden, and Yu Feng asked what would happen if Shrek were beaten before they could surrender.

The Shrek Seven Devils faced the Imperial Fighting Team, whose Soul Tool Armor and other Soul Tools turned the fight in their favor. Yu Tianheng knocked Dai Mubai down with his fourth Soul Skill, while Tang San questioned Dugu Yan about the team’s new equipment.

• Tang San led the Shrek Seven Devils into battle, and Dai Mubai opened with White Tiger Meteor Shower Fall.
• The Shi Mo brothers used Soul Tool Armor to block Dai Mubai’s attack, and Tang San warned his team about the Soul Tools.
• Ye Lingling enhanced her healing with a bracelet, while Yu Feng intercepted Zhu Zhuqing as she tried to reach her.
• Yu Tianheng charged Dai Mubai with Soul Tool armguards, and his fourth Soul Skill struck Dai Mubai to the ground.
• Tang San asked Dugu Yan where the Soul Tools came from, while Chu Feng noticed Yu Tianheng’s dramatic increase in power.

The Imperial Fighting Team revealed that all seven members had become Soul Ancestors, but Tang San and the others answered with complete Number Zero Battle Armor of their own. Dai Mubai shattered Yu Tianheng’s armguard and defeated him, while Zhu Zhuqing and Tang San trapped other opponents, leaving the battle underway.

• Yu Tianheng and the other Imperial Fighting Team members revealed their fourth Soul Rings, shocking Meng Shenji and the Shrek team with their sudden rise to Soul Ancestor.
• Dai Mubai and the Shrek members took to the air on flying mushrooms, then Tang San announced that they would use their own Battle Armor.
• Tang San and the others equipped complete Number Zero Battle Armor, which Yu Tianheng dismissed as fake before the flying mushrooms’ effects ended.
• Dai Mubai caught Yu Tianheng’s attack, crushed his Soul Tool armguard, and slammed him into the arena floor, badly injuring him.
• Zhu Zhuqing appeared behind Ye Lingling and held her at claw-point, while Tang San used Blue Silver Myriad Life Bind to cage Shi Mo and Shi Mo.

The Shrek Seven Devils defeated the Imperial Fighting Team after Yu Tianheng went berserk, forcing Meng Shenji to stop the fight and send the Shrek group away. Chu Feng warned that the black-clad leader’s Soul Tool armor was suspicious, and Meng Shenji learned that the man was Wang Gang, the extraordinary Soul Master Theory grandmaster Yu Tianheng had brought to the academy.

• Tang San trapped the Imperial Fighting Team members in Blue Silver Grass cages, while Ma Hongjun’s flames forced the Shi Mo brothers to surrender.
• Yu Tianheng took a pill and used his third Soul Skill again, but the Shrek Seven Devils evaded his attacks from the air.
• Meng Shenji restrained Yu Tianheng, declared the Imperial Fighting Team’s concession, and ordered the Shrek group to leave.
• Chu Feng warned Meng Shenji to investigate the black-clad leader, then led the Shrek group away.
• Meng Shenji ordered the injured Shi Mo brothers treated and demanded an explanation from Dugu Yan, who identified the missing leader as Wang Gang.
• Meng Shenji recognized Wang Gang as the twenty-nine-year-old Soul Saint Yu Tianheng had brought to Heaven Dou Royal Academy five months earlier.

Meng Shenji discovered that Wang Gang had accelerated the Imperial Fighting Team’s cultivation by depleting their Martial Soul Origins, leaving all seven unable to progress. After Heaven Dou Royal Academy moved to hunt Wang Gang, Chu Feng and Shrek learned about him and suspected a larger organization was involved.

• Meng Shenji ordered Wang Gang captured and questioned Dugu Yan about the team’s rapid cultivation and Soul Tool Armor.
• Dugu Yan explained that Wang Gang had taken the team to an unknown place while their senses were blocked, and Meng Shenji examined her and the Shi Mo brothers.
• Meng Shenji discovered that the team’s Martial Soul Origins had been depleted and ordered the academy, the palace, and Spirit Hall to pursue Wang Gang.
• Dugu Yan collapsed in despair, and Meng Shenji advised her to contact Poison Douluo while demanding the team surrender its Soul Tool Armor.
• Chu Feng reviewed the recording with Tang San and Shrek, learned Wang Gang had joined Heaven Dou Royal Academy five months earlier, and suspected he belonged to an unknown organization.

Chu Feng learned that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s immortal herbs could not survive outside it and would take five years to mature from seeds planted inside. With no way to accelerate their growth, he assigned the researchers more staff and left the replication project to continue.

• Chu Feng warned Tang San and the others that their exposed Battle Armor could attract attention, ordered the organization to watch for threats, and urged the group to travel directly to Sunset Forest.
• Chu Feng reached Sunset Forest with his companions and ordered guards to protect the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• The project leader reported that transplanted immortal herbs withered outside the well and that herbs planted from seeds inside it had only sprouted.
• Chu Feng asked whether soul guidance technology could speed up the immortal herbs’ growth, but the project leader and Tang San had no solution.
• Chu Feng assigned the project leader more staff and dismissed him while Ma Hongjun and the others admitted they had not understood the discussion.

Chu Feng led Tang San and the others to seek compatible Ten-Thousand-Year Contract Soul Beasts for their fourth Soul Rings, explaining how contracts could strengthen them and what limits they carried. After a fruitless search, they camped for the night, where Chu Feng warned them that too many contracts could strain their spiritual power and that older Soul Beasts could provide multiple Soul Rings.

• Chu Feng told the group to seek Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and explained that Contract Soul Beasts had to match their existing attributes.
• Dai Mubai worried that his fourth Soul Ring was only nine thousand years old, and Chu Feng said God Trials could raise Soul Ring ages later.
• Ning Rongrong asked the Starlight Spirit Deer whether it would accept a companion, and the other Contract Soul Beasts also agreed to their partners forming new contracts.
• The group searched for half a day without finding a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, then made camp and discussed how Contract Soul Beasts could serve as powerful helpers.
• Chu Feng explained that older Contract Soul Beasts could provide multiple Soul Rings, reducing the need to seek new Soul Beasts at higher ranks.
• Chu Feng warned that maintaining too many Contract Soul Beast connections could overwhelm their spiritual power and remove the beasts’ attribute bonuses if those connections broke.

A masked Soul Sage tried to seize Chu Feng and the Shrek Seven Devils’ Soul Tool Armor, but two hidden Soul Douluos defeated and captured the attacker. The Soul Sage killed themself before revealing the organization’s identity, and Tang San suggested they return to Shrek Academy.

• Chu Feng detected someone in the forest, and the Shrek Seven Devils put on their Battle Armor as a masked Soul Sage emerged and demanded it.
• The Soul Sage revealed their own Soul Tool Armor, dismissed Chu Feng’s warnings about Shrek Academy and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and attacked with an enlarged scythe.
• Chu Feng summoned two hidden Soul Douluos, who blocked the scythe, shattered the attacker’s breastplate, and seized them.
• Chu Feng ordered the Soul Sage unmasked and questioned, but the captive refused to talk, swallowed poison, and died.
• Tang San warned that the organization might send more attackers and suggested returning to Shrek Academy.

Chu Feng reassured Tang San and the others after two Soul Douluos protected them from an assassin, and he planned to get the organization’s help finding suitable Soul Beasts. Meanwhile, the black-robed organization investigated Scythe’s death and considered how to expand its forces, ending with Nightmare’s failed proposal to recruit prisoners from Slaughter City.

• Chu Feng told Tang San and the others that they were safe, and the two Soul Douluos took Scythe’s corpse away for the organization to study.
• Chu Feng planned to have the organization help the group search for suitable Soul Beasts before everyone returned to their tents.
• A black-robed woman reported Scythe’s death to the organization’s leader and said Scythe had been carrying out an infiltration mission in the Heaven Dou Empire.
• The leader ordered the group to investigate Scythe’s death, recover his Soul Tools, and recruit more powerful Soul Masters without alerting Spirit Hall.
• Nightmare proposed recruiting powerful prisoners from Slaughter City, but the leader struck him into a wall and warned that provoking the King of Slaughter would be disastrous.
• Nightmare defended his recruitment efforts, but the leader complained that the Titled Douluo he had brought in was only a drunkard who did nothing but drink and talk about revenge.

Spirit Hall’s leaders debated how to obtain Soul Tool Armor from Heaven Dou and Shrek Academy while pursuing the organization behind it. Qian Daoliu chose to seek a trade with Shrek and ordered surveillance to stop Bibi Dong from attacking the academy.

• The black-robed leader ordered the organization to send its drunken Titled Douluo away and warned members to keep their identities secret.
• Bibi Dong rejected Gui Mei’s proposal to seize Heaven Dou’s Soul Tool Armor, ordering Spirit Hall to pressure Heaven Dou and quietly monitor Shrek Academy instead.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo revealed that he had taken a suit of Soul Tool Armor from Heaven Dou, and Qian Daoliu identified it as matching the armor Spirit Hall had found before.
• Qian Daoliu ordered Spirit Hall to capture Wang Gang to learn about his organization, while Golden Crocodile Douluo argued that the armor’s power made its technology important.
• Qian Daoliu rejected attacking Shrek Academy and proposed trading for its armor or manufacturing techniques, then told Golden Crocodile Douluo to watch Bibi Dong and her elders.

Qian Daoliu ordered Qian Renxue to pause her search and visit Shrek Academy to arrange a trade for Soul Tool Armor. In Sunset Forest, the Shrek Seven Devils fought a thirty-thousand-year Swamp Thorn Alligator Snapping Turtle as a candidate for Ning Rongrong’s fourth Soul Ring, but Zhu Zhuqing was hurt when the beast reflected her attack.

• Qian Daoliu told Golden Crocodile Douluo to have Qian Renxue set aside her search, visit Shrek Academy, and handle arrangements to trade for Soul Tool Armor.
• Two days later, Chu Feng watched the Shrek Seven Devils battle a thirty-thousand-year Swamp Thorn Alligator Snapping Turtle intended for Ning Rongrong’s fourth Soul Ring.
• Tang San and the others attacked the turtle for three hours, but its tough shell and damage reflection kept them from defeating it.
• Zhu Zhuqing struck the turtle’s shell with Hell White Claw, but the turtle treated her attacks like a massage.
• Zhu Zhuqing unleashed Netherworld Sky-Rending Slash, triggering the turtle’s damage reflection and leaving her in pain.
• Dai Mubai caught Zhu Zhuqing and gave her a Recovery Sausage.

Zhu Zhuqing and the Shrek team failed to damage the Swamp Thorn Alligator Snapping Turtle, so Chu Feng suggested using unconventional methods. Tang San used Lost Powder on two monkeys to frighten the turtle into surrendering, threatening to pair it with a wild sow if it refused.

• Zhu Zhuqing and Dai Mubai attacked the turtle with Ning Rongrong's boost, but its shell and reflecting spikes kept them from hurting it.
• The Shrek team admitted they could not break through the turtle's defenses, and Chu Feng told Tang San to use the organization's drugs and hidden weapons.
• Tang San asked Dai Mubai to catch a wild boar and Zhu Zhuqing to find two monkeys, then used Lost Powder on the monkeys in front of the turtle.
• Tang San threatened to use the powder on the turtle and pair it with the wild sow, making the turtle roar in alarm.

Tang San and the others forced the Swamp Thorn Alligator Snapping Turtle to submit, and Chu Feng helped Ning Rongrong contract it. Ning Rongrong tested her new defensive Soul Skill, revealing that it reflected damage onto the attacker.

• Ma Hongjun dried the swamp while Tang San and the others trapped the Swamp Thorn Alligator Snapping Turtle and blocked its escape.
• Tang San threatened the turtle with Lost Powder until it submitted and agreed to become Ning Rongrong's Contract Soul Beast.
• Chu Feng helped Ning Rongrong complete the contract ritual, making the thirty-thousand-year-old turtle her Contract Soul Beast.
• Ning Rongrong used her fourth Soul Skill to shield Xiao Wu and explained that the defense could stack with other defensive skills.
• Ning Rongrong urged Ma Hongjun to punch Xiao Wu, and the reflected impact hurt Ma Hongjun instead.
• Ning Rongrong promised to introduce Ma Hongjun to senior sisters at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.