Recaps

Jiang Yi learned how Li Lingyu’s reckless experiments had injured both himself and Lin Yu, and resolved to seek Life Essence to treat them. After two months of cultivation, the freshman assessment approached, and Jiang Yi went to visit Huo Yuhao, finding Wang Dong at his stall.

• Jiang Yi asked Wang Yan about Li Lingyu’s past and learned how Li Lingyu’s research and failed experiment had injured Lin Yu, angered her elder, and led to his expulsion from Shrek Academy.
• Jiang Yi learned that Lin Yu was Lin Huiqun’s granddaughter and decided that treating her injuries would require more Life Essence and greater cultivation.
• Jiang Yi spent two months cultivating as Shrek Academy’s freshman assessment drew near, knowing Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong might perform their first Martial Soul Fusion.
• Jiang Yi went to Huo Yuhao’s stall at the east gate and found Wang Dong there instead of Tang Ya.

Jiang Yi visited Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong during their freshman assessment, while Tang San sensed that Huo Yuhao had lost a large portion of his providence and suspected someone was interfering. Later, Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan came to the Martial Soul Research Institute, where Ma Xiaotao asked Jiang Yi to suppress her Evil Fire.

• Jiang Yi visited Huo Yuhao as he grilled fish and learned that Wang Dong’s team had won its first five freshman assessment matches.
• Jiang Yi sensed that the Poison of Fate’s Backlash had grown as Huo Yuhao became more entangled with Tang San’s legacies.
• Tang San sensed that Huo Yuhao’s providence had fallen by nearly thirty percent and wondered who had concealed it from him.
• Ma Xiaotao sought Jiang Yi to suppress her Evil Fire, and Zhang Lexuan led her to the Martial Soul Research Institute.
• Jiang Yi welcomed Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan into the institute and agreed to help Ma Xiaotao after the Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters finished cultivating.
• Wang Yan came out and greeted Zhang Lexuan, who noted that he had become a chief researcher.

Jiang Yi and Ma Xiaotao’s Martial Souls resonated while he suppressed her Evil Fire, drawing them into Deep Meditation and helping him comprehend the Fire of Life. Three months later, Jiang Yi’s Life Resonance cultivation had advanced rapidly, though he still needed to develop his control and understanding.

• Jiang Yi helped the Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters cultivate and then suppressed Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire while Zhang Lexuan questioned his research.
• Jiang Yi and Ma Xiaotao’s Martial Souls resonated, combining Blue Silver Grass and phoenix flames before both entered Deep Meditation.
• Ma Xiaotao awakened first and stood guard over Jiang Yi while Wang Yan left them alone.
• Jiang Yi awakened the next morning with a new ability to manifest the Fire of Life, but found he could sustain it only briefly.
• Over the next three months, Jiang Yi’s cultivation of Life Resonance advanced by leaps and bounds after his breakthrough.

Jiang Yi and Jiang Nannan entered the Star Dou Great Forest to find a fourth Soul Ring for Jiang Nannan, targeting a Dark Moon Spirit Leopard. After Jiang Yi located a suitable one and ambushed it, the leopard fought back with Moon Blades but became trapped by his regrowing Blue Silver Vines.

• Jiang Yi and Jiang Nannan traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest so Jiang Nannan could obtain her fourth Soul Ring.
• They chose the Dark Moon Spirit Leopard as their target because its compressed moonlight attacks suited Jiang Nannan’s need for stronger single-target damage.
• Jiang Yi used the Blue Silver Grass to search the Mixed Zone while Jiang Nannan guarded him, and they encountered and killed a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent.
• Jiang Yi found a suitable Dark Moon Spirit Leopard and led Jiang Nannan to it after several hours of travel.
• The leopard noticed Jiang Yi’s first sneak attack and cut through many Blue Silver Vines with its Moon Blades.
• Jiang Yi regrew the severed vines, overwhelmed the exhausted leopard, and bound it so it could no longer escape.

Jiang Nannan absorbed her Fourth Soul Ring and gained a powerful Moon Blade ability before she and Jiang Yi left the Star Dou Great Forest. Months later, Jiang Yi completed his Life Force Domain, astonishing Elder Zhuang, who began to share two further lines of research with him.

• Jiang Yi discovered Star Lichen beneath the rock where the Dark Moon Spirit Leopard had slept and guessed that it had alerted the leopard when his vines touched it.
• Jiang Yi guarded Jiang Nannan overnight as she absorbed the leopard's Soul Ring, and she woke at dawn with a new connection to the moon.
• Jiang Nannan demonstrated a Moon Blade and explained that her Fourth Soul Skill, Crescent Moon Slash, had strong piercing and armor-breaking effects.
• Jiang Yi and Jiang Nannan left the Star Dou Great Forest, and Jiang Yi continued cultivating until his Soul Power reached level twenty-nine.
• Jiang Yi constructed a Life Force Domain across Elder Zhuang's courtyard in less than a second, startling Zhuang Fei and impressing Elder Zhuang.
• Elder Zhuang told Jiang Yi he had little left to teach him and invited him and Zhuang Fei inside to hear about two directions of research.

Jiang Yi organized Soul Ring hunts for the thirty Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters and led Lei Kai, Li Tian, and Ma Tian into the Star Dou Great Forest. He planned to help Lei Kai hunt a Thundering Taro, while Li Tian and Ma Tian began with Mystic Earth Vines; Ma Tian started fusing with the first one they found.

• Jiang Yi divided the thirty newly advanced Soul Masters into ten groups and sent them to hunt Soul Rings with Shrek Academy teachers.
• Jiang Yi led Lei Kai, Li Tian, and Ma Tian into the Star Dou Great Forest, keeping them in his group because they followed his instructions.
• Jiang Yi explained that he had chosen Mystic Earth Vines for Li Tian and Ma Tian, and a Thundering Taro for Lei Kai to support his possible Thundering Hell Vine bloodline.
• Jiang Yi found and subdued a Mystic Earth Vine, then asked Li Tian and Ma Tian who would take its Soul Ring first.
• Li Tian yielded the first Soul Ring to Ma Tian, who destroyed the Mystic Earth Vine's Life Core and began fusing with its Soul Ring.

Jiang Yi helped Ma Tian and Li Tian strengthen their Blue Silver Grass through earth-attribute Soul Rings, then guided Lei Kai through a lightning-attribute fusion that mutated his Martial Soul into Thunder Blue Silver Grass. After the transformation, Lei Kai asked to stay with Jiang Yi and learn from him.

• Ma Tian fused with a Soul Ring from a Mystic Earth Vine, changing and strengthening his Blue Silver Grass, and Jiang Yi recorded the transformation.
• Li Tian fused with another Mystic Earth Vine and experienced a similar change in his Martial Soul.
• Jiang Yi found a Thundering Taro in a valley during a thunderstorm and helped Lei Kai kill it and obtain its Soul Ring.
• Lei Kai fused with the Soul Ring as heavenly lightning struck him, transforming his Blue Silver Grass into Thunder Blue Silver Grass.
• After finishing the fusion, Lei Kai thanked Jiang Yi and asked to stay by his side to learn from him.

Jiang Yi searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a powerful Soul-Absorbing Ginseng to use as his Third Soul Ring. After luring one into an ambush, he attacked it with his Life Force Domain, provoking it to transform and unleash its roots.

• Lei Kai, Li Tian, and Ma Tian agreed to stay at the Martial Soul Research Institute, and Jiang Yi made a shelter for them before beginning his search for a Third Soul Ring.
• Jiang Yi chose Soul-Absorbing Ginseng for its strong life force and Soul Power-devouring ability, then escorted the three men out of the Star Dou Great Forest and entered the mixed area alone.
• Jiang Yi used Alluring Medicinal Fragrance on his Blue Silver Vines to attract Soul-Absorbing Ginseng, but he let an unsuitable eight-thousand-year specimen feed and continued waiting.
• A stronger Soul-Absorbing Ginseng followed the scent and began draining the Blue Silver Vines, so Jiang Yi severed his connection and attacked it with blades formed by his Life Force Domain.
• The Soul-Absorbing Ginseng transformed into a giant, deep-blue ginseng and hurled its roots toward Jiang Yi.

Jiang Yi finished absorbing the Soul-Absorbing Ginseng’s Soul Ring, turning it into a 10,510-year Third Soul Ring and greatly increasing his abilities. He left the Star Dou Great Forest and reunited with Wang Yan, who praised his cultivation theory and urged him not to hunt Soul Rings alone again.

• Jiang Yi defeated the Soul-Absorbing Ginseng with the Fire of Life, prepared the area, and used a pressure device to activate his High-Pressure State before absorbing its Soul Ring.
• Jiang Yi completed the fusion the next day, transforming the Soul Ring into a 10,510-year ring and reaching level thirty-four while gaining greater Life Force, spiritual power, and control over Blue Silver Vines.
• Jiang Yi saw his Blue Silver Grass move closer to becoming a Blue Silver Emperor and considered using a stronger source of Life Force to advance its bloodline further.
• Wang Yan arrived at the forest entrance and learned from Lei Kai that Jiang Yi had gone inside alone, so he decided to search for him.
• Jiang Yi emerged safely, and Wang Yan praised his theory for changing Soul Master cultivation and warned him not to hunt Soul Rings alone again.

Jiang Yi explained his Soul Master bloodline theory to Mu En, who recognized his talent and agreed that Shrek Academy would help secure Color-Changing Ore veins. The chapter ended with Jiang Yi leaving the Sea God Pavilion disappointed that Mu En had offered no reward.

• Jiang Yi and Wang Yan completed a paper presenting Jiang Yi's theory, with Jiang Yi, Li Lingyu, and Wang Yan listed as authors in that order.
• Jiang Yi told Wang Yan that he wanted to control Color-Changing Ore veins to fund the Martial Soul Research Institute and keep the resource accessible to commoner Soul Masters.
• Wang Yan reported Jiang Yi's plan to Xuan Zi, who took Jiang Yi to meet Mu En at the Sea God Pavilion.
• Jiang Yi explained his theory to Mu En, who praised his results and decided he was the best candidate to succeed him as Sea God Pavilion Master.
• Mu En promised that Shrek Academy would do everything it could to purchase Color-Changing Ore veins across the continent.

After Shrek Academy’s Martial Soul cultivation theory spread across the continent, major powers sought to meet its researchers and negotiate for Color-Changing Ore. At Shrek City, crowds gathered outside the Martial Soul Research Institute, while Huo Yuhao’s friends asked him to use his connection to Jiang Yi to gain entry.

• Shrek Academy published Jiang Yi and Wang Yan’s theory in the Shrek Daily after securing nearly every Color-Changing Ore vein.
• Ning Feiyu recognized the theory’s potential to help Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect members surpass the seven-treasure limit and decided to visit Shrek Academy.
• Xu Jiawei ordered the Star Luo Empire to teach the theory across its academies and arranged a visit to Shrek Academy; the Dou Ling and Heavenly Soul Empires made similar plans.
• Jing Hongchen and the Sun Moon Empire also decided to send representatives to Shrek Academy, while other powers and researchers headed for Shrek City.
• Yan Shaozhe anticipated gaining resources by controlling the ore veins as Soul Masters gathered outside the Martial Soul Research Institute seeking bloodline tests and Color-Changing Ore.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao asked Huo Yuhao to take them inside the institute, but he said he had not seen Jiang Yi since the freshman assessment and did not want to trouble him.

Jiang Yi used Life Essence to begin healing Lin Yu’s injuries and ease Lin Huiqun’s resentment toward him. After the others left, Elder Zhuang questioned how Jiang Yi had obtained so much Life Essence, and Jiang Yi explained his Blue Silver Grass could extract Life Force from other Blue Silver Grass without harming it.

• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao decided to leave the crowded Martial Soul Research Institute and wait for Shrek Academy to arrange their bloodline tests.
• Jiang Yi let the Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters stay as guards and gave Lei Kai a chance to study Martial Soul Theory and become his disciple.
• Jiang Yi and the academy leaders divided the resources from visiting powers, with the Martial Soul Research Institute securing forty percent.
• Lin Huiqun confronted Jiang Yi about his relationship with Li Lingyu, and Jiang Yi revealed he could treat Lin Yu’s injuries with Life Essence.
• Lin Yu drank the Life Essence, and Elder Zhuang helped its Life Force heal her injuries; Jiang Yi gave her seven more bottles and promised to make more.
• After the others left, Elder Zhuang asked where Jiang Yi got the Life Essence, and Jiang Yi said his Blue Silver Grass could extract Life Force from other Blue Silver Grass without loss.

Jiang Yi demonstrated his lossless extraction of Life Essence to Elder Zhuang, while Shrek Academy negotiated ore allotments with visiting empires and sects. At the Martial Soul Research Institute, Jiang Yi welcomed new researchers but refused to receive Xu Chen until he apologized to Li Lingyu.

• Jiang Yi showed Elder Zhuang that he could extract Life Essence without harming the Blue Silver Grass, and Elder Zhuang suspected his Martial Soul was nearing the Blue Silver Emperor.
• Representatives of the empires and sects negotiated limited annual Color-Changing Ore supplies with Shrek Academy, leaving most of them dissatisfied.
• Ning Feiyu and the black-robed figure discussed Shrek Academy’s influence and possible abandonment of neutrality.
• Jiang Yi and Wang Yan recruited visiting Martial Soul scholars into the Martial Soul Research Institute.
• Jiang Yi identified Xu Chen as the Mysterious Nether Sect elder who had humiliated Li Lingyu and told him to wait outside until he apologized.

Jiang Yi’s theory reshaped Shrek Academy’s curriculum and helped resolve the dispute with the Mysterious Nether Sect, while Huo Yuhao left for the Far North to find a Second Martial Soul. The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm failed to draw out the Ice Empress, and the chapter ended with Jiang Yi confronting Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu after they mocked Huo Yuhao’s disappearance.

• Shrek Academy adopted Jiang Yi’s theory, distributed bloodline attribute ore under new rules, and began developing a bloodline-identifying instrument.
• The Mysterious Nether Sect settled its dispute with Jiang Yi and gave him five Mystic Water Pills and one Black Tortoise Divine Pill.
• After reaching level twenty, Huo Yuhao traveled to the Far North, where the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm tried to lure out the Ice Empress, but she did not appear.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm abandoned his plan to make the Ice Empress Huo Yuhao’s Second Martial Soul and decided to choose another target.
• Wang Dong worried about Huo Yuhao’s month-long absence, while Jiang Yi sensed a major change in Huo Yuhao’s fate and suspected he had missed the Ice Empress.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu mocked Huo Yuhao in the cafeteria, and Jiang Yi stepped in with Jiang Nannan.

Huo Yuhao returned from the Far North with a powerful Second Martial Soul, then Jiang Yi and other Shrek core disciples gathered for a selection tournament to choose seven participants for a mission. The chapter ended as the free-for-all began and Huo Yuhao looked to Jiang Yi to join forces.

• Jiang Yi reassured Wang Dong while Huo Yuhao was missing, and Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy that afternoon.
• During his makeup assessment, Huo Yuhao transformed into a Titan Snow Demon and killed a thousand-year Black Cloud Leopard with one punch, shocking the spectators and frightening Dai Huabin.
• Jiang Yi learned that a selection tournament would choose seven core disciples aged fifteen and under for a mission.
• At the tournament, Xuan Zi announced a group free-for-all in which the last seven disciples remaining on the platform would win.
• After the tournament began, Dai Huabin formed a team with Zhu Lu, Ning Tian, Xie Huanyue, and Wu Feng, while Huo Yuhao sought to team up with Jiang Yi, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao.

Jiang Yi led the reserve team to victory in Shrek Academy’s selection match by overwhelming the other core disciples with his Blue Silver Vines. After Xuan Zi named the seven survivors as the reserve team and confirmed Jiang Yi’s ten-thousand-year Third Soul Ring, the group trained for two weeks before Xuan Zi announced they would begin training with the main team.

• Jiang Yi swept most of the core disciples off the stage with hundreds of Blue Silver Vines, while Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu’s Hell White Tiger briefly resisted before Jiang Yi’s vines drained and bound it.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng surrendered, leaving Jiang Yi and his six teammates as the selection match’s victors.
• Xuan Zi named the seven survivors the reserve team for the upcoming tournament, warned them their places could be challenged, and asked Jiang Yi to stay behind.
• Xuan Zi asked Jiang Yi about his Third Soul Ring, and Jiang Yi said it was ten thousand years old; Xuan Zi told him he could compete in the tournament.
• Over the next two weeks, Xuan Zi trained the reserve team in combat, but Jiang Yi proved too difficult for the other six to touch.
• At the third week’s training session, Xuan Zi said the reserve team was ready to train alongside the main team.

Jiang Yi and the other Shrek Academy contestants introduced themselves and formed teams for a practice match between the Outer Court reserve team and the Inner Court students. Jiang Yi overwhelmed Dai Yueheng’s team with a vast mass of Blue Silver Vines and countered attacks from Huo Yuhao and Jiang Nannan, leaving his side with the advantage as the match continued.

• Jiang Yi introduced himself as a level-thirty-six Control System Battle Soul Elder, while the other reserve and Inner Court members gave their names and Soul Power levels.
• Xuan Zi assigned Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng as captains and set a penalty for the losing team; Ma Xiaotao chose Gongyang Mo and Jiang Yi, while Dai Yueheng selected Chen Zifeng and Xu Sanshi.
• Ma Xiaotao’s team planned to target Chen Zifeng with Xi Xi and Bei Bei’s lightning, and she assigned Jiang Yi as their main controller.
• At the match’s start, Jiang Yi unleashed more than seven hundred Blue Silver Vines, which blotted out the sky and descended on Dai Yueheng’s team.
• Jiang Yi blocked Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Shock with his spiritual power and caught Jiang Nannan with a vine before she could hit him.
• With the opposing team’s likely threats neutralized, Jiang Yi’s side gained the upper hand, while Ling Luochеn’s Ice Element Martial Soul proved ineffective against his vines.

Jiang Yi overwhelmed powerful opponents in two training matches, demonstrating that his Blue Silver Grass could withstand Ma Xiaotao’s fire, before the team set off for the tournament. On the journey, Xuan Zi explained the Shrek Inspection Corps’ sacrifices and its controversial interference in other nations’ affairs.

• Jiang Yi’s Blue Silver Vines defeated Dai Yueheng and the other Inner Court disciples, though the effort nearly exhausted him.
• Xuan Zi arranged a second match with Jiang Yi on Dai Yueheng’s side, but Jiang Yi’s fire-resistant vines helped his team defeat Ma Xiaotao’s side as well.
• Xuan Zi announced that the team would leave for Star Luo City, and Jiang Yi promised Jiang Nannan he would ask Li Lingyu to bring Aunt Rou to watch.
• The next morning, Lin Yu led the group away from Shrek Academy, and Xuan Zi stopped to explain why the Inner Court had so few members.
• Xuan Zi described the Shrek Inspection Corps’ fight against Evil Soul Masters and its sacrifices, while Jiang Yi reflected on how its actions conflicted with Shrek’s claim of neutrality.

Jiang Yi and the Shrek teams set out on an Inspection Corps mission to hunt robbers in the Ming Dou Mountain Range before the competition. After Jiang Yi detected the robbers’ cave, both teams prepared to enter, and Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection revealed human skins inside.

• The seven reserve members agreed to join the Shrek Inspection Corps, received their rings and equipment, and learned they had to kill a vicious band of robbers before reaching Star Luo City.
• Ma Xiaotao explained the mission, and the group traveled toward the border; Jiang Yi kept pace easily and helped Jiang Nannan recover during their rest.
• At the Star Luo Empire border camp, Dai Yueheng obtained Flying Soul Tools and mission information, while Xuan Zi transported the group several thousand li toward the Ming Dou Mountain Range.
• Jiang Yi used his Spiritual Perception Domain to spot signs of the robbers and directed the group toward their cave.
• Lin Yu assigned Ma Xiaotao to command the main team and himself to command the reserve team, and both groups advanced toward the cave.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection and saw bloody human skins hanging inside the cave, enraging the group.

Jiang Yi helped defeat the Death Messenger’s bandits, then shielded the group from the resulting Corpse Explosion and treated the students contaminated by poisonous blood. With four main-team members unable to compete, Xuan Zi left to take them back to Shrek Academy, leaving the reserve team to face the tournament.

• Jiang Yi impaled the Evil Soul Masters with holy Blue Silver Vines, and the Death Messenger triggered Corpse Explosion as he fled.
• Jiang Yi warned the others and shielded them with his vines, which absorbed much of the blasts before being destroyed and exhausting his strength.
• Xuan Zi killed the Death Messenger, while Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, Chen Zifeng, Gongyang Mo, Yao Haoxuan, Xi Xi, and Ling Luochе were injured.
• Jiang Yi cut away the poisonous blood and affected flesh from Chen Zifeng, Xi Xi, Gongyang Mo, and Yao Haoxuan, then used his life force to heal their wounds.
• Lin Yu assessed the injuries and said the four injured main-team members could not compete; Xuan Zi accepted responsibility and left with them for Shrek Academy, entrusting the tournament to the reserve team.

After the disastrous mission, Jiang Yi learned a spell from Electrolux while Shrek’s elders disciplined Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe and authorized Soul Tool development. The story then shifted to crowded Star Luo City on the eve of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament.

• Lin Yu encouraged the shaken reserve team, and Bei Bei reminded Xu Sanshi that Jiang Yi could carry them through the competition.
• Electrolux revealed himself to Jiang Yi, offered to teach him magic, and passed on the Purification Spell before returning to sleep.
• Elder Zhuang confirmed the injured students were recovering, and Xuan Zi resigned from the Shrek Inspection Corps and the Sea God Pavilion.
• Mu En reprimanded Yan Shaozhe, ordered him to step down as dean and lead Inspection Corps missions, and reassigned Xuan Zi to teach in the Inner Court.
• Mu En approved the development of Soul Tools and declined to send additional people to support the competition team.
• Star Luo City filled with visitors arriving for the tournament, which was due to begin the next day.

Shrek Academy arrived in Star Luo City for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament, and Jiang Yi helped Ma Xiaotao suppress her Evil Fire, strengthening their control of the Fire of Life. The tournament opened with Shrek Academy drawn against the Heavenly Soul Advanced Academy, and both teams took the stage for the first match.

• Lin Yu briefed Shrek Academy on the tournament’s elimination and round-robin formats before dismissing the team to prepare.
• Ma Xiaotao asked Jiang Yi to suppress her Evil Fire, and their six-hour Martial Soul Resonance improved both their control of their flames.
• Ma Xiaotao proposed cultivating with Jiang Yi daily in hopes of developing a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Jiang Yi agreed.
• Jiang Yi and Shrek Academy’s team encountered the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy before attending the tournament’s opening ceremony at Star Luo Plaza.
• Xu Jiawei opened the tournament, and the draw paired defending champion Shrek Academy against the Heavenly Soul Advanced Academy in the first team battle.
• Jiang Yi led Shrek Academy onto the stage, reassured the reserve team, and faced the opposing captain as the referee explained the match rules.

Jiang Yi led Shrek Academy to a swift victory over Heavenly Spirit Advanced Academy by shaping life force into chains, then noticed a powerful white-haired woman watching him. The woman was the Snow Empress, who had entered the human world with the Ice Empress; they suspected Jiang Yi was the theorist whose work could threaten Soul Beasts, but decided not to provoke Shrek Academy.

• Jiang Yi formed blue chains from life force and flung every Heavenly Spirit Advanced Academy competitor out of the arena, giving Shrek Academy the win.
• Xu Jiawei recognized the chains as condensed life force, while Jiang Yi spotted a white-haired woman watching him with a frigid gaze.
• Jiang Yi showed Xu Sanshi and the others how he could shape life force into chains and a range of weapons, then planned to meet Li Lingyu and Aunt Rou during the break.
• The Snow Empress reunited with the Ice Empress at the Star Emperor Hotel after the Ice Empress reached level sixty and became able to compete with her.
• The Snow Empress identified Jiang Yi as the likely author of a theory about using a second bloodline to strengthen Martial Souls, but rejected the Ice Empress's suggestion to attack him and chose to stay out of human affairs.

Jiang Yi reunited Lin Yu with her former partner, Li Lingyu, and then entered the first round-robin match of the tournament against Cloud Luo Advanced Academy. He quickly threw its first competitor off the arena, while Xu Jiawei watched and sensed a fluctuation in Life Force.

• Jiang Yi brought Lin Yu to meet Li Lingyu, and the two reunited and reconciled after an emotional conversation.
• Jiang Yi told Lin Yu to save the Life Essence for Li Lingyu, explaining that he expected to produce more as his cultivation improved.
• Three days later, the tournament’s first round-robin matches began, and Shrek Academy was drawn against Cloud Luo Advanced Academy in a one-on-one elimination match.
• Jiang Yi volunteered to fight first and used blue chains to drag Ma Yingjun off the stage before he could release his Soul Tool.
• Xu Jiawei watched Jiang Yi closely and sensed a fluctuation in Life Force, though he could not see Jiang Yi’s Life Domain.

Jiang Yi defeated Shang Yue with his Life Force Domain and faced Cloud Luo Advanced Academy’s captain, Situ Yu, after the academy agreed to concede if he lost. Situ Yu’s armor resisted Jiang Yi’s attacks, but Jiang Yi used Life Infusion to pour excessive life force into his body, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Jiang Yi bound Shang Yue with life-force chains and threw her out of the arena, giving Shrek Academy its second victory.
• Situ Yu entered the match and said Cloud Luo Advanced Academy would concede if Jiang Yi defeated him.
• Situ Yu transformed into an armored Soul Tool Turret and launched a barrage that Jiang Yi blocked with a life-force shield.
• Jiang Yi shattered the shield into blue motes, then used a life-force pathway to infuse Situ Yu’s body with increasing amounts of life force.
• Situ Yu initially felt energized, but his meridians began swelling and causing him pain.