Recaps

Dong Jian refused to absorb a corrupted Dragon-Patterned Ironback Bear that Gu Jiu had deliberately sent to him, but the team continued investigating Dragon Spine Valley for Coiled Dragon Golden Bamboo. They found the bamboo grove and discovered that two identical Gu Jius had surrounded them.

• Gu Jiu guided Gao Yan's team to a contaminated Dragon-Patterned Ironback Bear, but Dong Jian refused to absorb its Soul Ring, and Gao Yan killed it when the corruption forced it to self-destruct.
• Li Man found golden bamboo powder carrying Soul Power like Gu Jiu's, confirming that he had lured the bear to them.
• Gao Yan allowed the team half a day to investigate independently, and Li Man sensed a pure current of plant Soul Power leading to Coiled Dragon Golden Bamboo.
• The team found fresh footprints like Gu Jiu's inside the bamboo grove, although they showed no path in or out.
• Gu Jiu appeared inside the grove while an identical Gu Jiu stood behind Gao Yan's team.

Li Man entered the Coiled Dragon Golden Bamboo grove, severed its contaminated roots, and defeated the parent plant before absorbing its roughly 720-year-old Soul Ring. She reached level twenty-one and gained Dragon Bamboo Piercing Formation, while the chapter ended with a new uncontaminated Soul Beast appearing and a warning that killing it would loosen the seal beneath the valley.

• Gao Yan and the team identified the two Gu Jius as bodies controlled by one consciousness, and Li Man sensed that underground contamination was threatening the Coiled Dragon Golden Bamboo and its young shoots.
• Despite Dong Jian's objections, Gao Yan gave Li Man a quarter of an hour to act, while he occupied the Gu Jius and the others guarded the retreat route.
• Li Man protected the young bamboo, severed the contaminated roots, and defeated the Coiled Dragon Golden Bamboo as it made its final attack.
• Li Man absorbed the plant's Soul Ring, reached level twenty-one, and gained the Second Soul Skill Dragon Bamboo Piercing Formation.
• Both Gu Jiu bodies collapsed and warned that the Green Bamboo Key was complete and that Number Zero was next.
• A roughly 750-year-old uncontaminated Soul Beast appeared, and the Key Fragment warned that killing it would release part of the valley-bottom seal as chains snapped beneath the grove.

After Li Man obtained her second Soul Ring, the team found a dying Dragon-Patterned Ironback Bear guarding a sealed stone door and learned Dong Jian could temporarily take over part of its duty. Dong Jian defeated the bear and began absorbing its Soul Ring, but the seal broke and a snake-scaled claw reached out from behind the door.

• Li Man used her new Second Soul Skill to clear a blocked mountain cleft, and the team withdrew from the contaminated golden bamboo forest.
• The team found a 750-year-old Dragon-Patterned Ironback Bear maintaining a seal, and Dong Jian tested his ability to take over one underground node.
• After learning the bear was near death and had guarded the seal alongside earlier generations, Gao Yan allowed Dong Jian to fight it under strict conditions.
• Dong Jian defeated the Ironback Bear and began absorbing its Soul Ring as the first chain snapped and Gao Yan and Yan Feng held the stone door shut.
• A black-and-white, snake-scaled claw reached through the gap, revealing that more than one being lay beneath the seal.

Dong Jian fused the Dragon-Patterned Ironback Bear’s Soul Ring and gained Mountain-Shaking Stomp, which temporarily reinforced the seal beneath the stone door. He and Li Man then faced a choice about purifying the Key Fragment as Gu Jiu urged them to open the second lock.

• Dong Jian endured the Soul Ring’s crushing pressure and learned to distribute its weight through his body into the ground.
• Li Man linked the seal’s nodes with her bamboo formation while Gao Yan and Yan Feng held back the serpent-scaled claw emerging from the stone door.
• Dong Jian completed his Second Soul Ring at level twenty-one and used Mountain-Shaking Stomp to restore all six nodes and force the claw back behind the door.
• The group found an inscription reading “One door, three locks. Three beasts, one body,” and suspected Gu Jiu was connected to the being sealed inside.
• Dong Jian and Li Man received an offer to purify the Key Fragment, but Gu Jiu warned that doing so would open the second lock; they delayed their choice as the second chain began to tremble.

Dong Jian and Li Man partially removed the Return to One Society’s locating contamination from the Key Fragment, but their attempt left traces of their Soul Power on the second lock. As the group escaped Dragon Spine Valley, Gu Jiu revealed that the lock remembered them and demanded they bring Tang San next time.

• Dong Jian and Li Man proposed a ten-breath test to channel the Key Fragment’s surface contamination into a stone fragment, and Gao Yan agreed to supervise one attempt.
• Dong Jian and Li Man used their combined formation to strip away an outer eye marking, while Dong Jian’s Mountain-Shaking Stomp forced the contamination into the stone fragment before they cut off the resonance.
• Dong Jian learned that the Key Fragment’s locating contamination had been reduced to twenty percent and remote tracking was temporarily disabled, but the second lock had recorded both keys’ Soul Power.
• Gao Yan led the group out of Dragon Spine Valley as Gu Jiu’s shell appeared at the exit, called Dong Jian Number Zero, and told them to bring Tang San next time.
• After the group left, black-and-white and golden patterns appeared on the second chain, followed by a faint blue pattern resembling Blue Silver Grass.

After returning from Dragon Spine Valley, Dong Jian and Li Man reported the danger and tested their new Soul Skills while the academy sealed the valley’s secrets. Qin Ming invited them to seek admission to Heaven Dou Royal Academy in two years, while Tang San remained unsettled by Gu Jiu’s interest in him.

• Gao Yan decided to submit a public report about Dragon Spine Valley and keep Dong Jian and Li Man’s personal Martial Soul secrets confidential.
• At Nuoding Academy, Gao Yan reported Gu Jiu’s multiple shells, the sealed stone door, and its connection to Tang San, while Dong Jian and Li Man withheld details about the Divine Dragon Secret Realm.
• The vice dean barred students from returning to Dragon Spine Valley without permission, and Tang San agreed not to investigate on his own.
• Dong Jian tested Mountain-Shaking Stomp, while Li Man demonstrated Dragon Bamboo Piercing Formation and their still-limited Dragon Bamboo Tremor Formation combination.
• Qin Ming offered Dong Jian and Li Man a chance to be considered for Heaven Dou Royal Academy if they reached level twenty-eight and passed a combat assessment within two years.

Two years after leaving Nuoding Academy, Dong Jian and Li Man traveled with Qin Ming to Heaven Dou Royal Academy while Tang San and Xiao Wu set out for Shrek Academy. They began an assessment against Yu Feng and Osler for a place as substitutes on the Imperial Fighting Team, with the fight still underway at the chapter’s end.

• Dong Jian and Li Man practiced their refined Soul Skill control and tried, unsuccessfully, to fuse their Martial Souls for the eighteenth time.
• Dong Jian and Li Man met Tang San and Xiao Wu at Nuoding Academy’s gates, then parted from them as the two pairs set off for different academies.
• Ten days later, Qin Ming brought Dong Jian and Li Man to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and introduced them to the Imperial Fighting Team.
• Qin Ming set a two-on-two badge contest against Yu Feng and Osler, with special restrictions on the two opponents.
• Yu Feng and Osler released their Martial Souls as the assessment began; Osler charged Li Man while Yu Feng took to the air, and Li Man placed bamboo shadows near likely positions.

Dong Jian and Li Man won their assessment against Osler and Yu Feng by using the arena rules and coordinated tactics to keep the Swan badge until time ran out. They earned rotation places on the Imperial Fighting Team and learned that their next chance to prove themselves would come at a joint exchange with three other academies, followed by a possible visit to the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace.

• Li Man redirected Yu Feng’s low-altitude descent through her bamboo formation while Dong Jian used a Short Tremor to disrupt his flight, and she later drew Osler toward the central pillar by abandoning exposed formation nodes.
• Osler seized the Swan badge, but Dong Jian and Li Man trapped his escape route, disrupted his balance, and knocked the badge from his hand before Dong Jian caught it and protected it from Yu Feng until Qin Ming stopped the assessment.
• Qin Ming declared Dong Jian and Li Man the winners and gave them places as rotation members, while warning them to learn when their skills suited the team.
• Ye Lingling warned Dong Jian that recoil from his techniques could cause another fracture in his injured right leg, and Dugu Yan gave Li Man a list of competitors for the upcoming exchange with Blazing Fire Academy, Godwind Academy, and Skywater Academy.
• Li Man learned that the two best-performing rotation members could accompany the team to the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, where Crown Prince Xue Qinghe would be present, and that information about her and Dong Jian had already reached his residence.

Li Man’s first simulated battle with the Imperial Fighting Team ended in defeat after her and Yu Tianheng’s conflicting orders broke their formation, while Qin Ming began training her and Dong Jian to coordinate their abilities. After Feng Xiaotian exposed Dong Jian’s difficulty judging airborne opponents, Huo Wu challenged Li Man to a one-on-one fight.

• Li Man’s team lost the flag-capture exercise when Dugu Yan’s poison mist and Dong Jian’s disruption broke their formation, while Yu Tianheng and Li Man issued conflicting orders.
• Dugu Yan argued that the team needed one control core, but Qin Ming said both Li Man and Yu Tianheng had made reasonable judgments and needed clearer signals and commands.
• Dong Jian failed to force either Shi Mo to retreat three steps, then adjusted his attacks to redirect their balance and learned from Ye Lingling that his left-foot stomp was weaker.
• Qin Ming guided Li Man and Dong Jian through their first successful attempt at combining their Soul Power in a Vibrating Bamboo Spear, which destabilized nearby wooden stakes.
• Feng Xiaotian defeated Dong Jian in a ten-breath challenge and explained that Dong Jian needed to read an airborne opponent’s body and center of gravity before they landed.
• Huo Wu challenged Li Man to a one-on-one fight to test whether her control abilities could do more than launch surprise attacks.

Li Man held out against Huo Wu’s flames and forced a draw by staying inside the circle until time ran out, while Dong Jian improved his ability to anticipate Feng Xiaotian’s flight. The chapter ended with Heaven Dou Royal Academy drawing a two-on-two control contest against Skywater Academy, pairing Dugu Yan and Li Man against Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu.

• Huo Wu used flames, fire shadows, and Blazing Sun to control the arena, but Li Man changed the terrain and used bamboo anchors to remain inside the circle until the incense burned out, resulting in a draw.
• Dugu Yan told Li Man that she made decisive choices alone but struggled to communicate her judgment in team battles, and Li Man agreed to improve.
• Dong Jian disrupted Feng Xiaotian’s planned flight with a short shock, prompting Feng Xiaotian to praise his progress in anticipating movement.
• Shui Bing’er arrived with Xue Wu and criticized the control shown by Huo Wu and Li Man, saying true control should be complete before an opponent notices it.
• Qin Ming announced that Dugu Yan and Li Man would face Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu in a two-on-two control contest over three ice crystal platforms, and Dugu Yan and Li Man disagreed over who should lead.

Dugu Yan and Li Man coordinated their two control cores against Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu, but Skywater Academy won the platform-control match after demonstrating an embryonic Martial Soul Fusion. Crown Prince Xue Qinghe invited four students to a palace showcase and quietly ordered further observation of Dong Jian, whose dormant Key Fragment stirred.

• Dugu Yan and Li Man struggled to coordinate their tactics, then captured the left and right platforms while Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu took the center.
• Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu combined their powers into an embryonic fusion that overwhelmed the arena, and Skywater Academy won by controlling two platforms.
• Dugu Yan and Li Man reviewed their coordination as Qin Ming urged them to accept when their plans failed.
• Dong Jian considered adapting his shock-wave technique to icy ground and began forming the idea of a Mountain-Shifting Step.
• Xue Qinghe invited Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, Dong Jian, and Li Man to a palace showcase, then ordered an attendant to keep observing Dong Jian and Li Man.
• Xue Qinghe recognized a possible resemblance between Dong Jian's Panda Martial Soul and an old Spirit Hall record, while Dong Jian's dormant Key Fragment trembled.

Xue Qinghe questioned the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team about their exchange, Martial Souls, and teamwork, revealing an old record of a Yin-Yang Iron-Eating Beast resembling Dong Jian’s Panda Martial Soul. Dong Jian and Li Man kept their secrets guarded, and the chapter ended with them preparing for training against Feng Xiaotian and testing bamboo’s resistance to Huo Wu’s fire.

• Xue Qinghe asked Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, Li Man, and Dong Jian about the exchange, their team’s strengths, and their Martial Souls.
• Xue Qinghe described Spirit Hall records of a Yin-Yang Iron-Eating Beast linked to black and white powers, earth veins, and ancient seals; Dong Jian’s Key Fragment detected a partial structural overlap with his Panda Martial Soul.
• Li Man explained that her resonance with Dong Jian’s Martial Soul had led to the Dragon Bamboo Tremor Formation, while their attempts at a complete fusion had failed.
• After the meeting, Dong Jian and Li Man agreed to accept ordinary imperial resources without revealing their Martial Soul cores, combination techniques, or private secrets.
• That night, Dong Jian told Li Man the Key Fragment had found only a partial structural overlap, and they set aside further investigation for now.
• Li Man told Dong Jian that Feng Xiaotian and Yu Feng would join open-ground trajectory training, while Huo Wu planned to test how well bamboo formations resisted fire.

Dong Jian and Yu Feng practiced reading and restricting Feng Xiaotian’s flight, while Li Man and Huo Wu tested how fire and poison interacted with bamboo formations. Qin Ming announced that Heaven Dou Royal Academy would face Blazing Fire Academy in the final team match, leaving both teams preparing to apply what they had learned.

• Feng Xiaotian taught Dong Jian to judge flight changes through body cues and to place short tremors where an opponent had to change movement.
• Dong Jian and Yu Feng coordinated to restrict Feng Xiaotian’s routes, and Yu Feng brushed his sleeve during the exercise.
• Huo Wu and Li Man tested how flames, venom, smoke, and underground roots could expose or preserve parts of Li Man’s bamboo formation.
• Li Man and Huo Wu agreed to help each other improve their techniques, while Dugu Yan questioned their cooperative approach.
• Qin Ming announced a five-on-five match between Heaven Dou Royal Academy and Blazing Fire Academy, with Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, Dong Jian, Li Man, and Yu Feng on Heaven Dou’s team.
• Dong Jian considered how to make his shockwaves come from more than one position in the upcoming match.

The Imperial Fighting Team defeated Blazing Fire Academy by combining Dugu Yan’s poison control, Li Man’s formations, Dong Jian’s tremors, and coordinated attacks from the rest of the team. After the match, both teams recognized what they had learned, and the Imperial Fighting Team prepared to take its new tactics to the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace in three days.

• Huo Wushuang and the Fire Leopard Soul Masters targeted Dong Jian, Dugu Yan, and Li Man, but Li Man and Dugu Yan redirected them with bamboo formations and poison mist.
• Li Man and Dong Jian disrupted Huo Wu’s fire walls, letting Yu Tianheng charge through while Yu Feng’s attack interrupted the Fire Star Soul Master’s support skill.
• Huo Wu used Blazing Sun against Dong Jian, who shifted his weight to spread the recoil and avoided taking the attack head-on.
• Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, Li Man, Dong Jian, and Yu Feng coordinated to trap Huo Wu, and Blazing Fire Academy’s teacher stopped the match before she could continue fighting.
• Huo Wu and Dugu Yan exchanged challenges with Li Man, while Feng Xiaotian and Ye Lingling discussed Dong Jian’s new step and its strain on his legs.
• The teams concluded their final exchange at Five Elements Academy, and the Imperial Fighting Team prepared to bring its new tactics to the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace in three days.

Li Man and the other young Soul Masters trained with rivals from the Five Elements Academy, learning to adapt their control techniques and read changing battlefield conditions. The chapter ended as the palace demonstration began, with two mixed groups preparing to compete for four flags.

• Li Man trained with Shui Bing'er on the frozen lake, learning to detect false traces and changing routes without relying on visible formations.
• Dong Jian practiced sensing wind from the air with Feng Xiaotian and Yu Feng, then used Yu Feng’s movement to predict where he would step.
• The young Soul Masters discussed their techniques over lunch, while Qin Ming announced mixed teams for a complex-terrain flag exercise at the palace.
• Xue Qinghe watched the training and said he was interested in what the Soul Masters would become when their abilities were combined.
• The palace’s young Soul Master demonstration officially began the next day.

Dong Jian and Li Man helped the first team win the imperial martial contest by using a partially fused Vibrating Bamboo Spear to disrupt the central platform. Their Dual-Key Cycle stability rose to twenty-four percent, and they left the palace to focus on reaching rank thirty before seeking their Third Soul Rings.

• The two teams divided their forces among the arena’s four areas, and Shui Bing’er secured the shallow-water flag for the first team.
• Yu Tianheng and Huo Wushuang captured the wooden bridge and stone forest flags, while Xue Wu secured the sandy-field flag for the second team.
• With both sides contesting the central flag, Li Man and Dong Jian combined their powers through formation anchors and launched a Vibrating Bamboo Spear that shook the arena.
• Yu Tianheng grabbed the central flag, giving the first team a third flag and the victory when the incense burned out.
• Xue Qinghe praised their partial shared cycle, and the Divine Dragon Secret Realm recorded their Dual-Key Cycle stability at twenty-four percent.
• Xue Qinghe gave the participants medicinal baths and access to the royal archives, while Qin Ming told Dong Jian and Li Man to reach rank thirty before discussing their Third Soul Rings.

Li Man and Dong Jian both reached level thirty through careful training, and Qin Ming selected suitable Soul Beasts for their Third Soul Rings. The four set out for the Royal Soul Hunting Ground, where their hunt began.

• Qin Ming stopped Li Man and Dong Jian from repeating Vibrating Bamboo Spear until they reached level thirty and Ye Lingling cleared them of lingering injuries.
• Li Man broke through to level thirty after refining how she dismantled and rebuilt her bamboo formations.
• Dong Jian completed a full force-transfer circuit during defensive training and broke through to level thirty without sustaining new injuries.
• Qin Ming chose a roughly seventeen-hundred-year-old Wandering Root Golden Bamboo for Li Man and an approximately eighteen-hundred-year-old Dual-Vein Mountain-Treading Beast for Dong Jian.
• Dong Jian and Li Man agreed to test a host-based core before attempting partial fusion after they obtained their Third Soul Rings.
• Qin Ming, Ye Lingling, Shi Mo, Dong Jian, and Li Man entered the Royal Soul Hunting Ground to find the two Soul Beasts.

Li Man and Dong Jian obtained their third Soul Rings and tested how their new abilities could support the Imperial Fighting Team. Qin Ming then announced that the team would travel to Suotuo City in one month to face unfamiliar opponents, whose identity remained unknown.

• Li Man located and defeated a roughly seventeen-hundred-year-old Wandering Root Golden Bamboo, then absorbed its Soul Ring and gained the Parasitic Bamboo Formation Eye.
• Dong Jian defeated an approximately eighteen-hundred-year-old Dual-Vein Mountain-Treading Beast, absorbed its Soul Ring, and gained Mountain Shifting.
• Back at the academy, Li Man and Dong Jian tested their abilities with Shi Mo, Dugu Yan, and Yu Feng, forming a mobile defensive line with a new aerial formation node.
• Qin Ming announced that the Imperial Fighting Team would go to Suotuo City in one month to fight an unfamiliar team on a winning streak.
• Dong Jian and Li Man realized Suotuo City lay in the direction Tang San and Xiao Wu had gone, but they did not know the opposing team's identity.

A month before heading to Suotuo City, the Imperial Fighting Team trained in rotating combinations while Qin Ming kept the lineup undecided. Dong Jian and Li Man integrated their abilities into the team, and the chapter ended with the nine members departing for Soto as their paths began to converge with Tang San’s.

• Qin Ming rotated the nine members through different formations, and the team adapted its defense and control tactics as opponents learned to counter them.
• Dong Jian coordinated with Yu Feng to force Feng Xiaotian to land, while Li Man saved two of ten formation eyes from Huo Wu’s fire.
• Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu gave Li Man an ice crystal containing a strand of bamboo and warned that a sealed formation eye might take a different form.
• Osler worried about competing for a lineup spot, while the Shi Brothers asked Dong Jian to keep training their triangular defense.
• Ye Lingling tracked the team’s injuries and Soul Power, and Li Man began using that information to manage her teammates through her commands.
• Dong Jian and Li Man stabilized at level thirty-one, and Qin Ming announced five team Soul Fighting matches in Soto before the team left Heaven Dou City.

The Imperial Fighting Team won four Soul Fighting matches in Suotuo City while adjusting its lineups and tactics to the unfamiliar arena. After watching the Shrek Seven Devils win, Dong Jian and Li Man recognized former classmates Tang San and Xiao Wu, and the arena matched the two teams for the Imperial Fighting Team’s fifth match.

• Dong Jian and Osler won their two-on-two match by drawing apart their opponents and taking down the agility attacker together.
• Li Man and Dugu Yan adapted their tactics to the hard arena floor and won their two-on-two match using a formation anchor on Dugu Yan’s wrist.
• The Imperial Fighting Team won four team matches with changing lineups, and Qin Ming urged Li Man to reduce the number of commands she gave under pressure.
• Dong Jian and Li Man recognized Tang San and Xiao Wu while the team watched the Shrek Seven Devils win a match.
• The Shrek Seven Devils’ matchmaking application arrived that night as the Imperial Fighting Team’s opponent for its fifth match.

The Imperial Fighting Team watched the Shrek Seven Devils win their eighth match and studied Tang San’s improved control and concealed abilities. Qin Ming selected seven fighters for the teams’ upcoming match, while Tang San decided to keep his Eight Spider Lances hidden unless necessary.

• Qin Ming ordered the Imperial Fighting Team to observe Shrek’s match, where Tang San coordinated the Shrek Seven Devils to defeat their opponents.
• Dong Jian and Li Man recognized Tang San and Xiao Wu from Nuoding Academy, and the two teams exchanged glances across the arena.
• Qin Ming received the next matchup and selected Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Shi Mo, Yu Feng, Dong Jian, and Li Man to face Shrek.
• Qin Ming assigned Dugu Yan and Li Man to restrict Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass while the rest of the team handled Shrek’s formation.
• Tang San showed Xiao Wu the hidden Eight Spider Lances beneath his skin and said he would keep them concealed unless the match required them.

Shrek and the Imperial Fighting Team prepared detailed tactics for their upcoming team Soul Fight, with Tang San planning to keep his Eight Spider Lances hidden until he could break their formation. Both teams entered the Soto Great Soul Arena and began the match, each carrying suspicions and countermeasures about the other's unseen abilities.

• Grandmaster and Tang San reviewed the Imperial Fighting Team's abilities, and Tang San assigned Shrek's members tactical roles while warning them about Dugu Yan's poison and Li Man's bamboo control.
• Tang San decided to reveal the Eight Spider Lances only after the Imperial Fighting Team's formation opened, using them to cross the bamboo formation and attack its control core.
• Li Man and Dong Jian considered the possibility that Tang San had an External Soul Bone and prepared a Dragon Bamboo Tremor Formation to counter extra points of support.
• At the Soto Great Soul Arena, Tang San and Dong Jian exchanged words about their recent breakthroughs and agreed that the coming match would show which team was stronger this time.
• The Imperial Fighting Team and Shrek released their Martial Souls and took their positions, and the referee started the Soul Fight.

Shrek used Oscar’s Mushroom Sausage to give all seven members temporary flight, bypassing the Imperial Fighting Team’s ground-based defenses. Li Man then extended her formation through a bamboo node on Yu Feng, allowing Dong Jian’s shockwaves to disrupt the air as Shrek attacked from above.

• Ning Rongrong, Oscar, and Tang San supported Shrek’s opening while Yu Tianheng and Dai Mubai clashed without either fighter advancing deep into the opposing formation.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu tried to break through the Imperial Fighting Team’s rear defenses, but Dong Jian, Shi Mo, and Li Man’s decoy formation eyes stopped them, and Tang San rescued them with Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San’s Spider Web Restraint tested the Imperial Fighting Team’s defenses, while Dong Jian redirected its pulling force and Shi Mo escaped.
• Oscar gave all seven Shrek members Mushroom Sausages, and they took to the air to attack the Imperial Fighting Team from above.
• Li Man attached a Parasitic Bamboo Formation Eye to Yu Feng, then used Dragon Bamboo Tremor Formation to channel a shockwave through it and disrupt the air currents.

Shrek used the Flying Mushroom Sausage and Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass to launch repeated aerial attacks against the Imperial Fighting Team’s defenses. When the sausage’s effect ended, Tang San revealed his Eight Spider Lances and forced his way through the Dragon Bamboo Tremor Formation, leaving Shrek’s assault on Ye Lingling underway.

• The Imperial Fighting Team disrupted Shrek’s first aerial attack with the Parasitic Bamboo Formation Eye, then used poison and ground tremors to weaken the team’s aerial routes.
• Tang San coordinated attacks on the rear line, but Li Man and Dong Jian thwarted Xiao Wu’s approach while Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling kept Zhu Zhuqing from reaching Ye Lingling.
• Li Man recognized Tang San’s changing posture just as the Flying Mushroom Sausage wore off, and Tang San revealed his Eight Spider Lances to stay aloft.
• Tang San used the Eight Spider Lances to break through the Dragon Bamboo Tremor Formation, tear open Li Man’s main formation, and force Dugu Yan from her control position.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing renewed their assault on Ye Lingling as Shrek’s counterattack began.

The Imperial Fighting Team used Li Man and Dong Jian’s embryonic Mountain-Suppressing Dragon Bamboo fusion to disrupt Shrek’s formations and sever Ning Rongrong’s connection to Dai Mubai. As the teams rearranged after the fusion ended, Tang San prepared to use his concealed Hidden Weapons for the first time.

• Tang San broke Li Man’s ground formation and disrupted the Imperial Fighting Team’s coordination, while Dong Jian and Li Man countered his movement with Mountain Shifting and Dragon Bamboo Piercing Formation.
• Dai Mubai and Yu Tianheng clashed as Tang San blocked Ye Lingling’s healing, and Ma Hongjun’s flames burned away bamboo roots and redirected Dugu Yan’s poisonous mist.
• Li Man and Dong Jian created the embryonic Mountain-Suppressing Dragon Bamboo fusion, which linked the battlefield’s structures and slowed Shrek’s movements for six breaths.
• The fusion enabled Li Man and Dong Jian to break Shrek’s Blue Silver Grass connection between Ning Rongrong and Dai Mubai, while Yu Tianheng and Dai Mubai struck each other head-on.
• After the fusion ended, the Imperial Fighting Team pushed toward Shrek’s rear line, and Tang San steadied himself before aiming his concealed Hidden Weapons at them.