Chapter Summaries

Yang Tian recruited most of the Shrek Seven Devils into his faction by offering Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones and other benefits, while warning that Douluo would face a God-level invasion. The chapter ended with the group accepting their ties to Yang Tian and Flender reaffirming that Shrek would remain their home.

• Oscar and Ma Hongjun agreed to join Yang Tian's faction in exchange for Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones and future benefits.
• Flender declined to join, but asked Yang Tian to look after Little Dragon, and Yang Tian agreed.
• Tang San refused to join the faction but accepted a guest elder position, while Yang Tian shared a cultivation technique with Zhao Wuji, Flender, and Liu Erlong.
• Yang Tian warned Dai Mubai that Douluo would face a God-level invasion and said he might need Star Luo; Dai Mubai agreed to join and asked for help defeating his elder brother.
• Flender told the Shrek Seven Devils that Shrek would always support them, and the teachers and students shared a meal together.

After returning to Heaven Dou City, Yang Tian uncovered Salas’s plot against Hu Liena and attacked him at Spirit Hall. Meanwhile, Xue Qinghe learned that Xue Xing had been pretending to be loyal to Xue Beng and left the palace in disguise.

• Shrek Academy announced that its Seven Devils Captain would appear at dusk, prompting students and admirers to gather flowers and speculate about his identity.
• Prince Xue Xing borrowed Xue Beng’s name for an undisclosed matter, and Xue Qinghe received a report that Xue Xing had shown pride rather than disappointment.
• Xue Qinghe burned the secret letter, wrote a note, changed into women’s clothing, and quietly left the Eastern Palace.
• Yang Tian and Lin Zhiling arrived at Spirit Hall, but Salas intercepted them and claimed Hu Liena was away after a breakthrough.
• Yang Tian used his divine soul to find Hu Liena fighting Zhang San and Li Si while losing control, then seized Salas and shattered the reception hall with his attack.

Yang Tian killed Salas after discovering the danger Hu Liena was in, while Lin Zhiling held off Spirit Hall’s reinforcements. Yang Tian helped Hu Liena purge the drug from her body, as the swordlight drew attention across Heaven Dou City and left Shrek’s students discussing his strength.

• Yang Tian killed Salas with swordlight after declaring that Salas had intended to harm Hu Liena, and Lin Zhiling stayed behind to face the arriving guards.
• Lin Zhiling wounded a gray-haired Soul Douluo with her Emperor Sword and warned the other reinforcements not to advance.
• Yang Tian reached Hu Liena’s residence and burned Zhang San and Li Si to ashes before they could harm her further.
• Yang Tian sent cool Soul Power into Hu Liena and told her to circulate the Nine Transformations of the Heavenly Fox to expel the drug.
• Snake Lance Douluo watched from the Eastern Palace, while Shrek’s students saw the swordlight and debated Yang Tian’s strength.

Yang Tian revealed his overwhelming power in Spirit Hall, killing the vice hall master and placing Ross in charge under Hu Liena’s authority. With the Saintess safe and Spirit Hall subdued, they waited for a reply from Spirit City.

• At Shrek, Yang Tian claimed he had plenty of experience fighting the Swordsman, and his companions eagerly speculated about their supposed battle.
• Hu Liena showed her Saintess token and condemned Salas and his conspirators, but Vice Hall Master Wang challenged her authority.
• Yang Tian killed Vice Hall Master Wang with the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Sword after Wang threatened him with Spirit Hall’s retaliation.
• Yang Tian used Kotoamatsukami to make Ross loyal to him and ordered him to manage Spirit Hall’s affairs under Hu Liena’s direction.
• Yang Tian told Hu Liena to write to Bibi Dong and request an appointment letter for Ross, while Spirit Hall’s members waited for a response from Spirit City.

Yang Tian brought Lin Zhiling to Spirit Hall so she could complete the Fairy Sword Battle Team’s competition paperwork, where Hu Liena revealed how impatiently she had been waiting for his true body. After Lin Zhiling left, Yang Tian and Hu Liena went through the Reverse Sky Gate to Sword Estate, where they were interrupted by Ying’er and Huo Wu training.

• Yang Tian and Lin Zhiling met Hu Liena at Spirit Hall, and Hu Liena explained the Elite Competition rules while Lin Zhiling collected the team documents.
• Hu Liena changed her clothes and complained that Yang Tian had not returned his true body to Heaven Dou, then Yang Tian opened the Reverse Sky Gate to switch places with his incarnation at Shrek.
• Hu Liena hugged Yang Tian’s true body and asked Lin Zhiling to leave so they could be alone.
• Lin Zhiling departed with the competition file and said she would choose the team uniforms, while Hu Liena and Yang Tian went through the gate to his room at Sword Estate.
• Ying’er covered her eyes when Yang Tian arrived carrying Hu Liena as Ying’er trained with Huo Wu.

Qian Renxue visited Yang Tian at Sword Estate and asked for his help with Xue Beng’s plans. Yang Tian agreed to handle the matter, while Qian Renxue said he would need to get close to Xue Qinghe and suspected Xue Beng might invite the Swordsman instead of Hu Liena.

• Ying'er asked Huo Wu why she did not rein in Yang Tian, and Huo Wu told her to grow up and try herself.
• Qian Renxue arrived at Shrek Academy looking for Yang Tian and used a conjured image of his face to convince an instructor she knew him.
• Yang Tian welcomed Qian Renxue, then took her through the Reverse Sky Gate to Sword Estate.
• Qian Renxue told Yang Tian that Xue Beng was putting on an act and appeared to be planning to invite Hu Liena that night.
• Yang Tian agreed to handle Xue Beng’s matter, and Qian Renxue said he would need to get close to Xue Qinghe before she dealt with him.

Qian Renxue asked Yang Tian to help understand Xue Beng’s invitation to the Swordsman, while Yang Tian considered how to advance his Soul Power and expand technology beyond Douluo Star. After Lin Zhiling delivered the invitation, Yang Tian predicted Xue Beng’s scheme and offered to help Qian Renxue take the throne, ending with a joking remark about sleeping with an Empress.

• Qian Renxue asked Yang Tian how Prince Xue Xing planned to arrange a meeting with Hu Liena, and Yang Tian doubted she would attend an ordinary banquet.
• Yang Tian explained that his Soul Power remained in the sixties despite using nearly all the Far North’s ice marrow, and he considered seeking Energy Crystals beyond Douluo Star and developing technology on the Sun Moon Continent.
• Lin Zhiling delivered Xue Beng’s invitation for the Swordsman to attend a banquet and discuss an important matter.
• Yang Tian predicted that Xue Beng would use the Swordsman as bait to draw in Hu Liena and provoke a scandal that would remove Xue Beng from the succession.
• Qian Renxue proposed working with Yang Tian to ruin Xue Beng’s plans, but Yang Tian said he could control Xue Beng’s soul and put her on the throne.
• Qian Renxue joked about having Xue Ye betroth Xue Ke to Yang Tian, and Yang Tian replied that sleeping with an Empress sounded more exciting than sleeping with an Empress Consort.

Yang Tian controlled Xue Beng and Prince Xue Xing to help Xue Qinghe secure the throne, then spent time with Hu Liena and Qian Renxue before returning to Shrek to replace the team’s sponsored uniforms. The chapter left Shrek preparing new uniforms for the Elite Competition, with Yang Tian also promising to strengthen reserve members Tai Long and Jiang Zhu.

• Yang Tian used Kotoamatsukami to bring Xue Beng and Prince Xue Xing under his control so they would help Xue Qinghe obtain the throne.
• Hu Liena reached level sixty, and Yang Tian gave her a God-given Soul Ring to absorb before the Elite Competition.
• Yang Tian visited Qian Renxue at the Imperial Palace, prompting rumors that the Crown Prince and Yang Tian were inseparable friends.
• Yang Tian returned to Shrek, objected to the yellow-green sponsored uniforms, and gave Flender five hundred thousand to fund replacements designed by Ning Rongrong.
• Tang San introduced reserve members Tai Long and Jiang Zhu, and Yang Tian gave them pills to raise their strength and promised to help them obtain Soul Rings.

The Shrek Battle Team arrived at the opening ceremony of the Heaven Dou division and drew attention with their striking members and understated uniforms. The Fairy Sword Battle Team then appeared with the Swordsman and the astonishingly young Ying'er, leaving the spectators stunned.

• The opening ceremony filled Heaven Dou Soul Arena, while crowds gathered to see the competing Soul Masters.
• Ning Rongrong finished designing uniforms for the Shrek Battle Team, and the team entered with Yang Tian at its head.
• Spectators admired Shrek's appearance and asked which academy the unfamiliar team represented.
• The Fairy Sword Battle Team arrived behind Shrek, led by a mature beauty and the masked Swordsman.
• Spectators recognized Shui Bing'er and the other white-clad members, then were shocked to see that Ying'er looked younger than ten despite having Three Rings and three Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings.

Yang Tian and the Swordsman arrived at the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Competition, where Shrek Academy and the Fairy Sword Battle Team drew attention. After Ning Rongrong punished a Blue Sunshine Academy student for leering at the women, a Heaven Dou Soul Douluo expelled him, and Shi Nian threatened to appeal to Spirit Hall before the Swordsman offered to intervene.

• Yang Tian and the Swordsman led their teams into the arena, attracting attention from the other competitors.
• Lin Zhiling finished the Fairy Sword Battle Team’s registration and joined the Swordsman.
• Ning Rongrong struck a Blue Sunshine Academy student who had leered at the women, sending him flying.
• A Heaven Dou Soul Douluo revoked the student’s competition qualification and warned that further misconduct could disqualify his academy.
• Shi Nian threatened to seek justice from Spirit Hall, and the Swordsman claimed he had killed Salas and invited Shi Nian to take the matter to him.

Swordsman rejected Shi Nian’s appeal and backed the decision to disqualify the Blue Sunshine Academy student who harassed Ning Rongrong. After Shi Nian withdrew, Yang Tian resolved to eliminate the dangerous Soul Master, while Shrek prepared for the opening ceremony.

• Shi Nian asked Swordsman to uphold justice for Blue Sunshine Academy, but Swordsman condemned the student for harassing Ning Rongrong and supported revoking his competition qualification.
• Swordsman’s killing intent silenced Shi Nian, and the watching academies accepted the student’s disqualification as Blue Sunshine Academy withdrew.
• Yang Tian decided Shi Nian would cause more trouble if left alive.
• Flender warned the Shrek Seven Devils that Shi Nian’s Lingering Dream martial soul created deadly illusions, then left to watch from the stands.
• Xiao Wu teased Yang Tian about Shi Nian’s likely retaliation, and Yang Tian said Shi Nian would not get the chance.
• Ning Rongrong proudly asked Yang Tian what he thought of her Illusion God Palm.

The Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Competition opened with Fairy Sword Battle Team and Shrek Battle Team drawing the most attention. Xue Ye and Ning Fengzhi addressed the assembled competitors, leaving them eager to prove themselves in the contest.

• Competition staff escorted the teams into the arena as the announcer introduced Fairy Sword Battle Team, Shrek Battle Team, and the other academies.
• The announcer revealed that Shrek Battle Team's captain could match the Swordsman, raising Shrek to Fairy Sword Battle Team's level in the spectators' eyes.
• Yang Tian recognized Ning Fengzhi, Sword Dao Chen Xin, Xue Ye, and Hu Liena on the VIP platform; Xue Ye and Yang Tian exchanged respectful nods.
• Xue Ye declared the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Competition open and encouraged the soul masters to compete for the Empire's glory.
• Ning Fengzhi gave an opening address urging the young competitors to endure trials and bring honor to their academies and the Empire.

The tournament draw matched Shrek Academy against the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team, prompting Yang Tian to let the Shrek members decide who would fight. The chapter ended with Shrek preparing for the match and Ning Rongrong worrying about revealing their upgraded red Soul Rings.

• Ning Fengzhi said he favored two teams in the Heaven Dou City Division and predicted the champion would come from the empire.
• Hu Liena drew the first-round matchups, pairing Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Shrek Academy, then offered finalists direct entry into the Martial Soul Palace.
• Yang Tian declined to compete and had the Shrek team draw lots to decide who would take the field.
• Tai Long and Jiang Zhu drew blank Jade Slips, while the others prepared to face the Heaven Dou Second Team.
• Tang San proposed ending the match in half a minute, and Ning Rongrong worried that their red Soul Rings would draw attention.

Shrek Academy faced the Huang Dou Second Team in the opening match of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Competition, stunning the audience with its powerful Soul Rings and Tang San’s Soul King rank. The match began with Shrek’s three women refusing to activate their Martial Souls, and Yang Tian rose after spectators insulted them.

• Yang Tian reassured Zhu Zhuqing and the other two women that they could keep their Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings from drawing suspicion.
• Shrek and the Huang Dou Second Team entered the arena for the competition’s opening match, and both teams took their positions.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun revealed Ten Thousand Year fourth Soul Rings, while Tang San displayed two black rings and his Soul King rank.
• Oscar also revealed a Ten Thousand Year fourth Soul Ring, but Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong did not activate their Martial Souls.
• Spectators mocked the three women for remaining inactive, and Yang Tian stood up and released a vast pressure across the Soul Arena.

Yang Tian silenced the hostile crowd, and the Swordsman killed an Evil Soul Master who had insulted the Shrek women. Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu then revealed their extraordinary red soul rings, leaving the arena stunned as Yang Tian received a mission to astonish everyone without revealing his own rings.

• Yang Tian intimidated the spectators until Ning Fengzhi warned him not to kill anyone, while barring the hecklers from returning.
• Yang Tian seized a black-robed spectator, and the Swordsman identified and killed him as an Evil Soul Master.
• Ning Fengzhi defended Ning Rongrong, and Xue Ye rewarded Yang Tian and the Swordsman for killing the Evil Soul Master.
• Zhu Zhuqing revealed six Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings, astonishing the crowd and her Shrek teammates.
• Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu revealed five red soul rings each, intensifying the arena's shock.
• Yang Tian received a mission to stun the entire arena without revealing his own soul rings.

Shrek Academy won its opening match after the Heaven Dou Second Team refused to fight against its members’ overwhelming Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings. As the crowd dispersed, Shui Yue'er visited Swordsman and greeted him as her brother-in-law.

• Xue Ye and Ning Fengzhi were shocked by Shrek’s Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings, and Xue Ye concluded that Yang Tian had helped his girlfriends obtain them.
• The Heaven Dou Second Team captain declined to fight, and the referee declared Shrek Academy the winner.
• Shrek celebrated its victory, and Ning Rongrong embraced Yang Tian while he watched Tang San’s reaction.
• Hu Liena joined Swordsman in his embrace, and the Fairy Sword Battle Team later received visits from other teams.
• Shui Yue'er arrived with the Skywater Team, called Swordsman her brother-in-law, and drew a warm look from him.

Swordsman reunited with Shui Yue'er and the other academy teams, while Shui Yue'er admitted her enduring feelings for him. Back at Shrek, Grandmaster visited Ning Rongrong to discuss teaching Tang San the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Heart Separation Control, leaving his request hanging.

• Swordsman greeted Shui Yue'er, Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Feng Xiaotian, then invited the academy teams out for drinks.
• Shui Yue'er told Shui Bing'er that she had loved Swordsman since their first meeting and would continue following him despite his lack of feelings for her.
• Hu Liena warned Shui Yue'er that persisting might win Swordsman’s affection but could also deepen her heartbreak.
• Swordsman reserved a floor at the Huang Dou Grand Hotel, where the group gathered to eat and drink.
• At Shrek, Grandmaster came to see Ning Rongrong and raised the idea of her teaching Tang San the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Heart Separation Control.

Yang Tian taught Tang San Heart Separation Control and discovered that Tang San had married a woman from the Clear Sky Sect. He then revealed that Tang San's mother, the Blue Silver Emperor, might be resurrected if Tang San and Tang Hao gave up her soul bone and soul ring.

• Grandmaster tried to pressure Ning Rongrong into teaching Tang San Heart Separation Control, but Yang Tian rejected his approach and sent him away.
• Tang San visited Yang Tian, apologized for Grandmaster's behavior, and asked to learn Heart Separation Control.
• Yang Tian passed Tang San the method and told him to let his martial soul control itself while avoiding excess.
• Yang Tian realized Tang San had lost his virginity, and Tang San admitted he had married someone from the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang San told Yang Tian that Tang Hao had revealed the truth about his mother, and Yang Tian explained that the Blue Silver Emperor could be resurrected using her soul ring and soul bone.
• Tang San said he would give up his soul bone to resurrect his mother, but he needed to ask Tang Hao before deciding about his father's soul ring.

Yang Tian agreed to give Tang San a seventy-thousand-year right leg bone in exchange for permission to study his hidden-weapon designs, and planned to meet Tang Hao about reviving Ah Yin. At the arena, Hu Yanzhen boasted that the Elephant Armor Battle Team would beat the Fairy Sword Battle Team, unaware of the Swordsman's strength.

• Tang San refused Yang Tian's fifty-thousand-year soul bone, then agreed to let others study his hidden-weapon designs in exchange for a seventy-thousand-year right leg bone.
• Yang Tian told Tang San to wait until Tai Long and Jiang Zhu reached Rank Forty before they went to Sunset Forest, and Tang San left to transcribe the Hundred Solutions to Hidden Weapons.
• Yang Tian watched the Fairy Sword Battle Team prepare to face the Elephant Armor Battle Team, while spectators praised the fairies and the Swordsman.
• Hu Yanzhen boasted to Hu Liena and Xue Ye that his grandson A Li would lead the Elephant Armor Battle Team to victory and help them reach the top three.
• Xue Ye reminded Hu Yanzhen that his grandson faced the Swordsman who had killed Salas, and Hu Liena scolded Hu Yanzhen for underestimating their opponent.

The Fairy Sword Battle Team faced the enormous Elephant Armor Academy team, and the Swordsman revealed that he was a level sixty-six Soul Emperor. With the crowd demanding to see their martial souls, the Swordsman decided they would reveal them one at a time, beginning with his little disciple.

• The Fairy Sword Battle Team looked on in surprise as the seven massive Elephant Armor Academy competitors entered the arena.
• Hu Yanli introduced himself as a level forty-three Defense System Battle Soul Sect, and the Swordsman announced that he was a level sixty-six Power Attack System Soul Emperor.
• Ning Fengzhi told Xue Ye that the Swordsman and Yang Tian’s relative strength was uncertain, while Hu Liena urged Hu Yanzhen to leave.
• The referee began the match, and Elephant Armor Academy’s members transformed into tusked, armored forms while the Fairy Sword Battle Team held back.
• The crowd called for the Fairy Sword Battle Team to unleash their martial souls, and Yang Tian agreed that they should build their prestige.
• The Swordsman silenced the audience and said they would reveal their martial souls one at a time, starting with his little disciple.