Recaps

At Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong learned about Ning Rongrong’s two Martial Souls and moved the Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament forward by two months. Meanwhile, Shrek struggled against the Imperial Fighting Team, and Zhu Zhuqing proposed a new attack plan that Tang San questioned.

• Hu Liena reasoned that Ning Rongrong’s Fire-Stoking Stick was likely less developed than her Ten Treasures Glazed Sword but had superior attack power without Soul Skills, drawing Bibi Dong’s interest.
• Bibi Dong decided to meet Ning Rongrong at the upcoming tournament and ordered it to be held two months early.
• Shrek’s five fighters worked together against the seven members of the Imperial Fighting Team, but Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan’s team countered their attacks and gained the advantage.
• Tang San ordered Dai Mubai and Xiao Wu to retreat as Shrek’s attacks failed to cause meaningful damage and Oscar ran low on Soul Power.
• Zhu Zhuqing proposed leading a changed attack while Dai Mubai and Xiao Wu feinted, but Tang San refused until she explained her plan.

Zhu Zhuqing rejected Shrek’s plan to target Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan first, arguing that Ye Lingling was the key target. After Dai Mubai and Oscar were eliminated, Zhu Zhuqing revealed her speed and drove the Imperial Fighting Team into disarray, leaving the match at three Shrek fighters against three opponents.

• Zhu Zhuqing told Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Xiao Wu that they should target Ye Lingling while she bypassed Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan, but Dai Mubai criticized her for relying on Ning Rongrong’s advice.
• Yu Tianheng led the Imperial Fighting Team’s attack; Dai Mubai was knocked off the stage, and Dugu Yan attacked Xiao Wu.
• Tang San took Dai Mubai’s place against Yu Tianheng, while the Shi Mo brothers threw Oscar off the stage, leaving Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing for Shrek.
• Zhu Zhuqing used Netherworld Shadow Clone to slip past Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan and attack the Imperial Fighting Team’s rear guard.
• Zhu Zhuqing overwhelmed Ye Lingling with her speed and Soul Skills, then knocked her off the stage.
• After Ye Lingling’s elimination, the Imperial Fighting Team’s other two members were quickly sent off, leaving the Shi Mo brothers against Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan against Xiao Wu, and Yu Tianheng against Tang San.

Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu’s coordinated attacks dismantled the Imperial Fighting Team, while Tang San kept Yu Tianheng occupied. The two Shrek fighters then unleashed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill that blasted Dugu Yan, Yu Tianheng, and Tang San from the arena, leaving everyone stunned.

• Zhu Zhuqing’s plan kept the Imperial Fighting Team’s fighters separated, while Tang San restrained Yu Tianheng and Xiao Wu forced Dugu Yan to retreat.
• Yu Tianheng broke Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass restraints with Thunder Dragon Claw, but Tang San repeatedly caught him again with Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon.
• Xiao Wu threw Dugu Yan into the brothers Shi Mo and Shi Mo, and Zhu Zhuqing’s Netherworld Hundred Claws eliminated both brothers as they shielded Dugu Yan.
• Xiao Wu sent Dugu Yan flying toward Zhu Zhuqing, who struck her with Netherworld Hundred Claws as a red-black Soul Power barrier enveloped the arena.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu unleashed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and its Soul Power sphere hurled Dugu Yan, Yu Tianheng, and Tang San out before the barrier vanished.

After Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill injured Tang San and incapacitated Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan, Yu Xiaogang brought Shrek back to the academy to investigate. When the pair tried to reproduce the skill, they failed, and Ning Rongrong suggested Xiao Wu needed a target for her Waist Bow.

• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill incapacitated Dugu Yan and threw Tang San, Yu Tianheng, and Dugu Yan from the arena.
• Yu Xiaogang ordered Shrek to return to the academy, where Tang San recovered from his serious injuries over the next two days.
• Yu Xiaogang gathered the students and theorized that Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing had achieved soul balance and formed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing failed to unleash the skill without a target, and Ning Rongrong explained that Xiao Wu’s Waist Bow needed someone to act as one.
• Oscar feared he would be chosen as their target and hid behind Dai Mubai.

Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu demonstrated their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Alluring Spirit Cat, on Zhao Wuji after he volunteered to test it. The attack overwhelmed him, and he accused Yu Xiaogang of misleading him.

• Yu Xiaogang suggested Ning Rongrong help test Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but she challenged him to choose a weaker target instead.
• Zhao Wuji arrived, heard what had happened, and agreed to face the two girls, trusting his Soul Saint strength and defenses.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu synchronized their Martial Souls and unleashed Alluring Spirit Cat, trapping Zhao Wuji inside a purple-black barrier.
• The girls’ attacks shattered Zhao Wuji’s shields and battered him for a minute before hurling him through walls.
• Zhao Wuji shouted at Yu Xiaogang for understating the fusion skill’s power.

After Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu demonstrated their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Zhao Wuji announced that the Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament had been moved up, leaving Shrek Academy only days to prepare. Ning Rongrong accepted that she would participate and focused on raising her sword-healing count, while Zhao Wuji promised to find a seventh teammate.

• Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill left Zhao Wuji battered, and he cursed Yu Xiaogang for sending him into the trial.
• Zhao Wuji announced that the Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament had been moved up and would begin in less than a week.
• Ning Rongrong heard the system announce the tournament as its final hidden quest and reflected on the two years since she had entered Shrek Academy.
• Zhao Wuji explained that each team needed seven members and promised to find a seventh competitor for Shrek Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang assigned the students tournament training, while Ning Rongrong chose to keep healing her sword to increase her count.

Ning Rongrong completed five million sword healings and exchanged one million for the qualification to inherit the Demon God's godhood. The Demon God Nine Trials began, and she was left facing a second trial to defeat a mirror image of herself.

• With four days left before the tournament, Shrek's students pursued their own goals while Ning Rongrong continued healing the sword at the academy.
• Ning Rongrong gave Zhu Zhuqing a linked-bell soul tool for emergencies, then stayed behind as the others left to cultivate under Yu Xiaogang and Zhao Wuji.
• At noon, Ning Rongrong completed one million more sword healings, bringing her total to five million and unlocking the hidden reward of a god's inheritance.
• Ning Rongrong spent one million sword healings and gained the qualification to inherit the Demon God's godhood, unlocking the Demon God Nine Trials and the Demon God Domain.
• Because Ning Rongrong had already defeated a Titled Douluo, she automatically passed the first trial, gained three Soul Power levels, and reached level fifty-five.
• The second trial required Ning Rongrong to defeat a mirror image of herself, and she decided to attempt it while she was still relatively weak.

Ning Rongrong began the Demon God Nine Trials’ Second Trial, which forced her to fight an identical mirror image in a deadly volcanic arena. Her opening assault failed, and she was left searching for a way to overcome the copy’s overwhelming strength.

• Ning Rongrong chose to begin the Second Trial while her Soul Power Level was still in the fifties.
• The trial transported Ning Rongrong to a volcanic battlefield and created a mirror image with the same Martial Souls, Soul Rings, and abilities.
• Ning Rongrong recognized that she had to defeat the mirror image quickly before the hostile battlefield killed her.
• Ning Rongrong launched five Soul Skills and charged with the Ten Treasures Glazed Sword.
• The mirror image used the Fire-Stoking Stick to shatter her Soul Skills and knock her hundreds of meters away.
• Ning Rongrong realized she had no clear way to defeat a mirror image whose Fire-Stoking Stick granted immense attack and defense.

Ning Rongrong recognized that her reflection was trying to drain her Soul Power while their matching domains made them immune to each other’s attacks. She conserved her strength and struck when the reflection’s domains disappeared, leaving the fight’s outcome unresolved.

• Ning Rongrong dodged the reflection’s Fire-Stoking Stick attack with her Jade Phoenix Twin Wings, but the reflection blocked her counterattack with a whirlwind.
• The reflection released five Ten Treasures domains, and Ning Rongrong answered by releasing her own five domains to withstand the reflection’s attacks.
• Ning Rongrong realized the reflection was trying to exhaust her Soul Power before the domains ended, so she stopped wasting Soul Skills and waited.
• As the magma rose, Ning Rongrong counted down until the reflection’s domains vanished a second earlier than expected.
• Ning Rongrong teleported behind the reflection and launched a close-range Ten Treasures Demon Soul Strike.

Ning Rongrong defeated the reflection in the Second Trial, but caught her as she fell and heard her final advice before she vanished into the magma. The trial ended back at Shrek Academy, where Ning Rongrong received her rewards and was left wondering who the reflection had been.

• Ning Rongrong struck the reflection with the Ten Treasures Demon Soul Strike, leaving her mortally wounded and unable to fight on.
• The reflection admitted she had expected to lose and said the original Ning Rongrong might have been killed or changed by life on Douluo Continent.
• Ning Rongrong caught the reflection as she fell, and the reflection advised her to live well and use her Fire-Stoking Stick to create her own Soul Skills.
• The reflection freed herself from Ning Rongrong’s arms and fell into the magma, smiling through tears as she disappeared.
• Ning Rongrong returned to Shrek Academy’s training ground and completed the Second Trial, gaining three Soul Power levels and one million years each of Soul Ring and Soul Bone age.