Chapter Summaries

Han Yu gave his students three days off while Tang Hao prepared Tang San for the finals and arranged for him to meet Xue Qinghe. At the meeting, Han Yu raised doubts about Shrek Academy, while Qian Renxue privately rejected the idea of recruiting Tang San.

• Han Yu granted Ye Lingling and the others three days of rest and promised to cook them barbecue.
• Tang Hao told Tang San that Yu Xiaogang should be waiting in Spirit City, gave him a plant to conceal Xiao Wu’s aura, and advised him to stay close to Xue Qinghe.
• Tang Hao agreed to approach Ye Tianxin about Dai Mubai’s injuries after the competition and told Tang San to let Ma Hongjun attend as a spectator, then cut ties with him afterward.
• With Ning Fengzhi’s arrangements, Tang San met Xue Qinghe at the Heaven Dou Royal Hotel, where Han Yu was also present.
• When Xue Qinghe asked about Shrek Academy, Han Yu suggested that Shrek might have a hidden trump card, and Ning Fengzhi introduced Tang San as a talented person for Xue Qinghe to recruit.
• Qian Renxue privately dismissed the idea of recruiting Tang San, whom she saw as the son of her father’s killer.

After Yu Xiaogang was released from prison in Spirit City, he tried to settle his debts by selling his theories, unaware that Spirit Hall planned to condemn him for plagiarism. He paid off the restaurant bill and waited for Tang San, still imagining his theories would make him famous.

• Xue Qinghe rejected Tang San’s request for protection, while Han Yu hinted that he and his second brother had plans for Tang San’s visit to Spirit City.
• Yu Xiaogang left prison broke and learned he had three days to repay the restaurant manager 210 Gold Soul Coins or risk being jailed again.
• Unable to get money from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s former shops, Yu Xiaogang sold copies of his theories at a street stall and moved locations after each sale.
• Tian Chen told Bibi Dong that Yu Xiaogang was selling wrong or plagiarized theories, and she authorized him to take action and issue a condemnation.
• Yu Xiaogang paid his debt with the money from his sales, stopped selling the books, and waited for Tang San while imagining his theories would soon make him famous.

Tian Chen used a continent-wide broadcast to accuse Yu Xiaogang of passing off Spirit Hall’s established knowledge and documents as his own theories. Yu Xiaogang was left publicly humiliated and furiously demanding that Tian Chen face him.

• Tian Chen announced monthly broadcasts to share Spirit Hall’s theoretical knowledge, and Xue Qinghe postponed the teams’ departure so they could listen.
• Tian Chen introduced Yu Xiaogang and revealed that he had been expelled from Spirit Hall, disappointing Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and the Shrek Academy group, who expected praise.
• Tian Chen argued that Yu Xiaogang’s first theory about martial soul origins was already common knowledge announced by Spirit Hall.
• Tian Chen displayed dated Spirit Hall documents and accused Yu Xiaogang of copying theories about martial soul mutations, Soul Power, soul rings, and their age limits.
• Tian Chen called Yu Xiaogang’s precise soul ring age limit irresponsible and fabricated, while Yu Xiaogang shouted for Tian Chen to confront him as passersby avoided him.

Tian Chen publicly challenged Yu Xiaogang’s claim that effort could overcome any martial soul’s limitations, using Yu Xiaogang’s own rank and Tang San’s exceptional innate talent to discredit the theory. After Tang San was restrained from retaliating, Tian Chen moved on to present Han Yu’s theories.

• Tian Chen explained Yu Xiaogang’s theory that any martial soul could reach the peak through the right cultivation and criticized it as contrary to soul masters’ innate limitations.
• Tang San and Liu Erlong defended Yu Xiaogang, while Flender urged Erlong to calm down and other students mocked Shrek Academy.
• Tian Chen pointed out that Yu Xiaogang was only a Rank Twenty-Nine Soul Grandmaster and had trained Tang San, a Twin Martial Souls soul master with Innate Full Soul Power, as evidence for his theory.
• Tang San drew his hidden weapons after people mocked Yu Xiaogang, but Xiao Wu grabbed his wrist and Tang Hao warned him not to fall into Spirit Hall’s trap.
• Tian Chen invited Yu Xiaogang to debate him and then thanked Han Yu and Zhang Ming before beginning his presentation of Han Yu’s theories.

After a livestream exposed Yu Xiaogang’s plagiarism, the convoy traveling to Spirit City was ambushed in a canyon, apparently in an attempt to target Tang San. Han Yu confronted the hidden Spirit Hall force and challenged Yue Guan over Bibi Dong’s orders.

• Tian Chen’s livestream explanation impressed viewers, while Tang San accused Han Yu of misleading Soul Masters and Yu Xiaogang sat in despair over the plagiarism revelations.
• Xue Qinghe ordered the academies to depart for Spirit City, and Yu Xiaogang worried that Liu Erlong, Tang San, Flender, and the others would reject him.
• Dugu Bo sensed an attack as the convoy entered a canyon, and Han Yu guessed that the attackers were targeting Tang San because his Clear Sky Hammer had been exposed.
• Attackers blocked the road behind the convoy and appeared on the cliffs, separating Shrek Academy from the other teams as Han Yu told everyone to return to their academies.
• Han Yu and Dugu Bo flew to the canyon top, where Han Yu ordered Golden Eagle Soul Douluo’s forces to remain on standby and confronted Yue Guan and Bibi Dong’s orders.

Han Yu used his strength and the Angel Token to force Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo to abandon the attack on the convoy. After the group continued toward the finals, Bibi Dong learned of Han Yu’s power and Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo began considering leaving Papal Hall.

• Han Yu revealed eight 100,000-Year Soul Rings and threatened Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo until they agreed to withdraw under the Angel Token’s authority.
• Han Yu and Dugu Bo discussed the possibility of reaching beyond Level 100, then Han Yu cleared a boulder blocking the convoy’s road.
• Xue Qinghe thanked Han Yu and Dugu Bo, while Han Yu covered up Spirit Hall’s involvement by claiming the attackers were empire troops conducting drills.
• Tang San suspected Spirit Hall had targeted him and resolved to win the tournament and make Spirit Hall lose face.
• Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo reported to Bibi Dong, who grew wary of Han Yu’s possible God Trial progress, while they considered leaving Papal Hall.

The teams arrived in Spirit City, where Tang San reunited with a destitute Yu Xiaogang and stood by his teacher. Han Yu met with Golden Crocodile Douluo to confirm their plans for Tang Hao, while Yu Xiaogang agreed to debate Tian Chen the next day.

• The teams from Heaven Dou and Star Luo arrived in Spirit City, and Han Yu explained that the competition finals would take place before the Papal Hall.
• Tang San recognized Yu Xiaogang, knelt before him, and declared that Spirit Hall’s slander would not make him abandon his teacher.
• Liu Erlong brought Yu Xiaogang inside to wash, and he told the Shrek team his embellished account of being mistreated by Spirit Hall.
• Han Yu told Golden Crocodile Douluo that Tang Hao should be captured before he could approach the Soul Bone, and Golden Crocodile confirmed that the other arrangements were ready.
• Tang San, Yu Tianheng, and Liu Erlong urged Yu Xiaogang to debate Tian Chen, and Yu Xiaogang agreed to face him the next day.

Han Yu and his companions watched Tian Chen challenge Yu Xiaogang in a public debate over the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul. Tian Chen exposed gaps in Yu Xiaogang’s knowledge, and the debate continued with Yu Xiaogang demanding that Tian Chen answer his questions.

• Han Yu took Tian Yue and the others around Spirit City, where they heard Tian Chen was debating Yu Xiaogang and went to watch.
• Tian Yue used her connections to get the Canaan Academy group seats near the front, while scholars and spectators gathered for the debate.
• Tian Chen asked Yu Xiaogang about absorbing ten-thousand-year Soul Rings, and Yu Xiaogang could not explain Zhu Zhuqing’s ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring or Soul Shock.
• Tian Chen asked Yu Xiaogang to classify Huo Wu’s Fire Shadow Martial Soul, and Yu Xiaogang guessed it was a beast Martial Soul before failing to answer Tian Chen’s follow-up questions.
• Yu Xiaogang accused Tian Chen of asking deliberately tricky questions and demanded that Tian Chen explain the types of Martial Souls represented by body parts.

Tian Chen exposed Yu Xiaogang’s plagiarism by revealing an old registration ledger, and Yu Yuanzhen expelled his son from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Yu Xiaogang’s allies defended him despite the evidence, while the Canaan Battle Team prepared for the Soul Master Grand Competition finals.

• Tian Chen challenged Yu Xiaogang’s claim that External Soul Bones could evolve indefinitely and showed a ledger proving Yu Xiaogang had borrowed the source of his theory twenty years earlier.
• Tian Chen revealed that Yu Xiaogang had copied only part of the soul-bone material and omitted the limits on External Soul Bone growth, leaving Yu Xiaogang unable to defend himself.
• After seeing the exposure, Yu Yuanzhen expelled Yu Xiaogang from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and barred him from burial in the clan’s Ancestral Hall.
• Liu Erlong, Tang San, Yu Tianheng, and Dai Mubai comforted Yu Xiaogang and blamed Spirit Hall, while Tang San urged him to take pride in his annotations.
• Han Yu sent the Canaan Battle Team to rest before the finals, and the team joked about facing Shrek Academy in the first round.

Han Yu learned that Canaan Academy would not face Spirit Hall Academy before the final, while Shrek Academy drew a difficult route through the bracket. At the opening ceremony, Bibi Dong used Spirit Hall regulations to demand that Shrek kneel, leaving the team divided as Tang San and several others refused.

• Han Yu drew lot thirty-two for Canaan Academy, placing it opposite Spirit Hall Academy until the final, while Shrek drew number twenty-one in the same bracket as Canaan.
• Flender told Shrek that Blazing Academy had withdrawn and merged with Godwind Academy to form Wind Fire Team, which was in the other bracket.
• Bibi Dong arrived at the opening ceremony, and the crowd knelt before her while Shrek remained standing.
• Bibi Dong ordered Shrek to be taught to kneel, and Snake Lance Douluo produced a Spirit Hall regulation requiring it.
• Tang San refused to kneel, while Ma Hongjun and Ning Rongrong knelt and Ning Rongrong pulled Oscar down with her; the rest of Shrek remained standing.

Bibi Dong punished Tang San and the other Shrek rule-breakers by forcing them to kneel until their knees were crushed, while Han Yu was exempt as a Spirit Hall honorary elder. The finals began with Spirit Hall Academy defeating Nightshade Academy in a one-sided match, and Han Yu left to await the Wind Fire Team’s match.

• Bibi Dong ordered Guimei and Yue Guan to force Tang San and the other Shrek rule-breakers to kneel, and they crushed their knees while Yu Xiaogang lost consciousness.
• She Long explained that Han Yu did not have to kneel because he was an honorary elder of Spirit Hall, and Xue Qinghe intervened before the punishment went further.
• Ning Fengzhi paid a Healing-Type Soul Master to treat the injured Shrek students, while Tang San and the others privately blamed him for not protecting them.
• The finals began, and Yan defeated Nightshade Academy by himself using only his First Soul Skill after its students stood still.
• Han Yu judged that there was little reason to watch the day’s other matches and returned to the rest area to wait for the Wind Fire Team’s match.

Wind Fire Team won the final upper-bracket match, while Barak Academy forfeited to Canaan Academy, completing the round of sixteen. Han Yu then learned that a mysterious evil soul beast called Shi Hao had left the bloodstain Dugu Bo found, and he agreed to help investigate after its presence was confirmed.

• Feng Xiaotian swiftly eliminated the Star Luo Empire's qualifying champion team, angering the Star Luo delegation prince when he learned Zhu Zhuqing and Dai Mubai fought for a Heaven Dou Empire team.
• Barak Academy forfeited its match against Canaan Academy, prompting Zhang Zhenyu and Tian Yue to mock the team's cowardice.
• The sixteen teams advancing to the next round were decided, and Light Feather Douluo summoned Han Yu to meet with four other Titled Douluo.
• Azure Luan Douluo and Light Feather Douluo told Han Yu that the blood sample he sent to Spirit Hall came from Shi Hao, an evil soul beast whose records ordered it killed on sight.
• Han Yu reasoned that Shi Hao had likely fought and been injured by a powerful soul master, and Azure Luan Douluo assigned Spirit Crane Douluo and Ghost Leopard Douluo to investigate the site together.
• Han Yu said he would help address the threat once Spirit Hall confirmed the situation.

Zhu Feng confronted Zhu Zhuqing in her room and tried to pressure her into helping Star Luo Royal Academy, but Han Yu and Spirit Hall’s Light Feather Douluo intervened and forced him to protect her from the Zhu Family. After Zhu Zhuqing received the written guarantee, Prince Dai Hua approached Dai Mubai and urged him to return and relinquish his claim to the throne.

• Zhu Feng sealed Zhu Zhuqing’s room and demanded that she support Star Luo Royal Academy, threatening her if she refused.
• Light Feather Douluo and Han Yu arrived as Zhu Feng tried to escape, and Dugu Bo condemned his actions.
• Han Yu made Zhu Feng write and seal a statement promising that the Zhu Family would not trouble Zhu Zhuqing unless she chose to return.
• Han Yu gave Zhu Zhuqing the statement and promised to defend her, and she accepted it with tears in her eyes.
• Dai Hua found Dai Mubai and asked him to return to the Star Luo Empire and give up his claim to the throne.

Tang Hao killed Dai Hua to secure Dai Mubai’s place on the path to the Star Luo throne, while Spirit Hall investigated the prince’s disappearance and suspended the tournament. After the matches resumed, Han Yu learned that Shrek was developing a Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Technique and watched their match against Thunder Academy.

• Tang Hao killed Dai Hua in front of Dai Mubai, ordered Dai Mubai to keep supporting Tang San, and unknowingly had the scene recorded on an Image Stone.
• Spirit Hall halted the tournament and searched for Dai Hua, whose death was later confirmed from his blood and torn clothing.
• The Star Luo teams protested Dai Hua’s murder, while rumors blamed the Heaven Dou Empire, before the tournament resumed.
• Yu Xiaogang told Shrek’s team to prepare their Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Technique for a future match against Canaan Academy.
• Han Yu learned from a spy that Shrek was developing the technique and turned his attention to their match against Thunder Academy.

Shrek Academy defeated Thunder Academy with a soul-power transfer technique that empowered Yu Tianheng, then prepared to help Dai Mubai challenge Dai Weisi. Dai Weisi sought Han Yu’s support, but Han Yu refused to control Zhu Zhuqing and warned him to verify Dai Mubai’s condition himself.

• Tang San suggested that Yu Tianheng lead Shrek’s match against Thunder Academy, and Tang San and Dai Mubai used the Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Technique to boost Yu Tianheng’s strength.
• Shrek Academy won, while Yan dismissed their technique and Hu Liena warned him not to underestimate the tournament’s challenges.
• Spirit Hall announced that it had found Prince Dai Hua’s murderer but gave no further details, and Dai Mubai told Shrek he needed to defeat Dai Weisi to take the initiative in the succession contest.
• Dai Weisi visited Han Yu to ask whether Zhu Zhuqing would support Dai Mubai, and Han Yu said she would not but doubted Dai Weisi could defeat Shrek.
• Dai Weisi offered to fund Canaan Academy if it relocated to the Star Luo Empire, but Han Yu refused to promise anything and advised him to verify Dai Mubai’s condition personally.

After Shrek defeated Star Luo Royal Academy, Zhu Zhuyun lured Dai Mubai into a trap with Dai Weisi and threatened to expose him. Yu Xiaogang learned that the Yu family had expelled him, but Shrek rallied around him and prepared for its semifinal against Canaan Academy.

• Zhu Zhuyun seduced Dai Mubai and brought him to a hotel, where Dai Weisi and others stripped him and revealed the trap.
• Dai Weisi showed Dai Mubai an Image Stone and threatened to publicize what had happened, while Dai Mubai insisted he deserved to become crown prince.
• An attendant told Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang that the Yu family had publicly expelled Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Tianheng promised to help Yu Xiaogang return to the family, and Tang San suggested that Tang Hao could clear up the misunderstanding.
• Tang San urged Shrek to treat the expulsion notice as Spirit Hall's attempt to disrupt them, and Yu Xiaogang rallied the team to face Canaan Academy.

Tang San gave Dai Mubai a six-thousand-year Soul Bone to strengthen Shrek before their semifinal against Canaan Academy. The match began with both teams fighting at full force, and Tang San broke through Huang Doudou’s control with the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.

• Tang Hao warned Tang San not to underestimate Canaan Academy and advised him to give his Soul Bone to a teammate; Tang San gave it to Dai Mubai.
• The Spirit Hall Team defeated the Wind Fire Team after Hu Liena broke through its back line, though the Golden Generation were the only members left standing.
• Han Yu and Yu Xiaogang prepared their teams for the semifinals, with Shrek facing Canaan Academy the following day.
• Canaan Academy and Shrek Academy took their positions and began the semifinal, as Tian Yue engaged Dai Mubai and Yu Tianheng while the other fighters clashed across the arena.
• Tang San used the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer to tangle Huang Doudou’s Needle Thread and resist her control.

Tang San and the Shrek team struggled against Canaan Academy as Tian Yue, Dugu Yan, and Zhu Zhuqing turned the fight in their favor. After Oscar, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu were eliminated, Tang San remained trapped and unable to overcome the Canaan team.

• Tang San broke free from Zhu Zhuqing's control and returned to help Xiao Wu, while Tian Yue wounded Yu Tianheng and then drove Dai Mubai back.
• Tang San struck Tian Yue with the Clear Sky Hammer, giving Shrek time to take to the air and revive Yu Tianheng enough to form their Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Technique.
• Dugu Yan's spiritual attack hindered Shrek, and Tian Yue blocked Tang San's hammer strike while Zhu Zhuqing eliminated Oscar and Ning Rongrong.
• Huang Doudou's Needle Thread restrained Tang San as Ling Xiao and Tian Yue evaded his attacks, leaving him unable to protect Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu charged Zhu Zhuqing with her remaining Soul Power, but Zhu Zhuqing dodged her and struck her down, eliminating Shrek's third fighter.

Canaan Academy defeated Shrek, securing a place in the grand finals against Spirit Hall Academy, while the shock left several Shrek members delirious. That night, Tang Hao met Flender and prepared to entrust him with an important task before attempting to seize the Soul Bones and search for Ah Yin.

• Tang San fought on despite Huang Doudou's needles stitching his wounds, while Ling Xiao eliminated Tai Long and Canaan Academy defeated Shrek's remaining fighters.
• The referee announced that Canaan Academy had qualified for the grand finals against Spirit Hall Academy, to be held in three days.
• Flender found Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and Dai Mubai delirious after their loss, and Liu Erlong knocked them unconscious on a healer's advice.
• News of Shrek's delirium spread through Spirit City as Canaan Academy's team discussed the upcoming final.
• Yu Xiaogang woke that night devastated by the loss, and Tang Hao summoned Flender to discuss an important task tied to his plans to seize the Soul Bones and find Ah Yin.

Tang Hao entrusted Flender with plans for Tang San’s cultivation and revealed that he might not return, while the Shrek students agreed to reunite every five years after graduation. The grand final between Canaan Academy and Spirit Hall began before the Papal Hall, where Tian Chen displayed the competition’s fourteen Soul Bone prizes, including five Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones.

• Tang Hao gave Flender a map to the Blue Silver Forest and instructed him to take Tang San there once he reached rank fifty, then visit Moonlight Pavilion if Tang Hao did not return.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo showed Han Yu a recording of Tang Hao killing Dai Hua, Prince, and explained that Spirit Hall could use it to justify executing Tang Hao.
• The Shrek students discussed their plans after graduation, and Tang San proposed a five-year reunion at Shrek Academy that Dai Mubai and the others accepted.
• The Canaan Battle Team and Spirit Hall Team gathered before the Papal Hall for the grand final, and Bibi Dong addressed the assembled Soul Masters.
• Tian Chen presented all fourteen Soul Bone prizes, including five Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, as the gathered spectators watched.