Chapter Summaries

Ning Tianchen led the Seven Treasures Battle Team to defeat the Shrek Team, while Xue Qinghe watched and considered the young genius's potential. After Yu Xiaogang accused Ning Tianchen of attempted murder, Xue Ye ruled that Tang San's injuries were not fatal and defended the victory, leaving the tournament rules subject to further clarification.

• Xue Qinghe watched Ning Tianchen fight and discussed his talent with Azure Luan Douluo, who predicted a future clash between him and Xue Qinghe.
• Ning Tianchen defeated Tai Long, then used his Fourth Spirit Ability to overwhelm Dai Mubai and Yu Tianheng, leaving the Shrek Team with four core members lost.
• Tang San fought Ning Tianchen with the Tang Sect Techniques but collapsed unconscious from his injuries, and the remaining Shrek Team members surrendered.
• Yu Xiaogang accused Ning Tianchen of attempted murder and demanded punishment for the Seven Treasures Battle Team.
• Xue Ye ordered Tang San's injuries examined, then ruled that Ning Tianchen had not violated the rules because Tang San had no wounds in vital areas and had continued fighting.

Yu Xiaogang demanded punishment for the Seven Treasures Battle Team, but Ning Tianchen turned the crowd against him by mocking his arguments and revealing details of his past. Yu Xiaogang exposed himself through his angry reaction, then collapsed after Ning Tianchen reminded him that Tang San urgently needed healing.

• Yu Xiaogang accused Ning Tianchen of deliberately injuring Shrek Team members and demanded severe punishment for the Seven Treasures Battle Team.
• Ning Rongrong challenged Yu Xiaogang, and Ning Tianchen mocked his claims about elders, drawing laughter from the audience.
• Yu Xiaogang demanded that the Organizing Committee punish the Seven Treasures Battle Team, while Ning Tianchen told a story that alluded to Yu Xiaogang's life and relationships.
• Liu Erlong smashed a coffee table and rushed toward the arena after hearing Ning Tianchen's story.
• Ning Tianchen urged Yu Xiaogang to find a Healing Spirit Master for Tang San and pointed out that Yu Xiaogang had delayed seeking help.
• Yu Xiaogang reacted angrily, implicitly confirmed the story concerned him, and collapsed after spitting blood.

After the Shrek Team lost to the Seven Treasures Battle Team, Xue Ye upheld the result and reprimanded Shrek Academy for disrupting the tournament. Flender then discovered that angry spectators had destroyed nearly all of Shrek’s school uniforms, leaving the academy facing another crushing loss.

• Gu Rong drove Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang off the arena, and Xue Ye rejected Shrek’s accusation while warning the academy against further disruption.
• Ning Tianchen and his teammates left the arena, and Ning Tianchen told them to study the Skywater Team before the final.
• Yu Tianxin brought two Healing Spirit Masters to treat the injured Shrek members, while Yu Xiaogang denied Ning Tianchen’s accusations to Liu Erlong.
• Flender found spectators tearing apart Shrek’s school uniforms and erupted in anger, but he could not retaliate against the crowd.
• The guard patrol ordered Flender to clean up the destroyed uniforms, and he found that only seven of ten thousand remained intact.

After Shrek Academy’s uniform business collapsed and its finances were revealed to be nearly exhausted, Yu Xiaogang sought to strengthen the team by bringing Yu Tianxin aboard. Following their crushing defeat, Tang San and Yu Tianxin tried to restore the Shrek Seven Devils’ fighting spirit, but the group remained silent.

• Flender told Yu Xiaogang that the uniforms had been lost, and Liu Erlong explained that Shrek Academy had only a little over three hundred Gold Soul Coins left.
• Yu Xiaogang proposed that Yu Tianxin join the Shrek Team, and Yu Tianxin agreed because he did not want to decline with the Thunder Team.
• Yu Tianxin traveled back to Shrek Academy with the group, while Yu Xiaogang asked Tang San whether he still intended to cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang San gathered the Shrek Seven Devils to encourage them, but Yu Tianheng and Ma Hongjun voiced their despair over losing to the Seven Treasures Battle Team.
• Tang San and Yu Tianxin urged the team not to surrender and reminded them of their talent, leaving the Shrek Seven Devils silent.

After Shrek’s loss to the Seven Treasures Battle Team, Tang San rallied his teammates and promised to strengthen them before the finals, hinting at an unrevealed trump card. The Preliminary Competition ended with the Seven Treasures Battle Team in first place, while Shrek received no prize money.

• Tang San accepted responsibility for Shrek’s defeat and promised the team he could rapidly increase their strength during the one-month break; he also said Yu Xiaogang would bring Yu Tianxin into the team.
• Shrek lost its final Preliminary Competition match to the Skywater Team after fielding two substitutes, despite having already secured advancement.
• The organizers announced the five advancing teams: Seven Treasures Academy ranked first, followed by Skywater, Shrek, Blazing Fire, and Divine Wind.
• Salas and Ning Fengzhi presented the teams with qualification certificates and rewards, and Ning Fengzhi promised each Seven Treasures Battle Team member an additional fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• When Ning Fengzhi reached Shrek Academy’s turn, he walked past the team without awarding it prize money.

At the awards ceremony, Xue Ye promised noble titles and future fiefs to the tournament teams while confronting Spirit Hall over the Empire’s authority. Shrek Academy’s expected prize money was instead claimed as compensation for the Royal Fight Second Team, leaving Yu Xiaogang furious and the academy facing financial ruin.

• Dai Mubai worried when Ning Fengzhi skipped Shrek Academy’s prize money, and Tang San urged the team to wait for an explanation.
• Xue Ye promised titles and future fiefs to the five advancing teams, then rejected Salas’s objection as interference in the Empire’s affairs.
• Ning Tianchen reassured Ning Rongrong that the Empire and Spirit Hall’s conflict had not yet become open war, while Tang San connected their dispute to Spirit Hall’s authority over Soul Hunting Forests.
• Xue Ye said the Empire would pay Shrek Academy’s overdue compensation to Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s second team, and Yu Xiaogang mistakenly thanked him while asking about the prize money.
• Xue Qinghe told Yu Xiaogang that Shrek’s prize money would serve as the compensation, leaving Yu Xiaogang enraged and Shrek Academy without funds.

After winning the Preliminary Competition, Ning Tianchen planned special training for the Seven Treasures Battle Team while the Shrek Team raised funds to save its struggling academy. With the crisis eased, Shrek prepared for the Advancement Tournament and welcomed Yu Tianxin into its training plans.

• Ning Tianchen distributed the competition prize money and scheduled rest followed by twenty-five days of one-on-one training for the Seven Treasures Battle Team.
• Yu Tianxin suggested that the Shrek Team members donate money to support their academy, and the group raised seven thousand one hundred Gold Soul Coins.
• Flender thanked the donors, and Tang San explained that they wanted to repay the academy for its help.
• Yu Xiaogang arranged special training for the Advancement Tournament, while Flender assigned Zhao Wuji to train the students.
• Yu Xiaogang told Yu Tianxin to integrate into the Shrek Team, and Tang San reassured him that the teacher was confident in his place on the team.

Yu Luomian struck a deal with Salas to help Yu Tianxin join Shrek Team, agreeing to kill Kunlin Soul Douluo in exchange. Yu Xiaogang then used the Pope Token to ask Salas for the same favor, but Salas warned that granting it could harm Spirit Hall's interests, leaving Yu Xiaogang to consider the rule against elders doing so.

• Yu Luomian asked Salas to put Yu Tianxin on Shrek Team's active roster, and Salas offered to do so if Yu Luomian killed Kunlin Soul Douluo.
• Yu Luomian accepted the deal after requiring Spirit Hall to provide details and alert him when Kunlin Soul Douluo left Barack City.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived at the Spirit Hall Sanctuary and showed Salas the Pope Token, prompting Salas and a deacon to treat him with respect.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Salas to arrange Yu Tianxin's place on Shrek Team, and Salas said doing so could harm Spirit Hall's interests.
• Yu Xiaogang recalled Spirit Hall's rule forbidding its elders from harming Spirit Hall's interests.

Salas agreed to arrange Yu Tianxin's place on the Shrek Team after Yu Xiaogang promised not to use the Pope Token against him again. As the advancement matches approached, Dugu Bo went to investigate a battle between Zhang Erhe and Golden Tower Soul Douluo, while Meng Yiran learned that Ning Tianchen had become a Spirit King.

• Yu Xiaogang pressured Salas to ensure Yu Tianxin joined the Shrek Team, and Salas agreed in exchange for a promise that Yu Xiaogang would not trouble him again.
• Ning Tianchen and Ning Rongrong passed the Spirit Hall Sanctuary, then Dugu Bo told Ning Tianchen that Zhang Erhe had pursued Golden Tower Soul Douluo outside the city.
• Ning Tianchen stayed behind while Dugu Bo went to the battlefield, where Zhang Erhe struggled against Golden Tower Soul Douluo's stronger attacks.
• In Barack City, Meng Shu and Snake Woman told Meng Yiran that Ning Tianchen captained the first-place Seven Treasures Battle Team and had reached Spirit King strength.
• Meng Yiran refused to believe Ning Tianchen had become a Spirit King.

Meng Yiran accepted her grandparents’ plan for her to marry Ning Tianchen, while Dugu Bo intervened in Zhang Erhe’s battle with Golden Tower Soul Douluo to ensure Zhang survived. The chapter ended with Dugu Bo confronting Golden Tower Soul Douluo and declaring that he would kill him.

• Meng Shu told Meng Yiran that Ning Tianchen was a Spirit King and that the Seven Treasures Battle Team was overwhelmingly powerful.
• Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang urged Meng Yiran to marry Ning Tianchen for her own future and the family’s security, and she silently accepted.
• Zhang Erhe fought Golden Tower Soul Douluo, who used his speed and flight to evade attacks and strike from above.
• Dugu Bo arrived near the battlefield and judged that Zhang Erhe would suffer severe injuries even if he won.
• Dugu Bo attacked with Medusa’s Gaze, forcing Zhang Erhe and Golden Tower Soul Douluo to break off their clash.
• Dugu Bo told Golden Tower Soul Douluo that Zhang Erhe had to live and that he would eliminate his enemy.

Dugu Bo killed Golden Tower Soul Douluo, ending Zhang Erhe’s pursuit of revenge, and Zhang Erhe later joined Ning Tianchen’s service. At Seven Treasures Academy, Ning Tianchen asked him to locate Slaughter Town, while Ke Jie revealed that Yu Tianxin had joined the Shrek Team.

• Dugu Bo froze Golden Tower Soul Douluo, petrified him with Medusa’s Gaze, and collected his remains for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Zhang Erhe thanked Dugu Bo, spent the night reflecting on the killing, and decided to leave the past behind.
• Ning Tianchen and Feng Xiaotian sparred at Seven Treasures Academy, and Feng Xiaotian conceded when his strongest attack failed to defeat Ning Tianchen.
• Zhang Erhe met Ning Tianchen and agreed to search for Slaughter Town, following Ning Tianchen’s warnings to avoid its food and drink and not explore its depths.
• Ke Jie arrived late and told the Seven Treasures Battle Team that Yu Tianxin had joined the Shrek Team.

Ning Tianchen learned that Yu Xiaogang may have helped Yu Tianxin join Shrek Academy, while Shrek’s grueling training continued. Tang Hao agreed to help Tang San cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer and took him toward Sunset Forest to obtain spirit rings.

• Ning Rongrong suspected Yu Xiaogang had influenced the decision to let Yu Tianxin join Shrek Academy, and Ning Tianchen agreed that Yu Xiaogang likely had help from Yu Yuanzhen.
• Zhao Wuji and Liu Erlong put Shrek Academy through brutal special training, and the students grew stronger under the intense sparring.
• Yu Xiaogang brought Tang San to meet Tang Hao, who asked whether he truly wanted to cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer despite its future spirit-ring advantages.
• Tang San said he needed the Clear Sky Hammer to help Shrek win the championship, and Tang Hao agreed to teach him its techniques and obtain spirit rings.
• On the way to Sunset Forest, Tang Hao told Tang San to seek help from Titan, the head of the Strength Clan, if he faced trouble.

Tang Hao took Tang San to Sunset Forest to find a suitable spirit ring for his Clear Sky Hammer, while Spirit Hall experts searched for the missing Golden Tower Soul Douluo. After days without success, Tang Hao and Tang San found a nine-thousand-year Great Strength Demon Ape, and Tang Hao fought it so Tang San could claim its ring.

• Tang Hao told Tang San to inform his teammates before using the Clear Sky Hammer Spirit and said Titan would seek him out; Tang San should claim Tang Hao had been missing for a long time.
• Tang Hao explained that the Clear Sky Hammer needed strength-type spirit rings, and advised Tang San to test his limits with a ring under ten thousand years first.
• Golden Eagle Soul Douluo searched the battlefield outside Heaven Dou City for Golden Tower Soul Douluo but found no decisive clues and ordered his group to keep searching until dawn.
• After several days of searching Sunset Forest, Tang San grew anxious about missing the Advancement Tournament, but Tang Hao urged him to follow the trail of ape-type spirit beasts.
• Tang San called the Great Strength Demon Ape an evil spirit beast and said he would kill it to obtain its ring and help the creatures it had bullied.
• Tang Hao left Tang San behind and attacked the Great Strength Demon Ape with his Clear Sky Hammer Spirit.

Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer spirit rings triggered a dangerous clash between the soul powers of his Twin Martial Souls, forcing Tang Hao to urge him to focus on his Blue Silver Emperor Spirit. As they left the forest, Tang San recognized Dugu Bo’s Poisonous Mist and asked Tang Hao to search inside for herbs that might cure him.

• Tang Hao killed the spirit beasts that attacked him and helped Tang San absorb a nine-thousand-year spirit ring for his Clear Sky Hammer, raising Tang San to Level 46.
• Over the following days, Tang San obtained three Ten Thousand Year Spirit Rings, but after the fourth ring his soul powers clashed and excess power threatened to burst through his limbs.
• Tang Hao dispersed the excess soul power and saved Tang San, then warned him that he might have to cultivate only one martial soul.
• Tang Hao told Tang San that his Blue Silver Grass was the Blue Silver Emperor and that its life force could ease the conflict, while Tang San chose to cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer.
• On their way out of the forest, Tang San recognized the Poisonous Mist near the hill where they had met Dugu Bo and asked Tang Hao to search for medicinal herbs inside.

Tang San persuaded Tang Hao to investigate Dugu Bo’s Poisonous Mist for a rumored medicine field, but Tang Hao found only a strange trap and left with him. In Heaven Dou City, the teams prepared for the Advancement Tournament, while Tang San returned to Shrek Academy seeking Yu Xiaogang’s help with his Twin Martial Soul problem.

• Tang San told Tang Hao that Dugu Bo might have a hidden medicine field in Sunset Forest, and Tang Hao entered the Poisonous Mist to investigate.
• Dugu Bo recognized Tang Hao and watched as white phosphorus traps frightened him into leaving the mist with Tang San.
• Tang San accepted that the rumored Immortal Herbs might not exist, and Dugu Bo believed his trap would keep the pair from returning.
• Ning Tianchen and the Seven Treasures Battle Team visited Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena to scout their opponents, while Ning Tianchen and Feng Xiaotian stayed off the field.
• Tang San returned to Shrek Academy, met Dai Mubai and the others, and asked whether Yu Xiaogang was there so he could discuss his Twin Martial Soul problem.

Tang San revealed that he possessed and had cultivated the Clear Sky Hammer, and the Shrek team believed this gave them the strength to defeat the Seven Treasures Battle Team. Yu Xiaogang hurried back to Shrek Academy, while Ning Tianchen guessed that Tang San had run into trouble and found the situation interesting.

• Tang San showed the Clear Sky Hammer and its four soul rings, then explained that he had two Martial Souls and had grown stronger by adding rings to the hammer.
• Yu Tianxin explained the Clear Sky Sect’s history and the Strength Clan’s ties to Tang Hao, prompting Tai Long to recognize Tang San as the clan’s young master and leave to tell his grandfather.
• Tang San concealed his cultivation difficulties and declared that his strengthened Clear Sky Hammer would let Shrek overcome the Seven Treasures Battle Team.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to the academy and privately spoke with Tang San, while Flender learned that Tang San had cultivated the Clear Sky Hammer and worried about the risks of Twin Martial Souls.
• Ning Rongrong asked why Yu Xiaogang had been summoned, and Ning Tianchen guessed that Tang San had encountered trouble while cultivating his second Martial Soul.

Ning Tianchen told Oscar about a Mirror Shadow Beast that might help him become a Battle Spirit Master, while Yu Xiaogang warned Tang San that cultivating his Clear Sky Hammer had caused his soul powers to clash. Titan confirmed Tang San’s identity as Tang Hao’s son and offered the Strength Clan’s help, but Tang San declined his invitation until after the Spirit Master Competition.

• Ning Tianchen told Oscar that a Mirror Shadow Beast in the Northernmost Land might grant him a copying spirit ability, and advised him to train with the sect’s special squad before hunting one.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San to attach spirit rings to only one martial soul because cultivating his Blue Silver Grass made his two streams of soul power clash and caused him pain.
• Yu Xiaogang planned to seek advice from Bibi Dong and told Tang San to compete late whenever possible to avoid worsening his condition.
• Titan arrived at Shrek Academy, recognized Tang San as Tang Hao’s son after seeing his Clear Sky Hammer, and knelt to greet him as the young master.
• Tang San showed Titan Tang Hao’s old letter and declined Titan’s invitation to visit the Strength Clan until after the Spirit Master Competition.

The Seven Treasures Battle Team arrived at the Advancement Tournament and prepared to face the Beast Academy Team from the Hagendas Kingdom in the first match. Ning Tianchen assigned his teammates to test the opponents’ strength while warning the more vulnerable fighters to surrender if needed.

• The Seven Treasures Battle Team chose a quiet tent at the Royal Hunting Grounds and discussed the importance of winning a bye and scouting the Spirit Hall Team.
• Ning Tianchen avoided Meng Yiran, suspecting she was trying to build ties between her family and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Sun Buyu reported that the Seven Treasures Battle Team would face the Beast Academy Team in the first match of the first round.
• Ning Tianchen sent Chen Huayu and Huang out first, planned to take the third match himself, and assigned Feng Xiaotian to hold the arena.
• Ning Tianchen warned Yu Die, Cai Die, and Zhu Qing to surrender if they could not break through the Beast Team’s defense.

The Seven Treasures Battle Team faced the Beast Battle Team in the first round of the Advancement Tournament, with Chen Huayu and Huang Wu helping secure the advantage. Ning Tianchen then revealed his Spirit King cultivation and a new sword technique, instantly defeating Tian Guocheng.

• Chen Huayu defeated Long Keduo in a contest of strength, then used his low center of gravity to knock Tian Wenjing off the arena while taking himself down too.
• Huang Wu defeated the Beast Battle Team’s Soul Elder, putting the Beast Battle Team three members behind.
• Ke Jie called Huang Wu back rather than let him face the stronger Tian Guocheng, and Ning Tianchen entered the arena in his place.
• Ning Tianchen revealed five spirit rings, including a Ten Thousand Year Fourth Ring, and Tian Guocheng activated his Snow Mountain Mammoth Spirit.
• Ning Tianchen used the Piercing Sword Style with his First Spirit Ability to strike down Tian Guocheng in one move.

Ning Tianchen faced Beast Academy captain Tian Chao and demonstrated that his Azure Dragon Break could surpass the limits of a spirit-ring ability. Watching the fight, Yu Xiaogang proposed a new theory about how Spirit Masters could develop Self-Created Soul Skills, and Tang San realized his own Blue Silver Grass Entangling had grown stronger without relying on its spirit ring.

• Xue Qinghe praised Ning Tianchen and planned to recruit him, while Salas privately noted the hidden truth about Xue Qinghe's identity.
• Tian Chao challenged Ning Tianchen, offering to reveal his sect and its top genius if Ning Tianchen defeated him.
• Ning Tianchen's spirit-ring-free Azure Dragon Break forced Tian Chao to use his Fourth Spirit Ability, revealing the strike's exceptional power.
• Gu Rong recognized Ning Tianchen's technique as mastery of a spirit ability beyond its spirit-ring restrictions.
• Yu Xiaogang suggested that deep understanding of a martial spirit could let Spirit Masters use spirit abilities as Self-Created Soul Skills, and he resolved to refine his theory.
• Tang San recalled using Blue Silver Grass Entangling without activating his First Spirit Ability and realized its controlling power had surpassed the original skill.