Chapter Summaries

Tang San demonstrated the Flying God Claw to the Shrek group before they prepared to leave for Heaven Dou Royal Academy. During Grandmaster’s assessment of their cultivation, Wang Xiaofeng’s Soul Power produced a brilliant light that showed he was close to Rank 40.

• Tang San showed the group how the Flying God Claw could pierce stone and pull its user toward a distant tree, then equipped everyone with one and explained its limits.
• Wang Xiaofeng cautioned Ma Hongjun that the Flying God Claw and Flash Step could not save him from every fall, and urged him to reach Rank 30.
• After the two-month rest period ended, Flander ordered the group to pack for Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while Grandmaster announced an assessment of their Soul Power.
• Dai Mubai tested first, and Grandmaster said he could reach Rank 40 within three months; Tang San tested next and registered Rank 33.
• Wang Xiaofeng poured a tiny amount of Soul Power into the crystal ball, which shone brighter than sunlight, revealing that he was close to Rank 40.

Flander led the Shrek Academy group away from their old academy and began the long journey to Heaven Dou City. He pushed the students to run under Zhao Wuji’s Soul Power pressure, then slowed down so they could recover.

• Zhao Wuji confirmed that the assessment was over, and Flander removed Shrek Academy’s plaque before leading the group away.
• Flander explained that the group would travel nearly two thousand li to Heaven Dou City and ordered everyone to keep up as they set off at a run.
• Zhao Wuji used Soul Power pressure to drive the students forward, and Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu helped their companions keep pace.
• Zhao Wuji hurled Wang Xiaofeng forward when he lagged beneath the pressure, and Wang Xiaofeng used Flash Step to land beside Ma Hongjun.
• After the students depleted most of their Soul Power, Flander slowed down so they could eat sausages and recover, while Wang Xiaofeng gave Oscar Sugar Beans.

The Shrek students traveled into the Silves Kingdom and stopped in Silves City, where Flander treated them to an expensive dinner before sending them to fight a Team Soul Battle. Wang Xiaofeng recognized that Flander had brought them there to gamble on their victory.

• The exhausted students reached an inn after covering four hundred kilometers, and Xiao Wu called Tang San out to massage her legs while Wang Xiaofeng slipped away for food.
• The group left the Balak Kingdom and entered the Silves Kingdom, reaching Silves City the following day.
• Flander surprised everyone by booking individual rooms at an expensive hotel and treating them to a lavish meal.
• After dinner, Flander ordered the students to compete in a Team Soul Battle at the city's Great Spirit Arena.
• Wang Xiaofeng realized Flander planned to gamble on the match, and Ma Hongjun handed him a money pouch.

Shrek was barred from the Rank 30 team battles at the Silves Great Spirit Arena, so Grandmaster arranged for them to challenge the vicious Rank 40 Evil God Battle Team. The match was set as the night's finale, and the students wondered how Grandmaster planned to help them win.

• A Silves Great Spirit Arena staff member refused Shrek's registration because they had Gold Spirit badges and no Rank 30 Gold Spirit Battle Team was available.
• The staff member offered a Rank 40 challenge or a life-and-death battle, but Flander rejected both options.
• Grandmaster agreed to a higher-rank match and selected the Evil God Battle Team, a notorious Rank 40 team with a record of killing and crippling opponents.
• The staff member arranged a seven-member match between the Evil God Battle Team and the Shrek Battle Team as the night's final battle.
• Wang Xiaofeng reasoned that the group could not win through a direct fight and suggested that Grandmaster had another plan.

Meng Li learned that an unfamiliar Rank 30 team had accepted a death match against the Evil God Battle Team, and he eagerly prepared to defeat them. Meanwhile, Tang San and the Shrek group studied their opponents’ far higher Soul Power ranks before Grandmaster offered to give them a strategy.

• Meng Li worried that the Evil God Battle Team’s match boycott would cost them the Great Spirit Arena’s protection and considered leaving Silves City.
• Meng Li’s teammate announced that an outsider Rank 30 team had agreed to fight the Evil God Battle Team in a death match.
• Meng Li and his team members bet their money on their own victory, convinced the Shrek group could not defeat them.
• Tang San gave the Shrek group information showing that the Evil God Battle Team’s members were Rank 47 and their captain was Rank 49.
• Grandmaster told the Shrek group that he had already devised a strategy for their battle.

Grandmaster prepared the Shrek Battle Team to face the brutal Evil God Battle Team with Tang San’s Zhuge Divine Crossbows, while Wang Xiaofeng and Flander bet heavily on Shrek at long odds. As the life-or-death match began, the Shrek members readied their weapons, unaware that the crossbows might not penetrate their opponents’ protective energy.

• Grandmaster explained that the Shrek Battle Team’s best chance against the Evil God Battle Team was Tang San’s Zhuge Divine Crossbows, and Tang San agreed to arrange their use.
• Wang Xiaofeng and Flander bet heavily on Shrek as the odds climbed to one-to-nineteen, expecting a large payout if Shrek won.
• The Shrek Battle Team entered the arena to a hostile crowd’s cheers for the Evil God Battle Team.
• Grandmaster said the Evil God Battle Team lacked a defense-system Soul Master, and Tang San reassured his teammates that their crossbows could defeat most of the opponents.
• The Shrek members secretly readied their Zhuge Divine Crossbows, while Tang San privately knew the weapons could struggle against protective energy.

Tang San led Shrek to kill the Evil God Battle Team with their Zhuge Divine Crossbows, but captain Meng Li absorbed the fallen team’s blood and rose again, growing too powerful for the crossbows to pierce. Tang San ordered Shrek to attack before Meng Li could grow stronger.

• The Evil God Battle Team charged Shrek, and Tang San ordered everyone to fire their Zhuge Divine Crossbows when the opponents entered range.
• The crossbow bolts killed the other six members and mortally wounded Meng Li, prompting the audience to celebrate Shrek’s victory.
• Meng Li staggered back to his feet and absorbed blood from the corpses, strengthening his Soul Power past level fifty.
• Tang San’s crossbow bolts failed to pierce Meng Li’s Soul Power, so he told Xiao Wu and Zhu Qing to flank him, Mu Bai to follow Zhu Qing, and Fatty to use his Self-Created Soul Skill.

Meng Li’s berserk assault overwhelmed the Shrek team despite their coordinated attacks, and Tang San was left badly injured as Meng Li moved in to finish him. Meng Li suddenly collapsed when four dark shadows burst from his head, leaving his fate and the danger behind his rampage unresolved.

• Flander prepared to stop the match, but Grandmaster reasoned that Meng Li’s berserk state was temporary and that the team should stall until it ended.
• Meng Li shrugged off the team’s attacks, knocked Dai Mubai out of the arena, and injured Ma Hongjun and Zhu Zhuqing while Tang San and Xiao Wu struggled to restrain him.
• Meng Li targeted Tang San, shattered his Eight Spider Lances, and knocked him down as Xiao Wu failed to reach him in time.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing combined their strength as Hell White Tiger to slam Meng Li into the arena, then collapsed unconscious from exhaustion.
• Meng Li rose again and approached the helpless Tang San, but four dark shadows burst from his head and he fell to the ground.

After the Shrek Battle Team defeated Meng Li, Tang San and Dai Mubai recovered from their severe injuries with help from food and a healer. The group then crossed the Silves Kingdom and approached Heaven Dou City, where Ning Rongrong offered to guide them to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

• Xiao Wu saved Tang San with Oscar's Sausage, and the host confirmed Meng Li's death before declaring Shrek the winner.
• Grandmaster and the teachers assessed Tang San's and Dai Mubai's injuries, while Flander collected the team's prize money.
• Tang San and Dai Mubai recovered overnight, and Grandmaster explained that Tang San's External Soul Bone had fused with his skeleton.
• Flander hired a Healing Soul Master from Spirit Hall, and the group stayed in Silves City until Tang San had recovered.
• The Shrek group reached the vicinity of Heaven Dou City, and Ning Rongrong offered to lead them to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

The Shrek group arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Wang Xiaofeng admired its vast cultivation grounds. After patrol students refused to let them in and insulted Shrek Academy, Wang Xiaofeng and the others beat them; a teacher then arrived and demanded to know where Xue Beng was.

• Ning Rongrong led the group to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, whose mountain, forest, and lake formed a vast cultivation environment.
• Flander told the patrolling students that Shrek had come for an invited exchange, but their leader denied the invitation and mocked Shrek Academy.
• Wang Xiaofeng punched a patrol student, and Dai Mubai, Tang San, and Ma Hongjun joined in to defeat the patrol team.
• Zhao Wuji and Li Yusong criticized the defeated students' abilities and lack of resolve.
• Teacher Sun arrived, ordered the surviving student aside, and asked where Xue Beng was.

Flander’s Shrek group arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Sun Buyu welcomed them and Qin Ming arranged their lodging. Wang Xiaofeng suspected Xue Beng had staged the gate confrontation to stir up trouble, while the group settled in for the night before meeting the academy’s higher-ups.

• Xue Beng asked Sun Buyu to avenge him, but Sun Buyu apologized to Flander and invited the Shrek group inside after learning they had come to see Qin Ming.
• Wang Xiaofeng suspected the gate fight was a scheme tied to factional struggles, while Xue Beng paid his accomplices and hoped the incident would make Shrek resent the academy.
• Sun Buyu led the group through Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s luxurious mountain grounds and explained that its students usually cultivated in Mimetic Cultivation Environments.
• Qin Ming met the teachers, arranged a dinner and individual rooms for the group, and promised to introduce them to the academy’s higher-ups the next day.

After resting from their journey, Wang Xiaofeng and the Shrek group learned about Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s structure and the royal conflicts affecting it. At the Education Committee, three Soul Douluo noticed Wang Xiaofeng’s unusual reaction to their aura, while Flander introduced the Shrek teachers.

• Shao Xin ended the group’s bickering, and Wang Xiaofeng went to sleep after the exhausting journey.
• Wang Xiaofeng found Qin Ming praising Tang San at breakfast, and Qin Ming explained Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s student levels and internal problems.
• Qin Ming reassured Flander that the academy’s conflicts would not interfere with Shrek’s championship preparations, then led the group through the campus.
• Wang Xiaofeng briefly spotted a familiar figure before following the group to the Education Committee.
• Three Soul Douluo released their pressure in the Education Committee, and Wang Xiaofeng instinctively sensed their immense strength.
• Flander and the other Shrek teachers introduced themselves respectfully to the three Soul Douluo.

Flander and the Shrek group met Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s three Education Committee elders, who agreed to their terms. Zhi Lin began testing the students with Soul Power oppression, and Ning Rongrong struggled to endure as he increased the pressure.

• Meng Shenji introduced himself and the other Education Committee elders, Bai Baoshan and Zhi Lin, to Flander and the Shrek teachers.
• Meng Shenji accepted the group’s conditions, including allowing all eight to teach and use the academy’s facilities.
• Zhi Lin proposed testing the students, and Xiao Wu stayed behind because she felt unwell while the other seven formed their battle formation.
• Zhi Lin subjected the students to Soul Power oppression, and they initially endured it with little difficulty because they had trained under similar pressure.
• Zhi Lin increased the pressure to Rank 30 and then beyond, astonishing him when Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing held on.
• At Rank 32, Ning Rongrong struggled to withstand the pressure and summoned her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda for support.

Zhi Lin tested the students by increasing Soul Power pressure, and Tang San awakened full control of his External Soul Bone while enduring the challenge. The test ended with Tang San’s rank breaking through to thirty-fifth, as an old man appeared at the doorway.

• Ning Rongrong endured the thirty-second-rank pressure before withdrawing, and Oscar persevered until the pressure reached the thirty-sixth rank.
• Ma Hongjun and Zhu Zhuqing were forced to release their martial souls at the thirty-fourth rank, while Oscar continued the test.
• Tang San formed a Blue Silver Grass shell to withstand the pressure, then endured the forty-fifth rank with his Eight Spider Lances.
• Zhi Lin stopped the test, and Grandmaster explained that the pressure had helped Tang San master and repair his External Soul Bone.
• Tang San secretly opened his second meridian and advanced to thirty-fifth rank, while an old man appeared at the doorway.

Prince Xue Xing challenged the Shrek group to prove themselves against Dugu, the Green-Haired Old Man who had secretly entered the room. Dugu revealed himself as a Titled Douluo, and the group faced a dangerous test.

• Meng Shenji and the other Education Committee members noticed the Green-Haired Old Man, whose presence had escaped their senses.
• Prince Xue Xing arrived with Xue Beng and demanded an explanation for Shrek Academy's admission to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Prince Xue Xing accused Shrek's students of arrogance and challenged them to last three minutes against Mister Dugu or leave the academy.
• Grandmaster recognized the Green-Haired Old Man as Dugu Your Majesty, and Dugu revealed nine Soul Rings.
• Xiao Wu hid behind Zhu Zhuqing, who pulled Wang Xiaofeng out from behind Zhao Wuji and placed him in front of them.

Prince Xue Xing used Dugu Bo’s presence to force Shrek to leave Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while Meng Shenji and the other education committee members stood against him. Dugu Yan arrived and accused Shrek of mistreating her, prompting Dugu Bo to challenge them to withstand one attack with his Soul Power suppressed to Soul Elder level.

• Dugu Bo released his aura, suppressing the Shrek teachers and making Xiao Wu tremble as she hid behind Zhu Zhuqing.
• Prince Xue Xing declared that he wanted Shrek expelled, and Grandmaster persuaded Flander to take the students and leave rather than fight Dugu Bo.
• Meng Shenji and the other two Soul Douluos released their Martial Souls and confronted Dugu Bo, allowing Shrek to head for the gate.
• Dugu Yan rushed in and told Dugu Bo that Shrek had made her suffer a small loss.
• Dugu Bo stopped Shrek from leaving and offered to suppress his Soul Power to Soul Elder level, challenging them to take one move from him.

Ning Rongrong’s Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect token failed to make Dugu Bo spare Shrek, so Wang Xiaofeng accepted his challenge to withstand one move. Shrek’s students prepared together, and Dugu Bo began his attack with a drop of venom from his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor.

• Ning Rongrong revealed her sect’s pagoda and token, but Dugu Bo let her leave and refused to release the rest of Shrek.
• Wang Xiaofeng agreed to take one move from Dugu Bo, who promised to let the group leave afterward, alive or dead.
• Tang San explained that he could not fully neutralize Dugu Bo’s potent poison, while Wang Xiaofeng suggested combining antidotes, Realgar Wine, and Ma Hongjun’s Phoenix Flame.
• Ning Rongrong stayed with Shrek as Tang San formed the students into a battle formation, and they took Oscar’s Detox Sausages and Tang San’s antidote pills.
• Dugu Bo summoned his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor and released a drop of green-black venom.

Tang San and the Shrek students endured Dugu Bo’s deadly poison, while Wang Xiaofeng used his Green Calabash to absorb most of it and collapsed from poisoning. Dugu Bo departed after telling Tang San to bury his companion.

• The students and teachers struggled against Dugu Bo’s venom, and Oscar distributed Detox Sausages while the teachers took Shao Xin’s Detox Sugar Beans.
• Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun used Realgar Wine and their attacks to ignite Dugu Bo’s poisonous mist, then Tang San tried to block what remained with Blue Silver City Walls.
• Wang Xiaofeng rushed in with his Green Calabash and absorbed most of the poisonous mist, but he lost consciousness as the calabash darkened.
• Tang San put Wang Xiaofeng into suspended animation after a Detox Pill failed to stop the poison, while Ma Hongjun and the others burned away the remaining mist with Realgar Wine.
• Dugu Bo praised the use of Realgar Wine, asked Tang San’s name, and left with Dugu Yan after telling him to bury Wang Xiaofeng.

After Wang Xiaofeng was poisoned, the Shrek group left Heaven Dou Royal Academy without a way to cure him, while Qin Ming resigned and joined them. Prince Xue Xing revealed that driving a wedge between Qin Ming and the Education Committee had been his main goal, leaving the group to seek a place to stay and a way to save Wang Xiaofeng.

• Prince Xue Xing and Xue Beng tried to leave the Education Committee Hall, but Meng Shenji warned them that the committee would impeach Prince Xue Xing.
• Flander and Zhao Wuji poured Soul Power into Wang Xiaofeng, but it vanished inside him; Tang San said he had placed Wang Xiaofeng in suspended death to buy time.
• Flander thanked the three Education Committee members and led the Shrek group away, while Qin Ming resigned and followed them.
• Prince Xue Xing told Xue Beng that he had chiefly intended to drive a wedge between Qin Ming and the Education Committee, and that Qin Ming's talent could make him a Titled Douluo.
• Qin Ming caught up with the Shrek group, apologized for failing to protect the others, and asked Flander to accept him as his student again.
• Flander welcomed Qin Ming, and the group set out to find a quiet, inexpensive place to stay.

After Wang Xiaofeng began recovering from the poison and woke earlier than expected, the Shrek group decided to visit Blue Tyrant Academy as a new place to regroup. They arrived at the academy, intent on rebuilding after their rejection by Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

• Tang San confirmed that Wang Xiaofeng was gradually clearing the poison, and the group rejoiced at his recovery.
• Qin Ming explained that Blue Tyrant Academy recruited commoners and had recently lost students and teachers, while the group recognized it might suit them.
• Grandmaster agreed to visit Blue Tyrant Academy and vowed that Shrek would defeat Heaven Dou Royal Academy and win the championship.
• Wang Xiaofeng woke as the group set off, though he concealed that his Soul Power had reached level forty.
• The group toured prosperous Heaven Dou City and arrived at the entrance of Blue Tyrant Academy.