Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming returned to Shrek Academy and found Flender badly injured after a clash with Sword Douluo, who had come to defend Ning Rongrong. As the teachers explained the events, Flender realized Dai Mubai had repeatedly provoked young Soul Masters backed by Titled Douluos.

• Focalors realized Neuvillette had teased her and turned her embarrassment into anger.
• Qin Ming returned to Shrek Academy and found Flender in bed with his right arm cut off.
• Zhao Wuji told Qin Ming that Sword Douluo had injured Flender after Dai Mubai and Ning Rongrong's conflict.
• Flender praised Neuvillette and Focalors's strength and confirmed they had Titled Douluo backing.
• Zhao Wuji recalled that Dai Mubai had also fought Tang San before Tang San joined Shrek Academy, and Flender recognized Dai Mubai's pattern of provoking powerful people.

Flender and Zhao Wuji reconsidered expelling Dai Mubai, while Yu Xiaogang encouraged Tang San and explained his plans for Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls. When Tang San named the Soul Arena adjudicator who had defeated him, Yu Xiaogang reacted with shock at hearing Neuvillette’s name.

• Zhao Wuji proposed expelling Dai Mubai, but Flender took responsibility for his failure to teach him and decided to wait until Dai Mubai woke before talking to him.
• Zhao Wuji agreed that Dai Mubai should not be expelled, though he hoped Dai Mubai would graduate soon.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that he could surpass Sword Douluo Chen Xin after reaching the Titled Douluo realm, and Tang San questioned how his Blue Silver Grass could achieve that.
• Yu Xiaogang described the potential of Tang San’s second Martial Soul and suggested that it could eventually hold nine spirit rings over fifty thousand years old.
• Tang San thanked Yu Xiaogang for his guidance, then said Neuvillette had defeated him in a spirit battle; Yu Xiaogang froze at the name.

Focalors secretly worked on a mysterious gift while Neuvillette left the Soul Arena and encountered Yu Tianheng. Yu Tianheng begged Neuvillette to teach him how to grow stronger, and Neuvillette was left unsure how to respond.

• Focalors told Neuvillette she was making a return gift for the old man from the bracelets he had given them, then pushed Neuvillette out so she could finish it.
• Neuvillette left the Soul Arena after its staff greeted him with admiration for defeating the Royal Fight Team.
• Yu Tianheng, bandaged from head to arm, stopped Neuvillette and asked him to teach him how to cultivate.
• Yu Tianheng explained that he wanted to become strong enough to protect Yan Yan and begged Neuvillette for help.
• Neuvillette realized he had no special cultivation method to teach Yu Tianheng and sighed at his persistent plea.

Yu Tianheng followed Neuvillette, hoping to learn how to become stronger, and watched him fish by the river. Focalors appeared beside Neuvillette, and the chapter left Yu Tianheng confused after she suggested he might be the fish Neuvillette was trying to catch.

• Neuvillette refused to teach Yu Tianheng and walked out of the city, but Yu Tianheng followed him, determined to become stronger.
• At the riverbank, Neuvillette fished with a bare hook while Yu Tianheng watched and guessed he was hiding his cultivation method.
• Neuvillette shaped water into a crystal-like goblet without summoning his martial soul, astonishing Yu Tianheng with his control.
• Focalors appeared silently in Neuvillette's arms, and they discussed a secret surprise for Old Master Lakesius.
• Focalors noticed Yu Tianheng watching and asked Neuvillette whether he was trying to catch Young Master Yu Tianheng; Neuvillette began to explain that Yu Tianheng had only come to look.

Yu Tianheng took inspiration from Neuvillette and Focalors’s elemental control and left determined to train his lightning control, while Focalors enlisted Miss Shebellede to help Neuvillette catch a fish. Two days later, Yu Xiaogang urged Flender to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy so Shrek’s students could compete in the upcoming All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.

• Yu Tianheng realized he could improve by training his control over lightning, thanked Neuvillette, and left to find Ye Lingling for treatment.
• Focalors summoned Miss Shebellede to put a fish on Neuvillette’s hook, and Neuvillette later released the fish and packed away his gear.
• The Royal Fight Team left Suotuo City, and Qin Ming invited Flender and the teachers to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang told Flender to accept because Shrek had no tournament spot, while Heaven Dou Royal Academy had two for the upcoming elite tournament.

Yu Xiaogang and Qin Ming persuaded Flender and Shrek Academy’s teachers to move the students to Heaven Dou Royal Academy for better opportunities. After Qin Ming left to make arrangements, Flender put Yu Xiaogang in charge of training until the move.

• Yu Xiaogang argued that Shrek’s students needed the resources and opportunities of Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Qin Ming supported him.
• Flender agreed to take the students and teachers to Heaven Dou City, with Qin Ming promising to return and escort them after consulting the education committee.
• Qin Ming led the Royal Fight Team back to Heaven Dou City, while Flender asked Yu Xiaogang to train the students until he returned.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted, provided that the other teachers did not interfere with his teaching.
• The scene shifted to the Great Soul Arena in Suotuo City, where someone asked Neuvillette why he was not serving as a referee.

Neuvillette and Focalors strolled together when Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar passed by during Yu Xiaogang’s weighted-running training. Focalors and Neuvillette gave the exhausted students water in an elaborate display that stunned them and Zhao Wuji.

• Neuvillette and Focalors walked hand in hand while Neuvillette praised Focalors as the most beautiful scenery in the world.
• Tang San led Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Xiao Wu on a weighted run while Dai Mubai remained bedridden from his injuries.
• Xiao Wu spotted Neuvillette and asked him for water, and Focalors recommended warm salt water after exercise.
• Tang San recognized Neuvillette and Focalors, briefly revealed his killing intent, and agreed with Focalors’s advice about drinking water.
• Focalors formed bubbles of water, and Neuvillette gave Ma Hongjun a water straw after he failed to burst one.
• Zhao Wuji watched from hiding and marveled at their precise control over water.

Neuvillette warned Zhao Wuji that the students’ stone-laden running risked hidden injuries, prompting Zhao Wuji to discard the baskets and confront Flender about the training. Neuvillette and Focalors then headed to Suotuo City to cultivate, where Focalors reminded him not to fool around.

• Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Xiao Wu, and Zhao Wuji drank water from Focalors’s bubbles while Tang San refused and angrily set off alone.
• Neuvillette told Zhao Wuji that running with stones on their backs could cause hidden injuries unless the students also received restorative medicinal treatment.
• Zhao Wuji thanked Neuvillette, threw aside the students’ baskets, and left with Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Xiao Wu to speak with Flender about the training.
• Neuvillette explained to Focalors that Zhao Wuji could manipulate gravity, and Focalors wondered why he did not use that ability for training instead of making students carry stones.
• Neuvillette and Focalors wandered outside the city, then headed to Suotuo City to cultivate, as Focalors blushed and asked Neuvillette not to fool around.

Neuvillette and Focalors prepared to attend the Eight Great Families' Annual Meeting in Heaven Dou City, then encountered Flender's group on the road. Their meeting revealed Flender's missing arm and Yu Xiaogang's growing doubts about his training methods.

• Neuvillette told Focalors that Lakesius had invited her to the Eight Great Families' Annual Meeting, and she agreed to meet the other patriarchs despite feeling shy.
• Neuvillette and Focalors set out for Heaven Dou City after making preparations.
• Neuvillette and Focalors encountered Dai Mubai, Flender, Zhao Wuji, Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, and the others on the road.
• Dai Mubai recoiled from Focalors, while Neuvillette noticed that Flender had lost his right arm.
• Yu Xiaogang trembled at Neuvillette's presence and resented him for exposing problems with his training methods, which had led Flender to assign Zhao Wuji to train the other students.

Neuvillette and Focalors discussed the possibility of establishing a Hall of Justice and agreed that they first needed to spread the ideals of fairness and justice. After arriving in Heaven Dou City, they strolled through its streets until someone recognized Neuvillette.

• Neuvillette learned that Chen Xin had severed Flender's right arm, then declined to travel with Zhao Wuji and the others.
• Focalors and Neuvillette recognized that the injured Titled Douluo secretly following the Shrek group was Tang Hao, who watched Tang San and Xiao Wu while puzzling over Tang San's behavior.
• Focalors proposed establishing a Hall of Justice, but Neuvillette explained that it would provoke the continent's nobles and Soul Masters unless people first embraced equality and justice.
• Neuvillette and Focalors agreed to spread the name of justice before attempting larger change, then traveled to Heaven Dou City about ten days later.
• Neuvillette and Focalors strolled through Heaven Dou City's streets, where an elegant voice behind them recognized Neuvillette.

Neuvillette and Focalors ran into Xue Qinghe, who was secretly Qian Renxue, in Heaven Dou City. Their conversation made Qian Renxue consider finding a fiancée as a cover for her disguise, while she continued trying to befriend Neuvillette and learn about the Eight Great Families.

• Neuvillette and Focalors greeted Xue Qinghe, and Focalors introduced herself as Neuvillette's fiancée.
• Xue Qinghe praised Focalors and said he would remain devoted to a fiancée, prompting Qian Renxue to worry that Xue Qinghe's unmarried status might arouse suspicion.
• Qian Renxue decided she might need to find someone to serve as a cover for her disguise.
• Neuvillette tried to leave, but Xue Qinghe said he had nothing else to do and invited Neuvillette and Focalors to his residence.
• Qian Renxue inferred that Neuvillette was a direct descendant of one of the Eight Great Families and suspected their annual meeting was taking place at the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena.

Neuvillette refused Qian Renxue’s invitation to the Crown Prince Residence, and she grew more determined to investigate him and Focalors. Back at the residence, Qian Renxue ordered She Long to look into them before turning to a proposal about the upcoming tournament preliminary competition.

• Neuvillette declined to accompany Qian Renxue to the Crown Prince Residence, and she concealed her disappointment while resolving to investigate him and Focalors.
• Neuvillette and Focalors parted from Xue Qinghe, while nearby onlookers noticed Neuvillette’s extravagant clothes and avoided provoking him.
• After returning to the Crown Prince Residence, Qian Renxue summoned She Long and ordered him to investigate Neuvillette and his fiancée, Focalors.
• Qian Renxue reviewed a proposal for the tournament preliminary competition to cooperate with the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena.

Lakesius met with the heads of the Eight Great Families in Heaven Dou City, where they celebrated his breakthrough to Titled Douluo and discussed Neuvillette’s future. The elders praised Focalors as a fitting match for Neuvillette, and Lakesius hinted that his grandson would surpass an ordinary Titled Douluo.

• Moffett promised Lakesius that he had brought his family’s fortune in exchange for the Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Reilly proposed that his granddaughter Lei Qingqing marry Neuvillette, but Lakesius said Neuvillette already had a fiancée and that he preferred Focalors.
• The elders accepted Focalors as a suitable match after Lakesius revealed that one of the Self-Created Soul Skills belonged to her.
• The elders spoke of Neuvillette’s promise, and Lakesius warned them that his grandson’s future would exceed that of an ordinary Titled Douluo.

Lakesius’s fellow clan heads humored his claims about Neuvillette’s future, while their grandchildren gathered at the annual meeting. Neuvillette and Focalors arrived at the Heaven Dou City Soul Arena, where the chapter left them at the hall entrance.

• Lakesius told the clan heads that Neuvillette’s achievements would surpass those of an ordinary Titled Douluo, but they only humored him.
• Lei Qingqing and Mo Mo greeted Reilly, Moffett, and the other clan heads after returning early from the soul battles.
• Reilly and Moffett lamented that Lei Qingqing and Mo Mo’s personalities did not suit each other, while Lakesius told the elders to stop teasing them.
• The other children returned to the gathering, including Dou Dou, the granddaughter of a clan head.
• Neuvillette and Focalors presented their tokens and were escorted to the entrance of the hall.

At the Annual Meeting, the Eight Great Families rewarded Neuvillette and Focalors for their Self-Created Soul Skills. Moffett presented Neuvillette with a rare Head Soul Bone, and Reilly began unveiling another gift as the meeting continued.

• Moffett announced that Neuvillette and Focalors would receive one percent of the Soul Arena’s profits, with their direct descendants entitled to inherit the share.
• Moffett gave Neuvillette an ancient box containing the seventy-five-thousand-year-old Head Soul Bone Sea of Sighs of Spiritual Convergence.
• Moffett hinted that the Soul Bone came from an old adventure with Lakesius, who realized Moffett had secretly kept it and silently threatened him.
• Neuvillette thanked Moffett and put the Soul Bone away, though it had little practical use for him and Focalors.
• Reilly presented an ancient box and announced that his gift was a defensive Soul Tool.

At the Eight Great Families’ Annual Meeting, Reilly gave Neuvillette a rare defensive Soul Tool, and the clan heads presented him with other gifts. The gathering was interrupted when Neuvillette and Focalors sensed She Long’s arrival, whom Neuvillette recognized as someone who had secretly watched them before.

• Reilly explained why offensive and defensive Soul Tools were rare and urged Neuvillette to open his gift.
• Neuvillette found a red chest mirror inside the box, and Reilly said it had once helped him escape a fifty-thousand-year Beast King.
• Reilly asked Neuvillette to accept the mirror because the younger generation, including Lei Qingqing, would need his help in the future.
• The other clan heads gave Neuvillette gifts, mostly soul bones, which he accepted while planning to repay their goodwill later.
• Neuvillette and Focalors sensed a familiar aura, and Neuvillette recognized it as belonging to the person who had watched them before.
• She Long arrived, felt a chill after looking at Neuvillette, and wondered why he had not felt that way before.

She Long secretly watched Neuvillette at the Soul Arena, but Neuvillette’s presence frightened his Martial Soul and made She Long’s aura leak. Lakesius detected him and the Eight Great Families confronted him, leaving She Long to claim he had come only for a cup of wine.

• She Long’s Martial Soul trembled with fear as he watched Neuvillette, and he suspected the boy concealed a great secret.
• Lakesius sensed someone spying and called the hidden intruder a sewer rat.
• Moffett and the other patriarchs released their Soul Douluo auras as Lakesius revealed his nine Soul Rings and located She Long.
• Lakesius demanded that the intruder emerge or be captured, and She Long weighed the risk of exposing Qian Renxue’s undercover mission.
• She Long stepped out of the shadows, claimed he meant no harm, and said he had come to ask for a cup of wine.

She Long challenged Lakesius to a duel outside Heaven Dou City, where the two faced off as the patriarchs watched. Neuvillette and Focalors unexpectedly appeared among the onlookers, leaving Reilly and the others stunned.

• Lakesius rejected She Long's claim that he was a lone wanderer and agreed to fight him one-on-one outside the city.
• She Long hurried to the outskirts of Heaven Dou City, while Lakesius asked Moffett to stay behind and watch over the younger generation.
• The younger generation learned that Lakesius had become a Titled Douluo, and Moffett later noticed Neuvillette and Focalors were missing.
• At the outskirts, Reilly and the other patriarchs discovered that Neuvillette and Focalors had followed them without being noticed.
• Focalors conjured eight large bubbles for the patriarchs to sit in and said they had come only to watch.

Focalors amazed the gathered clan heads by creating bubbles that withstood their Soul Power, while Lakesius and She Long began a tense duel. She Long recognized Lakesius's Golden Crow Martial Soul and attacked first with his third soul skill.

• Focalors formed bubbles without releasing her Martial Soul, and Reilly and the other clan heads discovered that even their Soul Power could not pierce them.
• Lakesius and She Long faced off, and Lakesius activated Golden Crow Possession.
• She Long summoned his Snake Lance Martial Soul, revealing its unusual dual-form Martial Soul Avatar and prompting Robert to recall losing to him when they were both Soul Sages.
• She Long recognized Lakesius's Golden Crow Martial Soul and used his third soul skill, Rift Shadow Nine Slashes, to attack.
• Lakesius looked disdainfully at She Long, judging that the Titled Douluo had already panicked.

Lakesius fought She Long with his newly evolved Golden Crow Martial Soul while Neuvillette demonstrated his control of water to the spectators. As Lakesius unleashed his ninth soul skill, She Long realized he could not survive the attack and called for Ci Xue to save him.

• Lakesius attacked She Long with his Prairie Fire soul skill, while the spectators discussed his understanding of fire.
• Neuvillette created water goblets and poured water into them, impressing the clan leaders with his precise control of the Water Element.
• Lakesius ended his test of She Long and revealed his Golden Crow True Body as She Long transformed into his Serpent Spear True Body.
• Lakesius used his ninth soul skill to rise like the sun and unleash its power, leaving She Long convinced he would die.
• She Long shouted for Ci Xue to save him.