Chapter Summaries

Na'er, Long Yuan, and Gu Yue spent the day exploring Mingdu before an intimate night together at the hotel. The next morning, Gu Yuena could barely walk, leaving her worried that the contestants in the Martial Arts Tournament to Recruit a Spouse would notice.

• Na'er took the Sugar-coated Haws vendor's entire rack, and Long Yuan paid while she shared the treats with him and Gu Yue.
• Na'er dragged Long Yuan and Gu Yue around Mingdu's stalls, and Long Yuan paid for the things she liked.
• When Na'er grew tired, Long Yuan carried her back to the hotel using Space Power.
• While Na'er bathed, Gu Yue kissed Long Yuan, but Na'er caught them and pulled both into the bathtub.
• The next morning, Na'er and Gu Yue became Gu Yuena again, and Long Yuan concealed them as they left the hotel.
• Gu Yuena clutched her lower abdomen and told Long Yuan that she could barely walk, worrying that the tournament contestants would notice.

Long Yuan carried Gu Yuena to Mingdu’s Great Stadium as the Martial Arts Tournament to Recruit a Spouse began its elimination round. Tang Wulin worried that the Ten Thousand Beasts Platform was strengthening the Spirit Pagoda’s influence, while Yuanen Yehui, disguised as Yuan Hui, stunned the crowd by defeating a Titled Douluo.

• Long Yuan healed Gu Yuena’s injuries, carried her on his back, and headed with her toward the stadium under his Space Power.
• Tang Wulin told Amorous Douluo Zang Xin about the Ten Thousand Beasts Platform and warned that its benefits were making it difficult for Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect to oppose the Spirit Pagoda.
• The Spirit Pagoda began the elimination round, with more than sixteen hundred participants competing across ten platforms under rules that allowed them to use any of their abilities and equipment.
• Yuanen Yehui, disguised as Yuan Hui, defeated a powerful Titled Douluo at Soul Douluo rank eighty-three, drawing widespread attention and media coverage.
• The Spirit Pagoda investigated Yuan Hui’s origins, learned that she supposedly came from the military, and stopped its inquiry.
• The first day of elimination matches ended with more than a dozen participants eliminated.

Tang Wulin, competing as Tang Lin, faced Summoning Gate Ao Wuchang, an Eight-Ring Soul Douluo who summoned a Hundred Thousand Year Wolf Emperor. As the Wolf Emperor attacked, Tang Wulin finally brought out the Clear Sky Hammer.

• Tang Wulin stepped onto the platform to face Ao Wuchang, whose eight soul rings were all black Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• Ao Wuchang used his Summoning Gate to summon three giant wolves and merge them into a Hundred Thousand Year Wolf Emperor with a domain.
• The Wolf Emperor charged Tang Wulin and unleashed its Wraith Entanglement domain.
• Tang Wulin released his Soul Power and summoned the Clear Sky Hammer, its surface crackling with electricity.

Tang Wulin defeated Ao Wuchang with the Clear Sky Nine Wonders, while a group of black-clad figures advanced a secret operation in the Land of Extreme North. The match ended with Tang Lin declared the winner, and the figures continued their work under cover of the tournament.

• Tang Wulin used the Break Word Absolute to destroy the Hundred Thousand Year Wolf Emperor's wraiths and overwhelm Ao Wuchang.
• The referee stopped Tang Wulin before he could strike Ao Wuchang again, declared Tang Lin the winner, and sent Ao Wuchang for treatment.
• Gu Yuena and Long Yuan discussed the power of Tang Wulin's Clear Sky Hammer and his decision to conceal it.
• More than three hundred black-clad figures laid unknown objects across a valley in the Land of Extreme North while range-blocking Soul Tools hid their activity.
• A black-clad man learned that the operation was sixty percent complete and ordered the group to hurry while attention remained on the Martial Arts Tournament to Recruit a Spouse.

Long Yuan demonstrated his extraordinary Heavenly Forging ability at Mu Ye’s secluded residence, where his teachers learned his success rate had reached ninety-seven percent. He promised to forge battle armor for them, and the story left with Mang Tian and Feng Wuyu revealing that their quarrel had been an act to secure that promise.

• After Tang Wulin finished cultivating, he went to the Forging Masters Association to study forging.
• Long Yuan chose not to move Mu Ye and the others’ secluded residence into the Dragon God Realm, fearing that doing so would arouse suspicion.
• Long Yuan completed a Heavenly Forging, and Zhen Hua, Feng Wuyu, Mu Chen, and Mu Xi learned that his success rate was about ninety-seven percent.
• Mang Tian claimed Long Yuan had distracted him and took the forged metal, while Feng Wuyu accused him of extortion and challenged him.
• Long Yuan promised to forge Four-Word Battle Armor for his teachers and a Three-Word Battle Armor for Mu Xi, after which Mang Tian and Feng Wuyu returned the metal and revealed their quarrel had been staged.

Long Yuan gave Mu Chen and Mu Xi Immortal Herbs, and both gained powerful increases in Soul Power. Mu Xi kissed Long Yuan and clung to him despite learning he already loved someone, then ran off in tears after kissing him again.

• Long Yuan gave Mu Chen and Mu Xi Immortal Herbs and set up barriers so they could absorb them in secret.
• Mu Chen refined his herb and broke through to rank ninety-two, while Mu Xi gained rank eighty-one Soul Power, a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and a Soul Bone.
• Mu Xi threw herself into Long Yuan's arms and kissed him, and Mu Chen left them alone while eagerly suggesting they marry.
• Mu Xi held Long Yuan despite his telling her he already loved someone, kissed him again, and ran away crying.

Long Yuan forged Four-Word Battle Armor for Mang Tian, Mu Chen, and Mu Xi, then brought them and Shrek Academy’s elders into the Dragon God Realm to cultivate. He planned to build an academy more powerful than Shrek Academy, while the Round Robin Tournament was set to begin after three days of rest.

• Long Yuan gave Mang Tian, Mu Chen, and Mu Xi three Heavenly Forged sets of Four-Word Battle Armor, each made with a one-hundred-percent success rate, astonishing Zhen Hua.
• Mu Chen and Mang Tian went to cultivate so they could use their armor, while Mu Xi kissed Long Yuan and then left to improve her cultivation.
• Long Yuan advanced through the Elimination Rounds and prepared to attend the group-draw ceremony for the Round Robin Tournament, which would begin after three days.
• Long Yuan moved Mu Ye, Mang Tian, Mu Chen, Mu Xi, Feng Wuyu, Zhuo Shi, and Shrek Academy’s senior elders into his Dragon God Realm and explained that humans and Soul Beasts could coexist there.
• The group began cultivating in the Dragon God Realm, and Long Yuan told the Shrek elders he intended to build an academy stronger than Shrek Academy.

Long Yuan attended the Martial Arts Tournament to Recruit a Spouse draw after continuing to develop the Dragon God Realm and bringing Lin Ximeng into it. The draw placed him in a group with Tang Wulin, who was impersonating Tang Lin, and Qiangu Zhangting, setting up a competitive round robin beginning the next day.

• Long Yuan expanded the Dragon God Realm, where the Seed of Life nurtured its growth, and invited Lin Ximeng to live there.
• Long Yuan arrived at Mingdu Great Stadium, where Qian Gu Dong Feng and Gu Yuena opened the draw ceremony with Yue Tian Douluo Guan Yue overseeing the process.
• The draw placed Lan Fozi in the second group and Tang Lin, Qiangu Zhangting, and Long Yuan in the third group.
• Other competitors regarded Long Yuan as a dangerous unknown because he had defeated every previous opponent with a single move, while Qiangu Zhangting and Tang Wulin remained confident they could beat him.

The Spirit Pagoda opened the Ten Thousand Beasts Platform to capitalize on the tournament, while Gu Yuena and Qiangu Zhangting discussed their plan to make Soul Masters dependent on it. The chapter ended with Long Yuan learning that the Pagoda could reclaim the Beast Spirit Power gained there, threatening the strength of its users.

• The tournament organizers announced the round-robin schedule, and the Spirit Pagoda began promoting the Ten Thousand Beasts Platform ahead of its opening.
• The Spirit Pagoda set a daily limit of two hundred visitors, charged five million Federal Coins per slot, and introduced a first-come, first-served system with ten auction slots.
• Qiangu Dong Feng praised Qiangu Zhangting and Gu Yuena for the tournament’s success and urged Gu Yuena to keep the Ten Thousand Beasts Platform stable.
• Gu Yuena told Qiangu Dong Feng that the platform’s Beast Spirit Power was governed by the Plane Laws and that she had reached an agreement with the Two Overlords of the Plane.
• Qiangu Zhangting revealed to Gu Yuena that the Spirit Pagoda could reclaim Beast Spirit Power gained through the platform and use it to threaten Soul Masters, and Long Yuan overheard the secret.

Long Yuan and Gu Yuena continued using the Spirit Pagoda for their own aims while deepening their bond and growing stronger together. Long Yuan then completed a record-breaking Heavenly Forging, and Zhen Hua began explaining why the Laws of Heaven and Earth supposedly allowed only one Divine Craftsman at a time.

• Gu Yuena told Qiangu Zhangting that he deserved credit for the Spirit Pagoda's work, while Long Yuan understood that she and Qian Gu Dong Feng were using each other.
• Long Yuan and Gu Yuena returned to her bedroom, where they sparred through the night and strengthened their bloodlines and Soul Power.
• Long Yuan visited the Forging Masters Association in his Dragon God Realm and invited Zhen Hua to observe his Heavenly Forging.
• Long Yuan completed the Heavenly Forging of a Spirit Alloy made from nine kinds of metal, astonishing Zhen Hua and the other forging masters.
• Zhen Hua told Mu Xi and the others that a legend forbade two Divine Craftsmen from existing at once because of the balance of the Laws of Heaven and Earth.

Divine Craftsman Zhen Hua urged Long Yuan to keep advancing because his unprecedented forging ability might be tied to a disturbance threatening the world. As Long Yuan and Lan Fozi secretly watched Tang Wulin intervene in a family confrontation, Yuanen Yehui refused to return with her grandfather.

• Zhen Hua told Long Yuan that his power and the appearance of two Divine Craftsmen could signal a disaster, and urged him to keep moving forward.
• The Martial Arts Tournament to Recruit a Spouse began, while the Spirit Pagoda opened its Ten Thousand Beasts Platform to contestants.
• Long Yuan sensed Tang Wulin rushing away, followed him, and was joined by Lan Fozi.
• At a forest lake, Tang Wulin appeared beside Yuanen Yehui and Xie Xie as they faced Yuanen Yehui's family.
• Yuanen Yehui told her family she would not go back with them, and a middle-aged man rebuked her for defying her grandfather.

Yuanen Yehui refused her grandfather’s demand to return to the Titan Giant Ape Family and change her name, and she fought back when Zhou Wenkai attacked her. After her grandfather’s overwhelming pressure left her friends unable to resist, Yuanen Yehui decided to go with her family.

• Long Yuan revealed that Yuan Hui was Yuanen Yehui and that Tang Wulin was the Sea God Pavilion Master and Tang Sect Gate Master.
• Yuanen Yehui refused to return to her family or change her name, and her grandfather threatened to cripple her and take her by force.
• Zhou Wenkai attacked Yuanen Yehui with Titan’s Grip, but she blocked him with her Vortex God Fist and forced him back.
• Long Yuan recognized Yuanen Yehui as a descendant of Erming and the Titan Giant Ape Family, while Xie Xie appeared and defended her.
• Yuanen Yehui’s grandfather released his Limit Douluo aura and demanded she return; Yuanen Yehui decided to go with him rather than let her friends fight him.

Tang Wulin fought to stop Yuanen Zhentian from taking Yuanen Yehui, and Amorous Douluo Zang Xin arrived to prevent the conflict from escalating. After they traveled to a secluded forest, Yuanen Zhentian dismissed his followers and prepared to explain his reasons to Tang Wulin, Zang Xin, and Yuanen Yehui.

• Tang Wulin revealed his Clear Sky Hammer and fought Yuanen Zhentian's middle-aged companion, driving the rank ninety-three Titled Douluo back with the Clear Sky Nine Wonders.
• Yuanen Zhentian insisted that Yuanen Yehui return with him because she continued his bloodline.
• Amorous Douluo Zang Xin arrived after Tang Wulin summoned him, making Yuanen Zhentian agree to talk rather than take Yuanen Yehui by force.
• Yuanen Zhentian led the group to a forest, where Long Yuan and Lan Fozi secretly followed and Long Yuan went unnoticed beside him.
• Yuanen Zhentian dismissed his followers and raised a sound-blocking curtain around himself, Tang Wulin, Zang Xin, and Yuanen Yehui.

Yuanen Yehui confronted Yuanen Zhentian over her mother’s death and her father’s maiming, while Zhentian began explaining the history behind his choices. He left off recounting his rapid rise to Limit Douluo and the start of his family.

• Long Yuan used Space Power to enter Yuanen Zhentian’s sound-blocking barrier with Lan Fozi and conceal them as they listened.
• Yuanen Yehui accused Yuanen Zhentian of driving her mother to suicide and crippling her father, and said she had considered him her enemy since childhood.
• Yuanen Zhentian insisted he would make the same choice again and asked Yuanen Yehui to hear the truth, so she sat down to listen.
• Lan Fozi agreed with Yuanen Yehui that a person with an evil martial soul was not necessarily an Evil Soul Master if they did no evil.
• Yuanen Zhentian described reaching Titled Douluo at twenty-eight, Super Douluo at thirty-five, and Limit Douluo at forty-seven before explaining that his clan pressured him to marry.
• Yuanen Zhentian said he married at fifty and that his eldest son, Yuanen Tiandang, was born the following year.

Yuanen Zhentian recounted how his eldest son, Yuanen Tiandang, became a powerful martial artist and returned from his travels with Yehui, whom he loved. He revealed that Yehui was an Evil Soul Master with a Fallen Angel martial soul who had injured Tiandang during a loss of control, leaving Yuanen Yehui to hear the beginnings of the reason her grandfather later crippled her father.

• Yuanen Zhentian explained that Yuanen Tiandang awakened the Titan Giant Ape martial soul with Innate Full Soul Power and became the family’s hoped-for successor.
• Yuanen Zhentian sent Tiandang traveling to find his own path, expecting him to return and reach the Titled Douluo rank before age twenty-five.
• Yuanen Yehui accused Yuanen Zhentian of crippling her father, and he said he had been forced to choose between Tiandang’s life and strength.
• Yuanen Zhentian recalled that Tiandang returned from his travels with Yehui, a red-haired woman he loved, and had advanced to Rank 84.
• Yuanen Zhentian said Yehui lost control as an Evil Soul Master with a Fallen Angel martial soul and injured Tiandang, while Tiandang begged him not to kill her.
• Yuanen Zhentian regretted sparing Yehui, and Tang Wulin stopped Yuanen Yehui from lashing out at him.

Yuanen Zhentian told Yuanen Yehui how her mother's Fallen Angel Martial Soul opened a Demon Gate that unleashed an invasion, killing her Second Aunt and crippling her father before Shrek forces stopped it. He warned that Yuanen Yehui's own Fallen Angel Martial Soul could cause the same disaster when she reached Titled Douluo.

• Yuanen Zhentian explained that Yuanen Tiandang and Yehui married and raised Yuanen Yehui, while Tiandang pursued a path of protecting his family.
• Yuanen Zhentian recounted how Yehui's Fallen Angel power grew until she reached Titled Douluo and opened a Demon Gate to the Demon Plane.
• Demons poured through the expanding gate, and one killed Yuanen Yehui's Second Aunt before the family could stop the invasion.
• Yuanen Zhentian and the family fought the demons until Sky Support Douluo and Shrek's forces arrived, drove them back, and destroyed the Demon Gate.
• Yuanen Zhentian revealed that Tang Wulin was a Shrek Seven Monsters captain and a direct descendant of the Clear Sky Sect, then warned that Yuanen Yehui could open another Demon Gate at nine rings.

Yuanen Zhentian told Yuanen Yehui the truth about her mother’s death, her father’s condition, and the danger posed by her Fallen Angel Martial Soul. He begged her to return with him to have it sealed, while Lan Fozi realized Yuanen Yehui was a woman disguised as a man.

• Yuanen Zhentian explained that Yuanen Yehui’s mother had become a Demon Gate and that the family had lost thirty-seven people fighting the Demon Legion.
• Yuanen Zhentian revealed that Yuanen Yehui’s mother killed herself to prevent the Demon Gate from opening again and to protect her daughter.
• Yuanen Zhentian recounted how Yuanen Tiandang tried to die after witnessing his wife’s death, so the family sealed his cultivation and left him broken.
• Yuanen Zhentian said Yuanen Yehui’s Fallen Angel Martial Soul had become dangerous now that she had reached the Eight-Ring Soul Douluo level, and pleaded with her to return for a seal.
• Lan Fozi, hidden nearby, realized that Yuanen Yehui was a woman disguised as a man.

Yuanen Zhentian explained that Yuanen Yehui’s Fallen Angel Martial Soul might cause a catastrophe, but agreed to seek the Sky Support Douluo’s assessment before deciding whether to seal it. After Yuanen Yehui reconciled with her family, the chapter shifted to the tournament, where the Ten Thousand Beasts Platform continued drawing powerful Soul Masters.

• Yuanen Zhentian insisted that Yuanen Yehui’s Fallen Angel Martial Soul had to be sealed before she reached the Titled Douluo level to prevent a disaster.
• Zang Xin proposed consulting the Sky Support Douluo and other Limit Douluos, and Yuanen Zhentian agreed to wait no more than half a year before deciding.
• Yuanen Yehui agreed to return home after Yuanen Zhentian urged her to see her father, and her Second Uncle gave her his contact information and said he had changed his name to Yuanen Tianshang.
• Xie Xie comforted Yuanen Yehui, while Zang Xin encouraged everyone to seek the Old Pavilion Master's advice after the tournament.
• Long Yuan left with Lan Fozi and considered how to prevent Yuanen Yehui’s Martial Soul from repeating the past tragedy.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng arrived at Mingdu's Great Stadium to watch Qiangu Zhangting compete as the Ten Thousand Beasts Platform attracted increasing numbers of high-ranking Soul Masters.

Qian Gu Dong Feng planned to establish a Spirit Pagoda academy to compete with Shrek Academy as the Martial Arts Tournament to Recruit a Spouse continued. Tang Wulin, disguised as Tang Lin, began his round-robin match against the illusion specialist Li Weisi.

• Qian Gu Dong Feng planned to announce a Spirit Pagoda advanced soul master academy after the tournament and decided against repairing the failed Godslayer Soul Cannon Shell.
• Gu Yuena assured Qian Gu Dong Feng that she had made secure arrangements for the Ten Thousand Beasts Platform.
• Tang Wulin, appearing as Tang Lin, entered the ring to face Li Weisi in the first match of Group Three's second day.
• Li Weisi summoned his Crystal Ball martial soul and used his first Soul Skill to spread mist that blocked spiritual probing and formed a tiger charging at Tang Wulin.

Tang Wulin defeated Li Weisi in the arena using the Clear Sky Nine Wonders, though the effort left him injured. Long Yuan watched and considered developing powerful offensive techniques of his own.

• Tang Wulin let the mist tiger engulf him, revealed his nine Soul Rings, and summoned his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Wulin used the Penetrating and Shock techniques to attack Li Weisi through the fog, then shattered the mist with the Break technique.
• Li Weisi’s Crystal Ball and Soul Core shattered, and he collapsed as Tang Wulin coughed blood and struggled to stay upright.
• Referee Ai Fei declared Number Sixty-Six, Tang Lin, the winner, and Spirit Pagoda staff took Li Weisi for treatment.
• Long Yuan reflected on the Dragon Emperor Forbidden Technique that Tang Wulin could have comprehended and decided he should seek powerful offensive techniques of his own.