Chapter Summaries

Dai Yao collected herbs and spring water from the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, then used medicinal herbs to strengthen his Oakland teammates. As the Promotion Tournament approached, Dai Yuan Yi and Feng Wutong had gained their Fourth Spirit Rings, greatly increasing Oakland's strength.

• Yue Guan took Dai Yao to Sunset Forest, where he met Dugu Bo and flew to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to gather herbs and store its spring water.
• Dugu Bo warned Dai Yao that joining Spirit Hall would bring danger and said Dugu Yan would remain with him for now; Yue Guan cautioned Dai Yao about the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and relayed the Golden Generation's challenge.
• Dai Yao returned to Oakland and distributed suitable herbs to his teammates, raising their Soul Power; Dai Yuan Yi and Feng Wutong both advanced to rank forty.
• Dai Yuan Yi and Feng Wutong obtained Fourth Spirit Rings, and Feng Wutong received a seven-thousand-year ring and the Vermilion Bird Domain after a Flame Bird sacrificed itself for her.
• A month passed, and the Promotion Tournament was about to begin.

Dai Yao advanced Cloud Pattern Hand by using Geng Jin Grass to draw out the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum’s medicinal effects, preparing to face Tang San in the Promotion Tournament. After a month of training with the Oakland Battle Team, he arrived at the Royal Hunting Ground as the tournament began.

• Dai Yao reasoned that he needed to strengthen Cloud Pattern Hand to withstand Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer and support a sevenfold compressed Eight Extremes Collapse.
• Dai Yao swallowed Geng Jin Grass and used his Soul Power and Thunder Power to draw out the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum’s effects, forming a second cloud pattern while a third failed to take shape.
• Principal Jackson took Oakland Academy’s seven team members to the Soul Beast Forest to train and keep them from becoming arrogant after winning the qualifiers.
• Dai Yao defeated Dai Yuan Yi in a spar without using a spirit skill, while Jackson trained the rest of the team by having them attack him together.
• A month passed, and Dai Yao and the Oakland Battle Team arrived at the Royal Hunting Ground for the one-on-one Promotion Tournament.

Oakland began the Promotion Tournament against Plant Academy, where Feng Wutong revealed her new Soul Ancestor strength and swept all seven opponents. She returned to Dai Yao’s side as the tournament’s first one-against-seven victor, leaving the other teams stunned and jealous.

• The Oakland Battle Team arrived at the Royal Hunting Ground, met the other academies, and learned that their first opponent would be Plant Academy.
• Dai Yao chose to enter fourth against Plant Academy so Oakland could secure the win while giving the other members a chance to compete.
• After Plant Academy mocked Oakland and insulted Dai Yao, Feng Wutong volunteered to fight first and promised to make them pay.
• Feng Wutong revealed that she had become a Soul Ancestor and awakened the Vermilion Bird Domain, astonishing the teams and judges.
• Feng Wutong defeated all seven Plant Academy members, using her spirit skills to overcome even the captain’s flame-resistant martial soul.
• Feng Wutong returned to Dai Yao’s side and served him tea, while he remarked that it was still warm.

Feng Wutong swept seven Plant Academy opponents but exhausted her Soul Power, drawing Chihuo Academy’s attention and an offer of future support if she joined them. She returned to Dai Yao, who trusted she would stay with him and promised her a brighter future.

• Feng Wutong defeated all seven Plant Academy opponents with the Vermilion Bird Domain, then Dai Yao warned her that using it consumed too much Soul Power.
• Luo Ling praised Feng Wutong and asked why she served Dai Yao, while Feng Wutong kept her reason secret.
• Fire Elder approached the Oakland team and tried to recruit Feng Wutong, but Dai Yao let her speak with him privately.
• Huo Wu reminded Dai Yao of their agreement to fight one-on-one when Oakland and Chihuo Academy met, and Dai Yao agreed to go first.
• Huo Wu told Huo Wushuang she wanted a fair rematch because Dai Yao had outsmarted her in their earlier battles.
• Dai Yao trained in his tent and considered asking Spirit Hall to deter further recruitment attempts; Feng Wutong returned and revealed Chihuo Academy had offered her optimal Spirit Rings and a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone if she joined after the tournament.

After Spirit Hall resolved Chihuo Academy’s attempt to take Feng Wutong, Dai Yao learned that a Titled Douluo wanted to recruit her as a disciple and returned to watch the Promotion Tournament. Shrek defeated Chihuo, revealing how much its members had grown, and Tang San identified Dai Yao as the opponent he needed to overcome.

• A Soul Sage told Dai Yao that Salas had settled the dispute with Chihuo Academy and that an elder wanted to take Feng Wutong as a disciple; Dai Yao thanked Salas and burned the letter.
• Dai Yao returned to the Great Training Field, where the other teams watched him warily because Oakland had won all five of its matches.
• Tang San defeated Huo Wushuang with the Clear Sky Hammer, revealing his Twin Martial Souls as Shrek beat Chihuo Academy.
• Dai Yao assessed Shrek’s newly advanced Soul Ancestors and noticed Ning Rongrong was nearing a breakthrough, while Feng Qianli assured him Oakland’s fighters would shoulder more of the burden.
• Yu Xiaogang reprimanded Ma Hongjun for lagging in cultivation, then praised Tang San’s performance against Chihuo.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that Dai Yao was Shrek’s true opponent and that he needed to find a way to defeat him.

Dai Yao faced Huo Wu in the Oakland versus Chihuo match and chose to fight without releasing his martial soul. He tore apart Huo Wu’s Ring Fusion attack with his evolved Cloud Pattern Hand, leaving the arena in ruins as the dust began to clear around his figure.

• Dai Yao went first for Oakland, drawing the attention of the other teams, and Huo Wu joined him in the arena for Chihuo.
• Dai Yao told Huo Wu he did not need his martial soul, then charged her and was repelled by her Third Spirit Skill, Repelling Fire Ring.
• Huo Wu used Ring Fusion to send a concentrated ball of fire toward Dai Yao, exhausting her Soul Power and leaving her unable to redirect it.
• Dai Yao used Cloud Pattern Hand to seize the attack and tore open the ball of light, causing it to explode and devastate the arena.
• Tang San, Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and the spectators watched the wreckage as a moon-white figure appeared through the dispersing smoke.

Dai Yao survived Huo Wu’s Ring Fusion skill unharmed, revealing his Fire Immunity while keeping the details of his Cloud Pattern Hand secret. He then defeated Chihuo Academy’s next six contestants without using his Martial Soul, and the chapter ended as captain Huo Wushuang began fighting him.

• Dai Yao emerged from the ruins unharmed, explained that fire-attribute attacks could not hurt him, and Huo Wu admitted defeat.
• Dai Yao helped the exhausted Huo Wu from the arena before Chihuo Academy resumed the match after the arena was repaired.
• Dai Yao defeated six Chihuo Academy contestants in succession with his self-created soul skills, never revealing his Martial Soul.
• Huo Wushuang encouraged his dispirited teammates, then entered the arena as Chihuo Academy’s final contestant.
• Huo Wushuang revealed his rank forty-three Unicorn Fire Tyrannosaurus martial soul and attacked Dai Yao with Fire Dragon Claw as Dai Yao prepared Eight Extremes Collapse.

Dai Yao battled Huo Wushuang without using his Martial Soul, then concealed the full power of his threefold-compressed Eight Extremes Collapse by summoning his Sacred White Tiger Spirit. He left Huo Wushuang standing beyond the arena after a powerful strike, making the match’s outcome clear.

• Dai Yao and Huo Wushuang fought at close range, with Dai Yao matching him through superior combat skill despite being suppressed.
• Huo Wushuang unleashed his strongest Spirit Skills and Tyrant Dragon Avatar, but Dai Yao prepared a threefold-compressed Eight Extremes Collapse.
• Dai Yao noticed Tang San watching and summoned his Sacred White Tiger Spirit to obscure the true limits of his self-created skill.
• Dai Yao struck from several meters away, shattering Huo Wushuang’s defenses and driving him beyond the Duel Arena.
• Huo Wushuang realized he had been pushed outside the arena, and the spectators fell silent.

Dai Yao completed a one-versus-seven sweep against Chihuo Academy, and Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu thanked him for preserving their team’s dignity. Days later, Feng Wutong and Zhu Zhuqing easily defeated Skywater Academy; Tang San then prepared to challenge Dai Yao one-on-one, while Salas considered reporting Feng Wutong’s changes to the Pope.

• Dai Yao defeated Huo Wushuang and Chihuo Academy, and Huo Wushuang explained to Huo Wu that Dai Yao had held back to spare their team greater humiliation.
• Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang thanked Dai Yao, and Huo Wu also apologized regarding Feng Wutong; Dai Yao remained confused about their gratitude.
• Dai Yao’s team celebrated the victory, while Huo Wushuang revealed his feelings for Feng Wutong and Huo Wu reacted with exasperation.
• Feng Wutong and Zhu Zhuqing defeated Skywater Academy, and Shui Bing’er conceded after learning that both opponents possessed innate domains.
• Dai Mubai and the Shrek Seven Devils worried about facing Oakland Academy, so Tang San prepared an antidote for Dai Yao’s poison and planned to invite him to a one-on-one duel.
• Salas praised Zhu Zhuqing and Feng Wutong’s strength and decided to report Feng Wutong’s changes to the Pope.

Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing talked beneath the moon about his plan to join Spirit Hall and the risk of being cut off from her clan. Zhu Zhuqing chose to go with him, telling him he was the only family she had.

• Dai Yao took Zhu Zhuqing for a walk through the forest while Dugu Yan watched them with envy.
• Dai Yao and Zhu Zhuqing climbed a pine tree and reminisced about sharing the moonlight at the Cold Palace nine years earlier.
• Dai Yao told Zhu Zhuqing that he planned to join Spirit Hall after the Promotion Tournament and explained that his actions had caused a complete break with the Dai Family.
• Dai Yao offered to take Zhu Zhuqing to Sea God Island if she did not want to join Spirit Hall, and said Feng Wutong would go while Dugu Yan could decide for herself.
• Zhu Zhuqing said Dai Yao was the only family she had and chose to join Spirit Hall with him.
• Dai Yao promised never to fail Zhu Zhuqing and held her beneath the moonlight.

Xiao Wu approached Dai Yao to ask him to settle Shrek’s match against Oakland with a one-on-one duel, but he refused and demanded Tang Sect’s hidden-weapon blueprints as his price. The chapter left Xiao Wu rejecting the demand and suspecting Dai Yao wanted the blueprints for Ning Rongrong.

• Xiao Wu left the arena to persuade Dai Yao to agree to a one-on-one match against Tang San.
• Dai Yao met Xiao Wu in the woods and asked why she had summoned him.
• Xiao Wu offered a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, but Dai Yao refused to be provoked into accepting the duel.
• Dai Yao demanded the blueprints for all of Tang Sect’s mechanism-type hidden weapons in exchange for agreeing to the match.
• Xiao Wu refused to hand over Tang San’s blueprints and blamed Ning Rongrong for Dai Yao’s demand.

Dai Yao wagered with Xiao Wu that Tang San was secretly watching them and would react exactly as predicted when she told him about their meeting. Tang San’s response matched the wager, leaving Xiao Wu unsettled, while Dai Yao learned Tang San had left the arena around the same time as the watcher and declared he would face him in one match.

• Dai Yao proposed a wager: if Xiao Wu lost, she would help him obtain Tang San’s hidden weapon blueprints; if she won, Dai Yao would agree to duel Tang San one-on-one.
• Xiao Wu returned and told Tang San she had met Dai Yao alone and secured his agreement to a one-on-one match.
• Tang San first scolded Xiao Wu for meeting Dai Yao without telling him, then expressed concern and thanked her, matching Dai Yao’s prediction and leaving her confused.
• Dugu Yan told Dai Yao that Tang San had left the arena a few minutes after Dai Yao, supporting his suspicion that Tang San had been the hidden watcher.
• Dai Yao told Feng Qianli he would fight Tang San the next day and settle their contest in one match; he then noticed Xiao Wu looking dispirited behind Tang San.

Dai Yao and Tang San faced off in a one-on-one match to decide the undefeated teams’ rivalry, revealing their Sacred White Tiger and Clear Sky Hammer spirits. Tang San opened with Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, while Dai Yao prepared a compressed Eight Extremes Collapse to counter it as their next clash began.

• Dai Mubai worried that Shrek would lose to Oakland unless Tang San secured a one-on-one match, and Tang San said he had already arranged one with Dai Yao.
• Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, and Salas attended the Oakland-versus-Shrek match, where Ning Fengzhi confirmed that Tang San and Dai Yao would decide the result individually.
• Dai Yao and Tang San introduced their spirits and exchanged accusations about Xiao Wu before Tang San launched his Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.
• Dai Yao activated White Tiger Dark Gold Transformation and met Tang San’s opening hammer strike with Eight Extremes Collapse, retreating three steps while Tang San fell back ten.
• As Tang San continued his hammer sequence, Dai Yao compressed Soul Power through his right arm and formed a twice-compressed Eight Extremes Collapse for their next collision.

Dai Yao and Tang San pushed their techniques to their limits in a brutal duel, with Dai Yao refusing to reveal his second Spirit. Dai Yao unleashed his White Tiger Eight Wings and charged Tang San with a sevenfold-compressed Eight Extremes Collapse, and the chapter ended with their final collision hidden by smoke.

• Dai Yao and Tang San traded increasingly powerful blows as their Eight Extremes Collapse and Chaotic Cloak remained evenly matched.
• Dai Yao compressed his Soul Power sixfold, while Tang San reached his thirty-sixth hammer and realized Dai Yao had concealed his strength against Huo Wushuang.
• Tang San continued toward his forty-eighth hammer, driven by his desire to avenge Xiao Wu, while Dai Yao challenged his sense of entitlement and resolved to rely on his own strength.
• Dai Yao unfurled his White Tiger Eight Wings and forced his Soul Power toward a sevenfold compression as Tang San prepared his forty-eighth hammer.
• Dai Yao charged Tang San, and their attacks collided in a blast that filled the Duel Arena with smoke and debris.

Dai Yao defeated Tang San in a devastating duel but Ning Fengzhi intervened before Dai Yao could kill him. Tang San learned that Dai Yao saw him as a threat to the continent, and Shrek Academy faced the Promotion Tournament without him while his arms healed.

• The duel's final collision destroyed the arena, and Dai Yao emerged battered while Tang San lay gravely injured.
• Dai Yao explained privately that Tang San's destined era would bring suffering, then declared that his own arrival would end it.
• Ning Fengzhi healed Dai Yao's arm and stabilized Tang San, whose arms would need at least a month to recover.
• Tang San apologized to Shrek Academy for challenging Dai Yao, and Dai Mubai and the others pledged to carry on without him.
• Tai Long offered to seek help from his grandfather, but Tang San warned that Dai Yao's Spirit Hall backing made the conflict too dangerous to resolve that way.

After Tang San was injured in his match against Dai Yao, Xiao Wu stayed with him and heard him swear that the two were mortal enemies. Tang San said he could kill Dai Yao with King of Hell's Summons, and Xiao Wu suggested seeking its rare ingredients at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, which now belonged to Dai Yao.

• Yu Xiaogang urged Tang San to return to the academy to recover, but Tang San chose to stay and watch the matches.
• Dai Mubai and the others promised to carry Shrek Academy through the remaining matches, while Xiao Wu stayed behind to care for Tang San.
• Tang San apologized for failing to avenge Xiao Wu and declared that he and Dai Yao had to kill one another.
• Xiao Wu concluded that Dai Yao had taken Tang San's Man Faced Demon Spider soul bone and resolved to help Tang San kill him.
• Tang San said King of Hell's Summons could kill Dai Yao but required forty-nine rare herbs, and Xiao Wu suggested asking Dugu Bo for access to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Tang San agreed that Dugu Bo might help him obtain herbs from the garden, which now belonged to Dai Yao.

Dai Yao led Oakland Academy to a crushing victory over Godwind Academy, securing first place in the Promotion Tournament and drawing attention as a potential challenger to the Spirit Hall Battle Team. With the teams preparing to leave for Spirit City, he reflected on his years in Heaven Dou Empire and the uncertain time before his return.

• Dai Yao used his Fourth Spirit Skill to defeat Godwind Academy's fighters, and Feng Xiaotian admitted defeat after enduring more than thirty thunderbolts.
• Oakland Academy won the Promotion Tournament with fourteen victories, and Dai Yao considered the challenge posed by the Spirit Hall Battle Team.
• Feng Xiaotian, Shui Bing'er, and other soul masters discussed Oakland Academy's chances against Martial Soul Hall Academy, while Dai Yao concealed that he belonged to Martial Soul Hall.
• After Xue Ye's speech, Crown Prince Xue Qinghe was appointed to lead sixteen teams to Spirit City, where the final rounds would begin after their departure in three days.
• Dai Yao spent a rare day resting with Zhu Zhuqing and Feng Wutong, then looked over Oakland Academy's sculptures and wondered when he would return.

Dai Yao and the Oakland Academy team traveled toward Spirit City, where a Spirit Hall ambush separated the fifteen teams and targeted Shrek Academy. As Dugu Bo prepared to rescue Tang San, Dai Yao urged him to reconsider, invoking the danger to Dugu Yan and the wider conflict with Spirit Hall.

• Dugu Bo joined the Oakland Academy team at the gates, and Dai Yao announced that he, Feng Wutong, and Zhu Zhuqing would stay in Spirit City and join Spirit Hall after the Finals.
• The teams traveled under the protection of five hundred Royal Knights, and Dai Yao reflected on the power and class divisions he encountered along the way.
• In a canyon, falling rocks split the teams apart, and more than a thousand black-clad soul masters surrounded them as Spirit Hall attacked Shrek Academy.
• Dugu Bo recognized that the attackers were likely from Spirit Hall and prepared to go help Tang San, while Dai Yao remained calm and identified their likely affiliation.
• Dugu Bo told Dai Yao that Tang San was his friend, and Dai Yao urged him not to risk himself by opposing Spirit Hall, asking him to consider Dugu Yan's safety.

Dai Yao refused to let Dugu Bo save Tang San but won his promise not to join Spirit Hall, then secretly intervened to save Shui Bing'er and Ning Rongrong as Chrysanthemum Douluo attacked Shrek. The chapter ended with Ning Rongrong alive after Dai Yao subtly deflected a deadly petal, while Chrysanthemum Douluo still threatened the injured Shrek group.

• Dugu Bo refused to join Spirit Hall or rescue Tang San, but warned Dai Yao not to betray Dugu Yan, and Dai Yao left to check on the other academies.
• Dai Yao saw a Soul King attack Shui Bing'er and secretly used his lightning to destroy the attack before continuing toward Shrek.
• Dai Yao found Chrysanthemum Douluo confronting Shrek and learned that Xiao Wu's Lovesick Heartbreak Red had captured Yue Guan's attention.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo injured the Shrek group, then attacked them with his sixth soul skill after Xiao Wu refused to hand over the Lovesick Heartbreak Red.
• Ning Rongrong used her remaining strength to boost Oscar's speed and save him, while Dai Yao secretly changed the course of a petal that was about to kill her.

Dai Yao secretly protected Ning Rongrong during Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan’s attack, before Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Ning Fengzhi arrived and forced the attackers to retreat. As the convoy continued toward Spirit City, Ning Rongrong struggled with her feelings for Dai Yao, while Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin discussed his ties to Spirit Hall and his role in martial soul evolution.

• Yue Guan recognized Dai Yao’s Thunder Power when it diverted a feather blade from Ning Rongrong, then launched a second attack that left the Shrek group facing death.
• Sword Douluo Chen Xin appeared and shattered Yue Guan’s chrysanthemum petals, and Ning Fengzhi arrived with an eight-ring Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo withdrew with their forces, while Dai Yao quietly returned to Oakland’s carriage and Xue Qinghe ordered the convoy out of the canyon.
• Ning Fengzhi advised Ning Rongrong to follow her heart about Dai Yao, and she wondered why Dai Yao had saved her despite their distance.
• Chen Xin and Ning Fengzhi discussed Dai Yao’s secret intervention, the martial soul evolutions of Zhu Zhuqing and Feng Wutong, and the danger of exploiting Dai Yao for his power.