Chapter Summaries

Su Ming killed Bule with Dragon Beard Needles and gained Votive Power, then agreed to fund Shrek Academy as a School Board Director. By evening, Flender had accepted Su Ming's investment, and Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong arrived at the city gate.

• Su Ming followed Bule into an alley and killed him by firing five Dragon Beard Needles into his body.
• Su Ming burned Bule's corpse, then explored Suotuo City, ran into Rongrong and Xiao Wu, and bought materials at an auction house.
• Flender accepted Su Ming's investment and welcomed him as a School Board Director of Shrek Academy.
• Su Ming gave Flender a diamond card for the academy's funding and asked him to keep the accounts reasonable.
• Flender said he would tell everyone about Su Ming's new position when they gathered, and Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong arrived at the city gate.

Su Ming and the others waited for Oscar and Ma Hongjun, who arrived late and revealed that Xue Xuan, the Heaven Dou Empire’s fifth prince, had come to Suotuo City. The group learned why the royal family had promoted Xue Xuan’s reputation, but his purpose for visiting remained unknown.

• Tang San and Xiao Wu told Flender and Ning Rongrong about Little Master Chef’s restaurant, while Ning Rongrong resolved to report the news to her sect.
• Flender mentioned Xue Xuan’s Peacock Martial Soul and its Five-Colored Divine Light, then told the group that Dai Mubai and Du Busi had stayed behind to train.
• Oscar and Ma Hongjun arrived late, blamed Fatty’s greed, and faced Flender’s threat of increased training.
• After the group agreed to hear them out, Oscar led everyone somewhere secluded and revealed that Xue Xuan had come to Suotuo City.
• Ning Rongrong and Tang San questioned why Xue Xuan would visit, and the narration explained that the Heaven Dou royal family promoted him as a powerful royal champion against the Star Luo Empire.

The chapter explained why Xue Xuan’s Five-Colored Peacock Martial Soul and extraordinary talent could not qualify him to inherit the Heaven Dou throne, whose succession depended on the Swan Martial Soul to preserve political stability. Ning Rongrong rejected Oscar and Ma Hongjun’s story about Xue Xuan, while Su Ming watched as Xiao Wu demanded they explain what had really happened.

• The chapter explained that the Heaven Dou Royal Family kept the Swan Martial Soul as its stable inheritance, and Xue Xuan could only become emperor if he overcame every faction and broke the thousand-year balance.
• Ning Rongrong scoffed at Oscar and Ma Hongjun’s claim that Xue Xuan was in Suotuo City, recalling her acquaintance with the fifth prince and his fearsome Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Ning Rongrong remembered Ning Fengzhi’s praise of Xue Xuan and Gu Rong’s private admission that he would have wanted to eliminate such a dangerous genius if Xue Xuan were not a prince.
• Su Ming silently observed and revealed that Xue Xuan was his exceptionally powerful Alter Ego, inspired by Daoist Kong Xuan.
• Xiao Wu demanded that Oscar and Ma Hongjun tell the truth, so Oscar gave in and recounted everything he knew.

Oscar and Ma Hongjun recounted how Xue Xuan had summoned them, revealed a faint phoenix bloodline in Ma Hongjun’s Martial Soul, and given him a token. The story left Xue Xuan’s larger ambition clear: using Five-Colored Divine Light to make the Five-Colored Peacock the supreme avian Martial Soul.

• Oscar told Flender, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Su Ming, and Ning Rongrong that a mysterious man had taken him and Ma Hongjun to meet Xue Xuan.
• Oscar said Xue Xuan had sought out Ma Hongjun rather than him, surprising everyone.
• Ma Hongjun explained that Xue Xuan had identified a faint phoenix bloodline in his Martial Soul and advised him on cultivation.
• Ma Hongjun showed the group a peacock-feather token from Xue Xuan, convincing Ning Rongrong that his account was genuine.
• Su Ming revealed that Xue Xuan planned to use Five-Colored Divine Light to brand fear into avian Martial Souls and establish the Five-Colored Peacock as their supreme ruler.

Ma Hongjun told the group that Prince Xue Xuan might challenge Su Ming, and Su Ming confidently accepted. Flender announced Su Ming's appointment as Shrek Academy's sole School Board Director, then brought the group to the Great Soul Arena, where Su Ming set his sights on a Diamond Spirit Battler badge and revealed he expected to reach level forty that night.

• Ma Hongjun said Prince Xue Xuan had taken an interest in him and might challenge Su Ming the next day; Su Ming agreed to fight the prince.
• Flender announced that Su Ming had joined Shrek Academy as its sole School Board Director, leaving the group astonished.
• Flender led everyone to the Great Soul Arena and explained its Spirit Battler badge ranks and Shrek's graduation requirement.
• Su Ming said he would aim for a Diamond Spirit Battler badge, and Ma Hongjun and Oscar praised his ambition.
• Su Ming urged the group onward and revealed that he expected to break through to level forty that night, surprising everyone.

Su Ming revealed that he had reached level forty and was a twelve-year-old Soul Ancestor, then began competing at the Suotuo City Great Soul Arena. The chapter ended as Xiao Wu prepared for her first battle after Su Ming defeated his opponent with one palm strike.

• Su Ming’s friends and Flender celebrated his breakthrough, and Flender arranged for the group to travel to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Su Ming’s fourth Spirit Ring.
• The group registered at the Great Soul Arena and entered the matchmaking process, with Su Ming assigned a Soul Elder opponent and Tang San and Xiao Wu signing up for two-on-two battles.
• Su Ming faced Li Chenhui, a popular Soul Elder with nine consecutive victories, and defeated him with a single palm strike without releasing his martial soul.
• The audience erupted in support of Su Ming after his instant victory, and he sensed Votive Power from the crowd.
• Tang San told Xiao Wu that her battle was next, and Su Ming encouraged her before she entered the arena.

Su Ming persuaded Supervisor Ao to make an exception allowing him to enter two-on-two spirit battles alone, then joined the others as they set out for the Star Dou Great Forest. The group left to hunt Spirit Rings for Su Ming and Oscar, while Su Ming kept his plans for a ten-thousand-year fourth ring secret.

• Xiao Wu and Tang San won their one-on-one spirit battles, while Ma Hongjun lost his match.
• Su Ming demonstrated that his Qi Martial Soul could create a duplicate, convincing Supervisor Ao to approve an exception for him and arrange an exclusive Spirit Battler Badge and rules.
• The next morning, Oscar arrived late after breaking through to Rank 30, and the group congratulated him.
• Flender sent the group toward the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Spirit Rings for Su Ming and Oscar.
• Su Ming kept his plans for his fourth Spirit Ring secret and prepared to harvest Willpower during the trip.

Chen Xin recalled how fate led him to accept Ji Juechen, a gifted swordsman from the West Li Stone Kingdom, as his disciple, while Ning Fengzhi considered how the sect could support him. Meanwhile, Zhao Wuji brought Su Ming, Du Busi, and the others to an inn near the Star Dou Great Forest to rest for the night.

• Ning Fengzhi praised Chen Xin for finding Ji Juechen, and Chen Xin recalled discovering the youth at Great Sword Mountain and offering to become his teacher.
• Chen Xin explained Ji Juechen's origins, exceptional swordsmanship, and unusual cultivation path, while Ning Fengzhi predicted that he could become a Titled Douluo.
• Chen Xin refused Ning Fengzhi's suggestion that Ji Juechen choose a new sword, explaining that his meteoric-iron weapon was tied to his path of cultivation.
• Ning Fengzhi resolved to find a suitable treasure for Ji Juechen, and Chen Xin agreed to consider gifts that might help his disciple.
• Zhao Wuji led Su Ming, Du Busi, and the others to an inn near the Star Dou Great Forest, where they settled in for the night after a tiring journey.

Su Ming’s group clashed with students from Canghui Academy after Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai insulted them, and Tang San stopped the first confrontation from escalating. Meng Qiuzhen, Shi Nian’s grandson, then challenged Shrek’s students to test their strength as the chapter ended.

• Zhao Wuji left Su Ming’s group at the inn, where they encountered Shi Nian and the Canghui Academy students.
• Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai insulted Canghui Academy, prompting one of its students to approach their table.
• Tang San used Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon to save a server and the food, then tried to defuse the argument.
• A Canghui student secretly kicked Dai Mubai’s chair, and Dai Mubai countered by striking him and sending him spinning.
• Shi Nian gave his grandson Meng Qiuzhen permission to test Shrek’s group, and Meng Qiuzhen introduced himself as a Rank 30 control-system Soul Grandmaster before challenging them.

Meng Qiuzhen challenged the Shrek group at the inn and easily defeated Ma Hongjun with his Dream Butterfly Gu abilities. After explaining that Ma Hongjun would wake once the Dream Butterflies consumed his Soul Power, Meng Qiuzhen called on Dai Mubai to fight next.

• Meng Qiuzhen dismissed A Quan’s offer to have Canghui Academy’s students fight together and challenged the Shrek group to a duel.
• Su Ming offered to pay for any damage to the dining hall, and Tang San agreed that Shrek would cover the costs.
• Ma Hongjun attacked Meng Qiuzhen with Phoenix Fire Line, but Meng Qiuzhen used Lingering Dream Shuttle to make the flames pass through him harmlessly.
• Meng Qiuzhen used Sleeping Dream Butterfly to put Ma Hongjun to sleep, then explained that the Dream Butterflies would dissipate after consuming Ma Hongjun’s Soul Power.
• Meng Qiuzhen challenged Dai Mubai to fight next, prompting Dai Mubai to doubt whether he could defeat him.

Meng Qiuzhen challenged Dai Mubai to teach him a lesson for his and Ma Hongjun’s rude remarks. After Dai Mubai’s strongest attack failed to touch Meng Qiuzhen, Meng Qiuzhen began a counterattack, leaving Dai Mubai’s defense facing his combined dream skills.

• Dai Mubai accepted Meng Qiuzhen’s challenge and introduced himself as a level-thirty-seven assault-type Battle Soul Elder with the White Tiger Martial Soul.
• Dai Mubai activated his White Tiger Martial Soul Possession and White Tiger Vajra Transformation, then fired his second soul skill while charging at Meng Qiuzhen.
• Meng Qiuzhen’s dream ability made Dai Mubai’s attack vanish and let Dai Mubai pass through him unharmed.
• Meng Qiuzhen closed in as Dai Mubai raised a defensive shield, then combined Sleeping Dream Butterfly with Lingering Dream Shuttle.

Meng Qiuzhen defeated Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun with his Dream Butterflies, then agreed to wake them in exchange for apologies and compensation. Zhao Wuji accepted the terms after learning how the conflict began, and the chapter ended with Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun sincerely apologizing to Canghui Academy.

• Meng Qiuzhen's Dream Butterflies bypassed Dai Mubai's barrier and put him to sleep, as they had Ma Hongjun.
• Zhao Wuji confronted Shi Nian, and Meng Qiuzhen demanded apologies, compensation for A Quan, and a temporary memento in exchange for waking the two students.
• Tang San explained how the fight began, and Zhao Wuji accepted Meng Qiuzhen's conditions on behalf of Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun.
• Meng Qiuzhen recalled the Dream Butterflies, and Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun woke up.
• Dai Mubai apologized to Canghui Academy, A Quan, and A Mei and offered compensation, while Ma Hongjun also apologized for starting the conflict.
• Shi Nian led Canghui Academy upstairs, and Zhao Wuji and Ning Rongrong arranged for their groups' meals to be brought to their rooms.

The Shrek group entered the Star Dou Great Forest, where Su Ming set out alone to find a powerful Soul Beast for his fourth Spirit Ring. He redirected the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent away from Meng Yiran’s group and pursued his plans for the forest, while a mysterious vitality-filled Soul Beast entered unnoticed.

• Dai Mubai explained that his defeat had made him rethink his training, and Su Ming offered to create a plan for a high price.
• Ning Rongrong asked Su Ming for a training plan, but he refused, while hinting that he knew ways to evolve her martial soul.
• The group entered the Star Dou Great Forest, rested, and followed Zhao Wuji’s formation before Su Ming left to explore alone.
• Su Ming detected Meng Yiran, the Dragon Duke, and the Snake Lady pursuing a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, then drove the serpent away from them.
• Su Ming searched the inner region for a Soul Beast suited to his fourth Spirit Ring, as a special Soul Beast entered the forest without alerting the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.

Su Ming killed a forty-thousand-year Emerald Spirit Dragon and found a rare Head Soul Bone, but interrupted absorbing its Spirit Ring after sensing a far more suitable fourth-ring target: a strange black tiger. The chapter ended as he set out to hunt it.

• Su Ming used Sky-Soaring Strike to kill the Emerald Spirit Dragon after resisting its Emerald Light.
• Su Ming discovered a rare Head Soul Bone in the Emerald Spirit Dragon’s remains and put it away to absorb later.
• Su Ming began absorbing the Emerald Spirit Dragon’s ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring, then stopped after sensing a better candidate for his fourth Spirit Ring.
• Su Ming used Votive Power to conceal his pursuit of an enormous black tiger with red eyes and a bone-segmented, hooked tail.

Su Ming lured the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger into activating its Life-Death Arena, then relied on the Three-One Jade Pendant’s barrier to withstand its attacks in their juvenile forms. He prepared to use an ultimate weapon against the tiger, leaving the battle unfinished.

• Su Ming tracked the injured Dark Demon Evil God Tiger as it hunted and devoured a Stone Armored Rock Bear.
• Su Ming simulated a Limit Douluo’s aura and attacked, prompting the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger to trap them both in its Life-Death Arena.
• The arena reduced Su Ming and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger to juvenile forms, and the tiger charged at Su Ming after the countdown ended.
• Su Ming’s Three-One Jade Pendant barrier blocked the tiger’s attacks, including its Dark Demon Evil Thunder.
• Su Ming took an ultimate weapon from the Three-One Jade Pendant and prepared to finish off the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.

Su Ming killed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, seized its Life Origin Pearl, and absorbed its Spirit Ring, gaining a powerful fourth soul skill and the Evil God Hook External Soul Bone. He then tested the hook’s abilities before heading back toward Zhao Wuji and the others, while Meng Qiuzhen demonstrated his new third soul skill to Shi Nian.

• Su Ming used the Azure Nether Needle Talisman to kill the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger in the Life-Death Arena, then sealed and collected its Life Origin Pearl.
• Su Ming concealed the area and absorbed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s Spirit Ring, raising his Soul Power to level forty-eight and a half.
• Su Ming gained the Evil God Hook External Soul Bone, which granted Evil God Thorn, Life-Death Arena, and Devour.
• Su Ming tested Devour on the Stone Armored Rock Bear’s corpse and the Evil God Thorn on a twelve-thousand-year Earth-Splitting Mad Rhinoceros before setting off to reunite with Zhao Wuji and Tang San.
• Su Ming checked on Meng Qiuzhen, who had obtained a third Spirit Ring from an Illusory Sleep Purple Wing and demonstrated Dream Wing’s Touch on Xie Zhiyuan at Shi Nian’s request.

Su Ming reunited with Tang San and the others, then helped them search the Star Dou Great Forest for Tang San’s third Spirit Ring. Tang San obtained a rare Moon Lotus ring that gave him the Blue Silver Lotus Seed skill, and Oscar tested its effects.

• Su Ming returned to the group as a newly minted Soul Ancestor, while Tang San revealed that he had reached level thirty.
• Su Ming praised Oscar’s Rapid Flight Mushroom Sausage and joined the group in searching for a suitable Spirit Ring for Tang San.
• The group found a Thousand-Year Moon Lotus in a lake, and Zhao Wuji killed its Golden Water Python guardian without harming the lotus.
• Tang San absorbed the Moon Lotus’s Spirit Ring and gained Blue Silver Lotus Seed, which temporarily increased a Spirit Master’s Soul Power capacity and could extend certain skill durations.
• Oscar eagerly swallowed a Blue Silver Lotus Seed to test whether it could lengthen his Rapid Flight Mushroom Sausage.

Tang San shared the Moon Lotus Seeds with his companions after Oscar confirmed that the Blue Silver Lotus Seed had strengthened his soul skill. As the group camped for the night, Zhao Wuji’s party was joined by Dragon Duke and Snake Lady’s group and Canghui Academy, whose members warned that soul beasts were restless and fleeing the forest’s depths; Su Ming prepared to organize the watch while staying alert for the Titan Giant Ape.

• Oscar consumed Tang San’s Blue Silver Lotus Seed and discovered that his Rapid Flight Mushroom Sausage’s flight duration had increased from one minute to a minute and a half.
• Tang San gave Su Ming Moon Lotus Seeds, then shared the remaining seeds with Zhao Wuji, Xiao Wu, and the others.
• Su Ming led the group to a campsite, where everyone gathered around a bonfire while he secretly kept watch for the Titan Giant Ape.
• Zhao Wuji noticed Snake Lady Chao Tianxiang, Meng Yiran, and Dragon Duke Meng Shu approaching, while Su Ming detected Shi Nian’s group from Canghui Academy nearby.
• Meng Shu and Shi Nian warned that soul beasts had become restless and that ten-thousand-year beasts were fleeing toward the outer region, prompting Su Ming to propose organizing a night watch.

Zhao Wuji’s uneasy watch ended when the Titan Giant Ape trapped the gathered groups inside stone walls and attacked their camp. As Zhao Wuji, Meng Shu, Shi Nian, and Su Ming fought back, Su Ming prepared to join the battle while Tang San searched for a way out.

• Zhao Wuji sensed a strange soul beast aura, woke the camp, and warned Su Ming to prepare to flee if danger appeared.
• The Titan Giant Ape emerged, and Tang San identified it as the forest’s king while Zhao Wuji tried to negotiate.
• The Titan Giant Ape struck the ground, then raised stone walls and a gravity field around the camp, trapping everyone inside.
• Zhao Wuji called on Meng Shu and Shi Nian to attack while Snake Lady searched for a weak point with the children.
• Su Ming noticed the Titan Giant Ape was not fighting seriously, then told Tang San to keep searching as he went to support Zhao Wuji and the others.

Su Ming joined the fight against the Titan Giant Ape and revealed his ten-thousand-year fourth Spirit Ring, using Evil God Transformation to unleash the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s power. As Er Ming roared in alarm, Da Ming rushed from the Lake of Life but was stopped by a mysterious soul beast.

• Su Ming accepted Tang San, Oscar, and Ning Rongrong’s support items before heading to help Zhao Wuji and the others fight the Titan Giant Ape.
• Du Busi persuaded Tang San and the others to keep searching the stone wall for an escape route instead of burdening Su Ming and Zhao Wuji.
• Su Ming struck the Titan Giant Ape with his Clear Sky Hammer, and Er Ming intensified its attacks; Zhao Wuji activated Martial Soul Avatar, Meng Shu used his own Martial Soul Avatar, and Shi Nian’s mental attack backfired.
• Su Ming revealed his ten-thousand-year fourth Spirit Ring and activated Evil God Transformation, shocking Zhao Wuji, Shi Nian, and Meng Shu with his increased power and evil aura.
• Er Ming roared in alarm, prompting Xiao Wu to sense its distress, while Da Ming emerged from the Lake of Life and flew toward it.
• A mysterious holy soul beast intercepted Da Ming and asked it to come down and speak.