Chapter Summaries

Ning Fengzhi, Yu Xiaomen, and Huo Qiqiang prevented Spirit Hall from pursuing Tang San during the tournament by invoking the contestants’ rights. On the arena, Shui Bing’er’s Ultimate Ice froze Shrek Team and led Skywater Academy to defeat them, leaving Tang San unable to prevent another loss.

• Yu Xiaomen and Huo Qiqiang argued that Spirit Hall could not hunt Tang San during the tournament, and Ning Fengzhi pledged that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would bear responsibility for protecting him.
• Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer as Shui Bing’er and Skywater Academy activated their Martial Souls.
• At the start of the match, Shui Bing’er used an instant Ice Seal to freeze all seven members of Shrek Team, and Skywater Academy pushed the ice-bound contestants off the stage.
• Tang San and Dai Mubai broke free, but Tang San refused to surrender and tried to attack with Chaotic Wind Hammer.
• Shui Bing’er froze Tang San again, and the Referee declared Skywater Academy the winner over Shrek Academy.

Tang San woke after his defeat and brooded over Xiao Wu’s closeness with Yu Tianheng, convinced Yu Tianheng planned to take her and the Shura God Throne from him. Yu Tianheng and Er Ming confronted Tang San over his failures and told him to leave Xiao Wu, while the Shrek Three Heroes and Tailong began to wake.

• Xiao Wu cared for Tang San and said she and A-Heng would compete together in future matches, leaving Tang San wounded by her calling him weak.
• Tang San raged inwardly about losing and resolved that he would not let Yu Tianheng take Xiao Wu, the Shura God Throne, or his imagined future.
• Yu Tianheng and Er Ming visited Tang San, mocked his defeat, and demanded that he admit he was an incompetent loser and leave Xiao Wu.
• Tang San held back from attacking Yu Tianheng and Er Ming because he feared it would make Xiao Wu hate him.
• The Shrek Three Heroes and Tailong stopped pretending to sleep and began to wake as Dai Mubai asked Tang San what had happened.

After losing to Shui Bing'er, Tang San decided to cultivate his Clear Sky Hammer early because his Blue Silver Grass had lost its bloodline potential. When Flat-top confronted him over using the hammer, Tang San accused him of teaching him nothing and choosing harmful Soul Rings.

• Tang San admitted defeat, and Dai Mubai, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Tailong apologized for being unable to help him beat Shui Bing'er.
• Tang San said he would begin cultivating his Clear Sky Hammer early because his Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline had been stolen and his Blue Silver Grass could no longer help him progress quickly.
• Ma Hongjun supported Tang San, who privately resolved to let him attempt the Fire God Trial after becoming a god.
• Flat-top entered Black Carbon Head's room and scolded him for revealing his Clear Sky Hammer, but Black Carbon Head dismissed his concern and challenged his authority as a teacher.
• Black Carbon Head accused Flat-top of giving him mismatched Poison-Attribute Soul Rings and providing only theories he had never needed, while Flat-top denied that his teachings were wrong.

Yu Xiaogang left for Spirit Hall, hoping to obtain cultivation methods from Bibi Dong and restore his standing with Tang San. Tang San and his companions dismissed Yu Xiaogang and arranged for a Soul Hunter to help him acquire Soul Rings for the Clear Sky Hammer.

• Yu Xiaogang left for Spirit Hall to seek the Twin Martial Soul Cultivation Method and the Soul Ring Limit-Breaking Cultivation Method from Bibi Dong.
• Tang San told Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Dai Mubai that he had used Yu Xiaogang for his connections and planned to end their fake master-disciple relationship after the Spirit Master Tournament.
• Tang San explained that he wanted to add Soul Rings to the Clear Sky Hammer but could not ask Shrek's teachers for help without revealing his plans.
• Dai Mubai took Tang San to the Soul Hunting Guild and hired Brother Hai, a Gold Medal Soul Hunter, to find four Soul Rings between five thousand and ten thousand years old.
• Dai Mubai secretly handed Brother Hai a Star Luo Royal Platinum Card, and the two exchanged a knowing look.

Tang San followed Brother Hai into the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Soul Rings for his Clear Sky Hammer, but rejected every suitable beast he found. The chapter ended with Brother Hai ordering him to absorb a Slug’s Soul Ring, while Tang San realized he lacked the strength and weapons to resist.

• Dai Mubai returned to keep an eye on Xiao Wu, and Tang San entered the Star Dou Great Forest with Brother Hai.
• Tang San rejected several strength-type Soul Beasts because they did not meet his high standards for Clear Sky Hammer Soul Rings.
• After days of searching, Tang San demanded a Soul Ring from a rare, powerful beast, and Brother Hai refused to hunt one for him.
• Brother Hai brought Tang San a five-thousand-five-hundred-year Slug and ordered him to kill it and absorb its Soul Ring.
• Tang San reached for a Hidden Weapon but realized his supplies were depleted and he had no way to fight Brother Hai.

Brother Hai forced Tang San to choose between absorbing a Slug Soul Beast's Soul Ring and being abandoned in the Star Dou Great Forest. Fearing he would miss the tournament and lose Xiao Wu and the Shura God Throne to Yu Tianheng, Tang San began absorbing the ring.

• Brother Hai rejected Tang San's request to hunt a suitable Power-Type Soul Beast and ordered him to absorb the Slug Soul Beast's ring instead.
• Tang San tried to intimidate Brother Hai with the Clear Sky Sect, but Brother Hai threatened to leave him lost in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tang San realized that escaping alone could take months and cost him the tournament, his mother's Soul Bone, and Xiao Wu.
• Brother Hai's warning that Xiao Wu might fall for someone else broke Tang San's resistance, and Tang San agreed to absorb the Slug Soul Ring.
• Tang San killed the Slug Soul Beast, then drew its purple Soul Ring toward himself as Brother Hai counted down.

Tang San gained two Clear Sky Hammer Soul Rings chosen by Brother Hai, and both gave him humiliating snot-based skills. Brother Hai then brought him to an acidic pool and proposed a five-thousand-year-old Acid Slime for Tang San’s third Soul Ring.

• Tang San absorbed the Slug’s Soul Ring, rose from Level 41 to Level 43, and discovered his first Soul Skill was Snot Strike.
• Tang San tried to leave, but Brother Hai slapped him and threatened to ruin his Clear Sky Hammer unless he accepted three more Soul Rings.
• Brother Hai used the Inverse Sea Whale Halberd to subdue a five-thousand-year-old Slug, and Tang San killed it and gained Snot Entanglement as his second Soul Skill.
• Tang San objected to absorbing another Slug, so Brother Hai led him to an acidic pool and pointed out a five-thousand-year-old Acid Slime as a candidate for his third Soul Ring.

Tang San was forced by Brother Hai to absorb an Acidic Slime Soul Ring, which corroded his Clear Sky Hammer, and he later fled into the Star Dou Great Forest. He escaped the forest only to hear a familiar melody and encounter Xiao Wu, surrendering to her despite suspecting she was fake.

• Brother Hai made Tang San absorb an Acidic Slime Soul Ring, and Tang San discovered that its Acid Splash skill had damaged his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang San became increasingly wary of Brother Hai and decided to escape while they traveled through the forest.
• Tang San slipped away from camp at night and ran through the Star Dou Great Forest, trusting his destiny to guide him.
• Tang San emerged from the forest and vowed to take revenge on Brother Hai and others.
• A familiar melody stopped Tang San, and Xiao Wu's voice persuaded him to turn around.
• Tang San recognized the Xiao Wu before him might be fake but embraced her, longing for the real Xiao Wu.

Tang San woke after an illusion had made him intimate with a Shrek Soul Beast, then killed it in humiliation. He absorbed the Shrek’s Soul Ring instead of the unsuitable Great Snow Beast ring Brother Hai had proposed, leaving his Clear Sky Hammer with a weakened foundation and a purple, purple, purple, yellow configuration at Soul Power Level 45.

• Tang San woke beside a Shrek Soul Beast and realized it had mistaken him for Xiao Wu during the previous night’s illusion.
• Tang San killed the Shrek in a furious attack, and a 983-year Soul Ring rose from its corpse.
• Tang San confronted Brother Hai, who admitted he had watched the incident but denied arranging the illusion.
• Brother Hai proposed a five-thousand-year Great Snow Beast Soul Ring, and Tang San feared it would damage his Clear Sky Hammer and make Xiao Wu despise him.
• Tang San chose the Shrek’s lower-aged Soul Ring and absorbed it, while Brother Hai revealed he had invented the Great Snow Beast to make Tang San accept the ring.
• Tang San finished absorbing the ring in under three minutes, but his potential weakened and his Clear Sky Hammer reached Soul Power Level 45 with a purple, purple, purple, yellow configuration.

Tang San returned to Shrek after Brother Hai led him to absorb a poorly suited Hundred-Year Spirit Ring, leaving his Clear Sky Hammer corroded and his ambitions in ruins. He resolved to reclaim his former power and punish Huo Yuhao, then told Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar that Brother Hai had tricked him.

• Brother Hai scolded Tang San for choosing a Hundred-Year Spirit Ring and led him out of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tang San swore revenge on Brother Hai and saw that his Clear Sky Hammer had been corroded by his Spirit Origin.
• Tang San resolved to win Xiao Wu's approval, become the Shura God, and make Huo Yuhao suffer in the future.
• Tang San returned to Shrek Academy despite his painful memories and showed Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar his Soul Rings.
• Tang San blamed Brother Hai for forcing him to absorb unsuitable Soul Rings, while concealing the episode that humiliated him.

Dai Mubai apologized to Tang San for introducing him to Brother Hai, while secretly celebrating the damage done to Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer. Huo Qiqiang prepared Lin Chen to pursue a Golden Sacred Dragon Martial Soul, and Yu Xiaogang arrived in Spirit City hoping to reach Bibi Dong before she learned about Tang San’s identity.

• Dai Mubai blamed himself for Tang San’s ill-suited Soul Rings, and Tang San forgave him while secretly deciding to take away his God of War Divine Throne when he was no longer useful.
• Dai Mubai told Xiao Wu that Tang San had absorbed Soul Rings from slugs, an Acidic Slime, and a Shrek, and she rewarded him with a week of exclusive training.
• Huo Qiqiang showed Lin Chen the Golden Dragon-Nourishing Fruit and had Yu Xiaomen demonstrate the Golden Sacred Dragon’s bloodline suppression of Lin Chen’s Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.
• Huo Qiqiang gave Lin Chen two cards and sent him to settle an old score, while entrusting the Golden Dragon-Nourishing Fruit to Qian Renxue.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived at Spirit City, hoping to obtain the Twin Martial Soul cultivation method from Bibi Dong before she learned that Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer had been exposed.

Yu Xiaogang visited Spirit Hall hoping to obtain cultivation methods from Bibi Dong, but a masked Judgment Elder confronted him and exposed his motives. When she revealed a Golden Dragon-Nourishing Fruit, Yu Xiaogang became determined to claim it and offered to cut ties with Bibi Dong in exchange.

• Yu Xiaogang waited in the Pope's Palace, expecting to meet Bibi Dong and obtain Spirit Hall's cultivation methods.
• A masked Judgment Elder arrived instead, told Yu Xiaogang that Bibi Dong would not see him, and accused him of seeking power and fame through Tang San.
• The Judgment Elder revealed a Golden Dragon-Nourishing Fruit, and Yu Xiaogang recalled how Yu Xiaomen had taken one from him decades earlier.
• A Palace Guardian Warrior suppressed Yu Xiaogang when he reached toward the fruit, and Yu Xiaogang resolved to get it anyway.
• Yu Xiaogang offered to sever all ties with Bibi Dong if Spirit Hall gave him the Golden Dragon-Nourishing Fruit.

Yu Xiaogang tried to trade his promise to leave Bibi Dong alone for the Golden Dragon-Nourishing Fruit, but Spirit Hall demanded that he publicly confess to plagiarizing his work. The Masked Woman gave him a choice between admitting his fraud to obtain the fruit or leaving without it.

• Yu Xiaogang offered to stop contacting Bibi Dong in exchange for the Golden Dragon-Nourishing Fruit, but the Masked Woman refused.
• When the Armored Guard moved to escort him out, Yu Xiaogang begged the Judgment Elder for the fruit and agreed to anything within his power.
• The Masked Woman demanded that Yu Xiaogang attend a theory conference and admit that Ten Core Competencies of Spirit was plagiarized.
• The Masked Woman showed Spirit Recording Stones that documented Yu Xiaogang copying other scholars' work while writing his book.
• The Masked Woman offered Yu Xiaogang the Golden Dragon-Nourishing Fruit if he confessed, or permanent loss of the chance to obtain it if he refused.

Yu Xiaogang admitted that he had plagiarized Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul in exchange for the Golden Dragon-Nourishing Fruit. As experts questioned him at the conference, he claimed one theory was original, then was challenged to explain whether his own Level 29 stagnation proved that he was a useless Soul Master.

• Yu Xiaogang chose to admit his plagiarism after the Masked Woman swore to give him the Golden Dragon-Nourishing Fruit.
• Yu Xiaogang faced spectators and theory experts at the Soul Master Theory Conference, where the presiding expert asked whether his book was plagiarized.
• Yu Xiaogang admitted that successive theories came from works by Old Wen and Master Lu.
• Yu Xiaogang said the theory that there were no useless Martial Souls, only useless Soul Masters, was his own.
• An expert asked Yu Xiaogang whether his Level 29 bottleneck meant his Martial Soul or he himself was the problem, leaving him unable to answer.

Yu Xiaogang endured public humiliation over plagiarism to obtain the Golden Dragon-Nourishing Fruit, then consumed it and evolved Luo Sanpao into the Golden Sacred Dragon. He ran into Lin Chen, who confronted him about being used as experimental material, and Yu Xiaogang noticed Lin Chen had the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul.

• Yu Xiaogang collected the Golden Dragon-Nourishing Fruit from the Masked Woman after the symposium exposed his theories as plagiarism.
• The Masked Woman warned Yu Xiaogang not to consume the fruit within her perception, and he secretly swallowed it in an alley in Spirit City.
• Yu Xiaogang's Luo Sanpao evolved into the Golden Sacred Dragon, filling him with joy.
• Lin Chen slapped Yu Xiaogang after they collided, then reminded him that Yu Xiaogang had used him as experimental material and abandoned him to a snake.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized Lin Chen and questioned how his Martial Soul had changed from Sacred Spirit Grass to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.

Yu Xiaogang tried to reclaim Lin Chen as a disciple so he could exploit Lin Chen’s Twin Martial Souls and investigate Spark Academy, but Lin Chen exposed his motives and refused. Yu Xiaogang threatened Lin Chen over the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul and summoned his Golden Sacred Dragon; Lin Chen appeared to claim the dragon as his own and pulled out two cards.

• Yu Xiaogang saw Lin Chen’s Sacred Breath Spirit Grass Martial Soul and questioned how Lin Chen had obtained the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul.
• Yu Xiaogang offered to take Lin Chen back as his first disciple, hoping to study his cultivation and uncover Spark Academy’s secrets.
• Lin Chen exposed Yu Xiaogang’s plan to use him as a test subject for the benefit of Tang San and rejected the offer.
• Yu Xiaogang declared that outsiders could not inherit the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul and threatened Lin Chen’s descendants unless Lin Chen joined his family.
• Lin Chen summoned his five Soul Rings and challenged Yu Xiaogang to settle their old debt.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned the Golden Sacred Dragon and claimed it could suppress Lin Chen, but Lin Chen called it his Martial Soul and pulled out two cards.

Lin Chen used a Spirit Replacement Card to take Yu Xiaogang’s Golden Sacred Dragon Martial Soul and give him a Great White Flower Pig Spirit in exchange. Yu Xiaogang was left devastated as his hopes of rising to power collapsed.

• Yu Xiaogang celebrated his Golden Sacred Dragon Martial Soul and mocked Lin Chen as lowborn.
• Lin Chen activated a Spirit Replacement Card to extract Yu Xiaogang’s Golden Sacred Dragon and exchange it for a Great White Flower Pig Spirit.
• Yu Xiaogang tried to attack Lin Chen with a rock, but the card’s golden shockwave blasted him away.
• The card pulled the Golden Sacred Dragon completely from Yu Xiaogang, who begged it not to leave.
• Lin Chen gave Yu Xiaogang the Flower Pig Spirit, and Yu Xiaogang realized it offered none of the potential he had hoped for.

Lin Chen took Yu Xiaogang’s Golden Sacred Dragon bloodline and Martial Soul, evolved his own Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon into the Golden Sacred Dragon, and spared Yu Xiaogang while taunting him. Yu Xiaogang clung to his hope of using Tang San to gain revenge, then broke down in the rain as strangers mocked his ruined reputation.

• Lin Chen transformed his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon into the Golden Sacred Dragon, whose draconic might forced Yu Xiaogang and the Flower Pig to the ground.
• Lin Chen taunted Yu Xiaogang, said he would let him live, and vowed to watch him remain below Soul Elder for the rest of his life.
• Yu Xiaogang remembered losing the Golden Dragon-Nourishing Fruit to Yu Xiaomen and now losing his evolved Martial Soul and bloodline to Lin Chen.
• Yu Xiaogang decided Tang San was his last hope for fame and revenge against Yu Xiaomen, Lin Chen, Spirit Hall, and his other enemies.
• Passersby mocked Yu Xiaogang as a plagiarist, and he fell to his knees in the rain, crying out over his cruel fate.

Lin Chen celebrated with Yu Xiaomen after taking Yu Xiaogang’s Golden Sacred Dragon Martial Soul, while Yu Xiaogang mourned its loss and abused his new Flower Pig Martial Soul. His old prison mates then surrounded him in the alley.

• Lin Chen told Yu Xiaomen that taking Yu Xiaogang’s Martial Soul had felt incredible, and the two celebrated over a feast.
• Yu Xiaogang despaired over losing Luo Sanpao and the Golden Sacred Dragon and blamed his Flower Pig Martial Soul for his misfortune.
• Yu Xiaogang beat the Flower Pig with a thorny bramble, hurting himself as the pig squealed.
• A man asked why Yu Xiaogang was upset, and Yu Xiaogang insisted that the Golden Sacred Dragon had been his former Martial Soul.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized his old prison mates among the men surrounding him in the alley.

After losing confidence in his newly cultivated Clear Sky Hammer, Tang San promised Xiao Wu that he would prove himself in the tournament and challenged Yu Tianheng to let him compete first. At the venue, Ning Fengzhi introduced Tang San to Huo Qiqiang, the Sect Leader of the Body Sect.

• Yu Xiaogang ran into Brother Scar, Brother Dragon, Brother Chicken, and Brother Jie, who surrounded him after escaping prison.
• Xiao Wu encouraged Tang San to demonstrate his Clear Sky Hammer in the next day's match, and Tang San vowed to impress her.
• Tang San challenged Yu Tianheng for the first position in the match against Forest Academy, and Yu Tianheng agreed to let him go first.
• Yu Tianheng recalled his tournament victories and challenged Tang San to prove he could perform as well.
• At the venue, Ning Fengzhi introduced Tang San to Huo Qiqiang, the Sect Leader of the Body Sect.