Chapter Summaries

Huo Qiqiang explained to Qian Renxue why he had held back technological progress and showed her that gunpowder could form a system accessible beyond Soul Masters. He left her with the larger challenge of spreading technology widely enough to break the Douluo Continent’s entrenched power structure.

• Huo Qiqiang told Qian Renxue that he had restrained technological development to avoid destroying the Soul Beast Clan and to wait for Tang San’s arrival.
• Huo Qiqiang explained that he had abandoned the Dragon God Throne to pursue his own Eternal Law.
• Huo Qiqiang dismantled Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus and showed Qian Renxue the explosive at its core.
• Huo Qiqiang argued that gunpowder technology could become an alternative to Soul Tool Technology because ordinary people could use it.
• Huo Qiqiang recalled his goal of dismantling the world’s Caste System and said that spreading technology alone would not end the monopoly over powerful Martial Souls.

Huo Qiqiang explained to Qian Renxue why he had withheld advanced technology and showed her that explosives could launch a technological system usable by ordinary people. He planned to spread gunpowder technology as part of a broader effort to challenge the Douluo Continent’s entrenched social order, though Tang San’s influence had forced him to wait.

• Huo Qiqiang told Qian Renxue that he had avoided advancing technology to protect the Soul Beast Clan and to create a miracle of his own.
• Huo Qiqiang explained that he had abandoned the Dragon God Throne to pursue the Eternal Law and honor his promise to help the Soul Beast Clan bring forth a new Dragon God.
• Huo Qiqiang dismantled Buddha’s Fury Tang Lotus and showed Qian Renxue the explosives inside it, describing them as proof of a technological system that ordinary people could use.
• Huo Qiqiang reflected that the Tang Sect had stifled technological progress and that gunpowder alone would not dismantle a society built on monopolies of land and powerful Martial Souls.
• Huo Qiqiang recalled that Tang San had disrupted his plans to break the continent’s social order, so he had stayed hidden while preparing technologies to spread.

Huo Qiqiang showed Qian Renxue a secret laboratory and called a Soul Tool Injector a miracle that could change the world. The Snow Empress brought Mu Yuanfang and Luo Xingqi to the lab, where they faced a test about whether to inherit the powerful families’ order or end it, and the chapter left them standing before two Injectors.

• Huo Qiqiang took Qian Renxue to the Body Sect’s hidden laboratory and showed her a Soul Tool Injector.
• The Snow Empress led Mu Yuanfang and Luo Xingqi through the mountain to a chamber filled with technology.
• A machine showed Mu Yuanfang how powerful families had monopolized Martial Souls and how Tang Hao had killed his family.
• Mu Yuanfang chose to end the age of Sects and families, passed the test, and saw that Luo Xingqi had passed too.
• A platform rose before Mu Yuanfang and Luo Xingqi, displaying two Soul Tool Injectors.

The Snow Empress gave Mu Yuanfang and Luo Xingqi injections that replaced their original Martial Souls with powerful new ones, and both awakened Innate Full Soul Power. After they left, Qian Renxue learned that Huo Qiqiang could mass-produce injections that grant the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

• The Snow Empress offered Mu Yuanfang and Luo Xingqi experimental injections, and both endured severe pain to use them.
• After the injections removed their original Martial Souls, the Snow Empress awakened them and revealed Mu Yuanfang’s Gengjin Haotian Hammer and Luo Xingqi’s Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• The Snow Empress tested their Innate Soul Power, and both children had Innate Full Soul Power.
• The Snow Empress explained that the injections added stronger Spirit Soul Factors that overrode their weaker inherited Martial Souls.
• After Mu Yuanfang and Luo Xingqi left, Qian Renxue met Huo Qiqiang in the laboratory and learned he had a stock of one hundred Glazed Factor Injections.

Huo Qiqiang explained to Qian Renxue how Spirit Soul Factors could alter Martial Souls and upend the Douluo Continent’s social order, securing Spirit Hall’s support for his plans. After Qian Renxue agreed to promote Soul Tools, Huo Qiqiang ordered the Snow Empress to establish Spark Academy for ambitious commoners, setting his broader reform plan in motion.

• Huo Qiqiang showed Qian Renxue injections that could evolve Yu Xiaogang’s Martial Soul into a Light Sacred Dragon and produce Dark Sacred Dragon Martial Souls.
• Huo Qiqiang explained that Spirit Soul Factors were rooted in genes and could affect Martial Soul inheritance, evolution, mutation, and Twin Martial Souls, though they could not create every powerful Martial Soul.
• Qian Renxue recognized that spreading Spirit Soul Factor technology would threaten the continent’s social order, then pledged Spirit Hall’s support for Huo Qiqiang.
• Huo Qiqiang told Qian Renxue to promote Soul Tools throughout Spirit Hall, and she left after they made arrangements.
• Huo Qiqiang instructed the Snow Empress to establish Spark Academy for ambitious commoner Spirit Masters, using the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s sponsorship to fund it.
• Huo Qiqiang planned to position Spirit Hall and Spark Academy against the continent’s established sects and empires as part of his sweeping reform.

Lou Gao joined Spirit Hall after its pale-haired Angel offered to teach him Soul Tool crafting, taking half the Blacksmith Association’s members with him. Tai Tan reported the defection to Tang Hao, who ordered him to stop Lou Gao from joining Spirit Hall.

• Lou Gao examined the Angel’s offensive Soul Tool, begged to learn its craft, and agreed to join Spirit Hall in exchange for instruction.
• A month and a half later, Lou Gao announced his decision, and Silong and half the Blacksmith Association followed him while Tai Tan and the others stayed.
• Tai Tan reported Lou Gao’s departure to Tang Hao, explaining that Lou Gao had not revealed why he wanted to join Spirit Hall.
• Tang Hao ordered Tai Tan to prevent Lou Gao and anyone from the Blacksmith Association from joining Spirit Hall, and Tai Tan agreed to send the Strength Clan after them.

Lou Gao joined Spirit Hall after Gui Mei stopped an assassination attempt by the Strength Clan, while Yu Xiaogang used his nominal disciple Lin Chen to test his Soul Ring theory. After Lin Chen absorbed a venomous snake’s Soul Ring, a giant snake appeared before them.

• Gui Mei killed the Strength Clan assassins who ambushed Lou Gao’s party, and Silong discovered their identities.
• Lou Gao realized Tai Tan had sent the assassins, ended their friendship, and joined Spirit Hall under Gui Mei’s protection.
• Qian Renxue taught Lou Gao the secrets of Soul Tools, and his disciples began developing them for Spirit Hall.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted Lin Chen, a boy with level-six Innate Soul Power and the Spirit Breath Grass Martial Soul, as a nominal disciple for his research.
• Yu Xiaogang chose a Poison Arrow Snake for Lin Chen’s first Soul Ring, and Lin Chen absorbed it and demonstrated Spirit Breath Entanglement.
• Yu Xiaogang decided to cast Lin Chen out, but a thirteen-meter giant snake appeared in the forest and fixed its gaze on them.

Yu Xiaogang sacrificed Lin Chen to a giant snake and later abandoned him, while Lin Chen was rescued by Evil Lord and learned that Yu Xiaogang’s chosen Soul Ring had crippled his potential. Lin Chen wanted revenge, but his path forward remained uncertain.

• Yu Xiaogang pushed Lin Chen toward the giant snake and fled, claiming Lin Chen’s death was an honor because it proved his theory.
• Yu Xiaogang later claimed Lin Chen had failed his test and was no longer his disciple, then worried about finding another gifted student.
• Evil Lord told Lin Chen he had saved him, and Lin Chen vowed to avenge Yu Xiaogang.
• Evil Lord tested Lin Chen’s Innate Soul Power and revealed that it was only level two, not level six.
• Evil Lord explained that Lin Chen’s poisonous Ten-Year Soul Ring clashed with his life-attributed Spirit Breath Grass and reduced his potential, then said Yu Xiaogang’s theory had been exposed as plagiarized.

Lin Chen became Evil Lord’s disciple and gained Twin Martial Souls after Evil Lord helped him overcome his weakened cultivation. Instead of seeking only to kill Yu Xiaogang, Lin Chen planned to destroy Yu Xiaogang’s ambitions, while Flender founded Shrek Academy.

• Lin Chen swore revenge on Yu Xiaogang, and Evil Lord warned him that killing a member of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan would bring consequences.
• Evil Lord made Lin Chen his disciple, restored him to Soul Power Level ten, and gave him two Soul Tool Injectors to improve his Martial Soul and awaken the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.
• Lin Chen evolved his Spirit Breath Grass toward Sacred Spirit Grass and awakened the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon as his second Martial Soul, gaining Twin Martial Souls and Innate Full Soul Power.
• Evil Lord urged Lin Chen to prevent Yu Xiaogang from ever achieving his ambitions, and Lin Chen accepted this more devastating revenge.
• Yu Xiaogang shivered at Nuoding City Soul Master Academy before returning to search for a promising student, while Flender established Shrek Academy after parting ways with Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang.

Flender gathered fellow Vaisya Soul Masters to found Shrek Academy, which opened in the countryside outside Suotuo City. After a day of admissions, he announced that only the applicants on the right had passed the first assessment.

• Flender and Zhao Wuji became close friends, then joined Li Yusong, Lu Binqi, and others to form Shrek's teaching team.
• Flender established Shrek Academy in a village and set strict admission requirements, insisting that it would train only monsters.
• Shrek Academy opened, drawing Vaisya families seeking advanced education for their talented children.
• Flender collected ten Gold Soul Coins from each applicant and separated the children according to their age and Soul Power.
• At dusk, Flender announced that the handful of applicants on the right had passed and eliminated everyone on the left.

Flender and Zhao Wuji drove away rejected applicants who demanded their ten Gold Soul Coins back, using the academy’s nonrefundable tuition rule to keep the fees. Shrek Academy admitted a few talented students, who embraced its claim that they were monsters, unaware of the traps ahead.

• After Flender announced the rejections, a burly Vaisya tried to seize the cash box, and Zhao Wuji broke his arm and threatened the crowd.
• Flender pointed out the tiny notice stating that tuition was nonrefundable and explained Shrek Academy’s admission requirements.
• When rejected applicants continued pleading for their money, Zhao Wuji beat them with a stick until they scattered.
• Flender kept the fees and admitted a few talented applicants, while the accepted students took pride in being called monsters.

Shrek Academy’s poor training and negligent supervision caused students to fall behind or die, but Flender and Zhao Wuji blamed the victims to protect the academy. With help from the Balak Kingdom, Shrek crushed the bereaved families’ protest and survived its first threat of closure.

• Shrek dismissed students who failed to reach Soul Ancestor level, while Flender told graduates that anyone below level 41 was trash rather than a Shrek monster.
• Zhao Wuji took three students into the Star Dou Great Forest while impaired and returned with two dead and one disabled.
• The dead students’ parents protested at Shrek’s gates, demanding an explanation and holding a funeral for one of the victims.
• Flender asked the Balak Kingdom for support, and Zhao Wuji attacked the protesters and beat them into submission.
• The parents were forced to accept the outcome, and Shrek continued operating after blaming the students for their deaths.

Dugu Bo received the title of Poison Douluo but refused Bibi Dong’s offer to join Spirit Hall, while Qian Renxue decided to monitor him because of his past actions. He left Spirit City and passed by Prince Xue Xing’s waiting entourage without stopping.

• Flender exaggerated Shrek Academy’s achievements to recruit students, while Qin Ming remained its most celebrated graduate.
• Xue Luochuan and Xue Haizang died, allowing Xue Qinghe to rise as Crown Prince while Prince Xue Xing protected Xue Beng and investigated the deaths.
• Dugu Bo arrived in Spirit City and received the title of Poison Douluo from Bibi Dong, but declined to join Spirit Hall.
• Qian Renxue remembered Dugu Bo’s role in the massacre at Jialing Pass, placed a tracker on him, and said she would eliminate him if he became a threat.
• Dugu Bo left Spirit City and walked past Prince Xue Xing’s entourage without acknowledging him.
• The author apologized for cutting the Hu Liena and Shrek Academy plotline because it was unpopular and had not been fully developed.

Prince Xue Xing failed to win Dugu Bo’s favor, while Xiao Wu left the Star Dou Great Forest to seek revenge for her mother. Tang San prepared for Spirit Awakening as Ah Yin discovered that he had possessed her son’s body and heard a sinister voice offer to explain why Tang Hao valued the child.

• Prince Xue Xing waited for Spirit Hall to pursue Dugu Bo, but Dugu Bo passed him by without being hunted, forcing Xue Xing to abandon his plan.
• Xiao Wu told Er Ming she was going to the Human World to find Tang Hao, who had killed her mother, and left the forest after he promised to protect her if needed.
• Tang San finished training, prepared for Spirit Awakening, and remembered his plans involving Xiao Wu, Spirit Hall, and the Soul Bone from his mother.
• Ah Yin pieced together that Tang San came from another world and had taken over her son’s body, then demanded that he return her son’s soul.
• A sinister voice offered Ah Yin an explanation for why Tang Hao had cared so much about Tang San.

Ah Yin learned that the Shura God had arranged her pregnancy and Tang San’s possession of her child’s body, and she vowed revenge before vanishing. Tang San awakened Blue Silver Grass with Innate Full Soul Power, while Huo Yuhao altered Su Yuntao’s behavior and the Elder Hall’s descendants displayed powerful Martial Souls and Full Soul Power.

• Ah Yin learned of the Shura God’s scheme and rejected the demand that she accept Tang Hao and Tang San, swearing to make them pay before she vanished.
• Old Jack brought the village children to Spirit Hall, where Su Yuntao awakened their Martial Souls and judged them Waste Spirits.
• Tang San awakened Blue Silver Grass and tested at Innate Full Soul Power, while Tang Hao and the Shura God watched from the shadows.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he had influenced Su Yuntao and prepared a Spirit Soul Factor injector to alter the children’s fates.
• At the Elder Hall ceremony, Zhang Hua, Ci Ren, Qing Ming, and Guang Ning awakened powerful Martial Souls and tested at Full Soul Power.
• Tian Yue awakened the Golden Crocodile King Martial Soul, prompting Sky Crocodile to celebrate its return.

Qian Renxue formed a Spirit Master Tournament team around Guang Ning, Qing Ming, and Tian Yue, while Tang Hao learned that Tang San had awakened both Golden Patterned Blue Silver Grass and the Clear Sky Hammer. Tang Hao planned to send Tang San to Nuoding City Soul Master Academy, where he intended to use Yu Xiaogang and Xiao Wu for Tang San’s benefit.

• Qian Renxue chose Guang Ning, Qing Ming, and Tian Yue as the tournament team’s core and took them to the Angel God Palace for Angel trials.
• Tang San showed Tang Hao his Golden Patterned Blue Silver Grass, and Tang Hao believed it meant Tang San could become a Blue Silver Emperor and revive Ah Yin.
• Tang San summoned the Clear Sky Hammer, and Tang Hao told him to use the hammer in his left hand to protect the grass in his right.
• Tang Hao decided to have Old Jack take Tang San to Nuoding City Soul Master Academy so Tang San could meet Yu Xiaogang and Xiao Wu.
• Tang Hao regarded Yu Xiaogang as a useful shield and Xiao Wu as a future source of Soul Rings, Soul Bones, and divine power for Tang San.

Yu Xiaogang heard that Tang San had Blue Silver Grass and Innate Full Soul Power, deduced that he must have Twin Martial Souls, and prepared himself to approach the boy as a disciple. He left the academy to arrange something with its Gatekeeper.

• At a tavern, Su Yuntao told Spirit Hall deacons that Tang San of Holy Spirit Village had Blue Silver Grass and Innate Full Soul Power.
• Yu Xiaogang overheard the news, searched his records, and concluded that Tang San had a second Martial Soul.
• Yu Xiaogang decided to take Tang San as his disciple and changed into a scholar's robe after shaving his beard.
• Yu Xiaogang stopped the academy's Gatekeeper on his way home and asked to speak with him.

Yu Xiaogang arranged for the academy gatekeeper to obstruct Tang San so he could appear to rescue him and recruit him as a disciple. After reading Tang San’s Spirit Hall certificate, Yu Xiaogang saw a chance to prove himself by training him into a Titled Douluo.

• Yu Xiaogang paid the gatekeeper to make trouble for Tang San when he arrived at Nuoding City Soul Master Academy.
• Old Jack brought Tang San to the academy, where the gatekeeper insulted them and accused them of forging Tang San’s certificate.
• Tang San recognized that someone was behind the gatekeeper’s behavior and suspected a scheme.
• Yu Xiaogang stepped in, asked Old Jack for the certificate, and privately celebrated Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and Innate Full Soul Power.

Yu Xiaogang tried to impress Tang San with his title and deduction that Tang San had Twin Martial Souls, while Tang San silently remembered how he had been deceived in his previous life. The two continued pretending as they waited for the other to make the first move about becoming teacher and disciple.

• Yu Xiaogang dismissed the gatekeeper after signaling him, while Tang San noticed their connection and remembered his past life.
• Yu Xiaogang led Tang San into the academy and tried to draw him into conversation, but Tang San remained distant.
• Yu Xiaogang introduced himself as a theoretical Grandmaster certified by Spirit Hall and claimed his research revealed Tang San had Twin Martial Souls.
• Tang San challenged Yu Xiaogang's claim that Blue Silver Grass could not be exceptional, privately judging the Grandmaster's theories to be inconsistent.
• Yu Xiaogang kept boasting and waited for Tang San to ask to become his disciple, while Tang San waited for Yu Xiaogang to offer.

Tang San agreed to become Yu Xiaogang’s disciple so he could use him as protection from Bibi Dong, but he refused to accept without first questioning Yu Xiaogang’s strength and abilities. Yu Xiaogang agreed to train him, and they completed a haphazard master-disciple ceremony while Tang Hao watched from the shadows.

• Tang San recalled how he had used Yu Xiaogang as a shield in his Previous Life and decided to become his disciple without letting Yu Xiaogang dictate the terms.
• Yu Xiaogang lectured Tang San about his knowledge until he finally asked whether Tang San was willing to become his disciple.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang whether he was strong enough to provide the Soul Rings Tang San would need.
• Yu Xiaogang avoided discussing his own strength, promised he could obtain the Soul Rings through his connections, and praised his knowledge as priceless.
• Tang San said he would become Yu Xiaogang’s disciple if the Grandmaster was truly as capable as he claimed, and Yu Xiaogang accepted.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San completed their master-disciple ceremony as Tang Hao watched from the shadows and wondered why it differed from the previous life.