Chapter Summaries

Tang San learned from Wu Liang that his mother, Ah Yin, was a hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor who sacrificed herself to protect her family, and that Tang Hao defeated Pope Qian Xunji. The chapter left Tang San determined to seek the Sea God's approval so he could revive his mother.

• Tang San returned and questioned Wu Liang about his parents after realizing Sky City's merchant network could uncover the truth.
• Tang San recounted Xue Qinghe's account, and he and the Grandmaster speculated about what Spirit Hall had sought before Wu Liang revealed that the story's conclusion was false.
• Wu Liang explained that Tang San's mother was Ah Yin, a transformed hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast who sacrificed herself during Spirit Hall's attack; Tang Hao gained her Soul Ring and gravely injured Pope Qian Xunji.
• The Grandmaster explained that Qian Daoliu later led Titled Douluo in pursuit of Tang Hao, who hid to protect Tang San; Wu Liang urged Tang San to focus on the Spirit Master tournament.
• Wu Liang told Tang San that Ah Yin's body remained and could be revived with enough energy and the Sea God's Light, but Tang San first had to gain the Sea God's approval and undergo a divine trial.
• Tang San vowed to revive his mother.

Grandmaster took Ning Rongrong and Tang San aside to discuss the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s Soul Power costs and the importance of Heart Separation Control. Ning Rongrong agreed to train toward the Four Aperture Constant Heart and teach Tang San, while Wu Liang authorized him to learn the sect technique.

• Grandmaster asked Ning Rongrong about her Heart Separation Control and learned she had reached only the Three Aperture Control Heart.
• Ning Rongrong explained that supporting all six Shrek Team One members with four enhancements would drain her Soul Power in about three seconds.
• Wu Liang revealed that his second Martial Soul could enhance an unlimited number of people within ten kilometers while consuming Soul Power as if enhancing one person.
• Grandmaster explained the five realms of Heart Separation Control and urged Ning Rongrong to reach the Four Aperture Constant Heart before the finals.
• Ning Rongrong promised to train seriously and agreed to teach Tang San Heart Separation Control.
• Wu Liang declared that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was his and permitted Tang San to cultivate its secret technique.

Tang San’s Heart Separation Control practice unexpectedly resonated with his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline, letting him influence the surrounding Blue Silver Grass and glimpse the future Blue Silver Domain. He left the experience confused but newly aware that his martial soul was far more than ordinary Blue Silver Grass.

• Tang San and Ning Rongrong practiced Heart Separation Control, and Tang San quickly advanced while Wu Liang helped Ning Rongrong with a spiritual stimulant elixir.
• Tang San practiced controlling Blue Silver Grass puppets as Grandmaster advised him to sense his surroundings and make soul-skill use instinctive.
• Tang San sensed information from nearby Blue Silver Grass, and Wu Liang stopped Grandmaster from interrupting, explaining that Tang San was beginning to awaken his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline.
• Blue Silver Grass around Tang San grew and turned black across a hundred square meters as he merged with it and gained the ability to control grass in his surroundings.
• After Tang San awoke, Wu Liang explained that the experience had revealed the embryonic Blue Silver Domain, which could fully emerge when Tang San’s bloodline awakened.

Fei Ling faced Elephant Armor Academy alone in the second round of the preliminaries and defeated all seven competitors with her summoned soul beasts. Shrek Academy advanced after the referee confirmed the opponents were only unconscious, while Hu Yan Zhen left in disgrace.

• Grandmaster warned that Elephant Armor Academy’s Diamond Mammoth defense made the match dangerous, but Wu Liang sent Fei Ling to fight alone.
• Fei Ling entered the arena as Shrek’s sole competitor and revealed that she was a Rank 47 summoning-type Weapon Spirit Soul Ancestor.
• Fei Ling summoned a goblin and an Ice Sprite, but their attacks could not break through Elephant Armor Academy’s defenses.
• Fei Ling summoned a Hundred-Thousand-Year Golden Stone Giant, whose Serious Punch knocked Hu Yanli unconscious and defeated the team.
• Hu Yan Zhen protested that Fei Ling had broken the rules, but the referee confirmed the competitors were alive and declared Shrek Academy the winner.

After Fei Ling’s victory, Xue Ye learned that Sky City protected her, while Meng Shenji exposed how Prince Xue Xing had driven Qin Ming from Heaven Dou Royal Academy. As Shrek continued winning, Shi Nian set his sights on them, and Wu Liang wondered if the Canghui Academy leader was about to hand him an opportunity.

• Ning Fengzhi warned Xue Ye and Salas not to target Fei Ling because Sky City stood behind her.
• Wu Liang teased Fei Ling and Kanna about naming their attacks after anime moves before leaving the arena with the others.
• Meng Shenji explained that Prince Xue Xing had fired Qin Ming without hearing him out, and Xue Ye reprimanded his younger brother.
• Shi Nian told Canghui Academy’s students that he would deal with Shrek Academy after their team feared facing them.
• Shrek won its next six matches, then Tang San led the team to another easy victory over Oslo Academy.
• Wu Liang encountered Shi Nian’s Canghui Academy team and later went shopping with Kanna and Fei Ling, suspecting Shi Nian might try to attack him.

Wu Liang and the beauties defeated Shi Nian after his illusion backfired, and Fei Ling gained the Moedonia Stirs title from his Soul Bone. Back at Shrek Academy, they joined the master’s lesson on the extreme and balanced approaches to Spirit Master combat.

• Shi Nian trapped Wu Liang’s group in an illusion, but Wu Liang shattered it and turned the illusion back on him.
• Wu Liang beheaded Shi Nian, burned his body, and turned the Soul Bone he found into a Title Soul Bone for Fei Ling.
• Fei Ling gained the Moedonia Stirs title, which granted her immunity to mental control and powerful control over her summons.
• Wu Liang and the beauties returned to Shrek Academy and joined the master’s lesson about extreme and balanced Spirit Master schools.
• Wu Liang described Shrek’s teams as all-rounders, and the master explained that their abilities reflected different combat approaches.

Wu Liang explained that Shi Nian had died after his illusion attack backfired, and the Shrek team agreed to conceal his death. As the preliminaries continued, Wu Liang took the field alone against Blazing Academy, drawing the crowd’s attention.

• The master explained the differences between soul-master schools and warned Tang San that Spirit Hall would be Shrek’s greatest opponent; Wu Liang revealed its seeded team had four Soul Ancestors and three Soul Kings.
• Kanna told the group that an old man had ambushed her and Wu Liang, and Wu Liang explained that Shi Nian had died from his reflected Nightmare skill and left a head Soul Bone for Fei Ling.
• The master told everyone to keep Shi Nian’s death secret, while Wu Liang fell asleep at the dining table.
• After ten rounds, Shrek Academy and four other Five Elemental Academies led the preliminaries undefeated, while Elephant Armor Academy had five wins and five losses.
• Before Shrek’s eleventh-round match against Blazing Academy, Wu Liang flew into the arena to compete alone, and the master sent Tang San and the others back to the stands.
• Ning Fengzhi told Xue Ye that the contestant was Wu Liang, the young city lord of Sky City, and explained that Shrek’s clothes concealed their Soul Power Levels.

Wu Liang faced Blazing Academy alone and used his footwork and fire-boosting ability to evade the team's attacks. After revealing he was a level sixty-two Soul Emperor, he secured Huo Wu's surrender and Blazing Academy's defeat.

• Wu Liang recognized Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu, then taunted them before the match began.
• Wu Liang displayed four purple Soul Rings, evaded Blazing Academy's opening assault with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and recognized the team's coordinated fire-based attacks.
• Wu Liang shouted “Apo Kele!” and summoned a miniature sun that granted him Ultimate Fire and resistance to fire.
• Wu Liang dodged Blazing Academy's repeated attacks, survived Huo Wu's Resistant Fire Ring unharmed, and knocked Huo Wushuang and the other male students off the arena.
• Huo Wu asked Wu Liang's level, and he revealed he was a level sixty-two Soul Emperor before she surrendered.

Wu Liang defeated Huo Wu and Blazing Academy, then faced teasing from his companions after asking Huo Wu to meet him for a drink. Huo Wu challenged Feng Xiaotian to defeat Shrek Team and Wu Liang if he wanted to date her, leaving him determined to try despite learning Wu Liang was a Soul Emperor.

• Huo Wu conceded to Wu Liang, and Blazing Academy left after suffering its only loss in the tournament.
• Wu Liang returned to Kanna and was scolded by Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing for flirting with Huo Wu.
• Feng Xiaotian asked Huo Wushuang about Wu Liang, and Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu revealed that Wu Liang was a Soul Emperor who had barely used his strength.
• Huo Wu asked Feng Xiaotian whether he liked her and promised to date him if he defeated Shrek Team and Wu Liang.
• Feng Xiaotian decided he would still try to defeat Shrek, while Huo Wu hoped he might either win or trouble Wu Liang.

After discussing Wu Liang’s exposed rank and the danger it could bring, Shrek Academy prepared to face Canghui Academy, Tang San’s old rivals. The chapter left both teams entering the arena, with Tang San asking his teammates if they were ready to crush Canghui Academy.

• Wu Liang told the Master that he had revealed his rank, while the Master warned that his prominence could attract dangerous attention and considered keeping him out of matches until the finals.
• Shrek Academy prepared to face Canghui Academy, and Tang San emphasized that their record and the stakes made them a serious opponent.
• Tang San assigned Xiao Yanzi to help ensure the team’s victory, while Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Ning Rongrong accepted the plan.
• Feng Xiaotian approached Shrek Academy to cheer them on because Huo Wu had promised to date him if he defeated them, and Tang San told him Wu Liang and Fei Ling would not compete before the finals.
• Shrek Academy and Canghui Academy entered the arena together, and Tang San asked his teammates if they were ready to crush their opponents.

Shrek Academy faced Canghui Academy, whose seven members revealed a coordinated fusion skill after Tang San recognized their suspicious lineup and kept his team from attacking rashly. Canghui’s seven-colored pillar emerged, and Salas questioned whether they had performed a seven-person Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Wu Liang explained that Canghui’s technique was a seven-person Fusion Soul Skill, not a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and said Tang San’s Purple Demon Eyes could counter it.
• Tang San noticed that four Canghui members were unfamiliar and urged Shrek’s team to gather rather than attack.
• Canghui’s captain revealed that his team had been trying to bait Shrek into striking first.
• Canghui’s seven members formed a practiced hexagon and summoned seven differently colored gemstone Martial Souls.
• The gemstones combined into a massive seven-colored pillar of light, prompting Salas to ask whether it was a seven-person Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Tang San used his Purple Demon Eyes to break Canghui Academy’s Seven Asura Illusion and immobilize its seven members, allowing Shrek Academy to defeat them with a brutal beating. The chapter ended with Canghui Academy’s team unconscious and injured, while the tournament committee dismissed their teacher’s protest.

• Canghui Academy’s seven gemstone Martial Soul users activated the Seven Asura Illusion, which engulfed the arena and appeared to trap Shrek Academy.
• Tang San recognized the illusion as the fusion Soul Skill A Liang had warned him about, had his teammates close their eyes, and used his Purple Demon Eyes to counter it.
• Tang San immobilized Canghui Academy’s members and told his teammates to open their eyes and beat them without using their Martial Souls.
• Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and the other Shrek members beat the helpless Canghui team for half an hour until all seven opponents were unconscious and the illusion faded.
• The referee declared Shrek Academy the winner after experts found that Canghui Academy’s members had multiple fractures but no life-threatening injuries.
• Canghui Academy’s teacher demanded punishment, but Flender challenged his claims and the tournament committee dismissed the protest.

After Shrek Academy forfeited its final preliminary match against Skywater Academy, the team completed the tournament ceremony as the top-ranked qualifier. Xue Ye awarded the advancing teams noble titles and promised further rewards, while Salas's objection exposed tensions between the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall.

• Flender praised Tang San for inflicting painful injuries without breaking tournament rules, then warned Shrek not to damage its reputation; the organizing committee also issued the team a warning.
• Shrek remained undefeated through twenty-six matches and forfeited its final preliminary match against Skywater Academy, provoking the crowd until Fei Ling's hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring silenced them.
• Wu Liang defended the forfeiture by saying Shrek could not bear to hurt the Skywater Academy girls, and the Skywater team accepted its victory and left the arena.
• At the closing ceremony, Godwind Academy and Thunder Academy yielded the top spot to Shrek, while the five qualifying teams received certificates and prize money.
• Xue Ye granted Viscount titles to the five teams' main and vice captains and Baron titles to their teammates, then promised upgraded titles and imperial support if a team won the tournament.
• Salas challenged Xue Ye's awards, but Xue Ye declared them an imperial matter and promised the titles would include real fiefs after the tournament.

During the month-long break, Meng Yiran joined Wu Liang and his companions at Sky City, while Tang San went into seclusion and Shrek's team prepared for intensive training. Wu Liang discovered Seria's hidden personal shop and bought a Seria's Luck card, leaving him ready to test its effect.

• Meng Yiran admitted she had come to spend the break with Wu Liang, and Kanna welcomed her into her sisterhood.
• Tang San entered seclusion after Wu Liang advised him to practice the Distracted Mind Technique and combine Blue Silver Grass with Hidden Weapons, while Grandmaster planned intensive training for the others.
• Kanna brought Meng Yiran to Sky City, where she met Wu Liang's household and joined them for a banquet.
• Wu Liang asked Seria about a proper shop, and Seria revealed she had hidden a personal shop containing Seria's Luck cards and her handmade cake.
• Wu Liang bought a Seria's Luck card from Seria for 10,000 points.

Wu Liang used Seria's Luck to obtain a permanent travel card and brought Kanna to a vampire fusion world. After meeting Four-Eyed Taoist while traveling toward Ren Family Town, Wu Liang hoped to seek training from Uncle Nine.

• Wu Liang's wish for a divine artifact failed, so he wished for a paranormal world travel card and received a permanent one.
• Wu Liang paid ten thousand points to bring Kanna, and they arrived in a dark forest with imposed memories of escaping Teng Teng Town.
• The system identified the world as The Ultimate Vampire fusion world and assigned Wu Liang the mission of cultivating Queen Jingjue into a Golden Armor Corpse or above.
• Four-Eyed Taoist found Wu Liang and Kanna by their campfire and invited them to travel with him to Ren Family Town.
• Wu Liang told Four-Eyed Taoist they had escaped Teng Teng Town, and Four-Eyed Taoist recognized Wu Liang as a rice merchant's son.
• Wu Liang followed the vampire procession toward Uncle Nine's place and considered asking Uncle Nine to take him as a disciple.

Wu Liang arrived at Uncle Nine’s Yizhuang with Four-Eyed Taoist and Kanna, then became Uncle Nine’s third disciple. His first cultivation session activated his system and raised him to peak Foundation Establishment, leaving him ready to study talisman arts.

• Four-Eyed Taoist brought Wu Liang and Kanna to Uncle Nine’s Yizhuang, where Uncle Nine welcomed them after hearing they had escaped zombie-infested Teng Teng Town.
• Four-Eyed Taoist urged Uncle Nine to take Wu Liang as a disciple, and Wu Liang accepted, joining Uncle Nine’s lineage as his third disciple.
• Uncle Nine formally taught Wu Liang the Mount Mao Secret Records and guided him through his first cultivation session.
• Wu Liang’s system converted his stored energy into spiritual energy, raising him to peak Foundation Establishment and unsealing limited divine abilities.
• Uncle Nine advised Wu Liang to learn talisman arts, and Wu Liang agreed to begin with the Corpse Sealing Talisman before going to eat.

Wu Liang checked when Master Ren’s daughter would return, then trained in talismans and accepted Uncle Nine’s offer to become his personal disciple and Mount Mao’s nineteenth-generation successor. After receiving a thunder arts manual, Wu Liang discovered that his unusual spiritual power let him cast Palm Thunder and learned from Seria that it functioned like an all-spiritual-root core as he neared Golden Core.

• Wu Liang exchanged Gold Soul Coins for Silver Dollars, learned that Master Ren’s daughter would return within two months, and took Kanna back to Yizhuang.
• Uncle Nine explained talisman grades and midair talisman drawing, then offered to make Wu Liang his personal disciple and successor.
• Wu Liang accepted the offer, and Uncle Nine gave him a thunder arts manual that included Palm Thunder, Lightning Rush Fist, Thunder Sword Art, and Thunder Control True Art.
• Wu Liang tried Palm Thunder in the courtyard and produced a weak burst of electricity that struck a tree.
• Seria told Wu Liang that his special spiritual power gave him an all-spiritual-root core, enabling him to use lightning despite lacking a Thunder Spiritual Root.

Wu Liang mastered new lightning techniques and became an early-stage Golden Core cultivator while life at Yizhuang settled into a routine. When Uncle Nine met Ren Fa to discuss moving Ren’s father’s grave, Wu Liang and Kanna joined them and met Ren Tingting, who wanted to befriend Kanna.

• Wu Liang cultivated Yang Five Thunder and mastered Lightning Rush Fist, then learned from Uncle Nine that Golden Core cultivators did not face lightning tribulations.
• After Four-Eyed Taoist left with his customers, Wu Liang and Kanna accompanied Uncle Nine to meet Ren Fa at a café.
• Ren Tingting arrived and tried to hug Kanna, who dodged her and stayed close to Wu Liang.
• Uncle Nine agreed to exhume Ren Fa’s father’s coffin and relocate the grave three days later.
• Ren Tingting offered to take Kanna home, but Kanna refused to leave Wu Liang, and Wu Liang corrected Ren Tingting’s mistaken assumption that Kanna was a small child.

Wu Liang helped Uncle Nine uncover the Ren family’s damaged burial site and learned that Ren Weiyong’s corpse was turning into a zombie. He later used the site’s concentrated yin qi and the system to contract Queen Jingjue, whose new status left her far stronger in potential than her current strength.

• Uncle Nine explained that the Dragonfly Point burial had been sabotaged, and Ren Fa refused to cremate Ren Weiyong despite the risk of his corpse becoming a zombie.
• After the coffin was opened, Ren Weiyong’s body remained lifelike and began swelling with black qi, so Uncle Nine had the others seal it with spiritual ink and explained how corpses became zombies.
• Uncle Nine went to find a new burial site, while Wu Liang returned alone to the abandoned grave and took out Queen Jingjue’s corpse.
• At Seria’s suggestion, Wu Liang paid ten thousand points to contract Queen Jingjue, and the grave’s gathered yin qi surged into her body.
• Wu Liang checked Queen Jingjue’s attributes and learned that she could switch between Ghost God and zombie states, though her current strength was equivalent to a third-generation zombie.

Wu Liang brought Queen Jingjue into the Follower Space, where she chose the name Wu Fenghuang, then introduced her to Uncle Nine and Kanna. He later waited at the Ren Residence and fought Old Master Ren after the newly awakened zombie appeared, but his sword failed to seriously injure it.

• Seria told Wu Liang that Queen Jingjue had to cultivate in the Follower Space to become a second-generation zombie, and Wu Liang decided to remain in the world and travel.
• Queen Jingjue named herself Wu Fenghuang, entered the Follower Space, and transformed it into a palace resembling Jingjue Ancient City.
• Wu Liang returned to Yizhuang and introduced Wu Fenghuang to Uncle Nine, who accepted her after Wu Liang explained that she would not harm people.
• Wu Liang introduced Wu Fenghuang to Kanna, then waited outside the Ren Residence for the zombie to emerge.
• Old Master Ren appeared at the residence, and Wu Liang attacked him with the Bieyun Sword, but the weapon barely hurt him.
• After the servants and police fled, Old Master Ren tried to shake off Wu Liang and pursue Master Ren.