Chapter Summaries

Tang San, studying at Moonlight Pavilion under the name Tang Yin, made rapid progress and reached his graduation ceremony. As Di Hong prepared for an imminent campaign with the Di Family’s strength gathered, the ceremony drew Heaven Dou City’s influential figures, including Xue Qinghe and Prince Xue Xing.

• Tang San overcame his early difficulties with etiquette and music at Moonlight Pavilion, outpaced his classmates, and studied there for a year.
• Xue Qinghe read Xue Ke’s invitation to her graduation ceremony and wondered how Di Yuan was doing after two years apart.
• Di Hong emerged from seclusion at Level 99, took up his Li Fire Sword, and heard from Dugu Bo that the kingdom’s army was ready to march.
• Di Hong asked Dugu Bo about Dugu Yan, then discussed Tang San’s coming graduation and said Tang San’s existence could benefit their plans despite a possible future conflict.
• Moonlight Pavilion held its graduation ceremony, attended by Heaven Dou City’s influential figures, including Xue Qinghe and Prince Xue Xing.

Tang San learned the truth about his parents and set out to return to the Clear Sky Sect, while Di Hong reunited with Tang Yuehua and prepared to visit the sect. As Tang San traveled, Bibi Dong began the Soul Hunting Operation against the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

• Tang Yuehua told Tang San that Xue Ke had fallen for him, and Tang San affirmed his love for Xiao Wu before leaving Moonlight Pavilion the next morning.
• Tang Yuehua received a letter warning that the kingdom would act within a year, then sent word to Di Hong, who decided to see Tang San and traveled with her toward the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang San found Tang Hao, learned why his father had cut off his arm and leg, and discovered that his mother Ah Yin had been a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor killed because of Spirit Hall.
• Tang San absorbed the Spirit Bone Ah Yin had left behind, then followed Tang Hao's request to go to the Clear Sky Sect and help restore its former glory.
• Bibi Dong launched the Soul Hunting Operation, sending Chrysanthemum, Ghost, Xie Yue, Gui Mei, and more than twenty Cardinal Bishops to destroy the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Tang San visited the Clear Sky Sect and met Tang Xiao and his uncle Di Hong, then offered to bear responsibility for Tang Hao’s past. Tang Xiao accepted him as family after learning about Ah Yin and receiving Tang Hao’s Spirit Bones.

• Tang San arrived at the Clear Sky Sect and greeted Tang Yuehua, Tang Xiao, and the sleeping Di Hong.
• Tang Xiao tested Tang San with his pressure, and Tang San endured it on one knee while activating his domains.
• Tang San knelt and offered to take responsibility for Tang Hao, prompting Tang Xiao to demand that he call him Uncle.
• Tang San explained that Tang Hao lived beside Ah Yin, who had transformed into Blue Silver Grass, and delivered two Spirit Bones on his father’s behalf.
• Tang Xiao accepted the Spirit Bones and told Tang San that he had never believed Tang Hao did anything wrong.

Tang San sought to return to the Clear Sky Sect, despite the elders’ hostility over Tang Hao’s past. As the ancestry ceremony began, the Seventh Elder’s pressure nearly brought Tang San to his knees, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Tang Xiao arranged Tang San’s ancestry ceremony for the next day and told him he would have to prove himself through strength.
• Tang Yuehua explained that the elders opposed Tang San’s return, while Di Hong warned that they would certainly obstruct him.
• Tang Xiao persuaded the five elders to let Di Hong test Tang San, and Di Hong agreed to hold back.
• Tang Yuehua led Tang San into the main hall, where the disciples’ insults about Tang Hao angered him and he released Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• The five elders entered and the Seventh Elder overwhelmed Tang San with pressure until Tang Yuehua stepped in front of him, prompting the elder to withdraw it.

Tang San returned to the Clear Sky Sect and asked to rejoin, but Tang Lie condemned him and insulted his mother. Tang San challenged Tang Lie, and Second Elder set Tang Hu and Di Hong as the steps he had to overcome before facing him; the fight with Tang Hu began.

• Second Elder acknowledged Tang San’s Divine Slaughter’s Domain, while Tang Lie condemned his return and called him a mongrel.
• Tang San apologized to Tang Lie on Tang Hao’s behalf, then challenged him for insulting his mother.
• Second Elder required Tang San to defeat Tang Hu and last an incense stick against Di Hong before Tang Lie would retract his words and apologize.
• Tang San accepted the terms, and Tang Hu introduced himself as a level-sixty-four assault-type Battle Soul King.
• Second Elder started the match, and Tang San and Tang Hu released their Martial Souls before Tang San used Blue Silver Pierce.

Tang San defeated Tang Hu by combining his Blue Silver Grass, poison, and combat experience, then prepared to face Di Hong in a test set by the Second Elder. The sect agreed that victory would let Tang San return to the clan, while defeat would bar him from using his Clear Sky Hammer and returning to the sect.

• Tang San restrained Tang Hu with Blue Silver Grass, dodged his hammer strike, and bound him with parasitic grass during their clash.
• Tang San used the paralysis toxin in his Blue Silver Grass to trap Tang Hu, then defeated him with a Blue Silver Overlord Spear aimed beside him.
• Tang Hu accepted his defeat, and Tang San greeted Di Hong before the Second Elder announced a one-stick-of-incense test for Tang San's return to the sect.
• Tang Xiao objected to the penalty of crippling Tang San's Martial Soul, and the Second Elder instead ruled that defeat would forbid Tang San from cultivating or using it and from returning to the sect.
• Di Hong prepared to test Tang San, and the group left the hall to fight outside the Clear Sky Sect.

Tang San began his endurance trial against Di Hong, who was forbidden from using his Martial Soul or soul skills but displayed overwhelming power through sheer force and heat. The trial remained underway as Di Hong formed a massive Soul Power sword above Tang San.

• Tang Xiao revealed that Tang Hao had returned the sect’s two Spirit Bones, and the elders agreed to safeguard them for a future successor or contributor.
• Second Elder secretly urged Di Hong to go easy on Tang San, while Di Hong reassured Tang San that lasting through the trial would be easy.
• Tang Yuehua started the incense, and Tang San released his Clear Sky Hammer and Eight Spider Lance before fleeing toward the mountain to stall for time.
• Di Hong raised the temperature until the snow melted and Tang San struggled to endure the heat, forcing him to take flight with his left leg bone ability.
• Di Hong appeared behind Tang San, knocked the Clear Sky Hammer from his hand, and melted Tang San’s Blue Silver Overlord Spear with flames.
• Di Hong turned the sky fiery red and summoned a massive Soul Power sword above Tang San.

Tang San faced Di Hong in a timed trial, but Di Hong’s overwhelming power left him unable to fight back until Di Hong eased the pressure and Tang Yuehua called time, making the match a draw. The Second Elder approved Tang Yuehua’s return to the Clear Sky Sect and urged the sect to remain hidden while Tang San matured.

• Di Hong trapped Tang San beneath his pressure, countered his attacks, and let him struggle while Tang Yuehua secretly blocked the incense from view.
• Tang San broke free when Di Hong weakened the pressure, but Di Hong’s flame attack stopped short after Tang Yuehua declared the time up, and Di Hong called the match a draw.
• The Second Elder told Tang Yuehua to prepare for the ceremony acknowledging her ancestors and welcoming her back to the clan.
• Tang Xiao proposed ending the Clear Sky Sect’s isolation, but the Second Elder rejected the idea because Tang San needed time to grow and Di Hong posed a serious threat.

Tang San earned Seventh Elder’s acceptance and agreed to complete three tasks within ten years to return to the Clear Sky Sect, restore his father’s standing, and become Sect Master. After Tang San left for Heaven Dou City, Di Hong planned his next moves around Xue Ye, Xiao Wu, and the Asura God inheritance.

• Tang Lie admitted his loss and agreed to let Tang San return to the clan, but Second Elder denied Tang San permission to pay respects to the ancestor until he proved himself.
• Second Elder set three tasks for Tang San to finish within ten years: reach Soul Power level eighty, bring back the head of a Spirit Hall Titled Douluo, and obtain a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring as his eighth Soul Ring.
• Second Elder promised Tang San his father could return to the sect, Tang San could claim two Spirit Bones, and he could become the next Sect Master if he completed the tasks.
• Yue Hua guided Tang San through the ceremony of acknowledging his ancestry, after which Tang San left for Heaven Dou City.
• Di Hong considered how to control the timing of Xue Ye’s death, then planned to go to the Star Dou Great Forest and wait for events involving Xiao Wu and the Asura Sword.

After the Shrek Seven Devils reunited at Shrek Academy, Bibi Dong launched Spirit Hall’s operation against the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. The Silves Kingdom’s Di family prepared to exploit the distraction by secretly mobilizing its army, while Di Yang entrusted Shen Yi with the campaign.

• Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Tang San reunited at Shrek Academy, while Xiao Wu and Oscar remained absent.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to begin its operation after nightfall and sent more than ten thousand spirit masters, including several Titled Douluo, toward the two clans.
• A crow brought news of Spirit Hall’s mobilization to Di Yuan and the Silves Kingdom’s Crown Prince, who planned to use the ensuing distraction to advance their own campaign.
• The Di family began secretly moving its fifty-thousand-strong army toward Sunset Forest, with the first three thousand Scale Armor Army soldiers already on the way.
• Di Yang gave Shen Yi the Military Token and entrusted him with leading the operation.

Spirit Hall and the Lower Four Sects launched a major attack on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after a failed attempt at a sneak assault. Di Hong pretended to rush to the sect’s aid, while Xue Ye sent imperial forces; the sect’s defenses were breached and Ning Fengzhi hoped they could hold out until Di Hong arrived.

• A Black-cloaked Masked Man killed two patrolling disciples, but the second disciple released a firework signal before dying.
• Snake Lance Douluo ordered Spirit Hall and the Lower Four Sects to attack with more than ten thousand Spirit Masters after the signal exposed their plan.
• Di Hong waited for Ning Fengzhi’s request for aid, then flew toward the sect with Tang Yuehua after the messenger arrived.
• Xue Ye learned the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was under attack and ordered the Imperial Guard, the Royal Knights, and Royal Family Spirit Masters to reinforce it.
• The attackers breached the sect’s outer perimeter after some disciples betrayed it, while Chen Xin was pinned down and Gu Rong protected Ning Fengzhi.

Spirit Hall’s assault nearly destroyed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but Di Hong and Tang Yuehua arrived in time to force the attackers to retreat. Ning Fengzhi planned to move the surviving sect members to Heaven Dou City, while Di Hong warned that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan might also be under attack.

• Spirit Hall surrounded Ning Fengzhi after traitors helped its forces breach the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Chen Xin arrived to save him from attackers.
• Tang Yuehua and Di Hong intervened, protecting the sect’s survivors and confronting Spirit Hall’s four Titled Douluo.
• Snake Lance Douluo ordered a retreat after learning the empire’s army was approaching and recognizing the strength of Tang Yuehua and Di Hong.
• Ning Fengzhi thanked Di Hong, learned more about Tang Yuehua’s strength, and identified Spirit Hall and the Lower Four Sects as the attackers.
• Ning Fengzhi decided to move the sect to Heaven Dou City, while Di Hong warned that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan might also be under attack.
• Wang Shen arrived with the Imperial Guard Legion after the fighting had ended.

After Spirit Hall’s attack left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect devastated, Ning Fengzhi warned Shrek Academy that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan could be next. A message delivered to Di Hong at Moonlight Pavilion reported that the clan had been destroyed.

• Wang Shen helped the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect bury the attackers, while Ning Fengzhi returned to Heaven Dou City with the Imperial Guard.
• At Moonlight Pavilion, Di Hong told Tang Yuehua that Ning Fengzhi would not reveal his plans to Xue Ye because he feared Di Hong’s retaliation.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong arrived at Shrek Academy and told Ning Rongrong that Spirit Hall had attacked the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, killing nearly two-thirds of its disciples.
• Ning Fengzhi warned Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong that Spirit Hall would likely attack the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, then left to relocate his sect to Heaven Dou City.
• Di Hong received a message from a crow stating that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had been destroyed.

Bibi Dong ended the Soul Hunting Operation after Spirit Hall suffered heavy losses attacking the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, then ordered the Infiltration Plan to begin. In Heaven Dou City, Xue Ye considered striking back, but Yu Xiaogang and Ning Fengzhi urged him to wait because the empire lacked enough Spirit Masters and commanders.

• A Cardinal Bishop reported that Spirit Hall lost thousands of Spirit Masters in its attacks on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, which was wiped out along with Yu Yuanzhen.
• Hu Liena advised Bibi Dong to guard against the Di Family and keep watch over Heaven Dou City, the empire, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s remnants.
• Bibi Dong ordered the Soul Hunting Operation to end and the Infiltration Plan to proceed, then sent Hu Liena to support Xie Yue and the others in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong grieved over the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s destruction while Xue Ye summoned Ning Fengzhi, Yu Xiaogang, and Di Hong to discuss Spirit Hall’s attacks.
• Xue Qinghe and Yu Xiaogang urged Xue Ye not to act rashly, and Ning Fengzhi warned that Spirit Hall’s forces and allies made a war dangerous.

Xue Ye appointed Yu Xiaogang as the Heaven Dou Empire’s Chief Soul Master to organize resistance against Spirit Hall, placing him above Di Hong, who had commanded the empire’s soul masters for decades. Di Hong refused to help Yu Xiaogang take over the Soul Master Corps, leaving Yu Xiaogang to find his own way to secure its loyalty.

• Yu Xiaogang urged Xue Ye to unite with the Star Luo Empire and recruit soul masters to oppose Spirit Hall, and Ning Fengzhi and Di Hong supported his proposal.
• Yu Xiaogang declined to advise Xue Ye on recruitment while grieving his destroyed sect, but promised to train the empire’s soul masters.
• Xue Ye appointed Yu Xiaogang Chief Soul Master and gave him authority over all the empire’s soul masters, including Di Hong.
• Yu Xiaogang tried to speak with Di Hong after leaving the Imperial Palace, but Di Hong refused to discuss the Soul Master Corps and departed.
• Ning Fengzhi warned Yu Xiaogang that many soul masters followed Di Hong’s leadership, and Yu Xiaogang resolved to take command without Di Hong’s cooperation.

Yu Xiaogang struggled to establish authority as Chief Soul Master after most of the Soul Master Corps refused to attend his training at Shrek Academy. Di Hong avoided meeting him, and the Corps members rejected his appeals, leaving Yu Xiaogang unable to force their cooperation.

• Soul masters in the Corps criticized Emperor Xue Ye's appointment of Yu Xiaogang and questioned his right to command them.
• Yu Xiaogang gathered only about one-third of the Soul Master Corps at Shrek Academy, and Liu Erlong blamed Di Hong before Yu Xiaogang told the group to begin training.
• Tang Yuehua asked Di Hong whether he had told the Corps to stay away, and he denied it before claiming his old injuries had forced him into seclusion.
• Yu Xiaogang visited Moonlight Pavilion, but Tang Yuehua told him Di Hong was unavailable and her cold stare stopped Liu Erlong from losing her temper.
• Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong went to the Corps' station, where the soul masters ignored his appeals and threatened to leave the Heaven Dou Empire rather than obey him.

Tang San raced to Heaven Dou City carrying Xiao Wu’s true body after she sacrificed herself to save him, hoping Di Hong could preserve her life and make her revival possible. He arrived in the city with Xiao Wu’s life force fading, leaving her fate uncertain.

• Xue Ye realized Di Hong’s influence over the Soul Master Corps and others in Heaven Dou City left him unable to act against them or help Yu Xiaogang.
• Di Hong and Dugu Bo discussed Dugu Yan’s distress over Yu Tianheng’s disappearance.
• Tang San joined Spirit Hall’s search for Xiao Wu with Hu Liena’s help, then exposed himself to rescue Xiao Wu when Spirit Hall attacked her.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu fought their way through Spirit Hall’s pursuit, but Tang San was injured and cornered after they encountered a Man Faced Demon Spider.
• Tang San used Suicidal Bone Extraction to help Xiao Wu escape, but Xiao Wu sacrificed herself so he could live.
• Da Ming told Tang San that Di Hong might know how to preserve Xiao Wu’s true body, and Tang San rushed to Heaven Dou City with her as her life force faded.

Tang San returned to Moonlight Pavilion carrying Xiao Wu in rabbit form and begged Tang Yuehua to save her. Unable to restore Xiao Wu fully, Tang Yuehua extended her life by one month, leaving Tang San determined to seek the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well; at Shrek Academy, he learned the Blue Tyrannosaurus Rex Clan had been wiped out and Yu Xiaogang collapsed from exhaustion.

• Tang San rushed to Moonlight Pavilion and told Tang Yuehua that the rabbit he carried was Xiao Wu, who had sacrificed herself to save him.
• Tang Yuehua said she could not take Tang San to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then used her Ninth Spirit Skill to stabilize Xiao Wu and give her one more month to live.
• Tang San thanked Tang Yuehua, left with Xiao Wu, and resolved to reach the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after visiting Shrek Academy.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong what had happened to Xiao Wu, and Yu Xiaogang fainted after days without rest.
• Tang San learned that the Blue Tyrannosaurus Rex Clan had been wiped out, while news that Xue Ye had been poisoned remained secret.

After Emperor Xue Ye was poisoned, Dugu Bo identified a mixed poison in his food but secretly worsened it while suppressing its effects. Di Hong prepared for the Silves Kingdom’s coming campaign as Tang San established the Tang Sect and gained several new members.

• Dugu Bo examined Emperor Xue Ye, discovered that a spice in his food had triggered a mixed poison, and gave him medicine that suppressed but did not cure it.
• After leaving the palace, Dugu Bo told Di Hong that he had secretly made the medicine worsen Emperor Xue Ye’s poisoning, and Di Hong accepted the plan.
• Di Hong returned to his camp in Sunset Forest, where Di Yuan reported that the army’s training was going smoothly and learned that they would act within three or four months.
• Tang San established the Tang Sect, which Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, and the Strength Clan joined.
• Oscar returned quietly after the Tang Sect was established and fought Tang San.

Tang San recruited the Defense Clan and Speed Clan into the Tang Sect and obtained the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng to extend Xiao Wu’s life. As Spirit Hall expanded and Emperor Xue Ye’s condition worsened, Di Hong and Xue Qinghe worried about the upheaval ahead, while Tang San set his sights on the Breaking Clan.

• Oscar and Tang San mistook each other for enemies before recognizing one another and ending their fight.
• Tang San and his companions discussed evidence that Xue Qinghe had poisoned Emperor Xue Ye and learned that Xue Beng had hidden his true nature to survive.
• Tang San traveled to the Star Luo Empire with Tai Tan, Ma Hongjun, and Tailong to recruit the Four Single-Attribute Clans, despite Tai Tan’s warning about their hatred of the Clear Sky Sect.
• Dugu Bo told Di Hong that Emperor Xue Ye’s condition was worsening, and Di Hong felt melancholy over the emperor’s impending death and his own plan to take the kingdom.
• Di Yuan burned his painting of Heaven Dou City and began painting an imagined portrait of Qian Renxue, while Xue Qinghe feared Di Yuan might return.
• Tang San recruited the Defense Clan and Speed Clan, obtained the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng from Bai He to extend Xiao Wu’s life, and prepared to approach Yang Wudi of the Breaking Clan.