Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ming took Du Busi’s secret medicine and spent the night healing his internal injuries with help from Little Spirit and Rongrong. He agreed to visit the Body Sect with Zhang Lexuan, then showed Du Busi around Shrek City before someone called out to him at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion.

• Jiang Ming returned home with a pill from Du Busi and told Zhang Lexuan he planned to visit the Body Sect; she insisted on joining him, and he agreed.
• Jiang Ming swallowed the pill, whose power activated his Golden Heart and bloodline, and summoned Little Spirit and Rongrong to help repair his injuries through the night.
• At dawn, Jiang Ming expelled a streak of blood and said his injuries had healed seven or eight-tenths; Zhang Lexuan again confirmed she would travel to the Body Sect with him.
• Jiang Ming met Du Busi for breakfast and showed him landmarks around Shrek City, including the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, where Du Busi’s three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bones left Jiang Ming wary.
• Someone called out to Jiang Ming from behind him at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, and he turned around in surprise.

Wang Qiuer asked Jiang Ming to take her as his master, but he repeatedly refused until she pressured him with a claim that he had touched her chest. Jiang Ming agreed to make her a nominal disciple, while Wang Qiuer kept her real motive—investigating him for Di Tian—to herself.

• Wang Qiuer asked Jiang Ming to take her as his master, citing his strength, his rescue of her, and their similar paths.
• Jiang Ming refused and tried to send Wang Qiuer back to the Inner Court, but she threatened to tell Senior Disciple Sister that he had abandoned her.
• Wang Qiuer guided Jiang Ming's hand against her chest and threatened to accuse him of touching her if he refused again.
• Jiang Ming asked the inhabitants of his Small World for advice, but none of them could help him.
• Jiang Ming agreed to accept Wang Qiuer as a nominal disciple, and she agreed not to tell Senior Disciple Sister about the incident.

Jiang Ming accepted Wang Qiuer as his disciple, then spent a week showing Du Busi around Shrek City and Academy. He set out with Zhang Lexuan and Wang Qiuer for the Body Sect, leaving the group on their journey to the sect.

• Jiang Ming agreed to take Wang Qiuer as his disciple, and she asked him to teach her before the upcoming tournament, where she would captain Shrek Academy's team.
• Jiang Ming continued touring Shrek City and Shrek Academy with Du Busi, and a week later they set a date to visit the Body Sect.
• Jiang Ming met Du Busi at the city gates with Zhang Lexuan and Wang Qiuer, introducing Zhang Lexuan as his fiancée and Wang Qiuer as his new disciple.
• Jiang Ming persuaded Du Busi to let Wang Qiuer join them by citing the tournament and the chance to prepare for cooperation between Shrek Academy and the Body Sect.
• Du Busi led the group toward the Body Sect, while Jiang Ming and Zhang Lexuan carried Wang Qiuer on their Flying Swords.

Du Busi brought Jiang Ming, Xian Lin'er, and Jiang Ming's disciple to the Body Sect's hidden headquarters and tried to recruit Jiang Ming and his companions. Jiang Ming declined, and after hearing about the sect's young leader, Long Aotian, he waited to meet him while Du Busi prepared to discuss the sect's plans.

• Du Busi explained that the Body Sect's Beast Tide had forced it into seclusion, leaving it short of recruits and in need of a strong ally to prevent its decline.
• Du Busi led Jiang Ming and his companions to the sect's hidden base in the Heavenly Chasm and invited them to move there, but Jiang Ming refused.
• The Body Sect disciples gathered to greet Du Busi and reacted with curiosity, admiration, jealousy, and hostility toward Jiang Ming.
• Du Busi learned that Long Aotian was cultivating in the Nether Cold Cave and told Jiang Ming that the sect's leading young disciple would soon meet him.
• Du Busi brought Jiang Ming and his companions to rest beside the training square, where a female disciple arrived with fruit and kept glancing at Jiang Ming.

Du Busi introduced Jiang Ming, Zhang Lexuan, and Wang Qiuer to Chen Yu'er, then summoned the Body Sect elders to discuss the sect’s preparations as war with the Sun Moon Empire approached. While Chen Yu'er showed Jiang Ming around, Wang Qiuer explained that his unusual fragrance came from his Golden Heart and its rare herb and sun-power tempering; Chen Yu'er then began to tell him about Long Aotian.

• Du Busi introduced the Shrek guests to Chen Yu'er and ordered her and the other disciples to treat them with the same respect as him.
• Du Busi flew to the assembly hall and summoned the elders, while Jiang Ming considered the Body Sect’s strength and its need to prepare for the coming war.
• Chen Yu'er told Jiang Ming that she had a bronze second awakening, then agreed to explain what she knew about Long Aotian.
• Chen Yu'er became distracted by Jiang Ming’s scent, and Zhang Lexuan’s cough brought her back to her senses.
• Wang Qiuer identified Jiang Ming’s fragrance as the result of his Golden Heart’s fusion with the Hundred-Thousand-Year Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and its tempering during the Scorching Sun Burning Heart trial.

Jiang Ming and his companions learned more about the Body Sect’s powerful young successor, Long Aotian, before meeting him at the sect. Long Aotian assumed Jiang Ming would spar with him, and the chapter ended with Jiang Ming questioning that assumption.

• Jiang Ming failed to suppress the fragrance coming from his blood, while Wang Qiuer insisted on remaining his disciple.
• Chen Yu'er explained that Long Aotian was under twenty, had a Silver Grade Second Awakening, and had reached Soul Saint cultivation.
• A disciple found Long Aotian tempering his body in a freezing cave and summoned him to meet the Shrek Academy guests.
• Long Aotian arrived at the plaza, where Jiang Ming asked about other Body Sect disciples with high-grade Second Awakenings.
• Jiang Ming said the group had come to observe the sect and spar, and Long Aotian offered to fight him.
• Jiang Ming pointed at himself and asked Long Aotian if he wanted to spar with him.

Jiang Ming agreed to spar with Long Aotian at the Body Sect and effortlessly caught and threw aside Long Aotian’s powerful soul skill without using his Martial Soul. When Long Aotian activated Martial Soul Avatar to force Jiang Ming to reveal his strength, Jiang Ming formed a giant from his Bloodline Power and sent it charging at him.

• Long Aotian challenged Jiang Ming to a spar, and Jiang Ming accepted after Zhang Lexuan told him to go easy.
• Long Aotian used Demon Ape Transformation and Mad God Slash, but Jiang Ming caught his axe-like arms barehanded and flung him away.
• Long Aotian questioned why Jiang Ming would not use his Martial Soul, then activated Martial Soul Avatar and grew into a ten-meter giant.
• Jiang Ming formed a giant through Qi and Blood Manifestation and sent it charging at Long Aotian while Wang Qiuer watched closely.

Jiang Ming sparred with Long Aotian at the Body Sect, concealing his Martial Soul and limiting his strength while Long Aotian tried to force him to reveal it. After seeing Jiang Ming withstand his attacks, Long Aotian accepted a draw, leaving the watching disciples dissatisfied.

• Jiang Ming explained that Qi and Blood Manifestation was mostly a flashy technique and formed a ten-meter giant to spar with Long Aotian.
• Long Aotian used Heaven and Earth Transformation and Yan God Claw to overwhelm and tear apart Jiang Ming's Qi and Blood Giant.
• Lang Ya and Vina arrived at the square, recognized Jiang Ming, and doubted Long Aotian could defeat him.
• Jiang Ming fought Long Aotian's Martial Soul Avatar with his physical body for a minute without releasing his Martial Soul, and Long Aotian grew worried that he would lose face.
• Jiang Ming suggested calling the spar a draw, and Long Aotian accepted while the Body Sect disciples protested that the fight had ended too soon.

Jiang Ming’s spar with Long Aotian ended after Lang Ya intervened, and the Body Sect disciples learned more about Jiang Ming’s strength and past. Long Aotian offered Jiang Ming his position as the Sect Master’s successor, before a voice from the discussion hall summoned Jiang Ming.

• Lang Ya stopped the onlookers from pressing for the spar to continue, then greeted Jiang Ming and introduced Vina, who said she had admired Jiang Ming since the previous tournament.
• Wang Qiuer questioned the usefulness of Jiang Ming’s Bloodline Power technique, and he explained that he had only shown her another way to use it.
• Long Aotian asked Vina about Jiang Ming’s Martial Soul and learned that Jiang Ming had displayed Seven Rings Soul Sage cultivation five years earlier and had barely fought in the tournament.
• Long Aotian recognized Jiang Ming as the genius Du Busi had tried to bring to the Body Sect, then asked about his Golden Second Awakening.
• Long Aotian offered Jiang Ming his position as the Sect Master’s successor, while Chen Yu'er eagerly admired Jiang Ming and Vina urged her to mind her image.
• A voice from the distant discussion hall called Jiang Ming over.

Jiang Ming joined the Body Sect's council meeting, where Du Busi lent him the sect's treasured manual, the Secret of the Body, to help him understand his Golden Second Awakening. As the elders wondered whether Du Busi intended Jiang Ming to become the next Sect Master, Jiang Ming hesitated to accept the gift.

• Jiang Ming left Zhang Lexuan and Wang Qiuer outside and used a spatial ability to reach the council hall after Du Busi summoned him.
• Wang Qiuer challenged Long Aotian to spar, and Long Aotian agreed after learning she was a Soul Emperor.
• The Body Sect elders questioned Jiang Ming about reaching the Titled Douluo realm at age twenty-five, and he confirmed it.
• Du Busi said he wanted to discuss cooperation between the Body Sect and Shrek Academy, then lent Jiang Ming the Secret of the Body.
• Du Busi explained that the manual contained the Body Sect's knowledge of Body Martial Souls and was meant to pass to the next Sect Master, leaving the elders stunned.
• Jiang Ming considered refusing the manual despite recognizing that its accumulated experience could help him improve his Golden Heart Martial Soul.

Jiang Ming rejected the Body Sect’s Secret of the Body and urged its leaders to focus on the danger posed by the Sun Moon Empire rather than the tournament. The chapter ended as he challenged Du Busi to reconsider the empire’s strength based on his fight with Bright Virtue Hall’s Hall Master.

• Jiang Ming returned the Secret of the Body, explaining that he did not want to take on deeper obligations to the Body Sect.
• Du Busi set the matter aside and asked the Elders to discuss cooperation between the Body Sect and Shrek Academy, with the upcoming tournament as the immediate concern.
• Jiang Ming asked whether the Body Sect could share its escape route from Radiant City, citing its past raid on Bright Virtue Hall.
• The Elders dismissed the likelihood of the Sun Moon Empire attacking during the tournament and turned their attention to winning the championship.
• Jiang Ming warned that the Body Sect and Shrek Academy would be among the empire’s first targets in a war and asked whether they were prepared.
• Du Busi said the Body Sect could escape Radiant City, but Jiang Ming insisted that the danger went beyond the tournament and asked what Du Busi had thought of Bright Virtue Hall’s Hall Master.

Jiang Ming warned Du Busi and the Body Sect elders that the Sun Moon Empire might use the tournament to prepare for a continent-wide war. He laid out how the empire could exploit the Holy Spirit Cult and Radiant City, leaving the elders to consider whether the competing teams might be trapped there.

• Jiang Ming told Du Busi that Jing Hongchen ranked outside the Sun Moon Empire's top five and warned that the empire's Limit Douluo experts and Soul Tools threatened the Body Sect.
• Jiang Ming suggested the Sun Moon Empire might be strong enough to attack the Body Sect, Shrek Academy, and the Three Great Empires at once, and Du Busi asked what information supported his warning.
• Jiang Ming projected a map of Radiant City and argued that the empire had changed the tournament format to help Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy win, with the Holy Spirit Cult eliminating rival teams.
• Jiang Ming explained that the Sun Moon Empire could use a championship to stir national pride and prepare its people and army for war.
• Jiang Ming warned that the tournament could be a trap because Radiant City was the imperial capital and the Sun Moon Empire might prevent the participating teams from leaving.

Jiang Ming warned the Body Sect elders that the Sun Moon Empire might use the tournament in Radiant City to detain competitors, divide the Three Great Empires, and provoke a war. He proposed sending dozens of Titled Douluo to guard against the scheme, and the chapter ended with the elders asking to test his strength in a spar.

• Jiang Ming explained how the Sun Moon Empire could use rumors, coercion, and casualties in Radiant City to prevent the factions from uniting and justify war.
• The Body Sect elders debated whether Jiang Ming's theory was credible, and he admitted it was speculation while arguing that the risk was worth preparing for.
• Jiang Ming proposed that the factions attend the tournament as usual but send many more, stronger people, including dozens of Titled Douluo who could devastate Radiant City if necessary.
• Du Busi said the Body Sect would discuss the proposal for several days and asked Jiang Ming to remain and advise them; Jiang Ming also urged Du Busi to pursue a breakthrough to Limit Douluo.
• The Golden Body Douluo and other elders challenged Jiang Ming to spar so they could judge his strength after his breakthrough to Titled Douluo, and Jiang Ming agreed.

Jiang Ming agreed to spar with Golden Body Douluo while the Body Sect’s disciples watched, and his Soul Rings revealed a power far beyond their expectations. The chapter ended with Long Aotian stunned by Jiang Ming’s golden Eighth Soul Ring and overwhelming aura.

• Du Busi brought Long Aotian, Vina, Lang Ya, and Chen Yu'er to watch Jiang Ming spar with Golden Body Douluo.
• Du Busi’s disciples realized Jiang Ming was likely strong enough to face a Super Douluo, though Du Busi withheld his exact cultivation.
• Golden Body Douluo released his Martial Soul and nine Soul Rings, including a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, and challenged Jiang Ming to show his growth.
• Jiang Ming released his Body Martial Soul and revealed that his first three Soul Rings were now black, while his eighth Soul Ring was golden.
• Jiang Ming’s Soul Ring aura overwhelmed Golden Body Douluo’s presence, leaving Long Aotian frozen and laughing in disbelief.

Jiang Ming revealed his unprecedented Soul Ring configuration and fought the Golden Body Douluo, whose Golden Second Awakening proved formidable. The duel escalated as Jiang Ming unveiled his own Golden Battle Body and unleashed Ruler of the World: Inch Punch: Star Shatter.

• Long Aotian, Vina, Du Busi, Chen Yu'er, Lang Ya, and the Body Sect elders were stunned by Jiang Ming's eight Soul Rings, including three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and a Golden Soul Ring.
• Jiang Ming warned the Golden Body Douluo that he was no longer a match for him, but the Golden Body Douluo chose to fight anyway and attacked with Spatial Cage.
• Jiang Ming activated Golden Blood, shattered the Spatial Cage, and struck the Golden Body Douluo, who used his Golden Body skill to withstand the blow.
• Jiang Ming activated Golden Heart Second Awakening skill: Golden Battle Body, and the Golden Body Douluo responded with the Body Sect technique Golden Body Like a Dragon: Iron Wall.
• Jiang Ming gathered the power of his God of War Soul Core and Blazing Sun Soul Core, then used Ruler of the World: Inch Punch: Star Shatter against the Golden Body Douluo's defense.

Jiang Ming tested his Ruler of the World punch against the Body Sect, whose elders joined forces to shield the Golden Body Douluo. Du Busi acknowledged Jiang Ming’s astonishing strength, and Jiang Ming challenged him to spar.

• Du Busi and the Body Sect elders rushed to protect the Golden Body Douluo from Jiang Ming’s godlike punch.
• Jiang Ming chose to let his punch strike the elders’ combined Soul Power shield, while Long Aotian and others struggled against the shockwaves.
• The punch failed to break the shield, but its hidden Dark Force passed through and struck the Golden Body Douluo, who blocked it with Golden Body Iron Wall.
• Long Aotian’s doubts about comparing himself with Jiang Ming eased, while Wang Qiuer watched his Soul Rings and wondered about their divine power.
• The Golden Body Douluo praised Jiang Ming’s growth, and Du Busi predicted Jiang Ming might surpass him within ten years.
• Jiang Ming challenged Du Busi to spar and test that prediction.

Jiang Ming sparred with Du Busi to test his Golden Heart Martial Soul and receive guidance on cultivating his Body Martial Soul. After Jiang Ming unleashed several powerful enhancements, his aura rose to the level of a Super Douluo, astonishing Du Busi as the fight intensified.

• Jiang Ming asked Du Busi to spar, and Du Busi agreed while the Golden Body Douluo and the elders led the others to watch safely.
• Jiang Ming activated Golden Resonance, Golden Guard, Golden Blood, and Golden Pull, forcing Zhang Lexuan to shield the girls from the resonance's effects.
• Jiang Ming and Du Busi exchanged blows, but Du Busi resisted Jiang Ming's resonance and pull skills and pointed out that Jiang Ming lacked systematic Body Martial Soul training.
• Jiang Ming asked Du Busi for guidance, and Du Busi told him to fight at full strength so he could identify his flaws.
• Jiang Ming activated Golden Battle Body, Indestructible Body, and his Martial Soul Avatar, raising his aura to the Super Douluo level and leaving Du Busi stunned.

Jiang Ming fought Du Busi, the level ninety-eight Sect Master of the Body Sect, and repeatedly matched his attacks with his Body Martial Soul. As the elders realized Jiang Ming might still be hiding his full strength, Lang Ya revealed that Jiang Ming’s other Martial Soul had appeared with seven Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings.

• Jiang Ming used Diamond Fist to blast Du Busi into a cliff, prompting Du Busi to activate his Martial Soul Avatar and warn Jiang Ming about his poison.
• Du Busi’s Hell Poison Dragon Drill shattered Jiang Ming’s Golden Guard, but Jiang Ming spotted the attack’s weakness and struck it before Du Busi reinforced it and sent him crashing into a cliff.
• Jiang Ming and Du Busi continued exchanging powerful blows while Golden Body Douluo and the other elders watched from behind their Soul Power shields.
• Magic Sound Douluo noticed Jiang Ming fought with unusual ease and suggested that his other Martial Soul might be stronger than his Body Martial Soul.
• Lang Ya recalled seeing Jiang Ming’s other Martial Soul during a tournament five years earlier and said it had seven Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings.

Jiang Ming fought Du Busi at the Body Sect, impressing the elders with his strength and revealing that he was an honorary Pavilion Master of Sea God Pavilion. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao traveled into the Sunset Forest to find a way through its poisonous miasma, where he unexpectedly encountered Elder Zhuang.

• Lang Ya told the Body Sect elders that Jiang Ming had possessed seven Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings during the previous tournament, and they debated whether the claim could be true.
• Jiang Ming used Fiery Golden Eyes to study Du Busi during their prolonged fight, but Du Busi eventually called it off.
• Du Busi praised Jiang Ming’s strength and revealed that he was an honorary Pavilion Master of Sea God Pavilion, shocking Long Aotian, Lang Ya, Chen Yu’er, and Vina.
• Huo Yuhao traveled deep into the Sunset Forest, found few powerful Soul Beasts, and stopped when he encountered poisonous miasma.
• The next morning, Huo Yuhao surveyed the miasma from the air and then saw Elder Zhuang in the depths of the forest.

Huo Yuhao entered Sunset Forest to find the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and cure Wang Dong'er’s life-threatening hidden ailments. Elder Zhuang led him to Youyou and the other Immortal Herbs, but Youyou realized Huo Yuhao had come to take an Immortal Herb and grew wary.

• Huo Yuhao used Fixed Soul Cannonballs and Extreme Ice to clear a path through the poisonous miasma in Sunset Forest.
• Youyou sensed Huo Yuhao’s Extreme Ice aura and asked Elder Zhuang to meet the newcomer while she continued playing tiles.
• Elder Zhuang recognized Huo Yuhao, learned why he had come, and offered to take him to the Lovesick Heartbreak Red.
• Youyou lost another tile game to Eight-Angle, then blamed Huo Yuhao for distracting her and demanded to know his purpose.
• Huo Yuhao told Youyou he needed the Lovesick Heartbreak Red to save his beloved, and Youyou became suspicious of his request.