Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaogang revealed that he had broken through his level 29 bottleneck and joined Flender to meet the academy students. After learning Luo Ling was a thirteen-year-old level 46 Soul Ancestor, Yu Xiaogang tried to recruit him as a disciple, but Luo Ling mocked his strength and accused him of stealing his theories.

• Yu Xiaogang showed Flender that he had broken through level 29, while privately considering turning the Blood Devil Ritual into a theory.
• Flender introduced Yu Xiaogang as the Grandmaster to the gathered students at the training grounds.
• Flender told Yu Xiaogang that Luo Ling was thirteen years old, level 46, and wielded the Nether Shadow Sickle.
• Yu Xiaogang approached Luo Ling and offered to take him as a disciple.
• Luo Ling rejected Yu Xiaogang, mocked his low level, and accused him of passing someone else's work off as his own theories.

Luo Ling challenged Yu Xiaogang’s reputation by exposing that his theories came from Spirit Hall, then watched as Yu Xiaogang identified Tang San’s new spider limbs as an External Soul Bone. The chapter ended with Luo Ling warning Tang San that the rare bone could make him a target before it fully fused.

• Yu Xiaogang defended his theories, but Luo Ling said the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had similar records and pointed out that Yu Xiaogang’s materials came from Spirit Hall.
• Yu Xiaogang worried that the revelation would damage his reputation, while Flender redirected him to examine Tang San.
• Tang San revealed the eight spider legs he had obtained after absorbing the Man Faced Demon Spider’s Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang identified Tang San’s Eight Spider Lances as a rare External Soul Bone and explained their value to the group.
• Luo Ling warned Tang San that someone could kill him and take the External Soul Bone before it had fully fused.

Yu Xiaogang began training the Shrek students and asked them to demonstrate their Soul Skills. When Dai Mubai’s injury kept him from fighting, Tang San challenged Luo Ling instead, confident in his new External Soul Bone, but Luo Ling easily cut apart Tang San’s opening attack.

• Luo Ling warned Yu Xiaogang that Tang San’s External Soul Bone could attract people who wanted to take it, and Yu Xiaogang asked everyone to keep it secret.
• Yu Xiaogang ranked the seven students by age and ordered them to demonstrate their Soul Skills against Dai Mubai.
• Tang San suggested Luo Ling spar with the students because Dai Mubai’s reattached arm was still injured, and Luo Ling agreed.
• Tang San entered the field and received permission to use his Eight Spider Lances, but not his Hidden Weapons.
• Tang San attacked Luo Ling with Blue Silver Grass, but Luo Ling spun his Nether Shadow Sickle and sliced the vines apart, turning them to ash.

Luo Ling overwhelmed Tang San in their training-field match, exposing Blue Silver Grass's weakness and evading Tang San's Tang Sect techniques. After cutting apart nearly all of Tang San's Eight Spider Lances, Luo Ling used Soul Beast corpses to propose testing whether the remaining lance could absorb flesh and blood to regenerate.

• Luo Ling corroded Tang San's Blue Silver Grass and its hidden Parasite seeds, leaving Tang San shaken by how weak his Martial Soul seemed.
• Tang San used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, his Eight Spider Lances, and Spider Web Restraint, but Luo Ling sensed his position and escaped the web with a displacement skill.
• Luo Ling challenged Tang San to use the Eight Spider Lances, then cut through all but one of the Soul Bone's spider legs with his Black Scythe.
• Yu Xiaogang rushed in and angrily objected to Luo Ling destroying Tang San's Soul Bone.
• Luo Ling produced Soul Beast corpses and proposed that Tang San test whether the remaining Eight Spider Lance could absorb flesh, blood, or Soul Power to repair itself.

Tang San discovered that his Eight Spider Lances could absorb a Soul Beast Corpse, restore themselves, and increase his Soul Power, but he kept the discovery from Luo Ling. As Luo Ling shared a meal with Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing, he secretly watched Yu Xiaogang and Tang San through a crow.

• At Luo Ling's urging and with Yu Xiaogang's approval, Tang San used his remaining spider lance to absorb a Soul Beast Corpse and regrow the shattered lance.
• Tang San noticed his Soul Power rising during the absorption and decided to conceal the ability from Luo Ling, while Luo Ling sensed the increase and considered how it could turn Tang San into an Evil Soul Master.
• Luo Ling let the others demonstrate their soul skills, and Yu Xiaogang dismissed everyone before leaving with Tang San.
• Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing followed Luo Ling to an upscale restaurant in Suotuo City, where Ning Rongrong explained that the other two had joined her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Luo Ling watched Yu Xiaogang and Tang San in the Back Mountain through the eyes of a crow perched nearby.

Yu Xiaogang warned Tang San to hide the Eight Spider Lances' ability to grow stronger by devouring flesh and blood, then traveled with Flender to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain his third Soul Ring. Luo Ling and Ghost Douluo also went there, where Luo Ling planned to hunt a powerful Dark Soul Beast for his fifth ring.

• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that devouring humans or Soul Masters would make him a target, and advised him to keep the Eight Spider Lances' ability secret.
• Yu Xiaogang set off with Flender for the Star Dou Great Forest, while Luo Ling, having reached level 50, traveled there with Ghost Douluo.
• Luo Ling asked Ghost Douluo to find a Dark Soul Beast between forty and fifty thousand years old for his fifth Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang told Flender that he planned to give Luo Sanpao a poison attribute for its third Soul Skill, making its farts toxic.
• Luo Ling privately judged Yu Xiaogang's plan dangerous because toxins could harm Yu Xiaogang himself.

Luo Ling discovered a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger fighting a Man Faced Demon Spider in the Star Dou Great Forest and secretly weakened the tiger, hoping to secure it as his Fifth Soul Ring. The tiger retaliated with its devastating attacks and opened a Black Hole with its Evil God Hook, while Luo Ling and Ghost Douluo watched nearby.

• Luo Ling left to hunt for a Soul Ring while Ghost Douluo searched the Mixed Region for Dark Soul Beasts.
• Ghost Douluo reported that a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was fighting a Man Faced Demon Spider nearing a hundred thousand years old.
• Luo Ling recognized the tiger and explained that it could rival a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast despite being less than fifty thousand years old.
• Luo Ling and Ghost Douluo reached the battlefield and saw that the tiger had badly injured the Man Faced Demon Spider without suffering obvious wounds.
• Luo Ling used his Soul Body Thread to slow the tiger, allowing the Man Faced Demon Spider to stab its eye and poison it.
• The enraged tiger blasted the Man Faced Demon Spider and formed a massive Black Hole with its Evil God Hook.

Luo Ling and Ghost Douluo waited for the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger to defeat the Man Faced Demon Spider, then killed the wounded tiger. When Luo Ling absorbed its Soul Ring, his Soul of Desire also drew out the tiger’s Life Pearl and began absorbing its power, leaving him in a dark realm before a mysterious man who recognized an aura as Primordial.

• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger dragged the Man Faced Demon Spider into a Different Dimension, and both beasts returned after their battle with the spider dead and the tiger badly wounded.
• Ghost Douluo defeated the wounded Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, and Luo Ling killed it and began absorbing its Soul Ring.
• Luo Ling’s Raven Shadow Puppet rejected the Soul Ring while his Soul of Desire craved it, so he trusted his Martial Soul and started absorbing it through the Soul of Desire.
• An Evil Shadow emerged behind Luo Ling, bound a black pearl from the tiger’s corpse, and absorbed it while Luo Ling’s two Martial Souls gained power at once.
• Luo Ling’s body struggled to withstand the two sources of power, and he lost consciousness before waking in a dark realm before a man who asked whether he could absorb the tiger’s Soul Pearl and recognized an aura as Primordial.

Luo Ling awakened to the Evil God’s inheritance and discovered that absorbing the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had given him two Fifth Soul Skills and raised him to rank 54. He also revealed that he had obtained an External Soul Bone, leaving Ghost Douluo stunned.

• The Evil God granted Luo Ling the first of the Evil God Nine Trials and marked him with the task of taking revenge on Yu Xiaogang.
• Luo Ling realized the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s Soul Pearl had become two black Soul Rings, and he learned the powers of his new Soul Skills, including Soul Parasitism.
• Luo Ling reached rank 54, while Ghost Douluo reacted with shock to his level and the reported ability to weaken targets by 50%.
• Luo Ling told Ghost Douluo that he had also gained an External Soul Bone and opened a vertical eye between his brows.

Luo Ling revealed the Evil God's Eye's powerful abilities and watched Yu Xiaogang absorb a Mandala Snake Soul Ring. Yu Xiaogang believed his theory had been vindicated, but Luo Ling followed him to see what effects the Soul Ring would have on Luo Sanpao.

• Luo Ling explained that the Evil God's Eye enhanced his Spiritual Power, made him immune to mental attacks, and could trap an enemy while weakening them with Evil Qi.
• Yu Xiaogang insisted on absorbing a four-thousand-year Mandala Snake Soul Ring despite Flender's concerns about its poison, and Flender killed the Soul Beast before standing guard.
• Luo Ling spotted Yu Xiaogang and Flender through a crow and led Ghost Douluo to observe Yu Xiaogang's absorption without interrupting it.
• Yu Xiaogang finished absorbing the Soul Ring without apparent trouble and declared his theory correct.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo Sanpao, noticed it looked haggard, fed it carrots, and headed into the forest to test its new Soul Skill as Luo Ling and Ghost Douluo followed.

Yu Xiaogang tested Luo Sanpao’s new corrosive soul skill on a Gale Baboon, but the toxin also badly injured Luo Sanpao and triggered a horrifying reaction in Yu Xiaogang. Flender watched helplessly as Yu Xiaogang collapsed in a pool of filth and fainted.

• Yu Xiaogang ordered Luo Sanpao to test his first soul skill on a five-hundred-year Gale Baboon, then used his third soul skill to kill it with corrosive mist.
• Luo Ling and Ghost Douluo watched from hiding as Luo Sanpao lay injured from his own toxin.
• Yu Xiaogang suddenly suffered intense abdominal and anal pain, then collapsed as an uncontrollable torrent burst from him.
• Flender realized Yu Xiaogang had become a eunuch and heard him angrily refuse to discuss it.
• Yu Xiaogang tried to stand, fell back into the filth, and fainted while Flender hesitated over how to rescue him.

Luo Ling and Ghost Douluo left Yu Xiaogang after his Soul Skill’s Toxin severely injured him, and Flender rescued him and brought him for treatment. As Flender resolved to pursue Liu Erlong, Luo Ling returned to Shrek Academy as a Soul King and told Ning Rongrong to keep his breakthrough secret.

• Luo Ling and Ghost Douluo watched Yu Xiaogang suffer from the effects of his Soul Skill, then left the forest.
• Flender rescued Yu Xiaogang and washed him, and Yu Xiaogang woke with severe pain and learned that the Toxin had injured him.
• Yu Xiaogang insisted that his theory was sound and that he only needed to solve the Soul Skill’s side effects.
• Flender brought Yu Xiaogang to the Gathering Place for treatment, learned he had been framed years earlier, and suggested visiting Suotuo City for another Support Soul Master.
• Flender decided to pursue Liu Erlong after Yu Xiaogang rejected the idea of seeing her, while Yu Xiaogang planned to return to Shrek and train Tang San and the others.
• Luo Ling returned to Shrek Academy, told Ning Rongrong he had obtained a Soul Ring and become a Soul King, and asked her to keep his breakthrough secret.

Luo Ling discovered Dai Mubai’s murderous intent toward Tang San and secretly followed Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun to learn why they had gone after Bu Le. Dai Mubai then disguised himself and hired Bu Le and his brothers to kill people from Shrek, including Tang San and the women, in exchange for a reward.

• Luo Ling entered Shrek with Ning Rongrong and sensed that Dai Mubai held murderous intent toward both him and Tang San.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to Shrek with Flender, prompting speculation from the others, while Luo Ling later spotted Dai Mubai leaving with a bruised Ma Hongjun.
• Luo Ling sent a crow to follow Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun as they went to confront Bu Le, a powerful Soul Ancestor who had beaten Ma Hongjun.
• Dai Mubai knocked Ma Hongjun unconscious in the alley, then approached Bu Le in a black cloak and asked him to gather Lao E and Tian Ya for a killing job.
• Dai Mubai offered Bu Le three thousand Gold Soul Coins and promised beautiful women, hoping to obtain Tang San’s External Soul Bone and make up for his injured arm.

Dai Mubai hired Bu Le and his companions to kill Tang San and retrieve his Soul Bone, while Luo Ling watched and recognized the plot. The next day, Tang San rallied the Shrek Seven Devils to confront Bu Le that night, and Luo Ling agreed to go along to see how the conflict unfolded.

• Dai Mubai paid Bu Le one thousand Gold Soul Coins to kill Tang San and promised another two thousand, but Bu Le planned to betray him and take the money and women for himself.
• Luo Ling realized Dai Mubai wanted Tang San's Soul Bone and doubted the scheme would succeed.
• Ma Hongjun woke with injuries, and Dai Mubai falsely claimed they had been beaten by Bu Le to win the others' sympathy.
• Tang San agreed to lead the group to confront Bu Le that night, while Dai Mubai concealed his real motive of obtaining Tang San's Soul Bone.
• Luo Ling agreed to join the group, intending to watch the confrontation between Dai Mubai and Tang San.

Luo Ling confronted Tian Ya while Tang San and the others took on Bu Le and Lao E, beginning the fight to avenge Ma Hongjun. As the two battles opened, Luo Ling secretly watched Dai Mubai, and Ning Rongrong boosted the group's fighters with her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

• The group followed Bu Le into an alley, where he revealed his two accomplices, Tian Ya and Lao E, both Soul Kings.
• Tian Ya and Lao E leered at Ning Rongrong and the other girls, while Ma Hongjun and Tang San realized they faced three powerful opponents.
• Luo Ling stepped forward to fight Tian Ya and asked Tang San to handle Bu Le and Lao E with the others.
• Tang San divided the Shrek Seven Devils' forces against Bu Le and Lao E, with Dai Mubai and Xiao Wu leading the attack.
• Ning Rongrong summoned her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and empowered Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and Luo Ling.

Dai Mubai betrayed the Shrek Seven Devils, attacking Tang San and revealing that he wanted Tang San’s External Soul Bone and revenge on Luo Ling. As Dai Mubai joined Bu Le’s side, Luo Ling ended his fight with Tian Ya and left the confrontation poised to continue.

• Tang San’s Hidden Weapons and the others’ attacks pushed Bu Le and Lao E back until Lao E’s feather storm injured Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Tang San unleashed his Eight Spider Lances, tore off Lao E’s wings, and was trapped by Bu Le’s Pink Barrier.
• Dai Mubai blasted Tang San from behind, then admitted he had allied with Bu Le and intended to kill Tang San and Luo Ling.
• Dai Mubai declared that he wanted Tang San’s External Soul Bone and sought revenge on Luo Ling for severing his arm and taking his woman.
• Luo Ling stopped pretending to struggle and killed Tian Ya with a single swing of the Black Scythe, reducing his body to black water.

Luo Ling watched as Tang Hao intervened and killed Dai Mubai after Dai Mubai tried to bargain for his life and then attacked Tang San. The chapter ended with Luo Ling telling Ma Hongjun to take the unconscious Tang San home for treatment, making clear he would not take Tang San’s Soul Bone.

• Luo Ling’s display of strength frightened Dai Mubai and Bu Le, and Dai Mubai claimed he had only intended to kill Tang San and give Luo Ling the External Soul Bone.
• Dai Mubai approached the unconscious Tang San, but a black-robed man appeared and struck him through a wall.
• The black-robed man ignored Dai Mubai’s plea for Luo Ling’s help and blocked Dai Mubai’s Light Wave with his palm.
• The black-robed man killed Dai Mubai by crushing his head into his chest, and Luo Ling recognized him as Tang Hao.
• Luo Ling told Ma Hongjun to take Tang San home for treatment, signaling to Tang Hao that he would not take Tang San’s Soul Bone.

After Tang Hao killed Dai Mubai, the Shrek group returned to the academy and reported what had happened to Flender. Yu Xiaogang secretly stole Dai Mubai’s buried corpse for the Blood Devil Ritual, while Luo Ling watched and resolved to torment him as part of the Evil God Nine Trials.

• Tang Hao crushed Bu Le and Lao E to death, then vanished, and Luo Ling sent the Shrek group back with Dai Mubai’s corpse.
• Oscar and Ma Hongjun told Flender and Yu Xiaogang that Dai Mubai had tried to kill Luo Ling and Tang San and had been killed by a black-robed man.
• Flender decided to bury Dai Mubai on the academy’s Back Mountain and carried his body away.
• Yu Xiaogang secretly dug up Dai Mubai’s headless corpse, stored it in his Soul Tool, and restored the grave.
• Luo Ling watched Yu Xiaogang through a crow and planned to make him suffer mentally to complete the first Evil God Nine Trials test.

Yu Xiaogang sacrificed Dai Mubai’s corpse in the Blood Devil Ritual, gaining Soul Power and healing an injury while Luo Ling sensed the ritual’s effects. Two months later, Yu Xiaogang began Shrek’s Great Soul Arena training, but the team struggled to meet the team-battle requirement without Dai Mubai.

• Yu Xiaogang performed the Blood Devil Ritual with Dai Mubai’s corpse, and the offering dissolved as its power entered Yu Xiaogang.
• Luo Ling sensed an unexplained increase in his Spiritual Power and Soul Power while Yu Xiaogang’s ritual took place.
• Yu Xiaogang reached level 33 and discovered the ritual had healed his injury, though it had not repaired his body as he hoped.
• Two months later, Yu Xiaogang sent the Shrek students to the Great Soul Arena to earn Silver Spirit Badges, requiring each to compete in a team battle daily.
• Ma Hongjun pointed out that Shrek lacked enough members for team battles, and Luo Ling refused to join because his level would make the matches unsuitable.
• Ning Rongrong asked Luo Ling to partner with her for two-on-two battles, while Yu Xiaogang allowed it and Oscar searched for another partner.

Luo Ling and Ning Rongrong faced Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng in a two-on-two spirit fight, and Luo Ling recognized Dugu Yan from their meeting three years earlier. As the match began, Yu Tianheng released his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul while Yu Xiaogang recognized his former student.

• Oscar teamed up with Tang San, Xiao Wu teamed up with Zhu Zhuqing, and Luo Ling teamed up with Ning Rongrong for their two-on-two spirit fights.
• Luo Ling and Ning Rongrong entered the arena as the Lapis Lazuli Evil Scythe Combination and met Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng, the Blue Poison Combination.
• Dugu Yan recognized Luo Ling, who told her through voice transmission not to reveal his identity, while Yu Tianheng grew jealous of their familiarity.
• Luo Ling learned that Dugu Yan had recently reached Soul Ancestor and told her he was staying at Shrek Academy in Suotuo City.
• The spirit fight began, Yu Tianheng released his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul, and Yu Xiaogang recognized him as his former student.