Chapter Summaries

Fang Ling planted Ah Yin at the Ice Fire Twin Springs and decided to head to Shrek Academy to take Zhu Zhuqing. As Tang San and Xiao Wu arrived at the academy, Dugu Bo intercepted Tang Hao while Fang Ling approached the village.

• Fang Ling planted the Blue Silver Emperor and nourished Ah Yin with medicinal brew, deciding that he had repaid his debt to her.
• Fang Ling declined to hunt for a soul ring because his regenerated leg could not yet withstand one, and told Dugu Bo they would go to Suotuo City to find Zhu Zhuqing.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu traveled to Shrek Academy after refusing other schools’ invitations, while Fang Ling and Dugu Bo raced toward Suotuo City.
• After Tang San and Xiao Wu reached the village and joined the registration line, Fang Ling and Dugu Bo learned where Shrek Academy was and headed there.
• Tang Hao sensed Dugu Bo approaching and sent him a message; Dugu Bo told Fang Ling to take the person he wanted, then vanished to confront Tang Hao.

Dugu Bo confronted Tang Hao and warned him not to harm Fang Ling, while Fang Ling reached Shrek Academy to find Zhu Zhuqing and clashed with Li Yusong at the entrance. Fang Ling revealed his strength and identified himself as Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s team captain.

• Dugu Bo told Tang Hao that Fang Ling was his disciple and grandson-in-law, and threatened to thwart whatever Tang Hao was guarding if he attacked him.
• Tang Hao agreed not to harm Fang Ling, and the two men agreed to stay where they were and not interfere with each other.
• Fang Ling arrived at the village and spotted Xiao Wu, Tang San, and Zhu Zhuqing entering the academy buildings.
• Li Yusong stopped Fang Ling from entering without registering and summoned his martial soul to threaten him.
• Fang Ling summoned his Long-Handled Battle Scythe, revealed four soul rings including a black one, and struck at Li Yusong before he could withdraw his staff.
• Fang Ling told the shaken Li Yusong that he was Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team captain Fang Ling.

Fang Ling reached the academy’s assessment grounds and demanded that Zhu Zhuqing leave with him, offering to protect her. Dai Mubai confronted him over interfering in Star Luo affairs, and Fang Ling dismissed him as a barking stray dog.

• Fang Ling entered the academy after revealing his four soul rings, including a ten-thousand-year fourth ring, and explained that he had come to find Zhu Zhuqing.
• Fang Ling passed the next assessment area and noticed that Ning Rongrong was absent; he suspected she had been sent to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Fang Ling arrived at Zhao Wuji’s assessment and identified himself as the Heaven Dou Royal Academy captain who had come for Zhu Zhuqing.
• Zhu Zhuqing recognized Fang Ling from their encounter three years earlier, while Tang San and Xiao Wu felt he seemed familiar.
• Fang Ling offered to take Zhu Zhuqing away and protect her, but Dai Mubai challenged him over meddling in Star Luo affairs.

Fang Ling defeated Dai Mubai after Dai challenged him, then faced the anger of Zhao Wuji and Dean Flender at the academy. He ended the confrontation by revealing that his mentor was Dugu Bo.

• Dai Mubai used White Tiger possession and attacked Fang Ling after Fang insulted him.
• Fang Ling cut through Dai Mubai's barrier, wounded him with his scythe, and knocked him aside with ease.
• Tang San stopped Dai Mubai's bleeding while he and Xiao Wu struggled to believe Fang Ling was their former companion.
• Zhao Wuji summoned his Martial Soul and prepared to attack Fang Ling for injuring an academy student.
• Dean Flender descended to stop Zhao Wuji and demanded to know Fang Ling's faction, so Fang Ling named Dugu Bo as his mentor.

Fang Ling invoked Dugu Bo’s authority to take Zhu Zhuqing from Shrek Academy back to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and she agreed to leave with him. Before departing, he confronted Tang San and Xiao Wu over their lack of cultivation progress and left disappointed in them.

• Flender recognized Fang Ling as Dugu Bo’s disciple and dropped any thought of opposing him.
• Fang Ling declared Zhu Zhuqing’s registration void and said she would return with him to Heaven Dou Royal Academy; Zhu Zhuqing accepted his offer.
• Fang Ling greeted Tang San and Xiao Wu, then told Tang San to cultivate harder and give up distractions like forging.
• Fang Ling rebuked Tang San and Xiao Wu for remaining at peak rank twenty-nine despite their talent, then walked away, saying they were no longer his goals and that he was disappointed in them.

After Fang Ling defeated Dai Mubai and left Shrek with Zhu Zhuqing, the others treated Dai Mubai and discussed his injury. Fang Ling reassured Zhu Zhuqing as they headed toward Suotuo City to meet his teacher, Dugu Bo.

• Flender called Oscar to give Dai Mubai a healing sausage, and Tang San released the acupoints he had sealed to stop the bleeding.
• Dai Mubai accepted that Flender could not oppose Dugu Bo but resented Zhu Zhuqing for agreeing to leave with Fang Ling.
• Flender carried Dai Mubai to his wooden house, while Zhao Wuji went to find a Healing Spirit Master and Tang San asked about the enrollment examination.
• Fang Ling told Zhu Zhuqing that he and Tang San and Xiao Wu were enemies now, though he did not explain why.
• Fang Ling reassured Zhu Zhuqing that Dugu Bo treated his own people well and promised that she could rely on him.

Fang Ling brought Zhu Zhuqing to meet his teacher, Dugu Bo, who promised to protect her from Star Luo’s pressure. He then took them to War King Academy to revisit the people who had guided him, where Director Tianyang recognized him.

• Zhu Zhuqing asked whether Fang Ling’s other partners would accept her, and Fang Ling told her about Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo left his confrontation with Tang Hao and met Fang Ling and Zhu Zhuqing, promising to handle the pressure from Star Luo.
• Fang Ling explained that Zhu Zhuqing needed time to recover before they hunted his spirit ring, then persuaded Dugu Bo to visit War King Academy.
• The three traveled to Icefront City, where Teacher He recognized Fang Ling and let them enter the academy.
• At the arena, Director Tianyang recognized Fang Ling and called out his name.

Fang Ling returned to the academy with Zhu Zhuqing and Dugu Bo, shocking his former teacher Lin Tianyang with his level fifty cultivation. Meanwhile, Tang Hao discovered that Ah Yin and her Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone were missing, and he blamed Spirit Hall before his fury worsened his old injuries.

• Fang Ling reunited with Lin Tianyang and revealed that he was level fifty, only one soul ring short of becoming a Soul King.
• Fang Ling introduced Dugu Bo as his new teacher and grandfather, then introduced Zhu Zhuqing as one of his fiancées.
• Lin Tianyang arranged for someone else to take over the assessment and invited Fang Ling and his companions to meet Man Yun and his father.
• Tang Hao returned to the cave and found that Ah Yin, her mound of earth, and her Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone had disappeared.
• Tang Hao read a mocking note that led him to believe a former Spirit Hall enemy had stolen the bone, then tore up the note in rage.
• Tang Hao roared in grief, coughed up blood, and sat down to suppress his injuries.

Fang Ling brought Zhu Zhuqing to Dugu Manor, while the Star Luo Empire struggled to decide how to respond and its envoy was expelled from Heaven Dou. After Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling helped Zhu Zhuqing feel welcome, she and Fang Ling began forming a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, whose spreading gray mist alarmed Dugu Bo.

• The Star Luo Emperor read Dai Mubai’s letter and, after discussing the risks with the Empress, ordered an envoy to denounce Heaven Dou and demand Zhu Zhuqing’s return.
• The Heaven Dou court expelled the Star Luo envoy after answering his demand with “Scram,” while Dai Mubai became a laughingstock and Dai Weisi judged him even more useless.
• Fang Ling returned to Heaven Dou City with Dugu Bo and Zhu Zhuqing, and arranged a quiet courtyard where she could recover.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling visited Zhu Zhuqing, praised her, and helped ease her lingering unease about staying at Dugu Manor.
• Zhu Zhuqing embraced Fang Ling and activated her Hell Spirit Cat Martial Soul as he summoned his Scythe Martial Soul, causing a gray mist to spread around them.
• Dugu Bo sensed danger in the mist and sternly ordered Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to retreat.

Fang Ling and Zhu Zhuqing unleashed a dangerous Martial Soul Fusion Skill that manifested as a gray-robed figure wielding a deathly scythe, but both collapsed after one strike. After Fang Ling woke, he named their fusion skill the Nether Shadow Death Scythe.

• Fang Ling and Zhu Zhuqing fused into a faceless gray-robed figure, whose scythe emanated powerful Death Intent and frightened Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling.
• At Dugu Bo's urging, the figure cut down a tree, leaving a deathly gray trunk before the fusion collapsed and Fang Ling and Zhu Zhuqing fell unconscious.
• Dugu Bo found that the trunk's gray residue destroyed a branch and consumed his Soul Power, so he ordered a servant to guard it until Fang Ling woke.
• Fang Ling woke that night, recovered after drinking Dugu Bo's medicinal soup, and reassured Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling that he felt well.
• At Dugu Bo's request, Fang Ling named their Martial Soul Fusion Skill the Nether Shadow Death Scythe.

Fang Ling examined the lingering death energy from his and Zhu Zhuqing’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill and concluded that it was a dormant form of High-Level Death Power tied to his past death. He could not yet control it, and he expected a Death Attribute Fifth Spirit Ring to help awaken it and improve the fusion skill.

• Fang Ling inspected the tree destroyed by the Nether Shadow Death Scythe and found its deathly gray mark slowly turning the wood to ash.
• Fang Ling tested the death energy with soul power, and Ye Lingling’s healing petal vanished when it clashed with the energy.
• Fang Ling identified the force as Death Power and explained that his death and return to life had likely given rise to it.
• Fang Ling told Dugu Bo that he needed a Death Attribute spirit ring to accelerate the power’s fusion with him.
• Zhu Zhuqing sensed a barrier within their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Fang Ling said mastering it would likely require his Fifth Spirit Ring.

Fang Ling brought Zhu Zhuqing to enroll at Heaven Dou Royal Academy as a substitute team member and introduced her to Ning Rongrong. Zhu Zhuqing began settling into her new life, while Ning Rongrong showed curiosity about Fang Ling and insisted she could endure the team’s training.

• Fang Ling and Zhu Zhuqing stopped practicing their Martial Soul Fusion Skill after its Shadow Scythe drained their Soul Power too quickly, though the attempts brought them closer.
• Dugu Yan told Zhu Zhuqing she would attend Heaven Dou Royal Academy and become part of the team, encouraging her to help defeat the Star Luo Empire.
• Fang Ling took Zhu Zhuqing to meet the Education Committee, which approved her enrollment as a substitute because she was already a level-twenty-seven Great Spirit Master at twelve.
• Fang Ling assured Zhu Zhuqing she would be safe from Star Luo assassins on academy grounds and praised her beauty as they walked to the Training Field.
• Fang Ling introduced Zhu Zhuqing to Qin Ming and the team, where Ning Rongrong also introduced herself as a level-twenty-six Spirit Master with a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Rongrong asked about Fang Ling’s cultivation, and he revealed he had reached level fifty before warning her that his training was harsh; she insisted she could handle it.

Fang Ling put Ning Rongrong through demanding training, and she proved she could endure it. After six months of staying guarded at the academy, Fang Ling followed Dugu Bo to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Dugu Bo began an experiment that Fang Ling recognized as a way to form a Soul Core.

• Fang Ling ordered Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing to run four laps, and Ning Rongrong struggled but finished with Zhu Zhuqing's help.
• Ye Lingling healed Ning Rongrong, and the team continued training under Soul Power pressure as half a year passed.
• Fang Ling stayed mostly inside the academy while hidden assassins waited for a chance to target Zhu Zhuqing; Dugu Bo escorted them whenever they went out.
• Dugu Bo summoned Fang Ling to the cave near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to seek advice on rapidly increasing his strength.
• Dugu Bo compressed his Soul Power into a vortex that drew in Heaven and Earth Origin Power, and Fang Ling realized he was imitating the formation of a Soul Core.

Dugu Bo created an unstable Soul Power Vortex while attempting to reproduce a Poison Pill, and Fang Ling speculated that Space Power might stabilize a rapidly rotating Dynamic Soul Power Mass. Dugu Bo grew eager to test the idea, but Fang Ling persuaded him to consider his family and dependents first, and Dugu Bo agreed to discuss the danger with Yan Yan.

• Dugu Bo showed Fang Ling the rotating Soul Power Vortex he had created and explained that it became unstable when Space Cracks appeared.
• Dugu Bo escaped with Fang Ling just before the vortex exploded, and the blast cleared the poison mist from the cavern.
• Fang Ling proposed that a rapidly rotating Dynamic Soul Power Mass could absorb energy and might be stabilized by Space Power from Space Cracks.
• Dugu Bo became excited by the hypothesis and declared that he would pioneer the future of soul masters.
• Fang Ling warned Dugu Bo that his death would endanger his granddaughter, disciple, and their companions, and Dugu Bo briefly suggested they seek refuge in Spirit Hall if he died.
• Fang Ling insisted Dugu Bo return with him and discuss the experiment with Yan Yan, and Dugu Bo agreed to try to convince her.

Dugu Bo attempted to form a Soul Core using Fang Ling’s theory about Space Power and successfully created one. The chapter ended with Fang Ling and Dugu Yan witnessing the unprecedented breakthrough.

• Dugu Bo reassured Dugu Yan that he understood the risks and would proceed with forming a Soul Core.
• Fang Ling proposed that Space Power could help Dugu Bo surpass Level 95 and suggested he might forge a new path toward becoming a Peerless Douluo.
• Dugu Bo began forming a Soul Core in a cave while Fang Ling and Dugu Yan watched from a distance.
• As the Soul Power sphere filled with Space Cracks, Fang Ling urged Dugu Bo to use more Spiritual Power and collapse it inward.
• Dugu Bo stabilized the sphere and caused it to collapse, drawing Heaven and Earth Origin Power into a black-hole vortex.
• Fang Ling announced that Dugu Bo had succeeded in forming a Soul Core.

Dugu Bo successfully absorbed the Dynamic Soul Power Mass and gained a stable Soul Core, greatly accelerating his cultivation and giving him hope of reaching level 99. He returned with Fang Ling and Dugu Yan, while Fang Ling kept the Daffodil Jade Flesh Bone to give Zhu Zhuqing.

• Dugu Bo declined Fang Ling’s Ten Thousand Year Ginseng King and began absorbing the Soul Core in his lower dantian.
• The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor phantom appeared as the Soul Core drew in power, and Dugu Bo became enveloped in Space Power.
• After a full day and night, Dugu Bo emerged with the Space Power receded and his Soul Core drawing Heaven and Earth Origin Power into his body.
• Dugu Bo celebrated his improved cultivation prospects, while Dugu Yan scolded him for taking such a dangerous risk.
• Dugu Bo credited Fang Ling for guiding his breakthrough, then asked whether Fang Ling had obtained an Immortal Herb for Zhu Zhuqing.
• Fang Ling confirmed he had obtained the Daffodil Jade Flesh Bone and planned to give it to Zhu Zhuqing.

Fang Ling took Zhu Zhuqing away from the academy for special training, while assassins from the Star Luo Empire continued watching them. After Zhu Zhuqing consumed the immortal herb Daffodil Jade Flesh Bone, their martial souls resonated and Fang Ling lost control, but he stopped when she asked him for more time.

• Fang Ling told Qin Ming that Zhu Zhuqing was crucial to the Soul Master Competition and hinted that they possessed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Dugu Bo escorted Fang Ling and Zhu Zhuqing home, frustrating the hidden assassins who had been waiting for a chance to strike.
• Fang Ling sensed someone watching them and told Dugu Bo, who searched their route but found no one.
• Fang Ling gave Zhu Zhuqing the immortal herb Daffodil Jade Flesh Bone and explained how to absorb it.
• As Zhu Zhuqing absorbed the herb, their martial souls resonated, and six hours later Fang Ling realized he was holding her.
• Fang Ling kissed Zhu Zhuqing and began touching her, but she stopped him and asked for more time to prepare; he apologized.

Fang Ling and Zhu Zhuqing’s growing Martial Soul Fusion affinity stirred their desire, while Dai Mubai continued his life in Suotuo City and suffered a humiliating defeat at the Great Soul Arena. Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun left the arena discussing Shrek’s planned trip to Heaven Dou City for the Spirit Master Competition.

• Zhu Zhuqing explained that her increased attraction to Fang Ling came from their growing Martial Soul Fusion affinity, and the two resumed their intimacy after she confirmed she was willing.
• Fang Ling learned that Zhu Zhuqing had reached level thirty and said her teacher could help her obtain a soul ring later.
• After half a year in Suotuo City, Dai Mubai had returned to his playboy lifestyle and entered a spirit battle at the Great Soul Arena.
• Dai Mubai lost to a level 32 opponent after a sudden gloom distracted him, and Ma Hongjun teased him about the defeat.
• Dai Mubai agreed to meet Ma Hongjun later, and the two discussed Master’s plan to take Shrek’s students to Heaven Dou City for the Spirit Master Competition.

Flender and Yu Xiaogang chose Blue Tyrant Academy as the place for Shrek's students to continue their training, despite Yu Xiaogang's reluctance to face Er Long Mei. A month later, Fang Ling reached a new level in his Body Technique and planned to watch Shrek Academy's upcoming soul battle, hoping to deal with its hidden watchers.

• Yu Xiaogang proposed joining Heaven Dou Royal Academy, but Flender rejected it because Dai Mubai could not accept attending the same academy as Fang Ling.
• Flender confronted Yu Xiaogang about avoiding Er Long Mei, and Yu Xiaogang agreed to choose Blue Tyrant Academy.
• After a month of recuperation and training, Fang Ling's damaged meridians recovered enough for him to advance his Body Technique to Lv4.
• Fang Ling offered to teach Zhu Zhuqing his improved Body Technique after she noticed his sudden increase in agility.
• Fang Ling told Zhu Zhuqing that Blue Tyrant Academy had been renamed Shrek Academy and that Dai Mubai had arrived in Heaven Dou City.
• Fang Ling planned to watch Shrek Academy battle Yan Yan and the others at the Great Soul Arena and deal with the hidden watchers if possible.

Fang Ling and Zhu Zhuqing walked into a carefully planned ambush by six Fallen Spirit Masters, while Dugu Bo stayed hidden nearby. Fang Ling broke through the attackers’ opening strike and destroyed one enemy’s martial soul, but the other attackers were about to see an unexpected turn of events.

• Dugu Bo emerged from a month of seclusion with nearly ten times as much Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Poison to wield.
• Fang Ling told Zhu Zhuqing that Yu Tianheng had left Heaven Dou Royal Academy and joined Shrek Academy.
• Fang Ling and Zhu Zhuqing headed toward the Great Soul Arena as Dugu Bo followed at a distance, and the attackers mistakenly believed he was absent.
• A Soul Ancestor, three Soul Kings, and two Soul Emperors surrounded Fang Ling and Zhu Zhuqing with a coordinated attack.
• Fang Ling broke the Ten Thousand Souls Banner’s spiritual suppression and cut through the bone staff with Law Breaking Blade, destroying the attacker’s martial soul.