Chapter Summaries

Flender and the Shrek teachers met Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s three Education Committee Members, who welcomed them but reacted coldly to Yu Xiaogang’s tactics and demands. After Zhilin knocked Yu Xiaogang aside, the Imperial Dou Team arrived, and Gu You was introduced as its captain.

• Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhilin warmly welcomed Flender and the Shrek teachers, while their expressions cooled when Flender introduced Yu Xiaogang.
• Meng Shenji praised Shrek’s students and offered the teachers freedom from teaching duties, but Yu Xiaogang demanded that the three students be allowed onto the Imperial Dou Team.
• Bai Baoshan explained that the students would need to pass the captain’s test, and Zhilin blasted Yu Xiaogang backward after he challenged the academy’s authority.
• Yu Xiaogang argued that the students needed guidance, but Meng Shenji stopped Zhilin from continuing the attack and apologized.
• The current Imperial Dou Team entered, and Meng Shenji introduced Gu You as its captain and Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s greatest genius.

Gu You and Tang San reunited with Yu Xiaogang when Shrek Academy arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Yu Xiaogang tried to place his students on the Imperial Dou Team. Gu You rejected them on tactical grounds, dismissed Yu Xiaogang as unimportant, and prepared to leave, but Yu Xiaogang stopped him.

• Gu You recognized Flender, Zhao Wuji, Yu Xiaogang, and the Shrek students, while Yu Xiaogang realized Gu You and Tang San were the same people who had rejected him years before.
• Yu Xiaogang greeted Gu You and Tang San, but Tang San remembered his harmful advice about adding poison to Blue Silver Grass and regarded him with disgust.
• Yu Xiaogang proposed that Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar join the Imperial Dou Team, but Gu You said they were unsuitable and cited tactical reasons.
• Gu You told Yu Xiaogang that he was not important, then asked the education committee members and Qin Ming to let him return to cultivation.
• Yu Xiaogang refused to accept Gu You's dismissal and ordered him to stop.

Dai Mubai tried to reclaim Zhu Zhuqing as his fiancée, but she exposed his debauchery and ended their relationship. When he attacked her, Gu You protected her and confronted him, leaving the two poised to fight.

• Dai Mubai excitedly called Zhu Zhuqing his fiancée and demanded that she join him, but she scorned him for abandoning her in Xingluo City while he pursued women in Suotuo City.
• Yu Feng told Zhu Zhuqing that he had repeatedly seen Dai Mubai taking different women to the Rose Hotel in Suotuo City.
• Zhu Zhuqing gave Dai Mubai a letter from his father, declared that they had no connection anymore, and rejected both the throne and the title of empress.
• Dai Mubai attacked Zhu Zhuqing with his White Tiger Intense Light Wave, but Gu You caught and destroyed the attack before it reached her.
• Dai Mubai attacked Gu You, who expanded his exoskeleton and prepared to fight while Flender and the Three Education Committee Members watched.

Gu You confronted Dai Mubai at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and decisively defeated him after Dai Mubai ignored repeated warnings and attacked. The fight left Yu Xiaogang humiliated and Flender furious as Gu You mocked Dai Mubai and Shrek Academy.

• Yu Xiaogang hoped Dai Mubai would defeat Gu You and prove his worth, while keeping himself from interfering.
• Dai Mubai struck Gu You without using Soul Skills, but Gu You stood firm and warned him to leave.
• Dai Mubai activated his defenses and attacked again, but Gu You blocked the blow, seized him, and taunted him about fleeing Star Luo and abandoning Zhu Zhuqing.
• Gu You crushed Dai Mubai's barrier and slammed his head into the floor, leaving him unconscious.
• Gu You criticized Dai Mubai's fighting ability and mocked Yu Xiaogang and Shrek Academy as Flender caught the injured Dai Mubai.

Gu You confronted Flender and exposed the misconduct of Shrek Academy’s students, while the Heaven Dou Royal Academy committee reconsidered the proposed merger. Yu Xiaogang then chose Tang San as Ma Hongjun’s opponent, leaving the confrontation about to continue.

• Gu You mocked Flender’s reckless teachings, and Flender released his Martial Soul to attack him.
• Gu You’s Martial Soul aura and Domain of the Tyrant—Judgment withstood Flender’s pressure and shook his mind.
• Gu You criticized Dai Mubai and Oscar, prompting the girls to glare at Oscar and the other boys to shield them from him.
• Zhilin told Qin Ming that the committee would reconsider merging Shrek Academy with Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Qin Ming silently agreed.
• Flender realized that Qin Ming and the other Shrek teachers did not support his actions, while Yu Xiaogang dismissed Dai Mubai’s failure.
• Yu Xiaogang named Tang San as Ma Hongjun’s opponent, and Gu You challenged Yu Xiaogang’s decision.

Yu Xiaogang chose Tang San to fight Ma Hongjun, expecting the fire to expose Blue Silver Grass’s weaknesses and prove his teaching ability. As the fight began, Gu You asked Tang San to prolong it so he could observe, while Yu Xiaogang criticized Tang San’s Martial Soul and Soul Ring choices.

• Yu Xiaogang dismissed Oscar and Ma Hongjun as unsuitable opponents and selected Tang San, claiming he needed experience against Fire Attribute Soul Masters.
• Tang San accepted the challenge, and Xiao Wu stopped herself from attacking Yu Xiaogang; Yu Tianheng apologized and revealed that Yu Xiaogang was his expelled second uncle.
• Tang San told the others he would not lose to anyone except Gu You, and Gu You asked him to extend the fight while staying safe so he could observe.
• At the Imperial Dou Team Training Ground, Meng Shenji started the Spirit Fight between Tang San and Ma Hongjun after warning them against lethal force.
• Ma Hongjun’s Phoenix Fire Line burned through Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass, while Tang San evaded; Yu Xiaogang used the exchange to lecture Oscar about Blue Silver Grass and Tang San’s Soul Ring choices.

Yu Xiaogang praised his plans for Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass, but Gu You exposed the flaws in his theories as Tang San defeated Ma Hongjun with self-created techniques. Yu Xiaogang finally gave Ma Hongjun permission to use his third Soul Skill.

• Yu Xiaogang explained how he would build Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass around poison and control, while Gu You recognized the plan as a version of Tang San’s familiar Soul Skills.
• Tang San used Blue Silver Grass modeled after a Datura Snake to withstand Ma Hongjun’s flames and knock him back.
• Tang San bound Ma Hongjun with Blue Silver Grass and buried him beneath it, prompting Gu You to challenge Yu Xiaogang’s Soul Ring theories and research methods.
• Gu You criticized Yu Xiaogang’s lack of new scholarship and urged him to teach beginners instead of promoting flawed theories.
• Yu Xiaogang, enraged and unable to explain Tang San’s resistance to fire, told Ma Hongjun to use his third Soul Skill.

Ma Hongjun revealed his Third Soul Skill, Feather Garment of the Black Phoenix, and attacked Tang San with destructive black-and-red flames. Tang San used their prepared countermeasure, Solar Blade, to defeat him, leaving Ma Hongjun unable to continue fighting.

• Ma Hongjun released a pillar of black-and-red flame and transformed under his Third Soul Skill, Feather Garment of the Black Phoenix.
• Ma Hongjun took flight and sent a Flame Wave at Tang San, burning through Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass defenses.
• Tang San evaded Ma Hongjun’s Phoenix Fire Line and prepared a concentrated strand of Blue Silver Grass charged with solar energy.
• Tang San struck Ma Hongjun with Solar Blade, knocking him down and leaving him unable to rise.
• Tang San praised Ma Hongjun’s fight and exchanged thumbs-up with Gu You, while Yu Xiaogang cried out for Ma Hongjun to get up.

After Ma Hongjun fell to Tang San, Yu Xiaogang pressured him to keep fighting, turning Shrek's teachers against him. Meng Shenji decided to remove Yu Xiaogang and Dai Mubai from the academy, but Yu Xiaogang continued urging Ma Hongjun to rise as the chapter ended.

• Yu Xiaogang stopped Oscar from treating Ma Hongjun and ordered Ma Hongjun to stand up and continue fighting.
• Zhao Wuji and Shrek's other teachers grew furious at Yu Xiaogang for disregarding Ma Hongjun's condition.
• Bai Baoshan, Meng Shenji, and Zhilin identified Yu Xiaogang as the source of Shrek Academy's problems, and Meng Shenji decided to expel him and Dai Mubai while allowing the others to remain on the Second Team.
• Tang San asked Meng Shenji to announce the battle's result, while Zhilin praised Tang San's potential to control an entire battlefield.
• Yu Xiaogang shouted that Ma Hongjun should not let Flender leave in defeat.

Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire took control of him after Yu Xiaogang urged him to keep fighting, but Tang San defeated the corrupted Phoenix with his Blue Silver Tyrant Spear. Ma Hongjun collapsed unconscious, and Yu Xiaogang’s conduct left Gu You and Tang San openly hostile toward him.

• Unable to stand after Tang San’s Solar Blade, Ma Hongjun remembered Flender and forced himself back to his feet as his Evil Fire overwhelmed him.
• Yu Xiaogang praised Ma Hongjun’s transformed Black Flame and urged him to continue fighting, while Gu You realized Yu Xiaogang had kept Ma Hongjun from releasing his Evil Fire.
• Meng Shenji allowed the fight to continue, and Ma Hongjun attacked Tang San with a Phoenix Fire Line at Yu Xiaogang’s urging.
• Gu You and Tang San condemned Yu Xiaogang, and Tang San struck him with Blue Silver Grass as Gu You punched him in the face.
• Tang San used the Blue Silver Tyrant Spear to disperse Ma Hongjun’s Black Flame and defeat the Evil Fire Phoenix.
• Ma Hongjun returned to normal, admitted defeat, and collapsed unconscious.

Gu You and Tang San stabilized Ma Hong Jun after his Evil Fire returned, but Gu You warned Flender that Ma Hong Jun had only two choices: abandon cultivation or risk becoming a Fallen One. The chapter left Flender struggling to accept that Ma Hong Jun’s transformation had already begun.

• Flender caught the unconscious Ma Hong Jun, but Gu You took over and found him dangerously hot from his Evil Fire.
• Gu You had the Shi Brothers form a Water Attribute shield bed to cool Ma Hong Jun, then discovered black Flame had returned and that the Evil Fire’s corruption was progressing.
• Gu You ordered Zhu Zhuqing to knock Yu Xiaogang unconscious and had Lanta use Arrow of the Titan Seal to suppress Ma Hong Jun’s symptoms for at least an hour.
• Gu You told Tang San to inject untreated sunlight energy into Ma Hong Jun, explaining that its Holy Attribute could suppress Evil Fire, while Shao Xin restored Tang San’s Soul Power.
• Gu You told Flender that Ma Hong Jun could either seal his Martial Soul and disperse his Soul Power or keep cultivating and eventually become a Fallen One; Flender rejected the possibility.

Gu You explained that Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire had begun an irreversible transformation after Yu Xiaogang awakened it, leaving Ma Hongjun unable to use his Soul Power. After the academy expelled Yu Xiaogang, Flender ended their friendship by expelling him from Shrek as well.

• Gu You explained Freud’s theories about how Martial Souls and their attributes could reflect and influence their owners, then identified Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire as a manifestation of the Evil Attribute.
• Flender revealed that Ma Hongjun’s Martial Soul had been called the Purple Fire Phoenix until its uncontrolled lustful urges earned it the name Evil Fire Phoenix.
• Gu You blamed Yu Xiaogang’s forced awakening of Ma Hongjun for starting an irreversible transformation, and explained that the Darkness Attribute in Ma Hongjun’s Third Soul Ring had contaminated his Martial Soul.
• Tang San finished treating Ma Hongjun, and Meng Shenji disabled Ma Hongjun’s Soul Power while Flender regretted letting him absorb the Third Soul Ring.
• Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhilin told Yu Xiaogang that he was expelled from Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Flender then expelled him from Shrek.

Flender rejected Yu Xiaogang’s bid to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Xue Beng briefly tried to overturn the decision before Xue Qinghe backed the Education Committee. The chapter ended with Yu Xiaogang leaving, Gu You offering hope for Ma Hongjun’s recovery, and Xue Qinghe ordering Dai Mubai expelled.

• Flender refused to keep Yu Xiaogang at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Meng Shenji told him to leave.
• Xue Beng defended Yu Xiaogang and challenged the Education Committee’s decision, hoping to complicate Shrek Academy’s recruitment.
• Xue Qinghe arrived, supported the Education Committee, and stopped Xue Beng from pressuring them.
• Yu Xiaogang demanded his storage belt back, then left after Flender reaffirmed his decision as Shrek Academy’s dean.
• Gu You told the sorrowful Shrek teachers that Ma Hongjun could still be saved and promised to find a way for him to cultivate.
• Xue Qinghe heard the Education Committee’s account of Dai Mubai’s attack on his former fiancée and ordered Dai Mubai expelled.

After being thrown out of Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Dai Mubai woke at a shabby inn and listened as Yu Xiaogang turned his humiliation into hatred for Gu You and Zhu Zhuqing. Yu Xiaogang offered him a way to challenge Gu You through the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament and asked whether he had heard of Blue Tyrant Academy.

• Dai Mubai woke at an inn on the outskirts of Heaven Dou City and learned that the others were at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang recalled how Heaven Dou Royal Academy servants had thrown Dai Mubai out, then falsely told him they had both been rejected for being too weak.
• Yu Xiaogang convinced Dai Mubai that Zhu Zhuqing admired Gu You and that Gu You had driven him out to claim her, intensifying Dai Mubai's anger.
• Dai Mubai seized Yu Xiaogang by the neck, but released him when Yu Xiaogang promised he could defeat Gu You.
• Yu Xiaogang proposed that Dai Mubai prove himself at the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament and asked if he knew Blue Tyrant Academy.

Yu Xiaogang and Dai Mubai went to Blue Tyrant Academy seeking a place for Dai Mubai, where Liu Erlong was reunited with Yu Xiaogang after more than twenty years. Tang Yuehua sensed danger in his arrival and ordered Tang Gui to send a warning to her eldest brother, while Tang Gui privately welcomed the change.

• Yu Xiaogang told Dai Mubai about Blue Tyrant Academy, its commoner-only admissions, and its tournament record, and they traveled there the next morning.
• Liu Erlong asked Tang Yuehua to suppress her growing killing intent, and Tang Yuehua used her Noble Circle domain to calm her.
• Yin Shu told Liu Erlong that Yu Xiaogang had arrived, and she rushed to the academy gate to meet him.
• Liu Erlong embraced Yu Xiaogang and introduced him to Tang Yuehua as her friend while Dai Mubai waited nearby.
• Tang Yuehua left with Tang Gui and ordered him to deliver a letter to her eldest brother, saying Yu Xiaogang's arrival made her uneasy.
• Tang Gui agreed and privately said that Tang Yuehua's unease was justified and that Yu Xiaogang's eyes were wonderful.

After Ma Hongjun woke from his battle with Tang San, Gu You explained that his Evil Fire came from the dangerous combination of Fire and Lust Attributes and could eventually turn him into a Fallen One. Ma Hongjun chose to give up his Martial Soul and Soul Power to avoid that fate, but Gu You revealed that he had a third option.

• Ma Hongjun woke in the infirmary, admitted that Tang San had defeated him, and remembered feeling relief after using his Third Soul Skill.
• Gu You questioned Ma Hongjun about his battle and explained that his Evil Fire came from the Fire and Evil Attributes of his mutated Phoenix Martial Soul.
• Gu You warned that Ma Hongjun's Attributes could fully fuse and turn him into a Fallen One, and described the danger such beings posed.
• Ma Hongjun admitted he was afraid and chose to abandon his Soul Power and Martial Soul rather than risk becoming a Fallen One.
• Gu You told Ma Hongjun that meeting the genius Gu You gave him a third path.

Gu You and Tang San explained that Ma Hongjun’s Evil Attribute had awakened and was eroding his Martial Soul, but Tang San’s tea could suppress its spread. Ma Hongjun learned he would need costly daily doses, and Gu You offered an indentured servant contract as an alternative to paying.

• Gu You explained that Dugu Bo was needed to treat Ma Hongjun, while Flender worried about the price and risk of asking the Poison Douluo for help.
• Lanta and Gu You described how Ma Hongjun’s Evil, Flame, and Darkness attributes had interacted, and Tang San explained that the Evil Attribute was eroding his Martial Soul through the Third Soul Ring.
• Tang San cleared the Evil Attribute from Ma Hongjun’s body, and Gu You warned that Ma Hongjun had less than a year before becoming a Fallen One without treatment.
• Gu You gave Ma Hongjun Tang San’s bitter tea, which eased the pain and suppressed the Evil Attribute as Ma Hongjun’s Soul Power began circulating again.
• Gu You demanded payment for the tea, and when Ma Hongjun said he could not afford it, Gu You offered him an indentured servant contract.

Ma Hongjun signed Gu You’s Indentured Servant Contract after deciding its generous terms were worth accepting. Gu You then outlined a plan to cure Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire, but warned that its hidden Evil Attribute had grown too dangerous for the first proposed method, so the group moved on to Plan Two.

• Ma Hongjun refused to sign at first, saying the contract’s promise of free tea and a permanent cure was too valuable to accept lightly.
• Gu You convinced Ma Hongjun that his talent justified the terms, and Ma Hongjun signed the contract.
• Gu You presented Plan One, Primitive Regression, which proposed using pure Fire Attribute Heavenly Materials to burn the Evil Attribute out of Ma Hongjun’s Martial Soul.
• Gu You explained that the Evil Attribute had fused with Darkness Attribute in Ma Hongjun’s Third Soul Ring and could survive the treatment, making the plan too risky.
• Lanta crossed out Plan One and introduced Plan Two, the Chaos Ritual of interwoven Light and Darkness.

Gu You presented Flender and Ma Hongjun with three possible ways to address Ma Hongjun’s Evil Attribute, and they rejected the difficult Chaos Ritual before examining the dangerous Evil Heart Consciousness. Gu You then asked Ma Hongjun whether he wanted to hear a story about a hero trapped in cycles of death and rebirth.

• Gu You explained that Solution Two, the Chaos Ritual, would balance Ma Hongjun’s Evil and Darkness with Holiness and Light, but required an extraordinarily rare Soul Beast.
• Flender and Ma Hongjun set Solution Two aside, with Ma Hongjun calmly rejecting its tempting but unlikely promise of Pseudo-Chaos Power.
• Gu You presented Solution Three, Evil Heart Consciousness, and made Flender and Ma Hongjun swear to return the report intact.
• Flender became furious while reading Solution Three, but finished it and learned that it aimed to change the Evil Attribute’s core so Ma Hongjun could control it.
• Gu You asked Ma Hongjun whether he wanted to hear a story about a hero chosen by fate who endured cycles of death and rebirth.
• Xiao Wu and Meng Yiran asked how the meeting went, and Xue Qinghe called out to Gu You from a distance.

Gu You and Tang San helped stabilize Ma Hongjun, and Xue Qinghe ordered an investigation into Evil Attributes at Heaven Dou Royal Academy while reporting Yu Xiaogang to Spirit Hall. In the Imperial Palace, Qian Renxue asked Gu You how he planned to deal with Ma Hongjun.

• Gu You told Xue Qinghe and Meng Shenji that Ma Hongjun was stable and showed no signs of becoming a Fallen One.
• Meng Shenji explained that Shrek Academy had not recognized Ma Hongjun's Evil Attribute, and Xue Qinghe decided to warn Spirit Hall about Yu Xiaogang and order Martial Soul investigations at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Xue Qinghe asked Gu You and Tang San to help handle any Evil Attribute cases, then brought them to the Imperial Palace.
• After revealing herself as Qian Renxue, she heard that Spirit Hall had found no new information about who exposed Tang Hao's wife as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Qian Renxue asked Gu You how he planned to deal with Ma Hongjun.