Chapter Summaries

Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu confronted Yin Hao about Zhu Zhuqing and pretended to accept her under strict conditions. After sending Yin Hao away, Ning Rongrong explained that they needed to keep Zhu Zhuqing unsuspecting while they looked for evidence.

• Ning Rongrong stopped Yin Hao from explaining and told Xiao Wu to get down so they could face him together.
• Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu acted cold toward Yin Hao, then said they would reluctantly accept Zhu Zhuqing if he kept her away from their dormitory and asked the dean to move her farther away.
• Yin Hao agreed to pass the conditions to Zhu Zhuqing and left the dormitory when Ning Rongrong ordered him out.
• Xiao Wu questioned Ning Rongrong's treatment of Yin Hao, and Ning Rongrong explained that they had to keep Zhu Zhuqing unsuspecting while they searched for evidence.

At the competition venue, Feng Xiaotian approached Yin Hao and gave him a Challenge Letter, despite knowing Yin Hao was a Soul Emperor. Feng Xiaotian explained that he had to defeat Yin Hao and Shrek Academy because of a condition set by Huo Wu, and Yin Hao recognized her as the reason.

• The Shrek group arrived at the competition venue, where Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong kept their distance from Zhu Zhuqing while Yin Hao stayed apart from them.
• Feng Xiaotian approached Yin Hao and offered him a Challenge Letter.
• Yin Hao warned Feng Xiaotian that Divine Wind Academy was unlikely to match his strength, but Feng Xiaotian insisted he had a reason to challenge him.
• Feng Xiaotian said he needed to defeat Yin Hao and Shrek Academy to fulfill a condition set by a friend.
• Yin Hao guessed that the friend was Huo Wu, and Feng Xiaotian confirmed it.

Feng Xiaotian asked Yin Hao to accept a challenge because Huo Wu had promised to date him if he led Divine Wind Academy to defeat Shrek Academy and Yin Hao. Yin Hao offered to sit out the team match and, if Feng Xiaotian won, deliberately lose to him in a separate duel, leaving Feng Xiaotian excited by the chance to fulfill Huo Wu’s condition.

• Feng Xiaotian pleaded with Yin Hao to accept Divine Wind Academy’s challenge, while Xiao Wu and the others urged him to leave.
• Yin Hao asked Feng Xiaotian what condition Huo Wu had set, and Feng Xiaotian explained that she would date him if he defeated Shrek Academy and Yin Hao.
• Yin Hao proposed sitting out the team match, since Shrek already had enough points to advance.
• Yin Hao offered to deliberately lose a one-on-one duel if Feng Xiaotian led Divine Wind Academy to defeat Shrek Academy.
• Feng Xiaotian eagerly accepted the prospect, while the Shrek members watched in surprise.

Yin Hao agreed to help Feng Xiaotian if Divine Wind Academy defeated Shrek Academy, while Flander and Liu Erlong told Shrek’s team that Canghui Academy would be their next opponent. Yu Xiaogang arranged for Tang San to take Yin Hao’s place in the match, hoping Tang San’s performance would draw attention.

• Yin Hao told Feng Xiaotian that his personal help would stand if Divine Wind Academy won, and Feng Xiaotian thanked him.
• Xiao Wu asked Yin Hao why he helped Feng Xiaotian, and Yin Hao said he seemed like someone worth befriending.
• Flander announced that Shrek Academy would face Canghui Academy, while Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang warned the team not to underestimate its opponents.
• Yu Xiaogang proposed that Tang San take the field instead of Yin Hao, and the others agreed.

Tang San recovered enough to command Shrek Academy's lineup and tactics for its match against Canghui Academy. As both teams entered the arena, Canghui Academy bristled at the commentator's prediction that Shrek would win, and Tang San led his team toward the stage.

• Yin Hao asked Tang San about his health, and Tang San agreed to serve as commander for the Soul Duel.
• Tang San selected Huang Yuan, Jing Ling, Tailong, Jiangzhu, Ma Hongjun, Zhu Zhuqing, and himself for the lineup, then arranged the tactics.
• Shrek Academy and Canghui Academy entered the central stage, where Shrek received loud cheers from the audience.
• Qian Renxue lost interest after noticing Yin Hao was not competing, while Ning Fengzhi expressed a favorable impression of Shrek Academy to Salas.
• The commentator predicted Shrek would win, angering Canghui Academy's members, whose Captain urged them to prove themselves through strength.
• Ma Hongjun and Tailong mocked Canghui Academy, and Tang San told his teammates to stop arguing and let their strength speak for itself.

Shrek Academy faced Canghui Academy, whose seven gemstone martial souls and practiced formation surprised Tang San and made him wary. Zhu Zhuqing remembered Yin Hao's warning about Soul Skill Fusion Techniques as the match began.

• Shrek Academy and Canghui Academy released their martial souls, and Tailong mocked Canghui Academy's uneven soul ring configurations.
• Canghui Academy's Captain retreated into the center of a practiced hexagonal formation as the other six expanded it in unison.
• Canghui Academy's seven members revealed differently shaped and colored gemstone martial souls, surrounding themselves with a multicolored glow.
• Tang San reconsidered his confidence after seeing the formation, while Zhu Zhuqing recalled Yin Hao explaining Soul Skill Fusion Techniques and warning her to be cautious of groups with similar martial souls.

Canghui Academy exposed Tang San, Ma Hongjun, and Yu Xiaogang as eunuchs to humiliate Shrek Academy before the match. Tang San and Ma Hongjun were shaken by the crowd’s reaction, but Tang San focused on winning as the confrontation continued on the Soul Duel Stage.

• Zhu Zhuqing suspected Canghui Academy’s seven Gem Martial Souls were part of a plan, and Yin Hao silently confirmed her suspicion.
• A Canghui Academy member revealed that Doctor Sun was his uncle and claimed medical records showed Tang San, Ma Hongjun, and Yu Xiaogang were eunuchs.
• Tang San attacked with Blue Silver Grass, but Canghui Academy’s captain blocked it while the member publicly mocked Shrek Academy.
• Flander and Yin Hao tried to comfort Yu Xiaogang as spectators and VIPs reacted to the revelation.
• Ma Hongjun challenged Canghui Academy to settle the matter through combat, and Tang San told him to ignore their taunts and focus on strength.

Canghui Academy activated a powerful Seven-in-One Soul Skill Fusion Technique, trapping the Shrek Academy team inside its Seven Shura Illusion Realm. The arena was engulfed in dazzling light, and Yu Xiaogang anxiously called out to Tang San as the match’s outcome remained unknown.

• Canghui Academy’s captain and six teammates raised their gemstones and began channeling their fusion technique as Ma Hongjun charged with Phoenix Fire Line.
• Seven colored beams combined into a towering pillar of light, and Ning Fengzhi identified the attack as a fusion skill more powerful than the members’ individual strengths.
• Ma Hongjun became dazed by the illusion, and Zhu Zhuqing warned the others not to approach because they would be caught in the Seven-in-One Soul Skill Fusion Technique.
• Canghui Academy’s captain declared that Shrek Academy would perish in its pain as the Seven Shura Illusion Realm engulfed the arena.
• The spectators fell silent and began favoring Canghui Academy, while Yu Xiaogang anxiously shouted for Tang San from the Shrek resting area.

Tang San tried to counter Canghui Academy’s illusion with his Purple Demon Eyes, but a dormant force inside him caused his Soul Power to collapse and left him blind. As he cried out and raved about being accused of betraying his sect, the fight remained unresolved and the other Shrek Academy members stayed wary of opening their eyes.

• Flander restrained Yu Xiaogang as he panicked over the Soul Duel, and Liu Erlong told him to sit still and trust that the children could surrender if needed.
• Tang San told the other Shrek Academy members to close their eyes, but Canghui Academy said its Seven Shura Illusion Realm would torment them regardless.
• Tang San used his Purple Demon Eyes to fight the seven-colored beams in the illusion and initially held back Canghui Academy’s attacks.
• When Tang San tried to increase his power, a dormant force disrupted his Soul Power and blinded him, making his violet beams disappear.
• Canghui Academy’s seven members struck Tang San with their beams, and he rose in agony, babbling that he was not a traitor while Tailong and the others kept their eyes shut.

Zhu Zhuqing broke Canghui Academy’s Seven Shura Illusion Realm with her Sharingan, defeating its seven members. When Tang San and Ma Hongjun woke, the audience discovered they had been stripped by the illusion and learned that both were eunuchs.

• The Canghui Academy members relaxed after trapping Tang San, but Zhu Zhuqing used her Sharingan to catch them off guard.
• Zhu Zhuqing sent crimson energy into the seven opponents’ minds, shattering their illusion and leaving them unconscious from the backlash.
• Tailong and the others saw that Tang San and Ma Hongjun had lost most of their clothes, and realized the rumors that they were eunuchs were true.
• Tang San and Ma Hongjun woke, noticed their missing clothes, and hurried to cover themselves as the audience mocked them.
• Salas taunted Ning Fengzhi about Shrek Academy, and Ning Fengzhi defended the students and blamed their exposure on the illusion.

Shrek Academy won its third Soul Duel after Canghui Academy’s fighters suffered backlash from their Seven-in-One Soul Skill Fusion Technique, while Tang San and Ma Hongjun were humiliated after the illusion exposed their physical defects. Fearing Tang Hao’s reaction and desperate to restore his reputation, Yu Xiaogang asked Yin Hao to become his disciple, leaving Yin Hao and the others stunned.

• Zhu Zhuqing prompted the referee to announce Shrek Academy’s victory, and appraisers attributed Canghui Academy’s fighters’ condition to Soul Skill backlash.
• Tang San and Ma Hongjun hurried off the stage as other Shrek students distanced themselves from them and spectators mocked them.
• Yu Xiaogang sank into despair over the public exposure of his and Tang San’s physical defects, while Flander tried to keep him from harming himself.
• Flander reminded Yu Xiaogang that he still had students such as Yin Hao, prompting Yu Xiaogang to see Yin Hao as a chance to regain standing with Tang Hao and the public.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Yin Hao to accept him as his Master, stunning Yin Hao and the others.

Yin Hao refused Yu Xiaogang’s offer to become his master, while Yu Xiaogang settled for the idea that he could still claim some credit for teaching him. After leaving the competition grounds, Tang San resolved to seek soul rings for his second martial soul in Sunset Forest.

• Tang San returned just as Yu Xiaogang was offering to take Yin Hao as his disciple, then hid his displeasure and left the resting area.
• Yin Hao declined Yu Xiaogang’s offer, and Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu defended his ability to cultivate without Yu Xiaogang’s guidance.
• Yin Hao stopped Yu Xiaogang from arguing and said he could still teach him without becoming his master, which eased Yu Xiaogang’s disappointment.
• Tang San wandered through Heaven Dou City, brooding over his defeats and his Blue Silver Grass martial soul.
• Tang San reached the city gates and decided to go to Sunset Forest to find soul beasts and obtain soul rings for his second martial soul.

Flander prepared Zhu Zhuqing to evade questions from the Competition Committee about Canghui Academy’s students becoming idiots. In Sunset Forest, Tang San killed a five-hundred-year Ironclad Rhinoceros and watched his first soul ring appear.

• Flander warned the Shrek team that investigators would arrive and suspected Zhu Zhuqing was responsible for Canghui Academy’s condition.
• After Yin Hao and the others left, Zhu Zhuqing told Flander she did not know how she broke the Seven-in-One Soul Skill Fusion Technique.
• Flander instructed Zhu Zhuqing to claim she had been unable to see what happened and suggested blaming the incident on a backlash from Canghui Academy’s soul skill.
• In Sunset Forest, Tang San decided to challenge the usual age limit for a first soul ring because Yin Hao and Zhu Zhuqing had obtained Super Soul Ring Configurations.
• Tang San stabbed the dying Ironclad Rhinoceros until it died, and a bright yellow soul ring rose from its body.

Tang San absorbed a five-hundred-year soul ring into his Clear Sky Hammer and concluded that his second martial soul could absorb soul rings beyond their limits. Meanwhile, the competition organizers ignored Flander's expected inspection, Shrek forfeited several matches to rest, and Qian Renxue pressed Yin Hao to act before Xue Ye arranged Dugu Yan's marriage.

• Tang San absorbed the Ironclad Rhinoceros's five-hundred-year soul ring into his Clear Sky Hammer without difficulty and reached level thirty-seven.
• Tang San guessed that his second martial soul could absorb soul rings beyond their year limits and went to seek a nine-hundred-year soul ring.
• Flander waited for the competition's inspection team, but no one arrived, and Zhu Zhuqing left for her dormitory.
• Flander forfeited Shrek Academy's next several matches so the team could rest after its strong results.
• Yin Hao spent the following days visiting Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Qian Renxue, who urged him to act before Xue Ye arranged Dugu Yan's marriage.

The preliminaries neared their end, with Shrek Academy set to face Tianshui Academy in the final round to determine their preliminary ranking. Yin Hao accepted Tianshui Academy’s challenge letter and prepared to take the field against them.

• Spectators suspected Shrek Academy’s forfeits were rigged, while Feng Xiaotian regretted missing his chance to defeat them himself.
• Shrek Academy continued its winning streak, and the five teams advancing were confirmed as Thunder Academy, Divine Wind Academy, Shrek Academy, Blazing Academy, and Tianshui Academy.
• The final match between Shrek Academy and Tianshui Academy was set to decide which team placed third in the preliminaries.
• Tianshui Academy sent Yin Hao a challenge letter, and he accepted it without hesitation.
• Feng Xiaotian asked Yin Hao if he would compete personally, and Yin Hao confirmed that he would.

Feng Xiaotian warned Shrek Academy that Spirit Hall had a trump card beyond its Golden Generation, prompting the group to ask about the mysterious Holy Son. Yin Hao recognized that Feng Xiaotian meant him but pretended not to know, while Ning Rongrong revealed that she and Yin Hao had already met the Holy Son.

• Xiao Wu confronted Feng Xiaotian for repeatedly visiting Shrek Academy, and Yin Hao stopped her from driving him away.
• Feng Xiaotian said he had to return to Divine Wind Academy before its final preliminary match, then asked whether Shrek aimed to win the championship.
• Feng Xiaotian warned that Spirit Hall had an absolute trump card stronger than its Golden Generation, and Xiao Wu challenged him to explain.
• Feng Xiaotian asked whether the group knew Spirit Hall had established a Holy Son, and Ning Rongrong said she and Yin Hao had met him at Xue Ke's birthday banquet.
• Yin Hao confirmed that he and Ning Rongrong had briefly spoken with the Holy Son, while Zhu Zhuqing reacted subtly to the name.

Feng Xiaotian warned the Shrek group that the Spirit Hall Saint Child was rumored to be a Soul Emperor whom even a Titled Douluo could not easily defeat. After Feng Xiaotian left, the group was shaken, and Flander challenged them for being afraid while pointing out that Yin Hao remained calm.

• Ning Rongrong called the Spirit Hall Saint Child a shameless scoundrel but admitted she knew nothing about his strength.
• Feng Xiaotian told Yin Hao and the Shrek group that the Saint Child was likely a Soul Emperor, stronger than Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation.
• Feng Xiaotian warned that even a Titled Douluo could not easily defeat the Saint Child, silencing the Shrek group’s jokes.
• Feng Xiaotian left after advising Yin Hao to be careful during the competition.
• Flander scolded the shaken Shrek group and pointed to Yin Hao as an example of someone who was not afraid.

Shrek Academy prepared its lineup for the final preliminary soul fight against Tianshui Academy, while Tianshui’s team discussed facing Yin Hao. The chapter left both teams readying themselves for the match, with Tianshui’s members expecting defeat but agreeing to challenge Shrek.

• Flander calmed Shrek Academy’s students and urged them to face the Spirit Hall Saint Child without fear.
• Yin Hao chose himself, Huang Yuan, Jing Ling, Tailong, Jiangzhu, Oscar, and Fatty for Shrek’s match against Tianshui Academy.
• Shui Yue'er admired Yin Hao, and Qiu Ruoshui teased her about it.
• Shui Bing'er told Tianshui Academy to prepare, while Shen Liuyu and Gu Qingbo doubted they could win with Yin Hao competing.
• Xue Wu and Yu Hairou supported Shui Bing’er’s decision to challenge Shrek, while Qiu Ruoshui called it a request to be beaten.

Shui Bing'er explained that her challenge letter restricted Yin Hao to his first three soul rings and required his teammates to leave, giving Tianshui Academy a chance to win without shame if they lost. As the team headed to prepare, they spotted Shui Yue'er chatting happily with Yin Hao, and Shui Bing'er went over herself.

• Shui Bing'er told the Tianshui Academy members that her challenge letter barred Yin Hao from using his last three soul rings and required him to fight alone.
• Xue Wu and the others realized the restrictions gave them a chance to defeat Yin Hao and agreed to prepare for their match.
• Shen Liuyu noticed that Shui Yue'er was missing, and Xue Wu spotted her at Shrek Academy's resting area with Yin Hao.
• Shui Bing'er stopped Gu Qingbo from retrieving Shui Yue'er and headed toward Yin Hao herself.

Shui Bing'er greeted Yin Hao and revealed that Tianshui Academy's challenge required him to forgo his last three soul rings and face all seven opponents alone. Yin Hao accepted responsibility for the terms as the teams entered the arena for the final preliminary-round match.

• Shui Bing'er pulled Shui Yue'er away from Yin Hao and introduced herself as Tianshui Academy's captain.
• Shui Bing'er praised Yin Hao for accepting the harsh conditions in her Challenge Letter, prompting Xiao Wu to question what they were.
• Yin Hao told Shrek Academy that he had agreed not to use his last three soul rings and to fight Tianshui Academy's seven members alone.
• Shrek Academy protested the conditions, but Yin Hao said he would take full responsibility if they lost.
• The five elemental academies and Shrek Academy entered the Great Spirit Arena of Heaven Dou as the final preliminary-round match began.