Chapter Summaries

Ling Qianyue and Ye Lingling discussed the Nine Heart Begonia Clan’s hopes that he would solve their Martial Soul problem, while Dugu Yan wrestled with her feelings for him. Nearly a year later, Ling Qianyue and Dugu Bo found a more powerful Star Radiance Flood Dragon, which charged at Ling Qianyue.

• Ye Lingling told Dugu Yan she trusted Ling Qianyue to solve her clan’s Martial Soul problem, and Dugu Yan grew flustered at the thought of Ye Lingling’s feelings for him.
• Ling Qianyue considered the benefits of helping the Nine Heart Begonia Clan and suspected they wanted him as a son-in-law.
• Nearly a year later, Ling Qianyue and Dugu Bo went to the Sky Spirit Mountains to hunt a Soul Ring for Ling Qianyue, who had gained five Soul Power levels.
• Ling Qianyue sensed a Star Radiance Flood Dragon’s aura near the collapsed cave, and Dugu Bo went to confront it.
• A larger Star Radiance Flood Dragon burst from the mountain and charged at Ling Qianyue while ignoring Dugu Bo’s attack.

Ling Qianyue absorbed the Star Radiance Flood Dragon’s ten-thousand-year Soul Ring and discovered that it contained an External Soul Bone. He successfully fused with it, gaining a pair of starry wings.

• Dugu Bo froze the Star Radiance Flood Dragon with his eighth Soul Skill and killed it with a poisoned punch.
• Ling Qianyue chose the sixteen-thousand-year Star Radiance Flood Dragon for his fourth Soul Ring despite Dugu Bo’s warning about its power and lingering soul will.
• Ling Qianyue destroyed the Flood Dragon’s remnant soul with his Illusion Breaking Eyes and began absorbing its Soul Ring.
• Ling Qianyue sensed a separate power near his spine and realized the Soul Ring might contain an External Soul Bone.
• Ling Qianyue guided Star Power through his body and fused with the bone, forming four translucent, star-filled wings as Dugu Bo recognized the External Soul Bone.

Ling Qianyue tested the powers of his new Starfall Sky Wings and Fourth Soul Skill, impressing Dugu Bo with their strength and versatility. As the Imperial Dou Team prepared to travel to Suotuo City, Qian Renxue arranged secret protection for him and made clear she intended to compete with Zhu Qing for his affection.

• Ling Qianyue explained that the Starfall Sky Wings boosted his attributes and speed, resisted physical attacks, enhanced star skills, restored Soul Power, and could fire star arrows.
• Ling Qianyue demonstrated Thousand Star Rain, controlling 365 points of light to devastate a nearby mountain, and Dugu Bo praised the skill's power and flexibility.
• Ling Qianyue told Qian Renxue that the Imperial Dou Team would travel to Suotuo City for training, and she complained that he would be away for several months.
• Qian Renxue decided to send Snake Lance Douluo to protect Ling Qianyue in secret and teased him about his changed appearance and scent.
• Qian Renxue pushed Ling Qianyue onto the bed and said she wanted to challenge Zhu Qing's lead with him.

Ling Qianyue met Xiao Wu and Tang San in Suotuo City and offered them grilled rabbit meat, which Xiao Wu ate before learning what it was. Xiao Wu was devastated by eating rabbit, and Tang San secretly vowed to make Ling Qianyue apologize someday.

• Ling Qianyue and the Imperial Dou Team arrived in Suotuo City and took a seven-day break before beginning their spirit battles.
• Xiao Wu and Tang San entered Suotuo City and went looking for food and lodging.
• Ling Qianyue offered Xiao Wu grilled meat, and Tang San cautiously checked it before eating some himself.
• Ling Qianyue told Xiao Wu the meat was rabbit, leaving her crying and disgusted.
• Tang San blamed Ling Qianyue inwardly and vowed to make him apologize to Xiao Wu someday.

At Rose Hotel, Tang San and Xiao Wu clashed with Dai Mubai over the last room, and their fight escalated into a destructive battle. An unseen attacker struck Dai Mubai and sent him flying; he sprang up and recognized the two people at the entrance.

• Xiao Wu and Tang San went to Rose Hotel after agreeing to investigate Ling Qianyue the next day.
• The attendant said only one room remained, and Xiao Wu persuaded Tang San to take it.
• Dai Mubai arrived with two twin women and demanded the room, while Xiao Wu and Tang San refused to give it up.
• Dai Mubai and Tang San fought, revealing Dai Mubai as a level-thirty-seven White Tiger Battle Soul Master and Tang San as a level-twenty-nine Blue Silver Grass Tool Soul Master.
• Dai Mubai used his third soul skill, but a burst of starlight struck him and hurled him across the hall.
• Dai Mubai got back up and recognized the two people standing at the entrance.

Ling Qianyue and Zhu Zhuqing confronted Dai Mubai, whose attempt to claim their engagement ended when she revealed her strength and rejected him. Dai Mubai tried to invoke their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but Ling Qianyue stopped him with his Sword Intent and questioned whether Zhu Zhuqing’s Martial Soul could still resonate with his.

• Xiao Wu accused Ling Qianyue of eating rabbits, while he insisted he had come to help Tang San and her.
• Ling Qianyue exposed Dai Mubai’s reputation for visiting pleasure houses, prompting Xiao Wu and Tang San to look at him with contempt.
• Dai Mubai challenged Zhu Zhuqing over their engagement, but she said he had forfeited it when he abandoned her four years earlier.
• Zhu Zhuqing revealed her Netherworld Star Cat Martial Soul, three Soul Rings including a thousand-year second ring, and cultivation beyond Dai Mubai’s level.
• Zhu Zhuqing took Ling Qianyue’s hand and left with him, while Dai Mubai shouted that their Martial Soul Fusion Skill meant she could not leave him.
• Ling Qianyue’s Star Sword Intent halted Dai Mubai, and he asked whether Zhu Zhuqing’s Martial Soul was still the Hell Spirit Cat.

Ling Qianyue revealed his four-ring Soul Ancestor strength and defeated Dai Mubai in one attack, leaving Dai fearful of losing Zhu Zhuqing and his place in the Star Luo succession. After Dai left, Ling Qianyue spoke with Tang San and Xiao Wu, who learned that he and Zhu Zhuqing were training in Suotuo City.

• Dai Mubai feared Zhu Zhuqing could defeat the Star Luo heirs without him and break their engagement, then demanded to know why Ling Qianyue was involved.
• Ling Qianyue revealed his Shattered Star Sword and four soul rings, shocking Dai Mubai, Xiao Wu, and Tang San.
• Dai Mubai used White Tiger Vajra Transformation, but Ling Qianyue's Thousand Star Rain overwhelmed him and left him seriously injured.
• Ling Qianyue warned Dai Mubai to stop pestering Zhuqing, claimed the damaged hall's compensation for him, and had the sisters help Dai pay Manager Wang.
• Ling Qianyue told Tang San that he and Zhuqing were the same age and were training in Suotuo City, while Tang San vowed to surpass him and asked about Shrek Academy.
• After Dai Mubai left, Xiao Wu condemned him for visiting brothels, while Tang San remained interested in the secret of Ling Qianyue's second thousand-year spirit ring.

Ling Qianyue and Zhu Zhuqing met Tang San and Xiao Wu for a meal, where Tang San learned that their cultivation and Thousand-Year Second Soul Rings contradicted the Grandmaster’s teachings. Ling Qianyue explained that physical constitution affected Soul Ring absorption and said Heaven Dou City’s Advanced Soul Master Academy could provide more information, leaving Tang San questioning Yu Xiaogang’s theory as Ling Qianyue and Zhu Zhuqing departed.

• Ling Qianyue treated Tang San and Xiao Wu to a meal, and they introduced their Martial Souls and Soul Power levels.
• Tang San felt inferior when he learned Ling Qianyue was Level 42 and Zhu Zhuqing was Level 39.
• Ling Qianyue told Tang San that Soul Masters reaching Level 30 could receive noble titles through Spirit Hall, contradicting Shrek Academy’s graduation claim.
• Tang San asked how Ling Qianyue and Zhu Zhuqing obtained Thousand-Year Second Soul Rings despite the Grandmaster’s stated limit of 764 years.
• Ling Qianyue said physical constitution determined whether a Soul Master could absorb a Soul Ring and suggested Tang San seek resources at Heaven Dou City’s Advanced Soul Master Academy.
• Ling Qianyue and Zhu Zhuqing said goodbye, while Tang San was left questioning the Grandmaster’s theory.

Ling Qianyue learned from Snake Lance Douluo that a hidden Titled Douluo was in Suotuo City and planned to use Tang Hao’s interest in rare cultivation resources to draw him away. He intended to visit Qin Ming and eventually raid the waterfall behind Holy Soul Village for the soul bone and Ah Yin.

• Tang San questioned Ling Qianyue’s claims about Shrek Academy but eventually convinced himself that his teacher had reasons for sending him there.
• Ling Qianyue told Zhu Zhuqing that he planned to isolate Dai Mubai socially and use Tang San and Xiao Wu’s eyewitness accounts to shape others’ opinions of him.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu set off for Shrek Academy the next day.
• Ling Qianyue read Snake Lance Douluo’s warning that a powerful hidden Titled Douluo was in Suotuo City and that Snake Lance had learned information about him.
• Ling Qianyue concluded that Tang Hao was likely nearby, planned to visit Qin Ming, and aimed to lure Tang Hao away by directing his attention toward Whale Rubber.
• Ling Qianyue planned to raid the waterfall behind Holy Soul Village for the soul bone and Ah Yin once Tang Hao left to seek resources.

Ling Qianyue questioned Qin Ming about Shrek Academy’s exaggerated claim that it had produced a high-ranking Spirit Hall elder, then said he wanted to visit. Worried that the visit would expose the claim, Qin Ming hurried back to Shrek Academy, where Flender immediately asked him for a donation.

• Ling Qianyue told Qin Ming about two talented students seeking to enter Shrek Academy and asked about the academy’s strength.
• Ling Qianyue challenged Shrek Academy’s promotion claiming it had produced a Spirit Hall elder second only to the Pope, and Qin Ming dismissed the claim as a rumor.
• Ling Qianyue said he wanted to visit Shrek Academy, so Qin Ming agreed to arrange a trip with the Imperial Dou Team during their vacation.
• Qin Ming rushed to Shrek Academy to protect its reputation and found its campus still in the same shabby farming village.
• Flender greeted Qin Ming and asked him to donate several million Gold Soul Coins, prompting Qin Ming to reluctantly pull out a bag of coins.

Tang San and Xiao Wu entered Shrek Academy amid a feud with Dai Mubai, while Flender struggled to manage the divided new students. The Imperial Dou Team visited the next day, and Ling Qianyue's return left Dai Mubai retreating as Ning Rongrong asked Ling for a favor.

• Dai Mubai gave up his final assessment spot and sent Zhao Wuji to test Tang San, who was knocked unconscious after Xiao Wu was thrown aside.
• Xiao Wu confronted Dai Mubai, and Zhao Wuji declared Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong new students before Oscar fed Tang San a Recovery Sausage.
• Flender gathered the six new students for morning instruction, but Ning Rongrong refused his twenty-lap exercise and the students remained divided.
• Qin Ming brought the Imperial Dou Team to Shrek Academy, where Flender welcomed them and introduced the students.
• Ling Qianyue confronted Dai Mubai, who left dejectedly, and Ning Rongrong approached Ling to ask for a favor.

Ning Rongrong asked Ling Qianyue for advice on staying at Shrek Academy, while Tang Hao watched the academy and planned to question Qin Ming about increasing soul ring age. The chapter left Tang Hao preparing to approach Qin Ming for information.

• Ning Rongrong confronted Ling Qianyue and asked him how she could stay at Shrek Academy after Flender criticized her Soul Power.
• Ling Qianyue told Ning Rongrong she could insist on staying and contact her family for support if she feared danger.
• Ning Rongrong realized her family might have been involved in Flender's treatment of her and vowed to complain to Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo.
• Tang Hao watched Shrek Academy and dismissed Ling Qianyue's strength while praising Tang San's Twin Martial Souls and Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Hao decided to seek information about increasing soul ring age and set his sights on Qin Ming, a Shrek graduate.

Flender questioned Qin Ming about Ling Qianyue and the Imperial Dou Team’s rapid improvement, learning that Whale Rubber and heavenly treasures were involved. Meanwhile, Tang San challenged Ling Qianyue to a wager and began fighting him, but Ling Qianyue’s Four Symbols Constellation Transformation destroyed Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass.

• Flender coaxed Qin Ming into explaining how Ling Qianyue, Dugu Yan, and the others had improved so quickly.
• Qin Ming told Flender about Whale Rubber, Poison Douluo, and heavenly treasures, and explained that Whale Rubber had become scarce and expensive.
• Tang San challenged Ling Qianyue to a wager: they could use only their first two soul skills and combat techniques, and Tang San had ten minutes to defeat him.
• Ling Qianyue accepted the wager and let Tang San attack first.
• Tang San used Blue Silver Entanglement and Parasitism, but Ling Qianyue countered with Four Symbols Constellation Transformation, purifying and burning away the Blue Silver Grass.

Ling Qianyue defeated Tang San in their spar by breaking through his hidden-weapon barrage and burning through his Blue Silver Grass defense. After Xiao Wu tended to Tang San, Ling Qianyue urged him to seek elemental resistance for his martial soul, and Tang San began to consider the advice.

• Tang San severed his Blue Silver Grass and attacked Ling Qianyue with hidden weapons, but Ling Qianyue deflected them and criticized his reliance on external tools.
• Tang San unleashed a rain of hidden weapons, but Ling Qianyue used his First Soul Skill, Big Dipper Star Drawing Array, to boost his attributes and escape the barrage.
• Tang San wrapped himself in Blue Silver Grass, but Ling Qianyue struck him from behind with seven streams of fiery sword energy and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Xiao Wu rushed in, gave Tang San Oscar's Recovery Sausages, and angrily challenged Ling Qianyue for injuring him.
• Ling Qianyue explained that fire and frost countered Blue Silver Grass and suggested Tang San seek elemental resistance through future soul rings, which left Tang San thinking.

Ling Qianyue encouraged Tang San to consider giving his Blue Silver Grass elemental soul rings, then secretly inflicted hidden injuries on Ma Hongjun. The chapter left Ma Hongjun unconscious and facing worsening harm from his Evil Fire.

• Ling Qianyue argued that Tang San's Blue Silver Grass could benefit from absorbing ice- and fire-aligned soul rings, and Tang San began considering the idea.
• Tang San asked Xiao Wu to take him to rest beneath a tree.
• Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing explained that Ma Hongjun had offended them by leering and asking them to be his girlfriends.
• Ling Qianyue knocked Ma Hongjun unconscious and secretly damaged acupoints tied to his urinary and reproductive systems.
• Ling Qianyue kicked Ma Hongjun and left him unconscious, expecting his hidden injuries to worsen the effects of his Evil Fire.

Zhu Zhuqing fought Dai Mubai in the Great Soul Arena, overpowering him with her Star Acupoint-enhanced speed and attacks. As Dai Mubai was left bleeding, Ling Qianyue noticed a lecherous middle-aged man watching from the stands.

• Flender arranged for the Imperial Dou Team to join Shrek Academy's nighttime soul-fight training, with Qin Ming agreeing to help.
• Dai Mubai faced Zhu Zhuqing in a one-on-one match and angrily accused her of betraying him.
• Zhu Zhuqing dismissed Dai Mubai, kissed Ling Qianyue, and promised to finish the fight quickly.
• Zhu Zhuqing wounded Dai Mubai with Hell Stab and evaded his White Tiger Blazing Light Wave.
• Zhu Zhuqing's Star Constellation Shadow Kill shattered Dai Mubai's defenses and left him coughing blood.
• Ling Qianyue spotted a lecherous dark-skinned middle-aged man watching from a corner of the arena.

After Zhu Zhuqing defeated Dai Mubai in the arena, Oscar forced a restorative sausage down his throat, and Dai later agreed to take Ma Hongjun to a brothel. On their way through Suotuo City, Bule and two accomplices prepared to ambush Dai Mubai for a masked man.

• Zhu Zhuqing overwhelmed Dai Mubai with relentless attacks, knocked him unconscious, and won their match.
• Oscar carried Dai Mubai to Shrek's resting area and forcibly fed him pieces of a restorative Great Sausage, waking him before the stench made him faint again.
• After recovering, Dai Mubai agreed to take Ma Hongjun to visit the twin sisters at a pleasure house in Suotuo City.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun left Shrek's group and headed toward the pleasure house, while their companions did not interfere.
• In a dark alley, Bule told Old Goose and another accomplice to attack a muscular, weak-looking blond man who matched Dai Mubai, following a job offered by a masked man.

Bule, Tianya, and Old Goose ambushed Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, leaving Dai Mubai traumatized and Ma Hongjun in a pigsty. Later, Qin Ming announced that the Imperial Dou Team would travel to Vast Sea City for spirit battles before returning to Heaven Dou City by way of Nuoding City.

• Bule, Tianya, and Old Goose captured Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun with sleeping powder and took them to an abandoned warehouse and a pigsty.
• Old Goose threw Ma Hongjun into a pigpen, where the unconscious youth stirred and caused a commotion.
• Dai Mubai returned to Shrek Academy the next day in disarray and shut himself in his room, while Flender waited for Ma Hongjun.
• Ma Hongjun returned smelling foul, told Flender he had woken in a pigsty after an ambush, and rushed off to bathe.
• Qin Ming told the Imperial Dou Team they would travel to Vast Sea City for spirit battles, then head north through Fasnuo City and Northern Province toward Heaven Dou City.

Dai Mubai struggled with pain and humiliation after his severe injury, while Flender learned what had happened from Ma Hongjun. Dai Mubai’s injury was exposed that night, and he became withdrawn as Flender failed to find the people responsible.

• Dai Mubai cursed his injury and vowed to take revenge on the person who had humiliated him.
• Flender sent Ma Hongjun stumbling into Dai Mubai’s room, where he saw the bloodied cloth and realized Dai Mubai was badly hurt.
• Dai Mubai attacked Ma Hongjun in a rage, but Flender pried him off and knocked him unconscious.
• Flender ordered Ma Hongjun to keep quiet, then questioned him about what had happened the previous night.
• Ma Hongjun accidentally exposed Dai Mubai’s injury that evening, and the others reacted with shock.
• Dai Mubai became quiet and despairing, while Flender failed to locate Bule and his group.

Ling Qianyue accepted Snake Lance Douluo’s departure, then traveled to Holy Soul Village and discovered Ah Yin’s weakened Blue Silver Emperor body hidden behind a waterfall. He offered to take her away, leaving her fate unresolved.

• Ling Qianyue agreed to Snake Lance Douluo’s request to return to Heaven Dou and accepted that a Soul Douluo would replace him as escort.
• The Imperial Dou Team reached Nuoding City, and Ling Qianyue bought a map and went alone to Holy Soul Village.
• Ling Qianyue flew into the mountains behind the village and used Illusion Breaking Eyes to find and open a hidden passage behind a waterfall.
• Ling Qianyue discovered Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Grass body in a dark stone chamber and found the Blue Silver Emperor’s Right Leg Bone concealed in a nearby wall.
• Ling Qianyue gently stroked Ah Yin’s leaves and told her to come with him.