Chapter Summaries

After Tang Hao’s death, Su He agreed to keep the incident secret, while Flander prepared to bring Yu Xiaogang to Shrek Academy. Tang San later apologized to Su He, who ignored him, and the chapter ended with Flander introducing Yu Xiaogang as the students’ new teacher.

• Su He agreed with Flander and Zhao Wuji to conceal Tang Hao’s death, especially from Tang San.
• Half a month later, Tang San apologized to Su He for attacking him during the entrance examination, but Su He ignored him.
• Mo Xiaoyu muttered at Su He, who frightened her with a glance and made her fall backward.
• Flander summoned everyone to the training grounds and introduced Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang as their new teacher, responsible for their training methods.

Tang San reunited with Yu Xiaogang at Shrek’s training ground, where the Grandmaster met the students and reacted angrily when Su He failed to appear. The chapter left Flander sending Ning Rongrong to fetch Su He while Yu Xiaogang assumed the absent man was a disrespectful student.

• Tang San hurried to the training ground and respectfully greeted Yu Xiaogang, while Mo Xiaoyu also addressed him as Grandmaster.
• Su He watched Yu Xiaogang and the others from a distance and questioned what qualities had made the Grandmaster appealing to Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong.
• Dai Mubai and Ning Rongrong concealed their contempt for Yu Xiaogang, while Oscar and Ma Hongjun studied him with curiosity.
• Flander introduced Yu Xiaogang to Shrek’s teachers and students but avoided mentioning their levels or strength.
• When Flander noticed Su He was absent, Yu Xiaogang asked who he was and assumed he was a student who had deliberately failed to welcome him.
• Flander ignored Yu Xiaogang’s question and instructed Ning Rongrong to invite Su He over.

Su He joined Flender and the Shrek teachers to meet Yu Xiaogang, who insulted the Academy’s young teacher despite his strength. The chapter ended with Flender defending Su He as an eighteen-year-old Soul Emperor while Yu Xiaogang recoiled from Su He’s gaze.

• Ning Rongrong went to fetch Su He and told him the Grandmaster had arrived.
• Su He told Ning Rongrong he had a wife, and she apologized before he headed for the training grounds.
• Yu Xiaogang mistook Su He for a student and disparaged the Academy’s standards for teachers.
• Su He’s golden gaze caused Yu Xiaogang to look away, and Flender intervened to praise Su He’s strength and talent.

Su He continued cultivating at Shrek Academy while Yu Xiaogang repeatedly demanded that he share his cultivation method. When Yu Xiaogang dismissed Su He's extraordinary Soul Ring Configuration as an illusion, Su He slapped him, and Tang San attacked with the Godly Zhuge Crossbow.

• Yu Xiaogang pressed Su He to reveal his cultivation method, but Flander intervened and warned him not to make excessive demands.
• The next day, Yu Xiaogang appeared with a red palm print after visiting Su He's residence, then stayed inside until it faded.
• Su He studied the Power of Time and cultivated while Shrek's students began spirit battles at Suo Tuo Great Spirit Arena.
• After Oscar reached Level Thirty, Flander arranged for Su He and Zhao Wuji to take the students on a soul ring hunt, but Yu Xiaogang insisted on joining.
• Su He displayed his yellow, purple, purple, black, black, and red Soul Ring Configuration, slapped Yu Xiaogang after he called it an illusion, and blocked Tang San's crossbow bolt with the Indestructible Golden Body.

Su He exposed the Zhuge Crossbow’s power, destroyed it, and demanded compensation from Flander for Tang San’s repeated ambushes. He announced he would leave Shrek Academy after fulfilling his promise to Oscar, while Flander’s choice to protect Tang San and Yu Xiaogang left the academy divided.

• Mo Xiaoyu hurried to check on Tang San as Flander tried to stop Su He, who took the Zhuge Crossbow from the ground.
• Su He demonstrated that the Zhuge Crossbow could pierce a tree, and Zhao Wuji judged it capable of injuring powerful Soul Masters.
• Su He smashed the Zhuge Crossbow, confronted Flander over his protection of Tang San, and demanded satisfactory compensation before leaving the academy.
• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun grew disillusioned with Flander’s favoritism as the others left the training ground.
• After everyone had gone, Yu Xiaogang got up and told Flander that Su He should be expelled.

After Flander brought Su He Tang San’s Zhuge Crossbow blueprint as an apology, Su He tore it up and prepared to leave Shrek Academy after taking Oscar on a spirit beast hunt. The group reached the Star Dou Great Forest, where Flander asked them to consider what spirit ring would suit Oscar.

• Yu Xiaogang demanded that Su He be expelled, but Flander decided he owed Su He and the academy an explanation for his unfair handling of the earlier incident.
• Flander gave Su He the Zhuge Crossbow blueprint Tang San had surrendered, but Su He tore it up in front of Tang San and left him furious and powerless.
• Flander accompanied Su He, Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, Zhao Wuji, and the students on Oscar’s spirit beast hunt to prevent another clash.
• The group traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest and arrived at its entrance after a day by carriage.
• Flander asked everyone to suggest a suitable spirit ring for Oscar, who had reached Level 30.

Su He secretly urged Oscar to reject Yu Xiaogang’s recommendation of an Emerald Spirit Vine soul ring, then summoned him for a private conversation at midnight. Oscar met him by the fire while Tang San watched suspiciously, and Su He began by asking whether Oscar trusted him.

• Yu Xiaogang praised Oscar’s talent and insisted that his future Spirit Skills should focus on supporting the team through soul power recovery.
• Su He used Sound Transmission into Line to tell Oscar to meet him outside the tent at midnight after their first day of searching for a soul ring.
• The group found an Emerald Spirit Vine, and Yu Xiaogang urged Oscar to absorb it, but Oscar followed Su He’s advice and continued searching.
• Su He collected the Emerald Spirit Vine and its soil into his Realm of Destruction, where he discovered the soil was exceptionally fertile.
• At midnight, Oscar left his tent to meet Su He, while Tang San noticed and wondered where he was going.
• Su He welcomed Oscar beside the fire, asked why he had come, and said that doing so showed Oscar trusted him.

Su He urged Oscar to face danger and pursue his feelings for Ning Rongrong, then revealed her status as Ning Fengzhi’s only daughter and outlined ways Oscar could develop beyond a support role. He offered Oscar two paths and two years to decide whether to join him, ending with a challenge to compete in the Elite Spirit Master Tournament.

• Su He told Oscar that surviving life-threatening trials had helped him grow stronger and encouraged him to face challenges rather than hide behind teammates.
• Su He teased Oscar about his feelings for Ning Rongrong, while Tang San secretly watched their conversation and grew jealous.
• Su He explained that Ning Rongrong was the only daughter of Ning Fengzhi, making Oscar’s prospects as a Food Type Spirit Master difficult.
• Su He described ways Food Type Spirit Masters could gain offensive abilities, including poison and powers from a Mirror Shadow Beast.
• Su He offered Oscar the choice to remain with his team or follow him and build his own path, giving him two years to decide before the Elite Spirit Master Tournament.

Su He took Oscar into the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for Oscar’s third soul ring, while Tang San secretly followed them. Su He found a thousand-year Dream Tapir that suited Oscar, leaving them ready to pursue it.

• Oscar learned that Su He would enter the Spirit Master Tournament, but Su He reassured him that he would not fight before the finals.
• Tang San watched Oscar and Su He leave camp together and followed them into the forest.
• Su He asked Oscar what kind of third soul ring he wanted, and Oscar chose a support skill focused on enhancing attributes.
• Su He led Tang San astray in the forest, and Tang San lost his bearings while Su He and Oscar continued searching.
• Su He spotted a roughly fourteen-hundred-year-old Dream Tapir, and Oscar was excited by the find.

Su He helped Oscar kill a Dream Tapir, and Oscar absorbed its spirit ring while Su He guarded him. Meanwhile, Tang San discovered that a nearly ten-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider had been stalking him and planned to follow him to Shrek Academy.

• Su He searched unsuccessfully for Tang San and returned, unaware that several eyes were following him.
• Su He wounded the Dream Tapir with the Power of Heaven Annihilation and blocked its Light of Dream with Indestructible Golden Body.
• Oscar killed the Dream Tapir, and Su He found no spirit bone as Oscar began absorbing its spirit ring.
• Tang San sensed a stalker, fired his Godly Zhuge Crossbow, and discovered that the bolt had failed to pierce a Man Faced Demon Spider's armor.
• Tang San realized the 9,700-year-old Man Faced Demon Spider had followed him and intended to hunt soul masters at Shrek Academy.

Oscar absorbed a thousand-year Dream Tapir soul ring and gained a versatile third spirit skill before returning with Su He. Meanwhile, Tang San faced a nine-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider and used his Clear Sky Hammer and improved Purple Demon Eye to survive its first serious attack.

• Oscar absorbed the Dream Tapir soul ring, rose to about level thirty-two, and gained his Five-Colored Sublimation Fantasy Sausage skill.
• Oscar explained that his new sausage could grant effects of his choosing, and he demonstrated its ability to boost a chosen attribute by ten percent.
• Su He and Oscar followed their marks back home after completing their objective.
• Tang San struggled against the nine-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider and used his hidden weapons without success.
• Tang San heard Tang Hao's voice urging him to trust his Clear Sky Hammer, and the hammer began to glow dark red.
• Tang San advanced his Purple Demon Eye to the Mustard Seed realm and tracked the spider as it concealed itself, then the spider launched a poisonous web at him.

Su He and Oscar returned to camp without finding Tang San, while Tang San fought the Man Faced Demon Spider alone. He killed it and gained the Eight Spider Lances, but its venom left his left arm necrotic.

• Su He and Oscar returned to camp, where Mo Xiaoyu asked whether they had seen Tang San; Su He said they had not.
• Tang San used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and sealed the meridians in his poisoned left arm to keep the Man Faced Demon Spider’s venom from spreading.
• Tang San fought back with the Clear Sky Hammer and Disorder Splitting Wind, gradually learning the spider’s attack rhythm as a hidden observer watched.
• Tang San struck the Man Faced Demon Spider’s weak point with a Sleeve Arrow and killed it.
• The Eight Spider Lances grew from Tang San’s back, but the venom had left his left arm necrotic and badly damaged his prospects as a Battle Spirit Master.

A masked Limit Douluo told Tang San that Tang Hao had been killed, restored Tang San’s necrotic arm, and challenged him to win the tournament and meet in Slaughter City. Meanwhile, Su He prepared to leave Shrek’s camp, but Yu Xiaogang confronted him over Tang San’s disappearance.

• A blood-robed Limit Douluo revealed his nine soul rings and told Tang San that Tang Hao had been killed, though he had preserved a sliver of Tang Hao’s soul.
• The masked figure cut away Tang San’s necrotic arm, reshaped it with blood-red energy, and directed him to win the tournament and find him in Slaughter City.
• Tang San vowed revenge, then absorbed the Man Faced Demon Spider’s corpse and gained a level of Soul Power.
• Su He told Flander and Zhao Wuji that he was leaving to handle unfinished business in Heaven Dou City.
• Yu Xiaogang demanded that Su He explain Tang San’s absence, and Su He mocked him for expecting responsibility for Tang San’s whereabouts.

Su He left the Star Dou Great Forest after Tang San returned, while Tang San told Yu Xiaogang a fabricated account of gaining an External Soul Bone and revealed that Tang Hao was dead. Su He returned to Heaven Dou City, eager to reunite with Xue'er.

• Su He prepared to leave, but Yu Xiaogang blocked him and blamed him for Tang San's disappearance until Tang San returned to camp.
• Tang San privately showed Yu Xiaogang the Eight Spider Lances and claimed he had killed a Man Faced Demon Spider, concealing the truth about how he survived.
• Yu Xiaogang identified Tang San's spider legs as a rare External Soul Bone and warned him to keep it secret.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that Tang Hao was dead, shocking him.
• Su He flew back toward Heaven Dou City and entered through the city gates with the guards' assistance.

Su He returned to the Crown Prince's residence and learned that Emperor Xue Ye was dying while Prince Xue Xing had gained support from Sea God Island. After reuniting privately with Qian Renxue, Su He asked how the sudden crisis had begun.

• Su He showed the Crown Prince's Token to the guards and paid them for information about the palace.
• A guard told Su He that Xue Ye's health had sharply worsened and Prince Xue Xing had gained at least two Titled Douluo and several Soul Douluo from Sea God Island.
• Su He went to the palace and met the disguised Qian Renxue outside Xue Ye's bedchamber.
• Qian Renxue led Su He to a private room, removed her disguise, and told him that Prince Xue Xing had Sea God Island's support.
• Su He asked Qian Renxue how the developments from a few days earlier had unfolded.

Su He planned to kill Prince Xue Xing to clear the way for Qian Renxue to claim the Heaven Dou Empire’s throne. After uncovering Xue Xing’s decoy, Su He killed him with a powerful arrow and escaped, leaving Sea Illusion Douluo behind.

• Qian Renxue told Su He that Sea God Island had intervened in the succession and that Grandfather had forbidden an open conflict.
• Su He learned that Seahorse Douluo and Sea Illusion Douluo had come to protect Prince Xue Xing, then promised Qian Renxue he would handle the matter.
• Su He infiltrated Prince Xue Xing’s residence and discovered that the drunken figure on the throne was a substitute.
• Su He found the real Xue Xing guarded by Sea Illusion Douluo and three Soul Douluo, then fired a Heaven Annihilation Arrow at him.
• The arrow pierced Sea Illusion Douluo’s defenses, killed Xue Xing, and exploded, destroying the body and room.
• Su He fled and hid in the Realm of Destruction as Sea Illusion Douluo cried out in despair.

Su He returned to Heaven Dou City after killing Prince Xue Xing, while Qian Renxue prepared to face the scrutiny surrounding the assassination. At morning court, with the Dragon Throne empty and Sea God Island demanding answers, Physician Zhao reported that Emperor Xue Ye remained unconscious.

• Sea Illusion Douluo and Seahorse Douluo searched Heaven Dou City all night for the assassin, while Su He emerged safely from the Realm of Destruction at dawn.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo found Su He in an alley and brought him back to the Crown Prince's residence, warning him that the Sea God Island envoys had surrounded it.
• Qian Renxue dismissed the servants and declared that she feared no accusations, since no one had caught the culprit and she was Xue Ye's only male heir.
• Officials, prominent clan leaders, and Sea God Island representatives gathered for morning court, where Seahorse Douluo asked where the Emperor was.
• Qian Renxue summoned Physician Zhao, who told the assembled officials that Xue Ye remained unconscious and could not attend court.

At court, Qian Renxue, posing as Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, used a Heavenly Dao Oath and Su He’s arguments to blunt Sea God Island’s accusations and preserve her authority. As the island’s envoys left after Sword Douluo Chen Xin intervened, an urgent report said Emperor Xue Ye might be dying.

• Sea Illusion Douluo accused Xue Qinghe of harming the emperor and implicated the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect in Prince Xue Xing’s assassination, while Ning Fengzhi defended his student.
• Qian Renxue swore that she had no ill intent toward her father, silencing the court’s doubts and winning officials’ public support.
• Su He challenged Sea God Island’s authority to interfere in Heaven Dou’s affairs and warned that the empire would seek Spirit Hall’s help.
• Seahorse Douluo threatened Su He, but Sword Douluo Chen Xin shielded him and forced the two Sea God Island Douluo to withdraw.
• A palace eunuch rushed into court and reported that Emperor Xue Ye might not survive.

Xue Ye recognized Xue Qinghe’s role in the deaths of his other sons but gave him the succession decree and died. Three days later, Xue Qinghe ascended the throne, completing Spirit Hall’s plan to seize control of the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Xue Qinghe entered Xue Ye’s bedchamber and found him lucid despite his failing health.
• Xue Ye told Xue Qinghe that he knew what he had done and made him promise not to harm Ke'er.
• Xue Ye gave Xue Qinghe the succession decree and died after asking him to care for the Heaven Dou Empire and its people.
• Three days later, Xue Qinghe presented Xue Ye’s decree at court and was crowned emperor with the ministers and sect masters in attendance.
• After court, Xue Qinghe embraced Su He and celebrated the success of her twelve-year infiltration.

After Qian Renxue secured the Heaven Dou throne, she and Su He consolidated their control by reshaping the court and drawing its nobles into a trap. Meanwhile, Flender revealed that Su He had personally defeated and killed Tang Hao, leaving Yu Xiaogang and Tang San stunned.

• Qian Renxue, disguised as "Xue Qinghe," appointed Vima as Lord of Mano City as she reshuffled the court and strengthened her control over the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Su He and Qian Renxue discussed how the cabinet's greed had made its members vulnerable to their scheme, while Ning Fengzhi had failed to dissuade "Xue Qinghe" from relying on them.
• Qian Renxue arrived with Golden Crocodile and Lion and told Su He that the Great Enshrined and another woman had summoned them back to Spirit City.
• Yu Xiaogang pressured Flender to explain what had happened the night Tang Hao died, while Tang San listened outside the office.
• Flender confessed that Su He had fought Tang Hao alone, defeated him despite their level difference, and killed him, shocking Yu Xiaogang and Tang San.