Chapter Summaries

Tang Lan watched Oscar endure his training and discussed how Tang San might teach him, while Zhu Zhuqing rejected Dai Mubai and grew closer to Tang Lan. The chapter ended with Tang Lan treating Zhu Zhuqing's training soreness, prompting her to flee in embarrassment.

• Oscar swung 1,430 gravity-weighted hammer strikes, and Tang San insisted he continue the seven-day test before deciding whether to teach him.
• Tang Lan explained that Tang San's hidden weapons and self-created skills suited Oscar better than the Tang Sect's costly firearms, lowering Tang San's reputation and earning Tang Lan a 120-year Double Pupils External Soul Bone.
• Zhu Zhuqing rejected Dai Mubai's confession and called off their engagement, while Xiao Wu accepted the decision and Tang Lan resolved to pursue Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ning Rongrong teased Tang Lan about Xiao Wu helping him pursue Zhu Zhuqing, then declined his offer of a meeting gift.
• Tang San completed a 10x scope, and Tang Lan gave him information about the True Martial Seven Intercept Formation.
• Tang Lan used Nine Yang Divine Skill Inner Force to treat Zhu Zhuqing's soreness, and she fled after making an embarrassed sound.

Tang Lan intervened in a cafeteria fight between Ning Rongrong and Dai Mubai, then helped Oscar recover and learn the first layer of the Nine Yang Divine Skill. He left Tang San reconsidering his future and the Tang Sect after offering him the position of Sect Master.

• Tang Lan stopped Ning Rongrong from walking away without apologizing to Dai Mubai, and she admitted she had mocked his broken engagement.
• Tang San noticed the first batch of bullets lacked anti-theft measures, so Tang Lan asked him to collect and replace them.
• Tang Lan used the Nine Yang Divine Skill to heal Oscar and guide him through its first layer, strengthening Oscar’s Recovery Sausage and helping him continue training.
• Tang San confronted Tang Lan about teaching Oscar, but Tang Lan praised Oscar’s character and asked Tang San what he wanted to become.
• Tang Lan described his goal of spreading the Tang Sect’s supreme arts and offered Tang San the Sect Master position, leaving Tang San tempted to accept.

Tang San joined Tang Lan’s Tang Sect as vice sect leader and began researching firearms and explosives, but a blast at the training ground left him fighting for his life against Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples. Tang Lan rescued him and restrained the attackers, while his Double Pupils began evolving by absorbing their Mental Power.

• Xiao Wu reminded Tang San of Tang Lan’s sacrifices, and Tang San agreed to establish a Hidden Weapon Hall; Tang Lan appointed him vice sect leader and put him in charge of an Armament Hall and firearm research.
• Tang San rushed off to investigate whether Tang Lan’s Gunpowder could replace an ingredient for the Wrath of the Buddha Tang Lotus, while Tang Lan kept him occupied with research projects.
• Chi Feng arrived with ores, Whale Rubber, and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples, but an explosion at the training ground drew Tang Lan and Chi Feng away.
• Tang Lan found Tang San surrounded by attacking disciples as he used the Reverse Undying Imprint Technique, while Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing fought other attackers.
• Tang Lan used Life Burial and his Blue Silver Domain to bind and weaken the attackers, caught the collapsing Tang San, and began restoring him as his Double Pupils absorbed Mental Power and evolved.

Tang Lan gained power by undermining Tang San’s prospects, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect apologized and offered compensation after its disciples attacked Tang San. The chapter ended with Tang San accepting a Ten Thousand Year Fire Spirit Ginseng that was incompatible with his Mysterious Heaven Skill, while hiding from Tang Lan that he had never learned the Nine Yang Divine Skill.

• Tang Lan stopped channeling power into Tang San, gained Soul Bone and Double Pupils upgrades, and imposed restrictions on who could buy the Tang Sect’s Barrett weapons.
• Chi Feng apologized for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s conduct and promised compensation, including a new forging workshop; Tang Lan persuaded Tang San to rest and join him to hunt a Soul Ring.
• Tang Lan gave Zhu Zhuqing a Spiritual Light Ball, then added Life Burial and Dragon Grasping Hand to his Double Pupils’ Soul Bone Skill slots.
• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples apologized to Tang San, and Ning Rongrong delivered a Ten Thousand Year Fire Spirit Ginseng as compensation.
• Tang San accepted the ginseng without admitting that he had not learned the Nine Yang Divine Skill, while Tang Lan realized it would be useless and poisonous to him.

Ning Rongrong acknowledged Tang Lan as her uncle to stabilize the sects’ relationship and received the True Martial Seven Intercept Formation, while Oscar became Tang San’s disciple. After Tang Lan effortlessly defeated the others in a spar, Zhu Zhuqing began to develop feelings for him and misunderstood Xiao Wu’s nightly visits.

• Ning Rongrong gave Tang Lan a Thirty Thousand Year Fire Spirit Ginseng, bowed to him as her uncle, and received the True Martial Seven Intercept Formation.
• Tang Lan explained that Ning Fengzhi had arranged Ning Rongrong’s sacrifice to protect the sects’ cooperation, prompting Dai Mubai to accept that he needed to work harder and move on from Zhu Zhuqing.
• After completing ten thousand hammer swings, Oscar became Tang San’s disciple and received a Ten Thousand Year Fire Spirit Ginseng, a Storage Ring, and a Spiritual Light Ball from Tang Lan.
• Tang Lan tested Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong, but their combined attacks could not break his Indestructible Body.
• Zhu Zhuqing watched Tang Lan with growing admiration and considered whether she could share him with Xiao Wu.
• Zhu Zhuqing confronted Xiao Wu about visiting Tang Lan at night, then mistook Xiao Wu’s explanation of their sleeping and cultivating together for a comment about Tang Lan’s stamina.

Tang Lan presented the Tang Sect Encyclopedia, a continent-wide manual of cultivation knowledge that also revealed the first layer of the Nine Yang Divine Skill and a new printing method. Chi Feng pledged to publish it across the continent, while Ning Rongrong grew increasingly curious about Tang Lan’s secrets.

• Zhu Zhuqing struggled with insomnia and Tang Lan’s closeness, and Tang Lan used his inner force to dispel her fatigue.
• Chi Feng declined to accompany Tang Lan’s group on their Soul Ring hunt and gave Oscar three pieces of Thousand-Year Whale Rubber to raise his Soul Ring limit.
• Tang Lan asked Chi Feng to publish the Tang Sect Encyclopedia, and Chi Feng was astonished by its teachings, including the Nine Yang Divine Skill’s first layer.
• Tang Lan explained that movable type printing could replace time-consuming block printing, and Chi Feng promised to distribute the book across the continent within one and a half months.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, and the others reacted to Tang Lan’s knowledge, while Ning Rongrong became convinced that he was hiding a great secret.

Tang Lan led the Shrek students toward the Star Dou Great Forest, where Ma Hongjun’s exclusion from the group came to a head during a meal. After a clash with Canghui Academy, Tang Lan refused to let Ma Hongjun rely on others to settle trouble he had started, and Dai Mubai joined him against the Five-Ring Soul King Ye Zhiqiu.

• Zhao Wuji pushed the students through a strenuous run toward the Star Dou Great Forest, and the group stopped at a hotel after covering nearly five hundred kilometers.
• Flender treated the students to food and wine, while the others toasted Tang Lan and Ma Hongjun drank alone and complained that Tang Lan had not recruited him.
• Canghui Academy arrived at the hotel, and Dai Mubai provoked its students while Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Li Yusong slipped away.
• A Canghui student flipped a platter toward Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, and Ma Hongjun retaliated by blasting food and drinks over him before throwing him across the room.
• Ye Zhiqiu revealed his five Soul Rings and demanded that the students call their teacher; Tang Lan told Ma Hongjun to face the consequences of causing trouble and ordered Dai Mubai to accompany him.

Tang Lan fought Ye Zhiqiu to protect Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, then clashed with Flender over Shrek’s teaching philosophy and led most of the students and Zhao Wuji away from the academy. The group left Shrek with Oscar and Tang San after both chose to follow Tang Lan, and Tang Lan built them a villa with his Blue Silver Domain.

• Ye Zhiqiu froze Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, but Tang Lan bound him with the Life Spirit Blue Silver Emperor and drained his power until the two broke free.
• Tang Lan argued with Flender over Shrek’s approach to cultivation, and Flender told him the academy could not accommodate the Tang Sect.
• Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Dai Mubai, and Zhao Wuji chose to leave Shrek with Tang Lan, while Tang San hesitated before deciding to follow him.
• Flender let Oscar leave after Oscar thanked him and bid him farewell, and Oscar caught up with Tang Lan’s group on the road.
• Tang Lan led the group toward the Star Dou Great Forest, then used his Blue Silver Domain to create a three-story villa for them.

Tang Lan left Shrek with his companions and led them toward the Star Dou Great Forest, while the group’s mistrust of Tang San grew after his hesitation to stand by Tang Lan. Tang Lan secretly gained a new External Soul Bone, and the group reached the forest after Tang San took credit for Oscar’s discovery about storing sausages.

• Tang Lan reflected on leaving Shrek, and Xiao Wu and the others criticized Tang San for hesitating to support him.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing discussed their attraction to Tang Lan and agreed to ally in pursuing him, while Tang San regretted his hesitation and feared Tang Lan was angry.
• Tang Lan received a 23,333-year-old Life Ancient Tree Right Foot Palm External Soul Bone after the system reported that the Shrek Seven Devils would no longer wholeheartedly support Tang San becoming a god.
• Tang Lan gave Storage Rings to Zhao Wuji, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing, warned everyone to prioritize survival in the Star Dou Great Forest, and turned the Blue Silver villa into a free roadside inn.
• Oscar told Tang San that his sausages lasted in a Storage Ring, and Tang San presented the discovery to Tang Lan as his own research; Oscar then made sausages for the group as they traveled to the forest.
• Tang San did not replenish Oscar after he exhausted himself making sausages, leaving Oscar privately resentful as the group arrived at the Star Dou Great Forest.

Tang Lan led the group into the Star Dou Great Forest, kept them safe from soul beasts, and encountered Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran while they pursued a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent. Meng Yiran gave Tang Lan her Soul Piercing Blades and Meteoric Gold, and Tang Lan explained whale rubber’s ability to raise a soul ring’s age limit, leaving Chao Tianxiang eyeing the serpent as a possible match for Meng Yiran.

• Tang Lan arranged the group’s formation, warned them against unnecessary risks and killing harmless soul beasts, and led them into the forest while using Blue Silver Grass to catch and drain attacking soul beasts.
• The group discussed a suitable soul beast for Oscar and found an injured Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, which Tang Lan restrained with Life Burial while they waited for its pursuers.
• Chao Tianxiang arrived with Meng Yiran and politely asked for the serpent as Meng Yiran’s Third Soul Ring; after learning Tang Lan led the group, she offered to yield it, but Tang Lan told her she could take it.
• Meng Yiran recognized Tang Lan’s Firearm Soul Tools and showed him her Soul Piercing Blades, which could pierce some Soul Power defenses; she gave him all eighteen blades and her remaining Meteoric Gold.
• Tang Lan explained whale rubber’s effect on the Soul Ring Upper Limit and offered Chao Tianxiang a trade, prompting her to reveal two pieces of Thousand-Year Whale Rubber and consider the serpent’s age.

Tang Lan helped Oscar absorb a 3,000-year Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent’s soul ring, giving him a flying soul skill, and the serpent also dropped a soul bone. Oscar offered the bone to Tang Lan, who asked whether anyone wanted it, while Tang San struggled to contain his desire for it.

• Chao Tianxiang thanked Tang Lan for revealing the whale rubber method, then left with Meng Yiran after Tang Lan invited her to take the entrance examination for his planned academy.
• Tang Lan gave Tang San the meteorite gold and Soul Piercing Blades to turn into sniper armor-piercing bullets, then fed Fire Spirit Ginseng to the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent to raise its cultivation to 3,000 years.
• Tang Lan weakened the serpent with the Life Spirit Blue Silver Emperor, and Oscar killed it and absorbed its 3,000-year soul ring with Tang Lan’s help.
• Oscar’s third soul skill created a Flying Mushroom Sausage that let its eater fly, with a faster flaming-wing form that lasted for less time.
• Tang Lan noticed that the serpent had dropped a soul bone, and Oscar offered it to him; Tang Lan asked if anyone else wanted it, while Tang San struggled to resist the temptation.

Tang Lan arranged for Oscar to absorb the Phoenix-Tailed Crested Serpent soul bone, then revealed his three Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings and led the group deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest. When a Hundred-Thousand-Year Titan Giant Ape appeared, the others rushed to defend themselves while Tang San hesitated, and Tang Lan prepared to act.

• Tang Lan gave the Phoenix-Tailed Crested Serpent Left Leg Bone to Oscar, who absorbed it and gained stronger flight abilities and the Hormone Burst soul bone skill.
• Tang Lan revealed that his Life Spirit Blue Silver Emperor could increase his soul rings’ ages, then said they would hunt a roughly thirty-thousand-year Soul Beast.
• Tang Lan led the group deeper into the forest while Xiao Wu sought a chance to separate him from the others so he could condense an Origin Soul Ring.
• Zhao Wuji stopped the group and ordered everyone to retreat when a Titan Giant Ape emerged from the trees.
• Zhao Wuji, Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Oscar rallied against the Titan Giant Ape, while Tang San stayed behind and hesitated.
• Tang Lan chose not to flee and prepared to earn the group’s goodwill by acting against the Titan Giant Ape.

Tang Lan pursued the Titan Giant Ape to rescue Xiao Wu, then fought a pair of Man Faced Demon Spiders with Tang San and claimed the smaller spider’s Eight Spider Lances. After Tang San absorbed a 2,000-year Soul Ring, Tang Lan let the 30,000-year ring dissipate and condensed his own Origin Soul Ring, leaving its fourth skill unrevealed.

• Tang Lan used the Life Spirit Blue Silver Emperor to send Zhao Wuji and the others away, while the Titan Giant Ape seized Xiao Wu and Tang San was dragged along with her.
• Tang Lan followed the Titan Giant Ape, and Tang San later chased after him using the Flying Mushroom Sausages the others had thrown to them.
• Tang Lan led Tang San to a pair of Man Faced Demon Spiders, where Tang San fought the smaller one and Tang Lan killed the 30,000-year spider.
• Tang San killed the smaller Man Faced Demon Spider and obtained its Eight Spider Lances, which Tang Lan secretly stored in Blue King while helping Tang San digest the Ten Thousand Year Fire Spirit Ginseng.
• Tang San absorbed the smaller spider’s 2,000-year Soul Ring with Tang Lan’s help, and Tang Lan allowed the 30,000-year Soul Ring to dissipate before condensing his fourth Origin Soul Ring.

Tang Lan fused the Life Ancient Tree Right Foot Palm with his Blue Silver Right Leg Bone, gaining powerful escape and revival abilities. He named the completed bone the Life Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone and considered his plans to establish an academy and enter the tournament.

• Tang Lan extracted the Life Ancient Tree Right Foot Palm and implanted it alongside the Eight Spider Lances.
• Tang Lan planned to enter the academy tournament to claim Tang San’s Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull and establish his own advanced academy using Blue Tyrant Academy and the Strength Clan.
• The system rewarded Tang Lan with Homologous Soul Bone Enhancement Fusion after he took the Eight Spider Lances from Tang San.
• The Life Ancient Tree Right Foot Palm fused with Tang Lan’s Blue Silver Right Leg Bone, painfully expanding it into a complete right-leg Soul Bone.
• Tang Lan’s enhanced Soul Bone gained a light-speed escape technique and the ability to revive him by regrowing his body, Soul Rings, and Soul Bones.
• Tang Lan named the fused Soul Bone the Life Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone and found that its combined age had reached 123,354 years.

Tang Lan absorbed the Man Faced Demon Spiders to evolve his Eight Spider Lances into a powerful External Soul Bone, leaving Tang San jealous of his luck. He told Xiao Wu to stay in the Star Dou Great Forest for now, promising to help her become fully human so she could later join him in Heaven Dou City.

• Tang Lan revealed his Eight Spider Lances to Xiao Wu and Tang San, then devoured both Man Faced Demon Spider corpses to raise the Soul Bone's age to 34,572 years.
• Tang San grew furious and jealous when Tang Lan confirmed the Eight Spider Lances were a rare, evolvable External Soul Bone.
• Tang Lan took Xiao Wu aside and told her to remain in the Star Dou Great Forest because Titled Douluo in Heaven Dou City could expose her identity.
• Tang Lan gave Xiao Wu a Thirty Thousand Year Fire Spirit Ginseng and promised to bring her more immortal herbs so she could transform into a human and stay with him.
• Xiao Wu kissed Tang Lan goodbye, and he left with Tang San, who was secretly pleased that he could have Tang Lan's attention to himself.

Tang Lan and Tang San returned to the Tang Sect Inn after a day in the Star Dou Great Forest, where Tang Lan strengthened his soul bones and tested his Soul Seed. They found Yu Xiaogang and Flender arguing with Zhao Wuji about leaving them behind, and the chapter ended with everyone asking where Xiao Wu was.

• Tang Lan used the Blue Silver Domain to hide himself and Tang San while he drained Soul Beasts, tested the Soul Seed, and discovered that his Life Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone could evolve by absorbing life force.
• Tang Lan’s Double Pupils gained 6,100 years, reached 12,074 years, and unlocked a third skill slot that could Copy others’ Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Tang Lan and Tang San returned to the Tang Sect Inn at night and overheard Yu Xiaogang and Flender criticizing Zhao Wuji for not searching for them after the Titan Giant Ape attack.
• Tang Lan and Tang San entered the inn, where the group welcomed them back and Yu Xiaogang and Flender checked Tang San for injuries.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked where Xiao Wu was, and everyone turned to Tang Lan for an explanation.

Tang Lan revealed his fourth soul skill and Eight Spider Lances to the group after recounting the brothers’ dangerous battles with Man Faced Demon Spiders. The mood turned tense when Yu Xiaogang invited Tang San back to Shrek Academy, prompting Tang Lan to suspect that Yu Xiaogang and Flender were trying to take his disciple.

• Tang Lan and Tang San explained Xiao Wu’s return and their encounters with the Titan Giant Ape and two Man Faced Demon Spiders.
• Tang San revealed that he had absorbed a two-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider soul ring, while Tang Lan had killed a thirty-thousand-year one using his hammer and Barrett.
• Tang Lan demonstrated his parasitic fourth soul skill, which silently drained Soul Power from Zhu Zhuqing and then the others.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San surmised that Tang Lan’s soul skill came from Spider God Possession, and Tang San revealed that Tang Lan had gained the Eight Spider Lances External Soul Bone.
• Tang Lan summoned the Eight Spider Lances, and Yu Xiaogang told Tang San to return to Shrek Academy with him, making Tang Lan and Flender face off tensely.

Tang Lan challenged Yu Xiaogang’s theories as Yu Xiaogang tried to reclaim Tang San as his disciple. Tang San and the others exposed flaws in Yu Xiaogang’s claims, leaving him speechless and despondent.

• Yu Xiaogang ordered Tang San to return to Shrek Academy with him, but Tang San hesitated between obeying his master and staying with Tang Lan and the Tang Sect.
• Tang Lan asked Yu Xiaogang whether he intended to use Tang San to prove his Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul and challenged the claim that Soul Power directly matched martial soul quality.
• Tang San revealed that he had cultivated his Soul Power after birth and had not been born with Full Soul Power, undermining Yu Xiaogang’s first theory.
• Ning Rongrong recalled that Tang Lan had only Level 3 Innate Soul Power, further weakening Yu Xiaogang’s argument.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Dai Mubai, and Zhao Wuji questioned Yu Xiaogang’s other theories, and Yu Xiaogang struggled to defend them.

Tang Lan exposed Yu Xiaogang’s use of Spirit Hall’s recorded knowledge, then recruited him to teach at a new academy and help the Tang Sect absorb Blue Tyrant Academy. After sending everyone to their rooms, Tang Lan asked Zhao Wuji to smash his Eight Spider Lances so he could test whether breaking and reshaping them would strengthen them.

• Tang Lan challenged Yu Xiaogang to identify which of the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul Spirit Hall had recorded, leaving Yu Xiaogang stunned and speechless.
• Ning Rongrong rebuffed Flender, who left after realizing he could not take Tang San away; Tang Lan then offered Yu Xiaogang a teaching position and promised help with his level 29 bottleneck.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted Tang Lan’s offer, and Tang San stepped forward to support his teacher; Tang Lan gained the Dragon Grasping Hand major accomplishment reward.
• Tang Lan sealed the Tang Sect Inn with Blue Silver Grass, then asked Zhao Wuji to smash his Eight Spider Lances so they could be reshaped tougher.
• Zhao Wuji’s first strike failed to break Tang Lan’s defenses, but his next strike cracked the Eight Spider Lances before their regeneration healed them; Tang Lan urged him to attack with full strength.

Tang Lan trained his Eight Spider Lances with Zhao Wuji and used their fragments to gain a hidden-weapon technique and Tang San’s Luck. He then ordered the group to run toward Heaven Dou City, while Yu Xiaogang finally addressed him as Sect Master.

• Zhao Wuji shattered Tang Lan’s Eight Spider Lances, but Tang Lan healed rapidly and revealed he had reached level 47 at age thirteen.
• Tang Lan and Zhao Wuji trained through the night, increasing the age of Tang Lan’s Origin Soul Ring by 2,410 years.
• Oscar was poisoned after touching a fragment of the Eight Spider Lances, and Tang Lan used his lances to draw out the poison and restore him.
• Tang San asked for the fragments, but Tang Lan absorbed their poison, strengthened his Eight Spider Lances, and earned the Flower Rain hidden-weapon technique as a reward.
• Tang Lan ordered everyone to run to Heaven Dou City under Zhao Wuji’s Gravity Soul Skill, and Zhao Wuji insisted Yu Xiaogang address him as Sect Master.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted Tang Lan’s authority and quietly called him Sect Master, earning Tang Lan another reward tied to Tang San’s Luck.