Chapter Summaries

Ming Sui, a former neurosurgeon reborn into the Douluo Continent, prepared for her upcoming Spirit Awakening with her parents, Ming Zhen and Tang Yunhua. As her family attended a palace banquet for Star Luo’s guests, Emperor Xue Ye worried about keeping the Ming Clan allied with Heaven Dou.

• Ming Sui awoke from a nightmare about the bus attack that killed her in her previous life and tried to put the memory aside.
• Steward Ming told Ming Zhen that Ming Sui had suffered another nightmare, prompting Ming Zhen to visit her with Tang Yunhua.
• Ming Sui reluctantly got up for training, and her parents began teaching her to use the Emei Daggers they had made for her.
• Steward Ming announced that the family had to attend Xue Ye’s banquet welcoming guests from the Star Luo Empire, and Ming Zhen said the Ming Clan would avoid future wars.
• Xue Ye worried that the Ming Clan’s withdrawal from battle would weaken Heaven Dou and considered how to keep Ming Zhen close to the throne.
• The palace banquet began as music played.

Ming Sui and Ning Rongrong escaped the banquet with Ming Zhen and witnessed a clash between Heaven Dou’s Xue Beng and Star Luo’s Dai Mubai. Ming Zhen healed Dai Mubai, and the group returned toward the banquet hall amid signs that the incident had deeper consequences.

• Ming Zhen carried Ming Sui and Ning Rongrong out of the banquet hall, where they went fishing before investigating a commotion behind a flower wall.
• Ming Sui and Ning Rongrong found Dai Mubai injured after Xue Beng’s guard had struck him, while Dai Weisi demanded an explanation from Heaven Dou’s officials.
• Xue Ye arrived, reprimanded Xue Beng, and asked Ming Zhen to treat Dai Mubai; Ming Zhen used his third spirit skill to heal the prince’s arm.
• Dai Weisi accepted Xue Ye’s response, and Ming Zhen’s treatment reassured Dai Mubai that his injury would not affect his cultivation.
• Xue Ye invited the Star Luo delegation back to the banquet as his guard captain reported something privately, prompting a flash of ruthlessness from the emperor.
• Ning Fengzhi and Ming Zhen exchanged strained courtesies before Ming Sui’s mother joined the group and warned that Salas from Spirit Hall looked uneasy.

At a banquet, Dai Mubai’s injury drew the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires into a joint investigation of Spirit Hall, while Ming Zhen discovered a troubling aura in the palace and considered leaving the capital. The investigation ended with a suspicious confession and suicide, and Ming Sui’s sixth birthday and Spirit Awakening approached as her family prepared for the occasion.

• Dai Weisi challenged Salas over the Spirit Hall-connected guard who injured Dai Mubai, and the empires agreed to investigate together.
• Dai Mubai told Zhu Zhuqing he had accepted the need to grow stronger, while Ming Zhen and Tang Yunhua discussed the palace’s unusual Holy Element aura and the danger Spirit Hall posed.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo ordered Salas to distract the empires with the investigation and help lure Ning Fengzhi from the capital before Spirit Hall’s plan was completed.
• The joint investigators found a culprit who confessed and then killed himself, and the Star Luo delegation departed without losing anyone.
• Steward Ming fussed over preparations for Ming Sui’s Spirit Awakening, reassured her with the story of his own mutated Spirit, and Ming Zhen and Tang Yunhua decided they would attend cultivation lessons together.
• With Ming Sui’s sixth birthday due the next day, the family prepared for her Spirit Awakening.

Ming Sui awakened the Staff of Life, a powerful and unusual martial spirit, and demonstrated Innate Full Soul Power. Her parents delayed getting her a spirit ring while she continued training, and their growing busyness left her wondering what was happening.

• Tang Yunhua awakened Ming Sui in a room lined with Awakening Stones, and a golden scepter appeared in Ming Sui's hand.
• Ming Sui identified her martial spirit as the Staff of Life and discovered that it had green-gold Soul Power and could grow larger while remaining exceptionally hard and resilient.
• Ming Zhen and Tang Yunhua realized the Staff of Life could let Ming Sui defend herself while supporting allies, then remembered to test her Soul Power.
• Ming Sui's crystal ball test revealed Innate Full Soul Power, but Ming Zhen and Tang Yunhua chose to have her keep cultivating and training before seeking a spirit ring.
• Ming Sui noticed that Ming Zhen and Tang Yunhua were often away and missing dinner, and they promised to explain once their busy period ended.

Ming Sui arrived in Calais City with Ming Zhen and Tang Yunhua, discovering that her parents secretly ruled the city and planned to find her a tutor. Meanwhile, Flender faced pressure to leave the Balak Kingdom, and Ma Hongjun's family decided to move to Calais City, where a notice seeking a tutor gave Flender a possible way forward.

• Ming Zhen and Tang Yunhua brought Ming Sui to the City Lord's Mansion in Calais City, their secret base, and revealed their roles in governing the city.
• Ming Zhen and Tang Yunhua told Ming Sui they would be too busy to oversee her cultivation, so they had posted notices to recruit a teacher and began considering a Soul Master Academy.
• Flender and his friends discussed the Balak Kingdom's pressure to absorb their school and worried that Spirit Hall would retaliate if they resisted.
• Flender recalled how Ma Hongjun's mutated Phoenix Spirit caused dangerous flames and how he had agreed to train the boy while helping control his Soul Power.
• Ma Hongjun's mother told Flender that her family would move to Calais City for work, and mentioned the notice seeking a teacher for the City Lord's child.
• Flender decided to pursue the tutoring position in Calais City.

Ming Zhen recruited Flender to teach Ming Sui and offered Shrek Academy support or a move to Calais City. Meanwhile, Tang Yunhua found a knife linked to her brother and hurried with Ming Zhen and Ming Sui to Nuoding City, where Master received an urgent letter.

• Ming Sui explored the Goddess River leisure area with Tang Yunhua while Ming Zhen interviewed Flender about Shrek Academy.
• Flender rejected a private tutor position, and Ming Zhen offered him two options for bringing Shrek Academy to Calais City while enrolling Ming Sui temporarily.
• Zhao Wuji, Lu Qibin, Li Yusong, and Shao Xin waited at Shrek Academy for Flender, who returned excited with two choices for them to consider.
• Tang Yunhua found a knife forged with the Clear Sky Sect's Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer and learned it came from Holy Spirit Village near Nuoding City.
• Ming Zhen, Tang Yunhua, and Ming Sui traveled to Nuoding City to investigate the knife, while Master received an urgent letter at Nuoding Spirit Master Academy.

Ming Sui watched Tang Yunhua defeat the cloaked Tang Hao, then learned that her uncle had a son, Tang San, and that Ah Yin might be saved. The adults planned to reunite Tang Hao and Tang San in Calais City while discussing Spirit Hall’s secrets and Bibi Dong’s past.

• Tang Yunhua fought the cloaked Tang Hao and defeated him, while Ming Zhen treated his hidden injuries.
• Tang Hao accepted Ming Sui’s gift greeting and learned that documents in Calais City might help save Ah Yin.
• Tang Hao revealed that his seven-year-old son, Xiao San, had Twin Martial Souls and studied under Yu Xiaogang; Ming Zhen proposed bringing them both to Calais City.
• Tang Yunhua told Tang Hao that Bibi Dong had hunted a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and Ming Zhen revealed Bibi Dong had borne Qian Xunji a child with an Angel Spirit.
• Tang Yunhua said she had injured Bibi Dong and two Spirit Hall Titled Douluo, then revealed that Yu Xiaogang had been Bibi Dong’s ex-boyfriend.

Tang Yunhua welcomed A'tu and Xiao Wu into her territory after A'tu chose to trust her and seek refuge from Spirit Hall. Meanwhile, Tang San prepared to leave school for Calais City with his family and teacher, and awkwardly tied Ming Sui's hair back up.

• Ming Zhen teased Ming Sui about skipping training while Tang Hao reflected on how he had failed his family and sect.
• Tang Yunhua traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest and met A'tu, who explained that she and Xiao Wu had undergone Humanoid Transformation to survive Xiao Wu's coming tribulation.
• A'tu chose to join Tang Yunhua in Calais City, offering her knowledge of Spirit Hall's experts and help finding spirit rings.
• Tang Hao and Ming Zhen took Tang San to withdraw from school, and Tang San's teacher agreed to leave with him for Calais City.
• Tang San became distracted by Ming Sui, accidentally pulled off her hair ribbon, and then tied her pigtail back up at her request.

Ming Zhen welcomed Flender’s Shrek Academy and A'tu’s family to Calais City, where the new arrivals settled in and the city continued to develop. Two months later, Shrek’s teachers discovered two promising young applicants at the academy gate: Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing.

• Flender chose to make his academy Calais City's official Spirit Master Academy while keeping Shrek’s selective admission standards, and Ming Zhen welcomed him and Master.
• A'tu and Xiao Wu arrived in Calais City, where Xiao Wu was captivated by the human world and immediately pinched Ming Sui’s cheeks.
• Shrek moved into its new academy, Master and A'tu became teachers, and Tang Hao immersed himself in the city’s archives while the children began studying.
• Over the next two months, Ming Sui, Xiao Wu, and Tang San advanced in cultivation as Calais City prepared to celebrate the New Year.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing arrived at Shrek seeking admission, and Li Yusong recognized their promising martial souls and led them inside to meet the dean.

Ning Rongrong secretly left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and traveled to Calais City to enroll at Shrek Academy, while Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo followed in secret. She reunited with Ming Sui, settled into the girls’ dormitory, and happily joined her new companions, leaving her father reassured.

• Ning Fengzhi agreed that Ning Rongrong could eventually attend Shrek Academy, then decided to follow her in secret when she escaped the sect at night.
• Ning Rongrong disguised herself as a maid, joined a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect caravan to Calais City, and slipped away to Shrek Academy after arriving.
• Xiao Wang recalled how a bonus from Flander had helped his family buy a home and enjoy a meal of rice, pork, potatoes, and green beans.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo met with Ming Zhen and Tang Yunhua, who reassured them that Shrek Academy’s teachers and staff would look after Ning Rongrong.
• Flender admitted Ning Rongrong to Shrek Academy, where she reunited with Ming Sui and moved into the girls’ dormitory with Ming Sui, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo saw Ning Rongrong happily leave for a meal with her new companions, while Xiao Wang received another bonus.

Ming Sui and the Shrek students began their first combat class, where she defeated Ma Hongjun by absorbing much of his attack’s Soul Power. After a day of classes and cultivation, she worked on adapting medical knowledge for commoners, while the teachers planned tougher training for the students.

• Tang San rang the dormitory gong, and the students gathered for breakfast before their first combined combat class.
• Dai Mubai defeated Tang San in their match, and Master told both to use their usual skills and weapons in future fights.
• Ming Sui used Life Guard to absorb Ma Hongjun’s fire attacks, cut his hair with an Emei Dagger, and made him surrender.
• Xiao Wu edged out Zhu Zhuqing in their evenly matched fight, while Oscar and Ning Rongrong observed and worried about supporting the others.
• Ming Sui worked on a Douluo version of the Barefoot Doctor Handbook, drawing on knowledge she had already shared with healers treating soldiers.
• The teachers discussed the students’ progress and planned repeated matches, a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest, and new cultivation exercises.

Dai Mubai and the others traveled toward the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain soul rings, sharing a chaotic carriage ride and camping overnight along the way. During the final watch, Tang San and Ming Sui spoke by the fire, and he shared a childhood memory that left her feeling sorry for him as dawn approached.

• Master announced that the students would travel to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain soul rings, and the group set out under Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Master's lead.
• The students brawled in the carriage, then rearranged their seats and worked on A'tu's homework together.
• The girls read Ma Hongjun's ridiculous answers aloud, making the others laugh while Ma Hongjun rewrote his homework.
• The group camped for the night, shared a meal, and drew lots to decide the order of their paired watches.
• Tang San and Ming Sui took the final watch, and Ming Sui gave him lemongrass water before he told her about first tasting it at the village chief's home as a child.

The group entered the Star Dou Great Forest and fought a Bloodthirsty Demonic Flame Spider that had attacked an Emerald Angel mother and her newborn. Ming Sui failed to save the mother, accepted responsibility for the baby Nian Nian, and Tang San absorbed the spider’s Spirit Ring.

• Tang San used Blue Silver Grass to learn of two fighting Spirit Beasts, and the group found a Bloodthirsty Demonic Flame Spider attacking an Emerald Angel mother.
• Dai Mubai organized the group’s attack while Zhu Zhuqing and Ming Sui tried to treat the injured Emerald Angel.
• Ming Sui drew out the spider’s demonic flames, but the Emerald Angel entrusted her baby to Ming Sui and dispersed despite their efforts.
• Ming Sui named the baby Nian Nian, and the group mourned the mother before turning their anger toward the dying spider.
• The group tortured the Bloodthirsty Demonic Flame Spider before Tang San absorbed its Spirit Ring.

After the Emerald Angel vanished, Ming Sui and the others cared for Nian Nian while Tang San absorbed the Bloodthirsty Demonic Flame Spider’s spirit ring. Tang San survived a Spiritual Power attack and discovered extra bones on his ribs, and the group settled in for the night after successfully feeding Nian Nian.

• Ming Sui collected soil where the Emerald Angel had vanished, and she and Dai Mubai encouraged Ning Rongrong to grow stronger.
• The Bloodthirsty Demonic Flame Spider’s spirit ring triggered a Spiritual Power attack that pulled Tang San’s consciousness into a black space, where an unknown voice gave him a gift.
• Tang San woke with his Blue Silver Grass settled and extra bones fused to his ribs, which Ming Sui examined without finding an immediate problem.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji ordered the group to camp and rest while the teachers kept watch.
• Ming Sui, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing prepared milk for Nian Nian, and the group worked together to get it to drink.

Shrek’s group avoided a Spirit Hall mission after Master revealed his Pope’s Order, then continued through the forest as Ming Sui explained Spirit Hall’s influence. They witnessed a cataclysmic explosion from a Bloodthirsty Demonic Flame Spider and braced themselves for its effects.

• The Shrek group encountered Papal Palace Knights who ordered everyone out of the Star Dou Great Forest, but Master presented his Pope’s Order and learned that the mission involved the Pope’s beloved disciple.
• Flender, Zhao Wuji, and the students changed course instead of leaving the forest, while Ming Zhen and Tang Yunhua decided to secretly visit Ming Sui.
• Ming Sui and the others discussed Spirit Hall’s use of empire-funded subsidies as they traveled and collected plants for their assignments.
• The Papal Palace Knights tried to secure a fifth soul ring for Holy Son Moro by having him finish off a Bloodthirsty Demonic Flame Spider.
• The spider recovered, revealed that Spirit Hall had slaughtered its tribe, and unleashed an explosion of demonic flames that consumed Moro and the Spirit Hall squad.
• The Shrek group felt the earth shake and hurried to protect one another as Flender and the other teachers sensed that something major had happened.

After discovering that Spirit Hall’s hunting party had been annihilated by a self-destructing Bloodthirsty Demonic Flame Spider, the group learned Tang San had gained a spirit bone from the earlier spider. Tang Yunhua comforted Xiao Wu, who formed her second spirit ring and faced the question of whether to reveal her true identity.

• The group returned to the explosion site and found the remains of Spirit Hall’s party, including Holy Son Moro, after a ten-thousand-year Bloodthirsty Demonic Flame Spider had self-destructed.
• Ming Zhen examined Tang San and confirmed that the first Bloodthirsty Demonic Flame Spider had produced a spirit bone when it died full of resentment.
• Ming Zhen explained that spirit beasts could produce spirit bones when they died in extreme resentment or willingly, and Ming Sui questioned whether Spirit Hall tortured beasts to encourage this.
• Ma Hongjun invited Ming Zhen and Tang Yunhua to eat with the group, and the children later began cultivating while Tang Yunhua spoke privately with Xiao Wu.
• Tang Yunhua gave Xiao Wu her mother’s comb and urged her to grow stronger, prompting Xiao Wu to stop suppressing her Soul Power and form her second spirit ring.
• Tang Yunhua offered Xiao Wu a way to explain her breakthrough, while suggesting she eventually tell the group that she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast rebuilt as a human.

The Shrek group fought off a Wind Thunder Scorpion swarm and helped Oscar obtain a seven-hundred-year Wind Thunder Scorpion as his Second Spirit Ring. After Oscar began absorbing it, Tang San finished practicing the Purple Demon Eye and briefly startled Ming Sui when she came to call him.

• The Shrek group camped in the Star Dou Great Forest, where Ming Sui took the first watch while Tang San poured her Lotus Leaf Dew.
• Tang San sensed an approaching enemy, and the group prepared for the Wind Thunder Scorpion swarm’s attack.
• Ming Sui, Ma Hongjun, and the others helped defeat the swarm, while Flender criticized Ma Hongjun for relying too heavily on his teammates.
• Oscar dealt the final blow to a seven-hundred-year Wind Thunder Scorpion and began absorbing it as his Second Spirit Ring.
• The group collected the scorpions’ tail stingers, then Tang San practiced the Purple Demon Eye and apologized after its gaze briefly startled Ming Sui.

The Shrek group followed a river to Glow Lake, where Dai Mubai earned his long-awaited Spirit Ring by defeating a Diamond Tiger. Nian Nian then plunged into the lake, and Ming Sui and Zhao Wuji went searching underwater, sensing a mysterious power as Dai Mubai finished absorbing his ring on shore.

• Oscar revealed that his second Spirit Skill granted Wind and Thunder attribute enhancement, and the group continued their search for Dai Mubai's Spirit Ring.
• Ma Hongjun and Ning Rongrong obtained their second Spirit Rings while the group followed the river to Glow Lake.
• Dai Mubai defeated a Diamond Tiger and obtained the Spirit Ring he had been waiting for.
• Nian Nian ran into Glow Lake, so Ming Sui and Zhao Wuji descended underwater to find it while the others waited on shore.
• Ming Sui and Zhao Wuji found the lake unnaturally lifeless and sensed a growing Soul Power resonance as they searched the lakebed.
• Dai Mubai finished absorbing his Spirit Ring and demanded to know where Ming Sui and Nian Nian were.

Ming Sui entered the Life Divine Temple and learned that Nian Nian was receiving an inheritance from the Goddess of Life, who promised opportunities for her companions. Tang San was taken to the Asura Divine Temple, where the Asura God urged him to inherit his position so he could protect Ming Sui.

• Ming Sui entered the stone pillars while Zhao Wuji waited outside and summoned Flender for help.
• Ming Sui recorded the symbols on a pillar, then joined Tang San inside the barrier; the others could not enter.
• Ming Sui and Tang San found the Goddess of Life's temple, where she confirmed Nian Nian was receiving an inheritance and explained Ming Sui had been admitted because of her life-aspected martial soul and the soul beasts' blessing.
• The Goddess of Life sent Ming Sui through a door and explained that Tang San had been removed because he carried another god's aura.
• The Asura God told Tang San that he had been selected as a candidate to inherit the Asura position and urged him to become powerful enough to protect Ming Sui.

Tang San confronted his feelings for Sui Sui while enduring lethal trials in the Asura Divine Temple, as Ming Sui and the others underwent intensive training under the Goddess of Life. The chapter ended with Tang San receiving two new Asura soul bones and resolving to continue on the path of inheriting the Asura God.

• Tang San admitted to himself that he liked Sui Sui, and the Asura God promised to return when Tang San was strong enough.
• The gods placed Tang San, Ming Sui, and their companions in separate spaces for repeated battles and cultivation; Ming Sui and Zhu Zhuqing broke through and received God-bestowed Spirit Rings.
• Ming Sui absorbed a purple Second Spirit Ring that granted Life Bind, while the Beast God sent divine light to Xiao Wu after recognizing her as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast cultivating in human form.
• The Goddess of Life sent everyone out of the training spaces and summoned Ming Sui back, where Ming Sui reunited with Sui Sui and saw that Nian Nian had grown.
• The Asura God subjected Tang San to death-match trials and reshaped his External Soul Bone into the Asura Judgment Skull and Asura Void-Breaking Claw.
• Tang San recognized that Asura God Power had taken root in his soul bones and Soul Power, then steeled himself to pursue the Asura inheritance.