Chapter Summaries

Zhuge Lan spent his Emotional Value on two powerful Soul Bones, Spirit Domain - Simulation, and upgrades to his Soul Rings. He discovered that his Abomination Curse could now inflict moderate negative statuses, leaving him alarmed by how painful they were.

• Zhuge Lan checked the records from the previous night and decided against using Strongest Appraisal Technique again because its Emotional Value returns had diminished.
• Zhuge Lan unlocked and upgraded the Causality Reversal Torso Soul Bone and the Star Descent Holy Left Arm Soul Bone to 50,000 years.
• Zhuge Lan learned he could increase other people's Soul Ring year limits, then chose Spirit Domain - Simulation to change his Soul Ring colors and gain Spirit Detection.
• Zhuge Lan used Spirit Detection to sense the people nearby, then raised five soul skills to 10,000 years.
• Zhuge Lan discovered that Abomination Curse could inflict moderate negative statuses, including trigeminal neuralgia, and considered the suffering his future opponents might face.

Zhuge Lan revealed his concealment Soul Bone skill and offered to heal Ma Hongjun with another Soul Bone skill. The healing worked, but its strange side effect embarrassed Ma Hongjun, who fled as the group neared the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Zhao Wuji and the others noticed Zhuge Lan after he canceled Close In Distance, Far In Horizon, and Tang San identified it as a Soul Bone skill.
• Zhuge Lan admitted that he had caused the previous night's commotion and claimed his concealment skill came from an ancestral Soul Bone.
• Zhuge Lan offered to heal Ma Hongjun with his fifty-thousand-year left-arm Soul Bone, Holy Light Blessing.
• Holy Light Blessing restored Ma Hongjun's vitality but made him react with blissful embarrassment, prompting him to sprint away.
• Zhao Wuji warned Ma Hongjun not to run near the Star Dou Great Forest, and Zhuge Lan realized the skill's true use.

Zhuge Lan tested his healing and Causality Reversal Soul Bone Skills on Tang San, who was hurt by the former and healed by a kick from the latter. After Zhuge Lan explained his unusually condensed Soul Power, the group reached the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest and encountered a shocking sight.

• Zhuge Lan learned that Oscar's Recovery Sausage could help Zhao Wuji and Ma Hongjun recover, though not instantly.
• Tang San proposed that the group practice receiving Zhuge Lan's healing, then endured twenty Holy Light Blessings while insisting on continuing.
• Zhuge Lan used Causality Reversal on Tang San, then kicked him; Tang San recovered and inferred that the skill reversed healing and damage.
• Zhuge Lan claimed his cultivation method condensed Soul Power more than tenfold, impressing the group and frustrating Tang San.
• The group reached the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest and saw a sight that left them stunned.

Zhuge Lan explained that his Strongest Appraisal Technique had caused the Red Wolf Black Spider colony to give birth without offspring, prompting the males to cast out the females. As his family’s divine inheritance caught Tang San’s attention, Zhuge Lan used Holy Light to restore a spider’s broken legs, leaving everyone stunned.

• Zhuge Lan used Physique Scan and learned that the Red Wolf Black Spiders had been cast out after their females gave birth without producing offspring.
• Tang San guessed the colony had suffered internal conflict, but Zhuge Lan revealed that his Strongest Appraisal Technique had caused the failed births.
• Zhuge Lan teased the group with a story about his ancestor, then said the ancestor had twin Martial Souls, Innate Full Soul Power, and gained entry to the family’s Divine Inheritance.
• Tang San recognized that the ancestor’s qualifications resembled his own and decided he wanted to join Zhuge Lan’s family.
• Zhuge Lan’s Holy Light healed a Red Wolf Black Spider’s broken legs, astonishing Tang San with its power to regenerate limbs.

Zhuge Lan healed the injured Red Wolf Black Spiders and led the group through the Star Dou Great Forest to find Oscar a Soul Ring. When they encountered a suitable Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, Oscar revealed that his Third Soul Ring limit was 4,960 years, leaving Tang San and Xiao Wu startled by how much they had been left out of the others’ knowledge.

• Zhuge Lan repeatedly used Holy Light to restore the Red Wolf Black Spiders, while Tang San, Xiao Wu, and the others rebuked Ma Hongjun for suggesting they kill the Soul Beasts.
• Ma Hongjun realized Zhuge Lan had used his fifty-thousand-year Soul Bone Skill over a hundred times, and Zhuge Lan credited his rapid recovery to his Cultivation Method.
• The healed Red Wolf Black Spiders left, and Zhuge Lan organized the group’s formation as they headed toward the Mixed Zone to find Oscar a Soul Ring.
• Zhu Zhuqing spotted an injured Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, and Tang San identified it as a suitable Soul Beast for Oscar based on its age and abilities.
• Oscar revealed that Zhuge Lan’s Body Strengthening Potion had raised his Third Soul Ring limit to 4,960 years, surprising Tang San and Xiao Wu.

Zhuge Lan’s group encountered Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran, who wanted the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent for Meng Yiran’s third Soul Ring. Chao Tianxiang left without it, and the group continued through the forest with Zhuge Lan carrying the serpent.

• Zhuge Lan captured the injured Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, and his group waited to see who had been pursuing it.
• Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran arrived and asked for the serpent, which Chao Tianxiang had hunted for Meng Yiran’s third Soul Ring.
• After Meng Yiran angrily demanded the serpent, Zhuge Lan revealed his three thousand-year Soul Rings, and Chao Tianxiang chose to negotiate instead.
• Zhu Zhuqing privately offered to help Meng Yiran raise her Soul Ring’s year limit if she transferred to Shrek Academy, but Chao Tianxiang declined and left with her granddaughter.
• Zhuge Lan kept the serpent so it would not be caught again, and the group continued through the forest while he used Holy Light Blessing to drive off Soul Beasts.

Zhuge Lan’s group camped in the Star Dou Great Forest, where the Titan Giant Ape appeared and carried Xiao Wu away after she shielded it from Zhuge Lan’s Level 9 Fixed Soul Cannon. Zhuge Lan pursued Tang San and the ape, leaving Zhao Wuji and the others behind to decide what to do.

• Zhuge Lan released the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, which fled after recovering its strength.
• Zhuge Lan discussed his dangerous plans with Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong before his Spirit Detection sensed someone approaching.
• Zhao Wuji ordered the group to retreat when the Titan Giant Ape appeared, but Zhuge Lan summoned the Level 9 Fixed Soul Cannon, Tai'e.
• Xiao Wu stood in front of Tai'e to protect the Titan Giant Ape, and Er Ming caught her and escaped into the forest with her.
• Tang San pursued Xiao Wu, Zhuge Lan followed them, and Zhao Wuji stopped Zhu Zhuqing from chasing after them.

Zhuge Lan followed Tang San through the forest and watched him fight a Man Faced Demon Spider after reaching level 30. When Tang San’s crossbow shot missed, Zhuge Lan saved him, defeated the spider, and offered to help him find a soul beast to absorb.

• Zhao Wuji decided the group would hold their position and wait for Zhuge Lan and Tang San to return.
• Zhuge Lan revealed that the terrifying cannon had been a simulated illusion, then used his movement skill to follow Tang San.
• Tang San reached level 30 during his desperate fight with a Man Faced Demon Spider, but his trembling hand caused his crossbow shot to miss.
• Zhuge Lan rescued Tang San, blocked the spider’s attacks with Thorn Armor, and broke its legs with reflected damage and status effects.
• Zhuge Lan healed Tang San, acknowledged his devotion to Xiao Wu, and offered to help him find a soul beast to absorb.

Zhuge Lan faced Meng Shu, Chao Tianxiang, and Meng Yiran over the wounded Man Faced Demon Spider, while Tang San recovered under pressure. After Meng Yiran attacked the spider, it began regenerating instead of dying, leaving everyone baffled.

• Tang San rested to recover, and Zhuge Lan struck him and told him to keep recovering while he handled the approaching pursuers.
• Meng Shu arrived with Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran, then released his Soul Douluo pressure and made Tang San cough blood; Zhuge Lan healed Tang San and remained unaffected.
• Zhuge Lan offered the 2,003-year-old Man Faced Demon Spider to Meng Yiran, but Chao Tianxiang confirmed it was too old for her to absorb.
• Meng Yiran tried to kill the spider, but Zhuge Lan stopped her and said his level-30 teammate could absorb its soul ring.
• Meng Yiran escaped Zhuge Lan's hold with her Serpent Body skill and attacked the spider, but its wounds began healing and bony knots grew from its severed legs.

Zhuge Lan used a Level 8 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon to defeat Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill, then won Meng Yiran’s interest in Soul Tools. He discovered Tang San among the rubble, healed him while earning Emotional Value, and agreed to teach Meng Yiran about Soul Tools.

• Zhuge Lan used Causality Reversal and healing to torment the Man Faced Demon Spider while Meng Yiran called on her grandparents for help.
• Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang launched Dragon Snake Strike, but Zhuge Lan’s Level 8 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon shell blasted them into a crater.
• After Zhuge Lan prepared another shell, Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang gave up the Man Faced Demon Spider, while Meng Yiran eagerly asked to learn how to make Soul Tools.
• Zhuge Lan explained Soul Tools’ power and levels, then found the badly injured Tang San beneath rubble and healed him with Holy Light.
• Meng Yiran introduced herself and asked to study Soul Tools, and Zhuge Lan agreed after deciding her interest could earn him the knowledge for free.

Zhuge Lan agreed to teach Meng Yiran Soul Tool lessons in exchange for Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang serving as his Guardians, and Meng Yiran kissed him before leaving with them. After Tang San began absorbing the Man Faced Demon Spider's Soul Ring, Zhuge Lan secretly stole its Eight Spider Lances and discovered the System could process the External Soul Bone.

• Zhuge Lan agreed to teach Meng Yiran, provided Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang served as his Guardians while he taught her.
• Meng Shu agreed to accompany Meng Yiran after arranging leave, and Meng Yiran promised to meet Zhuge Lan at Shrek Academy within a month before kissing him goodbye.
• Zhuge Lan checked his Emotional Value and then stopped the Poison Milk, allowing Tang San to recover and prepare to absorb the Man Faced Demon Spider's Soul Ring.
• Tang San killed the Man Faced Demon Spider and began absorbing its purple Soul Ring while Zhuge Lan secretly pulled out and stole the Eight Spider Lances.
• Zhuge Lan asked the System to process the Eight Spider Lances, and it detected that the External Soul Bone could be used.

Zhuge Lan unlocked the Devil’s Eye, an ocular External Soul Bone whose Weakling Deprivation Art forced those in childbirth to give birth to one of their abilities. He used it on Xiao Wu while she was already giving birth, and the chapter ended as she saw what had emerged.

• Zhuge Lan learned that sacrificing the Eight Spider Lances had unlocked the Devil’s Eye and discovered its Weakling Deprivation Art.
• Zhuge Lan spotted Xiao Wu and activated his childbirth ability on her, mistakenly thinking a stranger had arrived.
• Xiao Wu agreed to Zhuge Lan’s offer to shorten her labor, and he used the Weakling Deprivation Art while Tang San absorbed a Soul Ring nearby.
• Zhuge Lan urged Xiao Wu to push and threatened to help deliver the baby, prompting her to push in panic.
• Xiao Wu gave birth and stared in horror at what had emerged.

Zhuge Lan helped Xiao Wu recover and explained that the strange egg had produced a Lifespan Orb rather than a child. After Tang San completed his dangerous Soul Ring absorption and reunited with Xiao Wu, Zhuge Lan explained his collapse and took them back to camp.

• Xiao Wu mistook an egg-shaped object for her child, but it cracked to reveal a Lifespan Orb that Zhuge Lan absorbed to increase his lifespan and Soul Bone age.
• Zhuge Lan told Xiao Wu how he had driven back the attackers and helped protect Er Ming, leaving her with complicated gratitude and resentment.
• Tang San absorbed a two-thousand-year Soul Ring despite the danger, then collapsed into Xiao Wu's arms after waking and seeing her safe.
• Zhuge Lan explained that Tang San had collapsed from exhaustion and emotional strain, and Xiao Wu realized Zhuge Lan had also risked himself to help her.
• Zhuge Lan grabbed Xiao Wu and Tang San by their collars and rushed them back toward the camp.

After recovering from the Star Dou Forest, Zhuge Lan reunited with Zhu Zhuqing, slept for two days, and received thanks from Tang San and Xiao Wu. He then met Yu Xiaogang and openly revealed that his family had investigated the academy’s staff and students.

• Zhuge Lan returned to camp with Xiao Wu and Tang San, where Zhu Zhuqing welcomed him and carried him to the tent after he fell asleep.
• Xiao Wu told the others how she had gained a soul ring, while Zhu Zhuqing recounted how Zhuge Lan had rescued Tang San and brought everyone back.
• Zhuge Lan woke in his dormitory after two days, and Zhu Zhuqing cared for him and brought him food.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu thanked Zhuge Lan, and he asked Oscar whether he had obtained a soul ring.
• Yu Xiaogang introduced himself as the students’ new teacher, and Zhuge Lan surprised him by saying his family had investigated everyone at the academy.

Zhuge Lan exposed Yu Xiaogang’s borrowed scholarship and showed the students his Soul Tools, then fired a massive cannon beam at Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong. The chapter ended as Zhu Zhuqing stayed put and Ning Rongrong tried to pull her out of the beam’s path.

• Dai Mubai and the other students doubted Yu Xiaogang’s claim that Zhuge Lan was a loner, and Yu Xiaogang changed the subject by asking about Zhuge Lan’s offensive Soul Tool.
• Zhuge Lan challenged Yu Xiaogang’s knowledge of Soul Tool history and implied that he had copied the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul from Spirit Hall’s records.
• Yu Xiaogang admitted that he had compiled existing knowledge, then fled when Zhuge Lan called after him; Tang San and Xiao Wu followed to check on him.
• At Ma Hongjun’s request, Zhuge Lan brought out a Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon for the students to inspect, then summoned a colossal cannon and aimed it at them.
• The students scattered, but Zhu Zhuqing stayed in place while Ning Rongrong hid behind her; Zhuge Lan fired, and Ning Rongrong tried to drag Zhu Zhuqing away.

Zhuge Lan used a strand of divine consciousness to overwhelm Sword Douluo Chen Xin, healed Ning Fengzhi, and sold the Whale Rubber recipe to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. He then exposed flaws in Yu Xiaogang’s Ten Core Competencies, drove Yu Xiaogang into a cerebral hemorrhage, and performed a barehanded craniotomy that saved him.

• Zhuge Lan summoned a divine consciousness phantom that wounded Chen Xin and Ning Fengzhi, then stopped it from attacking when Ning Rongrong confirmed she and Zhu Zhuqing were unharmed.
• Zhuge Lan healed Ning Fengzhi with Holy Light and claimed the phantom was a divine ancestor’s strand of consciousness protecting him.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to pay 50 million Gold Soul Coins, provide three high-quality Soul Bones, and grant the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support once in exchange for Zhuge Lan’s Reinforcement Recipe.
• Zhuge Lan criticized Yu Xiaogang’s Ten Core Competencies, and Tang San contradicted Yu Xiaogang’s claim that Soul Power could not improve past a bottleneck.
• Yu Xiaogang suffered a cerebral hemorrhage after Zhuge Lan exposed the personal insecurity behind one of his theories, so Zhuge Lan opened his skull, removed the blood, and healed him.

Zhuge Lan repeatedly used Holy Light and Causality Reversal on Yu Xiaogang, harvesting Emotional Value while pretending to treat his injuries. He convinced Flender that Yu Xiaogang had water in his brain and needed to be provoked, leaving Yu Xiaogang furious at his friend's words.

• Zhuge Lan found Yu Xiaogang pretending to be unconscious and used Holy Light to make him moan, drawing laughter and scorn from the Shrek crowd.
• Zhuge Lan spent 500,000 Emotional Value to strengthen Holy Light, bathing Yu Xiaogang in a pillar that made him moan and briefly enter a refractory period.
• Zhuge Lan used Causality Reversal to turn the healing light into corrosive pain, then discovered Yu Xiaogang reacted more strongly to attacks on his theories than to physical torment.
• Zhuge Lan healed Yu Xiaogang again and told Flender that a brain operation had left cerebrospinal fluid suppressing Yu Xiaogang's motor nerves.
• Flender concluded that Yu Xiaogang had water in his brain and said he was pretending to stay unconscious to avoid facing reality, while Zhuge Lan urged him to keep provoking Yu Xiaogang.

Zhuge Lan urged Flender to provoke Yu Xiaogang, who finally woke and angrily ended their friendship. Yu Xiaogang then asked Tang San to leave with him, but Tang San chose to stay at Shrek, leaving Yu Xiaogang betrayed again.

• Zhuge Lan warned Flender that Yu Xiaogang might remain unconscious unless provoked, so Flender criticized Yu Xiaogang's theories, choices, and past relationships.
• Yu Xiaogang woke, confronted Flender, and declared that their friendship was over.
• Yu Xiaogang tried to leave by barging into Flender, but Flender stood firm and called him childish.
• Flender asked Tang San whether he would leave with Yu Xiaogang or stay at Shrek.
• Yu Xiaogang promised to make Tang San a Titled Douluo, but Tang San apologized and chose to remain at Shrek.

Tang San rejected Yu Xiaogang’s demand to remain his disciple and exposed how Yu Xiaogang had failed to protect him and delayed his second soul ring. Zhuge Lan joined the argument, ridiculed Yu Xiaogang’s theories and weakness, and left Yu Xiaogang speechless after the others confirmed that a deity had recently appeared.

• Yu Xiaogang accused Tang San of betraying his master, but Tang San recalled that he had killed the Mandala Snake, cured Yu Xiaogang’s poison, and carried him out of the forest.
• Zhuge Lan mocked Yu Xiaogang for needing Tang San’s help against the four-hundred-year Soul Beast, earning Emotional Value from the onlookers.
• Tang San revealed that Yu Xiaogang had delayed his second soul ring for two months to test a theory, and Zhuge Lan dismissed the theory as misleading.
• Yu Xiaogang defended his theory by citing Spirit Hall archives and a Titled Douluo, but Zhuge Lan countered that his family had Titled Douluo gatekeepers and had produced three Gods.
• Yu Xiaogang doubted the existence of deities until Flender and the others confirmed that a deity’s Strand of Divine Consciousness had recently suppressed Sword Douluo.
• Zhuge Lan told Yu Xiaogang he was too weak to sense divine might, leaving him unable to respond as Zhuge Lan’s Emotional Value surged.

Zhuge Lan exposed flaws in Yu Xiaogang’s Martial Soul Mimicry Theory, shaking Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and the Shrek teachers. Yu Xiaogang demanded that Tang San leave Shrek with him, and Tang San hesitated after hearing that Yu Xiaogang could help him overcome the danger posed by his Twin Martial Souls.

• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that he still acknowledged him as a teacher but urged him to leave, while Yu Xiaogang accused him of repaying kindness with ingratitude.
• Zhuge Lan argued that Blue Silver Grass would benefit more from plant-type Soul Rings that enhanced its vitality and plant abilities than from a venom-type Soul Ring, and he called Yu Xiaogang a copycat.
• Yu Xiaogang listed the favors he had done for Tang San, including giving him a Storage Soul Guidance Device and recommending Shrek Academy.
• Xiao Wu confronted Yu Xiaogang and offered to repay what she had taken, but Yu Xiaogang demanded that Tang San leave Shrek with him.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed he could provide Tang San with the best education and help him address the danger of his Twin Martial Souls, leaving Tang San wavering.