Chapter Summaries

Zhuge Lan postponed the Douluo Dance King Competition by offering the group free Dragon Qi, then humiliated Tang San with a long-lasting soul skill. The group suspected Zhuge Lan and Tang San endured the prank in hopes of receiving a soul skill later, before Dugu Bo suddenly spoke.

• Zhuge Lan proposed that the group study the dance videos and compete after returning to Heaven Dou City, but Flender and the others insisted on competing immediately.
• Zhuge Lan revealed that they could absorb Bing Bing's Dragon Qi for free before the competition, prompting the group to postpone the contest and accept Entertainment Soul Tools to watch the videos.
• While everyone cultivated on the Ice Dragon Armor Beast, Zhuge Lan secretly used his Stench Set Meal on Tang San, making him burp and fart loudly for several minutes.
• The group realized Zhuge Lan had caused Tang San's symptoms, and Zhuge Lan admitted he had tested a Self-Created Soul Skill Fusion Technique.
• Zhuge Lan promised Tang San priority for a future soul skill, and Tang San thanked him despite his humiliation and anger.
• Dugu Bo suddenly spoke.

Zhuge Lan unlocked and upgraded an unusual mouth external soul bone that made people dance, then decided to commission a cool-looking Back External Soul Bone. The chapter ended with him considering designs that would impress the people around him.

• Dugu Bo asked about Self-Created Soul Skill Fusion Techniques, and Zhuge Lan explained how soul skills or Twin Martial Souls could fuse into new abilities.
• Chao Tianxiang noticed that the Ice Dragon Armor Beast was flying away from Heaven Dou City, so she redirected it while the passengers were tossed around.
• Tang San grew increasingly wary of Zhuge Lan and struggled to cultivate as he watched for another scheme.
• Zhuge Lan spent Emotional Value to unlock the Dancing Miracle Dreamy Magic Mouth soul bone and upgraded it to one million years, removing its requirement that he dance too.
• Zhuge Lan decided to custom-order a Back External Soul Bone and considered wings, a Saint Cloth, sword flight, and other designs.

Zhuge Lan copied the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record and exposed it to Tang San and the others, prompting Tang San to accuse him of stealing Tang Sect secrets. Zhuge Lan then claimed the Tang Sect did not belong to this world, leaving Tang San stunned.

• Tang San gave Zhuge Lan his handwritten copy of the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record to compare with Zhuge Lan's family copy, and Zhuge Lan projected the text to prove it was genuine.
• Zhuge Lan let Flender, Dugu Bo, Zhao Wuji, Meng Yiran, and the others study and record sections of the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record while Tang San grew furious and secretly imagined killing them.
• Ning Rongrong asked Zhuge Lan to let her take the record back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and he agreed; Flender then asked to include it in Shrek Academy's curriculum.
• Tang San confronted Zhuge Lan, demanded to know how his family obtained the Tang Sect's secret, and accused them of killing people to seize it.
• Zhuge Lan told Tang San that the Tang Sect should not exist on Douluo Continent or in this world, and Tang San's anger gave way to shock.

Zhuge Lan revealed Tang San’s transmigrator identity and forced him to apologize, then discovered a Soul Beast tide advancing on Heaven Dou City. He established a spiritual link with the Ice Dragon Armor Beast and asked what was happening.

• Zhuge Lan explained that Tang San had crossed from another universe and called him an illegal invader, threatening to summon the Zhuge ancestor responsible for dealing with such intruders.
• Tang San apologized to Zhuge Lan and silently endured his taunts about having been an elder of the Tang Sect.
• Flender tried to get access to Zhuge Lan’s teaching materials, but Zhuge Lan asked what relationship Flender had with his family.
• Meng Yiran spotted a vast Soul Beast tide charging toward Heaven Dou City, and Dugu Bo asked Zhuge Lan to have the Ice Dragon Armor Beast turn it back.
• Zhuge Lan bought the Spiritual Link ability and contacted the Ice Dragon Armor Beast to ask what was happening.

Zhuge Lan slowed Yan Dragon’s Soul Beast tide while Heaven Dou City prepared its defenses, then arrived with the army and claimed he could repel the beasts with a divine artifact. Prince Xue Xing was about to challenge him.

• Zhuge Lan told the Ice Dragon Armor Beast to claim it could not disperse the tide, while Dugu Bo sent Flender to mobilize three hundred thousand cavalry.
• The Ice Dragon Armor Beast repeatedly blocked the Soul Beast tide, and Yan Dragon ordered the beasts to bypass it and press on toward Heaven Dou City.
• After the delay lasted until dawn, the tide reached Heaven Dou City, where Ning Fengzhi, Xue Qinghe, and the army had prepared defenses and a vast trench.
• Ning Fengzhi introduced Xue Qinghe to Zhuge Lan, who offered to use a family divine artifact to drive away the tide without casualties.
• Dugu Bo urged Zhuge Lan to use the artifact, but Zhuge Lan gave him a sideways glance, and Prince Xue Xing prepared to intervene.

Yan Dragon launched a life-sacrificing attack on Zhuge Lan, but Zhuge Lan’s throne shielded him and then suppressed the entire Soul Beast tide. He bathed the battlefield in Holy Light Rain and activated Singing Domain, leading humans and Soul Beasts in a dance to “Little Apple.”

• Yan Dragon burned its blood to unleash a desperate attack on Zhuge Lan, while Gu Rong and the others failed to stop it in time.
• Zhuge Lan declared that no blade could touch him upon the throne, and its golden barrier stopped Yan Dragon’s strike.
• Zhuge Lan invoked the throne’s power to suppress Yan Dragon and the entire Soul Beast tide against the ground.
• Zhuge Lan released Holy Light Rain that filled humans and Soul Beasts with overwhelming life force and left them making strange noises.
• Zhuge Lan summoned a disco ball and activated Singing Domain, leading the battlefield in a dance as he sang “Little Apple.”

Zhuge Lan’s Singing Domain forced the soldiers and Soul Beasts to dance through an entire concert, ending the battle and turning the tide away from Heaven Dou City. After the Soul Beast tide returned toward Sunset Forest with Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin, Xue Qinghe remained with Zhuge Lan, curious about his strange performance.

• Zhuge Lan led the soldiers and Soul Beasts in increasingly elaborate dances, while Xue Ye and the others watched helplessly from Heaven Dou City’s walls.
• Zhuge Lan ended the Singing Domain after performing Michael’s songs, and exhausted soldiers collapsed as the music stopped.
• Xue Qinghe offered Zhuge Lan a reward for stopping the invasion, and Flender raised concerns about what would happen to the Soul Beasts.
• Zhuge Lan agreed to have the Ice Dragon Armor Beast lead the Soul Beast tide back to Sunset Forest, with Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin accompanying it.
• Xue Qinghe stayed behind with Zhuge Lan and wondered how the dignified young man had turned into a performer at a live concert.

Zhuge Lan spared the defeated 100,000 Year Yan Dragon and made it his mount by promising it a path to human cultivation and giving it Dragon God power. Prince Xue Xing began plotting to seize the Soul Beast, while Zhuge Lan mocked his offer and prepared to reveal a shocking point.

• Gu Rong restrained the exhausted Yan Dragon, and Flender and Prince Xue Xing both tried to trade for the 100,000 Year Soul Beast.
• Xue Qinghe stopped the argument and left the decision about Yan Dragon to Zhuge Lan.
• Zhuge Lan offered Yan Dragon its Innate Soul Skill, a chance to cultivate into a human, and a fiery crystal containing the power of the Water Fire Dragon King.
• Yan Dragon accepted Zhuge Lan as its master, received the Transformation Technique and crystal, and was named Huo Huo.
• Zhuge Lan announced that Huo Huo was his mount, rejected Prince Xue Xing's identity token, and challenged the confidence of the Heaven Dou Empire.

Zhuge Lan exposed Prince Xue Xing’s support for Xue Beng and hinted that Xue Beng had been pretending to be unruly while waiting for his chance. He then privately revealed that he knew Xue Qinghe was Qian Renxue, leaving her to plan a private discussion with him that night.

• Zhuge Lan accused Prince Xue Xing of supporting Xue Beng’s bid for the throne, and Prince Xue Xing angrily denied it.
• Zhuge Lan described the deaths of several princes and compared Xue Beng’s changed behavior to Goujian enduring humiliation, making Xue Qinghe suspect Prince Xue Xing’s schemes.
• Zhuge Lan whispered to Qian Renxue that he knew her true identity, and she agreed to meet with him privately at a welcoming banquet that night.
• Qian Renxue remained behind with Prince Xue Xing, whose deception enraged her, while Zhuge Lan and the others left.
• Gu Rong asked Zhuge Lan how his family had uncovered Heaven Dou City’s secrets, and Zhuge Lan gave him an outrageous answer.

Zhuge Lan used secret intelligence to reveal scandals involving Emperor Xue Ye and the Heaven Dou court, then answered criticism of the city’s defenses by projecting footage of overwhelming futuristic weapons and protective barriers. The others were left stunned by how far ahead his world was.

• Zhuge Lan explained that a spiritual-attribute Titled Douluo had gathered the information and said he exposed the prince because the prince’s attitude disgusted him.
• Zhuge Lan revealed that Xue Beng was Prince Xue Xing’s illegitimate son and that Emperor Xue Ye’s deceased princes had also not been his biological children.
• Zhuge Lan said Emperor Xue Ye was considering spreading the Sunflower Manual through the army, while the eunuchs in the imperial palace were already cultivating it.
• Zhuge Lan revealed that Tang Yuehua was Tang San’s aunt and that Moonlight Pavilion was an intelligence organization planted by the Clear Sky Sect.
• Dugu Bo explained why Heaven Dou City’s defenders fought on the plains, and Zhuge Lan projected footage of futuristic cannons, defensive barriers, and a missile destroying a Soul Beast tide.
• Gu Rong and the others were left amazed by Zhuge Lan’s family and the advanced technology he displayed.

After arriving in Heaven Dou City, Zhuge Lan met Qian Renxue at a private banquet and saw through her disguise and Spirit Hall identity. Qian Renxue asked what it would take for him to keep her secret, leaving Zhuge Lan in a position to dictate terms.

• Dugu Bo and Gu Rong discussed why Zhuge Lan had come to Douluo Continent, and Flender explained that he had run away from home.
• A commotion over the Yan Dragon interrupted them, and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples cleared the area by distributing Gold Soul Coins.
• After everyone else went to sleep, Zhuge Lan followed a Soul Saint to a banquet arranged by Qian Renxue and deliberately made her speak first.
• Qian Renxue revealed her true appearance, and Zhuge Lan identified her Six-Winged Angel Soul and Spirit Hall background.
• Zhuge Lan criticized Qian Renxue's low soul level and her grandfather's decision to send her undercover, prompting her to ask what price he wanted for keeping her identity secret.

Zhuge Lan used the Angel God’s Inheritance Ring to persuade Qian Renxue to spend half a day each week dating him, then brought her inside to show her its vast collection of light-element Self-Created Soul Skills. Qian Renxue became eager to claim the Angel God’s vacant divine position, unaware that the ring’s apparent inheritance was an empty shell Zhuge Lan had created.

• Qian Renxue offered to try dating Zhuge Lan to protect her secret, but he denied wanting a relationship and teased her for misunderstanding his admiration.
• Zhuge Lan asked Qian Renxue to date him for half a day each week and offered to return the Angel God’s Inheritance Ring in exchange.
• Zhuge Lan told Qian Renxue that the Angel God had fallen in the Divine Realm war, prompting her to wonder whether she could inherit the vacant divine position.
• Zhuge Lan placed the Inheritance Ring on Qian Renxue’s finger and took her into its inner space, which resembled a library filled with cards bearing light-element Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Qian Renxue marveled at the skills and imagined Spirit Hall crushing its enemies, while Zhuge Lan secretly knew the inheritance was an empty shell he had created.

Zhuge Lan used the Inheritance Ring to teach Qian Renxue the Pure White Blade and persuaded her to agree to weekly dates. After teasing her with a nearly completed kiss and leaving her a communication device, he watched her storm off as she realized he had never actually called her his girlfriend.

• Zhuge Lan demonstrated the Inheritance Ring, and Qian Renxue learned the Pure White Blade.
• Qian Renxue agreed to set aside half a day each week to date Zhuge Lan.
• Zhuge Lan asked whether the Angel God had left divine power, and Qian Renxue embraced him to keep him close.
• Zhuge Lan stopped just before kissing Qian Renxue, then left her a Wave Communication Soul Guidance Device and told her to initiate a kiss herself.
• Qian Renxue realized Zhuge Lan had never said they were in a relationship and stormed away in her Xue Qinghe disguise.
• Zhuge Lan watched Qian Renxue leave and decided to keep teasing her before pursuing her further.

Zhuge Lan spent Emotional Value to unlock a powerful custom left leg Soul Bone and upgrade a truth-extracting right leg Soul Bone. He left to test the right leg’s new ability on Tang San.

• Zhuge Lan used 100,000,000 Emotional Value to unlock the 1,000,000-year Spatial Nullification Left Leg Soul Bone, whose skills swallowed external abilities, prohibited nonphysical abilities, and confined movement.
• Zhuge Lan activated all three left leg Soul Bone skills around his body and accepted the enormous cost as protection against ambushes.
• Zhuge Lan unlocked the Sincere Truth Right Leg Soul Bone and spent 5,000,000 Emotional Value to raise it to 500,000 years.
• The upgraded right leg Soul Bone gained Confession Without Torture, which could compel marked targets to act on a deeply buried thought based on accumulated damage.
• Zhuge Lan stood up and headed to find Tang San so he could demonstrate the new ability.

Zhuge Lan used a soul-bone skill to make Tang San confess his resentment and attack him with every weapon he had. After Zhuge Lan neutralized the assault and Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer vanished, Tang San regained control and braced himself for execution.

• Tang San hid a jar containing pieces of his severed flesh and silently vowed to surpass Zhuge Lan and repay him.
• Zhuge Lan burst into Tang San’s room, accused him of speaking ill of him, and kicked him through a wall into the courtyard.
• Under Confession Through Torture, Tang San blurted out his resentment toward Zhuge Lan and his belief that family resources made the world unfair.
• Zhuge Lan kicked Tang San again, renewed the skill, and made him declare that he cared more about power than women or descendants.
• After Zhuge Lan healed him and restored what he had lost, Tang San attacked with hidden weapons and the Clear Sky Hammer, but Black Hole swallowed the attacks and the hammer.
• Tang San collapsed from the backlash, regained control, and closed his eyes, expecting Zhuge Lan to kill him.

Zhuge Lan used Tang San’s confession to justify testing his abilities on the rest of Shrek, promising a millennium first soul ring to whoever outperformed him. Ma Hongjun confessed his resentments and attacked Zhuge Lan, and Zhuge Lan moved on to Oscar.

• Zhuge Lan beat Tang San until he knelt, apologized, and admitted he had wanted to kill Zhuge Lan.
• Tang San blamed his behavior on being controlled, then urged Zhuge Lan to test the others and argued that everyone shared his resentment.
• Zhuge Lan offered to raise the first soul ring of anyone who performed better than Tang San, prompting Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, Oscar, Flender, and Zhao Wuji to line up.
• Zhuge Lan kicked Ma Hongjun, healed him with Holy Light, and used Soul Bone skills to make him confess his resentment and act on his desire to attack.
• Ma Hongjun fired his Evil Fire Phoenix at Zhuge Lan’s crotch and spat at him, after which Zhuge Lan turned to Oscar.

Zhuge Lan used his Soul Bone skills on Oscar, Dai Mubai, Meng Yiran, Flender, and Zhao Wuji, forcing them to reveal their thoughts and act on their confessions. Flender made Zhuge Lan the Dean of Shrek Academy, while Tang San grew increasingly horrified by everyone’s reactions.

• Oscar tried to forfeit, then confessed to Meng Yiran under Unprompted Confession, but she rejected him and hinted that she preferred someone like Zhuge Lan.
• Dai Mubai revealed that he had treated Zhu Zhuqing as a tool for revenge, castrated himself under the skill’s influence, and began cultivating.
• Zhuge Lan tortured Meng Yiran until she confessed her longing for him, then stopped her when she tried to claim him.
• Flender asked Zhuge Lan to take over as Dean of Shrek Academy, and Zhuge Lan signed the Academy Transfer Agreement while privately planning to exploit his new position.
• Zhao Wuji asked to join Zhuge Lan’s family as a follower, but Zhuge Lan refused and waited for the skill’s effects to fade as Tang San despaired over the others’ behavior.

Zhuge Lan used the Sunflower Manual and his healing abilities to guide Meng Shu through a breakthrough to level 86, leaving the other soul masters eager to seek his help. He then targeted Chao Tianxiang with his confession skill, and she began revealing explosive gossip.

• Li Yusong and Shao Xin confessed their gratitude to Zhuge Lan and pledged to help him, while Lu Qibin blamed Flender for making him cultivate the Sunflower Manual.
• Meng Shu admitted he wanted to use the Sunflower Manual to break through his Soul Douluo bottleneck and castrated himself under Zhuge Lan’s confession skill.
• Zhuge Lan cleared Meng Shu’s blocked meridians, converted his Soul Power into internal energy, and guided him through a breakthrough to level 86.
• Zhuge Lan healed Meng Shu’s damaged meridians, and the gathered soul masters realized he could help them overcome bottlenecks.
• Zhuge Lan used his skills on Chao Tianxiang, who burst into tears and revealed shocking gossip.

Chao Tianxiang dragged Meng Shu off to try for a second child, while Meng Yiran chased after them in horror. Zhuge Lan raised the others’ first soul rings and renamed Shrek Academy Mysteries Pavilion, then left to establish a new academy.

• Chao Tianxiang used her confession skill to rush Meng Shu toward the hotel rooms, and Meng Yiran chased them to stop them from having another child.
• Zhuge Lan distributed Millennial First Soul Rings to Flender and the others, raising their first soul rings from yellow to purple.
• Xiao Wu abandoned the Sunflower Manual and began cultivating the Taiji Yin-Yang Dual Cultivation Method.
• Zhuge Lan announced that he was renaming Shrek Academy Mysteries Pavilion and would later establish a separate academy for outsiders.
• Zhuge Lan left to pursue his plan for a new academy, while Flender resigned himself to the change.

Zhuge Lan rode Yan Dragon to Blue Tyrant Academy to speak with Liu Erlong about Yu Xiaogang, but her eagerness to learn about him led to a clash with Zhuge Lan. The chapter ended as Liu Erlong pursued him and plunged toward the abyss/light.

• Zhuge Lan used Yan Dragon to fly across Heaven Dou City and landed at Blue Tyrant Academy to find its dean.
• Liu Erlong arrived and demanded to know whether Flender had sent Zhuge Lan and what he knew about Yu Xiaogang.
• When Zhuge Lan mentioned Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong rushed him for answers, and he delayed her by insisting they go somewhere quiet.
• Liu Erlong flew toward her residence, but Zhuge Lan followed at a leisurely pace and let her catch him.
• Zhuge Lan climbed onto Liu Erlong, slapped her butt, and shouted for her to fly, provoking her fury.
• Liu Erlong chased Zhuge Lan and plunged toward the abyss/light.