Chapter Summaries

After Shrek’s successful first matches in the Douluo Arena, Yu Xiaogang announced that the students would face increasingly dangerous opponents to prepare them for the world’s cruelty. He revealed their next trial would involve killing, leaving Dai Mubai and most of the others shocked.

• Yu Xiaogang persuaded Flender to arrange vicious opponents for Shrek’s future Douluo Arena matches so the students could face the world’s darker side.
• The Shrek teams won all their matches, and Yu Xiaogang and Flender praised their performances in the contestants’ lounge.
• Hashirama joined the group with Huang Luoyu and reassured Yu Xiaogang that his students would not become arrogant.
• Yu Xiaogang told each student to enter at least one team match and one Individual Competition daily.
• Yu Xiaogang announced that Shrek’s next trial was killing, confusing and alarming Dai Mubai and the others.

Yu Xiaogang’s instructions about learning to kill left the Shrek Academy students troubled, so Hashirama encouraged them by sharing a story from his childhood in wartime. The students regained their resolve, and Hashirama led them to a feast.

• Yu Xiaogang explained that the students did not have to kill unrelated people but needed to learn decisiveness against enemies, then told them to rest while he and Flender looked for future opponents.
• Ning Rongrong nearly got hit by a carriage as the dispirited group left the arena, but Huang Luoyu pulled her out of its path.
• Dai Mubai asked Hashirama whether the students had to face this test, and Hashirama said experience was the only way to overcome their hesitation.
• Hashirama told the students a story about the Senju and Uchiha clans fighting and eventually reconciling, urging them not to be softhearted in a world where the strong preyed on the weak.
• Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Tang San rallied the group, and Hashirama invited everyone to eat as much as they wanted.

After Shrek Academy kept winning at the Suo Tuo Douluo Arena, the undefeated Berserker Team confronted them and challenged them to a match. Tang San set a goal of defeating the team within two minutes and ordered everyone to study their fighting style before they met.

• Kuang Xi noticed Shrek Academy's winning streak and led the Berserker Team to confront them.
• Tang San and his teammates discussed their improvement under Hashirama's training as they left the arena.
• Kuang Xi mocked Shrek Team and challenged them after Dai Mubai caught his punch.
• Tang San declared that Shrek would aim to defeat the Berserker Team in two minutes.
• Tang San told everyone to watch the Berserker Team's fights and planned to consult their teachers about the coming match.

Tang San and Shrek Academy prepared to face the Berserker Team, while Hashirama encouraged Dai Mubai to stop comparing himself to Tang San and continued training him. Hashirama demonstrated a technique by shattering a thick stone wall with a short-range punch.

• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang and Flender about the Berserker Team's provocation, and Yu Xiaogang assigned the team to devise its own strategy against their Berserk State.
• Dai Mubai left Tang San's group and asked Hashirama for further instruction on the techniques he had been learning.
• Hashirama praised Dai Mubai's improved speed and told him not to measure himself against Tang San, urging him to work harder than a genius instead.
• Hashirama raised a nearly five-meter-thick stone wall and shattered it with a light punch from less than five centimeters away.

Hashirama trained Dai Mubai to focus and release Soul Power through his fist to perform the Monstrous Strength Fist. Dai Mubai learned to shatter stone walls and continued practicing toward doing it within one second.

• Hashirama raised thick stone walls and told Dai Mubai to practice the striking method.
• Dai Mubai’s first hesitant punch barely cracked a wall, so Hashirama encouraged him to attack with confidence.
• Dai Mubai struck decisively and shattered nearly half of a wall, prompting Hashirama to explain his remaining mistakes.
• Hashirama guided Dai Mubai’s Soul Power into his fist and demonstrated how to release it, blasting an intact wall apart.
• Dai Mubai gathered Soul Power himself and shattered most of another wall, then vowed to refine the move until he could do it within one second.

Dai Mubai improved his Soul Power gathering speed under Hashirama’s guidance and prepared for Shrek Team’s match against the Berserker Team. After watching the Berserker Team dominate its opponents, Kuang Xi agreed to face Shrek Team the next night and vowed to defeat them quickly.

• Dai Mubai gathered his Soul Power within two seconds, and Hashirama restored him and praised his progress.
• Dai Mubai told Hashirama that Shrek Team planned to defeat the Berserker Team within two minutes, and Hashirama encouraged his confidence.
• Flender, Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and the others watched the Berserker Team force its last opponent to surrender in under a minute.
• The person in charge of the Suotuo City Douluo Arena arranged a match between the Berserker Team and Shrek Team for the following night.
• Kuang Xi vowed to make Shrek Team fall within one minute, while the person in charge warned him not to underestimate them.

Tang San and Dai Mubai finalized Shrek Academy’s plan for fighting Berserker Team, while Kuang Xi dismissed warnings and remained confident in his team. Shrek prepared to target Ruyi and finish the match within two minutes.

• Kuang Xi ignored the person in charge’s warning about Shrek Team and vowed to show them who ruled Suotuo City.
• Tang San waited for Dai Mubai to return before explaining that Ruyi, Berserker Team’s support Soul Master, had to be targeted first.
• Dai Mubai warned that Berserker Team might activate Berserk State from the start and said he had trained with Teacher Hashirama to handle Kuang Xi.
• Tang San assigned himself to restrain Berserker Team’s agility- and control-type Soul Masters, Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing to attack Ruyi, and Dai Mubai to handle Kuang Xi.
• Kuang Xi and his teammates drank and dismissed concerns about Shrek Team, while the person in charge reviewed Berserker Team’s roster.

The Shrek Team faced the arena’s undefeated Berserker Team in the night’s main event, and Xiao Wu knocked out their Support Soul Master, Ruyi. Ruyi activated Berserk State just before he was eliminated, leaving Dai Mubai to face the empowered Kuang Xi as the match continued.

• Yu Xiaogang told the Shrek group that their match against the Berserker Team was set for that night, and they affirmed their confidence in their training.
• Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and Hashirama watched from the stands as the crowd gathered for the heavily anticipated duel.
• The Berserker Team and Shrek Team entered the arena, and Kuang Xi and Dai Mubai exchanged taunts before Tang San started the match.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing targeted Ruyi, the Berserker Team’s Support Soul Master, while the opposing agility-type Soul Masters tried to intercept them.
• Xiao Wu used Teleportation to reach Ruyi and kicked him out of the arena after he activated Berserk State.
• Tang San assigned Kuang Xi to Dai Mubai, who said he could handle him even in Berserk State.

Dai Mubai demonstrated his strength against the Berserker Team, defeating Kuang Xi and forcing the remaining opponents to surrender. The Shrek Team won the Douluo battle.

• Kuang Xi charged at Oscar and Ning Rongrong in the Berserk State, but Dai Mubai stepped in and promised to stop him without an enhancement.
• Dai Mubai struck Kuang Xi with his Monstrous Strength Fist and sent him flying, then called on Ning Rongrong to strengthen him.
• Dai Mubai used White Tiger Vajra Transformation and punched Kuang Xi out of the arena, taking the Berserker Team's vice-captain with him.
• Dai Mubai scattered the vice-captain's spider threads with White Tiger Fierce Light Wave and challenged the remaining Berserker Team members to surrender or fight.
• The remaining four members surrendered, and the host announced the Shrek Team's victory.

The Shrek Team defeated Berserker Team in 1 minute and 10 seconds, establishing itself at Suo Tuo Douluo Arena. After the match, Dai Mubai explained how Hashirama’s special training helped him defeat Kuang Xi, and Yu Xiaogang praised the team while reminding them to keep training.

• Kuang Xi reacted bitterly to Berserker Team’s defeat, then regained his resolve and left the arena with his teammates.
• The Shrek Team celebrated its victory as the crowd cheered for them.
• Dai Mubai told his teammates about his special training, prompting Ma Hongjun to consider training with Hashirama after mastering the method he had already learned.
• Flender and Yu Xiaogang arrived, and Yu Xiaogang praised the team’s performance and revealed that Flender had earned a hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that Dai Mubai’s defeat of two key opponents had secured the victory, then reminded everyone that more trials awaited them.

Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Hashirama discussed how Tang San and the others could experience real danger and learn to face killing. Yu Xiaogang left the task to Hashirama, who proposed taking them against desperate outlaws outside the arena.

• Yu Xiaogang and Flender debated whether the Fierce God Team was too dangerous to use as Tang San and the others’ opponents.
• Flender and Yu Xiaogang interrupted Hashirama and Huang Luoyu’s private conversation to ask for his advice.
• Hashirama agreed that the Fierce God Team might be a poor choice and suggested finding desperate outlaws of comparable strength outside the arena.
• Hashirama argued that fighting beyond the arena’s rules would make the experience more realistic and prevent the students from holding back.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted Hashirama’s reasoning and entrusted him with showing the students the dark side of the world.

Hashirama searched Suotuo City for underworld groups to use as opponents in a trial for Shrek Academy’s students. After learning about Black Hawk and Evil Teeth, he waited at a tavern and prepared to approach Black Hawk when its members arrived.

• Hashirama agreed to find suitable underworld opponents for the students, while Flender insisted that the trial not put them in mortal danger.
• Hashirama visited a tavern, bought an expensive drink, and asked the bartender about ruthless Soul Master groups in Suotuo City.
• The bartender told Hashirama that Black Hawk and Evil Teeth each had six or seven members around levels 30 to 36 and operated outside the city.
• Hashirama waited at the tavern for the groups to arrive, and Black Hawk entered demanding the best liquor.
• Hashirama offered to bring the liquor to Black Hawk, and the bartender accepted.

Hashirama intimidated the Black Eagle Gang into accepting a job to deal with the Shrek Team for fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins. After the gang left to prepare, the grateful bartender gave Hashirama a bottle of wine, and Hashirama headed back to the hotel to keep Huang Luoyu company.

• Hashirama confronted the Black Eagle Gang at the tavern and subdued them with his Soul Power pressure.
• Hashirama offered the gang fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins to deal with the Shrek Team, and its leader agreed to complete the job within two days.
• The Black Eagle Gang left the tavern to prepare, while the bartender thanked Hashirama for preventing trouble.
• The bartender gave Hashirama an expensive bottle of wine as a token of gratitude, and Hashirama accepted it before leaving for the hotel.

After Shrek Team won another battle, its members discussed their futures before an unknown team challenged them to a private match outside Suotuo City. Tang San and the others went to the designated location, where Hashirama, Yu Xiaogang, and Flender watched as the ambush began.

• Shrek Team celebrated another victory, and its members shared plans for graduation and what they would do afterward.
• A stone wrapped in paper nearly struck Ma Hongjun, but Tang San pulled him aside and Dai Mubai read the attackers’ challenge.
• Tang San and Dai Mubai agreed to meet the unknown team, and Shrek Academy’s group traveled outside Suotuo City to the designated location.
• Zhu Zhuqing sensed they were being watched, and Tang San warned the group that the battle might already have begun.
• Hashirama told Flender that the opponents were around Rank 35 and suitable for the Shrek monsters.

The Shrek students were ambushed by the Black Eagle Gang, who attacked with murderous intent. Tang San’s plan trapped six Soul Elders and left them riddled with bolts from the Godly Zhuge Crossbows.

• Dai Mubai warned the Shrek students to duck, and they avoided a crescent-shaped Soul Power Wave.
• Tang San urged the team to fight as if their lives were at stake and prepared Ning Rongrong and Oscar for emergencies.
• Tang San realized the attackers were avoiding a direct fight because their strength was comparable to the Shrek team, then devised a plan.
• After the Black Eagle Gang charged, Tang San ordered Oscar to send five teammates into the air, drawing six Soul Elders toward him and Dai Mubai.
• Tang San bound the six Soul Elders with Blue Silver Grass, and the seven Shrek Seven Devils fired their Godly Zhuge Crossbows at them.
• The six Soul Elders fell with severe wounds and were unlikely to survive.

Dai Mubai saved Zhu Zhuqing from the Black Eagle Gang leader, killing him with the Monster Strength method Hashirama had taught him. After the group recovered from their first kills, Zhu Zhuqing thanked and praised Dai Mubai, while Tang San explained his Godly Zhuge Crossbow and promised to give one to each of his companions.

• The Black Eagle Gang leader rushed at Zhu Zhuqing, and Dai Mubai used Monster Strength and White Tiger Vajra Transformation to kill him before shielding her from the flying remains.
• Hashirama praised Dai Mubai for adapting Monster Strength to overcome his lack of speed, then left with Flender and Yu Xiaogang to guide the others.
• Tang San comforted Oscar, who had been shaken by killing for the first time, and explained the power of his Godly Zhuge Crossbow.
• Tang San promised to give a Godly Zhuge Crossbow to each companion, and the group gradually recovered from seeing the corpses.
• Zhu Zhuqing thanked Dai Mubai and praised how handsome he had looked, while Dai Mubai resolved to protect her and become devoted to her.

After killing the soul masters who attacked them, Tang San and the Shrek students told Yu Xiaogang and Flender, who confirmed they had passed their trial and would face no repercussions. Yu Xiaogang prepared them for a challenge in the Douluo Arena, while he and Flender discussed their upcoming match against Qin Ming’s Imperial Dou Team.

• Tang San and the others returned to the hotel and told Yu Xiaogang and Flender that they had killed the soul masters who attacked them.
• Yu Xiaogang judged that the students had passed their trial and reassured Tang San that the deaths would not affect their matches.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar, Ning Rongrong, and Ma Hongjun each expressed their resolve or reasons for becoming stronger.
• Yu Xiaogang told the students to prepare for a challenge in the Douluo Arena and said it would give them a chance to apply what they had learned.
• After the students left, Flender and Yu Xiaogang discussed the coming match against Qin Ming’s Imperial Dou Team, including Yu Xiaogang’s nephew Tian Heng.

Flender and Yu Xiaogang discussed the upcoming match between the little monsters and the Imperial Dou Team, then made a bet on its outcome. Hashirama told them he planned to retire and return to his hometown, leaving them to agree to hold a farewell gathering when the students graduated.

• Flender and Yu Xiaogang considered whether Tian Heng had benefited from Qin Ming passing on Hashirama's teachings and discussed which team might win.
• Yu Xiaogang bet on Xiao San and the little monsters, while Flender predicted a draw and proposed that the loser grant the winner one request.
• Hashirama joined them and revealed that he planned to retire soon and return to his hometown.
• Flender and Yu Xiaogang accepted Hashirama's decision, and Yu Xiaogang thanked him for teaching Xiao San and the others.
• Flender proposed a farewell gathering after the students graduated, and Hashirama agreed that it should primarily celebrate their graduation.

Flender, Hashirama, and Yu Xiaogang met Qin Ming at a teahouse after he invited them to gather. Qin Ming discussed Tian Heng and his students, then revealed he had advanced to Soul Douluo, stunning Flender and surprising Hashirama.

• A carrier pigeon delivered Qin Ming's invitation, and Flender, Hashirama, and Yu Xiaogang went to meet him at a teahouse.
• Qin Ming greeted his former teachers and apologized to Hashirama for not visiting in person for several years.
• Hashirama reassured Qin Ming that he could teach trusted students his methods, and Qin Ming confirmed he had taught Tian Heng.
• Qin Ming told Yu Xiaogang that Tian Heng was thriving and had reached level 45 at age sixteen, while Flender shared that Mu Bai was level 38 at fourteen.
• Qin Ming revealed that he had reached Soul Douluo, shocking Flender and pleasantly surprising Hashirama.

Qin Ming invited Flender, Hashirama, and Yu Xiaogang to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy, but Flender and Hashirama revealed plans to retire. Hashirama suggested Qin Ming persuade Flender, who agreed to consider the offer after the competition, and Qin Ming shared information about the Imperial Dou Team.

• Flender, Hashirama, Yu Xiaogang, and Qin Ming reunited at a teahouse and reminisced over tea.
• Qin Ming admitted he had invited his teachers to ask them to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Flender said he planned to retire after guiding the current students, and Hashirama revealed he intended to retire too.
• Hashirama reassured Qin Ming that they could still meet and advised him to persuade Flender.
• Qin Ming argued that the Shrek students still had room to grow, and Flender agreed to consider the proposal after the competition.
• Qin Ming handed Flender information about the Imperial Dou Team so the junior students could prepare tactics.