Chapter Summaries

Flender took the Shrek students to the Soto Grand Soul Arena and explained how its battles and badge rankings worked. He set earning a Silver Badge as a requirement for their graduation, and the group prepared to begin.

• Yu Xiaogang stayed at Shrek Academy, while Lu Yuan continued to provoke Tang San and watch for signs of his unstable mentality.
• Flender led the students from the village to Suotuo City, with Lu Yuan carrying Ning Rongrong through spatial jumps.
• The group reached the Soto Grand Soul Arena, where Tang San and Xiao Wu were astonished by its size.
• Yu Xiaogang explained the Arena's sparring matches, deathmatches, and gambling duels, while Flender described the eight badge ranks and how victories earned points.
• Flender told the students he expected each of them to earn a Silver Badge before graduation, and they agreed.

Lu Yuan registered for a Life and Death Duel at the Soto Grand Soul Arena while Ning Rongrong sought a teammate for her badge match. After Lu Yuan confronted Tang San over Xiao Wu, Tang San planned to confess his feelings to her and suggested they rank up together.

• Ning Rongrong asked Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing to take her along because she could not fight alone as a Support-type Soul Master.
• Lu Yuan paid the fee and registered for a Life and Death Duel against another Soul Ancestor.
• Lu Yuan returned to Xiao Wu and Tang San, then waited for the arena to notify him of his match venue.
• After the others left to register, Tang San demanded that Lu Yuan stay away from Xiao Wu, and Lu Yuan briefly stopped Tang San from moving before patting his shoulder.
• Xiao Wu returned, and Tang San, having decided to confess his feelings at a better time, suggested that they rank up together.

Xiao Wu refused Tang San’s offer to form a soul-fighting team and made clear that she wanted distance from him. Tang San blamed Lu Yuan for her choice, while Xiao Wu stood by it without regret.

• Xiao Wu declined Tang San’s invitation and suggested that he team up with Ning Rongrong instead.
• Xiao Wu suspected Tang Hao had warned her to stop considering escape and feared Tang San wanted her Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• Tang San was hurt when Xiao Wu stopped calling him Third Brother and said they should keep their distance.
• Tang San asked what he had done wrong, and Xiao Wu replied that neither of them was wrong but that she had chosen another way and did not regret it.
• Tang San concluded that Lu Yuan had threatened Xiao Wu and swore vengeance against him.

Lu Yuan flaunted his relationship with Xiao Wu to provoke Tang San, who vowed revenge while struggling to let Xiao Wu go. At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi and the two Douluo discussed Ning Rongrong’s letter about Lu Yuan and his extraordinary abilities.

• Xiao Wu greeted Lu Yuan affectionately, and he kissed her in front of Tang San before they left together.
• Tang San endured Lu Yuan’s taunts, recognized his scheme to disrupt his cultivation, and silently vowed to make Lu Yuan suffer.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong argued over who would read Ning Rongrong’s letter first until Ning Fengzhi handed it to them.
• Ning Fengzhi pointed out that Lu Yuan was a twelve-year-old Soul Ancestor with four ten-thousand-year soul rings and a Space Martial Soul.
• Ning Fengzhi observed that Ning Rongrong had mentioned Lu Yuan seventeen times in her letter and seemed unusually impressed by him.

Ning Fengzhi considered recruiting Lu Yuan and visiting Ning Rongrong after learning of his talent and possible bond with his daughter. At the inn, Tang San’s growing distress led him to tell Yu Xiaogang that he wanted to leave.

• Ning Fengzhi decided to seek Lu Yuan’s recruitment and proposed that he, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong visit Ning Rongrong.
• Lu Yuan enjoyed Tang San’s missed dinner and teased Xiao Wu, who gave him meat to try to keep herself safe.
• Yu Xiaogang brought Tang San a boxed meal after finding out he had skipped dinner.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang he wanted to leave the suffocating environment.

Tang San insisted on leaving Shrek Academy, and Yu Xiaogang agreed after deciding to take him to Blue Tyrant Academy. After they departed, Lu Yuan learned of their withdrawal and went to find Flender.

• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang he was determined to leave Shrek Academy, though he had not chosen a new destination.
• Yu Xiaogang wrote a letter that night, then submitted a Withdrawal Application to Flender at daybreak.
• Flender signed the application, and Yu Xiaogang revealed that he and Tang San were going to Blue Tyrant Academy before leaving with Tang San.
• Ma Hongjun told Lu Yuan that Tang San and Yu Xiaogang had left, prompting Lu Yuan to hurry off to ask Flender about it.
• Flender drank with Zhao Wuji while lamenting Yu Xiaogang's departure, then composed himself when Lu Yuan arrived looking for the Dean.

Lu Yuan learned that Yu Xiaogang and Tang San had left for Blue Tyrant Academy, then secured Flender’s approval for a training leave of up to a year. Before departing, he began tempering Xiao Wu with Spatial Power, leaving her unconscious as he considered the changes it might bring.

• Flender confirmed that Yu Xiaogang and Tang San had withdrawn from Shrek Academy and gone to Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Lu Yuan inferred that Yu Xiaogang had arranged their move and asked Flender for a training leave of up to a year.
• Flender approved Lu Yuan’s leave, while Zhao Wuji prepared to settle his grudge with Flender.
• Lu Yuan summoned Xiao Wu despite Ning Rongrong’s attempt to keep her, then took Xiao Wu to his room.
• Lu Yuan tempered Xiao Wu with Spatial Power, causing intense heat that knocked her unconscious.

Lu Yuan returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, forced a Yellow-skinned Squirrel to guide him toward a Man Faced Demon Spider, and headed off to alert old acquaintances. Meanwhile, Hu Liena's squad reached the forest, escorted by Yue Guan and Gui Mei, as Yan misread her coldness as encouragement.

• The Yellow-skinned Squirrel trembled when Lu Yuan caught it, then cooperated after he asked it to point out a Man Faced Demon Spider.
• Lu Yuan placed the Yellow-skinned Squirrel on his shoulder and vanished toward the direction it indicated, leaving its babies behind.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei accompanied an Elite Squad to the outer area of the Star Dou Great Forest to protect Hu Liena and the others.
• Hu Liena rejected Yan's familiar address and said she was neither tired nor in need of rest.
• Yan asked Xie Yue whether Hu Liena's thanks meant he had a chance, and Xie Yue walked away in frustration.

Gui Mei and Yue Guan’s squad found the mangled remains of a Man Faced Demon Spider, then hurried toward Hu Liena’s Soul Ring site after a distant explosion. Lu Yuan killed another thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider despite Snake Woman’s demand that he stop, and challenged her authority.

• Yue Guan scouted ahead and found the shattered remains of a Man Faced Demon Spider, which Gui Mei identified.
• Gui Mei’s squad heard an explosion near Hu Liena’s Soul Ring destination, and Yue Guan ordered a forced march.
• Lu Yuan blasted apart a thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider with three Rasengans, ignoring an urgent command to stop.
• Snake Woman shielded Meng Yi Ran from Lu Yuan’s surging Soul Power, and Lu Yuan demanded to know what gave them the right to order him around.

Lu Yuan effortlessly subdued Snake Woman Chao Tianxiang after she attacked him, then kept her kneeling while Meng Yi Ran held back. Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan and Gui Mei arrived with the Elite Squad, and Xie Yue noticed the smashed Man Faced Demon Spider.

• Snake Woman Chao Tianxiang summoned her six soul rings and attacked Lu Yuan with her Serpent Cane, but he froze and forced her to kneel.
• Meng Yi Ran drew flying knives, then put them away after Chao Tianxiang warned her not to provoke Lu Yuan.
• Lu Yuan increased the pressure on Chao Tianxiang and declared that she would remain kneeling until dawn.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan arrived and mocked Chao Tianxiang, while Lu Yuan praised her supposed spirit of practice.
• Gui Mei arrived with the Elite Squad, and Xie Yue spotted the Man Faced Demon Spider whose head had been smashed.

Lu Yuan refused to obey Yue Guan’s demand to release Snake Woman and instead prepared to claim Meng Shu as a spoil of war. As the Spirit Hall and the Peerless Dragon Snake faced off, Lu Yuan’s four black Soul Rings appeared, leaving everyone stunned.

• Meng Yi Ran tried to speak, but Lu Yuan’s pressure forced her back down, while Yue Guan criticized him for hurting her.
• Lu Yuan mocked Meng Yi Ran, and the two Spirit Hall Soul Saints’ injuries opened a gap in their formation.
• Meng Shu rushed in to protect his family, but Yue Guan stopped him and threatened him for injuring Spirit Hall’s subordinates.
• Meng Shu offered compensation and asked Yue Guan to release Chao Tianxiang, and Yue Guan asked Lu Yuan to let her go.
• Lu Yuan refused to follow Yue Guan’s orders, handed Pikachu to Hu Liena, and declared that Meng Shu would be a gift to another chess piece.
• Lu Yuan summoned four black Soul Rings, stunning everyone present.

Lu Yuan demonstrated his power by defeating Dragon Lord Meng Shu and leaving the assembled Soul Masters stunned by his four Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings. After arranging the Peerless Dragon Snake beside each other, he took Pikachu from Hu Liena as she praised him.

• The Soul Masters, including Yue Guan and Gui Mei, were shocked to see Lu Yuan's four Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• Meng Shu attacked Lu Yuan with his Martial Soul Avatar, but Lu Yuan used Star Shift to redirect part of the Dragon Head Crutch into it.
• Lu Yuan tore Meng Shu's Martial Soul Avatar in half, and Meng Shu suffered its backlash and collapsed unconscious.
• Lu Yuan dragged Meng Shu beside the kneeling Chao Tianxiang and brought Meng Yi Ran over to complete the assembled Peerless Dragon Snake.
• Hu Liena handed the struggling Pikachu to Lu Yuan, who stroked its belly as she called him amazing.

Hu Liena tried to recruit Lu Yuan for Spirit Hall, but Yan interrupted her attempt to win his goodwill. Lu Yuan began absorbing a thousand-year Soul Ring, while Hu Liena had Yue Guan and Gui Mei guard him; the author’s note explained the chapter’s argument about space as the prerequisite for existence.

• Hu Liena praised Lu Yuan for defeating a Soul Douluo and tried to draw closer to him, while Yue Guan and Gui Mei watched over her.
• Lu Yuan said he had come to obtain a Soul Ring and evaded Hu Liena’s request to get acquainted.
• Yan called out that Hu Liena needed to leave, disrupting her attempt to recruit Lu Yuan.
• Lu Yuan brought the dead Man Faced Demon Spider to Hu Liena and drew its thousand-year Soul Ring toward himself.
• Hu Liena signaled Yue Guan and Gui Mei to stand guard as Lu Yuan sat down and began absorbing the Soul Ring.
• The author explained that Lu Yuan’s final claim treated space as the prerequisite for all things and concepts.

Lu Yuan absorbed a thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider soul ring, which shattered and left him with a rare External Soul Bone. Hu Liena chose to keep trying to recruit him rather than seize the bone, leaving Lu Yuan in the Spirit Hall group’s company.

• Lu Yuan’s pale purple soul ring shattered instead of merging into his body.
• Eight purple spider legs burst from Lu Yuan’s back and unleashed Wind Blades, which Gui Mei absorbed with his Black Mist before they could hurt Hu Liena.
• Yue Guan recognized Lu Yuan’s spider legs as an External Soul Bone and explained its immense value, prompting the group to consider taking it.
• Hu Liena offered to get acquainted with Lu Yuan, and he gave his name without taking her hand.
• Hu Liena signaled Gui Mei and the others to withdraw their hostile attention, though some onlookers continued to stare at Lu Yuan with envy and resentment.

Hu Liena invited Lu Yuan to join her group, and he accepted after she protected him from Yan’s hostility. The group set off with Lu Yuan revealing that he could store people in thin air, while Hu Liena stayed close to him.

• Hu Liena asked Lu Yuan to travel with her team, and Yue Guan teased him into following her back to the group.
• Xie Yue introduced himself to Lu Yuan, but Yan tried to intimidate him with his lava-covered hand.
• Hu Liena stopped Yan from provoking Lu Yuan, and Yan left after she angrily reprimanded him.
• Lu Yuan stored the unconscious Meng Shu, Chao Tianxiang, and Meng Yi Ran in thin air, astonishing Hu Liena.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei led the group onward, and Hu Liena told Lu Yuan to stay by her side before returning to the center of the formation.

After Hu Liena killed a suitable soul beast, Lu Yuan watched from a tree as Yan stood guard and Xie Yue worried about his intentions. Lu Yuan taught Xie Yue to control Soul Power well enough to walk up the trunk, then asked whether Xie Yue still thought he meant harm.

• Yue Guan weakened the unusual white-furred fox and left Hu Liena to kill it and absorb its soul ring.
• Yan stood guard over Hu Liena while Lu Yuan sat idly on a branch, and Xie Yue thought Yan was wasting his effort.
• Lu Yuan spoke to Xie Yue through the wind, alarming him by seeming to know his thoughts.
• Lu Yuan explained how to spread Soul Power across the feet to climb a tree, and Xie Yue practiced until he reached the branch.
• Xie Yue praised Lu Yuan as a genius, but Lu Yuan called himself lucky and asked whether Xie Yue believed he bore ill intent.

Lu Yuan explained to Xie Yue that he wanted an audience for his story and asked him not to disrupt the plot, while insisting he meant no harm. Hu Liena finished absorbing her spirit ring and revealed an External Soul Bone, leaving Yue Guan lamenting that he still had none.

• Xie Yue decided Lu Yuan probably meant no harm, and Lu Yuan said he disliked Spirit Hall’s earlier attempts to charm and test him.
• Lu Yuan explained that he wanted Xie Yue as an audience and asked him not to recklessly alter the plot.
• Xie Yue asked how Lu Yuan would have reacted if events had gone differently, but Lu Yuan refused to answer the hypothetical.
• Hu Liena finished absorbing her spirit ring and stood up, revealing a huge fox-tail External Soul Bone.
• Yue Guan inspected Hu Liena’s External Soul Bone and considered asking the Pope for a soul bone as a performance bonus.

Xie Yue sensed something was wrong after killing a snake near the camp, and the warning led Yue Guan and Gui Mei to realize an abnormal threat was approaching. The chapter ended as a fifty-thousand-year Death Spider Emperor, Bibi Dong’s martial soul, charged toward the camp with a swarm of spiderlings.

• Hu Liena thanked Lu Yuan over drinks while Xie Yue watched their flirtation and Yan passed out after complaining about his unreturned feelings.
• Xie Yue killed a snake that ambushed him near the stream, then reported the attack and his uneasy instincts to Yue Guan and Gui Mei.
• Yue Guan realized that the snake attack and another abnormality within the team might be connected, then rushed out of the tent.
• A Death Spider Emperor led a vast swarm of spiderlings toward the camp, and Yue Guan moved Hu Liena to Gui Mei’s side.
• Gui Mei and Yue Guan recognized the approaching fifty-thousand-year Death Spider Emperor as Bibi Dong’s martial soul.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei led the Spirit Hall squad in retreat from the Insect Tide, but the Death Spider Emperor’s pursuit forced them to turn and fight. Yue Guan made Hu Liena captain and charged into the swarm with Gui Mei to destroy its leader.

• Yue Guan chose to evade the approaching Insect Tide, and the Spirit Hall squad abandoned camp and fled.
• The Death Spider Emperor endured a golden-flame attack and drove the Insect Tide to pursue the squad faster.
• Gui Mei learned that Xie Yue, Yan, and Hu Liena had about thirty percent of their Soul Power left and decided they could not keep running.
• Yue Guan named Hu Liena the new captain, then turned with Gui Mei to attack the Insect Tide.
• Yue Guan summoned a golden chrysanthemum blade tornado that cut through the swarm, but the Death Spider Emperor’s roar sent the insects pressing forward again.
• Yue Guan vowed to kill the Death Spider Emperor while Gui Mei joined the fight.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei fought the Death Spider Emperor until a mysterious three-eyed golden beast with Ultimate Light and Ultimate Fire struck Gui Mei, leaving him badly injured. With their escape through the Insect Tide in jeopardy, Yue Guan decided to seize the beast, while the pair prepared to reveal their hidden trump card.

• The Death Spider Emperor attacked Yue Guan and Gui Mei with venom, and Gui Mei used his ghosts to assault its eyes.
• A sphere of Ultimate Light and Ultimate Fire exploded beside Gui Mei, burning away his ghosts and blasting him back with severe injuries.
• Gui Mei removed the golden flames from his body with Black Mist and told Yue Guan the attack fused Ultimate Light and Ultimate Fire.
• Yue Guan examined the three-eyed, golden-furred beast and realized its two Ultimate Attributes had crippled half their combat strength.
• Yue Guan ordered Gui Mei to capture the beast, and they charged toward the Death Spider Emperor with their hidden trump card still in reserve.