Chapter Summaries

Sword Douluo beat Flender after Li Xun and the others had injured four Shrek students, then let Flender take the students back to Shrek Academy. Flender and Yu Xiaogang suspected the incident might involve Li Xun’s earlier conflict with Tang San, and the injured students began waking during treatment.

• Flender tried to negotiate with Sword Douluo but was beaten with the flat of the Seven Kill Sword in front of the crowd.
• Sword Douluo told Flender to teach his students better character, and Flender promised to discipline them.
• Flender arranged a carriage to take the four injured students to Shrek Academy and suspected Ma Hongjun had provoked the fight.
• At the academy, Yu Xiaogang recognized Li Xun as a boy who had previously clashed with him and Tang San, and wondered whether the attack was deliberate retaliation.
• Ye Lingling treated the students, and Ma Hongjun’s howl woke Tang San and the others.

After Li Xun’s trio badly defeated Tang San and his companions, Yu Xiaogang helped Tang San regain his confidence and trust in his training path. As the others recovered, Dai Mubai panicked that his “stuff” was broken, but Ye Lingling refused to examine him.

• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that Li Xun and his two companions were all three-ring Soul Elders and explained how their vines, agility, support, and the narrow street had overwhelmed his group.
• Yu Xiaogang challenged Tang San’s doubts about his Blue Silver Grass Soul Rings, and Tang San resolved to keep following his teacher’s path while blaming the defeat partly on the terrain.
• The others woke, and Ma Hongjun revealed Dai Mubai’s identity as a Star Luo Prince and told a distorted story about Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Dai Mubai asked Ye Lingling to check why he could no longer feel his “stuff,” but she refused and left the room.
• Yu Xiaogang awkwardly told Dai Mubai to examine himself first, and Dai Mubai insisted that it was broken.

Dai Mubai learned that his injury could not be healed, while the Shrek group discussed how to avenge him and train against Li Xun. At Cao Family Inn, Li Xun explained his new spirit bone and revealed how he had tracked Tang Hao to Holy Soul Village, leaving his companions examining the documents he had gathered.

• Dai Mubai learned that the Nine Heart Begonia could not regrow his severed limbs, and Yu Xiaogang and Flender left to search for a solution.
• The Shrek group discussed Li Xun’s abilities, and Yu Xiaogang assigned Tang San and Yu Tianheng special training against him.
• At Cao Family Inn, Li Xun told Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing that he had found a spirit bone while traveling, then admitted he had sought it out.
• Li Xun recounted the history of Tang Hao and Ah Yin and said his research led him to believe Tang Hao had returned near Holy Soul Village.
• Li Xun showed the group documents about his search, and Ning Rongrong recognized them as the papers Aunt Xue had brought.

Li Xun explained how he obtained the Blue Silver Emperor's soul bone and why he believed Tang Hao had left it unused. He revealed its healing ability and his plan to use it to survive absorbing Soul Rings beyond his limits, before Sword Douluo asked when he would obtain his next Soul Ring.

• Ning Rongrong asked whether Tang Hao had been hiding in the village, and Li Xun said he had investigated Holy Soul Village after confirming Tang Hao's identity.
• Sword Douluo asked whether Li Xun had absorbed the Blue Silver Emperor's soul bone, and Li Xun confirmed that he had.
• Li Xun explained that Tang Hao might have left Ah Yin's soul bone unused to protect his reputation or preserve it for their child.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing examined Li Xun's right leg, and he explained that the soul bone enhanced his healing and might let him regrow limbs.
• Li Xun revealed he planned to combine the soul bone's healing with Wood Style to survive absorbing Soul Rings beyond his body's limits.
• After Ning Rongrong wondered whether Li Xun could restore her youthful appearance when she grew old, Sword Douluo asked when Li Xun would obtain his next Soul Ring.

Li Xun traveled into the Star Dou Great Forest with Sword Douluo, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing to find a spirit beast for his fourth spirit ring. A sudden lightning barrage struck their destination, leaving Li Xun wondering whether a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was undergoing a tribulation there.

• Li Xun and Sword Douluo agreed to rest before setting out, while Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing discussed his healing abilities.
• The group entered the Star Dou Great Forest on foot, and Li Xun helped ease the girls’ fatigue as they walked through the rain.
• Li Xun said he planned to seek a plant-type spirit beast over twenty thousand years old but under forty thousand years old for his fourth spirit ring.
• More than a dozen lightning bolts struck the cliff ahead, prompting Li Xun and Sword Douluo to suspect a spirit beast was undergoing a tribulation.
• Li Xun questioned why a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast would choose the outer region, and Sword Douluo said he had sensed no such beast at Broken Cliff.

Li Xun recognized the lightning at Broken Cliff as the sign of a Thunderclap Hell Vine and persuaded Sword Douluo to investigate. After Sword Douluo found the vine breaking through the thirty-thousand-year threshold, Li Xun chose it for his fourth Soul Ring and revealed that his Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone let him fly.

• Li Xun suspected that the lightning near Broken Cliff came from a Thunderclap Hell Vine rather than a Soul Beast undergoing tribulation.
• Li Xun convinced Sword Douluo to probe the cliff with his Spiritual Power, and Sword Douluo confirmed that a Thunderclap Hell Vine was breaking through the thirty-thousand-year threshold.
• Li Xun chose the newly advanced vine for his fourth Soul Ring and urged Sword Douluo to stop it before it fled.
• Li Xun revealed that his Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone granted him flight and rose into the air on his own.
• Ning Rongrong clamored to experience flying with Li Xun while Zhu Zhuqing watched, leaving Sword Douluo ignored.

Li Xun and the others reached Broken Cliff as Sword Douluo defeated the thirty-thousand-year Thunderclap Hell Vine, but a powerful aura approached. When the vine tried to self-destruct, Li Xun killed it with his Kunai and began absorbing its Soul Ring.

• Li Xun flew after Sword Douluo with Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong and watched him tear through the Thunderclap Hell Vine’s storm with a sword strike.
• Sword Douluo warned Li Xun to absorb the vine’s Soul Ring quickly because an extremely powerful aura was approaching.
• Li Xun bound the weakened Thunderclap Hell Vine with plants, but it broke free and began compressing energy to self-destruct.
• Li Xun stopped Sword Douluo from intervening and pierced the vine repeatedly with his Kunai, killing it before it could explode.
• Zhu Zhuqing noticed Li Xun’s second Martial Soul as he summoned True Several Thousand Hands and began absorbing the black Soul Ring.

Li Xun endured the dangerous absorption of a black spirit ring while Sword Douluo guarded him. The Peerless Dragon Snake Couple arrived with Meng Yiran, fleeing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and discovered Li Xun’s astonishing talent as the beast drew near.

• Li Xun’s body cracked and bled as he struggled to absorb the powerful spirit ring, while Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong watched anxiously.
• Sword Douluo sensed three approaching figures and learned that the newcomers were the Peerless Dragon Snake Couple and their granddaughter, Meng Yiran.
• Meng Shu warned Sword Douluo that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was pursuing them, and Chao Tianxiang explained their conflict with the Shrek group over a spirit ring for Meng Yiran.
• Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang noticed Li Xun absorbing a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and were shocked by his talent.
• Dragon Lord asked Sword Douluo what he planned to do as the Soul Beast approached and Li Xun remained in danger.

As Li Xun absorbed his spirit ring, Sword Douluo went to confront the approaching Titan Giant Ape while the Dragon Snake Couple stayed behind to guard him. Sword Douluo gained the advantage in their battle, but the wounded Titan Giant Ape called for its Big Brother.

• Dragon Lord identified the approaching soul beast as the Titan Giant Ape, and he and Snake Granny offered to guard Li Xun while Sword Douluo intercepted it.
• Sword Douluo flew toward the Titan Giant Ape, leaving the Dragon Snake Couple with Li Xun, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Meng Yiran.
• The Titan Giant Ape warned Sword Douluo to leave, then attacked when he refused to abandon the others.
• Sword Douluo evaded the Titan Giant Ape's Gravity Domain and struck it with successive spirit abilities, while the Titan Giant Ape defended itself with its domains and Titan Star.
• Sword Douluo concluded that he could defeat the Titan Giant Ape and continued attacking from the air, wounding it.
• The Titan Giant Ape roared for its Big Brother.

As Li Xun absorbed the Thunderclap Hell Vine Soul Ring, the Dragon Snake Couple left to help Sword Douluo and the others, while Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong protected him from approaching Spirit Beasts. The chapter ended with a fifty-thousand-year Three-Eyed Demon Fox confronting them on Broken Cliff.

• Dragon Lord and Snake Granny heard the Sky Azure Bull Python answer the Titan Giant Ape and decided to help Sword Douluo while protecting Meng Yiran’s chance to absorb a Soul Ring.
• Li Xun used his regenerative abilities to withstand the Thunderclap Hell Vine’s power and accelerated his absorption as Spirit Beasts approached.
• Ning Rongrong strengthened Zhu Zhuqing and Meng Yiran, while Zhu Zhuqing repeatedly killed Spirit Beasts that came near Li Xun.
• Seven phantoms revealed themselves as a fifty-thousand-year Three-Eyed Demon Fox, and Zhu Zhuqing prepared to defend Li Xun and the others.
• The Dragon Snake Couple reached the battle between Sword Douluo and the Titan Giant Ape, leaving Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Meng Yiran, and Li Xun without help.

The Sky Azure Bull Python joined the battle against Sword Douluo while the Titan Giant Ape defeated the Dragon Snake Couple. On Broken Cliff, Li Xun emerged from meditation and protected Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Meng Yiran from the Three-Eyed Demon Foxes.

• The Sky Azure Bull Python arrived, rescued the wounded Titan Giant Ape, and challenged Sword Douluo as the Dragon Snake Couple agreed to hold off the ape.
• The Dragon Snake Couple trapped the Titan Giant Ape with their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but he resisted the tornado and blasted them away with a punch.
• Sword Douluo drew the Titan Giant Ape’s attention while the injured Dragon Snake Couple retreated toward Broken Cliff.
• Zhu Zhuqing fought the Three-Eyed Demon Foxes as Ning Rongrong and Meng Yiran huddled near Li Xun.
• Li Xun rose and used Lightning Pattern vines to form a cage around the group and protect them from the foxes.

Li Xun defeated a fifty-thousand-year Three-Eyed Demon Fox with his new lightning-enhanced skill and found a rare Head Spirit Bone. He chose not to absorb it himself and left the choice between Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, while signaling Sword Douluo to return.

• Li Xun reassured Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, then trapped the Three-Eyed Demon Foxes inside a cage of Vines.
• Li Xun used his Fourth Soul Skill, Dark Forest Thunder Hell, to electrify the Vines and immobilize the foxes and their doppelgangers.
• Li Xun impaled the true Three-Eyed Demon Fox, causing its doppelgangers to vanish and revealing a fifty-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Li Xun discovered and removed a pink Head Spirit Bone from the Three-Eyed Demon Fox.
• Ning Rongrong urged Li Xun to absorb the Soul Bone, but he stored it away and told her and Zhu Zhuqing to decide who would receive it.

After absorbing the Three-Eyed Demon Fox’s spirit ring, Li Xun gave its Head Spirit Bone to Zhu Zhuqing and promised to find Ning Rongrong one of her own. He and the others escaped the Star Dou Great Forest, where Li Xun invited the Dragon Snake Couple to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect while they waited for Sword Douluo.

• Ning Rongrong offered the Three-Eyed Demon Fox’s Head Spirit Bone to Zhu Zhuqing, and Li Xun promised to find Ning Rongrong a suitable one.
• The Dragon Snake Couple arrived at Broken Cliff, and Li Xun thanked them for helping Sword Douluo hold back the Titan Giant Ape.
• Li Xun stored the Three-Eyed Demon Fox’s corpse and led the group away from Broken Cliff.
• Sword Douluo evaded the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape, then flew around them to catch up with Li Xun’s group.
• The Titan Giant Ape found the spirit rings and corpses on Broken Cliff, and the Sky Azure Bull Python deduced that the humans had been buying time for their companions to absorb spirit rings.
• Li Xun’s group reached the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest, stopped to rest, and Li Xun invited the Dragon Snake Couple to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Li Xun and his companions returned to Suotuo City, where Zhu Zhuqing absorbed a fifty-thousand-year Head Spirit Bone and reached level forty. Li Xun then took Ning Rongrong to visit the Spirit Hall Main Hall, where Cardinal Gelaf hurried out to greet him after seeing his token.

• Sword Douluo thanked the Dragon Snake Couple for helping the group reach the Star Dou Great Forest, and they traveled toward its outskirts together.
• At the Cao Family Inn, Zhu Zhuqing finished absorbing the Spirit-Concentrating Charm Skull, gained two Soul Power levels, and received a Doppelganger ability.
• Sword Douluo agreed to take Zhu Zhuqing into the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain her fourth Soul Ring, while Li Xun set out with Ning Rongrong.
• Li Xun presented a six-symbol token to the guards at the Suotuo City Spirit Hall Main Hall and asked to see Red Robe Cardinal Gelaf.
• Gelaf rushed out with his attendants and apologized to Li Xun for failing to welcome the elder.

Li Xun proposed that Bishop Gelaf help establish a continent-wide chain of high-end restaurants selling Spirit Beast meat. The plan left Gelaf considering how to profit while preventing Spirit Beasts from being depleted.

• Li Xun and Ning Rongrong presented Gelaf with a Pope Decree and entered Spirit Hall to discuss a business venture.
• Li Xun revealed a Three-Eyed Demon Fox corpse and proposed using Spirit Beast remains as the centerpiece of a high-end restaurant chain.
• Li Xun asked Gelaf to endorse the restaurant, encourage Soul Masters to sell Spirit Beast corpses, and crack down on indiscriminate hunting.
• Gelaf recognized the business opportunity but questioned why he should intervene when hunting Spirit Beasts was dangerous.
• Li Xun warned that unchecked hunting could make Spirit Beasts scarce, and Gelaf asked what solution he proposed.

Li Xun and Gelaf reached a preliminary agreement to open Spirit Beast restaurants that would encourage restraint in hunting and share their profits. After returning to the sect, Li Xun faced Ning Fengzhi’s alarm over his dangerous trip and powerful fourth Soul Ring.

• Li Xun and Gelaf discussed restaurant pricing, restrictions on sellers, and a profit split of forty percent for Gelaf and sixty percent for Li Xun.
• Li Xun told Ning Rongrong that their plans were tied to ensuring their survival amid Spirit Hall’s power, and she questioned the risks of restricting Soul Beast hunting.
• Sword Douluo led Zhu Zhuqing through her Soul Ring hunt without incident, and the group returned to the sect.
• Ning Fengzhi learned that Li Xun had reached level forty and obtained a thirty-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring, and he scolded Sword Douluo for not stopping him.
• Li Xun explained that he had obtained the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone by visiting Tang Hao’s hideout, prompting Ning Fengzhi to protest that the theft had been dangerous.

Li Xun persuaded Ning Fengzhi to handle a plan to build ties with Spirit Hall officials, then two years later Shrek killed the Ferocious God Team with Godly Zhuge Crossbows. Flender brought Shrek to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, intending to arrange a meeting between Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong, and the group arrived at the academy’s mountain campus.

• Li Xun explained his restaurant-chain plan to Ning Fengzhi, who agreed to manage the effort while Li Xun stayed in the sect.
• Two years later, Tang San and Shrek used Godly Zhuge Crossbows to kill the Ferocious God Team during a Soul Arena match, shocking Ye Lingling, Oscar, and the spectators.
• Grandmaster defended the killing as a lesson for Shrek, while Zhao Wuji questioned Flender about taking the students to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Flender said the academy exchange could give Shrek a chance to fight Li Xun and help Dai Mubai, while privately hoping the trip would bring Yu Xiaogang to Liu Erlong.
• Flender and the others reached Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Ye Lingling explained that the school grounds included a mountain, a forest, and a lake.

The Shrek group arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Qin Ming told Flender and Yu Xiaogang that Li Xun had sidelined him as leader of the Heaven Dou Royal Team. Yu Xiaogang then revealed that Shrek had come to exchange students and prepare the group for the Soul Master Competition.

• Ye Lingling guided the Shrek group through the academy, where Yu Tianheng was reminded of his humiliating defeat to Li Xun and struggled to contain his resentment.
• Yu Xiaogang urged Yu Tianheng to face his past defeat patiently, while Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun also renewed their determination against Li Xun.
• Flender and Yu Xiaogang reunited with Qin Ming outside the Teaching Committee and learned that he had been excluded from the Heaven Dou Royal Team's decisions.
• Qin Ming explained that Li Xun had taken control of the team's training arrangements, leaving Qin Ming unaware of the members' Soul Power Levels.
• Yu Xiaogang announced that Shrek had come to exchange with Heaven Dou Royal Academy and wanted its students to compete in the All-Continent Soul Master Competition six months later.

Yu Xiaogang tried to arrange for Shrek Academy’s students and teachers to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy, but Prince Xue Xing and the Teaching Committee insisted on the academy’s standard admission procedures. The chapter ended with Tang San defending Yu Xiaogang after learning the instructor qualification required Level 40 Soul Power.

• Tang San and the other students revealed that they were all at least Level 30, prompting Qin Ming to warn that Heaven Dou Royal Academy might poach them.
• Yu Xiaogang proposed that Heaven Dou Royal Academy accept Shrek’s teachers and let them teach the students, while allowing them to leave whenever they wished.
• Ma Hongjun described the plan as “borrowing a hen to hatch an egg,” and Flender embraced the idea of using the academy for Shrek’s benefit.
• Prince Xue Xing arrived with Prince Xue Beng, Dugu Bo, and the three Teaching Committee members, and challenged Yu Xiaogang’s demands.
• Meng Shenji said Shrek would need to follow the proper procedures, and Qin Ming explained that instructors needed Level 40 Soul Power.
• Tang San stepped forward to defend Yu Xiaogang, arguing that teaching depended on knowledge rather than Soul Power Level.

Tang San and the Shrek group clashed with Xue Beng and the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Teaching Committee over Yu Xiaogang’s reputation, prompting Dugu Bo to punish them with his Titled Douluo pressure. Yu Xiaogang was forced to his knees and struck his head against the stone floor, while Tang San and the others struggled to protect him.

• Xue Beng dismissed Yu Xiaogang’s reputation, and the committee members showed more interest in recruiting the Shrek Eight Monsters than in honoring him.
• Flender used the insult as an excuse to announce that Shrek would leave Heaven Dou Royal Academy, but Dugu Bo blocked their departure and confronted Tang San over his hostile look.
• Tang San resisted Dugu Bo’s pressure with his Eight Spider Lances, revealing his External Soul Bone to Dugu Bo and the committee members.
• Dugu Bo increased his pressure until Flender, Zhao Wuji, and the others bent under it, while Yu Xiaogang was forced to his knees.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed Tang San had already absorbed the External Soul Bone, but Dugu Bo crushed him to the ground and caused his head to strike the stone tiles.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, and the others cried out and tried to help Yu Xiaogang as Dugu Bo watched coldly.