Chapter Summaries

Heaven Dou Royal Academy and Shrek both forfeited their individual matches, leaving Spirit Hall to advance directly to the next day’s final. Zu Zong and Qian Renxue then faced Shrek in the afternoon team battle, where the two teams revealed their lineups and prepared to fight.

• Spirit Hall’s contestant forfeited, and Tang San and Yu Xiaogang forfeited Shrek’s individual match; Zu Zong and Qian Renxue then forfeited Heaven Dou’s match, sending Spirit Hall directly to the final.
• Zu Zong challenged Tang San and Yu Xiaogang’s accusations, while Qian Renxue defended Heaven Dou’s decision and Zu Zong encouraged Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong before the teams parted.
• Yu Xiaogang began retching, and Liu Erlong wondered aloud whether he was pregnant again.
• Heaven Dou Royal Academy and Shrek stepped onto the stage for their team battle, with the winner set to face Spirit Hall for the championship.
• Zu Zong and Tang San declared their eagerness to fight, and both teams revealed their Soul Rings: Heaven Dou fielded Zu Zong and six Soul Ancestors, while Shrek had four Soul Ancestors and three Soul Elders.

Tang San’s team used a Seven-in-One Fusion Skill to unleash the Clear Sky Hammer’s Weapon Spirit True Body, while Zu Zong revealed his self-created Blue Silver Overlord Hammer. Zu Zong defeated Tang San in their hammer clash, knocking the Clear Sky Hammer away with his thirty-seventh strike.

• Ning Rongrong passed her fused support power through the Shrek Seven Devils and into Tang San, who summoned the Clear Sky Hammer’s Weapon Spirit True Body and targeted Ye Lingling.
• Zu Zong accepted Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan’s boosts, then fused his Blue Silver Emperor Vines into the Blue Silver Overlord Hammer.
• Zu Zong intercepted Tang San’s attack on Ye Lingling and deflected the Clear Sky Hammer with his new weapon.
• Tang San used Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer against Zu Zong, who copied the technique and gradually gained the upper hand.
• After thirty-six strikes drained Tang San’s Soul Power, Zu Zong landed a thirty-seventh strike and knocked the Clear Sky Hammer away.

Zu Zong overwhelmed Tang San with the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer and then used his copied techniques to strike him, while Zhu Zhuqing rescued Tang San and fought Zu Zong. Xiao Wu attacked Shrek Academy’s support fighters, and she teleported beside Ning Rongrong after Tang San warned Dai Mubai to protect her.

• Ning Fengzhi and Guimei recognized Zu Zong’s powerful use of the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer as Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer dissipated and Tang San spat blood.
• Tang San demanded to know how Zu Zong had learned the technique, and Zu Zong said he had copied it after watching Tang San use it.
• Zu Zong used the Body Flicker Technique and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to outmaneuver Tang San and punch him across the arena.
• Zhu Zhuqing caught Tang San before he fell off the stage, then explained that she had saved him because he was her companion and she wanted victory.
• Xiao Wu intercepted Oscar’s Recovery Sausage, defeated Oscar with her Eight Stage Throw, and tossed him out of the arena, where Flender caught him.
• Dai Mubai attacked Xiao Wu with his White Tiger Light Wave, but Xiao Wu teleported beside Ning Rongrong after Tang San warned Dai Mubai to protect her.

Zu Zong let the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team overwhelm Shrek Academy while Zhu Zhuqing demonstrated her self-created skill against him. After he defeated her and cleared the ring of Shrek’s fighters, Zu Zong prepared to target Tang San’s pride.

• Xiao Wu used Charm to eliminate Ma Hongjun, then let Ning Rongrong forfeit rather than hurt her.
• Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan defeated Dai Mubai and Meng Yiran, while Liu Erlong rebuked Zhao Wuji and Yu Xiaogang for accusing Zu Zong of taking revenge.
• Zhu Zhuqing revealed her self-created Gather Qi Into Blade, and Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo praised her skill and Zu Zong’s swordsmanship.
• Zu Zong shattered Zhu Zhuqing’s blades, restrained her with Blue Silver Binding, and tossed her off the platform.
• Only the Heaven Dou Academy Team and the badly injured Tang San remained on the platform, and Zu Zong prepared to strike at Tang San’s pride.

Zu Zong defeated Tang San by turning his poisoned hidden weapons back on him, eliminating Shrek Academy from the match. Tang San fainted after being struck by his own poison, leaving Zu Zong’s team victorious.

• Tang San challenged Zu Zong to face his Blue Silver Grass Fourth Soul Skill, Bat Wing Reincarnation, and launched sixteen poisoned blades at Zu Zong and his teammates.
• Zu Zong blocked twelve blades with Blue Silver Emperor blades and caught three more with Mystic Jade Hand after dodging with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.
• Zu Zong returned the three poisoned blades to Tang San using Bat Wing Reincarnation and mocked him by claiming the Tang Sect techniques were nothing special.
• Tang San blocked the returned blades, but two broke apart and struck him with his own poison, causing him to faint and completing Shrek Academy’s defeat.

After Zu Zong led the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team to defeat Shrek Academy, Ning Fengzhi thanked him for helping Ning Rongrong and asked whether the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could promote his training methods. Zu Zong’s answer was left pending.

• The referee declared the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team the winner after Zu Zong defeated Tang San’s techniques and the rest of Shrek’s team fell.
• Qian Renxue embraced Zu Zong to congratulate him, then praised the team for reaching the finals.
• Dugu Bo reunited with Dugu Yan and left with her, while Xiao Wu and Ye Lingling kept their distance from Ning Fengzhi’s group.
• Ning Fengzhi thanked Zu Zong for giving Ning Rongrong a Head Soul Bone and an Immortal Herb.
• Zu Zong admitted that Ning Rongrong had taught him the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Distraction Control Method, and Ning Fengzhi asked permission to promote Zu Zong’s Soul Power control technique and physical arts within the sect.

Ning Fengzhi sought Zu Zong’s consent to teach Ning Rongrong’s special technique, while Bibi Dong’s team assessed the threats posed by Zu Zong and Ye Lingling ahead of the final. The Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team prepared to compete for the championship, unaware that Bibi Dong planned to make Zu Zong suffer a setback.

• Zu Zong told Ning Fengzhi that Ning Rongrong could decide whether to share the technique, and Ning Fengzhi left satisfied.
• Zu Zong teased Qian Renxue, then promised Xiao Wu and Ye Lingling an ultimate carrot set meal.
• Bibi Dong questioned the Spirit Hall Academy Team about the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team, and Xie Yue and Hu Liena identified Zu Zong and Ye Lingling as major threats.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan explained that Ye Lingling’s Ten Heart Begonia could heal an area and amplify all attributes by forty percent.
• Bibi Dong sent the Spirit Hall Academy Team to rest and privately planned to give Zu Zong a setback in the match.
• The Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team met Qian Renxue the next morning and declared that their goal was to win the championship.

Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong joined Zu Zong’s group as they set out for the finals, and Zu Zong’s affection for Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu stirred Qian Renxue’s jealousy. The Heaven Dou and Spirit Hall Academy teams took the stage and revealed their formations and Soul Rings as the final match prepared to begin.

• Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong arrived and said they had graduated from Shrek Academy, with Zhu Zhuqing joining Zu Zong’s group and Ning Rongrong insisting she was not following him.
• Zu Zong embraced Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu, while Qian Renxue urged him to leave and squeezed his shoulder in jealousy.
• Zu Zong led the Heaven Dou Academy Team to Pope Hall, where Bibi Dong announced that the final match would begin.
• Zu Zong instructed his team to follow the tactics he had planned, while Hu Liena warned Yan not to underestimate their opponents.
• The teams took their positions, with Heaven Dou using a three-one-three formation and Spirit Hall using a three-four formation.
• The Spirit Hall team released their martial souls, showing Hu Liena’s six Soul Rings and the other six members’ optimal configurations.

Zu Zong and the Heaven Dou Academy Team faced Hu Liena and the Spirit Hall Academy Team, but Zu Zong rebounded Hu Liena’s Charm and countered the suppression from her Martial Soul Fusion Skill. The chapter ended with Bewitching Charm attacking Ye Lingling, the Shi brothers taking the blow, and Zu Zong arriving to protect her.

• Zu Zong and the other six released their Martial Souls and Soul Rings as the match began.
• Hu Liena’s Charm failed against the team’s earplugs, and Zu Zong explained that his spiritual power surpassed hers.
• Zu Zong reflected Hu Liena’s focused Charm back at her, leaving her flustered before she joined Xie Yue to activate Bewitching Charm.
• Zu Zong used his Blue Silver Domain to cancel Bewitching Charm’s suppression for himself and his teammates.
• Bewitching Charm targeted Ye Lingling, shattered the Shi brothers’ defensive shield, and sent them flying, but Zu Zong arrived in time to intervene.

Zu Zong and the Heaven Dou Academy team clashed with Spirit Hall Academy’s Bewitching Charm, while Zu Zong revealed his Eight Spider Lances to absorb redirected poison. The teams reached a standoff as Xie Yue and Hu Liena recognized Zu Zong as their greatest opponent and prepared to continue their plan.

• Zu Zong used Blue Silver Blades and Blue Silver Cages against Bewitching Charm and its teammates, but Bewitching Charm cut through both attacks and rejoined them.
• Dugu Yan sent Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor poison toward Spirit Hall Academy, but a cannon-fodder Soul Ancestor blew it back at Zu Zong’s team.
• Zu Zong exposed his Eight Spider Lances and absorbed the returning poison, prompting Ning Fengzhi to recognize his mastery of the Seven Apertures Exquisite Heart.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo accused Ning Fengzhi of sharing the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Distraction Control Method with Zu Zong, and Ning Fengzhi described it as a transaction.
• Zu Zong questioned Bewitching Charm about its knowledge of him and its use of the Body Flicker Technique, then teased Hu Liena while his teammates received boosts and healing.
• Xie Yue warned Hu Liena that Zu Zong was stalling and told her to proceed according to their plan.

Zu Zong unleashed his Blue Silver Flood Dragon and used it to bind Yan while fighting Bewitching Charm, disrupting the red mist that concealed the teams. The mist cleared around Xiao Wu and the others, leaving the battle between the two groups exposed.

• Hu Liena warned Zu Zong that Bewitching Charm could keep him occupied while Yan and the other Spirit Hall Academy members attacked Xiao Wu and her teammates.
• Zu Zong summoned his Blue Silver Flood Dragon, drawing the spectators’ attention with the enormous golden Soul Skill.
• Zu Zong used Blue Silver Blade to hold Bewitching Charm at bay while directing the Flood Dragon toward Yan.
• Yan transformed into a Magma Giant, but the Flood Dragon coiled around him and resisted his heat and strength.
• The Flood Dragon absorbed the red mist around it, revealing Xiao Wu and the other six alongside the Spirit Hall Academy Team’s remaining four Soul Ancestors.

Zu Zong outmaneuvered the Spirit Hall Academy Team, freed his allies from Bewitching Charm’s red mist, and defeated Hu Liena and Xie Yue’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill. The match ended with Hu Liena and Xie Yue exposed and exhausted, while Zu Zong stood victorious.

• Zu Zong used the Blue Silver Flood Dragon to bind Yan and disperse the red mist, restoring Xiao Wu and the others’ vision.
• Bewitching Charm pinned Zu Zong down, but he taunted Hu Liena, provoking Xie Yue to stab what he thought was Zu Zong.
• Zu Zong’s apparent corpse turned out to be a Blue Silver Emperor Vine decoy, and he absorbed Yan’s Soul Power before throwing him out of the arena.
• Hu Liena lured Zu Zong with an illusion, but he dispelled it and dodged the Moon Blades hidden within it.
• Zu Zong unleashed hundreds of Blue Silver Blades against Bewitching Charm until Hu Liena and Xie Yue’s fusion broke apart, leaving them exhausted.

Zu Zong defeated Hu Liena and Xie Yue, sealing Spirit Hall Academy Team’s loss, while Tang San watched and grew more determined to kill him for learning the Tang Sect’s supreme techniques. Tang Hao warned Tang San that killing Zu Zong would bring lasting regret, prompting Tang San to ask who his mother was.

• After the other Spirit Hall team members were knocked off the arena, Zu Zong stopped Xiao Wu and the others and faced Hu Liena himself.
• Xie Yue joined the fight, but Zu Zong endured his Moon Blades and outmatched both opponents in close combat.
• Zu Zong struck Hu Liena and Xie Yue with Armament Haki-covered fists, knocking them off the arena and completing the defeat of Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation.
• Ning Rongrong celebrated Zu Zong’s victory, while Qian Renxue and Ning Fengzhi were surprised by Bibi Dong’s sweet smile.
• Tang San watched Zu Zong’s victory with hatred, resenting his mastery of Tang Sect techniques and his superior strength and talent.
• Tang Hao warned Tang San that killing Zu Zong would make him regret it and earn his parents’ condemnation, so Tang San asked who his mother was.

Tang Hao told Tang San that he would learn the truth about his mother only after reaching Tang Hao’s strength, then departed to train him. Zu Zong’s team won the tournament, received the Soul Bone rewards, and Zu Zong accepted Bibi Dong’s invitation to hear answers the next day.

• Tang Hao said Tang San needed to reach level fifty before they could visit a place where he would learn more about his mother, and Tang San went to say farewell to Yiran, his teacher, and his friends.
• Zu Zong’s Heaven Dou Academy Team defeated the Spirit Hall Academy Team, and Ye Lingling healed the injured opponents after the match.
• Bibi Dong presented Zu Zong with the champion’s three Soul Bones and privately told him she would answer his questions the next day.
• The team distributed the Soul Bones: Ye Lingling chose the Rapid Forward Wind-Chasing Left Leg, Zu Zong took the Wisdom Skull, and Zu Zong gave Yu Tianheng a ten-thousand-year Left Arm Soul Bone.
• Zu Zong suggested selling the remaining Explosive Burning Flame Right Arm to Xue Qinghe, and the team split the proceeds among members without Soul Bones.

Zu Zong and Zhu Zhuqing were interrupted by Ye Lingling, who gave them a Soul Bone she had chosen for Zhu Zhuqing. Meanwhile, Liu Erlong learned that Bibi Dong had found Zu Zong years earlier and would acknowledge him within half a year.

• Zu Zong and Zhu Zhuqing shared a bed, but Ye Lingling’s persistent knocking interrupted their intimate moment.
• Ye Lingling left Zu Zong a note and a brocade box containing the Rapid Forward Wind-Chasing Left Leg Bone for Zhu Zhuqing.
• Zu Zong and Zhu Zhuqing read Ye Lingling’s note and realized she had given up the Soul Bone because it suited Zhu Zhuqing.
• Liu Erlong asked Bibi Dong about her relationship with Zu Zong, and Bibi Dong said she had found him the day after his martial soul awakened.
• Bibi Dong told Liu Erlong that they could acknowledge Zu Zong within half a year at most, then explained why she still looked young.

At Pope Hall, Xiao Wu told Zu Zong how Bibi Dong had encountered her mother and promised to protect her. Bibi Dong revealed Xiao Wu's mother's soul and gave the two a chance to reunite, then took Zu Zong away to her bamboo house while Xiao Wu stayed behind.

• Hu Liena gave Zu Zong the Pope Token and said Bibi Dong wanted to see him and Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu told Zu Zong that Bibi Dong had said her mother was gravely injured and had sacrificed herself, then promised to protect Xiao Wu.
• Bibi Dong entered the council chamber, revealed her nine Soul Rings, and brought Xiao Wu's mother's soul out of her ninth ring.
• Xiao Wu tearfully approached her mother's silent, intangible soul as Bibi Dong explained it could leave her body for half an hour each day.
• Bibi Dong teleported Zu Zong to her bamboo house, where he bickered with Hu Liena before Bibi Dong led him upstairs.

Zu Zong and Bibi Dong reunited in the Bamboo House and confirmed that their feelings connected them across time, though Bibi Dong refused to reveal their past. After they shared an intimate moment and promised to wait for each other, Hu Liena saw them together and questioned whether Zu Zong was the Grandteacher Bibi Dong had mentioned.

• Bibi Dong hugged Zu Zong in the Bamboo House, and they discussed how they had met and fallen in love in the past.
• Bibi Dong refused to tell Zu Zong what had happened between them before, then teased him about the women he had pursued.
• Bibi Dong jokingly claimed that Qian Renxue was Zu Zong's daughter, frightening him before she revealed the joke.
• Zu Zong and Bibi Dong shared an intimate moment and promised to wait for each other while he was away.
• Zu Zong and Bibi Dong left the Bamboo House and found Hu Liena waiting; Hu Liena asked whether Zu Zong was the Grandteacher Bibi Dong had mentioned.

After the tournament, Zu Zong and Qian Renxue arranged for Xue Beng to provoke Tang San and die, creating an opportunity for Qian Renxue. Tang San struck Xue Beng during a street confrontation, and the prince died, leaving Tang San accused of murder.

• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo discussed how suspiciously smoothly the tournament had gone and guessed that Bibi Dong had reached rank ninety-nine or higher.
• Zu Zong told Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu that Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong had waited for him for decades, while Xiao Wu reacted with sudden interest.
• After returning to Heaven Dou City, Zu Zong met Qian Renxue and explained that he had arranged for Xue Beng to provoke Tang San, then revealed that he would leave for at least three months and at most a year.
• Tang San and Meng Yiran walked toward the city gate as Xue Beng, guided by Zu Zong's illusion and his lackeys, confronted them and insulted Tang San and Tang Hao.
• When Xue Beng's lackeys tried to claim Meng Yiran for the prince, Tang San dislocated one lackey's arm, and Xue Beng attacked him with his Swan Martial Soul.
• Tang San punched Xue Beng, who spat blood and died; a lackey then shouted that Tang San had killed the prince.

After Xue Beng died from the Six Soul Fear Curse, Tang San was blamed and forced to flee Heaven Dou City while Prince Xue Xing’s forces pursued him. Tang San realized someone had framed him, but a Soul King’s corrosive attack and a flying Soul Saint left him trapped.

• Xue Beng’s death was blamed on Tang San, and Meng Yiran urged him to escape before the City Defense Army arrived.
• Prince Xue Xing surrounded the area and ordered his troops to capture Tang San as he fled toward the city gate.
• Tang San used the Godly Zhuge Crossbow to kill two Soul Elders and a Soul Ancestor, but a Variegated Cat Soul King blocked his path.
• Tang San deflected the Soul King’s Death Claw, but its corrosive miasma damaged his Mystic Jade Hand.
• A flying Soul Saint struck Tang San down, and he concluded that someone had arranged for Xue Beng to die and made him the scapegoat.

Tang Hao rescued Tang San from the Strange Bird Soul Saint and confronted Prince Xue Xing over the death of Xue Beng. After Meng Yiran described the fight as self-defense, Tang Hao defended his son, but Xue Xing challenged her account.

• Tang San attacked the Strange Bird Soul Saint with a Mother-Son Soul-Chasing Projectile, but Tang Hao arrived and drove the attacker away with his Clear Sky Hammer and killing intent.
• Tang Hao confronted Prince Xue Xing, who accused Tang San of killing Xue Beng and demanded justice for the Heaven Dou imperial family.
• Meng Yiran arrived with Qian Renxue disguised as Xue Qinghe, Poison Douluo, and others; she checked Tang San's injuries and recounted how Xue Beng had provoked and attacked them.
• Meng Yiran identified a Shamate Youth as an instigator, and Tang Hao pulled him over before asking Tang San to confirm her account.
• Tang San confirmed what had happened, and Tang Hao declared that Xue Beng had started the trouble and that Tang San had acted in self-defense.
• Xue Xing rejected Meng Yiran's testimony and argued that Xue Beng's behavior did not justify Tang San killing him.