Chapter Summaries

Zu Zong discovered that his Blue Silver Emperor had mutated into an Extreme Flame Blue Silver Emperor after absorbing Sub-flame Qi, giving its vines a destructive fire poison. He used two theft opportunities to acquire Kabuto’s Three Body Technique and a bottle of Zimu River water, and ended the chapter considering Yu Xiaogang a potential target for a prank.

• Zu Zong recovered his Soul Power, reached Level 15, and learned that his Blue Silver Emperor had mutated after nurturing Xiao Xun'er's meridians.
• Zu Zong tested Poison Dragon Entanglement and Poisonous Devour, using the Extreme Flame Blue Silver Emperor’s fire poison to destroy a tree trunk.
• Zu Zong stole Kabuto’s Three Body Technique, while Kabuto sensed that he had forgotten something and prepared to revive Uchiha Itachi.
• Zu Zong mastered the stolen techniques and then stole a bottle of Zimu River water from the Zimu River in Amazon Lily.
• Zu Zong considered using the pregnancy-inducing water on Tang San or Yu Xiaogang.

Zu Zong used his theft system to steal goods across Douluo Continent and other worlds, drawing hatred from several owners while keeping clear of powerful enemies. He finally stole the Nine Yang Manual and a Transformation Pill, giving him a new alternative to Yu Xiaogang’s Soul Power Meditation Method.

• Zu Zong stole a bottle of Soul Wine and youth clothing, triggering the general store and clothing store owners’ desire to marry him into their family.
• Zu Zong stole all 582 Gold Soul Coins from Flender, who later discovered his Soul Tool was empty and shut himself in his room for a month.
• Zu Zong stole cheap ale from beside Tang Hao and several items from Hu Liena and Bibi Dong before stopping his thefts in Douluo Continent.
• Zu Zong used his final theft attempt to steal the Nine Yang Manual from the White Ape in Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber.
• Zu Zong took out the Nine Yang Manual and a Transformation Pill, then rejected the idea of giving the pill to the old rabbit.

Zu Zong used 5,000 Hatred Points to master the Nine Yang Manual, then traveled to Heaven Dou Imperial Academy with Xiao Wu five years later. As they reached the academy, Xiao Wu asked him to spend two days with her in Heaven Dou City before their entrance exam.

• Zu Zong struggled to understand the Nine Yang Manual until his system offered to analyze it for 5,000 Hatred Points.
• Zu Zong spent the points, and the manual's knowledge entered his mind, allowing him to memorize the complete cultivation method.
• Five years later, Zu Zong and Xiao Wu arrived at Heaven Dou Imperial Academy to attend its advanced Soul Master Academy.
• Xiao Wu complained about the journey and asked Zu Zong to spend two days playing with her in Heaven Dou City before their exam.
• Zu Zong recalled how Xiao Wu had become Old Tom's granddaughter and used his Transformation Pill to become fully human, giving up her hundred-thousand-year cultivation.

After graduating from Nuoding Academy, Zu Zong and Xiao Wu arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where students stopped them at the gate. The chapter ended as Zu Zong recognized the situation as familiar.

• Zu Zong recalled his training, Soul Skills, and reasons for choosing Heaven Dou Royal Academy over Shrek Academy.
• Zu Zong checked the map Blanklin had given him while Xiao Wu complained that she was tired.
• Zu Zong carried Xiao Wu to the gates of Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Ten students in school uniforms blocked Zu Zong and Xiao Wu and demanded to know who they were.

Zu Zong and Xiao Wu confronted Prince Xue Beng at Heaven Dou Academy, where Xiao Wu beat him and Zu Zong quickly defeated his nine followers. As they prepared to register, an older man arrived to investigate the commotion.

• Xue Beng mistook Zu Zong and Xiao Wu for commoners and tried to make Xiao Wu keep him company in exchange for admission.
• Xiao Wu used the Violent Eight Stage Throw to beat Xue Beng unconscious, while his followers were too frightened to intervene.
• Zu Zong warned Xue Beng's nine followers, then defeated them in moments after they attacked him.
• Zu Zong kicked the defeated men onto Xue Beng, and Xiao Wu praised him before they headed to register.
• An older man in silver rushed over and asked why the academy grounds were so noisy.

Zu Zong and Xiao Wu arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where the Education Committee welcomed them and examined Zu Zong’s Martial Soul. Zhi Lin tested Zu Zong with increasing pressure, but Zu Zong remained unfazed at the fortieth-rank level.

• Xue Beng blamed Zu Zong and Xiao Wu for the fight, but Sun Buyu dismissed him and escorted the two new students to the Education Committee.
• Sun Buyu introduced Zu Zong and Xiao Wu to the three committee chairmen: Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin.
• Xiao Wu grew nervous around the Spirit Douluo elders, and Zu Zong reassured her that she was safe.
• Zu Zong revealed his Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul and his thirty-seventh rank, shocking everyone present.
• Zhi Lin recognized that Zu Zong’s Martial Soul suppressed his Sky Azure Vine and increased his pressure up to the fortieth-rank level, which Zu Zong endured without showing strain.

Zu Zong endured Zhi Lin’s escalating pressure, broke through to Soul Power level 38, and explained his mutated Blue Silver Emperor as fire-attributed Blue Silver Grass. After Meng Shenji revealed how Xiao Wu and Zu Zong had been recommended to the academy, Zhi Lin turned his attention to Xiao Wu’s talent.

• Zhi Lin increased the pressure to level 50, and Zu Zong broke through from level 37 to level 38 with Xiao Wu helping him stand afterward.
• Zu Zong thanked Zhi Lin, then claimed his Blue Silver Grass had mutated to gain a fire attribute and demonstrated its burning Poison Dragon Entanglement skill.
• Zhi Lin praised Zu Zong’s Martial Soul for overcoming plant-type weaknesses, and Meng Shenji celebrated the two geniuses from Nuoding City.
• Bai Baolin revealed that Blanklin had married Meng Shenji’s granddaughter, prompting Meng Shenji to complain that Blanklin had secretly run off with her.
• Zhi Lin asked about Xiao Wu’s talent and noted that her Soul Power seemed to have passed level 30.

Zu Zong and Xiao Wu joined the Imperial Fight Team after impressing the academy’s Education Committee, and Qin Ming began showing them around. As Qin Ming explained how noble connections undermined the academy, Zu Zong resolved that perhaps he could change the continent’s course.

• Xiao Wu revealed her Rabbit Martial Soul and showed that she was a level 33 three-ring Soul Elder.
• Qin Ming welcomed Zu Zong and Xiao Wu onto the Imperial Fight Team after the Education Committee approved them.
• Qin Ming led the pair around Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while Xiao Wu tried to bargain with Zu Zong for a trip to Heaven Dou City.
• Xiao Wu asked Qin Ming about the entrance exam, and he explained that their exam would be a formality because the Education Committee had recognized their strength.
• Qin Ming described how noble influence distorted admissions and academy resources, prompting Zu Zong to think about the continent’s history and resolve to change something.

Qin Ming brought Zu Zong and Xiao Wu to meet the Imperial Fight Team and announced that they would join it. Dugu Yan challenged their place on the team, and she and Xiao Wu ended the chapter trading insults and preparing to fight.

• The Imperial Fight Team gathered in a bamboo grove and discussed Xue Beng being beaten by two new students.
• Qin Ming arrived with Zu Zong and Xiao Wu and introduced them as new members of the team.
• Dugu Yan accused Zu Zong and Xiao Wu of getting their places through the back door, while Ye Lingling sensed a familiarity with Zu Zong.
• Xiao Wu defended herself and Zu Zong, then called Dugu Yan an old hag after Dugu Yan mocked them.
• Dugu Yan and Xiao Wu became furious with each other as Qin Ming sighed at the quarrel.

Zu Zong and Xiao Wu revealed their high Soul Power to the Imperial Fight Team, then Dugu Yan challenged them to prove their strength. Zu Zong accepted a duel with Dugu Yan and raised the stakes, and the chapter ended as they faced off in a clearing with Qin Ming refereeing.

• Qin Ming asked Zu Zong and Xiao Wu to introduce their Martial Souls and Soul Power, shocking the Imperial Fight Team with their levels.
• Xiao Wu taunted Dugu Yan, who challenged her to a fight; Zu Zong stopped Xiao Wu and offered to fight Dugu Yan instead.
• Zu Zong and Dugu Yan agreed that the loser would leave the Imperial Fight Team, and Dugu Yan added that the loser must also leave Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Zu Zong asked for Dugu Yan's Storage Soul Tool as a prize if he won, and she accepted the wager.
• Qin Ming refereed as Zu Zong and Dugu Yan took their positions in a clearing to begin their spar.

Zu Zong fought Dugu Yan in a spar, using Blue Silver Emperor vines to push her into unleashing her most dangerous poison. As her purple mist advanced, he prepared to counter it with Realgar Wine.

• Dugu Yan activated her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul and charged Zu Zong, who summoned his Blue Silver Emperor vines to keep her at a distance.
• Dugu Yan used her first two Soul Skills to boost her attacks, while Zu Zong relied on Blue Silver Range Entanglement and planned to draw out Dugu Bo for the Immortal Herbs.
• Yu Feng complained that Zu Zong was cunning, while Yu Tianheng watched closely and hoped Dugu Yan's Third Soul Skill could turn the fight around.
• Zu Zong deliberately weakened his vines in one area, allowing Dugu Yan to approach and unleash her Third Soul Skill, Blue Phosphorus Purple Poison.
• Zu Zong neutralized the poison he had inhaled with the Nine Yang Manual and produced two waterskins filled with Realgar Wine to counter Dugu Yan's venom.

Zu Zong defeated Dugu Yan by using Realgar Wine to neutralize her poison, then helped Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan reconcile as future teammates. After the team celebrated, Yu Tianheng challenged Zu Zong to show his true strength next time.

• Zu Zong used Realgar Wine and his first Soul Skill to burn away Dugu Yan’s Blue Phosphorus Purple Poison, then bound her and won the soul battle.
• Qin Ming declared Zu Zong the winner, and Dugu Yan gave Xiao Wu a three-cubic-meter Storage Soul Tool as promised.
• Zu Zong explained that he had brought the Realgar Wine for emergencies, then urged Xiao Wu to thank Dugu Yan as Sister Yan Zi.
• Qin Ming hosted a banquet in Heaven Dou City, where Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan drank together and set aside their past grievances.
• After escorting Xiao Wu back to her room, Zu Zong met Yu Tianheng, who thanked him for sparing Dugu Yan and said he wanted to see Zu Zong’s true strength next time.

Zu Zong settled into life at Heaven Dou Royal Academy as Xue Qinghe and Bibi Dong learned of his arrival and arranged to keep watch over him. The next morning, Qin Ming announced that the Imperial Fight Team would travel to Suotuo City for a team Soul Fighting Tournament.

• Xue Qinghe learned that two gifted new students had joined Heaven Dou Academy and that one had defeated Dugu Yan.
• Bibi Dong told Hu Liena to secretly protect Zu Zong, promising that he would not become an enemy of Spirit Hall.
• Xiao Wu, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling spent the day shopping while Zu Zong and Yu Tianheng carried their purchases.
• Zu Zong refused to share a dormitory room with Xiao Wu, and the students gathered at the Bamboo Forest the next morning.
• Qin Ming announced the team's trip to the Great Soul Arena in Suotuo City, and Xiao Wu asked what the arena was.

The Royal Fight Team traveled to Suotuo City to enter its Soul Fighting Tournament and searched for lodging after arriving. Zu Zong, Xiao Wu, and Ye Lingling found the Rose Hotel, where the waiter offered them two rooms for the night.

• Zu Zong explained that Soul Fighting was a contest between Soul Masters, and Dugu Yan objected to nobles betting on the fighters.
• The Royal Fight Team traveled by carriage for several days and arrived in Suotuo City, where Qin Ming told them to rest before entering the tournament the next day.
• After several hotels were full, Zu Zong suggested the students split into pairs to find lodging, and the group arranged who would search together.
• Zu Zong, Xiao Wu, and Ye Lingling found the Rose Hotel and asked the waiter for two rooms.
• The waiter said only two single rooms were left and that Xiao Wu and Ye Lingling would share one; Xiao Wu accepted the arrangement.

Zu Zong met Ning Rongrong while shopping for masks in Suotuo City, and Flender spotted them while secretly watching his student. A masked Spirit Douluo intervened when Flender tried to approach Zu Zong, leaving Flender convinced the boy was not the thief who had stolen his Gold Soul Coins.

• Zu Zong left the Rose Hotel and bought two masks from a street stall in Suotuo City.
• Ning Rongrong greeted Zu Zong, asked whether he planned to join Shrek Academy, and introduced herself.
• Zu Zong recognized Ning Rongrong and worried that Flender might discover he had stolen his Gold Soul Coins.
• Flender watched Ning Rongrong from the clouds, then tried to question Zu Zong after they parted.
• A masked Spirit Douluo blocked Flender and displayed eight Soul Rings, so Flender flew back to Shrek Academy without confronting Zu Zong.
• Zu Zong prepared for Flender to accuse him, but Flender never came.

Zu Zong, Xiao Wu, and Ye Lingling visited the Suotuo Great Soul Arena, where they ran into Tang San and the Shrek students. Tang San recognized Zu Zong with hatred, while Zhu Zhuqing smiled at him and Dai Mubai grew jealous; the chapter ended with Zu Zong wondering why Zhu Zhuqing kept looking at him.

• Xiao Wu complained that Zu Zong had gone out without her, though she treasured the rabbit mask he had brought back.
• Zu Zong, Xiao Wu, and Ye Lingling ate dinner and then visited the Suotuo Great Soul Arena to look around before the next day's tournament.
• Ma Hongjun left the arena to visit a brothel, and Dai Mubai teased him while watching Zhu Zhuqing.
• Zhu Zhuqing smiled when she spotted Zu Zong, and Dai Mubai became jealous after noticing her attention on him.
• Tang San recognized Zu Zong and felt hatred toward him, while Zu Zong identified Tang San to Xiao Wu.

Zu Zong reunited with Tang San at Shrek Academy and introduced him to Xiao Wu, Ye Lingling, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing, while Tang San remained hostile over his First Soul Ring. The chapter ended with Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing wondering whether Tang San’s unseen First Soul Skill was his trump card.

• Zu Zong called out to Tang San, and Dai Mubai learned that the two knew each other.
• Zu Zong teased Tang San about his First Soul Ring and introduced Xiao Wu and Ye Lingling to Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Xiao Wu examined Tang San and bluntly called him ugly, while Ye Lingling and Zhu Zhuqing introduced themselves.
• Dai Mubai greeted the group and stole glances at Zhu Zhuqing and Ye Lingling, prompting Zu Zong to notice his behavior.
• Tang San demanded to know what Zu Zong wanted, and Xiao Wu challenged him over his anger about the First Soul Ring.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing realized they had never seen Tang San’s First Soul Skill and wondered if it was his hidden trump card.

Tang San confronted Zu Zong over the Lazy Snake soul ring, but Xiao Wu and the others sided with Zu Zong and urged Tang San to apologize. Tang San stormed off toward Shrek Academy, while Zhu Zhuqing left with a cryptic remark, and Zu Zong wondered whether he had met her before.

• Tang San recalled his resentment toward Zu Zong and his long-standing affection for Xiao Wu, then insisted the dispute was between him and Zu Zong.
• Xiao Wu defended Zu Zong and reminded Tang San that his first soul ring came from the Lazy Snake, whose foul smell and appearance made it infamous.
• Dai Mubai, Ye Lingling, and Zhu Zhuqing joined Xiao Wu in blaming Tang San and telling him to take responsibility and apologize to Zu Zong.
• Tang San left in anger, though Xiao Wu's criticism of Master made him question his teacher as he headed toward Shrek Academy.
• Zhu Zhuqing departed after giving Zu Zong a complicated look, and Dai Mubai chased after her.
• Xiao Wu sought Zu Zong's praise, and he patted her head before the three of them entered the Great Soul Arena of Suotuo City.

Zu Zong won his Soul Fighting Arena matches with Ye Lingling and Xiao Wu, then agreed to teach Ye Lingling combat techniques. After sensing someone following him, he lured the attacker into an alley and recognized her as Zhu Zhuqing.

• Zu Zong defeated a Black Bear Soul Elder in a solo match by binding him with his Blue Silver Emperor vines.
• Zu Zong and Ye Lingling beat the Knight Duo after his vines protected Ye Lingling and his Blue Silver Blade pierced their Golden Bell Shield.
• Xiao Wu won her solo match with her Third Soul Skill, Teleport.
• Ye Lingling asked Zu Zong to teach her combat techniques, and he agreed after warning that learning them would be difficult.
• Zu Zong sensed a hostile figure following him, confronted her in an alley, dodged her attack on his crotch, and identified her as Zhu Zhuqing.

Zu Zong defeated Zhu Zhuqing when she ambushed him, then learned she was hurt because he had seemed not to recognize her earlier. Zhu Zhuqing reminded him of their meeting in the Star Dou Great Forest two years before, and the chapter began recounting her childhood and the dangerous family rivalry shaping her life.

• Zhu Zhuqing attacked Zu Zong, but he restrained her with his Blue Silver Emperor vines.
• Zu Zong explained that Xiao Wu and Ye Lingling were only his academy companions, and Zhu Zhuqing accepted his explanation.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked why Zu Zong had pretended not to know her near the Suotuo City Great Soul Arena and asked whether he remembered her from the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The story returned to two years earlier, when Zhu Zhuqing went to the Star Dou Great Forest with Uncle Zhu to obtain her Second Soul Ring.
• The chapter explained that Zhu Zhuqing was betrothed to Dai Mubai and forced to compete with her Older Sister, Zhu Zhuyun, for the Zhu Family heirship.