Chapter Summaries

Ji Wuming reunited with Dugu Bo, who agreed to support his sect, while Shrek Academy prepared to face Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s First Team. The two teams headed toward a match that would test Shrek’s standing against the academy’s top students.

• Dugu Bo arrived and criticized Ji Wuming for reaching only level fifty-seven after three years.
• Ji Wuming admitted that he had used Dugu Bo’s name to establish a sect, and Dugu Bo approved of the sect and accepted its honorary elder position.
• Dugu Bo and Yang Wudi discussed poison enthusiastically as their groups parted ways near Jialing Pass.
• At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Tang San impressed Zhilin and Baibaoshan by enduring Zhilin’s pressure and revealing his Eight Spider Lance Soul Bone.
• Qin Ming proposed a match between Shrek Academy and the four members of Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s First Team, and the academic committee members agreed.

Shrek Academy arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy for a match against Dugu Yan’s four-person squad, knowing defeat could ruin their prospects there. As both sides prepared, Dai Mubai schemed to use Dugu Yan to advance his claim to the Star Luo throne, while Dugu Yan sensed something unsettling about Ma Hongjun.

• Heaven Dou Royal Academy students and teachers hurried to the Back Mountain, where Shrek Academy was set to face a Soul King-led team.
• Ma Hongjun ogled female students and drew teasing from Oscar, while Tang San considered poison crucial to Shrek’s chances.
• Flender greeted Meng Shenji, and the Shrek group noticed Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling among the opposing students.
• Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai felt their Martial Souls react to Dugu Yan, and Flender suppressed Ma Hongjun’s surging Evil Fire.
• Dai Mubai plotted to win Dugu Yan over as a pawn in his bid for the Star Luo throne, while Ye Lingling warned Dugu Yan about the men across from them.
• Dugu Yan sensed a strange resemblance between Ma Hongjun and Bingbing’s Ice Phoenix, then recoiled in disgust at the implication.

Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling teased each other before Dugu Yan’s team met Tang San’s Shrek team in the arena. The duel began with Tang San’s strategy, but Xiao Wu was injured by Shimo, leaving Tang San furious as Dai Mubai charged into the opposing formation.

• Ye Lingling persuaded Dugu Yan to let her examine her after the duel, while Dugu Yan secured permission to examine Ye Lingling in return.
• Shimo and Shimo promised to follow Dugu Yan’s orders and teach the Shrek team a lesson.
• Meng Shenji introduced Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Shimo, and Shimo to Tang San’s group, and both teams prepared for the match.
• Tang San assigned Xiao Wu to hold back the Shi Brothers and told Ma Hongjun to protect Ning Rongrong and Oscar.
• Both teams revealed their Martial Souls, and the crowd cheered for Dugu Yan’s Rock Jade Poison Jiao while Yu Xiaogang grew angry.
• Tang San split the opposing formation with Entanglement, but Shimo recovered from Xiao Wu’s Charm and struck her in the abdomen; Dai Mubai then charged into the enemy formation.

Dai Mubai and Shimo were eliminated as Dugu Yan’s team overwhelmed Shrek with poison, terrain control, and coordinated attacks. After Dugu Yan’s Fifth Soul Skill badly wounded Xiao Wu, Tang San revealed an External Soul Bone and threatened Dugu Yan until her healer treated Xiao Wu.

• Dugu Yan’s Rock Domain Dragon Tail blasted Dai Mubai from the arena, breaking two of his ribs, while Shimo kept Dai Mubai from reaching Ye Lingling.
• Tang San restrained Dugu Yan, Shimo, and Ye Lingling with Blue Silver Grass, but Shimo’s shield and Dugu Yan’s counterattack disrupted his hold.
• Xiao Wu threw Shimo from the arena with Eight Stage Drop, and Dugu Yan used Rock Domain Poison Array to wound Xiao Wu before withdrawing the skill.
• Tang San caught the unconscious, bloodied Xiao Wu and confronted Dugu Yan, then revealed eight spider legs and threatened her into ordering Ye Lingling to heal Xiao Wu.

After Tang San threatened Dugu Yan during the spar, Shrek left Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Qin Ming chose to leave with them. Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling regretted their team's performance and realized the mysterious liar would soon return.

• Meng Shenji stopped Tang San, explained that Xiao Wu was unconscious rather than dead, and reprimanded him for threatening Dugu Yan.
• Yu Xiaogang announced that Shrek would leave Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Meng Shenji agreed while leaving open the possibility of future visits.
• Ning Rongrong and Oscar criticized Heaven Dou Royal Academy as Shrek's group departed, while Tang Hao secretly vowed they would regret looking down on Tang San.
• Qin Ming declined the Academic Committee Members' pleas to stay and followed Shrek after nightfall.
• Dugu Yan blamed herself for the spar, but Ye Lingling said their team needed more assault-type and agility-attack-type Soul Masters.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling realized together that the liar would return within days.

Ji Wuming returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy after three years away and reunited with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, explaining his dangerous training and introducing Zhu Zhuqing. After hearing about Tang San’s threat to Dugu Yan, he showed the two women a red Soul Bone.

• Xue Beng recognized Ji Wuming on his return and abandoned his plan to approach Zhu Zhuqing.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling confronted Ji Wuming about his long absence and Zhu Zhuqing, so he knocked them unconscious and carried them to a dormitory.
• Ji Wuming tied up Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, then explained his three years of dangerous training and clarified Zhu Zhuqing’s presence.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling forgave Ji Wuming and told him about Tang San’s group and Tang San’s murderous intent toward Dugu Yan.
• Ji Wuming showed Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling a red Soul Bone, leaving them astonished.

Ji Wuming gave Dugu Yan a forty-five-thousand-year torso soul bone and offered Ye Lingling the Lovesick Heartbreak Red to address the Ye family's Nine Heart Begonia curse. Ye Lingling accepted the flower and began absorbing it, while Dugu Yan's own soul bone absorption turned dangerous.

• Ji Wuming gave Dugu Yan the Nine Heavens Dragon Centipede torso soul bone, and she began absorbing it despite his warning about its age.
• Ji Wuming told Ye Lingling the Lovesick Heartbreak Red might help her family's Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul curse and handed her the flower.
• Ye Lingling bled onto the Lovesick Heartbreak Red while thinking of Ji Wuming, and the flower acknowledged her as its master.
• Ye Lingling kissed Ji Wuming, then ate the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and began absorbing its medicinal power.
• Dugu Yan's Rock Domain Poisonous Flood Dragon appeared around her as her absorption became agonizing, and Ji Wuming realized something was wrong.

Dugu Yan absorbed the Nine Heavens Dragon Centipede Torso Bone, evolved her Martial Soul, and gained a new Soul Bone Skill she kept secret. Ye Lingling’s Martial Soul also evolved into the Acacia Evergreen Flower, removing her clan’s curse, and she began considering a Soul Ring for her new Rank 40.

• Ji Wuming used the Blood Dragon’s energy to help repair Dugu Yan’s Rock Domain Poisonous Flood Dragon as she struggled against the Nine Heavens Dragon Centipede in her Spiritual Sea of Consciousness.
• Dugu Yan defeated the Nine Heavens Dragon Centipede, absorbed its Torso Bone, and completed her Martial Soul’s evolution into a true dragon.
• Dugu Yan concealed her new Soul Bone Skill from Ji Wuming, who teased her by calling himself her future husband.
• Ye Lingling’s Nine Heart Begonia evolved, and she realized the change had removed her clan’s Martial Soul curse.
• Ji Wuming named Ye Lingling’s evolved Martial Soul the Acacia Evergreen Flower, and Ye Lingling said her healing skills now required half as much time and Soul Power for severely injured soul masters.
• Ye Lingling, now Rank 40, had not chosen a Soul Ring and considered seeking a soul beast with healing or life attributes.

Ji Wuming discovered that the Blue Silver Emperor he had stored among his herbs had grown rapidly and explained how it could be cultivated into a powerful future Soul Ring for Ye Lingling. Ye Lingling asked him to recommend a Soul Beast for her Fourth Soul Ring, and Ji Wuming had not yet answered.

• Ji Wuming examined the Blue Silver Emperor and found it had grown from a small four-leaf plant into a meter-tall specimen with golden patterns, while the other herbs in his Treasure Pouch remained unharmed.
• Ji Wuming told Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling that the Blue Silver Emperor could grow into a Ten Thousand Year plant Soul Beast in three years at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and might eventually reach a Hundred-Thousand-Year level.
• Ji Wuming proposed that Ye Lingling absorb a Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor for her eighth or ninth Soul Ring, gaining stronger healing and a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone.
• Dugu Yan connected Tang San's powerful Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul to the possibility of it becoming a Blue Silver Emperor, and Ji Wuming explained the plant's potential and vitality.
• Ye Lingling asked whether Blue Silver Grass Soul Beasts could provide all her future Soul Rings, but Ji Wuming advised her to consider other possibilities and keep them as a backup.
• Ye Lingling asked Ji Wuming what Soul Beast he would recommend for her Fourth Soul Ring, leaving him poised to answer.

Ji Wuming met Xue Qinghe and Ning Fengzhi, discussed the Breaking Clan’s move to Heaven Dou, and secured places for Yang Yong and Zhu Zhuqing on the Royal Academy’s First Team. The next day, he joined the women and Dugu Bo on a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest after Zhu Zhuqing reached level thirty.

• Ye Lingling asked Ji Wuming to accompany her and her mother to find a suitable soul beast, and Dugu Yan offered to call her grandfather for help.
• Zhi Lin summoned Ji Wuming to the Royal Hotel, where Xue Qinghe introduced Ning Fengzhi as his teacher.
• Xue Qinghe questioned Ji Wuming about bringing the Breaking Clan to the Falling Star Mountain Range, and Ji Wuming explained that he wanted to help the clan and serve Heaven Dou.
• Ji Wuming asked for Yang Yong and Zhu Zhuqing to join the Heaven Dou Royal Academy First Team and compete in the tournament, and Xue Qinghe agreed.
• Ning Fengzhi told Xue Qinghe that Ji Wuming was extraordinarily talented and proud beneath his obedience.
• After Zhu Zhuqing reached level thirty, Ji Wuming, the four women, and Dugu Bo traveled toward the Star Dou Great Forest.

Dugu Bo's group searched the Star Dou Great Forest for soul beasts for Zhu Zhuqing and Ye Lingling, but their hunt led them to a pair of Azure Saint Unicorns. Ji Wuming pursued the unicorns alone, leaving Dugu Bo to hunt a Dark Night Demon Tiger for Zhu Zhuqing.

• Ji Wuming used his enhanced spiritual detection to find a seventeen-hundred-year Dark Night Demon Tiger for Zhu Zhuqing's Third Soul Ring.
• A fifty-thousand-year Dark Night Demon Tiger appeared, but it and the surrounding soul beasts retreated when an Azure Saint Unicorn arrived.
• Ye Wuyi explained that Azure Saint Unicorns were unguarded during mating season and that female unicorns trampled their mates after mating.
• A male Azure Saint Unicorn arrived, performed a healing courtship dance, and flew away with the female toward a secluded place.
• Ji Wuming flew after the pair while Dugu Bo stayed behind to hunt the Dark Night Demon Tiger for Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ji Wuming followed the Azure Saint Unicorns into a natural cave in a cliff.

Ji Wuming captured two Azure Saint Unicorns and brought them back so Ye Lingling could gain a healing-type Soul Ring. After Ye Lingling began absorbing the female unicorn’s ring, Ji Wuming arranged to save the male Ten Thousand Year unicorn for her future breakthrough.

• Ji Wuming waited outside the Cave, then used his Blood Thunder Battle Spear to knock out the Azure Saint Unicorns when the female turned on the male.
• Ji Wuming gave both unicorns Severe Sleep Pills, stored them in the Treasure Pouch, and returned to Dugu Bo’s group through the Poison Mist.
• Ji Wuming presented the Azure Saint Unicorns to the group and told Ye Lingling to use the female as her Fourth Soul Ring.
• Ye Lingling killed the female Azure Saint Unicorn and began absorbing its deep-purple Soul Ring.
• Ji Wuming arranged for the Breaking Clan to care for the Ten Thousand Year unicorn until Ye Lingling could absorb its Soul Ring as a Soul King.

After Zhu Zhuqing gained her Third Soul Skill, a beast tide erupted when Soul Beasts reacted to the missing Azure Saint Unicorns. Ji Wuming and the others escaped the Star Dou Great Forest, and Ji later traveled to the Breaking Clan’s new territory to meet Yang Wudi.

• Zhu Zhuqing absorbed a Purple Soul Ring and gained Netherworld Meteor Annihilation, which enhanced her attack and speed and let her conceal herself.
• Four Eighty-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts awoke, triggering a beast tide after the Azure Saint Unicorns failed to return; Dugu Bo realized the frenzy was connected to the two unicorns.
• After Ye Lingling absorbed the Azure Saint Unicorn's Soul Ring, Ji Wuming led the group out of the Star Dou Great Forest while Dugu Bo covered their rear.
• Ji Wuming asked Dugu Bo to send Dugu Yan and the others back to Heaven Dou City, then planned to visit Yang Wudi and leave the male Azure Saint Unicorn with the Breaking Clan.
• After parting from the others at Jialing Pass, Ji Wuming traveled to the Breaking Clan's new territory in the Falling Star Mountain Range, where Yang Wudi welcomed him.

Ji Wuming inspected the Breaking Clan’s new territory and gave Yang Wudi the Azure Saint Unicorn to use until Ye Lingling needed it for her fifth Soul Ring. Meanwhile, Titan brought Tang San to visit the clan, where Tang San studied its Soul Tools and learned he must not mention his father to Yang Wudi; Yang Wudi then mistook Ji Wuming for his friend’s grandson, Yong'er.

• Yang Wudi showed Ji Wuming the clan’s poison defenses, Soul Guidance Rays, and herb fields, and Ji Wuming praised the preparations.
• Ji Wuming gave Yang Wudi temporary permission to use the Azure Saint Unicorn for medicinal work, provided he did not kill it.
• Titan brought Tang San to the Breaking Clan under the pretense of arranging weapons, warning him not to reveal that he was Tang Hao’s son or mention his father’s name.
• Tang San wondered why Titan withheld the history between Tang Hao and the Breaking Clan, and hoped to study the clan’s Soul Tools to improve the Godly Zhuge Crossbow.
• At the clan entrance, Tang San judged the Poison Mist lethal even to a Titled Douluo, while Titan joked about Yang Wudi’s defenses.
• Yang Wudi greeted Titan and mistook Ji Wuming for Yong'er before Titan corrected him.

Ji Wuming visited the Breaking Clan with Titan and Tang San, where he showed them a compact Soul Tool that unfolded into a ray weapon. Tang San accused Ji Wuming of copying his hidden weapons and demonstrated the Silent Sleeve Arrow’s transformation, leaving their dispute unresolved.

• Ji Wuming introduced himself to Yang Wudi, while Tang San greeted him and narrowly avoided angering him over his surname.
• Titan reminisced about the Breaking Clan’s past, upsetting Yang Wudi, who remained bitter toward those who had abandoned the clans.
• Yang Wudi revealed that the Breaking Clan had acquired a small Soul Tool, and Titan and Tang San examined it.
• Ji Wuming activated the Third-Grade Soul Guidance Ray, unfolding it into a weapon with three cannon barrels.
• Tang San accused Ji Wuming of plagiarizing his Silent Sleeve Arrow and Godly Zhuge Crossbow, then demonstrated the Silent Sleeve Arrow’s transforming wrist-guard form.

Tang San and Ji Wuming compared the Godly Zhuge Crossbow with Ji Wuming’s Third-Grade Soul Guidance Ray, and the Soul Tool proved far more powerful. Titan wanted to buy the rays for the Strength Clan, but Ji Wuming set a price of 10,000 Gold Soul Coins per set, leaving Tang San convinced he was greedy.

• Yang Wudi rejected Tang San’s accusation that the Breaking Clan’s Soul Tools copied his Silent Sleeve Arrow and criticized the Godly Zhuge Crossbow.
• Tang San and Ji Wuming tested their weapons against granite slabs, and Ji Wuming’s Third-Grade Soul Guidance Ray pierced multiple slabs at long range.
• Titan asked Yang Wudi whether the Breaking Clan could sell the rays in bulk, and Yang Wudi deferred the decision to Ji Wuming.
• Ji Wuming agreed to sell the rays for 10,000 Gold Soul Coins per set, shocking Titan.
• Tang San judged Ji Wuming greedy and suspected he had set the price high to discourage buyers.

Tang San’s identity as Tang Hao’s son was exposed, and Yang Wudi drove him and Titan away over the Breaking Clan’s grievances against the Clear Sky Sect. Ji Wuming appeased Yang Wudi with precious herbs, while the conflict forced Ji Wuming to assemble the Soul Guidance Rays himself to protect their technology.

• Tang San offered Titan 700,000 Gold Soul Coins for Soul Guidance Rays, but Titan refused and knelt to address him as Young Master.
• Yang Wudi recognized Tang San as Tang Hao’s son, accused the Clear Sky Sect of abandoning the Four Single-Attribute Clans, and ordered Tang San and Titan to leave.
• Titan and Yang Wudi argued over the old grievances, and Titan led Tang San out of the Luoxing Mountain Range.
• Ji Wuming gave Yang Wudi seven Immortal Herbs and the Aromatic Silk Beauty, winning his gratitude and strengthening the Breaking Clan’s loyalty.
• Ji Wuming moved the Soul Tool components into the Sect Master’s Courtyard and began assembling Soul Guidance Rays himself to keep their technology secret.

Tang San gave Titan the Hidden Weapons: Sandstorm blueprint and discussed combining Tang Sect hidden weapons with Soul Tool technology, strengthening Titan’s interest in the Tang Sect. Meanwhile, Ji Wuming completed more than three hundred and fifty Third-Grade Soul Guidance Rays, and Yang Wudi arrived with the newly refined pills.

• Titan reconsidered his grudge against Tang San’s master and decided to try persuading Yang Wudi at the next clan gathering.
• Tang San told Titan he wanted Third-Grade Soul Guidance Rays to study and improve his hidden weapons, then gave him the Hidden Weapons: Sandstorm blueprint.
• Titan praised Tang San’s design and became interested in the Tang Sect’s legendary weapons, while Tang San said he could not yet make its strongest weapons.
• Titan offered to help Tang San obtain Soul Guidance Rays through the relationships between the clans, and he began considering joining the Tang Sect.
• Ji Wuming finished assembling more than three hundred and fifty Third-Grade Soul Guidance Rays and added anti-disassembly mechanisms to protect their cores.
• Yang Wudi entered the courtyard carrying bottles of excellent pills refined from premium herbs.

Yang Wudi revealed the Mystic Water Pill, and Ji Wuming confirmed its effects by taking one himself. After Ji Wuming urged Dugu Bo to procure Whale Rubber for mass production, he claimed that Whale Rubber could help Soul Masters achieve Cross-Level Absorption of Soul Rings and offered to prove it.

• Yang Wudi presented Ji Wuming with Mystic Water Pills and explained their Soul Power and body-tempering effects, along with their foul-smelling side effect.
• Ji Wuming swallowed a Mystic Water Pill and found that his Soul Power increased without changing his Soul Power Level or producing impurities.
• Yang Wudi said he could refine three pills every twelve days but lacked enough Whale Rubber, so Ji Wuming proposed having Dugu Bo buy more.
• Dugu Bo arrived, learned about the pill and the shortage, and objected to being sent on an errand until Ji Wuming pressed him to help prepare for the Soul Master Tournament.
• Ji Wuming said Whale Rubber could help Soul Masters meet the conditions for Cross-Level Absorption of Soul Rings and offered a simple way to prove it.

Ji Wuming revealed his extraordinary Soul Ring configuration to Dugu Bo and Yang Wudi, crediting Whale Rubber and rigorous body training for pushing his limits. He left the Breaking Clan after asking Dugu Bo to plant the Blue Silver Emperor in the Herb Garden and keep his Soul Ring secret from Yanyan for now.

• Ji Wuming displayed five Soul Rings, including a ten-thousand-year fourth ring from a fifteen-thousand-year Thunderous Hell Vine, shocking Yang Wudi and Dugu Bo.
• Ji Wuming's second ring changed from yellow to purple, and his third ring became a ten-thousand-year black ring; he explained that body tempering helped him absorb his second ring and a Thunder Dragon Fish's sacrifice produced his third.
• Dugu Bo recognized that Ji Wuming had a simulation-type Soul Bone concealing his Soul Ring aura, and Ji Wuming asked him and Yang Wudi to keep his strength secret from Yanyan until she reached at least Soul Saint.
• Ji Wuming gave Dugu Bo the Blue Silver Emperor to plant in the Herb Garden for Ling Ling, then left the Breaking Clan.
• Yang Wudi led younger clan members in refining pills, while Dugu Bo began buying Whale Rubber in bulk.