Chapter Summaries

Dugu Bo recognized Xiao Wu as a hundred-thousand-year soul beast and discussed capturing her, while Su Wen considered how he might obtain a more suitable hundred-thousand-year soul ring in the future. The Royal Fight Team defeated Shrek Team, and the students gathered with their teachers afterward.

• Dugu Bo told Su Wen that Xiao Wu was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast and suggested Su Wen take her soul ring while Dugu Yan received her soul bone.
• Su Wen told Dugu Bo he planned to replace his early soul rings and hoped to find a hundred-thousand-year soul beast whose ring suited him better.
• Dugu Bo decided to capture Xiao Wu after Shrek Team left, and Su Wen returned to watch the Royal Fight Team's match.
• Qin Ming explained that he hoped to invite Shrek to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while Su Wen predicted the Royal Fight Team would win.
• The Royal Fight Team defeated Shrek Team after a ten-minute battle, and Qin Ming brought both groups to Shrek's lounge.
• Flender met the Royal Fight Team students at the hotel and remarked to Qin Ming on how exceptional they were.

Qin Ming invited Flender and Shrek Academy to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy, but Flender planned to refuse and pursue another arrangement. Later, Dugu Bo confronted Shrek and demanded Xiao Wu, exposing her as a hundred-thousand-year soul beast; Tang Hao arrived to protect her.

• Qin Ming invited Flender and Shrek Academy to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy and compete in the Soul Master Competition.
• Grandmaster privately urged Flender to refuse, and Flender told Qin Ming he had another way to keep Shrek going.
• Dugu Bo stopped Shrek's group after the banquet and demanded that Xiao Wu come with him.
• Dugu Bo revealed that Xiao Wu was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, and Tang San shielded her despite her confession.
• Tang Hao appeared to defend Xiao Wu and identified himself as Clear Sky Douluo, shocking Dugu Bo.

Tang Hao appeared to protect Tang San and Xiao Wu, but Su Wen and Dugu Bo exposed the severity of his injuries and gained the upper hand. Dugu Bo demanded the Soul Detonation Secret Technique in exchange for keeping the night's events secret, and Tang Hao agreed.

• Tang Hao arrived to stop Dugu Bo from harming Tang San, while Su Wen argued that Tang San and Xiao Wu's relationship would lead to tragedy because she was a Soul Beast.
• Tang San questioned Su Wen about Xiao Wu's identity, and Su Wen warned that Dugu Bo and he held the advantage against the injured Tang Hao.
• Su Wen explained that Tang Hao's injuries were severe, and Dugu Bo threatened to poison everyone if Tang Hao attacked.
• Dugu Bo unleashed his poison when Tang Hao demanded secrecy, then offered to keep quiet in exchange for the Soul Detonation Secret Technique.
• Tang Hao agreed to hand over the secret technique, while resolving to reclaim it from Su Wen later.

Su Wen explained that his parents had died in the aftermath of Tang Hao’s battle with Spirit Hall and vowed to kill everyone involved, while Dugu Bo agreed to strengthen himself with Immortal Herbs. At Shrek Academy, Tang Hao warned Xiao Wu to return to the Star Dou Great Forest, and she accepted without deciding what to do next.

• Su Wen told Dugu Bo that his parents had died protecting him from the aftermath of Tang Hao’s battle with Spirit Hall, and he vowed to take revenge on everyone involved.
• Dugu Bo warned that Clear Sky Sect might target Su Wen, while Su Wen said Tang Hao could not act freely without risking exposure of the events surrounding the Soul Detonation Secret Technique.
• Su Wen persuaded Dugu Bo to use the Little Land Dragon Golden Melon and Ninth Grade Dragon Ganoderma to strengthen his bloodline and cultivation.
• At Shrek Academy, Flender and the others discussed Xiao Wu’s identity as a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and Grandmaster admitted he had not known.
• Tang Hao told Tang San that he had saved them from Dugu Bo, and Tang San blamed Dugu Bo and Su Wen for the loss of the Soul Detonation Secret Technique.
• Tang Hao urged Xiao Wu to return to the Star Dou Great Forest, and she agreed to go back for now.

Tang San’s friends learned that Xiao Wu had returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, while Ning Rongrong declined Qin Ming’s offer to hunt her soul ring. Flender and Grandmaster decided Shrek should merge with Blue Tyrant Academy so its students could compete in the Soul Master Competition, and the teachers agreed to go to Heaven Dou City.

• Tang San told his five dormitory companions that Xiao Wu had returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, and they accepted her as their friend despite her identity as a soul beast.
• Ning Rongrong told Qin Ming that Sword Grandfather would help her obtain her soul ring, so Qin Ming canceled the planned trip to hunt soul beasts and arranged for the group to return to Heaven Dou City.
• Grandmaster persuaded Flender that Shrek’s students needed access to the Soul Master Competition and suggested merging the academy with Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Flender agreed to merge Shrek into Blue Tyrant Academy and told Grandmaster he would support him as his brother.
• Flender presented the plan to Shrek’s teachers, and Zhao Wuji and the others agreed to set out for Heaven Dou City.

After returning to Heaven Dou City, the Royal Fight Team rested from its four-month training trip, while Dugu Bo brought Dugu Yan to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to help her cultivate and use Daffodil Jade Flesh Bone. As Dugu Yan began absorbing the herb, Dugu Bo asked Su Wen what level his Soul Power had reached.

• The Royal Fight Team returned to Heaven Dou City after four months of training, and Qin Ming sent everyone home to recover and digest their gains.
• Su Wen followed Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Dugu Yan marveled at its unusual conditions and many precious herbs.
• Dugu Bo explained that he had brought Dugu Yan to cultivate the Poison Skill and give her Daffodil Jade Flesh Bone to nourish her body and open her Hidden Meridians.
• Dugu Yan ate the petals and sucked the stamens of the herb, then sat down to refine its medicinal power as her tiny meridians began expanding.
• Dugu Bo asked Su Wen what level his Soul Power was.

Su Wen told Dugu Bo he was Level 49 and rejected taking another rare herb because accumulated medicinal power could undermine his control and cultivation. Dugu Bo discussed the Aromatic Silk Beauty’s compatibility with the Eight Petal Immortal Orchid, while Su Wen planned to give it to Ning Rongrong; Dugu Yan then finished absorbing her herb and discovered she had reached Level 40.

• Su Wen revealed his Level 49 cultivation to Dugu Bo and explained why he did not want to absorb more rare herbs.
• Dugu Bo said the Aromatic Silk Beauty’s medicinal properties seemed to complement the Eight Petal Immortal Orchid, but Su Wen said he intended to give it to Ning Rongrong.
• Dugu Bo confirmed that he planned to give the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum to Yu Tianheng as Dugu Yan’s dowry.
• Dugu Yan finished absorbing the Daffodil Jade Flesh Bone and told Dugu Bo she had broken through to Level 40, with more effects still apparent.

After Dugu Yan opened eight Hidden Meridians with the Daffodil Jade Flesh Bone, Su Wen helped Dugu Bo locate the six he had not found. Dugu Bo recognized the cultivation benefits of Su Wen’s ability, while Dugu Yan continued struggling to complete the Soul Ascension Method’s circulation.

• Dugu Yan discovered that the Daffodil Jade Flesh Bone had widened several meridians and opened eight Hidden Meridians, three times as many as Dugu Bo had opened.
• Dugu Bo asked Dugu Yan where her Hidden Meridians were, but could not identify them among the many meridians in his body.
• Su Wen revealed the eight Hidden Meridians on his Martial Soul’s meridian chart, and Dugu Bo realized Su Wen had marked them before; Su Wen replied, “You never asked!”
• Su Wen guided Dugu Bo’s Soul Power through his body, helping him find the six Hidden Meridians he had not known about.
• Dugu Bo considered how finding Hidden Meridians could help Soul Masters open them during breakthroughs, then asked Dugu Yan about her Soul Ascension Method progress.
• Dugu Yan said she had memorized the meridian positions but was still trying to form a complete circulation, and she doubted Su Wen’s claim that the remaining steps were easy.

Su Wen gave Ning Fengzhi advice about Ning Rongrong’s upcoming Third Soul Ring and presented her with an Aromatic Silk Beauty. After absorbing it, Ning Rongrong’s Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda transformed into a Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.

• Dugu Yan said she still needed about a month of practice before she could use the Soul Ascension Method reliably, while Su Wen’s visualization of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well continued to strengthen his Spiritual Power.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Su Wen how old a Soul Ring Ning Rongrong could absorb, and Su Wen judged that she could manage about two thousand years with the Soul Ascension Method but could not guarantee three thousand.
• Su Wen told Ning Fengzhi that Ning Rongrong should keep practicing the Soul Ascension Method and Soul Fusion Method, then refine a gift before absorbing her Third Soul Ring.
• Su Wen gave Ning Rongrong the Aromatic Silk Beauty and instructed her to absorb its essence; Ning Fengzhi allowed her to proceed.
• After Ning Rongrong absorbed the herb, she released her Martial Soul, and Ning Fengzhi, Bone Douluo, and Sword Douluo saw that her pagoda had nine floors.

Ning Rongrong’s Aromatic Silk Beauty transformed her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Ning Fengzhi rewarded Su Wen with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support and Soul Bones. Su Wen prepared to enter seclusion, while Ning Fengzhi offered help when he obtained his next Soul Ring.

• Ning Rongrong summoned her newly evolved Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Ning Fengzhi confirmed the transformation.
• Ning Fengzhi thanked Su Wen by offering the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s full support for his academy and several Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, which Su Wen reluctantly agreed to accept.
• Ning Fengzhi examined Ning Rongrong and concluded she could withstand a Three Thousand Year Soul Ring with the Soul Ascension Method; Su Wen urged her to master it within three months.
• Su Wen asked Ning Fengzhi to help correct Ning Rongrong’s Soul Ascension Method cultivation while he entered seclusion.
• Ning Fengzhi recognized that Su Wen had concealed his true cultivation and offered to have Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo help him obtain his next Soul Ring.

Su Wen received four Soul Bones from Ning Fengzhi and planned to enter seclusion, but Xiao Zhan summoned him before he could. At the academy, Su Wen met Xiao Zhan’s daughter Xiao Huo as Xiao Zhan prepared to attempt condensing a Soul Core.

• Ning Fengzhi gave Su Wen a list of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Soul Bones, and Su Wen chose four for their Soul Skills.
• Su Wen left the sect with the four Soul Bones and planned to cultivate at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Xiao Zhan summoned Su Wen to the academy after spending more than half a year studying Su Wen’s prototype Soul Core Method.
• Su Wen met Xiao Zhan’s daughter Xiao Huo, a twenty-five-year-old Soul Master whose Soul Power had reached rank fifty.
• Xiao Zhan told Su Wen that he was about to try condensing a Soul Core, though he could not guarantee success.

Xiao Zhan used the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower and Su Wen’s Soul Core Method to break through his bottleneck, while Su Wen continued researching ways to strengthen his combat ability. The chapter ended with Xiao Zhan and Xiao Huo stunned when Su Wen said he was nearing another breakthrough and would have two Titled Douluo help him obtain a Soul Ring.

• Xiao Zhan worried that condensing a soul core might kill him, so he asked his daughter to meet Su Wen before beginning his seclusion.
• Su Wen reassured Xiao Zhan that his Soul Power Circulation Route would protect him, then asked Xiao Huo about her Azure Lotus Biyu Fire Martial Soul and learned how its faint life force healed her as she fought.
• While Xiao Zhan cultivated, Su Wen researched self-created soul skills and the Soul Detonation Secret Technique to overcome the gap between his strength and the enhancements granted by Martial Souls.
• After half a month, Xiao Zhan emerged having successfully condensed Solidified Soul Power, and he credited the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower and Soul Core Method for his breakthrough.
• Su Wen offered to let Xiao Zhan join him when he obtained a Soul Ring with help from Poison Douluo and a Titled Douluo from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, leaving Xiao Zhan and Xiao Huo stunned by his impending breakthrough and powerful allies.

Su Wen studied Soul Detonation at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, learned to restore detonated rings, and found a path toward developing his Soul Ring Replacement Method. Dugu Bo brought a lead on a suitable Space Attribute soul beast, leaving Su Wen ready to hear the bad news.

• Xiao Zhan learned that Su Wen was level 49 and planned to seek a thirty-thousand-year Space Attribute Soul Ring, so he agreed to help gather information through Spirit Hall.
• Su Wen returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and used healing Soul Skills and a Light Flower Right Arm Bone skill to recover from repeated Soul Detonation.
• Su Wen learned to restrain and partly restore detonated rings, then concluded that Soul Detonation could gradually make a soul ring’s origin part of the Soul Master.
• Su Wen realized his research on soul ring origins could advance his First Soul Skill, martial soul amplification, and Soul Ring Replacement Method.
• Dugu Bo told Su Wen that the Crown Prince had provided a lead on a Space Attribute soul beast matching the desired age, before the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Spirit Hall found one.

Su Wen continued developing his water affinity while waiting for news about a suitable Space Attribute soul beast, then became interested in a Void Silvermoon Tapir near the East Sea. Meanwhile, Grandmaster and the Shrek group applied to Blue Tyrant Academy, where Grandmaster took offense at the dean’s arrangements and wanted to confront the family member he believed had slighted him.

• Su Wen rejected the deep-sea Void Silver Shark and continued waiting for more leads while Dugu Bo said Dugu Yan was nearly ready to use the Soul Ascension Method.
• Su Wen copied the Giant Water Rhinoceros Soul Bone’s Water Ripple skill, gained an affinity for the water attribute, and kept cultivating without breaking through.
• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect reported that Ning Rongrong had circulated the Soul Ascension Method and located a likely Void Silvermoon Tapir near Evil Spirit Island.
• Grandmaster brought Flender, the other Shrek teachers, and their students to Blue Tyrant Academy to register for positions.
• After the staff registered the Shrek group and said the dean wanted to meet them, Grandmaster took the treatment as a slight and resolved to see who was refusing to give him face.

Grandmaster reunited with Liu Erlong at Blue Tyrant Academy, which she agreed to rename Shrek Academy after accepting Shrek’s merger. After months stuck at Level 49, Su Wen broke through to Level 50 and prepared to travel with Ning Rongrong and others to Evil Spirit Island to hunt soul beasts.

• Flender brought Grandmaster and the Shrek group to Liu Erlong, where Grandmaster and Liu Erlong struggled to contain their emotions during their reunion.
• Liu Erlong made Flender the dean of Blue Tyrant Academy and announced that it would be renamed Shrek Academy.
• Over six months, Su Wen remained at Level 49 while the Royal Fight Team members advanced, and Yu Tianheng reached Level 44 after taking the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and obtaining his Fourth Soul Ring.
• Su Wen broke through to Level 50 and told Dugu Bo that he planned to hunt a Void Silvermoon Tapir.
• Su Wen asked Ning Fengzhi to bring Ning Rongrong on the trip to Evil Spirit Island, and Ning Fengzhi arranged for Gu Rong, Dugu Bo, and Xiao Zhan to accompany them.

Su Wen and the others traveled to Eastsea City to sail for Evil Spirit Island and hunt Soul Rings. When a Heaven Swallowing Whale attacked their ship, Su Wen asked Gu Rong to kill it for the Whale Rubber in its brain, which he said could help Ning Rongrong endure stronger Soul Rings.

• Chen Xin and Gu Rong nearly argued until Ning Fengzhi intervened, then Gu Rong, Su Wen, and Ning Rongrong left with Xiao Zhan and Xiao Huo to hunt Soul Rings.
• The group reached Eastsea City, where Gu Rong bought a ship and a map after local boatmen refused to take them to Evil Spirit Island.
• Three days into the voyage, Su Wen spotted a Heaven Swallowing Whale trying to swallow their ship, so the group flew clear while Gu Rong drove it away.
• Su Wen asked Gu Rong to kill the whale for its Whale Rubber, explaining that it could nourish the body's meridians and increase the limit for enduring Soul Rings.
• Gu Rong pursued and killed the Heaven Swallowing Whale, then extracted a golden crystal from its brain.

After collecting whale rubber from the Heaven Swallowing Whale, Su Wen helped Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan absorb it to strengthen their bodies and raise their soul-ring age limits. The group increased their targets for the girls’ next soul rings, though Su Wen doubted they would find another whale-type soul beast along the route.

• Gu Rong collected the Heaven Swallowing Whale’s whale rubber, and Su Wen explained that refining it could improve a soul master’s ability to withstand soul-ring power.
• Su Wen divided the roasted whale rubber between Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan, used his First Soul Skill to help them stay clearheaded, and told them to circulate Soul Power as they absorbed it.
• Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan absorbed the whale rubber overnight and awoke with improved physical endurance.
• Gu Rong and Dugu Bo examined the girls and estimated that Ning Rongrong could attempt a four-thousand-year Third Soul Ring and Dugu Yan a seven-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo wondered whether whale rubber could be used again, but Su Wen pointed out that they were unlikely to encounter another whale-type soul beast near the coast.

Su Wen and his companions encountered increasingly powerful Sea Soul Beasts on their voyage, collecting Whale Rubber that could raise the juniors’ soul-ring tolerance. They reached Evil Spirit Island, where Su Wen suspected the Void Silvermoon Tapir had attracted the sleeping Sea Soul Beasts, and the group prepared to explore cautiously.

• Dugu Bo killed a twenty-thousand-year giant whale and gave its Whale Rubber to Su Wen to process for Dugu Yan and Ning Rongrong.
• The group encountered several powerful Sea Soul Beasts, including a fifty-thousand-year Demon Whale that Xiao Zhan killed, and divided its Whale Rubber among four juniors.
• Su Wen absorbed Whale Rubber, used his Martial Soul and Illusion Spirit Eye to resist its effects, and estimated that it raised his soul-ring tolerance by about a thousand years.
• Su Wen and Dugu Bo concluded that the Sea Soul Beasts had gathered near Evil Spirit Island because the Void Silvermoon Tapir could devour their nightmares.
• The group landed on Evil Spirit Island, and Gu Rong warned them to be cautious because powerful soul beasts lived there.

Su Wen’s group searched the Primeval Forest for soul rings, and Ning Rongrong absorbed a six-thousand-five-hundred-year Star Radiance Unicorn ring. She completed the absorption with help from the Soul Ascension Method, while Gu Rong and Dugu Bo discussed how its initial strain could strengthen a Soul Master’s body through breaking and rebuilding.

• Su Wen’s group set targets for Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, and Xiao Huo’s next soul rings as they entered the Primeval Forest.
• After three days of searching, Gu Rong found a six-thousand-five-hundred-year Star Radiance Unicorn that Ning Rongrong wanted to absorb.
• Gu Rong killed the Star Radiance Unicorn, and Ning Rongrong began absorbing its purple soul ring using the Soul Ascension Method.
• Gu Rong criticized the method’s painful initial impact, but Dugu Bo argued that the damage and healing could temper a Soul Master’s body and raise future soul-ring limits.
• Five hours later, Ning Rongrong opened her eyes and summoned her Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, now surrounded by starlight.

Ning Rongrong described her strengthened third Soul Skill before Su Wen’s group found a nearly ten-thousand-year Poison Dragon Scorpion in a poisonous Cold Pond. Dugu Yan absorbed it as her Fourth Soul Ring and emerged at Level 45.

• Ning Rongrong explained that her Third Soul Skill boosted Soul Power by forty percent and reduced the consumption of her other skills.
• Su Wen detected a soul beast beneath the Cold Pond, and Dugu Bo drew out a Purple Scaled Poison Dragon Scorpion that Su Wen identified as an ideal Fourth Soul Ring for Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo subdued the Poison Dragon Scorpion, and Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo combined their toxins to kill it and produce a Soul Ring.
• Dugu Yan spent ten hours absorbing the near-ten-thousand-year Soul Ring while Su Wen and the others camped and meditated nearby.
• Dugu Yan finished absorbing the Soul Ring the next morning and discovered that her Soul Power had risen to Level 45, startling Ning Rongrong and the others.