Chapter Summaries

Xiao Qiang and Tian Meng attempted to craft a Rank 5 Milk Bottle while Xiao Qiang maintained Mental Probe, hoping to impress Jing Hongchen and secure the resources he needed. As Xiao Qiang’s Soul Power and spiritual power ran low, Tian Meng released one of his seals to help him continue.

• Xiao Qiang convinced Tian Meng that they needed to craft a Rank 5 Milk Bottle to earn better resources and keep pace with Xiao Hongchen.
• Tian Meng took control of Xiao Qiang’s body, activated Mental Probe, and began crafting the Soul Tool while Xiao Qiang prepared to replenish his Soul Power from a Milk Bottle.
• Jing Hongchen watched Xiao Qiang work and suspected he had an undiscovered eye-type Body Spirit, considering him a potential final disciple.
• Xiao Qiang’s Soul Power and spiritual power dwindled as he maintained Mental Probe and engraved the Rank 5 Milk Bottle’s core array.
• Tian Meng warned that Xiao Qiang’s mind could collapse, but Xiao Qiang asked him to release one seal so they could continue.
• Tian Meng released one of his seals, and immense spiritual power surged into Xiao Qiang’s sea of consciousness.

Xiao Qiang’s Sharingan evolved to three tomoe while Tian Meng used his body to complete a fifth-grade Milk Bottle Soul Tool, impressing Jing Hongchen. After recovering with a powerful medicinal bath, Xiao Qiang became Jing Hongchen’s disciple and received valuable resources and authority.

• Tian Meng’s spiritual power transformed Xiao Qiang’s sea of consciousness into an Abyss of Consciousness, and Xiao Qiang’s Sharingan evolved into three tomoe.
• Tian Meng used Xiao Qiang’s improved eyesight to finish the Milk Bottle’s Soul Guide Array, then Xiao Qiang fainted from exhaustion.
• Jing Hongchen dismissed concerns about Xiao Qiang’s hidden motives, destroyed his file, and ordered his subordinates to bring him in after he woke.
• Tian Meng helped Xiao Qiang absorb a medicinal bath’s properties, raising his Soul Power from level thirty-three to level thirty-five.
• Xiao Qiang accepted Jing Hongchen as his master, and Jing Hongchen gave him a living-storage Soul Tool, Ranking Seventeen Engraving Knife · Water Cold, thirty million Gold Soul Coins, and a disciple’s token.

Xiao Qiang demonstrated his deceptive soul skills and combat ability to Jing Hongchen, who then arranged a duel with his arrogant grandson, Xiao Hongchen. Xiao Hongchen dismissed Xiao Qiang and wagered that he would wash Meng Hongchen’s socks for a year if he lost.

• Jing Hongchen arranged for Xiao Qiang to fight Rank 4 Soul Engineers, and Xiao Qiang swiftly defeated Li Zihao and another opponent.
• Xiao Qiang explained that Psychological Suggestion and Simulation had helped him catch both opponents off guard.
• Jing Hongchen asked Xiao Qiang to teach Xiao Hongchen a painful lesson about underestimating others.
• Xiao Qiang met Meng Hongchen and told her she reminded him of someone who was the cutest in the world.
• Xiao Hongchen scoffed at the idea that Xiao Qiang could defeat him and wagered that he would wash Meng’s socks for a year if he lost.

Xiao Hongchen accepted Jing Hongchen’s challenge to fight Xiao Qiang, wagering a Rank 9 Soul Tool against a year of washing Meng Hongchen’s socks. Xiao Qiang exploited Xiao Hongchen’s distraction to overwhelm him, and the chapter ended with Xiao Hongchen losing and Meng Hongchen asking when he would start fulfilling the wager.

• Xiao Hongchen arrogantly wagered that he would wash Meng Hongchen’s socks for a year if Xiao Qiang beat him, while Jing Hongchen offered him a Rank 9 Soul Tool for winning.
• Xiao Hongchen accepted the duel, confident that his four rings and twelve-level Soul Power advantage made defeat impossible.
• After the match began, Xiao Hongchen gave Xiao Qiang twelve free moves, but Xiao Qiang used his Thruster to rush in before Xiao Hongchen could fire his Soul Cannons.
• Xiao Qiang’s Psychological Suggestion briefly distracted Xiao Hongchen, allowing Xiao Qiang to punch both of his eyes and keep him on the defensive.
• At Jing Hongchen’s signal, the referee declared Xiao Hongchen the loser, and Meng Hongchen asked whether he would wash her socks that day or the next.

Xiao Qiang visited the Sun Moon Royal Auction House to buy pills for a four-ring Soul Ancestor who had helped him, and Jing Hongchen learned that he planned to repay the favor. Jing Hongchen then alluded to a famous person surnamed Tang who had prospered despite taking benefits and giving little back, leaving Jingyun wondering whether he meant Tang San.

• Xiao Qiang went to the Sun Moon Royal Auction House using Jing Hongchen’s disciple identity token and asked about medicine for a four-ring Soul Ancestor.
• Ruoshui explained the prices and uses of the Marrow Cleansing Pill and Soul Ascension Pill, and described the Sun Moon Empire’s pill-making traditions.
• Xiao Qiang consulted Teacher Jingyun, who advised him to buy the Soul Ascension Pill immediately but wait for the auction to purchase the Marrow Cleansing Pill.
• Xiao Qiang said he wanted to repay Vice Dean Bai Qingshan for past favors, then chose to buy the Soul Ascension Pill in advance and bid on the Marrow Cleansing Pill later.
• Jingyun told Jing Hongchen about Xiao Qiang’s planned purchase, and Jing Hongchen praised his gratitude before mentioning a successful person surnamed Tang who had taken benefits without repaying them.
• Jingyun wondered whether Jing Hongchen meant Tang San, whom people regarded as a perfect person.

Xiao Qiang bought a Spirit Skill Pill and a Marrow Cleansing Pill at the Sun Moon Royal Auction House. As he prepared to leave, Xiao Hongchen challenged him to a fight and offered to pay his bill, only to learn the total was twelve million three hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.

• Xiao Qiang bought the Spirit Skill Pill for two million Gold Soul Coins so the Ice Empress could awaken Ice Burst Technique.
• Xiao Qiang bought the Marrow Cleansing Pill for three million Gold Soul Coins after relying on Jingyun's advice about its price.
• Xiao Qiang purchased several more auction items and prepared to settle his bill and leave.
• Xiao Hongchen challenged Xiao Qiang to fight again, insisting that yesterday's defeat had been an accident.
• Xiao Qiang agreed after Xiao Hongchen offered to pay for everything he had bought, but the auction house announced his bill totaled twelve million three hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.

Xiao Hongchen paid over ten million Gold Soul Coins for Xiao Qiang’s auction purchases as compensation for agreeing to fight him again, then borrowed money from Meng Hongchen to cover the cost. He remained certain that his higher Soul Power would let him defeat Xiao Qiang this time.

• Xiao Hongchen stopped Xiao Qiang from paying for the auction items and took an attendant to swipe his own card.
• Meng Hongchen answered Xiao Hongchen’s call after arranging for photos of him and Xiao Qiang to be made into a storybook.
• Xiao Hongchen asked Meng Hongchen to lend him three million Gold Soul Coins and explained that he had promised to pay for Xiao Qiang’s purchases in exchange for another fight.
• Xiao Hongchen told Meng Hongchen that he wanted to defeat Xiao Qiang to overcome his previous loss, despite their difference in Soul Power.
• Meng Hongchen warned Xiao Hongchen that he might lose and get beaten again, but he insisted that defeat was impossible.

Xiao Hongchen challenged Xiao Qiang to a rematch, but Xiao Qiang used his Sharingan to misdirect Xiao Hongchen’s cannon fire and knock him unconscious. Xiao Hongchen woke in the hospital to learn that Xiao Qiang had paid his medical bills, then angrily rejected Meng Hongchen’s plea to be reasonable.

• Xiao Hongchen borrowed money from Xiao Meng to pay Xiao Qiang’s bill and entered the arena to challenge him, with Teacher Jingyun refereeing.
• Xiao Hongchen limited himself to his first three soul skills and level-thirty-five Soul Power, then unleashed all thirty-six Soul Cannons at Xiao Qiang.
• Xiao Qiang dodged the barrage and used his Three-Tomoe Sharingan’s illusion to skew Xiao Hongchen’s aim before closing in and knocking him out with a punch and Spirit Shock.
• Xiao Qiang carried the unconscious Xiao Hongchen to the hospital, paid his fees, and admitted him to a VIP ward.
• Xiao Hongchen woke two hours later and learned from Meng Hongchen that Xiao Qiang had covered his medical bills; Xiao Qiang then left.
• Meng Hongchen told Xiao Hongchen to be reasonable, and he angrily asked what he was supposed to use to be reasonable.

Xiao Hongchen learned that he would get another chance to fight Xiao Qiang and asked Jing Hongchen to teach him to craft a Spirit Defense Soul Tool. Meanwhile, Xiao Qiang went to arrange delivery of goods for Bai Qingshan and confronted a rude transport clerk.

• Jing Hongchen healed Xiao Hongchen and heard how Xiao Hongchen had paid Xiao Qiang for another fight and been beaten again.
• Jing Hongchen told Xiao Hongchen he could spar with Xiao Qiang when the tournament team members met, and warned him about Xiao Qiang’s mental abilities.
• Xiao Hongchen asked Jing Hongchen to teach him to make a Spirit Defense Soul Tool so he could defeat Xiao Qiang.
• Xiao Qiang visited the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Transport Group to send items to Bai Qingshan.
• Zhang Zhao refused to help Xiao Qiang and threatened him after boasting about his father, but Xiao Qiang answered by naming Mentor Jing Hongchen.

Xiao Qiang used his identity as Jing Hongchen's disciple to secure the rapid delivery of a package to Bai Qingshan. At East Sea Junior Soul Master Academy, Bai struggled with debt from supporting Xiao Qiang while Principal Zhao Yuanbu mocked his hopes of being repaid.

• Xiao Qiang showed Zhang Zhao proof that Jing Hongchen was his teacher, then asked him to deliver a Storage Soul Tool and Soul Communication Device to Bai Qingshan.
• Zhang Zhao accepted the task and quickly departed Mingdu City, while Xiao Qiang worried about Bai Qingshan's situation.
• Bai Qingshan asked Zhao Yuanbu for another advance on his salary, and Zhao criticized him for spending his fortune and taking on debt to support Xiao Qiang.
• Bai recalled how Zhao had taken the principal's position through family connections and how he had agreed to fund Xiao Qiang in hopes that Xiao Qiang would become his backing.
• Zhao Yuanbu claimed Xiao Qiang would never repay Bai and vowed to eat his desk if Xiao Qiang gave Bai anything valuable within ten years.

Bai Qingshan asked Principal Zhao Yuanbu for an advance on his salary after spending years in debt to provide resources for Xiao Qiang. Zhao Yuanbu refused, leaving Bai Qingshan to bear the cost of his investment alone.

• Bai Qingshan recalled how his poor talent and lack of resources had left him stuck at level forty-one with little hope of becoming a Five-ring Soul King.
• Bai Qingshan had spent his savings and gone into debt to provide Xiao Qiang with soul beast meat and other resources.
• Zhao Yuanbu refused Bai Qingshan's request for a salary advance and told him to ask Xiao Qiang for money.
• Zhao Yuanbu recalled how Xiao Qiang's demands had derailed his plan to recruit him into his family and marry him to his cousin.
• Xiao Qiang privately thought that delivering something had confirmed he had chosen the right path.

Zhang Zhao arrived at East Sea Junior Soul Master Academy and delivered Xiao Qiang’s gifts to Bai Qingshan. Bai Qingshan received eight bottles of pills and a Black Card worth at least one million Gold Soul Coins, and the chapter ended with him looking at Zhao Yuanbu over the fortune on the table.

• Zhang Zhao entered Principal Zhao Yuanbu’s office and revealed his five spirit rings, including a Ten Thousand Year Spirit Ring.
• Zhao Yuanbu cautiously identified Bai Qingshan for Zhang Zhao, who introduced himself and explained that Xiao Qiang had sent him.
• Zhang Zhao praised Xiao Qiang for becoming Hall Master Hongchen’s disciple, surprising Bai Qingshan and Zhao Yuanbu.
• Zhang Zhao gave Bai Qingshan a Storage Soul Tool and a Long-Distance Soul Guide Communicator from Mingde Hall.
• Bai Qingshan took out eight bottles of pills and a Black Card worth at least one million Gold Soul Coins, then looked at Zhao Yuanbu as if asking whether he ate tables.

Xiao Qiang called Bai Qingshan to explain the pills and money he had sent to help him improve his strength. Zhao Yuanbu, hearing their conversation, regretted rejecting Xiao Qiang years earlier but reminded himself why he had done so.

• Bai Qingshan called Xiao Qiang, who told him to take the Marrow Cleansing Pill first and said the other pills could help him reach Five-ring Soul King within a year.
• Xiao Qiang explained that the pills had cost a little over six million Gold Soul Coins, leaving Zhao Yuanbu stunned by their value.
• Zhao Yuanbu recalled rejecting Xiao Qiang's request for resources because he had needed them for his own cultivation, then struggled with envy over Bai Qingshan's windfall.
• Xiao Qiang told Bai Qingshan that his Black Card held three million Gold Soul Coins for debts and living expenses.
• Xiao Qiang promised to help Bai Qingshan obtain a Ten Thousand Year Spirit Ring once he reached the five-ring rank.

Xiao Qiang reassured Bai Qingshan that his past help had shaped Xiao Qiang’s success, while Zhao Yuanbu realized he had rejected a chance to support a future Rank 9 Soul Master. The chapter left Zhao Yuanbu considering whether to curry favor with Bai Qingshan by asking him to become his adoptive father.

• Xiao Qiang told Bai Qingshan that his early resources had laid the foundation for his success and promised to help him reach Soul Douluo.
• Bai Qingshan admitted that his motives had not been entirely pure, but Xiao Qiang insisted that the help and benefits had been real.
• Zhao Yuanbu coughed up blood while listening to Xiao Qiang praise Bai Qingshan, then left to recover and hide his refusal from his family.
• Zhao Yuanbu feared that Xiao Qiang might become a Rank 9 Soul Master and that his family could suffer for Zhao Yuanbu’s earlier plans to exploit him.
• Zhao Yuanbu considered kneeling before Bai Qingshan and asking him to become his adoptive father as a way to curry favor.

Zhang Zhao beat Zhao Yuanbu to acknowledging Bai Qingshan as his father, hoping to benefit from Bai’s connection to Xiao Qiang. At Shrek Academy, Huo Yuhao took Wang Dong for a walk, where they ran into a rampaging Ma Xiaotao.

• Zhang Zhao knelt before Bai Qingshan and offered to support him in his old age, then presented him with his savings as a token of respect.
• Bai Qingshan accepted Zhang Zhao as his godson, leaving Zhao Yuanbu unable to compete with Zhang Zhao’s strength and resources.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong strolled by Sea God Lake after Huo Yuhao sold his grilled fish and raised his soul power to level thirteen.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong encountered Ma Xiaotao as she went berserk, leaving Huo Yuhao in grave danger without the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

Erming arrived just in time to save Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er from Ma Xiaotao, then confronted Shrek over the attack. He rejected Shrek's soul-bone compensation because he did not want Huo Yuhao to receive anything, and ultimately agreed to let the matter go.

• Huo Yuhao sensed that Ma Xiaotao was dangerous, and Wang Dong'er tried to flee with him, but Ma Xiaotao's flames caught up to them.
• Erming arrived, knocked Ma Xiaotao away, extinguished the flames on Wang Dong'er and Huo Yuhao, and deliberately let Huo Yuhao take a rough fall.
• Erming moved to kill Ma Xiaotao, but Mu En used precise Soul Power control to pull her out of the way.
• Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe arrived, and Erming identified himself as the Clear Sky Sect's Vice Sect Master before agreeing to discuss the incident at the Sea God Pavilion.
• Yan Shaozhe offered two fifty-thousand-year soul bones as compensation, but Erming refused them because one would go to Huo Yuhao.
• Erming said his own punch had also been excessive and agreed to forget the matter since Wang Dong'er and Huo Yuhao were fine.

Erming left the Sea God Pavilion after declining the Clear Sky Sect’s offered soul bones, while Huo Yuhao gained nothing from the incident. At Mingde Hall, Xiao Qiang deliberately let Xiao Hongchen win their spar, leaving Xiao Hongchen celebrating as the team questioned his pride over defeating a weaker opponent.

• Erming declined the soul bones, comforted Wang Dong'er, and left the academy after completing Tang San’s task.
• Teacher Jingyun introduced Xiao Qiang to the Sun Moon Empire’s tournament team as a substitute alongside Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen.
• Xiao Hongchen challenged Xiao Qiang to a spar, and Xiao Qiang asked Tian Meng how to let him win without being hurt.
• Xiao Hongchen used a Spirit Defense Soul Tool and Soul Cannons to wear Xiao Qiang down, while Xiao Qiang pretended to falter.
• Xiao Qiang took a deliberately weakened cannon blast and was declared the loser, allowing Xiao Hongchen to celebrate his first victory over him.
• Ma Rulong and the other team members questioned Xiao Hongchen’s pride because he was a four-ring Soul Ancestor who had beaten a three-ring Soul Master.

Xiao Qiang joined the Sun Moon Empire team and demonstrated soul skills that could help its Soul Engineers target opponents with exceptional accuracy. Impressed by his abilities, Xiao Hongchen eagerly declared Xiao Qiang his brother, while Meng Hongchen photographed the moment.

• After Xiao Qiang appeared unharmed from their fight, Meng Hongchen teased Xiao Hongchen by taking a photo of him staring at Xiao Qiang.
• Elder Ma had the team introduce their martial souls and soul skills as preparation for facing Shrek in the tournament.
• Xiao Hongchen demonstrated his four soul skills by summoning seventy-two Soul Cannons, and Meng Hongchen described her ice-based abilities.
• Xiao Qiang explained his Psychological Suggestion and Simulation skills, prompting Xiao Hongchen to suspect he had been fooled during their earlier fight.
• Xiao Qiang shared his Mental Probe across a five-hundred-meter radius, impressing the Soul Engineers with its potential to improve their aim.
• Xiao Hongchen grabbed Xiao Qiang's hand and called him his real brother, and Meng Hongchen photographed them before he demanded that she delete it.

Xiao Qiang’s Mental Probe and Mental Share made him a key asset in the Sun Moon team’s plans against Shrek Academy. After training, he ate barbecue with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, where his extreme chili seasoning led him to explain how he had used pain and cheap spicy food to cultivate when he lacked resources.

• Xiao Qiang helped Xiao Hongchen defeat the team’s soul engineers except Ma Rulong and fight Ma Rulong to a draw, impressing the group with his soul skill.
• Elder Ma made Xiao Qiang, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen part of the team’s plan to defeat Shrek Academy.
• Xiao Qiang went to a barbecue restaurant after training because the food he had eaten was not enough to satisfy him, and Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen joined him.
• Xiao Hongchen ignored Xiao Qiang’s warning and put Devil’s Pepper seasoning on his barbecue, then gulped water after its intense heat overwhelmed him.
• Xiao Qiang explained that he had used spicy food to stimulate his spiritual power and cultivate cheaply when he had few resources and no family to support him.
• Meng Hongchen reminded Xiao Hongchen that he had unused cultivation pills and teased him for bullying someone who was practically an orphan.

Xiao Qiang accepted medicine from Meng Hongchen and used Brother Sky Dream’s help to refine it, accelerating his cultivation. He then discussed Brother Sky Dream’s plans for his spirit rings and proposed letting other Fierce Beasts become additional Wisdom Spirit Rings.

• Meng Hongchen gave Xiao Qiang medicine from Xiao Hongchen and claimed the right to call him Junior Brother, while Xiao Hongchen objected.
• Xiao Qiang took the medicine, and Brother Sky Dream refined its medicinal power, estimating that Xiao Qiang could reach level forty within half a year.
• Xiao Qiang told Brother Sky Dream that his evolved Sharingan let him glimpse the jade-green scorpion prepared as his Second Martial Soul.
• Xiao Qiang explained that he understood Brother Sky Dream’s plan to use powerful spirit rings and a Second Martial Soul to help him pursue godhood, and reassured him that he did not mind the secret as long as it did not harm him.
• Xiao Qiang proposed developing a Wisdom Spirit Ring system so other Fierce Beasts could become additional Wisdom Spirit Rings, since Brother Sky Dream could not place a third martial soul in him.