Chapter Summaries

Fang Xuan and Tang San faced off as the last fighters remaining in the Soul Fighting match. Fang Xuan cut off two of Tang San’s Eight Spider Lances, but Tang San struck back and injured him, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Fang Xuan sent Ye Lingling to treat the injured members of the Imperial Dou Team, while Tang San told Ning Rongrong to care for Shrek’s wounded.
• Fang Xuan and Tang San charged at each other, and Tang San attacked with his Eight Spider Lances while Fang Xuan used his twin blades to block them.
• Fang Xuan seized on Tang San’s moment of surprise and severed two of his spider lances.
• Tang San counterattacked with his Mysterious Jade Hand and crushed part of Fang Xuan’s breastbone, and both fighters charged back into battle.

Fang Xuan and Tang San fought a brutal Soul Fighting Arena match, with Fang Xuan’s healing and swordsmanship giving him the advantage over Tang San’s Hidden Weapons. As Fang Xuan moved to finish the exhausted Tang San, Tang San calmly told him to admit defeat, claiming he would spare his life.

• Fang Xuan and Tang San traded severe injuries, but Fang Xuan used the Nine Heart Begonia to heal himself and suppress the Eight Spider Lances’ poison.
• Tang San fired Dragon Whisker Needles at Fang Xuan, who spotted and cut them down with his Nameless Eye and Shadowless Blade.
• Tang San unleashed a barrage of poisoned Hidden Weapons, while Fang Xuan blocked them all with his blades.
• Fang Xuan cut apart Tang San’s final Bone-Piercing Nail and advanced to end the fight as the spectators watched.
• Tang San showed no fear and told Fang Xuan to admit defeat, promising to spare his life.

Fang Xuan defeated Tang San after destroying the bolts from his Godly Zhuge Crossbow with Thunder Flash, securing victory for the Imperial Dou Team over Shrek. He then approached the uninjured Ning Rongrong and slammed her to the ground.

• Tang San revealed his Godly Zhuge Crossbow and warned Fang Xuan to surrender, but Fang Xuan refused.
• Tang San fired sixteen bolts at Fang Xuan, who used Thunder Flash to destroy them and strike Tang San.
• Fang Xuan blasted Tang San out of the arena, leaving him grievously injured and unconscious.
• The audience celebrated the Imperial Dou Team's victory, while Grandmaster and Flender reacted with dejection.
• Fang Xuan noticed Ning Rongrong was still standing, lifted her by the waist, and slammed her onto the ground.

The Imperial Dou Team defeated the Shrek Team, and Fang Xuan earned a reward after throwing Ning Rongrong to the ground. With several Shrek students badly injured, Qin Ming arrived with a doctor, but the person who entered was a cold young man carrying a great saber rather than Ye Lingling.

• Fang Xuan received 10 Blade Drawing Counts and tenfold soul power for defeating Ning Rongrong, then the host Doudou announced the Imperial Dou Team as the winner.
• Tang San apologized to Grandmaster for the defeat, then collapsed and coughed blood from his injuries.
• Grandmaster and Flender realized Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dai Mubai needed Ye Lingling's Nine Heart Begonia to recover.
• Ning Rongrong suggested seeking help from Ye Lingling, and Flender set out to ask the Imperial Dou Team for treatment.
• Qin Ming arrived, greeted his former teachers, and said he had brought a doctor to treat the injured Shrek students.
• A cold young man carrying a great saber entered the room instead of Ye Lingling.

Fang Xuan arrived at Shrek Academy to heal the injured Shrek Team after Ye Lingling exhausted her Soul Power. He restored the team with his healing Soul Skill, then demanded payment for each person he had treated.

• Qin Ming explained that Ye Lingling was resting, and Fang Xuan could heal the Shrek Team with his Soul Skills.
• Fang Xuan and Tang San exchanged challenges about their previous fight before Fang Xuan began treating the injured.
• Fang Xuan healed Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu despite their initial protests, and both recovered quickly.
• Fang Xuan healed Dai Mubai and the rest of the Shrek Team in less than three minutes.
• Tang San thanked Fang Xuan, who demanded eight thousand Gold Soul Coins per person and left Tang San stunned.

Fang Xuan demanded payment from Shrek Academy for treating its injured students, despite the academy's dire financial situation. After Qin Ming pleaded for a discount, Fang Xuan reduced the bill by just one Gold Soul Coin and insisted Shrek pay.

• Fang Xuan demanded eight thousand Gold Soul Coins for each of the three people he had treated, angering Flender and the others.
• Qin Ming challenged Fang Xuan for charging Shrek, but Fang Xuan said he had never promised to treat them for free.
• Flender and the Shrek teachers refused to pay, and Fang Xuan accused them of trying to avoid their bill.
• Qin Ming explained that Shrek could not afford the fee and asked Fang Xuan to lower it.
• Fang Xuan discounted the total from twenty-four thousand to twenty-three thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine Gold Soul Coins, then demanded payment.

Fang Xuan made Shrek Academy agree to repay his medical bill with interest, then refused to explain his Soul Rings to Grandmaster and provoked Tang San. Qin Ming revealed that Fang Xuan was Ning Rongrong’s fiancé, leaving everyone stunned.

• Fang Xuan offered Shrek Academy an interest-bearing IOU for its medical debt, and Grandmaster persuaded Flender to accept.
• Ning Rongrong glared at Fang Xuan until he threatened to gouge out her eyes, sending her to hide behind Zhu Zhuqing.
• Grandmaster asked why Fang Xuan’s first two Soul Rings were thousand-year rings, but Fang Xuan refused to answer.
• Tang San challenged Fang Xuan for mocking Grandmaster, and Fang Xuan dismissed him as a defeated opponent.
• Qin Ming introduced Fang Xuan to Ning Rongrong as the Imperial Dou Team’s captain, the Empire’s Fifth Prince, and her fiancé, shocking the room.

Fang Xuan revealed that he was Ning Rongrong’s fiancé, then announced that he wanted to divorce her instead of proceeding with their arranged engagement. Ning Rongrong tore up his Divorce Letter and refused to sign, leaving the Shrek group bewildered by their quarrel.

• Qin Ming told Shrek that Fang Xuan was the Empire’s Fifth Prince and Ning Rongrong’s fiancé, and explained that the Emperor and Ning Fengzhi had arranged their engagement.
• Ning Rongrong angrily declared that she would never marry Fang Xuan.
• Fang Xuan handed Ning Rongrong a Divorce Letter and said he had come to divorce her.
• Ning Rongrong tore up the letter and stomped on it, pleased that she had thwarted Fang Xuan.
• Fang Xuan said he could write another Divorce Letter and threatened to make Ning Rongrong sleep on the floor if they married.

Qin Ming came to take Fang Xuan and Ning Rongrong to Heaven Dou City for their Engagement Ceremony, but both resisted the marriage. Shrek decided to accompany them, and the group planned to leave for Heaven Dou City in three days.

• Qin Ming told Fang Xuan and Ning Rongrong that they would travel to Heaven Dou City for their Engagement Ceremony, but Fang Xuan refused before Ning Rongrong could respond.
• Fang Xuan and Ning Rongrong argued over whether they wanted to marry or divorce, while Qin Ming tried to calm them down.
• Qin Ming urged Ning Rongrong to go to Heaven Dou City and raise her objections with her father, and she reluctantly agreed to travel there.
• Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Tang San, and the other Shrek students volunteered to accompany Ning Rongrong, and Flender and Grandmaster decided Shrek Academy would go too.
• Qin Ming invited Shrek to join Heaven Dou Academy for the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Competition, but Flender declined.
• The Shrek and Imperial Dou teams agreed to travel together to Heaven Dou City in three days.

The Shrek group left their old academy for a new future, while Fang Xuan took ownership of the property to settle Flender’s debt. After traveling north with the Imperial Dou Team, they stopped to camp in the wilderness near the Balak Kingdom border.

• As the Shrek teachers and students said goodbye to their academy, Fang Xuan demanded its house and land deeds from Flender to cover the debt.
• Flender handed over the deeds, and Fang Xuan declared that the academy now belonged to him and that the next month’s payment was still due.
• Flender led the Shrek Team away from the academy and joined Qin Ming and the Imperial Dou Team on their journey north.
• After traveling all day, the group reached the border of the Balak Kingdom without finding an inn.
• Grandmaster chose a dry hillside for the group to camp on, and the exhausted travelers settled down to rest.

During the night’s journey, Yu Tianheng reunited with his uncle Yu Xiaogang and urged him to return to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, but Yu Xiaogang’s shame over his failures kept him from agreeing. The group was jolted awake by a wounded girl named Xiao Yu, who said the Blood Wolf Killer Group was pursuing her.

• Fang Xuan stayed awake while the Shrek group joked around and the Imperial Dou Team rested.
• Yu Tianheng found Yu Xiaogang and happily recognized his uncle.
• Yu Tianheng told Yu Xiaogang that his father and grandfather missed him and asked him to come home, but Yu Xiaogang became emotional and hesitated because he feared humiliation.
• Yu Tianheng admitted that Fang Xuan had carried the team battle and that he had lost to Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang encouraged him to learn from failure and value their shared victory.
• A scream woke the camp, and Fang Xuan rushed toward its source with his blade.
• The group found the injured Xiao Yu, who begged for help and said the Blood Wolf Killer Group was chasing her.

Xiao Yu posed as an injured fugitive to lure the group’s healers within reach, but Fang Xuan saw through her plan and killed her before she could murder Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling. The group learned that Fang Xuan recognized the ambush because he had once used the same trick himself.

• Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai joked about protecting Xiao Yu, while Fang Xuan stopped Ning Rongrong from approaching her.
• Ning Rongrong ignored Fang Xuan’s warning and helped Xiao Yu, but Oscar’s Recovery Sausage failed to heal her severe injuries.
• Ye Lingling used her Nine Heart Begonia to heal Xiao Yu completely, and Xiao Yu immediately attacked Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling with two purple blades.
• Fang Xuan killed Xiao Yu with his Shadowless Blade just before her blades could reach the girls’ throats.
• Fang Xuan explained that Xiao Yu had tried to draw out the group’s healers and reveal the rest of her team, then admitted he had used the same trick to ambush another team.

After the group survived an assassination attempt, the Blood Wolf Killer Group surrounded them with overwhelming force. Fang Xuan revealed Tang San as the one who had seen through Xiao Yu’s disguise, leaving Tang San and everyone else stunned.

• Fang Xuan looted Xiao Yu’s corpse for a few dozen Gold Soul Coins before sensing the Blood Wolf Killer Group approaching.
• Fang Xuan cut apart a bolt of Blood Lightning, and more than thirty black-robed killers emerged to surround the group.
• The Scarred Man identified the attackers as the Blood Wolf Killer Group and declared that the group would die; Grandmaster tried to negotiate, but a red-haired Soul Sage rejected him.
• The red-haired man revealed that Xiao Yu had failed to kill the Support Soul Masters and demanded that whoever killed him step forward.
• Fang Xuan stepped forward and pointed at Tang San, identifying him as the one who saw through Xiao Yu’s disguise.

The Blood Wolf Killer Group attacked the Shrek and Imperial Dou teams after Tang San admitted to killing Xiao Yu. While Tang San organized the students’ defense, Fang Xuan slaughtered the group’s Soul Ancestors, and the battle continued with the Soul Sage fights unresolved.

• Fang Xuan shifted the blame for Xiao Yu’s death onto Tang San, who admitted to killing him when the red-haired Soul Sage demanded an answer.
• The red-haired Soul Sage ordered his killers to attack, and the teams fell into a fight against the Blood Wolf Killer Group.
• Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Qin Ming were tied up fighting three Soul Sages, while Qin Ming struggled to hold off the Black-faced Soul Sage.
• Tang San organized the students into a formation that protected the support Soul Masters and helped them withstand the attackers.
• Fang Xuan charged through the Soul Ancestors, killing at least fifteen as the Blood Wolf Killer Group’s fighters recoiled in fear.

The Blood Wolf Killer Group overwhelmed the Shrek Team and Imperial Dou Team, leaving their students gravely wounded and close to death. Fang Xuan arrived in time to save Ning Rongrong, then charged back into battle while she followed him.

• The Blood Wolf Killer Group broke through the teams’ formation and badly injured Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, Dugu Yan, and the others.
• Tang San fought back with his Eight Spider Lances and Hidden Weapons, but he and the other students were eventually beaten down as Ye Lingling ran out of strength to heal them.
• Ning Rongrong became isolated and was targeted by a bald killer, but Fang Xuan cut him in half before he could reach her.
• Ning Rongrong rushed toward Fang Xuan, who sidestepped her and charged at two Black Robe Killers; she ran after him.

Fang Xuan rescued Grandmaster by using him as a human shield, then healed him and shocked him with his fourth Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring. When Grandmaster rushed to help the gravely injured Tang San and the others, Fang Xuan joined the fight against the Blood Wolf Killer Group with Ning Rongrong’s support, leaving nine killers dead.

• Grandmaster fled a Black Robe Killer toward Fang Xuan, who kicked him into the pursuer and used the opening to kill the Soul Ancestor with his Shadowless Blade.
• Fang Xuan slashed Grandmaster, then healed him with Healing Light, while Grandmaster reacted in disbelief to Fang Xuan’s black fourth Soul Ring.
• Fang Xuan pointed out that Tang San and the others were near death, prompting Grandmaster to rush to them as Fang Xuan carried Ning Rongrong after him.
• Ning Rongrong boosted Fang Xuan with her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda as he charged into the battle and drew the Blood Wolf Killer Group’s attention.
• Fang Xuan used Lightning Blade Drawing Technique: Thunder Flash to annihilate nine Black Robe Killers with a single strike.

After slaughtering most of the Blood Wolf Killer Group, Fang Xuan reached Level 46 and healed the injured fighters from both teams. Three Soul Kings then advanced, and Grandmaster laid out a plan for the students to face them as he quietly retreated.

• Fang Xuan checked his attributes after killing twenty-five Soul Ancestors and reaching Level 46.
• Fang Xuan used Healing Light to restore the injured members of both teams, and they thanked him before he demanded eight thousand Gold Soul Coins per person.
• Tang San asked Fang Xuan how he had four Soul Rings, but Fang Xuan refused to explain.
• Three Soul Kings confronted the group, and Grandmaster divided the students into three teams to stall or defeat them.
• Grandmaster ordered everyone to prepare for battle, then grabbed Luo Sanpao and hurried toward the rear.

Fang Xuan joined the fight against three Soul Kings and overwhelmed the strongest one with his blades and awakened powers. He ended the chapter tearing the blue-haired Soul King apart with Thunder Flash.

• The three Soul Kings arrived to attack Fang Xuan and the others, while Tang San prepared his Dragon Whisker Needles and the students released their Martial Souls.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing combined into the Hell White Tiger and charged the Red-Faced Soul King.
• Fang Xuan struck the blue-haired Soul King with Swallow Return, then infused his Shadowless Blade with the Ice Phoenix's frost power and severed half of the man's right hand.
• Fang Xuan pressed his attack while the Grandmaster called for him to hold off just one Soul King, and Fang Xuan ignored him.
• Fang Xuan unleashed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul and Thunder Flash, tearing the blue-haired Soul King apart.

Fang Xuan killed two Soul Kings during the battle against the Blood Wolf Killer Group, while Tang San and the others fought to protect Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing. As dawn broke, Fang Xuan cut down five fleeing assassins, and the remaining battles were still underway.

• Fang Xuan killed a blue-haired Soul King with a single charge, stunning Tang San and Grandmaster.
• Fang Xuan ignored Tang San's protest and fought the seductive Soul King while Tang San and the others went to help Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing against the Red-Faced Soul King.
• Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Qin Ming remained locked in a stalemate against three Soul Sages as the night gave way to dawn.
• Fang Xuan killed the seductive Soul King, identified as the Crimson Flame Soul King, with a thunderous blade strike.
• Fang Xuan cut down all five fleeing Black Robe Killers with a sweeping slash.

Fang Xuan and the others nearly defeated the Blood Wolf Killer Group after a night of fighting, while Flender and Zhao Wuji gained the upper hand and Qin Ming held off another Soul Sage with support from Ye Lingling and Ning Rongrong. Three mysterious Soul Sages arrived and ambushed Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Qin Ming, leaving the group facing overwhelming odds.

• Fang Xuan reached Level 47 after helping defeat the Blood Wolf Killer Group’s lesser fighters and Soul Kings.
• Flender unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar and began suppressing the red-haired Soul Sage, while Zhao Wuji also gained the upper hand against another enemy Soul Sage.
• Ye Lingling healed Qin Ming and Ning Rongrong boosted his speed and strength, restoring him and forcing his opponent into a stalemate.
• Yu Tianheng rallied the Shrek Team and Imperial Dou Team students to help Qin Ming defeat the Soul Sage.
• Three masked black-robed Soul Sages appeared and ambushed Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Qin Ming, knocking all three out of the fight.