Chapter Summaries

Lu Yunzhu arrived at Shrek Academy with Qian Renxue to take Tang San, but an emergency mission led him to consider ruining Tang San’s reputation before killing him. As Lu Yunzhu began explaining why Qian Renxue’s father had hunted Tang Hao, he revealed that Tang Hao possessed a hundred-thousand-year transforming soul beast.

• Zhao Wuji recognized Lu Yunzhu’s Cloud Boat and hurried to welcome him and Qian Renxue.
• Lu Yunzhu told Flender he had come to take Tang San, then received a mission to ruin Tang San’s reputation before killing him.
• Lu Yunzhu decided to keep Tang San alive a little longer and had Zhao Wuji go fetch him.
• Qian Renxue asked why Lu Yunzhu wanted Tang San, and Lu Yunzhu asked about Tang San’s martial soul and her father’s reason for pursuing Tang Hao.
• Lu Yunzhu told Qian Renxue that Tang Hao had possessed a hundred-thousand-year transforming soul beast, making her and Flender take the revelation seriously.

Lu Yunzhu told Qian Renxue how Tang Hao and Ah Yin caused Qian Xunji’s death, then revealed that Tang San was their son. After Lu Yunzhu crippled Tang San’s cultivation and allowed Qian Renxue to confront him, Flender warned Zhao Wuji not to interfere with their pursuit of revenge against Tang Hao.

• Lu Yunzhu explained that Ah Yin sacrificed herself to give Tang Hao his ninth soul ring, and Tang Hao used Explosive Ring to mortally wound Qian Xunji.
• Qian Renxue vowed to kill Tang Hao, then calmed herself after Lu Yunzhu urged her not to live in the past.
• Lu Yunzhu revealed that Tang San had Blue Silver Emperor bloodline, a Clear Sky Hammer, and was Tang Hao’s son.
• Qian Renxue thanked Lu Yunzhu for the information and promised him a gift as Zhao Wuji brought Tang San over.
• Lu Yunzhu sealed Tang San’s cultivation and told Qian Renxue she could deal with him as long as she did not kill him.
• Qian Renxue kicked Tang San away, while Flender privately told Zhao Wuji not to interfere because they had come to settle their blood feud with Tang Hao.

Qian Renxue beat Tang San until he was gravely injured, then Lu Yunzhu silenced Flender and Zhao Wuji and confronted him. Lu Yunzhu revealed that he had taken Xiao Wu and planned to provoke Tang San into making mistakes as part of his mission to ruin him.

• Qian Renxue finished beating Tang San and thanked Lu Yunzhu for letting her avenge her father.
• Flender asked Lu Yunzhu to spare Tang San, but Lu Yunzhu dismissed the threat of Tang Hao and the Clear Sky Sect.
• Lu Yunzhu silenced Flender and Zhao Wuji for an hour, then approached the crippled Tang San.
• Tang San asked Lu Yunzhu why he was targeting him, and Lu Yunzhu said he wanted Tang San's life because he had taken Xiao Wu.
• Lu Yunzhu welcomed Tang San's fury and planned to use his anger to make him lose his reputation and be disgraced.

Lu Yunzhu exposed Tang San’s past as a reincarnated thief who had stolen the Western Shu Tang Sect’s Mysterious Heaven Skill, turning Shrek Academy against him. He let Qian Renxue decide Tang San’s fate, and she cut his throat with an Angel Sword.

• Tang San asked Lu Yunzhu why he wanted him dead, and Lu Yunzhu cited vengeance for his father’s killing and Tang San’s connection to the Western Shu Tang Sect.
• Lu Yunzhu revealed Tang San had stolen the Mysterious Heaven Skill, died at Ghost’s Worry, and been reborn on Douluo Continent, shocking Tang San and the Shrek Academy members who had arrived.
• Dai Mubai, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and others reacted with disbelief and disgust as Lu Yunzhu exposed Tang San’s secret and called him a thief.
• Desperate, Tang San offered Lu Yunzhu the Mysterious Heaven Skill and other techniques, but Lu Yunzhu told Qian Renxue to decide whether Tang San lived or died.
• Qian Renxue formed an Angel Sword with the Fire of the Sun and slashed Tang San across the throat.

Tang San died after Lu Yunzhu completed his mission, and Qian Renxue thanked Lu Yunzhu for helping kill him. Lu Yunzhu explained how the Misty Sacred Land selected disciples and staff, leaving Liu Erlong and Qian Renxue informed about its trials.

• Tang San collapsed and died, completing Lu Yunzhu's mission and earning him a drop of pure dragon blood.
• Qian Renxue confirmed Tang San was dead and thanked Lu Yunzhu.
• Lu Yunzhu greeted Liu Erlong, who asked how the Misty Sacred Land recruited people and enrolled students.
• Lu Yunzhu explained that disciples had to pass two trials, while supervisors, deacons, instructors, and other managers had to pass five.
• Lu Yunzhu said disciple trials tested perseverance and character rather than talent, and used Tang San as an example of someone the sacred land would reject.

Lu Yunzhu revealed that Misty Sacred Land required its instructors, deacons, and supervisors to be Title Douluo-level cultivators, leaving Liu Erlong despairing over Yu Xiaogang’s prospects. After Lu Yunzhu burned Tang San’s corpse to ashes, Flender and Zhao Wuji planned to flee, and Shrek Academy was destroyed overnight.

• Liu Erlong asked Lu Yunzhu about the five tests for joining Misty Sacred Land, and he listed strength, ability, perseverance, character, and morality.
• Lu Yunzhu said even basic instructors, deacons, and supervisors needed to be at least Foundation Establishment Early Stage, or Title Douluo-level, shocking Liu Erlong, Qian Renxue, Flender, and Dai Mubai.
• Liu Erlong accepted Lu Yunzhu’s invitation to visit Misty Sacred Land and resolved to bring Yu Xiaogang there as a student.
• Lu Yunzhu used Blow Fire Palm to burn Tang San’s corpse to ashes before leaving with Qian Renxue.
• Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai joked about Tang San’s remains while Zhao Wuji and Flender feared Tang Hao’s retaliation and prepared to flee.
• Shrek Academy, which had stood for over twenty years, was destroyed overnight.

Aboard the Cloud Boat, Qian Renxue offered to remain by Lu Yunzhu’s side, while a new system quest urged Lu Yunzhu to find a Dao Companion. Lu Yunzhu rejected Qian Renxue’s offer, leaving her disappointed.

• Lu Yunzhu told Qian Renxue that he had visited Heaven Dou Empire’s top forces to help her take control of the empire, and Qian Renxue thanked him.
• The system issued Lu Yunzhu a Dao Companion quest, with a Dragon Phoenix Auspicious Armor as its reward.
• Qian Renxue reminded Lu Yunzhu about her promised gift, but he initially declined before agreeing to hear her out.
• Qian Renxue offered to remain by Lu Yunzhu’s side and serve him, insisting that her status as Spirit Hall’s Young Master did not matter.
• Lu Yunzhu told Qian Renxue she was not qualified to remain at his side, and she showed disappointment as She Long piloted the Cloud Boat nearby.

Lu Yunzhu asked Qian Renxue to become his Dao Companion, and she accepted. After sightseeing together and completing his quest, he cared for her with a Healing Pill after their first night together; the story left with him asking whether she still hurt.

• Lu Yunzhu invited Qian Renxue to become his Dao Companion, and she agreed.
• Lu Yunzhu promised to hold a wedding after Misty Sacred Land finished recruitment and took Qian Renxue traveling for five days.
• She Long left the Cloud Boat and returned to Giant Sword Mountain to report the news to Qian Daoliu.
• Lu Yunzhu and Qian Renxue traveled across the continent, and he completed his quest and received the Dragon Phoenix Auspicious Armor.
• After their first night together, Lu Yunzhu fed Qian Renxue a Healing Pill and used his Spiritual Power to ease her pain.

Lu Yunzhu and Qian Renxue arrived at Giant Sword Mountain for the Misty Sacred Land’s disciple recruitment ceremony, where powerful factions offered lavish gifts. Gu Yue Na arrived with Zi Ji and Bi Ji, delivering an enormous tribute and keeping her promise to support Lu Yunzhu.

• After several days together, Lu Yunzhu and Qian Renxue ended their honeymoon and traveled by Cloud Boat to Giant Sword Mountain for the Misty Sacred Land’s recruitment ceremony.
• Ning Fengzhi, Yu Yuanzhen, Princess Xue Ke, Dai Weisi, and King Kundara presented valuable gifts to the Misty Sacred Land, impressing the gathered crowd and strengthening Zhu Zhuqing’s resolve to join.
• Lu Yunzhu welcomed the visitors as Sacred Master, with Qian Daoliu and the Misty Sacred Land’s elders standing behind him.
• Gu Yue Na sent an enormous tribute of soul bones and immortal herbs, then arrived with Zi Ji and Bi Ji to congratulate the Misty Sacred Land.
• Lu Yunzhu thanked Gu Yue Na for coming, and she replied that she had kept her word.

Gu Yue Na agreed to live at the Misty Sacred Land, while Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin wondered about the mysterious force behind it. Lu Yunzhu began the recruitment ceremony and revealed the Perseverance Trial, leaving Zhu Zhuqing on the first step after its force sealed her meridians.

• Gu Yue Na asked to live at the Misty Sacred Land, and Lu Yunzhu welcomed her.
• Ning Fengzhi questioned the origin of the Place of Great Danger, and Chen Xin said its three women were each stronger than him.
• Lu Yunzhu opened the recruitment ceremony, and Golden Crocodile explained that candidates had to climb the steps in the Perseverance Trial.
• Lu Yunzhu summoned one hundred golden steps and set the requirement of reaching the ninety-ninth step and standing there for three seconds within one shichen.
• Zhu Zhuqing stepped onto the first stair and felt gravity twice her weight descend on her.
• Zhu Zhuqing tried to circulate her Soul Power, but an unknown force sealed her meridians.

Zhu Zhuqing and the other candidates began Misty Sacred Land’s Hundred-Layer Gravity Steps, a trial that sealed Soul Power and equalized physical strength. As the strongest candidates struggled through the escalating gravity, Ning Rongrong faltered on the seventy-second step while Ning Fengzhi urged her onward.

• Zhu Zhuqing started climbing, and Lu Yunzhu explained that the steps increased in gravity by stages, with the hundredth step reaching fifty times normal gravity.
• Liu Erlong asked Yu Xiaogang to take the student assessment, but he insisted that he should take the instructor assessment instead.
• Zhu Zhuqing reached the eleventh step and braced herself against the increased gravity; the trial also suppressed strong candidates’ physiques to the Soul Grandmaster realm and raised ordinary people’s physiques to match.
• Lu Yunzhu offered Qian Renxue chrysanthemum tea made from Immortal Herb Qirong Tongtianju, and she accepted when he explained its benefits.
• Candidates including Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin struggled onward, while Ning Rongrong began to lose consciousness at step seventy-two and Ning Fengzhi urged her to keep climbing.

Ning Rongrong and the other applicants faced the Perseverance Trial, and only 274 of more than ten thousand applicants passed. Lu Yunzhou then used an illusion array for the Character Trial, which admitted 250 people to the Misty Sacred Land and left Hu Liena stunned after she was rejected.

• Ning Rongrong continued climbing the Hundred-Layer Gravity Steps after her father threatened to confine her and freeze her private fund.
• Only 274 applicants passed the Perseverance Trial, disappointing Qian Daoliu, while Yu Yuanzhen urged Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin to join the Misty Sacred Land.
• Lu Yunzhou activated the Azure Dragon Illusion Array to test the applicants’ character, and Qian Daoliu and the elders examined the resulting grades.
• Qian Daoliu announced that Zhu Zhuqing, Yu Tianheng, Shui Yue'er, and Xie Yue had been accepted, and that 250 people had enrolled in total.
• Hu Liena learned that she had not been selected and reacted with stunned horror.

Lu Yunzhu distributed the Qi Refinement section of the Spirit Guiding Art to everyone, giving ordinary people a path to cultivation while keeping the higher stages under the Misty Sacred Land's control. Gu Yue Na feared the change would threaten the soul beasts, while Yu Yuanzhen decided the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had to submit to the Misty Sacred Land to survive.

• Hu Liena sought out Lu Yunzhu to ask why she had not been chosen.
• Lu Yunzhu gave the crowd the Qi Refinement section of the Spirit Guiding Art, including the Transformation Art, and many ordinary people thanked him.
• Gu Yue Na worried that humanity's new cultivation era would leave soul beasts with no place to survive and considered asking Lu Yunzhu to help turn them into demon beasts.
• Chen Xin and Ning Fengzhi recognized that Lu Yunzhu's gift threatened the foundations of Soul Master factions.
• Yu Yuanzhen chose to submit the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to the Misty Sacred Land, telling Yu Luomian that refusing meant death.

Yu Xiaogang applied to become an instructor at the Misty Sacred Land despite being only a Soul Grandmaster, arguing that his abilities mattered more than his strength. Lu Yunzhu allowed him an exception, and the recruitment assessments proceeded to the Book of Abilities.

• Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian accepted that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan would submit to the Misty Sacred Land.
• Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang recognized that the public Spirit Guiding Art was not the genuine cultivation technique, while Yu Xiaogang hoped to obtain the real one by joining the Sacred Land.
• Qian Daoliu, Golden Crocodile, and Azure Luan explained the strength and ability requirements for positions at the Misty Sacred Land, and applicants began registering.
• Yu Xiaogang declared his intention to apply as an instructor, surprising the gathered soul masters and prompting Qian Daoliu to initially reject him for lacking strength.
• Yu Xiaogang insisted that his abilities deserved a chance, and Lu Yunzhu granted him an exception before summoning the Book of Abilities for the next assessment.

Yu Xiaogang continued the Misty Sacred Land trials, but his ability and perseverance assessments exposed his shortcomings. Lu Yunzhu let him proceed, and the character and morality tests then revealed further damning results, leaving Yu Xiaogang’s assessment in disgrace.

• The Book of Abilities rated Flender, Zhao Wuji, Liu Erlong, and Bai He excellent, but judged Yu Xiaogang extremely poor at bragging.
• Qian Daoliu and Lu Yunzhu reacted to Yu Xiaogang’s result, and Lu Yunzhu told Qian Daoliu to let him continue the trials.
• Yu Xiaogang failed the Test of Perseverance after reaching only the forty-eighth layer, while the other eighty-two participants passed.
• Yu Xiaogang asked for another chance, citing his martial soul mutation, and Lu Yunzhu approved his continuation.
• The character and morality tests rated Yu Xiaogang’s character extremely poor and his morality appallingly bad, citing his hypocrisy, plagiarism, and broken promise.

Yu Xiaogang failed the Misty Sacred Land's recruitment but demanded to be made chief instructor and insisted the results were wrong. Lu Yunzhu let Bibi Dong judge him, and Bibi Dong's examination exposed Yu Xiaogang's many failings.

• Golden Crocodile announced the recruitment results, and Yu Xiaogang demanded the position of chief instructor despite his Soul Grandmaster cultivation.
• Golden Crocodile declared Yu Xiaogang unqualified in strength, abilities, perseverance, character, and morals.
• Yu Xiaogang protested and cited his honorary status in Spirit Hall, but Qian Daoliu and other former Spirit Hall elders revealed their current positions in the Misty Sacred Land and condemned him.
• Yu Yuanzhen lamented that Yu Xiaogang had ruined the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's reputation, while Yu Xiaogang demanded that Bibi Dong judge the results.
• Lu Yunzhu sent three golden beams to Bibi Dong, who examined them and found evidence of Yu Xiaogang's poor abilities, character, morals, and relationships, as well as his theft of Spirit Hall manuals.

After Yu Xiaogang was expelled by Spirit Hall and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Lu Yunzhu ended Misty Sacred Land’s admissions ceremony and taught its members two cultivation arts. He then invited Qian Renxue to Sunset Forest to ask Dugu Bo to attend his wedding, while Gu Yue Na followed him for the sake of the soul beasts.

• Bibi Dong expelled Yu Xiaogang from Spirit Hall and ordered an investigation into his alleged theft of its secrets.
• Yu Yuanzhen expelled Yu Xiaogang from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and announced a separate investigation into possible plagiarism of clan classics.
• Lu Yunzhu ended the admissions ceremony, announced a continent-wide competition for one month later, and sent the unrelated attendees away.
• Lu Yunzhu taught Misty Sacred Land’s members the Conversion Art and Spirit Absorption Art, warning them not to share the manuals without permission.
• Lu Yunzhu left Qian Daoliu to explain the sacred land’s rules, then asked Qian Renxue to accompany him to Sunset Forest to invite Dugu Bo to his wedding.
• Gu Yue Na followed Lu Yunzhu, seeking to discuss the future of the soul beasts.

Lu Yunzhu took Qian Renxue to Sunset Forest despite Gu Yue Na’s attempt to join them, leaving Gu Yue Na behind to wait for his return. Lu Yunzhu and Qian Renxue reached the forest’s core region and looked down at a familiar grand canyon.

• Qian Renxue agreed to go to Sunset Forest with Lu Yunzhu after making him promise not to bully her along the way.
• Gu Yue Na appeared and said she would accompany Lu Yunzhu, hoping to build their relationship and secure the right to use the Spirit Guiding Art.
• Qian Renxue opposed Gu Yue Na joining them, and Lu Yunzhu said their business was private and asked Gu Yue Na to wait until they returned.
• Lu Yunzhu put his arm around Qian Renxue and took her away aboard the Cloud Boat, leaving Gu Yue Na behind.
• Lu Yunzhu piloted the Cloud Boat into Sunset Forest’s core region, where he recognized a grand canyon below.

After breaking through to the Golden Core Realm, Lu Yunzhu arrived to see Dugu Bo, who had recently evolved his martial soul and reached Level 97. Lu Yunzhu introduced Qian Renxue as Qian Daoliu’s granddaughter, leaving Dugu Bo stunned.

• Dugu Bo broke through to Level 97 Peak Douluo after his martial soul evolved into the Jade Dragon King.
• Lu Yunzhu arrived with an overwhelming aura and surprised Dugu Bo, who had mistaken him for a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Lu Yunzhu revealed that he had reached the Golden Core Realm and explained that his Spiritual Power had transformed into Mana.
• Dugu Bo noticed a woman standing behind Lu Yunzhu on the flying sword and teased him about winning a beauty.
• Lu Yunzhu told Dugu Bo that the woman was Qian Daoliu’s granddaughter and asked Qian Renxue to greet her Uncle Dugu.

Lu Yunzhu brought Qian Renxue to visit Dugu Bo and asked him to act as his father at his upcoming wedding. He then showed Qian Renxue the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, revealing its abundant immortal herbs and explaining that he had cultivated most of them.

• Qian Renxue greeted Dugu Bo and introduced herself as Qian Xunji’s daughter and Qian Daoliu’s granddaughter.
• Dugu Bo asked about Dugu Yan, and Lu Yunzhu explained that she was at Misty Sacred Land, a force he had founded for cultivators.
• Lu Yunzhu told Dugu Bo that he and Qian Renxue planned to marry and asked him to take the role of his father at the wedding.
• Dugu Bo agreed, then teased Lu Yunzhu into calling him “Dad,” and Lu Yunzhu turned the joke around by answering, “I’m here!”
• Lu Yunzhu showed Qian Renxue the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, explained its importance and its immortal herbs, and said he had cultivated most of them.