Chapter Summaries

Madara led the Shrek group to the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest and warned them that hunting spirit rings could mean shedding blood. At an inn, he criticized their eagerness to pick fights, leaving the group facing the arrival of Canghui Academy and Madara's judgment of their immaturity.

• Madara told Oscar that choosing a suitable spirit ring was up to him, then ordered the group to prepare to see blood during their journey to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• After days of travel, the group reached the forest's outskirts and stayed at an inn, where Ma Hongjun noticed a party from Canghui Academy.
• Dai Mubai insulted Canghui Academy, and Oscar told Tang San that Flender believed spirit masters should not be afraid to cause trouble.
• Madara called the idea of causing trouble everywhere foolish and argued that they should seek worthy opponents instead of starting fights over insults or girls.
• Ma Hongjun dismissed the Canghui students as untalented trash, while Madara silently drank tea and let him remain unaware of his shortcomings.

Madara battled Ye Zhi Qiu, using fire and Ye Zhi Qiu’s own cold water to exploit the weakness of his turtle shell. The shell shattered, leaving Ye Zhi Qiu badly weakened and Madara poised to continue the fight.

• Madara blasted Ye Zhi Qiu into the air and battered him, but Ye Zhi Qiu emerged from the crater with only minor injuries.
• Ye Zhi Qiu withdrew into his shell and charged Madara as a spinning top, forcing Madara back with the impact.
• Madara summoned five fire dragons that heated Ye Zhi Qiu’s shell, while Tang San realized Madara was setting up a victory.
• Ye Zhi Qiu used Mysterious Water to cool himself and his shell, but repeated temperature changes caused the shell to crack and shatter.
• Ye Zhi Qiu spat blood and collapsed after his martial soul was damaged, and Madara kicked him in the chest and sent him flying.

Madara defeated Ye Zhi Qiu, but Zhao Wuji stopped him from killing the Canghui Academy instructor and sent the group fleeing. A band of armed men arrived, and Madara recognized their leader Pan Chui before reuniting with Li Jia and the Lone Soul Hunting Group.

• Madara defeated Ye Zhi Qiu and prepared to kill him, but Oscar urged him to stop.
• Zhao Wuji arrived, frightened Ye Zhi Qiu and his students with his Soul Saint aura, and stopped Madara from pursuing them.
• A group of armed men entered the inn, and Madara threw Pan Chui to the ground before Pan Chui halted the others' attack.
• Pan Chui invited Madara to meet the boss, and Madara followed him to the hall with Tang San and the others trailing behind.
• Li Jia and the Lone Soul Hunting Group warmly welcomed Madara, who felt moved by their concern.

Madara learned that a young man had challenged him and found the stranger’s fist mark on his training stone. After the young man struck the stone with his Thunder Dragon Claw, Madara destroyed its upper half with one ordinary punch, leaving the challenge unanswered but the difference in their strength unmistakable.

• Li Jia told Madara that Ye Lingling’s associate had brought a young man who wanted to challenge him.
• Madara inspected his training stone and saw the massive fist imprint the young man had left on it.
• The young man possessed his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul and attacked the stone with his First Spirit Skill, Thunder Dragon Claw.
• Madara punched the stone without using a Spirit Skill or Martial Soul Possession and shattered its upper half, while Tang San steadied Oscar against the blast.
• Madara looked forward to meeting the young man again and imagined him living beneath Uchiha’s shadow.

Madara and the Shrek group entered the Star Dou Great Forest, where Li Jia warned him about the powerful Titan Giant Ape. When they encountered a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent suitable for Oscar, Madara insisted Oscar claim his own Spirit Ring, and Oscar resolved to fight for his own power.

• Li Jia warned Madara that the Titan Giant Ape possessed strength close to a Titled Douluo, exciting Madara rather than frightening him.
• Zhao Wuji cautioned the Shrek students about the dangers of the Star Dou Great Forest, while Madara argued they should kill hostile Spirit Beasts that stalked them.
• Zhao Wuji sent Zhu Zhuqing to scout an approaching Spirit Beast, and Tang San identified it as a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent suitable for Oscar.
• Madara tossed Oscar a kunai and told him to take down the serpent himself instead of relying on others.
• Oscar accepted Madara's challenge and declared that he would claim his own power himself.

Oscar fought the wounded Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent to prove himself, killing it after Madara’s training helped him endure its attacks. He collapsed beside the serpent as its purple soul ring appeared.

• Oscar ignored Zhao Wuji and charged the fleeing Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent with Madara’s kunai.
• Madara told Oscar to remove his weights, and Oscar discovered that training with them had made him much faster and stronger.
• Oscar wounded the serpent, but it bit his arm and coiled around him, nearly crushing him.
• Oscar stabbed the serpent repeatedly while struggling to breathe, but it pinned his weapon arm and tightened its coils.
• Two daggers struck the serpent’s eyes, and Oscar seized the opening to drive his kunai into its head and body until it died.
• Oscar stopped attacking when someone sharply called out to him, then collapsed as the serpent’s purple soul ring appeared.

Dai Mubai and the others found Oscar after he killed the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, but Meng Yiran claimed the beast and demanded a fight with Madara. She revealed her strength as a level 32 Soul Elder, while Madara accepted her challenge with a taunt.

• Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Madara arrived and confirmed Oscar was safe, and Oscar credited the serpent’s defeat to Meng Yiran’s help.
• Meng Yiran claimed she had found the serpent first and refused Tang San’s offer of compensation, prompting Zhao Wuji to intervene.
• Meng Yiran called for Dragon Duke and Snake Grandma, who arrived and were recognized by Zhao Wuji.
• Meng Yiran demanded a proper fight with Madara, who remembered meeting her years earlier and challenged her to prove herself.
• Meng Yiran summoned her Serpent Cane martial soul and revealed three spirit rings, announcing that she was a level 32 agility-attack Soul Elder.

Meng Yiran challenged Madara, but he refused to fight her and told her to prove herself by defeating Tang San. Their battle began with Meng Yiran escaping Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and launching a surprise attack with her Serpent Cane.

• Meng Yiran confronted Madara, whose overwhelming strength left her shocked and unwilling to admit defeat.
• Madara told Meng Yiran to defeat Tang San if she wanted to earn the right to challenge him.
• Meng Yiran accepted the challenge and attacked Tang San, while Dai Mubai and Oscar urged him to fight.
• Tang San bound Meng Yiran with his Blue Silver Grass, but she escaped using a spirit skill and charged at him.
• Tang San caught Meng Yiran’s Serpent Cane with his Mysterious Jade Hand, but its snake head opened its mouth and shot out a blade-like tongue.

Tang San countered Meng Yiran’s serpent attacks and poison with his Tang Sect techniques, then faced her in a contest of throwing knives. He disarmed her without injuring her, leaving Meng Yiran to acknowledge another defeat.

• Meng Yiran launched hidden snake blades from her Serpent Cane, but Tang San blocked them with his Mysterious Jade Hand and showed that her poison had no effect.
• Meng Yiran used eight shifting Serpent Cane afterimages, and Tang San identified the real weapon with his Purple Demon Eye and seized its vital point.
• Tang San and Meng Yiran struggled over control of the Serpent Cane until Meng Yiran threw a knife, prompting Tang San to return it and challenge her to compete.
• Tang San intercepted Meng Yiran’s throwing knives with his hidden weapons and embedded his weapons around her feet, leaving her unharmed but defeated.

After Oscar absorbed the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent’s spirit ring, Madara challenged the group’s instinct to use his new flight skill for escape. He declared that he would use it to hunt down every enemy, leaving the others unsettled by his bloodthirsty resolve.

• Tang San asked the Peerless Dragon Snake to let Oscar absorb the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent’s spirit ring, and Oscar began absorbing it.
• Madara taunted Meng Yiran after defeating her, but she refused to accept the loss until Meng Shu ordered her to leave; Chao Tianxiang and Meng Shu went after her.
• Madara mocked Ma Hongjun for fearing the Soul Douluo, and Ma Hongjun fell silent under Madara’s stare.
• Ning Rongrong redirected the group’s attention to Oscar, who revealed that his Third Spirit Skill let him fly for one minute at the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent’s speed.
• When the others praised the skill as a way to escape danger, Madara said he would use it to eliminate threats and kill every enemy, leaving Tang San and the others uneasy.

Tang San reached level 30, forcing the group to remain in the Star Dou Great Forest to find him a Spirit Beast. Madara sensed danger and armed himself, but when the Titan Giant Ape attacked the camp, he stood between it and the others and charged.

• Tang San told Zhao Wuji that he had broken through to level 30, and Zhao Wuji planned to find him a suitable Spirit Beast the next morning.
• Madara sensed that danger was approaching, warned the group, and prepared his ninja tools despite their doubts.
• The Titan Giant Ape silently approached the camp, and Zhao Wuji ordered everyone to gather behind him.
• Oscar realized Madara was missing, and Tang San and the others spotted him standing between the Titan Giant Ape and the group.
• Zhao Wuji tried to placate the Titan Giant Ape, but Madara tightened his grip on his weapons and charged forward.

Madara fought the Titan Giant Ape, but the beast outmaneuvered him and sent him flying before taking Xiao Wu away. The chapter ended with Tang San watching helplessly as the ape departed.

• Zhao Wuji tried to stop Madara from confronting the Titan Giant Ape, but Madara dodged its attacks and climbed onto its arm.
• Ning Rongrong boosted Madara's strength and speed, and he climbed onto the ape's shoulder and burned its mouth with a torrent of flames.
• The enraged Titan Giant Ape unleashed black waves that blasted Madara into the air, then punched him away.
• Zhao Wuji struck the ape, but it kicked him aside, seized Xiao Wu, and left as Tang San cried out for her.

Madara and Tang San's companions pursued the Titan Giant Ape to rescue Xiao Wu, while Madara raced after Tang San. He reached a ravine guarded by powerful gorillas and prepared to fight his way through.

• Tang San took Oscar's Flying Mushroom Sausage and ran into the forest after the Titan Giant Ape despite Zhao Wuji's objections.
• Madara returned, revealed that he had reached level forty, and set off after Tang San to bring him back.
• Oscar gave mushroom sausages to the group, and Zhao Wuji ordered them to pursue Tang San and Madara together.
• Madara followed the Titan Giant Ape's trail to a vast ravine, where hostile gorillas guarded the only crossing.
• Madara struck the gorilla leader and realized it was a twenty-thousand-year Spirit Beast, with several other powerful gorillas surrounding him.

Madara fought his way past the Great Ape King to reach the stone bridge, using his combat experience and the Eight Inner Gates to escape despite his injuries. He left the apes behind as the enraged Great Ape King pursued him.

• Madara charged the Great Ape King, was struck into a tree, and got back up after dropping his weighted gear.
• Madara opened the Third Gate, killed one of the great apes with his scythe, and used its falling corpse to distract the Great Ape King.
• Madara cut off the Great Ape King's ear with the blood-red Kunai Tang San had given him.
• The Great Ape King flung Madara toward the stone bridge, and Madara rolled with the impact and sprinted across.
• The Great Ape King recovered and chased after Madara, while the other apes cowered in silence.

Madara reached Xiao Wu and attacked the Titan Giant Ape, but learned that Tang San had not arrived and feared he was dead. Overcome with grief and rage, Madara fought on despite being badly injured, then turned toward the helpless Great Ape King as the Titan Giant Ape closed in.

• Madara raced through the forest with the Great Ape King and its pack pursuing him, then found Xiao Wu facing the Titan Giant Ape.
• Madara knocked the Titan Giant Ape's reaching hand away from Xiao Wu and attacked it with his sickle and flaming ninja tools.
• Madara asked Xiao Wu where Tang San was, and Xiao Wu revealed that she had not known Tang San was there.
• Madara, believing Tang San was likely dead, charged the Titan Giant Ape in grief and fury, wounded it, and was sent flying in return.
• Madara stood again despite his injuries and noticed the Great Ape King incapacitated by the Titan Giant Ape's pressure.
• Madara fixed his gaze on the helpless Great Ape King as the Titan Giant Ape approached.

Madara absorbed the Great Ape King's soul ring and gained its left arm bone, which let him manifest Susanoo's arm and fight the Titan Giant Ape. The Mangekyo backlash interrupted him, allowing the Titan Giant Ape to blast him away.

• Madara killed the Great Ape King and began absorbing its soul ring while Xiao Wu tried to stop Er Ming from attacking him.
• The Great Ape King’s left arm bone let Madara summon Susanoo’s spectral arm and withstand Er Ming’s attack.
• Madara charged Er Ming and fought him head-on, driving the Titan Giant Ape back as Xiao Wu watched helplessly.
• The Mangekyo’s backlash made Madara’s movements falter, and Er Ming grew larger and struck him through the forest.

After Madara forcibly absorbed a twenty-thousand-year Spirit Ring from the Great Ape King, he collapsed from the strain but recovered enough to face Meng Yiran and her grandparents. Meng Yiran left after challenging him to meet at the Continental Elite Soul Master Competition, while the others confirmed Madara had obtained a black Fourth Spirit Ring.

• Madara collapsed after the aftereffects of forcibly absorbing the Great Ape King's Spirit Ring erupted, then stubbornly stood back up.
• Meng Yiran emerged from the forest and accused Tang San and Madara of stealing her Man-Faced Spider again; Madara retorted that she had let it escape.
• Tang San asked whether the Dragon Duke and Snake Grandma were nearby, and the two elders appeared; Madara said he had encountered a Titan Giant Ape.
• Zhao Wuji arrived and advised the Dragon Duke and Snake Grandma to leave, while Meng Yiran challenged Madara to meet her at the Continental Elite Soul Master Competition before departing.
• Oscar and Dai Mubai joined the group, and Madara revealed his pitch-black Fourth Spirit Ring, astonishing Ma Hongjun.

Madara used Yasakani no Magatama to distract the Titan Giant Ape and escape with Xiao Wu, but the beast pursued them. They found Tang San safe after he had absorbed a Spirit Ring, and Madara’s Mangekyo reverted when he saw his brother.

• Madara unleashed Yasakani no Magatama against the Titan Giant Ape, then grabbed Xiao Wu and fled while the beast blocked the attack.
• The Titan Giant Ape broke free of the attack and chased after Madara and Xiao Wu.
• Madara escaped far enough to put down Xiao Wu, who vomited from being carried at high speed.
• Madara heard nearby fighting and rushed toward it with Xiao Wu, fearing Tang San was in trouble.
• Madara found Tang San finishing his Spirit Ring absorption, and his Mangekyo reverted as he reunited with his brother.

The Shrek group returned safely to the academy, where Tang San reunited with his teacher, Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang. Yu Xiaogang questioned Madara about his fight with the Titan Giant Ape, and Madara ended their conversation by asking about the Continental Elite Soul Master Competition.

• Zhao Wuji led the Shrek group away from the forest, while Xiao Wu silently promised Er Ming she would visit again.
• The group returned to Shrek Academy, where Flender introduced Yu Xiaogang as a new teacher and Tang San joyfully reunited with him.
• Yu Xiaogang privately asked Madara how he fought the Titan Giant Ape to a draw, and Madara challenged him to explain how he knew about the fight.
• Madara told Yu Xiaogang about his ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring, Spirit Bone, and eye-based trump card, but stayed silent when Yu Xiaogang asked whether using it had a cost.
• Madara asked Yu Xiaogang about Clear Sky Douluo, then brought up the Continental Elite Soul Master Competition.

Tang San developed an External Soul Bone that burst through his back, alarming Madara and the Shrek group. Yu Xiaogang explained its value and warned Tang San to keep it secret, while Madara promised to protect him as they returned to the dormitories.

• Madara told Tang San about the Continental Elite Soul Master Competition, and Tang San gave him a Flying Sky Divine Claw before distributing more to the others.
• Yu Xiaogang announced that the Shrek group would begin special training the next day.
• Tang San grew pale and rushed to a grove, where eight bone protrusions burst through his back as Madara arrived to help him.
• Tang San explained what happened to Yu Xiaogang and the others, and Yu Xiaogang identified the bones as a powerful External Soul Bone.
• Yu Xiaogang warned Tang San not to reveal the External Soul Bone unless necessary, and Madara vowed to kill anyone who harmed his brother.
• Madara and Tang San walked back toward the dormitories while an unkempt cloaked figure watched them from the woods.