Chapter Summaries

Dugu Bo confronted Tang Hao in the forest and fought him using poison, while Tang Hao’s old injuries weakened his attacks. At Seven Treasures Academy, Ning Fengzhi addressed demands for a team selection tournament by setting rules for challengers to earn core-member positions.

• Dugu Bo revealed his rank-ninety-four strength, recognized Tang Hao hiding nearby, and challenged him to emerge.
• Tang Hao confronted Dugu Bo and warned him to watch Dugu Yan before summoning his Clear Sky Hammer and nine Soul Rings.
• Dugu Bo used Poison Mist and venom against Tang Hao, whose old injuries flared and slowed his hammer swings.
• The battle’s Soul Power shook Spirit Beast Town, forcing Soul Masters to postpone hunts or flee the forest, while Shrek Academy focused on treating Tang San and Yu Xiaogang.
• At Seven Treasures Academy, Ning Fengzhi set rules allowing students to challenge Seven Treasures Team members for core positions, with age-eligible challengers needing Soul King strength.

After returning to Seven Treasures Academy, Wu Qi and his teammates learned they would face a selection tournament for substitutes. In Sunset Forest, Dugu Bo drove off an injured Tang Hao and left believing he could eventually become strong enough to kill him.

• Xia Changhe told the Seven Treasures Team that Ning Fengzhi had ordered a substitute selection tournament, and Sun Buyu and Wu Qi urged the team to rest and prepare.
• Dugu Bo and Tang Hao fought at close range, and Dugu Bo used Time Freeze to trap Tang Hao and corrode him with venom.
• Tang Hao exploded several spirit rings to break free, then exploded more rings to prepare another attack as his injuries worsened.
• Dugu Bo amplified his venom with Snow Swan Kiss leaves, forcing Tang Hao to retreat and warn him not to reveal Little San's identity or harm Little San.
• Dugu Bo mocked Tang Hao, cleaned up the battlefield to avoid trouble, and considered how his Poison Pill method might let him surpass Tang Hao; Tang Hao fled to treat his injuries.

Wu Qi and Dugu Bo discussed Tang Hao’s confrontation with Dugu Bo and prepared to guard against another attack. At Shrek Academy, Tang San blamed Wu Qi for Yu Xiaogang’s injuries, and the Shrek Seven Devils planned to search for Immortal Herbs in Thunderclap Canyon while keeping their discovery secret.

• Wu Qi recognized signs of a fight on Dugu Bo’s clothes, and Dugu Bo told him Tang Hao had come after he taught Tang San a lesson.
• Wu Qi gave Dugu Bo another Snow Swan Kiss leaf and told him to stay alert for Tang Hao while the academy prepared for selection trials.
• Tang San and the Shrek Seven Devils blamed Wu Qi for Yu Xiaogang’s injuries and discussed how their rivals’ strength had increased.
• Yu Tianheng said his clan’s records linked special herbs in Thunderclap Canyon to increased strength, and Tang San suggested sending trusted people there to search.
• Tang San argued that they should keep any Immortal Herbs secret until they found them and confirmed their effects.

Wu Qi recounted his training trip to Xue Qinghe and revealed that Tang San was Tang Hao’s son, while warning Xue Qinghe against targeting Shrek Academy. Xue Qinghe wanted Tang San killed, but Wu Qi cautioned that provoking Tang Hao could bring disastrous consequences.

• The Shrek Six Monsters agreed to travel to the Star Dou Great Forest for Dai Mubai’s Soul Rings once Grandmaster recovered.
• Seven Treasures Academy held its team selection tournament, and Cui Xia challenged Chen Ping for a main team position.
• Xue Qinghe privately asked Wu Qi about the training trip, and Wu Qi withheld news of the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone while asking about the New Mountain Sect.
• Xue Qinghe asked Wu Qi whether he should recruit Shrek Academy, and Wu Qi advised against it after recounting their encounter with Tang Hao in Sunset Forest.
• Xue Qinghe learned Tang San was Tang Hao’s son and considered having him killed, but Wu Qi warned that provoking Tang Hao could unleash a dangerous Super Douluo.

Wu Qi and Xue Qinghe discussed ways to exploit Tang San’s value without provoking Spirit Hall’s decline, while Seven Treasures Academy’s team selection tournament continued. The Shrek Seven Devils learned that most students had gone to watch the tournament, leaving Flender unable to prevent them.

• Wu Qi advised Xue Qinghe to consider exploiting Tang San’s value if recruitment failed, and Xue Qinghe agreed to think it over.
• Chen Ping defeated Cui Xia by forcing him out of bounds, then the referee announced a half-hour wait before Chen Ping could be challenged again.
• Huang Qi challenged the thirteen-year-old Qian Gu Changkong, prompting his teammates to warn him not to underestimate his opponent.
• Shrek Academy’s enrollment had fallen by seventy percent, and the Shrek Seven Devils discovered that many students had gone to watch Seven Treasures Academy’s team selection tournament.
• Ma Hongjun urged Flender to forbid students from attending the tournament, but Flender could not control their decision.

Shrek's leaders agreed to let the Shrek Seven Devils leave for the Star Dou Great Forest, while Wu Qi received a dubious report accusing Dugu Bo of killing Spirit Hall members. Wu Qi suspected the Shrek Seven Devils had fabricated it and sent the letter onward to give Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo an opening to approach Dugu Bo.

• Flender ordered Shrek's students to keep cultivating, then agreed that the Shrek Seven Devils could use a trip to hunt spirit beasts as an alibi while avoiding retaliation over their planned revenge on Dugu Bo.
• The Five Academies Alliance absorbed Seven Treasures Academy and became the Six Academies Alliance, which held an exchange event and team selection tournament at Seven Treasures Academy.
• Wu Qi arranged evening Team Spirit Battles and gave the Seven Treasures Team time to rest as the Spirit Master Competition approached.
• Xue Qinghe forwarded Wu Qi a black secret letter claiming Dugu Bo had killed a Spirit Hall squad in the Sunset Forest.
• Wu Qi judged the anonymous report implausible and suspected the Shrek Seven Devils had fabricated it, though he could not identify who had written it.
• Wu Qi sent the letter with Golden Eagle Douluo, reasoning that Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo might use it as an excuse to mock or approach Dugu Bo.

The Shrek Seven Devils left Heaven Dou City after sending a denunciation letter intended to cause trouble for Dugu Bo, while Yu Tianheng kept the scheme’s details secret. At Seven Treasures Academy, Wu Qi received the sect’s Distraction Control Method from Ning Fengzhi to help him command the team during the upcoming Spirit Master Competition.

• The Shrek Seven Devils departed Heaven Dou City, and Yu Xiaogang and the others praised Yu Tianheng’s denunciation scheme while Tang San warned it would only cause Dugu Bo a small setback.
• Dai Mubai encouraged Yu Tianheng to remember his classmates if he rose to lead the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Yu Tianheng urged everyone to keep the matter quiet.
• The Seven Treasures Academy selection concluded with four reserve members chosen, including Ning Tianyu, and Wu Qi assigned the reserves to train for defined team roles.
• Ning Fengzhi gave Wu Qi a secret manual covering the Two-Aperture Divided Heart through the Four-Aperture Constant Heart and asked him to keep the technique confidential.
• Chen Xin questioned the gift’s usefulness, and Ning Fengzhi explained that it helped build goodwill with the Worship Hall without costing the sect much.

Chrysanthemum Douluo showed Dugu Bo a letter that had tried to manipulate Spirit Hall, then sparred with him as Dugu Bo sought to prove his progress. Meanwhile, the Shrek group searched the Star Dou Great Forest for Immortal Herbs but found almost nothing after ten days.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo visited Dugu Bo, mocked him over a foolish letter, and handed it to him to read.
• Dugu Bo put aside the letter and challenged Chrysanthemum Douluo to a spar to demonstrate his improved strength.
• The Shrek group arrived at the Star Dou Great Forest, and Xiao Wu led them east in search of Immortal Herbs.
• Tang San reassured Ma Hongjun that they would look for a Phoenix Crest Sunflower while also searching for a suitable Soul Ring for Dai Mubai.
• After ten days, the group had found only a small aura-concealing flower, which Xiao Wu wore.

The Shrek group followed Xiao Wu into a gorge, where they found four immature Immortal Herbs and unknowingly disturbed a soul beast nest. Two powerful Hampas Giant Eagles arrived, leaving the group facing a deadly fight as Yu Xiaogang remembered the Golden Iron Triangle’s trump card.

• Liu Erlong wounded a saber-toothed tiger, and Dai Mubai killed it and absorbed its Soul Ring to become a Soul Ancestor.
• Yu Xiaogang urged the group onward, and after two days they followed the strengthening fragrance to a gorge containing several Immortal Herbs.
• Tang San identified four immature herbs, but none was the Phoenix Crest Sunflower, and Flender told everyone to dig them up carefully.
• Tang San struck several large eggs beneath the soil, and Xiao Wu recognized that the gorge was a soul beast nesting ground.
• Two Hampas Giant Eagles with cultivations of forty thousand and fifty thousand years arrived, and Yu Xiaogang recalled that the Golden Iron Triangle could use its trump card.

Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong used their Golden Iron Triangle fusion skill to fight two Hampas Giant Eagles while Tang San gathered the Immortal Herbs. The group escaped into a cave, where they argued over the battle before turning to divide the herbs.

• Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong formed the Golden Sacred Dragon with their fusion skill and attacked the two Hampas Giant Eagles.
• Tang San packed up the Immortal Herbs as Flender warned Yu Xiaogang that their Soul Power was running low.
• Yu Xiaogang unleashed the Sacred Dragon Avatar, forcing the eagles back while Flender ordered Dai Mubai and Yu Tianheng to lead everyone away.
• Xiao Wu guided the group into an underground cave and helped them evade the eagles; Ma Hongjun got stuck in the narrow fissure before Dai Mubai pulled him through.
• Flender, Liu Erlong, Yu Xiaogang, and Tang San argued over the fight, then Yu Tianheng reminded them they had obtained the Immortal Herbs, prompting the group to consider their distribution.

Tang San and the others divided four Immortal Herbs while trapped in the giant eagles’ territory, and Wu Qi agreed to attend an upcoming Heaven-Grade Auction with Dugu Bo. The chapter ended with a mysterious watcher targeting an auction carriage carrying valuable goods outside Heaven Dou City.

• Yu Xiaogang assigned Tang San an Immortal Herb and chose to wait for news from Yu Tianheng’s group before claiming one for himself.
• Xiao Wu gave her share to Zhu Zhuqing, while Yu Tianheng and Ma Hongjun passed their shared herbs to Dai Mubai and Oscar.
• Zhu Zhuqing urged the team to absorb their herbs while Flender and Liu Erlong recovered, as the giant eagles still circled overhead.
• Dugu Bo told Wu Qi about a mental-type left arm Spirit Bone at a Heaven-Grade Auction, and Wu Qi agreed to attend in three days.
• Dugu Bo questioned Wu Qi about the secret letter, but accepted his explanation that they could deal with the Shrek Team at the Spirit Master Competition.
• A shadowy observer watched an Heaven Dou Auction House carriage carrying valuable goods toward Heaven Dou City.

After absorbing their herbs, Tang San and his companions discussed their prospects for the Spirit Master Competition before setting out to help Tang San hunt for a spirit beast. Meanwhile, Dugu Bo brought Wu Qi to investigate the theft of a Spirit-Type Soul Bone, leaving Wu Qi to examine a scene that had already been cleaned up.

• Dai Mubai, Tang San, Oscar, and Zhu Zhuqing improved their Soul Power Levels after absorbing quasi-Immortal Herbs, and Yu Xiaogang predicted the team could contend for a top-two finish.
• Flender led the group out of the cave after the giant eagles withdrew, and he proposed helping Tang San hunt a spirit beast.
• Dugu Bo and Chen Xin investigated the stolen Soul Bone carriage, but Chen Xin found no clues and left.
• Dugu Bo remembered that Wu Qi possessed a hundred-thousand-year head Soul Bone and asked him to help track the Spirit-Type thief.
• Wu Qi suspected Shi Nian might be responsible but concealed his suspicion and accompanied Dugu Bo to the guarded crime scene.
• Dugu Bo and Wu Qi arrived after the scene had been cleaned up, and Dugu Bo asked Wu Qi to search for clues while he recalled what he had seen.

Wu Qi used his Spirit-Type Soul Bone to reconstruct the ambush on the carriage, identifying Shinian and a concealed accomplice as the likely attackers. Meanwhile, Tang San wanted to absorb a ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring to match Wu Qi, but Yu Xiaogang and the others warned him that soul tremors could make the attempt fatal.

• Wu Qi used Illusion Space and Phantom Energy Sharing to restore the carriage scene from the dead escorts’ memories.
• Wu Qi and Dugu Bo saw Shinian and another hidden expert ambush the carriage with illusions, and Dugu Bo vowed to expose them while keeping the Soul Bone secret.
• Tang San insisted on absorbing a ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring because Wu Qi had one and he needed to match him in the competition.
• Yu Xiaogang, Flender, Liu Erlong, Dai Mubai, and Yu Tianheng warned Tang San that ten-thousand-year Soul Rings caused soul tremors that could leave him an idiot or kill him.
• Yu Xiaogang admitted Tang San was not ready for such a Soul Ring and privately noted the term “soul tremors” for his theory.

Tang San agreed to absorb a six-thousand-year Soul Ring, while Wu Qi and his companions attended the Heaven Dou Auction and began bidding on ordinary items. The auction continued as the group drew attention for repeatedly competing for modest lots.

• Tang San accepted Xiao Wu and Yu Xiaogang’s advice and chose a six-thousand-year Soul Ring, with the group planning to seek a beast-type soul beast.
• Wu Qi, Ning Rongrong, and their companions entered the auction with Dugu Bo, who told Wu Qi that the auction house’s losses had nearly forced it to cancel the event.
• Dugu Bo explained that one stolen item was a damaged soul tool capable of enhancing spiritual power, while the culprit’s identity had been confirmed.
• Wu Qi bid thirty thousand Gold Soul Coins on a fifteen-cubic-meter Storage Soul Tool for Chen Ping, and Qian Gu Changkong paid for it.
• Ning Rongrong asked Wu Qi to bid on a gemstone necklace, while Feng Xiaotian and Feng Changlin discussed the group’s repeated bids on ordinary lots.

Dugu Bo won Lifeblood Grass at auction, and Wu Qi secured the Nine Treasure Ruyi Soft Armor by offering valuable healing herbs. The sale left Dugu Bo surprised by the market value of the herbs he planned to use in a medicinal business.

• Dugu Bo outbid Yellow Guest No. 113 for the Lifeblood Grass and planned to cultivate it at the Icefire Yin Yang Well.
• The auctioneer presented the Nine Treasure Ruyi Soft Armor, and Gu Rong and Ning Fengzhi decided not to bid on it for Ning Rongrong.
• Wu Qi decided to acquire the armor, reasoning that its private seller likely needed resources to treat injuries.
• Wu Qi offered high-grade healing and painkilling herbs in exchange, and Dugu Bo named Qi-Returning Grass, Mutated Astragalus, and Flower of Pain.
• The seller accepted the herbs at a market value of fifty-five Gold Soul Coins, leaving Dugu Bo surprised by their worth.

Wu Qi and his companions left the auction and discovered that a gemstone Ning Rongrong had bought concealed a Soul Tool core. When Wu Qi opened it, a fortune in valuables spilled out, leaving the group with the wealth of a vanished family.

• Wu Qi bought the Nine Treasure Ruyi Soft Armor and later left the auction with his companions when the remaining lots were beyond their means.
• Ning Rongrong showed Wu Qi a deep-blue gemstone she suspected was unusual, and the group agreed to smash it open.
• Chen Ping broke the gemstone with his turtle shell, and Ning Rongrong found a transparent fragment inside.
• Wu Qi bought Chen Ping's old Soul Tool, smashed it open, and identified the fragment as the core of a one-cubic-meter Soul Tool.
• Wu Qi broke the weakened spiritual imprint and released the hidden gemstones, gold, silver, and valuables, worth at least one or two million Gold Soul Coins.
• Feng Xiaotian and the others arrived, and the group realized Ning Rongrong's ten-thousand-Gold-Soul-Coin purchase had uncovered a family's fortune.

After the Seven Treasures Team divided the auction treasures, Yu Tianheng brought Shrek Academy fifteen plants gathered from Thunderclap Canyon, hoping they were Immortal Herbs. Tang San revealed that six were only pseudo-Immortal Herbs and had all been mishandled until they lost their medicinal effects, leaving the group devastated and Ma Hongjun demanding his herb back from Oscar.

• Ning Rongrong kept a dozen gemstones, let the others choose two treasures each, and entrusted Wu Qi with the remaining treasures and sales money.
• A month later, Yu Tianheng’s relatives returned from Thunderclap Canyon with fifteen plants, which he secretly brought to Shrek Academy as supposed Immortal Herbs.
• Tang San examined the plants and identified six as pseudo-Immortal Herbs, then explained that all six had died because they were picked or stored incorrectly.
• Yu Xiaogang staggered at the loss, while Ma Hongjun mourned the missing herbs and Yu Tianheng stood stunned.
• Ma Hongjun confronted Oscar and demanded the Immortal Herb he had given him, but Oscar refused to return it; Flender and Tang San struggled to intervene.

The Shrek Seven Devils’ resentment over the Immortal Herbs erupted into a bitter argument that dragged in old grievances and insults. Dai Mubai, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Ma Hongjun led the opposing sides out to the training ground, where they prepared to fight as Flender went to find Zhao Wuji.

• Xiao Wu tried to stop Ma Hongjun and Oscar from fighting, but Ma Hongjun demanded an explanation for being the only one without an Immortal Herb and cursed Flender and Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang San defended Yu Xiaogang and argued with Ma Hongjun, while Xiao Wu brought up Ma Hongjun’s past treatment of Cuihua.
• Xiao Wu exposed Dai Mubai’s past behavior with Ma Hongjun, angering Dai Mubai and worsening his reconciliation with Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ma Hongjun rejected Oscar’s attempt to calm him, and the Shrek Seven Devils ignored Flender’s order to go rest as they traded insults.
• Dai Mubai unleashed his martial soul, and Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Ma Hongjun challenged one another to fight before both sides headed to the training ground.
• Dai Mubai cleared a class from the arena, the rivals faced off, and Flender left to find Zhao Wuji.

The Shrek Seven Devils’ training-ground fight was stopped by Zhao Wuji, who ordered both sides to rest until the next day. At Seven Treasures Academy, Wu Qi’s team practiced a strategy built around Qian Gu Changkong before hearing about Shrek’s infighting and considering the threat it posed.

• Shrek’s students and teachers watched as Tang San, Xiao Wu, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun fought fiercely on the training grounds.
• Flender sent Zhao Wuji to intervene, and Zhao Wuji separated the fighters, cleared the spectators, and ordered both sides to stop fighting until the next day.
• At Seven Treasures Academy, Wu Qi led a practice battle using Qian Gu Changkong as the tactical core, and the team defeated three teachers with strong coordination.
• Wu Qi explained that the team would use a dual-core strategy with Qian Gu Changkong and Wushuang during the Preliminary Round when opponents were not strong.
• Ning Tianyu told the team that Shrek Academy had suffered serious internal strife, and Ning Rongrong said the team was courting death by fighting before the tournament.

Flender and Zhao Wuji helped the Shrek Seven Devils reconcile after their fight over the lost Immortal Herbs, while Yu Xiaogang remained consumed by despair. Shrek Academy returned to the Great Soul Arena, prompting the Seven Treasures Team to consider how to scout them without revealing its own tactics.

• Zhao Wuji pressured the Shrek Seven Devils to settle their conflict, and Ma Hongjun apologized to Tang San and Yu Xiaogang before Tang San apologized to Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai.
• Flender urged the team not to fixate on the Immortal Herbs, and Tang San and Yu Tianheng apologized; the Shrek Seven Devils reconciled and were assigned laps and nightly Spirit Battles.
• Yu Xiaogang lamented his misfortune to Liu Erlong, who promised to search the Star Dou Great Forest for suitable Immortal Herbs, while Flender decided Tang San needed to persuade him.
• Shrek Academy returned to the Great Soul Arena, drawing rival academy teachers who hoped to learn its tactics.
• Wu Qi warned the Seven Treasures Team against exposing its competition tactics, and Ning Rongrong suggested turning the team battle into one-on-one Spirit Battles.