Chapter Summaries

Zhu Zhuqing’s Peach Blossom Spring team seized the advantage against Shrek after she swiftly defeated Dai Mubai, while Tang San organized Shrek’s fighters and Ye Lingling healed him. Zhuqing struck Dai Mubai down again with Hell Cross Slash, leaving him unable to fight despite his healing.

• Zhu Zhuqing ambushed Dai Mubai and took him out, stunning the spectators and prompting Tang San to catch him with Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San asked Ye Lingling to heal Dai Mubai, while he urged Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan to cooperate and protect the healer.
• Ning Rongrong directed her team’s formation, boosted Wang Sheng’s strength and speed, and sent him charging into Shrek’s fighters.
• Wang Sheng punched Ma Hongjun in the mouth and tore through Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass as he advanced.
• Tang San assigned Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan to protect Ye Lingling and instructed his other teammates to wear down Peach Blossom Spring’s fighters and target Ning Rongrong.
• Dai Mubai returned to the fight after healing, but Zhu Zhuqing used Hell Cross Slash to wound him again and knock him out of combat.

Peach Blossom Spring Team overwhelmed Shrek in the Spirit Dueling match, exposing the limits of Tang San’s tactics and hidden weapons. Tang San admitted defeat after Meng Yiran revealed that Su Ran had taught her more than a hundred hidden weapons like the one that wounded him.

• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Wang Sheng, and Meng Yiran battered Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun while countering Tang San’s techniques, and Xiao Wu deliberately got herself eliminated.
• Ye Lingling warned that Shrek’s repeated injuries were exhausting her healing Soul Power, while Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan marveled at Peach Blossom Spring Team’s unusual abilities.
• Tang San declared his opponents enemies and distributed Godly Zhuge Crossbows to Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, who fired at Wang Sheng, Meng Yiran, and Ning Rongrong.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Meng Yiran used Hell Flying Flowers to slice apart the crossbow bolts and wound Tang San, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and the others, forcing Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling out of the arena.
• Meng Yiran credited Su Ran’s teaching and said the team still had over a hundred hidden weapons to learn, leaving Tang San stunned as he fell to his knees and admitted Shrek had lost.

Peach Blossom Spring Team defeated the combined Shrek and Imperial Dou Team, leaving Tang San and his teammates badly injured while Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Meng Yiran, and Wang Sheng celebrated. The Apprentice Recruitment System rewarded Su Ran with a major boost and an Epic Immortal Master's Crown that strengthened him for each disciple nearby.

• Tang San fell last as the Peach Blossom Spring Team won, and the crowd erupted in anger while healers treated the badly wounded Shrek and Imperial Dou members.
• Ning Rongrong and the other Peach Blossom Spring students celebrated their victory, while Meng Yiran thanked Su Ran and reunited with Dragon Duke and Snake Grandma's praise.
• Su Ran congratulated his students, and Ning Rongrong shouted that she loved him, drawing the spectators' attention to their young teacher.
• The Apprentice Recruitment System rewarded Su Ran with attribute and Soul Power increases, four Immortal Grade Flora, and the Epic Immortal Master's Crown, which boosted his attributes for each disciple within the Peach Blossom Domain.

Taoyuan defeated Shrek, and Su Ran led the opposing teachers to the award stage to enforce the wager Shrek had proposed. Ning Rongrong won one million gold spirit coins from her bet, while Shrek faced paying ten thousand coins and surrendering its academy deed.

• Flender mourned Shrek’s defeat, and Yu Xiaogang argued with Su Ran before staff escorted them to the award stage.
• The injured Shrek students gathered after the match while Oscar wondered whether he could join Taoyuan Academy and become Su Ran’s disciple.
• Manager Ao awarded Taoyuan its share of ticket revenue and betting winnings, including one million gold spirit coins for Ning Rongrong’s wager.
• Ning Rongrong offered to donate her winnings to the academy and tried to get Su Ran to kiss her, but he rebuked her teasing.
• Manager Ao told Shrek to pay Taoyuan ten thousand gold spirit coins and hand over the academy deed.

Su Ran demanded that Shrek Academy honor the wager after its defeat, and the Shrek group scrambled to pay the Gold Soul Coins and transfer the campus Land Deed. Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Yu Xiaogang assumed they would join Peach Blossom Spring Academy as teachers, but Su Ran revealed he had never offered them jobs.

• Flender admitted he could not pay the wager or provide Shrek Academy’s Land Deed, while Yu Xiaogang blamed him and refused responsibility.
• Su Ran threatened to make Shrek repay the debt with blood, and Zhao Wuji hurriedly contributed his savings before Flender, Oscar, and Xiao Wu covered the remaining Gold Soul Coins.
• Yu Xiaogang arranged for the Suotuo City Martial Soul Hall Branch to purchase Shrek’s campus and send its Land Deed to Peach Blossom Spring Academy.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji accepted the idea of teaching at Peach Blossom Spring Academy, and Yu Xiaogang agreed to teach only Xiao San.
• Su Ran clarified that he had never invited any of them to become teachers at Peach Blossom Spring Academy.

Su Ran rejected Flender’s proposal to absorb Shrek Academy’s students into Peach Blossom Spring Academy, then declined Xiao Wu and Tang San while briefly inviting Ye Lingling to become his disciple. After leaving the arena, he found Yu Xiaogang waiting and begging him to evolve his Martial Soul.

• Su Ran told Flender that Peach Blossom Spring Academy would not hire Shrek’s teachers or accept its students, and warned him not to cause trouble again.
• Su Ran assessed the Shrek students’ talents and decided none of them were suitable disciples; Yu Xiaogang left in anger, while Xiao Wu and Tang San reacted to the rejection.
• Su Ran invited Ye Lingling to join him because of her special Martial Soul, but she declined, and he said he might be able to resolve its innate flaw.
• Dugu Yan wondered whether Su Ran could also help with the poison affecting her and her grandfather.
• Outside the arena, Yu Xiaogang led Su Ran aside, knelt before him, and begged him to evolve his Martial Soul, offering to become Su Ran’s disciple.

Yu Xiaogang begged Su Ran to accept him as a disciple, but Su Ran refused and left him to rally the defeated Shrek students. Su Ran returned toward Peach Blossom Spring Academy with his four students, where a black-robed man challenged him to a spar.

• Yu Xiaogang explained why he believed Su Ran could evolve his Martial Soul and begged him to become his teacher.
• Su Ran refused Yu Xiaogang, quoting his own theory about useless Martial Souls, and walked away despite Yu Xiaogang's angry threat.
• Yu Xiaogang told the Shrek students that Su Ran had wanted to hire him, then promised to train them better; Tang San left in despair, and Xiao Wu suggested joining Peach Blossom Spring Academy.
• Su Ran led Ning Rongrong, Meng Yiran, and Zhu Zhuqing along a quiet route back, and Ning Rongrong celebrated winning a million Gold Soul Coins and earning a kiss from her teacher.
• A black-robed man waited beneath a Peach Blossom Tree near Peach Blossom Spring Academy and challenged Su Ran to spar.

Tang Hao, the Clear Sky Douluo, confronted Su Ran and challenged him to a three-move contest, but Su Ran disarmed and wounded him with a peach blossom branch. Tang Hao refused to accept defeat and demanded that Su Ran teach Xiao San his techniques, then attacked with the Clear Sky Hammer as Su Ran prepared to respond.

• Tang Hao revealed his nine Soul Rings and Clear Sky Hammer, while Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Meng Yiran, Wang Sheng, Dragon Duke, and Snake Grandma stepped forward to protect Su Ran.
• Su Ran refused to leave Dragon Duke and Snake Grandma to face Tang Hao alone and accepted Tang Hao's challenge to attack first with three moves.
• Su Ran used Sky Breaking Style, Blade Breaking Style, and Qi Breaking Style to strike Tang Hao's chest and knock the Clear Sky Hammer from his hand.
• Tang Hao rejected the loss, revealed his Soul Power, and demanded that Su Ran teach Xiao San every technique he had taught his students.
• Su Ran called Tang Hao “Su Hao” because Tang Hao had promised to take Su Ran's surname if he lost, and Tang Hao attacked with Thunder Fixes the Universe.

Su Ran fought Tang Hao at Peach Blossom Spring Academy, where Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong arrived to support him. Tang Hao fled wounded, and Xiao Wu recognized Su Ran from afar before Tang Hao dragged her away.

• Su Ran activated his Mortal World True Body and used his peach-blossom domain as Tang Hao attacked him with the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong arrived, and Ning Fengzhi boosted Su Ran with the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda.
• Su Ran's Nine Luminaries Peach Blossom swords clashed with Tang Hao's Clear Sky True Body and pierced Tang Hao's right shoulder, damaging his Soul Bone.
• Tang Hao fled Peach Blossom Spring Academy after threatening Su Ran and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Tang San encountered his wounded father outside Suotuo City, while Xiao Wu recognized Su Ran as the person she had been searching for.
• Tang Hao seized Xiao Wu and dragged her away when she refused to leave with him.

Su Ran defeated Tang Hao but had his mask broken, revealing his face and leaving his students and allies astonished. As Ning Rongrong, Meng Yiran, and Zhu Zhuqing reacted to his appearance, Ning Fengzhi praised Su Ran and trusted him to protect Rongrong.

• Su Ran thanked Ning Fengzhi after Tang Hao fled, removed his broken mask, and showed that the Peach Blossom Sword had damaged Tang Hao's right arm Soul Bone.
• Meng Yiran, Zhu Zhuqing, and the others stared in surprise at Su Ran's unveiled face.
• Ning Rongrong kissed Su Ran and tearfully urged him not to put himself in danger again.
• Meng Yiran and Zhu Zhuqing grew jealous of Ning Rongrong's closeness to Su Ran and challenged her claim that only she could kiss or touch him.
• Snake Grandma asked Dragon Duke whether she looked good, and he urged her to leave Suotuo City after suspecting she was interested in Su Ran.
• Ning Fengzhi praised Su Ran and said he trusted him to look after Rongrong, while Gu Rong recalled that Ning Fengzhi had once planned to confront the person who had made Rongrong lovestruck.

Ning Fengzhi lectured Ning Rongrong about secretly leaving home, then encouraged her to pursue Su Ran when she revealed her feelings for her teacher. After Dragon Duke and Snake Grandma left the academy, Su Ran received the deed to Shrek Academy’s former site and learned that expanding Peach Blossom Spring Academy would earn him rewards.

• Ning Fengzhi scolded Ning Rongrong for leaving the sect alone, but told her to wait until adulthood before discussing marriage with Su Ran and urged her to hold on to him.
• Dragon Duke and Snake Grandma apologized to Su Ran, entrusted Meng Yiran to his care, and departed from Peach Blossom Spring Academy.
• A Spirit Hall deacon delivered the deed to Shrek Academy’s former site, and Su Ran received a system mission to expand the academy for rewards, including a Soul Ring attachment opportunity.
• The Spirit Hall deacon invited Peach Blossom Spring Academy to join Spirit Hall, but Ning Fengzhi refused on the academy’s behalf and sent the deacon away.
• Ning Fengzhi told Su Ran that he had bought two nearby hilltops as a gift for the academy and brought workers to help renovate the land.

Su Ran reviewed the students’ risky tactics in their victory over Shrek Academy and gave them advice for future battles. He then rewarded Ning Rongrong, Wang Sheng, Zhu Zhuqing, and Meng Yiran with rare flowers that could transform their abilities and Martial Souls.

• Su Ran warned the students not to grow complacent after defeating Shrek Academy and criticized their risky combat decisions.
• Su Ran explained that Ning Rongrong needed to command the team more effectively, while praising her potential and placing high hopes in her.
• Su Ran announced victory prizes and gave Ning Rongrong the Golden Body Glazed Flower, which could strengthen her and transform her Martial Soul.
• Su Ran gave Wang Sheng the Storm Tiger Stripe Bamboo Shoot, Zhu Zhuqing the Yin Nether Soul-Guiding Grass, and Meng Yiran the Other Shore Undead Flower.
• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Meng Yiran, and Wang Sheng were stunned by the power and value of the flowers Su Ran had given them.

Su Ran cultivated the new Peach Blossom Spring Academy campus while his students absorbed Immortal Grade Flora, then Xiao Wu arrived gravely wounded and reverted to her Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast form. After she fainted at the gates, Tang Hao and Tang San watched from the darkness as she entered the academy, with Tang San conflicted over his father’s plan to exploit her power.

• Su Ran raised his Soul Power to Level 79, strengthened his Soul Skills, and planted rare seeds across the new campus.
• Su Ran found Wang Sheng practicing, then sensed blood and saw Xiao Wu arrive injured, in her Soul Beast form, asking him to save her before fainting.
• Su Ran carried Xiao Wu into the Inner Court, and Ning Rongrong, Meng Yiran, Zhu Zhuqing, and the others questioned Wang Sheng about her.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong recognized Xiao Wu as a shapeshifted Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and noticed that pursuers were nearby.
• Tang Hao criticized Tang San for helping Xiao Wu escape and urged him to seek her Soul Ring and Soul Bone, while Tang San struggled between his feelings for Xiao Wu and his desire to defeat Peach Blossom Spring Academy.

After Tang Hao and Tang San turned against Xiao Wu over her identity as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, she fled to Su Ran, who treated her wounds and gave her a safe place to recover. Seeing the academy’s students train, Xiao Wu asked Su Ran to accept her as his disciple because she had nowhere else to go.

• Xiao Wu woke from a nightmare about Tang San and Tang Hao hunting her and told Su Ran that Tang Hao wanted to imprison her and make her Tang San’s Soul Ring.
• Su Ran reassured Xiao Wu that he would not kill her or treat her as a Soul Ring, gave her medicine and clean clothes, and told her to recover before choosing whether to stay.
• Xiao Wu woke the next morning with her wounds healed and watched the academy’s students practice techniques Su Ran had taught them.
• Xiao Wu asked Su Ran to take her as his disciple, saying she would even serve as his maid if he let her stay.

Su Ran accepted Xiao Wu as his fifth disciple and received major cultivation rewards that pushed him toward rank 80 and granted him a hundred-thousand-year soul bone and domain. As Ning Fengzhi asked to discuss buying Hidden Weapons for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Su Ran confirmed he had them.

• Su Ran accepted Xiao Wu as his disciple, gave her a booklet on yoga, and promised to help her recover from her injuries.
• Xiao Wu showed Su Ran the towel he had given her in the Star Dou Great Forest, and he confirmed he had been the one she met there.
• The disciple-acceptance rewards raised Su Ran's soul-ring ages and Soul Power, granted him the Hundred Thousand Year External Soul Bone Cloud Dream Immortal Wings, and awakened his Heavenly White Jade Capital Mortal World Domain.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong congratulated Su Ran on accepting Xiao Wu, and Su Ran asked them to keep her identity secret.
• Ning Fengzhi asked whether Su Ran could provide Hidden Weapons like the Godly Zhuge Crossbows for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Su Ran said he could.

Su Ran welcomed Xiao Wu as Peach Blossom Spring Academy’s fifth student and tested her Soft Technique before teaching her Tai Chi. The chapter ended with Xiao Wu struggling to remember the movements but beginning to understand that Tai Chi depended on its meaning rather than its forms.

• Su Ran introduced Xiao Wu to Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Meng Yiran, and Wang Sheng as their new classmate and his fifth student.
• Su Ran handed out the students’ assessment sheets, then took Xiao Wu to the Martial Arts Arena to examine her Soft Technique.
• Xiao Wu attacked Su Ran with her Soft Technique and Soul Skills, but he repeatedly redirected her force and threw her back.
• Su Ran explained that he had used Tai Chi’s Borrowing Force to Strike and said it could complement Xiao Wu’s attack-focused Soft Technique.
• Su Ran demonstrated Tai Chi and taught Xiao Wu its principles, telling her that understanding its meaning mattered more than memorizing its movements.

Xiao Wu struggled to master Su Ran’s Tai Chi while the academy’s students trained, and Dugu Bo arrived demanding to see Su Ran. As Dugu Bo attacked the students with poison, Su Ran emerged from seclusion and ordered Xiao Wu to stay hidden.

• Xiao Wu practiced Tai Chi and resolved to keep training after Ning Rongrong demonstrated her powerful Wing Chun punch and Wang Sheng encouraged her.
• Dugu Bo entered Peach Blossom Spring Academy despite Wang Sheng’s warning that Su Ran was in seclusion, then poisoned and injured him when he tried to block the way.
• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Meng Yiran confronted Dugu Bo, and their unusual defenses and attacks surprised him as he recognized their ability to resist and absorb his poison.
• Dugu Bo intensified his poisonous assault, leaving the students struggling to hold on while Xiao Wu watched from behind the Peach Blossom Stone Screen.
• Xiao Wu prepared to help her classmates, but Su Ran emerged from seclusion, told her to return to her room, and said he would handle Dugu Bo.

Su Ran returned from seclusion as a Level 86 Soul Douluo and drove Dugu Bo out of Peach Blossom Spring Academy after he poisoned the students. Su Ran planted a Life and Death Talisman in Dugu Bo and left him to endure its effects, while Dugu Bo refused to beg for mercy.

• Su Ran emerged from seclusion, drove Dugu Bo beyond the academy gates with a Peach Blossom Branch, and cleared the poison from Wang Sheng and the surrounding trees.
• Su Ran reassured Ning Rongrong and the other disciples, then gave Dugu Bo the choice of being poisoned or apologizing to the students.
• Dugu Bo refused both choices and revealed his nine Soul Rings, while Su Ran showed his own eight-ring configuration with two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• Dugu Bo softened his attitude and proposed a bargain, but Su Ran rejected his demands and insisted on punishing him for threatening the students.
• Su Ran explained the Life and Death Talisman to Meng Yiran and Zhu Zhuqing, then struck it into Dugu Bo's brow.
• Su Ran returned to the academy as Dugu Bo dismissed the poison and vowed not to beg for mercy.

Poison Douluo begged Su Ran for relief after the Life and Death Talisman tortured him, then apologized to the academy and was forgiven. After learning that the Earth Nether Hand could purge the poison in his and Dugu Yan’s bodies, Dugu Bo offered Su Ran a blueprint and invited him to meet in Sunset Forest in seven days.

• Wang Sheng found Dugu Bo suffering from the Life and Death Talisman and begging to choose option ②.
• Dugu Bo apologized to the students and promised to follow the academy’s rules, and Su Ran gave him a pill that eased his pain.
• Dugu Bo watched the students train and asked Su Ran about their Earth Nether Hands, which could absorb and use poison.
• Su Ran explained that the Earth Nether Hand could purge poison but refused to sell its cultivation method because it was exclusive to his disciples.
• Dugu Bo presented Su Ran with a blueprint and invited him to a location in Sunset Forest seven days later.

Dugu Bo withdrew Dugu Yan from Heaven Dou Royal Academy and took her to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, hoping Su Ran could cure the Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison. When Su Ran arrived, Dugu Bo offered his treasured medicinal herb garden in exchange for the chance for Dugu Yan to become Su Ran’s disciple.

• Dugu Bo took Dugu Yan out of Heaven Dou Royal Academy, leaving Yu Tianheng and the academy’s chairmen unable to change his mind.
• Shrek Academy joined Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Yu Xiaogang reassured the students that they could train and compete in the Soul Master Competition.
• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan that their Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison would eventually kill them and that he had found someone whose knowledge of poison surpassed his own.
• Dugu Bo brought Dugu Yan to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where they waited seven days for Su Ran.
• Su Ran arrived, and Dugu Bo asked Dugu Yan to kneel and become his disciple, offering his medicinal herb garden as a gift of apprenticeship.