Chapter Summaries

Xiao Wu bought Stealth Breath Pills to conceal her Soul Beast aura, while Tang San stole Yu Xiaogang's Spirit Hall card and discovered it held one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins. Xiao Ze and Ning Rongrong learned that Tang San had found the money and expected it to end up in their pockets.

• Xiao Wu bought thirty Stealth Breath Pills, and the manager privately suspected she was a transformed Soul Beast.
• Tang San blamed Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Zhao Wuji for forcing Xiao Wu to hide her identity and decided to find more money for her protection.
• Tang San searched Yu Xiaogang's room and found a Spirit Hall card hidden in an old robe.
• Tang San took the card to Spirit Hall and learned it held one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Xiao Ze learned from Ning Rongrong that Tang San had obtained the card, and they anticipated taking the money.

Yu Luomian questioned Yu Xiaogang about Yu Ze’s death and forced him awake with lightning. The conversation ended with Yu Xiaogang discovering that his left arm was missing and Yu Luomian declaring that he would never be accepted into the Yu Family’s family tree.

• After five days without finding clues about Yu Ze’s death, Yu Luomian ordered the academy to assemble a competition team and went to see Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Luomian shocked Yu Xiaogang awake, then demanded to know whether he had hired someone to kill Yu Ze.
• Yu Xiaogang denied involvement and claimed masked attackers had ambushed him and Yu Ze while they searched for treasure.
• Yu Luomian threw Yu Xiaogang onto the bed, and Yu Xiaogang saw that his left arm was gone.
• Yu Luomian called Yu Xiaogang useless and said he would never be accepted into the Yu Family’s family tree.

After Yu Luomian severed Yu Xiaogang’s left arm, Yu Xiaogang sank into a catatonic state until Flender reminded him of his unfinished martial soul theories and revived his resolve. Yu Xiaogang then saw a chance for Shrek’s students to compete for the remaining team positions in the upcoming Martial Five Elemental Academies competition.

• Yu Luomian and the Elders shocked Yu Xiaogang, but he showed no reaction, so they left to handle the competition team selection and keep the incident quiet.
• Flender returned, shook Yu Xiaogang, and revived him by reminding him of his Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Flender what had happened, then told him to bring Zhao Wuji so they could coordinate their accounts of the events.
• Flender explained that the team for the competition in twenty days still needed five members and substitutes beyond Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin.
• Yu Xiaogang reasoned that Yu Luomian would choose the strongest candidates, giving Shrek’s students a chance to compete for the remaining spots.
• Yu Xiaogang set out to observe the selection, while Flender demanded the five thousand Gold Soul Coins he was owed.

Yu Luomian announced that Lightning Academy would hold a practice match against five other academies in twenty days and opened a selection for the Soul Master Tournament team. He left the selection rules to a simple arena contest, while Yu Xiaogang collapsed after discovering his hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins were missing.

• Flender found Yu Xiaogang's wooden box empty, and Yu Xiaogang fainted after realizing his money was gone.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, and the others wondered why they had been summoned to Lightning Academy's plaza.
• Yu Luomian announced the practice match against Blazing Fire, Divine Wind, Sky Water, Elephant Armor, and Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Yu Luomian said Lightning Academy would select seven main team members and seven substitutes for the matches and the Soul Master Tournament.
• Yu Luomian explained that contestants would fight to hold one of fourteen arenas and earn a team place.

Yu Luomian began the Lightning Academy Selection Tournament, setting rules for arena defenses and reserving places for Support and Healing System Soul Masters. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang and Flender searched for Yu Xiaogang’s missing Spirit Hall card, then learned Shrek Academy’s students could compete as Dai Mubai faced Yu Tiankuang.

• Yu Luomian explained that the fifteen-day tournament allowed each arena defender up to five challenges per day and required finalists to defend an arena for at least five days.
• Yu Luomian reserved three tournament places for Support System Soul Masters and one for a Healing System Soul Master, then started the tournament.
• Yu Xiaogang told Flender that his card containing one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins had disappeared, and they suspected the Aunts who had cleaned his room.
• Yu Xiaogang and Flender arrived at the plaza, where Zhao Wuji explained the tournament and they realized Shrek Academy’s students could enter.
• Ning Youyou stood unchallenged on a support arena while Dai Mubai confronted Yu Tiankuang on another arena.
• Yu Tiankuang attacked Dai Mubai with a Dragon-Transformed arm, and Dai Mubai activated his Second Soul Skill, White Tiger Body Protection Barrier.

Ma Hongjun defeated Yu Liuli after taunting her during their match, but his behavior enraged the Lightning Academy students. They forced him through a brutal series of fights, and Yu Luomian decided to keep targeting and crippling him.

• Dai Mubai defeated Yu Tiankuang, and Ma Hongjun volunteered to fight Yu Liuli.
• Ma Hongjun teased Yu Liuli while dodging her attacks, then fought back with his Phoenix Soul Skills and won.
• The Lightning Academy students surrounded Ma Hongjun and made him fight five matches, leaving him badly injured and coughing up blood.
• Tang San and the other Shrek members could not reach Ma Hongjun as Yu Luomian and the teachers allowed the punishment to continue.
• Yu Luomian effectively sentenced Ma Hongjun to repeated beatings and said he would be kept from participating in future matches.

After Ma Hongjun's harassment cost Shrek Academy the chance to compete as a full team, Zhu Linlin and Xiao Wu beat him while Lightning Academy students prepared to target Shrek again. Yu Xiaogang then told Tang San that someone had stolen his savings and asked him to help find the thief.

• Tang San and the other Shrek students left the arena as Lightning Academy students blamed them for taking six tournament spots and vowed to work harder the next day.
• Zhu Linlin and Xiao Wu kicked Ma Hongjun for causing trouble, while Yu Xiaogang stopped Flender from intervening and said Ma Hongjun would survive.
• Lightning Academy students discussed targeting Shrek Academy in the next day's selection, and Ma Hongjun insisted he still wanted to compete despite Flender warning him he could be badly hurt.
• Yu Xiaogang took Tang San aside and said someone had stolen his life savings, then asked Tang San to help investigate and find his card.

After the Lightning Academy Selection Tournament ended, Shrek’s students secured several places on the team, while Yu Xiaogang discovered his Gold Soul Coins were gone. Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun celebrated by heading to a brothel, where Xiao Ze and the women spotted them and teased Xiao Ze about staying faithful to them.

• Xiao Ze and the others discussed the difficulties of combining Shrek Academy and Lightning Academy students into a team, then learned the academy would add more members to their planned group.
• After fifteen days of competition, Tang San, Dai Mubai, Yu Tianheng, Yu Tianxin, and others earned roster places, while Ma Hongjun and Zhu Linlin failed to qualify.
• Yu Luomian announced the roster, naming Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ning Rongrong among the regular members and Oscar and Xiao Wu among the substitutes.
• Ma Hongjun offered to treat Dai Mubai for a month, and the two went to Yihongyuan in Heaven Dou City.
• Xiao Ze, Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, and the other women saw Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun enter the brothel, and Dugu Yan warned Xiao Ze not to go there.

Xiao Ze and the girls secretly followed Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun into Yihongyuan to teach them a lesson, but the group was startled by the establishment’s lavish and explicit atmosphere. They continued after the two men upstairs, reaching an open room at the end of the corridor.

• Ning Rongrong persuaded Xiao Ze and the others to sneak into Yihongyuan and confront Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun.
• Xiao Ze gave the group Stealth Breath Pills, and they entered the crowded establishment unseen.
• The girls reacted with embarrassment and shock to Yihongyuan’s displays, while Xiao Ze explained that they could not change the business or its circumstances.
• Ning Rongrong spotted Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun leaving the main hall, so the group followed them upstairs.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun joked together and teased passing girls before reaching a room at the end of the corridor, whose door remained open.

Xiao Ze and the others secretly incapacitated Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun so Ning Rongrong could take revenge on them. The chapter ended with Ning Rongrong branding the sleeping men with humiliating titles written in permanent Balsam Spirit Juice.

• Xiao Ze used a Drunken Soul Pill to make Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun fall asleep while their companions held their breath.
• Xiao Ze tied the men together and used Soul Suppressing Powder to stop them from using Soul Power.
• Ning Rongrong asked Xiao Ze for an aphrodisiac, but he refused to help with her cruel plan.
• Ye Lingling offered Balsam Spirit Juice, which Ning Rongrong used to write humiliating titles on Dai Mubai's and Ma Hongjun's foreheads.

Ning Rongrong and Xiao Ze left Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun bound together in a private room at Yihongyuan. A worker discovered them, and the story leaves them humiliated and unable to escape as a crowd gathered to watch.

• Ning Rongrong defended her treatment of the enemies, and Xiao Ze led the group away to go shopping.
• A woman carrying tea spotted Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun tied together in the room and dropped her tray in shock.
• The Yihongyuan crowd gathered to gawk and gossip about the bound men, while the owner worried about the scandal.
• Dai Mubai woke up on top of Ma Hongjun, and both men discovered they could not break their bonds or use their Martial Souls.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun saw humiliating words written on each other's foreheads and realized the crowd believed they were playing together.

After an embarrassing incident at Yihongyuan, Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun returned to Lightning Academy and tried to identify who had set them up. They left Yu Liuli and other Lightning Academy members as their main suspects, while Dai Mubai blamed Ma Hongjun for provoking the conflict.

• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun worried that nobles might spread news of what happened and agreed to find the culprit.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun returned to Lightning Academy and hid the incident from Tang San.
• Dai Mubai warned Ma Hongjun not to tell anyone, since admitting the story could make it seem true.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun listed their enemies, considering Xiao Ze, Yu Tiankuang, Yu Liuli, and Lightning Academy members.
• Dai Mubai blamed Ma Hongjun for flirting with Yu Liuli and making their situation worse.

Rumors spread across Heaven Dou City that Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun had been tied up together at Yihongyuan, and Tang San and Xiao Wu realized the gossip was about their friends. Xiao Wu headed to find them for the real story while Tang San worried the scandal could cost them their places in the tournament.

• People throughout Heaven Dou City spread increasingly lurid rumors about Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun at Yihongyuan.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu heard the gossip on their way to the academy, and Tang San worried it really concerned Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun.
• Xiao Wu laughed at the rumors and recognized the men as Boss Dai and Ma Hongjun.
• Tang San feared the scandal could ruin Shrek Academy's reputation and make Yu Luomian cancel Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun's spots.
• Xiao Wu pulled Tang San toward Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun to ask what had happened.

Tang San and Xiao Wu told Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai that rumors about their scandal had spread through Heaven Dou City, and the pair struggled to protect their reputations. After hiding in their rooms for five days, they joined Lightning Academy’s Exchange Tournament team while the other students continued to mock them.

• Tang San and Xiao Wu encountered Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai, and Xiao Wu told them their incident was being discussed throughout Heaven Dou City.
• Tang San reassured Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun that the rumors did not name them, then speculated that they had been drugged at Yihongyuan.
• Tang San advised the pair to stay in their rooms and avoid being recognized by Lightning Academy students.
• Ning Rongrong kept spreading the story, and rumors at Lightning Academy increasingly identified Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun stood with Lightning Academy’s fourteen Exchange Tournament representatives as the surrounding students teased them.

Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun faced ridicule over rumors about their relationship as the academies gathered for the Five Elements Academy Exchange Tournament. Xiao Ze’s group arrived at the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena, where they met the principal of Blazing Fire Academy, Huo Zhongzheng.

• Lightning Academy students mocked Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun over rumors that they had engaged in bizarre activities together.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji lamented the damage to Shrek Academy’s reputation, while Yu Luomian resolved to find a reason to expel the Shrek group after the tournament.
• Ning Rongrong admitted to Xiao Ze that she had helped spread the rumors, and the group joked about Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun facing the other academies.
• Xiao Ze’s group assembled with the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team and traveled with the education committee members to the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena.
• Huo Zhongzheng, the principal of Blazing Fire Academy, arrived and greeted the education committee members.

The deans of the Five Elements Academies and Heaven Dou Royal Academy gathered for their exchange tournament, where Yu Luomian revealed that Yu Ze had died. As the tournament began, Ning Rongrong encouraged Xiao Ze to pursue several powerful women, while Shui Yue'er noticed him and Shui Bing'er questioned whether her sister had matured.

• Ning Rongrong introduced Xiao Ze to Shui Yiyao, the Frost Deer Soul Douluo and dean of Skywater Academy.
• Yu Luomian told the assembled deans that Yu Ze was dead, shocking them, and refused to explain how he had died.
• Ning Rongrong urged Xiao Ze to pursue Shui Yiyao, Huo Wu, Shui Bing'er, and Shui Yue'er, while Xiao Ze admitted he was somewhat interested in Shui Yiyao.
• Meng Shenji announced that the Five Elements Academy Exchange Tournament had officially begun.
• Shui Yue'er pointed out Xiao Ze to Shui Bing'er, and Shui Bing'er wondered if her sister had evolved after Shui Yue'er considered his character and talent as well as his looks.

At the Exchange Tournament, Xiao Ze drew the attention of Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er, while Huo Wu watched him with unexplained malice. The first day’s draw matched Heaven Dou Royal Academy against Blazing Fire Academy.

• Ning Rongrong pointed out Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er watching Xiao Ze, and he dismissed her teasing about their interest.
• Huo Wu glared at Xiao Ze, who wondered why she seemed hostile toward him.
• Huo Wu rebuffed Feng Xiaotian when he came to speak with her, while Huo Wushuang thought she had little chance of being with him.
• Xiao Wu identified Xiao Ze to Tang San, and Ning Youyou considered whether defeating Heaven Dou Royal Academy could hurt the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Meng Shenji drew Blazing Fire Academy as Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s first opponent, and Huo Zhongzheng welcomed the match.

Heaven Dou Royal Academy and Blazing Fire Academy took the stage, and Xiao Ze shocked the spectators by revealing his unusual four Soul Rings. The match began as Blazing Fire Academy boosted its fighters and launched an attack.

• Xiao Ze reassured Shi Mo before the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team stepped onto the arena.
• Huo Wu admitted she disliked Xiao Ze despite not knowing him, and Xiao Ze was baffled by her hostility.
• Xiao Ze revealed a yellow, purple, purple, purple Soul Ring configuration, shocking the audience and the academy representatives.
• Xiao Ze summoned Guang Yao, Di Zun, Qing Lu, and Chi Kai, while Tang San and Yu Xiaogang tried to assess his Martial Soul.
• Huo Jun and Huo Chui used their first Soul Skill, Silk of Mars, to strengthen Blazing Fire Academy's team, and Huo Wushuang ordered the attack.

Xiao Ze directed Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s team as they repelled Blazing Fire Academy’s assault and prevented Huo Wushuang from reaching their formation. Huo Wu intervened to protect her brother from Guang Yao’s tracking light blades.

• Xiao Ze assigned Zhu Zhuqing, Yiran, and Shi Mo to intercept the charging Agility Attack System Soul Masters while Ning Rongrong buffed the team and Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan prepared to support them.
• Meng Shenji, Zhi Lin, and Bai Baoshan noticed that Ning Rongrong’s, Dugu Yan’s, and Ye Lingling’s Martial Souls had evolved, and Bai Baoshan suspected Xiao Ze was responsible.
• Di Zun blocked Huo Wushuang’s dragon-claw strike with Shell Armor, while Chi Kai’s relentless dual-sword assault kept him from advancing.
• Huo Wushuang launched a dark red ball of Soul Power at Xiao Ze, but Qing Lu destroyed it with three Energy Beans.
• Guang Yao sent twelve tracking light blades toward Huo Wushuang, and Huo Wu appeared behind him and activated her Resisting Fire Ring.

Xiao Ze's team continued to overpower Blazing Fire Academy, with Zhu Zhuqing defeating Huo Yun and Meng Yiran countering Huo Lie's attack. Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu remained under pressure as the battle moved toward its conclusion.

• Huo Wu's fire ring shattered the first six of Xiao Ze's light blades, but the remaining blades pierced through until Huo Wushuang stepped in to shield her and was wounded.
• Zhu Zhuqing dodged Huo Yun's Fire Crane clones, overwhelmed him with her claws, and healed the wounds she sustained with Ye Lingling's support.
• Zhu Zhuqing used Hell Slash to cleave through Huo Yun's flaming wings and knock him out of the arena.
• Meng Yiran summoned two energy snakes with Twin Snake Assault; the black snake crushed three of Huo Lie's fireballs, while the green snake dissolved the remaining four with venom.
• Huo Yu shouted at Meng Yiran, protesting that she was supposed to be fighting him.