Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ze learned about Ye Qingli’s healing abilities and asked whether she could restore Old Wang, whose martial soul had been sealed for ten years. After discussing the Ye Family’s relations with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ye Qingli sent Xiao Ze away and encouraged Ye Lingling to pursue him if she liked him.

• Ye Qingli told Xiao Ze she was a level 82 Soul Douluo who could heal newly advanced Title Douluos, though she had never treated a Super Douluo.
• Xiao Ze asked whether Ye Qingli could heal Old Wang, and she explained that his long-standing condition was not an injury; Xiao Ze then described how a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast had sealed Old Wang’s martial soul.
• Ye Qingli reassured Xiao Ze that Old Wang’s strength would gradually return after Xiao Ze healed him.
• Ye Qingli said the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had pressured the Ye Family because of the Nine Hearts Begonia, but the conflict was limited because the sect also needed their healing.
• After Xiao Ze left, Ye Qingli pointed out Ye Lingling’s disappointment at learning he was dating Ning Rongrong and encouraged her to pursue her happiness.

Xiao Ze concealed the changes to his Soul Rings and welcomed two new spirits, Manghuang and Jiaoyue. Qian Renxue visited Heaven Dou Royal Academy to assess him for recruitment, but Ning Rongrong’s affection for Xiao Ze complicated the prospect.

• Xiao Ze asked the God of Agriculture to conceal the Soul Ring changes caused by Red Bean and Mung Bean, and the God agreed using Merit and Faith.
• Xiao Ze named the newly born Black Rock Giant Bull Manghuang and the healing-type Moonlight White Sheep Jiaoyue.
• Qian Renxue arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Pufferfish and Snake Lance Douluo to consider recruiting Xiao Ze into Spirit Hall.
• Xiao Ze recognized Qian Renxue when she arrived at his villa, where Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Zhu Zhuqing were eating his food.
• Qian Renxue teased Ning Rongrong about liking Xiao Ze, and Ning Rongrong blushed and clung to his arm, making Qian Renxue doubt whether she could recruit him.

Yu Yuanzhen arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Yu Tianheng to confront Xiao Ze over Dugu Yan, but Qian Renxue and the girls stood in their way. When Yu Yuanzhen unleashed his Title Douluo pressure, Dugu Bo appeared to protect Xiao Ze.

• Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Tianheng headed to Xiao Ze's villa, while Dugu Bo noticed them and followed.
• Qian Renxue confronted Yu Yuanzhen and refused to let him treat Xiao Ze's friends as his business.
• Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan defended Xiao Ze and challenged Yu Yuanzhen, while Zhu Zhuqing and Ye Lingling also stepped forward to protect him.
• Xiao Ze drew the girls behind him and told Yu Yuanzhen not to bully him, but Yu Yuanzhen released his Soul Power pressure.
• Dugu Bo appeared in front of Xiao Ze and used his nine Soul Rings to dispel Yu Yuanzhen's pressure.

Yu Yuanzhen confronted Xiao Ze at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, but Dugu Bo stepped in to protect him and forced Yu Yuanzhen to leave with Yu Tianheng. Xiao Ze ended the threat by warning that Dugu Bo could poison the entire Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect if anything happened to him.

• Yu Yuanzhen threatened Xiao Ze, and Dugu Bo declared that he would protect his grandson.
• Yu Yuanzhen and Dugu Bo clashed with lightning and poison until both withdrew their power.
• Xiao Ze told Yu Yuanzhen that Dugu Bo could poison the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect in retaliation if he were harmed.
• Yu Yuanzhen left the academy with Yu Tianheng, and Dugu Bo praised Xiao Ze's strategy.
• Xiao Ze explained that the threat would not work against the Clear Sky Sect, which had multiple Title Douluo.

After Yu Yuanzhen took Yu Tianheng away from Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Xiao Ze offered Dugu Bo stronger crops and pork to help him grow powerful enough to protect them. Meanwhile, Ning Rongrong asked Dugu Yan whether she liked Xiao Ze, and Dugu Yan began explaining why she did.

• Qian Renxue left after praising Xiao Ze, while Yu Yuanzhen declared that Yu Tianheng was no longer a Heaven Dou Royal Academy student and took him away.
• Meng Shenji and the other Education Committee members heard what had happened and discussed the loss of Yu Tianheng and their remaining first-team prospects with Qian Renxue.
• Xiao Ze showed Dugu Bo improved crops and pork, and Dugu Bo realized Xiao Ze wanted him to become stronger and protect them from future threats.
• Dugu Yan, Ning Rongrong, Ye Lingling, and Zhu Qing went to plant flowers, leaving Xiao Ze and Dugu Bo to discuss Yu Xiaogang and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.
• Ning Rongrong asked Dugu Yan whether she liked Xiao Ze, and Dugu Yan said she did, citing his strength and talent and the fact that he had saved her.

Ning Rongrong persuaded Zhu Zhuqing to rely on their sisterly bond and work to win Xiao Ze over, while the Shrek group searched for Heaven Dou Royal Academy. They finally reached its mountain, where Zhu Linlin drew Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun’s attention and Ning Youyou quietly considered recruiting the group.

• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling praised Xiao Ze for helping them and treating them generously, while Ning Rongrong teased Ye Lingling about her changed feelings toward him.
• Ning Rongrong urged Zhu Zhuqing not to fear her family’s marriage alliance and offered her refuge with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect; Zhu Zhuqing agreed to work to win Xiao Ze over.
• Several days later, Flender and the Shrek group struggled to find Heaven Dou Royal Academy in Heaven Dou City before asking for directions.
• The group reached the mountain where Heaven Dou Royal Academy stood, and Zhu Linlin’s revealing outfit caught Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun’s attention.
• Ning Youyou considered recruiting the talented group for a force of her own, then asked Oscar for a sausage and ate it slowly.

Shrek Academy arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Dai Mubai kicked the Fourth Prince Xue Beng after he insulted the women in the group. Xue Beng then sought Xiao Ze’s help against Shrek, and Xiao Ze proposed dealing with Qin Ming as well.

• Ning Youyou teased Oscar with a sausage as the group traveled to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Xue Beng insulted the Shrek group at the academy entrance, and Dai Mubai kicked him into the air.
• Xue Beng learned Xiao Ze had a grudge against Shrek Academy and decided to ask him for help.
• Ning Rongrong accompanied Xiao Ze to meet Xue Beng, and Xiao Ze explained Qin Ming’s ties to Shrek Academy.
• Xiao Ze suggested that Xue Beng get rid of Qin Ming and whispered a plan to him.

Xue Beng arranged to block Shrek Academy from joining Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while Xiao Ze revealed his connections and defended his place there by boasting that he lived off his powerful partners. The confrontation ended with Xue Beng asking whether Xiao Ze’s children would take his surname, and Ning Rongrong saying they would.

• Xue Beng gave Xiao Ze one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins for their plan, and Xiao Ze kept their arrangement secret from Ning Rongrong.
• Qin Ming brought Flender and the Shrek Academy group to meet the Education Committee, where Xue Beng insisted they could not join and revealed he was the Fourth Prince.
• Xiao Wu protested that Xue Beng had insulted them, but Xue Beng argued they lacked the noble status required at the academy.
• Xiao Ze mocked Xiao Wu and Tang San, then listed Ning Rongrong, Ye Lingling, Yan Yan, and Zhu Zhuqing as his powerful backing and praised the benefits of living off them.
• Xue Beng asked whether Xiao Ze’s children would take his surname, and Ning Rongrong answered that they would.

Prince Xue Xing cornered Shrek Academy with soldiers and punished Qin Ming for siding with them, expelling him from Heaven Dou Royal Academy. He then ordered Dai Mubai to fight Xiao Ze, while Yu Xiaogang objected and drew mockery for his increasingly feminine mannerisms.

• Prince Xue Xing arrived as Flender tried to take Shrek Academy away and blocked their exit with hundreds of soldiers.
• Qin Ming offered to take responsibility for inviting Flender, but Prince Xue Xing slapped and insulted him while the Education Committee stopped Flender from intervening.
• Prince Xue Xing expelled Qin Ming and demanded that he repay the academy's resources.
• Prince Xue Xing demanded to know who had beaten the Fourth Prince, and Dai Mubai stepped forward.
• Prince Xue Xing ordered Dai Mubai to fight Xiao Ze, then mocked Yu Xiaogang when he objected.

Prince Xue Xing agreed to let Xiao Ze fight Dai Mubai, while Ning Rongrong fretted over her figure and asked Zhu Zhuqing for advice. As the duel began, Rongrong gave Xue Xing a note revealing that Dai Mubai was the Star Luo Empire's Third Prince.

• Prince Xue Xing dismissed Yu Xiaogang's claim that Xiao Ze had an unfair advantage and agreed to a match between Xiao Ze and Dai Mubai.
• Ning Rongrong compared herself with the other girls and asked Zhu Zhuqing how she had become so well-endowed; Zhu Zhuqing suggested that a boyfriend's massage might help.
• Xiao Ze and Dai Mubai entered Heaven Dou Royal Academy's arena, where Xue Beng took the role of referee.
• Dai Mubai activated White Tiger Transformation, and Prince Xue Xing recognized his Martial Soul as belonging to the Star Luo Dai Family.
• Ning Rongrong showed Prince Xue Xing Xiao Ze's note, and Xue Xing realized that Dai Mubai was the Star Luo Empire's Third Prince.

Xiao Ze used his Spirit Beasts to overwhelm Dai Mubai during their match, revealing a vast gap in strength. Dai Mubai was left crushed beneath Manghuang as the fight continued.

• Dai Mubai opened the match with his White Tiger Soul Skills, but Xiao Ze blocked his attack with a Defense Forest from his Sacred Spirit Spine Skill.
• Xiao Ze summoned Manghuang, Jiaoyue, and Bean Glazed Tile, prompting the onlookers to speculate about how his Martial Soul and Soul Rings worked.
• Bean Glazed Tile enhanced Manghuang and Jiaoyue, and Manghuang shrugged off Dai Mubai's attack before blasting him away with Earth Shaking Angry Hoof.
• Dai Mubai tried to overpower Manghuang, but Manghuang used Steel Muscle and grew to more than ten meters tall, forcing Dai Mubai back to his knees.

Xue Beng punished Flender’s teachers after Dai Mubai lost to Xiao Ze, but his brutal beating left Yu Xiaogang gravely injured. Yu Xiaogang fainted when Ning Rongrong exposed that the injuries had made him a eunuch, and Prince Xue Xing ordered the punishment to move on to someone else.

• Xiao Ze recalled Manghuang after it defeated Dai Mubai, and Oscar healed Dai Mubai with a Big Sausage.
• Xue Beng ordered Flender and the teachers to lie on benches, then struck each of them while they endured the punishment.
• Xue Beng hit Yu Xiaogang far harder than the others, leaving him bloody and unable to speak.
• Ning Rongrong blurted out that Yu Xiaogang was no longer a man, and Yu Xiaogang fainted.
• Prince Xue Xing called Yu Xiaogang a eunuch and told Xue Beng to stop hitting him and choose someone else.

Xue Beng punished Tang San and the others at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, taking special revenge on Dai Mubai by repeatedly striking his injured waist. Flender led the group away, with Dai Mubai limping and Yu Xiaogang being carried on a cart.

• Xue Beng gave Tang San, Xiao Wu, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, Ning Youyou, and Zhu Linlin several symbolic strikes as punishment.
• Xue Beng repeatedly struck Dai Mubai in the waist, leaving him in pain and vowing to take revenge.
• Flender asked Prince Xue Xing if the group could leave, and Prince Xue Xing agreed.
• Flender led everyone out of the academy with Qin Ming, while Dai Mubai limped and Yu Xiaogang rode on a cart.

After the Shrek group returned to the hotel, Flender refused to spend money on a Healing System Soul Master for Yu Xiaogang, leaving Oscar to treat him with sausages. At Xiao Ze’s villa, Xiao Ze revealed his role in exposing Tang Hao to Spirit Hall and explained how Dugu Yan’s grandfather could avoid trouble by joining the Worship Faction; he said the group could wait until after the Soul Master Tournament to meet Pope Bibi Dong.

• Flender refused to hire a Healing System Soul Master for Yu Xiaogang, and Oscar gave Yu Xiaogang sausages instead.
• Xue Beng gave Xiao Ze another hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, and Prince Xue Xing urged Xue Beng to maintain a good relationship with him.
• Ning Rongrong asked Xiao Ze why he had let Shrek Academy go, and he warned that the conflict could end with one side killing the other.
• Xiao Ze told Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, and the others that Tang San had Twin Martial Souls, was Tang Hao’s son, and had Blue Silver Emperor blood in his Blue Silver Grass.
• Xiao Ze admitted that he had told Spirit Hall where Tang Hao was, and said Spirit Hall had sent powerful Soul Masters to kill him.
• Xiao Ze explained that Dugu Yan’s grandfather could join the Worship Hall to avoid conflict with Spirit Hall, and said they could wait until after the Soul Master Tournament for Bibi Dong’s invitation.

Xiao Ze explained his vendetta against Yu Xiaogang and why he planned to join Spirit Hall: he wanted to protect Ning Rongrong and her allies from Bibi Dong’s future war. Meanwhile, the Shrek group reached Heaven Dou City and set out to investigate Blue Tyrant Academy.

• Ning Rongrong explained that Yu Xiaogang had once slandered Xiao Ze as an Evil Soul Master, and Xiao Ze said he intended to torment Yu Xiaogang and Tang San rather than kill them.
• Xiao Ze told Ning Rongrong that he would join Spirit Hall and seek influence there to protect her and the other sects from Bibi Dong’s plans; Ning Rongrong worried about the danger, and Xiao Ze reassured her.
• Several days later, Flender and the Shrek group arrived at Heaven Dou City after failing to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• At the city gate, the Shrek group learned that Blue Tyrant Academy was recruiting Soul Masters and had a powerful backing despite accepting only commoner students.
• Flender led the Shrek group toward Blue Tyrant Academy, while Xiao Ze, Ning Rongrong, and the others entered Heaven Dou City behind them.

Xiao Ze and four companions visited Blue Tyrant Academy, where he endured Liu Erlong’s pressure and revealed that Yu Xiaogang was there. He offered to find out whether Yu Xiaogang truly loved Liu Erlong, leaving her startled and asking his name.

• Qin Ming led the Shrek group into Blue Tyrant Academy to apply as teachers and enroll their students.
• Xiao Ze and his four companions asked to spar with Blue Tyrant Academy’s students, then went to meet Dean Liu Erlong.
• Xiao Ze claimed no academy student could match their strength, and Liu Erlong tested him by pressing him with her Soul Power.
• Xiao Ze resisted with his Soul Bone and drained life from Liu Erlong’s garden while Ning Rongrong explained his cultivation technique to the others.
• Xiao Ze told Liu Erlong that Yu Xiaogang was at the academy and offered to discover whether he truly loved her.
• Liu Erlong grabbed Xiao Ze’s shoulder in shock, released him when he complained, and asked his name.

Xiao Ze and the Shrek group arrived at Blue Tyrant Academy, where Liu Erlong agreed to test them before considering their application. She used Truth-telling Peanuts to question Ma Hongjun, and he revealed an embarrassing secret that proved the peanuts worked.

• Yin Shu brought Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and the Shrek group to Blue Tyrant Academy, where Liu Erlong greeted her old acquaintances.
• Xiao Ze confronted the Shrek group, and Liu Erlong insisted that they pass her test before joining the academy.
• Liu Erlong gave Ma Hongjun a Truth-telling Peanut and began questioning him.
• Ma Hongjun admitted that he first visited a brothel at age seven because his Evil Fire made him uncomfortable.
• Ma Hongjun revealed that exhausting himself also calmed his Evil Fire and improved his cultivation speed, shocking Flender.

Liu Erlong used the Truth-telling Peanut to expose Yu Xiaogang’s reasons for fleeing their marriage and his exploitative attitude toward her. The revelations also exposed Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls and turned him against his teacher.

• Ma Hongjun admitted that he avoided controlling his Evil Fire because he was too lazy and lacked the perseverance to keep it up.
• Liu Erlong chose Yu Xiaogang for questioning, and Xiao Ze pointed out that Yu Xiaogang had hidden the peanut instead of swallowing it.
• After Liu Erlong forced Yu Xiaogang to swallow the peanut, he admitted that he had used her for emotional comfort and as a research subject for his Martial Soul theories.
• Yu Xiaogang called Tang San an excellent lab rat because of his Twin Martial Souls and Innate Full Soul Power, revealing Tang San’s secret to everyone.
• Tang San blamed Yu Xiaogang for his failures and formed killing intent toward him, while Liu Erlong realized their affection had been an illusion.

Xiao Ze exposed Yu Xiaogang’s deception about his relationship with Liu Erlong and the origins of his theories, driving her into a rage. After Liu Erlong beat the Shrek group and knocked Flender unconscious, she approached Yu Xiaogang, who begged for his life.

• Xiao Ze prompted Yu Xiaogang to admit that he had known Liu Erlong was his cousin and had stolen the Ten Great Theories from Spirit Hall.
• The Shrek students condemned Yu Xiaogang, while Tang San realized his teacher had treated him as an experiment and deceived him.
• Liu Erlong attacked Flender and Yu Xiaogang, then knocked Tang San and Xiao Wu unconscious when they tried to intervene.
• Liu Erlong beat Dai Mubai, Zhu Linlin, and the other Shrek students as Xiao Ze and Zhao Wuji watched from a distance.
• Liu Erlong knocked Flender unconscious and advanced on Yu Xiaogang, who pleaded with her to spare him.

Liu Erlong confronted Yu Xiaogang and began to question whether her decades-long attachment to him still mattered to her. After Shrek Academy was driven out of Blue Tyrant Academy, its members struggled to find another place to go.

• Liu Erlong nearly struck Yu Xiaogang, ordered him out of Blue Tyrant Academy, and left Tang San to clean up after him.
• Xiao Ze and Ning Rongrong reassured Liu Erlong, and Xiao Ze helped her realize she had largely moved on from Yu Xiaogang.
• Liu Erlong sent Xiao Ze and the others away, and Xiao Ze urged them to cultivate for the Soul Master Tournament.
• Flender and the Shrek students considered their remaining academy options but could not find a suitable destination.