Chapter Summaries

Tang Yu and his companions fought Zhao Wuji in the Shrek Academy trial, with Tang Yu ultimately overwhelming him using the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer. The chapter ended with Zhao Wuji defeated and Tang Yu calling him “Tang Wuji.”

• Tang Yu clashed with Zhao Wuji while Tang San attacked with hidden weapons, then used Dragon Beard Needles to break Zhao Wuji’s defenses.
• Tang Yu blasted Zhao Wuji through a wooden house, but Zhao Wuji recovered and intensified the fight with his gravity skills.
• Tang Yu pulled Zhu Zhuqing to safety and used Clear Sky Bodyguard to absorb Zhao Wuji’s punch and strike him back with lightning.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing helped Tang Yu attack Zhao Wuji, but Zhao Wuji knocked them down as Tang Yu continued fighting alone.
• Tang Yu built power through eighty-one Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer strikes and sent Zhao Wuji flying, leaving him defeated on the ground.

Tang Yu left Shrek Academy’s entrance test victorious and waited for Tang San to obtain his third Soul Ring before deciding to leave. After Yu Xiaogang arrived and proposed a basic training regimen, Tang Yu rejected his instruction and openly challenged his qualifications.

• Tang Yu defeated Zhao Wuji, who fainted after Tang Yu called him Tang Wuji, and Flender accepted the newcomers into Shrek Academy.
• Tang San reached level 30, and Yu Xiaogang advised taking him to the nearby Soul Hunting Forest for a roughly 1,500-year Spider Spirit Beast Soul Ring instead of going to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tang San returned the next morning with a 1,400-year third Soul Ring and level 31 Soul Power, while Xiao Wu also reached the three-ring Soul Elder realm.
• Yu Xiaogang introduced his combat and endurance curriculum, but Tang Yu turned to leave and said he had no interest in it.
• Tang Yu called Yu Xiaogang a level 29 trash and criticized his proposed Spirit Fighting Arena matches and stone-filled basket runs as unworthy training for monsters.

Tang Yu exposed Yu Xiaogang’s flawed training methods and questioned his Martial Soul Theory before brutally beating him and Tang San. As Tang Yu left Shrek Academy, Zhu Zhuqing realized she had fallen in love with him.

• Tang Yu mocked Yu Xiaogang’s training methods and proposed using Zhao Wuji’s gravity control for more complete physical training, which Oscar agreed made sense.
• Tang Yu accused Yu Xiaogang of plagiarizing Martial Soul Theory, then slapped and beat him, crushing his crotch and leaving him badly injured.
• Tang San attacked Tang Yu with Spider Web Restraint, but Tang Yu smashed the technique with his hammer and beat Tang San and Yu Xiaogang unconscious.
• Tang Yu announced that he was leaving Shrek Academy and walked away.
• Zhu Zhuqing recalled Tang Yu’s kiss and recent actions, then realized she had fallen in love with him.

Tang Yu left Shrek Academy with Tang Tian and headed toward Heaven Dou City, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect learned he had bullied Ning Rongrong. Bone Douluo secretly set out to confront Tang Yu, and Tang Yu planned to seek Dugu Bo's help enrolling at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

• Zhu Zhuqing stopped Tang Yu from leaving but ultimately could not bring herself to pursue him, while Tang San vowed to surpass him.
• Tang Yu and Tang Tian left Shrek Academy for Heaven Dou Royal Academy, as Tang Hao watched them depart and recognized Tang Yu as Tang Tian's son.
• A Seven Treasure Disciple reported Tang Yu's bullying of Ning Rongrong to Ning Fengzhi, prompting Bone Douluo to become furious and threaten to kill him.
• Ning Fengzhi warned Bone Douluo not to provoke the Clear Sky Sect, but Bone Douluo secretly left the sect during the night to teach Tang Yu a lesson.
• Ning Fengzhi sent Sword Douluo after Bone Douluo, while Tang Yu traveled toward Heaven Dou City and decided to ask Dugu Bo for help enrolling at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

Tang Yu asked Tang Tian to obtain Ten Thousand Year Whale Rubber to strengthen his body, then returned to Sunset Forest and arranged to enroll at Heaven Dou Royal Academy. He headed for the academy with Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, who learned he was immune to all poisons, while Dugu Bo realized Tang Yu had reached level 38.

• Tang Yu explained that he wanted Ten Thousand Year Whale Rubber as a tonic, and Tang Tian agreed to hunt for it in the deep sea.
• Tang Yu returned to Sunset Forest, where Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan reported that their cultivation had improved after transferring their toxins into a Soul Bone.
• Tang Yu asked Dugu Bo to help him enroll at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Tang Tian left after warning Dugu Bo to protect his son.
• On the way to the academy, Tang Yu told Dugu Yan that he had a body Immune to All Poisons, and she explained the academy's student ranks and management.
• Tang Yu said he hoped to compete in the next Soul Master Competition, and Dugu Bo realized Tang Yu was a level 38 Soul Elder.

Tang Yu trained at Heaven Dou Royal Academy for months and reached the peak of Level 39 before attending the reserve team selection. There he met Qian Renxue in disguise and Ye Lingling as the competition was announced.

• Dugu Yan explained the academy's reserve team selection, and Dugu Bo used his influence to admit Tang Yu as a Heaven Dou Level student.
• Tang Yu spent months training in the Martial Soul Mimicry grounds, breaking through to Level 39 and later nearing Level 40.
• Tang Yu went to the Spirit Fighting Arena for the selection and recognized the crown prince Xue Qinghe as Qian Renxue in disguise.
• Dugu Yan introduced Tang Yu to Ye Lingling, and the two exchanged greetings.
• Qin Ming announced the reserve team selection rules and told the 260 participants to draw their first-round match orders.

Tang Yu drew the first match in Heaven Dou Royal Academy's selection and faced Yu Tianheng, the academy's celebrated strongest student. After revealing his Clear Sky Hammer and three soul rings, Tang Yu silenced the crowd and left Yu Tianheng eager to test their martial souls against each other.

• Tang Yu drew slip number 1 and stepped onto the arena for the opening match.
• Yu Tianheng entered to cheers, and the students and Dugu Yan expected Tang Yu to surrender against the academy's strongest student.
• Tang Yu refused to back down despite Yu Tianheng's taunts and the crowd's ridicule.
• Tang Yu released his Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul and revealed three soul rings, shocking the arena and the academy's chairmen.
• Yu Tianheng recognized Tang Yu as a worthy opponent and challenged him to prove whether the Clear Sky Hammer or Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon was stronger.

Tang Yu challenged Yu Tianheng at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, revealing a level 39 Clear Sky Hammer and overwhelming the level 38 Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Master. After defeating him, Tang Yu became the venue’s new center of attention, while Qian Renxue took interest in his strength.

• Tang Yu introduced himself as a level 39 Clear Sky Hammer Soul Master, shocking Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Qian Renxue.
• Yu Tianheng activated his Dragon Transformation and charged Tang Yu, but Tang Yu’s hammer strike proved stronger and pushed him back.
• Yu Tianheng used Wrath of Thunder while Tang Yu activated Clear Sky Overlord Body, and the two fought fiercely until Tang Yu gained the advantage.
• Tang Yu’s Clear Sky Bodyguard blocked and reflected Yu Tianheng’s lightning, knocking him down, but Yu Tianheng refused to concede.
• Tang Yu defeated Yu Tianheng with Thunderous Frenzy Hammer, drawing cheers from the crowd and leaving Dugu Yan embarrassed and Qian Renxue intrigued.

Tang Yu defeated Yu Tianheng in the reserve team trials, then teased Qian Renxue during a walk while she tried to assess his age and strength. Qian Renxue left for the palace, and Tang Yu asked her to look for books about rare herbs in the Heaven Dou Palace.

• Tang Yu defeated Yu Tianheng, who was eliminated and challenged him to fight again after recovering.
• Qian Renxue approached Tang Yu, praised his performance, and invited him to walk around the academy with her.
• Qian Renxue measured Tang Yu's bones and discovered he was under fourteen, then probed whether he had learned a Clear Sky Sect technique.
• Tang Yu teased Qian Renxue by touching her chest and waist, and she pulled away and claimed she had urgent business at the palace.
• Tang Yu asked Qian Renxue to find books in the Heaven Dou Palace about rare and exotic herbs.

Tang Yu secured a reserve team place at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, then postponed Qin Ming’s special training to break through to level 40. After consuming Ten Thousand Year Whale Rubber, he planned to obtain his fourth Soul Ring and return to the Clear Sky Sect to challenge its strongest young disciples, despite Tang Tian’s warning that they were powerful Soul Kings.

• Tang Yu and Dugu Yan advanced through the final round of reserve selection, while Yu Tianheng chose a weaker opponent and also secured a place.
• Qin Ming explained that only twenty-two of the thirty reserve members would make Heaven Dou’s two competition teams and began special training, but Tang Yu asked to focus on reaching level 40 first.
• More than twenty days later, Tang Yu broke through to level 40, and Tang Tian brought him Ten Thousand Year Whale Rubber along with smaller pieces.
• Tang Yu softened and ate the Ten Thousand Year Whale Rubber, endured its intense heat in an ice-filled vat, and felt his body grow stronger.
• Tang Yu told Tang Tian he would seek a fourth Soul Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest and then challenge the Clear Sky Sect’s top young powerhouses, but Tang Tian warned him about Soul Kings Tang Long and Tang Hu.

Tang Yu and Tang Tian traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to find Tang Yu a Fourth Soul Ring, settling on a Thunderclap Dragon that could grant an enhancement skill. Tang Yu began absorbing its eighteen-thousand-year Soul Ring.

• Tang Yu insisted on pursuing the Clear Sky Nine Techniques and competing for a place among the sect's top three rather than waiting for Tang Long and Tang Hu to age out.
• Tang Yu and Tang Tian discussed the risks of a high-year Soul Ring and Tang Yu's plan to seek another enhancement skill.
• Tang Yu argued that the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, Clear Sky Nine Techniques, and the Great Sumeru Hammer would provide enough offensive power, and Tang Tian promised his support.
• Tang Tian found an eighteen-thousand-year Thunderclap Dragon in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Tang Yu chose it for its enhancement ability and resemblance to his Thunder Dragon Wings.
• Tang Tian struck down the Thunderclap Dragon, Tang Yu finished it off, and Tang Yu began absorbing its Soul Ring.

Tang Yu absorbed Thunderclap Dragon’s ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, reached Level 43, and gained a powerful skill that doubled his attributes and Clear Sky Hammer’s weight. After returning to the Clear Sky Sect and revealing his strength and External Soul Bone, he was urged to compete for the future Sect Master position amid a split between the elders and Tang Xiao.

• Tang Yu overcame Thunderclap Dragon’s resentment, absorbed its Soul Ring, and advanced to Level 43.
• Tang Yu revealed that Clear Sky Power doubled his strength, speed, toughness, and Clear Sky Hammer’s weight, which excited Tang Tian.
• Tang Yu showed Tang Tian his External Soul Bone, and the two returned to the Clear Sky Sect ten days later.
• Tang Yu displayed his four Soul Rings, ten-thousand-year fourth ring, and Thunder Dragon Wings before the Five Great Elders, astonishing them.
• The Second Elder and Blazing Sun Douluo declared that the elders would support Tang Yu as a candidate for future Sect Master, reflecting their faction’s conflict with Tang Xiao over Tang Hao.

Tang Yu returned to the Clear Sky Sect and challenged its three strongest young disciples to earn the right to learn the Clear Sky Nine Techniques. After revealing that he had reached level forty-three and possessed a ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring, he left the sect shocked and prepared to face Tang Long.

• The Elders saw Tang Yu as a potential ally for their faction and agreed to teach him the Clear Sky Nine Techniques if he defeated one of the top three young disciples.
• Tang Yu chose to challenge Tang Long, the strongest chief disciple, and the Elders summoned the sect to its main hall.
• The Elders announced Tang Yu's challenge, and Tang Xiao doubted that the young Tang Yu could defeat the older Soul Kings.
• Tang Yu revealed he was a level-forty-three Soul Ancestor with a ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring, silencing the disciples who had mocked him.
• Tang Yu taunted the disciple who had promised to eat shit if he won, as the hall erupted in shock.

Tang Yu battled Tang Long, Clear Sky Sect’s strongest young disciple, and overwhelmed him in a contest of hammer strength before Tang Long used the Clear Sky Nine Arts to counterattack. As Tang Long’s three-form combo threatened to overwhelm him, Tang Yu revealed his Thunder Dragon Wings, an External Soul Bone.

• Tang Yu and Tang Long exchanged direct Clear Sky Hammer blows, and Tang Yu’s heavier hammer sent Tang Long flying.
• Tang Tian revealed that Tang Yu’s Clear Sky Hammer weighed over 750 jin, astonishing the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Long unleashed the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, but Tang Yu matched his eighty-first strike and blasted him into a stone wall.
• Tang Long began using the Empty, Seal, and Piercing Forms of the Clear Sky Nine Arts to neutralize Tang Yu’s strength and launch a relentless attack.
• Tang Yu spread his Thunder Dragon Wings, revealing his External Soul Bone and startling Tang Xiao and the sect.

Tang Yu defeated Tang Long with the power of his Clear Sky Hammer and Thunder Dragon Wings, earning the Clear Sky Sect's admiration and the qualification to learn the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes. The next morning, the Elders began teaching him the sect's ultimate combat art.

• Tang Yu used Thunder Flash to overpower Tang Long, then defeated him in a contest of strength with his Clear Sky Hammer and Thunder Power.
• Tang Long was knocked through a stone wall and could no longer rise, leaving the gathered disciples and elders astonished.
• The Clear Sky Sect hailed Tang Yu as a second Tang Chen and hoped he would lead them back to the Soul Master World.
• Tang Xiao granted Tang Yu the qualification to learn the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes, and the Five Elders agreed to teach him together.
• At dawn the next day, Tang Yu arrived at the Elders' cultivation grounds, where they began explaining the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes.

Tang Yu rapidly learned six of the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes under the Five Elders’ instruction and decided to return to Heaven Dou Royal Academy to prepare for the Soul Master Competition. Tang Tian and Blazing Sun Douluo were assigned to secretly protect him as he left with Dugu Bo.

• The Five Elders explained the nine forms of the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes and began teaching Tang Yu the Void Form.
• Tang Yu practiced with Tang Long and mastered the Void, Seal, and Piercing Forms in quick succession, astonishing the Elders.
• Over five months, Tang Yu mastered six forms and planned to learn the remaining Break, Flash, and Collapse Forms after returning to the academy.
• Tang Yu told his father and the Elders that he would return to Heaven Dou Royal Academy to train with his teammates before the Soul Master Competition.
• The Second Elder assigned Tang Tian and Blazing Sun Douluo to protect Tang Yu, who set off with them and Dugu Bo.

Tang Yu returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and found Tang San and the Shrek group had joined its reserve team. He beat Dai Mubai and Tang San, then faced Qin Ming when the teacher intervened.

• Tang Yu returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy while Tang Tian and Blazing Sun Douluo stayed hidden to protect him.
• Tang Yu spotted Tang San, Xiao Wu, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong among the reserve members and greeted them.
• Tang Yu struck Dai Mubai for glaring at him, then made the Shrek group call him Boss.
• Tang San considered using his hidden weapons against Tang Yu, while Tang Yu judged that Tang San lacked the resources to make King of Hell's Post.
• Tang Yu kicked Dai Mubai away and beat Tang San after calling him over.
• Qin Ming arrived and rebuked Tang Yu for bullying fellow students, while Tang San and the others welcomed their teacher's intervention.

Tang Yu challenged Qin Ming to a spar and overwhelmed the level 62 Soul Emperor with his strength and fire immunity. After nine moves, Qin Ming unleashed his sixth soul skill, and Tang Yu countered with Thunderous Frenzy Hammer.

• Tang Yu challenged Qin Ming to resign as team leader if he could not withstand ten moves, while Qin Ming demanded that Tang Yu obey him if he survived.
• Tang Yu revealed his level 45 rank and ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring, shocking the team and disputing Yu Xiaogang’s Soul Ring limits.
• Qin Ming’s fire attack failed to harm Tang Yu, who mocked him and struck him with the Clear Sky Hammer, sending him flying.
• Tang Yu battered Qin Ming with Clear Sky Nine Absolutes until nine moves had passed, neutralizing Qin Ming’s fourth soul skill with Empty Form.
• Qin Ming unleashed his sixth soul skill, Brahma Flame, and Tang Yu answered with his second soul skill, Thunderous Frenzy Hammer.

Tang Yu defeated Qin Ming in ten moves after returning to Heaven Dou Academy, drawing Qian Renxue’s attention. Suspecting her invitation to Dou Spirit Mountain was a trap, Tang Yu prepared his Thunder Dragon Wings with his father’s help before meeting her.

• Tang Yu defeated Qin Ming in ten moves, and Qin Ming left the academy in disgrace.
• Tang Yu warned Tang San and the reserve team to behave during training, then began preparing for the Soul Master Competition under Teacher Wang.
• After hearing about Tang Yu’s strength, Qian Renxue rejected a proposal to kill him and invited him to Dou Spirit Mountain at eight that night.
• Tang Yu suspected Qian Renxue’s invitation was a Hongmen Banquet and decided to meet her while preparing a way to protect himself.
• Tang Yu asked Tang Tian to charge his Thunder Dragon Wings, and Tang Tian filled them with enough lightning energy to block a low-level Title Elder’s attacks.

Tang Yu met Qian Renxue on Dou Spirit Mountain, received a book of rare herbs, and refused her offer to recruit him. Qian Renxue decided he was too dangerous to leave alive and summoned several Soul Saints to attack him.

• Tang Yu revealed that his Thunder Dragon Wings could charge endlessly and urged Tang Tian to recover his Soul Power before heading to Dou Spirit Mountain.
• Tang Yu met Qian Renxue at the cleared Dou Spirit Mountain, and they climbed the tower together.
• Qian Renxue gave Tang Yu an ancient book recording rare herbs, and he recognized that it described the Immortal Herbs he had found at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye.
• Qian Renxue offered Tang Yu a dukedom and a province if he joined her, but Tang Yu declined and said Clear Sky Sect planned to return without opposing Spirit Hall.
• Qian Renxue concluded Tang Yu could not be recruited and might threaten Spirit Hall, then summoned several powerful Soul Saints as Tang Yu pretended to panic.