Chapter Summaries

Shrek Academy faced Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s Second Team in the tournament’s opening match and overwhelmed them with a coordinated assault, winning in under a minute. Tang San defended Shrek against a complaint by pointing out that Jiang Zhu had been healing the defeated opponents throughout the fight.

• Flender warned Shrek Academy that Shi Nian’s Remnant Dream Martial Soul could trap opponents in deadly illusions, then left to watch the opening ceremony.
• Shrek Academy entered to jeers and learned that its first opponent was Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s Second Team; the team vowed to finish the match within one minute.
• The two teams took their positions, and Tang San’s Ten-Thousand-Year fourth Soul Ring shocked the spectators and VIPs.
• Tang San trapped all seven opponents in Blue Silver Cages while Dai Mubai and the others launched a fierce, coordinated attack that left the Second Team badly injured.
• The Second Team’s teacher stopped the fight and accused Shrek of trying to kill the opponents, but Tang San pointed out that Jiang Zhu had been healing them and argued that the team had broken no rules.

After Shrek Academy advanced through the Preliminary Round, Zhang Yang watched Tang San reveal his fire and ice immunities while winning key matches. The chapter ended with Zhang Yang turning Huo Wu’s challenge to Tang San into a comic mishap.

• Ning Fengzhi praised the Shrek group, then asked Tang San to speak with him privately as the others returned to the academy.
• Shrek defeated Elephant Armored Academy, and Master advised Tang San to keep Shi Nian’s Gem Soul Bone rather than absorb it.
• Tang San survived Blazing Fire Academy’s fusion skill and revealed that his Blue Silver Grass had Fire Immunity, drawing a scolding from Master for exposing the ability.
• Tang San broke Canghui Academy’s Seven-in-One Fusion Skill, and Shrek later drew with Skywater Academy after Tang San used Ice Immunity against its Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Dai Mubai relayed Emperor Xue Ye’s promised rewards, while Zhang Yang dismissed them because Master would keep him out of the Promotion Tournament.
• Huo Wu challenged Tang San to fight without his Martial Soul, but Zhang Yang mocked her, was kicked by Xiao Wu, and landed between Huo Wu and Tang San.

Tang San questioned whether Blue Silver Grass could keep pace with powerful martial souls, but Zhang Yang helped him regain perspective and he returned to training. At the Promotion Tournament, Shrek faced Blazing Fire Academy; Tang San was badly injured saving Huo Wu, and Blazing Fire Academy conceded after one match.

• Tang San doubted the Control System and considered relying on his Clear Sky Hammer, until Zhang Yang reminded him that the Elite Competition did not define his future as a soul master.
• Tang San joined Liu Erlong's intensive training, while Zhang Yang skipped seven days after breaking through to level 44.
• Ning Fengzhi arranged for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to support Shrek Academy and announced that Ning Rongrong would become the sect's next master; Xue Qinghe investigated Zhang Yang's background.
• Tang San faced Blazing Fire Academy in the Promotion Tournament and injured Huo Wu's pride by defeating six opponents before she took the field.
• Huo Wu used Ring Fusion against Tang San, who switched places with her and took the attack, leaving him seriously injured; Blazing Fire Academy conceded after one match.
• Dai Mubai stopped Huo Wu and the Blazing Fire Academy team from visiting Tang San at Shrek's camp.

Shrek Academy reached the finals in Spirit City, where Tang San learned that Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation included three Rank 50 Soul Kings. Bibi Dong learned Tang San had Twin Martial Souls and began investigating him, while Shrek planned to save its Seven-in-One Fusion Skill for the coming fight.

• Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu tried to apologize to Tang San, but Dai Mubai, Zhang Yang, and Xiao Wu turned them away while Tang San rested.
• Tang San lost to Feng Xiaotian, kept his Clear Sky Hammer and other trump cards secret, and Shrek Academy forfeited the match; Zhang Yang joked that the loss meant no fewer finals matches.
• Shrek Academy’s final opponent conceded, leaving the team second in the Heaven Dou region with thirteen wins and one loss, and Xiao Wu reached Rank 40 and obtained a Soul Ring during the journey to Spirit City.
• Master left early to ask Bibi Dong about Twin Martial Souls, and she learned Tang San had them, began investigating him, and developed killing intent while deciding to give him one chance.
• Dugu Bo told Tang San that Spirit Hall’s team had three Rank 50 Soul Kings and that the championship prize was three Soul Bones; Tang San and Zhang Yang proposed saving Shrek’s Seven-in-One Fusion Skill for them.

Shrek Academy advanced through the finals after Blazing Fire Academy forfeited, then defeated Star Luo Royal Academy in a decisive match. Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing survived their confrontation with their elder siblings and finally escaped the threat hanging over them.

• Flender learned that Blazing Fire Academy had forfeited, while Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang appeared in Godwind Academy's lineup under an arrangement Spirit Hall allowed.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing told Shrek Academy that losing to Star Luo Royal Academy would mean their deaths, so the team vowed to win.
• Master benched Zhang Yang and sent the Shrek Seven Devils, including Ning Rongrong, to face Star Luo Royal Academy's six Soul Ancestors.
• Zhu Zhuqing stopped Zhu Zhuyun, while Xiao Wu used her Invincible Golden Body and Waist Bow to hurl Dai Weisi toward his teammates.
• Tang San's Team Riot launched the Star Luo team into the air, and Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, and the Hell White Tiger defeated all seven opponents.
• Dai Mubai struck Dai Weisi's shoulder rather than killing him, and Shrek won as Zhu Zhuqing held the exhausted Dai Mubai and cried with relief.

The Spirit Hall Team defeated the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Main Team with Xie Yue and Hu Liena’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Demon Charm. At the finals, Shao Ankang forfeited against Huo Wushuang, and Master withdrew Shrek Academy from the first half after the Pope recognized him as a Spirit Hall Elder.

• Xie Yue and Hu Liena used Demon Charm to overwhelm the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Main Team, defeating Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng.
• The Spirit Hall Team, Shrek Academy, and Godwind Academy advanced to the final three-team competition, where the Pope displayed the Soul Bone prizes and announced the elimination format.
• Master selected Jing Ling as Shrek Academy’s first competitor, and Jing Ling drew a bye before facing Huo Wushuang and Shao Ankang.
• Shao Ankang forfeited to Huo Wushuang, prompting Master to withdraw Shrek Academy from the first half and send Jing Ling back.
• Master told Bibi Dong that surrendering was Shrek Academy’s right, and Bibi Dong accepted after identifying him as an Elder of Spirit Hall.

Shrek Academy faced Godwind Academy in the semifinal, where Zhang Yang fought alone against all seven opponents and ended the match with a devastating attack. Godwind conceded, setting up a final between Shrek Academy and Spirit Hall Academy.

• Master withdrew Shrek Academy from the individual matches, and Godwind Academy followed before both teams prepared for the afternoon semifinal.
• Huo Wu challenged Tang San, explaining that she had rearranged her team to settle their score, while Zhang Yang replaced Ma Hongjun in Shrek's lineup.
• Shrek's six other competitors retreated, and Zhang Yang revealed four Soul Rings, including a Ten-Thousand-Year fourth ring, as Godwind Academy began powering Huo Wu's Ring Fusion.
• Zhang Yang dodged Feng Xiaotian's wind blades and fired his charged Laser at Godwind Academy, but Feng Xiaotian struck him with the first slash of his Thirty-Six Consecutive Gale Wolf Slashes.
• The explosion severely injured Huo Wu and Zhang Yang, and Feng Xiaotian conceded as the Healing System Soul Masters treated them.
• The referee announced that Shrek Academy would face Spirit Hall Academy in the final, and Zhang Yang said he enjoyed competing.

Shrek Academy faced Spirit Hall in the tournament final, using a coordinated formation and Seven-in-One Fusion Skill to amplify Zhang Yang. As Xie Yue attacked, Zhang Yang transformed into Borsalino through Martial Soul Avatar and confronted him.

• At the hotel, Zhang Yang explained how he had deceived Spirit Hall about his flight, Elementalization, and instant-cast Laser.
• Bibi Dong planned to counter Zhang Yang by spreading out Spirit Hall's formation, exploiting his apparent weakness to attacks, and targeting Oscar.
• Before the final, the referee barred support before the match, and Tang San gave the Shrek team Root-Fortifying Dragon Ganoderma Leaves.
• At the start, Shrek formed a moving circle around Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, then shifted into a line as Ning Rongrong's Ring Fusion passed through the team.
• Bibi Dong recognized the team's technique as a Seven-in-One Fusion Skill, and Zhang Yang's amplified Soul Power let him use Martial Soul Avatar.
• As Xie Yue attacked Zhang Yang with his Moon Blade, Zhang Yang transformed into Borsalino and remarked on the strength of the spectators on the VIP platform.

Shrek Academy defeated Spirit Hall Academy and won the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Competition. After receiving the championship rewards and settling the Soul Bone distribution, the team heard Xue Qinghe invite them to join the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Borsalino knocked Xie Yue away and blasted the Spirit Hall team with Lasers before Zhang Yang collapsed from exhaustion and Shrek Academy won.
• Ning Fengzhi restored the Shrek members, and Bibi Dong announced them as champions and awarded them three Soul Bones.
• Bibi Dong invited Zhang Yang to join Spirit Hall, but he said he had already joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Xiao Wu, Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ning Rongrong withdrew from the three Soul Bones, and Master assigned the left leg bone to Zhu Qing and the right arm bone to Ma Hongjun.
• Tang San gave Ning Rongrong the Colorful Bewildering Head Bone he had stored, while Master recommended the Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull for Tang San.
• Xue Qinghe congratulated Shrek Academy and invited its students to join the Heaven Dou Empire.

After Shrek Academy won the tournament, its graduates returned to Heaven Dou City for honors and ceremonies before parting to follow their own paths. Tang San and Xiao Wu left with a scruffy middle-aged man, while their destination remained unknown.

• Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Xiao Wu, Zhang Yang, and Tang San declined Xue Qinghe’s recruitment offer, but agreed to return to Heaven Dou City for the Empire’s ceremony and Shrek’s graduation.
• On the journey back, Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo discussed Spirit Hall’s threat to Tang San and Zhang Yang, while Zhang Yang revealed that Tang San’s father was Clear Sky Douluo Tang Hao.
• Xue Ye awarded the Shrek team raised noble titles and fiefs, granted Shrek Academy imperial funding and the name Heaven Dou Royal Shrek Academy, and promised further support at its graduation ceremony.
• Ning Rongrong, Tang San, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ma Hongjun safely absorbed their Soul Bones, and the Shrek group agreed to reunite five years later before separating.
• Tang San found someone waiting in his dormitory, then he and Xiao Wu said farewell to Master, Flender, and the others and followed a scruffy middle-aged man away from Shrek Academy.

Ning Fengzhi named Ning Rongrong the next sect master and Zhang Yang an Inner Sect Disciple, then arranged a custom Mimicry Training Environment that accelerated Zhang Yang’s cultivation. At the Heaven Dou Auction House, Zhang Yang won orange-lensed Soul Tool glasses that could improve his [Laser] aim, giving him a way to exploit its piercing power in combat.

• Ning Fengzhi announced Ning Rongrong’s succession and Zhang Yang’s admission to the inner sect, and the sect members welcomed Zhang Yang after seeing his Fourth Soul Ring.
• Zhang Yang’s Japanese-style Mimicry Training Environment was completed, and cultivating there helped him advance from Rank 44 to Rank 45 Soul Power.
• Ning Fengzhi took Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong to Heaven Dou City, where they visited Master before going to the Heaven Dou Auction House.
• Zhang Yang recognized orange-lensed Soul Tool glasses at auction and won them for thirty thousand Gold Soul Coins after Ning Fengzhi had Sword Douluo place a bid.
• Zhang Yang explained that the glasses could help him aim his Fourth Soul Skill, letting him use its penetrating effect to target enemies’ vital points or joints.

Zhang Yang tested his upgraded sunglasses, celebrated his level-fifty breakthrough, and learned he could attempt a twenty-five-thousand-year fifth Soul Ring. Sword Douluo agreed to accompany him on the hunt, which was set to begin the next morning.

• Sword Douluo and Ning Rongrong tested Zhang Yang’s orange sunglasses, and Zhang Yang used them to hit every target, including more than a hundred scattered Gold Soul Coins.
• Ning Rongrong bought Zhang Yang clothes to match his sunglasses, and he later ordered three Borsalino-inspired suits.
• After a year and a half of cultivation, Zhang Yang reached level fifty at age sixteen, and Ning Fengzhi held a banquet to celebrate.
• Ning Fengzhi rewarded Zhang Yang with two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and top-grade Soul Tools, then asked about his fifth Soul Ring.
• Zhang Yang explained that his teacher believed his physique could withstand a twenty-five-thousand-year Soul Ring, and Ning Fengzhi asked Sword Douluo to accompany him.
• Sword Douluo agreed to leave with Zhang Yang the next morning.

Zhang Yang and Sword Douluo searched Sunset Forest, and Zhang Yang chose a twenty-three-thousand-year Saint Illusion Demon Ape for his next Soul Ring. As Zhang Yang began absorbing it, the Soul Beast’s lingering soul entered his spiritual world, leaving the dangerous Soul Tremor unresolved.

• Zhang Yang and Sword Douluo explored Sunset Forest, where Zhang Yang recorded information about ten kinds of Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and drove off three without killing them.
• Zhang Yang found a Saint Illusion Demon Ape and chose it because its Spiritual Power made it a likely source of a Head Soul Bone.
• Sword Douluo restrained the fleeing Saint Illusion Demon Ape, and Zhang Yang killed it with a Laser before searching its corpse and finding no Soul Bone.
• Zhang Yang began absorbing the Saint Illusion Demon Ape’s twenty-three-thousand-year Soul Ring while Sword Douluo watched tensely.
• The Soul Ring’s power transformed Zhang Yang’s body and cranial nerves, then the Saint Illusion Demon Ape’s lingering soul entered his spiritual world.

Zhang Yang absorbed the Saint Illusion Demon Ape’s Soul Ring and awakened Kenbunshoku Haki, with Borsalino helping him control its overwhelming flow of information. He demonstrated the new ability to Sword Douluo, who watched him dodge every Copper Soul Coin thrown from behind.

• Borsalino stopped the Saint Illusion Demon Ape’s soul tremor from reaching Zhang Yang and helped him recover from the numbness during Soul Ring absorption.
• Sword Douluo drove off a hunting team after revealing his nine Soul Rings and overwhelming its members with his power.
• Zhang Yang finished absorbing the Soul Ring, but the flood of information from his newly awakened Kenbunshoku Haki overwhelmed him.
• Borsalino helped Zhang Yang organize the information until he regained control and explained that he had awakened a new ability.
• Zhang Yang asked Sword Douluo to throw Copper Soul Coins at him and dodged all thirty by sensing their trajectories.

Zhang Yang tested his Fifth Soul Skill, then Sword Douluo sent him to fight the hunting group that had nearly killed him. Zhang Yang attacked the group and revealed his weapons, teleportation, and healing abilities, leaving the effect of his newly formed hammer unknown.

• Zhang Yang demonstrated that his Fifth Soul Skill, Flash Weapon, formed a powerful light longsword whose air slash pierced trees and exploded.
• Sword Douluo took Zhang Yang to the fleeing hunting group and ordered him to kill as many as possible while protecting himself.
• Zhang Yang fired lasers from the sky, killing three Soul Kings, then descended and explained to the survivors why he had ambushed them.
• Zhang Yang teleported to a distant Soul King and killed him, prompting the Soul Sage and the rest of the group to attack.
• Zhang Yang escaped the Control System Soul Emperor's thorn bind, dodged attacks in his golden Great Buddha form, and survived the Soul Sage's beam despite a hole through his chest.
• Zhang Yang healed his wound and formed a giant light hammer with his Fifth Soul Skill as Sword Douluo watched.

Zhang Yang defeated a Soul-hunting team after surviving a coordinated attack, killing the Colorful Tiger Soul Sage and exposing how greed over his Soul Bone shattered the team. He finished off the survivors, leaving the battlefield clear of his enemies.

• The Ghost Soul King used his Fourth Soul Skill to control Zhang Yang, but Zhang Yang fired lasers at him and broke the control.
• Zhang Yang fought off the Colorful Tiger Soul Sage with Meteor Volcano, then killed him with a laser that exploded inside his head.
• The Ghost Soul King severed the Colorful Tiger Soul Sage's arm to steal his Soul Bone, but Zhang Yang struck him and stopped his escape.
• The hunting team members turned on one another to seize the Soul Bone, and Zhang Yang used their infighting to kill nearly all of them.
• Zhang Yang detected and beheaded enemies who pretended to be dead and launched desperate attacks.

After obtaining a Purple Left Arm Soul Bone, Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong set out to travel the continent, bound for Vast Sea City. Master warned them about the perilous Sea God Island, and they began their journey without sect escorts.

• Zhang Yang collected a Soul Bone and valuable Soul Tools from the corpses in Sunset Forest, then returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with Sword Douluo.
• Zhang Yang absorbed the Purple Left Arm Soul Bone, gaining the Gravity Light skill, and told Ning Fengzhi that he and Ning Rongrong planned to travel.
• Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong visited Master and Liu Erlong, learned that Tang San and Xiao Wu had become Soul Kings, and said they planned to travel for about two years.
• Zhang Yang told Master that he and Ning Rongrong would visit her home and then head to Vast Sea City, and Master warned them about the dangerous Sea God Island nearby.
• Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong spent the night at Shrek Academy, greeted its teachers, and began their journey without a carriage or attendants.

Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong traveled from Yangjiao Village to Windmill Town, where Zhang Yang recognized a Storage Soul Tool from a murdered Soul Master team on a suspicious man. After they left town the next morning, a watcher identified them as easy prey.

• Ning Rongrong struggled with menstrual cramps, so Zhang Yang took their dinner to their room and cared for her; she felt better by morning.
• Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong left Yangjiao Village and later found the eight Soul Masters they had passed earlier dead, their valuables stolen.
• At a hotel in Windmill Town, Zhang Yang recognized the bracelet of one of the victims on a gaunt man and suspected the group was targeting them.
• Zhang Yang kept watch through the night while Ning Rongrong cultivated and broke through from level forty-eight to level forty-nine.
• Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong left town the next morning, and a man hiding outside the hotel called them fresh academy recruits and prey.

Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong defeated a band of Soul King robbers on the road to Luoshang City, then arrived in the fashion capital to rest and examine their spoils. After enjoying the city’s night streets and sitting down to dinner, Zhang Yang noticed someone in the restaurant, leaving the reason for his strange smile unexplained.

• Five robbers ambushed Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong, but Zhang Yang carried Ning Rongrong clear of their attack and killed all five with his Lasers.
• Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong collected the robbers’ belongings and hurried to Luoshang City, where they checked into a hotel to recover.
• Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong examined a robber’s Soul Master’s Handbook and learned that its former owner, Song Sheng, had been a promising young Soul Ancestor.
• Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong rested together, then went out to admire Luoshang City’s fashionable shops and night view.
• Zhang Yang ordered dinner at an upscale restaurant, noticed someone in the dining hall, and smiled strangely.

Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong avoided involvement in Song Sheng’s death until the Song Family tracked them down in Luoshang City. Zhang Yang explained how he had found Song Sheng’s body and killed the robbers, but Song Shi challenged his possession of Song Sheng’s Storage Soul Tool.

• Zhang Yang stopped Ning Rongrong from confronting Song Sheng’s apparent twin, explaining that the family probably had not yet heard of Song Sheng’s death.
• Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong spent half a month touring Luoshang City, and Zhang Yang ordered ten new suits.
• Song Shi and the Song Family’s hidden Soul Masters cornered Zhang Yang and Ning Rongrong outside a clothing store, but withdrew their ambush after Zhang Yang exposed it.
• Zhang Yang told Song Shi that he had found Song Sheng’s murdered group and later killed the robbers who had targeted him and Ning Rongrong.
• Song Shi questioned why they had not reported Song Sheng’s death and accused them of keeping his Storage Soul Tool, while Zhang Yang argued they had avenged Song Sheng.