Chapter Summaries

Tang San slapped Ning Rongrong for disrespecting the Blue Silver King, defeated the Cave Spider, and absorbed its black Soul Ring. Tang Yuan brought Zhu Zhuqing back to the Blue Silver King's Mansion, where Zhu Zhuyun teased her, and Tang San arrived to accept punishment from his teacher.

• Tang San slapped Ning Rongrong twice, warned her to tell her elders to keep the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect in line, and turned back to the Cave Spider.
• Tang San delivered the Cave Spider's final blow and began absorbing its black Soul Ring.
• Tang Yuan carried Zhu Zhuqing to the Blue Silver King's Mansion, where Zhu Zhuyun greeted them and teased her younger sister.
• Tang San climbed over the mansion wall, knelt before Tang Yuan, and declared that he had returned to accept punishment.

Tang San confessed to Tang Yuan that he had beaten Ning Rongrong and crippled her guards after they insulted his teacher, but Tang Yuan praised him and dismissed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as insignificant. Ning Rongrong returned to the sect injured, and Chen Xin and Gu Rong prepared to confront Tang Yuan while Ning Fengzhi tried to restrain them.

• Tang San told Tang Yuan that he had attacked Ning Rongrong and her guards after they insulted his teacher.
• Tang Yuan praised Tang San and said the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan were no more than ants to him.
• Ning Rongrong returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and told Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong that Tang San had beaten her and killed her guards.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong became furious and set out to demand an explanation from Tang Yuan and punish Tang San.
• Ning Fengzhi stopped them and began healing Ning Rongrong while his anger deepened.

Ning Fengzhi restrained Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo from confronting Tang Yuan, choosing to investigate Tang San and the Blue Silver King's Mansion while protecting the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s interests. The next morning, Tang Yuan agreed to explore Seven Treasure City with Xiao Wu, partly to inspect the city himself.

• Ning Fengzhi warned that Tang Yuan’s power, his ties to Dugu Bo, and the Imperial Family’s support made a direct confrontation dangerous.
• Ning Rongrong confirmed that Tang San had wielded a heavy, unmarked black hammer and defeated Da Yong and Er Yong without using his martial soul.
• Ning Fengzhi ordered surveillance of the Blue Silver King's Mansion, investigations into Tang San and Tang Yuan, and caution for the Sect’s businesses in Seven Treasure City.
• Tang Yuan reviewed the city’s defense files and dismissed the prospect of Ning Rongrong’s complaint causing him concern.
• Xiao Wu asked Tang Yuan to accompany her around Seven Treasure City, and he agreed to inspect its streets and livelihoods.

Tang Yuan and Xiao Wu explored Seven Treasure City, where Tang Yuan exposed fraudulent soul master academies. They found a Shrek Academy Seven Treasure City Branch embroiled in a dispute with a poor family, and a green-robed Soul Grandmaster attacked the father demanding his tuition back.

• Xiao Wu clung to Tang Yuan as they walked through Seven Treasure City, and they shared candied hawthorn while exploring its streets.
• Tang Yuan recognized that the city's academy recruiters were frauds exploiting commoner families with false promises.
• Tang Yuan and Xiao Wu came upon a crowd gathered around a sign for Shrek Academy Seven Treasure City Branch.
• A middle-aged father demanded a refund from the green-robed recruiter, saying the academy had taken five years of savings but failed to awaken his son's Soul Power.
• The green-robed Soul Grandmaster summoned two yellow soul rings and kicked the father with Soul Power.

Tang Yuan ordered a crackdown on fraudulent academies in Seven Treasure City after seeing one of them beat a father who could not afford its fees. His action won the commoners’ support but struck at businesses linked to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Xiao Wu condemned the green-robed man for cheating and beating a father, and Tang Yuan declared that the fraudulent academy’s business would end.
• Tang Yuan sent soldiers throughout Seven Treasure City to seal unregistered academies suspected of fraud and arrest their staff.
• Tang Yuan’s soldiers tore down the academies’ signs, overcame resistance, and arrested their operators as the crowd cheered.
• The beaten father kowtowed toward the Blue Silver King’s Mansion, and Tang Yuan’s standing among the city’s commoners rose.
• Tang San wiped his Clear Sky Hammer and observed that Tang Yuan’s crackdown had struck businesses belonging to outer disciples of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Tang Yuan’s crackdown on fraudulent academies won public support but threatened the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s income and influence. Ning Fengzhi visited Blue Silver King’s Mansion with Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Ning Rongrong, where the sect’s elders began pressuring Tang Yuan.

• Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Tang San praised Tang Yuan for protecting the common people and challenging powerful interests.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong learned that Tang Yuan had shut down the city’s fraudulent academies, promised refunds, and planned to confiscate the offenders’ assets.
• Ning Fengzhi decided to visit Blue Silver King’s Mansion and meet Tang Yuan in person.
• Ning Fengzhi arrived with Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Ning Rongrong, while Tang Yuan remained seated as he received them.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong released their Titled Douluo pressure, and Chen Xin directed a sharp sword intent at Tang Yuan.

Tang Yuan rejected Ning Fengzhi’s attempt to negotiate over his crackdown in Seven Treasure City, while Ning Rongrong challenged Tang San’s abilities and criticized his Blue Silver Grass martial soul. The confrontation ended with Ning Fengzhi wondering whether Tang San’s unusual strength had come at the cost of his potential.

• Tang Yuan dismissed Gu Rong’s complaint about the lost tax revenue and declared that he would make the rules in his territory.
• Ning Fengzhi tried to soften the dispute by praising Tang Yuan and warning him that disrupting Seven Treasure City’s established balance could undermine his rule.
• Ning Fengzhi praised Tang San and prompted Ning Rongrong to greet Tang Yuan, but she disparaged Tang San as an ordinary young man.
• Ning Rongrong cited Yu Xiaogang’s teachings to argue that Tang San was using Blue Silver Grass incorrectly and had ruined his martial soul by pursuing a physical combat path.
• Ning Rongrong questioned Tang San’s unusually high Soul Power, suggesting it came from improper methods, while Ning Fengzhi privately considered whether Tang San had exhausted his potential.

Tang San revealed his extraordinary cultivation to Ning Rongrong and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, provoking Chen Xin to challenge Tang Yuan. The chapter ended with tensions rising in Tang Yuan’s residence as Ning Fengzhi decided the sect would have to test Tang Yuan’s strength.

• Tang Yuan mocked Yu Xiaogang’s theories, then asked Tang San to demonstrate his cultivation to Ning Rongrong and the Titled Douluos.
• Tang San defended his cultivation and summoned his Blue Silver Emperor, revealing five soul rings, including two ten-thousand-year rings.
• Ning Fengzhi and the others were shocked to learn that Tang San was a fourteen-year-old Soul King.
• Chen Xin’s pressure forced Tang San to brace himself, but Tang Yuan stopped the sword aura before it could reach him.
• Chen Xin challenged Tang Yuan, and Ning Fengzhi decided that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had to settle matters through strength.

Tang Yuan answered Chen Xin and Gu Rong’s challenge by unleashing his sovereign Blue Silver Domain, overwhelming both Titled Douluo without moving from his place. The chapter ended with Chen Xin and Gu Rong suppressed inside the domain, unable to free themselves.

• Chen Xin challenged Tang Yuan to demonstrate the Blue Silver Emperor’s combat power, while Gu Rong mocked the martial soul’s healing nature.
• Tang Yuan stood and explained that life and death were two sides of the same coin, prompting Chen Xin to attack with a sword aura.
• Tang San rushed to protect Tang Yuan, but Tang Yuan commanded him to stand down and pushed him safely aside.
• Tang Yuan activated his sovereign Blue Silver Domain, freezing Chen Xin’s sword aura and dissolving it.
• Chen Xin summoned the Seven Kill Sword and Gu Rong prepared to fight, but Tang Yuan’s domain suppressed them and drained their power.
• Tang Yuan ordered the domain to disperse.

Tang Yuan overwhelmed Chen Xin and Gu Rong with his Blue Silver Domain, then turned his meeting with Ning Fengzhi toward reforming education in Seven Treasure City. He announced that he would establish the Blue Silver Academy to address the demand that allowed fraudulent schools to flourish.

• Tang Yuan's domain nullified Chen Xin and Gu Rong's attack and forced both Titled Douluo to retreat, while Tang Yuan remained unharmed.
• Tang Yuan had the maids serve fresh tea, and Ning Fengzhi apologized for Chen Xin and Gu Rong's test of strength.
• Tang Yuan told Ning Fengzhi that he would not tolerate fraudulent soul master academies exploiting the people of Seven Treasure City.
• Ning Fengzhi offered to restrain the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's subordinates and help drive out corrupt academies.
• Tang Yuan argued that expelling the fraudsters would not solve the underlying demand for education and announced plans to establish the Blue Silver Academy.

Tang Yuan revealed his plan to establish Blue Silver Academy as Seven Treasure City's only legal junior and intermediate Soul Master Academy, threatening the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's influence over young Soul Masters. Ning Fengzhi recognized that opposing the academy would be politically untenable and publicly pledged the sect's support.

• Tang Yuan announced that Blue Silver Academy would admit eligible students regardless of status, with the King's Mansion subsidizing tuition and fully funding poor students in exchange for five years of service.
• Ning Fengzhi realized the academy would draw students away from other schools and weaken the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's recruitment network.
• Tang Yuan presented a Heaven Dou Imperial Family Inner Treasury authorization token and had Tang San explain that retired military officers would teach at the academy.
• Tang San revealed that Tang Yuan had prepared cultivation resources and teaching materials, including a revised set of Martial Soul competencies and a guide to practical Soul Power application.
• Ning Fengzhi concluded that opposing the academy would make the sect appear hostile to the people, so he forced himself to praise the plan and pledge the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's support.

Tang Yuan forced Ning Fengzhi to surrender property for the academy, then ordered its rapid construction and announced an enrollment drive in Seven Treasure City. The chapter ended as commoners gathered to read the notice, which promised an exemption and hinted at a challenge to the Soul Master World’s rules.

• Tang Yuan persuaded Ning Fengzhi to give up properties for the academy and promised to memorialize his contributions.
• Ning Fengzhi left the Prince's Mansion and warned Gu Rong that Tang Yuan was cutting off the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s roots in Seven Treasure City.
• Tang Yuan ordered three million more Gold Soul Coins transferred to the construction effort and demanded rapid progress from the artisans.
• Tang Yuan gave Tang San the enrollment notice and ordered him to publicize it throughout Seven Treasure City.
• Prince's Mansion Guards posted the notice at markets and city gates, drawing crowds of commoners who tried to make sense of its promise of an exemption.

The Blue Silver King’s announcement that Blue Silver Academy would offer free education, meals, and stipends won the gratitude of Seven Treasure City’s commoners and alarmed Ning Fengzhi. Meanwhile, Shrek Academy struggled to survive as Flender lamented its lack of enrollment and money.

• An officer announced that Blue Silver Academy would enroll children with awakened martial souls and Soul Power without fees, provide meals with meat, and offer stipends for outstanding students.
• An old man whose grandson had awakened a sickle martial soul knelt and praised the Blue Silver King, prompting the crowd to cheer for him.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong watched the public’s reaction, and Ning Fengzhi ordered an investigation into Blue Silver Academy.
• At Shrek Academy, Flender complained that families kept leaving after hearing the one-hundred-Gold-Soul-Coin tuition and that the school could no longer afford its rent.

Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Yu Xiaogang saw Blue Silver Academy’s free enrollment and textbook as a threat to Shrek, so they planned to challenge the new academy. Tang Yuan learned Shrek was gathering its people and welcomed the chance to confront them.

• Yu Xiaogang showed Flender and Zhao Wuji Blue Silver Academy’s offer of free tuition, food, and lodging, along with its new teaching textbook.
• Yu Xiaogang argued that Shrek should challenge Blue Silver Academy and expose its supposed lack of strength.
• Flender agreed and told Zhao Wuji to summon Mu Bai and Ma Hongjun for the challenge.
• Tang San asked Tang Yuan whether Shrek had taken the bait, and Tang Yuan confirmed that Shrek was targeting Blue Silver Academy.
• Tang Yuan accepted the coming confrontation as an opportunity to defeat Shrek publicly.

Tang Yuan and Tang San prepared to turn Shrek Academy’s expected challenge into a public defeat for Yu Xiaogang and his allies. As Flender led Shrek and several small academy deans toward the Blue Silver King’s Mansion, the crowd gathered to watch them approach.

• Tang San predicted that Yu Xiaogang would challenge Blue Silver Academy to prove his theories superior, and Tang Yuan ordered him to prepare to make Shrek their first stepping stone.
• The deans of small academies complained to Flender that Blue Silver Academy’s free tuition, clothing, and meat vouchers had drawn away their students.
• Flender and Yu Xiaogang agreed to confront Tang Yuan, while Yu Xiaogang dismissed his teaching methods as unsound.
• Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Zhao Wuji discussed the coming challenge as the Shrek group headed toward the Blue Silver King’s Mansion.
• Citizens gathered along the route and watched the approaching Shrek group with a strange look.

Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and the other Soul Masters from Shrek Academy challenged Blue Silver Academy to let them in, accusing it of hiding the truth. Tang Yuan allowed them through, where they were stunned to find a vast crowd of more than a thousand children gathered on the training ground.

• Onlookers criticized Flender and the Shrek Academy group as they approached the King's Mansion, while Yu Xiaogang dismissed the crowd as ignorant.
• Flender announced his visit to Blue Silver Academy and demanded entry for an exchange, while Yu Xiaogang and the other deans accused the academy of having something to hide.
• A guard refused them entry until Tang Yuan ordered him to let the visitors in.
• Inside the gates, Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai noticed the rich smell of meat, which Yu Xiaogang condemned as unsuitable food for children.
• Flender and the others reached the training ground and gaped at more than a thousand children in matching Blue Silver Academy uniforms.

Flender, Yu Xiaogang, Zhao Wuji, and the other academy leaders watched Blue Silver Academy’s students perform disciplined drills and release their Soul Power together, leaving them shaken by the force of their formation. They followed the children into their makeshift classrooms, where a one-armed instructor began teaching practical survival against a four-hundred-year Nether Wolf.

• More than a thousand children stood in precise formation under the blazing sun and obeyed their instructors’ commands without hesitation.
• The children released Soul Power together, creating a wave of air that forced several academy leaders back and made Dai Mubai sense the danger of their coordinated strength.
• The children dispersed into Blue Silver Academy’s makeshift classrooms, and Flender led the visitors to inspect their lessons.
• A one-armed instructor announced a lesson on surviving an encounter with a four-hundred-year Nether Wolf after running out of Soul Power.

Flender and the others watched Blue Silver Academy teach its poor students battlefield survival and military discipline, while Yu Xiaogang condemned the methods. Zhao Wuji recognized the instructors’ combat experience, and the group heard a new lesson begin on the potential of Blue Silver Grass.

• A one-armed instructor taught the children to sacrifice a limb and strike a Nether Wolf’s eye when their Soul Power ran out.
• A commander of the Wang Family Army’s Vanguard Camp used a sand table to teach formations and strict battlefield discipline.
• Dai Mubai worried that Shrek’s teamwork and strength might not withstand an army’s coordinated assault.
• Yu Xiaogang urged Flender to stop the training, but Flender reflected on the children’s improved living conditions and need to survive.
• Zhao Wuji acknowledged the instructors’ experience and called Blue Silver Academy’s students a wolf pack.
• An old instructor began teaching that Blue Silver Grass was not a useless martial soul.

Yu Xiaogang was humiliated when a village instructor taught children to turn Blue Silver Grass into practical weapons, and Flender led the shaken visitors away. Tang Yuan then invited the departing deans to have tea, leaving them tense beneath his imposing presence.

• An old instructor showed children how to weave Blue Silver Grass into ropes, nets, and a powerful staff, then urged them to use it in battle.
• Yu Xiaogang objected that Blue Silver Grass should follow the Control System path, but the instructor called him a sour scholar and ordered him to leave.
• Flender recognized the hostility around the training ground and decided that his group should retreat from the Blue Silver King's Mansion.
• Tang Yuan appeared on a platform and invited the deans to have tea before they left.
• Zhao Wuji sensed Tang Yuan's overwhelming pressure and stepped in front of Yu Xiaogang and Dai Mubai as the Clear Wind Academy Dean forced a smile.

Tang Yuan exposed the corruption and abuses of the academy deans, including Shrek Academy’s dangerous training practices, and the gathered Soul Masters decided to fight their way out. As Flender and Zhao Wuji prepared to cover the students’ escape, Tang Yuan unleashed overwhelming gravity across the training ground.

• Tang Yuan revealed evidence of Dean Wang’s embezzlement and Dean Zhao’s abuse of Work-Study Students.
• Tang Yuan confronted Flender over Shrek Academy’s lack of registration and its dangerous Soul Arena battles, while Yu Xiaogang defended its training methods.
• Dean Zhao and Dean Wang urged the gathered deans to resist Tang Yuan and flee to report him to Spirit Hall.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji ordered Shrek’s students to escape and prepared to cover their retreat.
• Tang Yuan pressed down with his hand and brought terrifying gravity crashing over the training ground.