Chapter Summaries

Bai Tang San revealed that Xiao Wu was a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast in human form, then gave her a talisman that concealed her identity and promised to protect her as his employee. The Sky Curtain contrasted his protection with Hei Tang San’s reliance on Tang Hao’s secret help, then began displaying the comprehensive stage ratings.

• Bai Tang San exposed Xiao Wu’s identity and explained that Gu Rong would have taken her captive if he had not intervened.
• Bai Tang San gave Xiao Wu a Concealment Talisman made from a withered leaf of the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, protecting her from all but a god-level powerhouse.
• Bai Tang San told Xiao Wu he protected her because she was an employee and asset of the Tang Sect Merchant Association, and she asked to work for him for life.
• In the Black World, Xiao Wu trembled after sensing a Titled Douluo, while Tang Hao withdrew after secretly driving off a Martial Soul Hall Bishop and wondered when Hei Tang San would protect others himself.
• Bibi Dong praised Bai Tang San’s responsible methods, and the Sky Curtain ended the first-stage comparison and began showing the comprehensive stage ratings.

The Sky Curtain compared the two Tang Sans and declared Bai Tang San the clear winner in strength, wealth, and influence. Hei Tang San accepted the judgment as his faith collapsed, then turned toward Yu Xiaogang.

• The Sky Curtain showed Hei Tang San’s Level 18 cultivation, ordinary Blue Silver Grass, debts, and weak connections, judging his future worrying and unstable.
• The Sky Curtain showed Bai Tang San’s Level 24 cultivation, Dark Gold Blue Silver Emperor prototype, vast wealth, and powerful alliances, calling him a generation’s hegemon with the stature of a future Divine King.
• Bibi Dong questioned Bai Tang San’s evaluation while recognizing the danger of his growing power, and Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin celebrated the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s partnership with him.
• The Sky Curtain marked Bai Tang San as the winner and Hei Tang San as the loser.
• Hei Tang San admitted he had lost completely, struggled with the collapse of his faith, and turned toward Yu Xiaogang.

Hei Tang San rejected Yu Xiaogang’s teachings and vowed to pursue victory at any cost, while the Sky Curtain shifted to Dugu Bo’s poisoning torment and Bai Tang San’s plan to gain his submission. The chapter left Bai Tang San confronting Dugu Bo after revealing intimate details of his suffering.

• Hei Tang San accused Yu Xiaogang’s teachings of leaving him poor and weak, then rejected his teacher and vowed to pay any price to win.
• The Sky Curtain moved on from the broken master-disciple relationship and showed Dugu Bo suffering from the backlash of his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Poison.
• Dugu Bo lamented that his granddaughter Dugu Yan endured the same pain and faced the same danger.
• Bai Tang San arranged for rumors of a Jade Phosphorous Poison cure to reach Dugu Bo through selected Black Market channels.
• Dugu Bo confronted Bai Tang San, who described his symptoms precisely and stunned him by revealing how much he knew.

Bai Tang San exposed Dugu Bo’s congenital poison and offered to cure him and Dugu Yan in exchange for access to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After reaching the valley, Bai Tang San saw its Immortal Herbs and revealed his plans for them, while the Black World showed Hei Tang San helping Yu Xiaogang prepare feed for Luo San Pao.

• Bai Tang San warned Dugu Bo that his poison was killing him and would afflict Dugu Yan even sooner, then offered a cure and a Poison Technique in exchange for access to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dugu Bo agreed to lead Bai Tang San to the valley, and in the Black World he cried out that he would give up the Herb Garden if Bai Tang San could save Yan Yan.
• Dugu Bo guided Bai Tang San through the poison formations to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Bai Tang San saw the Immortal Herbs and planned to use them to resolve his Twin Martial Souls’ backlash and build a God-level Legion.
• In the Black World, Yu Xiaogang stirred a high-fiber feed mixture for Luo San Pao while Hei Tang San carefully recorded the recipe.

Bai Tang San refined the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot into Ice Fire Golden Body Liquid, then tempered his body in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. He emerged with a powerful ice-and-fire physique and transformed Blue Silver Grass, while Hei Tang San and Yu Xiaogang watched in despair and disbelief.

• Bai Tang San extracted the essences of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, fused them with Ten Thousand Year Whale Rubber, and drank the resulting Ice Fire Golden Body Liquid.
• Bai Tang San endured the clashing ice and fire energies inside his body and plunged into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to reforge himself.
• Yu Xiaogang failed to identify the Immortal Herbs, while Hei Tang San longed to obtain one and dismissed his Pig Feed Formula notes as worthless.
• After twelve hours, Bai Tang San emerged with jade-like skin, immunity to poison, water, and fire, and immense physical strength.
• Bai Tang San's Dark Gold Blue Silver Grass gained ice and fire attributes, which he used to melt and shatter a boulder as he declared his ambition to become an Element Master.
• Hei Tang San despaired at the transformed Blue Silver Grass, and Yu Xiaogang called the display an illusion before Hei Tang San told him that he understood nothing.

Bai Tang San cataloged Dugu Bo’s Immortal Herbs, claimed two for his plans, and cured Dugu Bo’s poison backlash, earning his solemn support. In the Real World, Dugu Bo envied the cure and turned his anger toward Hei Tang San, while the Sky Curtain showed Hei Tang San departing for Shrek Academy after six years under Yu Xiaogang’s guidance.

• Bai Tang San documented the Immortal Herbs and explained that they needed to be cultivated sustainably rather than sold off.
• Bai Tang San harvested Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew for himself and reserved Aromatic Silk Beauty as leverage to help secure the Ning family’s support and pursue the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Bai Tang San used silver needles and Soul Power to force Dugu Bo’s poison into his Head Soul Bone, curing him and helping him break through to the ninety-second rank.
• Dugu Bo promised to protect Bai Tang San, while the real Dugu Bo watched the Sky Curtain and decided he might confront Tang San over the cure he had withheld.
• Twelve-year-old Hei Tang San left for Shrek Academy with travel rations from Yu Xiaogang, whose chosen second Soul Ring for him was a six-hundred-year-old Datura Snake’s Entanglement skill.

The chapter contrasts Hei Tang San’s struggling growth with Bai Tang San’s privileged strength and influence, as Bai Tang San heads to Suotuo City to inspect Shrek Academy and recruit talent. There, Hei Tang San barely holds his own against Dai Mubai over a room, leaving him painfully aware of the gap between himself and the strong.

• Hei Tang San accepted that his Level twenty-nine made him ordinary among Shrek’s monsters and set out for Suotuo City.
• Bai Tang San, having suppressed his Soul Power at Level thirty-nine, prepared to visit Shrek and recruit promising talent for the Tang Sect Merchant Association.
• Tang Hao gave Bai Tang San a Clear Sky token, but Bai Tang San said his advisors and guards made it unnecessary.
• The audience watched the stark contrast between Hei Tang San’s poverty and Bai Tang San’s wealth, while Bibi Dong resolved to erase Bai Tang San if Spirit Hall could not use him.
• Hei Tang San and Xiao Wu arrived in Suotuo City and learned that only a couples’ room remained, but Dai Mubai demanded it for himself.
• Hei Tang San fought Dai Mubai and used a Dragon Whisker Needle to secure the room, then admitted he would have had no chance without hidden weapons against the Level thirty-seven Soul Elder.

Bai Tang San arrived at Rose Hotel with Xiao Wu and drove Dai Mubai away with an overwhelming display of power, then set his sights on Shrek Academy. In the real world, Dai Mubai compared himself unfavorably with Bai Tang San, while both versions of Tang San prepared for what came next.

• Bai Tang San and Xiao Wu arrived at Rose Hotel, where the manager told them the top-floor room had already been reserved.
• Dai Mubai demanded the room and the hotel, but Bai Tang San overwhelmed him with his gaze and ordered him to leave.
• Dai Mubai fled Rose Hotel with the two unconscious beauties, and Bai Tang San used the Tang Sect Merchant Association's Supreme Black Card to secure the hotel.
• In the real world, Dai Mubai watched Bai Tang San defeat his counterpart effortlessly and doubted his own strength.
• At the hotel, Bai Tang San told Xiao Wu they would inspect Shrek Academy the next day and considered using his wealth to take it over.

Bai Tang San arrived at Shrek Academy and condemned its poor facilities before revealing his immense strength and demanding to meet Flender. He identified himself as Tang San, President of Tang Sect Merchant Association, and said he had come to discuss acquiring the academy.

• Hei Tang San entered the registration line with Xiao Wu, admired Shrek Academy, and passed Li Yusong’s assessment with his level-twenty-nine Blue Silver Grass.
• Bai Tang San arrived by luxury carriage with Xiao Wu and criticized Shrek Academy’s facilities and training conditions.
• Li Yusong confronted Bai Tang San, who identified the old man’s strength and injuries before releasing his own level-thirty-nine Soul Power.
• Bai Tang San demanded that Li Yusong fetch Flender and announced that Tang San, President of Tang Sect Merchant Association, had come to discuss an acquisition.

In the White World, Bai Tang San arrived at Shrek Academy intending to acquire it and faced Dai Mubai, while the Black World’s Hei Tang San impressed the applicants with his Soul Power. The chapter ended as Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong arrived and Bai Tang San judged their abilities.

• Flender considered Bai Tang San’s wealth and began to imagine what an acquisition could do for Shrek Academy, while Yu Xiaogang condemned the idea.
• Bai Tang San inspected Shrek Academy and its staff as though evaluating a struggling business he planned to rebuild.
• In the Black World, Hei Tang San demonstrated two Soul Rings and level twenty-nine Soul Power, followed by Zhu Zhuqing at level twenty-seven and Ning Rongrong at level twenty-six.
• In the White World, Dai Mubai blocked Bai Tang San at the academy entrance and demanded that he defeat him before discussing business.
• Bai Tang San mocked Dai Mubai and assessed Zhu Zhuqing’s and Ning Rongrong’s Martial Souls when the two girls arrived.

Bai Tang San challenged Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong together, then overwhelmed them with his Blue Silver Domain and criticized Shrek Academy’s standards. Watching the scene in the real world, the three admitted their weakness, while Hei Tang San was shaken by what Blue Silver Grass could achieve.

• Bai Tang San invited Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong to join Dai Mubai in testing whether they could withstand his domain for the time it took to burn an incense stick.
• Bai Tang San unleashed Senluo Purgatory, filling the area with corrosive miasma and Blue Silver Grass that suppressed Soul Power and drained vitality.
• Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong were trapped and defeated in under half a minute, despite Bai Tang San barely moving.
• Bai Tang San stopped the vines just before they struck the three and told Flender that the academy’s poor results meant its acquisition price should be cut to thirty percent.
• In the real world, Dai Mubai accepted that their talent was inadequate, Zhu Zhuqing resolved to pursue true strength, and Hei Tang San questioned whether Blue Silver Grass could wield domains and life plunder.

In the White World, Bai Tang San challenged Zhao Wuji to a one-on-one fight, insisting the Soul Saint stay standing for the time it took a giant hourglass to empty. The challenge stunned the onlookers, while people in the Real World and Ning Rongrong reacted to his confidence.

• In the Black World, Zhao Wuji replaced the frightened Li Yusong and set a one-stick-of-incense survival test for Hei Tang San and his teammates.
• Hei Tang San assigned Ning Rongrong to support, himself to control, Zhu Zhuqing to flank, and Xiao Wu to attack while they stalled Zhao Wuji.
• In the White World, Zhao Wuji arrived after sensing Bai Tang San’s domain and demanded that Bai Tang San prove himself before Shrek could be acquired.
• Bai Tang San rejected the incense test, set down a giant hourglass, and challenged Zhao Wuji to a one-on-one fight that would end only when the sand ran out.
• In the Real World, Zhao Wuji and Flender doubted Bai Tang San could defeat a level seventy-six Soul Saint, while Ning Rongrong admired his willingness to face Zhao Wuji head-on.

The chapter contrasted Hei Tang San’s desperate team fight against Zhao Wuji with Bai Tang San’s solo challenge using an External Soul Bone and a newly crafted poison. It left Zhao Wuji startled as Bai Tang San vanished and appeared beside him with Inch-Shrinking Movement.

• Zhao Wuji activated his Immovable Ming King Body as Bai Tang San revealed his Eight Spider Lances and prepared a poison array.
• Hei Tang San and his teammates attacked Zhao Wuji together, but his defenses and gravity field overwhelmed them until Hei Tang San struck him with a Dragon Whisker Needle.
• The incense burned out, and Hei Tang San’s group survived the examination despite their injuries, unsure whether they had truly won.
• Bai Tang San began his solo fight against Zhao Wuji, who prepared to use his gravity field.
• Bai Tang San vanished with Inch-Shrinking Movement and appeared beside Zhao Wuji, freezing his smile.

Bai Tang San used corrosive poison, his Adamantine Jade Hand, and the Eight Spider Lances to pressure Zhao Wuji, while the Black World’s exhausted team prepared a hidden-weapon attack. The chapter ended as Hei Tang San secretly fired Dragon Whisker Needles at Zhao Wuji’s lightly defended body.

• Bai Tang San’s poison corroded Zhao Wuji’s Body Protection Golden Light and left him open to attack.
• Bai Tang San struck Zhao Wuji with his Adamantine Jade Hand, forcing the Soul Saint to take half a step back.
• Bai Tang San used his Eight Spider Lances to target Zhao Wuji’s weak points and wear down his defenses with poison.
• Bai Tang San told Zhao Wuji that he was competing in the art of killing, not a contest of Soul Power.
• Hei Tang San, nearly out of internal force, drew Dragon Whisker Needles from his Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges Night.
• Hei Tang San fired the concealed needles at Zhao Wuji after Zhao Wuji lowered his guard and used only a thin layer of protection.

Hei Tang San defeated Zhao Wuji by using Dragon Whisker Needles, while Bai Tang San forced Zhao Wuji to unleash his Martial Soul Avatar with an explosive improved Godly Zhuge Crossbow. Zhao Wuji survived but was poisoned and left exposed as Bai Tang San pointed out that the wager’s hourglass had not run out.

• Hei Tang San pierced Zhao Wuji’s defenses with Dragon Whisker Needles and won the trial as the incense burned out.
• Bai Tang San revealed his explosive improved Godly Zhuge Crossbow and fired sixteen bolts at Zhao Wuji.
• The bolts exploded against Zhao Wuji’s barrier, damaging it and releasing poisonous mist that seeped into his body.
• Zhao Wuji activated his seventh Soul Skill and transformed into the Great Strength Adamantine Bear, surviving the attack but suffering burns and poison.
• Bai Tang San stopped attacking and reminded Zhao Wuji that the wager’s hourglass was only halfway drained and that Zhao Wuji had used his seventh Soul Skill.

Bai Tang San defeated Zhao Wuji, paid Flender compensation, and pushed to negotiate Shrek Academy’s acquisition. Meanwhile, the Black World’s students arrived at Shrek’s dilapidated dormitories, while Flender eagerly agreed to discuss Bai Tang San’s offer.

• Bai Tang San gave Zhao Wuji an antidote after defeating him, then offered Flender fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins as compensation and asked to discuss acquiring the academy.
• In the Real World, Zhao Wuji felt relieved he had faced Hei Tang San rather than Bai Tang San, while Yu Xiaogang envied Bai Tang San’s Godly Zhuge Crossbow.
• In the Black World, Zhao Wuji sent Dai Mubai to lead Tang San, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong to the shabby dormitories.
• Oscar approached the group selling sausages, and Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Hei Tang San reacted with disgust to his Soul Skill’s incantation.
• In the White World, Flender mourned the destroyed gate and trees before Bai Tang San presented a prepared contract and began acquisition talks.

Bai Tang San offered Shrek Academy one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins in exchange for a top-tier reconstruction and Yu Xiaogang’s removal from teaching, and Flender accepted. The Sky Curtain then showed Oscar selling sausages, while Hei Tang San watched with envy over the wealth that might have spared his teacher humiliation.

• Bai Tang San valued Shrek Academy at thirty thousand Gold Soul Coins and offered Flender one hundred thousand to rebuild it to top-tier standards.
• Bai Tang San demanded that Yu Xiaogang be dismissed or barred from teaching, and Flender signed the contract, assigning Yu cleaning and cafeteria procurement instead.
• Yu Xiaogang in the Real World spat blood in rage at Flender’s decision, while Hei Tang San envied the money that could have spared his teacher humiliation.
• Bai Tang San declared that he would turn Shrek into a cradle of gods as Oscar arrived with his sausage cart.
• Hei Tang San bought two sausages from Oscar, who summoned one with his lewd gesture and incantation.

Bai Tang San recognized Oscar’s sausages as highly efficient Soul Power supplies and bought the academy’s entire future stock for the Tang Sect Merchant Association. His advice on improving the sausages’ presentation gave Oscar a new business direction, while the real-world Oscar watched in envy.

• Hei Tang San and the others recoiled from Oscar’s sausage until Flender ordered them to eat one as a lesson in adaptation.
• Bai Tang San inspected Oscar’s plain sausage, found its Soul Power conversion rate was 90%, and ate it, praising its recovery effect.
• Bai Tang San gave Oscar one hundred Gold Soul Coins as a deposit and advised him to conceal the incantation and reshape or rename the sausages as pills.
• Bai Tang San claimed Oscar’s products for the Tang Sect Merchant Association as strategic supplies, offering to buy all of them at three times the market rate.
• Real-world Oscar watched the scene and cried that he wanted to be valued like his counterpart.

Bai Tang San used money to recruit Oscar and planned to win over Ning Rongrong by offering her Aromatic Silk Beauty, while Hei Tang San watched the contrasting approaches on the Sky Curtain. The chapter ended with Bai Tang San revealing that the herb could evolve Ning Rongrong’s Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into a Nine Treasure Pagoda.

• Hei Tang San reflected on how Bai Tang San valued Oscar’s food-system talent and regretted judging the sausage only by its surface.
• Bai Tang San recruited Oscar with a bag of gold coins and set his sights on Ning Rongrong as his next challenge.
• In the Black World, Flender scolded Ning Rongrong, and she ran back to the dormitory threatening to leave Shrek Academy.
• In the White World, Ning Rongrong complained about the dormitory and prepared to leave after Bai Tang San bluntly told her she could go.
• Bai Tang San revealed Aromatic Silk Beauty, which stirred Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul, and explained that it could evolve her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into a Nine Treasure Pagoda.

Bai Tang San used the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda as leverage to make Ning Rongrong submit, while Hei Tang San let Ma Hongjun leave to vent his Evil Fire rather than risk helping him. The chapter ended as Ma Hongjun in the White World hurried toward the school gates, unable to endure the heat.

• Bai Tang San offered Ning Rongrong the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda if she obeyed him and proved her value, and she readily agreed.
• In the real world, Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo were shocked by Ning Rongrong’s behavior, while Ning Fengzhi recognized the gift’s significance.
• Hei Tang San watched Ning Rongrong submit on the Sky Curtain and concluded that benefits could sway people in ways sincerity could not.
• Ma Hongjun told Hei Tang San that his Evil Fire was unbearable, but Hei Tang San chose not to use the Mysterious Heaven Skill to help him.
• Ma Hongjun left the Black World dormitory to seek relief, and Ma Hongjun in the White World rushed toward the school gates as his Evil Fire flared.