Chapter Summaries

Bibi Dong learned that Martial Soul Hall had classified Xiao Yan’s records beyond her authority, while factions across the continent sought him out. Three months later, Yao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing arrived at the Breaking Clan residence, where Yang Wudi rushed to meet Xiao Yan.

• Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to retrieve Xiao Yan’s file, then learned that Golden Crocodile Douluo had made it Martial Soul Hall’s highest secret.
• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect offered a reward for information on Xiao Yan, and Qian Renxue offered him a king’s rank and control of the Imperial Hospital.
• Master Yu received Yao Yan’s Body-Tempering Medicinal Bath formula and began studying ways to improve it.
• Yao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing traveled to Longxing City to meet Yang Wudi, borrow the Breaking Clan’s herbal medicine books, and discuss the Detoxification Pill.
• After the gatekeeper verified Yao Yan’s Spirit Hall token, Yang Qianjun hurried to tell Yang Wudi that Xiao Yan had arrived.
• Yang Wudi recognized Xiao Yan’s name on the token and sprinted toward the hall.

Yao Yan visited the Breaking Clan with an invitation from Crown Prince Xue Qinghe for Yang Wudi to become Imperial Hospital Director, seeking access to the clan’s pharmacology texts. After demonstrating alchemy, he agreed to teach Yang Wudi in exchange for the Breaking Clan publishing its basic pill formulas for the next three generations.

• Yao Yan presented Yang Wudi with Body Tempering Pills, and Yang Wudi was astonished by their medicinal fragrance and fire-refined origins.
• Yao Yan showed Yang Wudi and Yang Qianjun Xue Qinghe’s Golden Token and invited Yang Wudi to lead the Imperial Hospital, which Yang Wudi agreed to do after settling clan affairs.
• Yao Yan asked to borrow the Breaking Clan’s pharmacology texts, then demonstrated his Alchemy Furnace by refining a Bigu Pill with two Golden Pill Patterns.
• Yang Wudi asked Yao Yan to teach him alchemy, and Yao Yan required the Breaking Clan to publish its basic pill formulas for the next three generations.
• Yang Wudi accepted the terms while retaining improved formulas for the clan, then led Yao Yan and the others to his medicine-refining room and silently vowed to challenge the Clear Sky Sect.

Qian Renxue stormed into the Pope's Palace to demand Xiao Yan's information from Bibi Dong, and Bibi Dong eventually gave her the dossier. A month later, Yao Yan left the Breaking Clan residence with plans to establish his pill business in Heaven Dou City and prepare for its launch.

• Qian Renxue learned that the Great Enshrined would give Xiao Yan's information to Bibi Dong and rushed to the Pope's Palace.
• Qian Renxue attacked Bibi Dong, but Bibi Dong restrained her and told her that Xiao Yan was too monstrous for her to control.
• Qian Renxue insisted that Bibi Dong hand over Xiao Yan's information, and Bibi Dong gave her the dossier before urging her to visit her grandfather.
• After a month at the Breaking Clan residence, Yao Yan departed Longxing City with the clan's Immortal Grade Treasure Record and plans to move its pill refiners to Heaven Dou City.
• Yao Yan planned to launch Jieyou Pharmacy and Spark Pharmacy, recruit Li Caiyi to oversee operations, and use his growing pill business to challenge Tang San.

After months of preparations, Yao Yan’s pharmacies began selling Pills, drawing crowds across the empire. In Sunset Forest, Dugu Bo discovered that Xiao Yan’s Detoxification Pill had slightly weakened his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Poison, and he hurried to the Imperial Hospital with hope that Yan Yan could be saved.

• Yao Yan rejected Ning Fengzhi’s offer to join the partnership, while Xue Qinghe established a Pharmaceutical Supervision Bureau and Spirit Hall formed an Enforcement Brigade to regulate Pills.
• The Breaking Clan delivered Pills to Starfire Pharmacy, and Yao Yan opened sales there as customers rushed to buy them; Jieyou Pharmacy also drew a crowd.
• Yao Yan planned to make Nuoding City a medicinal-herb supply base and wondered how Pills would change Douluo world.
• Dugu Bo took a Detoxification Pill and endured a clash between its medicinal force and his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Poison.
• Dugu Bo sensed that the poison had weakened slightly and rushed to the Imperial Hospital, believing Yan Yan could be saved.

Over the past year, Yao Yan’s pharmacies and the continent’s pill trade flourished while his strength and Zhu Zhuqing’s grew. After learning about Shrek Academy’s dangerous training and its students’ misconduct, Yao Yan prepared to deal with Dai Mubai and free Zhu Zhuqing from their engagement, while Tang San set out for Shrek.

• Yao Yan’s pharmacy network expanded, and his release of Bigu Pill and Healing Pill formulas sparked a continent-wide pill craze and the creation of the Pill Tower.
• Yao Yan approached level forty, and Zhu Zhuqing reached level thirty after absorbing an Eight Thousand Year Spirit Beast’s Soul Ring.
• Physician Yao reported that Shrek Academy’s students faced deadly training, its advertising was deceptive, and Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai behaved scandalously.
• Physician Yao revealed that Dugu Bo had repeatedly visited the Imperial Hospital to learn Yao Yan’s whereabouts, prompting Yao Yan to plan to obtain his fourth Soul Ring and meet him.
• Yao Yan assured Zhu Zhuqing he would not act rashly against Dai Mubai, and she made clear she wanted nothing to do with her former engagement.
• Tang San graduated from Nuoding Academy and set out for Shrek Academy.

Tang San and Xiao Wu arrived at Shrek Academy and joined its new class alongside Ning Rongrong and Huang Yuan. After the enrollment ceremony, Flender assigned physical training to Oscar and Ning Rongrong and privately spoke with Huang Yuan about Dean Liu, then vowed to reunite Erlong with Xiao Gang.

• Tang San and Xiao Wu reached Suotuo City to apply to Shrek Academy after Master Yu turned down other schools for Tang San.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu fought Dai Mubai over a room at the Rose Hotel before arriving at Shrek Academy the next day.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Huang Yuan introduced themselves to Flender and the returning students, completing the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Flender ordered Oscar and Ning Rongrong to run twenty laps before noon and sent Huang Yuan away to rest.
• Flender asked Huang Yuan about Dean Liu, then vowed to reunite Erlong with Xiao Gang.

At Shrek Academy, Flender confronted Ning Rongrong over breaking the rules, while Oscar’s breakthrough prompted a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest. At Skywater Academy, Shui Bing’er received Yao Yan’s letter and prepared to travel with Shui Yue’er, hoping to meet him on the way.

• Flender punished Oscar with twenty more laps and gave Ning Rongrong the choice to leave Shrek Academy or follow his training, but she refused and criticized his methods.
• Flender led the remaining Shrek students to Suotuo City for the Great Soul Arena, while Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai went out together.
• Oscar broke through to a new level, so Flender decided Zhao Wuji would lead the team to the Star Dou Great Forest for Oscar’s third soul ring.
• Shui Yue’er brought Shui Bing’er a gift box of pills and a letter from Yao Yan, whose monthly correspondence had continued for two years.
• Shui Bing’er realized the insight she had been seeking after reading Yao Yan’s letter, then set off with Shui Yue’er to obtain Soul Rings and planned to meet him at Qingshan Town.

The Shrek Seven Devils arrived in Qingshan Town, where a quarrel with Canghui Academy escalated until Zhao Wuji defeated Ye Zhi Qiu. The next morning, the group failed to buy Bigu Pills and decided to seek some from a hunting party.

• The Shrek Seven Devils reached Qingshan Town and ate at a restaurant, where Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun provoked Canghui Academy.
• A Canghui student knocked into a maidservant, Tang San caught the falling dishes, and Dai Mubai struck the student before Xiao Wu sent the others flying.
• Tang San misidentified Ye Zhi Qiu as a Defense-System Soul Master, but Ye Zhi Qiu revealed his Control-System abilities and froze Dai Mubai until Zhao Wuji intervened.
• Zhao Wuji challenged Ye Zhi Qiu, beat him unconscious with a flurry of slaps and punches, and ended the confrontation.
• The Shrek Seven Devils found Seven Treasures Pharmacy and Spark Pharmacy sold out of Bigu Pills, so Tang San suggested buying some from a hunting party.
• A hunting party approached the group as they waited at Spark Pharmacy.

Dai Mubai led the Shrek group in trying to seize Zhou Lie’s team’s Bigu Pills, and the dispute escalated into a fight outside Spark Pharmacy. Zhao Wuji drew away the Breaking Clan guards, leaving Shrek to battle Zhou Lie’s allies as Tang San followed Xiao Wu into the fray.

• Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai blocked Zhou Lie’s team and demanded their Bigu Pills, while Dai Mubai declared that the strong preyed on the weak.
• Zhou Qinglan and Zhou Lie released their Martial Souls as the two groups prepared to fight.
• Three Breaking Clan members intervened to forbid fighting near Spark Pharmacy, but Zhao Wuji challenged them and drew them away from the crowd.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun moved against Zhou Lie’s group, and Doctor Yao’s supporters gathered to defend them.
• Dai Mubai charged with Ma Hongjun, Xiao Wu joined the battle, and Tang San followed her as the Shrek Seven Devils began fighting together.

Dai Mubai and the Shrek group defeated Zhou Lie’s team outside Spark Pharmacy, badly injuring Zhou Qinglan and Ma Hongjun along the way. They then entered the shop despite the bystanders’ protests, leaving Doctor Yao’s pharmacy and its staff in immediate danger.

• Dai Mubai and Tang San quickly overwhelmed several of Zhou Lie’s teammates with their soul skills.
• Zhou Lie attacked Dai Mubai with Giant Spirit Slash, but Dai Mubai caught the blade and hurled Zhou Lie into the pharmacy’s roof beams.
• Ma Hongjun taunted Zhou Qinglan, who struck him in the groin and whipped him until Xiao Wu intervened and threw her into the pharmacy, smashing medicine cabinets.
• Tang San bound the remaining fighters, and Zhou Lie’s group was routed as the crowd protested the damage to Doctor Yao’s shop.
• Dai Mubai ordered the group to enter and attack Zhou Qinglan, shoved aside a maidservant, and dismissed the pharmacy’s value.
• A maidservant hurried toward Doctor Yao’s residence to warn him.

Dai Mubai and the Shrek Seven Devils attacked Spark Pharmacy, injuring Zhou Lie and threatening Zhou Qinglan before Zhu Zhuqing and the Skywater Team intervened. Tang San recognized Yao Yan as he arrived to confront the group.

• Dai Mubai ordered the Shrek Seven Devils to attack the pharmacy after dismissing the portrait of Xue Qinghe.
• Ma Hongjun, Xiao Wu, and Tang San fought the pharmacy's defenders while Dai Mubai crippled Zhou Lie.
• Dai Mubai grabbed Zhou Qinglan and began twisting her arm, but ice armor froze his arm and forced him to release her.
• Zhu Zhuqing attacked Dai Mubai and wounded him, then slashed Ma Hongjun when he counterattacked.
• The Skywater Team froze Tang San's Blue Silver Grass and arrived with Yao Yan, whom Tang San recognized.

Yao Yan arrived at Spark Pharmacy and found the Shrek group after they had wrecked the shop and injured Zhou Lie and his sister. He healed the siblings, then brutally defeated Dai Mubai as Zhu Zhuqing declared their engagement void, leaving Dai Mubai screaming in pain.

• Yao Yan and Shui Bing'er arrived at the damaged Spark Pharmacy, where Yao Yan recognized Tang San, Xiao Wu, and the other Shrek members.
• Yao Yan healed Zhou Lie's twisted arm and arranged for Zhou Lie and his sister to be taken away to rest.
• Yao Yan attacked Dai Mubai, tore through his defenses, broke his arm, beat him, and pierced his right kneecap with a Blue Silver Overlord Spear.
• Yao Yan confronted Dai Mubai about Zhu Zhuqing, who stood beside Yao Yan and rejected her former fiancé.
• Zhu Zhuqing declared her engagement to Dai Mubai void, and Yao Yan pulled out his spear and stabbed Dai Mubai's left kneecap.

Yao Yan forced Dai Mubai to dissolve his marriage contract with Zhu Zhuqing, then began holding Tang San’s group accountable for wrecking the shop. As they waited for Zhao Wuji’s battle to end and hoped to escape, Yao Yan secretly summoned Spirit Hall support and communicated with Ning Rongrong.

• Yao Yan threatened Dai Mubai until he signed a document dissolving his marriage contract with Zhu Zhuqing, then injured his right arm.
• Yao Yan had Physician Yao assess the damage to the shop and arranged seats around Tang San’s group.
• Yao Yan introduced Zhu Zhuqing to Shui Bing’er, whose reaction made Yao Yan wonder why she seemed distant.
• Tang San told the Shrek members to wait for Zhao Wuji to defeat the Breaking Clan and lead them back to the academy.
• Yao Yan sent a maidservant to Spirit Hall and secretly exchanged messages with Ning Rongrong about hidden weapons.

Zhao Wuji defeated three Soul Breaking Spear wielders, then returned to find Spark Pharmacy in ruins and Dai Mubai badly injured. After Yao Yan revealed the pharmacy’s connection to Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, Zhao Wuji tried to retreat, but Yao Yan and the others blocked the Shrek group as an unknown woman descended.

• Zhao Wuji fought the three Soul Breaking Spear wielders, knocked one down, and ended the battle with both sides injured.
• Zhao Wuji hurried back to Spark Pharmacy and found it ruined, with Dai Mubai badly injured and the students surrounded.
• Yao Yan admitted to hurting Dai Mubai and explained that he had retaliated because the student damaged the pharmacy and injured his friend.
• Yao Yan showed the crowd a portrait identifying Xue Qinghe as Crown Prince, shocking the Shrek group and prompting Zhao Wuji to admit defeat and lead them away.
• Yao Yan blocked Zhao Wuji and the Shrek group from leaving, and a woman in an ice blue uniform descended from the sky.

Yao Yan and his allies surrounded Zhao Wuji with Soul Masters and Soldiers, then attacked him with overwhelming numbers and coordinated skills. Zhao Wuji broke free from Wang Ke’s ice and pursued her Water Condensing Flying Phoenix as it met his airborne strike.

• Wang Ke, the Spirit Hall Archbishop, Imperial Officials, and a large force of Soul Masters and Soldiers arrived to surround Spark Pharmacy and Zhao Wuji.
• The Spirit Hall Archbishop confronted Zhao Wuji over his past crimes, and Qian Renxue arrived as the crowd hailed him as Crown Prince.
• Yao Yan ordered the Soul Masters to unleash their Martial Souls, and their combined pressure forced Zhao Wuji to use his Martial Soul Avatar and gravity skills.
• Wang Ke wounded Zhao Wuji’s Great Strength Vajra Bear with her Water Condensing Flying Phoenix, then froze him with ice while Yao Yan and Wang Ke formed ten Blue Silver Overlord Spears.
• Zhao Wuji broke free, used Positioning Pursuit to leap at the Water Condensing Flying Phoenix, and Wang Ke’s phoenix charged to meet his fist.

Yao Yan helped defeat Zhao Wuji, then demanded that Tang San pay five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins for the damage to Spark Pharmacy. Unable to pay, Tang San refused to sell his Hidden Weapon Blueprint to Yao Yan but offered it to Ning Rongrong instead.

• Yao Yan used the ten Blue Silver Overlord Spears to blast Zhao Wuji's injured leg, allowing the Water Condensing Flying Phoenix to wound him and send him falling.
• Tang San used Purple Extreme Divine Light to escape the Soldiers, caught Zhao Wuji with Blue Silver Grass, and asked Ning Rongrong to help stabilize him.
• Yao Yan presented Tang San with a bill for five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and threatened him with imprisonment if he could not pay.
• Tang San asked Ning Rongrong to cover the debt, but she refused, saying she would not ask her father for the money.
• Yao Yan proposed that Tang San sell him the Hidden Weapon Blueprint, but Tang San refused and offered to sell the hidden weapons to Ning Rongrong instead.

Tang San tried to sell his hidden weapons to Ning Rongrong, but Yao Yan exposed their limits by surviving both the Hidden Sand Casting Shadow and the Godly Zhuge Crossbow. Ning Rongrong still considered the weapons useful and negotiated a purchase as Tang San named his price.

• Ning Rongrong declined to involve Ning Fengzhi in person and offered to negotiate with Qian Renxue and an Imperial Official as witnesses.
• Tang San demonstrated the Hidden Sand Casting Shadow, but Yao Yan caught its poisoned needles barehanded and dismissed it.
• Tang San fired the Godly Zhuge Crossbow at Yao Yan, whose Blue Silver Grass armor was pierced before his body healed and expelled the bolts.
• Tang San threatened to use stronger hidden weapons, while Yao Yan demanded repayment of his debt.
• Ning Rongrong offered five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins for the hidden weapon methods, but Tang San would provide only component blueprints for her sect to produce.
• Tang San presented more hidden weapons and offered a complete set for ten thousand Gold Soul Coins.

Tang San accepted Ning Rongrong’s offer for his hidden-weapon blueprints after his demands were rejected, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect agreed to compensate Yao Yan. Later, Yao Yan advised Qian Renxue on weakening Ge Long’s military power and asked to borrow her people, leaving her wondering whether he had discovered her identity.

• Tang San’s demand for ten thousand Gold Soul Coins per hidden-weapon set drew ridicule, and Ning Rongrong offered him payment for the blueprints and assembly instead.
• Tang San agreed to sell the blueprints for one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and assemble each set for one hundred Gold Soul Coins, provided the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect kept them from Yao Yan.
• Yao Yan arranged for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to compensate him, with Tang San’s assembly work serving as collateral, and Tang San left Qingshan Town with Xiao Wu and Zhao Wuji.
• Yao Yan explained that Ge Long’s position depended on Emperor Xue Ye and proposed dividing his military authority by establishing the Four Marshals.
• Qian Renxue agreed with Yao Yan’s plan and recognized the potential value of Tang San’s hidden weapons, while Yao Yan said they should wait until Tang San assembled them before analyzing them.
• Yao Yan asked Qian Renxue to lend him her people, and she wondered whether he had already figured out her identity.

Yao Yan asked Qian Renxue for Soul Douluos to help him obtain a fourth Soul Ring, then sent Bibi Dong a sealed warning that Tang San possessed Twin Martial Souls. After Qian Renxue ordered Snake Lance Douluo to eliminate Zhao Wuji, he confronted the Shrek group, but a mysterious man appeared to defend them.

• Yao Yan asked Qian Renxue for two powerful experts to accompany him to the Star Dou Great Forest and said he planned to attend Heaven Dou Royal Academy afterward.
• Yao Yan wrote that Tang Hao's son, Tang San, possessed Twin Martial Souls and sealed the message to send to Bibi Dong.
• Qian Renxue ordered Snake Lance Douluo to kill Zhao Wuji and summoned Grandpa Golden Crocodile after learning a powerful person might be targeting Yao Yan.
• Tang San used the Mysterious Heaven Skill and Oscar's Recovery Sausages to help Zhao Wuji recover, while Xiao Wu and Ma Hongjun blamed Yao Yan for his injuries.
• Snake Lance Douluo blocked the Shrek group as they fled toward the Star Dou Great Forest and demanded they leave Zhao Wuji behind.
• A man in a tattered gray robe appeared on a rooftop and challenged Snake Lance Douluo.

Tang Hao ambushed Snake Lance Douluo and overwhelmed him in a devastating battle that wrecked much of the town. After Tang Hao left, Yao Yan organized aid for the injured civilians and confronted the destruction the fight had caused.

• Tang Hao revealed his identity and attacked Snake Lance Douluo with the Clear Sky Hammer as Tang San and the others fled.
• Yao Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Qian Renxue watched the distant battle and recognized the gulf between their strength and a Title Douluo's.
• Tang Hao broke through Snake Lance Douluo's defenses with his hammer strikes and left him badly injured.
• A thorn-armored man attacked under cover of poison, but Tang Hao unleashed Sky-Rending Strike and the two Title Douluos disappeared from the ruined area.
• Tang Hao sensed something toward the Star Dou Great Forest and flew away, while Yao Yan sent soldiers to carry injured townspeople to the clinic.