Chapter Summaries

Ling Kun defeated Ci Bufan, who then challenged Ma Hongjun and was overwhelmed by Ma Hongjun’s powerful True Phoenix Fire and extraordinary recovery. The fight ended with Ci Bufan exhausted and demoralized, while Ma Hongjun remained ready to continue.

• Ling Kun defeated Ci Bufan in a challenge, and Ci Bufan admitted he had lost.
• Ci Bufan chose Ma Hongjun as his next opponent, believing the Soul Elder would be weaker.
• Ma Hongjun burned through Ci Bufan’s attacks with sacred flames, healed his injuries rapidly, and counterattacked at close range.
• Ci Bufan trapped Ma Hongjun in a Blood Thorn Cage, but Ma Hongjun let the spikes wound him and melted the cage with his flames.
• Ci Bufan unleashed his strongest Soul Skill, but Ma Hongjun endured the torrent and overpowered it with True Phoenix Fire that consumed Ci Bufan’s Soul Power.
• Ci Bufan broke down and wondered why Ma Hongjun would not die, while Ma Hongjun wiped away his blood and said he had only just warmed up.

After Ma Hongjun defeated Ci Bufan, Chen Lang persuaded Ci Bufan and She Tian to join Shrek Academy by promising they could rapidly grow stronger. Chen Lang then considered how to bring Tang San into Spirit Hall while keeping Tang Hao and Xiao Wu from derailing his plans.

• Ma Hongjun recovered from the fight and defeated Ci Bufan, who gave up after losing to another Shrek student.
• She Tian declined to fight, and Ci Bufan and She Tian each paid Chen Lang one million Gold Soul Coins.
• She Tian asked how Shrek’s students had become so powerful, and Chen Lang offered the explanation in exchange for joining the academy.
• Ci Bufan and She Tian agreed to enroll at Shrek Academy for two million Gold Soul Coins per year.
• Chen Lang planned to draw Tang Hao away before Tang San arrived, but worried that Xiao Wu’s presence would expose her identity if Tang San joined Spirit Hall.

Chen Lang found a way to use Ci Bufan to drive a wedge between Tang San and Xiao Wu, while Tang San learned that Yu Xiaogang planned to send him to Shrek Academy. As Spirit Hall’s elders investigated their missing grandsons, Qian Daoliu arranged for Golden Crocodile Douluo and Tuoba Xi to secretly investigate, and the continent entered a period of mounting competition and unrest.

• Chen Lang decided to take Ci Bufan and the others to Blazing City to cultivate, then realized he could use Ci Bufan to sow discord between Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• Tang San worried that Xiao Wu had not returned after leaving for home more than two months earlier, and Yu Xiaogang told him he had chosen Shrek Academy for him.
• Qian Daoliu questioned why the elders’ grandsons had not returned to Spirit Hall, while Golden Crocodile Douluo and Tuoba Xi dismissed the other elders’ concerns.
• Qian Daoliu asked Golden Crocodile Douluo and Tuoba Xi to secretly investigate what was happening, and Golden Crocodile Douluo proposed waiting until his grandson Jin Da reached Soul King.
• Over the following six months, Chen Lang gained sole authority over the five major single-attribute academies, while Poison Douluo challenged Titled Douluo and unrest spread across Douluo Continent.

Jin Da boasted about his impending rise to Soul King and his plan to defeat Chen Lang, while Chen Lang reached level 70 and decided to hunt Xiao Wu for her hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring. At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, a blood-red sword aura erupted from Chen Xin’s Sword Tomb, leaving Ning Fengzhi alarmed.

• Jin Da reached level 50 and asked Qian Daoliu to betroth Qian Renxue to him if he defeated Chen Lang.
• Chen Lang and his companions discussed their cultivation progress, and Chen Lang decided to absorb a Soul Ring before Tang San arrived at Shrek Academy.
• Chen Lang chose Xiao Wu as his target, intending to take her hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Ning Fengzhi reflected on Chen Lang’s departure and wondered whether Chen Lang had ever liked Ning Rongrong.
• A blood-red sword aura burst from Chen Xin’s Sword Tomb and formed a vast vortex over the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, alarming Ning Fengzhi and the sect’s disciples.

Chen Xin absorbed the Killing Path Heart Demon into the Seven Kill Sword, reaching rank ninety-eight and transforming it into the Blood-Patterned Seven Kill. Three years later, Jin Da left Spirit Hall with Tuoba Kui while Golden Crocodile Douluo followed, and Ning Rongrong maneuvered Yu Tianheng into challenging Chen Lang.

• Chen Xin used the Seven Kill Sword to absorb and refine his blood-red heart demon, breaking through to rank ninety-eight.
• Ning Fengzhi congratulated Chen Xin, who reflected on the sword’s new crimson pattern and wondered how his grandson was doing after three years apart.
• Jin Da boasted to Qian Daoliu before leaving with Tuoba Kui, and Golden Crocodile Douluo secretly followed them.
• Ning Rongrong told Yu Tianheng she would consider dating him only if he defeated the man who had rejected her, and Yu Tianheng promised to help.
• Dugu Yan confronted Yu Tianheng, ended their association, and thought about visiting Chen Lang before deciding not to seek him out.

Ning Rongrong persuaded Yu Tianheng to help her teach Chen Lang a lesson, while Chen Lang prepared to leave Blazing City for Shrek Academy with Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and his companions. On the road, the group encountered Jin Da, who threatened them to clear his way.

• Dugu Yan rejected Yu Tianheng's attempt to explain himself and walked away, after which Ning Rongrong persuaded Yu Tianheng to help her target Chen Lang at Shrek Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang sent Tang San and Xiao Wu out, and Tang San learned that Xiao Wu's little brother had been injured but had recovered; an unnamed figure watched them and planned to settle matters after escorting his son.
• Huo Wuqing asked Chen Lang to take Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang with him, and Huo Wushuang agreed to go after his father kicked him.
• Chen Lang confronted Ci Bufan for suggesting tuition fees, then learned from She Tian that Jin Da was expected to arrive after becoming a Soul King.
• Three days later, Chen Lang's carriage met another at a fork in the road, where Jin Da demanded that they yield or face his wrath.

Chen Lang confronted Jin Da after Jin Da arrogantly challenged him, then revealed overwhelming strength that dwarfed the sixteen-year-old Soul King. The chapter ended with Jin Da and Tuoba Kui stunned by Chen Lang’s six Soul Rings and level-70 Soul Power.

• Chen Lang slapped Jin Da away as soon as he stepped out of his carriage.
• Chen Lang offered Ling Kun a chance to waive his tuition by defeating Jin Da, prompting Ci Bufan and She Tian to volunteer too.
• Jin Da challenged Chen Lang and showed off his five Soul Rings and mutated Golden Dragon Crocodile Martial Soul.
• Chen Lang revealed that he had been a Soul King at ten, then summoned six Soul Rings and released level-70 Soul Power, leaving Jin Da and Tuoba Kui stunned.

Chen Lang overwhelmed Jin Da with his extraordinary Soul Rings and took the challenge letters and wager from Jin Da and Tuoba Kui. When Tuoba Kui could not pay, Chen Lang offered him Oscar’s sausage or nude photographs as collateral, until Golden Crocodile Douluo intervened and appeared before him.

• Chen Lang revealed five ten-thousand-year Soul Rings and a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, leaving Jin Da and Tuoba Kui terrified and Jin Da collapsed in defeat.
• Chen Lang took Jin Da’s challenge letter and Gold Soul Coin cards, then accepted Tuoba Kui’s challenge letter as well.
• Chen Lang explained that the loser owed five million Gold Soul Coins, and Tuoba Kui admitted he had not brought the money.
• Chen Lang told Oscar to make Tuoba Kui eat a sausage if he wanted to leave and collect the money later, offering nude photographs as the alternative.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo appeared before Chen Lang and unleashed the pressure of a level 98 Titled Douluo.

Golden Crocodile Douluo confronted Chen Lang for beating Jin Da, but Sword Douluo Chen Xin arrived and matched Golden Crocodile Douluo’s strength. Chen Lang and Chen Xin demanded compensation, and Golden Crocodile Douluo threatened retaliation from Spirit Hall.

• Jin Da cried to Golden Crocodile Douluo, who pressured Chen Lang and prepared to attack him.
• Chen Lang resisted Golden Crocodile Douluo’s pressure with his Soul Rings and Seven Kill Sword.
• Chen Xin arrived with his Azure greatsword, stopped Golden Crocodile Douluo, and revealed he had reached level 98.
• Chen Lang proposed that Chen Xin hold off Golden Crocodile Douluo while he attacked Jin Da, unless they received fifty million Gold Soul Coins.
• Chen Xin and Chen Lang persuaded Golden Crocodile Douluo to offer up to one hundred million Gold Soul Coins, but Golden Crocodile Douluo threatened retaliation from Spirit Hall.

Chen Lang and Sword Douluo confronted Golden Crocodile Douluo after he attacked Chen Lang, while Chen Lang threatened to humiliate Jin Da unless Golden Crocodile Douluo paid compensation. The chapter ended with Golden Crocodile Douluo agreeing to pay.

• Ling Yue, Ling Kun, Ci Bufan, She Tian, and Tuoba Kui declared that they would not take revenge on Chen Lang and would stand by him.
• Sword Douluo challenged Golden Crocodile Douluo, and the two rank 98 Titled Douluo fought in the sky.
• Chen Lang had Jin Da restrained and threatened to make Oscar feed him sausages while recording the humiliation.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo tried to intervene, but Sword Douluo stopped him and argued that his attack on Chen Lang had been vile.
• Chen Lang taunted Golden Crocodile Douluo about failing to protect his grandson, and Golden Crocodile Douluo finally agreed to pay.

Chen Lang reunited with Sword Douluo, who had recovered and reached Rank 98, and celebrated with his friends. The next morning, Tang San and Xiao Wu found Shrek Academy and approached its gates.

• Chen Lang stopped Oscar from feeding the captured creature to the boy, and Golden Crocodile Douluo paid fifty million Gold Soul Coins before leaving with his grandson.
• Chen Lang reunited with Sword Douluo, learned that his injuries had healed and he had broken through to Rank 98, and joked with him about not slacking off.
• Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun envied Chen Lang’s bond with Sword Douluo, who invited them to call him Grandpa; Zhao Wudi and Flender also tried to join in.
• That night, Chen Lang told Sword Douluo about the past year or two, and his grandfather felt proud of his progress and sorry for the hardship behind it.
• The next morning, Tang San and Xiao Wu followed the road south from Suotuo City and spotted the Shrek Academy gates.

Tang San and Xiao Wu arrived at Shrek Academy and clashed with its students over Oscar’s sausage-based entrance test. Tang San accepted Dai Mubai’s wager to fight, with the loser required to eat ten grilled sausages while being recorded.

• Tang San and Xiao Wu entered Shrek Academy after hearing strange noises from its gym.
• Tang San found Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and the others lifting heavy weights with their physical strength and said he had come to enroll.
• Oscar made Tang San and Xiao Wu’s admission depend on eating his sausages, and Xiao Wu challenged him to eat one himself.
• Oscar ate three sausages, then demanded that Tang San and Xiao Wu keep their promise; they refused and prepared to leave.
• Tang San provoked the students into a fight, and Dai Mubai proposed a wager that the loser would eat ten grilled sausages on video.
• Tang San accepted Dai Mubai’s wager.

Chen Lang learned that Tang San and Xiao Wu had caused a disturbance at the academy, where Tang San challenged Ma Hongjun. Their fight began with Ma Hongjun revealing his powerful fire abilities and ending with him appearing behind Tang San to strike.

• Ling Yue served Chen Lang noodles, and Huo Wu told him that Dai Mubai was fighting newcomers at the academy.
• Tang San chose Ma Hongjun as his opponent after Dai Mubai warned him not to underestimate the group.
• Tang San revealed his Level 29 Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, while Ma Hongjun announced that he was a Level 40 Battle Spirit Master with an Ember Sacred Phoenix Martial Soul.
• Tang San attacked with Blue Silver Entanglement and Parasite, but Ma Hongjun burned the vines away with his sacred flames.
• Ma Hongjun dodged Tang San's hidden weapons, used a Flame Barrier to destroy the parasitic grass, and appeared behind Tang San with a blazing fist.

Tang San attacked Ma Hongjun with increasingly lethal hidden weapons, but Ma Hongjun’s blazing power overwhelmed him and left him gravely wounded. When Tang San fired a concealed crossbow bolt at Ma Hongjun, Chen Lang intervened and cut it down.

• Tang San used Blue Silver Grass and hidden weapons to attack Ma Hongjun, but Ma Hongjun’s flames broke through the restraints and melted the weapons.
• Tang San unleashed a lethal barrage of poisoned hidden weapons, prompting Ma Hongjun to unleash the full power of his fire.
• Ma Hongjun charged through Tang San’s attacks and struck him in the chest, leaving him badly wounded.
• Tang San fired a concealed crossbow bolt at Ma Hongjun, but Chen Lang appeared and severed it with his greatsword.

After Tang San sneak-attacked Ma Hongjun, Chen Lang exposed Xiao Wu as a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and overwhelmed the pair with his extraordinary strength. When Chen Lang attacked Tang San, Tang Hao emerged to protect his son and confronted him.

• Chen Lang cut down Tang San’s crossbow bolt, then challenged Tang San and Xiao Wu over the attack and their bet.
• Chen Lang identified Xiao Wu as a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, alarming her and prompting Tang San to defend her.
• Chen Lang revealed his six Soul Rings and pressured Tang San and Xiao Wu, then mocked Yu Xiaogang and formed a Soul Power palm to strike Tang San.
• Tang Hao appeared, dispersed Chen Lang’s attack with his Titled Douluo aura, and told him to spare Tang San.

Tang Hao arrived to save Tang San, but Sword Douluo forced them to leave Xiao Wu behind. Chen Lang spared Xiao Wu and persuaded her to travel with him, then an unexpected visitor arrived as the group prepared to leave for the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Tang Hao appeared and revealed himself as Tang San's father, while Sword Douluo arrived to confront him.
• Sword Douluo demanded that Tang Hao leave Xiao Wu behind, and Tang Hao took Tang San away despite his son's protests.
• Xiao Wu lost faith in Tang San, and Chen Lang spared her and urged her to come with him to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Chen Lang's group prepared to leave when someone at the academy gates asked whether they were still accepting students.

Zhu Zhuqing arrived at Shrek seeking strength to escape her family's arranged fate, and Chen Lang offered her a place at the academy. After seeing Dai Mubai's extraordinary cultivation and Chen Lang's power, she agreed to enroll, leaving Dai Mubai to accept her decision to train independently.

• Chen Lang dismissed Ling Kun and offered Zhu Zhuqing admission to Shrek for one million Gold Soul Coins per year.
• Zhu Zhuqing introduced herself as a level 27 Hell Spirit Cat Battle Spirit Master and asked whether Chen Lang could make her a Soul King within three years.
• Chen Lang had Dai Mubai reveal his level 43 cultivation and four Soul Rings, including a ten-thousand-year black ring, shocking Zhu Zhuqing.
• Chen Lang displayed five ten-thousand-year Soul Rings and a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, then promised that money and hard work could make anything possible at Shrek.
• Zhu Zhuqing paid a deposit and agreed to pay the remaining eight hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins plus one hundred thousand in interest within a year.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Dai Mubai they would each train by their own abilities, and Dai Mubai swallowed his response and sighed.

Chen Lang helped Oscar discover a new path for his food-type Martial Soul by using explosive soul beasts to create attack sausages. As Chen Lang prepared to leave for the Star Dou Great Forest in search of a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, Zhu Zhuqing chose to go along.

• Chen Lang told Ma Hongjun to keep seeking fire-attributed soul beasts and listened as Oscar worried about falling behind.
• Oscar proposed making poisonous sausages, and Chen Lang suggested combining them with explosive soul beasts to create Explosion Sausages.
• Oscar eagerly embraced the new direction, while Ci Bufan and Ling Kun foresaw him becoming the Explosion Douluo.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji arrived, and Chen Lang said he would go with the old man to seek a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
• Zhu Zhuqing chose to accompany Chen Lang to the Star Dou Great Forest instead of staying to cultivate.

Chen Lang and Sword Douluo returned to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a powerful Darkgold Dreadclaw Bear, while Chen Lang helped Oscar prepare to obtain his fourth Soul Ring. Chen Lang set out alone into the forest, leaving Oscar and Dai Mubai eager to test Oscar’s new path.

• Chen Lang told Sword Douluo that he planned to hunt a Darkgold Dreadclaw Bear and warned that they would need to work together against the formidable beast.
• Xiao Wu worried that Chen Lang’s hunt might put Da Ming and Er Ming in danger, though she remembered that Chen Lang had saved her from Tang San.
• After reaching the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, Chen Lang gave Oscar an Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, which raised Oscar to level 40 and helped him pursue the Explosive Poison Master Sausage path.
• Sword Douluo told Chen Lang that the girl had left, and the two shared a heartfelt conversation about Sword Douluo’s strength and Chen Lang’s future.
• The next morning, Chen Lang went deeper into the forest to search for his target, while Oscar told Dai Mubai that the immortal herb had brought him to level 40.

Tang San told Yu Xiaogang about his defeat at Shrek Academy and the astonishing strength of Sword Douluo’s grandson, sending Yu Xiaogang to investigate his own theories. Back in the Star Dou Great Forest, Xiao Wu reunited with Da Ming and Er Ming, then urged them to help the human fighting the Darkgold Dreadclaw Bear.

• Tang Hao refused to explain his affairs to Tang San, told him to return to Master, and promised to find him later.
• Tang San returned to Nuoding Academy and told Yu Xiaogang about the fight at Shrek, Xiao Wu’s capture, and Tang Hao’s intervention.
• Tang San described Sword Douluo’s grandson as a twelve-year-old quasi Soul Sage with ten-thousand-year and hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings, shocking Yu Xiaogang into deciding to visit Shrek.
• Xiao Wu returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, cried with Er Ming, and reassured him that she was fine.
• Da Ming and Er Ming sensed the human fighting the Darkgold Dreadclaw Bear and warned that a powerful presence was with him.
• Xiao Wu urged Da Ming and Er Ming to go help the human.