Chapter Summaries

Wu Qi helped his classmates absorb Immortal Herbs, then advised Dugu Bo to support Prince Xuexing in gaining power at the academy. Dugu Bo heard Wu Qi’s plan for dealing with Qin Ming and the Three Education Committee Members.

• Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wushuang, and Chen Ping emerged after their cultivation breakthroughs, while Huo Wu endured the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower’s flames and successfully gained Phoenix Fire.
• Wu Qi agreed to revise the team’s coordination, and Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wushuang, and Chen Ping returned home to report their gains.
• Chen Ping pledged loyalty to Wu Qi and Qiangu Changkong, who accepted him as a brother.
• Wu Qi noticed Ye Lingling back at the academy but chose not to approach her.
• Dugu Bo told Wu Qi about the conflict involving Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Qin Ming, and asked how to handle it.
• Wu Qi urged Dugu Bo to back Prince Xuexing, arguing that the Three Education Committee Members should retire and that Xue Xing should help shoulder the emperor’s responsibilities.

Wu Qi arranged to let the dispute involving Dugu Yan and Qin Ming escalate while keeping Dugu Bo from acting against the nobles too soon. As the Royal Fight Second Team entered Sunset Forest for Soul Hunting, hired assassins watched them, and the Three Education Committee Members moved to bring Qin Ming back before Dugu Bo could retaliate.

• Wu Qi persuaded Dugu Bo to wait for Qin Ming’s return and let Prince Xuexing gather evidence against himself, then asked for a map of Sunset Forest.
• Wu Qi led the Royal Fight Second Team into Sunset Forest with Sun Buyu supervising and the map guiding their route.
• A group of hired assassins watched the team enter the forest and agreed to carry out their employer’s order cleanly.
• Yu Tianheng gave the Three Education Committee Members a partial account of the dispute and stayed silent about Tang San threatening Ye Lingling.
• The Three Education Committee Members worried that Dugu Bo might kill Qin Ming and sent Zhi Lin to bring Qin Ming back quickly.

The Royal Fight Second Team was ambushed by six Assassins while hunting a Flameburst Bird, in a plot arranged by Bibi Dong to test the team and weaken the Worship Hall. The battle turned into a desperate fight, with Wu Qi and Feng Xiaotian stalling Soul Kings while Ning Rongrong’s support drew the Assassins’ attention.

• The Golden Eagle Douluo warned Wu Qi that an ambush was coming, while Ghost Douluo revealed Bibi Dong had ordered it and promised only Wu Qi would be protected from death.
• Wu Qi detected six Assassins surrounding the team, and their leader Zhang Jie introduced himself as a hired killer.
• The Royal Fight Second Team formed up for battle, and Wu Qi prepared Tang San’s Godly Zhuge Crossbow as the team’s way to break the stalemate.
• Sun Buyu engaged Zhang Jie, while Feng Xiaotian, Wu Qi, and Qiangu Changkong each faced other attackers; Ning Rongrong boosted the team with her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Wu Qi used his fourth soul skill to hold off a Soul King, while the Assassins recognized Ning Rongrong’s support as a threat and ordered her disabled first.

Ning Rongrong used Tang San’s Hidden Weapons to kill an assassin, while Wu Qi and the others defeated the attackers. After Zhang Jie revealed another accomplice, Wu Qi chased down Wang Feng, who had stepped in to help.

• Huo Wu and Feng Xiaotian tried to protect Ning Rongrong as three high-level Soul Ancestors broke free and pursued her.
• Ning Rongrong shot an Azure Wolf Soul Ancestor with a Godly Zhuge Crossbow, then killed him with a Silent Sleeve Arrow.
• With Ning Rongrong’s support, Wu Qi killed a level fifty-three Soul King, then helped Feng Xiaotian kill another Soul King and the remaining Soul Ancestors.
• Zhang Jie revealed that someone else had been helping him, and Wu Qi intercepted an arrow before locating the hidden attacker.
• Wang Feng fled after Wu Qi found him, but Wu Qi caught up and forced him to fight back.

Wu Qi killed three Soul Kings, but exhaustion forced his group to rest in the Soul Beast Forest. At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Qin Ming tried to bring Shrek Academy into the school, and the Teaching Committee left the plan dependent on Wu Qi’s agreement.

• Ghost Douluo watched Wu Qi kill three Soul Kings, while Zhang Jie fell to Sun Buyu, Feng Xiaotian, and the others.
• Wu Qi returned to his companions nearly out of Soul Power, and Feng Xiaotian arranged for them to rest and take turns keeping watch.
• Zhi Lin brought Qin Ming to the Teaching Committee, where Meng Shenji challenged Qin Ming’s account of the conflict with Dugu Yan and the Royal Fight Team.
• Qin Ming praised Shrek Academy’s talented students and proposed forming a Royal Fight Second Team with them, but the committee said the existing team could not simply be displaced.
• Qin Ming proposed reorganizing the teams so Shrek Academy could compete together, and Meng Shenji said they would approve if Wu Qi agreed.

Dugu Bo persuaded Dugu Yan to break things off with Yu Tianheng and took her to hunt for a Soul Ring, while the Three Education Committee Members decided to recruit Shrek Academy. In Sunset Forest, Chen Ping finished absorbing his Soul Ring and reached level forty-one before the group returned to the academy.

• Dugu Yan absorbed the Immortal Herbs, broke through to level forty, and evolved her martial soul into the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor.
• Dugu Bo urged Dugu Yan to end her relationship with Yu Tianheng, warning that he might exploit their family for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan; seeing Yu Tianheng avoid them strengthened her doubts.
• The Three Education Committee Members let the conflict pass and placed the proposal to recruit Shrek Academy on their agenda.
• Dugu Bo met Wu Qi's group in Sunset Forest, told them Qin Ming had returned, and said the committee members planned to recruit Shrek Academy.
• Chen Ping completed absorbing his Soul Ring, reached level forty-one, and returned to the academy with the group.

The Worshippers considered how to respond to Bibi Dong and how to protect Wu Qi's team, while Qin Ming tried to fold Royal Fight Second Team into a reorganized academy team. The chapter left Qin Ming realizing Wu Qi had insulted him and angrily demanding respect.

• Golden Eagle Douluo reported Pope Hall's actions, and Golden Crocodile Douluo and Falling Devil Douluo urged Qian Daoliu to confront Bibi Dong and demand concessions.
• Azure Phoenix Douluo proposed seeking the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's help to protect Xiao Wu's team and possibly recruit them into a new academy, and Qian Daoliu decided only to issue Bibi Dong an internal warning.
• After the expedition, Sun Buyu gave the team two days off, but Qin Ming visited Wu Qi to discuss changing the academy teams.
• Qin Ming proposed replacing Royal Fight First Team members and merging Shrek Academy's teachers and students with Royal Fight Second Team, while filling three first-team spots with second-team members.
• Wu Qi offered Qin Ming a potted plant called Green Lotus and told him to leave, and Qin Ming realized the insult and accused Wu Qi of disrespecting his elders and betters.

Wu Qi rejected Qin Ming’s attempt to recruit the Royal Fight Second Team for Shrek Academy and considered moving the team to Blazing Fire Academy. Xue Xing began preparing to use the dispute against Qin Ming and the Three Education Committee Members, while Qin Ming’s handling of the Royal Fight First Team’s resources raised a question for Chen Ping.

• Wu Qi confronted Qin Ming, said he would report him to the Crown Prince, and discussed leaving for Blazing Fire Academy with Feng Xiaotian and the others.
• Feng Xiaotian reasoned that the Three Education Committee Members were backing Qin Ming because they wanted him to recruit Shrek Academy, and Wu Qi said he had a plan if Qin Ming continued the dispute.
• Xue Beng told Xue Xing that Wu Qi’s team was considering leaving the academy, and Xue Xing ordered him to gather evidence against Qin Ming and the Three Education Committee Members.
• Qin Ming collected the Royal Fight First Team’s monthly cultivation resources and signed the team members’ names on the form.
• Chen Ping learned that Qin Ming had collected Dugu Yan’s resources and was told he could collect resources for his captain by signing the captain’s name.

Chen Ping uncovered suspicious resource claims by Qin Ming, while the Worship Hall ordered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to establish an academy and move Wu Qi’s group from Royal Fight Academy. Wu Qi agreed to join the new Seven Treasure Academy and saw Qin Ming’s actions as a chance to leave, but still needed to speak with Xue Qinghe.

• Chen Ping told Wu Qi and the others that Qin Ming repeatedly claimed resources for the Royal Fight First Team despite its members having other sources, and Wu Qi ordered the team not to investigate or discuss it.
• Ning Rongrong told Wu Qi that Ning Fengzhi planned to establish an academy for the sect and wanted to meet him, so Wu Qi went with her to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi showed Wu Qi the Worship Hall’s letter demanding a new academy and a reasonable way to remove Wu Qi’s group from Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Gu Rong explained that the new academy would eventually enroll five to six hundred students, and Ning Fengzhi offered to build facilities and provide cultivation resources.
• Wu Qi agreed to join the new academy and proposed using Qin Ming’s bid to revoke the second team’s competition spot as an opportunity to leave Royal Fight Academy, then planned to speak with Xue Qinghe.

Wu Qi advised Xue Qinghe to let Prince Xuexing take charge of Heaven Dou Royal Academy so he could expose his weaknesses, then arranged for Xue Qinghe to leave on a Soul Hunting trip. With Xue Qinghe away, Qin Ming moved to take control of forming the Second Team, and Wu Qi faced pressure from the Teaching Committee to split his powerful team between the academy’s two teams.

• Xue Qinghe worried that Wu Qi’s transfer to Seven Treasure Academy would damage his reputation and weaken his influence at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Wu Qi proposed giving Prince Xuexing authority over the academy so his mistakes could cost him power and Dugu Bo’s favor.
• Wu Qi suggested Xue Qinghe leave Heaven Dou City on a Soul Hunting trip, and Xue Qinghe agreed to go for about a month.
• Five days later, Xue Qinghe entered Sunset Forest with guards while a swan-martial-soul stand-in took his place.
• Qin Ming pressured Wu Qi to surrender authority over forming the Second Team, and Meng Shenji urged Wu Qi to divide his strong students between both Royal Fight Teams.
• Qin Ming accused Wu Qi of putting selfish interests above the empire, while Wu Qi stayed silent rather than give his opponents an opening.

Wu Qi rejected the Three Education Committee Members’ attempt to take control of the Royal Fight Second Team, and Prince Xuexing intervened in his support. Wu Qi then questioned Dugu Yan about the team’s cultivation resources and suggested they could expose Qin Ming if its members testified.

• Wu Qi refused Meng Shenji’s promise of control over a future team and accused the committee of disregarding the Crown Prince’s decision.
• Prince Xuexing and Dugu Bo arrived with guards, and Xuexing backed Wu Qi while trading threats with the committee and Qin Ming.
• After the dispute ended, Wu Qi declined Xuexing’s invitation and asked Dugu Bo to take him to Dugu Yan.
• Wu Qi learned that Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng relied on their own sources for cultivation resources rather than the academy’s.
• Wu Qi told Dugu Yan that the resource arrangements could condemn Qin Ming and asked whether the Royal Fight members would testify.

Wu Qi gathered evidence that Qin Ming had claimed unused academy resources and arranged for Dugu Bo to frame him by having disguised men deliver resources to Shrek Academy. Meanwhile, Yu Tianheng demanded a share of Dugu Yan’s cultivation opportunity, driving her to end their relationship.

• Wu Qi showed Dugu Yan records of Qin Ming claiming resources in her name, and she said Qin Ming had never given them money but could produce resources when needed.
• Wu Qi asked Dugu Bo to have disguised men deliver low-grade cultivation resources to Shrek Academy as part of a plan to implicate Qin Ming.
• Yu Tianheng asked Dugu Yan to sell him the treasures behind her increased strength, saying his family was pressuring him to improve.
• Dugu Yan rejected Yu Tianheng’s demand for a share, called him disgusting, and walked away despite his threat to end their relationship.
• Yufeng and Osler watched the confrontation and concluded that Dugu Yan was now the team’s leader and that her relationship with Yu Tianheng was over.

Wu Qi negotiated with the Wind, Water, and Fire Family Heads, offering to arrange a partnership with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and have Dugu resolve their immediate threat. He left them to consider his proposal and sent Feng Xiaotian to deliver a letter to the sect.

• Huo Lie invited Wu Qi to transfer to Blazing Fire Academy, but Wu Qi declined and asked why the three Family Heads had summoned him.
• Feng Changlin asked whether Dugu would protect the families if they united, and Wu Qi rebuked him for expecting help without a commitment.
• Shui Ningbing said the families might join Wu Qi but wanted a development plan that could secure their future.
• Wu Qi offered to broker a partnership with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and said Dugu could resolve the Elephant Armor Sect threat that day.
• Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wu, and Huo Wushuang pledged to support Wu Qi, but he told them to trust his plan rather than persuade their elders.
• Wu Qi wrote a letter and asked Feng Xiaotian to deliver it to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Wu Qi used Ning Fengzhi’s support to secure the Wind, Water, and Fire Families’ loyalty, offering them profitable industries and giving Shui Ningbing a rare ice treasure. With the families settled, he turned his attention to Qin Ming while Dugu Bo infiltrated the Elephant Armor Sect’s temporary base.

• Ning Fengzhi agreed that helping the three families could make them lasting allies, then wrote Wu Qi a favorable reply.
• Feng Changlin and Huo Lie persuaded Shui Ningbing to wait for Wu Qi’s offer, and the three Family Heads pledged their families’ loyalty after reading Ning Fengzhi’s letter.
• Wu Qi gave Shui Ningbing an Ice-Sealed Snow Lotus Flower and warned her to keep it secret.
• Back at the academy, Wu Qi explained to his companions that balancing everyone’s interests was key to getting things done.
• Dugu Bo infiltrated the Elephant Armor Sect’s temporary base as Hūyán Zhèn and several elders discussed returning to defend the sect from the Wind Sword Sect and the Holy Dragon Sect.

Dugu Bo disrupted Hūyán Zhèn’s attempt to seize the Wind, Water, and Fire Families’ territories for Bibi Dong, prompting Bibi Dong to rage at Wu Qi for interfering. Meanwhile, Qin Ming grew anxious about Shrek Academy’s promised place on the Royal Fight Second Team and decided to use force, while the Three Education Committee Members remained convinced the Shrek Six Devils would bring the academy success.

• Hūyán Zhèn told Huyan Bo and Huyan Qi to return to the Elephant Armor Sect while he continued Bibi Dong’s plan to annex the Wind, Water, and Fire Families.
• Dugu Bo overheard the conversation, confronted Hūyán Zhèn, and defeated him and Huyan Nan with a single attack.
• Hūyán Zhèn called off his resistance, treated Dugu Bo as a guest, and reported the disruption to Pope Hall.
• Bibi Dong learned that Dugu Bo had intervened on Wu Qi’s behalf and furiously cursed Wu Qi, while Ghost Douluo watched in fear.
• With the agreed date near and Wu Qi refusing to yield the Royal Fight Second Team’s place, Qin Ming decided to use force as the Three Education Committee Members remained confident in the Shrek Six Devils.

Wu Qi and his allies arranged to leave the Royal Fight Academy for Seven Treasure Academy while evidence against Qin Ming reached Prince Xuexing. Xuexing had Qin Ming arrested and took the Three Education Committee Members to the palace for questioning, as Wu Qi’s team watched from their new training ground.

• Qin Ming suspended the Royal Fight Second Team’s training grounds and cut off its cultivation resources, but failed to remove Wu Qi and the others from their dormitories.
• Sun Buyu offered to arrange the team’s transfer to Seven Treasure Academy, and Wu Qi agreed while revealing that he and Ning Fengzhi had planned it in advance.
• Wu Qi summoned Dugu Bo and told him it was time to close the net.
• Prince Xuexing received evidence that Qin Ming had colluded with Shrek to steal Royal Family assets and obtained Xue Ye’s Imperial Edict to arrest him.
• Dugu Bo subdued Qin Ming, and imperial soldiers took him away as Prince Xuexing ordered the Three Education Committee Members to accompany him to the palace.
• Wu Qi’s team trained outside the academy, where Feng Xiaotian recognized Qin Ming being escorted away and Qiangu Changkong condemned him.

Dugu Bo imprisoned Qin Ming, and Xue Ye’s court convicted him and ordered his execution while dismissing the Three Education Committee Members. As Wu Qi’s group prepared to leave Royal Fight Academy, Ning Fengzhi negotiated with Xue Ye over their transfer to Seven Treasure Academy.

• Dugu Bo crippled Qin Ming’s Soul Power and sent him to the Celestial Prison, where he was beaten quiet after protesting his innocence.
• At Qin Ming’s trial, Prince Xuexing presented evidence and testimony, and Xue Ye ordered Qin Ming executed in three days and the Three Education Committee Members retired.
• News of the execution spread through Heaven Dou City, while Yu Tianheng considered leaving his team and Wu Qi began arranging his group’s move to Seven Treasure Academy.
• Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo met Xue Ye, who agreed to the transfer after Ning Fengzhi proposed adding “Heaven Dou Royal Academy” to the Seven Treasures Team’s name.

Qin Ming was executed for his alleged crimes while Shrek Academy continued training in Silvester City, unaware of the consequences of its betrayal. Wu Qi and the others then submitted applications to leave Royal Fight Academy, leaving the Three Education Committee Members to confront the academy’s looming loss of strength.

• Prince Xuexing read Qin Ming’s charges at Southeast Market, and Qin Ming realized that Flender and Shrek Academy had betrayed him with false testimony.
• Dugu Yan, Yufeng, and the others testified against Qin Ming, and the crowd hurled insults and refuse as the executioner began cutting him.
• Wu Qi and his companions left the execution ground and noticed the Three Education Committee Members grieving among the crowd.
• In Silvester City, Tang San examined the Shrek group after they all experienced heart palpitations, but he found no clear cause.
• Flender urged the Shrek Team to pursue five more victories, while Ma Hongjun complained that Qin Ming’s resources had not helped them.
• Wu Qi and the others submitted withdrawal applications to Meng Shenji and the other committee members, who realized the academy would lose its competitive strength without them.

After leaving Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Wu Qi and his companions joined Seven Treasure Academy, where they settled into its newly built campus. While exploring the construction site, Wu Qi spotted Defense Clan workers and approached their foreman, Niu Gao, to talk over wine.

• Meng Shenji and the other committee members failed to persuade Wu Qi's group to stay, then approved the seven students' withdrawal applications.
• Sun Buyu resigned from Heaven Dou Royal Academy and joined Wu Qi's group on their way to Seven Treasure Academy.
• The group arrived at the new academy, where Ning Changqing and the other elders welcomed them and showed them their accommodations.
• Wu Qi and Qiangu Changkong toured the academy and saw workers using their Martial Souls to build the campus.
• Wu Qi recognized the Plate Armor Giant Rhinoceros Martial Soul among the workers and offered wine to foreman Niu Gao to start a conversation.

Wu Qi and his companions trained at the newly built Seven Treasure Academy and prepared for the Seven Treasures Team’s first public Soul Fighting match. The Great Soul Arena arranged a contest against the powerful Thunderclap Team, led by Yu Tianxin.

• Wu Qi spoke with Niu Gao at the construction site and learned how the Defense Clan had joined the Seven Treasure Academy project.
• Wu Qi told Qiangu Changkong that recruiting the Single Attribute Clans would be difficult and costly, while preventing them from siding with Tang San was more important.
• Wu Qi adjusted the group’s training schedule to use the Simulated Training Grounds and practice team coordination and Soul Fighting.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong attended the Seven Treasures Team’s debut at the Great Soul Arena, and manager Lian Feng arranged a strong opponent for them.
• Wu Qi and his teammates learned they would face the Thunderclap Team, which Feng Xiaotian said revolved around Yu Tianxin of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.