Chapter Summaries

Shang An captured the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s arena space and offered Zhu Zhuqing a choice between a dangerous ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring and a safer alternative. Zhu Zhuqing chose the risk, determined to grow strong enough to stand beside him, and began absorbing the ring.

• Ni Huang followed Shang An into the arena, where he immobilized the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and later released Zhu Zhuqing.
• At Shang An’s command, Zhu Zhuqing killed the unconscious tiger, and Shang An used the Taiyi Bead to absorb the arena space into his Small World.
• Shang An stopped the tiger’s escaping bead, erased the remnant soul inside it, and offered Zhu Zhuqing a choice of Spirit Rings.
• Zhu Zhuqing chose to absorb the tiger’s ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring despite the chance of death, and Shang An agreed to protect her.

Zhu Zhuqing absorbed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s Spirit Ring and a mysterious black bead, transforming her Martial Soul and gaining two spirit skills and two External Soul Bones. A week later, she began absorbing another ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring after Shang An helped defeat a tiger-type Spirit Beast.

• Shang An used a drop of World Origin to protect Zhu Zhuqing as she absorbed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s Spirit Ring.
• Shang An guided the black bead into Zhu Zhuqing, causing a painful transformation that reshaped her Martial Soul and produced the Evil God Wings and Evil God Hook.
• Zhu Zhuqing awoke with a stronger Martial Soul, level-forty Soul Power, the skills Evil God Protection and Dark Demon Evil God Strike, and two External Soul Bones.
• Shang An introduced Ni Huang as a level-ninety-seven Peak Douluo and his Guardian, and Zhu Zhuqing and Ni Huang began addressing each other as sisters.
• A week later, Shang An and Zhu Zhuqing defeated a tiger-type Spirit Beast, and Zhu Zhuqing began absorbing its ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring while Shang An inspected its corpse.

Zhu Zhuqing absorbed a twenty-seven-thousand-year Shadow Nether Tiger Spirit Ring, while the Shrek group found the badly injured Tang San and brought him back to the academy. After Tang San woke blind and vowed revenge, Flender abandoned him, and Bishop Victor arrived with Spirit Hall forces to confront Zhao Wuji.

• Shang An explained why he had chosen a twenty-seven-thousand-year Shadow Nether Tiger for Zhu Zhuqing, and she successfully absorbed its Spirit Ring.
• Ma Hongjun found the bloodied Tang San beside a thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider, kicked him, and alerted Zhao Wuji.
• Zhao Wuji took Tang San out of the Star Dou Great Forest, borrowed money from Dai Mubai to pay for treatment, and brought him back to Shrek.
• Tang San woke, realized he had lost his sight, and cursed Shrek, Spirit Hall, and the Great Soul Arena; Flender overheard him and left without giving him medicine.
• Bishop Victor confronted Zhao Wuji at Shrek Academy over his injury to a Martial Soul Hall Deacon, and Zhao Wuji fought back with his Martial Soul Avatar and Spirit Skills.
• Victor blocked Zhao Wuji's attack as Spirit Hall's four Spirit Saints and twelve Spirit Emperors released their Martial Souls.

Victor and the Spirit Hall forces captured Zhao Wuji after a fight, while Flender chose not to risk Shrek Academy by resisting. Shang An arrived in Heaven Dou City, reunited with Dugu Yan, and met Dugu Bo at a Spirit Hall stronghold as Ning Rongrong thought of the masked man she had encountered.

• Flender and two Shrek teachers arrived as Victor threatened to treat the academy as Zhao Wuji’s accomplice if they intervened.
• Zhao Wuji fought off Spirit Hall’s attackers until Victor struck him with Great Thousand Palm, leaving him injured and easy to capture.
• Flender watched Zhao Wuji being taken away, then returned to his room with the other teachers.
• Shang An rode to a Spirit Hall stronghold in Heaven Dou City with Dugu Yan and Xiao Wu, and promised Dugu Yan he would stay longer.
• Dugu Bo greeted Shang An at the estate, where he had grown younger and reached level ninety-four after absorbing a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Ning Rongrong remembered the masked man she had met.

Ning Rongrong rejected Lin Xue’s public romantic advances while Dugu Yan and Shang An went shopping and encountered the scene. The confrontation remained unresolved as Ning Rongrong warned Lin Xue to leave.

• Ning Rongrong denied having someone she liked and left Heaven Dou Royal Academy to go shopping with Ye Lingling.
• Shang An comforted Zhu Zhuqing, then took Dugu Yan shopping and told her he had reached Level 61.
• Dugu Yan heard Ye Lingling’s voice in a crowd and asked Shang An to investigate a dispute involving her friends.
• Shang An and Dugu Yan found Lin Xue kneeling before Ning Rongrong with flowers and urging her to accept a confession.
• Ning Rongrong rejected Lin Xue, insulted her, and warned that her father could not protect her if she kept pestering her.
• Ning Rongrong’s senior told Lin Xue to step aside before the situation became uglier.

Shang An helped Ning Rongrong escape Lin Xue’s harassment, then accepted Ning Rongrong’s invitation to visit her at Heaven Dou Royal Academy. He left with Dugu Yan and considered how he might eventually bring the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to his side.

• Dugu Yan and Shang An arrived as Lin Xue continued pestering Ning Rongrong, and Ning Rongrong asked Shang An for help.
• Shang An took Ning Rongrong’s hand, dispersed the onlookers with a strange ability, and frightened Lin Xue into fleeing.
• Ning Rongrong denied that she needed Shang An’s help, while Ye Lingling questioned Dugu Yan about accepting Shang An’s other relationships.
• Ning Rongrong invited Shang An to visit her at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and he agreed before leaving with Dugu Yan.
• As they continued shopping, Shang An considered using the Aromatic Silk Beauty and Spirit Hall’s strength to persuade the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to join his side.

Tang Hao returned to Tang Yuehua and asked her to help find Divine Doctor Ye to treat Tang San, then left without agreeing to return to the sect. Tang Yuehua arranged to meet Ye Lingling through Ning Rongrong, and they rejoined the students, where Ning Rongrong spotted a young man playing the harp.

• Tang Hao reunited with Tang Yuehua and admitted he had come to ask for help finding Divine Doctor Ye for his injured son, Tang San.
• Tang Yuehua urged Tang Hao to return to the sect, but he refused and asked her to help arrange treatment instead.
• Tang Hao warned that Tang San would soon arrive in Heaven Dou City, then left after telling Tang Yuehua to look after him.
• Ning Rongrong visited Tang Yuehua, agreed to bring Ye Lingling to meet her, and pulled her back downstairs.
• Tang Yuehua and Ning Rongrong returned to the hall, where a young man played the harp and Ning Rongrong wondered why he was there.

Ning Fengzhi explained that he sent Ning Rongrong to Heaven Dou Royal Academy to build ties with Xue Qinghe, while Yu Xiaogang and Flender sought a healer for Tang San’s destroyed eye. As the Shrek group traveled toward Heaven Dou City, Tang Yuehua sensed someone’s arrival and hurried to her private room.

• Ning Fengzhi told Chen Xin that Ning Rongrong’s time at Heaven Dou Royal Academy could help her meet Xue Qinghe and make friends, and Chen Xin accepted his explanation.
• Yu Xiaogang learned that Divine Doctor Ye might restore Tang San’s eye, while Flender said Ye Mansion was in Heaven Dou City.
• Yu Xiaogang decided to take Tang San to Heaven Dou City, and Flender agreed to bring the other Shrek students after helping Oscar obtain a third Spirit Ring.
• Six or seven days later, the Shrek group set out for Heaven Dou City to find treatment for Tang San.
• Tang Yuehua sensed someone’s arrival while teaching etiquette, dismissed her students, and hurried to her private space to call into the empty air.

Qian Renxue took Ning Rongrong to an auction, where Ning Rongrong was shocked to see a Wolf Girl being sold as a slave and pleaded with Qian Renxue to save her. Qian Renxue bought the girl and returned Ning Rongrong to the academy, where Ning Rongrong thanked her for the first time as “Brother Xue.”

• Xue Qinghe invited Ning Rongrong to the Grand Auction House, and she agreed to go with him.
• At the auction, Ning Rongrong saw a Wolf Girl being sold as a slave and learned from Qian Renxue that the slave trade was widespread among nobles.
• Ning Rongrong asked Qian Renxue to save the Wolf Girl, and Qian Renxue bought her for two hundred and ten thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Qian Renxue arranged for the orphaned Wolf Girl to be taken to the Crown Prince Residence as a maid.
• Qian Renxue escorted Ning Rongrong back to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Ning Rongrong thanked him and called him Brother Xue for the first time.

Qian Renxue told Shang An about Ning Rongrong’s feelings for her, and Shang An asked her to watch for the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, which was tied to the Sea God’s inheritance. Days later, Shrek Academy reached Heaven Dou City, where Tang San endured Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun’s taunts before finding an unknown note on his bed.

• Ning Rongrong said goodbye to Qian Renxue, leaving Qian Renxue wondering whether Ning Rongrong had fallen for her.
• Shang An confronted Qian Renxue about her behavior, heard what had happened with Ning Rongrong, and told her to seek the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud for Spirit Hall.
• Shang An told Qian Renxue that the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud was connected to the Sea God’s inheritance and reminded her to prioritize her safety.
• Shrek Academy arrived in Heaven Dou City, where Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun mocked Tang San, who held back from fighting them because his abilities had weakened.
• After the group settled at an inn, Tang San woke during cultivation and found an unfamiliar note on his bed.

Tang San followed a mysterious note to Moonlight Pavilion, where he hoped Tang Yuehua could cure his eyes. Tang Yuehua recognized him and asked after his father, Tang Hao, leaving Tang San wondering about his father’s identity.

• Tang San found a note directing him to Moonlight Pavilion and Tang Yuehua, then killed an inn guest who had insulted his parents and staged the scene to conceal his involvement.
• Tang San asked a beggar for directions to Moonlight Pavilion, paid him a Copper Soul Coin, and escaped a fight with city managers who mistook him for a beggar.
• At Moonlight Pavilion, Tang San shattered two guards’ wrists after they barred him from entering, and Steward Ode beat him down and threatened to cripple his hands.
• Tang Yuehua stopped Steward Ode, recognized Tang San by his eyepatch, and asked whether his father, Tang Hao, had been well.

Tang San reunited with Tang Yuehua and asked her to punish Ode and arrange treatment for his injured eye, but left angrily when she refused to harm her trusted subordinate. After Ye Lingling said her grandfather was away at the Land of Chaos, Tang Hao kidnapped her to force Ye Cunxin to return, and Shang An and Dugu Yan learned of her disappearance.

• Tang Yuehua brought Tang San into Moonlight Pavilion, promised to contact Divine Doctor Ye about his eye, and refused his demand to cripple Ode.
• Tang San left Tang Yuehua angrily, rejecting their family bond and addressing her as Madam Yuehua.
• Ning Rongrong brought Ye Lingling to meet Tang Yuehua, who learned that Ye Cunxin was treating soldiers at the Land of Chaos and could not return soon.
• Tang Hao followed Ye Lingling and kidnapped her, then a letter summoned Ye Cunxin back to Heaven Dou City.
• Shang An learned that Tang Hao had taken Ye Lingling, and Dugu Yan grew furious over her friend's kidnapping.

Tang San was arrested for his inn neighbor’s murder, then released after the Clear Sky Sect and a mysterious Title Douluo intervened. A black-robed man forced Ye Cunxin to heal Tang San’s eye by holding Ye Lingling captive, but Tang San’s attempt to use the Purple Demon Eye nearly blinded him again.

• Earl Bolai brought witnesses and a physician’s evidence to Moonlight Pavilion, and the Law Enforcement Team arrested Tang San for his nephew’s murder.
• Tang Yuehua asked Tang Xiao for help, and after two days in prison Tang San was released under pressure from the imperial family and a mysterious Title Douluo.
• A black-robed man threatened Ye Cunxin with Ye Lingling’s captivity and ordered him to treat an eyepatched person at Moonlight Pavilion.
• Ye Cunxin used his Nine Heart Begonia to restore Tang San’s left eye, but warned him to keep it covered and avoid sunlight for a month.
• Tang San tried to use the Purple Demon Eye despite the warning and hurt his fragile eye, while Ye Cunxin reunited with the unharmed Ye Lingling.

Shang An and Spirit Hall’s elders ambushed Tang Hao as he attacked Ye Cunxin and Ye Lingling, defeated him, and captured him. Shang An left Tang Hao in Ju Gui’s hands and went with the Ye family to Ye Mansion, while Tang San collapsed unconscious at Moonlight Pavilion.

• Tang Hao attacked Ye Cunxin and Ye Lingling, but Ju Gui froze him with their Martial Soul Fusion Skill as Ni Huang joined the ambush.
• Tang Hao used Nine-Ring Detonation to break free and clash with Ni Huang, while Shang An brought out Ah Yin and enraged him by displaying their intimacy.
• Ni Huang defeated Tang Hao and knocked him unconscious after his Martial Soul vanished and he tried to flee.
• Shang An reassured Ye Cunxin and Ye Lingling, then handed Tang Hao to Ju Gui and accompanied the Ye family to Ye Mansion.
• Powerful figures arrived in Heaven Dou City and sensed the battle’s lingering Soul Power, while Tang San collapsed unconscious at Moonlight Pavilion.

After Tang Hao’s death, Shang An accepted Ye Cunxin’s offer to take Ye Lingling under his protection while Ye Cunxin returned to the war-torn Land of Chaos. Prince Xue Xing remained unsure whether Xue Beng’s decadent behavior was an act, while Xue Beng privately revealed his hatred for his uncle.

• Ah Yin sensed Tang Hao’s death and rose from level ninety to level ninety-six.
• Ye Cunxin thanked Shang An for saving him and Ye Lingling, gave him the Ye Family’s Heart-Nurturing Tea, and asked him to let Lingling cultivate at his side; Shang An agreed.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo returned with Tang Hao’s spirit bones and head, reported his execution, and departed for Spirit City.
• Prince Xue Xing visited Dugu Bo and believed he had secured the man’s loyalty to the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Xue Xing confronted Xue Beng about his public indulgence in men, but left uncertain whether it was a disguise; after he left, Xue Beng revealed his vengeful hatred for his uncle and resumed his debauchery.

Bibi Dong learned that Tang Hao had been captured and executed, then dwelled on missing Shang An. Flender agreed to bring Shrek to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Dai Mubai's group immediately clashed with noble students at the entrance.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo reported Tang Hao's capture and execution to Bibi Dong, who asked after Shang An and reflected on his confidantes.
• Yu Xiaogang persuaded Flender to take Shrek to Heaven Dou Royal Academy so its students could compete in the tournament.
• Flender and the Shrek group arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy with the students, including Tang San, whose eyes had partly recovered.
• Heaven Dou Royal Academy students insulted Shrek as beggars, and Dai Mubai used his Martial Soul to beat them all back.
• Dai Mubai mocked the academy, while Yu Xiaogang disparaged its students and said he had brought Shrek only to secure a tournament slot.

Shrek Academy’s group arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Flender reunited with Qin Ming and arranged to join the school. The three education committee members assessed Shrek’s students, and Tang San endured Meng Shenji’s growing Soul Power pressure as the test continued.

• Dai Mubai fought Heaven Dou Royal Academy students until Flender stopped him, and Sun Buyu arrived and led Shrek’s group inside after learning they had come to see Qin Ming.
• Xue Beng vowed to drive Shrek out, while Flender and the others waited in the reception hall and Yu Xiaogang criticized the academy.
• Qin Ming welcomed Flender, confirmed the arrangements, and brought Shrek’s group to their new lodgings in the academy’s western district.
• The next day, Flender introduced Shrek’s students to the three education committee members, who praised Dai Mubai and Oscar and approved of Ma Hongjun’s talent.
• Yu Xiaogang presented Tang San as a twelve-year-old Soul Elder with the potential to become a Title Douluo, and Tang San revealed his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
• Meng Shenji tested Tang San by increasing his Soul Power pressure; Tang San resisted with help from energy in his limbs and spirit bones as the pressure reached Level 34.

Meng Shenji welcomed Shrek Academy to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, but Prince Xue Xing and Dugu Bo arrived and blocked the move. After Xue Xing exposed Dai Mubai as a Star Luo prince and accused him of injuring Xue Beng, he challenged Shrek to endure Dugu Bo for the time it took an incense stick to burn.

• Tang San collapsed after his power surge ended, and Meng Shenji sensed six unusually weak Spirit Bones in his body.
• Prince Xue Xing, Dugu Bo, and Xue Beng arrived, and Xue Beng pointed out Dai Mubai as the one who had kicked him.
• Xue Xing insulted Yu Xiaogang and Tang San, and Dugu Bo slapped Yu Xiaogang when he tried to introduce himself.
• Xue Xing revealed Dai Mubai was a prince of Star Luo and accused him of infiltrating Heaven Dou Royal Academy and injuring Xue Beng.
• Flender tried to leave with the Shrek group, but Xue Xing stopped them and demanded they withstand Dugu Bo for the time it took an incense stick to burn.
• Yu Xiaogang confronted Dugu Bo, who struck him with another Soul Power slap.

After Dugu Bo brutalized the Shrek group and Heaven Dou Royal Academy expelled them, Flender persuaded Yu Xiaogang to seek refuge at Blue Tyrant Academy. Liu Erlong welcomed Flender but failed to recognize Yu Xiaogang after his Martial Soul changed, leaving him to prove who he was by recalling their shared past.

• Dugu Bo’s Soul Power pressure knocked the Shrek group unconscious, and Heaven Dou Royal Academy threw them out into the street.
• Flender led the injured group back to the inn and persuaded Yu Xiaogang to visit Liu Erlong’s Blue Tyrant Academy for the sake of Tang San’s competition prospects.
• Liu Erlong hurried to meet Flender after hearing that an old acquaintance from the Golden Iron Triangle had arrived.
• Liu Erlong greeted Flender warmly but failed to recognize Yu Xiaogang, mistaking him for an unpleasant-smelling fat man.
• Yu Xiaogang began recounting private memories to convince Liu Erlong that he was the person she had once loved.

Liu Erlong rejected Flender after learning that Yu Xiaogang had changed, then went to the Primordial Dark Forest and fought Spirit Beasts recklessly. Shang An sensed a fated encounter, rescued her from an Iron-Armored Earth Dragon, and recognized her as Yu Xiaogang’s former love.

• Liu Erlong fled Yu Xiaogang, and Flender followed her, but she told him she saw him only as an older brother and left Blue Tyrant Academy to calm down.
• Shang An tricked a Roc into lowering its guard, then spared it after sensing someone fated to meet him in the forest.
• Liu Erlong, overwhelmed by her distress, slaughtered Spirit Beasts until a sixty-thousand-year Iron-Armored Earth Dragon attacked her.
• The Iron-Armored Earth Dragon struck Liu Erlong down when she ran out of Soul Power, but Shang An intervened and defeated it.
• Shang An caught the unconscious Liu Erlong, recognized her, and decided he would not hold back against Yu Xiaogang.