Chapter Summaries

The Shrek Seven Devils faced Blazing Academy, whose captain Huo Wushuang targeted Yu Tianheng while Huo Wu’s unreadable strength unsettled Tang San. Blazing Academy launched a coordinated opening attack, and Tang San directed Dai Mubai and Yu Tianheng to stop their assault as the battle began.

• Huo Wushuang challenged Yu Tianheng, while Tang San spoke for the Shrek Seven Devils and Huo Wushuang tried to sow discord between him and Dai Mubai.
• Tang San failed to read Huo Wu’s strength with his Purple Demon Eye, and Xiao Wu grew jealous of the attention he paid her.
• Both teams released their martial souls and formed up, but Huo Wu kept hers concealed as the referee started the match.
• Huo Wushuang and the Fire Leopard spirit master charged Shrek’s front while Huo Yun and Huo Yu circled toward Ning Rongrong.
• Blazing Academy’s support spirit masters used “A single spark can set the plains ablaze!” to strengthen their team, and Tang San ordered Dai Mubai and Yu Tianheng to stop the attackers while he cast blue silver grass around his teammates.

The Shrek Seven Devils opened their match against Blazing Academy with Ning Rongrong’s boosts helping them contest a fierce battle, while Huo Wu remained poised and watched Ye Qifeng. When Xiao Wu seized the chance to attack Huo Wu, Tang San’s ominous premonition intensified and he shouted for her to retreat.

• At Tang San’s command, Dai Mubai and Yu Tianheng charged Blazing Academy’s power attackers as Ning Rongrong boosted her teammates with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Tang San sent Xiao Wu and Ma Hongjun to intercept Huo Yun and Huo Yu, then used Blue Silver Grass and the substitute to support the team as the battles spread across the arena.
• Huo Wu stayed out of the fighting and looked toward Ye Qifeng’s lounge, while Tang San watched her warily and continued helping his teammates evade attacks.
• Xiao Wu used Teleportation to appear before Huo Wu and launched a scorpion-braid strike and a kick, hoping to catch her off guard.
• Tang San felt his ominous premonition intensify and shouted for Xiao Wu to come back.

Huo Wu anticipated Xiao Wu’s surprise attack, evaded it with Meteor Butterfly Steps, and struck her hard enough to swell her face and injure her. Tang San rescued Xiao Wu after Huo Yun cut their Blue Silver Grass link and delayed him, while the match continued with the fighters reacting to Xiao Wu’s defeat.

• Xiao Wu attacked Huo Wu, but Huo Wu evaded her kick and scorpion braid with Meteor Butterfly Steps.
• Huo Wu seized Xiao Wu’s braid, slapped her, and kicked her toward the edge of the Spirit Fighting Ring.
• Huo Yun severed Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and blocked his attempt to reach Xiao Wu with fiery feathers.
• Tang San neutralized Huo Yun’s feathers, but Xiao Wu was already flying backward after Huo Wu’s attack.
• Tang San pulled Xiao Wu to safety and treated her, while she complained about her swollen cheek and demanded revenge.

Tang San and Xiao Wu joined forces against Huo Wu while the rest of Shrek fought Blazing Academy across the ring. Huo Wu effortlessly outmaneuvered them without releasing her martial soul, leaving Tang San wary of what she could do next.

• Xiao Wu asked Tang San to help her confront Huo Wu, and he agreed before they charged together.
• Ning Rongrong supported her teammates as Shrek's fighters engaged Blazing Academy, whose support-control spirit masters strengthened Huo Lie and other combatants.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu coordinated attacks against Huo Wu, but she evaded their moves and dominated Xiao Wu in close combat.
• Tang San intervened to prevent Huo Wu from slapping Xiao Wu's other cheek, and Huo Wu withdrew to create distance.
• Xiao Wu warned Tang San that Huo Wu had prevented her from using spirit skills, and Tang San recognized Huo Wu's superior close-combat ability and feared her unreleased martial soul.

Tang San and Xiao Wu decided to overwhelm Huo Wu with their strongest control skills so Xiao Wu could unleash Explosive Kill Eight-Stage Throw. Huo Wu answered by releasing Repulsive Fire Ring, and the chapter ended as her attack shattered Tang San’s restraints and threatened the advancing pair.

• Huo Yun defeated the Shrek substitute, leaving Ma Hongjun struggling against Huo Yun and Huo Yu while Huo Wushuang injured Yu Tianheng and blocked Dai Mubai from finishing Huo Lie.
• Tang San told Xiao Wu to eliminate Huo Wu quickly and trapped all seven Blazing Academy members in Blue Silver Cage.
• Tang San used Spider Web Restraint on Huo Wu as Xiao Wu teleported in to attack, while he moved forward to support her.
• Huo Wu calmly released her martial soul and used Repulsive Fire Ring, destroying Tang San’s restraints as Xiao Wu closed in.

Huo Wu used her enhanced Repulsive Fire Ring to devastate the Shrek Seven Devils while revealing that she was a level 53 Soul King with two ten-thousand-year spirit rings. As Tang San rushed to save Xiao Wu, Oscar spotted a blazing sun forming above the ring and warned Ning Rongrong just as Huo Wu began her Ring Fusion technique.

• Huo Wu's Repulsive Fire Ring burned through Tang San's Blue Silver Cage and spiderweb, then hurled Xiao Wu, Yu Tianheng, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and a substitute away, gravely injuring them.
• Huo Wu deliberately spared Tang San and Ning Rongrong as the ring swept across the platform, while Tang San raced to catch the badly injured Xiao Wu.
• The spectators and VIPs saw Huo Wu's five spirit rings and learned that she was a level 53 Soul King with yellow, yellow, purple, black, and black rings.
• Ning Fengzhi questioned how Huo Wu had gained her strength, while Sword Douluo confirmed her Soul King level and Salas feigned shock to conceal his knowledge of her ties to Spirit Hall.
• Oscar saw a blazing sun forming above the ring and warned Ning Rongrong, as Huo Wu called out, "Ring Fusion! Huo-Wu-Yaoyang!"

Huo Wu used her improved Ring Fusion technique to empower her fourth spirit skill and send a blazing-white orb toward Tang San and the unconscious Xiao Wu. The orb trapped them at the center of a formation, while Shrek’s allies and Sword Douluo reacted too late to stop the attack.

• Huo Wu fused her first four spirit rings and formed a massive blazing-white orb with Huo-Wu-Yao-Yang.
• The Martial Soul Hall Second Team girls recognized Ring Fusion, while Yu Xiaogang failed to call for Shrek’s surrender before the attack began.
• Ning Fengzhi urgently asked Sword Douluo to save Ning Rongrong, and Sword Douluo vanished from the VIP Platform.
• Huo Wushuang, Huo Lie, Huo Jun, Huo Chui, and the Flaming Crane spirit masters fled the Competition Ring as the fireball formed.
• Tang San caught the unconscious, badly injured Xiao Wu, then saw Huo Wu’s fireball coming toward them.
• Huo Wu sent the orb at Tang San and Xiao Wu, revealing that her Repulsive Fire Ring had positioned the other Shrek Seven Devils around them in a circle.

Huo Wu defeated the Shrek Seven Devils with her fourth spirit skill, leaving most of them badly injured while Sword Douluo protected Ning Rongrong. After the match was awarded to Blazing Academy, Yu Xiaogang rushed to Tang San and demanded that the referee declare their opponents losers for trying to kill them.

• Tang San used Blue Silver Bind to form a cocoon around himself and Xiao Wu, but Huo Wu's Huo Wu Yaoyang struck them and blasted across the Competition Ring.
• Yu Tianheng and Dai Mubai defended themselves, Ma Hongjun fled toward the edge, and Sword Douluo rescued Ning Rongrong as the blast swept through the team.
• The explosion left Huo Wu standing and the Shrek Seven Devils scattered and injured; Tang San and Xiao Wu survived inside the cocoon, but Tang San soon passed out after Huo Wu called him nothing special.
• The referee's decision gave the eleventh match of the twelfth round to Blazing Academy, and Yu Xiaogang hurried onto the platform while Oscar ran toward Ning Rongrong.
• Yu Xiaogang found Tang San and Xiao Wu badly injured, then shouted at the referee and demanded that Blazing Academy be declared the loser for trying to kill them.

Huo Wu defended Blazing Academy’s defeat of the Shrek Seven Devils by pointing out that they were alive and that the team had treated earlier opponents the same way. Yu Xiaogang’s protest drew public condemnation from the teams the Shrek Seven Devils had previously injured, leaving him speechless as the referees considered the result.

• Yu Xiaogang accused Huo Wu of attacking the Shrek Seven Devils too viciously, and the referee asked her to explain herself.
• Huo Wu asked whether the defeated fighters were dead and reminded the arena that the Shrek Seven Devils had used the same excuse after injuring Auckland Academy.
• The referee confirmed that the Shrek Seven Devils were alive, while Huo Wu noted that her team had not intended to kill them and lacked healing specialists.
• Yu Xiaogang grieved over Tang San’s injuries and demanded that Huo Wu be punished, while tournament healers treated the injured fighters.
• Auckland Academy’s leader and the leaders of eight other teams publicly condemned the Shrek Seven Devils, prompting spectators to join their protests.
• Qin Ming and the others backed down as Yu Xiaogang’s protest sparked public outrage and left him stammering.

After the tournament officials dismissed Yu Xiaogang’s protest, Blazing Academy was awarded the victory over the Shrek Seven Devils. Tang San and Xiao Wu remained unconscious because Huo Wu’s powerful fire poison hindered their recovery, and Ning Fengzhi explained the danger to Yu Xiaogang.

• Yu Xiaogang sought support from Ning Fengzhi and Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s committee members, but they refused to back his protest.
• The referees ruled that Blazing Academy had broken no rules, dismissed Yu Xiaogang’s complaint, and awarded Blazing Academy the match point.
• Huo Wu left the arena for the Martial Soul Hall Second Team’s lounge after delegating the post-match matters to Huo Wushuang.
• Yu Xiaogang and Qin Ming took the injured Shrek Seven Devils back to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Tang San and Xiao Wu remained unconscious due to Huo Wu’s fire poison.
• Ning Fengzhi told Yu Xiaogang that Tang San’s injuries were under control but the severe fire poison was slowing his recovery.

Ning Fengzhi explained that Huo Wu’s fire poison was keeping the injured Shrek Seven Devils from recovering, but every available cure was blocked by their conflicts with Blazing Academy and the Ye Clan. As the Preliminary Tournament standings took shape, Shrek kept winning without Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Ma Hongjun, while Tang San remained bedridden and held a girl’s hand in silence.

• Ning Fengzhi described three possible ways to remove the fire poison, but Shrek Academy had already offended Huo Wu and Ye Lingling, leaving the injured to recover on their own.
• Ning Fengzhi said Dai Mubai and Yu Tianheng would recover soon, and both returned to the arena the next day with Oscar, Ning Rongrong, and three substitutes to win the thirteenth round.
• Dai Mubai and Yu Tianheng led Shrek through the next three or four rounds, including a comparatively friendly victory over Liu Erlong’s Blue Tyrant Academy Team.
• Shrek finished the sixteenth round with fourteen victories and one loss, while the Martial Soul Hall Second Team led the standings with fifteen points.
• The leading teams began facing one another, and Blazing Academy, Skywater Academy, and Godwind Academy forfeited matches against stronger opponents, while Godwind Academy defeated Thunder Academy.
• As the Preliminary Tournament grew more intense, Tang San sat wrapped in bandages, dazedly holding a slender little hand.

After Blazing Academy’s Huo Wu left Tang San and Xiao Wu gravely burned, Tang San sat beside Xiao Wu, overwhelmed by guilt and defeat. He blamed his Blue Silver Grass and raised his Clear Sky Hammer to destroy it, but his father Tang Hao appeared and struck him before he could act.

• Tang San woke from his injuries and spent most of the day holding Xiao Wu’s hand as she moaned in pain.
• Tang San recalled his earlier defeats and blamed himself for repeatedly failing to protect Xiao Wu, especially against Huo Wu’s overwhelming attack.
• Tang San’s guilt and hatred turned toward his Blue Silver Grass, which he called a wasted Martial Soul.
• Tang San summoned the Clear Sky Hammer and raised it to smash the Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang Hao suddenly appeared in the room, stopping Tang San before the hammer fell and slapping him across the face.

Tang Hao stopped Tang San from trying to destroy his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and revealed that it was the same grade as the Clear Sky Hammer because Tang San had inherited Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Emperor. Tang San learned that his Blue Silver Emperor abilities remained dormant, while Tang Hao withheld details about his mother until Tang San became strong enough.

• Tang Hao slapped Tang San for trying to destroy his Blue Silver Grass and ordered him to protect it.
• Tang San blamed his weakness and Blue Silver Grass for the Shrek Seven Devils’ loss to Blazing Academy and Xiao Wu’s injuries.
• Tang Hao explained that Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass was inherited from Ah Yin and was no ordinary Wasted Martial Soul, but a Martial Soul equal in grade to the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Hao refused to tell Tang San about his mother and warned that another defeat-induced slump would keep him from learning more.
• Tang Hao explained that Tang San’s Blue Silver Emperor bloodline was incomplete, leaving its abilities dormant until he received the inheritance baptism in the Blue Silver Forest.

Tang Hao told Tang San that Blue Silver Grass had untapped potential that could awaken once Tang San reached level 50, but Tang San remained concerned about the tournament and proposed cultivating the Clear Sky Hammer to improve quickly. Tang Hao insisted he compete against the Martial Soul Hall Second Team so he could help investigate Ye Lan, leaving Tang San’s proposal awaiting his response.

• Tang Hao told Tang San that his Blue Silver Grass potential remained undeveloped and promised to take him somewhere to awaken it after he reached level 50 and continued training the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.
• Tang Hao urged Tang San to recover from his defeat by Huo Wu and keep competing in the Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament for experience.
• Tang San questioned whether he could win the remaining matches, while Tang Hao secretly considered using him to test Ye Lan and the Martial Soul Hall Second Team.
• Tang Hao insisted Tang San participate against the Martial Soul Hall Second Team because he had a suspicion he wanted verified.
• Tang San proposed cultivating the Clear Sky Hammer instead to raise his strength quickly for the remaining matches.

Tang San insisted on abandoning Blue Silver Grass to cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer so he could gain the strength to protect Xiao Wu, and Tang Hao eventually agreed despite warning him about the risks. Yu Xiaogang then arrived and vehemently objected, warning that cultivating the Clear Sky Hammer now could destroy Tang San’s future as a Spirit Master.

• Tang Hao weighed the dangers of adding Spirit Rings to Tang San’s second Martial Soul and urged him to continue cultivating Blue Silver Grass first.
• Tang San told Tang Hao that repeated defeats and Xiao Wu’s injuries had convinced him he needed the Clear Sky Hammer’s strength.
• Tang Hao warned that switching could damage Tang San’s foundation or kill him, but Tang San declared he would accept any price to become stronger.
• Tang Hao reconsidered and agreed to let Tang San cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer, while thinking about teaching him the Clear Sky Sect’s techniques.
• Yu Xiaogang burst into the room and opposed the decision, warning Tang San that a previous Twin Martial Soul genius had died from conflicting Martial Soul energies.

Yu Xiaogang tried to stop Tang San from cultivating the Clear Sky Hammer, fearing the dangers of Twin Martial Souls and hoping to raise him as a rival to Bibi Dong. Tang San said Tang Hao had approved his choice, and Tang Hao suggested Yu Xiaogang had misunderstood something, leaving his meaning unclear.

• Yu Xiaogang warned Tang San that cultivating the Clear Sky Hammer before fully developing Blue Silver Grass could trigger a fatal conflict between his Twin Martial Souls.
• Yu Xiaogang reflected that he had trained Tang San to surpass Bibi Dong and avenge the humiliation she had inflicted on him.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that he still wanted to cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer and that Tang Hao had agreed.
• Yu Xiaogang confronted Tang Hao and insisted that, as Tang San's teacher, he had the final say.
• Tang Hao said he understood the risks but still supported Tang San, then told Yu Xiaogang that he had misunderstood something.

Tang Hao explained that Tang San could cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer without Spirit Rings and began teaching him the Clear Sky Sect’s techniques. Tang San agreed to train with his father, while Yu Xiaogang warned him not to add Spirit Rings to the hammer before perfecting his Blue Silver Grass; Yu Xiaogang privately planned to manipulate Bibi Dong into revealing secrets about Twin Martial Souls.

• Tang Hao told Tang San that Soul Power and the Clear Sky Sect’s ultimate techniques, not Spirit Rings, were the foundation of the Clear Sky Hammer’s strength, then demonstrated its force.
• Tang Hao offered to teach Tang San practical Clear Sky Hammer techniques and said Tang San could adapt them alongside his unusual abilities and Hidden Weapons.
• Tang Hao reassured Tang San that he would not question the origins of his skills, and Tang San felt relieved and grateful.
• Tang Hao left to wait in Tang San’s usual training forest and said Xiao Wu would recover from her injuries within a few days.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang he would temporarily cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer, and Yu Xiaogang warned him not to attach Spirit Rings to it before the Blue Silver Grass reached its peak.
• Yu Xiaogang privately decided to seek out Bibi Dong and use his charm to persuade her to reveal the secrets of Twin Martial Souls.

While training under Tang Hao, Tang San created two Clear Sky Hammer techniques and reached rank forty-three, but he still failed to perform the first of the Nine Absolutes of the Clear Sky. Xiao Wu and the Shrek team visited him, and Ma Hongjun revealed that Shi Nian was about to be publicly executed.

• Tang San trained with the Clear Sky Hammer, developed the Clear Sky Flying Hammer and the Dance of the Chaos Cloak, and advanced to rank forty-three.
• Tang San attempted the first absolute, Void, but his swing produced only a faint breeze, while Tang Hao remembered his grandfather and lamented the Clear Sky Sect's plight.
• Xiao Wu and the Shrek Seven Devils arrived to visit Tang San, and Xiao Wu asked whether he remembered Shi Nian.
• Tang San revealed his hatred of Shi Nian and regretted that Spirit Hall had taken him away before Tang San could kill him.
• Ma Hongjun told Tang San that Shi Nian was about to be publicly executed, leaving Tang San stunned and asking what he meant.

Tang San learned that Shi Nian would face a public trial and execution at the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena, where Shrek would also face Canghui Academy. As the assembled judges, officials, and rival academies awaited the proceedings, the arena filled with tension over Shi Nian’s crimes and the coming grudge match.

• Ma Hongjun told Tang San that Shi Nian would be publicly tried and executed, and Dai Mubai noted that Shrek’s opponent that day was Canghui Academy.
• Yu Tianheng explained that Spirit Hall held final authority over the tournament and had allowed Canghui Academy to remain eligible.
• Dai Mubai urged the Shrek Seven Devils to attend the trial, and Tang San said he wanted to see Shi Nian die and would face Canghui Academy.
• At the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena, Platinum Bishop Salas, Ning Fengzhi, Prince Xue Xing, and other officials took their seats for the hearing.
• Canghui Academy and the Shrek Seven Devils glared at each other from the hearing seats as Spirit Hall’s Law-Enforcement Knights assembled on the tribunal platform.

The tournament audience gathered as Shi Nian was brought to a public trial and execution assembly. Before the proceedings began, Shui Bing'er stopped suppressing her feelings for Ye Qifeng, and Huo Wu sensed the change.

• Huo Wu watched Ye Qifeng's lounge from the spectator area and resented Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling for staying beside him.
• Shui Bing'er, affected by her Telepathy with Huo Wu, decided to acknowledge her feelings for Ye Qifeng, and Huo Wu noticed the change.
• Teachers and students from competing academies gathered and supported the public trial of Shi Nian.
• Two Heaven Dou Spirit Temple Cardinals escorted the shackled Shi Nian onto the Public Trial Platform as the assembly began.