Chapter Summaries

Chen Ming negotiated with the Sacred Illusion Demon Ape, offering a Blood Ginseng and promising to spare its son in exchange for its sacrifice. After both sides swore their oaths, the ape raised its cultivation to the hundred-thousand-year level and began sacrificing itself to Chen Ming.

• The Sacred Illusion Demon Ape sent its black ape son fleeing and confronted Chen Ming while burning its origin.
• Chen Ming explained that he could revive the ape after becoming a god, but the ape demanded that Chen Ming first make it a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast and guarantee its son's safety.
• Chen Ming offered a thirty-thousand-year Blood Ginseng, and the Sacred Illusion Demon Ape agreed to sacrifice itself if all three humans swore not to pursue its child.
• The Sacred Illusion Demon Ape and the humans swore their respective oaths, and Chen Ming gave the ape the Blood Ginseng.
• The Sacred Illusion Demon Ape used the Blood Ginseng to reach the hundred-thousand-year level, suppressed its cultivation to avoid heavenly tribulation, and began its sacrifice to Chen Ming.

Chen Ming absorbed the Sacred Illusion Demon Ape's sacrifice, reached quasi-Spirit Emperor, and gained powerful spiritual and time abilities. Meanwhile, Tang San was repeatedly beaten within the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, until Asura's divine sense awakened and witnessed his plight.

• The Sacred Illusion Demon Ape's Spirit Ring and head Spirit Bone fused with Chen Ming, breaking his cultivation bottleneck and solidifying his time attribute.
• Chen Ming reached level sixty and gained the Spiritual Light, Time Freeze, Spiritual Awakening, and Withering Imprint skills.
• Chen Ming wondered whether Tang San was still following the original path as Tang San was beaten by Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan members for repeatedly ambushing them with hidden weapons.
• Tang San's cultivation and abilities failed to keep pace with the clan's Soul Masters, and his Blue Silver Grass and hidden weapons could not protect him from their attacks.
• Asura's divine sense awakened within Tang San and found him pinned down and being beaten.

The Asura God discovered that the Douluo World’s fate and his chosen pawns had diverged from his plans, so he tried to set the original group of failures back on course. His influence stirred Tang Hao, Yu Xiaogang, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu, but Xiao Wu rejected the urge to escape and stayed with Dugu Bo.

• The Asura God reviewed Tang San’s memories and realized that the Child of Fortune had changed and that his plans for Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Yu Xiaogang had gone awry.
• The Asura God recalled how he had gathered people destined to fail, including Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, Ning Rongrong, Tang San, and Tang Hao, to serve as pawns in his plan.
• The Asura God decided to intervene and guide Tang San back toward Shrek Academy and his former companions.
• Tang Hao suddenly wanted to sneak into the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, while Yu Xiaogang felt a renewed determination to escape his underground prison.
• Ning Rongrong felt a sudden desire to leave the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for fun, and Xiao Wu briefly considered escaping from Dugu Bo’s residence.
• Xiao Wu decided that staying with Dugu Bo offered better cultivation and a safer path to revenge, then ate a large meal and went to sleep.

Tang Hao watched Tang San suffer in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, doubted his slow cultivation, and left to seek a chance to take him away openly. Meanwhile, Chen Ming prepared to travel to Suotuo City with Ah Yin, who had recovered while living outside his Cave Mansion.

• Tang Hao infiltrated the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, found Tang San at level 28, and decided to wait until Yu Yuanzhen returned before confronting him openly.
• Tang Hao dismissed Yu Xiaogang and left without learning where he had gone.
• Chen Ming returned to Heaven Dou Imperial Academy and learned that Ning Rongrong had gone out, which reminded him of the time Tang San would have entered Shrek.
• Chen Ming asked Ah Yin to travel with him, and she questioned whether leaving her well-nourished spot was necessary.
• Chen Ming filled a Water Vat Realm with fertilizer and Nutrient Solution, and Ah Yin uprooted herself and settled inside it.
• Chen Ming told Ah Yin they were going to Suotuo City.

Chen Ming visited the shabby Shrek Academy in Suotuo City, curious about its reputation and strong instructors. Zhao Wuji initially failed to recognize him, but Dean Flender identified Chen Ming as a Spirit Hall Honorary Elder and eagerly welcomed him.

• Chen Ming traveled to Suotuo City with Qian Renfeng and asked an inn waiter about Shrek Academy.
• Chen Ming found Shrek Academy in a village and saw Zhao Wuji drinking and eating beneath a tree.
• Zhao Wuji warned Chen Ming that Shrek was not recruiting yet, then remembered that Spirit Hall still wanted him.
• Flender recognized Chen Ming as Spirit Hall's Honorary Elder and ushered him into Shrek Academy.

Chen Ming visited Shrek Academy, where Flender welcomed him with deep admiration and asked him to answer difficult questions about soul master cultivation. The chapter left Chen Ming agreeing to guide Shrek’s strongest instructors as they gathered to meet him.

• Flender brought Chen Ming to his office, served him treasured tea, and praised his research and the Douluo Mental Method.
• Chen Ming answered Flender’s long-standing questions, earning even greater respect from the Shrek dean.
• Flender asked to bring Shrek’s soul masters to seek Chen Ming’s guidance, and Chen Ming agreed.
• Flender summoned Lu Qibin, Li Yusong, Shao Xin, and Zhao Wuji, who eagerly followed him to meet Chen Ming.
• Chen Ming greeted the four instructors, and they respectfully introduced themselves and their Martial Souls.

Chen Ming stayed in Suotuo City, where Flender spent lavishly to host him and received guidance and a signed copy of the Douluo Mental Method. Chen Ming met the runaway Ning Rongrong and told her he had a new idea for breaking the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s limitation, leaving her eager to return and try it.

• Flender treated Chen Ming and the Shrek Academy teachers to an extravagant meal and hotel stay, despite the expense nearly making him faint.
• Chen Ming gave Flender further guidance and a signed copy of the Douluo Mental Method, which Flender treasured as a future heirloom for Shrek Academy.
• After staying in Suotuo City for two or three days, Chen Ming found Ning Rongrong in the hotel lobby and asked why she had left home.
• Ning Rongrong admitted she had suddenly wanted to go have fun and left without telling her family, then blushed when she misread Chen Ming’s remark as a declaration that they were family.
• Chen Ming told Ning Rongrong he had a new idea for overcoming the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s limitation and wanted to test it with her after she returned.

Chen Ming took Ning Rongrong around Suotuo City while her hidden guard reported his words to Ning Fengzhi. Meanwhile, Yu Yuanzhen prepared an extravagant medicinal bath for an infant, determined to cultivate the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s legendary Golden Bloodline; the midwife announced that the baby was coming.

• Chen Ming told Ning Rongrong that they should wait before returning to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and he secretly signaled her hidden guard to report their conversation to Ning Fengzhi.
• A deputy guard took the hidden guard’s place as Chen Ming and Ning Rongrong spent the next few days exploring Suotuo City.
• Yu Yuanzhen ordered the clan’s pharmacists to prepare an infant’s medicinal bath from rare ingredients, including scales from a hundred-thousand-year Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon and the clan ancestor’s bone powder.
• Yu Yuanzhen explained to Yu Luomian that he believed the infant could inherit the clan’s dormant Golden Bloodline and that the costly treatment was worth the chance.
• The midwife called out that the baby was coming.

Yu Yuanzhen discovered that Yu Xiaogang’s newborn twins showed no sign of the Golden Bloodline, then ordered Yu Xiaogang to lure Tang Hao into an ambush. Yu Xiaogang instead planned to escape with Tang San, and the chapter ended with Tang San asking what was happening after Yu Xiaogang warned that his identity had been exposed.

• Yu Yuanzhen sensed no Golden Bloodline in Yu Xiaogang’s newborn twins and blamed Yu Xiaogang for failing to pass it on.
• Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian released Yu Xiaogang and ordered him to use Tang San as bait to lure Tang Hao into an ambush.
• Yu Xiaogang’s newfound fighting spirit led him to plan to use Tang Hao to escape the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan with Tang San.
• Yu Xiaogang entered Tang San’s room on wooden prosthetics and nearly got struck by Tang San’s sleeve arrow.
• Yu Xiaogang warned Tang San that his identity had been exposed and urged him to escape with Tang Hao’s help.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang to explain what had happened and why they needed his father’s power to leave.

Yu Xiaogang told Tang San about his connection to the Clear Sky Sect, then led him out of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, unaware the clan had arranged an ambush. Shi Nian attacked them with his Nightmare Martial Soul, trapping Tang San in a recurring dream of being discovered stealing the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record and tortured by the Tang Sect.

• Yu Xiaogang revealed Tang San's background, and Tang San swore revenge on Spirit Hall.
• Yu Xiaogang guided Tang San out of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan while Yu Luomian secretly followed and adjusted the clan's ambush plan.
• Shi Nian confronted Yu Xiaogang and Tang San, then used his Nightmare Martial Soul to put them into a deep nightmare.
• Tang San dreamed that the Tang Sect discovered his attempt to steal the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record and repeatedly tortured him to death.

Tang Hao arrived as Shi Nian tried to kill the trapped Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, then fought the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan experts who had ambushed him. After Yu Luomian provoked him, Tang Hao unleashed Ring Detonation and began overpowering the clan’s fighters.

• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang suffered different nightmares until Shi Nian tried to kill Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang Hao appeared, killed Shi Nian, and found the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan experts attacking him.
• Yu Luomian taunted Tang Hao about his betrayal of the Clear Sky Sect and his family.
• Enraged, Tang Hao spread Divine Slaughter’s Domain, detonated his Spirit Rings, and killed a Spirit Saint and a Soul Douluo.
• Tang Hao struck Yu Luomian with the Clear Sky Hammer and sent him crashing into the ground, vomiting blood.

Tang Hao used the Great Sumeru Hammer to defeat Yu Yuanzhen’s assault, but Yu Luomian sacrificed himself to save his elder brother and died. Tang Hao escaped with Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, and they planned to hide at Shrek Academy while he recovered.

• Tang Hao unleashed the Great Sumeru Hammer, and Yu Luomian took its full force to save Yu Yuanzhen, dying instantly.
• Yu Yuanzhen broke through from Rank 95 to Rank 96 and vowed to avenge Yu Luomian by attacking the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Hao carried Tang San and Yu Xiaogang away, then collapsed as the power sustaining him faded and his old injuries flared up.
• Yu Xiaogang suggested that Tang San hide at his friend’s Shrek Academy, and Tang Hao agreed but said he first needed to take Tang San somewhere.

Tang Hao took Tang San to the Blue Silver Forest, where the Blue Silver Grass rejected him because Ah Yin had not acknowledged him as her heir. The trio then reached Shrek Academy, where Yu Xiaogang tried to use his reputation to meet Flender but was mistaken for an impostor and beaten by Lu Qibin.

• The Blue Silver King explained that the Blue Silver Grass favored Ah Yin and would not accept Tang San as Emperor until she acknowledged him.
• After Tang San reported the rejection, Tang Hao abandoned his plan to confront the Blue Silver King and led him away.
• Tang Hao, Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang traveled to Suotuo City, where Yu Xiaogang arrived at Shrek Academy on enrollment day with Tang San's support.
• Yu Xiaogang cut in line and told Lu Qibin to summon Flender, but Lu Qibin thought he was a fraud and knocked him down.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed to be Grandmaster, and Lu Qibin slapped him while demanding that he prove his identity.
• Yu Xiaogang began to curl his lip, so Lu Qibin slapped him again and threatened him.

Lu Qibin brought the mutilated Yu Xiaogang to Flender, but the two old friends found that their former closeness had vanished. Yu Xiaogang’s Golden Bloodline had dried up, leaving their bond and Golden Sacred Dragon fusion skill broken, and Flender asked what had happened to him.

• Lu Qibin mistook Yu Xiaogang’s behavior for madness, then brought Flender to meet him after Tang San identified him.
• Flender struggled to recognize Yu Xiaogang and realized he could no longer feel their familiar connection.
• Yu Xiaogang sensed the loss of their old understanding and began to doubt whether Flender would remain loyal.
• Yu Xiaogang’s depleted Golden Bloodline had erased his ability to use the three-person Martial Soul Fusion Skill and severed the bond between the former Golden Iron Triangle.
• Flender warmly embraced Yu Xiaogang, led him away from the gate, and asked how he had been so badly injured.

Flender sheltered Yu Xiaogang and his disciple Tang San at Shrek Academy, while Yu Xiaogang hid the circumstances of their escape from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Tang San prepared to take Shrek’s entrance assessment in disguise as his resentment toward Chen Ming grew.

• Yu Xiaogang tearfully told Flender about his broken limbs and imprisonment, but Flender questioned his actions and warned him not to draw Chen Ming’s attention.
• Flender offered Yu Xiaogang a place to hide at Shrek Academy, and Yu Xiaogang asked him to conceal both their presence and Tang San’s identity.
• Flender learned that Tang San was twelve, had a Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, and had reached Rank 29; Tang San claimed Innate Full Soul Power while resenting Chen Ming’s widespread Douluo Mental Method.
• Flender invited Tang San to take Shrek Academy’s entrance assessment, and Tang San asked to disguise his appearance to protect the teachers from danger.

Tang San disguised himself as Tang Yin and reached Shrek Academy’s second selection stage, where he and Zhu Zhuqing were sent straight to Zhao Wuji’s assessment. Chen Ming and Ning Rongrong arrived to observe, leaving Tang San tense as Chen Ming looked his way.

• Tang San changed his appearance slightly, adopted the alias Tang Yin, and followed Flender to the second stage.
• Zhu Zhuqing arrived and searched for the examiner while reflecting on her conflict with Zhu Zhuyun and her reasons for pursuing Dai Mubai.
• Zhao Wuji told Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing that they could skip the occupied second and third stages and qualify by enduring his assessment or demonstrating special abilities.
• Chen Ming and Ning Rongrong arrived with Flender, and Chen Ming asked Zhao Wuji for permission to watch the selection.
• Zhao Wuji welcomed Chen Ming, while Chen Ming glanced at Tang San, who tensed under his gaze.

Chen Ming and Ning Rongrong watched Zhu Zhuqing and Tang San undergo Shrek Academy’s admissions assessment while Flender tried to conceal Tang San’s identity. Tang San recognized Chen Ming and grew jealous, then hesitated to reveal his Blue Silver Grass skill as Zhao Wuji assessed the two applicants.

• Flender reluctantly accompanied Chen Ming and Ning Rongrong, fearing Chen Ming might expose Tang San and Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang San recognized Chen Ming, resented his success, and suppressed his killing intent while judging that Chen Ming was not much stronger than himself.
• Zhao Wuji explained the assessment, and Zhu Zhuqing attacked him with Hell Stab and Hell Hundred Claws, impressing him with her explosive power and decisiveness.
• Zhao Wuji blocked Zhu Zhuqing’s attacks with a Soul Power barrier and urged Tang San to act instead of standing idle.
• Tang San summoned his Blue Silver Grass and used Blue Silver Entanglement, but Zhao Wuji shattered it effortlessly.
• Chen Ming suspected Tang San had hesitated because Blue Silver Entanglement could reveal his identity.

Tang San tested Chen Ming with Blue Silver Entanglement, then used Tang Sect hidden weapons against Zhao Wuji during the assessment. Chen Ming studied Zhao Wuji’s Mighty Vajra Palm and Tang San’s techniques, while the spar continued.

• Tang San saw that Chen Ming showed no reaction to Blue Silver Entanglement and concluded that his abilities were still unknown.
• Tang San used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and Mysterious Jade Hand to launch jujube pit nails at Zhao Wuji’s vital points, but Zhao Wuji’s Soul Power blocked them.
• Zhao Wuji possessed himself with the Mighty Vajra Bear and attacked Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing with his second Spirit Skill, Mighty Vajra Palm.
• Chen Ming analyzed Zhao Wuji’s Martial Soul and quickly grasped much of the Mighty Vajra Palm’s method.
• Tang San dodged the palm and unleashed a variety of hidden weapons, whose intricate trajectories and bursts of speed impressed Chen Ming.

Chen Ming analyzed Tang San’s hidden weapons and explained their limitations to Ning Rongrong while Zhao Wuji endured the attacks. Zhao Wuji then used his Spirit Skills to defeat Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing, leaving Tang San devastated by what he saw as a blasphemous use of hidden weapons.

• Chen Ming calculated Tang San’s hidden weapon techniques and observed that his ordinary weapons could not pierce Zhao Wuji’s defenses.
• Chen Ming told Ning Rongrong that hidden weapons were less worthwhile for Spirit Masters than cultivating Soul Power and Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Zhu Zhuqing repeatedly attacked Zhao Wuji while Tang San exhausted his hidden weapons and fired his Godly Zhuge Crossbow, which also failed to harm him.
• As the incense neared its end, Zhao Wuji activated Immovable Bright King Body, Gravity Enhancement, and Gravity Tracking, then struck Zhu Zhuqing and Tang San with hidden weapons.
• Tang San fell to the ground, horrified that Zhao Wuji had used hidden weapons without technique, and lamented that his own Spirit Skills were not what he wanted.

Chen Ming analyzed Tang San’s techniques and decided to publish weakened versions to undermine Tang San’s advantage. After recovering from Zhao Wuji’s test, Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing joined Shrek Academy, while Chen Ming and Ning Rongrong remained guests from Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.

• Chen Ming reverse-engineered Tang San’s Mysterious Jade Hand and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, then planned to release them as Iron Sand Palm and Little Perplexing Track Steps.
• Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing slowly recovered from Zhao Wuji’s test, and Zhao Wuji gave them healing sausages and Candy Beans.
• Zhu Zhuqing was astonished by the Candy Bean’s power, while Tang San remained despondent despite recovering his strength.
• Zhao Wuji accepted Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing as Shrek Academy students and stopped Tang San from pointing at Chen Ming.
• Zhao Wuji explained that Shrek graduates could seek a route to Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, though Shrek’s own graduation standard was rank forty.