Chapter Summaries

Shrek and the Imperial Dou Team prepared strategies for their final Soul Battle, with both sides treating Dugu Yan’s poison and Su Ming’s abilities as key factors. As the teams faced each other, Su Ming and Ye Lingling sensed a mysterious familiarity and resonance between their Martial Souls.

• Tang San proposed using Realgar Wine and Explosive Burn to counter Dugu Yan’s poison, with Dai Mubai’s White Tiger Rending Light Wave as the substitute for Ma Hongjun’s Phoenix Flame.
• Yu Tianheng and Qin Ming planned for Yu Tianheng to hold off Su Ming while Dugu Yan controlled Xiao Wu, and assigned the other Imperial Dou Team members to target Shrek’s back line and protect Ye Lingling.
• Dugu Yan privately doubted Yu Tianheng could hold Su Ming back and hoped Su Ming would eventually treat the poison affecting her and her grandfather.
• The Shrek Team and Imperial Dou Team entered the arena as the crowd loudly cheered for Shrek.
• Su Ming and Ye Lingling exchanged glances and sensed their Martial Souls resonating, leading Su Ming to suspect they might be able to use a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Shrek Team faced Imperial Dou Team, and Su Ming quickly defeated Yu Tianheng with a powerful wooden restraint and Wood Dragon strike. As Tang San and Dai Mubai tried to counter Dugu Yan’s poison with Realgar Wine, Dugu Yan revealed that her modified venom was no longer affected by it.

• Su Ming noticed that his Martial Soul could fuse with Ye Lingling’s, while both teams took their positions for the match.
• Yu Tianheng charged Su Ming with several lightning Spirit Skills as Dugu Yan spread poisonous mists across the arena.
• Su Ming trapped Yu Tianheng with the All-Binding Sack Technique and swept him off the arena with a Wood Dragon’s tail.
• Tang San threw Realgar Wine into Dugu Yan’s poisonous mist, and Dai Mubai detonated it with a White Tiger Fierce Light Wave.
• Dugu Yan revealed that her modified poison was immune to Realgar Wine, surprising Tang San and Su Ming.

Dugu Yan’s poisonous mist trapped Shrek’s fighters with paralysis and hallucinations, while hidden snakes blinded Tang San and left him vulnerable. Tang San was knocked unconscious and sent off the arena, leaving Shrek down a fighter.

• Su Ming used his vines to pull Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dai Mubai out of Dugu Yan’s poisonous mist and warned Ning Rongrong to stay clear.
• Su Ming sent Tang San to attack Dugu Yan, and Tang San used Oscar’s Detoxifying Small Sausage before charging through the fog.
• Dugu Yan ordered her teammates to pressure Tang San while hidden venomous snakes bit him, blinding him and disrupting his movements.
• Tang San released his Eight Spider Lances and called for Su Ming’s help, but Dugu Yan’s teammates struck before Su Ming could pull him back.
• Yufeng and the Shi Mo brothers knocked Tang San off the arena, and he passed out from his injuries.

Su Ming tested his newly learned Sage Mode during Shrek’s battle against the Imperial Dou Team and won after Dugu Yan’s poison proved ineffective against him. After the match, he invited Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to meet him alone, hoping to address their poison and unusual Martial Soul resonance.

• After Tang San fell to Dugu Yan, Su Ming sent Xiao Wu and the others off the arena to avoid the poisonous mist.
• Su Ming activated Sage Mode and charged through Dugu Yan’s poison, which could not harm him.
• Su Ming used vines and wooden hands to knock Yufeng, Shi Mo and Shi Mo, and Osler off the arena.
• Dugu Yan surrendered when only she and Ye Lingling remained, and Su Ming stopped his attack.
• Su Ming invited Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to meet him alone, and both recognized reasons to accept.
• Manager Ao declared Shrek the winner and announced its eighth consecutive victory.

Su Ming led the Shrek Team to victory over the Imperial Dou Team, while Dugu Yan’s unexpected Spirit Skills left Tang San badly injured before Ye Lingling healed him. After the match, Yu Xiaogang arranged to meet Qin Ming, and Su Ming wrote in his Diary about Dugu Yan’s abilities and Tang San’s defeat.

• Su Ming dispelled Sage Mode after defeating the Imperial Dou Team, stunning the spectators and Qin Ming with his strength.
• Qin Ming asked Ye Lingling to heal Tang San, and she used her Nine Heart Begonia to wake him.
• Yu Xiaogang arranged to meet Qin Ming after the match and led the Shrek students to find a restaurant.
• Su Ming wrote in his Diary about Dugu Yan’s changed Martial Soul and Spirit Skills, which had blinded Tang San and helped knock him from the arena.
• Dugu Yan read Su Ming’s Diary and felt pleased that he had praised her and been surprised by her strength.

Su Ming’s account described how Dugu Bo captured Tang San over his External Soul Bone, then took him to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after Tang San offered to help cure his poisoning and protect Dugu Yan. Tang San used the Immortal Herbs there to gain major benefits, while Dugu Bo learned Tang San was Tang Hao’s son and prepared to test him with three poisons.

• Tang San unleashed his Eight Spider Lances during his fight, drawing Dugu Yan’s attention to his External Soul Bone.
• Dugu Bo captured Tang San and brought him to a cave, but Tang San identified Dugu Bo’s poisoning and offered to help him and Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo took Tang San to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and gave him several days to prove his skill before facing three poison trials.
• Tang San consumed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, then used the well to gain poison immunity and resist extreme temperatures.
• Dugu Bo learned from Yu Xiaogang and Flender that Tang San was Tang Hao’s son, then watched Tang San endure the poison trials and craft the Mother-Child Soul Chasing Life Taking Gall.

Su Ming criticized Tang San’s treatment of Dugu Bo and argued that Dugu Bo had helped Tang San far more than Tang San ever repaid him. Dugu Yan heard Su Ming’s views and clarified that she only had a favorable impression of Yu Tianheng, leaving her uncertain about what Su Ming thought of her.

• Tang San gave Dugu Bo a Hidden Weapon and suggested using medicine and Soul Bones to manage his poison, improving Dugu Bo’s condition and Soul Power.
• Su Ming warned Dugu Yan that the treatment only delayed the danger because low-year Soul Bones could eventually fail under the poison.
• Su Ming recalled how Dugu Bo supported Tang San, while Tang San took the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s Immortal Herbs and later tied Dugu Bo to Shrek Academy.
• Su Ming criticized Tang San for failing to share Immortal Herbs or later Soul Bones with Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Yan objected to Su Ming’s remarks and explained that she merely had a favorable impression of Yu Tianheng.

The women read Su Ming’s thoughts about how Dugu Bo could have become stronger if he had invested in Su Ming instead of Tang San. Dugu Yan resolved to bring her grandfather closer to Su Ming, while Qin Ming led the Imperial Dou Team to meet Shrek Academy, where Yu Tianheng hoped to learn more about the student who had defeated him.

• Dugu Yan resented Tang San for giving her grandfather no real reward for their earlier exchange and decided to keep Tang San away from Dugu Bo.
• Su Ming wrote that he could cure Dugu Bo’s poison by fusing it with his body and could help him reach at least level ninety-five, depending on Dugu Bo’s character and insight.
• Dugu Yan was delighted by Su Ming’s offer but hid her reaction when Yu Tianheng noticed her smiling.
• Yu Tianheng praised Shrek Academy’s strength, and Qin Ming explained that it accepted only monsters and invited the Imperial Dou Team to exchange pointers with its students.
• Yu Tianheng went along hoping to see Su Ming and discover how the younger student had defeated him.

Su Ming questioned Qin Ming’s loyalty to Shrek and planned how to leave the academy with Xiao Wu, Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing. He intended to provoke Tang San into an outburst, while Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling prepared to discuss his remarks with him.

• Su Ming wondered whether Ye Lingling’s Martial Soul could resonate with his and whether they might perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill by blending their Soul Power.
• Su Ming criticized Qin Ming for remaining loyal to Shrek despite Heaven Dou Royal Academy offering better resources and prospects, prompting Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to question Qin Ming’s choice as well.
• Su Ming considered how to leave Shrek after meeting Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling that night.
• Yu Xiaogang reassured Tang San that the spirit battle loss resulted from being countered by the opposing control-type Soul Master.
• Su Ming planned to mock Tang San until he erupted, hoping to use the resulting conflict to take Xiao Wu, Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing to Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Ning Fengzhi’s help.

Qin Ming reunited with Flender and admired the young Shrek students, then considered recruiting them to Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Yu Xiaogang endorsed the idea, while Dugu Yan decided to observe Su Ming and support his choices if needed.

• Flender brought Qin Ming and the Imperial Dou Team to meet the Shrek students, and Ma Hongjun tricked Flender into ordering nearly every dish on the menu.
• Qin Ming offered to pay for the meal and praised the Shrek students’ talent after Flender introduced them.
• Qin Ming told Flender he taught at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and admitted he wanted to recruit the Shrek students for the Soul Master Elite Competition.
• Yu Xiaogang interrupted and encouraged Qin Ming to bring the students to the Royal Academy despite their ties to Shrek.
• Dugu Yan objected to Tang San joining the Royal Academy and decided to watch Su Ming’s plans before choosing whether to support him.

Yu Xiaogang persuaded Flender that Shrek could not provide the students with better cultivation conditions, while Tang San grew jealous of Su Ming’s rapid progress and tried to pressure him into revealing his cultivation method. Su Ming turned the demand back on Tang San and exposed his Twin Martial Souls, leaving Tang San furious and the Imperial Dou Team shocked.

• Yu Xiaogang convinced Flender that Shrek Academy could not offer the students a better cultivation environment.
• Yu Tianheng asked Su Ming how he had cultivated so quickly, and Su Ming said he was a commoner with Innate Soul Power rank seven.
• Tang San suspected Su Ming had a superior cultivation technique and publicly demanded that he reveal it.
• Yu Xiaogang offered to trade for Su Ming’s technique, while Tang San, Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun also showed interest.
• Su Ming demanded that Tang San exchange his Mysterious Heaven Skill and challenged him for refusing to share his own techniques.
• Su Ming revealed that Tang San had Twin Martial Souls, shocking the Imperial Dou Team and enraging Tang San.

Su Ming confronted Tang San and Yu Xiaogang over their hypocrisy and their attempts to obtain his techniques, then announced that he was leaving Shrek Academy. He also revealed Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls and Tang Sect techniques, while a mysterious old man watched the dispute from outside the tavern.

• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong accused Tang San of repeatedly provoking Su Ming and criticized him for refusing to share his own techniques.
• Su Ming revealed that practicing Lingbo Weibu could improve cultivation speed, and Ning Rongrong realized it could help her overcome her slow cultivation.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Su Ming to teach him Lingbo Weibu in exchange for the Dragon Transformation Secret Method, but Su Ming challenged the terms and Yu Xiaogang could not guarantee the technique would stay private.
• Yu Tianheng decided to tell his grandfather about Su Ming’s techniques so the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan could try to obtain them by force.
• Su Ming announced that he was withdrawing from Shrek Academy and revealed Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls and Tang Sect techniques to the others.
• An old man watching from outside the tavern decided there was no need to deliver Su Ming’s talisman-making materials to Shrek Academy the next morning.

Su Ming denounced Shrek Academy and its students, then decided to withdraw after Tang San exposed his cultivation method and blamed him for revealing Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls. The confrontation escalated as Su Ming challenged Oscar’s behavior and Dai Mubai’s treatment of Zhu Zhuqing, before Tang San accused Su Ming of pursuing both Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong.

• Gu Rong secretly watched Su Ming and the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team after Tang San exposed Su Ming’s cultivation method and blamed him for revealing his Twin Martial Souls.
• Flender tried to stop Su Ming from withdrawing, but Su Ming criticized Shrek Academy’s students, facilities, food, and lack of eligibility for the Soul Master Elite Competition.
• Ma Hongjun objected to Su Ming’s insults, while Su Ming confronted Oscar with examples of his ungrateful and creepy behavior.
• Dai Mubai protested Su Ming’s criticism and claimed his status and engagement to Zhu Zhuqing entitled him to force himself on her.
• Tang San defended Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai, then accused Su Ming of pursuing Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong and claimed he had heard a woman in Su Ming’s hotel room.

Tang San tried to turn Su Ming’s silence about another woman into a confession, but Xiao Wu rejected Tang San and defended Su Ming. Su Ming criticized Tang San’s behavior and Hidden Weapons, leaving Tang San’s claim that he invented them under suspicion.

• Gu Rong overheard Tang San claim Su Ming had unclear relationships with Xiao Wu and Rongrong, and wondered what that meant for the sect’s little princess.
• Tang San used Su Ming’s silence to accuse him and professed his own sincerity, but Xiao Wu angrily told Tang San to stay away from her.
• Su Ming warned Tang San to drop the subject, called out his indirect pursuit of Xiao Wu, and criticized his reliance on Hidden Weapons.
• Tang San argued that winning mattered more than the methods used, and Su Ming suggested Tang San’s Hidden Weapon designs might have been stolen.
• Tang San insisted he had designed the Hidden Weapons himself, while Su Ming left the truth to Tang San’s conscience and the others’ judgment.
• Tang San again urged Xiao Wu to choose him, but Xiao Wu rejected him and told him to stop talking about the hotel incident.

Su Ming privately told Tang San that Xiao Wu had been the woman in his room, leaving Tang San stunned. Su Ming, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing then announced they were leaving Shrek Academy, while Dai Mubai threatened Zhu Zhuqing and she mocked him for being a disgraced prince.

• Su Ming used a Soundproof Barrier to tell Tang San that Xiao Wu had been in his room that night and warned him not to speak recklessly.
• Tang San reacted with disbelief, while Xiao Wu realized Su Ming had explained the situation and felt relieved that she no longer needed to tolerate Tang San.
• Su Ming told Xiao Wu they were leaving Shrek Academy, and Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing also announced they were withdrawing.
• Ning Rongrong said her father and grandfathers would arrange for the four of them to enroll at Heaven Dou Royal Academy separately from Shrek.
• Dai Mubai threatened Zhu Zhuqing over her engagement and family identity, and Zhu Zhuqing called him a disgraced prince who had been on the run for three years.
• Dai Mubai lost his temper and said he should have used his strength to teach Zhu Zhuqing a lesson.

Zhu Zhuqing confronted Dai Mubai to settle things between them, and her defense-breaking attack badly wounded him despite his confidence in his White Tiger defenses. The fight continued in the tavern’s private room, where Su Ming stopped Dai Mubai’s follow-up attacks and Gu Rong secretly watched from within the space.

• Su Ming, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong prepared to defend Zhu Zhuqing, but she asked them to let her face Dai Mubai herself.
• Dai Mubai released his White Tiger Martial Soul and attacked Zhu Zhuqing, dismissing Tang San’s warning about her strength.
• Zhu Zhuqing used Hell Stab to close in and Netherworld Slash to break through Dai Mubai’s Soul Power Shield, injuring his arms and sending him backward.
• Dai Mubai launched several White Tiger Fierce Light Waves, but Su Ming summoned wooden hands to neutralize them.
• Gu Rong hid inside the tavern’s space using Space Transfer, while Su Ming noticed him watching the fight.

Zhu Zhuqing defeated Dai Mubai after condemning his attack, while Ye Lingling refused to heal him and Dugu Yan challenged Qin Ming's loyalty to the academy. Dugu Yan ordered Qin Ming to leave, and the rest of the Imperial Dou Team reluctantly accepted her decision.

• Zhu Zhuqing criticized Dai Mubai for attacking in a tavern, then struck him with Netherworld Hundred Claws and sent him crashing into a wooden wall Su Ming raised.
• Dai Mubai spat blood and suffered lingering yin-cold energy from Zhu Zhuqing's attack, while Qin Ming asked Ye Lingling to heal him.
• Ye Lingling refused to treat Dai Mubai, and Dugu Yan rebuked Qin Ming for taking his former teacher's side.
• Oscar gave Dai Mubai a Recovery Big Sausage, and Su Ming urged Flender to find a capable healer.
• Qin Ming confirmed he would still recommend Tang San and the others to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, despite their conflict with Su Ming.
• Dugu Yan told Qin Ming to leave the academy and threatened to involve her grandfather; the Imperial Dou Team reluctantly agreed with her decision.

Dugu Yan expelled Qin Ming for siding with Shrek and stayed behind with Ye Lingling to speak with Su Ming. After leaving Tang San consumed by resentment, Su Ming took the two women outside and began testing whether he and Ye Lingling could perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Dugu Yan told Qin Ming he was no longer their teacher and arranged for Yu Tianheng to take the team back to the hotel.
• Yu Tianheng led the others away while thinking of sending word to his clan so his grandfather could pursue Su Ming's cultivation technique.
• Su Ming warned Tang San not to act underhandedly, then left with Xiao Wu and the others as Flender carried the unconscious Dai Mubai away.
• Yu Xiaogang encouraged Tang San to surpass Su Ming, and Tang San resolved to develop powerful Hidden Weapons as a wisp of black aura was absorbed by his Blue Silver Grass.
• Su Ming asked Bone Douluo to meet Ning Rongrong, then took Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling outside the city to discuss their matters.
• Su Ming and Ye Lingling touched hands to test their Martial Soul resonance, and Ye Lingling trembled and blushed.

Su Ming discovered that his Martial Soul was perfectly compatible with Ye Lingling’s and learned that Dugu Yan wanted his help curing her poison. He then faced Gu Rong, who demanded an explanation for Su Ming’s relationship with Ning Rongrong despite his existing relationship with Xiao Wu.

• Su Ming and Ye Lingling released their Martial Souls and found that they had one hundred percent compatibility, though they would need to grow closer and practice before using a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Su Ming told Dugu Yan that her evolved Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul had deepened the poison in her body and agreed to discuss a cure with her grandfather in exchange for a fair trade.
• Dugu Yan offered to recommend Su Ming for admission to Heaven Dou Royal Academy in her grandfather’s name.
• Su Ming went to Ning Rongrong’s room, where Gu Rong confronted him with the aura of a Titled Douluo and demanded that he explain himself.
• Su Ming explained his relationship with Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong, and Gu Rong inwardly condemned him for pursuing Rongrong while already being with Xiao Wu.

Su Ming defended his desire to pursue both Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong, convincing Gu Rong to hold off on opposing them. He then urged Gu Rong to secretly accompany their group to Heaven Dou Royal Academy because the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan might target him for his cultivation technique.

• Gu Rong demanded that Su Ming choose between Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong or stop pursuing Rongrong, but Su Ming insisted he wanted both and promised he would become a Titled Douluo.
• Su Ming argued that his talent and future strength would make him worthy of Rongrong, and Rongrong asked Gu Rong to let them decide their relationship themselves.
• Gu Rong agreed not to interfere for now, though he planned to discuss the matter with Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo.
• Su Ming asked Gu Rong to travel with their group to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and warned that people connected to Yu Xiaogang and Yu Tianheng might covet his cultivation technique.
• Gu Rong recognized that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan could threaten Su Ming if it learned about the technique, and reconsidered leaving the group unprotected.