Chapter Summaries

Le Bai demonstrated Soul Power Stealth and used Dugu Bo’s poison to capture a Red Lotus Phoenix Fire Butterfly alive. He brought it back to the group for Ma Hongjun, then sat down to rest and immediately fell asleep.

• Le Bai claimed he had a solution and asked Dugu Bo for poison that could knock out Soul Beasts without killing them.
• Le Bai demonstrated Soul Power Stealth, which concealed his presence by matching the nature of his Soul Power to the surroundings.
• Dugu Bo gave Le Bai two Poison Pills, and Le Bai explained that the Red Lotus Phoenix Fire Butterfly’s tracking flames and scale wings would suit Ma Hongjun.
• Le Bai used fragrant liquid to feed a Poison Pill to the butterfly, then caught it and carried it back without alerting the other insects.
• Le Bai told Ma Hongjun to deal with the butterfly, sat against a tree, and fell asleep.

Le Bai transported a Sonic Cicada out of the Insect Sea so Oscar could absorb its Soul Ring, then considered how his Soul Power techniques conflicted. He left the problem unresolved while continuing to analyze his cultivation.

• Le Bai woke after five minutes of sleep and explained the Sonic Cicada’s habits and sound-based attacks to Oscar.
• Le Bai told Oscar that the Sonic Cicada stored sweet juices and could be roasted, then entered the Insect Sea to retrieve it.
• Le Bai used Soul Power to carry the much heavier Sonic Cicada out of the swarm, and Oscar killed it and began absorbing its Soul Ring.
• Le Bai ate bread and recovered his Soul Power while reflecting on how Spirit Power Overclocking caused Soul Power Crystals to form and advance his Soul Bone Transformation.
• Le Bai worried that Soul Power Crystals might eventually clog his body if his Soul Bone Transformation stopped absorbing them, and devoted most of his Thought Lines to analyzing his concerns.

After the group returned from the Star Dou Forest, Ning Fengzhi invited Le Bai to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Le Bai asked what the sect expected in return.

• Le Bai warned the group about a Pale Imperial Grey-Crowned Vulture, and Dugu Bo froze it during its dive before Flender brought it down and killed it.
• Flender absorbed the vulture's Soul Ring and became a Spirit Douluo, but gained neither a Soul Bone nor a Soul Power advancement.
• The group returned to Blue Tyrant Academy, where Dugu Yan left to spend time with Yu Tian Heng instead of continuing to cultivate.
• Ning Rongrong introduced her father, Ning Fengzhi, to Le Bai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun.
• Ning Fengzhi invited Le Bai to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and promised to fulfill his needs; Le Bai asked what the price would be.

Ning Fengzhi invited Le Bai to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but Le Bai declined because he disliked obligations. Later, the Shrek students discussed Oscar’s and Ma Hongjun’s new Soul Skills and preparations for training at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Ning Fengzhi offered Le Bai the sect’s resources and assistance in exchange for membership, but Le Bai declined, and Ning Rongrong promised to help him as a friend.
• After Ning Fengzhi left with Uncle Gu, he described Le Bai as contradictory and speculated that time would reveal more about him.
• Dai Mubai chaired the Shrek students’ Soul Skill discussion and brought up their planned training at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Oscar explained that his Fourth Soul Skill, [Soul Storage Honey Sausage], doubled his total Soul Power capacity for ten minutes without increasing its intensity or amount.
• Le Bai and the others reassured Oscar that the skill could strengthen their sustained combat ability, and Ma Hongjun began describing his Fourth Soul Skill, [Phoenix Seeking Phoenix Flame Dance].

Ma Hongjun demonstrated how his new Soul Skill marked and pursued targets with Black Fire, while Le Bai revealed that compressed Soul Power crystallized inside him and strengthened his bones. After the group agreed to investigate the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, they traveled to Sunset Forest and reached the area influenced by its energy.

• Ma Hongjun explained that his Soul Skill marked targets with Black Fire and sent tracking flames after them, prompting Dai Mubai to admit he could not currently beat him.
• Le Bai said he could no longer use Spirit Power Overclocking because compressed Soul Power crystallized and was absorbed into his bones, and the others failed to absorb a crystallization he made.
• The group speculated about how Le Bai created Soul Power Crystallization, then decided to set out for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well the next day.
• Tang San obtained a map from Dugu Bo, and the eight bid farewell to Flender and the Grandmaster before traveling toward Sunset Forest.
• Le Bai detected Soul Beasts along the way, and the group either avoided them or fought them until they cleared the path.
• By evening, the group reached the area affected by the Ice and Fire Energy, and Le Bai told them to stop and try to harmonize with it.

At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Le Bai pondered why Soul Power Intensity increased and how it related to Soul Power Crystallization, while the others cultivated. After a month of dead ends, a remark Dai Mubai had made about Soul Power consumption gave Le Bai a possible clue.

• The six people besides Tang San mastered Energy Harmonization under Le Bai's guidance and arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where they met Tang Hao.
• Tang San told Xiao Wu that the Blue Silver Grass beside Tang Hao was his mother and asked her to keep it secret from the others.
• Xiao Wu and the others began cultivating, while Le Bai used Parallel Thinking to investigate Soul Power Intensity and Crystallization.
• Le Bai ruled out Soul Power flow speed and purity as explanations, but could not determine how intensity related to concentration.
• A month after Dai Mubai reminded Le Bai that rapidly increasing Soul Power consumption could imitate higher Soul Power Intensity, Le Bai woke with the remark organized into a possible clue.

After a month of reflection, Le Bai understood the essence of Soul Power Intensity and demonstrated how he could fly by controlling Soul Power. He returned to share his discovery with the others, leaving them eager to hear his explanation.

• Le Bai connected Dai Mubai's earlier words to his cultivation insights, then used Soul Power to rise into the sky and shout in excitement.
• Tang Hao spoke with the Blue Silver Emperor about Le Bai's secrets, returning to the sect, and waiting for Xiao San to grow stronger.
• Le Bai returned to find the others awake, and agreed to explain how he flew after they exchanged their cultivation experiences.
• Le Bai gathered food, cooked for everyone, and joined them as they discussed their progress and recent problems.
• Oscar pointed out Le Bai's obvious excitement, and Le Bai revealed that he had discovered the essence of Soul Power Intensity.

Le Bai explained that Soul Power Intensity reflected the amount of Soul Power, then demonstrated that compression only caused temporary changes in its fluctuations. He began using heat transfer to explain how the process of changing Soul Power could affect what they sensed.

• Le Bai asked the others to consider what changed when Soul Power grew stronger, and they could not identify the answer.
• Le Bai credited Dai Mubai’s earlier remark with leading him to conclude that Soul Power Intensity was tied to the amount of Soul Power released in a short time.
• Le Bai compressed one of two equal masses of Soul Power, and the others sensed its fluctuations strengthen before returning to the original level.
• Le Bai expanded the compressed Soul Power and demonstrated that its fluctuations strengthened during that process as well.
• Le Bai compared the changing fluctuations to heat moving into and out of water, guiding Ma Hongjun and the others toward the idea that the same factor could cause temperature to rise or fall.

Le Bai explained the nature of Soul Power Intensity, his new Spirit Power Overclocking method, and how controlling Soul Power outside the body enabled flight. After months of cultivation at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, the group prepared to return to the Academy once Tang San and Xiao Wu reached level forty.

• Le Bai explained that Soul Power Intensity depended on how its spatiotemporal distribution could change, and said he had developed a new Spirit Power Overclocking method.
• Le Bai taught the others how to control Soul Power after releasing it outside the body, explaining both temporary flight and his new overclocking technique.
• Le Bai resumed the Soul Bone Transformation Project, using Soul Power Crystallization while cultivating and improving his efficiency over time.
• Over the next half year, Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing reached level forty, while Tang San reached level thirty-nine and Xiao Wu reached level forty.
• The group agreed to return to the Academy after nearly seven months at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and set off after bidding Tang Hao farewell.

After returning to Blue Tyrant Academy, Le Bai and the others reported their progress and set out with Shrek's teachers to Sunset Forest to find four Soul Rings. Le Bai located a fast, elusive Soul Beast suited to Zhu Zhuqing, and Tang San identified it as a Shadow-Stalking Pallas's Cat.

• Flender confronted the returning students, then took Ma Hongjun away to test his training.
• At dinner, Grandmaster arranged for the group to hunt Soul Rings in Sunset Forest and asked everyone to join to rebuild their teamwork.
• Le Bai asked Tang San, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing what kinds of Soul Rings they wanted, and they described their preferences.
• Le Bai sensed a promising Soul Beast and led the group through Sunset Forest until evening, while warning that it could vanish from sight and move faster when it did.
• Tang San concluded that the elusive Soul Beast was likely a Shadow-Stalking Pallas's Cat, which could merge with shadows.

Le Bai used his new Spirit Power Overclocking method to capture a six-thousand-five-hundred-year-old Shadow-Stalking Pallas's Cat for Zhu Zhuqing. After Zhu Zhuqing began absorbing its Soul Ring, Le Bai revealed that his enhanced Soul Power and physical strength had made him far stronger than the others realized.

• Le Bai stopped the group from approaching the wary Soul Beast and proposed sneaking up on it before nightfall, when it would be harder to catch.
• After taking a Big Hot Dog from Oscar, Le Bai used Soul Power Stealth to approach the Shadow-Stalking Pallas's Cat and unleashed his Soul Power.
• The others rushed to Le Bai and found him holding the cat, immobilized by his rapidly flowing Soul Power and Soul Power Crystallization.
• Tang San identified the captured Soul Beast as a roughly six-thousand-five-hundred-year-old Shadow-Stalking Pallas's Cat, and Le Bai handed it to Zhu Zhuqing.
• Zhu Zhuqing killed the cat with her Combined Strike: Nether Shadow Claws and began absorbing its Soul Ring while the group camped nearby.
• Le Bai told the others that his Level 44 Soul Power could rise above Level 70 with his new method and that his physical strength was comparable to a Level 60 Battle Soul Master after Martial Soul Possession.

Le Bai explained his new Spirit Power Overclocking method and discussed the dangers Soul Beasts faced in Sunset Forest. Later, Dai Mubai asked why Le Bai had made him the group’s boss, and Le Bai admitted he had avoided the responsibility himself.

• Flender questioned Le Bai’s estimate of his strength, and Le Bai revised it downward.
• Le Bai explained his new method of increasing Soul Power, and Grandmaster asked him to teach Soul Power Control training.
• Le Bai said Soul Beasts in Sunset Forest faced severe hunting and might soon become scarce.
• Le Bai teased Dai Mubai about Zhu Zhuqing, and Dai Mubai acknowledged that she could leave him as he had once left her.
• Dai Mubai asked why Le Bai had made him the group’s boss, and Le Bai explained that Dai Mubai had leadership ability while he wanted to avoid responsibility.

After Zhu Zhuqing tested her new Soul Skill, Le Bai’s group continued searching for Soul Beasts and found a Sturdy-Skin Shield Bear for Ning Rongrong. They planned how to capture it alive, leaving Ning Rongrong’s Soul Ring hunt poised to begin.

• Zhu Zhuqing woke after cultivating and told Dai Mubai her new Soul Skill was better than his.
• Le Bai led the group deeper into the forest, where they found a timid Sturdy-Skin Shield Bear near its cave.
• Le Bai explained that the bear’s resistance could help Ning Rongrong and the group withstand damage and control abilities.
• Tang San described two Soul Beasts with stronger resistance, but Ning Rongrong rejected them because of their appearance and chose the bear.
• Tang San proposed drawing the bear toward the cave while Le Bai and the others blocked its escape, and Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing agreed to stop it from entering.

Ning Rongrong and the others defeated a Sturdy-Skin Shield Bear, and Ning Rongrong absorbed its Soul Ring while Le Bai studied how their Soul Skills interacted with Martial Soul Fusion. Le Bai explained why he believed becoming a Title Douluo was only the beginning, leaving the others to consider how difficult the higher levels of cultivation were.

• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, with Oscar’s sausages and Ning Rongrong’s buffs, to batter the Sturdy-Skin Shield Bear until Liu Erlong helped subdue it.
• Ning Rongrong killed the Sturdy-Skin Shield Bear with a dagger and began absorbing its Soul Ring as her companions guarded her.
• Le Bai observed that the Scale Armor Hot Dog’s effect divided between Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing after their fusion ended, and recorded the finding for future tests.
• Dai Mubai told Le Bai that Oscar’s Soul Storage Honey Sausage seemed to grow stronger during their fusion, and Le Bai proposed experiments to test why.
• Le Bai argued that reaching Title Douluo was relatively attainable compared with the enormous gap between levels ninety and ninety-nine, and the others reflected on their good fortune in learning at Shrek.

Ning Rongrong completed her Fourth Soul Ring absorption successfully, and Le Bai guided Tang San toward a Man Faced Demon Spider for his own Fourth Soul Ring. The chapter left Tang San considering how to combine and control his existing Soul Skills for group control instead of relying on a ten-thousand-year ring.

• Ning Rongrong woke after absorbing a six-thousand-year Soul Ring, gained a Soul Power level of forty-two, and praised the predicted effect of her new Soul Skill.
• Le Bai returned without Tang San and Xiao Wu, claiming Xiao Wu had found a suitable Soul Beast and begun absorbing it; he left ingredients for dinner with the group.
• Le Bai, Tang San, and Xiao Wu returned after Xiao Wu completed her Fourth Soul Ring, and Le Bai later told the teachers he had found a Man Faced Demon Spider for Tang San.
• Grandmaster explained that another Man Faced Demon Spider could strengthen Tang San's existing abilities and possibly evolve his External Soul Bone.
• Tang San considered taking a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring for a group-control skill, but Le Bai suggested that he develop group control by manipulating Spider Web Restraint and combining it with his other Soul Skills.

Tang San and the others prepared to hunt a six-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider, following Le Bai’s plan to track and wear it down while using support Hot Dogs to sustain the group. They reached a point about two thousand meters from the spider and prepared for the prolonged fight, with Oscar strained by making Beeswax Hot Dogs.

• Tang San agreed to choose the Man Faced Demon Spider, and Grandmaster scheduled the hunt for the following morning.
• Le Bai explained that his improved Sleep skill let him rest parts of his body while remaining alert and working at high efficiency.
• Grandmaster outlined ways to evade the spider’s webs and legs, while Le Bai proposed pursuing it patiently if it fled.
• Le Bai led the group toward the spider and stopped them about two thousand meters away to recover and prepare.
• Le Bai and Oscar made recovery, detoxification, and armor Hot Dogs, but Oscar struggled to produce two Excess Storage Beeswax Hot Dogs because they consumed so much Soul Power.

Le Bai led the group in pursuing a Man Faced Demon Spider, weakening it with ranged attacks and Ma Hongjun’s fire until it fled into Dugu Bo’s Poison Formation. Tang San entered the formation alone to finish it, while the others rested outside and waited for his return.

• Le Bai led the eight-person group toward the Man Faced Demon Spider and directed them to test it with ranged attacks while Tang San tried to ensnare it.
• Le Bai baited the spider into wasting its webs, and Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass hindered its legs while Ma Hongjun burned its webs and marked it with fire.
• The group pursued the weakened spider for four hours, with Le Bai sensing for dangers along its route.
• Tang San recognized that the spider had entered the area of Dugu Bo’s Poison Formation and took an antidote before going in alone to confront it.
• Le Bai and the others waited outside the Poison Formation as Dai Mubai wondered about Tang San’s upcoming Fourth Soul Skill.

Le Bai explained External Soul Bone growth and helped Oscar understand his Scale Armor before Tang San returned from the Poison Formation. The group began a New Soul Skill Research Seminar, where Zhu Zhuqing described her Fourth Soul Skill and Le Bai assessed its uses.

• Le Bai explained that repeated External Soul Bones in the same location would fuse and grow stronger, then described how Oscar's Scale Armor enhanced his physique and Scale Armor Sausage.
• Oscar asked Le Bai to teach him combat training, and Le Bai agreed after noticing Ning Rongrong's expectant gaze.
• Flender wondered whether Le Bai was an Old Monster in disguise, but the Grandmaster and Liu Erlong defended him and noted that he had always helped them.
• Tang San returned from the Poison Formation using his Eight Spider Lances and reunited affectionately with Xiao Wu.
• Dai Mubai proposed a New Soul Skill Research Seminar, and the Grandmaster joined to offer advice.
• Zhu Zhuqing described her Fourth Soul Skill, Nether Shadow Transformation, and Le Bai explained how she could use it to target an enemy's Support System member.

The group discussed how Zhuqing could use a coordinated ambush to target enemy support Soul Masters, then demonstrated Ning Rongrong’s new resistance skill and revealed several newly acquired Fourth Soul Skills. The chapter ended with Tang San describing his Blue Silver Spider Silk skill and the improvements to his spiderweb control.

• Le Bai explained how the group could draw enemies’ attention while Zhuqing slipped behind them to attack their support Soul Masters, and Ning Rongrong offered to support them with her level-forty-two Soul Power.
• Ning Rongrong demonstrated her Fourth Soul Skill, Resistance, by boosting Le Bai while Tang San tested his Eight Spider Lance poison on him.
• Le Bai used Soul Power Regulation to separate a tiny amount of poison from his palm, impressing Tang San despite the effort nearly exhausting his Spiritual Power.
• Xiao Wu revealed that her Fourth Soul Skill, Invincible Golden Body, defended against all attacks and doubled her strength for three seconds, and Le Bai cautioned her about attacks that could bypass defense.
• Tang San revealed his Fourth Soul Skill, Blue Silver Spider Silk, and explained that his Blue Silver Grass gained potent poison and doubled toughness while his spiderweb control improved.

Tang San tested how his Fourth Soul Skill could sharpen his offensive power, and the group discussed how to prepare for the tournament. Back at Lanba Academy, Le Bai diverted Tai Long’s public confession to Xiao Wu into a meeting with the Strength Clan, hinting that he had important information about Haotian.

• Le Bai showed that Tang San could make his Blue Silver Spider Silk thin and sharp, and Tang San confirmed he could control its thickness without losing its toughness.
• The group and Grandmaster discussed how to conserve their strength and conceal their abilities during the tournament, with one month left to prepare.
• The Shrek group returned to Lanba Academy, where Lanba students watched them and Tai Long publicly asked Xiao Wu to be his girlfriend.
• Le Bai identified Tai Long as a member of the Strength Clan and persuaded him to invite his grandfather, Tai Tan, to a nearby shop for a discussion.
• Le Bai told Tai Long to mention Haotian to Tai Tan, then suggested that the group find a quieter place while they waited.