Chapter Summaries

Chen Xin searched for Jiang Chen at Dugu Bo’s territory but left after Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling insisted he was gone. Back at Blue Tyrant Academy, the girls struggled to train without Jiang Chen, while Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling decided to transfer to Shrek Academy.

• Chen Xin demanded to search Dugu Bo’s territory for Jiang Chen, but Dugu Bo threatened to resist if he forced his way in.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling arrived and confirmed Jiang Chen had left, so Chen Xin withdrew his aura, apologized, and departed.
• Dugu Bo guessed that Ning Rongrong had summoned Chen Xin after discovering Jiang Chen was missing, and reassured Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling that Jiang Chen might not join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as a son-in-law.
• Dugu Yan told Dugu Bo that she and Ye Lingling planned to transfer from Heaven Dou Royal Academy to Shrek Academy.
• At Blue Tyrant Academy, Flender noticed Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong were distracted without Jiang Chen, and Liu Erlong scolded him for neglecting his students.

Jiang Chen returned to Blue Tyrant Academy after visiting Poison Douluo, reuniting with Flender and the worried students. He revealed that he had brought back something valuable from the trip, leaving the group curious.

• Flender told Liu Erlong that Jiang Chen’s disappearance had left the students too distracted to train, and explained that Ning Rongrong had sought help from Sword Douluo.
• Jiang Chen arrived at Blue Tyrant Academy, and Flender hurried over to scold him for disappearing and worrying everyone.
• Jiang Chen said a Title Douluo had invited him to visit, and explained that he had not encountered Sword Douluo in Sunset Forest.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked whether Jiang Chen was all right, while Ning Rongrong hugged him and cried with relief.
• Xiao Wu teased Ning Rongrong for hugging Jiang Chen, and Zhu Zhuqing agreed that the embrace was more than ordinary teammate concern.
• Liu Erlong introduced herself to Jiang Chen, and he announced that his visit to Poison Douluo had brought back some good things.

Jiang Chen gave Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu Spirit Beads condensed from immortal herbs and urged them to absorb the herbs’ power. Ning Rongrong’s Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda began growing an eighth and even a ninth level, while Zhu Zhuqing’s Hell Spirit Cat started to evolve.

• Jiang Chen revealed the Spirit Beads he had condensed from herbs taken from Poison Douluo’s Herb Garden, and Tang San identified several as legendary immortal herbs.
• Jiang Chen gave Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing three Spirit Beads each and explained the order they should consume them in.
• Jiang Chen gave Tang San three of the most powerful Spirit Beads and pressed him to absorb them so he could reach rank forty.
• Jiang Chen teased Xiao Wu by threatening to give her Spirit Beads to Oscar, so she snatched them and accepted his instructions for consuming them.
• Ning Rongrong absorbed Aromatic Silk Beauty, and her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda formed an eighth level as the outline of a ninth began to appear.
• Zhu Zhuqing absorbed Aromatic Silk Beauty, and her Hell Spirit Cat began changing as its fur turned golden and red-gold flames surrounded it.

Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing absorbed Jiang Chen’s refined Spirit Beads and gained breakthroughs and Martial Soul changes. Ning Rongrong awakened the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, while Zhu Zhuqing’s Martial Soul evolved into the Hell Flame Spirit Cat.

• Tang San absorbed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew Spirit Bead, advancing his Purple Demon Eyes to the Mustard Seed realm and breaking through a bottleneck.
• Jiang Chen gained a tremendous surge of mental power through Triple Return, while Xiao Wu absorbed her Spirit Bead and rose from level thirty-four to level thirty-eight.
• Jiang Chen helped Tang San absorb the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot Spirit Beads by using Red Lotus Karma Fire to stabilize their opposing forces.
• Flender asked Jiang Chen about the Spirit Beads, and Jiang Chen said they were natural treasures suited to the recipients’ attributes.
• Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul evolved into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and she kissed Jiang Chen in excitement.
• Zhu Zhuqing awakened with her Martial Soul evolved into the Hell Flame Spirit Cat.

Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu completed their Martial Soul evolutions, while Tang San formed his Ice Fire Golden Body and surged to level forty. Jiang Chen promised to help Tang San obtain a powerful fourth Soul Ring, but an angry voice outside then demanded that Tang San come out.

• Zhu Zhuqing's evolved Martial Soul made her faster and gave her attacks a fire-burn effect.
• Xiao Wu completed her transformation, and she, Zhu Zhuqing, and Jiang Chen teased Ning Rongrong about her unchanged figure.
• Tang San's Ice Fire Golden Body formed, raising his Soul Power from level thirty-six to level forty.
• Jiang Chen told Tang San he would help him hunt for a fourth Soul Ring of at least twenty or thirty thousand years, despite Flender's concerns.
• An angry voice outside the door shouted for Tang San to come out.

Tai Nuo stormed into Blue Tyrant Academy to demand that Tang San answer for injuring Tai Long, but Jiang Chen stepped in to face him. Jiang Chen’s Green Lotus Domain withstood Tai Nuo’s strongest attacks, leaving Tai Nuo unable to break through.

• Tai Nuo broke into the academy and demanded that Tang San take three punches or apologize to Tai Long.
• Jiang Chen mocked Tai Nuo’s complaint, while Liu Erlong warned Tai Nuo not to threaten her students.
• Jiang Chen stopped Liu Erlong from intervening and challenged Tai Nuo himself.
• Tai Nuo used his Third Soul Skill, Violent Strike, but Jiang Chen’s Green Lotus Domain blocked the punch without wavering.
• Tai Nuo followed with his Fourth and Fifth Soul Skills, but neither attack left a mark on Jiang Chen’s barrier.

Jiang Chen defeated Tai Nuo in a barehanded fight, relying on his physical strength and a self-created Soul Skill. Tai Nuo admitted defeat and left with Tai Long, while Ning Rongrong asked Jiang Chen about his barrier technique.

• Jiang Chen dispersed his light barrier, then struck Tai Nuo with a punch that sent him crashing into the courtyard wall.
• Tai Nuo charged Jiang Chen with his fourth Soul Skill, but Jiang Chen fought back without summoning his Martial Soul and gained the upper hand.
• Tai Nuo unleashed his fifth Soul Skill, but Jiang Chen's uppercut sent him into the courtyard wall and dislocated his right arm.
• Tai Nuo admitted defeat, and he and Tai Long limped out of the courtyard.
• Ning Rongrong asked Jiang Chen about his barrier, and Jiang Chen explained that it was his Self-Created Soul Skill.

Jiang Chen sparred with Tang San, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong, who had recently grown stronger after taking the Immortal Herb Spirit Pearl. As the group showed improved teamwork, Flender and Liu Erlong discussed the widening gap between the students.

• Flender was astonished that Jiang Chen had created a Self-Created Soul Skill, but told the others to develop abilities suited to themselves.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Jiang Chen to teach her his defensive technique, and Jiang Chen explained that it was tailored to his own traits.
• Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Tang San challenged Jiang Chen to a sparring match to test their strength and digest the herbs' medicinal power.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing attacked Jiang Chen while Ning Rongrong empowered the team and Tang San pressed him with his Eight Spider Lances.
• Flender praised the students' improved coordination, while Liu Erlong pointed out the widening gap between Tang San's group and Dai Mubai's group.

Liu Erlong urged Flender to hold a selection competition at Blue Tyrant Academy to find substitutes for the Shrek Seven Devils, while Jiang Chen let the others test his defensive soul skill. The chapter ended with Tang San, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong unable to make a single ripple in Jiang Chen’s barrier, whose strength seemed to approach Zhao Wuji’s.

• Liu Erlong warned Flender that the Shrek Seven Devils were divided and suggested recruiting substitutes from Blue Tyrant Academy through a selection competition.
• Flender agreed to hold the competition, and Liu Erlong worried Jiang Chen might injure promising students, but Flender said Jiang Chen would not participate.
• Jiang Chen dodged Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing’s attacks until they tired, then offered to let them test his defensive soul skill.
• Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Tang San attacked Jiang Chen’s barrier while Ning Rongrong boosted them, but the lotus-patterned defense remained untouched.
• The group concluded Jiang Chen’s defensive power might rival or exceed Zhao Wuji’s, suggesting Jiang Chen’s strength was nearing that of a Soul Saint.

Liu Erlong tested Jiang Chen’s Green Lotus Domain with her physical attacks and First Soul Skill, but the barrier held. After Flender proposed charging students to experience Jiang Chen’s defense, Liu Erlong reminded everyone to prepare for the Substitute Selection Tournament the next day.

• Liu Erlong challenged Jiang Chen to test whether his Self-Created Soul Skill could withstand a Soul Saint’s attacks, and he accepted.
• Liu Erlong struck the Green Lotus Domain with increasingly powerful punches, but the shield remained intact.
• Jiang Chen invited Liu Erlong to use a Soul Skill, and her Flame Dragon Claw also failed to break through the barrier.
• Liu Erlong praised Jiang Chen’s defense, while he explained that attacks beyond her fourth Soul Skill might force him to retreat.
• Flender suggested opening a paid experience class with Jiang Chen’s Soul Skill, but Liu Erlong smacked him and told everyone to prepare for the Substitute Selection Tournament.

Flender announced a substitute selection tournament and shocked Liu Erlong when she learned Jiang Chen was a Support-type Soul Master with formidable strength. He made Jiang Chen the substitute team captain and planned an open recruitment in Heaven Dou City, while Ning Rongrong asked Jiang Chen to meet her alone that night.

• Flender explained that the Shrek Seven Devils needed substitutes, and Liu Erlong was stunned to learn Jiang Chen was a Support-type Soul Master who had endured her attack.
• Jiang Chen joked that his strength came from working out, and Liu Erlong grabbed Flender to demand where he had found such a monster student.
• Flender told Jiang Chen he was the substitute team captain and said recruitment would include unaffiliated Soul Masters from Heaven Dou City, with a registration fee.
• Ning Rongrong asked Jiang Chen to meet her alone that night, while Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing reacted quietly before leaving.

Ning Rongrong told Jiang Chen that her father would marry her to whoever helped evolve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, then used the promise to get him to agree to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. The next morning, she appeared unusually cheerful while training with Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing, just as Jiang Chen arrived.

• Ning Rongrong asked Jiang Chen whether the Shrek Seven Devils could stay together as Oscar and the others seemed to be drifting away.
• Jiang Chen reassured Ning Rongrong that the group might eventually part and teased her about Dai Mubai leaving.
• Ning Rongrong revealed her evolved Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and said her father had promised her to whoever helped it evolve.
• Jiang Chen tried to avoid the marriage promise, but Ning Rongrong maneuvered him into agreeing to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• The next morning, Ning Rongrong boosted Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing during training, and Jiang Chen arrived looking as though he had just woken up.

Jiang Chen took Tang San to Sunset Forest to hunt Soul Rings, relying on Dugu Bo to guide them to a suitable life-type Soul Beast. The three entered the forest’s depths as Dugu Bo pointed out dangerous Soul Beast territories.

• Jiang Chen invited Tang San to hunt Soul Rings, and Liu Erlong allowed them to go as long as they returned within a week.
• Jiang Chen told Liu Erlong that Dugu Bo would help them, and he and Tang San set out for Sunset Forest.
• Tang San said he wanted a life-type Soul Beast for his Blue Silver Grass, and Dugu Bo appeared after Jiang Chen contacted him with the Communication Stone.
• Dugu Bo agreed to guide Jiang Chen and Tang San through Sunset Forest in search of a suitable Soul Beast.
• Dugu Bo led them deeper into the forest, avoiding powerful Soul Beast territories and describing the creatures living there.

Tang San fought and killed a Jade Water Toad to obtain its Soul Ring, while Jiang Chen and Dugu Bo watched. Tang San began absorbing the ring as the group prepared for the possibility of other powerful beasts approaching.

• Dugu Bo led Jiang Chen and Tang San to a Jade Water Toad and explained that its poisonous mist could stimulate plant growth.
• Tang San attacked the toad with Blue Silver Grass, but its strength and life-boosting poisonous mist thwarted his initial efforts.
• Tang San activated his blackened state and used his Eight Spider Lances to overpower and kill the Jade Water Toad.
• Jiang Chen praised Tang San's fighting and gave him water, while Dugu Bo warned that other powerful beasts were nearby.
• Tang San drew in the Jade Water Toad's Soul Ring and began absorbing it inside a protective barrier of Blue Silver Grass.

Jiang Chen wagered with Dugu Bo that he would find a suitable Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast willing to sacrifice itself for him, staking Dugu Bo’s Herb Garden against training Dugu Bo’s granddaughter if he lost. Tang San absorbed the Jade Water Toad’s twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring, overcame its spiritual backlash, and gained a powerful life-creating fourth Soul Skill.

• Jiang Chen and Dugu Bo agreed that Jiang Chen would get the Herb Garden if he won the wager, but train Dugu Bo’s granddaughter until she became a Soul Saint if he lost.
• As Tang San’s Soul Ring absorption neared completion, the Jade Water Toad’s lingering will attacked him with a powerful spiritual backlash.
• Tang San used Purple Demon Eyes and his formidable mental strength to repel the backlash and complete his fourth Soul Ring.
• Tang San revealed his fourth Soul Skill, Endless Life, which spread Blue Silver Grass across the area and transformed it into a miniature oasis.
• Dugu Bo watched Tang San’s ability and wondered how he could ever fight an opponent like him.

Jiang Chen received the Void Green Lotus Beast’s sacrifice and absorbed its 35,000-year Soul Ring as his fourth. He revealed Green Lotus: Void Traverse, which let him teleport fifty meters away.

• After Tang San stabilized his Soul Power, Jiang Chen, Tang San, and Dugu Bo continued searching the forest for a suitable Soul Beast.
• A dying Void Green Lotus Beast emerged from spatial turbulence and fixed its gaze on Jiang Chen.
• The Void Green Lotus Beast chose to sacrifice itself to Jiang Chen, and he began absorbing its Soul Ring while Dugu Bo protected them.
• Jiang Chen absorbed the beast’s 35,000-year Soul Ring, and Dugu Bo accepted that he had lost his Herb Garden.
• Jiang Chen revealed his fourth Soul Skill, Green Lotus: Void Traverse, and teleported fifty meters to a nearby tree.

Jiang Chen claimed Dugu Bo’s Herb Garden after winning their bet and returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Tang San. They discovered Ye Lingling had used her upgraded Martial Soul to revive and accelerate the growth of the herbs, and Jiang Chen urged Tang San to finish condensing his Ice Fire Golden Body.

• Jiang Chen demonstrated that his new Soul Skill let him teleport to a green lotus coordinate and evade attacks, then collected Dugu Bo’s Herb Garden diagrams and restriction keys as his winnings.
• Jiang Chen, Tang San, and Dugu Bo returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Jiang Chen showed Tang San the garden and explained that its harvested herbs had supplied the Spirit Beads.
• Tang San noticed fresh shoots growing in the pits left by harvested immortal herbs, and Dugu Bo revealed that Ye Lingling’s Martial Soul had accelerated the plants’ growth.
• Dugu Bo said Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan had left the previous day after receiving an urgent matter, and Jiang Chen accepted their absence without further concern.
• Jiang Chen told Tang San to use the spring water to complete the condensation of his Ice Fire Golden Body.

Tang San tempered his Ice Fire Golden Body in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then left Jiang Chen behind to return for the qualifiers. Jiang Chen dove into the spring’s depths to seek the Ice and Fire Dragon King’s remains, but found nothing and wondered whether he had failed to earn the Dragon King’s approval.

• Tang San entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and completed the tempering of his Ice Fire Golden Body.
• Jiang Chen told Tang San he would stay behind, joking that Tang San could tell the dean he had been captured by a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Tang San departed alone for the qualifiers, while Jiang Chen summoned his Nine Heavens Dragon Wings and Purple Sky Dragon Spear.
• Jiang Chen dove into the spring, hoping to find the Ice and Fire Dragon King’s soul bones or other treasures.
• Jiang Chen searched the rocky lakebed but found no remains or relics, and questioned whether he had gained the Dragon King’s approval.

Jiang Chen hunted dragon-descended soul beasts in Sunset Forest to feed his Nine Heavens Dragon Wings, raising his Soul Power to rank forty-four. A roughly forty-thousand-year Hundred-Eyed Earth Dragon Centipede ambushed him, and he searched for a way through its hardened carapace.

• Jiang Chen gave up on obtaining the Ice and Fire Dragon King's soul bones for now and set out to feed his hungry Nine Heavens Dragon Wings.
• He killed an Iron-Spined Dragon Crocodile and let the wings devour its blood energy and faint dragon essence.
• Jiang Chen hunted six more dragon-descended soul beasts, and the devoured energy raised his Soul Power to rank forty-four.
• A Hundred-Eyed Earth Dragon Centipede ambushed Jiang Chen, who escaped its first strike with Green Lotus: Void Traverse.
• Jiang Chen stunned the centipede with Green Lotus: Demon Eye Instant and struck its head, but its carapace resisted his spear, forcing him to look for a weak spot.

Jiang Chen killed a forty-thousand-year Hundred-Eyed Earth Dragon Centipede, strengthened his Nine Heavens Dragon Wings, and found a soul bone he planned to give Tang San. In Heaven Dou City, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling decided to leave the Imperial Fighting Team and try out for Shrek Academy’s team at Blue Tyrant Academy.

• Jiang Chen tested his Golden Lotus defenses against the centipede’s beams, then used his Purple Sky Dragon Spear and Void Traverse skill to wound and kill it.
• Jiang Chen’s Nine Heavens Dragon Wings devoured the centipede’s vitality and grew stronger, while he found a forty-thousand-year soul bone and stored it in his Green Lotus Pendant for Tang San.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling read a letter saying Shrek Academy had merged into Blue Tyrant Academy and was recruiting substitute members.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling decided to pursue the opportunity, with Ye Lingling going to sign up and Dugu Yan asking Dugu Bo to relay the news to the Imperial Fighting Team.