Chapter Summaries

BiBi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Pass and Ghost Charm to kill Tang San, while Ning Chuan continued cultivating and let Ning Rongrong take his place against Las Academy. Liu Erlong confronted Ning Chuan to defend Yu Xiaogang, and the chapter ended with her reacting angrily to being called “Auntie.”

• BiBi Dong told Chrysanthemum Pass and Ghost Charm to kill Tang San once he left Heaven Dou City, blaming him for ruining Yu Xiaogang’s reputation.
• Ning Chuan continued training toward a breakthrough as the competition’s first round ended, while Shrek faced public insults and the New Royal Fight Team drew excited fans.
• Ning Chuan asked Ning Rongrong to compete against Las Academy in his place so he could keep cultivating.
• Liu Erlong arrived with Flender and demanded to see Ning Chuan, claiming she wanted to discuss academic matters.
• Mona challenged Flender for his divided loyalties, and Liu Erlong offered him the deanship of Blue Overlord Academy.
• Ning Chuan confronted Liu Erlong and called her “Auntie,” prompting her to angrily question him.

Ning Chuan challenged Liu Erlong’s defense of Yu Xiaogang’s theories, citing Tang San’s improved symptoms and exposing weaknesses in several of the Ten Core Competitiveness of Spirit. He left Liu Erlong unable to refute his arguments and was explaining why Spirit Ring absorption limits varied between individuals.

• Ning Chuan mocked Liu Erlong and provoked her until Great Soul Arena staff intervened, while Flender persuaded her to hold back.
• Ning Chuan clarified that he had not blamed Yu Xiaogang for Tang San’s side effects, and Flender confirmed Tang San’s diarrhea had improved after Tang Hao took him away.
• Ning Chuan called Yu Xiaogang’s theories plagiarized or incorrect and challenged Liu Erlong’s claims about useless martial spirits and the types of martial spirits.
• Ning Chuan summoned his Spirit Rings, including a Ten Thousand Year fourth ring, to dispute Yu Xiaogang’s stated absorption limits.
• Ning Chuan argued that Spirit Ring limits varied with a Spirit Master’s physique, martial spirit, and training, and warned that a weak, untrained person might die absorbing a four-hundred-year ring.

Ning Chuan refuted Yu Xiaogang’s theories one by one, shattering Flender and Liu Erlong’s faith in him. Liu Erlong fled in tears, while Qian Renxue arrived and Ning Chuan pulled her into another bear hug as the VIPs watched.

• Ning Chuan explained that Yu Xiaogang’s Soul Ring absorption limits ignored the strength of a spirit beast’s bloodline and urged Liu Erlong and Flender to verify the claims in Spirit Hall’s records.
• Ning Chuan rejected Flender’s explanation of Twin Spirits and said Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass could be an evolved Spirit that Yu Xiaogang’s teachings had damaged.
• Ning Chuan refuted the remaining ten theories, then suggested Yu Xiaogang may have known Liu Erlong’s Spirit was a Fire Dragon and deliberately concealed it.
• Liu Erlong ran away crying, and Flender hurried after her; Qian Renxue then arrived and commented on Yu Xiaogang’s theories and Tang San’s Twin Spirits.
• Ning Chuan tried to hug Qian Renxue, pursued her when she dodged, and eventually pulled her into his arms as Xue Ye and Ning Fengzhi observed.

Ning Chuan reassured Qian Renxue that he would visit the Crown Prince Residence after the preliminary round, then recounted his dealings with Tang Hao to his teammates. After Las Academy's defeat, Xue Ye ordered extra protection for Ning Chuan and Zhu Zhuqing against the Star Luo Empire.

• Qian Renxue invited Ning Chuan to the Crown Prince Residence after the preliminary round, and he accepted.
• Ning Chuan explained how Tang Hao had asked him to resolve the side effect affecting Tang San's spirit, prompting Ning Rongrong and the others to criticize Tang Hao.
• Qian Renxue left, and Ning Chuan returned to cultivation while Louise handled intelligence gathering.
• Zhu Zhuqing helped Las Academy defeat Las Academy's opponents, quickly overpowering two Soul Elders with her spirit skills.
• Ning Fengzhi told Xue Ye that Zhu Zhuqing had been Dai Mubai's fiancée before choosing Ning Chuan, and Xue Ye ordered extra protection for them from the Star Luo Empire.

Ning Chuan waited for Shi Nian to attack and confronted him after leaving Heaven Dou City. Shi Nian trapped him in Lingering Dream, but Ning Chuan’s Fourth Spirit Ring activated as his sword unleashed golden lightning.

• Shrek defeated their opponent, but Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun were shaken by Zhu Zhuqing’s strength.
• Shi Nian told Canghui Academy’s students to forfeit if they met the New Royal Fight Team and promised to deal with Shrek himself.
• Ning Chuan left the Great Soul Arena early each day, while Shi Nian waited for a chance to attack him alone.
• After several days, Ning Chuan sensed Shi Nian’s presence and led him beyond Heaven Dou City before calling him out.
• Shi Nian revealed his Lingering Dream and his pleasure in driving opponents mad, then dismissed Ning Chuan’s Flying Sword as ineffective.
• Ning Chuan activated his Fourth Spirit Ring, and the sword that had passed through Shi Nian erupted with golden lightning.

Ning Chuan killed Shi Nian, took the Seven-in-One Fusion Skill method and the Illusion Head Bone, and returned to Heaven Dou City. At the gate, he encountered Yu Xiaogang, now a destitute beggar whom the Royal Knights refused to admit.

• Ning Chuan used his Flying Swords to paralyze and kill Shi Nian, then collected Shi Nian's Soul Tool, Illusion Head Bone, and notes on the Seven-in-One Fusion Skill.
• Ning Chuan left the Small Woods after Shi Nian's illusion lifted and returned to Heaven Dou City.
• Yu Xiaogang, weakened and dressed in rags, tried to enter the city but was stopped by the Heaven Dou Royal Knights.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized Ning Chuan and begged him to confirm his identity to the knights.
• Ning Chuan acted as if he did not recognize Yu Xiaogang, who insisted that he was Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang and Xiao San's teacher.

Ning Chuan dismissed Yu Xiaogang as an impostor, then paid Captain Liu to have Scar deal with him. Back at his residence, Ning Chuan called Ning Rongrong to his room and told her he had something to give her.

• Ning Chuan refused to believe Yu Xiaogang was Grandmaster and left him begging outside the city gate.
• Ning Chuan showed Captain Liu his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School token and paid him to arrange trouble for Yu Xiaogang.
• Captain Liu recruited Scar, who agreed to carry out his orders against Yu Xiaogang that night.
• Ning Chuan returned to his residence and called Ning Rongrong into his room.
• After Ning Rongrong misunderstood why he had called her, Ning Chuan said he had something to give her.

Ning Chuan and Ning Rongrong began an intimate contest later called the Battle of the Two Nings, while Yu Xiaogang was drawn into the beggars' den's bizarre initiation rituals. The chapter ended with Scarface discovering that Yu Xiaogang was a eunuch and regarding him as a valuable find.

• Ning Chuan and Ning Rongrong summoned their Martial Souls and began their Battle of the Two Nings.
• Peony told Yu Xiaogang he could keep his begging money and sent him to bathe before meeting Scarface.
• Yu Xiaogang refused to wear a patched woman's dress until Peony slapped him and forced him into it.
• Peony brought Yu Xiaogang to Scarface, who renamed him Rose and ordered him to undress.
• Scarface and Peony discovered Yu Xiaogang was a eunuch, and Scarface reacted with excitement.

After defeating Ning Rongrong in a six-hour contest, Ning Chuan gave her the Illusion Space Wisdom Skull and concealed her soul-bone absorption from the others. With the New Royal Fight Team leading the Heaven Dou division after ten straight wins, Ning Chuan returned to the arena for its eleventh-round match against Blazing Fire Academy.

• Ning Chuan won the contest against Ning Rongrong, who was left exhausted.
• Ning Chuan gave Ning Rongrong the Illusion Space Wisdom Skull, which enhanced spiritual power and granted an illusion-related skill.
• Ning Chuan told Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Lengleng, and Louise that Ning Rongrong was absorbing a soul bone, while telling the others she was meditating toward a breakthrough.
• After ten rounds, the New Royal Fight Team held first place with a perfect record, while Blazing Fire Academy, Godwind Academy, Thunder Academy, Skywater Academy, and the Shrek Team also occupied the top six.
• The eleventh-round match opened with Blazing Fire Academy facing the New Royal Fight Team, and Ning Chuan took the field as captain.

Ning Chuan joined the New Royal Fight Team against Blazing Fire Academy and stunned the arena by defeating captain Huo Wushuang with one sword strike. Huo Wu’s Repelling Fire Ring sent Huang Jia out of the arena, while Blazing Fire Academy launched a counterattack against the six airborne opponents.

• Huo Wu challenged Ning Chuan, and he agreed to face Blazing Fire Academy with his team.
• Both teams released their spirits, and Huo Wushuang argued that the New Royal Fight Team would struggle without a control-system Spirit Master.
• Ning Chuan drew his sword and struck Huo Wushuang out of the fight before the match had properly begun.
• Huo Wu used her Repelling Fire Ring, and Huang Jia was blasted out of the arena while Ning Chuan and his five other teammates leaped clear.
• Huo Wushuang ordered his teammates to attack, and the Fire Crane twins and Fire Leopard Spirit Master launched fire attacks at the airborne New Royal Fight Team.

Ning Chuan led the New Royal Fight Team to defeat Blazing Fire Academy in barely over a minute. After the match, Huo Wu revealed her hostility came from rumors that Ning Chuan had betrayed Zhu Zhuqing by kissing Ning Rongrong.

• Ning Chuan's Sword Light split the combined fire attacks and shattered the arena, forcing Huo Wu's team to dodge.
• Ning Chuan appeared behind Huo Wu and subdued her with his sword at her throat as Yu Feng, Zhu Zhuqing, and the Shi Brothers took down the remaining opponents.
• The referee declared the New Royal Fight Team the winner, and spectators marveled at how quickly Blazing Fire Academy had lost.
• Ning Chuan asked Huo Wu why she resented him, and she accused him of making eyes at Ning Rongrong and kissing her despite his relationship with Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ning Chuan realized Huo Wu's hostility came from rumors about his relationship and his closeness to Crown Prince Xue Qinghe.

Ning Chuan led the New Royal Fight Team to victory over Blazing Fire Academy, then broke through to the sixth level of the Mysterious Heaven Skill by binding Tang San to bear the world's suppression. The Shrek Team faced Canghui Academy, and Ning Chuan looked forward to seeing how Tang San would handle its Seven-in-One Fusion Skill.

• Huo Wu vowed to challenge Ning Chuan again, and he told her she would never catch up if he kept advancing.
• Ning Chuan defeated Blazing Fire Academy, leaving the New Royal Fight Team undefeated and its members admired by the crowd.
• Feng Xiaotian promised to avenge Huo Wu, and she agreed to date him if he defeated Ning Chuan and the New Royal Fight Team.
• Ning Chuan sensed a bottleneck in the Mysterious Heaven Skill, bound Tang San through the System, and broke through to the sixth level.
• The Shrek Team prepared to fight Canghui Academy, and Ning Rongrong asked Ning Chuan whether Canghui Academy could defeat Shit Rek.

Ning Chuan warned Xiao Wu not to compete against Canghui Academy, while Tang San prepared the Shrek Team to face the team he suspected had come with ill intent. The match began amid jeers at Shrek, and Tang San grew uneasy as Canghui Academy formed a strange formation.

• Ning Chuan told Xiao Wu through a voice transmission to sit out the match, and she said she felt unwell and withdrew.
• Tang San replaced Xiao Wu and two former Heaven Dou Royal Academy secondary-team members, keeping Ning Tao as a trump card.
• Flender warned Tang San that he would forfeit if the match became dangerous, while Liu Erlong lamented that Yu Xiaogang was absent.
• The Shrek Team and Canghui Academy entered the arena as spectators and the referee mocked Shrek over Tang San's earlier feces incident.
• Both teams released their spirits, and Canghui Academy's gem-spirited members assembled in a strange formation as Tang San sensed something was wrong.

Canghui Academy trapped Shrek Team in its Seven-in-One Fusion Skill, forcing the members to relive painful memories and reveal secrets aloud. As they screamed inside the illusion, the audience learned their humiliating confessions while Flender tried to stop the match.

• Tang San tried to bind the fighters, but Canghui Academy activated its Seven-in-One Fusion Skill and engulfed both teams in a colored light pillar.
• Flender called for Shrek Team to concede, but the referee ignored him, and the Shrek members fell into Canghui Academy's illusion.
• The two former Heaven Dou Royal Academy reserves, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Dai Mubai, and Yu Tianheng each shouted painful secrets and accusations from their memories.
• Tang San's illusion exposed his stolen Mystic Heaven Treasure Record, hatred of Yu Xiaogang, and fear of losing Xiao Wu to Ning Chuan.
• The Shrek members began bleeding from their orifices and howling as the illusion overwhelmed them.

After Canghui Academy defeated the Shrek Team with its Seven-in-One Fusion Skill, the illusion exposed the Shrek members’ disgraceful thoughts and wrecked the team’s standing. As Liu Erlong berated Tang San and Ning Rongrong seethed over Oscar, Ning Chuan secretly prepared a humiliating revenge.

• The referee stopped the match and declared Canghui Academy the winner after the Shrek members collapsed from the Seven-in-One Fusion Skill’s effects.
• Bone Douluo threatened Oscar for targeting Ning Rongrong, while Ning Fengzhi and Xue Ye restrained him and Salas mocked Ning Fengzhi.
• Liu Erlong stormed onto the arena and cursed Tang San for wanting to kill Yu Xiaogang, while Flender acknowledged that the revelations had ruined Shrek Academy.
• Ning Rongrong and the New Royal Fight Team condemned Oscar, and Ning Chuan secretly transferred a powerful laxative’s side effect to Tang San.
• Ning Chuan privately suggested a way for Ning Rongrong to punish Oscar, and she eagerly approved the idea.

After Canghui Academy defeated Shrek Team, Tang San publicly blamed Yu Xiaogang for his condition and revealed his Twin Spirits, but his diarrhea soon made the arena laugh at him again. Ning Rongrong left with Ning Chuan, then told Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo about her Soul Bone and proposed a response to Shrek Team, which Ning Chuan claimed was his idea.

• Liu Erlong berated Tang San while Canghui Academy's members helped their exhausted teammates off the arena and the crowd cheered their victory.
• Tang San roared at the audience, revealed his Twin Spirits, and accused Yu Xiaogang of ruining his body through his poison-attribute training theories.
• Tang San's Spirit Side Effect made him soil himself again, prompting the arena to erupt in laughter as he used Blue Silver Grass to manage his diarrhea.
• Ning Rongrong left with Ning Chuan and told Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo that she had been absorbing an Illusion Space Wisdom Skull he gave her.
• Ning Rongrong asked Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo to stand up for her against Shrek Team, then proposed a plan that Ning Chuan said was his idea.

Ning Chuan arranged for Oscar to be seized by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after the tournament, while Tang San promised to protect him until then. At the tournament, Ning Chuan swiftly defeated Canghui Academy’s Seven-in-One Fusion Skill before they could use it.

• Ning Chuan told Ning Fengzhi to capture Oscar after the competition and use him to produce sausage Spirit Masters for the sect.
• Oscar begged Tang San and Ning Tao for help, but Ning Tao left the team; Tang San later told Oscar to stay by his side until he could speak with his father.
• As the tournament continued, Oscar feared retaliation, Dai Mubai became known as Eunuch Dai, and Shrek’s standing grew more complicated.
• By the twentieth round, the New Royal Fight Team led the standings, while Canghui Academy had little chance of qualifying.
• In the twenty-first round, Ning Chuan struck Canghui Academy’s seven Gem Spirit wielders with a long Sword Light, sending them flying before they could use their fusion skill.

Feng Xiaotian challenged Ning Chuan to a duel, and Tang San joined the challenge, then faced Blazing Fire Academy in the tournament. Tang San revealed two Thousand Year Spirit Rings on his Clear Sky Hammer and was caught in Huo Wu’s powerful attack as the match’s outcome remained undecided.

• After the New Royal Fight Team’s victory, Feng Xiaotian challenged Ning Chuan to a one-on-one duel, and Tang San asked to join; Ning Chuan accepted both challenges.
• Tang San told the Shrek Team that Ning Chuan and Feng Xiaotian had agreed to fight him, hoping to prove himself and avoid a team battle against the New Royal Fight Team.
• In Shrek’s match against Blazing Fire Academy, Tang San substituted Long Tao for Yu Tianheng, but Huo Wu’s team suppressed his Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San revealed two Thousand Year Spirit Rings on his Clear Sky Hammer and used it to knock Huo Wushuang off the arena.
• Huo Wu drove most of Shrek off the platform, then combined her power with two support Spirit Masters to form a huge white fireball as Ning Fengzhi and the others watched.

Tang San used the Clear Sky Hammer to break Huo Wu’s Fire Dance of the Shining Sun, forcing Blazing Fire Academy to concede and securing Shrek Team’s advancement. Ning Chuan explained that the hammer seemed to make opponents focus on attacking it instead of Tang San, while Skywater Academy prepared for its remaining matches.

• Tang San used thirty-six swings of the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique to shatter Huo Wu’s Fire Dance of the Shining Sun.
• Huo Wu conceded after her team had nearly exhausted its soul power, and the audience reacted to Shrek Team’s victory.
• Ning Chuan told the New Royal Fight Team that the Clear Sky Hammer reduced opponents’ intelligence by drawing their attention away from Tang San.
• Shui Yue’er admired Ning Chuan, while Xue Wu teased her about previously favoring Dai Mubai.
• Shui Bing’er stopped their banter and told Skywater Academy to prepare to fight the New Royal Fight Team.

The New Royal Fight Team prepared to face Skywater Academy as Ning Chuan and Shui Bing'er sized each other up, while Shui Yue'er openly showed interest in him. The teams released their Martial Souls, with Zhu Zhuqing taking the lead in Ning Chuan’s unusual formation.

• Shui Bing'er considered how Skywater Academy could defeat Ning Chuan, while Shui Yue'er teased her about his reputation as a womanizer.
• Thunder Academy forfeited its match against the New Royal Fight Team, and Skywater Academy became their next opponent.
• Ning Chuan and Shui Bing'er introduced themselves before Shui Yue'er announced her own name and level and openly admired Ning Chuan.
• Zhu Zhuqing identified herself as Ning Chuan’s girlfriend, but Shui Yue'er warmly greeted her instead of taking offense.
• The referee ordered both teams to release their Martial Souls, and Ning Chuan positioned Zhu Zhuqing as the main attacker, guarded by the Shi Brothers.