Chapter Summaries

Tang Hao and Bibi Dong sent the Holy Spirit Cult to prepare for an infiltration of the Star Luo Empire, while Bibi Dong restrained her desire to attack Spirit Hall. Tang San arrived at Shrek Academy with Yu Xiaogang and Xiao Wu, where Dai Mubai welcomed them and was asked to handle their enrollment.

• Tang Hao ordered the Holy Spirit Cult members under Heaven Dou's jurisdiction to infiltrate the Star Luo Empire in groups, rejecting Bibi Dong's suggestion to raid Spirit Hall branch halls.
• Bibi Dong considered Spirit Hall's strength and agreed that the Holy Spirit Cult could not challenge it yet.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Yu Xiaogang arrived at the expanded Shrek Academy, whose inner academy admitted only exceptional students.
• Dai Mubai recognized Yu Xiaogang and greeted him respectfully at the inner academy registration area.
• Yu Xiaogang introduced Tang San and Xiao Wu as his disciples and asked Dai Mubai to complete their enrollment.

Dai Mubai brought Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and Xiao Wu to meet Flender at Shrek Academy, while Flender reflected on his family and ambitions for his daughter. At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi explained why Ning Chengjiu’s imperial title should protect him at Shrek, though Chen Xin remained worried about the old grudge.

• Dai Mubai led Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and Xiao Wu to Flender’s office.
• Flender played with his three-year-old daughter and imagined her one day becoming a Titled Douluo.
• Flender saw Yu Xiaogang enter with Tang San and Xiao Wu and sprang up to greet him.
• Chen Xin questioned Ning Fengzhi about sending Ning Chengjiu to Shrek Academy despite the sect’s past conflict with Flender and Yu Xiaogang.
• Ning Fengzhi said Dugu Bo was secretly following Chengjiu and that Chengjiu’s title as an Emperor-Bestowed Genius made the Heaven Dou Imperial Family his real protection.

Qian Renling trained to shape ice into hidden weapons, using her Mysterious Ice Body and second soul skill to create a Bone Piercing Nail. Tian Ling and Yu Xiaozhu interrupted her training and urged her to visit a new Soul Fighting Arena.

• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin agreed to let Cheng Jiu investigate Shrek Academy, while an unmarked carriage headed there.
• Qian Renling practiced in Pope Hall's ice chamber, where she had reached level thirty-eight at age twelve.
• Qian Renling used her ice-element control to form and throw a Bone Piercing Nail, demonstrating how she could make hidden weapons from ice.
• Tian Ling and Yu Xiaozhu entered the chamber and invited Qian Renling to see the new Soul Fighting Arena in the south of the city.

Qian Renling met Qian Xunji in his workshop after declining Tian Ling and Yu Xiaozhu’s invitation to watch spirit battles. He criticized her force-generation and hidden-weapon techniques as minor paths, then tossed her a Soul Tool to examine.

• Qian Renling refused to go with Tian Ling and Yu Xiaozhu because Qian Xunji had asked to see her.
• Tian Ling and Yu Xiaozhu left the ice chamber to watch the spirit battles without her.
• Qian Renling waited quietly while Qian Xunji engraved array patterns into a Soul Tool.
• Qian Renling told Qian Xunji about her cultivation and combat techniques, including her progress with Emperor Palm.
• Qian Xunji dismissed her force-generation methods and hidden-weapon techniques as minor paths, then tossed her the Soul Tool.

Qian Xunji showed Qian Renling a Class Eight Soul Guide Hand Cannon, revealing how Soul Tools could let even a weak Soul Master threaten powerful opponents. Fascinated by the technology, Qian Renling asked her father to teach her, and he gave her the cannon and a booklet of foundational Soul Engineer theories.

• Qian Renling caught the Soul Guide Hand Cannon and examined its unfamiliar construction.
• Qian Xunji explained that the cannon could fire attacks as powerful as a Soul Sage’s or Spirit Douluo’s strike, regardless of the user’s strength.
• Qian Renling realized Soul Tools surpassed her assumptions about weapons and became eager to combine them with Tang Sect techniques.
• Qian Renling asked Qian Xunji to teach her about Soul Tools.
• Qian Xunji gave Qian Renling the hand cannon for protection and a booklet covering foundational theories for Class One through Class Five Soul Engineers.

Qian Renling left the workshop determined to break through level forty and pursue Soul Tool research after Qian Xunji promised her a ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring. Qian Xunji resolved to choose her ring himself, while Tang San concluded that Dai Mubai had not been reborn.

• Qian Renling imagined combining ice-element control with explosive array patterns to develop Soul Tools and repay Qian Xunji’s kindness.
• Qian Xunji noticed Qian Renling’s cultivation had slowed and promised her a ten-thousand-year soul ring once she reached level forty.
• Qian Renling vowed to break through within three months and hurried out of the workshop to prepare for seclusion.
• Qian Xunji rejected the idea of relying on a God-bestowed Spirit Ring or System adaptation and decided to personally select Qian Renling’s fourth ring.
• Tang San watched Dai Mubai destroy a wooden post, then concluded that Dai Mubai had not been reborn.

Tang San concluded that Yu Xiaogang’s strange circumstances might have resulted from Tang San’s own rebirth, while Yu Xiaogang prepared to break through to Soul Douluo. The chapter left Tang San frustrated when he learned Yu Xiaogang would return to his clan instead of joining the students’ soul hunt.

• Tang San decided that he alone had reincarnated and believed Yu Xiaogang’s abnormalities were a consequence of his rebirth.
• Oscar announced that he had reached level thirty, but Flender told him he would have to wait for his third Spirit Ring until Yu Xiaogang emerged from seclusion.
• Flender revealed to the students that Yu Xiaogang was close to breaking through to Soul Douluo, inspiring them with his progress.
• Tang San suggested that Yu Xiaogang accompany them to the Star Dou Great Forest, hoping to uncover his secret while Yu Xiaogang fought powerful soul beasts.
• Flender said Yu Xiaogang would return to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to obtain his eighth Spirit Ring, leaving Tang San unable to pursue him during the hunt.

Tang San secretly obtained Breath-Concealing Grass from Tang Hao and gave it to Xiao Wu to hide her identity from Yu Xiaogang. After Yu Xiaogang broke through to Soul Douluo, he sensed something unusual about Xiao Wu but Tang San blocked his view, leaving her secret safe for now.

• Xiao Wu decided to flee Shrek Academy after fearing Yu Xiaogang would discover she was a re-cultivating Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Tang San used Tang Hao's Holy Spirit Cult token to contact the cult and requested a herb that could conceal Xiao Wu's aura.
• Tang Hao met Tang San outside Heaven Dou City and gave him Breath-Concealing Grass without asking questions.
• A black-robed Tang San delivered the herb to Xiao Wu, who ate it rather than risk fleeing into the wilderness.
• Yu Xiaogang emerged from seclusion at level eighty and promised Oscar personal cultivation guidance and a third Spirit Ring hunt.
• Yu Xiaogang noticed Xiao Wu's unusually clean aura, but Tang San blocked his view and Yu Xiaogang did not expose her.

Tang San persuaded Flender to take the Shrek Seven Devils to the Star Dou Great Forest, while Yu Xiaogang and Yu Yuanzhen prepared to report Xiao Wu’s suspected identity as a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast to Spirit Hall. In Spirit City, Qian Renling continued studying Soul Tools and cultivating the Mysterious Ice Body.

• Flender announced a trip to Sunset Forest to find Oscar’s third Spirit Ring, but Tang San argued that the Star Dou Great Forest was safer and had more spirit beasts, so Flender changed their destination.
• Yu Xiaogang told Yu Yuanzhen that he suspected Xiao Wu was a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and Yu Yuanzhen abandoned his plan to investigate her himself after Yu Xiaogang warned him of the risks.
• Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Xiaogang decided to take the information to Spirit Hall and flew there together.
• Qian Renling continued studying Soul Tools by day and cultivating the Mysterious Ice Body at night, determined not to disappoint her father.

Qian Renling neared Rank 40 while Qian Xunji absorbed energy from the Dragon God Core and received Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Xiaogang at Pope Hall. After Yu Xiaogang reported that Xiao Wu was likely a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form, Qian Xunji suspected Tang San's concealment method had failed.

• Qian Renling absorbed the cold mist in the ice chamber and approached a breakthrough to Rank 40.
• Qian Xunji absorbed some energy from the Dragon God Core, then stopped when it strained his meridians.
• Yu Yuanzhen reported that Yu Xiaogang had reached Rank 80 and pledged the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's loyalty to Spirit Hall.
• Qian Xunji praised Yu Xiaogang and promised to lead a spirit-hunting team for him and Qian Renling when she reached Rank 40.
• Yu Xiaogang reported that Xiao Wu's unusually clean aura led him to suspect she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form.
• Qian Xunji privately concluded that Tang San's method of concealing Xiao Wu's aura had been exposed.

Qian Xunji dangled the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring before Yu Xiaogang and sent him and Yu Yuanzhen away to await further orders. Meanwhile, Ning Chengjiu traveled with Shrek Academy to hunt Oscar’s third Soul Ring, where a clash with Canghui Academy began in Soul Hunting Town.

• Qian Xunji praised Yu Xiaogang’s handling of the matter and hinted that he might receive the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, but Yu Yuanzhen cautiously deferred to the Pope’s son.
• Qian Xunji told Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Xiaogang to return to their inn and wait for his summons.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji led Shrek Academy students, including Ning Chengjiu, toward the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Oscar’s third Soul Ring.
• Ning Chengjiu teased Oscar during the journey and privately resolved to take revenge on Tang San and claim the future for herself.
• At a tavern in Soul Hunting Town, Dai Mubai crushed his teacup after Canghui Academy students leered at Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu, and Ning Chengjiu hurled a kettle of scalding tea at them.

Dai Mubai and Ning Chengjiu beat the Canghui Academy students before Flender sent their teacher Ye Zhiqiu crashing out of the tavern. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Qian Xunji found a fifty-thousand-year Tyrant Dragon and let Yu Yuanzhen fight it as a candidate eighth Spirit Ring for Yu Xiaogang.

• Dai Mubai and Ning Chengjiu attacked the Canghui Academy students after tea scalded two of them.
• Ye Zhiqiu released his Martial Soul and threatened Dai Mubai and Ning Chengjiu, but Flender kicked him through the tavern doors and into a wall.
• Qian Xunji brought Qian Renling, Yu Yuanzhen, and Yu Xiaogang to the Star Dou Great Forest to find Yu Xiaogang an eighth Spirit Ring.
• Qian Xunji discovered a fifty-thousand-year Tyrant Dragon and explained that the beast could make a powerful Spirit Ring for Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Yuanzhen transformed into his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon form and charged the Earth Dragon King as Yu Xiaogang watched.

Yu Yuanzhen defeated a fifty-thousand-year Earth Dragon King, found a Right Arm Bone, and offered it to Qian Xunji, who gave it back for Yu Yuanzhen’s younger daughter. As Yu Xiaogang began absorbing the beast’s Soul Ring, the Shrek group encountered Chao Tianxiang and her companions in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Qian Xunji told Qian Renling to study Yu Yuanzhen’s battle with the Earth Dragon King, and she observed his use of lightning to disrupt the beast’s attacks.
• Yu Yuanzhen defeated the Earth Dragon King, and Yu Xiaogang delivered the finishing blow before preparing to absorb its Soul Ring.
• Yu Yuanzhen found a dark golden Right Arm Bone and offered it to Qian Xunji, who returned it for Yu Yuanzhen’s younger daughter to absorb.
• Yu Xiaogang began absorbing the Soul Ring, and Luo Sanpao appeared under the strain.
• The Shrek group met Chao Tianxiang, an elderly man, and a short-haired girl in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Chao Tianxiang greeted Flender.

Tang San and Ning Chengjiu both sought the Man Faced Demon Spider and its Eight Spider Lances, while planning to use Oscar to obtain the Spirit Bone. After Flender agreed to investigate the spider, the group headed east, unknowingly walking into the two schemers’ traps.

• Meng Yiran revealed that she had obtained a Spirit Ring from a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, which Tang San realized had been taken before Oscar could claim it.
• Tang San planned to have Oscar absorb the Man Faced Demon Spider’s Spirit Ring so he could seize the Eight Spider Lances before Oscar fully fused with them.
• Ning Chengjiu, whose Martial Soul was the Soul-Eater Spider Emperor, also coveted the Eight Spider Lances and planned to manipulate Oscar into absorbing the spider’s Spirit Ring.
• Chao Tianxiang told Flender that she had spotted a Man Faced Demon Spider to the east, and Flender considered whether it was suitable for Oscar.
• Tang San and Ning Chengjiu persuaded Flender and Oscar to go look for the spider, and Flender sent the group east with Ning Chengjiu and Dai Mubai leading.
• Tang San and Ning Chengjiu quietly laid their own plans as Oscar advanced with the group, unaware he was being drawn into their schemes.

Yu Xiaogang reached Level 82 after absorbing the Tyrant Dragon's Spirit Ring, which transformed Luo Sanpao and gave him a new soul skill. Qian Xunji took Qian Renling through a spatial rift toward the Far North, while the Shrek group discovered a Man Faced Demon Spider that Flender deemed too dangerous for Oscar.

• Yu Xiaogang absorbed the ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring and reached Level 82 as Luo Sanpao transformed into a scaled, three-meter beast.
• Yu Xiaogang thanked Qian Xunji and Yu Yuanzhen, then described his eighth soul skill, Sanpao Tyrant Transformation, which boosted his and Luo Sanpao's abilities and could stun opponents with dragon might.
• Yu Yuanzhen offered to help find a soul beast for Qian Renling, but Qian Xunji said her Spirit Ring lay in the Far North and took her there through a spatial rift.
• Yu Xunji told Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Xiaogang to return to Heaven Dou City after resting and to watch the transformed soul beast at Shrek Academy.
• Flender and the hidden Shrek group found a Man Faced Demon Spider feeding on a spotted tiger, and Flender judged its age and venom too dangerous for Oscar.

Tang San convinced Flender to subdue the Man Faced Demon Spider and pushed Oscar to kill it, while Ning Chengjiu grew suspicious of Tang San’s eagerness. Oscar killed the spider, and a thousand-year Spirit Ring began to form above its corpse.

• Flender decided to retreat and search for another Spirit Ring, but Tang San stopped him and argued that Oscar could exceed the usual age limit.
• Ning Chengjiu suspected Tang San wanted the Man Faced Demon Spider for the Eight Spider Lances, while Tang San reassured Flender that he only wanted Oscar to gain a powerful Spirit Ring.
• Xiao Wu said the spider should die regardless, and Flender subdued it with his Soul Power.
• Tang San handed Oscar an iron sword and urged him to kill the spider before another threat could claim it.
• Oscar overcame his hesitation and stabbed the Man Faced Demon Spider, which died as a thousand-year Spirit Ring began to condense above its corpse.

Oscar endured the Man Faced Demon Spider's Spirit Ring and declared that his fate was his own, while Qian Xunji and Qian Renling entered the Far North and faced an Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion swarm. The chapter left the scorpion swarm's leader confronting the two intruders.

• Tang San and Ning Chengjiu encouraged Oscar to absorb the Man Faced Demon Spider's purple Spirit Ring, and Flender agreed while warning that he would intervene if Oscar's life was in danger.
• Oscar absorbed the Spirit Ring and suffered as its power and resentment overwhelmed his body.
• Oscar overcame the torment, shouted that his fate was his own and not his Martial Soul, and calmed the Spirit Ring's violent energy.
• Qian Xunji and Qian Renling arrived in the Far North's core region and were surrounded by Ice Jade Emperor Scorpions.
• An Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion transformed into a girl and challenged Qian Xunji and Qian Renling for trespassing in her territory.

Qian Xunji forced the Ice Empress to arrange a twenty-thousand-year Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion sacrifice so Qian Renling could obtain her fourth Spirit Ring, and the Ice Empress asked to accompany them to see the Snow Empress. Meanwhile, Oscar survived absorbing his Spirit Ring, but eight spider legs suddenly erupted from his back.

• The Ice Empress mistook Qian Renling for the Snow Empress, then learned Qian Renling was the Snow Empress and Qian Xunji's daughter.
• Qian Xunji suppressed the Ice Empress and her clansmen, demanding an Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion with the Ice Explosion Technique for Qian Renling's fourth Spirit Ring.
• The Ice Empress selected a willing twenty-thousand-year Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, which sacrificed itself as Qian Renling began forming a black Spirit Ring.
• The Ice Empress asked to accompany Qian Xunji and Qian Renling to see the Snow Empress, and Qian Xunji agreed.
• In the Star Dou Great Forest, Oscar finished absorbing his Spirit Ring, then eight sharp spider legs burst from his back as Tang San and Ning Chengjiu recognized what had happened.

Oscar survived absorbing the Man Faced Demon Spider’s Spirit Ring and gained the rare Eight Spider Lances External Soul Bone, then revealed his third Soul Skill, a sausage that grants a spiderweb attack and rear vision. The group celebrated the skill’s potential while Ning Chengjiu privately resolved to claim the Eight Spider Lances and remained wary of Tang San.

• Flender examined Oscar, identified his spider legs as an External Soul Bone, and taught him to retract them into his back.
• Tang San feigned concern about Oscar’s condition while Ning Chengjiu silently suspected his motives and coveted the Eight Spider Lances.
• Oscar revealed that his third Soul Skill created three Double-Faced Sausages, each granting a user a face on their back that could fire a venomous spiderweb and see behind them.
• Flender praised the skill’s value as an instant control ability, and Oscar gave sausages to Tang San and Ning Chengjiu.
• Oscar ate a sausage, confirmed that he could see behind himself, and demonstrated the face on his back making a vomiting motion.

The Titan Giant Ape attacked the Shrek camp and carried Xiao Wu away, leaving Tang San desperate to pursue her. With Flender and Zhao Wuji badly injured and Oscar’s new soul skill unable to provide flight, the others faced an uncertain retreat.

• Oscar demonstrated the corrosive web of his Double-Faced Sausage, and Flender ordered the group to leave the Star Dou Great Forest by morning.
• A tremor awakened the camp, and the Titan Giant Ape emerged from the forest as Flender and Zhao Wuji used their Martial Soul Avatars to confront it.
• The Titan Giant Ape brushed aside Zhao Wuji and struck Flender down while Flender ordered Tang San, Ning Chengjiu, and Dai Mubai to lead the students to safety.
• Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Xiaogang sensed the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast’s presence and hurried toward the camp, fearing another Beast Tide.
• The Titan Giant Ape took Xiao Wu and leapt away, while Tang San resolved to pursue her despite lacking Oscar’s former Flying Mushroom Sausage.