Chapter Summaries

Six months after Ning Fengzhi withdrew from public life, he returned to the opening of the Heaven Dou Division Qualifiers, where Salas questioned him about his disappearance. The academies entered the arena, and Shrek Academy’s ridiculous uniforms drew widespread ridicule, leaving Tang San furious.

• Ning Fengzhi attended the tournament opening beside Xue Ye and Salas, appearing healthy despite the lingering effects of his Martial Soul mutation.
• Salas questioned Ning Fengzhi about his months in seclusion, but Ning Fengzhi answered with a mocking remark about Spirit Hall claiming every opportunity.
• The academy teams entered the arena, including the disguised Seven Treasures Team and Skywater Academy’s Qian Renling and Yu Xiaozhu.
• Shrek Academy appeared in foul green uniforms marked “Naming Sponsors Wanted,” prompting the crowd to laugh and jeer.
• Tang San endured the crowd’s mockery and silently vowed to make them pay for laughing at him.

Ning Chengjiu insisted that Shrek face the Seven Treasures Team rather than surrender, persuading Tang San to consider their Martial Soul Fusion Skill. At the tournament arena, Ning Rongrong confronted her younger brother and pointed him toward their father on the VIP platform.

• After seeing Ning Rongrong’s rank and Martial Soul listed among the Seven Treasures Team’s information, Ma Hongjun urged Shrek to surrender, but Ning Chengjiu refused.
• Ning Chengjiu asked Tang San to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, promising him control of it against Spirit Hall Academy; Tang San agreed to use it only if the fight required it and surrender if they could not win.
• Flender told Shrek to fight with spirit even if they lost, citing their sponsors who were watching.
• At Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena, Shrek and the Seven Treasures Team entered the arena, and Ning Rongrong addressed Ning Chengjiu as her little brother.
• Ning Chengjiu accused Ning Rongrong of harming their father and the sect, but Ning Rongrong pointed to Ning Fengzhi on the VIP platform and told him to look.

Ning Chengjiu and Shrek faced Ning Rongrong and the Seven Treasures Team in the tournament’s opening match, where Ning Rongrong’s overwhelming power pushed them toward defeat. Ning Chengjiu used the arena-wide spider web to ensnare all seven opponents in a mental link, setting up a shared attack.

• Ning Chengjiu saw Ning Fengzhi watching from the VIP platform and realized his father had abandoned him.
• Ning Rongrong and the other six Seven Treasures Team members began the match by withdrawing to the arena’s edge, while Ning Rongrong revealed her level-sixty-nine Death Spider Emperor Martial Soul.
• Ning Chengjiu and Tang San used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Myriad-Faced Spider Soul Prison, to resist Ning Rongrong’s poisonous webs, and Ning Chengjiu took command of the fusion.
• Ma Hongjun tried to burn Ning Rongrong’s web with phoenix fire, but his attack failed against her greater power.
• Ning Chengjiu activated Myriad-Faced Trace through the spider silk covering the arena, marking Ning Rongrong and all six teammates and linking their senses for a mental shared attack.

Ning Rongrong overwhelmed Shrek's team and shattered Ning Chengjiu and Tang San's desperate Martial Soul Fusion Skill. As she trapped the helpless spider and sealed its mouth, Tang San broke the fusion connection, leaving their surrender uncertain.

• Ning Rongrong struck Shrek's teammates with mental attacks, then swept five of them off the arena while sparing Ning Chengjiu and Tang San.
• Ning Chengjiu pushed the fusion skill to its limit and trapped Ning Rongrong inside a giant spider cocoon.
• Yu Xiaozhu and Qian Renling discussed Ning Rongrong and considered how Skywater Team might face her in a later match.
• Ning Rongrong broke free of the cocoon and attacked the exhausted fusion spider with her Spider Spears.
• Ning Rongrong shattered the spider's shield, bound and lifted the fusion spider, then sealed its mouth before Tang San could surrender.
• Tang San severed his Soul Power bond with Ning Chengjiu and forcibly ended the Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

The Seven Treasures Team defeated Shrek after Ning Rongrong’s secret attack drained life force from Tang San and Ning Chengjiu, leaving Shrek’s members badly injured. Watching the aftermath, Xue Ye regretted being reborn and wondered how he could endure a world transformed by the changes.

• Tang San surrendered for Shrek, but Ning Rongrong’s Death Spider Silk barbs drained life force from him and Ning Chengjiu before they collapsed.
• The referee declared the Seven Treasures Team the winner, and Ning Rongrong left without looking back as Ning Chengjiu despaired over the gap between their strength.
• Tang San told Ning Chengjiu that he would control the team against Spirit Hall Academy, then vowed to kill Ning Rongrong for draining his life force.
• Salas mocked Ning Fengzhi over his children’s opposing teams, while Ning Fengzhi defended the outcome as proof of the sect’s strength.
• Xue Ye watched Qian Renling and Yu Xiaozhu, reflected on the altered world and his memories, and regretted being reborn.

After Shrek lost to Ning Rongrong’s overwhelming strength, Yu Xiaogang encouraged the team to prepare for its next match while Ning Chengjiu plotted to obtain a Spirit Bone and Yu Xiaogang revealed a major opportunity to Oscar. The chapter ended with Yu Xiaogang telling Oscar that the Pope could transform auxiliary-system soul masters.

• Yu Xiaogang reassured the injured Shrek team after its defeat and urged Dai Mubai to break through to Soul Ancestor so he could use the Hell White Tiger with Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ning Chengjiu decided to seek Shi Nian’s Illusion Wisdom Skull so he could build the spiritual power needed to absorb a ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring.
• Ning Chengjiu planned to persuade Yu Xiaogang, Flander, and Liu Erlong to kill Shi Nian for him.
• Yu Xiaogang told Oscar to cultivate while he arranged to introduce him to someone who could change auxiliary-system soul masters’ combat potential.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed that the person capable of taking Oscar from one to one hundred was His Holiness the Pope.

Yu Xiaogang used Oscar’s promise to prove his worth as a reason to return to Spirit Hall and seek answers from Qian Xunji about Bibi Dong. Meanwhile, Ning Chengjiu began baiting Canghui Academy’s Shi Nian and sensed someone following him in a secluded alley.

• Yu Xiaogang told Oscar that he could meet the Pope after proving his value, and Oscar vowed to become more than a supplier.
• After Oscar left, Yu Xiaogang reflected on his desire to see Qian Xunji and his distress over reports that Bibi Dong had become the Holy Spirit Cult’s vice leader and traveled with Tang Hao.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned his Spirit Douluo power but remained unable to understand what had happened to Bibi Dong.
• Ning Chengjiu disguised himself, bet against Canghui Academy, and publicly insulted its leader, Shi Nian, while deliberately spending time alone in secluded places.
• On the fourth evening, Ning Chengjiu sensed a chilling gaze following him through an alley and continued walking without reacting.

Ning Chengjiu baited Shi Nian into attacking him and helped Shrek defeat Elephant Armored Academy before entering Shi Nian’s Remnant Dream Domain. Shi Nian’s illusions exposed Ning Chengjiu’s memories of a previous life, and he realized Ning Chengjiu was a reincarnator who had once been Ning Rongrong.

• Ning Chengjiu told Flender he was being followed, prompting Flender to promise that Shrek’s leaders would protect him.
• Tang San and Ning Chengjiu used the Myriad-Faced Spider Soul Prison to defeat Elephant Armored Academy’s seven members.
• Ning Chengjiu deliberately separated from the Shrek group and entered a secluded alley, where Shi Nian trapped him in the Remnant Dream Domain.
• Shi Nian’s illusions forced Ning Chengjiu to relive memories of Jialing Pass, the Titan Giant Ape, and Ning Rongrong draining his life force.
• Shi Nian recognized Ning Chengjiu as a reincarnator and asked whether he should call him Ning Chengjiu or Ning Rongrong.

Ning Chengjiu baited Shi Nian into revealing that he had targeted him because he believed Ning Fengzhi had abandoned him, but the Golden Iron Triangle rescued him and killed Shi Nian. Yu Xiaogang claimed Shi Nian’s valuable Nightmare Demon Fox skull Spirit Bone, leaving Ning Chengjiu’s plan to obtain it in ruins as they returned to the academy.

• Shi Nian confronted Ning Chengjiu in the Remnant Dream Domain and threatened to capture him and search his soul, while Ning Chengjiu denied knowing anything about rebirth.
• Shi Nian said he had waited to attack because Ning Fengzhi had not sent anyone to protect Ning Chengjiu, then lunged for his throat.
• Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong broke Shi Nian’s illusion domain and trapped him in the alley, where Flender pulled Ning Chengjiu to safety.
• Liu Erlong and the others quickly killed Shi Nian, and Yu Xiaogang found a thirty-thousand-year Nightmare Demon Fox head Spirit Bone on his corpse.
• Ning Chengjiu hoped to claim the Spirit Bone, but Yu Xiaogang stored it away and ordered everyone back to the academy.

Yu Xiaogang rejected a thirty-thousand-year Nightmare Demon Fox Head Soul Bone, while Chen Xin’s sword heart broke and his Seven Kill Sword transformed into a Blood Fiend Sword. As the tournament’s Skywater Academy versus Seven Treasures Team match began, Ning Rongrong faced Yu Xiaozhu, whose Light-Transformed Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon gave her a dangerous attribute disadvantage.

• Yu Xiaogang decided not to absorb the Nightmare Demon Fox Head Soul Bone because it would not help him gain the Soul Power he needed to break through to Level 90.
• After repeated torture and witnessing Ning Fengzhi’s condition, Chen Xin’s Martial Soul fell into the Blood Fiend Sword, and Tang Hao urged him to use it against Spirit Hall.
• Before the match, Yu Xiaozhu promised Qian Renling and the Skywater Team that she would fight Ning Rongrong without holding back, easing the team’s tension.
• At the Great Soul Arena, Ning Rongrong sensed Yu Xiaozhu’s Soul King pressure and recognized that her Light-Transformed Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon countered the Holy Spirit Cult methods she had cultivated.
• The referee began the match, and Ning Rongrong released her six Spirit Rings while telling herself that Yu Xiaozhu was still only a Soul King.

The Skywater Team used ice and Qian Renling’s Hidden Weapons to kill six members of the Seven Treasures Team, then detonated the ice around them in a devastating explosion. When the smoke cleared, Ning Rongrong was the only one left alive, while Ning Fengzhi and Ning Chengjiu reacted with cold indifference and selfish hope.

• Shui Bing'er froze the Seven Treasures Team while Xue Wu’s icy rain concealed Qian Renling’s attack.
• Qian Renling’s ice Hidden Weapons tore into the six frozen teammates, drawing Ning Rongrong’s furious retaliation.
• The Skywater Team blocked Ning Rongrong’s poisonous blades behind walls of ice, and Qian Renling detonated the ice fragments scattered around the Seven Treasures Team.
• Ning Fengzhi decided not to care about the team’s fate, while Ning Chengjiu hoped Ning Rongrong would be crippled or killed.
• The smoke cleared to reveal that Ning Rongrong had survived, but the other six members of the Seven Treasures Team were dead.

The Skywater Team defeated Ning Rongrong after Qian Renling used the Ice Explosion Technique to detonate their Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Ning Rongrong collapsed unconscious, and the referee declared Skywater Team the winner.

• Xue Ye and Bishop Salas watched as Ning Rongrong survived Qian Renling's first Ice Explosion Technique but lost three of her Spider Spears.
• Yu Xiaozhu charged Ning Rongrong while Qian Renling harassed her with icy hidden weapons, and Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu summoned their Ice Phoenix Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Ning Rongrong wounded Yu Xiaozhu with her Deathshadow Poison Spear, then trapped the descending Ice Phoenix in layers of spider silk shields.
• Qian Renling triggered the Ice Explosion Technique on the trapped Ice Phoenix, blasting Ning Rongrong into a crater and exhausting her Soul Power.
• Ning Rongrong warned her opponents that she would remember them before losing consciousness, and the referee announced Skywater Team's victory.

Ning Chengjiu brooded over his weakness as the Skywater Team celebrated its victory and drew Spirit Hall's attention. At Shrek Academy, Xue Qinghe visited on Emperor Xue Ye's orders, while Tang San recognized him as Qian Renxue and looked for a way to exploit their meeting.

• Ning Chengjiu watched Ning Rongrong being carried away, then left the arena, lamenting that he had not reached Soul Ancestor and had lost his chance at Shi Nian's Spirit Bone.
• The Skywater Team's victory made it famous, and Shui Bing'er accepted that Spirit Hall would likely absorb Skywater Academy before joining the team for a celebration.
• Xue Qinghe arrived at Shrek Academy, where Flender welcomed him and Tang San recognized the disguised crown prince as Qian Renxue.
• Xue Qinghe worried that Emperor Xue Ye had ordered the deaths of the second and third princes and feared what the emperor knew about him.
• Xue Qinghe said he had come to discuss a matter with Shrek Academy and looked toward Tang San and Ning Chengjiu, prompting Tang San to see an opportunity.

Tang Hao worried that Tang San lacked the strength to survive the tournament and considered finding another path for him. At a banquet, Xue Qinghe mistook Tang San’s attempts to impress him for romantic interest, while Tang San decided to seek the Valley of Love after the qualifiers to grow stronger.

• Tang Hao told Bibi Dong and Ning Fengzhi that he had filled the Seven Treasures Team’s vacancies, then worried that Tang San could not withstand Skywater Academy or Spirit Hall.
• Xue Qinghe endured Flender’s banquet while Tang San repeatedly tried to impress him and watched him intently.
• Xue Qinghe interpreted Tang San’s attention as attraction and suspected Emperor Xue Ye had sent him to Shrek for an unsettling purpose.
• Tang San felt dismissed by Xue Qinghe and recognized that his knowledge could not compensate for his lack of Soul Power.
• Tang San resolved to find the Valley of Love after the qualifiers, whatever the cost.

After Tang San reached level forty, Tang Hao visited him and warned that powerful young Soul Masters were emerging everywhere. Tang San claimed the Sea God had revealed an overseas Valley of Love that could strengthen him and his teammates, and asked Tang Hao to take him there, leaving Tang Hao to consider the dangerous journey.

• The tournament committee issued a notice after the Seven Treasures Team members’ deaths, and Shrek Academy later won another match.
• Tang San broke through to level forty and planned to hunt for a fourth Spirit Ring after the qualifiers.
• Tang Hao visited Tang San and said that cultivating step by step would not be enough to keep pace with other geniuses.
• Tang San told Tang Hao about the Valley of Love and falsely claimed that the Sea God had given him an inheritance.
• Tang San asked Tang Hao to carry him across the ocean to the Valley of Love during the qualifiers’ rest period, and Tang Hao considered the proposal.

Tang San planned a sea voyage with Tang Hao to seek the Valley of Love and Whale Rubber, hoping to strengthen his body enough to absorb a ten-thousand-year fourth Spirit Ring. Tang Hao revealed that Spirit Hall had secretly stockpiled Whale Rubber for decades and promised to help Tang San obtain more at sea.

• Tang San and Tang Hao agreed to wait until Shrek secured its advancement qualification, then travel to the Sun Moon Continent, with Tang San estimating the round trip would take about twenty days.
• Tang San asked Tang Hao for Whale Rubber and explained that it could strengthen his body enough to attempt a ten-thousand-year fourth Spirit Ring.
• Tang Hao realized Spirit Hall had secretly used Whale Rubber to strengthen soul masters for decades, while the Upper Three Sects had mistaken its stockpiling for an embarrassing indulgence.
• Tang Hao told Tang San that Spirit Hall had bought up most high-quality Whale Rubber and promised to hunt whale-type sea soul beasts if they could not find enough to buy.
• Tang Hao left to arrange the sect's hidden bases, and Tang San resumed cultivating while resolving to return stronger.

After securing a qualifying spot, Tang San planned to forfeit Shrek's remaining matches and travel with Tang Hao, Dai Mubai, and Ning Chengjiu to the Valley of Love. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang took Oscar to Spirit City, where he urged Oscar to abandon resentment over his classmates' backgrounds and trust in the strength of Spirit Hall.

• Dai Mubai and Ning Chengjiu reached Rank 40, and Shrek secured a qualifying spot, so Tang San proposed forfeiting the rest of their matches.
• Tang San told Tang Hao he intended to bring Dai Mubai and Ning Chengjiu on the voyage, citing their connections and his Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Ning Chengjiu.
• Tang San privately resolved to use the journey and the Valley of Love's trial to uncover Ning Chengjiu's secrets, and Tang Hao arranged to meet him outside the city the next night.
• Yu Xiaogang and Oscar traveled by carriage to Spirit City, and Yu Xiaogang explained that Tang Hao was Tang San's father.
• Oscar lamented that his Shrek teammates came from powerful families, and Yu Xiaogang encouraged him to trust Spirit Hall and the Pope instead.

Qian Xunji assessed his strength as Half-Step God King while continuing to refine the Dragon God Core, then received Yu Xiaogang and Oscar at Pope Hall. Oscar’s account of Tang San and Tang Hao stealing his Eight Spider Lances left Qian Xunji condemning the Tang family.

• Oscar took heart from Yu Xiaogang’s encouragement and looked forward to reaching Spirit City.
• Qian Xunji learned from the system that his current strength was Half-Step God King and planned to target the Silver Dragon King after refining the Dragon God Core.
• Yu Xiaogang brought Oscar to Pope Hall, where Qian Xunji praised Oscar’s Innate Full Soul Power.
• Yu Xiaogang told Qian Xunji that Oscar had survived absorbing a Man Faced Demon Spider and gained the Eight Spider Lances.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed that Tang San and Tang Hao had forcibly taken Oscar’s Eight Spider Lances, and Qian Xunji condemned the Tang family.

Yu Xiaogang brought Oscar to Spirit City to ask Qian Xunji to help the youth grow strong enough to avenge himself on Tang San and Tang Hao. After learning that Tang Hao had taken Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ning Chengjiu to Vast Sea City, Qian Xunji traced their route across the sea to the Sun Moon Continent.

• Yu Xiaogang condemned Tang Hao, the Holy Spirit Cult, and the Clear Sky Sect before Qian Xunji, then offered him Shi Nian’s head Spirit Bone.
• Qian Xunji declined the Spirit Bone and agreed to give Oscar an opportunity to grow stronger after Oscar swore loyalty to Spirit Hall.
• Yu Xiaogang reported that Shrek had forfeited the rest of the tournament and that Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ning Chengjiu had been secretly meeting with Tang Hao.
• Qian Xunji used his divine sense to locate Tang Hao and the three youths in Vast Sea City, apparently preparing to sail out to sea.
• Qian Xunji extended his divine sense across the ocean and discovered the Sun Moon Continent.

Qian Xunji discovered that Tang San was traveling with Tang Hao toward the Valley of Love and decided to send Yu Xiaogang and Oscar there too. Meanwhile, Tang Hao’s group struggled to cross the sea, so Tang San persuaded him to change course toward Sea God Island.

• Qian Xunji told Yu Xiaogang and Oscar that he knew their destination and would arrange for them to travel to the Valley of Love with him.
• Qian Xunji ordered Yue Guan to give Oscar Soul Tools, then asked whether Yue Guan would accept a chance to become a woman; Yue Guan asked for a week to consider it.
• At a concealed outpost near Vast Sea City, Ning Chengjiu feared Tang San might kill him, while Dai Mubai learned Tang Hao was a Titled Douluo and meekly followed Tang San.
• Tang Hao carried Tang San, Ning Chengjiu, and Dai Mubai over the ocean, but slowed down to avoid dangerous sea soul beasts.
• Tang San suggested they fly toward Sea God Island, and Tang Hao agreed to change course.