Chapter Summaries

The Heaven Dou Royal Academy secured a place in the finals after Zhu Zhuqing defeated a Spirit Hall Academy opponent and both other academies forfeited. Shrek Academy watched from the stands, where Ning Rongrong urged Tang Sam to remain at the academy so she could spend more time with him.

• Tang Sam watched the Top Three Match with resentment, convinced Spirit Hall had cheated Shrek Academy out of the tournament.
• Zhu Zhuqing defeated a Tianxing Academy defense Soul Master, then Tianxing Academy and Spirit Hall Academy forfeited the individual match, sending Heaven Dou Royal Academy to the finals.
• Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing stayed to watch the Spirit Hall Academy match while the rest of their team returned to the inn.
• Zhu Zhuyun and Dai Mubai watched Zhu Zhuqing's performance, and Dai Mubai felt glad that Zhu Zhuqing was pursuing her own goals.
• Tang Sam blamed Dai Mubai for failing to keep Zhu Zhuqing at Shrek Academy, while Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong comforted him.
• Ning Rongrong suggested Tang Sam could stay at the academy for five more years, hoping to keep him in Heaven Dou City and spend more time with him.

Tang San chose Ning Rongrong as a strategic match while secretly pursuing Shangguan Li and others, and Tang Hao planned to propose an engagement to Ning Fengzhi. Ning Fengzhi’s family debated the proposal, and Yun Qin headed to Heaven Dou City to speak with Shangguan Li.

• Tang San told Tang Hao he would choose Ning Rongrong, while privately planning to use the match for influence and pursue Shangguan Li, Xiao Wu, and Yin Lan.
• Tang Hao proposed taking Tang San to meet Ning Fengzhi and seek an engagement with Ning Rongrong, believing it could help Tang San return to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, and Yun Qin discussed Tang Hao’s proposal and Ning Rongrong’s insistence on marrying Tang San.
• Yun Qin suggested offering Shangguan Li as Tang San’s fiancée, but Ning Fengzhi rejected the idea because Shangguan Li’s power and backing were too valuable to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi told Yun Qin he would not sacrifice Ning Rongrong, then admitted to Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo that he had only said so to calm her.
• Yun Qin set out for Heaven Dou City to speak with Shangguan Li about the engagement.

Shangguan Li and Shaohua abandoned their attempt to deal with Tang San and returned to Heaven Dou City, where Evil Soul Masters attacked and Xue Qinghe gained favor by promising compensation for the damage. After the assault was repelled, a surviving Evil Soul Master charged at Emperor Xue Ye, threatening to take him down too.

• Shangguan Li and Shaohua retreated from the City of Slaughter after deciding Tang San's fortune made him too difficult to kill, and Tang San briefly followed them before they escaped.
• Shangguan Li and Shaohua returned to Heaven Dou City and learned that Xue Ye had died and Xue Qinghe had become emperor.
• Evil Soul Masters attacked Heaven Dou City, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Royal Knights mobilized to protect civilians.
• Xue Qinghe promised the civilians that the Heaven Dou Imperial Family would assess their losses and provide compensation, winning their approval while Xue Ye accepted the plan.
• After the Evil Soul Masters were defeated, Xue Ye opened the shelter and promised compensation, but a surviving Evil Soul Master charged toward him and vowed to take his life.

Ning Fengzhi learned that the medicinal potency in Ning Rongrong’s body had vanished after she took Tang San’s herb, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect secretly put Tang San on its blacklist. Shrek Academy drew the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team as its opponent, but Xiao Wu refused to compete in Shrek’s outfit, forcing Yu Xiaogang to replace her with Ma Hongjun before the team entered the arena.

• Sword Douluo told Ning Fengzhi that Ning Rongrong’s stored medicinal potency had completely vanished, and Ning Fengzhi suspected Tang San’s herb had caused the harm.
• Ning Rongrong said Lin Ying had refused the herb, while Ning Fengzhi kept the herb’s effects from her and secretly blacklisted Tang San.
• Platinum Bishop Salas drew the first-round pairing of Heaven Dou Royal Academy and Shrek Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang named Tang San, Dai Mubai, Xiao Wu, Tai Long, Jing Ling, Huang Yuan, and Jiang Zhu for the match, but Xiao Wu refused to compete in her outfit.
• Tang San agreed to replace Xiao Wu with Ma Hongjun, and the team vowed to defeat the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team before entering the arena.

Ning Rongrong failed to find Tang San, then learned that Li Pei’s father was the Shrek gatekeeper and concealed what she knew from him. Li Pei remained near Ning Rongrong, plotting to reclaim her body, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect searched Lin Ying’s room for evidence of spying and found nothing.

• Ning Rongrong and Lin Ying missed Tang San at the Moonlight Pavilion, so Ning Rongrong took Lin Ying to Shrek Academy to seek him and the academy’s leaders.
• The gatekeeper told Ning Rongrong that Flender and Liu Erlong had gone to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan for Teacher Yu’s funeral, then asked her to help find Li Pei.
• Ning Rongrong learned that the gatekeeper was Li Pei’s father and decided not to use him against Li Pei, though she told Lin Ying that Li Pei had probably abandoned him.
• Li Pei overheard Ning Rongrong and Lin Ying, resented her father, and continued waiting for a chance to take Ning Rongrong’s body back.
• While Ning Rongrong kept Lin Ying under watch, Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples searched Lin Ying’s room but found no evidence linking her to Spirit Hall or espionage.

After the group returned from the Star Dou Great Forest, Shaohua decided Zhu Zhuqing needed further guidance to overcome the fixation holding back her growth. Xiao Wu reunited with her companions and offered a false account of her survival, while the others kept their doubts to themselves.

• Ning Rongrong hugged the returning Xiao Wu, while Tang San grew jealous of their closeness.
• Dugu Yan defeated Zhu Zhuqing in a spar after suppressing her soul power, and Shaohua judged Zhu Zhuqing still too weak.
• Shaohua took Zhu Zhuqing aside to teach her how to overcome her knotted heart and her fixation on defeating Dai Mubai.
• Dugu Yan told Shangguan Li that Zhu Zhuqing had held back during their fight and promised to help her.
• Xiao Wu told Ning Rongrong that the Titan Giant Ape had dropped her after hearing a bovine roar, and that she had later found a suitable soul beast; only Ning Rongrong believed her story.
• Qin Ming went to fetch Ye Lingling to treat the group, while the Shrek companions celebrated Xiao Wu's return and neglected the injured Zhao Wuji.

In Suotuo City, the Imperial Fighting Team split up to explore while their teammates tried to give Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan time alone. Shangguan Li revealed that Ah Yin had been resurrected, and Shaohua arranged for her to join the team so she could observe Tang San before meeting him.

• Yu Tianheng and the Imperial Fighting Team agreed to gather at the Soul Fighting Arena, and Shangguan Li reminded them that combat experience was for their own growth.
• Ye Lingling took Zhu Zhuqing away so Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan could spend time together, while she and the others secretly followed the pair.
• Shangguan Li told Shaohua that Ah Yin had been resurrected and released her from the Spirit Treasure Realm.
• Ah Yin appeared as a fourteen-year-old girl and said she wanted to see Tang San but would stay with Shangguan Li until she could claim Tang Hao's head.
• Shaohua proposed that Ah Yin join the Imperial Fighting Team and watch Tang San compete before meeting him, and Ah Yin agreed.

Shangguan Li and Shaohua entered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Vault after the Spirit Hall’s attack, with Shangguan Li briefly helping the sect’s leaders escape. Inside, Shaohua searched for a bloodline-detecting treasure while Shangguan Li discovered the sect’s vast wealth.

• Shangguan Li and Shaohua arrived as the Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, and Ning Fengzhi were trapped, and Shangguan Li used a small spirit attack that helped Bone Douluo recover and allowed several people to escape.
• Shangguan Li wondered whether her mother, Yun Qin, had survived, then watched Ning Fengzhi flee with Sword Douluo while other disciples escaped on their own.
• Shangguan Li concealed herself and Shaohua with the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, and Spirit Detection revealed that the Vault lay beneath them.
• Shaohua suggested that Shangguan Li use her Lovesick Tower martial soul, whose aura deactivated the Vault’s hidden traps and mechanisms.
• Shangguan Li made an ice key to open the Vault door, revealing piles of Gold Soul Coins, while Shaohua searched for the special treasure.

Tang San and Tang Hao visited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to seek an engagement between Tang San and Ning Rongrong. Ning Fengzhi demanded Tang San marry into the sect, then postponed his decision until the next day, while Tang San recalled Tang Hao asking him to choose between Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu.

• Tang Hao asked Ning Fengzhi to arrange Tang San and Ning Rongrong's engagement, but Ning Fengzhi initially resisted.
• A disciple told Ning Rongrong that Tang San had arrived, and she hurried to the grand hall and declared she wanted to marry him.
• Ning Fengzhi said Tang San could marry Ning Rongrong only if he became a matrilocal son-in-law, and Ning Rongrong rejected the condition on Tang San's behalf.
• Tang San asked Ning Fengzhi for another condition, and Ning Fengzhi invited Tang Hao and Tang San to stay overnight while he considered the matter.
• Ning Rongrong took Tang San to see her luxurious courtyard, where Tang San remembered Tang Hao asking whether he would choose Ning Rongrong or Xiao Wu.

At the Promotional Tournament, Qian Renxue visited Tang San with Ning Fengzhi and discovered that Tang San had reached level 53. After learning from Shangguan Li that Tang San could no longer cultivate his Blue Silver Grass martial soul and had advanced by cultivating his Clear Sky Hammer, Qian Renxue rejoiced at the loss of one of her enemy’s strengths.

• Qian Renxue accompanied Ning Fengzhi to visit Tang San at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team’s quarters, where Tang San noticed a mysterious gaze watching him.
• Ning Rongrong rushed out to greet Ning Fengzhi, while Flender and Yu Xiaogang joined the visitors and Yu Xiaogang realized Xue Qinghe was the crown prince.
• Qian Renxue noticed Liu Erlong staying with the Second Team and suspected she had followed Yu Xiaogang.
• After leaving Ning Fengzhi, Qian Renxue contacted Shangguan Li and asked why Tang San had reached level 53.
• Shangguan Li explained that Tang San could no longer cultivate Blue Silver Grass, so he had filled all five soul rings of his Clear Sky Hammer and absorbed a 100,000-year soul bone.
• Qian Renxue thanked Shangguan Li and ended their connection, pleased that Tang San’s twin martial souls had been ruined.

Ning Fengzhi claimed Shangguan Li was his daughter, but his bloodline-detection device failed to prove it, and Shangguan Li left while Qian Renxue secretly planned to protect her. Zhu Zhuyun visited Zhu Zhuqing and revealed that she had become Dai Mubai’s wife because the Zhu family had no other suitable candidate for his empress.

• Ning Fengzhi insisted that Shangguan Li was his daughter and asked her to test a bloodline-detection chair, but it lit up when Sword Douluo sat in it.
• Shangguan Li left the meeting, and Qian Renxue agreed to help Ning Fengzhi while secretly intending to keep him away from Shangguan Li.
• Zhu Zhuyun arrived at Shangguan Li’s villa and asked Qiao Di to take her to Zhu Zhuqing, who had spent the past five years cultivating in seclusion.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Zhu Zhuyun she wanted nothing to do with Dai Mubai or the Star Luo Empire, and Zhu Zhuyun knelt to ask her not to meet him.
• Zhu Zhuyun revealed that the Zhu family had made her Dai Mubai’s wife because Zhu Zhuqing had run away and they had no other suitable empress candidate.

Tang San returned to Shrek Academy after learning that the Asura God’s second trial required him to kill Yu Xiaogang for a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring. After deciding Yu Xiaogang cared more about his theories and Tang San’s cultivation than about him, Tang San told his teacher that the assistance he needed was Yu Xiaogang’s life.

• Tang San recalled the Asura God’s second trial, which required him to kill Yu Xiaogang in exchange for a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring and greater divine affinity.
• Tang San used his Blue Silver Domain to find Yu Xiaogang in a secluded cabin at Shrek Academy and revealed his transformed appearance and Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that he had learned his twin-martial-soul theory from materials at Spirit Hall, disappointing Tang San, who had believed Yu Xiaogang devised it himself.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that he had survived the City of Slaughter, inherited a deity’s power, and had become a Spirit Emperor.
• Tang San decided to kill Yu Xiaogang for the trial reward and told him that the assistance he needed was Yu Xiaogang’s life.

Shangguan Li healed Bibi Dong while temporarily stripping her of soul power, and revealed her identity to Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue. In Heaven Dou City, Shaohua suspected Yu Tianheng had a hidden motive and went with Zhu Zhuqing and Dugu Bo to investigate him, where they found him promising to marry Dugu Yan.

• Qian Renxue confronted Shangguan Li over hurting Bibi Dong, and Shangguan Li explained that she sought revenge for Shangguan Lin but would spare Bibi Dong's life.
• Shangguan Li used her Lovesick Tower Martial Soul to heal Bibi Dong, explaining that Bibi Dong would temporarily live without soul power while the evil aura left her body.
• Shangguan Li admitted she was Ning Fengzhi's daughter and asked Bibi Dong to keep her identity secret before leaving with Gu Yuena.
• Shaohua and Zhu Zhuqing visited Dugu Bo, and Shaohua warned that Yu Tianheng might have deceived Dugu Yan into taking him in.
• Dugu Bo led them to the rear garden, where Yu Tianheng thanked Dugu Yan for saving him and promised to marry her after earning success on the battlefield.

Shangguan Li learned how Ning Fengzhi became a mass of fused souls and severed the bonds connecting him to the others. After cleansing his resentment, she watched Ning Fengzhi and the undead depart from the mortal world.

• Ning Fengzhi explained that he had taken in the Abyss's swamp while dying, then lost his reason and did not know how he became a fused mass of souls.
• Shangguan Li showed Ning Fengzhi the imprisoned souls, including Sword Douluo, Yu Tianheng, and nobles, and explained that resentment had drawn them together through bonds.
• Shangguan Li cut the bond between Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo, and Ning Fengzhi felt the connection break.
• Ning Fengzhi apologized to Shangguan Li for failing to give her the love she wanted, but she said that love had come too late.
• Shangguan Li severed Ning Fengzhi's remaining bonds and cleansed his resentment with Undead Magic.
• Ning Fengzhi and the other undead fused with him departed from the mortal world.

Tang San met Xue Qinghe at the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace to discuss supplying the empire with Tang Sect hidden weapons. They agreed to cooperate in secret, while Shangguan Li and Shaohua watched and considered the threat surrounding Tang San and the Divine Realm.

• Tang San decided to visit Xue Qinghe immediately, and Ning Rongrong accompanied him while planning to undermine their alliance.
• Shangguan Li and Shaohua concluded that Tang San was an incomplete vessel for Wuxie and suspected Wuxie was trying to seize power in the Divine Realm.
• Ning Rongrong helped Tang San enter the imperial palace, where he and Xue Qinghe discussed cooperation based on Tang Sect hidden weapons.
• Tang San offered to establish the Tang Sect in Heaven Dou City and supply finished weapons, but refused to sell their manufacturing methods.
• Xue Qinghe accepted Tang San's terms and said their cooperation had to remain secret, prompting Tang San to ask why.

Ning Fengzhi continued searching for Ning Rongrong while Shangguan Li discovered that Shaohua had disappeared. Shaohua had secretly left to seek a way to reunite with the Evil Side, and Ning Fengzhi arrived to ask Shangguan Li for help as the chapter ended.

• Ning Fengzhi searched for Ning Rongrong for three days without success, and Sword Douluo reassured him that the lack of news might mean she was safe.
• Shaohua secretly told Qiao Di that she needed to return to her previous continent to merge with the Evil Side, and asked him to hide her departure from Shangguan Li.
• Qiao Di agreed to keep Shaohua's plans secret, though he urged her to survive and worried that she would be at a disadvantage on the more advanced continent.
• Shangguan Li realized Shaohua had vanished and feared she might be trying to sacrifice herself, while Qiao Di concealed what he knew.
• Ning Fengzhi visited Shangguan Li and asked to restore their relationship, but she refused and asked what business he had come for.

Ning Rongrong and Tang San argued over which sect would take in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's orphaned children while Wuxie's aura stirred a struggle between Ning Rongrong and Li Pei. The chapter ended with their souls beginning to fuse and Ning Rongrong suddenly growing weak.

• Shangguan Li and Shaohua discussed the ruins of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, while Little Pear and Shaohua noticed Wuxie's aura pouring from Ning Rongrong.
• Ning Rongrong and Tang San each claimed the nearly one hundred children for their sects, and Tang San argued that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect lacked a suitable place to house them.
• Li Pei tried to seize control of Ning Rongrong's body and threatened her for refusing Tang San, but their souls began fusing without either woman noticing.
• Wuxie intensified the aura within their fusion and drew the attention of Shangguan Li and the others as part of his plan to eliminate obstacles.
• Ning Rongrong suddenly weakened, and Tang San asked what was wrong while privately feeling pleased.

Shangguan Li met the gods before beginning her Ninth Trial, learned that her grandfather had reincarnated, and accepted the responsibilities of inheriting three Divine Positions. She crossed into a dark, cloud-covered Divine Realm, where the Sea God told her it was no longer the Divine Realm as it once was.

• Sea Dragon Douluo led Shangguan Li, Yun Ming, and Ya Li to the Sea God's Palace, where they were separated upon entering.
• The God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life praised Shangguan Li and told her that Shangguan Lin had reincarnated as a human.
• Shangguan Li watched an image of her grandfather as an infant and resolved not to let him down.
• The God of Destruction, the Goddess of Life, and the Sea God explained the responsibilities tied to their Divine Positions and asked Shangguan Li if she was willing to accept them.
• Shangguan Li affirmed her resolve and crossed the door to begin her Ninth Trial.
• The Sea God explained that Shangguan Li had entered the Divine Realm as a spiritual body and revealed that the dark, cloud-covered realm was no longer what it had been.

After Yun Qin died, Ning Rongrong grieved over a letter revealing that Yun Qin had known Li Pei was inhabiting her body and loved her anyway. As Tang San prepared to rally forces against Spirit Hall, Shangguan Li and Shaohua noticed Wuxie's aura weakening and wondered whether Ning Rongrong's returning soul was causing it.

• Shangguan Li refused to see Yun Qin, and she and Shaohua waited at the sect entrance as Ning Fengzhi carried Yun Qin's body away with Ning Rongrong and Tang San.
• Li Pei read Yun Qin's letter, which said Yun Qin had known she was not Ning Rongrong but had loved and cared for her regardless.
• Ning Rongrong cried out to Yun Qin as her mother, while Tang San urged her not to let grief stop her from seeking revenge.
• Ning Fengzhi learned that Tang San was working with Qinghe and trying to unite factions against Spirit Hall, then proposed that Ning Rongrong accompany him once she had calmed down.
• Shangguan Li and Shaohua sensed Wuxie's aura weakening and speculated that Ning Rongrong's renewed warmth and returning soul might explain the change.

Shangguan Li and Gu Yuena plotted to kill Ning Rongrong, while Tang San manipulated Ning Rongrong into helping him obtain the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s secret tunnel plans. Gu Yuena abducted Ning Rongrong, who tried to bargain for an alliance, and ended by hinting that Gu Yuena knew Xiao Wu’s true nature.

• Gu Yuena agreed to deal with Ning Rongrong after Tang San left, while Ning Rongrong told Tang San that her sect’s deity might help them.
• Tang San encouraged Ning Rongrong to resent Ning Fengzhi and suggested she help her father with his affairs, hoping to gain access to the secret tunnel construction method.
• Tang San arranged to visit Ning Rongrong at night, and she left through busy streets as Shangguan Li and Gu Yuena followed.
• Gu Yuena seized Ning Rongrong and took her away with Shangguan Li and Little Pear following.
• Ning Rongrong tried to threaten Gu Yuena and then proposed an alliance against the Spirit Hall Empire.
• Gu Yuena asked Ning Rongrong what she knew about Xiao Wu, making Ning Rongrong suspect that Gu Yuena was a soul beast.