Chapter Summaries

Qian Xunji agreed that Spirit Hall would intervene against the continent’s evil menaces, but demanded sweeping authority over Soul Masters in return. His first two conditions provoked outrage and left the assembled rulers and sect leaders recognizing how Spirit Hall could use them to control and weaken their forces.

• Xue Qinghe, the Star Luo envoy, and Yu Yuanzhen offered thanks and compensation after Qian Xunji said Spirit Hall could intervene.
• Qian Xunji demanded that all Soul Masters register with Spirit Hall and that Spirit Hall alone assess and certify their ranks.
• Yu Yuanzhen objected that the registration rules interfered with sect affairs, but Qian Xunji argued that they were necessary to detect evil arts and artifacts.
• Qian Xunji required Soul Masters above rank thirty to perform annual public service assigned and assessed by Spirit Hall, with penalties for failing to serve.
• Yu Yuanzhen protested that his disciples were not laborers, but Qian Xunji framed public service as their duty to protect the continent.
• Ning Fengzhi recognized that Spirit Hall could use task assignments and assessments to drain other powers’ strength and punish dissent.

Qian Xunji rejected the nobles’ offers of money and territory, insisting that they accept public service duties and improve the lives of commoners to address the causes of the rebellion. After the sects and empires agreed, he prepared to reveal his third condition.

• Ning Fengzhi, Yu Yuanzhen, Xue Qinghe, and the Star Luo Empire’s grand marshal objected to public service duties and offered money and land instead.
• Qian Xunji accused the nobles and sects of mistreating commoners and said they had to change their rules or fight the rebels themselves.
• Ning Fengzhi and the other leaders realized Qian Xunji would not negotiate and that they had little choice but to comply.
• Ning Fengzhi, the Clear Sky Sect’s Second Elder, the Star Luo Empire, Yu Yuanzhen, and Xue Qinghe each agreed to Qian Xunji’s conditions.
• Qian Xunji announced that he would now state the third condition.

Qian Xunji imposed labor protections across the continent, and Yu Yuanzhen agreed after Spirit Hall threatened to help commoners leave his territory. Ning Fengzhi explained that Spirit Hall was adapting to a new era and trying to ease commoner resentment before the Black Fire Army and Black Earth Cult could overturn the old order.

• Qian Xunji ordered an eight-hour workday, minimum wages, worker protections, bans on child labor and enslavement, and punishments for violations.
• Yu Yuanzhen rejected the rules, but agreed after Qian Xunji ordered Spirit Hall to offer travel expenses and jobs to commoners in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's territory.
• The gathered leaders accepted Qian Xunji's conditions, while Xue Qinghe privately seethed over Spirit Hall's growing influence.
• Xue Qinghe asked Ning Fengzhi whether he had expected Spirit Hall's demands, and Ning Fengzhi said there had been no other choice.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that Spirit Hall could not defeat the Black Fire Army and Black Earth Cult by force and was instead using the new policies to ease commoner resentment and establish a new order.

Ning Fengzhi persuaded nobles and sect leaders that they had to give up some privileges to survive Spirit Hall’s new protections for commoners. As they worried about lost income, Qian Tong proposed a way to adapt by hiring workers by the day or month instead of owning them.

• Xue Qinghe asked whether nobles had to surrender ancestral privileges, and Ning Fengzhi said they must sacrifice some power to stay alive.
• A sect master, Yu Yuanzhen, the Clear Sky Sect's Second Elder, and the Star Luo Empire's grand marshal worried that wages and shorter workdays would cripple their income.
• Qian Tong of the Treasure Gathering Sect called the new labor rules a business opportunity and argued that owning mine slaves had brought costs and risks.
• Qian Tong proposed hiring workers by the day or month, leaving workers responsible for their own illness, death, and burial.

Qian Tong persuaded the major powers that wages and worker protections could create new profits through consumer spending, loans, and controlled prices. The leaders embraced his plan and believed they could preserve their rule while turning commoners into lifelong workers and customers.

• Qian Tong proposed piecework pay, arguing that paying miners by the amount they produced would increase output without forcing them to work.
• Qian Tong urged the leaders to profit from commoners’ wages by selling them food, clothing, medicine, entertainment, and other necessities.
• Qian Tong proposed installment payments and loans that would bind workers to decades of debt and labor.
• Qian Tong suggested the major powers control prices and wages so commoners could earn enough to survive but never enough to resist.
• Yu Yuanzhen, Ning Fengzhi, Xue Qinghe, and the other leaders welcomed the plan and concluded that it could weaken support for rebellion while making them richer.

Transmigrators across the continent reacted to the revolution led by the Black Fire Army and Black Earth Cult, with some plotting to exploit it and others deciding to help. At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Xiao Chengu resolved to oppose the sect if it sided with the oppressors.

• Oupai, Gui Mengguan, and Qian Gujue discussed the revolution, its firearms and Qianyuan Blood-Burning Art, and feared that someone might try to stop it.
• Su Yang dismissed the rebels as fools and set out for Spirit City, planning to lead Spirit Hall troops against them and gain Bibi Dong's favor.
• In the Far North Ice Plains, Chu Yao and Jiang Chen praised the rebels' courage and hoped to support them if the revolution reached their region.
• A medical-system transmigrator decided to take her young companion and medicine chest to the southwestern border to treat the wounded.
• Inoue Yuan planned to infiltrate the revolutionary forces, rise through their ranks, and claim power after their victory.
• Li Pu, Bai Ci, Lin Yue, and Xiao Chengu discussed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's stake in the existing order, and Xiao Chengu vowed to oppose it if it sided with the oppressors.

At Shrek, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Tang San debated the commoners’ rebellion until Yunxiao challenged their assumptions about poverty and privilege. He defended the revolution as an inevitable response to noble oppression and warned that new rulers would need to be kept in check, leaving the students to reckon with an era of upheaval.

• Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar condemned the commoners’ rebellion, while Tang San sympathized with their suffering but criticized their weapons and methods.
• Tang Dieyi agreed with Tang San and argued that commoners should seek justice through complaints and petitions instead of violence.
• Yunxiao asked Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar to consider the hardships commoners faced and the barriers that kept them from becoming Soul Masters.
• Yunxiao acknowledged the Blood Burning Art and abuses by the Black Fire Army but said the rebellion arose from generations of noble oppression.
• Yunxiao called the revolution historically inevitable, warned that new nobles could replace the old, and told the students to keep pace with the changing era or be crushed by it.

Flender and Zhao Wuji urged Shrek’s students to focus on the upcoming tournament rather than the continent’s upheaval. In Suotuo City, Xu Gang sacrificed his chance to become a God King to obtain resources for Tang San and prepared to stage an injury so he could deliver them.

• Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Tang San reacted to Yunxiao’s views on the changing political order, while Tang Dieyi reassured Tang San.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji told the students to avoid getting involved in the turmoil and concentrate on the Continental Young Soul Master Tournament.
• Xu Gang revealed that his Plot Correction System could not repair the radically altered world and resolved to restore opportunities he believed belonged to Tang San.
• Xu Gang exchanged away his chance to become a God King for the Eight Spider Lances and several immortal herbs, then stored them in a Soul Tool.
• Xu Gang injured himself to appear to have survived a life-or-death battle and planned to meet Tang San on his morning trip to buy buns for Xiao Wu.

Tang San received a mysterious storage Soul Tool from the mortally wounded Xu Gang, then concealed their encounter from three black-clad pursuers. Inside the Soul Tool, Tang San discovered the Eight Spider Lances and six legendary immortal herbs, while Xu Gang watched from the shadows and smiled that his plan had succeeded.

• Tang San accidentally collided with Xu Gang, who was bleeding heavily and gave him a black storage Soul Tool before fleeing.
• Tang San hid the Soul Tool and pretended not to have seen Xu Gang when three black-clad men questioned him.
• The pursuers believed Tang San and chased after Xu Gang in the wrong direction.
• Tang San opened the Soul Tool and found the Eight Spider Lances and six immortal herbs, including Lovesick Heartbreak Red.
• Xu Gang watched from the shadows and thought that his plan had succeeded.

Tang San returned with an External Soul Bone and six immortal-grade herbs instead of Xiao Wu’s crab roe buns, then presented the Lovesick Heartbreak Red to her. Xiao Wu’s system offered her a Soul Ring Extractor if she accepted Tang San’s confession and raised his love to 100%, and she decided the act was worth the reward.

• Tang San forgot to buy Xiao Wu’s crab roe buns after receiving a storage Soul Tool from an injured senior and rushed back with its treasures.
• Xiao Wu scolded Tang San for returning empty-handed, but he showed her the External Soul Bone and six immortal-grade herbs.
• Dai Mubai, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, Tang Dieyi, and Xiao Wu reacted with shock to the treasures.
• Xiao Wu’s system triggered a hidden mission requiring her to accept Tang San’s confession and raise his love to 100%, with a Soul Ring Extractor among the rewards.
• Tang San explained the Lovesick Heartbreak Red’s requirements and offered to forge top-grade hidden weapons for anyone else who could pluck it.

Ma Hongjun and Oscar failed to pluck the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, but Dai Mubai succeeded and confessed his love for Xiao Wu. Xiao Wu rejected him, then demanded that Tang San find and pluck a second flower before she would believe his feelings, leaving Tang San stunned.

• Ma Hongjun and Oscar each tried to pluck the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and were thrown back by its rejection.
• Dai Mubai plucked the flower, shocking Tang San and everyone present.
• Dai Mubai confessed that he had loved Xiao Wu since they first met, but Xiao Wu kicked him away and rejected him.
• Xiao Wu's system announced that her hidden mission had failed and canceled the reward she needed to obtain the Soul Ring Extractor.
• Tang San offered Xiao Wu his immortal herbs, but she challenged him to find and pluck another Lovesick Heartbreak Red before she would accept him.
• Tang Dieyi pleaded with Xiao Wu to recognize Tang San's devotion, but Xiao Wu left for the dormitory and left Tang San behind.

After Xiao Wu rejected Tang San and Dai Mubai picked the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, Tang San beat Dai Mubai and used the remaining immortal herbs to grow stronger. He awoke with ice-and-fire Blue Silver Grass, level-forty-five Soul Power, and a fourth soul ring, determined to defeat the other Tang San at the upcoming tournament.

• Tang San savagely beat Dai Mubai for pursuing Xiao Wu and picking the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, then warned him to stay away from her.
• Gui Mengguan, Qian Gujue, and Oupai speculated that the Asura God had supplied Tang San with the immortal herbs and discussed how he might use them.
• Tang San returned to his cabin and risked consuming the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, Infernal Delicate Apricot, and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass without the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• After surviving the herbs' opposing powers, Tang San awoke with ice-and-fire Blue Silver Grass, level-forty-five Soul Power, a fourth soul ring, and the Eight Spider Lances fused to his body.
• Tang San resolved to defeat the other Tang San at the Continental Young Soul Master Tournament and win Xiao Wu's admiration.

As the Continental Young Soul Master Tournament approached, Tang San tried to recruit Xiao Wu, but she and her companions refused and reaffirmed their Rose Team. Xiao Wu accepted the Lovesick Heartbreak Red from Tang San while making clear she would not forgive him or join his team.

• Tang San approached Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing to invite Xiao Wu onto his tournament team.
• Ning Rongrong said the women had formed the Rose Team, and Zhu Zhuqing rejected Tang San's offer to protect them.
• Tang San objected to Wolf joining their team, but Ning Rongrong said Wolf was one of hers and stronger than Tang San.
• Xiao Wu refused Tang San's request to join the Rose Team, calling him an outsider and warning him to look after himself.
• Tang San offered Xiao Wu the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, and she took it while saying she would not forgive him or join his team.

Rock set out for Spirit City aboard his Magic Flying Vessel with Gui Mengguan, Qian Gujue, Oupai, Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Wolf. Tang San and his companions missed the vessel and had to travel by carriage, while Tang San remained obsessed with finding another Lovesick Heartbreak Red.

• Tang San vowed to find a second Lovesick Heartbreak Red to prove his love after being told not to approach without one.
• Gui Mengguan, Qian Gujue, and Oupai planned to attend the Soul Master Tournament, and Rock offered to take them to Spirit City on his Magic Flying Vessel.
• Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu persuaded Rock to bring them along, and Zhu Zhuqing and Wolf boarded with them.
• Tang San, Tang Dieyi, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun ran after the departing vessel, but Rock accelerated toward Spirit City without stopping.
• Tang San agreed to take a carriage with his companions, while Oupai laughed at his frustration and Gui Mengguan mocked his reaction.

Locke and the contestants discussed how they might survive a tournament secret realm full of Titled Douluos before arriving in Spirit City. Gui Mengguan’s Loafing Squad and Ning Rongrong’s Lying Flat Squad registered, stunning the crowd with their levels and drawing a fearful reaction from Yan Lie.

• Qian Gujue, Gui Mengguan, and the others explained plans to evade, ambush, or outmaneuver Titled Douluos in the secret realm, while Ning Rongrong said her soul tools could help her retreat if needed.
• Locke arrived in Spirit City and went to meet the Pope, while the others headed to the registration square and formed a long queue.
• Gui Mengguan registered the three-member Loafing Squad, and Ning Rongrong named her four-member team the Lying Flat Squad.
• Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Wolf gave their ages and levels, and Gui Mengguan, Qian Gujue, and Oupai revealed that they were fourteen or younger Soul Emperors.
• Yan Lie mocked the three Soul Emperors, but Gui Mengguan’s intimidating glance frightened him into silence.
• The steward issued the teams their entry tokens and told them the tournament would begin in fifteen days.

As teams gathered in Spirit City for the competition, Gui Mengguan, Qian Gujue, and Oupai identified transmigrators hidden among the crowd. The chapter ends as a commotion breaks out across the plaza.

• Lin Hao persuaded his teammates that they could win by hiding and outlasting stronger competitors, while captain Zhang Xuan warned them about the shrinking safe zone.
• Participating teams gathered in Spirit City as the competition approached.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing pointed out an arrogant man in white and a silent masked woman in black.
• Gui Mengguan, Oupai, and Qian Gujue used Soul Power transmission to identify several likely transmigrators among the crowd.
• Gui Mengguan noticed a motionless man in gray near the Spirit Hall entrance whose Soul Power he could not gauge.
• A commotion erupted on the other side of the plaza.

At the tournament square, a crowd mistook Lazy Goat for a transformed soul beast until his teacher showed his Spirit Hall certification. Gui Mengguan, Qian Gujue, and Oupai recognized him as a likely transmigrator, and the chapter leaves a wealthy, heavily guarded young man arriving as more transmigrators gathered.

• Soul masters surrounded the sleeping Lazy Goat and prepared to capture him as a transformed soul beast.
• Lazy Goat’s teacher explained that his mutated martial soul had changed his appearance and showed the crowd his Spirit Hall certification, after which they dispersed.
• Gui Mengguan, Qian Gujue, and Oupai recognized Lazy Goat as a likely transmigrator, while Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Locke admired him.
• A young man in gold arrived in a jeweled carriage with twelve Soul King guards, and Gui Mengguan identified his expensive equipment as Soul Tools.
• The young man headed for the registration desk as more transmigrators arrived in the square.

Transmigrators at the tournament plaza watched Lazy Goat and the newly arrived Tom and Jerry while hiding their own identities. Lazy Goat declined an invitation to join Ning Rongrong's team and left to register with his headmaster, while the others turned their attention to the new arrivals.

• Rock approached Lazy Goat with cloud chocolate, and Lazy Goat introduced himself and explained that his cloud and sheep martial souls let him use skills from all five Soul Master paths.
• Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Rock invited Lazy Goat to join their team, but he refused because he wanted to compete for his headmaster's academy.
• Lazy Goat's headmaster praised him, promised him a month's supply of grass cakes, and led him toward registration.
• Ning Rongrong's group spotted Tom, Jerry, and a bespectacled young man entering the plaza, while Oupai, Gui Mengguan, and Qian Gujue privately recognized them as cross-world visitors.
• The bespectacled young man grabbed Tom by the scruff as Jerry darted onto his shoulder and taunted him.

Tang San’s team registered for the tournament, and Yunxiao arrived just before registration closed. Yu Xiaogang confronted Tang San, who rejected and struck him, leaving Yu Xiaogang consumed by hatred as the competitors quietly watched one another.

• Tang San registered the five-member Shrek Team, but the indifferent reception left him humiliated.
• Yunxiao arrived on the final day, proved his strength, and received a tournament watch as nearby competitors watched him.
• Yu Xiaogang found Tang San and begged him for help, claiming their teacher-disciple bond and blaming Tang San for his imprisonment.
• Tang San denied ever accepting Yu Xiaogang as his teacher, slapped him, and ordered him to stay away.
• Tang Dieyi urged Tang San to leave, while Yu Xiaogang watched them go and silently cursed him.

Liu Erlong tried to avenge Yu Xiaogang after Tang San beat him, but Snake Lance Douluo stopped her in Spirit City. She brought Yu Xiaogang back to their hotel and comforted him, while he remained focused on power and his humiliation.

• Liu Erlong arrived at the registration area, found Yu Xiaogang beaten, and attacked Tang San in a rage.
• Snake Lance Douluo subdued Liu Erlong and warned her that using Soul Power to start a fight in Spirit City would bring severe punishment.
• Liu Erlong left with Yu Xiaogang and threatened Tang San as she passed him, while Tang San led the Shrek group away.
• Oupai, Qian Gujue, and Gui Mengguan wondered why their absent Big Brother had not saved Liu Erlong from Yu Xiaogang as he had saved Bibi Dong.
• At the hotel, Liu Erlong comforted Yu Xiaogang and promised to stay with him and avenge him, but he thought she could not give him the power or godhood he wanted.