Chapter Summaries

After Tang San and his companions left the forest, they discussed Tang Hao’s coming public trial and Tang San’s plan to study magic at the academy. Injured Tang San returned to the dormitory, where he hid the truth about his father and the man who looked like him from his worried friends.

• Oupai won his bet with Qian Gujue after Tang San’s angry reaction to a taunt about his feelings for Bibi Dong.
• Tang San said Tang Hao would face a public trial in one month and resolved to make him suffer through humiliation.
• Tang San decided to remain near the Magic Academy and study magic while keeping his identity secret.
• Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, and Oscar questioned the injured Tang San about his encounter and the man who resembled him.
• Tang San concealed the truth about Tang Hao, claiming the man was an acquaintance with a grudge against his father.

Tang San discovered that he had no magical talent but admired magic and remained confident in his own advantages as a Spirit Hall soul master. He invited Gui Mengguan, Qian Gujue, and Oupai to witness Tang Hao’s trial and vowed to defeat his other self at the Soul Master Tournament, while that Tang San continued indulging Xiao Wu.

• Gui Mengguan gave Tang San the crystal ball to test for magical talent, but it remained dark when Tang San touched it.
• Tang San reflected that magic had greater potential and broader access than the soul master system, yet decided he had no reason to envy mages.
• Tang San invited Gui Mengguan, Qian Gujue, and Oupai to attend Tang Hao’s public trial in three months and declared he would defeat Tang San at the tournament in two years.
• Xiao Wu rejected the breakfast Tang San had bought and demanded crab roe buns, so Tang San left to get them.
• Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar discussed Tang San’s devotion to Xiao Wu and promised to stand by him, unaware that he planned to defeat Tang San and take everything from him.

Yunxiao arrived at Locke Magic Academy and asked to join Shrek Academy, but Tang San and the others mocked him for being too old and supposedly weak. Yunxiao revealed that he was an eight-ringed Soul Douluo, leaving everyone stunned and Tang San suspicious of his motives.

• Tang San prepared to leave Locke Magic Academy, while Oupai and Qian Gujue gave him supplies and a Soul Tool for emergencies.
• Yunxiao arrived at the academy gate and asked to join Shrek Academy.
• Tang San rejected Yunxiao for being too old, and Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar joined in the mockery.
• Yunxiao released his power and revealed eight soul rings, including four black rings, proving he was a Soul Douluo.
• Tang San reacted with disbelief and suspicion, asking why a powerful Soul Douluo wanted to join Shrek Academy.

Yunxiao tried to join Shrek Academy, claiming he wanted to experience ordinary student life, but Tang San suspected his motives. Yunxiao forced Tang San to accept him by using his Soul Douluo pressure against Dai Mubai, while Tang San secretly alerted Spirit City.

• Gui Mengguan and Oupai privately mocked Yunxiao’s system-driven plan to follow the original plot.
• Yunxiao told Tang San he wanted to join Shrek as a student, but Tang San questioned why an eighteen-year-old Soul Douluo would choose the impoverished academy.
• Yunxiao’s system warned him that refusing the quest to join Shrek would cost him two Soul Power levels.
• When Tang San continued to refuse, Yunxiao pinned Dai Mubai beneath his pressure, prompting Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar to urge Tang San to let him join.
• Tang San agreed to admit Yunxiao, then secretly sent an encrypted message to Spirit City warning that an uninvited guest had arrived in Suotuo City.

Yunxiao joined Shrek Academy, while Ning Rongrong reported discovering a mysterious jar shop in Suotuo City whose jars could contain soul rings, soul bones, and unusual magical items. Gui Mengguan and the others decided to investigate the shop themselves.

• Tang San reluctantly accepted Yunxiao into Shrek Academy, and Yunxiao received a system reward that strengthened his first soul ring and granted him Gold Soul Coins.
• Ning Rongrong arrived with Wolf and told the group about a shop selling indestructible jars that could only be opened with the shop owner's special hammer.
• Ning Rongrong revealed that her jar contained a self-warming lunchbox and Wolf's contained an enchanted dagger; Wolf had also sensed dangerous, unfamiliar power inside the shop.
• Gui Mengguan and Qian Gujue concluded that the shop's owner was likely a visitor from another world and that the jars could cause chaos across the continent.
• Tang San, Yunxiao, Oupai, and the others agreed to accompany Gui Mengguan to Suotuo City and investigate the mysterious jar shop.

The group entered the Lucky Jar Shop in Suotuo City to investigate its mysterious jars, which cost a thousand Gold Soul Coins apiece. After the owner warned them that a jar could contain nothing, Yunxiao paid for ten jars, and the owner placed them on the counter.

• The group arrived at the Lucky Jar Shop after witnessing a customer angrily complain about its prices.
• Gui Mengguan warned that the jars' potential rewards and steep price seemed suspicious, while Yunxiao insisted on entering to investigate.
• Gui Mengguan led the group inside, where they found shelves of identical black jars and a dozing owner who spoke in a mechanical voice.
• The owner said each jar cost a thousand Gold Soul Coins and might contain only air, prompting Yunxiao to buy ten.
• The owner made ten jars appear on the counter, and Dai Mubai became interested in buying some too.

Dai Mubai’s lucky jar opening sparked a frenzy at the shop, but Ma Hongjun and the others had mixed results. As customers kept gambling on more jars, Yunxiao grew furious at his poor haul but could not confront the owner.

• Dai Mubai smashed a jar and found a thousand-year tiger-type right arm Soul Bone, prompting customers to rush to buy jars.
• Ma Hongjun borrowed money from Dai Mubai, but his jar contained a steaming braised chicken, and he cried as he ate it.
• Tang San opened three jars containing a stone, a Blue Silver Grass seed, and a Dragon Beard Needle, sensing a faint connection between the seed and his martial soul.
• Ning Rongrong found three accessories among her jars, while Wolf opened an enchanted axe.
• Yunxiao opened ten jars and found mostly empty jars, a broken bowl, and a magical broom, then failed to approach the jars with his Soul Power.
• Customers across the shop cheered or despaired over their prizes and losses, with some eager to buy more jars.

Gui Mengguan and his companions left the jar shop after he suspected its jars were stealing people’s fortune. At Drunken Immortal Tower, he explained what he had seen, leaving Ning Rongrong frightened that her luck had been drained.

• The shopkeeper tried to entice Gui Mengguan, Qian Gujue, Oupai, and Tang San to buy jars, but Gui Mengguan refused and led the group away.
• Ning Rongrong offered to lend Gui Mengguan money, then followed his hint and pretended she had lost interest in the jars.
• At Drunken Immortal Tower, Ning Rongrong asked Gui Mengguan why he thought the jar shop was suspicious.
• Gui Mengguan revealed that his unusual eyes had seen black jars drain threads of fortune from people who opened them, including Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Ning Rongrong.
• Qian Gujue explained that fortune was a person’s luck, and Ning Rongrong panicked that the jars had stolen hers.

Tang San and the others realized the Lucky Jar Shop was stealing customers’ luck and planned to stop its owner, though Gui Mengguan warned that the shop was protected by a powerful force. The owner, Yao Wuji, remained confident in his system’s protection and dismissed the harm his customers suffered.

• Oupai explained that the jars drained buyers’ luck, and Qian Gujue said an invisible force protected the shop from spiritual probing.
• Gui Mengguan and Ning Rongrong explained the danger to Wolf, while Qian Gujue reassured Ning Rongrong that her luck would recover after buying only five jars.
• Tang San decided to warn people and contacted his mother to request the great enshrined ones, while ordering the Suotuo City Spirit Hall branch to seal off the street.
• Gui Mengguan cautioned that confronting the owner would require long-term planning because the shop had powerful protection.
• Yao Wuji dismissed the suffering of the jar buyers and trusted his system to make him invincible inside the shop.

The jar shop’s popularity drove desperate Soul Masters into debt and ruin as loan sharks preyed on them. Gui Mengguan, Ning Rongrong, and Qian Gujue discussed the damage, while Dai Mubai celebrated another valuable find and Ma Hongjun lamented his growing debt.

• A Black Tiger Hall loan shark persuaded a desperate middle-aged Soul Master to borrow two thousand Gold Soul Coins to open jars.
• The Soul Master opened a hemp rope and then an ordinary watermelon, losing his remaining money and breaking down.
• The loan shark’s men dragged the indebted Soul Master away to have his legs broken and sell him.
• At the Drunken Immortal Tower, Gui Mengguan reported deaths and other harm caused by the jar shop, while Ning Rongrong and Qian Gujue reacted to the suffering.
• Dai Mubai showed off an Enchanted Heart Protector Mirror, while Ma Hongjun revealed that his latest borrowed money had bought only torn straw sandals.

A poor girl named Yaya pulled a Ten Thousand Year Emerald Swan Leg Bone from a jar, sparking a frenzy that drew nobles and royals to the shop. Yao Wuji welcomed the surge of customers but dismissed warnings about an approaching otherworldly, high-luck target.

• Dai Mubai took the dispirited Ma Hongjun to cheer him up after Ma Hongjun wasted his money buying jars.
• Tang San told Gui Mengguan and the others that Spirit Hall's elders would take three days to arrive and that an invisible force had repelled Spirit Hall members from the alley.
• Yaya pulled a Ten Thousand Year Emerald Swan Leg Bone, and the crowd rushed to buy more jars.
• Ning Rongrong explained that Yaya's poor family had sold their last cow to buy a jar, while Gui Mengguan warned that the shopkeeper was using such lucky pulls to draw in desperate people.
• Carriages bearing the Balak Kingdom's royal emblem arrived at the shop, and Tang San admitted they had no clear way to stop the anomaly.
• Yao Wuji approved raising the drop rate to attract more customers, then dismissed system warnings about an approaching target from another world.

Rock and his companions heard rumors that a shop in Suotuo City sold jars containing soul bones and other powerful items, and they suspected a trap. They went to find Dai Mubai and Tang San, but Gui Mengguan and the others warned them away from the shop and led them to the Drunken Immortal Tower to explain.

• Oscar, Xiao Wu, and Rock questioned the claims about jars that could yield soul bones, soul rings, and a second martial soul.
• Zhu Zhuqing said Dai Mubai had likely gone to Suotuo City to seek power and urged the group to investigate before he endangered himself.
• Tang Dieyi worried that Tang San would be tricked into spending all his money, so Rock agreed to go with her and Zhu Zhuqing to Suotuo City.
• The group found the crowded Lucky Jar Shop district, where people celebrated prizes or mourned their losses.
• Gui Mengguan, Qian Gujue, Oupai, and Tang San stopped Rock's group and warned them that the jar shop was a trap.
• Gui Mengguan led them toward the Drunken Immortal Tower, where he promised to explain what was happening.

Gui Mengguan and Tang Dieyi sought help from powerful factions to contain Yao Wuji’s Jar Shop, while Tang Dieyi feared Tang San had gone into debt to buy jars. A boy’s second martial soul sent the crowd into a frenzy, and Ning Fengzhi and his elders learned from Ning Rongrong’s letter how close she had come to danger.

• Gui Mengguan said only Spirit Hall and the two empires could seal off the Jar Shop, and Ning Rongrong promised to warn her father and Xue Ye.
• Oupai told Tang Dieyi that Tang San had spent his savings and borrowed five thousand gold soul coins from loan sharks.
• A ragged boy won the Seven Kill Sword as a second martial soul, prompting the crowd to rush for more jars and take desperate measures to afford them.
• Yao Wuji dismissed a warning and privately welcomed the Jar Shop’s growing profits, confident his enemies could not reach him inside.
• Ning Fengzhi read Ning Rongrong’s letter and showed Chen Xin and Gu Rong the warning that jar buyers could suffer grave injuries or die.

Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong discussed the danger posed by Yao Wuji’s Lucky Jars and suspected he might be a native evil god. They decided to warn the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall while sending Chen Xin and Gu Rong to bring Ning Rongrong back from Suotuo City.

• Gu Rong demanded to leave for Suotuo City and kill Yao Wuji, but Ning Fengzhi warned that Yao Wuji’s power of laws made him invincible inside the Jar Shop.
• Ning Fengzhi speculated that Yao Wuji might be an awakened native evil god, and Chen Xin and Gu Rong recalled legends about evil gods and the Angel God.
• Ning Fengzhi began writing to Xue Ye and the Pope of Spirit Hall to urge a ban on the Lucky Jars and joint action against the Jar Shop.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong agreed to retrieve Ning Rongrong, avoid the Jar Shop, and return her safely to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong departed for Suotuo City, while Ning Fengzhi remained behind, fearing the conflict would not end easily.

After the jar trade revealed a second martial soul, Tang San and the others suspected Yao Wuji was working with loan sharks to exploit desperate buyers and set out to find Tang Dieyi’s Third Brother. Meanwhile, Yao Wuji tightened control over the growing crowd and raised the jar price, eager to profit from their desperation.

• Oupai, Qian Gujue, and Tang San realized that the second martial soul would spread greed across the continent, while Tang Dieyi rushed to rescue Third Brother from the loan sharks.
• Tang San and Gui Mengka suspected Yao Wuji had arranged a scheme using the jars and loan sharks to take borrowers’ money, martial souls, luck, and lives.
• Locke, Kawazhong, Gui Mengguan, and Zhu Zhuqing followed Tang Dieyi, with Zhu Zhuqing deciding Yao Wuji had to be eliminated.
• Yao Wuji silenced the packed crowd, imposed a ten-jar daily limit and restrictions on opening jars, then struck a protesting buyer through a wall.
• Yao Wuji ordered the system to raise the price to 1,600 Gold Soul Coins per jar so he could accumulate transaction points faster.

Tang Dieyi searched the crowded alley for Tang San and learned he had gone into seclusion after finding a Blue Silver Grass seed. After realizing Yao Wuji may have planted it to steal Tang San’s fortune, the group followed his scent outside the city to find him.

• Tang Dieyi found Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, who told her Tang San had disappeared after taking a Blue Silver Grass seed to cultivate.
• Dai Mubai said Tang San had planned to reach level thirty or even thirty-five and defeat Endless Life.
• Gui Mengguan and Qian Gujue warned that Yao Wuji had likely set the seed as a trap to drain Tang San’s protagonist fortune.
• Tang Dieyi decided she had to find Tang San before he absorbed the seed, while Gui Mengguan cautioned that Tang San might not trust them.
• Locke suggested using Kawazhong’s nose, and Kawazhong tracked Tang San’s scent beyond the city.
• Tang Dieyi, Gui Mengguan, Locke, Kawazhong, and the others set out to find Tang San and bring him back.

Tang San awakened his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline and reached level thirty-seven after refining the seed, but Tang Dieyi warned that it had drained his fortune. Tang San dismissed her warning and suspected her of jealousy, while Xiao Wu refused to stop him from trusting Yao Wuji.

• The seed transformed Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass into the Blue Silver Emperor, raised his Soul Power to level thirty-seven, and drained the life from the surrounding vegetation.
• Tang San vowed to defeat his future rival in the Soul Master Tournament and credited Yao Wuji for the seed.
• Tang Dieyi found Tang San and warned him that the seed was a trap that had drained his fortune.
• Tang San rejected Tang Dieyi’s warning, accused her of jealousy, and questioned whether someone had sent her to deceive him.
• Xiao Wu told Tang Dieyi to stop wasting her breath and mocked Tang San for trusting the jar seller.

Tang San rejected his friends’ warnings and headed back to Suotuo City to open more jars, while Yao Wuji profited from siphoning his luck. Three days later, Spirit Hall’s forces and Ning Fengzhi arrived in Suotuo City.

• Xiao Wu left Tang San after he refused to heed her, and Gui Mengguan, Qian Gujue, and Oupai decided not to forcibly remove him from Yao Wuji’s influence.
• Tang San agreed to let the stubborn Tang San continue opening jars while keeping watch in case Yao Wuji threatened his life.
• Tang San left for Suotuo City with his remaining Gold Soul Coins, and Locke promised Tang Dieyi they would follow and protect him if necessary.
• Yao Wuji received 50,000 transaction points after absorbing 30% of Tang San’s luck and planned to attract more high-luck visitors.
• Three days later, Golden Crocodile Douluo, Qianjun Douluo, Falling Devil Douluo, and Spirit Hall’s forces arrived above Suotuo City as Ning Fengzhi reached its gates.

Golden Crocodile Douluo sealed Lucky Alley and used force to stop the crowds from reaching Yao Wuji’s jar shop. Trapped inside with no customers, Yao Wuji watched his income dry up while Ning Fengzhi heard that the shop’s rules drove visitors into uncontrollable greed.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo ordered Spirit Hall and Heaven Dou troops to seal Lucky Alley under the joint command of Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• When the crowd tried to break through, troops fired tranquilizer arrows and Golden Crocodile Douluo crushed hundreds with his soul-power pressure, warning that further attempts would be met with lethal force.
• Yao Wuji saw the barricades and soldiers outside his shop, tried to attack them with the system’s power of rules, and found that it could not reach beyond the shop.
• With the shop cut off from customers, Yao Wuji’s transaction points stopped increasing, leaving him panicked and despairing.
• Ning Fengzhi questioned Guimengka about the shop, and Guimengka and Oupai warned that its rules magnified visitors’ greed until they spent everything.

Spirit Hall and its allies decided to expose the dangers of Yao Wuji’s Lucky Jars and keep his shop surrounded, but Yao Wuji used Remote Deployment to send jars into Suotuo City’s central square. The crowd ignored the warning, fought over the jars, and turned the square into a bloody riot.

• Gui Mengguan proposed keeping Yao Wuji’s shop surrounded and announcing that the Lucky Jars stole people’s fortune, and Ning Fengzhi and Golden Crocodile Douluo agreed.
• Yao Wuji unlocked Remote Deployment and decided to send Lucky Jars beyond the blockade.
• Yao Wuji deployed 100 Lucky Jars into Suotuo City’s central square, where citizens had been arguing over Spirit Hall’s warning.
• The crowd rushed to seize the falling jars, scattering Spirit Hall’s soldiers and fighting over them.
• A boy opened a jar and found a three-thousand-year Purple Crystal Demon Spider Soul Bone, but several people attacked him and stole it as violence spread across the square.