Chapter Summaries

After Ma Hongjun's death, Flender prepared to attack the Dai Family despite the danger, but Cao Yan offered to help seek revenge. Cao Yan planned to travel to the Star Luo Empire with Flender and Zhu Zhuqing the next day, while Tang San's challenge ended with Flender striking him away.

• Li Yusong warned Flender that the Dai Family was too powerful to attack, but Flender insisted on avenging Ma Hongjun even at the risk of his life.
• Cao Yan urged Flender to reconsider and make a careful plan, and Flender knelt to beg Cao Yan for help.
• Zhao Wuji, Li Yusong, and Shao Xin joined Flender in asking Cao Yan to assist them.
• Cao Yan agreed to travel to the Star Luo Empire with Flender and Zhu Zhuqing after Ma Hongjun's burial, saying he would handle the matter with the Dai Family.
• Tang San called Cao Yan an ordinary young man who could not defeat the Dai Family, so Flender slapped him and sent him flying.

After Flender discovered Tang San’s connection to the Ten Fragrance Softening Tendon Powder, he forced Tang San to swallow it and ordered Zhao Wuji to take him away. Flender then carried Ma Hongjun and Cuihua’s bodies out to bury them together.

• Tang San questioned Flender’s treatment of him, and Flender threatened him for insulting Cao Yan.
• Zhao Wuji showed Flender the broken Ten Fragrance Softening Tendon Powder, and Tang San’s reaction exposed that he recognized it.
• Flender ordered Zhao Wuji to pry Tang San’s mouth open and forced him to swallow the pill.
• Tang San succumbed to the pill’s effects, and Flender accused him of supplying it and having a hand in Ma Hongjun’s death.
• Shao Xin suggested taking Tang San to a village with sows, and Zhao Wuji carried him away.
• Flender picked up Ma Hongjun and Cuihua’s bodies and left to bury them together.

After Ma Hongjun’s death, Ning Rongrong worried about Cao Yan traveling to the Star Luo Empire and offered to ask Sword Grandpa to accompany him. Cao Yan declined the extra protection but gave her a Godly Zhuge Crossbow blueprint for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and they grew closer before he left for his journey.

• Ning Rongrong warned Cao Yan that the Dai Family might have a powerful Titled Douluo and offered to ask Sword Grandpa to travel with him.
• Cao Yan refused to rely on Sword Grandpa, saying he wanted to face hardship himself.
• Cao Yan gave Ning Rongrong a Godly Zhuge Crossbow blueprint and explained how it could help protect the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s disciples.
• Ning Rongrong accepted the gift, apologized for misjudging Cao Yan, and thanked him for his generosity.
• Cao Yan embraced Ning Rongrong from behind, and she told him he was the best man she had ever met.

Cao Yan agreed to let Ning Rongrong return to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with the Godly Zhuge Crossbow blueprints, while planning to use his relationship with her to draw the sect under his influence. As Zhu Zhuqing prepared to return to the Star Luo Empire and end her engagement to Dai Mubai, Cao Yan tried to comfort her with a poetic line and an invented interpretation.

• Ning Rongrong told Cao Yan she would return to the sect with the Godly Zhuge Crossbow blueprints, and he agreed while considering how her connection to Ning Fengzhi could help him control the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Cao Yan embraced Xiao Wu and Zhu Qing, promised to kill Dai Mubai, and sent the two girls back to the dormitory.
• Zhu Zhuqing stood alone outside Shrek Academy, worrying about returning to the Star Luo Empire and publicly dissolving her engagement to Dai Mubai.
• Cao Yan recited a line of poetry to Zhu Zhuqing and explained that it described two sparrows flying south together to pursue freedom, leaving her astonished.

Cao Yan reassured Zhu Zhuqing that he cared for her, and she confessed her feelings and offered herself to him. After completing his mission, Cao Yan received a million-year Soul Ring that could summon a Guardian Spirit, and he prepared to absorb it.

• Cao Yan comforted Zhu Zhuqing and told her he liked her for who she was.
• Zhu Zhuqing confessed that she had fallen for Cao Yan and embraced him, offering to give herself to him.
• Cao Yan's system announced that he had completed the mission and gained a Martial God Body and a Character Summoning Soul Ring.
• Cao Yan asked Zhu Zhuqing to wait while he absorbed the Soul Ring and summoned a Guardian Spirit.
• Cao Yan summoned a golden million-year Soul Ring, and the system explained that its Guardian Spirit would match his current Soul Power.

Cao Yan absorbed a million-year golden soul ring and entered his sea of consciousness to comprehend how to summon another Guardian Spirit. There, he encountered Xu Chu, who recognized him as the Chancellor and pledged to follow him.

• Zhu Zhuqing admired Cao Yan's golden soul ring and anxiously watched as he prepared to absorb it.
• Cao Yan successfully absorbed the million-year soul ring and asked the system how to summon a new Guardian Spirit.
• The system told Cao Yan to enter his sea of consciousness and comprehend the summoning method himself.
• Cao Yan entered a vast sea of flames and met Xu Chu, who asked whether he was descended from the Cao Family.
• Cao Yan identified himself as a descendant of the Cao Family, and Xu Chu knelt and vowed to follow the Chancellor.

Cao Yan gained Xu Chu as a Guardian Spirit after absorbing a golden soul ring, then tricked Zhu Zhuqing into believing he was dying. Zhu Zhuqing confessed her love and agreed to marry him, and the chapter ended with them alone together outside Shrek Academy.

• Cao Yan accepted Xu Chu as his subordinate and learned that the Ten Yama Halls housed his Guardian Spirits.
• Zhu Zhuqing rushed to Cao Yan after seeing him absorb the golden soul ring, and Cao Yan pretended to be gravely injured.
• Zhu Zhuqing confessed that she loved Cao Yan and promised to marry him if he survived.
• Cao Yan revealed that he had faked his injury, and Zhu Zhuqing agreed to give herself to him before their departure for the Star Luo Empire.
• Cao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing chose to remain alone outside Shrek Academy, and Cao Yan began undressing her.

Cao Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Flender departed for the Star Luo Empire to avenge Ma Hongjun by killing Dai Mubai. Along the way, Zhu Zhuqing explained the Zhu and Dai families’ relative strength, and Cao Yan declared that even a Titled Douluo would be no threat to him.

• Cao Yan promised Shrek Academy’s students and teachers that he would avenge Ma Hongjun by killing Dai Mubai.
• Cao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing said goodbye to Xiao Wu, then set off with Flender for the Star Luo Empire.
• Cao Yan asked Zhu Zhuqing about her family, and she explained that the Zhu Family had three Soul Douluo and more than thirty Soul Sages but no Titled Douluo.
• Zhu Zhuqing said the Dai Family was much stronger, with roughly twice as many Soul Sages and Soul Douluo and a possibly living Titled Douluo ancestor.
• Flender returned with horses, and Cao Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Flender began their journey to the Star Luo Empire.

The Zhu Family held its Soul Power test as Zhu Ziqing worried about the clan’s lack of talent and its subservience to the Dai Family. Zhu Zhuyun then stunned the gathering by testing at Soul Power level forty-five.

• Zhu Ziqing and the Zhu Family’s elders discussed the clan’s shortage of geniuses and the Dai Family’s pressure to marry Zhu women into its ranks.
• The Great Elder began the Soul Power test, and the Zhu Family’s young disciples produced results no higher than level thirty.
• Zhu Zhuyun arrived and told Zhu Ziqing she would take the test.
• Zhu Zhuyun touched the testing stele, which measured her Soul Power at level forty-five and left the plaza silent.

Zhu Zhuyun’s impressive Soul Power test result drew praise as Zhu Ziqing worried about his absent daughter Zhu Zhuqing’s fate. Zhu Zhuqing then returned with Cao Yan, and his claim that she was his woman provoked her family before he demonstrated his strength.

• Zhu Zhuyun reached level forty-five Soul Power at fifteen, earning praise from the Zhu Family’s elders and disciples.
• Zhu Zhuyun comforted Zhu Ziqing over her arranged marriage to Dai Weisi, while he worried that Zhu Zhuqing might face execution if she returned.
• Flender arrived at the Zhu Family with Cao Yan and the others, and Zhu Zhuqing reunited with Zhu Ziqing.
• Zhu Ziqing and Zhu Zhuyun angrily challenged Cao Yan for holding Zhu Zhuqing’s hand and asked who he was.
• Cao Yan introduced himself as a descendant of the Cao Family and declared Zhu Zhuqing was his woman, then cracked the floor with a step.

Cao Yan asked Zhu Ziqing to bless his relationship with Zhu Zhuqing and help end her engagement to the Dai Family, but Zhu Ziqing demanded that he prove himself against the Zhu Family disciples. Cao Yan invited them all to attack together, while Zhu Zhuyun watched in disbelief.

• Cao Yan declared his love for Zhu Zhuqing and asked Zhu Ziqing to bless them, but Zhu Ziqing angrily ordered Zhu Zhuqing to let go of his hand.
• Zhu Zhuqing insisted that she loved Cao Yan, and Flender tried to persuade Zhu Ziqing to accept them.
• Zhu Ziqing rejected Flender's appeal and challenged Cao Yan to defeat the Zhu Family disciples to earn his blessing.
• Zhu Zhuqing whispered that Cao Yan should avoid hurting the disciples, and Cao Yan promised to hold back.
• Cao Yan asked Zhu Ziqing to send all the disciples at once, and Zhu Zhuyun wondered whether the young man truly had a chance of winning.

Cao Yan defeated the Zhu Family disciples who challenged his relationship with Zhu Qing and asked Zhu Ziqing to accept their union. Zhu Zhuyun then confronted Cao Yan, insisting he defeat her first, and revealed that she was a level forty-five Soul King.

• Zhu Family disciples mocked Cao Yan and attacked him with their Hell Spirit Cat martial souls.
• Cao Yan defeated the gathered disciples with a stomp without releasing his martial soul, shocking Zhu Ziqing and the elders.
• Cao Yan asked Zhu Ziqing to agree to his relationship with Zhu Qing.
• Zhu Zhuyun entered the plaza and challenged Cao Yan to defeat her before he could be with her sister.
• Zhu Zhuyun revealed her Hell Spirit Cat martial soul and introduced herself as a level forty-five Agility Attack Type Soul King.

Cao Yan agreed to fight Zhu Zhuyun after Zhu Ziqing promised to approve his relationship with Zhu Zhuqing if he won. As the match was about to begin, Flender revealed that he did not consider himself qualified to be Cao Yan’s teacher.

• Zhu Zhuyun challenged Cao Yan and warned him that Zhu Zhuqing already had a marriage contract.
• Zhu Ziqing offered to fulfill Cao Yan’s wishes if he defeated Zhu Zhuyun, who had reached level forty-five.
• Cao Yan gave his name and accepted the challenge, while Zhu Ziqing ordered the disciples to clear space and watch.
• The disciples doubted Cao Yan’s earlier victory until Zhu Ziqing rebuked them.
• Flender told Zhu Ziqing that he was not qualified to call himself Cao Yan’s teacher, surprising Zhu Ziqing and the Zhu Family elders.
• Cao Yan and Zhu Zhuyun faced each other as their fight was about to begin.

Cao Yan faced Zhu Zhuyun in a match at the Zhu Family and provoked her while refusing to reveal his Soul Power. After she attacked with her first soul skill, he dodged and grabbed her boot, leaving the spectators stunned.

• Zhu Zhuyun questioned Cao Yan’s strength and warned him not to blame her for bullying him.
• Cao Yan flirted with Zhu Zhuyun and said she deserved a better home, angering her and prompting her to demand that he leave the Zhu Family after the match.
• Zhu Zhuyun released her Martial Soul and four Soul Rings, then attacked Cao Yan with her first soul skill, Hell Stab.
• The Zhu Family disciples and Great Elder expected Cao Yan to lose because he had not released his Martial Soul, while Zhu Ziqing wondered about his strength.
• Cao Yan dodged Zhu Zhuyun’s charge and grabbed her boot, leaving her blushing and the spectators silent.

Cao Yan defeated Zhu Zhuyun without using his martial soul and proposed that she become his girlfriend if she lost another fight. Zhu Zhuyun accepted his condition and demanded that he release her so they could fight fairly.

• Cao Yan held Zhu Zhuyun suspended by her feet after overcoming her attacks, while the spectators marveled at his strength.
• Zhu Zhuyun asked Cao Yan to release her, and he refused, saying he had already won the right to be with Zhu Qing.
• Cao Yan proposed that Zhu Zhuyun become his girlfriend if she lost another fight, promising to leave Zhu Qing alone if Zhu Zhuyun defeated him.
• Zhu Zhuqing worried that her sister would lose, while the Great Elder grew angry at Cao Yan's proposal.
• Zhu Zhuyun accepted Cao Yan's condition and demanded that he let her go so she could fight him fairly.

Cao Yan defeated Zhu Zhuyun by stopping her fourth soul skill with his bare hands, leaving Zhu Ziqing and the Zhu Family elders stunned. After Zhu Zhuyun admitted defeat, the three elders surrounded Cao Yan and demanded to know his cultivation level.

• Zhu Zhuyun attacked Cao Yan with her fourth soul skill, Netherworld Slash, after he released her.
• Zhu Ziqing and the Zhu Family elders expected Cao Yan to lose, while Flender insisted he would not.
• Cao Yan blocked Zhu Zhuyun's twin claws with one hand, shocking the spectators and Zhu Ziqing.
• Zhu Zhuyun conceded defeat, and Cao Yan released her hands.
• Zhu Zhuyun apologized to Zhu Ziqing, who comforted her.
• The Zhu Family's three elders surrounded Cao Yan and demanded to know his cultivation level.

The Zhu Family elders demanded that Cao Yan reveal his true strength after he defeated their disciples and Zhu Zhuyun. Zhu Ziqing arranged for the three elders to test him, and the chapter ended as the battle began.

• The Zhu Family Great Elder challenged Cao Yan to show his strength, and Cao Yan questioned why the family was pressuring him.
• Zhu Ziqing proposed that Cao Yan exchange moves with the three elders and promised to approve his relationship with Zhu Zhuqing regardless of the outcome.
• Zhu Zhuyun asked her father to stop making things difficult for Cao Yan, but Zhu Ziqing insisted on testing him.
• Flender agreed to the test and said he trusted Cao Yan.
• Zhu Ziqing gave the three elders permission to fight, and the battle began.

Cao Yan agreed to face the Zhu Family’s three Soul Douluo elders, calmly inviting them to attack first. As the battle was about to begin, Zhu Ziqing suggested that Cao Yan might be strong enough to defeat them, leaving Zhu Zhuyun shocked.

• The Great Elder, Second Elder, and Third Elder released their Soul Power and challenged Cao Yan to show his true strength.
• Cao Yan accepted the fight and said he would defend while the elders made the first move.
• The Third Elder grew angry at Cao Yan’s offer, while Zhu Zhuyun worried that his arrogance would get him hurt.
• Zhu Ziqing teased Zhu Zhuyun about her concern and said Cao Yan might not lose to the three elders.
• The Great Elder warned the Third Elder not to underestimate Cao Yan as the battle was about to begin.

The Zhu Family elders discussed Cao Yan’s composure and strength before the Third Elder challenged him. As the Third Elder summoned his Martial Soul, Zhu Zhuyun worried about Cao Yan while Zhu Ziqing teased her about her interest in him.

• The Great Elder pointed out that Cao Yan had shown no pain under their Soul Power pressure, prompting the Second Elder to warn against underestimating him.
• The Third Elder resolved to defeat Cao Yan and teach him to respect his elders, then released his Soul Power across the square.
• Zhu Ziqing protected the Zhu Family disciples with a Soul Power barrier as Zhu Zhuyun worried that the Third Elder was using too much strength.
• Zhu Ziqing teased Zhu Zhuyun about liking Cao Yan, and she denied it, claiming her little sister was interested in him.
• The Third Elder summoned his Martial Soul, and the venue fell silent under his terrifying aura.

Cao Yan faced Zhu Family Third Elder, who showed off his mutated Dark Spirit Cat Martial Soul and attacked with his Dark Netherworld Shadow Clone. Cao Yan struck him down with one punch, leaving the plaza stunned.

• Third Elder revealed that his Martial Soul was the mutated Dark Spirit Cat and challenged Cao Yan to face him.
• Cao Yan dismissed Third Elder's Martial Soul and accepted the challenge, saying he would teach him a lesson.
• Third Elder used his fifth Soul Skill, Dark Netherworld Shadow Clone, to create four copies of himself and boast that even Titled Douluo-level opponents might not find his true body.
• Cao Yan called Third Elder's technique a cheap trick and insulted his strength.
• Cao Yan rushed forward and punched Third Elder, sending him flying and making his four clones disappear.
• The Zhu Family disciples fell silent and turned their reverent gazes toward Cao Yan.