Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaogang was whipped by two Angel Soul Saints outside Pope Palace, then dragged to a room with Brother Scar, Brother Jie, and an Elephant Armor Sect brute. Meanwhile, Tang San returned to Shrek Academy frustrated by Gangzi’s absence, but learned his aunt had found information about his father.

• Gui Mei ordered two Angel Soul Saints to teach Yu Xiaogang a lesson, and they whipped him until he was near death before a healer restored his wounds.
• The two Angel Soul Saints dragged Yu Xiaogang to a room where Brother Scar, Brother Jie, and an Elephant Armor Sect brute cornered him.
• Tang San and his companions returned to Shrek Academy as their match against Skywater Academy approached, and Tang San complained that Gangzi had not returned from Spirit City.
• Tang San’s uncle told him to practice the Clear Sky Nine Techniques and revealed that Tang San’s aunt had found information about his father.
• Tang San resolved to reunite with his father and learn Ring Detonation and the Great Sumeru Hammer.

Lin Nuo pressured Tianshui, Divine Wind, and Blazing Fire Academies into joining Spirit Hall, then offered them information about Shi Nian and his Spirit Bone. Outside Shrek Academy, Shi Nian watched the students and chose Tang San as his next target after ruling out the Imperial Fighting Team.

• Lin Nuo told the three academy principals they had little choice but to join Spirit Hall, and Yue Guan assured them their academies could retain their internal management.
• Shui Yue Rou agreed on behalf of Tianshui Academy, Divine Wind Academy, and Blazing Fire Academy to join Spirit Hall.
• Lin Nuo revealed that Shi Nian possessed a twenty-thousand-year gemstone-type head Spirit Bone and had killed talented students, prompting the principals to pledge to eliminate him.
• Shi Nian hid outside Shrek Academy, hoping to remove talented rivals and win the tournament’s Spirit Bones for himself.
• Shi Nian ruled out attacking the Imperial Fighting Team because Lin Nuo was too well protected, then decided to target Tang San.

Tang San fell into an illusion cast by a user of the Remnant Dream Martial Soul and found himself transformed into a pink rabbit. He was left exhausted and humiliated after a succession of rabbits rode on his back.

• Tang San celebrated Xiao Wu's recovery and the progress of the Hidden Weapon trade, while planning to rebuild the Tang Sect and later reclaim its weapons.
• Tang San realized he had entered an illusion and confronted the unseen user of the Remnant Dream Martial Soul.
• Tang San awoke in a forest as a pink rabbit and struggled to control his unfamiliar body.
• A gray rabbit mounted Tang San and steered him by his ears, leaving him distressed and disheveled.
• More rabbits took turns riding Tang San until nightfall, when the last one departed and left him exhausted.

Tang San broke free of Shi Nian’s illusion after experiencing a false vision of Xiao Wu’s past, then attacked Shi Nian and spotted a Spirit Bone. Three Spirit Douluo arrested Shi Nian before Tang San could claim it, and Tang San left for Shrek Academy while planning to recover the prize later.

• In Shi Nian’s illusion, Tang San realized he had become Xiao Wu before she took human form and saw Ah Rou, Daming, and Er Ming.
• Shi Nian strengthened the illusion, but Tang San’s resentment eventually shattered it and restored the scene in Heaven Dou City.
• Tang San attacked Shi Nian with a Silent Sleeve Arrow and used his Purple Demon Eye to notice the Spirit Bone on Shi Nian’s head.
• Feng Lie and two other Spirit Douluo subdued Shi Nian and told Tang San the organizing committee had arrested him.
• Tang San left for Shrek Academy, while Feng Lie and Huo Bao discussed Tang San’s eye technique and the Spirit Bone.

At Shi Nian’s execution, a valuable head Spirit Bone emerged, but Salas gave it to Shui Yue Rou for Shui Bing’er, angering Tang Xiao and Tang San. The three Element Academies then announced they would merge their teams as the Elemental Team for the remaining tournament matches.

• Tang Xiao asked Ning Fengzhi to retrieve Shi Nian’s Spirit Bone for Tang San, while Ning Fengzhi hesitated to risk a conflict with Spirit Hall.
• After Shi Nian was executed, Salas refused Ning Fengzhi’s offer for the Spirit Bone and handed it to Shui Yue Rou for Shui Bing’er.
• Gu Rong suggested that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect intercept the Spirit Bone, but Ning Fengzhi rejected the plan as too risky.
• Tang Xiao and Tang San watched Shui Yue Rou take the Spirit Bone and grew furious.
• The principals of Divine Wind Academy, Blazing Fire, and Tianshui Academy announced that their teams would merge into the Elemental Team for the rest of the tournament.

Salas dismissed Flender’s objection to the Three Element Academies merging, while Huyan Zhen withdrew Elephant Armor Academy and publicly pressured Yu Yuanzhen to leave Element City. Elsewhere, Yu Xiaogang was beaten by Huyan Bo and his companions, while Tang San took comfort in Xiao Wu and vowed to win the next match.

• Flender objected to the Three Element Academies merging, but Salas exposed Shrek Academy’s past and said the rules did not forbid academies from merging.
• Huyan Zhen announced Elephant Armor Academy’s withdrawal from the Five Element Academies, prompting the crowd to challenge Yu Yuanzhen to move Thunder Academy out of Element City.
• Yu Yuanzhen left in anger, and Ning Fengzhi told Gu Rong that a storm was coming.
• Huyan Bo used his second soul skill to strengthen Brother Scar and Brother Jie, who beat Yu Xiaogang as he hoped his disciples would soon reach Spirit City.
• Tang San accepted Xiao Wu’s comfort and declared that he would win the next match with his perfected Nine Absolutes of the Clear Sky.

Shrek Academy faced the Elemental Team with its tournament hopes resting on Tang San, who unveiled four Millennium Soul Rings on his Clear Sky Hammer. The match began with Tang San charging the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer from the rear, while Feng Xiaotian ordered the Elemental Team to exploit the opening and reveal its hidden techniques.

• The Elemental Team entered to cheers and mockery of Shrek, while Dai Mubai asked Tang San to carry the team and Tang San promised strength would speak for itself.
• Feng Xiaotian displayed his Spirit King-level strength, and Tang San revealed four purple Millennium Soul Rings on his Clear Sky Hammer, drawing astonishment and criticism from the arena and Ning Fengzhi.
• The match began, but Tang San retreated behind his teammates and started charging the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer instead of using Soul Ring Skills.
• Feng Xiaotian recognized the opening, planned to eliminate the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Soul Master first, and told Shui Bing'er and Huo Wu to reveal their hidden techniques.

Feng Xiaotian and the Elemental Team exploited the weaknesses of Tang San’s hammer techniques to overwhelm Shrek, leaving Tang San alone on the arena. As he fought on, Tang Xiao realized their tactics could threaten Clear Sky Hammer users and considered killing Lin Nuo, but Golden Crocodile Douluo confronted him.

• Feng Xiaotian interrupted Tang San’s attempt to build momentum for Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer while Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu unleashed their Ice and Snow Fluttering fusion skill.
• Huo Wu’s Repelling Flame Ring forced Ning Rongrong to concede and knocked Xiao Wu unconscious and off the arena; the Elemental Team eliminated the rest of Shrek, leaving Tang San standing alone.
• Tang San refused to concede and attacked with the Break Character Formula, but the Elemental Team scattered and used Shui Bing’er’s Ice Seal to restrain him.
• Tang Xiao realized the team’s tactics exposed a way to counter Clear Sky Hammer users and considered killing Lin Nuo after the match.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo appeared beside Tang Xiao and warned him against plotting anything that could endanger the Clear Sky Sect.

Golden Crocodile Douluo coerced Tang Xiao into surrendering Moonlight Pavilion’s accumulated wealth to Spirit Hall. Meanwhile, Tang San’s attempt to use Blue Silver Grass against the Elemental Team failed, leaving him furious and bewildered.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo confronted Tang Xiao in Heaven Dou City and threatened consequences for the Clear Sky Sect master’s unauthorized visit.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo demanded that Tang Yuehua hand over Moonlight Pavilion’s wealth and resources to Spirit Hall, and Tang Xiao reluctantly agreed.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo left Tang Xiao alone after praising his compliance.
• Tang San abandoned his attempt to reach the Elemental Team with the Clear Sky Hammer and used Blue Silver Entangle instead.
• The Elemental Team easily dealt with Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass, and the crowd mocked him.
• Tang San grew furious and wondered why his Blue Silver Grass was not immune to fire and ice.

Tang San used bizarre Clear Sky Hammer soul skills to defeat Feng Xiaotian, but the Elemental Team coordinated their strongest attacks and knocked him out. The referee declared Shrek Academy eliminated and awarded the match to the Elemental Team.

• Tang San used Soft Bone Stomp to charge at Shui Yue'er, then bounced off Shui Bing'er's ice wall and redirected himself toward Feng Xiaotian.
• Tang San used Soft Bone Charm to spin around Feng Xiaotian, causing him to lose control and fall from the air.
• Tang San celebrated defeating Feng Xiaotian while the audience mocked his strange soul skills.
• Huo Wushuang moved to restrain Tang San as Shui Bing'er and Huo Wu prepared their strongest attacks.
• Shui Bing'er and Huo Wu struck Tang San with ice and fire, and Tang San fell unconscious after the collision.
• The referee declared all members of Shrek Academy eliminated and announced the Elemental Team's victory.

Tang San’s disastrous performance further damaged the Clear Sky Sect’s reputation and drained most of his fortune, prompting the Asura God to arrange discreet protection for him. Poseidon then discovered that the Heart of the Sea God was missing and sent divine power down to Sea God Island.

• Tang Xiao and Tang Yuehua worried that Tang San’s arena performance would damage the sect, and Tang Xiao planned to ask Ning Fengzhi for financial support.
• Tang Yuehua handed Moonlight Pavilion’s accumulated money and resources to Salas, then moved into Shrek Academy.
• The Asura God learned that Tang San’s fortune had fallen from nearly eighty percent to less than thirty percent and summoned Poseidon to accelerate his plans.
• The Asura God ordered Poseidon to discreetly arrange for Sea God Island’s high priest to awaken Tang Chen and have him protect Tang San.
• Poseidon watched Sea God Island through his divine sense, then discovered that the Heart of the Sea God was missing.
• Poseidon sent a strand of divine power down to Sea God Island.

Bo Saixi accepted Poseidon's order to search for the lost Heart of the Sea God, while the God Kings discussed the divine inheritances and a wager involving Lin Nuo and Bibi Dong. After Shrek Team's losses left its prospects bleak, Yu Yuanzhen arranged for Thunder Academy to merge temporarily with Shrek, giving the team a chance to qualify.

• Poseidon appeared before Bo Saixi and ordered her to find the lost Heart of the Sea God, so she sent Seahorse Douluo to the continent while remaining on Sea God Island.
• Goodness God King warned Evil God King about Asura God and Sea God's interference, and she noted that Rakshasa God was furious over a wager about Lin Nuo and Bibi Dong.
• Tang San brooded after losing, while injuries and poor results drove Shrek Team's morale and tournament prospects down.
• Yu Yuanzhen proposed a temporary merger of Thunder Academy and Shrek Academy, adding Yu Tianxin and Thunder Academy's points and victories to Shrek Team.
• Flender accepted Yu Yuanzhen's support and promised that Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin would both start for Shrek Team.

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan suffered public disgrace over Yu Yuanzhen’s actions, while Imperial Fighting Team 2 won the Heaven Dou Division advancement round and Shrek barely qualified. Before the teams departed for Spirit City, Xue Qinghe rallied the crowd, forcing the resentful Shrek members to join the cheering.

• Rumors about the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Liu Erlong’s relationship with Gangzi spread, enraging Yu Yuanzhen as he blamed his absent son.
• Imperial Fighting Team 2 won the Heaven Dou Division advancement round undefeated, while Ning Fengzhi obtained Canghui Academy’s Seven-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Skill method and gave it to Flender.
• Shrek Academy barely qualified for the finals using Thunder Academy’s victories.
• Xue Qinghe addressed the teams before their departure for Spirit City, and Qian Renxue planned to return there and begin her Angel Inheritance.
• Dai Mubai resented the Heaven Dou crowd’s loyalty to Xue Qinghe, but Shrek’s members joined the crowd’s cheering to avoid being attacked.

Lin Nuo and Qian Renxue traveled toward Spirit City, where she told him Qian Renxue would receive his Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower after the finals and that Qian Renxue’s grandfather planned to meet him. As the teams arrived, Lin Nuo wondered why Bibi Dong had not tried to ambush Tang San, while Yu Xiaogang finally reunited with Tang San at the city gate.

• Qian Renxue asked Lin Nuo for another Immortal Herb to strengthen her Six-Winged Angel, and he offered her a Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower to take after the finals.
• Qian Renxue told Lin Nuo that her grandfather planned to meet him in Spirit City, and Lin Nuo resolved to let Bibi Dong suffer more.
• Lin Nuo questioned why Bibi Dong had not sent Spirit Hall experts to ambush Tang San, and Qian Renxue said Bibi Dong had not given Yu Xiaogang the Twin Martial Souls cultivation method.
• The Heaven Dou Empire’s party arrived outside Spirit City, where Tang San planned to find Yu Xiaogang and obtain the cultivation method.
• Yu Xiaogang, disheveled and stranded near the city gate, spotted Tang San and rushed to embrace him, weeping that he had waited so long.

Yu Xiaogang reunited with Tang San at Spirit City’s gates, where Tang San first denied knowing him before accepting him under public pressure. Yu Xiaogang hid the cause of his miserable condition, and the group prepared to enter the city.

• Yu Xiaogang clung to Tang San and revealed that he was his teacher, while Tang San initially denied knowing him.
• Flender and Liu Erlong urged Tang San to acknowledge Yu Xiaogang, as onlookers mocked the pair and Yu Yuanzhen entered Spirit City without them.
• Tang San changed his act, helped Yu Xiaogang up, and promised to stand up for anyone who had mistreated him.
• Yu Xiaogang called Tang San his good disciple and almost a biological son, making Tang San bristle inwardly.
• Flender asked what had happened after Yu Xiaogang left Heaven Dou City, but Yu Xiaogang refused to explain, so Flender suggested they enter Spirit City and find a place to stay.

Yu Xiaogang returned from Spirit City without obtaining the Twin Martial Souls cultivation method, and Yu Yuanzhen beat him until he confessed what had happened. Tang San berated Yu Xiaogang and threatened to reconsider their teacher-disciple relationship, but Yu Xiaogang offered a new plan to deduce the method by observing Bibi Dong’s second Martial Soul.

• Ning Fengzhi questioned Yu Xiaogang about his failed trip to Spirit City, and Yu Yuanzhen whipped his son until he agreed to explain.
• Yu Xiaogang told the group that he had known Bibi Dong and had gone to Spirit City seeking the Twin Martial Souls method for Tang San, but he had not obtained it.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, and Yu Yuanzhen left after realizing Yu Xiaogang had returned empty-handed.
• Tang San used his Purple Demon Eye to pressure Yu Xiaogang, accused him of exploiting their teacher-disciple bond, and threatened to end their relationship.
• Yu Xiaogang stopped Tang San from leaving by claiming he could deduce the method if Bibi Dong showed him the Soul Ring configuration of her second Martial Soul.

Lin Nuo met Qian Daoliu at the Worship Hall, where Qian Renxue introduced him as a powerful Soul Saint. After speaking with Lin Nuo alone, Qian Daoliu confided that he would have to sacrifice himself to help Qian Renxue inherit the Angel God Position, and Lin Nuo silently planned to save him by opening the inheritance gate with divine power.

• Qian Renxue introduced Lin Nuo to Qian Daoliu and defended him before leaving the hall with Golden Crocodile Douluo and the other worshippers.
• Qian Daoliu spoke privately with Lin Nuo, acknowledged his difficult childhood, and said he would not ask about his origins.
• Qian Daoliu sensed divine power in Lin Nuo and explained that Qian Renxue was destined to inherit the Angel God Position.
• Qian Daoliu revealed that he would have to sacrifice his life and soul to open the final inheritance gate, and asked Lin Nuo to keep this from Qian Renxue.
• Lin Nuo promised not to tell Qian Renxue and planned to become a god in time to open the gate himself and save Qian Daoliu.

Qian Daoliu asked Lin Nuo to help reconcile Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong if their past drove them into conflict. After Qian Renxue discussed the tournament rewards and her jealousy of Hu Liena, Hu Liena delivered Bibi Dong’s request to see Lin Nuo.

• Qian Daoliu asked Lin Nuo not to stand by if Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong turned against each other, and Lin Nuo agreed to help reconcile them.
• Qian Renxue met Lin Nuo outside the Worship Hall and playfully tussled with him after he teased her.
• Qian Renxue told Lin Nuo that Bibi Dong intended to give the Golden Generation the tournament’s Spirit Bones and make Hu Liena a Spirit Hall Saintess.
• Qian Renxue asked Lin Nuo to strike Hu Liena with an elbow in the tournament finals, and Hu Liena overheard him agree.
• Hu Liena came to the Worship Hall and told Lin Nuo that Bibi Dong wanted to see him.

Lin Nuo went to the Pope Palace after Bibi Dong summoned him, accompanied by Qian Renxue and Hu Liena. He arrived to find Bibi Dong and Rakshasa God arguing over the ridicule surrounding him, and faced Bibi Dong in an eerie silence.

• Hu Liena guessed that Bibi Dong wanted to repair her relationship with Lin Nuo and urged him to visit the Pope Palace.
• Qian Renxue tried to stop Lin Nuo from going, then decided to accompany him when he insisted.
• Hu Liena led Lin Nuo and Qian Renxue to the Pope Palace, believing she had begun to mend Bibi Dong's relationship with her son.
• Rakshasa God scolded Bibi Dong over the God Realm's mockery and threatened to punish her in future trials if she failed to resolve the matter.
• Lin Nuo entered the Pope Palace with Qian Renxue and Hu Liena, and he and Bibi Dong stared at each other in silence.

The Rakshasa God discovered that Lin Nuo was a native of Douluo Continent despite carrying the Kindness and Evil inheritance marks, and concluded that his resemblance and Spider Emperor Martial Souls tied him to Bibi Dong. In Pope Palace, Bibi Dong attacked him, Qian Renxue defended him, and Lin Nuo’s attempt to stop them ended with both rejecting his plea.

• The Rakshasa God inspected Lin Nuo and realized he had not been created by divine power, despite Bibi Dong’s claims that he had nothing to do with her.
• Bibi Dong sent Hu Liena away and demanded that Lin Nuo explain his face and Martial Soul.
• Qian Renxue shielded Lin Nuo when Bibi Dong released her Death Spider Emperor and attacked him with her Sixth Spirit Skill, Vampire Spider Thorn.
• Qian Renxue countered with her Martial Soul Avatar and Holy Sword, then confronted Bibi Dong over failing to raise her and threatened to protect Lin Nuo.
• Lin Nuo used Martial Soul Possession and cried for Xue'er and Mother to stop fighting, but Qian Renxue promised to defend him while Bibi Dong denied being his mother.