Chapter Summaries

Xia Yan defeated a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent in seconds so Oscar could absorb its Soul Ring, but Serpent Granny Chao Tianxiang arrived and claimed the beast for her granddaughter, Meng Yiran. Zhao Wuji recognized the newcomers and faced a dispute over who would get the Soul Beast.

• Zhu Zhuqing spotted a thousand-year Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, and Tang San identified it as a suitable Soul Beast for Oscar.
• Xia Yan agreed that the serpent suited Oscar, and Oscar chose it as his target Soul Ring.
• Xia Yan used his Demon Suppressing Pagoda and a lightning-fast punch to knock the serpent unconscious and send it crashing into the clearing.
• Zhao Wuji gave Oscar a dagger and told him to kill the serpent before anything went wrong.
• Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran arrived, and Chao Tianxiang claimed they had found and injured the serpent first, asking Zhao Wuji to hand it over.

Tang San volunteered to fight Meng Yiran for the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, allowing Oscar to absorb it and gain a flying Soul Skill. After Tang San reached level thirty, Zhao Wuji found him a Green Poison Bone-Eroding Serpent for his third Soul Ring, and the chapter ended with the transformed, foul-smelling Blue Silver Grass drawing the Seven Devils’ uneasy stares.

• Tang San challenged Meng Yiran in Oscar’s place and defeated her, so Serpent Granny let Oscar take the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent.
• Oscar absorbed the Soul Ring and gained a Flying Mushroom Sausage that let him fly at the serpent’s speed for one minute.
• Tang San reached level thirty the next morning, so Zhao Wuji kept the group in the Star Dou Great Forest to find him a Soul Beast.
• Zhao Wuji subdued a fourteen-hundred-year-old Green Poison Bone-Eroding Serpent, and Tang San absorbed its Soul Ring.
• Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass became tougher and gained sticky, foul-smelling white-and-green poison, but the Seven Devils reacted to it with strange looks.

Tang San discovered that absorbing his third Soul Ring had turned his skin dramatically darker, while Xia Yan understood that the change had fixed the course of Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass development. That night, Zhao Wuji spotted two moons and ordered everyone to prepare for an unknown danger.

• Tang San saw that his skin had become pitch-black, and Ma Hongjun and the others mocked him before Zhao Wuji sent everyone to rest.
• Zhao Wuji questioned Tang San’s background and Yu Xiaogang’s teachings, while Tang San returned to his tent in confusion.
• Xia Yan reasoned that Tang San’s third Soul Ring had made his physical and Martial Soul changes irreversible, and Zhu Zhuqing resolved to ask Xia Yan about his thousand-year Soul Rings later.
• Ma Hongjun took the first watch with Zhao Wuji and asked about Yu Xiaogang, but Zhao Wuji told him to cultivate.
• Ma Hongjun noticed two moons, and Zhao Wuji woke everyone, ordered them behind him, and entrusted Xia Yan with protecting the group if he fell.

A Titan Giant Ape attacked the group, abducted Xiao Wu, and left several companions badly injured. Xia Yan pursued it, then summoned his Soul Beasts to search for the wounded Man Faced Demon Spider, which he and the hidden Datura Snake found at the same time.

• Zhao Wuji tried to protect the group from the Titan Giant Ape, but it struck him aside and sent the others flying.
• The Titan Giant Ape knocked Tang San unconscious, sent Dai Mubai flying, and carried Xiao Wu away.
• Xia Yan ignored Zhao Wuji's warning and pursued the Titan Giant Ape, then summoned his Soul Beasts to search for the Man Faced Demon Spider.
• The injured Man Faced Demon Spider detected Xia Yan and stalked him, while the hidden Datura Snake spotted the spider.

Xia Yan found and killed the Man Faced Demon Spider, then reunited with Xiao Wu in the Star Dou Great Forest and revealed that he knew she was a transformed Soul Beast. He accepted her regardless, but Xiao Wu feared returning with him because of the Titled Douluo who threatened him.

• Xia Yan stored the dead Man Faced Demon Spider and obtained its Eight Spider Lances, deciding to keep the Blue Silver Emperor Spirit Bone for later.
• Xia Yan met Xiao Wu beneath a tree, and she rushed into his arms, crying and accusing him of refusing to accept her for six years.
• Xia Yan asked whether Xiao Wu was human, then explained that a nine-ringed Titled Douluo had once threatened him to stay away from her.
• Xia Yan reasoned that the Titan Giant Ape had taken Xiao Wu because she was a Soul Beast, but told her that her identity did not change his feelings.
• Xiao Wu apologized and said she could not return with him, while Xia Yan explained that she needed to live among humans to keep cultivating.

Xia Yan explained that Xiao Wu remained in danger because a Titled Douluo could expose her as a transformed Soul Beast, then promised to find a Lovesick Heartbreak Red to conceal her aura. After Xiao Wu parted from him, Zhu Zhuqing tried to search for Xia Yan while Ning Rongrong reflected on how deeply the others cared for one another.

• Xia Yan warned Xiao Wu that she could not safely cultivate or return to the human world if the Titled Douluo exposed her identity, and they suspected Tang San was connected to the threat.
• Xia Yan said Xiao Wu could appear at the Soul Master Tournament as a Soul Ancestor and promised to find a Lovesick Heartbreak Red that would hide her Soul Beast aura.
• Xia Yan and Xiao Wu agreed to act distant around others, and Xiao Wu kissed him before hurrying back into the forest.
• Zhu Zhuqing activated her Hell Spirit Cat and tried to go after Xia Yan, but Zhao Wuji blocked her and warned her not to risk her life.
• Ning Rongrong watched Zhu Zhuqing's devotion to Xia Yan and wondered whether anyone would come after her if she were taken away.

After Zhao Wuji rushed off to search for Xia Yan, Ma Hongjun slapped Tang San awake, and Xiao Wu returned with a strange account of how she escaped the Titan Giant Ape. The group remained in the forest as Zhao Wuji went to look for Xia Yan.

• Zhao Wuji ordered the others to stay put and left to pursue the Titan Giant Ape, warning them to flee at dawn if he did not return.
• Oscar fed Tang San Sausages, and Ma Hongjun repeatedly slapped him until he woke.
• Tang San asked where Xiao Wu was, but she emerged from the bushes with another figure and avoided him.
• Xiao Wu claimed a bull's bellow had frightened the Titan Giant Ape into dropping her, and said she had absorbed a Soul Ring from a nearby Lightning Rabbit.
• Zhao Wuji learned Xiao Wu had not seen Xia Yan and immediately left to search for him.
• Ning Rongrong asked Xiao Wu what had happened while the others struggled to make sense of her story.

Xiao Wu described how a bull's bellows interrupted the Titan Giant Ape when it seized her, while Xia Yan encountered Dragon Duke Meng Shu and Meng Yiran in the Star Dou Great Forest. After Xia Yan said a Titan Giant Ape had carried off his companion, Meng Shu was stunned by the claim that it might be nearly a hundred thousand years old.

• Xiao Wu recounted how a bull's bellow made the Titan Giant Ape pause before it threw her, and how she later woke near Soul Beast corpses and absorbed a Lightning Rabbit Soul Ring.
• Xia Yan found Meng Shu and Meng Yiran waiting beneath a patch of moonlight in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Meng Shu and Serpent Granny privately hoped Xia Yan would become a match for Meng Yiran, while Meng Yiran doubted he would be interested in her.
• Meng Shu offered to help Xia Yan find his companion, but Xia Yan warned that a Titan Giant Ape had carried her off and might be as old as a hundred thousand years.
• Meng Shu reacted in disbelief to Xia Yan's description and decided that the claim was too ridiculous to believe.

Xia Yan returned safely after Zhao Wuji encountered Dragon Duke Meng Shu, and the group prepared to flee the Star Dou Great Forest. Tang San’s accusations against Xia Yan deepened the tension, while Xiao Wu remained silent and apart from him.

• Zhao Wuji found Xia Yan with Dragon Duke Meng Shu, learned they had encountered the Titan Giant Ape, and hurried away with Meng Yiran toward the direction Chao Tianxiang had gone.
• Zhao Wuji told Xia Yan that Xiao Wu had returned unharmed, and they went back to the group together.
• Tang San accused Xia Yan of lying about searching for Xiao Wu, while Xiao Wu stayed silent and Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing challenged him.
• Xia Yan returned safely, and Zhao Wuji announced that everyone had to leave the forest immediately after Xia Yan encountered Meng Shu.
• Ning Rongrong demanded that Tang San apologize for slandering Xia Yan, but Xia Yan stopped her and the group hurried out under Zhao Wuji’s protection.

After escaping the Star Dou Great Forest, Xia Yan, Xiao Wu, Zhao Wuji, and the others rested at an inn while Tang Hao went to visit Ah Yin. He found her Blue Silver Grass withered in the cave.

• The exhausted group left the Star Dou Great Forest and traveled to a nearby town, where they slept for a full day.
• Tang Hao flew toward Ah Yin, reflecting on his guilt over her death and his hidden injuries.
• Tang Hao resolved to take Ah Yin’s Spirit Bone to keep it safe, swearing that he would not absorb it.
• Tang Hao entered the cave and discovered that Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Grass had withered completely.

Tang Hao found Ah Yin and the Spirit Bone missing and unleashed his fury, while Xia Yan decided to leave Shrek Academy with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing. Tang San discovered that his meridians were hardening and nearly unable to hold Soul Power.

• Tang Hao found only ordinary withered Blue Silver Grass where Ah Yin had been and discovered the hidden compartment was empty.
• Tang Hao searched for Ah Yin and the Spirit Bone, then destroyed the mountain in a furious outburst when he found no trace of them.
• After returning to Shrek Academy, Xia Yan told Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing he planned to leave, and they agreed to go with him.
• Xia Yan decided the group would leave that night for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Xiao Wu would stay at Shrek.
• Tang San woke after sleeping at the inn and discovered his meridians were hardening and nearly blocked.

Tang San discovered that his meridians had hardened and his soul power capacity had declined, so he rushed off to find Yu Xiaogang. Meanwhile, Xia Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong packed their belongings and left, and the next morning Oscar went to check Xia Yan’s empty dormitory.

• Tang San realized that years of practicing the Mysterious Heaven Skill had hardened his meridians and reduced his strength, then ran to find Yu Xiaogang.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji discussed Xiao Wu’s return after being captured by the Titan Giant Ape and Tang San’s abnormal appearance after absorbing his third soul ring.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji saw Tang San leave to find Yu Xiaogang, and Zhao Wuji explained that Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and skin had turned dark.
• Xia Yan packed his belongings while Zhu Zhuqing held his hand, then the two joined Ning Rongrong and left with her.
• The next morning, Flender told the others that Tang San had requested leave, and Oscar went to inspect Xia Yan’s dormitory.

Oscar discovered that Xia Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong had withdrawn from Shrek Academy and left, while an exhausted Tang San collapsed on the road and unexpectedly reunited with Yu Xiaogang. Tang San was left with his teacher asking what had happened to him.

• Oscar found Xia Yan's dormitory empty and saw that Zhu Zhuqing's and Ning Rongrong's dormitories were shut as well.
• Oscar gave Flender Xia Yan's letter, and Flender announced that Xia Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong had withdrawn from school.
• Dai Mubai reacted angrily to Zhu Zhuqing's departure, while Xiao Wu silently prayed for Xia Yan's safety.
• Tang San ran along the official road for an entire night and half a day, determined to reach Yu Xiaogang and ask about his meridians.
• Tang San fell from exhaustion, recognized Yu Xiaogang, and embraced him, while Yu Xiaogang asked what had happened and why he looked so dark.

Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that absorbing a Green Poison Bone-Eroding Serpent had hardened and blocked his meridians. Yu Xiaogang blamed Blue Silver Grass’s weak carrying capacity and proposed using less poisonous Soul Rings, leaving Tang San reassured but uncertain whether his meridians could recover.

• Tang San found Yu Xiaogang and begged him to help with his hardened, partly blocked meridians after absorbing a Green Poison Bone-Eroding Serpent.
• Yu Xiaogang examined Tang San’s altered Blue Silver Grass and Millennium Soul Ring, then demanded a full account of his journey and experiences.
• After hearing about Tang San’s Soul Rings and poisoning, Yu Xiaogang blamed Blue Silver Grass’s low carrying capacity for the overflow of poison that had harmed Tang San’s body.
• Yu Xiaogang advised Tang San to avoid potent poison-attribute Soul Rings and use Millennium Blue Silver Grass for his fourth Soul Ring to increase its carrying capacity.
• Tang San calmed down and asked whether his meridians could recover, but Yu Xiaogang admitted he did not know and warned him to avoid potent poison in later Soul Rings.

Yu Xiaogang manipulated Tang San into trusting him again, then took him back to Shrek Academy. Meanwhile, Xia Yan and the others traveled toward the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and decided to attend Heaven Dou Royal Academy for the Soul Master Tournament.

• Yu Xiaogang comforted Tang San until Tang San apologized for doubting him and followed him away from the road.
• Xia Yan learned that Ning Rongrong had nearly fifty guards accompanying her on the journey to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Xia Yan decided that he, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing would attend Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and both women agreed.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San returned to Shrek Academy, where Zhao Wuji noticed Tang San and an unfamiliar person.

Tang San brought Yu Xiaogang to Shrek Academy, where Zhao Wuji redirected them to meet Flender after Tang San revealed his classmates’ private details. Meanwhile, Xia Yan, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing traveled toward the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Yu Xiaogang began training the Shrek students with a punishing run.

• Tang San introduced Yu Xiaogang to Zhao Wuji and disclosed Dai Mubai’s and Ma Hongjun’s personal information and soul skills, prompting Zhao Wuji to stop him and send them to find Flender.
• Zhao Wuji told Tang San that Xia Yan, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing had withdrawn from the academy, and Tang San was pleased that Xia Yan had left while Xiao Wu remained.
• Ma Hongjun and Oscar guessed that Yu Xiaogang had taught Tang San to use his strange weapons, while Zhao Wuji suspected Tang Hao had provided them instead.
• Xia Yan, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing traveled with fifty guards toward the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, growing closer during their journey; after half a month, they reached the Yidefu Plains.
• Yu Xiaogang began teaching at Shrek Academy and ordered the students to run five round trips between Shrek Village and Suotuo City without using Soul Power, with no food if they failed to finish before evening.

Yu Xiaogang forced the Shrek students to carry stones on repeated runs between the village and Suotuo City, singling Dai Mubai out for extra work. After they completed the assigned trips, Yu Xiaogang accused them of using Soul Power and ordered them to run ten round trips the next day.

• Yu Xiaogang ordered the students to carry stones for five round trips and added another round trip for Dai Mubai, who reluctantly obeyed after Yu Xiaogang threatened to expel him.
• Tang San, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar set off with baskets of stones, with Dai Mubai carrying the heaviest load.
• Tang San completed three trips by noon, exhausted and injured from the weight and the heat.
• At dusk, Tang San and the others finished their assigned trips and collapsed at the village entrance.
• Yu Xiaogang declared that the students had failed, claimed they had secretly used Soul Power, and ordered them to run ten round trips the following day, threatening even more if they used it again.

After Yu Xiaogang’s brutal training test, Xiao Wu challenged him by threatening to leave Shrek Academy, forcing him to admit he had allowed the students to use Soul Power. She stayed but left the others behind, while Yu Xiaogang worried Tang Hao would discover Tang San’s foul condition.

• Dai Mubai cursed Yu Xiaogang and tried to grab him, while Ma Hongjun and Oscar stopped him; Tang San realized he had also cheated during the test.
• Xiao Wu announced she was withdrawing from the academy, and Yu Xiaogang panicked because he feared Tang Hao’s reaction if she left.
• Tang San begged Xiao Wu to stay, but she retreated onto a roof and challenged Yu Xiaogang for changing the rules of the test.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed the exercise had only been a test and that he had intended to let them use Soul Power, and Xiao Wu agreed to continue training while keeping her distance from Tang San.
• Xiao Wu leaped away, and Tang San apologized to Yu Xiaogang, who sent the students to wash and feared Tang Hao would discover Tang San’s sour, rotten stench.

Ning Rongrong brought Xia Yan and Zhu Zhuqing back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Bone Douluo Gu Rong welcomed them. After hearing about Xia Yan’s talents and difficult past, Ning Fengzhi offered him a home and the sect’s support.

• Ning Rongrong, Xia Yan, and Zhu Zhuqing arrived in Seven Treasure Glazed Tile City after a forty-one-day journey and climbed to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Rongrong reunited with Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong, then proudly introduced Zhu Zhuqing and Xia Yan and described Xia Yan’s achievements.
• Ning Rongrong recounted her experiences at Shrek, including the encounter with the hundred-thousand-year-old Titan Giant Ape, alarming Chen Xin and Gu Rong.
• Ning Rongrong explained that Xia Yan was an orphan from a small village rather than a member of a hidden sect, and that he had hunted the Wolf Bandits for money.
• Ning Fengzhi welcomed Xia Yan as family and promised to help him whenever he needed support.

Xia Yan asked Ning Fengzhi to provide Soul Beast meat for his Martial Soul and received ten thousand jin. Two days later, Crown Prince Xue Qinghe visited and escorted Xia Yan, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing toward Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Xue Qinghe explained its imperial management.

• Ning Rongrong guided Xia Yan and Zhu Zhuqing around the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, sharing stories about its grounds.
• At dinner, Xia Yan asked Ning Fengzhi for a large supply of Soul Beast meat, and Ning Fengzhi promised ten thousand jin of thousand-year meat each month.
• Ning Fengzhi gave Xia Yan a Storage Soul Tool containing ten thousand jin of Soul Beast meat.
• Xue Qinghe visited the sect and invited Xia Yan, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing to leave for Heaven Dou Royal Academy that day.
• On the way to Heaven Dou City, Xue Qinghe described the academy's grounds and imperial leadership, then admitted it had not fulfilled its founders' vision under Prince Xue Xing.