Chapter Summaries

The academy crowded in to watch Yu Tianheng challenge Xia Yan, while Yu Tianheng waited on the platform and spectators debated the likely outcome. Osler’s illegal betting pool was exposed by Councilman Meng Shenji, who began questioning his claims of a sixty-thousand-Gold-Soul-Coin debt.

• Spectators packed the Soul Fighting Plaza as Yu Tianheng waited for Xia Yan to arrive and prepared to erase his humiliation.
• Students debated whether Xia Yan would defeat Yu Tianheng or whether their match could end in a draw.
• Osler urged students to place their final bets on the challenge, with odds favoring Xia Yan.
• Meng Shenji caught Osler running the betting pool, placed one Gold Soul Coin on each fighter, and ordered Osler to report the results and demonstrate his training.
• Osler claimed he had a debt of sixty thousand Gold Soul Coins, but Meng Shenji questioned his storage Soul Tool and asked for the loan’s exact terms, leaving Osler unable to answer.

Xia Yan arrived at the Soul Battle Plaza and revealed that his martial soul could materialize and control the souls of soul beasts in his Soul Rings. He summoned a powerful White Tiger onto the fighting platform, leaving the students and Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s Education Committee stunned as the match was about to begin.

• Meng Shenji caught Osler running an unauthorized betting pool and said he would assess Osler’s training after the match.
• Xia Yan appeared in a tree overlooking the Soul Battle Plaza, drawing the attention of Yu Tianheng, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and the assembled students.
• Xia Yan explained that his martial soul could materialize and control soul-beast souls, and said defeating one would count as defeating him.
• Xia Yan summoned a five-meter White Tiger with the aura of a five-thousand-year soul beast onto the fighting platform.
• The students and the three Education Committee members reacted with fear and disbelief as they tried to understand the Black Tower’s power.

Xia Yan summoned a White Tiger soul with light attributes, astonishing the audience and leaving Yu Tianheng overwhelmed by the display of power. Enraged by what he saw as public humiliation, Yu Tianheng unleashed his dragonification and prepared a fierce assault on the White Tiger.

• Meng Shenji speculated that Xia Yan could summon souls of Soul Beasts with different attributes and imagined how powerful he might become.
• The plaza erupted in cheers as spectators and the Imperial Fighting Team realized Xia Yan could both summon souls and use normal soul skills.
• The White Tiger advanced on Yu Tianheng, activated White Tiger's Fury, and gathered a blazing sphere of light in its mouth.
• Yu Tianheng interpreted Xia Yan's use of the White Tiger as an insult and swore to kill him.
• Yu Tianheng activated Right Arm Dragonification and Dragon's Fury, then unleashed Thunder—Dragon Fang Shatter against the White Tiger.

The White Tiger overwhelmed Yu Tianheng in their arena battle, despite his dragonized attacks and secretly enhanced recovery. It struck him with Light Slash Strike, swallowing him in a burst of light and leaving the battle’s outcome unseen.

• The White Tiger and Yu Tianheng clashed with their strongest attacks, melting a deep crater into the Soul Fighting Arena platform.
• Yu Tianheng and the White Tiger traded blows, but Yu Tianheng was injured and forced back farther than his opponent.
• Yu Tianheng secretly relied on a medicinal formula to heal and recover Soul Power while hiding his advantage from the crowd.
• Yu Tianheng unleashed Thunderous Fury and charged the White Tiger with Thunder Dragon Claw, believing it could not dodge his lightning arrows.
• The White Tiger transformed into a cloudlike blade and struck Yu Tianheng with Light Slash Strike, engulfing him in a cross-shaped burst of light.

Xia Yan's White Tiger defeated Yu Tianheng with a devastating attack, leaving him gravely injured and shocking everyone at Royal Heaven Dou Academy. Xia Yan departed, while witnesses and major factions were left fearing the extent of his power.

• Xia Yan's White Tiger shattered the fighting platform and left Yu Tianheng burned, broken, and unconscious.
• Ye Lingling used her Nine Heart Begonia to heal Yu Tianheng as Qin Ming gathered his injured body and carried him away.
• Xue Beng watched Yu Tianheng's condition and feared what Xia Yan could do to him.
• Xia Yan and the White Tiger disappeared, while Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing also left the pavilion.
• Meng Shenji and the other two Soul Douluo realized Xia Yan had held back, and faction informants spread news of the battle.

After Xia Yan defeated Yu Tianheng in two moves, the empire and Heaven Dou City’s powers feared his growing strength, while Ning Fengzhi decided to support him fully. Xia Yan left to train and eradicate Wolf Bandits across the continent.

• Xue Xing learned that Yu Tianheng had been brutally defeated by Xia Yan and raged over the loss of his plans and allies.
• Xue Ye heard that Xia Yan could materialize soul beast souls and reacted with shock and uncontrollable coughing.
• Ning Fengzhi recalled Xia Yan’s request for soul beast meat and decided the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would support him with everything it had.
• News of Xia Yan’s victory spread across Heaven Dou City, and people predicted that he would become a defining figure of his era.
• Yu Tianheng woke, left Royal Heaven Dou Academy alone, and disappeared without explanation.
• Xia Yan became captain of Imperial Dou’s first team, then set out with a map from Ning Fengzhi to eradicate Wolf Bandits across the continent.

Xia Yan traveled to the Osway Kingdom, where Wolf Bandits were gathering as winter approached. The chapter ended with two Wolf Bandits fighting over a human arm while the others watched for a chance to feed.

• Xue Xing decided to offer Xia Yan a thirty-thousand-year Iron-Armed Demon Ape right arm bone in hopes of gaining his protection.
• Xia Yan flew north on the Jade Green Luan to the Osway Kingdom, a remote region with many Wolf Bandit gathering sites.
• A Wolf Bandit finished chewing on a human arm and joined a gathering of roughly seventy or eighty others.
• The green Wolf Bandit boss ordered the group to find and stockpile food before winter.
• One Wolf Bandit attacked another to steal the last of its arm, and the surrounding Wolf Bandits watched eagerly for the loser to die.

Xia Yan and his soul beasts hunted down Wolf Bandit packs and buried their corpses as fertilizer in the Demon Suppressing Pagoda. Three months later, with one year remaining until the Soul Master Tournament, Xia Yan had cleared nearly thirty gathering sites.

• The White Tiger and Jade Green Luan destroyed a Wolf Bandit pack while Xia Yan watched from a distant tree, and the White Tiger searched for any survivors.
• Fifteen days later, the Datura Snake used its summoned Snake Swarm to kill another Wolf Bandit pack while preserving their bodies.
• Xia Yan buried the Wolf Bandit corpses in the Demon Suppressing Pagoda to enrich its soil.
• Over the next three months, Xia Yan cleared nearly thirty Wolf Bandit gathering sites and buried their corpses in the pagoda.

Xia Yan watched five children nearly fall through thin river ice, then used Blue Silver Grass to save them and caught a Black Carp. A month later, he continued hunting Wolf Bandits in the northwest Heaven Dou Empire desert.

• Five children broke a fishing hole in the thin ice, and the surrounding ice cracked beneath them.
• Blue Silver Grass supported the children and frightened them into fleeing, while Xia Yan watched from the forest.
• Xia Yan used Blue Silver Grass roots to haul a large Black Carp from the river, but it escaped back into the water.
• Xia Yan left for the Demon Suppressing Pagoda, which already contained Black Carp.
• One month later, Xia Yan walked across a desert while continuing his hunt for Wolf Bandits.

After absorbing the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, Xia Yan traveled toward Silvis Mountain City with his Mental Power greatly enhanced and his Soul Power at level forty-seven. A caravan warned him that Wasteland Wolves controlled the area and invited him to travel with them, and he agreed.

• A Sun-Catching Spider attacked Xia Yan in the desert but was knocked away by his Blue Silver Grass.
• Xia Yan chose the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew over the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, raising his Soul Power to level forty-seven and expanding his perception through the Blue Silver Domain.
• Xia Yan spotted a caravan of about thirty Soul Masters carrying goods toward Mountain City.
• The caravan leader warned Xia Yan that a Wasteland Wolf pack, led by an alpha possibly close to ten thousand years old, occupied the area.
• The leader introduced his group as the Jiang Clan Caravan and invited Xia Yan to join them; Xia Yan accepted.

Xia Yan, traveling under the name Ye Cheng, joined Fu Shen’s caravan on the way to Mountain City and learned about the dangers in the wilderness. After Xia Yan introduced himself as a Level 15 Wind Falcon soul master, Fu Shen recognized him as a talented young prodigy.

• Fu Shen welcomed Xia Yan, who introduced himself as Ye Cheng, onto the caravan heading toward Mountain City.
• Fu Shen warned Xia Yan about wilderness dangers, including Wolf Bandits, wolf packs, snake swarms, Redfire Ants, and ticks.
• Xia Yan asked whether three groups of Wolf Bandits roamed the wilderness, and Fu Shen said the caravan might encounter them.
• Fu Shen revealed his Level 41 Iron Staff martial soul, and Xia Yan introduced himself as a Level 15 Wind Falcon soul master.
• Fu Shen praised Xia Yan’s talent and said he could someday become a Soul Douluo.

Xia Yan traveled with Jiang Qinghe’s caravan and camped with them in the wilderness. The camp was thrown into alarm when a horde of Wolf Bandits appeared, leaving the caravan facing imminent danger.

• The caravan stopped for the night, built a concealed camp, and rested after a long journey.
• Fu Shen told Jiang Qinghe that Xia Yan had level-fifteen Soul Power, and Jiang Qinghe introduced herself to Xia Yan as the caravan’s leader.
• The caravan members shared dinner and talked about their families while Xia Yan stayed outside with his Datura Snake.
• Two guards spotted figures approaching and sounded the alarm, prompting the caravan to prepare for danger.
• Fu Shen identified the approaching horde of at least sixty wolf-like creatures as Wolf Bandits, and the caravan froze in fear.

Xia Yan watched as the Wolf Bandits inexplicably turned on one another while Jiang Qinghe and Fu Shen tried to flee. After the bandits were wiped out, the caravan took shelter, leaving its scattered horses and cargo behind.

• The Wolf Bandits charged the caravan, and Jiang Qinghe used her first soul skill to speed up the fleeing group.
• Jiang Qinghe turned back to pull Xia Yan to safety while Fu Shen tried to stop her.
• Xia Yan pointed out that the Wolf Bandits were attacking each other, and Jiang Qinghe dragged him away as the pack dwindled.
• An unseen attacker killed the remaining Wolf Bandits, while the leader confronted a crimson serpent with no Soul Power.
• Jiang Qinghe released Xia Yan after he told her the bandits were gone, and she insisted that saving lives mattered more than recovering horses or cargo.
• The exhausted caravan members rested beneath a wind-sheltered slope beside two venomous centipedes Fu Shen had killed.

After surviving the Wolf Bandits’ attack, the caravan split between those who stayed behind and those who returned to check the camp. They found the camp intact and evidence that the Wolf Bandits had been killed, while Xia Yan remained suspiciously calm.

• Jiang Qinghe noticed Xia Yan showed no fear after the Wolf Bandits vanished and grew suspicious of him.
• Fu Shen decided to return to the abandoned camp, and Xia Yan proposed that volunteers go back while the others waited until dawn.
• Jiang Qinghe chose to return with Fu Shen and Xia Yan, prompting more than sixty percent of the survivors to join them.
• The thirteen travelers encountered more than thirty wandering Black-Horned Horses and brought them back to the camp.
• The group found the camp untouched and discovered blood, damaged armor, and weapons near the Wolf Bandits’ former attack site.
• Fu Shen realized the evidence suggested the Wolf Bandits had been killed and looked toward Xia Yan, who remained calm.

After surviving the wilderness, Xia Yan traveled with the merchant caravan to Mountain City, where the Seven Treasure Pavilion’s Chen Cheng greeted him as Young Master. The caravan watched in surprise as Xia Yan’s connection to the pavilion became apparent.

• After the others left camp, Xia Yan summoned the Datura Snake and lit a fire with supplies from the Demon Suppressing Pagoda.
• Fu Shen and the others recovered the Black-Horned Horses, and the caravan set out through the night before resting at dawn.
• The caravan traveled for six days and reached Mountain City, where its members celebrated their return to safety.
• The caravan delivered its goods to the Seven Treasure Pavilion, while Jiang Qinghe continued watching Xia Yan.
• Chen Cheng emerged from the pavilion and respectfully welcomed Xia Yan as Young Master, astonishing the caravan members.

Xia Yan arrived at the Seven Treasure Pavilion in Mountain City, where Chen Cheng welcomed him and gave him records of the Wolf Bandits and letters from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. After reading the letters, Xia Yan decided to absorb an immortal herb, seek a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear in the Star Dou Great Forest, and then travel to the Star Luo Empire; he left replies for Chen Cheng to send.

• Xia Yan told the caravan that he had dealt with the Wolf Bandits and left with Chen Cheng, leaving Fu Shen and Jiang Qinghe stunned by his status.
• Chen Cheng escorted Xia Yan to the sixth floor and gave him records identifying seven Wolf Bandit groups in Silvis, along with a map.
• Xia Yan read Ning Fengzhi's letter about a roughly twenty-thousand-year-old Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear in the Star Dou Great Forest and letters from Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Xia Yan decided to absorb an immortal herb, pursue the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, and then head to the Star Luo Empire.
• Xia Yan wrote replies to Ning Fengzhi, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing, then asked Chen Cheng to send the letters to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Tang San trained his Purple Demon Eye at Morning Water Academy before collecting rare poisons and materials from Yu Xiaogang to make deadly hidden weapons. He planned to use them to protect himself and compensate for Blue Silver Grass’s limitations in the Soul Master Tournament.

• Tang San refined eastern purple qi and noted that his Purple Demon Eye had remained at the Subtlety stage despite years of cultivation.
• Tang San recalled how the Shrek teachers and students had mistaken Morning Water Academy for Skywater Academy before learning the schools had no connection.
• Tang San arrived at Yu Xiaogang’s residence and found five boxes of requested materials waiting for him.
• Tang San examined the poisonous ingredients and dead scorpion that Yu Xiaogang had gathered for him.
• Tang San planned to refine the Nether Yin Needle for self-defense and Corrosive Miasma Breath for use in the Soul Master Tournament.

Yu Xiaogang let Tang San believe that a mysterious benefactor had supplied his cultivation materials and promised to find rare ingredients for his new Hidden Weapons. After Tang San left, Tang Hao revealed himself as the benefactor and ordered Yu Xiaogang to keep supporting his son without claiming credit.

• Yu Xiaogang urged Tang San to thank a mysterious person for providing his materials, and Tang San vowed to excel at the national Soul Master Tournament and prove Yu Xiaogang's theories.
• Tang San gave Yu Xiaogang six drawings of rare poisonous plants and insects needed for new Hidden Weapons, and Yu Xiaogang accepted the search on the mysterious person's behalf.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San to reach level forty before the tournament and said the mysterious person was searching for Blue Silver Grass over three thousand years old.
• After Tang San left, Yu Xiaogang knelt before Tang Hao and presented him with the six requests.
• Tang Hao took the notes and resolved to obtain the materials by any means, while imagining Tang San's future revenge on Spirit Hall.
• Tang Hao warned Yu Xiaogang that there could be no more accidents and ordered him to make Tang San understand how much Tang Hao had done for him; Yu Xiaogang agreed and continued kneeling after Tang Hao vanished.

Ma Hongjun and Oscar bonded over barbecue as Shrek Academy’s remaining students withdrew into cultivation and Flender planned to recruit more members. Xia Yan returned to the abandoned academy while traveling toward the Star Dou Great Forest to find a fifth Soul Ring.

• Ma Hongjun and Oscar ate barbecue together and reflected on how Dai Mubai, Tang San, and Xiao Wu had grown distant after Yu Tianheng joined Shrek.
• Ma Hongjun learned that Flender planned to recruit enough students for Shrek to field a team at next year’s Soul Master Tournament.
• Xia Yan reached level fifty after clearing the Wolf Bandit hideouts and absorbing the Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum, then headed toward the Star Dou Great Forest to seek a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear.
• Xia Yan visited the deserted former Shrek Academy and found its dormitories abandoned and the academy’s belongings gone.
• Xia Yan took the rabbit-head-shaped wooden carving from Xiao Wu’s old dormitory and stored it in his Soul Tool.

Xia Yan searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and found it battling a Griffin. He absorbed the wounded bear into the Demon Suppressing Pagoda, and his aura surged as he appeared inside.

• Xia Yan fed a Cloud Cluster Ground Rat blood ginseng and sent it back to its family in the Demon Suppressing Pagoda.
• Xia Yan searched the Mixed Zone through the day and night while avoiding ten-thousand-year soul beasts.
• Xia Yan followed the sound of battle and found a ten-thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear fighting a Griffin with a wingspan of fifty meters.
• Xia Yan activated the Demon Suppressing Pagoda and absorbed the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear along with its attack-type soul skills.
• The Griffin was left confused in the sky, and Xia Yan appeared inside the pagoda as his aura surged.