Chapter Summaries

Tang San arrived in Heaven Dou City and sought a way to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy and gain the imperial family's favor. After mutilating his face to conceal his identity, he secured Xue Qinghe's support to enter the academy team and compete in the tournament.

• Tang San learned that the Eternal Church had made three powerful Spirit Bones belonging to Tang Hao tournament prizes and resolved to compete for them.
• Tang San decided to approach Xue Qinghe, then cut his face beyond recognition so experts could not identify his disguise.
• Tang San introduced himself to Xue Qinghe as Huo Yuhao and criticized the Eternal Church, while Xue Qinghe cautioned him to mind his words.
• Tang San revealed that he was a fourteen-year-old rank 53 Soul King with a Bloodthirsty Bristle-Boar Martial Soul, impressing Xue Qinghe.
• Xue Qinghe gave Tang San a token to present to the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Education Committee so he could join the academy team.

Yu Xiaogang underwent a bone-age test at the tournament qualifiers while Flender brought Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar to seek places at Heaven Dou Royal Academy. The three committee members welcomed Dai Mubai and Oscar to the main team, while Ma Hongjun was told to challenge a current member; Dai Mubai recognized Huo Yuhao’s name and suspected Tang San had joined the academy.

• Yu Xiaogang’s bone age tested as twenty-one, but the staff member questioned the result because Yu Xiaogang looked so old.
• Flender introduced Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar to the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Education Committee with Qin Ming’s help.
• Dai Mubai reported that he was a rank forty-two Battle Soul Ancestor, and Meng Shenji welcomed him to the main team.
• Oscar introduced himself as a rank thirty-seven food-type Soul Elder, and Meng Shenji also accepted him into the main team.
• Meng Shenji told Ma Hongjun to defeat a main-team member to claim a place, excluding Huo Yuhao and the Shi brothers.
• Dai Mubai asked about Huo Yuhao, learned that his Martial Soul was the Ice Thorn Bristle-Boar, and suspected that Tang San had come to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

Yu Xiaogang competed for Godwind Academy while pretending to be twenty-one, and Feng Xiaotian joked with him about his apparent age. When Meng Yiran revealed that Yu Xiaogang was her grandmother Chao Tianxiang’s husband, he admitted to Godwind Academy that he was older and asked them to keep his real age secret so he could compete.

• Yu Xiaogang arrived at the tournament venue as Godwind Academy’s vice-captain after passing the age test.
• Feng Xiaotian teased Yu Xiaogang about looking old, and Yu Xiaogang insisted he was twenty-one.
• Huo Wushuang questioned whether Yu Xiaogang was eligible to compete, and Yu Xiaogang claimed he had passed the physical examination.
• Meng Yiran recognized Yu Xiaogang as her grandfather and told Feng Xiaotian that he was Chao Tianxiang’s husband.
• Yu Xiaogang admitted his age to the Godwind Academy team and told them to keep it secret so he could compete against Tang San.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Feng Xiaotian not to reveal his age to Huo Wu, and Feng Xiaotian objected to lying to her.

Yu Xiaogang joined Godwind Academy for the opening ceremony of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament. After the tournament opened and Dugu Bo drew the first-round matchups, Godwind Academy was paired with Oakland Academy.

• Feng Xiaotian argued with Yu Xiaogang about his devotion to Huo Wu, while Yu Xiaogang dismissed him as beyond saving.
• Feng Xiaotian told Meng Yiran that Yu Xiaogang was twenty-one and would compete with Godwind Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang entered the arena with Godwind Academy and recognized Dugu Bo, Juan Hongchen, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei among the VIPs.
• Xue Ye declared the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament open, and the VIPs gave speeches.
• Dugu Bo drew the preliminary matchups, pairing Godwind Academy against Oakland Academy in the first round.

Godwind Academy defeated Oakland Academy in the tournament’s opening match, while Tang San trained with the Heaven Dou Royal Team and resented his teammates’ weakness. Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun joined the team, and Ma Hongjun prepared to challenge Yu Feng for a regular spot.

• Feng Xiaotian led the Godwind Team to defeat Oakland Academy within a minute, leaving all seven opponents poisoned.
• Tang San judged the Heaven Dou Royal Team too weak to help him recover the spirit bones from his father’s body and resented Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun for having refused his earlier plea for help.
• Qin Ming introduced Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun, explaining that Dai Mubai and Oscar would replace Ma Le and Ge Bi, while Ma Hongjun could earn a regular position by winning a challenge.
• Ma Le and Ge Bi protested their removal and left to complain to the education committee, while Dai Mubai and Oscar joined the team.
• Qin Ming introduced Tang San as Huo Yuhao, a rank-fifty-three Soul King, and Ma Hongjun chose Yu Feng as his opponent in a match for a regular spot.

Ma Hongjun defeated Yu Feng and joined the team, while Tang San revealed his identity to Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun and promised them immortal herbs. Yu Mingxiao prepared disguised Blood Ginseng at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, secretly giving several of the plants bizarre Martial Souls.

• Ma Hongjun defeated Yu Feng, and Qin Ming made him a full team member in Yu Feng's place.
• Qin Ming had Oscar heal Yu Feng and Ma Hongjun with his sausages, then trained the newly formed team.
• Tang San admitted to Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun that he was Tang San and demanded their full effort in the tournament so he could win his father's Spirit Bone.
• Tang San promised the three that he would give them immortal herbs if Xue Qinghe's men found any at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Yu Mingxiao planted thousand-year Blood Ginseng at the well and disguised the plants as immortal herbs.
• Yu Mingxiao gave four Blood Ginseng plants the Martial Souls of a sow, a bald hen, a female baboon, and a eunuch's severed organ.

Yu Mingxiao manipulated fate so Xue Qinghe would send Tang San the Immortal Herbs gathered from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Tang San received four herbs and told Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar they could share them, leaving the three overjoyed.

• A guest retainer and knights collected the Blood Ginseng disguised as Immortal Herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and returned to Xue Qinghe.
• Yu Mingxiao altered fate so Xue Qinghe would give Tang San all the herbs except one narcissus jade muscle bone.
• Xue Qinghe kept the narcissus jade muscle bone and sent four herbs to Tang San at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Tang San recognized the four herbs, accepted them, and hid them in his dorm room.
• Tang San told Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar that he had obtained four Immortal Herbs suited to them and invited them to his quarters after dinner.
• Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar celebrated, relieved that their fortunes might finally improve.

Tang San and his companions consumed the supposed immortal herbs, only to discover that the herbs had transformed their Martial Souls into humiliating forms. The group blamed the Eternal Church for planting the disguised herbs, and Oscar attacked Tang San in fury.

• Tang San gave Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Dai Mubai their herbs, then swallowed the dew from his own herb while Yu Mingxiao watched unseen.
• After refining the herb, Tang San discovered his Martial Soul had become a nursing old sow instead of an ice thorn bristle-boar.
• Dai Mubai burst in with a female baboon Martial Soul and accused Tang San of giving him the wrong herb.
• Tang San blamed the Eternal Church, while Luo Sanpao suckled from his summoned sow Martial Soul.
• Ma Hongjun cried out that his Martial Soul had become a featherless old hen, and Oscar revealed an obscene new Martial Soul before charging at Tang San.

Oscar, Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun discovered that their immortal herbs had transformed their martial souls into humiliating forms, while Tang San urged them to focus on winning the championship. Meanwhile, the tournament narrowed to fourteen teams, and Godwind Academy prepared to face Blazing Fire Academy before a prominent audience.

• Oscar attacked Tang San after his sausage martial soul became a food-type Kun Kun martial soul, and Tang San revealed that his own Ice Thorn Bristle-Boar martial soul had become an old sow.
• Dai Mubai showed that his White Tiger had turned into a female baboon, while Ma Hongjun explained that his Phoenix had become an old hen and his evil fire had disappeared.
• Tang San urged Oscar, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun to ignore the gossip and win the championship, though the three privately blamed him for their ruined martial souls.
• Godwind Academy advanced as the tournament was reduced to fourteen teams competing for five qualifying places.
• The organizers scheduled Godwind Academy’s match against Blazing Fire Academy on the central stage, with Emperor Xue Ye, Dugu Bo, Gu Rong, and Ye Lingshuang among the distinguished spectators.

Yu Xiaogang joined Godwind Academy’s match against Blazing Fire Academy and used his fart-based Soul Skills to throw the opposing team into disarray. Huo Wu’s counterattack sent him flying and knocked one of his attacks into Feng Xiaotian, leaving Feng furious.

• Yu Xiaogang took his place in Godwind Academy’s lineup, while Feng Xiaotian and Huo Wushuang formally introduced their teams before the match began.
• Feng Xiaotian and two teammates launched a wind attack as Blazing Fire Academy’s Fire Star support Soul Skills strengthened its fire users.
• Huo Yun and Huo Yu intercepted Feng Xiaotian, while Yu Xiaogang rushed to face Huo Wushuang.
• Yu Xiaogang fired Thunderfire Mega-Farts across the platform, forcing Blazing Fire Academy to dodge and spreading a stench that sickened spectators.
• Yu Xiaogang used two more Soul Skills to knock out Blazing Fire Academy’s support Soul Masters.
• Huo Wu struck Yu Xiaogang with her fourth Soul Skill, flinging him away and deflecting one of his attacks into Feng Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaogang helped Godwind Academy defeat Blazing Fire Academy with his foul and unconventional Soul Skills. Meanwhile, the Shrek Four Monsters struggled with grotesquely mutated Martial Souls and suspected someone had tampered with the Crown Prince’s herbs.

• Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang attacked Yu Xiaogang, but his fart-based shield and propulsion kept them at bay.
• Yu Xiaogang held off Blazing Fire Academy’s fighters while Godwind Academy eliminated three opponents, forcing Huo Wu to concede.
• Godwind Academy celebrated its victory, though Feng Xiaotian felt uneasy about beating Huo Wu through Yu Xiaogang’s methods.
• At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, the Shrek Four Monsters faced ridicule over their mutated Martial Souls, and Qin Ming suspended their training.
• Tang San told Qin Ming that the Crown Prince’s herbs had likely been secretly tampered with and that restoring their Martial Souls seemed unlikely.

Qin Ming kept Tang San and the others on the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team despite their harmful Martial Soul mutations, but assigned them to eat Oscar’s three new foods to prove the team could accept them. In Spirit City, Yu Mingxiao told Bibi Dong to wait for Tang San to stir up the resentment of Heaven Dou’s nobles.

• Qin Ming told Tang San, Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun that they could keep their team positions, though reserves would be allowed to challenge them.
• Oscar explained that his new Soul Skills were weaker than his former sausage abilities, and Qin Ming declared that the team must eat one of each of Oscar’s three foods.
• Dai Mubai eagerly ate all three foods, and Qin Ming then ordered Oscar to make servings for Tang San and Ma Hongjun.
• Bibi Dong asked Yu Mingxiao when he would move against the Heaven Dou Empire, and he said they should wait for Tang San to provoke its nobles.
• Yu Mingxiao told Bibi Dong that Tang San would have been this era’s chosen son of fortune if Yu Mingxiao had not existed.

Thunder Academy Branch qualified for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament with a perfect record, while Yu Xiaogang was asked to help Meng Yiran and Xiao Qu reach the Finals with Godwind Academy. At Thunder Academy Branch, Yu Mingxiao reunited with Qian Renxue and offered to teach her and the others how to interrupt Yu Xiaogang's Thunderous Fart.

• Thunder Academy Branch, Godwind Academy, Skywater Academy, Blazing Fire Academy, and Elephant Armor Academy took the five qualifying places in the Heaven Dou City Division, with Qian Renxue reaching Soul Power Level forty-eight at age twelve.
• Chao Tianxiang brought Yu Xiaogang to Beast City and asked him to arrange for Meng Yiran and Xiao Qu to join Godwind Academy as substitutes for the Finals.
• Xiao Qu told Yu Xiaogang she did not want to compete because the tournament frightened her, and he agreed not to force her to go.
• Yu Mingxiao visited Qian Renxue at Thunder Academy Branch, praised her performance, and said he hoped to watch the Promotion Round.
• Qian Renxue vowed to beat Yu Xiaogang, so Yu Mingxiao offered to teach her how to stop his Thunderous Fart by interrupting its windup.

Yu Mingxiao taught Thunder Academy members how to use Mental Interference to disrupt Yu Xiaogang, and the advancement tournament began. Thunder Academy drew Godwind Academy for its first match, leaving Qian Renxue to ask team leader Yu Mingque who should fight first.

• Yu Mingxiao taught the team Mental Interference, and Qian Renxue and Ning Rongrong learned it after half a day.
• The advancement tournament began at the Royal Knights' main drill ground, with fifteen teams competing in a one-on-one round robin.
• Yu Xiaogang's teammates teased him for adding his granddaughter Meng Yiran to the team, and he grew embarrassed and angry.
• The draw paired Thunder Academy against Godwind Academy in the sixth match of the day.
• Qian Renxue asked Yu Mingque who should take the first turn against Godwind Academy.

Thunder Academy faced Godwind Academy, and Lei Dong narrowly defeated Yun Yi before losing to another opponent. Zhu Zhuqing then used spiritual attacks to trigger two backlashes in Yu Xiaogang’s fart technique, knocking him unconscious and leaving Xue Ye wondering whether she possessed a Head Soul Bone.

• Yu Mingque let the team choose its fighters’ order while keeping Qian Renxue in reserve.
• Lei Dong fought Yun Yi evenly, narrowly defeated him, and later lost to Godwind Academy’s third fighter.
• Zhu Zhuqing entered the match and defeated Yu Xiaogang after interrupting his power gathering and causing two Thunderfire Mega-Farts to backfire.
• Dugu Bo deduced that Zhu Zhuqing had used spiritual power to disrupt Yu Xiaogang, and Xue Ye wondered whether she possessed a Head Soul Bone.

The Heaven Dou teams finished the advancement tournament and traveled to Spirit City for the finals, where Tang San’s team explored the city. Oscar tried to approach Ning Rongrong but was rejected because she did not recognize him, and he returned to his room in tears.

• Thunder Academy defeated Godwind Academy, and the advancement tournament concluded with Thunder Academy in first place.
• After three days of preparations, the Heaven Dou teams set out for Spirit City, while Tang San and the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team arrived there earlier.
• Tang San reviewed the roster information with his teammates, and they discussed Qian Renxue, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and the changes to their team.
• Tang San and his teammates explored Spirit City before the other Heaven Dou teams arrived and settled into the hotel.
• Oscar rushed to greet Ning Rongrong, but she did not recognize him and threatened to report him if he kept following her.
• Oscar returned to his room and wept, and Dai Mubai tried to comfort him.

Heaven Dou Royal Academy drew Godwind Academy for the tournament’s first round, where they discovered Yu Xiaogang was on the opposing team and faced his infamous fart-based attacks. The match began with Feng Xiaotian’s wind blades breaking Dai Mubai’s shield, while Osler charged at Godwind Academy’s front line.

• Qin Ming drew Godwind Academy as Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s first-round opponent and warned the team not to underestimate its captains, Feng Xiaotian and Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang San and the others recognized Yu Xiaogang and discussed how his connection to the Eternal Church’s God could have placed him on Godwind Academy.
• Heaven Dou Royal Academy and Godwind Academy entered the platform, with Yu Xiaogang’s teammates wearing gas masks.
• Feng Xiaotian opened the match with wind blades, and Dai Mubai’s shield shattered when he charged toward Yu Xiaogang.
• Osler dodged the wind blades with his Ghost Leopard Martial Soul Possession and pounced toward Godwind Academy’s front line.

Yu Xiaogang's fart attacks clashed with Tang San's Old Sow Martial Soul during the tournament battle, and Tang San eventually knocked Yu Xiaogang unconscious. Godwind Academy's teammates then surrounded Tang San.

• Yu Xiaogang's Mega Stink Bomb poisoned Oscar, who used a detoxifying Little Sausage to recover somewhat.
• Tang San revealed his Old Sow Martial Soul, used Pig Roar to briefly immobilize the fighters, and attacked Yu Xiaogang with Pig Hair Shake.
• Yu Xiaogang scattered Tang San's pig hairs with a Curry Mega-Fart, then launched Thunderfire Mega-Farts at Heaven Dou Royal Academy's team.
• Tang San ordered his teammates to protect Oscar and eliminate Yu Xiaogang, but Osler was eliminated during their charge against Godwind Academy.
• Tang San used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and Frozen Pork Charge to break through Yu Xiaogang's farts and knock him unconscious.
• Godwind Academy's teammates arrived and surrounded Tang San.

Heaven Dou Royal Academy narrowly defeated Godwind Academy, then faced a Thunder Academy team that included Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Qian Renxue. Tang San opened the match by unleashing Swine Plague, but Qian Renxue dispelled it and the teams charged into separate fights.

• Heaven Dou Royal Academy narrowly beat Godwind Academy, with Tang San defeating Feng Xiaotian after using the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.
• Dai Mubai offered to share what he knew about Thunder Academy’s fighters, while Oscar objected to targeting Ning Rongrong.
• Tang San reflected that his mutated Martial Soul left him weaker and with fewer powerful abilities than he had possessed in his previous life.
• At the start of the match, Qian Renxue threatened Tang San after he stared at her, and Tang San then released his Martial Soul and ordered Oscar to make food.
• Tang San used Swine Plague, but Qian Renxue’s Holy Light dispersed it; he gave his teammates assignments and charged at her as both teams engaged.

Qian Renxue and Zhu Zhuqing overwhelmed Tang San and Dai Mubai as Thunder Academy defeated the Heaven Dou Team. Tang San and Dai Mubai were carried away unconscious, and Yu Mingque rejected Qin Ming’s complaint about deliberate maiming.

• Qian Renxue wounded Tang San despite his Frozen Pork Charge, and Tang San revealed his twin Martial Souls and Divine Slaughter’s Domain before being beaten back again.
• Tang San swallowed an unspeakable object, used the Clear Sky Hammer’s Collapse Technique, and was knocked unconscious after clashing with Qian Renxue.
• Dai Mubai attacked Zhu Zhuqing over her family’s rejection of his marriage claim, but Zhu Zhuqing defeated him and cut off his manhood.
• Thunder Academy swept the Heaven Dou Team, leaving Tang San and Dai Mubai unconscious on the arena floor.
• Qin Ming reported Thunder Academy for deliberate injury, but team leader Yu Mingque argued that the arena’s injuries were part of the competition.