Chapter Summaries

The Claes Team ignored Shrek Academy’s surrender and continued crushing Tang San and his teammates in the arena. Flender and Qin Ming finally charged onto the stage to confront Qian San and the others.

• Tang San’s Godly Zhuge Crossbow failed to penetrate the Claes Team’s angled shields and metal armor.
• Flender recognized the Claes Team, shouted that Shrek surrendered, and joined Yu Xiaogang in condemning the fight, but the attackers continued.
• Qian San and his teammates overwhelmed Tang San, whose evasive techniques failed against Qian San’s Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.
• Dai Zhuqing broke Dai Mubai’s arms, while Qian San’s armored soul beasts and Yu Rongrong drove Ma Hongjun back and threatened Ning Rongrong.
• Flender and Qin Ming summoned their martial souls and leaped into the arena, furious at the Claes Team for continuing after the surrender.

Fu Lanya and Zhao Youji stopped Flender, Qin Ming, and Zhao Wuji from intervening after Shrek Academy’s students lost the arena spar, then demanded that Qin Ming honor his wager. Flender tried to buy their way out, but the Heaven Dou Royal Academy education committee arrived to mediate, and Fu Lanya challenged Zhilin’s account of what had happened.

• Fu Lanya and Zhao Youji revealed themselves as Rank 83 Soul Douluo, overwhelming Flender, Qin Ming, and Zhao Wuji with their pressure.
• Zhao Youji reminded Qin Ming that Shrek Academy had lost their wager, while Fu Lanya demanded that he fulfill his promise and bring over Yu Xiaogang.
• Fu Lanya gathered wind blades and Zhao Youji raised the Corrosion Gold Hammer, prompting Flender to pull Qin Ming back and apologize on Shrek Academy’s behalf.
• Flender offered his last fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins as compensation, but Fu Lanya refused and told him to save it for coffins.
• Meng Shenji, Zhilin, and Bai Baoshan arrived, and Zhilin apologized for Qin Ming and asked Fu Lanya and Zhao Youji to calm down.
• Fu Lanya rejected Zhilin’s framing of the incident, leaving Flender and Zhao Wuji surprised that the committee members had addressed the two Soul Douluo as teachers.

Fu Lanya forced Qin Ming to fulfill his promise to kowtow, then ordered Zhao Youji to break Yu Xiaogang’s leg. The Shrek group fled for help, while Tang San left consumed by hatred and plotting revenge.

• Fu Lanya threatened to appeal to the Crown Prince, so Meng Shenji, Zhilin, and Bai Baoshan withdrew their support and Qin Ming knelt to kowtow.
• Fu Lanya had Qian San bring Yu Xiaogang to the front and ordered Zhao Youji to prevent him from leaving.
• Zhao Youji shattered Yu Xiaogang’s right leg, and Flender pleaded with Fu Lanya before carrying Yu Xiaogang away to seek a healing-type Soul Master.
• Qin Ming finished kowtowing as the injured Shrek students left the training ground, with Xiao Wu crying and Tang San silently seething.
• Tang San blamed Qin Ming for the injuries and vowed in his heart to kill the people who had hurt Xiao Wu and Yu Xiaogang.

Yu Tianheng led Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s First Team to challenge Qian San’s group after seeing Qin Ming humiliated, and the academy’s committee members allowed the teams to fight. The two teams took their positions on the training ground as the match was about to begin.

• Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan led the First Team in shielding Qin Ming and challenged Qian San’s group to a proper fight.
• Yu Tianheng supported Qin Ming and promised that the First Team would avenge him and restore their honor.
• Fu Lanya accepted the challenge and sent Qian San, Ao Shushun, Niu Lanjun, and the others to face the First Team.
• Meng Shenji and the other committee members decided to let the match proceed, warning both teams to avoid serious injuries.
• Yu Tianheng led Dugu Yan, Shi Mo, Shi Mo, and the other First Team members onto the training ground to face Qian San’s group.

Qian San’s Claes Team overwhelmed the Heaven Dou Royal Academy First Team, beginning with Xiao Qing’s decisive defeat of Yu Tianheng. As the battle continued, Claes Team countered Dugu Yan’s poison and pushed the opposing fighters back, while Yu Rongrong advanced toward support Soul Master Ye Lingling.

• Yu Tianheng charged Qian San, but Xiao Qing stepped in and defeated him with her Azure Dragon Tail Sweep.
• Dugu Yan unleashed her Jade Phosphorous Purple Poison, but Qian San ignited realgar wine vapor to burn it away and knock her down.
• Dai Zhuqing battered the Shi brothers until they retreated into their shells, while Zhu Muhei gained the advantage over Osler.
• Yu Rongrong and her two armored beasts engaged Yu Feng and headed for Ye Lingling, whom Yu Rongrong challenged to come out and play.

The Claes Team defeated Heaven Dou's First Team, with Xiao Qing badly injuring Yu Tianheng before the Education Committee stopped the match. Qian San led his team away, while Qin Ming watched them with resentment and Zhao Youji suggested killing him.

• Ye Lingling healed Yu Tianheng, who trembled with fear when he saw Yu Rongrong approaching.
• Xiao Qing stopped Yu Rongrong and sent Yu Tianheng flying with an ordinary kick.
• Meng Shenji ended the match, declaring the Second Team the winner, and Qian San dismissed the Liquid Metal Armor.
• Qian San explained that realgar wine and sparks had neutralized Dugu Yan's poison, while Yu Tianheng felt ashamed of his earlier boasts.
• Qin Ming accused Qian San of using excessive force, but Qian San rebuked him and led the Claes Team away.
• Zhao Youji asked Fu Lanya whether they should kill the resentful Qin Ming.

After Kelaishi Academy’s victory, Fu Lanya planned to use Qin Ming as a future test for her students, while Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan decided to seek help from their powerful elders. At the victory feast, Qian San and Xiao Qing revealed they were nearing level fifty, leaving Fu Lanya excited but concerned about interfering with their cultivation plans.

• Fu Lanya refused to pursue Qin Ming, predicting he would feel guilty and eventually join Shrek, where Qian San and the others could challenge him.
• Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan resolved to report the defeat and humiliation to their influential relatives, then left to contact them.
• Fu Lanya praised Kelaishi Academy’s students at a victory feast, and Niu Lanjun said he was close to reaching level thirty.
• Qian San and Xiao Qing told Fu Lanya they expected to break through within two months, prompting her to realize they might reach level fifty before the tournament.
• Fu Lanya celebrated their progress but worried that she did not know their cultivation plans or what Spirit Rings their martial souls could safely absorb.

Fu Lanya deferred Qian San and Xiao Qing’s fifth Spirit Ring choices until their father could advise them. In Tiandou City, Flender brought the injured Yu Xiaogang to Blue Tyrant Academy, where Liu Erlong learned he had been castrated and tried to attack Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

• Fu Lanya told Qian San and Xiao Qing to temper their foundations and wait for their father’s instructions before choosing fifth Spirit Rings, and they agreed.
• Flender used his remaining gold coins to hire a healing-system soul master, who reattached Yu Xiaogang’s broken leg but left him facing a long recovery and a limp.
• With nowhere else to go, Flender led Shrek Academy’s battered group to Blue Tyrant Academy, where Liu Erlong rushed to see Yu Xiaogang.
• Flender told Liu Erlong that a Soul Douluo had castrated Yu Xiaogang in Suotuo City.
• Liu Erlong flew into a rage and charged toward Heaven Dou Royal Academy, but Flender and Zhao Wuji restrained her and warned that two Soul Douluos awaited there.

Yu Xiaogang lied to Liu Erlong that rare herbs could restore his body, hoping to preserve her devotion after his crippling injury. Meanwhile, Ye Lingling returned home shaken by the violence at the academy, and Ye Tianxin reflected on the healing duty and burden of their family’s Nine-Heart Begonia martial soul.

• Liu Erlong swore revenge for what had happened to Yu Xiaogang, while he secretly feared she might eventually turn to Flender.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed a mysterious senior had told him that rare herbs could help him recover, and Liu Erlong vowed to find them.
• Flender doubted Yu Xiaogang’s story but kept his questions to himself as Liu Erlong embraced him.
• Ye Lingling returned to the Ye family residence exhausted and frightened by the beating Yu Tianheng had suffered at the training ground.
• Ye Tianxin noticed Ye Lingling’s distress but let her retreat, then reflected on the Nine-Heart Begonia’s limits and the family’s duty to heal others.

After the battle left Ye Lingling questioning whether healing only enabled more violence, the God of Goodness offered her an inheritance to fulfill her wish to save people and overcome the Nine-Heart Begonia’s limitations. Ye Lingling accepted the guidance and discovered that its cultivation technique greatly accelerated her Soul Power growth and changed its qualities.

• Ye Lingling blamed herself for healing Yu Tianheng, whose return to battle had left him gravely injured again.
• Ye Lingling recalled how her grandfather’s healing had returned soul masters to fighting and killing, and wondered whether the Ye Family’s healing truly saved people.
• The God of Goodness spoke to Ye Lingling, offering power, a way to heal the world, and a chance to break the Nine-Heart Begonia bloodline’s limitations.
• Ye Lingling accepted the offer, and the God of Goodness gave her a cultivation technique and marked her hair with a hidden platinum strand.
• Ye Lingling practiced the technique and found her Soul Power growing twenty percent faster, with a new gentle quality.

Ye Lingling began cultivating with the Nine-Heart Begonia, while Yu Yuanzhen learned of his family’s injuries and plotted to seize the girl with the superior dragon Martial Soul. The chapter left Qian Xunji still locked in his prolonged struggle to supply the mysterious ball of light with Soul Power.

• Ye Lingling felt the Nine-Heart Begonia’s calming power and devoted herself to its new cultivation method.
• Yu Yuanzhen read Yu Tianheng’s letter about Yu Xiaogang’s mutilation, Yu Tianheng’s defeat, and the girl whose Martial Soul had frightened him.
• Yu Yuanzhen decided to capture the girl and force her to marry Yu Tianheng, hoping their descendants would strengthen the clan’s dragon bloodline.
• Yu Yuanzhen ordered the clan to prepare for his journey to Tiandou City and to investigate Kelaishi Academy, planning to consult Dugu Bo.
• Qian Xunji continued channeling Soul Power into the ball of light and resolved to ask Huang Tian about condensing a Soul Core.

Qian Xunji completed the second Angel Trial with a perfect evaluation, then left the sealed Douluo Hall to rest and check on Qian San before attempting the third trial. In Heaven Dou City, Dugu Bo heard that a teenage boy had neutralized Dugu Yan’s poison and worried over the revelation.

• Qian Xunji completed the second Angel Trial, raising his Angel God affinity to thirty percent, and chose to rest before starting the third trial.
• Qian Xunji emerged from the Douluo Hall and told Qian Daoliu and Huang Tian that he had passed the first two trials but needed to recover.
• Qian Xunji told Huang Tian he would return to Heaven Dou City to check on Qian San and help strengthen her, then the two set out.
• Dugu Bo heard from Dugu Yan that a teenage boy had neutralized her Jade Phosphorous Purple Poison with realgar wine and sparks, and he questioned whether the boy could withstand his own poison.

Yu Yuanzhen visited Dugu Bo to discuss the Heaven Dou Royal Second Team and the youths who had injured his family and broken Dugu Yan’s poison. The two agreed to watch the team and wait for a chance to act when they left Tiandou City.

• Dugu Bo learned that Yu Yuanzhen had come to Dugu Manor and sent Dugu Yan away before receiving him.
• Yu Yuanzhen asked Dugu Bo about the teenager who had broken Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent poison, and Dugu Bo downplayed the incident as a youthful sparring matter.
• Yu Yuanzhen proposed that they investigate the Heaven Dou Royal Second Team, and Dugu Bo agreed after considering the potential benefits to Dugu Yan and her relationship with Yu Tianheng.
• Dugu Bo warned that openly attacking Heaven Dou Royal Academy could provoke the empire and Crown Prince Xue Qinghe.
• Yu Yuanzhen and Dugu Bo agreed to monitor the team and act when it left Tiandou City, then Yu Yuanzhen left to check on Yu Tianheng.

Qian Xunji reunited with Qian San and planned an early Soul Beast hunt for him and Sister Qing. After sensing Dugu Bo and Yu Yuanzhen plotting in Heaven Dou City, Qian Xunji decided to use the trip to draw them away and deal with them.

• Qian Xunji summoned Qian San to the hills behind Heaven Dou Royal Academy and praised his progress toward becoming a Soul King.
• Qian San recounted the Claes Team’s clashes with the Shrek Team and Yu Tianheng, and Qian Xunji warned him not to underestimate cornered enemies.
• Qian Xunji told Qian San to prepare the team for an early journey to find suitable Soul Beasts for him and Sister Qing.
• Qian Xunji sensed Dugu Bo and Yu Yuanzhen’s auras in Heaven Dou City and concluded they meant trouble for the children.
• Qian Xunji decided to use the Soul Hunting trip to lure Dugu Bo and Yu Yuanzhen out of the city and deal with them.

Qian San’s group departed for Sunset Forest to hunt soul beasts, while Qian Xunji and Huang Tian secretly followed as bait for their enemies. Yu Yuanzhen and Dugu Bo pursued the team, though Dugu Bo grew uneasy as they approached the forest.

• Qian San told Fu Lanya that his father had returned and ordered them to prepare for a soul-beast hunt.
• Fu Lanya led the group out of Tiandou City toward Sunset Forest, and Qian Xunji and Huang Tian secretly followed them.
• A scout informed Yu Yuanzhen and Dugu Bo that the team had left for Sunset Forest, prompting the two Title Douluos to pursue them.
• Yu Yuanzhen planned to capture Xiao Qing for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, while Dugu Bo became suspicious of how conveniently the team had left the city.
• Deep in Sunset Forest, the group searched for a suitable third Spirit Ring for Niu Lanjun’s Benevolent Water Phoenix martial soul.

Yu Yuanzhen and Dugu Bo attacked the group to seize Xiao Qing and question Qian San, but Qian Xunji intervened before Dugu Bo could grab him. Recognizing Qian Xunji, Dugu Bo knelt and pleaded that the incident was a misunderstanding.

• Yu Yuanzhen ambushed the group and demanded that Xiao Qing come with him while the others leave.
• Dugu Bo emerged and questioned Qian San about how he had cured Jade Phosphorous Serpent poison.
• Fu Lanya and Zhao Youji fought Yu Yuanzhen, but he defeated them after Zhao Youji wounded his arm with Earth-Splitting Claw.
• Dugu Bo moved to restrain Qian San, but Qian Xunji appeared and seized his wrist.
• Dugu Bo recognized Qian Xunji, abandoned resistance, knelt, and begged him to hear an explanation.

Qian Xunji confronted Yu Yuanzhen after subduing Dugu Bo and beat Yu Yuanzhen’s Martial Soul Avatar apart with his bare fists. After leaving Yu Yuanzhen broken and begging for mercy, Qian Xunji called the Claes Team students over to kick him.

• Qian Xunji released Dugu Bo, returned the wounded Fu Lanya and Zhao Youji to the students, and challenged Yu Yuanzhen for ambushing juniors.
• Yu Yuanzhen dismissed Qian Xunji as a fraud and attacked him with a lightning pillar, which Qian Xunji dodged.
• Qian Xunji struck Yu Yuanzhen repeatedly with his divine-bone-enhanced right arm until the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul Avatar shattered.
• Yu Yuanzhen fell to the ground with numerous broken bones and begged Qian Xunji to stop, while Dugu Bo tried to curry favor with the students by revealing what he knew about Yu Yuanzhen.
• Qian Xunji kicked Yu Yuanzhen again, then summoned Qian San and the other Claes Team members and told them to kick him.

Qian Xunji had the children beat Yu Yuanzhen, then demanded that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan serve them for ten years before joining Spirit Hall. He offered Dugu Bo the clan leadership, and Dugu Bo accepted.

• Qian San and the other children kicked Yu Yuanzhen until Qian Xunji ordered them to stop.
• Dugu Bo brought the unconscious Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin to Qian Xunji.
• Qian Xunji threatened Yu Yuanzhen and demanded ten years of guard service followed by the clan's unconditional entry into Spirit Hall.
• Qian Xunji offered Dugu Bo the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's leadership, and Dugu Bo agreed to take it.

Yu Yuanzhen submitted to Qian Xunji, who placed Angel Marks on him and his grandsons to ensure their obedience. Qian Xunji then ordered Zhao Wuji to castrate Yu Tianheng, leaving Yu Yuanzhen devastated as Dugu Bo watched.

• Yu Yuanzhen agreed to obey Qian Xunji and make the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan serve as guards.
• Qian Xunji placed Angel Marks on Yu Yuanzhen, Yu Tianheng, and Yu Tianxin, warning that he could track or kill them at any time.
• Yu Yuanzhen knelt and swore loyalty, but Qian Xunji ordered Zhao Wuji to castrate the unconscious Yu Tianheng as punishment.
• Zhao Wuji carried out the order, and Yu Tianheng briefly woke in agony before losing consciousness again.
• Yu Yuanzhen grieved over Yu Tianheng and blamed himself for bringing disaster on his grandson and clan, while Dugu Bo watched from nearby.

Qian Xunji forced Yu Yuanzhen and Dugu Bo to submit before allowing them to leave the Sunset Forest. He then refused to fetch soul beasts for the children, explaining that he needed to pursue a plan to secure the God King of Goodness’s power for Qian San.

• Qian Xunji ordered Yu Yuanzhen to leave, and Yu Yuanzhen carried away the crippled Yu Tianheng and unconscious Yu Tianxin, realizing Yu Tianxin would inherit the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Dugu Bo swore to protect the young master and several juniors for ten years and promised that his family would join Spirit Hall, then fled after Qian Xunji dismissed him.
• Huang Tian offered to capture suitable soul beasts for the children, but Qian Xunji told them to train and search for soul rings themselves so they could gain combat experience and refine their strength.
• Qian Xunji told Huang Tian that he had to leave to pursue a matter concerning Qian San’s future god position.
• Qian Xunji planned to capture the God King of Goodness’s divine consciousness in the Inner World, erase its consciousness, and use its power origin to help Qian San inherit the God King of Goodness’s position in the Surface World.