Chapter Summaries

Tang San absorbed a Spirit Ring from a Soul-Devouring Baleful Wolf and concealed the vicious nature of his new Soul Skill. After Shrek returned to Heaven Dou City, Yu Xiaogang urgently summoned Flender, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing, where they found Zhu Muhei bound and badly injured.

• Tang San chose the Soul-Devouring Baleful Wolf, absorbed its Spirit Ring, and gained a Soul Skill that drained and corroded opponents.
• Tang San described the skill as a way to weaken enemies and improve his Blue Silver Grass, hiding its ability to steal blood, Soul Power, and life force.
• Xiao Wu recalled fleeing a thousand-year Soul Beast when she tried to reach the Lake of Life and decided to wait until she was stronger.
• More than ten days later, the Shrek group returned to Shrek Academy, where Yu Xiaogang summoned Flender, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing to a private room.
• Flender, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing found Zhu Muhei bound to an iron chair, and Flender demanded that Yu Xiaogang explain why a Claes Team member was there.

Yu Xiaogang and the others tortured Zhu Muhei to learn how Qian San had absorbed a ten-thousand-year fourth Spirit Ring. Tang San’s brutal interrogation broke Zhu Muhei, who confessed that he was from another world and not a member of the Zhu Clan.

• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing questioned whether Zhu Muhei belonged to the Nether Zhu Clan, but Zhu Zhuqing said she knew nothing about him.
• Yu Xiaogang demanded that Zhu Muhei explain how Qian San had absorbed a ten-thousand-year fourth Spirit Ring, and Zhu Muhei insisted he did not know.
• Yu Xiaogang ordered Liu Erlong to take Zhu Muhei to the dungeon for interrogation, while Tang San escorted him there to learn more about Qian San.
• Tang San tortured Zhu Muhei with pain-enhancing poison, Bloodthirsty Black Ants, a saltwater whip, and a branding iron.
• After less than half a day, Zhu Muhei broke down and confessed that he was from another world, not the Zhu Clan.

Tang San watched Zhu Muhei die after he revealed he came from another world, then devoured his corpse to increase his Soul Power. He reached level forty-four and accepted that the shortcut's allure could lead him toward becoming a fallen soul master.

• Zhu Muhei revealed that he came from another world, then a golden flash appeared in his eyes and shattered his sea of consciousness, killing him.
• Tang San suspected a soul restriction had killed Zhu Muhei for revealing the secret and wondered whether Qian San and his academy were also connected to transmigrators.
• Tang San used Soul-Devouring Toxic Calamity to drain Zhu Muhei's Soul Power, life force, and blood until only a skeleton remained.
• Tang San converted the energy with the Mysterious Heaven Skill and advanced from level forty-two to level forty-four.
• Tang San recognized that devouring offered an intoxicating shortcut, though its impure power could damage his foundation.

After Zhu Muhei fled, Fu Lanya considered how to replace him on Claes Team and decided to challenge nearby academies to find talent and prepare for the tournament. The team began training with Skywater Academy in her sights, while Dugu Yan apologized to Qian San and Xiao Qing and was coolly dismissed.

• Zhu Muhei's absence was noticed at morning assembly, and Zhao Youji ordered the team to continue training without concern.
• Yu Tianheng begged Dugu Yan not to leave him, but she broke free and ended their relationship.
• Dugu Yan apologized to Qian San and Xiao Qing, and Xiao Qing accepted without warmth before the Claes Team continued to its training area.
• Fu Lanya judged that Zhu Muhei's departure left Claes Team short of a required tournament member and planned to challenge advanced academies to recruit talent.
• Fu Lanya chose Skywater Academy as a target and thought of its captain, Shui Bing'er, while looking at Niu Lanjun.

Fu Lanya changed her students’ training plans and prepared to take them to Skywater Academy to learn from its Soul Masters. In Shrek Academy’s dungeon, Tang San hid the remains of Zhu Muhei and then faced Yu Xiaogang’s anger over his fourth Spirit Ring, which turned to fascination when Tang San revealed its age.

• Fu Lanya called off closed-door training and announced that her team would visit Skywater Academy to observe its students’ combat techniques.
• Tang San used his fourth Soul Skill to drain Zhu Muhei’s blood, Soul Power, and life force, then hid his remains in his storage tool.
• Liu Erlong brought Yu Xiaogang to the dungeon, where Yu Xiaogang confronted Tang San for choosing an evil attribute and attempting to absorb an over-limit Spirit Ring.
• Tang San claimed his Blue Silver Grass had instinctively craved an evil Soul Beast and credited Yu Xiaogang’s teachings for his success.
• Tang San revealed that he had absorbed a six-thousand-seven-hundred-year fourth Spirit Ring, shifting Yu Xiaogang’s anger into scholarly excitement.

Yu Xiaogang praised Tang San for supposedly proving and improving his soul-ring theory, then learned that Zhu Muhei had been rescued from the dungeon. Believing an expert from Kelaishi Academy was responsible, Yu Xiaogang left with Liu Erlong and Tang San, while Tang San concealed that he had deceived his teacher.

• Yu Xiaogang concluded that Tang San’s third and fourth soul rings supported his theory and planned to publish an optimized age limit of 6,700 years for a fourth ring.
• Yu Xiaogang reprimanded Tang San for choosing unconventional soul-ring attributes, and Tang San respectfully agreed.
• Yu Xiaogang asked where Zhu Muhei was, and Tang San falsely claimed that an unseen intruder had knocked him unconscious and rescued Zhu Muhei.
• Liu Erlong erupted in anger and shielded Yu Xiaogang, but Yu Xiaogang calmed her and decided that an expert from Kelaishi Academy had taken Zhu Muhei.
• Yu Xiaogang abandoned further investigation and left the dungeon with Liu Erlong and Tang San, who quietly reflected that he had avoided trouble for now.

Yu Xiaogang pretended to trust Tang San’s explanation while privately plotting to exploit the secret behind Tang San’s abnormal soul power for his own advancement. Meanwhile, Fu Lanya led the Kelaishi Academy team to Skywater Academy.

• Tang San left Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong and hurried back to enter seclusion and absorb the soul power he had gained.
• Yu Xiaogang told Liu Erlong he did not believe Tang San’s account of the dungeon incident, reasoning that a powerful rescuer would have killed or crippled Tang San.
• Liu Erlong revealed that Tang San’s soul power seemed far greater than a newly advanced Soul Ancestor’s, and Yu Xiaogang claimed he would respect his disciple’s secrets.
• Yu Xiaogang privately resolved to make Tang San reveal any method he had for increasing soul power so he could break through his own level twenty-nine limit.
• Fu Lanya led the Kelaishi Academy team to Skywater City and arrived at Skywater Academy.

The Claes Team visited Skywater Academy for an exchange, where Niu Lanjun and Shui Bing'er discovered an extraordinary resonance between their Martial Souls. The chapter left the two teams stunned by the possibility that they could perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, while Shui Yue'er teased her sister about the connection.

• Shui Lanxin welcomed Fu Lanya and the Claes Team to Skywater Academy for a training exchange.
• Niu Lanjun and Shui Bing'er sensed a powerful attraction between their Benevolent Water Phoenix and Ice Phoenix Martial Souls.
• Niu Lanjun told Qian San and the others that he might share a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Shui Bing'er.
• Shui Bing'er introduced herself and her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul to the visiting team.
• Shui Yue'er teased Shui Bing'er about resonating with Niu Lanjun, whom she called a monk.

The Claes Team and Skywater Academy agreed to a spar after Shui Yue'er challenged the visitors to prove their strength before discussing a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Niu Lanjun's water abilities trapped Skywater's fighters and blocked most of their counterattack, but several ice blades slipped toward Claes's rear line as Qian San acted.

• Qian San explained that Niu Lanjun's Benevolent Water Phoenix suppressed his emotions, easing Shui Bing'er's concern about a possible Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Shui Yue'er challenged the Claes Team to a fight, and Shui Bing'er apologized before Qian San accepted the match.
• Shui Lanxin and Fu Lanya agreed to referee, and both teams took their places as Shui Lanxin started the spar.
• Qian San revealed his five Spirit Rings, while Niu Lanjun used Benevolent Water Thousand Wave Array to trap most of Skywater Academy's formation.
• Shui Bing'er formed ice footholds and led Skywater's counterattack, but Niu Lanjun's Phoenix Water Wave deflected most of it.
• Several ice blades bypassed Niu Lanjun's water curtain and flew toward Claes's support fighters as Qian San moved to respond.

Qian San and the Claes Team overwhelmed Skywater Academy, then defeated Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu's Ice Phoenix fusion attack with Niu Lanjun's domain and a metal phoenix. Qian San safely dispersed the phoenix before it struck the opposing team, and Shui Lanxin declared Kelaishi Academy the winner.

• Qian San deflected Skywater Academy's ice blades while the Claes Team let Niu Lanjun take center stage.
• Shui Bing'er froze several Claes Team members, but Qian San, Xiao Qing, Dai Zhuqing, and the others broke free almost immediately.
• Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu joined forces to summon a powerful Ice Phoenix while their teammates tried to buy them time.
• Qian San formed a metal phoenix, and Niu Lanjun used his Jade Blue Phoenix Domain to armor it with Fluid Water Armor.
• The metal phoenix shattered the Ice Phoenix, causing Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu to fall from the air.
• Qian San dispersed the metal phoenix just above Skywater Academy's members, and Shui Lanxin declared Kelaishi Academy the winner.

After the Skywater Team recovered from their spar with Claes's team, Shui Bing'er agreed to test a possible Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Niu Lanjun. Meanwhile, Tang San's frustration with the weak gains from devouring small creatures overcame his restraint, and he targeted Tyrone as his next source of vitality.

• Fu Lanya praised Skywater Academy's Ice Phoenix Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Ao Shushun handed the exhausted girls Recovery Sausages.
• Shui Lanxin asked Shui Bing'er whether she would try testing a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Niu Lanjun, and Shui Bing'er agreed.
• Tang San reviewed his failed attempts to gain meaningful Soul Power by devouring weak lifeforms and struggled against his growing hunger for stronger prey.
• Tang San overheard that Tyrone was pestering Xiao Wu and decided the level-thirty-seven Soul Elder would make a valuable target.
• Tang San pulled Xiao Wu behind him, confronted Tyrone, and invited him to talk somewhere else.

Tyrone challenged Tang San to a public duel over Xiao Wu, and Tang San used his Blue Silver Grass and hidden weapons to secretly drain Tyrone's vitality and Soul Power. The onlooking students were left stunned as Tyrone fell to one knee, unable to understand his sudden weakness.

• Tyrone ordered Tang San to stay away from Xiao Wu and challenged him to a one-on-one fight.
• Xiao Wu rebuked Tyrone and openly clung to Tang San, while Tang San proposed fighting in a quieter place.
• Tyrone refused to change locations, so Tang San agreed to fight him publicly.
• Tang San bound Tyrone with Blue Silver Grass and used Silent Sleeve Arrows to cut his arms and neck.
• Tang San's grass absorbed Tyrone's blood, vitality, and Soul Power until Tyrone's strength faded.
• Tang San released Tyrone, who dropped to one knee as the students watched in confusion.

Shui Bing'er and Niu Lanjun demonstrated their Thoughtless Glazed Six-Headed Phoenix Martial Soul Fusion Skill at Skywater Academy. Their new form could switch between ice and water, control both elements with greater strength, and create a domain that steadied allies while weakening enemies.

• Tang San led Xiao Wu away from the crowd while absorbing the Soul Power he had secretly plundered from Tyrone.
• Shui Bing'er and Niu Lanjun recovered their Soul Power and activated their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, becoming a colossal Thoughtless Glazed Six-Headed Phoenix.
• Shui Bing'er explained that she and Niu Lanjun could control the fused body together or separately, with neither suppressing the other.
• Shui Bing'er described the fusion's improved elemental attacks and demonstrated a domain that cleared allies' negative emotions and resisted mental control.
• Shui Bing'er explained that enemies in the domain suffered extreme cold and water pressure while their senses and Soul Power perception were weakened.

After Shui Bing'er and Niu Lanjun demonstrated their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Fu Lanya reassured Shui Lanxin that Bing'er would remain with Skywater Academy while planning to let the fusion deepen their bond. At the Strength Clan residence, Tyrone found his grandfather Titan and begged him to punish Tang San.

• Shui Yue'er worried that Shui Bing'er would leave Skywater Academy, and Shui Lanxin shared her concern about losing the team's captain.
• Fu Lanya promised that Claes Academy would not force Shui Bing'er to transfer and proposed that the academies visit and train together.
• Fu Lanya privately planned to let repeated use of the Martial Soul Fusion Skill draw Shui Bing'er closer to Niu Lanjun and Claes Academy.
• Tyrone returned to the Strength Clan residence weakened after Tang San's Blue Silver Grass attack and learned that his father Tai Nuo was away.
• Tyrone knelt before Titan, blamed Tang San for injuring him and stealing the girl he liked, and begged his grandfather to intervene.

Titan investigated Tyrone’s weakened condition and accused Tang San of using fallen Soul Master techniques. He confronted Tang San at Shrek Academy and demanded to inspect his Soul Power, while Tang San hesitated under Titan’s pressure.

• Tyrone told Titan that Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass had drained his blood, vitality, and Soul Power, and Titan confirmed his severe weakness and a concealed evil aura.
• Titan blamed Shrek Academy for sheltering a fallen Soul Master and took Tyrone to confront Tang San.
• Tang San challenged Titan’s accusation, defended his actions in the duel, and tried to stall until Shrek’s teachers arrived.
• Titan refused Tang San’s proposed bet and demanded he release his martial soul for inspection.
• Titan accused Tang San of having a guilty conscience and moved to force the inspection.

Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer to stop Titan, exposing his identity as Tang Hao’s son. Titan recognized him as his master’s son and knelt before him, while Ning Fengzhi and the two Douluos discovered Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and debated what to do.

• Tang San summoned his Clear Sky Hammer to block Titan’s attack when he could no longer hide his second martial soul.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Bone Douluo Gu Rong recognized the Clear Sky Hammer and realized Tang San was likely Tang Hao’s son.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong identified the pink-clad girl behind Tang San as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form.
• Ning Fengzhi weighed the chance to claim the soul beast against the danger of provoking Tang San and Tang Hao.
• Titan recognized Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer, asked who his father was, and learned that Tang San was Tang Hao’s son.
• Titan dropped to his knees before Tang San and ordered Tyrone to kneel as well.

Titan recognized Tang San as his master's son and knelt, proclaiming him the Strength Clan's Young Master. Ning Fengzhi arrived and introduced himself as Ning Rongrong's father before leaving to give Titan and Tang San privacy, and the two went inside to discuss the matter.

• Titan knelt before Tang San and declared him the Strength Clan's Young Master.
• Ning Fengzhi arrived with the Sword and Bone Douluo and tried to intervene, but Titan said Tang San was his master's son.
• Ning Fengzhi introduced himself to Tang San as Ning Rongrong's father and praised his abilities.
• Ning Fengzhi left to find Ning Rongrong, promising to speak with Tang San later.
• Tang San took Titan into the dormitory to talk privately and asked Xiao Wu to wait outside.

Huang Tian absorbed the Mountain Dragon King's power, helped Qian Xunji bury the dragon remains, and left Dragon Valley with him for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. At Shrek Academy, Tai Tan refused to reveal Tang San's father's identity, then questioned Tang San about his Blue Silver Grass draining Tyrone's vitality and Soul Power.

• Huang Tian sensed that light, darkness, and earth energies had formed a stable cycle within her after absorbing the Mountain Dragon King's power.
• Huang Tian unearthed more than a dozen Divine Level Dragon Clan Spirit Bones and gave them to Qian Xunji.
• Huang Tian and Qian Xunji spent nearly three days burying the Dragon Clan remains beneath the earth.
• Huang Tian and Qian Xunji left Dragon Valley and headed for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Tang San asked Tai Tan about his father's identity and past, but Tai Tan said he would not reveal anything his master had kept secret.
• Tai Tan asked Tang San why his Blue Silver Grass had drained Tyrone's vitality and Soul Power.

Tang San tricked Titan into letting him drain his Bloodline Power and Soul Power, becoming exhilarated by the strength he gained. Outside the dormitory, Xiao Wu explained what had happened to the arriving Shrek Academy teachers, and Yu Xiaogang connected Titan and the Strength Clan to Tang San’s father, Tang Hao.

• Tang San claimed his devouring ability was a secret art and persuaded Titan to cut himself and lower his defenses.
• Titan willingly let Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass drain his Bloodline Power and Soul Power, while Tang San’s cultivation surged and his restraint gave way to greed.
• Outside the dormitory, Xiao Wu questioned Tyrone about why Titan had called Tang San Young Master, but Tyrone could not explain.
• Liu Erlong, Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Zhao Wuji arrived, and Xiao Wu recounted the confrontation and Titan’s submission.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized that the Strength Clan had served the Clear Sky Sect and that Tang San’s father, Tang Hao, had been its outstanding successor.

Tang San emerged from a private meeting with Titan looking stronger, and Yu Xiaogang suspected he had discovered a forbidden way to increase strength. At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Qian Xunji told the Dragon Kings that he and Huang Tian had found the Mountain Dragon King's remnant soul and buried the dragon ancestors' remains.

• Tang San emerged after a shichen with Titan, who looked pale and depleted, while Tang San appeared invigorated.
• Liu Erlong secretly sensed that Tang San had reached level forty-six, and Yu Xiaogang suspected a forbidden technique had raised his strength.
• Yu Xiaogang resolved to obtain Tang San's secret, believing it could help him overcome his own level-twenty-nine limit.
• Qian Xunji and Huang Tian entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and told the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings that they had found the Mountain Dragon King's remnant soul in the dragon clan's graveyard.
• Qian Xunji said the graveyard held mountains of dragon bones and no other life, then explained that they had buried the remains before leaving.