Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao’s Mental Probe expanded across Martial Soul Academy as he continued training under Shen Zhou. Xu Jiujiu visited with congratulations from the Star Luo Empire and asked Shen Zhou about his intentions; he explained that he wanted to make Martial Soul Awakening fairer, and she left asking how he would respond to trouble.

• Huo Yuhao told Shen Zhou that his Mental Probe could detect two visitors approaching Martial Soul Academy.
• Shen Zhou recognized the visitors as Xu Jiujiu and her Protector Douluo, Cheng Gang, and welcomed them to the academy.
• Xu Jiujiu presented the Star Luo Empire’s gift and asked Shen Zhou what he personally intended to do.
• Shen Zhou said he had built Martial Soul Academy to restore fair access to Martial Soul Awakening for commoners.
• Xu Jiujiu prepared to leave and asked Shen Zhou what he planned to do if someone made trouble for him.

After Martial Soul Academy’s victory over Shrek, the empires responded with gifts and plans to seek cooperation while weighing the risks of taking sides. Shen Zhou and Qian Daoliu concluded that Shrek’s decline was too deep to reverse, even if Mu En had bought time with the pact.

• Shen Zhou told Xu Jiujiu that only worthy powers could become his enemies, then teased Cheng Gang by inviting him to spar with White Emperor.
• Dai Hao told Dai Yueheng he no longer needed to hate or fear Yu Hao and urged him to return to Shrek and cultivate.
• Xu Tiande ordered an envoy to offer Martial Soul Academy gifts and discuss jointly establishing schools for commoner Soul Masters.
• Li Yelan ordered a lavish gift sent to Martial Soul Academy but cautioned against appearing too eager because Shrek remained a potential concern.
• Shen Zhou asked Qian Daoliu whether Mu En had admitted defeat or was buying time, and Qian Daoliu said Shrek’s long decline could not be stopped.

Shen Zhou and Qian Daoliu reflected on the continent’s transformation while Mu En’s grief marked the collapse of Shrek’s long-standing glory. At the Holy Spirit Cult, Zhongli Wu learned of Qian Daoliu’s power and Shen Zhou’s unusual Soul Rings, and the cult began considering the threat they posed.

• Shen Zhou and Qian Daoliu discussed how history might judge them as they watched the continent from the Spirit Pagoda.
• Mu En worried that Xuan Zi would not return before he died, then fell asleep as a tear blurred his signature on the agreement.
• Zhongli Wu convened the Holy Spirit Cult’s leaders and reviewed a report on White Tiger City Martial Soul Academy and Shrek Academy.
• The report stated that Qian Daoliu had defeated Army Breaker Douluo and four others with one sword strike, and that Shen Zhou possessed two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and possibly Twin Martial Souls.
• Zhang Peng questioned whether Qian Daoliu truly had the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul, and Zhongli Wu pointed to the report as confirmation.

Zhongli Wu decided the Holy Spirit Cult would probe the newly opened Martial Soul Academy by sending its Holy Maiden there as a student. Wu Yun would secretly protect her, while Zhongli Wu took an interest in Shen Zhou’s disciple Huo Yuhao and his apparent Million-Year Soul Ring.

• Zhongli Wu discussed reports that Qian Daoliu had defeated five Titled Douluo with one sword strike and warned that Spirit Hall’s return threatened the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Feng Ling suggested using the Holy Maiden to investigate Martial Soul Academy under the cover of seeking an education.
• Zhongli Wu approved the plan and ordered someone to follow the Holy Maiden secretly.
• Wu Yun volunteered to protect the Holy Maiden and received Zhongli Wu’s approval.
• Zhang Peng reported that Huo Yuhao was Shen Zhou’s disciple and had a Colorless Soul Ring that appeared to be the embryonic form of a Million-Year Soul Ring, exciting Zhongli Wu.

Zhongli Wu ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to stir up conflict across the continent while secretly probing the Martial Soul Academy. Wu Yun Douluo and the Blood Maiden set out aboard the Dark Crow, leaving the Blood Maiden to learn of Qian Daoliu’s strength as they traveled toward White Tiger City.

• Zhongli Wu decided the cult would leave Huo Yuhao alone for now and ordered his followers to investigate the Martial Soul Academy and foment conflict among the empires and righteous sects.
• Zhongli Wu sent Wu Yun Douluo and the Holy Maiden to the Martial Soul Academy under the cover of her studying, stressing that her safety and their secrecy were essential.
• Wu Yun Douluo prepared the Dark Crow, a concealed flying Soul Tool, for the journey from the Evil Demon Forest to White Tiger City.
• The Blood Maiden asked Wu Yun Douluo whether she was truly going to school, and he told her she was meant to probe the academy’s strength, attitude, and weaknesses.
• As the Dark Crow crossed the clouds, Wu Yun Douluo told the Blood Maiden about Shen Zhou, Qian Daoliu, and Qian Daoliu’s killing of Xuan Zi.

Blood Maiden traveled with Wu Yun Douluo to White Tiger City and approached Martial Soul Academy under the false identity of a commoner named Xue'er. She asked Yu Mengdi whether the academy accepted commoner students for free, while Yu Mengdi noticed something unusual in her eyes.

• Wu Yun Douluo told Blood Maiden that the Holy Spirit Cult would not fear discovery and continued the journey aboard the Dark Crow.
• The Dark Crow crossed the sea to Douluo Continent and landed outside White Tiger City to avoid alerting the city's powerful defenders.
• Wu Yun Douluo disguised Blood Maiden as Xue'er, a poor twelve-year-old Soul Master, and warned her not to reveal her Martial Soul or use soul skills.
• Blood Maiden entered Martial Soul Academy and asked Yu Mengdi if commoner students could study there for free.
• Yu Mengdi examined Blood Maiden and frowned when she noticed faint dark-red specks in the girl's black pupils.

Blood Maiden infiltrated Martial Soul Academy under the identity of Xue’er, but Shen Zhou saw through her disguise and recognized her as an Evil Soul Master from the Holy Spirit Cult. He let her stay while keeping watch for the powerful enemy hiding outside the city.

• Blood Maiden claimed her Martial Soul was a mutated Blood Pupil and asked Yu Mengdi to take her to the Dean.
• Shen Zhou used his Heavenly Eye to identify Blood Maiden as a Holy Spirit Cult member with the Blood Soul Demon Puppet Martial Soul, but invited her to enroll.
• Shen Zhou arranged for Blood Maiden to stay at the academy and cultivate with Yu Hao while she pretended to be grateful.
• Shen Zhou told Qian Daoliu that a Super Douluo from the Holy Spirit Cult was hiding nearby and said he would fight if the enemy attacked.
• Wu Yun Douluo watched the academy from a mountain and assured his subordinate that Blood Maiden’s disguise was secure.

Wu Yun Douluo infiltrated Martial Soul Academy to investigate it but was discovered by Qian Daoliu, who confronted him. After learning that the Holy Maiden would be left unharmed as long as she behaved, Wu Yun Douluo accepted his fate and left without learning whether Qian Daoliu would kill him.

• Wu Yun Douluo decided to investigate Martial Soul Academy that night and told his followers to report to the Cult Master if he had not returned by dawn.
• Wu Yun Douluo slipped past the academy's detection formation, crossed a bamboo grove, and saw the spirit plants and extraordinary seven-story tower by the lake.
• Qian Daoliu confronted Wu Yun Douluo and explained that he had sensed the evil aura leaking from Wu Yun's Martial Soul.
• Wu Yun Douluo admitted he was an Offering Elder of the Holy Spirit Cult and said he had come to see what the academy was like.
• Wu Yun Douluo asked how Qian Daoliu would treat the Holy Maiden, and Qian Daoliu said she would be safe unless she did anything excessive.
• Wu Yun Douluo started toward the wall, then asked Qian Daoliu whether he intended to kill him.

Wu Yun Douluo returned from Martial Soul Academy after Qian Daoliu warned him that the Holy Spirit Cult could not afford to provoke the academy. At the cult’s headquarters, Zhongli Wu acknowledged the academy’s strength, while Zhang Peng objected to retreating without a response.

• Qian Daoliu told Shen Zhou he had released Wu Yun Douluo because the Holy Spirit Cult would send another scout if he killed him.
• Wu Yun Douluo told his attendants that Qian Daoliu had foreseen his arrival and promised the Holy Maiden would remain safe if she did nothing excessive.
• Wu Yun Douluo reported his encounter to Zhongli Wu and admitted that Qian Daoliu could kill him with a single strike.
• Zhongli Wu told the elders that Martial Soul Academy’s strength made a direct confrontation unwise for now.
• Zhang Peng challenged the idea of backing down and asked whether the Holy Spirit Cult would accept the humiliation.

Zhongli Wu ordered the Holy Maiden to seek out Martial Soul Academy’s weaknesses and sent Wu Yun Douluo to deliver a proposal for cooperation to Qian Daoliu. At the academy, Blood Maiden grew closer to Huo Yuhao, while Wu Yun Douluo waited until night to approach the school with the letter.

• Zhongli Wu told Feng Ling that the Holy Maiden must find Qian Daoliu’s and Martial Soul Academy’s weaknesses, despite the danger.
• Zhongli Wu gave Wu Yun Douluo a letter for Qian Daoliu proposing that they discuss cooperation.
• Blood Maiden asked Huo Yuhao about Shen Zhou and Qian Daoliu as they walked by the lake, and she reflected on how kindly people at Martial Soul Academy treated her.
• Huo Yuhao said he wanted to become stronger to protect those who needed protection, and Blood Maiden told him he was the best person she had ever met.
• Wu Yun Douluo waited until night on the Desolate Mountain, then set off toward Martial Soul Academy with Zhongli Wu’s letter.

Qian Daoliu rejected the Holy Spirit Cult’s offer of cooperation and warned Zhongli Wu not to threaten Martial Soul Academy. At dawn, Shen Zhou noticed Huo Yuhao’s Mental Probe was expanding unusually quickly and realized the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was nourishing his spiritual power.

• Wu Yun Douluo delivered Zhongli Wu’s letter to Qian Daoliu, who refused cooperation and warned that he would destroy the Holy Spirit Cult if it harmed anyone from Martial Soul Academy.
• Zhongli Wu interpreted Qian Daoliu’s refusal as disdain and ordered Wu Yun Douluo to keep the Holy Maiden at Martial Soul Academy to uncover its secrets.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Probe to sense beyond the academy and distinguish a hundred-year Soul Beast from an ordinary ox.
• Shen Zhou questioned Huo Yuhao about his rapid spiritual growth, examined him with his Heavenly Eye, and recognized the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s influence.

Shen Zhou continued teaching Huo Yuhao and helped Blood Maiden improve her cultivation by sending her to the Body Tempering Pool. The chapter ended with Shen Zhou and Qian Daoliu debating whether Blood Maiden had truly begun to see the academy as home or was still disguising her intentions.

• Shen Zhou confirmed that Huo Yuhao's Colorless Soul Ring nourished his spiritual power and told him to continue cultivating.
• Yu Mengdi told Shen Zhou that her fifth Soul Ring had stabilized and that Qian Daoliu had advised her to prepare for a ten-thousand-year sixth Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao reported that his Mental Probe had detected an ox cart, three farmers, and two oxen outside the academy.
• Shen Zhou gave Blood Maiden a Body Tempering Pool voucher, and Yu Mengdi took her to the pool, where she endured the treatment and felt stronger afterward.
• Shen Zhou and Qian Daoliu discussed whether Blood Maiden genuinely considered the academy home or was disguising herself, and agreed to protect the children there.

Blood Maiden could not find any weakness in Martial Soul Academy, Qian Daoliu, or Shen Zhou. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao’s spiritual abilities advanced rapidly under Shen Zhou’s guidance, and the chapter ended with Er Ha begging for food again.

• Blood Maiden stared at the moon with the Black Jade Pendant and found no weakness in Martial Soul Academy, Qian Daoliu, or Shen Zhou.
• Huo Yuhao sensed activity beyond the academy and detected a crying child through emotional fluctuations.
• Shen Zhou guided Huo Yuhao to focus his Mental Probe, and Huo Yuhao sensed the direction of Shen Zhou’s Soul Power circulation.
• Shen Zhou set Huo Yuhao a goal of stabilizing his Mental Probe beyond the academy and told Yu Mengdi that Titled Douluo was the minimum he expected for Huo Yuhao.
• Er Ha waited outside the kitchen, smelled the food, and shouted that he was hungry.

Huo Yuhao cultivated his Mental Probe and joined Tang Ya and Bei Bei for breakfast, while they planned afternoon sparring with Blood Maiden. Blood Maiden agreed to come, and Shen Zhou and Qian Daoliu watched the sunset over White Tiger City from the Spirit Pagoda.

• Er Ha ate breakfast with Yu Mengdi and exaggerated his past exploits in the Star Dou Great Forest before admitting he had only scared away a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Probe to sense the academy's surroundings, then ate breakfast and agreed to spar with Tang Ya that afternoon.
• Tang Ya and Bei Bei discussed their extended stay at Martial Soul Academy, where the food, Body Tempering Pool, and Spirit Pagoda had accelerated their cultivation.
• Tang Ya invited Blood Maiden to the afternoon sparring session, and Blood Maiden agreed to go.
• Shen Zhou and Qian Daoliu watched evening fall over White Tiger City from the top floor of the Spirit Pagoda.

Shen Zhou and Qian Daoliu decided to keep Blood Maiden at Martial Soul Academy, while reflecting on how Yu Hao had changed them and their hopes for the academy’s future. Blood Maiden struggled with her growing affection for Yu Hao as Zhongli Wu vowed to retaliate against the academy.

• Shen Zhou and Qian Daoliu discussed Blood Maiden’s growing attachment to Yu Hao and Meng Di, then agreed to keep her at the academy unless she acted against them.
• Shen Zhou and Qian Daoliu reflected on how taking Yu Hao as a disciple had changed them and discussed whether their efforts would matter in the future.
• Blood Maiden remembered Yu Hao praising her and giving her a handkerchief, then struggled to suppress her growing feelings for him despite her mission for the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Zhongli Wu sat beneath the Death God Statue at the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters and vowed to make Qian Daoliu, Shen Zhou, and Martial Soul Academy pay.

Qian Daoliu revealed an ancient Soul Core cultivation method to the Offering Elders and explained how the Spirit Pagoda could help them condense Soul Cores. He demonstrated a golden light growing from within his palm, leaving the elders waiting to see whether he had successfully cultivated one.

• Qian Daoliu gathered the Offering Elders in the Spirit Pagoda’s Worship Hall to discuss what lay beyond the Titled Douluo rank.
• Qian Daoliu showed them an ancient cultivation method from the Angel God's inheritance and explained that Soul Cores could generate Soul Power continuously.
• Shen Zhou explained that the Spirit Pagoda's dense origin power and runes could help Soul Masters cultivate Soul Cores.
• Qian Daoliu raised his hand, and golden light grew from within his palm as Guangling Douluo asked whether he could cultivate a Soul Core.

Qian Daoliu taught the Offering Elders to cultivate Soul Cores, revealing how much they improved his strength and recovery. Shen Zhou successfully condensed one, while Golden Crocodile Douluo began his attempt and the others’ chances remained uncertain.

• Qian Daoliu revealed that his Soul Core had increased his strength by thirty percent and his Soul Power recovery speed tenfold, then warned the Offering Elders not to rush their cultivation.
• Qian Daoliu spread the Spirit Pagoda’s Heaven and Earth Origin Power through the hall and instructed the elders to gather and compress it in their dantians.
• Shen Zhou used the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s spiritual power to condense a Soul Core, increasing his Soul Power’s purity and recovery speed.
• Qian Daoliu told Shen Zhou to nourish his unstable Soul Core for a month and explained that ancient Soul Masters could cultivate as many as seven.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo struggled to compress his Soul Core until Qian Daoliu advised him to guide it with spiritual power instead.
• Shen Zhou asked whether the other Offering Elders could cultivate Soul Cores, and Qian Daoliu said their chances depended on compatibility between their Martial Souls and souls.

The Offering Elders tested whether they could condense Soul Cores, with Golden Crocodile Douluo and Guangling Douluo succeeding while Azure Luan Douluo and Mighty Lion Douluo failed. Qian Daoliu realized Soul Cores offered a path toward level one hundred, and the elders left the peaceful Martial Soul Academy with renewed hopes for cultivation.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo condensed a small Soul Core, and Qian Daoliu told him to nourish it until it stabilized.
• Guangling Douluo also condensed an ice-attributed Soul Core, and Qian Daoliu said he could later attempt one with the light attribute.
• Azure Luan Douluo and Mighty Lion Douluo failed to condense Soul Cores, so Shen Zhou advised Mighty Lion Douluo to calm his Martial Soul and improve its compatibility with his soul.
• Qian Daoliu told the Offering Elders they had time to cultivate, and they left the Worship Hall for breakfast.
• Qian Daoliu recognized that Soul Cores had shown him a path to level one hundred and the domain of gods.
• Shen Zhou explained that Golden Crocodile Douluo's Soul Core would speed his cultivation, while Guangling Douluo examined a sturdier arrow formed from ice and light Soul Power.

Shen Zhou explained how Azure Luan Douluo could improve her Martial Soul compatibility through spiritual cultivation, while Qian Daoliu set the Offering Elders’ training plan and decided Blood Maiden could remain at Martial Soul Academy. The chapter ended with the elders considering whether Blood Maiden’s Martial Soul could be purified and she freed from the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Shen Zhou identified the conflict between Azure Luan Douluo’s wind-leaning soul and her Azure Luan Martial Soul’s wind and fire attributes, then advised her to guide it with spiritual power.
• Azure Luan Douluo chose cultivation over waiting and resolved to use her spiritual power to help her Martial Soul adapt.
• Er Ha claimed he had been taste-testing stolen Braised Pork as Yu Mengdi prepared breakfast.
• Qian Daoliu told the Offering Elders to consolidate their Soul Cores in the morning and take turns entering the Spirit Pagoda in the afternoon to improve their Soul Rings.
• Qian Daoliu ordered the elders not to harm Blood Maiden, and Shen Zhou suggested purifying her Martial Soul and freeing her from the Holy Spirit Cult.

Blood Maiden questioned her mission to find Martial Soul Academy’s weaknesses as its people continued to treat her kindly. After sparring with Huo Yuhao, she remained torn about her undercover role while Zhongli Wu waited at the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters.

• Blood Maiden decided Martial Soul Academy seemed to have no weakness beyond its kindness, then joined Huo Yuhao for cultivation practice.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Probe, Mental Interference, and Mental Shock to overcome Blood Maiden’s Blood Shadow Clone and knock her down during their spar.
• Blood Maiden asked how Huo Yuhao’s Mental Shock worked, and he explained that he could attack from several directions at once.
• Shen Zhou and Qian Daoliu discussed Blood Maiden’s corrupted Blood Soul Demon Puppet and agreed that purifying it required her willingness.
• Qian Daoliu invited Shen Zhou to cultivate, while Huo Yuhao and Blood Maiden continued sparring and Zhongli Wu waited beneath the Death God Statue.