Chapter Summaries

Lu Yu recruited Liu Erlong into the Three-One Sect and gave her the Yin Five Thunders method and an Infernal Delicate Apricot, while assembling and training the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team. After a month of instruction, the students had begun cultivating with the sect’s methods, and Dugu Yan’s martial soul had evolved.

• Liu Erlong asked to join the Three-One Sect so she could grow stronger and eventually kill the pair she hated, and Lu Yu accepted her on the condition that she sever all ties with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Lu Yu taught Liu Erlong the Yin Five Thunders and gave her an Infernal Delicate Apricot, warning her not to consume the poisonous herb until she met the method’s prerequisite.
• Three days later, Lu Yu took charge of the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team, whose members included Zhu Zhuyun, Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, the twin Shi Mo, and Ning Rongrong.
• Lu Yu assigned cultivation methods and treasures to the team; Dugu Yan’s martial soul had evolved into an ice-and-poison dual-attribute Jade Scale Snake, while Ye Lingling quickly began practicing the Reverse Birth Triple.
• Over the next month, Lu Yu instructed disciples at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and Blue Tyrant Academy to help them learn the Three-One Sect’s cultivation methods.

Lu Yu’s Three-One Sect grew rapidly after his demonstrations of Martial Soul evolution, and Dugu Bo’s evolved power established its reputation across the Heavenly Dou Empire. As Lu Yu set out to meet Moon Guan, he learned that Shrek Academy had come to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and went to investigate, where he encountered Zhu Zhuyun, Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and Ning Rongrong.

• Lu Yu nearly completed the Second-Tier Summoning God Talisman while Three-One Sect expanded to more than forty members and gained influence throughout the empire.
• Dugu Bo defeated three Title Douluos after his Martial Soul evolved into an Azure Poison Dragon, while Jade Flute Douluo joined Three-One Sect after evolving his Martial Soul and reaching Level 95.
• A chrysanthemum from Moon Guan trembled, signaling that Moon Guan had emerged from seclusion, and Lu Yu prepared to meet him in Sunset Forest.
• A Heaven Dou Royal Academy student reported that Shrek Academy members were attacking students at the mountain’s foot, and Lu Yu agreed to investigate.
• Lu Yu entered the academy with the student and met Zhu Zhuyun, Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and Ning Rongrong walking together.

Lu Yu brought Dugu Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, Zhu Zhuyun, and Ning Rongrong to the Dean's Office after they decided to confront Shrek Academy. There, Zhi Lin's pressure helped Tang San fully fuse with his Eight Spider Lances, just before Lu Yu entered the room.

• Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing said they wanted to settle scores with Tang San and Dai Mubai, while Zhu Zhuyun agreed to accompany Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong came along for fun.
• Lu Yu led the four girls toward the Dean's Office, where Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, Zhi Lin, Qin Ming, and Shrek Academy's teachers and students had gathered.
• Zhi Lin tested Tang San with concentrated Soul Power pressure, and Tang San eventually released his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and manifested the Eight Spider Lances.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed that Zhi Lin's test had completed Tang San's fusion with the External Soul Bone, leaving Zhi Lin regretful that he had missed the chance to seize it.
• Lu Yu entered the Dean's Office, drawing the attention of everyone present.

Lu Yu met the Shrek Academy group at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where tensions rose over Zhu Zhuqing’s allegiance, Ning Rongrong’s confrontation with Oscar, and Xiao Wu’s insult to the Three-One Sect. Yu Xiaogang tried to lead Shrek away, but Lu Yu stopped them.

• Meng Shenji welcomed Lu Yu, who noticed Tang San had an Eight Spider Lances soul bone and then took a seat with his companions.
• Ma Hongjun muttered that Meng Shenji was a snob, and Dai Mubai questioned Lu Yu before Zhu Zhuqing declared she would follow the Three-One Sect’s sect master wherever he went.
• Ning Rongrong threatened Oscar for staring at her, and Tang San tried to smooth things over with a compliment.
• Xiao Wu insulted the Three-One Sect, prompting Lu Yu to challenge Shrek Academy’s way of teaching its students, while Flender defended the academy.
• Yu Xiaogang, resentful of Lu Yu’s success, announced that Shrek Academy would leave, but Lu Yu ordered them to stop.

Lu Yu used his Crown Prince Token to keep Shrek Academy from leaving without addressing its students’ insults, while Ning Fengzhi and Dugu Bo arrived and shifted the balance against Flender’s group. After Flender apologized to the Three-One Sect, Lu Yu challenged Shrek Academy to compare its students with the Three-One Sect’s younger generation.

• Yu Xiaogang tried to pressure Lu Yu by invoking their past ties and Heaven Dou Royal Academy, but Lu Yu showed the Crown Prince Token and Meng Shenji declined to interfere in the dispute.
• Ning Fengzhi arrived with Chen Xin, and Ning Rongrong accused Oscar and Xiao Wu of disrespecting her; Ning Fengzhi rebuked Flender and his students.
• Tang San apologized to Ning Fengzhi on Xiao Wu’s behalf, while Lu Yu recognized the danger that Chen Xin might detect Xiao Wu’s soul-beast aura.
• Dugu Bo arrived and clashed verbally with Chen Xin, making Shrek Academy’s position more precarious.
• Flender apologized to the Three-One Sect for his students’ disrespect, and Lu Yu challenged Shrek Academy to compare its students with the Three-One Sect’s younger generation.

Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing challenged Tang San and Dai Mubai, then withdrew after gaining the upper hand as Lu Yu ended the spar. Lu Yu later went to Blue Tyrant Academy, where Liu Erlong had returned and Shrek Academy arrived seeking admission, forcing her to face her past with Flender.

• Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing challenged Tang San and Dai Mubai to a spar outside Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Ning Fengzhi stayed behind to discuss the Three-One Sect’s Martial Soul Evolution opportunity while Lu Yu left to watch the fight.
• Dugu Yan’s poison pressured Tang San, and Zhu Zhuqing’s speed and claws wounded Dai Mubai until Lu Yu called off the spar.
• Yu Xiaogang led Shrek Academy away after Lu Yu asked whether he regretted his choices, but Yu Xiaogang did not answer.
• Lu Yu arrived at Blue Tyrant Academy and found that Liu Erlong had returned without beginning to cultivate Yin Five Thunders.
• When Yin Shu reported that Flender and Shrek Academy had come to seek admission, Liu Erlong agreed to meet them, and Lu Yu warned her to overcome her past if she wished to surpass Bibi Dong.

Liu Erlong staged an intimate display with the black-robed Lu Yu to drive Yu Xiaogang and the Shrek Academy group away from Blue Tyrant Academy. The act left Liu Erlong curious about Lu Yu’s real age and appearance.

• Moon Guan returned to Blue Tyrant Academy after advancing to Level 97 and improving his martial soul.
• Flender brought the Shrek Academy teachers and students to join Blue Tyrant Academy, but Liu Erlong initially stayed inside.
• Yu Xiaogang tried to leave when Liu Erlong appeared, but Flender stopped him as Lu Yu joined her in the courtyard.
• Liu Erlong pretended to be intimate with Lu Yu, insulted Yu Xiaogang, and ordered Yin Shu to see the Shrek group out.
• Liu Erlong felt Lu Yu’s smooth, youthful hand beneath his robes and wondered whether his aged voice was a disguise.

Lu Yu drove Shrek Academy away from Blue Tyrant Academy, then agreed to Liu Erlong’s plan to rename it Three-One Academy and bind it to the Three-One Sect. Shrek found every major academy in Heaven Dou City unwilling to accept them, while Lu Yu received Bai Chenxiang and her family at the newly renamed academy.

• Moon Guan released his Soul Power pressure, forcing the Shrek Seven Devils, Flender, and Zhao Wuji to retreat from Blue Tyrant Academy.
• After Yin Shu left, Liu Erlong proposed renaming Blue Tyrant Academy as Three-One Academy and making it an affiliated school of the Three-One Sect.
• Lu Yu agreed to support the academy and promised its top graduating student an opportunity for Martial Soul Evolution, while warning Liu Erlong that she had only two months to decide whether to cultivate Yin Five Thunders.
• Yu Xiaogang led Shrek Academy to the Five Great Elemental Academies, but each rejected them because they had offended the Three-One Sect; Flender and Yu Xiaogang decided to seek a third-rate academy instead.
• Liu Erlong replaced the academy’s signboard, officially renaming it Three-One Academy.
• Yin Shu brought Bai Chenxiang and her family to meet Lu Yu, who recognized Bai Chenxiang, Meng Yiran, and the Dragon Duke Snake Matriarch among the visitors.

Lu Yu accepted Meng Yiran into the Three-One Sect and made the Speed Clan an affiliated force, setting strict membership and loyalty terms. A powerful intruder attacked Liu Erlong at Three-One Academy, and Lu Yu recognized him as Tang Hao.

• Chao Tianxiang asked Lu Yu to let Meng Yiran join the Three-One Sect, and Lu Yu accepted her into the academy’s special training class and taught her the sect’s cultivation method.
• Bai He asked for the Speed Clan to become an affiliated force, and Lu Yu granted it yearly ordinary-member slots and a core-member slot every three years on the condition that it sever ties with the Clear Sky Sect and its other affiliated clans.
• Bai He used the core-member slot for Bai Chenxiang, and Lu Yu gave her a Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower while warning the clan against sending in people of poor character.
• Lu Yu, Moon Guan, and Bai He sensed a Title Douluo near the rear of the academy and went to investigate.
• Tang Hao attacked Liu Erlong with his killing domain, destroyed her courtyard, and forced her out of her Martial Soul Avatar state.
• Lu Yu appeared to shield Liu Erlong and recognized the black-robed attacker as Tang Hao.

Tang Hao confronted Lu Yu and Liu Erlong, but Moon Guan, Chen Xin, and Dugu Bo intervened to protect the Three-One Sect. Moon Guan wounded Tang Hao in a clash before Tang Hao escaped, leaving the gathered fighters stunned by Moon Guan’s strength.

• Tang Hao attacked Liu Erlong, but Moon Guan arrived and declared he would protect Lu Yu for ten years after temporarily leaving Spirit Hall.
• Chen Xin and Dugu Bo joined Moon Guan, while Bai He recognized Tang Hao as the man responsible for the Speed Clan’s downfall.
• Lu Yu realized the Death Domain and Divine Slaughter’s Domain seemed connected and decided he would visit Slaughter City.
• Chen Xin warned Tang Hao not to touch Lu Yu, and Tang Hao began to withdraw before Moon Guan attacked him with his ninth soul skill.
• Tang Hao countered with his Clear Sky Hammer, but Moon Guan wounded him, and Chen Xin dispersed the blast’s shockwave before Tang Hao fled.
• Lu Yu condensed two talismans and placed them upon himself.

Lu Yu declared the Three-One Sect’s enmity with the Clear Sky Sect after defeating Tang Hao, while Tang San swore revenge and Yu Xiaogang decided to seek help from Spirit Hall. Lu Yu examined a dossier on two unusual Shrek Academy members before Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin arrived to discuss Martial Soul Evolution.

• Lu Yu announced that the Three-One Sect would oppose the Clear Sky Sect, reassured Liu Erlong, and watched Bai He leave after promising to strengthen the Speed Clan’s combat ability.
• Tang San learned that Tang Hao had been defeated and vowed to become stronger and make Lu Yu pay, while the Shrek group pledged to defeat the Three-One Sect and Imperial Dou Second Team.
• Yu Xiaogang decided to approach a woman connected to Spirit Hall so the Shrek students could gain access to its resources, and Flender reluctantly accepted his choice.
• Lu Yu reviewed Ning Rongrong’s dossier on Mandala and Jiang Xiaoxiao, two powerful and unusual members of Shrek Academy.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin visited Lu Yu at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Lu Yu asked whether they had come for the opportunity of Martial Soul Evolution.

Lu Yu offered Ning Fengzhi a way to evolve the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and laid out terms for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to join the Three-One Sect as a subordinate force. Ning Fengzhi accepted, and Lu Yu brought out two immortal herbs.

• Ning Fengzhi asked Lu Yu whether he could help Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda Soul Masters surpass level eighty, and Lu Yu said he could evolve the Martial Soul into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Fengzhi offered to pay any price for Ning Rongrong's evolution and promised the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's support, but Lu Yu refused a simple deal because it would set a precedent.
• Ning Fengzhi proposed having Ning Rongrong join the Three-One Sect, but Lu Yu said he would not teach her its cultivation method.
• Lu Yu offered to evolve Ning Fengzhi's and Ning Rongrong's Martial Souls if the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect became subordinate to the Three-One Sect, with annual membership slots for its people.
• Lu Yu demonstrated that the Three-One Sect's cultivation method could give Soul Masters offensive abilities, and Ning Fengzhi agreed that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would follow the Three-One Sect's lead.
• Lu Yu took out a Nine Petal Immortal Orchid and an Aromatic Silk Beauty.

Lu Yu set goals for the coming Soul Master Competition while Hu Liena delayed approaching him to focus on her breakthrough. Yu Xiaogang was rejected by Bibi Dong, and Tang Hao took Tang San away to gain powerful new abilities and reach Level 46.

• Lu Yu reflected on the Three-One Sect’s arrangements and set goals to perfect the Thunder Arts, comprehend the Summoning God Talisman’s second layer, and reach Level 50 before the competition.
• Ghostly urged Hu Liena to approach Lu Yu, but she said she was close to breaking through Level 50 and intended to bind Lu Yu to Spirit Hall later.
• Yu Xiaogang brought his Elder Token to Bibi Dong and offered to join Spirit Hall, but she rejected him, expelled him from the Pope’s Palace, and demanded the token.
• Tang Hao took Tang San from Shrek Academy and told him about his mother; three days later, Tang San emerged at Level 43 after the Blue Silver King and the forest’s vegetation sacrificed their life essence.
• Tang Hao led Tang San to a waterfall cave, where Tang San obtained a 100,000-year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone and reached Level 46.

At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Lu Yu struggled to advance Reverse Birth Triple while Dugu Yan's seduction was interrupted by Ning Rongrong. Ye Lingling demonstrated that her Martial Soul could fuse with the technique, revealing how Lu Yu might break through its bottleneck.

• Lu Yu reached Level 49 but found that Reverse Birth Triple had stalled before completion of its second stage.
• Dugu Yan surprised Lu Yu by coming out of the bathroom, then knocked him onto a sofa and kissed him before Ning Rongrong walked in to watch.
• Ning Rongrong's presence embarrassed Dugu Yan and halted the encounter, so Lu Yu left the dormitory.
• Lu Yu learned that Ye Lingling had reached minor completion of Reverse Birth Triple's second stage and obtained a nine-thousand-year fourth soul ring.
• Ye Lingling showed Lu Yu that her Nine Heart Begonia fused with Reverse Birth Triple to create a protective veil that strengthened her defense and boosted her attributes by twenty percent.
• Lu Yu realized he needed to fuse Reverse Birth Triple with his Martial Soul and rushed off, leaving Ye Lingling to complain about his ruffling her hair.

Lu Yu and Liu Erlong slept together after she asked him to help her cultivate Yin Five Thunders, and he left her an Infernal Delicate Apricot and instructions for using it safely. Liu Erlong kept their encounter secret and arranged to summon Mr. Jin again for help.

• Lu Yu visited Three-One Academy, where Liu Erlong asked his age before telling him she wanted his help cultivating Yin Five Thunders.
• Liu Erlong pinned Lu Yu down and the two spent the night together in the wooden house and courtyard, with Lu Yu using a Mysterious Gate Talisman to conceal the forest.
• The next morning, Lu Yu left disguised as Mr. Jin after telling Liu Erlong to reach the beginner stage of Yin Five Thunders before consuming the Infernal Delicate Apricot.
• Liu Erlong tried to cultivate Yin Five Thunders, then appreciated the golden-red fruit Lu Yu had given her and sent Yin Shu to ask Sect Master Lu to bring Mr. Jin to her again.

Lu Yu perfected the Desolate Armor, advanced his talisman studies, and helped strengthen the academies preparing for the Soul Master Competition. He took Zhu Zhuyun to the Star Dou Great Forest, where she reached Level 60 through their dual cultivation, while Lu Yu remained at Level 50.

• Lu Yu fused the Heaven-Defying Seal’s energy with his body to form the Desolate Armor, then created a Second-Tier Summoning God Talisman.
• Lu Yu guided Liu Erlong in cultivating Yin Five Thunders and spent the following two months training and studying supreme talismans as both academies’ teams grew stronger.
• Lu Yu reached Level 50 after fully forming the Desolate Armor, while Ye Lingling reached Level 53 and Zhu Zhuyun reached Level 59.
• Lu Yu took Zhu Zhuyun to the Star Dou Great Forest to help her break through and obtain a sixth Soul Ring, choosing to search the middle region rather than enter the core region.
• Lu Yu used a Mysterious Gate Talisman to conceal their camp and practiced dual cultivation with Zhu Zhuyun, who broke through to Level 60, while his own Soul Power grew more solid.

Lu Yu and Zhu Zhuyun encountered Hu Liena and Ghostly in the Star Dou Great Forest, where Lu Yu refused Spirit Hall’s offer to recruit him. They later found Zhu Zhuyun a suitable soul ring, but after a month Lu Yu still had not chosen a target for his fifth ring.

• Hu Liena broke Lu Yu’s Mysterious Gate Talisman illusion and asked to join Lu Yu and Zhu Zhuyun while seeking her fifth soul ring.
• Lu Yu recognized Hu Liena as Xie Yue’s younger sister and called out Ghostly, who had been hiding nearby.
• Ghostly threatened Lu Yu with recruitment into Spirit Hall, but Lu Yu refused and warned him while holding a chrysanthemum; Hu Liena then departed with Ghostly.
• Lu Yu and Zhu Zhuyun searched the Star Dou Great Forest and found a mutated fifty-thousand-year Ghost Leopard suitable for Zhu Zhuyun’s soul ring.
• Lu Yu killed the Ghost Leopard with his fourth soul skill, Soul Suppressing Seal, which left the beast frozen for three seconds.
• A month passed, but Lu Yu still had not chosen a target for his fifth soul ring.

Lu Yu found the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger he had been seeking and entered its Life and Death Arena after it targeted him. Reverted to their six-year-old bodies, he overwhelmed the beast with talismans and martial techniques, then used a mysterious talisman whose effect left him drained.

• Lu Yu told Zhu Zhuyun that he was searching for a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, then sensed Ghostly fighting nearby and went to help him.
• Lu Yu found Ghostly battling a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger while Hu Liena hid nearby, and he recognized the beast as his intended soul-ring target.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger charged at Lu Yu and Hu Liena, so Lu Yu threw Hu Liena to safety and let the beast pull him into its Life and Death Arena.
• Lu Yu and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger reverted to their six-year-old selves, and Lu Yu used talismans and his physical strength to drive the beast into a corner.
• Lu Yu threw another talisman, then tried to restore his depleted qi and mental power with a Heaven and Earth Divine Talisman, but they were immediately drained again.

Lu Yu destroyed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s bead, escaped its spatial domain, and absorbed its roughly sixty-thousand-year soul ring to become a five-ring Soul King. As he left with Hu Liena warning him that he and the Three-One Sect had threatened many forces, she began to feel drawn to him.

• Lu Yu returned to the Star Dou Great Forest and used the Heaven-Defying Seal to shatter the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s bead before its black hole could swallow it.
• Hu Liena and Ghostly found Lu Yu, and he began absorbing the Tiger’s soul ring despite Ghostly’s warning about its age and strength.
• Lu Yu overcame the Tiger’s Soul Impact, while the Heaven-Defying Seal’s power eased the strain on his body and helped him complete the absorption.
• Lu Yu gained a fifth soul ring, a black ring, and Hu Liena realized he had become a twelve-year-old Five-Ring Soul King.
• Lu Yu said he was leaving to meet his friend, but Hu Liena stopped him and warned that he and the Three-One Sect had threatened many forces.

Lu Yu rejected Hu Liena’s offer to join Spirit Hall, returned from the Star Dou Forest with Zhu Zhuyun, and explored the powers of his new Reincarnation Seal and Desolate Armor. After returning to Heaven Dou Royal Academy to cultivate, Hu Liena went back to Spirit City with news for Bibi Dong.

• Hu Liena offered Lu Yu the position of Spirit Hall’s Holy Son and even proposed marriage, but he refused and left for the Soul Master Competition.
• Ghostly appeared beside Hu Liena, and she wondered why Lu Yu had rejected her despite her charm.
• Lu Yu returned to Zhu Zhuyun and told her he had killed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and absorbed his fifth soul ring, the Reincarnation Seal.
• On the way back, Lu Yu discovered that he could use several soul skills through the Desolate Armor, then delayed their return to Heaven Dou City until the next morning.
• Lu Yu announced he was entering seclusion at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and went to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to practice with the Desolate Armor.
• Hu Liena returned to Spirit City and told Bibi Dong she had two reasons for coming back.