Chapter Summaries

After Tang San was defeated by Zhou Tao again, he questioned whether Grandmaster’s theories had ruined his Blue Silver Grass and considered cultivating the Clear Sky Hammer instead. Grandmaster blamed Zhou Tao’s strength on Immortal Herbs, and Tang San accepted the explanation, though his trust had been shaken.

• Liu Erlong and Flender helped Grandmaster reach Tang San’s room, where Xiao Wu said Tang San had been locked inside for three days.
• Tang San considered abandoning Blue Silver Grass and cultivating the Clear Sky Hammer so he could defeat Zhou Tao.
• Grandmaster persuaded Tang San to open the door and asked what had left him so discouraged.
• Tang San told Grandmaster that Zhou Tao had defeated him again and questioned Grandmaster’s theories and claims about Zhou Tao’s future.
• Grandmaster blamed Zhou Tao’s advantage on Immortal Herbs, and Tang San accepted his explanation.

Big Master convinced Tang San that his Twin Martial Souls gave him a path to surpass Zhou Tao by saving the Clear Sky Hammer for powerful Spirit Rings. When Tang San demanded a way to win the Spirit Master Elite Tournament in a month, Big Master struggled to answer but seized on Tang San's suggestion of adding Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings.

• Tang San blamed Zhou Tao's advantage on Immortal Herbs and trusted Big Master's theories again.
• Big Master proposed that Tang San could use his Clear Sky Hammer to overcome Zhou Tao, since Zhou Tao apparently had no second Martial Soul.
• Tang San said he wanted to abandon Blue Silver Grass and cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer, but Big Master scolded him and explained that he should first build up his body with Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San became excited at the prospect of giving the Clear Sky Hammer Ten-Thousand-Year or even Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings, then remembered Zhou Tao's strength and asked how to defeat him in a month.
• Big Master struggled to offer a practical solution as Tang San pleaded for help, until Tang San suggested adding five Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings and Big Master warned him not to do it recklessly.

Big Master told Tang San that an External Soul Bone could help him cultivate his Twin Martial Souls, then went to Spirit Hall to ask Bibi Dong for her method. Bibi Dong revealed that she knew Tang San’s identity and exposed Big Master’s affair with Liu Erlong.

• Big Master warned Tang San that adding a Spirit Ring to the Clear Sky Hammer could make his body explode and claimed a Ten Thousand Year External Soul Bone could prevent the danger.
• Tang San praised Big Master and kowtowed to him, while Tang Hao watched from hiding and decided to keep exploiting Big Master’s connection to Bibi Dong.
• Big Master entered the Pope Palace and asked Bibi Dong to share how she had cultivated her Twin Martial Souls, promising Tang San would never oppose Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong recognized Tang San’s identity from his Blue Silver Grass and Clear Sky Hammer and challenged Big Master’s belief that she knew nothing about him.
• Big Master accused Bibi Dong of abandoning him for Qian Xunji, so Bibi Dong showed him an image-recording Soul Tool of his affair with Liu Erlong.

Bibi Dong confronted Big Master after Zhou Tao and Qian Renxue showed her footage of him with Liu Erlong, and she ordered a guard to slap him for threatening Spirit Hall. Zhou Tao realized Tang San might cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer, while Qian Renxue savored her revenge on Bibi Dong.

• Bibi Dong accused Big Master of deceiving and abandoning her, then ordered him to leave or she would harm Tang San.
• Big Master saw the footage of himself and Liu Erlong, but instead of admitting fault, he threatened to destroy Spirit Hall if anything happened to Tang San.
• Bibi Dong called Big Master a level 29 Soul Grandmaster and ordered a guard to slap him for an hour.
• Zhou Tao and Qian Renxue watched from the shadows, and Zhou Tao inferred that Tang San planned to cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Qian Renxue said that Big Master’s poor teaching would waste Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls and that watching Bibi Dong suffer brought her satisfaction.

Qian Renxue confided in Zhou Tao about Bibi Dong’s mistreatment and, encouraged to live for herself and seek justice, revealed that she was also Xue Qinghe. She declared that she would drive Bibi Dong from power and asked Zhou Tao to join her in dealing with Bibi Dong.

• Qian Renxue broke down in Zhou Tao’s arms and described how Bibi Dong had mistreated and persecuted her.
• Zhou Tao urged Qian Renxue to live for herself and seek revenge rather than forgive those who had wronged her.
• Qian Renxue resolved to stop living for Bibi Dong and claimed that she would eventually take the position of Spirit Hall Pope from her.
• Qian Renxue revealed that she had killed the real Xue Qinghe and secretly impersonated him for over a decade to help Spirit Hall take over the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Qian Renxue asked Zhou Tao to cooperate with her against Bibi Dong, citing his own grudges against Bibi Dong, the Tang Clan, and Xiao Gang.

Qian Renxue allied with Zhou Tao against Bibi Dong after learning the truth about her parents, and Qian Daoliu arrived to confront the fallout. He challenged Zhou Tao to test his strength, and Zhou Tao unleashed his battle forms and skills as their fight began.

• Qian Renxue offered Zhou Tao the Spirit-Gathering Wisdom Skull to secure his help in destroying Bibi Dong, and he accepted.
• Snake Lance Douluo told Qian Daoliu that Qian Renxue had learned about Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang and had given the tournament Spirit Bone to Zhou Tao.
• Qian Daoliu confronted Qian Renxue, who accused him of hiding the truth and said she trusted only Zhou Tao for now.
• Qian Daoliu challenged Zhou Tao, and the three traveled to a forest outside Spirit Hall.
• Zhou Tao activated his domains, avatar, armor, cannon, and Blue Silver Tyrant Emperor Spear to begin the battle.

Zhou Tao fought Qian Daoliu with his powerful Blue Silver skills, earning the elder’s respect but declining his offer to join Spirit Hall and marry his granddaughter. Qian Daoliu left Zhou Tao a valuable Spirit Bone and asked him to look after Xiao Xue, while Zhou Tao and Qian Renxue let Big Master go so he could mislead Tang San.

• Zhou Tao unleashed his Blue Silver Tyrant Emperor Spear and a dozen explosive Blue Silver Giant Dragons, blasting apart the forest and leaving Qian Daoliu disheveled.
• Qian Daoliu recognized Zhou Tao’s strength and offered him a place in the Worship Hall and a marriage to his granddaughter, but Zhou Tao declined and warned him about Bibi Dong’s secret dealings.
• Qian Daoliu left Zhou Tao a top-grade, over fifty-thousand-year-old Torso Bone and asked him to look after Xiao Xue before departing.
• Zhou Tao accepted the Spirit Bone, then saw Bibi Dong’s battered Big Master stumble out of Spirit Hall.
• Qian Renxue suggested killing Big Master, but Zhou Tao argued that letting him mislead Tang San would cause more damage.

Yu Xiaogang persuaded Tang San to give both his Clear Sky Hammer and Blue Silver Grass Earth-attribute Spirit Rings to counter Zhou Tao’s lightning, then took Tang San and Flender to hunt Soul Beasts. Meanwhile, Zhou Tao absorbed a Spirit Skull Bone and discovered he had gained powerful spiritual abilities.

• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that Bibi Dong had beaten and humiliated him, and warned him not to seek revenge yet.
• Yu Xiaogang convinced Tang San that Earth-attribute Spirit Rings could defend against Zhou Tao’s lightning and urged him to add them to both Martial Souls.
• Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Tang San set off for Sunset Forest to hunt Soul Beasts.
• Zhou Tao absorbed the Spirit Skull Bone while Qian Renxue waited nearby.
• Zhou Tao told Qian Renxue that the Spirit Skull Bone had strengthened his spiritual power and granted him the spiritual defense Spirit Skill Spirit Guard.

Zhou Tao demonstrated his Blue Silver Domain’s limitless spiritual defense and illusion skill to Qian Renxue. Meanwhile, Tang San and his teachers entered Sunset Forest to seek Spirit Bones, and the chapter ended with Flender condemning Tang San’s brutal slaughter of Soul Beasts.

• Zhou Tao explained that his Blue Silver Domain could turn Blue Silver Grass’s life force into spiritual power, Soul Power, and physical strength, making his spiritual defense effectively unbreakable.
• Zhou Tao trapped Qian Renxue in an illusion with his head Spirit Bone skill, Myriad Illusions Return to Void, and then explained how it controlled her five senses.
• Flender led Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Xiao Wu into Sunset Forest, where Tang San planned to gain strength by adding Spirit Rings to his Clear Sky Hammer and to find Spirit Bones for his teammates.
• Tang San persuaded Yu Xiaogang to help slaughter Ten-Thousand-Year Man Faced Demon Spiders for Spirit Bones, and the group ravaged Sunset Forest over several days.
• Flender found Tang San torturing a Man Faced Demon Spider and rebuked him for endangering Soul Beasts and future Spirit Masters, but Tang San showed no remorse.

Tang San slaughtered Soul Beasts for Spirit Bones and Spirit Rings, rejecting Flender’s warnings about the danger to the balance between Spirit Masters and Soul Beasts. After absorbing six earth-element Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings into each Martial Soul, he believed his reinforced Clear Sky Hammer and Blue Silver Grass could help him defeat Zhou Tao.

• Tang San defended his indiscriminate Soul Beast killings, and Flender condemned him and threatened to sever Shrek Academy’s ties with him.
• Grandmaster and Liu Erlong persuaded Flender to leave, while Liu Erlong brought dying defensive Soul Beasts to Tang San for him to absorb.
• Several days later, Tang San had gained six earth-element Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings on his Clear Sky Hammer and Blue Silver Grass, making both Martial Souls exceptionally tough.
• Tang San told Big Master he believed his reinforced Clear Sky Hammer could withstand Heavenly Thunder and help him suppress Zhou Tao.
• Big Master urged Tang San to pursue ultimate defense, and Tang San looked forward to defeating Zhou Tao at the Spirit Master Tournament.

Tang Hao confronted Tang San over turning the Clear Sky Hammer toward defense, then attacked Yu Xiaogang after Yu Xiaogang tried to shift the blame. The chapter ended with Yu Xiaogang flung away by Tang Hao’s blow.

• Tang Hao arrived and punched Tang San, then demanded to know why his Clear Sky Hammer had defensive earth-attribute Spirit Rings.
• Tang San explained that he and Yu Xiaogang had chosen the defensive rings to counter Zhou Tao’s lightning power.
• Tang Hao blamed Yu Xiaogang, but Liu Erlong stepped in to protect him and was sent flying.
• Yu Xiaogang denied responsibility and blamed Tang San, prompting Tang San to accuse him of lying and shirking responsibility.
• Yu Xiaogang blamed Tang San again, and Tang Hao struck him, sending him flying over a hundred meters.

Tang Hao beat Yu Xiaogang for his failure to teach Tang San, but spared him after Yu Xiaogang claimed Bibi Dong had revealed a way to cultivate Twin Martial Souls. Yu Xiaogang survived by promising to make Tang San a Titled Douluo, while Liu Erlong renounced him after learning of his past with Bibi Dong.

• Tang Hao struck Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong tried to shield him before Yu Xiaogang begged Tang Hao for mercy.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed he knew how to cultivate Twin Martial Souls and could save Tang San's Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Hao beat Yu Xiaogang again, but stopped when Yu Xiaogang invoked Bibi Dong and explained his theory of using matching earth-attribute Soul Power.
• Tang Hao weighed killing Yu Xiaogang against risking Tang San's future, then ordered Yu Xiaogang to make Tang San a Titled Douluo.
• Liu Erlong confronted Yu Xiaogang over his past relationship with Bibi Dong and ended their relationship.

Liu Erlong left Yu Xiaogang after being injured, while Zhou Tao and the Imperial Fighting Team attended the opening ceremony of the Elite Continental Advanced Spirit Master Tournament. Zhou Tao clashed with Shrek Academy, arranged a matchup against them through Xue Qinghe, and watched Skywater Academy arrive.

• Liu Erlong left Yu Xiaogang in tears, and Yu Xiaogang could not stop her because of his injuries and Tang Hao's presence.
• Zhou Tao and the Imperial Fighting Team arrived at the tournament opening ceremony, where the crowd mocked Shrek Academy's uniforms and advertisements.
• Dugu Bo accused Tang San and Shrek Academy of stealing his herbs, and Zhou Tao traded taunts with Tang San before Flender ordered Tang San to stop.
• Zhou Tao asked Xue Qinghe to arrange a direct match against Shrek Academy, and Xue Qinghe agreed.
• Zhou Tao encouraged Shi Mo and Shi Mo to perform well against Skywater Academy, whose beautiful members drew cheers from the crowd.

At the tournament opening, Zhou Tao targeted Shi Nian’s Illusion Skull and secretly planted tracking seeds on Tang San, intending to keep the skull from reaching him. Shui Bing’er exchanged a smile with Zhou Tao, while the strengthened Shrek Team defeated the Imperial Fighting Team Second Squad and announced its championship ambitions.

• Zhou Tao noticed Shui Bing’er and the other Skywater girls as the teams entered, while spectators mocked Shrek’s uniforms and Canghui Academy’s Shi Nian traded insults with Tang San and Shrek.
• Zhou Tao resolved to take Shi Nian’s Illusion Skull for Ye Lingling or Ning Rongrong, and secretly planted Blue Silver Tree seeds on Tang San to track him as bait.
• Emperor Xue Ye opened the tournament, and Shui Bing’er smiled at Zhou Tao before Shui Yue’er teased her about liking him.
• The Imperial Fighting Team Second Squad faced Shrek in the preliminary matches, and Shrek defeated them easily.
• Tang San smugly declared that Shrek’s goal was the championship.

Tang San publicly vowed that Shrek would defeat every rival, then confronted Zhou Tao outside the venue and challenged him to meet in the finals. Zhou Tao mocked Tang San and exposed that Dai Mubai had become a eunuch, leaving the Shrek group stunned.

• Tang San declared that Shrek would defeat the Imperial Fighting Team, the Star Luo Team, and the Martial Soul Hall Team.
• Xue Ye grew angry at Shrek's boast, while Ning Fengzhi praised Zhou Tao and Salas argued that Spirit Hall's Golden Generation would win.
• Zhou Tao left the venue to cultivate, hoping to refine the Seed of Destruction before the finals and earn another God Trial reward.
• Tang San blocked Zhou Tao's path and vowed to crush him in the finals, but Zhou Tao dismissed him as a hopeless loser.
• Dai Mubai defended Shrek and confronted Zhou Tao, who mocked his condition and revealed that he had become a eunuch, shocking the others.

Zhou Tao exposed Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong’s relationship, then secretly followed Tang San and Shi Nian as Shi Nian trapped Tang San in an illusion. The chapter ended with Tang San using Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon to deduce Shi Nian’s real position after his crossbow bolts missed.

• Dai Mubai vowed revenge on Zhou Tao after Ma Hongjun realized that Dai Mubai had become a eunuch, but Tang San and Ma Hongjun stopped him from attacking.
• Zhou Tao intimidated the Shrek Team with his lightning power and publicly mocked Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong for being cousins who were involved with each other.
• Tang San defended Yu Xiaogang and condemned Zhou Tao, who left after predicting that Shrek would fail in the tournament.
• Zhou Tao followed Tang San using Blue Silver Grass seeds and watched as Shi Nian lured Tang San into a secluded park with his Nightmare Martial Soul.
• Shi Nian revealed his illusion and admitted that he intended to kill Tang San to improve Canghui Team’s chances in the preliminaries.
• Tang San fired his Zhuge Crossbow at Shi Nian, but the bolts struck only the illusion, so Tang San used Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon to locate Shi Nian’s real position.

Zhou Tao killed Shi Nian and gave the Illusion Wisdom Skull to Ye Lingling, while Tang San returned to Shrek Academy shaken and ready to quit. Yu Xiaogang urged him to stay and revealed Xiao Wu as a possible source of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, leaving Tang San to consider whether to target her.

• Zhou Tao used vines to kill Shi Nian, took the Illusion Wisdom Skull, and burned Shi Nian's body.
• Zhou Tao gave the Illusion Wisdom Skull to Ye Lingling, who accepted it after he said it suited her.
• Tang San returned to Shrek Academy and told Yu Xiaogang he wanted to give up after Shi Nian nearly killed him.
• Dai Mubai angrily challenged Tang San for wanting to abandon the tournament, while Yu Xiaogang insisted Shrek still had a chance.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring could help him surpass Zhou Tao and identified Xiao Wu as its source.
• Tang San hesitated when Yu Xiaogang suggested making a move against Xiao Wu.

Tang San decided to manipulate Xiao Wu into helping him obtain a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring and Spirit Bone so he could defeat Zhou Tao. Xiao Wu led Tang San toward the Star Dou Great Forest, unaware that Tang Hao and Zhou Tao were following their plans.

• Yu Xiaogang urged Tang San to use Xiao Wu for her value and asked him to find a way to restore his manhood.
• Tang San used his despair over Zhou Tao to make Xiao Wu offer to bring him to a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Xiao Wu resolved to sacrifice Da Ming and Xiao Ming for Tang San and promised she could also help Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang Hao followed Xiao Wu and Tang San, pleased that Tang San had learned his way of exploiting Soul Beasts.
• Zhou Tao learned of their destination through the Blue Silver Tree Seed attached to Tang San and prepared to foil their plan.

Zhou Tao and Dugu Bo ambushed Xiao Wu in the Star Dou Great Forest and forced her to summon Er Ming, demanding that the Titan Giant Ape sacrifice itself to save her. Er Ming gave up its life, and Zhou Tao absorbed its Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring and left leg bone, reaching level 75 and gaining new abilities.

• Zhou Tao recruited Dugu Bo to help him seize a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring and followed Tang San and Xiao Wu to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Zhou Tao trapped Xiao Wu and threatened to reveal her identity unless she led him to Da Ming and Er Ming and made them sacrifice themselves.
• Xiao Wu summoned Er Ming and told him the captors would spare her if he gave up his life.
• Er Ming sacrificed himself to protect Xiao Wu, and Zhou Tao absorbed his Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring and left leg bone.
• Zhou Tao reached level 75 and gained the Titan Hammer and Earth Power Spirit Skills, along with Titan Sky Break and Gravity Swamp from the spirit bone.

After obtaining Da Ming’s Spirit Ring and Spirit Bone, Zhou Tao and Dugu Bo brought Xiao Wu to find Tang San, where she overheard Tang San and Yu Xiaogang admitting they had used her. Xiao Wu broke with Tang San, escaped, and sought Zhou Tao’s help to take revenge.

• Zhou Tao gained Blue Silver Grass’s eighth Spirit Ring from Da Ming and gave Da Ming’s Sky Azure Right Arm Bone to Dugu Bo.
• Xiao Wu overheard Tang San tell Yu Xiaogang that he had manipulated her for her Spirit Ring and Spirit Bone, and Yu Xiaogang praised his scheme.
• Xiao Wu denounced Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, ended her relationship with Tang San, and fled into the forest.
• Tang Hao stopped Tang San and Yu Xiaogang from pursuing Xiao Wu because Zhou Tao and Dugu Bo were protecting her, then proposed seeking another Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Xiao Wu asked Zhou Tao to help her kill Tang San, blaming Tang San’s deception for Da Ming and Er Ming’s deaths.