Chapter Summaries

Ling Yu and Gu Yuena were admitted to Shrek after revealing their extraordinary soul rings, and Ning Rongrong joined them as another talented recruit. They met Zhao Wuji for the final test, where Dai Mubai unexpectedly asked him to make the challenge last two incense sticks.

• The old man admitted Ling Yu and Gu Yuena to Shrek after seeing their soul rings and ordered Dai Mubai to take them to the final test.
• Ning Rongrong displayed her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul and was admitted as well.
• Dai Mubai introduced Shrek’s small student body and faculty as he led Ling Yu, Gu Yuena, and Ning Rongrong toward the testing field.
• Ling Yu, Gu Yuena, Ning Rongrong, and Dai Mubai introduced themselves, and Ning Rongrong asked Ling Yu how he could withstand a thousand-year first soul ring.
• Dai Mubai explained that Zhao Wuji would oversee the final test, and Zhao Wuji said they had to last one incense stick against him.
• Dai Mubai asked Zhao Wuji to use two incense sticks instead, leaving Zhao Wuji baffled.

Ling Yu, Na'er, and Ning Rongrong began their trial battle against Zhao Wuji, a powerful Soul Sage, with Ning Rongrong boosting the fighters and Ling Yu landing a crushing opening blow. Na'er’s spear assault broke Zhao Wuji’s first soul skill, and Ling Yu blocked his counterattack with an earth wall, leaving the others wondering whether Ling Yu’s martial soul controlled earth.

• Dai Mubai explained Zhao Wuji’s strength and martial soul, while Ning Rongrong recalled his past escape from Spirit Hall pursuers.
• Ling Yu assigned Ning Rongrong to support them and Na'er to attack alongside him, and Zhao Wuji set the conditions for their trial.
• Ning Rongrong enhanced Ling Yu and Na'er, and Ling Yu struck Zhao Wuji with Eight Extremities—Crushing Fist, sending him flying into a crater.
• Na'er used her soul skills to unleash fifteen spear phantoms, which shattered Zhao Wuji’s Immovable Wisdom King Body.
• Zhao Wuji counterattacked Na'er with his second soul skill, but Ling Yu raised an Earth-Style Wall to give her time to retreat.
• The onlookers saw Ling Yu’s Three-Tomoe Sharingan and wondered whether his martial soul controlled earth.

Ling Yu used ninjutsu and clever decoys to outmaneuver Zhao Wuji, forcing the Soul Sage to use his Martial Soul Avatar before the test ended. Ling Yu then challenged Zhao Wuji to a spar, and Zhao Wuji accepted.

• Zhao Wuji targeted Ning Rongrong, but Ling Yu rescued her with a substitution and clones before trapping Zhao Wuji in a water sphere and striking him with lightning.
• Zhao Wuji used Gravity Enhancement and Position Tracking, but Ling Yu escaped the tracking attack with Earth Flow River and trapped him in a swamp.
• Ling Yu attacked Zhao Wuji with Dragon Flame Song Jutsu, prompting Zhao Wuji to transform with his Martial Soul Avatar and disperse the fire dragons.
• Zhao Wuji conceded the test, and Ling Yu asked to continue with a spar; Zhao Wuji accepted.

Ling Yu fought Zhao Wuji, using his powerful Soul Skills and techniques to overcome Zhao Wuji’s defenses and destroy the surrounding houses. After the battle, Zhao Wuji praised Ling Yu’s strength and recovered with Oscar’s sausages, while Na'er realized how harshly Ling Yu had lived in the Labyrinth Grand Canyon.

• Oscar arrived and Dai Mubai introduced Ning Rongrong and Na'er, warning him that Ling Yu was Zhao Wuji’s formidable opponent.
• Ling Yu revealed three powerful Soul Rings, used Genjutsu to catch Zhao Wuji off guard, and struck him hard enough to send him crashing through a house.
• Zhao Wuji’s Great Strength Vajra Roar shattered Ling Yu’s Shadow Clones, so Ling Yu summoned more clones and launched nine Great Dragon Flame Bombs.
• Zhao Wuji countered the fireballs with his Soul Skills, and the resulting clash collapsed nearby houses before both fighters were left exhausted and Zhao Wuji was badly burned.
• Oscar made sausages to help Zhao Wuji recover, while Ling Yu declined one and explained that he had survived by eating rats and insects.
• Na'er understood that Ling Yu had endured this hardship during his two and a half years in the Labyrinth Grand Canyon and looked at him with heartache.

After recovering from his fight with Zhao Wuji, Ling Yu revealed that his first soul skill came from a rare Three-Eyed Golden Phoenix and was famed as the continent’s strongest control skill. Zhao Wuji sent Dai Mubai to show Ling Yu, Na'er, and Ning Rongrong around and explain the academy’s rules and dinner arrangements.

• Oscar gave Ling Yu sausages, restoring most of Ling Yu’s Soul Power, while Na'er clung to Ling Yu with concern.
• Dai Mubai explained that Oscar was only thirteen despite his thick beard, and he and the others recognized Ling Yu and Na'er’s close bond.
• Ling Yu thanked Zhao Wuji for his guidance and revealed that his first soul skill, Golden Eye Fury, came from a three-thousand-year-old Three-Eyed Golden Phoenix.
• Zhao Wuji, Ning Rongrong, and Dai Mubai reacted in shock as Dai Mubai explained the skill’s history, power, and weakness to reflected or blocked light.
• Zhao Wuji told Dai Mubai to take Ling Yu, Na'er, and Ning Rongrong to find lodging, explain the academy’s rules, and discuss dinner.

Ling Yu settled into Shrek Academy and weighed his plans amid uncertainty about Tang San, Xiao Wu, and the coming upheaval. He decided to observe Tang San at the academy, recruit Dugu Bo if possible, and avoid treating Spirit Hall and the Upper Three Sects as enemies for now.

• Dai Mubai showed Ling Yu, Gu Yuena, and Ning Rongrong their modest lodging and pointed out the cafeteria before leaving for a date.
• Ling Yu asked Gu Yuena to share a room with Ning Rongrong, then chose a room and considered why he had come to Shrek Academy.
• Ling Yu recalled that Xiao Wu's mother had died but that Bibi Dong had not killed her, leaving him unsure whether Xiao Wu would meet Tang San or resent Spirit Hall.
• Ling Yu planned to watch Tang San's actions at Shrek Academy and decided he would deal with Tang San and Tang Hao if they threatened the continent's future.
• Ling Yu planned to recruit Dugu Bo by offering to help him and Dugu Yan with their poison, with a Worship Hall token as a last resort.
• Ling Yu learned the Clear Sky Sect's seclusion had another cause and that Qian Renxue had chosen her own infiltration plan, so he concluded Spirit Hall and the Upper Three Sects need not be enemies for now.

Ling Yu pushed through another grueling sword-training session, then agreed with the Unsharpened Sword Spirit to add evening practice. At the academy, he met Ma Hongjun, who changed his attitude after Dai Mubai warned him about Ling Yu’s strength.

• Ling Yu trained with the Unsharpened Sword, completing 470 precise swings with the five-thousand-kilogram blade despite his exhaustion.
• The Unsharpened Sword Spirit marveled at Ling Yu’s ability to break through his limits and reflected on the coming calamity of the God Realm.
• Ling Yu cultivated after sunrise, recovering his strength and feeling his energy increase.
• Ling Yu agreed to add an hour of sword training each evening if the sword spirit reduced its nagging.
• Ling Yu met Ma Hongjun at the academy, and Dai Mubai warned Ma Hongjun that Ling Yu had fought and injured Boss Zhao.
• Ma Hongjun began addressing Ling Yu as Brother Ling, but Ling Yu told him to call him Brother Yu, and the three went to the cafeteria.

Ling Yu gave Flender five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins to invest in the academy and asked about his history with Liu Erlong. Flender recounted how he and Yu Xiaogang had both fallen for her, leaving Ling Yu visibly shaken as he heard how she had rejected Yu Xiaogang.

• At breakfast, Ling Yu ate the academy’s food in seconds and told Ma Hongjun he needed far more to satisfy his appetite.
• Ling Yu visited Flender and gave him a Gold Soul Card containing five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins to buy meat and support the academy.
• When Flender questioned why Ling Yu had chosen the academy, Ling Yu reassured him and then asked whether he knew Liu Erlong.
• Ling Yu said Liu Erlong was close to him, prompting Flender to recount how he and Yu Xiaogang met her while traveling and both fell in love with her.
• Flender explained that Liu Erlong rejected Yu Xiaogang because she loved someone else and revealed that she and Yu Xiaogang were cousins, while Ling Yu listened with visible pain.

Ling Yu treated the academy students to a meal, reassured Na'er before leaving, and traveled to Heaven Dou City to reunite with Liu Erlong. The chapter ended as he found her at Blue Tyrant Academy and apologized for making her wait.

• Ling Yu told Flender he would take leave and decided to visit Heaven Dou City to spend time with Liu Erlong.
• Ling Yu treated Na'er and the other students to dinner in Suotuo City, then told them he would be away for a while.
• Ling Yu reassured Na'er that he would not let her or Liu Erlong and Dong'er down before leaving the next day.
• Ling Yu traveled by carriage for three days and arrived at Blue Tyrant Academy in Heaven Dou City.
• Ling Yu found Liu Erlong tending plants outside her cottage, and she began to cry when he called her name.

Ling Yu reunited with Liu Erlong and spent a night with her before telling her he would soon leave again. He then learned where Dugu Bo was staying and went to meet him, ending with Dugu Bo appearing in response to his request.

• Ling Yu comforted Liu Erlong after their reunion, and they spent the day and night together.
• The next morning, Ling Yu helped Liu Erlong dress, and she shared her hope of marrying him and having children with him.
• Ling Yu asked Liu Erlong about Dugu Bo, and she told him she had sensed Dugu Bo at an estate in Heaven Dou City.
• Ling Yu carried Liu Erlong to the estate and announced that the Holy Son of Spirit Hall wished to see Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo appeared before Ling Yu and Liu Erlong.

Ling Yu offered to cure Dugu Bo and his granddaughter of their poison in exchange for medicinal herbs, and Dugu Bo agreed to take him to his garden. The three flew into Sunset Forest, where Dugu Bo revealed that the garden’s herbs had helped suppress his poison.

• Dugu Bo found Ling Yu and Liu Erlong together, and Liu Erlong openly showed her affection for Ling Yu.
• Ling Yu offered to remove the poison afflicting Dugu Bo and his granddaughter in exchange for medicinal herbs.
• Dugu Bo unleashed his pressure, but Liu Erlong challenged him and protected Ling Yu.
• Ling Yu described Dugu Bo’s symptoms and warned that a simple antidote would cost him his poison-based abilities and Titled Douluo cultivation.
• Dugu Bo accepted Ling Yu’s deal and led him and Liu Erlong toward Sunset Forest.
• Dugu Bo told them his medicinal garden contained many unfamiliar herbs and had helped suppress his poison.

Ling Yu followed Dugu Bo and Liu Erlong to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he began absorbing its dense energy. After learning that the spring contained divine power, he ate the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot and plunged into the spring to help restore the Unsharpened Sword.

• Dugu Bo led Ling Yu and Liu Erlong through his poison formation and revealed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Ling Yu recognized the Immortal Grasses around the spring and began absorbing the powerful energy there.
• The Unsharpened Sword Spirit told Ling Yu that the spring's divine power could restore some of the sword's strength.
• Ling Yu harvested the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, ate them, and jumped into the spring.
• Ling Yu absorbed the spring's energy as Dugu Bo and Liu Erlong watched, relieved when his complexion returned to normal.

Ling Yu absorbed the energy of the spring eye and the two immortal herbs while the Unsharpened Sword fed on the remains of two Dragon Kings. He emerged with strength beyond the Bone Forging realm’s limit, though he had not yet reached its perfection.

• Ling Yu endured the spring eye’s intense hot-and-cold energy as his body absorbed its power and rapidly grew stronger.
• The sword spirit told Ling Yu to grasp the Unsharpened Sword, which carried him deeper into the spring eye.
• Ling Yu discovered two enormous dragon corpses and learned they were the Water-Fire Dragon Kings, former First-Rank Gods.
• The Unsharpened Sword absorbed starlight-like energy from the dragon corpses while Ling Yu continued cultivating.
• Ling Yu’s strength rose to at least twenty thousand kilograms, and he sensed that his Bone Forging realm had surpassed its limit but remained short of perfection.

After absorbing the divine power of the Two Great Dragon Kings, Ling Yu discovered a Soul Core in his dantian and learned that the Unsharpened Sword had recovered some of its strength. The sword spirit explained the sword’s new Fusion ability and the Soul Core’s benefits, leaving Ling Yu eager to strengthen his lightning powers and body.

• Ling Yu watched a Tai Chi-like orb form in his dantian and restore his Soul Power with an ethereal quality.
• The Unsharpened Sword finished absorbing the Dragon Kings’ divine power, changing its blade and scabbard as the sword spirit thanked Ling Yu.
• The sword spirit revealed the Unsharpened Sword’s Fusion ability, which could give Ling Yu’s lightning Martial Soul the sword as a vessel without removing its traits.
• The sword spirit explained that Ling Yu’s Soul Core could let him use both Martial Souls simultaneously and accelerate his cultivation.
• Ling Yu realized that fusing the sword with his lightning Martial Soul could produce Lightning Sword Rays and help his magnetic force and body tempering grow stronger.

Ling Yu learned about divine artifact ranks and the Unsharpened Sword’s Devouring ability, then discovered the sword spirit could use Empowerment to transmit Sword Dao memories at considerable risk. The sword spirit set a Spiritual Power requirement before doing so and directed Ling Yu toward the Two Great Dragon Kings’ heads to retrieve something valuable.

• The sword spirit explained the ranks of divine artifacts and why the Asura Divine Sword was a true Transcendent Divine Artifact while the Sea God's Trident was a Pseudo-Transcendent Divine Artifact.
• The sword spirit revealed that the Unsharpened Sword's second ability, Devouring, absorbed the souls and energy of slain creatures and could use them to nourish its wielder.
• The sword spirit explained that Empowerment could pass on his Sword Dao experience but might collapse Ling Yu's mind, so Ling Yu would need Spiritual Power at least at the Soul Douluo level.
• The sword spirit told Ling Yu to approach the Two Great Dragon Kings' heads, where something valuable awaited him.
• Ling Yu sensed that the sword spirit had drained most of the divine power from the dragon corpses, while the sword spirit said their blood-fed spring could sustain the treasured land for ten thousand years.

Ling Yu found fragments of the Fire Dragon King and Water Dragon King’s Divine Sense crystals, then returned from the spring with his body greatly strengthened. He agreed to let Dugu Bo’s venomous snake bite him to prove he could detoxify himself.

• Ling Yu found red and blue Divine Sense crystals in the dragon kings’ skulls, and the sword spirit told him to absorb them only after his Spiritual Power became liquid.
• The Fire Dragon King and Water Dragon King’s shadows argued over trusting Ling Yu and giving him their crystals, but concluded they had no choice.
• Ling Yu emerged from the spring after absorbing the medicinal herbs, and Liu Erlong embraced him in relief after waiting a day.
• Dugu Bo challenged Ling Yu to survive and detoxify a bite from his highly venomous snake before he would trust Ling Yu to treat him.
• Ling Yu reassured Liu Erlong and stepped toward Dugu Bo, ready to face the snake’s bite.

Ling Yu proved to Dugu Bo that his blood could neutralize the Nine-Section Jade’s venom and explained how Dugu Bo could detoxify himself. He then gave Liu Erlong a Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, and she began absorbing it while Ling Yu guarded her.

• Ling Yu let Dugu Bo test the Nine-Section Jade’s venom on him, and the venom vanished when it touched his blood.
• Ling Yu told Dugu Bo to drink ten drops of his blood daily and force his poison into a soul bone; Dugu Bo agreed to keep him at the cave while he detoxified.
• Ling Yu drew blood into a cup for Dugu Bo, then took Liu Erlong to the herb garden.
• Ling Yu gave Liu Erlong a Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower and explained that she had to absorb it with her Soul Power despite the pain.
• Liu Erlong began absorbing the Immortal Grass, and Ling Yu formed an earthen hut to conceal her as flames and cleansing black liquid surrounded her.

Liu Erlong absorbed the Immortal Grass and evolved her Martial Soul, while Ling Yu consumed Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and transformed his Spiritual Power. The sword spirit told Ling Yu to wait until he absorbed power from the two dragon pearls before receiving its empowerment.

• Liu Erlong emerged from the earthen house at level 88, with a stronger, winged fire dragon as her evolved Martial Soul.
• Ling Yu urged Liu Erlong to put on clothes, then harvested the Immortal Grass he recognized from the medicinal garden.
• Ling Yu swallowed the dew from Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and used its Spiritual Power to expand his Sea of Consciousness.
• Ling Yu compressed the golden mist in his Sea of Consciousness into a small pond of liquid Spiritual Power, raising its quality to rival that of a newly advanced Soul Douluo.
• The sword spirit told Ling Yu to absorb some power from his two dragon pearls before it empowered him.

Ling Yu’s Spiritual Power surged, bringing his Three-Tomoe Sharingan close to evolving, and he reasoned that continued cultivation could lead it toward the Eternal Mangekyo. He absorbed the red and blue Dragon Balls into his Sea of Consciousness, where they began to strengthen his Spiritual Power.

• Ling Yu felt his Sharingan nearing evolution after his Spiritual Power increased, and he considered how cultivation on Douluo Continent could help him reach the Eternal Mangekyo.
• Ling Yu assessed his physical cultivation and estimated that reaching the peak of Marrow Cleansing would take at least five years.
• Liu Erlong asked Ling Yu about the powerful Spiritual Power fluctuation, and he confirmed that his Spiritual Power had reached a level comparable to a Soul Douluo’s.
• Ling Yu and Liu Erlong spent the night in a simple house he built in the medicinal garden.
• Ling Yu asked the Sword Spirit how to absorb the two Dragon Balls, then pressed them against his eyes as instructed.
• The Dragon Balls entered Ling Yu’s Sea of Consciousness and formed two colored fish whose growth steadily increased his Spiritual Power.

Ling Yu used the Gold of Life to transform and expand his Sea of Spirit, strengthening his future Spiritual Power potential. Afterward, he tested his improved body by swinging his sword and planned to cultivate beside Er Long.

• Ling Yu used the Gold of Life to nourish his body, widen and toughen his meridians, and improve his recovery and cultivation speed.
• Ling Yu endured the Gold of Life melting into his Sea of Spirit, which filled with life aura and expanded to twice its former size.
• Ling Yu assessed his gains, including his strengthened body, immunity to poisons, condensed Soul Core, and greater Spiritual Power potential.
• Ling Yu began his sword practice before dawn and completed seven hundred swings as the sword spirit watched approvingly.