Chapter Summaries

Bibi Dong endured further abuse by the Strength Clan and vowed to take revenge on the Douluo Continent. At Nuoding Academy, Phoenix King learned that Yu Xiaogang had arrived seeking disciples, while the headmaster warned him to stay away.

• Bibi Dong swore to become the Rakshasa God again and avenge herself after members of the Strength Clan abused her.
• Phoenix King overheard the Nuoding Academy headmaster reject Yu Xiaogang’s request to teach students or take disciples there.
• Yu Xiaogang argued that students might choose to follow him, and the headmaster said he would not interfere if they did.
• Phoenix King asked the headmaster about Yu Xiaogang, and the headmaster explained his reputation and warned Phoenix King not to become his disciple.

The dean warned Phoenix King to avoid Yu Xiaogang and promised to protect him, while Phoenix King accepted the advice and returned to cultivating. Yu Xiaogang searched Nuoding Academy for a gifted disciple, then learned about Phoenix King and turned his attention toward him.

• The dean praised Phoenix King's talent, warned him not to associate with Yu Xiaogang, and offered to help him if he encountered trouble.
• Phoenix King accepted the dean's goodwill and returned to his room to cultivate and study alchemy.
• Yu Xiaogang rejected the work-study students as unsuitable disciples and worried about finding another genius after his plans with Tang San and Dugu Bo failed.
• Yu Xiaogang overheard students describing Phoenix King's Innate Full Soul Power, top-tier phoenix martial soul, and kindness toward others.
• Yu Xiaogang realized Phoenix King was the genius he had been looking for and decided to focus on him.

Yu Xiaogang tried to learn about the Phoenix King so he could claim him as a disciple and exploit his talent, but the academy’s students and teachers refused to help. After secretly finding the Phoenix King’s records, he went to his room, where Zi Ji and the Phoenix King confronted him.

• Yu Xiaogang approached two students to ask about the Phoenix King, but they dismissed him and left.
• Yu Xiaogang asked students and teachers for information, but his arrogant behavior made them refuse to help him.
• While the dean was away, Yu Xiaogang sneaked into the dean’s office and found the Phoenix King’s records.
• Yu Xiaogang decided the Phoenix King should become his disciple and went to his room.
• Zi Ji sensed someone approaching, and the Phoenix King opened the door to find Yu Xiaogang there.

Yu Xiaogang insisted that Phoenix King become his disciple, despite having no authority or qualifications, and Phoenix King beat him and had him expelled from Nuoding Academy. After learning who Yu Xiaogang was and why he had access to the academy, Phoenix King decided the matter was not over.

• Zi Ji questioned Yu Xiaogang's identity and challenged his claim that he could teach Phoenix King.
• Yu Xiaogang declared himself Phoenix King's teacher, but Phoenix King rejected him and revealed that his family had Rank 99 experts.
• Yu Xiaogang threatened Zi Ji and called Phoenix King an unfilial disciple, so Phoenix King struck him with the Ruyi Staff and sent him flying into a wall.
• The headmaster apologized to Phoenix King and ordered teachers to throw the unconscious Yu Xiaogang out of Nuoding Academy.
• The headmaster explained Yu Xiaogang's connection to the Golden Iron Triangle, and Phoenix King resolved to teach him a proper lesson.

Nuoding Academy’s principal expelled Yu Xiaogang after Zi Ji condemned him for entering the academy and targeting Phoenix King. Yu Xiaogang left intending to seek help from Flender and the others, while Phoenix King worried that he would retaliate against the academy.

• Zi Ji criticized the principal for letting Yu Xiaogang into Nuoding Academy and risking harm to its students.
• The principal told Yu Xiaogang their debt was settled, expelled him, and threatened him with his four soul rings.
• Yu Xiaogang resented his misfortunes and resolved to find Flender and the others so he could still take Phoenix King as his disciple.
• Nuoding Academy’s students celebrated Yu Xiaogang’s departure and mocked his theories and low Soul Power.
• Phoenix King asked the principal whether Yu Xiaogang might return to retaliate against Nuoding Academy.

The dean of Nuoding Academy worried that Spirit Hall might refuse to help against Yu Xiaogang because of his ties to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Phoenix King revealed that Zi Ji was a Titled Douluo with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and the dean pledged to have nothing to do with Yu Xiaogang.

• The dean of Nuoding Academy considered asking Spirit Hall for help but feared it would not oppose Yu Xiaogang and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Phoenix King said his elder sister would protect him, and Zi Ji revealed her nine soul rings, including a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• The dean and the academy’s teachers and students were stunned by Zi Ji’s strength and wondered how powerful Phoenix King’s family was.
• Phoenix King offered to help the dean if he avoided Yu Xiaogang, and the dean denounced Yu Xiaogang’s background, weak martial soul, failed cultivation, and debts.

The chapter explained how Yu Xiaogang’s Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan lineage deterred ordinary soul masters, despite his weak Martial Soul and low Soul Power. Before Tang San was born and Yu Xiaogang gained later honors, his family connection alone still made him too dangerous for people like Nuoding Academy’s headmaster to antagonize.

• The chapter described the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s power and explained why Yu Xiaogang’s status as its leader’s legitimate son served as a warning to ordinary soul masters.
• The chapter contrasted Yu Xiaogang’s early reputation as an expelled, weak Soul Grandmaster with the later prestige he gained through Tang San, Shrek, and his Imperial Preceptor title.
• The chapter said Spirit Hall’s Titled Douluo knew Yu Xiaogang’s theories were plagiarized, but Bibi Dong’s influence kept them from acting against him.
• The chapter explained that Nuoding Academy’s headmaster feared provoking the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and had little reason to expose Yu Xiaogang to Tang San.
• The chapter contrasted Phoenix King’s strong clan backing and Martial Soul with Tang San’s treatment as an unsupported work-study student.

Phoenix King began cultivating Six Harmonies Fire at a training ground in Nuoding City, while Medicine Elder and Zi Ji discussed using human resources to grow stronger. Yu Xiaogang returned to Shrek and complained that the headmaster and a talented Phoenix martial-soul user had rejected and humiliated him.

• Phoenix King judged the training ground suitable for cultivating Six Harmonies Fire, and Medicine Elder explained that the technique’s power approached Earth tier despite lacking access to the power of heaven and earth.
• Medicine Elder told Zi Ji that they could use resources in the human-ruled world to grow stronger, and Phoenix King began training under his guidance.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to Shrek, where Flender’s old companions distrusted him and worried about his enormous debt to Spirit Hall.
• Flender asked Yu Xiaogang where he had gone, and Yu Xiaogang said he had visited Nuoding Academy to recruit disciples but had been rejected by its headmaster and a gifted Phoenix martial-soul user.
• Liu Erlong flew into a rage after hearing Yu Xiaogang’s account.

After Yu Xiaogang was defeated at Nuoding Academy, Liu Erlong vowed revenge, but Yu Xiaogang admitted that Phoenix King’s family might have a Titled Douluo. Flender and Shrek’s teachers realized the Golden Iron Triangle could not afford to provoke such a powerful family, leaving the group divided over how to respond.

• Liu Erlong blamed Nuoding Academy and Phoenix King for Yu Xiaogang’s humiliation and promised to avenge him.
• Yu Xiaogang feared that Phoenix King had the backing of a powerful family, possibly one with a Titled Douluo.
• Flender warned Liu Erlong that Yu Xiaogang’s recklessness had endangered the Golden Iron Triangle and urged them to prepare cautiously.
• Zhao Wuji and teachers Shao Xin, Li Yusong, and Lu Qibin arrived as Flender argued with Liu Erlong.
• Li Yusong angrily confronted Yu Xiaogang for offending a family with a Titled Douluo.

Shao Xin, Li Yusong, Lu Qibin, and Zhao Wuji confronted Flender and Yu Xiaogang over Yu Xiaogang’s plagiarism and the trouble it brought to Shrek. After Liu Erlong tried to attack them for insulting Yu Xiaogang, the four teachers left Shrek together.

• Shao Xin and the others condemned Yu Xiaogang for passing off Spirit Hall’s common knowledge as his own and blamed Flender for bringing him into Shrek.
• Li Yusong and Lu Qibin criticized Flender and Liu Erlong for allowing Yu Xiaogang to drag them into danger.
• Zhao Wuji reminded them that Spirit Hall had also accused Yu Xiaogang of seducing Bibi Dong, and Shao Xin mocked the claim.
• Liu Erlong summoned her Fire Dragon martial soul and attacked the others, but Zhao Wuji blocked her and challenged her loyalty to Yu Xiaogang.
• Shao Xin, Li Yusong, Lu Qibin, and Zhao Wuji quit Shrek and left together.

Zhao Wuji and the others left Shrek after losing patience with Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong, while Yu Xiaogang insisted they should capture the Phoenix King and make him his disciple. The story left Yu Xiaogang and his companions preparing to act as the Phoenix King continued cultivating the Six Harmonies Fire at Nuoding Academy.

• Zhao Wuji, Shao Xin, Li Yusong, and Lu Qibin left Shrek despite Flender trying to stop them.
• Yu Xiaogang urged Flender and Liu Erlong to capture the Phoenix King and force him to become Yu Xiaogang's disciple.
• Liu Erlong defended Yu Xiaogang, while Flender warned that the Phoenix King would not willingly become his disciple.
• Flender agreed to set off with Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong, though he feared provoking a Titled Douluo.
• At Nuoding Academy, the Phoenix King cultivated the Six Harmonies Fire, and Medicine Elder said he had not yet unleashed its full power.

Phoenix King asked Medicine Elder about the difference between Beast Fires, artificial flames, and Heavenly Flames, and learned how they differed in origin, power, abilities, growth, and suppression. Medicine Elder judged Phoenix King's quasi-seventh-tier Ultimate Phoenix-Bird Fire inadequate for a disciple of his standing, especially by Central Plains standards.

• Phoenix King asked Medicine Elder whether Beast Fires differed greatly in strength.
• Medicine Elder explained that Beast Fires came from magical beasts, artificial flames were refined from other flames, and Heavenly Flames were origins of heaven and earth with unique powers and growth.
• Medicine Elder compared their combat capabilities, noting that high-tier Beast Fires and Life Transformation Flame could approach low-tier Heavenly Flames in temperature but remained inferior overall.
• Medicine Elder explained that a sixth-tier Beast Fire was impressive in the Northwestern Continent but only modest material in the Central Plains.
• Medicine Elder considered Phoenix King's Ultimate Phoenix-Bird Fire, a quasi-seventh-tier flame, too weak and said Phoenix King should have at least an eighth-tier Beast Fire.

Phoenix King learned why Medicine Elder considered the flame he had made for him inferior by Dou Qi Continent standards, and heard how Beast Fire differed from Heavenly Flames. The chapter left Phoenix King unwilling to risk harming Gu Yuena to obtain her flame and compared Douluo Continent’s flames unfavorably with even those of remote regions of Dou Qi Continent.

• Medicine Elder told Phoenix King that the flame he had created was only barely sixth- to seventh-rank Beast Fire and said he could have made a stronger artificial flame on Dou Qi Continent.
• Medicine Elder explained that extracting a living magical beast’s Beast Fire could cripple or kill it, while fire taken from a dead beast gradually weakened unless preserved with a companion source.
• Medicine Elder said Soul Beasts might recover after losing their flames, but he had not tried to take Gu Yuena’s flame because it could harm her and she was an important ally.
• Phoenix King agreed that he would not risk Gu Yuena’s safety for her potentially seventh-rank flame.
• Medicine Elder and Phoenix King compared martial-soul flames with Beast Fire, concluding that Douluo Continent’s flames were weaker than those found in remote regions of Dou Qi Continent.

Medicine Elder explained how his strength compared with the God Kings and reassured Phoenix King that he would protect him. While walking through the streets, Phoenix King spotted twin sisters being trafficked by mercenaries and suspected they had Body Martial Souls.

• Medicine Elder told Phoenix King that God Kings were roughly comparable to Dou Zongs and that he could overpower them at his peak.
• Medicine Elder said his weakened soul, aided by the Bone Chilling Flame, could defeat a few low-star God Kings but would collapse against a larger group.
• Medicine Elder encouraged Phoenix King to keep cultivating, and Phoenix King agreed before resting after several hours of training.
• Medicine Elder and Phoenix King went for a walk while Zi Ji secretly protected them.
• Phoenix King saw mercenaries holding twin sisters in cages and realized their hair might be their Body Martial Souls.

Phoenix King secretly followed the mercenaries who had taken the blue-haired sisters and killed them when they tried to sell the girls to a noble’s buyer. He claimed the sisters as his own, leaving them fearful and uncertain about him.

• Phoenix King and Medicine Elder discussed whether the sisters’ hair might be their Martial Souls and whether they should rescue them.
• Phoenix King followed the mercenaries, while secretly protecting Zi Ji, and watched them take the sisters to meet a buyer.
• The buyer and mercenaries haggled over the sisters’ price, and Phoenix King confronted them.
• Phoenix King killed the mercenary leader with his staff and burned the buyer’s men and the other mercenaries to death.
• The older blue-haired twin asked who Phoenix King was, and he told the sisters that they belonged to him from then on.

Phoenix King enrolled the blue-haired sisters at Nuoding Academy and decided to cultivate them after suspecting their hair was their Martial Soul. With Medicine Elder’s help, he gave them a basic cultivation technique and a method to condense soul rings, while Zi Ji warned him not to forget his allegiance to the beast race.

• Phoenix King took the sisters to Nuoding Academy, where the dean agreed to enroll them, and gave them Gold Soul Coins for their expenses.
• Phoenix King told Zi Ji that the sisters’ changed hair colors suggested hair might be their Martial Soul, and he wanted to study and nurture them.
• Zi Ji warned Phoenix King not to let his kindness toward humans make him forget that he belonged to the beast race and opposed the God Realm.
• Medicine Elder explained that their soul-ring-condensing method remained immature and that the God Realm would oppose it, then offered the sisters a basic Golden Body cultivation technique and the method.
• Phoenix King accepted the sisters’ low Innate Soul Power as a possible investment and planned to help them become capable talents.

The Clear Sky Sect wondered why Bibi Dong had not become pregnant despite repeated attempts, then decided to sell her at an auction in the Heaven Dou Empire. The chapter left the elders preparing to carry out their plan.

• Members of the Strength Clan speculated about Bibi Dong's fertility and discussed the benefits the Clear Sky Sect had given them.
• The chapter described how Tang Hao treated Tai Tan as a useful slave and how the Clear Sky Sect favored the Strength Clan to keep the other clans under control.
• Seventh Elder Tang Lie complained that Bibi Dong had not become pregnant, and Tang Hao suggested Spirit Hall might have destroyed her fertility.
• The First Elder arranged for a healer to examine Bibi Dong, who was found to be physically capable of bearing children.
• The Clear Sky Sect's elders speculated that the Rakshasa God was interfering with Bibi Dong's fertility.
• The Third Elder proposed selling Bibi Dong at an auction in the Heaven Dou Empire, and the elders agreed to proceed.

The Phoenix King began training in alchemy and asked Medicine Elder to create a flame better suited to pill refining. After learning that Bibi Dong had been captured and would be auctioned, Liu Erlong and Flender debated whether they could rescue her.

• The Phoenix King refused Medicine Elder's suggestion to make Lan Jingjing and Lan Luoluo his maidservants because they were underage.
• Medicine Elder explained that the Life Spirit Flame and Peach Blossom Flame were suited to alchemy, then agreed to try creating a similar artificial flame if the Phoenix King studied diligently.
• The Phoenix King trained in alchemy and eventually learned to refine better pills.
• The Phoenix King received news that the Heaven Dou Auction House had captured Bibi Dong and planned to auction her first night and future use.
• Liu Erlong and Flender suspected someone was secretly behind Bibi Dong's capture, but Liu Erlong warned Yu Xiaogang that rescuing her could provoke the Heaven Dou Empire and said Bibi Dong deserved her fate.

Yu Xiaogang tried to visit Bibi Dong to obtain the Twin Martial Souls cultivation method, but Liu Erlong and the others opposed meeting her. After learning Bibi Dong was being auctioned, Ning Fengzhi considered acquiring her for the sect before Chen Xin suspected the Clear Sky Sect had set a trap.

• Yu Xiaogang said he wanted to see Bibi Dong in person, while privately seeking her Twin Martial Souls cultivation method, and Liu Erlong agreed to go only if he did not meet her.
• Liu Erlong recalled her layered hatred of Bibi Dong, rooted in Yu Xiaogang, the destruction of her clan, and Bibi Dong's lingering bond with him.
• Sword and Bone Douluo and Ning Fengzhi condemned Bibi Dong and discussed how Spirit Hall had raised her before she betrayed it.
• Ning Fengzhi proposed asking Spirit Hall to bring Bibi Dong over so she could bear children for the sect.
• Chen Xin warned that the Clear Sky Sect would not auction Bibi Dong without a scheme, and the others suspected she might have already borne its heirs and lost her ability to have children.

Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin suspected the Clear Sky Sect had auctioned Bibi Dong to extort the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, so Ning Fengzhi planned to alert Spirit Hall while keeping the sect calm. At Spirit Hall, Qian Renxue and Subduing Demon Douluo discussed Bibi Dong’s fate and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s likely plans.

• Chen Xin reasoned that the Clear Sky Sect had released Bibi Dong because she could no longer bear children and was being used to extract money from rival factions.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to inform Spirit Hall while continuing to keep the Clear Sky Sect steady, since provoking Tang Chen could be disastrous.
• Tang Chen and the Clear Sky Sect elders discussed using Bibi Dong’s auction to swindle more tribute from Ning Fengzhi and demean the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Tang Chen and the First Elder boasted about the Clear Sky Sect’s supremacy and discussed their ambitions for Tang San and the Angel Family.
• Qian Renxue criticized Bibi Dong’s past choices and reflected on her previous life with a man from the Ye Clan.
• Subduing Demon Douluo suggested Ning Fengzhi hoped to use Bibi Dong to produce a god-capable heir and said she might already be unable to bear children.