Chapter Summaries

Li Zhixi sent her elite guards to suppress a protest in Suotuo City, but they hesitated to attack the crowd. When she arrived, she tried to justify taking their food and wages as support for Spirit Hall’s war effort.

• Li Zhixi ordered her personal guards to confront the protesters while she absorbed a Spirit Bone.
• The guards faced the crowd but stopped short of attacking after the protesters invoked Qian Xunqian’s reputation for punishing those who harmed commoners.
• The protest leader revealed that messengers had already been sent to Spirit City for help, while the crowd demanded the return of its food and wages.
• Li Zhixi arrived in a lavish sedan as Qian Xunqian and Gui Mei watched, and she attempted to calm the protesters.
• Li Zhixi told the crowd that she had taken their grain and extended their working hours to supply Spirit Hall’s campaign for unification.

Li Zhixi tried to quell a food protest in Suotuo City with a forged order attributed to Bibi Dong, a promise of food, and the staged punishment of corrupt officials. Bibi Dong arrived, exposed the lie, and crippled Li Zhixi, who tried to provoke her as she begged for her life.

• Li Zhixi told the protesters she could distribute only five hundred tons of food and showed them a forged order claiming Bibi Dong had demanded supplies for a war.
• Li Zhixi urged the protesters to collect the food and wait for Qian Xunqian to return, then displayed bound officials and promised to execute them for corruption.
• Bibi Dong appeared and asked when she had written the forged order.
• Bibi Dong used the Death God Scythe to seize Li Zhixi and completely crippled her cultivation.
• Li Zhixi begged Bibi Dong for mercy and offered her Gold Soul Coins and Spirit Bones, then accused her of wrongdoing in a final attempt to save herself.

Bibi Dong turned Li Zhixi’s accusation against her into a public examination of Li Zhixi’s corruption, exposing her stolen wealth and Spirit Bones to the crowd. She delayed the executions until Li Zhixi’s father and the other prisoners could be tried with her, and the chapter ended with Yue Guan arriving with them.

• Li Zhixi accused Bibi Dong of ordering the grain seizure and trying to silence her, but Bibi Dong summoned agents to read out Li Zhixi’s financial records.
• Bibi Dong’s agents removed Li Zhixi’s legs and revealed Spirit Bones, while students and witnesses confirmed their value and rarity to the crowd.
• The crowd turned against Li Zhixi and demanded executions, but Bibi Dong promised a transparent trial and arranged for Chen Xitong to distribute grain.
• Agents displayed Li Zhixi’s other Spirit Bones and read out further evidence as the people waited at the trial site.
• Yue Guan arrived with Nuordia La and his men, escorting Li Zhixi’s father, Li Chutian, and the other prisoners.

Qian Xunqian oversaw the end of the Suotuo City corruption trial, the execution of Li Zhixi and her network, and the restoration effort. After the case closed, her subordinates reported that Shrek Academy was still operating outside the city, and she began asking about the school.

• Chen Xitong and the citizens distributed Spirit Hall's relief supplies while vendors cooked egg fried rice for the crowd watching the trial.
• Li Zhixi was sentenced to execution by cannon for corruption and other crimes, and Qian Xunqian's investigation exposed her father and a network of cardinals who had protected her.
• Li Zhixi, her father, and other convicted officials were executed or punished, while Qian Xunqian told the people that aid was on its way and denied that Spirit Hall or Bibi Dong had ordered the grain collection.
• Qian Xunqian left Hugo, Chen Xitong, and their subordinates in Suotuo City to lead recovery efforts until a new city lord arrived.
• A subordinate reported that Shrek Academy remained in the woods outside Suotuo City and that Soul Emperor Li Yusong was Li Zhixi's cousin, prompting Qian Xunqian to ask why the school had been raised.

Qian Xunqian learned that Flender’s Shrek Academy exploited villagers and ordered it sealed, then confronted Flender in his shop over his price-gouging. Flender threatened her after revealing his Soul Saint power, but Qian Xunqian began to show that she had a far greater power of her own.

• Qian Xunqian reported that Flender charged steep, nonrefundable tuition and ran a shop that swindled villagers, so she ordered her men to surround Shrek Academy.
• Flender reminisced about his profits and his hopes of marrying Liu Erlong, unaware that Li Zhixi had been arrested and that Qian Xunqian was approaching.
• Qian Xunqian entered Flender’s shop and offered ten Gold Soul Coins for a Crystal Board, but Flender repeatedly raised the price until he demanded two hundred.
• Qian Xunqian called Flender a swindler and explained that the Crystal Board was worth far less, prompting him to summon his Cat Eagle Martial Soul and threaten her.
• Qian Xunqian’s two bodyguards revealed that they were Soul Emperors with six black Soul Rings each, and she began summoning a golden rift containing a gigantic eye.

Qian Xunqian exposed Flender’s profiteering and fraud, shut down Shrek Academy, and had its staff tried in Suotuo City. Zhao Wuji escaped north and studied Spirit Hall law as he searched for a way to help Flender.

• Qian Xunqian confronted Flender with Spirit Hall’s laws and accused him of profiteering, fraud, and cheating students at Shrek Academy.
• Spirit Hall shut down Shrek Academy, refunded the students’ fees, and arranged for them to attend other schools; Ma Hongjun and Oscar declined invitations to Spirit Hall Advanced Soul Master Academy.
• Zhao Wuji fled Suotuo City after witnessing the trial, while Dai Mubai returned to find Shrek Academy gone.
• Flender was sentenced to have his hands cut off, forfeit his property, and serve five years in prison; the other Shrek teachers received confiscation and three-year sentences.
• In the Silves Kingdom, Zhao Wuji considered how to rescue Flender and studied Spirit Hall’s legal code, noting that profiteering and fraud were civil offenses.

Zhao Wuji stole a Soul Guidance Car and drove it toward Nuoding Academy to seek Yu Xiaogang, hoping to raise money to free Flender. After the car’s navigation system carried him there on autopilot, he emerged furious at the crowd gathered around it.

• Zhao Wuji decided to seek Yu Xiaogang for money to help free Flender and bought a map to find Nuoding Academy.
• Zhao Wuji stole a Soul Guidance Car from a manor in the Silves Kingdom and caused widespread damage while driving through the city.
• Zhao Wuji learned how to use the car’s navigation system and enabled autopilot to take him to Nuoding Academy.
• Zhao Wuji slept through the eight-hour journey and arrived at Nuoding Academy, where a crowd had gathered around the car.
• Zhao Wuji erupted in anger when an onlooker struck his car and stomped a crater into the ground.

Zhao Wuji reached Nuoding Academy to find Yu Xiaogang and ask him to help free Flender from prison, while Tang San mistakenly concluded that Zhao had come for him. Yu Xiaogang revealed he could not afford the five thousand Gold Soul Coins needed for Flender’s release.

• Zhao Wuji revealed his seven Soul Rings, frightened away the crowd, and asked a guard to take him to Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang San spotted Zhao Wuji and guessed that Zhao or another Shrek teacher had been reborn and come to find him.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu continued neglecting cultivation to enjoy themselves, leaving them at level twenty-two with their fifth year nearly over.
• Zhao Wuji found Yu Xiaogang, explained Flender’s imprisonment, and asked him to help raise the money for Flender’s release.
• Yu Xiaogang told Zhao Wuji that he had little money after being driven from his clan.

Zhao Wuji searched for someone wealthy enough to help rescue Flender, traveling to Heaven Dou City to find Liu Erlong. He finally reached her cabin at Blue Tyrant Academy, where Liu Erlong opened the door to him.

• Yu Xiaogang gave Zhao Wuji one hundred Gold Soul Coins and reluctantly confirmed that Liu Erlong probably had money.
• Zhao Wuji left Nuoding Academy and set off for Heaven Dou City to find Liu Erlong.
• Dai Mubai returned to Shrek Academy, learned it had been shut down, and decided to contribute only three thousand Gold Soul Coins toward Flender's rescue.
• Zhao Wuji reached Heaven Dou City, asked around, and was led to Liu Erlong at Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Liu Erlong woke from her nap and opened her cabin door to Zhao Wuji.

Liu Erlong agreed to help Zhao Wuji raise money to bail Flender and the Shrek Academy teachers out of jail. After hearing their qualifications, Yu Luomian approved the funding and planned to bring them to Blue Tyrant Academy.

• Zhao Wuji told Liu Erlong that Flender and the Shrek Academy teachers had been arrested and needed at least fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins to be freed.
• Liu Erlong took Zhao Wuji to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to ask her father, Yu Luomian, for money.
• Yu Luomian questioned whether the rescue was worth the cost, so Zhao Wuji listed the teachers' soul ranks, roles, and ages.
• Yu Luomian judged the teachers valuable, ordered the Gold Soul Coins brought, and told Liu Erlong to recruit them as Blue Tyrant Academy teachers.
• Liu Erlong prepared to take the money and rescue Flender and the others.

Liu Erlong came to Suotuo City Prison to bail out Flender and the others, but Qian Xunqian summoned her to the Spirit Branch Hall and questioned their relationship. The chapter ended with Liu Erlong weighing whether to answer honestly after Qian Xunqian warned her not to lie.

• Liu Erlong decided to go to Suotuo City to bail out Flender and the others after Zhao Wuji and Yu Luomian refused to go.
• Qian Xunqian and Bibi Dong discussed Liu Erlong's history with Yu Xiaogang while Qian Xunqian worked on plans for Spirit Hall's future government.
• Qian Xunqian ordered guards to bring Liu Erlong to the Spirit Branch Hall after learning she had arrived at the prison.
• Liu Erlong demanded to know why she had been brought in, and Qian Xunqian asked how she was connected to Flender and the others.
• Qian Xunqian promised Liu Erlong could bail them out if she told the truth, then warned that lying to a Titled Douluo with spiritual powers would be foolish.

Liu Erlong argued with Qian Xunqian and Bibi Dong before securing Flender’s release from prison. The Warden crippled Flender’s cultivation at level 39 and expelled him and his companions from Spirit Hall territory, leaving Liu Erlong to help reunite them with his students.

• Liu Erlong defended the Golden Iron Triangle, while Bibi Dong insulted Yu Xiaogang and revealed that she had once been his girlfriend.
• Qian Xunqian asked Liu Erlong about her relationship with Flender, and Liu Erlong said they were friends who had once traveled together.
• Qian Xunqian allowed Liu Erlong to leave, and Liu Erlong paid the bail money to free Flender and the others from Suotuo City Prison.
• The Warden slashed Flender’s dantian, leaving him unable to cultivate beyond level 39, and sent Liu Erlong flying when she attacked him.
• Liu Erlong paid a fine after Flender stopped her from fighting, and the Warden ordered the group to leave Spirit Hall territory within three days.
• Flender asked Liu Erlong to find Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Dai Mubai, and she promised to search for them.

Oscar settled into a welcoming new school after Flender’s arrest, but left when Flender and Liu Erlong came to take him to Blue Tyrant Academy. As they searched Suotuo City for Ma Hongjun, they unexpectedly found Dai Mubai instead.

• Oscar received special training and help from his roommates at Suotuo City Advanced Soul Master Academy, where he enjoyed the facilities and generous meals.
• Liu Erlong arrived with Flender and asked Oscar to transfer to Blue Tyrant Academy, and Oscar chose to leave out of gratitude to Flender.
• Oscar said farewell to the principal, who gave him twenty Gold Soul Coins and warned him not to follow Flender into scams.
• Oscar left the academy with Flender and Liu Erlong and told them Ma Hongjun had been skipping class, possibly to visit a hotel.
• Liu Erlong and Flender searched Suotuo City’s hotels for Ma Hongjun but ran into Dai Mubai with twin sisters.

Flender reunited with Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun and brought them to Heaven Dou City, where Liu Erlong enrolled Shrek’s teachers and students at Blue Tyrant Academy and renamed it Shrek Academy. The chapter ended with Flender learning that Spirit Hall dominated the previous tournament with its Growth Soul Ring technique, leaving Shrek’s chances of winning uncertain.

• Dai Mubai agreed to go with Flender and Liu Erlong to Heaven Dou City, and they dragged Ma Hongjun away from a luxury hotel before setting off.
• Zhao Wuji welcomed Flender at Blue Tyrant Academy and learned that Spirit Hall had crippled his cultivation, leaving him unable to advance past level thirty-nine.
• Liu Erlong arranged for Shrek’s teachers and students to enroll at Blue Tyrant Academy and renamed the school Shrek Academy while keeping the deanship.
• Flender asked Liu Erlong to put Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar on the tournament team, and she placed them on the reserve team.
• Flender asked whether Shrek Academy could win the tournament, and Liu Erlong explained that Spirit Hall had dominated the previous knockout rounds using its Growth Soul Ring technique.

The Spirit Hall Division preliminaries of the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Tournament began, and Hu Liena’s team learned about its group-stage opponents. Qian Renxue set the lineup for their opening match against the other S-rated team, leaving Hu Liena and Dugu Yan on the bench.

• Qian Xunqian opened the Spirit Hall Division preliminaries at the Great Soul Arena in Spirit City, and the Competition Committee’s format for the sixty teams was explained.
• Hu Liena told the team that their S-rated group included Ape God Activation, another S-rated team whose members were mostly Soul Ancestors.
• Qian Renxue joked about Ape God Activation’s monkey-themed roster while the team reviewed the A-rated and B-rated opponents in their group.
• Qian Renxue urged the team to aim for first place in the group and chose Chengfeng and Polang to replace Hu Liena and Dugu Yan against Ape God Activation.

The Golden Generation faced the Ape God Activation Team in a Soul Fighting match as both teams used their enhancements and launched attacks. The Golden Generation gained the upper hand, but Sun Xiaochuan encountered an invisible opponent as he tried to reach their back row.

• The Ape God Activation Team used Jiang Hua’s Monkey Head Mushrooms and Yao Xuan’s Soul Skills to boost their team and send Yuan Pi and Taylor into the Golden Generation’s formation.
• Xiao Huo strengthened Xie Yue and protected the Golden Generation with her Nine Phoenix Flute, while Xie Yue turned invisible and charged toward the opposing back row.
• Tian Yue wounded Yuan Pi and forced Taylor off the arena, while Dugu Yan trapped Yuan Pi with her Jade Phosphor Snake until he ate all three mushrooms to break free.
• Qiangu Chengfeng knocked Evelyn off the arena with his Coiling Dragon Staff, and Qiangu Polang sent Yuan Wei flying with his own staff.
• Sun Xiaochuan tried to bypass the front line and reach the Golden Generation’s back row, unaware that someone had turned invisible.

The Golden Generation swept through the group stage undefeated, with Tian Yue reaching level forty and absorbing a Golden Dragon Soul Ring. When a second Golden Dragon Claw dropped, Tian Yue lamented that she had no room for it while Qian Renxue claimed it for herself.

• The Golden Generation defeated the Ape God Activation Team, with Tian Yue, Dugu Yan, and the Jade Phosphor Snake cornering Yuan Pi until the match ended.
• Over the next two days, the Golden Generation won its matches easily, and Qiangu Chengfeng sent Xie Yue and Tian Yue flying into the crowd during their second victory over the Ape God Activation Team.
• The Golden Generation advanced with a perfect group-stage record even though its captain had not played, and Tian Yue broke through to level forty during the tournament break.
• Tian Yue absorbed a two-hundred-year-old Golden Dragon Soul Ring and gained the Golden Enhancement fourth Soul Skill, which greatly boosted her attributes and defense.
• A Golden Dragon Claw External Soul Bone dropped, but Tian Yue already had External Soul Bones on both hands, so Qian Xunqian kept the pair.
• Another Golden Dragon Claw dropped, and Tian Yue cried out in disappointment while Qian Renxue resolved to claim it.

Qian Renxue and Hu Liena competed for the Golden Dragon’s Spirit Bone claws and split them after a rock-paper-scissors match. After absorbing the claws, they discovered a temporary connection between them, then joined the others for a feast honoring the Golden Dragon.

• Qian Renxue and Hu Liena argued over the Golden Dragon’s Spirit Bone until Tian Yue suggested splitting its two claws and deciding who chose first with rock, paper, scissors.
• Hu Liena beat Qian Renxue and chose the right claw, while Qian Renxue took the left; both began absorbing their claws under Qian Xunqian’s guard.
• Qian Renxue absorbed her claw quickly, while Hu Liena struggled with hers and noticed a connection between the two claws.
• Qian Xunqian explained that the connection would disappear once they fully fused with the claws, and Qian Renxue and Hu Liena denied being good sisters.
• Tian Yue mourned the Golden Dragon and promised it a grand funeral feast, while Sky Crocodile asked Qian Xunqian how she had captured and raised one.

After the group stage, the Golden Generation Team drew a bye in the first Swiss-system round, leaving Hu Liena frustrated but giving the team a week without matches. Qian Xunqian then received a new Angel God Trial to resolve the Soul Beast Clan’s threat and learned that its reward was a map of Qiankun Asking-Love Valley, whose dreamlike power could fulfill regrets and alter memories.

• The group stage ended with thirty teams eliminated, and the thirty remaining teams moved on to Swiss-system matches.
• Hu Liena drew the only bye for the Golden Generation Team, automatically advancing them and disappointing the audience eager to watch them compete.
• Dugu Yan and Yan celebrated the team’s week off, but Qian Renxue ordered everyone to keep training on the Angel God Staircase.
• Qian Xunqian received an Angel God Trial to resolve the threat facing the Soul Beast Clan, with a map of Qiankun Asking-Love Valley as the reward.
• The Angel God explained that Qiankun Asking-Love Valley could create vivid dreams to fulfill regrets and alter memories, while its God of Love was said to be impossible to exploit.

Qian Renxue prepared the Golden Generation to counter the Spirit Hall Normal Academy Team’s fast-attack tactics. The match began with the Normal Academy Team’s opening barrage blocked by Yan, and Dugu Yan covered the Golden Generation’s side of the field in poisonous mist as Ma Zhe considered charging in.

• Qian Renxue reviewed the Normal Academy Team’s key fighters and planned to hold their ground, with Dugu Yan spreading poison and Yan taking Xie Yue’s place.
• The match began, and Bai Zhan used his War Drum to boost his teammates and suppress the Golden Generation’s morale.
• Chu Chu inflicted control effects on the Golden Generation while Wen Rou and Feng Xing launched a combined attack with Chili Bombs and arrows.
• Yan raised a magma barrier to block the attack, though the Chili Bombs’ spice made Tian Yue cough and burn.
• Dugu Yan spread several kinds of poison across the Golden Generation’s side of the field, obscuring them from view as Ma Zhe asked whether to charge into the mist.