Chapter Summaries

Lian Hongchen challenged Shrek Academy and faced Jixiang, a two-ring Soul Master, despite doubting he could match her three rings. Jixiang revealed a strange domain that nullified her poison and defeated her before she could launch another attack.

• Lian Hongchen objected when Guan Yue chose Jixiang to represent Shrek Academy, but Guan Yue insisted he was qualified.
• Guan Yue produced a Soul Tool arena, and Lian Hongchen and Jixiang entered it to fight.
• Lian Hongchen unleashed her Vermilion Clear Ice Toad Martial Soul and used her poison skills against Jixiang.
• Jixiang activated his Life-and-Death Domain, which left him unaffected by Lian Hongchen's poison.
• A silver needle reached Lian Hongchen's artery, and she realized she had lost.

Jixiang defeated Lian Hongchen with his domain skill, prompting her and Princess Xu Ruoruo to seek admission to Shrek Academy. Guan Yue announced the academy’s recruitment and promised an entrance assessment, while Qian Daoliu wondered whether Shrek Academy could one day reach the God Realm.

• Jixiang defeated Lian Hongchen in one move and explained that he had used a domain skill.
• Lian Hongchen asked to join Shrek Academy, and Xu Ruoruo also volunteered to take its entrance assessment.
• Guan Yue explained the academy’s approach to training and announced that registration and recruitment would begin the next day.
• Lian Hongchen asked whether Shrek Academy could help people born with zero innate soul power, and Guan Yue confirmed that it could.
• Qian Daoliu considered whether Shrek Academy might someday open a branch in the God Realm, while Lian Hongchen asked Guan Yue about the arena and its Soul Tools.

Ha Luosa ended the King of Slaughter’s brutal training and ordered Slaughter City’s residents to hunt down Soul Masters guilty of heinous crimes. The Asura God offered Ha Luosa his Divine Position again and arranged to test Tang Chen as another possible successor.

• Ha Luosa stopped the torture sessions in Slaughter City and ordered its residents to kill only Soul Masters guilty of heinous crimes.
• The Asura God urged Ha Luosa to inherit his Divine Position, but Ha Luosa insisted he would create one himself.
• The Asura God observed that Tang Chen’s consciousness had regained control while the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King was barely alive.
• Ha Luosa confirmed he would release Tang Chen if he escaped, and warned that he would bring him back and kill him if he committed evil.
• The Asura God said he would help Tang Chen pass a trial and claimed his intervention was justified because the Rakshasa God had influenced his previous candidate.

Tang Xiao brought Tang San to the Clear Sky Sect and introduced him as his illegitimate son, concealing that Tang San was actually Tang Hao and Ah Yin’s child. The elders accepted the story and granted Tang San top-priority resources, but their hostility toward his supposed parentage left him on thin ice.

• Tang Xiao brought Tang San into the Clear Sky Sect and told him to hide his true identity.
• Tang Xiao introduced Tang San to Tang Hu as his son, claiming Tang San’s mother had died.
• At a meeting with the sect’s core members, Tang Xiao claimed Tang San was the child of his deceased second brother and Ah Yin, not Tang Hao and Ah Yin’s son.
• The Seventh Elder questioned Tang San’s aptitude, and Tang Xiao said Tang San was Soul Power Level 34.
• An elder approved the highest resource priority for Tang San, and the Seventh Elder then asked about his Soul Ring configuration.

Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer’s three White Soul Rings to the Clear Sky Sect elders, then blamed Shrek Academy for forcing him to absorb them. The elders accepted his claim and granted him the resources given to other third-generation disciples, leaving Tang San ready to use the sect’s support to reach level forty.

• Tang San released his Clear Sky Hammer and showed the elders its three White Soul Rings, then revealed his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul with two yellow Soul Rings and one purple Soul Ring.
• The Seventh Elder and the other elders accused Tang San of insulting the Clear Sky Hammer and criticized Tang Xiao for failing to teach him properly.
• Tang San feigned grief and claimed Shrek Academy had forced him to absorb three White Soul Rings, stirring the elders’ anger toward the academy.
• Tang Xiao warned that Shrek Academy might be more terrifying than Spirit Hall, provoking the Seventh Elder before the elder proposed giving Tang San standard resources for third-generation disciples.
• Tang Xiao agreed to the resource arrangement, and Tang San felt relieved that he had entered the Clear Sky Sect and could pursue level forty within a year.

Tang San trained in the Clear Sky Sect and urged Tang Xiao to bring the sect back into the world to secure resources. Their discussion was interrupted by Tang Chen’s sudden arrival at the sect gate, leaving the sect facing a major upheaval.

• Tang San regretted not cultivating the Clear Sky Hammer from the start and planned to add a thousand-year Soul Ring when he obtained his fourth ring.
• Tang Xiao asked Tang San about his secret-art training and reminded him to prepare for his trial and the competition that would determine his resource allocation.
• Tang San argued that the Clear Sky Sect should reenter the world, and Tang Xiao agreed that its dwindling resources and the outside world’s advances made isolation dangerous.
• A bloodied, bedraggled man arrived at the Clear Sky Sect gate and overwhelmed the gatekeepers with his murderous aura.
• The newcomer identified himself as Tang Chen, and a gatekeeper hurried to report his arrival to the Sect Master.

Di Tian established a rough Shrek Academy branch in the Star Dou Great Forest and gathered soul beasts to study a cultivation technique. He revealed that the Clear Origin Spirit-Opening Canon could reduce the power of the Heaven Tribulation, leaving the gathered beasts intrigued and doubtful.

• Da Ming, Er Ming, and Xiao Wu spent a month building a crude Shrek Academy under Di Tian's orders.
• Di Tian gave Da Ming and Er Ming Transforming Pills, and they took human forms while remaining soul beasts.
• Di Tian sent the three to gather the Ferocious Beasts and other soul beasts, then distributed Transforming Pills to those who arrived.
• Di Tian announced that he would teach them the Clear Origin Spirit-Opening Canon, which could awaken intelligence, improve spiritual power, and reduce the power of the Heaven Tribulation.
• Xiong Jun questioned Di Tian's plan, while Myriad Demon King and Golden Eye remained skeptical about the technique.

Di Tian explained that soul beasts at Shrek Academy would learn a cultivation technique and would no longer be allowed to prey on intelligent soul beasts, plant-type soul beasts, or humans. He revealed that processed demon meat could feed them, while Gu Yue and Na'er’s Silver Dragon King bloodlines convinced the gathered beasts to trust the technique.

• Di Tian told the soul beasts that they would become Shrek Academy’s beasts after learning the cultivation technique and threatened to purge anyone who harmed the academy.
• Gu Yue and Na'er appeared, and their complete Silver Dragon King bloodlines made the soul beasts kneel and accept Gu Yue’s guarantee that the technique would reduce the power of the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Scarlet King asked whether younger soul beasts would gain intelligence, and Di Tian argued that they could not continue eating their own kind if the soul beast race was to revive.
• The soul beasts worried that forbidding them from eating intelligent and plant-type soul beasts would leave them without food, and Di Tian ruled out eating humans because Dean Lin Feng would stop them.
• Di Tian presented processed meat from demons of an invading plane as food that soul beasts could eat and benefit from absorbing.

Di Tian secured the soul beasts’ agreement to join Shrek Academy by offering them demon meat and explaining that Son of Heaven Fruit could purify their bloodlines. He renamed Da Ming and Er Ming as Niu Tian and Tai Tan, then began teaching the group the Clear Origin Spirit-Opening Canon.

• Di Tian told the gathered soul beasts that joining Shrek Academy was optional but that this was their only chance, and warned Er Ming he would still have to do odd jobs.
• Golden Eye agreed to join Shrek Academy, followed by the other Ferocious Beasts and the ten-thousand-year soul beasts.
• Di Tian promised the new recruits demon meat for meals and explained they would need Contribution Points to obtain Son of Heaven Fruit.
• Di Tian renamed Da Ming and Er Ming as Niu Tian and Tai Tan.
• Di Tian began teaching the soul beasts the Clear Origin Spirit-Opening Canon.

Di Tian began teaching the soul beasts the Clear Origin Spirit-Opening Canon inside a barrier at Shrek Academy, and they quickly learned its basics. After eating nourishing meat provided by Di Tian, Golden Eye accepted that Di Tian could lead the soul beasts onto a new path, while Xiao Wu looked forward to cultivating and wondered how Tang San was doing.

• Di Tian set up a barrier around the soul beasts and demonstrated the Clear Origin Spirit-Opening Canon, allowing them to sense how he circulated it.
• Golden Eye, Bi Ji, Xiao Wu, Niu Tian, Tai Tan, Xiong Jun, Myriad Demon King, and Scarlet King studied the technique and felt it could help reduce the danger of Heavenly Tribulation.
• Tai Tan told Xiao Wu he had mastered the basics and recalled that her mother Xiao Rou might have survived if the technique had existed earlier; Xiao Wu was relieved that Tai Tan was safe.
• Di Tian provided a table of nourishing meat, and the soul beasts ate until they felt full and stronger.
• Golden Eye told Di Tian he yielded and decided he wanted to visit the human city to learn more about Shrek Academy and Dean Lin Feng.
• Xiao Wu became more favorable toward Shrek Academy, planned to focus on cultivation, and wondered how strong Tang San would be when they met again.

Tang Hao was taken out of Shrek Academy’s Confinement Room after the students had learned to counter his attacks, but Cai Yue'er explained that he was being released only to improve his combat skills. Bound by a tracking collar that would return him to the academy after six months, Tang Hao headed for the Clear Sky Sect to seek help from Tang Xiao.

• Tang Hao endured another defeat in the Virtual Space and lamented his long imprisonment while Liu Erlong asked when Yu Xiaogang would come for her.
• Cai Yue'er took Tang Hao out of the Confinement Room, but told Liu Erlong that no one had come looking for her and ordered her to stay.
• Tang Hao tried to return to the Confinement Room when Cai Yue'er clarified that he was not being freed, but she restrained him and explained that the students had learned his attack methods.
• Cai Yue'er said Shrek Academy was sending Tang Hao out to improve his combat ability and fastened a collar on him that tracked him and would return him in six months.
• After Cai Yue'er removed his handcuffs, Tang Hao left Shrek Academy and hurried toward the Clear Sky Sect to ask Tang Xiao for help.

Tang Hao struggled with the restrictions Shrek Academy had placed on him and set out for the Clear Sky Sect, while Tang Chen recounted his failed attempt to inherit the Asura Godhood. The chapter ended with the sect learning that Shrek’s Execution Department had helped restore Tang Chen’s sanity.

• Tang Hao was jolted awake by the collar’s shocks and learned that Shrek Academy limited his rest to four hours a day.
• Tang Hao returned to Ah Yin’s cave, apologized to her and San, and resolved to seek help from the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Hao learned that Shrek Academy had branches across the Douluo Continent and decided to admit his mistakes to the sect.
• Tang San and the Clear Sky Sect elders questioned Tang Chen about his disappearance and injuries.
• Tang Chen said he had lost his sanity during the Asura God Trial and that Shrek’s Execution Department had tortured the beast possessing him until the Asura God took it away.

Tang San told the Clear Sky Sect about Shrek Academy’s miraculous pills and proposed having disciples obtain them so he could recreate them. The elders considered reopening the sect and mending ties with the four clans, but postponed both matters until Tang Chen recovered.

• Tang Chen was sent to rest, and Tang Xiao discussed reopening the Clear Sky Sect while ordering the elders to keep Tang Chen’s return secret.
• Tang Xiao and the elders agreed to avoid antagonizing Shrek Academy and debated the Clear Sky Sect’s estrangement from the four clans, blaming Tang Hao.
• Tang San told Tang Xiao and the elders that Shrek Academy offered Mystic Water Pills and Soul Ascension Pills.
• Tang San proposed sending Clear Sky Sect disciples into Shrek Academy to obtain the pills so he could reproduce them, while secretly seeking their formulas.

Tang San tried to persuade the Clear Sky Sect elders to send disciples to Shrek Academy in exchange for pills, but they questioned the risks and his own history with the academy. The discussion ended when a disciple reported that Tang Hao had appeared outside the sect.

• Tang San proposed sending Clear Sky Sect disciples to Shrek Academy, and the Second Elder and Seventh Elder initially supported considering it for the benefits of the Mystic Water Pill and Soul Ascension Pill.
• When Tang Xiao asked who should go, the Second Elder suggested Tang San, but Tang San refused and Tang Xiao said Shrek Academy had crippled his Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul.
• The elders worried Shrek Academy might cripple other disciples' Martial Souls, so Tang San argued that his treatment resulted from his personal conflict with the academy and cited Dai Mubai's fiancée as evidence.
• The Second Elder pressed Tang San about why Shrek Academy had crippled his Martial Soul, and Tang San admitted he had insulted the academy after misunderstanding its actions.
• A disciple rushed in and reported that Tang Hao, whom the sect regarded as a traitor, was standing outside, leaving Tang San visibly panicked.

Tang Hao returned to the Clear Sky Sect seeking help after Shrek Academy imprisoned and tormented him, but the elders rejected him when they saw the collar around his neck. He explained that Shrek had released him temporarily and planned to capture him again in six months, while Second Elder seized on his mention of Tang San.

• After hearing Tang Hao had arrived, Tang San stayed inside the sect, fearing Seventh Elder would target him if Tang Hao recognized him.
• Tang Hao knelt at the mountain gate and asked to see the Sect Master, then pressured a gatekeeping disciple who mocked him.
• Seventh Elder confronted Tang Hao and demanded that he leave, blaming him for his son's death and the sect's troubles.
• Tang Xiao stopped Seventh Elder from attacking Tang Hao and noticed the collar around Tang Hao's neck.
• Tang Hao said Shrek Academy had imprisoned and tormented him, released him temporarily, and planned to capture him again in six months, then begged Tang Xiao to help him.
• Second Elder questioned Tang Hao after hearing him identify Tang San as his son.

Tang Hao went to the Clear Sky Sect seeking help, but his claim that Tang San was his son exposed Tang Xiao’s lie and put Tang San’s place in the sect at risk. After Tang San denied being related to Tang Hao, the Seventh Elder attacked Tang Hao.

• The Seventh Elder questioned Tang Xiao after Tang Hao identified Tang San as his son, and Tang Xiao privately explained that Tang San had been using the identity of his illegitimate son to study in the sect.
• Tang Hao asked Tang Xiao to save him, but Tang Xiao said the cost was beyond the Clear Sky Sect’s means, while the Seventh Elder refused to spend the sect’s resources on him.
• The Seventh Elder summoned Tang San and demanded to know who his father was; Tang San insisted that Tang Xiao was his only father and swore he had no relationship with Tang Hao.
• Tang Hao called Tang San an unfilial son, and Tang San grew resentful, fearing Tang Hao would ruin the position he had worked to attain.
• The Seventh Elder accused Tang Xiao of favoritism and swung his Clear Sky Hammer at Tang Hao.

Tang Hao clashed with the Clear Sky Sect elders after they rejected his attempt to return, while Tang Xiao tried to defend him. As the elders prepared to attack again, Tang San went to fetch Tang Chen, and a tall man appeared behind Tang Hao.

• Tang Hao drew his Clear Sky Hammer and fought the Seventh Elder and several other elders, forcing them back.
• Tang Xiao asked the elders to stop fighting, but Tang Hao insisted he had only resisted because they had pressured him.
• Tang Xiao argued that Tang Hao’s strength could benefit the weakened Clear Sky Sect, prompting the elders to threaten to leave with their followers.
• Tang Hao insulted the elders and challenged them to fight, so the Second Elder and the others surrounded him again.
• Tang Xiao secretly told Tang San to fetch Tang Chen, and Tang San hurried away as a tall man appeared behind Tang Hao and scoffed at his words about Shrek Academy.

A Ruheng and Tang Wulin confronted Tang Hao at the Clear Sky Sect after he insulted Shrek Academy. Tang Wulin defeated Tang Hao with a single punch, and A Ruheng followed up by slapping him.

• Tang Hao saw A Ruheng and Tang Wulin arrive and panicked, asking why they had broken his promised six months of freedom.
• A Ruheng explained that Tang Hao's collar let Shrek Academy track him and monitor what he saw and said, then sent Tang Wulin to teach him a lesson.
• Tang Hao attacked Tang Wulin with the Clear Sky Hammer, but Tang Wulin caught it with his Golden Dragon Claw.
• Tang Wulin used his knowledge of Tang Hao's fighting patterns to dodge his attack and send him flying with one punch.
• A Ruheng walked over to the injured Tang Hao and slapped him, asking whether he still dared to speak badly of Shrek Academy.

A Ruheng challenged the Clear Sky Sect to test the power of its Clear Sky Hammer, but neither the elders nor Tang Chen could penetrate his defenses. Tang San watched in shock as the sect's strongest technique failed to injure him.

• Tang Wulin defeated Tang Hao in one move, and Tang Xiao confirmed that Tang Hao was alive but had several broken ribs.
• A Ruheng told the elders that he had come to test the Clear Sky Hammer and invited them to strike him while he stood still.
• Tang Xiao and several Titled Douluos hit A Ruheng with their Clear Sky Hammers, but he remained unharmed.
• Tang San arrived with Tang Chen, and A Ruheng challenged Tang Chen to strike him as well.
• Tang Chen used the Great Sumeru Hammer with Ring Detonation, but his attack still failed to injure A Ruheng.

After A Ruheng demonstrated that Tang Chen’s strongest attack could not harm him, the Clear Sky Sect turned against Tang Hao to avoid conflict with Shrek Academy. Tang Hao’s son Tang San disowned him as Tang Hao regained consciousness and heard the betrayal before fainting again.

• Tang Hu asked Tang Wulin whether anyone could join Shrek Academy by passing its assessment, and Tang Wulin confirmed that they could.
• Seventh Elder ordered the disciples to throw the unconscious Tang Hao out of the sect and claimed the Clear Sky Sect was Shrek Academy’s loyal ally.
• Seventh Elder urged Tang Chen to abandon Tang Hao, warning that Shrek Academy would come for him in six months, and Tang Chen agreed.
• Tang Xiao accepted Tang Chen’s decision in grief, while Tang San knelt and pleaded to remain in the sect by denying Tang Hao was his father.
• Tang Hao briefly regained consciousness, heard Tang San disown him, spat blood, and fainted again.