Chapter Summaries

Tang San begged Tang Chen to let him remain in the Clear Sky Sect, and Tang Chen initially agreed. After Tang Wulin confirmed that Tang San had failed Shrek Academy's entrance examination, Tang Chen expelled both Tang San and Tang Hao and barred them from returning.

• The Clear Sky Sect elders condemned Tang San for denying Tang Hao and accused Tang Xiao of helping conceal Tang San's identity.
• Tang Chen silenced the elders, then allowed Tang San to stay after Tang San pleaded and injured his forehead kowtowing.
• The Second Elder cited Tang San's failure at Shrek Academy's entrance examination as evidence of his flawed character.
• A Ruheng said he did not know Shrek Academy's admission criteria, but Tang Wulin confirmed that Tang San had taken the examination and failed.
• Tang Chen expelled Tang San and Tang Hao from the Clear Sky Sect and forbade anyone from bringing them back.

Qian Daoliu returned to Spirit City and told Spirit Hall’s elders about the distant continent and Shrek Academy’s warship. He then helped Qian Renxue awaken the Nine Trials of the Angel and left Spirit Hall’s affairs to the others while he stayed to protect her.

• Qian Daoliu returned to Spirit City and told Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and Golden Crocodile Douluo that he had visited another continent with help from Shrek Academy’s warship.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo reported that Qian Renxue was cultivating, while Chrysanthemum Douluo said Bibi Dong remained in seclusion.
• Qian Daoliu found Qian Renxue in Douluo Hall and began the Angel inheritance, revealing that she had awakened the Nine Trials of the Angel.
• Qian Daoliu told Qian Renxue she could become the Angel God, and she accepted her new goal.
• Qian Daoliu appointed Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, Golden Crocodile Douluo, and the others to manage Spirit Hall and prepare for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament while he guarded Qian Renxue.

Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan revisited the defeat that had left Bibi Dong in seclusion and met Su Ye, a Spirit Hall disciple who had studied at Shrek Academy. Su Ye revealed that its resources and training had raised him to Soul King in just a few months, leaving the Golden Generation stunned.

• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan stood outside Shrek Academy and recalled their defeat by Su Mu, Bibi Dong’s humiliation, and her long seclusion.
• Xie Yue mentioned that Spirit Hall had sent more than seventy people to Shrek Academy, but only seven had enrolled.
• Su Ye left the academy, and Xie Yue invited him to dinner with Hu Liena and Yan to ask about his experience there.
• Su Ye explained that Shrek students ate free meals made with rare ingredients that nourished their bodies and strengthened their bloodline power.
• Su Ye said the academy’s food and training had made his body strong enough to withstand three Fifty-Thousand-Year Soul Rings.
• Su Ye revealed that he had reached Soul King, shocking Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan, who had once been far ahead of him.

Su Ye showed Xie Yue, Hu Liena, and Yan the overwhelming strength of his five-ring cultivation and Soul Skills, leaving them shaken by how far Shrek Academy had surpassed Spirit Hall. He confirmed that Shrek Academy and three of its branches would enter the upcoming All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, leaving the Golden Generation dreading the competition.

• After dinner, Xie Yue asked Su Ye to demonstrate his strength, and Hu Liena and Yan joined him at Spirit Hall's training grounds.
• Su Ye summoned the Dark Shadow Blood Blade and revealed five Soul Rings: two purple and three black.
• Su Ye used his first, third, and fifth Soul Skills to destroy training dummies and unleash a powerful attack that sent Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan stumbling backward.
• Hu Liena asked whether Shrek Academy would enter the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
• Su Ye confirmed that Shrek Academy's Spirit City, Sea God Island, and Sun Moon branches would all send teams, leaving the three members of the Golden Generation numb with alarm.

Su Ye told Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan that Shrek Academy’s three branches would compete with Two-Ring Soul Masters, while he had already advanced to five rings and would miss the tournament. The Spirit Hall trio regained hope of winning the championship, though Su Ye warned them not to underestimate Shrek’s students.

• Yan asked whether Shrek Academy cared about the tournament’s soul bone rewards, and Su Ye said they were only a bonus for the academy.
• Xie Yue asked whether Shrek would field one elite team or separate teams from its three branches, and Su Ye said each branch would compete with Two-Ring Soul Masters.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan were relieved to hear Shrek would not send five-ring fighters, and they resolved to prepare for the tournament.
• Su Ye cautioned the trio that Shrek’s Two-Ring students would still be difficult to defeat, then left.
• After Su Ye departed, Xie Yue, Hu Liena, and Yan vowed to win the championship for the Spirit Hall and the Pope.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang resented Tang Hao for destroying their opportunity at Clear Sky Sect, while Tang San worried about Monster Academy’s chances in the upcoming tournament. He decided to teach his six teammates an incomplete version of the Mysterious Heaven Skill to strengthen them without breaking his oath to Tang Sect.

• Tang San returned to Monster Academy with the still-unconscious Tang Hao and suppressed his urge to kill him, deciding he needed Tang Hao’s protection.
• Yu Xiaogang visited Tang San, confirmed Tang Hao had not awakened, and urged him to prepare the team for the tournament in six months.
• Tang San reflected on Shrek Academy’s strength and his six teammates’ weaknesses, concluding that he needed to help them improve.
• Tang San decided to pass his teammates a version of the Mysterious Heaven Skill with its core contents removed, believing this would honor his oath while boosting their combat ability.

Tang San distributed a deliberately incomplete Mysterious Heaven Skill manual to Monster Academy students, claiming it could strengthen them for the upcoming tournament. Oscar, three unfamiliar students, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun accepted copies, leaving Tang San demanding they remember their debt to him.

• Tang San finished stripping essential principles from the Mysterious Heaven Skill and brought the incomplete manual to Flender at the training grounds.
• Tang San had Flender summon Oscar, Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, and three other students, then offered them the manual for the upcoming Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
• Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai challenged Tang San, but Tang San warned Dai Mubai that the tournament could decide whether he lived or died.
• Oscar and the three unfamiliar students accepted the manuals, and Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun took copies after Dai Mubai agreed.
• Tang San told them the cultivation method could make them stronger and reminded them that they owed him for it.

Tang San gave the Shrek members weakened copies of the Mysterious Heaven Skill and explained its benefits, then decided to seek a breakthrough in the Star Dou Great Forest. Flender volunteered to go with him, and Tang San accepted while privately viewing the others as shields.

• Tang San explained that the Mysterious Heaven Skill could nourish the body and help repair meridians, prompting Flender to ask for a copy and Ma Hongjun to complain about receiving it late.
• Yu Xiaogang asked whether the skill could heal his legs, and Tang San said it could not, though he offered hope that a stronger version might clear Yu Xiaogang's damaged meridians.
• Tang San worried that he lacked the strength to protect Tang Hao and meet the remaining deadline, so he decided to seek an opportunity in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Flender offered to accompany Tang San and help protect him from Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, and Tang San agreed while planning to use the group as shields if danger arose.

Tang San led the group toward the Star Dou Great Forest and baited Ma Hongjun with the promise of an immortal herb that could cure his evil fire. There, they met a group of humanlike Soul Beasts who forbade hunting, and Ma Hongjun was injured after he tried to grope their winged leader.

• Flender took the academy’s remaining funds and left Shao Xin and other teachers to guard the academy and care for the unconscious Tang Hao.
• Tang San told Ma Hongjun that the cockscomb phoenix sunflower could cure his evil fire and secretly hoped to manipulate him into stealing herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• The group encountered a winged girl and dozens of humanlike Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The winged girl warned the group not to hunt Soul Beasts, but Ma Hongjun ignored her and reached for her.
• A figure sprang from behind the girl and slashed Ma Hongjun’s outstretched arm with sharp claws.

Tang San and his companions clashed with Shrek Academy’s half-beast guards in the Star Dou Great Forest and fled after being overwhelmed. They escaped into a misty region and arrived at the Love-Questioning Valley of Heaven and Earth, a legendary treasure trove recorded in the Tang Sect’s Poison Chapter.

• Ma Hongjun was wounded by a half-beast, and Oscar used a Recovery Big Sausage to stop his bleeding.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji hesitated to attack the strange group, while Tang San suspected they were backed by Shrek Academy.
• A winged girl announced that the half-beasts belonged to Shrek Academy, and Yu Xiaogang accused the academy of threatening every Soul Master’s cultivation path.
• The half-beasts attacked Flender, Tang San, and the others, forcing them to flee through the forest with Flender pushing Yu Xiaogang’s wheelchair.
• The group entered a misty area, found a golden-and-silver lake, and Tang San recognized it as the Love-Questioning Valley of Heaven and Earth.

Tang San identified the strange place as the Love-Questioning Valley of Heaven and Earth and warned that its rewards came with lethal risks. After Ma Hongjun challenged the valley and was struck by lightning, a mysterious voice asked Yu Xiaogang whether he had someone he loved.

• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that they had entered the Love-Questioning Valley of Heaven and Earth and warned that its opportunities could cost them their lives.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun blamed Tang San for leading them into danger, but Flender told them there was no way back.
• Tang San reminded Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun of the dangerous fates awaiting them if they failed to grow stronger.
• Ma Hongjun challenged the valley, and a golden lightning bolt struck and badly burned him.
• A strange voice asked Yu Xiaogang whether he had someone he loved.

Yu Xiaogang admitted that he still loved both Liu Erlong and Bibi Dong in the Love-Questioning Valley of Heaven and Earth. The two women appeared before him, and their opposing reactions left Liu Erlong devastated and Bibi Dong enraged.

• Tang San urged Yu Xiaogang to answer honestly, then was struck by divine lightning for speaking without being asked.
• Yu Xiaogang named Liu Erlong and Bibi Dong as the women he still loved.
• The valley summoned Liu Erlong and Bibi Dong before Yu Xiaogang and the others.
• Liu Erlong wept with joy at first, while Bibi Dong reacted with anger and threatened Liu Erlong.
• Yu Xiaogang admitted that he could not let go of either woman, and Tang San wondered whether the valley could bring Xiao Wu to him.

Yu Xiaogang claimed he would do anything to rescue Liu Erlong and win Bibi Dong back, but a god demanded that he castrate himself to prove his sincerity. After Liu Erlong was struck by lightning for trying to take his place, Yu Xiaogang dropped the blade and refused.

• Yu Xiaogang said he wanted to free Liu Erlong from Shrek Academy and win Bibi Dong back, and promised he would pay any price to make them happy.
• The androgynous voice ordered Yu Xiaogang to castrate himself with a golden blade, revealing that the voice belonged to a god.
• Liu Erlong begged the god to punish her instead, but golden lightning struck her and left her coughing blood.
• Yu Xiaogang watched Liu Erlong fall, then dropped the blade and refused to castrate himself.
• Liu Erlong felt relieved by Yu Xiaogang's choice, while Bibi Dong's eyes dimmed.

Yu Xiaogang was punished for lying about his devotion, then forced to endure a horrifying ordeal in Bibi Dong’s place. The voice declared that he deserved no reward and began testing Tang San, Ma Hongjun, and Dai Mubai together.

• The voice accused Yu Xiaogang of lying and used the golden blade to castrate him.
• Yu Xiaogang agreed to bear Bibi Dong’s suffering, then was trapped in a dark space and tormented by visions of Tang San and Ma Hongjun.
• Yu Xiaogang returned unconscious, and Liu Erlong held him while Bibi Dong recognized the ordeal as a reminder of her own past suffering.
• The voice judged Yu Xiaogang’s devotion weak and his feelings false, denying him a reward.
• Three pillars of light fell over Tang San, Ma Hongjun, and Dai Mubai, and the voice asked whether the three of them had had relations with one another.

The God of Love forced Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun to admit they had committed shameful acts, then announced that passing the Nine Trials of the God of Love could let someone inherit the divine position. Yu Xiaogang realized he might have had a chance to become a god, while the others were left facing the trials.

• The God of Love asked Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun whether they had committed a vile act, and all three admitted that they had.
• Oscar, Flender, Liu Erlong, and the reserve students reacted with shock and fear at the three men's confessions.
• Dai Mubai protested that the question was unfair, and the God of Love struck him with golden lightning before warning him not to talk too much.
• The God of Love announced the Nine Trials of the God of Love and offered divine inheritance to anyone who passed them.
• Yu Xiaogang regretted that he might have been able to become a god.

Tang San and Dai Mubai sought a chance to inherit the God of Love’s power, but the deity’s trials punished their denials and excluded Ma Hongjun for having no lover. Dai Mubai claimed Zhu Zhuqing was his fiancée as the God of Love assessed his eligibility.

• Tang San resolved to endure anything to inherit the God of Love’s Divine Position after losing hope of relying on his other Martial Souls or assessments.
• Tang San and Dai Mubai denied having feelings for one another, and Ma Hongjun echoed them; the God of Love struck all three with golden lightning for lying.
• The God of Love explained that hatred counted as a feeling, while Tang San swallowed his anger and waited to hear about the trials.
• Ma Hongjun said he had no lover, so the God of Love disqualified him from the nine trials, much to his private relief.
• Dai Mubai claimed Zhu Zhuqing was his lover and fiancée, while Oscar recognized his declaration as hypocrisy.

Dai Mubai accepted the God of Love’s demand to castrate himself and earned permission to undertake the nine trials. Tang San then declared his devotion to Xiao Wu and faced the same demand, leaving his own eligibility unresolved.

• The God of Love challenged Dai Mubai’s claims of loving Zhu Zhuqing and ordered him to castrate himself despite his past visits to brothels.
• Dai Mubai cut off his own manhood and was approved to undertake the God of Love’s nine trials.
• Tang San grew wary of Dai Mubai’s progress, then declared that he would give everything, even his life, for Xiao Wu.
• The God of Love presented Tang San with a golden blade, and Tang San castrated himself to meet the trial’s threshold.
• Ma Hongjun and Oscar trembled as they watched Tang San and Dai Mubai mutilate themselves for the chance at godhood.

The God of Love tested Flender and sent away the candidates without tangled feelings, while Tang San and Dai Mubai received their first trial and the Sunflower Manual. Flender accepted a chance to unite with Liu Erlong, though he could never inherit the God of Love’s Divine Position.

• Flender was struck by golden lightning for denying that he loved someone, then admitted that he loved Liu Erlong.
• The God of Love asked what Flender would sacrifice for Liu Erlong and offered to bring them together if he completed three trials, while barring him from inheriting the Divine Position.
• Flender accepted the offer, upsetting Yu Xiaogang and stunning Liu Erlong.
• The God of Love teleported Oscar and the other candidates with no tangled feelings out of the valley.
• Tang San and Dai Mubai received the first trial: place among the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament’s top five in six months, or lose their rewards.
• Tang San and Dai Mubai each received a copy of the Sunflower Manual.

At court, Xue Ye removed Xue Beng as acting crown prince after he proposed using the Imperial Guard to stop Shrek Academy from recruiting in the Heaven Dou Empire. Xue Ye then told Prince Xue Xing that he intended for Xue Ke, a Shrek Academy student, to inherit the throne.

• Xue Ye questioned the ministers about Heaven Dou Royal Academy's tournament preparations, and they said the team could secure a place in the top five.
• Xue Beng blamed Shrek Academy for recruiting talented students and proposed that the Imperial Guard force it to recruit in the Star Luo Empire instead.
• Xue Ye condemned Xue Beng's proposal, removed him as acting crown prince, and ordered him to leave the hall.
• After court, Xue Ye secretly told Prince Xue Xing that he wanted Xue Ke to inherit the throne because she had passed Shrek Academy's assessment.
• Xue Ye said Xue Ke's connection to Shrek Academy could help her become a wise ruler, leaving Prince Xue Xing stunned.

Dai Weisi faced the Star Luo Empire Emperor’s threat and was ordered to win the tournament, while Zhu Zhuyun was forced to cooperate with him. With only three days left, Zhu Zhuyun wondered whether she could have escaped her fate by joining Shrek Academy.

• The Star Luo Empire Emperor warned Dai Weisi that he would die if he lost to Dai Mubai in the tournament.
• Dai Weisi learned Shrek Academy would field a team of Two-Ring Soul Masters and promised his father victory.
• Dai Weisi went to the Duke of Nether Estate and demanded that Zhu Zhuyun cooperate with him on their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Dai Weisi reminded Zhu Zhuyun that both would die if he lost, then promised she would become empress if he won.
• Zhu Zhuyun resented Dai Weisi and wondered whether joining Shrek Academy could have freed her from her fate.