Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming told the Heaven Dou team that the newly enrolled Meng Chen and Xiao Wu were exceptionally powerful, shocking the students and stirring Ye Lingling’s memories of Meng Chen. Dugu Yan became interested in him, while at Shrek Academy Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong passed the final admissions test.

• Director Chen arranged a small building and academy allowances for Meng Chen and Xiao Wu.
• Qin Ming told the Heaven Dou team that Meng Chen and Xiao Wu had declined his mentorship, then revealed they were Level 39 Soul Elders despite being six or seven years younger than the team.
• Qin Ming showed the team the enrollment forms, which listed Meng Chen’s Innate Full Soul Power, mutated martial soul, and two purple and one black Soul Rings.
• Ye Lingling suspected Meng Chen was the boy she had known six years earlier, while Dugu Yan showed interest in him and Yu Tianheng wanted to test his strength.
• At Shrek Academy, Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong passed the final test by avoiding Dai Mubai until the incense burned out, and Dai Mubai decided to quit drinking.

Meng Chen visited Ye Cixin in Heaven Dou City and arrived as Ning Fengzhi was pressing her to form a marriage alliance with the Ye Family. Ye Cixin drove Ning Fengzhi away, leaving Meng Chen doubtful that her allies’ favors would protect the family if trouble arose.

• Meng Chen left Xiao Wu at their lodging, collected Big Black, and traveled to the Ye Residence.
• Ning Fengzhi urged Ye Cixin to accept a marriage alliance between the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Ye Family, but she refused.
• After learning Meng Chen had arrived, Ye Cixin welcomed him and told Ning Fengzhi she would consider the proposal only after consulting her daughter, with a match requiring Ning Fengzhi’s son to marry into the Ye Family.
• Ning Yunxiao objected to marrying into the Ye Family, and Ye Cixin ordered him and Ning Fengzhi to leave.
• Ye Cixin explained that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s guardian Douluo owed her favors, while Meng Chen privately doubted those favors would matter.

Meng Chen visited Ye Cixin, revealed his exceptional cultivation, and borrowed the Ye Family’s herbal records to research rare plants. Meanwhile, Ning Fengzhi punished Ning Yunxiao for ruining his marriage plan and ordered him to pursue Ye Lingling.

• Ye Cixin asked Meng Chen about his life and cultivation, and he revealed two thousand-year Soul Rings, one ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, and level thirty-nine Soul Power.
• Ning Fengzhi slapped Ning Yunxiao for disrupting his plan to marry him into the Ye Family, then ordered him to win Ye Lingling by any means.
• Ye Cixin invited Meng Chen to lunch and told him Ye Lingling could help him at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Meng Chen suppressed the effects of his excessive yang energy with his Marrow-Ice Jade Soul Tool and asked Ye Cixin to lend him her herbal notes.
• Ye Cixin brought Meng Chen the Ye Family’s books documenting herbs across the Douluo Continent and offered to help him study them.

Meng Chen returned to Heaven Dou Imperial Academy and found Xiao Wu confronting Xue Beng and his lackeys. After Xiao Wu knocked Xue Beng unconscious, Meng Chen shielded her as the lackeys invoked the prince’s status and threatened them.

• Ye Cixin lent Meng Chen the Ye Family’s medicinal books, and he stored them in his Bone Dragon Ring before leaving the Ye Residence.
• Meng Chen returned to the academy, found Xiao Wu’s note saying she had gone to the cafeteria, and headed there.
• Xue Beng and the students around him insulted Xiao Wu for being a commoner and demanded that she leave the academy.
• Xiao Wu punched Xue Beng, sending him into the crowd and knocking him unconscious.
• Meng Chen arrived and stood in front of Xiao Wu as Xue Beng’s lackeys warned him that he had attacked the Fourth Prince.

Meng Chen summoned lightning to punish Xue Beng’s lackeys after they harassed Xiao Wu, then left the cafeteria with her. Meng Shenji went to seek an audience with Xue Ye over the incident, and the chapter ended as he entered the imperial study where Xue Qinghe and Prince Xue Xing were present.

• Meng Chen revealed his unusual Soul Rings and used Thunder Punishment Summoning to call down dark clouds and silver lightning.
• Meng Chen struck one of Xue Beng’s lackeys with lightning, then knocked out five fleeing lackeys with further bolts.
• Xiao Wu thanked Meng Chen with a kiss, and he told her to stand up to people who provoked her.
• Meng Chen and Xiao Wu left the cafeteria, while academy teachers arrived and reported the incident to Meng Shenji.
• Meng Shenji decided to consult Xue Ye, then entered the imperial study and greeted Xue Ye, Xue Qinghe, and Prince Xue Xing.

Xue Ye punished Xue Beng for provoking two special-admission students, while Xue Qinghe persuaded him to reduce the punishment and set out to reassure the students. Meng Shenji then revealed that Meng Chen was an extraordinary Soul Master whose talent could help Heaven Dou Royal Academy win the upcoming tournament.

• Meng Shenji told Xue Ye that Xue Beng had humiliated two special-admission students and been beaten after threatening to expel them.
• Xue Ye asked whether the students were injured, then ordered Xue Beng's stipend halved and confined him to his residence for three months.
• Prince Xue Xing pleaded for Xue Beng and urged Xue Ye to make the students apologize, citing the imperial family's dignity.
• Xue Qinghe proposed reducing Xue Beng's punishment to a verbal warning and half a month's confinement, and offered to reassure the students; Xue Ye agreed.
• As Xue Qinghe walked with Meng Shenji, Meng Shenji described Meng Chen's Innate Full Soul Power, powerful mutated plant martial soul, level-thirty-nine cultivation, and three Soul Rings, including a ten-thousand-year Third Soul Ring.

Xue Qinghe visited Meng Chen to recruit him and apologize for Xue Beng’s trouble, offering compensation and his personal token. Meng Chen accepted the apology and gift, settling the conflict for now while leaving open the possibility of further trouble.

• Dugu Yan told Yu Feng and Osler about Meng Chen’s powerful Soul Rings, and Yu Feng worried that she had become interested in him.
• Meng Chen read the Ye Family’s medicinal herb records and learned that immortal herbs existed beyond the Icefire Yin Yang Well.
• Meng Shenji introduced Xue Qinghe to Meng Chen, and Xue Qinghe asked him to call him Brother Xue.
• Xue Qinghe apologized for Xue Beng, explained that the prince had been confined, and offered Meng Chen a Gold Soul Card containing a hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Meng Chen accepted the compensation and said he would put the conflict behind him unless Xue Beng caused trouble again.
• Xue Qinghe gave Meng Chen his token and invited him to seek help at the Crown Prince’s Residence.

After the imperial family let Meng Chen and Xiao Wu off with a warning, Meng Chen reassured Xiao Wu and stood by their right to defend themselves. That night, he and Ye Xishui reached the Icefire Yin Yang Well, where they found a vast collection of precious herbs and learned that its central spring was dangerously poisonous.

• Meng Shenji told Meng Chen that Xue Qinghe had protected him from arrest and promised to restrain the academy's noble students.
• Meng Chen told Meng Shenji that he and Xiao Wu would not tolerate further provocation, then comforted Xiao Wu when she blamed herself for the trouble.
• Meng Chen flew with Ye Xishui to the Icefire Yin Yang Well in Sunset Forest, bypassing Dugu Bo's outer poison array.
• Meng Chen and Ye Xishui explored the well's abundant medicinal herbs, and Ye Xishui warned him to stay away from its poisonous central spring.

Meng Chen and Ye Xishui harvested the immortal herbs they wanted from the Icefire Yin Yang Well and learned that the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ remains lay far beneath it. After they left, Dugu Bo discovered the theft and erupted in rage, while Meng Chen unknowingly sneezed over lunch.

• Meng Chen found and transplanted the Aromatic Silk Beauty, then used its protection to gather several immortal herbs with Ye Xishui.
• Ye Xishui asked about the energy beneath the garden, and Meng Chen explained that the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ skeletons had formed the Icefire Yin Yang Well.
• Meng Chen considered controlling the Dragon King skeletons, but Ye Xishui warned that their remnant souls were too powerful for him to overcome.
• Meng Chen and Ye Xishui left the garden, and Dugu Bo returned the next day to find the poisonous herbs and more than a dozen others missing.
• Dugu Bo howled in fury, alarming the Soul Beasts of Sunset Forest, while Meng Chen sneezed in the cafeteria as Xiao Wu asked if he was all right.

Yu Tianheng challenged Meng Chen to a spar, and Meng Chen wagered one hundred thousand gold soul coins on the outcome. The fight was set to begin immediately at the academy’s Soul Fighting Arena, where Dugu Yan and the others expected Yu Tianheng to win.

• Yu Tianheng approached Meng Chen during dinner and challenged him, while Xiao Wu stepped in to defend Meng Chen.
• After finishing his meal, Meng Chen accepted the challenge and wagered one hundred thousand gold soul coins against Yu Tianheng.
• Yu Tianheng agreed to fight at the Soul Fighting Arena, and Meng Chen insisted they go at once as post-dinner exercise.
• Xiao Wu realized the Thunder Hell Vine could counter lightning-based martial souls and became confident Meng Chen would win.
• Dugu Yan, Yu Feng, and other students gathered at the arena, where Dugu Yan and Yu Feng predicted Yu Tianheng would defeat Meng Chen.

Meng Chen and Yu Tianheng began their soul fight before a packed arena, where Yu Tianheng trusted the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon’s strength to overcome Meng Chen’s superior soul rings. Meng Chen blocked Yu Tianheng’s first attack and drove him back with a Thunder Hell Spear, leaving the fight still in progress as thunder sounded and the sky darkened.

• Ye Lingling told Dugu Yan that Meng Chen’s martial soul was not mutated, but Dugu Yan could no longer change the bet she had placed on Yu Tianheng.
• Meng Chen and Yu Tianheng entered the arena and revealed their martial souls and soul rings, drawing surprised reactions from the spectators.
• Yu Tianheng opened the fight with his Thunder Dragon Claw, but Meng Chen stopped it with a wall of Thunder Hell Vines.
• Meng Chen formed a Thunder Hell Spear and attacked Yu Tianheng, who used Thunderous Might to send lightning outward.
• Meng Chen swept the spear into Yu Tianheng’s raised arm and sent him flying backward; thunder sounded as the sky darkened.

Meng Chen defeated Yu Tianheng in a Soul Fight by binding him with the Thunder Hell Vine and draining his lightning power. Yu Tianheng accepted the loss, though he remained deeply unwilling to have been beaten so decisively.

• Meng Chen summoned a thundercloud and struck Yu Tianheng with a lightning spear, while the Thunder Hell Vine crept toward him.
• Yu Tianheng activated Thunderous Fury and tried to shatter the spear, but the vine bound him after Yu Feng warned him to watch his feet.
• Ye Lingling recognized the Thunder Hell Vine and declared the fight over as Yu Tianheng's lightning attacks failed to break free.
• Yu Tianheng realized the vine was absorbing his lightning and Soul Power, then collapsed after his Martial Soul Possession was forcibly released.
• Meng Chen taunted the defeated Yu Tianheng, who admitted he could accept the loss despite his humiliation.

Meng Chen defeated Yu Tianheng and accepted a Thunder Radiance Crystal in place of the one hundred thousand gold soul coins. Back at the dormitory, Xiao Wu angrily insisted the crystal was worthless, but Meng Chen persuaded her to let the deal stand.

• Meng Chen won the spirit battle, helped the exhausted Yu Tianheng off the platform, and rebuffed his complaint that the loss disgraced the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.
• Dugu Yan supported Yu Tianheng while Ye Lingling healed his injuries with the Nine-Hearted Begonia.
• Yu Tianheng gave Meng Chen a Thunder Radiance Crystal as collateral for the one hundred thousand gold soul coins, and Meng Chen accepted it as payment.
• Yu Tianheng vowed to defeat Meng Chen in a rematch, while word of his crushing loss spread through the academy.
• Xiao Wu tried to drag Meng Chen back to Yu Tianheng to exchange the crystal for money, but Meng Chen explained that he needed it and had already agreed to accept it.

Yu Yuanzhen learned that Meng Chen possessed the Thunder Hell Vine and considered whether he might threaten the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, while Xue Qinghe also received a report about him. After Meng Chen reached level forty, Xiao Wu effortlessly plucked the Lovesick Heartbreak Red he offered her.

• Yu Yuanzhen read that Meng Chen had defeated Yu Tianheng with the Thunder Hell Vine, a martial soul the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan regarded as a nemesis.
• Yu Yuanzhen considered killing Meng Chen but decided to watch him before making a decision.
• Xue Qinghe listened to a subordinate's report at the Crown Prince's residence and gazed out the window in thought.
• Meng Chen broke through to level forty overnight after absorbing the lightning power drained from Yu Tianheng, and he decided to seek a fourth Soul Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Meng Chen told Xiao Wu he planned to obtain a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, and Xiao Wu warned him about the danger of a Soul Beast's resentment.
• Meng Chen offered Xiao Wu the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, and she plucked it immediately by spitting blood on it.

Meng Chen returned to the area near Saint Soul Village to find the Blue Silver Emperor and her Soul Bone, while leaving valuable herbs with the village chief and Uncle Dalin's family. Ye Xishui found the hidden waterfall, and Meng Chen began absorbing the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone as the chapter ended.

• Meng Chen took leave from Heaven Dou Royal Academy to obtain his fourth Soul Ring, gave Xiao Wu the Heaven Dou Crown Prince's token, and accepted an azure scale from her.
• Meng Chen returned to Notting City and gave Dragon Ganoderma Leaves to the old village chief and a Ninth-grade Purple Ganoderma to Erzhu's family.
• Ye Xishui searched the mountains near Saint Soul Village and found the waterfall hiding the Blue Silver Emperor and her Soul Bone.
• Ye Xishui brought Meng Chen the wilted Blue Silver Emperor and the Soul Bone in a lead box.
• Meng Chen pressed the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone to his right leg and began absorbing it as its energy strengthened his body.

Meng Chen recovered from absorbing the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone, gaining greater physical strength and the new [Deeply Rooted] skill, then headed toward the Star Dou Great Forest to seek his fourth Soul Ring. In the forest’s core area, Xiao Wu waited for him and prepared lightning-attributed Soul Beasts for his choosing, while a mysterious voice addressed him near the forest’s outskirts.

• Meng Chen woke after four days and discovered that his Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone’s second skill had changed from [Flight] to [Deeply Rooted].
• Meng Chen had Ye Xishui take him to the Star Dou Great Forest after deciding to prioritize his fourth Soul Ring.
• Xiao Wu returned to the Star Dou Great Forest’s core area at Rank 40 and told the Titan Giant Ape to wait for Meng Chen’s arrival.
• Xiao Wu sensed Meng Chen through the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, while the Sky Azure Bull Python confirmed that her Heart-Protecting Scale was in the same direction.
• Meng Chen wandered the forest outskirts looking for a suitable Soul Beast, then heard an unknown voice ask whether he longed for the era twenty thousand years later.

Meng Chen captured an injured Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent before it could become Oscar’s Soul Ring, then came face-to-face with the Shrek group. Tang San recognized him and flew into a furious rage over their old grudge.

• Ye Xishui learned from Meng Chen about the Spirit Pagoda and Soul Spirits that would emerge twenty thousand years later.
• Meng Chen recognized the injured Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent from Tang San and the Shrek group’s trip to the Star Dou Great Forest and decided to take it first.
• Meng Chen restrained the serpent with Thunder Hell Vines and shocked it unconscious, while Zhu Zhuqing saw him capture it.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Zhao Wuji, Dai Mubai, Tang San, and the others arrived, and they were stunned by Meng Chen’s three Soul Rings, including a ten-thousand-year ring.
• Tang San recognized Meng Chen and erupted in anger over their grudge from six years earlier, while Meng Chen taunted him and asked Zhao Wuji to handle his outburst.

Meng Chen released the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent to Chao Tianxiang so Meng Yiran could claim its Soul Ring, while Tang San relied on a precognitive dream to insist that Oscar would get it. The chapter ended with Tang San challenging Meng Yiran for the serpent.

• Tang San calmed himself for Oscar's sake and demanded that Meng Chen hand over the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, but Meng Chen refused.
• Chao Tianxiang arrived with Meng Yiran, explained that the serpent had escaped her, and asked Meng Chen to return it for her granddaughter's Soul Ring.
• Zhao Wuji warned the Shrek group that Chao Tianxiang's husband, Meng Shu, was the dangerous Dragon Duke, while Tang San insisted that Oscar would still obtain the serpent.
• Tang San recalled a precognitive dream in which Oscar gained the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent's Soul Ring and convinced himself that Meng Chen was the Titan Giant Ape who had taken Xiao Wu.
• Meng Chen released the serpent to Chao Tianxiang, who told Meng Yiran to kill it, but Tang San stopped her and challenged her to a match for the Soul Beast.

Tang San and Zhao Wuji tried to claim the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent from Snake Granny, but Snake Granny eventually left it with Meng Chen. When Zhao Wuji ordered Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun to take the serpent, Meng Chen trapped them in Lightning Prison Cages and challenged the Shrek group’s claim.

• Tang San proposed that he and Meng Yiran compete for the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, and Zhao Wuji backed him with his Soul Saint power.
• Snake Granny countered Zhao Wuji’s claim and warned that she had sent for Dragon Duke, prompting Zhao Wuji to begin withdrawing with the Shrek group.
• Tang San told Zhao Wuji that Dragon Duke was absent, so Zhao Wuji renewed his demand for a match.
• Snake Granny gave the serpent to Meng Chen and left with Meng Yiran, who resolved to tell her grandfather what Zhao Wuji had done.
• Zhao Wuji ordered Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun to seize the serpent, but Meng Chen imprisoned them in Lightning Prison Cages and asserted that he had captured it.

Meng Chen killed the Phoenix-tail Cockscomb Snake rather than let Zhao Wuji and the Shrek group have it, enraging Tang San and forcing the group to retreat before Dragon Duke arrived. Dragon Duke reached the corpse shortly afterward and pursued the Shrek group.

• Meng Chen trapped Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun in a Lightning Prison Cage, and Zhao Wuji tried to persuade him to hand over the Phoenix-tail Cockscomb Snake.
• Zhao Wuji offered to erase Tang San's grudge with Meng Chen, and Tang San agreed for the sake of the snake.
• Meng Chen killed the Phoenix-tail Cockscomb Snake with his third soul skill and dispersed its soul ring, enraging Tang San and Zhao Wuji.
• Meng Chen warned that Dragon Duke was on his way, so Zhao Wuji freed Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun and led the Shrek group away.
• Tang San vowed to defeat Meng Chen with Tang Sect hidden weapons, while Zhu Zhuqing wondered how Meng Chen had grown so strong.
• Dragon Duke arrived with Snake Granny and Meng Yiran, found the snake dead, and pursued the departing Shrek group.