Chapter Summaries

Ye Qingcang defeated the Slaughter King in Hell Road and claimed the Asura God Sword, earning the attention of the gods. After the Rakshasa God cast her Red Three-headed Little Bat into the lower realm, Ye Qingcang's new inheritance began with a reluctant servant falling toward him.

• Ye Qingcang told the dying Slaughter King his name and heard the king warn him about the Rakshasa divine thought within the Asura God Sword.
• The Slaughter King died, and Ye Qingcang took his greatsword and faced the Asura God's test, declaring that he could succeed where others had.
• The Asura God Sword shed its corrupted shell and became a Red Jade longsword, which formed a new mixed Soul Power within Ye Qingcang.
• The Angel God demanded an explanation from the Rakshasa God, who ordered the Red Three-headed Little Bat to serve Ye Qingcang and hurled it toward the lower realm.

Qian Renxue waited outside the City of Slaughter for Ye Qingcang to emerge from Hell Road, while Porcupine Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo questioned her decision to welcome him personally. Ye Qingcang returned bearing a divine trial mark, leaving Qian Renxue astonished and prompting him to ask whether she had become a God Trial Taker herself.

• Qian Renxue explained to Porcupine Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo why she was willing to welcome Ye Qingcang, whether or not he had completed his plan.
• The three waited until dusk, when a white vortex appeared and sent Ye Qingcang out of Hell Road.
• Qian Renxue sent Porcupine Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo to receive Ye Qingcang, warning them that he was injured and was her friend.
• Ye Qingcang returned carrying the two Titled Douluo, and Qian Renxue spotted the red sword mark on his forehead.
• Qian Renxue asked whether Ye Qingcang had become a God Trial Taker, and he confirmed it before teasing her about whether she had one of her own.

Qian Renxue and Ye Qingcang discussed their rivalry, divine trials, and a coming move that could disrupt her plan to seize power in the Heaven Dou Empire. Qian Renxue asked Ye Qingcang to help her find Heaven Dou geniuses who could publicly defeat the empire’s academy students and draw them toward Spirit Hall.

• Qian Renxue and Ye Qingcang played chess as they reflected on their complicated backgrounds and agreed that they understood one another despite their opposing futures.
• Ye Qingcang revealed that he was an Asura God trial taker and warned Qian Renxue that his major move before the Soul Master Competition would affect her plans.
• Qian Renxue explained that the geniuses she had hoped to use were likely lost on Hell Road and asked Ye Qingcang for help securing replacements from the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Qian Renxue said she needed Heaven Dou youths to defeat the empire’s academies, weakening loyalty to the throne and encouraging talented people to join Spirit Hall.

Ye Qingcang offered Qian Renxue twenty-two Red Completion alchemy creations with domains to accelerate her takeover of Heaven Dou, explaining how they could inhabit flesh and blood and fight. He revealed that he had created Violet as a true person but kept her independent, while concealing Illusion Realization, the power behind his alchemy.

• Qian Renxue complained that Ye Qingcang kept shortening her plans to conquer Heaven Dou, and he offered to support her with domain-bearing creations.
• Ye Qingcang explained the four stages of his Alchemy Secret Technique and revealed that the twenty-two figures he had made were Red Completion creations capable of controlling bodies.
• Qian Renxue recognized that Violet was proof Ye Qingcang had reached the Gold stage, and he said he had left her memories and choices untouched and would not create another true person.
• Ye Qingcang summoned the spirits within the twenty-two spinning tops, named their forms and combat types, and described their domains, Soul Power, and need for flesh and blood.
• Ye Qingcang withheld the truth that Illusion Realization, not alchemy, was the power that had enabled him to turn his designs into reality.

Qian Renxue and Ye Qingcang traveled toward Heaven Dou City, where they discussed the dangers and political stakes of her coming coup. Ye Qingcang proposed forcing Ning Fengzhi to choose between supporting Qian Renxue and facing Spirit Hall’s retaliation, as the group neared the city.

• Qian Renxue chose the route through the Yunluo Duchy, and her unicorn-drawn carriage crossed into Heaven Dou territory before resting in Notting City.
• Qian Renxue worried that Heaven Dou’s factions could delay her coup until the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect arrived with powerful reinforcements.
• Ye Qingcang advised Qian Renxue to seize Heaven Dou City, eliminate the imperial family, keep Ning Rongrong under guard, and make Ning Fengzhi choose between serving her or opposing Spirit Hall.
• Qian Renxue agreed that Ning Fengzhi would likely support her if she offered him a path to elevate the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ye Qingcang received messages on his Jade Seal Machine and explained that he had built on the wisdom of predecessors rather than invented Soul Tools himself.

Crown Prince Xue Qinghe returned to Heaven Dou City amid a formal welcome, drawing a crowd that included the Shrek group. He recognized Ning Rongrong, his former junior sister, at the city gates and greeted her, leaving her embarrassed before the watching crowd.

• Low-ranking officials gathered at Heaven Dou City's gates to welcome Xue Qinghe and the talented person he had recruited.
• The gate general cleared the main road for Xue Qinghe's enormous carriage, inconveniencing travelers and prompting Ma Hongjun and Oscar to complain.
• Qin Ming explained that the crowd and cleared road likely signaled the Crown Prince's return, while Ning Rongrong described his carriage and recalled riding in it as a child.
• Ning Rongrong considered seeking out Xue Qinghe to confront Xue Xing and Xue Beng, but Zhao Wuji and Flender warned her to stay out of imperial family disputes.
• Xue Qinghe stepped into the crowd, recognized Ning Rongrong, and greeted her as his junior sister; she hurriedly acknowledged him as her senior brother.

Ning Rongrong and the Shrek group met Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, who offered to escort them to Blue Tyrant Academy. Inside his carriage, they discovered Xiao Wu restrained and kneeling before a chessboard beside Xue Qinghe and a mysterious youth.

• Ning Rongrong awkwardly addressed Qian Renxue as her Crown Prince senior brother, and Qian Renxue warmly welcomed her as a junior sister.
• Qian Renxue recognized that Heaven Dou Royal Academy had rejected the Shrek group and apologized, then asked Qin Ming what he intended to do.
• Qin Ming explained that Shrek needed an advanced academy’s certification to enter the Soul Master Competition and that they planned to try Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Qian Renxue invited the Shrek group to ride with her to Blue Tyrant Academy, and they accepted.
• The Shrek group entered the carriage and found two Black Robe Guards holding Xiao Wu down as she knelt before a chessboard beside Xue Qinghe and a mysterious youth.

Ye Qingcang exposed Xiao Wu as a 100,000-Year Soul Beast and explained that Tang Hao had chosen her as Tang San’s future Ninth Soul Ring. He decided to kill her for the Spirit Ring he needed, leaving Tang San and the Shrek group horrified as Xiao Wu’s attempt to take her own life was stopped.

• Tang San and the Shrek group challenged Xue Qinghe after Spear Douluo and Porcupine Douluo seized Xiao Wu.
• Ye Qingcang revealed that Xiao Wu was a 100,000-Year Soul Beast who had transformed into a human before reaching level seventy.
• Ye Qingcang said Tang Hao had chosen Xiao Wu as Tang San’s future Ninth Soul Ring and warned that killing her would provoke Tang Hao.
• Qian Renxue asked Ye Qingcang whether he wanted Xiao Wu’s resources, and he said he needed her Spirit Ring at level forty but would give the Soul Bone to someone else.
• Ye Qingcang declared that he would kill Xiao Wu, and the two Titled Douluo suppressed her when she tried to take her own life.

Ye Qingcang stopped the Shrek group from defending Xiao Wu and explained why their admission would bring trouble to Blue Tyrant Academy. He left the group facing the academy’s strict admissions rules and his refusal to protect them merely because they hoped to enroll.

• Yu Xiaogang began to plead for Xiao Wu, but Qian Renxue warned the group that opposing her execution meant defying the world over a 100,000-Year Soul Beast.
• Ning Rongrong challenged the conclusion that Xiao Wu was a transformed Soul Beast, and Qian Renxue released Spear Douluo and Porcupine Douluo after Ning Rongrong spoke up.
• Ye Qingcang said he was sparing Xiao Wu only for Qian Renxue’s sake and listed the dangers he believed the Shrek group would bring to Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Ye Qingcang criticized Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun, while saying Oscar was the only one who appealed to him.
• Ye Qingcang explained that Blue Tyrant Academy primarily recruited commoners and that other Soul Masters had to abandon their identities or defeat a Heaven Ranking student to enroll.

Ye Qingcang’s criticism of the Shrek group sparked angry rebuttals before Qian Renxue explained Blue Tyrant Academy’s rules and Ye Qingcang’s authority as its strongest student. Dai Mubai challenged the idea of defeating him, and Ye Qingcang said victory would let them expel him or even kill him.

• Yu Xiaogang and Flender reacted with shock when Ye Qingcang revealed that his mother was Er Long, while Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, and Tang San argued against his criticism.
• Qian Renxue stopped the Shrek group’s shouting and introduced Ye Qingcang as her friend, the academy dean’s son, and the top student on Blue Tyrant Academy’s Heaven Ranking.
• Qian Renxue explained Blue Tyrant Academy’s admissions, rankings, size, and rule that strength determined status and authority.
• Dai Mubai asked whether defeating Ye Qingcang would let them expel him, and Ye Qingcang confirmed that they could even kill him if they were strong enough to beat him.

The Shrek group arrived at Blue Tyrant Academy, where Ye Qingcang challenged Yu Xiaogang’s motives for seeking admission. Yu Xiaogang insisted they needed the academy to protect Xiao Wu, and the group faced Ye Qingcang as the Crown Prince left.

• The Shrek group reached Blue Tyrant Academy, and Ye Qingcang pushed Yu Xiaogang away from the carriage door while mocking his refusal to give up on joining.
• Yu Xiaogang swallowed Ye Qingcang’s insults and resolved to endure them for Tang San’s sake, while Flender urged him to visit Liu Erlong later instead of forcing a reunion now.
• Yu Xiaogang argued that Blue Tyrant Academy was the safest choice because Xiao Wu’s 100,000-Year Spirit Ring and Soul Bone could make her a target elsewhere.
• Oscar suggested finding an academy without a Title Douluo, but Yu Xiaogang realized Xue Qinghe could hear them and feared the Crown Prince would seize Xiao Wu.
• Xue Qinghe announced their arrival, then departed; Ma Hongjun rallied the Shrek group to face Ye Qingcang and called for someone to answer him.

Qin Ming warned the Shrek group not to underestimate Blue Tyrant Academy, explaining its Stellar Martial Arts and Soul Guidance Technology systems and the strength of its students. The group was left shaken by the academy’s capabilities and by the power of Ye Qingcang, who was using a Soul Tool at the gate.

• Dai Mubai loudly challenged Ye Qingcang’s confidence, while Zhu Zhuqing chose not to intervene.
• Qin Ming interrupted the Shrek group and warned them against underestimating Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Qin Ming explained that Blue Tyrant Academy had developed Stellar Martial Arts and Soul Guidance Technology, including Soul Tools capable of greatly enhancing their users.
• Qin Ming described the academy’s rankings and said its students could overwhelm the Royal Fight Team in battles with comparable Soul Power ranks.
• Qin Ming recalled that the Royal Fight Team had been defeated in under thirty seconds by God Servant, a Heaven Ranking student and Ye Qingcang’s maidservant.

Qin Ming explained the Royal Fight Team’s defeat and described Blue Tyrant Academy’s Soul Tools and Stellar Martial Arts, prompting the Shrek group to consider their potential. As they entered the academy, he revealed that Soul Tools were costly to produce and that Alchemy could eliminate those expenses by transforming ordinary materials.

• Qin Ming confirmed that the Royal Fight Team Shrek had faced was the same team once crushed in under thirty seconds by a seven-person team.
• Ning Rongrong recognized how Soul Tools could protect Support Type Soul Masters and considered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s ability to buy the technology and its blueprints.
• Yu Xiaogang imagined taking charge of the emerging Soul Guidance Technology system, while Oscar hoped Shrek would join Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Qin Ming gave the Shrek group temporary credentials and led them through Blue Tyrant Academy’s gates as he began explaining Stellar Martial Arts and Soul Guidance Technology.
• Qin Ming explained that failed Rank Seven Soul Tools could cost at least one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, while Alchemy could transform dirt and other materials into what Soul Tool Masters needed.

Qin Ming explained how Alchemy enabled Soul Tool Masters to create rare materials and described the first two chapters of Stellar Martial Arts, revealing the system’s power and benefits. Convinced by Ye Qingcang’s achievements, Ning Rongrong called out to him to ask about Stellar Martial Arts.

• Qin Ming explained that Alchemy could transform ordinary matter into rare metals and gemstones, including materials needed to build Soul Tools.
• Qin Ming described Stellar Martial Arts’ ranking-based chapters and explained that its first chapter let cultivators fully control their strength and speed.
• Qin Ming recounted how a thirteen-year-old Icefield Bear student used immense strength to threaten the Royal Fight Team.
• Qin Ming outlined the second chapter’s benefits, including increased lifespan, precise muscle control, and rapid healing, and Flender recognized the system’s value.
• Qin Ming suggested the group ask Ye Qingcang about Stellar Martial Arts, but Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, Ma Hongjun, and Dai Mubai refused because of their past conflict with him.
• Ning Rongrong, newly convinced that Ye Qingcang’s confidence was earned, called out to him and asked him to explain Stellar Martial Arts.

Ye Qingcang corrected Qin Ming’s account of Stellar Martial Arts and explained its later chapters to the Shrek group. He left Chapter Seven’s limitless potential and the path toward Magnetic Field Martial Arts partly undisclosed, while making clear that he pursued his own path apart from Tang San.

• Ye Qingcang told the Shrek group that Blue Tyrant Academy forbade students and graduates from spreading Stellar Martial Arts and Soul Guidance Technology, and revealed that Qin Ming’s account had omitted several stages of cultivation.
• Ning Rongrong asked Ye Qingcang about the five chapters beyond the first two, and he outlined chapters on skin and hair, tendons and bones, viscera, and the brain domain.
• Ye Qingcang explained that Chapter Seven, Microscopic, had no clear realm divisions and was the prerequisite for cultivating Magnetic Field Martial Arts.
• Ye Qingcang reflected that Magnetic Field Martial Arts could let a practitioner wield the world’s magnetic field, and that Stellar Martial Arts might ultimately lead to becoming a star system or the universe.
• Ye Qingcang decided that he had no reason to kill Tang San, but neither wanted to be his friend nor accept him as the protagonist of Ye Qingcang’s own story.

Ning Rongrong asked Ye Qingcang about Magnetic Field Martial Arts, but his explanation left her and the Shrek group confused. At Blue Tyrant Academy, Ye Qingcang showed them Flower Path, one of the academy’s nine wonders, where trees bearing flowers welcomed him.

• Ning Rongrong asked Ye Qingcang what Magnetic Field Martial Arts was, and he described a path that used magnetic fields to build kinetic force and destructive power.
• Ning Rongrong, Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and the others failed to grasp Ye Qingcang’s explanation.
• Ye Qingcang led the group through the academy and stopped before a ten-thousand-meter road, where more than a hundred trees suddenly bloomed.
• Ye Qingcang identified the flower-strewn road as Flower Path and explained that it held eighteen True Meaning Trees planted by him, alongside trees planted by students who had comprehended true meaning.
• Ye Qingcang said students could spend academic credits to study the trees’ true meanings, and that planters could earn credits without completing missions.

The Shrek group read a True Meaning Tree account of Qin Shizi’s seemingly impossible feat of creating Abyssal Serpent Sword Intent, leaving Yu Xiaogang shaken by how much it contradicted his knowledge. Yu Xiaogang insisted that Shrek seek refuge at Blue Tyrant Academy, while Ye Qingcang recorded the ensuing quarrel and declared that his trap was complete.

• Zhu Zhuqing found Qin Shizi’s inscription describing how he created Abyssal Serpent Sword Intent after killing a 20,000-year Nether Water Black Serpent as a rank-forty Soul Master.
• Yu Xiaogang was stunned by the account’s claims about the serpent, its Spirit Ring, and its Soul Bone, while the Shrek group continued along the Flower Path in separate clusters.
• Yu Xiaogang urged Flender to ask Er Long to let Shrek join Blue Tyrant Academy, arguing that the academy was their only protection from Spirit Hall and the dangers surrounding Xiao Wu and Tang San.
• Flender rejected Yu Xiaogang’s plan and argued that they should resolve their problems instead of transferring them to Er Long and Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang insisted he would ask Er Long for help, prompting Flender to storm ahead and Ma Hongjun to follow him, while Tang San stayed with Yu Xiaogang.
• Ye Qingcang put away his recording device and said the final part of his trap was complete.

Ye Qingcang explained the Pavilion in Water, enlightenment, and Blue Tyrant Academy’s merit-based system to the Shrek group. The group learned that the academy’s Spirit Cuisine Room was an apprentice operation and that students could buy expensive spirit cuisine for just a few credits, leaving them stunned.

• Ye Qingcang explained that the Pavilion in Water tested students’ composure and physical training, and that entering it cost credits.
• Ye Qingcang described enlightenment as comprehending the principles of the world and explained how it could produce Self-Created Soul Skills or true meanings.
• The Shrek group reached the teaching building, where the Dean of Studies explained Blue Tyrant Academy’s strict rules, student freedom, credit system, and rewards for merit.
• The Shrek group reacted with astonishment when the Dean of Studies revealed that the Spirit Cuisine Room belonged to Blue Tyrant Academy and sold spirit cuisine to students at a steep discount.

The Shrek group learned about Blue Tyrant Academy’s costly Spirit Cuisine and its training grounds before Ye Qingcang confirmed who was taking the special route. Xiao Wu questioned whether Ye Qingcang would kill her if she refused to join, and she ended by asking Tang San to leave her alone while she sorted out her thoughts.

• Ning Rongrong, Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Qin Ming reacted with disbelief to Blue Tyrant Academy’s Spirit Cuisine prices and discounts.
• Ye Qingcang explained the academy’s training grounds and told the challengers they could choose a suitable venue.
• Ye Qingcang confirmed that Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu were seeking entry through the special route, and they agreed.
• Xiao Wu asked Ye Qingcang whether he would kill her if she did not join, and he said he would because he wanted her 100,000-Year Spirit Ring.
• Tang San confronted Ye Qingcang to protect Xiao Wu, then grew furious when she admitted she did not dare trust anyone.
• Xiao Wu asked Tang San not to approach her and said she needed time alone to sort out her thoughts.

Ye Qingcang defended his role in exposing Xiao Wu and argued that strength, rather than fairness, determined who could decide another’s fate. Xiao Wu understood his territorial warning and, despite fearing him, trusted him more than Tang San.

• Xiao Wu’s instinctive rejection and avoidance of Tang San deepened his sense of betrayal, and he turned his anger toward Ye Qingcang.
• Ye Qingcang argued that Xiao Wu’s identity was exposed because she had left the forest before reaching Rank 60, while Tang San accused him of targeting her life.
• Ye Qingcang compared the unequal lives of Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing to argue that neither Xiao Wu nor he was wrong, and that the strong decided the weak’s fate.
• Xiao Wu asked whether Ye Qingcang intended to make her sacrifice herself for her Spirit Ring, but he said he had no need for her sacrifice.
• Ye Qingcang warned that he would hunt Xiao Wu if she entered and tried to leave Blue Tyrant Academy, and Xiao Wu compared him to a territorial tiger and trusted him more than Tang San.