Chapter Summaries

Ye Qingcang defeated the Slaughter King in Hell Road and claimed the Asura Divine Sword, surviving its test and receiving its inheritance. In the Divine Realm, the Angel God demanded answers from the Rakshasa God, who sent the Red Three-Headed Bat down to serve Ye Qingcang.

• Ye Qingcang told the dying Slaughter King his name after defeating him with help from the artificial humans, the black tower, and the Chains of Heaven.
• The Slaughter King praised Ye Qingcang, warned him about the Rakshasa Divine Thought in the Asura Divine Sword, and died after sharing his regret over a lost promise.
• Ye Qingcang took the Asura Divine Sword and endured the Asura's test, declaring that he was stronger and deserved to inherit the power.
• The Asura Divine Sword shed its corrupted shell and recognized Ye Qingcang, marking his forehead and strengthening his Soul Power.
• The Angel God demanded an explanation from the Rakshasa God, who sent the Red Three-Headed Bat to the lower realm as Ye Qingcang's servant.

Qian Renxue waited outside Slaughter City for Ye Qingcang to return from Hell Road, insisting that he deserved her trust and welcome. When he emerged as a God Trial Taker, she was stunned, and Ye Qingcang teased her about not having a similar mark.

• Qian Renxue waited in a carriage with Snake Lance Douluo and Spiny Porpoise Douluo, who questioned why she was personally welcoming Ye Qingcang.
• Qian Renxue explained that Ye Qingcang was valuable whether or not he completed his plan, and said she trusted him.
• A white vortex appeared at sunset and expelled Ye Qingcang, who returned badly injured.
• Snake Lance Douluo and Spiny Porpoise Douluo brought Ye Qingcang back to the carriage, shocking Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue noticed the red sword mark on Ye Qingcang's forehead and asked if he had become a God Trial Taker.
• Ye Qingcang confirmed it and teased Qian Renxue for lacking a similar mark.

Ye Qingcang and Qian Renxue discussed their identities, rivalries, and plans while playing chess, and Ye Qingcang warned her that his upcoming operation would disrupt her attempt to seize the Heaven Dou Empire. Qian Renxue asked him to help recruit Heaven Dou geniuses to crush the empire’s younger generation before her takeover.

• Ye Qingcang told Qian Renxue he had claimed the Child of God identity to ensure he could kill his enemy if necessary, while she reflected on the dangers of their intertwined backgrounds.
• Ye Qingcang revealed that he was taking the Asura God’s trial and described the divine relationships connecting the Asura, Rakshasa, and Angel gods, prompting Qian Renxue to object to discussing their mothers’ past entanglements.
• Ye Qingcang warned Qian Renxue that his major operation before the Soul Master Competition would affect her usurpation plan, hinting that he wanted to find more Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and another Divine Realm.
• Qian Renxue explained that she needed gifted Heaven Dou youths to defeat the empire’s academies and weaken loyalty to the Heaven Dou Empire, but the more than twenty geniuses under Ye Qingcang’s command were gone.
• Qian Renxue said she would manage public opinion and argued that people would follow whoever promised them a happier life, regardless of that leader’s identity or allegiance.

Ye Qingcang offered Qian Renxue twenty-two alchemical creations with domains to help her accelerate her takeover of Heaven Dou, revealing that they were conscious beings made during his Reddish Brown stage. He left her with the spinning tops and their potential as fighters, while keeping the true nature of his Illusion Realization ability secret.

• Ye Qingcang argued that Qian Renxue should remain a player rather than enter the political game herself, then offered support for her plan to seize Heaven Dou.
• Ye Qingcang explained the four stages of the Alchemy Secret Technique and revealed that his Reddish Brown creations possessed consciousness and could control bodies made from flesh and blood.
• Qian Renxue realized that Violet proved Ye Qingcang had reached the Gold realm, and Ye Qingcang explained why he had treated Violet as a person rather than a creation to command or sell.
• Ye Qingcang introduced twenty-two spinning tops, each with a distinct spirit, domain, and combat role, and described their level and flesh-and-blood requirements.
• Ye Qingcang privately reflected that his Illusion Realization ability—not the Alchemy Secret Technique—was the secret behind his creations, and that he could never reveal it to anyone.

Qian Renxue and Ye Qingcang reached Heaven Dou City after choosing the safer route through Yunluo Duchy, and discussed the risks of taking power amid the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s influence. Ye Qingcang proposed forcing Ning Fengzhi to choose between supporting Qian Renxue and opposing her, while his Jade Seal Machine displayed messages as they neared the city.

• Qian Renxue chose the route through Yunluo Duchy, and eight Unicorns carried her party through Pelage Kingdom and into Notting City to rest.
• As they traveled toward Heaven Dou City, Qian Renxue worried that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect might join the many powerful forces opposing her coup.
• Ye Qingcang advised Qian Renxue to seize Heaven Dou City, eliminate Xue Beng, Xue Xing, and the imperial family, and pressure Ning Fengzhi by keeping Ning Rongrong under watch.
• Qian Renxue agreed that Ning Fengzhi would likely support her if offered a path to greater influence for himself and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ye Qingcang displayed messages on his Jade Seal Machine, and Qian Renxue praised his ability to bring Soul Tools into everyday life and battle.

Crown Prince Xue Qinghe returned to Heaven Dou City, where low-ranking officials and the Shrek group gathered to witness his arrival. He recognized Ning Rongrong among the crowd and greeted her as his junior sister.

• Officials gathered at Heaven Dou City's gates to welcome Xue Qinghe and see the talent he had recruited.
• The gate general cleared the main road for Xue Qinghe's enormous carriage, inconveniencing the crowd.
• Qin Ming explained that the returning Crown Prince was likely arriving, and Ning Rongrong described his carriage and recalled riding in it as a child.
• Ning Rongrong considered asking Xue Qinghe to deal with Xue Xing and Xue Beng, but Zhao Wuji and Flender warned her to stay out of imperial family disputes.
• Xue Qinghe stepped down from his carriage, recognized Ning Rongrong, and greeted her as his junior sister.

Ning Rongrong and the Shrek group met Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, who invited them to travel with him to Blue Tyrant Academy. Inside his carriage, they discovered that Xiao Wu had been forced to kneel before a chessboard between Xue Qinghe and a mysterious youth.

• Ning Rongrong awkwardly greeted Xue Qinghe as her senior brother, and he welcomed her and asked about the Shrek group.
• Xue Qinghe inferred that Heaven Dou Royal Academy had rejected the Shrek group and invited Qin Ming to explain.
• Qin Ming described Shrek Academy's need to join an advanced academy to enter the Soul Master Competition, and said they planned to try Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Xue Qinghe revealed that he was also going to Blue Tyrant Academy and offered the Shrek group a ride in his carriage.
• The Shrek group entered the carriage and saw two masked guards, a mysterious youth, and Xiao Wu held down and made to kneel before the chessboard.

Ye Qingcang revealed that Xiao Wu was a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and explained that Tang Hao had chosen her as Tang San’s future Soul Ring. He then declared that he would kill her for the Soul Ring and give her Soul Bone to someone else, leaving Xiao Wu restrained as she tried to end her life.

• Tang San and the Shrek group challenged Xue Qinghe and the guards for capturing Xiao Wu, while Qian Renxue remained confused about why she had been seized.
• Ye Qingcang revealed that Xiao Wu was a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast who had exposed herself by leaving the forest before reaching Level 70.
• Ye Qingcang warned that Xiao Wu was Tang Hao’s chosen Soul Ring for Tang San and that killing her could make Tang Hao an enemy.
• Tang San grew suspicious that Yu Xiaogang had concealed his father’s identity, while Xiao Wu questioned whether Tang Hao had meant for Tang San to obtain her Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• Ye Qingcang claimed Xiao Wu’s Soul Ring for his own Level 40 advancement and assigned her Soul Bone to someone without one.
• Xiao Wu cried out and tried to kill herself, but the two Titled Douluo restrained her.

Ye Qingcang refused to shelter the Shrek group at Blue Tyrant Academy, explaining the dangers and burdens each would bring, but spared Xiao Wu after Qian Renxue appealed to him. He left Oscar as the only Shrek member he welcomed, while the others would have to meet the academy’s strict admission rules.

• Yu Xiaogang and Flender fell silent after Qian Renxue warned them of the consequences of defending Xiao Wu, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Ning Rongrong challenged Ye Qingcang’s judgment, and Qian Renxue asked him to spare Xiao Wu for her sake.
• Ye Qingcang agreed to let Xiao Wu live, but said he was doing so only for Qian Renxue and rejected the Shrek group as future students.
• Ye Qingcang listed the troubles Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun would bring to Blue Tyrant Academy, and explained why he considered Ma Hongjun’s conduct a failure to master his evil fire.
• Ye Qingcang said Oscar was welcome, while other non-commoner applicants would have to abandon their identities or defeat a Heavenly Ranking student to enroll.

Ye Qingcang condemned the Shrek group, and Qian Renxue explained Blue Tyrant Academy’s rules and his authority as its strongest student. Dai Mubai challenged Ye Qingcang’s status, and Ye Qingcang said the group could expel him if they defeated him.

• Yu Xiaogang and Flender reacted with shock when Ye Qingcang revealed that his mother was Erlong.
• Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, and Tang San argued against Ye Qingcang’s criticism, while Oscar struggled to dispute his praise.
• Qian Renxue introduced Ye Qingcang as her friend and explained Blue Tyrant Academy’s rankings, admissions rules, and his position at the top of the Heavenly Ranking.
• Dai Mubai asked whether defeating Ye Qingcang would let the Shrek group expel him from Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Ye Qingcang said they could expel him, or even kill him afterward, if they were strong enough to defeat him.

The Shrek group arrived at Blue Tyrant Academy, where Ye Qingcang continued to taunt Yu Xiaogang for seeking admission despite Liu Erlong’s refusal. Yu Xiaogang insisted that joining was their only way to protect Xiao Wu and keep the Shrek Seven Devils together, and the group faced Ye Qingcang outside the academy.

• The Shrek group reached Blue Tyrant Academy, and Ye Qingcang reminded Yu Xiaogang that he had not given a clear answer about joining.
• Yu Xiaogang endured Ye Qingcang’s insults and imagined that raising Tang San into a Titled Douluo would make his critics regret looking down on him.
• Flender advised Yu Xiaogang to visit Liu Erlong later rather than force her to choose between her family and the Shrek group.
• Yu Xiaogang argued that Blue Tyrant Academy was their only safe option for Xiao Wu and the only way to keep the Shrek Seven Devils together.
• Qian Renxue announced that they had arrived, and the Shrek group got out of the carriage and watched it depart.
• Ma Hongjun tried to rally the group to challenge Ye Qingcang, insisting that their fists would decide who was the real genius.

Qin Ming warned the Shrek group not to underestimate Blue Tyrant Academy, explaining its Stellar Martial Path and Soul Guidance Technology and the overwhelming strength of its students. He left them with the revelation that Ye Qingcang had created both systems and that even a Heavenly Ranking student who served as his maid had defeated the Royal Fight Team alone.

• Dai Mubai loudly challenged Ye Qingcang, while Zhu Zhuqing found his posturing embarrassing and chose not to intervene.
• Qin Ming stopped the Shrek students from mocking Ye Qingcang and warned them that Blue Tyrant Academy was far stronger than they understood.
• Qin Ming described Soul Guidance Technology, explaining that Soul Tools let Soul Masters wield different combat abilities regardless of their usual roles.
• Qin Ming recounted Blue Tyrant Academy's Three Rankings and said its students vastly outclassed the Royal Fight Team.
• Qin Ming revealed that a Heavenly Ranking Soul Engineer who had mastered Alchemy and served as Ye Qingcang's maid had eliminated all seven members of the Royal Fight Team in under thirty seconds.

Qin Ming explained the strength of the Royal Fight Team and revealed how Soul Guidance Technology and Alchemy could transform Blue Tyrant Academy and auxiliary Soul Masters. As the group entered the academy, Tang San questioned him about Alchemy and learned it could turn ordinary materials into valuable resources, removing the enormous cost of developing Soul Tools.

• Qin Ming confirmed that the Royal Fight Team Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai had faced was the same team a maid had defeated in under thirty seconds.
• Ning Rongrong recognized that Soul Tools could greatly improve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s self-defense, while Oscar hoped Shrek Academy would join Blue Tyrant Academy and Yu Xiaogang imagined himself leading the new system.
• Qin Ming distributed temporary entry slips and explained that outsiders could enter Blue Tyrant Academy by fighting their way in or receiving a student’s guarantee.
• Tang San asked Qin Ming about Alchemy after the group entered the academy, and Qin Ming explained that it let Soul Engineers transform ordinary materials into what they needed, making Soul Tool production far cheaper.

Qin Ming explained the transformative potential of Alchemy and the first two chapters of Stellar Martial Path, leaving the Shrek group eager to learn more about Ye Qingcang’s system. Ning Rongrong overcame her earlier judgment of Ye Qingcang and called out to ask him about Stellar Martial Path.

• Qin Ming explained that Alchemy could transform ordinary materials into rare metals and gemstones, while Ning Rongrong realized the Academy’s unique materials made obtaining Soul Tool blueprints insufficient.
• Flender asked Qin Ming about Stellar Martial Path, and Qin Ming described its structure, exchange requirements, and the first chapter’s method for unlocking a person’s full strength and speed.
• Qin Ming explained the second chapter’s stages and benefits, including increased lifespan, precise muscle control, and rapid recovery, and Flender judged the system extraordinarily valuable.
• Qin Ming suggested asking Ye Qingcang about Stellar Martial Path, but Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, Ma Hongjun, and Dai Mubai refused to approach him.
• Ning Rongrong recognized Ye Qingcang’s pride as confidence earned through his achievements and called to him, asking him to explain Stellar Martial Path.

Ye Qingcang explained the Stellar Martial Path’s later chapters and clarified that Chapter Seven, Microscopic, was the prerequisite for Magnetic Field Martial Path. He left the Shrek group with a glimpse of his vast ambitions while making clear he had no interest in treating Tang San as his rival or friend.

• Ye Qingcang told the Shrek group that Blue Tyrant Academy forbade students and graduates from spreading the Stellar Martial Path, and that Qin Ming’s account contained misunderstandings and omissions.
• Ye Qingcang listed the contents of Chapters Three through Six, covering skin, hair, tendons, bones, organs, senses, and mental abilities.
• Ye Qingcang explained that Chapter Seven, Microscopic, had no fixed realms and was required before anyone could cultivate Magnetic Field Martial Path.
• Ye Qingcang described his vision of using magnetic fields to command a planet and eventually making the body contain a star or become a universe.
• Ye Qingcang decided that he would neither kill Tang San without cause nor seek friendship with him, since each person was the protagonist of their own story.

Ye Qingcang explained the Magnetic Field Martial Path to Ning Rongrong and led the Shrek group through Blue Tyrant Academy. He showed them Flower Path, one of the academy’s Nine Scenic Wonders, and described how students used its True Meaning Trees to seek comprehension.

• Ning Rongrong asked Ye Qingcang what the Magnetic Field Martial Path was, and he explained it using the attraction and repulsion of lodestones.
• The Shrek group failed to understand the magnetic-field explanation, so Ye Qingcang moved on without elaborating further.
• Ye Qingcang walked through the academy park and reached a ten-thousand-meter road where more than a hundred trees burst into bloom around him.
• Ning Rongrong asked what the spectacle was, and Ye Qingcang identified it as Flower Path, the first of Blue Tyrant Academy’s Nine Scenic Wonders.
• Ye Qingcang explained that Flower Path held eighteen True Meaning Trees planted by him and more than a hundred planted by students, which academy members could visit using credits.

The Shrek group read the True Meaning Trees along the Flower Path, and Yu Xiaogang was shaken by an account of a young man creating Abyssal Serpent Blade Intent and absorbing a 20,000-year Soul Ring. Yu Xiaogang argued that Shrek had to join Blue Tyrant Academy for protection, while Flender opposed burdening Liu Erlong; Ye Qingcang recorded their quarrel and considered his trap complete.

• Ning Rongrong recognized Yu Xiaogang’s discussion of sword intent, and Yu Xiaogang explained its connection to sword domains to the Shrek group.
• Zhu Zhuqing found a Dragon Blood Tree inscription describing how a sixteen-year-old Qin clan member created Abyssal Serpent Blade Intent and absorbed a 20,000-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• Yu Xiaogang was overwhelmed by the inscription’s claims, then urged Flender to ask Liu Erlong to let Shrek join Blue Tyrant Academy for safety.
• Flender argued that joining would transfer Shrek’s dangers onto Liu Erlong and Blue Tyrant Academy, but Yu Xiaogang insisted he would plead with her anyway.
• Flender left with Ma Hongjun, while Tang San stayed with Yu Xiaogang and grew disappointed in Flender.
• Ye Qingcang put away his recording device and judged the quarrel to have completed the final part of his trap.

Ye Qingcang explained how the Pavilion in Water could help students pursue enlightenment, then the Shrek group learned about Blue Tyrant Academy’s merit-based system and its spirit cuisine. The chapter ended with the dean revealing that the Spirit Cuisine Room belonged to the academy and that students could buy its dishes cheaply with credits.

• Ye Qingcang told Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Oscar that reaching the Pavilion in Water required mastering the Surface Level Chapter and resisting its mind-affecting illusion.
• Ye Qingcang explained enlightenment as comprehending the principles of the world and described Self-Created Soul Skills and true meanings as possible results.
• The Shrek group toured Blue Tyrant Academy and learned that students earned privileges such as private villas, Soul Bones, and spirit cuisine by accumulating credits and ranking highly.
• The dean of studies described the academy’s strict regulations, student freedom, and system of merits, demerits, and expulsion.
• The dean revealed that the Spirit Cuisine Room was a Blue Tyrant Academy industry and that its dishes cost students only a few credits.

The Shrek group learned about Blue Tyrant Academy’s costly external spirit cuisine prices and its many Training Fields before Ye Qingcang confirmed that four of them had to take a special admission route. Xiao Wu faced Ye Qingcang’s threat that he would kill her if she failed or refused to join, then distanced herself from Tang San and asked to be left alone.

• Ning Rongrong, Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Qin Ming reacted with dismay to the price difference between Blue Tyrant Academy’s spirit cuisine and outside prices.
• Ye Qingcang described the academy’s Training Fields and told the challengers they could choose an environment suited to their strengths.
• Ye Qingcang named Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu as applicants who had to take the special route, and they agreed.
• Xiao Wu asked whether Ye Qingcang would kill her if she did not join, and he said he would kill her if she refused or failed the assessment.
• Tang San defended Xiao Wu, but she told him she no longer dared trust anyone and asked him to leave her alone while she sorted out her thoughts.

After Xiao Wu’s identity was exposed, Ye Qingcang defended his right to hunt her by arguing that the world was governed by strength rather than fairness. Xiao Wu understood his territorial logic and, despite fearing him, trusted him more than Tang San, whose apparent deception had shaken her.

• Xiao Wu avoided Tang San’s wounded, accusing gaze, and Tang San turned his anger toward Ye Qingcang for exposing her identity.
• Ye Qingcang argued that Xiao Wu had caused her own exposure and challenged Tang San’s double standards about killing soul beasts for soul rings.
• Ye Qingcang compared the unequal lives of Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, then declared that no one was inherently wrong and that the strong decided the weak’s fate.
• Xiao Wu asked why Ye Qingcang would not kill her and take her soul ring, and Ye Qingcang explained that he would protect her if she joined Blue Tyrant Academy but hunt her if she trespassed and tried to leave.
• Xiao Wu compared Ye Qingcang to a territorial tiger and said she understood his reasoning, trusting him more than Tang San.