Chapter Summaries

The Heavenly Screen showed Shrek Academy's recruitment, its students' trials, and the group's trip to the Star Dou Great Forest, where the Titan Giant Ape appeared. In the Black World, Sword Douluo's anger at Dai Mubai grew after he saw Dai nearly kill Ning Rongrong, and a Three-Eyed Golden Lion burst into the room asking whether her entrance had appeared on the screen.

• Tang San and Xiao Wu reached Shrek Academy, where the teachers and Dai Mubai drove away angry applicants by revealing their strength.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing passed Zhao Wuji's test, and Tang San endured his assault long enough to qualify.
• Ning Rongrong defied Flender's punishment and provoked Dai Mubai, who nearly killed her before Tang San stopped him.
• Sword Douluo and Ning Fengzhi watched the footage of Dai Mubai nearly killing Ning Rongrong, and Sword Douluo threatened him with a cold look.
• Oscar reached level 30, and the group traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Oscar won a flight skill before the Titan Giant Ape appeared.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion crashed into the Black World living room and asked Ning Rongrong whether the Heavenly Screen had shown her entrance.

Tang Chuan and the others watched the heavenly curtain show Xiao Wu’s capture, Tang San’s Man-Faced Demon Spider soul ring, and the Shrek Seven Monsters’ training. The crowd questioned Shrek’s methods and wondered how the group gained ten levels in a year, eager to learn the secret as the heavenly curtain continued.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion told Tang Chuan that Gu Yuena and Di Tian feared the heavenly curtain and that the Ice Empress and Snow Empress were nearing breakthroughs.
• Ning Rongrong criticized White World Ning Rongrong for enduring mistreatment at Shrek Academy, while Xiao Wu praised the Ning Rongrong beside them.
• The heavenly curtain showed Xiao Wu being captured by the Titan Giant Ape as Tang San fought the Man-Faced Demon Spider and absorbed its soul ring.
• The heavenly curtain summarized the Shrek Seven Monsters’ training, Tang San’s external soul bone, and their later encounter with Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Soul masters criticized Yu Xiaogang’s outdated training methods and questioned how Shrek’s students gained ten levels in just over a year.
• The crowd grew greedy and resolved to obtain the secret behind the Shrek Seven Monsters’ rapid advancement.

The Heavenly Screen revealed how Tang San found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, gained power from Immortal Herbs, and drew the attention of Spirit Hall and other powerful figures. The White World account ended as Tang San prepared to absorb a Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, before the screening shifted to Tang Chuan.

• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan elders raged when they saw Liu Erlong give Blue Tyrant Academy to Shrek Academy.
• Tang San went with Dugu Bo to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he spent half a year studying its Immortal Herbs and helping Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan.
• Tang San and the Seven Monsters, along with Yu Xiaogang, consumed Immortal Herbs that greatly increased their power, prompting the Spirit Hall Arena audience to covet the remaining herbs.
• Tang Hao and Poison Douluo shielded Tang San as Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan cursed him for taking the Immortal Herbs.
• Tang San met the Strength Clan, learned of his connection to the Clear Sky Sect, and gained its loyalty, inspiring him to establish the Tang Sect.
• After the Seven Monsters pursued their fourth Spirit Rings, Tang San chose a Cave Demon Spider exceeding ten thousand years, and the White World screening ended before revealing whether he absorbed its Spirit Ring.

The Heavenly Screen revealed that Black World Tang Chuan was Spirit Hall’s Holy Son and had won one hundred consecutive Diamond Soul Arena battles, while naming several women as his spouses. The White World audience reacted with disbelief and jealousy as the Black World scene began with Zhu Zhuqing arriving at Spirit City.

• The Heavenly Screen displayed Tang San and Tang Chuan’s public information, including Tang Chuan’s titles, Spirit Rings, and list of spouses.
• The Shrek group questioned Tang Chuan’s strength and reacted to Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong appearing among his spouses.
• Dai Mubai glared at Zhu Zhuqing, but Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu defended her and challenged him to confront Black World Tang Chuan instead.
• Yan insisted Tang Chuan had pursued Hu Liena when she was young, and Hu Liena privately wondered whether she would ever have pursued him herself.
• The Black World scene showed a girl in a black dress arriving at Spirit City, and Ning Rongrong recognized her as Zhu Zhuqing.

Zhu Zhuqing arrived in Black World's Spirit City and enrolled at Spirit Hall Academy, where her recommendation from the Holy Son earned her a Black rank. At the academy's opening ceremony, Bibi Dong arrived to the respectful salute of the assembled experts.

• Zhu Zhuqing explored Spirit City, met two Soul Elders who directed her to Spirit Hall Academy, and registered as a level 27 Battle Soul Master.
• The academy gave Zhu Zhuqing a Black rank after confirming that the Holy Son had personally written her recommendation letter.
• Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Zhu Zhuqing watched the Heavenly Screen as Zhu Zhuqing reflected on how her life had changed after joining Spirit Hall.
• Zhu Zhuqing attended the opening ceremony and saw the Holy Son and the academy's ten Gold-badged national team members seated beside the podium.
• Bibi Dong arrived at the ceremony, prompting the teachers and directors to rise and salute her.

At Spirit Hall Academy’s opening ceremony, Dugu Yan and Ning Rongrong stunned the freshmen with their high cultivation and evolved Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. In the Black World, Tang Chuan revealed he had split Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul evolution into two stages for extra rewards, and Xiao Wu recalled the secret “feast” Rongrong had taken her to.

• The academy began its student demonstration, and Dugu Yan revealed she was a level 44 Soul Ancestor with the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor.
• Ning Rongrong introduced herself as a level 35 support-type Soul Elder and summoned her Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, astonishing the audience.
• In the White World, Tang San realized Tang Chuan had obtained the immortal herbs and suspected he had deliberately left Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul evolution incomplete.
• In the Black World, Tang Chuan said he had split Ning Rongrong’s evolution into two stages to receive two rewards.
• Xiao Wu recalled that Ning Rongrong had secretly taken her to eat something delicious, and said her throat hurt for a day afterward.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion complained that Ning Rongrong had not invited her, and Ning Rongrong promised to take her next time she transformed into human form.

Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, Hu Liena, and Tang Chuan revealed their strength and roles at Spirit Hall Academy, astonishing the students and spectators. The chapter ended with Tang Chuan showing four Spirit Rings and declaring himself a level 42 Battle Soul Ancestor.

• Ning Rongrong’s evolved Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda was revealed to let her cultivate beyond the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s seven-ring limit.
• Xiao Wu introduced herself as a level 38 assault-type Battle Soul Elder with a thousand-year second Spirit Ring.
• Hu Liena announced that she was the Spirit Hall Team captain and would temporarily instruct the academy team, revealing her level 51 Soul King strength.
• White World Hu Liena wondered whether a ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring could help her reach Soul King at eighteen, while Xie Yue speculated about how Xiao Wu had obtained her thousand-year second ring.
• Tang Chuan introduced himself as the first-year captain of the Spirit Hall Academy Team and revealed that his Blue Silver Grass martial soul had reached level 42.
• Tang Chuan displayed four Spirit Rings, leaving the field in stunned silence.

The Heavenly Screen revealed Tang Chuan’s purple, purple, black, black Spirit Ring configuration, astonishing Spirit City’s experts and the people watching across the worlds. Qian Renxue’s resentment toward Bibi Dong deepened, while Zhu Zhuqing and the others wondered how Tang Chuan had advanced so quickly.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo were stunned by Tang Chuan’s two black ten-thousand-year Spirit Rings, while Lingyuan Douluo praised Bibi Dong for recognizing his talent.
• Tang San angrily compared himself with Tang Chuan and resented that another Tang Chuan existed in a parallel world.
• Qian Renxue saw Bibi Dong smile at praise for Tang Chuan, shattered her cup, and vowed not to acknowledge Bibi Dong as her mother.
• Zhu Zhuqing and the onlookers saw Tang Chuan’s four Spirit Rings and marveled that he had two ten-thousand-year rings at such a young age.
• Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Zhu Zhuqing wondered how Tang Chuan had advanced so rapidly, and Zhu Zhuqing asked whether his title, Evil Soul Master Killing Machine, was connected.

Tang Chuan made a weakened Mysterious Water Pill, reached Rank 20, and absorbed the Nightshadow Wraith as his second Spirit Ring. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong sent Hu Liena to befriend him, but after spending time together, Hu Liena returned grinning foolishly and blushing when she saw her teacher.

• Tang Chuan gathered ingredients and had alchemists develop a weakened Mysterious Water Pill, which raised his Soul Power by one level.
• Tang Chuan used the pill to reach Rank 20, then absorbed a nearly 8,000-year-old Nightshadow Wraith and gained spiritual-control abilities.
• Experts watching the Heavenly Screen discussed the pill and the danger of Tang Chuan's soul skill, especially if he used it to control powerful leaders.
• Bibi Dong sent Hu Liena to build a relationship with Tang Chuan, and he made her cry on their first day before beating Xie Yue and Yan when they confronted him.
• Hu Liena spent more time with Tang Chuan over the following days, and on the seventh day she returned with a silly grin and blushed when Bibi Dong saw her.

Hu Liena described her growing familiarity with Tang Chuan to Bibi Dong, while Tang Chuan told Xiao Wu that Bibi Dong probably had not killed her mother. Bibi Dong then approached Tang Chuan herself to try to bring him into her camp.

• Bibi Dong asked Hu Liena how things were going with Tang Chuan, and Hu Liena recounted his unusual behavior and warmth toward others.
• Bibi Dong realized Hu Liena was beginning to open her guarded heart to Tang Chuan, while the consecrated elders privately recalled Bibi Dong's own past for love.
• After Tang Chuan defeated her in a spar, Xiao Wu confided how her mother had sent her away before Spirit Hall's experts pursued her.
• Tang Chuan explained that Bibi Dong's two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings came from the Death Spider Emperor and the Purple-Winged Spider Emperor, so she was likely not Xiao Wu's mother's killer.
• Tang Chuan told Xiao Wu to ask the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape about her mother's death and warned that her enemy was stronger than they were.
• Bibi Dong walked over to Tang Chuan, intending to recruit him personally after Hu Liena's efforts failed.

The Heavenly Screen revealed Bibi Dong’s hidden abilities and Tang Chuan’s account of dangerous ferocious beasts, shocking the powerful figures watching and leaving Xiao Wu desperate to learn what happened to her mother. It then showed how Bibi Dong gained Tang Chuan’s trust and how Spirit Hall verified his Whale Rubber and Small Mysterious Water Pill research, ending with Bibi Dong sending him Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue and spiritual treasures as agreed.

• The powerful figures watching the Heavenly Screen reacted to Bibi Dong’s Twin Martial Souls, Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, External Soul Bone, and Undying Body, while discussing the ferocious beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xiao Wu realized that Bibi Dong had not killed her mother and tried to leave the arena to question Da Ming and Er Ming, but Spirit Hall’s Soul Masters blocked every exit.
• The Heavenly Screen showed how Bibi Dong deliberately befriended Tang Chuan and Lan Yin, gained Tang Chuan’s dependence, and learned his secrets about high-age Spirit Rings and the Small Mysterious Water Pill.
• Bibi Dong reviewed reports confirming that Whale Rubber raised Soul Masters’ Spirit Ring absorption limits, including Xiao Wu’s thousand-year second Spirit Ring.
• A subordinate told Bibi Dong that the Worship Hall had approved Tang Chuan’s independent Pill Cauldron Bureau, surprising her because she had expected the worship elders to oppose it.
• Bibi Dong ordered her subordinates to deliver Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue and spiritual treasures to Tang Chuan as part of their agreement.

Tang Chuan discovered that Soul Power cultivated by his Blue Silver Matchstick Men returned to him, offering a way to multiply his cultivation speed. He celebrated by kissing Xiao Wu, leaving Hu Liena flustered and insisting that he and Xiao Wu were besties.

• The girls discussed how Tang Chuan had gradually shaped Spirit Hall around his own plans, while the Three-Eyed Golden Lion begged them not to spoil what came next.
• After absorbing Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue, Tang Chuan reached level 24 but complained that his cultivation was too slow.
• Xiao Wu remarked that Tang Chuan's matchstick men would be even more useful if they could cultivate for him, prompting him to test the idea.
• Tang Chuan had four Blue Silver Matchstick Men meditate in the Blue Silver Spirit-Gathering Array, then confirmed that their stored Soul Power returned to him.
• Tang Chuan picked up Xiao Wu, spun her around, and kissed her cheeks while Hu Liena tried to stop him.
• Tang Chuan told Hu Liena that he and Xiao Wu were besties and said Xiao Wu could kiss him back later.

Tang Chuan and the Spirit Hall team found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s likely location in Sunset Forest, but a captured Fallen Soul Master offered to lead them to his companions. Tang Chuan agreed, secretly using his power on the man as he led the group toward a wooden house.

• Bibi Dong agreed to Tang Chuan’s trip to Sunset Forest and assigned Lingyuan Douluo to accompany Lan Yin as his protector.
• After searching for nearly four days, Tang Chuan’s team found a hill whose terrain matched the location of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Spirit Hall members captured a wounded Fallen Soul Master, and Lingyuan Douluo and Lan Yin recognized his evil aura.
• The Fallen Soul Master offered to reveal his companions’ location and surrender stolen Spirit Bones and Gold Soul Coins in exchange for his life.
• Tang Chuan agreed to let the Fallen Soul Master lead them, secretly affecting him when their eyes met.
• The Fallen Soul Master led the Spirit Hall team toward a wooden house while plotting to kill them.

Tang Chuan’s Spirit Hall squad avoided a deadly trap, but the explosion drew a powerful figure from the mountain. Elsewhere, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling were ambushed by fallen soul masters, leaving Poison Douluo frantic as he watched their danger from the heavenly curtain.

• Tang Chuan sent the fallen soul master to open the cabin, and the man triggered an explosion that destroyed everything within several kilometers while the Spirit Hall squad watched from a safe distance.
• Lan Yin shielded Tang Chuan and Xiao Wu as Lingyuan Douluo faced an imposing figure who rushed from the mountain and demanded to know who had entered his territory.
• Dugu Yan took Ye Lingling along a road near her grandfather’s home, but an explosion in that direction prompted her to rush toward it.
• Four fallen soul masters surrounded Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, recognized their valuable martial souls, and prepared to seize them.
• Poison Douluo watched the girls’ predicament on the heavenly curtain and grew frantic, unable to intervene.

Dugu Bo mistook a charred corpse carrying Jade Phosphor Snake Poison for his granddaughter, Dugu Yan, and attacked Spirit Hall’s Lingyuan Douluo in a rage. Meanwhile, Tang Chuan sent teams to hunt the Fallen Soul Masters and found Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling in danger, where an unknown arrival interrupted their attackers.

• Dugu Bo arrived at his territory, recognized Spirit Hall, and identified Jade Phosphor Snake Poison on a charred corpse, which he believed belonged to Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo attacked Lingyuan Douluo, while Tang Chuan realized the corpse and the poison had been used to mislead him.
• Tang Chuan ordered Spirit Hall teams to pursue the Fallen Soul Masters and headed out with the remaining team after learning Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling had encountered them.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling fought four Fallen Soul Masters until Dugu Yan ran out of strength and collapsed.
• A Fallen Soul Master approached the helpless Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, but a voice from above interrupted him.

Tang Chuan and Xiao Wu fought the Fallen Soul Masters in Sunset Forest, revealing their powerful control abilities. Tang Chuan killed the Fallen Soul Ancestor and then raised his corpse to face his younger brother, leaving the survivor horrified.

• Xiao Wu used Gravity Amplification and Waist Bow to stun and drive back a Fallen Soul Ancestor who had attacked Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling.
• Ning Rongrong defended Xiao Wu’s early Soul Skills after Oscar compared Gravity Amplification favorably with Charm.
• Tang Chuan used his Soul-Eating Ant Emperor External Bone to break a Fallen Soul Elder’s broadsword and send him crashing onto Blue Silver Grass spikes.
• Tang Chuan controlled the younger Fallen Soul Elder into stabbing his older brother, who died after urging him to run.
• Tang Chuan used his second Spirit Ring to raise the dead Fallen Soul Ancestor, causing his younger brother’s worldview to collapse.

Tang Chuan and Xiao Wu defeated a group of Fallen Soul Masters and rescued Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, then stopped the battle between Poison Douluo and Lingyuan Douluo. Tang Chuan offered to fix the martial soul flaws of Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling in exchange for directions to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, leaving Ye Lingling and the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team stunned by the revelation.

• Tang Chuan and Xiao Wu defeated four Fallen Soul Masters, while Xiao Wu knocked out one of them with repeated attacks.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling thanked Tang Chuan and Xiao Wu for saving them, and Tang Chuan told Spirit Hall members to bring the two girls along.
• Tang Chuan stopped Poison Douluo and Lingyuan Douluo from continuing their fight, and Dugu Yan explained that the Fallen Soul Masters had injured her.
• Tang Chuan asked Dugu Bo about the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and offered to resolve the martial soul flaws of Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling in return for directions.
• In White World, Ye Lingling and the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team reacted with disbelief to the claim that her Nine-Heart Begonia had flaws.

Tang Chuan negotiated with Dugu Bo for ownership of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in exchange for curing Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling’s martial soul flaws. After Tang Chuan entered the spring to temper his body and strengthen his spiritual power, nearly a year passed, and his spirit body emerged to find the others gone.

• Ye Lingling became excited when she learned that a way to resolve the Nine-Heart Begonia’s flaw might be within reach, while Dugu Yan wondered whether Tang San’s medicine could cure her own martial soul flaw.
• Dugu Bo agreed to let Tang Chuan and a small group enter the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Tang Chuan found nearly a hundred rare herbs.
• Tang Chuan and Dugu Bo agreed that Tang Chuan would gain ownership of the spring in exchange for curing Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling.
• Tang Chuan prepared Immortal Herbs to temper his body and strengthen his spiritual power, then entered the spring despite Lingyuan Douluo’s concern.
• Nearly a year passed while Lan Yin, Ling Yuan, and Xiao Wu stayed nearby, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling visited from the academy, and Dugu Bo went to Heaven Dou City.
• Tang Chuan regained consciousness with greatly strengthened spiritual power, sent his spirit body out of the spring, and followed the sound of water to a woman bathing.

After a year absorbing immortal herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Tang Chuan emerged much stronger and discovered that Xiao Wu had grown while he was away. His breakthrough to Soul Elder at age eight stunned the people watching in the White World, including Qian Renxue.

• Tang Chuan explored the hidden cave by the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then found Xiao Wu meditating and was startled by how much she had grown.
• Tang Chuan returned his spirit body to his physical body and swam to the surface, drawing Lan Yin, Lingyuan, and Xiao Wu to the lake.
• Tang Chuan emerged after a year of absorbing immortal herbs, revealing his taller, stronger appearance and causing Xiao Wu to blush when she noticed his exposed body.
• Lan Yin and Lingyuan recognized that Tang Chuan had broken through to level thirty, while Xiao Wu handed him his storage bracelet.
• The people in the White World marveled that Tang Chuan had become an eight-year-old Soul Elder, and Qian Renxue felt frustrated that he had surpassed her.

Tang Chuan reached Soul Elder at eight and searched Sunset Forest for a suitable third Spirit Ring, while Qian Renxue and others reacted to his extraordinary plans. After ten days of searching, he found a Devouring Soul Spider Emperor that could serve as his third ring.

• Xiao Wu learned that Tang Chuan had reached level thirty and felt discouraged by his rapid progress.
• Tang Chuan announced that he intended to absorb a Ten-Thousand-Year third Spirit Ring, alarming Ling Yuan, who followed him and the others out of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Tang Chuan considered several paths for his third ring, including darkness, mental control, and defensive abilities, while Qian Daoliu, Bibi Dong, Qian Renxue, and the Worship Hall elders wondered who he planned to oppose.
• Tang Chuan and his companions investigated Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts across Sunset Forest, but he rejected the candidates they encountered.
• On the tenth day, Tang Chuan found a Soul Beast suited to his third Spirit Ring: the Devouring Soul Spider Emperor.