Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming returned to Shrek Academy with Ouyang Ling and the Imperial Battle Team, learning that Crown Prince Qian Renxue had supported the school. They found the academy still shabby and met Oscar, whose food-type talent and Innate Full Soul Power astonished Qin Ming and the others.

• Qin Ming told the Imperial Battle Team that he had graduated from Shrek Academy, and Ouyang Ling explained how Qian Renxue had supported it after Ouyang met Flander.
• Qin Ming agreed to visit his former school, but the group found Shrek Academy looking as shabby as ever.
• Oscar introduced himself as a thirteen-year-old Shrek student and left his sausage cart while he went to inform Flander of the visitors.
• Yu Feng ate one of Oscar's sausages before learning that it cost five copper soul coins, while Ouyang Ling paid for eight.
• Ouyang Ling revealed that Oscar was a food-type Great Soul Master with Innate Full Soul Power, leaving Qin Ming and the Imperial Battle Team stunned.

Qin Ming reunited with Zhao Wuji and Flander at Shrek Academy, bringing his students from Heaven Dou Imperial Academy. As the students learned about Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai, Yu Feng provoked Dugu Yan and was knocked out; Ouyang Ling then entered Flander's office, carrying the token Flander had given him.

• Qin Ming greeted Zhao Wuji, who welcomed him and praised the strength of his students from Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.
• Yu Feng told the Imperial Battle Team about Ma Hongjun's Fire Phoenix and Dai Mubai's White Tiger, and Ouyang Ling explained Dai Mubai's imperial background and engagement.
• Yu Feng called Dugu Yan petty, and she knocked him down; Oscar gave him a sausage and demanded payment.
• Zhao Wuji and Qin Ming brought the group to Flander's office, where Flander excitedly learned that one visitor had his token.
• Ouyang Ling entered Flander's office and greeted him after years apart.

Ouyang Ling persuaded Flander to let Shrek Academy’s talented students join Heaven Dou Imperial Academy’s second team so they could compete in the Soul Master Tournament and receive better training. The teachers accepted the plan, while Yu Tianheng and the students headed into Soto City to arrange a banquet.

• Ouyang Ling praised Shrek’s students and proposed that they join Heaven Dou Imperial Academy’s second team for the Soul Master Tournament.
• Flander objected that the students belonged to Shrek, but Ouyang Ling argued that Shrek lacked the resources to give them the training they needed.
• Flander accepted the proposal, saying he did not want the students to miss the opportunity Qin Ming had lost, and Zhao Wuji supported him.
• Ouyang Ling asked whether Flander expected his personal disciples to support him in old age, interrupting the teachers’ talk of retiring together.
• Yu Tianheng, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, Dugu Yan, and the others went to Soto City, where Yu Tianheng set a six o’clock meeting at the Guest's Abode.

Yu Tianheng beat Dai Mubai after Dai provoked him, and Dugu Yan secretly poisoned Dai to prevent him from sleeping with women. Ouyang Ling learned what happened and agreed with Dugu Yan that Dai should suffer, but remain alive and recognizable.

• Dai Mubai insulted Dugu Yan and threatened her, so Yu Tianheng struck him and sent him flying into nearby stalls.
• Dugu Yan frightened off the twin girls, then she and Yu Tianheng entered the Rose Hotel, where Yu beat Dai Mubai again after he revealed himself as a Soul Elder.
• Oscar found Dai Mubai battered and limping, gave him a sausage, and agreed to request a few days' leave for him.
• Ouyang Ling met Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan, heard how they had beaten Dai, and learned that Dugu Yan had poisoned him to make him unable to get an erection.
• Dugu Yan planned to tell her grandfather, and Ouyang Ling asked that Dai be left alive and recognizable.

Ouyang Ling reunited with Ma Hongjun and learned how he had adapted to his martial soul’s Evil Fire. At dinner, Flander announced Shrek Academy’s disbandment and arranged for its teachers and students to move to Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, leaving Dai Mubai free to choose his own path.

• Ouyang Ling reunited with Ma Hongjun, who explained that his Fire Lure soul skill and fat let him control and temporarily strengthen his Evil Fire.
• Ouyang Ling learned that Dai Mubai would miss dinner, and Ma Hongjun suspected his injuries came from a woman.
• Flander announced that Shrek Academy would disband and explained that its students could have better prospects at Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.
• Oscar and Ma Hongjun agreed to go with Flander, and Shao Xin, Li Yusong, and Lu Qibin also chose to move to Heaven Dou City.
• Flander said Dai Mubai could decide whether to join them, since his goal was not to grow stronger.

After Shrek Academy announced it would disband and join Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, Dai Mubai visited the team in Soto City and learned Dugu Yan was the Poison Douluo’s granddaughter. He fled the city, but Dugu Bo intercepted him and killed him, while Porcupinefish Douluo witnessed the encounter and continued toward Soto City.

• Dai Mubai learned from Oscar that Shrek Academy was closing for lack of funds and planned to join Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.
• At the Soto City Great Spirit Arena, Ouyang Ling defeated the Heavy Armor Hunters Team by freezing both opponents and then left with Ye Lingling.
• Dai Mubai confronted the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy students, and Ouyang Ling revealed Dai Mubai had threatened Dugu Yan and been beaten by Yu Tianheng.
• After learning Dugu Yan was the Poison Douluo’s granddaughter, Dai Mubai quit Shrek Academy and fled Soto City overnight.
• Dugu Bo stopped Dai Mubai on a forest path and killed him, while Porcupinefish Douluo watched and then headed toward Soto City to help obtain Ouyang Ling’s fourth soul ring.

Ouyang Ling traveled toward the Star Dou Great Forest with Porcupinefish Douluo to hunt for a soul ring, and Oscar joined them after reaching level thirty. Ouyang Ling laid out the Crown Prince’s support for Oscar’s cultivation, leaving Oscar dazzled by promises of valuable soul bones.

• Ouyang Ling told Qin Ming that a Soul Douluo would accompany him, so Flander and Zhao Wuji did not need to help with the hunt.
• Oscar caught up with Ouyang Ling’s carriage and revealed that he had broken through to level thirty and needed a third soul ring.
• Ouyang Ling invited Oscar to join the trip, and Porcupinefish Douluo agreed to take him along.
• Ouyang Ling sent a villager to tell the Shrek teachers about their departure, and the group traveled to a town near the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ouyang Ling showed Oscar detailed soul beast records and a forest map, then promised a ten-thousand-year soul bone at Soul Sage level and a soul bone over fifty thousand years old at Titled Douluo level.
• Oscar was overwhelmed by the promised benefits and decided that the Crown Prince was the only sun in his heart.

Oscar and Ouyang Ling searched the Star Dou Great Forest for Oscar’s third soul ring, choosing a Tower Mountain Swift for its endurance-based flight. After Oscar became a Soul Elder and demonstrated his new skill, Ouyang Ling prepared to seek his fourth soul ring.

• Ouyang Ling chose a Tower Mountain Swift for Oscar, hoping its soul ring would grant him long-lasting flight useful for battlefield air superiority.
• Ouyang Ling and Ci Xue found a Tower Mountain Swift colony, and Ci Xue frightened away an approaching Phoenix-Tailed Cockscomb Serpent before capturing the colony leader.
• Oscar killed the roughly 1,400-year-old Tower Mountain Swift and absorbed its soul ring, becoming a Soul Elder at thirteen.
• Oscar revealed his third soul skill, I Have a White Feather Sausage, which let him fly for ten minutes, impressing Ouyang Ling and Ci Xue.
• With Oscar’s soul ring secured, Ouyang Ling turned to obtaining his fourth soul ring.

Ouyang Ling hunted a Golden Crocodile for his fourth soul ring, overpowering it with Ci Xue’s help before choosing to absorb its ten-thousand-year ring. As the ring’s immense energy entered his body, Soul Shock appeared in his mind.

• Ouyang Ling hooked the Golden Crocodile, froze the river, and confronted the beast with Ci Xue and Oscar nearby.
• The Golden Crocodile fled across the ice, but Ouyang Ling caught and froze it with his Scorpio tail.
• The Golden Crocodile broke free and attacked, but Ouyang Ling hurled it into the ground before Ci Xue subdued it.
• Ouyang Ling dismissed Ci Xue’s warning and began absorbing the Golden Crocodile’s ten-thousand-year soul ring as his fourth ring.
• Ouyang Ling circulated the ring’s energy through his body, and Soul Shock appeared in his mind.

After overcoming the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring’s Soul Shock, Ouyang Ling received his fourth Soul Ring and chose to evolve Deep Sea Illusion into a dreamlike illusion that could expose its target’s secrets. Pisces Star Dragon and Scorpio Star Dragon also salvaged fragments of the Golden Crocodile’s soul and Soul Ring energy, and Ouyang Ling became a Soul Ancestor with something unusual stirring within him.

• Ouyang Ling overpowered the Golden Crocodile’s remnant soul in his Sea of Spirit and ended the Soul Shock.
• Pisces Star Dragon, Scorpio Star Dragon, and Luo Sea God Dragon welcomed Ouyang Ling to the island after he obtained his fourth Soul Ring.
• Ouyang Ling asked to choose his gift and received Deep Sea Illusion: A Great Dream, which trapped an enemy in a convincing ideal world.
• Pisces Star Dragon and Scorpio Star Dragon gathered fragments of the Golden Crocodile’s soul and captured Soul Ring energy as an extra gift.
• Oscar and Ci Xue watched as the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring became part of Ouyang Ling, who awakened as a Soul Ancestor and sensed something unusual within his body.

After discovering that his gifts from the Star Dragons had granted him a powerful external soul bone, Ouyang Ling tested it outside Soto City. Shrek then left the city with the Imperial Battle Team, and Flander accepted that the academy had become a thing of the past.

• Ouyang Ling secretly manifested a golden crocodile tail, confirmed it was an external soul bone, and tested its devastating attacks in a grove.
• Ma Hongjun told the group that a grove outside Soto City had been wrecked, and Ouyang Ling suggested a Soul Master had been testing a skill there.
• Flander announced that Shrek and the Imperial Battle Team would leave Soto City, while Zhao Wuji revealed Flander was avoiding the village rent.
• Flander caught Ma Hongjun calling him stingy, then later chose to leave the Shrek sign behind as the group departed for Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.

A year after Shrek Academy disbanded, Zhu Zhuqing arrived in Soto City and learned that Dai Mubai had gone to Heaven Dou City. Meanwhile, Ouyang Ling and Qian Renxue discussed the Royal Commerce Association, Ning Rongrong’s enrollment, and an urgent message that delighted Ouyang Ling.

• Zhu Zhuqing reached Soto City, found Shrek Academy empty, and learned from a villager that it had disbanded and its people had gone to Heaven Dou City.
• Zhu Zhuqing decided to travel to Heaven Dou Imperial Academy to find Dai Mubai and face their future together.
• Qian Renxue told Ouyang Ling that Ning Fengzhi had suggested cutting thirty percent of the Royal Commerce Association’s staff, and Ouyang Ling explained that the association’s purpose was to benefit commoners and strengthen Qian Renxue’s support.
• Qian Renxue said Ning Fengzhi was testing her understanding of the association, and Ouyang Ling advised her to let him test them.
• Qian Renxue told Ouyang Ling that Ning Rongrong would enroll the next day and that the Fire Phoenix student had reached rank thirty and would soon enter the Heaven Dou Grade.
• A servant delivered an urgent message, and Ouyang Ling laughed that its timing could not be better.

Ouyang Ling and Qian Renxue prepared to draw Tang San and Xiao Wu into their plans as the siblings arrived in Heaven Dou City. The next morning, Ning Fengzhi brought Ning Rongrong to Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, where Qian Renxue and Ouyang Ling welcomed them before Tang San and Xiao Wu arrived.

• Ouyang Ling told Qian Renxue that Tang San and Xiao Wu would reach Heaven Dou Imperial Academy the next day, and suggested inviting Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong to meet them.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu arrived in Heaven Dou City, and Xiao Wu persuaded Tang San to explore the city before they went to the academy.
• Ning Fengzhi brought Ning Rongrong to the Education Committee and asked its members to look after her, while Bone Douluo indulged her complaints.
• Qian Renxue and Ouyang Ling arrived at the Education Committee and greeted Ning Fengzhi, Bone Douluo, and Ning Rongrong.
• Ouyang Ling promised Ning Fengzhi that he would take good care of Ning Rongrong, while Bone Douluo scrutinized him and then let the matter go.

Ouyang Ling told Ning Fengzhi that Tang San and Xiao Wu, two students with Innate Full Soul Power, would join Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, prompting the academy’s Education Committee to eagerly await their arrival. When Tang San and Xiao Wu entered, Gu Rong fixed an intense gaze on Xiao Wu, leaving her identity at risk of exposure.

• Qian Renxue kept the Education Committee members from leaving and had Ouyang Ling explain that Tang San and Xiao Wu would join Heaven Dou Imperial Academy as classmates with Ning Rongrong.
• Ning Fengzhi expressed interest in recruiting the siblings, but Ouyang Ling reminded him that they were already students of the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Teacher Sun guided Tang San and Xiao Wu through the academy, and Xiao Wu grew anxious when she learned the three Soul Douluo Education Committee members wanted to meet them.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu entered the Education Committee building, where Gu Rong fixed an intense gaze on Xiao Wu.

Xiao Wu’s identity as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Transforming Soul Beast was exposed, and Tang San stood against the others to protect her. Gu Rong attacked, but a mysterious figure interrupted the fight and confronted the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Gu Rong’s reaction drew attention to Xiao Wu, whose concealed aura broke through and revealed her identity as a Soul Beast.
• Meng Shenji told Tang San that Xiao Wu was not human, and Xiao Wu confessed she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Transforming Soul Beast.
• Tang San rejected the demand to step aside and vowed to protect Xiao Wu, while Gu Rong prepared to kill them.
• Tang San revealed the Clear Sky Hammer, prompting Ning Fengzhi to order Gu Rong to leave no one alive.
• A cold snort stopped Gu Rong’s attack, and a black figure appeared through the collapsed wall, denouncing the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Tang Hao arrived at the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy to rescue Tang San and Xiao Wu, then fought Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong. Ouyang Ling caught Tang San’s attack on Ning Rongrong and trapped him in an illusion where he awoke in the Tang Sect.

• Tang Hao confronted Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong, refusing to leave without Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• Gu Rong and Tang Hao clashed as Ning Fengzhi amplified the defenders, while Qian Renxue ordered Meng Shenji to capture Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• Tang San threw his Clear Sky Hammer at Ning Rongrong, but Ouyang Ling caught it and used Deep Sea Illusion: A Great Dream on him.
• Tang San awoke in an illusion of the Tang Sect and met First Mister Tang, who named him the sect’s sole heir and asked him to demonstrate its secret arts and recreate the Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus.

Ouyang Ling shattered Tang San’s illusion of becoming Tang Sect master, then broke his Clear Sky Hammer and tried to kill him before Tang Hao intervened. Tang Hao escaped with Tang San and Xiao Wu after attacking Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, while Ouyang Ling and his allies discussed the conflict and Ning Fengzhi thanked him for saving Ning Rongrong.

• Ouyang Ling revealed that Tang San’s Tang Sect life was an illusion, restoring his memories before shattering his Clear Sky Hammer and severely wounding him.
• Tang Hao intervened to stop Ouyang Ling, then unleashed Clear Sky True Body against Heaven Dou Imperial Academy as Gu Rong, Dugu Bo, and Chen Xin defended it.
• Tang Hao fled with Tang San and Xiao Wu, leaving the Education Committee in ruins, and Ning Fengzhi chose not to pursue them.
• Ouyang Ling explained to Dugu Bo, Chen Xin, and Ning Fengzhi that Tang Hao had targeted Qian Renxue, a transformed hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
• Qian Renxue told Ouyang Ling that she had sent Elders She Long and Ci Xue after Tang Hao’s group.
• Ning Fengzhi gave Ouyang Ling a million Gold Soul Coins and thanked him for saving Ning Rongrong, asking him to call him Uncle Ning.

Tang Hao fought off Yu Long and Ci Xue while escaping with Tang San and Xiao Wu, but the battle aggravated an old injury. Xiao Wu offered them refuge in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Tang Hao agreed to go there to recover.

• Tang Hao repelled Yu Long and Ci Xue’s attacks, using his Asura God Domain, Clear Sky True Body, and detonated soul rings to defeat their combined assault.
• Yu Long and Ci Xue abandoned the pursuit and decided to report to the Young Master.
• After landing safely, Tang Hao coughed up dark red blood and admitted that the fight had stirred up an old injury.
• Xiao Wu invited Tang Hao and Tang San to recover in the Star Dou Great Forest, where the Titan Giant Ape, the Azure Bull Python, and the Lake of Life could protect and aid them.
• Tang Hao accepted Xiao Wu’s offer and said he would settle the score after recovering.

After Tang Hao attacked Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Emperor Xue Ye branded him and Tang San enemies of the empire and moved to suppress Tang Yuehua’s Moonlight Pavilion. Qian Renxue considered seeking help from the enshrined elders to capture Tang Hao, while Tang Hao, Tang San, and Xiao Wu reached the Star Dou Great Forest and met Er Ming.

• Xue Ye heard that Tang Hao had attacked the academy and threatened the Crown Prince, then ordered him and Tang San branded as traitors to humanity and prepared to suppress Moonlight Pavilion.
• Qian Renxue learned that Yu Long and Ci Xue had failed to kill Tang Hao, and She Long suggested recruiting enshrined elders from Douluo Hall.
• Ouyang Ling guessed that Tang Hao and his companions had gone to the Star Dou Great Forest because Xiao Wu might return to her home there.
• Qian Renxue said she would eventually kill Xiao Wu for her Soul Ring and bone.
• Xiao Wu told Tang San that Er Ming, the Titan Giant Ape, would come to meet them, and Tang Hao soon spotted Er Ming emerging from the forest.

Xiao Wu brought Tang Hao and Tang San to the Lake of Life, where Er Ming and Da Ming allowed them to stay. Meanwhile, the news of a hundred-thousand-year transforming soul beast enraged the Clear Sky Sect, whose elders demanded that Tang Hao surrender his title and inherited treasures, leaving Tang Xiao to relay their terms.

• Xiao Wu introduced Tang Hao and Tang San to Er Ming, who escorted them to the Lake of Life after she asked him to help them recover.
• Da Ming welcomed Xiao Wu and allowed the humans to stay, warning them to restrain their greed.
• Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to investigate the hundred-thousand-year transforming soul beast and question the Crown Prince about Tang Hao.
• Tang Yuehua learned Moon Pavilion could survive only three months without its usual income and sent the news to the Clear Sky Sect.
• The Clear Sky Sect elders condemned Tang Hao, and the Second Elder demanded that Tang Xiao strip him of his Clear Sky title and reclaim the sect’s inherited soul bones and Grand Sumeru Hammer manual.
• Tang Xiao agreed to convey the demands but refused to immediately reclaim the inherited soul bones; the elders relented only if Tang Hao found two better soul bones for the Clear Sky Hammer.