Chapter Summaries

Tang Shuo defeated Tang San with the Eastern Emperor Bell and carried the unconscious Ye Lingling from the arena. The next day, he began explaining Zhu Zhuqing’s special training, emphasizing that her speed should let her strike without being hit.

• Tang San’s Mysterious Jade Hands failed against Tang Shuo, who shattered his arm with a palm strike.
• Tang San used his Clear Sky Hammer and Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, but Tang Shuo blocked the attack with the Eastern Emperor Bell and left him gravely injured and unconscious.
• Tang Shuo carried Ye Lingling away from the spirit arena after defeating Tang San.
• Zhu Zhuqing visited Tang Shuo at Heaven Dou Royal Academy to ask about her special training.
• Tang Shuo explained that Zhu Zhuqing should use her speed and unpredictable attacks to hit enemies while avoiding their blows.

Tang Shuo began Zhu Zhuqing’s brutal special training, forcing her to dodge his strikes inside a small circle without using soul skills. After less than half an hour, she was covered in welts and collapsed from exhaustion.

• Zhu Zhuqing realized Yu Xiaogang had misled her and resolved to continue training with Tang Shuo.
• Tang Shuo explained that the first stage of training was dodging his attacks without soul skills and warned Zhu Zhuqing that it would be cruel.
• Tang Shuo drew a small circle, stepped inside it with Zhu Zhuqing, and prepared a flexible vine as a switch.
• Tang Shuo began striking Zhu Zhuqing, hitting her repeatedly when she failed to dodge and giving her no time to pause.
• Zhu Zhuqing dodged frantically as Tang Shuo attacked from changing angles, but her stamina waned and her body accumulated red welts.
• Tang Shuo struck Zhu Zhuqing’s calf, and she collapsed to the ground.

Tang Shuo put Zhu Zhuqing through repeated rounds of dodge training, healing her with the Eastern Emperor Mirror between sessions. After she collapsed at dusk, he carried her to a mountain spring and applied Clear Jade Balm, while Zhu Zhuqing remained furious and suspicious of his concern.

• Tang Shuo ended Zhu Zhuqing’s first training round, healed her injuries with the Eastern Emperor Mirror, and told her the second round would begin in half an hour.
• Zhu Zhuqing focused on dodging during the second round, but Tang Shuo continued the punishing training through several more rounds.
• At dusk, Tang Shuo stopped training and caught Zhu Zhuqing when she collapsed from exhaustion.
• Tang Shuo carried Zhu Zhuqing to a secluded mountain spring and gave her Clear Jade Balm to treat the marks left by the repeated strikes.
• Zhu Zhuqing let Tang Shuo apply the balm but believed his gentle concern was fake and suspected he had deliberately tormented her.

Tang Shuo treated Zhu Zhuqing’s injuries after their punishing training, and she thanked him with a brief embrace before promising to return. At Shrek Academy, Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Yu Xiaogang found Tang San and Xiao Wu gravely injured, and Ma Hongjun blamed Tang Shuo.

• Zhu Zhuqing bit Tang Shuo’s arm, then let him treat the wounds on her arms and legs while refusing to let him treat the rest.
• Tang Shuo gave Zhu Zhuqing the remaining medicine and told her to treat herself and return for more training the next day.
• Zhu Zhuqing hugged Tang Shuo briefly, then limped away with the medicine bundle.
• Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Yu Xiaogang returned to Shrek Academy and found Tang San and Xiao Wu unconscious with severe injuries, while Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun were also hurt.
• Ma Hongjun told Zhao Wuji that Tang Shuo had beaten Dai Mubai and seriously injured Tang San and Xiao Wu.

At Shrek Academy, Ma Hongjun told Zhao Wuji and Flender that an attacker had crippled him, provoking their fury despite Yu Xiaogang’s warning that the enemy might have powerful backing. In Heaven Dou City, Qian Renxue absorbed the Radiant Paradise Grass and prepared poisons, while Tang Shuo’s training brought Zhu Zhuqing close enough to deliberately take a vine strike from him.

• Ma Hongjun told Zhao Wuji that someone had destroyed his manhood, and Zhao Wuji and Flender angrily vowed to avenge the injured students.
• Yu Xiaogang examined Tang San and Xiao Wu and warned Zhao Wuji and Flender that their attacker’s strength suggested a formidable background.
• Qian Renxue absorbed the Radiant Paradise Grass, thought about Tang Shuo, and collected deadly poisons from her Soul Tool.
• Zhu Zhuqing’s evasion improved through Tang Shuo’s training, and she began defeating opponents at the Soto Great Soul Arena with ease.
• Zhu Zhuqing deliberately stumbled so Tang Shuo’s vine would strike her calf, then pretended she had done it to help him save face.

Zhu Zhuqing finished her special training with Tang Shuo, who promised her a gift for the next day, and returned to the academy in high spirits. Ning Rongrong confronted her about her secret meetings and guessed that she had a lover, then recalled something that made her expression turn strange.

• Tang Shuo ended Zhu Zhuqing's special training, telling her that her progress made it unnecessary to continue.
• Tang Shuo invited Zhu Zhuqing to return the next day to receive a gift, and she happily left the mountain.
• Ning Rongrong caught Zhu Zhuqing sneaking back into the courtyard and demanded to know why she had been so cheerful lately.
• Zhu Zhuqing admitted she had been meeting Tang Shuo and said she did not want Dai Mubai to cause him trouble.
• Ning Rongrong teased Zhu Zhuqing about her closeness with Tang Shuo, and Zhu Zhuqing blushed while remembering his care for her.
• Ning Rongrong suddenly recalled something from a few days earlier, and her expression turned strange.

Ning Rongrong teased Zhu Zhuqing about Tang Shuo, while Xue Qinghe told Tang Shuo that Qian Renxue appreciated the Radiant Paradise Grass and offered him a collection of rare poisons as her return gift. Tang Shuo caught Xue Qinghe revealing unusually intimate knowledge of Qian Renxue, and the meeting ended with him inspecting the poisons.

• Ning Rongrong noticed Zhu Zhuqing’s unsteady walk and teased her about being intimate with Tang Shuo, but Zhu Zhuqing denied it and defended him.
• Xue Qinghe told Tang Shuo that Qian Renxue was grateful for the Radiant Paradise Grass and that it had improved her cultivation.
• Tang Shuo questioned why Qian Renxue had not thanked him in person, prompting Xue Qinghe to reveal specific details about her cultivation.
• Tang Shuo asked how Xue Qinghe knew so much about his cousin, and Xue Qinghe explained that they were childhood confidants.
• Xue Qinghe presented Tang Shuo with several rare poisons as Qian Renxue’s return gift, and Tang Shuo recognized their value.

Tang Shuo asked Xue Qinghe to arrange a personal meeting with Qian Renxue, then invited her to accompany him to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain his fourth Spirit Ring. Xue Qinghe agreed to try, while concealing his identity as Qian Renxue and leaving his promised condition undecided.

• Tang Shuo teased Xue Qinghe about whether Qian Renxue had romantic feelings for him, making Xue Qinghe blush and lose his composure.
• Tang Shuo asked Xue Qinghe to introduce him to Qian Renxue, but Xue Qinghe claimed she could not conveniently meet outsiders and offered to relay messages instead.
• Tang Shuo told Xue Qinghe that he had reached rank thirty-nine and planned to seek his fourth Spirit Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tang Shuo asked Xue Qinghe to have Qian Renxue accompany him, and Xue Qinghe hesitated because of the forest's danger and his cousin's supposed schedule.
• Xue Qinghe agreed to do his best to arrange the trip after Tang Shuo accepted an unspecified condition, which Xue Qinghe said he would decide later.

Tang Hao confronted Shrek Academy over Tang San’s injuries and vowed to find Tang Shuo, while Tang Shuo gave Zhu Zhuqing a celestial herb that rapidly raised her Soul Power. The chapter ended with Zhu Zhuqing finishing her breakthrough at level forty.

• Tang Hao confronted Zhao Wuji, Flender, and Yu Xiaogang and said he would find Tang Shuo and make him pay for hurting Tang San.
• Tang Shuo gave Zhu Zhuqing a Daffodil Jade Muscle Bone and urged her to absorb it.
• Zhu Zhuqing consumed the herb while Tang Shuo stood guard as its icy energy transformed her body.
• Zhu Zhuqing’s Soul Power surged from level thirty-seven to level forty and settled after breaking through her bottleneck.

After Zhu Zhuqing broke through to level forty, Tang Shuo entered a Heaven Dou Royal Academy cultivation room and invented the God-Demon Art. It drew in and refined Soul Power at a speed more than ten times faster, leaving Tang Shuo poised to overcome his level thirty-nine bottleneck.

• Zhu Zhuqing awoke with a transformed physique and revealed to Ning Rongrong that she had reached level forty.
• Ning Rongrong guessed that Tang Shuo had helped Zhu Zhuqing, and Zhu Zhuqing thought about how much she owed him.
• Tang Shuo went to Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s Molten Core Lava cultivation room to challenge his level thirty-nine bottleneck.
• Tang Shuo envisioned a balance between a golden god and a black demon and devised the God-Demon Art.
• Tang Shuo formed two Soul Power vortices that rapidly drew in and refined energy, increasing his cultivation speed by more than tenfold.

After three months of cultivation, Tang Shuo broke through to level forty and set out to find his fourth Spirit Ring. At Shrek, Ning Rongrong urged Zhu Zhuqing to act on her feelings for him, while Qian Renxue arrived to meet Tang Shuo outside Heaven Dou City.

• Tang Shuo broke through the bottleneck to reach level forty and decided to find his fourth Spirit Ring.
• Ning Rongrong learned that Tang Shuo had given Zhu Zhuqing an immortal herb and teased her about how she had repaid him.
• Zhu Zhuqing admitted she had bitten Tang Shuo's shoulder, and Ning Rongrong urged her to take the initiative next time.
• Tang Shuo appeared beneath an ancient pine a hundred li outside Heaven Dou City, and Qian Renxue arrived to meet him.

Tang Shuo and Qian Renxue entered the Star Dou Great Forest’s core region in search of a powerful fourth Spirit Ring while Shrek Academy hunted in the outer region. After Dai Mubai absorbed a Spirit Ring and reached level forty-two, he raced ahead and spotted the two masked figures.

• Tang Shuo and Qian Renxue traveled into the Star Dou Great Forest to find a highly compatible Spirit Ring of at least ten thousand years.
• Tang Shuo and Qian Renxue masked their identities and continued toward the forest’s core region, ignoring the distant roar of a dying soul beast.
• Dai Mubai killed a Darkbreaking Nether Tiger with more than fifteen thousand years of cultivation and absorbed its Spirit Ring.
• Dai Mubai reached level forty-two, gained the White Tiger Meteor Shower skill, and charged ahead to scout for more soul beasts.
• Dai Mubai spotted Tang Shuo and Qian Renxue standing on a tree branch.

Tang Shuo and Qian Renxue encountered Dai Mubai, and Tang Shuo defeated him effortlessly. When Tang San and the Shrek group arrived, Ma Hongjun recognized Tang Shuo as the youth who had crippled him, and the old conflict flared up again.

• Dai Mubai challenged the masked Tang Shuo and Qian Renxue, then attacked Tang Shuo with his White Tiger skills.
• Tang Shuo destroyed Dai Mubai's attack with one finger and knocked him unconscious with a single palm strike.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ma Hongjun, Zhao Wuji, Flender, and Master Yu Xiaogang arrived and found Dai Mubai badly injured.
• Ma Hongjun recognized Tang Shuo as the youth who had crippled his Evil Fire Root and defeated him and the others before.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu recognized Tang Shuo, and the Shrek group called for revenge and demanded that he be killed.

Tang Shuo effortlessly defeated Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ma Hongjun, and Dai Mubai, then faced Yu Xiaogang’s offer to take him as a disciple. Yu Xiaogang waited for Tang Shuo to accept, unaware of the silence beneath his black iron mask.

• Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Ma Hongjun attacked Tang Shuo together, but his Eastern Emperor Bell absorbed their assault and blasted them away.
• Tang Shuo used Myriad Poison Killing Leg to break Tang San’s arms and poison him, then knocked Xiao Wu and Ma Hongjun unconscious with Primordial Yin-Yang Hands.
• Tang Shuo’s display left Flender and Zhao Wuji too frightened to move, while the Shrek students lay defeated.
• Yu Xiaogang praised Tang Shuo’s fighting style as proof of his theories and offered to take him as a disciple.

Tang Shuo denounced Yu Xiaogang’s theories and led Qian Renxue away as Zhao Wuji pursued them. At a clearing by a cave, Tang Shuo drew Zhao Wuji into an encounter with a ten-thousand-year Three-Eyed Demon Fox.

• Tang Shuo mocked Yu Xiaogang’s theories and called him an unfit, incompetent teacher.
• Zhao Wuji erupted in anger and chased Tang Shuo and Qian Renxue as they fled Shrek Academy.
• Tang Shuo told Qian Renxue they were drawing Zhao Wuji away from Flender to kill him in a deserted place.
• Tang Shuo and Qian Renxue stopped at a clearing near a cave, where Zhao Wuji caught up with them.
• A Three-Eyed Demon Fox burst from the cave, and Zhao Wuji used Gravity Squeeze before the fox broke free and lunged at him.

Tang Shuo and Qian Renxue used Zhao Wuji to weaken a Three-Eyed Demon Fox, then killed him and secured the beast’s Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring for Qian Renxue. At the clearing, Flender and the Shrek group found both the fox and Zhao Wuji dead.

• Zhao Wuji badly wounded the Three-Eyed Demon Fox but suffered a mental attack, leaving both combatants gravely injured.
• Qian Renxue killed the Three-Eyed Demon Fox and began absorbing its Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring.
• Tang Shuo killed the wounded Zhao Wuji with a strike from his black longsword.
• Qian Renxue finished absorbing the Spirit Ring as the Shrek group set out to find Zhao Wuji.
• Flender and the others followed the signs of destruction to the clearing and discovered the Three-Eyed Demon Fox’s corpse.
• Dai Mubai and the Shrek group spotted Zhao Wuji’s fallen Martial Soul Avatar beside the fox and realized he was dead.

Tang Shuo fought the pursuing Titan Giant Ape in the valley, but his blade and Demon Prison Domain could not pierce its defenses. He used the Eastern Emperor Bell’s World Suppression to bring the beast to its knees and wound it, though the battle remained unresolved.

• The Titan Giant Ape tracked Tang Shuo and Qian Renxue to the valley, and Tang Shuo sent Qian Renxue to hide while he faced it alone.
• Tang Shuo used his Demon Prison Domain to slow the Titan Giant Ape, but its strength let it break through the increased gravity.
• Tang Shuo repeatedly attacked the beast with Nightfall, but his blade could not penetrate its tough hide, and the Titan Giant Ape injured him with a powerful punch.
• Tang Shuo summoned the Eastern Emperor Bell and unleashed World Suppression, forcing the Titan Giant Ape to its knees and burning its arms.

Tang Shuo exhausted his Soul Power and Chaos Qi to grievously wound the Titan Giant Ape, but it charged him again. Gu Yuena awoke after sensing the Chaos Qi and sent Di Tian to stop Er Ming and bring Tang Shuo to her.

• Tang Shuo infused his golden attack with Chaos Qi, piercing the Titan Giant Ape’s chest and collapsing it.
• The exhausted Tang Shuo watched as the Titan Giant Ape rose and charged him again.
• At the Lake of Life, Gu Yuena awoke after sensing the aura of origin and ordered Di Tian to intervene.
• Gu Yuena’s majesty halted the Titan Giant Ape’s attack, and Di Tian appeared to tell Tang Shuo that his master wished to see him.
• Di Tian told Er Ming to go back.

Di Tian brought Tang Shuo to the Lake of Life after Tang Shuo agreed to meet his Master, leaving Qian Renxue behind to recover and wait for him. There, Tang Shuo met the silver-haired woman, who praised his unusual strength and composure before reaching to remove his mask.

• Di Tian forced the injured Titan Giant Ape to flee, then ordered Tang Shuo to come with him.
• Tang Shuo agreed to go with Di Tian only after securing Qian Renxue's safe departure, and he gave her a healing pill before leaving.
• Di Tian took Tang Shuo to the Lake of Life and knelt before his Master, a silver-haired woman, before leaving them alone.
• The woman questioned Tang Shuo about his strength, name, and purpose, and he said he had come to seek his own path.
• The silver-haired woman approached Tang Shuo and reached for his mask.

Tang Shuo met Gu Yuena, who recognized the Primordial Qi in his Eastern Emperor Bell and offered him a Divine Bestowed Spirit Ring in exchange for help recovering her power. He accepted the dangerous gift and began absorbing it as Gu Yuena promised to protect him.

• Tang Shuo summoned the Eastern Emperor Bell, and Gu Yuena sensed Primordial Qi within it and realized it could help her return to godhood.
• Gu Yuena proposed a mutual deal, offering to help Tang Shuo obtain a powerful fourth Spirit Ring in exchange for his power.
• Gu Yuena gave Tang Shuo a Divine Bestowed Spirit Ring origin and warned that its age would depend on how much energy he could endure.
• Tang Shuo accepted the gift and began absorbing it, while Gu Yuena introduced herself and promised to protect him.
• The Spirit Ring's energy tore through Tang Shuo's body, leaving him bloodied, but he kept his consciousness clear.