Chapter Summaries

After returning from the Far North, Lu Yuan prepared the academy’s team to gain combat experience at Soul Arenas. At Shrek Academy, Yu Xiaogang’s appointment to lead special training met resistance from Dai Mubai, and Tang San challenged Dai Mubai to a spar.

• Lu Yuan returned to Grand Mansion Academy with Tang Wutong and told Dugu Bo to have Liu Erlong bring Yanyan and the others to the plaza for a trip to the major cities’ Soul Arenas.
• Dai Mubai told Flender that Ma Hongjun had left Shrek Academy after his Evil Fire flared up.
• Flender introduced Yu Xiaogang as the students’ special-training instructor and defended his knowledge despite his lost Soul Power.
• Dai Mubai questioned Yu Xiaogang’s ability to teach, and Flender admitted that Yu Xiaogang had reached only level twenty-nine before his Soul Power was crippled.
• Tang San challenged Dai Mubai to a spar, demanding that he apologize to Yu Xiaogang if he lost.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang teamed up in a spar to defeat Dai Mubai, forcing him to apologize before Yu Xiaogang began Shrek’s training. The chapter then shifted to Grand Mansion Academy, where Lu Yuan arrived to meet Liu Erlong and the others.

• Dai Mubai agreed to spar with Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang joined the fight after Tang San agreed not to use hidden weapons.
• Tang San mounted Yu Xiaogang in his Gangzi form, and they used Thunderous Farts, spider silk, and Blue Silver Grass to attack Dai Mubai.
• Dai Mubai broke free and counterattacked, but Tang San and Yu Xiaogang caught him off guard with an aerial attack and knocked him down with an elbow.
• Dai Mubai surrendered and apologized to Yu Xiaogang, who then announced a weighted long-distance run followed by training in the Soul Arena.
• Lu Yuan arrived at the pavilion at Grand Mansion Academy, where Dugu Yan greeted him beside Liu Erlong and the others.

Lu Yuan and Grand Mansion Academy’s team traveled to Soul Arenas, earning a Silver title in Balak City before preparing to face Heaven Dou Royal Academy in Suotuo City. In his Sea of Spirit, Ice Empress revealed that the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow had strengthened her soul and Lu Yuan’s Aoling Ice Dragon King martial soul.

• Liu Erlong set the team’s yearlong goal of earning Silver Soul Arena titles in every city, then led them toward Winchester City.
• Three months later, Lu Yuan swept the opposing team aside in Balak City, helping Grand Mansion Team earn its Silver Soul Arena title.
• Liu Erlong announced that the team would travel to Suotuo City, where it might encounter Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s team.
• Lu Yuan spoke with Ice Empress, who explained that the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow had raised her cultivation to six hundred thousand years and strengthened his third soul skill.
• Ice Empress told Lu Yuan that his Soul Rings could grow on their own and that she had withheld enhancing his other two soul skills until she understood their unusual traits.

The Ice Empress increased the ages of Lu Yuan’s Sky-Holding Spear Soul Rings, and he considered condensing a Soul Core. The next day, Lu Yuan arrived in Suotuo City with the Grand Mansion Academy team and encountered Shrek Academy while strolling with Dugu Yan.

• The Ice Empress raised Lu Yuan’s first Soul Ring to a hundred thousand years and his other four Soul Rings to twenty, fifty, seventy, and seventy thousand years.
• Lu Yuan revealed his red Soul Ring and asked whether he could condense a Soul Core, and the Ice Empress said he met the physical and mental requirements but warned that his cultivation was low.
• Liu Erlong led the Grand Mansion Academy elites to Suotuo City, where they planned to register for the Soul Fighting Match the next day.
• Dugu Yan invited Lu Yuan to walk through Suotuo City, fed him a street snack, and strolled beside him like a couple.
• Lu Yuan spotted Shrek Academy at an intersection and recognized the crew-cut man at its front as Yu Xiaogang.

Lu Yuan entered the Suotuo Great Soul Arena with Grand Mansion Academy, where he reunited with Tang San and Dai Mubai and defeated a Soul King in one move. Yu Xiaogang wrongly concluded that Lu Yuan’s cultivation had been forced by drugs and left him with a damaged foundation, but Lu Yuan’s victory unsettled that explanation.

• Lu Yuan and Ning Rongrong registered as the Spear-Tower Team, then Lu Yuan sent Tang San and Dai Mubai flying when they confronted him at the arena.
• Yu Xiaogang and Flender watched Lu Yuan’s match after hearing that he had appeared in Suotuo City, and Yu Xiaogang speculated that medicinal drugs had ruined Lu Yuan’s future cultivation.
• Lu Yuan faced Xiao Feng in the fourteenth sub-arena, where Xiao Feng was seeking his fifth consecutive victory.
• Lu Yuan defeated Xiao Feng with one move without releasing his Martial Soul, shocking the audience, Yu Xiaogang, and Flender.
• Yu Xiaogang insisted that Lu Yuan must have taken advantage of Xiao Feng’s carelessness with a sneak attack.

Lu Yuan secretly empowered Jing Ling, who defeated Tang San and Oscar in the Soul Arena with a single attack. Tang San struggled with the loss afterward, while Yu Xiaogang insisted he wait until he became a Soul King before cultivating the Clear Sky Hammer.

• Lu Yuan and Ning Rongrong watched Huang Yuan and Jing Ling face Tang San and Oscar in a two-versus-two Soul Fighting Match.
• Lu Yuan secretly enhanced Jing Ling’s Martial Soul, and Jing Ling froze Tang San and Oscar with his Bone-Piercing Yin Wind, winning the match.
• Flender freed Tang San and Oscar, then let Huang Yuan and Jing Ling leave after learning Jing Ling attended Grand Mansion Academy, which reportedly had multiple Titled Douluo.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang if he was trash after his defeat, and Yu Xiaogang urged him not to lose heart over one loss.
• Tang San asked whether cultivating the Clear Sky Hammer could have prevented the defeat, but Yu Xiaogang said he had to wait until he became a Soul King.

After Grand Mansion Academy’s victories, Zhu Zhuqing sought to leave Shrek Academy and enroll there, but Dai Mubai confronted her and threatened her. Lu Yuan killed Dai Mubai, leaving Zhu Zhuqing grateful but worried about the consequences with the Star Luo and Zhu families.

• Tang San felt stifled as Gangzi tried to comfort him, while Flender and Yu Xiaogang watched Lu Yuan defeat Soul Kings and regretted underestimating him.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed Lu Yuan’s rapid cultivation came from medicine, and Shrek’s students took comfort in the explanation while Zhu Zhuqing doubted it.
• Zhu Zhuqing secretly followed Grand Mansion Academy and asked to enroll, but Dai Mubai caught up and accused her of betraying Shrek.
• Zhu Zhuqing confronted Dai Mubai about abandoning her and revealed that he had become a eunuch; Dai Mubai attacked her, and Liu Erlong blocked his strike.
• Dai Mubai invoked his identity as a Star Luo prince to demand Zhu Zhuqing return, but Lu Yuan pierced and killed him.
• Lu Yuan asked whether Zhu Zhuqing resented him for killing her fiancé, and she said she did not while worrying about the fallout with her family and the Star Luo Imperial House.

Lu Yuan brought Zhu Zhuqing to Grand Mansion Academy after Dai Mubai’s death and told her she could join the tournament team as a substitute. At the Great Soul Arena, Shrek discovered Dai Mubai was dead and confronted Zhu Zhuqing, while Lu Yuan blocked Tang San and Oscar from leaving.

• Lu Yuan asked Liu Erlong to burn Dai Mubai’s corpse and invited Zhu Zhuqing to stay at Grand Mansion Academy as a substitute on the tournament team.
• The next morning, Tang San and Ma Hongjun realized Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing had not returned to Shrek Academy, so Yu Xiaogang and Flender went to search for them.
• Tang San and Oscar saw Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong win a two-on-two battle at the Great Soul Arena, and Tang San suspected Dai Mubai had been killed at Grand Mansion Academy.
• Flender and Yu Xiaogang found Dai Mubai’s charred corpse, identified it by a half-burned Red Feather Eagle plume, and Flender carried it away.
• Oscar accused Zhu Zhuqing of helping kill Dai Mubai, but Ning Rongrong defended her and Zhu Zhuqing said Dai Mubai was dead.
• Lu Yuan arrived as Tang San and Oscar tried to leave, challenged their accusations, and ordered them to stop.

Lu Yuan took Zhu Zhuqing in after she left Shrek Academy and offered her a substitute place on Grand Mansion Academy’s tournament team. When Flender and Yu Xiaogang discovered Dai Mubai’s charred corpse, Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong defeated Tang San and Oscar in a Soul Battle, and Lu Yuan confronted the two Shrek students as they tried to take Zhu Zhuqing away.

• Lu Yuan invited Zhu Zhuqing to stay at Grand Mansion Academy, and she agreed to join the team as a substitute.
• The next morning, Tang San and Ma Hongjun realized Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing had not returned to Shrek Academy, so Flender and Yu Xiaogang went to search for them.
• At the Great Soul Arena, Tang San and Oscar spotted Zhu Zhuqing fighting alongside Ning Rongrong for Grand Mansion Academy.
• Flender and Yu Xiaogang found Dai Mubai’s burned corpse, and Flender carried it away after intimidating the Spirit Hall deacons.
• After Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong defeated Tang San and Oscar, Oscar accused Zhu Zhuqing of killing Dai Mubai and demanded she return to Shrek.
• Lu Yuan arrived, challenged Tang San and Oscar, and stopped them as they tried to leave.

Lu Yuan mutilated Tang San, Oscar, and Yu Xiaogang at the Soul Arena, then intimidated the staff who tried to stop him. That night, Zhu Zhuqing sought his help to grow stronger, and the next morning he gave her an Immortal Herb; meanwhile, Tang Hao learned of Tang San’s injuries.

• Lu Yuan severed Tang San and Oscar’s hands and injured them, then forced Yu Xiaogang to cut off flesh from himself and gave him feathers as a taunting gift.
• Liu Erlong refused Yu Xiaogang’s order to attack Lu Yuan, left, and threw a fireball at him when he insulted her.
• Lu Yuan used his Soul Power to frighten two Soul Arena staff members into letting him go, and they took Tang San, Oscar, and Yu Xiaogang away.
• Zhu Zhuqing visited Lu Yuan, asking to become stronger because Star Luo Empire would retaliate against her after Dai Mubai’s death, and accepted his offer of an Immortal Herb.
• The next morning, Lu Yuan gave Zhu Zhuqing the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone, while Flender and Ma Hongjun returned to Shrek Academy with the injured men.
• Tang Hao saw Tang San’s condition and demanded to know who had hurt him.