Chapter Summaries

Shen Fan concluded that Tang San had altered A Yin during her resurrection, explaining why she no longer helped people, and planned to visit the Douluo 2 world after defeating Heaven Dou Royal Academy. He went to sleep with the blushing Dugu Yan, while Wang Dong'er insisted his thoughts about Tang Wutong had nothing to do with her.

• Shen Fan suspected Tang San had sabotaged A Yin during her resurrection after considering how Tang San’s Abyss plan harmed Douluo Continent’s people while benefiting his family.
• A Yin agreed that Tang San had likely sabotaged her, and A Yin from Douluo 1 questioned why she would ever have pretended to be kind.
• Shen Fan recalled his promise to sleep in the same bed as Tang Wutong and planned to teleport to the Douluo 2 world after defeating Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Wang Dong'er denied that Shen Fan thinking about Tang Wutong had anything to do with her, while Xiao Wu encouraged her to consider Shen Fan.
• Shen Fan put away his diary, pulled the recovering Dugu Yan into his arms, and fell asleep beside her.

Shen Fan recruited Bai Chenxiang into the Dragon Fan Team by offering to cover her schooling and provide a stipend for her clan. Her agreement completed the second trials of Shen Fan’s and Dugu Yan’s divine tests, while Tai Long’s introduction of Tang San received a cold response from Bai Chenxiang.

• Shen Fan spotted Bai Chenxiang outside the carriage and invited her to join Shrek Academy and the Dragon Fan Team.
• Bai Chenxiang asked about the monthly stipend and whether she could send it to her clan, and Shen Fan promised at least one thousand Gold Soul Coins per month.
• Bai Chenxiang agreed to join, completing the second trials of Shen Fan’s Creation God Nine Tests and Dugu Yan’s Dragon God Nine Tests and unlocking their third trials.
• Tai Long introduced Bai Chenxiang to Tang San as that lord’s son, but Bai Chenxiang responded indifferently and did not engage with him.

Shen Fan welcomed Bai Chenxiang into the Dragon Fan Team while considering his next divine test and spotting Qian Renxue, Tang Yuehua, and Xue Ke. Qian Renxue joined the group on its way to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Shen Fan prepared to greet them.

• Bai Chenxiang rejected Tai Long's attempt to bring her closer to Tang San and instead befriended Liu Erlong and the Dragon Fan Team girls.
• Shen Fan wrote in his diary that he had completed his second divine trial and would next teach Xue Beng a lesson.
• Shen Fan spotted Xue Qinghe, Tang Yuehua, and Xue Ke outside Moonlight Pavilion.
• Qian Renxue said she was joining the group to visit Heaven Dou Royal Academy as its true person in charge.
• Liu Erlong told Shen Fan to get out of the carriage and greet the Crown Prince and his companions.

On Shrek Academy’s carriage, Xue Qinghe questioned Shen Fan about his strength, and Yu Xiaogang tried to present himself as a suitable mentor. Shen Fan challenged Tang San’s attacks on Spirit Hall by pointing out that it provided Soul Master subsidies, leaving Tang San stung by Shen Fan’s insults.

• Xue Qinghe, Xue Ke, and Tang Yuehua boarded Shrek Academy’s carriage, where Liu Erlong explained why the academy had entered two teams in the Elite Competition.
• Xue Qinghe asked Shen Fan about his martial soul and Soul Power Level, and Shen Fan claimed he had reached level forty-six.
• Yu Xiaogang praised Shen Fan’s talent and implied that he needed a good teacher, but Shen Fan mocked Tang Hao’s reputation as the youngest Titled Douluo.
• Tang San demanded evidence, and Shen Fan argued that Bibi Dong had become a Titled Douluo younger than Tang Hao.
• Tang San accused Shen Fan of belonging to Spirit Hall and condemned the organization, but Shen Fan asked whether Tang San had received its Soul Master subsidies.
• Xue Qinghe confirmed that the Heaven Dou Empire would not have subsidized Rogue Soul Masters without Spirit Hall’s pressure, and Shen Fan insulted Tang San for denying Spirit Hall credit.

Shen Fan confronted Tang San over his criticism of Spirit Hall’s Soul Master subsidies, accusing him of hypocrisy and selfishness. Tang Yuehua intervened to stop the argument, and Shen Fan agreed to let it go in exchange for her owing him a favor.

• Shen Fan asked Tang San whether he had returned the subsidies he had collected after learning where the money came from, then accused him of hypocrisy for criticizing the subsidies after receiving five million Gold Soul Coins.
• Tang San denied that he wanted Spirit Hall to stop paying subsidies, but Shen Fan argued that his complaints would leave Rogue Soul Masters without support.
• Shen Fan proposed moving on to a second round of questioning, leaving Tang San shocked and furious.
• Tang Yuehua asked Shen Fan to drop the matter and offered to thank him another day at Moonlight Pavilion.
• Shen Fan agreed to let the argument go, and Tang Yuehua pulled Tang San aside while Shen Fan sat beside Xue Qinghe (Qian Renxue) for the rest of the journey.

Shen Fan teased Xue Qinghe about wearing women's perfume before warning him that personal strength mattered more than governing the empire. He left the others debating Spirit Hall’s power after claiming to know its Grand Elder, Qian Daoliu.

• Shen Fan noticed a women's fragrance on Xue Qinghe and embarrassed him by inspecting his chest, while Xue Qinghe hid his anger and made excuses.
• Dugu Yan pulled Shen Fan away from Xue Qinghe, and Shen Fan criticized the crown prince for spending too much time on state affairs instead of cultivation.
• Shen Fan argued that Spirit Hall’s powerful soul masters could overwhelm the Heaven Dou Empire, startling Xue Ke and prompting Tang San to suspect Shen Fan had ties to Spirit Hall.
• Tang Yuehua rebuked Tang San, and Shen Fan claimed he knew Qian Daoliu and had refused an invitation to join Spirit Hall.
• The women watching the livestream, including Qian Renxue, mocked Shen Fan for lying so casually.

Shen Fan challenged Yu Xiaogang’s warnings about Spirit Hall, leaving him caught between Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong before Liu Erlong redirected the conversation to the upcoming spirit battle. At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Meng Shenji recognized Shen Fan as the one who had drawn away several of the academy’s key students, and Shen Fan joked that Dugu Yan had fallen for him at first sight.

• Shen Fan told Tang Yuehua that he had met Qian Daoliu by chance and considered him a good man.
• Shen Fan asked Yu Xiaogang whether Bibi Dong was trustworthy, and Yu Xiaogang said the current Pope had changed and lost herself in her position.
• Liu Erlong gave Yu Xiaogang cold looks, then turned to Shen Fan to discuss the spirit battle against Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Shen Fan’s group arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Meng Shenji asked Liu Erlong which seven team members would compete.
• Liu Erlong named Shen Fan, and Meng Shenji recognized him as the person who had drawn Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Yu Tianheng away from the academy.
• Shen Fan joked that Dugu Yan had fallen in love with him at first sight.

Liu Erlong and Meng Shenji settled on three spirit battles, including a match where Shen Fan would face three Heaven Dou Royal Academy students alone. As Tang San and Dai Mubai’s team began its battle, Shen Fan wrote that he expected Tang San to use underhanded tactics if he was close to losing.

• Dugu Yan and Shen Fan openly flirted while Meng Shenji asked who else would compete for Liu Erlong’s academy.
• Liu Erlong insisted that only Shen Fan would take the field, provoking angry protests from Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s students until Dugu Yan silenced them with a glare.
• Under Crown Prince Xue Qinghe’s mediation, the sides agreed to three spirit battles: Dai Mubai and Tang San’s team, the seven girls of the Dragon Fan Team, and Shen Fan against three opponents.
• Dugu Yan warned Shen Fan that Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s team included outside helpers from powerful clans, and Shen Fan said Dai Mubai and Tang San’s newcomers might struggle to coordinate.
• The first battle began, and Shen Fan wrote in his diary that Tang San would resort to tactics outside the rules if he faced defeat.

Shen Fan criticized Douluo 2 Shrek Academy for its hypocrisy and the unchecked power of Soul Masters, while the livestream participants condemned its behavior. He then remembered he needed Bai Chenxiang to copy the Purple Cloud Wings battle technique before he returned to the Doupo World to give it to Xiao Yan.

• Liu Erlong condemned Douluo 2 Shrek Academy for bullying others under the excuse of protecting its own.
• Zhu Zhuyun recalled that Spirit Hall had accepted Star Luo Empire's victory in an earlier Elite Competition without retaliation.
• Shen Fan contrasted Spirit Hall's protection of ordinary people with the dangers civilians faced during Soul Master fights in the Douluo 2 era.
• Shen Fan realized he still needed a handwritten copy of the Purple Cloud Wings battle technique for Xiao Yan.
• Shen Fan called Dugu Yan, sat beside Bai Chenxiang, and asked her for help.

Shen Fan debated how to treat Huo Yuhao when he entered the Douluo 2 era, then decided to focus on taking Wang Dong'er away and disrupting Tang San’s plan rather than targeting Huo Yuhao. The chapter ended with Shen Fan criticizing Huo Yuhao’s failure to oppose Tang San after Tang San threatened Ju Zi with her son.

• Shen Fan learned that the Diary System translated its own cultivation materials automatically, while materials from other worlds required translation.
• Huo Yun'er worried that Shen Fan might harm Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong'er promised to help keep him safe if she could.
• Shen Fan decided to pursue Wang Dong'er and ruin Tang San’s plan, believing that would prevent Huo Yuhao from becoming Tang San’s lackey.
• The livestream participants joked about Shen Fan’s romantic ambitions and discussed Ju Zi’s conquest of the Dou Ling and Tian Hun Empires.
• Shen Fan criticized Huo Yuhao for showing no dissatisfaction when Tang San captured Ju Zi’s son to threaten her, and compared him unfavorably to his father, Dai Hao.

After Shrek Academy defeated Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Xue Qinghe asked Liu Erlong to admit Princess Xue Ke. Liu Erlong agreed, and Xue Ke was assigned to Shen Fan’s Dragon Fan Team.

• Dugu Yan and her teammates defeated Heaven Dou Royal Academy in the second spirit battle, prompting Meng Shenji to concede.
• Liu Erlong chose to cancel the final match after Heaven Dou Royal Academy admitted defeat.
• Xue Qinghe reassured Meng Shenji that he should not blame himself for the loss.
• Xue Qinghe asked Liu Erlong to let Xue Ke study at Shrek Academy, explaining that the imperial family lacked a suitable teacher.
• Liu Erlong welcomed Xue Ke and proposed that she join Shen Fan’s Dragon Fan Team, and Shen Fan agreed.

Shen Fan secretly returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy to punish Xue Beng, completing his third Creation God trial before arriving in the Douluo 2 era at the Iron Blood Sect. He defeated the sect’s disciples, elders, and sect master, then left them alive and disappeared into the crowd.

• Qian Renxue told Xue Ke to train with Shrek Academy, and Liu Erlong, Qian Renxue, and the others set off for Godwind Academy.
• Shen Fan slipped back to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and attacked Xue Beng, completing the Third Trial of the Creation God Nine Tests and receiving a new task to comb Xiao Wu’s hair.
• Dugu Yan completed the Third Trial of the Dragon God Nine Tests and received a task to help Shen Fan complete his fourth Creation God test.
• Shen Fan realized he had arrived at the Iron Blood Sect in the Douluo 2 era and knocked away a guard who attacked him.
• Shen Fan defeated the Iron Blood Sect’s disciples, elders, and sect master, spared them, and disappeared into the nearby crowd.

Shen Fan realized that Douluo Star had degraded over time, weakening the Soul Masters of later eras despite the growing number of Titled Douluo. He concluded that the Divine Realm’s descent of Eight Gods and Tang San’s merger of Douluo Continent with the Abyss Plane had damaged the world’s origin and left it in decline.

• Shen Fan compared his fight with the Iron Blood Sect Master to Soul Masters of the Douluo 1 era and concluded that Douluo Star had been weakening across eras.
• Shen Fan reasoned that the Divine Realm’s descent of Eight Gods had consumed Douluo Star’s world origin to provide energy for eight gods.
• Douluo 1 and Douluo 2 livestreamers debated whether Titled Douluo of later eras were weaker, and Douluo 2 Ning Rongrong confirmed that Tang San’s Sea God Trident could not damage city walls.
• Shen Fan recalled how Tang San split Tang Wutong, siphoned Douluo Continent’s fortune, and brought the Abyss Plane to the world.
• Shen Fan concluded that merging the positive-attribute Douluo Continent with the negative-attribute Abyss Plane shattered the world’s balance and caused its continued decline.

Shen Fan reflected on Douluo Star’s decline and the changes to Heaven Dou City after ten thousand years as he traveled through the Douluo 2 era. He arrived at Shrek Academy and announced his interest in its beauties, prompting wary reactions from the women watching the livestream.

• Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing rejected the idea that Soul Masters could surpass Level 100 without divine positions and blamed later sequels for contradicting earlier settings.
• Shen Fan wrote that Tang San had exploited Douluo Star, leaving it depleted and under Tang Hao’s control after Huo Yuhao failed to save it.
• Shen Fan wandered through the transformed Heaven Dou City, and Ning Tian identified his location as Imperial Street and explained that the street vehicles were soul-tool vehicles.
• The livestream shifted to Shrek Academy’s gates, where Shen Fan announced his arrival and the women of Douluo 2 Shrek Academy reacted warily.

Shen Fan toured Shrek Academy’s freshman classrooms while the livestream’s women discussed the statues and his thoughts about the students. His observations about Ning Tian’s fate and Shrek’s unchanged training methods left the story focused on the academy’s students and the livestream’s reactions.

• Shen Fan ignored the statues of the original Shrek Seven Devils and the Golden Iron Triangle, while the livestream’s women discussed who had been commemorated.
• Shen Fan reached Class Nine, admired Ning Tian’s appearance, and recalled that Tang San’s meddling had once turned her into a man, prompting Ning Tian to ask if it was Tang San again.
• Shen Fan admired Lan Luoluo and Lan Susu, then commented on Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu, drawing reactions from the livestream’s women.
• Shen Fan reached Class One and noticed Huo Yuhao studying attentively.
• Shen Fan reflected that Huo Yuhao might have been better off at Sun Moon Royal Academy and noted that Shrek still relied on running and fighting, though the exercises had changed.

Shen Fan returned to Huo Yuhao’s classroom and pretended to be his long-lost uncle, earning Huo Yuhao’s cautious trust by promising to make the Duke’s Mansion pay. He then persuaded Huo Yuhao to challenge Dai Huabin in the academy arena, and Huo Yuhao agreed.

• After class ended, Shen Fan went back to Huo Yuhao’s classroom and introduced himself as Huo Yuhao’s uncle, inviting him, Wang Dong’er, and Xiao Xiao to eat.
• Zhou Yi questioned Shen Fan, who claimed he belonged to the same generation as Huo Yuhao’s mother, Yun’er.
• Huo Yuhao became wary when Shen Fan mentioned his mother, but Shen Fan said he knew what had happened and would eventually make the Duke’s Mansion pay.
• Huo Yuhao tested Shen Fan by asking him to teach Dai Huabin a lesson, and Shen Fan immediately agreed.
• Shen Fan proposed fighting Dai Huabin in the arena, and Zhou Yi confirmed that arena matches were allowed.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to go after Dai Huabin with Shen Fan.

Shen Fan provoked Dai Huabin into challenging him to a duel at the Academy Arena, then reflected on his intention to punish Dai for Huo Yun’er’s death. Tang Ya brought Jiang Nan Nan to meet Shen Fan, and Jiang revealed that she had sought help from Shrek Academy but her talent was not considered worth a favor.

• Dai Huabin tried to shove Shen Fan, but Shen Fan barely moved while Dai staggered backward.
• Dai Huabin summoned his martial soul, but Mu Jin stopped the fight and he challenged Shen Fan to meet him at the Academy Arena.
• Shen Fan followed Dai Huabin and wrote that he planned to beat him for the injuries that had led to Huo Yun’er’s death.
• Tang Ya brought Jiang Nan Nan to Shen Fan, and Jiang Nan Nan admitted she had expected him to write about her circumstances eventually.
• Jiang Nan Nan told the livestream that she had asked Shrek Academy for help, but her cultivation talent was not worth the academy owing anyone a favor.

Shen Fan suspected Tang San had manipulated Jiang Nan Nan and Xu Sanshi’s relationship through the Qiankun Valley of Questioning Love test. Jiang Nan Nan said she felt nothing for Xu Sanshi, leaving Shen Fan to question how her reservations had vanished after the test.

• Jiang Nan Nan said her encounter with Xu Sanshi had been only a transaction and that she felt nothing for him.
• Tang Ya suggested Jiang Nan Nan might consider Shen Fan, while Shen Fan wished he could ease the sorrow he believed she carried.
• Huo Yuhao introduced Zhou Yi and the others to Shen Fan, then called him Uncle Shen after Shen Fan teased him.
• Xu Sanshi arrived to see Jiang Nan Nan and fawned over her, while she showed clear disgust toward him.
• Shen Fan recalled Jiang Nan Nan’s earlier reservations about Xu Sanshi and suspected Tang San had used the Qiankun Valley of Questioning Love test to change her feelings.

Shen Fan arranged a betting pool for his duel with Dai Huabin, revealed his four-ring strength, and won enough to share generously with Huo Yuhao. He then invited others to bet on him and drew Jiang Nannan’s interest in teaming up, prompting Xu Sanshi to object and renew his pursuit of her.

• Shen Fan asked Zhou Yi how to open a betting pool, then took Huo Yuhao’s five hundred Copper Soul Coins as an investment.
• Shen Fan and Dai Huabin announced their martial souls and ranks before the referee started their duel.
• After the match, Shen Fan gave Huo Yuhao five thousand Gold Soul Coins from his winnings and encouraged him to keep betting on his fights.
• Shen Fan suggested that a partner could let him enter more soul battles, and Jiang Nannan proposed teaming up with him.
• Xu Sanshi objected to Jiang Nannan partnering with Shen Fan, but she rejected Xu Sanshi and he insisted that he would eventually win her over.

Shen Fan agreed to team up with Jiang Nannan, and Mu Jin invited him to join Shrek Academy, though he said he would think about it. After dinner, Shen Fan criticized the cost of awakening martial souls and clashed with Bei Bei over Spirit Hall.

• Jiang Nannan teamed up with Shen Fan and agreed to take only one-tenth of their Gold Soul Coin earnings if they won.
• Mu Jin invited Shen Fan to join Shrek Academy and offered to arrange his recommendation letter, but Shen Fan said he would consider it.
• Shen Fan invited Jiang Nannan and Tang Ya to dinner, where Huo Yuhao joked with Tang Ya about her wanting his grilled fish.
• Tang Ya encountered Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi outside the hotel, then started to leave to help Huo Yuhao sell grilled fish.
• A mother begged an elderly Soul Master to awaken her daughter's martial soul, but he refused because she had only thirty-one Gold Soul Coins instead of the required hundred.
• Shen Fan condemned the fee and praised Spirit Hall, and Bei Bei called Spirit Hall an evil force; Shen Fan angrily challenged his judgment.