Chapter Summaries

Chu Zhao used her Seed of Life martial soul to help Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation and then intervened when Hu Liena fought an Evil Soul Master Soul King. She countered his blood-draining Ghost Vine and crushed him beneath her Second Soul Skill, Weight of Life, as he tried to attack Hu Liena.

• Chu Zhao used Song of Life to contain two poisoned corpses thrown at Spirit Hall’s team, then left when Xie Yue told her to withdraw.
• Chu Zhao noticed Hu Liena was fighting a Soul King alone and followed her, intending to help while a Soul Douluo secretly guarded them.
• After Hu Liena was injured again, Chu Zhao used Song of Life to heal her and drain life force from the Soul King.
• The Soul King turned his blood-draining Ghost Vine on Chu Zhao, but the vines recoiled from her Seed of Life martial soul.
• Chu Zhao revealed her four Soul Rings and used Weight of Life to pin the Soul King down, but he tried to bind Hu Liena instead.

Chu Zhao killed the Soul King Evil Soul Master while Hu Liena was caught in the crushing force of her Soul Skill, then concealed her intentions and left. Hu Liena allowed Spirit Hall to investigate Chu Zhao, but a Titan Giant Ape appeared before she and her protector could follow up.

• The Evil Soul Master trapped Hu Liena with Ghost Vines, but Chu Zhao's Weight of Life crushed him to death and buried Hu Liena's legs in the earth.
• Hu Liena freed herself and reset her dislocated leg bones, then thanked Chu Zhao and invited her to leave the forest with them.
• Chu Zhao claimed she was searching for separated classmates and ran off, while Hu Liena refused to let her protector investigate her as a threat.
• Hu Liena asked the Soul Douluo to investigate Chu Zhao and try to befriend or recruit her without harming her.
• The Soul Douluo spotted the Titan Giant Ape near the forest's outskirts and stayed behind as Hu Liena fled, injured.

Chu Zhao saved Hu Liena from a Thunder Twin-Winged Tiger and stayed behind to kill the beast for a soul ring. The tiger advanced to sixty thousand years just as it seemed defeated, but another Eighth Soul Skill intervened before Chu Zhao could use her trump card.

• Hu Liena fled from the Titan Giant Ape and was attacked by a Thunder Twin-Winged Tiger, but Chu Zhao healed her and restrained the beast.
• Chu Zhao sent Hu Liena away and chose to fight the tiger, hoping to claim it as the fifth soul ring for her Seed of Life martial soul.
• Chu Zhao attacked the tiger with her Death God Scythe skills and enhanced poisons, then shot it down with Reaper Arrow as it tried to flee.
• The badly wounded tiger was struck by thunder, advanced to sixty thousand years, and recovered its strength, leaving Chu Zhao preparing to use her Soul Douluo-level trump card.
• Another Eighth Soul Skill intervened before Chu Zhao could unleash her strongest strike.

Chu Zhao defeated a wounded Thunder Twin-Winged Tiger after Light Feather Douluo intervened, then discovered that Xue Qinghe had publicly named her as his beloved. She learned that Emperor Xue Ye might approve their marriage if she reached the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament finals, and ended the chapter furious at Xue Qinghe for using her as a shield.

• Light Feather Douluo froze and severely wounded the Thunder Twin-Winged Tiger, allowing Chu Zhao to finish it with her Reaper Arrows.
• Chu Zhao thanked Light Feather Douluo and told him she was a student at Cloud Peak Academy.
• Light Feather Douluo recognized Chu Zhao's name and asked whether she was Xue Qinghe's beloved and chosen Crown Princess.
• Chu Zhao denied the rumors, but Light Feather Douluo said they had spread across the continent and that Emperor Xue Ye might approve their marriage if she reached the tournament finals.
• Chu Zhao blamed Xue Qinghe for using her as a shield, while Light Feather Douluo teased her about the rumors of their devotion.

Chu Zhao absorbed the Thunder Twin-Winged Tiger’s Soul Ring and gained an External Soul Bone with the Thunder Hurricane skill. Back at Cloud Peak Academy, she accepted three Soul Saint guards from Xue Qinghe and put them to work recruiting students.

• Guang Ling recognized Chu Zhao as Qian Renxue’s ally, teased her, and gave her a signal flare before leaving.
• Chu Zhao absorbed the Thunder Twin-Winged Tiger’s Soul Ring and gained black Thunder Twin Wings that granted flight and the Thunder Hurricane offensive skill.
• Chu Zhao returned to Cloud Peak Academy and learned that Xue Qinghe had sent her three elite Soul Saint guards, who signed her contract and pledged to serve her.
• Chu Zhao assigned the three guards to recruit students by invoking the Crown Prince of Heaven Dou’s consort.
• Chu Zhao accused Wang Sheng of mocking her and threatened to test the students’ strength, while Wang Sheng protested that he had only complained in his thoughts.

Chu Zhao sent Xiao Chenyu’s team to challenge Shrek Academy and deliver a letter to Zhu Zhuqing. At the Great Soul Arena, Cloud Peak’s Soul Elders surprised Shrek with their strength, and the match continued as Tang San faced Xiao Chenyu.

• Chu Zhao ordered Xiao Chenyu’s team to challenge Shrek Academy, deliver a letter to Zhu Zhuqing, and report the match; she sent two Soul Saint teachers to accompany them.
• Xiao Chenyu’s team found the Shrek Seven Devils at a nearby Great Soul Arena, where Wang Sheng grew furious after spotting Flender gambling.
• Wang Sheng fought Dai Mubai at level thirty-five and held his own against the level-thirty-eight opponent.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu recognized Xiao Chenyu and Wang Sheng as their former Notting Academy classmates, while Shi Yang learned Xiao Chenyu had joined Cloud Peak Advanced Soul Master Academy.
• Tang San pulled Shi Yang away from Xiao Chenyu’s attack, then fought Xiao Chenyu and learned that he and Wang Sheng had both reached level thirty-five.
• Xiao Chenyu acknowledged that his team had only ten-year first Soul Rings but declared that they would not give up on themselves.

Cloud Peak Academy’s coordinated tactics turned the team battle against the Shrek Team, as Xiao Chenyu and Wang Sheng pressured their opponents while Jin Qianqian’s poison weakened the field. The Shrek Team lost Shi Yang and Ning Rongrong, leaving Tang San and the others under fierce attack.

• Xiao Chenyu attacked Tang San with his first two Soul Skills, then used his third Soul Skill, Silver Wolf Sword Break, after Tang San bound him with Entanglement.
• Shu Han enhanced Xiao Chenyu’s attack with her Wordless Book’s Break character, allowing his sword phantom to shatter Tang San’s Spider Web Restraint.
• Wang Sheng fought Dai Mubai at close range with a systematic set of fist techniques, undermining Dai Mubai’s confidence.
• Tang San realized Jin Qianqian was controlling the field with poison, but her Golden Flower Bloom poisoned and weakened the Shrek Team before she carried Shi Yang off the platform.
• Cloud Peak Academy’s members unleashed their strongest attacks, and Wu Yun used her Second Soul Skill to send Ning Rongrong off the field.

Tang San wounded Lin Cheng with hidden weapons after Xiao Wu was injured, and Dugu Bo forced Tang San to remove the weapons. Lin Cheng revealed he had reached level thirty-five despite having only level-one Innate Soul Power, shattering Yu Xiaogang's composure.

• Zhu Zhuqing and Ma Hongjun attacked Wu Yun while Tang San retaliated against Lin Cheng for injuring Xiao Wu with a storm of hidden weapons.
• Jin Qianqian conceded the match, but Tang San's Dragon Beard Needles injured Lin Cheng before Cloud Peak Academy's teacher stopped him.
• Lin Cheng refused treatment, and Wu Yun reminded everyone that his injuries and pain accelerated his cultivation.
• Flender confronted Cloud Peak Academy's teacher, but Dugu Bo arrived and overwhelmed Shrek Academy with his Titled Douluo aura.
• Dugu Bo noticed Lin Cheng's unusual constitution, and Lin Cheng said he had level-one Innate Soul Power and had reached level thirty-five by listening to Chu Zhao.
• Xiao Chenyu confirmed that all seven Cloud Peak Academy members had Innate Soul Power of only level one or two, leaving Yu Xiaogang stunned.

Xiao Chenyu and Wu Yun challenged Yu Xiaogang over his insults and accusations that they were Fallen Ones. Wu Yun turned Yu Xiaogang’s claim that he had studied Spirit Hall case files against him by accusing him of taking credit for the Ten Core Theories, leaving him unable to finish his denial.

• Xiao Chenyu recalled Yu Xiaogang rejecting him as a child and mocked Yu Xiaogang for remaining a Soul Grandmaster.
• Yu Xiaogang accused Xiao Chenyu and the others of using shameful methods and suggested their rapid cultivation meant they were Fallen Ones.
• Wu Yun demanded that Yu Xiaogang apologize, then rejected Liu Erlong’s claim that he deserved seniority over her.
• Tang San attacked Wu Yun with hidden weapons, but the Cloud Peak Academy teacher and Dugu Bo intercepted them.
• Wu Yun asked where Yu Xiaogang had gotten his case files, then accused him of failing to credit Spirit Hall for the Ten Core Theories.

Zhu Zhuqing read a letter from Cloud Peak Academy and learned that her engagement to Dai Mubai had been canceled. She confronted him over the women he had pursued and declared that only hatred remained between them.

• Liu Erlong accused Wu Yun and the others of serving Spirit Hall, while Yu Xiaogang urged Shrek Academy to leave and rest.
• Xiao Chenyu delivered the headmaster's letter to Zhu Zhuqing, and Dai Mubai tried to stop her from reading it.
• After reading the letter, Zhu Zhuqing struck Dai Mubai with her First Soul Skill and revealed that their engagement had been canceled.
• Zhu Zhuqing named several women Dai Mubai had pursued and told him that Vina was alive and at his home.
• Zhu Zhuqing kept the cancellation's details secret to protect the Zhu Family and told Dai Mubai that they were now connected only by hatred.

Zhu Zhuqing ended her engagement with Dai Mubai and left Shrek Academy, while Dai Mubai blamed his father for arranging the match. After Dugu Bo withdrew from the others, Tang Hao confronted him for protecting Chu Zhao’s students and attacked him.

• Zhu Zhuqing told Flender she wanted to leave Shrek Academy, and Flender agreed to let her go.
• Dai Mubai blamed his father for arranging the engagement, while Zhu Zhuqing left him ignorant of why the Star Luo Emperor had arranged it to protect his life.
• Dugu Bo left the students with the Soul Saint teacher and went to a deserted wasteland after sensing a powerful presence.
• Tang Hao appeared before Dugu Bo and revealed his Clear Sky Hammer and nine Soul Rings.
• Dugu Bo recognized Tang Hao, and Tang Hao attacked him as Dugu Bo activated Martial Soul Possession to defend himself.

Tang Hao beat Dugu Bo and warned him to stay away from Xiao Wu, inadvertently revealing her identity as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. Dugu Bo planned to pass the information to Spirit Hall, while Zhu Zhuqing joined Chu Zhao’s Cloud Peak Academy after her engagement to Dai Mubai was dissolved.

• Tang Hao defeated Dugu Bo despite his newly transforming Martial Soul and warned him not to threaten Tang Hao’s son or target the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast near him.
• Dugu Bo realized Tang Hao meant Xiao Wu and decided to leak her identity to Spirit Hall without revealing his involvement.
• Zhu Zhuqing thanked Chu Zhao for helping free her from her engagement to Dai Mubai and said she wanted to join Cloud Peak Academy.
• Chu Zhao welcomed Zhu Zhuqing and invited her to the academy.
• The chapter recounted how Dai Mubai poisoned Vina to prevent her pregnancy from becoming public, how Chu Zhao saved Vina and used her testimony, and how Zhu Zhuqing’s mother helped secure the engagement’s dissolution.

After Zhu Zhuqing's engagement to Dai Mubai was dissolved, she joined Chu Zhao at the academy and began cultivating. Meanwhile, Chu Zhao learned Xiao Wu was terrified that Dugu Bo had discovered her identity, and the chapter ended with Chu Zhao bringing her a Scent Pouch and Scent Pills.

• Zhu Zhuqing's mother used a Star Luo royal secret method to confirm that Vina's unborn child was Dai Mubai's, and the Zhu Family successfully called off Zhu Zhuqing's engagement.
• Chu Zhao told Zhu Zhuqing she could leave Shrek Academy and cultivate freely, and Zhu Zhuqing described her resolve to kill Dai Mubai and herself if she saw no hope of escape.
• Chu Zhao showed Zhu Zhuqing the academy's treehouse dormitory, where Zhu Zhuqing immediately began cultivating.
• Xiao Wu hid in her hotel room, afraid Dugu Bo had discovered her identity and would turn her into a soul ring.
• Chu Zhao climbed through Xiao Wu's window and gave her Scent Pills and a Scent Pouch, instructing her to wear it at all times.

Chu Zhao soothed Xiao Wu by revealing that she knew Xiao Wu was a Soul Beast and giving her Scent Pills to conceal her aura. Xiao Wu fell asleep feeling safe, then woke grateful to Chu Zhao as Tang San worried outside her door.

• Chu Zhao learned that Xiao Wu was the Forest Master and resolved to complete the task of soothing her.
• Chu Zhao told Xiao Wu she knew her Soul Beast identity and had no intention of harming her.
• Chu Zhao explained that the Scent Pills would conceal Xiao Wu's aura and said she had made twenty of them for her.
• Xiao Wu embraced Chu Zhao, thanked her through tears, and eventually fell asleep after the task was completed.
• Chu Zhao tucked Xiao Wu into bed and left, and Xiao Wu woke the next day reassured by the scent pouch and pills.
• Tang San heard Xiao Wu crying and laughing, then hurried to her door and asked if her injuries were hurting again.

Xiao Wu hid Chu Zhao’s visit from Tang San and decided to cultivate diligently after a dream inspired by Chu Zhao. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Chu Zhao found a mature Dragon Blood Red Ganoderma, took it despite the danger, and fled a powerful snake Soul Beast.

• Xiao Wu told Tang San she had dreamed of being hunted and saved, while concealing Chu Zhao’s visit.
• Xiao Wu instinctively dodged Tang San’s touch and said they were adults, leaving Tang San worried that something had changed.
• Xiao Wu recalled a dream in which she became powerful without her Soul Beast identity separating her from her friends, and resolved to cultivate harder.
• Chu Zhao spotted a mature Dragon Blood Red Ganoderma in the middle region and decided to take it, relying on her Forest Master Halo and Impeccable Aura.
• Chu Zhao grabbed the ganoderma and discovered that a giant camouflaged snake had been coiled around the tree.
• Chu Zhao fled with the ganoderma as the powerful snake pursued her relentlessly.

Chu Zhao escaped the Giant Serpent with help from the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape, then traveled to Heaven Dou City to sell her surplus herbs. At the auction, she bought a Catwoman while Tang San and Ning Fengzhi watched a rare Immortal Herb go up for bidding.

• Chu Zhao dodged the Giant Serpent after taking the Dragon Blood Red Ganoderma, and the beast fled when it heard a bull's bellow and an ape's roar.
• Chu Zhao escaped the Star Dou Great Forest, credited the Forest Master aura and the two giant Soul Beasts for her good fortune, and decided to make money from her surplus spirit medicines.
• Chu Zhao went to the Heaven Dou Auction House, where she bid two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and won the Catwoman after Ning Fengzhi stopped competing.
• Tang San brought Hidden Sand Shoots Shadow to the auction, and Ning Fengzhi told him he had come seeking an Immortal Herb suitable for his clan.
• The auctioneer presented the Immortal Herb and announced its effects and a starting bid of five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.

Chu Zhao sold the Aromatic Silk Beauty to Ning Fengzhi for 1.5 million Gold Soul Coins, then freed the Catwoman she had bought from the auction house. She encouraged the girl to pursue becoming a Soul Master and vowed to bring down the Heaven Dou Auction House.

• Tang San recognized the Aromatic Silk Beauty and praised its effects to Ning Fengzhi and Xiao Wu, while Xiao Wu thought it would suit Chu Zhao’s Scythe martial soul.
• Ning Fengzhi and Prince Xue Xing bid for the herb, but Ning Fengzhi won it for 1.5 million Gold Soul Coins after Xue Xing stopped bidding for Prince Xue Beng.
• Ning Fengzhi learned that Cloud Peak Moon had sold the herb, while Chu Zhao received her proceeds after the auction house took a ten percent fee.
• Chu Zhao removed the chains from Catwoman, gave her clothes to choose from, and promised she could become a Soul Master through hard work.
• Catwoman asked whether she could become a Soul Master despite having no Soul Power, and Chu Zhao encouraged her not to give up.

Ning Rongrong gave Ning Fengzhi the Aromatic Silk Beauty, and it transformed his martial soul into an Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda while raising his Soul Power to level eighty. When the Moonlight Merchant Guild offered its remaining herb at auction, Ning Fengzhi went to Moonlight City and discovered several powerful factions had also come.

• Ning Fengzhi offered the Aromatic Silk Beauty to Ning Rongrong, but she urged him to consume it first.
• Ning Fengzhi ate the herb, gained a level of Soul Power, and transformed his martial soul into an Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Rongrong urged Ning Fengzhi to buy the second herb after seeing its effects.
• The Moonlight Merchant Guild told Ning Fengzhi to attend the Moonlight Auction in Moonlight City to bid for the remaining herb.
• Ning Fengzhi arrived in Moonlight City, where Bone Douluo sensed Titled Douluo from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Spirit Hall, along with several Soul Douluo.

Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo learned that Moonlight City’s people fiercely revered Cloud Peak Moon, while Chu Zhao prepared to control auction attendees with the city’s drug-laced flowers. At the auction, Jade Leopard presented the first Immortal Herb, which the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan bought for around eight hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.

• Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo discussed the wary looks they received after questioning Cloud Peak Moon’s strength, and a beautiful woman warned them not to insult Moonlight City’s leader.
• The woman secretly left a note in a book, which vanished and reached Chu Zhao through a hidden compartment.
• Chu Zhao revealed that Moonlight City’s fragrant flowers drugged outsiders and bound their Soul Power, while an added ingredient made the flowers beneficial to her people.
• Jade Leopard opened Chu Zhao’s auction and introduced herself as the master of Guang Yin Pavilion and the auctioneer.
• Jade Leopard offered three Azure Crystal Immortal Fruits, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan won them for around eight hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.

Chu Zhao’s auction earned the Moonlight Merchant Guild over twenty million Gold Soul Coins, while the auction’s restrictions on Soul Power impressed Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo. Liu Erlong gave Tang San an Azure Crystal Immortal Fruit, raising him to Rank 39 and leaving Dai Mubai jealous.

• Chu Zhao learned Liu Erlong had bought the Xian Nai Fruit and reflected on the auction’s other buyers, including Ning Fengzhi, whose consumption of the Aromatic Silk Beauty helped evolve his and Ning Rongrong’s Martial Souls into Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagodas.
• Chu Zhao sold all ten auction items for more than twenty million Gold Soul Coins as the attending factions bid and paid without causing trouble.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo told a colleague that outsiders lost access to Soul Power in Moonlight City, while Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo recognized the city’s defenses and Ning Fengzhi predicted it would become a top power within ten years.
• Liu Erlong gave Tang San an Azure Crystal Immortal Fruit, and his Soul Power rose six levels to Rank 39.
• Dai Mubai envied Tang San for receiving the fruit and gaining power that brought him level with Dai Mubai.