Chapter Summaries

Ning Fengzhi stopped Sword-Bone Douluo from beating the Shrek group and welcomed them into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. After learning that Spirit Hall had abducted Zhao Wuji and helped shut down Shrek Academy, Ning Fengzhi heard the group’s account of what had happened.

• Gu Rong and Sword Douluo beat Dai Mubai, Flender, and Yu Xiaogang until Ning Fengzhi arrived and ordered them to stop.
• Ning Fengzhi healed the three men, apologized to the Shrek group, and spoke with Tang San about Rongrong and Tang Hao.
• Ning Fengzhi privately received the Shrek group, and his courtesy eased Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and Dai Mubai’s anger toward Sword-Bone Douluo.
• Yu Xiaogang told Ning Fengzhi that Spirit Hall had abducted Zhao Wuji and that the Balak Kingdom had shut down Shrek Academy.

Yu Xiaogang and Flender revealed their plan to have Shrek's students challenge Spirit Hall Academy in the tournament two years later and sought Ning Fengzhi's support. Ning Fengzhi refused to promise help after revealing that Qin Rongrong had joined Soul Master Guild Academy and would compete for it instead.

• Yu Xiaogang had Tang San and the other Shrek students display their Martial Souls and Soul Rings, impressing Ning Fengzhi with their talent.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed that Chang Gong Miao and Dai Mubai could use a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, then had Tang San show his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Yu Xiaogang and Flender explained that they wanted Shrek's Seven Monsters to defeat Spirit Hall Academy in the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Ning Fengzhi to bring Qin Rongrong back to Shrek, while Flender requested a recommendation to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Ning Fengzhi said Qin Rongrong had enrolled at Soul Master Guild Academy and would represent it in the tournament, leaving the Shrek group stunned.

Tang San struck a deal with Ning Fengzhi to supply twelve thousand Godly Zhuge Crossbows, while negotiating over Qin Rongrong’s return to Shrek. Ning Fengzhi agreed only if Rongrong received a way to evolve her Martial Soul and wanted to return, leaving the decision in her hands.

• Tang San demonstrated the Godly Zhuge Crossbow and agreed to provide its forging procedures and assemble twelve thousand crossbows for five thousand Gold Soul Coins each, with payment due in two years.
• Tang San asked whether Qin Rongrong could return to Shrek if her Martial Soul evolved, and Ning Fengzhi made it conditional on Rongrong’s willingness.
• Tang San told Oscar and Ma Hongjun about the deal and falsely claimed Ning Fengzhi had refused to let Rongrong return unless her Martial Soul evolved.
• Bone Douluo objected to Ning Fengzhi’s bargain, but Ning Fengzhi explained that he had not promised to make Rongrong return and considered the money already paid.

After Ning Fengzhi revealed that the tournament prize would be a transformed Blue Silver Emperor, Tang San and his companions reacted with fury. In Spirit City, Qin Xuan convened Spirit Hall’s senior leaders, while the Shrek group reached Heaven Dou Royal Academy and found trouble awaiting them.

• Ning Fengzhi gave Tang San a recommendation letter, and Tang San handed him the Godly Zhuge Crossbow forging process in return.
• Ning Fengzhi announced that the tournament champion two years later would receive a 100,000-Year Transformed Soul Beast whose true form appeared to be a Blue Silver Emperor, enraging Tang San and the others.
• Qian Daoliu and Spirit Hall’s senior Titled Douluo gathered in the Papal Hall conference chamber after Qian Renxue said Qin Xuan believed the time was ripe.
• Liu Erlong told Qian Renxue that Jing Ni, Nong Yu, Ah Yin, and others had moved to Sunset Forest after Qian Renxue graduated.
• Qin Xuan entered the conference chamber with Bibi Dong and Ling Yuan, took his seat as Pope, and invited everyone to have black tea before discussing official matters.
• Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and the Shrek teachers arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where trouble soon appeared.

Tang San’s group arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and discussed their plans to subdue Dugu Bo and seek the Icefire Yin Yang Well. At Spirit Hall, Qin Xuan ordered relief granaries built ahead of coming turmoil, setting up a campaign to win the people’s support in the name of the Angel God.

• Xue Beng and the Street Loafers provoked Shrek, and Dai Mubai, Tang San, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun beat them until Sun Buyu and Flender ended the confrontation with Ning Fengzhi’s letter.
• Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Dai Mubai complained about staying at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while Tang San said they needed to subdue Old Poison and might gain access to Immortal Herbs.
• Dai Mubai said he had received no reply from the Zhu Family and planned to return to the Star Luo Empire to find Zhu Qing; Tang San offered to have Old Poison accompany him.
• Sun Buyu presented Ning Fengzhi’s recommendation to Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s three education committee members, and they began discussing Shrek’s merger into the academy.
• Qin Xuan told Spirit Hall’s assembled experts that turmoil would soon strike the two empires and ordered Yue Guan and Gui Mei to build disaster-relief granaries across the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Qin Xuan instructed Yue Guan and Gui Mei to provide aid in the Angel God’s name and warned that he would hold them accountable if any commoner starved.

Qin Xuan arranged Spirit Hall’s disaster relief campaign as part of a two-year plan to unify the continent, while reassuring Qian Renxue that her Divine Trial need not cost Qian Daoliu’s life. Meanwhile, Shrek finalized its merger with Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where its students and teachers were praised, until a familiar voice arrived and caught Tang San and his companions’ attention.

• Qin Xuan assigned more than ten Titled Douluo to oversee disaster relief across several kingdoms and declared that Spirit Hall would begin unifying the continent at the tournament two years later.
• Qian Daoliu told Qian Renxue that her Divine Trial was approaching, but Qin Xuan said she could wait until she had cultivated further and hinted that Qian Daoliu would not need to sacrifice himself.
• Flender and the others agreed to merge Shrek with Heaven Dou Royal Academy while keeping Shrek’s teachers, team name, and tournament slot.
• The three education committee members praised Shrek after seeing its students’ abilities, unaware of Shrek’s recent defeat at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• As Shrek’s party prepared to leave, a familiar voice called for Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin, delighting Tang San, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Dai Mubai.

Mo Ya arrived with Prince Xue Xing to challenge Shrek Academy’s place at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and his killing intent overwhelmed nearly everyone in the hall. Xue Xing identified him as Ink Crow Douluo, leaving Shrek and the education committee terrified of the power behind him.

• Xue Xing arrived with Xue Beng and Mo Ya, whose presence frightened Shrek’s students and the three education committee members.
• Xue Xing insulted Shrek Academy as a disreputable academy, but Meng Shenji defended its students and pointed out that teacher Qin Ming had graduated from it.
• Mo Ya rejected the claim that Qin Ming came from Shrek, saying he had personally trained Qin Ming through the Soul Master Guild.
• Mo Ya released killing intent that froze and shattered objects across the hall and forced Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and the other weaker Shrek students to collapse.
• Xue Xing introduced Mo Ya as the Soul Master Guild’s Heaven Dou branch president and Ink Crow Douluo, claiming he was stronger than White Phoenix Douluo.

Mo Ya backed Prince Xue Xing’s demand that Shrek’s group crawl beneath Xue Beng’s legs, then publicly humiliated Yu Xiaogang by exposing his low Soul Power and mocking his past. The chapter ended with Xue Beng asking Mo Ya to explain how Yu Xiaogang had once been stripped of his pants.

• Prince Xue Xing accused the education committee of admitting Shrek without proper investigation, and Flender admitted Qin Ming had stayed at Shrek for only three days.
• Meng Shenji asked Mo Ya to spare Shrek for Sect Master Ning’s sake, but Mo Ya revealed his nine Soul Rings, including a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Mo Ya ordered Shrek’s group to crawl beneath Xue Beng’s crotch to make amends for beating him and a prince, and Xue Xing eagerly agreed.
• Yu Xiaogang challenged Mo Ya, who claimed Yu had once tried to swindle a Ten-Thousand-Year Lingzhi and had been beaten by him and Bai Feng.
• Mo Ya mocked Yu Xiaogang’s Boar Martial Soul and Level-Twenty-Nine Soul Power, and Xue Beng asked what had happened when Yu’s pants were stripped off.

Mo Ya exposed Yu Xiaogang’s past and revealed how he had castrated Tang Hao after a dispute over a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone. The revelations left Tang San facing public humiliation and Mo Ya’s challenge, while he secretly focused on becoming a god and killing him.

• Mo Ya claimed Yu Xiaogang had lost a Ten-Thousand-Year Lingzhi contest and been dragged into a cave by a Soul Saint, provoking Yu Xiaogang into a rage before Flender knocked him unconscious.
• Flender apologized on Yu Xiaogang’s behalf and invoked Tang Hao’s name, then introduced Tang San as Tang Hao’s son.
• Mo Ya explained that Tang Hao had ambushed Bai Feng over a Soul Bone after the Soul Master Guild’s hunt, so Mo Ya had castrated Tang Hao in retaliation.
• Mo Ya revealed that Tang Xiao had also been castrated and pointed out that Tang San was the Clear Sky Sect leader’s last male descendant, prompting the Shrek group to remember Tang San’s own injury.
• Mo Ya taunted Tang San and offered him a chance to fight without Mo Ya using his Martial Soul or Soul Rings, while Flender and the others urged Tang San not to act rashly.
• Tang San did not challenge Mo Ya and instead thought of becoming a god so he could kill him.

Mo Ya forced Tang San and the Shrek group to endure humiliation before allowing them to leave the education committee hall. The chapter ended with Xue Beng taunting them as they departed.

• Tang San knelt and begged Mo Ya to spare Shrek, but Mo Ya demanded that Tang San castrate himself to prevent future trouble.
• Flender revealed that Tang San had already been castrated by Spirit Hall, and Xue Beng confirmed it by humiliating him.
• Mo Ya declared Tang Hao's grudge settled but left the Shrek group's dispute with Xue Beng unresolved, and Xue Beng demanded that they crawl beneath his crotch.
• Yu Xiaogang crawled first, followed by Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Tang San, and Shrek's teachers; Mo Ya let Chang Gong Miao and Xiao Wu pass without crawling.
• Flender led the humiliated Shrek group away after bidding farewell to Meng Shenji and the other committee members, while Xue Beng taunted them at Mo Ya's prompting.

After Mo Ya left, Xue Xing and Xue Beng plotted to use Shrek’s humiliation to turn Xue Qinghe against the Soul Master Guild, while Shrek’s group struggled to decide what to do next. Flender agreed to take them to Heaven Dou City to seek another academy.

• Mo Ya departed the education committee hall, and Meng Shenji angrily confronted Xue Xing over driving away Shrek’s talented students.
• Xue Xing warned Xue Beng that the Soul Master Guild would not protect him in a royal succession struggle, and Xue Beng proposed using Shrek to make Mo Ya oppose Xue Qinghe.
• Xue Xing praised Xue Beng’s plan and decided he should find a way to make Xue Qinghe recruit Shrek instead.
• Shrek’s group descended the mountain in a bitter silence, and Flender suggested disbanding the academy.
• Yu Xiaogang proposed changing Shrek’s name, but Tang San urged the group to look for another academy in Heaven Dou City, and Flender agreed.

The Shrek group found that Blue Tyrant Academy had become Soul Master Guild Academy, and its requirement that members first join the guild kept them from entering. Meanwhile, Xue Ye heard that Spirit Hall had prompted the Barrak Royal Family to seal off Shrek, and Xue Qinghe urged him to respond cautiously.

• Tang San and the others reached Blue Tyrant Academy and discovered its gate now named Soul Master Guild Academy.
• Oscar persuaded Flender and Yu Xiaogang to ask about joining, but the gatekeeper said applicants first had to join the Soul Master Guild, so the group left for an inn.
• The Heaven Dou Royal Academy education committee members reported Spirit Hall's role in the Barrak Royal Family's blockade to Xue Ye.
• Xue Ye condemned Spirit Hall and the Barrak Royal Family, while Xue Qinghe advised him not to act rashly and to devise a response.

Xue Ye considered expanding the Heaven Dou Empire’s army to resist Spirit Hall, while He Shen proposed collecting years of taxes in advance to fund it. The finance minister collapsed after denouncing the plan, and Xue Xing backed He Shen as Xue Ye sought the court’s approval.

• Xue Ye declared that the Heaven Dou Empire should prepare to expand its army by two million troops within two years, but the finance minister warned that the Empire could not afford it.
• He Shen argued that the Empire should prepare provisions and equipment, citing its support for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Ning Fengzhi agreed with him.
• He Shen proposed collecting commoners’ taxes years in advance, prompting the finance minister to call him a traitor and warn that the plan would spark rebellion.
• He Shen dismissed the commoners’ ability to resist, and the finance minister spat blood and fainted.
• Xue Ye ordered guards to take the finance minister to the imperial physician, then asked the court to consider He Shen’s proposal.
• Prince Xue Xing supported He Shen’s plan, seeing benefits for his own wealth and Xue Beng’s future claim to the throne.

Xue Ye approved expanding the military and collecting taxes in advance, while Xue Qinghe privately worried that the policy would turn the people against the Heaven Dou Empire. After the court punished Xue Beng for his treatment of Shrek, Xue Qinghe asked Ning Fengzhi what he thought of the academy as they discussed the upcoming Soul Master Tournament.

• Xue Beng and other officials supported Xue Ye’s plan to expand the military, while Ning Fengzhi proposed redirecting Soul Master subsidies to military funding.
• A remonstrance official argued that stopping the subsidies could provoke Spirit Hall, and Xue Ye assigned He Shen to handle advance tax collection.
• Xue Ye ordered Xue Beng to apologize to Ning Fengzhi and the three Education Committee members, then confined him for six months.
• After the court session, Xue Qinghe told Ning Fengzhi he feared He Shen’s taxes would ruin the empire, and Ning Fengzhi said He Shen could be useful to Xue Qinghe’s future.
• Xue Qinghe asked Ning Fengzhi for his opinion of Shrek while discussing preparations for the Soul Master Tournament.

Ning Fengzhi brought the Shrek group to meet Xue Qinghe, while Chang Gong Miao realized that Qinghe was Qian Renxue in disguise and became excited about meeting her. The chapter ended with Xue Qinghe asking Ma Hongjun how he knew him.

• Xue Qinghe asked Ning Fengzhi whether he could recruit the talented Shrek students, and Ning Fengzhi said it was worth trying.
• He Shen began collecting taxes in advance across the Heaven Dou Empire, while the Balak Kingdom was ordered to pay five years' taxes.
• Ning Fengzhi told the Shrek group that Xue Ye had confined Xue Beng for half a year, then invited them to his hotel to meet the person responsible.
• Ning Fengzhi led the Shrek group to Xue Qinghe, and Ma Hongjun blurted out his name in shock.
• Chang Gong Miao recognized Xue Qinghe as Qian Renxue in disguise and moved away from Xiao Wu so she would not misunderstand their relationship.
• Xue Qinghe greeted Ning Fengzhi as his teacher and asked Ma Hongjun whether he knew him.

Ning Fengzhi and Xue Qinghe welcomed the Shrek group and offered them an abandoned military base as a temporary campus. The group learned they could not reopen Shrek Academy or enter the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament without passing a new inspection.

• Ning Fengzhi introduced the Shrek group to Xue Qinghe, and Chang Gong Miao eagerly shook his hand.
• At the welcome banquet, Chang Gong Miao thanked Xue Qinghe for rebuking Xue Beng, and Xue Qinghe apologized for his imperial brother's actions.
• Tang San asked why Xue Qinghe had invited them, and Ning Fengzhi explained that Xue Qinghe planned to house them in an abandoned imperial guard training base.
• Flender and the others welcomed the chance to reopen Shrek Academy, but Xue Qinghe explained that new inspection rules could prevent them from becoming a legitimate academy.
• The Shrek group grew disappointed when they realized they might not qualify for the tournament, which Tang San needed to enter to rescue his mother.

Xue Qinghe and Ning Fengzhi secured Shrek Academy a campus and a place in the tournament qualifiers, while discussing their plans to recruit Chang Gong Miao and arrange a match for Ning Rongrong. Shrek settled into its new campus, where Tang San warned Flender not to trust appearances.

• Xue Qinghe offered Shrek a campus, a place in the Heaven Dou Empire qualifiers, and a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect participant, and Flender and the others accepted.
• Ning Fengzhi told Xue Qinghe that he hoped Ning Rongrong would marry Yan, a thirteen-year-old Soul King studying at Soul Master Guild Academy.
• Xue Qinghe and Ning Fengzhi discussed winning over Chang Gong Miao and Xiao Wu, and Ning Fengzhi dismissed Oscar as a possible match for Rongrong.
• Xue Qinghe's subordinate escorted Shrek to an old military base in Heaven Dou City, where Flender replaced the gate plaque with Shrek's sign.
• Flender praised Xue Qinghe as a gentleman, and Tang San cautioned him that appearances could be deceiving.

Chang Gong Miao left Shrek to refine Immortal Herbs in Heaven Dou City, but a one-armed man stole the five herbs he had left. Meanwhile, the Star Luo court learned that Heaven Dou planned to expand its army by two million, and Dai Tianfeng reacted with fury.

• Dai Mubai asked Flender to accompany him to the Star Luo Empire so he could invite his fiancée to Shrek Academy, and Flender agreed on the condition that they sleep in separate rooms.
• Chang Gong Miao asked to take leave, reassured Xiao Wu he would return soon, and privately gave Yu Xiaogang the Golden Dragon-Nurturing Fruit.
• Chang Gong Miao checked into a Heaven Dou City hotel and began refining the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot.
• A one-armed man broke into Chang Gong Miao's room, stole the five remaining Immortal Herbs, and escaped while a watcher followed him and sent a message by Soul Pigeon.
• Guo Kai told Dai Tianfeng that Heaven Dou planned to expand its army by two million, and Dai Tianfeng smashed his throne in anger.

Dai Tianfeng ordered Star Luo to prepare for a three-million-strong army, entrusting Guo Kai with raising the funds despite ministers’ concerns. At Shrek’s new site, Tang Hao returned with five Immortal Herbs stolen from Chang Gong Miao and warned Tang San that Xiao Wu seemed to possess a treasure concealing her Soul Beast aura.

• Guo Kai challenged Zhu Tianhao to investigate Heaven Dou’s military expansion and risked his position over the dispute about military authority.
• Dai Tianfeng reassured Zhu Tianhao that the Netherworld Legion would remain under the Zhu Family’s command, then asked his ministers to assess Heaven Dou’s intentions.
• A minister argued that Heaven Dou was preparing to defend against Spirit Hall, but Dai Tianfeng ordered Star Luo to gather supplies and funds and expand its army to three million within two years, assigning the task to Guo Kai.
• Tang Hao returned to Tang San after following Chang Gong Miao and said he had not killed him because Mo Ya might blame them, but had stolen five Immortal Herbs from him.
• Tang San recognized the herbs and grew furious that Chang Gong Miao had consumed two others that Tang San believed should have been his.
• Tang Hao told Tang San that he could no longer discern Xiao Wu’s true form and suspected she had a treasure that concealed her Soul Beast aura.

Tang San divided the Immortal Herbs among himself and his Shrek friends, but Qin Xuan arrived before they could use them and secretly replaced four with Blood Ginseng. Tang San and the others consumed the substitutes without realizing it.

• Tang San suppressed his anger over Xiao Wu and Chang Gong Miao, then discussed distributing the Immortal Herbs with Tang Hao.
• Tang Hao urged Tang San to give the herbs to his Shrek friends and an Aromatic Silk Beauty to Ning Rongrong, and Tang San agreed.
• Tang San assigned the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower to Ma Hongjun, the Eight-Petal Golden Orchid and Aromatic Silk Beauty to Oscar for himself and Ning Rongrong, the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum to Dai Mubai, and Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone to himself.
• Qin Xuan arrived while Tang San and the others were unconscious, took four Immortal Herbs, and replaced them with disguised Blood Ginseng over nine thousand years old.
• Tang San, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar consumed the Blood Ginseng, believing they were refining Immortal Herbs.