Chapter Summaries

Han Tao demonstrated the Dragon Beard Needle’s cruelty to the gathered factions, while Tang San and Yu Xiaogang gave conflicting accounts of the Illusion incident. Han Tao then claimed he had finally understood why Tang San had targeted him and began revealing Tang San’s first hidden card.

• Han Tao stopped Xue Ye from attacking Tang San and demanded an explanation for Tang San breaking his Illusion; Yu Xiaogang claimed he had ordered the attack, and Bibi Dong declared the matter closed.
• Yu Xiaogang accused Han Tao of framing Tang San out of fear, while Han Tao demonstrated how a Dragon Beard Needle pierced his flesh and tightened under Soul Power.
• Xue Ye repeated the demonstration and identified the Dragon Beard Needle as the weapon that had killed his son, causing other Soul Masters to fear Tang San and shun Shrek Academy.
• Ning Fengzhi separated Tang San and Yu Xiaogang with a Soundproof Barrier and heard their accounts, which contradicted each other.
• Han Tao approached Tang San and told the gathered Soul Masters that he now understood why Tang San had targeted him, beginning by saying he and Tang San had been neighbors in Holy Soul Village.

Han Tao exposed Tang San’s connection to Tang Hao and manipulated Xue Ye into demanding Tang San’s Purple Demon Eyes. Dugu Bo threatened Yu Xiaogang with a Dragon Beard Needle, leaving Tang San pressured to give in.

• Ghost Douluo identified Tang San as Tang Hao and the Blue Silver Emperor’s child, and Xiao Wu began doubting Tang San’s motives.
• Han Tao used Ning Rongrong and Ning Fengzhi to prompt Xue Ye to demand Tang San’s cultivation technique as compensation for his son’s death.
• When Tang San refused to hand over the Mysterious Heaven Skill, Xue Ye demanded his eye technique instead, as Han Tao had intended.
• Dugu Bo threatened Yu Xiaogang with a Dragon Beard Needle, and Yu Xiaogang begged Tang San to agree to Xue Ye’s demand.

Tang San surrendered the Purple Demon Eyes cultivation method to save Yu Xiaogang, while Bibi Dong stopped Ma Hongjun’s outburst and then disqualified Tang San and Shrek Team from the competition. The chapter ended with Flender lamenting the financial losses caused by the team’s elimination.

• Dugu Bo threatened Yu Xiaogang with a Dragon Beard Needle until Tang San agreed to reveal the Purple Demon Eyes cultivation method.
• Bibi Dong sensed Xiao Wu’s identity as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and prepared to attack her, but Ma Hongjun stumbled toward her in the grip of his Evil Fire and was struck down.
• Flender pleaded with Bibi Dong to spare Ma Hongjun, and she relented; after Yu Xiaogang emerged, he accused Bibi Dong, who had Ghost Douluo slap him.
• Bibi Dong announced that Tang San had attacked contestants from the spectator stands and declared Tang San and Shrek Team disqualified from the competition.
• Flender lamented the endorsement compensation Shrek Academy would owe after its elimination.

Han Tao used his Illusion Space to expose Bibi Dong’s interest in Xiao Wu and to show Xiao Wu a memory of Tang Hao’s strength. Xiao Wu fled after realizing Tang San had known about his father’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, while Tang San blamed Han Tao and tried to stop her.

• Han Tao observed Ma Hongjun staggering toward Bibi Dong and suspected the Azure Lotus Illusion Heart Root had induced him.
• Han Tao connected to Xiao Wu and the Azure Lotus Illusion Heart Root through his Illusion Space, and the Immortal Herb warned Xiao Wu that Bibi Dong wanted to capture her.
• Xiao Wu asked Tang San whether he had known Tang Hao’s identity, and Tang San denied knowing before Han Tao revealed the truth.
• Han Tao linked Xiao Wu’s thoughts with Tang San’s memory of Tang Hao displaying his nine Soul Rings, including a red Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Tang San’s Purple Demon Eyes shattered the illusion and injured the Azure Lotus Illusion Heart Root, while Xiao Wu realized Tang San had deceived her and backed away.
• Xue Ye stopped Tang San from pursuing Xiao Wu, and Tang San shouted after her that the memory was Han Tao’s conspiracy.

After Bibi Dong failed to find Xiao Wu, she stripped Tang San and Shrek Academy of their competition eligibility and used her Soul Power Suppression against Dai Mubai. Watching from the lounge, Han Tao discovered the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s Dragon Transformation Secret Method and realized that it could greatly improve Nine Heart Begonia’s strength.

• Bibi Dong searched Spirit City for Xiao Wu, then disqualified Tang San and Shrek Academy from the competition.
• Dai Mubai challenged Bibi Dong, but her Soul Power Suppression injured him and left him pleading with Zhu Zhuqing for help.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Dai Mubai failed to fuse their martial souls, and Dai Mubai blamed Zhu Zhuqing while Tang San criticized her.
• Han Tao noticed that Yu Xiaogang had an unusually strong physique and found similar physical increases among members of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Han Tao investigated Yu Tianheng’s memories and learned that the clan’s Dragon Transformation Secret Method strengthened both soul masters’ attributes and physiques as they advanced.

Han Tao gave Ning Rongrong the Dragon Transformation Secret Method and discussed whether its draconic Bloodline requirement could be overcome. He concluded that testing external Bloodlines would require guinea pigs and identified Ye Lingling’s healing ability as a possible way to make the dangerous method viable.

• Han Tao used his Mental Network to obtain the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s Dragon Transformation Secret Method and sent it to Ning Rongrong.
• Ning Rongrong read the method and questioned how it could help her when it only worked on dragon Bloodlines; Han Tao compared it to the Clear Sky Nine Wonders and described the limits of sect techniques.
• Han Tao explained that Feng Xiaotian’s future Battle State Soul Power Flow research could make the Distraction Control Method essential, then urged Ning Rongrong to consider how Dragon Transformation might be adapted.
• Ning Rongrong listed possible substitutes for draconic Bloodline, and Han Tao said they might need guinea pigs; she refused to take on the research because she was studying the Microscopic Structure of Soul Power.
• Han Tao considered Ye Lingling and her Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul as a way to heal the damage caused by external draconic Bloodlines, warning that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan would target her if the theory became known.

Yu Xiaogang tried to shield Shrek Academy from punishment by arguing that Tang San’s misconduct should not disqualify the whole team. When the crowd mocked Shrek’s chances, he and the team insisted they could still win the championship.

• Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong argued that Tang San alone should be held responsible, but Bibi Dong refused to change her order.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed that if Shrek Academy lost its qualification because of Tang San, Han Tao and Seven Treasure Team should also be disqualified because Han Tao came from Holy Soul Village.
• Ning Tian challenged Yu Xiaogang’s reasoning, while spectators mocked Shrek Team’s strength and recalled its loss to Skywater Team.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun defended Shrek Team, but the crowd taunted Ma Hongjun over his encounter with Bibi Dong.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San declared that Shrek Team could contend for the championship, and Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun joined in a pledge to win.

Yu Xiaogang failed to persuade Ning Fengzhi to overturn Shrek Academy’s disqualification, while Shrek’s students prematurely discussed winning the championship and dividing the Soul Bones. Dai Mubai claimed the captain’s share and offered Ma Hongjun Mind Calming Tea to help with his Evil Fire.

• Zhu Zhuqing pointed out that Shrek Academy was not qualified to compete, and Tang San insisted that Yu Xiaogang could resolve the problem.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Ning Fengzhi to plead for Shrek Academy, but Ning Fengzhi refused to intervene, leaving Yu Xiaogang stunned and resentful.
• Dai Mubai, Tang San, Ma Hongjun, and the others argued over who would receive the Soul Bones if Shrek won the championship.
• Dai Mubai claimed one Soul Bone as captain and chose the Explosive Burning Flame Right Arm Bone, despite Ma Hongjun’s objections.
• Dai Mubai gave Ma Hongjun Mind Calming Tea and said it could ease his Evil Fire, prompting Tang San to recall Ning Rongrong drinking the tea casually.

Han Tao learned that Shrek Academy had been disqualified from the competition, while its members blamed Ning Fengzhi and argued over Soul Bones. As Flender revealed that sponsors were demanding compensation for the team’s failed appearances, Shrek faced a new financial crisis.

• Han Tao considered Shrek Academy’s members freaks after seeing them argue over dividing the champion’s Soul Bones despite their weak position.
• Dai Mubai complained that Ning Fengzhi had traded away his Meditation Method, while Tang San and Oscar condemned the deal.
• Platinum Bishop Salas announced that the organizing committee had unanimously disqualified Shrek Academy from the competition.
• Yu Xiaogang blamed Ning Fengzhi for Shrek Academy’s disqualification, and Ma Hongjun smashed the tea box as the group vented their anger.
• Flender told the students that sponsors were demanding compensation because Shrek Academy’s disqualification had damaged their businesses.

Flender and Yu Xiaogang decided to break Shrek Academy’s contract and conspired with Tang San to kill the merchants before they could damage the academy’s reputation. Han Tao overheard their plans and realized Tang San’s Hidden Weapon technique could combine with another technique, so he went to Spirit City’s Training Field to test the idea.

• Flender decided to break the contract, while Liu Erlong warned that the merchants might harm Shrek Academy’s reputation by revealing it.
• Tang San proposed killing the merchants, and Yu Xiaogang supported him, saying their deaths would not draw suspicion.
• Tang San gave Flender the Mother-Child Soul Chasing Life-Snatching Orbs and explained the Chasing the Moon with Meteors technique.
• Han Tao used Blue Silver Eye to observe the conspiracy and learn the Hidden Weapon technique’s principles.
• Han Tao realized Chasing the Moon with Meteors might combine with Gale Devil Wolf Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes and went to Spirit City’s Training Field to test it.

Han Tao tested combining his Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes with Chasing the Moon with Meteors, but his current control and physical strength prevented him from progressing. Meanwhile, he used the deaths of merchants in Spirit City to probe Spirit Hall’s ability to track the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, while concealing what he knew.

• Han Tao confirmed that he could control only sixteen consecutive slashes and found that pairing the fifteenth and sixteenth slashes with Chasing the Moon with Meteors made their attacks nearly synchronized, but the force injured him.
• Ye Lingling healed Han Tao, and he concluded that he needed either a breakthrough in Soul Power Level or Feng Xiaotian’s theory to advance his consecutive slashes.
• Han Tao told Ye Lingling that they needed to focus on breaking through in level, and the two left the Martial Arts Arena.
• Bibi Dong announced that merchants in Spirit City had been ambushed and killed, prompting anger from Salas, Ning Fengzhi, and Xue Ye.
• Han Tao concealed his knowledge and used the incident to probe Spirit Hall’s tracking methods, while Ning Tian recognized that the merchants had sought Shrek Academy’s endorsement.

Bibi Dong used her Demon Spider Summoning skill to investigate the merchants’ deaths, and the spider tracked the culprit to Flender. Han Tao recorded that the skill could track by scent, while noting that other tracking methods could not be ruled out.

• Bibi Dong ordered the gathered Soul Masters to stay in place and had Gui Mei bring in Zhang Dahai’s corpse.
• Bibi Dong summoned a dark-green spider with her Third Soul Skill, Demon Spider Summoning, and ordered it to find Zhang Dahai’s killer.
• The spider moved toward Shrek Academy, and Flender tried to retreat before Bibi Dong’s pressure forced him to the ground.
• Tang San positioned himself between the spider and Oscar, preparing to use him as a scapegoat, but the spider went around Tang San and attacked Flender.
• Han Tao wrote that the skill could track enemies, speculated that it followed scent, and recorded that other tracking methods remained possible.

Flender was trapped under Bibi Dong’s suppression with a demon spider clinging to his face, so Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong helped him form the Golden Saint Dragon. Yu Xiaogang claimed its light attribute proved Flender was innocent, but Bibi Dong angrily attacked the fusion with her sixth soul skill.

• Spectators identified Flender as Shrek Academy’s dean and mocked the academy, while Qin Ming defended its name.
• Yu Xiaogang urged Liu Erlong to use a Martial Soul Fusion Skill to resist Bibi Dong’s Soul Power Suppression and save Flender.
• Liu Erlong, Yu Xiaogang, and Flender formed the Golden Saint Dragon, which Han Tao observed as a powerful fusion martial soul.
• Yu Xiaogang declared that the Golden Saint Dragon’s light attribute proved Flender could not be the murderer Bibi Dong was tracking.
• Bibi Dong erupted in anger and struck the Golden Saint Dragon with her sixth soul skill, Eternal Creation, leaving Yu Xiaogang stunned.

Bibi Dong confronted Yu Xiaogang, criticizing his stagnant Soul Power and theories while revealing that Han Tao had already crossed the barriers Yu Xiaogang studied. Han Tao watched her exchange with suspicion as Bibi Dong ended by declaring Yu Xiaogang’s theory terrible and his Soul Power level ugly.

• Bibi Dong’s attack wounded Yu Xiaogang, and Flender and Liu Erlong worried that she and Chrysanthemum Douluo would overpower them.
• Bibi Dong asked Yu Xiaogang why his theories had not helped him advance beyond Soul Grandmaster, and Yu Xiaogang blamed his poor talent and lack of resources.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo dismissed Yu Xiaogang’s arrogance and reflected that developing his own Martial Soul had let him evolve from an ordinary White Chrysanthemum into the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.
• Bibi Dong told Yu Xiaogang that his disciple Tang San was strange and that other Soul Masters had crossed the barriers of Martial Soul and Innate Soul Power; Flender identified Han Tao as one of them.
• Han Tao considered whether Bibi Dong meant to help Yu Xiaogang or humiliate him, while Bibi Dong declared Yu Xiaogang’s theory terrible and his Soul Power level ugly.

Bibi Dong captured Flender and forced him to confess to murdering the merchant families, then let him choose between Slaughter City and imprisonment after his Soul Power was crippled. In the rest area, Han Tao studied the Purple Demon Eyes Secret Method and discovered that its later stages depended on knowledge of the meridians.

• Bibi Dong used her Slaughter Domain and Soul Devouring Spider Emperor True Body, while Yu Xiaogang fled and Ghost Douluo captured Flender.
• Salas threatened Flender until he confessed to killing the merchants to save Shrek Academy from compensation costs.
• Bibi Dong offered Flender a chance at Slaughter City or imprisonment in the Heaven Dou Empire after his Soul Power was crippled, and Flender chose imprisonment.
• Han Tao reviewed the Purple Demon Eyes Secret Method and learned that its four stages corresponded to the Mysterious Heaven Skill and required understanding the meridians to advance.

Han Tao cultivated Purple Demon Eyes, discovered that advancing its realms greatly increased his daily Mental Power growth, and devised a way to exploit temporary amplification. He gave Ning Rongrong the cultivation method and urged her to choose a Mental Power amplification for her sixth soul ring.

• At dawn, Han Tao absorbed purple qi and found that his Mental Power increased only slightly while his Purple Demon Eyes realm was low.
• Han Tao reached the Panoramic View and Minute Observation realms, improving his vision and raising his daily Mental Power growth.
• Han Tao concluded that Purple Demon Eyes realms increased purple qi absorption and that Mental Power growth accelerated as the realms advanced.
• After recognizing that a Mental Power amplification could help him reach a higher Purple Demon Eyes realm temporarily, Han Tao visited Ning Rongrong and gave her the Secret Method.
• Han Tao advised Ning Rongrong to choose a sixth soul ring that amplified Mental Power.

Han Tao asked Ning Fengzhi to amplify his Mental Power so he could cultivate the Purple Demon Eyes, and discovered that Ning Fengzhi’s hidden toxins forced him to suppress them at dawn. With Ning Fengzhi’s eighth soul skill, Han Tao reached the Mustard Seed Realm of Purple Demon Eyes and saw through illusions.

• Ning Rongrong encouraged Han Tao to ask Ning Fengzhi for help and said her father would support him if it served the Sect’s interests.
• Han Tao visited Ning Fengzhi and asked him to use his eighth soul skill to amplify Han Tao’s Mental Power for the Purple Demon Eyes.
• Ning Fengzhi refused to wake early for the cultivation, so Han Tao questioned him about the toxins still in his body.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that the toxins stirred at dawn and that he had to suppress them with his soul power, but agreed to amplify Han Tao’s Mental Power immediately.
• Ning Fengzhi used the Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s eighth soul skill, and Han Tao canceled his active Soul Power Frequency to receive a stronger amplification.
• Han Tao used the amplified Mental Power to break through to the Mustard Seed Realm of Purple Demon Eyes and see through the transformations of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and the mimicry of Azure Lotus Illusion Heart Root.

Han Tao used Ning Fengzhi’s temporary Mental Amplification to reach the Mustard Seed Realm of Purple Demon Eyes and break through to the Distraction Control Method Seventh Layer. The breakthrough gave him microscopic control over his body and Soul Power, and removed the limitations that had hindered his use of meditation methods and buffs.

• Ning Fengzhi activated his eighth soul skill, briefly raising Han Tao’s Purple Demon Eyes to the Mustard Seed Realm while consuming large amounts of Soul Power.
• Han Tao combined Mental Power perception, Purple Demon Eyes, and Blue Silver Eye to break through the Distraction Control Method’s Seventh Layer.
• Han Tao demonstrated microscopic control over his muscle fibers, swinging his arm hard enough to create a sonic boom.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that the Seventh Layer allowed control over the body and Soul Power, including running both of Han Tao’s meditation methods at full power.
• Han Tao realized he could freely shift his Soul Power frequency, accept teammate buffs, or simulate other Soul Masters’ frequencies for attacks.

Ning Fengzhi showed Han Tao the Star Luo Empire Meditation Method, which used the fusion of bloodline and soul power to resist suppression. The method required opening the Heart Acupoint with Innate Soul Power, and Ning Fengzhi realized he might already know how to find acupoints.

• Ning Fengzhi gave Han Tao the Star Luo Empire Meditation Method, which he had traded for 20G Mind Calming Tea.
• Han Tao explained how the Star Luo method countered soul power and bloodline suppression through a composite fusion of bloodline and soul power.
• Ning Rongrong said weaker soul masters drew on external forces, then picked up the Orange Cat as Han Tao connected Martial Soul Fusion to the Hell White Tiger.
• Ning Rongrong read that opening the Heart Acupoint required Innate Soul Power, and Han Tao admitted he had once stopped trying after sensing fatal danger.
• Han Tao explained that acupoints were spaces in a Soul Master's body that could hold soul power, and Ning Fengzhi said he thought he knew what they were.
• Ning Rongrong asked Ning Fengzhi why he had not explored acupoints before.

Ning Rongrong questioned Ning Fengzhi about why Soul Masters ignored acupoints, and Han Tao explained that his weak innate soul power had driven his theoretical research. Meanwhile, merchants confronted Yu Xiaogang at the failing Shrek Academy, and their questions about Tang San's secret method left Tang San uneasy.

• Ning Rongrong asked Ning Fengzhi why Soul Masters had not explored acupoints and meditation methods, and Han Tao agreed that weak cultivation speed had pushed him toward theory.
• Han Tao explained that he had combined three meditation methods and pursued meridians and Martial Soul research because his Innate Soul Power was only level 1.
• At Shrek Academy, a boy blamed the academy's dean for his father's death, while Yu Xiaogang dismissed the merchants and praised Tang San's strength.
• Yu Xiaogang introduced fourteen-year-old Tang San as a rank thirty-eight Soul Elder trained under his guidance, and Tang San refrained from attacking a woman who mocked his Master.
• A wealthy merchant asked Yu Xiaogang whether the Secret Method Tang San had compensated Xue Ye with was created by him, and Tang San reacted badly.