Chapter Summaries

Zhu Zhuqing defeated Dai Mubai, while Chen Yang met Liu Erlong and later Ning Fengzhi considered the possibility of evolving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. The chapter ended with Sword Douluo Chen Xin angrily confronting Ning Fengzhi over sending Ning Rongrong to Shrek Academy.

• Zhu Zhuqing used Shadow Power to defeat Dai Mubai, who collapsed unconscious after consuming the Little Sausage, and she won the Soul Fighting match.
• Flender carried Dai Mubai away, while Yu Xiaogang insulted Oscar and Ma Hongjun before leaving; Oscar went back to the dormitory and Ma Hongjun went off alone.
• Chen Yang sent Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing to the Distortion World, then met Liu Erlong and took her to a hotel.
• Ning Fengzhi read a secret letter claiming Chen Yang could help Soul Masters grow stronger through battle and help the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda evolve into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Sword Douluo Chen Xin arrived at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and angrily rebuked Ning Fengzhi for letting Ning Rongrong attend Shrek Academy.

Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo discussed Ning Rongrong’s new master, Chen Yang, and considered how to secure his ties to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Meanwhile, the Spirit Hall Main Hall in Suotuo City learned that two twelve-year-old Soul Elders had appeared at the Great Soul Arena, both connected to Shrek Academy.

• Ning Fengzhi told Sword Douluo that Ning Rongrong had taken Chen Yang as her master, and Sword Douluo initially suspected Chen Yang was deceiving her.
• After reading Ning Rongrong’s letter and hearing the guards’ reports, Sword Douluo accepted that Chen Yang was an exceptional talent and discussed how to win him over with Ning Fengzhi.
• Ning Fengzhi proposed a marriage alliance through Ning Rongrong, but Sword Douluo objected because she was only twelve and demanded that she not be forced.
• Ning Fengzhi invited Sword Douluo to visit Shrek Academy and meet Chen Yang, and Sword Douluo agreed on the condition that Ning Rongrong could refuse.
• A steward reported to the Red-Robed Cardinal that two twelve-year-old Soul Elders had competed at the Great Soul Arena and appeared connected to Shrek Academy.

A Suotuo City bishop ordered an investigation into Shrek Academy while Chen Yang negotiated with Liu Erlong and challenged her fixation on Yu Xiaogang. After leaving her with a sphere of life energy, Chen Yang returned to the Distortion World and found Ning Rongrong exhausted from studying.

• The bishop learned that Shrek Academy was an unregistered school founded by Flender and ordered the deacon to investigate its students and teachers, then sent a secret letter to the Pope.
• Chen Yang woke beside Liu Erlong, and the two argued and resumed their intimate encounter before he gave her thirteen months of life energy.
• Liu Erlong grew furious that Chen Yang had given her only one extra month, but he questioned whether Yu Xiaogang truly loved her and said she was clinging to an old obsession.
• Chen Yang used Teleport to leave Liu Erlong alone with the life-energy sphere as she grappled with his words.
• Chen Yang returned to the Distortion World, where Xiao Wu slept on a sofa and Zhu Zhuqing supervised Ning Rongrong, who had dark circles after staying up all night.

After Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing studied soul tools through the night, Chen Yang set Ning Rongrong a demanding training schedule and later warned her that mistakes while engraving inscriptions could make steel plates explode. As the group walked through Suotuo City to buy practice materials, Zhu Zhuqing sensed they were being watched, and Chen Yang revealed their pursuers were from Spirit Hall.

• Chen Yang summoned Ah Yin, who used Aromatherapy to ease Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing's exhaustion before preparing breakfast.
• Ning Rongrong struggled with learning formation inscription, and Chen Yang told her to study soul tools by day and fight at Suotuo City's Great Soul Arena with Zhu Zhuqing at night.
• Three days later, Chen Yang, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu went shopping in Suotuo City for engraving knives and steel plates.
• Chen Yang warned Ning Rongrong that an incorrectly engraved soul-conducting channel could cause a steel plate to explode, though the blast would be weak.
• Zhu Zhuqing sensed someone watching the group, and Chen Yang quietly told her that Spirit Hall members had followed them since they left the smithy.

Ning Rongrong reunited with Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin, then showed them how jewels could evolve her martial soul. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda absorbed the jewels’ energy and blazed with seven-colored light, leaving Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin stunned.

• Chen Yang sensed a Soul Saint and a Titled Douluo at Shrek Academy, while Ning Rongrong hurried to meet her father and Sword Douluo Chen Xin.
• Ning Rongrong greeted Chen Xin affectionately, and he worried that Shrek Academy might have treated her poorly.
• Ning Rongrong led Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin to her dormitory, where they noticed its shabby condition and questioned her about where she had been staying.
• Ning Fengzhi produced three chests filled with jewels, and Ning Rongrong summoned her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to absorb their energy.
• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda erupted in brilliant seven-colored light, stunning Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin.

Ning Rongrong evolved her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and revealed its new purification ability. She agreed to marry Chen Yang, and the chapter ended with Sword Douluo detecting hidden eavesdroppers and demanding they show themselves.

• Ning Rongrong evolved her martial soul into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, which gained the ability to purify negative effects.
• Ning Fengzhi asked to learn the evolution method, but Ning Rongrong said it was exclusive to her, then requested sect resources for her Soul Tool studies.
• Ning Fengzhi offered to support Rongrong's cultivation and research and raised the prospect of arranging her marriage to Chen Yang.
• Ning Rongrong immediately agreed to marry Chen Yang, while Sword Douluo urged her to reconsider and Ning Fengzhi declared the match settled.
• As Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo left with Rongrong, Sword Douluo sensed hidden listeners nearby and called for them to come out.

Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo discovered Spirit Hall agents spying on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and then met Chen Yang at Shrek's training ground. After learning Chen Yang had reached level seventy-nine, Ning Fengzhi pressed him about his feelings for Ning Rongrong, and Chen Yang praised her appearance.

• Ning Fengzhi confronted Spirit Hall's deacon and sent him away, while he and Sword Douluo worried that Bibi Dong would grow more hostile toward the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo reached Shrek's training ground, where Zhao Wuji explained that he had lost a fight and Xiao Wu, Chen Yang, and Zhu Zhuqing arrived.
• Ning Rongrong introduced Chen Yang to her father and Sword Douluo, and Chen Yang learned they had heard about him through her letters.
• Chen Yang revealed that he was a level seventy-nine Soul Saint, astonishing Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Chen Yang what he thought of Ning Rongrong, and Chen Yang complimented her looks, making her blush.

Ning Fengzhi proposed that Chen Yang marry Ning Rongrong, and the pair agreed despite Xiao Wu’s jealousy. Sword Douluo then challenged Chen Yang to a spar to test whether he could protect Rongrong, and Chen Yang accepted.

• Ning Fengzhi suggested that Chen Yang marry Ning Rongrong, while Xiao Wu objected that she already considered Chen Yang hers.
• Chen Yang privately reassured Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong eagerly agreed to marry him before accidentally embracing Xiao Wu instead.
• Zhu Zhuqing watched the engagement and began considering whether she could pursue Chen Yang too.
• Sword Douluo said he wanted to test Chen Yang’s strength, and Chen Yang agreed to spar with him for experience points.

Chen Yang gathered Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, Flender, Zhao Wuji, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong for a sparring match against his summoned soul beasts. The beasts overwhelmed the fighters, and the chapter ended as a golden figure attacked Chen Yang.

• Ning Fengzhi agreed to join Chen Yang’s fight, and Zhao Wuji reluctantly agreed after Sword Douluo glared at him.
• Chen Yang summoned Ah Yin, the Titan Giant Ape, the Sky Azure Bull Python, Yveltal, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, drawing Flender and the others to the training ground.
• The Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python covered the field with their domains, prompting Ning Fengzhi to boost Sword Douluo, Flender, and Zhao Wuji.
• Ah Yin’s vines attacked the group, but Sword Douluo cut them apart with his fourth soul skill.
• Zhao Wuji charged the Titan Giant Ape and was blasted through several walls by its punch.
• A golden figure appeared in front of Chen Yang and used the soul skill Eagle Strike Across the Sky.

Chen Yang’s Pokémon-enhanced allies overwhelmed Flender and turned Sword Douluo’s powerful attack back on him. After Sword Douluo was gravely injured, Chen Yang had Ah Yin heal him, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Xiao Wu’s Invincible Golden Body blocked Chen Yang from Flender, while Zhu Zhuqing’s attack failed and Ah Yin bound Flender with hardened Blue Silver Vines.
• Ah Yin used Wrecking Ball to smash Flender repeatedly into the ground and toss him aside.
• Sword Douluo’s attacks clashed with the Titan Giant Ape’s Titan Sky Cannon, and Ah Yin’s Solar Beam forced him to unleash his Seventh Soul Skill.
• Sword Douluo fired God-Demon Dual Slash at the beasts, but Yveltal used Foul Play to reverse the sword energy and wound him severely.
• Ning Rongrong and Ning Fengzhi helped Sword Douluo, and Chen Yang ordered Ah Yin to heal him with Floral Healing.

Chen Yang’s ability rapidly strengthened his companions, allowing Ah Yin to transform into human form and alarming Ning Fengzhi with the strategic value of his power. The chapter ended with Ning Fengzhi urging Ning Rongrong to have Chen Yang’s child, while a bandaged Tang San secretly watched from hiding.

• Chen Yang’s level rose to 82 as his companions gained experience, and Ah Yin transformed from the Blue Silver Emperor into a human.
• Ah Yin ran to Chen Yang, while Ning Fengzhi realized Chen Yang might be able to raise soul beasts’ cultivation and make them valuable to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi privately told Ning Rongrong to consummate her relationship with Chen Yang and bear a child for the sect’s future, and she reluctantly agreed.
• Chen Yang recalled the Titan Giant Ape, Sky Azure Bull Python, Yveltal, and Three-Eyed Golden Lion, then invited Sword Douluo and Ning Fengzhi to stay and recover.
• Ning Fengzhi declined the invitation, but offered to arrange a future spar with Sword Douluo and Gu Rong.
• Tang San watched Ah Yin’s transformation from behind a broken tree while hiding under bandages.

Tang San saw the Blue Silver Emperor Ah Yin and suspected she was connected to him, then learned from Chen Yang that Tang Hao was dead. Meanwhile, Ning Rongrong began practicing Soul Tool engraving, but Xiao Wu’s sneeze caused an explosion, and Rongrong chased her out of the dormitory.

• Tang San watched Ah Yin, felt a strong bloodline connection, and left to question Yu Xiaogang about her identity.
• Chen Yang told Ning Fengzhi that Tang Hao was dead and showed him Tang Hao’s seventy-thousand-year-old right arm Soul Bone.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo departed after Ning Fengzhi left Ning Rongrong in Chen Yang’s care.
• Chen Yang announced that Zhu Zhuqing had reached rank forty and Ning Rongrong rank thirty-nine, then took everyone to Rongrong’s dormitory to practice Soul Tool engraving.
• Xiao Wu sneezed while Ning Rongrong engraved an iron sheet, causing it to explode; Ah Yin’s blue silver branches intercepted the fragments.
• Ning Rongrong blamed Xiao Wu and chased her with the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, then gave her a Gold Card and sent her out with Zhu Zhuqing.

Tang San stopped Yu Xiaogang from fleeing after Chen Yang defeated Flender, Sword Douluo, Zhao Wuji, and Ning Sect Master, and told him about Chen Yang’s powerful soul beasts and mysterious control device. After Yu Xiaogang nearly died from excitement, Tang San asked him about Ah Yin and his own unusual cultivation, leaving Yu Xiaogang examining Tang San’s altered Blue Silver Grass martial soul.

• Yu Xiaogang tried to flee with a heavy pack, but Tang San stopped him and explained that Chen Yang had defeated several powerful opponents with five soul beasts, including two hundred-thousand-year beasts.
• Yu Xiaogang realized Chen Yang’s ball might be the device that had once suppressed his martial soul and grew excited at the thought of using it to control a powerful soul beast, then collapsed with chest pain.
• Tang San treated Yu Xiaogang’s attack and asked whether he knew Ah Yin, but Yu Xiaogang denied knowing the Blue Silver Emperor and explained Tang San’s sense of closeness as a shared bloodline connection.
• Yu Xiaogang asked about Tang San’s cultivation, and Tang San revealed that his soul power had fallen to level twenty-seven and his cultivation had slowed.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Tang San to summon his martial soul and carefully examined the black-and-red streaks on the Blue Silver Grass.

Yu Xiaogang revealed that Tang San’s father, Tang Hao, had once been a Titled Douluo and explained how Spirit Hall’s pursuit had killed Tang San’s mother and ruined the Clear Sky Sect. When Tang San admitted that Tang Hao had disappeared, Yu Xiaogang panicked, while Tang San resolved to stay and prepare to search for his father.

• Yu Xiaogang warned Tang San not to cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer until he had raised his Blue Silver Grass to the Titled Douluo level.
• Tang San pressed Yu Xiaogang about the Clear Sky Hammer and connected his father’s absence to the secrets surrounding his martial souls.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that Tang Hao had been a famed Titled Douluo and that Spirit Hall had killed Tang San’s mother and forced the Clear Sky Sect to close its gates.
• Tang San revealed that Tang Hao had vanished from Holy Soul Village, prompting Yu Xiaogang to fear Spirit Hall had captured him and urge Tang San to flee.
• Tang San refused to leave, deciding to sell hidden weapons to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect so he could fund powerful weapons and search for his father.

Tang San dismissed Yu Xiaogang’s concerns and began planning which Hidden Weapons to forge, while Xue Qinghe grew suspicious of Shrek Academy and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. The chapter ended with Xue Qinghe sending Snake Lance Douluo to investigate Shrek and Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul mutation in secret.

• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang he had his own plans, then returned to the dormitory and listed the Hidden Weapons he could forge.
• Dai Mubai heard Tang San’s account of the battle and despaired over his stalled cultivation and bleak future.
• Xue Qinghe questioned Ning Fengzhi about Shrek Academy, but Ning Fengzhi dismissed the rumors and concealed the cause of Ning Rongrong’s Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda mutation.
• Ning Fengzhi declined Xue Qinghe’s invitation to meet Ning Rongrong and left the palace.
• Xue Qinghe ordered Snake Lance Douluo to investigate Shrek Academy and uncover the truth behind Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul mutation.

Ning Rongrong completed her first soul tool, a night-light, but it quickly malfunctioned as Tang San arrived to pitch his hidden weapons. She rejected his terms and mocked his weapons by revealing a guide to offensive soul tools.

• Ning Rongrong proudly showed Xiao Wu her newly made night-light, and Chen Yang praised her progress after a week of work.
• The night-light flickered out, and Ning Rongrong opened it up to inspect its soul-conducting circuits.
• Tang San visited Ning Rongrong to propose selling her hidden weapons, while Chen Yang suspected what his business was about.
• Tang San demonstrated the Godly Zhuge Crossbow and offered finished weapons for ten thousand gold coins per set, refusing to share their blueprints.
• Ning Rongrong rejected Tang San's price and production terms, then showed him a Level 1 Soul Tool Forging Illustrated Guide and challenged his knowledge of offensive soul tools.

Chen Yang pressured Tang San into transcribing the Immortal Herb Illustrated Catalog, while Tang San accepted a promise of one million Gold Soul Coins. The chapter ended with Tang San unaware that Chen Yang intended to pay one coin a year for a million years.

• Ning Rongrong mocked Tang San after he tried to take the Soul Tools book, and Tang San backed down when the others prepared to fight him.
• Chen Yang offered Tang San one million Gold Soul Coins for the Immortal Herb Illustrated Catalog, and Tang San agreed to write it out.
• Chen Yang made Tang San swear on his martial soul to copy the catalog completely, and Tang San hid his first page before taking the oath.
• Zhu Zhuqing condemned Tang San after she saw him conceal the page, and Tang San obediently copied the complete catalog.
• Chen Yang told Xiao Wu through mental transmission that he would pay Tang San one gold coin a year for a million years, while Tang San secretly planned to use the money to make hidden weapons.

Chen Yang collected Tang San’s Immortal Herb catalog and paid him only one gold coin toward the promised million, leaving Tang San furious and vowing revenge. As Tang San raged alone in the woods, an unknown voice asked whether he was from Shrek Academy.

• Tang San gave Chen Yang a detailed Immortal Herb catalog and asked to trade for an herb, but Chen Yang refused.
• Tang San demanded the promised million gold coins, and Chen Yang gave him one coin, explaining that he would pay one coin per year.
• Tang San realized Chen Yang had mocked him, left the dormitory with the catalog deal binding him, and silently swore revenge.
• Zhu Zhuqing offered to kill Tang San, but Chen Yang said he wanted to keep him alive; Xiao Wu and Chen Yang reassured her and gave her Pokéblocks.
• Tang San went to Back Hill, vented his anger by attacking a tree, and heard an unknown voice ask if he was from Shrek Academy.

Snake Lance Douluo investigated the commotion at Shrek Academy, confirmed Tang San’s claims about Chen Yang, and reported them to Xue Qinghe. Xue Qinghe resolved to recruit Chen Yang at any cost, while Snake Lance Douluo suspected that someone in Suotuo City had already informed his mother.

• Tang San told Snake Lance Douluo that Chen Yang could rapidly strengthen soul masters and control hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, then survived the encounter by promising to keep their meeting secret.
• Snake Lance Douluo found Flender bound in a cocoon of bandages and confirmed through his muffled replies that Chen Yang had defeated Flender and Sword Douluo and could rapidly raise soul power.
• Snake Lance Douluo reported his findings to Xue Qinghe at the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace.
• Xue Qinghe decided to secure Chen Yang’s allegiance, even if doing so meant breaking with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Snake Lance Douluo said he did not know whether Xue Qinghe’s mother knew about Chen Yang, but suspected Suotuo City’s people had already reported it.

Chen Yang and the girls examined the Immortal Herb Illustrated Catalog, and Ning Rongrong eagerly bargained for Aromatic Silk Beauty to help her escape inheriting the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Xiao Wu claimed Lovesick Heartbreak Red, and the group prepared to enter the immortal herb Exchange Command and challenge a Titled Douluo.

• Chen Yang explained that Aromatic Silk Beauty could evolve Ning Rongrong’s Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Ning Rongrong offered to bring him the sect’s treasury in exchange.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo sneezed at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, then discussed tightening security against Spirit Hall spies.
• Xiao Wu asked Chen Yang to save Lovesick Heartbreak Red for her, and Ning Rongrong proposed testing its love requirement by having her and Zhu Zhuqing try to pluck it first.
• Chen Yang suggested entering the immortal herb Exchange Command to fight a Titled Douluo, and Zhu Zhuqing told Xiao Wu that twenty-three Pecha Berries remained after Qiu’er ate one.