Chapter Summaries

Ji Hongchen trained with the Nine Sword Forms, then experimented with compressing soul power until he made it liquefy and greatly increased his strength. After reaching level forty-five, he thanked Ah Yin for healing him and turned his attention to her.

• Ji Hongchen practiced Battle and Rebirth, enduring the strain as the forms strengthened him and replenished his soul power.
• Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu took Ji Hongchen to bathe and massage him after his training.
• Ji Hongchen decided to compress and purify his soul power to improve his fighting strength, and Ah Yin agreed to heal him through the dangerous experiments.
• After ninety-one attempts, Ji Hongchen liquefied a drop of soul power and absorbed more, reaching level forty-five and increasing his strength several times over.
• Ah Yin complained that Ji Hongchen had drained her soul power, and Ji Hongchen thanked her before pinning her beneath him.

Yu Xiaogang fled Liu Erlong’s advances and went to the Ye Family Dan Pavilion, where jealousy over Ji Hongchen’s success and relationships brought him into conflict with Liu Erlong. Liu Erlong defended Xiaogang as a genius, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• Ma Hongjun harassed female students at Shrek Academy, driving many students away and making the academy a laughingstock.
• Liu Erlong confronted Yu Xiaogang about rejecting her, but he insisted they were cousins and left without turning back.
• Flender followed Liu Erlong’s request to chase after Yu Xiaogang, while privately lamenting that he had no chance with her.
• At the Ye Family Dan Pavilion, Ji Hongchen discussed the family’s pill profits and plans to cultivate medicinal herbs with Ye Qingxian, while Yu Xiaogang watched resentfully.
• Liu Erlong and Flender caught up with Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong accused Ji Hongchen of bullying him.
• Ji Hongchen called Yu Xiaogang a level twenty-nine piece of trash, and Liu Erlong angrily declared that Xiaogang was a genius.

Ji Hongchen summoned Dugu Bo, who defeated Liu Erlong, Yu Xiaogang, and Flender by swallowing their Golden Sacred Dragon with his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor. The devouring transformed Dugu Bo’s Martial Soul into a Radiant Sacred Dragon and raised his strength to level 95.

• Ji Hongchen called Dugu Bo to stop Liu Erlong and the others from blocking their departure.
• Dugu Bo mocked Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong, prompting them to unleash the Golden Sacred Dragon Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Dugu Bo used his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor to poison and swallow Luo Sanpao, leaving Yu Xiaogang’s Martial Soul altered and his Soul Power three levels lower.
• Dugu Bo’s Martial Soul and Soul Rings exploded as Luo Sanpao’s Radiant Sacred Dragon bloodline transformed him, removing his poison abilities and granting him golden dragon wings.
• Dugu Bo’s Soul Rings re-formed, his strength rose to level 95, and Ji Hongchen explained that his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor had mutated into a Radiant Sacred Dragon.

Dugu Bo absorbed Yu Xiaogang’s Radiant Sacred Dragon bloodline, evolved his martial soul, and decided to seek the title Holy Dragon Douluo. Ji Hongchen later discovered Dugu Yan’s martial soul had evolved too, while Qian Renxue ordered Snake Lance to protect Ji.

• Dugu Bo named his evolved martial soul the Radiant Sacred Dragon, dismissed Yu Xiaogang’s pleas, and declared he would apply to Spirit Hall for the title Holy Dragon Douluo.
• Ji Hongchen left with Ye Qingxian, while the Ye Family’s servants dragged Yu Xiaogang and his companions to Shrek Academy’s gates.
• The next day, Ji Hongchen found that Dugu Yan’s martial soul had evolved and explained that Dugu Bo had absorbed the Radiant Sacred Dragon bloodline from Yu Xiaogang.
• Ji Hongchen gave Dugu Yan pills to aid her cultivation after she learned she alone could now pass down the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor.
• Qian Renxue learned of Dugu Bo’s evolution and ordered Snake Lance to keep protecting Ji Hongchen, seeking her grandfather’s help if anyone threatened him.

Seven days after spending most of his time practicing swordplay, Ji Hongchen faced demands from Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu for a night of fighting. At Shrek Academy, Yu Luomian confronted Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang, furious that she still protected him, and ordered her to move aside so he could take Yu Xiaogang to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.

• Dugu Yan complained that Ji Hongchen had spent only one night with her in seven days, and they stayed together until afternoon.
• Ning Rongrong demanded that Ji Hongchen spend the night with her, while Xiao Wu joined their plans to fight in Seven-Person Soul Fighting.
• Yu Luomian arrived at Shrek Academy after hearing Liu Erlong had vouched for Dai Mubai on behalf of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.
• Yu Xiaogang lamented that his soul power was stuck at level twenty-six and considered seeking a way to obtain Ji Hongchen's Martial Soul Evolution method.
• Yu Luomian burst into the office, found Liu Erlong comforting Yu Xiaogang, and demanded that she move aside so he could take Yu Xiaogang back to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.

Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian confronted Yu Xiaogang over his relationship with Liu Erlong and his dependence on the clan. Yu Luomian mutilated Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong again stood up to her father to defend him.

• Liu Erlong blocked Yu Yuanzhen from reaching Yu Xiaogang and asked her father to give him another chance.
• Yu Yuanzhen struck Yu Xiaogang and condemned him for pursuing Liu Erlong, while Yu Xiaogang insisted his father and uncle had no right to discipline him.
• Yu Luomian accused Yu Xiaogang of wasting the clan's resources and costing him his chance to become a Titled Douluo.
• Yu Xiaogang blamed Yu Luomian for his failures and for preventing him and Liu Erlong from consummating their marriage.
• Yu Luomian kicked Yu Xiaogang in the crotch, leaving him screaming and collapsed on the ground.
• Liu Erlong stepped between Yu Luomian and Yu Xiaogang and challenged her father for hurting him.

After Yu Luomian clashed with Liu Erlong and was left for dead outside Shrek Academy, he sought an alliance with the Heaven Dou Imperial Family to strengthen the declining Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect. When Xue Ye rejected his proposal to marry Yu Tianheng to Xue Ke, Yu Luomian began considering Liu Erlong as another possibility.

• Yu Luomian threatened Liu Erlong, left Shrek Academy in fury, and fainted outside after seeing the academy sign.
• Liu Erlong gave the injured Yu Xiaogang a Spring Rejuvenation Pill and sent Flender to take him for treatment.
• Ji Hongchen and Ning Rongrong mocked the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect's decline and celebrated their relationship together.
• After waking in an alley, Yu Luomian went to the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace to discuss ties between the sect and the empire.
• Yu Luomian proposed that Yu Tianheng marry Princess Xue Ke, but Xue Ye rejected the match because Xue Ke loved Ji Hongchen.
• Yu Luomian asked Xue Ye about Liu Erlong after learning Xue Ke was unavailable.

Xue Ye arranged for Qian Renxue to take Liu Erlong as a secondary consort, and Qian Renxue agreed while secretly resenting him. Ji Hongchen continued leading his successful team and helped the Shi Mo brothers pursue a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Yu Luomian proposed Liu Erlong as a match for Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, and Xue Ye summoned Qian Renxue to discuss the marriage.
• Qian Renxue agreed to take Liu Erlong as a secondary consort after realizing Xue Ye had already decided to accept the alliance, and Xue Ye set the wedding for a month later.
• Qian Renxue returned to the Eastern Palace and ordered Elder Pufferfish to strengthen the slow-acting poison against Xue Ye without killing him.
• Ji Hongchen's Heaven Dou Imperial Team One celebrated its twelve consecutive victories, and he encouraged the Shi Mo brothers to develop their same-origin Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Zhu Zhuqing asked Ji Hongchen to help her join Heaven Dou Imperial Team One, but he rejected and humiliated her. Left questioning her path, she decided to pursue his support by abandoning her reserve.

• Zhu Zhuqing, lost after leaving Shrek Academy, encountered Ji Hongchen and Ning Rongrong while they were shopping.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Ji Hongchen for a chance to join Heaven Dou Imperial Team One, citing her rank and potential.
• Ji Hongchen and Ning Rongrong rebuked her, and Ji Hongchen said she was unworthy of the team.
• Zhu Zhuqing returned to the hotel in tears and considered whether she had chosen the wrong path toward becoming empress.
• Zhu Zhuqing decided to seek a more powerful patron and went into a shop selling provocative clothing to prepare herself to win Ji Hongchen's support.

Qian Renxue told Ji Hongchen that she was to marry Liu Erlong and asked him to consummate the marriage in her place. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang blamed Liu Erlong for his misfortune and drove her away.

• Qian Renxue summoned Ji Hongchen and told him that Xue Ye had arranged for her to marry Liu Erlong.
• Qian Renxue explained that she wanted the marriage to help secure the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect’s support for her succession.
• Qian Renxue asked Ji Hongchen to consummate the marriage with Liu Erlong, and he agreed to come to the Eastern Palace in a month.
• Ji Hongchen asked Qian Renxue to obtain the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud from the Heaven Dou Empire’s treasury, and she agreed.
• At Shrek Academy, Yu Xiaogang blamed Yu Luomian and Liu Erlong for his condition, then rejected Liu Erlong and ordered her to leave.

Liu Erlong was forced by Yu Luomian to accept marriage to Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, with Yu Xiaogang’s safety held over her. Meanwhile, Ji Hongchen spent the day practicing swordsmanship before spending the night with Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu.

• Yu Xiaogang angrily drove Liu Erlong away, and she left in tears while Flender and Zhao Wuji discussed his behavior.
• Yu Luomian told Liu Erlong she had to marry Xue Qinghe within a month and threatened to have Yu Xiaogang imprisoned and tortured if she refused.
• Liu Erlong agreed to the marriage to protect Yu Xiaogang, then collapsed and wept after Yu Luomian left.
• Ning Rongrong watched Ji Hongchen practice swordplay, and Xiao Wu asked her about intimacy before Ning Rongrong teased her playfully.
• Ji Hongchen continued practicing with his Jinghong Sword, advancing his Myriad Dao Only-Me Sword Intent.
• That night, Ji Hongchen joined Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu in his room, and Ning Rongrong urged him to take things slowly.

A palace decree arranged Liu Erlong's marriage to Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, shattering Yu Xiaogang's hopes and leaving Liu Erlong heartbroken. The news spread through Heaven Dou City, where Ji Hongchen teased Ning Rongrong before she went to cultivate.

• Flender and Yu Xiaogang learned that the palace had come to arrange Liu Erlong's marriage, and Yu Xiaogang assumed she was marrying him.
• Liu Erlong told Yu Xiaogang that her father had promised her to Xue Qinghe and threatened to break Yu Xiaogang's limbs if she refused.
• Yu Xiaogang angrily accused Liu Erlong of changing her mind, rejected her attempts to follow him, and left her collapsed in tears.
• The senior eunuch read the decree naming Liu Erlong Xue Qinghe's secondary consort, and Liu Erlong returned to her room in despair.
• News of Liu Erlong's marriage spread through Heaven Dou City, and Ji Hongchen explained to Ning Rongrong and the others that she had been threatened through Yu Xiaogang.
• Ji Hongchen teased Ning Rongrong about her recent soreness, and she blushed before retreating to meditate and cultivate.

After learning that Yu Xiaogang had been crippled, Tang San attacked Xue Beng in the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace and crippled him, drawing attention to the Tang Sect. Ji Hongchen went to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect with Ning Rongrong, where Ning Fengzhi showed him a Tang Sect token.

• Tang San learned that Yu Xiaogang's legs and martial soul had been ruined, vowed to avenge him, and was told to focus on cultivating for the Soul Master Tournament.
• Tang San infiltrated the palace that night and struck Xue Beng in the crotch with a Sleeve Arrow before escaping.
• Xue Ye ordered an investigation into the attack and the Tang Sect, offering rewards for information and help capturing its members.
• Ji Hongchen learned Tang San had crippled Xue Beng and sent a letter to Qian Renxue to give Tang San something else to focus on.
• Ji Hongchen visited the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect with Ning Rongrong, where Ning Fengzhi showed him an iron token bearing the Tang Sect's name.

Ning Fengzhi learned that the Tang Sect had used the Strength Clan to manipulate him into taking the blame for an attempted assassination, and he informed the Heaven Dou court that the clan was plotting treason. Heaven Dou's army surrounded the Strength Clan, and Tai Tan faced Marshal Ge Long as Ge Long unleashed an attack capable of striking the entire compound.

• Ji Hongchen warned Ning Fengzhi that the Tang Sect's hidden weapons could implicate the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect in the attack on Xue Beng, and Ning Fengzhi decided to inform the crown prince that the Strength Clan was conspiring with the Tang Sect.
• Qian Renxue received information about Tang San and the Strength Clan, while Pufferfish advised her to destroy the Strength Clan before confronting the Tang Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi's letter enraged Xue Ye, who ordered Heaven Dou's army to surround the Strength Clan and placed bounties on its members.
• Tai Tan learned that the army had accused the Strength Clan of treason and demanded that he surrender Tang San.
• Ge Long confronted Tai Tan, and both men activated their Martial Soul Avatars before Ge Long launched his eighth soul skill, Golden Starfall, at the Strength Clan's grounds.

After the Strength Clan was exterminated, Tang San was exposed and Heaven Dou forces moved to arrest him, but Yu Tianheng’s intervention turned the confrontation into a dispute with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect. Yu Luomian learned Yu Tianheng had joined Shrek Academy and stormed there to confront Yu Xiaogang, who fainted at the sound of his arrival.

• Tang San and the Shrek Seven Devils learned that the Strength Clan had been wiped out, and Tang San insisted his tracks were covered.
• Ge Long surrounded Shrek Academy and ordered Tang San arrested for attacking Prince Xue Beng, citing Tai Tan’s confession.
• Yu Xiaogang tried to protect Tang San, but Ge Long struck him down; Yu Tianheng then stopped the arrest by invoking his clan status and the marriage alliance.
• Ge Long told Yu Luomian that Yu Tianheng had left Heaven Dou Royal Academy to join Shrek Academy, and Yu Luomian promised to explain the matter to the imperial family.
• Yu Luomian smashed Shrek Academy’s sign and charged in to confront Yu Xiaogang, who fainted when he heard him.

Yu Luomian refused to protect Tang San, and Ge Long arrested him after overpowering him. Seeking a way to escape her fate in the Star Luo Empire, Zhu Zhuqing went to Ji Hongchen’s home and offered to serve him in exchange for a chance to grow stronger.

• Yu Tianheng told Yu Luomian that he wanted to stay at Shrek Academy, and Liu Erlong knelt to stop her father from taking Yu Xiaogang away.
• Yu Luomian told Ge Long that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect would not protect Tang San, and Ge Long arrested Tang San after pinning him down with soul pressure.
• Zhu Zhuqing dressed in a Cat-Eared Maid Outfit and went to Ji Hongchen’s courtyard, hoping to ask him for help.
• Ning Rongrong let Zhu Zhuqing in and said Ji Hongchen was away at the Ye Family but would return the next day.
• When Ning Rongrong ruled out a place on the First Team, Zhu Zhuqing offered to serve Ji Hongchen for a chance to join the Second Team.

Ji Hongchen helped Ye Qingxian and Ye Lingling improve their pill refining before Yu Xiaogang left Shrek Academy to seek help rescuing Tang San. He then learned that Qian Renxue was Spirit Hall’s Young Master, comforted her about her childhood, and told her about Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang.

• Ji Hongchen coached Ye Qingxian and Ye Lingling through pill refinement, and Ye Lingling produced two low-grade pills.
• Yu Xiaogang blamed Liu Erlong for Tang San’s capture, then left Shrek Academy to seek help from a woman from his past.
• Yu Xiaogang realized he had no money and decided to use his Pope Token to get help at the Martial Soul Temple in Heaven Dou City.
• Qian Renxue told Ji Hongchen she was Spirit Hall’s Young Master, and he said he had already suspected it.
• Qian Renxue confided in Ji Hongchen about her childhood, and he comforted her and promised to stay with her.
• Ji Hongchen told Qian Renxue about Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang, leaving her furious as she heard the story.

Qian Renxue learned the truth about her parents and sought Ji Hongchen’s help to punish Yu Xiaogang. Yu Xiaogang tried to use a Pope Token to command Spirit Hall, but Ji Hongchen exposed him as a fraud and had him imprisoned with Tang San.

• Qian Renxue felt disgusted by her origins after learning that Bibi Dong had conceived her through rape, and Ji Hongchen comforted her.
• Salas told Qian Renxue that a rank-twenty-six Soul Grandmaster was using a Pope Token to demand an audience with Bibi Dong.
• Qian Renxue and Ji Hongchen confronted Yu Xiaogang, who panicked when Salas identified Ji Hongchen as Spirit Hall’s Young Master.
• Ji Hongchen ordered Salas to arrest Yu Xiaogang and send him to Heaven Dou Prison, where Tang San was being held.
• Yu Xiaogang woke in prison, found Tang San, and asked whether they were imprisoned.

Qian Renxue ordered Yu Xiaogang and Tang San interrogated for impersonating an Honorary Elder and assisting him, while an injured man planned to break Tang San out of prison. Ji Hongchen agreed to let Zhu Zhuqing try out for Heaven Dou Academy's Second Team, as an operation against the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace began taking shape.

• Qian Renxue told Ji Hongchen that Yu Xiaogang and Tang San would be interrogated together, and the two were questioned and beaten in Heaven Dou Prison until dawn.
• A burly man watching Heaven Dou Prison from a hotel room vowed to rescue Tang San that night and take revenge on the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Ning Rongrong brought Zhu Zhuqing to see Ji Hongchen, and Zhu Zhuqing asked for a chance to join Heaven Dou Academy's Second Team.
• Ji Hongchen approved a formal assessment for Zhu Zhuqing, who accepted and prepared to prove herself.
• An operation targeting the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace began to unfold elsewhere in Heaven Dou City.

Zhu Zhuqing accepted Ji Hongchen’s guidance and an Ice Muscle Jade Bone Pill as she resolved to become stronger. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang’s arrest set off a chain of plans: Liu Erlong bargained with Qian Renxue for his safety, while the Clear Sky Douluo planned a prison break and Flender prepared the academy to flee to the Star Luo Empire.

• Zhu Zhuqing accepted Ji Hongchen’s pill and agreed to continue cultivating under his guidance.
• Flender learned that Yu Xiaogang had been arrested for impersonating a Spirit Hall Honorary Elder, and the Clear Sky Douluo said he would rescue him that night.
• Liu Erlong asked Qian Renxue to save Yu Xiaogang, then agreed to become her slave in name in exchange for his safety.
• Qian Renxue promised that Yu Xiaogang would be released in seven days and moved her wedding to five days later.
• Flender told Liu Erlong that a Titled Douluo would break Yu Xiaogang out, and that the academy would leave for the Star Luo Empire afterward.