Chapter Summaries

Tang San healed Ma Hongjun, learned that he had awakened a trace of phoenix bloodline, and warned him against taking another Evil Fire Nirvana Pill. Tang San also revealed that Dugu Yan was being poisoned by her Jade Phosphorous Serpent martial soul and offered to cure her, before the group left Shrek Academy for Heaven Dou City.

• Tang San finished healing Ma Hongjun and explained that the Evil Fire Nirvana Pill had awakened a trace of his phoenix bloodline and changed his Phoenix Emperor.
• Tang San warned Ma Hongjun that the unique pill had dangerous side effects and scolded him for wanting more.
• Tang San told Bai Chenxiang that Ma Hongjun was well, then visited Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng.
• Tang San diagnosed Dugu Yan with early-stage poisoning from her Jade Phosphorous Serpent martial soul and said he could cure her with the right medicinal ingredients.
• Dugu Yan planned to seek herbs from her grandfather, while Yu Tianheng asked Tang San about Yu Xiaogang.
• Li Ke drove the upgraded Iron Horse as Tang San and the others departed Shrek Academy for Heaven Dou City.

Tang San and his companions stopped at a village, where he revived Linus after discovering that the village chief had blamed a rare Jade Phosphorous Centipede for attacking him. Tang San removed the centipede’s poison and gave Linus instructions for keeping it safely before the group resumed their journey to Heaven Dou City.

• Tang San and his companions killed the robbers who had pillaged a village, after which no one objected to their detours.
• Tang San examined Linus, who appeared dead, and revived him by removing jade-green fragments from his body.
• Linus explained that the village chief had tried to kill his pet green centipede, which then attacked him.
• Tang San told the villagers the centipede was a rare poisonous soul beast and offered to remove its poison, and the villagers chose to spare it.
• Tang San restrained Xiao Gong, extracted and neutralized its venom, and gave Linus instructions for raising it safely.
• Tang San and his companions said goodbye to Linus and continued toward Heaven Dou City.

Tang San, Ma Hongjun, and Li Ke explored Heaven Dou City before heading to Blue Tyrant Academy, and Tang San spotted several unusual objects at a Down Street stall. Just as he offered the vendor three hundred gold coins for everything, a spoiled young noble interrupted him.

• Tang San and Ma Hongjun toured Heaven Dou City with Li Ke, visiting its Great Soul Arena, Imperial Auction House, and Moonlight Pavilion before going to Down Street.
• Li Ke recalled that Ning Rongrong had once found rare metal on Down Street, though her sect confiscated it for breaking a rule.
• Tang San noticed an iron bracer, a foul-smelling black lump, and a rune-covered stone tablet at Pop's stall.
• Tang San offered Pop three hundred gold coins for all his goods, and Ma Hongjun and Li Ke trusted that he had a reason for the purchase.
• A spoiled young noble interrupted Tang San, prompting Li Ke and Ma Hongjun to wonder whether they had wandered into a novel.

Tang San and his companions encountered Xue Beng, the fourth prince, who used his wastrel persona to probe their intentions. Tang San saw through his act and warned him that Shrek would stay out of the succession struggle, then left for the academy.

• Xue Beng provoked Tang San over a bracer, but Tang San calmly handed it to him and claimed it was a damaged ancient Soul Tool.
• Li Ke examined the bracer, confirmed it was easy to repair, and recognized Xue Beng as the fourth prince.
• Xue Beng recalled Li Ke had humiliated him with Ning Rongrong and pretended to demand revenge, but Tang San restrained him and offered the bracer as compensation.
• Tang San privately told Xue Beng that he and Ma Hongjun would not join the fight for the throne and warned that harassing them could make Shrek oppose him.
• Xue Beng backed down while maintaining his angry facade, and Tang San led the others back to the academy.

Tang San helped Grandmaster confront his complicated feelings for Liu Erlong and his first love, then restored his health. As Grandmaster prepared to pursue Liu Erlong, Poison Douluo Dugu Bo appeared and challenged him.

• Tang San and Ma Hongjun learned that Liu Ke had once exposed Xue Beng with a laxative prank, then they arrived at Shrek Academy, formerly Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Huang Yuan led Tang San and the others to the courtyard, where Grandmaster and Flender were competing to prove their love for Liu Erlong.
• Liu Erlong punished Ma Hongjun for calling her old, and Grandmaster and Flender's contest ended in a draw.
• Grandmaster told Tang San about his first love, and Tang San used an illusion and life force to help him face his feelings and restore his body.
• Grandmaster shielded Tang San when he sensed someone watching them, and Dugu Bo appeared and mocked Grandmaster's rank.

Dugu Bo took Tang San from Shrek Academy to his Herb Garden to test whether he could cure the poison afflicting Dugu Bo and his granddaughter. Tang San recognized the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and claimed he could cure Dugu Bo, prompting the Poison Douluo to prepare a test with his origin poison.

• Dugu Bo confronted Yu Xiaogang and Tang San, explaining that he had come because Tang San claimed he could cure Dugu Yan's hereditary illness.
• Flender and Liu Erlong arrived, and Flender told Dugu Bo that Shrek Academy had no ties to any faction, easing Dugu Bo's suspicions about the academy.
• Tang San volunteered to go with Dugu Bo so the academy would not be dragged into the matter, and Dugu Bo carried him away.
• Yu Xiaogang's hair had turned black, and he told Liu Erlong that Tang San had helped him face his feelings for her.
• Dugu Bo brought Tang San to his Herb Garden, where Tang San recognized the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and said he could cure Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo formed a mass of jade phosphorous serpent emperor poison on his finger to test Tang San's ability.

Tang San proposed using the Jade Phosphorous Five Poisons to cure Dugu Bo’s poisoning while preserving his cultivation and helping Dugu Yanyan. After testing Tang San’s knowledge overnight, Dugu Bo gave him his Pill Pearl, which raised Tang San’s confidence in the cure to one hundred percent.

• Tang San rejected Dugu Bo’s offer of rewards and explained that he wanted Dugu Yanyan’s poison to complete the Jade Phosphorous Five Poisons.
• Tang San presented three possible treatments for Dugu Bo and recommended refining all five poisons into a medicine that would benefit his body.
• Dugu Bo questioned whether Tang San could match the potency of his Serpent Emperor poison, and Tang San explained how Dugu Bo’s blood essence could help Dugu Yanyan afterward.
• Dugu Bo and Tang San tested and discussed poisons until dawn, and Tang San’s confidence in curing Dugu Bo rose to eighty percent.
• Dugu Bo gave Tang San his Pill Pearl as a safeguard, and Tang San said it increased the cure’s success rate to one hundred percent.
• At a nearby hot spring, Tang San explained that curing Dugu Bo would earn him a powerful ally and access to the immortal-grade herbs.

Tang San refined the Jade Phosphorous Four Poisons at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while Dugu Bo watched, and Dugu Bo explained the Martial Soul Avatar Armor realm after seeing Tang San form a Blue Silver faceplate. The poisons were ready, and Tang San turned the conversation to treating Dugu Bo.

• Dugu Bo told Xue Xing that Tang San was safe, and Xue Xing decided to arrange an academic exchange between Heaven Dou Royal Academy and Shrek Academy.
• Xue Xing gave Dugu Bo a rare sacred-demonic twinview celestia herb for his Herb Garden.
• Tang San used Dugu Bo's inner core and medicinal herbs to refine the four poisons over the following week while Dugu Bo observed.
• Tang San sealed his body against the poison and formed a Blue Silver faceplate, prompting Dugu Bo to identify it as Martial Soul Avatar Armor.
• Dugu Bo demonstrated his own Avatar Armor and explained how Soul Masters formed it, and Tang San asked to discuss Dugu Bo's treatment.

Tang San refined Dugu Bo’s five poisons into an Azure Heaven Five Immortal Pill, curing his poison and raising his cultivation to rank ninety-three. After Dugu Bo emerged from cultivation, he found Tang San in Deep Meditation and considered how to repay him.

• Dugu Bo severed his connection to his inner core while Tang San refined the five emperor poisons into an Azure Heaven Five Immortal Pill.
• Tang San bound the pill embryo and had Dugu Bo swallow it, then enclosed him in a Blue Silver Life-Creating Cocoon above the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dugu Bo endured the pill’s powerful toxicity as Blue Silver Dewdrop helped him absorb it and restore the pill as his life-bound inner core.
• After a month, Dugu Bo regained control of his inner core, reached rank ninety-three, and transformed his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor into a Jade Phosphorous Five Poisons Emperor.
• Dugu Bo broke out of the cocoon and found Tang San in Deep Meditation, then considered giving him a medicinal herb and helping the Dugu Family escape its inherited poison.

Tang San formed a soul core during three months of Deep Meditation at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, reaching level fifty at thirteen. After waking, he accepted Dugu Bo’s gifts, prepared herbs and pills for his companions, and turned his attention to the mysterious fragment and scripture tablet he had found on Down Street.

• Tang San compressed his soul power into a blue-silver crystal soul core while the Blue Silver Life-Creating Cocoon transformed him, opening six meridians and raising his cultivation to level fifty.
• Dugu Bo told Tang San that three months had passed and thanked him for helping his family; Tang San discovered his eyes remained black with red pupils after his Asura Demon Heart Art advanced.
• Dugu Bo offered Tang San the Herb Garden and Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then gave him the Wishful Treasure Pouch filled with herbs and seeds.
• After Dugu Bo advised him to reserve the finest herbs for those closest to him, Tang San chose immortal-grade herbs for his companions and pills for the Imperial Fighting Team members.
• Tang San refined Soul Ascension Pills, gave Dugu Bo a prescription for Dugu Yan, and brought out a foul-smelling black fragment and a scripture tablet from Down Street.

Tang San returned to Shrek Academy with a valuable Soul Bone hidden inside whale rubber and found the students engaged in an extended training exchange. He reunited with Grandmaster and Liu Erlong, then offered to share the medicinal herbs and pills he had brought back.

• Tang San refined the whale rubber in the Life-Creating Cocoon and discovered a nearly intact Left Arm Soul Bone, which Dugu Bo judged suited Tang San and returned to him.
• Tang San left Dugu Bo and returned to Shrek Academy, where he found Dai Mubai's green team defeating Xue Beng's white team in a training battle.
• Dai Mubai explained that Shrek and Heaven Dou Royal Academy had spent three months training together to prepare students for the Soul Master Elite Tournament.
• Tang San reunited with Grandmaster and noticed his white hair, thin frame, and level-thirty-one Soul Power; Grandmaster explained that he was overworked by the academy exchange.
• Tang San greeted Liu Erlong, learned Grandmaster's condition was due to overwork, and offered to share the herbs and pills he had brought back from Dugu Bo's place.

Tang San reunited with the Shrek group after the battle and hosted a feast before distributing rare herbs to strengthen his companions. He gave out several treasures and promised Ning Rongrong and Li Ke that their turns were coming.

• Tang San reunited with Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar, and the former Shrek teachers, and explained that his eyes had changed after his spiritual power breakthrough.
• Oscar and Ma Hongjun cooked for the group, and Ma Hongjun showed off his fire control by making three fire phoenixes circle the skewers.
• Tang San gave Dai Mubai a singular velvet sky chrysanthemum and offered Oscar an eight-petal immortal orchid, which Oscar considered giving to someone he liked.
• Tang San gave Ma Hongjun a cockscomb phoenix sunflower to refine his evil fire and a jar of Flowing Cloud Dandelion for Bai Chenxiang.
• Ning Rongrong and Li Ke asked Tang San when they would receive their treasures, while Li Ke also sought praise for repairing his bracer.

Tang San distributed immortal herbs and Soul Ascension Pills to his friends and teachers, explaining their benefits and how to use them. After his gift of whale rubber embarrassed Yu Xiaogang and made everyone laugh, Liu Erlong took Yu Xiaogang away, and Flender ordered the young Soul Masters to cultivate toward Soul Ancestor before the tournament.

• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun teased Tang San and Oscar about romance while Tang San gave Li Ke and Ning Rongrong immortal herbs suited to their martial souls.
• Ning Rongrong kissed Tang San, and Zhu Zhuqing used her Heavenly Eye to observe the bonds between the group members.
• Tang San gave Zhu Zhuqing the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and narcissus jade muscle bone, recommending that she share the dew with Dai Mubai and cultivate with him.
• Tang San gave Grandmaster and the others Soul Ascension Pills, then presented Grandmaster with whale rubber, prompting Li Ke's blunt remark and the group's laughter.
• Liu Erlong silenced everyone, accepted Tang San's gift on Yu Xiaogang's behalf, and took Yu Xiaogang away; Flender then sent the Little Monsters to cultivate and set a goal for them to reach Soul Ancestor before the tournament.

After consuming their portions of the immortal herbs, Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing fell into separate illusions designed to exploit their memories and desires. Both recognized the deception, and they faced the illusion’s attackers as the chapter ended with Dai Mubai confronting the Hell Spirit Cat.

• Dai Mubai dreamed of marrying Zhu Zhuqing in the sea of flowers from their childhood letters and apologized for abandoning her.
• Zhu Zhuqing recognized an illusion in Suotuo City, where a lecherous impostor wearing Dai Mubai’s face attacked her.
• Zhu Zhuqing used Netherworld Slash against the impostor, who revealed herself as the Hell Spirit Cat, apostle of the Evil-Eyed Saint King.
• Dai Mubai saw through the fake Zhu Zhuqing because she acted too sentimental, then summoned his White Tiger Martial Soul and challenged her.
• The Hell Spirit Cat revealed her plan to dissolve Dai Mubai’s spirit and let the Evil-Eyed Saint King possess his body, and Dai Mubai prepared to fight.

Dai Mubai fought the Hell Spirit Cat in the trial and learned that the Evil-Eyed Saint King had been behind the power of his and Zhu Zhuqing’s first Martial Soul Fusion. The Evil-Eyed Saint King appeared with Zhu Zhuqing captive and offered Dai Mubai a choice, revealing six familiar figures.

• The Hell Spirit Cat battered Dai Mubai with her speed and Netherworld Slash, but he adapted and struck her during a gap in Hellish Traversal.
• Dai Mubai pinned the Hell Spirit Cat and demanded to know where Zhu Zhuqing was.
• The Evil-Eyed Saint King appeared beneath the tree with Zhu Zhuqing unconscious and bound beside him.
• The Evil-Eyed Saint King explained that he had once possessed powerful humans and Soul Beasts, but offered Dai Mubai a chance instead of immediately taking his body.
• The Evil-Eyed Saint King presented six figures, including Tang San, Oscar, the others, and Dai Mubai’s brother, and told Dai Mubai to choose one of two options.

Dai Mubai resisted the Evil-Eyed Saint King’s attempt to make him choose between power and his companions, declaring that he wanted both. His resolve qualified him and Zhu Zhuqing to inherit the Saint King’s power, beginning with a trial to claim the Star Luo Empire’s throne.

• The Evil-Eyed Saint King conjured an illusion in which Tang San and the others insulted Dai Mubai and urged him to surrender his power or die.
• Dai Mubai defended himself against Tang San’s attack, then stopped short of killing the illusion and explained his responsibility as their big brother.
• Dai Mubai chose to keep both his power and the people he cherished, manifested Evil-Eyed Beast King Armor, and attacked the Saint King while demanding Zhu Zhuqing’s return.
• The Saint King knocked Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing through the air, and Dai Mubai caught Zhu Zhuqing as she awoke and affirmed his choice.
• The Evil-Eyed Saint King declared Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing qualified to inherit his power, set their first trial as claiming the Star Luo Empire’s throne, and sent them back to their bodies.
• The Hell Spirit Cat asked why the Saint King did not possess the pair, and he explained that he sought a true resurrection through faith rather than a short-lived possession.

Tang San checked on his companions as they absorbed their immortal herbs, then helped Oscar and Shao Xin plan cookware made with Five-Flavors Essence. By daybreak, the group had finished their absorption, and Oscar had a forging plan for his cookware.

• Tang San found Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing's linked cultivation progressing smoothly despite a brief surge in their bloodlines.
• Tang San watched Ma Hongjun's purple evil fire turn crimson as impurities burned away and his body transformed into a lean, powerful physique.
• Tang San sensed that Ning Rongrong and Li Ke were safe, but chose not to enter their room.
• Oscar showed Tang San the Five-Flavors Essence, and Tang San discussed ways to use it in cookware with him.
• Shao Xin explained that the Five-Flavors Essence was seasoning, leading Tang San, Oscar, and Shao Xin to plan a versatile iron wok and other cookware.
• The three settled on a forging plan after discussing through the night, and Dai Mubai and the others finished absorbing their herbs by daybreak.

Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing explained the Evil-Eyed Saint King’s trial and their new abilities to their companions, while Ning Rongrong discovered that her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda had become a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. Tang San offered the Lovesick Heartbreak Red to Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing, who declined, and the group ended by preparing to train harder before the tournament.

• Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Li Ke teased Ma Hongjun about his handsome new appearance before Tang San joined them.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing described the inheritance trial and their new meditation methods, and Dai Mubai decided to continue the tasks and try to change the Star Luo Empire’s traditions.
• Ning Rongrong and Li Ke reported their gains, and Ning Rongrong found that her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda had transformed into a nine-tiered Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Tang San offered Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, but they declined, and Ma Hongjun also chose not to try it.
• Li Ke demonstrated the repaired multifunctional Armguard, and Tang San suggested giving it to Ning Rongrong for self-defense.
• Dai Mubai urged everyone to cultivate toward reaching Soul Ancestor before the tournament, and they agreed.

The Shrek group trained for a month, then entered Sunset Forest to hunt soul rings, where Oscar and Ning Rongrong gained new rings and Ma Hongjun hunted a King of Earth. That night, the camp came under attack from Million Fragrant Maidens and a Gap Demon, which spoke with a little girl’s voice.

• Ma Hongjun revealed his transformed appearance and immortal herbs to Bai Chenxiang, and they went to eat together.
• Tang San absorbed a soul bone, Oscar reached rank forty, and Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ma Hongjun advanced in cultivation; Ning Rongrong returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and was named its next sect master.
• Grandmaster led the Shrek group into Sunset Forest, where Ning Rongrong killed a Scale-Armored Lizard and Oscar absorbed a Cotton Candy Beast's soul ring.
• Ma Hongjun killed a King of Earth for his soul ring but damaged much of the group's campsite in the process.
• Zhu Zhuqing sensed danger at night, and Tang San and the others found the camp swarming with Million Fragrant Maidens as a Gap Demon appeared among them.

Tang San and his companions defeated Million Fragrant Maidens, then met A-Zi, a Gap Demon from another plane who gave Zhu Zhuqing power and summoned soul beasts for Dai Mubai and Tang San to fight. The chapter ended with Dai Mubai battling a Raging Thunder Vajra while Tang San pursued an invisible ten-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider into the forest.

• Tang San gathered the Million Fragrant Maidens into a Dewdrop bubble, and Li Ke killed the consolidated soul beast to obtain its soul ring.
• A-Zi appeared and explained that monsters from another plane lived in demiplanes, then gave Zhu Zhuqing a portion of her power to refine into a soul ring.
• A-Zi summoned a lightning-attribute Raging Thunder Vajra for Dai Mubai and a powerful soul beast for Tang San, requiring each young man to face his opponent alone.
• Dai Mubai activated his Avatar Armor and charged into battle against the Raging Thunder Vajra.
• Tang San used Blue Silver Crystal Bullet to break through an invisible spider's web, identified it as a Man Faced Demon Spider, and pursued it into the forest.
• Grandmaster stopped Flender from intervening, fearing A-Zi would turn against them if they broke their agreement.