Arc 10Qian Chongling’s Reckoning

Qian Chongling collected debts from Shrek Academy and humiliated its allies, while Tang San advanced and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect uncovered the history of Qian Chongling’s bloodshed. The arc ended with Qian Chongling testing his students’ response to a violent Soul Master and preparing them for the upcoming tournament.

  • Qian Chongling beat Li Yusong and Zhao Wuji, collected Shrek Academy’s overdue payment, and demanded further compensation.
  • Tang San, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong entered Shrek Academy, where Zhao Wuji tested them and Tang Hao later beat Zhao Wuji after Tang San was injured.
  • Tang Xuanwei planned to enroll at Blue Tyrant Academy to meet Tang San, while Qian Chongling approved local hotels as Martial Soul Grand Hotel franchises so Shrek’s group would have to stay within his network.
  • The Shrek students’ brawl with Blue Sunshine Academy led Qian Chongling to demand ten million Gold Soul Coins, defeat Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Bone Douluo Gu Rong, and make the students work off the debt.
  • Tang San gained Oscar’s Third Soul Ring for him, then killed a Man Faced Demon Spider and obtained the Eight Spider Lances before Meng Shu backed down after learning Tang San’s identity.
  • Ning Fengzhi showed Chen Xin and Gu Rong the sect’s records describing Qian Chongling’s past slaughter of Titled Douluo, the death of Heaven Dou Emperor Xue Jing, and the fall of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
  • Qian Chongling treated Yan and Hu Liena after their failed secret-realm attempt, then questioned his students about a brutal Soul Master and heard them vow to make him suffer if they met him in the tournament.
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Ch. 229Sent Flying with a Slap

Qian Chongling defeated Li Yusong, exposed Shrek Academy’s scam, and let the cheated applicants reclaim their Gold Soul Coins. When Zhao Wuji arrived and attacked, Qian Chongling protected a young girl and slapped him flying with a token, leaving Zhao Wuji frozen as he prepared to strike again.

  • Qian Chongling caught Li Yusong’s Dragon Pattern Staff and punched him into Shrek Academy’s signboard, knocking him unconscious.
  • Qian Chongling told the onlookers to reclaim their Gold Soul Coins from Shrek Academy’s wooden box, and they formed a line to collect their money.
  • Ma Hongjun hurried off to fetch the Vice Dean while Qian Chongling waited for the debtor he had come to find.
  • Zhao Wuji arrived, activated his Martial Soul Avatar and Furious-Eyed Jingang skill, and attacked Qian Chongling and the young girl beside him.
  • Qian Chongling pulled the girl behind him and slapped Zhao Wuji with a token, sending him bouncing across the ground; Zhao Wuji stood up and froze before attacking again.

Ch. 230No, you'll have to pay more

Qian Chongling confronted Zhao Wuji over Shrek Academy’s overdue loan and used his Titled Douluo status to demand extra compensation. After Zhao Wuji paid, a brief red gleam flashed in both men’s eyes, leaving the encounter’s outcome uncertain.

  • Zhao Wuji recognized Qian Chongling as a Martial Soul Bank Debt Collector and learned Shrek Academy’s payment was seven days overdue.
  • Zhao Wuji paid the overdue installment of twelve thousand Gold Soul Coins, but Qian Chongling demanded emotional distress compensation.
  • Qian Chongling revealed nine Soul Rings, and Zhao Wuji agreed to pay extra rather than challenge a Titled Douluo.
  • Qian Chongling demanded compensation for the ten Gold Soul Coins Shrek Academy had taken, and Zhao Wuji offered ten thousand Gold Soul Coins.
  • Qian Chongling accepted Zhao Wuji’s storage card as a red gleam flashed in both men’s eyes.

Ch. 231Blowing Hot Air

Ma Hongjun led Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Tang San, and Xiao Wu through Shrek Academy after they skipped the second and third trials. After Zhu Zhuqing praised Oscar’s sausages, Ma Hongjun guided the group toward the fourth trial while boasting about the academy’s history.

  • Ma Hongjun brought Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Tang San, and Xiao Wu into Shrek Academy and said their soul levels let them skip the second and third trials.
  • Oscar offered sausages, and Tang San bought four for the group.
  • Ma Hongjun warned Tang San about Oscar’s sausages, but Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong ate theirs without concern about Oscar’s soul incantation.
  • Zhu Zhuqing praised the sausages but suggested adding something cool to reduce their greasiness, prompting Oscar to leave and research the idea.
  • Ma Hongjun led the group toward the fourth trial and boasted about Shrek Academy’s graduates, though his claims were unfounded.

Ch. 232Who Is This Person You Speak Of?

Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong exposed Ma Hongjun’s claim that Shrek Academy had produced a powerful Spirit Hall elder as a rumor, then the four applicants faced Zhao Wuji’s fourth trial. They coordinated an opening attack against him, but the chapter ended as Zhu Zhuqing’s strongest strike hit his back.

  • Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong challenged Ma Hongjun to name Shrek Academy’s supposed Spirit Hall graduate, and Ma Hongjun admitted that the dean had told them to spread the claim.
  • Zhao Wuji replaced the canceled trial against the injured Dai Mubai with a test requiring the four applicants to last one incense stick against him.
  • Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing explained Zhao Wuji’s history, including how Spirit Hall had sent him to mine after he injured debt collectors.
  • Tang San, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong shared their abilities and devised a plan while Qian Chongling watched from the shadows.
  • The four launched their attack as Zhao Wuji lit the incense; Ning Rongrong enhanced her companions, Tang San’s vines trapped Zhao Wuji’s legs, and Zhu Zhuqing struck his back with Spiral Spear Kill.

Ch. 233So You Need to Vent

Zhao Wuji beat Tang San and Xiao Wu after Qian Chongling’s planted suggestion pushed him to vent his anger, then Tang Hao confronted him over his son’s injuries. The chapter left Zhao Wuji taunting Tang Hao to strike him while reminding him that he still owed Spirit Hall money.

  • Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu surprised Zhao Wuji with Tang San’s concealed Blue Silver Grass and their attacks, but Zhao Wuji awakened his Martial Soul and incapacitated both of them.
  • Tang San challenged Zhao Wuji to a serious fight, and Qian Chongling’s planted suggestion drove Zhao Wuji to unleash his anger and repeatedly slam Tang San into the ground.
  • Flender arrived with Ma Hongjun, ordered Tang San and Xiao Wu treated, and Zhao Wuji later celebrated his release by eating rabbit head and drinking liquor.
  • Tang Hao confronted Zhao Wuji outside Shrek Academy and revealed his Clear Sky Hammer and nine Soul Rings, while Flender appeared and greeted him as Haotian.
  • Zhao Wuji recognized Tang Hao as Tang San’s father, mocked him for coming after his son was beaten, and dared him to strike despite his debt to Spirit Hall.

Ch. 234I'm in Debt, and I'm Proud

Zhao Wuji used his debt to Spirit Hall to convince Tang Hao that killing him would expose Tang Hao and endanger Tang San’s peaceful growth, so Tang Hao beat him instead. After Tang Hao left, Ning Fengzhi and the two Titled Douluos decided against confronting him, then healed Zhao Wuji before giving him another beating.

  • Zhao Wuji warned Tang Hao that his murder would prompt Spirit Hall to investigate and expose Tang Hao’s whereabouts, forcing Tang San to flee with him.
  • Tang Hao beat Zhao Wuji, gave Flender instructions, and left.
  • Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Bone Douluo Gu Rong learned that Tang San was Tang Hao’s son and Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form.
  • Ning Fengzhi persuaded Chen Xin and Gu Rong not to capture Xiao Wu or challenge Tang Hao, citing the danger of fighting Tang Hao at Level 94.
  • Ning Fengzhi healed Zhao Wuji, then Chen Xin and Gu Rong prepared to beat him for bullying Ning Rongrong.

Ch. 235Tang Xuanwei

Tang Xuanwei prepared to enroll at Blue Tyrant Academy and reflected on how she had transmigrated into the Douluo Continent, become Tang Xiao’s daughter, and gained a system tied to Tang San’s rise to godhood. She confirmed that Tang San was progressing smoothly and that no other transmigrators had disturbed the immortal herbs, then awaited the chance to meet her cousin.

  • Tang Yuehua asked Tang Xuanwei about enrolling at Blue Tyrant Academy, and Tang Xuanwei said she planned to go in a few days.
  • Tang Xuanwei revealed that she had a blue silver grass Martial Soul and a Clear Sky Hammer, and recalled how her system and check-in missions helped her reach level thirty-one and join Tang Yuehua’s household.
  • Tang Xuanwei explained that she wanted to enroll at Blue Tyrant Academy to complete a check-in mission and meet Tang San, whom she regarded as her Third Brother.
  • Tang Xuanwei asked her system whether Tang San’s progress was smooth, and it confirmed that he had entered Shrek Academy without unexpected trouble.
  • Tang Xuanwei asked whether other transmigrators had arrived and whether the immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well remained untouched, and the system confirmed both were as she hoped.
  • Tang Xuanwei celebrated her confidence in herself and Tang San by declaring that they would rule the world and lamenting how lonely it was to be invincible.

Ch. 236A New Identity: Bodyguard

Qian Chongling arranged to stay at Zhao Bin’s hotel while waiting for the Shrek Academy group to arrive in Star Dou Town. He planned to watch Tang San encounter the Man Faced Demon Spider and decide whether to let him obtain the Eight Spider Lances.

  • Zhao Bin and the other hotel owners celebrated after Qian Chongling approved their applications to franchise with the Martial Soul Grand Hotel.
  • Qian Chongling told the owners he would stay until their licenses arrived and asked them to report a group of seven young people accompanied by a middle-aged Soul Saint.
  • After Qian Chongling went upstairs, the hotel owners discussed his status as a Title Douluo and resumed drinking.
  • Qian Chongling recalled that Oscar would soon need a soul ring and that Tang San might obtain the Eight Spider Lances from a Man Faced Demon Spider.
  • Qian Chongling decided to wait in Star Dou Town and approved every hotel’s franchise application so the Shrek Academy group could not stay somewhere he did not control.

Ch. 237Three little cliques

Seven days after their injuries, Tang San and Xiao Wu had recovered and joined the other Shrek Academy students for breakfast. Zhu Zhuqing confronted Dai Mubai, then discussed killing and hardship with Ning Rongrong, leaving Dai Mubai wary of his powerful cousin.

  • Tang San and Xiao Wu recovered from their injuries and ate breakfast in Shrek Academy’s poor cafeteria.
  • Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun discussed visiting the Rouge Pavilion until Zhu Zhuqing criticized Dai Mubai and reminded him she could have killed him in their earlier fight.
  • Zhu Zhuqing released her killing intent, frightening Dai Mubai and the others, then sat with Ning Rongrong near Tang San.
  • Ning Rongrong complained about the food, and Zhu Zhuqing explained that people sometimes ate tree bark and wild grass to survive.
  • Ning Rongrong asked Zhu Zhuqing what killing felt like, and Zhu Zhuqing recalled the sensations she experienced after Ye Mengwei made her kill a prisoner.
  • Ma Hongjun asked Dai Mubai whether Zhu Zhuqing was his relative, and Dai Mubai said she was his cousin and admitted he had underestimated her.

Ch. 238Signs of a Split

Flender assigned Oscar and Ning Rongrong stamina training, but Ning Rongrong explained that her weighted wristbands already provided it. Oscar then announced that he had reached rank thirty, so Flender canceled the lessons and planned a group trip to the Star Dou Great Forest the next morning.

  • Flender told Oscar and Ning Rongrong to run twenty laps around the village for stamina training.
  • Ning Rongrong questioned the training method and explained that her fifty-kilogram wristbands kept her training constantly.
  • Dai Mubai explained how gravity fields worked, and Ning Rongrong revealed that her family owned two.
  • Oscar announced that he had broken through to rank thirty.
  • Flender canceled the day's lessons and said the group would go to the Star Dou Great Forest to find Oscar a Third Soul Ring and practice combat.

Ch. 239If You Want to Fight, Take It Outside

Flender and the Shrek Seven Devils arrived in a town near the Star Dou Great Forest and stopped at a tavern. Dai Mubai provoked students from Blue Sunshine Academy, and the two groups began fighting despite the proprietor’s request to take it outside.

  • Flender, Tang San, and the others reached the tavern and arranged rooms and food.
  • Ning Rongrong explained that Soul Master subsidies only went up to the Soul Elder rank.
  • Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun insulted the Blue Sunshine Academy students, and Dai Mubai launched a plate of food onto one student’s head.
  • The tavern owner asked the groups to fight outside, but Dai Mubai attacked a student and started a brawl.
  • The Shrek Four Heroes overwhelmed the Blue Sunshine Academy students, sending several flying backward.

Ch. 240Pay up or eat it all-pick one

Qian Chongling revealed himself as a Titled Douluo after the Shrek group wrecked his restaurant and refused to pay, then demanded ten million Gold Soul Coins. The chapter ended with him rejecting Ning Rongrong’s offer and threatening Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Tang San, and Xiao Wu unless they paid the remaining nine million or ate the wreckage.

  • The Shrek Four Heroes fought Blue Sunshine Academy’s students, and Flender knocked out Ye Zhiqiu when he intervened.
  • Qian Chongling demanded compensation for the restaurant, but Dai Mubai attacked him and had his wrist broken.
  • Flender tried to intimidate Qian Chongling, who revealed nine Soul Rings and forced Flender to the floor with his pressure.
  • Flender ordered Dai Mubai to pay one million Gold Soul Coins, but Qian Chongling raised the bill to ten million and demanded nine million more.
  • Ning Rongrong offered furnishings and another million Gold Soul Coins, then threatened Qian Chongling with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Super Douluos when he refused.
  • Qian Chongling demanded the remaining nine million from Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Tang San, and Xiao Wu, threatening to skin them if they did not pay.

Ch. 241Diverting the Flood of Trouble

After Shrek Academy damaged Qian Chongling’s restaurant, he forced its students to work there and demanded nine million gold soul coins from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Ning Fengzhi arrived with Chen Xin and Gu Rong to rescue Ning Rongrong, but Qian Chongling’s demand turned their confrontation into a dispute over compensation.

  • Zhu Zhuqing proposed that Ning Rongrong write an IOU for the compensation, so Qian Chongling summoned her black-clad Soul Saint guard and ordered him to fetch nine million gold soul coins from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
  • Qian Chongling made the Shrek Academy students serve customers and ordered Flender to bring in business, while Tang Hao secretly planned to seek help from Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong.
  • Tang Hao reached the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and left a letter warning that Ning Rongrong was trapped in Star Dou Town and in danger.
  • Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong traveled to the restaurant and found Ning Rongrong and the others working as servers; Ning Rongrong and the students quit in defiance of Qian Chongling.
  • Qian Chongling demanded nine million gold soul coins from Ning Fengzhi, who learned from Ning Rongrong that Shrek Academy had damaged the restaurant and that Qian Chongling had demanded compensation.

Ch. 242Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo

Qian Chongling fought Sword Douluo Chen Xin with a willow branch, easily shattered his sword skills, and used the duel to expose flaws in Chen Xin’s swordsmanship. After Ning Fengzhi began enhancing Chen Xin, he and Gu Rong coordinated an attack on Qian Chongling, leaving the battle ongoing.

  • Qian Chongling added another million Gold Soul Coins to the debt, and Chen Xin accepted his challenge to fight outside the restaurant.
  • Chen Xin attacked with his Seven Kill Sword, but Qian Chongling shattered his First and Fourth Soul Skill with a branch and advised him to steady his mind.
  • Chen Xin unleashed Seven Kill True Body and his Eighth Soul Skill, but Qian Chongling broke the resulting attacks and struck him in the chest.
  • Ning Fengzhi enhanced Chen Xin, who charged Qian Chongling again, but Qian Chongling stopped the Seven Kill Sword with his willow branch.
  • Ning Fengzhi spotted an opening and began buffing Gu Rong as Gu Rong unleashed his Bone Dragon True Body.

Ch. 243No title

Qian Chongling defeated Bone Douluo Gu Rong and overwhelmed Sword Douluo Chen Xin, whose breakthrough to level 97 did not save him from being knocked unconscious. He then demanded compensation from Ning Fengzhi, raising the amount to one hundred million Gold Soul Coins.

  • Gu Rong attacked Qian Chongling in Bone Dragon form, but Qian Chongling caught his head and slammed him into the ground, knocking him unconscious.
  • Qian Chongling battered Chen Xin with a Willow Branch and criticized his swordsmanship while forcing him to defend.
  • Qian Chongling used his sword intent to help Chen Xin break through to level 97.
  • Chen Xin resumed the fight confidently, but Qian Chongling struck him unconscious with the Willow Branch.
  • Ning Fengzhi offered ten million Gold Soul Coins in compensation, and Qian Chongling raised the demand to one hundred million.

Ch. 244A small goal

Qian Chongling let Ning Rongrong leave to obtain her Third Soul Ring and accepted Ning Fengzhi's payment to reduce the others' punishment to seven more days of work. A message then warned that Yan and Hu Liena had suffered disastrous injuries in the City of Eternal Night secret realm, prompting Qian Chongling to prepare to return.

  • Qian Chongling told Ning Fengzhi that he and the unconscious Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo could leave, while the seven young people had to keep working for damaging his shop.
  • Ning Fengzhi asked Qian Chongling to let Ning Rongrong leave because she had reached rank thirty, and Qian Chongling agreed.
  • Ning Fengzhi offered ten million Gold Soul Coins, so Qian Chongling reduced the others' remaining work from a potential life sentence to seven days.
  • Qian Chongling received a message that Yan was unconscious and Hu Liena was deranged after their failed attempt at the City of Eternal Night secret realm.
  • Qian Chongling checked his system's spatial inventory and found portraits of Yan and Hu Liena.

Ch. 245Poseidon, You Really Know How to Play

Qian Chongling learned that Bibi Dong had two injured soul-trial participants’ souls and promised to restore them, then watched the Shrek party’s hunt for Tang San’s soul ring take an unnatural turn. Tang San absorbed a conveniently weakened Man Faced Demon Spider, and Qian Chongling noticed a strange sea-blue light forming within its soul ring.

  • Qian Chongling told Bibi Dong that he had the stripped souls of the unconscious and mad participants and would treat them when he returned.
  • Flender led the Shrek party into the Star Dou Great Forest, where Oscar obtained his Third Soul Ring from a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent.
  • A Mist Dragon Wolf King ambushed the party, scattering its members and leaving Tang San and Xiao Wu to encounter the injured Man Faced Demon Spider.
  • Tang San killed the exhausted Man Faced Demon Spider and absorbed its two-thousand-year-old soul ring.
  • Qian Chongling spotted a glimmer of sea-blue light forming inside the Man Faced Demon Spider’s soul ring and cursed Poseidon.

Ch. 246Another Entry in the Little Black Book

Tang San absorbed the Man Faced Demon Spider’s soul ring and gained the Eight Spider Lances, while Qian Chongling recognized the Sea God’s divine power behind the gift. When Meng Shu threatened Tang San over the stolen soul beast, Flender tried to deter him by revealing the powerful families and figures connected to the Shrek students.

  • Tang San absorbed the Man Faced Demon Spider’s soul ring in under three hours and gained the Eight Spider Lances.
  • Qian Chongling realized the Sea God had arranged Tang San’s external soul bone and decided not to interfere with the plan against the Asura God.
  • Meng Shu arrived with Snake Granny and Meng Yiran, then demanded that Tang San either join their clan or surrender an arm.
  • Flender arrived with Shrek’s students and privately warned Meng Shu that Oscar, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dai Mubai had powerful connections.
  • Flender told Meng Shu that Tang San was Tang Hao’s son, and warned him that Tang Hao would retaliate if Tang San were harmed.

Ch. 247Too Filthy. I Don't Want It

Meng Shu withdrew after learning Tang San was Yu Xiaogang’s disciple, while Xiao Wu claimed she had reached Soul Elder by absorbing a rabbit soul ring. Back at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Sword Douluo explained that his domain and swordsmanship had been neutralized by his opponent.

  • Flender told Meng Shu that Tang San was Yu Xiaogang’s disciple, and Meng Shu and Snake Granny reacted with disgust.
  • Meng Shu refused to let Meng Yiran challenge Tang San again and took her away, calling Tang San filthy.
  • Flender told Tang San to wait for his father to explain why Meng Shu had changed his attitude.
  • Xiao Wu told Tang San she had broken through to level thirty and absorbed a roughly fifteen-hundred-year-old rabbit soul ring, and the group began their return journey.
  • Qian Chongling flew back to Spirit Hall after watching the encounter.
  • Sword Douluo told Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo that his Seven Kill Domain had been rendered ineffective and his opponent had anticipated his sword strikes.

Ch. 248Sword Jerk, Where Were Your Seven Kill Domain and Swordsmanship?

Ning Fengzhi identified the old man who had overpowered Sword Douluo as Qian Chongling, the legendary Blood Pope of Spirit Hall. Sword Douluo recounted how Qian Chongling had humiliated his great-grandfather six hundred years earlier, leaving Bone Douluo skeptical.

  • Sword Douluo confirmed that his Seven Kill Domain had been changed into a domain with no effect, and Ning Fengzhi grew visibly shaken.
  • Ning Fengzhi named Qian Chongling as the man who had strung up and beaten Sword Douluo.
  • Ning Fengzhi explained that Qian Chongling had been Spirit Hall's only Saint Emperor, the Blood Pope, and a feared butcher known to the two great empires.
  • Sword Douluo reacted with fear and disbelief at the thought that Qian Chongling was still alive after at least fifteen hundred years.
  • Sword Douluo told Bone Douluo that his great-grandfather Chen Qi had once challenged Qian Chongling and been beaten despite using his Seven Kill Sword and domain.
  • Bone Douluo doubted the story and asked Ning Fengzhi what had frightened him so badly.

Ch. 249A Former Taboo

Ning Fengzhi brought Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s hidden archive to reveal the history behind the massacre that weakened the Clear Sky Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. He showed them a record of Qian Chongling and Spirit Hall, warning that it contained answers to the empires’ and sects’ actions.

  • Ning Fengzhi led Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo into the sect’s Ancestral Temple and revealed the concealed passage beneath Ning Ze’s spirit tablet.
  • Ning Fengzhi guided Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo through the archive’s hidden chambers, explaining that its records held secrets of the empires and the Three Upper Sects.
  • Ning Fengzhi revealed a book containing the sect’s records of Qian Chongling and said it explained the empires’ support for Spirit Hall and the Upper Three Sects’ wariness of it.
  • Ning Fengzhi showed Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo the book titled “Complete History of Spirit Hall” and told them to believe its account, however absurd it seemed.

Ch. 250Descendants of a God

Ning Fengzhi showed Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo a record of Spirit Hall’s divine origins and the terrifying history of Qian Chongling. They learned that Qian Chongling had once killed twenty-five Titled Douluo without injury, and Ning Ze had warned the sect to avoid Spirit Hall while he lived.

  • Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo read that the Angel God founded Spirit Hall and that the Qian Family descended from him.
  • The two elders saw a painting depicting Qian Chongling as a blood-soaked killer and asked Ning Fengzhi if it showed the man they had met.
  • Ning Fengzhi confirmed that the painting showed Qian Chongling eight hundred years earlier and urged them to continue reading.
  • Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo read Qian Chongling’s profile, including his domains and his suspected Demigod-level cultivation.
  • The record stated that Qian Chongling killed twenty-five Titled Douluo at Heaven Ridge Mountain without being injured.
  • Ning Ze warned future sect masters to keep the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect far from Spirit Hall while Qian Chongling lived.

Ch. 251Bloodstained Memories

Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo identified the mysterious wielder of the Sword Divine Domain as Qian Chongling, then read Ning Ze’s account of Qian Chongling’s massacre of a coalition of Titled Douluo. After surviving and punishing the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Qian Chongling’s continued existence left Ning Fengzhi and the others weighing whether to change their plans concerning Tang Hao.

  • Ning Fengzhi explained that the altered effects of the Sword Divine Domain led him to recognize Qian Chongling, while Bone Douluo struggled to understand the domain’s power.
  • Ning Ze’s account described how Qian Chongling avenged Bai Jingyu by massacring a marquis’s mansion and killing Heaven Dou Emperor Xue Jing before the court.
  • Twenty-five Titled Douluo from the empires and sects confronted Qian Chongling at Heaven Ridge Mountain, where his four domains killed or drove mad most of them.
  • Qian Chongling used the Sword Divine Domain to redefine matter and energy, killing several Titled Douluo instantly and preventing one from self-destructing.
  • Qian Chongling resumed the slaughter, killed Tang Jie, spared Ning Ze, and reduced the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
  • Ning Fengzhi decided to stick to the original plan regarding Tang Hao, and Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo agreed.

Ch. 252That Rotten Fox

Qian Chongling returned to Spirit Hall Academy and treated Yan and Hu Liena after hearing how they were injured during the Aurora City trial. He left the infirmary after inviting Bibi Dong to the outdoor pool.

  • Qian Chongling entered the infirmary and found Hu Liena tied to a pillar and Yan unconscious in a hospital bed.
  • Tianyu explained that the Aurora Hunter’s enchanting voice disrupted Hu Liena, and Yan was eliminated while protecting her before Hu Liena was struck down; Tianyu and Bai Jie then defeated the monster.
  • Qian Chongling tapped Yan between the eyebrows and said he would wake the next day, then slapped Hu Liena twice and restored her to consciousness.
  • Qian Chongling left the infirmary and quietly asked Bibi Dong to join him at the outdoor pool.

Ch. 253Now, count up your sins

Qian Chongling taught the Inner Court students to judge a series of increasingly monstrous acts, revealing that the fictional-sounding Soul Master was a real person they might face in the upcoming tournament. He dismissed the class after encouraging them to punish the man without killing him, while Hu Liena privately worried about the betrayal described in one of his questions.

  • Qian Chongling questioned the students about a Soul Master who responded to minor slights with extreme violence, and the class condemned his behavior.
  • Qian Chongling described the Soul Master's slaughter of a City Lord's household and a Saintess's betrayal of the Pope, prompting Hu Liena to state that the Saintess deserved execution and family extermination.
  • Qian Chongling revealed that the Soul Master became a god, tore his daughter's soul in half, and committed other atrocities, shocking the students.
  • Qian Chongling asked what the students would do if they encountered the Soul Master in the upcoming tournament, and they threatened to make him suffer.
  • Hu Liena feared she might somehow become the Saintess in the scenario, while Qian Chongling reminded the class that they could torment the Soul Master as long as they did not kill him, then dismissed them.
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