Chapter Summaries

Skywater Academy confronted the Shrek Team with its full lineup, and Shui Bing'er revealed her level-52 Ice Phoenix and the Seven-Star Sword Formation. The chapter ended with the Shrek Team's opening attacks failing against the formation's barrier.

• Shui Yuewu ordered Skywater Academy to crush Shrek Academy, while she told the Windfire Team to forfeit its match against the Galaxy Fleet.
• The Windfire Team forfeited, and the Skywater Team and Shrek Team took the arena for their match.
• Shui Bing'er revealed that she was a level-52 Soul King, then released her Ice Phoenix martial soul, suppressing Ma Hongjun's Fire Phoenix.
• Shui Bing'er led Skywater Academy in forming the Seven-Star Sword Formation and raising an ice-blue barrier around all seven members.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun attacked the barrier, but it absorbed their strikes, and Tang San realized its power was distributed among Skywater Academy's fighters.

Skywater Academy overwhelmed Shrek in the tournament match with Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill, leaving all seven Shrek members badly wounded and frozen. When Yu Dashi challenged the team afterward, Shui Bing’er’s grandmother appeared, slapped him, and revealed herself as a powerful Titled Douluo.

• Xue Wu summoned a storm while Shui Yue'er maintained the barrier, and Tang San’s attacks failed to break through it.
• Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu unleashed Ice and Snow Drifting, whose Ice Phoenix attack shattered Tang San’s defenses and incapacitated the Shrek Team.
• Shui Bing'er explained that Skywater had not intended to kill the Shrek members and stopped Hai Rou from treating them further.
• Yu Dashi accused Skywater of trying to kill Shrek, but Shui Yue'er challenged him and Shui Bing’er pointed out Shrek’s own past double standards.
• Yu Dashi summoned Li Yusong and Lu Qibin to intimidate the Skywater girls, but Shui Bing’er’s grandmother slapped him and appeared with nine Soul Rings, including one red ring.

Shui Yuewu, the level 95 Ice Phoenix Titled Douluo, crushed Shrek Academy after Yu Dashi insulted her granddaughter and Liu Erlong attacked her. With most of the team badly injured and unable to compete for five days, Flender suggested withdrawing from the tournament.

• Shui Yuewu revealed her identity as a Titled Douluo and kicked Yu Dashi across the arena.
• Liu Erlong charged Shui Yuewu, who slammed her down and beat her until she could no longer get up.
• Emperor Xue Ye intervened, and the referee declared Skywater Academy the overwhelming winner over Shrek Academy.
• Ning Fengzhi treated the injured Shrek members and estimated that they would need five days to recover.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that Ye Renxin was at Spirit Hall and too far away to treat the team in time.
• Flender suggested that Shrek Academy withdraw because most of its competitors were injured, and Liu Erlong could barely speak in agreement.

Tang Xuanwei proposed a way for Shrek Academy to keep competing despite having only four fighters available: field four active members and carry three substitutes into the arena. Zhu Zhuqing agreed to compete, and the group settled on which substitutes would be carried, though their willingness remained uncertain.

• Tang Xuanwei rejected withdrawing and explained that Shrek could lose at most two matches while Tang San recovered if she, Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar, and Ning Rongrong competed.
• Yu Dashi warned that Zhu Zhuqing had previously refused to compete and that the tournament required seven participants to take the field.
• Zhu Zhuqing emerged from the doorway and agreed to compete, then pointed out that Shrek still lacked three eligible participants.
• Tang Xuanwei proposed carrying three inactive substitutes into the arena, arguing that the rules did not require all seven participants to fight, and forfeiting against the Galaxy Fleet or Windfire Team if necessary.
• Tang Xuanwei, Yu Dashi, and Liu Erlong named Jiang Zhu, Jing Ling, and Huang Yuan as the three substitutes to carry, while the others wondered whether Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong would agree.

Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong forced Shrek Academy to use a draw to decide who would be carried onto the stage, and the lots selected Xiao Wu, Dai Mubai, and Tang San. After Yu Dashi also drew a flawed jade despite relying on Zhu Zhuqing's probability theory, the group planned their match against Thunder Academy.

• Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong insisted that the contestants be chosen by lot, and Flender agreed to draw for Hongjun while Ning Fengzhi served as witness.
• Ning Fengzhi prepared seven pieces of jade, three of them flawed, and Liu Erlong and Tang Xuanwei each drew a flawed piece for Xiao Wu and Dai Mubai.
• Zhu Zhuqing explained probability theory before Yu Dashi drew a seemingly flawless piece for Tang San, only for a black spot to appear after a delay.
• Yu Dashi asked about the next day's opponents, and Flender identified Thunder Academy.
• Zhu Zhuqing led the others in planning tactics against Thunder Academy while Yu Dashi privately wondered whether Tang San would blame him for drawing the flawed lot.

Shrek Academy faced Thunder Academy with Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Dai Mubai lying on stretchers, but the officials allowed the match to proceed. Shrek revealed the strength of its hidden Soul Ancestors and began trapping Thunder Academy, while Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong prepared a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Tang Xuanwei argued that Shrek had seven competitors despite three being on stretchers, and the referees ruled that the team had broken no rules.
• Thunder Academy activated its martial souls, but Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Tang Xuanwei revealed that they each had four soul rings.
• Ning Rongrong boosted Tang Xuanwei and Zhu Zhuqing, and Tang Xuanwei trapped Thunder Academy's seven members in Blue Silver Cages.
• Thunder Academy attacked the cages until they began to weaken, while Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong embraced and appeared ready to use a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong used their Moonshadow Glazed Cat Martial Soul Fusion Skill to defeat Thunder Academy in the thirteenth preliminary round. Shrek Academy won, while Tang San and Xiao Wu appeared to react to the crowd’s applause.

• Yu Tianxin broke free of Tang Xuanwei’s Blue Silver Cage, but Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong transformed into the immense Moonshadow Glazed Cat.
• The Moonshadow Glazed Cat overwhelmed Thunder Academy, eliminating five members and leaving Yu Tianxin and Lei Dong to face it.
• Yu Tianxin and Lei Dong unleashed their fourth soul skills, but the cat’s nine-colored blades cut through their lightning and defeated them.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing returned to the field as the referee declared Shrek Academy the winner.
• Qian Chongling noticed Tang San’s and Xiao Wu’s fingers twitch amid the spectators’ applause.

Tang Hao broke through to level 95, then learned that Skywater Academy’s Seven-Star Sword Formation could threaten even a Super Douluo. He left Shrek Academy’s next matches to Yu Dashi’s plans, hoping the Seven-in-One Fusion Skill would give Tang San the strength to win the tournament.

• Tang Hao reached level 95 after half a month of secluded cultivation and flew to Shrek Academy.
• Tang Hao learned that Skywater Academy had defeated Shrek and that its Seven-Star Sword Formation had once killed a level 91 Titled Douluo.
• Tang Hao struck Yu Dashi for failing to warn him about the formation, then decided not to challenge Skywater Academy.
• Yu Dashi said Tang San and Xiao Wu were recovering and that Shrek would send substitutes in its next match.
• Yu Dashi named six teams that could challenge Shrek and said he was working to perfect the Seven-in-One Fusion Skill, which could give Tang San near-Soul-Saint combat power.

After the qualifiers’ standings became clear, Tang San persuaded Yu Dashi not to forfeit Shrek Academy’s final match against Spirit Hall’s Galaxy Fleet. He planned to use the battle to learn the fleet’s strength before the Promotion Tournament.

• After recovering, Tang San and the Shrek Team returned to competition and continued their winning streak, while Zhu Zhuqing had already fought through most of the qualifiers.
• Yu Dashi hoped Skywater Academy would weaken the Galaxy Fleet, but Skywater forfeited to the fleet, and Windfire later forfeited against Skywater.
• With one round remaining, the Galaxy Fleet led the standings, followed by Skywater Academy, Divine Wind Blazing Fire Academy, Shrek Academy, and Thunder Academy.
• Yu Dashi suggested forfeiting Shrek Academy’s final match because the Galaxy Fleet’s strength was unknown and Shrek had already secured advancement.
• Tang San argued that Shrek should fight to reveal the Galaxy Fleet’s abilities, and Yu Dashi agreed to let the team compete and promised to handle Spirit Hall.

Tang San persuaded the Shrek Team to fight the Galaxy Fleet in their final preliminary match, and Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun agreed to join the lineup. The Galaxy Fleet prepared to face them at full strength, while Kurumi Tokisaki secretly planned to prevent Shrek from surrendering.

• Ma Hongjun planned to skip the match and visit a brothel, while Dai Mubai wanted to forfeit against the Galaxy Fleet.
• Tang San persuaded Dai Mubai to fight by challenging his courage and desire for revenge against Lü Lingqi.
• Tang San told Ma Hongjun that he would compete as an eighth participant, and Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong agreed to join the match.
• Qian Chongling told the Galaxy Fleet that Shrek intended to field its main members, and Lü Lingqi and the others prepared to fight at full strength.
• Kurumi Tokisaki asked Qian Chongling to stop Shrek from surrendering and promised a secret plan to defeat them.
• Qian Chongling asked the Galaxy Fleet to go easy on Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong, prompting the team to mistake his concern for something personal before he explained they were undercover agents.

Shrek Academy exploited a tournament rule to field eight competitors against the Galaxy Fleet, whose overwhelming martial souls and soul rings stunned the arena. The match began with Shao Siming trapping Shrek inside a dense forest, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Tang San argued that the rules allowed Shrek Academy to field eight people, and the organizers voted to let them compete while warning against further rule exploitation.
• Prince Xue Xing announced the ruling, and the eight Shrek members summoned their martial souls and soul rings.
• The Galaxy Fleet revealed six Soul Kings and one Soul Ancestor with extraordinary martial souls and soul-ring configurations, shocking the spectators and VIPs.
• Tang San, Tang Xuanwei, and Dai Mubai rallied Shrek as the referee started the match and Ning Rongrong buffed several teammates.
• Shao Siming unleashed Green World, growing a forest across the arena that Ma Hongjun's fire could not burn through.
• Shao Siming used Spatial Sealing to close the forest around the arena and trap the teams inside.

Liu Erlong rushed to the sealed arena after hearing Xiao Wu scream, but Qian Chongling severed her arm and warned her not to interfere. Inside, Zhu Zhuqing attacked Shao Siming while Tang Hao realized that Spirit Hall’s powerful geniuses threatened his plans for revenge.

• Liu Erlong heard Xiao Wu scream and attacked the forest sealing the arena with her fire dragon soul skills.
• Qian Chongling blocked Liu Erlong’s attack, severed her arm, and ordered her back to her seat.
• Liu Erlong left to seek treatment while Flender followed, and Tang Hao recognized Qian Chongling as a level 98 Titled Douluo.
• Tang Hao decided that Spirit Hall’s gifted fighters had to be killed to clear the way for “Tang San” to avenge him.
• Inside the arena, Ma Hongjun failed to burn Shao Siming’s forest, and Tang San sent a triple-buffed Zhu Zhuqing to attack her.

The Galaxy Fleet overwhelmed Tang San and the Shrek Team, using Shao Siming’s vines to restrain them while Itachi Uchiha trapped them in Moon Reading and inflicted excruciating pain. Shao Siming healed the team after Itachi’s black flames burned them, leaving Zhu Zhuqing to realize the Galaxy Fleet intended to punish them without letting them die.

• Zhu Zhuqing failed to break Shao Siming’s vine shield, and Shao Siming summoned a wooden dragon that captured her and drained her strength.
• Shao Siming restrained Oscar and Ning Rongrong, while Itachi Uchiha trapped Tang San, Xiao Wu, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Tang Xuanwei in his genjutsu and Moon Reading.
• Itachi tortured Tang San in the Moon Reading world, where he controlled time and sensation, then the five victims collapsed when the illusion ended.
• Itachi used Amaterasu to burn Tang San and the others until they were near death, alarming Oscar and Ning Rongrong.
• Shao Siming used Creation and Regeneration to restore the five victims, and they regained consciousness shortly afterward.

Tang San and the Shrek team realized their shared nightmare had been manipulated by the Galaxy Fleet, but Dai Mubai attacked anyway. Lü Lingqi unleashed her full power, crippled Dai Mubai, and dealt Ma Hongjun a nearly fatal wound, leaving the match in chaos.

• Tang San checked Xiao Wu after they and the others awoke from the same nightmare of being stabbed by Itachi Uchihas.
• Tang San recognized Itachi Uchiha as the likely cause of their shared dream, while Dai Mubai spotted Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Oscar bound by the Galaxy Fleet.
• Dai Mubai attacked Lü Lingqi with White Tiger Meteor Shower, but her Ghost God Descends apparition shattered the golden projectiles.
• Lü Lingqi combined five soul skills into her Fang Tian Hua Ji and severed Dai Mubai's limbs and manhood in one strike.
• Lü Lingqi struck Ma Hongjun across the chest, leaving him gravely wounded as he crashed to the ground.

Lü Lingqi and Xue Junlin repeatedly brought the Shrek Five Thieves to the brink of death, while Shao Siming healed them after each assault. Kurumi Tokisaki began the final game by shooting herself with her First Bullet, leaving the Shrek Five Thieves and Xiao Wu stunned.

• Lü Lingqi struck Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Tang Xuanwei with Ghost God Annihilation Halberd, leaving them gravely wounded, and Shao Siming healed the Shrek Five Thieves.
• Tang San accused Lü Lingqi of humiliating them, and she replied that they had treated the Heaven Dou Second Team the same way before returning to the Galaxy Fleet.
• Xue Junlin attacked the Shrek Five Thieves with Emperor Sword: Ice Extreme Peerless, cutting through Tang San's Blue Silver Prison and Spider Web Restraint, and Shao Siming healed them again.
• Tang San cursed the Galaxy Fleet and demanded they kill him, but Kurumi Tokisaki said they would let the Shrek Five Thieves win the match.
• Tang Xuanwei warned Tang San that Kurumi Tokisaki had killed at least thirty thousand people, and Kurumi began the final game by firing her First Bullet into her own forehead.
• Xiao Wu wondered aloud whether Kurumi Tokisaki was killing herself.

Kurumi Tokisaki and the Galaxy Fleet used time-manipulating soul skills and Moon Reading to make Tang San believe that the Shrek Team had defeated them, while the rest of the world would remember a different battle. They left Tang San alone with the true memory of his defeat as the Shrek Team was declared victorious.

• Kurumi Tokisaki slowed Xiao Wu, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Tang Xuanwei to one-fifth speed, then attacked the Shrek Team alongside the Galaxy Fleet.
• The Galaxy Fleet overwhelmed the Shrek members, while Kurumi Tokisaki shot the undercover trio and Itachi Uchiha trapped the team in Moon Reading, leaving Tang San outside the illusion.
• Inside Moon Reading, Tang Xuanwei and Tang San defeated Lü Lingqi and Itachi Uchiha, while the other Shrek members won their fights against the remaining Galaxy Fleet members before Tang San finished the exhausted survivors.
• In the real world, the Galaxy Fleet knocked out the other seven Shrek members with reduced-power attacks that spared Tang San, then revealed that they had staged his apparent victory.
• Kurumi Tokisaki explained that she had reversed the others' time and restored their injuries, while Itachi Uchiha gave them false memories of defeating the Galaxy Fleet that would last a year.
• The Galaxy Fleet declared that everyone would believe the Shrek Team had won, leaving Tang San alone with the true memory of defeat.

The Galaxy Fleet staged the match to make it look as though the Shrek Team had won, leaving Tang San as the only one who knew the truth. Qian Chongling pressured Tang San into fainting, and the referee officially declared Shrek Team the winner.

• Lü Lingqi and the Galaxy Fleet smeared blood on themselves, then lay down after Shao Siming dispelled Green World.
• Spectators saw Tang San standing amid the apparently defeated teams, while Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin said they could not see what had happened during the match.
• Tang San told the referee that Shrek Academy Team had lost, but Qian Chongling confronted him with overwhelming pressure.
• Tang San fainted, and the referee announced that Shrek Academy Team had won the match.

Tang San realized that Spirit Hall had manipulated the Shrek Team into believing they had defeated the Galaxy Fleet, while his teammates dismissed his warnings as fatigue and false memories. As the team prepared for the awards ceremony, Tang San feared their inflated confidence would collapse when the deception was exposed.

• Qian Chongling ordered Huyan Zhen and Salas to get the teams treated, and Tang San recognized that Spirit Hall had arranged the Galaxy Fleet match to create a false victory.
• Ning Fengzhi and the healing soul masters revived both teams, while Yu Dashi praised Shrek for defeating the Galaxy Fleet despite having missed the battle.
• Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, and the others insisted they had won, rejecting Tang San's claim that their memories were illusions implanted by Itachi Uchiha.
• Tang Xuanwei asked her system about the conflicting memories and learned that someone had been deceived, then decided to leave something for Tang San.
• Yu Dashi and the others urged Tang San to rest and head to the awards ceremony, while Dai Mubai vowed to make the Windfire Team pay at the Promotion Tournament.

The Heaven Dou City Preliminary Tournament ended with the Galaxy Fleet, Skywater Academy, Windfire Academy, Shrek Academy, and Thunder Academy qualifying for the Promotion Tournament. Tang San brooded over Xiao Wu’s suffering and decided he needed to equip his Clear Sky Hammer with Soul Rings to defeat the Galaxy Fleet.

• The tournament organizers announced the five advancing teams and their rankings, with the Galaxy Fleet in first place and Shrek Academy in fourth.
• Tang San recalled the times Xiao Wu had been badly hurt by Qian Guangyue and Chen Shuang, Skywater Academy, and the Galaxy Fleet, blaming himself for failing to protect her.
• Tang San considered the Galaxy Fleet’s overwhelming strength and concluded that the Seven-in-One Fusion Skill and an unringed Clear Sky Hammer might not be enough to defeat them.
• Tang San decided to seek a full complement of Soul Rings for his Clear Sky Hammer so he could defeat the Galaxy Fleet and protect Xiao Wu and his companions.
• The awards ceremony ended, and Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun collected Shrek Academy’s awards because Tang San was in poor condition.

Qian Chongling mocked Xue Ye’s meager tournament rewards and watched the academy teams reject the titles he offered. Xue Ye announced the Promotion Tournament’s new venue and Soul Beast prizes, and Qian Chongling ended by predicting that Galaxy Fleet would take the top three places.

• Xue Ye offered qualifying teams prize money and noble titles in exchange for serving the Heaven Dou Empire after graduation, but Qian Chongling called the offer stingy.
• Qian Chongling challenged Xue Ye to consider whether the teams wanted the titles, and Xue Ye backed down before Black Feather Douluo.
• Shui Bing'er, Xue Wu, Huo Wushuang, Huo Wu, Feng Xiaotian, and Yu Tianxin rejected the titles, as did Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Dai Mu Bai, Tang San, and Tang Xuan Wei; Ma Hongjun seemed tempted.
• Xue Ye announced that the Promotion Tournament would move to the Imperial Hunting Grounds and that its three most successful students could choose a Soul Beast under thirty thousand years for their next advancement.
• Qian Chongling told Xue Ye to prepare rewards in advance because Galaxy Fleet would sweep the Promotion Tournament’s top three places.