Chapter Summaries

Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang used the Pope Token to stop the Nuoding City Guard from arresting him and his disciples. After Spirit Hall officials and the guard commander recognized his authority, Yu Xiaogang challenged the commander over the attack on his disciples.

• A City Guard force surrounded Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu, and its young leader ordered the soldiers to seize them.
• Yu Xiaogang displayed the Pope Token, prompting the soldiers to halt and withdraw.
• Ma Xiunuo, Su Yuntao, and Xiao Wufeng arrived and bowed to Yu Xiaogang after Ma Xiunuo confirmed the token was genuine.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu laughed at Su Yuntao’s pink hair clip, while Ma Xiunuo warned him to behave.
• Yu Xiaogang pointed to the bound people outside the Real Estate Exchange and accused Xiao Wufeng’s guards of attacking his disciples and preparing false charges.

After the city guard confronted the group, Yu Xiaogang exposed Xiao Chenyu as the one behind the assault and forced him to grant them a discount at the Real Estate Exchange. Zhu Zhuqing chose two neighboring homes and proposed buying both, leaving Tang San, Xiao Wu, Yu Xiaogang, and Xiao Chenyu stunned.

• Xiao Wufeng apologized to Yu Xiaogang, who accused the city guard of serving Xiao Chenyu and called the boy out of hiding.
• Xiao Chenyu approached the group, and Xiao Wu demanded compensation and a discount for the harm his men had caused.
• Yu Xiaogang cited Heaven Dou law to threaten Xiao Chenyu, who agreed to the group's demands; the city guard took away the attackers, and Spirit Hall's deacons arrested Yang Aotian.
• Xiao Chenyu brought Zhu Zhuqing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Yu Xiaogang inside to view houses in the commercial district.
• Zhu Zhuqing admired two neighboring homes and suggested buying both, shocking everyone present.

Zhu Zhuqing and her companions bought two houses, with Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang and Tang San accepting one while Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhulin took the other. After checking her Destiny System panel that night, Zhu Zhuqing headed to school with Xiao Wu the next morning.

• Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, Tang San, and Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang pressured Xiao Chenyu into selling them two houses for 9,256 gold soul coins.
• Zhu Zhuqing gave Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang the smaller house, and she, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhulin planned to live in the larger one.
• Tang San told Wang Sheng that he and his teacher would move off campus, disappointing the Dorm Seven boys.
• Zhu Zhuqing inspected her attribute panel and learned that her storage warehouse could not hold living things.
• Tang San brought breakfast for Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Zhu Zhulin, then walked with Zhuqing and Xiao Wu toward the academy.

Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhulin furnished their new home while Tang San reinforced its security. Zhu Zhulin worried they had relied too much on Granny Ruth, but Zhu Zhuqing reassured her that Zhu Zhuyun's stored money had paid for the house and gave her the Property Deed.

• Yu Xiaogang took Tang San to the new house, where Tang San supervised workers installing a heavy Black Iron front door.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhulin shopped for household necessities, then discovered Tang San had reinforced the main house with security bars, a sealed back door, and an unusually sturdy lock.
• The three girls received keys and furnished their bedrooms, with Xiao Wu decorating hers in pink and Zhu Zhuqing claiming the largest room.
• Xiao Wu went to find Tang San to show him the finished house.
• Zhu Zhulin asked whether Granny Ruth had paid for the house, and Zhu Zhuqing told her the money came from Zhu Zhuyun's storage bracelet.
• Zhu Zhuqing gave Zhu Zhulin the Property Deed, which listed both sisters' names and brought Zhu Zhulin to tears of happiness.

Zhu Zhuqing prepared to travel to the Soul Hunting Forest to obtain her third Soul Ring, while her teasing of Tang San and Xiao Wu stirred unexpected feelings between them. The chapter ended with Zhu Zhulin questioning whether the sisters could safely complete the journey alone.

• Zhu Zhuqing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu left the academy together, and Tang San chased off men who had insulted Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu asked Zhu Zhuqing whether she had chosen a boyfriend, and Zhu Zhuqing replied that she would choose herself.
• Zhu Zhuqing teased Xiao Wu by asking whether she liked Tang San, leaving both of them stunned before the girls ran ahead.
• Zhu Zhuqing showed Zhu Zhulin her route to the Soul Hunting Forest and said she planned to leave the next day.
• Zhu Zhulin worried that the sisters might need teachers to help protect Zhu Zhuqing while she sought her third Soul Ring.

Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhulin used a Spirit Hall token to leave Nuoding City and search for soul rings. Tang San and Xiao Wu discovered Zhu Zhuqing’s departure, while the City Lord learned where the sisters were headed and planned to kill them.

• Zhu Zhuqing showed Zhu Zhulin a Spirit Hall Branch token she had gotten from Sisi and explained that it would let them enter the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhulin left Nuoding City early the next morning, disguised in black outfits and masks.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu found Zhu Zhuqing’s bedroom empty and read her teasing farewell letter.
• A shadow took the breakfast from the table and slipped out of the house after Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• Soldiers reported to the City Lord that Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhulin had left the city heading northeast, and he vowed to kill them.

Masked assassins began hunting Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhulin, unaware to the sisters as they entered the Soul Hunting Forest to seek a soul beast. The chapter left Zhu Zhuqing facing a thousand-year Blue-Eyed Cang Python that did not match the tiger-type beast she wanted.

• Hundreds of masked figures gathered outside Nuoding City and split up to capture or kill Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhulin.
• Zhu Zhuqing showed the soldiers her Spirit Hall permit, and she and Zhu Zhulin entered the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Zhu Zhuqing summoned the Spirit-Summoned Azure Sky Tiger and sent it ahead to find soul beasts while the sisters searched separately.
• The tiger found a giant Blue-Eyed Cang Python, and Zhu Zhuqing identified it as a thousand-year beast but rejected it as a candidate for her soul ring.

Zhu Zhuqing rejected a Thousand-Year Bandit Tiger while searching for a soul ring, then encountered an Abyssal Scarlet Flame Tiger. When her Spirit-Summoned Azure Sky Tiger disobeyed her and fought the beast, Zhu Zhuqing intervened and left the Abyssal Scarlet Flame Tiger badly wounded.

• Zhu Zhuqing turned down the Thousand-Year Bandit Tiger because she thought it looked stupid.
• Zhu Zhuqing identified the large tiger below as a Ghost Tiger, but Zhu Zhulin corrected her and recognized it as a thousand-year Abyssal Scarlet Flame Tiger.
• The Abyssal Scarlet Flame Tiger attacked the Spirit-Summoned Azure Sky Tiger after the summoned beast refused to leave.
• Zhu Zhuqing descended with her Chaos White Tiger martial soul and used Thunderlight Wings to strike both tigers.
• The Abyssal Scarlet Flame Tiger lost a foreleg, and Zhu Zhuqing faced it across the crater with daggers in hand.

Zhu Zhuqing battled the wounded Abyssal Scarlet Flame Tiger and persuaded it to sacrifice itself in exchange for the chance to become a divine beast. She absorbed its purple Soul Ring and emerged with three Soul Rings as black-clad figures gathered elsewhere in the Soul Hunting Forest.

• Zhu Zhuqing recalled her badly wounded Spirit-Summoned Azure Sky Tiger and used blue beads and illusions to keep attacking the Abyssal Scarlet Flame Tiger.
• As the Abyssal Scarlet Flame Tiger weakened, Zhu Zhuqing offered it the chance to become a divine beast through a sacrifice, and her Chaos White Tiger bloodline pressure made it submit.
• Zhu Zhulin tried to stop Zhu Zhuqing, then used Phantom Clone to guard her as she approached the Abyssal Scarlet Flame Tiger.
• The Abyssal Scarlet Flame Tiger sacrificed itself, and Zhu Zhuqing absorbed its purple Soul Ring, reaching three Soul Rings.
• More than a hundred black-clad figures gathered on a major thoroughfare in the Soul Hunting Forest before vanishing into the night.

Zhu Zhuqing completed her soul-ring absorption, gained a Left Arm Soul Bone and the Lightning Speed skill, and revealed that she had reached level thirty-four. As she and Zhu Zhulin left the Soul Hunting Forest, Zhu Zhuqing detected more than a hundred armed men waiting in ambush along the road.

• Zhu Zhuqing absorbed the Abyssal Scarlet Flame Tiger’s 1,900-year soul ring without pain and gained the Lightning Speed soul skill from its Left Arm Soul Bone.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Zhu Zhulin she had reached level thirty-four, astonishing her older sister.
• The Zhu sisters left the Soul Hunting Forest and passed the entrance guards, who let them through after checking their tokens.
• More than a hundred of the City Lord’s private guards waited in the rice paddies to capture the two girls, mistaking the approaching Zhu sisters for trained assassins.
• Zhu Zhuqing sensed the hidden men with her spiritual power, warned Zhu Zhulin of the ambush, and charged forward with her daggers drawn.

Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhulin defeated a force of over a hundred black-clad soldiers, then escaped with the Spirit-Summoned Azure Sky Tiger and their loot. Zhu Zhuqing headed toward Douluo Village to visit Grandma Ruth, but nearby villagers recognized the sisters as they arrived.

• The black-clad soldiers charged Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhulin, but fled when Zhu Zhuqing revealed her three Soul Rings; the sisters killed those who resisted.
• The Spirit-Summoned Azure Sky Tiger found a wounded survivor and then brought more than a hundred looted money pouches to the sisters.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhulin divided over two thousand Gold Soul Coins and fed pork trotters to the tiger, whose strength had reached the thousand-year level.
• Zhu Zhuqing said she believed she could defeat Dai Mubai and end their engagement, then rode with Zhu Zhulin toward Douluo Village to visit Grandma Ruth.
• A villager recognized Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhulin as Grandma Ruth’s granddaughters and warned the others that Zhu Zhuqing was a Soul Master.

Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhulin returned to Douluo Village, where they reunited with Village Chief Ruth and the villagers. After Old Jack tried to promote Tang San as a match for Zhu Zhuqing, she privately revealed that she was already a three-ring Soul Elder, and she left the chapter warmly welcomed home.

• Old Jack argued with Village Chief Ruth over Tang San marrying Zhu Zhuqing, and Ruth chased him away with a bamboo pole.
• Old Jack asked Zhu Zhuqing whether Tang San was handsome, and she laughed that he was only eleven and they would have to wait until he was eighteen to know.
• Ruth caught up with Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhulin, warned Zhu Zhuqing never to marry Tang San, and learned that Old Jack had been boasting about Tang San's strength and proposing that he marry both sisters.
• Zhu Zhuqing secretly told Ruth that she was already a three-ring Soul Elder and asked her to keep it quiet until she became a Titled Douluo.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhulin entered Douluo Village with Ruth, where children and villagers excitedly welcomed them home.

Zhu Zhuqing revealed her soul-beast crop plans to Douluo Village and began a trial planting to improve the villagers’ prospects. The next morning, she and Zhu Zhulin arrived in Nuoding City with their belongings, and Tang San hurried to help while Xiao Wu followed.

• Zhu Zhuqing proved to Grandma Ruth that she was a three-ring Soul Elder, and Douluo Village celebrated with a banquet featuring fragrant piglet meat.
• Zhu Zhuqing showed the villagers seeds for tender bamboo shoots and dragon fruit, along with Chinese yam roots, and described their uses and value.
• The next morning, Zhu Zhuqing led women from Douluo Village in planting the three crops in a cleared plot behind the village.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhulin returned to Nuoding City carrying bags, prompting a soldier to report their arrival to the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Tang San left breakfast for Xiao Wu and rushed to help the sisters when Zhu Zhuqing called to him; Xiao Wu soon ran after them.

Zhu Zhuqing received a Destiny System mission to follow Tang San to Shrek Academy and publicly break off her engagement to Dai Mubai. After choosing that path, she unlocked shared soul rings for her Sun-Shooting Bow and revealed her three soul rings to Tang San and Xiao Wu.

• Zhu Zhuqing shared the gifts from the villages with Tang San and Xiao Wu, and Tang San was moved by Grandpa Jack's handmade shoes.
• Tang San told Zhu Zhuqing that he and Xiao Wu planned to apply for graduation and attend Shrek Academy, whose admission requirements were extremely high.
• Zhu Zhuqing chose the mission to follow Tang San to Shrek, defeat Dai Mubai publicly, and announce the end of their engagement, unlocking shared soul rings and archer skills for her Sun-Shooting Bow.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Tang San and Xiao Wu that she would attend Shrek, then revealed three soul rings, leaving them stunned.

Zhu Zhuqing revealed that she and her older sister, Zhu Zhulin, were both Three-Ring Soul Elders, surprising Tang San and Xiao Wu. Three months later, Yu Xiaogang brought Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing to graduate from Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, where the director questioned Zhu Zhuqing’s progress.

• Tang San learned that Zhu Zhuqing had obtained her third soul ring with help from her older sister, Zhu Zhulin, who revealed that she was also a Three-Ring Soul Elder.
• Tang San promised Xiao Wu that they would go to Shrek together and resolved to reach rank thirty.
• Yu Xiaogang urged Tang San to build a close connection with Zhu Zhuqing, believing she could become a Titled Douluo.
• Tang San secretly watched Zhu Zhuqing in class, and she caught his gaze and warned herself not to let him hurt Xiao Wu.
• Three months later, Yu Xiaogang brought Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing to complete their graduation procedures.
• When the Academic Affairs Office Director questioned Zhu Zhuqing’s progress, Yu Xiaogang told her to show her first soul ring.

Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing graduated from Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy and set out for Suotuo City, leaving Zhu Zhulin behind. Meanwhile, the City Lord sent Xiao Chenyu and armed men to target Zhu Zhulin, who returned home unaware of the danger.

• Zhu Zhuqing received her graduation certificate alongside Tang San and Xiao Wu, and the three left Nuoding Academy.
• Zhu Zhulin said goodbye to Zhu Zhuqing, gave her money, and asked her to find a suitable shop in Suotuo City.
• A soldier told the City Lord that the three had left Nuoding City, and the City Lord ordered his men to attack Zhu Zhulin that night.
• Xiao Chenyu led dozens of black-clad men to the Three-Bedroom Apartment, but its refined-iron grilles blocked their entry.
• After waiting in hiding for over an hour, Xiao Chenyu's men saw Zhu Zhulin approach, exhausted from a difficult day at the Fruit Shop.

Zhu Zhulin survived Xiao Chenyu’s ambush with help from Zhu Zhuqing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang, and the attackers were defeated. The Xiao family lost control of Nuoding City, and a new City Lord reduced taxes as Zhu Zhulin worked at a thriving fruit shop.

• Xiao Chenyu led dozens of armed men in an ambush against Zhu Zhulin, who warned them to leave.
• Xiao Chenyu attacked Zhu Zhulin, but she maimed him before Zhu Zhuqing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang arrived and trapped the attackers.
• The next morning, the City Lord and his eldest son were found hanging from Nuoding City’s gate among the dead black-clad men, while Su Yuntao and Ma Xiunuo chose not to intervene.
• A few days later, the commander of the City Guard Army became the new City Lord, lowered taxes, and replaced many old officials with Spirit Hall personnel.
• Zhu Zhulin arranged fruit at the Douluo Village Fruit Shop as the shop workers enjoyed their improved earnings.

Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing arrived in Suotuo City on their way to Shrek Academy, where Zhu Zhuqing's mood shifted as she approached the prospect of seeing Dai Mubai. She noticed a savory sauce pancake stall that brought back childhood memories.

• Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing reached Suotuo City and registered at the gate as Soul Masters heading to Shrek Academy.
• Zhu Zhuqing scared off a young noble who tried to approach her by revealing her three Soul Rings and drawing her daggers.
• Tang San noticed violent spiritual energy surrounding Zhu Zhuqing, while Xiao Wu cheered her up as they walked through the city.
• Zhu Zhuqing spotted a savory sauce pancake stall and asked the seller how much the pancakes cost.

Zhu Zhuqing shared savory sauce pancakes with Tang San and Xiao Wu, and the familiar taste brought back painful memories of her family. The three searched for a hotel, then encountered Dai Mubai as he rushed inside carrying two drugged young women.

• Zhu Zhuqing bought three savory sauce pancakes and shared them with Tang San and Xiao Wu, then cried as the taste reminded her of her past.
• Tang San suggested they stay at the modest A Night's Stay hotel instead of the luxurious Sea and Sky as One.
• Xiao Wu asked for two suites, but the attendant quoted steep prices for sisters' and couples' rooms, so the three started to leave.
• Dai Mubai hurried into the hotel carrying two young women who seemed drugged, and the attendant prepared a sisters' room for him.
• Dai Mubai stopped as he passed Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu.

Zhu Zhuqing confronted Dai Mubai over their childhood engagement and demanded that he sign an agreement dissolving it. Dai Mubai rejected her demand and challenged her decision, leaving their conflict unresolved.

• Zhu Zhuqing attacked Dai Mubai at the hotel, and he defended himself with his White Tiger Martial Soul.
• Tang San restrained Zhu Zhuqing, but she cut through his Blue Silver Grass and revealed that she had a personal grievance with Dai Mubai.
• Zhu Zhuqing showed Dai Mubai their engagement agreement, marked with the words “I am unwilling,” and demanded that he sign it.
• Xiao Wu condemned Dai Mubai for arriving with two women, while Tang San and Xiao Wu stood behind Zhu Zhuqing.
• Dai Mubai knelt and begged Zhu Zhuqing to give him another chance, but she counted down and threw a dagger at him.
• Dai Mubai rose, put on his suit, and demanded to know whether Zhu Zhuqing truly intended to abandon their engagement.