Chapter Summaries

Tang San and Xiao Wu found an unusual golden crystal in a Soul Tool shop, where Flender gave it to Tang San after recognizing his belt. They then arrived at the Rose Hotel, where Xiao Wu pulled Tang San inside.

• Xiao Wu dragged Tang San into a shop selling old objects that Tang San identified as Soul Tools.
• Tang San found a glowing golden crystal and tried to buy it, but the shopkeeper repeatedly raised the price.
• Flender recognized Tang San's Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges belt and gave him the crystal; Tang San left a pouch of Gold Soul Coins in return.
• Tang San told Xiao Wu he had paid for the crystal, though he did not explain its value.
• Xiao Wu brought Tang San to the Rose Hotel, where a receptionist welcomed them.

Tang San and Xiao Wu clashed with Dai Mubai over the inn’s last room, and Tang San fought him after Xiao Wu refused to give it up. Tang San trapped Dai Mubai in a Blue Silver Cage, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Tang San and Xiao Wu checked into the inn’s last room, but Dai Mubai arrived and demanded it for himself.
• Xiao Wu refused to surrender the room, and Tang San stepped in to fight Dai Mubai.
• Tang San and Dai Mubai revealed their Soul Rings and Martial Souls, and Dai Mubai learned Tang San was a level forty-two Soul Ancestor.
• Dai Mubai attacked with his White Tiger skills, but Tang San dodged and bound him with Blue Silver Grass.
• Dai Mubai broke the first bindings with White Tiger Vajra Transformation, so Tang San trapped him in a cage of continuously growing Blue Silver Grass.

Tang San defeated Dai Mubai, discovered valuable crystal hair and kept it for making hidden weapons, while Xiao Wu persuaded him to share the room's bed. In Spirit City, Bibi Dong read Yu Xiaogang's letter saying he would visit her, and she wept, believing she no longer deserved to stand beside him.

• Tang San trapped Dai Mubai with his Blue Silver Grass, and Dai Mubai accepted defeat and offered to help him at Shrek Academy.
• Tang San recognized the golden crystal as exceptionally valuable and broke it open to retrieve crystal hair for hidden weapons.
• Xiao Wu helped Tang San collect the crystal fragments and persuaded him to sleep beside her in the large bed.
• Bibi Dong opened a letter from Yu Xiaogang, who apologized for leaving her and said he would come to Spirit City to speak with her.
• Bibi Dong cried over Yu Xiaogang's letter and told herself that she had wronged him and did not deserve to stand beside him.

Bibi Dong read Yu Xiaogang’s letter and learned how he had grown stronger, while Yu Xiaogang refined the Nine Dragons Thunder Astral Flame and reached rank fifty-six. He and Liu Erlong set out for Suotuo City to reunite with Flender, with Yu Xiaogang expecting Bibi Dong to receive his letter soon.

• Bibi Dong read Yu Xiaogang’s letter and reflected on his past, her daughter Qian Renxue, and her continued feelings for him.
• Bibi Dong reviewed reports of Yu Xiaogang’s progress, including his Martial Soul Evolution and his friendship with Dugu Bo, and decided to wait for him at Spirit Hall.
• Yu Xiaogang emerged from a sea of silvery-white flames after refining the Nine Dragons Thunder Astral Flame, revealing that he had become a rank fifty-six Soul King.
• Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong discussed their strength and plans to settle matters with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan before traveling together to Suotuo City.
• Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong spoke about Bibi Dong receiving his letter and headed out to reunite with Flender.

Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong left Dugu Yan at the academy before traveling, while Tang San and Xiao Wu found Shrek Academy and impressed its examiners with their extraordinary abilities. As they entered the academy, a pink-haired girl also qualified, leaving the old examiner surprised by the number of unusual recruits.

• Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong told Dugu Yan they were leaving on a long trip and instructed her to keep cultivating at the academy.
• Tang San carried Xiao Wu from Suotuo City to the village where they found Shrek Academy and its strict entrance rules.
• Dai Mubai forced a disgruntled applicant to leave without a refund, and the old examiner explained that Shrek accepted only monsters.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu registered, revealed they were twelve-year-old Soul Ancestors with matching rare Soul Ring Configurations, and earned permission to skip to the fourth round.
• Dai Mubai led Tang San and Xiao Wu into the academy, while the old examiner admitted the pink-haired girl after she displayed two yellow Soul Rings.

Tang San and the others continued Shrek Academy’s entrance tests, where they met Oscar and learned that the fourth test would pit them against the vice dean, Zhao Wuji. The chapter ended as Dai Mubai revealed Zhao Wuji’s formidable reputation as the Immovable Wisdom King.

• Tang San and the others found Oscar selling foul-smelling stinky tofu, and Oscar demonstrated how his food-type Martial Soul worked.
• Tang San and the others encountered a black-clad beauty who dodged the flying tofu, catching Dai Mubai’s attention and making Xiao Wu jealous.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing tested at ranks twenty-six and twenty-seven, while Tang San and Xiao Wu revealed they were rank forty-two and rank forty-one Soul Ancestors.
• Dai Mubai explained that the fourth test involved fighting him, but Zhao Wuji arrived and offered to test all four students himself for one hourglass.
• Dai Mubai identified Zhao Wuji as a rank seventy-six Soul Saint with a Great Strength Vajra Bear Martial Soul and recounted his battle against sixteen Soul Emperors.

Tang San and the others began their assessment against Zhao Wuji, using teamwork, Ning Rongrong’s boosts, and Tang San’s draining and restorative abilities to challenge the Soul Saint. Zhao Wuji unleashed his True Body Armor and Gravity Enhancement, slowing Tang San and Xiao Wu as the fight continued.

• Tang San, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong introduced themselves and agreed on a plan for the assessment.
• Zhao Wuji charged Ning Rongrong, but Tang San pulled her clear while Ning Rongrong boosted Xiao Wu’s strength and Xiao Wu attacked with Storm Leg.
• Tang San bound Zhao Wuji with Blue Silver Grass, while Ning Rongrong boosted Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhuqing’s claws failed to penetrate Zhao Wuji’s skin.
• Tang San used Essence Plunder to drain Zhao Wuji’s Soul Power and Breath of Life to support his teammates, prompting Zhao Wuji to reveal his True Body Armor and strike at Xiao Wu.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu combined their attacks with Six King Gun and pressed Zhao Wuji with rapid movement and Blue Silver Grass, but Zhao Wuji activated Gravity Enhancement and slowed them.

Xiao Wu and Tang San endured Zhao Wuji’s attacks until the hourglass ran out, earning the students’ admission to Shrek Academy. The next day, the new students met Ma Hongjun, and their first class was preceded by a chaotic breakfast dispute in the dining hall.

• Xiao Wu protected Tang San with her Invincible Golden Body, and Tang San used Dragon Whisker Needles to pierce Zhao Wuji’s defenses.
• Tang San escaped Zhao Wuji’s Gravity Squeeze with Xiao Wu’s help and used Paper Arts to evade its pressure until time ran out.
• Zhao Wuji declared that Tang San and the others had passed, and Tang San removed the Dragon Whisker Needles from him.
• The next day, Dai Mubai introduced the students to Ma Hongjun before their first official class.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun argued after Ma Hongjun ate all the breakfast, while Oscar offered his pungent tofu and was beaten by Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun.

At Shrek Academy, Flender welcomed the new students, assigned Oscar and Ning Rongrong a running exercise, and spoke warmly with Tang San and Xiao Wu about their teacher. When Tang San revealed that their teacher was Yu Xiaogang, the other students recognized his reputation and were amazed that he had taught them powerful self-created soul skills.

• Flender rang the assembly bell, welcomed the students, and told them to pay their tuition before dismissing them until the evening lesson.
• Flender ordered Oscar and Ning Rongrong to run twenty fast laps as training in how support-type soul masters could survive danger.
• Flender asked Tang San and Xiao Wu about Yu Xiaogang, praised his disciples, and told them to seek help from Dai Mubai or him at the academy.
• Xiao Wu and Tang San joked about whether Flender or Yu Xiaogang had been fleeced during their travels, and Dai Mubai learned that the two teachers were close friends.
• Tang San told Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun that his teacher was Yu Xiaogang, and the students recognized the Grandmaster's reputation.
• Xiao Wu said Yu Xiaogang had taught them their self-created soul skills, leaving Dai Mubai astonished and asking whether Yu Xiaogang was still accepting disciples.

Flender disciplined Oscar and Ning Rongrong for lying about their assignment, then took the Shrek students to the Great Soul Arena in Suotuo City. Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong arrived at the academy and found Ning Rongrong crying beneath a tree.

• Flender discovered Oscar had lied about Ning Rongrong finishing her run, sealed Oscar's soul power, and ordered him to run twenty more laps.
• Flender confronted Ning Rongrong for leaving the academy and lying, then compared her shortcomings with the other students' abilities; she ran off crying.
• Flender dismissed Dai Mubai's concerns about offending the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and led the students to the Great Soul Arena in Suotuo City.
• Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong arrived at Shrek Academy and commented on its shabby grounds and facilities.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized Ning Rongrong crying beneath a locust tree, and Liu Erlong introduced herself and Yu Xiaogang to her.

Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong comforted Ning Rongrong after Flender punished her, helping her understand that her attitude—not her talent or family—was the problem. Ning Rongrong asked to become Yu Xiaogang’s apprentice, and he accepted her as his fourth disciple before she began showing him and Liu Erlong around Shrek Academy.

• Ning Rongrong told Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong why she had skipped class, and Yu Xiaogang explained that Flender had scolded her for failing her task and getting Oscar to lie.
• Liu Erlong encouraged Ning Rongrong to learn from her mistakes, and Yu Xiaogang urged her to prove herself through her actions rather than her family background.
• Ning Rongrong asked Yu Xiaogang to take her as an apprentice, and he agreed after explaining his rules for disciples.
• Ning Rongrong formally became Yu Xiaogang’s fourth disciple, triggering a system reward that included Martial Soul Bloodline Evolution Liquid, Aromatic Silk Beauty, an adaptive evolvable Soul Ring, and a Grand Void Ancient Dragon beast pet.
• Yu Xiaogang named Tang San and Xiao Wu as Ning Rongrong’s senior disciples, while Liu Erlong invited her to call her Mistress.
• Ning Rongrong led Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong toward Shrek Academy’s field and dining hall.

Yu Xiaogang inspected his new rewards while he and Liu Erlong visited Shrek Academy, where Ning Rongrong and Oscar welcomed them. Flender reunited with his old friends, introduced them to the students and teachers, and led everyone to a tavern for a celebration.

• Yu Xiaogang considered his rewards, including the Aromatic Silk Beauty and a Grand Void Ancient Dragon, while reflecting on the strength of the Douluo world.
• Ning Rongrong introduced Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong to Oscar, who admired Yu Xiaogang and wondered if he could ask him for guidance.
• Flender returned to the academy with the students, joyfully embraced Yu Xiaogang, and greeted Liu Erlong.
• Xiao Wu hugged her godmother Liu Erlong, while Tang San and the other students greeted Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong.
• Ning Rongrong recognized Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flender as the Golden Iron Triangle, and Liu Erlong joked that they would be stronger together now.
• Flender took the group to a tavern, introduced Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong to Zhao Wuji, Li Yusong, Lu Qibin, and Shao Xin, and Yu Xiaogang praised their strength.

Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong joined the Shrek Academy staff for a reunion, and Zhu Zhuqing decided to ask Yu Xiaogang to take her as a disciple. As Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong discussed Oscar’s potential, a mysterious voice called for them to come out and meet someone.

• Yu Xiaogang introduced himself and his Golden Sacred Dragon Martial Soul, while Liu Erlong revealed that she was a level eighty-six Soul Douluo, astonishing Zhao Wuji.
• After the reunion meal, Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong settled into academy lodgings, and Tang San learned that Ning Rongrong had become Yu Xiaogang’s disciple.
• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong encouraged Zhu Zhuqing to ask Yu Xiaogang to take her as a disciple, and Zhu Zhuqing resolved to meet him the next day.
• Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong discussed Ning Rongrong and Oscar as potential disciples, then heard a mysterious voice tell them to come out and meet someone.

Tang Hao visited Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flender to thank them for looking after Tang San, then discussed his hatred of Spirit Hall and Tang San’s future. He left after Yu Xiaogang urged him not to let revenge harm the innocent, while Yu Xiaogang remained resolved to keep Tang San from destroying Spirit Hall.

• Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang followed a mysterious voice into a grove, where Tang Hao revealed himself as the Clear Sky Douluo.
• Tang Hao thanked Yu Xiaogang for caring for Tang San and called Flender out of hiding.
• Yu Xiaogang criticized Tang Hao for being an absent father and warned him not to drag Tang San into hatred or target innocent members of Spirit Hall.
• Tang Hao accepted Yu Xiaogang’s words, bowed to him in thanks, and left without visiting Tang San.
• On the way back, Yu Xiaogang considered Spirit Hall’s role in suppressing Evil Soul Masters and resolved not to let Tang San take revenge to the point of destroying it.

Flender agreed to move Shrek Academy to Heaven Dou City and join Liu Erlong’s Blue Tyrant Academy, where the Shrek teachers and students settled into their new roles and dormitories. Yu Xiaogang introduced Ning Rongrong to Dugu Yan, while Liu Erlong noticed a woman in black watching them from the roadside.

• Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flender agreed that Flender would become Blue Tyrant Academy’s vice dean and bring Shrek Academy there.
• Flender led Shrek’s teachers and students from their village to Heaven Dou City after they packed their belongings.
• Liu Erlong assigned the Shrek teachers their positions, and the students moved into Blue Tyrant Academy’s dormitories.
• Yu Xiaogang introduced Ning Rongrong to Dugu Yan, who welcomed her as a new junior sister.
• Yu Xiaogang signaled Liu Erlong toward a woman in black watching the group, then walked over to her.

Yu Xiaogang accepted Zhu Zhuqing as his fifth disciple and gave her and Ning Rongrong immortal herbs to absorb. Afterward, both girls reached level thirty, and Yu Xiaogang asked them to summon their martial souls to see the herbs’ other effects.

• Zhu Zhuqing asked Yu Xiaogang to accept her as a disciple so she could become stronger and control her own destiny, and he agreed to take her as his fifth disciple.
• Yu Xiaogang gave Zhu Zhuqing his rules for disciples and brought her to meet Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Dugu Yan.
• Yu Xiaogang gave Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing immortal herbs and asked Tang San to teach them how to absorb them.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing absorbed their herbs and each reached level thirty, with Tang San saying they had more stored soul power that would emerge after they obtained soul rings.
• Yu Xiaogang told Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing that the herbs had other effects and asked them to summon their martial souls.

Ning Rongrong’s Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda evolved into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and she left to return to her sect with the news. Yu Xiaogang took on more of the Shrek students as disciples and set them challenging training tasks, while Flender heard his reasons for teaching them to guide themselves.

• Ning Rongrong discovered that the Aromatic Silk Beauty had transformed her martial soul into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Yu Xiaogang confirmed he had expected the herb to cause the evolution.
• Ning Rongrong asked for a few days off to return to her sect, bowed to Yu Xiaogang in thanks, and left the academy.
• Yu Xiaogang taught Zhu Zhuqing five of the Six Styles and accepted Dai Mubai and Oscar as disciples after they asked to study under him.
• Yu Xiaogang assigned Zhu Zhuqing, Dai Mubai, and Oscar specialized training, gave Ma Hongjun the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, and taught him the Six Styles at Flender’s request.
• Flender teased Yu Xiaogang about his demanding teaching methods, and Yu Xiaogang explained that he wanted the students to learn how to go farther and do better on their own.

Yu Xiaogang prepared the students for their soul ring hunt and sent them off with Dugu Bo, Flender, and Zhao Wuji. Afterward, he told Liu Erlong he was going to Spirit City and would return with her to the sect.

• Yu Xiaogang recalled the evolvable soul bones and immortal herbs he had received, then used two Soul Ring Age Enhancement Cards to turn his first two soul rings black.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Dugu Yan gathered at Blue Tyrant Academy to set out for soul rings.
• Dugu Bo arrived to lead the hunt, and the students learned he was a close friend of Yu Xiaogang and an honorary elder of the academy.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that two immortal herbs were waiting for him at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then sent the group off with Dugu Bo, Flender, and Zhao Wuji.
• Yu Xiaogang told Liu Erlong he was going to Spirit City and would return to travel with her to the sect.

Yu Xiaogang entered Spirit City and reunited with Bibi Dong in the Pope's Palace, where he embraced her and asked to be together again. Bibi Dong broke down in tears as he invoked the promise attached to her Pope Token, leaving their reunion unresolved.

• Yu Xiaogang arrived in Spirit City and entered the Pope's Palace using the Pope Token.
• Bibi Dong greeted Yu Xiaogang with feigned formality, but softened when he called her Dong'er.
• Yu Xiaogang ignored Bibi Dong's command to stop and embraced her, telling her he had returned.
• Bibi Dong wept and said she was no longer worthy of him, while Yu Xiaogang comforted her and asked them to begin again.
• Yu Xiaogang showed Bibi Dong the Pope Token and reminded her of the promise she had made when they were young.

Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong reconciled and promised to remain together, while Yu Xiaogang explained that he needed to return to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to prove himself and honor his father. Bibi Dong agreed not to go with him, and they settled into sharing a meal in the Pope's Palace.

• Yu Xiaogang used the Pope Token to ask Bibi Dong to stay with him forever, and she accepted after he assured her that he did not care about her past.
• Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong spent four hours talking about their years apart, and Bibi Dong resolved to become a god so they could be together in the Divine Realm.
• Bibi Dong teased Yu Xiaogang about Liu Erlong, and he said that he loved them both.
• Yu Xiaogang told Bibi Dong he had to return to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to prove he was no longer useless and to acknowledge his father.
• Bibi Dong offered to accompany him, but Yu Xiaogang persuaded her to remain as pope and trust him to handle the clan.
• Yu Xiaogang changed the subject to food, and Bibi Dong offered to have a maid bring pastries from the palace kitchen.