Chapter Summaries

Yang Yunhai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan faced Shrek Team with only three fighters, then stunned the arena by revealing that Yang Yunhai and Zhu Zhuqing had become Soul Ancestors with Ten Thousand Year Fourth Soul Rings. The match began with Tang San directing Shrek’s response, and the battle remained unresolved.

• Yang Yunhai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan entered the arena to face seven members of Shrek Team, drawing cheers and ridicule from the spectators.
• Yang Yunhai and Zhu Zhuqing revealed four Soul Rings each, including black Ten Thousand Year Fourth Soul Rings, shocking Shrek Team and the audience.
• Tang San suspected Dugu Bo had given Yang Yunhai and Zhu Zhuqing Immortal Herbs, while Dugu Bo said he had found Zhu Zhuqing a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone and that both had broken through during the half-month break.
• Meng Shenji told Xue Ye that Yang Yunhai had planned Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s training facilities, equipment, and training program, impressing Ning Fengzhi.
• After the referee started the match, Tang San assigned Shrek Team’s roles and Ning Rongrong began boosting her teammates with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

Yang Yunhai demonstrated his control over Blue Silver Grass by forming Vine Armor, living Vine Snakes, and a spear, then held off the opposing team’s attacks. The battle remained underway as Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing prepared a concealed counterattack.

• Yang Yunhai shaped his Blue Silver Grass into armor, two serrated Vine Snakes, and a spear, astonishing the spectators and making Tang San feel humiliated by the gap in their martial soul comprehension.
• Dai Mubai urged his teammates to charge, while Yang Yunhai used his Third Soul Skill to spray Parasitic Spores at them.
• Dugu Yan petrified Ma Hongjun with her Fourth Soul Skill as he tried to burn away the spores, and Yu Tianheng caught him and retreated.
• Dai Mubai blasted aside the spores with his White Tiger Light Wave, while Tang San sent vines at Yang Yunhai, who blocked the attack and cut through the vines with his spear.
• Dugu Yan sent two venom dragons crawling along the ground under cover of the mist, and Zhu Zhuqing disappeared into it.

Yang Yunhai trapped the Shrek Team with Parasitic Spores and Blue Silver Grass, then overwhelmed their charge with a giant vine dragon. Tang San and the others faced defeat as Yang Yunhai confronted them at the arena’s dead end.

• Yang Yunhai’s vines enclosed the Shrek Team, and Yu Tianheng led Dai Mubai and Tai Long in a charge while Tang San dragged the petrified Ma Hongjun back to Oscar.
• Dugu Yan petrified Tai Long midair, and the vines dragged him into the combined attacks, leaving him badly injured.
• Yang Yunhai drained Tai Long and the attackers’ Soul Power, then formed a towering, barbed Ink-Colored Giant Dragon from his vines.
• Dai Mubai and Yu Tianheng retreated as the vine dragon tossed Tai Long toward Tang San and charged the Shrek formation.
• Tang San restrained the dragon with his soul skills while Yu Tianheng and Dai Mubai counterattacked, but Yang Yunhai’s Vine Snakes absorbed their attacks and his dragon broke free.
• Yang Yunhai leaped down before the trapped Shrek members, pointed his spear at them, and challenged them to come forward.

Yang Yunhai's team disabled Tang San's teammates, and Yang Yunhai let them leave after giving Tang San an antidote for Yu Tianheng and Dai Mubai. Left alone with Yang Yunhai, Tang San abandoned his Blue Silver Grass and revealed a Black Little Hammer.

• Zhu Zhuqing swiftly knocked out Oscar and Ning Rongrong, while Dugu Yan poisoned Yu Tianheng and Dai Mubai.
• Yang Yunhai offered Tang San a chance to surrender, but Tang San refused and asked to let his teammates leave first.
• Yang Yunhai gave Tang San an antidote, and Yu Tianheng and Dai Mubai recovered enough to leave the arena with the others.
• Yang Yunhai dismissed his vines and grass after the other team members had left, leaving him and Tang San to fight one-on-one.
• Tang San retracted his Blue Silver Grass and summoned a Black Little Hammer.

Yang Yunhai overwhelmed Tang San in the tournament match, using his Blue Silver Grass to exploit Tang San’s clumsy Clear Sky Hammer attacks and expose his lack of progress. After sensing Tang San’s Blue Silver Emperor bloodline and draining his Soul Power, Yang Yunhai released him when Qin Ming surrendered, and Heaven Dou Royal Academy won the match.

• Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer, but Yang Yunhai evaded his attack and countered with his spear and Vine Snakes.
• Yang Yunhai repeatedly battered and restrained Tang San, criticizing his Martial Soul comprehension and his teacher’s guidance as the spectators compared the two fighters.
• Yang Yunhai spotted Tang San’s attempt to use poisoned Eight Spider Lances fragments and then sensed the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline in Tang San.
• Yang Yunhai drained Tang San’s Soul Power until Qin Ming called the match, then released Tang San and walked away.
• The referee declared Heaven Dou Royal Academy the winner, and the spectators cheered.

After defeating Tang San, Yang Yunhai left him questioning Yu Xiaogang’s guidance and his own soul-skill choices. At the academy, Ning Fengzhi praised Yang Yunhai and hinted he wished the young man were his son, but Dugu Bo rebuffed him and implied Yang Yunhai was already spoken for.

• Qin Ming carried the injured Tang San from the arena, and Jiang Zhu and Oscar’s sausage helped treat him.
• Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Xiao Wu condemned Yang Yunhai, while Ning Rongrong privately questioned their accusations and Flender said Tang San’s injuries were not serious.
• Tang San reconsidered his Blue Silver Grass skills and Yu Xiaogang’s advice, wondering whether his teacher had failed to guide him properly.
• Ning Fengzhi praised Yang Yunhai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and tried to learn how Yang Yunhai and Zhu Zhuqing had grown so strong.
• Ning Fengzhi remarked that Yang Yunhai would make a wonderful son, but Dugu Bo rebuffed him by suggesting Ning find another child or take Tang San as a son-in-law.

Yang Yunhai absorbed most of Tang San’s Blue Silver Emperor bloodline and considered how to test the Tang Clan techniques he had obtained. Meanwhile, Ning Fengzhi weighed how to pressure Dugu Bo, and Tang San wondered whether he should cultivate his Clear Sky Hammer to catch up with Yang Yunhai.

• Yang Yunhai absorbed the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline he had taken from Tang San, leaving his own Martial Soul closer to fully awakening and likely preventing Tang San from awakening his bloodline.
• Yang Yunhai decided to test the Mysterious Heaven Skill, Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and Mystic Jade Hand before teaching them to Zhu Zhuqing and the others.
• Sword Douluo warned Ning Fengzhi that Dugu Bo would reject his attempt to match Ning Rongrong with Tang San, so the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect considered relying on outside pressure against Yang Yunhai.
• Tang San lamented that he could not reach Soul Ancestor before the competition and considered switching to the Clear Sky Hammer and attaching Spirit Rings to it.

Tang San questioned Yu Xiaogang about why he had been told to cultivate animal Soul Rings, and Yu Xiaogang explained the plan he and Tang Hao had made for Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls. Tang San learned that strengthening his body through the Blue Silver Grass would prepare him to cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer with exceptionally powerful Soul Rings, and he felt guilty for doubting his teacher.

• Tang San went to Yu Xiaogang’s room to ask why he had been instructed to absorb animal Soul Rings.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed that Tang Hao had given him a token and had secretly visited Shrek Academy, where he defeated Zhao Wuji without using his Martial Soul.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang about his mother and why he had been prevented from cultivating the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that Tang San should first raise the Blue Silver Grass to build physical strength, then add high-age Soul Rings to the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang San understood the plan to strengthen his body with animal Soul Rings and felt guilty for having doubted Yu Xiaogang.

After losing to Yang Yunhai, Tang San accepted Yu Xiaogang’s advice to focus on cultivation but grew fixated on Spirit Hall’s soul-bone prizes and considered using the Eight Spider Lances to devour soul beasts. Yang Yunhai revealed that he had deliberately planted the idea to lure Tang San out, hoping to exploit the chance to undermine him.

• Yu Xiaogang reassured Tang San that his Blue Silver Grass had performed well and discussed his plans for cultivating the Clear Sky Hammer while avoiding conflict between his Twin Martial Souls.
• Tang San reunited with Xiao Wu, then stayed at the academy while the rest of the team watched the competition matches.
• Flender told the Shrek group that Spirit Hall had announced three high-grade soul bones as the competition’s championship rewards, and Tang San coveted the Wisdom Skull.
• Tang San suspected Yang Yunhai of cultivating by devouring Soul Power and decided he might try using the Eight Spider Lances to absorb energy from soul beasts during the month-long break.
• Yang Yunhai revealed that he had arranged the soul-bone announcement and deliberately hinted at devouring through Drain to tempt Tang San into leaving the academy, where Yang Yunhai hoped to act against him.

Shrek chose to fight Elephant Armor Academy despite Yu Xiaogang’s warning, and Tang San’s control tactics let his teammates overwhelm the opposing captain. The match ended in surrender, but Hu Yanzhen accused Shrek of premeditated murder and Salas called for their disqualification.

• Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong explained Elephant Armor Academy’s strength and recommended that Shrek forfeit, but Tang San insisted on fighting and outlined his tactics.
• Tang San used Spider Web Restraint, Parasitize, and Entangle to slow and immobilize Elephant Armor Academy’s members while Oscar and Ning Rongrong supported him.
• Dai Mubai, Yu Tianheng, and Ma Hongjun focused their attacks on Hu Yanli’s head, and Tai Long struck him before Tang San bound him with vines.
• The Elephant Armor Academy team leader surrendered to stop Tai Long from continuing his attack on Hu Yanli.
• Hu Yanzhen accused Shrek of premeditated murder, and Salas said the team should be disqualified for injuring an opponent.

Shrek Academy defeated Elephant Armor Academy after Tang San defended their tactics, while Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s three-person team beat Canghui Academy when Zhu Zhuqing swiftly incapacitated all seven opponents. Later, Tang San discovered he could no longer sense a bond with nearby Blue Silver Grass, leaving him frustrated as Yang Yunhai trained with his wife.

• Tang San argued that Shrek Academy had not violated the rules by targeting Hu Yanli’s vulnerable head, and the referee declared Shrek the winner.
• Heaven Dou Royal Academy fielded only Zhu Zhuqing, Osler, and Yu Feng against Canghui Academy’s seven members.
• Yu Feng disrupted Canghui Academy’s formation with his wind skill, and Zhu Zhuqing rapidly slashed the opponents’ necks until their captain surrendered.
• Tang San recognized footwork resembling Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track in Zhu Zhuqing’s movements and wondered how she had learned it.
• Tang San found that he could no longer feel close to the surrounding Blue Silver Grass, and he blamed Heaven for favoring Yang Yunhai.
• Yang Yunhai skipped the matches and practiced Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track with his wife at the hotel.

Heaven Dou Royal Academy and Shrek Academy had their seventh-round matches forfeited, so both teams watched Skywater Academy and Godwind Academy compete. After Dugu Yan mocked Yu Xiaogang and Tang San for demanding that others share their knowledge while keeping their own secrets, Tang San resolved to grow stronger.

• Meng Shenshou told Yang Yunhai that Heaven Dou Royal Academy's opponents had forfeited, and Yang Yunhai led his teammates to watch the morning matches.
• Skywater Academy quickly defeated its distracted opponents, while Godwind Academy overwhelmed its rivals with coordinated aerial attacks.
• Yang Yunhai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan discussed how Heaven Dou Royal Academy could counter Godwind Academy by holding its ground and conserving strength.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang about the different team-building approaches, and Yu Xiaogang explained Spirit Hall's fusion of balanced and extreme strategies.
• Dugu Yan criticized Yu Xiaogang and Tang San for demanding that Spirit Hall share its methods while withholding their own secret techniques and weapon-making knowledge.
• Tang San left to practice his Four Aperture Constant Heart Control, while an elderly man in white from Canghui Academy watched the exchange.

At the Soul Master Competition, Shrek Academy defeated Canghui Academy after Tang San broke through their illusion attack and poisoned their team. Ning Rongrong's frightened reaction prompted Ning Fengzhi to take her home, where he and the elders learned of Dai Mubai's past insults and decided he should die after the competition.

• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo read Ning Rongrong's letter, condemned Tang San and Yu Xiaogang's competitive training theory, and planned to stop buying Hidden Weapons after the competition.
• Yang Yunhai reached level 49, then watched Thunder Academy defeat Oakland Academy before Shrek Academy faced Canghui Academy.
• Canghui Academy used a seven-in-one illusion skill that trapped Shrek Academy in painful visions, but Tang San broke free and wounded all seven opponents with his poisoned Eight Spider Lances.
• Tang San extracted the poison, threatened Canghui Academy until they surrendered, and led Shrek Academy away after the referee declared their victory.
• Ning Fengzhi took the shaken Ning Rongrong home, where she described Dai Mubai's past remarks and her wariness around him and Ma Hongjun.
• Ning Fengzhi stopped Sword Douluo from killing Dai Mubai immediately and decided to let him die after the Soul Master Competition, while Bone Douluo proposed gouging out Ma Hongjun's eyes.

Heaven Dou Royal Academy faced Blazing Academy in the tenth match of the eighth round, where Huo Wu unleashed a devastating fire attack. Yang Yunhai shielded his team with a giant flower that withstood the flames, and Heaven Dou’s counterattack began with Huo Wushuang caught by a Vine Snake.

• Huo Wu challenged Yang Yunhai before the match began, then immediately started charging her fourth soul skill as the battle opened.
• Yang Yunhai led Heaven Dou Royal Academy forward while Huo Yun and Huo Yu attacked from the air, and Shi Mo’s Black Tortoise Formation turned their flames and Yu Feng’s wind into a counterattack.
• Huo Wushuang, Huo Lie, and Huo Wu combined their fire attacks into a massive blast, but Yang Yunhai and the Shi Mo brothers protected their team behind a green barrier and fast-growing vines.
• A huge blue-black flower bud emerged from the blaze and opened, revealing that Yang Yunhai and his teammates were unharmed and that his plant martial soul could withstand the fire.
• Yang Yunhai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Osler charged at Blazing Academy, while Yang Yunhai’s Vine Snake recovered after Huo Lie’s fireballs struck it.
• Huo Wushuang tried to gather power for his fourth soul skill, but Yang Yunhai’s Vine Snake lunged and bit toward him before he could finish.

Yang Yunhai led Heaven Dou Royal Academy to defeat Blazing Academy, revealing that his vines could withstand fire up to a limit. After the match, Huo Wu challenged Feng Xiaotian to beat Yang Yunhai if he wanted to date her, while Tang San and Yang Yunhai each continued training and considering how to improve their abilities.

• Yang Yunhai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Osler overwhelmed Blazing Academy, binding Huo Wu and her teammates until Huo Wu surrendered.
• Yang Yunhai admitted he had deliberately targeted Ma Hongjun in an earlier match and explained that his Martial Soul resisted fire only up to a certain intensity; the referee declared Heaven Dou Royal Academy the winner.
• Huo Wu told Feng Xiaotian she would date him if his team defeated Yang Yunhai, then privately admitted she expected Feng Xiaotian to fail and wanted to discourage his advances.
• Tang San trained Heart Separation Control at Shrek Academy, while Yang Yunhai practiced Mystic Jade Hand and considered extending its effects and combining Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track with Thunder Attribute Soul Power.

Bibi Dong studied a physical training manual linked to Yang Yunhai while questioning why he had kept it secret. In Heaven Dou City, Tang San’s group killed Bu Le and his companions, and Tang San secretly devoured their energy, reaching level 40 and discovering changes in both his Martial Souls.

• Bibi Dong received a report identifying Tang San as Tang Hao’s suspected son and Yu Xiaogang’s disciple, then examined a physical training manual and wondered why Yang Yunhai had not submitted it.
• Flender let Ma Hongjun leave Shrek Academy for a night out, but Bu Le and his companions later ambushed him and left him injured.
• Ma Hongjun told his teammates about the attack, and Tang San led the group to track down Bu Le, Tian Ya, and E Kao.
• Tang San ordered the group to shoot the three men with enhanced Godly Zhuge Crossbows, then secretly stored their bodies and cleaned the scene with the others.
• Tang San used the Eight Spider Lances to devour the corpses, broke through to level 40, and noticed that his Eight Spider Lances and both Martial Souls had changed.
• Tang San dissolved the bodies with poison and decided to conceal his breakthrough and the evolution of his Martial Souls.

Yang Yunhai led Heaven Dou Royal Academy to defeat Godwind Academy with a vine birdcage tactic. After Feng Xiaotian surrendered, Yang Yunhai planned to return that afternoon to watch Shrek Academy face Blazing Academy, knowing Tang San no longer had fire immunity.

• Feng Xiaotian sent Godwind Academy into the air and ordered his teammates to target Ye Lingling while conserving their strength against Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s defenses.
• Yang Yunhai spread tough vines across the arena, then raised them into a birdcage that trapped Godwind Academy inside.
• Yang Yunhai released Parasitic Seeds through the air, binding Godwind Academy’s fighters in vines until Feng Xiaotian surrendered.
• Huo Wu told Feng Xiaotian he could still try to defeat Yang Yunhai at the Advancement Tournament, then explained to Huo Wushuang that she wanted him to stop making excuses about team battles.
• Yang Yunhai led Heaven Dou Royal Academy back to the hotel and planned to return to watch Shrek Academy face Blazing Academy that afternoon.

Shrek Academy faced Blazing Academy in the preliminary competition, but Tang San misjudged Huo Wu’s strengthened Repelling Fire Ring and the team’s tactics collapsed. Huo Wu’s follow-up attacks left Shrek’s members injured, and Blazing Academy won as Yu Xiaogang angrily demanded a complaint.

• Shrek Academy and Blazing Academy entered the arena, and the referee started their match.
• Huo Wu led Blazing Academy’s charge and used her enhanced Repelling Fire Ring to break through Tang San’s vines and push Tai Long’s line back.
• Blazing Academy attacked Shrek Academy from every direction while Huo Wu charged her fourth soul skill, and Tang San tried to protect his teammates and send Xiao Wu away.
• Huo Wu’s Fire Dance Sun Flare blasted the Shrek team, and Yu Xiaogang accused her of charging her skill to murder his students.
• Huo Wu rejected Yu Xiaogang’s accusation, and the referee declared Blazing Academy the winner after Shrek’s members were found injured on the arena.

Ning Fengzhi examined the injured Shrek team and discovered unusual impurities in Tang San’s soul power, along with signs that he had recently advanced to level 40. After hearing about Ma Hongjun’s clash with three Soul Kings, Ning Fengzhi and the elders suspected Tang San had killed them and used his Eight Spider Lances to absorb their energy, and they decided to watch him while seeking new allies.

• Ning Fengzhi used his Sixth Soul Skill to heal the team’s burns, examined the injured students, and found that Tang San and Xiao Wu had different unusual substances in their bodies.
• Ning Fengzhi told Ning Rongrong to keep quiet about Ma Hongjun’s encounter with three Soul Kings and brought her back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after the competition.
• Ning Fengzhi told Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo that Tang San had reached level 40 and that Ma Hongjun’s encounter and the team’s silence seemed suspicious.
• Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo agreed that Tang San may have killed the three Soul Kings and absorbed their energy through his Eight Spider Lances, potentially putting him on the path to becoming a Fallen Soul Master.
• Ning Fengzhi and the elders decided to observe Tang San, prepare to act if needed, and seek partners to replace the Clear Sky Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Tang San’s group won their match and clashed with Blazing and Canghui Academies before watching Heaven Dou Royal Academy face Skywater Academy. Yang Yunhai’s team defeated Skywater by breaking up Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Shui Bing’er left wondering about Yang Yunhai’s ice resistance.

• Yu Xiaogang drew an average opponent for Shrek Academy, and the team won before securing more victories over the next two days.
• Tang San confronted Huo Wu and Canghui Academy with his Godly Zhuge Crossbow, but both teams walked away without a fight.
• Yang Yunhai led Heaven Dou Royal Academy against Skywater Academy and pushed through their ice-based attacks with his vines and strength.
• Dugu Yan used her fourth soul skill to disrupt Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill before it could fully form.
• Yang Yunhai demonstrated his ice resistance, and Shui Bing’er conceded as his team gained the upper hand.
• The referee declared Heaven Dou Royal Academy the winner, while Tang San watched with resentment and Ning Fengzhi questioned Yang Yunhai’s abilities.