Chapter Summaries

Flender urged Yu Xiaogang to leave after his actions endangered Shrek Academy, but Yu Xiaogang vowed revenge. Flender then arranged to move the academy to Blue Tyrant Academy at nightfall, leaving Tang San behind to avoid provoking Tai Tan and the Clear Sky Sect.

• Flender told Yu Xiaogang to return to his clan or seek refuge at Blue Tyrant Academy, but Yu Xiaogang rejected his help and resolved to take revenge.
• Flender asked Zhao Wuji to keep Yu Xiaogang's actions secret, and Zhao Wuji agreed to protect Flender's brother.
• Flender told Shrek Academy's founders that Tai Tan and the Clear Sky Sect threatened them, and proposed relocating to Liu Erlong's Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Shao Xin and Li Yusong suggested bringing the new students, including Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong.
• Flender revealed that Tang San had twin martial souls, including a Clear Sky Hammer, and ordered everyone to leave at nightfall without him.

Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun discussed Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, while Dai Mubai sought to learn whether Tang San was a reincarnator. Oscar joined them, and Dai Mubai warned him away from Zhu Zhuqing, his fiancée.

• Dai Mubai told Ma Hongjun that Tang San had arrived at the academy and that Yu Xiaogang had refused to take him as a student because of his blue silver grass martial soul.
• Ma Hongjun agreed with Yu Xiaogang's judgment and said Tang San's martial soul was too weak to be worth teaching.
• Dai Mubai wondered whether Tang San was truly reincarnated and considered the possibility that his past-life knowledge could be valuable.
• Oscar joined Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, saying he had heard two pretty junior students had arrived and that he wanted to pursue one.
• Dai Mubai told Oscar he could pursue Ning Rongrong but had to stay away from Zhu Zhuqing, his fiancée.

Dai Mubai weighed Oscar’s value as an ally, while Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing secretly listened to Tang San’s thoughts and learned disturbing details about their companions and their previous lives. They questioned Tang San’s judgment and how he could have become a god.

• Dai Mubai decided he should preserve his friendship with Oscar, whose talents and possible connection to Ning Rongrong could benefit the Star Luo Empire.
• Oscar admitted that he doubted the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would accept someone from his humble background as Ning Rongrong’s partner.
• Flender arrived and told the group to gather their things so they could leave, prompting the others to ask what was wrong.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing revealed that they could both hear Tang San’s thoughts, then listened together and learned that Ma Hongjun would marry Tang San’s younger female cousin, Bai Chenxiang.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing condemned Tang San for considering Ma Hongjun a suitable match and for excusing Dai Mubai’s past affairs and betrayal of Zhu Zhuqing.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong questioned how Tang San could become a god and discussed rumors that Spirit Hall’s papal lineage descended from a god.

Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing discussed how much various factions knew about the Qian Family’s divine inheritance and recalled Tang San’s account of their future. They ended by criticizing Yu Xiaogang and Flender over Yu Xiaogang’s relationship with his close cousin Liu Erlong.

• The account distinguished Spirit Hall insiders who knew about the Angel God inheritance from ordinary members and outside factions who knew only rumors or partial details about the Qian Family.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing discussed Tang San’s claim that Xiao Wu was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast and that the group would eventually win the Soul Master Tournament as the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Ning Rongrong learned that Liu Erlong was Yu Xiaogang’s paternal cousin and called their relationship absurd because of the risks of having children with a close relative.
• Ning Rongrong criticized Flender for approving and encouraging Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong’s relationship, and questioned Yu Xiaogang’s appeal and abilities.

Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing overheard Tang San’s thoughts and learned about his plans, his twin martial souls, and the immortal herbs, then decided to seek power without relying on him or Shrek Academy. Flender arrived and announced that he was taking them to Nanba Academy, leaving them unsure whether his explanation was genuine.

• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing criticized Shrek Academy and decided to leave after learning more about Tang San’s plans.
• Ning Rongrong realized Tang San had twin martial souls, while she and Zhu Zhuqing questioned his belief that Bibi Dong loved Yu Xiaogang.
• Ning Rongrong explained the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s limits, and Zhu Zhuqing suggested investigating the immortal herbs to help them grow stronger without Tang San or Shrek.
• Tang San sensed their presence, so Zhu Zhuqing used her martial soul to hurry Ning Rongrong back to the girls’ dormitory area.
• Flender told Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing he planned to take them to Nanba Academy because Tang San might bring Tai Tan, who could threaten Zhao Wuji; the two women exchanged a doubtful glance.

Flender concealed the truth about Yu Xiaogang’s theft of the Clear Sky Sect’s secret manuals and led the others away from Shrek Academy. The next morning, Tang San found the academy deserted and asked Tai Tan what had happened, while Kai said Xiao Wu planned to attend an intermediate Soul Master Academy.

• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing doubted Flender’s explanation for leaving Shrek and pressed him to reveal the truth.
• Flender feared the consequences of revealing that Yu Xiaogang had stolen Clear Sky Sect manuals, so he asked the others to swear they would keep his secret.
• Ning Rongrong agreed to go with Flender for now, and the group left Shrek by another route to avoid Tai Tan.
• Tang San waited for his classmates, then searched the dormitories and teachers’ quarters and found everyone gone.
• Tang San asked Tai Tan whether he had seen the others leave, leaving Tai Tan bewildered by the academy’s disappearance.
• Kai told someone that Xiao Wu planned to attend an intermediate Soul Master Academy whose dean was a level 68 Soul Emperor.

Kai and his companions chose Exotic Beast Academy as their destination and set out, hoping to enter the Soul Master Tournament. At an inn along the way, they encountered members of Shrek Academy and then saw Skywater Academy representatives arrive.

• Kai explained the standards for advanced Soul Master academies and proposed that the group join Exotic Beast Academy, founded by Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang.
• Gu Luoyi asked whether Kai would cultivate his Ice Dragon King Martial Soul, and Kai said he planned to focus on his Heavenly Spear Martial Soul first.
• Kai and the others prepared to leave Nuoding Academy, said goodbye to Su Yuntao and the dean, and began traveling toward Exotic Beast Academy.
• The four stopped at an inn to rest and concealed their faces beneath cloaks to avoid attracting attention.
• Flender and other members of Shrek Academy entered the inn, where Zhao Wuji asked about Flender's sworn sister at Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Two blue-haired girls and a mature blue-haired woman arrived, and Flender recognized their emblem as belonging to Skywater Academy.

Ma Hongjun harassed Shui Bing'er at an inn despite Oscar's warnings about provoking Skywater Academy. When he tried to lift her skirt and made a lewd demand, Shui Bing'er and her mother, Skywater Academy's dean, confronted him.

• Oscar warned Ma Hongjun that Skywater Academy and its allied academies had powerful Soul Douluo leaders, but Ma Hongjun dismissed the danger.
• The Leng Family sisters told Kai about Ma Hongjun's intentions, and Kai said they would help Skywater Academy if Shrek started trouble.
• Skywater Academy's dean overheard Oscar and Ma Hongjun, warned Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er, and the groups pretended nothing was wrong while they ate.
• As the Skywater women prepared to leave, Ma Hongjun tried to lift Shui Bing'er's skirt, prompting her to release her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul.
• Ma Hongjun made a lewd demand, Shui Bing'er struck him with a stool, and her mother revealed her own Ice Phoenix Martial Soul.

Ma Hongjun harassed Shui Jingyan’s daughters, and Flender tried to settle the matter by arranging an engagement between Ma Hongjun and one of them. Leng Yulai revealed her overwhelming strength and struck Ma Hongjun, leaving Flender pleading for mercy.

• Ma Hongjun claimed his status and future strength entitled him to Shui Jingyan’s daughters, enraging Shui Jingyan.
• Flender introduced himself and proposed a private settlement through an engagement between Ma Hongjun and one of Shui Jingyan’s daughters.
• Ning Rongrong decided Shrek Academy was despicable and planned to leave with Zhu Zhuqing after dealing with them.
• Leng Yulai revealed her Nine-Fire Phoenix Martial Soul and six black and three red Soul Rings, stunning everyone present.
• Leng Yulai sent Ma Hongjun flying with one blow, and Flender begged her to spare his student.

The Leng Family sisters condemned Flender for trying to settle Ma Hongjun’s harassment privately and offered to help Skywater Academy punish them. As Zhao Wuji urged Dai Mubai and the others not to interfere, Ning Rongrong privately planned her departure and considered giving them gifts first.

• The Leng Family sisters rebuked Flender for his response to Ma Hongjun’s harassment and said they would help Skywater Academy deal with him.
• The Skywater Academy women thanked Leng Yulai and her sister for intervening.
• Zhao Wuji warned Dai Mubai that he and the others could not challenge the two Titled Douluo, and said he would stay with Flender while the younger men escaped.
• Dai Mubai resolved to avenge Flender and Ma Hongjun if they died, while Ning Rongrong decided to leave when the others were no longer useful and Zhu Zhuqing relied on her.

Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai punished Flender and Ma Hongjun for mistreating women, forcing Shrek Academy’s staff and students to leave the inn. After Kai and his companions thanked Skywater Academy’s headmistress, they revealed their Martial Souls and explained they were heading to Exotic Beast Academy.

• Leng Yaozhu suppressed Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire Phoenix, while Leng Yulai set his trousers ablaze and sent Flender crashing through the inn wall, severing his feet.
• Leng Yulai slapped Zhao Wuji aside and ordered Shrek Academy to leave; Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing claimed they had been coerced into staying at the academy.
• Leng Yulai threatened to cripple Shrek if its members ever coerced women again, and Li Yusong led the remaining Shrek students away with Ma Hongjun.
• Kai and his companions paid the innkeeper for the damage, and Shui Jingyan thanked the two Titled Douluos and asked why they had come.
• Leng Yaozhu said they were traveling to Exotic Beast Academy to train Kai, then Kai and Gu Luoyi revealed their Martial Souls, astonishing Shui Jingyan.

Shui Jingyan offered the Leng Family sisters access to Skywater Academy’s cultivation resources for their Ice Dragon King disciple, while hoping to secure the martial soul’s inheritance and their protection. Leng Yulai recognized Shui Jingyan’s deeper aims, and Ning Rongrong realized that the Ice Dragon King could make Skywater Academy a formidable power.

• Shui Jingyan guessed that the Leng Family sisters had an Ice Dragon King disciple and explained that they were seeking suitable instruction for the martial soul.
• Leng Yulai and the others understood that Shui Jingyan was trying to win them over, while the sisters knew how to teach the Heavenly Spear but lacked expertise in the Ice Dragon King.
• Shui Jingyan offered Skywater Academy’s ice-attribute training methods, environments, and resources, hoping the Ice Dragon King martial soul would be passed down there.
• Shui Jingyan revealed that she hoped her daughters, Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er, could bear the Ice Dragon King martial soul and that the Leng Family sisters would protect Skywater Academy.
• Ning Rongrong assessed the Ice Dragon King’s strength and the Leng Family sisters’ powerful soul rings, recognizing that their alliance could shift the balance among major forces.

Zhu Zhuqing asked the two mysterious Titled Douluos for help changing her fate, while Ning Rongrong sought to befriend them. After they agreed to let the Shui sisters join their new faction, Flender’s companions argued over the consequences of Ma Hongjun offending the powerful women.

• Ning Rongrong questioned Zhu Zhuqing about the two Titled Douluos and their extraordinary Soul Rings, and Zhu Zhuqing explained her reasons for wanting to change her fate.
• Ning Rongrong suggested building a good relationship with the Titled Douluos rather than trying to recruit them outright, and Shui Jingyan asked to join their faction.
• The Titled Douluos agreed to establish a faction with Shui Jingyan and said the matter involving Shui Bing’er, Shui Yue’er, and their disciple could wait until the girls were adults.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked whether the Titled Douluos were still accepting disciples, while Ning Rongrong introduced herself and said she wanted to be friends.
• Ma Hongjun found Flender badly injured and reduced in strength, and Zhao Wuji blamed Ma Hongjun for provoking the Titled Douluos and demanded that he take responsibility for Flender.
• Dai Mubai angrily told Ma Hongjun that his remarks had nearly gotten them all killed.

After Ma Hongjun angered two overwhelmingly powerful Titled Douluo, Dai Mubai, Li Yusong, and Flender warned him that his actions had endangered everyone and decided to flee to Blue Tyrant Academy for protection. Flender and Dai Mubai then saw that Ma Hongjun’s injury was likely beyond healing, leaving him distraught while Zhao Wuji mocked him.

• Dai Mubai explained that the two Titled Douluo’s strength and Soul Rings made them far too dangerous to provoke.
• Li Yusong blamed Ma Hongjun for putting everyone in danger, while Flender accepted responsibility for failing to teach him properly.
• Flender told the group to leave for Blue Tyrant Academy, where he hoped Liu Erlong and her connections could protect them.
• Ma Hongjun showed the group his severely burned injury and begged them to find a cure.
• Dai Mubai said healing the injury would likely require a Titled Douluo-level Nine Star Begonia wielder, and Zhao Wuji mocked Ma Hongjun over his condition.

Ma Hongjun’s evil fire returned despite his injury, and a Healing Type Soul Master explained that it came from his Martial Soul and would persist. The proposed remedy horrified Ma Hongjun, while Flender and the others decided he should accept it rather than risk being burned to death.

• Flender and the others took him in a wheelchair toward Blue Tyrant Academy after accepting that his legs could not be saved.
• Ma Hongjun’s evil fire flared up again, and Dai Mubai accused him of faking past flare-ups to get money for women.
• Shao Xin eased Ma Hongjun’s pain with sugar beans, and the group hired a Soul Emperor-level Healing Type Soul Master in Heaven Dou City.
• The healer explained that Ma Hongjun’s evil fire came from his Martial Soul and suggested that having sex with a man could resolve it.
• Ma Hongjun refused the proposed remedy, but Flender urged him to accept it rather than endure the evil fire’s torment.

Flender and the others told Ma Hongjun that becoming a eunuch was the only way to survive his Martial Soul’s Evil Fire. Ma Hongjun stayed with Shrek while secretly resenting them and planning revenge.

• Flender told Ma Hongjun that the only way to stop the Evil Fire was to endure becoming a eunuch, and said Ma Hongjun had brought the trouble on himself.
• Dai Mubai blamed Ma Hongjun for the harm done to Flender and Oscar, and said Shrek had already done all it could by keeping him along.
• Ma Hongjun pleaded that his Phoenix Martial Soul and high Innate Soul Power meant he was destined to become a Titled Douluo, then threatened that the arrangement would bring shame on Shrek.
• Dai Mubai offered to find Ma Hongjun vagrants or pretty boys who could help keep his secret, but Ma Hongjun resented the group and decided to stay until he could solve his problem and take revenge.

Xiao Wu joined Liu Erlong on the way to Blue Tyrant Academy and accepted her as her godmother. Liu Erlong told Xiao Wu about her family history and her long, unresolved love for Yu Xiaogang, leaving Xiao Wu questioning whether he had treated her fairly.

• Liu Erlong adopted Xiao Wu as her daughter and brought her toward her academy in Heaven Dou City.
• Xiao Wu considered using the academy and its connections to search Sunset Forest for immortal herbs and secure protection from Tang San.
• Liu Erlong explained that her mother had been a songstress and that her strained relationship with Yu Luomian began with his refusal to take responsibility for them.
• Liu Erlong recounted meeting Flender and Yu Xiaogang, then learning that she and Yu Xiaogang were close cousins and could not marry.
• Liu Erlong said she founded Blue Tyrant Academy with Yu Luomian's financial support and hoped Yu Xiaogang would eventually return to her.
• Xiao Wu privately judged Yu Xiaogang for leaving Liu Erlong waiting and thought he should have encouraged her to move on.

Tang San grew furious after Shrek Academy left without him and went with Tai Tan to investigate at Blue Tyrant Academy. Meanwhile, Leng Yaozhu and the others secured an alliance with Skywater Academy and agreed to consider Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing joining them, leaving the women to contact their families and meet at Skywater Academy.

• Tang San asked Tai Tan to investigate Shrek Academy's departure and decided to visit Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Leng Yulai promised Skywater Academy protection and an alliance, and Shui Jingyan offered Kai a place on its tournament team.
• The Leng sisters privately discussed the risks of accepting Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, while Kai considered using soul tools and their defections to undermine Tang San.
• Ning Rongrong offered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's financial support, and Zhu Zhuqing said she wanted help changing her fate.
• Leng Yaozhu agreed to cooperate with Ning Rongrong if she informed her family, and allowed Zhu Zhuqing to join if she severed her ties with Shrek and followed their instructions.
• Ning Rongrong said she would notify her father, and they agreed to meet at Skywater Academy.

Kai, the Leng Family Sisters, and their companions traveled with Shui Bing'er and Shui Jingyan to Skywater Academy in Element City. Shui Jingyan hoped to secure the Leng family’s backing for Skywater and the other elemental academies, and she ended the journey by offering to register the Leng sisters’ disciples as special-case students.

• Shui Bing'er privately asked Shui Jingyan whether Kai and his companions could be trusted, and Shui Jingyan reassured her that the Leng Family Sisters had powerful backing.
• Shui Jingyan explained that Spirit Hall and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan were competing to control the elemental academies, and argued that the academies should seek support from the Leng family instead of becoming subordinate factions.
• Shui Bing'er accepted that the academies had little influence without their own Titled Douluo and would fare poorly if absorbed by either major faction.
• Kai and the others arrived at Skywater Academy in Element City, which was home to the three elemental academies, Thunder Academy, and the Elephant Armor Sect’s academy.
• Shui Jingyan asked the Leng Family Sisters to be patient with the deans of Godwind and Blazing Fire when she approached them, then offered to register their disciples at Skywater Academy as special cases.

Shui Jingyan brought Kai and the Leng Family Sisters to Skywater Academy, where their powerful Martial Souls and Soul Rings persuaded the three great elemental academies to unite. Kai and Gu Luoyi were registered as students, and the group planned to use the alliance to build strength and compete in the Soul Master Tournament.

• Shui Jingyan introduced Kai and the Leng Family Sisters at Skywater Academy, where their Martial Souls and Soul Rings stunned the teachers and students.
• Shui Jingyan contacted the deans and vice deans of Godwind and Blazing Fire Academies and explained the group's strength and circumstances.
• The leaders agreed to merge the three elemental academies and discussed founding a sect to challenge the Upper Three Sects and oppose the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Spirit Hall.
• Shui Jingyan proposed entering the Soul Master Tournament to strengthen their reputation and attract more Soul Masters to their power.
• Kai and Gu Luoyi registered as Skywater Academy students, and the Leng Family Sisters advised Kai to cultivate his Heavenly Spear before his Ice Dragon King Martial Soul.