Chapter Summaries

Zhu Zhuqing fought Tang Hao in the battle space and avenged his theft of her Soul Bone and the death of her physical body. She defeated him with her shadow-based attacks, leaving him dead as she was declared the winner.

• Zhu Zhuqing faced Tang Hao, who first mistook her for a ghost and attacked her with hidden weapons.
• Zhu Zhuqing revealed that she could move and strike through shadows, using the shadows beneath Tang Hao’s scattered hidden weapons to attack him.
• Tang Hao tried to remove the hidden weapons, but Zhu Zhuqing wounded his hand through a shadow and then attacked with both her body and shadow.
• Zhu Zhuqing overwhelmed Tang Hao and repeatedly cut him until only his skeleton, eyes, and brain remained.
• Tang Hao’s consciousness dissipated, and the Dragon-Tiger Ranking declared Zhu Zhuqing the winner.

Qian Renxue defeated Hu Liena, leaving Oscar and Ning Rongrong as the final contestants to fight. During their match, Ning Rongrong identified Oscar’s cultivation as giving him unusual control over his body, Soul Power, and Martial Soul, while Tang Xiao dismissed its apparent benefits.

• Qian Renxue used her speed and rapier to defeat Hu Liena after resisting Hu Liena’s mental charm.
• Oscar and Ning Rongrong were summoned to the arena, where Oscar greeted her bashfully and Ning Rongrong sensed that his body, Soul Power, and Martial Soul were unusually coordinated.
• Ning Rongrong explained that such coordination represented absolute self-control and compared it to a Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Oscar realized that this control might let someone unleash a powerful fusion skill alone, while Tang Hao and the Clear Sky Sect elders suspected it was Wang Qiye’s secret.
• Ning Rongrong pointed out that Oscar’s cultivation had enabled him to make four distinct sausages, and Tang Xiao laughed that they had no useful effects.

Ning Rongrong defeated Oscar in the winners' bracket, and the five remaining contestants entered the final free-for-all for the Dragon-Tiger Ranking. Qian Renxue drew a crowd of devoted supporters outside the arena, while the contestants sized one another up and prepared to fight.

• Oscar explained that an unusual cookbook let him summon endless grilled sausages without using Soul Power, and Bibi Dong realized the ability could provide food on a vast scale.
• Ning Rongrong struck Oscar unconscious, won their match, and advanced to the final arena.
• The Dragon-Tiger Ranking announced a five-person free-for-all, with the last contestant standing taking Number One.
• Ma Hongjun eyed Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Qian Renxue, while Lou Gao watched the other contestants warily.
• Fans gathered to cheer Qian Renxue, and Ning Rongrong proposed that she and the other two former Shrek Academy disciples eliminate Lou Gao and Qian Renxue first.

Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong discovered that they had both learned cultivation arts from Wang Qiye, then fought Lou Gao and Ma Hongjun in the Dragon-Tiger Ranking. Zhu Zhuqing killed Lou Gao, while Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing battled as Qian Renxue took to the air and attacked Ma Hongjun.

• Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong argued over whether they were fellow disciples and who was the eldest senior sister after realizing Wang Qiye had taught them both cultivation arts.
• Lou Gao attacked Zhu Zhuqing with his Flame Square Sword, but Zhu Zhuqing used her art to evade the strike and pierce his chest through his Deep Sea Silver armor.
• Ning Rongrong directed Ma Hongjun toward Qian Renxue, but his flames failed to harm Zhu Zhuqing or Ning Rongrong, and Qian Renxue flew out of reach.
• Zhu Zhuqing attacked Ning Rongrong with her shadow, but Ning Rongrong read her moves and outmatched her in their fight.
• Ma Hongjun tried to catch the two women off guard, but Qian Renxue thrust her sword where he had stood, forcing him to dive away before she flew back into the sky.

Ning Rongrong defeated Zhu Zhuqing, Qian Renxue, and Ma Hongjun to claim the finals victory. The chapter ended with Ning Rongrong turning to face Zhu Zhuqing after Ma Hongjun managed to wound her.

• Qian Renxue launched a high-speed dive at Ma Hongjun, but her strike only cut his shoulder.
• Ning Rongrong defeated Zhu Zhuqing and promised to secure second place for her.
• Qian Renxue attacked Ning Rongrong from the air, but Ning Rongrong countered and eliminated her.
• Ning Rongrong defeated Ma Hongjun, though his attack wounded her fist.
• Ning Rongrong punched Zhu Zhuqing as Zhu Zhuqing emerged from the shadows to attack her.

The second Dragon-Tiger Ranking concluded, and its contestants received dramatic soul-power increases, stunning Soul Masters across the continent. Ning Rongrong awoke at level fifty and revealed her ambition to develop a cultivation method that would let the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect overcome its martial-soul bottleneck.

• The Dragon-Tiger Ranking announced the final placements and raised the nine contestants' soul-power levels, including Dugu Bo to level ninety-six and Ning Rongrong to level fifty.
• Clear Sky Sect members celebrated Tang Hao becoming a Super Douluo but admitted Wang Qiye remained far beyond their strength.
• Ning Rongrong awoke at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Bone Douluo Gu Rong praised her gains.
• Ning Rongrong said her master could evolve her martial soul, but she aimed to perfect a cultivation method that would let future sect disciples break through their bottleneck.
• Ning Rongrong dismissed the elders' offer of help and said she would simplify the method for them to copy, then called Gu Rong aside to tell him something.

Ning Rongrong offered to create simple cultivation and sword techniques for Gu Rong and Chen Xin, while Bibi Dong improved Oscar’s protection and treatment at Spirit Hall. After Dugu Bo celebrated his recovery and advancement, Wang Qiye appeared and seized Ye Lingling, leaving Dugu Bo immobilized.

• Ning Rongrong told Gu Rong his comprehension was poor and offered to adapt a cultivation method for him.
• Ning Rongrong offered Chen Xin a beginner’s sword technique, prompting him to wonder whether his swordsmanship talent was poor.
• Bibi Dong summoned Oscar, improved his treatment, and assigned a Titled Douluo to protect him; Hu Liena said her crippled boyfriend was no longer worthy of her.
• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan, Yu Tianheng, and Ye Lingling that the Dragon-Tiger Ranking had increased his Soul Power and healed a hidden injury.
• Wang Qiye arrived at the courtyard, identified himself to Dugu Bo, and summoned Ye Lingling to his side.
• Dugu Bo tried to retrieve Ye Lingling, but Wang Qiye immobilized him and prevented him from speaking.

Wang Qiye confronted Dugu Bo over Ye Lingling, then accepted that Dugu Bo had treated her honorably and gave her a martial inheritance without forcing her to become his apprentice. He left after warning Dugu Bo to protect Ye Lingling and granting him a technique to counter the Dugu family's poison; Dugu Bo and the others celebrated their good fortune.

• Wang Qiye restrained Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and Yu Tianheng, then offered to kill Dugu Bo if Ye Lingling became his apprentice.
• Ye Lingling defended Dugu Bo and refused to change masters, explaining that he had treated her well and had not taken her Soul Bone.
• Wang Qiye released everyone, gave Ye Lingling a book containing an inheritance, and revealed that he was spreading martial arts across the continent.
• Wang Qiye warned Dugu Bo that Ye Lingling's safety determined whether his family would live, then taught him Cha Wo Can Tong Qi to neutralize the family's toxins.
• Dugu Bo explained the Jade Phosphorus Snake Martial Soul's deadly toll to Dugu Yan and called Wang Qiye their benefactor.
• Dugu Bo invited everyone to a feast to celebrate their three blessings.

Zhu Zhuqing followed Wang Qiye’s directions to a remote village of powerful Soul Masters, where she confronted a villager after hearing that the people there were Tang Hao’s friends and family. The villager’s sonic attack struck her, and he concluded that she had been relying on a clone or illusion.

• Zhu Zhuqing followed markings through the mountain forest and found a soul device that played Wang Qiye’s message about the village and its ties to Tang Hao.
• Furious at the message, Zhu Zhuqing smashed the device and hurried toward the village to confront its residents.
• Zhu Zhuqing noticed that the villagers all possessed Soul Power and ignored a villager’s warnings to stay away.
• The villager used Martial Soul Possession and charged at Zhu Zhuqing, but she dodged and struck him with a shadow spike.
• The rank-fifty-six villager activated four Soul Skills, then unleashed his fifth Soul Skill, Ape King Roar, and declared that Zhu Zhuqing’s real body must be nearby.

Zhu Zhuqing attacked the village at night, killing several residents before a Soul Emperor with a hammer martial soul wounded her and drove her off. As the village chief gathered the villagers, an urgent report revealed a new crisis.

• Zhu Zhuqing left her hiding place and entered Tang Zhongpu's home, where she learned that Master Long was a Clear Sky Sect direct-line disciple and killed him and Tang Zhongpu's wife.
• Zhu Zhuqing killed people in five more households, then fought a level-sixty Soul Emperor whose hammer shock wave injured her.
• Zhu Zhuqing fled before the patrol could catch her, and the village chief ordered the villagers to gather and check for casualties.
• The hammer Soul Master told the village chief that Zhu Zhuqing could turn into shadow and seemed to be around level fifty.
• A subordinate whispered an urgent report to the village chief, who hurried off to investigate.