Chapter Summaries

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang joined Shrek Academy after Flender verified Tang San’s age and Soul Power. Tang San reunited with Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun, then asked Dai Mubai about Zhu Zhuqing, prompting Dai Mubai to reveal that her clan had broken off their engagement eight years earlier.

• Zhao Wuji brought Flender to meet Tang San and Yu Xiaogang after hearing about Tang San’s claimed talent.
• Tang San explained that Yu Xiaogang was the Grandmaster behind the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul, and Flender welcomed them after testing Tang San’s age and Soul Power.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang entered Shrek Academy, where Tang San found its three students: Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar.
• Tang San asked Dai Mubai why Zhu Zhuqing had not enrolled and reminded him that she was his fiancée.
• Dai Mubai questioned how Tang San knew about Zhu Zhuqing, then admitted that her clan had dissolved their engagement eight years earlier.

Tang San revealed to Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun that he had been reborn from ten thousand years in the future, where the Shrek Seven Devils became gods. He explained their missing companions and Ma Hongjun’s future wife, but left him facing the painful truth that Bai Chenxiang would die while he lived on as a god.

• Dai Mubai told Tang San that a fortune-teller had led the Hell Spirit Cat Clan to break his engagement to Zhu Zhuqing, and that the Star Luo emperor had dissolved both brothers’ engagements.
• Tang San claimed he knew the men from a previous life, described their pasts, and said he had been reborn ten thousand years into the future.
• Tang San revealed that Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun would become gods alongside the other Shrek Seven Devils, and named their divine titles.
• Tang San explained that Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong had been expected to join Shrek Academy but were absent in this life.
• Tang San told Ma Hongjun that his future wife was Bai Chenxiang, his cousin, and that she would not become a god and would eventually die while he reached the Divine Realm.

Tang San told Ma Hongjun that Bai Chenxiang had died in their previous life and urged him to work harder to earn a higher divine inheritance. He encouraged his brothers with tales of their futures, while Zhao Ling visited the Other Residence to see how its craftsmen’s research had progressed.

• Tang San told Ma Hongjun that Bai Chenxiang had never become a deity and had died, then explained that greater effort might let him inherit the Fire God’s position and bring her to the Divine Realm.
• Ma Hongjun resolved to cultivate harder and asked Tang San about his future cousin, while Tang San said her clan had been lured away by Demon-Suppressing Douluo.
• Tang San revealed Oscar’s future marriage to Ning Rongrong and told Dai Mubai he had won the struggle for the Star Luo throne but yielded it to Dai Weisi.
• Tang San introduced himself as a Clear Sky Sect disciple who had returned to reunite with his brothers, and his sincerity moved Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar.
• After spending three days in Zhu Zhuyun’s bedroom, Zhao Ling carried Gu Yuena home, then went to the Other Residence to check on Lou Gao and Tai Tan’s research.
• Zhao Ling found the Other Residence busy and saw six or seven smaller Cloud-Piercing Shuttles beside his own.

Zhao Ling inspected the newly made Guanyin's Tear and improved the imitation Cloud-Piercing Shuttle, then began preparing spirit stone deposits in the New Divine Realm. After joking with his family, he announced that he would take his confidantes there to learn how to create their own godhood.

• Lou Gao presented Zhao Ling with the only Guanyin's Tear they had made, and Zhao Ling demonstrated its speed before catching it effortlessly.
• Tai Tan told Zhao Ling that their imitation Cloud-Piercing Shuttles could travel about 5,000 li per day, and Zhao Ling modified one of their formations to absorb three times as much Heaven and Earth Origin Power.
• Zhao Ling buried top-grade spirit stones in mineral deposits in the New Divine Realm and accelerated time in the Eighteen-Realm Spatial Domain to help form spirit stone veins.
• Zhao Ling returned home and teased Zhao Lan after she flew onto his head, while Liu Erlong lightly smacked her daughter for misbehaving.
• Zhao Ling told his confidantes he would take them to the New Divine Realm the day after tomorrow to teach them to create their own godhood, and asked Xiao Wu, Tang Wutong, and Wang Qiu'er to hand over their academy duties.
• Zhao Ling declared that Zhang Lexuan, Meng Hongchen, and Yue'er would sleep with him that night, prompting Zhang Lexuan and Meng Hongchen to pinch his waist.

Zhao Ling bestowed laws upon his confidantes in the time-accelerated New Divine Realm, then visited the Sunset Forest and agreed to dine at Dugu Bo’s home. After refining Eight Immortal Pills and checking on his wives’ cultivation, he brought them back to the Douluo Mortal Realm, where they said the New Divine Realm felt too empty.

• Zhao Ling gathered his eligible confidantes in the Eighteen-Realm Spatial Domain and gave each a suitable law to cultivate toward creating godhood.
• Zhao Ling left his confidantes to practice and went to the Sunset Forest to gather mature herbs for Eight Immortal Pills.
• Zhao Ling encountered Dugu Bo, who invited him to dinner and explained that Dugu Yan wanted to marry him alongside her friend Ye Lingling.
• Zhao Ling refined eight Eight Immortal Pills and planned to give some to Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Zhu Zhuyun, Bai Chenxiang, and Hu Liena.
• After two months had passed inside the New Divine Realm, Zhao Ling found his confidantes had built wooden houses and were still beginners at using their laws.
• Zhao Ling’s confidantes said they wanted to return to the Douluo Mortal Realm because the New Divine Realm was too lonely, and he agreed.

Zhao Ling visited Dugu Yan at her grandfather’s residence, where the two reunited and she confessed her love for him. He gave her a genuine Eight Immortal Pill, which raised her Soul Power to rank forty-six and further improved her aptitude.

• Zhao Ling arrived at Dugu Bo’s residence and went upstairs to find Dugu Yan, who mistook his voice for a dream and began getting ready to visit him.
• Zhao Ling entered Dugu Yan’s room, and she joyfully embraced and kissed him before confessing that she had loved him since they first met.
• Dugu Yan said she did not mind Zhao Ling’s age and feared she would grow old before him, so Zhao Ling gave her a genuine Eight Immortal Pill.
• Dugu Yan swallowed the pill and absorbed its medicinal power, increasing her Soul Power from rank forty-three to rank forty-six and improving her aptitude.

Zhao Ling grew closer to Dugu Yan while Dugu Bo reluctantly accepted their relationship, then received an invitation from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul advanced. He arrived at the sect the next morning and found Rongrong waiting for him at the mountain gate.

• Dugu Yan thanked Zhao Ling for the pills, and they embraced until Dugu Bo entered her room and caught them kissing.
• Dugu Bo left angrily but concluded Zhao Ling’s protection and gifts could help Dugu Yan become powerful enough to protect herself.
• Zhao Ling and Dugu Yan planned for him to visit her dorm room after she returned to school, where Ye Lingling would also be there.
• Ah Yin told Zhao Ling the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had invited him, and he agreed to visit after realizing Ning Rongrong had likely revealed her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Zhao Ling arrived at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect the next morning and found Ning Rongrong anxiously waiting at the mountain gate.

Ning Fengzhi learned that Zhao Ling had given Ning Rongrong the rare Aromatic Silk Beauty, which had changed her Martial Soul into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and tried to use a master-disciple bond to keep them apart. The chapter ended with Rongrong ignoring her father’s warning and sitting on Zhao Ling’s lap.

• Ning Rongrong hugged Zhao Ling while the guards and her family watched, and Ning Fengzhi asked whether Zhao Ling had another immortal-grade herb.
• Zhao Ling said the Aromatic Silk Beauty was unique and explained that he had given it to Rongrong as a gift.
• Ning Fengzhi suggested making Rongrong Zhao Ling’s disciple, but Rongrong revealed that Zhao Ling already had two disciples and was intimate with one of them.
• Ning Fengzhi dropped the idea of a master-disciple bond and told Rongrong to keep her distance from Zhao Ling until she was grown.
• Rongrong released Zhao Ling’s arm, then sat sideways on his lap, leaving Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo stunned.

Zhao Ling stayed for lunch at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after Ning Rongrong refused to let him leave, and Ning Rongrong declared she would marry only him. Meanwhile, Tang San helped his companions plan for greater strength and persuaded Shrek Academy to consider new students, leaving him eager to recruit candidates from Dorm Seven.

• Zhao Ling made the sky over Heaven Dou City fill with storm clouds, but Ning Rongrong clung to him until he agreed to stay for lunch.
• Ning Rongrong served Zhao Ling food during lunch, then told Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo that she would marry only Zhao Ling and might run away to his home.
• Bone Douluo proposed renaming the sect after Ning Rongrong's Martial Soul became the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, but Ning Fengzhi said they would wait until she could inherit the clan leadership.
• Tang San explained immortal-grade herbs to Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar, promising Ma Hongjun herbs that could resolve his Evil Fire and improve his Martial Soul.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that Flender would consider admitting three students, so Tang San hurried to find Flender and planned to recruit suitable candidates from Dorm Seven.

Dugu Yan told Ye Lingling that Zhao Ling would visit their room and bring her an Eight Immortal Pill, prompting the two friends to clean up and then pretend to sleep. Zhao Ling discovered Ye Lingling's act, and the chapter ended with him staying in their room for two days while both women missed class.

• Dugu Yan told Ye Lingling that her Soul Power had reached level forty-six and that Zhao Ling would bring Ye Lingling an Eight Immortal Pill that evening.
• Ye Lingling panicked about Zhao Ling visiting their messy room, so she and Dugu Yan cleaned it during the lunch break.
• After tiring themselves out in practical training, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling pushed their beds together and fell asleep before Zhao Ling arrived.
• Zhao Ling approached Ye Lingling and kissed her, revealing that she had been pretending to sleep.
• Zhao Ling stayed with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling for two days, leaving them food while they missed class.

Zhao Ling visited Blue Tyrant Academy with Xiao Wu, Tang Wutong, and Wang Qiu'er, where he learned that Shui Bing'er had idolized him but was upset that he barely noticed her. After Zhao Ling approached her on the training field, Shui Bing'er suddenly embraced him and asked whether he truly liked her.

• Xiao Wu, Tang Wutong, and Wang Qiu'er teased Zhao Ling about Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan, then pointed out Shui Bing'er at the Martial Arts Field.
• Shui Bing'er watched Zhao Ling leave and, feeling overlooked despite having idolized him, attacked a training dummy with her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul.
• Xiao Wu showed Zhao Ling a file of attractive, talented female students, and Jiang Nannan, Zhang Lexuan, and Meng Hongchen mocked him for pretending to be faithful.
• Zhao Ling spotted Shui Bing'er sulking from the dean's office and instantly appeared beside her on the Martial Arts Field.
• Shui Bing'er angrily told Zhao Ling to leave, but when he said he loved her, she hugged him and eagerly asked whether he was telling the truth.

Zhao Ling mistakenly believed Shui Bing'er’s affection was a misunderstanding and fled, while she interpreted his rejection as proof of his devotion. After receiving a spatial treasure from his diary, Zhao Ling set out to move the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Shui Bing'er read his diary and discovered he had long been interested in her and Shui Yue'er.

• Shui Bing'er confessed she liked Zhao Ling and explained she had resented him for not paying her more attention, but Zhao Ling tried to dissuade her and vanished when she misunderstood his words as hidden affection.
• Zhao Ling’s confidantes teased him, and he wrote in his diary that he was pleased Shui Bing'er liked him and hoped Shui Yue'er did too.
• Zhao Ling received a replica of the Landscape, Mountains, Rivers, and State Map, learned it could preserve and transport landscapes, and decided to use it to move the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well into his Eighteen-Realm Spatial Domain.
• Zhao Ling’s confidantes read his diary, and Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Bai Chenxiang were displeased that other women might get ahead of them.
• Shui Bing'er found Zhao Ling’s Diary Copy and read that he had been coveting her and Shui Yue'er, leaving her pleased but puzzled about how he knew so much about them and their academy.

Shui Yue'er discovered that she alone could see Zhao Ling’s mysterious diary, while Zhao Ling moved the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and its volcano into a treasure. After Dugu Bo mistakenly confronted him about Dugu Yan, Zhao Ling left for the New Divine Realm, where spiritual energy had grown so dense that ordinary plants were becoming immortal-grade.

• Shui Yue'er escaped class by claiming she felt unwell, then recognized Zhao Ling’s name as belonging to the Demon-Suppressing Douluo she admired.
• Zhao Ling used the Landscape, Mountains, Rivers, and State Map replica to take the entire volcano containing the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dugu Bo flew to the forest’s center, recognized Zhao Ling, and accepted that he was relocating the herb garden and well.
• Dugu Bo mistook Zhao Ling’s awkwardness for guilt about Dugu Yan, and Zhao Ling admitted he had been with her while blaming her stubbornness.
• Dugu Bo demanded that Zhao Ling call him Grandpa, while Zhao Ling vanished and privately complained about the request.
• Zhao Ling entered the New Divine Realm, where falling spiritual-qi rain nourished the land and transformed ordinary plants into immortal-grade plants.

Zhao Ling visited Bibi Dong and Hu Liena in Spirit City, while Dugu Bo grew angry when he missed him and Tang San brought three trained subordinates to Shrek Academy. The chapter ended with Tang San asking one of them to demonstrate his hidden weapon techniques for Flender.

• Zhao Ling settled the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in the New Divine Realm, where abundant spiritual energy made the plants grow rapidly, then left to visit his confidantes.
• Zhao Ling reunited with Bibi Dong, learned that Ping'an had begun studying at Spirit Hall Academy, and accepted Bibi Dong's plan for Hu Liena to join them.
• Zhao Ling spent the night with Bibi Dong and Hu Liena.
• Dugu Bo visited Zhao Ling's residence, learned that Zhao Ling was away, and vowed to keep returning until Zhao Ling called him Grandpa.
• Ah Yin, Liu Erlong, and Ah Rou planned to have Zhao Ling bring betrothal gifts to Dugu Bo and hold weddings for all his confidantes.
• Tang San brought three of his trained subordinates to Shrek Academy, where Flender questioned their age and strength and Tang San asked one to demonstrate his hidden weapon techniques.

Tang San used plate crystal golden-thread Dragon Whisker Needles to test whether his hidden weapons could pierce Zhao Wuji’s defenses. Zhao Wuji was left in agony and vowed to remember Tang San’s treatment.

• Tang San poisoned Flender with a hidden weapon during a demonstration, then removed the poison and asked him for a cloudy crystal.
• Flender gave Tang San the crystal, which Tang San smashed to reveal golden grains that he and his three underlings collected.
• Tang San summoned Zhao Wuji to test the plate crystal golden-thread Dragon Whisker Needles against his defensive martial soul.
• Tang San evaded Zhao Wuji and fired the needles, which pierced his defenses and curled inside his body, causing severe pain.
• Zhao Wuji angrily confronted Tang San, who apologized and offered to remove the hidden weapons; Zhao Wuji silently vowed to get even.

Tang San’s hidden weapons persuaded Flender to admit all three newcomers to Shrek Academy, bringing its enrollment to seven. Three days later, Zhao Ling visited Qian Xunji and Qian Daoliu, where he confirmed his relationship with Qian Renxue and described her secure position in the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Tang San removed the Dragon Whisker Needles from Zhao Wuji and explained how the hidden weapons could threaten Soul Masters.
• Flender agreed to admit all three students, raising Shrek Academy’s enrollment to seven.
• Zhao Ling gave Hu Liena two pills as betrothal gifts and left Bibi Dong’s bedchamber to visit Qian Xunji.
• Zhao Ling called himself Qian Xunji’s son-in-law and Qian Daoliu’s grandson-in-law, prompting Qian Daoliu to ask about Qian Renxue.
• Zhao Ling told Qian Daoliu that Qian Renxue had eliminated the other princes and secured Xue Qinghe’s position in the Heaven Dou Empire.

Qian Renxue told Zhao Ling how she had eliminated Heaven Dou’s princes and manipulated the aftermath to strengthen her hold on the empire. After visiting Qian Daoliu and Qian Xunji, Zhao Ling escaped Qian Daoliu’s teasing demand that he call him Grandpa, then went to Sea God Island, where Bo Saixi noticed he smelled of another woman.

• Qian Renxue arranged the princes’ assassination, framed Spirit Hall and planted hidden evidence implicating the Star Luo Empire, then persuaded Xue Ye to avoid war and strengthened the reputation of the Crown Prince Xue Qinghe she impersonated.
• Qian Renxue visited Zhao Ling and explained her plan, and he praised how it had removed Xue Ye’s heirs, endangered relations with Star Luo and increased her influence in Heaven Dou.
• Qian Daoliu welcomed Zhao Ling as his grandson-in-law and teased him to call him Grandpa, but Zhao Ling vanished before complying.
• Qian Xunji questioned why Qian Daoliu was not angry about Zhao Ling and Qian Renxue, and Qian Daoliu explained that he trusted his granddaughter’s choice and hoped for a great-grandchild.
• Zhao Ling returned to Dong'er’s bedroom, left a note for the sleeping women and traveled to Sea God Island, where Zhao Mengyan left to give him and Bo Saixi privacy.
• Bo Saixi rebuffed Zhao Ling’s advances and asked why he smelled of a woman besides Sister Dong'er, particularly one who had never known a man.

Yu Yuanzhen learned that Dugu Yan loved someone other than Yu Tianheng and visited Dugu Bo to propose a match between their grandchildren. Dugu Bo rejected the proposal and revealed that Dugu Yan had already married the man she loved, whom the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan could not afford to provoke.

• Yu Yuanzhen reflected on his younger son Yu Xiaogang's book, while Yu Xiaolong defended his brother and Yu Yuanzhen admitted he would not ask him to return.
• Yu Tianheng complained that Ye Lingling had called him a toad lusting after swan flesh and said Dugu Yan loved someone else.
• Yu Yuanzhen promised to visit Poison Douluo and discuss a match between Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan.
• Two days later, Yu Yuanzhen visited Dugu Bo and argued that his grandson and Dugu Yan were childhood sweethearts who should marry.
• Dugu Bo rejected Yu Yuanzhen's proposal, saying Dugu Yan loved someone powerful and had already performed Zhou Gong's Rites with him.

Yu Yuanzhen returned from Dugu Bo’s residence and told Yu Tianheng that Dugu Yan had chosen someone else. He withheld Zhao Ling’s identity and planned to use the news to spur his grandson to become strong enough to take revenge.

• Yu Yuanzhen recalled Tang San’s warnings that Zhao Ling was a powerful reborn enemy and that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had been wiped out in Tang San’s previous life.
• Yu Yuanzhen remembered Tang Xiao’s advice to build strength in secret and wait for Tang San to become a god before challenging Zhao Ling.
• Yu Yuanzhen decided to use Dugu Yan’s relationship with Zhao Ling to motivate Yu Tianheng, while privately rejecting the idea that his grandson should marry her later.
• Yu Yuanzhen returned to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, where Yu Tianheng asked whether Dugu Bo had approved his courtship of Dugu Yan.
• Yu Yuanzhen told Yu Tianheng that Dugu Yan loved someone else and had already been intimate with him, prompting Yu Tianheng to vow to find and kill his rival.

Yu Tianheng learned that Dugu Yan loved Zhao Ling and fantasized that Tang San would eventually help him take revenge, while Yu Luomian worried about his daughter Liu Erlong. Zhao Ling trained with Bo Saixi and Zhao Mengyan on Sea God Island, then returned home to find Dugu Bo had waited for him every day for nearly twenty days.

• Yu Tianheng collapsed after learning that Dugu Yan had given her heart to Zhao Ling, but Yu Yuanzhen encouraged him by claiming Tang San would one day defeat Zhao Ling.
• Yu Tianheng regained his confidence and said he would reclaim Dugu Yan and take Zhao Ling's other women as well.
• Yu Luomian worried that his daughter Liu Erlong would be endangered if Zhao Ling fell, and planned to have his son persuade her to return.
• Zhao Ling spent half a month with Bo Saixi and Zhao Mengyan on Sea God Island, training with them for fifteen months inside the Eighteen-Realm Spatial Domain and granting them laws to cultivate.
• Zhao Ling returned to his residence and found Dugu Bo waiting in the courtyard, where Dugu Bo revealed he had visited every day for nearly twenty days.