Chapter Summaries

Huyan Zhen and Salas accused Emperor Xue Ye of bias as the Shrek Academy team faced the Elephant Armor Sect in the qualifying match. Tang San studied the opponents’ formation and launched his Meteor Human Hammer tactic, carrying his teammates into the air as the Elephant Armor Sect continued advancing.

• Huyan Zhen reacted with disbelief to the gap between the teams’ Soul Ring Configurations, and Salas challenged Emperor Xue Ye over his apparent bias.
• The Elephant Armor Sect’s seven members activated their first Soul Rings and advanced in formation, using their size and weight to pressure Shrek Academy.
• Tang San tested their defense with Blue Silver Entanglement, but the vines snapped against their enhanced strength.
• Tang San ordered his teammates back, then had five of them advance three steps as he formed the Meteor Human Hammer.
• Tang San used a Speed Mushroom Sausage to fly with Oscar, then carried the rest of the Shrek team into the air after telling them to lighten themselves.

Tang San used Oscar’s Speed Mushroom Sausages and Blue Silver Grass to lift Shrek Academy’s team into the air and attack Elephant Armor Academy, exploiting their lack of agility. After learning how quickly the opponents could break his bindings, he ordered a second assault and targeted Huyan Li, but the battle remained undecided.

• Tang San carried all seven Shrek Academy members into the air with Blue Silver Grass, while Oscar replenished his strength with sausages.
• Tang San sent five teammates down toward Elephant Armor Academy, but Huyan Li gathered his team into a tight defensive formation and swatted them back.
• Tang San withdrew his teammates and bound all seven opponents, discovering that their defenses resisted his thorns, poison, and paralysis.
• Tang San measured how quickly the Elephant Armor Academy members escaped, and Oscar gave him another Speed Mushroom Sausage.
• Tang San ordered his team to defeat Huyan Li within twenty seconds, then bound the opponents again as Dai Mubai and four teammates descended to attack Huyan Li.

Tang San restrained the Elephant Armor Sect’s team with overlapping Blue Silver Grass and led five Shrek Academy members in an assault on Huyan Li. Huyan Li broke free after Huyan Zhen secretly guided him, and Tang San realized the mysterious helmet was a Soul Bone.

• Tang San used Blue Silver Cage and Parasite to trap the six Elephant Armor Sect members other than Huyan Li, while Oscar supplied recovery Big Sausages.
• Tang San directed five Shrek Academy members to concentrate their attacks on Huyan Li’s exposed head.
• Yu Tianlong taunted Huyan Zhen, and Emperor Xue Ye accused him of secretly guiding Huyan Li through Sound Transmission.
• Huyan Li activated his fourth Soul Ring, strengthened his defenses, and endured attacks from Jing Ling, Dai Mubai, and Huang Yuan.
• A helmet appeared on Huyan Li’s head and blocked Dai Mubai and Huang Yuan’s combined strike before Huyan Li shattered the Blue Silver Grass and broke free.
• Tang San recognized that Huyan Li’s helmet was a Soul Bone.

Tang San’s team continued its fight against the Elephant Armor Sect, but Huyan Li revealed a Head Soul Bone to withstand their attacks. Tang San rescued Tai Long from Huyan Li’s Crushing Kill and redirected Jing Ling and Huang Yuan toward another opponent as Huyan Li’s teammates began breaking free.

• Huyan Li revealed his Head Soul Bone, prompting Emperor Xue Ye to warn Huyan Zhen that others might covet it.
• Huyan Li broke free of Tang San’s restraints and charged Jing Ling, then used Crushing Kill to lock Tai Long in place.
• Tang San pulled Tai Long out of danger with Blue Silver Grass and sent Jing Ling and Huang Yuan toward another restrained Elephant Armor Sect disciple.
• Huyan Li crashed into the arena, leaving a crater, while Jing Ling and Huang Yuan attacked their target together.
• Huyan Li crouched and swung at the advancing Tai Long, hoping to endure long enough for his teammates to recover.

Tang San and the Shrek Academy Team defeated all seven Elephant Armor Sect fighters by breaking their defensive formation and outlasting their attacks. The victory left Huyan Zhen and Salas stunned, while Yu Tianlong was unsurprised that Tang San had managed the feat.

• Tang San struck Huyan Li with the Clear Sky Hammer, then Shrek's fighters sent the other two high-ranked Elephant Armor Sect disciples flying from the arena.
• Jing Ling and Huang Yuan knocked out another opponent, leaving seven Shrek fighters to surround the final two Elephant Armor Sect disciples.
• Oscar's Recovery Sausages restored Tang San's Soul Power as the two opponents charged him with Crushing Kill.
• Tang San used Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon to redirect one attack into the other fighter, and Blue Silver Grass bound them as they crashed down.
• The referee declared Shrek Academy the winner after all seven Elephant Armor Sect disciples lost the ability to resist.
• Huyan Zhen crushed his chair's armrest in disbelief, Salas was stunned, and Yu Tianlong accepted Tang San's victory as expected.

Shrek Academy defeated Elephant Armor Academy, while Shi Nian promised to handle the problem of Shrek for Canghui Academy. Yu Tianlong reunited with Ning Rongrong and the others, and the chapter left him watching the qualifiers as Shrek prepared to face Othello Academy and Thunder Academy met Elephant Armor Academy.

• Tang San led Shrek Academy to defeat Elephant Armor Academy by targeting Huyan Li and breaking the team’s formation.
• Shi Nian reassured Canghui Academy’s students that he would deal with Shrek Academy.
• Yu Tianlong found Ning Rongrong and the others at the auction house and learned they had bought whale rubber because they worried about his lack of intimacy with them.
• Ten days later, Shrek Academy had won all six of its first qualifier matches alongside Thunder Academy and Godwind Academy.
• Yu Tianlong watched the seventh round with the girls and dismissed both Elephant Armor Academy and Thunder Academy as opponents who could not last a single exchange against him.

Yu Tianlong explained the Five Elemental Academies and the rivalry between extreme and balanced approaches to Soul Master training. He argued for individual specialization paired with team balance, then revealed that Spirit Hall’s teams quietly followed this fusion approach and kept its advantage secret.

• Yu Tianlong described the Five Elemental Academies, their backers, and their focus on lightning, wind, water, fire, and earth.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked why the academies chose members with the same attribute, and Yu Tianlong explained the conflict between extreme and balanced schools of thought.
• Yu Tianlong advocated individual specialization supported by complementary teammates, calling it the most suitable path for cultivation.
• Ye Lingling asked which school Spirit Hall supported, and Yu Tianlong said Spirit Hall teams followed the fusion approach without openly promoting it.
• Yu Tianlong told Zhu Zhuqing that Spirit Hall had no reason to share its advantage, then advised her to view matters more rationally.

Tang San left the tournament stands for Shrek Academy, unaware that Shi Nian was stalking him, while Yu Tianlong and Bi Ji followed to observe. Shi Nian trapped Tang San in an illusion and revealed that he intended to make him disappear.

• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang to leave the tournament, and a sinister watcher followed him from the stands.
• Yu Tianlong left the VIP stands with Bi Ji after learning Tang Hao was still in Heaven Dou City, while the other girls stayed behind.
• Tang San walked toward Shrek Academy, gradually sensed something was wrong, and summoned his Godly Zhuge Crossbow and Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
• Tang Hao watched from the shadows but restrained himself, while the invisible Yu Tianlong and Bi Ji observed him.
• Shi Nian appeared before Tang San and said he needed to make him disappear.

Shi Nian trapped Tang San in his Remnant Dream and tried to kill him, despite Tang San's hidden attempts to call for help. The illusion overwhelmed Tang San with memories of his past life as a Tang Sect disciple, leaving him confronted by the elders who accused him of stealing the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.

• Shi Nian revealed that he had lured Tang San into an isolated grove outside Heaven Dou City and intended to eliminate him for Canghui Academy.
• Tang San fired his Godly Zhuge Crossbow at Shi Nian, but the bolts vanished because Shi Nian controlled the Remnant Dream illusion.
• Tang San surrounded himself with Blue Silver Grass and hoped the Shrek Academy members would notice his disappearance, while Shi Nian attacked him through the illusion.
• Tang San saw the Tang Sect elders accusing him of stealing the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record and saying his death would be no loss.
• Tang San tried to resist the elders, but four of them seized him and one struck his arm with internal Astral Qi.

Tang San relived a nightmare of being tortured by the Tang Sect elders while Shi Nian struggled to understand his memories. Tang Hao rescued Tang San from Shi Nian, then entered the dream with him to investigate Tang San’s strange past.

• Tang San dreamed that the Tang Sect elders shattered his limbs and left him to die on Ghost's Sorrow after he admitted secretly learning the sect’s cultivation techniques.
• Shi Nian watched Tang San’s life force fade and prepared to kill him, but Tang Hao struck Shi Nian and stopped his Clear Sky Hammer above him.
• Shi Nian told Tang Hao that his Remnant Dream had shown him an older Tang San using power from another world.
• Tang Hao ordered Shi Nian to cast the dream again without letting Tang San die, and they both entered it.
• Tang San woke before the white-clad figures and broke down, believing he had returned to the torture he had just endured.

Tang Hao discovered through Shi Nian’s dream that Tang San was not truly his son, then killed Shi Nian and let Tang San return to the academy with his severed arm. Yu Tianlong and Bi Ji watched the fallout, and Yu Tianlong claimed Shi Nian’s Soul Bone while planning to make Tang San a servant of the Void.

• Tang Hao watched Tang San’s dream and realized that the person inside his son’s body was someone else, while Tang San woke and begged his father to kill Shi Nian.
• Tang Hao killed Shi Nian with one hammer blow, then questioned Tang San, who lied about what he had seen in the dream.
• Tang San rushed to the academy with his severed arm, and Soul Masters reattached it unevenly.
• Tang Hao raged in the woods, vowed to kill Tang San eventually, and went to a brothel to start a new account.
• Yu Tianlong and Bi Ji decided Tang San could become a servant of the Void, and Yu Tianlong retrieved a miniature left arm Soul Bone from Shi Nian’s remains.

Yu Tianlong spent several days at home while the preliminaries and advancement matches concluded, with Shrek Academy qualifying for the finals despite losing the advancement championship to Skywater Academy. He joined the Heaven Dou Empire’s procession to Spirit City, where Qian Renxue confronted him about sneaking bites.

• Yu Tianlong recovered after a night with the women, and Zhu Zhuqing called him a perverted master.
• Shrek Academy finished the preliminaries undefeated, while Tang San secretly used hidden weapons; Elephant Armor Academy struggled, and Tang San crippled most of Canghui Academy’s team.
• Skywater Academy defeated Shrek Academy to win the advancement matches, but Shrek Academy still qualified for the finals.
• Emperor Xue Ye appointed Crown Prince Xue Qinghe as his envoy, and the Heaven Dou Empire’s fifteen teams departed for Spirit City under a Royal Knights escort.
• Spirit Hall barred non-Soul Masters from watching the finals in Spirit City, and the traveling academies kept mostly to themselves.
• Yu Tianlong climbed into Qian Renxue’s carriage, where she accused him of sneaking bites.

Yu Tianlong promised Qian Renxue he would never leave her, then continued toward Spirit City with the procession. When an ambush struck the traveling academies, the Royal Knights defended them from a rain of rocks.

• Qian Renxue pleaded with Yu Tianlong not to leave her, and he hugged her and promised he never would.
• Yu Tianlong learned that Spirit Hall planned to intercept and kill Tang San, but decided not to help him.
• Dai Mubai discussed the Royal Knights’ discipline with Ma Hongjun as the procession traveled toward Spirit City.
• A sinister presence emerged in a narrow mountain pass, and the Royal Knights’ captain warned the procession to stay alert.
• Attackers sent rocks tumbling down both hills, and the five hundred Royal Knights formed a defensive line and knocked the stones aside.

Fifteen Soul Master Academies were ambushed by a coordinated force of roughly fifteen hundred black-clad attackers, including at least thirty Soul Masters above rank fifty. Tang San led Shrek Academy in fighting back, but one enemy broke free of his Blue Silver Grass just as the Shrek students prepared to fire their hidden weapons.

• Flender restrained Liu Erlong and insisted that protecting the students mattered more than charging toward the attackers.
• Thousands of black-clad figures descended from both hills and overwhelmed the academies with coordinated attacks and numerical superiority.
• Flender ordered the Soul Masters to conserve Soul Power and rout the attackers after recognizing the assault was organized.
• Tang San noticed the attackers were unusually well trained, then used Blue Silver Grass to entangle their legs and direct Shrek Academy's response.
• Tang San ordered the Shrek students to cock their hidden weapons, but a three-ring Soul Master broke free of his Blue Silver Grass before Tang San commanded them to fire.

Yu Tianlong offered Qian Renxue Godly Zhuge Crossbows and their blueprints as betrothal gifts, then warned her that Tang San was Tang Hao’s son and that Tang Hao had killed her father. Meanwhile, Tang San devastated the attackers with hidden weapons before three powerful black-clad Soul Masters forced him to retreat.

• Yu Tianlong told Qian Renxue he had Godly Zhuge Crossbows and blueprints for her, and she agreed to receive them as betrothal gifts when he met her grandfather.
• Yu Tianlong warned Qian Renxue not to attack Tang San because Tang Hao, Tang San’s father, had killed her father, leaving her stunned and asking how he knew.
• Tang San used poisoned needles and other hidden weapons to kill many black-clad bandits around Shrek Academy.
• Three powerful black-clad Soul Masters confronted Tang San, who threw six Mother-Child Soul-Chasing Life-Taking Orbs and retreated with Ning Rongrong’s speed boost.
• Tang San sensed that the three attackers together possessed at least the strength of a Soul Douluo above rank eighty.

Shrek Academy faced a sudden attack by a Soul Douluo and two Soul Saints, while Tang San realized the attackers were targeting him. Qian Renxue ordered the ambush withdrawn, and then organized the Royal Knights to resume their journey.

• Tang San used poisoned needles to stall three powerful attackers before retreating to his companions, and the black-clad forces advanced on Shrek Academy.
• Flender and Liu Erlong fought two Soul Saints while the masked Soul Douluo transformed into a golden eagle and attacked the students.
• Tang San signaled Tai Long and the other students to flee, but the two Soul Kings let them withdraw without interference.
• Qian Renxue proposed capturing Tang San to lure out Tang Hao and force Tang San to make weapons, and Yu Tianlong agreed.
• Qian Renxue sent word through Snake Lance and Pufferfish to Yue Guan, who ordered the attacking Soul Masters to retreat.
• Qian Renxue organized the Royal Knights, restored their formation, and ordered them to continue moving.

After Spirit Hall’s attack, Ning Fengzhi warned Yu Tianlong that Spirit Hall’s strength made a direct confrontation dangerous. Yu Tianlong promised to be careful, though his private ambition was to force his rivals into submission, and Ning Fengzhi remained deeply invested in him because Ning Rongrong loved him.

• Tang San returned to Shrek Academy’s carriage, shaken by the attack and unsure why he had become a target.
• Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, Chen Xin, and Dugu Bo discussed whether Spirit Hall’s attack was meant to draw out Tang Hao or destroy the Clear Sky Sect.
• Yu Tianlong told Ning Fengzhi that he had recognized Spirit Hall’s involvement, and Ning Fengzhi explained that he had kept silent to protect the witnesses.
• Ning Fengzhi warned Yu Tianlong that Spirit Hall greatly outnumbered the forces of the two empires and urged him not to challenge it directly.
• Yu Tianlong promised to avoid doing anything reckless, while privately believing strength would let him settle conflicts on his own terms.

Yu Xiaogang met Pope Bibi Dong after twenty years apart and asked how she had overcome the dangers of cultivating Twin Martial Souls, hoping to help his disciple Tang San. Bibi Dong refused and revealed she had already sent assassins after Tang San, leaving Yu Xiaogang’s request unanswered and his disciple in danger.

• Yu Xiaogang entered Spirit City and used his elder token to gain access to the Pope’s Palace.
• Bibi Dong met Yu Xiaogang, rejected his use of her old name, and told him to address her as Pope or Your Holiness.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Bibi Dong how she had overcome the Twin Martial Souls hurdle so he could guide his disciple, Tang San.
• Yu Xiaogang promised Tang San would never oppose Spirit Hall if Bibi Dong shared her knowledge.
• Bibi Dong refused, saying she had already sent people to ambush and kill Tang San along the route taken by the Heaven Dou Empire’s competing teams.

Bibi Dong ordered Yu Xiaogang imprisoned and tortured after he threatened Spirit Hall over Tang San, while the Heaven Dou teams arrived safely in Spirit City. Yu Tianlong explored the city and learned about the Pope’s Palace and the sacred Douluo Hall, as the teams prepared to stay under protection.

• Bibi Dong told Yu Xiaogang that Spirit Hall would eliminate Tang San if he could not be recruited, and Yu Xiaogang threatened to destroy Spirit Hall if Tang San was harmed.
• Bibi Dong recalled Yu Xiaogang’s rejection of her, threatened to torture Liu Erlong, and ordered a guard to take Yu Xiaogang to the dungeon for torture.
• Qian Renxue led the Heaven Dou Empire’s fifteen Soul Master teams into Spirit City after arranging an escort and leaving the soldiers outside its walls.
• Yu Tianlong explored Spirit City and learned that the Pope’s Palace housed the Supreme Pontiff and Elder Hall, while Douluo Hall was the sacred resting place of deceased Titled Douluos.
• Ning Fengzhi stayed near Yu Tianlong to protect him, viewing him as their hope.

As the finals began in Spirit City, Qian Renxue explained the tournament format to Yu Tianlong and the others, who prepared to face the knockout matches. The chapter ended with Dugu Yan and the others discovering that four members of Godwind Academy's lineup had been replaced by fighters from Blazing Fire Academy.

• Qian Renxue visited Yu Tianlong and the others, and Yu Tianlong dismissed the need for tactics, saying they would steamroll their opponents.
• Qian Renxue explained the finals' rounds, byes, and championship format, while Ning Rongrong and the others grew suspicious of her relationship with Yu Tianlong.
• The participating academies gathered at Spirit City's arena, where a red-robed bishop announced the finals and the first-round matchups.
• Yu Tianlong told Ning Rongrong that the small audience and subdued opening might be preparation for the final matches before the Pope's Palace.
• Dugu Yan and the others watched Godwind Academy face Nightshade Academy and were shocked to see four Blazing Fire Academy members in Godwind Academy's lineup.