Chapter Summaries

Lu Yu clashed with Dai Mubai after arriving to find Oscar, then learned from Flender that Oscar had disappeared after leaving a letter. Lu Yu suspected Lu Fei and Lin Tian had taken Oscar away, though he did not know for certain.

• Dai Mubai learned Zhu Zhuqing was Lu Yu's girlfriend and angrily attacked Lu Yu when he came to the dormitory looking for Oscar.
• Lu Yu injured Dai Mubai in a punch exchange, then kicked him through a wall after Dai Mubai insulted Zhu Zhuqing.
• Tang San tried to stop Lu Yu, but Flender arrived and restrained the others with his Soul Power.
• Flender accused Lu Yu of taking Oscar, while Lu Yu denied knowing where Oscar was.
• Flender showed Lu Yu Oscar's letter saying he had gone to train with companions, and Lu Yu suspected Lu Fei and Lin Tian had taken him.

After learning that Oscar had left, Lu Yu took Zhu Zhuqing into the sky on his Somersault Cloud and revealed his true cultivation and the cloud’s incredible speed. As they watched Tang Hao confront Zhao Wuji below, a message from Lu Yu’s hidden cloud made him furious.

• Lu Yu left Flender after reading Oscar’s letter and returned to the dormitory with Zhu Zhuqing.
• Lu Yu took Zhu Zhuqing onto the Somersault Cloud, revealed that he was a level 61 Soul Emperor, and explained that the cloud could travel 54,000 kilometers in two seconds.
• Lu Yu and Zhu Zhuqing watched Tang Hao unleash his power against Zhao Wuji in Shrek’s back mountain.
• Lu Yu gave Zhu Zhuqing a beast-hide blanket when she began shivering in the cold.
• Lu Yu received a message from the Somersault Cloud hidden in the forest and wanted to kill upon hearing it.

Lu Yu overheard Flender asking Tang Hao to drive him out of Shrek Academy, then told Zhu Zhuqing that Tang Hao was Tang San’s father and revealed that he possessed a second Martial Soul. He took Zhu Zhuqing back to the dormitory after checking that Tang Hao was gone.

• Tang Hao refused Flender’s request to drive Lu Yu out of Shrek Academy and said he had his own plans for him.
• Flender accepted that he could not afford to oppose Tang Hao or Lu Yu, while Zhao Wuji got up and went to seek healing.
• Lu Yu told Zhu Zhuqing that Flender had asked Tang Hao to deal with him and revealed that Tang Hao was Tang San’s father, a rank-95 Titled Douluo.
• Lu Yu explained that Tang San had Twin Martial Souls, then revealed his own Ruyi Staff to a shocked Zhu Zhuqing.
• Lu Yu searched the area for Tang Hao and took Zhu Zhuqing back to the dormitory when he found no sign of him.

Lu Yu explained to Zhu Zhuqing how the Great Sage’s Soul Rings worked and why he had absorbed four Ten-Year Soul Rings despite planning to give his Martial Souls Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings. He then revealed his External Soul Bone and said he planned to take the one at Shrek before its intended recipient absorbed it.

• Lu Yu showed Zhu Zhuqing the Great Sage’s five Soul Rings and explained how the Great Sage used his Soul Power and Soul Ring slots.
• Zhu Zhuqing realized Lu Yu had three sets of Soul Ring slots, and Lu Yu said he planned to give the Great Sage and the Ruyi Staff full sets of Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• Lu Yu explained that he could fuse Soul Rings from the same kind of Soul Beast to increase their age, and that he had used weaker rings in his own set to manage the strain on his body.
• Lu Yu mocked the Grandmaster of Martial Soul Theory’s claimed limit for a first Soul Ring, while Zhu Zhuqing worked out why Lu Yu had chosen four Ten-Year Soul Rings.
• Lu Yu showed Zhu Zhuqing his External Soul Bone and revealed that he planned to snatch the one at Shrek before its intended recipient absorbed it.

Lu Yu undermined Flender’s hundred-lap training by persuading the others to skip it and spend the day in Suotuo City, leaving Flender furious. After returning to Shrek, Lu Yu took Zhu Zhuqing on a ride aboard the Somersault Cloud.

• Flender ordered the students to run a hundred laps, but Dai Mubai was still bedridden and Lu Yu and Zhu Zhuqing had to be fetched from their dormitories.
• Ning Rongrong gave up after twenty laps and invited Lu Yu and Zhu Zhuqing to Suotuo City; Lu Yu agreed, and Zhu Zhuqing followed his lead.
• Lu Yu convinced Tang San that smithing was better training than running laps, and Tang San and Xiao Wu joined the others in skipping the exercise.
• Ma Hongjun stopped running too, while Flender watched from above and seethed over the students’ disobedience.
• Lu Yu and the others returned at night, and Lu Yu took Zhu Zhuqing to a secluded spot and summoned the Somersault Cloud for a ride.

Lu Yu helped Zhu Zhuqing reach level 30 with Whale Rubber, then led the Shrek group toward the Star Dou Great Forest, hoping to secure Tang San’s destined Mirror Shadow Beast. At the inn, Lu Yu fought Blue Sunshine Academy’s students and defeated their Soul King teacher with Rasengans.

• Lu Yu gave Zhu Zhuqing Whale Rubber, and she refined its medicinal power to break through to level 30.
• After Zhu Zhuqing refined several more pieces, Flender sent Zhao Wuji to lead Lu Yu, Zhu Zhuqing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Ma Hongjun to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Lu Yu reached the inn ahead of the group and saw the Blue Sunshine Academy students, relieved that he had arrived in time for the planned events.
• When Ma Hongjun harassed a Blue Sunshine Academy student, the academy’s students beat him while Lu Yu and the others did not intervene.
• After a Blue Sunshine Academy student insulted Lu Yu, he flipped a table at them and defeated the students who attacked him with Flying Dragon in the Heavens.
• Blue Sunshine Academy’s Soul King teacher confronted Lu Yu, who struck him with two Rasengans as Zhao Wuji watched from the second floor.

The group encountered Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Lu Yu gave them the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent to earn Chao Tianxiang's favor. After the Titan Giant Ape abducted Xiao Wu, Lu Yu followed Tang San and stopped a Man Faced Demon Spider so Tang San could continue the pursuit; Lu Yu brutally killed it, leaving a Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

• Lu Yu persuaded the group to spare the wounded Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, then offered it to Chao Tianxiang when she and Meng Yiran appeared.
• Chao Tianxiang thanked Lu Yu and promised to repay his favor before leaving with Meng Yiran and the Soul Beast.
• A Titan Giant Ape appeared and carried Xiao Wu away, so Tang San raced after it while Lu Yu and Zhu Zhuqing followed.
• Lu Yu intercepted a Man Faced Demon Spider that blocked Tang San, allowing Tang San to continue pursuing Xiao Wu.
• Lu Yu tortured the Man Faced Demon Spider to death, and a purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring formed above its corpse.

Lu Yu tortured the Man Faced Demon Spider until it dropped the Eight Spider Lances, then absorbed and transformed them into the golden Equal to Heaven Battle Flags. As Lu Yu and Zhu Zhuqing set out to find Zhu Zhuqing’s Third Soul Ring, Lu Yu noticed that the forest had gone unnaturally silent and Zhu Zhuqing’s footsteps had vanished.

• Lu Yu killed the Man Faced Demon Spider and extracted the Eight Spider Lances, an External Soul Bone, from its back.
• Lu Yu absorbed the Eight Spider Lances while Zhu Zhuqing watched, then explained that they boosted his attributes and could drain life force and inflict poison.
• Lu Yu merged his golden-spotted External Soul Bone with the Eight Spider Lances and reshaped them into four golden spears bearing battle flags marked “Great Sage Equal to Heaven.”
• Lu Yu named them the Equal to Heaven Battle Flags and decided he would ask Lou Gao to forge a Great Sage Set.
• Lu Yu and Zhu Zhuqing returned to the ground, found no sign of Tang San or Xiao Wu, and headed out to hunt Zhu Zhuqing’s Third Soul Ring.
• Lu Yu noticed the forest had fallen silent and Zhu Zhuqing’s footsteps had disappeared, summoned the Ruyi Staff, and looked around warily.

Lu Yu searched the forest after Zhu Zhuqing vanished, while Zhu Zhuqing discovered that the Lu Yu beside her was an impostor who had trapped her in an illusion. The real Lu Yu broke free, reached Zhu Zhuqing, and blocked the impostor’s escape with a Somersault Cloud.

• Lu Yu noticed Zhu Zhuqing had disappeared and searched the forest with the Great Sage and his Somersault Cloud.
• Zhu Zhuqing tested the Lu Yu walking beside her and realized he was an impostor because his answers and behavior were wrong.
• The impostor immobilized Zhu Zhuqing, threatened her, and then let her go after learning how much she cared about Lu Yu.
• Lu Yu appeared above the impostor, having escaped the illusion, and placed a huge Somersault Cloud behind her to block her escape.

Lu Yu escaped a dreamlike illusion after Great Sage struck him awake, then found Zhu Zhuqing facing an impostor who looked just like him. He blocked the impostor’s escape and demanded to know who she was.

• Lu Yu suspected he was trapped in a dream when flying far from the forest failed to break the illusion, and asked Great Sage to hit him awake.
• Great Sage struck Lu Yu into a tree, waking him in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Lu Yu spotted Zhu Zhuqing with a fake version of himself and overheard Zhu Zhuqing refuse to live if Lu Yu had died.
• Lu Yu revealed himself, reassured Zhu Zhuqing, and blocked the impostor’s escape with a Somersault Cloud.
• The impostor cautiously asked to leave, but Lu Yu summoned the Ruyi Staff and demanded her identity.

Lu Yu confronted a woman who had disguised herself as him and tried to bargain for the secret behind her transformations. After she escaped by leaving a projection behind, he rampaged through the forest and attacked fleeing Soul Beasts, ending when he spotted a rhinoceros-type beast charging at him and recognized it as his target.

• Lu Yu and Zhu Zhuqing confronted the fake Lu Yu, who revealed herself as a silver-haired woman but refused to explain her disguise.
• Lu Yu offered a Soul Bone and then a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone in exchange for information, but the woman stayed silent.
• The Great Sage struck the woman, only for her to vanish as a projection while her real body escaped.
• Lu Yu searched the forest with the Somersault Cloud, smashing trees and charging through fleeing Soul Beasts in case the woman was hiding among them.
• Lu Yu spotted a rhinoceros-type Soul Beast charging toward the Somersault Cloud and declared that he had found her.

Lu Yu captured a white fox who had impersonated a woman after slaughtering Soul Beasts while trying to find her. The fox recognized the Great Sage as the one who had awakened Lu Yu from her dream, then discovered that Lu Yu was a thirteen-year-old level 61 Soul Emperor.

• Lu Yu trapped the woman in a Somersault Cloud cage and accused her of blaming him after she had fled from his offer of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone.
• The woman denied being a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, then revealed herself as a huge white fox and insisted that she was still a Soul Beast.
• The white fox accused the Great Sage of awakening Lu Yu from her dream, and Lu Yu explained that the Great Sage was his Martial Soul.
• After Lu Yu recalled the Great Sage into his body, the white fox sensed his level rise from 41 to 61 and collapsed in fear, convinced powerful experts were protecting him.

Lu Yu persuaded the eighty-seven-thousand-year-old Illusory Moon Fox to reach one hundred thousand years and sacrifice itself to him by promising to resurrect it as a divine beast after he became a god. He sealed the promise with a dire oath, and the fox agreed to cooperate.

• Lu Yu learned that the white fox was an Illusory Moon Fox with eighty-seven thousand years of cultivation and abilities based on spiritual power and changing its appearance.
• Lu Yu offered to help Illusory Moon Fox reach one hundred thousand years in exchange for its sacrifice.
• Lu Yu promised to resurrect Illusory Moon Fox in the Divine Realm as a divine beast after becoming a god.
• Lu Yu swore a severe oath to uphold his promise, shocking Zhu Zhuqing and the fox.
• Illusory Moon Fox accepted Lu Yu's offer and agreed to sacrifice itself after breaking through to one hundred thousand years.

Lu Yu left the Star Dou Great Forest with Yue Li and Zhu Zhuqing after collecting three Soul Bones, then reunited with Tang San and Xiao Wu. He planned to return to Shrek before seeking Dugu Bo and the Immortal Herbs.

• Lu Yu renamed Hu Huanyue as Yue Li and decided to leave the forest rather than wait for Lu Fei and the others.
• Lu Yu found three Soul Bones among the fallen Soul Beasts and stored them for later.
• Yue Li told Lu Yu that most Titled Douluo could not see through her transformation, and he warned her about the level ninety-five Titled Douluo near Shrek.
• Lu Yu and Zhu Zhuqing met Tang San and Xiao Wu at the forest entrance, and the four headed to the inn where Zhao and the others were waiting.
• Tang San told Lu Yu that a bull's roar had caused the Titan Giant Ape to drop Xiao Wu and flee.

Lu Yu learned that Xiao Wu and Tang San had reached level 30 after eating rare herbs, and discovered that Tang San had purified the poison from his Blue Silver Grass and evolved it into a golden-threaded plant. Tang San was now level 37, leaving Lu Yu baffled by how far his path had changed.

• Tang San told Lu Yu that Xiao Wu had found unusual herbs, and the two of them had reached level 30 after eating them.
• Lu Yu asked Tang San to describe the herb, recalling that Tang San had previously withheld information about other Immortal Herbs.
• Tang San asked Lu Yu how to develop his Blue Silver Grass without poison-based Soul Rings, prompting Lu Yu to demand an explanation.
• Tang San said Xiao Wu's herb had purified half the poison from his Blue Silver Grass and a two-thousand-year-old Holy Lotus had cleared the rest, weakening his first two Soul Skills.
• Tang San showed Lu Yu his evolved, meter-tall Blue Silver Grass, which bore fine golden threads, and confirmed that he was level 37.
• Lu Yu wondered whether Tang San would follow a path tied to life and destruction, while Tang San mistook Lu Yu's remark for a question about chickens.

Lu Yu recovered from his doubts about Tang San’s change of cultivation and decided to keep him close while looking for a way to tame him. At Shrek, Lu Yu examined Tang San’s new purification Soul Skill and advised him to develop Blue Silver Grass into a source of Hidden Weapons.

• Lu Yu realized Xiao Wu’s medicinal herb had prompted Tang San to cultivate the path of Life, then decided not to kill him and instead considered taming him by bringing Ah Yin out of her cave.
• Lu Yu returned to Shrek and reassured Zhu Zhuqing that he had resolved a problem with his cultivation method.
• Tang San demonstrated Blue Silver Purification Leaf, which removed poison, paralysis, and Mental Interference, and Lu Yu recognized its potential to cure Dugu Bo.
• Lu Yu suggested Tang San absorb an Iron Needle Pine Soul Ring so he could harden and fire Blue Silver Grass leaves as an inexhaustible supply of Hidden Weapons.
• Tang San grew excited by Lu Yu’s idea, while Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing reacted with admiration and unease at Lu Yu’s ingenuity.

Lu Yu revealed the secrets of Tang San's parents to Yue Li, then watched Yu Xiaogang arrive at Shrek in a frail state. The chapter left Tang San worried about Yu Xiaogang's health and determined to use his Third Soul Skill to cure him.

• Tang San considered poisoning Yu Xiaogang and secretly swapping the leaves that would detoxify him.
• Lu Yu told Yue Li that Tang Hao was Tang San's father and that Tang San's mother, Ah Yin, had been a hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Grass plant who became Tang Hao's ninth Soul Ring.
• Yue Li asked whether Ah Yin was all right, and Lu Yu told her she was Tang Hao's ninth Soul Ring.
• Flender introduced the frail Yu Xiaogang, arriving in a wheelchair, as his best brother and the continent's foremost authority on Martial Soul Theory.
• Tang San helped Yu Xiaogang drink water and worried that Yu Xiaogang might die before passing on the secret of cultivating Twin Martial Souls.

As Flender introduced Yu Xiaogang’s role in creating the Golden Iron Triangle’s Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Lu Yu realized he and Great Sage might be able to fuse their Martial Souls. Lu Yu and Great Sage began fusing their Soul Power, and Flender sensed a startling level 61 fluctuation.

• Flender told the Shrek students that Yu Xiaogang had guided the Golden Iron Triangle in creating a Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Ning Rongrong explained that the trio could become a Golden Sacred Dragon.
• Lu Yu reasoned that his shared Soul Power and mental connection with Great Sage might let them perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• As Lu Yu stood in a daze, Tang San stopped Zhu Zhuqing from touching him and claimed he was experiencing sudden enlightenment.
• Yu Xiaogang dismissed sudden enlightenment as nonsense, and Tang San apologized while privately scorning him.
• Lu Yu laughed, held Great Sage in his palms, and unleashed Soul Power with him; Flender sensed level 61, and Lu Yu began fusing their power.

Lu Yu fused with the Great Sage and gained a powerful new form, which he named the Equal to Heaven Dharma Body, but he still could not lift the Ruyi Staff. As he put the form away, Yu Xiaogang's abuse of Luo Sanpao prompted Ning Rongrong to confront him.

• Lu Yu fused Soul Power with the Great Sage, transformed into a golden-furred form, and overwhelmed the Shrek group with his power.
• Lu Yu summoned the 7,800-ton Ruyi Staff but failed to lift it, even after shrinking it.
• Tang Hao noticed the Ruyi Staff and wondered whether Lu Yu had Twin Martial Souls, while Lu Yu named his new form the Equal to Heaven Dharma Body.
• Yu Xiaogang tried to make Luo Sanpao imitate the Great Sage's possession and kicked Luo Sanpao when it failed.
• Ning Rongrong rebuked Yu Xiaogang for mistreating his Martial Soul and threatened him with her Grandpa Sword.

Lu Yu faced Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Dai Mubai as they pressed him to reveal how he used Martial Soul Possession. Realizing his fear had weakened his connection to the Ruyi Staff, Lu Yu reclaimed his defiant resolve and summoned the transformed Wish-Fulfilling Golden Cudgel.

• Yu Xiaogang demanded that Flender help capture Lu Yu and force him to explain Martial Soul Possession, but Flender hesitated because he feared Tang Hao.
• Lu Yu mocked Yu Xiaogang's reputation as the Grandmaster of Martial Soul Theory, and Yu Xiaogang spat blood before ordering Flender to seize him.
• Dai Mubai offered Flender rewards and a noble title if he captured Lu Yu and handed Zhu Zhuqing over to him.
• Flender began releasing his Soul Power, but Tang San stepped between him and Lu Yu.
• Lu Yu realized that fear had made him unworthy of the Ruyi Staff's power, then summoned a golden cudgel engraved with the words Wish-Fulfilling Golden Cudgel.