Chapter Summaries

Flender and Yu Xiaogang decided to abandon Shrek Academy temporarily rather than risk provoking Spirit Hall, while planning to return after the coming war. At Botanical Academy, Zhao Zilong, Huang Yuan, and Jing Ling demonstrated their unusual combat abilities, leaving Suosite impressed but horrified when Jing Ling cut off Huang Yuan’s arms.

• Flender and Yu Xiaogang judged that Spirit Hall’s attention made it too dangerous to kill the youngsters, and Yu Xiaogang told Flender to send Shrek’s students away while keeping the tournament team.
• Yu Xiaogang predicted that war between Spirit Hall and the clans, sects, and two great empires was near, and Flender understood they could rebuild Shrek after Spirit Hall fell.
• Zhao Yi brought Zhao Zilong and the others to Botanical Academy, where Suosite initially doubted they were exceptional talents.
• Zhao Zilong demonstrated the Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix Spear Technique, and Suosite recognized her self-created Spirit Skills as strong enough to give her Soul King-level combat strength.
• Huang Yuan showed his power by rapidly carving a cave into hard black iron rock, then helped Jing Ling demonstrate the Eight Exquisites Sword Formation while Jiang Zhu boosted his healing.
• Jing Ling’s formation left Huang Yuan badly wounded but rapidly healing, then severed both of his arms and shocked Suosite.

Little Nine revealed that his Blue Silver Ball could fuse with Suosite’s Black Jade Snow Lotus, producing a plant-growing domain that astonished the dean. After joining Botanical Academy with his companions, Little Nine learned that Suosite believed his power could create the continent’s strongest mimicry cultivation environment.

• Suosite accepted Little Nine and the four other youngsters into Botanical Academy after Little Nine demonstrated his plant-type Martial Spirit fusion with Suosite’s Black Jade Snow Lotus.
• The fusion spread a vitality-filled domain that caused plants and broken tree fragments to grow rapidly, prompting Suosite to recognize it as a domain.
• Suosite arranged for Zhao Yi to leave and report back, then welcomed the five newcomers and provided them with villas in the academy’s forest.
• Jiang Zhu explained that the tree villas were part of Botanical Academy’s mimicry cultivation environment, which particularly benefited plant-type Soul Masters.
• Suosite arrived at Little Nine’s villa with Teacher Yamato and seven young women, then had Yamato reshape the villa as he hinted that Little Nine’s domain could form the continent’s strongest mimicry cultivation environment.

Little Nine and Botanical Academy’s seven girls unexpectedly formed an Eight-in-One Martial Spirit Fusion Skill that amplified his Blue Silver Domain, but the power triggered his Evil Fire and caused Suosite’s Black Jade Snow Lotus to change. Little Nine began to explain what he believed had happened.

• Suosite brought Little Nine together with Zijing and the other six girls so they could cultivate within his Blue Silver Domain, and instructed them to combine their Martial Spirits.
• Little Nine and the seven girls formed an Eight-in-One Martial Spirit Fusion Skill, creating a strange tree and expanding the Blue Silver Domain to a hundred zhang before the fusion collapsed and exhausted the girls.
• Suosite used his Martial Spirit Fusion Skill with Little Nine to restore the girls, but the exertion triggered Little Nine’s Evil Fire and caused both men intense pain until Zijing separated them.
• Little Nine explained that the fusion and domain had accelerated the merging of Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire origin, and Suosite noticed a black hair-like root growing from his Black Jade Snow Lotus.
• After Suosite assured Little Nine that the girls were trustworthy, Little Nine said he might know why the Black Jade Snow Lotus had changed.

Little Nine revealed that his Evil Fire could evolve Martial Spirits, though it intensified desire and caused extreme pain. His allies learned that he could use it through Martial Spirit Fusion Skills with different types of Martial Spirits, leaving them eager to improve their own powers.

• Little Nine explained that the Evil Fire had evolved his Martial Spirit and could potentially evolve others, and Suosite warned the seven women to stay close and keep the ability secret.
• Little Nine disclosed the Evil Fire’s severe side effects, while Huang Yuan, Jing Ling, Zhao Zilong, and Jiang Zhu worried that it would prevent him from fighting.
• Little Nine reassured everyone that he could resolve the side effects, and Suosite planned restraints for the women who wanted to try the Evil Fire.
• Huang Yuan asked Little Nine to help evolve his Lone Wolf Martial Spirit, but Jiang Zhu thought their Martial Spirits could not fuse.
• Little Nine revealed that his Blue Silver Ball could fuse with non-plant Martial Spirits, prompting Huang Yuan and Zhao Zilong to ask for his help.

Wang Hao and Bibi Dong prepared to use the All-Continent Elite Soul Master Tournament as an opening for Spirit Hall’s rise, while Little Nine arrived in Heaven Dou City and sought allies against Shrek Academy. The chapter ended with three Titled Douluo meeting Little Nine and welcoming his potential in Spirit Hall.

• Wang Hao and Bibi Dong discussed the growing conflict between Spirit Hall and the two great empires, sects, and nobles as the tournament began.
• Wang Hao withdrew his consciousness from the Spirit Guidance Device, leaving Bibi Dong longing for him to stand beside her in person.
• Little Nine reviewed recordings of Shrek Academy’s qualifier battles and asked Kalian to arrange meetings with Huo Wu, Shui Bing'er, and Meng Yiran.
• Demon Subduing Douluo, Qianjun, and Ghost Douluo appeared before Little Nine and praised the power he had developed from Evil Fire.
• Demon Subduing Douluo assured Little Nine that Spirit Hall had room for him, easing Little Nine’s concerns about joining the faction.

Demon Subduing Douluo and two other Spirit Hall powerhouses publicly backed Little Nine, prompting Meng Yiran, Huo Wu, and Shui Bing'er to accept his invitation to work together against Shrek. Meanwhile, Qian Renxue continued grooming Xue Beng as a potential successor and revealed her concerns and ambitions to Great Emperor Xue Ye.

• Demon Subduing Douluo tested Little Nine's abilities, then declared that Spirit Hall would support him in Heaven Dou City.
• Meng Yiran chose to accept Little Nine's invitation so she could defeat Tang San and the Shrek Team, and Huo Wu and Shui Bing'er also accepted.
• Little Nine waited at the Botanical Academy's reception hall, confident that the three women would join him because their academies needed allies.
• Qian Renxue beat Xue Beng and ordered the guards to keep him alive until his coming-of-age ceremony.
• Qian Renxue told Great Emperor Xue Ye that she was preparing Xue Beng as a successor in case Spirit Hall harmed her, and Xue Ye urged her to speak honestly about her greater ambitions.

Qian Renxue secured Great Emperor Xue Ye’s authority to reclaim the Heaven Dou Empire’s dispersed power, then went to the Martial Spirit Temple to mediate the dispute over the dying Canghui Academy students. Facing Salas’s demand to extract their memories and Ning Fengzhi’s objections, she approved the extraction and promised compensation for their families.

• Qian Renxue urged Great Emperor Xue Ye to let her reunify the empire’s power, and he gave her a token authorizing her to mobilize the imperial family’s forces.
• After learning that two injured members of the Canghui Academy Team had died and five were near death, Qian Renxue went to the Martial Spirit Temple at Ning Fengzhi’s invitation.
• Salas argued that the Canghui students’ parents wanted their memories extracted and the Shrek Team punished, while Ning Fengzhi warned that the procedure would kill the survivors.
• Qian Renxue asked whether a healing-type Titled Douluo could save the children, but Salas said their injuries to their brains, souls, and Martial Spirits were beyond treatment.
• Qian Renxue approved extracting evidence from the survivors’ memories and promised adequate compensation to all seven families on behalf of the empire.

Qian Renxue tried to secure treatment for the five injured Canghui Academy students by asking Tang San to provide immortal-grade precious herbs. Salas exposed Shrek Team’s use of the herbs before the tournament, but Tang San refused to give up the herbs that could heal the students, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Salas told the Canghui students’ parents that extracting their memories could kill them, while Qian Renxue promised to seek another way to help.
• Qian Renxue asked whether immortal-grade precious herbs could keep the five students alive, and Salas reported that suitable herbs might give them a chance.
• Qian Renxue revealed that Tang San had obtained many immortal-grade precious herbs, prompting Salas to accuse Shrek Team of exploiting a tournament loophole.
• Salas sensed traces of three immortal-grade precious herbs in Tang San and demanded that he provide herbs to treat the students.
• Tang San claimed his suitable herbs had already been used by his lineage elders, and he refused Qian Renxue’s offer to exchange for them.

Qian Renxue and Spirit Hall tried to determine what had happened to the injured Canghui Team members, but Tang San refused to provide an immortal-grade medicinal treasure. Old Whitehead stabilized five patients so their memories could be extracted, and the resulting projection revealed the Canghui Team’s Seven Asura Illusion Realm confrontation with Shrek.

• Qian Renxue apologized to the Canghui Team parents and promised to seek justice for their children.
• Old Whitehead arrived and said he could not repair the patients’ soul damage without an appropriate immortal-grade medicinal treasure, which Tang San insisted he did not have.
• After the parents confirmed they understood the danger, Old Whitehead stabilized the five patients, and a mental-manipulation Soul Master extracted their memories.
• The memory projection showed the Canghui Team captain warning Shrek that the Seven Asura Illusion Realm would attack their mental power and urging them to forfeit.

Tang San’s mental assault shattered the Canghui Team’s Seven Asura Illusion Realm, leaving seven opponents grievously injured, and Salas reviewed the recording before ruling that Canghui had won the match. Qian Renxue tried to hold Tang San responsible for the deaths, but Prince Xue Xing and the nobles shielded him, leaving the parents of the victims powerless.

• Tang San intensified his Purple Demon Eye assault despite the Canghui Team’s surrender, causing the Seven Asura Illusion Realm to collapse and the Canghui members’ gemstone Martial Spirits to explode.
• Salas watched the recording and accused Tang San of lying, while Flender defended him by arguing that the captain’s surrender was not genuine and the backlash was the Canghui Team’s fault.
• Qian Renxue declared Canghui the winner, and Flender accepted the ruling before she accused Tang San of causing seven deaths, including those of five imperial nobles.
• Prince Xue Xing arrived and the Canghui Team members’ elders claimed the injured players had planned revenge, while threatening their parents into abandoning the matter.
• Prince Xue Xing invoked the Empire’s law for nobles who killed commoners and offered two gold soul coins as fines, then pretended to drop them for Qian Renxue to pick up.

Qian Renxue declared open opposition to Prince Xue Xing and ordered Tang San and Shrek Academy’s students punished through Spirit Hall’s records and allowances. Meanwhile, Dieying’s parents reassembled her Martial Spirit at the cost of the mother’s life, and the father decided to carry out a mysterious person’s request while warning Salas.

• Qian Renxue used two gold spirit coins to offer a coffin for Prince Xue Xing and threatened the nobles as they left, while Prince Xue Xing feared Great Emperor Xue Ye had turned against him.
• Qian Renxue dismissed Ning Fengzhi and Tang San, and Spirit Hall announced it would delete Shrek Academy students’ registration records and stop their allowances unless they passed a character assessment.
• Dieying’s parents used a Secret Method to reassemble her shattered gemstone Martial Spirit, saving her life, but the mother died and the father was left near death.
• Qian Renxue promised to care for Dieying, and Salas vowed to seek help from Her Holiness the Pope and His Excellency the Grandmaster to repair her Martial Spirit.
• The father revealed that a mysterious person had given them the Secret Method in exchange for a consequential deed, and he decided to carry it out while leaving Salas a warning letter.

Wang Hao investigated Tang San’s unusual Twin Martial Spirits and discussed hidden powers on Douluo Continent with Bibi Dong. He went to the Heaven Dou City hospital to examine the surviving Canghui Team girl, but found that a dead teammate’s Martial Spirit had vanished unexpectedly.

• Wang Hao mistook a document’s mention of “Thousand-Hand” for a reference to Hashirama Senju, then explained to Bibi Dong why he suspected a powerful being had arranged Tang San’s possession and rebirth.
• Bibi Dong worried that ancient, powerful beings such as the Nineleaf Sword Grass could disrupt Spirit Hall’s unification plans, and Wang Hao argued they were unlikely to care about the affairs of ordinary people.
• After spending time with Bibi Dong, Wang Hao teleported to the Martial Spirit Temple in Heaven Dou City with Ghost Douluo to visit the surviving Canghui Team girl.
• Wang Hao stopped nurses who were preparing to remove the four dead Canghui Team members and examined the last young man.
• Wang Hao discovered that the young man’s Martial Spirit had completely dissipated soon after his death, despite the expected delay, and Salas and the others could not explain it.

Wang Hao discovered that the secret method used to repair Dieying's Martial Spirit carried traces of the Abyssal Plane, ordered Salas to hunt the Holy Spirit Cult, and gave Dieying a chance to become his disciple. Meanwhile, Ning Fengzhi concluded that Oscar might not survive and secretly ordered Bone Douluo to extract Oscar's Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid before a Spirit Hall Grandmaster could intervene.

• Wang Hao repaired Dieying's gemstone Martial Spirit, found traces of an evil art linked to the Abyssal Plane, and learned that her father had left a letter explaining the Holy Spirit Cult's involvement.
• Wang Hao ordered Salas to root out the Holy Spirit Cult's evil spirit masters in Heaven Dou City and gave Dieying an inheritance crystal to test her potential as a disciple.
• Tang San apologized to Ning Fengzhi after an attacker injured the Shrek Team, and Ning Fengzhi identified Spirit Hall as the likely mastermind behind the assault.
• Bone Douluo told Ning Fengzhi that Rongrong had stabilized but Oscar's Martial Spirit had dissolved and his condition was nearly beyond healing.
• Ning Fengzhi ordered Bone Douluo to extract Oscar's Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid while he went to delay the visiting Spirit Hall Grandmaster.

Wang Hao confronted Ning Fengzhi over the attack on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan and then lectured Tang San about his judgment and actions toward Canghui Academy. He left Flender reeling after revealing Shrek Academy’s exceptionally high death rate among its graduates.

• Wang Hao told Ning Fengzhi that another faction had arranged the attack and suggested Oscar had been targeted for the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, while Ning Fengzhi continued to blame Spirit Hall.
• Demon Subduing Douluo pressured Ning Fengzhi until Flender arrived to shield him, with Tang San close behind and openly suspicious of Wang Hao.
• Wang Hao questioned Tang San about his harsh treatment of Canghui Academy, challenging his claims that the team had acted justly without investigating its alleged crimes.
• Wang Hao urged Tang San to judge claims for himself rather than accept hearsay, and criticized Flender’s teachings as unexamined dross.
• Wang Hao revealed that only 173,131 of the 314,681 Spirit Masters who had graduated from Shrek Academy were still alive, and Flender collapsed in shock.

Wang Hao condemned Tang San for evading responsibility and refused to save him from the consequences of his choices. He saved Oscar from immediate death, but Oscar remained crippled and had only a year to live; Wang Hao offered to take him as a nominal student.

• Wang Hao criticized Tang San for injuring his teammates and then following Flender's advice to dodge responsibility, urging him to learn from Tang Hao instead.
• Wang Hao accompanied Ning Fengzhi to Oscar, whom Bone Douluo had left gravely injured after extracting the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid.
• Wang Hao asked Tang San for the Snow-Core Purple Orchid to repair Oscar's soul, but Tang San claimed he had given it away.
• Wang Hao repaired Oscar's soul and meridians enough to save his life, then declared that Oscar's Martial Spirit was gone and he might live for only a year.
• Wang Hao offered Oscar a place as his nominal student, and Oscar hesitated because he considered himself a cripple who was not worthy.

Wang Hao accepted Oscar as a Registered Disciple but told him his damaged meridians made cultivation impossible, leaving him about a year to live. Oscar chose to leave the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan so Ning Rongrong would not have to watch him die, while Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo discussed his departure.

• Wang Hao explained that Oscar's diligence and character had earned him a place as a Registered Disciple, but refused to give him a cultivation method because his reconstructed meridians could not support further cultivation.
• Oscar asked Bone Douluo Gu Rong and Tang San to examine him, and both confirmed that his meridians were too fragile for him to raise his Spirit Power.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Tang San and Ghost Douluo to leave, then told Oscar he did not want Ning Rongrong to suffer when Oscar died.
• Oscar said he understood Ning Fengzhi's concern and left to pack, asking Ning Fengzhi to say goodbye to Ning Rongrong for him.
• Ning Fengzhi regretted losing Oscar as a potential son-in-law, while Bone Douluo said Rongrong could find a better husband.

Little Nine recruited Dieying to join an alliance against the Shrek Team and helped her recover. Dieying revealed she could summon seven Gem Martial Spirits and wield the Seven Asura Illusion Realm, while the chapter left her new power’s limits and potential to be explored.

• Little Nine visited the grieving Dieying and invited her to join his alliance against the Shrek Team, and she agreed to avenge her teammates and parents.
• Little Nine used his Blue Silver Domain to help Dieying recover during the month-long break before the advancement round.
• Huo Wu, Shui Bing'er, and Meng Yiran questioned why Little Nine had recruited Dieying, whom they considered too weak to help in the one-on-one matches.
• Dieying summoned seven Gem Martial Spirits and enveloped the group in the Seven Asura Illusion Realm, shocking them with her ability to wield her fallen teammates’ powers.
• Dieying explained that the six additional spirits were cracked and could only be used once, while Wang Hao’s modifications had given them fundamental powers modeled on the Infinity Stones.

Kalian, Suosite, and Yamato prepared tournament intelligence while discussing the couple’s evolved Martial Spirits and the prospect of grandchildren. At the advancement tournament’s opening, Salas revealed Canghui Team’s extracted memories, exposing the Shrek Team’s actions and deepening the political conflict between Great Emperor Xue Ye, the nobles, and the sects.

• Kalian complained about analyzing intelligence, and Suosite reminded her and Yamato to make the most of Little Nine’s time at the academy.
• Kalian said she and Yamato hoped to reach the Titled Douluo realm, but Suosite urged them to have children; Kalian blushed while Yamato continued reading.
• The participating teams gathered at the imperial hunting grounds, where Great Emperor Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, and Salas gave opening speeches.
• Salas announced a correction to the preliminaries and displayed memories extracted from the seven members of the Canghui Team.
• Ning Fengzhi realized that Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, and Great Emperor Xue Ye had approved the disclosure, which threatened to condemn Shrek Team and its backers.
• Great Emperor Xue Ye viewed Shrek Academy’s ties to Star Luo and the sects as a threat to Heaven Dou, and used the incident to warn the nobles and sects against defying him.

After Salas used the recovered recordings to award Canghui Academy the match, Shrek Academy faced public disgrace and Tang San accepted responsibility for the incident. Meanwhile, Huo Wu returned from training at Botanical Academy with greatly enhanced physical strength and warned her brother that its team was more dangerous than Shrek.

• Salas played back the memory recordings and declared Canghui Academy the winner, while Bit Academy forfeited its match against Shrek Academy.
• Tang San apologized to Shrek Academy, and Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, Xiao Wu, and the others promised to share the blame with him.
• Huo Wu struck Huo Wushuang into the ground during a spar, showing the Blazing Team how much her physical strength had improved.
• Huo Wu said she would save her unstable Spirit Power reserve for the match against Shrek Team and told Blazing Team not to rely on her before then.
• Huo Wu warned Huo Wushuang that Botanical Academy Team was even more frightening than Shrek Team.

Huo Wu explained that the Blazing Team would fight the Botanical Team at full strength as mutual sparring, and proposed merging several academies to face the tournament’s stronger teams. She warned her teammates to concede immediately if they faced the Canghui Team, so Dieying could save her powers for the Shrek Team.

• Huo Wu told Huo Wushuang that the Blazing Team must fight the Botanical Team with everything they had to help both teams improve.
• Huo Wu said the Blazing Team might need to merge with the Skywater Team, the Strange Beast Team, and the Canghui Team if they could not reach Soul King level, and argued that tournament rules did not forbid combining teams.
• Huo Wu explained that Dieying could wield the Seven Asura Illusion Realm alone and warned the Blazing Team to concede if they faced the Canghui Team.