Chapter Summaries

Zijing defeated Yu Xinming with her Spirit Bone Skill, then conceded to Xiao Wu after Xiao Wu survived her repeated Thorn Burst Shot. Tang San and Yu Xiaogang focused on understanding Zijing’s technique as Shrek faced growing backlash over its Spirit Bones.

• Chen Yuan accused Zijing of using a Spirit Bone Skill unfairly, and Zijing pointed out that Shrek members had refined hundred-thousand-year Spirit Bones, prompting several academy teams to leave.
• Tang San challenged Zijing’s claim that her Spirit Bone was only nine hundred years old, but she dismissed him and called Ma Hongjun to fight; Ma Hongjun hid behind Dai Mubai.
• Tang San chose Xiao Wu to face Zijing, and Xiao Wu apologized for Ma Hongjun’s earlier insults before introducing herself and beginning the match.
• Xiao Wu used Teleportation to evade Zijing’s attacks, then extended Invincible Golden Body by two seconds to survive a barrage of Thorn Burst Shot.
• Zijing recognized that Xiao Wu had overcome her Spirit Skill’s cooldown limitation, conceded, and handed the remaining matches to Jing Ni.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Tang San whether he had understood Zijing’s technique, but Tang San returned with a grave expression.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang analyzed Zijing’s unusually efficient Spirit Bone Skill and linked it to Evil Fire cultivation, while the Shrek Team watched Xiao Wu lose to Jing Ni. After Jing Ni conceded to draw out Shrek’s next fighter, Yang Wuwei faced Zhao Zilong, who challenged him to prove her Dragon Courage Spear could defeat the Soul Breaking Spear.

• Tang San explained that Zijing’s Spirit Bone Skill used a tiny fraction of its usual Spirit Power cost, and Ma Hongjun guessed she had tempered her Spirit Power through Evil Fire cultivation.
• Yu Xiaogang warned the Shrek Team that Botanical Team would be a dangerous tournament opponent.
• Jing Ni used controlled Sword Qi to exhaust Xiao Wu, who conceded after a prolonged battle.
• Tang San sent Yang Wuwei to fight, but Jing Ni conceded as soon as he entered the arena.
• Zhao Zilong challenged Yang Wuwei, declaring that her Dragon Courage Spear would break his Soul Breaking Spear, and Yang rejected her claim.

Zhao Zilong defeated Yang Wuwei with a flexible spear technique, and Jing Ling defeated Zhu Zhuqing with brutal swordsmanship, extending the Botanical Academy Team’s lead over Shrek. Dai Mubai then faced Huang Yuan, whose steel-hard body and reckless fighting style made him a formidable opponent.

• Zhao Zilong used her agile, yielding spear technique to overcome Yang Wuwei’s Soul Breaking Spear and pierce his shoulder, leaving him to concede the match.
• Jing Ling defeated Zhu Zhuqing after inflicting numerous sword wounds and severing the tendons in her hands and feet to prevent a counterattack.
• Dai Mubai entered the platform to challenge Jing Ling, but Jing Ling withdrew to his stands to spend time with Jing Ni instead.
• Huang Yuan stepped forward to fight Dai Mubai, and the two exchanged wary taunts before charging at each other.
• Dai Mubai’s tiger claws failed to break Huang Yuan’s hardened bones, while Huang Yuan’s injuries rapidly healed as their battle began.

After Dai Mubai lost to Huang Yuan, Little Nine entered the promotion tournament bout against Ma Hongjun and decisively defeated him. Ma Hongjun was left gravely injured, and Tang San remained to face Little Nine.

• Huang Yuan fought recklessly and defeated Dai Mubai, exhausting nearly all his Spirit Power in the process.
• Little Nine stepped in to fight Ma Hongjun instead of Ruila, saying Ma Hongjun’s insults had gone too far.
• Little Nine struck Ma Hongjun with over a thousand punches and kicked him between the legs before Yu Xiaogang’s concession ended the bout.
• Ma Hongjun collapsed unconscious with shattered muscles and bones and a permanently ruined injury, while the Shrek Team carried him away.
• Little Nine warned Tang San that he could concede before their fight, glancing toward Xiao Wu as he did so.

Little Nine confronted Tang San in the advancement tournament, using the required rest period to fuse Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire Phoenix power with his own and transform into a giant. After Tang San’s speed and Clear Sky Hammer initially drove Little Nine back, Little Nine seized the hammer and forcibly wrested it from Tang San.

• Little Nine warned Tang San and asked the referee what punishment applied to contestants who used forbidden external power; the referee declared that rule-breakers could be executed, while Demon Subduing Douluo and others secured the arena.
• Tang San abandoned the idea of using hidden weapons, and Little Nine claimed his three-minute rest after fighting Ma Hongjun so he could finish fusing the Evil Fire Phoenix power with his own.
• Little Nine’s Evil Fire power transformed into blazing red flames, and his body grew into a five-meter giant while his head remained unchanged.
• Tang San fought with the Nine-Headed Bat King and Clear Sky Hammer after his Blue Silver Ghost Vine proved ineffective, using speed and strength to put Little Nine on the defensive.
• Little Nine grabbed the Clear Sky Hammer, resisted Tang San’s attempt to reclaim it, and forcibly took control of the weapon.

Little Nine seized control of Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer and used the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer Technique to build up overwhelming force. The chapter ended with Little Nine’s hammer crashing down toward Tang San, who could barely move and appeared unable to survive the strike.

• Jiang Zhu explained that Little Nine could control Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer because Tang San’s powerful Spirit Bones had weakened his control over his Spirit Power.
• Little Nine fused his Blue Silver Ball with the Clear Sky Hammer, took control of it, and began using Tang Hao’s improved Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer Technique.
• Tang San attacked Little Nine to interrupt the hammer’s buildup, but Little Nine endured his wounds and poison with powerful regeneration.
• Little Nine completed eighty-one strikes and accumulated force equal to roughly seventy times his maximum strength.
• Little Nine brought the damaged Clear Sky Hammer down on Tang San, whose pain left him unable to dodge.

Little Nine defeated Tang San, but Shrek’s loss and a scheme to disqualify higher-ranked teams left the tournament’s advancement round in turmoil. The other teams withdrew, while Shrek remained and was forced to endure a lengthy rules lecture under officials who intended to keep them from withdrawing.

• Xiao Wu tried to shield Tang San from Little Nine’s hammer, but Little Nine redirected the blow; Xiao Wu was knocked unconscious, Tang San and Little Nine collapsed, and the referee declared Botanical Academy the winner.
• Delin Academy and three other teams accused their opponents of using stimulants, prompting the officials to eliminate four teams and announce an additional round for teams with three losses.
• Most teams with three losses forfeited after recognizing that the extra round had been arranged to help Shrek, while Suosite took the unconscious Little Nine away for treatment.
• Great Emperor Xue Ye left Xue Beng to oversee the proceedings, and Salas assigned Referee Ao Luo to explain the tournament rules to Shrek.
• A disguised substitute returned as Prince Xue Beng with a pile of books, while Yu Xiaogang stopped Flender and the others from protesting because the officials’ actions remained within the rules.

Little Nine recovered and rallied Huo Wu, Shui Bing'er, and the others to prepare a new plan against the Shrek Team for the finals. Meanwhile, the First Heaven Dou Team visited a night-market sausage stall and discovered its aged owner was Oscar, their former opponent from the Shrek Team.

• Jiang Zhu told Little Nine that Shrek had recovered and that Xiao Wu was unharmed, and Little Nine predicted the team would grow stronger before the finals.
• Little Nine asked Huo Wu, Shui Bing'er, and the others to help him carry out a cultivation plan against Shrek.
• Dugu Yan led the First Heaven Dou Team to a popular night-market sausage stall, where the staff invited Yu Tianheng and his teammates to wait for a special meal.
• Oscar arrived with a cart of sausages and reminded Yu Tianheng that they had fought the Shrek Team in Gale City.
• Dugu Yan recognized Oscar as the former sausage sissy and was astonished by his aged face and muscular body.

Oscar persuaded the Heaven Dou Team to let him join them as their personal chef so he could travel to Martial Spirit City and see Ning Rongrong. His sausages revealed that he could use Spirit Power to temper bodies, but the complicated technique behind them was beyond the team’s ability to learn.

• Dugu Yan and the others ate Oscar’s sausages, and Oscar asked to serve as their personal chef during the tournament.
• Ye Lingling guessed Oscar wanted to see Ning Rongrong, and Oscar admitted he had left the Shrek Team and hoped to see her before he died.
• Ye Lingling agreed to let Oscar join the Heaven Dou Team and told him to report to Heaven Dou Imperial Academy the next day.
• The Shi Mo brothers sensed that Oscar’s sausages strengthened their bodies, and Oscar gave them more sausages with a different physical benefit.
• Yu Tianheng and the others learned that Oscar’s sausages contained fragments of a complex Body Refinement Secret Method, which they could not memorize or use themselves.

Oscar defeated Yu Tianheng and the other members of the First Heaven Dou Team, then agreed to help them develop a Multi-in-One Martial Spirit Fusion Skill in exchange for news of Ning Rongrong. Dugu Yan told him Ning Rongrong was close to another man, leaving Oscar devastated as he staggered away to be alone.

• Oscar defeated Yu Tianheng and the First Heaven Dou Team's male members in a series of fights, and Ye Lingling healed them afterward.
• Oscar reassured the team that Yu Tianheng and the Shi Mo brothers were as strong as Shrek's leading members had been when he left.
• Dugu Yan asked Oscar to help the First Heaven Dou Team develop a Multi-in-One Martial Spirit Fusion Skill in exchange for news about Ning Rongrong, and Oscar agreed.
• Ye Lingling tried to stop Dugu Yan from telling Oscar, but Dugu Yan said the truth would reach him when he went to Martial Spirit City.
• Dugu Yan told Oscar that Ning Rongrong was close to a handsome Food-system Spirit Master, and Oscar staggered away, asking to be alone.

Oscar proposed a risky method for replacing the Heaven Dou Team’s Spirit Rings with high-level ones, potentially letting them match Shrek’s strength. Dugu Yan brought in Crown Prince Xue Qinghe and Poison Douluo to assess and support the plan.

• Oscar studied recordings of the advancement-round teams for three days, then returned to the training ground looking exhausted.
• Dugu Yan and the Heaven Dou Team members described the cruelty and secrets within their aristocratic families, convincing Oscar that he had been naive about his former teammates.
• Oscar revealed a theory that could erase the team’s current Spirit Rings so they could absorb stronger replacements, and said the plan had a fifty percent chance of success.
• Oscar explained that Poison Douluo’s help and precious medicinal herbs could raise the plan’s odds, prompting Dugu Yan to summon the imperial family and her grandfather.
• Yufeng flew to the palace, while Dugu Yan left to find Poison Douluo and the others stayed together to keep Oscar’s theory secret.
• Qian Renxue arrived disguised as Crown Prince Xue Qinghe with three Titled Douluo, and Poison Douluo soon arrived with Dugu Yan.

Oscar tested his theory for dissolving and replacing Spirit Rings, using death-row prisoners supplied by Qian Renxue, and completed the process for Dugu Yan, Yu Tianheng, and their companions. He then gave them detailed plans for their new Spirit Rings, which Dugu Yan suspected were intended to enable a Martial Spirit Fusion Skill.

• Qian Renxue offered Oscar death-row prisoners for experiments and promised to target human-trafficking dens to find more Spirit King-level subjects.
• Dugu Yan took Oscar to the Luolun Grand Auction House, where he witnessed its human trafficking and saw Ning Fengzhi, shattering his remaining illusions about the powerful clans.
• Oscar used the prisoners to test his theory that corrosive energy could dissolve Spirit Rings without destroying the Martial Spirit, supported by his Body Refining Cultivation Method.
• After three days and more than a hundred thousand prisoners killed or crippled, Oscar raised the experiment's success rate above ninety-five percent and safely dissolved the Spirit Rings of Dugu Yan, Yu Tianheng, and the others.
• Oscar gave Dugu Yan and the others plans for absorbing new Spirit Rings, and Dugu Yan wondered whether they were meant to create a Martial Spirit Fusion Skill.

After Yu Tianheng absorbed a new ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring, he discovered that his dissolved Spirit Rings remained within his Martial Spirit and could stack their effects with new Spirit Skills. Dugu Bo realized the precious medicines had preserved their origins, while Dugu Yan and the others suspected Oscar had anticipated the discovery as he prepared to help them obtain new Spirit Rings.

• Oscar explained that sausages made from Spirit Beast meat could help strengthen the bodies of those compatible with the beasts, and Yu Tianheng had to eat all of his.
• Dugu Bo checked on Dugu Yan after warning that dissolving Spirit Rings had damaged the group, and Dugu Yan said she was ready to hunt for a ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring.
• Yu Tianheng used his new Thunder Dragon Claw and discovered that his old Spirit Ring effects could stack with the new Spirit Skill.
• Dugu Bo examined Yu Tianheng's Martial Spirit, found the dissolved Spirit Ring origins inside it, and concluded that new Spirit Skills could reactivate the old effects.
• Dugu Bo warned that precious medicines had limited how many times they could safely dissolve Spirit Rings, recalling how badly Shi Mo and Shi Mo had suffered.
• Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan noticed Oscar's composure and suspected he had predicted the retained Spirit Ring origins when he made their Spirit Ring plans.

Oscar explained how Spirit Ring origins let Yu Tianheng combine old and new Spirit Skills, then demonstrated that he could still produce his own Spirit Skills using sausages as vessels. After the group returned to Heaven Dou City with greatly increased cultivation, Oscar assigned Martial Spirit Fusion Skill pairings so they could use their Martial Spirit Avatars to absorb Spirit Beast flesh and strengthen themselves before the finals.

• Oscar revealed that Yu Tianheng’s Spirit Ring origins could become passive abilities and let him stack Spirit Skills, and Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling realized Oscar’s own Spirit Ring origins had survived too.
• Oscar transformed five sausages with his Spirit Power to demonstrate his surviving Spirit Skills, shocking Dugu Yan, Yu Tianheng, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Bo.
• Yu Tianheng and the others spent six days obtaining Spirit Rings, reaching the Spirit Emperor level; their three sixth rings were around seventy thousand years old, with Yu Tianheng’s nearly eighty thousand years old.
• Ye Lingling healed Oslo and the others after their strenuous Spirit Ring absorptions, while Oscar sorted the Spirit Beast corpses brought back by the teams.
• Oscar told the group to eat the most essential portions of their Spirit Beast meat and announced that Martial Spirit Fusion Skills would let them use their Martial Spirit Avatars to extract the meat’s energy.
• Oscar assigned five Martial Spirit Fusion Skill pairings: Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan, Shi Mo and Shi Mo, Oslo and Yufeng, Nie Yun and Sun Kong, and Kas Luo and Xiao Zhan.

Oscar and the Heaven Dou Team prepared for the finals as the tournament rules changed and Shrek gained the chance to field a replacement for Oscar. After the teams set out for Martial Spirit City, Little Nine sensed a grave danger and warned that Ning Fengzhi’s faction might be preparing an ambush.

• Dugu Yan urged Oscar and Ye Lingling to attempt a Martial Spirit Fusion Skill, and they agreed to try.
• The tournament organizers postponed the finals by a month and changed the rules to allow teams to field eleven members.
• Dugu Yan warned that Shrek might develop a larger Martial Spirit Fusion Skill, and Oscar learned that a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan Spirit Master had transferred to Shrek as his replacement.
• Oscar ordered the Heaven Dou Team to begin a brutal month of training so they could win the championship.
• The qualified teams departed for Martial Spirit City, and Little Nine sensed danger aboard their airship and warned the others to stay on guard.
• Little Nine suspected Ning Fengzhi’s faction was behind the threat, and Suosite prepared to approach Shrek’s team and use Bishop Salas’s trump card if necessary.

As the expedition came under attack from an alliance of powerful factions, Qian Renxue ordered the airships to regroup while Shrek’s airship crashed. Little Nine’s group built a massive underground-rooted tree fortress and took Shrek hostage, leaving the attackers unable to strike without endangering their own allies.

• Botanical Academy and several other teams’ airships veered toward Shrek’s, prompting Qian Renxue to order the guards onto full alert and request help from Spirit Hall.
• Little Nine and his allies attacked Shrek’s airship, severed its support ropes, and forced it to crash while more than a hundred Titled Douluo-level attackers emerged from the clouds.
• Flender confronted Suosite after Shrek escaped the wreck, while Meng Shu warned Tang San not to use his hidden weapons and Tang San surrendered.
• Little Nine and his companions fused their Martial Spirits into a giant tree, bound Shrek’s members with vines, and dragged them inside as the tree’s roots dug deep underground.
• The black-clad attackers recognized Shrek’s members as allies and hesitated to attack, allowing the hostages to restrain their assault.

Qian Renxue and Botanical Academy’s hostages prevented one ambush from turning into a battle, but a second attack struck the academy airships. An assassin cursed Ye Lingling and fled, leaving Oscar and Yu Tianheng racing to get her to Botanical Academy for treatment.

• Qian Renxue arrived with the Firmament Knights, and Little Nine drove back the disguised Titled Douluo who tried to approach the hostages.
• After a signal revealed a second ambush, the Firmament Knights commander led most of his force to defend the academy airships, leaving a squad with Qian Renxue.
• A spatially teleporting Titled Douluo attacked Ye Lingling aboard the First Heaven Dou Team’s airship, but Oscar shattered his Spirit Skill with a punch.
• The assassin knocked Ye Lingling off the airship, and Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan combined their Martial Spirits with the other team members to create a powerful Thunder Shenron.
• The Titled Douluo used a curse on Ye Lingling and escaped, while Yu Tianheng caught her and Oscar and rushed toward Botanical Academy for help.

Jiang Zhu used a borrowed immortal-grade treasure herb to remove the Curse from Ye Lingling’s Martial Spirit, though its damage remained and Ye Lingling was relieved rather than upset. After learning that forces behind Shrek had helped orchestrate the ambush, Dugu Yan pressed Oscar to decide whether he would fight Shrek in the tournament and hinted that he would discover a startling secret about their new bun Spirit Master.

• Jiang Zhu told Oscar that Ye Lingling’s Martial Spirit could be cleansed with an immortal-grade treasure herb, and Qian Renxue arranged to borrow one from Dugu Bo in exchange for Oscar’s Secret Method.
• Jiang Zhu removed the Curse from Ye Lingling’s Nine-Hearted Begonia, but much of the Martial Spirit remained damaged; Ye Lingling said she was glad because it reminded her of her grandmother’s death.
• Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire’s rescue forces arrived, and Qian Renxue’s group continued toward Martial Spirit City aboard Spirit Hall’s aerospace carrier.
• Dugu Yan told Oscar that the ambush had also targeted Botanical Academy and that Yu Tianheng had learned the Shrek students were unaware of their allies’ scheme.
• Dugu Yan demanded that Oscar decide whether he would oppose Shrek in the finals, then hinted that he should sense Shrek’s new bun Spirit Master and discover the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid inside him.

Oscar confronted Ning Qingfeng after sensing the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid inside him, then discovered his former Shrek teammates had accepted the herb’s transfer. Dugu Yan exposed Tang San’s explanation as a lie, leaving Oscar’s break with Shrek deepened.

• Huo Wu and the others waited at Martial Spirit City after Dugu Yan invited them to watch a show, and the Shrek members arrived.
• Oscar seized Ning Qingfeng and demanded to know where he had gotten the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid.
• Ma Hongjun and the Shrek members attacked Oscar, while Dugu Yan’s team intercepted them; Ning Rongrong fired both her Zhuge Divine Crossbow and back-mounted crossbow at Oscar.
• Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan treated Oscar’s wounds, and his broken mask revealed his identity to Ning Rongrong and Ma Hongjun.
• Oscar rejected Ma Hongjun’s concern and accused his former teammates of betraying him by accepting Ning Qingfeng’s herb.
• Tang San claimed he had given Ning Qingfeng a second Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, but Dugu Yan said the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had never held two, exposing his lie.

Oscar confronted Ning Fengzhi about the truth behind his past, then rejected Ning Rongrong and left with the Heaven Dou Team. He later knelt at Spirit Hall's gate to seek forgiveness for trading away his teacher's Secret Method, and Ye Lingling joined him after learning what he had done.

• Yu Tianheng condemned Tang San, while Oscar demanded the truth from Ning Fengzhi and threatened Ning Qingfeng.
• Qian Daoliu attacked Chen Xin, and Ning Fengzhi admitted to Oscar that the truth was as Oscar suspected.
• Ning Rongrong wept and tried to keep Oscar from leaving, but Oscar rejected her; Dugu Yan rebuked Ning Rongrong and led the Heaven Dou Team away.
• Oscar went to Spirit Hall and knelt at its gate, where Ye Lingling joined him after learning he had traded away his teacher's Secret Method to save her.