Chapter Summaries

After awakening the Stock-Simulating Meow Meow Martial Soul, Sun Shan joined Spirit Hall and obtained a first Soul Ring from a mutated Blue Silver Grass. He gained a way to let Soul Masters trade through his platform and collect Soul Power from their transactions, then planned to recruit prodigies.

• Sun Shan awakened the Stock-Simulating Meow Meow Martial Soul, which let him list Soul Masters, invest in or bet against them, and access detailed Soul Reports.
• Su Yuntao invited Sun Shan to Spirit Hall's Angel Investor Plan, and Sun Shan joined the Spirit Hall Branch in Nuoding City.
• With Spirit Hall's help, Sun Shan chose a hundred-year mutated Blue Silver Grass as his first Soul Beast and absorbed its unusual green Soul Ring.
• Sun Shan's Soul Ring granted him real-time access to the Soul Power Trading Center through nearby vegetation and the ability to collect Soul Power tax from trades.
• Sun Shan resolved to recruit prodigies and use the trading platform to profit from their cultivation.

Sun Shan introduced the Stock Realm to Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin, using its betting system to help Chen Xin break through and Ning Fengzhi advance his martial soul. After they left to spread the word, Sun Shan gained powerful rewards and planned to draw more soul masters into the market.

• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin followed mysterious whispers into the Stock Realm and met Sun Shan.
• Sun Shan explained that betting on a soul master could bring fortune and cultivation breakthroughs, while bearish bets could bring misfortune.
• Sun Shan described three levels of the sword Dao, and Chen Xin’s understanding shattered his level 96 bottleneck.
• Chen Xin broke through to level 97, while Ning Fengzhi’s martial soul advanced to the Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and his soul power rose three levels.
• Chen Xin and Ning Fengzhi thanked Sun Shan and agreed to spread the word about the Stock Realm.
• Sun Shan collected betting rewards, including six soul power levels, a thousand years of soul ring age, and three level 97 sword-qi strikes, then planned to attract more traders.

Sun Shan bet against Yu Xiaogang and gained four ranks of Soul Power, a ten-thousand-year first Soul Ring, and a Golden Sacred Dragon Dragon Core. After learning that Spirit Hall's Holy Maiden had come to Nuoding City, Sun Shan tried to avoid her, but she called out to him.

• Sun Shan inspected Yu Xiaogang's Soul Report and learned that Luo Sanpao held Golden Sacred Dragon bloodline power that Yu Xiaogang had failed to develop.
• Yu Xiaogang's Soul Power circulation went wrong during meditation, costing him four ranks, and he blamed and kicked Luo Sanpao.
• Sun Shan bet against Yu Xiaogang and received four ranks of Soul Power, a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, and a Golden Sacred Dragon Dragon Core with a resurrection ability.
• Sun Shan's Soul Power reached rank 20, and the Dragon Core transformed his physique.
• Sun Shan heard that Spirit Hall's Holy Maiden had come to Nuoding City to challenge and humiliate local young Soul Masters, so he tried to leave.
• A girl called out to Sun Shan, teasing him as a small fry.

Sun Shan turned Hu Liena’s attempt to charm and humiliate him against her, then left her confused about her feelings for him. Back in her room, Hu Liena stopped Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan from seeking revenge on Sun Shan, prompting him to tease her about having romantic feelings.

• Hu Liena used her Fox Charm soul skill to control Sun Shan, but the Dragon Core in his body shook her consciousness and caused the skill to backfire.
• Sun Shan restrained Hu Liena, hung her from a tree, and tickled her feet until she admitted she was wrong and called him her big brother.
• Sun Shan released Hu Liena and walked away, while she watched him leave with anger, humiliation, and unfamiliar feelings.
• In her room, Hu Liena told Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan that Sun Shan had defeated her, and Yue Guan decided Sun Shan was worth cultivating.
• When Yue Guan pretended to go beat Sun Shan, Hu Liena stopped him and pushed him out, leading him to tease her about being lovestruck.

At the Suotuo City auction, Sun Shan outbid Tang San for a mysterious collectible and then provoked him by giving Xiao Wu a Rabbit Bear plush. The chapter ended with Hu Liena watching Sun Shan and Xiao Wu, furious and ready to confront him.

• Sun Shan attended the auction with Hu Liena and recognized Tang San and Xiao Wu among the bidders.
• Tang San bid on an ancient set of scales he believed was Gold of Life, but Sun Shan repeatedly outbid him by one Gold Soul Coin and won the item.
• Tang San proposed a physical-strength bet to reclaim the collectible, but Sun Shan refused.
• Sun Shan gave Xiao Wu a Rabbit Bear plush, and she accepted it while Tang San watched in anger.
• When other girls asked Tang San to produce an even more impressive gift for Xiao Wu, he could not and led her away as she clutched the plush.
• Hu Liena appeared behind Sun Shan, her eyes filled with fury.

Sun Shan turned Hu Liena’s jealous questions back on her, then examined his auction prize and gained a powerful second Soul Ring. The Stock Realm introduced Soul Power loans and leverage, drawing its Soul Masters toward a dangerous risk.

• Hu Liena confronted Sun Shan about another woman, but Sun Shan accused her of disrespecting him until she apologized and ran away.
• Sun Shan pulled Hu Liena close, bit her neck, and demanded to know what relationship she wanted with him.
• Sun Shan examined the scales he had won at auction, and Stock-Simulating Meow Meow swallowed them to gain the Balance of Life as her second Soul Ring.
• The new Soul Ring raised Sun Shan’s Soul Power to rank 30 and granted him Soul Power Loan and Soul Power Multiplier skills.
• The Stock Realm announced its new loan and leverage services, and its Soul Masters welcomed the chance to take on greater risks.

After a nightmare about losing Xiao Wu to Sun Shan, Tang San returned from three months of secluded cultivation at level 26, only to learn that the Stock Realm had become widespread and could rapidly boost Soul Power. Xiao Wu had reached level 29 through lucky trades, and Tang San decided he could make a fortune in the Stock Realm too.

• Tang San woke from a nightmare about Xiao Wu choosing Sun Shan and resolved to cultivate harder.
• After three months in seclusion, Tang San reached level 26 and encountered three young Soul Masters whose levels had risen through the Stock Realm.
• Tang San found Xiao Wu at level 29, argued with her over the rabbit-bear plushie from Sun Shan, and apologized, though their relationship remained strained.
• Xiao Wu explained that Soul Masters were trading stocks and that her lucky gains had increased her Soul Power.
• Tang San decided that his own skill at making bets would help him make a fortune in the Stock Realm.

Tang San became obsessed with the Stock Realm after earning a large early profit and ignored warnings to sell his investment in Pei Guangguang. Meanwhile, Sun Shan and the continent’s great powers prepared to profit from the Soul Masters drawn into the market, and Sun Shan chose to wait before striking.

• Tang San showed Yu Xiaogang his 15% gain and refused to sell Pei Guangguang despite Yu Xiaogang warning that the rapid rise was dangerous.
• Xiao Wu and Yu Xiaogang tried to caution Tang San, but he insisted that he could exit before anything went wrong and declared that he would win.
• Soul Masters kept buying Pei Guangguang, each believing they could pass on the risk before the market turned against them.
• Hu Liena and Sun Shan persuaded Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to cooperate in profiting from the Soul Masters, while other major powers joined in as well.
• Sun Shan watched Pei Guangguang’s rising soul power chart and decided to let the investors grow a little longer before acting.

Tang San struggled to profit in the Stock Realm and sought trading advice from AAA Leek Wholesale Grandmaster, who taught him risky short-term methods. After Tang San’s returns lagged behind his mentor’s, AAA Leek urged him to mortgage his Martial Soul and Soul Rings for a tenfold Soul Power Multiplier, leaving Tang San tempted but afraid of ruin.

• Tang San complained about his losses in the Stock Realm forum, and AAA Leek Wholesale Grandmaster offered to teach him different trading methods.
• Tang San rejected value investing, technical analysis, and swing trading until AAA Leek Wholesale Grandmaster agreed to teach him short-term dragon-catching and the limit-up board suicide squad.
• Tang San followed AAA Leek Wholesale Grandmaster’s trades for several days, but his returns stayed flat while his mentor reported a 65% profit.
• AAA Leek Wholesale Grandmaster told Tang San to mortgage his Martial Soul and Soul Rings, take a Soul Power Loan, and activate a tenfold Soul Power Multiplier to boost his returns.
• Tang San weighed the danger of forced liquidation against the promise of a better future, and an illusion of Xiao Wu urged him to activate the multiplier.

Tang San lost nearly everything after AAA Leek Wholesale Grandmaster lured him into leveraged stock bets, then turned to Sun Shan for help when the Stock Realm threatened to repossess his Martial Soul and Soul Power. Sun Shan demanded Xiao Wu as the price, leaving Tang San to choose between his debts and the person he cherished.

• Tang San borrowed Soul Power, used a tenfold multiplier, and bet everything on Pingtan and Dongbai after AAA Leek Wholesale Grandmaster recommended them.
• Sun Shan ordered the stocks to plunge during the call auction, and Tang San's leveraged position suffered heavy losses as both stocks locked at limit down.
• Tang San deceived Yu Xiaogang into signing a Soul Power contract and putting Luo Sanpao up as collateral to replenish his margin.
• Both stocks fell again, Tang San lost the borrowed Soul Power, and he discovered that AAA Leek Wholesale Grandmaster had deactivated his account after cashing out a million.
• The Stock Realm warned Tang San that his Martial Soul and Soul Power could be repossessed, so he contacted Sun Shan for an extension.
• Sun Shan offered to postpone repossession in exchange for Xiao Wu, and Tang San reluctantly named her as the price.

Tang San sent Xiao Wu to spend a day with Sun Shan to delay the liquidation of his Soul Power loan, hiding the real reason from her. After Sun Shan revealed the truth and made Xiao Wu serve him in a maid outfit, she returned to Shrek Academy and confronted Tang San.

• Tang San begged Xiao Wu to spend a day with Sun Shan, and she agreed because she believed it was for him.
• Tang San brought Xiao Wu to Sun Shan and threatened him not to make advances on her.
• Sun Shan revealed that Tang San had sent Xiao Wu to help postpone his loan repayment, and Xiao Wu agreed to serve him to protect Tang San from defaulting.
• Sun Shan took Xiao Wu to a private clubhouse, where she wore a maid outfit and reluctantly served him coffee.
• Xiao Wu returned to Shrek Academy, slapped Tang San when he embraced her, and accused him of deceiving her.

Sun Shan intervened when the Titan Giant Ape abducted Xiao Wu, then used Bearish Outlook on Tang San as Tang San absorbed a Man Faced Demon Spider Soul Ring. Tang San gained eight spider hairs instead of the Eight Spider Lances, while Sun Shan received the promised rewards and ended the chapter facing a dangerous stranger he suspected was Dugu Bo.

• Tang San hesitated when the Titan Giant Ape seized Xiao Wu, and Sun Shan mocked him before activating Bearish Outlook.
• Sun Shan fought the Titan Giant Ape head-on, then pretended to faint so it would carry him and Xiao Wu to the Lake of Life.
• Da Ming and Er Ming criticized Tang San for failing to save Xiao Wu, while she grew conflicted and tender toward the unconscious Sun Shan.
• Tang San absorbed the Man Faced Demon Spider Soul Ring, suffered frightening illusions, and grew eight foul-smelling patches of spider hair on his back.
• Bearish Outlook rewarded Sun Shan with six Soul Power levels, the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and the Eight Spider Lances; Xiao Wu hid and kissed him before leaving.
• Sun Shan woke and encountered a green-haired, slit-pupiled man in a gray robe, whom he suspected was Dugu Bo.

Sun Shan proved his immunity to Dugu Bo’s poison, brought him to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and used his new Soul Skill to restructure Dugu Bo’s Martial Soul. Dugu Bo tested its new healing potential on a sick girl, and Sun Shan revealed that saving people could eventually transform his Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor into a dragon.

• Sun Shan withstood Dugu Bo’s snakebite, poisonous mist, and refined venom, then exposed the poison symptoms Dugu Bo had denied.
• Dugu Bo led Sun Shan through the poisonous-flower barrier to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and waited while Sun Shan absorbed a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, reaching Soul Power level thirty-nine.
• Sun Shan gained the Soul Skill Delisting and Restructuring and used it to alter Dugu Bo’s Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor Martial Soul.
• Sun Shan brought Dugu Bo to a hospital, where Dugu Bo used his poison to cure a gravely ill girl after she agreed to the treatment.
• Dugu Bo noticed his poison symptoms had eased and his Martial Soul had changed, while Sun Shan explained that saving people could help it evolve into the Jade Phosphor Dragon Emperor.

Sun Shan refined the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ lingering power into Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils, then returned to Spirit Hall and gave immortal herbs to Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan and Hu Liena. After their transformations and his own breakthrough, Sun Shan arranged to meet Xiao Wu, but Tang San discovered the letter and followed her.

• Sun Shan harvested mature immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then entered its springs and refined the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ lingering consciousness into two markings that perfected his Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils.
• Sun Shan reunited with Dugu Bo, then returned to the city, where Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan and Hu Liena met him; he gave Yue Guan a singular velvet sky chrysanthemum and Hu Liena an eight-petal immortal orchid.
• Sun Shan used his betting skill as Yue Guan reached rank 98 and Hu Liena’s Martial Soul evolved into the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox; Hu Liena also gained seven Soul Power ranks.
• Sun Shan absorbed a two-hundred-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring, reached rank 47, and gained Superhuman Intelligence as his Stock-Simulating Meow Meow Martial Soul changed into a blue-and-white-striped egg.
• After reading Xiao Wu’s letters from Shrek Academy, Sun Shan sent her a reply arranging a dusk meeting, and Xiao Wu secretly left in a maid outfit to meet him.
• Tang San entered Xiao Wu’s room, found Sun Shan’s letter, and followed her toward the rendezvous, vowing revenge on her and Sun Shan.

Xiao Wu broke with Tang San after he followed her and insulted her, then left with Sun Shan, while Tang San's betrayal of Yu Xiaogang was exposed. The chapter ended with Yu Xiaogang whipping Tang San at Shrek Academy.

• Xiao Wu admitted she had fallen for Sun Shan, slapped Tang San, and ended their relationship after he confronted her by the river.
• Sun Shan kissed Xiao Wu in front of Tang San, then gave her the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and asked her to leave Shrek Academy with him.
• Yu Xiaogang discovered that Tang San had mortgaged his Martial Soul without his knowledge, causing the Stock Realm to seize Luo Sanpao.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing learned about Tang San's gambling and discussed his recent behavior with the other Shrek Devils.
• Yu Xiaogang confronted Tang San at Shrek Academy and beat him with a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo.

Sun Shan turned Luo Sanpao, pledged as collateral by Yu Xiaogang, into a body-tempering trainee and pushed it through an intense drug-and-training regimen. After a week, Luo Sanpao transformed and entered a golden cocoon that Sun Shan stored away, awaiting its awakening as a Golden Sacred Dragon.

• Sun Shan summoned Luo Sanpao and told it that Yu Xiaogang had pledged it as collateral after failing to repay a Soul Power Loan.
• Sun Shan persuaded Luo Sanpao to pursue its hidden Golden Sacred Dragon bloodline and gave it a training plan involving injections and strenuous body tempering.
• Luo Sanpao trained beneath a waterfall in Wu Family Village, hauling heavy logs upstream and enduring additional injections.
• A week later, Luo Sanpao had grown to the size of a calf, sprouted small wings, and developed a faint golden glow.
• Luo Sanpao fell asleep and became enclosed in a huge golden cocoon, which Sun Shan placed in his storage ring.

Tang San’s gambling debt brought Tang Hao to Spirit City, where Sun Shan cursed him and unleashed his hidden strength when Tang Hao turned on the group. Sun Shan defeated Tang Hao but collapsed afterward, and an unidentified mature woman caught him.

• Yu Xiaogang wrote to Tang Hao about Tang San’s gambling losses, and Tang Hao arrived and beat his son before Tang San blamed Xiao Wu and Sun Shan.
• Tang San arranged a meeting with Sun Shan, who waived the loan interest but required Tang Hao to repay the principal; Sun Shan secretly cursed Tang Hao and gained strength.
• Tang Hao tried to kill Sun Shan, Xiao Wu, and Hu Liena, while Tang San demanded that his father cripple them and leave Xiao Wu to him.
• Sun Shan revealed rank 97 power and summoned a giant sword, then fought Tang Hao after mocking him for detonating Ah Yin’s Soul Ring.
• Sun Shan’s strike defeated Tang Hao, who fled with his ruined hammer, while Sun Shan collapsed and was caught by an unidentified mature woman.

After waking in Bibi Dong’s lap, Sun Shan agreed to help her unite Spirit Hall’s factions in exchange for her promise to be his when he grew older. The next day, Bibi Dong named him Spirit Hall’s Holy Son, while a mysterious golden-haired woman vowed to thwart her mother.

• Sun Shan woke with his head on Bibi Dong’s lap, touched her by accident, and was flung down the steps by her startled Soul Power.
• Bibi Dong considered recruiting Sun Shan to strengthen her faction and offered to make him her direct disciple and Spirit Hall’s Holy Son.
• Sun Shan told Bibi Dong he wanted her, and she promised to be his if he helped unite Spirit Hall’s factions, treating his words as childish teasing.
• Sun Shan protested that Bibi Dong had underestimated him and vowed to make her regret it when he was older.
• The next day, Bibi Dong announced that Sun Shan would be Spirit Hall’s Holy Son; Hu Liena welcomed the news, while the Elder Hall and Worship Hall remained noncommittal.
• A golden-haired woman hidden in Spirit Hall’s shadows declared that she would not let her mother have her way.

Sun Shan and Hu Liena tracked their stolen horses to a ruined temple, where starving refugees had slaughtered them for food. After hearing Mi Liang recount how a Titled Douluo’s stray flame destroyed his village’s crops and left his parents dead, Sun Shan vowed to confront the powerful and took the boy with him to kill a Titled Douluo.

• Sun Shan and Hu Liena followed the scent of their missing horses to a ruined temple, where they found starving people cooking the animals.
• Mi Liang confessed to stealing the horses to feed the refugees, and Sun Shan forgave him and shared wine with them.
• Mi Liang told Sun Shan that two Titled Douluos had fought near his village, and one’s stray flame had destroyed the crops, causing famine and his parents’ deaths.
• Angered by the injustice suffered by ordinary people, Sun Shan told Hu Liena he would fight to stop evil even at great cost.
• After Mi Liang had eaten, Sun Shan said he would take him to kill a Titled Douluo.

Sun Shan identified Tian Xiezi as the culprit behind the fire in Rice Fragrance Village and pursued him with Hu Liena and Mi Liang. In Renji Village, Tian Xiezi failed to corrupt the villagers with greed and attacked them in a rage.

• Luo Sanpao emerged from his cocoon as a golden dragon, and Sun Shan flew away with Hu Liena and Mi Liang to find the arsonist.
• Sun Shan used Mi Liang's information and Stock Realm records to identify Tian Xiezi as the Soul Master responsible for the fire.
• Tian Xiezi disguised himself as an old merchant and tried to tempt Niu Er with Gold Soul Coins, but Niu Er returned them and patched his bundle.
• Tian Xiezi scattered 8,643 Gold Soul Coins before the villagers of Renji Village, but they returned every coin and declared that rules must not be broken.
• Tian Xiezi lost his temper, released dark red Soul Power and flames, and threatened to kill the villagers.