Chapter Summaries

Chu Feng hosted a banquet where the Shrek group welcomed Dugu Bo, Qin Ming, and Dugu Yan, and Dugu Yan declined her grandfather’s suggestion to study at Shrek Academy. Flender revealed that Yu Xiaogang had been rescued from prison, leaving Chu Feng unsure who had taken him.

• Chu Feng brought Dugu Bo to a banquet with the Shrek group, whose excitement over the food delighted the usually lonely Dugu Bo.
• Qin Ming and Dugu Yan arrived, and Flender introduced Qin Ming as a former Shrek student who now taught at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Ning Rongrong welcomed Dugu Yan, and Dugu Yan learned that Chu Feng’s training had helped make the Shrek students so strong.
• Dugu Bo suggested that Dugu Yan study at Shrek Academy, but she refused because she was happy at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and had friends there.
• Flender told Chu Feng that a black-clad person had rescued Yu Xiaogang from prison, and Chu Feng wondered who was responsible.

Yu Xiaogang asked Yu Tianheng to help him become a teacher at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, hoping to lead a team against Shrek Academy in the Soul Master Tournament. Yu Tianheng rejected him and mocked his weakness, but Yu Xiaogang challenged him over losing to a student from a country academy.

• Yu Tianheng watched Qin Ming and Dugu Yan head to a banquet, resenting that they had left him behind.
• Yu Xiaogang approached Yu Tianheng and asked him to help secure a teaching position at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Yu Tianheng refused, pushed Yu Xiaogang away, and said he could not let the academy learn they were related.
• Yu Xiaogang grabbed Yu Tianheng by the collar, but Yu Tianheng twisted his arm and mocked his rank and lack of strength.
• Yu Xiaogang retorted by asking Yu Tianheng why he had lost to a student from a country academy.

Yu Tianheng attacked Yu Xiaogang after the two argued, but a black-clad man intervened and forced Yu Tianheng to help place Yu Xiaogang at Heaven Dou Royal Academy. The chapter ended with Yu Tianheng agreeing under threat of poison while Yu Xiaogang insisted he become a teacher and conceal his identity.

• Yu Tianheng struck Yu Xiaogang and threatened to kill him, but stopped when Yu Xiaogang challenged him to do it.
• A black-clad man forced Yu Tianheng to his knees, then carried him and the injured Yu Xiaogang to a forest outside Suotuo City.
• The black-clad man poisoned Yu Tianheng and revealed himself as a Titled Douluo with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, prompting Yu Tianheng to agree to his demand.
• Yu Xiaogang gave Yu Tianheng three days to get him into Heaven Dou Royal Academy as a teacher, and Yu Tianheng said the academy would not accept him at level 29.
• Yu Tianheng agreed to do his best and said Yu Xiaogang would need to hide his identity, but Yu Xiaogang questioned what there was to conceal.

Yu Xiaogang agreed to hide his identity and guide Yu Tianheng’s cultivation so he could enter Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while Yu Tianheng worried about replacing Qin Ming. At Shrek, Chu Feng gathered the Seven Devils and revealed he had brought them powerful plants, which Tang San recognized as immortal herbs.

• The man in black ordered Yu Xiaogang to conceal his identity and Yu Tianheng to follow Yu Xiaogang’s training methods, then disappeared.
• Yu Tianheng mocked Yu Xiaogang but agreed to help arrange his identity, while considering how to remove Qin Ming from Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Chu Feng summoned the Shrek Seven Devils to the training grounds and told them he had brought gifts to improve their strength, not a new training assignment.
• Chu Feng produced an immortal herb, and Tang San recognized it as a plant containing energy that could benefit the group.

Chu Feng gave Oscar and Ma Hongjun Immortal Herbs that increased their Soul Power from level 33 to level 38. Ma Hongjun’s herb also removed his Evil Fire and transformed his appearance, though Tang San suspected the change would not last.

• Chu Feng gave Oscar an eight-petal immortal orchid, which raised Oscar’s Soul Power from level 33 to level 38 and increased his cultivation potential.
• Ma Hongjun eagerly asked Chu Feng for his Immortal Herb, and Chu Feng gave him a cockscomb phoenix sunflower to purify his Evil Fire.
• Ma Hongjun consumed the herb, which burned away his Evil Fire and impurities as his Phoenix Martial Soul evolved.
• Ma Hongjun’s body grew taller and more handsome, and his Soul Power rose from level 33 to level 38.
• Ma Hongjun admired his new appearance and bragged to the others, while Tang San said the transformation might be temporary.

Chu Feng gave Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong Immortal Herbs that greatly strengthened them. Ning Rongrong’s Aromatic Silk Beauty transformed her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, leaving her overwhelmed with gratitude toward Chu Feng.

• Chu Feng explained Ma Hongjun’s handsome possessed form and gave Dai Mubai the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and Zhu Zhuqing the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone.
• Zhu Zhuqing absorbed her herb and rose from rank 33 to rank 39, while Dai Mubai’s Soul Power increased from rank 42 to rank 45.
• Chu Feng gave Ning Rongrong the Aromatic Silk Beauty, and its energy transformed her Martial Soul into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Rongrong’s Soul Power rose from rank 33 to rank 38, and she hugged Chu Feng in excitement, realizing she was no longer limited by her sect’s former fate.

Chu Feng gave Tang San and Xiao Wu their Immortal Herbs in private, explaining that Xiao Wu’s Lovesick Heartbreak Red could conceal her Soul Beast identity. After Tang San used his Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to see her true form, he accepted and embraced her, leaving Xiao Wu reassured.

• Chu Feng led Tang San and Xiao Wu into the lounge to use their Immortal Herbs away from the others.
• Chu Feng told Xiao Wu to drip blood on the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, which could protect her from a fatal blow and conceal her identity as a Soul Beast.
• Chu Feng explained that Tang San’s Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew would advance his Purple Demon Eye to the Mustard Seed Realm and let him see through disguises.
• Tang San used the herb and saw that Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit, but he felt no fear or rejection.
• Tang San embraced Xiao Wu and assured her that she was still his Xiao Wu, while Chu Feng told them Soul Masters and Soul Beasts had been together before.

Chu Feng warned Ma Hongjun that overusing his Martial Soul could hinder its evolution, then joined Flender and the teachers to discuss Shrek Academy’s future as Dugu Bo’s arrival threatened to expose the organization. They decided to avoid revealing the organization and considered changing enrollment by creating inner and outer academies for commoner students.

• Chu Feng told Ma Hongjun to stop using his transformed appearance until his Martial Soul had fully evolved, and Ma Hongjun admitted his mistake.
• Chu Feng joined Flender, Zhao Wuji, Li Yusong, and Dugu Bo as they discussed how Shrek Academy should respond to Dugu Bo’s public membership.
• Zhao Wuji proposed expanding enrollment, but Flender warned that attracting more people could expose the organization hidden beneath the academy.
• Dugu Bo suggested using the organization’s Fixed-Installation Soul Cannon against their enemies, but Chu Feng and Flender rejected exposing the organization and risking innocent lives.
• Chu Feng proposed dividing Shrek Academy into inner and outer academies and recruiting commoner students.

Chu Feng and the Shrek Academy staff planned an open-admission outer court and outlined broader training for its students. He then revealed plans to send the organization’s Soul Saints across the continent to establish bases, while Dugu Bo looked for a chance to fight and Zhao Wuji declined to join the mission.

• Chu Feng proposed dividing Shrek Academy into an inner court for its original recruits and an outer court open to commoner Soul Masters, and Flender and Dugu Bo agreed.
• Chu Feng said recruitment should follow Spirit Hall’s annual Martial Soul Awakening ceremonies and urged the academy to train students in fields beyond combat, including soul guidance technology and Battle Armor crafting.
• Dugu Bo offered to teach poison arts, and Flender agreed to prepare tasks and assignments for the academy’s future operations.
• Chu Feng told Dugu Bo to stay out of the organization’s activities because his involvement could attract Spirit Hall’s attention; Flender suggested he visit the Balak Kingdom instead.
• Chu Feng planned to send the organization’s Soul Saints to remote regions to establish bases, and Zhao Wuji declined Flender’s invitation to join, preferring to keep training at the academy.

Bibi Dong ordered an investigation into Dugu Bo’s move to a rural academy, learned that Qian Renxue was searching the Star Dou Great Forest for something that resonated with the Angel Martial Soul, and received Yu Xiaogang’s plea for help against Shrek Academy. Meanwhile, Qian Daoliu discussed monitoring Qian Renxue and investigating both the Angel resonance and a secretive organization last seen in the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Bibi Dong sent Yue Guan and Gui Mei to investigate why Dugu Bo had joined a rural academy and to monitor him.
• Bibi Dong learned that Qian Renxue was searching the Star Dou Great Forest for something that resonated with the Angel Martial Soul, and decided not to look for her.
• Bibi Dong read Yu Xiaogang’s letter asking her to deal with Shrek Academy, but decided she could not act without risking opposition from the Worship Hall.
• Qian Daoliu ordered someone to follow Qian Renxue without interfering unless she was in danger, and asked for the Angel-resonating object to be investigated.
• Qian Daoliu learned that the secretive organization had gone quiet after its members apparently discovered Spirit Hall’s intentions, with its latest sighting in the Heaven Dou Empire.

Qian Daoliu ordered Spirit Hall to search the Heaven Dou Empire for the mysterious organization while continuing to study its unfamiliar Soul Tool. Five months later, the Shrek group reached level 40 and Chu Feng prepared to take them to the Sunset Forest for Soul Rings, leaving the organization’s work at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well underway.

• Qian Daoliu directed Spirit Hall to concentrate its forces in the Heaven Dou Empire and ordered the captured Soul Tool studied further.
• Five months passed, and the Shrek group turned thirteen; their Soul Power reached level 40, while Dai Mubai reached level 47.
• Chu Feng noted that Xiao Wu had finally reached level 40 and said it was time for the group to obtain Soul Rings; Xiao Wu wondered why she had cultivated so quickly.
• Chu Feng chose the Sunset Forest instead of the Star Dou Great Forest, explaining that the organization was active in the latter and developing the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Ma Hongjun and Oscar lamented being single, and Chu Feng offered them a chance to teach in the outer court after they returned with their Soul Rings.

Chu Feng agreed to let Oscar and Ma Hongjun teach in the outer court after forbidding them from handing out Gold Soul Coins. As the group set out for Sunset Forest, they planned to visit Heaven Dou Royal Academy and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Chu Feng questioned whether Ning Rongrong’s family would cooperate with the organization.

• Oscar and Ma Hongjun defended their coin-giving, and Chu Feng offered them teaching roles while warning that the organization would not fund any more coin handouts.
• Ma Hongjun said he wanted to visit Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while Dai Mubai boasted about their strength and Tang San cautioned him not to underestimate the academy.
• Oscar praised Tang San’s Number Zero Battle Armor, and Tang San warned that its safety and durability had not yet been tested.
• Chu Feng agreed to visit Ning Rongrong’s sect, and Ning Rongrong asked whether she should tell her father about cooperating with the organization.
• Chu Feng questioned whether the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would support the organization’s goal, and Ning Rongrong’s smile faded.

Chu Feng and Ning Rongrong discussed how the organization might conflict with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Chu Feng decided to keep the organization out of any cooperation. Ten days later, the group reached Heaven Dou City, where Ning Rongrong treated everyone to shopping and Tang San warned Dai Mubai to keep his identity hidden.

• Ning Rongrong proposed that marrying Chu Feng could connect the organization and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but Chu Feng rejected the idea and said he would consider her feelings only when the sect could not oppose the organization.
• Chu Feng decided that any cooperation would be between Shrek Academy and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, or between himself and the sect, without involving the organization.
• Ten days later, the group arrived in Heaven Dou City, and Ning Rongrong offered to pay for everyone’s shopping.
• Dai Mubai tried to invite Zhu Zhuqing to shop with him, but Ning Rongrong took Zhu Zhuqing away and Zhu Zhuqing dismissed Dai Mubai’s claims about her.
• Tang San warned Dai Mubai that his status as the Star Luo Empire’s second prince could draw the Heaven Dou Imperial Family’s attention, but Dai Mubai said his death would give Dai Weisi a pretext for war.

Chu Feng warned Dai Mubai that he could be targeted in an attempt to spark conflict between the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires, then took the Shrek group sightseeing. When a young noble harassed Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, the group defeated his attendants, and Ning Rongrong revealed her identity and ordered the noble to face the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Chu Feng warned Dai Mubai that someone might kill him and blame the Heaven Dou Empire, and reassured him that the organization was guarding the Shrek group.
• A young noble deliberately bumped into Ning Rongrong and tried to touch her, then turned his attention to Zhu Zhuqing.
• Dai Mubai struck the young noble into a fruit stall, and Tang San and Chu Feng knocked down his attendants when the noble ordered his men to seize the group.
• Ning Rongrong showed the young noble her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect token, identified herself as Ning Fengzhi's daughter, and made him pay the fruit seller ten times the cost.
• Ning Rongrong told the young noble to wait for the people behind him to take him to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Tang San secretly pierced his neck with a silver needle.

The Shrek group visited Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where its teachers tried and failed to recruit Chu Feng and the others. After two days of touring, the group reached the academy’s challenge session, eager to see who they would face.

• Ning Rongrong took Xiao Wu and the others to Heaven Dou Royal Academy after their encounter with the young noble, assuring Xiao Wu that her status would protect them.
• The Shrek group arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and three teachers welcomed them because of Shrek’s reputation and its Titled Douluo.
• The teachers invited Chu Feng and then the other students to transfer, but Chu Feng, Tang San, and the rest refused.
• Ma Hongjun complained about the tour, which lasted two days before the group finally reached the sparring challenge.
• Dai Mubai and the others expected to easily defeat the Imperial Fighting Team after their recent gains in strength.

Shrek met the Imperial Fighting Team again at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Yu Tianheng and his teammates mocked them and challenged them to a seven-on-seven match. Chu Feng stayed out of the fight, noticed Dugu Yan seemed threatened, and left Tang San’s group to face the confident team as the referee began the sparring match.

• Meng Shenji welcomed both teams and reminded Yu Tianheng that friendship should come before competition.
• Yu Tianheng and the Imperial Fighting Team taunted Shrek and challenged Chu Feng, who agreed to face Yu Tianheng after the seven-on-seven match.
• Yu Tianheng whispered to Dugu Yan, whose alarmed reaction led Chu Feng to suspect she had been threatened.
• Chu Feng stepped aside and left Tang San and the other six Shrek members to fight the Imperial Fighting Team.
• The referee explained that killing blows were forbidden, and Yu Feng asked what would happen if Shrek were beaten before they could surrender.

The Shrek Seven Devils faced the Imperial Fighting Team, whose Soul Tool Armor and other Soul Tools turned the fight in their favor. Yu Tianheng knocked Dai Mubai down with his fourth Soul Skill, while Tang San questioned Dugu Yan about the team’s new equipment.

• Tang San led the Shrek Seven Devils into battle, and Dai Mubai opened with White Tiger Meteor Shower Fall.
• The Shi Mo brothers used Soul Tool Armor to block Dai Mubai’s attack, and Tang San warned his team about the Soul Tools.
• Ye Lingling enhanced her healing with a bracelet, while Yu Feng intercepted Zhu Zhuqing as she tried to reach her.
• Yu Tianheng charged Dai Mubai with Soul Tool armguards, and his fourth Soul Skill struck Dai Mubai to the ground.
• Tang San asked Dugu Yan where the Soul Tools came from, while Chu Feng noticed Yu Tianheng’s dramatic increase in power.

The Imperial Fighting Team revealed that all seven members had become Soul Ancestors, but Tang San and the others answered with complete Number Zero Battle Armor of their own. Dai Mubai shattered Yu Tianheng’s armguard and defeated him, while Zhu Zhuqing and Tang San trapped other opponents, leaving the battle underway.

• Yu Tianheng and the other Imperial Fighting Team members revealed their fourth Soul Rings, shocking Meng Shenji and the Shrek team with their sudden rise to Soul Ancestor.
• Dai Mubai and the Shrek members took to the air on flying mushrooms, then Tang San announced that they would use their own Battle Armor.
• Tang San and the others equipped complete Number Zero Battle Armor, which Yu Tianheng dismissed as fake before the flying mushrooms’ effects ended.
• Dai Mubai caught Yu Tianheng’s attack, crushed his Soul Tool armguard, and slammed him into the arena floor, badly injuring him.
• Zhu Zhuqing appeared behind Ye Lingling and held her at claw-point, while Tang San used Blue Silver Myriad Life Bind to cage Shi Mo and Shi Mo.

The Shrek Seven Devils defeated the Imperial Fighting Team after Yu Tianheng went berserk, forcing Meng Shenji to stop the fight and send the Shrek group away. Chu Feng warned that the black-clad leader’s Soul Tool armor was suspicious, and Meng Shenji learned that the man was Wang Gang, the extraordinary Soul Master Theory grandmaster Yu Tianheng had brought to the academy.

• Tang San trapped the Imperial Fighting Team members in Blue Silver Grass cages, while Ma Hongjun’s flames forced the Shi Mo brothers to surrender.
• Yu Tianheng took a pill and used his third Soul Skill again, but the Shrek Seven Devils evaded his attacks from the air.
• Meng Shenji restrained Yu Tianheng, declared the Imperial Fighting Team’s concession, and ordered the Shrek group to leave.
• Chu Feng warned Meng Shenji to investigate the black-clad leader, then led the Shrek group away.
• Meng Shenji ordered the injured Shi Mo brothers treated and demanded an explanation from Dugu Yan, who identified the missing leader as Wang Gang.
• Meng Shenji recognized Wang Gang as the twenty-nine-year-old Soul Saint Yu Tianheng had brought to Heaven Dou Royal Academy five months earlier.

Meng Shenji discovered that Wang Gang had accelerated the Imperial Fighting Team’s cultivation by depleting their Martial Soul Origins, leaving all seven unable to progress. After Heaven Dou Royal Academy moved to hunt Wang Gang, Chu Feng and Shrek learned about him and suspected a larger organization was involved.

• Meng Shenji ordered Wang Gang captured and questioned Dugu Yan about the team’s rapid cultivation and Soul Tool Armor.
• Dugu Yan explained that Wang Gang had taken the team to an unknown place while their senses were blocked, and Meng Shenji examined her and the Shi Mo brothers.
• Meng Shenji discovered that the team’s Martial Soul Origins had been depleted and ordered the academy, the palace, and Spirit Hall to pursue Wang Gang.
• Dugu Yan collapsed in despair, and Meng Shenji advised her to contact Poison Douluo while demanding the team surrender its Soul Tool Armor.
• Chu Feng reviewed the recording with Tang San and Shrek, learned Wang Gang had joined Heaven Dou Royal Academy five months earlier, and suspected he belonged to an unknown organization.