Chapter Summaries

The Glazed Team began its match against the Elephant Armored Team, revealing the strength of Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu’s ten-thousand-year fourth soul rings. The Glazed Team broke the opposing formation and launched a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, leaving the battle poised for its icy finishing attack.

• Dai Mubai and the spectators were shocked by Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu’s powerful soul rings as the referee started the match.
• Huyan Li led the Elephant Armored Team’s charge, while Ning Rongrong enhanced her teammates with four boosts from her Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda.
• Tailong met the charge head-on and knocked Huyan Li into his teammates, breaking their formation.
• Dugu Yan filled the arena with poison mist, and Xiao Wu used it to defeat an Elephant Armored Sect Soul Ancestor.
• Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er joined hands and unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Ice—Snow—Scattering, against the remaining Elephant Armored Team members.

Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er used their Ice Phoenix Martial Soul Fusion Skill to defeat the Elephant Armored Team, giving the Glazed Team a decisive victory. Ning Liu collected valuable Martial Soul Origin Essence from the battle and treated the tournament championship as a secondary prize.

• Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er froze all six Elephant Armored Team members, and the referee declared the Glazed Team the winner.
• Shui Bing'er thawed the defeated team, while Huyan Li demanded to know why they had lost so badly.
• Huyan Zhen ordered the Elephant Armored Team to recover and review every detail of the match.
• Pope Bibi Dong praised Ning Liu's team's strength, then ordered Yue Guan to give three soul bones from her personal collection to Nana and the others.
• Ning Liu examined the array plate and its newly gathered Soul Power Crystals and Martial Soul Origin Essence, pleased with the spoils from the match.

Ning Liu ordered Li An to accelerate the expansion of their businesses and coastal ports while the tournament continued. In a run-down inn, Flender told Yu Xiaogang that Ning Rongrong had become a Soul Ancestor and Xiao Wu a Soul King, leaving him stunned.

• Ning Liu told Li An to reinvest the auction house’s profits and expand its businesses throughout Suotuo City.
• Li An reported that their covert port project in Vast Sea City was underway, and Ning Liu ordered him to finish it within a week.
• Flender complained to Yu Xiaogang that Shrek had drawn Skywater Academy, Plant Academy, and Fenyang Academy in Zone C.
• Yu Xiaogang dismissed Flender’s concern and claimed Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu were still relatively weak, while insisting Tang San would not welcome Xiao Wu back.
• Flender revealed that Ning Rongrong was a four-ring Soul Ancestor and Xiao Wu was a Soul King, stunning Yu Xiaogang.

Yu Xiaogang learned that Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu had reached Soul Ancestor and Soul King, with black fourth Soul Rings, and suspected the Glazed Team had a powerful cultivation method. He kept the news from Tang San and called the Shrek Team to their match, interrupting their energy-draining cultivation.

• Flender told Yu Xiaogang that Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu had appeared in the Glazed Team’s opening match as a Soul Ancestor and Soul King, each with a black fourth Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang speculated that Glazed Heaven had discovered a cultivation method even more effective than Tang San’s, and decided to inspect the arena with Flender.
• Flender asked whether they should tell Tang San that Xiao Wu was competing, but Yu Xiaogang refused so Tang San would stay focused on the tournament.
• Yu Xiaogang and Flender entered the basement, where Tang San and the Shrek Team were draining energy from Thousand Year Soul Beasts through Blue Silver Vines.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San to stop cultivating for the match, and Tang San withdrew the vines as the Shrek members opened their eyes and gazed at him with fervent devotion.

Fenyang Team and Shrek Team began their Group C match, drawing the crowd’s attention with their contrasting reputations and appearance. Fen Zhongli opened with two Soul Skills and charged at Shrek Team, leaving the match unresolved.

• Chen Chen introduced Fenyang Team as a fire-attribute team led by Soul Ancestor Fen Zhongli.
• Tang San led Shrek Team onto the platform in sponsor-covered, shit-yellow uniforms, prompting laughter from the audience.
• Flender explained to Yu Xiaogang that he had bet on Shrek Team to win, while Yu Xiaogang said Ma Hongjun was being saved for later matches.
• The referee started the match, and Fen Zhongli used his First Soul Skill, Blazing Charge, and Fourth Soul Skill, Burning Body, to attack Shrek Team.

Shrek Academy overwhelmed Fenyang Team in the tournament, revealing the strength of its once-dismissed fighters and Tang San's Ten Thousand Year fourth soul ring. The chapter ended with Shrek declared the winner and spectators wondering about the academy's background.

• Fen Zhongli led Fenyang Team's opening fire assault, but Mo Chen's blood-red-enhanced Bone Wall, boosted by Wei Jin, blocked it and protected Shrek Team.
• Liu Yao disrupted Fenyang Team with Chaos Bell, while Wei Jin paralyzed them and Luo Fan and Murong Tu knocked opponents out of the arena.
• Lin Qiang restrained the remaining fighters with Shadow Spider Web, and spectators recognized several Shrek members as outcasts from other academies or the arena.
• Fen Zhongli unleashed Sky Burning Wings, but spectators were stunned when Tang San revealed his Ten Thousand Year fourth soul ring and trapped him with Blue Silver Cage.
• Tang San's Blue Silver Grass drained Fen Zhongli's Soul Power as Shrek's fighters defeated the remaining opponents, and the referee declared Shrek Academy the winner.

Shrek Academy stunned the tournament by crushing Fenyang Team, and the victory made the academy famous while drawing wary attention from rival teams. After reviewing the win and celebrating their earnings, Tang San led Shrek’s students straight back into harsh training powered by a Thousand Year Soul Beast.

• Tang San and Shrek Team defeated Fenyang Team, then left the arena without celebrating as the crowd and commentators hailed them as a major dark horse.
• Fenyang Academy’s instructors examined the match and questioned how Shrek’s supposedly weak students had displayed such strength and coordination.
• Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s second team and Chihuo Academy recognized Shrek as a potential threat, though Chihuo’s team expected to overcome them later.
• Flender celebrated Shrek’s new fame and profits while Yu Xiaogang worried that the team’s unusual power might attract unwanted attention.
• Mo Chen, Wei Jin, and the other students celebrated their performance before Tang San criticized their mistakes and ordered them back to training with a bound Thousand Year Soul Beast.

Dai Mubai visited Flender and learned how Tang San used his Blue Silver Grass to drain soul beasts’ life force and Soul Power for cultivation. Impressed, Dai Mubai offered his forces and proposed bringing Star Luo Royal Academy’s second team to train with Tang San.

• Dai Mubai watched a recording of Tang San’s match and decided to visit Flender at Shrek Academy.
• Dai Mubai brought gifts to Flender’s shabby inn, where he met Yu Xiaogang and learned that Tang San and Ma Hongjun were nearby.
• Dai Mubai revealed that he had reached level forty-four with three Soul Bones, then realized Tang San’s Soul Power was even stronger and Ma Hongjun had become a Soul Elder.
• Tang San explained that he cultivated by using his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul to plunder soul beasts’ life force and Soul Power.
• Dai Mubai offered Flender his Soul Saints and Soul Emperors and proposed sending Star Luo Royal Academy’s second team to train with Tang San.
• Tang San agreed to let Dai Mubai experience the training, and Dai Mubai followed him into the basement.

Dai Mubai used Tang San’s blood-energy cultivation method, broke through to rank forty-five, and gave Flender one million gold soul coins for the academy. After Ning Liu told Xiao Wu that Tang San had returned, Xiao Wu reassured Ning Liu of her feelings and chose to be with him.

• Dai Mubai absorbed the energy from Tang San’s vines, and his White Tiger Martial Soul helped him break through to rank forty-five.
• Dai Mubai gave Flender a gold-edged card containing one million gold soul coins and offered to bring his Star Luo Second Team to the academy the next day.
• Ning Liu reviewed a report about Tang San’s tournament performance and asked a servant to bring Xiao Wu to him.
• Xiao Wu read the report, and Ning Liu told her that Tang San had appeared again and that she deserved to know.
• Xiao Wu told Ning Liu that she had only ever seen Tang San as a childhood friend, then kissed Ning Liu and offered herself to him.

Ning Liu and Xiao Wu shared an intimate moment while the Soul Fighting Arena prepared to host Star Luo Royal Academy Second Team against the Barack Team. The match began with Dai Mubai advancing alone, and the Barack captain launched an attack against him.

• Ning Liu teased Xiao Wu about having children before kissing her again.
• Doudou introduced Star Luo Royal Academy Second Team, led by Dai Mubai, and their opponents, the Barack Team.
• The Barak Academy dean assured the Balak king that the Barack Team would win because it had three Soul Ancestors against Dai Mubai's one.
• The Barack captain rallied his teammates to fight for their kingdom's glory, while Dai Mubai calmly waited for the match to begin.
• After the referee started the match, Dai Mubai's six teammates stayed back without releasing their martial souls, and the Barack captain attacked Dai Mubai with his first and second soul skills.

Dai Mubai overwhelmed the Barak Team captain and revealed that his Soul Power far exceeded the team’s expectations. When the rest of the Barak Team attacked together, he broke through their restraints and crippled their agility-type Soul Ancestor, leaving them stunned.

• Dai Mubai blocked the Barak Team captain’s combined Soul Skills with his First Soul Skill, then struck him with his Third Soul Skill and sent him crashing to the ground.
• The injured captain realized Dai Mubai was far stronger than the intelligence had suggested and ordered his six teammates to attack together.
• The remaining Barak Team members surrounded Dai Mubai and used their Soul Skills to restrain and suppress him.
• Dai Mubai activated his Fourth Soul Skill, shattered the restraints, and charged at the agility-type Soul Ancestor.
• Dai Mubai broke the agility-type Soul Ancestor’s leg, then called the stunned Barak Team a bunch of trash.

Dai Mubai exploited the competition rules by repeatedly breaking the Barack Team members’ limbs and having Star Luo Royal Academy’s healer restore them. The Barack Team captain eventually surrendered, while Dai Mubai mocked the team for quitting in the first round.

• Dai Mubai told the referee that the injured agility-attack Soul Ancestor was not seriously hurt after Xiao Li healed his broken leg.
• After the referee allowed the match to continue, Dai Mubai threatened to break and heal the Barack Team members repeatedly.
• Dai Mubai broke the agility-attack Soul Ancestor’s left arm, and Xiao Li healed it again.
• Dai Mubai struck the rest of the Barack Team in their limbs with White Tiger Blazing Light Wave, and Xiao Li healed their injuries.
• The Barack Team captain surrendered, and Dai Mubai mocked him for quitting so quickly.

After Star Luo Royal Academy's Second Team defeated Barack Team, Ning Liu discovered his Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda had reached the limit of what Martial Soul Origin Essence could improve. He gave the remaining essence to Ning Rongrong to absorb, promising her a surprise afterward.

• Dai Mubai and Star Luo Royal Academy's Second Team ended their one-sided match when Barack Team conceded.
• Ning Liu's Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda stopped absorbing Martial Soul Origin Essence, leading him to suspect it needed a qualitative leap toward divine grade.
• Ning Liu called Ning Rongrong to his office, where she celebrated the team's undefeated run and asked to become a Soul King.
• Ning Liu gave Ning Rongrong the Origin Essence his pagoda had rejected and told her to absorb it before revealing a surprise.
• Ning Rongrong summoned her Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda and began absorbing the first piece of Origin Essence.

Ning Liu helped Ning Rongrong’s Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda evolve to its current limit, raising her Soul Power to level fifty and revealing that he had kept a path to godhood for her. The chapter leaves Ning Rongrong unsure whether she can become a god as Ning Liu encourages her to believe in herself.

• Ning Rongrong absorbed Martial Soul Origin Essences until her Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda reached its enhancement limit.
• Energy from the evolved martial soul flowed back into Ning Rongrong, raising her Soul Power from level forty-eight to level fifty and changing her appearance.
• Ning Rongrong celebrated her advancement and asked Ning Liu about the surprise he had promised her.
• Ning Liu told Ning Rongrong that he had kept an opportunity for her to become a god: the Nine-Colored Goddess Ruins Map.
• Ning Liu explained why the ruins were a viable path for Rongrong, and she asked whether she could truly succeed.

Ning Liu encouraged Ning Rongrong to pursue godhood and gave her Soul Power Crystals and Martial Soul Essences to distribute among her teammates. After deciding he would forge Rongrong’s path himself rather than follow the original story’s paired inheritance, he prepared three system rewards for the next auction.

• Ning Liu told Ning Rongrong she had the talent to become a god and promised to guide her when the time was right.
• Ning Liu gave Ning Rongrong a pile of Soul Power Crystals and Martial Soul Essences, instructing her to share them with her teammates according to their needs.
• Ning Rongrong left to distribute the items among the Glazed Team.
• Ning Liu worried that Oscar’s absence left Ning Rongrong without a partner for the Nine-Colored Goddess’s inheritance, then rejected the idea that her future had to follow the original story.
• Ning Liu decided to use the system to find opportunities for Rongrong and began drawing three rewards to auction the next day.

Ning Liu drew three auction items and received a mandatory finale item: a crystal recording Tang San using his Blue Silver Grass to drain life from plants and Soul Beasts. He decided to let the auction expose the evidence and told Li An to prepare all four items for the auction.

• Ning Liu drew a Soul Ring Year Fragment, a fine steel longsword, and a Black Enlightenment Stone, each with a possible auction return multiplier.
• Ning Liu drew the mandatory Shrek Academy Secret Chamber's Projection Crystal and saw recordings of Tang San draining life from plants and Thousand Year Soul Beasts to strengthen himself.
• Ning Liu considered exposing or capturing Tang San, then decided to let the continent see and judge the evidence at the auction.
• Ning Liu summoned Li An and instructed him to include the three drawn items in the next day's auction.
• Ning Liu showed Li An the Projection Crystal and ordered him to make it the auction's finale item.

Ning Liu ordered Li An to present a crystal ball as the Shrek Academy Secret Chamber's Projection Crystal, hoping to stir up a major commotion. As the tournament preliminaries ended and an auction was announced, Dai Mubai dismissed the auction and promised Zhu Zhuyun that Tang San would help her reach Soul King that day.

• Ning Liu told Li An to introduce the crystal ball as the Shrek Academy Secret Chamber's Projection Crystal and said he wanted the resulting stir to be as big as possible.
• Doudou announced that the tournament preliminaries had ended and that the final twenty-four advancing teams would be posted outside the Soul Fighting Arena.
• Spectators speculated that the Shrek Team and Star Luo Royal Academy Second Team had advanced unusually quickly through private training methods.
• Doudou announced that Glazed Heaven's Auction House would hold an auction that night.
• Dai Mubai met Zhu Zhuyun in the Star Luo royal family's private room, dismissed the auction, and promised Tang San would help her break through to Soul King that day.

At the Glazed Heaven auction, Doudou unveiled one hundred Soul Power Crystals, revealing a possible source of several tournament teams’ rapid growth. Bibi Dong decided Spirit Hall would watch the bidding and try to buy the crystals if an opportunity arose, while the auction’s opening lot sparked a fierce bidding war.

• Yue Guan warned Bibi Dong that the Golden Generation might fail to place in the top three, and Bibi Dong said she was more concerned about Ning Liu and would meet him after the auction.
• Doudou introduced one hundred Soul Power Crystals that could raise or replenish Soul Power, with especially strong effects for Soul Masters at Soul King and below.
• The auction guests speculated that the crystals explained the rapid growth of the Glazed Team and Shrek Team, including Tang San and Dai Mubai.
• Bibi Dong recognized the crystals as Ning Liu’s strategic resource and told Yue Guan to observe and bid if Spirit Hall had a chance.
• Doudou opened bidding at ten thousand Gold Soul Coins, and guests rapidly raised the price, with Elephant Armored Sect joining the contest.

Yu Luomian won Ning Liu’s Purple Soul Power Crystals for one million Gold Soul Coins, while Bibi Dong decided Spirit Hall should ally with Ning Liu rather than compete for his goods. Ning Liu received a hundred Black-grade Soul Power Crystals through the system, and the auction moved on to an ordinary Fine Steel Longsword.

• Yu Luomian bid one million Gold Soul Coins on the Purple Soul Power Crystals, hoping to strengthen Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng for the tournament and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s future.
• The other factions, including Godwind Academy and Spirit Hall, chose not to challenge the bid, and Bibi Dong resolved to fully side with Ning Liu and become his friend.
• Doudou sold the hundred Purple Soul Power Crystals to Yu Luomian for one million Gold Soul Coins.
• Ning Liu received a hundred Black-grade Soul Power Crystals from the system as a hundredfold return on the sale.
• Doudou introduced Ning Liu’s next auction item, an ordinary Fine Steel Longsword, with a starting price of one hundred Gold Soul Coins.

Ning Liu auctioned an ordinary longsword for a surprisingly high price, then Doudou introduced ten Black Grade Soul Power Crystals that drew bids from powerful factions. The bidding war began with Yu Luomian, Prince Xue Xing, and Huyan Zhen, and was still escalating when the chapter ended.

• A wealthy merchant and other bidders drove the price of Ning Liu’s Fine Steel Longsword to Five Thousand Gold Soul Coins, triggering a Thousandfold Return that gave Ning Liu Five Million Gold Soul Coins.
• Doudou presented ten Black Grade Soul Power Crystals, explaining that they could increase the Soul Power of experts from Soul Emperor to Soul Douluo.
• Yu Luomian, hoping to break through from level eighty-nine and become a Titled Douluo, opened the bidding at One Million Gold Soul Coins.
• Prince Xue Xing bid Two Million Gold Soul Coins on behalf of the Heaven Dou Empire, and Huyan Zhen raised the offer to Two Million and One Thousand.
• An unidentified bidder raised the price to Two Million One Hundred Thousand Gold Soul Coins as Huyan Zhen’s laughter faded.