Chapter Summaries

Chu Qing refused Xuan Zi’s offer to join Shrek Academy, then faced competing offers from Long Xiaoyao and Niu Tian. He grew alarmed when Niu Tian arrived with a girl he suspected was Wang Dong, wondering whether Tang San had come early.

• Chu Qing declined Xuan Zi’s offer to become his disciple and join Shrek Academy, prompting Grandma Wu Feng to mock Xuan Zi.
• Du Busi revealed that Xuan Zi had once lost eight of twelve Inner Court disciples on a Soul Ring expedition, then fought him in the air.
• Long Xiaoyao arrived on a Dark Holy Dragon and dropped the corpses of Evil Soul Masters and Soul Engineers from the Sun Moon Empire into the Lerna Swamp.
• Long Xiaoyao identified himself as a level 99 Limit Douluo and asked Chu Qing to inherit his mantle, but Chu Qing feared becoming entangled with the Holy Spirit Cult and Ye Xishui.
• Niu Tian arrived with a young woman, offered to make Chu Qing his personal disciple, and claimed the Clear Sky Sect could provide greater resources.
• Long Xiaoyao challenged Niu Tian’s claim and pressured Chu Qing to choose him, leaving Chu Qing anxious about both offers.

Chu Qing faced pressure to choose between Long Xiaoyao and Niu Tian as his master, while fearing the consequences of either choice. Du Busi proposed a teaching wager to settle the matter, leaving Chu Qing caught between the two Limit Douluo.

• Chu Qing weighed the risks of choosing Long Xiaoyao or Niu Tian and briefly considered Du Busi, who mistakenly took his glance as a sign of interest.
• Du Busi urged Long Xiaoyao and Niu Tian to stop pressuring Chu Qing and settle their dispute by comparing their teaching abilities.
• Du Busi proposed that each Limit Douluo teach one disciple a move, then have Chu Qing and Long Aotian compete; Long Xiaoyao and Niu Tian agreed to a best-of-three wager.
• Tang Wutong suggested that Long Xiaoyao and Niu Tian wager on a fight between Du Busi and Xuan Zi, but Xuan Zi flew away when Du Busi challenged him.
• Du Busi proposed that Long Xiaoyao and Niu Tian each teach Chu Qing for one round, with Soul Bones deciding a third round if needed; both agreed, and Chu Qing thanked Du Busi despite his unease.

Chu Qing met Long Aotian and agreed to fight him in Lingdou City in one month, then returned with Niu Tian and Tang Wutong. Niu Tian taught Chu Qing the combat technique Radiance of the Azure Eyes, and Chu Qing began making progress while considering how to combine it with his Slow Domain.

• Du Busi introduced Long Aotian, who challenged Chu Qing to a match in Lingdou City one month later.
• Niu Tian and Tang Wutong offered to take Chu Qing to the Clear Sky Sect, but Heavenly Sun Douluo arranged for Niu Tian to teach him within the Dou Ling Empire instead.
• Chu Qing returned to Lingdou City with Niu Tian and Tang Wutong, then asked Princess Xue Li to show Tang Wutong around.
• Niu Tian demonstrated Radiance of the Azure Eyes, and Chu Qing struggled to learn the technique during their first day of training.
• Niu Tian rewrote the technique's instructions and brought back an ice jade marrow bed, after which Chu Qing began making progress and considered combining the technique with his Slow Domain and Ultimate Ice.

Chu Qing and Long Aotian fought in the first round of the contest, with Chu Qing’s spiritual power running out and Long Aotian taking the win. The two sides then agreed that the second round would test their understanding of Martial Souls by having them each develop a training plan for a randomly chosen person.

• Princess Xue Li told Chu Qing that rumors were spreading about his Martial Soul and Senior Niu Tian, and the Dou Ling Emperor decided to follow Chu Qing’s wishes and leave the matter alone.
• Chu Qing trained in Radiance of the Azure Eyes for a month before Long Xiaoyao and Du Busi arrived with Long Aotian for the contest.
• Long Aotian used Nine Coils of the Wandering Dragon against Chu Qing, whose Radiance of the Azure Eyes helped him gain an advantage until his spiritual power ran low.
• Niu Tian conceded the first round to Long Xiaoyao, and Long Aotian stopped fighting and invited Chu Qing to spar outside the city.
• Tang Wutong proposed that the second round compare the two masters’ plans for developing a randomly chosen person’s Martial Soul, and Long Xiaoyao agreed.

Long Xiaoyao and Niu Tian contested their knowledge of Evil Martial Souls, and Niu Tian won by using an Immortal Herb to restore an Evil Soul Master's Martial Soul. Long Xiaoyao gave up the final round to ask Niu Tian for a favor, while Chu Qing worried that he would have to accept Tang Wutong's embrace.

• Long Xiaoyao chose Evil Martial Souls as the subject of the contest, and Niu Tian agreed to find a test subject with Tang Wutong.
• Tang Wutong told Niu Tian she planned to ask her father for help from the Evil God King, then they captured an Evil Soul Master and returned to Lingdou City.
• A month later, Long Xiaoyao presented a Holy Spirit Cult cultivation plan that could make the Evil Soul Master a powerful Titled Douluo, while Niu Tian proposed using an Immortal Herb to remove his evil power.
• Niu Tian gave the Immortal Herb to the Evil Soul Master, whose Martial Soul returned to normal, and Long Xiaoyao conceded the round.
• Long Xiaoyao gave up the third round and privately asked Niu Tian for a favor, while Chu Qing guessed he wanted help for Ye Xishui and worried about Tang Wutong.

Tang Wutong took Chu Qing to Dou Ling Royal Advanced Soul Master Academy to confront the students who had mocked her, but the encounter turned into a spar between Chu Qing and tournament captain Lone Bamboo Sword. After Lone Bamboo Sword unleashed his enhanced Purple Emperor Bamboo attacks, the duel remained unresolved as Chi Hengyu wondered whether Chu Qing could defeat the five-ringed Soul King.

• Niu Tian left Lingdou with Long Xiaoyao, leaving Tang Wutong and Chu Qing together.
• Tang Wutong brought Chu Qing to the academy and challenged the students who had mocked her, but they backed down until Lone Bamboo Sword volunteered to spar.
• Chu Qing and Lone Bamboo Sword introduced their cultivation levels and Martial Souls, then activated their Soul Skills and fought.
• Lone Bamboo Sword's Purple Bamboo Ten Thousand Thrusts wounded Chu Qing, who counterattacked by lifting and blasting Lone Bamboo Sword with tornado and lightning attacks.
• Lone Bamboo Sword recovered under Chu Qing's healing Soul Skill and attacked with his enhanced Bamboo Mourning Purple Emperor Staff, while Chi Hengyu watched and questioned whether Chu Qing could win.

Chu Qing defeated Lone Bamboo Sword in a Soul Fighting match, then took Tang Wutong to a teahouse, where she admitted to running up debts in his name. As they listened for rumors about treasure and ruins, Tang Wutong claimed she could survive an encounter with one of the ten great Ferocious Beasts, while Chu Qing considered spreading a rumor of his own.

• Chu Qing used his Soul Skills and electric serpents to control and defeat Lone Bamboo Sword, who accepted his loss.
• Tang Wutong praised Chu Qing’s toughness, and he retorted that she could take the beating next time.
• Tang Wutong admitted she had run out of money half a month earlier and had been buying things on credit in Chu Qing’s name.
• Chu Qing took Tang Wutong to the Spirit Lake Teahouse and offered to lend her half his share of the profits.
• At the teahouse, Tang Wutong wished for rumors about treasure or ruins and claimed she could survive meeting one of the ten great Ferocious Beasts.
• Chu Qing heard no rumors about himself and considered adding to the speculation while Niu Tian was away.

Chu Qing arranged to avoid becoming Niu Tian’s disciple, while Xu Sanshi returned from Shrek and later met Jiang Nannan at the Mysterious Nether Sect. Jiang Nannan received medicine and help for her mother, but Xu Sanshi remained puzzled by Chu Qing’s claim that he should look after her.

• Chu Qing told Xue Zhan he did not want Niu Tian as his master, and Xue Zhan secured the emperor’s support while delaying the announcement until rumors had spread.
• Xu Sanshi returned to the Soul Fighting Society, mistook Tang Wutong for Jiang Nannan, and joined everyone in playing Soul Beast Kill.
• Xu Sanshi brought the distribution point contract to the Mysterious Nether Sect and asked his father to help him awaken the Black Tortoise Bloodline after meeting Bei Bei.
• The Mysterious Nether Sect found Jiang Nannan, who had sold herself for medicine for her gravely ill mother, and Xu Sanshi gave her a Mysterious Water Divine Pill and offered to fund her studies at Shrek.
• Jiang Nannan said she did not know Chu Qing, leaving Xu Sanshi confused about why Chu Qing had asked him to look after her; days later, the sect held a secret ceremony with Xu Sanshi and another girl.

Tai Tan told Chu Qing and Tang Wutong that Niu Tian had been killed, while Chu Qing secretly celebrated and refused Yan Shaozhe’s offer to take him to Shrek. A year later, Xu Sanshi brought Jiang Nannan to the Soul Fighting Society, where Chu Qing offered her a vacation job and asked about Bei Bei.

• Tai Tan arrived at the Soul Fighting Society and told Tang Wutong that Niu Tian had fallen to an attack by Evil Soul Masters, then invited Chu Qing to return to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Chu Qing refused to take Tai Tan as a new master, swore to avenge Niu Tian, and learned that Long Xiaoyao, the Holy Spirit Cult, and the Evil Emperor were his enemies.
• After Tai Tan took Tang Wutong away, Chu Qing privately celebrated Niu Tian’s death and tried to get a Soul Bone from the plane’s will.
• Yan Shaozhe visited on behalf of the Dragon God Douluo and asked Chu Qing to join Shrek, but Chu Qing refused and said he wanted to help develop Dou Ling’s academies.
• A year later, Xu Sanshi brought Jiang Nannan to the Soul Fighting Society, where Chu Qing offered her a well-paid vacation job and asked Xu Sanshi about Bei Bei.

Chu Qing searched the Star Dou Great Forest for Huo Yuhao and met Tang Ya and Bei Bei before finding Huo Yuhao fighting a Wind Baboon. He saved Huo Yuhao and began leading him to a spiritual-type Soul Beast, while secretly bargaining with the Will of the Plane for Electrolux instead of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

• Chu Qing absorbed a sixty-thousand-year-old Snake-Haired Gorgon Stheno Soul Ring, then went to train in the outer zone while Xue Zhan followed him in secret.
• Chu Qing encountered Tang Ya and Bei Bei by a stream and gave them his cooked fish before hurrying off to search for Huo Yuhao.
• Chu Qing found Huo Yuhao losing to a Wind Baboon and shot the beast with an arrow, saving him.
• Chu Qing offered to help Huo Yuhao find a suitable spiritual-type Soul Ring and led him deeper into the forest.
• Chu Qing changed his story about where he had seen a spiritual-type Soul Beast and bargained with the Will of the Plane to capture Electrolux instead of taking the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm made Huo Yuhao its host, but Electrolux also entered Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Spirit, while Chu Qing received unexpected changes to his powers from the plane’s will. The chapter ended with the plane offering Chu Qing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit and directing him toward a thirty-year Iridescent Shield-Tailed Snake.

• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm emerged, knocked Chu Qing unconscious, and began sealing its million-year origin energy into Huo Yuhao as his first Soul Ring.
• Electrolux’s gray bead entered Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Spirit, resisted the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s attack, and remained there as the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm continued sealing its power.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Huo Yuhao that his first Soul Ring had four Soul Skills and would grow stronger as Huo Yuhao’s capacity increased, then went to sleep until Huo Yuhao reached level 20.
• Chu Qing woke with greater mental power and confronted the plane’s will, which compensated him by evolving his Man Faced Pearl Emperor External Finger Bones and transferring his first Soul Ring’s power into them.
• The plane’s will offered Chu Qing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit and directed him to a thirty-year Iridescent Shield-Tailed Snake in nearby bushes.

Chu Qing received a thirty-year Iridescent Shield-Tailed Snake as his Soul Spirit, but the Will of the Plane raised it to a hundred-thousand-year Soul Spirit by taking origin energy from the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. When Tang Ya and Bei Bei found Huo Yuhao unconscious and confronted Chu Qing, he fought Bei Bei with his evolved Azure Divine Dragon; Huo Yuhao woke and tried to stop the fight.

• The Will of the Plane performed Chu Qing’s Soul Spirit Ceremony with a thirty-year Iridescent Shield-Tailed Snake and raised its age to a hundred thousand years by draining the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s origin energy.
• Chu Qing agreed to the Will of the Plane’s demands to leave Huo Yuhao alone and become a god alongside Tang Wutong, while privately considering a way to avoid relying on Tang San.
• Tang Ya and Bei Bei found Huo Yuhao unconscious and demanded that Chu Qing explain himself; Chu Qing summoned his Man Faced Demon Spider Emperor and transformed it into an Azure Divine Dragon.
• Bei Bei fought the Azure Divine Dragon, but Chu Qing slowed him with a domain and blasted him away before stopping the domain.
• Tang Ya woke Huo Yuhao, who pretended to be confused and asked Chu Qing and Bei Bei to stop fighting.

Huo Yuhao joined Bei Bei and Tang Ya in fighting Chu Qing, using Spiritual Sharing and Soul Shock to support them, but Chu Qing overwhelmed the group with the Azure Divine Dragon’s lightning attacks. After Chu Qing left, Tang Ya invited Huo Yuhao to return to Shrek Academy with the Tang Sect, though she warned that the offer came with conditions.

• Huo Yuhao ignored Chu Qing’s warning and entered the fight to help Bei Bei, using Spiritual Sharing to guide the group’s movements.
• Tang Ya and Bei Bei combined their Soul Skills with Huo Yuhao’s support, but Chu Qing repeatedly broke through their attacks with the Azure Divine Dragon’s thunder and lightning.
• Huo Yuhao struck Chu Qing with Soul Shock, disrupting the Azure Divine Dragon’s dive, but Chu Qing’s lightning shockwave paralyzed all three fighters.
• Chu Qing linked Bei Bei, Tang Ya, and Huo Yuhao with Lightning Chain, then dismissed the Azure Divine Dragon and walked away.
• Bei Bei broke the Lightning Chain and rescued Huo Yuhao and Tang Ya, after which Huo Yuhao apologized for dragging them into the fight.
• Tang Ya invited Huo Yuhao to return to Shrek Academy with the Tang Sect’s admission spot, then warned him that accepting it would involve conditions.

Chu Qing fought Jin Su and her thirty-thousand-year Dragon-Clawed Golden Eagle after they caught him hunting Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest. He unleashed his strongest skills and destroyed the eagle, while Jin Su remained alive and the battle’s outcome was unresolved.

• Chu Qing sensed he was being watched while hunting Soul Beasts, then retreated toward the outskirts until the feeling passed.
• Jin Su and the Dragon-Clawed Golden Eagle attacked Chu Qing after he killed a Lightning Marten, and Jin Su used Golden Perception to find his concealed true body.
• Chu Qing revealed his Soul Rings and used his fifth Soul Skill to repel the eagle, then clashed with Jin Su and recognized her as the Emperor Auspicious Beast.
• Jin Su struck through one of Chu Qing’s shields with Golden Dragon Head, while the Dragon-Clawed Golden Eagle launched a powerful attack of its own.
• Chu Qing slowed both attackers with Radiance of the Azure Eyes and Slow Domain, then Iris empowered his lance as it passed through his shields.
• Chu Qing’s lance pierced the Dragon-Clawed Golden Eagle, which was crushed by a six-colored Sky Azure Bull Emperor Python before explosions erupted around them.

Chu Qing defeated Jin Su in the Star Dou Great Forest, then fled before stronger Soul Beasts could arrive and traveled to Star Luo City to pursue his plans. There, he investigated the local market and began courting Xu Jiujiu outside Star Luo Royal Academy, drawing a confrontation from one of her supporters.

• Chu Qing killed the Dragon-Clawed Golden Eagle, restrained Jin Su, and escaped after she attacked him again.
• Jin Su regretted getting the Dragon-Clawed Golden Eagle killed and vowed to kill Chu Qing, while Xue Zhan followed Chu Qing out of the forest.
• Chu Qing traveled to Star Luo City to retrieve the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife and explore the Soul Fighting Society's prospects in the Star Luo Empire.
• Chu Qing searched the city and its auction house, then stood outside Star Luo Royal Academy holding a fan sign for Xu Jiujiu.
• On the second day, a supporter of Xu Jiujiu confronted Chu Qing and told him to leave.

Chu Qing forced his way into a meeting with Xu Jiujiu and proposed that she distribute his Soul Fighting Cards across the Star Luo Empire. Xu Jiujiu agreed in principle but demanded that, once he became a Titled Douluo, he do thirty things for her.

• Chu Qing immobilized the Dou Ling Royal Academy students with Radiance of the Azure Eyes and asked them to tell Xu Jiujiu he wanted to meet her.
• Wang Shiying learned that Chu Qing had stopped the group with a single look, then persuaded Xu Jiujiu to meet him herself.
• Xu Jiujiu greeted Chu Qing at the academy gates and noticed his royal-tailored clothes and powerful Soul Power.
• Chu Qing revealed he had five rings and introduced himself as president of the Soul Fighting Society.
• Xu Jiujiu showed Chu Qing portraits of himself and agreed to handle distribution of his Soul Fighting Cards across the Star Luo Empire in exchange for thirty future favors.

Chu Qing used Sky Azure Annihilation Divine Thunder to purge the curse from the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife, transforming it into the Blade of Life's Watch. As he studied the blade afterward, the Will of the Plane used his hand to accuse him of taking the Gold of Life.

• Xu Jiujiu asked Chu Qing about his Azure Soul Ring, and he showed her his Soul Rings and demonstrated how the Man Faced Demon Puppet could imitate different appearances and ring colors.
• Chu Qing and Xu Jiujiu agreed to work together, and she invited him to her auction before giving him the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife as a gift.
• Chu Qing transformed the Man Faced Demon Puppet into the Azure Divine Dragon and struck the carving knife with Sky Azure Annihilation Divine Thunder.
• A ghostly figure emerged and dissipated as the knife turned green, so Chu Qing named it the Blade of Life's Watch.
• After Xu Jiujiu left, Chu Qing studied the blade, and the Will of the Plane used his hand to accuse him of taking the Gold of Life.

Chu Qing discovered that the Will of the Plane was a transmigrated Tang San inhabiting a colossal, ancient bone serpent, and learned why he needed Chu Qing’s help. Tang San planned to fake his death and have Chu Qing ascend to the Divine Realm while he prepared for the war against it.

• The Will of the Plane used the Blade of Life's Watch to nourish Chu Qing’s divine sense and explained that he needed Chu Qing and Tang Wutong to become gods to distract the Divine Realm.
• Chu Qing guessed that the Will of the Plane was a transmigrator and was transported into his Sea of Spirit, where he saw a colossal bone serpent encircling the continent.
• Tang San revealed that he was both a transmigrator and the Will of the Plane, while another Tang San remained in the Divine Realm.
• Tang San explained that he had absorbed the resentment of souls across the continent and wanted to protect them from the Divine Realm, which he saw as the source of their suffering.
• Tang San told Chu Qing that the war had begun and that he would use Chu Qing’s hand to fake his death, allowing Chu Qing to ascend and giving him time to prepare.
• When Chu Qing asked why Tang San had chosen him, Tang San said Chu Qing had extraordinary aptitude, then insulted him as having the bones of a cheap bastard.

Chu Qing returned to Dou Ling and sparred with Tang Wutong, who challenged him to show how much he had improved. After Tang Wutong unleashed her Light Butterfly God Slash, Chu Qing used a decoy and struck her from behind, leaving her vowing to get revenge.

• Chu Qing attended Xu Jiujiu's auction, declined to bid, and said goodbye to her before returning to Dou Ling.
• Tang Wutong confronted Chu Qing at the Soul Fighting Society for not visiting the Clear Sky Sect and challenged him to a fight.
• Tang Wutong attacked with her Light Goddess Butterfly, while Chu Qing met her strike and revealed his five Soul Rings, including a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Tang Wutong unleashed Light Butterfly God Slash, but the attack struck Chu Qing's decoy and blasted a crater in the courtyard.
• Chu Qing appeared behind Tang Wutong, hit her on the head, and caught her before she fell; Tang Wutong tearfully promised to get revenge.

Chu Qing received the half of Tang Wutong’s treasure map that marked the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then hosted Xu Jiujiu as they inspected the Soul Fighting Society’s business and negotiated card sales in the Star Luo Empire. The chapter left them trying an unusual local dish near the Spirit Rhinoceros Sect.

• Tang Wutong sneaked into the backyard to attack Chu Qing, but he kicked her down, and she angrily gave him half of a treasure map marking the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Tang Wutong ignored Chu Qing for several days, then grew resentful when he took Xu Jiujiu out as his host; Princess Xue Li agreed with her complaints.
• Chu Qing took Xu Jiujiu to inspect the Soul Fighting Society’s distribution points, and they discussed card pricing, imperial Soul Spirit cards, and the risk of piracy.
• Xu Jiujiu suggested expanding the market before worrying about piracy, then asked Chu Qing to take her to local delicacies around Dou Ling.
• Chu Qing brought Xu Jiujiu to a dingy eatery near the Spirit Rhinoceros Sect, where she cautiously tried the green dish he called niubie.