Chapter Summaries

Hu Jiu and the others distributed the three soul bones, then Hu Jiu claimed Zhu Zhuqing’s leg bone and absorbed it. As the group prepared to return to Heaven Dou City with Xue Qinghe, they remained on guard against people seeking to steal the valuable bones.

• Xiao Wu and Dai Mubai declined the soul bones, and Hu Jiu urged Ma Hongjun to take the Explosive Burning Flame Right Arm Bone.
• Tang San gave up the Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull to Ning Rongrong, but she refused it and insisted Tang San accept it; Zhu Zhuqing received the Swift Pursuit Wind Left Leg Bone.
• The group returned to their residence and planned to travel to Heaven Dou City with Xue Qinghe the next morning to deter attacks.
• Hu Jiu persuaded Zhu Zhuqing to hand him her low-age leg bone, then absorbed it and added it to his growing collection of soul bones.
• Flender, Zhao Wuji, Liu Erlong, Dugu Bo, and Tang Hao stayed alert, and shady figures appeared near the residence around midnight.

Hu Jiu detected Ghost Douluo sneaking toward Ma Hongjun, and Dugu Bo confronted him before he could strike. As the Titled Douluos fought in Spirit City, Tang Hao appeared, leaving Ghost alarmed by the connection between Tang San and Tang Hao.

• Hu Jiu sensed Ghost Douluo hiding nearby and realized he was targeting Ma Hongjun, whose newly absorbed Soul Bone had raised him to Level 53.
• Dugu Bo revealed Ghost’s presence and attacked him, triggering a powerful clash that shook Spirit City.
• Bibi Dong recognized Ghost’s aura, ordered Yue Guan to end the fight, and headed out herself.
• Dugu Bo taunted Ghost over Spirit Hall’s attempt to reclaim what had been taken, while Hu Jiu and the others withdrew from the dangerous battle.
• Tang Hao’s voice sounded beside Ghost, who realized Tang San was connected to him and regretted failing to recognize the clues.

Hu Jiu helped Tang Hao batter Ghost, but Bibi Dong arrived with reinforcements before Tang Hao could finish him. Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Xue Qinghe then appeared, and Hu Jiu challenged Spirit Hall’s account of the incident.

• Tang Hao blasted Ghost into the air, and Hu Jiu struck him with a hammer, sending him back toward Tang Hao.
• Bibi Dong stopped Ghost in midair and confronted Tang Hao, then summoned reinforcements from Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong and Tang Hao revealed matching sets of nine soul rings, including red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, while Xiao Wu reacted with hatred to Bibi Dong’s red ring.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin arrived with Xue Qinghe, and Chen Xin told Bibi Dong she had gone too far.
• Hu Jiu mocked Spirit Hall and offered to publicize its actions, while Ghost Leopard Douluo rebuked him.

Hu Jiu forced Spirit Hall to compensate him for Ghost’s attack, then left for Heaven Dou City with Xue Qinghe’s group. On the journey, he inspected the 5,000-year Demon Puppet’s Torso Bone and planned to improve its damage-reduction ability.

• Hu Jiu mocked Yue Guan and demanded a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone from Bibi Dong as compensation.
• Bibi Dong refused the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, so Hu Jiu accepted a suitable torso bone instead.
• Hu Jiu thanked Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, and Chen Xin for their help, while Xue Qinghe welcomed the prospect of Hu Jiu joining her.
• Tang Hao took Tang San away to help him recover from the strain of using the Clear Sky Hammer.
• The next morning, Xue Qinghe led the group toward Heaven Dou City, and Hu Jiu examined the 5,000-year Demon Puppet’s Torso Bone he had received.

Hu Jiu absorbed his final soul bone, triggering all six bones to resonate and merge into a complete skeleton that cleansed his Soul Power and raised him from level 74 to level 76. He emerged more handsome than before, and Ning Rongrong openly confessed her feelings for him.

• Hu Jiu absorbed the Demon Puppet's torso bone, causing all six soul bones to tremble and unleash powerful Soul Power fluctuations.
• Tang San claimed Hu Jiu was cultivating a Soul Skill to persuade the others to leave him undisturbed.
• Hu Jiu's six soul bones merged around the torso bone, became entirely his own, and raised his Soul Power from level 74 to level 76.
• Hu Jiu opened his eyes and discovered that the transformation had made him even more handsome.
• Ning Rongrong confessed that she had fallen for Hu Jiu in front of everyone.

Ning Rongrong revealed her feelings for Hu Jiu, and he comforted her while Ning Fengzhi accepted their relationship and Sword Douluo remained wary. After the group returned to Shrek Academy and graduated, Dai Mubai prepared to return to the Star Luo Empire to face the succession struggle.

• Ning Rongrong ran from the carriage after learning that Xiao Wu and the others had already guessed her feelings, and Hu Jiu followed to comfort her.
• Ning Fengzhi decided not to interfere with Ning Rongrong's choice, while Sword Douluo resolved to test Hu Jiu's abilities.
• Hu Jiu noticed Sword Douluo's hostile attention through his Perception and stayed close to Ning Rongrong to avoid being confronted.
• After returning to Shrek Academy, Hu Jiu and the others attended their graduation ceremony and prepared to go their separate ways.
• Dai Mubai said farewell to Hu Jiu and the others before returning to the Star Luo Empire, confident that he could face the succession struggle.

After several companions left Shrek Academy, Hu Jiu and the others decided on their own paths, with Hu Jiu taking Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong back to Holy Soul Village. They arrived a month later and reunited with Old Jack.

• Tailong returned to the Strength Clan, Jiang Zhu joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Meng Yiran said goodbye to the group.
• Hu Jiu announced that he, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong would return to Holy Soul Village, while Ma Hongjun and Oscar chose to travel together and Tang San stayed near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Hu Jiu asked Ning Rongrong about informing Ning Fengzhi of their trip, and Zhu Zhuqing said she could not return to her clan until she was strong enough to protect her freedom.
• Hu Jiu, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong traveled through the countryside for a month before reaching Holy Soul Village.
• Old Jack greeted Hu Jiu and welcomed Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong.

Hu Jiu returned to Holy Soul Village for the Martial Soul Awakening ceremony and reunited with Su Yuntao, who revealed that Hu Jiu had become a Spirit Sage. Hoping to improve the village children’s chances, Hu Jiu gave them his ginseng before the awakenings began, and he watched the first child’s test to see if it had worked.

• Hu Jiu offered to take over some of Old Jack’s duties and went to the village entrance to meet the awakening master.
• Su Yuntao greeted Hu Jiu respectfully as a Spirit Sage, astonishing the villagers who had gathered there.
• Hu Jiu noticed that fifty children were awaiting their awakenings and gave them ginseng, hoping it might help their Martial Souls evolve.
• Su Yuntao began the ceremony, and the first child awakened a kitchen-knife Artifact Spirit.
• Hu Jiu watched as Su Yuntao prepared to test the child’s Innate Soul Power.

Hu Jiu helped forty-eight of Holy Soul Village’s fifty children awaken the aptitude to cultivate, then promised to pay their academy tuition. After Spirit Hall learned what he had done, Bibi Dong ordered the Shrek members watched but dismissed the awakening talent as having little practical value.

• Su Yuntao discovered that the first three children had awakened cultivation aptitude, and Hu Jiu realized his ginseng had caused it.
• Su Yuntao found that forty-eight of the fifty children could cultivate, while two awakened ordinary spirits without soul power.
• Hu Jiu confirmed to the villagers that he had helped the children awaken, and Hu Rui organized the crowd to hear him speak.
• Hu Jiu promised to pay the children’s tuition after the villagers worried they could not afford the Primary Soul Master Academy.
• Bibi Dong received Su Yuntao’s report, rejected Ghost’s suggestion to kill Hu Jiu, and ordered Spirit Hall to monitor the Shrek members.

After returning to Heaven Dou City, Hu Jiu learned that his ability to awaken cultivation talent had attracted the attention of powerful clans and the imperial family. Xue Qinghe discussed the value of Hu Jiu’s ability, leaving him poised to profit from improving people’s cultivation talent.

• Hu Jiu left Holy Soul Village with Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong after a month-long visit, and his Soul Power and Sixth Soul Ring continued to improve during their travels.
• Hu Jiu’s Phantom Clone advanced into Entity Clone, which could think independently, use his Martial Soul and Soul Skills, and return its memories to him.
• After the group returned to Heaven Dou City, Ning Rongrong went home at Ning Fengzhi’s command, while Tang San welcomed Hu Jiu’s return because his Ice and Fire Domain could help Ah Yin grow.
• Hu Jiu agreed to report to Xue Qinghe and take up his post, then met him at the imperial city the next morning.
• Xue Qinghe told Hu Jiu that his talent-awakening ability had drawn interest from powerful clans and the imperial family, who might pay to improve their members’ cultivation talent.

Hu Jiu arranged to sell ginseng through Xue Qinghe while continuing his training with Tang Hao and helping Ah Yin recover. After three months of rapid progress, Tang Hao questioned Hu Jiu and Tang San about their combat abilities, while Hu Jiu began considering the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger as his Eighth Soul Ring target.

• Hu Jiu agreed to supply ginseng for sale through Xue Qinghe and offered to split the proceeds with him.
• Hu Jiu left ginseng with Xue Qinghe, then returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and promised to help Ah Yin revive within a year.
• Hu Jiu trained under Tang Hao while an Entity Clone built rapport with Xue Qinghe, and his Soul Skills advanced rapidly.
• After three months, Hu Jiu, Xiao Wu, Tang San, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong had reached higher Soul Power Levels, and Hu Jiu decided to seek the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger for its Inner Core.
• Tang Hao asked Hu Jiu and Tang San to assess their actual combat ability, and Tang San gave a hesitant answer.

Tang Hao demonstrated his terrifying Killing Intent and urged Tang San and Hu Jiu to seek it through real life-and-death battles in Slaughter City. Hu Jiu refused to risk entering, while Tang San chose to go with his father.

• Tang Hao told Tang San and Hu Jiu that their fighting experience lacked the Killing Intent gained through true battles to the death.
• Tang Hao released his Killing Intent, which overwhelmed Tang San while Hu Jiu resisted with his spiritual power and Ice and Fire Domain.
• Tang Hao offered to take them to Slaughter City, but Hu Jiu refused, arguing that the danger was not worth it for a Food System Soul Master.
• Hu Jiu explained that Slaughter City was a place of relentless killing from which people supposedly never returned.
• Tang San agreed to enter Slaughter City, trusting that Tang Hao would not harm him and believing he could survive as his father had.

Tang Hao took Tang San to Slaughter City while Hu Jiu stayed behind to help Ah Yin and continue his cultivation. Flander asked Hu Jiu to supply Cultivation Ginseng for Shrek Academy, but Hu Jiu instead proposed using his recent profits to improve the academy’s Mimicry Cultivation Environment.

• Tang Hao and Tang San left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Hu Jiu brought Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing to keep Ah Yin company.
• Hu Jiu spent his days enhancing the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for Ah Yin and cultivating Soul Skills.
• Flander asked Hu Jiu to provide Cultivation Ginseng for Shrek Academy’s growing student body and its partnership with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• When Flander said the academy had ten thousand students, Hu Jiu refused to supply that many and called Zhao Wuji for help.
• Liu Erlong explained that Shrek’s Mimicry Cultivation Environment lagged behind Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s, prompting Hu Jiu to offer his recent profits to improve it.

Hu Jiu discussed his impending level eighty breakthrough with Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Liu Erlong, while Tang Hao brought Tang San to a sinister town and introduced him to its Bloody Mary tavern. The chapter left Tang San mocked by the tavern patrons after he vomited from drinking blood.

• Flender refused Hu Jiu's offer of money and agreed instead to buy a hundred roots of Cultivation Ginseng each day.
• Liu Erlong said she was close to level eighty, and Hu Jiu revealed that he expected to reach the same level in about a month.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji congratulated Hu Jiu and offered to help him hunt for a Soul Ring when he broke through.
• Tang Hao and Tang San reached an unnamed town, where Tang San sensed a chilling atmosphere unlike ordinary Killing Intent.
• Tang Hao ordered Tang San to drink Bloody Mary at a tavern, and Tang San vomited after learning it was blood.
• The tavern patrons ridiculed Tang San as a greenhorn who was unfit to enter the place.

Tang San entered Slaughter City after killing its tavern patrons, while Hu Jiu strengthened his soul rings and reached Level 80. Tang Hao returned to find Hu Jiu ready to seek an Eighth Soul Ring.

• Tang Hao ordered Tang San to kill the tavern patrons, and Tang San killed all twenty-three before setting out for Slaughter City.
• Tang Hao watched Tang San adapt to Slaughter City, then warned the King of Slaughter before leaving; Bibi Dong later arrived with Hu Liena and also warned him.
• Over the next month, Hu Jiu improved his soul rings and broke through to Level 80, gaining powerful support abilities.
• Three days after Hu Jiu’s breakthrough, Tang Hao returned and noticed Hu Jiu’s immense Soul Power and sharp aura.

Hu Jiu reached level eighty and planned to hunt the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger for his next Soul Ring. He went to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to see Ning Rongrong, evaded Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo, and teleported to her side.

• Hu Jiu told Tang Hao that he had broken through to level eighty and planned to absorb the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger as his next Soul Ring.
• Hu Jiu declined Tang Hao's offer to help, saying he would ask Xiao Wu's Soul Beast friends to assist him.
• Hu Jiu returned to Heaven Dou City and decided to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to bring Ning Rongrong along.
• Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo confronted Hu Jiu at the sect's entrance, and Hu Jiu shattered Sword Douluo's sword aura with a throwing knife.
• Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo argued, allowing Hu Jiu to leave an Entity Clone behind and secretly teleport into the sect.
• Hu Jiu sensed Ning Rongrong's aura and teleported beside her as she sat reading a book.

Hu Jiu visited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and reunited with Ning Rongrong, then met Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo. After learning Hu Jiu had reached level eighty, Ning Fengzhi decided that Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo would help him hunt a Soul Beast for his Eighth Soul Ring.

• Hu Jiu teleported to Ning Rongrong, who embraced him and complained that he had neglected her.
• Hu Jiu explained that Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo had blocked his open visit, so he had sneaked over to see her.
• Ning Rongrong brought Hu Jiu to the main hall, where Ning Fengzhi welcomed him and Bone Douluo said he approved of him.
• Hu Jiu told Ning Fengzhi that Ning Rongrong could become a Titled Douluo and the continent's leading support Soul Master.
• Hu Jiu revealed that he had reached level eighty, astonishing Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo.
• Ning Fengzhi decided that Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo would help Hu Jiu hunt a Soul Beast for his Eighth Soul Ring.

Hu Jiu brought Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo to the Star Dou Great Forest to help Liu Erlong find an Eighth Soul Ring. They found an eighty-thousand-year Flame Lizard, which tried to flee and was surrounded by the group.

• Hu Jiu became an Honorary Elder of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after Ning Fengzhi insisted, then recruited Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo for the expedition.
• Hu Jiu, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Flender, Zhao Wuji, Liu Erlong, Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, and Ning Rongrong traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest using Transformation Ginseng.
• Liu Erlong said she needed an approximately eighty-thousand-year fire-attribute Soul Beast, and Xiao Wu directed the group to the Dead Volcano.
• Hu Jiu used Perception to locate an eighty-thousand-year Flame Lizard near the volcano.
• The Flame Lizard fled when it sensed Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo, but the two blocked its escape as the others formed a ring around it.

Hu Jiu and his allies overwhelmed an eighty-thousand-year Flame Lizard, and his Rampage Ginseng boosted Sword Douluo enough to defeat it. Sword Douluo invited Hu Jiu to let him experience the boost again, and Hu Jiu agreed as the Flame Lizard lay ready for someone to absorb its soul ring.

• Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, Zhao Wuji, Hu Jiu, and the others attacked the Flame Lizard while Ning Rongrong boosted their strength.
• The wounded Flame Lizard expanded into a colossal beast, and Hu Jiu withdrew from the fusion battle and handed out Rampage Ginseng to the fighters.
• Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo were astonished by the ginseng's All Attributes boost, while Zhao Wuji and the others also grew stronger.
• Sword Douluo's boosted sword attack gravely wounded the Flame Lizard, and he told someone to absorb its soul ring.
• Sword Douluo asked Hu Jiu to let him experience the boost again, and Hu Jiu agreed.

While Liu Erlong absorbed an eighty-thousand-year Flame Lizard Soul Ring and became a level-eighty-one Battle Soul Douluo, Hu Jiu used the Blue Silver Imprint to locate the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. The group reached its territory and confronted the powerful Soul Beast, preparing for Hu Jiu’s hunt.

• Liu Erlong killed the dying Flame Lizard and began absorbing its Soul Ring while Hu Jiu used the Blue Silver Imprint to search for the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
• Hu Jiu learned the tiger’s approximate location as Liu Erlong completed her half-day absorption and advanced to level eighty-one.
• Liu Erlong revealed her new eighth Soul Skill, Fire Dragon Armor-Piercing Shell, and Hu Jiu led the group toward the tiger’s location.
• Hu Jiu sensed a dark domain that swallowed light and found the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger within it.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger emerged before the group, and Gu Rong recognized its strength despite its age of just over fifty thousand years.