Chapter Summaries

At a banquet, Xiang Yang told Tang San that Shrek Academy planned to move to Blue Tyrant Academy so its students could enter the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament. The chapter ended with Flender and Yu Xiaogang agreeing that changing Shrek was necessary for the students’ future.

• At Qin Ming’s banquet, Osler learned the Shrek students’ Soul Power Levels from Oscar and passed the information to Yu Feng, easing the tension between them.
• Tang San told Xiang Yang that Dugu Yan had arranged for her grandfather to meet them in two weeks, when Tang Hao would also be available.
• Xiang Yang explained the tournament’s age and academy requirements to Tang San and revealed that Shrek would need to move to qualify.
• Xiang Yang and Flender settled on Blue Tyrant Academy, valuing its freedom and the chance to expand Shrek over joining Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Flender agreed with Yu Xiaogang that Shrek’s limited resources and training made a change necessary for the students.

Shrek Academy merged with Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and most of its students and teachers left ahead of Tang San and Xiang Yang. Dugu Bo arrived to meet them about curing the poison affecting his family, tested Tang San by proposing him to Dugu Yan, and learned the two young men’s teachers had gone to Heaven Dou for the tournament.

• Yu Xiaogang announced Shrek Academy’s merger with Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Flender and Zhao Wuji led him to believe Oscar had already told the students.
• The others left Shrek, while Tang San and Xiang Yang stayed behind to wait for Tang San’s father and handle other matters; Tang San missed Xiao Wu as she departed.
• Tang San and Xiang Yang spent the following days preparing to travel, including preserving Xiang Yang’s plants and medicinal herbs.
• Dugu Bo arrived at Shrek and recognized Tang San as the young man who had arranged to meet his granddaughter, Yanyan.
• Dugu Bo offered Tang San Dugu Yan’s hand and pressured him, but Xiang Yang explained that Tang San had already pledged himself to someone else.
• Dugu Bo apologized, learned their teachers had left for Heaven Dou, and warned Tang San and Xiang Yang that tournament fame was no good thing.

Tang Hao arrived at the academy and defused a tense encounter with Dugu Bo after Tang San explained that Dugu Bo had come at his invitation. Xiang Yang offered Dugu Bo a way to address his poison in exchange for shared access to his hidden treasure land, and Dugu Bo warned him not to regret the offer.

• Tang Hao entered the academy and challenged Dugu Bo, who suspected he was Tang San's father.
• Tang San clarified that Dugu Bo had come at his invitation, and Xiang Yang brought everyone inside to talk.
• Xiang Yang revealed to Dugu Bo that he was Sun and said his solution had at least an eighty percent chance of resolving Dugu Bo's problem.
• Xiang Yang asked for shared use of Dugu Bo's treasure land in exchange for helping him, rather than demanding ownership.
• Dugu Bo fell silent, then agreed to the proposed arrangement with a warning that Xiang Yang should not regret it.

Tang San and Xiang Yang found the Nine Yang Ginseng at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and discussed which Immortal Herbs they would absorb. Xiang Yang then explained to Dugu Bo how a Soul Core might help address the poison harming him, leaving Dugu Bo with a clearer understanding of its cause.

• Tang San and Xiang Yang arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Tang Hao and Dugu Bo, and Tang San recognized its Immortal Herbs.
• Tang San found the Nine Yang Ginseng Xiang Yang wanted, though it still needed years to mature, and chose the ink jade divine bamboo for himself.
• Tang Hao left to catch a Soul Beast while Tang San and Xiang Yang went to speak with Dugu Bo about condensing a Soul Core.
• Xiang Yang explained that Dugu Bo's Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor possession exposed his body to its own poison, and Tang San clarified how Beast Martial Souls differed from Tool Martial Souls.

Xiang Yang explained how Dugu Bo could use a Soul Core to contain the toxins in his body, then reunited with Tang Hao and Tang San after Tang San awakened his bloodline and transformed his Martial Soul. The three reached the newly renamed Shrek Advanced Soul Master Academy in Heaven Dou City.

• Xiang Yang explained that Dugu Bo could gather and contain his toxins in a Soul Core, while warning that forming one carried a risk of Soul Power exploding inside the body.
• Tang Hao left with Tang San, who carried a four-hundred-year Blue Silver Grass Soul Beast for Lin Ping and traveled to awaken his bloodline near Ah Yin.
• Tang San absorbed the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo, gained six Soul Power levels, and awakened a bamboo-like Martial Soul before the Blue Silver King helped restore its blue coloring.
• Tang Hao returned with Tang San, whose cyan-and-blue appearance surprised Xiang Yang, and Tang San described how his Martial Soul had changed.
• Dugu Bo escorted Xiang Yang, Tang Hao, and Tang San to Heaven Dou City, where Xiang Yang learned that Blue Tyrant Academy had become Shrek Advanced Soul Master Academy.
• Xiang Yang, Tang Hao, and Tang San arrived at Shrek Advanced Soul Master Academy's newly renamed gatehouse.

Xiang Yang, Tang San, and Lin Ping returned to Shrek Academy, where Flender reacted to Tang San’s changed appearance and reconsidered Yu Xiaogang’s theories. Xiang Yang gave Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing their Immortal Herbs, then looked toward the red-clad woman guarding the wooden house with a smile.

• Xiang Yang, Tang San, and Lin Ping entered Shrek Academy, and Flender was shocked to see Tang San’s new appearance.
• Flender wondered whether Tang San’s changed Martial Soul undermined Yu Xiaogang’s theory, then returned to reviewing student records.
• Tang San reassured Lin Ping as they walked through the forested academy grounds.
• Xiao Wu recognized Tang San despite his changed appearance, while Ma Hongjun collected his bet from Oscar.
• Xiang Yang explained the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone, and Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing accepted the Immortal Herbs before heading to their dorms.
• Xiang Yang held the Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma and smiled at the red-clad woman guarding the wooden house.

Xiang Yang discussed the Immortal Herbs with Oscar, including Ma Hongjun’s hesitation over purifying his Evil Fire while keeping its useful powers. Tang San then revealed that the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew had advanced his Purple Demon Eye, though his reaction to Xiao Wu’s gaze left him visibly unsettled.

• Oscar told Xiang Yang that the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid had greatly improved him and that he was ready to seek his fourth Soul Ring.
• Oscar said Ma Hongjun had not decided whether to take the cockscomb phoenix sunflower, since he valued the Evil Fire’s ability to manipulate desires and feared balancing opposing powers.
• Xiang Yang told Oscar that Rongrong had an Immortal Herb waiting for her and explained that his own herb had not matured yet.
• Xiang Yang and Oscar arrived as Tang San finished cultivating and opened his eyes with a dazzling gold-and-purple light.
• Tang San explained that the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew had raised his Purple Demon Eye to the Mustard Seed Realm, while his gaze left him briefly flustered and blinded Xiao Wu.

Tang San struggled with the discovery that Xiao Wu was a transformed rabbit, but Xiang Yang's stories helped him accept her as family. The Shrek party then traveled to Sunset Forest, where they drew in Soul Beasts and Xiang Yang critically injured a Golden-Armored Earth Turtle for Ning Rongrong.

• Tang San privately told Xiang Yang that Xiao Wu was not human, then concluded that she was still family; Xiang Yang reassured him with stories of Bai Suzhen, Nie Xiaoqian, and Sun Wukong.
• Tang San thanked Xiang Yang for lifting his gloom, and the two agreed to leave for Sunset Forest the next day.
• Ning Rongrong returned to absorb the aromatic silk beauty, and Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Shao Xin led the eight students to Sunset Forest.
• Tang San used the aromatic silk beauty to lure Soul Beasts through the poison formation, and Oscar identified a Golden-Armored Earth Turtle as a suitable target for Ning Rongrong.
• Xiang Yang struck the turtle with compressed Sunlight Energy, Tang San restrained it with the Blue Silver Emperor, and Dai Mubai used Shaking Heaven and Earth to drive back the other Soul Beasts.

Dai Mubai drove off the Soul Beasts with his fourth Soul Skill, and Tang San defeated a ten-thousand-year Cave Demon Spider using his Blue Silver Emperor’s fifth Soul Skill. After Ning Rongrong absorbed a Soul Ring, Zhu Zhuqing and Oscar obtained Soul Rings of their own, while Dai Mubai grew somber over the coming conflict with their archenemies.

• Dai Mubai used his fourth Soul Skill to intimidate the Soul Beasts until they began retreating.
• A Cave Demon Spider dragged at Tang San’s Blue Silver Emperor, but Tang San used Blue Silver Myriad Forms · Yi Wood Return to Origin to crush it and create a black Soul Ring.
• Ning Rongrong began absorbing her Soul Ring, and Tang San used the aromatic silk beauty to attract more Soul Beasts for the others.
• Zhu Zhuqing began refining a Soul Ring from a Shadow-Devouring Spirit Cat as Dai Mubai stood guard and thought about their coming confrontation with their archenemies.
• Oscar obtained a Soul Ring from a Giant-Palm Spirit Bear.

Tang San and Xiang Yang brought Xiao Wu to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to absorb the Moonlight-Beholding Immortal Epiphyllum. Xiao Wu ate the flower and began refining its medicinal power while Xiang Yang returned to watch over his Nine Yang Ginseng.

• Ma Hongjun lamented being stuck at rank thirty-eight, and Xiang Yang bluntly called him out for humblebragging at Xiang Yang’s rank twenty-nine.
• Tang San and Xiang Yang took Xiao Wu to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Tang San showed her the Moonlight-Beholding Immortal Epiphyllum and warned her away from the poisonous Infernal Delicate Apricot.
• When moonlight made the epiphyllum bloom, Xiao Wu became entranced by its beauty until Tang San and Xiang Yang urged her to act before it wilted.
• Xiao Wu hesitated to use the flower, but Tang San persuaded her that it would leave seeds and might improve her physique and evolve her martial soul into a Moon Rabbit.
• The epiphyllum’s light swept over Xiao Wu without harming her, and she ate the whole flower before sitting down to refine its medicinal power.
• Xiang Yang left Tang San and Xiao Wu and returned to watch over his Nine Yang Ginseng.

Xiang Yang wondered why the Immortal Herbs had not become Soul Beasts and sought Xiao Wu’s insight into transformed Soul Beasts and spiritual power. The chapter ended with Xiang Yang telling Tang San and Xiao Wu he wanted to find a way to make Immortal Herbs become Soul Beasts, leaving them intrigued by the mystery.

• Xiang Yang fed the Nine Yang Ginseng Sunlight Energy and considered whether Tang San had prevented the Immortal Herbs from gaining intelligence.
• Xiang Yang found Tang San and Xiao Wu together and learned that Tang San had followed his advice to speak openly with her.
• Xiao Wu explained that she saw Xiang Yang glowing white at night and gold by day, while Tang San’s glow had recently shifted toward cyan-blue.
• Xiao Wu told Xiang Yang that transformed Soul Beasts could benefit from absorbing the Spiritual Power that Soul Masters naturally released.
• Xiang Yang shared his idea of finding a way to make Immortal Herbs become Soul Beasts, surprising Tang San and Xiao Wu.

Xiang Yang and Tang San learned that the Nine Yang Ginseng had begun developing intelligence and Soul Power, with Xiao Wu able to sense its soul. After three months of training and observation, Xiang Yang prepared to absorb its Soul Ring despite its roughly two-thousand-year intelligence.

• Xiao Wu explained that Immortal Herbs usually lacked Soul Power and intelligence, then used her new soul-sensing ability to discover a tiny soul within the Nine Yang Ginseng.
• Xiang Yang asked Xiao Wu to stay and help him, and Tang Hao found that he could no longer sense whether Xiao Wu was human or a Transformed Soul Beast.
• Over three months, Xiang Yang reached level thirty and Dugu Bo condensed his Soul Core, while Tang Hao declined to attempt the same method.
• Xiao Wu reported that the Nine Yang Ginseng's intelligence had reached roughly the two-thousand-year level, and Xiang Yang chose to proceed with absorbing its Soul Ring.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu stepped aside as Xiang Yang began the process, while Tang Hao watched from nearby.

Xiang Yang harvested the Nine Yang Ginseng, but it sacrificed itself to grant him its Soul Ring and medicinal power. He emerged at level forty with a transformed body and a powerful, seemingly living Three-Legged Golden Crow Martial Soul.

• Xiang Yang pulled the Nine Yang Ginseng from the ground, and it began to glow red and sacrifice itself to him.
• Xiao Wu explained the usual requirements for a Soul Beast Sacrifice, puzzled by how the young Nine Yang Ginseng could perform one.
• After an hour, the sacrifice ended, leaving Xiang Yang taller, golden-red-haired, and at level forty.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu saw that Xiang Yang's Martial Soul had evolved into a moving Three-Legged Golden Crow.
• Xiang Yang told them he felt exceptionally well and described his new Martial Soul as a Super Martial Soul with powerful light and fire affinities.

Xiang Yang examined the Golden Sun Martial Soul and the physical changes from the Nine Yang Ginseng, discovering that his fire had reached an ultimate attribute. He explained his insights to Tang San, then revealed that his enhanced Purple Demon Eye could perceive elemental energies and their laws.

• Xiang Yang refined his increased Soul Power and found that the Nine Yang Ginseng had strengthened his body, recovery, meridians, and yang-attribute energy.
• Xiang Yang tested his Nine Yang Fire against Tang San's Blue Silver Bamboo Net Formation and burned it away before it could take effect.
• Xiang Yang explained the concept of Ultimate Attributes to Tang San, who questioned whether his Blue Silver Emperor had one because he could not control other plants.
• Xiang Yang described how his enhanced Purple Demon Eye let him see elemental lights and flowing lines that he believed represented laws.
• Xiang Yang attributed the Purple Demon Eye's transformation to the Nine Yang Ginseng's soul-tempering power and its Martial Soul Fusion with him.

Tang San refined antidote pills while Xiang Yang worked out why Tang San’s Blue Silver Emperor lacked an Ultimate Attribute. They agreed to keep the plan for Tang San’s future Soul Beast unchanged, and Xiang Yang revealed that his Purple Demon Eye seemed to have reached the Mustard Seed Realm.

• Tang San ruined his first batch of antidote pills, then successfully refined a batch on his third attempt.
• Xiang Yang explained that Tang San’s Blue Silver Emperor had Yi Wood but lacked Jia Wood, and proposed pursuing either complete Ultimate Wood or Ultimate Yi Wood.
• Tang San rejected Xiang Yang’s Yi Wood idea and chose to pursue complete wood so he could produce strong material for his Hidden Weapons.
• Xiang Yang said the planned Tree of Life Soul Beast still suited Tang San’s path, and Tang San asked how Xiang Yang had approached him unnoticed.
• Xiang Yang attributed his silent approach to his Purple Demon Eye seemingly reaching the Mustard Seed Realm, though its abilities differed from the described realm.

Xiang Yang tested his cultivation methods and found that his new Nine Yang Skill and Sun Solar Essence increased his cultivation speed. He then joined Tang Hao and Tang San to hunt a ten-thousand-year Sun Wheel Flower and began absorbing its Soul Ring.

• Xiang Yang compared the Mysterious Heaven Skill with the Nine Yang Skill and found that his self-created method cultivated faster.
• He named the energy extracted from sunlight through his Martial Soul Sun Solar Essence and continued practicing his Soul Skills at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• After three days, Xiang Yang asked Tang Hao and Tang San to help him find a Soul Beast for his fourth Soul Ring.
• Tang Hao weakened a ten-thousand-year Sun Wheel Flower, and Xiang Yang used Sun Wheel Transformation to strike it down with a Martial Soul clone.
• Xiang Yang drew the Sun Wheel Flower's black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring toward himself and began refining it.

Xiang Yang refined a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, but the Sun Wheel Flower Soul Beast’s soul vanished during the process, leaving the ring without a Soul Skill. He and Tang San investigated the strange disappearance, while Xiang Yang continued testing his abilities and grew stronger despite the missing skill.

• Xiang Yang absorbed the Sun Wheel Flower Soul Ring, and the Golden Crow image on his Martial Soul vanished as the beast’s soul disappeared.
• Tang Hao brought Xiang Yang and Tang San back, and Xiang Yang discovered that his new Soul Ring had no Soul Skill.
• Xiang Yang told Tang San that the Soul Beast’s soul had vanished before the refinement ended, and he suspected the loss was connected to the missing skill and Golden Crow image.
• Xiang Yang and Tang San tested his abilities over the following days, but his fourth Soul Skill still did not appear.
• Xiang Yang’s Soul Power reached Level 42, and tests showed its quality matched a Soul Emperor’s while his combat strength was around that of a high-level Soul King.

Xiang Yang discovered that his Soul Skill had returned and learned that the little Golden Crow lived inside his Martial Soul. The Golden Crow explained how it had helped absorb his fourth Soul Ring, and Xiang Yang considered giving it a name.

• Tang San asked Xiang Yang whether his Soul Skill was ready, and Xiang Yang announced that it had returned around midday.
• While cultivating, Xiang Yang was drawn into a sea of fire inside his Martial Soul and met the little Golden Crow.
• The Golden Crow touched Xiang Yang's forehead, allowing him to understand that it was the awakened consciousness of the Nine Yang Ginseng.
• The Golden Crow explained that it had diverted the Sun Wheel Flower's soul into Xiang Yang's Martial Soul and had consumed the two weakened Soul Beast souls already inside.
• Xiang Yang compared the Golden Crow to a Soul Spirit and decided it deserved a name of its own.

Xiang Yang named the Golden Crow Wu Huang and learned they could preserve the Sun Wheel Flower Soul Beast’s Soul Skills and demonstrate them for him to learn. He tested his fourth Soul Skill, Light Illuminates the Great Thousand, and discovered its powerful domain boosts allies with compatible attributes while suppressing enemies.

• Xiang Yang named the little Golden Crow Wu Huang, and Wu Huang accepted the name.
• Wu Huang revealed they had inherited the ability to grant Soul Skills and could demonstrate them, though Xiang Yang could choose only one and could not switch afterward.
• Xiang Yang left Wu Huang’s inner space, summoned his Martial Soul, and activated his fourth Soul Skill, Light Illuminates the Great Thousand.
• Xiang Yang found that the domain boosted light-, fire-, and plant-aligned attributes by up to eighty percent and suppressed opposing attributes.
• Xiang Yang realized Zhu Zhuqing would avoid suppression as his teammate but would not receive a boost, which could limit their ability to fight together.

Xiang Yang studied the laws embedded in the Sun Wheel Flower’s abilities and discovered that his Purple Demon Eye could magnify their patterns, though he could not yet reproduce them. Tang San experimented with connecting to the Blue Silver Emperor and gained a slight boost, but his first prolonged attempt left him disoriented.

• Xiang Yang learned the Sun Wheel Flower’s abilities from Wu Huang and focused on its tracking mark and other techniques for inspiration.
• Xiang Yang used his Purple Demon Eye to magnify the laws within a Soul Skill, saw their finer patterns, and failed to copy them with Soul Power.
• Tang San described feeling like a blade of grass while connecting with the Blue Silver Emperor, and Xiang Yang shook him out of his trance.
• Tang San considered whether the cultivation method was wrong, and Xiang Yang advised him to keep his will clear and avoid immersing himself for too long.
• Xiang Yang compared Tang San’s cultivation to his own Martial Soul Fusion, which permanently boosted his otherwise ordinary Martial Soul.