Chapter Summaries

Ning Tian showed Wang Xiaofeng around the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Zeshan mistook him for Ning Rongrong’s suitor and demanded a spar. Wang Xiaofeng accepted for a fee, and the chapter ended as Ning Zeshan transformed for their match.

• Ning Tian took Wang Xiaofeng through the Library Pavilion and pointed out where the Outer Sect Disciples lived.
• Ning Zeshan confronted Wang Xiaofeng, calling him Ning Rongrong’s suitor and demanding that he prove his strength in a fight.
• Ning Tian explained the misunderstanding to Ning Zeshan, but the latter still insisted on sparring with Wang Xiaofeng.
• Wang Xiaofeng agreed to the match after Ning Tian paid him ten thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Ning Zeshan and Wang Xiaofeng introduced themselves before a crowd of sect disciples, and Ning Zeshan activated his Martial Soul Avatar as Wang Xiaofeng raised his gourd.

Wang Xiaofeng defeated Ning Zeshan in an Exhibition Match by using a Calabash Vine to unbalance him and guide him off the Soul Battle Stage. Afterward, he settled a bet with Ning Tian and found Ning Rongrong waiting in his room.

• Ning Zeshan overwhelmed Wang Xiaofeng with his Soul Skills, but Wang Xiaofeng dodged and endured his attacks.
• Wang Xiaofeng used a Calabash Vine to bind Ning Zeshan’s legs and maneuver him to the edge of the Soul Battle Stage.
• Ning Zeshan fell off the stage and conceded, and the old man declared Wang Xiaofeng the winner.
• Ning Rongrong praised Wang Xiaofeng’s performance, while Wang Xiaofeng and Ning Tian agreed to split their betting winnings fifty-fifty.
• Ning Tian continued showing Wang Xiaofeng around the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Ning Rongrong later told Wang Xiaofeng he had fought beautifully.

Wang Xiaofeng questioned why the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had used him to defeat Ning Zeshan, then attended the sect’s Martial Soul Awakening ceremony with Ning Tian. After five days as a guest, he returned to the academy and resumed training the Calabash Vine.

• Wang Xiaofeng analyzed why the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had made him a pawn in a plan that weakened Ning Zeshan’s prestige.
• Ning Tian invited Wang Xiaofeng to watch the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Martial Soul Awakening ceremony, where only one child achieved level-eight Innate Soul Power.
• Wang Xiaofeng stayed at the sect for five days, and Ning Tian showed him around and gave him local specialties before he left.
• Wang Xiaofeng returned to the academy, ate Oscar’s Recovery Sausage, and began training his Calabash Vine.

Wang Xiaofeng returned to the dormitory, teased Oscar about training, and joined the others as news of Tang San’s victory spread through the academy. At breakfast, Oscar revealed that Ma Hongjun’s handsome transformation had made him a notorious food-stealing campus legend.

• Oscar found Wang Xiaofeng back in the dormitory, and Wang Xiaofeng showed him the dubious supplements he had mistakenly brought as gifts.
• Wang Xiaofeng warned Oscar to train harder if he wanted to keep up with Ning Rongrong, then retold their conversation at the cafeteria and embarrassed Oscar.
• News spread that Tang San had defeated a level fifty-eight Soul King, and students stared at him during breakfast.
• Oscar told the group that Ma Hongjun had been transforming into a handsome guy to trick girls out of their food.
• Ma Hongjun explained that his transformation lasted only an hour and consumed too much Soul Power, and the group reached class as the bell rang.

Tailong brought his grandfather Titan to Shrek Academy to confront Tang San, who accepted Titan’s Soul Power pressure challenge. As Tang San revealed the Clear Sky Hammer, Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo arrived and challenged Titan.

• Students warned Tang San that Tailong had returned with his grandfather, and Tang San and his friends went to the academy gates.
• Wang Xiaofeng met Nidya on the way, and she said she had returned after her exchange period and would see him again at the Elite Tournament.
• Titan challenged Tang San to endure his Soul Power pressure until an incense stick burned down, and Tang San struggled to remain standing.
• Tang San revealed the Clear Sky Hammer, causing Titan to ease his pressure, while a multicolored light entered Tang San’s body.
• Ning Rongrong recognized Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo as they arrived, and Ning Fengzhi challenged Titan to a match.

After Tang San recovered, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's intervention led to a private meeting at Shrek Academy while Wang Xiaofeng and Nidya said goodbye. The chapter ended with Tang San speaking privately with Ning Fengzhi as Zhao Wuji waited outside the Quiet Room.

• Ning Fengzhi healed Tang San with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Xiao Wu protected him while he recovered.
• Zhao Wuji sent the gathered students back to the academy and led Tang San, Titan's family, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect members to a Quiet Room.
• Nidya embraced Wang Xiaofeng goodbye, accepted his gift of a porcelain bottle, and left for the Elite Tournament next year.
• Ma Hongjun caught Wang Xiaofeng and Nidya together and bargained for five meals in exchange for keeping quiet.
• Wang Xiaofeng and Ma Hongjun returned to find Zhao Wuji guarding the Quiet Room, where Tang San and the Sect Master were talking.

After Tang San agreed to supply the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with hidden weapons, his friends supported him and the academy returned to normal. Grandmaster returned and took Tang San into the forest, while Xiao Wu worried about his inner distress.

• Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo left after Ning Fengzhi told Ning Rongrong to stay at the academy and cultivate.
• Tang San's friends reassured him that they accepted his secrets, and he told them he would provide the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with five hundred sets of hidden weapons for five million Gold Soul Coins.
• Xiao Wu led the exhausted Tang San out of the Meeting Room, while the others made plans to celebrate his payment later.
• Tailong returned to the academy, was fined one thousand Gold Soul Coins by Flander, and began following Tang San everywhere as his lackey.
• Grandmaster and Flander returned, and Grandmaster assessed the students' progress before taking Tang San deep into the forest.
• Xiao Wu worried that Tang San still felt empty and helpless, while Ning Rongrong tried to reassure her.

Grandmaster set Shrek’s students an intensive training schedule and required five of them to reach level forty before the Elite Tournament. After a day of cultivation, Flander woke them for training, and an unfamiliar voice called out to the group.

• Tang San emerged from the grove with his confidence restored, and he reassured Xiao Wu.
• Grandmaster ordered Tang San, Zhu Zhuqing, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Ning Rongrong to reach level forty, assigned daily physique and combat training, and announced four substitute members.
• The students cultivated together, while the Lovesick Heartbroken Red aided Xiao Wu and Wang Xiaofeng tempered his body with the Green Calabash.
• Wang Xiaofeng teased Oscar about his progress, and Oscar continued cultivating more diligently after spending time with Ning Rongrong.
• Flander woke the students and prepared them to move, but a voice called out, “Boss.”

Tang San and the other Shrek substitutes introduced themselves before the teachers assigned the team to different training groups. Zhao Wuji began gravity training, leaving Oscar and Ning Rongrong determined to endure it while Wang Xiaofeng and Dai Mubai started a push-up contest.

• Tailong, Jiang Zhu, Jing Ling, and Huang Yuan introduced themselves as substitutes alongside Tang San.
• Flander assigned Tang San and the four substitutes to Zhao Wuji, Ma Hongjun, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong to Liu Erlong, Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing to the Grandmaster, and Wang Xiaofeng and Oscar to himself.
• Zhao Wuji activated gravity fields of five, ten, and twelve times normal gravity for the team's training.
• Oscar moved toward the outer ring, but Wang Xiaofeng reminded him of his goal of marrying Ning Rongrong, and he chose to keep training beside her.
• Tang San advised the substitutes to begin in the outer ring, while Dai Mubai challenged Wang Xiaofeng to a push-up contest and Zhu Zhuqing ran laps.

Wang Xiaofeng outlasted Dai Mubai during Zhao Wuji’s gravity training while hiding the weighted blocks he wore. After the exhausted group recovered with Oscar’s Sausages, Flander ordered even more combat practice, leaving them facing an extended training session.

• Dai Mubai stopped after 2,818 push-ups, while Wang Xiaofeng completed 3,416 despite wearing six hundred jin of hidden weights.
• Ma Hongjun failed to pull Wang Xiaofeng up and wondered if he had gotten weaker, but Wang Xiaofeng quickly stood on his own.
• Wang Xiaofeng recalled how he had turned Meteorite Iron into compact weighted equipment that did not hinder his movements.
• Zhao Wuji ended the Gravity Field, and Oscar handed Ning Rongrong a Sausage before supplying the others.
• Flander announced the next training phase, then extended combat practice by half an hour after Ma Hongjun asked for more rest.

Li Yusong overwhelmed Oscar and Wang Xiaofeng during their trial, while Oscar surrendered and Wang Xiaofeng kept fighting. Li Yusong launched his Sky-Supporting Strike at Wang Xiaofeng, who rolled aside to avoid the enlarged staff.

• Li Yusong struck Oscar’s decoy with the Coiling Dragon Staff and discovered Oscar and Wang Xiaofeng’s real bodies hiding nearby.
• Oscar gave Wang Xiaofeng his last sausages, declared his surrender, and ran toward a tree, but Li Yusong said surrender only counted after someone was knocked down.
• Wang Xiaofeng blocked Li Yusong’s staff to cover Oscar’s escape, but Li Yusong feinted and slammed him into the ground.
• Wang Xiaofeng recovered by spitting out congealed blood and criticized Li Yusong for using a soul skill against him.
• Li Yusong used Sky-Supporting Strike to enlarge his staff, and Wang Xiaofeng rolled aside to avoid its blow.

Wang Xiaofeng and Oscar endured two months of punishing training under Li Yusong and Zhao Wuji while recovering with Oscar’s healing sausages. After the substitutes made progress, Grandmaster reorganized the teams, assigning Zhu Zhuqing to Wang Xiaofeng’s group and sending Tang San to train with two chosen teammates.

• Wang Xiaofeng dodged Li Yusong’s powerful attack but spent the next forty minutes being beaten, then Oscar healed him with a Big Sausage.
• Li Yusong began beating Oscar too, and Wang Xiaofeng recovered his Soul Power before he and Oscar headed back with Li Yusong for Grandmaster’s Medicinal Bath.
• Wang Xiaofeng and Oscar continued their beatings under Li Yusong and then Zhao Wuji for two months, while Oscar’s Soul Power neared level forty.
• Grandmaster said the four substitutes had begun integrating into the team but still could not seamlessly replace the original Shrek Battle Team members.
• Grandmaster told Tang San to choose two teammates for his group; Tang San chose Dai Mubai and Xiao Wu, while Zhu Zhuqing joined Wang Xiaofeng’s team.

Wang Xiaofeng, Oscar, and Zhu Zhuqing formed their first team and agreed on a simple plan before facing Zhao Wuji’s training. The chapter left off as Wang Xiaofeng launched an amplified attack at Zhao Wuji.

• Flander started the day’s training, and Zhao Wuji took the students through an hour of gravity training.
• Zhao Wuji told Wang Xiaofeng, Oscar, and Zhu Zhuqing to make arrangements for their first team exercise.
• Wang Xiaofeng, Oscar, and Zhu Zhuqing agreed that Wang Xiaofeng would draw Zhao Wuji’s attention, Oscar would provide support, and Zhu Zhuqing would seek an opening to attack.
• Zhao Wuji returned from his supposed trip to the restroom and prepared to fight the three students.
• Wang Xiaofeng summoned the Green Calabash, used Flash Step to leap above Zhao Wuji, and struck down with an empowered fist.

Zhu Zhuqing and Wang Xiaofeng attacked Zhao Wuji during their training, but Zhao Wuji outwitted them and punished Oscar and Wang Xiaofeng. The two ended up with swollen, pig-head faces as Zhu Zhuqing watched.

• Zhu Zhuqing used her improved Netherworld Spirit Cat abilities to attack Zhao Wuji, but his Martial Soul Avatar and Soul Skills kept him protected.
• Wang Xiaofeng disrupted Zhao Wuji with Calabash Vine and struck his waist with a feint, making Zhao Wuji cry out in pain.
• Zhao Wuji tricked Oscar into approaching, grabbed him, and beat him for five minutes until his face swelled.
• Twenty minutes later, Zhao Wuji also beat Wang Xiaofeng, leaving him with a matching swollen face.
• Zhu Zhuqing watched the two bruised men as Wang Xiaofeng accepted a Sausage from Oscar.

Grandmaster gave the team a seven-day Spring Festival vacation after more than two months of intensive training, and Wang Xiaofeng decided to visit his parents. He began the journey home through the snowbound Heaven Dou Empire and, after running out of the blizzard zone, hired a carriage in the Balak Kingdom.

• Grandmaster announced a seven-day break, and Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and the others discussed their vacation plans.
• Wang Xiaofeng said he would go home, prompting Tang San to remember his parents before Xiao Wu reassured him that he still had her.
• Wang Xiaofeng tested a new movement technique in the snow, but fell when he tried to run home in one go.
• Wang Xiaofeng ran for a day and a night through the snow disaster zone, using Oscar's Sausage to help replenish his body heat.
• After reaching the Balak Kingdom, Wang Xiaofeng took off his padded coat and hired a carriage.

Wang Xiaofeng returned to Calabash Village for New Year’s Eve and discovered that his parents had left to visit relatives more than a year earlier without telling him. After cleaning his abandoned home, he welcomed Wang Feng for a holiday meal and drinks.

• Wang Xiaofeng arrived in Calabash Village and greeted relatives on his way home.
• Wang Xiaofeng found his family’s house locked and dusty, then learned from Wang Feng that his parents had gone to visit relatives over a year earlier.
• Wang Feng invited Wang Xiaofeng to celebrate New Year’s Eve with his family, but Wang Xiaofeng chose to clean his house instead.
• Wang Xiaofeng finished cleaning, and Wang Feng returned with food and joined him for a meal and Calabash Wine.
• Wang Xiaofeng and Wang Feng drank together as the night grew late.

Wang Xiaofeng learned that his parents had gone to visit his maternal family in Bi Su City, and his mother told him to find them if they failed to return within two months. On New Year’s Day, he joined Wang Feng in leading village children and other villagers into the mountains to seek Soul Rings.

• Wang Feng gave Wang Xiaofeng a letter from his parents, revealing that Wang Danu and He Li had gone to visit He Li’s family in Bi Su City.
• Wang Xiaofeng spent his first Spring Festival alone after Wang Feng left to face his wife, then visited villagers with wine, skincare cream, and candy.
• Wang Feng asked Wang Xiaofeng to help village children obtain their first Soul Rings, and Wang Xiaofeng agreed.
• Wang Feng gathered about twenty villagers, including around ten children, and led them toward the mountains while Wang Xiaofeng followed to protect the group.

Wang Xiaofeng led a group of young Soul Masters into the mountains to hunt for Soul Beasts and discovered a grove of Purple Diamond Bamboo. He identified two candidates for the control path and entered the range of a hundred-year bamboo as its leaves began attacking him.

• Wang Feng split the Soul Beast hunters into teams, and Wang Xiaofeng joined him and five young villagers on their search.
• Wang Xiaofeng quietly summoned his martial soul and used his sharp senses to detect something in the forest.
• Wang Xiaofeng led the group to a grove of Purple Diamond Bamboo and explained its qualities as a potential Soul Ring source.
• A girl and a boy said they planned to take the control path, so Wang Xiaofeng brought them deeper into the grove.
• Wang Xiaofeng gave the pair Firewood Knives and warned them about the hundred-year Purple Diamond Bamboo before entering its range.
• The hundred-year Purple Diamond Bamboo attacked Wang Xiaofeng by sending its leaves at him like blades.

Wang Xiaofeng helped several people obtain plant-type Soul Rings before a strange, dragon-like roar prompted Wang Feng to lead the group away. Wang Xiaofeng went to investigate the sound and discovered something alarming, though the chapter ended before revealing what it was.

• Wang Xiaofeng cleared the leaves from a Purple Diamond Bamboo, and the girl drew in the Soul Ring, so he stopped her from absorbing it there and had them cut down another stalk.
• Wang Xiaofeng returned to camp with the girl and boy, then helped more people obtain Soul Rings while Wang Feng and three youths found a Red Licorice plant.
• Wang Xiaofeng and Wang Feng searched for suitable Soul Beasts until noon, but found only one plant-type Soul Beast and encountered several powerful predators.
• Wang Feng heard a nearby dragon-like roar and chose to evacuate the group, while Wang Xiaofeng stayed behind to investigate.
• Wang Xiaofeng followed the roars and cautiously peered through the bushes, then sucked in a cold breath at what he saw.

Wang Xiaofeng found Flame Heart Grass and Blue Sky Star near two battling Soul Beasts, then subdued them with his Soul Power and returned to the village with a sedated tusked wild boar for the New Year feast. He planned to return to the academy the next day and shared a final drink with Wang Feng.

• Wang Xiaofeng discovered Flame Heart Grass and Blue Sky Star beside a Green Shell Giant Turtle and a black giant bear fighting over the plants.
• Wang Xiaofeng overwhelmed the Green Shell Giant Turtle and giant bear with his Soul Power, and the two Soul Beasts abandoned their fight and went their separate ways.
• Wang Xiaofeng knocked out a tusked wild boar and carried it back to the village as a gift for the upcoming Village Feast.
• Wang Feng welcomed Wang Xiaofeng and organized the villagers to tie up the sedated boar.
• Wang Feng and Wang Xiaofeng drank together that night, and Wang Feng's wife dragged him away by the ear after catching him drunk.