Chapter Summaries

Oscar, Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Dai Mubai, and Wang Xiaofeng used different methods to distribute Fragrant Dew flyers. While finishing his last flyer in a remote area, Wang Xiaofeng witnessed Tang San survive Shi Nian’s illusion attack and kill him, then revealed himself to Tang San.

• Oscar attracted crowds by giving away Sausages, while Ning Rongrong threw her flyers into a trash bin and Xiao Wu quickly stuffed hers into passersby’s arms.
• Zhu Zhuqing used her Fourth Soul Skill to create triplets who drew a crowd, while aunties surrounded Dai Mubai to ask about his love life and introduce him to women.
• Wang Feng admitted to Wang Xiaofeng that his family had come to visit his wife’s relatives, and Wang Xiaofeng later finished distributing his flyers in a remote area.
• Wang Xiaofeng sensed powerful Soul Power in a nearby forest and climbed a tree to watch Tang San struggle against Shi Nian’s nightmare illusion.
• Tang San broke Shi Nian’s illusion, struck him with hidden weapons, and watched him turn into black water after the poison took effect.
• Wang Xiaofeng emerged from behind a tree as Tang San asked who was there.

Tang San recovered from his fight with Shi Nian and left with Wang Xiaofeng, who had found a Soul Bone in Shi Nian’s remains. While Xiao Wu waited for them outside the Great Spirit Arena, she confronted Huo Wu after hearing her tease that she had a private connection with Tang San.

• Wang Xiaofeng appeared after Tang San killed Shi Nian, restored his vitality, and praised his hidden weapons.
• Wang Xiaofeng explained that his martial soul had absorbed the poisonous King of Hell’s Summons residue, allowing him to retrieve a Soul Bone from it.
• Tang San warned Wang Xiaofeng not to touch unknown liquids, and the two left the scene together.
• Xiao Wu, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Dai Mubai waited outside the Great Spirit Arena for Tang San and Wang Xiaofeng to return.
• Xiao Wu confronted Huo Wu after hearing her discuss Tang San, and Huo Wu provoked her by implying she had a private connection with him.
• Oscar, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun tried to stop Xiao Wu from attacking Huo Wu because private fights could get them banned from the tournament.

Tang San and Wang Xiaofeng returned to Shrek, where the group clashed with Huo Wu before Tang San and Wang Xiaofeng separately told the Grandmaster and Oscar what had happened. Oscar learned that Shi Nian had been behind the illusions and that Tang San had recovered his uncle’s Soul Bone, then broke through to Rank 43 as his heart was finally put at ease.

• Xiao Wu welcomed Tang San back, and Wang Xiaofeng returned with him while the Shrek group finished their meal.
• Huo Wu attacked Xiao Wu with a fire serpent, but the Shrek group’s Martial Soul pressure overwhelmed her and drove her to flee in tears.
• Tang San went to the Grandmaster’s office to recount what had happened that day.
• Wang Xiaofeng told Oscar that Shi Nian had used the Remnant Dream Martial Soul to create illusions and that Tang San had found the Soul Bone likely taken from Oscar’s uncle.
• Oscar accepted that Tang San kept the Soul Bone and broke through to Rank 43.

Wang Xiaofeng and the Grandmaster discussed Tang San’s next steps after his encounter with Shi Nian, while Shrek prepared to face Blazing Academy in the tournament. The chapter ended with Shrek learning that Blazing Academy would fight at full strength.

• Wang Xiaofeng left Oscar to cultivate and wondered whether Tang San had absorbed the Head Soul Bone from Shi Nian.
• Flander urged Tang San to absorb Shi Nian’s Soul Bone, but the Grandmaster refused because its gemstone attributes did not suit Tang San and a fifty-thousand-year Wisdom Skull awaited the tournament champions.
• The Grandmaster sent Tang San to rest, and the tournament continued after Shi Nian’s role in the suicide incident went unnoticed.
• Flander announced that Shrek’s opponent on the fourteenth day was Blazing Academy, prompting Xiao Wu to celebrate and Wang Xiaofeng to explain their tactics.
• Wang Xiaofeng warned that Blazing Academy would no longer conceal its strength, and Dai Mubai welcomed the challenge.

Wang Xiaofeng planned Shrek’s lineup against Blazing Academy, while Flander introduced a new advertising format that left the team uneasy. The academies entered the arena to loud cheers, and Xiao Wu and Huo Wu traded insults before the match began.

• Wang Xiaofeng analyzed Blazing Academy’s strengths and chose Dai Mubai, Tang San, and Xiao Wu to compete, despite Tang San silently asking him to keep Xiao Wu out.
• Flander announced that Shrek would replace its uniforms with a new advertising format, and Wang Xiaofeng and Ma Hongjun slipped away to avoid being discovered as its creators.
• Shrek entered the arena, where Dai Mubai appeared distraught over the new format while Flander and Wang Xiaofeng prepared to profit from dolls, posters, and merchandise.
• Blazing Academy received loud cheers and a banner praising Xiao Wu, prompting Huo Wu and Xiao Wu to exchange insults about their popularity.

Shrek Academy opened its match against Blazing Academy with a ridiculous shampoo advertisement, then Huo Wu’s Resistance Fire Ring split the teams and Blazing began eliminating Shrek’s fighters. Tang San and Xiao Wu turned the battle around by extinguishing the flames and knocking out Blazing’s two agility fighters, leaving the teams even in numbers.

• Xiao Wu and Huo Wu argued before the match, and Shrek’s team performed a shampoo advertisement instead of summoning their Martial Souls.
• Huo Wu used her Third Soul Skill, Resistance Fire Ring, to blast all seven Shrek fighters apart and divide the battlefield with flames.
• Dai Mubai repelled Huo Wushuang, while Blazing Academy’s fighters knocked Tailong, Huang Yuan, and Jing Ling out of the arena.
• Tang San extinguished the flames, and Xiao Wu used her Charm and acrobatic attacks to throw Blazing Academy’s two agility fighters out of the arena.

Xiao Wu’s speed and Tang San’s hidden Blue Silver Grass helped Shrek eliminate four Blazing Academy members, leaving a three-against-three clash. Huo Wu attacked after Xiao Wu’s taunts, but Huo Chexiang shattered Tang San’s cages with a sword aura and sent a dangerous slash toward Shrek’s fighters.

• Xiao Wu eliminated Blazing Academy’s two support members and two Agility Attack Soul Masters while Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass helped catch them off guard.
• Xiao Wu taunted Huo Wu as both teams secretly recovered their Soul Power, and Tang San explained how Xiao Wu had learned her insults from Xiaofeng.
• Huo Wu unleashed her fire-based Soul Skills, drying out Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass as Xiao Wu and Huo Wushuang blocked their opponents’ paths.
• Tang San trapped Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Huo Chexiang in Blue Silver Cages, and Dai Mubai struck Huo Wushuang with the White Tiger Light Wave.
• Huo Chexiang cut through the cages with a powerful sword aura, and Tang San warned Xiao Wu as the slash continued toward Shrek’s team.

Tang San's team weathered Huo Chexiang's powerful sword strike and Dai Mubai pushed back Huo Wu's fireballs, leaving Blazing Academy with little hope of winning. Huo Wu began charging a powerful azure-blue attack, and Tang San sent Xiao Wu and Dai Mubai off the field so he could test his Blue Silver Grass against it.

• Tang San blocked Huo Chexiang's finishing sword strike with Blue Silver Grass but was cut by the scattered sword energy.
• Huo Chexiang admitted that he had exhausted his Soul Power, while Huo Wu launched fireballs at Shrek Academy.
• Dai Mubai countered Huo Wu's fireballs with White Tiger Meteor Shower and gradually overwhelmed her attack.
• Huo Wu decided to use a powerful move, and Huo Wushuang poured his fire-attributed Soul Power into her as she charged an azure-blue fireball.
• Tang San stopped Xiao Wu from interrupting the charge, sent her and Dai Mubai off the field, and walked toward Huo Wu's attack to test his Blue Silver Grass.

Huo Wu combined her and Huo Wushuang’s Soul Power with the Soul Fusion Secret Skill to unleash a devastating attack on Tang San. After the blast left a huge crater, Tang San’s calm voice came from within it, leaving Huo Wu stunned.

• Grandmaster recognized Huo Wu’s technique as the long-lost Soul Fusion Secret Skill, which fused her soul rings and absorbed Huo Wushuang’s fire-based Soul Power.
• Huo Wu’s Soul Power rose above level sixty as her four soul rings merged, and she launched her Fire Dance Blazing Sun at Tang San.
• Tang San formed layers of Blue Silver Grass around himself, while Xiao Wu tried to rush toward him and Dai Mubai restrained her.
• The fireball exploded across the arena, leaving a massive crater; Huo Wushuang shielded Huo Wu, and Huo Chexiang fled the field.
• Huo Wu assumed Tang San was dead, but his voice came from the crater, and she cried out in disbelief.

Shrek defeated Blazing Academy after Tang San survived Huo Wu’s strongest attack, revealing that his mutated martial soul granted him fire immunity. The victory extended Shrek’s winning streak, while Tang San’s injuries and the team’s growing profits surfaced after the match.

• Huo Wu’s Radiance Sun left a massive crater, but Tang San emerged unharmed from a cocoon of Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San told Huo Wu that his mutated martial soul was immune to fire, and she fainted after accepting defeat.
• Huo Wushuang conceded the match, and Blazing Academy’s remaining members withdrew, giving Shrek another win.
• In the player tunnel, Tang San coughed up blood and explained that the explosion’s shockwave had injured him despite his fire immunity.
• Back in the resting room, the team teased Dai Mubai about dancing in Shrek’s advertisement, while Flander announced that the sponsor had increased their fee.
• Wang Xiaofeng gave Oscar a share of his betting winnings and discussed shifting Shrek’s profits toward advertising and merchandise.

Huo Wu shut herself away after losing to Shrek, and Feng Xiaotian visited her, promising to avenge her against Tang San. Meanwhile, Shrek’s merchandise sold out, but Dai Mubai’s rough treatment of a prospective advertiser threatened Flander’s advertising plans.

• Huo Wushuang tried to comfort Huo Wu, but she blasted him out of her room and he decided to find her favorite Phoenix Tail Shrimp.
• Feng Xiaotian ignored Huo Wushuang’s warning, visited Huo Wu, and promised to avenge her by personally dealing with Tang San.
• Shrek’s merchandise sold out in less than two days, while Flander wondered why no advertisers had come to the academy.
• Dai Mubai led a prospective advertiser away from the office and beat him until he fled, swearing never to advertise with Shrek again.

Grandmaster warned Shrek Academy that Azure Radiance Academy might target Tang San over Shi Nian’s death, so Tang San chose a cautious lineup for their next match. Before the match, Feng Xiaotian warned Wang Xiaofeng that Azure Radiance Academy had changed its lineup and challenged Tang San to keep advancing.

• Oscar, Wang Xiaofeng, and Ma Hongjun joked about Dai Mubai’s reaction to a match, while Ning Rongrong pointed out that another opponent was approaching.
• Grandmaster warned Shrek Academy that Azure Radiance Academy might seek revenge for Shi Nian and advised them to watch for mental abilities.
• Tang San selected Mu Bai, Zhu Qing, Xiao Wu, Oscar, and himself as the main members for the match against Azure Radiance Academy.
• Shrek Academy arrived for its fourteenth match to find its merchandise and support popular among the Heaven Dou City spectators.
• Feng Xiaotian told Wang Xiaofeng to pass his challenge to Tang San and warned him that Azure Radiance Academy had changed its lineup.
• Wang Xiaofeng relayed Feng Xiaotian’s message, and Xiao Wu clung to Tang San while declaring that he belonged to her alone.

Feng Xiaotian explained that he wanted Shrek Academy to defeat Azure Radiance Academy so his own victory over Tang San would leave a stronger impression. As Shrek and Azure Radiance Academy began their match, the opponents unleashed a seven-colored light and declared their secret technique, Asura Illusion.

• Feng Xiaotian told his teammates he had cheered for Shrek because he wanted them to beat Tang San first.
• Azure Radiance Academy replaced four previous contestants with Soul Elders whose Soul Power seemed strangely altered.
• Tang San warned Shrek to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill if the match turned dangerous, while Huo Wu noticed Shrek had fielded two unfamiliar fighters.
• Azure Radiance Academy revealed seven Gem Martial Souls and began forming a formation that the host mistook for a seven-person Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Tang San sensed the opponents' sinister aura, gathered Shrek's team with Blue Silver Grass, and had Oscar give them recovery and detox sausages.
• Azure Radiance Academy's captain invoked Asura Illusion, sending a seven-colored pillar of light over the entire central arena.

Azure Radiance Academy unleashed its Asura Illusion, piercing Tang San and his teammates through their defenses and trapping Tang San in a vision of his past. The illusion left him facing Spirit Hall agents who had discovered Xiao Wu.

• Wang Xiaofeng saw black mist obscuring the arena, while Grandmaster and Liu Erlong worried that Shrek was in danger.
• Azure Radiance Academy's leader used Asura Illusion, sending a rain of multicolored arrows filled with black vapor toward Shrek.
• Tang San used Modified Blue Silver Entanglement—Blue Silver Shield to cocoon his teammates, but the arrows passed through the shields and pierced them.
• Tang San found himself in the Holy Soul Village blacksmith shop, where two familiar figures shielded him from Spirit Hall agents.
• The figures told Tang San to take Xiao Wu and run because Spirit Hall had discovered her.

Tang San recognized the seven-person Asura Illusion as a trap and resisted its attacks while the rest of Shrek suffered visions of their deepest fears. Dai Mubai broke down first, and Zhu Zhuqing’s nightmare shifted to a memory of her childhood Martial Soul Awakening.

• Tang San dismissed the illusion of Tang Hao fighting Spirit Hall and revealed that he knew the scene was only a deception.
• A voice from Azure Radiance Academy accused Tang San of being connected to Shi Nian’s disappearance, then trapped him in black mist and sent shadows to attack him.
• The Asura Illusion made the six other Shrek members relive painful experiences as black mist poured from their faces.
• Ma Hongjun struggled against the mist’s influence, while Oscar, Huang Yuan, and Tailong collapsed and Xiao Wu cried out for her mother.
• Dai Mubai released Zhu Zhuqing’s hand and pleaded for his brother not to kill him.
• In a memory of Zhu Manor, Zhu Zhuqing awakened an Innate Rank 7 Martial Soul and the steward celebrated her name.

Zhu Zhuqing received special treatment in Zhu Manor after her talent was discovered, but she resented the future marriage arranged for her with Dai Mubai. Their first awkward exchanges through servants and animals left her irritated, though Dai Mubai began to take root in her heart.

• The supervisor raised Zhu Zhuqing's allowance and told her she was betrothed to Dai Mubai, prompting her to suppress her anger and leave her room for a walk.
• A guard recognized Zhu Zhuqing as the Second Young Miss, and she ordered her maids to beat Ou Chen after he admitted he had been sent by Dai Mubai to see whether she was pretty.
• Dai Mubai laughed when Ou Chen returned bruised, then sent Zhu Zhuqing a pigeon-borne note calling her pretty and insulting Ou Chen; Zhu Zhuqing threw the pigeon away after finding droppings on the windowsill.
• A month later, Dai Mubai sent Zhu Zhuqing a pork knuckle by a puppy and claimed it would make her skin fairer; Zhu Zhuqing frightened the dog away and wrecked a corner of the garden, which the servants arranged to restore.

Zhu Zhuqing received Dai Mubai’s letters and flowers as he shared his cultivation progress and setbacks, and she finally replied with encouragement after he lost a duel. As Dai Mubai faced repeated failures and growing neglect from his family, he found comfort in her message and the Orange Flowers he sent her.

• Dai Mubai sent Zhu Zhuqing regular letters about his cultivation, while she read them without replying and grew encouraged by his companionship.
• Dai Mubai told Zhu Zhuqing about his upcoming duel and promised to share his resources if he won.
• After Dai Mubai reported that he had lost, Zhu Zhuqing sent him a letter saying, “Persevere.”
• Dai Mubai said Zhu Zhuqing’s reply made him happy and sent her an Orange Flower, which she transplanted into a flowerpot.
• Dai Mubai continued sending Orange Flowers after repeated failures, while Zhu Zhuqing collected them in several pots.
• Dai Mubai described his family’s increasing distance and admitted that he had come to like the flowers as he lay among them.

Zhu Zhuqing learned from Dai Mubai’s letters that despair had driven him to leave, then relived his departure during the Asura Illusion. Her resolve awakened a new skill that broke the illusion, and she reached Dai Mubai to lend him strength.

• Zhu Zhuqing read Dai Mubai’s letters about his repeated failures, the flowers he gathered for her, and his decision to leave.
• Zhu Zhuqing rushed to find Dai Mubai, but Ou Chen said Dai Mubai had disappeared and that he had been told to burn the flowers.
• Zhu Zhuqing found a six-petaled Angel's Falling Dance as the sea of flowers burned, then recalled Dai Mubai’s departure while trapped in the Asura Illusion.
• Zhu Zhuqing’s black aura and the power of the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone fused, awakening her Self-Created Soul Skill, Angel's Falling Dance, and breaking the illusion.
• Zhu Zhuqing resisted the arrows, reached Dai Mubai, and clasped his hands to give him strength as a tiger’s roar sounded across the Soul Arena.

After ten minutes of suspense, Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing fused their powers into the Hell White Tiger and broke through Azure Radiance Academy’s shield. The fusion ended with both of them down, while Tang San emerged from the Asura Illusion.

• The Shrek team worried as the colored light continued to conceal the match, and the Grandmaster urged them to wait because Tang San could counter the mental attack.
• Wang Xiaofeng noticed that the black aura had faded, and a surge of Soul Power revealed the Hell White Tiger.
• Zhu Zhuqing’s Soul Power calmed Dai Mubai and fused with his White Tiger Soul Power, while Dai Mubai saw Zhu Zhuqing in an illusion from his childhood.
• Zhu Zhuqing controlled the Hell White Tiger as it charged Azure Radiance Academy and shattered the team’s shield with Hell White Tiger Break.
• The Hell White Tiger dissipated, leaving Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing unconscious, while Azure Radiance Academy’s captain saw Tang San emerge from the Asura Illusion.

Tang San defeated Azure Radiance Academy after destroying their Soul Power and minds with Purple Demon Eyes. Shrek won the match, while Tang San and his teammates collapsed from spiritual exhaustion and experts began investigating the damage to their opponents.

• The Azure Radiance Academy Captain revealed that Shi Nian had used him as a test subject and attacked Tang San with a condensed Soul Power bolt.
• Tang San used Purple Demon Eyes to dissolve the attack and strike Azure Radiance Academy, removing the ominous black qi from its members.
• The arena barrier vanished, revealing Tang San as the only one still standing, and the referee declared Shrek the winner.
• Xiao Wu rushed to Tang San as he collapsed, and Liu Erlong said that he and the other Shrek members would recover after resting.
• Flander requested a reevaluation after Azure Radiance Academy's members were left mindless and without Soul Power, and senior experts attributed it to backlash from a soul skill.