Chapter Summaries

Wang Xiaofeng and Oscar fought the White Giant Bird after it seized them and dropped them from the sky. They trapped and wounded it in midair, then closed in to attack as the hunter-prey roles reversed.

• The White Giant Bird seized Wang Xiaofeng and Oscar, then released them to plunge toward the ground.
• Wang Xiaofeng caught Oscar with Calabash Vine and devised a plan to lure the bird close for a surprise attack.
• Oscar used his wings to pull them into a steep ascent while Wang Xiaofeng launched the giant calabash at the diving bird.
• The White Giant Bird dodged the calabash, but Wang Xiaofeng's hidden Calabash Vine wrapped around its right wing and nearly tore it off.
• Oscar and Wang Xiaofeng reached the injured bird, and Oscar prepared to strike it with his fist.

Wang Xiaofeng and Oscar failed to capture the White Giant Bird after another soul beast intervened, and they regrouped with Hao Te at the foot of the mountains. Hao Te proposed a nighttime raid on the bird’s nest, and all three agreed to go.

• Wang Xiaofeng distracted the White Giant Bird while Oscar drew its attention, letting Wang Xiaofeng strike its forehead and injure its wing.
• A cyan soul beast attacked Wang Xiaofeng and carried the White Giant Bird away, while Oscar caught Wang Xiaofeng as they were blown off course.
• Wang Xiaofeng and Oscar waited at the foot of the mountains, and Hao Te found them before sunset after mistaking the fleeing bird for the Emperor Feather Finch.
• Hao Te proposed sneaking into the White Giant Bird’s nest for revenge and treasure, explaining that he wanted to pursue greater strength while he still had the chance.
• Wang Xiaofeng and Oscar agreed to the raid, and Hao Te celebrated their decision.

Wang Xiaofeng, Oscar, and Hao Te found the Emperor Feather Finches’ mountain nest, where Hao Te knocked the adult birds unconscious and Oscar looted the cave. Wang Xiaofeng discovered and captured a Mirror Shadow Beast, and Oscar chose to kill it for its Soul Ring despite the danger of absorbing one near the ten-thousand-year limit.

• Wang Xiaofeng, Oscar, and Hao Te climbed the snowy peak and found the Emperor Feather Finches’ cave.
• Hao Te blocked the cave entrance, entered in his Martial Soul Avatar, and knocked the adult Emperor Feather Finches unconscious.
• Wang Xiaofeng searched a side passage, harvested mutated Blood Orchids, and trapped a Mirror Shadow Beast that attacked him.
• Oscar and Hao Te stripped the nest of valuables and feathers before finding Wang Xiaofeng with the captured beast.
• Wang Xiaofeng estimated the Mirror Shadow Beast was between 11,000 and 12,000 years old and warned Oscar about the risks of absorbing its Soul Ring.
• Oscar decided to pursue the Soul Ring and killed the Mirror Shadow Beast with his blade.

Oscar absorbed the Mirror Shadow Beast’s black Soul Ring and a rare Head Soul Bone, gaining a replication ability that could create a physical clone. After the clone demonstrated its powers, Wang Xiaofeng destroyed it with one blow, leaving Oscar speechless.

• Wang Xiaofeng drugged Hao Te with wine and learned that he was an Outer Sect Elder of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Hao Te fell asleep after seven jars.
• Oscar endured the Mirror Shadow Beast’s soul power and absorbed its black Soul Ring, gaining his fifth Soul Skill, a Mirror Image Sausage that created a clone.
• Wang Xiaofeng found a translucent Head Soul Bone, but it rejected his soul power, so Oscar absorbed it instead.
• Oscar’s clone demonstrated that it could use the blood provider’s Soul Skills, while the Head Soul Bone let Oscar extract spiritual power to give the clone intelligence.
• Oscar explained his new abilities, but Wang Xiaofeng struck the clone and scattered it into silver light.

Oscar, Wang Xiaofeng, and Hao Te fought White Dragon after it caught up with them on the mountain. Wang Xiaofeng descended into the snow to face it as its Domain Prototype formed around them.

• Oscar woke in the cave and ate the stew Wang Xiaofeng had prepared, while Wang Xiaofeng tended to the Blood Orchids and the group packed their supplies.
• The group spotted White Dragon pursuing them, and Wang Xiaofeng decided they should fight instead of fleeing.
• Oscar created clones to lure White Dragon into attacking the cave, while Hao Te struck its eye with his Giant Spirit Palm.
• Wang Xiaofeng and his clones distracted White Dragon as Oscar carried the injured Hao Te away, and an avalanche swept White Dragon down the mountain.
• White Dragon survived the avalanche, so Wang Xiaofeng charged down to attack it while Oscar's Phantom and physical clone drew its attention.
• White Dragon formed a Domain Prototype around itself and Wang Xiaofeng as the two prepared to fight.

Wang Xiaofeng and Oscar defeated White Dragon by holding off its attacks and striking its vulnerable neck. As the dust cleared, Wang Xiaofeng stood beside the motionless dragon while Oscar and Hao Te waited for the outcome.

• White Dragon charged Wang Xiaofeng, who wedged his arms between its jaws and resisted its crushing bite.
• White Dragon gathered Soul Power for Dragon Breath as its combined Soul Power pressure and Dragon Might forced Wang Xiaofeng downward.
• Oscar’s clone struck White Dragon’s head and disrupted its Dragon Breath, while White Dragon failed to notice the flaming Gourd falling from above.
• The Gourd struck White Dragon and shook Lonely Mountain, and Wang Xiaofeng released the dragon’s jaws after its head drooped.
• Oscar and Hao Te wondered whether they had won as the dust cleared, revealing Wang Xiaofeng standing beside the motionless White Dragon.

Wang Xiaofeng offered the still-living White Dragon as Hao Te’s Seventh Soul Ring, and Hao Te accepted despite its age. As Oscar made recovery sausages, the White Dragon unleashed a desperate burst of dragon breath, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• After the storm passed, Hao Te and Oscar found Wang Xiaofeng beside the badly charred but still-living White Dragon.
• Wang Xiaofeng explained that the White Dragon was under twenty thousand years old and suggested it could unlock more potential in Hao Te’s mutated Martial Soul.
• Hao Te accepted the White Dragon as his Seventh Soul Ring and asked Oscar to make recovery sausages.
• The White Dragon secretly gathered its remaining power and launched a sudden burst of blinding light and pressure.
• Wang Xiaofeng warned Oscar to run, and Hao Te used Winter’s Ward to shield him as the White Dragon’s breath erupted.

Wang Xiaofeng survived White Dragon’s energy eruption and discovered that a wounded giant Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast had saved him, Hao Te, and Oscar. After tending to the giant, he prepared to absorb White Dragon’s fading Soul Ring.

• White Dragon’s death unleashed an icy energy blast that injured Wang Xiaofeng and buried Oscar and Hao Te, while a wounded giant struck White Dragon with an ice pillar and then collapsed.
• Wang Xiaofeng recovered and found Oscar alive, then learned the giant had saved them and began cooking dragon-meat porridge for the injured Hao Te.
• Wang Xiaofeng and Oscar examined the giant, discovered its second heart was still functioning, and decided to clean and stitch its chest wound rather than exploit it.
• Wang Xiaofeng fed Hao Te and ate most of the porridge while Oscar cultivated, then asked Oscar to stand guard as he prepared to absorb White Dragon’s fading Soul Ring.

Wang Xiaofeng absorbed White Dragon’s powerful soul ring and advanced to Soul King, enduring a dangerous trial in his Sea of Consciousness. After gaining major physical improvements and awakening the Blue Calabash’s water-control ability, he left to attend to another patient.

• Oscar warned Wang Xiaofeng about the soul ring’s age and spiritual assault, then promised to guard him during absorption.
• Wang Xiaofeng entered his Sea of Consciousness, where White Dragon attacked with icy dragon breath and demonstrated its ability to give spiritual power the properties of ice.
• Wang Xiaofeng accelerated his thoughts and studied White Dragon’s abilities while the Green Calabash absorbed the soul ring’s power.
• Oscar tried to help the frost-covered Wang Xiaofeng, but cracks spread across his body before the soul ring settled above his Fourth Soul Ring.
• Wang Xiaofeng destroyed White Dragon’s remnant soul with a punch, awakened as a Soul King, and discovered that his Blue Calabash granted water control.
• Wang Xiaofeng put on his clothes, took a Big Sausage, and vanished into the night to operate on someone.

Wang Xiaofeng used his fifth Soul Skill and water control to remove the corrosive energy and repair the giant’s wounds. With the treatment finished, he told Hao Te he would leave the Far North soon and decided to travel with Oscar until January to study his Soul Skill and Soul Bone.

• Wang Xiaofeng examined the giant and found that frost energy was suppressing its healing and eroding its life force.
• Wang Xiaofeng used his fifth Soul Skill to make the giant expel the frost energy, then shaped a water spider to cut away necrotic flesh and treat its wounds.
• After a week of treatment, Wang Xiaofeng completed the giant’s care and returned to camp, where Hao Te and the white bear shared dragon meat porridge.
• Wang Xiaofeng collected blood samples from Hao Te and the white bear, then told Hao Te they would pack up and leave.
• Wang Xiaofeng told Oscar he would travel with him until January to study his Soul Skill and Soul Bone, alarming Oscar.

Wang Xiaofeng traveled back to Calabash Village, briefly meeting the grateful caravan owner Kerrison on the way. He reunited with his family and found that Wang Beibei was still getting into trouble.

• Wang Xiaofeng frightened a merchant ship owner with a giant water dragon, then received directions to Moro City and left stunned fish as an apology.
• Wang Xiaofeng met Kerrison outside Moro City and learned that the Star Luo Empire was suffering from disasters and rising prices.
• Wang Xiaofeng returned to the Wang family home, where Wang Danu and He Li explained they had come back after the old man died.
• Wang Xiaofeng found Wang Beibei covered in mud and washed him with water from his calabash.
• He Li caught Wang Beibei hiding in Wang Xiaofeng's arms and threatened to deal with him after lunch.

Wang Xiaofeng explained his village development plans to Wang Feng, winning the villagers’ unanimous support. He began gathering sugarcane seedlings and preparing an experimental field as Calabash Village welcomed the New Year.

• Wang Xiaofeng demonstrated his new ability to control water after advancing to Soul King, then explained his agricultural plans to Wang Feng.
• Wang Xiaofeng proposed consolidating farmland, testing new crops, intercropping sweet potatoes and sugarcane, storing grain, and developing aquaculture.
• Wang Feng reported that the village elders and villagers supported Wang Xiaofeng’s plans, so Wang Xiaofeng set out to buy sugarcane seedlings.
• Wang Xiaofeng bought sprouted sugarcane sections from nearby markets, while Wang Erbo offered ten mu of riverside land for an experimental field.
• Calabash Village prepared for the Spring Festival as villagers contributed to the village’s plans.

Wang Xiaofeng returned to Shrek Academy and learned that Flander had rejected the Heaven Dou Imperial Family’s attempt to impose conditions on the school, then secured a better agreement with Emperor Xue Ye. The chapter left Wang Xiaofeng preparing to attend a noble title ceremony and catching up with Ma Hongjun, whose rumored scandal turned out to be a misunderstanding.

• Wang Xiaofeng complained to Zhao Wuji that Flander had summoned him to receive a noble title and promote Shrek Academy, and Zhao Wuji explained the imperial family’s rejected demands.
• Wang Xiaofeng returned to Shrek and found Flander arguing with Grandmaster over how he had handled the imperial messenger.
• Flander showed Grandmaster and Wang Xiaofeng Xue Ye’s offer of funding, expansion money, and freedom from interference in Shrek’s teaching affairs.
• Flander told Wang Xiaofeng that he and Ma Hongjun only needed to attend the next day’s ceremony and watch the nobles’ conflict unfold, and he confirmed that Wang Xiaofeng’s chosen territory had been settled.
• Wang Xiaofeng visited Ma Hongjun, who explained that his reported street harassment of a young woman had been a misunderstanding.

At the Heaven Dou Empire’s investiture ceremony, Xue Ye honored Grandmaster and used the banquet to expose a suspected plot involving corrupt nobles and Spirit Hall. Wang Xiaofeng sensed powerful figures fleeing after a bound man died, leaving the gathering with the feeling that a larger conflict was approaching.

• Ma Hongjun learned that his fame came from Shrek’s tournament victory and the dolls modeled after the team, while Grandmaster encouraged him to embrace his influence.
• Wang Xiaofeng and Ma Hongjun met Shui Binger and Shui Yue'er at the Royal Hunting Grounds before the ceremony began.
• Xue Ye ennobled the tournament champions and unexpectedly granted Grandmaster the title of Count, prompting Salas and several nobles to leave.
• At the banquet, Xue Ye introduced Grandmaster to imperial family members and then presented him with a bound man accused of causing trouble between Flander and Xue Ye.
• The bound man began naming several families but suddenly died, while Wang Xiaofeng sensed powerful Soul Power fluctuations fleeing the scene.
• Shui Binger and Shui Yue'er left, while Wang Xiaofeng and Ma Hongjun returned to eating as the chapter ended with signs of a brewing storm.

Wang Xiaofeng met Gliev in Heaven Dou City, reviewed his detailed market survey, and agreed to hire workers through the Black Market. He left after placing an order for workers and apprentices to support his territory.

• Wang Xiaofeng left the banquet early and met Gliev at the Livable Hotel, where Gliev presented his report on Heaven Dou City's prices.
• Wang Xiaofeng learned that high prices and a shortage of willing workers were affecting his plans, then approved Gliev's suggestion to buy slaves in the Black Market.
• Wang Xiaofeng and Gliev entered the Black Market, where Wang Xiaofeng sensed a level seventy-nine Soul Saint and moved deeper into the district.
• Old Bard guided Wang Xiaofeng and Gliev to a broker, and Wang Xiaofeng ordered fifty farmers, thirty soldiers, ten carpenters, five hunters, and two medical apprentices.
• Wang Xiaofeng paid a deposit and received a voucher to collect the workers from the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion in three days, while Gliev grew gloomy about the people they had seen.

Wang Xiaofeng visited his newly granted territory outside Heaven Dou City and discovered an unregistered village of refugees nearby. After registering the villagers under his name, he surveyed the mountainous land and decided to build a road connecting it to the outside.

• Wang Xiaofeng learned from Pu Dehua that the road shown on the map was nonexistent and that his territory lay beyond a mountain.
• Wang Xiaofeng and his party found a small village, where its residents feared the armed strangers.
• Wang Xiaofeng used his spiritual power to check the old man's fear and ordered Pu Dehua to register the refugees as his subjects.
• Wang Xiaofeng hired Tutak to guide the group through the mountains and paid him a Silver Soul Coin as a deposit.
• Wang Xiaofeng surveyed the basin shared by his territory and those of Oscar and Ma Hongjun, then set a goal of building a road within three days.

Wang Xiaofeng commissioned a massive iron road-building tool, then began developing his territory by organizing workers and establishing poultry farms. With Gliev managing the workforce, the farms were completed, and Wang Xiaofeng prepared defenses and feed for the growing flock.

• Luo Jin agreed to forge Wang Xiaofeng’s oversized iron shovel blueprint for an extra fee, and Wang Xiaofeng paid a deposit before leaving to procure supplies.
• Ten days later, Wang Xiaofeng uprooted trees to clear land while a Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion caravan delivered supplies and a group of chained workers to the village.
• Wang Xiaofeng ordered the workers’ restraints removed, arranged for them to bathe, eat, and rest, and left Gliev to organize their work.
• Gliev efficiently managed the workers, while Wang Xiaofeng selected land for poultry farms and decided to raise Flathead Ducks and Red Feather Chickens.
• After a month, the farms were built, and Wang Xiaofeng told Gliev that gourds planted around the area would protect it from wild beasts and Soul Beasts.
• Wang Xiaofeng asked Gliev to scatter Chicory Grass seeds across the cleared farmland to provide food for the poultry.

Wang Xiaofeng expanded his woodland territory, tested a new clone, and dealt with business setbacks while Shrek Academy struggled with staff resignations and Spirit Hall pressure. Grandmaster proposed using the academy’s scarce scholarly resources to persuade Wang Xiaofeng to teach.

• Wang Xiaofeng accepted Titan Clan’s offer to build his facilities and redirected his supply plans toward local restaurants and agricultural markets after major institutions refused to cooperate.
• Gliev reported that five escaped guards had been seen fleeing south, and Wang Xiaofeng told him to leave them alone and recruit replacements from the Black Market.
• Wang Xiaofeng’s clone dissolved after an experiment, and he recorded the results for Clone Number 74 before reappearing above ground.
• Grandmaster told Flander that another teacher had resigned because Spirit Hall had cut off his Soul Master subsidy, while Shrek Academy’s lower-grade theory courses faced suspension for lack of teachers.
• Flander said Wang Xiaofeng had refused to teach, so Grandmaster suggested Shrek could offer him a scarce scholarly resource that money could not buy.

Wang Xiaofeng was persuaded to join Shrek Academy as a part-time teacher after Flander and Grandmaster negotiated with him over his proposed reforms. They revealed that they also wanted him under the academy’s protection because Salas might target him.

• Flander invited Wang Xiaofeng to Shrek’s twenty-fifth anniversary, and Ma Hongjun later arrived to escort him there.
• Wang Xiaofeng toured his territory with Ma Hongjun, who decided he was content as long as his share of food remained secure.
• Flander told Wang Xiaofeng that Shrek faced a teacher shortage amid the conflict between Salas and the royal family, then asked him to teach at the academy.
• Wang Xiaofeng refused at first, but Grandmaster and Flander offered limited teaching hours in exchange for teachers’ help with his research, so he presented them with a proposal for academy reforms.
• Grandmaster accepted Wang Xiaofeng’s appointment after reviewing the proposal, and Flander and Grandmaster explained that they wanted to protect him from Salas.

Ma Ke arrived at Shrek Academy on enrollment day, hoping to pass the entrance examination despite his frail body and weak innate soul power. After joining the newly formed Soaring Flight Club, he reached the second-round assessment, where his physical report might improve his chance of admission.

• Shrek Academy’s enrollment crowd swelled after its tournament victory, while Ma Hongjun and Qin Ming tested applicants and kept order.
• Ma Ke reviewed his Martial Soul Evolution System and hoped that studying at Shrek would help him overcome his weak cultivation and lung disease.
• Mihail recruited Ma Ke for the Soaring Flight Club, which he had founded and planned to have Ma Hongjun instruct.
• Mihail led Ma Ke to Wang Xiaofeng, who assessed him with a quick examination and gave him a physical data analysis report that could serve as a revival card for a special admissions group.
• Mihail escorted Ma Ke to the unfinished building where the second-round assessment would take place.