Chapter Summaries

Wang Xiaofeng defeated Yu Tianheng in their one-on-one Soul Fight, but Dugu Yan attacked him in anger before Ma Hongjun stopped her with fire. Yu Tianheng recovered with the Nine Heart Begonia’s healing, leaving the Shrek team to recognize that they would need to deal with its Soul Master in the upcoming team battle.

• Yu Tianheng used Wrath of Thunder to boost his power, but Wang Xiaofeng dodged his Lightning Dragon Claw and struck him down.
• Wang Xiaofeng broke Yu Tianheng’s Dragon Arm, then threw him out of the arena to win the one-on-one Soul Fight for Seven-Colored Calabash.
• Dugu Yan attacked Wang Xiaofeng with poisonous mist, but Ma Hongjun blocked her with Phoenix Fire Line.
• Dugu Yan carried Yu Tianheng back to his teammates, and the Nine Heart Begonia Soul Master healed him until he had recovered most of his strength.
• Tang San recognized the Nine Heart Begonia’s healing ability, and the Shrek team realized they would have to eliminate its Soul Master during the team battle.

The Shrek team avoided an immediate clash with the Royal Fight Battle Team and returned to their private room to prepare for the team battle. Wang Xiaofeng recovered from his duel with Yu Tianheng, warned Dai Mubai not to underestimate him, and questioned Tang San’s plan as the team discussed tactics.

• Flander and Zhao Wuji recognized Qin Ming, and Qin Ming led the Royal Fight Battle Team away after Manager Ao intervened.
• Tang San pulled back an enraged Xiao Wu, who vowed to retaliate against Dugu Yan for her sneak attack.
• Wang Xiaofeng told Flander he was physically fine but mentally exhausted from controlling his Soul Power during the fight.
• Wang Xiaofeng described Yu Tianheng’s Soul Skills and warned Dai Mubai that the two would be evenly matched.
• Tang San outlined his tactics for the upcoming battle, and Wang Xiaofeng doubted Yu Tianheng would fall for the deep-lure plan.
• Tang San said he could use Blue Silver Grass to draw Yu Tianheng into the trap or switch to Tactic Six, feint east and strike west.

Shrek Battle Team and Royal Fight Battle Team began their team battle, with both sides launching coordinated attacks. Shrek’s fighters deceived their opponents with afterimages and drew Royal Fight into a trap, leaving Yu Tianheng to discover that Dai Mubai was unharmed.

• Dai Mubai and Yu Tianheng confronted each other as both teams summoned their Martial Souls and host Dou Dou started the battle.
• Dai Mubai charged Yu Tianheng, leaped over the Shi Brothers, and was protected when Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass restrained them.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing attacked Royal Fight’s rear line while Ma Hongjun kept Yu Feng away from Ning Rongrong.
• Yu Tianheng struck Dai Mubai with Thunder Dragon Claw and advanced with the Shi Brothers, believing Dai Mubai had been injured.
• Oslo and Yu Feng attacked the apparent figures of Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing, but the four targets vanished, prompting Dugu Yan to recognize the deception.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing appeared to block the Shi Brothers as Yu Tianheng found Dai Mubai unharmed and realized he had been tricked.

Dai Mubai and Tang San coordinated their attacks to trap Yu Tianheng, while Ma Hongjun added fire pressure. Yu Tianheng counterattacked with his lightning skills, but Dai Mubai broke through the clash and left him severely wounded.

• Dai Mubai activated White Tiger Asura Transformation and overpowered Yu Tianheng in close combat, tearing his scales and sending him flying.
• Tang San trapped Yu Tianheng with Blue Silver Cage, and Ma Hongjun attacked him with Phoenix Fire Line.
• Yu Tianheng used Wrath of Thunder to destroy Ma Hongjun’s flames and unleash Thunderbolt at Dai Mubai.
• Dai Mubai countered with White Tiger Sky-Rending Claw, endured the lightning, and struck Yu Tianheng in the chest, sending him crashing into Yu Feng.
• Yu Tianheng suffered severe chest wounds, vomited blood, and could no longer maintain Wrath of Thunder.

Shrek turned the Royal Fight Battle Team’s poison against them and steadily defeated its members. Dugu Yan surrendered after Tang San lifted the unconscious Yu Tianheng.

• Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai used their skills to blow Dugu Yan’s poisonous mist back toward the Royal Fight Battle Team, but Yu Feng absorbed it and sent it skyward before it exploded.
• The Shi Brothers attacked Tang San with their tortoise shells while Oslo tried to rescue Ye Lingling, but Oscar dragged Oslo off the arena with her.
• Tang San used Yu Tianheng as a shield to force the Shi Brothers to redirect their attack, then pierced their limbs with Blue Silver Grass.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun drove Dugu Yan toward the arena’s edge as Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu worked together to defeat Yu Feng.
• Dugu Yan surrendered when Tang San lifted Yu Tianheng.

Shrek defeated the Royal Fight Battle Team, passing Grandmaster’s second-stage test and earning half a month of rest before a third training stage. After the match, Qin Ming reunited with Flander and Zhao Wuji, revealing to the students that the famed Flame Emperor had once been a Shrek student.

• Ye Lingling healed Yu Tianheng, Yu Feng, and the Shi Brothers as Dou Dou declared Shrek the winners.
• Yu Tianheng acknowledged his defeat to Dai Mubai, then led the Royal Fight Battle Team away from the arena.
• Wang Xiaofeng praised Oscar for mastering Delicate Soul Power Control and using it to eliminate the enemy support and Agility Attack System Soul Masters.
• Shrek celebrated its victory, and Grandmaster said the team had passed the second-stage test and would receive half a month off before the third stage.
• Qin Ming greeted Flander and Zhao Wuji, and Shrek’s students realized that he was the famed Flame Emperor and a former Shrek student.

After Shrek defeated the Royal Fight Battle Team, Qin Ming reunited with his former teachers and learned that Flander and Zhao Wuji planned to retire after the students graduated. The Shrek students settled their Soul Battle points and collected their rewards, then prepared to rest.

• Ning Rongrong recognized Qin Ming as the Flame Emperor, and Flander introduced him as Shrek Academy's outstanding first-class graduate.
• Qin Ming saluted the Grandmaster and praised the current students, while Flander explained that he and Zhao Wuji were tired and might retire after the students graduated.
• Flander sent the eight Shrek students to settle their points as he left with the Grandmaster, Zhao Wuji, and Qin Ming.
• Manager Ao gave Dai Mubai the promised ten-thousand-Gold-Soul-Coin Black Card and arranged for the students' Soul Battle points to be calculated.
• Wang Xiaofeng received 3,765 points for the month, bringing his total to 3,767 and advancing his badge to Silver Spirit rank.
• The students collected their badges and appearance fees, and Ma Hongjun and Oscar bickered over their earnings.

After celebrating their Silver Spirit qualifications, the Shrek students returned to the hotel, where Qin Ming recognized them and praised their talent. A suggestion was made for Qin Ming to bring them to Heaven Dou Royal Academy to compete in the Soul Master Competition.

• The Shrek students discussed how they would spend their spirit-battle earnings as they returned from the Great Spirit Arena.
• Oscar and Ning Rongrong joked about their Silver Spirit qualifications, while Wang Xiaofeng teased the couples and Ma Hongjun teased Wang Xiaofeng.
• The group reached the hotel and found Flander, Zhao Wuji, and Qin Ming waiting at a table.
• Ma Hongjun tried to take food from Flander's table, then ordered nearly everything on the menu after Zhao Wuji said the dean would pay.
• Qin Ming admired the Shrek students and wished the Royal Academy had such talented students for the Soul Master Competition.
• Someone suggested that Qin Ming bring the Shrek students to Heaven Dou Royal Academy to compete.

Grandmaster proposed that the Shrek students join Heaven Dou Royal Academy as exchange students and compete in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament. Flander agreed reluctantly, and after their training ended, the students left Shrek for their long vacation before the move.

• Grandmaster proposed that Qin Ming arrange an exchange so the Shrek students could study at Heaven Dou Royal Academy until the tournament two years later.
• Qin Ming worried that Heaven Dou Royal Academy would poach the students, while Grandmaster explained that its tournament slots and Mimetic Cultivation Environment made it a better choice than his original plan.
• Flander revealed that he had reluctantly agreed, and Grandmaster began laying out his conditions to Qin Ming.
• Dai Mubai explained the tournament to Ma Hongjun, who called the arrangement borrowing a hen to lay eggs and made Flander reconsider.
• The Shrek students felt gloomy about leaving their academy, and their celebration feast ended early.
• The next morning, the Shrek group settled their hotel bill and left, ending their month-long training and beginning their long vacation.

After Shrek Academy returned home, the Grandmaster assigned the students tasks for a two-month break before their move to Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Wang Xiaofeng spent the break researching an unfinished Martial Soul Skill, and after a month he successfully tested it on Oscar.

• Oscar happily returned to Shrek Academy, where Flander announced a two-month break before the group traveled to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• The Grandmaster told the students to settle personal matters, review their Soul Arena experience, and cultivate Soul Power during the break.
• Oscar went to sleep while Wang Xiaofeng cleaned their dormitory and resumed researching his Martial Soul Skill.
• After a month, Wang Xiaofeng's forty-eighth experiment succeeded, and he tested its Soul Power circulation method on Oscar.
• Oscar felt warm and hungry after the test, and Wang Xiaofeng concluded that the experiment had worked.

Wang Xiaofeng proved the simplified version of Gluttony was safe and taught it to Oscar and the other students. After they tried it, he showed them his much more complicated full version, Eight Extremes—Gluttony.

• Wang Xiaofeng finished organizing his experiment notes and helped Oscar recover after Oscar overused Gluttony and became ravenously hungry.
• Wang Xiaofeng and Oscar met Xiao Wu, who was bringing food to Tang San, and Wang Xiaofeng told her he had accomplished his goal.
• At lunch, Dai Mubai revealed that the students had been secretly training, then changed the subject when Wang Xiaofeng pressed him about it.
• Wang Xiaofeng explained Oscar's hunger, taught the simplified Gluttony to Dai Mubai, Ning Rongrong, and Ma Hongjun, and watched Dai Mubai test it.
• Wang Xiaofeng showed the group his booklet, Eight Extremes—Gluttony, and Ma Hongjun decided the simplified version was preferable.

Wang Xiaofeng watched Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing demonstrate their Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill and measured its enormous form. The fusion ended after three minutes, leaving Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing exhausted while Wang Xiaofeng criticized Dai Mubai’s stamina.

• Xiao Wu brought lunch to Tang San in his stone-house forging room and told him that Xiaofeng had emerged from seclusion after perfecting his Self-Created Soul Skill.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing brought Wang Xiaofeng to the academy’s open ground to show him their Hell White Tiger.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing fused into a giant white tiger as Wang Xiaofeng examined and measured it.
• Ma Hongjun helped Wang Xiaofeng record the tiger’s measurements before the fusion ended after three minutes.
• Oscar gave exhausted Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing Sausages, and Wang Xiaofeng criticized Dai Mubai for being too weak.

Wang Xiaofeng studied the Hell White Tiger fur, while Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun dealt with the hunger caused by his simplified Gluttony soul skill. The next morning, Wang Xiaofeng set off from Suotuo City to travel home, leaving his journey underway.

• Wang Xiaofeng collected Hell White Tiger fur from Ma Hongjun and compared its Soul Power with Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun went hungry after overusing the Gluttony soul skill, so Oscar summoned more than a hundred Sausages for them.
• Oscar brought Wang Xiaofeng dinner and found him packing for a trip home.
• Wang Xiaofeng told Flander he was leaving, ate breakfast, and hired a carriage in Suotuo City for five Gold Soul Coins.

Wang Xiaofeng traveled to Jade Bee Town and learned that the town was under lockdown over a theft blamed on unknown thieves. He checked into the Jade Bee Hotel, where a drunken guard claimed the Wang Family had invented the thief to conceal the Second Young Miss's involvement.

• Wang Xiaofeng traveled from Soto City toward Calabash Village by carriage, stopping at Jade Bee Town after about two days on the road.
• Jade Bee Town guards inspected the carriage because the town was under lockdown following a theft.
• Wang Xiaofeng booked the last vacant room on the top floor of Jade Bee Hotel and listened to guards discuss the case over dinner.
• A drunken guard said the Second Young Miss had stolen something valuable and the Wang Family had made up a thief to divert attention, then passed out at the table.
• Wang Xiaofeng ate the town's honey dishes and found his room, named Moonlight.

Wang Xiaofeng witnessed Jade Fox confront a Ye Family girl on a rooftop, then watched as a gaunt Soul Ancestor ambushed and defeated the thief. The attacker fled after sensing another powerful Soul Master nearby, leaving Jade Fox and the girl unconscious.

• Wang Xiaofeng sensed someone nearby and overheard Jade Fox arguing with the Ye Family's Second Young Miss about a stolen item.
• The girl attacked Jade Fox with her first soul skill, but he dispelled her strike and put her to sleep with an illusion.
• Jade Fox called out to a supposed observer, and a gaunt Soul Ancestor appeared, accusing Jade Fox of taking the blame for his theft.
• Jade Fox used his Phantom Avatar to flee, but the gaunt man saw through the illusion and wounded him until he passed out.
• A powerful Soul Power ripple startled the gaunt man, who fled after sensing his remaining strength was low.

Wang Xiaofeng scavenged Jade Fox’s body on the rooftop and discovered a Soul Tool belt, but a scrawny four-ringed man attacked him and demanded it. Wang Xiaofeng killed the man and was left with the spoils.

• After waiting for the rooftop to clear, Wang Xiaofeng crept over to the bodies and searched Jade Fox, finding a Soul Tool belt.
• A scrawny man confronted Wang Xiaofeng and attacked him after seeing through his disguise.
• Wang Xiaofeng blocked the scrawny man’s claws with his Gourd and struck him hard enough to break his bones.
• The scrawny man tried to bargain for a share, then attacked again with enhanced claws.
• Wang Xiaofeng used Eight Extremes, Flash Step to kill the scrawny man.

Wang Xiaofeng returned to Calabash Village after examining a mysterious parchment and a black Soul Bone. He left the village women and children sharing a large gift of candy as he headed home to see his parents.

• Wang Xiaofeng studied the Parchment Scroll, found no way to decipher it, and stored it in his Martial Soul Space.
• Wang Xiaofeng checked that the black Soul Bone from the Unknown Giant Ape still held its Soul Power and put it away to take home for his mother.
• Wang Xiaofeng reached Calabash Village near dusk and let the coachman return to town before entering the village.
• Wang Xiaofeng greeted the women gathered beneath the peach tree and said that something had come up at school, so he had been asked to discuss it with his parents.
• Wang Xiaofeng gave the village children nearly fifty kilograms of candy, and they rushed to divide it among themselves.

Wang Xiaofeng gave his parents a Soul Bone and taught them his new Soul Skill, Gluttony, before telling them that Shrek Academy planned to send students to Heaven Dou Royal Academy for one or two years. After three days at home, He Li sent him back to Shrek Academy.

• He Li teased Wang Xiaofeng about not bringing home a girl, then made him promise to bring home a wife within three years.
• Wang Xiaofeng showed his parents a thousand-year right arm Soul Bone and persuaded He Li to store it for him.
• Wang Xiaofeng taught Wang Danu and He Li his Soul Skill, Gluttony, which improved their physical constitution through eating.
• Wang Xiaofeng told his parents that Shrek Academy planned to take students to Heaven Dou Royal Academy for one or two years.
• After Wang Xiaofeng stayed home for three days, He Li drove him out, and he returned to Shrek Academy.

With Zhao Wuji away, Wang Xiaofeng struggled to find useful training and agreed to help Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing test their Martial Soul Fusion Skill. The Hell White Tiger easily overwhelmed Ma Hongjun’s defense and sent him and Wang Xiaofeng tumbling, while Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing were left exhausted.

• Wang Xiaofeng learned that Zhao Wuji and the Dean had gone to Heaven Dou City, leaving him without the training partner he wanted.
• Wang Xiaofeng worried that his physical training and Soul Power control had stalled, then discussed how to spend the remaining half month with his friends over lunch.
• Dai Mubai suggested that Wang Xiaofeng and Ma Hongjun fight the Hell White Tiger so Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing could test their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Ning Rongrong enhanced Wang Xiaofeng and Ma Hongjun as Ma Hongjun summoned his flaming phoenix and Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing formed the Hell White Tiger.
• The Hell White Tiger struck down most of Ma Hongjun’s flaming phoenix and sent Ma Hongjun and Wang Xiaofeng skidding and rolling across the ground.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing separated from the Hell White Tiger and sat down gasping after their attack consumed more than half of their Soul Power.

Tang San emerged from forty-nine days of seclusion after completing his latest project, rejoining his friends at Shrek Academy. He revealed that he had made several hidden weapons and practical items for everyone, but had not yet shown them.

• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing tested their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Wang Xiaofeng warned them that its power was offset by its slow activation and heavy Soul Power cost.
• Ning Rongrong left to go shopping with Xiao Wu, while Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing went to cultivate.
• Tang San came out of the Forging Room after forty-nine days, and Wang Xiaofeng told him to clean up and hurry to breakfast.
• Tang San joined the others in the cafeteria and noted that only a few days remained before their trip to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Tang San said he had made several hidden weapons and a practical item for each of his friends.