Chapter Summaries

Su Xiao awakened Luo Sanpao and initially believed his low Soul Power left him with little hope of becoming a powerful soul master. After he signed in at the Holy Soul Village Martial Soul Hall Branch, the system granted him a top-tier mutated martial soul and Innate Full Soul Power, and Luo Sanpao began transforming into a golden-patterned egg.

• Su Xiao awakened the Luo Sanpao martial soul and worried that he would share his Master's limited potential.
• Tang San tried to reassure Su Xiao that he could still become a soul master.
• Su Xiao tested his Soul Power and saw only a faint glow in the crystal ball.
• Su Xiao received the Sign-in System and signed in at the Holy Soul Village Martial Soul Hall Branch.
• The system granted Su Xiao a top-tier mutated martial soul and Innate Full Soul Power, causing the crystal ball to shine brightly.
• Luo Sanpao became enveloped in white light and transformed into an egg covered in golden dragon patterns.

Su Xiao awakened the Holy Light Dragon, a top-tier Martial Soul, and rejected Su Yuntao’s offer to study at Spirit Hall. After Tang San also showed Innate Full Soul Power, Tang Hao asked the boys what Martial Souls they had awakened, and Tang San revealed he might have a second one.

• Su Xiao’s eggshell cracked open, revealing the Gold-White Divine Dragon, which entered his brow and appeared as his Holy Light Dragon Martial Soul.
• Su Yuntao praised Su Xiao’s talent and invited him to study at Spirit Hall, but Su Xiao declined and made way for Tang San’s awakening.
• Su Yuntao discovered Tang San had Innate Full Soul Power despite his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, while Su Xiao noticed black light leaking from Tang San’s restrained left hand.
• Old Jack celebrated that the village had produced two children with Innate Full Soul Power and told Su Xiao that Tang San would receive the sole work-study spot.
• Tang Hao called Su Xiao and Tang San into the inner room and asked about their awakened Martial Souls; Tang San said he thought he had another one.

Tang San and Su Xiao prepared to become Soul Masters, and Tang Hao urged them to protect what mattered to them before leaving to reclaim what was his. Su Xiao and Tang San departed Holy Soul Village for Notting City, while Su Xiao wondered about his future meeting with Yu Xiaogang.

• Tang Hao embraced Tang San after learning he had twin martial souls and warned him to conceal his hammer martial soul and protect his grass martial soul.
• Tang Hao told Su Xiao he regarded him as his own son, and Su Xiao promised that his Holy Light Dragon would help protect Tang San's grass.
• Tang San and Su Xiao agreed to become Soul Masters, and Tang Hao told them to attend a Soul Master Academy in three months.
• Tang San continued learning forging and the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer from Tang Hao, while he taught Su Xiao Tang Sect Secret Arts and Su Xiao trained his speed and strength.
• Tang San and Su Xiao found Tang Hao's farewell letter and left Holy Soul Village with Old Jack for Notting City.
• Su Xiao felt reluctant to leave Tang Hao and wondered whether he and Yu Xiaogang shared a special connection through their martial souls.

Su Xiao and Tang San arrived at Notting Academy, where a gatekeeper mistreated them before Yu Xiaogang intervened. In Yu Xiaogang’s office, he identified Tang San’s hidden second Martial Soul, leaving Tang San wary and Su Xiao trying to calm him.

• A gatekeeper accused Su Xiao and Tang San of carrying forged enrollment certificates and threatened Old Jack, so the boys used their Martial Souls and knocked him down.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived, recognized the children, and reprimanded the gatekeeper before Old Jack entrusted them to him.
• As Yu Xiaogang escorted them inside, Tang San asked about his connection to Su Xiao, and Su Xiao asked whether they could take Yu Xiaogang as their master.
• In Yu Xiaogang’s office, Yu Xiaogang asked Tang San about his second Martial Soul, prompting Tang San to draw a dagger until Su Xiao stopped him.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and Innate Full Soul Power made him unique.

Su Xiao and Tang San accepted Yu Xiaogang as their master, and Yu Xiaogang learned that Tang San possessed a Clear Sky Hammer. After warning Tang San to keep the hammer hidden, Yu Xiaogang assigned them to Dormitory Seven, where they found a chubby boy bullying new students.

• Su Xiao and Tang San agreed to become Yu Xiaogang's disciples.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed that he had been expelled from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Su Xiao rejected any connection to it.
• Tang San showed Yu Xiaogang his Clear Sky Hammer, and Yu Xiaogang warned him not to cultivate it lightly or reveal it.
• Yu Xiaogang assigned Su Xiao and Tang San to Dormitory Seven and told them to meet him the next morning.
• Su Xiao and Tang San entered Dormitory Seven and saw a chubby boy bullying several new students.

Su Xiao, Tang San, and Xiao Wu fought over who would lead Dormitory Seven, and Xiao Wu became its boss. Su Xiao checked in at the dormitory and gained the ability to absorb a Thousand-Year Soul Ring as his first ring, while the group prepared to seek Soul Rings the next day.

• Wang Sheng challenged Tang San to a fight, but Tang San subdued him with his strength.
• Xiao Wu arrived and kicked Wang Sheng into Su Xiao's bed, then fought Su Xiao when he objected.
• Su Xiao and Tang San surrendered the position of Dormitory Seven's boss to Xiao Wu, who declared that everyone would call her Sister Xiao Wu.
• Su Xiao checked in at Dormitory Seven and received a six-hundred-year increase to his Soul Ring absorption limit.
• Su Xiao told Tang San that their teacher would take them to obtain Soul Rings the next day, and he made Wang Sheng responsible for his broken bed.

Su Xiao and Tang San traveled with Yu Xiaogang to the Soul Hunting Forest, where Yu Xiaogang taught them about soul rings and chose a first soul ring target for each of them. The chapter ended as Yu Xiaogang challenged Tang San to defeat a 422-year-old Mandala Snake with Luo Sanpao’s help.

• Su Xiao and Tang San found Yu Xiaogang gone from his office, then joined him on a carriage to the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Yu Xiaogang gave Tang San a storage Soul Tool belt, which Tang San named Twenty-Four Bridges Under the Moonlit Night.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo Sanpao, whose first soul skill knocked down a group of plant Soul Beasts and left their soul rings floating above them.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that Su Xiao needed a Light Attribute Sub-Dragon Soul Beast for his first soul ring and that Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass would benefit from poison.
• Yu Xiaogang pointed out a 422-year-old Mandala Snake and ordered Tang San to defeat it with Luo Sanpao’s help as his first test.

Tang San absorbed his first soul ring, while Su Xiao argued that he could withstand a Thousand-Year Soul Ring. Back at the academy, Su Xiao saw the captured Radiant Rhinoceros Dragon mother and child and asked to take the mother's power and raise the young dragon.

• Tang San absorbed the Mandala Snake's hundred-year soul ring and gained the Binding soul skill.
• Su Xiao asked Yu Xiaogang for a Thousand-Year Soul Ring, but Yu Xiaogang refused and brought him and Tang San back to Notting Junior Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed a captured Radiant Rhinoceros Dragon mother and her young in two iron cages.
• Su Xiao moved the wagons so the mother and child could touch horns, and Yu Xiaogang explained that the mother seemed to offer herself to save her child.
• Su Xiao again asked to absorb a Thousand-Year Soul Ring and promised to raise the young dragon in place of its mother.

Su Xiao took in the young Radiant Rhinoceros Dragon Xiao Bai after its mother willingly gave its life for his Soul Ring, and the two became close. Six years later, Su Xiao, Tang San, and Xiao Wu reached Suotuo City on their way to Shrek Academy, where Su Xiao stayed behind to settle Xiao Bai.

• Su Xiao killed the Radiant Rhinoceros Dragon mother after promising to protect her child, and he absorbed her Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Su Xiao named the young dragon Xiao Bai, calmed it, and took it out of its cage to live with him.
• Yu Xiaogang had a room built for Su Xiao beside the stable, and Xiao Wu often visited to play with Xiao Bai.
• Six years passed, and Su Xiao reached level thirty-nine while Tang San and Xiao Wu each reached level twenty-nine.
• Su Xiao, Tang San, and Xiao Wu traveled toward Shrek Academy, and Xiao Wu and Tang San entered Suotuo City while Su Xiao stayed to settle Xiao Bai.

Su Xiao met Dai Mubai at a hotel in Suotuo City, where they clashed over a reserved room and agreed to a bet before fighting. After both revealed their Martial Souls, Dai Mubai reacted with panic to Su Xiao’s possession.

• Su Xiao found a stable for Xiao Bai and went to the hotel where Tang San and Xiao Wu were staying.
• Dai Mubai confronted the hotel staff about Su Xiao taking his long-term room, then turned on Su Xiao when he learned who was responsible.
• Dai Mubai charged at Su Xiao, but Su Xiao blocked his punch with Mystic Jade Hand and redirected much of its force into the floor with Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon.
• Dai Mubai proposed a proper fight, and Su Xiao accepted on the condition that they bet one hundred Gold Coins.
• Dai Mubai revealed his level-thirty-seven White Tiger Martial Soul and three Soul Rings, then panicked when he saw Su Xiao undergo Martial Soul Possession.

Su Xiao fought Dai Mubai in the hotel lobby and forced him to use his full strength before Dai Mubai conceded. Dai Mubai paid Su Xiao and left, while Tang San and Xiao Wu learned that he was a Shrek student.

• Su Xiao revealed his three Thousand-Year Soul Rings and challenged Dai Mubai to fight.
• Su Xiao's Holy Light Dragon Claw pierced Dai Mubai's White Tiger Protective Barrier and forced him to counter with his second and third Soul Skills.
• Dai Mubai used White Tiger Vajra Transformation to destroy Su Xiao's golden wyrm, then conceded before Su Xiao could launch another attack.
• Dai Mubai paid Su Xiao in gold coins and left the hotel with the twins, saying they would meet again at Shrek.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu saw the wrecked lobby, and Su Xiao told them Dai Mubai was a Shrek student.

Su Xiao, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Xiao Bai arrived at Shrek Academy, where Su Xiao and his companions passed the entrance test. Dai Mubai led them inside, while Xiao Wu and Xiao Bai clarified their close bond.

• Su Xiao's group reached Shrek Academy and heard Teacher Li explain its strict age and Soul Power requirements.
• Dai Mubai called Su Xiao and his friends to the front of the line, where Xiao Bai's dragon form startled the waiting applicants.
• Teacher Li confirmed that the group met the age requirement, and Tang San and Xiao Wu revealed their two yellow Soul Rings.
• Su Xiao revealed his Holy Light Dragon Martial Soul and three Thousand-Year Soul Rings, impressing Teacher Li and prompting him to joke that Dai Mubai's place as the academy's boss was in danger.
• Dai Mubai led the group into the academy, and Su Xiao introduced Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Xiao Bai as his family and partner.
• Xiao Wu denied being Su Xiao's sister and said she was closest to Xiao Bai, who roared in agreement.

Su Xiao, Tang San, and Xiao Wu reached Shrek Academy, where Oscar sold sausages and Dai Mubai led them past the second test. Su Xiao demonstrated Soul Power above level thirty by shattering the testing crystal, silencing the examinees who had accused him of cheating.

• Su Xiao bought Oscar's entire sausage cart, and Oscar protested when Tang San called him an uncle.
• A black blur passed through the sausages and revealed a cold, black-clad girl, while Dai Mubai told Oscar to act properly.
• Dai Mubai led Su Xiao, Tang San, and Xiao Wu past the second test after a teacher explained that examinees above level twenty-five could proceed directly to the fourth test.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu each tested at level twenty-nine, proving they qualified to skip ahead.
• After an examinee accused Su Xiao of bribing the teacher, Su Xiao tested above level thirty and shattered the white crystal.

Tang San, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing passed the soul power test and joined the group heading to Shrek Academy’s final entrance test. Vice Dean Zhao Wuji took over as examiner, leaving them to face a level seventy-six Soul Saint in a trial of endurance.

• Ning Rongrong tested at level twenty-six, and Zhu Zhuqing tested at level twenty-seven before registering their names.
• Dai Mubai led the group onward and explained Shrek’s strict graduation requirements and its small student body.
• Xiao Wu mocked Dai Mubai over his earlier defeat by Su Xiao, and the two bickered until Zhao Wuji arrived.
• Zhao Wuji announced that the applicants had to withstand his attacks until the hourglass ran out, with at least one person still standing to pass.
• Dai Mubai warned Su Xiao and Tang San that Zhao Wuji was a level seventy-six Battle Soul Saint, but Su Xiao urged Tang San to fight him.

Su Xiao, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong began the Fourth Exam against Zhao Wuji, coordinating their abilities to attack him. Zhao Wuji broke their restraints and prepared to meet Su Xiao’s dragon fist with a direct punch.

• The five introduced themselves and activated their Martial Souls before planning their fight against Zhao Wuji.
• Zhao Wuji attacked Ning Rongrong first, but Tang San used Blue Silver Grass and Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon to pull her out of danger.
• Ning Rongrong enhanced Su Xiao, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing as they launched a coordinated assault while Tang San and Xiao Wu restrained Zhao Wuji.
• Zhao Wuji released his Soul Power, broke Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass, and blocked Zhu Zhuqing’s attack with a barrier formed by his seven Soul Rings.
• Su Xiao’s Holy Light Dragon Claw still reached Zhao Wuji, who raised his fist to test Su Xiao’s strength.

Su Xiao and the others combined their abilities to attack Zhao Wuji, but his powerful defenses and counterattack overwhelmed them. Xiao Wu fell unconscious after using her Charm to save Tang San, while Zhao Wuji remained standing.

• Su Xiao used Ning Rongrong's speed boost and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to strike Zhao Wuji, then regrouped with Tang San and the others.
• Tang San coordinated a layered attack that combined the group's strength and Ning Rongrong's boosts into Su Xiao's Holy Light Dragon Head.
• Zhao Wuji countered with his Vajra Palm, shattered Su Xiao's attack, and sent Su Xiao, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing flying.
• Tang San caught Zhu Zhuqing as Dai Mubai caught Xiao Wu, while Xiao Bai protected Su Xiao from further injury.
• Zhao Wuji attacked Tang San, and Xiao Wu shoved him aside and used Charm to stop the blow, then fell unconscious from the backlash.
• Tang San retreated with Xiao Wu as a huge figure charged toward Zhao Wuji.

Su Xiao and Tang San fought Zhao Wuji with a coordinated hidden-weapon assault after Su Xiao protected Xiao Bai, but Zhao Wuji broke their formation and pulled Su Xiao toward him. Su Xiao called for Tang San to strike with the Dragon Beard Needle.

• Su Xiao shielded Xiao Bai from Zhao Wuji's punch and absorbed most of its force, then told Xiao Bai that he was keeping a promise to a mother.
• Su Xiao joined Tang San, and the two attacked Zhao Wuji with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and a coordinated barrage of hidden weapons.
• Su Xiao caught the hidden weapons rebounding from Zhao Wuji and threw them back, allowing the pair to sustain their Double Hidden Weapon Hundred Solutions assault.
• Zhao Wuji used Gravity Enhancement to disrupt their coordination, then used Positioning Tracking to pull Su Xiao toward him.
• Su Xiao called for Tang San to act and prepared the Dragon Beard Needle.

Su Xiao and Tang San broke through Zhao Wuji’s defenses with the Dragon Beard Needles, then fought back with hammers before time ran out. Oscar’s sausages helped the injured fighters recover, while Zhao Wuji began clearing Tang San’s poison.

• Su Xiao and Tang San combined their attacks, and the Dragon Beard Needles pierced Zhao Wuji’s defenses.
• Zhao Wuji used Gravity Squeeze to pull Su Xiao and Tang San closer, but Tang San poisoned him with a steel nail.
• Su Xiao transformed his Soul Power into a golden Clear Sky Hammer, and he and Tang San struck Zhao Wuji before he knocked them both away.
• Ning Rongrong announced that time was up, and Oscar gave Su Xiao and Tang San sausages that helped them recover.
• Zhao Wuji ate Oscar’s sausages to ease the poison, and Dai Mubai explained that Oscar’s Second Soul Skill could remove abnormal conditions.

After Shrek admitted Su Xiao and the others, Su Xiao spent the night bonding with Ning Rongrong beside Xiao Bai. Ma Hongjun found them together the next morning and challenged Su Xiao, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Tang San removed the Dragon Beard Needles from Zhao Wuji, who confirmed that the five students had been admitted and left them to arrange their own accommodations.
• Tang San settled Xiao Wu in first, while Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing moved into their quarters; Su Xiao built a temporary nest for Xiao Bai and planned a nearby house.
• Ning Rongrong visited Su Xiao, met Xiao Bai, and accepted Su Xiao's help into its nest, where they chatted and fell asleep leaning against each other.
• Su Xiao woke beside Ning Rongrong, covered her with his coat, and stopped Ma Hongjun from trying to eat Xiao Bai.
• Ma Hongjun angrily accused Su Xiao and Ning Rongrong of dating and challenged Su Xiao to a fight.

Su Xiao confronted Ma Hongjun after Ma Hongjun threatened to take Ning Rongrong, and revealed his powerful Holy Light Dragon and three Thousand-Year Soul Rings. After Ma Hongjun backed down, Su Xiao headed out to find food for Xiao Bai, realizing the cafeteria would be emptied by Ma Hongjun.

• Su Xiao told Ma Hongjun to fight away from Xiao Bai's nest, and Ma Hongjun demanded Ning Rongrong as a condition if Su Xiao lost.
• Su Xiao revealed his Holy Light Dragon and three purple Soul Rings, shocking Ma Hongjun into withdrawing his Martial Soul.
• Dai Mubai arrived and scolded Ma Hongjun for provoking Su Xiao, while Ning Rongrong returned Su Xiao's coat and Xiao Wu teased them.
• Su Xiao invited Ning Rongrong to breakfast and planned to bring food back for Xiao Bai, but Dai Mubai rushed away after warning that Ma Hongjun was heading to the cafeteria.
• Su Xiao decided to take Ning Rongrong into town for food, explaining that Ma Hongjun would leave nothing in the cafeteria and the walk could serve as training.