Chapter Summaries

Li Xuan triggered a system mission to spread the Mysterious Heaven Skill and win over three female plot characters, choosing the advanced reward of the Longevity Equal to Heaven Skill. He offered Qin Yue, Qin Ruoruo, and Qin Ya Ya the chance to become stronger by serving as his maidservants, and they reacted with surprise.

• Li Xuan left with Qin Yue, Qin Ruoruo, and Qin Ya Ya while onlookers marveled that a Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Beast had obeyed him.
• Li Xuan asked the system what would happen if he revealed the Mysterious Heaven Skill and received a mission with rewards based on winning over female plot characters.
• Li Xuan chose the advanced option and gained the first half of the Longevity Equal to Heaven Skill, which could increase lifespan.
• Qin Yue introduced herself and her friends, Qin Ruoruo and Qin Ya Ya, as commoners from Haiyuan City.
• Li Xuan asked the three girls if they wanted to become stronger, then offered to take them as maidservants because he considered them unqualified to be disciples.
• Qin Yue, Qin Ruoruo, and Qin Ya Ya reacted with surprise to Li Xuan's maidservant offer.

Li Xuan taught Qin Yue, Qin Ruoruo, and Yaya the Mysterious Heaven Skill and tasked them with spreading it throughout the world. After they succeeded in cultivating it, he gave them Spatial Spirit Tools and left for the Star Dou Great Forest while a Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Beast secretly protected the girls.

• Li Xuan summoned a Riding Beast and took the three girls with him, then explained that they were to learn and spread the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• Li Xuan told the girls they would have to abandon their current Soul Power and start cultivating from the beginning, and all three agreed.
• Qin Yue explained that Yaya could sense malice, which had helped the girls survive and grow stronger.
• After ten days of guidance from Li Xuan, the three girls succeeded in cultivating the Mysterious Heaven Skill, and he gave each of them a Spatial Spirit Tool.
• Li Xuan instructed the girls to seek Poison Douluo if they needed help, then they set out for a nearby city to spread the skill as a Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Beast watched over them.
• Li Xuan heard that the Mysterious Heaven Skill had begun spreading and rode toward the Star Dou Great Forest.

Li Xuan returned to Star Lake and recruited the Titan Giant Ape to help him smash Shrek Academy, promising it Water of Evolution. As Li Xuan left the forest with his face concealed, he became angry at something near its outskirts and ordered the giant eagle to land.

• The Titan Giant Ape vowed it would never again serve Li Xuan, but immediately obeyed when Li Xuan returned and summoned it.
• Li Xuan promised the Titan Giant Ape Water of Evolution if it helped him smash a place, then sent it into his Natural Space.
• Li Xuan put on a mask and flew away on the giant eagle while Xiao Wu and the others were away searching for Spatial Spirit Beasts.
• Near the outskirts of Heaven Dou Forest, Li Xuan became angry and ordered the giant eagle to land.

Li Xuan angrily scolded and kicked Er Ming for trampling his orange tree, while the Dragon-Snake Couple warned Meng Yiran about the Titan Giant Ape’s terrifying strength. They discovered the ape was nearby, meekly letting Li Xuan kick it, and were left stunned.

• Li Xuan summoned Er Ming and berated him for drinking Emotion Water and crushing Li Xuan’s orange tree.
• The Dragon Duke and Dragon Duchess took Meng Yiran through the Star Dou Forest and explained why they feared the Titan Giant Ape.
• Meng Yiran studied a dossier about the Titan Giant Ape and promised not to provoke it if she encountered it.
• After hearing a thud, Meng Yiran spotted the Titan Giant Ape and a child kicking it, then called her grandparents over.
• The Dragon-Snake Couple saw Li Xuan kicking the apologetic Er Ming and stared in disbelief.

Meng Yiran and the Dragon-Snake Couple discovered Li Xuan scolding the Titan Giant Ape, then were confronted by the beast. Li Xuan triggered a choice mission and bullied Meng Yiran before asking her for directions to the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Meng Yiran and the Dragon-Snake Couple watched in disbelief as a young boy scolded the Titan Giant Ape.
• The Dragon Duke and Dragon Duchess considered whether an illusion was causing the impossible scene, but Meng Yiran warned them the Titan Giant Ape had noticed them.
• The Titan Giant Ape charged through the forest and stopped before the terrified Dragon-Snake Couple and Meng Yiran, with Li Xuan standing in its palm.
• Li Xuan encountered Meng Yiran and chose the advanced mission to bully her while making her grateful to him.
• Li Xuan teased Meng Yiran by pinching her cheek, then asked for directions to the Heaven Dou Empire; she pointed the way, but he stayed beside her.

Li Xuan gave Meng Yiran knowledge about Tang Sect hidden weapons before leaving on the Titan Giant Ape. Afterward, the Dragon-Snake Couple speculated about his power, and Meng Yiran discovered the value of his gift.

• Li Xuan gave Meng Yiran documents about hidden weapons, teased her by scratching her palm, and departed on the Titan Giant Ape.
• The Titan Giant Ape's presence terrified the nearby soul beasts and left the Dragon-Snake Couple too frightened to move until it had gone.
• Dragon Duke and Dragon Duchess decided to leave the Star Dou Great Forest for good, while Meng Yiran asked why the Titan Giant Ape obeyed Li Xuan.
• Dragon Duke sensed reverence in the Titan Giant Ape's gaze and warned his family that Li Xuan was powerful and should not be angered.
• Meng Yiran and the Dragon-Snake Couple read the hidden-weapon documents, marveled at their contents, and agreed they should thank Li Xuan if they met him again.
• Li Xuan's task was completed, earning him a 500-year increase in soul ring age and 10 soul.

After reaching Shrek Academy, Li Xuan prepared to carry out his mission to have the Titan Giant Ape destroy it. As Oscar and Zhao Wuji discussed the academy’s land and dismissed Li Xuan as a decadent noble, the chapter ended with Oscar noticing an unnatural quiet.

• Li Xuan arrived above Shrek Academy after three days of flight and decided he would eventually put someone in Natural Space to guide him.
• Li Xuan comforted the frightened White Wolf King and ordered the Titan Giant Ape to obey its supervision.
• Li Xuan took the Titan Giant Ape out of Natural Space and headed toward Shrek Academy to complete his mission.
• Oscar asked Zhao Wuji whether Li Xuan could reclaim the academy’s land, and Zhao Wuji insisted Li Xuan would never come back.
• Oscar and Zhao Wuji disparaged Li Xuan and the nobility before Oscar noticed that the area had become unusually quiet.

Flender tried to lure the Titan Giant Ape away from Shrek Academy to protect its walls, but his stones enraged it and it demolished the entire academy. The Titan Giant Ape left, while Flender and the others were left staring at the ruins in frustration.

• Zhao Wuji recognized the approaching creature as the Titan Giant Ape and ordered the academy evacuated.
• Flender and the teachers led the students to a nearby hillside to watch the Titan Giant Ape from a safe distance.
• Flender flew over the creature and threw stones at it to draw it away from the academy.
• The enraged Titan Giant Ape charged into Shrek Academy and hurled its buildings at Flender instead of following him.
• The Titan Giant Ape destroyed every building, then left as Flender shouted in regret and the others lamented the academy's ruin.

Li Xuan returned the Titan Giant Ape to the Star Dou Great Forest, cultivated the Longevity Equal to Heaven Skill, and explored his expanding Natural Space. In Suotuo City, he spotted Flender’s shop holding a clearance sale and headed there in hopes of finding old Soul Tools.

• Li Xuan received a mission reward that raised his Super Defense to 30% and his Soul Power to Level 28, then set off to return the Titan Giant Ape to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• After getting lost several times, Li Xuan returned the Titan Giant Ape and spent nearly seven days cultivating the Longevity Equal to Heaven Skill until his Soul Power transformed into special Soul Power.
• Li Xuan inspected Natural Space with the White Wolf King and saw its regions, plants, soul beasts, and Emotion Water pool had continued to develop.
• Li Xuan went to Suotuo City, bought an ancient coin with a Soul Tool inscription array, and considered using old Soul Tools to improve his crafting skills.
• Li Xuan remembered Flender’s shop, used God's Perspective to locate it, and discovered it was holding a clearance sale.

Li Xuan went to Flender’s shop intending to buy its old Soul Tools and the shop itself, hoping to claim a valuable item before Tang San could. After bargaining over the price, he learned Flender was selling the property to raise money for an academy and began considering another way to take advantage of the situation.

• Li Xuan noticed Flender’s clearance sale and decided to buy the shop and its Soul Tools, including an item connected to Tang San.
• Li Xuan entered the nearly deserted shop after stopping for street food, and Flender welcomed him as a customer.
• Li Xuan showed Flender a Purple Card and asked to buy the shop, but Flender’s attempt to charge him five thousand Gold Soul Coins failed when Li Xuan turned to leave.
• Li Xuan offered five thousand Gold Soul Coins for the shop and everything inside, then raised his offer to five thousand five hundred.
• Flender rejected the offer, explaining that he needed the money to build an academy for children, and Li Xuan feigned surprise as a new scheme occurred to him.

Li Xuan bought Flender’s Soul Tool shop for ten thousand Gold Soul Coins after hearing the money would rebuild Shrek Academy, while Flender let him believe the academy had beautiful female students. After Shrek began rebuilding, Li Xuan asked the King of Barak to return his territory, and the king sent the Second Prince to clear it.

• Li Xuan offered Flender ten thousand Gold Soul Coins for his shop, and Flender accepted while hiding that Shrek Academy had no beautiful female students.
• Li Xuan kept a gemstone meant for Tang San’s Dragon Beard Needles, gained ten points of physique, and studied the old Soul Tools for inspiration.
• Flender returned to Shrek Academy with the money, and the teachers and students began rebuilding while planning to admit more girls.
• Li Xuan sent a letter and token to the King of Barak, requesting his territory back.
• The King of Barak agreed to give up the territory, and the Second Prince assembled troops to clear Shrek Academy and nearby villages.

Zhao Wuji and Oscar celebrated Shrek Academy’s completion while admitting they had not paid rent on Count Li Xuan’s land. When Second Prince of Barak arrived to evict them, Flender persuaded him to let the academy make its case to Count Li Xuan, who was expected in three days.

• Zhao Wuji and Oscar admired the nearly finished academy, and Zhao Wuji dismissed Oscar’s concern about two years of unpaid rent.
• Second Prince of Barak’s soldiers surrounded Shrek Academy and began driving out its occupants.
• Zhao Wuji revealed his seven spirit rings and stopped the soldiers, but Second Prince of Barak confronted him and demanded that the academy leave Count Li Xuan’s territory.
• Flender argued that the academy could help Count Li Xuan develop the territory by educating its residents.
• Second Prince of Barak agreed that Count Li Xuan should decide the academy’s fate and said he would arrive in three days.

Shrek Academy’s staff feared Count Li Xuan would expel them after discovering the academy had no beautiful female students, so they persuaded Oscar to disguise himself as a girl. Oscar reluctantly prepared to meet Li Xuan in the conference room, where the count had requested the academy’s beautiful female student.

• Flender and the Shrek Academy staff waited anxiously for Li Xuan’s decision about whether they could remain at the academy.
• Li Xuan arrived with the Second Prince of Barak, and Flender recognized him as the man who had bought his shop.
• Oscar realized Li Xuan might be angry to learn there were no beautiful girls at Shrek Academy, and the staff struggled to find a solution.
• A teacher suggested dressing Oscar as a girl, and Flender and Zhao Wuji persuaded the reluctant Oscar to do it for the academy’s sake.
• Flender praised Oscar’s convincing disguise and warned him to lower his voice, then a teacher summoned them to meet Li Xuan with the academy’s beautiful female student.

Li Xuan forced Flender to accept his terms for establishing an academy in his territory, transforming Shrek Academy into a Girls' Academy with Li Xuan as headmaster. After several years passed, Tang San traveled toward Shrek Academy on a wild boar, curious about the school his master had praised.

• Li Xuan recognized Oscar disguised as the girl Sisi but teased him instead of exposing him.
• Li Xuan told Flender he would allow an academy only if he became headmaster, turned Shrek Academy into a Girls' Academy, and required male students to wear women's clothing.
• Flender accepted Li Xuan's conditions, and the system rewarded Li Xuan with Physique +10 for altering Shrek Academy.
• Li Xuan assigned the academy arrangements to the Second Prince of Barak, stayed for two months, then left for the Heaven Dou Empire and joined Moonlight Pavilion.
• Several years later, Tang San rode a wild boar toward Shrek Academy, wondering what made it so outstanding.

Tang San arrived at Shrek Girls' Academy and enrolled after learning that Li Xuan had turned it into a girls' academy years earlier. Meanwhile, Li Xuan and Dugu Yan traveled toward Shrek, where Li Xuan spotted a girl in an emerald-green dress through his God's Perspective.

• Tang San learned from Li Ba's letter that Ji Liu had spread the Tang Sect's Mysterious Heaven Skill while claiming it belonged to Elder Yuan.
• Tang San reached Shrek Academy, discovered it was called Shrek Girls' Academy, and met Dai Mubai, who explained that boys could enroll if they wore women's clothing.
• Tang San passed the academy's simplified Soul Power and bone-age assessments and joined Shrek Academy.
• Li Xuan and Dugu Yan traveled toward Shrek in a luxurious carriage, and Li Xuan used his God's Perspective to find a girl in an emerald-green dress.

Li Xuan chose Ning Rongrong as his next target while reaffirming his possessive bond with Dugu Yan. After the system repaired and rewarded him, he checked his status and opened the note on his newly named Dark Spirit Eyes Martial Soul.

• Li Xuan told Dugu Yan that Ning Rongrong was his target and reassured her that she would remain by his side.
• Dugu Yan defended Li Xuan’s decision to keep her and the other girls close, while admitting that many women in Heaven Dou City wanted him.
• The system announced rewards for Li Xuan’s talents and missions, including the favor of the world and increased defense and toxin resistance.
• Li Xuan examined his status panel and was surprised that his Physique and Soul had both exceeded four hundred points.
• Li Xuan opened the note about the Dark Spirit Eyes Martial Soul to learn more about it.

Li Xuan left Dugu Yan in the carriage on the way to Shrek Academy and encountered Ning Rongrong in a forest. He warned her away from a poisonous mushroom, then teased her about her Soul Power before she introduced herself.

• Li Xuan admired the Dark Spirit Eyes Martial Soul’s abilities and decided he would become a Bounty Hunter to hunt criminals and plunder their Soul Imprints.
• Li Xuan kissed Dugu Yan, then vanished; Dugu Yan told Qin Yue to continue driving to Shrek Academy.
• Qin Yue reflected on how Li Xuan had protected and supported her and the other maids, and continued driving without taking offense at Dugu Yan’s distant manner.
• Ning Rongrong explored the forest on her way to Shrek Academy and reached toward a bright-red mushroom.
• Li Xuan warned Ning Rongrong that the mushroom was poisonous, then teased her about her level thirty-one strength.
• Ning Rongrong told Li Xuan her name and asked for his.

Li Xuan met Ning Rongrong near Shrek Academy and teased her with riddles while fishing and grilling fish. After he revealed his unusual fire-making formation, Ning Rongrong tried grilling a fish herself and noticed an enticing aroma coming from Li Xuan’s cooking.

• Li Xuan guessed that Ning Rongrong was applying to Shrek Academy, then claimed he was its dean, though she did not believe him.
• Li Xuan asked Ning Rongrong several trick riddles, and she failed to solve them while insisting she was not foolish.
• Li Xuan caught fish by the river and drew a formation that ignited flames without firewood, shocking Ning Rongrong and the two experts secretly watching her.
• The hidden experts discussed reporting Li Xuan to their sect master and continued observing him.
• Ning Rongrong took a fish to grill herself, then turned toward the faint, delicious aroma coming from Li Xuan’s cooking.

Li Xuan used his grilled fish to persuade Ning Rongrong to accept restrictions on how she could speak to Oscar, then headed with her to Shrek Academy. Oscar, meanwhile, changed back into men's clothes and planned to charm girls during recruitment.

• Li Xuan grilled fragrant fish, and Ning Rongrong admitted his cooking was better than hers.
• Li Xuan made Ning Rongrong promise to seek his permission before speaking to Oscar, and she accepted in exchange for grilled fish.
• Ning Rongrong devoured Li Xuan's fish and agreed to fulfill another condition later, as long as it was not something bad.
• Ning Rongrong's two protectors smelled the fish from the forest and regretted that they could not eat any.
• Li Xuan and Ning Rongrong set off together for Shrek Academy.
• Oscar changed back into men's clothing and planned to attract girls during recruitment.

Oscar’s attempt to flirt with girls in dresses went badly when he discovered they were men, and he befriended Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun. At the academy gates, they encountered Director Zhao, whose strict enforcement of Li Xuan’s rules contrasted with Tang San’s memories of him; Zhao wondered whether Li Xuan would approve of the academy’s progress.

• Oscar admired the female students and complained that Li Xuan required boys to wear women’s clothing.
• Oscar mistook a bearded man in a dress for a girl, then hit on Tang San, who also revealed he was a man.
• Oscar and Tang San commiserated and became friends, while Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun joined them; Dai Mubai invited everyone out for drinks.
• Oscar hid from Director Zhao and told Tang San that Zhao strictly enforced the dress rules and expelled students who broke them.
• Tang San learned that Director Zhao rejected bribes and connections, while Zhao reflected on following Li Xuan’s rules and worried whether Li Xuan would approve of his work.