Chapter Summaries

After a night of cultivating and dealing with criminals, Xiao Heng accompanied Ning Rongrong to Shrek Academy and joined Tang San and Xiao Wu on the way. They found the shabby academy, where strict entrance requirements left only a handful of applicants, and Xiao Heng urged Ning Rongrong to register.

• Xiao Heng returned to the hotel after hunting criminals and spent the rest of the night cultivating his Soul Power.
• Ning Rongrong finally got up around noon, and she and Xiao Heng left the hotel for Shrek Academy.
• Xiao Wu recognized Xiao Heng and Ning Rongrong, and she and Tang San joined them on the walk to the academy.
• The group reached a rundown village academy, and Ning Rongrong hesitated when she saw its shabby entrance.
• Dai Mubai revealed his Soul Elder aura, and the old man explained that Shrek accepted only applicants under thirteen with at least Rank 21 Soul Power.
• After most applicants left, Xiao Heng told Ning Rongrong to register now that the line had cleared.

Xiao Heng paid to stay at Shrek Academy for a month without enrolling and entered alongside Zhu Zhuqing. After Zhao Wuji defeated the students in the entrance test, Xiao Heng caught the injured Zhu Zhuqing and treated her, while Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu also received his medicine.

• Ning Rongrong passed the initial test, and Dai Mubai led her inside while Xiao Heng declined to enroll.
• Xiao Heng paid the old man one thousand gold coins to stay at the academy for a month and entered with Zhu Zhuqing.
• Xiao Heng and Zhu Zhuqing passed the Soul Power test and joined Tang San, Xiao Wu, and the others for Zhao Wuji's entrance test.
• Zhao Wuji overwhelmed the students, and Xiao Heng caught Zhu Zhuqing when she was blasted away.
• Ning Rongrong took Zhu Zhuqing from Xiao Heng and gave her space to recover, while Xiao Heng fed Ning Rongrong a medicinal pill.
• Xiao Heng reset Zhu Zhuqing's dislocated arms and gave medicine to Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu.

Xiao Heng settled into life near Shrek Academy, built himself a wooden room, and joined the students for breakfast and their first training. Ning Rongrong completed Flender’s twenty-lap punishment, and Flender led the group to the Great Spirit Arena while Xiao Heng followed as an observer.

• Xiao Heng arranged with the villagers to build a small wooden house and paid them for their help.
• Xiao Heng practiced swordsmanship the next morning, then went with Tang San to meet Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Xiao Heng warned Ma Hongjun to control his wandering gaze, and Dai Mubai introduced the academy’s students to one another.
• Xiao Heng explained that he was only staying temporarily and followed the students to the training field.
• Flender ordered Ning Rongrong to run twenty laps, and she completed them without Xiao Heng’s help.
• Flender led the students to the Great Spirit Arena in Suoto City, while Xiao Heng went along as an observer.

Xiao Heng left the group in Suoto City and went to the night market to find criminals he could defeat to improve his strength. After killing one gang member and coercing another into guiding him, he headed toward their nearest hideout.

• Xiao Heng left Ning Rongrong and the others, and Flender became interested after learning that Xiao Heng was a twelve-year-old Soul Elder.
• Xiao Heng dropped gold coins in the night market to attract two robbers and lured them into an alley.
• Xiao Heng killed the first robber and stopped the second with two stones.
• Xiao Heng forced the surviving robber to reveal that their gang had a Soul King, five Soul Ancestors, and over a dozen Soul Elders, then made him swallow a blue pill.
• Xiao Heng drained the dead robber's aura and ordered the survivor to lead him to the nearest hideout.

Xiao Heng massacred a Black Household Gang branch hall and absorbed its members’ Soul Power, raising his level to fifty-two. The Black Tiger Gang’s leaders ordered a search for him, while Xiao Heng prepared to stabilize his strength and considered the gang’s imminent end.

• Xiao Heng entered the branch hall with his guide, killed its guards and members, and absorbed Boss Liu’s Soul Power before leaving the scene.
• Xiao Heng gave his guide an antidote and said he would return in a few days, then went back to Shrek Academy and converted the Soul Power he had absorbed, rising from level forty-three to level fifty-two.
• Citizens gathered at the discovered massacre and felt relieved that the abusive gang members had been killed.
• The Black Tiger Gang leader ordered his men to find Xiao Heng and kill his family, then told them to bury Old Liu properly and look after his family.
• After finishing his Soul Power conversion, Xiao Heng opened his eyes with killing intent and thought the Black Tiger Gang might not last much longer.

Xiao Heng clashed with Dai Mubai after Dai threatened Ning Rongrong, then demanded an apology and defeated him. Oscar and Ma Hongjun reported the incident to Flender, who worried that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would demand an explanation.

• Zhu Zhuqing asked Xiao Heng for help, and he agreed to discuss terms with her later; he told Ning Rongrong he hoped to recruit Zhu Zhuqing into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Dai Mubai confronted Xiao Heng at breakfast and asked when he planned to leave the academy.
• Ning Rongrong defended Xiao Heng, and Dai Mubai threatened to rape and kill her.
• Xiao Heng dodged Dai Mubai's attack, forced him to the ground with a punch, and told Oscar and Ma Hongjun that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect required an explanation.
• Oscar and Ma Hongjun told Flender what had happened, leaving him worried about the sect's reaction.

Xiao Heng tried to resolve Flender's dispute with Dai Mubai and gave the stubborn Zhu Zhuqing a chance to gain protection by joining the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Zhu Zhuqing agreed and began learning a cultivation method from Xiao Heng, who guided Soul Power through her blocked meridians.

• Flender agreed to seek an apology from Dai Mubai after Xiao Heng gave him three days to settle the matter.
• Xiao Heng took Zhu Zhuqing to the forest and asked her to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as a protector, and she immediately accepted.
• Xiao Heng promised that the sect would protect Zhu Zhuqing and gave her cultivation manuals, pills, and a better Storage Ring.
• When Zhu Zhuqing could not understand the cultivation manual, Xiao Heng began teaching her by guiding Soul Power through her meridians.
• Xiao Heng found Zhu Zhuqing's meridians mostly blocked and used his Soul Power to open most of them as he led her through the cultivation method.

Xiao Heng taught Zhu Zhuqing cultivation knowledge and arranged for Sword Douluo to meet him in the Star Dou Great Forest while accompanying Shrek Academy to hunt spirit rings. After the group reached a nearby town and shared dinner, Xiao Heng asked Ma Hongjun about the evil fire caused by his martial spirit.

• Xiao Heng opened many of Zhu Zhuqing's extraordinary meridians, taught her foundational cultivation knowledge, and promised that his investment would be worthwhile if she became a Titled Douluo.
• Dai Mubai returned to the academy looking dispirited, and Xiao Heng had Ning Rongrong forgive him as the students' close-knit relationships grew more distant.
• Oscar and Ning Rongrong reached rank thirty, so Xiao Heng arranged to meet Sword Douluo in the Star Dou Great Forest and joined the Shrek Academy group on its journey.
• Zhao Wuji led the group to a town near the Star Dou Great Forest and decided they would rest overnight before entering the forest at dawn.
• Ma Hongjun asked the group who would pay for dinner, and Xiao Heng offered to cover the meal as Ma Hongjun ordered a feast.
• Xiao Heng asked Ma Hongjun whether his evil fire had afflicted him since his martial spirit awakened, and Ma Hongjun said it had worsened as his Soul Power increased.

Xiao Heng gave Ma Hongjun a pill to help control his martial soul’s evil fire, then joined the group’s journey to the Star Dou Great Forest. After Zhao Wuji led them into the forest, Xiao Heng shared pills to restore their strength and revealed they cost at least one hundred gold coins each.

• Xiao Heng gave Ma Hongjun a jade bottle of pills and considered recruiting him into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun provoked Cang Hui Academy, while Xiao Heng sent Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and later the others upstairs; Zhao Wuji beat the academy group.
• Zhao Wuji woke the group early, and they reached the Star Dou Great Forest around noon.
• Xiao Heng entered the forest with the group, intending to hunt a soul beast at least seventy thousand years old.
• After Zhao Wuji led them through the forest for over two hours, Xiao Heng gave everyone pills and told Zhao Wuji they cost at least one hundred gold coins each.

The group secured soul rings for Oscar and Ning Rongrong, while Tang San also broke through to level thirty and still needed a suitable ring. Their search ended when the Titan Giant Ape appeared at their nighttime camp, leaving Zhao Wuji to negotiate as Xiao Heng prepared for a possible fight.

• Zhao Wuji subdued an injured Wind Tail Chicken Crown Snake, but Snake Granny and Meng Yiran arrived and contested Oscar's claim; Tang San defeated Meng Yiran, and Oscar obtained the snake's soul ring.
• Tang San revealed that he had reached level thirty, and Xiao Heng later selected a roughly nineteen-hundred-year wolf-type Spirit Beast for Ning Rongrong, who absorbed its soul ring and became a Soul Venerable.
• The group searched through the day for a suitable Spirit Beast for Tang San, found none, and camped for the night in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Zhao Wuji ordered everyone out of their tents when a huge disturbance approached, then asked Xiao Heng to protect the others if he did not return.
• The Titan Giant Ape emerged from the forest, and Xiao Heng identified it as the king of the forest while Zhao Wuji cautiously offered to withdraw.

After the Titan Giant Ape took Xiao Wu, Xiao Heng left the group with Sword Douluo to find a Spirit Beast for his new Spirit Ring. They discovered a strange black bird resembling a Mutated Golden Winged Peng, which watched them from its nest while appearing gravely ill.

• The Titan Giant Ape charged the group, but Xiao Heng and Oscar sheltered beneath it while Zhao Wuji fought back, and the ape carried Xiao Wu away.
• Tang San pursued the Titan Giant Ape after recovering, while Xiao Heng gave him several pills and then sensed a familiar aura nearby.
• Xiao Heng met Sword Douluo and asked him to help hunt a Spirit Beast over seventy thousand years old now that Xiao Heng had reached Rank Fifty.
• Sword Douluo and Xiao Heng searched the forest, passed on a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, and followed a powerful flying Spirit Beast's aura to a steep mountain.
• Xiao Heng and Sword Douluo found a black bird in a nest beneath a tree in the mountain valley and suspected it was a Mutated Golden Winged Peng.

Xiao Heng and Sword Douluo confronted a Black-Winged Peng that had feigned weakness while preparing to transform. Xiao Heng killed it and absorbed its blood-red Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring, but the fusion triggered a strange change on his back as dawn approached.

• Little Grass told Xiao Heng that the Black-Winged Peng was transforming and that Sword Douluo’s Soul Power could help it succeed, so Xiao Heng warned his master to attack.
• Sword Douluo used Myriad Swords Return to Origin to wound the Black-Winged Peng and pin it to the ground.
• Xiao Heng killed the Black-Winged Peng, and its final breakthrough produced a blood-red spirit ring.
• Xiao Heng absorbed the Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring while Sword Douluo stood guard, and he endured the power until it merged into him.
• After the fusion, a strange force settled behind Xiao Heng, and two bulges began forming on his back as his clothes burst apart.

After Xiao Heng gained the Wind-Thunder Roc’s External Spirit Bone, he tested its powers and recovered a hundred-thousand-year torso Spirit Bone from the beast’s corpse. He decided to save the torso bone for Ning Rongrong and set off toward camp with his new wings.

• Xiao Heng manifested a pair of black wings, identified them as an External Spirit Bone, and tested their flight and Wind Thunder Force abilities.
• Xiao Heng used his fifth spirit skills to blast the valley’s stone wall with a roc-shaped attack and a Wind Thunder-enhanced punch.
• Xiao Heng found a hundred-thousand-year torso Spirit Bone in the black giant eagle’s corpse, but Little Grass advised him not to fuse with it.
• Xiao Heng agreed with Sword Douluo to keep the torso Spirit Bone for Ning Rongrong, then heard that Bone Douluo was nearing a breakthrough.
• Sword Douluo gave Xiao Heng a Soul Tool containing collected medicinal herbs and escorted him away from the valley.
• Xiao Heng outpaced Sword Douluo with his new wings and raced toward camp.

Xiao Heng returned to the academy, arranged for Tang San to sell Hidden Weapons to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and then used Bashi to raid the Black Tiger Gang and rescue kidnapped children. After absorbing Soul Power with the Bei Ming Divine Skill, Xiao Heng discussed with Little Grass whether it could work in the Dou Qi world.

• Xiao Heng returned safely to the campsite, and the group traveled back to the academy after he promised to treat them to food and drinks.
• Xiao Heng offered Tang San a deal to supply Hidden Weapons to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect without revealing how to make them, and Tang San agreed.
• People from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect negotiated with Tang San, bringing the first transaction close to completion.
• Xiao Heng met Bashi in Suoto City and ordered him to lead the way, then the Black Tiger Gang lost three branch halls and more than twenty kidnapped children were returned to their families.
• Xiao Heng absorbed Soul Power with the Bei Ming Divine Skill, and Little Grass explained that the technique could not normally absorb Dou Qi before hinting that an exception might be possible.

Xiao Heng asked Little Grass how to overcome his cultivation technique’s limits, then met Grandmaster, who tried to recruit him into the academy. Xiao Heng agreed to help with training by fighting the students, and after defeating Zhu Zhuqing, he faced Xiao Wu.

• Little Grass told Xiao Heng he needed to comprehend or obtain the Essence of Devouring and integrate it into his cultivation technique.
• Grandmaster asked Xiao Heng to join the academy, but Xiao Heng explained that he had better training methods and did not want to rely on companions.
• Grandmaster asked Xiao Heng to defeat the students without killing them, and Xiao Heng agreed to let Tang San use any means.
• Zhu Zhuqing challenged Xiao Heng, who dodged her soul skills and defeated her with his sword.
• Grandmaster called Xiao Wu to fight next, and Xiao Wu reluctantly stepped forward after Tang San warned her to be careful.

Xiao Heng defeated Xiao Wu, Ma Hongjun, and Dai Mubai in succession during a sparring match, relying on his swordsmanship and strength without activating his martial soul. The match ended with Dai Mubai accepting that Xiao Heng's strength surpassed his own and quietly thanking him.

• Xiao Wu used Charm, Teleportation, and Waist Bow against Xiao Heng, but he recovered and stopped his sword at her throat, forcing her to concede.
• Ma Hongjun attacked with Phoenix Fire Line, but Xiao Heng dodged behind him and ended the match with his sword at Ma Hongjun's neck.
• Dai Mubai activated his White Tiger martial soul and three soul skills before charging Xiao Heng with a powerful punch.
• Xiao Heng blocked Dai Mubai's punch without retreating, then struck him with his sword hilt and sent him flying.
• Grandmaster ended the spar, and Dai Mubai accepted his defeat as an absolute gap in strength before quietly thanking Xiao Heng.

Xiao Heng defeated Tang San in a fierce test match, forcing him to use his hidden weapons and Eight Spider Lances before ending the fight with a near-miss sword strike. Grandmaster declared Xiao Heng the winner and ordered the others to complete ten runs between the academy and Suoto City before eating.

• Xiao Heng confirmed he could continue after Dai Mubai’s punch and challenged Tang San to use all his methods.
• Tang San attacked with Blue Silver Grass and hidden weapons, but Xiao Heng cut through them and drove him back with a sword strike that damaged his Eight Spider Lances.
• Tang San used his sleeve arrows, Blue Silver Grass, and Eight Spider Lances to counter Xiao Heng, but Xiao Heng’s Hundred Pace Flying Sword grazed Tang San’s cheek and pierced a tree behind him.
• Tang San admitted defeat, and Grandmaster announced that Xiao Heng had won the test.
• Grandmaster asked the group to assess Xiao Heng’s strength, then ordered everyone to run ten round trips between the academy and Suoto City before eating.

Xiao Heng revealed his powerful sword martial soul to Grandmaster, then continued pursuing his own rapid growth while seeking a way to meet Dugu Bo through Dugu Yan. He watched the Shrek Seven Devils face the Imperial Dou Team, and the chapter ended as both teams summoned their martial souls for battle.

• Grandmaster questioned Xiao Heng about his age and martial soul, but Xiao Heng refused to show his soul rings or soul skills.
• Xiao Heng absorbed the Black Tiger Gang's remaining Soul Power and came within one level of becoming a Soul Emperor.
• After learning that the Imperial Dou Team had appeared, Xiao Heng went to the Great Spirit Arena hoping to approach Dugu Yan and arrange a meeting with Dugu Bo.
• Xiao Heng watched the Shrek Seven Devils and the Imperial Dou Team take their positions on the central stage.
• Dai Mubai and the others summoned their martial souls, while Dugu Yan transformed her legs into a snake tail.

After watching Shrek defeat the Imperial Dou Team, Xiao Heng approached Dugu Yan with a detoxifying pill and a message for Dugu Bo, then left Shrek Academy without saying goodbye. He reached Heaven Dou Imperial Capital, where he learned Dugu Bo had arranged to meet him at the Imperial City’s east gate.

• The Shrek Seven Devils defeated the Imperial Dou Team after Tang San dispelled Dugu Yan’s poison and used his External Spirit Bone.
• Xiao Heng met the injured Imperial Dou Team and gave Dugu Yan a pill to pass to Dugu Bo, warning that her grandfather’s life depended on it.
• Xiao Heng returned to Shrek Academy, then left early the next morning with a letter for Ning Rongrong and a goodbye for Zhu Zhuqing.
• A Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect deacon told Xiao Heng that Dugu Bo was looking for him and had arranged a meeting at the Imperial City’s east gate.
• Xiao Heng left the hotel at dusk and headed to the Imperial City to meet Dugu Bo.

Xiao Heng met Dugu Bo and struck a deal: he would treat Dugu Yan’s poison in exchange for Dugu Bo’s herb garden, backed by a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect token. After explaining two treatment options, he left Dugu Yan to choose while asking Dugu Bo to take him to the medicinal field.

• Xiao Heng passed the Imperial City guards after identifying himself as the bearer of the red pills, and Steward Wang escorted him to Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo tested Xiao Heng’s strength and agreed to give him the herb garden and owe him a favor if he cured Dugu Yan, with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s favor as a guarantee.
• Dugu Bo brought Dugu Yan to Xiao Heng, who began the treatment and explained that she could either purge the poison over time or channel it into a poison-related spirit bone.
• Dugu Yan considered the two treatment methods, and Xiao Heng asked Dugu Bo to take him to the medicinal field.