Chapter Summaries

Tang San reunited with Xiao Wu at Dorm Seven after Yu Xiaogang's lecture delayed him, then became the dorm leader by defeating Wang Sheng. He expected Xiao Wu to share his quilt and bed as she had in his previous life, but she asked for the quilt and condemned him as a pervert when he suggested sleeping together.

• Yu Xiaogang kept Tang San talking after accepting him as a disciple, and Tang San blamed him for delaying his reunion with Xiao Wu.
• Tang San arrived at Dorm Seven, saw Xiao Wu, and learned Wang Sheng was its leader because Xiao Wu had declined to fight for the position.
• Tang San defeated Wang Sheng and became Dorm Seven's leader.
• Yu Xiaogang brought Tang San a quilt and invited him to visit that evening, but Tang San remained cold toward him.
• Xiao Wu asked Tang San for his quilt, and he suggested they share a bed; Xiao Wu called him a pervert, while Wang Sheng reminded him that she was a girl.

Tang San gave Xiao Wu his quilt and went to meet Yu Xiaogang, who summoned him to strengthen their master-disciple bond. After seeing Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer and learning he was Tang Hao’s son, Yu Xiaogang became convinced Tang San could help him restore his reputation and warned him to conceal his second Martial Soul.

• Tang San apologized to Xiao Wu for asking to share her bed and gave her his quilt, then regretted that their relationship differed from his Previous Life.
• Yu Xiaogang, annoyed that Tang San was late, sent a guard to bring him to his Study.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Tang San to reveal his Second Martial Soul, and Tang San showed him the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that his father was Tang Hao, prompting Yu Xiaogang to recognize Tang San’s Clear Sky Sect lineage and imagine using him to overcome his own failures.
• Yu Xiaogang warned Tang San to cultivate Blue Silver Grass and keep the Clear Sky Hammer secret, and Tang San agreed.

Yu Xiaogang tried to make Tang San follow his plan to take a venomous snake Soul Ring, but Tang San insisted on choosing a Plant-type Soul Beast. After Tang Hao threatened Yu Xiaogang to respect Tang San’s choice, Yu Xiaogang became more determined than ever to leave his mark on his disciple.

• Yu Xiaogang proposed a venomous snake Soul Ring for Tang San’s first ring, but Tang San insisted on choosing a Plant-type Soul Beast.
• Tang San threatened to end their teacher-disciple relationship if Yu Xiaogang kept trying to choose his Soul Ring for him.
• Tang Hao visited Yu Xiaogang at midnight, slapped him, and ordered him to let Tang San choose his Soul Ring.
• Tang Hao gave Yu Xiaogang a Pope’s Token and left, while Yu Xiaogang brooded over the humiliation.
• Yu Xiaogang resolved to find a way to make Tang San absorb a venomous snake Soul Ring so he could leave his mark on him.

Huo Yuhao saw that Tang San and Yu Xiaogang both wanted to use their master-disciple relationship for their own purposes. Before setting out to hunt for a soul ring, Tang San gave Yu Xiaogang’s apprenticeship gift, Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night, to Xiao Wu, forcing Yu Xiaogang to replace it with his own Soul Guiding Ring.

• Tang San agreed to take Xiao Wu soul hunting after she pleaded with him, despite Yu Xiaogang’s objections.
• Yu Xiaogang gave Tang San Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night as an apprenticeship gift before the trip.
• Xiao Wu asked for the Soul Tool, and Tang San gave it to her, angering Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang insisted that Tang San accept a replacement apprenticeship gift and handed him his Soul Guiding Ring.
• Tang San accepted the ring, and Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and Xiao Wu set out together.

Yu Xiaogang tried to make Tang San choose a venomous snake Soul Ring, but Tang San insisted on hunting a Plant-type Soul Beast. After they entered the Soul Hunting Forest, Yu Xiaogang summoned his awkward-looking Martial Soul and asked Tang San for carrots.

• Yu Xiaogang argued that Tang San should absorb a Soul Ring from a venomous snake Soul Beast, but Tang San refused and insisted on a Plant-type Soul Beast.
• Xiao Wu sided with Yu Xiaogang and urged Tang San to listen to his teacher, while Tang San privately resolved not to choose a poison-attribute Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang showed his token to the guards and led Tang San and Xiao Wu into the Soul Hunting Forest.
• A pack of Ten-Year Soul Beasts appeared, and Tang San challenged Yu Xiaogang to deal with them, prompting Yu Xiaogang to hand out masks.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned his Martial Soul, and after Tang San teased him about it, Yu Xiaogang asked for carrots to make it fart.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang searched for a Soul Ring when a Black Mamba Snake bit Xiao Wu, forcing Tang San to absorb the snake’s ring to save her. He succeeded, but the Soul Skill he gained was another Blue Silver Binding.

• Yu Xiaogang used Luo Sanpao’s fart Soul Skill against nearby Soul Beasts, while Tang San mocked his teacher’s low rank.
• Tang San expected a Mandala Snake to appear, but a Black Mamba Snake instead bit Xiao Wu and poisoned her.
• Yu Xiaogang urged Tang San to absorb the Black Mamba Snake’s Soul Ring, explaining that it was the only way to draw out the venom.
• Tang San chose to save Xiao Wu and quickly absorbed the snake’s Soul Ring.
• Tang San discovered that his new Soul Skill was Blue Silver Binding again and regretted the Soul Ring choice.

Tang San gained a disappointing Blue Silver Binding skill from the Black Mamba Snake, while Ah Yin was reborn as A Lan after the Blue Silver King sacrificed to restore her. Tang San felt an unexplained loss as A Lan left to seek revenge, then continued trying to win Xiao Wu’s affection.

• Tang San used Blue Silver Grass to draw the Black Mamba Snake’s venom from Xiao Wu, then learned that his First Soul Skill was Blue Silver Binding with only slight poison and greater toughness.
• After Xiao Wu woke and thanked him, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Yu Xiaogang returned from Soul Hunting.
• Huo Yuhao ordered Evil Emperor to take the Blue Silver Emperor back to reclaim the Blue Silver Crown and concealed the relevant Heavenly Secrets with Unbreakable Chains.
• Ah Yin told the Blue Silver King how humans had taken her Blue Silver Emperor Position, and the Blue Silver King sacrificed to restore her as a blue-haired woman named A Lan.
• A Lan left the Blue Silver Forest to take revenge, while Tang San felt an unexplained pang of loss in Nuoding City.
• Xiao Wu demanded a necklace while shopping, and Tang San spent three months of forging wages to buy it for her.

Yu Xiaogang tried to separate Xiao Wu from Tang San, but Tang San confronted him and Yu Xiaogang instead strengthened his public claim over his disciple. When Tang San brought Xiao Wu to Holy Spirit Village, she heard his father’s name and began investigating, recognizing Tang Hao as the man who killed her mother.

• Yu Xiaogang told Xiao Wu to keep her distance from Tang San and offered to take her on as a nominal disciple, so she began avoiding Tang San.
• Tang San learned Yu Xiaogang had pressured Xiao Wu and warned him not to interfere in their relationship again.
• Yu Xiaogang responded by publicly presenting Tang San as his prized disciple and arranging extra lessons, while Tang San endured it to protect his image.
• At the end of the semester, Tang San invited Xiao Wu to Holy Spirit Village, where they found Tang Hao away and received a note bearing his name.
• Xiao Wu recognized Tang Hao’s name as that of her mother’s killer and privately asked Old Jack about Tang San’s father.

Xiao Wu suspected Tang San might be the son of her mother's killer and chose to stay close to him while keeping her intentions hidden. In the Star Luo Empire, Zhu Zhuqing's Martial Soul resonated with Dai Mubai's, binding him to the deadly contest for the throne; Dai Mubai secretly revealed he had returned from the distant future.

• Xiao Wu connected Tang Hao's move to Holy Spirit Village six years earlier with her mother's death and suspected he might be watching her through Tang San.
• Tang San took Xiao Wu to the Back Mountain and asked her to be his little sister, promising to protect her even at the cost of his life.
• Xiao Wu decided to remain beside Tang San, planning either to use him against Tang Hao or to act against him if he proved to be Tang Hao's son.
• Zhu Zhuqing awakened the Nether Civet Martial Soul, which resonated with Dai Mubai's and placed them in the Star Luo succession contest.
• Dai Weisi and the other princes mocked Dai Mubai, who privately declared that he would someday rise to godhood with the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Dai Mubai revealed that he was a reincarnator from tens of thousands of years in the future and had once been the God of War.

Dai Mubai recalled his past life and planned to leave the Star Luo Empire early, relying on Zhu Zhuqing’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill while looking forward to a carefree stay in Suotuo City. Zhu Zhuqing learned that he had fled in disguise, leaving her to face their rivalry alone.

• Dai Mubai decided he needed Zhu Zhuqing’s loyalty and Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but planned to leave the empire two years early for Suotuo City.
• Dai Weisi learned from a subordinate that Dai Mubai had run away before he had even acted against him.
• Zhu Zhuqing trained before sunrise, worried that her lower talent and younger age left her little hope against Zhu Zhuyun.
• Zhu Zhuyun told Zhu Zhuqing that Dai Mubai had fled the previous night dressed as a woman, stunning her because their Martial Souls had already resonated.

Dai Mubai used his family’s money to save Shrek Academy, then spent his years before Tang San arrived indulging in pleasure while promising Flender he would still cultivate. Meanwhile, Flender searched for exceptional students and finally received a report about a child with a Sausage Spirit and full Innate Soul Power.

• Dai Mubai arrived at Shrek Academy and funded it after Flender had nearly exhausted the school’s money settling a scandal involving Zhao Wuji and a noble student.
• Dai Mubai decided to enjoy six years of freedom before Tang San enrolled, spending his time pursuing women and feasting.
• Flender confronted Dai Mubai at a hotel and demanded that he reach level twenty before turning twelve; Dai Mubai agreed and resumed his revelry after Flender left.
• Flender sought promising students by awakening children’s Martial Souls in the countryside and bribing Spirit Hall officials for awakening records.
• A bribed Spirit Hall official gave Flender a report about a prospective Soul Master with a Sausage Spirit and full Innate Soul Power.

Oscar awakened memories of his previous life alongside an Innate Full Soul Power Sausage Spirit and followed Flender to Shrek Academy, where he discovered that Dai Mubai had also been reincarnated. At a club, Oscar told Dai Mubai that Ning Rongrong had loved Tang San rather than him, and revealed that their marriage had remained unconsummated even after they became Gods.

• Oscar awakened a Big Sausage Martial Soul with Innate Full Soul Power and declined to immediately join Spirit Hall.
• Oscar recalled how Flender had once hidden his certificate and planned to follow Tang San again in this life.
• Flender came to Oscar's home posing as a Spirit Hall representative and took him to Shrek Academy.
• Oscar and Dai Mubai recognized each other as reincarnators using the code words “God of War” and “Food God.”
• Dai Mubai and Oscar went to a club, where Oscar said Ning Rongrong had loved Tang San and had treated him as a substitute.
• Oscar told Dai Mubai that Ning Rongrong had rejected intimacy for years, including after their ascension to the Divine Realm.

Oscar gave up on winning Ning Rongrong’s love, and Dai Mubai took him out to drink. A year later, they discovered that Ma Hongjun had also been reborn, but their celebration plans threatened to distract him from his diligent cultivation.

• Oscar told Dai Mubai he would live for himself and pursue the Food God’s trial instead of longing for Ning Rongrong.
• Dai Mubai took Oscar to drink, and they spent the next year without Ma Hongjun.
• Flender brought Ma Hongjun to Shrek after discovering his powerful Evil Fire Phoenix martial soul.
• Dai Mubai and Oscar realized Ma Hongjun was reborn too, and he explained that he was working hard to save Bai Chenxiang from dying of old age.
• Dai Mubai and Oscar persuaded Ma Hongjun to skip cultivation for a day and join them for a feast in Suotuo City.

Dai Mubai and Oscar got Ma Hongjun drunk and helped him give in to his Evil Fire, leaving him guilty about Bai Chenxiang the next morning. Meanwhile, Qian Renxue led Spirit Hall through reforms that targeted internal corruption and expanded its commercial and propaganda reach, alarming rival factions.

• Dai Mubai secretly had a waiter put white powder in Ma Hongjun’s wine, and Ma Hongjun lost control of his Evil Fire and was taken to a room with dancers.
• Ma Hongjun woke the next day, remembered being with three women, and questioned Dai Mubai and Oscar, who defended their actions as helping him vent his Evil Fire.
• Qian Renxue announced Spirit Hall reform proposals, and Sky Crocodile warned that measures affecting the Two Great Empires could provoke war.
• Jiang Mo supported Qian Renxue’s position that war with the Two Great Empires was inevitable, and the elders and Consecrated unanimously approved the reforms.
• Bibi Dong implemented stronger internal inspections and anti-corruption measures, while Spirit Hall began plans for a continent-wide collection, commercial, and propaganda system.
• The Two Great Empires and the Upper Three Sects learned of Spirit Hall’s plans and recognized them as a potential threat.

Ning Fengzhi recognized that Spirit Hall’s reforms gave it a continent-wide network capable of controlling trade, resources, and information, and called for an alliance to stop it. Meanwhile, Spark Academy formed a team of commoner-born Spirit Masters, who were told they would one day set the old order ablaze.

• Huo Qiqiang used a leaf’s veins to help Ning Fengzhi understand how Spirit Hall’s branches connected the continent.
• Ning Fengzhi explained to Gu Rong that Spirit Hall could control trade, grain, and information, eventually making the Two Great Empires its puppets.
• Ning Fengzhi called for the major powers to unite in an Anti-Spirit Hall Alliance and challenge Spirit Hall’s ambitions.
• Spark Academy, funded by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and run by Evil Lord, Snow Girl, and Xiao Bai, recruited students from below the nobility and formed Spark Team.
• Evil Lord told Spark Team that its members were embers destined to ignite a fire that would burn the continent’s traditions to ash.

For six years, Tang San had devoted himself to Xiao Wu, defending her from accusations and neglecting his cultivation, while Yu Xiaogang worked to keep Tang San bound to him as a disciple. Yu Xiaogang decided to send Tang San and Xiao Wu to Shrek Academy and wrote to Flender.

• A woman accused Xiao Wu of cheating her son, but Tang San shielded Xiao Wu until Yu Xiaogang intervened and settled the dispute.
• Xiao Wu cried when Tang San asked why another woman had come looking for her, and Tang San reassured her that he would always believe her.
• Tang San spent six years obeying Xiao Wu and neglecting cultivation, while Yu Xiaogang used Xiao Wu to persuade him to accept a prepared Soul Ring and strengthened their public master-disciple bond.
• Yu Xiaogang arranged Tang San's second Soul Ring as a Ghost Vine despite Tang San's objections.
• Yu Xiaogang decided Tang San and Xiao Wu should attend Shrek Academy and wrote Flender a letter.

Dai Mubai worried that Zhu Zhuqing might also be reborn, but insisted she would forgive his behavior again. In the Star Luo Empire, Dai Weisi ordered Zhu Zhuyun to hunt down Zhu Zhuqing, who had fled to find Dai Mubai.

• Oscar warned Dai Mubai that Zhu Zhuqing might notice he had arrived at Shrek Academy earlier than in their previous life, and Dai Mubai ordered Oscar to keep his rebirth secret from her.
• Dai Mubai defended his carousing and claimed Zhu Zhuqing had no reason to object, while Oscar awkwardly recalled his past with Ning Rongrong.
• Dai Weisi learned Zhu Zhuqing had escaped and ordered Zhu Zhuyun to hunt her down so Dai Mubai would lose his partner and their Martial Soul Fusion.
• Zhu Zhuyun agreed to kill Zhu Zhuqing, gathered her people, and set out after her.

Zhu Zhuqing was killed by a mysterious archer while fleeing Zhu Zhuyun, and her soul learned that her sister had not meant to kill her. A flood of memories revealed that Zhu Zhuqing had lived another life in which she escaped to Heaven Dou, reconciled with Dai Mubai, and eventually became a god.

• Zhu Zhuqing fled Zhu Zhuyun and her soldiers toward the Heaven Dou border while a cloaked man secretly aimed at her.
• The cloaked man shot Zhu Zhuqing through the heart, and Zhu Zhuyun wept over her sister before taking her body back to the Star Luo Empire.
• Dai Mubai felt sudden panic in Suotuo City as Zhu Zhuqing died, while Zhu Zhuyun reported her death to Dai Weisi and agreed to face the coming contest.
• Zhu Zhuqing's soul watched her burial and realized Zhu Zhuyun had not intended to kill her.
• Zhu Zhuqing received memories of another life in which she escaped, reconciled with Dai Mubai, defeated their rivals with Tang San, and became a god.

Huo Yuhao showed Zhu Zhuqing how Dai Mubai had betrayed her after his rebirth and explained that her death freed her from the bond that would have drawn her back to him. He then revealed that he had used her death to warn the Reincarnators that their games were over, while Tang San persuaded Xiao Wu to attend Shrek Academy.

• Zhu Zhuqing woke in the Divine Realm and learned from Huo Yuhao that he had killed her but also saved her.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Tang San had drawn him into the Tang Family and that Dai Mubai had remembered his Previous Life.
• Huo Yuhao showed Zhu Zhuqing how Dai Mubai had spent six years pursuing women and complaining about being tied to her.
• Zhu Zhuqing rejected Dai Mubai and learned that their Martial Soul Fusion Skill would have bound her to forgive him, so Huo Yuhao's killing her had freed her.
• Huo Yuhao said he had used Zhu Zhuqing's death to warn the Reincarnators that the children's games were over.
• Tang San persuaded Xiao Wu to attend Shrek Academy, though his cultivation had barely reached Level 29 after six years.

Tang San failed to find the Hair Crystal after learning the Eternal Chamber of Commerce had bought it, then argued with Xiao Wu over sharing a room at the Rose Hotel. There, he fought Dai Mubai, and the two reincarnators recognized each other through references to their former lives.

• Tang San learned from Flender that the Eternal Chamber of Commerce had bought the Hair Crystal and left without it.
• Xiao Wu refused to share the Rose Hotel’s couples room with Tang San, so he booked it for her.
• Dai Mubai arrived and challenged Tang San, while both reincarnators noticed differences from their first meeting in their previous life.
• Tang San defeated Dai Mubai despite his fragile Blue Silver Grass, and Dai Mubai gave up the room.
• Dai Mubai and Tang San exchanged the names of their former divine titles and realized they had both been reincarnated.