Chapter Summaries

Mu Yuan followed Ning Rongrong to Shrek Academy, where he revealed his extraordinary Divine Tree Martial Soul and Spirit Rings to gain admission. He entered the academy behind Ning Rongrong, while Xiao Wu sensed a strange life aura around him.

• Mu Yuan followed Ning Rongrong from Suotuo City toward Shrek Academy, despite her telling him to stay away.
• Mu Yuan recalled how Ning Fengzhi had rescued him, and how his Divine Tree Martial Soul and rapid cultivation had made Ning Rongrong resent his talent.
• At Shrek Academy, Li Yusong demonstrated the school's strict admission standards, and Tang San, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong advanced to the final test.
• Li Yusong initially rejected Mu Yuan because he was too old, but Mu Yuan summoned his Martial Soul and four powerful Spirit Rings, persuading Li Yusong to let him enter.
• Xiao Wu sensed a distinctive aura of life from Mu Yuan, while Ning Rongrong again told him to keep his distance.

The five candidates reached Shrek Academy’s final test, where Zhao Wuji set a one-incense-stick trial against his attacks. Mu Yuan revealed his level forty-nine strength and took the lead, and the test began with Ning Rongrong supporting the others while Mu Yuan summoned his Martial Soul.

• Dai Mubai brought Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Mu Yuan to the final testing grounds and introduced them to Zhao Wuji.
• Zhao Wuji announced that the group had to survive his attacks for one incense stick, and Dai Mubai revealed that Zhao Wuji was the Soul Sage known as the Immovable Ming King.
• The candidates introduced themselves, and Mu Yuan disclosed that he was a level forty-nine Control System Battle Soul Master, astonishing the group and Zhao Wuji.
• Mu Yuan volunteered to take the main attack while the group planned its formation, and Xiao Wu privately sensed his extraordinary life aura.
• The test began with Ning Rongrong enhancing Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing, while Mu Yuan summoned his Tree Martial Soul and displayed four soul rings.

Mu Yuan used his powerful Wood-Block Wall to withstand Zhao Wuji’s attacks during the assessment, while Tang San and the others tried to support him. After half an incense stick, Zhao Wuji changed targets and charged toward Ning Rongrong.

• Zhao Wuji and Tang San were shocked by Mu Yuan’s level and his two Ten Thousand Year Spirit Rings, while Ning Rongrong resented how he drew everyone’s attention.
• Mu Yuan attacked with Cuttings Technique as Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and Tang San joined the assault, but Zhao Wuji repelled them and threw Xiao Wu aside.
• Mu Yuan caught Xiao Wu and protected them both with Wood-Block Wall, repeatedly repairing it as Zhao Wuji struck with Great Vajra Palm.
• Xiao Wu instinctively moved closer to Mu Yuan’s life aura before he noticed and asked whether she was worried about his Soul Power.
• After failing to break the wall for half an incense stick, Zhao Wuji stopped attacking Mu Yuan and leaped toward Ning Rongrong.
• Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing tried to intercept Zhao Wuji, but his defense let him ignore their attacks as he charged toward Ning Rongrong.

Mu Yuan protected Ning Rongrong and used his spirit skills to stall Zhao Wuji during the test. With the incense nearly burned out, Mu Yuan unleashed Tree Realm Descent to bind Zhao Wuji, who answered with his Martial Soul Avatar.

• Mu Yuan sent a Wood Clone to block Zhao Wuji's attack on Ning Rongrong, then pulled her to safety while she was disappointed to learn he had used a clone.
• Zhao Wuji used Gravity Crush to suppress and destroy the Wood Clone, then charged toward Mu Yuan as the test neared its end.
• Mu Yuan warned Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing before activating Tree Realm Descent, which transformed the testing grounds into a forest and bound Zhao Wuji.
• Zhao Wuji used several spirit skills to break free, but the trees kept regrowing and absorbing his Soul Power.
• Zhao Wuji activated his seventh spirit skill, Great Strength Vajra Bear True Body.

Mu Yuan continued battling Zhao Wuji until the incense burned out and his Soul Power was nearly depleted, securing the test’s success. After Zhao Wuji enrolled everyone and assigned dormitories, Xiao Wu and Tang San helped Mu Yuan to the dormitory he would share with Tang San.

• Zhao Wuji unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar, and Mu Yuan poured his remaining strength into Tree Realm Descent as they fought fiercely until the incense burned out.
• Mu Yuan stopped the battle after exhausting most of his Soul Power, and Zhao Wuji declared that he and the others had passed the test.
• Zhao Wuji completed their enrollment and assigned Mu Yuan and Tang San to share a dormitory, while Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong shared another and Zhu Zhuqing got one to herself.
• Xiao Wu offered to help Mu Yuan, and Tang San joined her in supporting him to the dormitory.
• Xiao Wu left for her dormitory after urging Mu Yuan to rest and ask Tang San for help.

Mu Yuan and Tang San became roommates and shared a meal while Xiao Wu befriended Ning Rongrong. Ning Rongrong told Xiao Wu she had run away to escape an engagement to Mu Yuan, and Xiao Wu supported her while privately apologizing.

• Mu Yuan and Tang San introduced themselves as roommates, ate together, and Tang San secretly watched Mu Yuan meditate with his Purple Demon Eye.
• Xiao Wu invited Ning Rongrong shopping, and the two quickly became friends.
• On their way back, Xiao Wu asked Ning Rongrong whether Mu Yuan had bullied her, and Ning Rongrong explained that he had always treated her well but she resented being overshadowed by him.
• Ning Rongrong told Xiao Wu that her father wanted her engaged to Mu Yuan, prompting her to run away and seek a genius who could surpass him.
• Xiao Wu agreed that Ning Rongrong would be unhappy with someone she hated and offered her support, while silently apologizing because Ning Rongrong did not want Mu Yuan.

Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong joined Mu Yuan in searching for the cafeteria, where they encountered Tang San fighting Ma Hongjun. After Dai Mubai cleared up the misunderstanding, the group ate at Shrek’s meager cafeteria, and Dean Flender welcomed the students and announced their first class.

• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong visited Mu Yuan, then pulled him along to look for the cafeteria when they could not find it.
• Mu Yuan shared pastries with Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong, and the three heard Tang San confronting Ma Hongjun nearby.
• Mu Yuan restrained Tang San and Ma Hongjun with trees as Tang San accused Ma Hongjun of trying to force a girl to go with him.
• The girl denied being forced, and Dai Mubai arrived and introduced Ma Hongjun, resolving the misunderstanding.
• Mu Yuan released Tang San and Ma Hongjun, and the group went to the cafeteria with Zhu Zhuqing, where they found only simple food.
• Flender welcomed the students, ordered each to pay one hundred Gold Soul Coins in tuition, and announced that their first training class would begin after breakfast.

Flender gathered the Shrek students to assert his authority and assigned Oscar and Ning Rongrong endurance training before criticizing Mu Yuan’s attitude toward discipline. Mu Yuan stayed calm, and after Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong invited him into the city, he left to attend to his nearly completed Soul Power breakthrough.

• Flender warned the students that Shrek’s training could be dangerous and said their real lessons would begin that night.
• Flender ordered Oscar and Ning Rongrong to run twenty laps around the village before lunch, and both ran off.
• Flender criticized Mu Yuan for getting up to cultivate later than Tang San, but Mu Yuan stayed silent while Flender lectured him about arrogance.
• Flender took Tang San aside to discuss his teacher, while Xiao Wu comforted Mu Yuan and learned that he had only looked gloomy to end Flender’s lecture.
• Ning Rongrong returned after running only a few steps and invited Xiao Wu and Mu Yuan to the city, but Mu Yuan declined and left because his Soul Power was about to break through.

Mu Yuan broke through to Soul King and sent Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Soul Masters to find a suitable fifth spirit ring. At Shrek Academy, Ning Rongrong challenged Flender’s training rules by insisting that Mu Yuan’s strength made her safety training unnecessary, prompting Flender to agree to find someone who could defeat him.

• Mu Yuan reached level fifty after two hours of cultivation and estimated he could absorb a fifty- to sixty-thousand-year spirit ring.
• Mu Yuan asked Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Soul Masters to locate a Wood Attribute Spirit Beast for his fifth spirit ring.
• Flender ordered Oscar to run another twenty laps after Oscar admitted that he and Ning Rongrong had not completed their assigned training.
• Flender confronted Ning Rongrong for skipping training and leaving the academy, but she argued that Support Soul Masters needed only to focus on support.
• Ning Rongrong claimed Mu Yuan could defeat any opponent of their rank and challenged Flender to find someone who could defeat him or harm her under his protection.
• Flender agreed to find someone to fight Mu Yuan, while Ning Rongrong privately planned to use the outcome to resist her father’s engagement plans.

Flender brought the Shrek students to Suotuo City's Great Soul Arena and set them the goal of earning Silver Spirit Badges. After Xiao Wu and the others fought their matches, Mu Yuan and Ning Rongrong entered a two-on-two battle against the Lion Tiger Combination.

• Flender explained the Great Soul Arena's rewards and rules, then assigned the students to earn Silver Spirit Badges before graduation.
• Flender warned Ning Rongrong that her team with Mu Yuan would face two Soul Ancestors, but she chose to register, and Mu Yuan named their team the Wood Leaf Combination.
• Xiao Wu defeated an Ironclad Ox Soul Master by throwing him off the stage with her Waist Bow skill.
• Mu Yuan and Ning Rongrong entered the main arena, where the host announced their match against the experienced Lion Tiger Combination.
• The scar-faced opponent and his loose-haired teammate mocked Mu Yuan and Ning Rongrong before the host started the battle.

Mu Yuan and Ning Rongrong won their spirit battle with the Lion Tiger Combination almost instantly, after which Mu Yuan demonstrated his precise Soul Power control. The next morning, Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu began learning the technique from him, while Dai Mubai grew jealous; Oscar arrived announcing that he had reached level thirty.

• Mu Yuan and Ning Rongrong defeated the Lion Tiger Combination by having Mu Yuan bind and drain them with trees, and the host declared the Wood Leaf Combination the winners.
• Mu Yuan explained that his fast skill use came from controlling Soul Power and demonstrated how to coat his palm with it; Tang San and the others failed to imitate him.
• Ma Hongjun's talk about going out angered Xiao Wu and prompted Zhu Zhuqing to call Dai Mubai disgusting; Dai Mubai swallowed his anger and left after she ignored him.
• At breakfast, Dai Mubai hinted that he would visit the Twin Sisters that night, while Ma Hongjun said he had released his evil fire and would stay in.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Mu Yuan to teach her Soul Power control, and Xiao Wu joined them; Mu Yuan had them practice making leaves adhere to their palms as Dai Mubai watched jealously and challenged Ma Hongjun to spar.
• Flender arrived at the training grounds, and Oscar ran in excitedly to announce that he had broken through to level thirty.

After Shrek Academy set out for the Star Dou Great Forest to find Oscar a spirit ring, Mu Yuan used his power to stop a pointless confrontation with Canghui Academy at an inn. Xiao Wu praised him afterward and realized he had ordered vegetarian dishes specifically for her.

• Flender sent the group toward the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a spirit ring for Oscar, and Mu Yuan planned to search for his own fifth ring as well.
• During the journey, Mu Yuan gave Xiao Wu pure Soul Power that relieved her exhaustion, and the group stopped overnight in a nearby town.
• At the inn, Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun provoked Canghui Academy while the group ate, and Mu Yuan disagreed with Shrek Academy's habit of causing trouble for its own sake.
• Mu Yuan released his Soul Power to suppress both groups and told them to set aside their conflict, finish dinner, and rest; Canghui Academy's leading teacher accepted his arrangements.
• After the two groups went upstairs, Xiao Wu pulled Mu Yuan aside, praised him for stopping the fight, and asked whether he had ordered vegetarian dishes for her.

Mu Yuan and the Shrek Academy group entered the Star Dou Great Forest, where he left them after learning the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had located his fifth Soul Ring target. He joined Elder Huo’s forces and watched them expose the Sacred Wood King Vine, leaving the battle against it underway.

• Mu Yuan saw enslaved people near the forest but chose not to intervene, and Tang San showed no concern for them.
• The group entered the Star Dou Great Forest, where the Titan Giant Ape sensed Xiao Wu had returned.
• Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Soul Masters told Mu Yuan they had found his target, and he revealed he had reached Soul King before leaving to obtain his fifth Soul Ring.
• Elder Huo led Mu Yuan to the Sacred Wood King Vine, a powerful plant Soul Beast hidden in a massive tree.
• Mu Yuan used a Wood Clone to provoke the vine, and Elder Huo blasted its exposed body out of the canopy with his sixth Soul Skill.
• Mu Yuan ordered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Soul Masters to attack the Sacred Wood King Vine.

Mu Yuan absorbed the Sacred Wood King Vine’s spirit ring and gained the Wood Dragon spirit skill before leaving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s team. On his way to find Ning Rongrong and the others, he rescued Tang San from a Man Faced Demon Spider.

• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Soul Masters trapped the Sacred Wood King Vine, and Mu Yuan drained its life force with his Wood Thorn.
• Mu Yuan absorbed the roughly fifty-five-thousand-year spirit ring and unveiled his fifth spirit skill, Wood Dragon.
• Elder Huo led the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s team back to report to Ning Fengzhi while Mu Yuan flew toward the place where he had parted from the Shrek group.
• Mu Yuan heard the Titan Giant Ape’s distant commotion as he traveled through the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Mu Yuan spotted Tang San being pursued by a Man Faced Demon Spider and killed the creature with one strike from the Wood Dragon.
• Mu Yuan found no soul bone in the Man Faced Demon Spider’s remains, and Tang San thanked him for saving his life.

Mu Yuan followed the Titan Giant Ape’s trail to rescue Xiao Wu and found a thousand-year soul bone along the way. He soon met Xiao Wu returning safely, while Tang San waited with Meng Yiran and her grandparents after explaining Mu Yuan’s strength and identity.

• Tang San asked Mu Yuan to rescue Xiao Wu, and Mu Yuan rode the Wood Dragon after the Titan Giant Ape’s tracks.
• Meng Yiran, Snake Dowager Chao Tianxiang, and Dragon Duke Meng Shu confronted Tang San over the Man Faced Demon Spider, but Meng Shu determined Mu Yuan had killed it.
• Tang San told the three that Mu Yuan was a young Soul King from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, so they waited to see him for themselves.
• Mu Yuan found a Thousand-Year Right Leg Bone exposed beside a trampled monkey soul beast and kept it.
• Mu Yuan met Xiao Wu as she hurried back, and she threw herself into his arms after learning he had come to rescue her.

Mu Yuan returned safely after rescuing Xiao Wu from the Titan Giant Ape, easing Ning Rongrong’s fear before she admitted her concern through her actions. The next day, Shrek Academy and the Peerless Dragon Snake Couple continued their search for Tang San’s third spirit ring as an alliance.

• Xiao Wu asked Mu Yuan about his dream, and he said he wanted to grow stronger and protect those he cared about.
• After Tang San explained what had happened, Ning Rongrong feared Mu Yuan had died and warned Tang San that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would hold him responsible if Mu Yuan did not return.
• Mu Yuan and Xiao Wu arrived safely on Wood Dragon, and Ning Rongrong ran away after seeing him.
• Mu Yuan caught up with Ning Rongrong, apologized, and patted her head; she denied worrying about him and hurried back to the others.
• The group camped for the night, then allied with the Peerless Dragon Snake Couple to hunt a spirit beast for Tang San’s third spirit ring.

The group found spirit rings for Tang San and Meng Yiran before returning to Shrek Academy, where Grandmaster took charge of training. The chapter ended with Mu Yuan humiliating Grandmaster by pinning him down with Soul Power and leaving the training grounds.

• Tang San killed a fifteen-hundred-year Man-eating Sunflower and absorbed its spirit ring, gaining the Blue Silver Devour skill.
• Bei Ya and Bei Li told the group about a two-tailed snake they had seen fighting a bird, leading them to an injured Thousand Year Two-tailed Black Snake for Meng Yiran.
• Mu Yuan hunted a hundred-year spirit beast for Bei Ya and Bei Li, then briefly considered founding his own faction to help commoner spirit masters.
• Grandmaster arrived at Shrek Academy, improved the cafeteria meals, and took authority over the students' training plans.
• Grandmaster challenged Mu Yuan to defeat the others together, but Mu Yuan used his Soul Power to pin Grandmaster to the ground and told him to respect the stronger.

Grandmaster devised a battle plan to exploit Mu Yuan’s supposed weaknesses, but Mu Yuan’s Tree Realm Descent overwhelmed the Shrek students before they could act. Mu Yuan then confronted Grandmaster after demonstrating the gulf between them.

• Grandmaster assigned Tang San to lead a spread-out formation and planned to use the Shrek students’ attacks to create an opening, while allowing Tang San to use Hidden Weapons if necessary.
• Grandmaster warned Ning Rongrong not to reveal the plan, prompting Xiao Wu to criticize his shameless tactics and defend her decision to cooperate.
• Grandmaster led Mu Yuan and the Shrek group to a large field, where the students took positions more than fifty meters apart.
• As the battle began, Mu Yuan activated Tree Realm Descent and raised a vast forest across a one-kilometer radius, capturing Tang San, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong.
• Mu Yuan walked toward the stunned Grandmaster and called people who lacked self-awareness tragic and pitiful.

After the Grandmaster stayed at Shrek to train Tang San, Mu Yuan taught Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong to control their Soul Power. When the girls struggled with the next stage, Mu Yuan showed Xiao Wu how to feel the correct distribution by pressing their palms together, leaving Xiao Wu blushing.

• Flender persuaded the Grandmaster to stay at Shrek for Tang San, and the Grandmaster began a stone-carrying running regimen that Ma Hongjun and Oscar reluctantly joined.
• Dai Mubai rejected the Grandmaster's plan and trained with Zhao Wuji, while Mu Yuan guided Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong through basic Soul Power control.
• Mu Yuan demonstrated how he could coat his palm in Soul Power to block Zhu Zhuqing's Nether Hundred Claws, explaining that it was a basic technique used by advanced Soul Masters.
• Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong struggled for several days to spread Soul Power evenly across their palms, while Ning Rongrong grew uncomfortable with Xiao Wu's closeness to Mu Yuan.
• Mu Yuan placed his palm against Xiao Wu's and evenly covered both of their hands with Soul Power so she could remember the sensation; Xiao Wu blushed.

Mu Yuan taught Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing how to control Soul Power while Ning Rongrong struggled with her growing jealousy. After Xiao Wu admitted she liked Mu Yuan and said she would pursue him, Ning Rongrong pulled away from him and ended the chapter by telling him she hated him.

• Mu Yuan taught Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing to control Soul Power, while Ning Rongrong refused his instruction.
• Ning Rongrong asked Xiao Wu to spend less time with Mu Yuan, but Xiao Wu revealed that she liked him and planned to pursue him.
• Ning Rongrong spent the night questioning her feelings and watched Xiao Wu cling to Mu Yuan during training the next day.
• Ning Rongrong declined Xiao Wu's invitation to go into town, and Mu Yuan followed her to ask what was wrong.
• Ning Rongrong told Mu Yuan to go away and said she did not want to join them because she hated him.