Chapter Summaries

Ning Rongrong, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing endured visions of their loved ones dying because they were too weak to change their fates. Zhu Zhuqing rejected surrender and vowed to fight against the destiny imposed on her.

• Ning Rongrong watched Spirit Hall attack the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, kill Ning Fengzhi, and overwhelm Grandpa Sword and Grandpa Bone, leaving her desperate to obtain the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and grow stronger.
• Dai Mubai faced Dai Weisi in the Star Luo Imperial Palace, where Dai Weisi defeated him and ordered Zhu Zhuqing killed before his eyes.
• Zhu Zhuqing was repeatedly hunted and killed by Zhu Zhuyun in a dark forest until Lin Xi's voice reminded her to live for herself.
• Zhu Zhuqing rose from the dirt, rekindled her will to fight, and vowed to tear her fate apart.

Lin Xi forced the Shrek students to endure a terrifying illusion that left them mentally and physically exhausted, then made them stand and continue training. She ended the Heart Refining session by assigning Tang San to supervise one hundred laps of the village, with no dinner for anyone who failed to finish.

• The illusion faded, and Dai Mubai, Oscar, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu collapsed, while Flender and Zhao Wuji recognized that their Spiritual Power had been overexerted.
• Lin Xi ordered the students to stand; Zhu Zhuqing, Dai Mubai, and Xiao Wu struggled up despite their exhaustion.
• Lin Xi gave Ning Rongrong the choice to continue training or leave Shrek Academy, and Ning Rongrong chose to continue.
• Oscar sprang to his feet when Lin Xi asked whether he would continue, fearing he would be expelled.
• Lin Xi condemned the students' weak wills and declared that will was the source of a Soul Master's strength.
• Lin Xi ended Heart Refining and ordered Tang San to supervise one hundred laps around the village, denying dinner to anyone who failed to finish.

Lin Xi put the exhausted students through a day of mental and physical training, then explained how both strengthened their foundations. She announced that the group would go somewhere the next day so Tang San’s hammer could taste blood.

• Tang San dragged Ning Rongrong through the running laps with Blue Silver Grass after she refused to continue.
• After the students completed a hundred laps, Lin Xi called them to a meeting and asked how they found the training.
• Dai Mubai questioned the value of physical training, and Tang San explained how mental and bodily conditioning strengthened a Soul Master’s foundation.
• Lin Xi told Tang San that his hammer represented destruction but lacked the experience of bloodshed.
• Lin Xi announced a trip for the next day and told Tang San that his hammer should taste blood.

Lin Xi took the Shrek students to the Star Dou Great Forest to gain real combat experience, despite their fears and their teachers’ concerns. After two days of travel, they reached the forest, where Lin Xi prepared them to enter its dangerous depths.

• Lin Xi announced that the students would train against Spirit Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Flender and Zhao Wuji objected to the danger.
• The students reacted with fear, but Tang San resolved to grow stronger and Xiao Wu promised to face the challenge with him.
• At dawn, Lin Xi left Shrek Academy with the students, carrying aura-concealing talismans and Beast Repellent Powder.
• Two days later, the group reached the forest, where Lin Xi gave them talismans and warned them to stay alert as they entered the real beast arena.

Lin Xi led Tang San and the others through the forest, where they found a freshly killed Ironhide Porcupine and encountered a nearly thousand-year-old Ghost Tiger. As Lin Xi watched without intervening, the Ghost Tiger overwhelmed the group and lunged at Ning Rongrong and Oscar.

• Lin Xi detected fresh blood and led the group toward the trail, where Tang San identified a recently killed Ironhide Porcupine.
• Dai Mubai recognized the killer as a powerful Ghost Tiger, and Tang San spotted it watching from a tree.
• Lin Xi ordered the group into battle and said she would not help them.
• The Ghost Tiger shattered Dai Mubai's defense, tore through Tang San's Blue Silver Grass, and sent Zhu Zhuqing crashing into a tree.
• Ning Rongrong empowered Dai Mubai, but the Ghost Tiger bypassed the others and attacked her and Oscar, who fainted in terror.

Lin Xi saved the badly injured Shrek Seven Devils by killing the berserk Ghost Tiger with a single silver needle, then cooked its meat. She left the others to prepare their own food, refusing to share her meal because they had failed to defeat the beast.

• Xiao Wu, Tang San, and Dai Mubai attacked the Ghost Tiger, but it went berserk and badly injured Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing while nearly killing Xiao Wu.
• Lin Xi emerged and killed the Ghost Tiger with a silver thread flicked into its eye.
• Lin Xi ordered Oscar to heal the others and told the group to butcher the beast while she cooked lunch.
• After the group recovered and prepared the tiger meat, Lin Xi served Tang San and herself but refused to feed the others, telling them to cook their own meal or go hungry.

After forcing Dai Mubai and the others to eat raw meat as training, Lin Xi led the group deeper into the forest and told Tang San she planned to make him kill a three-thousand-year-old Man Faced Demon Spider with his Clear Sky Hammer. Tang San struggled with the idea of using his father’s weapon to kill, but Lin Xi insisted that he had to awaken its true strength.

• Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and Oscar ate raw tiger meat, while Oscar gave Ning Rongrong and the others Great Sausages to fill their stomachs.
• Lin Xi refused Tang San’s plea to spare his companions further hardship, explaining that they had to learn to survive without relying on his protection.
• After lunch, Lin Xi led the group onward, assigned everyone tasks at their cave campsite, and made Dai Mubai and the others eat raw meat again for dinner.
• Lin Xi told Tang San that she had come to Star Dou to find a three-thousand-year-old Man Faced Demon Spider.
• Lin Xi planned to cripple the Man Faced Demon Spider and have Tang San deliver the fatal blow with his Clear Sky Hammer, urging him to accept the weapon’s purpose as a tool for killing.

Lin Xi dragged a three-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider from its nest and crippled it, then made Tang San face his fear of killing. Tang San killed the spider with his Clear Sky Hammer, completing his first kill as Lin Xi received system rewards for changing the world line.

• Lin Xi led Tang San and the others to the Man Faced Demon Spider’s nest and ordered them to watch from a tree.
• Lin Xi pulled the spider from its pit, dodged its attack, severed its legs, and tore off its fangs.
• Lin Xi challenged Tang San to kill the helpless spider and told him that power depended on the heart of the person wielding it.
• Tang San summoned his Clear Sky Hammer and crushed the Man Faced Demon Spider’s head, then vomited from the experience.
• Lin Xi waited with Tang San until he recovered, and the system rewarded her for guiding him through his first kill.

After Tang San killed the Man Faced Demon Spider with Lin Xi’s help, Lin Xi claimed the spider’s soul bone and gave it to him, rejecting the other Shrek students’ demand to share the spoils. She left Tang San to absorb it under threat of death for anyone who interfered.

• Tang San thanked Lin Xi after surviving the battle, and Lin Xi found a rare soul bone inside the Man Faced Demon Spider’s corpse.
• Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Oscar wanted the soul bone, but Lin Xi rebuked them for contributing nothing to the fight.
• Dai Mubai attacked Lin Xi, but her Spiritual Power crushed him and forced him to the ground.
• Lin Xi gave the soul bone to Tang San, calling it a shackle meant to sharpen him into someone capable of protecting what he cared about.
• Lin Xi ordered Tang San to absorb the soul bone immediately and warned the others that anyone who interrupted him would die.

Tang San endured the Man Faced Demon Spider Soul Bone’s resentment and gained the Eight Spider Lances, breaking through to level thirty-two. Lin Xi then forced the group to continue deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest, leaving Dai Mubai increasingly desperate to catch up.

• Lin Xi ordered Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar, and Ning Rongrong to guard Tang San while he merged with the Soul Bone.
• Tang San resisted the Man Faced Demon Spider’s resentment as eight spider legs burst from his back and became the Eight Spider Lances.
• Tang San tested the Eight Spider Lances, pierced a tree, and discovered that his Soul Power had risen to level thirty-two.
• Lin Xi explained that the Eight Spider Lances would evolve and grow more poisonous, then told the group to continue through the forest instead of making camp.
• Dai Mubai followed Lin Xi despite his frustration, while Tang San encouraged him and the group walked into the darkness.

The exhausted group encountered a Soul Master team being overwhelmed by a Thousand Year Wind Wolf Pack in the Star Dou Great Forest. Lin Xi refused to intervene and left it to the others to decide whether to save them.

• Dai Mubai struggled with exhaustion and humiliation as he walked beside Tang San, who had obtained a soul bone.
• Lin Xi detected movement ahead, and Tang San spotted a Soul Master team surrounded by Wind Wolves.
• Oscar identified the attackers as a Thousand Year Wind Wolf Pack as the wounded team’s defenses began to collapse.
• The Wolf King lunged at the team’s Support Soul Master, Xiao Ya, while the others were unable to reach her.
• Xiao Wu and the others looked to Lin Xi for guidance, but Lin Xi said she would not intervene and told them to decide whether to save the team.

Dai Mubai and the Shrek Seven Devils chose to save Kuang Xi’s mercenary squad from a pack of Wind Wolves, defeating the pack and its Wolf King. Lin Xi then rebuked them for their poor tactics and for revealing Tang San’s Eight Spider Lances.

• After Xiao Liu was killed, Dai Mubai charged into the battle, and Xiao Wu and Tang San followed while the others supported the mercenaries.
• The Shrek Seven Devils disrupted the Wind Wolves’ attack, and the mercenary squad rallied and counterattacked.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing attacked in tandem while Tang San used his Blue Silver Grass and its poison to control the battlefield.
• Tang San used his Eight Spider Lances to kill the Wolf King, causing the remaining Wind Wolves to flee.
• Kuang Xi thanked the Shrek Seven Devils, but Lin Xi emerged and declared they were not qualified to give their names, criticizing their tactics and Tang San’s exposed trump card.

Lin Xi disciplined the Shrek Seven Devils after their costly victory and trained them to fight with greater coordination and conserve Soul Power. In a marsh, they found Ma Hongjun, Flender’s disciple, surrounded by Cave Earth Demon Spiders and struggling as his Soul Power ran out.

• Lin Xi rejected Kuang Xi’s reward and ordered the Berserk Mercenary Group to leave after collecting the Wind Wolf corpses.
• Lin Xi reprimanded the Shrek Seven Devils for their reckless fighting and ordered them not to use more than half their Soul Power without her permission.
• Lin Xi advised Tang San to use his Eight Spider Lances for movement, restraint, and poison, not just as weapons.
• The Shrek Seven Devils improved their teamwork during several battles under Lin Xi’s guidance, while she intervened only when they were in danger.
• Tang San warned the group about Cave Earth Demon Spiders in a marsh, where they discovered Ma Hongjun fighting a dozen of them with his Evil Fire Phoenix flames.
• Dai Mubai explained that Ma Hongjun’s evil fire could eventually backfire on him if it was not removed.

Tang San led the Shrek Seven Devils in rescuing Ma Hongjun and confronting the Ten Thousand Year Cave Spider King. Their first coordinated assault wounded the beast, and the chapter ended with Tang San stabbing its back with his venomous Eight Spider Lances.

• Tang San organized the group to rescue Ma Hongjun from the Cave Earth Demon Spiders, and Oscar gave Ma Hongjun a Detoxifying Sausage.
• The Ten Thousand Year Cave Spider King emerged from the swamp and trapped the group in its Earthbind Net, but Ma Hongjun burned a gap that let everyone escape.
• Tang San assigned the group to distract the Spider King while Ma Hongjun attacked its abdomen with Phoenix Fireline.
• Tang San bound the Spider King's forelegs with Blue Silver Grass long enough for Ma Hongjun to burn its abdomen.
• Tang San climbed above the Spider King and stabbed its back armor with his venomous Eight Spider Lances.

Tang San and the others killed the Ten Thousand Year Cave Spider King after a desperate battle, and Lin Xi revealed a way to help Ma Hongjun control his evil fire. The chapter ended with her giving him purified earth-element Origin Power and telling him to absorb it.

• Tang San poisoned the Ten Thousand Year Cave Spider King with his Eight Spider Lances while Dai Mubai repeatedly blasted its eye until the beast died.
• The exhausted group celebrated their victory, and Tang San reflected that they could now defeat stronger enemies through teamwork.
• Lin Xi warned Ma Hongjun that his uncontrolled evil fire would eventually consume him and asked whether he wanted a way to overcome it.
• Lin Xi extracted the Cave Spider King's Origin Power from its Spirit Ring and purified it with the Mysterious Sky Soul Suppressing Needle and Divine Needle Averting Calamity.
• Lin Xi gave Ma Hongjun the purified earth-element energy and told him to absorb it to balance his evil fire.

Lin Xi helped Ma Hongjun evolve his Evil Fire Phoenix into a Fire Phoenix and absorb a Ten Thousand Year Spirit Ring, raising him to Soul Ancestor. Then a Titan Giant Ape arrived and found its injured cub trapped in a net, mistaking the Shrek Seven Devils for the ones who harmed it.

• Lin Xi guided Ma Hongjun through merging earth-element Origin Power with his Martial Soul, eliminating his evil fire and evolving it into a Fire Phoenix.
• Ma Hongjun absorbed the Ten Thousand Year Spirit Ring and broke through to level forty, becoming a Soul Ancestor.
• A Titan Giant Ape charged out of the forest and searched anxiously for its cub.
• The Titan Giant Ape found its cub injured and tangled in a barbed net, then fixed its furious gaze on the Shrek Seven Devils.

Lin Xi stopped the Titan Giant Ape from attacking the Shrek Seven Devils and freed its cub from a metal net. After Tai Tan offered her his friendship, he summoned an even larger and more terrifying presence from the forest.

• The Titan Giant Ape blamed the Shrek Seven Devils for hurting its cub and struck at them.
• Lin Xi froze the Titan Giant Ape with a single word and used Spiritual Power to make it inspect the cub and the net.
• The Titan Giant Ape realized the humans had not trapped its cub and admitted it could not safely remove the metal net.
• Lin Xi used the Mysterious Sky Soul Suppressing Needle to disable the net and free the cub.
• Tai Tan thanked Lin Xi, offered her his friendship, and summoned a greater presence from deep within the forest.

Lin Xi accompanied the Shrek Seven Devils into the Star Dou Great Forest’s hidden secret realm after the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape invited her there. In a cavern filled with Soul Power crystals, she discovered a divine opportunity in a central pool and told Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Oscar to choose crystals for her to help them absorb.

• The Sky Azure Bull Python arrived, thanked Lin Xi for helping Er Ming’s child, and offered to guide her to the forest’s deepest secret realm.
• Lin Xi accepted the offer and led the Shrek Seven Devils after the two forest emperors through the core region.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python opened a concealed entrance in a cliff, revealing a cavern filled with Soul Power crystals resembling soul bones.
• Lin Xi noticed a divine plant and golden fruit in the cavern’s central pool, and her system issued the Mystery of the God Bone mission.
• Lin Xi told Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Oscar to choose soul bones from the crystals so she could help them absorb them.

Lin Xi purified Soul Bones for Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Oscar, helping each of them grow stronger. When she touched the pool holding the golden fruit, an ancient restriction awakened and threatened the group.

• Lin Xi told Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Oscar to choose Soul Bones, explaining that she wanted them strong enough not to hold her back.
• Dai Mubai chose a tiger-claw Soul Bone, Zhu Zhuqing chose a left leg bone, Ning Rongrong chose a glazed heart, and Oscar chose a Stomach Soul Bone.
• Lin Xi purified the four Soul Bones and sent their energy into the four students, who absorbed it and increased their Soul Power.
• Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Oscar tested their enhanced abilities and thanked Lin Xi.
• Lin Xi approached the divine pool and touched its water, activating an ancient formation that warned the intruders to die.

Lin Xi destroyed an ancient formation, claimed a Godhead Fragment containing spatial laws, and gained a god-tier skill. At Shrek Academy, a Spirit Hall inspector triggered Lin Xi’s dormitory restriction and collapsed unconscious, alerting Lin Xi that it had been activated.

• Lin Xi used the Mysterious Sky Soul Suppressing Needle to break the formation’s eye and extinguish the ancient restriction.
• Lin Xi uprooted the plant and absorbed its Godhead Fragment, causing the remnant soul attached to it to dissipate.
• The system rewarded Lin Xi with an upgraded mall and the god-tier skill Divine Punishment Flame.
• Lin Xi sensed that a restriction she had left near Shrek Academy had been triggered.
• A Spirit Hall inspector arrived at Shrek Academy and tried to open Lin Xi’s dormitory door.
• Lin Xi’s Spiritual Power restriction struck the inspector, making him scream and collapse unconscious.