Vol. 2Jiang Ming’s Evolutions

Jiang Ming pursued strength beyond Shrek Academy, evolving his Spirits and helping reform the academy while searching for a breakthrough. After reuniting with Zhang Lexuan, he rushed to her aid in the Star Dou Great Forest, where Mu En interrupted Di Tian’s attack.

  • Jiang Ming defeated the Undying Legion Leader, but the leader’s final spiritual attack injured Ma Xiaotao and left Jiang Ming unable to compete.
  • Jiang Ming used Little Ice to draw Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire into himself, and they woke after surviving the ordeal.
  • Jiang Ming helped fund Soul Tool research and led freshman military training while remaining stuck at Level Sixty-Nine.
  • Jiang Ming left Shrek Academy to seek a breakthrough and began escorting Lu Yue’s caravan toward Heaven Dou City.
  • Jiang Ming reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where the Immortal Herbs helped evolve his Spirits and gave him an Indestructible Body.
  • Jiang Ming returned to Shrek Academy with his bottleneck unbroken, and Yan Shaozhe told him Zhang Lexuan had returned.
  • Jiang Ming purified Ma Xiaotao’s Martial Soul and evolved Little Wind before surviving the Wind-Thunder Prison Beast’s heavenly tribulation.
  • Jiang Ming reached Zhang Lexuan after a forest ambush, but Di Tian seized him before Mu En intervened.
Chapters 103–202 Read from ch. 103

Arc 5The Undying Legion

Jiang Ming and Zhang Lexuan led the team against the Undying Legion, where Jiang Ming killed its leader but suffered a spiritual attack. As the tournament continued without him and Ma Xiaotao, Jiang Ming used Little Ice to draw Ma Xiaotao’s uncontrollable Evil Fire into himself, and they awoke after the ordeal with her clothes torn.

  • Jiang Ming defeated Zhang Lexuan’s team with his six Spirits, then revealed that his Golden Heart Martial Soul was only a fraction of his strength and showed the team his soul tools.
  • Zhang Lexuan briefed the team on the Undying Legion, and Jiang Ming recognized the Corpse Qi around a mountain as evidence that the reported enemy numbers were wrong.
  • Jiang Ming persuaded the team to continue the mission, then flew with Zhang Lexuan to confront the Evil Soul Master while the others held off the Zombies.
  • Jiang Ming and Zhang Lexuan fought the Undying Legion Leader in a cave, and Jiang Ming found his feet were the enemy’s weakness before helping kill him outside the cave.
  • The Undying Legion Leader’s final spiritual attack injured Ma Xiaotao and entered Jiang Ming’s Sea of Consciousness, leaving both unable to compete in the tournament.
  • Zhang Lexuan led the Reserve Team to victory, while Jiang Ming learned that Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire could no longer be suppressed by the Thousand-Year Profound Ice.
  • Jiang Ming fused with Little Ice and drew Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire into his own body, where Little Ice sealed the flames before returning to Jiang Ming’s Sea of Consciousness.
  • Jiang Ming and Ma Xiaotao woke with him lying on top of her, and Ma Xiaotao shoved him away as he reflexively tore her clothes.
Chapters 103–127 Summaries Read

Arc 6Reform, Training, and Departure

Jiang Ming helped reshape Shrek Academy through Soul Tool production and freshman military training while deepening his relationship with Zhang Lexuan. Stuck at the Level Seventy bottleneck, he left the academy to seek a breakthrough and began his journey by escorting Lu Yue’s caravan toward Heaven Dou City.

  • Jiang Ming presented the Soul Tool Department’s five-year plan to the Sea God Pavilion Elders, who approved mass production and sales to fund further research.
  • Jiang Ming absorbed the Undying Legion Leader’s Head Soul Bone, cleared the evil Spiritual Power from his Sea of Consciousness, and grew closer to Zhang Lexuan while leaving their relationship undefined.
  • Jiang Ming helped Yan Shaozhe devise reforms for the Martial Soul Department and a military training program for freshmen.
  • Jiang Ming subjected the freshmen to rigorous military training and Hell Week, and all forty participants completed the final run into Shrek City.
  • Jiang Ming remained stuck at Level Sixty-Nine, and Mu En and the Elders proposed strengthening his body before he attempted to absorb a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
  • Jiang Ming received a year’s leave from Yan Shaozhe, said goodbye to Zhang Lexuan, and left Shrek Academy to seek answers at the Body Sect and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
  • Jiang Ming agreed to escort Lu Yue’s caravan toward Heaven Dou City and used his Soul Tools to defeat bandits who attacked it in Misty Forest.
  • Jiang Ming refused Lu Yue’s offer of a long-term guard position, asking instead for a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, then shared roasted lamb ribs with the caravan guards.
Chapters 128–152 Summaries Read

Arc 7The Ice and Fire Valley

Jiang Ming reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where the Immortal Herbs and his Spirits helped him gain new powers and evolve several Spirits. He returned to Shrek Academy with his bottleneck still unbroken, while the elders began arranging the resources needed for his remaining evolutions and Yan Shaozhe told him Lexuan had returned.

  • Jiang Ming bought the Jade Scale Seven Absolute Flower at auction, then followed its trail through Sunset Forest’s poisonous mists to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
  • Jiang Ming met Youyou and the other Immortal Herbs, whose life force helped his Spirits cultivate and whose medicinal power fused Rongrong into his Golden Heart, granting him a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and a torso Spirit Bone.
  • Little Ice and Little Lotus evolved to the Hundred-Thousand-Year level, while Jiang Ming endured the springs’ power to gain an Indestructible Body and immunity to all poisons.
  • Jiang Ming chose medicinal gifts for Ma Xiaotao and Gongyang Mo, waited as Little Spirit completed its evolution, and remembered to retrieve the Ice Silkworm from the Cold Spring before leaving.
  • Mu En and the Sea God Pavilion elders found Jiang Ming in Sunset Forest and escorted him back to Heaven Dou City, where he explained his experiences but kept the well’s location secret.
  • Jiang Ming told the elders that his Level Seventy bottleneck remained, and they planned to find the wind, light, and darkness energy needed for his Spirits’ evolutions.
  • Jiang Ming brought Elder Zhuang to the valley, where Elder Zhuang befriended the Immortal Herbs and gained help toward breaking his bottleneck.
  • Jiang Ming headed back to Shrek Academy with Yan Shaozhe, who told him that Lexuan had searched for him for over a year and had returned to the academy.
Chapters 153–177 Summaries Read

Arc 8Tribulation and Forest Ambush

Jiang Ming helped Ma Xiaotao purify her Martial Soul, evolved Little Wind, and absorbed the Wind-Thunder Prison Beast’s Soul Ring while surviving its heavenly tribulation. After returning to Shrek Academy and reuniting with Zhang Lexuan, he rushed to the Star Dou Great Forest when she was attacked, where Di Tian confronted him before Mu En intervened.

  • Jiang Ming reunited with Zhang Lexuan, then purified Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire and refined her Martial Soul into a pure Fire Phoenix.
  • Jiang Ming trained his teammates, crafted Rank 7 Soul Tools, and traveled with Xuan Zi to Thousand-Blade Cliff, where Little Wind evolved into a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit.
  • Jiang Ming absorbed the Wind-Thunder Prison Beast’s Soul Ring and External Soul Bone, endured its heavenly tribulation, and preserved its soul as Little Prison.
  • Mu En confined Jiang Ming for a month, while Zhang Lexuan completed her mission and broke through to Level Eighty.
  • Mu En helped Little Light begin its evolution and taught Jiang Ming to refine his Spiritual Power as Zhang Lexuan’s group searched the Star Dou Great Forest for her Eighth Soul Ring.
  • A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast ambushed Zhang Lexuan’s group, killing several disciples and badly wounding her after breaking her defensive Soul Tool.
  • Jiang Ming reached Zhang Lexuan, helped her recover, and enabled her to kill the weakened beast and absorb its Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
  • Di Tian arrived after sensing Little Prison’s aura, overpowered Xuan Zi, and seized Jiang Ming, but Mu En emerged and interrupted him.
Chapters 178–202 Summaries Read
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