Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ming put the freshmen through two grueling rounds of Soul Power Pressure, using Tang San’s story to urge them to endure and extending training after receiving complaints. He left them exhausted on the first day, warning that the harsher training was still to come.

• Jiang Ming recounted how Tang San endured Zhi Lin’s Soul Power Pressure and told the freshmen to show the same resolve.
• The freshmen endured half an hour of pressure, meditated for ten minutes with Yal’er’s calming music, then faced a forty-minute round; several collapsed and received treatment.
• A girl who collapsed recovered through cultivation and support, while a boy with Level 17 soul power lasted thirty-eight minutes before the round ended.
• Jiang Ming dismissed the freshmen and told the instructors he would proceed with Hell Week under Elder Zhuang’s supervision, adjusting the intensity based on feedback.
• After fifty-six freshmen complained, Jiang Ming added fifty-six minutes to the afternoon training and subjected them to Soul Power Pressure again.
• The freshmen finished the first day exhausted, while Jiang Ming made clear that the current training was only the appetizer.

Jiang Ming’s military training pushed the freshmen through increasingly varied exercises, while Nutrient Solution and support abilities helped them recover and improve. With one week remaining, Jiang Ming asked the freshmen to share their thoughts, and Bei Bei reported that his cultivation had risen two ranks as Jiang Ming reflected on the enormous cost of the training.

• Jiang Ming punished Xu Sanshi for whispering by assigning him, Jiang Nannan, and Bei Bei to lead the freshmen’s run under Soul Power Pressure.
• After the freshmen ran for half an hour, Jiang Ming distributed Nutrient Solution made by Little Spirit and Elder Zhuang, and the drink restored their strength.
• Over the following weeks, Jiang Ming and the instructors trained the freshmen in physical techniques and Soul Tool target practice while recording their abilities.
• With only a week of training left, Jiang Ming asked the freshmen for their thoughts, and Xu Sanshi said they were exhausted.
• Bei Bei told Jiang Ming that his cultivation had reached rank 29, two ranks higher than when training began.
• Jiang Ming considered the thousands of Gold Soul Coins spent on the training and felt relieved that the freshmen had made substantial progress.

Jiang Ming ended the regular military training and offered the freshmen a chance to join a costly, grueling seven-day program he called Hell Week. After hearing about its severity and potential rewards, more than forty freshmen chose to participate, and Jiang Ming announced it would begin the next day.

• Jiang Nannan and other freshmen described what they had learned and endured during military training, while Jiang Ming stopped Xu Sanshi from prolonging their complaints by assigning him a fifteen-thousand-word reflection.
• Jiang Ming announced that regular training had ended but that a seven-day optional program would follow, costing one hundred Gold Soul Coins per person; he required Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, and several others to attend.
• Zhao Gang told Xu Sanshi and the others that the instructors had called the program Hell Week and warned that it would be terrifying, though it could greatly improve their Soul Power and other abilities.
• After Jiang Ming offered to front the fee, more than forty freshmen stepped forward to join Hell Week before his countdown ended.
• Jiang Ming dismissed the other freshmen, gave the participants the rest of the day to recover, and said Hell Week would begin the next day.

Jiang Ming put forty freshmen through seven days of Hell Week, then sent them on a five-kilometer run back to Shrek Academy while instructors attacked them with Soul Rays and noise-making bombs. The freshmen reached Shrek City's gates in a disheveled rush, leaving Du Weilun and the gathered onlookers stunned by the unconventional spectacle.

• Jiang Ming used All Things in the Forest to make the freshmen confront their fears, and Yal'er soothed them with a zither tune after they awakened.
• Jiang Ming had the freshmen fight ten instructors without Martial Souls or soul skills, then sent them through repeated bouts and medicinal baths during Hell Week.
• Jiang Ming ended Hell Week after hearing the freshmen's reflections, then set a ten-minute deadline for them to run five kilometers back to the academy.
• Jiang Ming and the instructors fired Rank 1 Soul Rays and threw loud Soul Bombs at the running freshmen, while Bei Bei organized the group to protect slower students and keep moving.
• Du Weilun watched the battered freshmen arrive at Shrek City's gates as Soul Rays and bombs sent the gawkers retreating into the city.

After completing Hell Week, the forty freshmen received badges recognizing them as Shrek Academy’s first class to pass it. Jiang Ming then confronted a mysterious Level Seventy bottleneck that Mu En believed would be harder to overcome than an ordinary Soul Master’s breakthrough to Titled Douluo, and the chapter left him searching for a way forward.

• All forty freshmen made it into Shrek City before Jiang Ming’s countdown ended, completing Hell Week and breaking down in relief.
• Jiang Ming praised the freshmen and personally gave each of them a badge, while telling Du Weilun that only those who seized their opportunity deserved the honor.
• The freshmen returned to their dormitories, where many struggled to sleep without Hell Week’s noise and smoke, then turned to cultivation after their Soul Power Levels rose by at least three.
• Jiang Ming told Zhang Lexuan that he had been stuck at Level Sixty-Nine for a month, and Mu En had found no way to resolve his unusually difficult Level Seventy bottleneck.
• Jiang Ming and the Sea God Pavilion Elders suspected that his Book of Spirits Martial Soul caused the bottleneck, since the Spirits said they would transform if his Soul Power broke through Level Seventy.

After four months of failing to overcome his Level Seventy bottleneck, Jiang Ming learned of a risky Soul Ring method and decided to travel in search of other solutions. He left Shrek Academy alone, bound for the Body Sect and Sunset Forest.

• Jiang Ming remained stuck at the Level Seventy bottleneck despite repeated attempts, and Mu En told him the Elders proposed using powerful Soul Rings to force a breakthrough.
• Mu En planned to find Jiang Ming an eighty- or ninety-thousand-year Soul Beast to strengthen his body before he attempted to absorb a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Jiang Ming told Zhang Lexuan about the plan and explained that he wanted to visit the Body Sect to learn about a Body Martial Soul's Second Awakening and search Sunset Forest for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Jiang Ming asked Yan Shaozhe for a year's leave, explaining that he wanted to search the continent for a solution, and Yan Shaozhe approved it.
• Zhang Lexuan wanted to accompany Jiang Ming, but he persuaded her to stay behind because his destinations were dangerous.
• Jiang Ming kissed Zhang Lexuan goodbye, mounted his Flying Sword, and left Shrek Academy.

Jiang Ming joined Lu Yue’s caravan to travel from Shrek City to Heaven Dou City, spending the journey reading while the guards mistook his behavior for an attempt to impress her. As the caravan approached Misty Forest, Lu Yue warned everyone to watch for bandits, and Jiang Ming calmly pointed out people in the forest.

• Jiang Ming agreed to escort Lu Yue’s caravan to Heaven Dou City for fifty Gold Soul Coins.
• The caravan departed Shrek City with a large guard force, while Jiang Ming rode in a carriage and read.
• Two of Lu Yue’s guards complained that Jiang Ming was acting pretentious to attract her attention, but Lu Yue realized he was genuinely absorbed in his book.
• As the caravan approached Misty Forest, Lu Yue ordered the guards to stay alert for bandits.
• Jiang Ming ignored the warning until he looked up and pointed out people in the forest.

Jiang Ming detected bandits hidden in the Misty Forest and warned Lu Yue, whose caravan faced an ambush by more than twenty Soul Masters. When the bandits attacked, Jiang Ming brought out a Soul Tool Gatling and opened fire, leaving its effect on the fight unresolved.

• Jiang Ming sensed about twenty bandits hiding in the Misty Forest, though the other guards could not see them.
• Lu Yue fired an arrow into the forest, exposing the bandits and prompting their Soul King leader to bring his men out.
• Lu Yue and the caravan guards prepared to defend the goods, while Jiang Ming learned they could not simply charge the enemy.
• The bandit leader attacked Lu Yue, and Jiang Ming activated his Rank 3 Soul Tool Gatling from atop a carriage.

Jiang Ming used his Soul Tool Gatling to destroy a bandit gang that attacked Lu Yue’s caravan, then pursued the leader after he took Lu Yue hostage. He killed the fleeing bandits and found a Storage Soul Tool, but it held little of value.

• Jiang Ming killed or incapacitated more than half the bandits with precise Soul Rays while Lu Yue and Uncle Lin fought their leader.
• The bandit leader broke free, took Lu Yue hostage, and retreated into Misty Forest with his surviving men.
• Jiang Ming pursued the bandits alone after they had entered the forest.
• The bandit leader scattered Jiang Ming’s initial Soul Rays, but Jiang Ming killed him with a Rank 5 Soul Ray and wiped out the remaining bandits.
• Jiang Ming found a Storage Soul Tool on the bandit leader, but the bandits had little of value.

Jiang Ming left Misty Forest after driving off bandits and rejected Lu Yue’s offer to join the Lu Family Merchant Association. The caravan reached a campsite for the night, where Jiang Ming cooked a meal that left the guards longing for something better than their rations.

• Jiang Ming returned from Misty Forest after pursuing the bandits, then counted the loot he had taken from their Storage Soul Tools.
• Lu Yue offered Jiang Ming a long-term guard position, but he refused and said he only wanted a ride to Heaven Dou City.
• When Lu Yue insisted she could meet his price, Jiang Ming asked for a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, ending her recruitment attempt.
• The caravan left Misty Forest and camped for the night on a patch of grass.
• Jiang Ming roasted lamb ribs with his spicy seasoning and enjoyed them with homemade happy water, while the guards abandoned their rations to look for ingredients.

Jiang Ming traveled with Lu Yue’s caravan to Heaven Dou City, thinking about the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Tool advantage and the possibility of war. After arriving, he checked into an inn and wrote down his plans for his stay, including investigating Sunset Forest and preparing to counter its poisonous miasma.

• Jiang Ming cultivated before the caravan set off, and Lu Yue asked whether he was an Inner Court Disciple of Shrek Academy.
• Jiang Ming read a Soul Tool book from Bright Virtue Hall and worried that the Sun Moon Empire’s technological lead could lead to war within fifty years.
• The caravan traveled safely for several days and reached Heaven Dou City, where Lu Yue offered the guards drinks.
• Jiang Ming declined the guards’ invitation, found an inn, and paid several dozen Gold Soul Coins to stay there.
• Jiang Ming wrote down plans to gather information about Sunset Forest, buy poison-neutralizing items, sightsee, and begin creating.

Jiang Ming explored Heaven Dou City at night and visited its auction house, where he saw how an ordinary gemstone necklace sold for a high price. Inspired, he refined a new wealth creation plan based on combining attractive accessories, emotional stories, and practical value.

• Jiang Ming wandered Heaven Dou City's lively streets, sampled snacks, and reacted poorly to the local bean juice.
• Jiang Ming entered the Heaven Dou Auction House after kicking away a young master who mocked him and tried to grab him.
• Jiang Ming collected a mask, submitted miscellaneous items for auction, and watched a gemstone necklace draw fierce bidding.
• Jiang Ming recorded Wealth Creation Plan Eight and revised it to give flashy accessories emotional and practical value.

Jiang Ming recognized the auctioned Jade Scale Seven Absolute Flower as a possible clue to Old Poison’s poison formation in Sunset Forest and decided to buy it. After the flower and its Rank Four Soul Tool drew no bids, two buyers called out offers at the same time.

• The auctioneer revealed the poisonous Jade Scale Seven Absolute Flower and explained that it had to be bought with its Rank Four Soul Tool.
• Jiang Ming connected the flower to Old Poison and the poison formation near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then decided to bid.
• The auctioneer claimed the flower might evolve into a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, but the guests remained wary of its danger and uncertain value.
• The auctioneer opened bidding at five thousand Gold Soul Coins, but no one bid until the final count, when two voices offered five thousand and five thousand five hundred Gold Soul Coins simultaneously.

Jiang Ming won the Jade Scale Seven Absolute Flower at auction and learned that Sunset Forest’s poisonous dangers made reaching the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well difficult. Little Spirit revived the flower and stored it in her Book of Spirits as an auxiliary combatant, leaving Jiang Ming with a new potential source of strength.

• Jiang Ming won the Jade Scale Seven Absolute Flower, asked the auction staff about its origins, and obtained a map to Sunset Forest.
• Jiang Ming learned that much of Sunset Forest was extremely dangerous and worried that the flower’s poison would prevent him from reaching the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Jiang Ming brought the flower to his hotel, where Little Spirit offered to revive it and evolve it into a Soul Beast inside the Book of Spirits.
• Little Spirit controlled the flower’s poisonous miasma, restored its vitality, and helped it develop the Soul Power needed to become a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Little Spirit placed the flower in an auxiliary slot in the Book of Spirits, and Jiang Ming gave her a life-force pill from Elder Zhuang.

Jiang Ming located the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well beneath Sunset Forest’s poisonous clouds, but discovered that layers of deadly miasma and more than a thousand Ten-Thousand-Year Jade Scale Seven Absolute Flowers blocked his way. Preparing to attempt an approach, he remembered that the Book of Spirits had recorded the captured flower’s traits and turned to check its entry.

• Jiang Ming left Heaven Dou City for Sunset Forest while the noble he had defeated sent people to hunt him down.
• After entering the forest’s danger zone, Jiang Ming spotted a vast Seven-Colored Poisonous Mist that weakened his Spiritual Power.
• Jiang Ming used Little Wind’s gusts to probe the poisonous mist and search for the valley containing the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Little Wind’s wind exposed an emerald-green Poison Pillar and more than a thousand Jade Scale Seven Absolute Flowers, with the valley visible behind them.
• Jiang Ming withdrew to safety, considered how to pass the poisonous layers, and rejected Little Lotus’s suggestion to burn the area.
• Jiang Ming summoned Little Wind, Little Lotus, and Little Ice, then opened the Book of Spirits to read the recorded traits of the Jade Scale Seven Absolute Flower.

Jiang Ming and his Spirits broke through the poisonous plants guarding the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, with the Ice Silkworm’s imitation of an Ice Jade Scorpion buying them time. Jiang Ming reached the valley and saw the magnificent well, where the chapter left him recovering from his injuries.

• Jiang Ming sent Little Wind’s tornado and Little Lotus’s fire lotus to blast open a gap in the poisonous mist, then crossed it with Little Ice’s help.
• Little Ice froze the weaker Jade Scale Seven Absolute Flowers while Jiang Ming summoned his other Spirits and pushed toward the valley.
• Little Ice summoned the Ice Silkworm, whose imitation of an Ice Jade Scorpion’s Extreme Ice aura frightened the plants long enough for Jiang Ming and the Spirits to advance.
• Jiang Ming realized the flowers seemed deliberately planted, then fought through their territory as they saw through the Ice Silkworm’s bluff.
• Jiang Ming charged through the final barrier, lost his Rank 6 saber, and took a heavy blow before reaching the valley, where the Jade Scale Seven Absolute Flowers refused to follow.
• Jiang Ming descended toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and saw its icy-white and fiery-red waters.

Jiang Ming entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to find the Aromatic Silk Beauty and temper his golden body, while discovering that the spring could help several of his Spirits complete Hundred-Thousand-Year evolutions. He reached the Aromatic Silk Beauty, only to learn that it could speak and that the surrounding immortal herbs might also be Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.

• Jiang Ming cautiously descended into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and searched for the Aromatic Silk Beauty while avoiding unfamiliar plants.
• Jiang Ming spotted the Aromatic Silk Beauty and risked passing the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass to reach it.
• Little Ice told Jiang Ming that the ice spring could complete his Hundred-Thousand-Year evolution, and that the fire spring and abundant life force might help Little Lotus and Little Spirit evolve as well.
• Jiang Ming reached the Aromatic Silk Beauty, but it raised a pink barrier and warned him not to get so close.
• The Aromatic Silk Beauty told Jiang Ming it was a little over ten thousand years old, prompting him to suspect that the other herbs had also become Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.

Jiang Ming discovered that Youyou’s aromatic protection kept the many Hundred-Thousand-Year Immortal Herbs from attacking him, and he brought his Spirits out to benefit from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Little Ice and Little Lotus began cultivating in its springs, while Little Spirit blessed the valley’s Immortal Herbs and prepared to pursue her own Hundred-Thousand-Year evolution.

• Jiang Ming realized Youyou’s fragrance protected him from the surrounding Immortal Herbs, and he learned that several of them, including Jiaojiao and Eight-Angle, had reached the Hundred-Thousand-Year level.
• Jiang Ming’s wound and poison healed near Youyou, and he brought Little Light, Little Dark, Little Ice, Little Lotus, Little Wind, Little Spirit, and the Ice Silkworm out of his Sea of Consciousness.
• Youyou recognized Little Spirit as a Life Spirit, while Jiang Ming allowed Little Ice and Little Lotus to cultivate in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Jiaojiao and Eight-Angle objected to the newcomers entering their territory, but Little Ice and Little Lotus transformed and entered the Frigid Ice Spring and Scorching Yang Spring to cultivate.
• Little Spirit used Song of Nature, Life Blessing to raise the life levels of Youyou, Jiaojiao, Eight-Angle, and the other Immortal Herbs.
• Little Spirit told Jiang Ming she would cultivate to pursue her Hundred-Thousand-Year evolution as life force gathered around her above the valley.

Jiang Ming’s Spirits cultivated at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while the greedy Ice Silkworm fell into the Cold Spring and survived through its bond with Little Ice. The silkworm began absorbing the spring’s power and might reach the Hundred-Thousand-Year level, but as it sank deeper, it sensed an enormous Dragon Clan aura.

• Jiang Ming told Little Light, Little Dark, and Little Wind to cultivate near compatible Immortal Herbs while the other Spirits entered deep cultivation.
• Jiang Ming teased Youyou about the mysterious person who had kept people away from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, refusing to reveal his guess.
• The Ice Silkworm fell into the Cold Spring, and Jiang Ming asked Eight-Angle to search for it after its status remained alive in the Book of Spirits.
• Little Ice’s spiritual contract sustained the frozen Ice Silkworm, and Eight-Angle realized it could absorb the spring’s power and rise to the Hundred-Thousand-Year level.
• The Ice Silkworm began sinking deeper into the Cold Spring and sensed an enormous Dragon Clan aura surrounding it.

Jiang Ming cultivated beside Youyou at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then cooked a feast that drew the curious Immortal Herbs into playful make-believe hotpot. Afterward, Youyou and the others discussed rewarding him and decided to persuade Rongrong to lend petals to help him cultivate an Indestructible Body.

• Youyou grew angry when Jiang Ming admitted he had only teased it about guessing the person’s identity, then restored its protective fragrance while he meditated.
• After several days of cultivation, Jiang Ming woke hungry, and Youyou brought him rare fruit while he prepared grilled lamb, fish soup, and hotpot.
• Jiang Ming convinced Jiaojiao to tend the fire, and Youyou, Eight-Angle, Jiaojiao, and the other intelligent Immortal Herbs joined him in pretending to eat the energies of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Youyou, Jiaojiao, and Eight-Angle discussed giving Jiang Ming more than the promised seven Immortal Herbs because the Life Spirits had helped them evolve.
• Youyou proposed that Rongrong lend Jiang Ming a few petals to help clear a problem in his heart and cultivate an Indestructible Body, and Rongrong reconsidered after Youyou promised it might raise its life level.