Chapter Summaries

Rongrong tried to help Jiang Ming forge an Indestructible Body with her petals, but his Golden Heart resisted the cleansing and began forcibly drawing in her power. As the Immortal Herbs and Jiang Ming’s Spirits intervened, the competing forces turned his body into a chaotic battlefield, and the Golden Heart started pulling Rongrong’s true body toward him.

• At Youyou’s urging, Rongrong guided her medicinal power into Jiang Ming, and he began absorbing it to forge an Indestructible Body.
• After half a day, Rongrong had spent nearly half her petals, but Jiang Ming’s heart remained uncleansed, so she began withdrawing her power.
• Jiang Ming’s Golden Heart suddenly dragged Rongrong’s power back toward itself, and Youyou joined Rongrong in trying to resist it.
• Youyou summoned Eight-Angle, Jiaojiao, Lanlan, Xiangxiang, A Shui, Little Kui, and other Immortal Herbs to help, while Jiang Ming’s body began cracking under their clashing powers.
• The Book of Spirits appeared and drew power from Jiang Ming’s cultivating Spirits, bringing sixteen forces into the struggle and repairing his body.
• The empowered Golden Heart used Rongrong’s power as a bridge and began pulling Rongrong’s true body toward Jiang Ming.

Jiang Ming struggled to control the Golden Heart as it tried to devour Rongrong, whose true body was torn from the ground and drained of its medicinal power. The chapter ended with the Golden Heart pulling Rongrong into Jiang Ming's heart.

• The Golden Heart and the Spirits' power pulled Rongrong's true body from the soil while the Immortal Herbs tried and failed to break their connection.
• Youyou asked Jiang Ming to control the powers inside his body, and Jiang Ming said he could try to control the Spirits' power but not the Golden Heart.
• The Golden Heart ripped Rongrong free and drew it toward Jiang Ming, while Youyou, Eight-Angle, and Jiaojiao stopped it just short of his chest.
• Jiang Ming began directing the Spirits' power toward the Golden Heart, hoping to stop it despite sensing that devouring Rongrong might trigger his Body Martial Soul Second Awakening.
• Rongrong weakened as the Golden Heart drained its medicinal potency, then the Golden Heart increased its suction and absorbed Rongrong into Jiang Ming's heart.

Jiang Ming survived the Golden Heart’s absorption of Rongrong by protecting Rongrong’s soul and persuading it to fuse with him, gaining a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and torso Spirit Bone. After failing to break through the Level Seventy bottleneck, he slept through most of a year and awoke as the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well erupted with power.

• The Immortal Herbs attacked Jiang Ming to save Rongrong, but Jiang Ming convinced them to help protect Rongrong’s soul inside his Sea of Consciousness.
• Jiang Ming persuaded Rongrong to cooperate with the Golden Heart’s fusion, then used the gathered powers to attack his Level Seventy bottleneck and failed.
• While Jiang Ming slept, the fusion completed and Rongrong gave him a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum torso Spirit Bone.
• Rongrong survived but fell asleep, and Youyou protected Jiang Ming while remaining angry with him.
• Jiang Ming slept for seven days, cultivated beside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and eventually remained asleep for months as nearly a year passed.
• Jiang Ming awoke with powerful Spiritual Power as the Yang Spring and Cold Spring erupted with extreme forces.

Jiang Ming watched Little Ice and Little Lotus begin their Hundred-Thousand-Year evolutions at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while realizing he had already been away from the academy for a year. As their transformations continued, the Sea God Pavilion Elders grew anxious over his disappearance.

• Jiang Ming sensed that his cultivation had loosened his Level Seventy bottleneck and reflected on the strength gained from his Golden Heart and Second Awakening.
• Jiang Ming thanked Youyou for protecting his cultivation, and promised he would never bully Rongrong.
• Little Ice and Little Lotus emerged from the springs as their auras approached Extreme Ice and Extreme Fire, and Jiaojiao estimated their evolutions would take another month.
• Jiang Ming learned from Youyou that he had been at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for about a year and worried about his leave from the academy.
• Xuan Zi and Yan Shao Zhe told Mu En that Jiang Ming had been missing for a year and expressed their concern.

Mu En and Xuan Zi chose a powerful Hundred-Thousand-Year Wind-Thunder Prison Beast as the Soul Ring that might break Xiao Ming’s bottleneck, while Yan Shaozhe went to find Xiao Ming. Xuan Zi began wearing down the beast’s spirit, but Yan Shaozhe could only trace Xiao Ming to Heaven Dou City before his trail went cold.

• Xuan Zi told Mu En that he had found a Hundred-Thousand-Year Wind-Thunder Prison Beast, and Mu En decided its dangerous Soul Ring was needed to break Xiao Ming’s bottleneck.
• Mu En sent Yan Shaozhe to bring Xiao Ming back and ordered Xuan Zi to weaken the Wind-Thunder Prison Beast.
• Yan Shaozhe found the hotel where Jiang Ming had stayed in Heaven Dou City, slapped a young nobleman and his Soul Emperor guards, and then discovered Jiang Ming’s trail had gone cold.
• Xuan Zi returned to the cliff where the Wind-Thunder Prison Beast lived and recalled defeating it in a brief battle.
• The Wind-Thunder Prison Beast trembled at Xuan Zi’s return, and Xuan Zi summoned his Martial Soul Avatar and attacked it again.

Jiang Ming waited at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as Little Ice and Little Lotus completed their evolution into Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirits, while Little Spirit continued evolving. The two Spirits awakened their Extreme Ice and Extreme Fire powers, and Jiang Ming prepared to leave once all three evolutions were complete.

• Rongrong awakened in a spiritual humanlike form and asked whether she looked good, while Jiang Ming sincerely praised her appearance.
• Jiang Ming and the Immortal Herbs waited for Little Ice, Little Lotus, and Little Spirit to finish evolving so he could leave the Sunset Forest.
• After a year of cultivation, Little Ice and Little Lotus began their push toward the Hundred-Thousand-Year threshold, drawing power from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and accelerating Little Spirit's evolution.
• Three days later, Jiang Ming summoned the Book of Spirits as the Soul Rings belonging to Little Ice and Little Lotus turned red.
• Little Ice and Little Lotus completed their evolutions, gaining Extreme Ice and Extreme Fire powers, then restrained their auras after Youyou and Jiang Ming warned them about the surrounding plants.

After Little Ice and Little Lotus completed their Hundred-Thousand-Year evolutions, they revealed that all six spirits might need to evolve to that level for Jiang Ming to break through his Level Seventy bottleneck. While Little Spirit continued its slow evolution, Jiang Ming decided to test a trinity fusion with Little Ice and Little Lotus in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Little Ice and Little Lotus completed their Hundred-Thousand-Year evolutions and gained ultimate ice and fire attributes.
• Little Ice and Little Lotus told Jiang Ming that all six spirits might need to complete Hundred-Thousand-Year evolutions before he could break through Level Seventy.
• Jiang Ming worried that finding suitable places for Little Dark and Little Wind to evolve would require searching the entire continent.
• Youyou estimated that Little Spirit's evolution would take at least another year, so Jiang Ming decided to wait while seeking other ways to improve himself.
• Jiang Ming proposed a trinity fusion with Little Ice and Little Lotus to test whether he could become immune to all poisons.

Jiang Ming endured the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s extreme powers to temper his body and cultivate immunity to all poisons. He emerged with a Golden Battle Body and Indestructible Body, while the Immortal Herbs worried about which of them he might choose next.

• Jiang Ming merged with Little Ice and Little Lotus, and Rongrong stabilized their extreme ice and fire powers within his dantian.
• Jiang Ming entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and repeatedly endured its energy washing through his body, using his Golden Heart and torso bone to survive the torment.
• Youyou and the Immortal Herbs debated how long Jiang Ming would take and fretted over the seven choices he would make for Little Spirit’s evolution.
• Jiang Ming emerged from the well and activated his Golden Battle Body, Indestructible Body, and newly cultivated immunity to all poisons.
• Youyou pointed out that Jiang Ming was naked, so he hurriedly retrieved his Storage Soul Tool and dressed.

Jiang Ming learned that he could choose seven medicinal herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, but he had already taken Rongrong and initially refused. Remembering Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire problem, he asked Youyou for Little Kui's essence to purify it, and Youyou explained that essence would suffice.

• Jiang Ming reflected on his gains at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and planned to help Little Light, Little Dark, and Little Wind complete their Hundred-Thousand-Year evolutions.
• Youyou told Jiang Ming that a person of fate could take seven medicinal herbs from the well, but Jiang Ming initially said he had gained enough and would take no more.
• Jiang Ming remembered Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire problem and explained her situation to Youyou, asking for help.
• Youyou said Little Kui or Jiaojiao could purify Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire, and that either could provide essence instead of being absorbed.
• Jiang Ming chose Little Kui's essence for Ma Xiaotao.

Jiang Ming chose immortal herbs to help Ma Xiaotao and Gongyang Mo, then spent more than half a year studying, writing, and playing mahjong in the valley. Little Spirit completed its Hundred-Thousand-Year evolution and used Life Blessing, while Jiang Ming prepared to leave wondering what he had forgotten.

• Jiang Ming took a drop of crimson liquid from Little Kui to solve Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire problem and chose a petal from the Aromatic Silk Beauty to help Gongyang Mo.
• Jiang Ming talked with the immortal herbs about the outside world, studied Soul Tools, wrote several volumes of his novel, and taught the herbs to play mahjong.
• More than half a year later, Little Spirit gathered Heaven and Earth Yuan Power and began its Hundred-Thousand-Year evolution.
• Youyou and the other immortal herbs supplied medicinal power to help Little Spirit complete its evolution.
• Little Spirit used Life Blessing to nourish every plant in the valley, and Jiang Ming prepared to leave while wondering what he had forgotten.

After two years at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Jiang Ming prepared to leave as Shrek Academy’s strongest elders arrived at Sunset Forest searching for him. Mu En’s overwhelming aura began dispersing the poisonous mist, and the Immortal Herbs launched Jiang Ming upward to meet his teacher.

• Jiang Ming remembered the sleeping Ice Silkworm, and Little Ice found it in the Cold Spring with signs of a strange Dragon Clan transformation before storing it in the Book of Spirits.
• Youyou warned Jiang Ming to keep the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well secret, and he said goodbye to the Immortal Herbs before flying into the poisonous mist.
• Yan Shaozhe brought Mu En and the other Sea God Pavilion elders to Sunset Forest after concluding Jiang Ming was inside.
• Xuan Zi tried to disperse the Jade Scale Poisonous Mist, but it rebounded until Elder Zhuang blocked it with the Life Force of his Tree of Life.
• Mu En released his Ruler of the World aura, frightening the plants and pinning Jiang Ming down as he realized his teacher had come to find him.
• The Immortal Herbs hurled Jiang Ming through the poisonous mist toward the elders as Mu En’s power began clearing the way.

After vanishing for two years, Jiang Ming returned with extraordinary physical abilities and four Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, astonishing the Shrek experts who had found him at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. He left for Heaven Dou City with them and recounted his adventures, while keeping some details secret to protect Youyou.

• Mu En caught Jiang Ming as he emerged from the poisonous miasma, and Elder Zhuang found that Jiang Ming had gained an Indestructible Body and an Immune to All Poisons Body.
• Youyou appeared to stop Xuan Zi and Elder Zhuang from descending, and Elder Zhuang recognized it as the Aromatic Silk Beauty.
• Jiang Ming persuaded the Elders to leave the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Mu En asked him to explain his two-year disappearance.
• In Heaven Dou City, Jiang Ming told the Elders about his experiences while omitting details he had promised to keep secret.
• Xuan Zi was stunned that Jiang Ming had returned with four Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, more than Xuan Zi or any of the other Elders possessed.

Jiang Ming revealed that his Level Sixty-Nine bottleneck would only break after all six Spirits in his Book of Spirits completed Hundred-Thousand-Year evolutions. The Elders began planning how to help the remaining Spirits of Wind, Light, and Darkness evolve.

• Mu En promised that the Elders would keep the secret of Youyou’s location so Jiang Ming would not break his word.
• Xian Lin'er asked whether Jiang Ming’s bottleneck had broken, and Jiang Ming said it had not despite his Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and Soul Bone.
• Jiang Ming summoned his Book of Spirits and explained that all six of its Spirits needed Hundred-Thousand-Year evolutions to remove the bottleneck.
• Xuan Zi proposed using the Wind-Thunder Prison Beast’s territory to help the Spirit of Wind evolve, while Mu En suggested drawing on Shrek Academy’s power of light for the Spirit of Light.
• Mu En and the other Elders considered how to obtain the power of darkness, and Jiang Ming was pleased that their connections could help him.

Mu En and the Elders planned how to help Jiang Ming’s remaining elemental spirits evolve, deciding to seek powerful sources of wind, light, and darkness energy. They committed Shrek Academy’s resources to Jiang Ming’s growth and left to carry out their tasks.

• Jiang Ming left the room on his Flying Sword while Mu En assigned Elder Xuan and Elder Song to find wind-element energy for Little Wind’s evolution.
• Mu En planned to enlist the Golden Ancient Tree and Yan Shaozhe to help Little Light evolve, and named Di Tian or his old friend the Dragon Emperor as possible sources of darkness power for Little Dark.
• Elder Song raised concerns about investing heavily in Jiang Ming, but Mu En insisted that his potential justified Shrek Academy’s full support.
• Elder Xuan suggested keeping the Wind-Thunder Prison Beast for Jiang Ming’s Golden Heart Martial Soul, and the Elders agreed.
• Elder Xuan and Elder Song departed to pursue wind-element energy, while Mu En and Xian Lin'er returned to Shrek Academy to prepare for Little Light’s evolution and resume their duties.

Jiang Ming brought Elder Zhuang to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where the Immortal Herbs welcomed him and helped him approach a breakthrough. Jiang Ming then returned to Shrek Academy with Yan Shaozhe, who warned him that Lexuan had spent over a year searching for him.

• Jiang Ming returned and told Elder Zhuang that Youyou had agreed to let him study and cultivate at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well under certain conditions.
• Jiang Ming escorted Elder Zhuang to the valley, where Elder Zhuang excitedly explored the plants and Jiang Ming warned Youyou not to harm him.
• Elder Zhuang quickly befriended the Immortal Herbs, shared stories and played mahjong with them, and received gifts and help that brought him close to breaking through his level ninety-five bottleneck.
• Jiang Ming traveled back toward Shrek Academy with Yan Shaozhe and reflected on reaching eighteen, the age he had been when he transmigrated.
• Yan Shaozhe told Jiang Ming that Lexuan had searched for him for over a year and was now back at the academy, then flew to the Sea God Pavilion to discuss Jiang Ming's light-element spirit.

Jiang Ming returned to Sea God Island after disappearing for two years and reunited with Zhang Lexuan, who had spent over a year searching for him. They reconciled and spent the afternoon together, but Zhang Lexuan’s mention of visiting Clear Water City left their conversation poised to turn to Old Nie and Aunt Lan.

• Jiang Ming asked the Spirits and Rongrong in his Sea of Consciousness for advice on comforting Zhang Lexuan, but none could help.
• Jiang Ming arrived at Sea God Island and told Zhang Lexuan, "I'm back," prompting her to twist his ear and scold him for disappearing.
• Jiang Ming promised not to disappear again, embraced Zhang Lexuan, and kissed her.
• Jiang Ming learned that Zhang Lexuan had reached level seventy-eight Soul Power at age twenty-three, and he explained how the Spirits helped him cultivate.
• Jiang Ming and Zhang Lexuan spent the afternoon together, then walked hand in hand across Sea God Island as evening approached.
• Zhang Lexuan told Jiang Ming that she had visited Clear Water City a few months earlier and met Uncle Nie and Aunt Lan.

Jiang Ming reunited with Zhang Lexuan, who revealed that his parents had asked when they would marry, before he turned his attention to solving Ma Xiaotao’s worsening Evil Fire. The chapter ended with Jiang Ming feeding her Cockcomb Phoenix Sunflower essence while suppressing her Evil Fire with Little Ice’s Extreme Ice.

• Zhang Lexuan told Jiang Ming that she had visited his parents in Clear Water City, introduced herself as his girlfriend, and been asked when they would get married.
• Jiang Ming and Zhang Lexuan spent the night together, then shared breakfast the next morning.
• Jiang Ming told Yan Shaozhe that he had found a way to completely solve Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire problem.
• Yan Shaozhe took Jiang Ming to see Ma Xiaotao, whose Evil Fire had worsened while she cultivated during Jiang Ming’s absence.
• Jiang Ming fused with Little Ice to suppress Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire and fed her a drop of Cockcomb Phoenix Sunflower essence.

Jiang Ming used the Cockcomb Phoenix Sunflower essence to purify Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul, then intervened with his Red Lotus Soul Seal when the purification did not appear sufficient. Ma Xiaotao’s transformation was still underway as Jiang Ming began refining her and her Phoenix Phantom with extreme flames.

• Jiang Ming suppressed Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire with Extreme Ice and used his Spiritual Power to awaken her consciousness.
• Ma Xiaotao activated the Cockcomb Phoenix Sunflower essence, which swept through her body and cleansed her Evil Fire and Soul Power.
• Jiang Ming told Yan Shaozhe that Ma Xiaotao would gain a pure Fire Phoenix Martial Soul, though her chance of reaching Extreme Fire remained uncertain.
• Yan Shaozhe left after seeing that Ma Xiaotao’s condition was improving, while her Martial Soul purification continued.
• Ma Xiaotao’s pure Fire Phoenix Phantom appeared, but Jiang Ming judged that the transformation was not enough and used Red Lotus Soul Seal, Rebirth Through Fire to refine her and the phantom.

Jiang Ming successfully refined Ma Xiaotao’s Martial Soul with Extreme Fire, awakening her Fire Phoenix’s ultimate fire and removing her Evil Fire. After she recovered, they argued over her growing debt and fought, ending with Ma Xiaotao grabbing Jiang Ming by the neck.

• Jiang Ming watched over Little Lotus’s painful refinement of Ma Xiaotao’s Martial Soul until it succeeded.
• Little Lotus helped Ma Xiaotao recover and handed her the Storage Soul Tool so she could get dressed.
• Jiang Ming studied Rank 8 Close-Combat Soul Tools and considered traveling to the Sun Moon Empire to find materials for a spear.
• Ma Xiaotao thanked Jiang Ming for purifying her Martial Soul, but he reminded her of her debt and added the lost Thousand-Year Profound Ice to her tab.
• Ma Xiaotao attacked Jiang Ming, who defeated her in three exchanges; after he released her, she grabbed his neck and came face-to-face with him.

Jiang Ming sought a Rank 8 Close-Combat Soul Tool and spent the next months crafting Rank 7 Soul Tools with Fan Yu. After Gongyang Mo and the others returned from their mission, Jiang Ming used Little Spirit’s Life Rhythm to boost his friends, leaving Dai Yueheng past his level-sixty bottleneck and Gongyang Mo at level fifty-nine.

• Jiang Ming asked Xian Lin'er, Qian Duoduo, and Fan Yu to help him make a Rank 8 Close-Combat Soul Tool, and they agreed to start by having him gain experience with Rank 7 Soul Tools.
• Jiang Ming crafted several Rank 7 Soul Tools under Fan Yu’s guidance and earned a Rank Seven Soul Master badge.
• Gongyang Mo returned from his mission with Dai Yueheng, Ling Luochen, Chen Zifeng, Xixi, and Yao Haoxuan.
• Jiang Ming gave Gongyang Mo the Aromatic Silk Beauty petals and had Little Spirit use Life Rhythm on the group.
• Dai Yueheng broke through level sixty, the others gained two or three levels, and Gongyang Mo rose six levels to fifty-nine.