Chapter Summaries

Flender told Yu Xiaogang about Su Mo’s powerful physique and Soul Tool Fusion, inspiring Yu Xiaogang to study the theory. Meanwhile, Su Mo and the Shrek students encountered Canghui Academy at a restaurant, where insults escalated into a fight that left the two groups facing off.

• Flender explained Su Mo’s fast cultivation, Soul Tool Fusion, and victory over Dai Mubai to Yu Xiaogang, who became eager to develop the theory and apply it to Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer.
• Su Mo and the Shrek students stopped at a town hotel, where Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing remained distant and the group encountered arrogant students from Canghui Academy.
• Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai mocked Canghui Academy, while Su Mo challenged Flender’s saying about making trouble and argued that soul masters should draw their blades to help those facing injustice.
• A Canghui Academy student tried to spill a waiter’s tray onto the Shrek table, but Tang San caught the dish with Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon.
• The student tried to break Dai Mubai’s chair with a kick, but Dai Mubai broke his foot and kicked him away, prompting the Canghui Academy teachers and students to stand up angrily.

Zhao Wuji led Su Mo and the others into the Star Dou Great Forest to find soul rings, where Oscar obtained his third ring and Tang San revealed he had reached level 30. As the group rested overnight, Su Mo argued that soul beasts would never go extinct, though future soul masters might be left with only low-quality rings.

• Zhao Wuji praised the group for defeating Ye Zhiqiu and assigned Tang San and Dai Mubai to lead the way into the forest.
• Tang San stopped Dai Mubai from injuring a small spirit beast, then urged the group to avoid harming spirit beasts whenever possible.
• The group defeated a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, and Oscar obtained his third Soul Ring after Snake Woman Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran arrived.
• Tang San revealed that he had reached level 30, so the group stayed in the forest to find him a suitable soul beast but found none before nightfall.
• Tang San explained that human hunting could drive soul beasts toward extinction, and Su Mo argued that soul beasts would keep reproducing even if only low-level ones remained.

After the Titan Giant Ape abducted Xiao Wu, Su Mo and Tang San flew after it, but a wounded Man Faced Demon Spider blocked their path. Su Mo stayed behind to hold it off and, after learning it had already used its web attacks, fled with the spider in pursuit.

• The Titan Giant Ape appeared and took Xiao Wu, prompting Tang San and Su Mo to chase after it with Oscar’s Mushroom Sausages.
• Zhao Wuji ordered Oscar to prepare Mushroom Sausages so the others could follow, while Tang San thanked Su Mo for joining the rescue.
• A Man Faced Demon Spider blocked Tang San and Su Mo, so Su Mo stayed to fight while Tang San continued after Xiao Wu with the Godly Zhuge Crossbow given to Su Mo.
• Su Mo summoned Bibi Dong to help him spot the spider’s weakness, and she identified a fresh abdominal wound and its eyes as a weak point.
• Su Mo recognized the spider as the one Meng Yiran had pursued, then fled to avoid killing it before Dragon Duke and Snake Granny could arrive, and the spider chased him.

Su Mo lured the Man Faced Demon Spider into range and killed it with a concealed spear thrust. He discovered and absorbed the spider’s External Soul Bone, the Eight Spider Lances, and found that his Soul Power Level had risen.

• Su Mo slowed down to bait the pursuing Man Faced Demon Spider, then pierced one of its lower-abdomen eyes with his Soul Hunting Spear.
• The Man Faced Demon Spider died and produced a purple Thousand Year Soul Ring, which Su Mo declined to absorb because it did not suit his Soul Hunting Spear.
• Su Mo noticed the spider’s legs glowing with Soul Power and recognized them as the External Soul Bone Eight Spider Lances.
• Bibi Dong realized Su Mo had taken the treasure from Tang San and urged him to absorb it.
• Su Mo refined the Eight Spider Lances for half an hour, gained eight controllable spider legs, and discovered that his Soul Power Level had risen.

Su Mo absorbed the Man Faced Demon Spider’s External Soul Bone, the Eight Spider Lances, and reunited with the Shrek group while concealing his gains. After the group found Tang San a suitable Soul Ring, they began their return journey, unaware that Shrek Academy had a new teacher.

• Su Mo absorbed the Eight Spider Lances, raised his Soul Power to level 25, and heeded Bibi Dong’s warning to keep the External Soul Bone secret.
• Meng Yiran and Dragon Duke Meng Shu found the Man Faced Demon Spider’s corpse and left without realizing it had produced an External Soul Bone.
• Su Mo rejoined Zhao Wuji’s group, where Ning Rongrong welcomed him, and Tang San and Xiao Wu thanked him for helping them.
• Zhao Wuji led the group to another area to search for Tang San’s Soul Ring, and Su Mo concealed how much his Soul Power had increased.
• The group found a nineteen-hundred-year-old Cave Spider, and Tang San absorbed its Soul Ring to gain Spider Web Restraint.
• After Tang San obtained his Soul Ring, the group set off for home, unaware that Shrek Academy had a new teacher.

After returning to Shrek Academy, Su Mo reunited with Yu Xiaogang and revealed that the Master had rejected him as a disciple six years earlier because his Innate Soul Power was only rank 2. Back in his dormitory, Su Mo used Shared Vision and overheard Yu Xiaogang explaining the rejection to Tang San.

• Tang San joyfully reunited with Yu Xiaogang at the academy gates and introduced him to the Shrek students.
• Yu Xiaogang admitted that he had underestimated Su Mo when he rejected him six years earlier, and Su Mo responded without resentment.
• After Yu Xiaogang left with Tang San, Su Mo told his teammates that Yu Xiaogang had rejected him because his Innate Soul Power was rank 2.
• Ning Rongrong and the others expressed shock and sided with Su Mo, while Xiao Wu defended Yu Xiaogang's decision.
• Su Mo activated Shared Vision in his dormitory and discovered that he could hear through it as he overheard Yu Xiaogang explain the rejection to Tang San.

Yu Xiaogang instructed Tang San and disparaged Su Mo’s potential, while Bibi Dong silently disagreed. Su Mo entered the Rakshasa Blood Pool, discovered that he controlled the Rakshasa God Spirit and Bibi Dong’s Divine Sense, and realized he had previously left the domain by his own choice.

• Yu Xiaogang praised Tang San’s future, urged him to unite his teammates, and warned him not to tell Su Mo that he believed Su Mo would never become a Soul Saint.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang he had reached level 31 and obtained a nineteen-hundred-year Cave Spider spirit ring, and Yu Xiaogang praised his breakthrough before analyzing his Blue Silver Grass.
• Bibi Dong watched Yu Xiaogang instruct Tang San and privately noted that Su Mo had taken the Eight Spider Lances that should have belonged to Tang San.
• Su Mo entered his Spirit Space, confirmed he could still share Bibi Dong’s vision, and ventured into the Rakshasa Domain and its Blood Pool.
• Su Mo resisted the Blood Pool’s negative emotions, touched Bibi Dong, and learned that he was the true master of the Rakshasa God Spirit and her Divine Sense.
• Su Mo realized that Bibi Dong had not forced him out of the Rakshasa Domain before; he had subconsciously left on his own.

After learning that he could burn Bibi Dong's Divine Sense to temporarily gain Rakshasa God power, Su Mo decided to preserve it unless his life was at stake. The next morning, Shrek's students enjoyed a lavish breakfast before gathering at the training ground, where Yu Xiaogang was waiting.

• Su Mo learned that Bibi Dong had become his Second Martial Soul when his spirit awakened and that her Divine Sense could be burned to grant him temporary Rakshasa God power.
• Su Mo chose not to burn Bibi Dong's Divine Sense, valuing her help and keeping the power as a last-resort trump card.
• Su Mo decided to let Bibi Dong continue watching Yu Xiaogang, hoping she would see his true nature for herself.
• The Shrek students ate a lavish breakfast, and Ning Rongrong shared food with Su Mo while Ma Hongjun and Oscar joked about the couples at the table.
• Zhu Zhuqing left early after Dai Mubai looked her way, and the students later gathered on the training ground, where Yu Xiaogang asked whether they were full.

Yu Xiaogang began the students’ intensive training by arranging a series of fights, including Su Mo’s first battle against Tang San. Su Mo seized the initiative with his spear, leaving Tang San on the defensive as their fight reached a stalemate.

• Yu Xiaogang set a strict breakfast rule and ordered Dai Mubai to fight the other students without causing serious injury.
• Tang San defeated Dai Mubai with Spider Web Restraint after Yu Xiaogang lifted the restrictions on his soul skills.
• Yu Xiaogang paired Oscar and Ma Hongjun against Dai Mubai, then sent Tang San to replace Dai Mubai and fight one opponent.
• Yu Xiaogang matched Su Mo against Tang San, restricting Tang San’s special weapons and Third Soul Skill and forbidding Su Mo’s Soul Tool Fusion.
• Su Mo opened with Thundering Flash and pressed Tang San with successive spear attacks, while Tang San evaded with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and used Entanglement to interfere.

Su Mo pressed Tang San throughout their fight, but Tang San eventually trapped him with Spider Web Restraint. Su Mo conceded, yet Tang San admitted he had lost because he used his Third Soul Skill, and Yu Xiaogang stopped the other fight as well.

• Tang San used Mystic Jade Hand and Purple Demon Eyes to catch Su Mo's Soul Hunting Spear, then tried to bind him with Entanglement.
• Su Mo unleashed Overlord Strike through the spear and sent Tang San flying, then pursued him with Thundering Flash.
• Tang San used Spider Web Restraint to trap Su Mo, who conceded because he could no longer break free.
• Tang San withdrew the web and admitted defeat for using his Third Soul Skill, leaving Yu Xiaogang displeased.
• Yu Xiaogang ended Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun's fight, then rebuked Dai Mubai for blaming his loss on depleted Soul Power.

Yu Xiaogang criticized the students after their matches, praising Su Mo’s performance but faulting him for giving up, which Ning Rongrong challenged. Xiao Wu then quickly defeated Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, leaving Yu Xiaogang unable to find flaws in either side’s performance.

• Yu Xiaogang reviewed the mistakes Dai Mubai, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Tang San had made in their matches.
• Yu Xiaogang praised Su Mo’s tactics but criticized him for admitting defeat, and Su Mo calmly defended himself.
• Ning Rongrong supported Su Mo, arguing that he had fought hard and that Tang San had broken the rules first; Yu Xiaogang replied that training was also a battlefield.
• Tang San backed Yu Xiaogang and asked to continue training, so Yu Xiaogang arranged a final match between Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Xiao Wu used Teleport to take out Ning Rongrong, then defeated Zhu Zhuqing, while Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing’s coordination could not overcome her advantage.
• Su Mo helped Ning Rongrong up and praised her and Zhu Zhuqing for giving Yu Xiaogang nothing to criticize.

Yu Xiaogang began three months of weighted physical training for the Shrek students, while Su Mo continued fighting in Suotuo City's Great Soul Arena. Ning Rongrong secretly went to buy him a storage Soul Tool, prompting Bibi Dong to worry that Su Mo was becoming too attached to Shrek and to consider taking him away.

• Yu Xiaogang praised Xiao Wu for her Lightning Rabbit Soul Ring and ordered the students to run ten weighted laps around the village each day for three months.
• During the first week of training, Su Mo kept enough strength to fight daily at the Great Soul Arena, and Ning Rongrong later accompanied him to Suotuo City.
• Ning Rongrong sent Su Mo to wait outside the Great Soul Arena, then secretly entered the Auction House to choose a storage Soul Tool for him.
• Su Mo followed Ning Rongrong and asked Bibi Dong to look inside the Auction House, where she saw Ning Rongrong use her Gold Card to request the best storage Soul Tools.
• Bibi Dong realized Ning Rongrong had fallen for Su Mo and feared that his ties to Shrek would make him oppose Spirit Hall, so she decided he could not stay at Shrek, but she did not know how to persuade him.

Ning Rongrong gave Su Mo a costly storage Soul Tool, and the two discovered that their martial souls resonated after winning a spirit battle together. They returned hand in hand to investigate a possible Martial Soul Fusion Skill, while an unseen observer decided to report Ning Rongrong’s feelings to the sect master.

• Ning Rongrong gave Su Mo a storage bracelet worth two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, and Su Mo accepted and put it on.
• Su Mo and Ning Rongrong entered the Great Soul Arena and won a battle against two Agility Attack Type soul masters.
• After the match, Su Mo and Ning Rongrong realized their martial souls had resonated and discussed training to develop a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Su Mo concluded that their martial souls’ compatibility and their trust in each other had caused the Spirit Resonance, then took Ning Rongrong back to study it.
• An observer watched Su Mo and Ning Rongrong leave together and decided to report to the sect master that Ning Rongrong had someone she liked.

Bibi Dong finished teaching Su Mo about Martial Souls and struggled over how to convince him to leave Shrek Academy without revealing her identity. The next morning, Su Mo proposed replacing weighted runs with gravity training, and Yu Xiaogang accepted the idea while claiming he had considered it before.

• Bibi Dong told Su Mo he had learned all the Martial Soul knowledge she could teach and asked whether he would help her in the future.
• Su Mo promised to help if he could, then left the Rakshasa Domain before Bibi Dong could explain what she wanted.
• Bibi Dong decided to point out Shrek Academy's shortcomings to persuade Su Mo to leave, despite having previously suggested he attend.
• Su Mo proposed that Zhao Wuji use his Gravity Increase soul skill to train the students instead of having them run with weights.
• Yu Xiaogang approved gravity training, said the students were now strong enough for it, and claimed he had considered the method earlier.
• Tang San praised Yu Xiaogang for supposedly having thought of gravity training in advance.

Su Mo and the others began training under Zhao Wuji’s gravity enhancement, and Su Mo and Tang San stood out by practicing their techniques despite the pressure. Flender asked Yu Xiaogang who would be the team’s substitute, and Yu Xiaogang chose Su Mo because he doubted Su Mo’s low innate talent would let him keep pace with the others.

• Zhao Wuji agreed to provide gravity enhancement training, and the students struggled to move as he gradually increased the pressure.
• Su Mo encouraged Ning Rongrong, then practiced spear techniques under the gravity enhancement; Tang San followed by practicing Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.
• Flender and Yu Xiaogang watched the students train, and Flender challenged Yu Xiaogang for taking credit for Su Mo’s idea to use gravity training.
• Flender asked Yu Xiaogang which of the eight students would be a substitute, and Yu Xiaogang named Su Mo.
• Yu Xiaogang argued that Su Mo’s low innate Soul Power talent made his future cultivation uncertain, so he was better suited to be a substitute.

Bibi Dong overheard Yu Xiaogang and Flender plan to make Su Mo a substitute, while Su Mo focused on his training and planned to leave Shrek with Ning Rongrong. At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo learned of Su Mo’s remarkable achievements and were shocked by his Thousand Year second Soul Ring.

• Bibi Dong angrily heard Yu Xiaogang and Flender decide to limit Su Mo’s role, then realized their plan might help her persuade Su Mo to leave Shrek.
• Su Mo continued Gravity Training and Soul Tool Refinement without knowing Yu Xiaogang considered him a substitute, and planned to take Ning Rongrong with him when he left Shrek.
• Sword Douluo received a report that Ning Rongrong had grown close to Su Mo and angrily prepared to bring her back from Shrek Academy.
• Ning Fengzhi stopped Sword Douluo and read the report, learning that Su Mo had a Thousand Year second Soul Ring and undefeated records in both combination and individual spirit arena matches.
• Sword Douluo read Su Mo’s information and learned that his powerful physique and training had allowed him to absorb a Soul Ring beyond the usual limit.

Ning Fengzhi sent Sword Douluo to Shrek Academy to assess whether Su Mo could become a suitable partner for Ning Rongrong. On the way, Sword Douluo encountered Tang Hao, who revealed Xiao Wu’s identity as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and admitted that Tang San was his son.

• Ning Fengzhi asked Sword Douluo to visit Shrek, judge Su Mo’s potential, and decide whether to allow him to be with Ning Rongrong.
• Sword Douluo flew toward Shrek Academy and knocked back a Clear Sky Hammer thrown by Tang Hao.
• Tang Hao revealed himself to Sword Douluo and clarified that Su Mo had no real connection to him.
• Tang Hao told Sword Douluo that Tang San was his son and warned him that Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

Sword Douluo summoned Su Mo to test him before discussing his relationship with Ning Rongrong. Impressed by Su Mo’s combat skill and Soul Tool Fusion, Sword Douluo ended by questioning whether Su Mo’s level 2 Innate Soul Power would let him protect Rongrong in the future.

• Sword Douluo declined to enter Shrek Academy after Tang Hao asked him not to pursue Xiao Wu, choosing to avoid conflict with Tang Hao and the Clear Sky Sect.
• Su Mo met Sword Douluo alone on a cliff behind Shrek Academy after receiving his summons and calmly identified Ning Rongrong as the reason for the meeting.
• Sword Douluo challenged Su Mo to attack, and Su Mo demonstrated Soul Tool Fusion by combining his Soul Hunting Spear with the Mystic Iron Spear.
• Su Mo used his soul skills and Overlord Spear Technique to attack Sword Douluo, forcing him to shift his feet while he blocked every strike.
• Sword Douluo praised Su Mo’s talent and skill, then asked whether Su Mo’s level 2 Innate Soul Power would let him protect Ning Rongrong.

Su Mo convinced Sword Douluo that he could protect Ning Rongrong by revealing their Spirit Resonance and his Soul Tool Refinement method, which could evolve martial souls and improve his talent. Sword Douluo accepted Su Mo and entrusted Ning Rongrong’s safety to him before returning to report to Ning Fengzhi.

• Su Mo told Sword Douluo that he and Ning Rongrong had developed Spirit Resonance and could eventually create a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Su Mo revealed Soul Tool Refinement, explained how it could evolve martial souls, and demonstrated his connection with the Mystic Iron Spear.
• Sword Douluo approved of Su Mo, agreed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would not oppose their relationship, and asked Su Mo to protect Ning Rongrong at Shrek.
• Sword Douluo told Su Mo to call him Sword Grandpa and prepared to return to tell Ning Fengzhi.
• Sword Douluo questioned how Su Mo had hunted his soul rings, then realized Su Mo had risked absorbing a thousand-year-quality Second Soul Ring based on Master's theory.

Ning Fengzhi praised Su Mo’s wisdom and arranged for him to receive an evolving Soul Hunting Spear, while Bibi Dong accepted that Su Mo and Ning Rongrong should remain together. Three months later, the group finished gravity training and learned that Yu Xiaogang would start a second phase after their day of rest.

• Ning Fengzhi agreed with Sword Douluo that Su Mo had wisely hidden his Thousand Year Soul Ring achievement and arranged for a better Soul Hunting Spear that could evolve over time.
• Bibi Dong grumbled that Ning Rongrong was not as suitable for Su Mo as Xue Er or Na Na, but decided not to separate the couple after learning they had a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Su Mo, Ning Rongrong, Tang San, and the others completed three months of gravity training under Zhao Wuji, and Yu Xiaogang ended the physical training program.
• Zhao Wuji announced that he was taking a vacation, while Yu Xiaogang told the group to rest for one day before beginning a second phase of special training.
• Ma Hongjun and Oscar left for Suotuo City, and Ning Rongrong asked Su Mo to guess what the next phase would involve.