Chapter Summaries

Tang Lan gave Tang San 300 Gold Soul Coins, built a working Python Revolver, and arrived at Shrek Academy with Xiao Wu, where Ning Rongrong confronted him. The chapter left Tang Lan facing Ning Rongrong as Flender’s strict admissions process cleared the line.

• Tang Lan gave Tang San 300 Gold Soul Coins, and Tang San hurried away to retrieve his reserved treasure.
• Tang Lan forged a Python Revolver, loaded it with armor-piercing Bullets, and taught Xiao Wu how to use it.
• Tang Lan and Xiao Wu arrived at Shrek Academy, where Tang Lan recognized Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong; Ning Rongrong approached him to ask about his Martial Soul.
• Xiao Wu challenged Ning Rongrong for ordering Tang Lan around before an applicant demanded his tuition back at the front of the line.
• Li Yusong explained Shrek’s strict admissions rules and displayed his six Soul Rings, while Dai Mubai noticed Tang Lan and Xiao Wu in the crowd.

Tang Lan, Xiao Wu, Tang San, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing qualified to skip Shrek Academy’s preliminary tests, and Dai Mubai led them inside. Tang Lan teased Ning Rongrong about her interest in him before they encountered Oscar selling sausages.

• Dai Mubai let Tang Lan skip the preliminary tests, and Tang Lan and Xiao Wu revealed they were twelve-year-old Three-Ring Soul Elders.
• Tang Lan presented a Spirit Hall certificate when Li Yusong struggled to verify his age, while Tang San also proved he was twelve and level 27.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing demonstrated that their Soul Power exceeded level 25, and Li Yusong admitted all five newcomers to the Fourth Gate.
• Ning Rongrong asked Tang Lan if he felt anything for her, Xiao Wu objected, and Tang Lan said he did and suggested they talk after the test.
• Oscar approached with his sausage cart, Dai Mubai ordered him to make a fresh sausage, and Oscar reluctantly chanted his incantation as the others recoiled.

Tang Lan led the newcomers through Shrek Academy’s sausage test and took command of their assessment against Zhao Wuji. After revealing his level 40 strength and arranging the team, he signaled everyone to attack, determined to unleash his full power and pass without giving Tang San a chance to show off.

• Tang Lan ate Oscar’s sausage, convincing Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Tang San to follow, while Ning Rongrong refused.
• The group passed the earlier gates and reached the Fourth Gate, where Zhao Wuji agreed to test whether they could withstand him for an Incense Stick’s Worth of Time.
• Dai Mubai explained Zhao Wuji’s strength, and the newcomers chose Tang Lan to lead their fight.
• Tang Lan revealed his level 40 Life Spirit Blue Silver Grass and three Soul Rings, then had everyone introduce their martial souls and abilities.
• Tang Lan handed the Python Revolver to Xiao Wu for Ning Rongrong and arranged the team’s formation without asking Zhu Zhuqing to boost him.
• Tang Lan ordered the team to move and prepared to fight Zhao Wuji at full power.

Tang Lan and his companions fought Zhao Wuji, using Ning Rongrong’s Python Revolvers and their coordinated soul skills to injure and overwhelm him. As Zhao Wuji unleashed his fifth soul skill, Tang Lan revealed the Thunder Flame Haotian Hammer and launched Soaring Sky Strike, leaving the attack’s result unknown.

• Ning Rongrong surprised Zhao Wuji by shooting him with Python Revolvers, then used her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to boost the group.
• Xiao Wu combined attacks with Tang Lan and Zhu Zhuqing to throw Zhao Wuji into a crater, but he emerged with his Martial Soul Possession activated.
• Tang Lan’s Life Spirit Blue Silver Emperor absorbed Zhao Wuji’s energy and exploded, while Tang San narrowly evaded Zhao Wuji’s counterattack.
• Zhao Wuji used Gravity Enhancement and Gravity Squeeze to trap the group, but Tang Lan leaped in front of Tang San and summoned the Thunder Flame Haotian Hammer.
• Tang Lan launched Soaring Sky Strike at Zhao Wuji just as he prepared to defend himself.

Tang Lan defeated Zhao Wuji during Shrek’s entrance test and led the group to pass, then his Blue Silver Domain evolved to grant him control over Mental Power. The group learned that his domain was exceptionally rare, while Tang San’s resentment reached Tang Lan through their new mental link.

• Tang Lan used the Life Spirit Blue Silver Emperor and Thunder Flame Haotian Hammer to send Zhao Wuji crashing through a wooden house, then reminded him that the incense had burned out.
• Zhao Wuji honored the test’s rules and left, and Tang Lan’s teammates praised his strength and tactics.
• Tang Lan’s performance earned him command authority over the Shrek Seven Devils and triggered the second evolution of his Blue Silver Domain into a Mental Domain.
• Tang Lan linked everyone’s minds, explaining that they could use Mental Power to communicate and coordinate without being overheard.
• Ning Rongrong explained the rarity of domains, and Tang San’s jealousy passed through the mental link to Tang Lan.

Tang Lan settled in at Shrek Academy, used his Blue Silver Domain to make dorm rooms, and watched Tang Hao beat Zhao Wuji and Flender. When Ning Rongrong sneaked into his room to ask about reloading the Python Revolver, Tang Lan disarmed her and challenged her to play roulette.

• Tang Lan advised Tang San to study the Blue Silver Domain, then accepted Ning Rongrong's Gold Bricks for the Soul Tools and offered Tang San a blueprint for the Python Revolver.
• Dai Mubai led the students to the dormitories, and Tang Lan used his Blue Silver Domain to build two grass huts for himself and Tang San.
• Tang Lan watched Tang Hao beat Zhao Wuji and Flender, then pretended to sleep when Tang Hao visited his room.
• Ning Rongrong sneaked into Tang Lan's room with Soul-Bewitching Incense and tried to take his Blue King, then explained that she wanted a way to replenish the Python Revolver's bullets.
• Tang Lan sealed the room, took the Python Revolver from Ning Rongrong with Blue Silver Grass, loaded one bullet, and invited her to play roulette.

Tang Lan frightened Ning Rongrong with a staged Russian roulette game, forcing her to reflect on her behavior before he let her go. The next morning, he and Xiao Wu wandered into a village, where they found Ma Hongjun pressuring Cuihua for sex before she left him.

• Tang Lan made Ning Rongrong believe she might be shot, took her gold, and fired a harmless bullet that revealed the trick.
• Ning Rongrong recognized her past misbehavior, and Tang Lan received submachine-gun proficiency and weapons knowledge as a reward.
• Xiao Wu spent the night with Tang Lan, and the next morning they shared an oversized breakfast before strolling around.
• Tang Lan and Xiao Wu wandered into a nearby village and saw Ma Hongjun pleading with Cuihua to have sex with him once more before she left.

Tang Lan punished Ma Hongjun for insulting Xiao Wu, then Ma Hongjun backed down after learning who Tang Lan and Xiao Wu were and what they had accomplished. After Oscar summoned Tang Lan to Dean Flender’s class, Tang Lan headed for the training ground with two newly forged Uzi submachine guns.

• Xiao Wu defended Cuihua, but Ma Hongjun flirted with her and insulted her, prompting her to summon her martial soul and attack him.
• Tang Lan struck Ma Hongjun between the legs with his Life Spirit Blue Silver Emperor, leaving him howling as Xiao Wu laughed.
• Dai Mubai introduced Tang Lan and Xiao Wu as powerful new students and told Ma Hongjun about their fight with Teacher Zhao, so Ma Hongjun apologized and promised to watch his mouth.
• Dai Mubai explained that Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire affected his personality, and Tang Lan warned Ma Hongjun about the consequences of offending him.
• Tang Lan spent the morning forging two Uzi submachine guns, then Oscar told him to meet at the training ground for Dean Flender’s class.

Tang Lan showed off the Uzi and gave Tang San blueprints to study, while Flender put the students through a running drill. Tang Lan revealed his three Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings and Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone to Flender, who marveled at his strength before turning serious.

• Xiao Wu test-fired Tang Lan’s Uzi, and Tang Lan gave Tang San the weapon blueprints and tasked him with making bullets.
• Flender ordered the students to run laps, but let Tang San leave after reading Yu Xiaogang’s letter.
• Tang Lan explained that Tang San had borrowed money from him to reserve the ore, and Flender agreed to honor the reservation.
• Flender asked about Tang Lan’s unusual Blue Silver Grass Soul Rings, so Tang Lan revealed three black rings and his Soul Bone.
• Flender praised the strength of Tang Lan’s Life Spirit Blue Silver Grass and then turned solemn.

Tang Lan fought Flender to prove he deserved freedom to arrange his training at Shrek Academy, forcing the level 78 Soul Sage to use powerful skills despite their disparity in strength. Flender discovered that Tang Lan’s golden defense deflected most physical force and sought to overcome it with a different kind of attack.

• Flender told Tang Lan that Shrek Academy required graduation students to reach level 40 and challenged him to prove he deserved special treatment.
• Tang Lan trapped Flender with Life Burial, then detonated the vines and forced Flender to use his sixth soul skill, Golden Cat Eagle.
• Tang Lan charged Flender with the Thunder Flame Haotian Hammer and used Dragon Grasping Hand to stop him from escaping.
• Tang Lan feinted, evaded Flender’s energy blades with Lingbo Microstep, and pressured him with repeated hammer strikes while the Blue Silver Emperor vines formed a cage and drained his Soul Power.
• Flender used Seek and Kill Weakness to spot the golden light protecting Tang Lan and prepared to attack him with magical damage.

Tang Lan fought Flender to a standstill, then pretended to be badly injured so the dean could preserve his dignity. After Flender praised Tang Lan and gave him more freedom, he asked him to help Ma Hongjun with the evil fire in his martial soul, but Tang Lan’s attempt also weakened Ma Hongjun’s Soul Power.

• Flender escalated his attacks, but Tang Lan absorbed and returned Soul Power, then defended against Flender’s tracking air blades with his hammer and Life Spirit Blue Silver Emperor.
• Tang Lan deliberately crashed to the ground and acted injured, allowing Flender to end the fight with his dignity intact; he privately explained the ruse to Xiao Wu.
• Flender praised Tang Lan’s strength, and Tang Lan accepted Recovery Sausages while the others gathered around him.
• Flender dismissed the other students, gave Tang Lan freedom to arrange his own time, and ordered Ma Hongjun to apologize for their earlier conflict.
• Flender asked Tang Lan to remove Ma Hongjun’s evil fire, and Tang Lan’s Nine Yang Divine Skill burned away both the sinister aura and some of Ma Hongjun’s Soul Power.
• Tang Lan withdrew his inner force and asked Ma Hongjun if he understood the problem himself.

Tang Lan exposed Ma Hongjun’s laziness, prompting Flender to impose harsher training and use Zhao Wuji’s gravity skill on the students. Ning Rongrong was brought back tied up, and she angrily confronted Flender as he prepared to discipline her.

• Tang Lan revealed that Ma Hongjun had chosen food and women over training to manage his evil fire, and Flender punished him with doubled training and a ban on visiting those places.
• Tang Lan suggested Zhao Wuji use Gravity Enhancement during the students’ run, and Flender ordered the training to resume under increased gravity.
• Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Tang Lan jogged together while Tang San, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun struggled to keep moving under the gravity.
• Dai Mubai returned with Ning Rongrong tied up, and she angrily challenged Flender for having her bound.
• Flender touched Ning Fengzhi’s letter and prepared to confront Ning Rongrong’s defiance.

Flender confronted Ning Rongrong about her spoiled behavior, and Tang Lan made her recognize the loneliness her attitude could bring. After earning the Shrek students’ approval through his weighted training and forging, Tang Lan received a rifle mastery reward that included sniper rifles, while Zhu Zhuqing’s admiration for him grew.

• Flender ordered Dai Mubai to pack Ning Rongrong’s luggage, then stunned her by revealing Oscar’s Innate Full Soul Power and Tang Lan’s extreme training weights.
• Ning Rongrong ran off crying, and Tang Lan found her and bluntly explained that her behavior would leave her without trustworthy companions; she began to recognize her mistakes.
• Tang Lan received mastery of rifles, including sniper rifles, and left Ning Rongrong alone to reflect.
• Tang Lan forged metal under Zhao Wuji’s gravity field, while Tang San joined him; their different results earned Tang Lan Shrek’s approval and a Soul Ring Age increase reward.
• The training ended when Zhao Wuji ran out of Soul Power, and the exhausted students marveled at Tang Lan’s strength as Zhu Zhuqing’s admiration for him grew.

Tang Lan established the Tang Sect, welcomed Zhu Zhuqing and Tang San as disciples, and tested the Barrett sniper rifle’s power and range. The test showed it could threaten Zhao Wuji from a great distance, and Tang San wondered whether he could hit Zhao Wuji’s eye from beyond 4,000 meters.

• Dai Mubai explained that he had fled the Star Luo Empire’s deadly succession contest and abandoned Zhu Zhuqing, who had been hunted by her sister Zhu Zhuyun.
• Tang Lan accepted Zhu Zhuqing as the Tang Sect’s third disciple, gave her Python Revolvers, and named Xiao Wu Second Senior Sister and Tang San First Disciple.
• Tang Lan received Soul Tool crafting rewards, including Storage Mastery and Blue Silver Grass signal conversion mastery, then introduced the Barrett to Tang San.
• Tang San fired the Barrett at Tang Lan’s Thunder Flame Haotian Hammer and demonstrated that the shot could sharply redirect it.
• Tang San tested the Barrett against Zhao Wuji’s Life Spirit Blue Silver Grass and martial soul defense, showing that it could threaten a Seven-Ring Soul Sage at 1,000 meters.
• Tang San tested the rifle at increasing distances, found it could penetrate Zhao Wuji’s physical defense through 3,000 meters, and asked whether a shot to Zhao Wuji’s eye could still hit beyond 4,000 meters.

Tang Lan taught Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong Lingbo Microstep while recruiting Ning Rongrong into the Tang Sect and persuading Tang San to develop a rapid-fire weapon. The chapter ended with Tang San puzzling over how to protect the propellant formula by placing a self-destruct mechanism inside bullets.

• Zhao Wuji said that a Barrett could threaten even powerful opponents if its user could strike their eyes from long range, and Tang Lan gave Tang San a scope blueprint for forging.
• Flender assigned Ma Hongjun 600 jin of weights, while Tang Lan sent the others to Tang San to have their weights made.
• Tang Lan accepted Ning Rongrong as the Tang Sect’s Fourth Disciple and gave her a Uzi; she promised to bring her father to invest in the academy and buy Soul Tools.
• Tang Lan forged weighted training gear for Zhu Zhuqing and taught her Lingbo Microstep, then taught the technique to Ning Rongrong.
• Tang Lan encouraged Tang San to create an automatically reloading, multi-barreled weapon, then proposed hiding a self-destruct mechanism in its bullets to protect the propellant formula.

Tang Lan returned to Shrek with a Storage Soul Tool and new firearms, then arranged a demonstration for Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin. Ning Rongrong’s weapons impressed them, and the chapter left Chen Xin facing repeated Barrett shots.

• Tang Lan bought materials in Suotuo City, spent three days preparing a surprise, and returned to Shrek with a Storage Magazine and a Storage Ring for Tang San.
• Tang San showed Tang Lan his tamper-proof bullet design and Gatling Gun, and Tang Lan gave him the Storage Ring.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin arrived at Shrek, and Tang Lan brought Xiao Wu along to meet them despite her fear that Chen Xin might expose her identity.
• Tang Lan proposed testing the Tang Sect’s Firearm Soul Tools, with Ning Rongrong demonstrating them against Chen Xin.
• Chen Xin easily caught Ning Rongrong’s revolver and Uzi rounds, but a Barrett shot forced him to defend himself as its bullet struck a tree branch a hundred meters away.
• Ning Rongrong fired several more Barrett shots at Chen Xin.

Tang Lan demonstrated the destructive power of his firearm Soul Tools and revealed a Communication Soul Tool that could connect people anywhere on the continent where Blue Silver Grass grew. Ning Fengzhi recognized its importance and began private negotiations with Tang Lan, who offered the manufacturing blueprints with an unstated condition.

• Ning Rongrong's Gatling Gun forced Chen Xin to defend himself, and Tang Lan explained that the firearms could threaten even powerful Soul Masters and armies.
• Tang San's long-range Barrett shots struck Chen Xin, and Tang Lan stopped Chen Xin from retaliating by explaining that the attacks were a test.
• Ning Fengzhi offered to buy 500 firearm sets, but Tang Lan gave him blueprints for the Python Revolver and Uzi instead, claiming the Heaven Dou Empire could use them to unify the continent.
• Tang Lan had Chen Xin test a Communication Soul Tool and demonstrated that it could connect across any distance where Blue Silver Grass grew.
• Ning Fengzhi realized the Communication Soul Tool could let the Emperor control the whole empire and usher in unification, then cleared the training ground to negotiate privately with Tang Lan.

Tang Lan negotiated a partnership with Ning Fengzhi, trading Soul Tool blueprints and techniques for resources, protection, and a twenty-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion Tail. After absorbing the soul bone, Tang Lan summoned it to inspect the result.

• Tang Lan gave Ning Fengzhi blueprints for the Python Revolver, Uzi, and Communication Soul Tool, while the Tang Sect retained control of bullet production and the communication core.
• Tang Lan revealed the locations of nine Blue Silver Kings and other rare Blue Silver Grass, and Ning Fengzhi agreed to relocate them and seek protection for Blue Silver Grass by imperial decree.
• Tang Lan and Ning Fengzhi agreed to become sworn brothers, exchanged cultivation techniques, and Ning Fengzhi gave Tang Lan a seventy-thousand-year Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Heart Separation Control secret art.
• The system rewarded Tang Lan with a twenty-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion Tail, and Tang Lan later traded the first three layers of the Nine Yang Divine Skill to Chen Xin for Chen Xin's sword insights and soul-ring condensing technique.
• Ning Fengzhi left to arrange the partnership and promised to introduce Tang Lan to Xue Qinghe, while Tang Lan returned to his dormitory and absorbed the Ice Jade Scorpion Tail.
• After three hours in out-of-body mode, Tang Lan returned to his body and summoned the Ice Jade Scorpion Tail.

Tang Lan gained the Ice Jade Scorpion Tail and tested its devastating soul bone skill before using whale rubber and a seventy-thousand-year Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng to strengthen himself and Xiao Wu. After Xiao Wu reached level 37 and fled from his advances, Ning Rongrong approached Tang Lan to claim the cultivation technique he had promised her.

• Tang Lan summoned the Ice Jade Scorpion Tail, discovered its powerful Flame Freeze Poison Needle skill, and gained about 5,000 years of Soul Ring Age.
• Tang Lan ate three pieces of Thousand-Year Whale Rubber, gained a modest increase to his Soul Ring Age, and learned from Chen Xin's notes how to turn soul rings into leaves attached to his martial soul.
• Tang Lan gave Xiao Wu the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng and fed her four pieces of Whale Rubber before helping her absorb the ginseng's overwhelming Inner Force.
• Xiao Wu reached level 37 and brought forward her complete transformation to level 50, then kissed Tang Lan before using Teleport to escape him.
• Ning Rongrong waited for Tang Lan and asked him to fulfill his promise to teach her a cultivation technique.

Tang Lan recruited Shrek students and staff into the Tang Sect while training them, and Dai Mubai’s decision to join earned Tang Lan the True Martial Seven Intercept Formation. The chapter left Zhao Wuji appointed as Martial Hall Master and set to receive additional cultivation techniques.

• Ning Rongrong chose Dragon Grasping Hand, and Tang Lan taught it to her before heading to the cafeteria and training ground.
• Tang Lan watched the students train, then told Oscar and Ma Hongjun they could join only as second-generation disciples; Tang San offered to accept them if they swung heavy hammers ten thousand times in seven days under Zhao Wuji’s gravity without using Soul Power.
• Oscar accepted Tang San’s challenge, Ma Hongjun refused, and Dai Mubai approached Tang Lan to join the Tang Sect as an outer sect disciple.
• Dai Mubai’s submission gave Tang Lan leadership of Shrek and earned him the True Martial Seven Intercept Formation; Tang Lan gave Dai Mubai its cultivation method and the first three levels of the Nine Yang Divine Skill.
• Zhao Wuji asked to join the Tang Sect, and Tang Lan appointed him Martial Hall Master, planning to give him the Undying Imprint Technique and the first layer of the Nine Yang Divine Skill.