Chapter Summaries

Zhu Ziyang and Jiang Nannan finished awakening the children of Zhangyang Village, where Han Li stood out with a Coiling Dragon Staff Martial Soul and Rank Eight Innate Soul Power. They returned to Beihe Village, and Zhu Ziyang approached his family home with excitement, unaware that his reunion would frighten him.

• Jiang Nannan awakened Yang Zhenzhen's Martial Soul and measured her Innate Soul Power at Rank Five.
• Zhu Ziyang discovered that Han Li possessed a Coiling Dragon Staff Martial Soul and Rank Eight Innate Soul Power, prompting Cai Meier to consider taking him as a disciple.
• Zhu Ziyang and Jiang Nannan awakened all seventeen children, eleven of whom had Innate Soul Power, then taught them how to cultivate.
• Cai Meier told Xian Liner she planned to bring Han Li to the academy, and explained why she had not taken Wang Yan as her disciple.
• Xian Liner and Cai Meier left Zhu Ziyang and Jiang Nannan at Beihe Village and returned to the academy.
• Zhu Ziyang saw Jiang Nannan home, then headed to his own house, anticipating his parents' reaction to his return.

Zhu Ziyang returned home to find that his parents had welcomed a second son, Zhu Ziguang, and gave them spirit herbs that strengthened their Soul Power. After helping Liang Ying improve to Level 38, he set out with Zhu Changhe, Jiang Nannan, and Hong Zhen for the Heavenly Radiance Grand Canyon to find Zhu Changhe a fourth Soul Ring.

• Zhu Ziyang surprised his parents at home and met his newborn little brother, Zhu Ziguang.
• Zhu Ziyang adjusted to having a younger brother and attended Zhu Ziguang's first-month celebration with Jiang Nannan.
• Zhu Ziyang gave Liang Ying a Thousand-Year Snow Lotus and Zhu Changhe an Earth Essence Fruit, then revealed his four Soul Rings to persuade them to accept the gifts.
• Liang Ying absorbed the Thousand-Year Snow Lotus and rose from Level 35 to Level 38, while Zhu Changhe planned to save his Earth Essence Fruit until after obtaining his fourth Soul Ring.
• Zhu Ziyang, Zhu Changhe, Jiang Nannan, and Hong Zhen set out for the Heavenly Radiance Grand Canyon to hunt for Zhu Changhe's fourth Soul Ring.

Zhu Ziyang and his companions searched Heavenly Radiance Grand Canyon for a suitable Soul Beast for Zhu Changhe, then watched a wounded Spined Armored Porcupine face a pack of Saber-toothed Light Wolves. As another pair approached to negotiate, Zhu Ziyang’s group prepared for a possible confrontation.

• Zhu Ziyang and Jiang Nannan told Uncle Hong and Zhu Changhe about Shrek Academy’s Outer Court and Inner Court, and Zhu Ziyang and Jiang Nannan said they could enter the Inner Court.
• Zhu Ziyang’s group spotted a wounded, four-thousand-year-old Spined Armored Porcupine surrounded by Saber-toothed Light Wolves and decided to wait for the beasts to weaken each other.
• Zhu Ziyang noticed an old woman and a young girl near the riverbed, and Uncle Hong judged that the old woman was about as strong as he was.
• Zhu Ziyang reasoned that the pair might be after either the wolves or the porcupine and said Uncle Hong would need to intervene if they wanted the porcupine.
• The old woman sensed Uncle Hong’s strength, took the young girl toward Zhu Ziyang’s group to negotiate, and Zhu Ziyang warned his companions to prepare for a fight.

Hong Zhen and Qian Zhiya agreed to join forces to hunt different Soul Beasts, while Zhu Ziyang recognized Qian Zhiya and her granddaughter Qian Lingyi as Angel Soul Masters who might descend from Spirit Hall's Pope Clan. Qian Lingyi blamed the Sea God for Spirit Hall's destruction, but Jiang Nannan suspected she did not know the full story.

• Qian Zhiya revealed that she wanted the three-thousand-year Saber-toothed Light Wolf for Qian Lingyi, while Hong Zhen said his group sought the four-thousand-year Spined Armored Porcupine.
• Hong Zhen and Qian Zhiya agreed to cooperate and attacked the battling Soul Beasts together as Zhu Ziyang, Jiang Nannan, Qian Lingyi, and Zhu Changhe watched.
• Zhu Ziyang asked Qian Lingyi about her Martial Soul and deduced that she and Qian Zhiya were Angel Soul Masters, possibly descendants of Spirit Hall's former Pope Clan.
• Zhu Ziyang explained the Angel Martial Soul's history and its connection to Spirit Hall, and Jiang Nannan learned that Shrek's founders had destroyed Spirit Hall a thousand years earlier.
• Qian Lingyi claimed that the Sea God had defeated the Angel God over faith, but Jiang Nannan challenged her and realized she did not know the full truth.

After returning from Heavenly Radiance Grand Canyon, Zhu Ziyang discussed faith and the paths to godhood with Electrolux, then spent his remaining holiday with his parents. The chapter ended as Zhu Ziyang and Jiang Nannan left Beihe Village and met Xian Liner and Cai Meier, who had come to escort them.

• Hong Zhen brought the defeated Spined Armored Porcupine to Zhu Changhe, who killed it, absorbed its Soul Ring, and reached level 43.
• Qian Lingyi asked Qian Zhiya about Zhu Ziyang and Jiang Nannan, then said she wanted to travel the world; Qian Zhiya agreed once she reached Soul Ancestor and told her to take her father's surname, Ye.
• Zhu Ziyang asked Electrolux about faith, and Electrolux explained the difference between Faith Gods and Law Gods and advised him to pursue becoming a Law God.
• Zhu Ziyang left thirteen Greater Essence Gathering Pills for Zhu Changhe and Liang Ying, while continuing to avoid pills for his own cultivation and Jiang Nannan's.
• Zhu Ziyang and Jiang Nannan said goodbye to their parents at Beihe Village and met Xian Liner and Cai Meier on the road.

Zhu Ziyang entered Shrek Academy’s Inner Court assessment, where he watched Dai Yueheng and several other seniors pass before facing Han Ruoruo himself. He reached the required distance with a spatial shockwave and a swift leap, passing the assessment.

• Zhu Ziyang asked Xia Yu to let him take the Inner Court assessment, and Xia Yu agreed.
• Dai Yueheng fought a Soul Saint examiner for fifteen minutes and passed the assessment, followed by several other sixth-year students.
• Zhu Ziyang faced Han Ruoruo, whose test required him to get within one meter of her in five minutes.
• Zhu Ziyang used a spatial shockwave to loosen Han Ruoruo’s Shaking Gold Ropes, then cut through them and landed beside her.

Zhu Ziyang settled into the Inner Court and reunited with Xing Cai and Zhang Lexuan before visiting his former classmates. He left for a major Shrek City auction with Jiang Nannan, Tang Ya, and Beibei, where they were astonished by the extravagant bidding.

• Zhu Ziyang entered the Inner Court, received Mu En's advice, and packed his few belongings from his cabin.
• Zhu Ziyang met Xing Cai beneath the Golden Ancient Tree and saw that her cultivation had risen to three thousand and fifty years.
• Zhu Ziyang had lunch with Zhang Lexuan and Dai Yueheng, who showed his nervous affection for Zhang Lexuan.
• Zhu Ziyang visited his former Outer Court classmates, then left with Jiang Nannan, Tang Ya, and Beibei for an auction featuring a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Zhu Ziyang and his companions attended the auction and were amazed by the enormous bids.

Zhu Ziyang learned that Mu En had made Zhang Lexuan vow to protect Shrek Academy and become Beibei’s child bride, then helped her break free of the vow’s hold. He left Zhang Lexuan asleep by Sea God Lake while Mu En watched in amazement at the power of Zhu Ziyang’s Ultimate Light.

• Mu En told Zhu Ziyang that he had made Zhang Lexuan promise to protect Shrek Academy and become Beibei’s child bride, and that he regretted burdening her with the vow.
• Mu En asked Zhu Ziyang to help persuade Zhang Lexuan to abandon the vow, and Zhu Ziyang agreed to do his best.
• After Mu En spoke with Zhang Lexuan in the Sea God Pavilion, Zhu Ziyang accompanied her to Sea God Lake, where she cried over the vow and her feelings for Beibei.
• Zhu Ziyang used the Light of Righteousness to strengthen Zhang Lexuan’s familial affection for Beibei and help her let go of her obsession with the vow.
• Zhang Lexuan fell asleep, and Mu En appeared beside her as Zhu Ziyang said that the matter should now be resolved.

After a month of meditation, Zhu Ziyang discovered that the Great Light Mantra was the foundation of his path and fully mastered King's Descent. He took Jiang Nannan and Yan Shaozhe to search Sunset Forest for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, hoping to find its treasures and the Ice Dragon King's remains.

• Zhu Ziyang realized that the Great Light Mantra defined his path and formed the basis of his King's Descent.
• Mu En praised Zhu Ziyang's progress, and Zhu Ziyang promised to shoulder Shrek's future before reuniting with Jiang Nannan.
• Zhu Ziyang decided to search for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after learning of its possible connection to the Ice Dragon King and its spiritual herbs.
• Zhu Ziyang recruited Yan Shaozhe, who agreed because the well might hold a cure for Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire.
• Yan Shaozhe, Cai Meier, Zhu Ziyang, and Jiang Nannan reached Sunset Forest and suspected its miasma concealed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Zhu Ziyang, Jiang Nannan, Yan Shaozhe, and Cai Meier investigated Sunset Forest and discovered that spreading miasma had killed many soul beasts and weakened the forest. After Yan Shaozhe failed to disperse the miasma concealing the suspected Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, they decided to search the forest below for whoever controlled it.

• Zhu Ziyang's group entered Sunset Forest and found only weak soul beasts despite traveling deep into it.
• Yan Shaozhe and Cai Meier discovered corpses and bones, and Cai Meier concluded that the miasma was poisoning soul beasts and worsening in a deadly cycle.
• The group spotted a vast miasma cloud over the forest's center, where Jiang Nannan sensed spiritual herbs and Zhu Ziyang suspected the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well lay concealed beneath it.
• Yan Shaozhe's soul skills failed to affect the cloud until his Ninth Soul Skill dispersed much of it and revealed a valley, but the miasma quickly gathered again.
• Cai Meier urged Yan Shaozhe to stop attacking and search for the person controlling the miasma, so the group flew down into the forest.

Zhu Ziyang and the others discovered that a vast colony of Jade Scale Flowers was producing Sunset Forest’s poisonous miasma and likely concealing the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Zhu Ziyang’s Ultimate Ice could suppress the flowers but could not clear a path, and Electrolux woke as the group prepared to give up.

• Zhu Ziyang identified the poisonous plants as Jade Scale Seven Absolutes Flowers, including intelligent Jade Scale Nine Absolutes Flowers with at least ten-thousand-year cultivation.
• Cai Meier, Zhu Ziyang, Yan Shaozhe, and Jiang Nannan concluded that the colony was probably cultivated to hide the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Jiang Nannan recognized that the Jade Scale Flowers feared cold, so Zhu Ziyang used his Heavenly Frost Holy White Dragon Martial Soul to freeze the miasma and make nearby flowers close.
• Zhu Ziyang’s Ultimate Ice suppressed the flowers for over ten meters, but his Soul Power ran low and the flowers bloomed again, preventing the group from crossing the colony.
• Yan Shaozhe and Cai Meier decided to retreat and return when Zhu Ziyang was stronger, and Electrolux suddenly spoke to Zhu Ziyang after half a year of sleep.

Zhu Ziyang used the World-Pacifying Death Scythe’s Power of Death to destroy the poisonous Jade Scale Flowers and began leading the group through their cluster toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Elsewhere, two powerful men learned that intruders had reached the protected area, and one left to drive them away without killing them.

• Electrolux awoke and reminded Zhu Ziyang that his Power of Death could counter the Jade Scale Flowers.
• Zhu Ziyang’s death-filled blade ray withered the flowers in its range, and he refined their life force to increase the ages of his Soul Rings.
• Yan Shaozhe, Cai Meier, Zhu Ziyang, and Jiang Nannan agreed to seek the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before clearing the whole flower cluster.
• Jiang Nannan guided the group through the Jade Scale Flowers while Zhu Ziyang cleared their path and Yan Shaozhe and Cai Meier protected them.
• A blue-gold wind chime rang in an ancient castle, prompting a long-haired man to send his short-haired Second Brother to drive the intruders away without harming them.

Zhu Ziyang and his companions encountered a mysterious Limit Douluo in Sunset Forest and had to abandon their search for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. On the way back to Shrek Academy, Electrolux revealed that the man might serve a god guarding something inside the well, but said Zhu Ziyang could try again without disturbing the divine presence.

• Zhu Ziyang raised the ages of his Soul Rings while the group cleared poisonous flowers deeper in Sunset Forest.
• A powerful short-haired man appeared, warned the group to leave, and revealed nine Soul Rings, including two red ones.
• Yan Shaozhe and Cai Meier recognized the man as a Limit Douluo and fled with Zhu Ziyang and Jiang Nannan, postponing their search for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Electrolux told Zhu Ziyang that the stranger was stronger than Mu En and might possess divinity as a god's priest or a level-one-hundred Soul Master.
• Electrolux suspected a god's Divine Sense guarded the poisonous clouds and something inside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, but said Zhu Ziyang could try entering through the poisonous flowers without alarming it.

Yan Shaozhe and Cai Meier reported their encounter with a powerful figure to Mu En, who suspected the Body Sect and urged Shrek to avoid conflict. Zhu Ziyang discovered that Electrolux had left behind the Undead Demigod Plane and its army, making him their new master.

• Yan Shaozhe and Cai Meier told Mu En about the powerful figure, and Mu En suspected he belonged to the Body Sect.
• Mu En warned Yan Shaozhe and Cai Meier to avoid conflict with the Body Sect until Zhu Ziyang had grown stronger.
• Zhu Ziyang found a mysterious gray-white halo in his Spiritual Sea after Electrolux disappeared.
• Zhu Ziyang entered the halo with a wisp of his mind and met Electrolux in the Undead Demigod Plane.
• Electrolux gave Zhu Ziyang the plane and introduced its undead army, including five ninth-rank Kings of Undead Creatures.
• The five Kings of Undead Creatures accepted Zhu Ziyang as their new master, and his King's Descent rose another level.

Electrolux explained how light and death were connected through life force and purification, beginning Zhu Ziyang’s training in Light Necromancy. Later, Zhu Ziyang watched Jiang Nannan pass the Inner Court assessment and become an Inner Court disciple, while his complicated feelings about Zhang Lexuan remained unresolved.

• Electrolux taught Zhu Ziyang that light and death both revolved around life force, and that the World-Pacifying Death Scythe could balance them.
• Electrolux explained that light purified sin while death purified the soul, and Zhu Ziyang understood how purification could unite the two arts.
• During the days before school resumed, Zhu Ziyang and Jiang Nannan spent time with their Inner Court seniors, while Zhu Ziyang remained troubled by Zhang Lexuan’s feelings for him.
• Zhang Lexuan took Zhu Ziyang to watch the Inner Court assessment, where he encouraged Jiang Nannan as she competed.
• Jiang Nannan passed the assessment and happily announced that she had become an Inner Court disciple.

Tang Ya celebrated Jiang Nannan’s entry into the Inner Court and revealed that an Immortal Spirit Grass had transformed her Blue Silver Grass into Blue Gold Spirit Grass. At the academy’s selection for the Soul Master Tournament Main Team, Zhu Ziyang was chosen, and Jiang Nannan and Xixi were left to duel for the final spot.

• Tang Ya celebrated Jiang Nannan’s Inner Court admission with Zhu Ziyang, Beibei, Xu Sanshi, and Xue Weiwei, and playfully teased her about Beibei.
• Tang Ya recalled how absorbing a thousand-year Immortal Spirit Grass as her third Soul Ring had raised her Soul Power to level 32 and evolved her martial soul into Blue Gold Spirit Grass.
• Xian Liner gathered the eligible Inner Court disciples to fill gaps in Shrek Academy’s Main Team after Ma Xiaotao and two other Preliminary Team members became unavailable.
• Dai Yueheng, Ling Luochen, Gongyang Mo, and Chen Zifeng discussed the candidates, while Xian Liner assigned Zhu Ziyang to the Main Team and reserved a substitute place for a Soul Tool Department student.
• Xian Liner chose Jiang Nannan and Xixi to duel for the final Main Team position.

Jiang Nannan defeated Xixi in a fast-paced match, earning a place alongside Zhu Ziyang on Shrek Academy’s tournament Main Team. The six present learned that the team’s seventh member would come from the Soul Tool Department, while Ma Xiaotao might return if her Martial Soul problem was resolved.

• Xixi and Jiang Nannan traded rapid attacks until Xixi’s Lightning Leopard Soul Skill gave her the advantage.
• Jiang Nannan revealed golden armor, seized Xixi, and slammed her into the ground before Zhang Lexuan stopped the match and declared Jiang Nannan the winner.
• Xian Liner named Zhu Ziyang and Jiang Nannan among the six present Main Team members and urged them to prepare for the tournament and the Shrek Seven Devils title.
• Dai Yueheng asked about the seventh member, and Xian Liner explained that he was a Soul Tool Department student who had not yet entered the Inner Court; she also said Ma Xiaotao might return if her Martial Soul problem was resolved.
• Dai Yueheng welcomed Zhu Ziyang and Jiang Nannan, and the group agreed to gather at Tianying Pavilion that night.

Zhu Ziyang helped Ma Xiaotao suppress her increasingly difficult Evil Fire before joining Shrek Academy on an extermination mission against the Fallen Soul Masters led by Wei Changgong. The team killed Wei Changgong and his followers without casualties, completing the mission.

• Zhu Ziyang suppressed Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire and urged her to rest, while worrying about her growing attraction to him.
• Zhu Ziyang accompanied Jiang Nannan, Dai Yueheng, and other Shrek members on an inspection mission to a remote town in the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Cai Meier discovered that the group's leader, Wei Changgong, had reached Titled Douluo level, and Elder Song and Cai Meier joined forces against him.
• Zhu Ziyang used his World-Pacifying Death Scythe to kill the Bronze Hammer Soul Ancestor and the Blood-Eyed Wolf Soul Ancestor.
• The Shrek students gained the upper hand against Wei Changgong's followers while Elder Song and Cai Meier cornered Wei Changgong.
• Cai Meier pierced Wei Changgong's heart with the Evil Breaker Dragon Soul Spear, completing the mission without casualties.

After months of missions with Shrek Academy's Main Team, Zhu Ziyang reached Rank 50 at fourteen and traveled with Mu En to the Star Dou Great Forest for his Fifth Soul Ring. He chose a Death Attribute ring to balance his World-Pacifying Death Scythe, and Mu En found and subdued a seventy-thousand-year-old Hellhound for him.

• Ma Xiaotao returned to Shrek Academy's Main Team, and Zhu Ziyang repeatedly helped suppress her Evil Fire as it flared during missions.
• Jiang Nannan grew dissatisfied with Ma Xiaotao's behavior toward Zhu Ziyang.
• At fourteen, Zhu Ziyang reached Rank 50, prompting Mu En to take him to the Star Dou Great Forest for his Fifth Soul Ring.
• Zhu Ziyang asked for a Death Attribute Soul Ring to balance the attributes of his World-Pacifying Death Scythe.
• Mu En and Zhu Ziyang encountered a seventy-thousand-year-old Hellhound, and Mu En struck it down so Zhu Ziyang could absorb its Soul Ring.

Zhu Ziyang absorbed a seventy-thousand-year Hellhound Soul Ring, reached rank 52, and gained the powerful fifth Soul Skill Hell's Duel Arena. After returning to Shrek Academy, he arranged to visit Anyang City with Jiang Nannan and prepared to receive Electrolux's long-awaited gift.

• Zhu Ziyang absorbed the Hellhound Soul Ring while Mu En watched, and Scarlet King mourned the death of his offspring in the forest's core region.
• After four hours, Zhu Ziyang completed the absorption, became a rank-52 Soul King, and revealed that Hell's Duel Arena forced him and one opponent to fight until one killed the other.
• Mu En warned Zhu Ziyang to use Hell's Duel Arena cautiously before bringing him back to Shrek Academy.
• Zhu Ziyang received Mu En's permission to visit home and told Jiang Nannan they would leave for Anyang City the next day.
• Zhang Lexuan congratulated Zhu Ziyang and briefly mourned that she had no home to return to.
• Zhu Ziyang returned to his cabin, left the sleeping Xing Cai undisturbed, and prepared to receive Electrolux's gift.