Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xian settled into Shrek Academy, paid his tuition, and met Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun. After Flender brought Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun back to the training ground, he ordered Xiao Xian to spar with Ma Hongjun.

• Xiao Xian found his dormitory, arranged his belongings, and reflected on waiting for Tang San's graduation and Tang Hao's return.
• Xiao Xian paid Teacher Li one hundred Gold Soul Coins, then Dai Mubai showed him around Shrek Academy.
• Xiao Xian met Oscar and Ma Hongjun, learned about the academy's teachers, and spent the day getting familiar with the school.
• Flender arrived at the training ground carrying Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, who were both dizzy from the trip.
• Flender told Xiao Xian to step forward and spar with Ma Hongjun.

Flender arranged a sparring match between Xiao Xian and Ma Hongjun, forbidding Xiao Xian from using his Martial Soul to assess his other abilities. Xiao Xian countered Ma Hongjun’s Phoenix flames with powerful palm techniques, and the fight ended with his redirected fireball smashing into Ma Hongjun’s face.

• Flender told Xiao Xian not to use his Martial Soul against Ma Hongjun, while warning Ma Hongjun that losing would double his training.
• Ma Hongjun activated Phoenix Possession and attacked with Phoenix Fire Line, but Xiao Xian dodged the flames with a gust of wind.
• Xiao Xian used a jade-colored palm to unleash a gale that scattered Ma Hongjun’s first stream of fire.
• Ma Hongjun strengthened himself with his second Spirit Skill and fired a stronger, wavering stream of flames at Xiao Xian.
• Xiao Xian used a suction force between his palms to gather Ma Hongjun’s flames into a fireball, then sent it curving back into Ma Hongjun’s face.

Xiao Xian defeated Ma Hongjun without revealing his martial soul, then discussed his unusual spirit rings and future training with Flender. Back at the cabin, he showed Oscar how his self-created skills depended on his spirit-ring abilities, but Oscar’s attempt to experience one ended with him coughing up blood.

• Xiao Xian silently reached Ma Hongjun after knocking him down, prompting Ma Hongjun to concede the duel.
• Flender told Xiao Xian to pay Teacher Li nine Gold Soul Coins each month and asked about his first two spirit rings and their soul skills.
• Xiao Xian explained that his rings came from a four-hundred-year Sunlight Blood Dragon Vine and a seven-hundred-year Bright-eyed Dragon Tiger, and Flender decided to give his training extra attention.
• Oscar asked how Xiao Xian fought without using his martial soul, and Xiao Xian demonstrated that his strength came from self-created skills enhanced by his spirit skills.
• Xiao Xian warned Oscar that his First Soul Skill could make Soul Power chaotic, but Oscar tried it anyway and coughed up blood.
• Xiao Xian carried Oscar to Flender, who took him to find Shao Xin.

Xiao Xian spent enrollment day at Shrek Academy, where no applicant reached the fourth test, while Tang San and Master struggled with his departure and the risks of his cultivation. Flender took Xiao Xian outside Suotuo City, leaving Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar far behind.

• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun learned that Oscar had weakened himself using a soul skill, and Ma Hongjun thanked Xiao Xian for holding back during their spar.
• Xiao Xian helped at Shrek Academy's enrollment, but no applicant reached the fourth test, leaving him seated all day.
• Tang San mourned Xiao Xian's departure as he hammered iron, and he remembered that the Sunlight Spores and Blowing Fire Palm were no longer available to him.
• Master regretted not supporting Xiao Xian more as he recalled Xiao Xian's painful cultivation and his warning about failing.
• Flender led Xiao Xian along a road outside Suotuo City, and Xiao Xian kept pace while Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar fell far behind.

Flender took Xiao Xian and the others to the Soto Great Spirit Arena and imposed a grueling training regimen on Xiao Xian, requiring him to fight brutally without using his martial soul. Xiao Xian understood that the fights could temper his body and Soul Power, and accepted the plan as Flender prepared to protect him.

• Flender met Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Xiao Xian at Suotuo City's South Gate and led them to a tea stall near the Soto Great Spirit Arena.
• Flender explained that Xiao Xian needed combat experience and ordered him to face opponents head-on, taking their attacks and defeating them with his fists.
• Flender assigned Xiao Xian, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun One-on-one and Two-on-two matches, with Xiao Xian potentially fighting as many as six times in one day.
• Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar were shocked by Flender's demands, while Xiao Xian calmly agreed.
• Xiao Xian reasoned that repeated fights could strengthen his body and meridians, refine his Soul Power, and help him overcome his stalled progress at level twenty-eight.

Xiao Xian began fighting at the Soto Great Spirit Arena, defeating Lone Wolf in a One-on-one match before teaming up with Ma Hongjun against two Swallow Spirit Masters. The Swallows took to the air, but Xiao Xian used his Air Walking technique to dodge their attack and counter with Blowing Fire Palms.

• Xiao Xian registered for One-on-one and Two-on-two matches, while Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun also signed up for One-on-one battles.
• Ma Hongjun quickly defeated a vine-wielding opponent with his purple flames.
• Xiao Xian, fighting as Black Robe Number One, used his speed and a powerful strike to knock Lone Wolf off the platform.
• Xiao Xian registered for a Two-on-two match with Ma Hongjun, and they faced two Swallow Spirit Masters who could fly.
• Xiao Xian stomped in midair to evade the Swallows' coordinated attack, then launched Blowing Fire Palms at them.

Xiao Xian won a second one-on-one Soul Battle after defeating Bell Tower through relentless close combat and disrupting his Soul Power at the decisive moment. Flender then sent him into a two-on-two match with Oscar despite Xiao Xian being nearly exhausted, and Oscar secretly gave him recovery sausages.

• Xiao Xian revealed that he could briefly fly, then accepted Oscar’s Iron Spirit Badge from Flender and was ordered to keep fighting.
• Xiao Xian faced Bell Tower and matched the strength-type Soul Master in repeated fist-to-fist clashes, relying on Violent Step and Mysterious Jade Hand.
• As both fighters neared their limits, Xiao Xian caused Bell Tower’s Soul Power to turn chaotic, removing his Soul Ring enhancement, then punched him into the arena’s protective ropes.
• After Xiao Xian’s victory, Flender ordered him to fight in a two-on-two match with Oscar, and Oscar secretly gave him recovery sausages on the way to the waiting room.

Over ten months, Xiao Xian endured brutal training and spirit battles, advancing his Mysterious Jade Body while struggling to break through to Level 30. After another attempt left him coughing blood, he told Oscar that he had not failed.

• Flender had Xiao Xian face dangerous spirit battles to force him to reach his potential, while Zhao Wuji began beating him before each match.
• Xiao Xian spent his days recovering and cultivating, then endured Zhao Wuji’s beatings and fought at the Soto Great Spirit Arena, where Black Robe became famous.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun tried Xiao Xian’s training method but quit, while Oscar failed to master Xiao Xian’s Self-Created Soul Skill.
• Ten months later, Xiao Xian attempted to break through from Level 29 to Level 30 after his Mysterious Jade Hand spread across his body.
• Xiao Xian spat blood after the attempt, ate Oscar’s sausages, and insisted that he had not failed.

Xiao Xian broke through to Level 30 after ten months of brutal training, despite suffering internal injuries when his soul power turned chaotic. After celebrating his achievement with Shrek Academy, he prepared to travel with Flender to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain his Third Spirit Ring.

• Xiao Xian told Oscar that he had reached Level 30 and asked him to request leave from Zhao Wuji while he recovered from his breakthrough injuries.
• Oscar alerted Shrek Academy, and Flender and Zhao Wuji rushed over as Xiao Xian used the Mysterious Heaven Skill to stabilize his meridians and suppress his violent soul power.
• After recovering, Xiao Xian accepted congratulations and gifts from Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, Oscar, and the Shrek teachers, then celebrated with everyone in Suotuo City.
• The next day, Xiao Xian told Flender that he had chosen and located the spirit beast for his Third Spirit Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Flender prepared for the journey, and Xiao Xian met him before they set out together.

Flender took Xiao Xian to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a Dragon Crocodile for his spirit ring. After finding a young Dark Gold Dragon Crocodile near a lake and realizing it belonged to a family, Flender left to capture one alive while Xiao Xian waited in a hidden tree hollow.

• Flender flew Xiao Xian toward the Star Dou Great Forest and reminded him that he had to kill his own spirit beast.
• Xiao Xian and Flender searched the forest’s lakes and followed a crocodilian bite mark to a nearby Dragon Crocodile.
• Flender spotted a young Dragon Crocodile by a lake, and Xiao Xian identified it as too young to be his target.
• Flender realized the young Dragon Crocodile might have a family and flew off to capture a suitable one alive.
• Xiao Xian hid in a hollowed-out tree and waited for Flender to return.

Xiao Xian used Dragon Whisker Needles and throwing knives to kill a two-thousand-year Dark Gold Dragon Crocodile and absorb its Soul Ring as his Third Spirit Ring. By morning, Xiao Jue had undergone a major transformation, and Xiao Xian prepared to reveal his Third Soul Skill to Flender.

• Flender returned with a Dark Gold Dragon Crocodile, and Xiao Xian emerged from his hiding place to face it.
• Xiao Xian wounded the crocodile with Dragon Whisker Needles, then kept his distance and wore it down with throwing knives until it died and formed a purple Soul Ring.
• Xiao Xian thanked Flender and began absorbing the Soul Ring while Flender watched over him.
• The Soul Ring’s power fused with Xiao Xian and Xiao Jue, whose body grew larger and developed a dragon-like muzzle and faint dragon-type pressure.
• After several hours, Xiao Xian opened his eyes with yellow, yellow, and purple Soul Rings around him, and Flender asked what his Third Soul Skill was.

Xiao Xian gained the Dark Gold Dragon Crocodile's Kiss as his third soul skill and returned to Shrek Academy with Flender. After falling asleep, he woke to find most of his Soul Power gone and heard a distant roar outside.

• Xiao Xian explained that his third soul skill, Dark Gold Dragon Crocodile's Kiss, could corrode enemies from within and might improve Soul Power circulation after recovery.
• Xiao Xian summoned Xiao Jue to strip the Dark Gold Dragon Crocodile's corpse while he collected its Dragon Whisker Needles.
• Flender and Xiao Xian left the Star Dou Great Forest, stopped for food, and returned to Shrek Academy by afternoon.
• Flender told Xiao Xian to rest and write to his teacher, then anticipated that Xiao Gang might soon visit.
• Xiao Xian summoned Xiao Jue outside the dormitory, let it adapt to its strengthened Soul Rings, and slept until midnight.
• Xiao Xian woke with less than thirty percent of his Soul Power and heard a distant roar, then recognized the situation and relaxed.

Xiao Xian returned to Shrek Academy after breaking through to Soul Elder and watched Xiao Jue defeat Dai Mubai in a test of strength. That night, he prepared to use Xiao Jue’s Third Spirit Ring to address his meridian problem, ending by stabbing himself in the wrist with Xiao Jue’s fang.

• Xiao Jue used evasive tactics and gales to defeat Dai Mubai without revealing its Third Spirit Ring, while Zhao Wuji and Flender watched.
• Xiao Xian arrived and recalled Xiao Jue, then explained that he was a Summoning System Soul Master whose Martial Soul could fight independently.
• Dai Mubai challenged Xiao Xian to a proper face-to-face match, and Xiao Xian agreed to fight another time.
• Xiao Xian returned to the dormitory, then secretly cleaned a cabin and brought out the rabbit corpses and Xiao Jue.
• Xiao Xian activated his Third Spirit Ring on Xiao Jue, sat before its jaws, and stabbed his wrist with one of its fangs.

Xiao Xian endured the Dark Gold Dragon Crocodile’s purple energy transforming his meridians, then recovered enough to discover that his meridians had grown tougher and his Soul Power circulated faster. He decided to test whether the purple energy could serve as a cultivation aid.

• Xiao Xian let Xiao Jue bite his wrist and endured the purple glow repeatedly corroding and rebuilding his meridians.
• At daybreak, Xiao Xian woke Oscar and ate recovery sausages before collapsing back into bed with severe pain and exhaustion.
• Oscar fetched Flender, who examined Xiao Xian, fed him candy pills, and told Oscar to watch over him.
• Dai Mubai visited, saw Xiao Xian lying motionless, and returned to his dormitory to cultivate.
• After waking in the evening, Xiao Xian found his meridians tougher and his Soul Power circulating faster, with some of it turning into controllable purple light.
• Xiao Xian decided to test whether he could use the purple light as a cultivation accelerator, and Oscar greeted him as he sat up.

Xiao Xian experimented with Purple Light Soul Power, completing the transformation of his meridians while considering how to help Oscar with the Sunlight Spores. With his Third Spirit Ring goals achieved and the semester nearly over, he decided it was time to leave Shrek Academy.

• Xiao Xian offered to help Oscar find a way to use the Sunlight Spores without their side effects, but Oscar said he had given up after repeated failures.
• Xiao Xian ate Dragon Crocodile Meat with Xiao Jue, then tested his newly purple Mysterious Jade Hand and found it could spread Purple Light Soul Power into a bird’s meridians.
• Xiao Xian judged that Purple Light Soul Power increased his killing power and Suction Palm strength without interfering with the Sunlight Spores, and decided to keep observing it.
• A month later, Xiao Xian had transformed all his meridians into Purple Light Meridians and found that the accumulated power matched what he gained from cultivating the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• Xiao Xian concluded that he had achieved all his Third Spirit Ring goals and decided to leave as Tang San and Xiao Wu neared graduation from Nuoding Junior Spirit Master Academy.

Xiao Xian left Shrek Academy under the pretense of training Xiao Jue, while secretly traveling toward a location near Sacred Soul Village. He waited in disguise for Xiao San’s journey toward Shrek to bring him within reach.

• Xiao Xian showed Flender signs that Xiao Jue might be evolving and said he wanted to leave for training; Flender agreed and secretly followed him after he departed.
• Xiao Xian told the teachers, Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, and Oscar that he was leaving, then packed and set out with Xiao Jue.
• Xiao Xian used Sunlight Spores to detect Flender’s pursuit and continued traveling until Flender stopped following him.
• Xiao Xian headed toward a hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone, hoping its vitality could heal hidden injuries in his body.
• Xiao Xian studied and destroyed a map marking a waterfall near Sacred Soul Village, then traveled into a mountain range in Fasnu Province.
• Xiao Xian disguised himself in Spirit Hall attire and Blue Silver Grass-scented clothing, then waited for Xiao San to approach Suotuo City.

Xiao Xian reached the waterfall cave near Sacred Soul Village and took the Blue Silver Emperor and a powerful right leg bone, then covered his tracks and traveled toward Suotuo City. He arrived near the city the next morning, intending to find Xiao San while keeping the stolen treasures hidden from Tang Hao.

• Xiao Xian followed the river to the waterfall and found the concealed entrance to the cave behind it.
• Xiao Xian dug up the Blue Silver Emperor and sealed it with its soil in an iron box inside his Soul Tool.
• Xiao Xian transferred the complete right leg bone from a lead box into his own and fled the cave.
• Xiao Xian planted misleading signs at the waterfall, disposed of his clothes and the lead box, and traveled through the night.
• Xiao Xian approached Suotuo City the next morning after circling through the vicinity of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Xiao Xian returned to Shrek Academy exhausted from his journey and rested while Dai Mubai and Li Yusong received prospective students. He woke to Tang San and his companions fighting Zhao Wuji, and the chapter ended as Tang San used a forceful palm technique that surprised Zhao Wuji.

• Xiao Xian reached Shrek Academy, greeted Dai Mubai and Li Yusong, and went to rest after eating sausages from Oscar.
• Xiao Xian woke to the commotion of Tang San and his companions battling Zhao Wuji in the academy's open area.
• Tang San used Blue Silver Grass and Xiao Wu attacked Zhao Wuji, but Zhao Wuji broke free of the vines and overwhelmed her attacks with his Martial Soul Possession.
• Tang San charged Zhao Wuji and used Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon to pull him off balance with a palm strike.
• Zhao Wuji recognized Tang San's technique as Suction Palm and thought of Xiao Xian.

Tang San and Xiao Wu passed Shrek Academy’s assessment after Zhao Wuji’s test ran out of time, and Xiao Xian reunited with them. Xiao Xian showed the newcomers to their cabins and arranged to introduce them to the academy, while Xiao Wu asked him to clean her dusty dormitory.

• Xiao Wu used her Waist Bow to slam Zhao Wuji into the ground while Tang San caught her with Blue Silver Grass.
• Xiao Xian arrived and pointed out that the incense had burned out, so Zhao Wuji declared Tang San, Xiao Wu, and the other two applicants passed.
• Xiao Xian led the new students to the dormitories and told them to meet at his cabin in half an hour.
• Tang San chose the cabin beside Xiao Xian’s, and Xiao Xian’s Sunlight Spore calmed him and quickened his Soul Power.
• Xiao Wu found the girls’ dormitories filthy and begged Xiao Xian to use his Blowing Fire Palm to clean hers.

Xiao Xian welcomed Xiao Wu, Tang San, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing to Shrek Academy and showed them around. Ning Rongrong grew quiet after learning that the other Support System Spirit Masters had Innate Full Soul Power, while Xiao Xian left Tang San to talk with him.

• Xiao Xian summoned Xiao Jue to help Xiao Wu clean the dorms, then rested while Tang San and the girls finished settling in.
• Xiao Xian woke and led Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing on a tour of Shrek Academy, introducing them to the teachers and students.
• Xiao Xian told Ning Rongrong that Oscar, Tang San, and Xiao Wu had Innate Full Soul Power, and Ning Rongrong became noticeably quiet when she compared herself with them.
• Xiao Xian introduced Oscar, Shao Xin, and Ma Hongjun, then explained that Shrek had only four students besides the newcomers.
• Xiao Xian ended the tour and asked Tang San to come with him.