Chapter Summaries

Gai Yue tested Oscar’s swordsmanship to decide whether he would stay at Shrek as a teacher, while Flender and Zhao Wuji recounted their history with him. Oscar impressed Gai Yue with his skill and unusual Jade Sword attacks, but the test’s outcome remained undecided.

• Gai Yue brought Oscar to the Spirit Dueling Platform and said he would teach swordsmanship at Shrek for five years if Oscar passed his test.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji told Ma Hongjun and the others how they had rescued Gai Yue during his hunt for a Sixth Spirit Ring and later helped him grow stronger.
• Gai Yue asked Oscar to attack him, and Oscar formed a Jade Sword from his External Soul Bone and exchanged thirty moves with him.
• Oscar split his Jade Sword into ten Soul Power swords and sent them at Gai Yue, who destroyed them with a sweep of his finger sword.
• Gai Yue praised Oscar’s foundation and combat strength against Weapon Spirit soul masters of the same level.

Oscar underwent Gai Yue’s final test, enduring icy soul power pressure far beyond his own level. He passed after lasting twenty minutes, and Gai Yue approved of his talent and temperament.

• Oscar ate a Super Recovery Great Sausage and explained its restorative effects to Gai Yue.
• Gai Yue enveloped Oscar in soul power pressure and an icy aura, instructing him to endure for fifteen minutes.
• Oscar withstood the test as Gai Yue steadily increased the pressure, while Ma Hongjun worried and Flender reassured him.
• After twenty minutes, with the pressure approaching Level 40, Oscar shattered the frost with his soul power and summoned his Jade Sword.
• Gai Yue told Oscar he had passed.

Oscar passed Gai Yue’s test and became his Direct Disciple, then celebrated his ninth birthday with the Shrek teachers. At the meal, Gai Yue revealed that he had reached Level 82 after hunting a seventy-thousand-year Spirit Beast alone, leaving the others astonished.

• Gai Yue accepted Oscar as his Direct Disciple and told him a bow was enough instead of kneeling.
• Gai Yue gave Oscar a jade-box birthday gift, and Oscar joined the Shrek teachers for the birthday meal.
• Oscar asked Gai Yue about his strength, and Gai Yue said he had reached Level 82 a month earlier.
• Flender revealed that Gai Yue had hunted a seventy-thousand-year Spirit Beast alone, obtained its Spirit Ring and Torso Bone, and broken through to Level 82.

After revealing his strength and rare Spirit Bones, Gai Yue told the Shrek teachers and students how the Wind Sword Sect destroyed his family’s sect and how he planned to avenge them. Oscar offered to help, but Gai Yue insisted he would wait until he was strong enough and handle the revenge himself.

• Flender revealed that Gai Yue had reached Level 82, killed a seventy-thousand-year Spirit Beast, and possessed a seventy-thousand-year Torso Bone, astonishing the Shrek group.
• Zhao Wuji and Flender congratulated Gai Yue, and everyone raised their cups to celebrate his strength.
• During dinner, Gai Yue explained that the Wind Sword Sect had destroyed his declining sect, and that his grandfather had given him the inherited Spirit Bone as Gai Yue escaped.
• Gai Yue said he had spent decades cultivating for revenge but would not attack the Wind Sword Sect until he could defeat it with certainty.
• Oscar offered to help avenge Gai Yue’s sect, but Gai Yue told him to focus on mastering his teachings and leave the family feud to him.

Gai Yue defended Oscar by sparring with Zhao Wuji and demonstrated his sword techniques as a lesson. Oscar said he understood the technique after watching once, surprising Gai Yue, who had needed two hours to learn it.

• Zhao Wuji tested Oscar in the courtyard, and Oscar ran to Gai Yue for help after failing to break through Zhao Wuji's defenses.
• Gai Yue agreed to spar with Zhao Wuji to defend his student, while Flender and Ma Hongjun cheered them on.
• Gai Yue summoned the Frost Moon Sword and used sword aura attacks to force Zhao Wuji to defend himself.
• Gai Yue demonstrated the Third Form of the Frost Moon Sword Technique, Frost Spreading Across the Sky, shaving Zhao Wuji's fur and leaving frost on him.
• Gai Yue asked Oscar what he had learned, and Oscar said he understood the technique but needed time to use it, surprising Gai Yue.

Gai Yue praised Oscar’s sword talent, became his teacher, and gave him the Frost Moon Sword Technique. Oscar began studying the manual that night, while Gai Yue settled into the academy and Zhao Wuji took his frustration out on Ma Hongjun.

• Gai Yue praised Oscar’s swordsmanship and said he might have become a Sword Douluo if he had possessed a sword martial soul.
• Oscar showed Gai Yue around the academy and chose a quiet residence for him in the eastern peach grove.
• Gai Yue learned that Oscar had lost his parents young and discovered that Ma Hongjun had also grown up without his parents.
• Zhao Wuji beat Ma Hongjun after Ma Hongjun laughed at him, while Flender watched and offered pointers.
• Gai Yue gave Oscar his family-inherited Frost Moon Sword Technique and explained that mastering sword intent required long practice.
• Oscar studied the manual’s nine forms, twenty-seven moves, and eighty-one chapters that night.

Oscar began serious sword training under Gai Yue while his diligence continued to influence the teachers at Shrek Academy. After Flender decided to search for Whale Rubber at sea, the disguised Shrek group set out for a coastal city to gather it before its uses became widely known.

• Oscar watched Gai Yue practice swordsmanship, began his first formal lesson in the Dao of the Sword, and followed a demanding daily training schedule.
• Gai Yue praised Oscar's perseverance and found that Oscar's example had made him more diligent, while Flender, Zhao Wuji, and the other teachers also benefited from the academy's changed atmosphere.
• Flender decided to take Shrek's teachers to sea to find Whale Rubber, and Oscar urged him to keep its true purpose secret.
• Flender assembled Shrek's powerful teachers, including Gai Yue, for the search, and one month after Oscar's birthday they disguised themselves and left for a coastal city.

Flender and the Shrek group traveled to sea to hunt whale-type spirit beasts for Whale Rubber, reaching a region inhabited by a Deep Sea Blue Whale Clan. After scouting the clan and assessing its strength, they launched an attack, leaving Oscar to watch from the ship.

• The group traveled from Suotuo City to Vast Sea City, rested, and bought a steamship and supplies for their voyage.
• After a week at sea, Flender found the Deep Sea Blue Whale Clan and confirmed that its forty-one members included a leader with over twenty-three thousand years of cultivation and three other Ten Thousand Year Level whales.
• Flender and the others planned to divide the clan’s forces, relying on Gai Yue to separate the battlefield so they could defeat the whales in groups.
• Oscar stayed behind with Ma Hongjun and Shao Xin while the captain and sailors prepared to flee if needed.
• Gai Yue carried Flender and the others toward the clan on his enlarged Frost Moon Sword to begin the attack.

Gai Yue and the others swiftly wiped out the Deep Sea Blue Whale Clan, then collected the whales’ bodies and jelly before sailing toward their next destination. They divided the whale jelly among the group and set out to consume it to improve their physical fitness.

• Flender, Zhao Wuji, Lu Qibin, Li Yusong, and Gai Yue attacked the Deep Sea Blue Whale Clan, with Gai Yue freezing the whales’ wave and helping finish the battle in fifteen minutes.
• Shao Xin used the fight to teach Oscar and Ma Hongjun to attack enemies with full force, and Oscar recognized how powerful Gai Yue and the others were.
• The group stored the whale corpses, sailed away to avoid attracting other Spirit Beasts, and counted their varied gains.
• Flender and the others kept the whales above the Five Thousand Year Level and extracted whale jelly from the rest after running short on Storage Spirit Tools.
• Oscar advised the group to consume the whale jelly instead of continuing to hunt, and Flender agreed after considering the limited benefits and the scarcity of Spirit Beasts.
• The group assigned the Over Twenty-Three Thousand Year Whale Jelly to Gai Yue, Ten Thousand Year Level pieces to Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Lu Qibin, and the remaining jelly to Li Yusong, Shao Xin, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun.

After Shrek’s expedition, the group returned with stronger physiques and improved Soul Power, while Oscar continued to advance through cultivation. A year later, Ma Hongjun obtained his Second Spirit Ring from a Phoenix-bloodline Spirit Beast, suppressing his Evil Fire and raising his Soul Power to level 22.

• The Shrek group used all forty-one pieces of Whale Rubber, improving everyone’s physique and raising each person’s Soul Power by one level.
• Gai Yue killed a fifty-thousand-year Serrated Demon Whale, and the group collected its body and Whale Rubber before beginning their return journey.
• Flender had the group harvest more whale-type Spirit Beasts and kept the value of Whale Rubber secret as they returned to Shrek Academy.
• After reaching the academy, Oscar continued cultivating and honing his swordsmanship, while the teachers improved the academy and served Spirit Beast meat at meals.
• Three months before his ninth birthday, Ma Hongjun reached level 20, and Flender selected a Phoenix-bloodline Spirit Beast for his Second Spirit Ring.
• Ma Hongjun absorbed a nine-hundred-and-ninety-year Spirit Ring, which suppressed his Evil Fire and brought his Soul Power to level 22; Oscar had reached level 27 at ten years and four months old.

Oscar reached level 30 and continued to develop his swordsmanship while Shrek Academy’s teachers and Ma Hongjun grew stronger. On the academy’s admissions day, Oscar went to see whether Dai Mubai had arrived and found him preparing to fight Ma Hongjun.

• Oscar broke through to level 30 and mastered Sword Flight and sword qi, while Gai Yue and the other Shrek teachers also increased their Soul Power.
• Ma Hongjun refined his close-combat skill and used his Phoenix Bathed in Fire ability to manage and strengthen his Evil Fire.
• Oscar wondered whether Dai Mubai would enroll at Shrek Academy and went to the registration area without eating lunch.
• Oscar arrived at the Spirit Dueling Platform, where Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai were about to fight under Zhao Wuji’s supervision.
• Ma Hongjun introduced Dai Mubai to Oscar as the only applicant that year with a chance of enrolling.

Ma Hongjun tested Dai Mubai in a Shrek Academy assessment and decisively defeated him, though Dai Mubai refused to give up after being injured. Impressed by Dai Mubai’s resolve, Oscar and Zhao Wuji saw promise in him, and Ma Hongjun gave him Oscar’s recovery sausage.

• Dai Mubai watched Oscar and learned more about Shrek Academy before Zhao Wuji resumed the assessment.
• Ma Hongjun revealed his Level 25 Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul, and Dai Mubai answered with his Level 25 White Tiger Martial Soul.
• Ma Hongjun attacked without using a Spirit Ability, and Dai Mubai broke his arm while blocking the blow with his First Spirit Ability.
• Dai Mubai refused to admit defeat and launched another attack, but Ma Hongjun used his Spirit Abilities to overwhelm him with flames.
• Ma Hongjun stopped before his flames could engulf Dai Mubai, then gave him Oscar’s Super Recovery Great Sausage.

After Dai Mubai earned admission to Shrek Academy, Oscar treated his injured arm and led him around the school. Dai Mubai learned Oscar was eleven and had reached level thirty, then asked whether he possessed Twin Martial Souls.

• Oscar's sausage restored Dai Mubai's strength, and Zhao Wuji confirmed Dai Mubai had passed by earning Oscar's recognition.
• Oscar bandaged Dai Mubai's fractured arm and introduced himself as Shrek's big brother, while Ma Hongjun warned Dai Mubai that he would have to beat him before challenging Oscar.
• Ma Hongjun told Dai Mubai that Oscar's training had helped him advance quickly, leading Dai Mubai to suspect Oscar had Twin Martial Souls.
• Zhao Wuji asked Oscar to show Dai Mubai around the academy, and Ma Hongjun went to help Teacher Li.
• Oscar told Dai Mubai about Shrek's powerful teachers and revealed that he had reached level thirty at age eleven.
• Dai Mubai asked Oscar if he was a Twin Martial Souls wielder because of his sausage Spirit Ability and swordsmanship.

Oscar explained to Dai Mubai that his Azure Spirit Jade Sword was an External Soul Bone rather than a second Martial Soul, then took him around Shrek Academy. After Dai Mubai became the only student admitted that day, Oscar set out with Gai Yue and Shao Xin to hunt Spirit Rings, leaving the story on their journey to Sunset Forest.

• Oscar showed Dai Mubai the Azure Spirit Jade Sword and explained how his External Soul Bone let him fight beyond the limits of a Food System Soul Master.
• Oscar took Dai Mubai to the cafeteria, where Dai Mubai was astonished to find food made from thousand-year-old Sea Spirit Beasts.
• Oscar enrolled Dai Mubai, then arranged to leave the next day because he and Shao Xin both needed Spirit Rings.
• Oscar chose Sunset Forest and a Pointed Tail Swift as the target for his Third Spirit Ring, while Shao Xin sought a suitable ring of his own.
• Gai Yue led Oscar and Shao Xin toward Sunset Forest as Flender and the others stayed behind to continue admissions.

Oscar and Gai Yue searched Sunset Forest for a Pointed Tail Swift suitable for Oscar’s Third Spirit Ring. After absorbing a 6,700-year ring, Oscar reached level 33 and prepared to reveal his new flight ability.

• Oscar, Gai Yue, and Shao Xin traveled to Sunset Forest and searched for a Pointed Tail Swift flock.
• Gai Yue identified a 6,700-year-old Pointed Tail Swift as a suitable target and captured it for Oscar.
• Oscar chose a flight Spirit Ability and killed the frozen Pointed Tail Swift with the Azure Spirit Jade Sword.
• Oscar absorbed the Purple Spirit Ring while Gai Yue guarded him and Shao Xin prepared food nearby.
• Oscar completed the absorption, stabilized at level 33, and told Gai Yue that his Third Spirit Ability was powerful.
• Gai Yue asked Oscar to introduce his Third Spirit Ability.

Oscar explained that his Third Spirit Ability let others fly for fifteen minutes at Pointed Tail Swift speed, and Gai Yue and Shao Xin were stunned by how his abilities would grow with his strength. After Oscar adapted to his gains, he joined Gai Yue and Shao Xin in heading into Sunset Forest’s core region to find Shao Xin a Seventh Spirit Ring, while wondering whether they might discover the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Oscar told Gai Yue and Shao Xin that his Third Spirit Ability granted fifteen minutes of flight at the speed of a roughly seven-thousand-year-old Pointed Tail Swift.
• Gai Yue and Shao Xin realized that Oscar’s three Spirit Abilities could grow stronger as his cultivation increased, while Oscar noted that his physical constitution and Spiritual Power had neared the Spirit King level.
• Shao Xin gave Oscar roasted Pointed Tail Swift meat, and Oscar cultivated through the night to familiarize himself with his improved strength.
• At dawn, Oscar followed Gai Yue to help Shao Xin seek a roughly forty-five-thousand-year Spirit Ring in Sunset Forest’s core region.
• Oscar considered searching for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well but recognized that Gai Yue could not overcome Dugu Bo’s poison formation and that Oscar’s detoxification ability could not cure such lethal poison.

Oscar and Shao Xin waited in a Ten Thousand Year Spirit Beast’s territory while Gai Yue tracked a possible Seventh Spirit Ring for Shao Xin. Oscar killed an injured Purple Poison Viper that charged at them, then a green-haired girl with a snake tail arrived and accused him of killing her Spirit Beast.

• Oscar, Shao Xin, and Gai Yue searched Sunset Forest for a suitable Seventh Spirit Ring for Shao Xin, but found nothing for half a month.
• Gai Yue tracked a Spirit Beast with at least forty thousand years of cultivation and left Oscar and Shao Xin in the territory he had cleared.
• Shao Xin sensed a thousand-year Spirit Beast approaching, and Oscar prepared his Jade Sword and Flying Swallow Sausages.
• An injured Purple Poison Viper charged out of the grass, and Oscar killed it with Frost Moon Slash.
• A short green-haired girl with a snake tail arrived and angrily asked Oscar why he had killed her Spirit Beast.

Oscar met Dugu Yan in Sunset Forest after killing the Purple Poison Viper she had been chasing for her Third Spirit Ring, and offered to help her find a replacement. Dugu Yan stayed with Oscar and Shao Xin while concealing that her grandfather, Dugu Bo, was nearby, and the chapter ended when she declined Oscar’s offered handshake for personal reasons.

• Oscar recognized Dugu Yan after killing the Purple Poison Viper, then calmly explained that it had attacked his camp and offered to help her find another spirit beast for her Third Spirit Ring.
• Dugu Yan accepted Oscar’s offer and revealed that she had come with her grandfather but been separated from him while chasing the viper.
• Dugu Bo watched from the shadows as Dugu Yan chose to stay with Oscar and Shao Xin, while Oscar offered to help reunite her with her grandfather.
• Oscar introduced himself as a student of Shrek Academy, and Dugu Yan said she had not entered an academy yet.
• Oscar offered Dugu Yan his hand in greeting, but she lowered her raised hand and apologized that personal reasons prevented her from shaking it.

Oscar discovered that Dugu Yan was ashamed of the deadly poison in her body and reassured her that it did not make her unworthy of friendship. The two began to grow closer, and Oscar offered to share their roasted meat while they waited for his teacher to return.

• Oscar guessed that Dugu Yan's deadly poison made her fear others would despise her, and she was startled that he had noticed it.
• Oscar explained that he had recognized the poison as an apothecary and encouraged Dugu Yan not to see her condition as a flaw.
• Oscar told Dugu Yan that he had overcome the limits of his food-system martial soul, and she thanked him for helping her believe they could be friends.
• Oscar took Dugu Yan's hand, then explained that his poison resistance and greater strength made the brief contact safe.
• Oscar invited Dugu Yan to share roasted meat and said they would find her Grandpa after his teacher returned.

Oscar shared a barbecue with Dugu Yan, earned her trust by discussing his medicinal knowledge, and persuaded her to consider joining his academy. Dugu Yan was tempted by the invitation and shocked to learn that Oscar was only eleven and already a Soul Elder.

• Shao Xin prepared grilled meat for Dugu Yan, who praised his cooking and ate until she was full.
• Oscar chatted with Dugu Yan, explained how he had studied medicinal theory, and learned that she was fifteen and seeking her Third Spirit Ring.
• Dugu Yan told Oscar about her loneliness and her plan to attend Heaven Dou Royal Academy at her grandfather's urging.
• Oscar invited Dugu Yan to join his academy, and she became interested in its promise to welcome unusual geniuses.
• Dugu Yan learned Oscar was eleven years old and had already reached Soul Elder, leaving her astonished.