Chapter Summaries

Ye Zhiqiu brought the group to the Soto Great Soul Fighting Arena, where they registered and rented a VIP room. Xiao Wu began her first solo match against Qing Bao, who underestimated her and planned to take her opening attack without fighting back.

• Ye Zhiqiu paid the group's registration fees, and they registered for solo and duo Soul Fighting under their chosen combination names.
• Ye Zhiqiu rented a VIP room for the group, where they watched matches while waiting for Xiao Wu's turn.
• Xiao Wu went to the South Arena and faced Qing Bao, a powerful-looking Spirit Master with an Iron Horned Ox Spirit.
• Qing Bao urged Xiao Wu to leave, while Xiao Wu warned him to summon his Spirit and charged at him with a kick to the neck.
• Qing Bao chose not to dodge or summon his Spirit, expecting Xiao Wu's attacks to be harmless.

Xiao Wu defeated Qing Bao with her Waist Bow skill, while Ye Zhiqiu arrived at the South Arena to face the seductive Qingcheng. Qingcheng tried to charm him, but he dismissed her appearance and name.

• Xiao Wu hooked Qing Bao with her legs, activated Waist Bow, and kicked him out of the arena.
• Xiao Wu checked on Qing Bao, accepted his respectful call of Sister Xiao Wu, and registered her victory.
• Ye Zhiqiu was summoned to fight Qingcheng at the South Arena and left the VIP room for his match.
• Qingcheng flirted with Ye Zhiqiu, while Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu teased each other in the VIP room.
• Ye Zhiqiu called Qingcheng's name tacky, and she challenged him to judge her beauty.

Ye Zhiqiu defeated the veiled Qingcheng in an instant, then helped arrange the outcome of Shrek’s first two-person match so Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing could win. The chapter left Tang San and Xiao Wu beginning their match against the Iron Blood Duo.

• Ye Zhiqiu tore off Qingcheng’s veil, recoiled at her face, and knocked her unconscious with a kick to win their spirit battle.
• Ye Zhiqiu returned to Ning Rongrong and flirted with her, while Tang San admired his skill and the others reacted to their affection.
• Shrek’s first two-person match pitted the Spirit Glass Combination against the Evil Sausage Combination.
• Ye Zhiqiu told Oscar and Ma Hongjun to lose on purpose for a reward, explaining that he wanted Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing to build confidence by winning.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing acted out their match against Ma Hongjun and Oscar, while Tang San and Xiao Wu faced the Iron Blood Duo, a pair of hammer-wielding twins.

Ye Zhiqiu predicted Tang San’s hidden strength and prepared for a Soul Fight with Dai Mubai, who was matched against the Blazing Fire Combination. The chapter ended as Dai Mubai faced Huowushuang and Huo Wu alone and all three introduced themselves before the battle.

• Ye Zhiqiu told Dai Mubai that Tang San’s true combat strength could rival his and that Tang San’s trump cards might defeat him instantly.
• Ye Zhiqiu correctly predicted that the northern arena’s match would end soon, and the Great Soul Arena announced that Autumn White Combination would face Blazing Fire Combination.
• Ye Zhiqiu recognized Huowushuang and Huo Wu as formidable opponents, while Dai Mubai resolved to fight them despite sensing their strength.
• Dai Mubai stepped onto the arena alone as Ye Zhiqiu sat down to watch, and Huo Wu demanded that he call his companion forward.
• Dai Mubai introduced himself as a Level 36 White Tiger Soul Elder, and Huowushuang and Huo Wu revealed their spirits and levels.

Dai Mubai fought Huo Wu and Huowushuang alone in the northern arena, struggling against their coordinated attacks and stronger Spirit Power. The chapter ended as his White Tiger Violent Light Wave collided with Huowushuang’s Blazing Dragon Fury.

• Huo Wu summoned six fire serpents with Fire Shadow Bind while Huowushuang charged Dai Mubai with his Flame Dragon Martial Soul.
• Dai Mubai activated White Tiger Body Protection Barrier and White Tiger Adamant Transformation, crushing one fire serpent before Huowushuang engaged him in close combat.
• Dai Mubai’s punch drove Huowushuang back, but Huo Wu’s fire serpents tripped him and restrained his legs.
• Huowushuang began charging Blazing Dragon Fury as Dai Mubai fell, prompting Dai Mubai to fire White Tiger Violent Light Wave to interrupt him.
• Huowushuang completed Blazing Dragon Fury, and its crimson beam collided with Dai Mubai’s white beam.

Dai Mubai and Huowushuang clashed in the arena until Huo Wu used Repulsion Fire Ring to blast Dai Mubai out and secure his apparent defeat. Ye Zhiqiu then kicked Huowushuang out of the arena and approached Huo Wu, leaving her wary of his unexplained speed.

• Dai Mubai used White Tiger Violent Light Wave to hold off Huowushuang's Blazing Dragon Fury while both fighters exhausted their Soul Power.
• Huo Wu used Repulsion Fire Ring to interrupt Dai Mubai's attack and blast him out of the arena, leaving him injured by Soul Power backlash.
• Huowushuang approached Dai Mubai and praised him, but Ye Zhiqiu appeared behind Huowushuang and kicked him out of the arena.
• Dai Mubai teased Huowushuang about Ye Zhiqiu's strength and called him Boss Qiu.
• Huo Wu recalled that Ye Zhiqiu had crossed the arena too quickly for her to follow and watched him approach with a grave expression.

Ye Zhiqiu effortlessly defeated Huo Wu in the Soul Battle, and she later confronted him outside the Great Soul Arena, where Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing traded cutting remarks with her. The group left after celebrating their victories, while Huo Wu departed without learning Ye Zhiqiu’s name.

• Ye Zhiqiu dodged Huo Wu’s attack, flicked her forehead, and stood unmoved by her Repulsion Fire Ring, prompting Huo Wu to concede and leave the arena.
• Ye Zhiqiu and Dai Mubai won their Soul Battle, then rejoined Tang San and the others, who had also won except for Oscar and Ma Hongjun, who had deliberately lost.
• Ye Zhiqiu secretly gave Oscar and Ma Hongjun several hundred Gold Soul Coins each and promised them the rest after they returned to the academy.
• Outside the Great Soul Arena, Huo Wu approached Ye Zhiqiu to ask his name, but Ning Rongrong insulted her and Zhu Zhuqing backed Ning Rongrong with a cutting retort.
• Huo Wu left after seeing Zhu Zhuqing’s figure, while Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu silently compared themselves with her.

After the group returned to Shrek Academy, Ye Zhiqiu told Flender he planned to visit the Star Dou Great Forest the next day to obtain a spirit ring. Flender and Zhao Wuji eagerly offered to help, while Flender remained surrounded by the Gold Soul Coins he had collected.

• Ma Hongjun and Oscar left to visit a restaurant, and Dai Mubai followed after Zhu Zhuqing rejected him and headed back to the academy alone.
• Ye Zhiqiu led Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong back to Shrek Academy, where Xiao Wu kept asking about the restaurant.
• Ye Zhiqiu went to Flender's residence and found Flender sleeping atop a pile of Gold Soul Coins with Zhao Wuji beside him.
• Ye Zhiqiu told Flender and Zhao Wuji he planned to go to the Star Dou Great Forest the next day to hunt a spirit ring.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji insisted on helping Ye Zhiqiu, and he accepted before returning to his dormitory.

Ye Zhiqiu hid a plate of roasted rabbit so Xiao Wu would not see it and asked Shao Xin not to serve rabbit again. At breakfast, he found the Shrek Seven Devils tense after what appeared to be a fight the previous night.

• Ye Zhiqiu entered the dormitory while Ning Rongrong was bathing and teased her before letting her finish in private.
• Ning Rongrong woke Ye Zhiqiu early, and they went to the cafeteria together.
• Ye Zhiqiu spotted roasted rabbit at breakfast, stored it in his Black Jade Bracelet, and asked Shao Xin not to cook rabbit again because he claimed to be allergic.
• Ye Zhiqiu returned to the main hall and found Ma Hongjun bruised and glaring at Dai Mubai, while Dai Mubai glared at Zhu Zhuqing and Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong looked helpless.

Ye Zhiqiu teased the others about their upcoming training before Shrek Academy set out for the Star Dou Great Forest. Oscar revealed that he had reached level thirty, so the group planned to hunt spirit rings for both him and Ye Zhiqiu.

• Ma Hongjun asked Ye Zhiqiu to stand up for him after Dai Mubai beat him, but Ye Zhiqiu told him to reflect on his habit of exposing others' secrets.
• Ye Zhiqiu teased Tang San and the others when they asked why breakfast would not be so good the next day, then Flender announced the group's trip to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Oscar arrived late and revealed that he had broken through to level thirty, prompting Flender and Zhao Wuji to congratulate him.
• Flender told everyone they would hunt spirit rings for Oscar and Ye Zhiqiu, then went to Suotuo City to rent two carriages.
• The group gathered at Shrek Academy's entrance with their belongings and prepared to travel to the Star Dou Great Forest.

Ye Zhiqiu and the Shrek group traveled toward the Star Dou Great Forest, arriving at a busy settlement where they planned to rest before entering the forest. As they ate at a tavern, a man and seven students wearing Canghui insignias entered.

• Flender drove the first carriage poorly, while Qing Bao drove the second carriage steadily with Xiao Wu and the others aboard.
• Ye Zhiqiu, Ning Rongrong, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing shared the second carriage, while Dai Mubai and Oscar reluctantly rode with Flender.
• The group reached the settlement by evening on the third day, and Flender announced they would enter the Star Dou Great Forest together at eight the next morning.
• Ye Zhiqiu and the others booked rooms and ate dinner at a tavern, with Ye Zhiqiu paying for their meal.
• A middle-aged man in a silver-trimmed robe entered the tavern with seven students wearing Canghui insignias.

Ye Zhiqiu’s group encountered Canghui Academy at an inn, where a Canghui student provoked Dai Mubai and was brutally slapped in retaliation. The confrontation left Canghui Academy’s teacher furious and the conflict unresolved.

• Ye Zhiqiu recognized the Canghui Academy teacher shared his name and became eager to pick a fight.
• Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai insulted Canghui Academy, prompting its students to glare at them.
• A Canghui student deliberately collided with a waiter, but Tang San caught the falling dish and steadied the waiter.
• The Canghui student tried to kick Dai Mubai’s stool, and Dai Mubai blocked the kick before slapping him across the face.
• Dai Mubai sent the student flying into his group and mocked his earlier excuse by saying his hand had slipped.

A clash between Shrek Academy and Canghui Academy escalated from insults to a fight in the tavern. After Dai Mubai, Tang San, and Ma Hongjun drove off five students, Ye Zhiqiu confronted Canghui’s director and hurled him outside, then vanished from sight.

• The Canghui Academy students tried to attack Shrek Academy, but their teacher stopped them and demanded to know who they were.
• At Ye Zhiqiu’s instruction, Dai Mubai, Tang San, and Ma Hongjun beat five Canghui students and threw them out of the hotel.
• The Canghui director introduced himself as Ye Zhiqiu and demanded that Shrek’s teacher come forward.
• Shrek’s Ye Zhiqiu revealed that he was the academy’s vice dean, and the Canghui director mocked him and insulted the group.
• Ye Zhiqiu grabbed the director by the throat, dodged his knee strike, flung him outside, and disappeared from view.

Ye Zhiqiu brutally beat a Canghui Academy teacher who had insulted him, then left the man alive and returned to dinner. The next morning, Flender and Zhao Wuji gathered the group early to travel to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt soul beasts.

• The Shrek Seven Devils and the other diners rushed outside to watch Ye Zhiqiu fight the Canghui Academy teacher.
• Ye Zhiqiu beat the teacher with his bare strength, then broke through the man's Soul Power defense and sent him flying out of the settlement.
• Ye Zhiqiu dragged the badly injured teacher to the Canghui Academy students and told them a healing-type Spirit Master might still save him.
• Ye Zhiqiu returned to the hotel, ate dinner, and rested with the others for their journey the next day.
• Before dawn, Zhao Wuji woke the group, and Flender explained that they needed to leave early for the Star Dou Great Forest.

Shrek Academy's group entered Star Dou Great Forest to seek Soul Rings, with Ye Zhiqiu ordering the students to handle their own formation and combat. He revealed that he planned to hunt a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast for his fourth Soul Ring, or settle for one eighty or ninety thousand years old, leaving Flender and Zhao Wuji alarmed.

• Flender warned the group about Star Dou Great Forest and told Ye Zhiqiu to command the students while he and Zhao Wuji watched from behind.
• Ye Zhiqiu assigned the students their positions and told them to fight for themselves as they entered the forest.
• Dai Mubai cleared a path through the dense vegetation while Zhu Zhuqing scouted nearby and the others maintained formation.
• Flender questioned Ye Zhiqiu about his fourth Soul Ring, and Ye Zhiqiu said he would hunt a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast or settle for one eighty or ninety thousand years old.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji froze in shock, and Zhao Wuji pretended he needed to return to the academy.

Ye Zhiqiu followed Tang San and the others through the Star Dou Great Forest as they traveled toward its central region to find Oscar a suitable spirit ring. After the group reached the forest’s outer central region, Ye Zhiqiu appeared and offered to take watch while they rested.

• Flender and Zhao Wuji pretended to argue in front of Ye Zhiqiu, then discussed whether to help him hunt a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast and decided to play it by ear.
• Tang San led the Seven Monsters around a group of weak groundhogs, explaining that killing them would harm Soul Beast populations and their cries might attract predators.
• Ye Zhiqiu listened from above and approved of Tang San’s restraint, considering how he might use Spirit Hall’s power to protect Soul Beasts in the future.
• Dai Mubai led the group to the outer edge of the forest’s central region, where they stopped to eat and recover after fending off several Soul Beasts.
• Ye Zhiqiu revealed himself, told the group to rest while he kept watch, and walked toward Ning Rongrong.

The Seven Devils encountered a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent that Tang San identified as a suitable spirit beast for Oscar. Ye Zhiqiu rescued Zhu Zhuqing from its attack, and the group subdued the serpent, leaving Oscar’s chance to obtain its spirit ring unresolved.

• Ye Zhiqiu and Ning Rongrong rested with the Seven Devils before Tang San sensed something approaching.
• Zhu Zhuqing spotted a fast-moving flying snake, and Tang San identified it as a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent suitable for Oscar.
• Ning Rongrong amplified the group as Zhu Zhuqing attacked the serpent and Tang San, Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, and Xiao Wu joined the fight.
• Ye Zhiqiu pulled Zhu Zhuqing out of the serpent’s path and kicked its tail, knocking it into Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass vines.
• The Seven Devils restrained the serpent, and Dai Mubai pinned its head while the group kept it under control.

After the Shrek Seven Devils knocked out a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, Chao Tianxiang arrived and claimed her group had wounded it first. She then tried to recruit the students, while Ning Rongrong watched Ye Zhiqiu to see how he would react.

• Dai Mubai knocked the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent unconscious, and Oscar approached it with a dagger to claim its Soul Ring.
• Chao Tianxiang and her granddaughter appeared and stopped Oscar, claiming the serpent belonged to them because they had injured it first.
• Tang San and the others formed a battle formation as Chao Tianxiang explained her claim, while Flender and Zhao Wuji watched from nearby.
• Oscar challenged Chao Tianxiang’s claim, arguing that the serpent belonged to whoever caught it.
• Chao Tianxiang learned the group attended Shrek Academy and offered to recruit them into her clan, promising to help them hunt Soul Rings.
• Ning Rongrong smiled at Ye Zhiqiu, anticipating Chao Tianxiang’s reaction if she revealed her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

Ye Zhiqiu negotiated with Chao Tianxiang over the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent and Oscar’s possible place in her sect, while hinting that Shrek’s students had powerful teachers protecting them. After the serpent escaped, Ye Zhiqiu proposed a race to catch it, and Chao Tianxiang agreed, unaware of the advantage he held.

• Ye Zhiqiu identified himself as Shrek Academy’s Vice Dean and suggested Oscar could join Chao Tianxiang’s sect if she offered him a suitable match.
• Chao Tianxiang threatened to take the soul beast and the students, but Ye Zhiqiu warned her that their teachers might be hiding nearby.
• The Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent woke and tried to escape, first flapping unsuccessfully and then slithering away.
• Ye Zhiqiu proposed that whoever caught the serpent first would claim it, and Chao Tianxiang accepted the wager.
• Ye Zhiqiu invited Chao Tianxiang to go first and listened as she lectured him about avoiding arrogance.

Ye Zhiqiu captured the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent and secured its Thousand-Year Spirit Ring for Oscar, while Chao Tianxiang learned that the Shrek Seven Devils had powerful connections. Oscar absorbed the ring and gained his Third Spirit Ability, but the chapter ended before he revealed what it did.

• Ye Zhiqiu used his Teleportation Spirit Ability to capture the unconscious Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent and handed it to Oscar.
• Oscar killed the serpent and absorbed its Thousand-Year Spirit Ring while the others rested nearby.
• Ye Zhiqiu warned Chao Tianxiang that most of the Shrek Seven Devils were unlikely to join her sect, though Oscar might still be recruited.
• Chao Tianxiang chose not to attack and stayed with Meng Yiran as Oscar absorbed the ring.
• Oscar awakened with three spirit rings and teased Dai Mubai about his new Third Spirit Ability.
• Ye Zhiqiu and the others gathered around Oscar to hear what his Third Spirit Ability did.