Chapter Summaries

Chen Feng ignored Mu Jin’s lesson to cultivate while the Sea God Pavilion Elders discussed his relationship with Ma Xiaotao. The elders’ conversation ended with Mu En stopping their teasing of Xuan Zi.

• Mu Jin tried to quiet the class, while Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Nanmen Yun'er watched Chen Feng.
• Chen Feng decided that cultivating with a woman of profound cultivation could speed his progress toward rank forty and help advance the Yin-Yang Art.
• Chen Guangsheng reported the canteen incident involving Chen Feng and Ma Xiaotao to the Sea God Pavilion Elders.
• Elder Song remarked that Ma Xiaotao and Chen Feng seemed to get along well, and Xuan Zi said Chen Feng would naturally be attracted to her.
• Elder Zhuang and Mu En teased Xuan Zi about being single, prompting the elders to laugh until Mu En called for them to stop.

Mu En and the Sea God Pavilion Elders decided to award Chen Feng a Fifty-Thousand-Year Ice Wolf King Torso Bone after he created a powerful Soul Skill during Deep Meditation. After class, Ning Tian invited Chen Feng to the Shrek City Auction, but Ma Xiaotao arrived and tore up the invitation.

• Mu En told the Sea God Pavilion Elders that Chen Feng had created a Soul Skill as powerful as his own signature abilities during a month of Deep Meditation.
• Mu En chose the Fifty-Thousand-Year Ice Wolf King Torso Bone for Chen Feng, and Xuan Zi agreed to retrieve it from the treasury.
• Elder Song proposed giving Ma Xiaotao extra study assignments because she feared Xiaotao's relationship with Chen Feng would exhaust him, and Mu En approved the plan.
• Chen Feng returned to the Outer Courtyard after lunch and attended class until four in the afternoon.
• Ning Tian stopped Chen Feng after class and invited him to the Shrek City Auction, but Ma Xiaotao snatched the invitation and tore it up.

Ma Xiaotao interrupted Ning Tian’s invitation to Chen Feng, asserted that she was his girlfriend, and left with him for Sea God Island. Ling Luochen watched them go and prepared to invite Chen Feng to Shrek City.

• Ma Xiaotao tore up Ning Tian’s invitation and released her Soul Emperor aura, frightening the students and prompting Wu Feng to shield Ning Tian.
• Ma Xiaotao clung to Chen Feng, who introduced her as his girlfriend and told Ning Tian he could not attend the auction.
• Chen Feng comforted Ning Tian before leaving the classroom with Ma Xiaotao, while Ning Tian resented Ma Xiaotao’s disdainful appraisal.
• Ling Luochen watched Ma Xiaotao wait for Chen Feng and planned to invite him to Shrek City.

Ling Luochen watched Ma Xiaotao cling to Chen Feng and vowed to steal him if she found an opening. After spending time with Ma Xiaotao, Chen Feng received a rare torso Soul Bone from Xuan Zi and considered what to do with it.

• Ling Luochen saw Ma Xiaotao leave class arm in arm with Chen Feng and resolved to wait for a chance to pursue him.
• Xuan Zi gave Chen Feng a Storage Soul Tool as a gift from Shrek Academy, then left.
• Ma Xiaotao brought Chen Feng to her residence, and Lu Xiaoxiao waited outside with food until they were finished.
• Chen Feng opened Xuan Zi's gift and discovered a fifty-thousand-year Ice Wolf King Torso Bone.
• Chen Feng put away the Soul Bone and silently considered how to deal with it.

Chen Feng refined the fifty-thousand-year Ice Wolf King Torso Bone with the Yin-Yang Furnace and discovered it yielded Soul Power Essence, Physique Essence, and Ice Attribute Essence. After strengthening himself, he decided to secretly pass the Ice Attribute Essence to Ling Luochen over time, leaving his Furnace’s abilities concealed.

• Chen Feng chose to dismantle the Ice Wolf King Torso Bone because he already possessed a stronger torso bone.
• Chen Feng refined the bone with the Yin-Yang Furnace and obtained three essences: Soul Power, Physique, and Ice Attribute.
• Chen Feng absorbed the Soul Power Essence, advancing from level thirty-seven to level thirty-eight and halfway through the level.
• Chen Feng absorbed the Physique Essence, increasing his estimated Spirit Ring endurance from twenty-three thousand to thirty thousand years.
• Chen Feng discovered the blue essence could strengthen ordinary ice abilities and planned to transfer it gradually to Ling Luochen without revealing its source.

Chen Feng prepared food for Ma Xiaotao, then spent the night cultivating with her. The next morning, Elder Lin assigned Ma Xiaotao a task that would keep her away from Chen Feng for two days, giving Ling Luochen an opportunity to act.

• Chen Feng adapted to his enhanced physique and went to the Inner Courtyard canteen to bring Ma Xiaotao a meal in an insulated lunch box.
• Ma Xiaotao woke hungry, and Chen Feng surprised her with the food he had prepared; she ate in his arms and her favorability toward him increased.
• Chen Feng and Ma Xiaotao cultivated together through the night, and Chen Feng noticed that her Yin Energy recovered quickly while her Martial Soul grew more refined.
• The next morning, Ma Xiaotao reluctantly said goodbye to Chen Feng, and Ling Luochen criticized the couple for being affectionate in public.
• Elder Lin found Ma Xiaotao and assigned her a two-day task; Ling Luochen realized Ma Xiaotao's absence gave her a chance.

Chen Feng left class and received an envelope delivered by a second-year student, while Ning Tian reconsidered pursuing him after learning Ma Xiaotao’s status and connection to the academy. At Sea God Island, Chen Feng found Ma Xiaotao’s note explaining that she had left on a mission and would be gone for two or three days.

• Mu Jin dismissed Freshman Class Nine, and Chen Feng prepared to leave for Sea God Island.
• Ning Tian investigated Ma Xiaotao, learned she was Yan Shaozhe’s personal disciple and an elite Inner Courtyard student, and wrote to her sect for advice about pursuing Chen Feng.
• A second-year student delivered an envelope to Chen Feng, prompting onlookers to mistake it for a love letter.
• Chen Feng reached Sea God Island and found Ma Xiaotao’s note saying she had gone on a mission and would return in two or three days.

Chen Feng received Ling Luochen’s invitation to meet beneath the Evergreen Tree in Myriad Garden, where she confronted him about his relationship with Ma Xiaotao. Ling Luochen admitted she was still attached to him and asked him to tell her how far he and Ma Xiaotao had gone.

• Chen Feng read Ling Luochen’s letter inviting him to admire flowers with her at Myriad Garden that evening.
• Ling Luochen dressed up, disguised herself with a White Mask, and went to meet Chen Feng beneath the Evergreen Tree.
• Chen Feng recognized Ling Luochen as she tried to sneak up behind him and pulled her into his embrace.
• Ling Luochen gave Chen Feng a mask and complained that he had not visited her after leaving seclusion and had spent his time with Ma Xiaotao.
• Ling Luochen admitted she was nearly dying of anger but could not let go of Chen Feng, then asked how far he and Ma Xiaotao had gone.

Chen Feng met Ling Luochen beneath an Evergreen Tree and used his Void Blade soul skill to conceal their rendezvous. Ling Luochen worried that the academy or Ma Xiaotao would discover their relationship, but jealousy surfaced as Chen Feng praised Ma Xiaotao before reassuring Ling Luochen and drawing her into his arms.

• Chen Feng removed Ling Luochen's mask, revealed his own face, and used Void Blade to hide them from anyone who approached the Evergreen Tree.
• Chen Feng praised Ling Luochen's makeup, and she warned that Ma Xiaotao might break his legs if she learned about their relationship.
• Ling Luochen complained about Ma Xiaotao and told Chen Feng not to visit her if he liked Ma Xiaotao so much.
• Chen Feng took Ling Luochen's hand, reassured her that she was not inferior to Ma Xiaotao, and kissed the back of her hand.
• Chen Feng pulled Ling Luochen into his arms.

Chen Feng and Ling Luochen kissed beneath the Evergreen Tree, hidden from three passing students by his illusion. After they left, Ling Luochen demanded to know how far Chen Feng and Ma Xiaotao had gone, then bit his shoulder when she realized the answer.

• Chen Feng kissed Ling Luochen beneath the Evergreen Tree until three Outer Courtyard girls approached.
• Chen Feng used his Third Soul Skill's illusion to hide himself and Ling Luochen while the girls discussed Chen Feng and Ma Xiaotao.
• Ling Luochen scolded Chen Feng for distracting her and demanded an answer about his relationship with Ma Xiaotao.
• Chen Feng implied that Ling Luochen already knew what had happened with Ma Xiaotao.
• Ling Luochen angrily bit Chen Feng's shoulder, and he slapped and squeezed her butt before asking why she kept biting him.

Ling Luochen asked whether Chen Feng liked her or Ma Xiaotao, then broke down crying when he said he liked both. She challenged Chen Feng to a fight, with the condition that he defeat her before she would agree to share him with Ma Xiaotao, and their duel began outside Shrek City.

• Ling Luochen asked Chen Feng which woman he liked, and he admitted he liked Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen, leaving her in tears before he comforted her.
• After calming down, Ling Luochen accused Chen Feng of wanting two women and challenged him to defeat her before she would agree to share one husband.
• Chen Feng carried Ling Luochen outside Shrek City, where they prepared to spar; Ling Luochen believed her rank 52 cultivation gave her the advantage over him.
• Ling Luochen used her Ice Staff and ice control to send ice toward Chen Feng, but his Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion took control of the ice and turned it back on her.
• Ling Luochen protested that the Ultimate Ice martial soul unfairly suppressed her, so Chen Feng offered to fight using his first martial soul instead.
• Ling Luochen agreed that if Chen Feng could still defeat her without the Ice Jade Scorpion, she would do whatever he wanted in the future.

Chen Feng defeated Ling Luochen in their second duel by unleashing his Soul Breaking Blade Domain, then reassured her that their wager did not have to count. The chapter ended with the two of them sharing an intimate bath at Weisi Hotel.

• Ling Luochen unleashed five soul skills in rapid succession and tried to trap Chen Feng in an ice prison and spreading ice mist.
• Chen Feng dodged her attacks and used his Soul Breaking Blade Domain to obliterate the mist and overpower her.
• Ling Luochen admitted defeat, and Chen Feng told her he would not hold her to the bet.
• Chen Feng and Ling Luochen embraced and kissed beneath the moonlight outside Shrek City.
• Chen Feng and Ling Luochen went to the Blue Flower Sea Room at Weisi Hotel and bathed together.

Chen Feng spent the night with Ling Luochen, advancing his cultivation and secretly strengthening her ice Martial Soul with essence from an Ice Wolf King bone. After Ma Xiaotao finished a bandit-clearing mission and headed back to Shrek Academy, Chen Feng woke Ling Luochen so they could return as well.

• Ma Xiaotao and two Shrek Monitoring Group students attacked a bandit camp, and Ma Xiaotao killed its two Soul King leaders with her phoenix attacks.
• Ma Xiaotao unleashed Phoenix Meteor Shower with support from her companions, killing the fleeing bandits and completing the mission.
• At the Weisi Hotel, Ling Luochen told Chen Feng she wanted what Ma Xiaotao had, and they spent the night together.
• Chen Feng's cultivation rose to the peak of rank thirty-nine, and he secretly infused some Ice Wolf King essence into Ling Luochen to strengthen her Martial Soul.
• The next morning, Ling Luochen fell asleep again after waking, so Chen Feng used his icy Martial Soul to rouse her and told her they were returning to Shrek Academy.

After returning from a secret tryst with Ling Luochen, Chen Feng was confronted by Ma Xiaotao, who rushed back to Shrek Academy ahead of schedule. Meanwhile, Ning Zhiyuan read Ning Tian’s report about Chen Feng and summoned Elder Sword; the chapter ended with Ma Xiaotao asking Chen Feng whether he had been seeing other women.

• Chen Feng used his Third Soul Skill to leave a hotel with Ling Luochen unseen.
• Ma Xiaotao flew alone back to Shrek Academy, unsettled and exhausted from her journey.
• Ning Zhiyuan read Ning Tian’s letter about a remarkable young man, considered the growing threat of the Sun Moon Empire, and summoned Elder Sword.
• Chen Feng returned to his attic after classes, expecting Ma Xiaotao to arrive the next day.
• Ma Xiaotao burst into the attic, embraced Chen Feng after he eased her fatigue, and asked whether he had been seeing any loose women.

Chen Feng concealed his relationship with Ling Luochen from Ma Xiaotao while balancing cultivation with both women. A month earlier, he narrowly escaped an attempt to capture him by Sword Douluo, who became intrigued by the young Soul Master’s abilities.

• Ma Xiaotao returned home, grew jealous when Chen Feng mentioned female students, and insisted on inspecting him before they cultivated together.
• Over nearly two months, Chen Feng continued cultivating with Ma Xiaotao and secretly meeting Ling Luochen when Ma Xiaotao was away; Sword Douluo also visited Shrek Academy to assess him.
• One month earlier, Chen Feng sensed an ambush on his way to meet Ling Luochen, teleported away, and hid in Shrek City’s crowd.
• Sword Douluo realized Chen Feng had detected and escaped him, then vanished after praising the boy as interesting.
• Chen Feng returned to Shrek Academy, shaken by the encounter, while Ice Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm discussed how powerful the attacker had been.

Ning Tian’s great-grandfather summoned her to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pavilion to discuss Chen Feng, whose abilities and background had aroused his curiosity. The chapter ended with Ning Tian preparing to tell him about Chen Feng.

• Chen Feng hurried back to Sea God Island, believing he needed Shrek Academy’s protection from whoever might be targeting him.
• Ning Tian reflected on her interest in Chen Feng and her hopes that he could help strengthen the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Tian’s great-grandfather called her to the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion in Shrek City, and she brought Wu Feng along.
• Mu En watched Ning Tian leave from outside the new student dormitory building while concealing his identity as Shrek’s strongest person.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng reached the pavilion’s ninth floor, where Ning Tian’s great-grandfather asked her to tell him about Chen Feng.

Sword Douluo came to Shrek Academy to observe Chen Feng, but Limit Douluo Mu En deterred him from recruiting Shrek’s talent. A month later, Chen Feng’s peaceful routine continued as Shrek’s new student assessment approached.

• Ning Tian told Sword Douluo about Chen Feng’s talent and twin Martial Souls, and Sword Douluo asked her to invite him to the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion.
• Mu En appeared before Sword Douluo as a golden projection, revealed his Limit Douluo-level power, and warned him against poaching Shrek Academy’s students.
• Chen Feng reported his attack to the Sea God Pavilion Elders, and Mu En told them Sword Douluo had acted out of admiration for Chen Feng’s talent before sending Chen Feng away.
• More than a month later, Chen Feng continued cultivating with Ma Xiaotao while preparing for the new student assessment, and Huo Yuhao remained Zhou Yi’s favored student despite ranking last in Soul Power cultivation at the academy.

Shrek Academy's Academic Affairs Office dealt with complaints over Zhou Yi's unjust expulsions while Freshman Class Nine received its New Student assessment teams. Wang Dong grew worried after being assigned to Huo Yuhao's group.

• Du Weilun reprimanded Zhou Yi and began handling complaints from expelled students and their parents, while a teacher urged him to address her arbitrary expulsions.
• Mu Jin assigned Freshman Class Nine into assessment teams, placing Chen Feng with Wu Yue and Nanmen Yun'er and Ning Tian with Wu Feng and Zhang Mengmeng.
• Mu Jin rejected students' objections to Chen Feng's team and explained that the assessment championship carried a generous reward.
• Chen Feng agreed to take his teammates to the training grounds before visiting Shrek City, while Ning Tian's group discussed tactics.
• Wang Dong worried when she saw that Huo Yuhao had been assigned to her group.

Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao discussed their assessment tactics, while Chen Feng tested Wu Yue and Nanmen Yun'er before taking them to Shrek City. Chen Feng secretly met Ling Luochen to cultivate, and she left wanting more time with him and asking whether Ma Xiaotao was stronger.

• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao discussed their abilities and planned to have Xiao Xiao support Wang Dong while Huo Yuhao weakened their opponents.
• Chen Feng encouraged Wu Yue and Nanmen Yun'er to show their abilities, then stopped Nanmen Yun'er's tracking attack when it threatened Wu Yue.
• Chen Feng went with Wu Yue and Nanmen Yun'er to Shrek City, then arranged to meet them later and secretly visited Ling Luochen.
• Chen Feng and Ling Luochen cultivated together, strengthening her Martial Soul and raising her Soul Power to Rank 53.
• Ling Luochen asked Chen Feng for more time and whether Ma Xiaotao was stronger than her, but Chen Feng avoided answering directly.

Chen Feng’s team cruised through the New Student assessment as their opponents conceded rather than face him. After the round-robin and a day of rest, Chen Feng, Nanmen Yun’er, and Wu Yue were matched against Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao in the top-sixty-four elimination round.

• Chen Feng met Wu Yue and Nanmen Yun’er at Shrek Academy’s East Gate after leaving Ling Luochen to rest.
• The New Student assessment began, and Chen Feng’s reputation made the teams assigned to Section One fear facing him.
• Fan Xiaohui, Gong Zaiwu, and Zhang Chunlei conceded to Chen Feng’s team before their first match began.
• Chen Feng, Wu Yue, and Nanmen Yun’er completed the round-robin with a perfect record as their opponents repeatedly conceded.
• After the assessment and a day of rest, Chen Feng’s team was paired against Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao in the elimination rounds.