Chapter Summaries

Chen Feng and his companions shared a lively meal before heading to Shrek City’s Treasure Appreciation Event, where Ma Xiaotao took Chen Feng to browse together. As they explored the second floor, the Ice Empress alerted Chen Feng to a piece of Ten Thousand Year Whale Glue nearby.

• At dinner, Ling Luochen secretly teased Chen Feng beneath the table while Ma Xiaotao asked him to feed her Jade Dragon Tendon and kissed him.
• Chen Feng trapped Ling Luochen’s feet until she finally withdrew them, and the group left for the Treasure Appreciation Event.
• At the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, Ma Xiaotao led Chen Feng away to browse while Gongyang Mo, Xixi, and Ling Luochen split up and Yao Haoxuan was left alone.
• Ling Luochen cleaned her feet with ice and rejoined Xixi, then Chen Feng and Ma Xiaotao browsed the second floor.
• The Ice Empress told Chen Feng that a piece of Ten Thousand Year Whale Glue was beside him.

Chen Feng recognized that a deteriorated black crystal was actually Ten Thousand Year Whale Glue and bought it for six thousand Gold Soul Coins. He and Ma Xiaotao then went to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion’s third-floor auction hall, where Shrek’s Inner Courtyard students gathered ahead of the event.

• Ma Xiaotao mistook the black Whale Glue for worthless Thousand-Year Whale Glue and urged Chen Feng to head upstairs for the Soul Bone display.
• Chen Feng identified the crystal as weathered Ten Thousand Year Whale Glue, and he and Ma Xiaotao bought it for six thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Chen Feng and Ma Xiaotao continued browsing the second floor and purchased cultivation pills and herbs.
• Chen Feng and Ma Xiaotao entered a private room on the third floor as Inner Courtyard students, including Ling Luochen, Xixi, and Gongyang Mo, arrived for the Treasure Appreciation Event.
• Ling Luochen entered her private room, sat down, removed her shoes, and washed her feet with water from her Storage Soul Tool.

Chen Feng and Ma Xiaotao attended the Inner Courtyard’s Treasure Appreciation Event, where Ma Xiaotao explained the bidding rules and showed him that they both held top-tier VIP cards. After they bid on several treasures, the grand finale Soul Bone appeared on the screen.

• Ling Luochen washed her feet, changed shoes, and wondered whether Chen Feng and Ma Xiaotao were sharing a room before angrily cursing Ma Xiaotao.
• Ma Xiaotao explained the Treasure Appreciation Event’s rules to Chen Feng in their private room, then paused their intimate moment when host Zhou Li began the event.
• Zhou Li presented a Soul Ascension Pill, and Chen Feng bid on it after learning that his and Ma Xiaotao’s VIP cards allowed them to claim multiple items.
• Chen Feng and Ma Xiaotao used two more selections as the auction proceeded through its treasures.
• Zhou Li opened a storage pouch, revealing the grand finale Soul Bone on the screen.

Chen Feng failed to obtain the Plant System Soul Bone after Elder Lin assigned it to a more suitable Inner Courtyard student, but he and Ma Xiaotao bought several other items and returned to Sea God Island. Chen Feng ate the Ten Thousand Year Whale Rubber and absorbed its energy, while the chapter ended with its side effect still troubling him.

• Chen Feng bid on the Sky Blue Vine Torso Bone, but Elder Lin removed him from consideration and awarded it to another Inner Courtyard student.
• Chen Feng and Ma Xiaotao collected their purchases and paid for them, with Chen Feng using his own money instead of Ma Xiaotao's.
• Ling Luochen watched Chen Feng and Ma Xiaotao leave together and resolved to discuss joining forces with Wu Ming against Ma Xiaotao.
• Chen Feng and Ma Xiaotao returned to Sea God Island, where Ma Xiaotao softened the Whale Rubber with her Phoenix Flame.
• Chen Feng ate the Ten Thousand Year Whale Rubber and quickly digested its energy, but its side effect remained a concern.

Chen Feng suppressed and eradicated the evil energy in Ma Xiaotao’s Martial Soul after it triggered a frenzied state during their cultivation. Meanwhile, Ling Luochen warned Wu Ming that Ma Xiaotao might win Chen Feng’s affections, and the chapter ended with Chen Feng urging an exhausted Ma Xiaotao to keep cultivating.

• Ma Xiaotao’s evil energy erupted during cultivation with Chen Feng, sending her into a powerful, frenzied state.
• Chen Feng restrained Ma Xiaotao, used Ultimate Ice and the Yin-Yang Art to remove the evil energy, and restored her clarity.
• Snow Empress was disturbed by the noise from downstairs while Chen Feng dealt with Ma Xiaotao’s outbreak.
• Ling Luochen arrived at Wu Ming’s home while Han Ruoruo was visiting, and she waited until Han Ruoruo left to speak privately with Wu Ming.
• Ling Luochen exaggerated Ma Xiaotao’s closeness to Chen Feng and warned Wu Ming that he might abandon them for Ma Xiaotao.
• At Ma Xiaotao’s home, she asked Chen Feng to rest, but he teased her to continue cultivating.

After Ma Xiaotao’s evil aura was suppressed, she broke through to Rank 70 and became a Soul Saint. Chen Feng reunited with Ling Luochen and Wu Ming before Ma Xiaotao left with Elder Song to obtain a soul ring for the approaching competition.

• Chen Feng suppressed Ma Xiaotao’s evil aura, and she broke through to Rank 70 Soul Saint while he stayed with her through the night.
• Ling Luochen and Wu Ming allied against Ma Xiaotao, but Chen Feng arrived at Wu Ming’s home and spent the night with them before returning to Ma Xiaotao.
• Ma Xiaotao woke beside Chen Feng, celebrated her breakthrough, and learned that suppressing the evil aura had helped her advance.
• Ma Xiaotao informed Shrek Academy’s upper ranks of her breakthrough, and Elder Song took her to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a soul beast.
• As Ma Xiaotao went to obtain her soul ring, a meeting between the main team and reserve team members was about to begin.

Han Ruoruo discovered Wu Ming and Ling Luochen together and mistakenly believed they were lovers, while Shrek Academy began selecting its preparatory team for the next competition. Elder Xuan explained that the selection would be a free-for-all, leaving the core disciples poised to fight.

• Han Ruoruo found Wu Ming and Ling Luochen asleep together and misread their relationship, then left without hearing Wu Ming's explanation.
• Wu Ming and Ling Luochen argued over who had caused Han Ruoruo's misunderstanding and agreed that it was safer than revealing their connection to Chen Feng.
• Huo Yuhao transferred to the Soul Tool Department, where he became a first-level Soul Engineer under Fan Yu's guidance.
• Xu Sanshi tried to give Jiang Nannan a bracelet, then teased Bei Bei about his heartbreak after Tang Ya rejected him.
• Elder Xuan arrived at the preparatory team selection and announced a free-for-all in which the last seven standing would win.

At Shrek Academy, the Outer Courtyard free-for-all erupted as senior disciples targeted Xu Sanshi and Bei Bei, while the second-years and He Caitou prepared their own counterattacks. In the Inner Courtyard, Cai Mei'er began training the official competition team and set Chen Feng against five teammates; he chose his Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Martial Soul and prepared to fight.

• Third- and fourth-year core disciples joined forces to attack Xu Sanshi and Bei Bei, while Ning Tian organized the second-years to wait for the seniors to tire.
• He Caitou summoned an array of Soul Tool Cannons and fired a barrage at the largest group of third- and fourth-year core disciples.
• Cai Mei'er took charge of training Shrek's official team and arranged a battle between Chen Feng and Dai Yueheng with four other teammates.
• Chen Feng explained that his strength did not depend on the Soul Breaking Blade and chose his Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Martial Soul for sparring.
• Chen Feng activated his Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Martial Soul, spreading a layer of ice across the Training Ground as his body became covered in gleaming crystals.

Chen Feng faced Ling Luochen, Dai Yueheng, Yao Haoxuan, Xixi, and Gongyang Mo in a Training Ground battle, shrugging off their coordinated enhancements and attacks with his Ultimate Ice. He overwhelmed Dai Yueheng and Xixi, leaving the rest of the team to face him.

• Gongyang Mo enhanced his teammates while Yao Haoxuan transformed into a giant and released buffs and weakening ripples, which Chen Feng destroyed with Ice Empress Unparalleled.
• Ling Luochen admitted that her Ice Element Martial Soul was ineffective against Chen Feng, so Dai Yueheng planned to restrain him while Xixi sought a chance to attack.
• Dai Yueheng charged Chen Feng with an amplified White Tiger Violent Light Wave, but Chen Feng extinguished it and met him in close combat.
• Xixi attacked Chen Feng from behind, but his Ice Emperor's Protection repelled her claws as he continued fighting Dai Yueheng.
• Chen Feng unleashed the Power of Ice, formed the chill into an ice dragon that passed through Xixi, and caused her to lose consciousness.

Chen Feng defeated Dai Yueheng and Xixi in a training battle, while Cai Mei'er criticized and coached their team. In the outer-courtyard brawl, Xu Sanshi awakened the Black Tortoise Shield after Jiang Nannan was eliminated, but she left unimpressed as the second-year core disciples moved to challenge him and Bei Bei.

• Chen Feng froze Dai Yueheng after overpowering his White Tiger attacks, and Gongyang Mo, Yao Haoxuan, and Ling Luochen surrendered.
• Chen Feng thawed Dai Yueheng and Xixi, and Cai Mei'er criticized the team's teamwork before giving each fighter guidance.
• Xu Sanshi's Martial Soul evolved into the Black Tortoise Shield, and he eliminated the third- and fourth-year core disciples after Jiang Nannan was knocked out.
• Jiang Nannan ignored Xu Sanshi's victory and left, while Bei Bei scolded him for exhausting his Soul Power before the second-year core disciples were eliminated.
• Ning Tian explained that Xu Sanshi's show of strength could not undo Jiang Nannan's elimination, then assigned the second-year core disciples to attack Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi.

Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi fought the second-year core disciples in the assessment to choose Shrek Academy’s reserve team, but Xu Sanshi was eliminated while Bei Bei exhausted himself battling the Hell White Tiger and the others. Seven students remained as reserve team members, and the chapter ended with them silently watching Xuan Zi fall into painful memories.

• Ning Tian boosted Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu, who joined forces to summon the Hell White Tiger against Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi.
• Bei Bei awakened his Radiant Holy Dragon bloodline and fought the Hell White Tiger, while Wu Feng’s Dragon Explosion overwhelmed Xu Sanshi and Xuan Zi removed him from the stage.
• Bei Bei broke free of the Hell White Tiger and used Thunder Dragon Head, but Xuan Zi blocked the attack and eliminated Xie Huanyue and Xiao Xiao.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu released their fusion skill, and Bei Bei’s bloodline power also faded as both sides ran low on Soul Power.
• Xuan Zi persuaded the eliminated core disciples to leave, leaving Wang Dong, Bei Bei, Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, Nanmen Yun'er, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian as the reserve team.
• Xuan Zi remembered the Star Dou Great Forest, the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and the Inner Courtyard disciples who had died, while the seven students stayed silent.

Xuan Zi explained that the reserve team would support Shrek Academy’s main competitors in the upcoming All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Battle Competition and warned the students to keep their selection secret. He revealed that Chen Feng was already a main team member and vice-captain, while the Inner Courtyard students finished training and went their separate ways.

• Xuan Zi told the students that Shrek Academy was the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy’s true rival and explained the reserve team’s role in the competition.
• Xuan Zi announced that Wang Dong, Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Nanmen Yun'er had been selected as reserve team members, then outlined their training and confidentiality rules.
• Wang Dong asked about Chen Feng, and Xuan Zi revealed that Chen Feng would compete as a main team member and vice-captain.
• The reserve team members reacted with surprise and admiration to Chen Feng’s position.
• Cai Mei'er ended the Inner Courtyard lesson, and Chen Feng and the others left the training ground while Ling Luochen headed toward Ma Xiaotao’s home.

Ling Luochen invited Chen Feng to the Weisi Hotel and planned to use stockings to win his affection. They teased and kissed after she arrived, and the chapter ended with her putting on black stockings.

• Ling Luochen told Chen Feng that Cai Mei'er had criticized her and invited him to keep her company at the Weisi Hotel, hinting that she had bought stockings for him to see.
• Ling Luochen recalled that she and Wu Ming had devised ways to make Chen Feng like them more, then packed a drawerful of stockings into her Storage Soul Tool.
• Chen Feng waited in Ling Luochen's private room at the Weisi Hotel until she arrived and jumped onto his lap.
• Chen Feng kissed Ling Luochen, and she asked him to let her step on his face, but he pressed her down and spanked her until she apologized.
• Ling Luochen took out her stockings and put on a pair of thin, black ankle stockings.

Ling Luochen teased Chen Feng with stockings, but he overpowered her and she privately vowed to make him submit one day. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Elder Song and Ma Xiaotao killed a Golden Flame Phoenix Bird after it unleashed a powerful nirvana, and Ma Xiaotao began absorbing its Soul Ring.

• Ling Luochen tried to seduce Chen Feng with short stockings, but she eventually gave in and fell asleep in his arms.
• The next morning, Ling Luochen tried to put her foot on Chen Feng's face, so he punished her before carrying her to the bathroom.
• Elder Song found a Golden Flame Phoenix Bird of suitable age for Ma Xiaotao's Soul Ring and injured it as it tried to escape.
• The Golden Flame Phoenix Bird performed nirvana and attacked Elder Song with temporarily enhanced flames.
• Elder Song cut the bird in half, and Ma Xiaotao killed it and began absorbing its Seventh Soul Ring.

Ma Xiaotao reached Rank 71 after absorbing the Golden Flame Phoenix Bird's soul ring, then discovered its fifty-thousand-year Torso Bone and began absorbing it. At Shrek Academy, Chen Feng met the reserve team, whose roster had changed from the original story.

• Ma Xiaotao broke through to Rank 71 by absorbing the Golden Flame Phoenix Bird's soul ring.
• Ma Xiaotao found a fifty-thousand-year Torso Bone in the Golden Flame Phoenix Bird's corpse, and Elder Song urged her to absorb it for its likely Nirvana skill.
• Ma Xiaotao began absorbing the Torso Bone while Elder Song stood guard.
• Xuan Zi brought Chen Feng and the official team members to meet Shrek Academy's reserve team in the Assessment Area.
• Chen Feng recognized that Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Nanmen Yun'er had replaced the original reserve members Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, He Caitou, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan.
• Wang Dong reacted with surprise at seeing Chen Feng, Wu Feng defended his strength, and Nanmen Yun'er tried to stop their argument.

Chen Feng reunited with the Shrek team as Xuan Zi gathered the official and reserve members ahead of the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Battle Competition. The reserve members learned that the absent official competitor was Ma Xiaotao, who had broken through to Soul Saint and gone to obtain her Seventh Spirit Ring.

• Chen Feng greeted the reserve members, while Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu showed lingering fear of him and the others reacted to his presence.
• Xuan Zi explained that the teams had gathered to get acquainted before the competition, and Wang Dong asked why only six official team members were present.
• Xuan Zi said the missing member had gone to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain a Spirit Ring, prompting the reserve members to assume that person had reached Soul Emperor.
• Chen Feng revealed that the absent member was seeking a Seventh Spirit Ring, stunning the reserve members with the news that the person was a Soul Saint.
• Ning Tian guessed that the absent competitor was Chen Feng's girlfriend, Ma Xiaotao, and Chen Feng confirmed she had broken through to Soul Saint.

Chen Feng and the Shrek Academy teams prepared for the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Battle Competition while Ma Xiaotao returned from the Star Dou Great Forest after reaching level seventy-two. The chapter ended with Chen Feng seeing Ma Xiaotao arrive home on Sea God Island.

• Xuan Zi told the reserve team they would compete when needed, warned them that they could only win, and had both teams introduce themselves.
• Chen Feng revealed he was level forty-nine and hoped to reach level fifty before the competition, while Dai Yueheng and Dai Huabin exchanged hostile thoughts about the White Tiger Duke succession.
• Xuan Zi arranged a friendly match between the regular and reserve teams, then let Chen Feng leave to cultivate and promised to find him a suitable soul beast after his breakthrough.
• Ma Xiaotao absorbed the fifty-thousand-year Golden Flame Phoenix Bird soul ring and Torso Bone, reached level seventy-two, and gained the Nirvana Soul Skill.
• Ma Xiaotao returned to Sea God Island, and Chen Feng widened his eyes when he saw her.

Ma Xiaotao returned from the Star Dou Great Forest after breaking through to Soul Saint and gaining a powerful torso bone, then reunited with Chen Feng. After their playful contest, they rested together, and Ma Xiaotao told him that Elder Song had kept the expedition safe.

• Ma Xiaotao leapt into Chen Feng's arms and showed off her changed figure, then suggested they go to Shrek City to buy clothes.
• Snow Empress used earplugs to block out the couple and reflected on Chen Feng's progress toward helping hundred-thousand-year soul beasts who had taken human form.
• Ma Xiaotao revealed that she had become much stronger after reaching Soul Saint and absorbing a high-quality fifty-thousand-year Golden Flame Phoenix Bird Torso Bone.
• Chen Feng teased Ma Xiaotao during their contest, then soothed her when she grew exhausted, and the two rested together.
• Chen Feng asked Ma Xiaotao about danger in the Star Dou Great Forest, and she explained that level 97 Elder Song had protected the expedition and defeated every soul beast they encountered.

Ma Xiaotao returned to Shrek Academy with a fifty-thousand-year Torso Bone, and she and Chen Feng resumed training and cultivation together. After seven days, Chen Feng broke through the bottleneck and reached level fifty.

• Ma Xiaotao told Chen Feng that she had obtained a fifty-thousand-year Torso Bone whose Soul Skill, Nirvana, greatly increased her strength for fifteen minutes before leaving her weak.
• Cai Mei'er welcomed Ma Xiaotao back and teased her and Chen Feng, then began training the reunited main team.
• Ling Luochen resented Ma Xiaotao's return, while Ma Xiaotao told Chen Feng that Ling Luochen seemed to dislike her.
• Chen Feng took Ma Xiaotao shopping at Yixuan Pavilion, where she selected and ordered custom clothes.
• After seven days of training and cultivating with Ma Xiaotao, Chen Feng broke through to level fifty.

After reaching Soul King and gaining the offensive Soul Skill Soul Breaking Slash, Chen Feng prepared to travel with Shrek Academy’s team to Star Luo City for the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Battle Competition. He brought Snow Empress along in disguise, and the team gathered before departing on a mission to hunt the Hand of the Death God.

• Chen Feng recalled how Elder Song helped him obtain a Fifty Thousand Year Soul Ring, which raised him to level fifty-two and granted him the lock-on Soul Skill Soul Breaking Slash.
• Ma Xiaotao reminded Chen Feng that the team was leaving for Star Luo City and had a Monitoring Group mission to eliminate the Hand of the Death God, a bandit group led by a Soul King-level Evil Soul Master.
• Chen Feng told Snow Empress that she needed to travel with him because his concealment on her lasted only seven days, and she agreed to go disguised as his younger sister, Xue Ying.
• Chen Feng, Ma Xiaotao, and Snow Empress arrived at the Assessment Area, where the other team members praised Chen Feng’s appearance and strength.
• Xixi warned Ling Luochen to give up her feelings for Chen Feng, but Ling Luochen remained unable to let him go.