Chapter Summaries

Flender brought Shrek Academy’s powerful teachers to Blue Tyrant Academy, where they were exempted from assessment and invited to meet the dean. The dean turned out to be the woman Master had loved and avoided for twenty years, and the chapter ended as she and Master saw each other again.

• Qin Ming revealed that he was thirty-four and level sixty-two, so the evaluators waived his practical assessment.
• Flender and the other Shrek Academy teachers displayed their high-level Martial Souls, convincing Yin Shu to take them to meet the dean.
• As the group crossed the forest, they heard the dean singing a song Master had written for her, and Master broke down in tears.
• Master tried to flee, but Flender stopped him and urged him to face the woman he had avoided for twenty years.
• The group reached the dean’s home by a small lake, where the woman recognized Flender and Master, dropped her watering can, and froze in shock.

Liu Erlong reunited with Flender and Master and gave the Shrek group Blue Tyrant Academy, which she planned to rename Shrek Academy. After dinner, Master left for the forest with Tang San, secretly followed by Lan Xue under an illusion.

• Yin Shu told Liu Erlong that Flender and the others had come seeking admission, and she recognized Flender and Master with tearful excitement.
• Flender introduced Liu Erlong to the Shrek group and explained that Heaven Dou Royal Academy had driven them out.
• Liu Erlong offered Blue Tyrant Academy to Flender, declared it would be renamed Shrek Academy, and ordered a meeting for the next day.
• Liu Erlong described the academy’s history and facilities, then hosted lunch, toured the grounds with the group, and arranged their lodging.
• After dinner, Master asked Tang San to walk with him and headed toward the forest while Liu Erlong told Flender she would not let Master leave again.
• Lan Xue secretly followed Tang San and Master under an illusion.

Master told Tang San how he and Liu Erlong fell in love, learned they were cousins, and spent twenty years apart. After Liu Erlong reunited with Master, Dugu Bo abducted Tang San and Lan Xue, then confronted them in a cave, where Tang San revealed that Dugu Bo was poisoned.

• Master recounted how he, Flender, and Liu Erlong formed the Golden Iron Triangle, and how Liu Erlong chose him before they discovered she was his cousin.
• Master explained that he had fled after learning the truth, while Tang San urged him to stop running from Liu Erlong and accept her love.
• Liu Erlong emerged and affirmed that she had waited for Master, while Tang San left them alone and later found Lan Xue in the woods.
• Dugu Bo appeared, knocked Tang San and Lan Xue unconscious, and carried them away; Master and Liu Erlong found the scene empty and went to seek Flender.
• In a cavern, Dugu Bo questioned Tang San and Lan Xue about their poison, attacked them, and overwhelmed Tang San despite his Blue Silver Grass and Eight Spider Lances.
• Tang San and Lan Xue told Dugu Bo that he was poisoned and that his suffering would worsen, alarming him with their knowledge of his condition.

Tang San and Lan Xue persuaded Dugu Bo to let them prove their ability with poison in exchange for a chance to cure him and his granddaughter. Dugu Bo led them to his herb garden, where Lan Xue descended the cliff unharmed and amused herself by making him furious, while Tang San climbed down with his Eight Spider Lances.

• Tang San identified the poison Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan had inherited, and Dugu Bo offered to spare the youths and grant them three favors if they could cure them.
• Lan Xue demanded that Dugu Bo swear an oath, and he agreed to let Tang San prove his poison skills by preparing antidotes within one day.
• Dugu Bo led Tang San and Lan Xue to his herb garden beside a sulfurous hot spring and set off down a steep cliff into the valley.
• Tang San used his Eight Spider Lances to climb down the cliff, while Lan Xue jumped and landed safely without using Soul Power.
• Lan Xue carved a sign calling Dugu Bo a statue, prompting him to smash it in anger before Tang San began descending the cliff.

Tang San recognized the spring in Dugu Bo’s valley as the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well, a rare treasure basin that nourished precious herbs and suppressed Dugu Bo’s poison. After Dugu Bo left them to use the surrounding plants but warned them not to touch the springs, Tang San began examining the herbs and identified exceptionally large Snow Silkworms.

• Tang San saw the divided hot spring and identified it as the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well described in the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.
• Tang San realized the well had helped Dugu Bo suppress the poison in his body and raised his confidence in curing him to fifty percent.
• Lan Xue defended Tang San’s estimate and assured Dugu Bo that they could cure his granddaughter.
• Dugu Bo allowed Tang San and Lan Xue to use the herbs, warned them to avoid the springs, and gave them until dawn the day after tomorrow to pass his test.
• After Dugu Bo left, Tang San used his Purple Demon Eyes to inspect the plants and recognized a clump of unusually large Snow Silkworms.

Tang San surveyed the rare herbs around the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well, identified the poison-suppressing Aromatic Silk Beauty, and reviewed his knowledge before preparing a way to survive there. At dawn, he harvested two deadly herbs with opposing cold and fire properties, leaving his plan to use them still underway.

• Tang San recognized the Aromatic Silk Beauty and learned that its fragrance suppressed poisons within its pink barrier.
• Tang San reviewed the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record while Lan Xue teased him and insisted she was immune to all poisons.
• At dawn, Tang San cut down the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass with his dagger and retreated from its freezing aura.
• Tang San used his Eight Spider Lances and Mystic Jade Hands to dig up the Infernal Delicate Apricot, burning and splitting his palms.
• Tang San sent two Blue Silver Grass vines toward the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot.

Tang San consumed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot before sinking into the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well, while Master, Flender, and Liu Erlong searched Sunset Forest for him and Lan Xue. Dugu Bo confronted the Golden Iron Triangle, and they activated their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, transforming Luo Sanpao into a golden dragon.

• Tang San used his Mystic Jade Hands to pick the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, then ate both herbs and fell into the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Master, Flender, and Liu Erlong tracked Tang San and Lan Xue to Dugu Bo’s mountain in Sunset Forest.
• Dugu Bo decided to check whether Tang San and Lan Xue had survived the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well, but the Golden Iron Triangle arrived to confront him.
• Dugu Bo told Master, Flender, and Liu Erlong that Tang San and Lan Xue had been reduced to flesh and bone, provoking them to prepare for battle.
• Flender, Master, and Liu Erlong formed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill and sent sixteen Soul Rings into Luo Sanpao, transforming it into a golden dragon.

The Golden Iron Triangle fought Dugu Bo with their Martial Soul Fusion Skill but were defeated, and Dugu Bo prepared to kill them after learning about Tang San and Lan Xue’s powerful connections. Lan Xue arrived with Tang San and invoked Dugu Bo’s promise, demanding that he never harm anyone connected to Shrek Academy.

• Luo Sanpao became a pseudo-Sacred Dragon under the Golden Iron Triangle’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill and battled Dugu Bo’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, but Master, Flender, and Liu Erlong were exhausted and lost.
• Master offered his life to spare Tang San and Lan Xue, while Liu Erlong threatened to alert her clan and Flender stood by his companions.
• Flender and Master warned Dugu Bo that Tang San and Lan Xue had powerful ties, including Twin Martial Souls and a connection to Orchid Hall, prompting Dugu Bo to decide to kill them all.
• Lan Xue woke at the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well, caught Tang San looking at her, knocked him unconscious, and dragged him toward the others as his Eight Spider Lances changed color.
• Lan Xue confronted Dugu Bo and invoked his promise to do three things for them, demanding that he never harm anyone connected to Shrek Academy.

Lan Xue concealed the conflict with Dugu Bo by claiming he had brought her and Tang San to study poison, and Dugu Bo agreed to keep them with him. The Golden Iron Triangle left Sunset Forest, uncertain of Dugu Bo’s motives but believing the two students were safe for now.

• Lan Xue told Master, Flender, and Liu Erlong that Dugu Bo had no ill intent and had brought her and Tang San to teach them about poison.
• Lan Xue knocked Tang San into a crater after he pretended to remain unconscious, then explained that he had been beaten unconscious by Dugu Bo.
• Lan Xue offered to discuss a cure for Dugu Yan’s poison, and Dugu Bo let the teachers believe the earlier confrontation had been a test.
• Tang San asked his teachers to leave him and Lan Xue with Dugu Bo to study poison, and Dugu Bo gave the Golden Iron Triangle pills to pass through his poison formation.
• After the teachers departed, Dugu Bo warned Tang San and Lan Xue that they would still die if they failed his test, though he had already decided not to kill them.
• At the foot of the mountain, Master told Flender and Liu Erlong to keep Tang San and Lan Xue’s situation secret and say they were undergoing secluded training.

Lan Xue faced Dugu Bo’s poison tests and proved immune to his toxins, astonishing him and Tang San. Dugu Bo began to believe the siblings could help with his poison, though his final test and their efforts to cure him remained unresolved.

• Master, Flender, and Liu Erlong left Sunset Forest after deciding to seek Tang San’s father or Orchid Hall.
• Dugu Bo returned to the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well and warned Tang San about the powerful medicinal herbs there.
• Lan Xue shrugged off Dugu Bo’s poisonous mist and passed his first test without using an antidote.
• Lan Xue persuaded Dugu Bo to give her the Nine Section Jade if she survived its bite, and the snake bit her without harming her.
• Dugu Bo pierced Lan Xue’s arm with his uncontrollable poison, but the toxin vanished before it could spread.
• Dugu Bo accepted that Lan Xue and Tang San might be able to help detoxify him and his granddaughter.

Tang San and Lan Xue explained how the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well had been suppressing Dugu Bo’s poison and offered two methods to detoxify him. Dugu Bo agreed to trust them and handed Tang San a jade-green pearl, which Lan Xue found disgusting because he had spat it from his mouth.

• Dugu Bo questioned Tang San about the herbs he had eaten, and Tang San revealed he had consumed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot.
• Lan Xue and Tang San explained that the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well suppressed Dugu Bo’s poison and described two possible detoxification methods, one of which would destroy his Poison Skill.
• Lan Xue proposed storing Dugu Bo’s poison in a soul bone, and Tang San explained that medicines would be needed to guide the poison there gradually.
• Dugu Bo agreed to let Tang San treat him and his granddaughter, promising not to kill Tang San if they were cured.
• Dugu Bo spat out a jade-green pearl and gave it to Tang San, while Lan Xue objected to Tang San swallowing something from his mouth.

Tang San negotiated with Dugu Bo for privacy and time to prepare an antidote at the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well, while Lan Xue stayed with him. Over three months, Tang San gradually eased Dugu Bo’s poison backlash and helped him begin moving the poison into his soul bones, leaving Dugu Bo increasingly impressed with Tang San’s knowledge.

• Dugu Bo made Tang San swallow a Dan Zhu linked to his life force, and Tang San set terms for preparing the medicine without supervision.
• Tang San refused Dugu Bo’s offer to become his master, then collapsed from the strain after Dugu Bo left.
• Tang San identified the herbs around the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well and prepared containers to preserve them, but initially made no medicine for Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo brought vessels and a bronze cauldron, and Tang San and Lan Xue settled at the well while Tang San cultivated and studied the herbs.
• Over three months, Tang San mixed drops of his blood into Dugu Bo’s medicine, using the effects of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot to gradually treat him.
• Dugu Bo’s pain eased as he transferred poison into his soul bones, and he began discussing poison with Tang San while becoming increasingly impressed by him.

Tang San and Lan Xue prepared to leave the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well after Tang San treated most of Dugu Bo’s poison, but Tang San persuaded Dugu Bo to join Shrek Academy as a senior advisor. After taking the herbs Dugu Bo had allowed them to collect, the three headed to the academy so Tang San could treat Dugu Bo’s granddaughter.

• Dugu Bo returned his Dan Zhu, ended Tang San’s treatment, gave him the Ruyi Treasure Sack, and listened as Tang San recounted his past.
• Tang San demonstrated his Sub-Mother Soul Chasing Life Stealing Bullets and gave Dugu Bo a pair, while Lan Xue woke and teased them.
• Tang San used two of Dugu Bo’s promises to claim the right to take herbs from the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well and persuade Dugu Bo to become a senior advisor at Shrek Academy.
• After three days, Dugu Bo found that Tang San and Lan Xue had cleared out his medicinal garden and angrily escorted them from Sunset Forest.
• The three reached Heaven Dou City and headed for Shrek Academy, where Dugu Bo would meet the teachers and Tang San would treat his granddaughter.

Tang San and Lan Xue returned to Shrek Academy with Dugu Bo, who agreed to serve as an advisor. They reunited with their teachers and learned that the other Shrek students had made significant progress during their absence.

• Tang San and Lan Xue reached Shrek Academy with Dugu Bo and asked him to honor his promise not to harm anyone there.
• Flender, Master, Liu Erlong, Zhao Wuji, Lu Qibin, Shao Xin, and Li Yusong cautiously came to meet them, expecting Dugu Bo might be hostile.
• Lan Xue told the teachers that Dugu Bo had agreed to become an academy advisor, and Flender welcomed him.
• Dugu Bo asked for a quiet place to rest, then whispered something to Tang San as Flender led him away.
• Tang San reunited with his teachers and learned that Ma Hongjun, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing had reached level thirty, Oscar had gained two Soul Power levels, and Dai Mubai was trying to break through level forty.

Tang San reunited with the Shrek Seven Devils and began distributing immortal herbs chosen to suit each companion, promising the herbs would strengthen them without harmful side effects. Zhu Zhuqing failed to pluck the Lovesick Heartbreak Red because her thoughts wavered, so Master tried it instead, leaving its fate unresolved.

• Tang San told Master that Dugu Bo had captured him and Lan Xue, then taught him about poisons after Tang San helped correct flaws in his Poison Skill; Tang San revealed that his Soul Power had reached level thirty-seven.
• Tang San reunited with the Shrek Seven Devils, explained that Dugu Bo had become an academy advisor, and proposed giving everyone carefully chosen medicinal herbs to aid their cultivation.
• Tang San gave Dai Mubai a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum to help him break through his level-forty bottleneck, Oscar an Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, and Ma Hongjun a Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower.
• Tang San gave Ning Rongrong an Aromatic Silk Beauty and presented Zhu Zhuqing with a Lovesick Heartbreak Red, explaining its legend and the conditions needed to pluck it.
• Zhu Zhuqing spat blood onto the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, but her thoughts about Dai Mubai's past romances made her heart waver, so the flower did not fall.
• Master refused to consume the Lovesick Heartbreak Red for cultivation, then struck his chest and spat blood onto its petals after remembering his feelings for Liu Erlong.

Lan Xue claimed Lovesick Heartbreak Red but chose to cherish it rather than consume it, while Tang San distributed other immortal herbs and the Shrek Seven Devils and Master absorbed them. The chapter ended with the group discovering major gains from the herbs as Dai Mubai remained silent after his transformation.

• Lan Xue took Lovesick Heartbreak Red after it rejected Master, then refused to eat it and vowed to keep it.
• Tang San gave Zhu Zhuqing Narcissus Jade Bone and Master Nine Treasure Purple Ganoderma, then consumed Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to strengthen his Purple Demon Eyes.
• Little Black and Little White returned to Lan Xue, revealed that they had advanced to a million years, and shrank into fluff balls.
• Oscar gained five Soul Power levels, Ning Rongrong gained six and awakened the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Zhu Zhuqing gained seven.
• Tang San's Purple Demon Eyes advanced to the Mustard Seed level, while Lan Xue worried that he might have seen something about her.
• Ma Hongjun's phoenix flames changed and his Evil Fire was expected to disappear; Dai Mubai completed his transformation but remained silent as Zhu Zhuqing watched anxiously.

Dai Mubai and Master broke through their cultivation bottlenecks after taking the immortal herbs, and the Shrek Seven Devils cultivated before returning to academy classes. When Tailong challenged Tang San over sitting beside Lan Xue, Lan Xue fought him instead and defeated him in one blow.

• Dai Mubai awoke with his Soul Power breakthrough and teased Zhu Zhuqing, while Tang San and Lan Xue joked with him.
• Master announced that the Nine Treasure Purple Ganoderma had broken his decades-long bottleneck and raised him to level thirty; Lan Xue introduced the talking million-year Nine-Tailed White Foxes, Little Black and Little White.
• The Shrek Seven Devils spent seven days cultivating, and Dugu Bo later left the academy after meeting Tang San and Dugu Yan.
• The Shrek Seven Devils ended their seclusion, and Flender and Liu Erlong took Master and Dai Mubai to Sunset Forest to hunt Soul Beasts while Ning Rongrong returned home.
• Tailong confronted Tang San for sitting beside Lan Xue and challenged him to a fight, but Lan Xue took his place and threw Tailong to the ground in a single move.

Tang San defeated Tailong in a physical duel, then accompanied Lan Xue around Heaven Dou City. Over lunch, Tang San suddenly understood his feelings and promised to protect Lan Xue before the two headed to the Auction House.

• Shao Xin stopped Tailong and Tang San from fighting during class, and Tailong challenged Tang San to meet him after class.
• Tang San defeated Tailong in the woods by outmaneuvering him and dislocating his joints after Tailong kept getting back up.
• Tang San and Lan Xue went looking for food, found the restaurants full, and bought boxed meals from an old man.
• Lan Xue’s concern and kindness helped Tang San resolve his confusion, and he promised to protect her as his most cherished Little Xue.
• Tang San and Lan Xue left the food stall and arrived at the Heaven Dou City Auction House.

Tang San and Lan Xue entered Heaven Dou Auction House by submitting Tang San’s poisoned concealed weapon, Hampering Shadow, for appraisal. At the auction, they witnessed a Catwoman being sold and saw the middle-aged man beside them rescue her; the chapter left him interested in Hampering Shadow, which Tang San had put up for auction.

• Lan Xue asked to enter Heaven Dou Auction House, and Tang San gained them entry by presenting Hampering Shadow for appraisal.
• Tang San demonstrated Hampering Shadow’s poisoned needles, and the appraiser accepted it for auction with a starting price of one thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Tang San and Lan Xue learned the Auction House sold its attendants as merchandise and watched a Catwoman be offered as a pet.
• The middle-aged man bid for the Catwoman, while Lan Xue raised the final bid to one hundred ninety thousand Gold Soul Coins; Prince Xue Xing recognized the man and did not challenge him.
• Tang San recognized the next auction item as Hampering Shadow, and the middle-aged man asked whether it had originally belonged to him.

Lan Xue rescued Lü Cui from the auction and sent her to Orchid Hall in the Other Dimension, while Tang San refused a sect leader’s offer to buy his hidden weapons. At Shrek Academy, Tang San defeated Tai Nuo and saved him from his own poison, then Lan Xue healed Tang San’s internal injuries.

• A middle-aged man bought Tang San’s Hampering Shadow at auction and offered to purchase his hidden weapons in bulk, but Tang San declined his invitation to visit the man’s sect.
• Lan Xue renamed the rescued Catwoman Lü Cui, gave her new clothes, and escorted her through the Other Dimension to Orchid Hall after revealing that she was the Pope.
• At Shrek Academy’s gate, Tai Nuo confronted Tang San over Tailong’s injuries and attacked him, while Lan Xue secretly altered time to give Tang San the advantage.
• Tang San defeated Tai Nuo with his hidden weapons and Eight Spider Lances, then withdrew the poison and told Tailong how to help his father recover.
• Tang San collapsed at his dormitory after coughing blood, and Lan Xue used her Ultimate Healing Art to heal his injuries before leaving.