Chapter Summaries

Ning Rongrong revealed that she was Ning Fengzhi’s daughter, making Meng Shu abandon his attempt to recruit Li Yuan into the Meng Family. Li Yuan then offered Meng Shu rare Six-Headed Wolf Scorpion venom as compensation for Meng Yiran losing two Soul Rings to the Shrek Seven Devils.

• Ning Rongrong summoned her Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and identified herself as Ning Fengzhi’s daughter.
• Meng Shu recognized Ning Rongrong’s status and asked how she was connected to Li Xiaoyuan; she insisted Li Xiaoyuan could not join the Meng Family.
• Meng Shu inferred that Ning Rongrong had feelings for Li Xiaoyuan and withdrew his offer, deciding the Meng Family could not risk offending the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Li Yuan started to negotiate, but Ning Rongrong glared at him, so he agreed to drop the matter.
• Li Yuan gave Meng Shu a bottle of venom from a twenty-thousand-year-old Six-Headed Wolf Scorpion to compensate Meng Yiran.

After Meng Shu left with Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran, Li Yuan teased the jealous Ning Rongrong and joined Tang San and Xiao Wu as they reunited with the others. When Zhao Wuji asked how Li Yuan and Xiao Wu escaped the Titan Giant Ape, Xiao Wu blamed its departure on a bull-like roar and revealed that her Soul Power had reached level thirty.

• Meng Shu accepted Li Yuan's gifts and left with Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran.
• Ning Rongrong jealously twisted Li Yuan's waist, and he teased her about her chest and confidence.
• Li Yuan joined Tang San and Xiao Wu as the reunited couple showed their affection to the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Ma Hongjun asked Li Yuan to teach him how to flirt, but Zhao Wuji interrupted to ask how Li Yuan and Xiao Wu escaped.
• Xiao Wu said a bull-like roar frightened the Titan Giant Ape into dropping them, then claimed its roar knocked them unconscious and that she awoke with level-thirty Soul Power.

Xiao Wu told the Shrek group a fabricated story about reaching level thirty and surviving the Star Dou Forest, while Li Yuan helped keep her secret. Tang San absorbed the Man Faced Demon Spider’s Soul Ring and gained an External Soul Bone, though the chapter ended as its eight spider-like limbs emerged from his back.

• Zhao Wuji was shocked to learn Xiao Wu had reached level thirty, and Li Yuan silently helped her deceive the group about her age and how she obtained her Soul Ring.
• Tang San thanked Li Yuan for helping Xiao Wu and resolving matters with the Peerless Dragon Snake couple, and Li Yuan asked Tang San to make some gadgets for him.
• Li Yuan pointed out the Man Faced Demon Spider’s Soul Ring, and Tang San began absorbing it after taking a sausage from Oscar.
• Tang San endured severe pain while absorbing the over-two-thousand-year Soul Ring, then successfully advanced to a Three-ring Soul Master.
• Tang San convulsed as eight dark-purple limbs burst from his back, and Li Yuan explained that he had obtained the valuable External Soul Bone.

Li Yuan explained that Tang San was absorbing a rare, evolving External Soul Bone, and Shrek Academy waited while Xiao Wu guarded him. That night, Ma Hongjun sought Li Yuan’s advice on finding a girlfriend, and Li Yuan suggested he change his name to Zhou Weiqing.

• Li Yuan explained the value and abilities of External Soul Bones and assured everyone that Tang San would recover after absorbing his.
• Tang San stopped convulsing, wrapped himself in a cocoon of Blue Silver Grass, and began absorbing the bone while Xiao Wu stayed by his side.
• Ma Hongjun visited Li Yuan’s tent at night to ask for advice on picking up girls.
• Li Yuan told Ma Hongjun to value personality over looks, then suggested he change his name to Zhou Weiqing.

Li Yuan sold Ma Hongjun a book on becoming a simp and watched him adopt the name Ma Weiqing, but the new name did not protect him from a poisoning accident. Tang San awakened with the Eight Spider Lances, and Li Yuan tested their potent poison without harm.

• Li Yuan persuaded Ma Hongjun to consider changing his name and sold him The Self-Cultivation of a Simp for one hundred Gold Soul Coins.
• Ning Rongrong asked Li Yuan why Ma Hongjun had visited him, then became flustered when he teased her about spying.
• Xiao Wu announced that Tang San had awakened, and Shrek Academy gathered to celebrate his External Soul Bone.
• Ma Weiqing's hand turned purple and began to rot after he was poisoned, and Oscar's Preserved Sausage made his condition worse.
• Li Yuan gave Ma Weiqing an antidote, then touched Tang San's Eight Spider Lances and found that their poison could harm even a Soul King.

After returning to Suotuo City, Li Yuan met Yu Xiaogang at Shrek Academy and asked him to teach Martial Soul Theory and investigate his unusual cultivation. Yu Xiaogang was stunned by Li Yuan’s rapid progress and began examining his martial soul in hopes of discovering its secret.

• Ma Hongjun recovered from the Man Faced Demon Spider’s poison after taking Li Yuan’s antidote, and Tang San learned to retract his External Soul Bone.
• Li Yuan and the Shrek group returned to Suotuo City, where Dai Mubai told Li Yuan that Yu Xiaogang had arrived at the academy.
• Li Yuan visited the dean’s office with Juhua and asked Yu Xiaogang to teach him Martial Soul Theory and explain his martial soul.
• Li Yuan revealed that he had half a level of Innate Soul Power but became a Soul Elder at twelve, leaving Yu Xiaogang deeply shaken.
• Yu Xiaogang asked to examine Li Yuan’s martial soul and soul rings and requested two tubes of his blood for research.

Li Yuan taught Ning Rongrong the first steps of the Rasengan before Yu Xiaogang revealed his theory that Li Yuan’s Keyboard Martial Soul could evolve without limit. The chapter ended with Li Yuan disclosing the true ages of his Soul Rings and asking Yu Xiaogang to keep them secret.

• Li Yuan approved Ning Rongrong’s tree-climbing and water-walking training and began teaching her the Rasengan.
• Ning Rongrong condensed Soul Power in her palm, then started practicing the next stage with a water-filled balloon.
• Yu Xiaogang excitedly told Li Yuan that he believed the Keyboard was an Evolvable Martial Soul whose quality could continually improve.
• Li Yuan confirmed that his first two Soul Rings were Thousand-Year Soul Rings and his third was a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, then asked Yu Xiaogang to keep it secret.

The Master explained that Li Yuan’s unusual soul-ring tolerance likely came from his evolving martial soul and exceptional physical strength, while warning him that exceeding his limits could still kill him. Back at Shrek Academy, Li Yuan continued training Ning Rongrong in the Rasengan until Zhu Zhuqing approached him with a request for cultivation instruction.

• The Master promised to keep Li Yuan’s soul-ring configuration secret and theorized that his martial soul absorbed much of the soul rings’ power, though he cautioned that Li Yuan still needed to avoid exceeding his limits.
• Li Yuan decided to seek a soul ring around thirty or forty thousand years old for his fourth ring rather than risk a fifty-thousand-year one.
• Li Yuan returned to his routine of fighting in the Great Soul Arena and studying theory with The Master while teaching Ning Rongrong the Rasengan.
• Li Yuan teased Ning Rongrong over her slow progress, demonstrated how to control the water inside a balloon, and had her continue practicing.
• Zhu Zhuqing came to the training field and asked Li Yuan to teach her how to cultivate.

Zhu Zhuqing asked Li Yuan to teach her soul skills, but she could not afford his fee until Ning Rongrong offered to pay. Li Yuan accepted and began advising Zhu Zhuqing that her plan to win her freedom by defeating her Star Luo Empire rival was too narrow.

• Zhu Zhuqing asked Li Yuan to teach her soul skills, and he quoted the same fee he had charged Ning Rongrong: five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Zhu Zhuqing explained that her family treated her as a disposable pawn and would not give her the money.
• Ning Rongrong defended Zhu Zhuqing and offered to pay her tuition, which Li Yuan accepted.
• Zhu Zhuqing thanked Ning Rongrong, who asked her to cultivate and help deal with Dai Mubai in the future.
• Li Yuan told Zhu Zhuqing that her plan to defeat her rival and win her freedom had led her into a dead end.

Li Yuan told Zhu Zhuqing that trying to defeat Zhu Zhuyun and Dai Weisi would not free her from the Star Luo Empire’s control, and suggested she flee or defect to Spirit Hall instead. Zhu Zhuqing reconsidered her options, though she did not reveal whether she would act on his advice.

• Li Yuan argued that Zhu Zhuqing’s plan to defeat Zhu Zhuyun and Dai Weisi would not change her fate or give her control over her future.
• Ning Rongrong urged Li Yuan to stop mocking Zhu Zhuqing and offer practical help, so he outlined two ways she could escape the Star Luo Empire.
• Li Yuan suggested Zhu Zhuqing disappear and cultivate until she became a Titled Douluo, or defect to Spirit Hall, which could protect her.
• Zhu Zhuqing realized she had never considered leaving the Star Luo Empire because of her upbringing, not because she felt loyal to it.
• Zhu Zhuqing stayed silent, but Li Yuan’s advice planted the possibility of defecting in her mind.

Over two months, Li Yuan trained Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong while earning money through fights with his Dawn Team at the Great Soul Arena. In the team battle waiting room, he stepped in when Mad Rhino harassed a masked girl, then faced a warning from Manager Ao, whose arena had lost money because of Li Yuan.

• Zhu Zhuqing joined Ning Rongrong's nightly Rasengan training and progressed quickly enough to reach the final stage alongside her.
• Li Yuan formed the Dawn Team with his clones and deliberately took some losses to avoid drawing attention while earning money in the Great Soul Arena.
• Li Yuan entered the team battle waiting room and found Mad Rhino harassing a masked girl.
• Li Yuan slapped Mad Rhino several times, and Mad Rhino backed down because he feared the Dawn Team.
• Manager Ao warned everyone against fighting in the waiting room, while the Great Soul Arena's losses from Li Yuan's matches had prompted an investigation.

Manager Ao worried that an audit would expose his embezzlement, unaware that Li Yuan was behind the Suotuo City Great Soul Arena’s declining performance. Li Yuan introduced his Dawn Team to the Shrek Seven Devils, then prepared to face the Professional Team in the final match.

• Manager Ao fretted about the coming audit and the money he would have to spend to conceal his past thefts, while failing to recognize Li Yuan as the culprit behind the arena’s poor performance.
• After Manager Ao left, Li Yuan introduced his Dawn Team clones to Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and the other Shrek Seven Devils.
• The Shrek Team fought the Berserker Team and won, settling their earlier conflict.
• Li Yuan heard the host announce that the Dawn Team would face the Professional Team in the final team battle.

Li Yuan’s Dawn Team faced the coffin-wielding Professional Team in a Soul Fighting Competition match, and Li Yuan used his Kizaru transformation and superior speed to defeat the seven brothers. The Professional Team then regrouped in a strange formation as eerie music began to play.

• Li Yuan recognized the Professional Team as seven identical-looking brothers who each carried a coffin and had matching Soul Rings.
• The Professional Team opened the match by splitting into groups, using Soul Skills to attack Li Yuan and his clones.
• Li Yuan switched places with his Kizaru clone, then used a flashy but ordinary Light Speed Kick to send the team’s leader flying.
• Li Yuan used his speed to defeat the seven brothers one by one, leaving them battered and aware of the gap in strength.
• The seven brothers regrouped in a strange formation and began swaying in unison as eerie music played.

Li Yuan used his clones and disguises to defeat the Professional Team after their seven-man Fusion Skill sealed his Kizaru clone. Dawn Team’s victory stunned the audience and the Shrek Seven Devils, who believed they had seen several powerful new geniuses.

• The seven black men combined their Martial Souls into a coffin and swallowed Li Yuan’s Kizaru clone with their Fusion Skill.
• Li Yuan switched his true body with Zhang Chulan’s clone, then used lightning to strike the seven men and break their Fusion Skill.
• Li Yuan defeated the four remaining black men and earned the Seven Kills Achievement as Dawn Team won the match.
• The audience erupted over Dawn Team’s strength, but Li Yuan had already left to go home after collecting the prize money.
• Tang San and the Shrek Seven Devils watched the match and felt discouraged by the apparent strength of Dawn Team’s members.
• The Master and Flender questioned their teaching after concluding that Dawn Team had seven geniuses, unaware that Li Yuan alone had fought the match.

Li Yuan spent months earning money at Suotuo City's Great Soul Arena while coaching Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing into a radically more aggressive fighting style. After the Great Soul Arena raided Manager Ao and began investigating, Li Yuan decided to leave Suotuo City, promising Ning Rongrong they would meet again in Heaven Dou City.

• Li Yuan continued entering Soul Fighting Competitions and grew his savings while the Shrek Seven Devils built strong records at the Great Soul Arena.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing mastered Li Yuan's Rasengan and several knockoff Soul Skills, including Golden Light Spells that made them more confident fighting at close range.
• The Seven Treasure Spirit Cat Team kept its perfect two-on-two record as Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing charged opponents and finished battles with Rasengans.
• Ning Rongrong asked Li Yuan whether he was leaving Suotuo City, and he explained that urgent business required him to go but promised they would meet again in Heaven Dou City.
• Li Yuan decided to leave after the Great Soul Arena raided Manager Ao's home and began investigating the arena's losses.

Li Yuan said farewell to Ning Rongrong and prepared to leave for the Star Dou Great Forest to train and obtain his fourth soul ring before joining the Advanced Spirit Master Tournament. Before departing, he gave Ning Rongrong a powerful weapon and presented The Master with gifts whose full value remained unclear.

• Li Yuan promised Ning Rongrong that he would meet her again at the Advanced Spirit Master Tournament and planned to enter so he could profit from betting on his team.
• Li Yuan decided to spend several months in the Star Dou Great Forest, where he would train until he reached level forty and obtain his fourth soul ring.
• Li Yuan gave Ning Rongrong a Tang San-modified Gatling Bodhisattva, and she eagerly accepted it.
• Li Yuan visited The Master and thanked him for his lessons by giving him a Nine-Rank Purple Ganoderma and two white-covered books.

Li Yuan gave Yu Xiaogang a Nine-Rank Purple Ganoderma and two provocative books before leaving Shrek Academy, and Yu Xiaogang became engrossed in one of them. More than two months later, Li Yuan reached Level Forty in the Star Dou Great Forest and set out with Juhua to hunt for a spirit ring before heading to Heaven Dou City.

• Li Yuan gave Yu Xiaogang the Nine-Rank Purple Ganoderma and the handwritten books The Self-Cultivation of a Scumbag and German Orthopedics: From Broken Bones to Burial.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted the ganoderma and gave Li Yuan books on Martial Soul Theory in return.
• Yu Xiaogang read German Orthopedics: From Broken Bones to Burial and became engrossed in it.
• After more than two months in the Star Dou Great Forest, Li Yuan reached Level Forty and prepared to hunt for a spirit ring with Juhua.
• Li Yuan and Juhua vanished into the forest as Li Yuan began searching for a compatible soul beast over thirty thousand years old.

After reaching rank forty, Li Yuan went to hunt a thirty-thousand-year Craggy Bear for his fourth spirit ring, but found the bear dead. Juhua identified a powerful, dark-aura soul beast as the killer, leaving Li Yuan wondering why it had spared the corpse.

• Li Yuan reached rank forty and set out with Juhua to find the Craggy Bear he had chosen for his fourth spirit ring.
• Li Yuan searched the bear's territory but found no trace of it, then continued looking with Juhua.
• Li Yuan found the Craggy Bear dead, split nearly in half, with a black spirit ring floating above its corpse.
• Li Yuan examined the wounds and concluded that the attacker had vastly outclassed the bear.
• Juhua identified the killer as a fierce soul beast with a dark aura and a cultivation of sixty thousand to ninety thousand years.
• Li Yuan trusted Juhua's judgment but asked why the soul beast had left the Craggy Bear's corpse intact.

Li Yuan and Juhua ate the Craggy Bear killed by a mysterious spirit beast, while Qian Renxue and her companions fled from the same creature. Li Yuan recognized Qian Renxue and Fatty Jin through his clones, and Juhua identified their pursuer as a Black Dragon Horse at least sixty thousand years old.

• Li Yuan and Juhua found the Craggy Bear's corpse, then cooked and ate it rather than let it go to waste.
• Qian Renxue, Fatty Jin, and the Coin Soul Saint fled through the Star Dou Great Forest after the Black Dragon Horse overpowered them.
• The Coin Soul Saint used his spirit skill to seal the Black Dragon Horse's flight ability, but the group still could not outrun it.
• The Coin Soul Saint told Qian Renxue to escape while he and Fatty Jin stayed behind to hold off the beast, and she retreated.
• Li Yuan saw the chase through his nearby clones, recognized Qian Renxue and Fatty Jin, and asked Juhua about the horse.
• Juhua identified the pursuer as a Black Dragon Horse with an estimated age of at least sixty thousand years.

Li Yuan learned why the White Dragon Horse became a Black Dragon Horse and flew with Juhua toward the beast pursuing Qian Renxue. The Black Dragon Horse badly wounded Fatty Jin, and the Coin Soul Saint attacked it again to buy Qian Renxue time.

• Juhua explained that a White Dragon Horse could turn dark and become a brutal Black Dragon Horse that attacked those with light or holy attributes.
• Li Yuan lifted Juhua onto his shoulder, changed into a smaller form, and flew toward Qian Renxue, whom he wanted to see.
• The Black Dragon Horse struck Fatty Jin and the Coin Soul Saint with dark wind blades, leaving Fatty Jin near death and the Coin Soul Saint lightly injured.
• The Black Dragon Horse ignored the two men and continued pursuing Qian Renxue.
• The Coin Soul Saint activated his Weapon Martial Soul True Body and used Falling Gold Coins and Storm of Gold Coins to attack the Black Dragon Horse.