Chapter Summaries

Su Ran stopped Zhao Wuji from taking the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent and accepted Dai Mubai’s challenge to fight Zhu Zhuqing over it. After Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong completed their Third Soul Rings, Zhu Zhuqing prepared to face Dai Mubai.

• Zhao Wuji tried to leave with the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, but Su Ran blocked him and made him choose between leaving it behind or fighting.
• Zhao Wuji chose to leave the serpent behind, and Su Ran said the original plan had been for Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing to duel for it.
• Dai Mubai volunteered to fight Zhu Zhuqing, believing she was still far weaker than him, and Zhao Wuji asked Su Ran to let him change their choice.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong emerged after successfully absorbing their Third Soul Rings, while Su Ran’s Soul Power rose to rank 74.
• Zhu Zhuqing faced Dai Mubai and said she was ready to break her Heart Demon.

Zhu Zhuqing fought Dai Mubai and defeated him with her newly acquired Hell Cross Slash, proving how much she had grown under Su Ran’s guidance. She celebrated by kissing Su Ran’s mask, leaving Ning Rongrong furious.

• Zhu Zhuqing rejected Dai Mubai’s offer to reconcile and challenged him to fight.
• Dai Mubai attacked with his White Tiger skills, but Zhu Zhuqing evaded him and explained that she no longer intended to join forces with him or remain engaged to him.
• Zhu Zhuqing used Hell Stab to mark Dai Mubai, then immobilized him with Hell Cross Slash’s six-pointed star.
• Dai Mubai’s defensive skills could not stop Hell Cross Slash, which struck him with a severe cross-shaped wound.
• Zhu Zhuqing thanked Su Ran for teaching her and kissed his mask, while Ning Rongrong reacted angrily.

Zhu Zhuqing defeated Dai Mubai, and Su Ran’s students impressed Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran with their rapid progress. Chao Tianxiang asked Su Ran to accept Meng Yiran as his disciple.

• Tang San explained how Zhu Zhuqing’s Grey Needle pierced Dai Mubai’s weakened barrier and paralyzed him.
• Zhu Zhuqing ignored Dai Mubai’s accusations, while Su Ran declared that his student had won the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent; Zhao Wuji led Shrek away and ordered demonic special training.
• Xiao Wu suggested that she and Tang San ask Su Ran to teach them, but Tang San refused because they had already joined Shrek and he had taken Master as his teacher.
• Chao Tianxiang thanked Su Ran, then learned that Zhu Zhuqing had gone from losing to Dai Mubai to defeating him in just over a month.
• Ning Rongrong claimed she had also become strong enough to challenge an Assault System Soul Master alone after studying under Su Ran for a month.
• Chao Tianxiang asked Su Ran to accept her granddaughter Meng Yiran as his disciple.

Snake Grandma persuaded Su Ran to accept Meng Yiran as his disciple after explaining that he could help her reach her potential. Meng Yiran learned that Su Ran was a Soul Sage, sincerely took the discipleship oath, and joined Peach Blossom Spring Academy.

• Snake Grandma asked Su Ran to teach Meng Yiran, believing his talent for nurturing disciples could help her surpass the limits of the Serpent Cane path.
• Su Ran hesitated because Meng Yiran seemed unsure, but she knelt and asked to become his disciple after learning he was a Soul Sage.
• Snake Grandma urged Meng Yiran to trust her judgment, and Meng Yiran sincerely promised to study under Su Ran.
• Su Ran gave Meng Yiran a Peach Blossom Token, and she recited the discipleship oath to join Peach Blossom Spring Academy.
• The system accepted Meng Yiran as a disciple and rewarded Su Ran by strengthening his soul rings and granting additional random draw chances.

Meng Yiran became Su Ran's disciple, but he rejected the young Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent as her third soul ring and set out to find a more suitable beast. As Meng Yiran left the forest with Snake Grandma, Ning Rongrong warned her never to remove Su Ran's mask, though her explanation raised questions.

• Meng Yiran accepted Su Ran as her master, and Snake Grandma Chao Tianxiang cried with relief and joy.
• Su Ran stopped Meng Yiran from absorbing the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, healed it, and let it return to the forest.
• Su Ran told Snake Grandma that Meng Yiran needed special training before absorbing a stronger third soul ring, then sent her and the other disciples back to the hotel while he searched the forest.
• Su Ran vanished into the forest, and Meng Yiran asked Ning Rongrong why he wore a mask.
• Ning Rongrong warned Meng Yiran never to ask about or remove Su Ran's mask, claiming his face and laser eyes were terrifying, but Zhu Zhuqing pointed out that his eyes were uncovered.

Xiao Wu reunited with Er Ming after condensing her Third Soul Ring, then became captivated when she saw Su Ran bathing in a stream. Su Ran left with two powerful Thousand Year Soul Beasts for Wang Sheng and Meng Yiran, while Xiao Wu resolved to find him.

• Xiao Wu sent Er Ming back into the forest and disguised herself before returning to the Shrek team.
• Xiao Wu saw Su Ran bathing upstream and developed a nosebleed; Su Ran helped stop it and disappeared with the soul beasts.
• Xiao Wu kept Su Ran's towel and decided that she had fallen in love at first sight and had to find him.
• Su Ran escaped toward the forest's edge with a 2,800-year Blazing Blood King Tiger and a roughly 2,400-year Ghost Barrier Great Snake under the influence of his Branching Dream skill.

Su Ran returned from the Star Dou Great Forest riding a Blazing Blood King Tiger and leading a Ghost Barrier Great Snake, intending it to be Meng Yiran’s Third Soul Ring. Dragon Duke questioned whether the ring was too powerful for her, while Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing defended Su Ran and showed that they had absorbed even stronger Third Soul Rings.

• Dragon Duke Meng Shu tried to take Meng Yiran back into the forest for a soul ring, but Snake Grandma persuaded him to wait for Su Ran and trust his teaching.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing waited anxiously for Su Ran to return from the forest.
• Su Ran arrived in town riding a Blazing Blood King Tiger and leading a Ghost Barrier Great Snake, drawing a crowd of alarmed onlookers.
• Dragon Duke challenged Su Ran’s choice of the over-two-thousand-year Ghost Barrier Great Snake as Meng Yiran’s Third Soul Ring, and Su Ran dismissed his pressure.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong revealed their twenty-seven-hundred-year and twenty-five-hundred-year Third Soul Rings, while Su Ran promised to train Meng Yiran before she tried to absorb hers.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing rebuked Dragon Duke for doubting Su Ran, and Ning Rongrong insisted that becoming his disciple was Meng Yiran’s good fortune.

Flender failed to recruit Wang Sheng from Peach Blossom Spring Academy, and Su Ran returned from the Star Dou Great Forest with a Third Soul Ring for Wang Sheng and a new student, Meng Yiran. Meanwhile, Xiao Wu remained obsessed with the handsome stranger who saved her, leaving Tang San uneasy as Shrek returned to the academy.

• Flender offered Wang Sheng generous benefits to join Shrek, but Wang Sheng refused and challenged him to a Life-and-Death Duel if he insulted Su Ran again.
• Flender abandoned his recruitment attempt and left after Wang Sheng stood firm.
• Su Ran returned with Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Meng Yiran, Snake Grandma, and Dragon Duke, then introduced Meng Yiran to Wang Sheng and assigned him to secure two captured soul beasts.
• Wang Sheng learned that one captured soul beast was intended to provide his Third Soul Ring and eagerly took them to the Side Courtyard.
• Zhao Wuji and the Shrek students returned in the rain as Xiao Wu kept asking about her handsome savior from the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xiao Wu vowed to find the stranger and cherished the White Towel he had left behind, while Tang San felt dejected about her fixation on another man.

Su Ran began teaching Meng Yiran the Great Method of Summoning Undead Heavens and Thousand Sounds of Nether Artifacts, then explained why her Serpent Cane was poorly suited to the Agile Attack and Power Attack paths. He proposed that she become a Summoner System Soul Master, and Meng Yiran eagerly agreed.

• Su Ran explained that the two arts could transform Meng Yiran's Serpent Cane and help her cultivate Hell Nether Dark Artifacts.
• Su Ran had Meng Yiran attack him, then used a Peach Blossom Branch to stop her soul skills and demonstrate the limits of her combat style.
• Su Ran explained that her long cane made surprise attacks difficult and left her at a disadvantage in direct clashes.
• Su Ran wrote “Tailor to the Soul, Human-Soul Union” on the blackboard and described mage and Summoner System paths suited to cane-type martial souls.
• Meng Yiran agreed to learn the Summoner System path, while Dragon Duke and Snake Grandma marveled at Su Ran's advanced knowledge.

Su Ran developed his disciples’ Soul Arts and strengthened Ning Rongrong with a Soul Bone, while Shrek’s students endured Yu Xiaogang’s punishing training. The chapter ended with Xiao Wu asking Yu Xiaogang to identify the most handsome young man on the continent.

• Su Ran learned that Ning Rongrong’s Steel Bone Ironclad Tiger Soul Ring had perfected her Golden Bell Shield and produced an Ironclad Torso Bone, then prepared Bone Nurturing Fluid to help it grow.
• Meng Yiran trained with Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong in their respective supreme arts, while Shrek’s students ran under heavy weights and fought practice duels under Zhao Wuji and Yu Xiaogang.
• Oscar collapsed from exhaustion and hurt his lower back, so Tang San helped him return to rest.
• After the other students left, Xiao Wu asked Yu Xiaogang who the continent’s most handsome young man was and where he could be found.

Xiao Wu tried to identify the handsome man who had saved her, then decided to leave Shrek Academy to find him. Tang San shared techniques from an ancient book with his teammates, but caught Xiao Wu sneaking out and took her to investigate the recent soul beast cries.

• Xiao Wu rejected Yu Xiaogang’s guesses about Thunder Douluo, Clear Sky Douluo, and Chen Xin, then resolved to search for her rescuer herself.
• After hearing a beast roar, Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai discussed their losses to Peach Blossom Spring Academy, and Tang San gave them booklets on the Point Force Method and Fortune Method.
• Oscar asked Tang San for a technique, but Tang San said he had found nothing suitable for a food-system Soul Master.
• Xiao Wu went to the boys’ dormitory with a bundle and farewell letter, intending to leave Shrek Academy to find the man she loved.
• Tang San found Xiao Wu at the dormitory and led her away to investigate the recent nighttime soul beast cries.

Tang San and Xiao Wu secretly observed Peach Blossom Spring Academy, where they spotted students cultivating and two captured Soul Beasts. Xiao Wu recognized the beasts from the Star Dou Great Forest and suspected that Su Ran was the Immortal Master she had encountered, then asked Tang San to help her observe the academy every day.

• Tang San brought Xiao Wu to Peach Blossom Spring Academy to spy on its training and search for weaknesses.
• Tang San observed Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and other students cultivating at night and described the academy's layout to Xiao Wu.
• They spotted two bound Soul Beasts beneath peach trees, and Tang San guessed that Su Ran had brought them from the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xiao Wu recognized the Soul Beasts and wondered whether Su Ran was the Immortal Master she had met in the forest.
• Xiao Wu decided to return and observe the academy every day, then asked whether Tang San would support her if she found the person she wanted to spend her life with.
• Tang San asked Xiao Wu whether she thought her savior was inside Peach Blossom Spring Academy.

Su Ran demonstrated the advanced control of force and pressure to Ning Rongrong, setting her a new goal: transforming her Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda into a Diamond Glazed Pagoda. He left her with a difficult training path that would give her Pagoda both defensive strength and offensive power.

• Ning Rongrong struggled with her physical training, smashing tofu and hurting her hand against an Iron Stake while trying to master Wing Chun Inch Punch.
• Su Ran punched a hole through the Iron Stake while leaving an intact piece of tofu with only a faint fist mark, proving the technique was possible.
• Su Ran explained that Ning Rongrong should train force and pressure, then used his Golden Bells and Glazed Golden Pagoda to demonstrate overwhelming pressure.
• Su Ran demonstrated Man-Fist Unity by stopping a powerful fist just short of Ning Rongrong's face and gently flicking her nose.
• Su Ran set Ning Rongrong the goal of refining her Pagoda into a Diamond Glazed Pagoda and mastering controlled force, promising that it would give her Soul Master both defense and formidable offense.
• Ning Rongrong asked whether anyone else could master Man-Fist Unity, and Su Ran said her Senior Brother was practicing basic Tiger Fist.

Xiao Wu and Tang San watched Peach Blossom Spring Academy’s training and realized how formidable its techniques were. Su Ran advanced Wang Sheng’s training by teaching him Subduing Tiger Fist, while Xiao Wu remained uncertain whether Tang San could find the academy’s weaknesses.

• Tang San tried to persuade Xiao Wu on the Utility Building roof, but flying iron fragments struck him and sent him falling to the ground.
• Xiao Wu saw the force behind the academy’s training and questioned whether Tang San could discover weaknesses in its techniques.
• Su Ran’s training included Zhu Zhuqing and Meng Yiran practicing movement, meditation, and specialized techniques, while Meng Yiran also trained her body with Ning Rongrong.
• Su Ran praised Wang Sheng’s six years of Tiger Form Fist practice and offered to make him a Direct Disciple, but Wang Sheng declined.
• Su Ran taught Wang Sheng Subduing Tiger Fist, and Wang Sheng recognized how effectively it could counter tiger martial souls and other beast martial souls.

After Tang San returned injured from spying on Peach Blossom Spring Academy, Yu Xiaogang confronted Su Ran and challenged him to a team match with both academies’ futures at stake. Su Ran accepted, while Xiao Wu became more determined to uncover his identity.

• Tang San refused to name who had injured him, but Xiao Wu told the Shrek Teachers that Su Ran had struck him after he and Tang San secretly watched Peach Blossom Spring Academy train.
• Yu Xiaogang went to Peach Blossom Spring Academy to demand justice for Tang San, despite Flender and Zhao Wuji’s reluctance to confront Su Ran.
• Yu Xiaogang challenged Su Ran to a team match between the academies at Suotuo City’s Great Soul Arena one month later, wagering each academy’s survival and ten thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Su Ran accepted the challenge after Yu Xiaogang taunted him for hesitating.
• Flender, Zhao Wuji, and the Shrek students warned Yu Xiaogang that his challenge was reckless, while Xiao Wu resolved to discover whether Su Ran was the person she suspected and what he looked like beneath his mask.

Su Ran reviewed his students’ progress after a month of special training and prepared them for a team battle against Shrek. He promised that if they won, Meng Yiran and Zhu Zhuqing could see his face, leaving the students eager for the match and Ning Rongrong worried.

• Su Ran praised Ning Rongrong’s Golden Bell Shield progress and urged her to improve her Inch Strength, while she asked him to treat her bruised hand.
• Su Ran explained team battle tactics to Zhu Zhuqing, Meng Yiran, and Wang Sheng, identifying their weaknesses and how they should fight.
• Su Ran announced that the four students would face the Shrek team in a team battle within two days to test their training.
• Meng Yiran asked to see Su Ran’s face as a reward for winning, and Zhu Zhuqing supported her request.
• Su Ran agreed on the condition that they stay calm regardless of his appearance, and Meng Yiran and Zhu Zhuqing eagerly accepted while Ning Rongrong sighed.

The Shrek Team narrowly defeated the Imperial Dou Team, and Qin Ming reunited with his former Shrek teachers and students. Yu Xiaogang revealed a wager for a Survival Battle against Peach Blossom Spring Academy and asked Qin Ming to help Shrek win.

• The Shrek Team defeated the Imperial Dou Team after a fierce match at Suotuo City's Great Soul Arena.
• Qin Ming learned that Shrek was struggling to survive and that Peach Blossom Spring Academy had recruited some of its students.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that Shrek would face Peach Blossom Spring Academy in a Survival Battle, with the academy's future and substantial rewards at stake.
• Yu Xiaogang said Shrek's odds had improved and asked Qin Ming to help the team, leaving Qin Ming surprised.

Su Ran’s four-person Peach Blossom Spring Team registered for a team battle against Shrek and drew disbelief from spectators who heavily favored Shrek. As the team prepared for the match, Ning Rongrong offered to stake a hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins on their victory in exchange for a kiss from Su Ran.

• Ning Rongrong, Meng Yiran, Zhu Zhuqing, and Wang Sheng discussed the crowd’s praise of Shrek and their own chances of winning.
• Su Ran registered Peach Blossom Spring Team for a team battle with only four members, despite the staff member warning him about the disadvantage.
• The staff and arena spectators realized Peach Blossom Spring Team was scheduled to face Shrek, and many increased their bets on Shrek.
• Su Ran told Ning Rongrong he had already bet two thousand Gold Soul Coins on their team, hoping to earn enough to cover training expenses.
• Ning Rongrong offered to bet a hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins on Peach Blossom Spring Team and promised Su Ran the winnings if they won, asking for a kiss in return.

Shrek merged with members of the Imperial Dou Team to face Su Ran’s Peach Blossom Spring Team in a survival battle, with the rules allowing weapons and other powers. Yu Xiaogang fielded a powerful seven-member lineup, while Su Ran remained calm as the four-person match was about to begin.

• Yu Xiaogang and Flender discussed Shrek’s chances and their hope of absorbing Su Ran and his students into the academy.
• Su Ran sat with Dragon Duke and Snake Grandma, who silenced Flender after he provoked them.
• The arena host announced that the losing side’s teacher would forfeit their students, pay ten thousand Gold Soul Coins, and share the Great Soul Arena’s rewards.
• The host introduced Shrek’s merged lineup of seven, including members of the Imperial Dou Team, and the crowd cheered.
• Yu Xiaogang chose an aggressive lineup after learning Peach Blossom Spring would field only four people, while Su Ran watched without reacting.
• Oscar lamented being left out of Shrek’s team and compared himself unfavorably to Ye Lingling.

Peach Blossom Spring Team faced Shrek Team in the Spirit Dueling Competition, while the crowd questioned Ning Rongrong’s role as captain and the team’s chances. At the match’s start, Zhu Zhuqing feigned agreement with Dai Mubai before striking him with Hell Stab and declaring that their relationship had ended.

• The host introduced Peach Blossom Spring Team, including Ning Rongrong as captain and Tiger Subduing Master with a thousand-year second Soul Ring.
• The audience doubted Peach Blossom Spring Team, while Master urged Tang San to exploit Ning Rongrong’s captaincy and use his Hidden Weapons.
• Ning Rongrong defended support members as commanders, explaining that a Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda user could best observe the fight and coordinate buffs.
• The match began, and Ma Hongjun taunted Ning Rongrong while Dai Mubai asked Zhu Zhuqing to return to him.
• Zhu Zhuqing pretended to accept Dai Mubai’s proposal, then used Hell Stab to wound him and said their relationship had ended in the Star Dou Great Forest.