Chapter Summaries

Ling Luochen and Tang Wutong failed to stop Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire outburst, but Su Jinli subdued it with her Divine Peach Blossom Branch. After learning that the fire might erupt again and kill Ma Xiaotao, Su Jinli agreed to examine her and try to dispel it.

• Ling Luochen used her Ice Prison and Ice Brilliance Ring to restrain Ma Xiaotao, but Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire melted both skills and sent her charging toward Su Jinli.
• Tang Wutong tried to shield Su Jinli with her Light Goddess Butterfly, but Ma Xiaotao overwhelmed her until Su Jinli stopped the charge with a Divine Peach Blossom Branch.
• Su Jinli tapped Ma Xiaotao between the brows and suppressed her evil fire, then caught the unconscious girl while holding Tang Wutong.
• Mu En and Yan Shaozhe arrived to apologize, and Su Jinli punished them with a month of toilet cleaning and campus cleaning, respectively.
• Yan Shaozhe explained that Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire could erupt again and asked Su Jinli to dispel it; Su Jinli agreed to examine Ma Xiaotao despite being unsure how to help.

Su Jinli tried to purge Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire with acupuncture, but his needle array made it erupt more violently and threatened to destroy her body. As Su Jinli panicked, Su Ran arrived and began treating Ma Xiaotao himself.

• Mu En and Yan Shaozhe questioned Su Jinli as he struggled to find a way to release Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire.
• Su Jinli shielded the pavilion with peach blossom petals, laid Ma Xiaotao on a petal bed, and began acupuncture while Tang Wutong held her hands.
• Su Jinli’s needles concentrated Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire at her brow, where it erupted through the barrier and scorched a blazing path across Sea God Lake.
• Su Jinli realized the violent outburst could rupture Ma Xiaotao’s meridians and skin, while Tang Wutong begged him to save her.
• Su Ran arrived, inserted three needles into Ma Xiaotao’s Baihui, Shanzhong, and Qihai points, and pressed his left hand against her lower abdomen.

Ma Xiaotao recovered after Su Jinli used silver needles to calm her Evil Fire, but she mistook Su Jinli for the Peach Blossom Spring Ancestor and offered to serve her. Su Jinli and the library curator Su Ran discussed their techniques and disguises, while Tang Wutong delighted in Su Ran calling her Little Ancestor Tang.

• Su Jinli's silver needles extinguished Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire and restored her life, and Ma Xiaotao woke beneath the peach blossoms.
• Ma Xiaotao thanked Su Jinli as the Ancestral Immortal Master and offered to attend her for life, though Su Jinli tried to explain that she had not performed the cure.
• Su Ran identified himself as the library curator and greeted Su Jinli, while Tang Wutong wondered how he had succeeded where Su Jinli had failed.
• Su Jinli questioned Su Ran about the Sharingan and revealed that she recognized his disguise, and Su Ran altered his illusion while acknowledging her insight.
• Tang Wutong mocked Su Ran's plain appearance and praised Su Jinli, and Su Ran humored her by calling her Little Ancestor Tang.

Su Ran encouraged Su Jinli to take responsibility for guiding the current age, then refused her offer to become his teacher. Su Jinli appointed him a Peach Blossom Forest teacher and challenged him to prove his skill by curing Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire completely.

• Yan Shaozhe and the Sea God Pavilion elders confirmed that Su Ran had soothed Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire and that her Soul Power was rising.
• Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen argued over Ma Xiaotao’s pursuit of Su Jinli and whether Ling Luochen would continue helping suppress her Evil Fire.
• Su Jinli confronted Su Ran for calmly leaving her to handle the crowd, and he praised her as someone destined to guide Shrek Academy and resolve the troubles between the continents.
• Su Jinli asked Su Ran to learn under her after noting his unusual talents, but he refused.
• Su Jinli appointed Su Ran a teacher of Peach Blossom Forest and granted him the Peach Blossom Honorary Badge, then challenged him to cure Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire completely.

Su Ran revealed that Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire could be turned to her advantage by learning the Nine Yang Divine Skill, and Su Jinli agreed to teach it. The chapter ended as Su Jinli handed Ma Xiaotao the skill and warned her not to pass it on.

• Su Ran asked Su Jinli to flatten Evil Mountain, and Yan Shaozhe and Mu En urged her to help Shrek confront the threats there.
• Su Ran explained three ways to treat Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire, and Su Jinli identified the Nine Yang Divine Skill as a superior method that could strengthen her.
• Su Jinli summoned Ma Xiaotao, Tang Wutong, Xiao Xiao, and Su Ran to Peach Blossom Forest the next morning.
• Ma Xiaotao led Tang Wutong and Xiao Xiao along the shifting Peach Blossom Path while Su Ran wandered freely through the forest.
• Su Jinli emerged from the classroom and gave Ma Xiaotao the Nine Yang Divine Skill, warning her to keep it secret.

Su Jinli taught Ma Xiaotao the opening chapter of the Nine Yang True Scripture to help control her Evil Fire, then chose supreme arts for Xiao Xiao and Tang Wutong. Tang Wutong waited to learn Su Jinli’s promised ultimate aesthetic, a technique meant to overwhelm enemies with beauty.

• Su Jinli gave Ma Xiaotao the Nine Yang True Scripture and urged her to master its Three Yangs Ushering in Prosperity chapter.
• Tang Wutong and Xiao Xiao released their martial souls, and Xiao Xiao said she wanted to become a Control System or Assault System Soul Master.
• Su Jinli encouraged Xiao Xiao to develop both her attack and defense abilities, drawing on the example of Senior Sister Ning.
• Su Jinli gave Xiao Xiao Overlord Cauldron: Mountain Suppressing and Jade Sea Tide Song to study.
• Su Jinli promised Tang Wutong an unprecedented ultimate aesthetic that would leave enemies breathless with beauty.

Su Ran left Su Jinli to teach at Sea God Lake while Mu En and Xuanzi discussed Shrek Academy’s internal troubles and the Sun Moon Empire’s coming challenge. Back at the library, Su Ran found Huo Wu and Tang Ya grilling fish and told Tang Ya to master the Five Animal Fist before asking to meet Immortal Master Su.

• Su Ran watched Su Jinli teach, then withdrew from the Peach Blossom Forest while reflecting on her growing reputation and his own disguise.
• Mu En warned Xuanzi that Immortal Master Su’s popularity was distracting Shrek’s students and that the academy faced troubles within and without.
• Mu En and Xuanzi recalled the Sun Moon Empire’s three-year challenge schedule and anticipated another challenge the following year.
• Su Ran returned to the library courtyard, where Huo Wu and Tang Ya welcomed him with grilled fish and sashimi.
• Tang Ya asked Su Ran to take her to meet Immortal Master Su, and Su Ran told her to practice the Five Animal Fist first.

Su Ran assigned Tang Ya demanding winter break homework after she revealed her dream of becoming Immortal Master Su’s long-lived lover. Huo Wu then disclosed his plan to seek a second Martial Soul in the Far North, and Su Ran revealed that the Ice Empress had left there thousands of years earlier, alarming Huo Wu and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

• Tang Ya said she wanted to become the longest-lived little lover by Immortal Master Su’s side, and Su Ran assigned her three thousand rounds of Five Animal Fist and one thousand copies of the Tao Te Ching for winter break.
• Tang Ya protested the workload but agreed after Su Ran threatened to take back her Peach Blossom Badge and the techniques he had taught her.
• Su Ran told Tang Ya he knew how many times she had practiced Five Animal Fist, and she hurried back to the dormitory, worried he had seen her practice while bathing.
• Huo Wu asked Su Ran to reduce his winter break homework because he planned to travel to the Far North and seek a second Martial Soul.
• Su Ran identified Huo Wu’s plan to find the Ice Empress and revealed that she had left the Far North thousands of years earlier, prompting Huo Wu and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to demand how he knew.

Su Ran revealed that he knew Huo Wu’s secret and offered him a chance to shape a second Martial Soul through the Soul Spirit Pavilion instead of seeking a Far North Heavenly King. Huo Wu lacked the points to enter, so Su Ran offered to lend them on the condition that Huo Wu repay double.

• Su Ran explained how the Ice Empress and Snow Empress disappeared after entering the icy ocean with Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineers, and Tian Meng feared his plan to give Huo Wu a second Martial Soul had failed.
• Su Ran revealed that he could read minds and had known about Tian Meng’s presence, prompting Huo Wu to apologize for keeping it secret.
• Su Ran told Huo Wu he did not blame him for guarding his secret and offered him a chance to shape a second Martial Soul in the Soul Spirit Pavilion.
• Su Ran explained that the Soul Spirit Pavilion let Soul Masters attach Soul Rings from suitable Soul Spirits, including ice-element ones cultivated by Peach Blossom Spring’s Ice Element Disciples.
• Huo Wu said he lacked enough points to enter the ten-thousand-year level, and Su Ran offered to lend him the points in exchange for double repayment.

Huo Wu entered Shrek Academy’s Soul Spirit Pavilion to condense his second Martial Soul, while Su Ran insisted that he choose a powerful soul spirit despite the enormous point cost. He absorbed the Hundred Thousand Year Evil Ice Whale King and a thousand-year soul spirit, leaving Xuan Zi stunned when Su Ran’s balance did not change.

• Su Ran brought Huo Wu to the Soul Spirit Pavilion and ordered Xuanzi to open the Gray Pavilion for him.
• Xuanzi explained that the Gray Pavilion charged points according to the soul spirit’s age, and Huo Wu worried he could never repay the cost.
• Su Ran pushed Huo Wu into the Gray Pavilion and gave Xuanzi a gray card with a balance exceeding one hundred million points.
• Huo Wu searched the pavilion for most of the day while Su Ran and Xuan Zi waited outside.
• Huo Wu absorbed the Hundred Thousand Year Evil Ice Whale King and a thousand-year soul spirit, but the card’s balance remained unchanged.

The Sun Moon Empire Royal Academy team arrived at Shrek Academy to issue a challenge, led by the Ice Empress, who ordered them to investigate Immortal Master Su and seek unique skills in the library. Their arrival drew a crowd of Shrek students, and senior students recognized that the visitors had come to challenge the academy.

• Meng Hongchen boasted that she and Xiao Hongchen could defeat Shrek Academy, but Elder Ma and the Ice Empress warned her not to underestimate it or Immortal Master Su.
• The Ice Empress reminded the team that their goals were to challenge Shrek, search the library for unique skills, and confirm whether Immortal Master Su had emerged from seclusion, forbidding anyone from acting alone.
• The Sun Moon Royal Academy team entered the Peach Blossom Spring Jurisdiction, rested in a city hotel, and traveled to Shrek Academy the next day.
• The team beat the war drum in Shrek's square, attracting Outer Court students who speculated about the visitors and realized they were there to challenge the academy.
• Senior students explained the Peach Blossom Spring Arena Competition to a freshman and urged someone to report the challenge to the dean.

Huo Wu learned that Shrek Academy would reward students who defeated visiting royal academy teams, and he eagerly hoped to earn points toward repaying his debt. The chapter ended with an envoy summoning Director Tao to select Outer Court students for a team.

• Huo Wu reflected on his debt and his winter-break progress, including his Demonic Ice Whale Martial Soul and Eye of Ice Seal soul skill.
• Tang Ya invited Huo Wu to watch the Arena Match, and Jiang Nannan explained the rewards for defeating the royal academy teams.
• Jiang Nannan said Director Du would select outstanding Outer Court students to face the visiting teams, while Tang Ya warned that the opponents were powerful elites.
• An envoy arrived with the dean's order, respectfully asking Director Tao to select Outer Court students to form a team.

Shrek Academy’s Outer Court team was defeated by the Sun Moon Royal Academy twins, leaving the 3v3 and Single Combat matches to decide the challenge. Su Ran sent Tang Ya, Jiang Nannan, and Huo Wu to compete, and Huo Wu and Tang Ya revealed their strength as the 3v3 match began.

• Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen led Sun Moon Royal Academy to defeat Shrek Academy’s Outer Court team, leaving Beibei and He Caitou poisoned and weakened.
• Du Wilun warned Su Ran that the Sun Moon team was unusually powerful, but Su Ran told him to leave the remaining matches to his group.
• Meng Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and Ma Rulong took the arena for the 3v3 match and challenged Shrek Academy to send its team.
• Su Ran’s library trio entered the arena, while Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin’er watched anxiously from the teachers’ building.
• Huo Wu revealed his Spiritual Eye Martial Soul, age of twelve, Level 26 cultivation, and unusual soul rings; Ma Rulong and Xiao Hongchen then objected to fighting someone four years younger.
• Tang Ya refused to let Sun Moon Royal Academy switch opponents and revealed her Blue Silver King Martial Soul and Level 38 cultivation.

Tang Ya, Jiang Nannan, and Huo Wu faced the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Team in a 3v3 match despite being heavily outmatched in Soul Power. As the battle began, Huo Wu supported Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan with his mental Soul Skills, and Tang Ya countered the opposing trio’s opening attacks with a giant Blue Silver net.

• Jiang Nannan and Tang Ya introduced themselves and released their Martial Souls as their team faced Ma Rulong, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen in the arena.
• Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er worried that Shrek’s team would lose, but Mu En and Xuanzi accepted the possibility of defeat and discussed Huo Wu’s hundred-thousand-year Soul Spirit.
• Xian Lin'er and Yan Shaozhe argued over which department should claim Huo Wu, while Xuanzi’s spilled food and wine irritated Mu En.
• Tang Ya opened the match with Blue Silver Entanglement, but Meng Hongchen used Ice Toad Poison and Xiao Hongchen fired Golden Light Rays at her.
• Huo Wu used Mental Probe and Mental Share to assist Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan, allowing Tang Ya to evade the attacks and launch Spider Web Restraint as Jiang Nannan moved.

Jiang Nannan and Tang Ya gained the upper hand against the Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineers, but Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen fused their Martial Souls into a powerful Crimson Dust Toad and targeted Huo Wu. Huo Wu activated his Mangekyo’s Tsukuyomi as the mechanical arm reached for him.

• Jiang Nannan used Dragon Swimming Steps and Eight Trigram Palm to deflect Xiao Hongchen’s attacks and close in on him.
• Tang Ya endured Meng Hongchen’s poison and attacked her and Ma Rulong with Five Animal Fist, explaining that her Blue Silver King’s health had barely been depleted.
• Jiang Nannan and Tang Ya’s performance revived the Shrek students’ hopes, while Xiao Hongchen identified Huo Wu as the source of their enhanced fighting ability.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen fused their Three-legged Golden Toad and Crimson Ice Toad Martial Souls into a Crimson Dust Toad that flooded much of the arena with destructive energy.
• The Crimson Dust Toad targeted Huo Wu with a giant mechanical arm, and Huo Wu activated Mangekyo: Initial State—Tsukuyomi.

Huo Wu, Tang Ya, and Jiang Nannan defeated Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen after Huo Wu disrupted their Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Xian Lin'er resolved to recruit Huo Wu and considered seducing Director Tao, before a mysterious figure from Peach Blossom Forest appeared to enter the third round of Single Combat.

• Huo Wu used his eye technique to immobilize Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen, letting Tang Ya strike them with Bear Strike and Jiang Nannan push them off the arena.
• Xian Lin'er and Yan Shaozhe argued over recruiting Huo Wu, and Xuan Zi suggested they should compete to win over the library director instead.
• Xian Lin'er said she might seduce Director Tao to recruit him as the Spirit Tool Department dean's husband, prompting Yan Shaozhe to recall their youthful romance and breakup.
• Peach blossom petals and flute music filled the Outer Court plaza as a figure emerged from the academy's Peach Blossom Forest and volunteered to answer the third-round Single Combat challenge.

Su Jinli appeared at the Outer Court disguised as Immortal Master Su and captivated the crowd before choosing Tang Wutong to fight Shrek Academy’s third match. Tang Wutong entered the arena and revealed that she had reached Soul Power Level thirty-eight before turning thirteen, astonishing both academies.

• Su Jinli’s appearance broke Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen free from Huo Wu’s mental interference, and both became captivated by her disguise as Immortal Master Su.
• Su Jinli asked the crowd to let her disciple fight the third match, and Shrek’s students and teachers enthusiastically agreed.
• Su Jinli chose Tang Wutong, while the real Su Ran privately worried that she had not taught her disciples properly.
• Tang Wutong landed in the arena and introduced herself as a nearly thirteen-year-old Soul Power Level thirty-eight core disciple.
• The crowd marveled that Tang Wutong’s strength at her age surpassed Meng Hongchen’s progress by more than two years.

Tang Wutong amazed Shrek Academy by revealing that her Soul Power had risen more than ten levels in two months, while Su Ran warned that the rapid increase had left her foundation unstable. As the decisive match approached, Su Ran predicted she would lose to a Soul Ancestor and watched as the Sun Moon Royal Academy chose Xiao Hongchen to compete.

• Tang Wutong revealed that she had reached advanced great Soul Elder rank, astonishing the academy's deans and elders with her rapid progress.
• Huo Wu, Tang Ya, and Jiang Nannan praised Su Jinli, but Su Ran warned that Tang Wutong's sudden increase could damage her body, meridians, and future cultivation.
• Su Ran said he could rapidly raise his students' Soul Power without those drawbacks, but Su Jinli lacked the strength to do the same.
• Jiang Nannan asked why Su Ran was not stopping Tang Wutong from entering the deciding match, and he replied that the others would have to bear the consequences of their choice.
• The Sun Moon Royal Academy healers restored Meng Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and the others, then chose the steadier Xiao Hongchen to compete instead of Meng Hongchen.

Meng Hongchen was denied the chance to fight, and Xiao Hongchen defeated Tang Wutong despite the Shrek students’ confidence in Immortal Master Su’s disciple. Shrek Academy confirmed the Sun Moon Empire Royal Academy’s arena victory, while the Shrek students insisted that Su had planned the loss.

• Meng Hongchen demanded to fight, but the Ice Empress and Elder Ma chose Xiao Hongchen, judging Meng too unsettled and less capable in single combat.
• Tang Wutong faced Xiao Hongchen, whose caution and metal-based attacks exploited the instability in her Soul Power and weakened her advantages.
• Tang Wutong switched to her Clear Sky Hammer, but Xiao Hongchen countered it with metal weapons, overwhelmed her, and blasted her out of the arena.
• The Ice Empress pressed the referee to announce the result, and Du Wilun and the other officials declared the Sun Moon Empire Royal Academy’s arena challenge successful.
• Shrek students reacted in disbelief and claimed that Immortal Master Su must have deliberately planned the defeat.

After Tang Wutong lost the arena match, Su Jinli blamed her father’s training methods and sought Su Ran’s help to correct Tang Wutong and Xiao Xiao’s unstable Soul Power. Su Ran agreed on the condition that Su Jinli stop impersonating Immortal Master Su, and she arranged for the girls to train at the library the next morning.

• Huo Wu, Tang Ya, and Jiang Nannan praised Su Ran after Tang Wutong lost to the Sun Moon Royal Academy representative.
• Su Jinli returned to the Peach Blossom Forest and angrily struck the Peach Blossom Tree, upset that she had failed to teach Tang Wutong and Xiao Xiao well.
• Shrek Academy’s teachers and students discussed the match and speculated about Su Ran’s teaching ability and the real identity of Director Tao.
• Su Jinli visited Su Ran at the library and admitted she had taught Tang Wutong and Xiao Xiao poorly, asking him to stabilize their Soul Power.
• Su Ran agreed to help if Su Jinli stopped pretending to be Immortal Master Su, and she accepted his condition.
• Su Ran told Su Jinli to bring Tang Wutong and Xiao Xiao to the library to train the next morning at chen hour.