Chapter Summaries

After Su Jinli sent Tang Wutong and Xiao Xiao away from Peach Blossom Forest, they began Director Tao’s rigorous physical training at the library courtyard. They recovered their resolve to become stronger and defeat Sun Moon Royal Academy, while Meng Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and the other exchange students toured Shrek’s Outer Court.

• Su Jinli decided to study teaching and Soul Master cultivation seriously after realizing that she had failed Tang Wutong and Xiao Xiao.
• Tang Wutong and Xiao Xiao arrived at the library courtyard in tears, and Director Tao ordered them to run without Soul Power before fighting hand to hand.
• Tang Wutong and Xiao Xiao ran until they collapsed, then watched Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan practice their techniques.
• Xiao Xiao encouraged Tang Wutong to learn from Director Tao and earn another chance with Su Jinli.
• Tang Wutong and Xiao Xiao vowed to train hard, surpass Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan, and defeat Sun Moon Royal Academy.
• Meng Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and the other Sun Moon Empire exchange students toured Shrek’s Outer Court after receiving their special exchange spots.

Du Wilun showed the Ice Empress, Meng Hongchen, and the others around Shrek Academy and warned them not to trespass in the Peach Blossom Forest. The Ice Empress later infiltrated the forest, reached Su Jinli, and cuddled up to her while she slept.

• Du Wilun explained the rules for Shrek's Outer Court, Inner Court, library, and Peach Blossom Forest, then gave the visitors school badges.
• Meng Hongchen and the Ice Empress decided to visit the library after they were told they could not enter the Inner Court or Peach Blossom Forest.
• Several days later, the Ice Empress and Meng Hongchen secretly entered the Peach Blossom Forest and found themselves separated by its shifting paths.
• The Ice Empress used her knowledge of drifting ice to navigate the forest and sensed a human presence deep in the courtyard.
• The Ice Empress transformed into an Ice Scorpion, slipped into Su Jinli's room, and held her while she slept.

Su Jinli woke beside Ice Empress, who had secretly entered Peach Blossom Spring, and let her stay to study together. They debated the Tao Te Ching among the peach blossoms, while a silver-red-haired girl remained lost in the Peach Blossom Forest, calling for Teacher Bing.

• Su Jinli woke to find Ice Empress sleeping naked beside her and questioned how she had entered Peach Blossom Spring.
• Ice Empress said she had come to save Su Jinli from loneliness, and Su Jinli agreed to let her stay and study.
• Su Jinli brought Ice Empress to Peach Blossom Spring Academy and found the Tao Te Ching for them to read.
• Su Jinli and Ice Empress discussed the text, and Ice Empress offered a strange interpretation centered on intimacy and desire.
• A silver-red-haired girl leaned against a peach tree and called for Teacher Bing to take her out of the forest.

Meng Hongchen and Teacher Bing went missing after apparently entering the Peach Blossom Forest, prompting the Sea God Pavilion and Sun Moon Royal Academy to search for them. Ma Xiaotao, Xuan Zi, and Xiao Hongchen found Meng Hongchen trapped in the forest and pulled her out, where she mistook her brother for someone dead.

• Xiao Hongchen and the others realized Meng Hongchen and Teacher Bing had been missing for five days and suspected they had gone to find Immortal Master Su.
• Elder Ma led the group to the Sea God Pavilion and explained that the two might have wandered into the Peach Blossom Forest by mistake.
• The Sea God Pavilion sent Ma Xiaotao, Xuan Zi, and Xiao Hongchen to the forest to investigate.
• Xiao Hongchen heard a weak voice and recognized it as possibly belonging to Meng Hongchen.
• Xuan Zi used a binding cord to pull Meng Hongchen from the Peach Blossom Forest, and she deliriously mistook Xiao Hongchen for her brother’s ghost.

Meng Hongchen was rescued from the Peach Blossom Forest and asked Ma Xiaotao and Xuan Zi to find Teacher Bing, leading them to Su Jinli and the Ice Empress. The reunion left Xuan Zi overcome with affection for Su Jinli, Xiao Hongchen infatuated with her, and Meng Hongchen indignant that Teacher Bing had forgotten her plight.

• Meng Hongchen awoke after drinking nutrient solution and reunited with Xiao Hongchen, who had feared she was dead.
• Ma Xiaotao questioned Meng Hongchen about entering the forbidden Peach Blossom Forest, and Meng Hongchen invented a story about getting lost with Teacher Bing.
• Meng Hongchen said she had become separated from Teacher Bing and urged Ma Xiaotao and Xuan Zi to seek help from Immortal Master Su.
• Ma Xiaotao requested an audience with the Ancestor, and Su Jinli invited everyone into the schoolhouse.
• Ma Xiaotao and Xiao Hongchen were struck by Su Jinli's beauty, while Xuan Zi recognized her as the fairy sister he had met a century earlier.
• Meng Hongchen saw the Ice Empress holding Su Jinli's hand and reproached Teacher Bing for forgetting that she was trapped in the forest.

Su Jinli reunited with Xuanzi, who recognized her as the Peach Blossom Fairy who had once caught him stealing peaches. When Ma Xiaotao questioned her identity and asked where Immortal Master Su was, Su Jinli confessed that the Immortal Master who had appeared at Shrek Academy and brought Xiao Xiao and Wutong to the Peach Blossom Forest was a fake.

• Su Jinli recalled catching young Xuanzi stealing peaches and recognized him as the scruffy boy who had become Shrek Academy's outstanding student.
• Xuanzi joyfully reunited with Su Jinli and praised her beauty, while Meng Hongchen confronted Ice Empress for leaving her behind in the Peach Blossom Forest.
• Su Jinli explained that she had allowed Ice Empress and Meng Hongchen into the forest, but Ma Xiaotao questioned her identity and asked for the real Immortal Master Su.
• Su Jinli admitted that the Immortal Master Su who had appeared at Shrek Academy and brought Xiao Xiao and Wutong to train in the forest was a fake, shocking everyone present.

At a Sea God Pavilion conference, Xuanzi revealed that the apparent Immortal Master Su had actually been Su Jinli, who had impersonated him to search for the missing Su Ran. The elders agreed to investigate the divine mountains, whose weakening seals might be connected to Su Ran’s disappearance, and learned that the Sun Moon Empire had promised not to wage war for thirty years.

• Xuanzi told the Sea God Pavilion elders that the apparent Immortal Master Su was Su Jinli in disguise, and Mu En explained why she could imitate him.
• Xuanzi said Su Jinli had impersonated Su Ran to find him and suspected his disappearance was connected to the twin gods sealed beneath Holy Mountain and Evil Mountain.
• Su Jinli asked the Sea God Pavilion to investigate the divine mountains and search for traces of Su Ran.
• Elder Song warned that the Holy Spirit Cult had grown powerful and encircled parts of Peach Blossom Spring Jurisdiction, but agreed the divine mountains had to be investigated.
• Xuanzi reported that Su Jinli had secured a thirty-year promise of peace from the Sun Moon Empire, backed by the Ice Master and Snow Master.

Feng Ling steered the Holy Spirit Cult’s forces toward Holy Mountain as Shrek Academy prepared an operation against them. Huo Wu wanted to join the campaign but was told to reach level 30 first, while Su Jinli explained that he was searching for his father, Immortal Master Su.

• Feng Ling ordered Holy Spirit Cult members to withdraw toward Holy Mountain and said she wanted Sea God Pavilion’s powerhouses to attack the cult’s stronghold.
• Shrek Academy assembled Inner Court teams to advance on Holy Mountain, while Outer Court missions to eliminate Evil Soul Masters gained higher rewards.
• Huo Wu asked Yan Shaozhe and Su Ran to let him join the operation, but Su Ran said he needed to reach level 30 and absorb his Third Soul Ring first.
• Su Ran encouraged Huo Wu to keep working toward level 30 so he could join the campaign.
• Ice Empress asked Su Jinli whether he or his father was more beautiful, and Su Jinli said his father was unmatched and that finding him would answer her question.

After months of cultivation, Su Ran’s disciples made progress and asked to join the campaign against Evil Soul Masters in the Dark Zone. Su Ran agreed to take them, but only after they passed his Nightmare Test.

• Shrek Academy’s campaign destroyed more than twenty Holy Spirit Cult branch lairs, while the core Peacekeeping Team began infiltrating the Dark Zone.
• Jiang Nannan and Tang Ya refined their soul power to level 40 and absorbed their Fourth Soul Rings, with Tang Ya’s lifespan surpassing two hundred years.
• Huo Wu completed his Three Tomoe Sharingan, reached level 30, and became a Soul Elder after a medicinal bath.
• Su Ran stabilized Tang Wutong and Xiao Xiao’s cultivation, while the five disciples continued training under his guidance.
• Jiang Nannan, Tang Ya, and Huo Wu asked Su Ran to let them enter the Dark Zone and fight Evil Soul Masters.
• Su Ran agreed to take his disciples on the mission, provided they first passed his Nightmare Test.

Zhou Yi sent Shrek students into the Holy Spirit Cult’s Dark Zone, assigning Huo Wu’s team to infiltrate the Old City of Slaughter and locate civilians held for a blood sacrifice. As they reached the city, a lavish procession carried the Golden-haired Saintess inside.

• Zhou Yi briefed the Shrek teams on their missions and warned Huo Wu, Tang Wutong, Xiao Xiao, and the others to prioritize their safety while investigating the planned blood sacrifice.
• Zhou Yi and Mu Jin argued over their attention to Su Ran and his students as the teams prepared to depart.
• Huo Wu’s team, accompanied by Su Ran, reached the Old City of Slaughter and wondered why its Evil Soul Masters favored light-colored clothes.
• A procession of silver-armored knights and a white-jade carriage arrived, and the crowd welcomed the Golden-haired Saintess as she entered the city.

Tang Wutong and her companions entered the Old City of Slaughter expecting a bloodstained stronghold, but found a peaceful, bustling city instead. A teahouse waiter explained that the Holy Spirit Cult claimed to punish villains and corrupt officials, leaving the group shocked and uncertain about what they had believed.

• Tang Wutong and Huo Wu vowed to defeat the Holy Spirit Cult's Saintess and restore peace to the Old City of Slaughter.
• Huo Wu used the Sharingan to extract information from believers and lead the group into the city.
• Tang Wutong, Xiao Xiao, Tang Ya, and Jiang Nannan were stunned by the city's ordinary, harmonious street life and suspected it might be a disguise.
• Su Ran calmly drank local tea while Tang Wutong reproached him for treating their mission like a sightseeing trip.
• A teahouse waiter told Huo Wu that Saintess Ye Guyi had arrived to punish villains and conduct a ceremony held every five years.
• The waiter claimed the Holy Spirit Cult arrested or assassinated abusive Soul Masters and corrupt officials, shocking Jiang Nannan and the others.

At the City of Slaughter, the Holy Sect executed powerful officials and explained to Huo Wu, Tang Wutong, and the others how it differed from the extremist Spirit Cult. As a ritual began, Ye Guyi asked Deputy Cult Master Feng Ling to open the Slaughter Altar and receive the Five Ancestors Secret Realm.

• Ye Guyi read out the crimes of corrupt officials and ordered their executions, winning cheers from the people of the Old City of Slaughter.
• Jiang Nannan and Tang Ya watched the Holy Sect punish officials without approval from the empires and were stunned by its actions.
• Feng Ling explained that the Holy Spirit Cult contained the righteous Holy Sect and the extremist Spirit Cult, whose members were difficult to expel or destroy.
• A priest began a ritual beseeching the ancestors of slaughter to guide the Holy Sect.
• Ye Guyi asked Deputy Cult Master Feng Ling to open the Slaughter Altar and receive the Five Ancestors Secret Realm of Ancestor Ning, Ancestor Zhu, Ancestor Ye, Ancestor Hu, and Ancestor Tu.

Huo Wu and the others sent Shrek Academy a signal after deciding to report the Holy Spirit Cult’s executions, while Su Ran recognized the five Slaughter Swords as inheritances connected to his former disciples. Shrek forces arrived and, mistaking Huo Wu’s defense of the Old City for cult brainwashing, prepared to attack and take the students away.

• Huo Wu and her companions debated whether to rescue condemned criminals or alert Shrek Academy, and Huo Wu decided to send the signal and explain the situation to the teachers.
• Feng Ling and Ye Guyi began the ritual that opened the Slaughter Secret Realm, and five Slaughter Swords rose from the execution ground.
• Su Ran recognized the swords as symbols of the inheritances of Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, Ye Lingling, and Hu Liena, his former disciples.
• Huo Wu and Tang Wutong launched soul-guided missiles to signal Shrek Academy, while Feng Ling calmly told Ye Guyi to continue into the secret realm.
• Shrek teams led by Yan Shaozhe, Mu Jin, and Zhou Yi arrived, and Huo Wu waved a flag to tell them the Old City’s people were good and opposed evil.
• Xuanzi mistook Huo Wu’s words for evidence that the Holy Spirit Cult had brainwashed her, ordered the Shrek forces to retake the city, and instructed Mu Jin and Zhou Yi to take the students back.

Shrek Academy's experts confronted Feng Ling over the Holy Spirit Cult's rule of the Old City of Slaughter, but the dispute escalated when the cult summoned a Blood Red Bat King. As Xuanzi fought the beast, it recognized the calm Su Ran as Immortal Master Su and submitted to him.

• Yan Shaozhe challenged Feng Ling to restore order and release the people the Holy Spirit Cult had captured, while Feng Ling defended the cult's actions.
• Tang Wutong and Xiao Xiao said they trusted the Holy Spirit Cult, and Ma Xiaotao warned them not to question Shrek's elders.
• Feng Ling summoned more than thirty believers to form a blood-white array that sealed the Old City of Slaughter and released the Blood Red Bat King.
• Xuanzi transformed into his Taotie True Body and battled the Blood Red Bat King, then called on Su Ran to capture it alive.
• The Blood Red Bat King recognized Su Ran as Immortal Master Su and begged forgiveness for failing to identify him sooner.

The Nine-Headed Blood Red Bat King recognized Su Ran as Immortal Master Su, despite Shrek Academy’s students insisting he was only their library director. Su Ran tacitly confirmed his identity, leaving his students stunned and questioning who they had met in the Peach Blossom Forest.

• The Nine-Headed Blood Red Bat King called Su Ran Immortal Master Su, while Xuanzi and the Shrek students argued that he was their library director.
• Feng Ling and the gathered Soul Masters studied Su Ran as the Blood Red Bat King explained that it had been commanded to guard the city and would obey him.
• Su Ran raised the kneeling Blood Red Bat King and told both sides to settle their conflict without harming innocents.
• The Shrek students realized Su Ran had not denied being Immortal Master Su and asked whether he was truly the Peach Blossom Forest’s founding master.
• Su Ran said he had never told them because they had never asked, and Tang Wutong and Xiao Xiao wondered who their Peach Blossom Forest teacher had been.

Su Ran’s identity as Immortal Master Su was revealed, prompting the academy and Holy Spirit Cult to stop fighting and accept his proposal for handling the corrupt officials. The Nine-Headed Blood Red Bat King sent a signal to Su Ran’s disciples, leaving Su Ran anxious about their imminent arrival.

• Xuanzi, Yan Shaozhe, the students, and the Holy Spirit Cult recognized Su Ran as Immortal Master Su and knelt before him.
• Xuanzi saw through the illusion hiding Su Ran’s true appearance and apologized for failing to recognize him.
• Su Ran proposed that academy Soul Masters escort the corrupt officials home and supervise the transfer of power before the Holy Spirit Cult executed them.
• The Nine-Headed Blood Red Bat King launched a Cloud-Piercing Arrow and explained that he was reporting Su Ran’s safety to his master.
• The Nine-Headed Blood Red Bat King named Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Ye Lingling as Su Ran’s disciples, and Su Ran wondered if he could leave before they arrived.

Su Ran tried to leave the Old City of Slaughter, but Ning Rongrong manifested through Ye Guyi and stopped him, demanding that he not leave again. Their confrontation shattered Su Ran’s disguise and revealed his peerless appearance to the assembled Shrek disciples.

• Su Ran evaded the students’ requests to see his true appearance and prepared to leave the Old City of Slaughter.
• Ye Guyi emerged from the Five Ancestors Secret Realm under Ning Rongrong’s control and pressed Su Ran down, greeting him as her teacher.
• The Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King, Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, and the students recognized Ning Rongrong as Ancestor Ning and bowed to her.
• Ning Rongrong told Su Ran that she had missed him and demanded that he stay, while Su Ran realized she had become clever enough to force him to face her.
• Ning Rongrong’s Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda broke Su Ran’s illusion, revealing his stunning true appearance as peach trees and blossoms surged around him.

Ning Rongrong demanded that Su Ran take responsibility for her loneliness and trapped him beneath her Mysterious Yellow Vajra Glazed Pagoda. As the others searched for him, Ye Guyi revealed that the capture had been planned for a thousand years.

• Ning Rongrong blamed Su Ran for her unmarried life and insisted he become her husband, while Su Ran protested that he had never stopped her from finding someone else.
• Ning Rongrong dropped the Mysterious Yellow Vajra Glazed Pagoda onto Su Ran, shaking the ground and joining its base to the foundation of the Old City of Slaughter.
• Huo Wu and the others searched for Su Ran beneath the pagoda, while Ice Silkworm Tianmeng sensed that he and Ning Rongrong were still alive inside it.
• Ning Rongrong ordered everyone from Shrek Academy and the Holy Spirit Cult to stay a hundred meters from the pagoda.
• Ye Guyi smiled inside the pagoda and declared that Su Ran could not escape her thousand-year plan.

Ning Rongrong explained that Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao shaped the Spirit Cult, though Su Ran’s reputation and teachings inspired them. After Ning Rongrong descended into her true body and confronted Su Ran with Love God Smoke, Ye Guyi awoke inside the Glazed Pagoda confused and caught in its influence.

• Su Ran questioned Ning Rongrong about her role in founding the Holy Spirit Cult and the Spirit Cult, and she said she and the others had guided the former Angel Goddess and Rakshasa Goddess to establish forces.
• Ning Rongrong explained that Ye Xishui became devoted to Su Ran after being expelled from Shrek Academy, while Long Xiaoyao joined her and helped form the Spirit Cult.
• Ning Rongrong descended into her true body as Ye Guyi fainted, then confronted Su Ran about repaying her kindness.
• Ning Rongrong revealed Love God Smoke and used it against Su Ran despite his protests.
• Ye Guyi woke inside the Glazed Pagoda, disoriented, with her Soul Power increased and an unfamiliar desire affecting her.

The Glazed Pagoda appeared above the Old City of Slaughter while Ancestor Ning kept Su Ran suppressed inside it, leaving the disciples to worry about what she intended. News arrived that Long Xiaoyao had attacked Shrek Academy, but just as Xuan Zi prepared to return, the Peach Blossom Fairy and others appeared above the city.

• The people of the Old City of Slaughter worshiped the Glazed Pagoda and made wishes, while Tang Wutong lamented that she had chosen the wrong master.
• Xiao Xiao speculated that Ye Guyi was inside the pagoda with Su Ran, and Jiang Nannan worried about how long Su Ran could endure being trapped there.
• Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe discussed Ancestor Ning's actions and learned that the Holy Spirit Cult had attacked Shrek Academy while the academy's forces were away.
• Yan Shaozhe explained that Long Xiaoyao had damaged the academy while targeting the Peach Blossom Forest, though Teacher, Elder Lin, and the Peach Blossom Fairy had contained the threat.
• Xuan Zi decided to return to Shrek Academy, but the Peach Blossom Fairy and other divine figures appeared above the Old City of Slaughter and said they had arrived.