Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xiaoxiao woke in a child’s body near Holy Spirit Village and realized she had transmigrated into the world of Douluo Continent. After settling in with Granny Wang, she met young Tang San and began plotting to grow closer to him.

• An elderly woman told Xiao Xiaoxiao she had found her unconscious near Holy Spirit Village and brought her to her hut.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao confirmed she was a child in Douluo Continent, pretended to have lost her memories, and persuaded Granny Wang to let her stay.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao learned that the village was preparing for the martial soul awakening ceremony and spotted Tang San near his home.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao staged a fall that spilled Tang San’s water, and Tang San helped her up and introduced himself.
• Tang San offered to guide Xiao Xiaoxiao to sweeter wild fruit trees, and she followed him, determined to win his affection.

Xiao Xiaoxiao maneuvered her way into the village's martial soul awakening ceremony and awakened a Phantom Moon Fox with Soul Power Rank Seven. Tang San also awakened Blue Silver Grass with Innate Full Soul Power, and Xiao Xiaoxiao learned they might attend Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy together.

• Xiao Xiaoxiao befriended Tang San by repeatedly visiting his home, until Tang Hao complained about her hovering nearby.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao persuaded Village Chief Old Jack to let her join the awakening ceremony despite not being registered.
• Su Yuntao awakened Tang San's Blue Silver Grass and discovered his Innate Full Soul Power.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao awakened a Phantom Moon Fox and tested at Soul Power Rank Seven.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao encouraged Tang San about his martial soul and learned that they might attend Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy together.

Xiao Xiaoxiao earned a little money selling foraged goods, then persuaded Tang San to help her ask Old Jack for a Work-Study Student spot at Nuoding Academy. Old Jack secured places and travel money for both children, and they set off for Nuoding City together.

• Xiao Xiaoxiao sold wild vegetables, mushrooms, and woven crafts to save money for academy expenses.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao followed Tang San to Old Jack and revealed that she wanted to attend Nuoding Academy but could not afford the trip.
• Tang San asked Old Jack to secure Xiao Xiaoxiao a Work-Study Student spot, and Old Jack agreed to arrange an extra place and cover their travel expenses.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao spent her remaining days caring for Granny Wang, while Old Jack gave her and Tang San money for the journey and their first month.
• Old Jack led Xiao Xiaoxiao and Tang San out of Holy Spirit Village toward Nuoding City, while Tang Hao did not see Tang San off.

Xiao Xiaoxiao and Tang San enrolled at Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, where Tang San became Master Yu Xiaogang’s disciple and defeated Wang Sheng in the Seventh Dormitory. Xiao Wu arrived, beat Tang San to become dorm leader, and claimed the bed beside his, leaving Xiao Xiaoxiao determined to compete for his attention.

• Old Jack brought Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao to the academy, where Master Yu Xiaogang confirmed their certificates and welcomed them as Work-Study Students.
• Master Yu Xiaogang explained his Spirit theory, and Tang San accepted him as his master; Master also offered Xiao Xiaoxiao help with her cultivation.
• Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao arrived at the Seventh Dormitory, where Tang San defeated Wang Sheng and was named its new boss.
• Xiao Wu entered the dormitory, challenged Tang San, defeated him with her Soft Skill, and became the dorm leader.
• Xiao Wu took the bed beside Tang San, while Xiao Xiaoxiao chose the bed on his other side and resolved not to give up.

Xiao Xiaoxiao followed Tang San on an early morning cultivation session, then tried to grow closer to him at breakfast. When Xiao Chenyu insulted the Work-Study Students, Tang San stood up for Xiao Wu and Xiao Xiaoxiao, leaving Xiaoxiao quietly pleased by his concern.

• Xiao Xiaoxiao woke early and joined Tang San for cultivation while Xiao Wu slept in the dormitory.
• Xiao Wu, Xiao Xiaoxiao, and Tang San went to the cafeteria with the Work-Study Students, where Xiao Xiaoxiao offered Tang San her meat pie.
• Xiao Chenyu mocked the Work-Study Students and insulted their food, prompting Xiao Wu and Xiao Xiaoxiao to confront him.
• Tang San stepped in front of Xiao Wu and Xiao Xiaoxiao, warned Xiao Chenyu about the academy's rules, and drove him and his lackeys upstairs.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao felt reassured by Tang San's gentle pat and decided to keep showing him small acts of care, including sharing food with Xiao Wu next time.

Xiao Xiaoxiao struggled with her Work-Study Student chores, and Tang San helped her before agreeing to teach her basic training methods in the mornings. Xiao Wu asked to join the lessons too, and the chapter ended with Xiao Xiaoxiao feeling happy that she and Tang San were growing closer.

• The teacher assigned the Work-Study Students difficult cleaning tasks, placing Xiao Xiaoxiao with Tang San and Xiao Wu with another group.
• Tang San showed Xiao Xiaoxiao how to sweep and pull weeds, then encouraged her when she worried she was useless.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao thanked Tang San for standing up for them and shared fruit with him during a break.
• Tang San reassured Xiao Xiaoxiao about her Phantom Moon Fox martial soul and offered to teach her basic training methods in the mornings.
• Xiao Wu asked Tang San to teach her too, and he agreed.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao went to sleep feeling pleased about her growing closeness with Tang San.

Xiao Xiaoxiao trained with Tang San and Xiao Wu, growing more comfortable with both of them as they studied, worked, and ate together. She began planning a rest-day outing to a dessert shop in Nuoding City to get closer to Tang San.

• Xiao Xiaoxiao met Tang San before dawn and began flexibility and Soul Power training under his patient instruction.
• Xiao Wu joined their training, demonstrated her flexibility, and turned the session into a lively three-person routine.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao shared pickled vegetables with Tang San and Xiao Wu at breakfast, then asked Tang San questions during class.
• During their work break, Tang San demonstrated his Blue Silver Grass and advised Xiao Xiaoxiao on controlling her Phantom Moon Fox; Xiao Wu asked him to teach her too.
• As the trio trained and worked together over the following days, Xiao Xiaoxiao became less jealous of Xiao Wu and planned to invite them to try carrot cake in Nuoding City.

Master Yu Xiaogang took Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao to the Soul Hunting Forest, where both obtained their first Spirit Rings and soul skills. After they survived attacks by two spirit beasts, Xiao Xiaoxiao and Tang San walked back holding hands.

• Master Yu Xiaogang took Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao to the Soul Hunting Forest to find suitable Spirit Rings, while Xiao Wu stayed at the academy.
• Tang San defeated a four-hundred-year Mandala Snake, absorbed its Spirit Ring, and gained the Entangling soul skill with paralyzing venom.
• A Phantom Moon Fox attacked Xiao Xiaoxiao, but Tang San restrained it with Entangling and Xiao Xiaoxiao used her martial soul to counter its mental attack before killing it.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao absorbed the Phantom Moon Fox's Spirit Ring and gained the Mental Interference soul skill.
• On the way back, Tang San offered his hand to Xiao Xiaoxiao, and she took it as they walked through the forest.

After returning to Nuoding Academy with their first spirit rings, Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao demonstrated their Soul Skills and began training to master them. Xiao Xiaoxiao grew more comfortable with her friendship with Xiao Wu and her growing closeness to Tang San, while setting her sights on improving and eventually entering Shrek Academy.

• Tang San, Xiao Xiaoxiao, and Master returned to Nuoding Academy, where Xiao Wu and the Work-Study Students welcomed them and learned they had obtained Hundred-Year Soul Rings.
• Tang San demonstrated Entangling, while Xiao Xiaoxiao used Mental Interference on a wooden basin; Tang San and Master explained how her skill could disrupt an opponent’s mind and movements.
• Tang San trained Xiao Xiaoxiao and Xiao Wu in combat techniques, and Xiao Xiaoxiao practiced targeting and controlling the duration of Mental Interference.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao settled into academy life, grew closer to Tang San, and began to accept Xiao Wu’s closeness with him as she planned to grow stronger and enter Shrek Academy.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao checked her remaining Copper Soul Coins and worried about making money before she could claim a Soul Master subsidy.

After Shrek Academy celebrated three consecutive victories, rival teams and tournament officials took notice of its rising strength. Tang San recognized that his injured right arm and the attention surrounding the team could bring new danger.

• Dai Mubai, Xiao Wu, and the others celebrated Shrek Academy’s winning streak while Xiao Xiaoxiao worried about Tang San’s injured right arm.
• Hu Yan Li and Yu Tianxin discussed targeting Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao, and Feng Xiaotian urged them to study Shrek’s weaknesses and seek an honorable arena victory.
• Prince Xue Xing and Deacon Salas reviewed Shrek’s victories, and Xue Xing ordered increased patrols, especially around Shrek Academy’s camp.
• Tang San noticed Xiao Xiaoxiao watching him and sensed hostile attention nearby, then resolved to face the dangers ahead.

Master Yu Xiaogang led Tang San, Xiao Xiaoxiao, and Xiao Wu through sparring practice, where Tang San’s attempt to control Xiao Xiaoxiao ended in an accidental hug. Afterward, Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao shared a shy meal, leaving her delighted by what she saw as progress in their relationship.

• Master Yu Xiaogang had Tang San spar against Xiao Xiaoxiao and Xiao Wu, and Xiao Wu eagerly attacked first.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao used Mental Interference to give Xiao Wu an opening, but Tang San recovered quickly and fought her evenly.
• Tang San feigned an opening, then used Entangling to bind Xiao Xiaoxiao; when she fell forward, he caught her in an embrace.
• Master Yu Xiaogang praised Tang San’s tactics and advised all three on improving their combat skills, while Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao grew awkward around each other.
• Xiao Wu dragged Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao to the cafeteria, where Xiao Xiaoxiao gave Tang San her braised pork and Tang San served her extra scrambled eggs with tomatoes.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao interpreted the accidental hug and Tang San’s thoughtful gesture as romantic progress and began planning ways to spend more time with him.

Xiao Xiaoxiao started a mending business to earn money and help Tang San buy materials for his Hidden Weapons. Tang San accepted a small contribution and her advice, and the chapter left their bond quietly growing as he made his first weapons.

• Seeing the Work-Study Students struggle to afford necessities, Xiao Xiaoxiao began repairing their torn clothes and socks for a small fee.
• After earning money, Xiao Xiaoxiao brought Tang San a meat pie and offered him coins for Hidden Weapon materials; he accepted only a few and asked her to keep their arrangement secret.
• Tang San gathered scraps and worked at night on Hidden Weapons, while Xiao Xiaoxiao saved her earnings and offered suggestions that helped his designs.
• Tang San completed his first batch of sharpened stones and gave several to Xiao Xiaoxiao for self-defense.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao bandaged Tang San's scraped hands, and he let her help as Xiao Wu playfully asked for a bandage too.

Xiao Xiaoxiao won a difficult year-end match with a carefully timed burst of Mental Interference, while Tang San and Xiao Wu excelled in their assessments. The three stayed at the academy for the New Year, where a quiet dumpling exchange brought them closer.

• Xiao Xiaoxiao struggled against a level-twelve Mastiff Soul Master but tricked him into a full-force charge and knocked him unconscious with point-blank Mental Interference.
• Tang San won all his matches, including a victory over a level-thirteen opponent, while Xiao Wu dominated her group; the academy reduced the Work-Study Students’ workload for the coming year.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao, Tang San, and Xiao Wu decided to stay at the academy for the holiday because none of them had a home to return to.
• Xiao Wu led Xiao Xiaoxiao and Tang San in snowball fights and snowman building, and Tang San quietly improved his snowman beside Xiao Xiaoxiao’s snow fox.
• At New Year’s Eve dinner, Xiao Xiaoxiao slipped her lucky copper-coin dumpling into Tang San’s bowl, and Tang San gave her a meat-filled dumpling in return.

During winter break, Xiao Xiaoxiao, Xiao Wu, and Tang San trained and spent time together as New Year approached. They exchanged thoughtful gifts and ended the morning in a snowball fight, while Xiao Xiaoxiao treasured Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass ring and still hoped to succeed at Intercepting.

• Tang San trained Xiao Xiaoxiao and Xiao Wu in snowy conditions, and Xiao Xiaoxiao secretly used Mental Interference to help Xiao Wu hit him with snowballs.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao prepared New Year gifts for Xiao Wu and Tang San, choosing a carrot hair tie for Xiao Wu and practical crafting supplies for Tang San.
• Xiao Wu gave Xiao Xiaoxiao a handmade fox hairpin, and Tang San gave her polished stones and a Blue Silver Grass ring.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao gave Xiao Wu the hair tie and Tang San the tools, and Tang San thanked her after realizing she had noticed what he needed.
• Xiao Wu started a New Year snowball fight, and all three played together in the snowy forest as Xiao Xiaoxiao treasured the ring.

Master Yu Xiaogang led Tang San, Xiao Xiaoxiao, and other Nuoding Academy members into Soul Hunting Forest to investigate reports of powerful spirit beasts. After a flock of Dark Demon Crows attacked, a mysterious gray-robed man erased them effortlessly, then vanished after taking an unusual interest in Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao.

• Master Yu Xiaogang summoned Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao to join an investigation of strange activity in Soul Hunting Forest.
• The group found a devastated clearing marked by enormous claw marks and Dark Demon Crow feathers, then detected a flock approaching.
• Dark Demon Crows attacked, and Xiao Xiaoxiao used Mental Interference to protect Tang San from a hundred-year crow.
• A mysterious gray-robed man froze and erased the flock, then remarked on Xiao Xiaoxiao's Spiritual Power and martial soul before disappearing.
• Master Yu Xiaogang ordered the group not to discuss the man and decided to report the forest's anomaly to Spirit Hall.

After the Soul Hunting Forest crisis, Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao grew closer as they trained and fought together. Their coordination impressed their classmates and teacher, who recognized the beginnings of a Combination Skill, while the forest anomaly remained unresolved.

• Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao focused on cultivation after Master warned them to avoid the disturbed area of the Soul Hunting Forest, and their feelings for each other quietly deepened.
• Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao teamed up against two upperclassmen in practical combat training, using Blue Silver Grass and Mental Interference to disrupt their attacks and hold their ground.
• The teacher stopped the spar before the upperclassmen could use stronger soul skills and praised Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao's coordination as the beginnings of a Combination Skill.
• Tang San agreed to practice coordinating with Xiao Xiaoxiao, and they began regular drills while Xiao Wu watched and wondered whether Xiao Xiaoxiao saw Tang San differently from everyone else.

Xiao Xiaoxiao discovered Tang San suffering from a painful old problem and stayed beside him until he recovered. In Spirit City, the Pope ordered Tang San, Xiao Xiaoxiao, and Yu Xiaogang watched while discreetly investigating the mysterious expert from Soul Hunting Forest.

• Xiao Xiaoxiao lay awake thinking about Tang San and the Blue Silver Grass Ring he had given her.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao heard Tang San groaning, found him sweating and trembling, and worried that he was injured.
• Tang San called his pain an old problem, and Xiao Xiaoxiao stayed beside him holding his hand until his breathing steadied.
• The Red Cardinal reported to the Pope that Tang San was at Nuoding Academy with Xiao Xiaoxiao and that Yu Xiaogang was his teacher.
• The Pope ordered continued surveillance of Tang San and Yu Xiaogang and a discreet investigation into the mysterious expert who destroyed the Dark Demon Crow flock.

As their time at Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy neared its end, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Xiao Xiaoxiao discussed where they would go next. Tang San agreed to Xiao Xiaoxiao joining him and Xiao Wu at Shrek in Suotuo City, and the three left together as their next journey approached.

• Over two years, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Xiao Xiaoxiao grew stronger and became a feared, respected group at the academy.
• As graduation approached, Tang San told Xiao Wu that Master had recommended he apply to Shrek Academy in Suotuo City.
• Xiao Wu decided to go to Shrek with Tang San.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao asked to continue studying and growing stronger alongside Tang San, and he agreed.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Xiao Xiaoxiao left the hillside together, ready to begin their journey toward Suotuo City.

Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Xiao Xiaoxiao traveled to Suotuo City, where they encountered the powerful Dai and his companion Zhu Qing. The next morning, they found Shrek Academy in a shabby village, leaving them stunned by its appearance.

• Old Jack saw Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Xiao Xiaoxiao off, while Master Yu Xiaogang gave Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao cultivation notes and a letter for Shrek Academy.
• The three traveled on foot to Suotuo City, where Xiao Wu dragged Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao through the night market.
• At a flatbread stall, Dai tried to probe Tang San with his Mental Fluctuation, but Xiao Xiaoxiao blocked it with a Spirit Barrier; Tang San then led the girls away.
• Tang San told Xiao Xiaoxiao that Dai's Soul Power seemed to be at least at the Soul Elder level, and the three spent the night at an inn.
• The next morning, the three followed the map to a rundown village and discovered that its shabby sign marked the entrance to Shrek Academy.

Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Xiao Xiaoxiao passed Shrek Academy’s first admissions test alongside four other talented applicants, then survived a combat assessment against Dai Mubai. Dai Mubai recognized Tang San’s tactical role and led the seven successful applicants onward to meet the Headmaster for their final trial.

• Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Xiao Xiaoxiao passed the first test, joining Ning Rongrong, Oscar, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing as the only seven applicants to qualify.
• The seven applicants reached the second assessment, where Tang San, Ning Rongrong, Oscar, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing qualified to skip further tests while Xiao Wu and Xiao Xiaoxiao faced combat trials.
• Dai Mubai volunteered to test Xiao Wu and Xiao Xiaoxiao, and the girls fought him together while Xiao Xiaoxiao used mental interference and Tang San quietly guided their tactics.
• Xiao Wu and Xiao Xiaoxiao coordinated a counterattack that impressed Dai Mubai, who declared them qualified and suspected Tang San had directed them.
• Dai Mubai led all seven successful applicants toward the Headmaster and their final trial.