Chapter Summaries

Flender tested the seven candidates by making them withstand his pressure and touch Dai Mubai’s clothes, and Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao coordinated to tear a strip from Dai Mubai’s hem. The group became official Shrek Academy students, learned the academy’s rules, and were left to settle into its dilapidated dormitories before their first class.

• Dai Mubai brought the seven candidates to Headmaster Flender, who announced a final test: endure his pressure or touch Dai Mubai’s clothes within one incense stick.
• Flender’s Soul Saint pressure overwhelmed the candidates, while Dai Mubai used his Martial Soul Possession and moved to block them.
• Ning Rongrong boosted herself and Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar supplied sausages, and the candidates struggled to approach Dai Mubai.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao used Mental Interference to throw off Dai Mubai’s balance, allowing Tang San to flick a pebble that tore the corner of Dai Mubai’s clothes.
• Flender ended the test and accepted all seven as Shrek Academy students, then announced tuition, strict obedience to teachers, and their first class the next morning.
• Dai Mubai offered to show the newcomers their dormitories, and Xiao Xiaoxiao saw how dilapidated the academy’s wooden houses were.

Dai Mubai led the new students to Shrek Academy’s shabby dormitories, where they cleaned and patched up the rooms before enduring a cold night and a meager meal. Xiao Xiaoxiao ended the night feeling more secure and hopeful about facing academy life with the others.

• Dai Mubai showed the students their dilapidated dormitories and reminded them that boys and girls had separate rooms.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao, Xiao Wu, Tang San, and Oscar helped clear the girls’ room and block its broken windows, while Ning Rongrong stopped crying and settled in.
• Tang San began making plans to repair the boys’ room, and Oscar complained about the hard beds.
• Dai Mubai handed out dry flatbreads and explained that students had to provide their own food.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao shivered through the cold night beside Xiao Wu and ended the chapter feeling hopeful about living at Shrek Academy.

Flender sent the Shrek students to Suotuo’s Great Soul Arena to earn badges, and Tang San, Dai Mubai, Xiao Xiaoxiao, and Oscar won their first matches. As the group headed back to the academy, an unseen observer watched them from the stands.

• Flender assigned the students to compete at the Great Soul Arena and set earning Bronze Soul qualification as their first goal.
• Dai Mubai defeated an Armored Rhinoceros Spirit Master, and Tang San defeated a Poison Ivy Spirit Master using his Blue Silver Grass’s paralytic toxin.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao used Mental Interference to halt a Lightning Ferret Spirit Master and won her one-on-one match.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu won their two-on-two match, then Xiao Xiaoxiao and Oscar defeated their opponents with combined control and support tactics.
• The Shrek students returned to the academy after a successful first night, while an unknown observer watched them from the stands.

The Shrek Seven Devils defeated the powerful Berserk Team after Xiao Xiaoxiao interrupted their Berserk State, and Tang San shielded her from a poisoned hidden weapon. Xiao Xiaoxiao treated Tang San’s wound afterward, and both lay awake thinking about their unexpected closeness.

• Tang San assigned the Shrek Seven Devils roles against the Berserk Team, while Xiao Xiaoxiao focused on disrupting Demon Fox.
• Demon Fox’s control skills and the team’s Berserk State pushed the Shrek Seven Devils back until Xiao Xiaoxiao used Mental Storm to halt the enemy.
• The Shrek Seven Devils bound and defeated the Berserk Team, but Demon Fox fired a poisoned Silver Needle at the exhausted Xiao Xiaoxiao, and Tang San took the cut while protecting her.
• The referee disqualified the Berserk Team for using hidden weapons and declared the Shrek Team the winner.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao visited Tang San that night and used her Spiritual Power to clear the poison from his wound.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao resolved to grow strong enough to fight beside Tang San, while Tang San lay awake thinking about her.

After the Shrek Seven Devils turned down the Suo Tuo City Lord’s offer, masked attackers ambushed them, and Tang San was wounded while protecting Xiao Xiaoxiao. As Shrek prepared for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, Xiao Xiaoxiao began strengthening her abilities with Tang San’s and a senior Spirit Master’s guidance.

• The Suo Tuo City Lord invited the Shrek Seven Devils to his manor and offered them resources and spirit bones if they would serve him, but they refused.
• Five masked Soul Elders ambushed the group after the banquet, using a bell to disrupt Xiao Xiaoxiao’s abilities, and Tang San was injured while shielding her.
• The Shrek Seven Devils escaped with Tang San’s Hidden Weapons, then agreed to travel in groups while Dai Mubai planned to report the attack to the headmaster.
• Tang San taught Xiao Xiaoxiao mental defense, and Flender announced that Shrek Academy would enter the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament and intensify their training.
• A female Spirit Master advised Xiao Xiaoxiao to develop her power through creation and gave her a notebook; Xiao Xiaoxiao learned that Xiao Gang had arranged the guidance.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao told Tang San she would grow strong enough to protect herself and hoped to join his tournament team, and Tang San said she could if her strength was sufficient.

After the Shrek team returned wounded from an attack, Xiao Xiaoxiao tended Tang San’s injury and began training with him to become better at evasion and battlefield awareness. As her skills improved and the two grew closer, Xiao Xiaoxiao resolved to become strong enough to stand beside and protect him.

• Xiao Xiaoxiao treated Tang San’s shoulder wound, and Tang San advised her to scout with Spiritual Power instead of rushing into danger.
• Tang San taught Xiao Xiaoxiao the basic footwork of Tread Snow Without Trace and trained her to evade his surprise attacks.
• Tang San coached Xiao Xiaoxiao in the forest, where she learned to detect traps and received his ointment for a scratch.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao used movement techniques and Spiritual Power illusions to evade attackers during a surprise test, earning praise from Flender and Master.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao decided she wanted to grow strong enough to protect Tang San, while Tang San privately recorded notes about her training.

Flender and Master led the students into the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain third soul rings, where Xiao Xiaoxiao gained a Moonlight Lotus ring and a new illusion skill. After the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python appeared, Xiao Xiaoxiao was badly injured saving Tang San, and the group fled toward Suotuo City; she eventually regained consciousness.

• Flender and Master took the seven students into the Star Dou Great Forest, where Oscar, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu obtained their third soul rings.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao followed a mental fluctuation to a Moonlight Lotus, and the group defeated its Silver Moon Horned Python guardian so she could absorb the plant's soul ring.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao gained the Moonlight Illusion skill and the ability to sense nearby emotional fluctuations.
• The Titan Giant Ape approached Xiao Wu while the Sky Azure Bull Python attacked Tang San, and Xiao Xiaoxiao used Moonlight Illusion to distract it before Tang San blocked it with his Clear Sky Hammer.
• The two forest kings withdrew, and Flender and Master led the injured group out of the forest as Tang San cared for the unconscious Xiao Xiaoxiao.
• Near Suotuo City, Tang San remained beside Xiao Xiaoxiao, who slowly opened her eyes.

After Xiao Xiaoxiao nearly died protecting Tang San from the Sky Azure Bull Python, he nursed her through a fever and struggled to hide his growing feelings. Once their injuries mostly healed, Master prepared them for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament with a training match against him and Flender.

• Master treated Xiao Xiaoxiao's damaged Sea of Spiritual Consciousness and Tang San's fractured arm, and warned him to keep the hammer he had used against the Sky Azure Bull Python hidden.
• Tang San stayed up all night caring for Xiao Xiaoxiao through a high fever, and she insisted she would risk her life to save him again.
• Tang San told Xiao Xiaoxiao that her life mattered and hurried out after their tense, intimate exchange.
• During their recovery, Tang San quietly brought Xiao Xiaoxiao meals and helped her, while Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong teased her about his concern.
• After seven or eight days, Master assigned Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao focused training for their martial souls and arranged combat practice against himself and Flender.
• At the Training Ground, Flender and Master prepared to test Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao, and the two students faced them as the match began.

Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao defeated Flender and Master through carefully timed teamwork, then spent the following days refining their coordination. As the Shrek Seven Devils prepared to face the Imperial Dou Team, Tang San reassured Xiao Xiaoxiao that they would fight together.

• Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao used Blue Silver Grass, Mental Interference, Hidden Weapons, and Moonlight Illusion to break through Flender and Master's defenses and hit a hidden wooden stake, winning their training match.
• Master praised Tang San's control and Xiao Xiaoxiao's interference, while the others celebrated and helped them recover.
• Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao grew closer and more coordinated during intense training, as the rest of the group noticed their understanding of each other.
• Master announced that the Shrek Seven Devils would face the Imperial Dou Team in three days at the Suo Tuo Great Soul Arena.
• On the night before the match, Tang San reassured a nervous Xiao Xiaoxiao that her Spiritual Power could help counter Dugu Yan, and they agreed to win together.

The Shrek Seven Devils fought the Imperial Dou Team in a fierce spirit arena match and won by targeting Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling with a coordinated assault. As the injured team celebrated, a cloaked figure watched Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao before disappearing into the crowd.

• Master briefed the Shrek Seven Devils on the Imperial Dou Team and assigned Xiao Xiaoxiao to disrupt Dugu Yan with her illusions and Mental Interference.
• Dugu Yan flooded the arena with poison mist, but Xiao Xiaoxiao disrupted her control while Tang San's Blue Silver Grass helped the Shrek team retreat and counterattack.
• Tang San directed Xiao Xiaoxiao to cover the Imperial Dou Team's backline, allowing Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing to strike Ye Lingling while Dai Mubai severely injured Dugu Yan.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao's final Mental Interference stalled Yu Tianheng, enabling Zhu Zhuqing and the others to defeat him and the remaining Imperial Dou Team members.
• The referee declared the Shrek Seven Devils victorious, and Tang San supported the exhausted Xiao Xiaoxiao as the team celebrated.
• A cloaked figure watched Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao from the stands, then quietly disappeared into the crowd.

The Shrek Seven Devils defeated the Imperial Dou Team in a brutal match, leaving both sides injured and exhausted. As the team returned to the academy, Xiao Xiaoxiao fell asleep against Tang San, while a cloaked observer disappeared from the Soul Fighting Arena.

• Dai Mubai, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Oscar, Tang San, and Xiao Xiaoxiao celebrated their victory despite their injuries and exhaustion.
• Tang San helped Xiao Xiaoxiao eat a Recovery Big Sausage, while the defeated Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan watched the Shrek team leave.
• Teacher Shao Xin, Teacher Lu Qibin, Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Master Yu Xiaogang praised the team and arranged treatment for their injuries.
• The exhausted Shrek Seven Devils boarded a carriage back to the academy and gradually fell asleep.
• When the carriage jolted, Tang San cushioned Xiao Xiaoxiao's forehead; she then fell asleep against his shoulder.
• A cloaked figure who had watched from a shadowed corner of the Soul Fighting Arena vanished.

After the injured Shrek Academy students returned from their match, Tang San helped Xiao Xiaoxiao recover and shared a basic Mysterious Heaven Skill technique with her. He ended the night meditating, though thoughts of Xiao Xiaoxiao briefly disrupted his cultivation.

• Zhao Wuji woke the exhausted students when the carriage reached Shrek Academy, and Shao Xin gave them medicinal pills for their injuries.
• Flender sent everyone to rest and told them Master had plans for them the next afternoon.
• Tang San walked beside the unsteady Xiao Xiaoxiao and advised her to use the Mysterious Heaven Skill to restore her Spiritual Power.
• At the girls' dormitory, Xiao Xiaoxiao asked about Tang San's injured arm, and he told her to take care of herself before leaving.
• Tang San cultivated in the boys' dormitory, but memories of Xiao Xiaoxiao briefly disrupted the flow of his Soul Power.

Xiao Xiaoxiao recovered some of her Spiritual Power using Tang San’s method, and Master Yu Xiaogang reviewed the Shrek Seven Devils’ battle against the Imperial Dou Team before putting Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao through a coordination drill. The pair improved their teamwork under pressure and agreed to adjust their fighting rhythms, while Xiao Wu watched them part ways with a knowing smile.

• Xiao Xiaoxiao used Tang San’s method to soothe the pain between her brows as her Spiritual Power recovered.
• The Shrek Seven Devils praised one another’s teamwork over breakfast, and Master Yu Xiaogang announced an afternoon battle review.
• Master Yu Xiaogang analyzed each student’s mistakes and strengths from the fight against the Imperial Dou Team.
• Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao tried to hold out against Master Yu Xiaogang for the time it took an incense stick to burn, and his instruction gradually improved their coordination.
• Tang San pointed out the signs before Xiao Xiaoxiao cast an illusion, and they agreed to watch for each other’s cues in future battles.
• Xiao Wu watched Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao return to their separate dormitories and smiled knowingly.

Shrek Academy’s training intensified, pushing the seven students to their limits while their strength and coordination improved. During a rest, Xiao Wu teased Xiao Xiaoxiao about watching Tang San, leaving their feelings and the group’s playful dynamics quietly stirred.

• Master increased the seven students’ training, and their Soul Power and teamwork steadily improved despite their exhaustion.
• After a two-on-two match, Xiao Xiaoxiao gave Xiao Wu water and glanced at Tang San as he recovered with the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• Xiao Wu teased Xiao Xiaoxiao about finding Tang San reliable, and the others joined in as Xiao Xiaoxiao blushed and playfully chased Xiao Wu.
• Tang San briefly watched Xiao Xiaoxiao’s flustered reaction before returning to his meditation, while Dai Mubai joked that Shrek would grow livelier.
• Flender, Master, and Zhao Wuji watched the students rest, and Master remarked that their emotional outlets were acceptable as long as they did not interfere with training.

After exhausting her Spiritual Power during training, Xiao Xiaoxiao struggled to meditate at night until Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass aura helped her steady her mind and recover. The others finished their cultivation, and Xiao Xiaoxiao returned to the dormitory with renewed strength and questions about Tang San’s quiet concern.

• After the day’s training, Tang San steadied Xiao Xiaoxiao when she nearly collapsed and warned her not to force herself while recovering from Spiritual Power exhaustion.
• At the Martial Soul Imitation Training Ground, the students chose areas suited to their Martial Souls, and Xiao Xiaoxiao attempted to cultivate in the Moonlight Woodland.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao used the Life Aura from Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass Forest to stabilize her Spiritual Power and slowly absorb moonlight energy.
• After her condition improved, Xiao Xiaoxiao saw Tang San watching from the forest’s edge; he nodded and left without disturbing her.
• Master inspected the students’ progress and told Xiao Xiaoxiao to continue stabilizing her recovered Spiritual Power.
• On the walk back, Xiao Wu teased Xiao Xiaoxiao about her cultivation, and Xiao Xiaoxiao glanced toward Tang San as she felt her strength returning.

During a precision Soul Power exercise, Tang San helped Xiao Xiaoxiao manage her Spiritual Power pain with specific advice and Spirit Calming Ointment, allowing her to complete the task and recover during meditation. Master announced a day of rest before the Shrek Seven Devils entered the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain Oscar’s third soul ring.

• Master had the Shrek Seven Devils guide Soul Power threads through tiny passages in metal spheres, and Tang San performed better than the others.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao’s old Spiritual Power injury disrupted her control, but Tang San pointed out a hidden narrow passage and advised her how to pass it.
• Tang San gave Xiao Xiaoxiao Spirit Calming Ointment he had made, easing her pain so she could try again and eventually complete the exercise.
• Xiao Wu teased Xiao Xiaoxiao about Tang San’s ointment on the way to dinner, and Xiao Xiaoxiao denied that it meant anything special.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao meditated more smoothly that night and felt her damaged Spiritual Power had healed by more than half.
• Master announced a rest day followed by a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain Oscar’s third soul ring.

Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Xiao Xiaoxiao, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun spent their rest day in Suotuo City while Tang San stayed behind to study a blueprint. Back at Shrek Academy, Xiao Xiaoxiao gave Tang San osmanthus cake, and the group prepared for their soul ring hunt in the Star Dou Great Forest the next day.

• Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Xiaoxiao set out for Suotuo City with Oscar and Ma Hongjun, while Tang San stayed at the academy to study a blueprint.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao bought a small silver bell at a stall, and the group ate, shopped, and watched a circus performance in the city.
• The group returned to find Tang San still focused on his blueprint and barely touching his dinner, so Xiao Xiaoxiao gave him osmanthus cake.
• Tang San thanked Xiao Xiaoxiao and ate the cake, while Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong noticed their exchange.
• Xiao Xiaoxiao rested with the bell in her dormitory, while Tang San polished metal components and ate more osmanthus cake as the academy prepared for the next day's trip to the Star Dou Great Forest.

The Shrek group entered the Star Dou Great Forest to find a soul beast for Oscar and fought a fifteen-hundred-year Gold Devouring Rat. Tang San and Xiao Xiaoxiao helped turn the battle, and Oscar began absorbing the beast’s soul ring as other dangerous auras approached.

• Zhao Wuji led the students into the forest, where they searched in formation for a suitable soul beast for Oscar.
• Zhu Zhuqing detected a powerful soul beast approaching, and Master identified it as a fifteen-hundred-year Gold Devouring Rat.
• The Gold Devouring Rat wounded Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing and threatened the support members, but Xiao Xiaoxiao’s illusion halted it.
• Tang San struck the Gold Devouring Rat behind its ear with the Clear Sky Hammer, letting the students defeat it with their strongest soul skills.
• Ning Rongrong and Oscar helped the injured group recover, while Tang San steadied the exhausted Xiao Xiaoxiao.
• Oscar began absorbing the Gold Devouring Rat’s purple soul ring as other dangerous auras drew near.

Oscar absorbed a thousand-year soul ring and gained a flight-granting Mushroom Sausage, but a Ghost Shadow Spider hunting squad ambushed the group and poisoned Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing. With the venom antidote only temporarily suppressing their injuries, Tang San proposed using the group as bait, and Master agreed to set a trap.

• Oscar reached level thirty-one and revealed that his third soul skill let someone fly for one minute at a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent's speed.
• Ghost Shadow Spiders attacked Xiao Xiaoxiao and Oscar with poisonous spikes; Tang San shielded Xiao Xiaoxiao, while Zhu Zhuqing pushed Oscar aside and was grazed.
• The attackers fled into the forest, and Master identified their poison as potent Ghost Shadow Spider neurotoxin that required venom sacs to make a true antidote.
• Master treated Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing, but warned that the poison was only temporarily suppressed.
• Tang San reasoned that the spiders were still nearby and proposed using the group as bait; Master agreed to set a trap.

Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing used themselves as bait to lure the Ghost Shadow Spiders, and Xiao Xiaoxiao’s illusion helped Tang San kill their leader before the Shrek group defeated the rest. The group contained Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing’s poison and hurried out of the Star Dou Great Forest, carrying the unconscious Xiao Xiaoxiao.

• Master organized the Shrek group to use Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing as bait, while Xiao Xiaoxiao prepared to disrupt the hidden spiders with her illusion.
• Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing posed as weakened targets as Tang San’s traps forced four Ghost Shadow Spiders out of hiding.
• A fifth leader spider ambushed Tang San, but Xiao Xiaoxiao’s Moonlight Illusion delayed it long enough for Tang San to evade and kill it with his hammer.
• Zhao Wuji, Flender, and the others defeated the four remaining spiders while Xiao Xiaoxiao collapsed unconscious from exhausting her power.
• Master treated Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing’s wounds with spider venom, containing the poison, and the group carried the injured and unconscious toward the forest’s outskirts.