Chapter Summaries

Shen Ranxi awakened the Ruyi Golden Cudgel as her Martial Soul and revealed Innate Full Soul Power, drawing an invitation from Spirit Hall that she declined for now. The village celebrated her talent, and she opened her system’s Novice Gift Pack, which produced a mysterious fluffy cloud-like creature.

• Shen Ranxi awakened a golden Ruyi Golden Cudgel marked as weighing thirteen thousand five hundred jin, and the system awarded her a draw and delivered her Novice Gift Pack.
• Chen Yun tested Shen Ranxi’s Soul Power, discovered her Innate Full Soul Power, and invited her to join Spirit Hall.
• Shen Ranxi asked to discuss the offer with her family and left the Wooden House without committing to Spirit Hall.
• Chen Yun told the village chief that two children had awakened Soul Power, including Shen Ranxi, and he celebrated her talent with the villagers.
• The villagers decided to pool money to send the two children to school, and the village chief arranged a celebration feast for Shen Ranxi.
• Shen Ranxi opened the Novice Gift Pack, and a soft, fluffy cloud-like thing pounced onto her face.

Shen Ranxi discovered that her Somersault Cloud was a growing Spirit Item and spent a joyful evening with the village, but a cloaked attacker slaughtered everyone at the feast. As he turned toward the corpses, she used her available lottery draw in hopes of stopping him.

• Shen Ranxi identified her Somersault Cloud as a pirated, growth-type Spirit Item and told Little Bell she would become a stronger Soul Master to protect the village.
• Shen Ranxi and Little Bell joined the villagers’ feast, where Little Bell secretly tasted wine and became dizzy.
• Shen Ranxi sensed danger, hid Little Bell in a water vat, and rushed back to warn the villagers.
• Shen Ranxi found the village slaughtered and watched a cloaked man drain the blood and flesh from another victim.
• The cloaked man turned toward the corpses, and Shen Ranxi told the system to use her available lottery draw.

Shen Ranxi used False Premise Theft to borrow her future self’s First and Fourth Soul Skills and fought the Cloaked Man to avenge her family. After killing him, she collapsed from the strain, and the Somersault Cloud carried her away.

• Shen Ranxi drew False Premise Theft and chose to steal her future self’s First and Fourth Soul Skills when she obtained a Level Forty Soul Ring.
• Shen Ranxi activated the skill as the Cloaked Man prepared to absorb the villagers’ remains, gaining temporary power and summoning the Golden Cudgel.
• Shen Ranxi used the Sea-Calming Divine Needle to slow the Three-Ringed Cloaked Man, then battered him with Myriad Shadows, Thousand Layers.
• Shen Ranxi killed the Cloaked Man while naming Auntie Pang, Uncle Chen, and Village Chief Grandpa, then collapsed from her injuries.
• The Somersault Cloud caught Shen Ranxi and carried her away as she looked up at the stars and silently cried.

After defeating the Evil Soul Masters, Shen Ranxi found Village Chief Grandpa dying and learned that no power could save him. Grieving for the dead, she vowed to fight Evil Soul Masters and protect Little Bell, who survived the attack.

• Shen Ranxi searched the battlefield and found Village Chief Grandpa, who praised her before dying in her arms.
• Shen Ranxi asked the system why the Evil Soul Masters had attacked the village, and it explained their origins and forbidden cultivation methods.
• Shen Ranxi condemned the world's indifference to Ordinary People and vowed to kill Evil Soul Masters and challenge the gods if necessary.
• Shen Ranxi and the Somersault Cloud pieced the villagers' bodies together before dawn, and Shen Ranxi named the cloud cotton.
• Shen Ranxi heard Little Bell crying, found her on the road, and promised to help her grow up happily.

After the village massacre, Shen Ranxi buried the dead and resolved to grow stronger while caring for Little Bell. She chose Shrek Academy and discovered her second Martial Soul before meeting the Great Sage, who gave her cultivation methods and advice; the chapter ended with her testing the Golden Cudgel and getting crushed beneath it.

• Shen Ranxi told Little Bell that her parents had become stars, then spent a week burying the villagers and marking their graves.
• Shen Ranxi destroyed the Evil Soul Master's corpse, chose Shrek Academy as her next destination, and decided to keep her second Martial Soul hidden until she was stronger.
• Shen Ranxi summoned her second Martial Soul, a small blue fish, and encountered the Great Sage, whose Divine Sense had awakened through her faith in him.
• The Great Sage gave Shen Ranxi a Heart Method and Body Tempering Method and told her not to use Soul Power to activate the Golden Cudgel.
• Shen Ranxi gathered the village's money and supplies, stored them in her Soul Tool, and tested the Great Sage's instructions, only to be flattened by the falling Golden Cudgel.

Shen Ranxi trained to bear the Golden Cudgel’s weight before setting out with Little Bell for Shrek Academy. In the city, they met Mosna, whose Soul Power-restoring cakes refreshed them and whose map helped them continue their search.

• Shen Ranxi learned that the Golden Cudgel suppressed her abilities while she carried it, but increased her recovery and power once she broke free, and she trained with it for half a month.
• Shen Ranxi and Little Bell left for the city, and a kind old grandfather gave them a ride there.
• Shen Ranxi brought Little Bell to Mosna’s candy shop, where Mosna welcomed them with drinks and pastries.
• Shen Ranxi realized Mosna’s cake restored Soul Power and asked her for directions to Shrek Academy.
• Mosna drew Shen Ranxi a map, then refused payment when Shen Ranxi bought candy and packed cakes for the two little Taoties.

Shen Ranxi rescued the old grandfather from Shoehorn Face and his two lackeys, then beat them and took their belongings. As she prepared to leave with Little Bell, Four-Eyed Cat Eagle Flender appeared and confronted her about meddling.

• Shen Ranxi saw Shoehorn Face trampling the old grandfather who had helped her and Little Bell, so she knocked him down with her Golden Cudgel.
• Shen Ranxi helped the old grandfather up, gave him cake, and urged him to go home while she dealt with Shoehorn Face and his lackeys.
• Shen Ranxi defeated the two lackeys, knocked out Shoehorn Face's teeth, and threatened him against bullying people again.
• Shen Ranxi forced Shoehorn Face and his lackeys to hand over their belongings, collecting fourteen Gold Soul Coins before leaving with Little Bell.
• Four-Eyed Cat Eagle Flender appeared and asked Shen Ranxi whether she feared the consequences of meddling in other people's affairs.

Flender recruited Shen Ranxi, an orphan with Innate Full Soul Power, into Shrek Academy after she refused him before learning who he was. He accepted her determination to protect Ordinary People and allowed her younger sister Little Bell to stay with her as they set off for the Academy.

• Flender revealed himself as the Level 70 Soul Saint and dean of Shrek Academy, and Shen Ranxi eagerly asked to become his student.
• Shen Ranxi told Flender she had Innate Full Soul Power and had lost her parents and village to Evil Soul Masters.
• Flender warned Shen Ranxi that Soul Masters and Ordinary People led different lives, but she vowed to show the world the power of Ordinary People.
• Shen Ranxi asked to keep Little Bell by her side, and Flender allowed it while warning her to bear the consequences.
• Little Bell thanked Flender, and he carried both girls into the sky toward Shrek Academy.

Shen Ranxi and Little Bell arrived at Shrek Academy, where the Teachers welcomed them after learning about Shen Ranxi’s Twin Martial Souls and tragic past. The Teachers arranged for Zhao Wuji and Li Yusong to take the girls to the Star Dou Great Forest for Soul Rings the next day, and Shen Ranxi settled into a dormitory with Little Bell.

• Flender brought Shen Ranxi and Little Bell to Shrek Academy and introduced them to Zhao Wuji, Li Yusong, Shao Xin, and Lu Qibin.
• Shen Ranxi revealed her Innate Full Soul Power, Twin Martial Souls, and Golden Cudgel, shocking the Teachers.
• Shen Ranxi demonstrated that her Golden Cudgel could shrink and weighed over three thousand jin in its current state.
• Shen Ranxi revealed Fei, which the Teachers mistook for a possible Third Martial Soul, and they decided she should cultivate the Golden Cudgel.
• The Teachers told Shen Ranxi to keep her Twin Martial Souls secret and arranged a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest for the next day.
• Shao Xin took Shen Ranxi and the sleeping Little Bell to a wooden dormitory, where Shen Ranxi made her bed with the quilt from home.

Shen Ranxi traveled with Zhao Wuji and Li Yusong to find her first Soul Ring and chose to absorb a nearly seven-hundred-year Calamity Armadillo despite their warnings. As the Soul Ring tried to overwhelm her, Shen Ranxi resisted and demanded that it stay still.

• Shen Ranxi trained with the Golden Cudgel, then asked Shao Xin to look after Little Bell while she left with Zhao Wuji and Li Yusong.
• Zhao Wuji carried Shen Ranxi to the forest, where she and Li Yusong searched for a suitable Hundred-Year Soul Beast.
• Zhao Wuji fought a nearly seven-hundred-year Calamity Armadillo, and Shen Ranxi asked him to spare it because she wanted it as her First Soul Ring.
• Li Yusong and Zhao Wuji warned Shen Ranxi that absorbing a Soul Ring beyond the usual limit could kill her, but she insisted and killed the armadillo.
• Shen Ranxi began absorbing the Soul Ring, endured visions and whispers urging her to give up, then resisted and ordered the Soul Ring to stay still.

Shen Ranxi gained her First Soul Skill, returned safely to the academy, and began an intense training and study routine. She continued preparing a surprise for her teachers in her spare time.

• Shen Ranxi obtained her First Soul Ring and revealed that her First Soul Skill, Myriad Shadows, Thousand Layers, intimidated and immobilized enemies while reducing their attributes.
• Shen Ranxi caught and grilled fish for Zhao Wuji and Li Yusong, then rested with them overnight.
• On the journey back, Shen Ranxi trained by walking with the Golden Cudgel until exhaustion, and Shao Xin helped her recover with a Sugar Bean.
• Shen Ranxi demonstrated her First Soul Skill to Flender and the other teachers, and Flender announced that classes would begin that afternoon.
• Shen Ranxi reunited with Little Bell and gave her a beautiful stone.
• Shen Ranxi began studying under the academy’s teachers, running ten thousand meters each morning under Zhao Wuji’s gravity training and learning Soul Master knowledge from Lu Qibin at noon.

Shen Ranxi cultivated tea, shared it with the teachers, and impressed them when it slightly increased their soul power. A week later, Flender introduced Oscar to the Academy, and Shao Xin accepted him as his Direct Disciple.

• Shen Ranxi used her memories and Spirit Spring water to grow and process tea, then gave some to each teacher.
• Flender brewed Zhao Wuji's tea, and the teachers discovered that drinking it could slightly increase their soul power.
• The teachers intensified Shen Ranxi's training, which aligned with the physical refinement stage of Great Sage's cultivation method.
• Flender introduced Oscar, a Food System Soul Master with Innate Full Soul Power, after rescuing him from people seeking to exploit him.
• Shao Xin offered to take Oscar as his Direct Disciple, and Oscar accepted, embracing his new teacher.

Shen Ranxi welcomed Oscar to the Academy and encouraged him to build his strength as a Support System Soul Master. Oscar began training alongside her, while she continued caring for Little Bell and White Dumpling.

• Shao Xin introduced Oscar to Shen Ranxi, and she offered him clothes and helped him settle into the Academy.
• Oscar grew comfortable with Shen Ranxi and asked her about the Support System; her determination to protect herself and others inspired him to train with her.
• Oscar began running with Shen Ranxi, agreeing to keep up with her without expecting her to wait.
• Shen Ranxi picked up Little Bell from Grandma Mo's house, and White Dumpling rushed to cling to her.
• Shen Ranxi brought Little Bell and White Dumpling to the Cafeteria, where Oscar was learning to cook with Shao Xin.

Shen Ranxi trained to spear fish with her heavy Golden Cudgel, learned to control it more precisely, and then set out for the city with Little Bell and Oscar. The chapter ended with Oscar revealing his embarrassing Soul Incantation, while Shen Ranxi accepted his sausage without judging him.

• Oscar met the cloudlike being that had appeared alongside Shen Ranxi during her Martial Soul Awakening and resolved to work hard until it accepted him as a passenger.
• Oscar made rabbit-shaped and dog-shaped rice for Little Bell and Shen Ranxi.
• Li Yusong sent Shen Ranxi to spear fish in the river using her cudgel, and she persevered until she mastered the technique and caught several fish.
• Li Yusong and Dean Flender watched as Shen Ranxi's strikes grew faster, and she realized her Soul Power control and Mental Power had improved.
• Shen Ranxi headed to the city with Little Bell and Oscar, who revealed his Soul Incantation, "Super Recovery Big Sausage."
• Shen Ranxi took a sausage from Oscar and said it smelled good, easing his embarrassment.

Shen Ranxi visited Mosna, registered her Soul Power at the Suotuo City Martial Soul Hall, and went to a restaurant with Oscar and Little Bell. When a man with a Desire Fly Martial Soul harassed a girl and threatened Shen Ranxi, she struck him with her Golden Cudgel and sent him flying into an alley.

• Shen Ranxi, Oscar, and Little Bell visited Mosna, and Shen Ranxi gave her a rare flower called Mandala Orchid Galos.
• Mosna accepted Shen Ranxi's gift and sent the children off with a large bag of pastries and candies.
• At the Suotuo City Martial Soul Hall, Shen Ranxi registered her Soul Power as Level fifteen but declined an invitation to join Spirit Hall.
• At a restaurant, Shen Ranxi confronted a young man who was harassing a girl and insulted his appearance.
• The man revealed his Desire Fly Martial Soul and threatened Shen Ranxi, but she charged at him and struck him into an alley with her Golden Cudgel.
• Oscar took Little Bell aside and hid nearby to watch in case Shen Ranxi needed help.

Shen Ranxi defeated a lecherous Soul Master who had tried to assault a girl, took his ill-gotten money, and explained to Oscar why she had intervened. After shopping with Oscar and Little Bell, she flew back toward the Academy on the Somersault Cloud.

• Shen Ranxi fought the man, overcame his Soul Skills, and knocked him unconscious with her Golden Cudgel.
• Oscar gave Shen Ranxi a sugar pill, tied up the man, and helped her search him for money.
• Shen Ranxi beat the man again, confiscated his criminal tool, and shared some of his money with Oscar and Little Bell.
• Shen Ranxi asked a server about the man and learned that he often preyed on ordinary girls without consequences.
• Shen Ranxi and Oscar bought clothes and medicinal supplies, then Shen Ranxi carried them and Little Bell back toward the Academy on the Somersault Cloud.

Shen Ranxi continued her punishing training alongside Oscar, while the Academy welcomed Ma Hongjun, a new student whose mutated Martial Soul might become a Phoenix. The chapter ended with Shen Ranxi leading Oscar and the arrogant Ma Hongjun to the dormitory, after Oscar warned him not to provoke her.

• Shen Ranxi trained under the teachers, endured painful correction strikes, and grew proficient at wielding the Golden Cudgel while Oscar persevered with his own training.
• Shen Ranxi praised Oscar's cooking at lunch, and he prepared her a spicy portion to her liking.
• Shen Ranxi and Oscar encountered Ma Hongjun clinging to Dean Flender, complaining that the Academy was nothing like the fun he had been promised.
• Flender explained that Ma Hongjun's Martial Soul had mutated into an adhesive flame that could become a Phoenix if he overcame its weaknesses, then assigned Oscar to show him to the dormitory.
• Ma Hongjun questioned Shen Ranxi's cold manner, and Oscar warned him that provoking her would bring trouble before she ordered them to hurry up.

Shen Ranxi endured Zhao Wuji’s punishing training and entered an unexpected state of enlightenment while practicing with her staff. She woke with her exhaustion gone and her Soul Power increased to level seventeen.

• Shen Ranxi went to Zhao Wuji for training, while Ma Hongjun and Oscar joined her in the Gravity Field.
• Zhao Wuji assigned Shen Ranxi ten thousand meters of running and ten thousand staff swings, and gave Ma Hongjun and Oscar five thousand meters of running.
• Ma Hongjun struggled under the Gravity Field but kept running after seeing Shen Ranxi continue her training.
• Shen Ranxi entered a state of enlightenment while reciting the Formless Heart Sutra, and Zhao Wuji, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun watched over her.
• Shen Ranxi woke and told Zhao Wuji that her exhaustion had vanished and her Soul Power had risen two levels to level seventeen.

Shen Ranxi took Oscar and Ma Hongjun to Suotuo City to target criminals, explaining how women were forced into brothels and stripped of their dignity. They rescued a kidnapped girl and left her captor badly injured and unable to use his Martial Soul.

• Shen Ranxi collected an informant’s list of criminals in Suotuo City while Ma Hongjun and Oscar waited to learn about her side business.
• She told the boys she planned to rob criminals and explained that most women in brothels had not chosen to be there.
• The three found a Soul Grandmaster who kidnapped girls and sold them to brothels, and Oscar disguised himself as a crying little girl to lure him into an alley.
• Shen Ranxi and Ma Hongjun attacked the man, broke his limbs, and destroyed his Martial Soul.
• Shen Ranxi released the teenage girl from the man’s sack, and the girl tearfully explained that he had kidnapped her.

After Shen Ranxi, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun returned late from rescuing a girl, Flender praised their courage but punished them with farm work. Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire erupted in the fields, and he was left to choose between grueling training and venting it through sex.

• Shen Ranxi, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun returned to the Academy after helping rescue a girl, where the worried teachers reprimanded them for coming back late.
• The three explained that they had confronted Bad Guys and received a reward, and Flender praised their actions while warning them to judge their opponents’ strength.
• Flender punished the three by assigning them to harvest grain in the fields.
• When Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire erupted, Shen Ranxi used her Golden Cudgel to throw him into the river and sent Oscar to fetch the teachers.
• Flender explained that Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire had to be vented periodically and offered him the choice between arduous training and intercourse; Ma Hongjun resolved to make a decision after remembering the girl they had rescued.