Chapter Summaries

Shen Ranxi took her friends to Suotuo City for a shopping trip at Qingshan Fu, the business she co-owned with Mosna. The girls met Mosna and learned more about Qingshan Fu, while Dai Mubai and the others decided to head to the city as well.

• Yu Xiaogang questioned the poor breakfast and training routine at the academy, then left to speak with Flender.
• Shen Ranxi, A Man, and Tang San ate breakfast together before Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing joined them and agreed to go shopping in Suotuo City.
• Dai Mubai discovered that Zhu Zhuqing and the others had left for Suotuo City, and Oscar and Ma Hongjun decided to go with him.
• Shen Ranxi brought the girls to Qingshan Fu, where Ning Rongrong recognized its reputation and learned that Shen Ranxi co-owned it.
• Mosna welcomed Shen Ranxi and met Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing as Shen Ranxi introduced her as her older sister and business partner.

Shen Ranxi left A Man in Mosna’s care to study, then enjoyed a girls’ outing with Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing. At a restaurant, they ran into Dai Mubai, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Tang San, whose reasons for following the girls remained a subject of teasing.

• Shen Ranxi asked Mosna to care for A Man and promised the child she would visit every week and help her find a future path.
• Shen Ranxi handled Qingshan Fu’s affairs, then joined Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and A Man for a relaxing girls’ tea party.
• Shen Ranxi took the girls shopping, where Zhu Zhuqing enjoyed spending time with peers and Xiao Wu kept eyeing snacks.
• Shen Ranxi and the girls encountered Dai Mubai, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Tang San outside a restaurant, and Dai Mubai followed them inside.
• Xiao Wu teased Tang San about who he had come for, but he changed the subject and kept his feelings about Shen Ranxi to himself.
• A restaurant attendant greeted Shen Ranxi respectfully and prepared a private room and a meal for the group.

Shen Ranxi shared a hot pot meal with Tang San and the others before returning to the Technology Pavilion, where Little Bell showed her a powerful new Offensive Soul Tool. After coordinating the pavilion’s work, Shen Ranxi promised doubled bonuses and rallied her eager subordinates.

• Shen Ranxi and Tang San helped the newcomers enjoy hot pot, while Feifei arrived and Ma Hongjun avoided the spicy pot because of his Evil Fire.
• Shen Ranxi went to the Technology Pavilion and reflected on its shortage of Soul Tool researchers and rare materials.
• Little Bell showed Shen Ranxi an Offensive Soul Tool capable of severely injuring a Third Ring Soul Master or killing a Second Ring Soul Master with a surprise attack.
• Shen Ranxi told Little Bell about Tang San’s Hidden Weapons, reassured her that she remained the most important, and discussed A Man.
• Shen Ranxi met with the branch pavilion managers, finalized their plans, and promised to double their bonuses.

Shen Ranxi joined the Shrek students in Yu Xiaogang’s combat assessment, defeating Xiao Wu and then revealing her Fourth Soul Skill against several opponents. Yu Xiaogang identified the moonlit space it created as a domain, leaving the teachers astonished.

• Shen Ranxi attended Yu Xiaogang’s introduction and learned that the students would undergo staged training and team battles.
• Yu Xiaogang paired Shen Ranxi with Xiao Wu, and Shen Ranxi overcame her after resisting Charm and countering her attacks.
• The Shrek students fought in further pair and group battles, impressing the teachers with their tactics.
• Yu Xiaogang sent several opponents against Shen Ranxi, who used her Fourth Soul Skill, Moon Offering, to transform the Training Ground into a moonlit domain.
• Yu Xiaogang told the astonished teachers that Shen Ranxi’s skill had created a domain.

Shen Ranxi lost control after using her Fourth Soul Skill, attacked Tang San and the others, then resisted the Mist Shadow Demon Wolf’s influence and collapsed. Yu Xiaogang identified the Soul Beast behind her skill and said she would recover only after fully controlling and absorbing its power.

• Shen Ranxi’s Fourth Soul Skill created powerful Clones, and she attacked Tang San and the others while her strength grew and theirs faded.
• Shen Ranxi summoned Moon Blades with Moon Silence, but fought off the force controlling her and shattered the false moon.
• Shen Ranxi spat dark blood and fell, and Tang San caught her and fed her a Sugar Bean before carrying her.
• Yu Xiaogang concluded that Shen Ranxi’s Fourth Soul Skill came from the Mist Shadow Demon Wolf and that its remaining power had taken control of her mind.
• Yu Xiaogang told Shen Ranxi that she had to completely control and absorb the Mist Shadow Demon Wolf’s power to return to normal.

Shen Ranxi recovered from the battle and vowed to master her Fourth Soul Skill as Yu Xiaogang assessed the group’s strengths and weaknesses. The students then began an exhausting team-training course, where they faced targets after struggling through its first stages.

• Shen Ranxi assured Zhao Wuji and her friends that she would handle her inner conflict herself, and Dai Mubai offered to help if she needed it.
• Yu Xiaogang critiqued the students’ combat habits, praised Shen Ranxi’s awareness, and told them to eat breakfast before training began the next day.
• The students speculated about Yu Xiaogang’s plans, and Tang San warned them that the training would not be easy.
• Yu Xiaogang’s team ran from Shrek to Suotuo City carrying stone baskets and tackled obstacles and Soul Power challenges in a course built by the teachers.
• The exhausted students reached a set of targets, and Shen Ranxi suspected that Yu Xiaogang had based them on Tang San’s Hidden Weapons.

The students completed their throwing-knife practice and grueling run before Shen Ranxi introduced them to her Marrow Cleansing Liquid. They endured its agonizing effects in medicinal baths, while Shen Ranxi discovered that its side effects were far worse than she had realized.

• Shen Ranxi and Xiao Wu successfully drove throwing knives into their targets, while Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai struggled with the precision required.
• After training, the students ran nine laps and collapsed, then Zhao Wuji and Li Yusong forced them to drink a foul-tasting brew.
• Shen Ranxi carried Zhu Zhuqing to the dormitory, where Flender explained that Shen Ranxi had provided the medicinal baths using an improved Marrow Cleansing Liquid formula.
• The students entered their baths, and the liquid caused them intense pain as Tang San restrained Ma Hongjun from escaping.
• Shen Ranxi realized the liquid's painful side effects had never been reported by those who had received it as a reward, though it could no longer significantly affect her transformed body.

Shen Ranxi trained beneath the waterfall to temper her body and absorb the power of the Mist Shadow Demon Wolf, while Tang San joined her at the Back Mountain. After she encouraged him and complimented his eyes, Tang San returned the compliment.

• Shen Ranxi gave Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu White Jade Milk to ease their pain and help them absorb the medicinal liquid.
• Shen Ranxi trained beneath the Back Mountain waterfall, swinging her golden cudgel while absorbing the Mist Shadow Demon Wolf's power.
• Tang San found Shen Ranxi training and cultivated nearby as she completed three thousand swings.
• Shen Ranxi teased Tang San about being embarrassed by her wet clothes, then showed him how her waterfall training had strengthened her body.
• Shen Ranxi encouraged Tang San and told him his eyes were beautiful, and Tang San said hers were even more beautiful.

The Little Monsters completed their first phase of training and received a three-day break before Yu Xiaogang’s next round of instruction. In Suotuo City, Shen Ranxi spotted a Wantong Chamber of Commerce convoy carrying prisoners, and her attention sharpened when she recognized someone among them.

• Yu Xiaogang praised the eight students for completing their Soul Power control exercises in half a month and outlined their next training assignments.
• Ma Hongjun shoved Dai Mubai into Zhu Zhuqing, leaving the two flustered while the others reacted with amusement.
• Shen Ranxi invited the others to Suotuo City, and Tang San joined to find a blacksmith for Hidden Weapons and Godly Zhuge Crossbows.
• The group agreed to handle their separate errands and meet for a meal in two hours.
• A black-armored convoy marked with the Wantong Chamber of Commerce banner entered Suotuo City with two prison carts, and Shen Ranxi recognized someone inside and turned sharply alert.

Shen Ranxi discovered that the Great Void Kun was drawn to something connected to the slaves being taken to an auction, so she decided to investigate the Auction House. She left for the auction with Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Oscar after they insisted on facing the danger together.

• Shen Ranxi explained that the Auction House captured half-beastified people whose Martial Soul Awakenings had failed and sold them as slaves; the Great Void Kun emerged and urged her to follow their departing caravan.
• Shen Ranxi told Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Oscar that the Great Void Kun was her second, positively mutating Martial Soul and seemed to want something the slaves possessed.
• At Shen Ranxi's medicinal herbs shop, Tang San discovered rare poisonous plants, and Shen Ranxi offered to give him the herbs in exchange for a share of the poison he made.
• Shen Ranxi announced that she would investigate the Auction House's slave auction and buy what the Great Void Kun wanted or take it by force.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Oscar refused to leave Shen Ranxi to face the danger alone, and she agreed to bring them along.

At the Zhuo Guang Auction House, Shen Ranxi saw two injured Beastmen being sold as slaves and bought them to keep them from the bidders. The manager offered her a discount and asked when she would bring more Pills to sell.

• Xiao Wu misunderstood the waiter's offer of services, then grew angry at the men below who were accompanied by female attendants.
• Shen Ranxi found the Beastmen slaves listed in the auction catalog and tried to buy them before the auction, but the waiter refused because they were the finale.
• The auctioneer displayed a wounded male Beastman and his chained sister, prompting Xiao Wu to question whether failed awakenings stripped them of the right to live.
• Shen Ranxi bid two thousand five hundred Gold Soul Coins for the Beastmen, and the other bidders dropped out.
• The manager delivered the drugged Beastmen to Shen Ranxi, asked about her plans for them, and offered a fifteen percent discount while requesting more Pills.

Shen Ranxi freed Philo and Rello in exchange for the crystal that attracted the Great Void Kun, then warned them that leaving the auction house would put them in danger. As the auction neared its end, she asked Feifei to help track people with Tang San’s medicinal powder.

• Shen Ranxi broke open the cage and freed Philo and Rello, offering to let them go in exchange for something they had.
• Philo gave Shen Ranxi her dark blue crystal necklace, and the Great Void Kun eagerly absorbed its power before Shen Ranxi declared the deal complete.
• Shen Ranxi warned Philo and Rello not to leave yet because nobles might capture them again, then woke Feifei and explained the auction situation.
• Tang San revealed that he had colorless, odorless powder for tracking people and said he would not use it on anyone without consent.
• Shen Ranxi coaxed Feifei into helping scatter the tracking powder, and Feifei proudly accepted her praise.

Shen Ranxi and her Companions ambushed two Nobles transporting three Beastmen victims, and Shen Ranxi and Xiao Wu began fighting the Nobles and their guards. The battle was still underway as Xiao Wu left the guards badly injured.

• Feifei finished its task, and Oscar urgently told Shen Ranxi that the auction was over.
• Tang San gave Oscar a mosquito-repellent sachet, and Oscar punched him after realizing Xiao Wu and Shen Ranxi already had matching ones.
• Shen Ranxi explained that the Nobles’ carriages would pass through the countryside manor route, then spotted them approaching with their guards.
• Tang San paralyzed the horses with poisoned vines, and Shen Ranxi brought down the carriages with a crushing staff blow.
• Shen Ranxi covered the three half-dressed Beastmen victims with cloaks and charged the Soul Ancestor protecting the Nobles.
• Xiao Wu attacked the guards with her Waist Bow and Teleportation, leaving people with broken limbs and cracked heads across the ground.

Shen Ranxi was struck by a locked Mental Attack after her Soul Power and skills were stolen, leaving Tang San and the others fearing she had died. As Tang San subdued the Soul Ancestor and the nobles, Shen Ranxi fought for her life within her mind, but the chapter ended with her still unresponsive.

• Shen Ranxi battled the blade-wielding Soul Ancestor while the two Nobles tried to bargain and blamed their enemies.
• Tang San exposed the Soul Ancestor's sneak attack, but the man launched a Mental Attack as Shen Ranxi's stolen Soul Power left her unable to dodge.
• Xiao Wu rushed toward Shen Ranxi while Tang San attacked the Soul Ancestor with vines and his Godly Zhuge Crossbow, and the Nobles were left wounded.
• Shen Ranxi recalled her past and resolved that she would not give up, as a ball of light expanded through her Sea of Consciousness.
• Tang San seized the badly injured Soul Ancestor by the neck, while Oscar insisted that Little Xi would not die and ran to her side.

After Tang San rescued Shen Ranxi from a deadly attack, she reassured him and urged him to value himself rather than take responsibility for her choices. The group looted the injured nobles and prepared to leave, while Shen Ranxi remained wary of their retaliation.

• Tang San released the poisoned attacker and embraced Shen Ranxi, while Xiao Wu and Oscar beat the three men.
• Shen Ranxi comforted Tang San and told him that she alone was responsible for the choices and risks she took.
• Tang San accepted Shen Ranxi's advice and realized he had fallen for her.
• Shen Ranxi revealed that she had a Soul Bone, and Tang San stopped her from searching the attacker himself.
• Tang San took the Soul Ancestor's Soul Tool, Oscar searched the two Nobles, and the group gathered valuables before leaving.

After rescuing a group of slaves, Shen Ranxi accepted Philo, Rello, and a younger boy into her care and arranged shelter for them in Suotuo City. She then took Tang San to Tie Xin's blacksmith shop, where he commissioned precise Iron Essence components for his device.

• Philo and Rello knelt before Shen Ranxi and asked to follow her, offering their business and forging skills in return for shelter.
• Shen Ranxi accepted the siblings and a younger boy, gave travel money to the rescued people who chose to leave, and sent her new companions to the pharmacy for lodging.
• Shen Ranxi reunited with Xiao Wu and Tang San in Suotuo City, and Oscar hurried off to queue for pastries he had promised Rongrong.
• Shen Ranxi brought Tang San to Tie Xin's blacksmith shop, where she offered him her homemade wine.
• Tang San showed Tie Xin his blueprint and ordered ten sets of Iron Essence parts; Tie Xin quoted a discounted price of four hundred Gold Soul Coins and agreed to make them.

Shen Ranxi reunited with Mosna, who discovered her injured Sea of Consciousness and asked her to look after the troubled A Man. When Shen Ranxi and Tang San found A Man being bullied by classmates, A Man refused to give in and prepared to fight back.

• Shen Ranxi told Tang San and Xiao Wu how she had tricked Tie Xin into forging parts cheaply when she was short on money.
• Mosna healed Shen Ranxi and learned that her Sea of Consciousness had nearly been shattered.
• Mosna told Shen Ranxi that A Man had been downcast lately and sent her to a nearby school to learn to read.
• Shen Ranxi and Tang San found several children demanding money from A Man and insulting her for being an orphan.
• A Man refused to hand over her money, and as the children moved to attack, a slender hand pressed down on her head.

Shen Ranxi reunited with A Man and Little Bell, comforted A Man after arriving late, and joined her companions for hot pot. Little Bell challenged Tang San for Shen Ranxi’s attention, then accidentally fired one of his hidden weapons and blamed him for the mishap.

• Shen Ranxi punished the children who had bullied A Man and walked home holding her hand.
• A Man called Shen Ranxi a puppy for breaking her promise, and Shen Ranxi explained that training had kept her away before reassuring her.
• Shen Ranxi reunited with Little Bell and brought her, A Man, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Oscar inside for hot pot.
• Little Bell teased Tang San about being Shen Ranxi’s lifelong companion, while Tang San gave her two hidden weapons as a self-defense gift.
• Little Bell fired a Sleeve Arrow into a vase and blamed Tang San, who nodded along under her threatening gaze.

Shen Ranxi returned to Shrek Academy with Little Bell and A Man after surviving a mental attack, and her teachers scolded her for taking risks. Little Bell reunited with Ma Hongjun and met Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing.

• Xiao Wu teased Oscar and stole the meat from the pot while Tang San watched.
• Shen Ranxi gave A Man a defensive necklace, and Little Bell and A Man insisted on accompanying her back to Shrek Academy.
• Tang San told the teachers about Shen Ranxi's encounter with a mental attack, prompting them to examine her and warn her to rest.
• Flender teased Zhao Wuji about his own reckless history, making the teachers laugh as they remembered their past adventures.
• Little Bell reunited with Ma Hongjun, then introduced herself to Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing.

Shen Ranxi reunited with her friends, shared the spoils from their recent fight, and burned the nobles’ disturbing belongings. The group divided their rewards before parting, while Tang San quietly noticed Xiao Wu kissing Shen Ranxi on the cheek.

• Little Bell greeted Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, teased Dai Mubai by hugging Zhu Zhuqing, and joined the group as Shen Ranxi and Tang San came downstairs.
• Shen Ranxi handed out the items everyone had requested, and the friends enjoyed their gifts while Dai Mubai advised Tang San about courting Shen Ranxi.
• After the others left, Shen Ranxi called Oscar, Tang San, and Xiao Wu together and insisted they share the team’s earnings equally.
• The four friends sorted three Soul Tools, Gold Soul Coins, jewelry, medicinal herbs, and Azure Jade Fruits, then Shen Ranxi burned the nobles’ disturbing belongings before explaining them to Xiao Wu.
• Shen Ranxi split the Gold Soul Coins among the four, and Tang San noticed Xiao Wu’s kiss had left a red mark on Shen Ranxi’s cheek.