Chapter Summaries

Shen Ranxi rescued Yuan Xia and two other children from a brutal den, then returned to the village with Tang San and treated the injured children. After resting, she woke to find Tang San had cared for her, while Yuan Xia recognized her as the beautiful sister who had saved her.

• Yuan Xia woke in Shen Ranxi's arms and called her a God Slayer after Shen Ranxi carried her out of the den.
• Shen Ranxi and Tang San burned the den and its bodies, while Yuan Xia mourned the women who could never return home.
• Shen Ranxi and Tang San rode the Great Void Kun back to the village with Yuan Xia and two other children, then Feifei found formulas for pills to heal them.
• Shen Ranxi asked Tang San to fetch medicinal herbs, and he tenderly wiped the blood from her face.
• Tang San refined pills for the children, cleaned Shen Ranxi while she slept, and prepared lunch for her after she woke.
• Yuan Xia saw Shen Ranxi outside and recognized the big sister who had rescued her.

Shen Ranxi and Tang San returned three rescued girls to their village, where Shen Ranxi offered Chong Chong a choice about her future. On the way, a gang of robbers attacked them, and Shen Ranxi swiftly beat them into submission.

• Yuan Xia thanked Shen Ranxi for saving her and jokingly asked to marry her, but Tang San claimed Shen Ranxi was his.
• Shen Ranxi and Tang San brought Yuan Xia and two other girls home, where the families reunited with their daughters.
• Shen Ranxi learned that Chong Chong's stepfather had sold her and offered to send her to an orphanage or pay for her education in exchange for twenty years of work.
• A gang of Strong Men surrounded Shen Ranxi, Tang San, Yuan Xia, and Chong Chong and demanded a toll.
• Shen Ranxi slammed the leader into a rock and slapped the other robbers until they begged for mercy.

Shen Ranxi and Tang San recovered a strange flame-marked stone from a gang of thugs and learned it might point to flames in a valley on the continent’s far western edge. After rescuing Yuan Xia and returning her home, they stayed for a celebratory dinner, where Yuan Xia called Shen Ranxi her future wife and Shen Ranxi subtly showed her affection for Tang San.

• Shen Ranxi forced the thugs to hand over their possessions, and Tang San stopped one from reaching into his crotch.
• Shen Ranxi found a warm, flame-marked black stone, and Feifei sensed it had absorbed an aura from an unusual fire.
• A skinny thug said he had robbed the stone from an old man who spoke of man-eating flames in a valley at the continent’s far western edge.
• Shen Ranxi threatened the thugs into promising to stop robbing people, then returned Yuan Xia to her grateful family.
• Yuan Xia declared at dinner that she would marry Shen Ranxi, and Shen Ranxi took Tang San’s hand and served him food.

At a village bonfire celebration, Shen Ranxi danced, drawing admiration from the crowd and Tang San, before the two shared their first kiss. Later, Shen Ranxi reassured Tang San about their relationship, and he asked her never to leave him as long as he had done nothing wrong.

• Grandmother Yuan Xia explained that the villages' bonfire celebration had begun as a way for people to defend themselves from beasts and Soul Beasts.
• Shen Ranxi danced on the wooden platform while Tang San watched her intently, and the villagers praised her performance.
• After Shen Ranxi turned down other dance invitations to return to Tang San, he led her to a quiet corner and asked what she had told them.
• Shen Ranxi told Tang San she had wanted to dance with her beloved, then kissed him.
• Tang San asked whether Shen Ranxi planned to seek the flame, and she told him she was not yet strong enough to bring him along.
• Shen Ranxi encouraged Tang San to make requests, and he asked her to stay with him and never leave as long as he had done nothing wrong.

Shen Ranxi and Tang San survived a deadly battle by awakening a powerful Martial Soul Fusion Skill, then spent a month hunting evil Soul Masters. Seeking to grow stronger, Shen Ranxi began a demanding combat course and faced its teacher, Sun Wukong.

• Shen Ranxi reassured Tang San that she liked him and that they could work through problems together, making him more confident in their relationship.
• Shen Ranxi and Tang San fought a brutal Soul King who had murdered and tortured people, and their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, “Whale Fall · Return to Life,” drained him dry and restored their strength.
• Shen Ranxi and Tang San resolved to conceal the fusion skill’s devouring power and spent a month fighting evil Soul Masters and other criminals in remote areas.
• Shen Ranxi reflected on her limited strength after witnessing the horrors they encountered, then decided to begin the system’s demanding combat course before reaching level 50.
• Shen Ranxi selected Staff Technique and fought its teacher, Sun Wukong, who criticized her use of the Golden Cudgel as she rose to challenge him again.

Shen Ranxi trained under the Great Sage, then bought a soul and Mental Power cultivation method after earning Merit Points for defeating Evil Soul Masters. She began cultivating Great Dream Like Dust, while Feifei's boast about never getting cavities was disproved the next day.

• The Great Sage repeatedly defeated Shen Ranxi while teaching her staff technique and Combat Rhythm, and she persisted through the painful lessons.
• Feifei noticed changes in Shen Ranxi's soul, and she asked for a way to greatly increase her Mental Power.
• The system offered Great Dream Like Dust for 250,000 Merit Points, and Shen Ranxi accused it of profiting as a middleman.
• Shen Ranxi learned she had earned 300,000 Merit Points and received three guaranteed reward draws, including a Random Discount Card and an Advancement Pill.
• Shen Ranxi used the discount card to buy Great Dream Like Dust for 200,000 Merit Points and absorbed the cultivation method.
• Feifei defended its candy-eating habits, but the next day it clutched its cheek and cried out in pain.

Shen Ranxi and Tang San returned to Shrek after fighting Evil Soul Masters, where their friends welcomed them and learned what they had faced. Yu Xiaogang told the group to pack for their departure the next day.

• Shen Ranxi banned Feifei from eating sweets after Tang San discovered the little creature had a cavity.
• Shen Ranxi and Tang San visited Old Jack in Holy Soul Village, then returned to Shrek and reunited with their friends in the Cafeteria.
• Dai Mubai and Oscar noticed the pair’s killing intent, and Tang San explained that they had fought Evil Soul Masters and rescued people.
• Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing checked Shen Ranxi for injuries, while Xiao Wu scolded Tang San for taking Shen Ranxi away without her.
• Tang San described the atrocities committed by the Evil Soul Masters, and the group reacted with anger before the conversation turned to Dai Mubai’s new Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang told everyone to spend the final day packing and prepare to leave the next day.

Shrek traveled on foot toward Heaven Dou City under Flender’s penny-pinching supervision, then reached the Silves Royal Capital Great Soul Arena. When the arena could not arrange a suitable match, Yu Xiaogang suggested the dangerous Fierce God Team, leaving the students alarmed.

• Flender made Shrek travel on foot and camp when necessary to save money, while the students resented the forced march.
• At an inn, the students mocked Flender’s stinginess and deduced that he had brought them to a hotel near the Great Soul Arena to make money.
• Flender took the eight students to the Silves Royal Capital Great Soul Arena, where Oscar offered Ning Rongrong earplugs and the group prepared to fight.
• The receptionist said no Gold Soul Master teams were competing and offered only a cross-rank match against a Soul Ancestor team.
• Yu Xiaogang asked for a vicious team with many kills, and the receptionist identified the Fierce God Team, prompting Oscar and Tang San to react with surprise.

The Shrek Group killed the Fierce God Team with Tang San’s Hidden Weapons, then struggled with the shock of taking lives. Shen Ranxi led them to deliver part of the winnings to the victims’ families, and they arrived at a desolate house where a baby was crying.

• Master warned the Shrek Group about the Fierce God Team and permitted them to use Hidden Weapons, while Flender placed their bets on the match.
• Tang San ordered the Shrek Group to fire their Hidden Weapons, killing most of the charging Fierce God Team; Shen Ranxi finished off Meng Li with the Godly Zhuge Crossbow.
• The Shrek Group left the arena shaken, and Flender promised to give half the academy’s winnings to the Fierce God Team’s victims’ families.
• Shen Ranxi suggested delivering the money to the families, and Lu Qinbin let her take the others while the teachers returned.
• Shen Ranxi led the group away from the main road to an old wooden house, where they heard a baby crying.

Shen Ranxi and the others brought aid to families harmed by the Fierce God Team, then Shen Ranxi helped a woman escape Meng Li. The group left with their spirits lifted, while Ma Hongjun learned Flender would take most of his winnings to teach him to save.

• Shen Ranxi gave Gold Soul Coins and medicinal herbs to the struggling family of one of the Fierce God Team’s victims.
• At Meng Li’s home, Shen Ranxi knocked him unconscious, left a pouch containing a warning note, and led the group away.
• After learning Meng Li was dead, his captive gathered valuables and fled overnight.
• Shen Ranxi explained that people without the power to refuse should be presumed coerced, and Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong supported her view.
• Shen Ranxi warned Ma Hongjun that Flender would take most of his gambling winnings, leaving him to howl in dismay.

Shrek Academy’s group arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Shen Ranxi, Xiao Wu, and the others beat nobles who insulted them. After Qin Ming brought them before the Committee Members, Tang San endured a test of pressure from a lean elder and was left pale but reassured Shen Ranxi.

• Ning Rongrong led Flender and the others from Heaven Dou City to the academy outside the city, where they marveled at its grounds and wealth.
• A group of arrogant noble students insulted the newcomers and Qin Ming, so Shen Ranxi and Xiao Wu attacked them, including the Fourth Prince Xue Beng.
• Qin Ming escorted the group away and warned that Xue Beng’s uncle, Prince Xue Xing, might make trouble for them.
• The three Committee Members received the group and discussed replacing the academy’s weak Second Echelon with Shrek Academy’s team.
• A lean elder with the Sky Blue Vine Martial Soul asked who Tang San was and subjected him to intense pressure; Shen Ranxi helped Tang San back to his chair and gave him a pill.

Prince Xue Xing brought Dugu Bo to sabotage Shrek’s agreement with Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Flender led the group away rather than apologize. Qin Ming resigned and followed them, while Shen Ranxi hinted that she would help Ma Hongjun get revenge on Xue Beng.

• Prince Xue Xing and Xue Beng arrived with Dugu Bo, who used his Titled Douluo pressure to intimidate Shrek and derail the negotiations.
• Flender refused to apologize, and Dugu Bo let the Shrek Group leave after declaring the agreement destroyed.
• Qin Ming resigned from Heaven Dou Royal Academy and hurried after his former teachers and alma mater.
• Dugu Yan realized that the person who had neutralized her poison was among the Shrek Group, then smiled after speaking privately with Dugu Bo.
• Shen Ranxi promised Ma Hongjun that Xue Beng would not keep acting arrogantly, and Ma Hongjun eagerly agreed to join her.

Shen Ranxi reassured the group that she had a plan for Xue Beng while Qin Ming chose to leave the imperial academy and join Shrek. The group discovered Blue Tyrant Academy’s unusual public notice and decided to visit it after a meal at Shen Ranxi’s restaurant.

• Shen Ranxi warned the others against confronting Xue Beng directly and said they would see her plan in two days.
• Shen Ranxi described Xue Beng as an incompetent threat to the throne, prompting the group to vow to become stronger.
• Qin Ming explained why he was leaving his post and accepted the teachers’ invitation to become a teacher at Shrek.
• The group examined Blue Tyrant Academy’s notice, learned that it hired teachers and admitted only Commoners, and decided to visit.
• Shen Ranxi offered to take the group to her Heaven Dou restaurant, and Flender accepted after Zhao Wuji teased him.

Shen Ranxi brought her companions to Embracing Moon Pavilion, where she explained how Princess Xuena’s investment protected the business from Prince Xue Xing. She reunited with manager Pei Yu, reviewed the tavern’s affairs, and planned to fleece Xue Xing with a sale of Spirit Tea.

• Shen Ranxi brought the group to Embracing Moon Pavilion, and its manager Pei Yu hurried to meet her after seeing her token.
• Qin Ming asked Shen Ranxi how she had stopped Prince Xue Xing from taking control of the tavern, and she explained that Princess Xuena had bought shares.
• Shen Ranxi reassured Pei Yu that she trusted her as manager and remembered how Pei Yu had joined her after escaping an abusive husband.
• Shen Ranxi told Pei Yu to warn a troublesome person, praised her work, and discussed the tavern’s plans.
• Shen Ranxi instructed Pei Yu to sell Spirit Tea to Xue Xing as part of a scheme to fleece him.

Shen Ranxi and the others visited Blue Tyrant Academy, where Flender reunited with Liu Erlong, his old friend and former love. As they learned how family interference had separated them, Liu Erlong made clear that she had fought to choose her own path, while Flender remained unsure how to face their reunion.

• Shen Ranxi gave the girls lovely desserts and secretly handed Tang San one shaped like a Great Void Kun before the group headed to Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Liu Erlong tearfully reunited with Flender, and Shen Ranxi and Tang San guessed that Flender had a crush on her.
• Ma Hongjun jokingly asked whether Liu Erlong was his teacher's wife, prompting Flender to glare at him while Liu Erlong praised him.
• Flender recalled how Liu Erlong's father had beaten and humiliated him, then taken her away and told her that Flender had left willingly.
• Liu Erlong remembered that her father had kept her from contacting Flender and had tried to arrange a marriage, but she resisted and founded an academy where she welcomed commoners.

Liu Erlong agreed to merge her academy with Shrek, and Shen Ranxi proposed reforms that impressed the teachers. Later, Dugu Bo ambushed Shen Ranxi and Tang San, leaving their friends to discover they had been taken.

• Liu Erlong offered to make her academy part of Shrek and asked Flender to take responsibility for its funding while keeping her as Vice Dean.
• Shen Ranxi suggested dividing Shrek into Inner and Outer Courts, using assessments, rewards, and an arena to motivate students and improve the academy.
• The teachers praised Shen Ranxi's proposals, while Dai Mubai and the others left the meeting.
• Dugu Bo appeared on the path and used purple mist to knock Shen Ranxi and Tang San unconscious.
• Xiao Wu and the others found Shen Ranxi's hidden weapons and Feifei, then realized Dugu Bo had taken Shen Ranxi and Tang San and alerted the teachers.

Tang San and Shen Ranxi survived Dugu Bo’s attack by persuading him that his granddaughter Dugu Yan was in danger from poison and that Tang San could cure them both. Dugu Bo brought them to his medicinal herb garden and gave Tang San a day to prove it, threatening to kill them if he failed.

• Dugu Bo attacked Tang San and Shen Ranxi, but Tang San briefly stunned him with a hammer strike while Shen Ranxi launched a sneak attack.
• Dugu Bo recognized Tang San’s second Martial Soul and developed killing intent, so Tang San warned him that Dugu Yan would die from the poison affecting her.
• Tang San described Dugu Bo’s poison suffering and explained that Dugu Yan had begun consuming Poison Scale Snake Grass, causing Dugu Bo to release him.
• Dugu Bo offered to spare them and grant three favors if Tang San cured his and Dugu Yan’s poison, then demanded proof of Tang San’s skill.
• Dugu Bo took Tang San and Shen Ranxi to his medicinal herb garden, poisoned Tang San, and gave him one day to find a cure or face death.

Shen Ranxi stayed in Dugu Bo’s Herb Garden to pursue body tempering and negotiated for seeds from its rare plants. She sold Dugu Bo a level-up pill and traded another for every type of seed in the garden.

• Shen Ranxi and Tang San discovered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang eyes and the rare herbs in Dugu Bo’s Herb Garden, and Feifei urged Shen Ranxi to use them for her next stage of body tempering.
• Shen Ranxi went to the battle between Dugu Bo and Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong, then calmed the confrontation by claiming Dugu Bo had let Tang San study poisons in his garden.
• Shen Ranxi declined to leave with Flender and the others, explaining that she had an opportunity to pursue and that Tang San was still with Dugu Bo.
• Shen Ranxi offered Dugu Bo a pill that granted an unconditional one-level upgrade and negotiated its limits with him.
• Shen Ranxi sold one pill to Dugu Bo for one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and exchanged another for seeds from every type of herb in the garden.

Shen Ranxi worried when Tang San entered the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eyes to absorb the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, then helped Feifei prepare to cultivate the medicinal plants. Tang San emerged alive, and Shen Ranxi comforted him before Dugu Bo interrupted them.

• Feifei told Shen Ranxi that Tang San had jumped into the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eyes after taking the two herbs, and Shen Ranxi worried about whether he would survive.
• Shen Ranxi persuaded Feifei to manage the seeds and plant them in her space, while she planned to find Fire Marrow and Cold Marrow for a smaller Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eyes.
• The Soul Returning Tree gave Shen Ranxi a flower that could help keep her Divine Soul clear and awake.
• Tang San burst from the pool, and Shen Ranxi pulled him ashore as he clung to her and confessed how much it hurt.
• Shen Ranxi praised Tang San and comforted him with a candy, and Dugu Bo interrupted their intimate moment.

Shen Ranxi tempered her body in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes with the Blazing Profound Phoenix Grass, then dove into the Extreme Cold Ice Spring to obtain Ice Marrow. She escaped death and secured a small piece, while Tang San prepared to treat Dugu Bo.

• Dugu Bo interrupted Tang San and Shen Ranxi, and Tang San offered to detoxify him if he let Shen Ranxi leave.
• Shen Ranxi told Tang San she wanted to temper her body at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, and he reluctantly agreed to trust her.
• Shen Ranxi ate the Blazing Profound Phoenix Grass and leaped into the Extreme Cold Yin Spring, enduring the clashing heat and cold as Tang San resisted the urge to stop her.
• Shen Ranxi's body adapted to the spring, and Feifei urged her to swim deeper to find the Ice Marrow.
• Shen Ranxi used her heart blood to take a fingernail-sized piece of Ice Marrow and began swimming back toward safety.