Chapter Summaries

Yu Cheng emerged from Sunset Forest and went to Silves City to find the Imperial Dou Team, but learned they had already left. He decided to head for the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone, then received a mysterious message claiming that he was dead and asking him to collect an Ash Box and bury the remains.

• Ning Fengzhi ordered Chen Xin to contact Yu Cheng and maintain a friendly relationship if he refused to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Xue Qinghe learned Yu Cheng had left Sunset Forest and considered using him to draw Dugu Bo away from Heaven Dou City.
• Yu Cheng arrived at the Silves City Great Soul Arena and learned the Imperial Dou Team had departed three days earlier.
• Yu Cheng decided to travel to the place where he believed he could obtain the one-hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone.
• Yu Cheng heard a message in his heart claiming he was already dead and asking him to collect the Ash Box and bury the remains.

Yu Cheng met a middle-aged future self whose inheritance included wealth, techniques, and a wish to restore the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. After agreeing to trade the Aromatic Silk Beauty to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Yu Cheng went to a post station and noticed a wealthy young girl grossly overpaying to rent a carriage.

• Yu Cheng met Middle-aged Yu Cheng, who explained that he had joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, married into the Ning family, and died after taking seventeen wives to strengthen the sect.
• Middle-aged Yu Cheng asked Yu Cheng to help restore the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Yu Cheng considered trading the Aromatic Silk Beauty to Ning Fengzhi without marrying Ning Rongrong.
• Middle-aged Yu Cheng offered Yu Cheng a few hundred million Gold Soul Coins, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Mind Control Technique, insights into Oneness of Man and Sword, and help locating an artifact like the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• Yu Cheng agreed to the trade and planned to bring Dugu Bo when he negotiated with Ning Fengzhi.
• At a post station, Yu Cheng watched a wealthy young girl offer a carriage-rental manager fifty Gold Soul Coins after mistaking his five-fingered gesture for that amount.

Yu Cheng and Ning Rongrong’s carriages were trapped by a gang of fake repairmen who had arranged to extort their passengers. After Yu Cheng exposed the coachmen’s collusion, the gang revealed their Soul Masters and Ning Rongrong invoked the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to intimidate them.

• Yu Cheng recognized Ning Rongrong at the carriage station, noticed her hidden Soul Saint bodyguards, and rented a carriage to Nuoding City.
• Yu Cheng and Ning Rongrong traveled along the same road, where both carriages stopped after their axles supposedly broke.
• A group of armed men offered to repair the carriages for an exorbitant fee, and Yu Cheng realized the coachmen were working with them.
• The coachmen and villagers revealed their martial souls and demanded money from Yu Cheng and Ning Rongrong.
• Ning Rongrong showed her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect token and warned the gang to leave.

Ning Rongrong tried to escape a bandit ambush by claiming Yu Cheng was a powerful Seven Kill Sword Soul Master, but he revealed his Blue Silver King Martial Soul and broke through the attackers’ formation. As the bandits pursued them, Yu Cheng raced ahead and left Ning Rongrong behind as the slowest target.

• The White Bear Soul Master ordered the bandits to kill Ning Rongrong and Yu Cheng despite Ning Rongrong invoking the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Chen Feng.
• Ning Rongrong summoned her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, then falsely presented Yu Cheng as Chen Feng and fled while the bandits focused on him.
• Yu Cheng revealed his Blue Silver King Martial Soul and used his Energy Shield to repel the Wooden Stick Soul Master’s attack and escape the encirclement.
• Yu Cheng caught up to Ning Rongrong as the bandits chased them, then admitted he was a Support System Soul Master.
• Yu Cheng accelerated ahead and left Ning Rongrong behind, declaring that whoever ran slowest was the front line.

Yu Cheng returned to save Ning Rongrong from bandits, using a poisoned Godly Zhuge Crossbow and his Soul Skills to defeat their leader. After the fight, Ning Rongrong thanked him and introduced herself as a member of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, leaving Yu Cheng surprised that she recognized him.

• Ning Rongrong was surrounded by bandits after Yu Cheng disappeared, while two hidden guards watched over her.
• Yu Cheng returned and used a Godly Zhuge Crossbow to wound the bandits with poisoned bolts, killing several and incapacitating others.
• Yu Cheng and Ning Rongrong combined their amplification Soul Skills as the poisoned White Bear Soul Master attacked.
• The White Bear Soul Master tried to trick Yu Cheng with a sudden strike, but Yu Cheng’s Energy Shield reflected damage and left him vulnerable.
• Yu Cheng threw lime into the White Bear Soul Master’s face and struck him with a kick, after which the poison killed him.
• Ning Rongrong thanked Yu Cheng and identified herself as Ning Rongrong of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, surprising him by recognizing him.

After Yu Cheng defeated the bandits, he searched their hideout while Ning Rongrong struggled to cope with the bloodshed. That night, Yu Cheng began preparing to learn swordsmanship, while Ning Rongrong remained unsettled by the gap between their abilities.

• Ning Rongrong recognized Yu Cheng by his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and extraordinary strength, then became sick from the battlefield's blood and smell.
• Yu Cheng searched the bandits' bodies and invited Ning Rongrong to investigate their village hideout; she reluctantly followed him.
• Two hidden guards discussed how the experience would help Ning Rongrong mature and agreed to thank Yu Cheng for saving her.
• That night, Ning Rongrong sat awake, troubled by the day's violence and wondering how Yu Cheng had grown so powerful.
• Yu Cheng asked his future self to teach him Oneness of Man and Sword, and learned he would begin with basic stance training.

Yu Cheng trained in swordsmanship with a heavy roof beam while traveling with Ning Rongrong toward Suotuo City. At the Rose Hotel, they arrived just as Tang San confronted someone who had hurt Xiao Wu.

• Yu Cheng followed Middle-aged Yu Cheng's instructions and practiced sword swings with a roof beam.
• Yu Cheng and Ning Rongrong agreed to travel together, and Ning Rongrong asked him to call her Rongrong.
• After two and a half months on the road, Yu Cheng and Ning Rongrong reached Suotuo City shortly before Shrek Academy opened.
• Ning Rongrong suggested staying at the Rose Hotel, and Yu Cheng agreed.
• A figure crashed through the hotel window, and Tang San shouted that the person had hurt Xiao Wu before using Blue Silver Bind.

Yu Cheng arrived at the Rose Hotel and found Tang San fighting Dai Mubai after Xiao Wu had been injured. Tang San spared Dai Mubai, then reunited with Yu Cheng and Xiao Wu; Flender discovered Dai Mubai had been gravely wounded and lost one testicle.

• Yu Cheng entered the wrecked hotel lobby and saw Tang San battling Dai Mubai while Xiao Wu recovered from a burned shoulder wound.
• Tang San poisoned Dai Mubai with a Bone-Piercing Nail, then fired his Godly Zhuge Crossbow and wounded him with several bolts.
• Dai Mubai pleaded for his life and claimed he was a Shrek student, so Tang San spared him; Dai Mubai passed out while being taken to Flender's antique shop.
• Xiao Wu woke and happily greeted Yu Cheng, who gave her medicine and introduced Ning Rongrong before arranging rooms at the hotel.
• Flender saw Dai Mubai arrive unconscious and badly wounded, discovered that one of his testicles was gone, and demanded to know who had done it.

Flender learned that Tang San and Yu Cheng had badly injured Dai Mubai, while Shao Xin treated Mubai and confirmed one testicle could not be restored. At the hotel, Yu Cheng told Tang San he had reached level thirty-two, leaving Tang San stunned and unsettled.

• Flender ordered attendants to move the unconscious Dai Mubai and flew off to fetch Shao Xin.
• The attendants recounted how a girl with a Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul and a boy with a Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul had fought Dai Mubai, and Flender resolved to settle the score.
• Shao Xin neutralized Dai Mubai's poison but said his missing testicle could not be regenerated; Flender hoped the injury would make Mubai focus on cultivation.
• Tang San asked Yu Cheng about Heaven Dou Royal Academy and shared that he had reached level thirty Soul Power.
• Yu Cheng claimed he had reached level thirty-two through herbs, medicinal baths, and special opportunities, leaving Tang San shocked.

Tang San learned that Yu Cheng had a Thousand-Year Second Soul Ring and began questioning his teacher’s theories and his own cultivation. After a masked man abducted him, Tang San woke in a dark room stripped down to his underwear.

• Yu Cheng summoned his Blue Silver King Martial Soul, revealing two Thousand-Year Soul Rings and making Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass react fearfully.
• After Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong left to get food, Tang San sobbed alone and blamed Yu Xiaogang’s Soul Ring theory for limiting his Second Soul Ring.
• Tang San wondered whether his Soul Rings and Blue Silver Grass path were wrong, then steadied himself by practicing with a rose petal and trusting his Hidden Weapons.
• A masked man entered Tang San’s room, accused him of injuring Dai Mubai, and knocked him unconscious before Tang San could respond.
• Tang San woke in a dim room and discovered he had been stripped down to his underwear.

Flender recognized Tang San as Yu Xiaogang’s disciple and sent him to enroll at Shrek Academy while he went to Spirit City to look for Yu Xiaogang. Meanwhile, Dai Mubai persuaded Zhao Wuji not to obstruct Tang San’s entrance, secretly intending to take revenge once Tang San joined the academy.

• Flender discovered Yu Xiaogang’s Soul Tool on Tang San, learned that Yu Xiaogang had gone to Spirit City, and invited Tang San to enroll at Shrek Academy.
• Tang San told Flender that Yu Xiaogang had stopped replying to his letters, prompting Flender to set out for Spirit City to find him.
• Dai Mubai asked Zhao Wuji to oversee the entrance examination in his place and requested that Zhao Wuji let Tang San pass if he qualified.
• Dai Mubai concealed his resentment from Zhao Wuji, then vowed to torment Tang San and target his female companion after they joined Shrek Academy.
• Dai Mubai’s injury flared with pain as he made his way back to his dormitory.

Yu Cheng parted from Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong, then traded a Godly Zhuge Crossbow and its blueprint to a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Soul Douluo. After reaching Holy Spirit Village, he chose to enter quietly through the forest.

• Yu Cheng said goodbye to Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong, and promised Xiao Wu a future fight at the Great Soul Arena.
• A Soul Douluo from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect revealed himself, thanked Yu Cheng for protecting Ning Rongrong, and gave him a Seven Treasure Token.
• Yu Cheng offered the Soul Douluo a Godly Zhuge Crossbow and its manufacturing blueprint for a deal with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• The Soul Douluo accepted the crossbow to take back to Sect Master Ning, and Yu Cheng continued his journey.
• Yu Cheng reached the renovated Holy Spirit Village, then turned into the forest to sneak in quietly.

Yu Cheng used his Blue Silver King abilities to find the Blue Silver Emperor’s hidden cave, where he took Ah Yin and discovered a Soul Bone left by Tang Hao. After absorbing the Soul Bone, he woke to find Ah Yin had grown and wrapped herself around him.

• Yu Cheng sensed the Blue Silver Grass in the mountains and followed its guidance to the waterfall hiding the Blue Silver Emperor’s cave.
• Yu Cheng dug up the Blue Silver Emperor, placed it in a flowerpot, and retrieved the hidden Soul Bone.
• Yu Cheng disturbed the mound and left a strip of Star Luo Empire cloth behind to mislead anyone who investigated the cave.
• Yu Cheng absorbed the Soul Bone, fell asleep, and was guarded by Blue Silver Grass as Ah Yin grew beside him.
• Yu Cheng woke with Ah Yin wrapped around him and realized the Blue Silver Emperor had transformed into a much larger stalk of grass.

Yu Cheng awakened a sentient Blue Silver Grass after absorbing the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone, subdued it, and carried it away to cultivate. Days later, at Shrek Academy’s registration site, Dai Mubai handled the applicants as a striking girl in black arrived.

• Yu Cheng heard the Blue Silver Grass call him King, then discovered it could understand his thoughts and wanted to feed on his energy.
• Yu Cheng stopped the grass from siphoning most of their shared energy and realized it had absorbed more than half the Soul Bone’s power, raising him only to level forty.
• Yu Cheng used his Blue Silver Emperor’s aura and Frenzied Seed to punish the grass, then spared it and sealed it in his Wishful Treasure Pouch for future cultivation.
• Yu Cheng estimated that two or three days had passed and decided to return to Suotuo City to await the Imperial Dou Team without hunting for his Fourth Soul Ring.
• At Shrek Academy’s registration site, Dai Mubai let Tang San and Xiao Wu skip the first test, glanced at Ning Rongrong, and watched a black-clad girl arrive and demand that the group move aside if they were not registering.

Tang San and his companions passed Shrek Academy’s admission tests and began the trial against Zhao Wuji, but Tang San became distracted and jealous after noticing the girls’ Thousand-Year Soul Rings. The battle started with Ning Rongrong supporting the team and Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing moving to attack Zhao Wuji.

• Dai Mubai led Tang San and the others through Shrek Academy and let them skip the Soul Power test because their levels were already known.
• Tang San tested at rank thirty, Ning Rongrong at rank twenty-eight, and the girl in black near rank thirty; Xiao Wu revealed that she was a Soul Elder with two yellow rings and one purple ring.
• Dai Mubai brought the four to Zhao Wuji, who set them the challenge of holding out for one incense stick without him using soul skills or attacking first.
• Ning Rongrong boosted Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing with her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda before moving far from the battlefield.
• Xiao Wu charged Zhao Wuji while Zhu Zhuqing circled to flank him, but Tang San fixated on their Thousand-Year Soul Rings and bitterly wondered how strong he might have been if Yu Cheng's Theory had come sooner.

Tang San joined the fight against Zhao Wuji with poisoned Hidden Weapons, but one of his knives ricocheted and struck him, leaving him badly poisoned until Oscar healed him. The girls passed Shrek Academy’s assessment and headed for Suotuo City, while Yu Cheng reflected on hiding his new power and the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone as his older self urged him to pursue Dugu Yan.

• Zhao Wuji scolded Tang San for spacing out, and Tang San attacked him with Hidden Weapons that Zhao Wuji deflected with his Soul Power.
• Tang San concentrated a barrage of Hidden Weapons on Zhao Wuji, who caught two knives and threw them back; one rebounded off a stone and struck Tang San in the buttocks, poisoning him.
• Zhao Wuji summoned Oscar, who gave Tang San sausages that eased the poison and began healing the wound, then took the unconscious Tang San to the dormitory.
• Zhao Wuji declared Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing had passed the assessment, and Xiao Wu persuaded the others to go with her to Suotuo City.
• Yu Cheng planned to conceal his rank-forty Soul Power and Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, while Middle-aged Yu Cheng mocked him and urged him to make his relationship with Dugu Yan official.

At Suotuo City's Great Soul Arena, Tang San defeated Zhu Zhuqing in a Soul Grandmaster match, while Yu Cheng watched and learned the Shrek students were there. The chapter ended with Yu Cheng appearing before the group after Xiao Wu praised his Blue Silver Grass abilities.

• Zhao Wuji brought the Shrek students to the arena and told Tang San to fight Soul Grandmaster matches while they waited for Zhu Zhuqing to reach rank thirty.
• Yu Cheng arrived in Suotuo City and waited at the Great Soul Arena to meet the Imperial Dou Team, whose next destination was the city.
• Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing fought, with Zhu Zhuqing using her thousand-year second Soul Ring and clone skill against Tang San's defensive Blue Silver Grass and movement technique.
• Tang San forced Zhu Zhuqing off the arena with a Blue Silver Grass net and won the match.
• Xiao Wu comforted Zhu Zhuqing, then praised Yu Cheng's Blue Silver Grass abilities to the group.
• Yu Cheng appeared nearby and addressed Xiao Wu as she spoke about him.

Yu Cheng reunited with Xiao Wu and the Shrek group, then heard Zhu Zhuqing explain how his Whale Rubber Theory had strengthened her and ask for advice on her future Soul Rings. He began considering her clone-based Second Soul Skill, leaving his answer unfinished.

• Yu Cheng returned to Suotuo City, greeted Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing, and agreed to share a meal with them.
• Zhu Zhuqing thanked Yu Cheng for the Whale Rubber Theory, which had helped her absorb a thousand-year Second Soul Ring.
• Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Tang San, and Dai Mubai declined to join the meal for their own reasons, and Dai Mubai left with Ma Hongjun.
• At dinner, Zhu Zhuqing asked Yu Cheng for advice about her cultivation direction and future Soul Ring choices.
• Yu Cheng noted that Zhu Zhuqing's realistic clone-type Second Soul Skill was rare and impressive, then began considering his advice.

Yu Cheng advised Zhu Zhuqing on developing her clone Soul Skill through Mind Control and stronger mental power, while Ning Rongrong explained that Zhuqing would need to exchange something to learn the sect technique. In Spirit City’s dungeon, Flender arrived and Yu Xiaogang recognized him.

• Yu Cheng proposed that Zhu Zhuqing use Mind Control to command her clones independently and potentially let one recover Soul Power while she fought.
• Yu Cheng advised Zhu Zhuqing to seek ways to strengthen her mental power and consult her family’s Soul Ring traditions; he also discussed Symbiotic Soul Beasts.
• Ning Rongrong explained that Zhu Zhuqing would need to offer something in exchange to learn the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Mind Control technique.
• Yu Cheng agreed to accompany Zhu Zhuqing on a future Soul Ring hunt in return for recording data and conducting research.
• In Spirit City’s dungeon, Flender arrived at Yu Xiaogang’s cell, and Yu Xiaogang recognized him with joy.

Flender rescued Yu Xiaogang from Spirit Hall’s prison and heard how imprisonment had changed his outlook, though Yu Xiaogang remained determined to prove himself through Tang San. As they traveled toward Shrek Academy, Yu Xiaogang concealed the true nature of his survival in prison, while Yu Cheng waited outside Suotuo City for Dugu Yan and her companions.

• Flender bribed a jailer to release Yu Xiaogang, then took him to a modest inn to bathe, eat, and recover.
• Yu Xiaogang told Flender that Bibi Dong imprisoned him after he challenged Yu Cheng’s title and sought data about whale rubber; he reflected that people’s reputations shaped whether their theories were believed.
• Flender told Yu Xiaogang that Tang San had arrived at Shrek Academy, and Yu Xiaogang eagerly agreed to set out, hoping Tang San would vindicate his theories.
• On the carriage ride, Yu Xiaogang claimed Luo Sanpao’s foul farts had protected him in prison, concealing that he himself had killed Scarface with a poisonous fart.
• Yu Cheng waited outside Suotuo City and spotted Yufeng, Osler, and Dugu Yan approaching on foot after their journey from Balak City.