Chapter Summaries

Wu Xuan agreed to let Han Ruo Ruo test his strength in the Battle Soul Arena, where he revealed his six Soul Rings and overwhelming aura. Their fight began with Wu Xuan using his speed and Wind Blades, while Han Ruo Ruo countered with her Shaking Gold Rope.

• Wu Xuan told Qian Gu Ming that he had nearly killed an Evil Soul Master Titled Douluo, but Qian Gu Ming did not believe him.
• Han Ruo Ruo offered to test Wu Xuan, and he accepted.
• Ye Guyi and Nanmen Yun'er emerged in their school uniforms, and Ye Guyi confirmed Wu Xuan had nearly defeated the Titled Douluo alone.
• Wu Xuan revealed that he was a Level 66 assault-control Battle Soul Emperor with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, while Han Ruo Ruo revealed that she was a Level 81 control-type Soul Douluo.
• Wu Xuan rushed Han Ruo Ruo with Light Spirit Wind and sent Wind Blades at her, but she destroyed them with her Shaking Gold Dance.

Wu Xuan fought Han Ruo Ruo in an assessment match, overcoming her powerful control techniques with the guidance of the Power of Destiny. Han Ruo Ruo conceded and invited Wu Xuan to call her Sister Ruo Ruo, then asked him and Qian Gu Ming to show two junior sisters around the Inner Court.

• Wu Xuan broke free from Han Ruo Ruo's Shaking Gold Shadow and faced her Fifth Soul Skill, Golden Light Silver Bands.
• Wu Xuan unleashed Ring Fusion, Jade Clear Wind Fire Burn, and Han Ruo Ruo evaded the devastating attack.
• Han Ruo Ruo caught Wu Xuan with Golden Ascension, but the Power of Destiny helped him escape and appear behind her.
• Han Ruo Ruo conceded, praised Wu Xuan, and invited him to call her Sister Ruo Ruo.
• Han Ruo Ruo left the arena after asking Wu Xuan and Qian Gu Ming to guide two junior sisters around the Inner Court.

Wu Xuan, Qian Gu Ming, Ye Guyi, and Nanmen Yun'er toured Shrek Academy’s Inner Court, where the newcomers learned about its cultivation rooms, missions, library, resources, and classes. They continued exploring the academy after collecting their monthly supplies.

• Wu Xuan and Qian Gu Ming showed Ye Guyi and Nanmen Yun'er the Mimetic Cultivation Rooms, where Qian Gu Ming explained free access, credit-based use, and mission rewards.
• Qian Gu Ming pointed out cultivation rooms suited to Nanmen Yun'er’s wind attribute and Ye Guyi’s light attribute, while Wu Xuan mentioned the deep meditation opportunity beneath the Golden Ancient Tree.
• Wu Xuan introduced the Library Pavilion, explaining its soul beast records, cultivation methods, biographies, and credit requirements; Qian Gu Ming added that most academy secret techniques had stricter requirements.
• Wu Xuan greeted Chu Qingtian at the resource building, and the four students collected baskets of pills and medicinal liquids, including resources for medicinal baths.
• Qian Gu Ming introduced the Inner Court Teaching Building and explained that its classes taught commoner students and awarded credits, though he and Wu Xuan rarely attended.

Wu Xuan learned that the Inner Court cafeteria was free before Xian Lin'er summoned him to see two Sun Moon Empire Soul Tools that she and his senior brother had deciphered. At a demonstration outside the city, one hundred Soul Emperors used a Linked Defense barrier to withstand Jin Qi’s eighth Soul Skill, though the barrier’s endurance nearly ran out.

• Wu Xuan took Ye Guyi, Qian Gu Ming, and Nanmen Yun'er to the Inner Court cafeteria, where he explained that meals there were free and that the Inner Court was Shrek Academy’s true institution.
• Xian Lin'er called Wu Xuan to the Academy gate and told him that she and his senior brother had figured out two unusual Soul Tools he had brought back from the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xian Lin'er brought Wu Xuan to a field outside the city, where Xuan Zi, Mu En, Sea God Pavilion elders, and one hundred Shrek City garrison Soul Emperors had gathered.
• At Xuan Zi’s request, Jin Qi unleashed his eighth Soul Skill, and Old Sun directed the hundred Soul Emperors to activate their Linked Defense barrier.
• The barrier withstood Jin Qi’s attack, but an alarm sounded as its endurance neared its limit.

Shrek’s elders witnessed the power of coordinated Soul Tools and approved plans to establish three Soul Engineer Corps. After the meeting, Wu Xuan told Xuan Zi that Xiao Xiao had reached Rank 50, and they agreed to take her to the Star Dou Great Forest for a soul ring the next day.

• Elder Sun led a hundred Soul Emperors in a coordinated attack that forced Jin Qi to use his ninth soul skill to stop the blast.
• Elder Sun asked for thousands more coordinated Soul Tools, but Xian Lin'er explained that the complex Core Formations prevented mass production.
• The elders agreed to expand Soul Tool Department enrollment and planned three Soul Engineer Corps totaling 2,700 members.
• Wu Xuan complained about the meeting as he left the Sea God Pavilion, and Xuan Zi reminded him not to let Xiao Xiao down.
• Wu Xuan told Xuan Zi that Xiao Xiao had reached Rank 50, and Xuan Zi agreed to accompany them to the Star Dou Great Forest the next day.

Wu Xuan took Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong into the Star Dou Great Forest to help them find their next soul rings. After they entered the Mixed Zone, a Ten Thousand Year Mandala Snake attacked, and Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong began fighting it under Wu Xuan’s supervision.

• Wu Xuan, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Dong traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest and rested near the border of the Mixed Zone.
• Xiao Xiao asked for a Spirit Attribute control-type soul beast, while Wang Dong sought a light-attribute beast for an enhancement-type skill.
• Wu Xuan sensed a Ten Thousand Year Mandala Snake approaching and warned the others that it had eaten soul masters.
• Wu Xuan dispersed the snake’s poisonous mist and told Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong to fight it as practice.
• Xiao Xiao attacked with her phantom cauldron, and Wang Dong used Wing Guillotine to strike the snake’s tail, but its scales barely cracked.

Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong, and Wu Xuan killed a Ten Thousand Year Mandala Snake before continuing deeper into the Mixed Zone to search for a suitable soul beast for Wang Dong. They encountered a Three-Eyed Spirit Tiger, but its soul ring was too young for Xiao Xiao’s needs.

• Xiao Xiao pinned the Ten Thousand Year Mandala Snake with Cauldron Seal and cut it into four pieces with her Dark Gold Fearsome Claw.
• Wu Xuan led Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong away to rest, and the three entered the Mixed Zone the next morning.
• Wu Xuan located a seventeen-thousand-year Prism-Light Mantis, but Wang Dong rejected it as a poor match for his plans.
• Wu Xuan killed a Three-Eyed Spirit Tiger with his jade-green short spear and discovered that its soul ring was only a little over ten thousand years old.
• Xiao Xiao decided the Three-Eyed Spirit Tiger’s soul ring was too young for her fifth ring.

Wu Xuan, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Dong camped in the Mixed Zone of the Star Dou Great Forest after killing a Three-Eyed Spirit Tiger. Before dawn, Wu Xuan captured a second Three-Eyed Spirit Tiger, whose roughly twenty thousand years of cultivation made it suitable for Xiao Xiao.

• Wu Xuan and the others harvested the Three-Eyed Spirit Tiger and set up camp in the Mixed Zone.
• Wang Dong offered to share her tent with Wu Xuan, but Wu Xuan kissed Xiao Xiao and revealed that they were a couple.
• Wang Dong congratulated them, then wondered privately why her heart felt strange.
• A mysterious Soul Beast approached the camp several times during the night, and Wu Xuan sensed that it was testing them.
• Before dawn, the Soul Beast attacked, and Wu Xuan silenced and trapped it with his soul skills.
• Wu Xuan identified the captive as a Three-Eyed Spirit Tiger with about twenty thousand years of cultivation, and Xiao Xiao hurried after him, pleased to have found a suitable Soul Ring.

Xiao Xiao absorbed a Three-Eyed Spirit Tiger’s Soul Ring and reached the Soul King realm as Wu Xuan and Wang Dong continued searching for Wang Dong’s Soul Ring. Meanwhile, Holy Spirit Cult elders Demon Blade and Lich infiltrated Shrek City to investigate its defenses, and Demon Blade discovered that Lu Chong had betrayed the cult.

• Xiao Xiao killed a Three-Eyed Spirit Tiger and absorbed its Soul Ring while Wu Xuan stood guard.
• Xiao Xiao reached the Soul King realm and gained the single-target sealing skill Three Lives Soul Suppressing.
• Wu Xuan said the group would search the Mixed Zone for Wang Dong’s Soul Ring for two more days before entering the Core Zone.
• Demon Blade and Lich led a group of Evil Soul Masters toward Shrek City, with Lich using Bloodmist Heavenly Flower to conceal their auras.
• Demon Blade and two Titled Douluo infiltrated Shrek Inner Court and visited the Soul Tool and Martial Soul departments.
• Demon Blade grew furious when he realized Lu Chong had betrayed the Holy Spirit Cult.

Mu En uncovered Evil Soul Masters infiltrating Shrek City, while Wu Xuan and his companions encountered a Diamond Mammoth in the Star Dou Great Forest. Wu Xuan killed the Soul Beast with his sixth soul skill, Annihilation Wind.

• Mu En sensed an evil aura, exposed the Demon Blade Douluos at the Soul Tool Department, and ordered Elder Song and Elder Li to pursue the Evil Soul Master who fled.
• Elder Qin attacked Demon Blade Douluo as Shrek's experts closed in around him.
• Wu Xuan, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Dong entered the Core Zone of the Star Dou Great Forest and were confronted by a sixty-thousand-year Diamond Mammoth.
• Wu Xuan summoned the Rouge Dragon's power and used Annihilation Wind to dissolve the Diamond Mammoth's defenses and kill it.

Wu Xuan harvested a sixty-thousand-year Soul Bone from the Diamond Mammoth while Elder Li and Elder Song pursued the Lich Douluo through the Star Dou Great Forest. Wu Xuan then found Wang Dong a nineteen-thousand-year Radiant Light Butterfly, and she began absorbing its Soul Ring.

• Wu Xuan dissected the Diamond Mammoth and claimed its sixty-thousand-year Right Leg Soul Bone, which he planned to give Xiao Xiao.
• Elder Li and Elder Song attacked the Lich Douluo, who used Demonic Blood Attraction as a feint before fleeing again.
• The Lich Douluo revealed that he had marked a Hundred Thousand Year Dark Gold Fearsome Claw Bear.
• Wang Dong chose a nineteen-thousand-year Radiant Light Butterfly, and Wu Xuan knocked it unconscious with one palm.
• Wang Dong killed the Radiant Light Butterfly and sat down to absorb its Soul Ring.

Wu Xuan and Xiao Xiao faced the approach of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Dark Gold Fearsome Claw Bear while Wang Dong absorbed her soul ring, then Wu Xuan tracked the beast toward a battle involving the Lich Douluo. The chapter ended with Wu Xuan heading into the fight as the Lich Douluo attacked Elder Li and Elder Song.

• Wu Xuan gave Xiao Xiao the Diamond Mammoth Right Leg Bone, and they kissed before he sensed danger coming from the Core Zone.
• A Hundred-Thousand-Year Dark Gold Fearsome Claw Bear charged past Wang Dong, and Wu Xuan realized it was being drawn by an evil force from an Evil Soul Master.
• After Wang Dong entered the soul ring absorption stage, Wu Xuan followed the bear toward intense fighting in the distance.
• Wu Xuan detected Xuan Zi hiding in the forest and headed toward the battle using Shadowless Wind.
• The Lich Douluo sensed the approaching bear and launched a fierce assault on Elder Li and Elder Song.

Xuan Zi ambushed and nearly killed the Lich Douluo, but a Hundred Thousand Year Dark Gold Fearsome Claw Bear intervened and the Lich Douluo used his blood mist to possess it. Elder Li’s lightning attack shattered the mist, though much of it still entered the bear.

• Xuan Zi appeared before the fleeing Lich Douluo, shattered his right arm, and took his Right Arm Soul Bone.
• Xuan Zi trapped the Lich Douluo in an earth-yellow barrier and began crushing him.
• A massive dark-gold claw broke the barrier, and a Hundred Thousand Year Dark Gold Fearsome Claw Bear charged into the fight.
• The Lich Douluo used Blood Soul Refinement on his shattered flesh and sent the resulting blood mist toward the bear.
• Xuan Zi restrained the bear with earth spikes while Elder Li unleashed Ten Thousand Thunderclaps, blasting apart the blood mist.
• Nearly thirty percent of the Lich Douluo’s blood mist fused into the Dark Gold Fearsome Claw Bear.

Xuan Zi defeated the Lich Douluo’s attack and subdued the Hundred-Thousand-Year Dark Gold Fearsome Claw Bear, while the Lich Douluo escaped in two clouds of blood mist. Wu Xuan asked Xuan Zi to explain his absence, then watched him demonstrate Shrek’s secret Martial Soul Avatar technique as he prepared the bear for Wu Xuan’s soul ring.

• Xuan Zi used his Earth Suppressing Demon Seal to shatter the Dark Gold Fearsome Claw Bear’s attack and force it into a stalemate.
• The Lich Douluo recognized Xuan Zi as Shrek’s Taotie Douluo, abandoned a Left Arm Soul Bone, and fled in two clouds of blood mist.
• Elder Li and Elder Song split up to pursue the marked blood mists, while Wu Xuan joined Xuan Zi at the battlefield.
• Wu Xuan complained that Xuan Zi had left him, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao unprotected, and Xuan Zi explained that he had gone after the Lich Douluo.
• Xuan Zi crushed the Dark Gold Fearsome Claw Bear and agreed to let Wu Xuan take its soul ring.
• Xuan Zi demonstrated True Body Possession, a Shrek secret technique, and explained that Tool Martial Souls had a related technique called True Body Descent.

Wu Xuan and Xuan Zi subdued a Hundred Thousand Year Dark Gold Fearsome Claw Bear, and Wu Xuan sealed it in the Platform of Deification. They hurried to Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao after sensing trouble and found Xiao Xiao and Elder Li engulfed in flames that Xuan Zi could not extinguish.

• Xuan Zi defeated the Hundred Thousand Year Dark Gold Fearsome Claw Bear by beating it unconscious.
• Wu Xuan stored the injured bear in the Platform of Deification instead of having Xuan Zi carry it.
• Wu Xuan sensed something was wrong, so Xuan Zi took him toward Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao.
• Xuan Zi and Wu Xuan found a blood-red pillar of flame and reached the site of the explosion.
• Xuan Zi found Xiao Xiao unconscious and Elder Li struggling as blood-red flames covered them, then tried unsuccessfully to extinguish the flames.
• Wu Xuan stepped forward and used his First Soul Skill, Spirit Gathering Wind, to help Elder Li and Xiao Xiao.

Wu Xuan learned that the Lich Douluo’s Origin Evil Qi had contaminated Xiao Xiao and could not be cleared even with the Golden Ancient Tree’s power. After returning to Shrek Academy, he suggested someone might be able to help, leaving Xiao Xiao’s fate uncertain.

• Wu Xuan’s breeze briefly weakened the flames around Elder Li and Xiao Xiao, but Xiao Xiao’s flames reignited as Elder Li explained that the Lich Douluo’s Origin Evil Qi could corrupt Martial Souls.
• Elder Li said Wang Dong’s golden ripples had drawn in and scattered the evil flames, while Xiao Xiao had been caught beside her.
• Xuan Zi took Elder Li and Xiao Xiao back to Shrek Academy, leaving Wu Xuan to guard Wang Dong until Elder Song arrived.
• Elder Song reached Wu Xuan and Wang Dong, and Wu Xuan briefly explained the injuries before flying back to the academy.
• Wu Xuan found Mu En weakened from spending life force, and Mu En revealed that the Golden Ancient Tree had failed to remove the flames contaminating Xiao Xiao.
• Wu Xuan said someone might be able to help, and Xuan Zi urgently asked who.

Wu Xuan brought Ye Guyi to Sea God Pavilion to help dispel the Origin Evil Qi attacking Xiao Xiao. Ye Guyi’s Divine Angel began suppressing the crimson flames, and she prepared to confront the evil power within Xiao Xiao’s martial soul.

• Wu Xuan introduced Ye Guyi and her Divine Angel martial soul to Mu En and Xuan Zi, who hoped it could counter Evil Martial Souls.
• Wu Xuan rushed Ye Guyi from her room to Sea God Pavilion and explained that Origin Evil Qi was threatening Xiao Xiao’s martial soul.
• Xuan Zi offered Ye Guyi an eighty-thousand-year Golden Radiance Left Arm Soul Bone as a reward, and Ye Guyi agreed to help.
• Ye Guyi used her sacred Light Power to extinguish the crimson flames surrounding Xiao Xiao.
• Ye Guyi focused on Xiao Xiao’s Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron as Elder Yi warned her that the real challenge was beginning.

Ye Guyi destroyed Xiao Xiao’s corrupted Nine Phoenixes Coming to Ceremony Flute Martial Soul to save her from the Origin Evil Qi, leaving Xiao Xiao with only one Martial Soul. After learning that a strange, otherworldly energy had triggered the evil qi’s attack, Wu Xuan confirmed his suspicions about the scheme against Xiao Xiao.

• Ye Guyi’s sacred Light Power expelled the evil qi from Xiao Xiao’s Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron, but the remaining corruption struck the Nine Phoenixes Coming to Ceremony Flute and turned it crimson.
• Ye Guyi explained that Xiao Xiao’s fallen Martial Soul could only be saved by purifying and destroying it, and Wu Xuan, Mu En, and Xuan Zi agreed to proceed.
• Ye Guyi used gray-golden power to destroy the Nine Phoenixes Coming to Ceremony Flute, and Xiao Xiao collapsed but returned to normal.
• Xuan Zi gave Ye Guyi the Golden Radiance Left Arm Soul Bone, and Wu Xuan carried Xiao Xiao while supporting the exhausted Ye Guyi out of Sea God Pavilion.
• Ye Guyi told Wu Xuan that Elder Yi had identified a faint, otherworldly energy as the trigger for the attack on Xiao Xiao, confirming Wu Xuan’s suspicions.

After the Evil Soul Masters’ attack left Xiao Xiao’s Nine Phoenixes Coming to Ceremony Flute destroyed and Mu En near death, Wu Xuan cared for Xiao Xiao and warned Ma Xiaotao to stay in the academy. He prepared medicinal liquids with Breaking Clan alchemy, while Ma Xiaotao hoped Xiao Xiao could recover from her ordeal.

• Mu En told Xuan Zi that he had spent his life force killing two Titled Douluo Evil Soul Masters, while the two Super Douluo escaped.
• After hearing Xuan Zi’s account of killing the Lich Douluo, Mu En praised the Hundred Thousand Year Dark Gold Fearsome Claw Soul Ring planned for Wu Xuan and wondered who had targeted Xiao Xiao.
• Ma Xiaotao visited Wu Xuan and learned that Xiao Xiao’s Nine Phoenixes Coming to Ceremony Flute Martial Soul had been destroyed.
• Wu Xuan warned Ma Xiaotao to avoid leaving the academy and said he had leads on a Cockcomb Phoenix Sunflower that could purify her Phoenix bloodline.
• Wu Xuan used Breaking Clan alchemy to prepare medicinal liquids, and Ma Xiaotao took bottles to test while worrying about Xiao Xiao’s suffering.

Wu Xuan treated Xiao Xiao’s injuries and promised to give her a new Ice Martial Soul to replace the one she had lost. After learning the power could be transferred from Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, he headed to Sea God Pavilion Square for a difficult battle while Xuan Zi prepared to protect him.

• Wu Xuan placed Xiao Xiao in a medicinal bath, comforted her fears about becoming an Evil Soul Master, and promised they would stay together.
• Xiao Xiao absorbed the medicinal bath overnight and recovered, while Wu Xuan left her with food and the Platform of Deification containing the Hundred Thousand Year Dark Gold Fearsome Claw Bear.
• Wu Xuan woke Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and learned he could give Xiao Xiao the source energy for an Ice Martial Soul.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm agreed to give Xiao Xiao the Ice Martial Soul and advised Wu Xuan to find its first soul ring in the Extreme North, prompting Ice Empress to consider Snow Empress’s future.
• Wu Xuan arrived at Sea God Pavilion Square and asked Xuan Zi about Mu En’s condition; Xuan Zi said Mu En was stable and enveloped the square in a protective barrier.