Recaps

Su Mo and Xiao Wu fled the Soul Hunting Forest battle, while Er Ming and Da Ming mistook the trace of Xiao Wu’s presence on Su Mo for a sign that she had died and attacked Tang San’s group. After a cavern collapsed beneath Su Mo and Xiao Wu, they plunged underground with Xiao Wu clinging tightly to him.

• Er Ming sensed Xiao Wu’s presence near Su Mo, assumed she had died, and attacked Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, and Director Su until Tang Hao blocked his fist.
• Da Ming arrived, sensed Xiao Wu’s presence on Su Mo, and joined Er Ming in fighting Tang Hao, who ordered Tang San and the others to flee.
• The battle’s shock waves alerted soldiers outside the forest, who closed the entrance and requested reinforcements as Soul Masters and vendors fled.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu ran deeper into the forest, but Su Mo’s Spiritual Detection revealed a hollow beneath them just as the ground collapsed.
• Xiao Wu grabbed Su Mo around the neck as they fell underground, leaving him struggling to breathe.

Su Mo and Xiao Wu escaped a collapsing cavern, where Su Mo absorbed a blue silver grass Soul Ring and Xiao Wu gained her first ring. Their reunion with Da Ming and Er Ming in the Soul Hunting Forest left Su Mo wary, and Er Ming noticed Xiao Wu no longer had a Soul Beast’s aura.

• Su Mo used Frog Home to escape the collapse with Xiao Wu, then used Flying over Grass to keep them suspended above the cavern.
• Su Mo absorbed a two-thousand-year blue silver grass Soul Ring and gained Wood Element Control.
• Xiao Wu condensed a two-thousand-four-hundred-year Soul Ring and gained Teleportation.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu encountered Da Ming and Er Ming, who had tracked Xiao Wu from the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Er Ming noticed Xiao Wu had no Soul Beast’s aura.

Xiao Wu learned that Su Mo had erased her soul beast aura and asked Da Ming and Er Ming to keep the secret. After hearing about the Myriad Demon King’s search for an ice silkworm, Su Mo urged Da Ming and Er Ming to report that the man in black was from the Clear Sky Sect, leaving Da Ming suspicious of Su Mo’s motives.

• Xiao Wu told Da Ming and Er Ming that Su Mo had transferred her soul beast aura to someone else and asked them not to reveal it.
• Su Mo disguised his connection to Xiao Wu by claiming to be a frog who had taken human form, and Xiao Wu defended him by describing how he had helped her.
• Da Ming warned Xiao Wu that a powerful Demoneye Tree was searching the Star Dou Great Forest for an ice silkworm, and Su Mo recognized the creature as the Myriad Demon King.
• Da Ming explained that he and Er Ming had tracked a man in black to the Soul Hunting Forest, where they found Xiao Wu instead; Su Mo suspected the man was Tang Hao.
• Su Mo advised Da Ming to report that they had fought the man in black and identified his martial soul as the Clear Sky Hammer, prompting Da Ming to ask whether Su Mo held a grudge against him.

Su Mo and Xiao Wu reunited with Tang San’s group, and Su Mo secretly weakened the armored beetle soul ring Yu Xiaogang absorbed. Yu Xiaogang gained a fart-gas defensive skill and tried to demonstrate it, driving everyone away.

• Da Ming and Er Ming agreed to blame Tang Hao and the Clear Sky Sect for the attack, then left after saying farewell to Xiao Wu.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu returned to the Frog House, ate noodles, and rested while Tang San’s group sheltered from the rain.
• Su Mo reunited with Tang San’s group and learned that Yu Xiaogang was absorbing a seventeen-hundred-year-old armored beetle soul ring.
• Su Mo secretly drained seven hundred years of energy from the beetle’s soul ring before Yu Xiaogang finished absorbing it.
• Yu Xiaogang gained a defensive soul skill that formed a shield from fart gas and demonstrated it, making Su Mo, Xiao Wu, Director Su, and Tang San retreat.

Su Mo and Xiao Wu revealed that they had obtained unprecedented thousand-year first soul rings, leaving Director Su amazed and Yu Xiaogang and Tang San regretful. After the group returned to the academy, Da Ming and Er Ming reached the Star Dou Great Forest and hurried to answer the Myriad Demon King's summons.

• Yu Xiaogang fainted after demonstrating his Clear Sky Hammer soul skill, and Tang San woke him as Director Su prepared to take the group deeper into the forest.
• Yu Xiaogang opposed further soul hunting because the Soul Hunting Forest had been sealed, but Su Mo said he and Xiao Wu had already obtained soul rings.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu summoned purple thousand-year first soul rings, stunning Director Su, Yu Xiaogang, and Tang San.
• Su Mo described his plant-control soul skill, Xiao Wu demonstrated teleportation, and Director Su led everyone back to the academy.
• Da Ming and Er Ming escaped their pursuers and returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, where the Myriad Demon King summoned them to the Lake of Life.

The Myriad Demon King set out for the Clear Sky Sect to investigate the man in black and the Ice Silkworm, while Da Ming and Er Ming happily abandoned the search. Back at Nuoding Academy, Tang San challenged Xiao Chenyu’s gang to protect the work-study students, and revealed that his blue silver grass Martial Soul had a hundred-year soul ring.

• Da Ming reported Su Mo’s lead about the man in black to the Myriad Demon King, who decided to investigate the Clear Sky Sect himself while Da Ming and Er Ming relaxed by the Lake of Life.
• Su Mo and his companions returned to Nuoding Academy, where Director Su asked permission to promote Master Tian Meng’s whale rubber body-tempering theory.
• Tang San rushed to the grove behind the academy after hearing Boss Xiao was beating the work-study students, and Su Mo and Xiao Wu followed him.
• Tang San offered to fight Boss Xiao’s entire gang alone, while Xiao Chenyu accepted and surrounded him with his lackeys.
• Tang San announced that he was a level eleven Tool Soul Master with blue silver grass, then summoned a pale yellow hundred-year soul ring that shocked Xiao Chenyu and the other students.

Tang San initially dominated Boss Xiao’s lackeys, but Su Mo secretly coordinated them into beating him down. Tang San then blamed Wang Sheng’s group and demanded a rematch, while Boss Xiao secretly planned to lose gracefully.

• Tang San fought off Boss Xiao’s lackeys with ease as Su Mo copied several of Tang San’s techniques.
• Su Mo used Emotion Control and Illusion Eye to coordinate the lackeys, who overwhelmed Tang San and pinned him down.
• Wang Sheng and the work-study students joined the fight and freed Tang San, who blamed them for interfering.
• Tang San claimed the match did not count and demanded a rematch, while Boss Xiao agreed to play along and planned to lose.

Su Mo challenged Xiao Chenyu and revealed his thousand-year first Soul Ring, causing Xiao Chenyu to surrender and end the bullying of work-study students. After Su Mo explained how whale rubber could strengthen the body, he returned to the dormitory with Xiao Wu and sensed Tang Hao sneaking into Grandmaster's room.

• Su Mo stepped in to challenge Xiao Chenyu and revealed his purple thousand-year Soul Ring, astonishing everyone at Nuoding Academy.
• Xiao Chenyu conceded, named Su Mo the academy's boss, and promised that the bullying and sock-washing demands would end.
• Su Mo explained that whale rubber could strengthen the body and increase the age limit of absorbable Soul Rings.
• Xiao Wu revealed her own purple thousand-year first Soul Ring, and Xiao Chenyu left to tell his family about whale rubber.
• Su Mo returned to the dormitory with Xiao Wu and sensed Tang Hao quietly entering Grandmaster's room.

Tang Hao visited Yu Xiaogang, beat him for his role in Tang San’s poor first soul ring, and discovered that Yu Xiaogang and Tang San’s martial souls had been swapped. He left Yu Xiaogang injured but ordered him to help find a way to reverse the swap, while Su Mo tasked Tian Meng with adapting Tang San’s Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record into soul skills.

• Yu Xiaogang researched whale rubber until Tang Hao appeared and scolded him for choosing Tang San’s first soul ring, then beat him.
• Tang Hao asked about Yu Xiaogang’s Clear Sky Hammer, and Yu Xiaogang revealed that his martial soul had swapped with Tang San’s Luo Sanpao.
• Tang Hao accused Yu Xiaogang of causing the swap, but accepted his denial and ordered him to help find a way to switch their martial souls back.
• Tang Hao accidentally injured Yu Xiaogang further with a token, then promised to send him a doctor and caregiver before leaving.
• Su Mo and Tian Meng watched the beating, and Su Mo ordered Tian Meng to use Tang San’s Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record and wood-element control to develop similar soul skills.

Su Mo survived the backlash from Froggy’s new four-thousand-year soul ring and discovered its Three-Leaf Clover skill could turn soul-ring age into transferable clovers. By converting the Sharingan’s first ring and planting nearly a million clovers, he unlocked a growing plantation, then prepared to read Froggy’s journal.

• Su Mo’s Threefold Return to Origin cultivation method remained inefficient, while his martial-soul theories spread and whale rubber prices soared.
• Xiao Chenyu offered Su Mo money and property, but Su Mo instead prompted him to arrange development in Holy Soul Village.
• Froggy’s new soul ring triggered a painful surge in Su Mo, and Tian Meng released some of his energy to stabilize him.
• Su Mo learned that Three-Leaf Clover could absorb soul-ring age and transfer it as clovers, then used it to raise his four rings to four thousand years and created 990,000 clovers.
• Su Mo planted the clovers in Frog Home, where the skill combination unlocked a plantation that yielded one percent annually.
• Tian Meng urged Su Mo to check Froggy’s journal, and Su Mo agreed.

Su Mo read Froggy’s travel log and discovered that Froggy had befriended Ning Rongrong, earned nearly ten thousand Gold Soul Coins, and obtained the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Heart Separation Control technique. The chapter ended with Sword Douluo suspecting Froggy was dangerous and preparing to kill him for a Soul Bone.

• Froggy met Ning Rongrong in Heaven Dou City and agreed to go home with her in exchange for Gold Soul Coins.
• Su Mo found nearly ten thousand Gold Soul Coins Froggy had stored in his room.
• Froggy told Ning Rongrong about whale rubber, helping her absorb a Thousand-Year Soul Ring, and received the sect’s Heart Separation Control technique as a reward.
• Froggy accompanied Ning Rongrong to the Sunset Forest, where he absorbed a Thousand-Year Soul Ring after Sword Douluo crippled an attacking soul beast.
• Sword Douluo suspected Froggy was a soul beast in human form and prepared to kill him for a Soul Bone.

Six years after leaving Nuoding Academy, Su Mo, Xiao Wu, and Tang San arrived in Suotuo City, where Su Mo sensed that Froggy had brought Zhu Zhuqing into his separate space. He recognized her and began planning to use her help for an upcoming encounter at the Rose Hotel.

• Su Mo urged Tian Meng to continue developing self-created soul skills before he and Xiao Wu left for class.
• Six years later, Su Mo, Xiao Wu, and Tang San entered Suotuo City after graduating from Nuoding Academy.
• Su Mo recalled how Tang San had become his sworn younger brother and how the Myriad Demon King had devastated the Clear Sky Sect.
• Su Mo detected a wary young woman inside Froggy's home and read that Froggy had rescued her from several men.
• Su Mo recognized the woman as Zhu Zhuqing and decided her help would be useful for the coming Rose Hotel scene.

Su Mo, Xiao Wu, and Tang San arrived in Suotuo City and checked into the Rose Hotel, where Dai Mubai challenged Tang San to a fight. Dai Mubai revealed his rank-thirty-nine White Tiger martial soul, while Tang San summoned his Blue Silver Grass and prepared to face him.

• Su Mo, Xiao Wu, and Tang San chose the Rose Hotel and asked for three rooms, but Dai Mubai arrived and claimed one was reserved for him.
• Xiao Wu agreed to share a room with Su Mo, while Dai Mubai noticed a strange resonance between his martial soul and Tang San's.
• Dai Mubai provoked Tang San into a fight, and Tang San accepted after Dai Mubai insulted him.
• Tang San and Dai Mubai exchanged punches; Tang San was pushed back, but Dai Mubai's hand was hurt.
• Dai Mubai revealed his rank-thirty-nine White Tiger martial soul with one yellow and two purple rings, and Tang San revealed his rank-twenty-nine Blue Silver Grass with one yellow and one purple ring.
• Dai Mubai charged Tang San with his claws, beginning their fight in earnest.

Tang San fought Dai Mubai at the Rose Hotel, but Dai Mubai won after using his third soul skill and overpowering Tang San. After the fight, they discovered their martial souls might form a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Dai Mubai said he would seek Tang San out at Shrek Academy.

• Tang San's Blue Silver Whip unexpectedly felt pleasant to Dai Mubai, who stood still and enjoyed the lashes as the hotel crowd watched.
• Dai Mubai used White Tiger Fierce Light Wave, but Tang San dodged and struck him with his poisonous Blue Silver Thorn Whip.
• Dai Mubai activated White Tiger Vajra Transformation, broke Tang San's whip, and beat him until he conceded the spar.
• Dai Mubai asked Tang San whether he had sensed a resonance between their martial souls, and Tang San confirmed it.
• Dai Mubai proposed testing a possible Martial Soul Fusion Skill and said he would find Tang San after he entered Shrek Academy.

After booking rooms at the Rose Hotel, Su Mo discussed how to handle Zhu Zhuqing with Tian Meng and decided to release her when Dai Mubai left. He left Zhu Zhuqing in an alley where she witnessed Dai Mubai walking out of the hotel with twins.

• Manager Wang waived three days of room charges and put the lobby repairs on Dai Mubai's tab.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu took the Pink Tenderness room, while Tang San went to Blue Enchantress to recover.
• Su Mo told Tian Meng he planned to release Zhu Zhuqing, and they agreed she should see Dai Mubai leave with another woman first.
• After Dai Mubai left the hotel with the twins, Su Mo deployed Zhu Zhuqing in an alley outside the entrance.
• Zhu Zhuqing saw Dai Mubai emerge from the hotel with his arms around the twins.

Zhu Zhuqing discovered Dai Mubai’s betrayal, then accepted Su Mo’s offer to become his disciple and agreed to enroll at Shrek Academy. The next morning, Su Mo, Xiao Wu, and Tang San reached the academy and were shocked by its rundown appearance.

• Zhu Zhuqing saw Dai Mubai leaving a hotel with two women and decided she would rely on her own strength.
• Su Mo contacted Zhu Zhuqing through a postcard, took her as his disciple, and told her to apply to Shrek Academy.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu ate and shopped in Suotuo City, then joined Tang San the next morning to travel toward Shrek.
• The trio found Shrek Academy in a village and stared in disbelief at its shabby entrance.

Su Mo, Tang San, and Xiao Wu reached the front of Shrek Academy’s registration line, where Tang San and Su Mo impressed the examiner with their soul rings. The chapter ended with the examiner estimating Su Mo’s second ring at over three thousand five hundred years old.

• The old man rejected applicants for failing Shrek Academy’s age and soul-ring requirements, driving most of the line away.
• Xiao Wu complained that the academy’s strict rules and poor attitude made it seem like it was swindling applicants.
• Tang San paid the fees for himself, Su Mo, and Xiao Wu, and all three passed the age check.
• Tang San revealed a yellow and purple pair of soul rings, and the old man accepted him as a monster.
• Su Mo revealed two purple soul rings, and the old man identified Su Mo’s first ring as at least two thousand years old and asked how he had absorbed ten-thousand-year whale glue as a Soul Scholar.
• Su Mo explained that he had absorbed the whale glue in small portions, and the old man estimated that his second ring was at least three thousand five hundred years old.

Su Mo, Xiao Wu, and Tang San entered Shrek Academy, where their unusual Soul Rings impressed the staff and applicants. After Oscar’s sausage trick was interrupted and his soul skill unexpectedly worked without an incantation, Dai Mubai escorted the trio—and then Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing—past the second test, prompting complaints from the waiting applicants.

• Su Mo revealed that his first two Soul Rings were thousands of years old, and Xiao Wu also displayed two thousand-year rings, while Tang San’s blue silver grass ring drew less admiration.
• Dai Mubai brought Su Mo, Xiao Wu, and Tang San into Shrek Academy and directed them to queue for the second test.
• Tang San bought three sausages from Oscar, but Dai Mubai warned him about them and asked Oscar to make a fresh one, revealing that Oscar’s soul skill now worked without its incantation.
• Dai Mubai took Tang San, Su Mo, and Xiao Wu directly to the fourth test, and Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing followed them.
• The applicants in line protested that the group had been allowed to skip the tests.

Su Mo, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing all demonstrated rank twenty-nine soul power and advanced to Shrek Academy’s fourth trial. When Zhao Wuji set a one-incense-stick survival test, Su Mo revealed that he could fly, leaving Zhao Wuji helpless to stop him.

• Tang San, Su Mo, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing each tested at rank twenty-nine, astonishing the other applicants and the teacher.
• Dai Mubai led the five to the fourth trial, where Zhao Wuji announced that they had to work together to last against him for one incense stick’s time.
• Su Mo said the test would be easy, prompting Zhao Wuji to challenge his confidence.
• Su Mo activated a hidden Soul Bone Skill and rose into the air, surprising the group and frustrating Zhao Wuji.

Su Mo and the others prepared to face Zhao Wuji’s combat trial after learning about his overwhelming strength and coordinating their roles. As the new incense stick was lit, Ning Rongrong began supporting the group, while Su Mo prepared to surprise Zhao Wuji.

• Su Mo tried to pass the trial by flying and waiting out the time, but Zhao Wuji declared that flying was forbidden and required the group to fight him.
• Dai Mubai explained Zhao Wuji’s strength and the group introduced their martial souls and abilities; Ning Rongrong revealed that her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda could boost speed and strength.
• Tang San proposed that he hold Zhao Wuji in front while Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing attacked from the flanks, leaving Su Mo’s role undisclosed.
• Su Mo told the group he would give Zhao Wuji a shock, and Dai Mubai began the trial by lighting a new incense stick.
• Ning Rongrong started chanting her support skill, but Su Mo moved even faster.

Su Mo intimidated Zhao Wuji by pretending to be a Titled Douluo, then demonstrated his power by transforming Shrek Academy’s grounds into a vast forest. Zhao Wuji conceded and agreed to pause the assessment while Su Mo’s companions and the other applicants struggled to understand what they had witnessed.

• Su Mo revealed nine soul rings, including three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, and convinced Zhao Wuji that he was a Titled Douluo.
• Zhao Wuji apologized and asked why Su Mo had come to Shrek Academy, while Su Mo claimed he had accompanied a youngster and wanted to spar.
• Xiao Wu and Tang San realized Su Mo was bluffing, and Zhao Wuji grew furious when he understood he had been tricked.
• Su Mo used Wood Release: Nativity of a World of Trees to cover Shrek Academy in a primeval forest, leaving everyone stunned.
• Zhao Wuji accepted that Su Mo’s power was real, apologized again, and stood still for the time it took an incense stick to burn while Su Mo let the assessment continue afterward.

Su Mo used Tian Meng’s Wood Release: Advent of a World of Trees to bluff Zhao Wuji, but the technique lasted only half an incense stick. When Zhao Wuji realized he had been fooled and attacked, Su Mo escaped with Xiao Wu, leaving Tang San and the others to face the furious Soul Saint.

• Tian Meng warned Su Mo that Advent of a World of Trees could last only half an incense stick before exhausting his soul power.
• When Su Mo’s forest vanished, Zhao Wuji realized he had been tricked and attacked him with his third and fifth soul skills.
• Xiao Wu used her first soul skill to carry Su Mo to a distant cabin roof, while Su Mo said the others could handle the remaining half of the assessment.
• Tang San stepped forward to face Zhao Wuji, and Ning Rongrong boosted his strength and speed as Zhu Zhuqing prepared to support him.
• Tang San discovered that he had to recite Oscar-like soul incantations to summon his Blue Silver Whip as Zhao Wuji charged at him.

Tang San faced Zhao Wuji in Shrek Academy’s test, but Zhao Wuji’s assault left him unconscious before the incense burned out. Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing passed the test by retrieving and quickly burning the incense, while Su Mo secretly influenced Zhao Wuji’s emotions.

• Tang San whipped Zhao Wuji until Zhao Wuji used Gravity Enhancement and Gravity Compression, then slapped Tang San repeatedly.
• Tang San retaliated with his Blue Silver Thorn Whip, but Zhao Wuji reflected the lashes with Immovable Bright King Body.
• Su Mo used Emotion Control to intensify Zhao Wuji’s wariness and anger as Tang San prepared to fight seriously.
• Zhao Wuji used Position Tracking and Great Strength Vajra Palm to strike Tang San unconscious, but Dai Mubai’s plea made him stop.
• Ning Rongrong revealed that the incense had burned out after Zhu Zhuqing retrieved it, and Zhao Wuji declared that the group had passed.
• Xiao Wu brought Su Mo back, and Su Mo helped Tang San up while privately enjoying his injuries.

After Tang San recovered from his injuries, Su Mo built a villa for the new students, who settled into their rooms. Tang San woke that night and discovered Oscar’s soul-skill side effect had transferred to him.

• Oscar made recovery sausages, and Dai Mubai fed them to the unconscious Tang San until his injuries healed.
• Zhao Wuji sent Dai Mubai to take the new students to their lodgings, where Zhu Zhuqing denied being the Zhu Family’s Zhu Zhuqing from the Star Luo Empire.
• Su Mo took responsibility for the ruined dormitories and summoned a three-story villa with his Wood Release technique.
• The students chose roommates and rooms in the villa, with Su Mo sharing with Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing sharing with Ning Rongrong.
• Tang San woke in a room he shared with Oscar and learned that Oscar’s soul-skill incantation had transferred to him.

Su Mo secretly provoked Zhao Wuji by imitating the earlier encounter with a powerful stranger, while using Emotional Control to make Zhao Wuji mistake Tang Hao for him. Tang Hao defeated Zhao Wuji, and Flender identified him as the Haotian Douluo, leaving Zhao Wuji terrified that he had harmed Tang San.

• Su Mo detected Zhao Wuji brooding over the day's assessment and plotting to put the new students through harsh training.
• Su Mo summoned Zhao Wuji to a grove by imitating an eerie voice, then watched as Tang Hao appeared in black robes and revealed nine soul rings.
• Su Mo used Emotional Control to reduce Zhao Wuji's fear and strengthen his suspicion that the black-robed man was Su Mo in disguise.
• Zhao Wuji charged Tang Hao, believing he had seen through Su Mo's trick, but Tang Hao kicked him through two trees.
• Tang Hao advanced on the injured Zhao Wuji, and Flender appeared and respectfully addressed him as Your Excellency Haotian.
• Zhao Wuji realized Tang Hao was the Clear Sky Douluo and feared he had angered him by beating Tang San.