Chapter Summaries

Oscar obtained a third Soul Ring that gave him a burrowing ability, while Tang San also reached level thirty. Zhao Wuji prepared to move on and find Soul Rings for Tang San and Ye Fan.

• Ye Ying modified Oscar's Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent Soul Ring, reducing its age by six hundred years and changing it into a Phoenix-tail Crested Rat Soul Ring.
• Oscar revealed his third Soul Skill, the Burrowing Mushroom Sausage, and said he could make ten before exhausting his Soul Power.
• Zhao Wuji praised Oscar's unusual burrowing ability and told everyone to prepare to move locations to find a Soul Ring for Ye Fan.
• Tang San announced that she had reached level thirty, and Zhao Wuji decided they could obtain third Soul Rings for three people at once.

Zhao Wuji led the Shrek students through the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest as Tang San and Ye Ying searched for suitable Spirit Beasts for their third Soul Rings. After two days without success, Ye Ying discussed the decline of Spirit Beasts with Zhao Wuji, who offered to take him north to the ice plains if they could not find him a suitable beast.

• Zhao Wuji led the group away from their earlier route, and they made camp safely for the night.
• Tang San and Ye Ying searched for Spirit Beasts for their third Soul Rings, but two days of searching the forest’s outskirts produced no suitable candidates.
• The students coordinated their scouting, fighting, and support roles, improving their combat experience while Zhao Wuji kept them away from the forest’s deeper dangers.
• Zhao Wuji asked Ye Ying whether he was anxious, and Ye Ying said finding a Spirit Beast depended on luck.
• Ye Ying warned Zhao Wuji that hunting for Soul Rings, materials, and profit could eventually leave too few Spirit Beasts to provide Soul Rings.
• Zhao Wuji said they would return if they could not find an ice-attributed Spirit Beast for Ye Ying, and later search the northern ice plains.

Zhao Wuji spotted the Titan Giant Ape approaching Shrek Academy’s camp and ordered the students to flee while he held it back. Dai Mubai joined Zhao Wuji’s attack as Ye Ying was left to lead the others’ retreat.

• Zhao Wuji sensed danger, summoned his Violent Golden Bear Martial Soul, and ordered everyone out of the tents.
• Ye Ying identified the enormous creature emerging from the trees as the Titan Giant Ape, the king of the forest.
• Zhao Wuji tried to negotiate, then told the students to escape with Oscar’s Mushroom Sausages while he distracted the beast.
• Zhao Wuji unleashed four Soul Skills and charged the Titan Giant Ape.
• Dai Mubai told Ye Ying to cover the students’ retreat, then activated his White Tiger Martial Soul and White Tiger Diamond Transformation to aid Zhao Wuji.

The group fought the Titan Giant Ape as Zhao Wuji, Dai Mubai, Ning Rongrong, and the others tried to create a chance to escape. The Titan Giant Ape repelled their attacks and pounced on them, while Ye Ying kicked Ma Hongjun clear and used an ice pillar to target Xiao Wu.

• Dai Mubai transformed and charged the Titan Giant Ape’s forelimbs as Zhao Wuji attacked its head.
• Ning Rongrong stayed to support the fight, boosting Zhao Wuji’s and Dai Mubai’s strength and speed.
• Ye Ying summoned the Deer King, while Zhu Zhuqing, Ma Hongjun, Xiao Wu, and Tang San joined the attack and Oscar prepared Mushroom Sausages for escape.
• The Titan Giant Ape blasted everyone away with black airwaves, shattering Tang San’s Blue Silver Fart Vines and forcing Tang San to retreat.
• The Titan Giant Ape pounced toward the group; Ye Ying kicked Ma Hongjun out of danger, then used Flash and threw an ice pillar toward Xiao Wu.

The Titan Giant Ape seized Xiao Wu and escaped after overpowering Tang San and Zhao Wuji. Ye Ying secretly obtained a Burrowing Mushroom Sausage and left to pursue it, while Zhao Wuji led the others after her.

• The Titan Giant Ape grabbed Xiao Wu, blocked Tang San's Hidden Weapons, repelled Zhao Wuji, and vanished into the forest with her.
• Tang San was injured, and Zhao Wuji apologized to Ye Ying before the group prepared to move and discuss their next step.
• Ye Ying changed Tang San's Sound-Line Transmission to herself and secretly asked Oscar for a Burrowing Mushroom Sausage.
• Ye Ying used the sausage and Ning Rongrong's speed boost to burrow away in pursuit of Xiao Wu, saying she would bring her back even if she was dead.
• Zhao Wuji ordered everyone to go after Ye Ying, and the group agreed to follow.
• Liu Ruyan scolded Tang San for not speaking up about pursuing the Man Faced Demon Spider's Soul Ring and Soul Bone.

Xiao Wu reunited with Er Ming, completed her Third Soul Ring, and hurried back toward her companions while Ye Ying searched for a Man Faced Demon Spider. Ye Ying found and killed an injured 2,222-year-old spider with his Soul Skills, leaving its violent Soul Ring ready to absorb.

• Er Ming carried Xiao Wu away from her companions, then stopped so she could return and complete her Third Soul Ring.
• Er Ming drove nearby Soul Beasts away while Xiao Wu formed a purple Thousand Year Soul Ring herself.
• Ye Ying searched the forest for a Man Faced Demon Spider and discovered an injured 2,222-year-old one struck by Duke Mengshu's Dragon Staff.
• The Man Faced Demon Spider attacked Ye Ying, who severed its legs and used his Soul Skills to pin it to the ground.
• The spider thrashed until it died, and its bluish-purple Soul Ring gathered above its body.

Ye Ying hid underground from Mengshu, Chao Tianxiang, and Meng Yiran, then absorbed and modified the Man Faced Demon Spider’s Soul Ring and External Soul Bone. He emerged with Ice Dragon Wings and discovered new changes to his Martial Souls, while the system rewarded him for preventing Tang San from obtaining the spider’s ring and bone.

• Mengshu, Chao Tianxiang, and Meng Yiran found signs that the Man Faced Demon Spider had been killed and chased the trail away from Ye Ying, who was hiding underground with its corpse.
• Ye Ying absorbed the Man Faced Demon Spider’s Soul Ring and modified it into a 9,922-year Ice Dragon King Soul Ring.
• Ye Ying transformed the Eight Spider Lances External Soul Bone into Ice Dragon Wings and discovered that his Snow King and Deer King Martial Souls had gained flight-related changes.
• The system announced that Tang San had not obtained the Man Faced Demon Spider’s Soul Ring or External Soul Bone and awarded Ye Ying 40,000 Points and a new System Mall unlock.

Ye Ying returned after obtaining the Man Faced Demon Spider, and Meng Yiran challenged him to a throwing-knife contest. Tang San tried to take Ye Ying’s place, but Meng Yiran rejected her and told her to get lost.

• Ye Ying checked the system shop, then returned to Zhao Wuji and the others after dealing with the Man Faced Demon Spider.
• Mengshu confronted Ye Ying about defeating Meng Yiran, and Ye Ying taunted her while both sides avoided a fight.
• Meng Yiran proposed a contest to see who could hit the most falling leaves with throwing knives while leaving the knives embedded in a tree.
• Tang San stepped forward to compete, but Meng Yiran told her that it was not her place to speak.

Ye Ying forced Tang San to teach him Hidden Weapon techniques, then used his altered practice time to master them before competing with Meng Yiran. He threw eighteen knives with astonishing skill, leaving Duke Mengshu stunned as the contest’s results remained unseen.

• Ye Ying pinned Tang San against a tree and threatened to reveal how Grandmaster had lost his right arm unless she taught him Hidden Weapons.
• Tang San taught Ye Ying part of the Hidden Weapon Hundred Solutions, and he used his ability to turn one second of practice into ten years to master the weapons.
• Ye Ying and Meng Yiran began a throwing-knife contest, with Mengshu demonstrating his strength by shaking leaves from a tree with his Dragon-Head Staff.
• Meng Yiran threw eighteen Soul Breaking Knives at the target tree and believed every knife had hit its mark.
• Ye Ying turned his back to the tree and flung his pouch, sending eighteen knives along curved paths and shocking Mengshu.

Ye Ying defeated Meng Yiran in a throwing-weapon contest with an extraordinary display of skill, leaving her confidence shaken. As Mengshu and Chao Tianxiang took her to search for a Spirit Beast, Mengshu suggested that she consider Ye Ying as a match, and Meng Yiran vowed to surpass him.

• Meng Yiran discovered that Ye Ying had knocked her Soul Breaking Knives to the ground and embedded his own knives in the tree to form a middle finger, with ten leaves pierced by each blade.
• Mengshu explained Ye Ying's technique and told Meng Yiran to admit defeat; Ye Ying returned her knives, and she angrily told him to get lost when he admitted he had come to laugh at her.
• Mengshu and Chao Tianxiang led Meng Yiran away to find a suitable Spirit Beast, and she wondered why Ye Ying was so powerful.
• Chao Tianxiang attributed Ye Ying's strength to his hard work, while Mengshu praised his talent and suggested he could lead their family to greater heights.
• Mengshu asked Meng Yiran what she thought of Ye Ying and hinted at matchmaking; she blushed, then declared she would work hard and surpass him.

Ye Ying and the Shrek Academy group were relieved when Xiao Wu returned from the forest, and she claimed she had escaped the Titan Giant Ape and obtained her Third Soul Ring. The group continued searching the forest for Tang San’s Third Soul Ring, while Ye Ying noticed a Grass Vine coiled around a tree during their second-night rest.

• Mengshu warned Meng Yiran that important opportunities could be fleeting, and Chao Tianxiang suggested that Yiran consider studying at Shrek Academy.
• Ye Ying told the Shrek group that he had obtained his Third Soul Ring and that his Martial Soul had slightly mutated, while Zhao Wuji focused on finding Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu returned to the group, and Ye Ying rushed past Tang San to embrace her.
• Xiao Wu claimed that the Titan Giant Ape had dropped her after a mysterious roar, and she had reached level thirty and obtained a Third Soul Ring from an unconscious soul beast.
• Zhao Wuji explained that Ye Ying had gone after Xiao Wu, then the group set out to find a Third Soul Ring for Tang San.
• During a rest on the second night, Ye Ying noticed a Grass Vine coiled around a tree.

Ye Ying helped Tang San obtain a Silent Vine Soul Ring, then secretly modified it into a Silent Turtle Soul Ring. Tang San gained a yellow Soul Ring, Liu Ruyan became a Blue Silver Turtle, and Ye Ying showed off his Ice Dragon Wings.

• Ye Ying spotted a sixteen-hundred-year Silent Vine and identified it as a suitable Soul Ring for Tang San.
• Ma Hongjun set the Silent Vine ablaze, and Ye Ying knocked it unconscious with his third Soul Skill before Tang San finished it and absorbed its Soul Ring.
• Ye Ying changed Tang San's Soul Ring from years to months and from vine to turtle, turning it into a sixteen-hundred-and-twenty-four-month Silent Turtle Soul Ring.
• Tang San gained a yellow Soul Ring, while Liu Ruyan transformed into a Blue Silver Turtle.
• Ye Ying revealed his Ice Dragon Wings, leaving everyone surprised by how much his Martial Soul had changed.

After Tang San demonstrated her third soul skill, the group left the Star Dou Great Forest, rested in town, and returned safely to Shrek Academy. Zhao Wuji reported their encounter with the Titan Giant Ape to Flender and Yu Xiaogang, who explained that the Sky Azure Bull Python ruled the forest’s core region and was even more powerful.

• Tang San revealed that her third soul skill made her and Liu Ruyan undetectable while they were covered by a conspicuous blue-green fart, earning it the name Breathless Fart.
• Zhao Wuji led Ye Ying, Oscar, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and the others out of the Star Dou Great Forest, and Dai Mubai treated the group to two days of rest in town.
• The group returned to Shrek Academy, where Zhao Wuji reported their dangerous journey to Flender.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived and reassured himself that Tang San was safe before explaining that the bull’s roar Xiao Wu heard belonged to the Sky Azure Bull Python.
• Yu Xiaogang recounted how a Title Douluo encountered the Titan Giant Ape at a lake, then fled when the Sky Azure Bull Python rose from the water and overwhelmed him with pressure.

Yu Xiaogang learned about the students’ recent Soul Rings and confronted Flender about his unresolved feelings for Liu Erlong before taking charge of their training. As he announced unified instruction, Ye Ying interrupted him.

• Yu Xiaogang deduced that the Titan Giant Ape had answered the Sky Azure Bull Python’s summons and praised Oscar’s Thousand-Year Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent Soul Ring and speed-based skill.
• Zhao Wuji told Yu Xiaogang that Tang San had received a Hundred-Year Soul Ring from a Thousand-Year Soul Beast and that Ye Ying had absorbed the Man Faced Demon Spider, causing his ice-attributed Martial Soul to mutate.
• Flender urged Yu Xiaogang to face Liu Erlong, but Yu Xiaogang admitted he feared confronting her and wanted to focus on training Tang San.
• Flender introduced the academy’s teachers and presented Yu Xiaogang as the Grandmaster, then announced that he would lead the students’ instruction.
• Yu Xiaogang declared that the students would train together as monsters, and Ye Ying interrupted him before he finished.

Ye Ying challenged Yu Xiaogang’s authority and proposed a contest to compare their training methods, leaving the students to await Yu Xiaogang’s session at dawn. Meanwhile, Zhu Zhuqing rebuffed Dai Mubai, and Yu Xiaogang struggled to explain Liu Ruyan’s latest Martial Soul mutation.

• Ye Ying questioned Yu Xiaogang’s theories, criticized his plan to train the students by running, and challenged him to a training contest.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted the bet, staking his name as Theory Grandmaster, while Flender agreed to witness it and the students were ordered to gather at dawn.
• Ma Hongjun planned a trip to Suotuo City, while Ye Ying and the others chose to return to cultivate or rest.
• Dai Mubai tried to speak with Zhu Zhuqing, but she rejected him and left; Ye Ying told Dai Mubai that he had mediated Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing sharing a room.
• Yu Xiaogang questioned Tang San about the Thousand Year Soul Ring and examined Liu Ruyan, the Blue Silver Turtle, as he tried to understand her repeated Martial Soul mutations.

Yu Xiaogang assigned the eight Shrek students a punishing weighted run from the academy to Suotuo City and back, without Soul Power, as a team exercise. He defended the training to Flender, while Ye Ying and the others began to suspect the loads had been deliberately balanced to force them to cooperate.

• At breakfast, Ye Ying criticized the worsening food, and Yu Xiaogang claimed rats had ruined the meat.
• Yu Xiaogang told the students to arrive early for breakfast and ordered them to make ten weighted round trips to Suotuo City before lunch without using Soul Power.
• The students found named baskets of stones at the academy gate, with Ye Ying carrying thirty kilograms and the others carrying between five and fifteen kilograms.
• Flender questioned Yu Xiaogang's harsh training and warned that the students might prefer Ye Ying's teaching, but Yu Xiaogang insisted the run would build teamwork.
• Ye Ying said the whole team needed to finish, and Oscar agreed that they would have to work together as he and Ning Rongrong already struggled under their loads.

Ye Ying led the exhausted students through Yu Xiaogang’s weighted long-distance training, taking on more and more of their loads as they faltered. The group finished the tenth round trip with most of them collapsed at the academy entrance, while Ye Ying still supported the others.

• Tang San suggested that the students share their loads, but Ye Ying altered her words so Oscar thought she wanted him to carry her stones.
• Ye Ying proposed running at the slowest student’s pace and helping redistribute the weights, and the eight students began making round trips to Suotuo City.
• After the students completed four trips, Ye Ying took Oscar and Ning Rongrong’s stones; later, he also carried Zhu Zhuqing’s load while Dai Mubai took Ma Hongjun’s.
• Dai Mubai staggered during the ninth trip, and Ye Ying caught him and took his stones, bringing his own load to nearly sixty-five kilograms.
• During the tenth trip, Ye Ying carried Ning Rongrong and later Zhu Zhuqing while bearing more than a hundred jin of stones; Oscar and Dai Mubai also helped carry loads.
• The students reached the academy entrance, where four of them collapsed and Ye Ying supported Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing while Xiao Wu lay on his back.

After the students completed Yu Xiaogang’s punishing training, Ye Ying used a concentrated Body-Tempering Potion during his medicinal bath and later joined Dai Mubai for dinner. The students found Yu Xiaogang’s instructions to clean up and cultivate until dawn, and Xiao Wu arrived hungry as Ye Ying admitted he had no plan for the next day’s training.

• Ye Ying and Yu Xiaogang carried the exhausted students to their medicinal baths, while village women helped bathe the girls.
• Yu Xiaogang undressed Tang San and noticed a tattoo on her back but dismissed his suspicions.
• Ye Ying added a concentrated Body-Tempering Potion from the System Shop to his bath, then slept and woke feeling refreshed.
• Ye Ying met Dai Mubai in the cafeteria, where they found Yu Xiaogang’s note ordering them to wash the dishes and tubs and cultivate until dawn.
• Dai Mubai asked Ye Ying about tomorrow’s training, and Ye Ying said he had no plan yet.
• Xiao Wu rushed into the cafeteria looking for food.

Ye Ying began the Shrek students’ individualized training, teaching Dai Mubai to control his strength by catching tofu. He then assigned Tang San and Liu Ruyan physical training, while Yu Xiaogang doubted Ye Ying could truly tailor lessons to each student.

• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing finished breakfast, and Ye Ying cultivated with the others before the next morning’s training.
• At the training ground, Ye Ying improvised his plan using system purchases and announced that he would begin with individualized lessons for Dai Mubai.
• Dai Mubai crushed a piece of tofu while trying to catch it, so Ye Ying demonstrated how to catch and grip tofu without breaking it, then assigned Zhao Wuji to supervise his practice.
• Ye Ying called Tang San and Liu Ruyan forward and said their training would strengthen Tang San’s physique.
• Yu Xiaogang suspected Ye Ying had only one training method and dismissed the plan as ordinary physical conditioning.

Ye Ying assigned the students harsh training, refined pills to let them train without food or sleep, and prepared for the vote on her wager with Yu Xiaogang. The vote ended tied, leaving the wager undecided.

• Ye Ying put Tang San and the Blue Silver Weasel in a vat of body-tempering potion, then deliberately scalded them with boiling water.
• Ye Ying taught Zhu Zhuqing to strike the same spot repeatedly, then assigned Ma Hongjun, Xiao Wu, Oscar, and Ning Rongrong their own training methods.
• Ye Ying returned to her room to study cultivation techniques and alchemy, refining fourteen Grain Avoidance Pills and fourteen Energy Pills.
• The students and teachers voted between Ye Ying and Yu Xiaogang, with five people standing behind each of them.
• Yu Xiaogang smiled and told Ye Ying that the result of their wager seemed obvious.