Chapter Summaries

Xue Lingyun used a Mystic Water Pill and his healing Soul Skill to cleanse Huo Yuhao’s meridians and improve his Soul Power circulation. He left Huo Yuhao alone at the lakeside to wash off the expelled impurities.

• Xue Lingyun gave Huo Yuhao a Mystic Water Pill and carried him from Room 108 to a secluded lakeside.
• Xue Lingyun struck Huo Yuhao with Evil Tiger Crushing Pulse Fist, then used Life Reconstruction to heal him and help the pill flush out impurities.
• Huo Yuhao circulated his Soul Power as the pill’s medicinal force cleared his meridians and greatly increased his circulation speed.
• Xue Lingyun told Huo Yuhao that the method was risky but manageable because his Second Soul Skill could heal him.
• Xue Lingyun told Huo Yuhao to wash in the lake and left him alone with his filthy, transformed body.

On his first day at Shrek, Xue Lingyun studied soul beasts, herbs, and cultivation while completing Zhou Yi’s demanding class exercises. After rescuing Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong from a fall, he impressed Zhou Yi with his view that Soul Masters and Soul Tools would complement one another, and the day ended with Zhou Yi taking Huo Yuhao to her office.

• Xue Lingyun read in the training field while reflecting on ways to adapt his cultivation and medicinal-bath methods to this world.
• Zhou Yi ordered Class One of the Freshmen to run one hundred laps, and Xue Lingyun, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong all completed the exercise.
• Wang Dong carried Huo Yuhao across the finish line, but their wings vanished and Xue Lingyun caught them before they hit the ground.
• Zhou Yi questioned Xue Lingyun about whether Soul Masters or Soul Tools would matter more, and he explained how the two could complement each other.
• Zhou Yi kept Huo Yuhao after class and led him toward the office while Xue Lingyun left.

Xue Lingyun used his life energy to massage Mu En, easing the violent aura left by a White Dragon and revealing a powerful Dragon Clan bloodline. Mu En resolved to nurture him while observing his character, as Xue Lingyun privately planned to use their acquaintance to gain access to Ruling the World and the Dragon Pill.

• Xue Lingyun offered to massage Mu En’s long-standing back injury, and Mu En agreed.
• Xue Lingyun’s vital energy eased Mu En’s damaged meridians and made the White Dragon’s violent aura shrink back.
• Mu En confirmed that Xue Lingyun carried a potent Dragon Clan bloodline and resolved to nurture him while carefully observing him.
• Xue Lingyun returned to Room 106 and revealed that he had deliberately let the Ice Prison Dragon King’s aura show to hint at his bloodline.
• Xue Lingyun planned to use his connection with Mu En to pursue Ruling the World and the Dragon Pill.

Zhou Yi made Xue Lingyun the temporary Class Monitor and tested the freshmen with a weighted run, threatening to expel the last-place student. Xue Lingyun guided struggling classmates through the exercise, and the chapter ended with him still standing after the dismissal bell while everyone else collapsed.

• Zhou Yi ordered the students to wear Iron Armor, named level-35 Xue Lingyun temporary Class Monitor, and announced that the last-place student would be expelled.
• Xue Lingyun ran steadily near the front while Huo Yuhao and other students fell behind under the armor's weight.
• Xue Lingyun ran beside Huo Yuhao, taught him to coordinate his breathing and steps, and offered practical advice to other struggling classmates.
• Huo Yuhao nearly collapsed but drew on his determination to keep running, inspiring other exhausted students to get back up and continue.
• The dismissal bell rang, and the students collapsed from exhaustion while Xue Lingyun remained standing.

Zhou Yi praised Xue Lingyun for leading Class One through the exhausting training, and a white-robed healer restored the collapsed students. After offering Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong the use of his private bathroom, Xue Lingyun headed to see Director Du Weilun about the medicinal ingredients Yan Shaozhe had prepared.

• Zhou Yi declared that no students would be eliminated and praised Xue Lingyun for his work as Class Monitor.
• A white-robed man transformed into a Sky-reaching Tree and healed the exhausted students with glowing leaves.
• Huo Yuhao thanked Xue Lingyun for helping the class endure the training, and Xue Lingyun commended Huo Yuhao's willpower.
• Xue Lingyun invited Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong to use the private bathroom in his dorm, and Wang Dong asked to borrow it in the future.
• Xue Lingyun left for the Teachers' Office Area to see Director Du Weilun about the medicinal ingredients Yan Shaozhe had prepared.

Xue Lingyun met with Yan Shaozhe to collect medicinal herbs and assured him that he would use them carefully to strengthen his foundation rather than rush his cultivation. Yan Shaozhe gave him the herbs in a Storage Soul Tool and sent him off to prepare for the upcoming Freshman Assessment.

• Xue Lingyun followed Du Weilun to Yan Shaozhe's office to collect the medicinal herbs he had requested.
• Yan Shaozhe told Xue Lingyun he was concerned that harsh medicines could damage his cultivation foundation, especially given his extreme-attribute Martial Soul.
• Xue Lingyun explained that most of the requested herbs would temper his body and stabilize his meridians, while only a few mild ingredients would support Soul Power.
• Reassured by Xue Lingyun's understanding, Yan Shaozhe gave him the medicinal herbs in a silver Storage Soul Tool ring.
• Xue Lingyun inspected the herbs and ring, thanked Yan Shaozhe, and left the office after Yan encouraged him to cultivate for the Freshman Assessment.

Xue Lingyun strolled through Shrek Academy, reflecting on his growing reputation after defeating Xu Sanshi and the places he had yet to explore. He decided to leave through the East Gate and browse the shops and stalls outside Shrek City.

• Xue Lingyun left the Office Building with the medicinal herbs and Storage Soul Tool Yan Shaozhe had provided.
• Xue Lingyun walked past the dormitories, teaching buildings, and cafeteria, where upperclassmen recognized him as the new student who had defeated Xu Sanshi.
• Xue Lingyun crossed Shrek Square and considered the academy locations he had not yet explored.
• Xue Lingyun remembered the busy commercial area outside the South Gate and decided to look for interesting items.
• Xue Lingyun headed toward the East Gate to take a stroll outside the academy.

Huo Yuhao sold grilled fish outside Shrek Academy and ran into Jiang Nannan, Xu Sanshi, and Xue Lingyun. Jiang Nannan left with Xue Lingyun for Shrek City, while Huo Yuhao stayed behind with Tang Ya and Beibei.

• Huo Yuhao sold grilled fish at a stall outside Shrek Academy and saved two skewers for Tang Ya and Beibei.
• Jiang Nannan tried to buy the last two skewers, but Huo Yuhao refused because he had promised them to someone else.
• Xu Sanshi tried to take the fish by force, but Xue Lingyun lifted the skewers away and stopped him from grabbing them.
• Xue Lingyun teased Xu Sanshi by calling him Xu Lei, and Beibei joined in while Huo Yuhao and Xue Lingyun talked.
• Jiang Nannan took Xue Lingyun by the wrist and led him toward Shrek City, leaving Xu Sanshi behind as Beibei stopped him from chasing them.
• Tang Ya and Beibei ate the fish with Huo Yuhao, who said he and Xue Lingyun had known each other for many years.

Huo Yuhao remembered how Xue Lingyun had befriended him and his mother as a child, fed them, and left them a Storage Soul Tool and encouragement. Back in the present, he learned that Xue Lingyun had given him one of the precious Mystic Water Pills he won from Xu Sanshi.

• As a child, Huo Yuhao met Xue Lingyun after a wounded bird crashed into his yard, and Xue Lingyun shared grilled fish with him and Huo Yun'er.
• Xue Lingyun told Huo Yuhao about the wider world and offered to help Huo Yun'er leave, but she chose to keep waiting for Huo Yuhao's father.
• Xue Lingyun left Huo Yuhao a Storage Soul Tool containing money and medicinal herbs, along with a note encouraging him not to give up on becoming a Soul Master.
• In the present, Tang Ya and Beibei told Huo Yuhao that Xue Lingyun had beaten Xu Sanshi and won three Mystic Water Pills from him.
• Tang Ya revealed that Xue Lingyun had given Huo Yuhao one of the precious pills, leaving Huo Yuhao deeply moved.

Jiang Nannan and Xue Lingyun walked toward the South City Gate as he recounted how a bird he knocked from the sky landed in Huo Yuhao’s courtyard. Xue Lingyun recalled that the encounter had been guided by a stirring in Huangji Jingshi, which led him to believe the time had come to meet the Child of Destiny.

• Jiang Nannan took Xue Lingyun by the wrist and led him toward the South City Gate.
• Jiang Nannan asked how Xue Lingyun knew Huo Yuhao, and Xue Lingyun said they had met while he was traveling.
• Xue Lingyun told Jiang Nannan that he had knocked a bird from the sky, and it had landed in Huo Yuhao’s family courtyard.
• Xue Lingyun recalled seeing Huo Yuhao’s radiant destiny fortune and calculating how to benefit from leaving a good impression on him.
• Xue Lingyun remembered that Huangji Jingshi stirred when he arrived near the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion, so he walked to Huo Yuhao’s courtyard and knocked on the door.

While walking with Jiang Nannan, Xue Lingyun recounted meeting Huo Yuhao and his mother and reflected on why he helped others and what kind of person he wanted to be. They entered Shrek City, where Jiang Nannan took him toward the night market to find something delicious to eat.

• Xue Lingyun told Jiang Nannan how he met Huo Yuhao while retrieving a bird from the boy’s yard and invited him and his mother to share roasted food.
• Xue Lingyun recalled offering to help Huo Yuhao’s mother move, but respected her decision to stay and wait for Huo Yuhao’s father.
• Xue Lingyun explained that he helped people when he wanted to and could do so without giving up his own interests.
• Xue Lingyun reflected that he wanted to follow his own convictions rather than become either a self-sacrificing saint or a ruthless strongman.
• Jiang Nannan grabbed Xue Lingyun’s wrist and led him through Shrek City toward the night market to eat.

Jiang Nannan showed Xue Lingyun around Shrek City's night market, where he spotted a potentially valuable ore among discarded goods and bought a book about ore deposits. After sharing a quiet conversation about his solitary travels, they continued browsing and left the Soul Tool shops for another day.

• Jiang Nannan guided Xue Lingyun through South Market Street and several herb shops, where he identified flaws in an overpriced Jade Marrow Ganoderma.
• Xue Lingyun bought a ten-gold stone from a pile of old goods and explained that it might contain valuable Silver Frost Iron Essence.
• Jiang Nannan bargained for sweet rice cakes, and Xue Lingyun later bought a thirty-copper book about the continent's ore deposits.
• Jiang Nannan asked Xue Lingyun whether his travels alone had been lonely, and he said he had grown used to it.
• Jiang Nannan continued showing Xue Lingyun around the night market, and he decided to visit the Soul Tool parts shops another day.

After returning to Shrek Academy, Xue Lingyun watched the stars with Jiang Nannan and told her they could guide the way. Jiang Nannan kissed his cheek and left, while Xue Lingyun wondered whether his perception could miss danger from someone without hostile intent.

• Xue Lingyun stopped at the academy gate to observe the stars, and Jiang Nannan joined him.
• Xue Lingyun told Jiang Nannan that everyone had a star and said hers had helped him find her.
• Jiang Nannan thanked Xue Lingyun, kissed his cheek, and asked him to take her somewhere else next time.
• Xue Lingyun considered whether his instincts would fail to warn him about a harmless-seeming attacker and decided he needed to train his reactions.

Back in his dormitory, Xue Lingyun prepared a medicinal bath and reviewed the three complementary chapters of the Dharma Cleansing Marrow and Changing Tendons Scripture. He concluded that their true strength lay in how marrow cleansing, body tempering, and Soul Power circulation reinforced one another in a continuous cycle.

• Xue Lingyun laid out the medicinal herbs Yan Shaozhe had provided and filled a bathing barrel with hot water.
• Xue Lingyun recalled how he had rebuilt the Soul Power Circulation Chapter around his Primal Heart, improving his recovery and Soul Power storage.
• Xue Lingyun considered how the Body Tempering Chapter developed physical strength through extreme training and how he had practiced it since childhood.
• Xue Lingyun reviewed the Marrow Cleansing Chapter’s stages of Dust Cleansing, Tendon Transformation, and Bone Tempering, which improved the body and its meridians.
• Xue Lingyun concluded that all three chapters formed a closed cycle in which each strengthened the other two.

He took a medicinal bath that strengthened his body and steadied the dark Soul Power vortex in his chest. The Fourth Stage of his cultivation technique seemed within reach, and he prepared to keep advancing gradually.

• He added medicinal ingredients to the bath and circulated the Heart Source Circulation Technique as their power repaired and strengthened his body.
• He examined the dark vortex left by absorbing the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s Soul Ring and considered how it could help him reach the Fourth Stage.
• He finished the bath with denser muscles, stronger bones, and a more solid sense of physical strength.
• He noticed that the vortex rotated more steadily and concluded that the Fourth Stage was not far off.
• He looked out over the quiet Shrek Academy at night, then went to bed and resolved to take his cultivation step by step.

Zhou Yi discovered that Xue Lingyun could follow her lesson while reading another book, then tested his memory and asked him to write about the future of Soul Tools. After reading his essay, Fan Yu asked Zhou Yi to bring Xue Lingyun to the Soul Guidance Department.

• Zhou Yi watched Xue Lingyun take notes, answer her questions, and read Basic Variations of Soul Tool Core Arrays during class.
• Zhou Yi tested Xue Lingyun by rapidly flipping through three books, and he accurately recalled key information from each.
• Zhou Yi assigned the class an essay on the present and future of Soul Tools, and Xue Lingyun wrote quickly.
• Zhou Yi read Xue Lingyun's essay and recognized ideas that might be new even to Fan Yu.
• Zhou Yi gave the essay to Fan Yu, who asked her to bring Xue Lingyun to the Soul Guidance Department the next day.

Xue Lingyun demonstrated his Soul Tool knowledge and combat skills to Fan Yu, who offered him access to the Soul Guidance Department without requiring him to transfer. After Xue Lingyun left, Qian Duoduo and Fan Yu discussed his potential and agreed that learning from both departments could benefit him.

• Zhou Yi brought Xue Lingyun to meet Fan Yu, and Xue Lingyun identified the design of a Third-Grade Charging Cannon and showed Fan Yu a bracelet he had made with layered magic arrays.
• Xue Lingyun engraved a flawless First-Grade Energy Circuit and demonstrated accurate simultaneous attacks with both hands, impressing Fan Yu and He Caitou.
• Fan Yu invited Xue Lingyun to join the Soul Guidance Department, but Xue Lingyun said he wanted to continue his Martial Soul Department cultivation while studying Soul Tools.
• Fan Yu gave Xue Lingyun an Access Pass so he could use the Testing Area and ask the department's teachers for help.
• After Xue Lingyun left, Qian Duoduo told Fan Yu that he had listened from next door and approved giving Xue Lingyun access without asking him to transfer departments.

Xue Lingyun explained to Huo Yuhao why ordinary Blue Silver Grass should pursue vitality and growth instead of copying Tang San’s Soul Ring choices. The chapter ended with Ma Xiaotao inviting Xue Lingyun to a Core Disciple Treasure Appreciation Meeting, which they planned to attend the night after tomorrow.

• Huo Yuhao told Xue Lingyun that his cultivation had reached level thirteen and asked why a Mandala Snake might not suit Blue Silver Grass.
• Xue Lingyun explained that plant-type control Martial Souls could follow beast-type or plant-type Soul Ring paths, and that Blue Silver Grass needed vitality to strengthen its foundation.
• Huo Yuhao said he would think more about Xue Lingyun’s advice before leaving.
• Ma Xiaotao entered through Xue Lingyun’s window and gave him an Invitation Letter to the Core Disciple Treasure Appreciation Meeting.
• Ma Xiaotao invited Xue Lingyun to attend the meeting with her the night after tomorrow and advised him to research anything he wanted to buy.

Ma Xiaotao took Xue Lingyun to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion’s Treasure Appreciation Meeting, where his cultivation earned him a Black Card with a half-price discount and one free item. He bought weathered Whale Rubber that he suspected was actually ten-thousand-year quality and used his free allowance on an incomplete Soul Tool blueprint.

• After Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong borrowed Xue Lingyun’s bathroom, Ma Xiaotao arrived at his window and led him to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion.
• Xue Lingyun registered for the Treasure Appreciation Meeting and received a Black Card granting half-price purchases and one free item for the year.
• Xue Lingyun spotted Whale Rubber whose amber cracks and strong fluctuations suggested it was far more valuable than its thousand-year label claimed, and he bought it for three thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Xue Lingyun used his free allowance to take an incomplete blueprint by a Level Seven Soul Tool Master despite Ma Xiaotao questioning the purchase.

Xue Lingyun and Ma Xiaotao browsed Treasure Gathering Pavilion and the street stalls, where Ling Luochen felt an inexplicable attraction to Xue Lingyun. Back in his dormitory, Xue Lingyun examined his purchases and resumed his medicinal bath and cultivation.

• Ling Luochen passed Xue Lingyun and Ma Xiaotao, felt drawn to Xue Lingyun, and continued on without speaking.
• Ma Xiaotao told Xue Lingyun who Ling Luochen was and wondered whether she had taken a liking to him.
• Xue Lingyun bought a strange stone from a stall, ignored a seller's supposed treasure map, and left the stalls with Ma Xiaotao.
• Ma Xiaotao asked whether Xue Lingyun had something special about him, then accompanied him back to the academy.
• Xue Lingyun examined the stone and an incomplete Soul Tool design album, then entered a medicinal bath and circulated the Heart Source Circulation Technique as the egg yolk revolved in his chest.