Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Yu Xiaogang watches Tang San and Liu Erlong spend time together, feeling jealous despite telling himself he supports them for Tang San’s sake.
• He sends Tang San away to cultivate, arguing that a lasting relationship does not require constant company. Once Tang San leaves, Yu Xiaogang takes his place beside Liu Erlong.
• Liu Erlong asks why Yu Xiaogang rejected her in the past. He cites their family connection, the difference in their strength, and his belief that loving her means wishing her happiness—even with Tang San.
• Liu Erlong challenges him to disregard public opinion and points out that she has never stopped loving him. Yu Xiaogang gives in to his feelings, and they kiss.
• Elsewhere, Ye Lin practices early in the Shrek Academy courtyard. Qin Ming praises her talent, discipline, and promise, and asks where the missing eighth member of the Shrek Eight Devils is. Ye Lin says Tang San left after stealing from Shrek Academy and may be in Heaven Dou City.
• Unaware of Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong’s relationship, Tang San cultivates in the woods, hoping to grow strong enough to remain with Liu Erlong.

Character developments and interactions

• Yu Xiaogang moves from jealousy and denial to acting on his love for Liu Erlong, rationalizing away the social taboos involved.
• Liu Erlong openly asserts her enduring love and takes the lead in breaking through Yu Xiaogang’s resistance.
• Tang San remains devoted to Liu Erlong and believes that more cultivation will help secure their future, while Yu Xiaogang deliberately keeps him away.
• Ye Lin displays humility despite her ability and dedication; Qin Ming acts as an encouraging mentor and openly admires her.

Significant themes

• Love versus social convention: Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang choose their private feelings over family ties and public judgment.
• Self-deception and betrayal: Yu Xiaogang frames his actions as being for Tang San’s benefit, even as he removes Tang San and pursues Liu Erlong.
• Ambition and discipline: Ye Lin’s work ethic is praised as essential to lasting success, while Tang San trains in the hope of catching up.

Chapter summary

• Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s structure: Qin Ming explains that students are divided into three tiers by strength, with those above level 30 in the top Heaven Dou Grade. Teachers are similarly ranked; level 60 and above qualifies as Heaven Dou Grade. The academy is run by an Education Committee of three veteran Soul Douluos, while major decisions may also involve the imperial family.
• The Shrek staff’s prospects: Flender learns that Heaven Dou Grade teachers receive generous support and a monthly salary of 3,000 Gold Soul Coins. He and the other Shrek teachers are delighted by the prospect of a comfortable position at the academy.
• Ye Lin’s strength is revealed: When Qin Ming questions whether she is strong enough to teach, the others explain that she is both a student and a teacher at Shrek. Ye Lin reluctantly displays her four spirit rings. Though she is only thirteen, she is already a Soul Ancestor, with unusually powerful rings—including a 37,000-year fourth ring. Qin Ming is astonished and says her appointment should be easy to recommend.
• Meeting the Education Committee: Qin Ming escorts the group to meet the three committee members, who greet them formally. The committee is especially curious about Ye Lin’s talent and sword use. She introduces herself modestly, saying she is simply hardworking.
• A test begins: Zhi Lin quietly uses his soul power to restrain Ye Lin, testing her ability. The Shrek group recognizes what he is doing and watches without intervening, hoping she will impress the committee.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Lin remains modest despite her extraordinary ability. The chapter shifts her from being an admired Shrek student to a potential teacher and the focus of the committee’s scrutiny.
• Qin Ming moves from explaining the academy to openly marveling at Ye Lin, whose ability surpasses his expectations.
• Flender and the other Shrek teachers become increasingly optimistic about joining the academy after hearing about the pay and status.
• The committee treats the visitors courteously but tests Ye Lin, showing that her talent has attracted serious attention.
• The Shrek group shares a supportive, expectant attitude, eager to see Ye Lin give the committee “a little shock.”

Significant themes

The chapter emphasizes the slow, cumulative nature of discipline and training; the contrast between modesty and exceptional talent; and the value of recognition and opportunity. It also highlights how formal hierarchies and tests shape life within the academy.

Key plot points and events

• Ye Lin reveals that she has already reached Soul Ancestor rank. Minister Zhi Lin tests her by steadily increasing his Soul Power pressure.
• Ye Lin remains unaffected through the fiftieth rank. After summoning her Martial Soul, the Immortal Sword cuts through much of the pressure, while a strange force seems to make Zhi Lin’s Soul Power recoil.
• Even under pressure exceeding the sixtieth rank, Ye Lin holds on before asking Zhi Lin to stop. Impressed, he approves her appointment at Heaven Dou Royal Academy as a Tianwei-grade teacher, with the option to challenge for promotion.
• Dugu Yan recognizes Ye Lin as the opponent who defeated her and overcame her poison. Qin Ming reprimands her for speaking rudely, but she later tells her grandfather, Dugu Bo, that Ye Lin has arrived. Dugu Bo is intrigued.
• In a separate scene at Blue Tyrant Academy, Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong secretly embrace after he sends Tang San away to cultivate.
• The next morning, Ye Lin trains outdoors while Flender considers taking students to Sunset Forest to find spirit rings. A sudden, chilling presence makes Ye Lin realize Dugu Bo has arrived.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Lin demonstrates extraordinary physical strength, discipline, and confidence. Her performance impresses the ministers and establishes her as a standout talent.
• Zhi Lin moves from testing Ye Lin to genuinely admiring her ability, while still respecting her request to end the trial.
• Dugu Yan is curious and unsettled by Ye Lin’s strength, though she remains somewhat impulsive and dismissive of her grandfather’s advice.
• Dugu Bo, usually difficult to interest, becomes curious about Ye Lin and approaches her.
• Qin Ming acts as Dugu Yan’s disciplinarian, correcting her disrespectful behavior.
• Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong continue their secret relationship, with Tang San kept unaware.

Significant themes

• Strength and earned recognition: Ye Lin’s capability—not merely her rank—wins the academy’s respect.
• Humility and perspective: Dugu Bo reminds Yan that there are always stronger people, though she does not take the lesson seriously.
• Secrecy and trust: Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong hide their relationship from Tang San, creating tension around what he does not know.

Plot points and events

• Dugu Bo poisons Ye Lin and carries her to his cave in Sunset Forest. A system intervention prevents the poison from knocking her out; she pretends to be unconscious during the journey.
• In the cave, Dugu Bo questions her about neutralizing his granddaughter’s snake venom. Ye Lin explains that heat can neutralize venom, though her reference to proteins leaves him baffled.
• Ye Lin provokes Dugu Bo by calling his poison weak. He slams her into the wall, but she emerges unharmed and points out that Dugu Bo himself—and his granddaughter—are suffering from poison.
• Recognizing that she knows the truth, Dugu Bo asks whether she can cure him. He offers to spare her and perform three favors in exchange for a cure.
• Ye Lin agrees to prove her ability: she will spend a day preparing antidotes from the herbs in his cave, then Dugu Bo will test them with three poisons.
• Dugu Bo leads her outside, where Ye Lin calmly admires the sunrise and forest scenery.

Character developments

• Ye Lin remains composed despite being abducted and attacked. Her confidence, knowledge, and apparent invulnerability give her leverage over Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo shifts from threatening captor to desperate petitioner when Ye Lin exposes his poisoning. His curiosity about her grows, though he still insists on testing her claims.

Themes

• Knowledge as power: Ye Lin’s understanding of poison gives her influence over a formidable opponent.
• Composure in danger: Her calmness contrasts with Dugu Bo’s intimidation and desperation.
• Pride and vulnerability: Dugu Bo’s fear for himself and his granddaughter forces him to set aside some of his pride.
• Darkness versus beauty: Even in a life-threatening situation, Ye Lin pauses to appreciate the natural scenery.

Character interactions

• Ye Lin answers Dugu Bo’s threats with teasing defiance, challenging his reputation and exposing his hidden illness.
• Dugu Bo uses force to intimidate her, then bargains when he realizes she may help him.
• Their exchange establishes a tense, uneasy arrangement: Ye Lin must prove herself, while Dugu Bo controls the setting and the test.

Plot points and events

• Dugu Bo brings Ye Lin to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, a secluded valley where he grows medicinal herbs. He warns her not to damage the plants or touch the two springs—one intensely cold, the other scorching—and says escape would be dangerous.
• Ye Lin recognizes the valuable herbs and gathers eight immortal medicinal plants with her Eight God Wings. She combines the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot with six complementary herbs.
• To Dugu Bo’s surprise, Ye Lin jumps from the high cliff into the valley, controlling her descent with Soul Power and her wings. Dugu Bo admires her nerve and technique.
• Ye Lin strips and submerges herself in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to absorb the herbs’ effects, enduring the violent energy surging through her body.
• Dugu Bo leaves, telling her to return at the same time the following day; if she fails his test, she will die. The chapter ends with Flender and the others noticing Ye Lin is missing from the courtyard.

Character developments

• Ye Lin shows confidence, composure, and exceptional knowledge of medicinal plants. Her controlled landing and daring leap demonstrate skill and fearlessness, while her decision to absorb all eight herbs at once signals her willingness to take extreme risks.
• Dugu Bo remains threatening and distrustful, but Ye Lin’s nerve and Soul Power control impress him. He tolerates her actions because he needs her help with his poison and detoxification.

Significant themes

• Risk and resolve: Ye Lin willingly faces danger to pursue a powerful transformation.
• Knowledge and power: Her understanding of the herbs lets her make use of a rare and hazardous resource.
• Testing and trust: Dugu Bo’s threats and deadline frame their uneasy relationship as a trial.

Character interactions

• Dugu Bo warns and challenges Ye Lin, while she answers his intimidation with calm defiance.
• Her actions earn his reluctant admiration, though he still sets a deadly test.
• Flender and the others’ concern at Ye Lin’s absence introduces uncertainty about what has happened to her.

Plot points

• Ye Lin is missing from Shrek Academy, alarming Flender and the students. She soon returns by flying in on her Eight God Wings, explaining that she went out traveling.
• Flender recognizes that the Ye Lin who returned is a clone. When pressed, she reveals that Dugu Bo captured her and that she agreed to a poison wager with him.
• Ye Lin assures Flender that her master is protecting her and that she learned about poison from him. Flender assumes the master is Tang Hao and is reassured.
• To avoid drawing attention, Ye Lin pretends to enter secluded cultivation while Flender takes the others to Sunset Forest to seek spirit rings.
• The chapter explains Ye Lin’s safety plan: a long-established clone lives near the old Shrek ruins, and system modifications allow the clone to persist and help her escape danger.
• At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Ye Lin finishes absorbing the eight herbs. Her physical strength doubles, her body becomes resistant to water and fire, and her bones take on the golden glow of an Ice-and-Fire Golden Body. She still senses that the transformation is incomplete.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Lin is cautious and resourceful, using a clone to reassure her friends while concealing her real circumstances. She remains confident about surviving Dugu Bo’s challenge and continues pushing her cultivation forward.
• Flender moves from alarm to relief after learning Ye Lin is protected. He accepts her explanation and helps keep her situation discreet.
• The Shrek students, especially Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing, react with worry when Ye Lin disappears and relief when she returns.
• Flender privately wonders about Ye Lin’s and Tang San’s relationship to Tang Hao, but leaves the question unresolved.

Significant themes

• Secrecy and protection: Ye Lin’s clone and false seclusion let her conceal danger while reassuring those around her.
• Trust and responsibility: Flender is prepared to seek help, but respects Ye Lin’s assurances and prioritizes the group’s plans.
• Power through cultivation and adaptation: The herbs and system modifications rapidly strengthen Ye Lin, though the incomplete golden body hints at further development.

Summary

• Ye Lin gains a new cultivation method: After absorbing the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Fiery Apricot Delicate Tree ahead of Tang San, Ye Lin is rewarded with the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art. She begins cultivating it immediately, and by the next morning has formed a powerful golden body, gaining exceptional physical toughness and immunity to poison.
• Dugu Bo tests her: When Dugu Bo returns to his medicinal garden, Ye Lin challenges him to try poisoning her three times. If he fails, they will share the garden; if she loses, she will become his slave. He accepts, offended by her confidence.
• All three poisons fail: Dugu Bo’s first poisonous mist is blocked by the Aromatic Silk Beauty flower. His Nine-Section Jade snake cannot bite through Ye Lin’s skin, and his supposedly irresistible innate deadly poison disappears from her body. Ye Lin explains that her golden body makes her immune to poison and reveals how the flower protected her from the first attack.
• A possible cure emerges: Dugu Bo, who has long suffered from his own deadly poison, asks whether he could cultivate a golden body to resist it. Ye Lin warns that doing so would cripple his poison abilities. Unwilling to sacrifice his cultivation, he asks for another solution, and she proposes Alchemical Technique.

Character developments and interactions

Ye Lin’s new cultivation makes her physically formidable and gives her the confidence to confront Dugu Bo on his own ground. She uses both the medicinal garden’s properties and her strengthened body to defeat his tests, while remaining teasing and self-assured. Dugu Bo shifts from skeptical aggressor to astonished questioner: despite his pride, Ye Lin’s immunity makes him consider a cure for his own affliction.

Significant themes

The chapter emphasizes cultivation and transformation, with Ye Lin’s golden body representing a dramatic leap in power. It also explores the cost of strength: Dugu Bo could pursue poison immunity, but only by sacrificing the abilities that define him. The contest further highlights the difference between possessing resources and knowing how to use them—Ye Lin argues that Dugu Bo has wasted valuable medicinal herbs.

Key plot points and events

• Dugu Bo questions Ye Lin about alchemy. She offers to teach him the Alchemical Technique if he accepts her as his master, promising a pill that will draw the poison from his body into a Poison Pill.
• Dugu Bo is reluctant to submit to someone much younger, but remains interested in learning alchemy. Ye Lin begins refining the pill in her Nine-Mouth Cauldron, using an unusual flame and asking him to supply soul power. He agrees, impressed and intrigued by her skill.
• At Blue Tyrant Academy, Tang San tells Yu Xiaogang that he has reached rank 35, crediting a cultivation-enhancing pill Liu Erlong found on an earlier expedition with Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang San and Liu Erlong kiss in front of Yu Xiaogang. Jealous and furious, Yu Xiaogang faints.
• After Tang San leaves to cultivate, Yu Xiaogang kisses Liu Erlong, apparently trying to even the score. Liu Erlong pulls away, and Tang San returns unexpectedly, catching them.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Lin presents herself as confident and capable, bargaining with Dugu Bo and demonstrating impressive alchemical skill.
• Dugu Bo shifts from skepticism to cautious cooperation. Though he balks at the idea of taking Ye Lin as his master, his curiosity about her abilities grows.
• Tang San is progressing rapidly and remains respectful toward Yu Xiaogang, while openly affectionate with Liu Erlong.
• Yu Xiaogang struggles with jealousy over Tang San and Liu Erlong’s relationship; after fainting, he acts on that jealousy by kissing Liu Erlong.
• Liu Erlong is affectionate toward Tang San, but her reaction to Yu Xiaogang’s kiss is unclear until she abruptly pulls away. Tang San’s return leaves the situation exposed and unresolved.

Significant themes

• Power, knowledge, and status: Ye Lin’s offer challenges Dugu Bo’s pride, while her expertise gives her leverage.
• Jealousy and rivalry: Yu Xiaogang’s resentment turns the academy scene into a contest of affection.
• Deception and awkward reversals: The characters’ relationships are tangled, and the final interruption raises questions about what Tang San will do next.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Tang San catches Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong in an intimate, suspicious situation. Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang quickly claim that Yu Xiaogang fainted and she was helping him. Tang San accepts the explanation and leaves, though he remains uneasy about their odd behavior.
• At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Ye Lin realizes Tang San returned unexpectedly and nearly uncovered the truth. Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong are relieved when he leaves.
• Three days later, Ye Lin opens an Alchemical Furnace containing three sentient Six Flavors Rehmannia Pills. The pills try to escape, but Dugu Bo recovers them by drawing them back with his lethal poison.
• Ye Lin keeps one pill and gives the other two to Dugu Bo and his granddaughter. She explains that the pills will absorb their toxins while improving cultivation and removing impurities.
• Ye Lin and Dugu Bo take the pills. Dugu Bo’s toxins are purged, his blocked meridians reopen, and he breaks through to Soul Rank 92. After seven days, Ye Lin’s impurities are cleared, her Eight-Nine Mysterious Art advances considerably, and her Soul Power reaches rank 47.

Character developments

• Tang San becomes increasingly suspicious of the relationship between Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong, but still trusts his adoptive father enough to accept their cover story.
• Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong show alarm at the possibility of being discovered and coordinate their excuses, suggesting their secret relationship is continuing.
• Ye Lin demonstrates growing power and generosity, sharing valuable pills rather than keeping them all for herself. She also recognizes that she could have used her system to prevent the pills from escaping.
• Dugu Bo moves from hesitation and suspicion to deep gratitude after the pill cures his poisoning and allows him to break through a long-standing cultivation barrier.

Significant themes

• Secrets and deception: Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong conceal their behavior from Tang San, while Tang San senses that something is wrong.
• Trust and betrayal: Tang San’s trust in his adoptive father contrasts with the pair’s fear of being exposed.
• The value of generosity: Ye Lin’s gift transforms Dugu Bo’s health and cultivation, earning his profound respect.
• Power through purification: The pill’s removal of toxins and impurities symbolizes how physical healing can unlock stalled potential.

Character interactions

• Tang San questions Yu Xiaogang’s collapse, while Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang jointly deflect his suspicions.
• Ye Lin directs Dugu Bo in retrieving the pills and later reassures him by taking one herself first.
• Dugu Bo’s response to the pill changes his view of Ye Lin, and he cultivates alongside her after experiencing its effects.

Plot and key events

• Over a year at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Ye Lin cultivates and uses many of Dugu Bo’s medicinal herbs. Dugu Bo spends the year purging and concentrating the toxins in his body.
• Dugu Bo awakens with his poison cleared and his spirit power raised to level 93. His hair and eyes have changed, and his newly concentrated poison is even more potent.
• Ye Lin also makes a major breakthrough: after taking a Shengzong Pill, she advances from level 49 to level 50, becoming a Spirit King at age fourteen. She has also improved her spiritual power and displays the Eight God Wings.
• Ye Lin leaves for Shrek Academy, explaining that she needs to return in time for the Spirit Tournament. Dugu Bo is astonished to see her fly away.
• Back at Shrek, Ye Lin finds the group training under Zhao Wuji’s gravity pressure. She gives individually prepared pills to the students and staff, then explains that each is tailored to its recipient and may bring major changes—particularly for Ning Rongrong.
• Ning Rongrong and the others take their pills at once. Zhao Wuji delivers the staff’s share to Flender and the other teachers, who agree to accept them.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Lin returns markedly stronger, having reached Spirit King and gained the ability to fly. She remains generous, sharing carefully customized pills with her friends and teachers.
• Dugu Bo completes his detoxification, reaches level 93, and becomes grateful to Ye Lin, offering her free access to his medicinal garden. He is left stunned by her wings and power.
• The Shrek group has continued progressing during Ye Lin’s absence: Dai Mubai is level 42; Xiao Wu, level 38; Oscar, level 35; and Ma Hongjun, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong, level 34.
• Ning Rongrong is especially curious about what her pill will do and takes it immediately. Zhao Wuji helps persuade a doubtful Flender to accept the staff’s gifts.

Significant themes

• Cultivation through trust and mutual support: Ye Lin’s growth and Dugu Bo’s recovery are tied to her knowledge and help, while her gifts strengthen the Shrek community.
• Transformation and renewal: Both Ye Lin and Dugu Bo emerge from the year changed—one advancing in rank and ability, the other freed from poison and greatly empowered.
• Preparation for competition: Ye Lin’s return and the group’s continued training set the stage for the Spirit Tournament and a potential clash with Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation.

Plot points and events

• Ye Lin returns to Shrek and gives the teachers and students powerful pills. After absorbing them, everyone gains major increases in Soul Power and reaches or approaches a breakthrough.
• Xiao Wu reaches rank 40 and gains a mysterious protective layer. She recognizes Ye Lin’s kindness and breaks down in tears, while Ye Lin reassures her.
• The students’ gains reflect their individual strengths: Dai Mubai gains stronger attacks and defense-breaking, Oscar cultivates faster, Zhu Zhuqing becomes faster, Ma Hongjun’s flames grow stronger, and Ning Rongrong’s Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda transforms into a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji become Soul Douluo; the other teachers also gain several ranks. Impressed by the academy’s new strength, Flender decides to take the group to the Sunset Forest to find spirit rings.
• Meanwhile, Tang San breaks through to rank 40 with help from his training environment and Liu Erlong’s pill. He sets out with Erlong and Yu Xiaogang to obtain his fourth spirit ring.
• After two fruitless days searching the Sunset Forest, Shrek’s group considers changing forests. Dai Mubai then spots Tang San and Yu Xiaogang.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Lin’s return demonstrates how much her abilities and influence have grown; she substantially strengthens the whole academy.
• Xiao Wu shows deep affection and trust toward Ye Lin, who comforts and protects her.
• The Shrek students each develop in ways suited to their roles, while Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul undergoes an especially significant transformation.
• Flender’s confidence rises: he believes Shrek may be strong enough to contend for the upcoming Soul Master Tournament championship.
• Tang San is eager to capitalize on reaching rank 40 and secure his fourth spirit ring. Liu Erlong enthusiastically supports him, while Yu Xiaogang accompanies them.

Significant themes

• Growth through support: Ye Lin’s gifts and the help Tang San receives from Erlong accelerate their progress.
• Individual potential: Each character’s improvements complement their distinct abilities and roles.
• Ambition and competition: Shrek’s new strength raises expectations for the tournament, while Tang San’s breakthrough sets up a meeting between the two groups.
• Care and loyalty: Xiao Wu’s gratitude toward Ye Lin and Erlong’s encouragement of Tang San emphasize the bonds behind their advancement.

Key plot points

• Shrek Academy’s group unexpectedly encounters Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and Liu Erlong in the Star Dou Forest.
• Flender’s students accuse Yu Xiaogang and Tang San of fleeing after nearly 10,000 Gold Soul Coins went missing, as well as stealing Ma Hongjun’s storage soul tool. Yu and Tang deny everything and demand proof.
• Liu Erlong, unsure whom to believe, offers to repay the missing money. Flender declines, saying he will let the matter go because he trusts her judgment.
• Flender learns that Liu Erlong is now Tang San’s girlfriend. Stunned and upset, he avoids pursuing the subject.
• Yu Xiaogang explains that the group is seeking a Fourth Spirit Ring because Tang San has reached level forty. He boasts that Tang is fourteen and trained by him.
• Ye Lin reveals that she is also fourteen—but has reached level fifty. The other Shrek students say they have reached level forty, leaving Yu Xiaogang shocked and deflated.

Character developments and interactions

• Flender reunites with Liu Erlong and shows lingering feelings for her, but hides his anger over her relationship with Tang San. He also restrains his students from escalating the accusation.
• Liu Erlong tries to defuse the dispute by offering money and stands by her belief that Yu Xiaogang and Tang San are innocent, despite the accusations.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San deny the alleged theft and present themselves as victims of slander. Yu then boasts about Tang’s advancement, only to have his pride punctured by the Shrek students’ achievements.
• The Shrek students confront Yu and Tang about the missing money, while their superior cultivation levels expose the gap between them and Yu Xiaogang’s celebrated disciple.
• Yu Xiaogang regrets not taking Ye Lin as a disciple, imagining that her level-fifty achievement would have made his reputation.

Significant themes

• Reputation versus evidence: The theft accusations remain unresolved, with Liu Erlong’s trust—not proof—ending the confrontation.
• Pride and humiliation: Yu Xiaogang’s boast about Tang San is immediately overshadowed by Ye Lin and the other students.
• Unrequited or complicated affection: Flender’s reunion with Liu Erlong is undercut by her relationship with Tang San.
• Rivalry and achievement: The chapter uses cultivation rankings to contrast Yu Xiaogang’s claims with the Shrek group’s actual progress.

Key plot points and events

• Liu Erlong praises Flender’s students and learns Shrek Academy has recently moved from Suotuo City to Heaven Dou City. Her dislike of Heaven Dou Royal Academy prompts the group to revisit Tang San’s humiliating encounter there.
• Shrek’s students tease Tang San about his “Blue Silver Suona” soul skill and the embarrassing backlash that left him unconscious. Yu Xiaogang tries to stop the discussion before Tang San’s reputation suffers further.
• As the group turns to finding a suitable soul beast, a massive red, three-tailed creature bursts from the ground. Ye Lin identifies it as an Ancient Lord, a rare, fire-aligned soul beast with a murderous nature. At roughly 4,500 years old, it seems suited to Ma Hongjun’s next soul ring.
• The Ancient Lord attacks with fire. Dai Mubai blocks its flames, while Ma Hongjun’s attack accidentally helps it flee. Tang San binds it with Blue Silver Entanglement, but its flames burn through the vines. Ye Lin prepares to use her fourth soul skill, Devouring Domain.

Character developments

• Liu Erlong’s affection for Tang San is evident: despite joining in the conversation, she rebukes the others for targeting him.
• Tang San grows visibly embarrassed and angry as his past failures are exposed, then tries to regain control by restraining the beast.
• Ma Hongjun is excited by the prospect of a powerful new soul skill and eager to claim the Ancient Lord.
• Ye Lin demonstrates extensive knowledge of soul beasts and remains calm as the group faces danger.
• Dai Mubai takes the vanguard role, showing confidence and strength in combat.

Significant themes

• Humor and humiliation: The group’s teasing turns Tang San’s past setbacks into recurring jokes, while Yu Xiaogang tries to protect his image.
• Knowledge and experience: Ye Lin’s expertise shapes the group’s response to an unfamiliar creature.
• Hunting versus being hunted: The Ancient Lord intended to ambush prey but quickly finds itself outmatched.

Character interactions

• Liu Erlong questions Flender about Shrek and reacts strongly to its connection with Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Ning Rongrong pile on with stories and interpretations of Tang San’s embarrassing incident; Liu Erlong defends him, and Yu Xiaogang redirects the conversation.
• Flender lets the students handle the fight, confident that Ye Lin can intervene if necessary.
• Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Tang San each attempt to stop the Ancient Lord in turn, but its fire defeats Tang San’s vines, prompting Ye Lin to step in.

Key plot points and events

• Ye Lin reveals her Fourth Soul Skill, Devouring Domain, a rare domain ability appearing far earlier than expected. It drains an opponent’s Soul Power and some vitality while holding them in place.
• The weakened Ancient Lord is finished off by Ma Hongjun’s combined Phoenix skills before he can use his signature ability. Ma Hongjun absorbs the resulting spirit ring and becomes a Soul Ancestor.
• Ye Lin takes Xiao Wu aside so she can secretly condense her Fourth Spirit Ring, keeping Xiao Wu’s identity as a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast in human form hidden.
• Xiao Wu demonstrates her Fourth Soul Skill, Invincible Golden Body: three seconds of absolute defense, with its duration increasing as she gains levels. She walks unharmed through Ma Hongjun’s powerful fire attack.
• The group resumes searching Sunset Forest for spirit rings. After two fruitless days, they find a roughly four-thousand-year-old Vine Mimic, a plant Soul Beast that can imitate creatures, people, and objects.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Lin’s domain astonishes the group and reinforces how far beyond an ordinary student her power has become. Flender estimates she is at least as strong as a Spirit Emperor and confidently allows her to take Xiao Wu away.
• Ma Hongjun becomes boastful after his victory and advancement, teasing Oscar about being overtaken. Xiao Wu’s demonstration quickly shifts his pride into amazement.
• Flender expresses pride in Ye Lin, while Liu Erlong questions whether it is safe to let students go off alone.
• The group’s reactions to Xiao Wu’s skill establish just how exceptional her defensive ability is.

Significant themes

• Unexpected power and rare abilities: Ye Lin’s early domain and Xiao Wu’s absolute defense defy what the others consider normal.
• Trust and secrecy: Ye Lin protects Xiao Wu’s secret while the group places growing trust in her judgment.
• Competition and camaraderie: Ma Hongjun’s teasing and the others’ reactions mix friendly rivalry with mutual support.
• The escalating demands of cultivation: The search for suitable spirit beasts becomes harder as the group’s required ring levels rise.

Chapter 134 Summary

• The group encounters a three-thousand-year-old Vine Mimic, an ancient plant Soul Beast that can copy what it considers the strongest creature nearby. Ye Lin explains that its age—and possibly the value of its resulting skill—can change depending on how it judges the absorber.
• Liu Erlong attacks, and the Vine Mimic copies her appearance, Martial Soul Possession, and seven soul rings. Despite also mimicking her fire abilities, it is no match for the real Liu Erlong, who beats it badly.
• Ye Lin releases Bear Two, her unusually powerful Golden Claw Bear. Though it has only about three thousand years of cultivation, its strength exceeds that of a fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast. Its presence briefly distracts the Vine Mimic, allowing Liu Erlong to damage it further.
• Liu Erlong gives the weakened beast to Tang San. He thanks her, kills it, and begins absorbing its soul ring while she guards him. The others settle down quietly.
• As Ye Lin cultivates, she secretly alters the plot outcome: Tang San’s ring is changed from 3,200 years to 200 years, then reduced again to a mere ten-year soul ring.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Ye Lin demonstrates her ability to manipulate events with ease and reveals the exceptional strength of her bonded beast. She also keeps Bear Two in check by promising it a future fight.
• Liu Erlong takes charge of the dangerous encounter, protects Tang San’s opportunity to absorb the beast, and is surprised by Ye Lin’s ability to raise such a powerful Soul Beast.
• Tang San accepts the Vine Mimic as his target and begins absorption, unaware that Ye Lin has sabotaged the ring.
• Yu Xiaogang chooses the beast for Tang San and records its unusual abilities.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing react with curiosity to the unfamiliar creature and Bear Two’s strength.

Significant Themes

• Appearance versus actual strength: The Vine Mimic can copy powerful forms, but imitation cannot make it equal to the original.
• Power and cultivation are not the same: Bear Two’s modest cultivation conceals extraordinary combat strength.
• Hidden interference and unequal knowledge: Tang San believes he is absorbing a suitable ring, while Ye Lin secretly changes the outcome.

Plot points and events

• Ye Lin uses the system to reduce Tang San’s fourth spirit ring from ten thousand years to ten years. The Vine Mimic then rejects him so completely that the ring becomes one year old, the minimum possible.
• The system rewards Ye Lin with an enhanced modification opportunity and unlocks a “Medium-Small Restriction Reduction” option.
• Tang San’s fourth spirit skill is revealed as Blue Silver Mimicry, which Ye Lin modifies into the Blue Silver Painted Halberd. Tang San can summon a blue halberd decorated with a morning glory.
• Though it looks impressive, the halberd is weaker than an ordinary weapon. Tang San hides this by calling its poor performance a mutation and quickly dismisses it.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Lin is amused by the ring’s extraordinary downgrade and continues shaping Tang San’s abilities to suit her own plans.
• Tang San is disappointed by his weak spirit ring and skill. He tries to save face in front of the others, while developing an inexplicable urge to stab his adoptive father with the halberd.
• Yu Xiaogang is baffled by the spirit ring’s change and cannot explain why Tang San’s skill produces a halberd.
• Liu Erlong comforts Tang San and praises the halberd’s appearance, not realizing how useless it is.
• Shrek’s younger members mock Tang San’s white fourth ring, but Flender stops them.

Significant themes

• The chapter plays comic humiliation against Tang San’s pride: his supposedly powerful progression is reduced to a one-year ring and an almost worthless skill.
• Ye Lin’s system-based interference turns fate and cultivation into tools for parody, while the gap between an ability’s impressive appearance and its actual power drives the humor.
• The recurring joke links Tang San’s new halberd to the idea of “stabbing adoptive fathers,” foreshadowing a future use.

Key plot points and events

• After Tang San obtains his spirit ring, the group continues searching the Sunset Forest for suitable rings for Ye Lin, Oscar, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Zhao Wuji, and Flender. Ning Rongrong receives a roughly four-thousand-year-old earth-attribute ring that grants a shield-generating skill.
• The search then stalls for two days. Although the forest offers many kinds of soul beasts, the group struggles to find ones with the right attributes and cultivation levels.
• At night, Tang San and Liu Erlong share a tent with Yu Xiaogang. Tang San crowds Yu Xiaogang out of the tent while pursuing intimacy with Liu Erlong.
• Their attempt fails, and Tang San lets slip that he has been to a brothel. Liu Erlong is disgusted and confronts him; when he denies it, she points out his contradiction and orders him to leave.
• Liu Erlong kicks Tang San through the tent wall, where Yu Xiaogang witnesses the aftermath.

Character developments

• Liu Erlong loses her attraction to Tang San, viewing him as crude and unworthy, and reaffirms her emotional regard for Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang San is portrayed as deceptive, sexually preoccupied, and increasingly desperate to excuse himself when confronted.
• Yu Xiaogang is humiliated and displaced from his own tent, then left outside in the cold; he remains angry and jealous but is too stunned to intervene.
• The group’s teachers remain focused on finding appropriate spirit rings, while the delayed search tests their patience.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus reality: Tang San’s polished standing as a talented student contrasts with his behavior in private.
• Jealousy and betrayal: Yu Xiaogang is forced to witness Tang San’s advances toward Liu Erlong.
• Disgust and disillusionment: Liu Erlong’s view of Tang San changes sharply once his actions and lies come to light.
• Patience under pressure: The prolonged hunt reflects the group’s concern that unsuitable spirit rings could damage the younger members’ futures.

Character interactions

• Tang San pushes Yu Xiaogang out of the tent while making advances on Liu Erlong.
• Liu Erlong initially goes along with Tang San but withdraws when he reveals his supposed brothel experience and then denies it.
• Yu Xiaogang overhears the encounter and watches Liu Erlong eject Tang San, ending the night in confusion and resentment.

Key plot points and events

• Liu Erlong kicks Tang San out of the tent after calling him impotent. He slides a long distance, badly scraping his buttocks.
• Yu Xiaogang comforts Tang San, dismisses Erlong’s accusation, and applies healing ointment to him. The treatment revives an old, familiar routine between them; afterward, Tang San applies ointment to Yu Xiaogang’s old wound in return.
• They spend the cold night outdoors, huddled together. No Soul Beasts attack, apparently kept away by the Golden Claw Bear’s aura.
• The next morning, the group notices the long scrape in the ground. Oscar and Dai Mubai tease Tang San and Yu Xiaogang about it, while Tang San denies responsibility. Dai Mubai asks whether Tang San and Liu Erlong have fallen out, drawing an icy glare from Erlong.
• With the search for Spirit Rings progressing too slowly, Ye Lin proposes going to Dugu Bo’s medicinal garden. She says his presence could draw Soul Beasts toward the poisonous formation, where they could be safely hunted. The group recognizes Dugu Bo’s name and asks whether she knows him.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang San is humiliated and injured, but turns to Yu Xiaogang for comfort. Their reciprocal wound care suggests a familiar, intimate dynamic, played for dark comedy.
• Yu Xiaogang sides with Tang San against Liu Erlong and eagerly resumes their old routine. Both briefly imagine how things might differ if the other were not impotent or a eunuch.
• Liu Erlong remains cold toward Tang San, and her glare quickly silences Dai Mubai’s teasing.
• Ye Lin takes initiative by offering a practical shortcut for finding Spirit Rings; Flender listens but questions her connection to Dugu Bo.

Significant themes

• Humiliation and injury as comedy: Tang San’s fall and the group’s teasing drive the chapter’s humor.
• Dependence and intimacy: Tang San and Yu Xiaogang rely on each other for comfort and care.
• Practical problem-solving: Ye Lin’s proposal offers a potentially faster way to obtain the group’s needed Spirit Rings.

Plot points and events

• Ye Lin explains that her good relationship with Dugu Bo—thanks to her teacher, Tang Hao—will let the group pass through his poison formation and reach the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Flender suggests Liu Erlong, Yu Xiaogang, and Tang San return for safety, but they refuse.
• Ye Lin says her Antidote Pills can protect them from toxins for three days. The group enters the formation, but Tang San ignores his pill and tries his own antidote. The poison quickly incapacitates him, and Liu Erlong has to put the pill in his mouth.
• Inside, Tang San spots valuable herbs and rushes to harvest them. Dugu Bo drops in and kicks him away for touching his property without permission.
• Ye Lin explains the group’s situation to Dugu Bo. He agrees to help them obtain suitable soul beasts and mentions that his granddaughter, Dugu Yan, has also reached level forty.
• Dugu Yan thanks Ye Lin for helping her. Ye Lin tells the others to wait while she goes to retrieve a particular herb.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Lin displays confidence and authority: she knows the route through the poison formation, has prepared antidotes, and can call on Dugu Bo for help. She treats Dugu Yan’s recovery warmly and matter-of-factly.
• Tang San is overconfident about his poison expertise. His dismissal of Ye Lin’s antidote leads to his collapse, and his greed for the herbs earns him a painful kick from Dugu Bo.
• Liu Erlong protects Tang San when he is poisoned, then reprimands him for risking his life. She also rejects Flender’s suggestion that she stay behind.
• Flender remains cautious and diplomatic, while Yu Xiaogang and the others follow Ye Lin’s lead.
• Dugu Bo is initially hostile toward Tang San for trespassing, but readily agrees to assist Ye Lin’s group. His relationship with Ye Lin is familiar and trusting.
• Dugu Yan expresses gratitude to Ye Lin and curiosity about her.

Significant themes

• Overconfidence and consequences: Tang San’s faith in his own skills nearly gets him killed.
• Trust and cooperation: Ye Lin’s preparation and connection with Dugu Bo make the dangerous journey possible.
• Respect for boundaries: Dugu Bo’s attack underscores that the herbs are his property and cannot be taken without permission.

Plot points and events

• Ye Lin retrieves an Aromatic Silk Beauty from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and uses it to lure spirit beasts to the edge of Dugu Bo’s poison formation.
• Dugu Bo adds a weaker outer barrier to contain the creatures. A Ghost Tiger appears, and he incapacitates it with ease. Zhu Zhuqing kills it and begins absorbing its purple spirit ring.
• The herb attracts a growing swarm of spirit beasts. Dugu Bo knocks them all unconscious with poisonous mist, allowing the group to choose targets without fighting them.
• Ye Lin selects a four-thousand-year Frenzied Demon Lizard for Oscar, a twelve-thousand-year Saber-Toothed Tiger for herself, and a six-thousand-year Dark Demon Mouse for Dugu Yan.
• Yu Xiaogang objects that a fourth spirit ring must not exceed five thousand years, citing his theories. Dugu Bo slaps him and dismisses his interference.
• Dugu Bo asks Ye Lin to explain her choice. She argues that Dugu Yan’s improved physique and Jade Phosphorous Serpent bloodline give her resistance to the Mouse’s power. Dugu Bo accepts her judgment.
• Dugu Bo’s serpents bring the three chosen beasts into the formation. Ye Lin and the others begin absorbing their rings. The group then discusses stronger beasts for later rings, but the available creatures seem too weak for an eighth ring.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Lin demonstrates confidence and expertise in selecting spirit rings, guiding both the group and Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo shows overwhelming control over the poison formation and spirit beasts. He trusts Ye Lin’s assessment of Dugu Yan, while treating Yu Xiaogang’s objections with contempt.
• Zhu Zhuqing gains a suitable Ghost Tiger ring, chosen for its attack and speed benefits.
• Yu Xiaogang tries to assert authority through his theories but is publicly rebuked by Dugu Bo.
• Tang San recognizes the Aromatic Silk Beauty, drawing Dugu Bo’s notice.
• Flender and Ma Hongjun react to the unusually large influx of beasts and Dugu Bo’s effortless poison technique.

Significant themes

• Practical experience versus rigid theory: Ye Lin’s tailored judgment challenges Yu Xiaogang’s fixed limits.
• Trust and authority: Dugu Bo defers to Ye Lin’s knowledge while firmly asserting control over the group.
• Power and preparation: The poison formation turns a dangerous hunt into a controlled opportunity for spirit-ring selection.