Chapter Summaries

Dai Mubai explained Zhao Wuji’s overwhelming strength, and Tang San, Su Ming, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing introduced their abilities before planning how to endure his test. Su Ming urged Tang San to use his true strength, but Tang San hesitated to reveal his hidden weapons so soon.

• Dai Mubai warned the group that Zhao Wuji was a level seventy-six Battle Soul Saint whose strength and defense made the test extremely difficult.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, Su Ming, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing introduced their Martial Souls and Soul Master roles.
• Ning Rongrong revealed that her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda could boost the team’s speed, strength, and Soul Power by around forty percent.
• Su Ming volunteered to protect Ning Rongrong while Tang San coordinated the team’s control and attacks against Zhao Wuji.
• Tang San assigned roles for the test, and Su Ming reminded him to use his true strength; Tang San hesitated to expose his hidden weapons.

Su Ming rallied the candidates to challenge Zhao Wuji and helped them prepare a plan using Tang San’s Hidden Weapons. The fight began with Ning Rongrong’s boosts, and Zhao Wuji discovered that Su Ming was a four-ring Soul Ancestor.

• Su Ming urged the group to challenge Zhao Wuji, and Tang San agreed to use his Silent Sleeve Arrows with Su Ming’s Wood Thorns.
• Tang San gave the candidates Silent Sleeve Arrows and planned to use them to demonstrate their worth to Ning Rongrong, while Su Ming warned Xiao Wu not to use Charm on Zhao Wuji.
• When the incense burned out, Zhao Wuji began the test, and Ning Rongrong immediately used her Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda to boost Tang San and the others.
• The candidates released their Martial Souls, and Zhao Wuji saw that most were three-ring Soul Elders while Tang San had two rings and Su Ming had four.
• Zhao Wuji questioned Dai Mubai about the group’s strength, and Dai Mubai replied that Zhao Wuji had never asked.

Su Ming used his support and control abilities to help the others attack Zhao Wuji, while Xiao Wu prepared to test Zhao Wuji’s formidable defense with her Explosive Kill Eight-Stage Throw. The chapter ended with Xiao Wu spinning Zhao Wuji through the air as her kicks grew heavier.

• Zhao Wuji attacked the group, but Su Ming lifted Ning Rongrong out of danger with a branch.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing attacked Zhao Wuji, but their strikes barely affected him.
• Su Ming used Withered Wood Meets Spring to strengthen Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing, then joined Tang San in restraining Zhao Wuji with vines.
• Xiao Wu asked Su Ming to extend his vines, then used Waist Bow and Teleport to begin her Explosive Kill Eight-Stage Throw against Zhao Wuji.

Su Ming and Tang San turned the trial against Zhao Wuji with Hidden Weapons, Wood Style, and coordinated support. When Zhao Wuji escalated his attacks, Su Ming summoned an Azure Wood Dragon that blocked his strike and rapidly healed, leaving Zhao Wuji shocked by its power.

• Xiao Wu targeted Zhao Wuji's lower body, but he rebounded her kick with his Unmovable King Body and raised his seven Soul Rings.
• Su Ming called Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing back to protect Ning Rongrong, then joined Tang San in attacking Zhao Wuji with Hidden Weapons and volleys of Wood Thorns.
• Tang San found a gap in Zhao Wuji's defense and struck him with Hidden Weapons and Dragon Whisker Needles, while Su Ming shielded Tang San and helped bind Zhao Wuji with regenerated wooden walls.
• Zhao Wuji used Gravity Compression and Gravity Increase, and Ning Rongrong boosted Su Ming as Tang San added poison to the attack.
• Su Ming stacked the effects of all four Soul Rings and summoned an Azure Wood Dragon to block Zhao Wuji's Great Vajra Palm; the dragon quickly recovered after being damaged, astonishing Zhao Wuji.

Su Ming used his Wood Dragon to withstand Zhao Wuji’s attacks, then trapped Zhao Wuji with the All-Binding Sack Technique. The Wood Dragon coiled around Zhao Wuji and bit at his head, leaving him scrambling to defend himself.

• Su Ming told Zhao Wuji that the Wood Dragon was his third Spirit Skill and sent it to restrain him.
• Zhao Wuji repeatedly struck the Wood Dragon with Great Vajra Palm, but it regenerated and remained intact.
• Zhao Wuji used Position Tracking to target Su Ming, while Dai Mubai warned Su Ming of the attack.
• Su Ming summoned wooden hands from the ground with the All-Binding Sack Technique and trapped Zhao Wuji in midair.
• Su Ming ordered the Wood Dragon to bite Zhao Wuji, who concentrated Soul Power around his head to protect himself.

Su Ming and the others passed Zhao Wuji’s fourth test by holding out until the incense burned down, forcing Zhao Wuji to endure their attacks without using his Martial Soul Avatar. After the test, Su Ming restored Ning Rongrong’s Soul Power, while Tang San removed Zhao Wuji’s needles and Oscar arrived to treat him.

• Su Ming’s Wood Dragon absorbed Zhao Wuji’s Soul Power until Su Ming released him as the incense burned out.
• Zhao Wuji acknowledged that Su Ming and the others had passed the fourth test and could enroll.
• Su Ming used his Spirit Skills to restore Ning Rongrong’s Soul Power.
• Tang San removed the Dragon Whisker Needles from Zhao Wuji, who sent Dai Mubai to fetch Oscar.
• Oscar arrived and Zhao Wuji demanded two Big Sausages and two Little Cured Sausages.

Su Ming helped Oscar discover that quietly murmuring his Soul Incantation let him make sausages without shouting, then offered him a storage ring and encouraged his potential. After the students reached their shabby dormitories, Oscar accepted the ring but said he needed time before acknowledging Su Ming as his big brother.

• Oscar shouted his Soul Incantations to produce sausages, and Zhao Wuji ate them to recover from Tang San's poison.
• Su Ming suggested Oscar murmur his incantation, and Oscar successfully made a sausage without shouting.
• Zhao Wuji sent Dai Mubai to lead the students to their dormitories, where Su Ming agreed to room with Oscar and Tang San took a room alone.
• Su Ming gave Oscar a twenty-cubic-meter storage ring as an investment in his talent and encouraged him to pursue great achievements.
• Oscar accepted the ring but said he needed time before treating Su Ming as his big brother.

Su Ming used his Wood Style to replace the shabby dormitories with spacious three-room houses, then learned that Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing had unusually high innate Soul Power in this parallel world. As the girls discussed the revelations in Su Ming’s Diary, Zhu Zhuqing admitted she wanted to escape her engagement to Dai Mubai by growing strong enough to defy the Star Luo Imperial Family.

• Su Ming erased Oscar’s dormitory and used the Three Rooms and One Hall Technique to build a much larger wooden house for him and Oscar.
• Su Ming built a second house for Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing, and discovered that Ning Rongrong had Innate Full Soul Power while Zhu Zhuqing had level-nine innate power.
• The system confirmed that the world was a parallel world where some people differed from Su Ming’s understanding, though the overall course of events remained largely unchanged.
• Su Ming wrote in his Diary about the girls’ innate Soul Power and predicted that Ning Rongrong would reveal her little-witch personality after Flender’s run the next day.
• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong teased each other while reading the Diary, and Ning Rongrong admitted she had asked about Su Ming’s innate power to see how he would answer.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong that Dai Mubai’s behavior had disappointed her and that she planned to cultivate until she could escape her engagement.

Su Ming received Toad Oil and Ah Yin’s cultivation rose to fifty thousand years, allowing her to use the Blue Silver Domain at a basic level. He explained Sage Mode’s power and dangers to the women, then Ning Rongrong received a God-Bestowed Soul Ring as her diary reward.

• The system rewarded Su Ming with Toad Oil and increased Ah Yin’s cultivation by twenty thousand years, restoring it to fifty thousand years.
• Su Ming learned that Ah Yin could use the Blue Silver Domain for reconnaissance, Soul Ring camouflage, and Blue Silver Area Bind.
• Su Ming explained that Toad Oil could help him learn Sage Mode but risked turning him into a petrified toad, so he decided to wait for a Dog-Beating Stick.
• Su Ming described how Sage Mode could boost his physical abilities and spirit skills, while the women learned that it lasted only briefly and had strict conditions.
• The system named Ning Rongrong the most-mentioned female lead and rewarded her with a God-Bestowed Soul Ring, which she planned to save until she was stronger.

Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing shared the rewards they received from the live stream before Su Ming and the others encountered Ma Hongjun assaulting Cuihua. Su Ming stopped him with Wood Style and revealed his four Soul Rings, leaving Ma Hongjun intimidated.

• Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing described their live stream rewards to one another.
• Su Ming woke Oscar, and the two set out for food before Tang San and the three girls joined them.
• Xiao Wu confronted Ma Hongjun when he tried to force Cuihua to stay with him, and Su Ming wounded and restrained him with Wood Style.
• Oscar and Xiao Wu asked Su Ming to release Ma Hongjun, while Su Ming criticized Ma Hongjun's behavior and questioned Oscar about his conduct.
• Ma Hongjun defended himself and challenged the group, so Su Ming displayed his four Soul Rings and warned him to admit when he was wrong.

Su Ming confronted Ma Hongjun over his attempt to vent his Evil Fire by harassing girls, then told Oscar he would compete with him for Ning Rongrong. The students gathered at the training ground, where Tang San recognized the academy dean, Flender, as a shop owner from Suotuo City.

• Dai Mubai explained that Ma Hongjun's mutated Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul caused his excessive Evil Fire, and Su Ming challenged him to handle it himself rather than harass women.
• Su Ming questioned Ma Hongjun about using brothels, while Ma Hongjun's remarks about Dai Mubai's dates embarrassed Dai Mubai and drove Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong away.
• Oscar asked Su Ming whether he could pursue Ning Rongrong, and Su Ming declared that he would compete with him, citing his own strength and Ning Rongrong's sect's requirements for a spouse.
• Oscar accepted that his Food System Martial Soul and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's rules left him with little chance against Su Ming.
• Dai Mubai led the students to the training ground, where Flender introduced himself as the level-seventy-eight dean and Tang San recognized him from a shop in Suotuo City.

Su Ming and Tang San avoided tuition by invoking Yu Xiaogang’s connection to Flender, while Flender tried and failed to recruit Su Ming to renovate the academy for free. Flender assigned Ning Rongrong and Oscar endurance training, leaving them to run twenty laps around the village before noon to earn lunch.

• Su Ming and Tang San told Flender that Yu Xiaogang had sent them to Shrek and expected their tuition to be waived, so Flender exempted them and Xiao Wu while Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong agreed to pay.
• Flender asked Su Ming to rebuild the academy after learning he had renovated the dormitories with his Martial Soul, but Su Ming refused to work without extra payment.
• Flender announced that the students faced danger at the academy and told Dai Mubai to explain its rules while he kept Ning Rongrong and Oscar for their first lesson.
• Flender argued that Support Soul Masters needed stamina to escape danger, and Su Ming considered helping Ning Rongrong gain escape and attack methods.
• Flender ordered Ning Rongrong and Oscar to run twenty laps around the village before noon or go without lunch.

Su Ming joined Ning Rongrong and Oscar's exhausting twenty-lap run, helping Rongrong grow closer to him while Flender's plans for her and Oscar fell through. After the group finished the run and found the academy's lunch meager, news arrived at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect that Rongrong had reached Shrek Academy and passed the entrance exam.

• Su Ming persuaded Flender to let him run with Ning Rongrong and Oscar, and Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Tang San, and Dai Mubai joined them.
• Ning Rongrong struggled with the run, rejected Oscar's sausage, and warmed slightly to Su Ming after he praised her unrestrained side.
• Ning Rongrong used her Spirit Skills to help the group finish all twenty laps just before noon, while Flender realized his plans for her and Oscar had failed.
• The group found only meager food in the cafeteria, and Su Ming promised they would go into the city for a proper meal.
• At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Chen Xin and Gu Rong questioned Ning Fengzhi about Rongrong's safety, then a messenger reported that she had passed Shrek Academy's entrance exam.

Ning Fengzhi let Ning Rongrong remain at Shrek Academy and sent Gu Rong to check on her, while Su Ming’s diary made Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong reconsider their future ties to Dai Mubai and Oscar. The chapter ended with Su Ming declaring that he also wanted to pursue Ning Rongrong, leaving Oscar’s hopes in doubt.

• Ning Fengzhi defended Ning Rongrong’s enrollment at Shrek Academy, and Gu Rong set out to visit her and investigate the academy.
• Flender announced that Tang San would go to the Star Dou Great Forest for his third Soul Ring and that the others would accompany Zhao Wuji; Oscar said he was close to level thirty.
• Su Ming’s diary criticized Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai and described how the girls might later become close to them, prompting Zhu Zhuqing to resolve that she would never accept Dai Mubai.
• Su Ming’s diary predicted that Oscar was interested in Ning Rongrong, and Ning Rongrong reacted with discomfort at the thought of him pursuing her.
• Su Ming wrote that Oscar had asked whether he could pursue Ning Rongrong, and Su Ming said she was his type too and told Oscar not to waste his effort.

Su Ming reasoned that Oscar would be unlikely to become a Titled Douluo or inherit the Food God without Tang San’s help, then arrived with the others at the Soto Great Spirit Arena for their first matches. Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong both tried to team up with Su Ming, while Tang San invited Xiao Wu to pair with him instead.

• Su Ming concluded that Oscar would have to cultivate without an immortal herb or the Sea God Island Trial, making it unlikely he would reach level ninety-nine or earn the Food God’s inheritance.
• At the Soto Great Spirit Arena, Flender explained the academy’s graduation requirements and the arena’s rules, while Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun described their fight records.
• Su Ming registered with the others and was assigned a Soul Ancestor opponent; he boasted that a true monster should be able to fight above their level.
• Xiao Wu asked Su Ming to join her in two-on-two matches, but Ning Rongrong also offered her support, and both waited for his choice.
• Tang San suggested that Xiao Wu team up with him instead, arguing that Su Ming’s Soul Ancestor opponent would make a match with Xiao Wu too difficult.

Su Ming and his friends formed two-on-two teams before Zhu Zhuqing faced Tang San in her first one-on-one Soul Fighting match. Zhu Zhuqing baited Tang San into catching her Netherworld Slash barehanded, leaving the result unresolved.

• Xiao Wu rejected Tang San’s proposal to team up, and Su Ming chose her as his partner while Ning Rongrong teamed up with Zhu Zhuqing.
• The four registered as the Thousand-Hand Charm Rabbit Combination and the Seven Treasures Spirit Cat Combination, then Xiao Wu bought masks for everyone.
• Zhu Zhuqing drew Tang San as her first opponent, and both entered the arena under masked codenames.
• Tang San opened with Blue Silver Entanglement, while Zhu Zhuqing dodged his vines and failed to land her first attack because of his Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.
• Zhu Zhuqing rushed into close combat and challenged Tang San to take one attack; he caught her Netherworld Slash with his Mysterious Jade Hand, falling for her bait.

Zhu Zhuqing defeated Tang San by revealing that Netherworld Slash caused wounds to keep bleeding and worsen, while Su Ming healed him afterward. Xiao Wu then overwhelmed Dai Mubai in their match after the spectators’ taunts angered her, leaving the group preparing for the next battles.

• Zhu Zhuqing wounded Tang San with Netherworld Slash, whose Bleeding Effect steadily enlarged the injury, and Tang San admitted defeat.
• Zhu Zhuqing explained the skill’s effect, and Su Ming healed Tang San with his fourth Spirit Skill after Oscar gave him a Recovery Big Sausage.
• Su Ming revealed his one-on-one codename, True Thousand-Hand, before Xiao Wu and Dai Mubai were called to fight.
• Dai Mubai proposed staging their match, but Xiao Wu attacked in earnest after the spectators mocked her.
• Xiao Wu used Waist Bow, Teleport, and Explosive Kill: Eight-Stage Throw to defeat Dai Mubai, and the host announced her victory.

Su Ming defeated the Level Forty-Eight Luo Bao in a one-on-one match, then teamed with Xiao Wu against the Mo Brothers. Xiao Wu demonstrated her newly mastered Wind God Leg and knocked both opponents unconscious, while Tang San grew more troubled by the gap between himself and Su Ming.

• Su Ming healed Dai Mubai, then entered the arena for his one-on-one match against the leopard Martial Soul Soul Master Luo Bao.
• Su Ming used his vines and Wood World Wall to withstand Luo Bao’s strongest attack, and Luo Bao conceded.
• Xiao Wu praised Su Ming’s victory, while Tang San resolved to find a suitable Man Faced Demon Spider Soul Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Su Ming and Xiao Wu faced the Mo Brothers in a two-on-two match, and Xiao Wu asked Su Ming to support her while she tested her strength.
• Xiao Wu used Charm to make Mo Tie attack Mo Chui, then struck both brothers with Wind God Leg: Tough Grass in the Wind and knocked them out.

After the Soul Fighting matches, Ma Hongjun’s remarks about women angered Xiao Wu and the others, while his words also exposed Dai Mubai’s past with the Twins to Zhu Zhuqing. Zhu Zhuqing walked away in disgust, and Dai Mubai raised his hand to stop her as Su Ming and Tang San urged him to calm down.

• Xiao Wu defeated the Mo Brothers, and Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong also won their match as the Seven Treasures Spirit Cat Combination.
• Ma Hongjun announced that he was going to find the dean, then invited Dai Mubai to visit a brothel and repeated that women were resources.
• Xiao Wu rebuked Ma Hongjun, while Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong glared at him; Ma Hongjun left without saying more.
• Dai Mubai explained Ma Hongjun’s Martial Soul flaw, and Xiao Wu criticized Ma Hongjun for blaming his behavior on it.
• After Dai Mubai claimed his taste was better than Ma Hongjun’s, Zhu Zhuqing confronted him about the Twins and walked away in disgust.
• Dai Mubai shouted for Zhu Zhuqing to stop and raised his hand, while Su Ming and Tang San told him not to get physical.

Dai Mubai revealed that Zhu Zhuqing was his fiancée and explained why he had fled the Star Luo Empire, but Ning Rongrong condemned him for abandoning Zhu Zhuqing and confronting her hopes with his reckless behavior. Dai Mubai’s anger boiled over, and he threatened Ning Rongrong as the others watched.

• Dai Mubai admitted that he was the Third Prince of the Star Luo Empire and that Zhu Zhuqing was his childhood fiancée, explaining that he had fled the imperial succession struggle.
• Ning Rongrong accused Dai Mubai of abandoning Zhu Zhuqing while she endured dangerous training and mocked his womanizing and low cultivation.
• Ning Rongrong privately hoped Su Ming would defend her and considered how the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could protect her if Dai Mubai retaliated.
• Dai Mubai defended his behavior as a noble’s privilege and said he had only been having fun with women.
• Ning Rongrong explained that Zhu Zhuqing was angry because Dai Mubai had abandoned her and shattered her hopes, not merely because she had seen him with women.
• Dai Mubai shouted at Ning Rongrong, blamed her for interfering with his plans to team up with Zhu Zhuqing, and threatened to use force despite her status as a Support Soul Master.