Chapter Summaries

Long Zhanye begged Elder Gu to use the Secret of the Body to save him, but Elder Gu refused because the untested procedure could kill him. After Long Zhanye returned to his room in despair, Elder Xu learned what had happened and recalled the Mad Old Man he had met.

• Old Man Gu realized Long Zhanye's Heavenly Eye was a legendary Martial Soul and wrestled with whether to save him.
• Long Zhanye pleaded with Elder Gu to treat his shattered Heart Martial Soul and offered to serve him, but Elder Gu warned that the risky Secret of the Body had never been tested on a person.
• Elder Gu refused to perform the treatment and shut himself away, leaving Long Zhanye and Zhua Yun distraught.
• Long Zhanye returned to his room, where Elder Xu found him despairing over his unfinished vengeance and inability to die.
• Long Zhanye explained his discovery of the underground cavern and Elder Gu's refusal, and Elder Xu recalled the temperamental Mad Old Man.

Elder Xu stole the Body Sect’s Aromatic Silk Beauty to persuade Elder Gu to treat Long Zhanye, then delivered it to him. Long Zhanye brought the herb to Elder Gu’s door, and its fragrance left the alchemist stunned before he had even seen it.

• Elder Xu proposed trading the Body Sect’s Aromatic Silk Beauty for Elder Gu’s help curing Long Zhanye.
• Elder Xu returned several days later with the stolen immortal herb and urged Long Zhanye to convince Elder Gu.
• Long Zhanye accepted the Aromatic Silk Beauty and went to Elder Gu’s underground cavern that night.
• Elder Gu refused to see Long Zhanye, but Long Zhanye revealed the herb’s fragrance through the closed door.
• Elder Gu caught the fragrance and reacted with shock and excitement.

Long Zhanye offered Elder Gu the Aromatic Silk Beauty in exchange for treating his damaged heart, and Elder Gu spent twenty days developing a safer remedy. Elder Gu gave Long Zhanye the first Pure Heart Spirit Pills, beginning his treatment, while Long Zhanye withheld the herb until he was fully cured.

• Long Zhanye persuaded Elder Gu to treat him by promising him the Aromatic Silk Beauty after the treatment was complete.
• Elder Gu rejected the dangerous Heart Grafting Technique and spent twenty days developing another treatment.
• Zhua Yun summoned Long Zhanye to the secret chamber after Elder Gu finished refining the Pure Heart Spirit Pill.
• Long Zhanye took a pill and felt his heart pain ease, then received a bottle and instructions to take one pill each day for ten days.
• Elder Gu asked for the Aromatic Silk Beauty, but Long Zhanye refused to hand it over before his illness was cured.

After months of debate over the Shrek Inspectorate crippling Long Zhanye, the Body Sect's elders unanimously decided to launch a punitive campaign against Shrek. Jin Peng led more than fifty experts toward Shrek City as the sect entered full wartime readiness, while Long Zhanye remained unaware that the expedition was for his sake.

• The Body Sect's eleven core elders unanimously resolved to campaign against Shrek over the attack on Long Zhanye.
• Jin Peng ordered all experts of Soul Saint rank and above to gather and prepare to march on Shrek City.
• The Sect Warning Bell summoned the Body Sect's combat-ready disciples, stewards, and elders to the Martial Arts Arena.
• Jin Peng led more than fifty powerful figures toward Shrek City while the remaining disciples secured the sect.
• Long Zhanye watched the experts depart without understanding that their campaign had been sparked by his injury.

The Body Sect launched a punitive campaign against Shrek Academy, claiming Elder Xuan had crippled their greatest young genius. Jin Peng captured Yan Shaozhe and Wu Zheng severely injured Cai Mei'er, while the confrontation escalated and Elder Song prepared to challenge the Body Sect's accusation.

• Jin Peng led the Body Sect's forces to Shrek Academy and attacked Yan Shaozhe without warning.
• Jin Peng trapped Yan Shaozhe between golden walls of light and seized him by the throat, demanding that Xuan Zi come out.
• Cai Mei'er rushed to save Yan Shaozhe, but Wu Zheng struck her down with a bone claw, and Xian Lin'er caught her.
• Elder Song confronted Jin Peng over the invasion, and Wu Zheng accused Xuan Zi of destroying the Body Sect's greatest genius's foundation.
• Elder Song questioned how Xuan Zi had harmed the genius, then prepared to demand evidence and Yan Shaozhe's release.

Xuan Zi confronted Jin Peng to demand Yan Shaozhe’s release, but their clash escalated into a full battle between Shrek Academy and the Body Sect. The chapter ended as both sides ordered their forces to begin slaughtering one another.

• Xuan Zi arrived and demanded that Jin Peng release Yan Shaozhe, threatening to kill the Body Sect members if he was harmed.
• Jin Peng tightened his grip on Yan Shaozhe’s throat and challenged Xuan Zi, then activated his Gold-Level Awakening to fight him.
• Xuan Zi and Jin Peng exchanged powerful blows, and Jin Peng’s awakened strength let him meet Xuan Zi’s attack in a draw.
• Jin Peng ordered the Body Sect experts to bathe Shrek in blood and leave no one alive.
• Xuan Zi ordered the Sea God Pavilion elders to kill anyone outside the pavilion, and the battle began.

The Body Sect’s assault turned Shrek Academy into a slaughterhouse as Elder Wu massacred students and the Sea God Pavilion elders struggled to hold the attackers back. Just as the academy faced its worst despair, a white dragon phantom appeared above the Sea God Pavilion and a powerful voice ordered Jin Peng to stop.

• The Body Sect elders clashed with the Sea God Pavilion elders while Elder Wu bound the injured Yan Shaozhe and attacked the Outer Academy, killing students in droves.
• More than fifty Inner Academy disciples led by Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan rushed to fight Elder Wu, but his bone claws killed many of them and left the survivors gravely wounded.
• Xuan Zi tried to reach the students but Jin Peng kept him occupied, while Elder Xu defeated Gong Changlong and knocked him unconscious.
• Elder Wu continued slaughtering the Inner Academy disciples until fewer than ten remained, with Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan badly injured.
• A voice from the Sea God Pavilion told Jin Peng to stop as a vast pressure spread and a radiant white dragon phantom appeared in the sky.

Mu En intervened in the battle between Shrek and the Body Sect, acknowledged that Shrek had wronged the Body Sect’s genius, and offered three priceless treasures as compensation to end the conflict. Jin Peng was startled by the offer, and the chapter left the settlement awaiting his response.

• Mu En arrived and admitted that Xuan Zi had acted wrongly by destroying the Body Sect genius’s foundation, while urging both sides to stop fighting.
• Jin Peng accused Shrek of starting the conflict and threatened to ruin its reputation unless it showed the right attitude.
• Mu En warned Jin Peng against forcing Shrek into a corner, but Jin Peng insisted the outcome depended on Shrek’s response.
• Mu En offered Jin Peng two hundred-thousand-year soul bones and a ten-thousand-year Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng as compensation.
• Jin Peng’s pupils contracted when he saw the extraordinary treasures Mu En had offered.

The Body Sect withdrew after Mu En gave Jin Peng a precious treasure to end the battle, leaving Shrek Academy devastated and its casualties immense. Mu En reprimanded Xuan Zi, ordered him into seclusion, and directed the survivors to blame the attack on the Holy Spirit Cult to protect Shrek’s reputation.

• Jin Peng ordered the Body Sect fighters to stop and leave, while Elder Wu discarded the unconscious Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan and returned Yan Shaozhe to Shrek.
• Mu En descended as the Body Sect departed, and the battle’s aftermath revealed that both sides had suffered heavy losses, with Shrek’s academy and inner courtyard especially devastated.
• Xuan Zi challenged Mu En for letting Jin Peng go and compensating him, but Mu En blamed Xuan Zi’s reckless actions for provoking the conflict and slapped him.
• Mu En ordered Xuan Zi to reflect in seclusion and told the senior elders to rebuild the academy and treat the wounded.
• Mu En instructed everyone to claim that the Holy Spirit Cult had attacked Shrek, warning that anyone who revealed the truth would be punished as a traitor.

Elder Jin Peng returned to the Body Sect after its costly victory over Shrek Academy, ordered care and honors for the wounded and dead, then collapsed from injuries sustained fighting Xuan Zi. He arranged for treasures to be given to Elder Zhu’s descendants and Long Zhanye as the sect celebrated its victory and newfound standing.

• Elder Jin Peng ordered the injured treated and the fallen, including Elder Zhu, honored and their families supported.
• Behind closed doors, Jin Peng coughed blood and revealed that Xuan Zi had badly injured him in their fight.
• Jin Peng said Mu En’s compensation settled their old personal debts and instructed Wu Zheng to deliver a Spirit Bone to Elder Zhu’s descendants and an Immortal Herb and another Spirit Bone to Long Zhanye.
• Elder Wu and the others rushed Jin Peng to a secret chamber for treatment and promised to carry out his instructions.
• Body Sect disciples learned of Shrek Academy’s devastating losses and celebrated their sect’s victory and increased prestige.

Elder Wu took the Demon Eye Demon Tree Skull that had been secured for Long Zhanye and forced it on Vina, claiming the sect’s resources should go to someone with a future. Vina later confessed and offered the Soul Bone back to Long Zhanye, who warned her that returning it could expose her to Elder Wu’s anger.

• Elder Wu delivered the Demon Soul Great White Shark Right Leg Bone to Elder Zhu’s family, then decided to divert Long Zhanye’s Demon Eye Demon Tree Skull to Vina.
• Elder Wu argued that Vina’s Twin Martial Souls and healthy future made her a better recipient, and forced her to accept the Soul Bone despite her protests.
• Vina stored the Soul Bone away without examining or absorbing it, troubled that she had received compensation meant for Long Zhanye.
• Vina visited Long Zhanye secretly, explained how Elder Wu had given her the Soul Bone, and placed it on the table for him.
• Long Zhanye calmly warned Vina that returning the Soul Bone could anger Elder Wu and be difficult to conceal, but Vina insisted she would avoid absorbing it for now.

Long Zhanye accepted Vina’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and resolved to survive and grow strong enough to protect those who cared for him. After three years of treatment, his heart had recovered enough for him to attempt cultivation again, but Old Man Gu warned that his Heavenly Eye Martial Soul required Soul Rings containing Chaos Power.

• Vina gave Long Zhanye the Spirit Bone, and he promised to find one suited to her in the future if she was punished for it.
• Long Zhanye stored the Spirit Bone and vowed to recover, become stronger, and make Shrek repay its blood debt.
• Three years of Old Man Gu’s alchemy restored about eighty percent of Long Zhanye’s damaged heart meridians, and his Soul Power rose from level forty-five to forty-nine without cultivation.
• Old Man Gu allowed Long Zhanye to begin basic cultivation, while Elder Xu offered to take him to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a soul beast.
• Old Man Gu opposed Elder Xu’s plan and explained that Long Zhanye’s Heavenly Eye Martial Soul likely had the Chaos Attribute and needed Soul Rings containing Chaos Power.

Long Zhanye agreed to let Old Man Gu arrange the Soul Rings for his Heavenly Eye Martial Soul, and the two set out for the Star Dou Great Forest with Zhua Yun. Old Man Gu revealed that Long Zhanye could begin with a Ten-Thousand Year Soul Ring and identified the rare Twin Cyclops as a possible Chaos-attribute soul beast.

• Old Man Gu warned Long Zhanye not to let anyone else choose his Soul Rings, and Long Zhanye promised to follow his arrangements.
• Long Zhanye declined Elder Xu's offer, and Elder Xu accepted Old Man Gu's expertise while urging caution.
• Old Man Gu traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest with Zhua Yun and Long Zhanye, whose concern grew as he saw how frail and weak Old Man Gu had become.
• Old Man Gu told Long Zhanye that his rank-forty-nine Soul Power and tempered body could let his Heavenly Eye's first Soul Ring be a Ten-Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Old Man Gu named the Twin Cyclops, a rare mutant of the Cyclops clan, as a soul beast associated with the Chaos attribute.

Old Man Gu explained why the Cyclops clan was confined and prevented from producing hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts, and led Long Zhanye and Zhua Yun toward their territory to find a suitable Soul Ring. When Long Zhanye asked how they could approach the Cyclopes undetected, Old Man Gu scolded him for not taking something out.

• Old Man Gu revealed that Cyclopes had unstable Chaos attributes and that their Soul Rings could suit Long Zhanye’s Heavenly Eye Martial Soul.
• Old Man Gu explained that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion hunted Cyclopes and that Fierce Beasts confined the clan and killed individuals nearing sixty thousand years of cultivation.
• Old Man Gu said the clan’s territory held tens of thousands of Cyclopes but warned that their spiritual detection made approaching them extremely dangerous.
• When Long Zhanye asked how to avoid detection, Old Man Gu gestured at him with his cane and demanded that he take something out.

Long Zhanye and Old Man Gu used Mental Interference Bombs to approach the Cyclops territory without being detected, then hid near the basin where the tribe lived. They waited for a suitable Cyclops to emerge and watched the tribe pour out at night to forage.

• Old Man Gu reminded Long Zhanye to search his Storage Soul Tool, and Long Zhanye found Class 5 Mental Interference Bombs that could block most Spirit Detection.
• Old Man Gu told Long Zhanye to detonate a bomb roughly every ten li, and Long Zhanye created a path of mental blind spots as they traveled.
• The three reached the edge of the Cyclops basin and hid while Old Man Gu warned them not to enter the territory or alert the tribe.
• Long Zhanye observed that the Cyclopes lived in huts, built crude defenses, and carried out organized daily activities.
• At dusk, thousands of Cyclopes poured out of the basin, and Old Man Gu explained that they had adapted to nocturnal life to avoid predators.

Zhua Yun killed a Cyclops so Long Zhanye could absorb his first Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, which raised his Soul Power to level fifty. Afterward, Old Man Gu led Long Zhanye and Zhua Yun deeper into the Cyclops basin to find more Soul Rings.

• Old Man Gu spotted a sluggish Cyclops of roughly eighteen thousand years and had Zhua Yun test his strength by attacking it.
• Zhua Yun used his Bronze Level Awakening and Green-Splitting Claw to kill the Cyclops while Long Zhanye’s Mental Interference Bomb blocked its howl from reaching others.
• Long Zhanye thanked Zhua Yun, then absorbed the Cyclops’s black Soul Ring over three hours, awakening its power and advancing from Soul Power level forty-nine to fifty.
• Old Man Gu praised them and led Long Zhanye and Zhua Yun past the territory’s outer perimeter into the basin’s inner habitat.

Long Zhanye, Old Man Gu, and Zhua Yun searched the Cyclops habitat for a suitable Soul Ring target without harming mothers or young. Old Man Gu found a rare, wounded Chaos Two-Headed Dragon, and Long Zhanye absorbed its thirty-two-thousand-year Soul Ring, reaching level fifty-one.

• Old Man Gu sent Long Zhanye and Zhua Yun to search separately, prioritizing sick, injured, old, or isolated Cyclopes and avoiding females with young.
• Long Zhanye passed up several suitable female Cyclopes because they were caring for their young, and used his Heavenly Eye’s vague visions to avoid disturbances.
• Long Zhanye and Zhua Yun followed Old Man Gu’s quiet laughter and found him dragging a nearly dead Chaos Two-Headed Dragon from an abandoned shelter.
• Old Man Gu identified the rare beast as having about thirty-two thousand years of cultivation and urged Long Zhanye to take it as his Second Soul Ring.
• Long Zhanye killed the Chaos Two-Headed Dragon with his Azure Underworld Dagger and absorbed its Soul Ring under Old Man Gu and Zhua Yun’s guard.
• After several hours, Long Zhanye completed the absorption, and his Soul Power rose to level fifty-one.

Long Zhanye and Old Man Gu attacked a crippled forty-thousand-year Cyclops, and Long Zhanye absorbed its Soul Ring, gaining a third ring and reaching level fifty-two. As Cyclopes returned to their nest at dawn, the group fled the habitat.

• Old Man Gu proposed attacking a crippled Cyclops he estimated had at least forty thousand years of cultivation, and the group found it in a remote corner of the habitat.
• Old Man Gu revealed his Qilin Arm and two Dead Rings, while Zhua Yun told Long Zhanye that Gu had once been a Soul Douluo whose cultivation had fallen to level sixty-seven.
• Old Man Gu, Zhua Yun, and Long Zhanye overwhelmed the wounded Cyclops, and Long Zhanye delivered the final blow with the Azure Underworld Dagger.
• Long Zhanye absorbed the Cyclops's forty-thousand-year Soul Ring after nearly five hours, gaining his third ring and rising to level fifty-two.
• As returning Cyclopes approached the nest at dawn, Old Man Gu urged the group to flee, and they raced toward the habitat's outskirts.

Long Zhanye, Zhua Yun, and Old Man Gu fled the Cyclops habitat but were pursued by three Soul Beasts, including a powerful Double-Eyed Cyclops. Long Zhanye agreed to fight the leader for its Soul Ring while Zhua Yun engaged the other two, leaving Old Man Gu resting nearby.

• Long Zhanye and Zhua Yun ran from the Cyclops habitat, then returned to help the exhausted Old Man Gu catch up.
• The three fled several dozen li into the forest, where three pursuing Soul Beasts caught up with them.
• Old Man Gu identified the pursuers as relatives of the injured Cyclops, and Zhua Yun estimated the leader at forty-six to forty-eight thousand years of cultivation.
• Old Man Gu proposed the Double-Eyed Cyclops as Long Zhanye's Fourth Soul Ring, and Long Zhanye agreed to fight it.
• Old Man Gu said he was too exhausted to battle, so Zhua Yun took on the two thirty-thousand-year Cyclopes while Long Zhanye faced their leader.

Long Zhanye used a Level 5 Fixed Soul-Guided High-Explosive Shell to badly wound the Double-Eyed Cyclops, but the enraged beast stood back up. With Zhua Yun still occupied fighting another Cyclops, Long Zhanye revealed his Heavenly Eye Martial Soul and three black Ten-Thousand Year Soul Rings.

• The Double-Eyed Cyclops wielded an uprooted tree to block Long Zhanye’s Level 3 Flame Cannon shots as it closed in on him.
• Long Zhanye fired two high-explosive shells, which broke the beast’s tree weapon and blasted it backward.
• Long Zhanye fired seven more shells at the fallen Cyclops, leaving it badly wounded but alive.
• The Double-Eyed Cyclops rose again and fixed Long Zhanye with its furious killing intent.
• Seeing Zhua Yun still fighting another Cyclops, Long Zhanye revealed his Heavenly Eye Martial Soul and three black Ten-Thousand Year Soul Rings.