Chapter Summaries

Lin Ming challenged Ma Xiaotao for leadership of the Shrek Seven Devils and defeated her with a single spear thrust, revealing two Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings. Ma Xiaotao lay wounded but admired Lin Ming, leaving the leadership challenge decided by his overwhelming strength.

• Lin Ming announced that he wanted to become the leader of the Shrek Seven Devils and challenged Ma Xiaotao, who accepted.
• Ma Xiaotao opened the match with her Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul and attacked Lin Ming with Phoenix Fire Line, but he dodged it.
• Lin Ming summoned the Sky-Propping Spear and revealed six Spirit Rings, including two red Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings, shocking Ma Xiaotao and the spectators.
• Ma Xiaotao used Phoenix Sky-Roaring Strike, but Lin Ming countered with a single thrust infused with Spear Intent and struck her down.
• Ma Xiaotao recognized that Lin Ming had spared her life and felt admiration for his strength.

After defeating Ma Xiaotao with one move, Lin Ming was recognized as the leader of the Shrek Seven Devils. Ma Xiaotao asked to fight him again without Martial Souls, and Lin Ming began demonstrating his close-combat skill.

• Ma Xiaotao conceded to Lin Ming and saluted him, while her admiration generated Power of Faith for his Prayer Angel Martial Soul.
• Lin Ming accepted leadership of the Shrek Seven Devils, and Ma Xiaotao asked him for another move of guidance.
• Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul showed signs of transformation as she prepared to fight again.
• Ma Xiaotao challenged Lin Ming to fight without using his Martial Soul, and he put away the Sky-Propping Spear and Spirit Rings.
• Ma Xiaotao attacked with a flurry of fiery punches, but Lin Ming evaded each one with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.
• Lin Ming caught Ma Xiaotao’s wrist with one hand and stopped her attack with overwhelming strength.

Lin Ming overwhelmed Ma Xiaotao in their arena fight, and she declared her loyalty to him after being defeated. Xuan Zi named Lin Ming the new leader of the Shrek Seven Devils, with Ma Xiaotao as vice-captain.

• Lin Ming caught Ma Xiaotao's attacks, slammed her into the arena, and shattered her strongest flaming phoenix strike with Dark Gold Terrorclaw.
• Ma Xiaotao knelt and declared that she would follow Lin Ming, strengthening his Power of Faith.
• Lin Ming helped Ma Xiaotao up and accepted her decision to follow him as a teammate.
• Xuan Zi proposed that Lin Ming join the Seven Devils while Ma Xiaotao stayed, and the group chose Yao Haoxuan to leave.
• Yao Haoxuan withdrew, and Xuan Zi made Lin Ming captain and Ma Xiaotao vice-captain of the Shrek Seven Devils.

Lin Ming took command as captain and challenged the remaining six Shrek Monsters to a one-against-six battle. He quickly eliminated Ling Luochen and Xixi, then blocked the others’ combined attack, leaving the fight underway.

• After defeating Ma Xiaotao, Lin Ming became captain and ordered the team to train.
• Lin Ming challenged the six others to face him together for three rounds, and Xuan Zi approved the match as internal training.
• Dai Yueheng, Chen Zifeng, Gongyang Mo, Xixi, Ling Luochen, and Yao Haoxuan entered the arena against Lin Ming while Ma Xiaotao watched.
• Lin Ming used his speed to throw Ling Luochen off the arena, eliminating her first.
• Lin Ming caught Xixi despite her Lightning Leopard speed and threw her from the arena, making her the second elimination.
• Dai Yueheng and the others attacked together, but Lin Ming’s Dark Gold Terrorclaw defense repelled them without moving him.

Lin Ming defeated the Shrek Seven Devils one by one in the second round, forcing Dai Yueheng and the others to acknowledge him as their leader. The Seven Devils pledged to follow him, and Lin Ming prepared to become their captain when school resumed the next day.

• Lin Ming eliminated Gongyang Mo, Chen Zifeng, and Yao Haoxuan with ease, leaving Dai Yueheng alone on the arena.
• Dai Yueheng fought Lin Ming but was quickly subdued and conceded the match.
• Dai Yueheng and the other members of the Shrek Seven Devils knelt before Lin Ming and declared themselves convinced.
• Ma Xiaotao swore to follow Lin Ming unto death, and the Seven Devils accepted him as their captain.
• Xuan Zi announced that school would start the next day and that Lin Ming would officially become an Inner Court student.
• Lin Ming told the Seven Devils to obey his orders and fight with everything they had, and none objected.

Lin Ming brought Mu En an Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid to treat his old spinal injury and used his Prayer Angel Martial Soul to help guide its medicinal power. The treatment began, but Mu En’s injuries proved more severe than Lin Ming had expected.

• Ma Xiaotao thanked Lin Ming for giving her a powerful person to pursue before leaving.
• Lin Ming arrived at Sea God Pavilion with an Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid and met Xuan Zi outside.
• Lin Ming presented the herb to Mu En, who initially refused it because it was too precious.
• Lin Ming persuaded Mu En to accept the herb and revealed his healing-type Prayer Angel Martial Soul.
• Mu En began absorbing the orchid while Lin Ming guided its medicinal power through his damaged meridians and bones.

Lin Ming used his Prayer Angel Martial Soul to heal Mu En’s shattered spine, unknowingly releasing a vast divine Life Force that restored Mu En beyond his former peak. Mu En stood straight again and identified the power as a divine blessing, which Lin Ming suspected came from the Goddess of Life.

• Lin Ming intensified the Prayer Angel’s healing after the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid could not mend Mu En’s worst spinal fractures.
• A powerful golden-green Life Force awakened inside Lin Ming and rapidly repaired Mu En’s displaced bones.
• The Life Force withdrew after about a quarter of an hour, leaving Lin Ming exhausted and Mu En’s aura surging beyond its former peak.
• Mu En stood upright for the first time in decades, while Xuan Zi watched in shock and emotion.
• Mu En told Lin Ming that the power had been a divine blessing, and Lin Ming connected it to the Goddess of Life.

Lin Ming healed Mu En’s injuries, and Mu En gave him a light-attributed Dragon Core in return. Mu En kept his recovery secret and promised to protect Lin Ming, who pledged to have Shrek’s back.

• Mu En told Lin Ming and Xuan Zi that the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid and the God-Level Blessing had healed his injuries and extended his lifespan by at least a hundred years.
• Mu En gave Lin Ming a light-attributed Dragon Core to help him condense a high-quality first Soul Core.
• Lin Ming accepted the Dragon Core after Mu En insisted it was fair payment for the healing.
• Mu En decided to keep his recovery secret because revealing it could raise suspicion and affect the continent’s balance of power.
• Mu En told Lin Ming to come to him if anyone at the Sea God Pavilion bullied him, and Lin Ming promised to have Shrek’s back in return.

Mu En confirmed that Lin Ming had healed his injuries and hidden damage with God-level power, while he and Xuan Zi chose not to probe Lin Ming’s origins. On Shrek Academy’s first day of school, Lin Ming’s victories made him famous, and Ma Xiaotao and the other former Shrek Seven Devils publicly accepted him as their boss.

• Mu En told Xuan Zi that Lin Ming had healed his injuries and cleared away most of the hidden damage in his body.
• Xuan Zi and Mu En agreed that Lin Ming meant no harm to Shrek and that they did not need to investigate him further.
• Students across Shrek Academy spread news of Lin Ming’s rank, his defeat of Teacher Zhao Hanlin, and his victory over the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Beibei told Lin Ming that Tang Ya had left to handle Tang Sect matters, and Lin Ming offered to help if she ran into trouble.
• Ma Xiaotao arrived at the cafeteria with Dai Yueheng, Gongyang Mo, Chen Zifeng, Xixi, Ling Luochen, and Yao Haoxuan, and they acknowledged Lin Ming as their boss.

Lin Ming delivered a confident speech at Shrek Academy’s opening ceremony, defending his place in the Inner Court and as captain of the Shrek Seven Devils. His speech won over the crowd, and he left the ceremony surrounded by admirers.

• Ma Xiaotao told Lin Ming that Dean Yan expected him to speak as the freshman representative, and Beibei confirmed it.
• At the opening ceremony, Lin Ming was introduced as a new Inner Court student and captain of the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Lin Ming told the students he had earned his position through strength and urged the freshmen to cultivate rather than boast.
• The crowd applauded and cheered Lin Ming’s speech, while Mu En affirmed that his claims were true.
• After the ceremony, Ma Xiaotao, Gongyang Mo, and Xixi crowded around Lin Ming with praise and questions.

Lin Ming planned to secure a hundred-thousand-year eighth Spirit Ring for Zhang Lexuan by making the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone sacrifice itself, then asked Zhang Lexuan what kind of ring she expected to obtain. He left their conversation poised to reveal his plan.

• Lin Ming began the new term by taking Beibei to audit an Inner Court class.
• Four days into the term, Lin Ming decided to visit Zhang Lexuan, whose Rank 78 cultivation was nearing her eighth Spirit Ring.
• Lin Ming planned to threaten the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone with destroying Aromatic Silk Beauty's seeds unless it willingly sacrificed itself, though he did not actually have the seeds.
• Lin Ming found Zhang Lexuan meditating in an Inner Court cultivation room and asked about her cultivation rank and plans for her eighth Spirit Ring.
• Zhang Lexuan said she hoped to obtain a Spirit Ring between fifty thousand and seventy thousand years old, and Lin Ming questioned whether that was enough.

Lin Ming persuaded the intelligent Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone to sacrifice itself so Zhang Lexuan could gain a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring. Zhang Lexuan began absorbing it while Lin Ming stood guard.

• Lin Ming revealed the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone and offered it to Zhang Lexuan as her eighth Spirit Ring.
• Zhang Lexuan initially refused the priceless Immortal Herb, but Lin Ming convinced her to accept it.
• Lin Ming threatened to destroy Aromatic Silk Beauty's seeds unless the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone agreed to sacrifice itself, then admitted the threat was a bluff.
• The Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone agreed, and Zhang Lexuan began absorbing its sacrifice as Lin Ming watched over her.

Zhang Lexuan completed the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone’s sacrifice, gained a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring and Soul Bone, and rose to rank eighty-three. Afterward, she embraced Lin Ming and asked him to let her hold him for a while.

• The Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone’s sacrifice accelerated when the Goddess of Life’s blessing stirred within Lin Ming, and the Immortal Herb entered Zhang Lexuan’s brow.
• Lin Ming waited four hours while Zhang Lexuan absorbed the Spirit Ring and Soul Bone, passing the time with pastries and water.
• Zhang Lexuan emerged with an eighth red Spirit Ring, reached rank eighty-three, and discovered a powerful enhancement-type left arm bone.
• Zhang Lexuan embraced Lin Ming, asked him not to talk, and held him as they both felt their hearts race.

Zhang Lexuan kissed Lin Ming as a thank-you and told him she would wait for him at Sea God Fate in a few years. On the seventh day of school, Electrolux awakened enough to remember his Necromancy and began teaching Lin Ming Undead Summoning.

• Zhang Lexuan kissed Lin Ming, and he teased that she would have to wait until he was older before kissing him again.
• Lin Ming advised Zhang Lexuan to adjust to her Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring and asked her to wait for him at Sea God Fate.
• After leaving Zhang Lexuan, Lin Ming found Electrolux’s spiritual consciousness brighter inside his Sea of Spirit.
• Electrolux recalled his past and power, warned Lin Ming about the dangers of Necromancy, and agreed to teach him Undead Summoning.

Electrolux taught Lin Ming to summon undead, and Lin Ming mastered the ability to command an army of Bone Guards. Electrolux then began teaching him Purification Fire, a flame that burned souls rather than flesh.

• Electrolux sent the foundational Undead Summoning rune into Lin Ming's mind and watched as Lin Ming succeeded on his seventeenth attempt.
• Lin Ming summoned thirty Bone Guards from the Undead Demiplane, and Electrolux explained that Lin Ming could summon up to three thousand with his current spiritual power.
• Over three days, Lin Ming mastered summoning and commanding three thousand Bone Guards with a single thought.
• Electrolux explained that Necromancy's true strength lay in purification and introduced Purification Fire, which burned souls without harming flesh.

Lin Ming mastered Purification Fire in seven days and went to the Star Dou Great Forest to test it on an evil soul beast. There, he discovered three Evil Soul Masters slaughtering a pack of Red Fire Wolves.

• Lin Ming condensed his first wisp of Purification Fire after seven days, astonishing Electrolux.
• Lin Ming traveled alone to the Star Dou Great Forest to find an evil soul beast for testing.
• Lin Ming found several soul beast corpses whose blood and souls had been drained, and Electrolux identified them as victims of an evil cultivation art.
• Lin Ming followed the bloody scent to a valley, where three Evil Soul Masters were overpowering a pack of Red Fire Wolves.

Lin Ming tested his undead army against three Holy Spirit Cult Evil Soul Masters, then used a quiet white flame that struck at their souls. The chapter ended with the leading Evil Soul Master frozen as the light of his soul faded.

• An Evil Soul Master used a bone staff to kill Red Fire Wolves and began targeting their wounded king.
• Lin Ming summoned three thousand Bone Guards and identified the three attackers as Holy Spirit Cult members.
• The Bone Guards charged the Evil Soul Masters, but their black flames destroyed the summoned skeletons.
• Lin Ming said he had been testing his forces and confronted the leading Evil Soul Master with a white flame.
• The white flame reached the leading Evil Soul Master, ignited his soul, and left him motionless as its light faded.