Recaps

Dai Mubai brought Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing to Zhao Wuji for their fourth Shrek entrance test, where they had to endure the seventy-sixth-level Soul Saint’s attacks. Zhao Wuji’s account of Xia Yan’s overwhelming talent stirred Xiao Wu and unsettled Tang San, and the group began preparing to face the test.

• Zhao Wuji announced that the applicants would pass if at least one of them survived his attacks until an incense stick burned down.
• Zhao Wuji described Xia Yan as a twelve-year-old level-thirty-eight Soul Elder who could defeat two Soul Ancestors, and Xiao Wu excitedly asked when he would return.
• Ning Rongrong recognized Zhao Wuji as the Immovable Wisdom King and explained his past fight against sixteen Spirit Hall bishops.
• Tang San devised a plan to use his Blue Silver Grass and poison while Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu attacked and Ning Rongrong provided support.
• As the test began, Tang San asked whether weapons were allowed, and Zhao Wuji told them to use whatever they wanted.

Xia Yan and the Jade Green Bird flew toward a distant waterfall while Zhao Wuji tested the Shrek students. Tang San and the others managed to knock Zhao Wuji down briefly, but his counterattack left Tang San unleashing poisonous Blue Silver Grass and hidden weapons until Zhao Wuji shut his eyes in defeat and humiliation.

• The Jade Green Bird spotted a mountain waterfall and flew toward it with Xia Yan.
• Ning Rongrong boosted the students with her Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda as Zhao Wuji began the test, and Xiao Wu saved her from his attack.
• Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Tang San worked together to lift Zhao Wuji and slam him into the ground, but he broke free and revealed his seven Soul Rings.
• Zhao Wuji used Gravity Enhancement and Gravity Squeeze, while Tang San attacked him with poisonous Blue Silver Grass and hidden weapons.
• Tang San covered Zhao Wuji in milky-white poisonous sap and fired more arrows as Zhao Wuji, shaken and humiliated, closed his eyes and stopped fighting.

Xia Yan found and took the Blue Silver Emperor and its hundred-thousand-year Right Leg Bone from a hidden cave behind a waterfall. At Shrek, Tang San’s spar with Zhao Wuji ended in an embarrassing mess, and Xia Yan left to catch up with the group before their trip to the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Xia Yan found the Blue Silver Emperor in the cave and moved it into the Demon Suppressing Pagoda, replacing it with another Blue Silver Grass to conceal its absence.
• Xia Yan discovered a hidden box containing the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone and left with both it and the Blue Silver Emperor.
• Zhao Wuji ended Tang San’s test after Tang San was covered in his own venom, then ordered Oscar to heal him.
• Oscar struggled to reach Tang San through the venomous Blue Silver Grass, while Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and the girls abandoned him to handle the cleanup.
• Xia Yan hurried back to Shrek overnight so he could catch up with the group before they went to the Star Dou Great Forest.

Tang Hao beat Zhao Wuji for nearly harming Tang San, then ordered Zhao Wuji and Flender to protect his son and monitor Xia Yan. After Tang Hao left, Flender realized Xia Yan might have come to Shrek to hide from him.

• Oscar cleaned Tang San, found him a dorm room, and gave him new bedding.
• Tang Hao confronted Zhao Wuji and beat him severely without using soul skills.
• Tang Hao ordered Zhao Wuji and Flender to protect Tang San, encourage his relationship with Xiao Wu, and kill Xia Yan if he opposed Tang San or got close to Xiao Wu.
• Tang Hao left, and Flender helped Zhao Wuji up after the beating.
• Flender concluded that Xia Yan had likely come to Shrek to hide from Tang Hao, while Zhao Wuji asked what they should do about him.

Xia Yan returned to Shrek Academy with Zhu Zhuqing and reunited with Xiao Wu, Tang San, and the other students. Flender planned to warn Xia Yan about Tang Hao, while the students gathered for their first evening class and Oscar and Ning Rongrong were assigned a punishing run.

• After waking in Shrek Academy, Tang San learned from Oscar that Oscar had washed him and changed his clothes after Zhao Wuji knocked him unconscious.
• Xia Yan returned to Shrek with Zhu Zhuqing and asked Oscar about the large patch of withered Blue Silver Grass left at the fourth trial.
• Xiao Wu joyfully reunited with Xia Yan, while Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ning Rongrong reacted to his return and his closeness with Zhu Zhuqing.
• Xia Yan told Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong that he had wandered the mainland before coming to Shrek, then joined the other students at the gathering.
• Flender announced the first class would begin that evening and assigned Oscar and Ning Rongrong to run twenty three-kilometer laps before lunch; Ning Rongrong left focused on Xia Yan, and Oscar followed.

Ning Rongrong discovered that Xia Yan had hunted Wolf Bandits mainly to earn money, then eagerly asked him to recount his adventures. The chapter left him beginning to describe a dangerous encounter on the Wild Desolate Plateau.

• Flender recognized Tang San's Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges and read Yu Xiaogang's letter identifying Tang San as his disciple.
• Ning Rongrong visited Xia Yan and confirmed that he had hunted Wolf Bandits across the continent.
• Xia Yan explained that he hunted Wolf Bandits for money and needed resources for cultivation, while Ning Rongrong offered him one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and three more cards.
• Xia Yan refused Ning Rongrong's money and described his journey from the Silvi Great Grassland through the Wild Desolate Plateau and other territories to Shrek Academy.
• Ning Rongrong asked about the dangers Xia Yan had faced, and he began recounting how he hunted a group of fifteen Wolf Bandits on the Wild Desolate Plateau.

Xia Yan recounted escaping a crowd of Wolf Bandits and spent the day answering Ning Rongrong’s questions about his adventures. That night, Flender harshly reprimanded Ning Rongrong, then sent Xia Yan to comfort her while the others prepared to leave for the Great Soul Arena.

• Xia Yan told Ning Rongrong how he hid from the Wolf Bandits in the Demon Suppressing Pagoda and escaped with sulfur explosives.
• Ning Rongrong spent nearly the whole day with Xia Yan, eagerly asking about his travels and experiences.
• Ning Rongrong argued with Flender, who compared her talent unfavorably with the other students and told her to leave if she disliked the academy.
• Ning Rongrong ran off crying, while the students admired Flender’s firm reprimand.
• Flender asked Xia Yan to bring Oscar back, comfort Ning Rongrong, and catch up with the group before they left for the Great Soul Arena.

Xia Yan comforted Ning Rongrong after Flender scolded her, helping her understand why her father may have sent her to Shrek Academy. After Ning Rongrong agreed to wait for him, Xia Yan left for the Suotuo Great Soul Arena to demonstrate his abilities to the new students.

• Xia Yan found Ning Rongrong crying and soothed her when she complained that Flender had bullied her.
• Xia Yan suggested that Ning Fengzhi had sent Ning Rongrong to Shrek Academy to teach her independence and help her learn to work with other Soul Masters.
• Ning Rongrong calmed down, thanked Xia Yan, and agreed to wait for him while he went to the Great Soul Arena.
• Xia Yan traveled to Suotuo City and arrived at the Suotuo Great Soul Arena, where Shrek students needed to earn a Silver Soul Badge to graduate.

Tang San fought his first one-on-one match at the Great Soul Arena against Qing Bao, a powerful Iron Horn Ox Beast Soul Master. Tang San’s poisoned Blue Silver Grass enraged Qing Bao, who charged at him with both Soul Skills as Tang San launched another binding attack.

• Xiao Wu defeated a Leopard Martial Soul Soul Master, while Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing also won their matches.
• Tang San entered the arena to face Qing Bao, whose two-match winning streak had made him a crowd favorite.
• Tang San used Blue Silver Bind to ensnare Qing Bao, who broke free after completing his Martial Soul Possession.
• Qing Bao discovered his body was covered in foul white liquid from Tang San’s venom and charged at him using Iron Horn Bull Armor and Earth Power.
• Tang San answered with Blue Silver Bind and Venom Secretion, sending purple-and-white, foaming vines toward Qing Bao.

Tang San defeated Shi Li with his Blue Silver Grass, but its foul, milky coating made the spectators laugh and left him furious and unpopular in the lounge. After the Shrek students finished their matches, Oscar led them to a higher-tier arena to watch Xia Yan fight.

• Tang San overwhelmed Shi Li with slick, foul-smelling Blue Silver Grass, and Shi Li forfeited rather than get covered in it.
• The audience laughed at Tang San’s victory, and the arena official announced a ten-minute delay for cleanup.
• Tang San returned to the lounge, where the Soul Masters recoiled from his stench and hoped not to face him.
• Ma Hongjun and Oscar defeated two wolf-souled brothers in their two-on-two match, while Tang San, Xiao Wu, Dai Mubai, and the others also won their matches.
• Oscar told the group that the dean had sent them to watch Xia Yan demonstrate his strength, and they headed to a higher-tier arena to see his match.

Xia Yan won his thirty-second consecutive match at the Soto Great Soul Arena by defeating Gan Yue with a single Light Slash. Afterward, Zhu Zhuqing asked how he had become so strong, and Xia Yan began explaining that physical training let him absorb higher-year Soul Rings.

• The arena announcer introduced Xia Yan and Gan Yue, a level-thirty-nine Soul Master with a Fire Wolf Martial Soul, as the evening's main match.
• Gan Yue summoned two Fire Wolf clones and attacked Xia Yan, who used Light Power to destroy the wolves and knock Gan Yue unconscious with one blow.
• The crowd celebrated Xia Yan's victory while Tang San, Zhu Zhuqing, and Oscar reacted with shock, envy, and awe.
• On the way back, Zhu Zhuqing asked Xia Yan how he had become so strong, and he said that hard physical training enabled him to absorb higher-year Soul Rings.
• Tang San was startled by Xia Yan's explanation, while Zhu Zhuqing listened closely.

Xia Yan told Zhu Zhuqing that Soul Ring absorption limits could be exceeded and explained how to train and eat to grow stronger. Tang San refused to believe him, while Dai Mubai and Oscar denied Ma Hongjun’s claims that they visited a certain place; later, three figures met outside the village and set off together.

• Xia Yan advised Zhu Zhuqing to eat nourishing foods, train safely, and use Shao Xin’s Sugar Beans to build up Soul Power.
• Xia Yan revealed his two-thousand-five-hundred-year Third Soul Ring and said training after exhausting Soul Power could improve growth and strengthen meridians.
• Tang San dismissed Xia Yan’s explanation and decided he was hiding another way of becoming stronger rather than admitting Yu Xiaogang could be wrong.
• Ma Hongjun invited Dai Mubai and Oscar out, but both denied ever visiting the place he meant, leaving him baffled.
• After they returned to Shrek late at night, Ma Hongjun went off alone while Dai Mubai and Oscar went to their dormitory.
• Three dark figures met outside the village under the moonlight, froze in surprise, and then set off together.

Xia Yan reunited with Ning Rongrong, while Tang San’s nighttime trip to Suotuo City led to an awkward misunderstanding with Ma Hongjun and the others. After Oscar became a fourteen-year-old food-type Soul Elder, Flender told Xia Yan he would leave the academy after accompanying them to the Star Dou Great Forest once more.

• Xia Yan found Ning Rongrong awake and she ran into his arms, saying she had missed him.
• Tang San followed Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, and the others to Suotuo City to buy materials, but a commotion at the bathhouse left Ma Hongjun embarrassed and Tang San awkward the next morning.
• Xia Yan answered Zhu Zhuqing’s questions about Soul Ring limits while Ning Rongrong stayed close to him, and Oscar announced that he had reached level thirty.
• Flender praised Oscar’s breakthrough and said they would go to the Star Dou Great Forest the next day, while Oscar’s excitement faded when he saw Ning Rongrong beside Xia Yan.
• Flender told Xia Yan he was the finest student he had taught and asked him to leave after one last trip to the Star Dou Great Forest; Xia Yan agreed.

Zhao Wuji led the Shrek students toward the Star Dou Great Forest, stopping overnight in a town near the forest. At dinner, Dai Mubai provoked students from Canghui Academy, and they approached the Shrek table as tensions rose.

• Tang San and the others saw that Zhao Wuji was badly bruised, and the group set off for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• With Ning Rongrong and Oscar supporting their travel, the students reached a town about seventy miles from the forest by nightfall.
• Zhao Wuji arranged for the group to stay at a hotel and told them to pay their own lodging and meal expenses.
• Ma Hongjun ordered dinner for the group, while the students sat mostly in silence.
• Dai Mubai leered at a girl from Canghui Academy and insulted the academy, prompting its members to walk over toward the Shrek table.

After Dai Mubai and Tang San fought the Canghui Academy students, Zhao Wuji stopped the fight and the group continued toward the Star Dou Great Forest. Xia Yan and Zhu Zhuqing stocked up on supplies, and the chapter ended with the group spotting a snake in the forest.

• Ma Hongjun and Oscar followed Xia Yan's advice not to pick fights, while Dai Mubai and Tang San fought the Canghui Academy students without help.
• Zhao Wuji drove off the Canghui students, scolded Dai Mubai, and made him pay for the damage.
• Xia Yan and Zhu Zhuqing toured the town together, bought supplies, and returned to find Ning Rongrong waiting to question them.
• The group entered the Star Dou Great Forest under Zhao Wuji's instructions and traveled deeper into the forest.
• Zhu Zhuqing climbed into the canopy during a rest and reported that a snake was approaching.

Xia Yan defeated a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent in seconds so Oscar could absorb its Soul Ring, but Serpent Granny Chao Tianxiang arrived and claimed the beast for her granddaughter, Meng Yiran. Zhao Wuji recognized the newcomers and faced a dispute over who would get the Soul Beast.

• Zhu Zhuqing spotted a thousand-year Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, and Tang San identified it as a suitable Soul Beast for Oscar.
• Xia Yan agreed that the serpent suited Oscar, and Oscar chose it as his target Soul Ring.
• Xia Yan used his Demon Suppressing Pagoda and a lightning-fast punch to knock the serpent unconscious and send it crashing into the clearing.
• Zhao Wuji gave Oscar a dagger and told him to kill the serpent before anything went wrong.
• Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran arrived, and Chao Tianxiang claimed they had found and injured the serpent first, asking Zhao Wuji to hand it over.

Tang San volunteered to fight Meng Yiran for the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, allowing Oscar to absorb it and gain a flying Soul Skill. After Tang San reached level thirty, Zhao Wuji found him a Green Poison Bone-Eroding Serpent for his third Soul Ring, and the chapter ended with the transformed, foul-smelling Blue Silver Grass drawing the Seven Devils’ uneasy stares.

• Tang San challenged Meng Yiran in Oscar’s place and defeated her, so Serpent Granny let Oscar take the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent.
• Oscar absorbed the Soul Ring and gained a Flying Mushroom Sausage that let him fly at the serpent’s speed for one minute.
• Tang San reached level thirty the next morning, so Zhao Wuji kept the group in the Star Dou Great Forest to find him a Soul Beast.
• Zhao Wuji subdued a fourteen-hundred-year-old Green Poison Bone-Eroding Serpent, and Tang San absorbed its Soul Ring.
• Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass became tougher and gained sticky, foul-smelling white-and-green poison, but the Seven Devils reacted to it with strange looks.

Tang San discovered that absorbing his third Soul Ring had turned his skin dramatically darker, while Xia Yan understood that the change had fixed the course of Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass development. That night, Zhao Wuji spotted two moons and ordered everyone to prepare for an unknown danger.

• Tang San saw that his skin had become pitch-black, and Ma Hongjun and the others mocked him before Zhao Wuji sent everyone to rest.
• Zhao Wuji questioned Tang San’s background and Yu Xiaogang’s teachings, while Tang San returned to his tent in confusion.
• Xia Yan reasoned that Tang San’s third Soul Ring had made his physical and Martial Soul changes irreversible, and Zhu Zhuqing resolved to ask Xia Yan about his thousand-year Soul Rings later.
• Ma Hongjun took the first watch with Zhao Wuji and asked about Yu Xiaogang, but Zhao Wuji told him to cultivate.
• Ma Hongjun noticed two moons, and Zhao Wuji woke everyone, ordered them behind him, and entrusted Xia Yan with protecting the group if he fell.

A Titan Giant Ape attacked the group, abducted Xiao Wu, and left several companions badly injured. Xia Yan pursued it, then summoned his Soul Beasts to search for the wounded Man Faced Demon Spider, which he and the hidden Datura Snake found at the same time.

• Zhao Wuji tried to protect the group from the Titan Giant Ape, but it struck him aside and sent the others flying.
• The Titan Giant Ape knocked Tang San unconscious, sent Dai Mubai flying, and carried Xiao Wu away.
• Xia Yan ignored Zhao Wuji's warning and pursued the Titan Giant Ape, then summoned his Soul Beasts to search for the Man Faced Demon Spider.
• The injured Man Faced Demon Spider detected Xia Yan and stalked him, while the hidden Datura Snake spotted the spider.

Xia Yan found and killed the Man Faced Demon Spider, then reunited with Xiao Wu in the Star Dou Great Forest and revealed that he knew she was a transformed Soul Beast. He accepted her regardless, but Xiao Wu feared returning with him because of the Titled Douluo who threatened him.

• Xia Yan stored the dead Man Faced Demon Spider and obtained its Eight Spider Lances, deciding to keep the Blue Silver Emperor Spirit Bone for later.
• Xia Yan met Xiao Wu beneath a tree, and she rushed into his arms, crying and accusing him of refusing to accept her for six years.
• Xia Yan asked whether Xiao Wu was human, then explained that a nine-ringed Titled Douluo had once threatened him to stay away from her.
• Xia Yan reasoned that the Titan Giant Ape had taken Xiao Wu because she was a Soul Beast, but told her that her identity did not change his feelings.
• Xiao Wu apologized and said she could not return with him, while Xia Yan explained that she needed to live among humans to keep cultivating.

Xia Yan explained that Xiao Wu remained in danger because a Titled Douluo could expose her as a transformed Soul Beast, then promised to find a Lovesick Heartbreak Red to conceal her aura. After Xiao Wu parted from him, Zhu Zhuqing tried to search for Xia Yan while Ning Rongrong reflected on how deeply the others cared for one another.

• Xia Yan warned Xiao Wu that she could not safely cultivate or return to the human world if the Titled Douluo exposed her identity, and they suspected Tang San was connected to the threat.
• Xia Yan said Xiao Wu could appear at the Soul Master Tournament as a Soul Ancestor and promised to find a Lovesick Heartbreak Red that would hide her Soul Beast aura.
• Xia Yan and Xiao Wu agreed to act distant around others, and Xiao Wu kissed him before hurrying back into the forest.
• Zhu Zhuqing activated her Hell Spirit Cat and tried to go after Xia Yan, but Zhao Wuji blocked her and warned her not to risk her life.
• Ning Rongrong watched Zhu Zhuqing's devotion to Xia Yan and wondered whether anyone would come after her if she were taken away.

After Zhao Wuji rushed off to search for Xia Yan, Ma Hongjun slapped Tang San awake, and Xiao Wu returned with a strange account of how she escaped the Titan Giant Ape. The group remained in the forest as Zhao Wuji went to look for Xia Yan.

• Zhao Wuji ordered the others to stay put and left to pursue the Titan Giant Ape, warning them to flee at dawn if he did not return.
• Oscar fed Tang San Sausages, and Ma Hongjun repeatedly slapped him until he woke.
• Tang San asked where Xiao Wu was, but she emerged from the bushes with another figure and avoided him.
• Xiao Wu claimed a bull's bellow had frightened the Titan Giant Ape into dropping her, and said she had absorbed a Soul Ring from a nearby Lightning Rabbit.
• Zhao Wuji learned Xiao Wu had not seen Xia Yan and immediately left to search for him.
• Ning Rongrong asked Xiao Wu what had happened while the others struggled to make sense of her story.

Xiao Wu described how a bull's bellows interrupted the Titan Giant Ape when it seized her, while Xia Yan encountered Dragon Duke Meng Shu and Meng Yiran in the Star Dou Great Forest. After Xia Yan said a Titan Giant Ape had carried off his companion, Meng Shu was stunned by the claim that it might be nearly a hundred thousand years old.

• Xiao Wu recounted how a bull's bellow made the Titan Giant Ape pause before it threw her, and how she later woke near Soul Beast corpses and absorbed a Lightning Rabbit Soul Ring.
• Xia Yan found Meng Shu and Meng Yiran waiting beneath a patch of moonlight in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Meng Shu and Serpent Granny privately hoped Xia Yan would become a match for Meng Yiran, while Meng Yiran doubted he would be interested in her.
• Meng Shu offered to help Xia Yan find his companion, but Xia Yan warned that a Titan Giant Ape had carried her off and might be as old as a hundred thousand years.
• Meng Shu reacted in disbelief to Xia Yan's description and decided that the claim was too ridiculous to believe.

Xia Yan returned safely after Zhao Wuji encountered Dragon Duke Meng Shu, and the group prepared to flee the Star Dou Great Forest. Tang San’s accusations against Xia Yan deepened the tension, while Xiao Wu remained silent and apart from him.

• Zhao Wuji found Xia Yan with Dragon Duke Meng Shu, learned they had encountered the Titan Giant Ape, and hurried away with Meng Yiran toward the direction Chao Tianxiang had gone.
• Zhao Wuji told Xia Yan that Xiao Wu had returned unharmed, and they went back to the group together.
• Tang San accused Xia Yan of lying about searching for Xiao Wu, while Xiao Wu stayed silent and Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing challenged him.
• Xia Yan returned safely, and Zhao Wuji announced that everyone had to leave the forest immediately after Xia Yan encountered Meng Shu.
• Ning Rongrong demanded that Tang San apologize for slandering Xia Yan, but Xia Yan stopped her and the group hurried out under Zhao Wuji’s protection.

After escaping the Star Dou Great Forest, Xia Yan, Xiao Wu, Zhao Wuji, and the others rested at an inn while Tang Hao went to visit Ah Yin. He found her Blue Silver Grass withered in the cave.

• The exhausted group left the Star Dou Great Forest and traveled to a nearby town, where they slept for a full day.
• Tang Hao flew toward Ah Yin, reflecting on his guilt over her death and his hidden injuries.
• Tang Hao resolved to take Ah Yin’s Spirit Bone to keep it safe, swearing that he would not absorb it.
• Tang Hao entered the cave and discovered that Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Grass had withered completely.