Chapter Summaries

After the Sky Screen exposed Xiao Wu as a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, the Shrek group accepted her but realized the academy was no longer safe. They prepared to flee the city together, while powerful figures outside still searched for Xiao Wu in Nuoding City.

• At the Lake of Life, Er Ming wanted to bring Xiao Wu back, but Da Ming warned that leaving the forest would alert human experts.
• At Shrek Academy, Xiao Wu stayed silent as her friends reacted to the revelation that she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Tang San vowed to protect Xiao Wu, and the other Shrek students reassured her that they still accepted her.
• Yu Xiaogang warned that the academy had become dangerous and that the group needed to relocate together.
• Flender ordered everyone to pack and leave the city overnight, while Tang San promised Xiao Wu he would rescue her if she were captured.
• Unaware that Xiao Wu was at Shrek Academy, people from outside rushed to Nuoding City to search for her.

As news of Xiao Wu’s identity as a transformed hundred-thousand-year soul beast spread, powerful factions raced toward Nuoding City, including Bibi Dong. The Sky Screen showed Su Mo derive and successfully test the Ring Condensation Technique overnight, then choose to strengthen his foundation before condensing his first ring.

• Bibi Dong set out alone for Nuoding City after recognizing Xiao Wu as the daughter of the hundred-thousand-year soul beast she had once hunted.
• Xiao Wu taught Su Mo how transformed soul beasts instinctively condensed soul rings, and observers realized his human Ring Condensation Technique was a separate invention.
• Su Mo tested his method by circulating Soul Power through precise routes and confirmed at dawn that it worked.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San acknowledged that Su Mo had opened a new path without a teacher, books, or Spirit Hall resources, while Xiao Wu understood his counterpart’s closeness to him.
• Su Mo practiced the technique on a hillside and decided to delay condensing his first ring until he had accumulated more Soul Power.

The Sky Screen showed Su Mo obtaining Tang San’s Internal Energy Methods through Xiao Wu and deducing a new Soul Power cultivation method that increased his cultivation speed more than tenfold. As Soul Masters tried to record the incomplete method, Bibi Dong went to Shrek Academy looking for Xiao Wu but found that everyone had already left.

• Su Mo noticed Tang San’s unusual cultivation and asked Xiao Wu to learn the methods Tang San used.
• After several days of questions, Tang San taught Xiao Wu some non-core Internal Energy Methods, which she passed on to Su Mo.
• Su Mo combined the methods with his own knowledge to deduce a new cultivation method and increased his cultivation speed by more than tenfold.
• Soul Masters across the world tried to record and imitate the meridian routes, while elders warned them that the method shown was incomplete.
• Bibi Dong went to Shrek Academy to find Xiao Wu but discovered that she and the others had already left.

Su Mo left Nuoding City with Xiao Wu and reached level twenty in one year, astonishing the major factions. After advising Xiao Wu to choose Teleportation as her second Soul Skill, he studied it and recreated the spatial displacement himself within seven days.

• Su Mo left Nuoding City with Xiao Wu before Spirit Hall arrived, while observers realized Spirit Hall had missed its chance to recruit him.
• A year later, Su Mo broke through from level ten to level twenty, drawing awe from people across the continent.
• Su Mo told Xiao Wu to choose Teleportation for her second Soul Skill, and she demonstrated that she could vanish and reappear five meters away.
• Su Mo studied Xiao Wu's Teleportation and used spatial perception to deduce how it worked.
• After several failed attempts, Su Mo recreated the displacement and vanished, reappearing three meters away on the seventh day.

Spirit Hall summoned powerful Soul Masters to Spirit City for an exchange conference, giving Su Mo the chance to raid Dugu Bo’s Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well for its Immortal Herbs. Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo also learned of the treasure and set out to find Dugu Bo.

• Spirit Hall announced a continent-wide cultivation exchange conference, and Su Mo realized Dugu Bo might leave his home to attend.
• Su Mo told Xiao Wu that Dugu Bo guarded many Immortal Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well in Sunset Forest.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo recognized the value of the Immortal Herbs and persuaded Ghost Douluo to go with him to confront Dugu Bo.
• Ning Fengzhi, the Shrek students, and others reacted to the revelation that Immortal Herbs could transform Martial Souls.
• After learning Dugu Bo had accepted Spirit Hall’s invitation, Su Mo took Xiao Wu to Sunset Forest to raid the unguarded Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

The Sky Screen revealed the powers of several Immortal Herbs, prompting Soul Masters across the continent to seek them out. Dugu Bo realized that Su Mo already knew about the treasures in his garden and that the revelation had made the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well impossible to keep safe.

• The Sky Screen described how the Ninth-Grade Purple Ganoderma could improve Yu Xiaogang's foundation, while the Aromatic Silk Beauty could evolve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo reacted to the possibility of the herb breaking the sect's Martial Soul limit, and Ning Fengzhi vowed to obtain the Immortal Herbs.
• The Sky Screen introduced the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, prompting Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ma Hongjun to hope for breakthroughs.
• The Sky Screen listed more Immortal Herbs and their effects, including the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, but did not reveal their locations.
• Dugu Bo recognized the plants in his garden as Immortal Herbs and realized that Su Mo and the entire continent now knew where they were.

Dugu Bo stripped the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well of its Immortal Herbs and fled as people across the continent rushed to claim them. The Sky Screen then showed Su Mo and Xiao Wu entering the garden, where Su Mo explained the powers of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot.

• Dugu Bo uprooted nearly every herb in the garden and carefully stored the Snowy Swan Kiss in his Wishful Treasure Pouch.
• Dugu Bo left the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and flew toward the outskirts of Sunset Forest with the herbs.
• Ning Fengzhi sent Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo to Sunset Forest, while Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo hurried there to retrieve the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.
• Yu Xiaogang realized that he and the Shrek group could not compete for the Immortal Herbs, while the Sky Screen continued showing Su Mo's journey.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu entered the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, and Su Mo identified the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot as herbs that could grant immunity to ice, fire, and poison when eaten together.

Su Mo absorbed the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, gaining resistance to ice, fire, and poison while evolving his Martial Soul, then used the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to enhance his perception. He gave the Lovesick Heartbreak Red to Xiao Wu, whose devotion to him was revealed, and sacrificed most of the remaining Immortal Herbs to store energy for future Soul Rings.

• Su Mo absorbed the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, enduring their opposing forces until they balanced in his Dantian.
• Su Mo emerged from the spring with immunity to ice, fire, and poison, and his Martial Soul had evolved to rival top-tier Martial Souls.
• Su Mo ate the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, which multiplied his spiritual power and let him perceive Soul Power, earth veins, and poison.
• Su Mo gave Xiao Wu the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, and the flower recognized her as its master after she offered a drop of blood.
• Xiao Wu's wholehearted devotion to Su Mo became clear, unsettling the Xiao Wu watching the Sky Screen and prompting Tang San to comfort her.
• Su Mo stored the Snowy Swan Kiss and sacrificed the other Immortal Herbs to build an energy reserve for condensing Soul Rings in the future.

Su Mo sacrificed the Immortal Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to build a soul power pool, then used it and his Ring Condensation Technique to cultivate at extraordinary speed over the next decade. The Sky Screen showed him developing his swordsmanship and teleportation, culminating in a single leap across hundreds of li.

• Su Mo sacrificed the Immortal Herbs, converting them into soul power stored in his body.
• Su Mo used his soul power pool and Ring Condensation Technique to advance rapidly, condensing Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings from his third ring onward.
• Su Mo reached a seventh soul ring of eighty-thousand-year quality during the decade of cultivation.
• Su Mo trained his basic swordsmanship until one sword strike stopped a waterfall's flow for three breaths.
• Su Mo improved his self-created Teleportation until he could travel dozens or hundreds of li in a single leap.

The Sky Screen showed Su Mo using long-distance Teleportation and passive Intangibility, leaving the Shrek members stunned by his power. Xiao Wu explained that her own versions were far more limited, then reflected on why the Xiao Wu in the Sky Screen world had fallen for Su Mo, as the narrator revealed that Su Mo had mastered over a thousand soul skills in ten years.

• The Sky Screen showed Su Mo avoiding a boulder with passive Intangibility and using Teleportation across vast distances, while viewers wondered how he had developed the skills.
• Dai Mubai, Oscar, and the others questioned Xiao Wu about teaching Su Mo Teleportation and Intangibility, and she explained that her innate abilities were much weaker than his.
• Xiao Wu reflected that Su Mo’s achievements and independence explained why her counterpart in the Sky Screen world had chosen him over Tang San.
• The narrator said Su Mo had secured an undefeatable position before revealing the Ring Condensation Technique and had mastered more than a thousand soul skills in ten years.

The Sky Screen revealed that Su Mo had created more than a thousand Soul Skills in ten years, leaving the continent’s factions and Tang San stunned by the gap between them. After the Sky Screen announced that Su Mo would next reveal his Ring Condensation Technique, it asked where he would go, and the factions began debating whether he would join them or establish his own.

• Bibi Dong, Xue Ye, the Star Luo Emperor, and leaders of the major sects reacted in disbelief to Su Mo’s thousand Soul Skills.
• Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai abandoned their claims to genius, while Tang San admitted he could not compare with Su Mo’s ability to create techniques and Xiao Wu watched the Sky Screen in silence.
• The Sky Screen said Su Mo was ready to face the world and would reveal the true nature of his Ring Condensation Technique, then presented a quiz about his future destination.
• Viewers debated whether Su Mo would join an existing faction or establish his own, and many submitted answers through the glowing screens.
• Bibi Dong declared that Su Mo should join Spirit Hall and offered him a position second only to hers, while Xue Ye guessed that he would create his own faction and considered offering him a kingship.

The factions and Shrek group debated whether Su Mo would join a power or establish his own, while Tang San dismissed the idea that he would teach his self-created soul skills. The Sky Screen revealed that Su Mo would found Su Mo Academy and teach those skills, leaving the world stunned.

• The Heaven Dou Emperor, Star Luo Emperor, Tang Xiao, Ning Fengzhi, and Yu Yuanzhen each predicted that Su Mo would remain independent and establish his own faction.
• The Shrek group debated Su Mo’s plans, and Tang San argued that Su Mo would never share his self-created soul skills.
• Ning Rongrong submitted the bold answer that Su Mo would establish his own faction and teach self-created soul skills.
• The Sky Screen announced that Su Mo would establish Su Mo Academy and devote himself to teaching self-created soul skills.
• People across the Original-Work World were shocked by the revelation and questioned why Su Mo would give away his greatest assets.

Ning Rongrong was the only person among more than 4.73 million respondents to correctly answer that Su Mo might teach his Self-Created Soul Skills. The Sky Screen named her the sole correct respondent and offered her a choice between a 100,000-year Soul Ring and the Immortal Herb Aromatic Silk Beauty, which could evolve her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

• Ning Rongrong admitted she had answered that Su Mo might teach his Self-Created Soul Skills because he had made the Ring Condensation Technique public.
• Yu Xiaogang reasoned that Ning Rongrong might be the only person to think beyond the common assumption that Soul Skills were private.
• The Sky Screen announced that only one respondent had correctly added the teaching of Self-Created Soul Skills to their answer.
• The Sky Screen identified Ning Rongrong of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as the sole correct respondent.
• The Sky Screen offered Ning Rongrong a choice between a 100,000-year Soul Ring and the Immortal Herb Aromatic Silk Beauty, which could evolve her Martial Soul.

Ning Rongrong received a choice between a 100,000-year Soul Ring and an Immortal Herb, and chose the Aromatic Silk Beauty to evolve her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. The chapter left Dugu Bo checking his Storage Soul Tool while fleeing to see whether the Sky Screen had taken the herb from him.

• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect celebrated Ning Rongrong’s reward, and Ning Fengzhi urged her to choose the Aromatic Silk Beauty to overcome the sect’s Martial Soul limitation.
• Bibi Dong resented the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s growing strength, while Xue Ye welcomed Ning Rongrong’s reward and the Star Luo Emperor worried it would strengthen the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Yu Yuanzhen ordered his people to search for Dugu Bo and claim any Immortal Herbs that might suit the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Ning Rongrong chose the Immortal Herb after Ma Hongjun urged her to take it and Dai Mubai told him to let her decide.
• Dugu Bo stopped at a hidden location and opened his Storage Soul Tool to check whether the Aromatic Silk Beauty was still there.

Dugu Bo discovered that the Sky Screen had taken his Aromatic Silk Beauty, so he consumed three Immortal Herbs and gained Ice-Fire Dual Immunity, freedom from his poison backlash, improved perception, and rank 92 cultivation. At the hunter's cabin, Ning Rongrong ate the Aromatic Silk Beauty and evolved her Martial Soul into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, unaware that the Sky Screen had broadcast it.

• Dugu Bo found the Aromatic Silk Beauty missing from his Wishful Treasure Pouch and cursed the Sky Screen.
• Dugu Bo ate the Infernal Delicate Apricot and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, gaining Ice-Fire Dual Immunity and curing the poison backlash from his Martial Soul.
• Dugu Bo ate the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, improved his poison perception, and broke through to rank 92.
• Dugu Bo decided to sell all his remaining Immortal Herbs because he feared the Sky Screen would take them.
• Ning Rongrong ate the Aromatic Silk Beauty, and her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda evolved into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• The Sky Screen broadcast Ning Rongrong's absorption of the Immortal Herb, though the people in the hunter's cabin did not know it.

The Sky Screen revealed Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and the Shrek group at a hunter’s cabin, prompting powerful factions to move against them. The chapter ended with Li Yusong warning the group that their location and identities had been exposed, leaving them in immediate danger.

• The Sky Screen showed Ning Rongrong completing her absorption of the Aromatic Silk Beauty and revealed Xiao Wu, Tang San, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Zhu Zhuqing with her.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall branches to monitor Shrek Academy and locate the cabin, while Yu Yuanzhen ordered the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to search for it.
• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun recognized Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing and ordered their people to find the group and watch for a chance to deal with them.
• Ning Fengzhi ordered Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo to find Ning Rongrong and bring her back, prioritizing her safety over pursuing Dugu Bo.
• Li Yusong rushed into the cabin and told Flender that the Sky Screen had exposed the group’s identities and location, alarming Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and the others.

Su Mo secured the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's support for Su Mo Academy, then sparred with Sword Douluo and reconstructed his Soul Skills as Self-Created Soul Skills. The Sky Screen ended by asking viewers to predict the academy's first ten students for a chance to win Su Mo's Ring Ascension Technique.

• Su Mo returned to Suotuo City with Xiao Wu and visited Ning Fengzhi at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to seek support for his academy.
• Ning Fengzhi made the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Su Mo Academy's first sponsor, providing a site, funding, resources, and staff in exchange for one admission slot among the academy's ten students.
• Su Mo asked Sword Douluo Chen Xin to spar so he could study the Titled Douluo's Sword Dao.
• Su Mo dodged Sword Douluo's attacks and gradually reconstructed all of Chen Xin's Soul Skills, including his Self-Created Soul Skills, as his own Self-Created Soul Skills.
• The Shrek group watched the Sky Screen and discussed Su Mo Academy, while Xiao Wu recalled fighting with a sword using Su Mo's techniques.
• The Sky Screen asked viewers to predict Su Mo Academy's first ten students and offered Su Mo's Ring Ascension Technique as a reward for the most common answer.

The Sky Screen’s question revealed the Ring Ascension Technique, which could raise Soul Ring quality and sent Soul Masters and major factions scrambling to consider its implications. As everyone prepared answers about who could join Su Mo Academy, the Shrek Seven Monsters confidently wrote down their own names alongside Ning Rongrong.

• Soul Masters realized Su Mo’s Second Soul Ring had changed from purple to black and concluded that the Ring Ascension Technique could upgrade Soul Rings.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to gather its records of suitable geniuses and considered how the technique could strengthen her Twin Martial Souls.
• Ning Fengzhi decided the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would skip the question to avoid attracting more resentment.
• Yu Yuanzhen rejected searching for clues about Su Mo Academy and told the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to list likely recruits.
• Tang Xiao placed his hopes in Tang Yuehua, while Bo Saixi and the Seven Sacred Pillar guardians gave up on answering because Sea God Island lacked information.
• The Shrek Seven Monsters wrote down their names with confidence, believing they would join Su Mo Academy if Ning Rongrong could get in.

Bibi Dong used Spirit Hall’s intelligence to submit a strong list of candidates for Su Mo Academy and won the round’s reward. After the Sky Screen revealed her personal Martial Soul Fusion Skill, she learned it could fuse her two Martial Souls and combine the power of all eighteen Soul Rings.

• Bibi Dong excluded Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation, then submitted ten candidate names based on Spirit Hall’s records.
• Ning Fengzhi entered Ning Rongrong, while the Shrek group submitted their guesses for the academy’s first class.
• The Sky Screen announced the ten correct names: Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wu, Shui Bing'er, Yu Tianheng, Yu Tianxin, Huo Wushuang, Dugu Yan, Meng Yiran, Shui Yue'er, and Ning Rongrong.
• The Sky Screen named Bibi Dong’s answer the most complete and awarded her the personal Martial Soul Fusion Skill Spider God Descends.
• Bibi Dong learned Spider God Descends fused her Death Spider Emperor and Soul Devouring Spider Emperor, combining the power of their eighteen Soul Rings.

Bibi Dong tested her new Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Spider God Descends, while the Sky Screen revealed Su Mo Academy’s first ten students. The list left the Shrek group furious that Ning Rongrong was the only one of them selected.

• Bibi Dong fused the phantoms of her two Martial Souls into a giant spider and felt her strength more than double.
• The Sky Screen named Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wu, Shui Bing'er, Yu Tianheng, Yu Tianxin, Huo Wushuang, Dugu Yan, Meng Yiran, Shui Yue'er, and Ning Rongrong as Su Mo Academy’s first students.
• Academies and sects regretted including Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation in their answers, while Bibi Dong celebrated receiving the reward and dismissed the idea of sending Spirit Hall students to another academy.
• The Shrek group protested that only Ning Rongrong had been selected and questioned why students they considered weaker had qualified.