Chapter Summaries

Great-Uncle brought Mu Baobao and Ma Xiaotao to Sacred Mountain and explained the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s Dragon Transformation art and the Thunder Prison Vine guarding its trial. They settled into a guest building to wait for Sacred Mountain to open, where Ma Xiaotao worried about Mu Baobao facing the vine.

• Great-Uncle explained that the Dragon Transformation Method was kept on Sacred Mountain and that aspirants had to pass a trial guarded by a Thunder Prison Vine.
• Great-Uncle offered Mu Baobao and Ma Xiaotao a place to stay and said Ma Xiaotao could also enter the trial as Mu En’s descendant.
• Mu Baobao and Ma Xiaotao cleaned their dusty guest building and prepared rooms while a clan member delivered food and supplies.
• A middle-aged clan member praised Mu Baobao’s strength and welcomed him, then left the supplies with the pair.
• Ma Xiaotao worried that the Thunder Prison Vine might wield Ultimate Lightning, and Mu Baobao teased her about being concerned for him.

Mu Baobao and Ma Xiaotao spent two months living with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, where Ma Xiaotao learned about the clan’s powerful young contestants and techniques before their Sacred Mountain selection. Mu Baobao remained unconcerned about the competition and intended to pursue the Dragon Transformation Method without risking his life.

• Mu Baobao tended his garden, gathered firewood, and cooked while Ma Xiaotao grew attached to the clan’s quiet way of life.
• Ma Xiaotao told Mu Baobao that the Sacred Mountain selection was fifteen days away and warned him that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had several formidable opponents.
• Ma Xiaotao named the Yu Family’s Blue Lightning Twin Dragons and the Qiangu Family’s Panlong Twins as leading contestants, and described their Dragon Transformation Method and signature fighting techniques.
• Mu Baobao considered the origins of the Nine Styles of the Great Dragon and reflected on how different clans had developed powerful techniques of their own.
• Ma Xiaotao recalled that Mu Baobao had improved by training with lightning alongside the clan’s disciples, despite barely cultivating and having an ice-based martial soul.
• Mu Baobao said he would avoid fighting to the death and only needed to qualify for the Dragon Transformation Method, while Ma Xiaotao teased him for preferring farm life to honors at Shrek.

Mu Baobao and Ma Xiaotao arrived at the Sacred Mountain Grand Competition, where clan rivalries flared before the leaders explained the mountain’s rules and dangers. As the competition began, Yu Longxing warned them that the contest could bring both rewards and deadly clashes.

• Mu Baobao and Ma Xiaotao reached the plaza and met Yu Longxing and his sister Yu Longyue, who provoked Mu Baobao over his name and challenged his confidence.
• Mu Baobao flirted with Ma Xiaotao to provoke Yu Longyue, and both women ignited their flames before Yu Zhantian and Qiangu Xiongfeng silenced the crowd.
• Yu Longxing introduced Yu Zhantian, the Rank 92 Battle Heaven Douluo, and Qiangu Xiongfeng, the Rank 93 Unyielding Douluo, as leaders of their clans.
• Yu Zhantian explained that competitors could seek Soul Rings, the Dragon Transformation Method, and cultivation benefits, but must not kill soul beasts indiscriminately and would be rescued if they faced danger.
• Yu Longxing told Mu Baobao and Ma Xiaotao that the competition also decided future standing and could provide cover for settling grudges, alarming Ma Xiaotao.

Mu Baobao and Ma Xiaotao entered Sacred Mountain separately from the clan groups and fought lightning-attributed soul beasts along the ascent. After Ma Xiaotao defeated a Thunder Bird and a mutated Blue Silver Grass, Mu Baobao faced the returning Thunder Bird’s giant companion and revealed his Ultimate Ice.

• Yu Longxing invited Mu Baobao and Ma Xiaotao to join the others, but they refused and set off alone as the clans entered Sacred Mountain.
• Qiangu Zuiren warned Qiangu Liren not to underestimate anyone and sent disciples to watch the other groups.
• Ma Xiaotao fought off a Thunder Bird with her Evil Fire Phoenix and drove it away.
• A lightning-attributed Blue Silver Grass bound Ma Xiaotao, but she burned it and struck it down after it tried to escape by self-destructing.
• The Thunder Bird returned with a giant companion, and Mu Baobao covered the forest in Ultimate Ice before attacking with his Ice Dragon Claw.

Mu Baobao and Ma Xiaotao encountered Qiangu Youchou in the Forest of Lightning, where the Shrek student challenged Mu Baobao to a fight. Mu Baobao defeated him with Kyurem’s teleportation and spiritual attack, then invited him to the Sacred Mountain Grand Competition as the pair disappeared into the forest.

• Mu Baobao’s Ultimate Ice froze the Thunder Birds, but Qiangu Youchou intervened with his Break Evil Dragon and saved them.
• Qiangu Youchou introduced himself as a level-sixty-one Soul Emperor and challenged Mu Baobao, who promised to defeat him in two moves.
• Qiangu Youchou attacked with Sweeping Heaven and Earth, and Mu Baobao used Teleportation to vanish and appear overhead as Kyurem.
• Qiangu Youchou countered Kyurem’s ice hammer with Universe Throw, but Mu Baobao’s spiritual attack knocked him unconscious.
• Mu Baobao shattered Qiangu Youchou’s Coiling Dragon Staff, invited him to the Sacred Mountain Grand Competition, and left with Ma Xiaotao as a clan elder carried Qiangu away.

Mu Baobao and Ma Xiaotao climbed through the Forest of Lightning, where he rescued the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Qiangu Family disciples from soul beasts while using the alias Lei Hong. At the mountain’s final staircase, Mu Baobao revealed that he had more than one martial soul and approached the Thunder Prison Vine for a Soul Ring.

• Qiangu Zuiren and the other disciples discussed Mu Baobao’s strength and concluded that his spiritual cultivation and Ultimate Ice martial soul explained his victory over Qiangu Youchou.
• Mu Baobao and Ma Xiaotao spent the night hidden in a tree above the Qiangu Family camp, then woke to find soul beasts attacking the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan disciples.
• Mu Baobao summoned Kyurem and used Battle Cry to frighten the soul beasts away, introducing himself as Lei Hong before continuing up the mountain with Ma Xiaotao.
• Mu Baobao later rescued the Qiangu Family disciples when soul beasts surrounded them, despite the rivalry between their clans.
• Mu Baobao and Ma Xiaotao reached the hundred steps beneath the Thunder Prison Vine, where he said he would obtain its Soul Ring and revealed that he had more than one martial soul.

Mu Baobao used Battle Armor and Ultimate Ice to withstand the Thunder Prison Vine, then revealed Black Kyurem as his Martial Soul Fusion and prepared to unleash Freeze Shock. As the Qiangu siblings abandoned him, Ma Xiaotao and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon disciples joined the fight, leaving the vine facing Mu Baobao’s newly empowered form.

• Mu Baobao approached the Thunder Prison Vine alone, summoned Battle Armor, and froze its Forest of Lightning with Freezing Wind.
• He countered the vine’s Thunder Hell with Ice Beam, but the effort exhausted him as Qiangu Zuiren led Qiangu Liren toward the hundred steps rather than helping.
• Ma Xiaotao, Yu Longyue, Yu Longxing, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon disciples attacked the Thunder Dragons to support Mu Baobao.
• Mu Baobao combined the Dark Stone and DNA Splicer to transform Kyurem into Black Kyurem, raising his aura to Soul Douluo level.
• Mu Baobao revealed that Black Kyurem was his Martial Soul Fusion and declared the Thunder Prison Vine would become its first Soul Ring and nourishment.
• Black Kyurem drew in the surrounding evil, battle intent, lightning, and ice as Mu Baobao began the Martial Soul Fusion Skill Freeze Shock.

Mu Baobao defeated Thunder Prison Vine with his Black Kyurem fusion skill, absorbed its soul ring, and then joined Ma Xiaotao at the Dragon Transformation Method grounds. There, he saw the Radiant Sacred Dragon remains and learned that disciples fought to claim the best platforms, leaving him and Ma Xiaotao to consider their own positions.

• Mu Baobao blasted Thunder Prison Vine apart with Black Kyurem's Freeze Shock, then began absorbing its soul ring while Yu Longyue and Yu Longxing left for the upper platforms.
• Ma Xiaotao stayed to guard Mu Baobao, who finished absorbing Thunder Prison Vine's soul ring and gained more than one level of Soul Power.
• Mu Baobao and Ma Xiaotao climbed to a plaza where they saw the Radiant Sacred Dragon skeleton and rows of platforms for the Dragon Transformation Method.
• Mu Baobao and Ma Xiaotao learned that disciples could challenge those ahead of them to claim better platform positions, with each disciple limited to one challenge and one defense.
• A Qiangu Family disciple narrowly defeated a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan disciple, who then challenged a weaker disciple and took that disciple's platform.

Yu Longyue defeated Qiangu Luan in a brutal challenge, and Ma Xiaotao then challenged Qiangu Liren, revealing her Shrek and Phoenix God lineage. Ma Xiaotao gained the upper hand with her explosive fire attacks, and the duel continued as the onlookers warned one another not to provoke women.

• Yu Longxing challenged Qiangu Bai, who yielded his rank, and Yu Longyue then challenged Qiangu Luan.
• Yu Longyue fought Qiangu Luan fiercely, overwhelmed him with her attacks, and was stopped by Unyielding Douluo before she could land a potentially crippling blow.
• Ma Xiaotao introduced herself as a Shrek Inner Court student and descendant of Phoenix God Ma Hongjun before challenging Qiangu Liren.
• Qiangu Liren revealed her Cloud Dragon martial soul and used cloud-based techniques to evade and restrain Ma Xiaotao.
• Ma Xiaotao broke through Qiangu Liren's cloud techniques with her Phoenix Meteor Shower and pressed her with increasingly fierce attacks.

Mu Baobao defeated Qiangu Zuiren with a single punch despite refusing to use his armor, then joined the other disciples for Dragon Power Body Tempering. The chapter left him drawing in far more Dragon Power than everyone else as the Sacred Mountain Grand Competition reached its final stage.

• Ma Xiaotao trapped Qiangu Liren with her Phoenix Meteor Shower, forcing him to concede, and then challenged Qiangu Zuiren to face Mu Baobao.
• Mu Baobao wagered his armor and promised to fight Qiangu Zuiren with one move each, while refusing to use his own armor.
• Qiangu Zuiren unleashed the seventh form of the Unyielding Staff Technique, but Mu Baobao shattered his staff with one punch and left him bloodied.
• Thunder Douluo explained the Radiant Sacred Dragon Remains and announced Dragon Power Body Tempering and Ring Transformation instruction.
• The four ancestors activated formations around the remains, and Mu Baobao absorbed Dragon Power so quickly that he had to disperse much of it.

Huo Yuhao left Shrek Academy under the pretense of hunting a Soul Ring, while Mu Baobao returned and learned that the Soul Guidance Department had advanced Battle Armor production. Mu Baobao received a gold Treasure Appraisal Pavilion card and later welcomed Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan at his residence, where Beibei was visiting them.

• Huo Yuhao told Mu Baobao and Ma Xiaotao that he was leaving to obtain a Soul Ring and would miss the New Year.
• Mu Baobao and Ma Xiaotao discussed Huo Yuhao's unusual talent and Mu Baobao predicted that he would transform Shrek and the continent.
• Tie Wuji, Qian Duoduo, and Xian Lin'er told Mu Baobao that Tie Wuji had become a seventh-rank blacksmith and that Three-Word Battle Armor was now possible.
• Xian Lin'er gave Mu Baobao a gold Treasure Appraisal Pavilion card that allowed him to claim three items each year and borrow up to one hundred million Gold Soul Coins.
• Mu Baobao found Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan with Beibei at his residence, welcomed them, and encouraged Beibei to spend time with Tang Ya.

Mu Baobao spent New Year's Eve with Shrek's Inner Court students and teachers, bringing Jiang Nannan into their circle and nudging two couples toward confessing their feelings. The group celebrated together with dinner and fireworks, while Mu Baobao reflected on the dangers facing Tang Ya and Ma Xiaotao in the coming semester.

• Zhang Lexuan led Mu Baobao, Mu Beibei, and several senior sisters around Shrek City, where Mu Baobao walked beside the lonely Jiang Nannan and encouraged her to find comfort in the academy's found family.
• Tang Ya joined children playing with fireworks, accidentally used them all, and then comforted a child as Mu Baobao remembered the dangers she and Ma Xiaotao would face in the coming semester.
• Mu Baobao urged Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming to spend time with Wang Yan and Chu Qingtian, respectively, helping the two pairs begin romances.
• Mu Baobao and the group joined Qian Duoduo, Xian Lin'er, Tie Wuji, Fan Yu, and Zhou Yi for New Year's Eve dinner, where they toasted the holiday and discussed Battle Armor.
• Fan Yu and Qian Duoduo presented their new fireworks cannons, and the group watched colorful fireworks fill the sky over Shrek City.

Mu Baobao learned that Huo Yuhao had joined both the Soul Guidance Department and the Spirit Department and was selected as a reserve member of Shrek Academy’s tournament team. He planned to attend the tournament and change its course, then visited the Treasure Appraisal Fair with Ma Xiaotao, where Lin Lao offered him a fortune and support in exchange for Battle Armor.

• Ma Xiaotao told Mu Baobao that Huo Yuhao had impressed the academy with his Ultimate Ice Body Martial Soul and had earned a place on the tournament reserve team.
• Mu Baobao asked Ma Xiaotao to secure him a tournament spot, then settled for a ticket and decided he would intervene if the team’s mission left vacancies.
• Mu Baobao received a gold-level invitation to the Treasure Appraisal Fair and went to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion with Ma Xiaotao.
• Lin Lao personally welcomed Mu Baobao and offered him a one-hundred-million allowance and three treasures in exchange for help obtaining Battle Armor.
• Mu Baobao promised to forge Lin Lao a set of Two-Word Battle Armor, and Lin Lao asked for a custom set in return for fully supporting the Soul Guidance Department.

At the Treasure Appraisal Fair, Mu Baobao helped Huo Yuhao choose a pure Radiant Earth Dragon King Soul Bone for Beibei and discussed Xu Sanshi’s wish to join the Tang Sect. After warning that Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong might be targeted, Mu Baobao sent Xu Sanshi and Beibei to follow them, then went upstairs with Ma Xiaotao to visit Lin Lao.

• Mu Baobao and Huo Yuhao spotted a costly Radiant Earth Dragon King Soul Bone, and Mu Baobao explained why it suited Beibei’s path toward awakening the Radiant Sacred Dragon.
• Huo Yuhao introduced Wang Dong to Mu Baobao and Ma Xiaotao, and Mu Baobao persuaded Wang Dong to let Beibei have the Soul Bone.
• Xu Sanshi asked Mu Baobao to help him and Jiang Nannan join the Tang Sect, and Mu Baobao said Xu Sanshi needed to make a major contribution first.
• Mu Baobao warned that Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong might face an attack and told Xu Sanshi and Beibei to follow them back to the academy.
• Mu Baobao and Ma Xiaotao went to Lin Lao’s top-floor room, where Mu Baobao ate the costly food and drank Lin Lao’s century-old wine.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong were ambushed near Shrek City, but Beibei, Xu Sanshi, Mu Baobao, and Ma Xiaotao intervened and overwhelmed their attackers. The surviving enemies were captured, leaving the group to investigate their connection to Dai Huabin.

• Xu Sanshi asked Beibei whether Mu Baobao was reliable, and the two spotted Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong rushing back toward Shrek City as six Soul Masters ambushed them.
• Beibei and Xu Sanshi joined the fight, and Beibei fired Shrek Academy’s Inner Court distress signal as the attackers pursued Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong.
• Mu Baobao froze all six ambushers with his Ultimate Ice, while Ma Xiaotao arrived and struck down two enemies with her phoenix flames.
• Mu Baobao used his Freezing Wind Soul Skill to freeze the four fleeing attackers, while the others reacted to his overwhelming power.
• Mu Baobao stopped Ma Xiaotao from killing the attackers, and she went to check on them as the group considered their hidden connection to Dai Huabin.

Mu Baobao's intervention stopped an ambush on Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, but the attackers died by poison before they could be questioned. Shrek's leaders traced the attack toward Dai Huabin, while Yan Shaozhe learned that Mu Baobao's powers far exceeded what he had imagined and was told not to bind him to the academy.

• Mu Baobao froze the four attackers, who died after taking poison, and Ma Xiaotao ordered their bodies brought back for examination.
• Beibei urged Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong to return to the academy, while Ma Xiaotao suspected their defeats of Dai Huabin had provoked the attack.
• Yan Shaozhe ordered Shrek's people to investigate the ambush, and the academy narrowed the likely culprit to Dai Huabin but avoided a confrontation with the White Tiger Duke Mansion.
• Yan Shaozhe asked Mu En about Mu Baobao's visit to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Mu En revealed that Baobao had defeated a thirty-thousand-year Thunder Prison Vine using a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Yan Shaozhe proposed a Sea God Pavilion meeting to secure greater support for Mu Baobao, but Mu En said the academy should respect Baobao's independence and let him choose his own path.

Shrek Academy faced the Continental Soul Master Tournament with most of its official team injured, until Ma Xiaotao recruited Mu Baobao as a substitute. Mu Baobao joined the team, and the academy’s members believed his strength could carry them through the competition.

• Wang Yan told Shrek’s team that severe injuries and Yao Haoxuan’s death left the reserve members and a few recovering seniors available for the tournament.
• Ma Xiaotao found Mu Baobao’s note in her seat and recognized him as the powerful substitute who could secure Shrek’s chances.
• Ma Xiaotao reunited with Mu Baobao, accepted him as a substitute, and kissed him before the crowd; he exchanged his valuable ticket for a flower for her.
• Mu Baobao returned to the conference room with Ma Xiaotao, where Huo Yuhao, Beibei, and the other team members welcomed him.
• Wang Yan and the team discussed Mu Baobao’s Battle Armor and demonstrated power, leaving the group confident that Shrek could compete despite its depleted roster.

At Shrek Academy, Mu Baobao dismissed the tournament preparations while Ma Xiaotao confessed her feelings and spent the night with him. The next morning, Shrek’s reserve team attended the tournament draw without its injured official members, drawing outrage from the other academies as the team prepared to compete.

• Mu Baobao reassured Wang Yan about his relationship with Han Ruoruo and teased him about wedding wine, while they discussed Chu Qingtian and Wu Ming.
• At dinner, other academies mistook Shrek’s five official members and young reserve team for an arrogant provocation, and Mu Baobao joked that he could defeat every opponent himself.
• After the injured official members went to rest, Mu Baobao watched Star Luo City from his hotel balcony, and Ma Xiaotao arrived to confront him about his earlier words.
• Ma Xiaotao declared that she was willing to be with Mu Baobao, kissed him, and spent the night with him.
• The next morning, Wang Yan brought Shrek’s reserve team to the tournament draw, where the absence of the official team angered the other academies.
• Xu Sanshi teased the reserve team about Ma Xiaotao staying in Mu Baobao’s room, and Wang Yan warned the students to focus on surviving the elimination round.

After Ma Xiaotao recovered from her injuries and gained two Soul Power levels, Mu Baobao joined the Shrek team at an auction house before telling her he planned to leave Shrek Academy after the tournament. Ma Xiaotao accepted that he would return, leaving their future journey unresolved.

• Ma Xiaotao told Mu Baobao that their teammates had returned, and the reserve team discovered that she had recovered while teasing the exhausted Mu Baobao.
• Wang Yan took the team to an auction house in Star Luo City to buy Soul Tools, while Wang Dong and Mu Baobao stayed behind.
• Mu Baobao and Ma Xiaotao walked through the city together, and he told her he planned to leave Shrek Academy after the tournament to travel the continent.
• Ma Xiaotao asked whether she should go with him, but Mu Baobao told her to remain at the academy and promised to return.

During the tournament, Mu Baobao revealed that he possessed three Martial Souls with six Ultimate attributes and declared he would fight alone in the finals to claim the Light and Dark Judgment Sword. Shrek crushed its semifinal opponents with Battle Armor, and Mu Baobao prepared to take the field as the final began.

• Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire continued transforming into Ultimate Fire as she dominated tournament matches with Battle Armor, while Mu Baobao struggled with exhaustion from their nightly encounters.
• Mu Baobao asked Xuan Zi for the Light and Dark Judgment Sword and revealed two dragon eggs that, together with Kyurem, demonstrated his three Martial Souls and six Ultimate attributes.
• Ma Xiaotao confronted Mu Baobao about hiding secrets, while Xuan Zi refused to seize the sword by force and the others recognized Mu Baobao’s extraordinary power.
• Mu Baobao declared that he would fight alone in the finals, then agreed to let Gongyang Mo accompany him in Battle Armor after the group remained uneasy.
• Shrek defeated its semifinal opponents in a one-sided battle, with Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng using Battle Armor to reach Soul Saint strength.
• After lunch and a short rest, the finals began, and Mu Baobao stood up as Gongyang Mo prepared to accompany him.