Recaps

Tang San tried to sneak into the building but Zhao Linchuan struck him with Dragon Whisker Needles, forcing him to flee in pain. After removing one needle and bandaging himself in a forest, Tang San planned to find another way to obtain the metal items he wanted.

• Ning Rongrong shouted that there was a thief, and Zhao Linchuan rushed out to confront Tang San as he crawled through a window.
• Zhao Linchuan shot two Dragon Whisker Needles into Tang San, who ran away using Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track despite the worsening pain.
• Zhao Linchuan returned without Tang San, while Zhu Zhuqing noticed white traces on Ning Rongrong's leg and quietly questioned her about them.
• Ning Rongrong gave Zhu Zhuqing an evasive explanation and led her back inside before Xiao Wu noticed anything.
• Tang San removed a Dragon Whisker Needle in a forest, bandaged his wound, and decided to seek the metal items through bets or contests.

Tang San struggled back to Shrek before dawn, while Zhu Zhuqing thanked Zhao Linchuan after refining an Immortal Herb and reaching level thirty. At training, Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing revealed their breakthroughs, leaving Flender stunned as the students prepared to hunt Soul Rings the next day.

• Tang San endured severe pain as he forced himself to return before Zhao Linchuan noticed his absence.
• Zhu Zhuqing discovered that refining the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone had healed her hidden injuries and raised her Soul Power to level thirty.
• Zhu Zhuqing thanked Zhao Linchuan with a kiss, and he promised to collect the rest of his payment later.
• Flender announced that Shrek would travel to Star Dou Forest the next day to hunt Soul Rings after Oscar's breakthrough.
• Ning Rongrong revealed that she had reached level thirty, and Zhu Zhuqing announced that she had too.
• Flender questioned how both girls had broken through overnight and exclaimed that it defied common sense.

After Flender dismissed the students, Zhao Linchuan took responsibility for leading his students to obtain their Soul Rings. At breakfast, Xiao Wu revealed she was level forty-four and close to level forty-five, leaving Ning Rongrong stunned by the enormous gap between them.

• Ning Rongrong praised her teacher’s methods, and Oscar lamented that he had exhausted himself all night just to break through.
• Zhao Linchuan told Flender he would take his students to obtain their Soul Rings, and Flender dismissed everyone.
• Tang San supported the exhausted Oscar and asked to try his big sausage.
• At breakfast, Zhao Linchuan asked Xiao Wu about her progress, and she said she would reach level forty-five within two days.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing questioned how Xiao Wu had cultivated so quickly, and Xiao Wu redirected their attention to Zhao Linchuan.
• Ning Rongrong reasoned that she and Xiao Wu were not competitors, but remained disheartened by Xiao Wu’s level.

Zhao Linchuan proposed using ten-thousand-year Whale Rubber to strengthen Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing so they could absorb stronger Soul Rings, and the three of them took it together. Afterward, an angry voice called for Zhao Linchuan from outside the house.

• Ning Rongrong resolved to cultivate more seriously, and Xiao Wu hurried off to train after Zhao Linchuan offered her a wish if she reached level forty-five by dawn.
• Zhao Linchuan explained that Whale Rubber could strengthen the body and raise the age limit of their Soul Rings.
• Ning Rongrong persuaded Zhu Zhuqing to join her and Zhao Linchuan in taking the ten-thousand-year Whale Rubber.
• Three hours later, Zhao Linchuan came downstairs while Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing rested in their rooms.
• Someone outside shouted for Zhao Linchuan to come out.

Dai Mubai came to Zhao Linchuan’s home to claim Zhu Zhuqing as his fiancée, but Zhao Linchuan knocked him unconscious and sent his companions away with him. Zhu Zhuqing then asked Zhao Linchuan to take her to see Ning Rongrong, and they discussed Rongrong’s unexpected behavior.

• Dai Mubai confronted Zhao Linchuan and demanded that he hand over Zhu Zhuqing, calling her his fiancée.
• Zhao Linchuan warned Dai Mubai to stop causing trouble, then kicked him in the chest and knocked him unconscious.
• Tang San, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar carried Dai Mubai away without confronting Zhao Linchuan.
• Zhu Zhuqing came outside, and Zhao Linchuan supported her as they headed toward her room.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Zhao Linchuan to take her to see Ning Rongrong and remarked on Rongrong’s surprising skills.

Dai Mubai recovered enough to describe Zhao Linchuan giving Ning Rongrong a fragrant tulip-like herb, leading Tang San to identify it as a possible Immortal Herb. The group wondered whether Immortal Herbs explained Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing's rapid growth, and Tang San left them with the warning that Zhao Linchuan was unlikely to give one to a stranger.

• Tang San examined Dai Mubai and said his broken ribs and injuries would heal with rest, while Dai Mubai complained that Zhao Linchuan had attacked before he could use his Soul Power.
• Oscar asked how Zhao Linchuan, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing had become so strong, and Dai Mubai suggested they had used a forbidden method.
• Tang San explained that Immortal Herbs could greatly improve Soul Power and cultivation talent.
• Dai Mubai recalled seeing Zhao Linchuan give Ning Rongrong a large, fragrant tulip-like herb near the western village stream.
• Tang San identified the herb as likely Aromatic Silk Beauty and described how Immortal Herbs could improve a Martial Soul without side effects.
• Oscar wondered whether an Immortal Herb could help his difficult cultivation, but Tang San said Zhao Linchuan would probably not give one to a stranger before leaving to rest.

The Silver Dragon King secretly visited Zhao Linchuan during the night, leaving him exhausted and hungry by morning. After Xiao Wu announced her breakthrough, Zhao Linchuan left in a carriage with Zhu Zhuqing while Tang San taunted Dai Mubai about the pair’s stay at Peony Garden, provoking Dai Mubai’s rage.

• The Silver Dragon King watched Zhao Linchuan sleep, then approached his bedside after removing her clothes.
• Zhao Linchuan woke sore and unusually hungry, unable to remember what he had dreamed about.
• At breakfast, Xiao Wu proudly told Zhao Linchuan that she had broken through to level forty-five during the night.
• Zhao Linchuan boarded Ning Rongrong’s carriage with Zhu Zhuqing, departing ahead of the others while Dai Mubai watched resentfully.
• Tang San told Dai Mubai that Zhao Linchuan and Zhu Zhuqing had stayed together at Peony Garden for seven days, and Dai Mubai roared that he would kill Zhao Linchuan.

Yu Xiaogang set out for Suotuo City to meet Tang San, believing the boy should focus on the Clear Sky Hammer. A gang ambushed and abducted him, and he fell into a bizarre dream about being unable to finish using an outhouse.

• Tang San secretly hoped Dai Mubai would provoke Zhao Linchuan, while worrying that one of his Magic Pills was shrinking.
• Yu Xiaogang walked toward Suotuo City and reflected that Tang San’s first Martial Soul mattered less to him than the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Brother Scar and his men stopped Yu Xiaogang, claimed they had been sent by a woman, and lured him into their midst.
• Brother Scar’s men knocked Yu Xiaogang unconscious, bagged him, and announced they had found the princess and would summon the others.
• Yu Xiaogang dreamed he repeatedly tried and failed to relieve himself, and prayed to wake up.

Ning Fengzhi learned that Shrek Academy seemed to be hiding a powerful Soul Master and ordered Elder Gu to investigate Rongrong and the academy. Meanwhile, Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing absorbed their new Soul Rings in the Star Dou Forest, while the chapter noted that Rongrong had separated from Dai Mubai’s group and Er Ming had not appeared.

• A subordinate told Ning Fengzhi that Shrek Academy’s mysterious soul pressure was stronger than Flender’s and did not belong to Zhao Wuji or the academy’s auxiliary Soul Sage.
• Ning Fengzhi suspected Shrek was hiding an expert at Soul Douluo level or above and ordered Elder Gu to secretly check on Rongrong and investigate the academy.
• Ning Fengzhi considered forming a good relationship with Shrek and offering it support if appropriate.
• In the Star Dou Forest, Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing absorbed Soul Rings from beasts Zhao Linchuan had selected for them, roughly three thousand and four thousand years old respectively.
• Ning Rongrong had left Dai Mubai’s group after breakfast, and Xiao Wu’s vanished Soul Beast aura meant Er Ming did not appear.

Xiao Wu and Zhao Linchuan discussed her staying away from her old companions until she could safely return, then flirted about becoming a couple. Xiao Wu confronted him about his relationships with Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing and explained why she accepted them, leaving Zhao Linchuan alarmed by her plans for a huge family.

• Xiao Wu told Zhao Linchuan she would avoid seeing her old companions until she became a Soul Sage and could return safely with him.
• Xiao Wu reminded Zhao Linchuan of his promise and said she wanted to be his wife, and he told her to wait until they returned.
• Xiao Wu revealed that she knew Zhao Linchuan had been intimate with Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing and complained that he had kept calling her too young.
• Xiao Wu said Rongrong could connect Zhao Linchuan to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and argued that Zhu Zhuqing should bear him many children.
• Zhao Linchuan stopped Xiao Wu as she began explaining her calculations about how many children Zhu Zhuqing could have.

Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong awakened with greatly increased Soul Power, and Zhao Linchuan prepared to take them to retrieve something. Elsewhere, Tang San reached level thirty, leading Zhao Wuji’s group back into the Star Dou Forest, where they encountered the Man Faced Demon Spider and renewed their conflict with Meng Shu’s family.

• Zhu Zhuqing discovered that she had reached level thirty-six and gained a four-thousand-year third Soul Ring, then kissed Zhao Linchuan and thanked him.
• Xiao Wu dragged Zhu Zhuqing into the bushes to talk, while Ning Rongrong awakened at level thirty-five.
• Ning Rongrong learned Xiao Wu knew about her relationship with Zhao Linchuan and kissed him; Xiao Wu returned and calmly told them to leave.
• Zhao Linchuan said he still needed to retrieve something and led the three girls onward.
• Tang San reached level thirty near the edge of the Star Dou Forest, so Zhao Wuji’s group returned to find him a third Soul Ring.
• Zhao Wuji’s group encountered the Man Faced Demon Spider, and Zhao Wuji’s earlier actions had already deeply offended Meng Shu’s family.

Tang San's eight spider lances appeared, and Zhao Linchuan pretended to examine them before helping Zhao Wuji remove them and healing Tang San's back. The group prepared to leave, while Zhu Zhuqing waited on the forest path ahead.

• Ma Hongjun and Oscar panicked at the sight of spider lances growing from Tang San's back, and Zhao Wuji called for Zhao Linchuan's help.
• Zhao Linchuan examined Tang San and agreed to help after Zhao Wuji explained what had happened.
• Zhao Wuji tore all eight spider lances from Tang San's back, leaving him severely wounded.
• Zhao Linchuan healed Tang San's back with his soul skill, though Tang San remained unconscious.
• Zhao Wuji ordered Ma Hongjun and Mu Bai to carry Tang San and leave quickly.
• Ning Rongrong asked Zhao Linchuan where Zhu Zhuqing was, and he pointed her toward Zhu Zhuqing waiting along the forest path.

At the inn, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Dai Mubai talked about the women at Zhao Linchuan’s table, and Dai Mubai revealed his jealousy over Zhu Zhuqing. After Dai Mubai stormed off, Oscar and Ma Hongjun wondered why his behavior had changed lately.

• Zhao Linchuan and the four girls settled at a table downstairs while Ma Hongjun carried the unconscious Tang San to his room.
• Ma Hongjun returned downstairs and made lewd remarks about Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong, prompting Oscar to defend Ning Rongrong.
• Ma Hongjun asked Dai Mubai whether Zhu Zhuqing was his fiancée, and Dai Mubai confirmed she had been promised to him since their Martial Souls awakened.
• Dai Mubai angrily called Zhu Zhuqing a cheap bitch and claimed she should have been his before leaving the table.
• Oscar and Ma Hongjun noted that Dai Mubai had become moody and had stopped going to the bathroom with them.

At a tavern, Zhao Linchuan and the women discovered a clay pot containing a dead cat and rabbit, apparently meant to provoke Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing. Zhao Linchuan left to investigate who was responsible, while Ning Rongrong stayed behind to look after them.

• Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing discussed their relationships and grew closer over dinner.
• A waiter brought a clay pot containing a dead black cat and rabbit, shocking the women and the waiter.
• Ning Rongrong reasoned that the dish had been arranged by someone who knew them, and Xiao Wu suspected Ma Hongjun and Oscar.
• Zhao Linchuan told the women to stay together and promised to investigate and punish whoever was responsible.
• Ning Rongrong agreed to care for Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing as Zhao Linchuan left the tavern.

Zhao Linchuan learned that Dai Mubai had bribed a cook to target him, then secretly drugged the late-night drink he sent to Dai Mubai and Oscar. Tang San woke to find Ma Hongjun out of control and approaching him, triggering traumatic childhood memories.

• A cook confessed to Zhao Linchuan that Dai Mubai had paid him one hundred Gold Soul Coins to carry out the scheme.
• Zhao Linchuan ordered the cook to prepare late-night snacks and secretly mixed a specialized pill with Blood Swan Kiss into the drink.
• Zhao Linchuan decided to leave Shrek with Xiao Wu and the others if Tang Hao did not appear within two days.
• Oscar accepted the late-night snacks delivered to Dai Mubai's room, and Dai Mubai began eating despite not having ordered them.
• Tang San woke in Ma Hongjun's room and saw Ma Hongjun approaching him with bloodshot eyes and heavy breathing.
• Tang San tried to stop Ma Hongjun, but Ma Hongjun mistook him for a little girl, and Tang San's painful childhood memories resurfaced.

Zhao Linchuan and Xiao Wu finished bathing and returned to their room after Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing admitted they had been listening outside. Ning Rongrong then got struck in the forehead by a button from Zhu Zhuqing's strained clothes and questioned whether her figure was really that exaggerated.

• Zhao Linchuan told Xiao Wu he had used her old trick to teach Dai Mubai, Oscar, Tang San, and Ma Hongjun a lesson.
• Zhao Linchuan and Xiao Wu finished washing up, teased each other, and left the bathroom together.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing revealed they had listened outside because they were worried the pair might faint.
• Zhao Linchuan carried Xiao Wu away and told Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing to rest so they could watch the show tomorrow.
• Ning Rongrong commented on Zhu Zhuqing's tight clothes, and a button shot off and struck her forehead.
• Ning Rongrong looked at Zhu Zhuqing's figure and wondered if it was really that exaggerated.

Ning Rongrong teased Zhu Zhuqing before the story shifted to Yu Xiaogang, who had endured two days of torment in a cave and seized a chance to escape. He unleashed Luo Sanpao’s foul gas and fled, while Brother Scar watched him resist.

• Ning Rongrong clung to Zhu Zhuqing and teased her until Zhu Zhuqing gave up trying to push her away.
• Yu Xiaogang woke in a cave after two days of torment by thirty-seven people and spotted them resting.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo Sanpao, but Brother Scar noticed and taunted him as he tried to resist.
• Yu Xiaogang ordered Luo Sanpao to release its gas attack, filling the cave with foul yellow fumes.
• Yu Xiaogang told Luo Sanpao to run and stumbled toward the cave entrance.

Yu Xiaogang accidentally discovered that combining Luo Sanpao’s flammable gas with a fire soul skill created a powerful explosion, then fled the cave as Brother Scar threatened him. The next morning, Zhao Linchuan found Ning Rongrong in the bathroom, where she asked him to slap her and call her a bitch.

• Yu Xiaogang’s gas-filled cave exploded when someone unleashed the Fire Snake soul skill, blasting him outside and leaving him badly burned.
• Yu Xiaogang realized he had accidentally created a Self-Created Soul Skill and escaped toward Shrek to find Flender and the others.
• Brother Scar staggered out of the cave and shouted after Yu Xiaogang, threatening him if they met again.
• Zhao Linchuan woke up and rushed barefoot into the bathroom, where Ning Rongrong was using the toilet.
• Ning Rongrong held Zhao Linchuan close and asked him to slap her face and call her a bitch, and he did.

Ning Rongrong recovered from a strange experiment with Zhao Linchuan, then learned that he had planned a spectacle at the tavern. The chapter ended with a crowd gossiping over Dai Mubai and three others, who lay unconscious beneath a sheet after a night of drug-fueled chaos.

• Ning Rongrong rinsed her mouth after trying something from a storybook, and Zhao Linchuan healed the red marks on her face with Soul Power.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Zhao Linchuan, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu that people had crowded around two rooms after male Soul Masters caused a commotion.
• Zhao Linchuan confirmed that the commotion was the good show he had promised, and Ning Rongrong left the table feeling nauseated.
• At the tavern, a crowd gathered around Dai Mubai and three others, who lay unconscious beneath a sheet on tables pushed together.
• An onlooker claimed that the four had taken a special drug and dueled all night, leading to a Martial Soul explosion and their collapse.

Zhao Linchuan and the girls overheard the tavern crowd’s lurid rumors about Tang San, Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, and Oscar, then slipped away before anyone associated them with the incident. Zhao Wuji arrived, worked out that the four had likely taken Dai Mubai’s medicine, and carried them out disguised in a mask as the crowd laughed.

• Zhao Linchuan, Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing heard the crowd inventing stories about the four unconscious students.
• Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing joked about the students before Zhao Linchuan urged them to leave.
• The three girls hurried out together to avoid being mistaken for the students’ companions.
• Zhao Wuji arrived and, after hearing the rumors, suspected Dai Mubai’s medicine had caused the incident.
• Zhao Wuji put on a ghost-face mask, stacked Dai Mubai, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Tang San over his shoulders, and ran from the tavern as the crowd laughed.

Xiao Wu sensed that a Title Douluo had been following the group and warned Zhao Linchuan, who promised to protect everyone. When Tang Hao summoned him to the rear mountain, Zhao Linchuan prepared a poison designed to exploit Tang Hao’s old injuries and left to confront him.

• Xiao Wu told Zhao Linchuan that a Title Douluo had followed them to Shrek Academy.
• Zhao Linchuan reassured Xiao Wu that he could handle the threat and would protect everyone.
• A stone carrying a message summoned Zhao Linchuan to the rear mountain.
• Zhao Linchuan took a bottle of poison prepared for Tang Hao and headed out.

Zhao Linchuan confronted Tang Hao on the back mountain, and their domains clashed beneath the full moon. Tang Hao demanded the object Zhao Linchuan had taken from Little San, but as Zhao Linchuan sat calmly, Tang Hao suddenly buckled under an unexplained heaviness.

• Zhao Linchuan activated his Heaven and Earth Loss of Color domain, draining the back mountain of color and stripping Tang Hao of his five senses.
• Tang Hao summoned his Clear Sky Hammer and used Divine Slaughter's Domain to resist Zhao Linchuan's domain and gradually recover his senses.
• Zhao Linchuan recognized Tang Hao as the Clear Sky Douluo, and Tang Hao confirmed his identity before demanding the thing Zhao Linchuan had taken from Little San.
• Tang Hao offered to spare Zhao Linchuan if he returned the object and acknowledged Little San as his master, but Zhao Linchuan remained defiant and sat down to meditate.
• After their domains clashed for about a quarter of an hour, Tang Hao's hammer and limbs grew unbearably heavy, and he fell to one knee.

Zhao Linchuan recounted how Tang Hao manipulated a transformed Soul Beast into sacrificing herself, then watched as poison and his Soul skills killed the Clear Sky Douluo. Afterward, Zhao Linchuan began dissolving Tang Hao's corpse.

• Zhao Linchuan told the dying Tang Hao the story of how he had deceived a transformed Soul Beast into loving him and sacrificing herself.
• Tang Hao convulsed, vomited corrosive black blood, and collapsed as the poison spread through him.
• Zhao Linchuan kept his distance and used One Leaf Knows Autumn to drain Tang Hao's remaining life force.
• Tang Hao died on the nameless back mountain, and Zhao Linchuan withdrew his domain.
• Zhao Linchuan sprinkled Corpse-Rotting Bone-Melting Powder over Tang Hao's corpse.

After killing Tang Hao and taking his six spirit bones, Zhao Linchuan discovered Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Flender, and Zhao Wuji slaughtering pigs at night while strange cries came from inside the house. He secretly recorded the scene and returned to Xiao Wu, promising to tell her and the others what he had witnessed.

• Zhao Linchuan heard shrill howls coming from a brightly lit courtyard and went to investigate.
• Zhao Linchuan saw Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun struggling to slaughter sows while Flender and Zhao Wuji held them down, and he heard Oscar's muffled cries from inside the house.
• Zhao Linchuan used Ning Rongrong's Image Recording Stone to capture the courtyard scene through the night.
• Zhao Linchuan returned to the dorm at dawn and reassured the exhausted Xiao Wu that he was safe.
• Zhao Linchuan told Xiao Wu he had taken six spirit bones from Tang Hao and said he would explain what he had seen after waking Zhuqing and the others.

After hearing Zhao Linchuan recount the previous night, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu decided to leave Shrek Academy and burn the house they had built there. As the four headed for Suotuo City, the Silver Dragon King watched Zhao Linchuan and wondered whether she should give herself a name.

• Zhao Linchuan told Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong about his nighttime encounter with Dai Mubai and the others, making the girls sick.
• Ning Rongrong apologized for bringing them to Shrek and said they should leave; Xiao Wu and Zhao Linchuan reassured her, and Zhu Zhuqing suggested burning the house.
• The four packed their belongings, and Ning Rongrong said she would have Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect subordinates burn the building.
• Ning Rongrong pulled Zhu Zhuqing away, and Zhao Linchuan took Xiao Wu's hand as they left for Suotuo City without saying goodbye.
• The Silver Dragon King watched them depart and decided Zhao Linchuan had the qualities to father her child, then wondered whether she should have a name.