Chapter Summaries

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.

Flender and Zhao Wuji watched the newly built building burn and blamed Mu Bai for the trouble that had driven its builders away. Yu Xiaogang returned in a battered state but hid what had happened to him, while Zhao Wuji proposed using meat from the pigs Mu Bai and the others had killed to feed Flender and the others.

• Flender and Zhao Wuji watched the building burn, and Zhao Wuji suspected Mu Bai and the others had left because they were disappointed with Shrek.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji blamed Mu Bai for the medicine that had kept him and the others affected for two days and one night.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived bruised and disheveled, embraced Flender, and cried without explaining what had happened to him.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Flender for clean clothes and food, then asked whether Little San had arrived and broken through.
• Li Yusong and Zhao Wuji realized they had no money to buy food, so Zhao Wuji suggested sending Flender and the others meat from the pigs Mu Bai and the others had killed.

Li Yusong brought Flender roasted ribs, and Flender served them to the hungry Yu Xiaogang with wine from a dusty, spoiled jar. After drinking it, Yu Xiaogang suffered a violent bout of diarrhea in Flender's room, and Flender soon began experiencing the same symptoms.

• Li Yusong brought Flender a rack of roasted ribs and hurried away after refusing to stay.
• Flender offered the ribs to Yu Xiaogang, who eagerly ate them while Flender went to fetch wine.
• Flender opened a dusty jar of old wine and poured bowls for himself and Yu Xiaogang despite its sour smell.
• Yu Xiaogang drank two bowls of the sour wine and began violently soiling Flender's room.
• Flender's stomach began churning, and he clutched his abdomen as he realized he could not hold it either.

After Flender told Yu Xiaogang about Zhao Linchuan’s extraordinary Soul Ring configuration and the girls’ rapid growth from Immortal Herbs, Yu Xiaogang decided to ask Tang San what he knew. The chapter then revealed Tang San’s renewed hatred of Ma Hongjun before Yu Xiaogang came to check on his injuries.

• Flender told Yu Xiaogang that twelve-year-old Zhao Linchuan was a five-ringed Soul King who had defeated Zhao Wuji, and described the girls’ rapid Soul Power gains after eating Immortal Herbs.
• Yu Xiaogang was stunned by the reports and regretted that Flender had not kept Zhao Linchuan’s group or asked them for Immortal Herbs.
• Flender said Tang San had mentioned Immortal Herbs, so Yu Xiaogang decided to ask his student what he knew.
• Tang San lay in his dormitory, reliving painful memories from his childhood and thinking about killing Ma Hongjun for revenge.
• Yu Xiaogang entered Tang San’s room, checked on him, and asked about the injuries he had suffered while hunting Soul Beasts.

Tang San told Yu Xiaogang how Immortal Herbs might be found and hinted that Zhao Linchuan could cultivate them, but Zhao Linchuan had already left. Meanwhile, Flender and Zhao Wuji dealt with the aftermath of Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar’s ordeal and decided to put the three in the same room because the academy could no longer afford their treatment.

• Yu Xiaogang asked Tang San about Immortal Herbs, and Tang San confirmed they existed and described where they might grow.
• Tang San suggested Zhao Linchuan might know how to find or cultivate Immortal Herbs and hoped Yu Xiaogang would obtain one for him.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that Zhao Linchuan had left that morning, then departed to investigate places where Immortal Herbs might grow.
• Zhao Wuji told Flender that Dai Mubai had stabilized, Ma Hongjun was still suffering from his evil fire, and Oscar no longer resisted the men; all three had passed out from exhaustion.
• Flender learned that selling the dead pigs had brought losses and ordered Zhao Wuji to put Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar in the same room because the academy could not afford to help them detoxify.

Zhao Linchuan weighed how to distribute six Spirit Bones taken from Tang Hao and decided to give them to Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, saving Xiao Wu’s share for a future hunt. He then prepared simplified cultivation methods for the three girls before they returned.

• Zhao Linchuan considered the Spirit Bones’ qualities and how they might benefit Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Zhao Linchuan decided to split the six Spirit Bones between Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, and planned to find two hundred-thousand-year Spirit Bones for Xiao Wu in the future.
• Zhao Linchuan simplified the Azure Dragon Visualization Method into the Mirror-Like Heart Art and World at One's Feet into the Earth-Shrinking Step.
• Zhao Linchuan checked the new methods and made copies for Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong.