Chapter Summaries

Yun Tian defeated Tang San and Xiao Wu after their coordinated attacks failed to overcome his earth-based strength. Tang San conceded, and he and Xiao Wu accepted Yun Tian as their big brother, binding their paths together.

• Tang San and Xiao Wu attacked Yun Tian from different angles, but his second soul skill shattered Tang San's vines and knocked Xiao Wu away.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu tried to lift Yun Tian off the ground, but he spun out of their attacks, seized Tang San's vine, and punched him back.
• Tang San stopped Xiao Wu from attacking again and conceded to Yun Tian.
• Tang San bowed and called Yun Tian "Big Brother," and Xiao Wu followed suit.
• Yun Tian welcomed Tang San as his little brother and Xiao Wu as his little sister, promising to protect them.

Tang Hao secretly watched Yun Tian, Tang San, and Xiao Wu, wrestling with whether to protect Xiao Wu or save her as a future soul ring for Tang San. He recognized Yun Tian’s protective intentions and, watching the three leave together, reflected on his own lost brotherhood and loneliness.

• Tang Hao watched Tang San and Xiao Wu accept Yun Tian as their big brother from the branches of an old locust tree.
• Tang Hao considered killing Xiao Wu because she was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, but decided to keep watching her and conceal her identity from Tang San.
• Tang Hao assessed Yun Tian’s powerful abilities and concluded that he had taken Tang San and Xiao Wu as younger siblings partly out of a genuine desire to protect them.
• Tang Hao remembered his brother Tang Xiao and sister Tang Yuehua, then urged Tang San to cherish his days with others before growing lonely.
• Yun Tian walked down the mountain with Tang San and Xiao Wu while Tang Hao watched them go and drank beneath the moon.

After Tang San left Holy Soul Village, he joined Xiao Wu and Yun Tian on the journey to Yun Family Village. The three reached the remote village at the foot of the mountains, where Yun Tian had grown up.

• Tang San left Holy Soul Village with Xiao Wu and Yun Tian after learning his father had gone.
• Yun Tian decided to return to Yun Family Village to check on Village Chief Grandpa, and Tang San and Xiao Wu chose to accompany him.
• The three hired a carriage toward Notting City and traveled through the countryside while Yun Tian described his village and childhood home.
• After the carriage dropped them at a fork, the three walked along a rough mountain road toward Yun Family Village.
• Yun Tian, Tang San, and Xiao Wu arrived at the village, which had about a hundred homes clustered at the foot of the mountains.

Yun Tian returned to Yun Family Village with Tang San and Xiao Wu, gave the village chief gold soul coins to help the villagers, and spent the evening reconnecting with his home. After the three returned to Notting City, Yun Tian parted from his companions and began thinking about how to earn money.

• Yun Tian brought Tang San and Xiao Wu into Yun Family Village, where the villagers greeted him warmly.
• Yun Tian gave Grandpa Village Chief seven or eight gold soul coins to repair the irrigation channel and help struggling households.
• Yun Tian, Tang San, and Xiao Wu shared a meal and stayed overnight at the village chief’s home.
• Yun Tian said goodbye to Grandpa Village Chief the next morning, and the three left the village.
• The three returned to Notting City and parted ways, while Yun Tian considered how to get more money.

Yun Tian considered ways to build wealth and identified hidden weapons and soul beast materials as possible businesses. While meditating, he discovered he could create pure earth-element crystals and decided to sell them as rare cultivation aids for two hundred gold soul coins each.

• Yun Tian rejected several slow-starting business ideas and decided to discuss producing simplified hidden weapons with Tang San.
• Yun Tian also considered buying soul beast materials in Notting City and reselling them in larger cities.
• Yun Tian meditated in the Seventh Dorm and used the Earth Shadow Stone to condense a small earth-element crystal.
• Yun Tian realized the crystal could help earth-attribute soul masters cultivate and that no one else could produce it.
• Yun Tian planned to claim he could make only one crystal per week and set its price at two hundred gold soul coins.

Yun Tian brought earth-element crystals he had condensed to the Nuoding Auction House and arranged to have one tested and the other auctioned. He left confident that the crystals could earn him his first fortune, with the test results due within three days.

• Yun Tian left Tang San and Xiao Wu sleeping and condensed a second earth-element crystal before heading to the Nuoding Auction House.
• Yun Tian showed a crystal to Manager Li, explaining that his earth-attribute martial soul produced it and that it could help earth-attribute soul masters cultivate.
• Manager Li summoned the chief manager, who examined the crystals and confirmed their earth-element energy was unusually pure.
• Yun Tian agreed to let the auction house test one crystal and auction the second with a starting price of two hundred gold soul coins, while the house would take a ten percent commission.
• The chief manager promised to report the test results to Yun Tian at Nuoding Academy within three days, and Yun Tian left in high spirits.

Yun Tian’s earth-element crystal passed its trial, earning him 160 gold soul coins and a weekly consignment deal with the Nuoding Auction House. He returned to the Seventh Dorm with a reliable source of income and continued pursuing his goals.

• The Nuoding Auction House summoned Yun Tian after Zhao Tiezhu tested the crystal and felt his soul-power bottleneck loosen.
• The head shopkeeper paid Yun Tian 160 gold soul coins for the trial crystal and arranged to auction his second crystal.
• Yun Tian signed a contract to supply one earth-element crystal each week, with the Nuoding Auction House charging an eight-percent commission.
• Yun Tian planned to save part of his earnings, send some to Yun Family Village, and consider Tang San’s hidden weapon business.
• Yun Tian showed his gold coins to Xiao Wu and Tang San, then reflected on his cultivation goals.

Six years after leaving Nuoding, Yun Tian, Tang San, and Xiao Wu had become experienced young soul masters through years of travel and combat. Emerging from the Star Dou Great Forest, they found Zhu Zhuqing under attack, and Yun Tian stepped in to rescue her.

• Yun Tian, Tang San, and Xiao Wu grew stronger over six years of cultivation and travel, reaching levels forty-two, thirty-one, and thirty-one respectively.
• The three left the Star Dou Great Forest after spending half a month hunting beasts and gathering materials.
• Yun Tian spotted Zhu Zhuqing fighting a group of attackers beside the road.
• Yun Tian recognized Zhu Zhuyun watching from the forest and understood that she had arranged the pursuit without intending to kill Zhu Zhuqing herself.
• Yun Tian told Tang San and Xiao Wu to wait and walked toward the battle alone.

Yun Tian rescued Zhu Zhuqing from pursuers and learned she was traveling to Soto City. She joined Yun Tian, Tang San, and Xiao Wu on their way to Shrek Academy, where they planned to register together.

• Yun Tian used his four purple soul rings and Mountain Collapse and Earth Split to drive off the pursuers attacking Zhu Zhuqing.
• Yun Tian told Tang San that Zhu Zhuqing was the second daughter of the Zhu Family and had left home after her older sister sent people to force her away.
• Yun Tian offered Zhu Zhuqing a safer journey with his companions, and she accepted his help and joined them on the road.
• Yun Tian reminded Tang San that Grandmaster had planned for him to study at Shrek Academy in Soto City.
• Zhu Zhuqing said she had also been heading to Soto City to attend Shrek, and the five agreed to travel there and register together.

Yun Tian and his companions arrived in Soto City and booked the Rose Hotel’s last room. Their plans were interrupted when Dai Mubai arrived and came face-to-face with Zhu Zhuqing, his fiancée, who had risked her life to find him and was disgusted to see him with two other women.

• Yun Tian, Xiao Wu, Tang San, and Zhu Zhuqing ate dinner in Soto City before choosing to stay at the Rose Hotel.
• The innkeeper told them only one suite remained, and the group agreed to share its four beds for the night.
• Dai Mubai arrived with two women and demanded the best suite, insisting that its current guests give it up.
• Dai Mubai recognized Zhu Zhuqing and dropped the women at his sides as shock and guilt overtook him.
• Zhu Zhuqing called Dai Mubai disgusting, and the girl in red angrily challenged her.

Zhu Zhuqing rejected Dai Mubai and claimed Yun Tian was her man to provoke him, but Dai Mubai challenged Yun Tian to a duel. Yun Tian accepted and revealed four purple thousand-year soul rings, leaving Dai Mubai stunned as the confrontation began.

• Dai Mubai confronted Zhu Zhuqing, who told him their relationship was over and called him disgusting for keeping two girls at his side.
• Zhu Zhuqing clung to Yun Tian and declared him her man, using him as a shield to provoke Dai Mubai.
• Dai Mubai challenged Yun Tian to a Soul Master duel, and Zhu Zhuqing tried to keep Yun Tian out of their dispute.
• Yun Tian moved Zhu Zhuqing behind him, accepted the challenge, and revealed four purple soul rings while activating his tiger-head armor.
• Dai Mubai was shocked by Yun Tian's strength but tore open his jacket and released his white tiger aura.

Yun Tian overwhelmingly defeated Dai Mubai in the hotel lobby, shrugging off his soul skills and armor-enhanced attacks before striking back with an Earth Tiger Fist. Dai Mubai was left struggling to stay upright as Yun Tian’s strength remained largely unrevealed.

• Dai Mubai activated his White Tiger martial soul and attacked Yun Tian with his first and second soul skills, but Yun Tian caught his wrist and took the White Tiger Fierce Light Wave without damage.
• Dai Mubai used his third soul skill, White Tiger Vajra Transformation, and attacked Yun Tian with a punch and a low sweep.
• Yun Tian deflected Dai Mubai’s punch with his shoulder armor and stopped his sweeping leg with one foot, leaving Dai Mubai in pain and nearly unable to maintain his transformation.
• Yun Tian announced it was his turn and struck Dai Mubai with an Earth Tiger Fist, sending him flying backward and nearly breaking his transformation.

Yun Tian defeated Dai Mubai at the Rose Hotel but stopped before delivering a final blow, leaving Zhu Zhuqing to decide what to say to her fiancé. The group went to Room 307 for the night, where Zhu Zhuqing withdrew from the others to process what had happened.

• Yun Tian stopped his Earth-Splitting Cleave and asked Dai Mubai whether he accepted defeat, and Dai Mubai admitted that he did.
• Yun Tian left Zhu Zhuqing to speak with Dai Mubai, but Dai Mubai departed the Rose Hotel with the two sisters without saying anything further.
• Yun Tian collected the key to Room 307 and went upstairs with Xiao Wu, Tang San, and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Zhu Zhuqing went to wash up, then curled up in bed and told the others she was going to sleep.
• Yun Tian reflected on the day's events and fell asleep.

Dai Mubai returned to Shrek Academy battered after losing to a boy with four purple soul rings, and told the others about the fight. Flander believed the boy was coming to enroll and planned to assess him the next day, while Dai Mubai kept his connection to Zhu Zhuqing secret.

• Dai Mubai walked back to Shrek Academy after sending away the two sisters, brooding over Zhu Zhuqing and his defeat at the Rose Hotel.
• Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Zhao Wuji, and Flander noticed Dai Mubai's injuries and asked who had beaten him.
• Dai Mubai reported that a boy his age with four purple soul rings had overwhelmed his attacks and possessed brown, tiger-themed armor.
• Flander and Zhao Wuji concluded that the boy and his companions were likely coming to enroll at Shrek Academy.
• Flander told Zhao Wuji not to seek trouble and said he would assess the boy when he registered the next day.
• Dai Mubai kept quiet about Zhu Zhuqing and went to his dormitory while Ma Hongjun and Oscar tried to console him.

Yun Tian, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing arrived at Shrek Academy, where their powerful soul ranks astonished the students and staff. Dai Mubai reunited with Zhu Zhuqing in strained silence, while Ning Rongrong introduced herself and began getting acquainted with the group.

• Flander and Zhao Wuji discussed waiting at the academy gate to meet the youth who had badly beaten Dai Mubai.
• Yun Tian, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing traveled to Shrek Academy the next morning, where they found Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Flander, and Zhao Wuji waiting.
• Dai Mubai greeted the newcomers, but Zhu Zhuqing ignored him, and Yun Tian said the four had come to register.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Yun Tian stated their soul ranks, with Yun Tian revealing he was a rank forty-two Soul Ancestor.
• Ning Rongrong rushed over after hearing their ranks, introduced herself, and asked Xiao Wu about her own level.

Yun Tian and the others began their test against Zhao Wuji, combining defense, control, and coordinated attacks against the Immovable King. Their first assault drew blood and forced Zhao Wuji to take them seriously, but the fight continued.

• Ning Rongrong boosted Yun Tian’s strength and Tang San’s speed with her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Zhao Wuji charged Yun Tian, who blocked his palm with Earth Tiger Armor and was pushed back only a few steps.
• Tang San restrained Zhao Wuji with Blue Silver Grass as Xiao Wu attacked his shoulder and Zhu Zhuqing cut his waist.
• Zhao Wuji burst free, scattering Xiao Wu and breaking the vines, but Zhu Zhuqing’s strike left a shallow cut.
• Zhao Wuji acknowledged the five’s coordination and dropped his condescending attitude.

Yun Tian and his companions struggled against Zhao Wuji after he activated Immovable Vajra Body, then used coordinated attacks and several earth-based soul skills to trap and weaken him. The chapter ended with Zhao Wuji pinned in a swamp beneath the crushing gravity of Yun Tian’s Immovable Mountain.

• Zhao Wuji activated his first soul skill, Immovable Vajra Body, and overwhelmed the group’s direct attacks.
• Yun Tian warned the others about a weak point near Zhao Wuji’s shoulder blades, and Tang San prepared Blue Silver Grass to target it.
• Yun Tian dodged Zhao Wuji’s next charge and used Mountain Collapse and Earth Split to crack the ground beneath him.
• Tang San pulled Zhao Wuji off balance with Blue Silver Grass as Yun Tian turned the shattered ground into a swamp with Thousand-Jun Reconstituted Earth.
• Yun Tian activated Immovable Mountain, trapping Zhao Wuji in the swamp beneath crushing gravity that forced him to bend under the pressure.

Yun Tian and the others passed the entrance assessment after forcing Zhao Wuji to use his Martial Soul True Body. Flander enrolled them at Shrek Academy, assigned their rooms and uniforms, and told them to gather at the field at two in the afternoon.

• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing attacked Zhao Wuji while Yun Tian's gravity and mountain skills pinned him down, but Zhao Wuji broke free by activating his Martial Soul True Body.
• Flander stopped the assessment when the incense had burned out, and Zhao Wuji declared all five students had passed.
• Flander welcomed the five as students of Shrek Academy and took them to the Academic Affairs Office to register, hand out student IDs, keys, and uniforms, and explain the academy's basic arrangements.
• Flander assigned Yun Tian and Tang San to share a room, Ma Hongjun and Oscar to the neighboring room, and Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing to share a girls' room; Ning Rongrong received a room of her own.
• Flander gave the students the morning to settle in and told them to gather at the field at two in the afternoon, and Yun Tian and Tang San inspected their room.

Yun Tian and the other new students gathered for Shrek Academy’s afternoon introductions, while Dai Mubai resolved to face them despite his recent defeat. Flander introduced Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar to the newcomers.

• Yun Tian rested beneath a locust tree and explained that the afternoon activity would likely be a spar to help the students get acquainted.
• Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Tang San joined Yun Tian, and the five headed to the playground.
• Dai Mubai watched the newcomers from the dormitory window, then decided to face them and went downstairs.
• Ma Hongjun and Oscar joined Dai Mubai on the way to the playground, where Dai Mubai admitted that Yun Tian had beaten him.
• Flander introduced Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar to the five newcomers, and Oscar offered to provide them with sausages.

Flander ordered Yun Tian to face all seven of Shrek’s students at once, testing how long the four-ring Soul Ancestor could withstand their combined strength. Yun Tian repelled two coordinated attacks without taking a step, leaving Flander and Zhao Wuji convinced he had not revealed all his power.

• Ma Hongjun reacted in disbelief when Flander announced Yun Tian’s rank and four soul rings.
• Flander ordered Xiao Wu, Tang San, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Dai Mubai to fight Yun Tian together for one incense stick, with no killing or crippling.
• Yun Tian accepted the challenge and entered the training ground as the seven surrounded him, with Ning Rongrong preparing to support them.
• The seven launched a coordinated assault, but Yun Tian used Mountain Collapse and Earth Split to break Tang San’s vines, disrupt the others’ attacks, and remain in place.
• The seven attacked again from multiple directions, but Yun Tian combined his Earth Tiger Armor with Mountain Collapse and Earth Split to repel them all without a scratch.
• Flander asked Zhao Wuji whether Yun Tian had used his full strength, and Zhao Wuji answered that Yun Tian had kept at least half his trump cards hidden.