Chapter Summaries

Long Wushang opened the Black Dragon Merchant Association in Shrek City, then secretly met Xuan Zi at his father’s request. Xuan Zi attacked him over the destruction of Shrek City, but Long Wushang caught the wine gourd and reminded him that he had agreed to meet privately.

• Long Wushang established the Black Dragon Merchant Association in Shrek City, where Shrek students, including Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er, visited after it opened.
• Long Wushang disguised himself and went to a courtyard near Shrek Academy to meet Xuan Zi, carrying a letter and his Hidden Dragon Clan token.
• Xuan Zi recognized Long Wushang and, angered by his connection to the attack on Shrek City and Mu En’s death, hurled his wine gourd at him.
• Long Wushang caught the gourd with his dragon-scaled arm and endured Xuan Zi’s Level 98 Soul Power without apparent injury.
• Xuan Zi accused Long Wushang of bringing the Holy Spirit Cult and Sun Moon Empire weapons to attack Shrek City, while Long Wushang said Xuan Zi had agreed to meet him privately at his father’s request.

Long Wushang confronted Xuan Zi over the Shrek students who had died, then used a detonator and the threat of bombs hidden in Shrek City to stop Xuan Zi from attacking. He said he had come to help with Xuan Zi’s current troubles and discuss cooperation, leaving their negotiations unresolved.

• Long Wushang admitted killing Shrek students in battle but accused Xuan Zi of sending even more students to their deaths through failures and bad orders.
• Xuan Zi lost his temper and prepared to strike, but Long Wushang produced a detonator and warned that bombs at the Black Dragon Merchant Association could destroy half of Shrek City.
• Xuan Zi stopped and lowered his hand because he could not risk triggering an explosion and causing more casualties.
• Long Wushang lifted his thumb from the detonator, sat opposite Xuan Zi, and said he wanted to help solve Xuan Zi’s troubles and discuss cooperation.
• Xuan Zi dismissed Long Wushang’s proposal, while Long Wushang remarked that Xuan Zi might be even less pleased if Long Xiaoyao came to meet him.

Long Wushang visited Xuan Zi and revealed that Ma Xiaotao was safe and had become his woman, then claimed this made him part of Shrek Academy. Xuan Zi rejected his claim and warned him to return Xiaotao, but feared that confronting Long Wushang could bring another attack from the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Xuan Zi grew irritated with Long Wushang's evasions and dismissed his talk of Long Xiaoyao.
• Long Wushang told Xuan Zi that Ma Xiaotao had been abducted by the Holy Spirit Cult and was still missing.
• Xuan Zi recognized that Long Wushang meant Xiaotao and demanded to know what had happened to her.
• Long Wushang assured Xuan Zi that Xiaotao was unharmed and claimed she was now his woman.
• Long Wushang declared that his relationship with Xiaotao made him part of Shrek Academy.
• Xuan Zi refused to accept Long Wushang at Shrek and demanded that he return Xiaotao, while recognizing that Shrek could not safely attack him.

Long Wushang told Xuan Zi that he and Ma Xiaotao had formed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill and that he had helped her reach Ultimate Fire. He claimed Xiaotao wanted him to help Shrek Academy, leaving Xuan Zi moved by her supposed loyalty.

• Long Wushang told Xuan Zi that he and Ma Xiaotao were bound together and had developed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, transforming her martial soul into Ultimate Fire.
• Xuan Zi reacted with disbelief, then considered the power the pair could bring to Shrek Academy and whether he could recruit them despite their ties to the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Long Wushang interrupted Xuan Zi's doubts and claimed Ma Xiaotao had asked him to visit and help Shrek Academy repay it for raising her.
• Long Wushang praised Xiaotao's loyalty in an emotional performance, and Xuan Zi called her a fine girl and a pride of the academy.

Long Wushang challenged Xuan Zi’s claim that Shrek should govern its own affairs, arguing that the Clear Sky Sect had gained influence inside the academy while Shrek was weakened and divided. He urged Xuan Zi to break through to Limit Douluo to reclaim authority, but Xuan Zi angrily rejected the advice.

• Xuan Zi accepted Long Wushang’s goodwill toward Xiaotao but insisted Shrek’s people must decide Shrek’s affairs and told him to leave.
• Long Wushang described Shrek’s losses after the Holy Spirit Cult’s attack and the divisions between Shrek’s factions, the Clear Sky Sect, and the Martial Soul and Soul Tool Departments.
• Long Wushang argued that the Clear Sky Sect used Shrek’s resources while remaining loyal to its own leaders, and Xuan Zi recognized that it was interfering with Shrek’s authority.
• Long Wushang suggested that others doubted Xuan Zi because his strength fell short of the Dragon God and the Clear Sky Sect’s sect master.
• Long Wushang urged Xuan Zi to break through to Limit Douluo, and Xuan Zi angrily said that such a breakthrough was not easy despite his years of effort.

Long Wushang offered Xuan Zi a choice between becoming his Sin God Servant or nominating someone close to him to serve as his spokesperson, in exchange for help breaking through the limit. In the God Realm, Destruction suspected Life of secretly visiting Sea God and retaliated by ordering Long Wushang to capture a woman as a Sin God Servant.

• Long Wushang revealed his power to Xuan Zi and presented the Gluttony Original Sin Contract, offering two ways to help him break through the limit.
• Destruction discovered from a divine official's memories that Life had repeatedly visited Sea God's Temple, then confronted her when she returned.
• Life claimed she had visited Sea God's wife to get her hair styled, and Destruction left while concealing his anger.
• Destruction decided to retaliate against Sea God by ordering Long Wushang to capture a female in the lower realm and bind her as a Sin God Servant.
• Long Wushang received two portraits with the order: Wang Dong'er and a woman resembling her who wielded a Golden Dragon Spear.

Long Wushang offered Xuan Zi a choice of contracts in exchange for helping him reach the Ultimate Douluo realm, while pursuing a divine decree that involved Wang Dong'er and Wang Qiu'er. Xuan Zi chose to make his disciple Xiao Xiao the intermediary, and Long Wushang arranged to assess her the next morning.

• Long Wushang accepted the God of Destruction’s decree and resolved to claim Wang Dong'er and Wang Qiu'er.
• Xuan Zi weighed Long Wushang’s Soul Spirit Contract against the Original Sin Contract and chose the latter to avoid being directly bound.
• Xuan Zi selected his disciple Xiao Xiao as the intermediary for his cooperation with Long Wushang.
• Long Wushang agreed to assess Xiao Xiao at the Black Dragon Merchant Association the following morning before allowing her to sign the contract.
• Xuan Zi left to prepare Xiao Xiao for the meeting.

Xuan Zi summoned Xiao Xiao and persuaded her to accept a contract, offering her a seventy-thousand-year Soul Bone as compensation. The next morning, he brought her to the Black Dragon Merchant Association, where she signed the contract with the enemy Shrek's students hated most, unbeknownst to them.

• Xuan Zi summoned Xiao Xiao to his residence and offered her a seventy-thousand-year Ironclad Savage Bear Defensive Right Leg Bone.
• Xiao Xiao initially refused the Soul Bone, but Xuan Zi said it was compensation for a favor he needed from her.
• After Xuan Zi explained the matter, Xiao Xiao went with him to the Black Dragon Merchant Association the next morning.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, Beibei, He Caitou, and Xu Sanshi spotted Xiao Xiao and Xuan Zi at the association, but did not learn why they were there.
• Xiao Xiao signed a special contract with the enemy Shrek's students hated most while her friends remained unaware nearby.

Xiao Xiao entered a private room at the Black Dragon Merchant Association for an assessment, where she met Long Wushang. Nervous and flustered by his appearance and close attention, she tried to steel herself and told him to proceed.

• Xuan Zi encouraged Xiao Xiao before she entered the assessment room alone.
• The attendant instructed Xiao Xiao to remove her shoes before entering the private room, then left her there.
• Xiao Xiao entered and found Long Wushang studying a map of the continent.
• Long Wushang approached Xiao Xiao and asked whether Xuan Zi had told her what she had come to do.
• Xiao Xiao gathered her courage and said she was fine with anything and challenged Long Wushang to come at her.

Long Wushang revealed to Xiao Xiao that he had planned the ambush on Shrek Academy and offered her a contract to become his Gluttony Original Sin Servant. Xiao Xiao accepted, binding her fate to his and becoming his servant.

• Long Wushang led Xiao Xiao into his room, where he revealed his Demon Puppet phantom and admitted he had devised the attack on Shrek Academy.
• Xiao Xiao recognized Long Wushang as the Evil Soul Master behind the ambush and suspected that her teacher, Xuan Zi, had secretly allied with the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Long Wushang presented the Gluttony Original Sin Servant Contract and promised to help Xuan Zi reach the Limit realm, nurture Xiao Xiao, and protect her family.
• Xiao Xiao accepted the contract, and its imprint entered her body, making her Long Wushang's Gluttony Original Sin God Servant.

After Xiao Xiao signed the Original Sin Contract, her abilities and Soul Power grew, and Long Wushang drew her into an intimate relationship. He then met Xuan Zi and offered him an Yin-Yang Creation Pill that could help him break through to the Ultimate Douluo realm.

• The Original Sin Power enhanced Xiao Xiao's Martial Souls and raised her Soul Power from level 43 to level 46.
• Long Wushang comforted Xiao Xiao and drew her into his embrace; three hours later, she was asleep in the room.
• Long Wushang left Xiao Xiao's room and told Xuan Zi he was satisfied with Xiao Xiao and would fulfill his promise.
• Long Wushang presented Xuan Zi with an Yin-Yang Creation Pill, and Xuan Zi felt his long-standing bottleneck begin to loosen.

Xuan Zi used the Yin-Yang Creation Pill and broke through to the Ultimate Douluo realm, restoring Shrek Academy’s own pillar of strength. He emerged transformed and tearfully told his departed master and friends that he had finally succeeded.

• Long Wushang revealed that the remaining Yin-Yang Creation Pill was intended for Yan Shaozhe and returned to rest beside Xiao Xiao.
• Xuan Zi’s breakthrough triggered a terrifying aura and a Godly Taotie Bull phantom above Shrek Academy’s Sea God Island.
• Yan Shaozhe, Da Ming, and the other Shrek powerhouses gathered and realized that Xuan Zi had reached the Ultimate Douluo realm.
• Xuan Zi emerged from his cabin with renewed vitality and celebrated his breakthrough, remembering Mu En and his departed friends.

After Xuan Zi reached the Ultimate Douluo rank, Shrek Academy prepared a grand celebration while Long Wushang spent the day with Xiao Xiao and helped her cultivate. He Caitou mistook Xiao Xiao’s absence for her attending to Xuan Zi, and the chapter ended as the celebration began in Shrek City.

• Shrek Academy announced Xuan Zi’s breakthrough and invited the empires and major factions to a celebration.
• Long Wushang woke beside Xiao Xiao, teased her, and took her to the bathroom, where they continued their intimacy.
• Long Wushang gave Xiao Xiao immortal herbs to improve her aptitude, and she refined their power while attempting to break through her cultivation bottleneck.
• He Caitou visited Xiao Xiao’s cabin with pastries, and Wang Dong’er guessed that Xiao Xiao was with Xuan Zi; He Caitou left the pastries with her.
• Shrek City filled with celebratory decorations and visiting delegations, while the former Shrek Seven Monsters and the Golden Triangle stood behind a portrait of Xuan Zi at the academy plaza.

At Taotie Douluo's advancement celebration, Long Wushang arrived and claimed he was Xiao Xiao's fiancé, shocking her friends and leaving He Caitou devastated. Huo Yuhao, Xu Sanshi, and Beibei challenged Long Wushang's behavior and insisted Xiao Xiao should decide for herself, while the chapter left her true feelings about the engagement unresolved.

• Major factions and imperial delegations arrived at Shrek Academy's banquet to honor an Ultimate Douluo.
• Long Wushang approached Xiao Xiao, put an arm around her waist, and introduced himself as her fiancé.
• Long Wushang apologized to Xiao Xiao for what he had done the previous night, prompting shocked speculation among the guests.
• Huo Yuhao, Xu Sanshi, and Beibei confronted Long Wushang and said no one could impose a marriage on Xiao Xiao.
• He Caitou regained hope that Xiao Xiao might reject the engagement and watched Long Wushang's hand around her waist.

Xiao Xiao confirmed that Long Wushang was her fiancé and explained that his identity as the heir of a reclusive family had been kept confidential. Xu Sanshi recognized the dragon totem as a sign of the Long Family and changed from confrontation to warmly welcoming Long Wushang, while Wang Dong'er felt an unexplained hostility toward him.

• Wang Dong'er calmed Huo Yuhao and the others and urged them to hear Xiao Xiao out.
• Xiao Xiao admitted that Long Wushang was her fiancé and said his family identity had been kept secret until he entered the world.
• Xu Sanshi recognized Long Wushang's dragon totem and suspected he belonged to the Long Family of Hidden Dragon City.
• Xu Sanshi apologized for the misunderstanding and warmly introduced himself as the young sect master of the Xuanming Sect.
• Long Wushang accepted Xu Sanshi's greeting and expressed interest in visiting the Xuanming Sect.

Long Wushang cemented his place among Xiao Xiao’s friends and unsettled He Caitou by probing his Sun Moon Empire origins. Xuan Zi arrived at the banquet transformed by his breakthrough and called for Shrek Academy to restore its glory and guide the Three Great Empires.

• Xu Sanshi warmly befriended Long Wushang, and the group accepted him as Xiao Xiao’s fiancé.
• Long Wushang approached He Caitou, thanked him for caring for Xiao Xiao, and asked where he came from.
• He Caitou claimed he had fled the Sun Moon Empire after being pursued by Evil Soul Masters, while worrying that Long Wushang knew his true identity.
• Long Wushang suggested they discuss the Sun Moon Empire another time, leaving He Caitou unsure whether he had been discovered.
• Xuan Zi entered the banquet with his hair slicked back and his appearance transformed, then urged Shrek Academy to restore its glory and lead the Three Great Empires forward.

At Xuan Zi’s celebration banquet, he spotted Long Wushang attending under a false identity and was disturbed by how warmly Huo Yuhao and Beibei treated the man who had once harmed them. Xuan Zi worried that Long Wushang’s interest in Wang Dong’er would expose him and leave Xuan Zi facing an impossible choice, then approached him with a warning.

• Xuan Zi celebrated his breakthrough to Ultimate Douluo by greeting the gathered empire and sect representatives.
• Xuan Zi recognized Long Wushang at the banquet, where he stood openly beside Xiao Xiao, Huo Yuhao, Beibei, Xu Sanshi, and the others.
• Xuan Zi saw Long Wushang repeatedly looking toward Wang Dong’er and worried that a confrontation would force him to choose between protecting Long Wushang and defending Shrek Academy’s reputation.
• Yan Shaozhe noticed Xuan Zi’s dark expression, but Xuan Zi left the banquet crowd and headed toward Long Wushang.
• Xuan Zi greeted Huo Yuhao and the others, then met Long Wushang’s gaze and silently warned him to restrain himself.

At Shrek Academy’s celebration, Long Wushang provoked Xuan Zi while publicly presenting himself as Xiao Xiao’s fiancé. Xiao Xiao obeyed Long Wushang’s influence and declared her devotion in front of the guests, and Long Wushang left with her to mingle with the other young disciples.

• Long Wushang greeted Xuan Zi with exaggerated respect, forcing the newly ascended Ultimate Douluo to hide his anger and toast him.
• Xuan Zi urged Long Wushang to enjoy the banquet and not leave early, but Long Wushang announced that he would meet the other guests and young talents.
• Xuan Zi asked Xiao Xiao to look after Long Wushang, and she said he was satisfied with how she cared for him.
• Xiao Xiao called Long Wushang her fiancé and promised to take care of him, shocking Xuan Zi and the surrounding guests.
• Long Wushang reassured Xuan Zi, toasted him again, then took Xiao Xiao by the hand and headed toward young disciples from the major sects.

Long Wushang watched Da Ming’s arrival eclipse Xuan Zi’s celebration, then prepared to leave before his identity could be discovered. Before departing, he approached Huo Yuhao with a metal token and began discussing Soul Tools.

• Da Ming arrived at the banquet, and the guests gathered around him, leaving Xuan Zi visibly resentful as Long Wushang watched.
• Xuan Zi congratulated Da Ming, announced that he was leaving to stabilize his newly gained power, and privately warned Long Wushang to leave before Da Ming discovered his identity.
• Long Wushang decided to depart because Da Ming’s power made lingering risky, but first returned to Huo Yuhao and his companions.
• Long Wushang told Huo Yuhao he had something to discuss and offered him an exquisite metal token, noting Huo Yuhao’s interest in Soul Tools.

Long Wushang gave Huo Yuhao access to advanced Soul Tools and distributed Black Dragon Merchant Association VIP cards to the others, strengthening his ties with them. He then left the banquet with Xiao Xiao and took her to his room, where she changed into a maid uniform and he carried her into the inner room.

• Long Wushang gave Huo Yuhao a token granting him access to advanced Sun Moon Empire Soul Tools, and Huo Yuhao gratefully promised to repay his kindness.
• Long Wushang handed VIP cards to Beibei, Xu Sanshi, He Caitou, and Wang Dong'er, while Beibei joked that Tang Ya would get along with him.
• Wang Dong'er accepted her card but remained uneasy about Long Wushang's gaze, and Long Wushang departed the banquet with Xiao Xiao.
• Long Wushang led Xiao Xiao back to the Black Dragon Merchant Association, where she changed into the maid uniform he had prepared.
• Long Wushang carried Xiao Xiao into the inner room despite her protest, and the door closed behind them.