Chapter Summaries

Di Tian stormed into Origin Internet Cafe believing humans had captured Wang Qiuer, but the shop’s defenses turned aside his attack. Lu Yuan invited the baffled Beast God inside, hoping to complete a mission that would unlock Skyrim and Dragon Shouts.

• Dai Huabin accepted Red King’s compensation and decided to try Monster Hunter himself.
• Di Tian sensed Wang Qiuer’s strange aura, feared she had been captured, and flew toward Origin Internet Cafe in a rage.
• Di Tian’s arrival disrupted the cafe’s signal, interrupting the students’ game as Red King hid and Wang Qiuer complained about being disconnected.
• Di Tian attacked the cafe with a dragon claw, but the shop’s defenses repelled the strike and left the building unharmed.
• Lu Yuan confronted Di Tian and learned that a mission required him to persuade Di Tian to enter the cafe and get a membership card.
• Lu Yuan told Di Tian that Wang Qiuer was inside and invited him down for a chat and a bottle of Sprite.

Di Tian arrived at Origin Internet Cafe to take Wang Qiuer and Red King back to Star Dou Great Forest, but Lu Yuan showed him that the pair had grown stronger there and tempted him with the chance to encounter dragons from other worlds. Di Tian agreed to enter the cafe, though he warned Lu Yuan not to deceive him.

• Di Tian appeared in human form and threatened Lu Yuan unless he handed over the Auspicious Beast.
• Wang Qiuer came out of the cafe, revealed she had chosen human form to play games, and refused to return home; Red King was found hiding under a table in pink cat-ear headphones.
• Lu Yuan told Di Tian that Wang Qiuer's spiritual power and Red King's fire poison had improved through their time at the cafe.
• Lu Yuan described the cafe's battles and training, then promised Di Tian he could encounter dragons from other worlds, including Alduin.
• Di Tian accepted Lu Yuan's invitation to enter Origin Internet Cafe and was told to buy a card for two gold soul coins per hour.

Di Tian paid for a Supreme VIP membership with his Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King reverse scale and tried Monster Hunter: World, where Fatalis repeatedly defeated him. Impressed by the challenge, Di Tian asked about the world of dragon language magic, and Lu Yuan unlocked Skyrim for him.

• Di Tian offered his reverse scale as payment, and Lu Yuan accepted it for a yearly Supreme VIP package before giving him Sprite.
• Lu Yuan guided Di Tian into Monster Hunter: World, where the game stripped away his soul power and Fatalis defeated him with a blast of fire.
• Di Tian tried again and was killed by Fatalis five different ways, while Wang Qiuer and Red King advised him to hide behind an iron gate.
• Di Tian admitted the dragons were powerful and asked Lu Yuan where he could learn dragon shouts.
• Lu Yuan completed the quest to quell Di Tian's wrath and unlocked The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Lu Yuan sent Di Tian into Skyrim to discover Dragon Shouts, and Di Tian witnessed Alduin destroy Helgen with a fire shout. Convinced that the Dragon Language could transform the soul beast race, Di Tian demanded to learn it, and Lu Yuan told him to begin by practicing Unrelenting Force.

• Lu Yuan launched Skyrim for Di Tian, explaining that he could learn low-level Dragon Shouts through spiritual resonance.
• Di Tian awoke bound in a wagon with Ralof, Ulfric Stormcloak, and Lokir, then sensed the world’s unusually active magical element.
• At Helgen, Lokir was killed while fleeing, and Di Tian was sent to the execution block.
• Alduin attacked Helgen with the Dragon Shout Yol Toor Shul, making Di Tian recognize the power of Dragon Language as words that commanded natural laws.
• Di Tian returned to Lu Yuan and eagerly asked to learn Dragon Shouts, offering soul bones in exchange.
• Lu Yuan told Di Tian to find the Greybeards and practice Unrelenting Force by roaring at Scarlet King.

Di Tian played Skyrim to learn the power of the Dragon Language, scavenging the burial chamber before absorbing the Unrelenting Force shout and reproducing a faint ripple in the real world. Xuan Zi interrupted his practice, leaving Di Tian furious and Xuan Zi shaken by the dragon king’s glare.

• Di Tian struggled to open Bleak Falls Barrow’s mechanism door until Wang Qiuer pointed out the clue on the Golden Claw.
• Di Tian looted nearly everything in the burial chamber, explaining to Wang Qiuer that he needed money to buy spells and grow stronger.
• Di Tian reached the Word Wall, learned Unrelenting Force, and felt its law-like power cleanse his soul.
• Di Tian tried the shout in reality and created a faint ripple that made nearby cans tremble and the chandelier sway.
• Xuan Zi’s drunken shout interrupted Di Tian’s practice, and Di Tian turned his furious gaze on him.
• Xuan Zi met Di Tian’s stare, felt like prey before a natural predator, and wondered why it seemed scarier than Mu En’s anger.

Di Tian lost his hard-won insight into the Thu’um when Xuan Zi shouted outside the internet café, so he confronted him and unleashed Fus-Ro-Dah. Xuan Zi was blasted across the grounds, while Di Tian returned to his game and Lu Yuan considered banning loud noises.

• Di Tian lost the Dragon Language rune he had nearly formed when Xuan Zi shouted outside his room.
• Di Tian went downstairs and confronted Xuan Zi, explaining that the interruption had ruined his insight.
• Xuan Zi erupted with Soul Power, and Di Tian answered with a law-powered Fus-Ro-Dah that shattered the Godly Taotie Bull phantom.
• Di Tian’s roar blasted Xuan Zi out of the internet café and across the grounds, where Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong saw him fly past.
• Di Tian returned upstairs to search more urns, while Lu Yuan joked that the internet café needed a sign prohibiting loud noises.

After Xuan Lao was blasted away from Lu Yuan’s internet cafe by Di Tian’s Dragon Shout, Mu Lao and Shrek’s elders discovered the Beast God gaming inside. Xuan Lao became eager to learn the shout, and he and Di Tian began bonding over games and a deal for lessons.

• Xuan Lao survived Di Tian’s shout, fired an emergency alarm, and Lu Yuan called Mu Lao to explain what had happened.
• Mu Lao arrived with Shrek’s elders and identified the customer inside as Di Tian, then led everyone into the cafe.
• The elders found Di Tian gaming while Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and the others played downstairs; Di Tian used a Dragon Shout in the game, showing Xuan Lao the same power that had sent him flying.
• Lu Yuan explained that Dragon Shouts came from draconic words and could be learned through dragon blood and an understanding of laws, prompting Xuan Lao to pay for a gaming machine and seek to become Dragonborn.
• Xuan Lao played beside Di Tian, got launched by a giant’s club, then asked Di Tian to teach him Dragon Shout pronunciation in exchange for roast chicken and future cat food.

Fan Yu and Zhou Yi joined the Skyrim training at Origin Internet Cafe, where Huo Yuhao demonstrated a stealth-archer build and Fan Yu discovered Dwemer machinery. The chapter left Fan Yu convinced that studying the technology could transform Shrek’s Soul Tool Department.

• Fan Yu and Zhou Yi arrived to inspect the special training and found Xuan Lao playing Skyrim with Di Tian.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao struggled against a draugr overlord in Bleak Falls Barrow while Huo Yuhao used Spirit Detection and stealth archery to kill it.
• Huo Yuhao explained his stealth-archer tactics, and Zhou Yi praised the approach as useful combat awareness for a control-type soul master.
• Fan Yu explored Alftand, became fascinated by the Dwemer machinery, and was killed while trying to inspect a mechanical sphere.
• Fan Yu returned to the game, sketched ideas inspired by Dwemer technology, and declared that machinery and automation were the future of soul tools.

At Origin Internet Cafe, Wang Dong discovered that Skyrim's dual-cast Destruction spells could repeatedly stagger enemies, inspiring him to rethink how he used his light-element soul skills. His confidence grew during a fight with a frost dragon, though his friendly-fire barrage battered Xu Sanshi as well.

• Wang Dong quit fighting monsters up close and traveled to the College of Winterhold to learn magic.
• Wang Dong struggled against a bandit until Huo Yuhao pointed out the Dual Casting and Dual-Hand Impact perks.
• Wang Dong used repeated dual-cast Fireballs to stagger a bandit leader off a cliff and imagined firing light orbs like a spell machine gun in real life.
• Wang Dong joined Xu Sanshi against a frost dragon, but his Fireballs also blasted Xu Sanshi, who angrily removed his helmet.

Xu Sanshi discovered that covering a shopkeeper’s head with a bucket let him steal unnoticed in Skyrim, inspiring Bei Bei to use a blinding lightning flash in a spar. The two Shrek students embraced increasingly unorthodox tactics and began imagining new ways to exploit their abilities.

• Xu Sanshi put a bucket over Lucan Valerius’s head in the game and stole the shop’s potion, Golden Claw, and gold without being detected.
• Lu Yuan explained that blocking an opponent’s line of sight was a tactical principle, prompting Bei Bei to challenge Xu Sanshi to a spar.
• Bei Bei flashed Thunderclaw in front of Xu Sanshi’s eyes, blinded him, and reached his back before Xu Sanshi could defend himself.
• Xu Sanshi accepted Bei Bei’s reasoning and considered using Xuan Ming Replacement to move opponents or their helmets.
• Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi pursued stranger combat tactics while the bucket remained on Lucan Valerius’s head in the game.

Lu Yuan’s customers defeated Mirmulnir in Skyrim and discovered that absorbed dragon souls strengthened their real spiritual power. Impressed by their courage and potential, Di Tian decided to join them and show them how a true dragon slayer fought.

• Bei Bei led Xu Sanshi, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Huo Yuhao in a coordinated battle against Mirmulnir at the Western Watchtower.
• Xu Sanshi blocked the dragon’s breath, Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao attacked, and Huo Yuhao shot its wing joint to prevent it from flying.
• The group overwhelmed Mirmulnir, and Wang Dong landed the final blow with a super fireball.
• After the dragon’s soul was absorbed, the participants gained spiritual benefits, including stronger Mental Detection for Huo Yuhao and a breakthrough in Bei Bei’s spiritual power.
• Lu Yuan explained that killing dragons in the game converted their souls into spiritual nourishment for players’ real bodies.
• Di Tian praised the group’s potential, then asked Scarlet King to open a multiplayer room so he could teach them true dragon slaying.

With the tournament three days away, Lu Yuan forced the overconfident Shrek team to face a survival trial in Resident Evil 2, where their soul power and enhanced physiques were sealed. The eight contestants were sent into Raccoon City, while Di Tian and Xuan Lao watched and bet on how long Dai Huabin would last.

• After defeating a dragon in Skyrim, Xu Sanshi, Wang Dong, Bei Bei, and Dai Huabin boasted that the tournament would be easy.
• Lu Yuan activated a system mission and introduced Resident Evil 2 as the team's final trial before the tournament.
• Lu Yuan explained that the contestants would have no soul power, ordinary physiques, and only firearms and their wits to survive and escape the city.
• Dai Huabin, Bei Bei, and Wang Dong accepted the challenge, and Huo Yuhao sensed an unknown terror in the rainy scene.
• Lu Yuan started the game and sent the Shrek Seven Monsters and Dai Huabin into Raccoon City.
• Di Tian and Xuan Lao watched the trial begin and bet on whether Dai Huabin would last three or five minutes.

Shrek’s group arrived in a rainy, zombie-infested Raccoon City without Soul Power, and Dai Huabin was bitten when he confronted a zombie. As more zombies gathered, Huo Yuhao led the group toward the police station, while Di Tian watched their ordeal in the real world and collected his bet from Xuan Zi.

• Shrek’s group found themselves at a dark highway-side convenience store in the cold rain and realized they had no Soul Power.
• Dai Huabin entered the store and approached a zombie, which bit his forearm when it turned on him.
• Bei Bei shot the zombie, and Huo Yuhao urged him to aim for its head; Bei Bei killed it with a shot between the brows.
• Huo Yuhao spotted more zombies gathering outside and led the group toward the police station to escape.
• Di Tian watched the group on a screen, collected two roast chickens from Xuan Zi, and heard Xuan Zi compare the zombie to an evil soul master’s corpse puppet.

The Shrek group reached the Raccoon City Police Department lobby with little ammunition and struggled against more zombies. After Huo Yuhao rescued Xu Sanshi and Lu Yuan taught them to conserve bullets and avoid unnecessary fights, the group reached a safe room and prepared to continue deeper into the station.

• The Shrek group took stock of their nearly depleted ammunition after reaching the police station lobby.
• The group encountered a crawling zombie policeman and three more zombies, and their panicked gunfire quickly left them out of bullets.
• Huo Yuhao shot a zombie in the knee to save Xu Sanshi, then Lu Yuan broadcast survival advice about conserving bullets, crippling enemies, and running past them.
• Bei Bei led the group around the crippled zombie and into a safe room, where he reassured Xu Sanshi that they had relied too much on their martial souls.
• Huo Yuhao shared fifteen recovered bullets and warned that gunfire lay ahead, while Xuan Zi watched and reflected on the lesson the children needed.

Huo Yuhao led the Shrek Seven Monsters through the Raccoon City Police Department and used the Licker’s reliance on sound to get them safely into the S.T.A.R.S. Office. As Di Tian and Xuan Zi praised his composure while watching the Screen, Lu Yuan warned that a more imposing threat was approaching.

• Huo Yuhao sensed danger in the west corridor and stopped Wang Dong before she turned the corner, revealing a Licker clinging to the ceiling.
• Wang Dong stepped on broken glass, alerting the Licker, which attacked her as Bei Bei’s gunshots failed to stop it.
• Huo Yuhao realized the Licker was blind and hunted by sound, then held Wang Dong and Xu Sanshi still until it left the corridor.
• The Shrek Seven Monsters crossed the corridor quietly and locked themselves inside the S.T.A.R.S. Office, where Huo Yuhao explained how fear had sharpened his senses.
• Di Tian and Xuan Zi admired Huo Yuhao’s actions as they watched the Screen, while Lu Yuan warned that a trench-coat-wearing gentleman was on his way.

The Tyrant appeared in the Raccoon City police station and nearly killed Dai Huabin, forcing the Shrek Seven Monsters to flee. Huo Yuhao lured the relentless pursuer into a storage room, while Lu Yuan observed that the chase was transforming Huo Yuhao’s spiritual power.

• Huo Yuhao told the group to reach the rooftop by solving the library puzzle, but the Tyrant appeared in the corridor.
• Dai Huabin shot the Tyrant and then attacked him, but the Tyrant shrugged off the bullet and smashed Dai Huabin into a wall with one punch.
• Huo Yuhao carried the critically injured Dai Huabin as the group fled into the library and up the stairs, pursued by the Tyrant.
• Huo Yuhao ordered the group to split up and meet in the main hall; the Tyrant followed Huo Yuhao into a narrow storage room.
• Di Tian praised the Tyrant’s strength and coldness, while Lu Yuan said Huo Yuhao’s spiritual power was transforming as he faced the chase.

Huo Yuhao and the Shrek Seven Monsters defeated G1 William in the underground facility, then battled a grotesque G Adult Form in the sewers. After escaping to a safe room, Huo Yuhao treated Xu Sanshi and warned the others that survival required overcoming disgust and hesitation; in the real world, Xuan Lao and Di Tian watched and assessed Huo Yuhao’s adaptability.

• G1 William attacked the group, and Huo Yuhao directed them to target the eye on its shoulder while Xu Sanshi drew its attention.
• Huo Yuhao threw his last grenade at G1 William, knocking it over a railing, and the group continued toward the parking garage.
• The group entered the sewers, where G Adult Form seized Xu Sanshi and sprayed him with poisonous vomit and larvae.
• Huo Yuhao used a Flash Pod to blind G Adult Form, and the group dragged Xu Sanshi to a safe room.
• Huo Yuhao gave Xu Sanshi an antidote and reprimanded Wang Dong for hesitating before entering the sewage.
• Xuan Lao called the game brutal, while Di Tian praised Huo Yuhao’s adaptability and rationality.

Huo Yuhao and the others defeated the evolved G2 by luring it into the path of a heavy waste container. Afterward, Huo Yuhao recognized that controlling the whole battlefield meant using every available resource, while Xuan Lao and Di Tian praised the group’s tactics.

• G2 returned in a tougher, mutated form and resisted the group’s gunfire.
• Huo Yuhao spotted the crane and waste container, then used the control console to prepare a trap.
• Xu Sanshi, Bei Bei, and Dai Huabin lured G2 into the container’s impact zone.
• Dai Huabin shot G2’s exposed eye, stunning it long enough for the container to knock it into the abyss.
• The group survived, and Huo Yuhao reflected on using every battlefield variable as a weapon.
• Xuan Lao and Di Tian praised the group’s use of the environment.

Huo Yuhao and the Shrek Seven Monsters fought through a greenhouse full of Plant Zombies, learning that fire was the only way to kill them permanently. They escaped with nearly all their supplies gone and still had a massive bioreactor between them and the escape train.

• Dai Huabin and Bei Bei shot the Plant Zombies’ glowing bulbs, but one regenerated and grabbed Xu Sanshi until Huo Yuhao burned it with the flamethrower.
• Huo Yuhao told the group to disable the Plant Zombies by shooting their bulbs and save their limited fuel for emergencies as they crossed the greenhouse.
• A Plant Zombie blocked the narrow ladderway, so Huo Yuhao used the flamethrower to burn it and led the group through before they locked the electronic door.
• Huo Yuhao saw that only 50 units of fuel remained and urged the group to keep going despite their dwindling ammunition, fuel, and medicine.
• In the real world, Xuan Lao worried that the group lacked resources for the final Boss, while Di Tian said the hardship would sharpen them.

The Shrek Seven Monsters defeated G3 and escaped onto the descending elevator, but footsteps approaching through the shaft revealed that the trench-coat figure was still pursuing them.

• G3 attacked the exhausted team on the elevator platform, and Huo Yuhao devised a plan to expose its weak-point eyes.
• Xu Sanshi baited G3 while Dai Huabin and Bei Bei shot its back and leg eyes, forcing it to its knees.
• Huo Yuhao used the flamethrower's remaining fuel to burn G3's chest core, killing the monster.
• Bei Bei helped Dai Huabin up as Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao supported each other, and the group boarded the elevator.
• Dai Huabin and Huo Yuhao exchanged praise and recognized each other as comrades before Huo Yuhao heard the trench-coat figure approaching through the shaft.