Chapter Summaries

Tang San returned to Notting Academy as a newly registered Soul Master, and Xiao Wu asked him to find out whether Fang Yuan would accept her as a disciple. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang refused to give up on recruiting Xiao Wu and headed to the dormitories to confront her again.

• Tang San returned to the dormitory, where the work-study students asked about his soul ring, but he kept its skill secret.
• Xiao Wu complained that Yu Xiaogang and the academy teachers kept pressuring her to become Yu Xiaogang's disciple.
• Xiao Wu asked Tang San to find out whether his teacher, Fang Yuan, was accepting another disciple.
• Yu Xiaogang rejected the principal's suggestion that he choose a different student and insisted he would not settle for an unsuitable disciple.
• Yu Xiaogang left the principal's office and headed for the dormitories to give Xiao Wu one last chance.

Fang Yuan accepted Xiao Wu as his disciple, confronting Yu Xiaogang over his attempts to claim her and arranging extra lessons for her and Tang San. After teaching them about immortal herbs, he sent Tang San away and kept Xiao Wu behind to give her a gift.

• Yu Xiaogang arrived at the dormitory and found Fang Yuan with Tang San and Xiao Wu, then learned Xiao Wu had become Fang Yuan's disciple.
• Yu Xiaogang accused Fang Yuan of taking Xiao Wu from him, but Fang Yuan challenged his theories and told him to stop bothering her.
• Fang Yuan told Xiao Wu and Tang San to attend extra lessons after class, and Xiao Wu agreed despite having intended to use him as protection.
• The next day, Fang Yuan taught Tang San and Xiao Wu about immortal herbs, then sent Tang San away and told Xiao Wu he had a gift for her.

Fang Yuan revealed that he knew Xiao Wu’s secret and gave her a necklace that concealed her life essence aura, insisting he had no interest in her Soul Ring or Soul Bone. Xiao Wu’s fear eased somewhat as she sensed his goodwill, though she did not fully lower her guard.

• Xiao Wu eagerly accepted Fang Yuan’s gift, and he placed a pill necklace around her neck that could conceal her aura from even a Titled Douluo.
• Fang Yuan explained that he could take a hundred-thousand-year soul ring as his Eighth Soul Ring and might reach level 80 before Xiao Wu graduated from Notting Academy.
• Xiao Wu realized Fang Yuan knew she was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast in human form and feared he would hunt her.
• Fang Yuan told Xiao Wu she could leave with the necklace because he had never coveted her Soul Ring or Soul Bone, and he said it had no tracking mechanism.
• Fang Yuan stroked Xiao Wu’s head and asked her to try trusting him, while his second soul ring slowly revolved.

Fang Yuan chose to preserve his future knowledge by sparing Xiao Wu and planned to develop his Supreme Immortal Aperture and research Soul Tools. That night, Tang Hao visited him to discuss Tang San, and Fang Yuan revealed that he had recognized the boy as Tang Hao’s son.

• Fang Yuan decided not to capture Xiao Wu, choosing to protect his information advantage and pursue a later chance to obtain a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring and Soul Bones.
• Fang Yuan planned to recruit people to develop the Supreme Immortal Aperture and use its accelerated time to research Soul Tools.
• Fang Yuan credited Spectral Soul for giving him the Supreme Immortal Aperture and its research potential.
• Fang Yuan sensed a visitor and recognized the intruder as the Clear Sky Douluo, Tang Hao.
• Tang Hao revealed himself, and Fang Yuan explained that he had guessed Tang San was Tang Hao’s son after seeing his Clear Sky Hammer.

Tang Hao tested Fang Yuan and entrusted Tang San’s training to him before leaving, and Fang Yuan went to Holy Soul Village and rescued Tang San’s mother, the Blue Silver Emperor, from her cave. He left her in the life-rich Supreme Immortal Aperture, where she began recovering.

• Tang Hao silently tested Fang Yuan with his condensed aura, then asked him to train Tang San and gave him a Papal Token.
• Tang Hao left, and Fang Yuan put away the token before heading from Notting Academy to Holy Soul Village.
• Fang Yuan found the hidden cave behind the waterfall and discovered the weakened Blue Silver Emperor, Tang San’s mother.
• Fang Yuan moved the Blue Silver Emperor into the Supreme Immortal Aperture, where she began to recover amid abundant life energy.

Fang Yuan found Ah Yin’s Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone but stored it rather than absorbing it, intending to preserve his relationship with Tang San and use the bone as a long-term investment. Five years later, Fang Yuan brought Tang San and Xiao Wu to Balak City to prepare for Soul Rings, and the two disciples chose the Rose Hotel while he bought supplies.

• Fang Yuan found the Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone in a black box and stored it in his Immortal Aperture instead of absorbing it.
• Fang Yuan decided to save the Soul Bone for Tang San, then left the cave after Tang Hao failed to return.
• Five years passed as Fang Yuan taught his disciples, worked on building the Supreme Immortal Aperture, and led Soul Tool research.
• Fang Yuan brought Tang San and Xiao Wu to Balak City to prepare for obtaining Soul Rings in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu chose the Rose Hotel while Fang Yuan went to purchase supplies.

Tang San, Xiao Wu, and their teacher found only one room available at the Rose Hotel, where Dai Mubai tried to claim it and insulted their teacher. Tang San fought Dai Mubai and sent him staggering backward with a single palm strike.

• Tang San asked for two rooms, but the attendant said only one was available, so Xiao Wu suggested that she and their teacher take the bed while Tang San cultivated nearby.
• Dai Mubai arrived with two twin women and demanded the room he claimed was reserved for him.
• Tang San objected to Dai Mubai taking the room, and Xiao Wu challenged him after he ordered them to leave.
• Dai Mubai proposed a fight to decide who would get the room and mocked their teacher for sharing one with them.
• Tang San stepped forward to defend their teacher, dodged Dai Mubai's punch, and struck his chest with a palm that sent him stumbling back.

Five years after becoming Fang Yuan’s disciple, Tang San confronted Dai Mubai at a hotel and revealed his rare thousand-year second Soul Ring. Dai Mubai stopped fighting and left, while Tang San and Xiao Wu learned that he expected them to attend Shrek Academy.

• Tang San used the combat skills Fang Yuan had taught him to drive Dai Mubai back without using their Martial Souls.
• Dai Mubai revealed his White Tiger Martial Soul, Rank 37 strength, and optimal Soul Ring configuration, then challenged Tang San to continue or leave.
• Tang San summoned his Blue Silver Grass and showed his Rank 30 cultivation and thousand-year second Soul Ring, shocking Dai Mubai and cooling his fighting spirit.
• Dai Mubai said he would teach Tang San a lesson at Shrek Academy, then discovered that Tang San and Xiao Wu had never heard of it.
• Xiao Wu criticized Shrek Academy and Dai Mubai, who left the hotel lobby with the twin girls while the staff cautiously emerged from behind the counter.

Tang San and Xiao Wu told Fang Yuan about their clash with Dai Mubai, and Fang Yuan proposed taking them to Shrek Academy before he went to the Star Dou Great Forest for his eighth soul ring. The chapter ended with a boy being rejected from Shrek Academy’s entrance exam for having turned thirteen the day before.

• Tang San paid the hotel manager for the damage, and he and Xiao Wu discovered their room was decorated for couples.
• Fang Yuan arrived, and Tang San recounted how Dai Mubai had tried to take their room.
• Fang Yuan said he would enter the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest for his eighth soul ring, then offered to take Tang San and Xiao Wu to Shrek Academy to reclaim their pride.
• Xiao Wu eagerly agreed to visit Shrek Academy with Fang Yuan.
• At Shrek Academy’s registration, an old man rejected a boy after learning he had turned thirteen the previous day.

At Shrek Academy’s enrollment desk, Li Yusong and Dai Mubai intimidated applicants who failed the school’s strict standards and refused registration-fee refunds. When Fang Yuan demanded his money back, Li Yusong attacked him, but Fang Yuan stopped the blow with one hand and retrieved his ten gold soul coins.

• A father asked for his thirteen-year-old son’s registration fee back, and Dai Mubai threatened them until they left.
• Li Yusong rejected a youth with a plant martial soul, declared Shrek accepted only applicants under thirteen with soul power above rank twenty-one, and drove away those who did not qualify.
• Fang Yuan asked for his registration fee back, and Dai Mubai recognized him from their earlier dispute over a hotel room in Soto City.
• Li Yusong unleashed his Soul Emperor pressure and swung his Dragon-Pattern Staff at Fang Yuan.
• Fang Yuan caught the staff with one hand and took ten gold soul coins from the wooden box with the other.

Fang Yuan demanded his registration fee back from Shrek Academy, arguing that its admission rules and costs had not been disclosed beforehand. Flender and the teachers turned hostile, and Zhao Wuji began attacking as the chapter ended.

• Fang Yuan used Li Yusong's Dragon-Pattern Staff to throw him to the ground and reclaimed his registration fee.
• Dai Mubai retreated and shouted that someone had come to Shrek Academy to cause trouble, summoning the other teachers.
• Flender arrived with two Soul Sages and confronted Fang Yuan, who explained why the fee should be refunded.
• Fang Yuan criticized Shrek's admission test and accused the academy of using Li Yusong to intimidate applicants and parents.
• Zhao Wuji charged at Fang Yuan, activated his Mighty Vajra Bear martial soul, and transformed into a golden-furred bear as Flender ordered the teachers to attack.

Fang Yuan faced Zhao Wuji, Flender, Lu Qibin, and Li Yusong, using his fifth Soul Skill, Myriad Self, to overwhelm them without moving from his original position. The four opponents were defeated, and Flender was left questioning what he had just witnessed.

• Zhao Wuji and Flender activated their Martial Soul Avatars as they and Lu Qibin and Li Yusong prepared to attack Fang Yuan together.
• Fang Yuan summoned his fifth Soul Skill, Myriad Self, and sent phantoms of himself to fight the four opponents while he remained in place.
• Zhao Wuji initially gained a slight advantage against one Fang Yuan, then discovered that other Fang Yuan phantoms were battling Flender, Lu Qibin, and Li Yusong.
• Fang Yuan's phantoms surrounded Zhao Wuji and wore down his Soul Power until they broke his Martial Soul Avatar and knocked him down.
• Fang Yuan's phantoms defeated Flender, Lu Qibin, and Li Yusong, while Flender looked at the unmoving Fang Yuan in self-doubt.

Fang Yuan defeated Shrek Academy’s teachers but spared them, explaining to Tang San that they would serve as opponents to sharpen his skills. After Fang Yuan left, Flender abandoned his plans to silence the witnesses when a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda disciple applied to the academy.

• Fang Yuan left Flender and the other defeated teachers alive, and Flender’s anger turned to thoughts of killing the witnesses to protect Shrek Academy’s reputation.
• A short-haired girl revealed her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul, and Flender eagerly resumed admissions after recognizing her sect.
• The girl frowned at the teachers’ sudden deference and kept thinking about Fang Yuan, who had defeated them with ease.
• Xiao Wu dismissed Shrek Academy as unimpressive, while Tang San asked Fang Yuan why he had spared its teachers.
• Fang Yuan told Tang San that Dai Mubai and the academy’s teachers could become rivals who would temper him, and Tang San resolved to turn his knowledge into strength.

After leaving Tang San and Xiao Wu in Soto City, Fang Yuan headed to the Star Dou Great Forest to seek a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring. Restless without him, Xiao Wu eventually persuaded Tang San to visit the city's Great Spirit Arena that night.

• Fang Yuan told Tang San and Xiao Wu to stay in Soto City while he traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest, and assured Xiao Wu he would spare her friends Daming and Erming.
• After Fang Yuan left, Tang San began cultivating while Xiao Wu struggled to settle down and missed her teacher.
• Xiao Wu suggested they visit the Great Spirit Arena, and Tang San agreed to wait until night.
• Xiao Wu led Tang San to the entrance of Soto City Great Spirit Arena, where the city’s crowds gathered beneath the illuminated building.

After growing frustrated with the weak fights at the Great Soul Arena, Tang San and Xiao Wu decided to compete themselves and registered for Soul Battles. Tang San entered the arena masked and was matched against Zhu Zhuqing, while Xiao Wu awaited her own match.

• Tang San and Xiao Wu criticized the fighters’ poor combat skills, which they compared unfavorably with the techniques Fang Yuan had taught them.
• Xiao Wu suggested they compete for excitement and prize money, and Tang San agreed after recalling Fang Yuan’s advice about having opponents.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu registered at the Soto Great Soul Arena, receiving iron Soul Battle badges and joining the novice area.
• Tang San gave Xiao Wu a mask to conceal their identities, and she complained that it was not rabbit-shaped.
• A staff member called Tang San to the stage, where the announcer introduced him as a Blue Silver Grass Battle Soul Master facing Zhu Zhuqing, who possessed the Netherworld Spirit Cat martial soul.

Tang San faced Zhu Zhuqing in the spirit battle arena and stunned the crowd by revealing his thousand-year second soul ring. Instead of fighting, he launched into a long account of his teacher Fang Yuan, and Zhu Zhuqing ended by asking whether Fang Yuan could make her strong too.

• Zhu Zhuqing asked Tang San whether he had defeated Dai Mubai, and Tang San assumed she might be seeking revenge for him.
• Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing released their martial souls, and the audience was shocked to see Tang San's second soul ring was purple and thousand-year-old.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Tang San his age and soul power rank, then admitted that he was outstanding.
• Tang San credited his strength to his teacher Fang Yuan and began recounting his past, leaving the audience bewildered as the battle stalled.
• The host ordered them to begin fighting, and Zhu Zhuqing asked Tang San whether Fang Yuan could make her strong too.

Tang San continued cultivating at level thirty while Xiao Wu shared spirit arena gossip, and Fang Yuan let him accumulate spirit power before obtaining his third spirit ring. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran lost the injured Phoenix-tail Cockscomb Snake they had been pursuing and hoped Meng Yiran’s grandfather would find another suitable spirit beast.

• Xiao Wu told Tang San gossip about a fake match, and he guiltily avoided her gaze.
• Xiao Wu returned to the hotel and relaxed while Tang San cultivated the Mysterious Heaven Method at his level-thirty bottleneck.
• Fang Yuan had delayed Tang San’s third spirit ring so he could build up spirit power and strengthen his body.
• Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran tracked an injured Phoenix-tail Cockscomb Snake through the Star Dou Great Forest but lost its trail.
• Chao Tianxiang comforted Meng Yiran and suggested that her grandfather might find another spirit beast for her spirit ring.

Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran joined Meng Shu in pursuing a thousand-year Man-Faced Demon Spider, which they hoped would provide Meng Yiran with a powerful soul ring. After they defeated it and Meng Yiran prepared to absorb its ring, a hundred-thousand-year soul beast’s aura approached.

• Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran followed Meng Shu’s signal and found him trapped in a Man-Faced Demon Spider’s web.
• Meng Shu explained that the thousand-year Man-Faced Demon Spider had escaped, and the three pursued it together.
• The three caught up with the Man-Faced Demon Spider and defeated it, leaving Meng Yiran unharmed.
• Meng Shu urged Meng Yiran to absorb the spider’s soul ring, but he and Chao Tianxiang sensed a hundred-thousand-year soul beast approaching.

Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang tried to protect Meng Yiran when a hundred-thousand-year soul beast appeared, but Fang Yuan arrived and revealed that he had been hunting it for its soul ring. The beast, called the Myriad Beast Demon Spirit, faced Fang Yuan as the elders watched in shock.

• Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang sensed a hundred-thousand-year soul beast approaching and told Meng Yiran to flee.
• The Myriad Beast Demon Spirit burst through the forest and attacked, forcing Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang to use their Dragon-Snake Combined Strike to halt it.
• The Myriad Beast Demon Spirit spoke and demanded that Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang get out of its way, then resumed its charge.
• Fang Yuan appeared behind the group, and the Myriad Beast Demon Spirit retreated as he declared that it would become his soul ring.
• Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang were astonished as Fang Yuan identified the creature as the Myriad Beast Demon Spirit.

Fang Yuan ignored the Myriad Beast Demon Spirit’s warning that its Soul Ring would kill any Soul Master who absorbed it and killed the beast. Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang fled with Meng Yiran, then wondered if Fang Yuan might die absorbing the ring and leave them a chance to claim its Soul Bone.

• The Myriad Beast Demon Spirit warned Fang Yuan that its chaotic Soul Ring could not be absorbed, but he became more eager to fight it.
• Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang realized the beast had been fleeing from Fang Yuan and retreated with Meng Yiran and the Man Faced Demon Spider.
• Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang debated whether to claim the Soul Bone, but feared Fang Yuan would be too powerful to challenge.
• Fang Yuan used Incomplete Freedom Transformation and Myriad Self to kill the already injured Myriad Beast Demon Spirit with a punch.
• A crimson Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring appeared above the corpse, and Meng Shu wondered whether Fang Yuan would die trying to absorb it.