Chapter Summaries

At his Martial Soul Awakening, Lan Yu discovered that his Martial Soul was Bifulong, the Sage Lord of Fungi, and began planning how to grow stronger while keeping it secret. After Bifulong started building a Mycelium Network, its power began feeding back into Lan Yu, leaving his cultivation poised to accelerate as the network spread.

• Lan Yu awakened Bifulong as his Martial Soul and tested at rank two Innate Soul Power, the only child in Mushroom Village to awaken Innate Soul Power.
• Lan Yu declined Su Yuntao’s offer to join Spirit Hall, then returned home after speaking with Village Chief Jerry.
• Lan Yu woke Bifulong and explained that they were in Douluo Continent and that Bifulong had become his Martial Soul.
• Lan Yu learned that Bifulong could still grow mushrooms and ordered him to focus on spreading a Mycelium Network instead of producing edible offshoots.
• Bifulong spread the network twenty meters from Lan Yu’s cabin before tiring, and its power began to increase Lan Yu’s Soul Power while he slept.

Lan Yu prepared for enrollment at Notting College, where he encountered Tang San, Xiao Wu, and the other students in Room Seven. After Xiao Wu responded strongly to his mushrooms, Bifulong discovered she might become its believer, leaving Lan Yu to plan how to keep their connection secret.

• Lan Yu expanded the Mycelium Network into the western mountains and earned pocket money by hunting wild animals.
• Three months later, Lan Yu ate a roasted mushroom that Bifulong said could permanently increase his strength, then traveled to Notting City to enroll at Notting College.
• Lan Yu witnessed Tang San and Old Jack being confronted by the college guards, showed Yu Xiaogang his Spirit Hall certificate, and completed registration.
• In Room Seven, Lan Yu gave green mushrooms to the students; Xiao Wu loved theirs and asked to get more, but Lan Yu told her she would have to pay.
• Tang San arrived and announced his innate full spirit power, prompting Xiao Wu to challenge him while Lan Yu stayed out of the fight.
• Bifulong sensed that Xiao Wu was especially suited to become its believer and warned Lan Yu that she might hear its voice if she ate more mushrooms.

Lan Yu expanded his Mycelium Network at Notting College and opened a grilled mushroom stall, drawing Xiao Wu into regular visits and earning money. He used Xiao Wu’s growing connection to Bifulong to recruit her as a devotee, then told her in a dream that Tang San’s father had discovered her identity and promised a future chance to escape.

• Xiao Wu and Tang San began classes, while Lan Yu spread his Mycelium Network across the dormitory and noticed that it improved his cultivation.
• Lan Yu opened a grilled mushroom stall with Xiao Wu and Tang San as his first customers, and Yu Xiaogang insulted Lan Yu before taking the two students away.
• Lan Yu continued selling mushrooms, and Xiao Wu kept visiting while Tang San was away on a Soul Hunting trip.
• Bifulong appeared to Xiao Wu in a dream, revealed that Tang San’s father knew she was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, and persuaded her to become his devotee.
• Bifulong told Xiao Wu to maintain her relationship with Tang San and promised to create a future opportunity for her to escape his and his father’s control.

Lan Yu expanded Bifulong’s Mycelium Network and discovered that its mushroom copies could become Spirit Beasts, while Xiao Wu dreamed of Bifulong promising there might be a way to revive her mother, Ah Rou. The chapter left Xiao Wu training more seriously and keeping her distance from Lan Yu, even as she remained close to Tang San while privately loathing his intentions.

• Lan Yu sent Bifulong’s mushroom copies to sprout on the hill behind Notting College and learned they were connected to Bifulong, could absorb Soul Power, and might be Spirit Beasts.
• Lan Yu redirected the Network’s gathered Soul Power to strengthen Bifulong’s true body and help one mushroom grow older.
• Lan Yu was dragged into Dorm Seven’s dispute with Boss Xiao, then Tang San and Xiao Wu returned from Soul Hunting with Hundred-Year Soul Rings.
• Tang San warned Lan Yu not to pursue Xiao Wu, and the students celebrated after Dorm Seven no longer needed work-study jobs.
• Bifulong appeared in Xiao Wu’s dream, warned her to stay away from Lan Yu, and suggested Ah Rou might be revived if her soul remained.
• Xiao Wu began training more seriously while keeping her distance from Lan Yu and concealing her loathing of Tang San’s intentions.

Lan Yu received a hundred-thousand-year sacrifice from Xiao Lu, then traveled across poor regions to spread mushrooms and help Bifulong regain strength. Five years later, Lan Yu had reached Soul Power Level fifty-five in the Star Dou Great Forest, while Bifulong complained that the people he helped wanted more than food.

• Xiao Lu sacrificed herself to Lan Yu, giving him a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, two Soul Skills, and a Left Arm Bone with two Spirit Bone Skills.
• Lan Yu left Notting City with Bifulong and spread mushrooms among impoverished villagers, who learned to grow them through their mental connection with Bifulong.
• Xiao Wu worried when Lan Yu failed to return to Notting College, but a red Fungus Beast assured her that he was safe.
• Lan Yu traveled through the Heaven Dou Empire for five years, helping people grow mushrooms and strengthening Bifulong's following.
• Lan Yu reached the Star Dou Great Forest, completed another sacrifice, and broke through to Soul Power Level fifty-five.
• Bifulong complained that the people he had helped wanted more than mushrooms, and Lan Yu told him they should work for a better life.

Lan Yu and Bifulong captured Zhu Zhuqing, Zhu Zhuyun, and their companions after the sisters wandered into the Mushroom Realm. Bifulong brought the sisters into his Illusion Space and gained both as believers, leaving their next arrangements to Lan Yu.

• Lan Yu and Bifulong sensed intruders in the Mushroom Realm, where Zhu Zhuqing and her pursuers collapsed after inhaling hypnotic spores.
• Lan Yu bound Zhu Zhuqing, Zhu Zhuyun, and the two Soul Masters in fungal cocoons and reviewed his powerful Soul Skills and Spirit Bone Skills.
• When the sisters woke, Zhu Zhuyun tried to bargain with Zhu Zhuqing, but Lan Yu threatened her and Bifulong pulled both sisters into the Illusion Space.
• Bifulong introduced himself as the Sage Lord of Fungi and offered the sisters power and freedom from their fates in exchange for worship.
• Zhu Zhuqing readily became Bifulong's believer, and Zhu Zhuyun agreed as well before both sisters woke from the Illusion Space.

Lan Yu took Zhu Zhuqing to Soto City to spread the Sage Lord of Fungi’s faith and join in the fun, while Zhu Zhuqing pursued Dai Mubai at the Rose Hotel. The chapter ended with Lan Yu warning her against divided loyalties after Dai Mubai left without recognizing her.

• Lan Yu gave Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuqing roasted mushrooms that enhanced their physical strength, appointed Zhu Zhuyun a priest, and ordered her to spread the faith while growing mushrooms.
• Zhu Zhuyun left the next day, and Lan Yu flew with Zhu Zhuqing to Soto City using his Spirit Bone Skill, Dance with the Wind.
• Lan Yu learned that Shrek Academy’s admissions were still several days away and found Flender’s general store, where he secretly implanted Fungal Threads in a Crystal he declined to buy.
• Zhu Zhuqing spotted Dai Mubai entering the Rose Hotel with twins and waited there instead of finding lodging as Lan Yu had instructed.
• Lan Yu joined Zhu Zhuqing at the hotel, where she booked the last available room; Dai Mubai then came downstairs, failed to recognize her, and left with the twins.
• Lan Yu sternly warned Zhu Zhuqing that fickleness and divided loyalties were not good things.

Lan Yu made Zhu Zhuqing promise to beat Dai Mubai whenever she saw him, and she promptly defeated him at the Rose Hotel. Meanwhile, Tang San opened the Crystal Flender had given him, triggering the Dragon Whisker Needles and injuring himself.

• Lan Yu threatened to take back the power granted to Zhu Zhuqing unless she proved her loyalty, then told her to beat Dai Mubai whenever she saw him in Suotuo City.
• Lan Yu spread the Mycelium Network through Suotuo City and learned that Tang Hao, Tang San, and Xiao Wu had arrived as rumors about Shrek Academy spread.
• Zhu Zhuqing attacked Dai Mubai at the Rose Hotel, shattered his White Tiger Barrier, and knocked him unconscious with her spirit abilities.
• Lan Yu praised Zhu Zhuqing and took her upstairs, while Tang San and Xiao Wu checked into the hotel.
• Tang San opened the Crystal Flender had given him, and the Dragon Whisker Needles shot out, piercing him and ruining the Hair Gold.

Lan Yu accompanied Zhu Zhuqing to Shrek Academy, where he challenged its suspicious admissions process and defeated Li Yusong with one hand. As Zhao Wuji confronted him, Tang San defended the academy, and Lan Yu prepared to leave with Zhu Zhuqing.

• In her dream, Xiao Wu asked Bifulong how to escape Tang San and his father, and he advised her to wait until Tang San went to the Star Dou Great Forest after reaching level thirty so Daming and Erming could beat them.
• At Shrek Academy, Flender arranged treatment for the badly injured Dai Mubai, who refused to reveal that Zhu Zhuqing had beaten him.
• Lan Yu and Zhu Zhuqing arrived at Shrek Academy, where Lan Yu questioned the academy's registration process and decided he would not leave Zhu Zhuqing there without seeing its tests.
• Li Yusong attacked Lan Yu with his Dragon Crest Staff, but Lan Yu caught the blow and struck Li Yusong into the ground with his bare hand.
• Zhao Wuji confronted Lan Yu as he tried to leave, while Tang San defended Shrek Academy and grew more resentful of Lan Yu.

Lan Yu defeated Zhao Wuji with his mushroom-based abilities after revealing five red Soul Rings, then left Shrek Academy with Zhu Zhuqing as Ning Rongrong followed. Zhao Wuji woke up and tried to remove the mushrooms, but they drained his strength until he became emaciated.

• Zhao Wuji summoned his Vajra Gigantic Bear martial soul and ordered Lan Yu to stay at Shrek Academy, but Lan Yu refused and revealed five red Soul Rings.
• Lan Yu spread a Mycelial Carpet and summoned mushrooms that released spores, while Tang San recognized him as the person who had vanished five years earlier.
• The spores poisoned and weakened Zhao Wuji, induced a hallucination that made him do push-ups, and knocked him unconscious.
• Lan Yu left with Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong followed; Tang San warned Oscar not to remove the mushrooms growing on Zhao Wuji.
• After Zhao Wuji woke, his anger made the mushrooms grow rapidly and fall off, leaving him emaciated as the mushrooms transformed into Fungus Beasts and joined the underground Mycelium Network.

After Zhao Wuji was weakened, Flender let Tang San and Xiao Wu enroll at Shrek Academy. Lan Yu brought Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing to Suotuo City, where he confronted Tang Hao and summoned the Jadeplume Terrorshroom to fight him.

• Zhao Wuji was left weak after his transformation, and Flender promised him revenge before waiving Tang San and Xiao Wu’s entrance exam and arranging their enrollment.
• Lan Yu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong reached Suotuo City, where Ning Rongrong insisted on following them and sharing their hotel stay.
• Tang Hao summoned Lan Yu outside the city and demanded the secret of his Soul Ring, his allegiance to Tang San, and that he take the girls to Shrek Academy to apologize.
• Lan Yu resisted Tang Hao’s pressure, used his Spirit Bone Skill to evade the Clear Sky Hammer, and summoned the Jadeplume Terrorshroom from the Mycelium Network beneath Suotuo City.
• The Jadeplume Terrorshroom charged Tang Hao and trapped his feet with Fungal Threads as Lan Yu launched its attack.

Lan Yu drove Tang Hao to flee after a punishing fight with the Jadeplume Terrorshroom, then took Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong to the Great Soul Arena. Meanwhile, mushrooms spread across Shrek Academy, where Ma Hongjun set them ablaze and triggered a burst of spores.

• Tang Hao's lightning attack aggravated the Jadeplume Terrorshroom, while Lan Yu's spores and Fungal Threads weakened him during the fight.
• The Jadeplume Terrorshroom wounded Tang Hao, and he fled after striking the ground with his hammer; Lan Yu chose not to pursue him.
• Tang Hao removed mushrooms from his wounds and resolved that Lan Yu must not grow stronger before going to recover.
• Lan Yu brought Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong to the Great Soul Arena, where Zhu Zhuqing signed up for individual and two-on-two soul fighting.
• Oscar found mushrooms throughout Shrek Academy, and Flender ordered the students to clear them while Tang San blamed Lan Yu.
• Ma Hongjun used his Phoenix Fire Line to burn the mushrooms, releasing countless spores as Oscar wanted to taste them.

Shrek Academy’s buildings collapsed after mushrooms spread through them, forcing Flender’s group to relocate to Suotuo City and begin training at the Great Soul Arena. Lan Yu confronted Dai Mubai and warned him against threatening Zhu Zhuqing, while Ning Rongrong asked whether a god could evolve her Martial Soul into the Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda.

• Mushrooms overtook Shrek Academy and caused its wooden buildings to collapse, so Flender took the students to Suotuo City.
• At the Soto Grand Soul Arena, Tang San noticed Zhu Zhuqing’s unusual strength and suspected Lan Yu had a way to enhance it.
• Lan Yu learned from Bifulong that Shrek Academy had been destroyed by mushrooms and discussed testing the fungi with hotter flames.
• Lan Yu slapped Dai Mubai for insulting Zhu Zhuqing and warned that she followed the Sage Lord of Fungi, prompting Flender to caution Dai Mubai against provoking a god.
• Ning Rongrong asked Lan Yu whether a god could evolve her Martial Soul into the Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda.

Lan Yu fused a Wind Attribute fungus with Zhu Zhuqing’s Martial Soul, helping her gain wind control and a Wind Blade, which convinced Ning Rongrong to become a believer in the Sage Lord of Fungi. After several days of training, Lan Yu learned that Shrek Academy was heading to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a Soul Ring, and announced that he would take Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong there too.

• Lan Yu connected Zhu Zhuqing to the Mycelium Network and fused a Floating Anemo Fungus with her Hell Spirit Cat, giving her Martial Soul a Wind Attribute.
• Zhu Zhuqing summoned her changed Martial Soul and used its wind power to create a Wind Blade, convincing Ning Rongrong of the Sage Lord of Fungi’s gifts.
• Ning Rongrong ate a Green Mushroom, met Bifulong in his Illusion Space, and pledged her faith in exchange for help evolving her Martial Soul.
• Lan Yu arranged daily sparring, Soul Fighting, and cultivation for Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, and the three trained for several days.
• Xiao Wu passed word that Oscar had reached level 30 and Flender was taking Shrek Academy to the Star Dou Great Forest; Lan Yu decided to go there with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing.

Lan Yu found the Man Faced Demon Spider and took its Eight Spider Lances before following Tang Hao into the forest. Xiao Wu had Erming attack Tang Hao, and Lan Yu joined the ambush, but Tang Hao detonated his first six Soul Rings to fight back.

• Lan Yu sent Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong to cultivate in the Star Dou Great Forest while he searched for the Man Faced Demon Spider and the Eight Spider Lances.
• Flender led Shrek Academy into the forest, where the Titan Giant Ape seized Xiao Wu and carried her deeper into the forest.
• Tang Hao revealed his identity and nine Soul Rings, then pursued Xiao Wu while Lan Yu followed him.
• Xiao Wu ordered Erming to attack Tang Hao, and their domains clashed before Erming struck him.
• Lan Yu trapped Tang Hao in a Mycelium Swamp and summoned the Jadeplume Terrorshroom to attack him alongside Erming.
• Tang Hao summoned his Clear Sky True Form and detonated his first six Soul Rings.

Lan Yu and the Jadeplume Terrorshroom drove Tang Hao off after severing his leg, freeing Xiao Wu from his immediate threat. Lan Yu then offered Xiao Wu’s companions a chance to meet the Sage Lord of Fungi, and Daming agreed to consider believing if the god appeared.

• Xiao Wu warned Erming to flee Tang Hao’s charging hammer, so Tang Hao struck the Jadeplume Terrorshroom instead.
• Lan Yu summoned the catalyzed Jadeplume Terrorshroom, which badly injured Tang Hao and snapped off his left leg before a blood-red light carried him away.
• Lan Yu picked up Tang Hao’s severed leg for its Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone, then advised Xiao Wu to stay in the Star Dou Great Forest until she grew stronger.
• Xiao Wu explained that the Sage Lord of Fungi could help her cultivate, and Lan Yu invited Erming and Daming to believe in the god.
• Daming doubted Lan Yu’s claims but agreed that he and Erming might believe if Lan Yu showed them the Sage Lord of Fungi.

Lan Yu made Daming and Erming believers of the Sage Lord of Fungi, then cultivated mushrooms and transformed his Eight Spider Lances into wings. After leaving the Star Dou Great Forest, he reunited with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing and prepared to hunt a Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring for Zhu Zhuqing.

• Daming ate Green Mushrooms, met Bifulong in the Illusion Space, and became a believer; Erming followed his example.
• Lan Yu took Daming, Erming, and Xiao Wu to their lair, where he spread Mycelial Carpet and assigned them to protect the mushrooms growing in the forest.
• Flender led Tang San and Oscar out of the forest to hunt Spirit Beasts; Oscar gained a Millennium Spirit Ring, Tang San gained Spider Web Restraint, and the group returned to Suotuo City without Tang Hao.
• Tang Hao woke with a broken leg and diminished strength, then set out to find Tang San while the Asura God cursed him from the shadows.
• Lan Yu changed his Eight Spider Lances into Eight Spider Wings, said goodbye to Xiao Wu, and returned to Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Lan Yu took Zhu Zhuqing to hunt a Ten-Thousand-Year Gale Wolf for her third Spirit Ring, and Ning Rongrong joined them.

Zhu Zhuqing absorbed a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring from an injured Gale Wolf, and Ning Rongrong later reached level 30 and obtained a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring from a Colorful Feather Chicken. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang led the Shrek students to search for Lan Yu in Suotuo City but failed to find him.

• Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong defeated a Ten-Thousand-Year Gale Wolf after Lan Yu advised them and used Hypnotic Spores to stop it from escaping, and Zhuqing absorbed its Soul Ring.
• Ning Rongrong learned that she could also absorb a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and vowed to train until she reached level 30.
• Yu Xiaogang joined Flender and the Shrek students in Suotuo City, learned that Lan Yu had become a Five-Ring Soul Wang with five hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings, and decided to look for him at the Great Soul Arena.
• Yu Xiaogang and the Shrek students waited for Lan Yu for more than half a month without finding him.
• Ning Rongrong reached level 30 with help from the Mycelium Network, then absorbed a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring from a Colorful Feather Chicken that Zhu Zhuqing had disabled.

Lan Yu took Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong to the Soto Grand Soul Arena, where their Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings shocked Yu Xiaogang and the Shrek group. Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong gained the upper hand against Dai Mubai and Oscar, while Tang San and Yu Xiaogang suspected they had received divine help or consumed rare treasures.

• Lan Yu brought Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong to the Soto Grand Soul Arena, where they were matched against Dai Mubai and Oscar.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong revealed their Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings, shocking Yu Xiaogang, Flender, Dai Mubai, and the audience.
• Tang San spotted Lan Yu in the crowd, and Lan Yu smiled at him as Yu Xiaogang struggled to accept what he had seen.
• Zhu Zhuqing quickly attacked Oscar while Dai Mubai abandoned him to target Ning Rongrong.
• Ning Rongrong used her Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda to enhance herself, then struck Dai Mubai hard enough to injure him and break his White Tiger Barrier.
• After Oscar fell from the stage with bloody wounds, Yu Xiaogang suggested Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong might have consumed extraordinary heavenly treasures, reminding Tang San of the Immortal Herbs in the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.

Lan Yu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing defeated their opponents at the Great Soul Arena and ignored Yu Xiaogang and Tang San when they tried to confront them. After three notorious thugs followed them into an alley, Lan Yu used Fungus Beasts to leave the men near death and asked the two women whether they dared to kill them.

• Zhu Zhuqing overwhelmed Dai Mubai with Netherworld Hundred Claws, and Dai Mubai surrendered after Tang San urged him to do so.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San tried to stop Lan Yu and the others outside the Great Soul Arena, but Lan Yu ignored them and walked away.
• Ning Rongrong asked about Yu Xiaogang, and Lan Yu mocked his reputation as a theoretical master.
• Zhu Zhuqing noticed that Bu Le, E Kao, and Tian Ya were following them, so Lan Yu led the group into an alley.
• A Winged Cryo Shroom, a Floating Hydro Shroom, and a Floating Geo Shroom froze and shattered the three thugs, leaving them barely alive.
• Lan Yu told Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong that the Fungus Beasts served the Sage Lord of Fungi and asked whether they would kill the men.