Chapter Summaries

Tang San demonstrated his new Blue Silver Strangulation ability while Yu Xiaogang questioned Lin Xiao’s Martial Soul and became Shrek Academy’s theory instructor. After mastering his new Eight Spider Spears, Lin Xiao heard Yu Xiaogang criticize his Spirit Rings and insist that his Penguins should have fart-based abilities.

• Tang San showed Yu Xiaogang his third Spirit Ability, Blue Silver Strangulation, which came from a 1,500-year Bloodvine King.
• Yu Xiaogang questioned Tang San about Lin Xiao’s versatile Martial Soul, but Tang San opposed him taking Lin Xiao as a disciple.
• Lin Xiao mastered the Eight Spider Spears he gained from absorbing a Spirit Bone and used them to climb around his basement.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Lin Xiao she was bewildered by the Gugas’ extraordinary food production, and Lin Xiao explained their power.
• Flender introduced Yu Xiaogang as Shrek Academy’s theory instructor, and Yu Xiaogang questioned Lin Xiao about his four Spirit Rings.
• Yu Xiaogang declared Lin Xiao’s Spirit Rings wasted and argued that his Penguins should have fart-based abilities.

Yu Xiaogang prescribed a punishing weighted run for the Shrek students, while Lin Xiao mocked his theories and challenged him to join the training. Yu Xiaogang accepted the challenge, leaving Flender worried about what would happen next.

• Lin Xiao rejected Yu Xiaogang's suggestion to use Fart Spirit Rings, and Yu Xiaogang grew furious when Flender tried to mediate.
• Yu Xiaogang assigned the students twelve round trips between Shrek Village and Suotuo City carrying stones without using Soul Power.
• Ning Rongrong whispered to Lin Xiao about leaving Shrek, and he promised to deal with the people who had upset her before they went.
• Lin Xiao challenged Yu Xiaogang to complete the same training, and Ning Rongrong and Ma Hongjun backed him up.
• After Flender's remark provoked him, Yu Xiaogang agreed to run with the students, alarming Flender.

Yu Xiaogang insisted on joining the Shrek students’ weighted endurance run to prove his strength, while Lin Xiao secretly strengthened several of them with pills. The team completed one round trip and started the next before Ning Rongrong struck Yu Xiaogang in the head with a thrown stone, sending him crashing to the ground.

• Yu Xiaogang rejected Tang San’s warning and loaded a heavy basket of stones onto his back for training.
• Lin Xiao secretly gave pills to Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing, and Zhu Zhuqing found her basket easy to carry.
• The students struggled through the run, and Ma Hongjun argued with Tang San over Yu Xiaogang’s slow pace before Dai Mubai separated them.
• Yu Xiaogang completed the first round trip despite Tang San urging him to stop, while Ning Rongrong won their wager against Xiao Wu.
• As the group began the second return journey, Ning Rongrong secretly took a stone from Xiao Wu’s basket and hurled it at Yu Xiaogang.
• The stone hit Yu Xiaogang in the back of the head, knocking him down and scattering the stones from his basket as Tang San rushed to help.

Lin Xiao and Ning Rongrong left for Heaven Dou City with Zhu Zhuqing and the others, while Flender dealt with the injured Yu Xiaogang and teenager. Flender later found the abandoned residence unlocked and considered searching it for valuables.

• Lin Xiao teased Ning Rongrong about her explosive mishap as Zhu Zhuqing worried about the gas tank and grenades.
• Lin Xiao and the others flew toward Heaven Dou City, leaving a grenade trap rigged inside the villa.
• A healer told Flender that Yu Xiaogang and the injured teenager had severe injuries, and Flender paid him to treat them.
• Flender found Dai Mubai drinking with women, while Ma Hongjun and Oscar headed off to seek women with money from Flender.
• Flender returned to Shrek, noticed the residence had been abandoned, and opened its unlocked door after no one answered.

Lin Xiao and his group returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Fengzhi punished Ning Rongrong for taking them on a dangerous trip and questioned her about Zhu Zhuqing. Ning Fengzhi learned of Zhu Zhuqing’s connection to Lin Xiao from six years earlier and asked Rongrong how the two felt about each other.

• Flender reacted to an explosion at Shrek, and Zhao Wuji was knocked down by the blast before rushing to find him.
• Lin Xiao and the others returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Rongrong mistook Ning Fengzhi for Lin Xiao and was dragged away for a reprimand.
• Ning Fengzhi told Rongrong that her recklessness endangered Lin Xiao and the sect, and she admitted she had been wrong.
• Rongrong explained that Zhu Zhuqing was the Zhu Family’s second young miss and had been hunted and abandoned, so she had brought her back for refuge.
• Gu Rong recalled that Lin Xiao and Rongrong had once been wanted in the Star Luo Empire for abducting Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Fengzhi asked Rongrong how she and Lin Xiao felt about each other.

Ning Rongrong returned from her trip, reunited with Lin Xiao, and had him treat her sore knees. In the backyard, Xiao Wu prepared to bring Zhu Zhuqing some carrots, while Zhu Zhuqing watched the Gugas at work.

• Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi about the trip, and he let her leave to spend time with Lin Xiao.
• Lin Xiao welcomed Ning Rongrong home, comforted her, and applied ointment to her knees.
• Ning Rongrong teased Lin Xiao after noticing him glance at her, and he escaped to the backyard.
• Lin Xiao found Xiao Wu among the Blue Silver Emperor’s vines, where she had been searching for carrots to give Zhu Zhuqing.
• Xiao Wu hurried into the house with the carrots as Zhu Zhuqing watched the Gugas working nearby.

Xiao Wu waited in the cold courtyard to watch the moon with Zhu Zhuqing and the Fat Gugas, but everyone fell asleep and left her alone. The next morning, Lin Xiao and Ning Rongrong went to breakfast together while the Gugas found Xiao Wu buried under sleeping Fat Gugas.

• Xiao Wu accepted one of her freshly picked carrots from Zhu Zhuqing and said she would eat it while watching the moon.
• That night, Ning Rongrong sneaked into Lin Xiao's room and climbed into bed with him, while Xiao Wu waited in the courtyard with the drowsy Fat Gugas.
• Xiao Wu shivered in the cold, ate her carrot, and kept waiting for Zhu Zhuqing, who never appeared.
• The next morning, Lin Xiao and Ning Rongrong went downstairs arm in arm and noticed Xiao Wu was missing.
• Maid Guga found Xiao Wu asleep beneath a pile of Fat Gugas and woke her by saying it was time to eat.

Xue Qinghe visited Ning Fengzhi to request pills for the Heaven Dou Empire’s border troops while secretly planning to seize the pills and recruit the young man behind their production. When Ning Rongrong was summoned to meet him, Detective Kega sensed something suspicious and followed her.

• Xiao Wu returned to the villa after spending the night outside, and Zhu Zhuqing explained that she had never planned to watch the moon outdoors.
• Xue Qinghe asked Ning Fengzhi to provide pills for the front lines, and Ning Fengzhi agreed to divert a limited supply.
• Xue Qinghe planned to intercept the pills and use his intelligence about the sect’s pill-maker to bring the young man to his side.
• Xue Qinghe asked to see Ning Rongrong, and Ning Fengzhi sent a maid to summon her.
• Detective Kega suspected Xue Qinghe’s visit was a trap and secretly followed Ning Rongrong, who noticed an unseen presence but found no one when she turned around.

Ning Rongrong returned from meeting Xue Qinghe with a gift, and Ke Guga revealed that the crown prince had been subtly probing her for information about Lin Xiao. Ke Guga ended by announcing she had uncovered the truth, while Xiao Wu lay unconscious after being hit with an Anesthetic Needle.

• Ke Guga secretly followed Ning Rongrong to the Sect Master Manor and watched Xue Qinghe give her a Seven-Colored Shell boat.
• Xue Qinghe questioned Ning Rongrong indirectly, gathering details about Lin Xiao and their group while Ning Fengzhi discussed Rongrong and Lin Xiao's engagement.
• Ning Rongrong returned to the villa and joined Lin Xiao, Xiao Wu, and Detective Kega in silently staring at an orange.
• Ke Guga shot Xiao Wu with an Anesthetic Needle, knocking her unconscious and alarming Ning Rongrong.
• Ke Guga explained that Xue Qinghe had been probing for information about Lin Xiao and their abilities, then declared that there was only one truth.

Lin Xiao had Daoist Guga make voodoo dolls using Yu Xiaogang’s tooth and a lock of hair, then Ning Rongrong tested one by stabbing it. Far away, Yu Xiaogang was struck by shifting pains throughout his body.

• Great Detective Ke Guga warned Ning Rongrong that Xue Qinghe wanted to recruit Lin Xiao, but Ning Rongrong confidently dismissed the threat.
• Lin Xiao asked Ning Rongrong to obtain something bearing Xue Qinghe’s unique imprint as a safeguard, and she agreed.
• Lin Xiao brought a tooth and a lock of hair to Daoist Guga and asked her to make two voodoo dolls.
• After Daoist Guga completed the dolls, Ning Rongrong stabbed Yu Xiaogang’s doll with a silver needle.
• At a medical clinic in Suotuo City, Yu Xiaogang felt pain move through his chest and then across his body while Old Cui watched.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang convulsed at Old Cui’s clinic, while Lin Xiao’s companions trained and Chen Xin brought the Gugas to meet Dugu Bo. Chen Xin revealed that he knew the Poison Douluo’s secret symptoms and offered to cure his poison, leaving Dugu Bo asking what he wanted.

• Tang San began convulsing beside Yu Xiaogang, and Old Cui kicked both men and their beds out of his clinic.
• Ning Rongrong practiced needlework while Zhu Zhuqing trained in Wing Chun with the Guga master.
• Chen Xin flew to the Sunset Forest with Doctor Guga and Alchemist Guga, wearing a gas mask as they entered Dugu Bo’s poisonous miasma.
• Dugu Bo confronted Chen Xin and threatened to fight when he learned the visitor was from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Chen Xin described Dugu Bo’s private symptoms and offered to cure his poison, startling Dugu Bo into asking what he wanted.

Chen Xin brought Doctor Guga and Alchemist Guga to treat Dugu Bo’s accumulated poison, then took him to his herb garden. The Gugas began collecting its Immortal Herbs, ending with Alchemist Guga digging up sweet potatoes.

• Dugu Bo accepted treatment because he feared his granddaughter Yanyan would die from the poison, and Doctor Guga examined him before declaring him almost dead.
• Doctor Guga used silver needles to force the accumulated poison out of Dugu Bo, while Chen Xin scattered the poisonous mist with his Fifth Soul Skill.
• Doctor Guga explained that the poison would build up again and that a complete cure and Martial Soul Evolution depended on Dugu Bo’s loyalty to their boss.
• Chen Xin asked Dugu Bo for his Wishful Treasure Pouch, and Dugu Bo handed it over in disbelief that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect knew about it.
• Dugu Bo led Chen Xin and the Gugas to his herb garden, where Alchemist Guga dug up the Immortal Herbs and then pulled a string of sweet potatoes from the soil.

Chen Xin brought Dugu Bo back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect while the Gugas moved the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and collected its Immortal Herbs. Lin Xiao gave Ning Rongrong an Aromatic Silk Beauty, evolving her Martial Soul into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and she began plotting how to help him win over Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing.

• Chen Xin invited Dugu Bo to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while a group of Gugas began extracting the Dragon Bone and relocating the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Alchemist Guga delivered the collected Immortal Herbs to Lin Xiao, who assigned Gugas to cultivate the herbs and study how to make them into Pills.
• Lin Xiao gave Ning Rongrong an Aromatic Silk Beauty and explained how to absorb it to evolve her Martial Soul.
• After absorbing the herb, Ning Rongrong summoned a nine-tier Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and celebrated breaking the limit of her family’s Martial Soul.
• Ning Rongrong learned that another Aromatic Silk Beauty could be ready for her father and offered to help Lin Xiao approach Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ning Rongrong pushed Lin Xiao toward the villa and told him to give Zhu Zhuqing her Immortal Herb first.

Lin Xiao gave Zhu Zhuqing a Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone to improve her cultivation, while Dugu Bo arranged for Dugu Yan to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with direct-line resources. The chapter ended with Dugu Bo taking Dugu Yan from Heaven Dou Royal Academy to the sect.

• Lin Xiao caught Zhu Zhuqing when she fell from the bamboo pole and gave her a Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone to absorb.
• Zhu Zhuqing returned to her room and began absorbing the Immortal Herb as Lin Xiao had instructed.
• Dugu Bo toured the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with Ning Fengzhi and secured a place for Dugu Yan as an Inner Disciple with direct-line resources.
• Dugu Bo went to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and told Dugu Yan to pack so he could take her to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Dugu Yan hesitated over leaving her training and team, but agreed after Dugu Bo firmly insisted.

Dugu Yan learned that the Jade Phosphor Snake Martial Soul’s flaw had poisoned her parents and threatened her life, and that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could help. She brought Ye Lingling back with her to seek help for both their Martial Soul problems, where Ning Fengzhi welcomed Dugu Yan as an Inner Disciple and asked who Ye Lingling was.

• Dugu Yan packed to leave Heaven Dou Academy, while Ye Lingling told her they could stay in touch and declined to leave with her.
• Dugu Bo revealed that the Jade Phosphor Snake Martial Soul’s innate flaw had poisoned Dugu Yan’s parents and endangered both their lives, and that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could resolve it.
• Dugu Yan realized the sect might also help with Ye Lingling’s Nine Heart Begonia lineage and ran back to invite her.
• Ye Lingling agreed to go, and Qin Ming supported her decision to accompany Dugu Yan to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Dugu Bo brought Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to the sect, where Ning Fengzhi gave Dugu Yan an Inner Disciple identity token and asked about Ye Lingling.

Ye Lingling sought help from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to break the Nine Heart Begonia’s hereditary flaw, while Ning Fengzhi asked Lin Xiao to find a solution. Ning Rongrong revealed that Lin Xiao had helped her evolve her martial soul into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, leaving Ning Fengzhi overjoyed and eager to obtain another immortal herb.

• Ye Lingling asked Ning Fengzhi to resolve the Nine Heart Begonia’s flaw, and he proposed that her lineage join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect in return.
• Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan settled into the sect’s inner quarters, where Ye Lingling examined and took a cultivation pill while Dugu Yan tried the supplies in their room.
• Ning Fengzhi visited Ning Rongrong to ask whether Lin Xiao could help break the Ye family’s martial-soul shackles.
• Ning Rongrong revealed her nine-story Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, stunning Ning Fengzhi with proof that her Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda had evolved.
• Ning Rongrong credited Lin Xiao and the aromatic silk beauty immortal herb for her evolution, then teased Ning Fengzhi about needing to wait for another herb and hold certain poses.

Ning Fengzhi sought Lin Xiao’s help with the Nine Heart Begonia bloodline problem, while Xue Qinghe received a request from the Pope to gather pills for Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation. After Zhu Zhuqing absorbed an Immortal Herb and reached level thirty, Lin Xiao and Ning Rongrong advised her on preparing her body for a powerful third Spirit Ring.

• Ning Fengzhi apologized to Ning Rongrong and offered her two pieces from his collection before asking Lin Xiao for help with Ye Lingling’s Nine Heart Begonia bloodline restriction.
• Lin Xiao identified the Three-Life Begonia Stamen at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as an Immortal Herb that could help Ye Lingling, and Ning Rongrong privately planned a way to persuade Zhu Zhuqing to use Whale Rubber.
• Xue Qinghe complained that Ning Fengzhi had sent too few pills, divided the remaining supply between his forces and Spirit City, and received the Pope’s demand to collect pills for the Golden Generation.
• Xue Qinghe agreed to gather pills while privately deciding to use his informants and approach Ning Rongrong to get closer to Lin Xiao.
• Zhu Zhuqing absorbed her Immortal Herb and reached level thirty, then Lin Xiao and Ning Rongrong advised her to strengthen her body before obtaining a third Spirit Ring and recommended Whale Rubber.

Lin Xiao prepared Zhu Zhuqing for a body-tempering medicinal bath, after which she drank ten-thousand-year whale glue and struggled against its effects as Lin Xiao entered her thoughts. Elsewhere, Ning Rongrong toured the sect with Dugu Yan, mistook a sneeze for a sign that Lin Xiao was thinking of her, and continued walking.

• Lin Xiao took Zhu Zhuqing to the kitchen, where Gugas prepared a simmering medicinal bath for her.
• Zhu Zhuqing soaked in the medicinal liquid, endured its pain, and passed out while cultivating.
• After the bath liquid turned clear, an Alchemist Guga gave Zhu Zhuqing the heated whale glue to drink.
• The whale glue stirred powerful sensations in Zhu Zhuqing, and she thought of Lin Xiao as her reason began to fail.
• Ning Rongrong sneezed while touring the sect with Dugu Yan, then said Lin Xiao was thinking of her and kept looking around.

Lin Xiao carried the weakened Zhu Zhuqing to bed, while Ning Rongrong hurried back to the villa after arranging events in the garden. The chapter ended with Lin Xiao carrying Ning Rongrong upstairs, while Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling remained lost in the garden.

• After the medicine left Zhu Zhuqing weak, Lin Xiao carried her to her bedroom and tucked her in, and she found comfort in leaning against him.
• Ning Rongrong checked her watch while walking with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, then rushed back to the villa when the time came.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling got lost in the garden and asked Yellow-Haired for directions, but he left in a hurry.
• Ning Rongrong returned to the villa, asked Lin Xiao about his progress with Zhu Zhuqing, and requested a bridal carry of her own.
• Lin Xiao carried Ning Rongrong upstairs after she invited him to play games in the bedroom.

A black-cloaked Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect spy received a dangerous assignment, while Xiao Wu woke after a day asleep and heard about the sect’s recent events. Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling then watched Guga teach the Inner Disciples unusual but practical combat techniques.

• A masked man gave a black-cloaked undercover agent an assignment, and the agent worried that carrying it out would get him killed before swallowing the letter.
• Xiao Wu woke with a painful lump on her head and learned from Ning Rongrong that she had slept for one day and missed the sect’s recent events.
• Ning Rongrong and Lin Xiao silently speculated about Xiao Wu’s condition while Zhu Zhuqing watched their rapid gestures without understanding them.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling went to the Inner Disciples’ training grounds, where Dugu Yan discovered that the combat instructor was a penguin named Guga.
• Guga demonstrated several dodging techniques, and a disciple explained the practical, ruthless principles of the Mad Dog Fist to Dugu Yan.