Chapter Summaries

Chu Zhao weakened Zhao Wuji with her Death God Scythe’s Death Qi and knocked him unconscious with enhanced Datura Flower pollen, causing the group’s trial to end unexpectedly. After one system rewarded her for defeating a Soul Saint, another tasked her with healing and waking Zhao Wuji, and Chu Zhao went to try.

• Tang San noticed Zhao Wuji’s attacks had weakened, and Chu Zhao explained that her Scythe’s Death Qi was wearing down his vitality.
• Zhao Wuji refused Chu Zhao’s offer to make peace, attacked her, and inhaled enhanced Datura Flower pollen when she sent a boulder flying at him.
• Zhao Wuji collapsed and fell asleep, and Tang San identified the pollen while Chu Zhao said its effects might last two or three days.
• Dai Mubai concluded the group had passed the trial, while Tang San asked Chu Zhao to see if she could wake Zhao Wuji.
• The Death God Cultivation System rewarded Chu Zhao for defeating a Soul Saint, then the Farming and Wellness System tasked her with healing Zhao Wuji; Chu Zhao went to try.

After helping Zhao Wuji recover, Chu Zhao settled into Shrek Academy and discovered that healing him had raised her Soul Power to level fifty-one. Shi Yang, a transmigrator who wanted to join the Shrek Seven Devils, privately viewed Chu Zhao as a rival and resolved to remove Zhu Zhuqing instead.

• Chu Zhao used the Longevity Art to heal Zhao Wuji, who woke up, declared the students had passed, and assigned Dai Mubai extra training.
• Dai Mubai led the injured students to the dormitories; Tang San chose to room with Oscar, while Xiao Wu insisted on sharing a room with Chu Zhao.
• Chu Zhao checked her rewards and discovered Zhao Wuji's healing had raised her Soul Power from level fifty to level fifty-one, though she could not display the level without a fifth soul ring.
• Chu Zhao's systems could not detect Shi Yang, and she considered that he might have a system too advanced for them to sense.
• Shi Yang, who had reincarnated without a system but gained faster Soul Power growth by helping Shrek, decided Zhu Zhuqing was the easiest student to drive out and celebrated reaching level thirty.

Chu Zhao rebuffed Dai Mubai and focused on cultivating to find her family, while her words prompted Xiao Wu to reflect on her own past and responsibilities. As Flender assigned tasks, Chu Zhao worried about the tuition fee, and an insult from an unidentified speaker left the conflict unresolved.

• Shi Yang convinced himself that he was destined to become one of the Shrek Seven Devils and dismissed the possibility that Chu Zhao was also a Transmigrator.
• Dai Mubai tried to show concern for Zhu Zhuqing and then flirt with Chu Zhao, but both women rebuffed him, making him resent them.
• Chu Zhao told Xiao Wu and the others that she cultivated hard to grow stronger and find her family, prompting Xiao Wu to think about avenging her mother and protecting her identity.
• Tang San offered Chu Zhao an early birthday present of one hundred Gold Soul Coins after she said she had never taken Spirit Hall's subsidy.
• An unidentified speaker insulted Chu Zhao for being unable to afford tuition and refusing Spirit Hall's subsidy.

Chu Zhao was forced to leave Shrek Academy after Flender rejected her, apparently fearing a warning that she would bring danger. After ordering an investigation into Shi Yang, she received a system task requiring her to attack Tang San, leaving her torn between the command and her goodwill toward him.

• Shi Yang and Dai Mubai antagonized Chu Zhao, prompting Ning Rongrong to offer to pay the group’s tuition.
• Flender refused to let Chu Zhao stay at Shrek Academy because he feared the danger an important figure had warned her would bring.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing tried to stop Chu Zhao from leaving, and she warned them through a voice transmission to be careful of Shi Yang.
• Chu Zhao left Shrek Academy, then ordered the Moonlight Merchant Guild to investigate and monitor Shi Yang.
• The Death God Cultivation System assigned Chu Zhao a three-day task to cut Tang San with the Death God Scythe, and Chu Zhao hesitated over harming him.

Chu Zhao planned to test whether Tang San could survive a cut from her Death God Scythe and went to the Soto Soul Arena to wait for him. At Shrek Academy, Tang San and Xiao Wu began training harder, while Shi Yang celebrated reaching level thirty; Chu Zhao then encountered Wang Sheng and his group in a VIP box.

• Chu Zhao decided to test whether the Death God Scythe’s Death Qi could fail to kill Tang San and registered an alternate account at the Soto Soul Arena.
• Tang San challenged Flender about driving Chu Zhao away, and Flender admitted that danger surrounding her threatened the academy.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu committed themselves to cultivation after Flender warned Tang San that he lacked the strength to protect Chu Zhao.
• Shi Yang reached level thirty, and Dai Mubai praised his talent and compared him favorably with Tang San.
• At the Soto Soul Arena, Chu Zhao met Wang Sheng and six others, explained that she had suppressed her strength to train them, and asked why they were there.

Chu Zhao reunited with her seven trainees and learned that Cloud Peak Academy had been approved as an advanced Soul Master Academy, making them eligible for the upcoming All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament. At the Soto Soul Arena, she faced Tang San, who warned her that powerful people were hunting her, leaving Chu Zhao wondering how Flender had learned of the threat.

• Wang Sheng, Xiao Chenyu, Jin Qianqian, Wu Yun, Lin Cheng, Shu Han, and Shu Che reported their Soul Power ranks to Chu Zhao.
• Chu Zhao praised the seven trainees' progress and hoped at least four would reach the Soul Ancestor realm before the tournament.
• Xiao Chenyu asked whether the group could enter the tournament, and Chu Zhao confirmed Prince Xue Qinghe had approved Cloud Peak Academy's upgrade.
• Chu Zhao used the name Zhao Zhao to compete against Tang San at the Soto Soul Arena, and they recognized each other.
• Tang San warned Chu Zhao that Flender believed she endangered Shrek Academy and that powerful people were pursuing her.
• Chu Zhao thanked Tang San, then wondered how Flender had learned about the threat.

Chu Zhao defeated Tang San in a spar and received conflicting system missions about harming and helping him. After healing Tang San, she claimed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as her private property and planned to confront Flender about Tang Hao.

• Chu Zhao and Tang San sparred, and she cut his arm, completing the Death Qi system's emergency mission and receiving a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring as her fifth soul ring.
• Tang San conceded the match, while Zhu Zhuqing defeated Shi Yang despite having four fewer Soul Power levels.
• Chu Zhao began treating Tang San's wound and received a conflicting mission that rewarded her with ownership of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for healing him.
• Chu Zhao healed Tang San with the Longevity Art, completing the mission and binding the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to herself.
• Chu Zhao decided to find Flender and use threats and incentives to learn what Tang Hao had told him.

After gaining the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and keeping her rewards, Chu Zhao challenged Flender to test her strength. She wounded him with her first Soul Skill, leaving him stunned by her five unusual soul rings.

• Chu Zhao discovered she could travel to the bound Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well at will and found that her Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and soul bone had not been deducted.
• Chu Zhao's strength rose from level fifty-one to level fifty-six, and she decided to practice against Flender.
• Chu Zhao confronted Flender at Shrek Academy about who had warned him of danger around her, and she deduced that Tang Hao had told him.
• Chu Zhao and Flender moved to a nearby forest, where she attacked him with her First Soul Skill, Reaper Scythe Shadow Kill.
• Flender was wounded and, shocked by Chu Zhao's five soul rings, convinced himself she was using a special skill to create an illusion.

Chu Zhao fought Flender to learn what Tang Hao had told him about her past, and Flender revealed that she had once been able to mobilize many powerful people. Their spar ended with both of them injured, and Flender regretted that Chu Zhao had left Shrek Academy.

• Flender activated his Martial Soul Possession and attacked Chu Zhao, but discovered she was truly a twelve-year-old Soul King with four Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings and one Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Flender stopped fighting and told Chu Zhao that Tang Hao had said she was capable of mobilizing many powerful people.
• Chu Zhao reassured Flender that she would keep his account secret, then asked him for a real spar and injured him again.
• Flender used his full strength, but Chu Zhao kept fighting, and the Soul Saint and Soul King ended their battle both injured.
• Flender lamented that Chu Zhao had left Shrek Academy while she recovered with the Longevity Art.

After Flender gave up on recruiting Chu Zhao, she learned that Dugu Yan and Blue Tyrant Academy were coming to Suotuo City to challenge her group. Chu Zhao prepared to face them and considered bringing Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang together earlier than in the original story.

• Flender regretted losing Chu Zhao but accepted that he would not risk offending Tang Hao to recruit her.
• Wang Sheng woke Chu Zhao and the others to report that Dugu Yan's group had arrived with Blue Tyrant Academy to avenge their earlier defeat.
• Chu Zhao reassured her team that they would handle the challengers while she and Gold Senior dealt with Dugu Bo if he appeared.
• Jin Qianqian suggested summoning Gold Senior, but Chu Zhao refused because she feared he would demand another expensive Golden House.
• After learning Blue Tyrant Academy was among the challengers, Chu Zhao decided she might arrange an early reunion between Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang.

Chu Zhao arranged for Liu Erlong to learn where Yu Xiaogang was, while her Cloud Peak Team prepared to face Dugu Yan’s Royal Fight Team. Liu Erlong found Yu Xiaogang at Shrek Academy and reunited with him, just as Tang San and the others arrived to witness their embrace.

• Chu Zhao leaked Shrek Academy’s location to Liu Erlong and prepared for the story to unfold.
• Dugu Yan challenged Chu Zhao’s Cloud Peak Team, and Xiao Chenyu and Wu Yun traded taunts with her until Yu Tianheng restrained her.
• Liu Erlong left her students in Suotuo City and hurried to Shrek Academy while the Blue Tyrant students watched the Royal Fight Team face the Cloud Peak Team.
• Liu Erlong found Yu Xiaogang selling salt water and embraced him, and they explained their feelings and why he had stayed away.
• Tang San and the others returned to find Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang embracing, and Yu Xiaogang introduced her as a friend of his and Flender’s.

Liu Erlong claimed Yu Xiaogang as her husband in front of the Shrek students, and Flender confirmed their history. Meanwhile, Chu Zhao learned that plot changes had separated the Shrek and Royal Fight teams and considered giving Xiao Wu the Lovesick Heartbreak Red.

• Liu Erlong told the Shrek students that she and Yu Xiaogang had discussed marriage and that he had run away on their wedding night.
• Flender confirmed Liu Erlong's account, and Tang San called her his master's wife as she handed out greeting gifts.
• Liu Erlong invited Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and the others to Blue Tyrant Academy and offered to rename it Shrek Academy and give it to Flender.
• Chu Zhao received news that the Royal Fight Team had left Suotuo City while the Blue Tyrant Team was competing at the Great Soul Arena.
• Chu Zhao realized the changed events could prevent Xiao Wu from obtaining the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and decided to let her try to claim it.

Before leaving Suotuo City, Chu Zhao showed Yu Xiaogang her Martial Soul, a powerful scythe, and refused his offer to become his disciple. After Shi Yang insulted her for rejecting Yu Xiaogang, Chu Zhao struck with her scythe.

• Chu Zhao visited Shrek Academy to take Tang San and Xiao Wu out for a farewell meal, and Yu Xiaogang asked to see her Martial Soul.
• Chu Zhao summoned her black-and-crimson scythe, and Yu Xiaogang praised its quality and invited her to become his disciple.
• Chu Zhao refused, saying she did not need a master, while Tang San tried to persuade her and Liu Erlong felt jealous.
• Shi Yang berated Chu Zhao for rejecting Yu Xiaogang, and Chu Zhao brought down her scythe.

Chu Zhao shielded Shi Yang from Liu Erlong’s challenge before Tang San led her and Xiao Wu to Suotuo City for a meal of Yuan Food. She showed Tang San the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and, unable to pick it herself, invited him and Xiao Wu to try.

• Chu Zhao aimed her Death God Scythe at Liu Erlong, but Tang San grabbed Chu Zhao and Xiao Wu and hurried them into Suotuo City.
• Chu Zhao treated Tang San and Xiao Wu to Yuan Food at Moonlight Restaurant, and they learned it could aid cultivation and prolong life.
• Chu Zhao showed Tang San and Xiao Wu the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, and Tang San recognized the flower.
• Tang San explained that the flower could only be picked through sincere love, and Chu Zhao said love would only slow her draw.
• Chu Zhao invited Tang San and Xiao Wu to try picking the flower, saying it should belong to whoever succeeded.

Chu Zhao let Tang San and Xiao Wu try to pick the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, but both failed, and she warned Xiao Wu about the dangers of going to Heaven Dou City. After Chu Zhao said she had enrolled at another academy, Tang San began recounting Shi Yang’s suspiciously accurate claims about past events.

• Chu Zhao allowed Tang San to try the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, but his heart’s blood did not free it from the stone.
• Xiao Wu tried next, but the flower trembled briefly before remaining rooted, disappointing her and Tang San.
• Chu Zhao asked how Liu Erlong had become Shrek Academy’s vice dean, and Tang San explained that she was Yu Xiaogang’s wife and had joined him and Flender in reorganizing the academy.
• Chu Zhao warned that Heaven Dou City held many powerful experts, and Xiao Wu turned pale as Tang San described the group’s likely journey there.
• Chu Zhao told Tang San she had enrolled at another advanced Soul Master Academy, and Tang San began listing Shi Yang’s past predictions about the Shrek Seven Devils and Xiao Wu’s safety.

Chu Zhao learned that Shi Yang was trying to push Zhu Zhuqing out of the Shrek Eight Devils, and she decided Zhu Zhuqing could be useful to her. When Dugu Bo confronted the Cloud Peak Team, Chu Zhao revealed that she could cure the poison afflicting him and his granddaughter, but made clear that he would have to pay for her help.

• Tang San explained to Chu Zhao and Xiao Wu that Shi Yang repeatedly promoted the Shrek Seven Devils and tried to drive Zhu Zhuqing away.
• Chu Zhao learned that Zhu Zhuqing was disliked at Shrek Academy and decided she would take her in if the academy did not want her.
• After two months in Suotuo City, the Cloud Peak Team left, but Dugu Bo stopped their carriage and demanded to speak with Chu Zhao.
• Chu Zhao revealed herself, used her Death God Domain to speak privately with Dugu Bo, and described the hereditary poison problem affecting his bloodline.
• Chu Zhao told Dugu Bo she could cure both him and Dugu Yan, then warned him that her help would not be free.

Chu Zhao secured Dugu Bo’s protection for Cloud Peak Academy in exchange for curing him and Dugu Yan. After treating Dugu Bo with poison and a rare herb, she left him cured, stronger, and suspecting his martial soul had changed.

• Chu Zhao asked Dugu Bo to lend his name and protect Cloud Peak Academy for ten years, and he agreed.
• After treating Dugu Yan in Heaven Dou City, Dugu Bo gave Chu Zhao a Wishful Treasure Pouch, earning her rewards from both systems.
• Chu Zhao explained that Dugu Bo would need to fight poison with poison and instructed him to endure a one-hour medicinal bath, including eating the Golden Flower Snake Emperor Vine halfway through.
• Dugu Bo endured the painful treatment, then discovered his chronic ailments were gone and his Soul Power had risen from level ninety-one to level ninety-three.
• Chu Zhao said Dugu Bo’s poison techniques had improved and his martial soul might have changed, so he tentatively released it.

Dugu Bo evolved his Martial Soul into the Jade Phosphorous Dragon Serpent Emperor, while Chu Zhao finally met Xue Qinghe and helped him deceive Prince Xue Xing with a fake romance. After Xue Xing left, Chu Zhao and Xue Qinghe dropped their act and discussed why he had delayed seeing her.

• Dugu Bo discovered his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor had evolved with golden patterns and dragon-like horns, and Chu Zhao congratulated him on his increased strength.
• Chu Zhao confronted Xue Qinghe for making her wait half a month, then pretended to be his spoiled lover when he arrived with Prince Xue Xing.
• Chu Zhao insulted Prince Xue Xing and acted devoted to Xue Qinghe, who declared that she would be his only Crown Princess and sent his uncle away.
• After Prince Xue Xing left, Chu Zhao and Xue Qinghe pushed each other away and complained about having to embrace and fake tears.
• Xue Qinghe explained that he had brought Prince Xue Xing because his uncle had been watching him closely, and the staged romance would temporarily ease that scrutiny.

Chu Zhao and Xue Qinghe agreed to pursue mutual goals: Chu Zhao would defeat Spirit Hall’s seeded team in the tournament, while Xue Qinghe offered her a provincial capital as a fief. Chu Zhao also gave Xue Qinghe a poison to kill Xue Ye, then learned Spirit Hall planned to name Hu Liena its First Successor to the Pope, provoking Xue Qinghe’s anger.

• Chu Zhao assessed her team’s strength and promised Xue Qinghe that Cloud Peak Academy would defeat Spirit Hall’s seeded team.
• Xue Qinghe offered Chu Zhao the capital of Fasinuo Province as a fief if her academy won the tournament.
• Chu Zhao delivered Xue Qinghe her share of the Moonlight Merchant Guild’s dividends, and Xue Qinghe asked for help poisoning Xue Ye.
• Chu Zhao judged the Seven-Colored Splendor poison vulnerable to Dugu Bo’s detection and gave Xue Qinghe Seventh Night as a subtler alternative.
• Xue Qinghe accepted the poison and promised Chu Zhao two favors, while Chu Zhao chose to wait until Xue Qinghe became emperor to claim one.
• After leaving Xue Qinghe’s villa, Chu Zhao learned that Spirit Hall planned to make Hu Liena its First Successor to the Pope and understood Xue Qinghe’s anger.

Chu Zhao learned that Spirit Hall had sent the Golden Generation, Yue Guan, and two Soul Douluo to hunt Fallen Ones near the Star Dou Great Forest, then went there herself. After healing a wounded Soul Grandmaster whose companions had been killed, she faced his insistence on joining her to seek revenge.

• Wu Yun reported that traces of Fallen Ones near the Star Dou Great Forest suggested their strongest member was around Soul King level, and that Spirit Hall had sent the Golden Generation with Yue Guan and two Soul Douluo to eliminate them.
• Chu Zhao resented Spirit Hall for sending Qian Renxue undercover and thought about beating Hu Liena to vent Qian Renxue's anger.
• Chu Zhao went alone to the Star Dou Great Forest and recalled how she had first encountered an Evil Soul Master there six years earlier.
• Chu Zhao found a mortally wounded Soul Grandmaster who said Fallen Ones had killed his two companions, dug out their hearts, and fled toward Spirit Hall's people.
• Chu Zhao healed the Soul Grandmaster and told him to leave the forest, but he insisted on accompanying her to avenge his friends.