Chapter Summaries

Lin Hao received the hundred-thousand-year Life Jade Spirit Turtle left leg bone from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and returned to Shrek Academy with Dugu Bo. There, he revealed Tang Hao’s identity to Dugu Bo and began discussing how the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could help Ah Yin recover.

• Ning Fengzhi gave Lin Hao the hundred-thousand-year Life Jade Spirit Turtle left leg bone, settling their transaction.
• Dugu Bo brought Lin Hao back to Shrek Academy and offered him unrestricted access to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Lin Hao called Tang San away from training and brought him and Dugu Bo to Tang San’s courtyard.
• Lin Hao summoned Tang Hao and told Dugu Bo that Tang San was the son of Clear Sky Douluo Tang Hao.
• Lin Hao told Tang Hao and Tang San that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well might help Ah Yin recover, and explained that Dugu Bo owned it.

Lin Hao absorbed the hundred-thousand-year Life Jade Spirit Turtle left leg bone at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and gained two powerful Soul Bone Skills. After reaching level forty, he asked Dugu Bo to help him hunt a nearly thirty-thousand-year-old Sky-Splitting Mantis for his fourth Soul Ring.

• Tang Hao hurried Tang San to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while Lin Hao and Dugu Bo arranged to meet them there with Dugu Yan.
• Tang San felt the life-filled power around the well, and Tang Hao left to bring Ah Yin to the valley.
• Dugu Bo took Dugu Yan to absorb her Soul Bone, while Lin Hao gave Tang San a Ten Thousand Year Starflower and absorbed his Life Jade Spirit Turtle left leg bone.
• Lin Hao gained Mysterious Spirit Life Shield and Mysterious Spirit Turtle Rebirth, and his Soul Power reached level forty.
• Dugu Bo agreed to take Dugu Yan home before helping Lin Hao hunt a nearly thirty-thousand-year-old Sky-Splitting Mantis.
• Lin Hao told Tang San about his second Martial Soul, the Life Evergreen Vine.

Lin Hao revealed his Life Evergreen Vine and used its life force to help Ah Yin recover while Xiao Wu cultivated at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After a month, Tang Hao took Tang San and Ning Rongrong to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to discuss marriage, while Lin Hao and Xiao Wu set out to visit Da Ming and Er Ming.

• Lin Hao obtained the fourth soul ring from a Sky-Splitting Mantis, reached level forty-five, and gained the Eternal Wound skill.
• Lin Hao brought Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after preparing them to withstand its ice and fire energy.
• Tang Hao returned with Ah Yin, and Lin Hao revealed his Life Evergreen Vine and rapidly increased her growth by channeling life force into her.
• Lin Hao promised to help Ah Yin recover to ten thousand years of cultivation, and over the next month she surpassed eleven thousand years while Xiao Wu reached level forty.
• Tang Hao took Tang San and Ning Rongrong to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to discuss their marriage, while Lin Hao and Xiao Wu returned to Shrek Academy for Lightning Flying Mushroom Sausages.
• Lin Hao and Xiao Wu left for the Star Dou Great Forest to visit Da Ming and Er Ming.

Lin Hao and Xiao Wu traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Xiao Wu reunited with Er Ming and Da Ming at the Lake of Life. As Xiao Wu caught up with her old friends, Lin Hao began planting herb seeds and discovered valuable plants around the lake.

• Lin Hao told Xiao Wu that he could not currently resurrect her mother, Ah Rou, but promised to keep trying as he grew stronger; Xiao Wu was comforted and they later traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xiao Wu released the aura of her life essence in the mixed zone, and Er Ming sensed her and rushed to meet her.
• Xiao Wu reunited with Er Ming, introduced Lin Hao as her partner, and rode with him to the Lake of Life.
• Xiao Wu greeted Da Ming at the lake while Lin Hao sensed its abundant vitality and began planting seeds for immortal and spiritual herbs.
• Lin Hao discovered Star Soul Grass and a Heavenly Crystal Lotus growing among the weeds around the Lake of Life.

Lin Hao reunited with Xiao Wu, gave Da Ming and Er Ming rare treasures, and helped Xiao Wu condense her fourth Soul Ring. After Lin Hao demonstrated that he could create Artificial Soul Rings, he warned Xiao Wu that they lacked Soul Skills and could drive humans to slaughter Soul Beasts for Soul Bones.

• Lin Hao met Da Ming and gave him True Dragon Grass, while Er Ming received an Earth Core Stone.
• Da Ming and Er Ming began refining their gifts as Xiao Wu prepared to condense her fourth Soul Ring.
• Xiao Wu successfully gained the Invincible Golden Body Soul Skill, which created a shield lasting about thirty seconds.
• Lin Hao created a persistent Hundred-Year Artificial Soul Ring and explained that it contained only energy, not a Soul Skill.
• Lin Hao warned Xiao Wu that making Artificial Soul Rings public could lead humans to kill Soul Beasts for their Soul Bones.

Xiao Wu refined the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, reached level fifty, and condensed her fifth soul skill, Taiyin Extreme Cold Divine Light. After Da Ming gave Lin Hao a Hundred-Thousand-Year Death Spider Emperor Right Leg Bone for Xiao Wu, she challenged Lin Hao to test her new skill, and their fight began.

• Lin Hao reassured Xiao Wu that he would eventually develop a method to make artificial soul bones and advised her to use the Lovesick Heartbreak Red before condensing her fifth soul ring.
• Xiao Wu refined the Lovesick Heartbreak Red for three days and nights, while Da Ming became an Azure Sky Flood Dragon and Er Ming gained an Earth Domain.
• Xiao Wu reached soul power level fifty and began condensing her fifth soul ring, while Lin Hao asked Da Ming and Er Ming for a suitable soul bone.
• Da Ming gave Lin Hao a Hundred-Thousand-Year Death Spider Emperor Right Leg Bone, and Lin Hao considered its potential life-preserving and offensive soul bone skills for Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu awakened Taiyin Extreme Cold Divine Light, a fifty-meter domain that froze enemies with divine light, then asked Lin Hao to test it in a fight.
• Lin Hao summoned five clones with his Heavenly Blade Martial Soul and attacked Xiao Wu with Eternal Wound as she activated Taiyin Extreme Cold Divine Light.

Lin Hao and Xiao Wu left the Lake of Life after spending two months with Da Ming and Er Ming, planning to return after the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament. Near the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest, they encountered a wounded Wind Tiger fleeing pursuing soul masters, and Lin Hao moved to hold it back.

• Xiao Wu defeated Lin Hao in a sparring match, and he called her Sister Xiao Wu before they playfully tussled.
• Lin Hao gave Xiao Wu a hundred-thousand-year Death Spider Emperor right leg bone and explained its Undying Body and Death Demon Scythe skills.
• After two months at the Lake of Life, Lin Hao and Xiao Wu said farewell to Da Ming and Er Ming and left the forest's core region with Er Ming's help.
• Lin Hao and Xiao Wu used Teleportation repeatedly to avoid powerful soul beasts as they crossed the mixed region.
• Near the outer region, Lin Hao identified an injured, roughly sixteen-thousand-year-old Wind Tiger fleeing soul masters and attacked it to make it stop.
• The Wind Tiger changed direction and continued fleeing, while Lin Hao pursued and harassed it with Teleportation and his Heavenly Blade.

Lin Hao and Xiao Wu reunited with Feng Xiaotian in the Star Dou Great Forest, where Lin Hao advised him on his fifth soul skill before they left for Heaven Dou City. After spending the night together in Spirit Hunting Town, they rode Gale Horses onward and entered the Great Soul Arena in Silves City.

• Feng Xiaotian recognized Lin Hao and Xiao Wu, thanked Lin Hao for encouraging him to cultivate, and told him that Huo Wu had grown closer to him.
• After Feng Qingyang subdued the Ten-Thousand-Year Wind Tiger, Lin Hao advised Feng Xiaotian to seek a percentage-boost fifth soul skill, and Feng Xiaotian followed that advice before absorbing the tiger's soul ring.
• Lin Hao and Xiao Wu left the forest, spent the night together in a hotel in Spirit Hunting Town, and set off toward Heaven Dou City the next morning.
• Lin Hao and Xiao Wu bought two Gale Horses and traveled through Silves City, where Lin Hao took Xiao Wu into the Great Soul Arena to show her humanity's sinister side.

Lin Hao and Xiao Wu returned to Shrek Academy after their trip, where Xiao Wu’s rapid cultivation growth drew attention and the team continued training for the upcoming tournament. Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, visited the academy and met privately with Lin Hao, asking about his confidence in the tournament.

• Lin Hao took Xiao Wu away from the Silves Great Soul Arena after the Fierce God Team’s slaughter disturbed her, then helped her recover by showing her around Silves City.
• Lin Hao and Xiao Wu returned to Heaven Dou City seven days later, and Lin Hao explained Xiao Wu’s rapid cultivation gains by saying she had eaten a suitable Immortal Herb.
• Lin Hao and Xiao Wu rejoined Shrek Academy’s students, who were training for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament and had confirmed their twelve-person roster.
• Flender received word that Xue Qinghe wanted Lin Hao present for his visit, and Lin Hao agreed to meet him.
• Qian Renxue visited Shrek Academy, steered conversation toward Lin Hao, and then invited him to the Elegant Tea House, where she asked whether he felt confident about the tournament.

Lin Hao spoke with Qian Renxue about Shrek Academy’s tournament prospects and his plans to travel with Xiao Wu, then visited Dugu Manor. There, Chrysanthemum Douluo asked Dugu Bo how he had gained control over his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor’s toxic backlash, and Dugu Bo showed him the Poison Core.

• Lin Hao told Qian Renxue he expected Shrek Academy to win the tournament and planned to travel with Xiao Wu afterward, though he might consider serving her in the future.
• Qian Renxue promised Lin Hao the best treatment and help obtaining Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings if he ever joined her faction.
• Lin Hao went to Dugu Manor, where Dugu Bo introduced him to Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo from Spirit Hall.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo asked Lin Hao to join Spirit Hall, but Lin Hao said he wanted to pursue godhood before choosing a faction.
• Dugu Bo revealed his Poison Core as the means by which he controlled his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor’s toxic backlash, and Chrysanthemum Douluo questioned why it had not worked before.

Dugu Bo explained how observing Dugu Yan’s Poison Core formation let him control his own Martial Soul and end its toxin backlash, while Chrysanthemum Guan and Ghost Douluo worked to reconcile with him. With a month left before the Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament, Shrek’s competitors rested and reunited to hear the rules before the opening matches in Heaven Dou City.

• Dugu Bo told Chrysanthemum Guan that watching Dugu Yan’s Poison Core form had taught him to control his own Martial Soul and resolve its toxin backlash.
• Chrysanthemum Guan acknowledged Dugu Bo’s explanation, and Lin Hao later said goodbye after meeting Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo at Dugu Manor.
• A year and three months later, Flender dismissed Shrek Academy’s twelve tournament competitors from training for the final month before the tournament.
• Ma Hongjun asked Flender for permission to visit Shui Bing’er in Skywater City, and Flender agreed; the other competitors went their separate ways, while Lin Hao and Xiao Wu planned to rest and enjoy Heaven Dou City.
• Flender explained that the tournament used seven-on-seven preliminary matches, followed by one-on-one advancement rounds, and said the next day’s matches would be held at the Great Soul Arena in Heaven Dou City.

Shrek Academy attended the opening ceremony of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament, where it was drawn against the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team for the first preliminary match. Ning Rongrong explained that she needed to reveal her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Tang San volunteered to compete beside her.

• Flender, Liu Erlong, and Zhao Wuji led the Shrek Academy Team to the tournament in proper combat uniforms.
• Lin Hao surveyed the VIP section, where Emperor Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, and Platinum Bishop Salas were seated.
• Xue Ye declared the tournament open, and Ning Fengzhi gave a speech before Salas drew the preliminary match lots.
• Shrek Academy was drawn against the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team, and Ning Rongrong said her father had asked her to compete and reveal her martial soul.
• Flender began discussing Shrek's seven competitors, and Tang San volunteered to join Ning Rongrong because he was her boyfriend.

Shrek Academy won its opening preliminary match after Ning Rongrong revealed the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and Ning Fengzhi announced the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s renaming. Shrek continued rolling over its early opponents, including the Plant Academy, while Lin Hao stayed off the field.

• Tang San and Ning Rongrong stunned the spectators with Tang San’s five soul rings and Ning Rongrong’s Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, prompting Ning Fengzhi to announce that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would become the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• With the crowd chanting the new sect name, Shrek defeated the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team Second Team in under twenty seconds.
• Lin Hao led Shrek away from the arena to avoid the expected crowds, and the team later returned for its second-round match.
• Shrek swept aside several opponents before drawing the Plant Academy in its seventh match.
• Ning Rongrong boosted Tang San and Ma Hongjun, who swiftly defeated all seven Plant Academy members through their advantages over plant-type martial souls.
• After the Plant Academy match, Shrek faced more obscure academies, and Lin Hao chose not to compete.