Chapter Summaries

Cao Kun summoned an Iron-Eating Beast, named it Dazhuang, and joined Shrek Academy’s group on their journey to the Star Dou Great Forest. When he revealed Dazhuang’s enormous true form, Zhao Wuji judged its strength to be at least comparable to his own.

• Cao Kun tested the Iron-Eating Beast’s size-changing ability, named it Dazhuang, and told it to stay small around him.
• Dugu Yan told Cao Kun that Flender and the academy group were ready to leave, and Zhu Zhuqing carried the miniature Dazhuang to the training ground.
• Zhao Wuji asked about the expected Mount Buzhou elder, and Cao Kun hinted that the elder might already be nearby.
• Flender ordered the students to carry thirty-pound stone weights on foot to the Star Dou Great Forest, and Cao Kun reminded them not to use Soul Power to cancel the burden.
• The group left Shrek Academy and continued their march into the wilderness, where Cao Kun ordered Dazhuang to reveal his true form.
• Dazhuang grew into a giant Primeval Beast, and Zhao Wuji estimated that its strength was no weaker than his own.

Cao Kun and the Shrek group reached the Star Dou Great Forest under Dazhuang’s protection and cautiously entered the dangerous wilderness. Cao Kun received a check-in reward that would add a hundred thousand years to one of his ninth soul rings.

• Cao Kun rode Dazhuang toward the Star Dou Great Forest with Dugu Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu, while Shisui Uchiha secretly guarded the group.
• On the third morning, the group reached the forest, and Flender warned everyone to follow orders and avoid danger.
• Flender led the party inside while Zhao Wuji guarded the rear and Cao Kun walked in the middle with the three girls.
• Cao Kun checked in upon entering the forest and received a reward adding a hundred thousand years to one of his ninth soul rings.

Cao Kun increased his Chaos Bell Martial Soul’s Ninth Soul Ring to four hundred thousand years as the group continued through the forest. When Flender identified a thousand-year Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent as Oscar’s ideal Third Soul Ring, the Peerless Dragon Snake arrived and interrupted the hunt.

• Cao Kun used his age-increase reward to raise his Chaos Bell Martial Soul’s Ninth Soul Ring from three hundred thousand to four hundred thousand years.
• Cao Kun told Dazhuang to suppress his aura, allowing Soul Beasts to return to the forest around the group.
• Flender identified a family of three Phoenix-tail Crested Serpents and chose the thousand-year serpent as Oscar’s Third Soul Ring target.
• Oscar, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Ning Rongrong prepared to capture the serpent while Flender and Zhao Wuji covered them.
• The Peerless Dragon Snake appeared, blocked the serpents’ escape, and Flender recognized Senior Meng and Senior Chao.

Dragon Duke Meng Shu and Snake Granny Chao Tianxiang tried to claim the thousand-year Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, but Zhao Wuji’s overwhelming strength forced them to retreat. Oscar then killed the serpent and began absorbing its Thousand-Year Soul Ring, while Cao Kun suspected trouble still awaited them in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Dragon Duke Meng Shu demanded that Flender give the thousand-year Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent to Meng Yiran, whose third Soul Ring it suited.
• Flender refused, explaining that the serpent was also suitable for Oscar and that his group had surrounded it first.
• Zhao Wuji revealed his eight Soul Rings and powerful aura, making Dragon Duke Meng Shu reconsider the confrontation.
• Dragon Duke Meng Shu apologized and left with Snake Granny Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji helped Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun subdue the fleeing Phoenix-tail Crested Serpents, and Oscar killed the thousand-year serpent with Ning Rongrong’s speed enhancement and Dai Mubai’s help.
• Oscar began absorbing the serpent’s Thousand-Year Soul Ring as Cao Kun watched and wondered whether the forest would remain peaceful.

Shisui Uchiha confronted Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang after they fled from Cao Kun’s group and pressured them to join Mount Buzhou. The couple faced a choice between surrendering their freedom for the sect’s promised resources or refusing, as another voice spoke behind them.

• Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang fled with Meng Yiran, then discussed how dangerous Zhao Wuji and the silent young man had seemed.
• Shisui appeared beside the stream and used his gaze to put Meng Yiran to sleep.
• Shisui told the couple that his master wanted them to join Mount Buzhou, where Zhao Wuji was only one of twenty-four Protectors.
• When Meng Shu tried to refuse, Shisui revealed his nine Soul Rings, including a hundred-thousand-year ring, and overwhelmed the couple with his Spiritual Power.
• Shisui offered cultivation methods and resources in exchange for their service, and an unseen person spoke behind them as they weighed the choice.

Cao Kun forced Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang to join Mount Buzhou, then gave them Soul Seals, medicines, and positions as Protectors. As Zhi Shui explained their duties, Oscar’s absorption of his Soul Ring reached a critical point.

• Cao Kun confronted Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang and offered them the choice to join Mount Buzhou or let him decide their fate.
• Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang pledged loyalty to Cao Kun and accepted the subordinate seals of the Indestructible Heart Bell.
• Cao Kun gave them medicines, appointed them among Mount Buzhou’s twenty-four Protectors, and offered Meng Yiran a place as an Ordinary Disciple.
• Cao Kun vanished, and Zhi Shui welcomed the pair into the sect and explained their responsibilities and Mount Buzhou’s structure.
• Oscar’s absorption of his Soul Ring reached a critical point.

Oscar absorbed the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent's Soul Ring and gained a flight-granting third Soul Skill before the group continued deeper into the forest. They found a Shadow Mantis suited to Zhu Zhuqing, and she began fighting it as Cao Kun watched her test her abilities.

• Oscar endured the thousand-year Soul Ring's assault and gained the Flying Mushroom Sausage as his third Soul Skill.
• The group continued deeper into the forest while Cao Kun searched for suitable Soul Beasts and Flender and Zhao Wuji stayed alert.
• Flender spotted an approximately eighteen-hundred-to-two-thousand-year-old Shadow Mantis and identified it as a suitable target for Zhu Zhuqing.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Dugu Yan prepared to fight the Shadow Mantis while Flender and Zhao Wuji blocked its escape routes.
• Zhu Zhuqing clashed with the Shadow Mantis and pursued it through the shadows as Dugu Yan tried to restrain it with poison mist; Cao Kun let the fight test Zhu Zhuqing.

Zhu Zhuqing absorbed a Shadow Mantis Soul Ring and gained the Shadow Divine Blade skill, but a Titan Giant Ape named Er Ming soon appeared and charged toward the group. Cao Kun reassured Xiao Wu that he would not kill Er Ming as Zhao Wuji and Flender prepared to defend everyone.

• Zhu Zhuqing defeated the Shadow Mantis with Dugu Yan's support and began absorbing its purple Soul Ring.
• Zhu Zhuqing successfully absorbed the ring and revealed her third soul skill, Shadow Divine Blade.
• A powerful roar shook the forest, and Er Ming, the Titan Giant Ape, emerged before the group.
• Xiao Wu worried that Cao Kun might harm Er Ming, and Cao Kun promised he would spare him unless Er Ming sought his own death.
• Er Ming charged toward the group, apparently drawn to Dazhuang's aura, while Zhao Wuji and Flender released their martial souls to meet him.

Dazhuang fought the Titan Giant Ape to a standstill until Xiao Wu secretly warned the giant to leave. After the battle, Cao Kun advised Zhao Wuji against pursuing a hundred-thousand-year soul ring, and Zhao Wuji asked what ring would suit him instead.

• Cao Kun sent Dazhuang to block the charging Titan Giant Ape, and the two beasts clashed with nearly equal strength.
• Dazhuang and the Titan Giant Ape fought through a dozen exchanges while Cao Kun studied their battle and sensed Da Ming watching from deeper in the forest.
• Xiao Wu secretly warned the Titan Giant Ape to leave, and he drove Dazhuang back before withdrawing into the woods.
• Dazhuang returned to his miniature Panda form, while Zhao Wuji regretted losing the chance at a hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
• Cao Kun warned Zhao Wuji that absorbing such a soul ring was too dangerous, and Zhao Wuji asked what age soul ring would suit his ninth.

Cao Kun told Zhao Wuji that Mount Buzhou had a secret art that might raise his Ninth Soul Ring's age, then led the group onward to find Flender an Eighth Soul Ring. They found a Rift-Splitting Golden Eagle suited to Flender, and the group began a coordinated attack, ending with Zhao Wuji trapping the eagle in a gravitational field.

• Cao Kun recommended an eighty- to ninety-thousand-year Soul Beast for Zhao Wuji's Ninth Soul Ring and revealed that a Mount Buzhou secret art might increase its age later.
• Flender moved the group to a safer campsite, and they rested through the night before resuming their search the next morning.
• Cao Kun's divine sense and Dazhuang's instincts helped guide the group to a Rift-Splitting Golden Eagle that Flender identified as a suitable Soul Ring target.
• Cao Kun assigned Zhao Wuji to disrupt the eagle's flight, Flender to attack, and Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing to provide support.
• Flender transformed into his Flying Blackfeather Eagle Martial Soul Avatar and fought the Rift-Splitting Golden Eagle in the air.
• Zhao Wuji used Position Tracking, Gravity Enhancement, and Gravity Compression to engulf the eagle in a gravitational field.

Flender killed the Rift-Splitting Golden Eagle and absorbed its forty-five-thousand-year Soul Ring, gaining a powerful eighth Soul Skill and reaching Level 82. The group then entered a Soul Beast-filled bamboo grove after Cao Kun sensed a promising Soul Beast there, hoping to find Zhao Wuji a Ninth Soul Ring.

• Zhao Wuji slowed the Rift-Splitting Golden Eagle with his Gravity Domain while Zhu Zhuqing opened a gap in its feather barrage, allowing Flender to wound and kill it.
• Flender absorbed the eagle’s black Soul Ring over four hours and gained the eighth Soul Skill, Sky-Splitting Thousand Swords, which could cover a wide area or focus its tracking feather swords on one target.
• Flender’s Soul Power rose to Level 82, and the group congratulated him before resuming their search for a Ninth Soul Ring for Zhao Wuji.
• Dazhuang grew restless in a bamboo grove, and Cao Kun sensed a Soul Beast he said would suit Zhao Wuji.
• The group entered the grove and Flender identified several rare Plant-type Soul Beasts, but they continued deeper in search of a top-tier strength-type Soul Beast.

Cao Kun’s group found an ancient Mountain-Suppressing Turtle that Zhao Wuji wanted as the source of his next Soul Ring. Cao Kun offered it a Soul Spirit Contract that could preserve part of its consciousness, but threatened to kill it if it refused.

• Dazhuang dug up Purple-Gold Jade Shoots beneath a Ten-Thousand-Year Purple Bamboo, ate some, and shared the rest with Cao Kun’s companions.
• The group passed deeper into the bamboo grove and found an emerald pool beside a Mountain-Suppressing Turtle over eighty thousand years old.
• Zhao Wuji recognized the turtle as a perfect match for his Martial Soul and moved to approach it, but Cao Kun stopped him.
• Cao Kun spoke with the intelligent turtle and offered it a Soul Spirit Contract that would let it survive in another form while sharing its power with Zhao Wuji.
• Cao Kun threatened to kill the turtle if it refused, as Shisui Uchiha locked onto it with a lethal force.

Cao Kun formed a Soul Spirit Contract between Zhao Wuji and the Giant Tortoise, helping Zhao Wuji reach Titled Douluo and gain a powerful Soul Ring, Soul Spirit, and Soul Bone. With the group's main goals in the Star Dou Great Forest accomplished, Cao Kun set his sights on the forest's core region.

• The Giant Tortoise accepted Cao Kun's Soul Spirit Contract to escape the end of its life and continue existing alongside a human Soul Master.
• Cao Kun guided Zhao Wuji and the Giant Tortoise through the contract, merging the tortoise's power and Spiritual Origin into Zhao Wuji and creating a Mountain-Suppressing Turtle Soul Spirit.
• Zhao Wuji's Soul Power rose to Level 92, and he gained a peak ninety-thousand-year ninth Soul Ring and the Giant Tortoise's torso Soul Bone.
• Zhao Wuji tested his new Ten Directions Mountain Suppression Soul Skill and Immovable as a Mountain Soul Bone skill, then thanked Cao Kun.
• Cao Kun noted that Flender's eighth Soul Ring and Zhao Wuji's ninth had been obtained, then led the group's attention toward the forest's core region.

Cao Kun took Dugu Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu into the core of the Star Dou Great Forest, leaving Zhao Wuji and Flender to guide the others under the hidden elders’ protection. At the Lake of Life, two powerful presences confronted the group, and Cao Kun shielded his companions and released his own overwhelming presence.

• Cao Kun told Zhao Wuji and Flender to take the other students through the nearby forest and seek help by calling “Mount Buzhou” if they encountered danger.
• Cao Kun revealed that Mount Buzhou’s elders had been guarding the group from the shadows, including during the Titan Giant Ape encounter and Zhao Wuji’s breakthrough.
• Cao Kun traveled deeper into the forest with Dugu Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu on Dazhuang’s back.
• The group reached the Lake of Life, where Cao Kun’s system prompted him to check in at the special location.
• Two immense presences surged from the lake and threatened the group, but Cao Kun shielded his companions and countered them with his own domineering presence.

Cao Kun confronted the Star Dou Great Forest’s guardians, and Da Ming’s greeting exposed Xiao Wu as a powerful soul beast who had taken human form. After Da Ming and Er Ming attacked, Cao Kun overwhelmed them with his Chaos Bell Martial Soul, leaving Xiao Wu begging him to spare them.

• Cao Kun’s aura overcame the pressures in the lake, and Da Ming and Er Ming appeared before him.
• Da Ming greeted Xiao Wu as his sister, revealing her identity to Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Da Ming and Er Ming suspected Cao Kun had harmed Xiao Wu and prepared to attack him.
• Cao Kun summoned the Chaos Bell Martial Soul and used its pressure to force Da Ming and Er Ming to the ground.
• Xiao Wu knelt before Cao Kun and pleaded with him to spare Da Ming and Er Ming.

Cao Kun forced the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape to submit as guardian beasts of Mount Buzhou, binding them with Soul Seals and promising them a path to greater cultivation. He then gave them the Primordial Chaos Scripture, leaving the two beasts astonished by the sect’s cultivation art.

• Cao Kun told the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape to submit as Mount Buzhou’s guardian beasts or face the consequences, and they agreed.
• Cao Kun placed subsidiary marks of the Indestructible Heart Bell on the two beasts and named them Sky Azure and Titan.
• Cao Kun spared Xiao Wu and ordered Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing to keep what happened at the Lake of Life secret.
• Cao Kun gave Sky Azure and Titan the Primordial Chaos Scripture and explained that its ten levels could lead to the Demigod Realm.

Cao Kun taught the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape the Primordial Chaos Scripture, helping them begin refining their power and giving them hope of breaking through their hundred-thousand-year bottleneck. After ordering Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing to keep the day's secrets, he signed in at the Core Lake and obtained his fifth Character Summoning Card.

• Cao Kun guided the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape through the first five stages of the Primordial Chaos Scripture, purifying and condensing their power.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python felt its bottleneck loosen and believed it could reach the two-hundred-thousand-year threshold within ten years, while the Titan Giant Ape felt its power and clarity improve.
• Cao Kun told the two Soul Beasts to cultivate at the Lake of Life and conceal their connection to Mount Buzhou and the scripture.
• Cao Kun ordered Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing to keep what they had witnessed secret, and both women swore to obey.
• Cao Kun signed in at the Core Lake of the Star Dou Great Forest and received his fifth Character Summoning Card.

Cao Kun used a Character Summoning Card and summoned Kaido, whose power was converted to the level of a Level 99 Limit Douluo. He brought Kaido to Mount Buzhou and appointed him its Azure Dragon Divine General.

• Cao Kun sealed off a deserted forest and used the Character Summoning Card, summoning Kaido from One Piece.
• Kaido recognized Cao Kun as his master and knelt before him, while Cao Kun sensed his converted power and Azure Dragon Martial Soul.
• Cao Kun explained that Kaido was in the Douluo Continent and brought him into the Mount Buzhou Divine Artifact to meet his colleagues.
• Kaido recognized Akainu, Aokiji, and Kizaru and challenged them to fight, but Cao Kun ordered them to set aside their old grudges and work together.
• Cao Kun appointed Kaido one of Mount Buzhou's Four Divine Generals, tasked him with guarding the east and leading campaigns, and gave him the title Azure Dragon Divine General.

Cao Kun returned from the Divine Artifact Space after appointing Kaido as an Azure Dragon Divine General, then left the Lake of Life as Di Tian secretly watched him. In the forest’s inner reaches, Di Tian tested Cao Kun by controlling a Nine Nether Thunder Snake, but a young man suddenly appeared between them.

• Cao Kun assigned Kaido the title of Azure Dragon Divine General and left Akainu, Aokiji, Kizaru, and Zhi Shui to explain his duties.
• Cao Kun returned to the Lake of Life, where Dugu Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, the Sky Azure Bull Python, and the Titan Giant Ape had been cultivating.
• Cao Kun sensed Di Tian probing the area and left the Lake of Life with the three women and Dazhuang.
• The group entered the inner reaches of the Star Dou Great Forest, where a ninety-thousand-year Nine Nether Thunder Snake attacked Cao Kun.
• Cao Kun sensed Di Tian’s will inside the snake, and a young man in dark-blue clothes appeared between Cao Kun and the attacker.

Cao Kun’s group encountered a Nine Nether Thunder Snake, which Shisui subdued with his Sharingan before Cao Kun stored it for later use. The next day, they met Qian Renxue disguised as Xue Qinghe in the Star Dou Great Forest as she sought her sixth soul ring.

• Shisui appeared beside Cao Kun and immobilized the attacking Nine Nether Thunder Snake with Tsukuyomi.
• Shisui tried to probe the wisp of Di Tian’s will, but it self-destructed before he could seize its memories.
• Cao Kun stored the controlled Nine Nether Thunder Snake in the Mount Buzhou Divine Artifact Space and continued onward with Dugu Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu.
• One day later, Cao Kun’s group walked through the Star Dou Great Forest’s border area to meet Zhao Wuji and the others.
• Cao Kun recognized the disguised Qian Renxue, who was traveling with two Titled Douluos to obtain her sixth soul ring.