Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Li Qiu wakes from a twelve-year haze at Shrek Academy, realizing he has spent years being exploited as a weak healer and errand boy. He has not even reached Soul Power level twenty.
• A system appears, granting him an evolved First Martial Soul and a Second Martial Soul called Demon Armor, as well as a cross-time chat group. The group can currently send items across time and will unlock more features as its activity grows.
• Li Qiu treats Dai Mubai’s injury and suppresses Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire, then retreats to his dorm, exhausted. Now clearheaded, he decides to endure Shrek’s mistreatment until he becomes strong enough to retaliate.
• He invites a random person into the chat group and is connected with Bibi Dong, who identifies herself as Spirit Hall’s newly appointed Saintess.
• Li Qiu infers that she is the young Bibi Dong from more than thirty years in his past. Curious and skeptical, she asks him to prove the group’s claim by telling her about her era. He guesses that she is about fourteen.

Character developments

• Li Qiu shifts from a confused, passive victim into a lucid and resentful schemer. His new system gives him hope of gaining strength and changing his situation.
• Young Bibi Dong is introduced as curious, intelligent, and isolated by her demanding cultivation life. The chat group intrigues her, though she remains unsure whether Li Qiu is supernatural or simply using an extraordinary tool.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun continue to treat Li Qiu as a subordinate, accepting his healing without much regard for him.

Character interactions

• Li Qiu respectfully heals Dai Mubai first, prompting Ma Hongjun’s irritation; he then uses his Ice-Blue Bead to calm Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire.
• After the others leave, Li Qiu privately resolves not to remain their powerless servant forever.
• Li Qiu and Bibi Dong begin a cross-time conversation. He explains the group, while she tests his claims by asking for knowledge of her past.

Significant themes

• Power and exploitation: Li Qiu’s healing ability has made him useful to Shrek but has not earned him respect.
• Revenge and self-determination: Once mentally clear, Li Qiu plans to build strength rather than accept mistreatment indefinitely.
• Time, fate, and connection: The chat group links people separated by decades, potentially allowing them to influence one another’s lives.

Key plot points and events

• Li Qiu correctly identifies that the person he is chatting with is fourteen-year-old Bibi Dong, a Spirit Hall Saintess preparing for the Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament.
• He tells her he is twelve, level eighteen, and being kept at a questionable academy where he is forced to treat others’ injuries and suppress their Evil Fire without pay.
• Hoping to gain help, Li Qiu emphasizes his hardship. Bibi Dong sympathizes and offers to send him supplies through the group chat’s cross-time-and-space transfer.
• Bibi Dong sends him a thousand Gold Soul Coins, medicinal herbs, and Soul Beast meat. She advises him to soak one jin of herbs in warm water daily and cautions him to eat only half a jin of meat per day until his body adjusts.
• After eating the meat, Li Qiu feels his body and Soul Power strengthen.
• He tests his evolved Ice-Wood Pearl and discovers that he can enter a hidden Five-Element Space. The system identifies it as the Five Elements Pearl: its space can conceal him even from a Peerless Douluo, and it can absorb medicinal herbs, process their properties ten percent more effectively, and do so twice as fast.

Character developments

• Li Qiu is resourceful and openly shameless when pursuing aid, using his miserable circumstances to encourage Bibi Dong’s generosity. He also explores his evolving Martial Soul’s abilities.
• Young Bibi Dong is curious, compassionate, and generous. Despite only just meeting Li Qiu, she readily shares valuable resources and gives careful guidance about using them safely.

Significant themes

• Kindness and trust: Bibi Dong responds to Li Qiu’s predicament with sincere generosity.
• Power gained through opportunity: Resources from another time and the Five Elements Pearl’s abilities offer Li Qiu new ways to grow stronger.
• Exploitation and injustice: Li Qiu’s unpaid labor and restricted freedom contrast with the support he receives from Bibi Dong.

Character interactions

• Li Qiu probes Bibi Dong about her age and circumstances, then describes his own hardship to win her sympathy.
• Bibi Dong asks what a “scam compound” is, showing her unfamiliarity with Li Qiu’s slang, and later asks how the cross-time transfer works.
• Their friendly exchange quickly becomes supportive: Bibi Dong sends supplies and offers practical advice, while Li Qiu thanks her and jokingly asks her to keep supporting him.

Key plot points and events

• Li Qiu learns that his evolved Martial Soul can save his life and improve Spirit Medicine’s effects. He stores the medicine in his Five-Element Space, where it can be absorbed automatically.
• In the Past and Present Chat Group, young Bibi Dong offers to destroy the academy that mistreats Li Qiu. He explains that it is a fraudulent, poorly run school and vows to stay and ruin its reputation in revenge.
• Li Qiu tells Bibi Dong about Yu Xiaogang’s weak talent, mutated Martial Soul, and poor Soul Skills. Bibi Dong, who already knows of Yu Xiaogang as a young sect master, is shocked by how little he achieves despite his clan’s support.
• Li Qiu asks Bibi Dong for her Meditation Method, claiming loyalty to the Angel God and flattering her. She agrees to teach it, but warns him not to share it.
• After meditating with the new method, Li Qiu rises from level eighteen to nineteen. His Five Elements Pearl has also turned some of the Spirit Medicine’s remaining power into a pill that can raise Soul Power by half a level. He decides to save it for Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong later messages him that her stern teacher is nearby and will not let her make friends. She asks whether they are friends; Li Qiu assures her they are.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Qiu becomes more confident in his new abilities and remains determined to retaliate against the academy. He also uses humor and flattery to obtain Bibi Dong’s Meditation Method, while showing gratitude by reserving the pill for her.
• Young Bibi Dong displays compassion toward Li Qiu and growing curiosity about the future. Isolated in Spirit Hall, she values their new friendship and confides in him about her restrictive teacher.
• Their relationship shifts from exchanging information and resources to a genuine emotional connection: Bibi Dong offers help and trust, while Li Qiu comforts her and promises loyalty.

Significant themes

• Friendship across time: The chat group gives Bibi Dong companionship and a view of a world beyond her sheltered life.
• Loyalty and manipulation: Li Qiu’s professions of devotion to the Angel God are partly a calculated way to gain a valuable technique.
• Ambition and revenge: He intends to turn the academy’s own desire for fame into lasting disgrace.
• Talent versus persistence and resources: Yu Xiaogang’s story prompts Bibi Dong to question how his upbringing and stubbornness shaped his disappointing progress.

Key plot points and events

• Li Qiu tells young Bibi Dong that they are friends and sends her a pill made from the spirit medicine she supplied. It raises her Soul Power by half a level, impressing her.
• Bibi Dong offers a steady supply of medicine and Gold Soul Coins in exchange for regular pills. Li Qiu warns that repeated use could reduce their effect, then jokingly asks her to call him “Daddy” or “Big Brother.” She refuses, and the exchange ends without a deal.
• In the mountains behind Shrek, Li Qiu tests his evolved Five Elements Pearl. Its fire attack blasts a crater into rock; its wood form heals more effectively, its water form produces stronger ice, its metal form can be thrown as a growing projectile, and its earth form lets him travel underground.
• He summons the Demon Armor and discovers that it greatly boosts his physical abilities. A punch snaps a large tree.
• Ma Hongjun wanders into the area, and Li Qiu, eager to test the armor in a fight, punches him in the face and sends him crashing into a tree.

Character developments

• Li Qiu is pleased by Bibi Dong’s friendship and generosity, but their conversation shows his playful, provocative side. His tests also reveal growing confidence in his newly enhanced powers.
• Young Bibi Dong is delighted to gain a friend and genuinely trusts Li Qiu enough to take his pill. Her interest in rapid cultivation leads her to propose a practical partnership, though she draws a firm line at calling him “Daddy” or “Big Brother.”
• Ma Hongjun appears casually and carefree, but the chapter ends with him abruptly caught in Li Qiu’s impromptu test.

Significant themes

• Friendship and trust: Bibi Dong values Li Qiu’s friendship and accepts his gift despite initial doubts.
• Mutual benefit and cultivation: Both characters see a potential exchange in which medicine, pill-making, and training help them grow stronger.
• Power and experimentation: Li Qiu explores the expanded abilities of his Martial Souls and immediately puts the armor’s strength to use.
• Humor and teasing: Li Qiu’s requests for an affectionate title undercut the otherwise serious discussion of cultivation.

Character interactions

• Li Qiu and Bibi Dong exchange a gift and negotiate a possible pill-making arrangement, mixing sincere goodwill with teasing.
• Li Qiu’s encounter with Ma Hongjun is one-sided at first: Ma Hongjun is unaware of the danger when Li Qiu ambushes him to test the Demon Armor.

Key plot points and events

• Li Qiu, still angry over Ma Hongjun’s earlier bullying, disguises himself in demonic armor and ambushes him on the hill behind Shrek Academy. Ma’s Phoenix fire has no effect, and Li Qiu brutally beats him, breaking his arm before escaping unseen.
• Ma returns to the academy badly injured and claims an armored, flame-covered attacker assaulted him. Zhao Wuji sets off to investigate.
• When Ma demands Li Qiu heal him, Li Qiu pretends to be ill and makes him wait. Oscar gives them both Recovery Sausages; Li Qiu then uses his Five Elements Pearl’s Wood Attribute to heal Ma, though he leaves the treatment incomplete.
• Dai Mubai and Oscar notice that Li Qiu’s power and healing have improved; they estimate he has reached level nineteen.
• In the group chat, Bibi Dong tells Li Qiu she has arranged to send him three hundred jin of Spirit Medicine. He persuades her to call him “big brother” and explains that chatting raises the group’s activity level, which can unlock new features.

Character developments

• Li Qiu acts on his resentment, showing greater confidence and aggression than before. He keeps his identity as Ma’s attacker secret, enjoys the revenge, and uses his healing abilities selectively.
• Ma Hongjun is humbled and helpless after being thoroughly beaten. His usual bravado turns to pain and anger, and Dai Mubai’s teasing deepens his humiliation.
• Dai Mubai and Oscar are amused by Ma’s misfortune and welcome Li Qiu’s new boldness. They also recognize his growing strength.
• Bibi Dong is reluctant but cooperative with Li Qiu, agreeing to call him “big brother” and asking about the group’s unfamiliar features.

Significant themes

• Revenge and resentment: Li Qiu’s attack is driven by anger over Ma’s past treatment of him.
• Power and confidence: Li Qiu’s improved abilities change how he behaves and how his peers perceive him.
• Concealment and deception: He hides his identity, while Ma’s story leaves the others unaware of who attacked him.
• Humiliation and camaraderie: Ma is mocked by his friends, while their banter reflects Shrek’s rough, irreverent culture.

Character interactions

• Li Qiu and Ma have a one-sided confrontation: Ma’s attacks fail, and Li Qiu dominates him before secretly healing only part of his injuries.
• Dai Mubai and Oscar joke about Ma’s defeat and praise Li Qiu’s newfound nerve.
• Zhao Wuji responds protectively to Ma’s report by going after the unknown attacker.
• Li Qiu playfully pressures Bibi Dong in the group chat, while she responds with reluctant compliance and curiosity.

Plot points and events

• After sending Li Qiu 300 jin of spirit medicine, the young Bibi Dong goes to bed. The next morning, Li Qiu takes a pill made from the medicine and reaches Soul Power level 20.
• During Shrek’s morning run, Zhao Wuji announces that student recruitment begins at nine, with him as chief examiner and Dai Mubai as deputy. Ma Hongjun’s still-healing hand is injured again, prompting him to accuse Dai Mubai before Dai explains that an armored Soul Master broke it the previous day.
• The chat group reaches its first activity milestone and grants Li Qiu a draw. He chooses the Copy Soul Skill, which lets him copy another person’s Soul Skill up to five times daily, with each copy limited to the strength of a two-thousand-year Soul Ring. The reward also raises him to level 24.
• Li Qiu tells Bibi Dong about his rapid advancement and the group’s reward system. She is astonished that he has obtained a two-thousand-year Second Soul Ring—far beyond what she could safely absorb.
• Bibi Dong asks how to strengthen her body and increase the age of the Soul Rings she can absorb. Li Qiu teases her by demanding favors in exchange for advice, then asks whether she knows about “whale rubber”; she does not.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Qiu grows rapidly through the spirit medicine and group rewards, becoming more confident as he reveals what the chat group can offer. His playful, flirtatious bargaining with Bibi Dong continues.
• Bibi Dong is disciplined and isolated by her training, but increasingly curious about the group’s possibilities. She is excited by the prospect of a future draw and agrees to owe Li Qiu five favors for his promised advice.
• Dai Mubai acts self-important as Shrek’s strongest current student and deputy examiner. His rough treatment of Ma Hongjun leads to an accusation, which he angrily rejects.
• Ma Hongjun remains physically vulnerable after his earlier injury and suffers a painful setback. Zhao Wuji sympathizes with his bad luck.

Significant themes

• Power and rapid advancement: Pills and supernatural rewards let Li Qiu progress far faster than ordinary cultivation allows.
• Connection across time and distance: The chat group gives Bibi Dong companionship and access to opportunities she could not otherwise reach.
• Ambition and discipline: Bibi Dong’s demanding training reflects the expectations placed on her, while Li Qiu’s new abilities open a different path to strength.

Plot points and events

• Li Qiu tells young Bibi Dong that purified Whale Rubber can strengthen the body, with milder side effects; small daily amounts and Cold Sky Grass can help manage any reaction.
• Bibi Dong orders both thousand-year and ten-thousand-year Whale Rubber and asks Elder Lion to purify it. Lion spends half an hour and considerable Soul Power removing its impurities.
• Bibi Dong asks Lion to keep the matter secret from her teacher. She offers to pay him, but he refuses and leaves without receiving anything.
• After Li Qiu advises her to start with a little, Bibi Dong eats some. It only leaves her pleasantly warm, and she feels its gradual strengthening effect.
• Meanwhile, Ma Hongjun has broken his hand again. Li Qiu and Oscar flee before he can demand a healing sausage; Zhao Wuji tells him to catch up, and Ma Hongjun chases them despite the pain.

Character developments

• Bibi Dong is curious, trusting of Li Qiu’s advice, and eager to improve her strength. Her innocent misunderstanding about what might make a suitable gift for Lion highlights her youth and inexperience.
• Elder Lion is dutiful and protective of Bibi Dong’s privacy. He misunderstands why she wants the Whale Rubber, then appreciates her respectful manner—though he leaves empty-handed.
• Li Qiu acts as Bibi Dong’s knowledgeable guide, while avoiding Ma Hongjun’s anger.
• Ma Hongjun is injured, furious, and increasingly desperate to catch Li Qiu and Oscar.

Significant themes

• Trust and guidance: Bibi Dong relies on Li Qiu’s knowledge and finds his advice reliable.
• Innocence and misunderstanding: Bibi Dong’s unfamiliarity with Whale Rubber’s reputation and with gift-giving creates comic confusion.
• Gradual self-improvement: The Whale Rubber’s effects are subtle but accumulate over time.
• Comedic contrast: Bibi Dong’s careful experiment and Lion’s misinterpretation contrast with Ma Hongjun’s chaotic, painful pursuit.

Character interactions

• Bibi Dong treats Lion courteously and asks for secrecy; he agrees and helps her without charge.
• Li Qiu advises Bibi Dong on using the Whale Rubber and on choosing a more meaningful gift for Lion.
• Zhao Wuji teases Ma Hongjun about having offended Li Qiu and Oscar, while Ma Hongjun curses and pursues them.

Plot points and events

• Oscar and Li Qiu deliberately provoke Ma Hongjun during a chase. Ma is left injured and foaming at the mouth, so Zhao Wuji orders Oscar to give him a sausage and Li Qiu to heal him.
• After breakfast, Shrek begins testing new applicants. Flender’s exaggerated claims about the academy draw a large crowd, but most applicants are rejected and leave angry about losing their fees.
• Li Qiu recognizes several applicants, including Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing. Dai Mubai is visibly captivated by Zhu Zhuqing.
• Bibi Dong travels with Qian Xunji and two elders to Heaven Dou City for an early competition between the younger generation of the Upper Three Sects.
• In their messages, Bibi Dong asks about Qian Xunji’s future. Li Qiu tells her that Qian Xunji will die—and that his death has something to do with her. He postpones explaining until she is alone, concerned that she might react badly in the carriage.
• At Shrek, Dai Mubai makes a crude remark about Zhu Zhuqing. Li Qiu cuts him off, then introduces himself to Tang San and Xiao Wu and asks whether they know Dai Mubai. Xiao Wu starts bringing up Dai’s behavior with the twins, and Dai angrily orders her to stop.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Qiu enjoys teasing Ma Hongjun and meddling in the relationships he expects the Shrek boys to form. He is also increasingly candid with Bibi Dong, though cautious about revealing painful information.
• Bibi Dong appears confident while preparing to face stronger competitors, but the revelation about Qian Xunji deeply unsettles her. She insists on learning the truth, despite Li Qiu’s warning.
• Dai Mubai shows strong interest in Zhu Zhuqing, reacts possessively when Li Qiu criticizes his comments, and becomes defensive when Xiao Wu brings up his encounter with the twins.
• Xiao Wu openly challenges Dai Mubai’s behavior, while Li Qiu uses the exchange to provoke him.
• Zhao Wuji manages the students’ troublemaking with weary practicality, ensuring Ma Hongjun is fed and healed rather than seriously harmed.

Significant themes

• Foreknowledge and responsibility: Bibi Dong’s knowledge of Qian Xunji’s future death may change how she acts toward him—and alter the future.
• Manipulation and romantic interference: Li Qiu plans to disrupt the Shrek boys’ expected relationships, while Dai Mubai’s possessiveness foreshadows conflict.
• Youthful mischief and consequences: The students’ pranks and provocations are tolerated, but they still require adults to intervene before things go too far.

Key plot points and events

• Dai Mubai angrily confronts Xiao Wu after she calls him out for visiting a brothel with two twins and fighting Tang San over a room. Tang San confirms her story; Oscar prevents Dai Mubai from starting another fight.
• Li Qiu introduces himself to Zhu Zhuqing and warns her that Dai Mubai—and Ma Hongjun—are notorious womanizers. Zhu Zhuqing is shocked but resolves to become stronger for her own sake, now that she has escaped the Star Luo Empire.
• Dai Mubai tells examiner Zhao Wuji that the new students are arrogant. Excited by the challenge, Zhao Wuji invites four of them to attack him together. Li Qiu reassures Zhu Zhuqing that she will pass even if she loses, since the academy needs talented students.
• Oscar becomes infatuated with Ning Rongrong at first sight. She dismisses him as scruffy and unattractive, prompting him to decide to shave.
• In the group chat, Li Qiu tells the young Bibi Dong that, in the future, she killed her teacher, Qian Xunji. He explains that she would meet Yu Xiaogang while lonely, fall deeply in love with him, and try to leave Spirit Hall with him. Qian Xunji would then place her under house arrest.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Wu boldly needles Dai Mubai, while Tang San backs her up despite being uncomfortable with the confrontation.
• Dai Mubai is humiliated and hostile, and resents Li Qiu’s closeness with Zhu Zhuqing.
• Zhu Zhuqing begins to detach herself from Dai Mubai and her past, focusing instead on her own freedom and strength.
• Ning Rongrong reacts with disgust to Oscar’s staring; Oscar mistakes his instant attraction for love and vows to improve his appearance.
• Young Bibi Dong is stunned by Li Qiu’s account of her possible future. She doubts she could love Yu Xiaogang, but begins to consider how loneliness and manipulation might have made it plausible.

Significant themes

• Personal freedom and self-determination: Zhu Zhuqing wants strength for herself, not to follow Dai Mubai.
• Loneliness and manipulation: Li Qiu suggests Bibi Dong’s isolation could make her vulnerable to Yu Xiaogang’s attention and lies.
• Reputation and first impressions: Dai Mubai’s lechery and Oscar’s appearance shape how others judge them.
• Foreknowledge and fate: The group chat gives Bibi Dong a chance to reconsider—and potentially alter—the future Li Qiu describes.

Plot points and events

• Young Bibi Dong learns from Li Qiu’s messages that, in one possible future, she falls for Yu Xiaogang, takes him to Spirit Hall’s library, and becomes trapped when Qian Xunji discovers their relationship. Yu Xiaogang eventually leaves without trying to find or rescue her.
• Li Qiu says Qian Xunji later confines Bibi Dong in a secret chamber and assaults her, hoping she will bear a gifted child with the potential to become a god. Bibi Dong suspects this abuse helps drive her to kill him, but learns she strikes only when he is already gravely wounded and near death—and is not executed afterward.
• Shaken, Bibi Dong resolves to change her future, starting with her feelings toward Yu Xiaogang and her relationship with Qian Xunji. She thanks Li Qiu, though she rejects his teasing request to call him “Daddy.”
• At Shrek Academy, Zhao Wuji sets Tang San and three other new students a trial: they must withstand his attacks for the time it takes an incense stick to burn. Dai Mubai explains Zhao Wuji’s strength and abilities.
• Oscar tries to take Li Qiu’s KFC without paying. Li Qiu elbows him in the armpit, surprising Oscar, who complains to Dai Mubai.

Character developments and interactions

• Bibi Dong moves from disbelief and anger to fear and grim resolve as she confronts the possibility of betrayal and abuse in her future. She recognizes that her past choices could be changed.
• Li Qiu is blunt and provocative with Bibi Dong, but shares information that may help her avoid tragedy. At Shrek, he is newly assertive with Oscar and refuses to be bullied.
• Oscar expects Li Qiu to yield as he usually does, but is startled when Li Qiu fights back.
• Dai Mubai explains the trial to the newcomers and listens to Oscar’s complaint; Zhao Wuji confidently imposes the test.

Significant themes

• Foreknowledge and agency: Bibi Dong can use knowledge of a possible future to make different choices.
• Love and disillusionment: Her imagined romance with Yu Xiaogang is exposed as one-sided and potentially disastrous.
• Abuse of authority and betrayal: Qian Xunji’s apparent kindness is recast as concealment for exploitation.
• Changing power dynamics: Li Qiu’s refusal to accept Oscar’s bullying signals a shift in their relationship.

Key plot points and events

• At Shrek Academy, Dai Mubai confronts Li Qiu for speaking to Zhu Zhuqing. Li Qiu says he only introduced himself and complimented her, while Oscar teases that Dai Mubai is jealous and warns Li Qiu to stay away.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu plan to face Zhao Wuji’s fourth-round test. Zhu Zhuqing says she and Ning Rongrong have already passed the earlier rounds and can skip it. Ning Rongrong follows suit, leaving Tang San and Xiao Wu to decide whether to fight alone.
• Zhao Wuji offers all four a choice: withdraw from the test and join Shrek, or spar with him. Xiao Wu and Tang San also withdraw, and Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and the others are admitted to the academy. Dai Mubai is frustrated that his hoped-for punishment of Tang San and Xiao Wu never happens.
• Young Bibi Dong, frightened by what she has learned about Qian Xunji’s future intentions, asks her mysterious chat group whether she should leave Spirit Hall. “A Leaf Knows Autumn” advises her to act normally for now and wait for a chance to escape while traveling. Bibi Dong resolves to calm herself and face her teacher.
• Bibi Dong accompanies Qian Xunji and two Elders to Heaven Dou City for the Upper Three Sects’ competition. She notices the young Yu Xiaogang among the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s delegation and judges him weak, though evidently treated well by his family.
• Qian Xunji arrives at the competition and announces that Bibi Dong, at fourteen, will spar against two members of the younger generation. The sect leaders are astonished when they sense that she is already at level forty-nine.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Qiu remains cheeky and unbothered by Dai Mubai’s threats, despite agreeing to stay away from Zhu Zhuqing.
• Dai Mubai is possessive and jealous over Zhu Zhuqing, and resentful toward Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing show little interest in Zhao Wuji’s test and confidently rely on their exemption.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu initially prepare to fight together, then sensibly accept the chance to avoid a pointless battle against a Soul Saint.
• Bibi Dong struggles to reconcile Qian Xunji’s present kindness with her fear of his future abuse. She follows the chat group’s advice and maintains a respectful outward manner while concealing her anxiety.
• Qian Xunji uses Bibi Dong’s match to showcase her strength before the sects, while her extraordinary level surprises the assembled leaders.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Bibi Dong’s immense talent contrasts with her lack of safety under Qian Xunji’s authority.
• Appearance versus hidden motives: Qian Xunji treats Bibi Dong well in the present, but she fears what he will eventually do; Dai Mubai’s attempt to appear impressive also masks jealousy.
• Pragmatism and choice: The Shrek applicants avoid a dangerous test when Zhao Wuji gives them an alternative.
• Talent and status: Bibi Dong’s level makes her a political and martial spectacle before the powerful sects.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Young Bibi Dong reaches level 49 and takes part in a contest against young fighters from the Upper Three Sects.
• She defeats several challengers with ease: two are beaten in single blows, then Clear Sky Sect prodigy Tang Wei, a level-46 Soul Ancestor, is stopped by her Death Spider Blades. Her decisive victories silence the arena and leave the sect leaders humiliated.
• After the Spirit Hall group leaves, Bibi Dong chats with A Leaf Knows Autumn by a river. When young Yu Xiaogang approaches to praise her, she kicks him into the water and mocks him. Elder Lion rescues him before he can drown.
• Elsewhere, Li Qiu guides Zhu Zhuqing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong to their dormitories. Dai Mubai, resentful of Li Qiu’s attention to Zhu Zhuqing, privately resolves to teach him a lesson.

Character developments

• Bibi Dong displays not only remarkable strength but a newly bold, self-directed streak. She enjoys acting on her own feelings rather than constantly worrying about others.
• Qian Xunji is proud of Bibi Dong’s performance but unsettled by her sudden irreverence toward Yu Xiaogang; he considers disciplining her.
• Yu Xiaogang is introduced as a short-haired young man who admires Bibi Dong, only to be abruptly humiliated.
• Dai Mubai grows more jealous and hostile toward Li Qiu, escalating from resentment to thoughts of retaliation.
• Li Qiu is amused by Bibi Dong’s transformation but wonders whether changes to the past may affect the future.

Significant themes

• Power and reputation: Bibi Dong’s victories overturn the Upper Three Sects’ confidence and showcase Spirit Hall’s strength.
• Self-assertion and change: Bibi Dong’s newfound willingness to act for herself marks a sharp break from her formerly cautious, courteous behavior.
• Humiliation and rivalry: The contest embarrasses the sect leaders, while personal jealousy begins to drive Dai Mubai toward conflict.
• Consequences of changing the past: Li Qiu’s concern hints that Bibi Dong’s altered behavior may have wider effects.

Character interactions

• Bibi Dong’s effortless defeats provoke astonishment from the challengers, sect leaders, and Spirit Hall elders; Qian Xunji and the elders take pride in her.
• Her playful exchange with A Leaf Knows Autumn reveals her enjoyment of both the victories and her newfound rebelliousness.
• Yu Xiaogang’s admiration is met with Bibi Dong’s dismissive kick, prompting Elder Lion to intervene and rescue him.
• Dai Mubai watches Li Qiu assist Zhu Zhuqing and interprets it as a challenge, setting up possible confrontation.

Key plot points and events

• Seven days pass, and the chat group reaches Level 2, unlocking a second member slot and a photo feature.
• Bibi Dong wins an activity reward and draws Shrinking Earth to an Inch, a movement technique that lets her cross great distances in a few steps.
• Li Qiu receives two draws: a Level-Two Soul Guidance Furnace, which can manufacture Soul Tools from designs and rare metals, and the powerful Spirit Refining Art, which greatly increases spiritual power but risks making the soul and body fall out of balance if its cultivation stalls.
• Bibi Dong and Li Qiu exchange their new techniques. Li Qiu also eats Whale Rubber to strengthen his body before attempting the Spirit Refining Art.
• After they discover the new photo feature, Bibi Dong accidentally sends Li Qiu a selfie. He saves it and compliments her, embarrassing her.
• Li Qiu uses the newly unlocked invitation feature. Six-year-old Qian Renxue joins the group, introducing herself as a level-20 Soul Master with a Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul and Innate Full Soul Power. She reveals that her father is Pope Qian Xunji and her grandfather is Qian Daoliu.
• Bibi Dong recognizes the family connection and asks who Qian Renxue’s mother is, but the chapter ends before she answers.

Character developments

• Li Qiu gains tools for both Soul Tool creation and spiritual cultivation, and begins preparing physically for the risks of the Spirit Refining Art. He is pleased by the prospect of becoming stronger.
• Young Bibi Dong is eager to learn and grow. She quickly trusts Li Qiu enough to trade her prize, while her accidental selfie and his teasing reveal a more playful, vulnerable side.
• Young Qian Renxue is introduced as cheerful and curious, unlike the distant figure Li Qiu associates with her older self. Her identity immediately creates tension and intrigue for Bibi Dong.

Significant themes

• Power and its costs: The Spirit Refining Art offers extraordinary gains but carries a dangerous risk if cultivation falters.
• Cooperation and trust: Bibi Dong and Li Qiu share valuable abilities and encourage each other to become stronger.
• Connections across time: The group brings together people from different periods, creating unexpected personal and historical connections.
• Curiosity and youthful discovery: The new members’ questions, excitement, and experiments with the chat features give the chapter a playful tone.

Character interactions

• Bibi Dong and Li Qiu have built a close, frequent rapport, discussing many subjects and exchanging rewards without hesitation.
• Li Qiu playfully compliments Bibi Dong’s selfie, while she reacts with embarrassment and tries to delete it.
• Bibi Dong questions Qian Renxue about her family, and the revelation of Qian Xunji and Qian Daoliu leaves her visibly stunned.

Key events

• Young Bibi Dong realizes that the six-year-old Qian Renxue chatting in the group is likely her future daughter. Renxue explains that her mother, Bibi Dong, rejects her and makes her feel unwanted.
• Bibi Dong is shaken by the revelation but hides her identity, refusing to tell Renxue her name. Li Qiu comforts the girl and jokes that the Saintess might be called “Bibi Xi” or “Zhao Xixi.”
• Renxue stops chatting and goes to practice swordsmanship with her grandfather, Qian Daoliu. He teaches her the Qian family’s ideals of swordsmanship, and her faith in him encourages him despite his doubts about mastering its highest level.
• At the dormitory, Ning Rongrong thanks Li Qiu for warning the students about a dangerous test and rewards him with 100 Gold Soul Coins.
• Oscar and Ma Hongjun try to take Li Qiu’s money by force. Li Qiu effortlessly evades Ma Hongjun, then blasts him out of the dormitory with a powerful fireball and slaps Oscar outside as well. Dai Mubai arrives and is stunned by Li Qiu’s sudden strength.

Character developments and interactions

• Bibi Dong is confronted with the possibility that Renxue is her daughter, but her shock and resistance keep her from reaching out.
• Qian Renxue appears affectionate and vulnerable, yet shows maturity by accepting that she cannot force her mother to love her. She turns her hurt into motivation to train.
• Qian Daoliu patiently guides Renxue and is buoyed by her confidence in him.
• Li Qiu shifts from being treated as weak to displaying overwhelming power, surprising the other students. His playful rapport with the group contrasts with his decisive response to bullying.
• Ning Rongrong shows generosity and loyalty toward Li Qiu; Oscar and Ma Hongjun reveal their greed and willingness to exploit him.

Significant themes

• Family and rejection: Renxue longs for her mother’s affection, while Bibi Dong struggles to face their future connection.
• Resilience and growth: Renxue responds to pain by training, and Li Qiu’s unexpected power marks a dramatic change in how others see him.
• Power and bullying: Oscar and Ma Hongjun assume they can prey on Li Qiu, only to discover that their old expectations no longer hold.

Key plot points and events

• Li Qiu defeats Ma Hongjun and Oscar after they try to take the Gold Soul Coins Ning Rongrong gave him. Dai Mubai learns that Li Qiu is now level 26 and that his Ice-Wood Pearl has mutated into a Five Elements Pearl with five attributes.
• Zhao Wuji, impressed by Li Qiu’s strength and mutation, promises to tell Dean Flender and seek benefits for him. Flender is stunned to hear how dramatically Li Qiu has changed.
• In the group chat, Little Qian Renxue asks how to become stronger. Li Qiu offers her the Spirit Refining Art in exchange for Gold Soul Coins and Spirit Medicine, while Bibi Dong gives her Shrink Earth to an Inch.
• Li Qiu jokingly asks Qian Renxue for a picture of the Angel Holy Sword and suggests she take it out. She says she cannot because her grandfather guards it, but might steal it someday. Bibi Dong warns that the divine weapon is dangerous.
• Qian Renxue begins practicing her new techniques. Li Qiu, pleased with his payment, plans to use a Soul-Guide Furnace to build a flashy Soul-Guide car.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Qiu’s newfound strength transforms how others treat him: Ma Hongjun and Oscar quickly apologize and return some of the money they took, while Zhao Wuji becomes supportive. Li Qiu keeps his advancement and Soul Ring acquisition secret.
• Ning Rongrong’s respect for Li Qiu grows, and Zhu Zhuqing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu acknowledge his skill.
• Dai Mubai remains hostile beneath his praise, viewing Li Qiu’s confidence as a challenge and intending to make him suffer.
• Little Qian Renxue is eager to prove herself to her mother and responds warmly to Li Qiu and Bibi Dong’s generosity.

Significant themes

• Strength changes social standing: Former bullies become conciliatory once Li Qiu demonstrates power.
• Secrecy and self-interest: Li Qiu shares selective information while protecting the details of his rapid growth.
• Ambition and mentorship: Qian Renxue’s desire to prove herself is encouraged through powerful training gifts.
• Power carries risk: The Angel Holy Sword is presented as a dangerous divine artifact, prompting caution even amid playful scheming.

Key plot points and events

• Zhao Wuji and Li Yusong question Li Qiu about his unusually powerful second Soul Ring. After Flender refuses to pay him, the two teachers pool sixty Gold Soul Coins—payment for Li Qiu’s help treating Ma Hongjun—and give them to him.
• Pressed to show his Soul Rings, Li Qiu reveals a yellow first ring and a second ring with the strength of a roughly two-thousand-year Soul Ring. Zhao Wuji and Li Yusong are astonished, but Li Qiu keeps the method a secret.
• In a group chat, young Bibi Dong says she has reached level fifty and wants to secretly hunt a fifth Soul Ring without Qian Xunji finding out. Elder Lion initially refuses to take her without the Pope’s permission.
• Following Li Qiu’s advice to appeal to Elder Lion’s ambition, Bibi Dong promises to make him a Worship Elder when she becomes Pope. He agrees to sneak out with her that night to hunt an eighteen-thousand-year Poison Spider.
• Bibi Dong worries that her recent distance from Qian Xunji may arouse suspicion. Little Qian Renxue tries to identify the mysterious Saintess, reasoning from similarities between her and Bibi Dong, but receives only a teasing reply.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Qiu remains secretive about his extraordinary Soul Ring and resourceful in finding ways to profit. He considers whether the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s Immortal Herbs could be claimed by different people at different times.
• Zhao Wuji and Li Yusong show practical concern for Li Qiu by paying him from their own pockets, while Zhao Wuji also offers to help secure resources.
• Bibi Dong is ambitious and increasingly independent, willing to deceive her teacher to obtain her next Soul Ring. She can also be persuasive, using a promise of future rank to win Elder Lion over.
• Elder Lion is cautious about disobeying the Pope but ultimately yields to Bibi Dong’s appeal.
• Little Qian Renxue displays curiosity and affection for her grandfather, proudly calling him the best. Her attempt to uncover Bibi Dong’s identity highlights her sharpness and playful persistence.

Significant themes

• Secrets and deception: Li Qiu hides the source of his power, while Bibi Dong plans a secret expedition and conceals her progress from Qian Xunji.
• Ambition and influence: Bibi Dong uses her future authority to persuade Elder Lion; Li Qiu considers turning knowledge of the Immortal Herbs into personal gain.
• Trust and loyalty: Zhao Wuji and Li Yusong support Li Qiu materially, while Renxue’s warm devotion to her grandfather contrasts with Bibi Dong’s growing distance from her teacher.

Key plot points and events

• Young Bibi Dong follows advice from the group chat and researches the Man Faced Demon Spider, learning its strengths, ambush tactics, and vulnerable eyes. She decides it is a better target than the Poison Spider her teacher suggested.
• Qian Renxue correctly guesses that the Spirit Hall Saintess is fourteen-year-old Bibi Dong. Their conversation turns to whether Qian Renxue would exist if Bibi Dong never became involved with Qian Xunji. The group owner hints that Bibi Dong did not love him, but does not explain further.
• Qian Renxue infers that her father forced himself on her mother, feels sympathy for Bibi Dong, and apologizes—then jokingly insists on calling her “Little Mom,” despite Bibi Dong’s protests.
• At the dormitory, Li Qiu’s classmates react to his sudden rise in status after his martial-spirit mutation. They question his claim that his second Soul Ring is two thousand years old.
• Tang San dismisses the claim, relying on Yu Xiaogang’s teaching that a second Soul Ring should be only a little over seven hundred years old. Li Qiu summons his ring, and its powerful aura visibly confirms its age, shocking everyone.

Character developments and interactions

• Bibi Dong shows initiative by investigating her own Soul Beast options, while her exchange with Qian Renxue exposes the painful history behind the latter’s birth.
• Qian Renxue displays affection and growing understanding toward Bibi Dong, though she keeps teasing her.
• Li Qiu’s confidence grows as others begin treating him as a powerful talent. Oscar envies the respect Li Qiu now receives; Ma Hongjun is resentful and recognizes that Li Qiu has surpassed him. Dai Mubai is also astonished.
• Tang San’s confidence in Yu Xiaogang’s teachings is challenged when Li Qiu demonstrates a Soul Ring that contradicts the stated limit.

Significant themes

• Knowledge and questioning: Bibi Dong researches advice for herself, while Tang San’s unquestioning faith in his teacher is confronted by evidence.
• Power and changing status: Li Qiu’s mutation transforms how his peers see him, bringing envy, resentment, and respect.
• Family, coercion, and compassion: Qian Renxue begins to grasp the suffering behind her own origins and responds with sympathy for Bibi Dong.

Plot points and events

• Dai Mubai resents Li Qiu for matching his status with an older Soul Ring and looks for a chance to defeat him.
• In the group chat, young Bibi Dong sneaks out of Spirit Hall with Elder Lion and sends Li Qiu a nighttime photo of Spirit City. Li Qiu agrees to give her and Qian Renxue Soul-Guide cars in exchange for rare metals and medicine.
• Qian Renxue negotiates for a share of Li Qiu’s daily Pill, offering a large supply of steel, Black Iron, and Spirit Medicine. They settle on rotating who receives the Pill each day.
• Qian Renxue sends the materials to Li Qiu. She requests a pink-gold car, while Bibi Dong wants purple.
• Li Qiu tests his Soul-Guide Furnace by making ten level-three reconnaissance drones shaped like oversized bees. They run on mental power, can scout within an 800-meter radius, and transmit their vision.
• He then makes a level-three Laser Sword. Its blade can extend twenty meters when powered by Soul Power.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Qiu uses the group chat to build alliances and secure resources, while expanding his inventions. He enjoys the playful exchanges and is excited by the potential of drone swarms.
• Young Bibi Dong shows a mischievous, adventurous side by sneaking out of Spirit Hall with Elder Lion. She is also eager to see Li Qiu’s promised technology.
• Qian Renxue proves shrewd and resourceful, bargaining for a share of Li Qiu’s Pill in return for valuable supplies. She makes a distinctive request for a pink-gold car.
• Elder Lion helps Bibi Dong escape and is amused—or at least alert—enough to dodge her attempt to photograph him.
• Dai Mubai becomes increasingly hostile toward Li Qiu, seeing him as a rival.

Significant themes

• Technology and innovation: Li Qiu’s Soul-Guide Furnace turns modern-inspired designs into powerful tools.
• Trade and cooperation: The group members exchange scarce resources and benefits across their different timelines.
• Ambition and escalation: The drones’ scouting potential and the sword’s extraordinary reach hint at rapidly growing power.
• Playfulness amid danger: The characters’ teasing, secret outing, and unusual requests contrast with the competitive and high-stakes world around them.

Key plot points and events

• Li Qiu crafts several Soul Tools before his Level-Two Soul-Guide Furnace wears out and needs two days to recover.
• He sends Young Bibi Dong and Little Qian Renxue a reconnaissance Soul-Guide Bee and a Laser Sword.
• Bibi Dong tests the bee, which scouts up to 900 meters when guided by mental power. The Laser Sword produces a beam up to 20 meters long; she nearly hits Elder Lion, and the beam cuts through his cape.
• Elder Lion is amazed by the devices and admits he has long wanted to learn Soul Tool crafting. Bibi Dong suggests asking Li Qiu to teach him, but Li Qiu refuses to take a disciple—especially since he cannot actually teach the craft.
• Qian Renxue tests the sword as well, discovering that its beam can pierce several walls and that its length can be adjusted. Both girls praise Li Qiu’s apparent craftsmanship.
• Li Qiu playfully tries to get Bibi Dong to call him “Daddy.” Qian Renxue misunderstands his explanation that it means someone strong and dependable and calls him that herself. Bibi Dong objects, but the moment has already passed.

Character developments

• Li Qiu enjoys the admiration his Soul Tools earn, though he knows his apparent expertise comes from using the furnace rather than understanding how the devices work. He remains teasing and shameless.
• Young Bibi Dong gains respect for Li Qiu’s abilities and shares his inventions with Elder Lion, but is embarrassed when she nearly injures him and disapproves of Li Qiu fooling a child.
• Little Qian Renxue is delighted by the tools and openly admires Li Qiu, showing her trusting, affectionate nature.
• Elder Lion reveals his old interest in Soul Tools and eagerly hopes to learn from Li Qiu.

Significant themes

• Technology and ingenuity: The Soul Tools provide impressive capabilities despite their maker’s limited technical understanding.
• Admiration and mistaken expertise: Li Qiu receives credit as a master craftsman because the finished devices conceal how little he knows about their workings.
• Playful trust and teasing: The group’s friendly exchanges include praise, jokes, and Li Qiu’s attempt to exploit Qian Renxue’s innocent interpretation of “Daddy.”

Character interactions

• Bibi Dong demonstrates the tools to Elder Lion, whose amazement quickly turns into a desire to become Li Qiu’s student.
• Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue bond over testing and praising the gifts.
• Li Qiu banters with both girls, while Bibi Dong acts protectively toward Qian Renxue and ultimately ignores his final teasing message.

Key plot points and events

• Young Bibi Dong and Li Qiu continue joking in the chat group. Their playful exchange makes Bibi Dong feel unusually happy, though she remains troubled by her complicated debt and resentment toward her teacher, Qian Xunji.
• Bibi Dong and Elder Lion leave Heaven Dou City for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Little Qian Renxue trains diligently in her room, practicing the new techniques she has learned as well as swordsmanship. Qian Daoliu is proud of her, then finds Qian Xunji neglecting cultivation to read frivolous books and punishes him with a ruler.
• Renxue asks the chat group about her parents’ future. Bibi Dong explains that Qian Xunji abused her future self to produce a powerful heir, hoping Renxue would become a god. In the future, Bibi Dong kills him and devours his soul.
• Renxue blames herself for the suffering her existence caused. Bibi Dong reassures her that she had no choice in her birth and should not let her parents’ history determine her life. Qiu adds that Qian Daoliu does not execute Bibi Dong afterward—instead, she becomes pope.

Character developments and interactions

• Young Bibi Dong grows more comfortable with Qiu and Renxue, finding warmth and laughter in the chat group. Though she jokes boldly, she remains guarded and conflicted about her mentor.
• Little Qian Renxue is hardworking but emotionally vulnerable, longing for her mother and fearing that she is the cause of Bibi Dong’s pain. Bibi Dong’s reassurance gives her comfort and a path toward thinking of herself as her own person.
• Li Qiu serves as an irreverent source of future knowledge and friendly teasing, while encouraging the group’s closeness.
• Qian Daoliu shows pride in Renxue’s discipline and anger at his son’s irresponsibility, but Renxue’s longing for her mother remains unresolved.

Significant themes

• Agency and inherited trauma: Renxue is urged not to define her life by her parents’ actions.
• Complicated family bonds: Love, resentment, guilt, and abuse coexist across generations.
• Comfort through connection: The chat group gives Bibi Dong happiness and Renxue emotional support that they lack in their ordinary lives.
• The unpredictability of people: Bibi Dong is surprised that Qian Daoliu later allows her future self to become pope.