Recaps

Qin Muchu, a reincarnated boy who knew the story of Douluo, went to Spirit Hall in Nuoding City for his Martial Soul awakening and hoped to gain the talent he needed to attend Shrek Academy. Su Yuntao began the ceremony, and the first child awakened an armor Martial Soul with innate level-three Soul Power and agreed to join Spirit Hall.

• Qin Muchu recalled his parents’ deaths, his plans to attend Shrek Academy, and his intention to meet Xiao Wu before Tang San arrived at Nuoding Academy.
• Qin Muchu reached the Spirit Hall Branch and joined the line of children waiting for the free Martial Soul awakening ceremony.
• Su Yuntao introduced himself, arranged the Awakening Stones, and used Martial Soul Possession to begin the ceremony.
• The first boy awakened a miniature armor Martial Soul and showed innate level-three Soul Power on the testing crystal.
• Su Yuntao invited the boy to join Spirit Hall, and the boy accepted.

Qin Muchu awakened a Rusty Sword Martial Soul with no Soul Power, but the Pay-to-Win System activated and raised him to level-five Innate Soul Power. He discovered that the system’s powerful shop items cost enormous sums, leaving him with no clear way to afford them.

• Su Yuntao dismissed a girl’s Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul as useless, and Qin Muchu asked whether it could be cultivated.
• Qin Muchu awakened a Rusty Sword Martial Soul, but the crystal ball showed that he had no Soul Power.
• The Pay-to-Win System activated in the Qin Family courtyard and raised Qin Muchu’s talent to level-five Innate Soul Power.
• Qin Muchu checked his status and found that he had level-five Soul Power, a Rusty Sword, and no Soul Rings.
• Qin Muchu opened the System Shop and complained that its powerful items, including a Divine Position, cost far more Gold Soul Coins than he could afford.

Qin Muchu discovered that his system generated Gold Soul Coins automatically, bought an upgraded Beginner Gift Pack containing a Million-Year Soul Ring, and devised a plan to keep Tang Hao away from Nuoding Academy. His warning reached Tang Hao, who immediately fled Holy Soul Village with Tang San.

• Qin Muchu checked his balance, realized it increased by one Gold Soul Coin every second, and eagerly bought the Beginner Gift Pack after saving ten thousand coins.
• The system upgraded Qin Muchu's Beginner Gift Pack because of his abysmal talent, replacing it with a Million-Year Soul Ring that could be absorbed regardless of his physical condition.
• Qin Muchu worried that Tang Hao might discover his secrets if Tang San entered Nuoding Academy, so he wrote warnings claiming Spirit Hall had found Tang Hao and was coming.
• Qin Muchu paid Holy Soul Village villagers to deliver copies of the warning to Tang Hao.
• Tang Hao read the warning, decided he and Tang San had to leave Holy Soul Village at once, and took his son away without anyone noticing.

Qin Muchu went to Nuoding Academy to enroll and chose the work-study students’ Dorm Seven despite being assigned to the more comfortable Dorm One. He arrived at the rundown dormitory and introduced himself to its boss, Wang Sheng.

• After two months of cultivation, Qin Muchu went shopping before heading to Nuoding Academy to register.
• Qin Muchu persuaded the registration teachers to accept him without a Martial Soul certificate by explaining his circumstances and showing his Martial Soul and spirit power.
• When assigned to Dorm One, Qin Muchu asked to live in Dorm Seven so he could endure hardship and study alongside work-study students.
• Qin Muchu received his school uniform and Dorm Seven key, then found the dormitory in poor condition and knocked on its door.
• Wang Sheng introduced himself as Dorm Seven’s boss and asked Qin Muchu what his Martial Soul was.

Qin Muchu defeated Wang Sheng and became the boss of Dorm Seven before Xiao Wu arrived and challenged him. Xiao Wu won their fight and took over as Dorm Seven's new boss.

• Qin Muchu dodged Wang Sheng's attacks and struck his arm with his Rusty Sword, making Wang Sheng surrender the boss position.
• Qin Muchu had two students make his bed and told Wang Sheng he had joined Dorm Seven for its cultivation atmosphere.
• Xiao Wu arrived at Dorm Seven, introduced herself as a level-twelve Battle Soul Master, and accepted Qin Muchu's challenge.
• Xiao Wu disarmed Qin Muchu and took him to the floor, so Qin Muchu recognized her as Dorm Seven's new boss.

At the academy, Xiao Wu became Dorm Seven’s boss and learned about the work-study students’ duties and living conditions. She shared Qin Muchu’s bedding, then joined him and the others for a meal he offered to pay for.

• Xiao Wu accepted Qin Muchu’s offer to make her Dorm Seven’s boss, and Wang Sheng explained the academy’s classes, work-study duties, and students’ Soul Power levels.
• Xiao Wu asked Qin Muchu to pay her tuition, and he agreed to help with expenses in return for her protection.
• Xiao Wu found that she had no bedding, pushed her bed against Qin Muchu’s, and declared a boundary across their shared quilt.
• Xiao Wu learned that the work-study students had to pay for meals, and Qin Muchu offered to treat everyone to celebrate her becoming the dorm boss.
• Qin Muchu asked Wang Sheng to lead them to the dining hall, and Xiao Wu said their names and Martial Souls made them seem destined to meet.

Qin Muchu joined Wang Sheng and the other work-study students for a meal, where he turned Xiao Chenyu’s attempt to mock them into a friendly reunion. Xiao Chenyu apologized to Xiao Wu and paid for everyone’s food.

• Qin Muchu suggested eating upstairs in the cafeteria after offering to treat Wang Sheng and the others.
• Xiao Chenyu mocked Wang Sheng’s group, but Xiao Wu stepped forward to defend them.
• Qin Muchu recognized Xiao Chenyu, who greeted him warmly and invited the group to eat at his expense.
• Qin Muchu explained that Wang Sheng and the others were his roommates and friends, so Xiao Chenyu agreed to make peace with them.
• Qin Muchu revealed that Xiao Wu had level-twelve Soul Power, prompting Xiao Chenyu to apologize to her.
• Xiao Wu accepted the apology and agreed to let it go because Xiao Chenyu was buying the meal.

Qin Muchu encouraged Xiao Wu to cultivate and taught her three techniques that improved her training. Xiao Wu was grateful to him, and the two ended the chapter together in the dorm.

• Qin Muchu finished cultivating and found Xiao Wu watching because she had been bored.
• Qin Muchu urged Xiao Wu to train so she would be strong enough to protect herself and the people she cared about.
• Qin Muchu taught Xiao Wu his techniques for Soul Power, Mental Power, and body cultivation.
• Xiao Wu tried the techniques, entered Deep Meditation, and found they made her cultivation more than twenty percent faster.
• Xiao Wu thanked Qin Muchu for sharing the techniques, while he repeatedly answered her with "Mm."

After a year at Nuoding Academy, Qin Muchu invited Xiao Wu to spend the vacation at his home, where he used his system wealth to buy an Origin Returning Pill. The chapter ended with him swallowing the pill to improve his cultivation.

• Qin Muchu celebrated Wang Sheng and the other graduating students, then invited Xiao Wu to visit his home after learning she planned to stay at the academy.
• Qin Muchu and Xiao Wu traveled to his home together, where he reassured her that he could afford their expenses and showed her around.
• Qin Muchu opened the System Shop and chose the Origin Returning Pill over three cultivation manuals.
• Qin Muchu spent nearly all his system balance on the pill and swallowed it.

Qin Muchu used an Origin Returning Pill to reach level ten, then absorbed a Million-Year Soul Ring and cultivated for three days. After waking, he unlocked a Disguise Soul Tool from the system and discovered his balance was earning two Gold Soul Coins per second, then excitedly prepared a gift for Xiao Wu.

• Qin Muchu consumed an Origin Returning Pill and advanced from level seven to level ten as his Soul Power grew denser.
• Qin Muchu absorbed the Million-Year Soul Ring into the Dancing Shadow Sword and cultivated in seclusion for three days.
• Xiao Wu waited outside Qin Muchu's room, worried about him, then helped him to the main hall when he emerged weak and hungry.
• Qin Muchu opened a system mystery box and received a Disguise Soul Tool that could conceal auras and disguise Soul Rings.
• The system began detaching after Qin Muchu joked about buying more Soul Tools, but stopped when he pleaded with it.
• Qin Muchu discovered his balance was earning two Gold Soul Coins per second, hugged Xiao Wu in excitement, and told her to close her eyes for a gift.

Qin Muchu gave Xiao Wu a Soul Tool that concealed her aura, then revealed that he had reached level sixteen and gained two Soul Skills. He described his powerful offensive and defensive abilities, though Xiao Wu remained skeptical of his explanations and claims.

• Qin Muchu gave Xiao Wu a ring-shaped Soul Tool that could conceal her aura and disguise the colors of her Soul Rings.
• Qin Muchu revealed that he had risen from level seven to level sixteen and displayed his white Soul Ring, while Xiao Wu questioned his story about how he had obtained it.
• Qin Muchu told Xiao Wu that his first Soul Skill, Ten Thousand Transformations, One Edge, sent out a crescent of Sword Qi and could combine effects from other Soul Skills.
• Qin Muchu described his second Soul Skill, Boundless Reversal Barrier, as a defensive Sword Qi barrier that could absorb and convert part of incoming attacks.
• Xiao Wu doubted Qin Muchu's claim that the barrier could withstand attacks from Battle Soul Masters below level thirty, and he explained how its absorption weakened their attacks.

Qin Muchu’s cultivation improved as Xiao Wu reached level twenty and prepared to hunt for her Second Soul Ring. After Xiao Wu overpowered the guard Wang Wei in a spar, the guards allowed the pair to enter Soul Hunting Forest.

• Qin Muchu explained that his Ten Thousand Transformations, One Edge Soul Skill had gained the Boundless Reversal Barrier’s devouring effect, then took Xiao Wu shopping.
• Over nine months, Qin Muchu trained with three cultivation arts and studied Travels Through the Heavens, while Xiao Wu advanced to level twenty.
• Qin Muchu and Xiao Wu set out for Soul Hunting Forest the next day, despite waking later than planned.
• At the forest entrance, Qin Muchu asked the guard Wang Wei to test Xiao Wu’s strength before letting them pass.
• Xiao Wu used her Waist Bow to overpower Wang Wei in their spar, and the guards allowed the pair into Soul Hunting Forest.

In the Soul Hunting Forest, Qin Muchu encountered the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm after it escaped from Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts. The silkworm revealed that a mysterious Soul Beast stronger than Di Tian had disrupted events, leaving Qin Muchu unsettled about how little he understood the changing future.

• Qin Muchu distracted Xiao Wu so she could secretly condense her Soul Ring while he waited nearby.
• A huge white grub burst from underground and knocked Qin Muchu unconscious before passing out itself.
• Qin Muchu awoke, recognized the grub as the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and questioned him about his unexpected presence.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained that a powerful stranger had fought Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts, allowing him to escape.
• Qin Muchu wondered who could have challenged Di Tian and realized that events were no longer following what he expected.

Qin Muchu proposed a God-Making Plan to the dying Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and convinced him to become Qin Muchu’s Wisdom Soul Ring. After agreeing to prepare for Qin Muchu’s future godhood, they left for him to check on Xiao Wu.

• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm revealed that his injuries would kill him within a few years and asked Qin Muchu to take his body to the Ice Empress.
• Qin Muchu suggested that the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sacrifice himself as a Wisdom Soul Ring to a human who could become a god, allowing him to be revived later.
• Qin Muchu revealed his Million-Year Soul Ring, and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm agreed to gamble on Qin Muchu’s potential and sacrifice himself when Qin Muchu reached level twenty.
• Qin Muchu said he could raise the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to a true million years of cultivation and stored him in his Storage Soul Tool.
• Qin Muchu hurried to where Xiao Wu was forming her Soul Ring to see whether she had successfully formed her Second Soul Ring.

After Xiao Wu obtained her Second Soul Ring, Qin Muchu learned that Da Ming and Er Ming had been badly injured at the Lake of Life. He decided to take Xiao Wu to the Star Dou Great Forest, leaving her to choose for herself rather than hiding the danger in an attempt to protect her.

• Qin Muchu returned to Xiao Wu after fighting off a Soul Beast, and Xiao Wu told him she had already obtained her Second Soul Ring, a roughly two-thousand-three-hundred-year-old ring that gave her the Charm skill.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm recognized Xiao Wu as a Soul Beast and explained that her Soul Tool concealed her aura from everyone except him.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Qin Muchu that Da Ming and Er Ming had been badly injured after charging into a battle between a Soul Beast and Di Tian.
• Qin Muchu realized he had been making decisions for Xiao Wu without considering what she wanted, so he took her hand and proposed they travel to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xiao Wu asked why they could not get Qin Muchu's Second Soul Ring in the Soul Hunting Forest, and Qin Muchu said he wanted to see the sights with her.

Qin Muchu and Xiao Wu entered the Star Dou Great Forest to find his Second Soul Ring, but Er Ming carried Xiao Wu away after appearing and seized her. At the Lake of Life, Xiao Wu learned that the Heaven-Gazing Hou had badly wounded Er Ming and Da Ming, and agreed to return to the human world after staying the night.

• Qin Muchu and Xiao Wu reached the Star Dou Great Forest, where a Spiny-Tailed Snake startled Qin Muchu before fleeing.
• A massive Titan Giant Ape appeared, ignored Qin Muchu's attack, and carried Xiao Wu into the forest despite Qin Muchu's pursuit.
• Xiao Wu discovered Er Ming had a severe chest wound and asked him about Da Ming as he brought her to the Lake of Life.
• Da Ming told Xiao Wu that the Heaven-Gazing Hou had defeated him, Er Ming, and even Di Tian before retreating to the core region.
• Da Ming urged Xiao Wu to stay in the human world while he and Er Ming recovered, and Xiao Wu agreed to leave after keeping watch overnight.

Qin Muchu encountered Qian Renxue and her two Titled Douluo escorts, then used a Beast Essence Pill to help Sky Dream Ice Silkworm cross the million-year threshold and form a Soul Ring. After gaining two powerful Soul Skills, Qin Muchu learned the ring’s displayed age was limited by Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s sealed source power, while Sky Dream fell asleep in his Sea of Consciousness.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned Qin Muchu that Qian Renxue and two Titled Douluo were approaching the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a Sixth Soul Ring.
• Qin Muchu recognized Qian Renxue and identified her escorts as Porcupinefish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo, She Long.
• After Qian Renxue and her escorts flew deeper into the forest, Qin Muchu fed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm a Beast Essence Pill, helping him become the first million-year Soul Beast in history.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm entered Qin Muchu’s Sea of Consciousness and formed a Soul Ring, sealing most of his source power and telling Qin Muchu to release it gradually.
• Qin Muchu gained Simulation and Spiritual Storm, and found that Simulation could create illusions while Spiritual Storm let him track enemies and attack with spiritual Sword Aura.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained that his Soul Ring appeared white because its source power was sealed, then fell asleep as Qin Muchu checked the System Shop.

Qin Muchu used his System Shop earnings to buy Soul Ring Age Upgrade Cards and reunited with Xiao Wu at dawn. After explaining his Million-Year Soul Ring, he gave her the cards to strengthen her first two Soul Rings, and she began absorbing them.

• Qin Muchu bought sixteen Soul Ring Age Upgrade Cards from the System Shop.
• Qin Muchu found Xiao Wu safe and learned that a bull's cry had frightened away the monkey that carried her off.
• Qin Muchu revealed his Second Soul Ring and told Xiao Wu that the dying Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had become his Million-Year Wisdom Soul Ring.
• Qin Muchu asked Xiao Wu to keep his secret and gave her cards that could raise her first two Soul Rings to the Ten-Thousand-Year level.
• Xiao Wu embraced Qin Muchu, then sat on a rock and began guiding the cards' energy into her First Soul Ring.

Qin Muchu and Xiao Wu arrived in Suotuo City and went to enroll at Shrek Academy, stopping at the Rose Hotel on the way. Qin Muchu secured the reserved Red Ocean room by paying the attendant and revealing his strength, leaving them checked in for the night.

• Qin Muchu and Xiao Wu reached level forty-seven after graduating early from Nuoding Academy, and he gave Xiao Wu a hundred-thousand-year Leg Soul Bone.
• Qin Muchu explained that they planned to attend Shrek Academy to meet its unusual students and make useful connections.
• Xiao Wu spotted the Rose Hotel and asked Qin Muchu to stay there, and he agreed despite expecting to encounter Dai Mubai.
• Qin Muchu demanded the reserved Red Ocean room and offered the attendant several hundred Gold Soul Coins as a tip.
• Qin Muchu briefly revealed his four Soul Rings, and the attendant checked him and Xiao Wu into the top-floor room.

Qin Muchu and Xiao Wu stayed in the Rose Hotel’s Red Ocean room, where they prepared for a confrontation with Dai Mubai. Xiao Wu revealed her strength as a Soul Ancestor and sent Dai Mubai flying, leaving him stunned by her rank.

• Xiao Wu learned that the Rose Hotel catered to couples, then admired the lavish Red Ocean room and asked to stay longer.
• Qin Muchu warned Xiao Wu that the Star Luo Prince had reserved the room and explained his plan for handling the likely confrontation.
• Dai Mubai arrived with two women and demanded that Qin Muchu and Xiao Wu leave the room.
• Qin Muchu told Xiao Wu to teach Dai Mubai proper manners, and Xiao Wu knocked him back with a punch.
• Dai Mubai used his White Tiger Martial Soul and attacked Xiao Wu with his second Soul Skill, but she teleported behind him and kicked him several meters away.
• Dai Mubai realized Xiao Wu had four Soul Rings and was a Soul Ancestor, and he demanded to know how it was possible.

Qin Muchu and Xiao Wu arrived at Shrek Academy for admissions, where Qin Muchu explained the school’s strict entry requirements to the waiting families. The first applicant failed to impress the elderly examiner, and the admissions testing continued.

• Xiao Wu defeated Dai Mubai at the Rose Hotel, and he introduced himself as a student of Shrek Academy before leaving.
• Qin Muchu and Xiao Wu reached Shrek Academy the next day and were shocked by its dilapidated entrance.
• Qin Muchu told the waiting families that applicants had to be no older than twelve and have Soul Power above twenty-one, prompting several families to leave.
• An elderly examiner assessed a boy with a Golden-Waist Eagle Martial Soul and two Soul Rings, then sent him to the next testing station.

Qin Muchu and Xiao Wu passed Shrek Academy’s entrance screening as eleven-year-old Four-Ring Soul Ancestors, though Li Yusong lamented Qin Muchu’s Soul Ring Configuration. Dai Mubai took them directly to the Fourth Trial, where Teacher Zhao learned their Soul Power exceeded level forty and Dai Mubai could not challenge them.

• Li Yusong revealed Shrek Academy’s age and Soul Power requirements, causing most applicants to leave.
• Qin Muchu and Xiao Wu passed the age check and revealed their Martial Souls and four Soul Rings each.
• Li Yusong praised the pair but criticized Qin Muchu’s Soul Ring Configuration before sending them onward with Dai Mubai.
• Dai Mubai explained that Qin Muchu and Xiao Wu could skip the second and third trials because their Soul Power exceeded level twenty-five.
• Dai Mubai brought Qin Muchu and Xiao Wu to Teacher Zhao for the Fourth Trial and said their Soul Power was above level forty, beyond his ability to match.

Qin Muchu and Xiao Wu faced Zhao Wuji in an entrance test at Shrek Academy, surprising him with their coordinated attacks and powerful Soul Skills. Zhao Wuji was forced to use his Martial Soul Avatar, and Qin Muchu affirmed that he wanted to enroll and continue learning.

• Zhao Wuji learned Qin Muchu and Xiao Wu were both eleven-year-old Soul Ancestors and decided to test them himself.
• Dai Mubai described Zhao Wuji’s strength and abilities before the fight began.
• Xiao Wu attacked Zhao Wuji with her Waist Bow and Bewitchment while Qin Muchu’s Spiritual Storm disrupted his defense.
• Xiao Wu used Instant Teleportation and Invincible Golden Body as Zhao Wuji counterattacked, and Qin Muchu struck him with Ten Thousand Transformations, One Edge.
• Zhao Wuji activated his Martial Soul Avatar to block Qin Muchu’s attack, astonishing Dai Mubai and the others.
• Zhao Wuji praised Qin Muchu and Xiao Wu, and Qin Muchu said he wanted to study at Shrek Academy.

Zhao Wuji sent Dai Mubai to show Qin Muchu and Xiao Wu around Shrek Academy, where they learned how few students it had and how demanding its standards were. On the way, Dai Mubai introduced them to Oscar, whose sausage-making incantation disgusted Xiao Wu.

• Zhao Wuji asked Dai Mubai to take Qin Muchu and Xiao Wu to the dormitories and explain the academy's rules.
• Dai Mubai told Xiao Wu that Shrek admitted only about two students a year and had barely survived without recent funding from his family.
• Dai Mubai praised Shrek's strict standards and described its graduates, including a former student who became Spirit Hall's youngest elder.
• Oscar called out from his sausage cart, and Xiao Wu asked Qin Muchu to buy some.
• Dai Mubai told Oscar to make a fresh sausage, and Oscar recited his lecherous incantation, making Xiao Wu recoil and refuse to eat one.

Qin Muchu demonstrated precise Soul Power control to Oscar and promised to teach him more later. He rejected the academy’s run-down dormitory and set up a luxurious Soul Tool house for himself and Xiao Wu.

• Qin Muchu tried Oscar’s Sausage, praised its value, and stopped Xiao Wu from eating one.
• Qin Muchu told Oscar that refined Soul Power control could let him make food without an incantation, then demonstrated the technique by shaping Soul Power into animals.
• Oscar eagerly asked Qin Muchu to teach him, and Qin Muchu said he would explain more when the time was right.
• Oscar guided Qin Muchu and Xiao Wu to the dormitories and offered them rooms in his thatched hut.
• Qin Muchu placed a House-Type Soul Tool on an open spot and expanded it into a furnished two-story house, delighting Xiao Wu.