Chapter Summaries

After two months of intense physical training, the Shrek students began the second phase of the Furnace Plan: controlling their Soul Power. Qin Muchu demonstrated precise control that amazed Flender and gave Ning Rongrong a new understanding of her sect’s reliance on incantations.

• The seven students completed their first training phase with heavier loads, improved fitness, and increased Soul Power levels.
• Flender announced that the next two months would focus on Soul Power control and explained how Oscar had learned to use his skills without incantations.
• Qin Muchu shaped and divided Soul Power into forms representing the students’ Martial Souls, then made the forms move without any leakage.
• Qin Muchu explained that precise control could replace incantations, and that Ning Rongrong could eventually enhance her companions instantly while using less Soul Power.
• Ning Rongrong realized that her decision to leave home might lead her into a new world, while Flender recognized the extraordinary significance of Qin Muchu’s skill.

Qin Muchu gave the seven students two new cultivation arts and began their two-month training in extreme soul power control. The students gathered at the cliff to start, and Ning Rongrong was chosen to attempt the first exercise.

• Flender assigned the seven students to train in soul power control under Qin Muchu for two months.
• Qin Muchu gave each student the Meditation Technique Singularity Nirvana Visualization and the mental power art String Theory Heavenly Tome.
• The students eagerly began practicing the new arts, and their effects astonished them.
• At dawn, Qin Muchu set the students a goal of controlling ten silver needles at once to carve different characters into the cliff.
• Ning Rongrong questioned the difficulty of the exercise, so Qin Muchu ordered her to go first.

Ning Rongrong and Ma Hongjun practiced controlling their Soul Power to levitate a silver needle under Qin Muchu’s guidance. Ning Rongrong managed to float a needle briefly, while Ma Hongjun formed a thread of fire before losing concentration and making it explode.

• Ning Rongrong accidentally blasted a handful of silver needles into a wall, and Ma Hongjun laughed until Qin Muchu ordered him to stop.
• Qin Muchu coached Ning Rongrong through controlling a single needle, and she made it float briefly before it fell.
• Qin Muchu told everyone to practice holding one needle in the air, and Ma Hongjun’s first attempt burst into flame.
• Qin Muchu explained that Ma Hongjun needed to guide his Phoenix Flame rather than suppress it, and Ma Hongjun kept practicing after his Soul Power dispersed.
• Ma Hongjun finally formed a crimson thread of fire, but his concentration slipped as he tried to guide it around the needle, causing it to explode.