Chapter Summaries

Qian Renxue, reduced to a six-year-old in a world ten thousand years in the future, escaped Li Wu by gliding from a cliff but was struck by his attack and swept into a river. Chen An rescued her and brought her home, where she woke that evening.

• Qian Renxue used her six-winged angel martial soul to glide away from Li Wu, who realized she bore the legendary martial soul and attacked her with his second soul skill.
• Li Wu's beam struck Qian Renxue, sending her tumbling into the river as he hurried to search for her below the cliff.
• Chen An, a reborn orphan who wanted to become a Soul Master, pulled the injured Qian Renxue from the river and carried her home.
• Qian Renxue woke in Chen An's home that evening, unsure where she was.

After Qian Renxue woke in the future, she met Chen An, the boy who had rescued her, and hid her identity while learning about his life. Chen An told her the history of the continent, leaving her stunned by Spirit Hall’s destruction and her own death at Tang San’s hands.

• Qian Renxue woke injured in a village home and remembered falling into a river after a Fallen Soul Master attacked her.
• Chen An entered and explained that he had rescued her from the river and treated her wound with herbs.
• Qian Renxue thanked Chen An, learned that his parents had been killed by an Evil Soul Master, and introduced herself as Ren Xue.
• Chen An and Qian Renxue chatted while each concealed their true nature and mistook the other for an ordinary child.
• Qian Renxue learned that Chen An had not awakened his martial soul because he could not afford a Soul Master, then asked him about history.
• Chen An recounted how Tang San killed Qian Renxue and her mother, Spirit Hall was branded evil, and Shrek Academy rose to prominence.

Qian Renxue vowed to rebuild Spirit Hall and reclaim its legacy after hearing how it fell. She then helped Chen An awaken his martial soul, leaving its awakening underway.

• Qian Renxue vowed to restore Spirit Hall, provide free martial-soul awakenings to ordinary children, and confront Tang San and Shrek Academy.
• Qian Renxue collapsed from her injuries and emotional strain, and Chen An checked that she was safe before returning to his attempts to awaken his martial soul.
• Chen An sensed a powerful force within himself and considered using a life-or-death crisis to awaken it.
• Qian Renxue woke, recognized that Chen An needed an external stimulus to awaken his martial soul, and decided to help him and recruit him for Spirit Hall.
• Qian Renxue sent her soul power into Chen An's dantian, and his martial soul awakened.

Chen An awakened the True Self Martial Soul, gaining innate full soul power and extraordinary spiritual strength. After revealing his martial soul to Qian Renxue, he set his sights on becoming a god and needing his first soul ring, while Qian Renxue offered to teach and recruit him.

• Chen An's dormant martial soul erupted, manifesting as a golden humanoid phantom with silver hair and eyes, while his soul power reached level ten and his spiritual power exceeded Qian Renxue's.
• Chen An recognized that his True Self Martial Soul encompassed both his body and spirit, and he felt his body and senses grow stronger.
• Chen An resolved to reach the pinnacle of the Soul Master World and become a god, then withdrew his martial soul and planned to hunt a soul beast for his first soul ring.
• Qian Renxue asked Chen An what martial soul he had awakened, and he told her it was called True Self because it was himself.
• Qian Renxue offered to teach Chen An advanced meditation methods and guide his cultivation if he agreed to follow her.

Qian Renxue tried to recruit Chen An and taught him a Meditation Method, but Li Wu tracked her to Chen An's home and attacked. Chen An protected Qian Renxue and prepared to face Li Wu.

• Qian Renxue tried to recruit Chen An, who refused and asked whether she came from a powerful family.
• Qian Renxue remembered that Spirit Hall had been destroyed, and Chen An comforted her as she resolved to win him over.
• Li Wu followed Qian Renxue's scent to Qinghe Village while Qian Renxue taught Chen An a Meditation Method at his home.
• Chen An sensed danger and carried Qian Renxue off the bed just before Li Wu's blood-red beam destroyed it.
• Qian Renxue urged Chen An to escape while she distracted Li Wu, but Chen An judged that he could fight the Evil Soul Master and challenged him.

Chen An fought Li Wu, an Evil Soul Master, to protect Qian Renxue and used the strength and perception of his True Self Martial Soul to badly injure him. Qian Renxue watched in shock but still believed her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul would prove stronger once she gained soul rings.

• Chen An taunted Li Wu, provoking the Evil Soul Master into attacking him and Qian Renxue.
• Li Wu transformed into a werewolf and charged Chen An with his claws.
• Chen An used his keen perception to dodge Li Wu's attack and strike his vulnerable groin.
• Chen An followed with an uppercut that hurled Li Wu into a wall and left him badly injured.
• Qian Renxue marveled at Chen An's strength but reassured herself that the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul was the strongest.
• Li Wu wept as he looked at his bloodied hands and realized the extent of his injury.

Chen An and Qian Renxue joined forces to kill the Evil Soul Master Li Wu, and Chen An began to suspect Qian Renxue’s identity after seeing her Six-Winged Angel and Angel Domain. Zhang Lexuan arrived at Qinghe Village on an Inspection Corps mission to kill Li Wu.

• Li Wu used his Evil Wolf Annihilation Wave and Evil Wolf Transformation to gain the upper hand and wound Chen An.
• Qian Renxue activated her Angel Domain, weakening Li Wu and strengthening Chen An.
• Chen An killed Li Wu by piercing his chest and destroying his heart.
• Chen An saw Qian Renxue’s Six-Winged Angel and Angel Domain and wondered whether she was descended from the ancient Qian Renxue.
• Zhang Lexuan arrived outside Qinghe Village to carry out her mission to kill Li Wu.

After Chen An and Qian Renxue survived the Evil Soul Master Li Wu's attack, they recognized each other as friends and prepared to deal with his corpse. Zhang Lexuan arrived at Chen An's home to investigate Li Wu, leaving Chen An eager to impress the powerful Shrek Inspection Corps member.

• Chen An assumed Qian Renxue was a hunted descendant of the Angel Clan and promised to keep her six-winged angel martial soul secret.
• Qian Renxue admired Chen An's perceptiveness and agreed to be his friend.
• Chen An and Qian Renxue discussed what to do with Li Wu's corpse, but Chen An heard someone approaching.
• Zhang Lexuan arrived, identified herself as a member of Shrek Academy's Inspection Corps, and asked to search the home for Li Wu.
• Chen An recognized Zhang Lexuan as a powerful expert and enthusiastically said that Inspection Corps members were his idols.

Zhang Lexuan investigated Li Wu’s death and discovered Chen An’s rare True Self Martial Soul, making her determined to bring him to Shrek Academy. Qian Renxue concealed her true identity by claiming her martial soul was a Holy Swan, leaving Chen An bewildered.

• Zhang Lexuan found Li Wu’s corpse and determined that two people with rare abilities had killed him.
• Qian Renxue admitted that she and Chen An had joined forces to kill the Evil Soul Master.
• Chen An revealed and summoned his True Self Martial Soul, astonishing Zhang Lexuan and prompting her to consider recruiting him for Shrek Academy.
• Zhang Lexuan asked Qian Renxue about her martial soul, and Qian Renxue claimed it was a Holy Swan and summoned a golden swan phantom.
• Chen An realized that Qian Renxue’s displayed martial soul differed from the six-winged angel he expected.

Qian Renxue revealed that her inherited Soul Bone let her disguise her angel martial soul as the Holy Swan, reassuring Chen An that she could stay hidden. Zhang Lexuan learned that Chen An's parents had been killed and invited him to join Shrek Academy, leaving him worried that refusing could bring trouble.

• Qian Renxue used her inherited Soul Bone to disguise her six-winged angel martial soul as the Holy Swan, and Chen An realized the skill would protect her from the Inspection Corps.
• Zhang Lexuan admired Qian Renxue's martial soul and appearance before turning her attention to Chen An's exceptional True Self martial soul.
• Chen An told Zhang Lexuan that an Evil Soul Master had killed his parents two years earlier, stirring memories of her own family's murder.
• Zhang Lexuan asked Chen An whether he wanted to study at Shrek Academy and promised the academy would nurture his talent.
• Chen An considered that the Body Sect suited him better but feared Shrek Academy might use force if he refused.

Chen An and Qian Renxue joined Shrek Academy, and Zhang Lexuan took them to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain their first soul rings. Chen An killed a thousand-year dark gold terrorclaw bear and watched its purple soul ring form, while Xiong Jun sensed his descendant’s death and erupted in anger.

• Chen An agreed to join Shrek Academy, and Zhang Lexuan gave him a Storage Soul Tool bracelet and taught him how to use it.
• Qian Renxue decided to join Shrek Academy so she could undermine it from within and eventually take Chen An away to rebuild Spirit Hall.
• Zhang Lexuan took Chen An and Qian Renxue to the Star Dou Great Forest after helping Chen An reward the people who had supported him in Qinghe Village.
• Zhang Lexuan defeated a thousand-year dark gold terrorclaw bear, and Chen An delivered the final blow and began absorbing its purple soul ring.
• In the Great Ferocious Land, Xiong Jun sensed that his descendant had died and roared in fury, while the silkworm baby noticed a chance to escape.

Chen An absorbed a thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear soul ring, gained an external soul bone, and prepared to leave the Star Dou Great Forest with Zhang Lexuan and Qian Renxue. The escaped Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, now calling himself Tian Meng, discovered Chen An and recognized his extraordinary talent.

• Xiong Jun raged over his offspring's death while the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm used Simulation to leave a decoy and secretly escaped underground.
• The Myriad Demon King warned Xiong Jun to guard the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, but Xiong Jun discovered the silkworm had vanished and could not track his scent.
• Chen An absorbed the thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear soul ring, reached level thirteen, and gained the Dark Gold Transformation soul skill.
• Chen An found and absorbed an external soul bone from the bear's right claw, raising his soul power to level fifteen.
• Zhang Lexuan hurried Chen An and Qian Renxue away from the forest, but Tian Meng contacted Chen An telepathically and marveled at his talent.

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm chose Chen An as his host and fused his ice-attribute origin and vast spiritual power into him, creating a second martial soul and a Wisdom Soul Ring. Chen An’s Sea of Consciousness expanded and his Spiritual Power rose to the Soul King level, while the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm urged him to avenge the beasts that had imprisoned him.

• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm appeared before Chen An and decided that the six-year-old was an ideal host.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm began merging his origin into Chen An after Xiong Jun’s claw marks revealed that the ferocious beasts had discovered his escape.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s ice-attribute origin gave Chen An a second martial soul, and his spiritual origin transformed Chen An’s Sea of Consciousness into a vast space containing ten sealed golden spheres.
• Chen An absorbed part of the first sphere’s spiritual origin, raising his Spiritual Power to the Soul King level.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained the benefits of his Wisdom Soul Ring and asked Chen An to avenge the ferocious beasts that had drained him for ten thousand years.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained that he chose Chen An as the human he would nurture into a god so he could gain eternal life as Chen An’s Wisdom Soul Ring. After learning about Ren Xue’s six-winged angel martial soul and sharing his own background, Chen An heard that his second martial soul would take shape according to the first ice-attribute soul beast whose ring he absorbed.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Chen An that he hoped to guide him to godhood and share in eternal life as his Wisdom Soul Ring.
• Chen An shared his life story with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, withholding only his memories of his previous life.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm questioned how Ren Xue could possess a six-winged angel martial soul, since Qian Renxue had no direct descendants.
• Chen An decided that Ren Xue’s mysterious origins did not matter as long as their bond was real.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm dismissed the six-winged angel martial soul as inferior to Chen An’s true self martial soul.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained that Chen An’s second martial soul was currently formless ice and would become whatever ice-attribute soul beast supplied its first soul ring.

Chen An gained the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s million-year shed husk and considered delaying the Ice Empress’s soul ring because it would slow his cultivation. When the forest’s powerful beasts discovered the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was missing, they began searching for him, leaving Chen An and his companions trapped amid a growing beast tide.

• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm urged Chen An to reach Soul Grandmaster so they could travel to the Far North and seek the Ice Empress, while Chen An privately resolved to choose his own timing.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s shed husk attached itself to Chen An’s chest, and Chen An found no trace of Electrolux nearby.
• The mental shock faded, restoring Qian Renxue and Zhang Lexuan, while dozens of hundred-thousand-year soul beasts spread out from the forest’s core.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned Chen An that the ferocious beasts had noticed his disappearance and that a beast tide could kill every human in the forest.
• Zhang Lexuan grabbed Chen An and Qian Renxue and fled, but pursuing soul beasts surrounded her and slowed their escape through the Mixed Zone.

Zhang Feng, Sun Menghan, and their companions fled a soul beast uprising in the Star Dou Great Forest and discovered Zhang Lexuan, Chen An, and Ren Xue surrounded by beasts. Recognizing Chen An’s True Self body martial soul, Sun Menghan convinced the others to rescue him, and the four arrived as Chen An prepared to escape by teleportation.

• Zhang Feng and his three companions fought their way through the Mixed Zone during a soul beast uprising, with Song Yu healing Zhang Feng’s wound.
• The group spotted Zhang Lexuan, Chen An, and Ren Xue surrounded by soul beasts and initially prepared to leave them behind because they belonged to Shrek Academy’s Inspection Corps.
• Sun Menghan recognized Chen An’s True Self martial soul and urged his companions to save him, promising that the Body Sect would reward them.
• Zhang Feng, Sun Menghan, Song Yu, and their fourth companion agreed to help and approached Chen An’s group.
• Zhang Lexuan weakened from the battle, Chen An killed a Black Tiger with his Dark Gold Dreadclaw, and four muscular men descended nearby.

Sun Menghan and three Body Sect disciples rescued Chen An from soul beasts and tried to recruit him, but Zhang Lexuan opposed them on Shrek Academy’s behalf. As Sun Menghan’s group forcibly seized Chen An, a disheveled old man appeared before Zhang Lexuan.

• Sun Menghan used his bronze-level second awakening, while Zhang Feng, Song Yu, and Qian Shi joined him to slaughter the soul beasts surrounding Chen An, Qian Renxue, and Zhang Lexuan.
• Sun Menghan recognized Chen An’s body martial soul and Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear claw, and Zhang Lexuan identified the rescuers as Body Sect disciples.
• Zhang Lexuan thanked the four men and invoked her Shrek Academy Inner Court status, but Sun Menghan ignored her and asked Chen An about his name and injuries.
• Sun Menghan explained the Body Sect and invited Chen An to join, while Qian Renxue inwardly objected to others trying to claim her assistant.
• Zhang Lexuan stepped in front of Chen An and said he already belonged to Shrek Academy, but Sun Menghan rejected her claim and moved to seize him as Zhang Feng and the others forced Zhang Lexuan back.
• A disheveled old man holding a chicken leg and wearing a wine gourd appeared before Zhang Lexuan.

Xuan Zi rescued Zhang Lexuan, Chen An, and Qian Renxue from the Body Sect disciples, then discovered Chen An’s extraordinary potential and took him to Shrek Academy. Three days later, Du Busi heard Sun Menghan’s account and angrily condemned Xuan Zi for bullying the Body Sect.

• Xuan Zi broke Sun Menghan’s leg with a chicken bone and forced him and the other Body Sect disciples to leave.
• Zhang Lexuan explained the events that led her to summon help, and Xuan Zi learned about Chen An and Qian Renxue.
• Xuan Zi examined Chen An’s True Self Martial Soul and recognized his rare physical and mental attributes, while the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm concealed Chen An’s true Spiritual Power.
• Xuan Zi took Chen An to Shrek Academy, believing he could eventually inherit Elder Mu’s position.
• Three days later, Du Busi heard Sun Menghan’s report and roared that Xuan Zi had dared to bully the Body Sect.

Du Busi learned that Xuan Zi had taken Chen An, whom the Body Sect claimed as its own, and ordered the sect to march on Shrek Academy. At Shrek, Qian Renxue studied the continent’s history and resolved to rebuild Spirit Hall and become a god before someone approached her in the library.

• Sun Menghan reported that Chen An possessed a true self martial soul and that Xuan Zi had injured him and taken him to Shrek Academy.
• Jinpeng and Du Busi summoned the Body Sect’s elders and elite disciples, who argued over how to reclaim Chen An.
• Du Busi ordered the Body Sect to march on Shrek Academy and declared that its disciples must not be bullied.
• Qian Renxue studied the continent’s history and learned about the four empires, soul guidance technology, and the balance of power among the major factions.
• Qian Renxue decided that the era’s chaos gave her a chance to rebuild Spirit Hall, gather faith, and ascend to godhood.
• Someone patted Qian Renxue’s shoulder and asked what she had been thinking about.

Qian Renxue learned Shrek Academy’s improved Meditation Method from Chen An and resolved to use Shrek’s own strengths against it. Meanwhile, the Sea God Pavilion elders discussed Chen An’s extraordinary True Self Martial Soul and debated which department should teach him.

• Chen An told Qian Renxue he had spent three days on Sea God Island learning Shrek Academy’s Meditation Method from Zhang Lexuan.
• Chen An taught Qian Renxue the Meditation Method, and she decided to master Shrek’s techniques so she could defeat Shrek with them.
• Mu En convened a Sea God Pavilion meeting and asked Xuan Zi to explain the child he had brought back from the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xuan Zi described Chen An’s True Self Martial Soul and claimed his physique and spiritual power already rivaled those of a three-ring Soul Elder.
• Yan Shaozhe questioned the nature of Chen An’s martial soul, while Xian Lin’er argued that he belonged in the Soul Tool Department.