Chapter Summaries

After awakening the Soft-Boned Enchanting Rabbit Martial Soul with innate full soul power and Spirit Connection Realm spiritual power, Tang Wulin accepted the Spirit Pagoda’s sponsorship. He prepared to leave for its headquarters, promising Tang Ziran and Lang Yue he would bring them to live with him once he succeeded.

• Tang Wulin awakened the Soft-Boned Enchanting Rabbit Martial Soul, and Spirit Transmitter Lin discovered he had innate full soul power and a spiritual power rating of 101.
• Tang Wulin worried that his family could not afford a soul spirit, while Tang Ziran and Lang Yue felt guilty about their finances.
• Spirit Transmitter Lin offered Tang Wulin a free soul spirit and cultivation resources if he joined the Spirit Pagoda.
• Tang Wulin agreed to join the Spirit Pagoda to protect his parents from financial hardship and the fate he remembered from the original story.
• Spirit Pagoda headquarters ordered Tang Wulin to report there directly and granted him priority access to resources and his choice of soul spirit.
• Tang Wulin comforted Tang Ziran and Lang Yue, promising to bring them to Heaven Dou City after he made a name for himself.

Tang Wulin met Leng Yaozhu at Spirit Pagoda headquarters, where she claimed him as her disciple and rejected Qiangu Dongfeng's attempt to take him. Leng Yaozhu chose a powerful Violent Rabbit soul spirit for Tang Wulin, and she took him to begin the fusion.

• Tang Wulin entered Spirit Pagoda headquarters, bumped into Leng Yaozhu, and praised her beauty.
• Leng Yaozhu recognized Tang Wulin as the child with innate full soul power and offered to take him as her disciple.
• Qiangu Dongfeng arrived, examined Tang Wulin's Soft-Boned Enchanting Rabbit Martial Soul, and offered to become his master.
• Tang Wulin chose Leng Yaozhu, telling Qiangu Dongfeng that he preferred the pretty big sister because the uncle was not good-looking.
• Qiangu Dongfeng left, and Leng Yaozhu took Tang Wulin to select a soul spirit.
• Leng Yaozhu gave Tang Wulin a rare purple-quality Violent Rabbit soul spirit, and he thanked her as his master.

Tang Wulin absorbed the thousand-year Violent Rabbit soul spirit, gained Teleportation, and entered the Spirit Ascension Platform to test it. There he rescued a young girl from a soul beast and learned her name was Gu Yue.

• Tang Wulin bonded with the Violent Rabbit soul spirit, which appeared as a white rabbit he named Snowball, and reached soul power level eleven.
• Tang Wulin discovered that his new soul skill, Teleportation, let him move up to twenty meters while ignoring terrain.
• Tang Wulin asked Leng Yaozhu to take him to the Spirit Ascension Platform so he could test his skill in combat.
• Tang Wulin entered the simulated forest and spotted a young girl fighting off a pack of soul beasts.
• Tang Wulin teleported behind the girl, stopped an avian soul beast from attacking her, and learned her name was Gu Yue.

Tang Wulin fought through a swarm of soul beasts with Gu Yue, and the two discovered their powers resonated when they worked together. After defeating a thousand-year Flame Lion, they were ejected from the Spirit Ascension Platform, where Gu Yue asked to fight alongside him again.

• Tang Wulin used Teleportation and his Golden Dragon King strength to defeat the surrounding soul beasts while Gu Yue watched and sensed his bloodline.
• Na'er waited in Aolai City for the human with the Golden Dragon King bloodline, but after seven days she still had not found him.
• A thousand-year Flame Lion targeted Gu Yue, and Tang Wulin teleported her to safety; their soul power resonated when they touched.
• Gu Yue restrained the Flame Lion with ice while Tang Wulin struck it, and together they killed it.
• Tang Wulin and Gu Yue were ejected from the Spirit Ascension Platform by its death penalty, then agreed to fight together again.

Gu Yue secretly planned to let Tang Wulin’s golden dragon king bloodline mature before devouring him, while Tang Wulin privately considered that he might turn the tables. After eating a Red Jade Shrimp, Tang Wulin’s soul power rose to rank thirteen, and he encountered Old Tang in his Sea of Consciousness.

• Gu Yue suppressed her urge to devour Tang Wulin immediately and decided to build a relationship with him until his bloodline matured, while Tang Wulin recognized her intentions.
• Gu Yue and Tang Wulin left the Spirit Ascension Platform together, and Leng Yaozhu welcomed them and invited them to dinner.
• Tang Wulin ate an enormous meal, and Gu Yue offered him a Red Jade Shrimp to satisfy his hunger.
• Tang Wulin swallowed the shrimp whole, and Leng Yaozhu helped him control its energy as his soul power rose from rank eleven to rank thirteen.
• Tang Wulin lost consciousness and saw the eighteen golden dragon king seals, where he met the figure he recognized as Old Tang.

After Tang Wulin’s lavish first meal with Leng Yaozhu loosened the first Golden Dragon King seal, Old Tang helped him break it, raising his soul power and granting him the Golden Dragon Claw. Leng Yaozhu tested his new abilities at Spirit Pagoda Headquarters and discovered his strength and spiritual power were extraordinary.

• Old Tang discovered Tang Wulin had awakened the Soft-Boned Enchanting Rabbit and explained the danger of the eighteen Golden Dragon King seals.
• Old Tang realized the Ice Crystal Fruit, Blazing Flame Fruit, and dragon-type soul beast blood Tang Wulin had eaten had met the conditions to loosen the first seal, so he helped him break it.
• Tang Wulin’s soul power rose from level eleven to sixteen, and he gained the Golden Dragon Claw.
• Leng Yaozhu stood guard during Tang Wulin’s transformation, while Gu Yue sensed his growing Golden Dragon King aura.
• At the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters testing hall, Tang Wulin measured 1,580 jin of normal strength, 5,000 jin with the Golden Dragon Claw, and 155 spiritual power.

Tang Wulin’s rapid cultivation and appetite led him to a restaurant, where he clashed with Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi over the last serving of pork knuckle rice. He challenged Ye Xinglan to a fight for the dish, with the loser to become the winner’s underling.

• Tang Wulin’s Soul Power rose from rank sixteen to rank eighteen after a month of eating rare ingredients at the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters.
• Tang Wulin went to a restaurant with Gu Yue and ordered its most expensive dishes.
• Tang Wulin recognized Xu Lizhi and Ye Xinglan as future Shrek Academy students when they tried to take his last serving of pork knuckle rice.
• Tang Wulin challenged Ye Xinglan to fight for the dish, and she accepted.

Tang Wulin defeated Ye Xinglan in a sparring match and gained her and Xu Lizhi as followers, then became notorious for eating his way through Shrek City. After his appetite strained Leng Yaozhu’s finances, she told him to learn a Second Profession to support himself.

• Tang Wulin used Teleportation and his Golden Dragon Claw to disarm Ye Xinglan, who admitted defeat and called him boss; Xu Lizhi followed her lead.
• Tang Wulin welcomed Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi as followers and promised them meat to eat.
• Tang Wulin ate through Shrek City’s restaurants, earned the nickname Big Eater, and raised his soul power to rank nineteen in half a month.
• Leng Yaozhu told Tang Wulin she could no longer afford his food and urged him to learn a Second Profession to make a living.

Tang Wulin persuaded Leng Yaozhu to let him learn forging and travel to Heaven Dou City to seek Divine Craftsman Zhen Hua as his teacher. After a month, he arrived at the Blacksmith Association and volunteered to demonstrate the forging technique Zhen Hua had shown.

• Tang Wulin chose forging as his Second Profession and convinced Leng Yaozhu that he wanted to become a Divine Craftsman to help the Spirit Pagoda.
• Leng Yaozhu gathered the Four Great Spiritual Objects and promised to take Tang Wulin to meet Zhen Hua at the Blacksmith Association headquarters.
• Tang Wulin reached out to Old Tang to break through the second seal, and a month passed.
• Zhen Hua demonstrated his Thousand Refinement technique to the blacksmiths gathered in Heaven Dou City.
• Tang Wulin asked to try the technique, and Zhen Hua advised him to return when he was older, but Tang Wulin insisted that forging looked simple.

Tang Wulin stunned the blacksmiths by using his newly gained Berserk skill to forge high-quality First-Grade Thousand Refinement on his first attempt. Zhen Hua and Leng Yaozhu both asked to make him their disciple, leaving them astonished to learn that Tang Wulin was already Leng Yaozhu’s student.

• Tang Wulin accepted Zhen Hua’s challenge to forge heavy silver, and Zhen Hua supplied him with a stool, hammers, and metal.
• Tang Wulin quickly achieved Hundred Refinement and continued forging as the crowd and Zhen Hua realized he had copied Zhen Hua’s technique after watching it once.
• Tang Wulin revealed two purple Soul Rings and used his second Soul Skill, Berserk, to regain strength and complete high-quality First-Grade Thousand Refinement.
• Zhen Hua helped Tang Wulin bind the metal with a drop of blood, then learned that this had been Tang Wulin’s first time forging.
• Leng Yaozhu arrived looking for Tang Wulin and asked Zhen Hua to take him as an apprentice, while Zhen Hua asked to take Tang Wulin as his disciple.
• Leng Yaozhu and Zhen Hua discovered that Tang Wulin was already her student, but Zhen Hua insisted that he would take him as a disciple.

After becoming Zhen Hua's disciple, Tang Wulin astonished the Divine Craftsman and Mu Ye with his appetite, breakthrough, and extraordinary strength. Mu Ye recruited him into the Body Sect, and Tang Wulin accepted him as his teacher.

• Leng Yaozhu left Tang Wulin with Zhen Hua after he became Zhen Hua's disciple.
• Tang Wulin ate so much of Zhen Hua's food that his soul power broke through to rank 23, and Mu Ye helped him refine his overflowing life force.
• Mu Ye discovered Tang Wulin's powerful bloodline and tested his strength, witnessing him reach 20,580 jin with Golden Dragon Body and Golden Dragon Claw.
• Mu Ye introduced himself as the Body Sect Master and asked Tang Wulin to become his disciple.
• Tang Wulin accepted Mu Ye as his teacher, hoping to learn the Body Sect's Body Refinement methods.

After eight months of forging and Body Sect training, Tang Wulin boarded a train back to Shrek City and encountered Wu Changkong, who was still grieving Long Bing. When Evil Soul Masters hijacked the train, Wu Changkong fought them and left their leader cornered, but Red Skull seized Tang Wulin as a hostage.

• Tang Wulin advanced beyond rank five as a blacksmith and reached rank 29 in soul power before Zhen Hua and Mu Ye sent him back with forging notes and rare metals.
• Tang Wulin boarded the train to Shrek City and found Wu Changkong sitting in his seat, recognizing the grieving man beside him.
• The train attendant revealed that Evil Soul Masters had hijacked the train, and Wu Changkong went to confront them.
• Wu Changkong defeated Red Skull's subordinates and overpowered the Six-Ring Soul Emperor, leaving him barely standing.
• Red Skull obscured Wu Changkong's vision, grabbed Tang Wulin, and threatened to kill him if anyone tried to stop him.

Tang Wulin was taken hostage aboard a Soul Guidance Train by Red Skull while Wu Changkong faced a second group of Evil Soul Masters. Tang Wulin freed himself and battled Red Skull, but his rapidly dwindling soul power left the fight unresolved.

• Red Skull seized Tang Wulin as a hostage while Wu Changkong confronted him aboard the train.
• A train attendant reported that Green Skull and his followers were slaughtering passengers in the rear carriages, so Tang Wulin told Wu Changkong to go help them.
• Tang Wulin escaped Red Skull's grip and stabbed through his abdomen with his golden-scaled hand.
• Tang Wulin revealed two purple Soul Rings and fought Red Skull using Teleportation and Golden Dragon Claw, repeatedly evading the Soul Emperor's attacks.
• Red Skull taunted Tang Wulin as his soul power waned, threatening to capture him and refine him into a demon infant.

Tang Wulin defeated Red Skull with Eight-Stage Throw, but Red Skull began to self-destruct with enough power to destroy the train. Tang Wulin carried him away from the passengers as Wu Changkong pursued.

• Tang Wulin used Eight-Stage Throw to incapacitate Red Skull and leave him unable to fight.
• Wu Changkong arrived and found Tang Wulin standing over the defeated Red Skull.
• Red Skull awakened and began swelling as he prepared to self-destruct, threatening everyone aboard the train.
• Tang Wulin carried Red Skull out of the carriage and ran toward the wilderness while Wu Changkong chased after him.

Tang Wulin survived Red Skull’s explosion after breaking through to level thirty and gaining the Invincible Golden Body skill. In the hospital, he urged Wu Changkong to become a god so he might resurrect Long Bing, giving Wu Changkong new resolve.

• Tang Wulin carried the swelling Red Skull away from the train and survived the explosion by using his Invincible Golden Body.
• Wu Changkong found Tang Wulin alive in the ruins, learned he had reached level thirty, and caught him when he fainted.
• Federation reinforcements took Tang Wulin to the hospital, where he recovered and received a Star Emblem with Wu Changkong.
• Tang Wulin reminded Wu Changkong that others cared about him and suggested godhood might let him bring Long Bing back.
• Wu Changkong regained his confidence and resolved to grow stronger and become a god.

After recovering from his fight with an Evil Soul Master, Tang Wulin discovered his strength had reached more than fifty thousand jin and sought a way to improve his Blood Essence further. Leng Yaozhu pointed him toward Zhuo Shi of Shrek Academy, who could teach him the Red Dragon Nine Forms.

• Wu Changkong thanked Tang Wulin, left him his contact details, and departed after Leng Yaozhu and Gu Yue arrived at the hospital.
• Leng Yaozhu scolded Tang Wulin for confronting a powerful Evil Soul Master, while Gu Yue brought him Red Jade Shrimp to eat.
• Leng Yaozhu marveled at Tang Wulin's and Gu Yue's cultivation ranks, and Gu Yue privately wondered why Tang Wulin cultivated so quickly.
• At the Spirit Pagoda, Tang Wulin's tests showed nine thousand jin of normal strength and a maximum explosive strength of 50,868 jin.
• Tang Wulin asked Leng Yaozhu how he could further cultivate his Blood Essence, and she suggested Zhuo Shi, Wu Changkong's teacher at Shrek Academy.

Tang Wulin sought Zhuo Shi’s Red Dragon Nine Forms, and Leng Yaozhu brought him to Shrek Academy to negotiate for the technique. Zhuo Shi hesitated over sharing his closely guarded art with a Spirit Pagoda disciple, despite Wu Changkong’s support.

• Leng Yaozhu agreed to arrange a meeting with Zhuo Shi so Tang Wulin could seek the Red Dragon Nine Forms.
• Wu Changkong returned to Sea God Island and told Zhuo Shi that Tang Wulin had inspired him to pursue becoming a god and bringing Long Bing back.
• Shen Yi informed Zhuo Shi that Leng Yaozhu had arrived with a child, and Wu Changkong recognized the child as Tang Wulin.
• Leng Yaozhu asked Zhuo Shi to teach Tang Wulin the Red Dragon Nine Forms and offered Spirit Pagoda resources in exchange.
• Zhuo Shi hesitated because the technique was his guarded creation and relations between Shrek Academy and the Spirit Pagoda were tense.

Yun Ming and Ya Li arrived at Sea God Island with their young disciple Na'er, where they encountered Leng Yaozhu and Tang Wulin. Yun Ming proposed a duel between Na'er and Tang Wulin to decide whether Shrek Academy would teach Tang Wulin the Nine Scarlet Dragon Forms, and Leng Yaozhu agreed.

• Yun Ming, Ya Li, and Na'er arrived on Sea God Island, where Zhuo Shi and Leng Yaozhu greeted them.
• Yun Ming introduced Na'er as his exceptionally talented disciple, and Tang Wulin recognized her name and exchanged a knowing look with her.
• Leng Yaozhu asked Zhuo Shi to teach Tang Wulin the Nine Scarlet Dragon Forms.
• Yun Ming proposed that Na'er fight Tang Wulin, promising Shrek Academy would provide the forms if Tang Wulin won.
• Leng Yaozhu accepted the challenge, and Na'er eagerly told Tang Wulin she would remember him.

Na'er and Tang Wulin fought on Sea God Island, where Tang Wulin's strength and Teleportation overcame her superior spearwork. Na'er accepted her defeat, while Yun Ming watched grimly and Leng Yaozhu looked smug.

• Na'er summoned the Silver Dragon Spear, and Tang Wulin revealed his three purple Soul Rings as a Soul Elder, shocking Yun Ming.
• Na'er attacked with skilled spearwork and forced Tang Wulin backward until he activated Berserk.
• Tang Wulin used Golden Dragon Body to seize Na'er's spear, then struck her down with his overwhelming strength and Teleportation.
• Na'er rose and challenged Tang Wulin again, but he flung her to the ground, leaving her unable to continue.
• Tang Wulin offered Na'er a hand, but she slapped it away, admitted defeat, and Yun Ming and Leng Yaozhu reacted with contrasting expressions.

Tang Wulin comforted Leng Yaozhu before becoming Zhuo Shi’s disciple and beginning to learn the Red Dragon Nine Forms. Zhuo Shi taught him the first three forms, leaving Tang Wulin with the techniques to study.

• Na'er returned from her defeat by Tang Wulin, and Yun Ming and Ya Li comforted her before leaving with her.
• Tang Wulin promised to keep Leng Yaozhu company, and she told him that learning the Red Dragon Nine Forms would be the best way to show his devotion.
• Zhuo Shi tested Tang Wulin’s attitude toward his legacy, and Tang Wulin knelt and asked to become his disciple.
• Zhuo Shi accepted Tang Wulin and demonstrated the first form, Scarlet Dragon Shakes the Heavens, with a punch that demolished part of the woods.
• Zhuo Shi explained the first three forms of the Red Dragon Nine Forms, while Tang Wulin listened and asked questions.