Chapter Summaries

Li Nezha went with his parents to the Nine Treasures Hall to awaken his martial soul, hoping for a powerful mutation that could change his plans. As Su Yuntian proceeded through the children, Nezha was still waiting for his turn.

• Li Nezha met his parents, Li Jing and Yin Shiniang, at the gates of Nine Treasures City and admitted he was eager to awaken his martial soul.
• Li Jing took Nezha and Yin Shiniang to the Nine Treasures Hall, where Nezha joined the line of children awaiting their awakenings.
• Su Yuntian arrived, introduced himself as a level-fifty-two Battle Soul King, and led the children into the Awakening Hall.
• Su Yuntian demonstrated his cat owl martial soul and awakened the first boy's sword martial soul, finding that the boy had level-five innate soul power.
• Su Yuntian continued awakening children, most of whom had only level-one or level-two innate soul power, while Nezha waited for his turn.

Nezha awakened the Fire-Tipped Spear and concealed his second martial soul, then revealed that he had innate full soul power. His parents celebrated his talent, and Su Yuntian asked to take him to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect for priority training.

• Nezha suppressed the power in his left hand and revealed the Fire-Tipped Spear as his martial soul.
• Nezha demonstrated innate full soul power, and Su Yuntian reacted with excitement.
• Nezha told Li Jing and Yin Shiniang about his awakening, and they embraced him with joy.
• Su Yuntian introduced himself to Nezha's parents and asked to take Nezha to the sect for prioritized training.

Nezha left his parents to begin special training at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. At the sect’s awakening ceremony, Ning Tian revealed innate full soul power, while Wu Feng’s awakening remained ahead.

• Li Jing and Yin Shiniang agreed to let Nezha join the sect, and Nezha reassured his mother before leaving with Su Yuntian.
• Nezha said goodbye to his parents and traveled with Su Yuntian toward the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Zhiyuan and Wu Yun watched the sect’s awakening ceremony and worried that its early candidates lacked the talent needed to secure its future.
• Ning Tian awakened a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and displayed innate full soul power.
• Ning Zhiyuan and Wu Yun turned their hopes to Wu Feng, whose awakening had not yet taken place.

Wu Feng awakened a Red Dragon martial soul with innate rank-eight soul power, while the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect elders lamented that she could not reach Super Douluo potential. Su Yuntian then reported a child with innate full soul power and a Fire-Tipped Spear, and Ning Zhiyuan and Wu Yun rushed to meet him, learning that his name was Li Nezha.

• Wu Feng awakened her Red Dragon martial soul and received an innate soul power ranking of eight.
• Ning Zhiyuan regretted that Wu Feng's talent was unlikely to let her become a Super Douluo, while Wu Yun noted she could protect Ning Tian.
• Su Yuntian reported that a child in Nine Treasures City had innate full soul power and a Fire-Tipped Spear martial soul.
• Ning Zhiyuan and Wu Yun hurried to the sect entrance to meet the child.
• Ning Zhiyuan approached the boy and asked his name, and the child introduced himself as Li Nezha.

Nezha entered the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and revealed his Fire-Tipped Spear, which Wu Yun identified as possessing ultimate fire. Ning Zhiyuan recognized Nezha as a potentially decisive talent for the sect, while Nezha concealed his knowledge of the spear’s origins.

• Nezha respectfully greeted Ning Zhiyuan and Wu Yun, who welcomed him into the sect.
• Ning Zhiyuan dismissed the others and asked Nezha to reveal his martial soul before Wu Yun, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng.
• Nezha summoned the Fire-Tipped Spear, whose blazing presence raised the hall’s temperature and impressed everyone present.
• Wu Yun sensed that the spear’s fire suppressed his Red Dragon martial soul and declared that Nezha possessed ultimate fire.
• Ning Zhiyuan realized Nezha’s talent could shape the sect’s future, while Nezha pretended not to understand its significance and kept the spear’s origins secret.

Nezha revealed his second martial soul, the Sky-Mending Silk, to Ning Zhiyuan and Wu Yun. Ning Zhiyuan ordered everyone present to keep the discovery secret, then sent Ning Tian to show Nezha around the sect.

• Nezha asked Ning Zhiyuan whether someone could have two martial souls and summoned the Sky-Mending Silk from his left hand.
• Ning Zhiyuan recognized Nezha's twin martial souls and warned him not to reveal the Sky-Mending Silk to outsiders.
• Ning Zhiyuan instructed Ning Tian and Wu Feng to keep Nezha's second martial soul secret, and both girls agreed.
• Ning Zhiyuan asked Ning Tian to show Nezha around and find him a place to stay; Wu Feng challenged Nezha to a future match.
• After the children left, Ning Zhiyuan told Wu Yun that Nezha would become a pillar of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.

Nezha settled into his luxurious new residence at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and discovered a mysterious pearl inside his Fire-Tipped Spear. The pearl entered his mind and revealed the Great Firmament Celestial Art.

• Ning Tian showed Nezha and Wu Feng Nezha’s private courtyard and gave him a Mystic Water Pill.
• Ning Tian led them through the residence, including its energy-rich cultivation chamber, study, and bedroom, and promised to take them to the grade-A dining hall.
• That night, Nezha sensed a small white pearl separating from the Fire-Tipped Spear.
• The pearl transformed into a streak of light and entered Nezha’s mind, where he learned its name: the Great Firmament Celestial Art.

Nezha tempered his excitement over the Great Firmament Celestial Art and resolved to build a solid foundation before attempting its powerful abilities. At dawn, Wu Yun took him and Ning Tian to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for Nezha’s first soul ring.

• Nezha recognized that his cultivation was still weak and decided to practice the Great Firmament Celestial Art gradually while pursuing the Soul Master system.
• Ning Zhiyuan told Nezha that Wu Yun would take him and Ning Tian to hunt for soul rings, and that he had selected a suitable soul beast for Nezha.
• Wu Yun carried Nezha and Ning Tian beneath his arms and flew from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect with his dragon wings.
• After less than ten hours of flight, Wu Yun reached the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest with Nezha and Ning Tian.

Wu Yun led Nezha and Ning Tian to a volcanic crater in the Star Dou Great Forest, where they each obtained a first soul ring from a Flame Ape. After both succeeded in absorbing their rings, Wu Yun took them back toward the sect.

• Wu Yun warned Nezha and Ning Tian about the dangers of the Star Dou Great Forest and explained that their first soul rings should grant suitable enhancement skills.
• Wu Yun led them to a volcanic crater where two roughly four-hundred-year-old Flame Apes lived.
• Wu Yun subdued the Flame Apes with his Titled Douluo pressure and brought them before Nezha and Ning Tian.
• Nezha and Ning Tian each killed a Flame Ape and began absorbing its yellow soul ring while Wu Yun guarded them.
• Nezha and Ning Tian finished absorbing their rings, and Wu Yun praised them before carrying them back toward the sect.

Nezha returned to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and revealed that his first soul skill, Bathe in Fire, amplified attack power by seventy percent. As he settled into training and Wu Feng repeatedly challenged him, his family joined the sect and time passed.

• Ning Tian reported that her Flame Ape soul ring granted Strength Amplification, while Nezha revealed that his granted the seventy-percent Attack Power Amplification skill Bathe in Fire.
• Ning Zhiyuan praised Nezha's soul ring and sent him and Ning Tian to study at the Scripture Pavilion while continuing their cultivation.
• Wu Feng complained that Ning Tian and Nezha had gone soul-ring hunting without her, and Nezha hurried off as Ning Tian reassured her.
• Ning Tian regularly brought Nezha food, books, and cultivation resources, while Wu Feng grew jealous and challenged him to soul fighting.
• Nezha defeated Wu Feng in three moves, and she kept returning every few days to challenge him again.
• Li Jing and Nezha's mother moved from Nine Treasures City to the sect, where Li Jing became an outer-sect steward, and Nezha gradually grew older.

Six years later, twelve-year-old Li Nezha hunted a soul ring for Ning Tian in the Star Dou Great Forest. He defeated a Wind Spirit Bird, and Ning Tian began absorbing its thousand-year soul ring while Nezha and Wu Feng guarded her.

• Li Nezha tracked down and pierced a two-thousand-year-old Wind Spirit Bird with his Fire-Tipped Spear.
• Li Nezha told Ning Tian the Wind Spirit Bird was suitable for her third soul ring.
• Ning Tian killed the weakened Wind Spirit Bird and began absorbing its purple soul ring.
• Wu Feng admonished Li Nezha for chasing the beast alone, and he reminded her she had once said battle soul masters only needed to defeat their enemies.
• Wu Feng grew flustered when she could not deny her earlier words, while Li Nezha turned back to watch Ning Tian absorb the ring.

After Ning Tian obtained her third Soul Ring, Nezha’s review of his growing abilities was interrupted by the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s spiritual power. Nezha resisted the mental suppression, and as the sky darkened, he recognized the arrival of the powerful beings who would intervene in the silkworm’s encounter with Huo Yuhao.

• Nezha reflected on his cultivation, combat abilities, twin Martial Souls, and the Soul Tools made for him by the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Tian revealed that her third Soul Skill granted speed amplification, and the group prepared to leave for Shrek Academy.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s spiritual power swept through the forest, leaving Ning Tian and Wu Feng frozen while Nezha remained unaffected.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm spotted Nezha and was stunned that a young Soul Master could withstand his million-year spiritual power.
• Nezha recognized the scene from Huo Yuhao’s story, and the sky darkened over the Star Dou Great Forest.

Electrolux descended as a remnant soul and split himself between Huo Yuhao and Nezha, with both portions falling asleep in their hosts’ consciousnesses. After the spiritual pressure faded, Nezha concealed what had happened from Ning Tian and Wu Feng and led them toward Huo Yuhao.

• Electrolux arrived and sensed the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, Nezha, and the white bead.
• Electrolux divided his remnant soul, sending one portion into Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness and the other into Nezha’s.
• Nezha found Electrolux’s portion asleep in his Sea of Consciousness and felt no immediate discomfort.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s spiritual pressure receded, and Ning Tian and Wu Feng regained consciousness.
• Nezha told Ning Tian and Wu Feng that nothing had happened, then suggested they investigate Huo Yuhao’s location.

Nezha and his companions met Huo Yuhao, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya in the Star Dou Great Forest. Tang Ya invited the newcomers to join the Tang Sect, but Ning Tian declined and revealed that she belonged to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.

• Nezha, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng came upon Huo Yuhao, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya in a forest clearing.
• Bei Bei introduced himself, Tang Ya, and Huo Yuhao, and learned that the newcomers were Shrek Academy students from the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Tang Ya invited Ning Tian, Nezha, and Wu Feng to join the Tang Sect.
• Ning Tian politely declined and revealed her seven-story pagoda and three Soul Rings, explaining that she was from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and had obtained her third Soul Ring.
• Bei Bei recognized Ning Tian's talent and realized that Shrek Academy's incoming class would be unusually formidable.

After parting from Bei Bei, Tang Ya, and Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Nezha traveled to Shrek City for the academy’s admissions season. Huo Yuhao remained wary of Nezha, while the trio reached Shrek’s east gate and drew attention from the crowd.

• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned Huo Yuhao that Nezha had remained conscious during its spiritual sweep and carried a pearl powerful enough to resist it.
• Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Nezha said farewell to Bei Bei, Tang Ya, and Huo Yuhao, then went their separate ways.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng used flying soul tools while Nezha rode his Wind Fire Wheels, and they reached Shrek City in less than half a day.
• The three approached Shrek Academy’s east gate, where registration was underway amid crowds of prospective students and their families.
• The crowd admired Nezha, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng, while Ning Tian stayed composed and Wu Feng openly enjoyed the attention.

Nezha, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng passed Shrek Academy's entrance tests and completed their registration. After exploring the campus and receiving their dorm assignments, they reached the shared dormitory building, where Wu Feng questioned the academy's arrangement.

• Wu Feng and Ning Tian teased Nezha about the attention they attracted, while Nezha wondered about Wu Feng's feelings.
• Wu Feng tested at level twenty-six and was admitted to Shrek Academy.
• Ning Tian and Nezha each reached the crystal ball's level-thirty limit, surprising the registration teachers and students.
• The trio entered Shrek Academy, passed its statues and Sea God Lake, and collected uniforms, badges, and dorm keys.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng were assigned the same room, while Nezha received room 107.
• The trio saw that boys and girls shared one dormitory building, and Wu Feng mocked the academy for it.

Nezha entered his Shrek Academy dormitory and found his roommate had left a mess on Nezha’s bed and across the room. After the roommate attacked him, Nezha knocked him down with two slaps, leaving him stunned on the floor.

• Mu En warned Nezha and the two girls not to go above the third floor, then observed them leaving and noted their high levels.
• Nezha found his room and swept his roommate’s belongings from his bed onto the floor.
• The roommate got angry and swung at Nezha, who slapped him and sent him crashing into the rubbish.
• The roommate used his tiger-like martial soul to lunge at Nezha, but Nezha dodged and struck him with a second slap.
• The roommate sat dazed on the floor, his cheeks swollen and bloodied.

Nezha beat Zhou Hu into submitting and made him clean the boys’ dorm, while Ning Tian and Wu Feng discussed their feelings for Nezha in their room. Ning Tian resolved to keep close to him, and Wu Feng vowed to find a way to make him notice them.

• Nezha asked Zhou Hu about his age, rank, and family after beating him.
• Zhou Hu submitted to Nezha, who ordered him to clean the dorm from then on.
• Wu Feng complained that Nezha had not noticed Ning Tian’s affection despite her caring for him for six years.
• Wu Feng admitted she admired Nezha, recalling how he helped her improve after defeating her in their fights.
• Wu Feng proposed finding a way to make Nezha understand their feelings, and Ning Tian told her not to act recklessly.
• Ning Tian remembered meeting Nezha six years earlier and decided she had to keep getting closer to him.

On Shrek Academy’s opening day, Nezha learned that he, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng had been assigned to Freshman Class Nine, while Zhou Hu was placed in Class Ten. Their new homeroom teacher, Mu Jin, celebrated the roster, and Ning Tian quietly showed Nezha affection over lunch.

• Nezha woke Zhou Hu, and the two left their dormitory for the academy plaza.
• Nezha introduced Zhou Hu to Ning Tian and Wu Feng as his underling, and Wu Feng encouraged Zhou Hu to stick with him.
• At the noticeboard, Nezha found that he, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng were assigned to Class Nine, while Zhou Hu was assigned to Class Ten.
• Mu Jin read the Class Nine roster and gloated about having secured powerful students for his class.
• At lunch, Ning Tian placed a piece of meat in Nezha’s bowl, and Wu Feng noticed.

Nezha, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng joined Freshman Class Nine, where homeroom teacher Mu Jin warned that Shrek Academy would eliminate most freshmen in three months. He rallied the class to aim to stay, then began their first lesson on soul power circulation efficiency.

• Nezha, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng entered Freshman Class Nine and drew the attention of their classmates.
• Mu Jin introduced himself as the class's homeroom teacher and warned that Shrek Academy would eliminate more than half, possibly two-thirds, of the freshmen.
• Mu Jin urged the students to work hard and said he hoped more than two-thirds of Class Nine would remain at the academy.
• The class shouted that they were confident, and Mu Jin wrote “Lesson One: Soul Power Circulation Efficiency” on the blackboard.