Chapter Summaries

After winning the Freshman Assessment, Nezha, Ning Tian, and Nanmen Yun'er received a rare Soul Bone as their additional championship reward. Nezha proposed giving it to Nanmen Yun'er.

• Du Weilun took Nezha, Ning Tian, and Nanmen Yun'er to his office to collect their championship reward.
• Du Weilun revealed that the academy had awarded them a Voidlight Demon Leopard Left Leg Bone and warned them to keep it secret and protect their friendship.
• Nezha accepted the Soul Bone and concealed it in the Soul Power-muffling pouch Du Weilun provided.
• After leaving the office, Nezha told Ning Tian and Nanmen Yun'er that they should give the Soul Bone to Yun'er.

Nezha and Ning Tian persuaded Nanmen Yun'er to accept a thousand-year Soul Bone and invited her to join the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect after graduation. Yan Shaozhe then offered to become Nezha’s master, presenting a ten-thousand-year fire-attribute Soul Bone as a welcoming gift, and awaited his answer.

• Nezha and Ning Tian offered the Voidlight Demon Leopard Left Leg Bone to Nanmen Yun'er, who initially refused it.
• Ning Tian explained how the Soul Bone could benefit Nanmen Yun'er and invited her to join the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect after graduation.
• Nanmen Yun'er accepted the Soul Bone and thanked Nezha and Ning Tian before they returned toward the classroom building.
• Yan Shaozhe asked Nezha to speak with him alone and praised his performance and talent at the Freshman Assessment.
• Yan Shaozhe offered to personally guide Nezha as his master and presented a ten-thousand-year Crimson Flame Demon Tiger Right Arm Bone as a welcoming gift.

Nezha refused Yan Shaozhe’s offer of discipleship but accepted the Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone he insisted on giving him. On his way back, Nezha encountered Ma Xiaotao as her evil fire erupted, and she seized him in a feverish embrace.

• Nezha declined to become Yan Shaozhe’s disciple because he had already joined the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Yan Shaozhe gave Nezha the soul bone anyway and urged him to fuse with it soon.
• Ma Xiaotao sensed her evil fire surging out of control after cultivation and left to seek help suppressing it.
• While crossing Sea God Lake, Ma Xiaotao felt a suppressive force near Nezha, lost much of her reason, and lunged at him.
• Nezha dodged Ma Xiaotao’s first charge, but she sped after him and wrapped her arms around him.

Li Nezha accidentally purified Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire when it surged into him, leaving her clearheaded and relieved. After Ma Xiaotao realized she had clung to him, Nezha offered to help whenever her fire flared again, and she promised to remember him.

• Ma Xiaotao clung to Li Nezha, and his Great Firmament Celestial Art and Ultimate Fire absorbed and suppressed her evil fire.
• Ma Xiaotao relaxed against Nezha while he stood still and helped her regain control.
• Ma Xiaotao awoke to find herself embracing Nezha, sprang away, and demanded to know who he was.
• Nezha introduced himself as a freshman from Class Nine and asked whether her evil fire felt better.
• Ma Xiaotao realized Nezha had purified her evil fire more effectively than anyone before and told him she would remember him.
• Nezha offered to help when her evil fire flared again, then returned to the dormitory as Ma Xiaotao watched him go.

Nezha saw through Yan Shaozhe’s plan to bind him to Shrek Academy through Ma Xiaotao and the soul bone, but used Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire to strengthen his cultivation. After becoming a twelve-year-old Soul Ancestor, he learned that Elder Wu would come to Shrek Academy to take him to the Star Dou Great Forest for a soul ring.

• Nezha realized Yan Shaozhe had arranged for Ma Xiaotao to approach him, and discovered that purifying her evil fire increased his soul power.
• Nezha fused with the Crimson Flame Demon Tiger right arm bone, becoming class monitor of Freshman Class One and rising from rank thirty-seven to rank thirty-nine.
• Huo Yuhao became a core disciple of the Soul Tool Department, while Ma Xiaotao kept visiting Nezha for evil-fire purification.
• Nezha broke through to rank forty with Ma Xiaotao’s help, becoming a twelve-year-old Soul Ancestor.
• Ning Zhiyuan told Nezha that Wu Yun would come to Shrek Academy and take him to the Star Dou Great Forest for a soul ring.

Nezha traveled through the Star Dou Great Forest to find a suitable fourth Soul Ring, with Wu Yun secretly following to watch over him. He located a ten-thousand-year Crimson Flame Demon Lion, but the appearance of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion left him wondering why the Emperor Auspicious Beast had come to him.

• Nezha entered the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain his fourth Soul Ring while Wu Yun followed unseen.
• Nezha killed a Gale Wolf and a Mandala Snake, then cautiously avoided a ten-thousand-year Shadow Leopard and a group of Azure Water Toads.
• After two days of travel, Nezha found a Crimson Flame Demon Lion in a valley and decided its fire attribute made it a suitable Soul Ring target.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion appeared behind the Crimson Flame Demon Lion, and Nezha recognized her as the Emperor Auspicious Beast from Huo Yuhao's story.
• Nezha wondered whether he had taken Huo Yuhao's opportunity or whether something about him had attracted the Emperor Auspicious Beast.