Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian provoked Yu Xiaogang during an argument about their similar martial souls and Yu’s advice about feeding them. Yu Xiaogang collapsed after Yang Jian’s insults, while Tang San glared at him and the Shrek students moved to prevent a fight.

• Yang Jian corrected Yu Xiaogang about Xiaotian being a dog, prompting Ning Rongrong and Ma Hongjun to laugh and earning Yang Jian a soul-power level and stronger soul rings.
• Flender tried to stop the argument, and Dai Mubai interrupted Yu Xiaogang to ask about the training plans.
• Yu Xiaogang condemned Yang Jian for feeding Xiaotian soul-beast meat and insisted it should eat radishes; Yang Jian mocked him and earned more system rewards.
• Yang Jian insulted Yu Xiaogang’s age, cultivation, and martial soul, causing Yu Xiaogang to spit blood and collapse.
• Tang San caught Yu Xiaogang and glared at Yang Jian, while Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai stepped in to prevent a confrontation.

Yang Jian absorbed a sudden surge of Soul Power and reached the threshold of level forty while cultivating. After waking the next morning, he announced that he was heading to the Star Dou Great Forest to become a Soul Ancestor.

• Yang Jian circulated the Mysterious Heaven Skill to control the Soul Power flooding his body, and Flender confirmed he was nearing level forty.
• Dai Mubai revealed that Yang Jian was fifteen, shocking Tang San and earning Yang Jian a stronger storage belt through the system.
• Flender dismissed the others, while Ma Hongjun stayed beside Yang Jian overnight and fell asleep.
• Yang Jian woke Ma Hongjun, used acupuncture to ease his Evil Fire, and told him to call Flender for their trip to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ma Hongjun ran off shouting that Yang Jian had broken through to Soul Ancestor, and Yu Xiaogang's rage triggered a system reward.

Yu Xiaogang praised Tang San’s talent and challenged him to surpass Yang Jian, but Flender revealed that Yang Jian had reached level thirty-six by age twelve. Yu Xiaogang and Tang San were left stunned, and Yu Xiaogang’s intense negative emotions triggered a soul power increase.

• Yang Jian gave Xiaotian a chunk of Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon flesh for breakfast.
• Yu Xiaogang encouraged Tang San to surpass Yang Jian and learned that Tang San was twelve years old, level twenty-nine, and used Blue Silver Grass.
• Flender told Yu Xiaogang that he planned to take his level-forty disciple Yang Jian and the others to the Star Dou Great Forest for soul beasts and practical training.
• Yu Xiaogang accused Flender of using external aids to raise Yang Jian’s soul power and harming his future as a Soul Master.
• Flender revealed that Yang Jian had been level thirty-six at age twelve and said his Spirit Hall records proved it.
• Yu Xiaogang’s intense negative emotions triggered a reward that increased his current soul power by one.

Yang Jian prepared for the trip to the Star Dou Great Forest while strengthening himself with ten-thousand-year whale glue, and his group set out to find him a soul ring. In the forest, Yu Xiaogang disparaged Yang Jian and predicted that his dog would eventually betray him, leaving Flender worried about whether the warning was true.

• Yang Jian received the Heavenly Mystic Jade Hand and more soul power, then began grinding ten-thousand-year whale glue to strengthen his body.
• Yang Jian reflected that Ma Hongjun had secretly reached rank twenty-nine and noticed that Xiaotian had grown more dragon scales.
• Flender gathered the students, announced Ma Hongjun's breakthrough, and led the group of eleven toward the Star Dou Great Forest to find Yang Jian a soul ring.
• During the journey, Yu Xiaogang explained the forest's dangers to Tang San while insulting Yang Jian and Xiaotian.
• Yu Xiaogang predicted that Xiaotian would turn on Yang Jian and that Yang Jian would remain a Soul Emperor for life, prompting Flender to ask whether his claim was true.

Yu Xiaogang told Flender that Yang Jian’s slow cultivation was caused by feeding Xiaotian dragon blood and meat, and demanded that he stop. Yang Jian challenged Yu Xiaogang’s claim in front of the Shrek Academy students.

• Flender admitted that Yang Jian’s cultivation had slowed over the past three years, though he had found nothing wrong with his body.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed that feeding Xiaotian dragon blood and meat had fueled Yang Jian’s earlier rapid growth and was now preventing him from progressing.
• Flender pleaded with Yu Xiaogang to help Yang Jian, and Yu Xiaogang said he would only help if Yang Jian stopped feeding Xiaotian.
• Yu Xiaogang loudly warned that Yang Jian would never reach Soul Emperor if he continued, drawing varied reactions from the Shrek Academy students.
• Yang Jian asked Yu Xiaogang whether refusing to listen to him meant his Soul Power would stop increasing.

Yang Jian mocked Yu Xiaogang’s claims about his cultivation, provoking him until he spat blood and earned Yang Jian a guaranteed Soul Bone reward. Tang San then attacked Ning Rongrong with five silver needles, leaving her in immediate danger.

• Yang Jian rejected Yu Xiaogang’s offer to fix his cultivation and mocked him as the “Fart God.”
• Flender urged Yang Jian to apologize and accept Yu Xiaogang’s help, but Yang Jian insisted he was building up reserves for an explosive breakthrough.
• Yang Jian challenged Yu Xiaogang’s logic and repeated rumors about his theories and personal life, prompting Ma Hongjun and Ning Rongrong to join the mockery.
• Yu Xiaogang spat blood in rage, triggering Yang Jian’s system reward of a guaranteed, superior Soul Bone on his next soul beast hunt.
• Tang San threw five silver needles at Ning Rongrong, and Flender and Zhao Wuji realized they could not reach her in time.

Yang Jian caught Tang San’s needles and gained an enhanced sound-localization ability, then joked with the Shrek students and proposed a wager over a blindfolded feat. The chapter left him rejecting Ning Rongrong’s challenge and urging the group to choose another way to test him for a prize that could strengthen their constitutions and help them absorb older Soul Rings.

• Yang Jian caught the five silver needles Tang San threw, earning the Ten Thousand Sounds Enter the Heart ability as Ning Rongrong berated Tang San for attacking him.
• Flender stopped Zhao Wuji from confronting Tang San further, ordered everyone to let the matter rest, and left without punishing Tang San.
• The Shrek students asked Yang Jian how he caught the needles, and he teased them before offering to demonstrate his skill blindfolded.
• Ning Rongrong volunteered to blindfold Yang Jian, and the group trusted him to catch every leaf he tossed.
• Yang Jian offered the students a wager for a prize that could improve their constitutions, but he refused Ning Rongrong’s suggestion that he catch leaves thrown from a hundred meters away and asked them to choose another challenge.

Yang Jian wagered that he could catch leaves tossed by Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, while the group secretly planned to trick him. After they began the challenge by handing the leaves to Dai Mubai and Oscar to carry away, Yang Jian calmly asked what the rush was.

• Yang Jian explained that the substance he took improved his physique and let him absorb Soul Rings beyond the usual age limits.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing proposed a leaf-catching challenge, and the group agreed to bet on a year of cooking and laundry service.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing took positions on either side of Yang Jian while Dai Mubai and Oscar stood beside them.
• At the start, Ning Rongrong tossed up a bundle of leaves, then Dai Mubai and Oscar took the bundles and ran in opposite directions.
• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ma Hongjun teased Yang Jian for not pursuing them, but Yang Jian asked, "What's the rush?"

Yang Jian revealed that he had won the leaf-collecting wager by making his throwing knives return to his hands, then gained several rewards from the others’ emotional reactions. Oscar fled into the Star Dou Great Forest after seeing the knives, while Yang Jian spotted a Soul Beast he might hunt.

• Yang Jian made the two throwing knives curve back into his hands, revealing that they carried all the leaves from the wager.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing reacted with shock, and Yang Jian received a temporary Strength Amplification skill and increased Soul Ring ages; Ma Hongjun’s admiration also earned Yang Jian an ultimate flame.
• Dai Mubai and Oscar arrived, saw Yang Jian’s knives, and Dai Mubai snatched them to inspect the leaves.
• Dai Mubai’s despair earned Yang Jian the Tsukuyomi eye technique, while Oscar’s negative emotions earned him a Replication Mirror.
• Oscar screamed and ran deeper into the forest, so Flender pursued him while Zhao Wuji questioned the others.
• Yang Jian joked that Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing were moved by the prospect of serving him, then spotted a Soul Beast he might hunt.

Yang Jian recognized that the approaching Three-Headed Flood Dragon Wolf was a powerful Flood Dragon Wolf King and decided he might absorb its soul ring. After it overwhelmed Zhao Wuji, Yang Jian urged Yu Xiaogang and the others to help, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Yang Jian sensed a ten-thousand-year soul beast approaching and identified it as a forty-thousand-year Three-Headed Flood Dragon Wolf King with ancestral reversion.
• Xiaotian returned to Yang Jian, and Yang Jian decided to risk absorbing the wolf king's soul ring for its guaranteed soul bone reward.
• Yu Xiaogang misjudged the beast's age and strength, while Flender returned with Oscar and Zhao Wuji prepared to defend the group.
• The Three-Headed Flood Dragon Wolf charged Zhao Wuji and drove him back despite his soul skills, making Zhao Wuji question Yu Xiaogang's assessment.
• The wolf king's tail strike forced Zhao Wuji to use Martial Soul Avatar, and Yang Jian shouted at Yu Xiaogang to help before the others were overwhelmed.

Yang Jian directed the group’s support while Flender and Zhao Wuji fought the Three-Headed Flood Dragon Wolf King, and he gave Ning Rongrong a pill after she weakened from boosting them. When Zhao Wuji was thrown back, Flender urged Yang Jian to evacuate everyone, angering Yu Xiaogang and earning Yang Jian a Soul Power Experience Card.

• Yang Jian ordered Ning Rongrong and Oscar to support Zhao Wuji and Flender as they fought the Three-Headed Flood Dragon Wolf King.
• Ning Rongrong grew faint from enhancing two Soul Saints, and Yang Jian gave her a pill despite Yu Xiaogang’s objections.
• Yang Jian told Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun to stay back and run if the situation worsened, while Tang San declined to join the fight.
• The Three-Headed Flood Dragon Wolf King flung Zhao Wuji toward the group, and Flender shouted for Yang Jian to lead everyone in retreat.
• Yu Xiaogang grew angry that Flender had put Yang Jian in charge, and the system awarded Yang Jian a Level 79 Soul Saint Soul Power Experience Card.

Yang Jian used a level 79 Soul Saint Soul Power Experience Card and trapped the Three-Headed Flood Dragon Wolf King in Tsukuyomi after provoking it into looking at him. He left his allies with an opening to kill the beast while blood poured from his eyes.

• Yang Jian used the level 79 Soul Saint Soul Power Experience Card and told Flender and Zhao Wuji to prepare to attack.
• Yu Xiaogang ordered the others to retreat, but the Shrek students trusted Yang Jian and ignored him.
• Yang Jian struck the Three-Headed Flood Dragon Wolf King's eye with thirteen silver needles, making it look at him.
• The wolf king unleashed a soul-seizing sound wave that injured and tormented everyone nearby.
• Yang Jian used Tsukuyomi to trap the wolf king, but his eyes began bleeding as he struggled to restrain it.
• Yang Jian urged Flender and Zhao Wuji to hurry and kill the beast while it was trapped.

Yang Jian’s allies attacked the Three-Headed Flood Dragon Wolf King while he struggled to maintain Tsukuyomi, but their efforts left most of Shrek exhausted. Yang Jian withdrew the illusion and revealed purple, purple, and black soul rings, stunning everyone and making Yu Xiaogang lose his composure before Yang Jian prepared to strike.

• Flender, Zhao Wuji, Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, and the others attacked the Three-Headed Flood Dragon Wolf King while Yu Xiaogang kept Tang San and Xiao Wu back.
• Yang Jian spat blood as seven-colored light from the beast’s central head began tearing apart his Tsukuyomi space.
• Oscar and Ning Rongrong exhausted their support, while Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Zhu Zhuqing nearly ran out of soul power.
• Yu Xiaogang criticized the others for wasting their strength, then fell silent when their angry stares turned on him.
• Yang Jian withdrew Tsukuyomi and revealed purple, purple, and black soul rings, shocking the Shrek group and causing Yu Xiaogang to lose composure.
• Yang Jian prepared to attack the Three-Headed Flood Dragon Wolf King with his Holy Dragon Impact Cannon.

Xiaotian killed the Three-Headed Flood Dragon Wolf King with a holy light cannon, and the Shrek group discovered a crown-shaped soul bone. Yu Xiaogang identified the beast as a sixty-thousand-year leader-class soul beast, leaving Flender, Zhao Wuji, and the others stunned by what they had helped defeat.

• Xiaotian blasted apart the Three-Headed Flood Dragon Wolf King's upper body and guarded the soul bone that fell from its corpse.
• Yu Xiaogang stopped short of the soul bone when Xiaotian bared his teeth, and Flender examined it while Xiaotian ate the dragon meat he offered.
• Flender judged that the beast was at least forty thousand years old and wondered how Yang Jian had pinned it in place.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized the corpse as a Three-Headed Flood Dragon Wolf King and declared that it had been sixty thousand years old.
• Flender, Zhao Wuji, and the others were stunned by Yu Xiaogang's claim, and one fighter realized he had helped slay a sixty-thousand-year leader-class beast.

Yu Xiaogang claimed the Three-Headed Flood Dragon Wolf King was an exceptionally powerful, seventy-thousand-year soul beast, while Yang Jian insisted its soul ring was safe for him to absorb. The chapter ended with Yang Jian challenging Yu Xiaogang to bet on whether he could absorb it.

• Yu Xiaogang identified the soul bone as belonging to a Three-Headed Flood Dragon Wolf King and estimated its strength at that of an eighty-thousand-year soul beast.
• Yang Jian finished cultivating, confirmed his injuries had healed, and approached the soul ring to absorb it.
• Flender and the others realized Yang Jian intended to absorb the ring as his fourth, and they warned him it was far too dangerous.
• Yang Jian argued the beast could not be as old as Yu Xiaogang claimed and mocked him for exaggerating its strength.
• Yu Xiaogang insisted the ring was at least as difficult to absorb as an eighty-thousand-year ring, and Yang Jian challenged him to a bet.

Yang Jian accepted Yu Xiaogang’s wager over whether he could absorb the ten-thousand-year soul ring, while the others questioned his confidence and the apparent improvement of his soul rings. Yu Xiaogang agreed to the stakes, secretly intending to destroy Yang Jian’s reputation if he died.

• Yu Xiaogang agreed to apologize publicly if he lost, while Yang Jian would give him the soul bone if he lost.
• Ning Rongrong, Dai Mubai, and Tang San criticized Yu Xiaogang’s motives and argued over the wager.
• Flender and the others asked Yang Jian why he believed he could absorb the ten-thousand-year soul ring and how his soul rings had improved.
• Yang Jian claimed he had improved his soul rings by feeding Xiaotian and deflected questions about how it worked.
• Yu Xiaogang accused Yang Jian of using a second martial soul and warned that absorbing the ring would kill him.
• Yang Jian raised the stakes by demanding Yu Xiaogang admit his martial soul theories were copied, and Yu Xiaogang accepted the wager.

Yang Jian began absorbing the Three-Headed Flood Dragon Wolf King's Soul Ring after signing a wager with Yu Xiaogang, who expected him to die and claim the promised reward. As night fell and Yang Jian remained in cultivation, Ma Hongjun confronted Yu Xiaogang, and Dai Mubai called for everyone to unleash their martial souls.

• Yang Jian and Yu Xiaogang negotiated and signed a written agreement, then Yang Jian began absorbing the Soul Ring as Flender and the others watched.
• Yang Jian broke through another mental attack from the Three-Headed Flood Dragon Wolf King's lingering soul and continued patiently absorbing the Soul Ring.
• When night fell and Yang Jian had not emerged, Yu Xiaogang pretended to mourn, prompting Ma Hongjun to confront him.
• Tang San shielded Yu Xiaogang, Xiao Wu summoned her martial soul, and Dai Mubai ordered everyone to unleash their martial souls as Zhu Zhuqing and Oscar manifested theirs.

Yang Jian returned after absorbing his fourth Soul Ring and stunned Flender by calmly withstanding powerful Soul Saint pressure. He then used his new Fourth Soul Skill to send Flender flying, while Zhao Wuji separated the groups and Yang Jian’s friends pressed him for answers.

• Flender released Soul Saint pressure to stop Dai Mubai and the others from fighting over Yang Jian’s uncertain fate.
• Yang Jian appeared unharmed and revealed that he had absorbed the Soul Ring, then calmly withstood Flender raising his pressure to level seventy-one.
• Yang Jian summoned Xiaotian and used his Fourth Soul Skill, Sacred Dragon Tail Sweep, to knock Flender out of sight.
• After Flender’s pressure vanished, Zhao Wuji led Yu Xiaogang’s group away to set up camp and prevent further conflict.
• Ning Rongrong mocked Yu Xiaogang as the “Fart God,” while Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar questioned Yang Jian about his Soul Ring and strength.

Yang Jian's companions reacted to his nearly fifty-thousand-year-old fourth Soul Ring, while Oscar's cultivation confidence shattered and earned Yang Jian a mysterious divine reward. After they noticed Xiaotian's changed scales, Yang Jian dodged questions about his Soul Power level just as Flender returned.

• Yang Jian explained that his fourth Soul Ring was over forty-seven thousand years old and could stun enemies, prompting the others to realize its quality approached the limit for a Seventh Soul Ring.
• Oscar's heart of cultivation shattered when he recognized how far Yang Jian surpassed him, and Yang Jian received the Food God's favor through the system.
• Zhu Zhuqing pointed out that Xiaotian had gained more shiny scales, and Ning Rongrong took the dog from her arms while teasing Yang Jian.
• Dai Mubai and the others guessed Yang Jian's Soul Power level, but he only said he was below level fifty.
• Flender, who had been swatted away by Xiaotian's tail, reappeared and approached the group.

Yang Jian revealed that he had reached level forty-eight, earning system rewards and astonishing his fellow Shrek students. Ning Rongrong proposed marrying him and giving him the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but he brushed her off; two sect watchers hurried back to report his strength.

• Flender confirmed Yang Jian was level forty-eight, and the system rewarded him for the intense reactions of Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Tang San.
• Ma Hongjun praised Yang Jian, while Dai Mubai accepted that Yang had far outstripped him.
• Ning Rongrong grabbed Yang Jian and proposed marriage, promising that she would take over the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for them.
• Yang Jian ignored Ning Rongrong’s offer and left to sleep; Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai also departed, while Zhu Zhuqing went with Ning Rongrong.
• Two of the five Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect watchers returned to report Yang Jian’s level and his two purple and two black Soul Rings, shocking their listeners.