Chapter Summaries

Su Wen fought Wu Feng after she challenged him, defeating her with his Ultimate Ice and revealing that he was a level-twenty-one Soul Master with two yellow Soul Rings. He left Ning Tian and Wu Feng astonished and continued on toward Shrek.

• Wu Feng taunted Su Wen and challenged him to fight, while Ning Tian watched with interest.
• Wu Feng attacked with her Red Dragon martial soul, but Su Wen used the Ice Sovereign’s Ice Domain and a boosted kick to send her crashing into the snow.
• Wu Feng accused Su Wen of cheating, and Su Wen revealed his two yellow Soul Rings and level-twenty-one strength.
• Ning Tian marveled at Su Wen’s age, level, and dual attributes, while Wu Feng stopped provoking him on the journey back.
• Yan Shaozhe and Old Bamboo parted ways with Ning Tian and Wu Feng, and Su Wen watched An Yang City recede as he headed back to Shrek.

After returning to Shrek, Su Wen met Ling Luochen, who sensed his Ultimate Ice, and spent the next two years cultivating until he reached rank thirty. He agreed to join Ma Xiaotao and Dean Yan Shaozhe on a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for his third Soul Beast.

• Ma Xiaotao welcomed Su Wen back to Shrek and introduced him to her roommate, Ling Luochen.
• Ling Luochen sensed Su Wen's Ultimate Ice and learned that he had gained the attribute from an Ice Jade Scorpion in the Land of Extreme North.
• Over the next two years, Su Wen cultivated in the Sea God Pavilion, turned ten, and reached rank thirty.
• Ma Xiaotao trained with Su Wen in the Inner Court and told him she had signed up for a Soul Beast hunt in the Star Dou Great Forest led by Dean Yan Shaozhe.
• Su Wen agreed to join the expedition and decided it was time to obtain his third Pet Beast.

Su Wen joined Ma Xiaotao and Shrek’s Inner Courtyard team as they prepared to coordinate for the tournament. Yan Shaozhe assembled the group for a practice match and included Su Wen to fill a missing spot.

• Ma Xiaotao fed Su Wen melted Whale Rubber, and he realized it could increase endurance as well as physical strength.
• Dai Yueheng and Gongyang Mo told Ma Xiaotao that Yan Shaozhe wanted the team to start coordinating for the tournament two years early.
• Dai Yueheng explained that recent graduations had left the team one opponent short, so Yan Shaozhe had asked Su Wen to join their practice match.
• Su Wen agreed eagerly, hoping to test his strength and gain combat experience.
• Yan Shaozhe welcomed the group at the Inner Courtyard Duel Arena and asked Ma Xiaotao to begin introductions.

After Ma Xiaotao’s team defeated Ling Luochen’s, Su Wen used his Ultimate Ice to suppress Ling Luochen in a second match and helped Ma Xiaotao’s side win. The next day, Su Wen joined Yan Shaozhe’s thirteen-person team as they set out, hoping to find his third Soul Beast while resolving to protect Ma Xiaotao from the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Yan Shaozhe stopped Ma Xiaotao from attacking too harshly, but Yao Haoxuan was eliminated and Ling Luochen’s team lost the first match.
• Su Wen released Ice Domain to slow everyone and neutralized Ling Luochen’s attacks, while Ma Xiaotao defeated the opposing team.
• Ma Xiaotao took Su Wen away and demanded that he use Ultimate Ice to help suppress her Evil Fire through the night.
• The next day, Yan Shaozhe checked that Su Wen had recovered and warned him and Ma Xiaotao to take it easy.
• After roll call, Yan Shaozhe led the thirteen-person team out, and Su Wen searched for his third Soul Beast while thinking about Ma Xiaotao’s future danger.

Su Wen searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a suitable third soul beast, rejecting weak or over-age candidates while Ma Xiaotao obtained her sixth soul skill. The party heard an enraged roar that Yan Shaozhe believed signaled a promising opportunity for Su Wen.

• Su Wen told Yan Shaozhe he preferred a control- or support-type soul beast but would consider a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear.
• Su Wen rejected a 4,300-year Ghost King Vine because its potential was too low, then watched Ma Xiaotao defeat and absorb a thirty-thousand-year Firebird with Yan Shaozhe’s help.
• Ma Xiaotao gained the soul skill Phoenix Meteor Shower after breaking through to the Soul Emperor realm.
• Su Wen spent a week searching and passed on several candidates, including a promising Emerald Swan that had just surpassed ten thousand years of cultivation.
• An angry roar echoed through the forest, and Yan Shaozhe told Su Wen that fortune had smiled on him.

Su Wen captured an injured 3,700-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, and the capture raised him to level 31. He examined the evolution of Hurricane and the Ice Sovereign, leaving the bear’s next evolution stage and level cap unexplained.

• Su Wen spotted an injured Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear fighting a thirty-thousand-year Spirit Ink Snake and learned that the snake’s venom was coagulating the bear’s blood.
• Su Wen threw a Purple Pokeball at the bear, capturing it before the Spirit Ink Snake withdrew from Yan Shaozhe’s intimidating presence.
• Capturing the bear raised Su Wen to level 31, and he discovered its extreme strength and defense, Ultimate Metal attribute, and Behemoth as its next evolution stage.
• Su Wen inspected Hurricane and found it had evolved into a Storm Baboon with a powerful Gale Wind attribute and a healing skill called Resurrecting Wind.
• Su Wen inspected the Ice Sovereign and confirmed its level 31 status, Ultimate Ice attribute, and Frost Extreme Emperor Scorpion as its next evolution stage.

Su Wen tested his upgraded Domain of Eternal Freeze and continued cultivating after capturing the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, which he named Little Gold. At the Star Dou Great Forest, he reunited with Ning Tian and Wu Feng when Bamboo Douluo arrived with the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School party, while Bamboo Douluo and Yan Shaozhe quietly considered Su Wen as a marriage-alliance candidate.

• Su Wen discovered that he could direct the Domain of Eternal Freeze at chosen targets and named the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Little Gold.
• Su Wen cultivated at the Star Dou Great Forest camp and noticed an Outer Court girl looking at him.
• Yan Shaozhe recognized Bamboo Douluo and introduced him and the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School party as friends.
• Ning Tian greeted Su Wen warmly, while Wu Feng bristled when he teased her about challenging him again.
• Bamboo Douluo considered arranging a marriage alliance between Su Wen and Ning Tian, and he and Yan Shaozhe exchanged knowing remarks.

Su Wen spent time with Ning Tian and Wu Feng, then heard that Ning Tian planned to visit the Xuanming Sect and grew concerned about Jiang Nannan's situation. Ma Xiaotao arrived and met Ning Tian, who gave her a hairpin that Su Wen placed in her hair.

• Su Wen chatted with Ning Tian while Wu Feng vented her frustration by biting bark off a tree.
• Ning Tian told Su Wen she had come to help Wu Feng obtain a Soul Ring and would also visit the Xuanming Sect on business.
• Su Wen recalled his suspicions about the Xuanming Sect's connection to Jiang Nannan's mother's illness and decided to ask Yan Shaozhe about it.
• Wu Feng privately resolved to complain to Bamboo Douluo because she feared Su Wen was winning Ning Tian's affection.
• Ma Xiaotao arrived, and Ning Tian introduced herself, praised Ma Xiaotao, and gave her a crimson hairpin.
• Su Wen took the hairpin and fixed it in Ma Xiaotao's hair.

Su Wen learned that Yan Shaozhe and Mu En had accepted a large payment from the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School to arrange a chance encounter with him, then turned his attention to helping Jiang Nannan's mother. Meanwhile, Wu Feng discovered that Bamboo Douluo expected her to accompany Ning Tian as part of her dowry to Su Wen.

• Su Wen admired how the Jade Hairpin suited Ma Xiaotao and suspected Yan Shaozhe had arranged the encounter.
• Yan Shaozhe admitted that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School had paid the Martial Soul Department twenty million Gold Soul Coins to bring Su Wen and Ning Tian together, and Su Wen demanded half.
• Su Wen learned about Jiang Nannan's ill mother and decided to find a way to help her before the Xuanming Sect could use the situation to win Jiang Nannan over.
• Wu Feng privately spoke to Bamboo Douluo, who called her a dowry maid expected to accompany Ning Tian if she married Su Wen.
• Wu Feng tearfully told Ning Tian that Bamboo Douluo planned to send her along as part of the dowry, and admitted she did not exactly hate Su Wen.

Su Wen returned to Shrek Academy and joined Ma Xiaotao’s team for another Inner Courtyard duel, where he revealed that his Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion’s Ultimate Ice had grown dramatically stronger. His Domain of Eternal Freeze suppressed Ling Luochen despite her twenty-level advantage, while leaving his own teammates unaffected.

• Su Wen stored his Black Crystal Card and went with Dai Yueheng to the Inner Courtyard Duel Arena for special training.
• Yan Shaozhe arranged a seven-on-seven match, and Ma Xiaotao chose Su Wen for her team against Dai Yueheng’s team.
• Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng clashed while the other fighters engaged, and Gongyang Mo boosted Dai Yueheng’s teammates with his Rainbow Dragon Martial Soul.
• Su Wen summoned his Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion and unleashed the Domain of Eternal Freeze, which weakened the opposing team but did not affect his own.
• Ling Luochen admitted that she could not withstand Su Wen’s Ultimate Ice, astonishing the fighters who had expected her greater Soul Power to give her the advantage.

Su Wen turned the match against the Inner Courtyard disciples with his overwhelming control of ice and the surprise appearance of Hurricane and Little Gold. After Chen Zifeng surrendered, the opposing team conceded, leaving Su Wen’s team victorious.

• Ling Luochen’s ice armor worsened the effects of Su Wen’s Ultimate Ice, forcing her and Dai Yueheng to struggle against the chill while Xixi gained the advantage.
• Gongyang Mo used Bloom of Cyan to support his team, but Su Wen summoned Hurricane and ordered it to attack the Inner Courtyard disciple fighting Xixi.
• Su Wen used Resurrecting Wind to heal his teammates as Hurricane and Xixi pressed their opponent.
• Su Wen summoned Little Gold, whose defense withstood Chen Zifeng’s sword strike, and Yao Haoxuan cut off Chen Zifeng’s escape.
• Chen Zifeng surrendered, and the opposing team conceded the match.

Su Wen showed the Inner Courtyard students his real summoned Soul Beasts and joined several days of team battles, where his control skills helped his side win more often than not. Afterward, he visited the Beast Fighting Zone and baited Old Gong into reacting to his Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear.

• Chen Zifeng touched Su Wen's Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and realized it was a real Soul Beast after it roared at him.
• Su Wen explained that his Soul Beasts were independent individuals who could enter rings and grow stronger alongside him.
• Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen both tried to keep Su Wen close, and Ling Luochen led him away by the hand.
• Su Wen fought in several team matches over the next few days, and his Ice Sovereign's Domain of Eternal Freeze helped his teams win more often than they lost.
• Su Wen visited the Beast Fighting Zone, where he teased Old Gong about the low quality of his Soul Beasts and offered to test them with his Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear.

Su Wen arranged for the Beast Fighting Zone to care for his Spirit Beasts, then endured Ma Xiaotao’s disastrous tonic soup before hearing that Jiang Nannan had left to seek treatment for her critically ill mother. Yan Shaozhe learned a teacher had suppressed her appeal and decided to intervene with the Xuanming Sect.

• Su Wen arranged for Old Gong to house and feed his Spirit Beasts at the Beast Fighting Zone, where they could also gain combat experience.
• Ma Xiaotao served Su Wen her poorly prepared Ten-Complete Tonic Soup, and Yan Shaozhe warned that it was too dangerous even for the Spirit Beasts.
• Yan Shaozhe told Su Wen that Jiang Nannan’s mother was critically ill and that Jiang Nannan had returned to the Heaven Dou Empire to seek treatment.
• Yan Shaozhe revealed that Yang He had suppressed Jiang Nannan’s appeal while extorting students, and Su Wen warned that she might be driven down the wrong path.
• Yan Shaozhe recognized the Xuanming Sect’s scheme and decided to visit the sect.

Little Gold punished the Flame Lion after it burned the grass on his artificial mountain, then Old Gong ordered the two beasts kept together to teach the lion some manners. When Little Gold watched the Flame Lion eat, the lion growled at him and howled in distress.

• The Flame Lion provoked Little Gold and burned a patch of grass with a fireball.
• Little Gold smashed through the metal railing and knocked the Flame Lion unconscious with one swat.
• Little Gold demanded that the staff repair the burned grass, and Old Gong decided to keep the two beasts together.
• Little Gold brought the Flame Lion fresh meat, but when the lion growled while eating, Little Gold upset it and the Flame Lion howled.

Su Wen and Yan Shaozhe went to Xuanming City to rescue Jiang Nannan from the Xuanming Sect. They found her before she could be harmed, and Yan Shaozhe set out to confront Xu Jiangliu.

• Su Wen and Yan Shaozhe learned that the Xuanming Sect had prepared a celebration for Xu Sanshi's martial soul awakening and went to find Jiang Nannan.
• Yan Shaozhe told Mother Jiang that Yang He had withheld Jiang Nannan's plea for help and promised the academy would punish him.
• After discovering Mother Jiang was alone, Su Wen and Yan Shaozhe realized Jiang Nannan was in danger and tracked her down.
• Su Wen found Jiang Nannan in a dim side room and explained that Yan Shaozhe was there to take her and Mother Jiang back to the academy.
• Yan Shaozhe sent Su Wen and Jiang Nannan ahead and left to confront Xu Jiangliu.

Su Wen accompanied Jiang Nannan back to her mother, while Yan Shaozhe confronted Xu Jiangliu over the Xuanming Sect’s scheme to take Jiang Nannan. Xu ordered Chen Wen to erase the traces of their actions and secretly sent an assassin to follow him.

• Jiang Nannan thanked Su Wen and reunited tearfully with her mother, who mistook him for her daughter’s friend.
• Yan Shaozhe accused Xu Jiangliu of targeting Jiang Nannan and grew suspicious when Xu revealed he knew Yang He had rejected her.
• Yan Shaozhe took Jiang Nannan away and warned Xu that he would investigate the Xuanming Sect’s involvement.
• Xu ordered Chen Wen to clean up evidence, then secretly told a shadow to follow Chen and kill him after the cleanup.
• Xu reflected that he had targeted Jiang Nannan since her childhood because of her talent and her mother’s vulnerability, hoping to use her to help his son awaken his Martial Soul again.

Yan Shaozhe arranged for Old Zhuang to cure Jiang Nannan’s mother, while Su Wen advanced to rank thirty-two during winter vacation. As the new students arrived for their second assessment, Old Gong asked Su Wen to help teach them a lesson in exchange for feeding his expensive Pet Beasts.

• Yan Shaozhe secretly explained Jiang Nannan’s role in Shrek Academy’s plans to Old Zhuang, who gave her mother three healing petals to take over three days.
• Su Wen spent the next half month cultivating and visiting Jiang Nannan’s mother before breaking through to rank thirty-two.
• Su Wen went to the Beast Fighting Zone as first-year students gathered for their second assessment against soul beasts.
• Old Gong complained that Little Gold ate costly ten-thousand-year soul beast meat and asked Su Wen to take responsibility for feeding his Pet Beasts.
• Old Gong offered to cover another half month of food if Su Wen helped him teach the students a lesson, and Su Wen agreed.

Su Wen watched the second-grade assessment at the Great Spirit Arena, where Zhou Yi clashed with Mu Jin and then antagonized him. After Old Gong defended Su Wen and kept him at the arena, the assessment began, leaving Xiao Yan next to face a Soul Beast.

• Su Wen recognized Zhou Yi and Mu Jin as the rival head teachers arriving to lead their classes into the assessment.
• Mu Jin boasted that Xiao Yan would outperform Zhou Yi's class, and Zhou Yi challenged her to compare their average and highest scores.
• Zhou Yi scolded Su Wen for sitting by the judges' stand, but Old Gong arrived, claimed responsibility for him, and rebuked Zhou Yi.
• Old Gong privately relied on Su Wen to help teach the students a lesson and worried that Xiao Yan's bloodlust could endanger a Soul Beast.
• A male student from Zhou Yi's class defeated a three-hundred-year-old Ironclad Rhinoceros by tiring it out, and the judge called Xiao Yan next.

Xiao Yan entered the assessment arena and was assigned to face a thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, Little Gold, which belonged to Su Wen. After Little Gold struck him into the railing, Xiao Yan discovered he was still unharmed.

• Xiao Yan arrived as a celebrated twelve-year-old Soul Elder, drawing the attention of the students and teachers.
• Mu Jin recognized Xiao Yan's extraordinary talent and hoped he would join her class next year, while Su Wen watched the match with Old Gong.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Blood Silver Baboon martial soul, and Su Wen chose Little Gold as his opponent.
• A thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear emerged, terrifying Xiao Yan and startling Mu Jin when she realized it was Su Wen's Spirit Beast.
• Xiao Yan activated his three Soul Rings and attacked Little Gold, which knocked him into the railing with a carefully controlled slap.
• Xiao Yan stood up astonished that the blow had not broken his bones.

Xiao Yan passed the Assessment after Little Gold knocked him out of bounds, while Su Wen decided to make money selling drinks. He secured a high-traffic shop in Shrek East City and told Old Lin his business would be drinks.

• Little Gold slapped Xiao Yan out of the Assessment area, and Old Gong counted the result as a pass despite Xiao Yan lasting only a few seconds.
• The teachers gave Xiao Yan a final score of 131 points, and he returned to the Rest Area feeling both relieved and disappointed.
• Su Wen left the Assessment and later considered selling ice cream or milk tea to support his three Pet Beasts.
• Su Wen visited Old Lin at Treasure Pavilion and asked for a busy plot of land in Shrek City instead of borrowing money.
• Old Lin arranged for a shop on Shrek East City Third Avenue to be vacated within three days.
• Su Wen told Old Lin that he planned to sell drinks.