Chapter Summaries

Oscar reached level thirty, prompting Flender to gather the students for a lesson on Oscar’s Soul Skills before they went to find his third Soul Ring. Ye Fan copied Oscar’s sausages with his own Soul Skill, and Xiao Wu confirmed they had the same restorative effects and tasted like Ye Fan’s.

• A tiny Blue Silver Grass stalk with golden patterns moved on its own inside a distant cave and repeatedly tried to climb a rock wall.
• Flender announced that Oscar had broken through to level thirty and said the students would learn about his abilities before helping him obtain a third Soul Ring.
• Oscar summoned a Big Sausage and a Little Sausage, but none of the students volunteered to try them.
• Ye Fan took Oscar’s sausages and used Copy to create identical ones, then gave his versions to Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu ate the sausages and found that they restored her Soul Power and stamina, while Ye Fan explained their effects; Ning Rongrong asked for some too.

Ye Fan recreated Oscar’s sausage Soul Skill, then joined the others on their journey to the Star Dou Great Forest. He secretly planned to keep Tang San from obtaining the Man Faced Demon Spider’s Soul Ring and External Soul Bone, while Tang San learned that the spider’s ring might bring dangerous consequences.

• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, Dai Mubai, and Tang San chose between Ye Fan’s and Oscar’s sausages, and Oscar discovered that Ye Fan’s versions had the same effects as his own.
• Flender questioned Ye Fan about how he recreated Oscar’s Soul Skill, then told everyone to pack for the trip to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Zhao Wuji gathered the group, scolded Ma Hongjun for asking about his injuries, and led the students toward the forest.
• Ye Fan noticed that Tang San was nearing rank thirty and decided to stop him from obtaining the Man Faced Demon Spider’s Soul Ring and External Soul Bone.
• Ye Fan warned Tang San through his inner voice that the Man Faced Demon Spider’s Soul Ring could darken his personality and grant him an absorption ability.

As the group reached a town near the Star Dou Great Forest, Ye Fan learned that Tang San was troubled by the possibility of becoming a Fallen Soul Master and harming Xiao Wu. At dinner, he confronted Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, and Oscar for insulting Canghui Academy, but they defended their provocative behavior, leaving Ye Fan insisting they apologize.

• Tang San heard that he might become a Fallen Soul Master and attack Tang Hao and Xiao Wu, then resolved not to follow that future.
• Xiao Wu asked Ye Fan why Tang San kept staring at her, and Ye Fan gave her a casual explanation.
• The group reached a town near the Star Dou Great Forest and settled into a hotel, where Ye Fan offered to pay for dinner.
• Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai openly leered at a woman from Canghui Academy and insulted the academy, upsetting its members and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ye Fan smacked Ma Hongjun and told him to apologize, but Oscar, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun defended provoking others as proper Soul Master behavior.
• Ye Fan warned the three that their insults had offended Canghui Academy and told them to apologize if they wanted to avoid a fight.

Dai Mubai provoked Canghui Academy after Ye Fan refused to help him bully them, while Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu mocked his failed attempt to charm their female student. Ye Fan secretly isolated Zhao Wuji from the disturbance, leaving Dai Mubai to face the academy’s students alone.

• Ye Fan warned Ma Hongjun to stop provoking people and refused to help him bully Canghui Academy, though he offered to settle things if Ma Hongjun was beaten.
• Ning Rongrong taunted Dai Mubai into confronting Canghui Academy by himself, and he accepted to defend his pride and Shrek’s reputation.
• Dai Mubai invited a Canghui Academy girl for a drink, but she rejected him, prompting Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu to mock him.
• When a Canghui Academy student tried to shove him, Dai Mubai seized his wrist and forced him to his knees before throwing him into the students who rushed forward.
• Ye Fan used Word Spirits to soundproof Zhao Wuji’s room and isolate Soul Power fluctuations, ensuring Zhao Wuji would not notice the fight.
• Dai Mubai turned to challenge the rest of Canghui Academy as the girl took shelter behind a grim-faced middle-aged man.

Dai Mubai challenged Ye Zhiqiu of Canghui Academy, and Ye Fan’s group followed to watch while refusing to help him directly. The duel began with Ye Zhiqiu revealing his Soul King strength, and he quickly froze Dai Mubai’s attack.

• Ye Zhiqiu confronted Dai Mubai over insulting Canghui Academy and challenged him to fight outside.
• Oscar hurried after Dai Mubai, while Tang San asked Ye Fan’s group to help; Ye Fan agreed only to prevent Canghui Academy from ganging up on him.
• Dai Mubai and the Canghui Academy group went outside, where a crowd gathered to watch their duel.
• Dai Mubai revealed that he was a level thirty-eight Soul Elder, and Ye Zhiqiu responded by displaying his five Soul Rings as a Soul King.
• Dai Mubai fired his White Tiger Fierce Light Wave at Ye Zhiqiu’s Mysterious Water Surge, but Ye Zhiqiu froze the attack almost instantly.

Ye Fan watched Ye Zhiqiu defeat Dai Mubai, then stopped him from killing Dai Mubai with Word Spirit. Ye Zhiqiu left with the Canghui Academy group, while Ma Hongjun received Ye Fan’s permission to act on his own.

• Ye Zhiqiu froze Dai Mubai with a Soul Skill, then locked him in a crushing hold while Oscar and Ma Hongjun pretended not to notice.
• Ye Zhiqiu squeezed Dai Mubai until he burst, frightening Ma Hongjun into promising to obey Ye Fan and address Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong as his sisters.
• Tang San and Oscar urged someone to save Dai Mubai, and Ye Fan used Word Spirit to stop Ye Zhiqiu from continuing the attack.
• Ye Zhiqiu released Dai Mubai, declared the fight over, and led the Canghui Academy group away.
• Ye Fan gave Ma Hongjun permission to go, calling it his last chance.

Ma Hongjun tried to apologize to the girl from Canghui Academy, but she rejected him, and Dai Mubai stayed behind to recover while the others entered Star Dou Great Forest. The group subdued a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent that suited Oscar, but an old woman and a young woman appeared and claimed it as their prey.

• Ma Hongjun apologized to the girl from Canghui Academy and asked her to be his girlfriend, but she insulted him and returned to her group.
• Ye Fan and Xiao Wu went back to the hotel, while Dai Mubai stayed behind the next morning to recover from his injuries.
• Zhu Zhuqing spotted an approaching Soul Beast, and Tang San identified it as a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent suitable for Oscar.
• Zhu Zhuqing drove the serpent toward the group, and Zhao Wuji subdued it so Oscar could obtain its Soul Ring.
• An old woman and a young woman arrived, and the old woman claimed the serpent as their prey; Zhao Wuji challenged her claim and displayed his Soul Power and Soul Rings.

Zhao Wuji and Chao Tianxiang disputed who would claim the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, then agreed to settle the matter with a duel between Meng Yiran and a fighter chosen by Oscar. Ye Fan secretly influenced Meng Yiran to fight for the serpent, leaving her ready to challenge Tang San.

• Chao Tianxiang revealed that she was a Soul Emperor and said she and her family had wounded the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent while pursuing it for Meng Yiran's Soul Ring.
• Zhao Wuji refused to surrender the serpent, and Oscar argued that his group had caught it.
• Chao Tianxiang proposed that Meng Yiran fight the person seeking the Soul Ring, and Oscar asked Tang San to represent him.
• Tang San agreed to duel Meng Yiran, while Zhao Wuji and Chao Tianxiang stepped aside to let the younger generation settle the dispute.
• Ye Fan secretly used Mind Bewitchment and Word Spirit to convince Meng Yiran that the serpent belonged to her and that she should fight for it.

Meng Yiran challenged Ye Fan for the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent’s Soul Ring, but his strange power disarmed her and Chao Tianxiang recognized his extraordinary Soul Rings. Chao Tianxiang conceded the Soul Ring to the Shrek group and decided to seek Dragon Duke.

• Meng Yiran demanded a one-on-one fight, and Zhao Wuji persuaded Chao Tianxiang to let her choose a Shrek student other than Oscar or Ning Rongrong.
• Meng Yiran chose Ye Fan despite Zhao Wuji’s warning that she might be outmatched.
• Meng Yiran charged Ye Fan, but his power made her drop her Serpent Cane, which Ye Fan picked up and returned to her.
• Chao Tianxiang noticed Ye Fan’s three purple Soul Rings and stopped Meng Yiran from continuing the fight.
• Chao Tianxiang conceded the Soul Ring to the Shrek group, and Zhao Wuji thanked her.

Ye Fan made amends with Meng Yiran by giving her a magically guided serpent tail, while Oscar prepared to absorb the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent's Soul Ring. Tang San offered Oscar an aphrodisiac as a supposed aid, revealing that he and Yu Xiaogang had believed Ye Fan's misleading explanation about the medicine.

• Ye Fan gave Meng Yiran the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent's severed tail, enchanted to guide her to the serpent's habitat, and she left after learning his name.
• After Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran departed, Zhao Wuji and Ma Hongjun praised Ye Fan, who reminded Oscar to absorb the serpent's Soul Ring.
• Oscar killed the wounded Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent and prepared to absorb its Soul Ring, but Tang San stopped him and handed him a packet labeled [I Love a Stick of Firewood].
• Tang San claimed the medicine had helped him and Ye Fan absorb Soul Rings, while secretly testing whether it would help an auxiliary-type Soul Master withstand a two-thousand-year Soul Ring for Yu Xiaogang's research.
• Ye Fan and Xiao Wu laughed at Tang San's belief, and Ye Fan warned Oscar that he could not guarantee the medicine would help.

Ye Fan tricked Oscar into taking medicine before absorbing a Soul Ring, and Oscar’s condition worsened until Zhao Wuji forcibly interrupted the absorption. Oscar woke up injured and confused, while the Soul Ring had vanished.

• Ye Fan let Oscar believe the medicine would help him absorb the Soul Ring, and Oscar swallowed all of it before beginning.
• As Oscar absorbed the ring, the drug made him increasingly uncomfortable; Ye Fan and the girls cultivated nearby, while Zhu Zhuqing decided she would cultivate with Ye Fan later.
• Oscar began trembling and gasping as his complexion turned bluish purple, and Ye Fan warned Zhao Wuji that the absorption was failing.
• Zhao Wuji waited until blood appeared at Oscar’s mouth, then roared to interrupt him; Oscar spat blood, and the Soul Ring shattered into dispersed Soul Power.
• Tang San supported Oscar as he woke and asked what had happened.

Oscar’s Soul Ring absorption failed after he followed Tang San’s advice, leaving him injured and with reduced Soul Power. As the group fled the Star Dou Great Forest, Er Ming appeared as a Titan Giant Ape, apparently searching for Xiao Wu.

• Ye Fan told Oscar that his interrupted Soul Ring absorption had nearly crippled him, and Oscar discovered his Soul Power had fallen to rank twenty-nine and a half.
• Oscar concealed his hatred of Tang San and pretended not to blame him, while Tang San promised to look for another Soul Ring.
• Zhao Wuji led the group out of the forest as Ye Fan kept watch and wondered whether Er Ming could still sense Xiao Wu.
• A tremor sent Soul Beasts fleeing, and Zhao Wuji and the others activated their Martial Soul Possession as a Titan Giant Ape approached.
• The group recognized the Titan Giant Ape as Er Ming, while Ye Fan and Xiao Wu remained calm because they knew he would not hurt them.
• Ye Fan privately thought that Er Ming had sensed Xiao Wu despite her presence being concealed, and Xiao Wu realized Er Ming had come to find her.

The Titan Giant Ape Er Ming appeared and attacked the Shrek group while Xiao Wu secretly tried to stop him from hurting her friends. After Xiao Wu left, Er Ming mistook Tang San for an enemy and sent him flying, while Zhao Wuji collapsed and Xiao Wu checked on Ye Fan.

• Er Ming reached for Xiao Wu, and Zhao Wuji used his Martial Soul Avatar to try to hold him off as the Shrek group attacked.
• Xiao Wu secretly spoke with Er Ming and told him to go back, while Tang San mistook their exchange for a fight and desperately attacked the Titan Giant Ape.
• Xiao Wu called Tang San an annoying pest and left, prompting Er Ming to strike Tang San and send him flying.
• Er Ming left for the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest, Zhao Wuji collapsed in a crater, and Xiao Wu returned to check on Ye Fan.

After Tang San reached rank thirty, Ye Fan found him and brought up the possibility of a Man Faced Demon Spider appearing. The spider emerged from the woods, and Tang San refused to absorb its Soul Ring because it was too old and dangerous.

• Ye Fan left the group to search for Tang San, who had been sent flying during the battle with the Titan Giant Ape.
• Ye Fan found Tang San beneath a tree, where Tang San had recovered enough to break through to rank thirty.
• Ye Fan reassured Tang San that Xiao Wu and the others were safe, then wondered whether the Man Faced Demon Spider would appear.
• A rustling in the woods revealed the Man Faced Demon Spider, which Ye Fan exposed with a fireball.
• Tang San rejected the spider as a Soul Ring candidate, and Ye Fan suggested a darkness-attribute Man Faced Demon Pig instead.

Tang San and Ye Fan chose separate Soul Beasts to fight, with Ye Fan holding off the Man Faced Demon Spider while Tang San battled the Man Faced Demon Pig. Ye Fan subdued the spider, and Tang San wounded the pig, ending the chapter as he pulled a steel needle from its chest.

• Tang San chose to fight the Man Faced Demon Pig and asked Ye Fan to hold off the Man Faced Demon Spider.
• Ye Fan used Word Spirit abilities to slow, restrain, and knock the Man Faced Demon Spider into a pit.
• Tang San dodged the Man Faced Demon Pig with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and weakened it with Blue Silver Grass and the Godly Zhuge Crossbow.
• Tang San exploited the pig's hesitation and struck it from behind with his Second Soul Skill, Blue Silver Thorn.
• Tang San rushed in and used his Mysterious Jade Hand to pull the steel needle from the Man Faced Demon Pig's chest.

Tang San killed the Man Faced Demon Pig and, urged on by Ye Fan, attempted to absorb its over-limit Soul Ring with an aphrodisiac. While Tang San endured the pressure, Ye Fan went after the escaped Man Faced Demon Spider, which ambushed him from a tree.

• Tang San killed the Man Faced Demon Pig and revealed its purple Soul Ring.
• Ye Fan stopped Tang San from killing the supposedly dead Man Faced Demon Spider, and Tang San drove it away with Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San asked Ye Fan for more aphrodisiac, then decided to take his own and absorb the two-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Ye Fan used his inner voice to convince Tang San that he might withstand the drug and Soul Ring pressure better than Oscar.
• Tang San began absorbing the Soul Ring while Ye Fan went to track the Man Faced Demon Spider, which had doubled back and leapt at him from a tree.

Ye Fan killed the Man Faced Demon Spider and obtained its External Soul Bone, then hid the remains while Tang San absorbed its Soul Ring. When Tang San woke and revealed his new Soul Skill, Ye Fan was stunned by its name.

• Ye Fan used his Word Spirits and Longquan Treasured Sword to kill the Man Faced Demon Spider in a direct fight.
• Ye Fan found an External Soul Bone among the spider’s remains, stored it in his Soul Tool, and disposed of the body before Tang San could see it.
• Ye Fan checked on Tang San and watched him safely absorb the Man Faced Demon Spider’s Soul Ring.
• After waking, Tang San told Ye Fan that Oscar’s weak constitution had likely caused the problem with the medicine, then summoned his Blue Silver Grass to demonstrate his new Soul Skill.
• Ye Fan saw the dark aura around Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and expected a transformation, but the Soul Skill’s name left him dumbfounded.

Tang San demonstrated his new Blue Silver Man Lock skills, then discovered that absorbing the Man Faced Demon Pig’s Soul Ring had also given him an External Soul Bone. He summoned it and described its abilities, while Ye Fan learned that it transformed Tang San’s head into a pig’s.

• Tang San used Blue Silver Man Lock to form a pig-headed stalk of Blue Silver Grass and tried to challenge Ye Fan.
• Ye Fan ignited Tang San’s Soul Skill, then watched Tang San use its second form to smash through a tree.
• Tang San felt something changing beneath his face, and Ye Fan explained that he had likely gained an External Soul Bone from the Man Faced Demon Pig.
• Tang San channeled Soul Power to summon the External Soul Bone, which transformed his head into that of the Man Faced Demon Pig.
• Tang San told Ye Fan the bone increased his attributes by twenty percent and let him store killing aura for a spiritual attack.

Tang San returned to Shrek after absorbing a two-thousand-year Soul Ring and gaining an External Soul Bone, while Oscar blamed Ye Fan’s medicine for his own failure. Yu Xiaogang arrived at the academy, examined Tang San’s Soul Bone, and asked who else knew about it.

• Ye Fan dismissed the Man Faced Demon Pig’s External Soul Bone as ugly, while Tang San valued it as a rare treasure.
• Ma Hongjun, Zhao Wuji, Oscar, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong found Ye Fan and Tang San, and the group learned Tang San had absorbed a two-thousand-year Soul Ring and obtained an External Soul Bone.
• Oscar grew more resentful of Tang San and blamed Ye Fan’s medicine for his failed Soul Ring absorption.
• Zhao Wuji returned to Shrek and negotiated a hundred Gold Soul Coins in compensation from Flender, paid in installments.
• Flender told Zhao Wuji that Yu Xiaogang would guide the Little Monsters’ cultivation, while Yu Xiaogang privately examined Tang San’s External Soul Bone.
• Yu Xiaogang praised Tang San’s Soul Bone and asked whether anyone else knew about it.

Ye Fan agreed to help Zhu Zhuqing cultivate and pushed her through an exhausting training session on the roof. Just as he caught the depleted Zhu Zhuqing in his arms, Dai Mubai arrived and saw them together.

• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that Ye Fan knew about his External Soul Bone but had called it ugly.
• Ye Fan took out the Man Faced Demon Spider External Soul Bone, but knocks at his door interrupted him before he could absorb it.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Ye Fan to cultivate with her, and he warned her that his method would be difficult.
• Ye Fan took Zhu Zhuqing to the roof and used Word Spirit to pressure her while she circulated her Soul Power.
• After two hours, Ye Fan stopped the pressure and caught Zhu Zhuqing as she collapsed; she asked whether she had gotten stronger.
• Dai Mubai came to the girls' dormitory to speak with Zhu Zhuqing, saw her lying in Ye Fan's arms, and shouted at them.