Arc 3Chapters 52–66

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Ch. 52Delicious ^_^

Lin Xiao named the Three-Eyed Golden Lion Lin Qiu'er and promised to cook a feast for the hungry beasts. After Di Tian brought back several soul beasts, Lin Xiao roasted a black carp, and Lin Qiu'er eagerly tasted it.

  • Lin Xiao named the Three-Eyed Golden Lion Lin Qiu'er, and she insisted on being his big sister because she was older.
  • Gu Yuena arrived, teased Lin Qiu'er, and agreed that she should behave herself.
  • Lin Qiu'er's stomach growled, so Lin Xiao offered to cook; Gu Yuena ordered Di Tian to fetch soul beasts.
  • Di Tian returned with a black carp, a Hell Pig, a Gale Divine Bull, a Four-Horned Demon Sheep, and a soul bone.
  • Gu Yuena made a fire, and Lin Xiao roasted the black carp and seasoned it.
  • Lin Qiu'er bit into the fish and declared it delicious.

Ch. 53Senior, sleep with me!

Lin Xiao shared a feast with Gu Yuena and the soul beasts before staying overnight in the Star Dou Great Forest. After reading Lin Qiu'er to sleep, he followed Gu Yuena to her bed, where she invited him to sleep beside her.

  • Lin Xiao cooked soul beasts for Gu Yuena, Lin Qiu'er, and the others, while Di Tian and Lin Qiu'er fought over the last beef leg.
  • Gu Yuena invited Lin Xiao to stay overnight, and Lin Qiu'er eagerly asked him to sleep in her cave until Gu Yuena persuaded her to let him use a room instead.
  • Lin Xiao rode around the forest with Lin Qiu'er on Da Ming as the soul beasts mourned Sister Xiao Wu.
  • Lin Xiao read Lin Qiu'er a novel by the campfire until she fell asleep.
  • Gu Yuena led Lin Xiao into her sleeping quarters and invited him to share her bed.

Ch. 54I wanna come too~

Lin Xiao spent the night with Gu Yuena, then prepared to leave the Lake of Life with the Snow Empress. Lin Qiu'er linked their destinies and demanded to go with him, while finding his memories strangely obscured.

  • Gu Yuena cuddled Lin Xiao to keep him close, and he fell asleep in her arms as she tested whether he trusted her.
  • Lin Xiao woke beside Gu Yuena and returned through the spatial rift, where the Snow Empress teased him about spending the night with the Soul Beast Co-Ruler.
  • Lin Xiao told Lin Qiu'er he was heading back, disappointing her because she wanted to keep playing and eating his cooking.
  • Lin Qiu'er linked her destiny with Lin Xiao's, and they exchanged memories; she saw Old Jack in his memories but noticed that much of them seemed obscured.
  • Lin Qiu'er asked Lin Xiao to take her with him so she could go out and play.

Ch. 55Forbidden Medicine

Lin Xiao prepared to enter the human world with Lin Qiu'er and Gu Yuena, while Tang San accepted seven pills from the God of Wild Dogs to strengthen the Shrek Seven Devils. Poseidon revealed that the pills contained Forbidden Medicine, setting up trouble for the group.

  • Di Tian reluctantly agreed to let Lin Qiu'er travel with Lin Xiao after Gu Yuena vouched for her and gave her Di Tian's Reverse Scale for protection.
  • Gu Yuena decided to accompany Lin Xiao to the human world despite her concerns about her conflict with the Asura God.
  • Lin Qiu'er took human form, received Di Tian's Reverse Scale as a pendant, and revealed her Three-Eyed Golden Lion martial soul and six soul rings.
  • The God of Wild Dogs contacted Tang San and offered him a chance to inherit a divine position, then gave him seven pills to distribute among the Shrek Seven Devils.
  • Poseidon confirmed that the pills contained Forbidden Medicine and said they would lead to an entertaining outcome without damaging the recipients' foundations.

Ch. 56Xiao San, Your Teacher Loves You!

Tang San received seven pills from a god, used one to raise his soul power to nearly Level 40, and brought another to Yu Xiaogang, who embraced him with pride and gratitude. Yu Xiaogang urged Tang San to tell the assembled Shrek members about the god’s reward and make himself the team’s core.

  • Tang San swallowed one of the seven pills and spent three hours refining it, reaching the threshold of quasi-Level 40 as a wild-dog brand formed in his mind.
  • Tang San decided to give the remaining pills to his companions and arrived early at the Training Ground with one pill intended for Yu Xiaogang.
  • Lang Yi confirmed Tang San’s soul power had reached Level 40, and Yu Xiaogang accepted the pill, moved by the chance to surpass his Level 29 limit.
  • Yu Xiaogang and Tang San embraced tearfully, while arriving Shrek members watched in confusion.
  • Yu Xiaogang told Tang San to explain the god’s reward to everyone and use it to become the team’s core.

Ch. 57Breakthroughs One After Another

Tang San revealed that he had received the Sea God’s inheritance and shared divine pills that raised the Shrek students’ Soul Power, while Poseidon altered Tang San’s trial to demand an impossible victory within two days. The Shrek group traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Soul Rings, unaware that a strange shoot was watching them.

  • Yu Xiaogang announced that Tang San had received a god’s inheritance, and Tang San said the Sea God had given him seven pills that raised his Soul Power to level 40.
  • Tang San gave the remaining pills to his Shrek friends, and they all achieved major Soul Power breakthroughs, with Dai Mubai reaching level 48 and the others reaching level 40.
  • Poseidon revised Tang San’s Ninth Trial, requiring him to subdue all Sea Soul Beasts and Sea Soul Masters and win their wholehearted belief within two days.
  • Flender and the other teachers decided to take the students to hunt Soul Rings so they could reach four rings before the National Advanced Soul Master Tournament.
  • Flender’s group flew to the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest and camped for the night, while a strange shoot nearby monitored them.
  • The next morning, Flender urged the group to head deeper into the forest to find suitable Soul Rings for the students.

Ch. 58Yu Xiaogang's suggestion

The Myriad Demon King discovered that Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass carried a trace of the Blue Silver Emperor’s bloodline and suspected he was Ah Yin’s child, adding him to his list while deciding not to interfere directly. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang advised the Shrek party on fourth soul rings and proposed an evolved solitary bamboo for Tang San, before turning to Oscar and Ma Hongjun.

  • The Myriad Demon King sensed Tang San’s Blue Silver Emperor bloodline and concluded that Tang San might be the child of a human and Ah Yin.
  • The Myriad Demon King grew furious, recorded Tang San as a target, and decided to seek another way because Lin Xiao still had a use for him.
  • Liu Erlong asked Yu Xiaogang for fourth soul-ring advice, and he recommended a Ghost Shadow Leopard for Zhu Zhuqing and a defensive gemstone soul beast for Ning Rongrong.
  • Yu Xiaogang proposed a thousand-year evolved solitary bamboo for Tang San, aiming to strengthen his Blue Silver Grass with toughness and sharpness.
  • Yu Xiaogang began considering what to recommend for Oscar and Ma Hongjun.

Ch. 59Was This Really Reliable?

Yu Xiaogang proposed that Oscar pursue an offensive fourth soul skill and gave Ma Hongjun two ways to handle his evil fire, while the Myriad Demon King secretly memorized the suggested soul beasts. Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing absorbed their fourth soul rings and gained new defensive and offensive abilities.

  • Yu Xiaogang persuaded Flender to let Oscar try to obtain an offensive fourth soul skill, and Oscar asked for the chance to avoid mediocrity.
  • Yu Xiaogang offered Ma Hongjun a dangerous fire-based evolution path or a steadier ice- or water-based suppression path, and Ma Hongjun chose evolution.
  • The Myriad Demon King memorized Yu Xiaogang's soul-beast recommendations and planned to disguise himself or prepare something similar.
  • Ning Rongrong absorbed a Glazed Scale Armor Beast soul ring and gained the Glazed Fluorescent Barrier, a powerful shield that blocked her ability to hear outside sounds.
  • Zhu Zhuqing absorbed a Ghost Shadow Leopard soul ring and gained the Netherworld Assassination Array, an area-of-effect attack that also granted some intangibility.

Ch. 60Thousand-Year Lone Bamboo

The Shrek group followed a strange howl to what seemed to be a rare Black Jade Spirit Bamboo, which Yu Xiaogang believed was ideal for Tang San’s fourth Soul Ring. Tang San absorbed the ring, but the bamboo revealed itself to be a Thousand-Year Lone Bamboo, leaving him and Yu Xiaogang stunned.

  • The Myriad Demon King sent disguised Soul Beasts toward Shrek, while the Silver Moon Wolf Emperor secretly carried the Thousand-Year Lone Bamboo near the group.
  • After Zhu Zhuqing noticed a strange howl, Tang San led the group toward it and they found a wounded Silver Moon Wolf beside a fragrant bamboo.
  • Yu Xiaogang identified the bamboo as a 4,500-year-old Black Jade Spirit Bamboo and urged Tang San to kill it for his fourth Soul Ring.
  • Tang San and Ma Hongjun helped destroy the bamboo, and Tang San absorbed the Soul Ring without difficulty.
  • The bamboo changed into a Thousand-Year Lone Bamboo, and Tang San and Yu Xiaogang slumped to the ground in shock.

Ch. 61Lone Bamboo Pole Vault

Tang San struggled to accept his disappointing fourth soul skill, but his companions encouraged him and the group continued searching for soul beasts. In a swamp, they defeated a Thousand-Year Poison-Scaled Python, leaving its soul ring for Oscar as a potential target.

  • Tang San used his fourth soul skill, Blue Silver Pole Vault, and despaired over his weak new ability, but Yu Xiaogang and his companions reassured him.
  • The Myriad Demon King ordered the Silver-Eared Wolf Emperor to deliver another gift as the group headed west toward the marshlands.
  • Tang San spotted the swamp’s hidden dangers with his Purple Demon Eye and warned the group about unstable mud and poisonous miasma.
  • A Thousand-Year Poison-Scaled Python attacked, and Tang San coordinated the group’s efforts to expose its head and restrain it.
  • The group killed the python, leaving a thousand-year soul ring, and Dai Mubai joked that Tang San’s third and fourth skills were not so bad after all.

Ch. 62Highly Toxic Big Sausage

Oscar absorbed a Poison-Scaled Python Soul Ring and gained a foul-smelling, poisonous Big Sausage skill that could be swung at enemies and caused him to fart. The group then found a wounded scarlet bird for Ma Hongjun, and Yu Xiaogang began assessing whether it could provide Hongjun’s Fourth Soul Ring.

  • Oscar absorbed the Poison-Scaled Python’s Soul Ring and awakened his Fourth Soul Skill, a huge poisonous sausage that emitted a sour stench and made him fart.
  • Oscar described the skill’s effects as the others offered awkward praise, while he concealed a trace of resentment.
  • The group retraced their steps to search for a fire-attribute Soul Beast for Ma Hongjun’s Fourth Soul Ring.
  • Ma Hongjun, Tang San, and Oscar fell into a huge pit and found a wounded scarlet bird that seemed to attract Ma Hongjun’s Martial Soul.
  • Flender brought Yu Xiaogang to inspect the bird, and Yu Xiaogang identified it as a likely fire-attribute flying Soul Beast without determining its age.

Ch. 63No, Brother Jun!

Ma Hongjun absorbed a Soul Ring that grew more powerful during the process, triggering a dangerous eruption of his Evil Fire. After his flames broke Zhao Wuji’s restraint, he attacked Oscar, and both were left unconscious after the fire finally subsided.

  • Yu Xiaogang judged the avian Soul Beast to be about four thousand years old, and Ma Hongjun killed it and began absorbing its Soul Ring.
  • The Soul Ring darkened and Ma Hongjun’s body turned crimson, prompting Flender to blame Yu Xiaogang until Liu Erlong intervened.
  • Ma Hongjun’s Soul Ring faded back to pale purple, but his Evil Fire erupted and made him delirious.
  • Zhao Wuji pinned Ma Hongjun down while Flender explained that the Evil Fire needed to be suppressed; Liu Erlong agreed to help him.
  • Ma Hongjun broke free, attacked Oscar, and set the grass ablaze; three hours later the fire died out, leaving both men unconscious.

Ch. 64On the Eve of the Tournament

Lin Xiao gathered his newly strengthened tournament roster and held a three-way sparring match at the Spirit Pagoda. Xu Xiaoyan’s team won after she and Dugu Yan outlasted the others, while Lin Xiao left the girls preparing for the tournament with praise and a rebuke for Xiao Wu.

  • The upgraded system rewarded Lin Xiao with Xiao Xiao, Tang Ya, and Xu Xiaoyan, whose powerful martial souls and soul rings strengthened his tournament team.
  • Lin Xiao assigned the girls to three teams and began a three-way melee, with Xiao Wu, Tang Ya, and Jiang Zhu facing Shui Bing’er, Xu Xiaoyan, and Dugu Yan, while Xiao Xiao, Ye Lingling, and Shui Yue’er formed the final team.
  • Xiao Wu charged Dugu Yan but Xu Xiaoyan used Star Transfer and Star Chains to eliminate her, then Shui Bing’er and the others overwhelmed Tang Ya’s team.
  • Xiao Xiao’s team fought back with healing and cauldron attacks, but Dugu Yan’s poison and Shui Bing’er’s ice weakened them as Xu Xiaoyan’s Star Realm drained the fighters’ soul power.
  • Xu Xiaoyan and Dugu Yan were the last standing, and Xu Xiaoyan won the match; Lin Xiao congratulated her and told Xiao Wu she had been too impulsive.

Ch. 65A title

Lin Xiao prepared his companions for the National Advanced Soul Master Tournament and ordered Zhang Lexuan to become a Titled Douluo and accompany the team. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong suspected the Spirit Pagoda had taken Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, and ordered an assassination of Skywater Academy’s team before the finals.

  • Lin Xiao asked Xuan Zi to give Xiao Wu and the others actual combat training after their friendly match.
  • Lin Xiao gave Zhang Lexuan an immortal herb and five hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones, and told her to reach rank ninety and sign a soul contract with a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
  • Lin Xiao appointed Zhang Lexuan as the team’s supervising teacher and planned to bring several powerful allies to the tournament.
  • The Rakshasa God continued giving Bibi Dong divine power, and Bibi Dong grew furious over Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo’s disappearance.
  • Bibi Dong ordered Demon Bear, Ghost Leopard, and Ling Yuan to assassinate Skywater Academy’s competitors before they reached the finals.
  • Ghost Leopard warned that the Spirit Pagoda’s Titled Douluo and the mysterious disappearance of Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo made the mission dangerous.

Ch. 66You actually betrayed us!

Zhang Lexuan and the Spirit Pagoda’s tournament team grew stronger as they prepared for the Soul Fighting Tournament, while Shrek Academy set out with its own lineup. At the Heaven Dou Division preliminaries, Shui Bing’er revealed her formidable soul rings to the elemental academies, and Yu Luomian continued searching Sunset Forest without success.

  • Zhang Lexuan reached level 93 and evolved her martial soul into the Heaven-Mixing Profound Moon after gaining five hundred-thousand-year soul bones and an immortal herb.
  • Flender prepared Shrek’s team to leave for the tournament, while Yu Xiaogang went to Spirit City to seek Bibi Dong’s help with Tang San’s twin martial souls.
  • Lin Xiao and Shui Bing’er met Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Feng Xiaotian at the preliminaries, where Lin Xiao said the Spirit Pagoda would explain its unusual soul ring configurations after the tournament.
  • Shui Bing’er privately showed the elemental academy contestants her five soul rings, including four ten-thousand-year rings, leaving Feng Xiaotian and Huo Wu astonished and envious.
  • Zhang Lexuan gathered her team at the tournament venue as the other elemental academy leaders recognized the Spirit Pagoda’s strength.
  • Yu Luomian emerged filthy from the dirt in Sunset Forest after nearly half a month of searching without finding anything, then continued his search.
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