Chapter Summaries

After three months of specialized training, Grandmaster prepared Tang San and the others for a second stage that would send them on practical assignments across the continent. He warned them that the work could bring mortal danger and force them to kill.

• Dai Mubai reached level forty-three while training to command respect, and Oscar reached level thirty-seven by treating cooking as cultivation and running a restaurant.
• Ning Rongrong learned the secret of Oscar's Gourmet Twin Hands, beat him for keeping it from her, and agreed to keep it secret in exchange for free meals; Li Ke also promised to stay silent.
• Tang San remained level forty, Ma Hongjun reached level thirty-six, Lin Like reached level thirty-three, Ning Rongrong reached level twenty-eight, and Zhu Zhuqing reached level twenty-nine as the group developed their abilities.
• Grandmaster asked the students to consider why they wanted to grow stronger, and Tang San said he wished for his family to reunite and live peacefully while Ma Hongjun wanted a wife and a happy life with his brothers.
• Grandmaster announced the second stage, assigning the students mercenary-like work such as helping villagers, finding pets, and clearing bandits and Soul Beasts, with more dangerous Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect commissions under assessment.

The Imperial Fighting Team arrived in Suotuo City, where Qin Ming hoped to visit his former academy and have his students spar with its fighters. After Spirit Cat stopped three troublesome local guides, Tang San confronted the disgraced men as Dark Asura and prepared to transform them.

• Qin Ming brought the Imperial Fighting Team to Suotuo City and told them he wanted to check whether his former academy still operated.
• Yu Tianheng's group encountered Bu Le, E Kao, and Tianya, who tried to approach them, but Spirit Cat intervened and crippled the three men's cultivation.
• Spirit Cat apologized to Yu Tianheng's group and gave him an advertisement for the Tang Family Restaurant before leaving unseen.
• Bu Le and the others complained in an alley that they would take revenge on the Imperial Fighting Team and mocked the Blue Dream organization.
• Tang San appeared as Dark Asura, said he had run out of patience with the trio, and bound them in blue silver grass.

Tang San and the Shrek Seven Monsters built Blue Dream into a self-sustaining organization that helped Suotuo City, while the Imperial Fighting Team visited the Tang Family Restaurant and learned more about it. Qin Ming brought the two teams together for a commissioned fight, and both sides summoned their martial souls.

• Tang San organized Dai Mubai's followers into Blue Dream, which helped the city and expanded Oscar's Tang Family Restaurant into a hotel.
• Yu Tianheng and the Imperial Fighting Team dined at the restaurant and heard the waitress explain Blue Dream's work and its Soul Master staff.
• Qin Ming arrived with the Shrek Seven Monsters, and Yu Tianheng recognized him as the Imperial Fighting Team's former teacher.
• Dai Mubai challenged the Imperial Fighting Team to begin their commissioned match, and all fourteen fighters released their martial souls.

The Shrek Seven Devils battled the Imperial Fighting Team in the Tang Family Restaurant, using teamwork and Tang San’s dew to overcome their opponents’ poison and fighting strength. Shrek defeated the entire team, leaving the restaurant’s exhibition match decided in their favor.

• Dai Mubai fought Yu Tianheng and Shi Mo, while Ma Hongjun held off Yu Feng and Zhu Zhuqing kept Osler from reaching Shrek’s rear line.
• Oscar and Lin Like tried to reach Ye Lingling, but Shi Mo blocked them with his transformed tortoise-shell shields.
• Dugu Yan spread jade phosphorous serpent poison across the battlefield, but Tang San’s dew neutralized it as his Blue Silver Grass restrained the Imperial Fighting Team.
• Dai Mubai and the others knocked down Yu Feng, Osler, and Shi Mo, while Dai Mubai defeated Yu Tianheng despite his powerful Thunder Dragon Claw.
• Tang San trapped Ye Lingling and neutralized Dugu Yan’s poison, then the Shrek fighters joined forces to defeat the last standing opponent, Shi Mo.

After the Shrek Seven Monsters defeated the Imperial Dou Team, both groups reviewed the battle and began training together at Shrek Academy. The teachers assigned three dangerous commissions, and Tang San’s group arrived at a town where everyone had disappeared as Qian Renxue warned Xiao Wu of a terrifying presence.

• Qin Ming and Grandmaster reviewed the Imperial Dou Team’s defeat, while Shrek’s members discussed their own mistakes and strengths.
• Qin Ming arranged special training for the Imperial Dou Team at Shrek Academy, where they trained and sparred with the Shrek students.
• After Flender and the other teachers returned with three commissions, the students split into teams to investigate disappearances, clear out Wolf Bandits, and recover stolen goods.
• Grandmaster warned the teams to take the missions seriously, and the Shrek Seven Monsters recalled past encounters with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Qian Renxue and Xiao Wu arrived at the town where the population had vanished, and Qian Renxue said her Angel Martial Soul sensed something terrifying.

Tang San and his companions investigated Slay Town, where poisonous residue and insect-like footprints pointed to a dangerous enemy. They learned that Qian Renxue and Xiao Wu had entered the town and vanished after a green barrier appeared, leaving Qin Ming to call for more help.

• Qin Ming searched an empty house and discovered poisonous residue that made him feel sluggish until he drank a Purification Dewdrop.
• Tang San and Ning Rongrong traced the townspeople’s footprints and detected airborne toxins made from fermenting feces, which Tang San suspected came from an Evil Soul Master or intelligent Soul Beast.
• Osler and Lin Like found the Azure Eagle outside town, and Tang San used an apple to coax it into sharing what it knew.
• The Azure Eagle told Tang San that Qian Renxue and Xiao Wu had arrived two days earlier and had not returned, and that a shit-green barrier had risen over the town that night.
• Qin Ming concluded that the group needed reinforcements because even Qian Renxue had disappeared.

Tang San and his companions stayed in Slay Town to find the evil soul master, and Tang San discovered a sewer network beneath the town. As Li Ke began drilling down to it, Fly King prepared a sacrifice and held Qian Renxue captive underground.

• Tang San decided to stay in Slay Town and investigate, while Qin Ming, Ning Rongrong, Li Ke, and Osler agreed to support him; Tang San sent the Azure Eagle to Spirit City with a letter.
• The group searched the town together, found no survivors, and concluded that the mastermind might be hiding underground.
• Tang San used his spiritual power and Blue Silver Grass to map underground passages, discovering an extensive sewer system and sensing an evil presence there.
• Li Ke donned soul tool armor and used a drill to bore toward the sewers below.
• In the sewers, Fly King prayed to the Gluttony Sin God for a breakthrough and prepared an enormous cocoon as a sacrifice while holding Qian Renxue captive.

Dai Mubai and his companions joined a Spirit Hall-led expedition into Scorchrock Valley to investigate and eliminate the growing wolf bandit threat. As the party camped near the bandits’ cave, mutant wolf bandits ambushed them at dusk, and Vanguard ordered the group to attack.

• Jin Lang, the Soul Saint known as Vanguard, led the hired soul masters and mercenaries to a campsite near the wolf bandits’ cave.
• Dai Mubai’s companions helped establish camp, and Zhao Wuji warned them that the wolf bandits were unusually dangerous.
• Oscar served Tenfold Tonic Soup, while Dai Mubai spoke with Ye Lingling and Zhu Zhuqing reflected on their troubled relationship.
• Dai Mubai and Oscar sensed wolf stink, and the group spotted wolf bandits approaching the camp.
• Vanguard identified the attackers as mutants with tiger traits and ordered everyone to attack.

The Soul Masters fought a massive pack of unusually coordinated Wolf Bandits, then faced their leader, the powerful Beastman Tiger King. Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing were badly wounded, and Tiger King prepared to unleash his killing move as the battle escalated.

• Vanguard, the Shrek group, and the mercenaries battled nearly a thousand Wolf Bandits while Oscar and Ye Lingling supported and healed the fighters.
• Three enormous, fire-breathing Wolf Bandits broke through the formation, forcing Zhao Wuji, Vanguard, and several Soul Kings to engage them.
• Tiger King ambushed Vanguard and revealed that he had escaped slavery, found Ancient Ruins in Scorchrock Valley, and used their Soul Tools to strengthen himself and raise the Wolf Bandits.
• Dai Mubai charged Tiger King, while Zhu Zhuqing wounded him from behind with a Steel Arrow; Tiger King still grievously injured Dai Mubai and blasted the attackers away with a gale.
• Zhao Wuji rescued the badly wounded Zhu Zhuqing after finishing off a ten-thousand-year Wolf Bandit, and Vanguard joined the others as Tiger King announced his killing move.

Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing awakened the Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill and defeated Tiger King, though the power left them unconscious. Meanwhile, Tang San’s group searched the sewers and found Xiao Wu imprisoned in a cell.

• Tiger King overwhelmed Zhao Wuji and Vanguard, leaving the others in danger.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing joined hands and unleashed the Hell White Tiger, which killed Tiger King and swept away the remaining combatants.
• The Hell White Tiger vanished after declaring Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing its Vessels, and the pair collapsed unconscious.
• Ye Lingling healed the survivors while Oscar and the Shi Brothers helped protect the group.
• Tang San’s group navigated the sewers, found traces of battle, and followed faint breathing to a cell.
• Tang San opened the cell and discovered Xiao Wu inside.

Gluttony and Greed discussed Qian Renxue’s defeat by a human-made Soul Tool as Tang San’s group prepared to rescue her and search for missing townspeople. Meanwhile, Ma Hongjun and Yu Feng infiltrated a bandit fortress to retrieve a stolen treasure, where they discovered nearly a hundred people engaged in an orgy.

• Gluttony and Greed watched Qian Renxue’s successor sealed by Divine Miracle Annihilation and recalled the Soul Tool’s origins as a weapon against gods.
• Xiao Wu awoke after Tang San treated her, explained how the Fly King had captured Qian Renxue and defeated her with a Soul Tool, and warned that the missing townspeople might be in danger.
• Tang San divided the group: Xiao Wu, Osler, and Ning Rongrong searched for survivors, while Tang San, Qin Ming, and Li Ke went to rescue Qian Renxue.
• Flender sent Ma Hongjun and Yu Feng into the bandit fortress to retrieve a stolen treasure while he, Yu Tianheng, and Dugu Yan waited outside as support.
• Ma Hongjun and Yu Feng killed the bandits they encountered as they moved through the fortress, then entered the main hall and found nearly a hundred people engaged in an orgy.

Ma Hongjun and Yu Feng raided the Pleasure Salvation Society to seize its Pleasure Statue and stop the cult from exploiting its followers. After Duke and Puss unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Song of the Desireless Bird, everyone fell into emotional hallucinations, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Ma Hongjun identified the Pleasure Statue as the source of the cult's influence and drew Duke and Puss away while Yu Feng went to take it.
• Yu Feng slipped past the entranced crowd, seized the statue, and escaped as Flender and the others fought the cultists.
• Dugu Yan poisoned the cultists, Yu Tianheng held them back, and Flender and Ma Hongjun overwhelmed Duke and Puss.
• Duke and Puss unleashed Song of the Desireless Bird, whose falling feathers trapped everyone nearby in powerful emotional hallucinations.

Ma Hongjun defeated the Desireless Bird by taking the Evil Fire Nirvana Pill, then recovered at a nearby Spirit Hall and learned that Yu Feng was really Bai Chenxiang. Meanwhile, the Wolf Bandits team prepared to scout the Tiger King's cave, leaving Oscar and four others to enter first.

• Ma Hongjun resisted the Desireless Bird's illusion, took the Nirvana Pill, and destroyed it with Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens before collapsing as the Phoenix Emperor absorbed his evil fire.
• Ma Hongjun woke in the Spirit Hall with Yu Feng, Flender, and the injured Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan nearby, and learned that his outburst had broken the Soul Tool and cost them the bounty.
• Yu Feng revealed that her real name was Bai Chenxiang, while Flender left the young pair alone and reflected on the burdens of adult life.
• After the Wolf Bandits team recovered, Vanguard proposed a special operations team to investigate the Tiger King's cave and promised double bounty money to volunteers.
• Oscar, the Shi Brothers, Kati, and Liu Huan entered the cave to scout ahead.

Oscar and the others explored an ancient food-processing facility, survived its defenses, and discovered Five-Flavors Essence in its Power Furnace. After escaping and reporting the ruin to Vanguard, they collected their reward and returned to the academy, while Tang San and the others remained in the sewers.

• Oscar led Liu Huan, Kati, Shi Mo, and Shi Mo through a metal underground ruin and realized it was an ancient kitchen operated by an artificial intelligence.
• The facility trapped them in a steaming chamber, but they shattered its glass enclosure and escaped into the main hall.
• After the group stole supplies, the facility released dozens of unfinished Wolf Bandits, forcing them to fight and retreat.
• Oscar followed a fragrance into a room with a Power Furnace and took five gems he identified as Five-Flavors Essence, then shared some of the other gems with his companions.
• The group waited for help, reported their discoveries to Vanguard, collected their reward, and returned to the academy, while Tang San and the others remained in the sewers.

Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Osler rescued four Spirit Hall Soul Masters while searching the sewers, as Tang San, Qin Ming, and Lin Like found the Fly King and the cocoon of a thirty-thousand-year-old Abyssal Maw. As Tang San and Qin Ming battled the wounded Fly King, Lin Like began freeing Qian Renxue, and the Fly King charged toward the cocoon.

• Xiao Wu stopped Ning Rongrong from trying to save fully transformed civilians, and Ning Rongrong and Osler helped Xiao Wu kill the Corrosive Maggot Demons.
• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong found four partially transformed Spirit Hall Soul Masters and used Purification Dewdrop to save them, then sent them outside with Osler.
• Tang San, Qin Ming, and Lin Like found Qian Renxue sealed in a Soul Tool beside the Abyssal Maw's cocoon, and Lin Like began trying to reverse the device.
• The Fly King emerged and fought Tang San and Qin Ming while Lin Like worked to free Qian Renxue.
• The Fly King's memories revealed how he became an Evil Soul Master and found the Abyssal Maw's cocoon; as his strength failed, he charged toward it.

The Fly King fused with the Abyssal Maw by letting it absorb him, emerging as the monstrous Abyssal Fly King. After Qin Ming, Tang San, and their allies fought him while Li Ke finished analyzing the soul tool, Qian Renxue destroyed him.

• The Fly King poured his soul power into the Abyssal Maw's cocoon and died as it completed its transformation.
• The Abyssal Fly King emerged, with the Fly King's spiritual origin assimilated into the creature.
• The Abyssal Fly King unleashed a deafening roar that injured Li Ke, but she resumed analyzing the soul tool.
• Tang San restrained the creature while Qin Ming attacked its weak point, but Qin Ming was injured by the Fly King's corrosive acid and Xiao Wu rescued him.
• Tang San neutralized the acid attack and healed Qin Ming as Li Ke finished her work and collapsed unconscious.
• Qian Renxue struck the Abyssal Fly King with the Angel Sword and shattered his body.

Tang San and his companions exposed the Fly King’s attempt to survive, and Tang San absorbed the creature’s Soul Ring after confronting its remaining spirit with the Asura Demon Heart Art. The Fly King’s resentment was destroyed, leaving Tang San with a thirty-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring and an unexplained thought about Bai Wunan.

• Qian Renxue thanked Tang San and his companions, while Tang San warned her not to let enemies exploit her willingness to hear their last words.
• Xiao Wu sensed that something was missing from the Fly King’s remains and warned everyone, forcing the Fly King’s tiny true body out of hiding.
• Tang San struck down the weakened Fly King with the Boundless Sword, and the Fly King’s black Soul Ring flew toward him in an attempt to retaliate.
• Tang San stopped Qian Renxue from destroying the Soul Ring and drew it in, entering a spiritual confrontation with the Fly King.
• Tang San used the Asura Demon Heart Art to make the Fly King relive his life and face the resentment of those he had killed, which tore apart his remaining spirit.
• Tang San dispersed the Fly King’s last primordial spirit and fully absorbed his thirty-thousand-year Abyssal Maw fourth Soul Ring, briefly wondering who Bai Wunan was.

After defeating the threat in the underground lair, Tang San healed Li Ke and Qin Ming, and the group completed their mission. On the journey home, Qian Renxue and Xiao Wu discussed Tang San, revenge, and the choices that mattered more than love, setting an unexpected change in motion within Spirit Hall.

• Tang San used his Blue Silver Life-Creating Cocoon to heal Li Ke and Qin Ming, then returned to the surface with the others as Spirit Hall reinforcements arrived.
• After the town was restored and everyone recovered, Qian Renxue took Divine Miracle Annihilation for Spirit Hall to study, while Li Ke refused her invitation to join.
• Qian Renxue and Xiao Wu departed, and Tang San told Ning Rongrong that he had known Xiao Wu as a classmate but had no romantic feelings for her.
• Qin Ming praised Tang San's performance, and the group reflected on how they had completed their mission before heading back.
• On the Azure Eagle, Xiao Wu told Qian Renxue that she understood Tang San's appeal, while Qian Renxue said she would still duel him to avenge her father.
• Xiao Wu accepted that some things mattered more than love, and Qian Renxue unknowingly set an enormous change within Spirit Hall in motion.

After returning to Shrek Academy, the students shared stories of their missions before Tang San tested Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing’s Hell White Tiger in a sparring match. Tang San defeated them, and the chapter ended with the group reflecting on his strength and team role.

• Grandmaster welcomed everyone back and cooked a meal at the Tang Family Restaurant, where the students compared their mission adventures.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing’s group won the storytelling contest, while the others learned that Yu Feng was Bai Chenxiang and noticed Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan’s strained relationship.
• The students returned to Shrek Academy’s training field, where Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing fused into the Hell White Tiger to face Tang San.
• The Hell White Tiger fought Tang San with powerful attacks, while Tang San countered with his Blue Silver skills, Hell Blade, and Zen Heart Sword.
• Tang San’s Blue Silver Crystal Bullet clashed with the Hell White Tiger Fierce Light Wave, and Tang San remained standing as Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing collapsed from exhaustion.

As Shrek’s leaders traveled to Heaven Dou City, Flender urged Yu Xiaogang to stop denying his love for Liu Erlong. At Spirit Hall, Xiao Wu tried to kill Bibi Dong to avenge her mother but could not bring herself to strike, and Bibi Dong sent her back to prepare for the Elite Tournament.

• Flender and Yu Xiaogang discussed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s plans for Shrek and their uncertain eligibility for the tournament.
• Flender confessed that he still loved Liu Erlong and encouraged Yu Xiaogang to pursue her despite their family-like bond.
• Bibi Dong continued Spirit Hall’s research into soul tools after receiving a Power Furnace and a letter describing ancient waterways, a god-slaying soul tool, and a kitchen.
• Xiao Wu entered the papal hall and attacked Bibi Dong, but she hesitated when memories of Bibi Dong’s care for her overwhelmed her desire for revenge.
• Bibi Dong told Xiao Wu to cultivate and prepare for the Elite Tournament, promising that no third person would learn of the confrontation.