Chapter Summaries

Su Ling survived Dai Mubai’s hired mercenaries with Liu Erlong’s help, gave her a Soul Bone, and helped her turn toward the future. Yu Xiaogang left Shrek Academy with Tang San and Xiao Wu, while Su Ling secretly gave Xiao Wu the Lovesick Heartbreak Red to conceal her identity.

• Su Ling killed two of the Iron Fist Mercenary Group’s Soul Emperors, then Liu Erlong arrived and killed the three pursuers; the mercenary left guarding Dai Mubai was also found dead, but Dai Mubai escaped.
• Liu Erlong told Su Ling about her history with Flender and Yu Xiaogang, and Su Ling gave her a thirty-thousand-year fire-attributed Soul Bone, which helped her break through to rank seventy-six after absorbing it.
• Su Ling, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong skipped Yu Xiaogang’s class, and Ma Hongjun and Oscar later stopped attending as well, leaving only Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• Yu Xiaogang decided to leave Shrek Academy, and Tang San and Xiao Wu chose to go with him.
• Before they left, Su Ling privately told Xiao Wu that he knew her true identity and gave her the Lovesick Heartbreak Red to conceal her aura from Titled Douluos.
• Yu Xiaogang left Shrek Academy at noon with Tang San and Xiao Wu.

After Shrek Academy was established, Su Ling opened valuable chests, strengthened his Golden Dragon Armor, and bound Ning Rongrong and Jiang Zhu after sharing the Jade Spirit Art with them. Ning Rongrong reached level thirty and asked Su Ling and Zhu Zhuqing to help her find her third soul ring, while Su Ling planned a future trip to the Far North for his own fifth ring.

• Su Ling reviewed the group’s cultivation progress, opened three Black Chests and six Purple Chests, and obtained a treasure map, soul-bone enhancement liquid, hidden weapon blueprints, and the Jade Spirit Art.
• Su Ling used the enhancement liquid to raise the Golden Dragon Armor’s age by ten thousand years and discovered that his treasure map pointed to the Far North, where he planned to seek an ice-attribute fifth soul ring.
• After breaking through to level forty-seven, Su Ling bound Ning Rongrong when her affection reached sixty, then gave the Jade Spirit Art to her, Zhu Zhuqing, Jiang Zhu, and Feng Yu'er.
• Jiang Zhu’s affection reached sixty after Su Ling shared the cultivation art, allowing him to bind her and gain her recovery skill.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing reported that the Jade Spirit Art accelerated their cultivation, and Su Ling learned that Ning Rongrong had reached level thirty and agreed to help her find her third soul ring.
• Jiang Zhu and Feng Yu'er also awakened after cultivating the art and thanked Su Ling, increasing their affection for him.

Su Ling helped Ning Rongrong and Ma Hongjun obtain soul rings in Sunset Forest, then taught Liu Erlong the Spirit Jade Art. Liu Erlong’s affection for him rose, and she initiated a kiss before Su Ling embraced her and returned her advances.

• Su Ling agreed to take Ning Rongrong to find a soul ring, and Ma Hongjun joined them after reaching level thirty.
• Su Ling found suitable soul beasts for Ning Rongrong and Ma Hongjun and protected them with a formation while they absorbed their soul rings, raising both to level thirty-one.
• Su Ling went to Liu Erlong’s cabin and taught her the Spirit Jade Art by guiding his soul power through her meridians.
• Liu Erlong mastered the art’s seventh layer and praised its effects, increasing her affection for Su Ling to eighty-four.
• Liu Erlong leaned in and kissed Su Ling, and he embraced her as they began undressing.

Su Ling persuaded Liu Erlong to accept their relationship, earned cultivation and system rewards from their intimacy, and gained a rank of Soul Power. He then gave Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong Immortal Herbs, including one that could evolve Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul, and watched them begin cultivating.

• Liu Erlong agreed to be with Su Ling after he used Advice Listening, though she insisted he never abandon any woman he loved and kept their relationship secret.
• Liu Erlong’s affection reached 90, and Su Ling received a Dragonflame Flower and rose from rank forty-seven to rank forty-eight.
• Su Ling bought a sturdier bed, then summoned Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong and gave Zhu Zhuqing Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone and Ning Rongrong Aromatic Silk Beauty.
• Su Ling told Ning Rongrong that Aromatic Silk Beauty could evolve her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and she ate it after hesitating.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong began cultivating in Su Ling’s room as the Immortal Herbs’ effects took hold.

After Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing awakened with greatly increased cultivation and affection for Su Ling, Zhu Zhuqing accepted Ning Rongrong as another close companion. Su Ling gave Liu Erlong the Dragonflame Flower, which set her cottage ablaze as her Fire Dragon Martial Soul transformed, while he opened four Red Chests and prepared a reward for Flender and Zhao Wuji.

• Ning Rongrong awakened at rank thirty-seven with a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, while Zhu Zhuqing reached rank thirty-eight and gained a Fusion skill through her bond with Su Ling.
• Zhu Zhuqing reassured Ning Rongrong that she welcomed her feelings for Su Ling, and the two returned to their dormitory to cultivate.
• Su Ling assembled a replacement bed for Liu Erlong and gave her the Dragonflame Flower, which ignited her body and cottage as her Fire Dragon Martial Soul manifested.
• Flender returned anxiously, and Su Ling explained that Liu Erlong was undergoing a fortuitous transformation before asking Flender to keep others away.
• Su Ling opened four Red Chests, obtaining an immortal herb, two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, and a top-tier martial soul, and decided to give the herb to repay Flender and Zhao Wuji.

Liu Erlong consumed the Dragonflame Flower, transforming her martial soul into the Fire Dragon King and restoring her youthful appearance, while Su Ling gained new powers and advanced his cultivation. After Liu Erlong's soundproof house was rebuilt and she secretly spent the night with Su Ling, she joined Flender and Zhao Wuji to seek her eighth soul ring, with Su Ling accompanying them.

• Liu Erlong transformed after consuming the Dragonflame Flower, reaching rank seventy-nine and looking about twenty years old; the system bound her to Su Ling at an affection rating of 96.
• Liu Erlong arranged for her rebuilt house to have soundproof rooms, while Su Ling consumed Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and raised his mental power from rank sixty-one to rank sixty-seven.
• Su Ling used accumulated cultivation gains to break through to rank forty-nine, then helped Liu Erlong furnish her completed house.
• Su Ling's Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemums helped Flender reach rank eighty and Zhao Wuji rise from rank seventy-six to rank seventy-nine.
• Liu Erlong secretly spent the night with Su Ling in her soundproof house, after having already reached rank eighty the previous night.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji arrived to take Liu Erlong to find her eighth soul ring, and Liu Erlong insisted that Su Ling come with them.

After Liu Erlong and Flender advanced to Soul Douluo, Su Ling reached level fifty and searched the Sunset Forest for a suitable fifth soul ring. The group found and subdued a mutated six-winged Wind-Thunder Falcon, leaving it gravely wounded for Su Ling to finish.

• Liu Erlong absorbed her soul ring and reached level eighty-one, while Su Ling used his accumulated cultivation effect to break through to level fifty.
• Su Ling asked for a fifth soul ring with an attribute outside the five elements, and the group spent thirteen days searching the Sunset Forest.
• Liu Erlong spotted a roughly thirty-five-thousand-year-old mutated six-winged Wind-Thunder Falcon, and Su Ling chose it for its wind and thunder attributes.
• Zhao Wuji slowed the falcon with gravity skills while Flender and Liu Erlong damaged its wings and knocked it from the cliff.
• Flender intercepted the falcon as it tried to escape inside a sphere of lightning, and Su Ling pierced the sphere with an arrow, leaving the falcon near death.

Su Ling absorbed a 35,680-year soul ring from the Six-Winged Wind-Thunder Falcon, gaining a second external soul bone and reaching level fifty-three. Back at Shrek Academy, he strengthened Feng Yu'er with a medicinal treasure, while Dai Mubai sought Dai Weisi’s help and introduced Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Yu Xiaogang as potential recruits for Star Luo Royal Academy.

• Su Ling used the Soul Bone Condensation Aid on the Six-Winged Wind-Thunder Falcon, then absorbed its soul ring despite the dangerous wind and lightning energies.
• Su Ling’s Golden Dragon Armor helped him survive the fusion, and he gained the Six-Winged Wind-Thunder Wings, a second external soul bone that let him fly and dash a hundred meters with Wind-Lei Dong.
• Su Ling returned to Shrek Academy, gave Feng Yu'er a Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma, and she advanced to rank forty-seven and became bound to him through the system.
• Su Ling reunited with Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong, confirmed that he had become a Soul King, and asked them to keep his achievement quiet.
• Dai Mubai told Dai Weisi that Zhu Zhuqing had left him and pledged to support his brother in exchange for revenge against Su Ling.
• Dai Mubai revealed that Yu Xiaogang was his master and invited Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and Xiao Wu to meet Dai Weisi as possible Star Luo Royal Academy recruits.

Tang San and Xiao Wu joined Dai Mubai on the way to Star Luo Royal Academy while Su Ling used system chests and medicinal herbs to strengthen his companions. Jiang Zhu’s herb transformed her Martial Soul and bound her to Su Ling, who considered giving her a life-attribute Soul Bone.

• Tang San and Xiao Wu agreed to go to Star Luo Royal Academy with Dai Mubai, and Tang San offered to help Dai Weisi reach Soul King rank.
• Su Ling opened his Red and Black Chests, receiving aromatic silk beauty, Soul Power pills, a nine-grade purple ganoderma, two Soul Bones, and Beginner Soul Ascension Pills.
• Su Ling gave Jiang Zhu the eight-petal immortal orchid, Oscar the nine-grade purple ganoderma, and Ma Hongjun the cockscomb phoenix-tail sunflower.
• After six hours, Jiang Zhu awakened with her Soul Power at level thirty-eight, a transformed Life Scepter Martial Soul, and affection high enough for Su Ling to bind her as a goddess.
• Jiang Zhu’s gratitude raised her affection to eighty-seven, and Su Ling considered giving her the life-attribute Soul Bone.

Su Ling gave Jiang Zhu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong powerful Soul Bones, helping them strengthen their Soul Power and deepen their feelings for him. Zhu Zhuqing reached level forty and asked Su Ling to find her Fourth Soul Ring, while Jiang Zhu reached level thirty-nine and Ning Rongrong came close to level forty.

• Jiang Zhu, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun thanked Su Ling for helping them improve, and Su Ling gave them Intermediate Soul Power Pills and told them to keep his gifts secret.
• Oscar and Ma Hongjun left after joking that Su Ling could handle three women at once, making Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Jiang Zhu blush.
• Su Ling gave Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Jiang Zhu Soul Bones suited to their abilities, and Jiang Zhu's affection reached ninety, binding her to Su Ling.
• Zhu Zhuqing absorbed her Soul Bone, reached level forty, and asked Su Ling to help find her Fourth Soul Ring; they embraced and kissed while the others were still absorbing theirs.
• Jiang Zhu absorbed her Soul Bone and reached level thirty-nine, then hugged Su Ling and thanked him.
• Ning Rongrong finished absorbing her Soul Bone and reached level thirty-nine, regretting that she had not reached level forty.

Su Ling and Zhu Zhuqing encountered Qin Ming and the Imperial Fighting Team on their way to Sunset Forest to hunt for a Soul Ring. Su Ling joined their group, while Qin Ming privately asked him to rein in the team’s arrogance, and Su Ling agreed.

• Su Ling saw that Ning Rongrong’s affection had risen to 97 and gained the ability to perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with her.
• The system detected Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling nearby, and their initial affection values appeared as 2 and 3, respectively.
• Su Ling recognized Qin Ming and learned that he was supervising the Imperial Fighting Team as they searched for Yu Tianheng’s Soul Ring.
• Qin Ming invited Su Ling and Zhu Zhuqing to travel with the team, and Su Ling accepted despite the team members’ arrogance and attention toward Zhu Zhuqing.
• Qin Ming privately asked Su Ling to teach the Imperial Fighting Team a lesson, and Su Ling agreed, saying he could take on ten of them alone.

Su Ling defeated Yu Tianheng in a spar without using his martial soul, leaving the Imperial Fighting Team stunned. He restored Yu Tianheng’s competitive spirit, while Qin Ming agreed to discuss Su Ling’s strength later at the academy.

• Qin Ming challenged the Imperial Fighting Team to spar with Su Ling, and Yu Tianheng volunteered to fight him.
• Su Ling blocked Yu Tianheng’s attacks and endured his lightning soul skills without being hurt, while the team realized Yu Tianheng was outmatched.
• Yu Tianheng activated his third soul skill, but Su Ling dodged his attacks and knocked him out of the circle with one punch.
• Yu Tianheng struggled to accept his loss until Su Ling challenged him to improve, reigniting his determination to win after gaining a fourth soul ring.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling’s affection for Su Ling increased, and Su Ling asked Qin Ming to keep his soul power rank private until they returned to the academy.

Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong each absorbed a fourth soul ring and advanced to rank forty-one under Su Ling’s guidance. Back at the academy, Su Ling continued training the team as the Advanced Soul Master Tournament drew closer.

• Zhu Zhuqing absorbed a Ghost Tiger’s soul ring, reached rank forty-one, and learned the basics of Su Ling’s Carefree Journey technique.
• Su Ling returned to the academy, taught Carefree Journey to Ning Rongrong and Jiang Zhu, and received a Red Chest when Jiang Zhu’s affection increased.
• Ning Rongrong reached rank forty and traveled with Su Ling to Sunset Forest, where she absorbed a fourth soul ring and advanced to rank forty-one.
• Su Ling’s team members improved their ranks with his guidance and Soul Power Pills, while Luo Sha and Xu Yanyan joined the team.

Su Ling absorbed a Hundred Thousand Year Spiritual Wisdom Skull, raising his spiritual power to level 90 and gaining two skills. After ten days in seclusion, he accepted Ning Rongrong’s invitation to visit her sect, and she asked him to go that very day.

• Su Ling received cultivation gains from his bound goddesses, breaking through to level 55, then exchanged chests and opened five Red Chests.
• Su Ling gained a Hundred Thousand Year Spiritual Wisdom Skull, an immortal herb, an Advanced Protective Formation, Carefree Hundred Transformations, and a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Su Ling mastered Carefree Hundred Transformations and began absorbing the Spiritual Wisdom Skull in seclusion.
• After ten days, Su Ling finished absorbing the skull, reaching level 90 in spirit and gaining True Vision Eye and Light of the Spirit.
• Ning Rongrong asked Su Ling to accompany her to visit her sect, and he agreed to go with her that day.

Ning Rongrong brought Su Ling to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Bone Douluo tested the visitor’s strength. Su Ling revealed his powerful martial soul and fought Bone Douluo, evading his close-range attacks as the spar continued.

• Ning Fengzhi learned Ning Rongrong had returned with a man, and Bone Douluo rushed out to meet them.
• Bone Douluo struck at Su Ling, who blocked the attack and landed safely; Ning Rongrong told Bone Douluo that Su Ling was her guest and Shrek Academy’s chief student.
• Qian Renxue recognized Su Ling’s Five Elements War Bow, while Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo watched as Bone Douluo challenged him to spar.
• Su Ling revealed his five soul rings and rank fifty-six, then fired arrows that Bone Douluo shattered and defended against, though Su Ling’s Wind-Thunder Arrow struck through his bone shield.
• Bone Douluo closed in, but Su Ling put away his bow and used his footwork to evade Bone Douluo’s attacks.

Su Ling impressed Bone Douluo with his strength and met Qian Renxue, who invited him to visit her Crown Prince’s Residence. At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Rongrong revealed that Su Ling had helped her reach rank forty-one and evolve her martial soul into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, leaving Ning Fengzhi and the elders astonished by both her progress and Su Ling’s gifts.

• Su Ling drove Bone Douluo several meters back with the eighth punch of his Eight Desolations Fist, earning Bone Douluo’s praise and an invitation to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Su Ling noticed that Qian Renxue was present as Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, and Ning Fengzhi introduced them; Qian Renxue asked Su Ling to call her Qinghe and invited him to her residence.
• After Qian Renxue left, Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo that she had reached rank forty-one in less than a year.
• Ning Rongrong revealed that Su Ling had helped her martial soul evolve into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and had given her a fifty-thousand-year soul bone.
• Ning Fengzhi and the elders examined Ning Rongrong’s evolved martial soul and soul bone, then suspected Su Ling came from a powerful hidden family.

Su Ling gave Ning Fengzhi the Hidden Weapon Blueprints and accepted an honorary Guest Elder position in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. He received a token granting access to the sect’s resources and vowed to prevent the sect’s future tragedy.

• Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi that Su Ling had helped her reach rank thirty and evolve her martial soul, and Ning Fengzhi thanked him and asked about finding another Aromatic Silk Beauty.
• Su Ling explained that the herb was rare, promised to write down its appearance and properties, and gave Ning Fengzhi the Hidden Weapon Blueprints.
• Ning Fengzhi invited Su Ling to become a Guest Elder, offered him five million gold soul coins and three treasury items, and Su Ling accepted.
• Ning Rongrong’s affection for Su Ling increased, earning him a Black Chest and a Golden Chest.
• Ning Fengzhi welcomed Su Ling with a banquet and later gave him a token that let him mobilize the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s resources.

Su Ling opened a Golden Chest and received the single-use Revival skill, then visited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s treasury with Ning Rongrong and chose three unusual items. After returning to Shrek Academy, he set out alone for ruins marked on Liu Erlong’s map to find energy crystals, planning to stop in Star Luo City and possibly deal with Dai Mubai.

• Su Ling opened the Golden Chest and received the divine skill Revival, which could revive someone dead for less than a year if their body was relatively intact.
• Ning Rongrong brought Su Ling hangover soup, and Ning Fengzhi and the elders discussed Su Ling’s strength and the potential of his Hidden Weapon Blueprints.
• Ning Rongrong took Su Ling to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s treasury, where he chose the Thousand Illusions Mask, a landscape scroll, and a heavy, unmarked token.
• Su Ling gave Ning Rongrong his energy crystal so the sect could search for more, but the treasury staff had no information about it.
• After returning to Shrek Academy, Su Ling left alone to seek energy crystals in the ruins on Liu Erlong’s map and consider stopping in Star Luo City to deal with Dai Mubai.

Su Ling entered Mist Forest to find the ruins containing crystal stones and rescued Zhu Zhuxin from a Netherworld Wolf Pack while she absorbed a soul ring. He learned that Dai Mubai was engaged to Zhu Zhuxin and detected Dai Mubai, Tang San, and Xiao Wu nearby, leaving him considering how to punish Dai Mubai.

• Su Ling entered Mist Forest in disguise and received a system alert that Zhu Zhuxin was nearby.
• Su Ling found Zhu Zhuxin surrounded by Netherworld Wolves after her two Hell Spirit Cat family guards fled, and he protected her with a formation.
• Su Ling defeated the Netherworld Wolf King, forced it to retreat with the pack, and gained favorability and chests from Zhu Zhuxin.
• The Netherworld Wolves killed the two fleeing guards as Situ Lie Feng, Yu Xiaogang, Dai Mubai, Tang San, and Xiao Wu traveled through the forest.
• Dai Mubai told Situ Lie Feng that Zhu Zhuqing had run away with another man and that Zhu Zhuxin had been betrothed to him instead.
• Su Ling detected the group from a kilometer away and decided that crippling Dai Mubai again would be more satisfying than killing him.

Su Ling rescued Zhu Zhuxin, revealed his identity, and brought her along to search for the ruins in the Mist Forest. The pair found the canyon entrance, where Su Ling defeated a fifty-thousand-year Red Flame Python and left Zhu Zhuxin amazed by his strength.

• After Zhu Zhuxin absorbed her fourth soul ring, Su Ling revealed his identity and invited her to leave with him and join Zhu Zhuqing.
• Zhu Zhuxin recognized Su Ling's formation and helped identify the direction of the ruins using an ancient book and Liu Erlong's map.
• Su Ling and Zhu Zhuxin entered ten-thousand-year soul beast territory and reached a canyon that Zhu Zhuxin identified as the ruins' entrance.
• A fifty-thousand-year Red Flame Python attacked them, and Su Ling told Zhu Zhuxin to stay back while he fought it.
• Su Ling used his full strength, overcame the python's flames and armor, and killed it with his steel saber.