Chapter Summaries

Tang Xuan put the seven students through increasingly strenuous physical and cultivation training, adding weighted runs and Zhao Wuji’s gravity suppression. After another month, several students advanced in rank, while Ma Hongjun’s boastful celebration of reaching rank thirty earned him a beating from the others.

• Tang Xuan woke the seven students before dawn and led them on a long weighted cross-country run, then continued their intense daily training for a month.
• Tang Xuan had the students run over rugged mountain trails while meditating and cultivating, teaching them to stay calm and sense their surroundings.
• Tang Xuan enlisted Zhao Wuji to use gravity suppression while the students completed hundreds of exercises and circulated their Soul Power.
• Tang Xuan established a routine of morning meditative runs, afternoon gravity training, and late-night physical exercises, leaving the students with little rest.
• Ma Hongjun reached rank thirty, Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing each advanced one rank, and Dai Mubai neared rank thirty-nine while Tang San reached rank thirty-six.
• Ma Hongjun acted recklessly after his breakthrough, so Dai Mubai and the others beat him until he admitted he was wrong.

Tang Xuan pushed the Shrek Seven Monsters through the final month of the first stage of training, using harsh workloads and personal challenges to keep them going. As the team endured grueling combat practice and grew stronger together, Tang Xuan continued suppressing his own breakthrough and finished the chapter by taking a nap.

• Tang Xuan challenged Dai Mubai, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Ning Rongrong to overcome their limits, and the exhausted students found the will to continue training.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji watched as Tang Xuan drew the last of the Seven Monsters’ potential out of them.
• The Seven Monsters began combat training with self-chosen matchups, while Tang Xuan cultivated and compressed his soul power to reinforce his level-forty barrier.
• Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing fought Ma Hongjun and Oscar, while Dai Mubai dueled Tang San; the girls backed Ma Hongjun into fighting seriously.
• Over half a month of frequent, near-real battles improved the Seven Monsters’ combat skills and teamwork, while Tang Xuan kept suppressing his breakthrough.
• The team endured the final days of exhausting training with little rest, and Tang Xuan left them to lie down in a reclining chair.

Tang Xuan broke through in his sword cultivation, reaching the threshold of the sword heart realm, while the Shrek Seven Monsters completed their training and set out with him and Zhao Wuji to hunt for soul rings. The group entered the Star Dou Great Forest in formation, ready to search for suitable soul beasts.

• The exhausted Shrek Seven Monsters waited for Tang Xuan, then sensed spiritual qi rushing toward his dorm and hurried there with Tang San.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji told the group that Tang Xuan was safe and making a breakthrough, and sent the students away to rest.
• Tang Xuan realized his sword cultivation had reached the threshold of the sword heart realm, then left to inform Flender after his breakthrough.
• Three days later, Flender assigned Zhao Wuji and Tang Xuan to lead the seven students to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain soul rings.
• The group traveled to a town near the forest, rested overnight, and entered the woods the next morning in a battle formation.

Tang Xuan led the Shrek Seven Monsters deeper into the forest and helped Oscar secure a three-thousand-year Red-Feather Snake soul ring. Oscar began absorbing it with a Soul-Congealing Pill while Tang Xuan reduced the strain by drawing power from the snake’s body.

• Tang Xuan told the Seven Monsters to pass up a fifteen-hundred-year Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent because a better soul beast was pursuing it.
• The Seven Monsters attacked the pursuing snake, and Tang San restrained it with Blue Silver Grass while Ma Hongjun burned it.
• When the snake escaped, Tang Xuan struck it with sword energy, severing a wing and its tail so Oscar could kill it.
• Tang San identified the snake as a three-thousand-year Red-Feather Snake, and Tang Xuan gave Oscar a Fourth-Grade Soul-Congealing Pill and said the group could pursue older soul rings.
• Oscar began absorbing the snake’s soul ring, and Tang Xuan used the Godslayer Sword to drain some of the snake’s power and ease the pressure on him.

Oscar absorbed his third soul ring and gained a flight-granting skill, while Tang Xuan helped the group secure a Lie Yan Eagle for Ma Hongjun. After killing the eagle, Tang Xuan withdrew to meditate, leaving Ma Hongjun to absorb his soul ring.

• Oscar completed his absorption of a purple third soul ring, reached the peak of level thirty-two, and revealed that his Spicy Flying Big Sausage let others fly for three minutes.
• Tang Xuan led the group to confront a three-thousand-year Lie Yan Eagle, and Oscar gave Dai Mubai, Tang San, Ma Hongjun, and Zhuqing sausages so they could fly and block its escape.
• Tang Xuan defeated the Lie Yan Eagle with his sword skills and Sword Prison, then pinned it to the ground with the Godslayer Sword.
• Tang Xuan reflected on the blood he had shed and his growing indifference before telling Ma Hongjun to absorb the eagle's soul ring.
• Tang Xuan walked away and meditated beside a tree while the Godslayer Sword glowed faintly after devouring some of the eagle's soul power.

Tang Xuan and the Shrek Seven Monsters were attacked by the Titan Giant Ape, who abducted Xiao Wu and knocked Tang Xuan away. Tang San pursued the Titan Giant Ape and Tang Xuan’s flight path, leaving the others to follow as both friends’ fates remained uncertain.

• Tang Xuan suppressed the baleful energy inside the Godslayer Sword before he and Zhao Wuji sensed danger approaching the camp.
• The Titan Giant Ape appeared, overwhelmed Zhao Wuji and the others, and seized Xiao Wu despite their attempts to stop it.
• Tang Xuan pursued the Titan Giant Ape, but it punched him away after Xiao Wu called him a friend and urged the ape not to hurt him.
• Tang San arrived in time to see Tang Xuan struck away, then set off to search for him while Zhao Wuji and the others followed.

Tang Xuan survived the Titan Giant Ape’s blow but became trapped in a barren underground world with no spiritual qi and no way out. As he investigated strange creatures formed from lava, Tang San and the others mourned his disappearance at Shrek Academy.

• Er Ming accidentally sent Tang Xuan flying into the Lake of Life, while Xiao Wu scolded him and asked to return to Tang San.
• A whirlpool swept the gravely injured Tang Xuan through an underwater cavern into a fiery underground world, where he found no spiritual qi or exit.
• Tang San returned to Shrek Academy and shut himself in Tang Xuan’s room after Zhao Wuji stopped the search; Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang told the others to give Tang San time.
• After ten days of healing and failed attempts to escape, Tang Xuan found four humanoid lava creatures fighting and consuming one another.
• Tang Xuan killed the last creature with his sword, absorbed a strand of fire essence power, and followed the creatures’ footprints to investigate.

Tang Xuan slaughtered the Lava People for months in the underground world until he gained an understanding of the third form of the Godslayer Sword Art, Thousand-Mile Pagoda. He annihilated the Lava People around him and returned to rest, needing to refine their fire essence power before it overwhelmed him.

• Tang Xuan discovered tens of thousands of Lava People attacking a group of central stones guarded by a Lava Giant, and he charged into their ranks to practice the third form of the Godslayer Sword Art.
• Tang Xuan fought the Lava People daily for more than three months, killing tens of thousands while fire essence power replenished his stamina.
• Tang San emerged from five days of grief and joined the others for breakfast, assuring Xiao Wu that Tang Xuan's disappearance was not her fault while secretly maintaining his hatred for the Titan Giant Ape.
• Tang Xuan entered a state of enlightenment and understood the killing intent behind Thousand-Mile Pagoda as his sword grew faster and his killing aura intensified.
• Tang Xuan unleashed a sweeping slash that killed over a thousand Lava People, then used four more strikes to annihilate the ten thousand surrounding him before flying away to refine their fire essence power.

Tang Xuan succumbed to the Godslayer Sword’s black mist and slaughtered the Lava People before the sacred power behind the central boulders restored his clarity. He discovered divine-grade origin grass inside, but its powerful aura repelled him when he tried to touch it.

• Tang Xuan struggled to refine the fire essence power as the Godslayer Sword’s black mist attacked his mind, then struck himself with the Clear Sky Hammer and gave in to slaughter.
• Tang Xuan returned to the Lava People’s hollow and killed thousands of them with the Godslayer Sword.
• Tang Xuan defeated the regenerating Lava Giant by stabbing its glowing inner core, and the Godslayer Sword absorbed its power, strengthening the black mist.
• Tang Xuan shattered a central boulder and approached the gap, where sacred power broke through his bloodlust and calmed him.
• Tang Xuan found saint origin grass inside the boulders, including a ten-blossomed divine-grade stalk, but its pressure repelled him when he reached toward it.

Tang Xuan used the divine origin grass’s power to suppress the baleful energy within him while collecting its healing water and refining its divinity. After a month of cultivation, he forced the baleful energy into the Godslayer Sword, reached level forty, and continued absorbing the grass’s remaining power as its restriction weakened.

• Tang Xuan planted the Godslayer Sword beside the divine origin grass so it could absorb the grass’s power and suppress the baleful energy.
• Tang Xuan collected eleven bottles of healing water from the grass’s roots, used the remaining liquid to heal his wounds and scars, and buried the Lava People’s magma fissure.
• Tang Xuan meditated for a month, resisting the black energy’s deceptive visions and using divinity to force the baleful energy from his body into the Godslayer Sword.
• Tang Xuan refined the divinity, illuminated his three soul cores, advanced the Nine-Turn God-Slaying Art to its third layer, and reached level forty.
• Tang Xuan continued absorbing the divine origin grass’s remaining divinity, weakening its radiance and restriction while the sword’s dark blue light reemerged beneath the suppressed black energy.

After consolidating his cultivation in the underground prison, Tang Xuan developed and perfected a sword-energy-based finger technique, naming it One-Finger Heaven-Piercer. He remained trapped beneath the soil, waiting for the Divine Origin Grass’s restrictions to weaken so he could claim it and attempt escape.

• Tang Xuan practiced sword techniques with his fingers and realized that his attacks could not damage the soil overhead.
• Tang Xuan decided to create a ranged finger technique and repeatedly studied how to convert sword energy into concentrated finger force.
• Tang Xuan unconsciously unleashed a powerful finger strike, then spent more than half a month refining the technique until he perfected it.
• Tang Xuan used the technique to smash the boulders hiding the Divine Origin Grass while its barrier protected it from the rubble.
• Tang Xuan named his one-form finishing move One-Finger Heaven-Piercer and thought about teaching a simplified version to the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Tang Xuan resolved to wait for the Divine Origin Grass’s restrictions to fade before consuming it and risking another attempt to escape.

Tang Xuan uprooted the divine origin grass and recklessly consumed it, forcing his body to withstand its divine and medicinal power. He survived the transformation, strengthened both Martial Souls, formed a fourth Soul Core, and broke through to the indestructible vajra realm.

• Tang Xuan used his full strength to uproot the divine origin grass, then harvested eleven stalks of saint origin grass and returned to his campsite.
• Tang Xuan ate the entire divine origin grass at once, and its overwhelming medicinal and divine powers battered his body.
• Tang Xuan circulated the Nine-Turn God-Slaying Art to control the power, which destroyed and rebuilt his organs and bones as it flowed into his Dragon Wings and Soul Cores.
• Tang Xuan endured Soul Shock and severe bodily damage, reaching major attainment in immune to all poisons as his two Martial Souls appeared and absorbed divine power.
• The divine power purged the Godslayer Sword's malevolent energy and strengthened the Clear Sky Hammer, while Tang Xuan formed a fourth Soul Core.
• Tang Xuan broke through to the fourth realm of physical cultivation, reaching indestructible vajra and turning golden.

Tang Xuan witnessed memories revealing the origins of his Godslayer Sword, Clear Sky Hammer, and the Nine-Turn God-Slaying Art. The vision ended after he concluded that his soul had crossed from chaos to the Douluo Continent and both martial souls returned to his body.

• Tang Xuan was drawn into a strange void, where visions showed the Godslayer Sword forming in chaos and fighting a vertical eye that wielded purple lightning.
• The Godslayer Sword was gravely damaged in a chain of star explosions, leaving a crack across its blade and apparently destroying its sword spirit.
• The sword entered a multicolored orb, and Tang Xuan's Clear Sky Hammer and Godslayer Sword emerged from his body and confronted each other as a stream of light entered his mind.
• Tang Xuan recovered memories of his soul wandering through chaos, absorbing Great Dao runes, and forming the scripture that became the Nine-Turn God-Slaying Art.
• Tang Xuan watched the orb pass through a black hole and reach a world of light, then concluded that the Godslayer Sword had followed him to the Douluo Continent and that Purple Sky Divine Thunder had strengthened his inherited Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Xuan's martial souls returned to his body, and the chaos-like space collapsed.

After refining the divine origin grass, Tang Xuan discovered that it had transformed his body and restored and evolved both his martial souls, but its removal caused the underground world to collapse. He escaped through a Space-Time Passage to the Douluo Continent, though the passage shattered his soul rings and injured him.

• Tang Xuan found that the divine power had transformed his body, turned his Dragon Wings crimson-gold, and granted him a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Tang Xuan saw that the divine origin grass had repaired the Godslayer Sword and evolved the Clear Sky Hammer to divine level.
• Tang Xuan realized that uprooting the divine origin grass had destabilized the underground world, then broke the weakened cavern barrier and plunged into the whirlpool.
• Tang Xuan struggled through the Space-Time Passage as pressure from the clashing laws of the two worlds crushed and drained him.
• Tang Xuan crossed the light barrier to the Douluo Continent, but the pressure shattered his soul rings and injured his heart meridians before the passage collapsed.

Tang Xuan recovered at the Lake of Life, befriended Da Ming and Er Ming, and trained by sparring with Er Ming. After agreeing to protect Xiao Wu, he prepared to leave the forest with a gift of soul bones.

• The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape rescued the unconscious Tang Xuan from the Lake of Life, and Er Ming cared for him as he recovered.
• Tang Xuan learned that only a month had passed on the continent and assured Er Ming and Da Ming that he would protect Xiao Wu.
• Tang Xuan sparred with Er Ming for a month, sharpening his control of his strength until Da Ming stopped their destructive fight with his Slow Domain.
• Da Ming asked Tang Xuan to protect Xiao Wu, and Tang Xuan agreed before accepting Da Ming's collection of soul bones.
• Tang Xuan gave Da Ming and Er Ming two stalks of Supreme Saint Origin Grass and said farewell as he prepared to leave.

Tang Xuan reunited with Tang Hao after fighting him while he was masked, and learned that Spirit Hall had caused his mother Ah Yin’s death. Tang Hao took him to the hidden valley where Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Emperor plant was growing, hoping Tang Xuan could help revive her.

• Tang Xuan discovered that the masked pursuer wielded a Clear Sky Hammer, and Tang Hao revealed himself after their fight.
• Tang Hao explained that Spirit Hall hunted Ah Yin for her hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, and that she sacrificed herself to save him.
• Tang Hao told Tang Xuan that Ah Yin had left behind a seed that might grow into her again, and Tang Xuan offered to use something that accelerated living growth to help her.
• Tang Hao and Tang Xuan flew for a day and night to a concealed valley, where Tang Hao revealed the cave behind a waterfall.
• Tang Hao returned from the cave carrying a pot with a small Blue Silver Emperor plant, and Tang Xuan felt an immediate closeness to it.

Tang Xuan used the water of life and his blood to revive Ah Yin and awaken his inherited bloodline, then treated Tang Hao with saint origin grass and helped him recover and break through to level 97. After explaining that his Soul Rings had vanished and his soul power was level 40, Tang Xuan took Tang Hao to find new Soul Rings and selected a soul beast.

• Tang Xuan poured the water of life onto Ah Yin and used his blood to help her grow to more than seventy thousand years, restoring her awareness and letting her recognize him and Tang Hao.
• Ah Yin enveloped Tang Xuan in her branches and awakened his maternal bloodline, changing his appearance and strengthening his cultivation prospects.
• Tang Xuan gave Tang Hao saint origin grass and cleared critical blockages in his meridians, allowing his injuries to heal and his soul power to break through to level 97.
• Tang Xuan told Tang Hao that he had escaped a dangerous underground world, lost all three of his Soul Rings, and now had level 40 soul power without rings.
• Tang Xuan swept the area with his spiritual power, went with Tang Hao to seek new Soul Rings, and selected a soul beast.

Tang Xuan absorbed a fifty-thousand-year soul ring and left his parents before returning to Shrek Academy. He reunited with Tang San, whose distress had brought him close to cultivation deviation, and calmed him before Tang San collapsed.

• Tang Hao demonstrated Clear Sky Hammer techniques against a fifty-thousand-year Bloodthirsty Mantis, which Tang Xuan defeated and absorbed as his first soul ring.
• Tang Xuan decided to pursue a seventy-thousand-year Two-Winged Fire Dragon for his second soul ring, then said farewell to Tang Hao and set off for Shrek Academy.
• At the Great Soul Arena, Tang San defeated a stronger opponent, while Grandmaster worried that Tang Xuan's disappearance was pushing him toward cultivation deviation.
• Tang Xuan returned to Shrek Academy, reassured Zhao Wuji, and learned that Tang San had been distraught since he vanished.
• Tang San recognized Tang Xuan at the academy gates and rushed to him; Tang Xuan soothed his unstable aura, after which Tang San fainted.

Tang Xuan helped Tang San recover from his dangerous obsession, explained that their father was safe, and strengthened Tang San with an immortal herb. Before leaving for a year or two, Tang Xuan taught Tang San the One-Finger Heaven-Piercer and promised to teach the others a simplified technique.

• Tang Xuan warned Tang San that his obsession had nearly caused qi deviation and urged him to stay calm and trust his brother.
• Tang Xuan told Tang San that their father had been nearby protecting them, was recovering from his injuries, and that Spirit Hall was their enemy.
• Tang Xuan explained that Tang San's blue silver grass had changed because of their mother's bloodline and gave him saint origin grass to absorb.
• Tang Xuan refined six Calamity-Breaking Pills for the academy's teachers while Tang San absorbed the herb, which strengthened his blue silver grass, Clear Sky Hammer, and Eight Spider Lances.
• Tang Xuan told Tang San he would leave for a year or two, and Tang San vowed to train harder while they were apart.
• Tang Xuan taught Tang San the One-Finger Heaven-Piercer and said he would teach the other Shrek members its simplified form, the Spirit Resonance Finger.

Tang Xuan accepted his appointment as captain of the Shrek Team before preparing to leave the academy and travel the continent. After defeating the team’s Seven-in-One Fusion Skill, he offered to teach the others a different set of techniques.

• Flender announced Tang Xuan as captain of the newly established Shrek Team, with Dai Mubai as vice-captain, and said Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang would oversee their training.
• Tang Xuan told the team he planned to leave the academy to gain experience, and his friends encouraged him while sharing a lighthearted farewell.
• The seven monsters challenged Tang Xuan to one last team battle and used their Seven-in-One Fusion Skill to combine their power into an Evil-Eyed White Tiger.
• Tang Xuan stopped the tiger with One-Finger Heaven-Piercer and dispersed it, sending all seven monsters flying.
• Tang Xuan comforted the team about their own paths and offered to teach them a set of techniques he had designed for them, then led them to the training grounds.