Chapter Summaries

Huo the Merchant brought his son to Lu Yu's shop for advice on a first soul ring, and Lu Yu sold him a cultivation method and recommendations for Blue Silver Grass. Huo left with the book and VIP cards, planning to give the lowest-tier card to his disgraced relative at the Duke's Mansion.

• Huo the Merchant doubted Lu Yu's shabby shop and tried to leave with his son, but Lu Yu identified the boy's Blue Silver Grass martial soul.
• Lu Yu recommended a three-hundred-year-old Thousand-Poison Vine and challenged the Tang Sect's usual advice, convincing Huo that he knew his field.
• Lu Yu showed Huo a Shrek Academy emblem and offered a book describing a way for Blue Silver Grass to absorb soul power from lower-grade plants.
• Huo paid ten thousand Gold Soul Coins for the book, and Lu Yu joked that Shrek could use him as an evil soul master to improve its performance records.
• Lu Yu gave Huo gold, silver, and bronze VIP cards as a promotion, and Huo planned to give the bronze card to his disgraced relative.

Lu Yu prepared to leave Star Luo City for Shrek Academy, using his Chimera martial soul to absorb martial soul fragments and accelerate his cultivation. After reaching level twenty-two, he closed his shop and encountered a girl whose Spirit Eyes martial soul caught his attention.

• Lu Yu used blue silver grass in his backyard to reach level twenty and form a God-Given Soul Ring.
• Lu Yu explained that Chimera let him copy martial souls and skills from opponents, and he demonstrated Blue Silver Entanglement and Gravity Control.
• Lu Yu warned himself against absorbing animal martial souls because corruption could drive him mad.
• Lu Yu absorbed the backyard blue silver grass overnight and raised his soul power from level twenty to twenty-two.
• Lu Yu packed his belongings, closed his shop, and assessed the Spirit Eyes martial soul of a blue-haired girl who approached him.

Lu Yu assessed Huo Yutong’s Spirit Eyes and recommended soul beasts, while Huo Yutong learned her martial soul was powerful but had damaged her meridians and limited her talent. He warned that a cheap, safe first soul ring could leave her unable to reach Soul Elder, then offered to help her hunt a stronger beast for a thousand gold soul coins.

• Huo Yutong visited Lu Yu’s shop with a bronze VIP card and asked for a discounted soul ring recommendation.
• Lu Yu pretended the shop was closed, then reopened it after learning Huo Yutong had a Spirit Eyes Martial Soul.
• Lu Yu examined Huo Yutong’s martial soul and concluded it was top-tier but had harmed her meridians, leaving her with only level-one innate soul power.
• Lu Yu gave Huo Yutong ten pages of guidance on suitable plant soul beasts and explained their habitats and risks.
• Lu Yu warned that a hundred-year plant soul ring might hinder Huo Yutong’s progress and offered to help her hunt a four-hundred-year spiritual beast for a thousand gold soul coins.
• Huo Yutong despaired at the thought of falling behind Dai Huabin, but remained torn between her revenge and not wanting to trouble Lu Yu.

Huo Yutong begged Lu Yu to help her hunt a soul beast, and he agreed before preparing her for meridian training. As he opened her meridians and secretly refined a Spirit Eyes fragment, Lu Yu gained the Spirit Eyes Martial Soul and felt an unexplained attraction to Huo Yutong.

• Huo Yutong knelt before Lu Yu and promised to repay him if he helped her hunt a soul beast, and Lu Yu agreed to help.
• Lu Yu prepared a medicinal bath for Huo Yutong, teased her about bathing with him, then left her to soak for two hours.
• Lu Yu explained that opening Huo Yutong's Twelve Principal Meridians and teaching her the Mysterious Heaven Skill would improve her cultivation, while warning her to keep the technique secret.
• Lu Yu guided Soul Power through Huo Yutong's meridians and secretly refined a Spirit Eyes Martial Soul fragment.
• Lu Yu switched his Martial Soul to the Spirit Eyes, felt an inexplicable attraction to Huo Yutong, and wondered whether their matching Martial Souls explained it.

Lu Yu discovered that his Soul Power fused with Huo Yutong’s, boosting their strength and cultivation speed, and charged her for cultivating together. The next day, Xu Jiujiu visited with Lu Yu’s expensive carving knife and warned him that it was dangerous, while considering how to recruit him and noticing his closeness with Huo Yutong.

• Lu Yu fused his Soul Power with Huo Yutong’s and found that their power and circulation speed more than doubled, though Huo Yutong had not noticed.
• Huo Yutong learned that their Soul Power fusion increased her cultivation speed, and Lu Yu told her he would charge one Gold Soul Coin per minute.
• After cultivating through the night, Huo Yutong began learning the Purple Demon Eye while Lu Yu went to study martial souls.
• Xu Jiujiu arrived with Lu Yu’s hundred-thousand-Gold-Soul-Coin carving knife, flirted with him, and caught his attention as the princess of the Star Luo Empire.
• Xu Jiujiu considered recruiting Lu Yu and using Huo Yutong as a counterweight to the duke’s faction, then opened the box and warned Lu Yu about the carving knife.

Lu Yu bought the cursed Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife and left Star Luo City with Huo Yutong, training her on the way to the Star Dou Great Forest. After Huo Yutong cooked delicious grilled fish during a rest, a familiar voice called out nearby.

• Lu Yu bought the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife from Xu Jiujiu despite its history of corrupting and killing its owners.
• Lu Yu told Xu Jiujiu he planned to leave Star Luo City for Shrek City, then set out with Huo Yutong to find her a high-quality first Soul Ring.
• Lu Yu had Huo Yutong run alongside their carriage, and she covered six hundred kilometers in three days while stabilizing her meridians with the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• Lu Yu and Huo Yutong entered the Star Dou Great Forest, where Lu Yu scouted ahead and taught her about the region's Soul Beast habitats.
• Huo Yutong caught and grilled fish for Lu Yu, who praised her cooking and proposed Spirit Ice Douluo as her future title.
• As Huo Yutong continued grilling, a nearby person remarked that the food smelled amazing, and Lu Yu recognized the voice as familiar.

Lu Yu encountered Tang Ya and used the Tang Sect Secret Arts to overcome her, then exposed her dangerous changes and confronted her about becoming an Evil Soul Master. After learning she planned to hunt a Man Faced Demon Spider for her third Soul Ring, he warned her against it, and a black-purple speck of light granted him Dark Blue Silver Grass's second Soul Skill.

• Tang Ya attacked Lu Yu with her Blue Silver Grass vines, but he evaded and redirected them using the Tang Sect Secret Arts.
• Lu Yu identified Tang Ya's blue-purple Blue Silver Grass as evidence that she was secretly cultivating his theories, then accused her of being an Evil Soul Master.
• Tang Ya begged Lu Yu not to tell Shrek Academy, and he instead asked which Soul Beast she planned to hunt for her third Soul Ring.
• Tang Ya said she intended to hunt a Man Faced Demon Spider, and Lu Yu scolded her for choosing a dangerous evil Soul Beast despite his advice.
• Tang Ya admitted she had neglected theory, and a black-purple speck of light emerged from her and gave Lu Yu Dark Blue Silver Grass's second Soul Skill.

Lu Yu explained his Blue Silver Parasite Thorn soul skill and advised Tang Ya on a powerful third soul skill for her blue silver grass. He proposed hunting a split nine-headed snake, but its ability to split into countless snakes made capturing it a serious obstacle before a sudden spiritual attack knocked Lu Yu and Tang Ya unconscious.

• Lu Yu described how Blue Silver Parasite Thorn secretly parasitized enemies and grew inside them, then decided to help Tang Ya choose her third soul skill.
• Lu Yu and Tang Ya concluded that Tang Ya needed more than stronger blue silver grass, and Lu Yu recommended a split nine-headed snake for its control and resilience.
• Lu Yu explained that the split nine-headed snake could grant Blue Silver Splitting Net, strengthening and controlling blue silver strands while making them harder to break.
• Tang Ya realized they would have to capture all the split snake's core snakes at once, and Lu Yu struggled to find a solution.
• A powerful surge of spiritual fluctuations made Lu Yu and Tang Ya dizzy and collapse, while Huo Yutong remained by the grilled fish, confused.

Huo Yutong prepared to accept the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s million-year sacrifice, but Lu Yu interrupted to choose its Soul Skills for her. As the sacrifice began, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s gray bead turned toward Lu Yu instead.

• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm appeared before Huo Yutong and promised her a million-year Soul Ring, four Soul Skills, and a second Martial Soul.
• Lu Yu recovered from Mental Interference and warned Huo Yutong not to accept an unknown Soul Beast’s sacrifice without considering its Soul Skills.
• Lu Yu explained that Spirit Eyes could use Spiritual Detection, Simulation, Spiritual Prison, and Life Reflection Shield, and persuaded the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to grant those skills.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm burst apart and entered Huo Yutong, while Lu Yu took its silkworm shedding for safekeeping.
• A gray bead emerged amid the spiritual fluctuations and turned away from Huo Yutong, flying toward Lu Yu’s forehead.

Lu Yu encountered a gray elder who purified the cursed carving knife and helped him absorb the Gold of Life, greatly expanding his Sea of Consciousness. The elder accepted Lu Yu as his disciple, and Lu Yu turned to absorb the fragments of Huo Yutong’s newly upgraded Spirit Eyes Martial Soul.

• A gray elder explained that he had come from another world and chosen Lu Yu’s carving knife as a place to recover.
• The elder used his power to remove the curse from the knife, revealing its jade-green form and naming it the Blade of Life's Watch.
• At the elder’s direction, Lu Yu pressed the Gold of Life to his forehead and endured the painful expansion and repair of his Sea of Consciousness.
• The Gold of Life increased Lu Yu’s spiritual power and physical strength, raising the ages of his two Soul Rings to two thousand years.
• The elder agreed to teach Lu Yu Undead Magic and Soul Magic after recovering his memories, and Lu Yu accepted him as his teacher.
• Lu Yu found Tang Ya and Huo Yutong unconscious after Huo Yutong finished absorbing her Soul Ring, then began absorbing fragments of her upgraded Spirit Eyes Martial Soul.

Lu Yu absorbed Spirit Eyes and ice-element martial soul fragments, gaining powerful Spirit Eyes skills and confirming that Chimera could hold multiple fragments in one soul ring. He offered Tang Ya free soul-ring guidance in exchange for her Tang Sect special admissions quota, and she asked whether the quota could be sold.

• Lu Yu equipped the Spirit Eyes fragment and gained Spiritual Detection, Simulation, Spiritual Prison, and Life Reflection Shield.
• Lu Yu considered how to combine martial soul fragments and decided Shrek Academy was worth visiting for more fragments.
• Tang Ya woke to find Lu Yu teasing her, then asked him to help her obtain a third soul skill from a Split Nine-Headed Snake.
• Lu Yu said he could track the snake with Spiritual Detection, but Tang Ya would have to pay him ten thousand gold soul coins for his help.
• Lu Yu refused Tang Ya's coins and asked for her Tang Sect special admissions quota in exchange for free soul-ring guidance.
• Tang Ya asked Lu Yu whether she could sell the quota.

Lu Yu explained that Tang Ya could sell the Tang Sect’s Shrek admission slot, and she agreed to give him this year’s place in exchange for his help with her soul hunt. As Lu Yu, Huo Yutong, and Tang Ya set out to find a split nine-headed snake, Huo Yutong prepared to tell him about the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s sacrifice.

• Lu Yu told Tang Ya that wealthy families would pay tens of thousands of gold soul coins for the Tang Sect’s Shrek admission slot, and Tang Ya realized how much money she had missed out on.
• Tang Ya offered Lu Yu this year’s slot and asked him to help with her soul hunt, hoping to bring him into the Tang Sect.
• Lu Yu called Huo Yutong out for pretending to sleep, and she apologized after listening to his conversation with Tang Ya.
• Huo Yutong reflected on the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s gifts and her plans to avenge her mother, then decided to tell Lu Yu about him.
• Lu Yu declined to hear Huo Yutong’s news until after the hunt and led the group toward the outskirts to search for a split nine-headed snake.
• Lu Yu sent blue silver grass roots underground to map the nearby area, and Tang Ya asked if he was absorbing soul power from other blue silver grass.

Lu Yu used Blue Silver Grass to scout for a suitable Soul Beast and led Tang Ya and Huo Yutong to a Nine-Headed Snake. After the three defeated it, Tang Ya began absorbing its Soul Ring to gain her third Soul Skill.

• Lu Yu explained that his Blue Silver Grass could scout by sensing and absorbing power from other Blue Silver Grass, and he used it to search for snake Soul Beasts.
• A day later, Lu Yu, Tang Ya, and Huo Yutong found a Nine-Headed Snake devouring a wild boar, and Huo Yutong shared her Spiritual Detection with the others.
• Lu Yu immobilized the Nine-Headed Snake with Gravity Control, lifted and smashed it into the ground, and Tang Ya bound its body with Blue Silver Grass.
• The Nine-Headed Snake tried to split and flee, but Tang Ya pinned its nine escaping heads with Bone-Piercing Nails, killing it.
• Tang Ya sat beside the corpse and began absorbing the Nine-Headed Snake's purple Soul Ring while Lu Yu urged her to hurry.

Lu Yu taught Huo Yutong to protect her information and prepare for opponents before detecting the Xiao Family nearby. After meeting Xiao Xiao, he learned she had innate full soul power but had stalled at rank 19, and grew angry when her father revealed they planned to give her second martial soul a hundred-year soul ring to help her qualify for Shrek Academy.

• Lu Yu explained to Huo Yutong how hidden information and carefully chosen abilities could decide battles, and told her not to reveal her own abilities without his permission.
• Lu Yu sensed approaching people, hid Huo Yutong, and prepared parasitic seeds before a group from the Xiao Family emerged.
• A Xiao Family member introduced Lu Yu to the clan head, who asked him to advise his daughter, Xiao Xiao, on her soul rings.
• Lu Yu discovered Xiao Xiao had innate full soul power but was only rank 19 because her cultivation speed would not improve.
• The Xiao clan head said the family planned to add a hundred-year soul ring to Xiao Xiao's second martial soul so she would not be expelled from Shrek Academy, and Lu Yu objected in shock.

Lu Yu explained Xiao Xiao’s twin martial souls and urged her to develop their potential through battle, while promising to help her awaken their strength. He then proposed challenging Shrek Academy and made Xiao Xiao swear that losing would keep her from ever entering it.

• Lu Yu scolded the Xiao Family for nearly sacrificing Xiao Xiao’s future and accepted thirty thousand gold soul coins from the Xiao Clan Chief, who asked him to guide her.
• Lu Yu introduced his disciple Huo Yutong to Xiao Xiao and examined Xiao Xiao’s Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron and Nine-Phoenix Ceremonial Flute.
• Lu Yu said Xiao Xiao’s personality did not match her martial souls, and advised her to cultivate the flute or build confidence through repeated battles with the cauldron.
• Lu Yu told Xiao Xiao that her talent surpassed Xu Jiujiu’s and privately consulted his teacher about controlling someone’s body so he could copy Xiao Xiao’s potential.
• Lu Yu proposed setting up a challenge arena at Shrek Academy’s gates and made Xiao Xiao swear that she would never enter the academy if she lost.

Lu Yu persuaded Xiao Xiao to challenge Shrek’s incoming freshmen, and her decision to risk expulsion triggered a breakthrough and unlocked one of his Soul Ring slots. Two days later, Xiao Xiao blocked Shrek Academy’s entrance with an arena, drawing a crowd as the first freshmen began to confront her.

• Patriarch Xiao initially rejected Lu Yu’s proposal to have Xiao Xiao fight at Shrek’s gates, but Xiao Xiao reconsidered and swore she would never enter Shrek if she lost.
• Xiao Xiao’s resolve brought her breakthrough to Soul Grandmaster, while Lu Yu absorbed fragments of her martial souls and unlocked his Second Soul Ring’s second martial soul slot.
• Lu Yu told Xiao Xiao that one Soul Ring was enough to face Shrek’s freshmen, and she agreed to try despite her fear.
• Two days later, Xiao Xiao set up an arena outside Shrek Academy’s admissions office and declared that anyone who could not defeat her could not enroll that day.
• Shrek’s students, teachers, and Shrek City residents gathered to watch, while Lu Yu and Tang Ya discussed Xiao Xiao’s chances and Tang Ya declined to challenge the seniors.
• Several prospective freshmen challenged Xiao Xiao’s right to block the entrance and warned her to get down before the crowd turned against her.

Xiao Xiao defeated successive groups of challengers at Lu Yu’s platform after Lu Yu secretly guided her attacks, convincing her that her Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron was powerful. The chapter ended when a yellow-haired girl identified Lu Yu and questioned him about his past and the Tang Sect’s secret manuals.

• Xiao Xiao faced three challengers at once and, following Lu Yu’s instructions, used her cauldrons to knock Ouyang Junyi and Chen Junfeng unconscious, prompting Zhao Haochen to surrender.
• Lu Yu’s narration revealed that the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had hypnotized Xiao Xiao to eliminate her reaction delay, letting Lu Yu pilot her during the fights.
• Xiao Xiao defeated three more One-Ring Soul Masters by slamming her cauldron into the platform and using its vibrations to immobilize them.
• A yellow-haired girl deduced that the platform contained Soul-Shocking Scattered Sand designed to amplify Xiao Xiao’s vibrations, while Wu Feng dismissed the tactic as a trick.
• The yellow-haired girl approached Lu Yu, Huo Yutong, and Tang Ya, and asked Lu Yu to confirm her account of his business and his relocation after taking the Tang Sect’s secret manuals.

Lu Yu met Ning Tian of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, impressed her with Huo Yutong’s ability, and negotiated a wager over Xiao Xiao’s arena challenge. Ning Tian offered four Mystic Water Pills if Wu Feng lost, and Wu Feng entered the arena to fight Xiao Xiao.

• Lu Yu recognized Ning Tian and criticized the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s cultivation limit, while Huo Yutong restrained Wu Feng with Spiritual Prison.
• Ning Tian apologized with a storage Soul Tool Ring containing ten thousand Gold Soul Coins and asked why Lu Yu had established the arena.
• Lu Yu explained that Xiao Xiao was building confidence and offered to have himself and Huo Yutong join the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect if Wu Feng defeated her.
• Ning Tian accepted the wager and offered four Mystic Water Pills if Wu Feng lost.
• Wu Feng entered the arena, confident she would defeat Xiao Xiao.

Lu Yu took control of Xiao Xiao’s body and used the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron to defeat Wu Feng, demonstrating an improved technique and boosting Xiao Xiao’s confidence. The group registered at Shrek Academy, but a dormitory issue left Lu Yu, Xiao Xiao, and Huo Yutong waiting while their class assignments were sent to Dean Yan.

• Xiao Xiao defeated several Soul Grandmasters, then faced Wu Feng, a two-ring Soul Master with a Red Dragon Martial Soul.
• Lu Yu entered Xiao Xiao’s Sea of Consciousness, explained that he would take control, and encouraged her to learn from the fight.
• Lu Yu controlled Xiao Xiao’s body, used the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron to trap Wu Feng, and defeated her with Cauldron's Tremor: Triangle Kill.
• Lu Yu collected Wu Feng’s Red Dragon Martial Soul Fragment and explained to Xiao Xiao and Yutong how Wu Feng could have countered the cauldrons by combining her Soul Ring powers.
• Lu Yu’s group registered at Shrek Academy, where Ning Tian arranged a Mystic Water Pill for the next day and Tang Ya used the Tang Sect’s Special Admissions Student quota for Huo Yutong.
• The admissions office delayed the group over dormitory assignments and asked them to display their Martial Souls, while an administrator brought their class assignments to Dean Yan.

Yan Shaozhe assigned Lu Yu, Huo Yutong, and Xiao Xiao to Zhou Yi’s Class One after dismissing their talents, and the group arrived at the dormitory, where Lu Yu recognized Mu En and asked him about soul ring choices. The chapter left Lu Yu facing an arrogant roommate who was about to announce five dormitory rules.

• Yan Shaozhe dismissed the new students’ abilities and assigned all three to Class One after learning Huo Yutong had a ten-year soul ring and Lu Yu had Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang Ya warned Lu Yu, Huo Yutong, and Xiao Xiao that Zhou Yi made students run and expelled anyone who disobeyed her.
• Lu Yu said he would attend Star Luo Royal Academy rather than return to Shrek if Zhou Yi expelled him, while Huo Yutong worried that going there could endanger her Master.
• Lu Yu and the others met Mu En at the dormitory entrance, and Lu Yu asked him about soul ring configurations for power attack system beast martial souls.
• Lu Yu entered Room 108 and encountered an arrogant blue-clad student who began listing five dormitory rules.