Chapter Summaries

Minghui agreed to attempt Martial Soul fusion with Ling Luochen after helping Ma Xiaotao suppress her Evil Fire. Their fusion strengthened both of their ice abilities, but they fainted during the process, leaving Ma Xiaotao outside Ling Luochen's closed room the next morning.

• Minghui agreed to try Martial Soul fusion with Ling Luochen after arranging to help Ma Xiaotao suppress her Evil Fire first.
• Minghui comforted the jealous Ma Xiaotao, then visited Ling Luochen in her dormitory to begin their fusion in private.
• Ling Luochen embraced Minghui as they fused their Soul Power, and her Martial Soul evolved while both of their cultivation and physical abilities improved.
• A surge of Spiritual Power erupted from Minghui's brow, and he and Ling Luochen both fainted before instinctively drawing close under the bedding.
• Ma Xiaotao arrived outside Ling Luochen's room the next morning, saw the closed sign and drawn curtains, and complained that they had taken precautions against visitors.

Mu En confirmed that the Sun Moon Empire had developed long-range Fixed Soul Tools and was preparing for a war that could threaten Shrek Academy, prompting the elders to discuss strengthening the academy and its alliances. Meanwhile, Zhou Yi’s growing paranoia strained Fan Yu, and Minghui and Ling Luochen woke from an embarrassing shared dream without anything having happened.

• Mu En reported that the Sun Moon Empire could start a war within five to ten years and had plans to target Shrek Academy, then urged cooperation with the Body Sect and preparations for defense.
• Mu En proposed expanding Soul Tool development and disciple training, but the elders set aside promoting Fan Yu because Zhou Yi’s rumors-driven suspicions had been disrupting his life.
• Xuan Zi told Mu En that Minghui had completed a Martial Soul Fusion with Ling Luochen and was likely still in her bedroom.
• Ling Luochen woke and pushed Minghui off the bed, then they realized that nothing had happened and she told him to leave so they could discuss their fusion and cultivation later.
• Minghui and Ling Luochen separately recalled their strange shared dream and felt embarrassed as Minghui hurried off to bathe and eat.

Minghui and Ling Luochen tested their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, discovering that it created an ice-mist battlefield that strengthened Minghui’s attacks and hindered enemies. After their first joint cultivation left Ling Luochen struggling to endure the fused Soul Power, Minghui proposed a regular schedule to help her adapt and improve his control of ice.

• Ling Luochen joined Minghui for lunch and told him that her martial soul quality, cultivation speed, and meridians had improved after their fusion.
• At the Training Ground, Minghui and Ling Luochen fused their martial souls into an armored figure that wielded his bow and spread a Cold Mist domain.
• Minghui tested the fusion’s effects by gliding through the mist and firing an Ice Arrow that spread cold energy across the ground.
• Minghui and Ling Luochen cultivated together, but Ling Luochen stopped after a little over two hours because the fused Soul Power strained her body.
• Minghui proposed practicing their Martial Soul Fusion Skill every other day and cultivating together two nights a week so Ling Luochen could adapt gradually.

Minghui revealed that the Sun Moon Empire was preparing to wage war against the former Three Great Empires and urged Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen to put aside their feud. They reconciled and agreed to cultivate together, while the chapter ended with Minghui claiming a reward from Ma Xiaotao.

• Ling Luochen stayed with Minghui to meditate while he used the Light of Life to soothe her meridians, and Ma Xiaotao arrived to call them to dinner.
• At dinner, Gongyang Mo told Minghui that the Academy was giving greater support to core disciples and the Soul Tool Department.
• Minghui told Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen that the Sun Moon Empire could start a war within ten years and said the Academy was preparing for the threat.
• Minghui urged Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen to resolve their misunderstanding, explaining that cultivating together could help them grow stronger and help Ling Luochen suppress Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire.
• Ma Xiaotao apologized to Ling Luochen, who accepted, and the two agreed to cultivate together; Ma Xiaotao then walked Ling Luochen out.
• Minghui asked Ma Xiaotao for a reward and gave her a special collector's edition set, after which the two cultivated together.

Minghui built a routine of training with Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen, growing closer to both women as his Soul Power rose to Rank 37. After Xuan Zi advised him to rest his overworked mind, Minghui began engraving Soul Tool Core Arrays and arranged to make and sell weapons with help from the Soul Tool Department’s students.

• Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen saved Minghui a seat at lunch, and Gongyang Mo teased him about his Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Ling Luochen.
• Minghui established a routine of alternating between training with Ling Luochen, combat practice, and Xuan Zi’s guidance; over the following months, his Soul Power rose to Rank 36 and then Rank 37.
• When Minghui hit a bottleneck in his techniques, Xuan Zi told him to rest and suggested studying Soul Tool Core Arrays to redirect his attention.
• Minghui visited his family’s Soul Tool shop to obtain blueprints and materials, then asked Qian Duoduo to let him use a fabrication room and hire students to make the weapon components.
• Qian Duoduo negotiated a ten percent labor fee and room rent, then brought Minghui to a private fabrication room, where Minghui began engraving an array onto an Energy Crystal.

Minghui trained his Soul Tool skills as Fan Yu struggled with his increasingly troubled marriage to Zhou Yi. After Zhou Yi died by suicide, Minghui warned the Inner Court students about the danger to Ma Xiaotao and asked Zhang Lexuan to help uncover anyone leaking her secrets.

• Minghui practiced engraving a Soul Tool array while using his Body Martial Soul to train his Spiritual Power.
• Fan Yu returned to the Soul Tool Department looking haggard, and He Caitou told Minghui that Fan Yu and Zhou Yi had been arguing frequently.
• Zhang Lexuan told the Inner Court canteen that Zhou Yi had slit her wrists and died, and that Fan Yu had found her at home.
• Minghui explained that an Evil Soul Master could exploit Ma Xiaotao's Martial Soul flaws, then advised her to control her emotions and guard against being captured.
• Minghui asked Zhang Lexuan to tell Dean Yan to monitor the students for anyone spreading word about Ma Xiaotao, using the leak to investigate possible internal enemies.

Yan Shaozhe and the Elders prepared to guard Ma Xiaotao and watch for Holy Spirit Cult agents after Minghui suggested the Soul Master Tournament could draw them out. Minghui told Yan he could not guarantee curing Xiaotao’s Evil Fire before the tournament, but argued that the academy could use the event to ambush their enemies.

• Yan Shaozhe asked Zhang Lexuan to alert Elder Xuan and the other Elders to possible threats against Ma Xiaotao and the academy.
• Elder Xuan and Zhang Lexuan agreed to prepare for Evil Soul Masters, while Zhang Lexuan noted that the tournament in the Star Luo Empire could offer the academy a chance to eliminate them.
• Elder Song told Qian Duoduo that Zhou Yi’s selfishness had led to her suicide and asked him to help Fan Yu move on.
• Minghui teased Ma Xiaotao with a punishment challenge, then stopped before they attempted a martial soul fusion and began cultivating with her instead.
• Yan Shaozhe confronted Minghui, who admitted he was not confident he could resolve Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire before the tournament and urged the academy to use the event to kill as many attackers as possible.

Minghui concluded his Soul Tool research and returned his focus to martial arts cultivation. At the Profound Nether Sect, Chen Wen reported that Xu Sanshi had a secret crush on Jiang Nannan, and the Sect Master approved approaching her through her ailing mother.

• Minghui tested arrays layered onto his bow and found they strengthened and sped up his arrows, but he decided the research was too time-consuming to continue for now.
• Minghui told Qian Duoduo, Fan Yu, and He Caitou that he was leaving Soul Tool research, and they supported his decision.
• Minghui returned to class as winter arrived.
• Chen Wen told the Profound Nether Sect's Sect Master that Xu Sanshi liked Jiang Nannan, a talented student whose mother was seriously ill.
• Chen Wen explained that the Sect's Black Tortoise Divine Pill could help Jiang Nannan's mother, and the Sect Master authorized him to make contact.

Jiang Nannan learned that her mother's heart condition had become life-threatening and sought help from Minghui instead of accepting the Profound Nether Sect's recruitment terms. Minghui agreed to treat her mother if Jiang Nannan joined the Qing Luan Sect, then arranged to bring her mother to Shrek City and approached Xu Sanshi to buy a Black Tortoise Divine Pill.

• Jiang Nannan received a letter revealing that her mother's condition had worsened and that the Profound Nether Sect could treat her with a Black Tortoise Divine Pill in exchange for joining the Sect or accepting compensation.
• Chen Wen explained the Profound Nether Sect's offer to Jiang Nannan, who returned to the academy troubled and asked her teacher for leave.
• Jiang Nannan asked Minghui to treat her mother, and Minghui offered to help if she joined the Qing Luan Sect and remained loyal to it.
• Jiang Nannan agreed to join, gave Minghui her home address, and wrote a letter for him to send with the people retrieving her mother.
• Minghui arranged for Jiang Nannan's mother to be brought to Shrek City and reported Jiang Nannan's potential to the Qing Luan Sect.
• Minghui found Xu Sanshi and asked to buy one of his Black Tortoise Divine Pills.

Minghui accepted a Black Tortoise Divine Pill from Xu Sanshi to help treat Jiang Nannan’s mother, while learning that Xu Sanshi’s Sect had approached Jiang Nannan about a marriage arrangement. He explained the circumstances to her and gave her the pill as Xu Sanshi’s apology.

• Xu Sanshi gave Minghui a Black Tortoise Divine Pill, and Minghui said he needed it for Jiang Nannan’s mother, who had Congenital Heart Disease.
• Jiang Nannan told Chen Wen she had joined the Qing Luan Sect and left the Profound Mirror Medical Hall.
• After learning about the Sect’s approach, Xu Sanshi found Minghui the next day, and Minghui brought him to Jiang Nannan.
• Minghui explained that Xu Sanshi had known nothing about his family’s arrangement and described why the Profound Nether Sect had approached Jiang Nannan.
• Minghui gave Jiang Nannan the Black Tortoise Divine Pill as Xu Sanshi’s apology and said it could help her mother.

Minghui gave Jiang Nannan her Core Disciple provisions and helped arrange care and work for her recovering mother. As the New Year approached, he used his final punishment opportunity to give Ma Xiaotao a wedding dress, then presented Ling Luochen with a Princess Dress as a New Year gift.

• Minghui gave Jiang Nannan a storage Soul Tool, her Sect identity token, and her cultivation stipend, and Jiang Nannan thanked him and Xu Sanshi before leaving.
• More than half a month later, Jiang Nannan's mother arrived in Shrek City, recovered with the Black Tortoise Divine Pill and Minghui's Light of Life, and began working at the Soul Tool Shop.
• Minghui reached Rank 38 and gave Ma Xiaotao a custom wedding dress as the reward for his final punishment opportunity; she wore it while they cultivated together.
• Ma Xiaotao told Minghui she would keep wearing the evening-cultivation clothes he gave her, provided each outfit became hers.
• Minghui visited Ling Luochen to cultivate and gave her a first-edition Princess Dress as a New Year gift, which she accepted happily.

Minghui used custom outfits for Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen to promote his family’s clothing shop, then gave New Year clothes to the Inner Court students and elders. When Ling Luochen saw the revealing outfit he had prepared for their cultivation, she blushed and asked him to keep it from Ma Xiaotao.

• Ling Luochen praised Minghui’s Princess Dress and offered to wear clothes he liked while they cultivated if he gave them to her.
• Minghui picked up clothes from a shop in Shrek City and gave them to the Inner Court students, whose designs sparked teasing about his promotional schemes and his custom outfits for Ling Luochen and Ma Xiaotao.
• Minghui gave outfits to Yan Shaozhe and other elders, then went to cultivate.
• Minghui gave Ma Xiaotao another outfit, and she tried to impose new restrictions on his designs, but he refused.
• Minghui handed Ling Luochen a revealing outfit for their cultivation and claimed Ma Xiaotao was his exclusive fitting model; Ling Luochen suspected Dean Yan had encouraged him and ran off to change, asking Minghui not to tell Ma Xiaotao.

Minghui’s clothing business grew through celebrity endorsements and promotions, while he planned a spring collection featuring seven academy women. As Tang Ya prepared to obtain her next soul ring, Minghui arranged to join her and Beibei on a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Minghui and Ling Luochen cultivated together, and Ling Luochen urged him to focus on cultivation and defeat Ma Xiaotao before thinking about romance.
• Ma Xiaotao and other prominent students wore the shop’s new clothes, boosting sales, and Minghui arranged more promotions and endorsement deals.
• Minghui planned a seven-person spring collection and treated friends to a meal to celebrate his profits.
• Tang Ya said she expected to break through next month and planned to travel with Beibei to the Star Dou Great Forest for a soul ring.
• Minghui asked to join the trip, and Tang Ya agreed after Beibei noted Minghui’s strength and Spiritual Detection could help them.

Minghui reunited with his parents, discussed his plans to remain at the academy for the New Year, and learned how his family and the Body Sect were preparing for danger from the Sun Moon Empire. His parents also brought the Ice Marrow fragments he had requested, and his detection revealed that five genuine pieces were sealed with extraordinarily powerful energy that might be Divine Level.

• Minghui found his parents waiting in his dormitory with Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen, and Qingyi praised his clothing promotion plan.
• Minghui told Qingyi and Ming Chen that he would stay at the academy for the New Year to help Tang Ya obtain a Soul Ring, and Qingyi agreed.
• Qingyi told Minghui that his teacher and the Body Sect were investigating the Sun Moon Empire and that the Three Great Empires were secretly preparing for conflict.
• Qingyi gave Minghui thirteen collected ice fragments, and Minghui identified five as genuine Ice Marrow and used his Body Martial Soul to reveal their sealed energy.
• Minghui suspected the fragments came from beyond the world, and Ming Chen said they might have reached the legendary Divine Level.

Minghui handed Qingyi notes on attribute transformations and arranged to teach Ma Xiaotao and Beibei his Phoenix and Dragon Combat Techniques under Mu En's guidance. The Inner Court emptied for the New Year, while Yan Shaozhe was left resentful that Minghui had not chosen him to inherit the Phoenix technique.

• Minghui gave Qingyi the Sapphire Necklace and his notes, asking her to leave three fragments for him to study and seal away the rest.
• After Qingyi and Ming Chen left, Minghui learned that Ling Luochen would travel home to warn her family about the Sun Moon Empire, then practiced with her.
• Minghui suggested that Beibei bring Tang Ya to Mu En's home for the New Year, and Zhang Lexuan agreed to speak with him.
• Minghui asked Zhang Lexuan to arrange Mu En's guidance for himself, Ma Xiaotao, and Beibei, explaining that he planned to teach Ma Xiaotao the Phoenix Transformation and Beibei the Dragon Transformation.
• Minghui teased Ma Xiaotao for a kiss, and she ran off to cultivate.
• Yan Shaozhe brooded that Minghui had passed over his own Phoenix Martial Soul when choosing a successor for the Phoenix Transformation.

Minghui brought Beibei and Tang Ya into the Inner Court and began helping them, while Ma Xiaotao agreed to try dating him for a year. At the Training Ground, Minghui demonstrated his newly comprehended Dragon Transformation techniques for Mu En and Beibei, ending as he launched his first punch.

• Mu En sent Zhang Lexuan to inform Beibei, and Minghui later joined Beibei, Tang Ya, Zhang Lexuan, and Ma Xiaotao for dinner.
• Minghui gave Ma Xiaotao red Christmas-themed pajamas, explained attribute changes, and cultivated Soul Power with her; she proposed that they try dating for a year and agree not to argue.
• Minghui, Ma Xiaotao, and Beibei met Mu En at the Training Ground, where Mu En praised Du Busi's teaching and asked Minghui to demonstrate his Combat Technique.
• Minghui told Beibei that he had developed two Dragon Transformation moves, Dragon Battles in the Wild and Arrogant Dragon Without Regrets, inspired by the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.
• Beibei activated Wrath of Thunder as Minghui gathered Ice Attribute Soul Power and threw a frost-covered punch.

Minghui demonstrated his Cold Dragon and Azure Dragon techniques to Beibei, then explained the dangerous Arrogant Dragon Without Regrets technique. Beibei chose to learn it, and Minghui began demonstrating a Wind Attribute version by transforming from an Azure Luan into an Azure Dragon.

• Minghui used four Cold Dragons to defeat Beibei, then thawed him and explained how the technique worked.
• Mu En healed Beibei, who asked to continue sparring with Minghui.
• Minghui demonstrated the Azure Dragon variation, using Wind Dragons to restrain and strike Beibei while explaining how he developed their movements.
• Minghui warned that Arrogant Dragon Without Regrets consumed martial soul origin and could burn a fighter's Life Force, Spiritual Power, and even soul.
• Minghui told Ma Xiaotao not to learn the move until she resolved her martial soul's flaw, while Beibei chose to learn it.
• Minghui drew on the Azure Luan Beast Soul, transformed into an Azure Luan, and then changed into an Azure Dragon to demonstrate the technique.

Minghui demonstrated his powerful Dragon Transformation techniques, then began sharing cultivation insights with Beibei. After ten days of training and discussion, Beibei chose to focus on strengthening the technique he had already learned before pursuing the more advanced ones.

• Minghui showed Beibei and Ma Xiaotao a spiraling dive attack that pierced a deep hole in the Training Ground, then explained its risks and mechanics.
• Minghui passed on the principles of his Combat Techniques to Beibei, and Mu En praised his understanding before teaching him about dragons and attribute transformations.
• Mu En encouraged Beibei to compare techniques with Minghui, and Beibei began training and discussing their martial arts with him.
• Over the next ten days, Beibei learned Dragon Battles in the Wild and decided to build his foundation with it before attempting Dragon Emperor's Evil-Shattering Rift and Dragon Emperor's Domain-Shaking Realm.
• Ling Luochen returned the day before Minghui's birthday, and Beibei thanked Minghui at lunch and told him about his decision.

Minghui advised Beibei to follow his own cultivation path rather than imitate his predecessors, and Beibei chose a path of his own. After Minghui celebrated his eleventh birthday and spent the New Year with friends, Tang Ya’s Soul Power broke through, prompting the group to leave the Academy in disguise.

• Minghui explained to Beibei that he should learn from others without copying them, and Beibei settled on his own cultivation path.
• After dinner, Beibei and Tang Ya went to cultivate while Minghui practiced a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Ling Luochen and Ma Xiaotao trained on her own.
• Minghui celebrated his eleventh birthday with Zhang Lexuan, Beibei, and Tang Ya, then learned that Ling Luochen’s family accepted their Martial Soul Fusion Skill partnership.
• At New Year, Minghui toured the Academy with Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen, then tried to introduce them to his card game, Fight the Landlord.
• A few days later, Tang Ya’s Soul Power broke through, so Minghui, Ma Xiaotao, and Ling Luochen disguised themselves and left the Academy.

In the Star Dou Great Forest, Minghui advised Tang Ya to strengthen her Blue Silver Grass with a compatible Plant-type Soul Ring instead of copying Tang San’s animal-type choices. As the group searched for a suitable Soul Beast, a powerful Spiritual Power attack froze Beibei and Tang Ya, and darkness and pressure swept over the forest.

• Tang San learned that the New Year prayer ceremonies had ended and reconsidered taking Minghui as his disciple.
• Minghui realized he and Tang Ya and Beibei had missed their chance to encounter Huo Yuhao outside the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Minghui explained why Tang Ya should choose a Plant-type Soul Beast for her Third Soul Ring, and Tang Ya agreed to seek one in the forest’s south.
• After several days of searching, Tang Ya considered returning for a thousand-year Bauhinia Vine, but Minghui persuaded her to keep looking for a stronger Soul Ring.
• While the three ate, a powerful Spiritual Power froze Beibei and Tang Ya, and Minghui activated his Light of Life as thunder and spreading darkness engulfed the forest.