Chapter Summaries

Zhu Wu repaid the people who had helped him in the past with money and medicinal herbs, while warning powerful factions to protect Holy Soul Village. His gifts revealed his extraordinary backing, and Tang San and Tang Hao began to consider what faction stood behind him as Tang San prepared to leave for Shrek Academy.

• Zhu Wu gave Old Jack money for village improvements and a thousand-year snow silkworm, then visited Zhu Gang's grave with Long Ling'er before returning to Notting City.
• Zhu Wu told Long Ling'er a carefully altered account of the original Zhu Wu's past, and she approved of his repayment to the village.
• Zhu Wu ordered City Lord Xiao to tell Xue Ye that Holy Soul Village was under the Illusory Beast Sect's protection and gave him a letter for Dugu Bo.
• Zhu Wu gave Spirit Hall treasures and forced Su Yuntao to swallow a medicinal herb, which increased Su Yuntao's Soul Power by more than one level.
• Zhu Wu gave Notting Academy's principal Gold Soul Coins and a medicinal herb that rejuvenated him and raised his Soul Power; the principal told Yu Xiaogang about the gift.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San about the principal's transformation, Tang Hao wondered what faction backed Zhu Wu, and Yu Xiaogang told Tang San to leave for Shrek Academy the next day.

Zhu Wu confirmed that Jin'er’s father had abandoned her family after her death and reassured her grandparents that the Illusory Beast Sect would seek justice. As Dugu Bo learned of the sect’s investigation into Yu Renkui, he warned Xue Ye that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan faced destruction and wondered whether he could stop Dugu Yan’s involvement with Yu Tianheng in time.

• Zhu Wu told Jin'er’s grandparents that he had survived, joined the Illusory Beast Sect, and was investigating what happened to him.
• Zhu Wu’s aunt confirmed that Jin'er’s father never visited after her death, and Zhu Wu promised the sect would seek justice before leaving with Long Ling'er for Suotuo City.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo found medicinal effects in Su Yuntao’s body, and Bibi Dong ordered him to investigate the people behind the herb.
• Dugu Bo read the letter about Yu Renkui, warned Xue Ye that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan could be wiped out, and urged him to keep his family from provoking strangers.
• Qian Renxue concluded that Yu Renkui had provoked the Illusory Beast Sect and that its investigators might come to Heaven Dou City.

Dugu Bo warned Dugu Yan about the Illusory Beast Sect’s coming ultimatum to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and urged her to reassess Yu Tianheng. After reading Zhu Wu’s letter, the Ten Thousand Demons King and Zi Ji set out with Dugu Bo for the clan, while two figures appeared outside Suotuo City.

• Xue Ye raised the Notting City Lord’s noble rank, then summoned Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo to discuss an urgent matter with Qian Renxue.
• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan that Yu Renkui had provoked the Illusory Beast Sect and that the Young Sect Master had ordered an ultimatum to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, with extermination threatened if it refused.
• Dugu Bo warned Dugu Yan that Yu Tianheng might have pursued her to gain her grandfather’s support and advised her to keep her distance from him.
• Dugu Bo questioned Yu Tianheng about Yu Renkui, judged him naive and lacking in judgment, and urged Dugu Yan to reconsider their relationship.
• Qian Renxue sent a letter to her grandfather and ordered Salas to watch the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s outskirts for Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo delivered Zhu Wu’s letter to the Ten Thousand Demons King, and he, Zi Ji, and Dugu Bo departed together; outside Suotuo City, two magpies transformed into two figures.

Zhu Wu and Long Ling'er explored Suotuo City, where Zhu Wu bought a crystal from Flender before checking into the Rose Hotel. Dai Mubai challenged Zhu Wu over the room, and Zhu Wu beat him, healed him, and began beating him again as Tang San and Xiao Wu watched.

• Zhu Wu took Long Ling'er into Suotuo City for lunch and shopping, then sensed soul power coming from a shop.
• Zhu Wu bought a transparent crystal from Flender for one hundred Gold Soul Coins and left with Long Ling'er.
• Zhu Wu and Long Ling'er booked the Rose Hotel's last large room, but Dai Mubai demanded that they give it up.
• Dai Mubai challenged Zhu Wu to a fight, and Zhu Wu caught his punch, battered him into unconsciousness, and healed his injuries with Emerald Light Ray.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu watched as Dai Mubai woke, and Zhu Wu immediately resumed beating him.

Zhu Wu defeated Dai Mubai, secured a hotel room, and accepted Xiao Wu’s challenge for it. Xiao Wu’s match with Long Ling'er began, leaving Xiao Wu’s Charm skill facing Long Ling’er’s mental resistance.

• Zhu Wu repeatedly healed and slammed Dai Mubai until Dai Mubai showed fear, then warned him to pay compensation and keep his eyes and mouth in check.
• The twin sisters helped Dai Mubai leave, and the hotel manager gave Zhu Wu the top-floor room while waiving three days of lodging fees.
• Xiao Wu challenged Zhu Wu for the room, but Long Ling'er agreed to fight in his place, with Xiao Wu putting up 10 Gold Soul Coins.
• Xiao Wu introduced herself as a Level 29 Soul Grandmaster with a Soft Bone Rabbit martial soul, and Long Ling'er called her weak.
• Xiao Wu charged and used Charm, while Long Ling'er focused her spiritual power to resist the skill.

After Xiao Wu collapsed from backlash caused by her own Soul Skill, Tang San challenged Long Ling'er, and Zhu Wu stepped in to fight him instead. Zhu Wu countered Tang San’s attacks and repeatedly slammed him into the ground, until Long Ling'er warned that Tang San seemed poisoned.

• Xiao Wu collapsed after her Soul Skill backfired, and Tang San carried her away before confronting Long Ling'er.
• Zhu Wu challenged Tang San in Long Ling'er’s place and froze Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass with Frost Path.
• Tang San fired Silver Needles and Sleeve Arrows, but Zhu Wu’s Azure Light Defense rebounded them and the returning needles struck Xiao Wu.
• Tang San attacked at close range, but his Sleeve Arrows rebounded again, piercing his shoulder and arm with poisoned tips.
• Zhu Wu kicked Tang San in the abdomen, grabbed him, and repeatedly slammed him to the ground as Tang Hao prepared to intervene.
• Long Ling'er called out to Tian Ge and warned that Tang San seemed to have been poisoned.

Zhu Wu treated Tang San while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm discovered and altered Tang San’s memories of his past life. Tang San woke after the procedure, unaware that Zhu Wu had also secretly weakened him.

• Zhu Wu pretended to treat Tang San’s poisoning while secretly sending Dual Polarity Qi into his body and asking Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to inspect his memories.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm discovered that Tang San’s soul came from another world and showed Zhu Wu memories of his past life and the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.
• Zhu Wu decided to preserve Tang San’s recognizable skills while having Sky Dream Ice Silkworm alter his memories of the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm used illusions to reshape Tang San’s memories, while Zhu Wu continued treating him and secretly damaged his foundation and one testicle.
• Tang Hao waited outside as Zhu Wu finished; Tang San spat out black blood and slowly opened his eyes.

Zhu Wu spared Tang San after defeating him and learned that they might attend Shrek Academy together, while Tang Hao watched and reflected on his son’s isolation. Later, Zhu Wu reviewed the techniques he had taken from Tang San and planned to exploit hidden injuries during the upcoming Soul Master Competition.

• Tang San woke healed, but Zhu Wu warned him against attacking again and let him leave to tend to Xiao Wu.
• Tang San left with Xiao Wu and reconsidered his hostility after realizing Zhu Wu might become a fellow student at Shrek Academy.
• Tang Hao watched Tang San go, recognized his son’s withdrawn nature, and wondered whether Zhu Wu and Long Ling'er belonged to a reclusive sect.
• Zhu Wu and Long Ling'er entered their hotel room, and Zhu Wu reviewed Tang San’s techniques, deciding which ones to learn and which to pass on.
• Zhu Wu considered how Tang San’s concealed internal injuries could worsen in intense battles and identified the upcoming Soul Master Competition as an opportunity.
• Long Ling'er came out of the bathroom in a bathrobe and told Zhu Wu to wash up.

Ten Thousand Demons King and Zi Ji confronted Yu Renkui at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan over Bai Jin'er’s death and attacked the clan. The chapter ended with Yu Yuanzhen gravely wounded and the clan’s fighters defeated, while Yu Renkui and his wife looked on in fear.

• Zhu Wu and Long Ling'er spent the night together, then went shopping after sleeping in.
• Xiao Wu woke with a headache and aching limbs, while Tang San concealed that his deflected Silver Needles had struck her.
• Dai Mubai refused to explain his injuries to Oscar as Oscar treated him at Shrek Academy.
• Dugu Bo, Ten Thousand Demons King, and Zi Ji arrived at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Ten Thousand Demons King demanded that Yu Renkui come forward.
• Ten Thousand Demons King and Zi Ji confronted Yu Renkui over Bai Jin'er’s death, then unleashed their domains and attacks against the clan.
• Zi Ji wounded Yu Yuanzhen with Sky-Rending Dragon Claw, and Ten Thousand Demons King smashed the clan’s Martial Soul Avatars apart.

Ten Thousand Demons King punished the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan for its past treatment of Bai Jin'er’s son, leaving Yu Renkui to face a future duel with Zhu Wu. A day later, Zhu Wu and Long Ling'er arrived at Shrek Academy, where Zhu Wu planned to pursue several goals before leaving.

• Ten Thousand Demons King stopped Zi Ji from killing the clan members and ordered Yu Renkui to duel Zhu Wu in the future, with the clan’s survival at stake.
• Ten Thousand Demons King said Zhu Wu would decide the fate of the man who had spared him as a baby, then left with Zi Ji and Dugu Bo.
• Yu Renkui’s wife blamed him for his affair and the clan’s predicament, while others argued that the executor’s mercy had saved them from extermination.
• Zhu Wu explained to Long Ling'er why he intended to enroll at Shrek Academy, including stopping Tang San from gaining the Eight Spider Lances and assessing the two great soul beasts’ choices.
• Zhu Wu and Long Ling'er reached Shrek Academy and found a long line of applicants at its shabby entrance.

Long Ying Tian, Long Ling'er, and Zhu Zhuqing reached Shrek Academy to register, where the entrance examiner explained the academy’s strict admission standards. The chapter ended as the three prepared to reveal their Martial Souls.

• Tang San persuaded Xiao Wu not to confront Long Ying Tian and Long Ling'er at the academy entrance.
• The examiner rejected a boy despite his hundred-year first soul ring, then demonstrated Shrek Academy’s unusual admission standards.
• Long Ling'er warned that the academy should disclose its standards and nonrefundable fee, while Zhu Wu threatened Dai Mubai for staring at her.
• Dai Mubai escorted Ning Rongrong, then Tang San and Xiao Wu, into the academy after they passed the age test and revealed their Martial Souls.
• Long Ling'er introduced herself to Zhu Zhuqing, and the three registered together; the examiner noted Zhu Wu’s unusually hard hands and accepted their ages.

Zhu Wu and Long Ling'er revealed their powerful Martial Souls and Soul Rings at Shrek Academy, shocking the gatekeeper and Tang Hao. After entering the academy, Zhu Wu defused a confrontation over Oscar’s sausage, then exposed Oscar and Dai Mubai’s romantic histories, prompting the two men to fight.

• Zhu Wu summoned Little White, and Long Ling'er and Zhu Zhuqing displayed their Martial Soul transformations, stunning the old man, Dai Mubai, and Tang Hao.
• Zhu Wu explained their training and Little White’s mutation, and Dai Mubai escorted the group into Shrek Academy.
• Dai Mubai apologized to Zhu Wu for his behavior at the Rose Hotel, and Zhu Wu told him to stop talking nonsense and ogling women.
• At the academy intersection, Xiao Wu challenged Zhu Wu, but Dai Mubai diverted the group’s attention by making Oscar demonstrate his sausage-producing Martial Soul.
• Xiao Wu and Tang San reacted angrily to Oscar’s sausage chant, but Zhu Wu ate the sausage and criticized Oscar’s sleazy behavior.
• Dai Mubai revealed Oscar’s past with girls, and Oscar retaliated by exposing Dai Mubai’s dating habits before fleeing from him.

Zhu Wu and his companions advanced through Shrek Academy’s entrance examinations after revealing their high Soul Power. Zhu Wu challenged Dai Mubai’s claims about the academy, leaving Flender panicking in the shadows.

• Dai Mubai beat Oscar for exposing his private matters, and Zhu Wu healed Oscar with Emerald Light Ray.
• Dai Mubai escorted the group past the second examination after reporting that everyone’s Soul Power exceeded level 25.
• Xiao Wu and Tang San tested their Soul Power, while Dai Mubai explained that Zhu Wu and Long Ling'er were Soul Ancestors whose power exceeded the crystal’s limit.
• Dai Mubai described Shrek Academy’s enrollment, graduates, and losses, prompting Zhu Wu to question its claims and criticize its treatment of students.
• Flender, who had rushed over to observe the group, panicked as Zhu Wu challenged the academy’s reputation.

Zhu Wu questioned Shrek Academy’s training methods and finances before agreeing to take its fourth admission test. He and Ling Er faced Zhao Wuji, while Zhu Wu declared that the two of them would be enough.

• Zhu Wu challenged Dai Mubai’s defense of the academy’s dangerous training and criticized Flender for sending only Zhao Wuji to supervise soul-ring hunts.
• Zhu Wu explained that he had brought Ling Er to assess the younger generation and cultivation research, and said he would leave if the academy failed to satisfy him.
• Xiao Wu challenged Zhu Wu’s confidence, while Flender worried that the academy’s few students could not match the two Soul Ancestors.
• Dai Mubai led the group to Zhao Wuji, who announced that the applicants had to last one incense stick against him to pass the fourth test.
• Zhu Wu said he and Ling Er would take the test without the others.

Zhu Wu taunted Xiao Wu and watched Tang San's group lose to Zhao Wuji before healing the injured fighters. He then prepared to face Zhao Wuji with Long Ling'er, warning everyone to move away before summoning Little White.

• Zhu Wu convinced Xiao Wu's group to challenge Zhao Wuji as four and reminded Xiao Wu that her Charm skill would not work on a Soul Saint.
• Zhao Wuji defeated Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing, and Tang San was badly struck after attacking Zhao Wuji with hidden weapons.
• Zhu Wu healed Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing, while Oscar prepared Recovery Sausages and Zhao Wuji ate them.
• Zhu Wu refused to delay his own test and warned the others to move away because his Soul Skills had a wide range.
• Zhu Wu told Long Ling'er they would give Zhao Wuji Ice and Fire Dual Cultivation, then summoned Little White.

Zhu Wu and Long Ling'er demonstrated their overwhelming strength by defeating Zhao Wuji in a destructive aerial battle, then passed the Shrek Academy test alongside Tang San and the others. The chapter ended with Xiao Wu angrily confronting Zhu Wu, while Long Ling'er sided with her fiancé.

• Little White and Long Ling'er revealed their powerful four-ring configurations, then transformed into dragons as Zhu Wu mounted Little White and Long Ling'er released her golden dragon form.
• Zhao Wuji attacked the flying dragons with gravity skills, but Little White's frost breath and Long Ling'er's Red Lotus Calamity Fire overwhelmed his defenses and set the clearing ablaze.
• Zhao Wuji called the fight off and declared Zhu Wu and Long Ling'er the winners, then passed Tang San and the others as well.
• Dai Mubai led the shaken group toward the dorms as Flender worried about the gulf between the students and the damage to the academy.
• Zhu Wu teased Xiao Wu about her earlier pride, and she protested that he was nitpicking and asked Long Ling'er to rein him in.
• Long Ling'er linked arms with Zhu Wu and said she would listen to him, leaving Xiao Wu furious and unable to challenge either of them.

Zhu Wu described the Illusory Beast Sect and explained his rapid cultivation as Tang San and the others questioned him. He revealed that the sect's elders were likely attacking the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan over Zhu Wu's past mistreatment.

• Dai Mubai led Zhu Wu, Long Ling'er, and the others toward the dorms, while Zhu Wu requested a private room for himself and Long Ling'er.
• Zhu Wu explained that he and Long Ling'er shared a surname because their sect's branches followed the awakened martial soul, and he said he had another fiancée named Zi Er.
• When Tang San asked about his cultivation, Zhu Wu claimed his family had given medicinal herbs to Tang San's former academy's dean and to Su Yuntao, and said he would not give Oscar any herbs.
• Zhu Wu told the group that the Illusory Beast Sect trained those who awakened inherited Illusory Beast martial souls and that he had come to investigate Zhu Wu's background.
• Zhu Wu said the investigation had angered him and suggested the sect's two elders were likely attacking the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Zhu Wu explained why the Illusory Beast Sect planned to punish the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and settled in at the academy with Long Ling'er and the others. That night, Zhu Wu and Long Ling'er used Fate Judgement on Tang San as Xiao Wu led him toward Zhao Wuji.

• Zhu Wu told Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, Oscar, Tang San, and Dai Mubai about the clan’s plan to help Zhu Wu take revenge on the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Zhu Wu said he and Long Ling'er had protective spiritual imprints and other ways to survive danger, while Tang Hao considered how to obtain Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures for his son.
• Dai Mubai led the group to their dormitory, where Zhu Wu and Long Ling'er chose one room, Ning Rongrong shared with Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu persuaded Tang San to share a room with her.
• That night, Tian Meng told Zhu Wu that Tang Hao had left and Xiao Wu was drawing Tang San out of the room, so Zhu Wu and Long Ling'er secretly followed them from their window.
• Zhu Wu and Long Ling'er struck Tang San with Fate Judgement, and Tang San then slipped and fell while Xiao Wu walked with him toward the hill.
• Elsewhere, someone coldly called out Zhao Wuji.

Zhu Wu and Long Ling'er trained at dawn, prompting Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong to join them and cultivate. On their way to breakfast, they encountered Ma Hongjun harassing Cui Hua, and Ma Hongjun challenged Zhu Wu after he intervened.

• Zhu Wu took Long Ling'er out for a morning run, and Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong followed after seeing them leave.
• Zhu Wu and Long Ling'er practiced the Purple Demon Eyes and Vajra Power Exercise while Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong ran and then joined them in cultivation.
• Zhu Wu healed Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing's sore legs, and the group set off together for breakfast.
• Ning Rongrong shouted at Ma Hongjun when she saw him refuse to let Cui Hua go.
• Ma Hongjun demanded that one of the three girls become his girlfriend in Cui Hua's place, then challenged Zhu Wu to fight.

Zhu Wu punished Ma Hongjun for harassing Cui Hua and making lewd demands of the women, then learned Ma Hongjun was one of Shrek Academy’s students. After healing him and warning him not to offend him again, Zhu Wu left for the academy dining hall with Long Ling'er, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong.

• Ma Hongjun attacked Zhu Wu with his Phoenix Martial Soul, but Zhu Wu broke his fist and blasted him with a fire dragon before freezing him into an ice sculpture.
• Cui Hua pleaded for Ma Hongjun, and Zhu Wu healed him after removing the ice and exposing his burned, hairless head.
• Ning Rongrong explained that Ma Hongjun had grabbed Cui Hua and demanded that she, Zhu Zhuqing, and Long Ling'er become his girlfriends.
• Dai Mubai identified Ma Hongjun as the academy’s other student, while Zhu Wu criticized Dai Mubai and Dean Flender for failing to discipline him.
• Zhu Wu warned Ma Hongjun not to speak disrespectfully again, then Dai Mubai rolled him into an alley and followed him inside.
• Zhu Wu left for the academy dining hall with Long Ling'er, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong.