Chapter Summaries

Ye Chen and Zhu Zhuqing finished their trip to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Zhu Zhuqing absorbed a ten-thousand-year Ghost Leopard soul ring and gained her fourth soul skill. After they returned to Shrek Academy, Ning Rongrong confronted Zhu Zhuqing about her unexplained absence.

• Zhu Zhuqing absorbed the Ghost Leopard's ten-thousand-year soul ring, rose to level 42, and gained Netherworld Shadow Clone, which could create fighting clones that used her other soul skills.
• Ye Chen decided not to spend Gold Soul Coins upgrading Zhu Zhuqing's External Soul Bone and prepared to return to Shrek Academy with her.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked how Ye Chen would explain their relationship to Xiao Wu, and Ye Chen told her Xiao Wu already knew.
• Three days later, Ye Chen and Zhu Zhuqing returned to Shrek Academy, where Zhu Zhuqing declined Ye Chen's invitation to move in with him.
• Ning Rongrong confronted Zhu Zhuqing about being away from the academy, and Ye Chen and Zhu Zhuqing realized they had not told her about their trip.

After teasing Ning Rongrong about her debt and her feelings for Ye Chen, Zhu Zhuqing continued to hide what she and Ye Chen had been doing. A month later, Flander announced that Shrek Academy would close, leaving the students shocked and unaware of his plan to move them to Heaven Dou City.

• Ye Chen teased Ning Rongrong about her unpaid debt, and Zhu Zhuqing sent him away before he could upset her further.
• Ning Rongrong questioned Zhu Zhuqing about her recent activities, and Zhu Zhuqing tricked her into admitting she might like Ye Chen.
• A month later, Flander received Liu Erlong's reply to his request to bring Shrek Academy to Heaven Dou City and discussed the plan with Zhao Wuji, Shao Xin, and the other teachers.
• Flander gathered the students and announced that Shrek Academy would close, prompting Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Ning Rongrong, and the others to offer help.

Flander announced that the Shrek students would join Blue Tyrant Academy in Heaven Dou City, then dragged Ma Hongjun away after he teased him about Liu Erlong. That night, Ye Chen mistook Ning Rongrong for Zhu Zhuqing in the dark and accidentally startled her, leaving Zhu Zhuqing demanding an explanation.

• Flander told the students they would leave for Blue Tyrant Academy in three days, and Ning Rongrong guessed he also wanted to reunite with Liu Erlong.
• Ma Hongjun joked that Flander was having a second spring, so Flander seized him and carried him away.
• Ye Chen secretly went to Zhu Zhuqing's room at night, unaware that Ning Rongrong was sleeping beside her.
• Ning Rongrong woke when Ye Chen touched her, screamed, and woke Zhu Zhuqing.
• After Zhu Zhuqing turned on the light, Ye Chen realized he had mistaken Ning Rongrong for Zhu Zhuqing, and Zhu Zhuqing asked what had happened.

After Ye Chen’s actions left Ning Rongrong angry and embarrassed, he tried to make amends by asking her to be his girlfriend. She resisted, but their repeated kisses complicated her refusal, and she ended by challenging him to bring her ice cream within one minute.

• Ning Rongrong confronted Ye Chen about what he had done the previous night, then sent him away while Zhu Zhuqing comforted her.
• At breakfast, Ning Rongrong avoided Ye Chen, and Xiao Wu noticed that something was wrong but could not get her to explain.
• Ye Chen apologized to Ning Rongrong in a corner of Shrek Academy and shamelessly asked her to become his girlfriend.
• Ye Chen kissed Ning Rongrong repeatedly; she eventually stopped resisting and bit his lip before he asked her again to be his girlfriend.
• Ning Rongrong refused and challenged Ye Chen to bring her favorite ice cream within one minute.

Ye Chen gave Ning Rongrong strawberry ice cream, accepted her conditions for becoming his boyfriend, and promised to help raise her strength later. He then offered to teach her the Ye Family cultivation techniques, and Ning Rongrong agreed to keep them secret as Ye Chen worried about Spirit Hall obtaining them.

• Ye Chen produced strawberry ice cream from the System Shop, and Ning Rongrong was astonished and licked it.
• Ning Rongrong agreed to be Ye Chen's girlfriend after listing what she expected from him.
• Ning Rongrong asked Ye Chen to raise her strength, and he said he would wait until she reached level 28.
• Ye Chen offered to teach Ning Rongrong his cultivation techniques, which could improve Soul Power, physical fitness, and Spiritual Power.
• Ye Chen asked Ning Rongrong not to reveal the techniques for ten years or until he became a Titled Douluo, and she promised not to tell anyone, even her father.

Ye Chen and Ning Rongrong studied the Creation techniques before Shrek Academy set off for Heaven Dou City to join Blue Tyrant Academy. Flander and the group arrived at the academy, where Yin Shu welcomed them on Liu Erlong’s instructions.

• Ye Chen taught Ning Rongrong the Creation Meditation Method, Creation Body Tempering Art, and Creation Soul Tempering Skill, then restrained himself when he visited her that night.
• Three days later, Flander led Shrek’s teachers and students away from their academy, while Ye Chen and the teachers teased him about living off a woman.
• After more than ten days traveling on foot, the Shrek group entered Heaven Dou City, where Ma Hongjun drew mockery for looking like a beggar.
• Flander led the group through the city to Blue Tyrant Academy, and Ye Chen joked that the academy would belong to Flander.
• Yin Shu greeted Flander and the Shrek group at the gates, explaining that Liu Erlong had asked him to welcome them.

Flander and the Shrek group arrived at Blue Tyrant Academy and reunited with Liu Erlong, who welcomed them by handing Flander control of the academy. Liu Erlong announced that the academy would become Shrek Academy, and she began showing the group around.

• Yin Shu led Flander, Zhao Wuji, Ye Chen, and the others through the forest to Liu Erlong’s secluded home.
• Flander and Liu Erlong happily reunited, and he introduced the Shrek group to her.
• Liu Erlong asked whether Flander had seen Yu Xiaogang, and he told her they had not met since parting ways.
• Liu Erlong offered Flander Blue Tyrant Academy and said she would rename it Shrek Academy, then asked Yin Shu to prepare a banquet.
• Liu Erlong explained the academy’s facilities and its success reaching the top eight in the previous Soul Master Competition.

Flander took over Blue Tyrant Academy and renamed it Shrek Academy while Ye Chen and his companions settled in. Two months later, Ye Chen reached level 50 and went with Ning Rongrong and Flander to Sunset Forest to seek soul rings, though finding a suitable fifth-ring soul beast remained uncertain.

• Liu Erlong introduced Blue Tyrant Academy to the Shrek group, hosted them for lunch, and arranged their accommodations.
• Flander replaced the Blue Tyrant Academy plaque with one reading “Shrek Academy,” and Ye Chen and Xiao Wu settled in the woods nearby with Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong.
• Two months later, Ye Chen broke through to level 50, and he and Xiao Wu joked together before going to sleep.
• Ye Chen raised Ning Rongrong’s first two soul rings to thousand-year rings with age-boost cards, bringing her to level 30 and giving her a Disguise Necklace.
• Ye Chen, Ning Rongrong, and Flander set out for Sunset Forest to seek Ning Rongrong’s third soul ring and a suitable fifth soul ring for Ye Chen.

Ye Chen and Ning Rongrong entered Sunset Forest with Flander to find powerful Soul Rings, convincing him that their Soul Bones would let them absorb rings beyond the usual limits. They found a Light White Deer suited to Ning Rongrong and killed it, leaving its thousand-year Soul Ring ready to be absorbed.

• Ye Chen told Flander that Ning Rongrong needed a spirit beast around three thousand years old and that he wanted one around twenty thousand years old.
• Flander objected, but Ye Chen explained that he and Ning Rongrong had Soul Bones that would help them absorb high-year Soul Rings.
• Two days later, Ye Chen spotted a Light White Deer more than twenty-eight hundred years old and identified it as a good match for Ning Rongrong.
• Ye Chen used Confinement to immobilize the Light White Deer while Ning Rongrong shot it with her Six-Barreled Gatling Machine Gun.
• The Light White Deer died, and its purple thousand-year Soul Ring condensed above its body.

Ning Rongrong used Ye Chen’s Gatling gun to defeat a Light White Deer, then absorbed its soul ring and reached level 32. Flander led Ye Chen and Rongrong deeper into Sunset Forest to seek Ye Chen’s fifth soul ring, but found no suitable target and planned to search the Core Area.

• Flander was astonished by the Gatling gun’s firepower, while Ning Rongrong kept it hidden and credited Ye Chen with giving it to her.
• Ning Rongrong absorbed the Light White Deer’s soul ring and advanced to level 32, gaining a third skill that enhanced Soul Power by 40%.
• Flander searched Sunset Forest’s Inner Area with Ye Chen and Ning Rongrong, but found no suitable ten-thousand-year plant-type soul beast for Ye Chen.
• Flander decided to take Ye Chen and Ning Rongrong into Sunset Forest’s Core Area, with a possible trip to Star Dou Great Forest if they found no target.

Ye Chen and Flander searched Sunset Forest for a suitable fifth soul ring, eventually finding a twenty-thousand-year Spirit Restriction Flower whose Silence ability could prevent spirit masters from using most soul skills. Ye Chen attacked it with White Phosphorus Incendiary Bombs, leaving its fate unresolved as the chapter ended.

• After failing to find a suitable soul beast in the Inner Area, Ye Chen agreed to search the Core Area with Flander and Ning Rongrong.
• Ye Chen used Lucky Cards for three days before finding a twenty-thousand-year Spirit Restriction Flower.
• Ning Rongrong explained that the flower's Innate Soul Skill, Silence, could block soul ring and soul bone skills for a time.
• Ye Chen decided to fight the plant-type soul beast himself and threw a White Phosphorus Incendiary Bomb at it.
• Ye Chen hurled two more bombs as flames and thick smoke engulfed the Spirit Restriction Flower.

Ye Chen absorbed the Spirit Restriction Flower’s black soul ring while resisting its remnant will in his Sea of Consciousness. He used his Creation Green Lotus External Soul Bone skill to ease the trial, while Flander and Ning Rongrong recognized the rare soul bone and discussed its potential.

• Ye Chen burned the weakened Spirit Restriction Flower with another White Phosphorus Incendiary Bomb and drew in its black soul ring.
• Ye Chen refined the soul ring’s Soul Power and faced the Spirit Restriction Flower’s soul tremors in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Ye Chen activated his Creation Green Lotus soul bone skill, Rising Untainted from the Mud, and reduced the mental pressure.
• Flander noticed the azure lotus dais appearing above Ye Chen, and Ning Rongrong identified it as a possible External Soul Bone.
• Ning Rongrong explained that External Soul Bones were extremely rare and could increase in age as their owner grew stronger, impressing Flander.

Ye Chen absorbed the twenty-thousand-year Spirit Restriction Flower soul ring, reached Level 52, and gained the fifth soul skill Silence. On the way back to Shrek Academy, he spotted Dugu Bo flying toward Heaven Dou City and began thinking about Dugu Bo’s medicinal garden.

• The Spirit Restriction Flower’s remnant soul dissipated, and Ye Chen completed refining its soul ring.
• Ye Chen’s Attribute Panel showed Level 52, five Black soul rings, and Silence as his fifth soul skill; his Own Son’s coin income rose to ten Gold Soul Coins per second.
• Ning Rongrong congratulated Ye Chen, and Flander asked about the Creation Green Lotus External Soul Bone; Ye Chen confirmed he had obtained it with his Third Soul Ring.
• Ye Chen, Ning Rongrong, and Flander left the forest and headed back toward Shrek Academy.
• Ye Chen spotted Dugu Bo flying toward Heaven Dou City, and Ning Rongrong identified him as one of the area’s three known Titled Douluo.
• Ye Chen considered obtaining a Kirara Tulip from Dugu Bo’s medicinal garden and recalled that the nearby Clear Sky Sect might also have several Titled Douluo.

Ye Chen brought Ning Rongrong to Dugu Bo’s residence to trade for herbs from his medicinal garden, offering two System Shop potions that could cure poison. Dugu Bo had just received their offer, leaving the deal’s outcome undecided.

• Ye Chen took Ning Rongrong to visit Dugu Bo, planning to trade for several immortal herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Ye Chen and Ning Rongrong identified themselves at Dugu Bo’s gate, and the guards escorted them into the residence.
• Dugu Bo received Ye Chen and Ning Rongrong in the reception hall and asked what business they had with him.
• Ye Chen offered Dugu Bo a deal and produced two emerald-green potions that he claimed could cure any poison in the world.

Ye Chen offered Dugu Bo and his granddaughter Dugu Yan Water of Life and explained how Soul Bones could store the poison produced by their martial souls. In return, Dugu Bo promised Ye Chen access to his herb garden and brought him to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Ye Chen told Dugu Bo that the Water of Life could remove the poison affecting him and Dugu Yan.
• Ye Chen explained that storing future poison in a limb or torso Soul Bone could help Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan avoid accumulating poison, while warning about the risks.
• Dugu Bo agreed to owe Ye Chen another favor and promised him any herbs he wanted from his garden.
• Ye Chen escorted Ning Rongrong back to the academy, then traveled with Dugu Bo to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in Sunset Forest.
• Dugu Bo gave Ye Chen an antidote pill for the poisonous miasma, and Ye Chen reluctantly put it in his mouth.

Ye Chen explored Dugu Bo’s Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and harvested most of its immortal herbs, leaving behind roots or seeds and the two herbs that could not be carried away. He gave Dugu Bo two poison-related herbs and explained their effects, leaving Dugu Bo impressed but warning him to handle one carefully.

• Dugu Bo proudly showed Ye Chen his herb garden and let him pick whatever herbs he wanted.
• Ye Chen found fifteen immortal herbs and a Ninth Grade Purple Ganoderma around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Ye Chen harvested the herbs he could carry, leaving roots or seeds behind and sparing the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Fierce Fire Apricot.
• Ye Chen gave Dugu Bo the Faint Fragrance Kirara Immortal Grade and Snow Color Swan Kiss, explaining their poison-related effects.
• Ye Chen warned Dugu Bo that Snow Color Swan Kiss could be deadly if it amplified the toxins already in his body.

After returning to Shrek Academy with immortal herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Ye Chen gave Xiao Wu a Narcissus Jade Bone and later brought Ning Rongrong a Kirara Tulip. Xiao Wu rose four Soul Power levels, while Ning Rongrong began absorbing her herb after Ye Chen explained how to use it.

• Ye Chen returned to Shrek Academy and gave Xiao Wu a Narcissus Jade Bone, which she recognized from the previous one he had given her.
• Xiao Wu absorbed the Narcissus Jade Bone as Ye Chen guarded her, then rose from level 53 to level 57 by evening.
• Xiao Wu and Ye Chen praised her improvement and then playfully roughhoused.
• That night, Ye Chen climbed through the window into Ning Rongrong's room and offered her a bet over a treasure from Dugu Bo's herb garden.
• Ye Chen gave Ning Rongrong a Kirara Tulip and explained that it was an immortal herb and how to absorb its essence.
• Ning Rongrong began absorbing the Kirara Tulip's medicinal power according to Ye Chen's instructions.

Ye Chen absorbed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and the immature Black Jade Divine Bamboo Shoot, while Ning Rongrong refined the Kirara Tulip and evolved her Martial Soul into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda. After celebrating their gains, Ning Rongrong decided to return home and tell Ning Fengzhi about her breakthrough, and Ye Chen asked her to take something to him.

• Ning Rongrong absorbed the Kirara Tulip while Ye Chen used the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to strengthen his Spiritual Power.
• Ye Chen consumed the Black Jade Divine Bamboo Shoot and advanced from level 52 to level 54 Soul King.
• Ning Rongrong awakened with her Martial Soul evolved into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and her Soul Power increased by six levels to level 38 Soul Elder.
• Ye Chen and Ning Rongrong celebrated her breakthrough, and she agreed to imitate a puppy rather than call him Daddy.
• Ning Rongrong decided to return home to tell Ning Fengzhi about her evolved Martial Soul, and Ye Chen asked her to bring something to her father.

Ye Chen gave Ning Rongrong three immortal herbs for Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong, then gave Flander a Ninth Grade Purple Ganoderma to help him advance. He planned to use his remaining herbs to recruit allies, while reserving the Lovesick Heartbroken Red for whichever of Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, or Ning Rongrong first finished absorbing her current herb.

• Ye Chen gave Ning Rongrong the Star Luo Spirit Pearl, Primal Chaos Immortal Herb, and Earth Dragon Golden Gourd for her father and grandfathers, and told her to deliver them promptly.
• Ning Rongrong returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect while Ye Chen went to Flander's office and gave him a Ninth Grade Purple Ganoderma.
• Flander accepted the ganoderma, which Ye Chen expected could help him reach Rank 80 Soul Power.
• Ye Chen decided to reserve the Cockscomb Sunflower for Ma Hongjun and the Eight Petal Immortal Orchid for Oscar, but refused to give the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum to Dai Mubai.
• Ye Chen kept the Lovesick Heartbroken Red for whichever of Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, or Ning Rongrong first finished absorbing her current immortal herb.

Ye Chen gave Ma Hongjun and Oscar immortal herbs to improve their martial souls and cultivation. Oscar finished absorbing his herb and gained six soul power levels, while Ma Hongjun was still enduring the Cockscomb Sunflower's effects.

• Ye Chen brought Ma Hongjun and Oscar to a lake and promised to help Ma Hongjun resolve the evil fire in his body.
• Ye Chen gave Ma Hongjun the Cockscomb Sunflower, explaining that it could purify his evil fire and potentially evolve his martial soul into a phoenix.
• Ye Chen gave Oscar the Eight Petal Immortal Orchid and told him to eat it and refine its medicinal effects with Soul Power.
• Oscar absorbed the herb while Ma Hongjun's body burned and shed impurities as the Cockscomb Sunflower took effect.
• Oscar finished refining the herb and discovered that his Soul Power had risen six levels, making him a level 38 Soul Elder.