Chapter Summaries

Six-year-old twins Mu Changqing and Bei Bei prepared to awaken their Martial Souls at Shrek Academy, while Mu Changqing worried about his future and Mu En’s declining health. Mu En led them to the awakening room, leaving their Martial Soul awakenings about to begin.

• Mu Changqing chased Bei Bei after Bei Bei ate his share of their food, then reflected on his hopes for godhood and his plans to awaken a complete Holy Dragon of Light Martial Soul.
• Zhang Lexuan escorted Mu Changqing and Bei Bei toward the Sea God Pavilion for their Martial Soul awakenings.
• Mu Changqing saw Xuan Zi drinking and eating in the Sea God Pavilion and followed Zhang Lexuan and Bei Bei upstairs to Mu En’s room.
• Mu Changqing and Bei Bei greeted their great-great-grandfather Mu En, and Mu Changqing resolved to find a way to save his failing health.
• Mu Changqing helped Mu En stand, and the four headed to the awakening room as Bei Bei asked whether he would awaken a Martial Soul as powerful as Mu En’s.

Bei Bei awakened the Holy Dragon of Light and discovered he had innate full Soul Power, while Mu Changqing's awakening brought Tang San's divine consciousness into his Sea of Spirit. Tang San undid the Golden Dragon King's first seal and gave Mu Changqing instructions, leaving him screaming in agony as blood flowed from his face.

• Mu En awakened Bei Bei, whose Martial Soul appeared as the Holy Dragon of Light.
• Bei Bei tested his Soul Power and confirmed he had innate full Soul Power.
• As Mu En awakened Mu Changqing, Tang San's divine consciousness arrived through a spacetime rift and entered Mu Changqing's Sea of Spirit.
• Tang San mistook Mu Changqing for Tang Wulin, undid the Golden Dragon King's first seal, and warned him to prepare special ingredients before turning twelve.
• Mu Changqing screamed as the seal's pain overwhelmed him, and blood flowed from all seven of his orifices.

Mu Changqing’s Martial Soul awakening transformed his Holy Dragon of Light into the Golden Dragon King, whose roar shook Shrek City and the Star Dou Great Forest. As Mu En praised Changqing’s immense potential, the Silver Dragon King set out for Shrek City to find him.

• Bei Bei and Zhang Lexuan watched anxiously as Mu Changqing bled during his awakening, and his Holy Dragon of Light Martial Soul appeared before shattering.
• The Golden Dragon King’s power devoured Mu Changqing’s original Martial Soul and remade it as a Golden Dragon, whose roar suppressed beast Martial Soul masters and Soul Beasts.
• Di Tian recognized the Golden Dragon King’s presence in a human and prepared to go to Shrek City, but the Silver Dragon King ordered him to guard the Soul Beast race and the Auspicious Beast.
• The Silver Dragon King transformed into a silver-haired little girl and headed toward Shrek City to find the Golden Dragon King.
• Mu En explained that Mu Changqing had awakened the Golden Dragon Martial Soul, which possessed ultimate strength and could suppress nearly every dragon, including Bei Bei’s Holy Dragon of Light.
• Mu En told Zhang Lexuan and Bei Bei that Changqing’s talent surpassed that of every Sea God Pavilion master and that he might become a god.

After awakening his Golden Dragon Martial Soul, Mu Changqing learned that he and Bei Bei both had Innate Full Soul Power and demonstrated his immediate Dragon Transformation. He tested his strength against Xuan Zi and decided to pursue a cultivation path built around overwhelming physical power.

• Zhang Lexuan helped the exhausted Mu Changqing recover with beast milk, and Mu En confirmed that both Mu Changqing and Bei Bei had Innate Full Soul Power.
• Mu Changqing summoned the Golden Dragon King, whose bloodline suppression affected Mu En and Bei Bei, then used Dragon Transformation to form a Golden Dragon Claw.
• Mu En and Zhang Lexuan recognized how unusual it was for Mu Changqing to use Dragon Transformation immediately after awakening his Martial Soul.
• At Mu En’s suggestion, Mu Changqing demonstrated his Golden Dragon King Martial Soul to Xuan Zi, whose Taotie Divine Bull Martial Soul reacted and was suppressed by Mu En.
• Mu Changqing struck Xuan Zi several times and knocked him back half a step, impressing him with his strength.
• Mu Changqing decided that raw strength would guide his future cultivation.

Mu En convened the Sea God Pavilion elders after Mu Changqing and Bei Bei awakened powerful dragon Martial Souls, naming them heirs to the Pavilion’s master and deputy master positions. He also warned that the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Tools could contend with a Limit Douluo, and the chapter ended with Shrek preparing to adapt while Mu En foresaw turmoil ahead.

• Mu Changqing, Bei Bei, and Zhang Lexuan left the Sea God Pavilion, after which Mu En reprimanded Xuan Zi for drinking and inattention and ordered him to abstain from alcohol and copy the academy rules.
• Mu En told the elders that Mu Changqing had awakened the Golden Dragon and Bei Bei the Holy Dragon of Light, and that both had innate full soul power.
• The elders unanimously approved Mu Changqing as heir to the Sea God Pavilion mastership and Bei Bei as heir to the deputy mastership, with both granted elders’ rights.
• Mu En revealed that the Sun Moon Empire had developed Soul Tools capable of contending with a Limit Douluo and insisted that Shrek could not cling to old ways.
• Mu En assigned Mu Changqing to the Martial Soul Department and Bei Bei to study Soul Tools under Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin’er, overruling Yan Shaozhe’s protest.

Tang San sensed that Douluo’s fortune had divided between two rising figures and plotted to manipulate them, while Mu Changqing shared dinner with Bei Bei and Zhang Lexuan before considering his powers and future plans. Mu Changqing fell asleep, and someone carried his small body as his consciousness sank into his mind.

• Tang San told Xiao Wu that Douluo’s fortune was splitting between two people and planned to use his daughter’s divided soul to turn them against each other.
• Mu Changqing helped Zhang Lexuan prepare dinner, then praised her cooking as he and Bei Bei ate enormous amounts of food.
• Mu Changqing worried about the dormant divine consciousness of Buddha Ancestor Tang and the seventeen Golden Dragon King seals still inside him.
• Mu Changqing considered seeking strength-focused Soul Rings, favoring the Titan Giant Ape and planning to use Mu En’s Soul Ring choices for Bei Bei.
• Mu Changqing fell asleep and felt someone carry him as his consciousness sank into his mind.

Mu Changqing trained to control his newly awakened Golden Dragon King Martial Soul while Xuan Zi prepared to take him and Bei Bei to the Star Dou Great Forest. Bei Bei began absorbing an eight-hundred-year Light Blade Dragon Soul Ring for his first ring, and Mu Changqing watched as he endured the process.

• Mu En named Mu Changqing and Bei Bei as the next-generation successors to the Sea God Pavilion’s master and deputy master, and Bei Bei moved to the Soul Tool Department with Zhang Lexuan.
• Xuan Zi relentlessly sparred with Mu Changqing to help him control the Golden Dragon King’s power, then told him and Bei Bei to prepare to obtain their first Soul Rings.
• Xuan Zi took Mu Changqing and Bei Bei to the Star Dou Great Forest and searched the light-attribute lesser dragon territory for a suitable Soul Beast for Bei Bei.
• Xuan Zi trapped an approximately eight-hundred-year-old Light Blade Dragon, and Bei Bei killed it with a dagger and summoned his Holy Dragon of Light Martial Soul.
• Bei Bei began absorbing the Light Blade Dragon’s hundred-year Soul Ring while Mu Changqing watched him endure the energy flowing through his body.

After Bei Bei gained a powerful first soul skill, Mu Changqing, Bei Bei, and Xuan Zi searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a suitable soul beast. They found a rare Tyrannosaurus fighting a Mighty Vajra Bear, and Xuan Zi subdued the beasts before leading the boys into a cave where a medicinal herb grew.

• Bei Bei absorbed the Light Blade Dragon's soul ring, gained Radiant Dragon Claw, and demonstrated his strength to Xuan Zi.
• Xuan Zi took Mu Changqing and Bei Bei deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest, where they camped after failing to find Titan Giant Apes.
• A roar led Xuan Zi to a Tyrannosaurus fighting a wounded Mighty Vajra Bear beside a cave.
• Xuan Zi subdued the Tyrannosaurus and Mighty Vajra Bear, then took Mu Changqing and Bei Bei into the cave.
• Mu Changqing, Bei Bei, and Xuan Zi found a medicinal herb growing in the cave's depths.

Mu Changqing and Xuan Zi discovered Na'er, a frightened silver-haired girl with lost memories, in a cave, and Na'er chose Mu Changqing as her older brother. After Xuan Zi harvested a rare Dragon Saliva Grass, Na'er gave Mu Changqing a life-rich crystal, and they left the cave to absorb his first Soul Ring.

• Na'er crawled from a small opening in the cave, and Mu Changqing recognized her as the Silver Dragon King when his Golden Dragon King bloodline reacted to her.
• Xuan Zi calmed Na'er, but she remained silent until Mu Changqing asked her name; she introduced herself as Na'er and clung to him.
• Mu Changqing determined that Na'er had lost her memory, and she agreed to become his little sister.
• Xuan Zi accepted Na'er into their care and explained that the two-thousand-year-old Dragon Saliva Grass in the cave attracted dragons before harvesting it.
• Mu Changqing put a padded coat on Na'er, and she returned to the hole to give him a life-rich crystal.
• Mu Changqing and Na'er left the cave hand in hand to join Xuan Zi and Bei Bei outside.

Mu Changqing absorbed a Tyrannosaurus soul ring after it willingly sacrificed itself, gaining the defensive soul skill Dragon King Overlord Body. He returned to Shrek with Na'er and the Mighty Vajra Bear, then headed to the Sea God Pavilion after Mu En summoned him.

• Na'er reunited with the Mighty Vajra Bear while Xuan Zi confirmed that it had raised her.
• The Tyrannosaurus sacrificed itself to Mu Changqing, who absorbed its thousand-year soul ring and gained Dragon King Overlord Body.
• Mu Changqing tested the soul skill against Xuan Zi, who found that it greatly increased his defenses but consumed soul power quickly.
• Mu Changqing invited the Mighty Vajra Bear to come with them, and the group returned to Shrek City.
• Mu Changqing named the bear Da Huang and settled it in his courtyard with Na'er.
• After Mu En summoned him, Mu Changqing took Na'er and headed to the Sea God Pavilion.

Mu Changqing brought Na'er to meet Mu En, who recognized a possible Silver Dragon connection in her and learned that Mu Changqing had found a Life Crystal that might ease his injuries. Mu En took the crystal into seclusion, leaving Xuan Zi to arrange Mu Changqing's training.

• Mu Changqing tested his Golden Dragon strength against Mu En, who advised him to train with Xuan Zi after evaluating his punches.
• Mu En concluded that Na'er may have a Silver Dragon martial soul and told Mu Changqing to care for her.
• Mu En explained that his injuries came from the balefulness of a dragon core and that only a treasure with life essence might temporarily suppress it.
• Mu Changqing gave Mu En a Life Crystal, which Mu En accepted as a possible treatment for his injuries.
• Mu En entered a hidden passage into the Golden Ancient Tree to begin seclusion, while Xuan Zi assigned Mu Changqing morning lessons with Yan Shaozhe and afternoon strength training.

After completing three months of brutal training under Xuan Zi, Mu Changqing moved into Ma Xiaotao’s residence with Na'er and Da Huang. That night, the second seal on Mu Changqing’s Golden Dragon King bloodline began to break, and he planned to find a quiet place to release it.

• For three months, Mu Changqing studied under Yan Shaozhe, trained with Xuan Zi, and grew stronger while Elder Zhuang healed his injuries.
• Xuan Zi finished Mu Changqing’s final ramming exercise, then gave him five bottles of medicine made from Dragon Saliva Grass.
• Mu Changqing and Na'er moved to Yan Shaozhe’s residence and met Ma Xiaotao, who offered them rooms in her apartment.
• Na'er insisted on sharing a room with Mu Changqing, while Da Huang settled in the courtyard.
• As Mu Changqing cultivated that night, his second Golden Dragon King seal showed signs of breaking, and he briefly felt an urge to devour Na'er before her sleep-talking brought him back to his senses.

Mu Changqing visited the Soul Tool Department, confirmed Bei Bei was thriving in his studies, and borrowed an advanced cultivation room to break the Golden Dragon King's second seal. He left with a new Blood Essence Soul Ring fused into his first soul ring and an enhanced Golden Dragon Body.

• Mu Changqing left Na'er with Elder Zhuang and went to the Soul Tool Department to check on Bei Bei and borrow an advanced cultivation room.
• Fan Yu told Mu Changqing that Bei Bei had earned a Class One soul engineer badge in three months, and Mu Changqing watched him study under Qian Duoduo with Zhang Lexuan nearby.
• Fan Yu arranged an advanced cultivation room for Mu Changqing, who prepared the medicinal ingredients needed to break the Golden Dragon King's second seal.
• Mu Changqing endured four hours of intense pain as the ingredients' power entered his body, then broke the second seal and condensed his blood essence into a golden Blood Essence Soul Ring.
• Mu Changqing fused the Blood Essence Soul Ring into his first soul ring, gaining Golden Dragon Body as his Tyrannosaurus manifestation evolved with golden patterns.

Mu Changqing visited Bei Bei’s classroom and proposed a gravity Soul Tool based on the benefits he had gained from training under Elder Xuan’s gravity field. Fan Yu rushed off to design it, while Zhang Lexuan invited Mu Changqing and Na'er to the snack street that evening.

• Mu Changqing left the advanced cultivation room with Fan Yu, who explained that scarce materials and ineffective formations made it impossible to build more rooms for now.
• Zhang Lexuan invited Bei Bei to the snack street, and Bei Bei accepted before Mu Changqing and Fan Yu entered the classroom.
• Mu Changqing praised Bei Bei for passing the Class 1 soul engineer examination and warned him not to become arrogant.
• Mu Changqing asked Fan Yu about making a gravity Soul Tool for physical training, and explained that Elder Xuan’s gravity field had improved his physique and blood Qi.
• Bei Bei suggested adding automatic gravity adjustment and life monitoring, and Fan Yu hurried to the laboratory to begin a preliminary design.
• Zhang Lexuan invited Mu Changqing and Na'er to join her and Bei Bei at the snack street that evening.

Mu Changqing borrowed a flying Soul Tool to return to Sea God Island and reunite with Na'er, then took her to Shrek Academy's snack street with Bei Bei and Zhang Lexuan. A three-way spar left Bei Bei airborne and Mu Changqing weakened, as Na'er rushed to check on him.

• Mu Changqing borrowed a blue flying Soul Tool from Fan Yu and flew back to Sea God Island, where Na'er greeted him at Elder Zhuang's courtyard.
• Mu Changqing and Na'er met Bei Bei and Zhang Lexuan at Shrek Academy's east gate, then went with them to the snack street.
• After the group ate and rested, Bei Bei challenged Mu Changqing to a spar, and Zhang Lexuan joined the fight to support Bei Bei.
• Mu Changqing used his Golden Dragon Martial Soul to resist Zhang Lexuan's moonlight chains and Bei Bei's attacks, then broke free with Dragon King Overlord Body.
• Mu Changqing's final punch sent Bei Bei flying, and Zhang Lexuan caught him as Mu Changqing collapsed onto the grass; Na'er ran over, worried.

After Mu Changqing recognized that his strength consumed too much Soul Power, Zhang Lexuan advised him to seek a restorative Soul Skill for his third Soul Ring. Nine months later, with Mu Changqing at rank 20 and Mu En still secluded, Yan Shaozhe and Elder Gong accompanied him on a second trip to Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a Soul Beast.

• Mu Changqing replenished his Soul Power after fighting Bei Bei, acknowledged his rapid Soul Power consumption, and listened to Zhang Lexuan's advice about his third Soul Ring.
• Mu Changqing gave Bei Bei three bottles of medicinal liquid made from Dragon Saliva Grass before Bei Bei and Zhang Lexuan returned to the Soul Tool Department.
• Mu Changqing returned to Sea God Island with Na'er and worried that Mu En had not emerged from seclusion.
• Over nine months of training, Mu Changqing improved his strength control, studied outer court theory, and reached rank 20 without obtaining a Soul Ring.
• Mu Changqing met Yan Shaozhe, Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, and Elder Gong, then set out with Yan Shaozhe and Elder Gong toward Star Dou Great Forest for a Soul Beast hunt.

Yan Shaozhe led Mu Changqing, Ma Xiaotao, Zhang Lexuan, and Elder Gong into Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Soul Beasts, but they first confronted a hunting team plotting to target the girls. After Zhang Lexuan ordered Chu Sheng's cultivation crippled, Mu Changqing killed him and continued toward the Mixed Zone, leaving Ma Xiaotao unsettled by his calmness.

• Ma Xiaotao teased Mu Changqing about his rapid cultivation as the group walked toward Star Dou Great Forest, and Zhang Lexuan explained the Soul Beasts each of them sought.
• Yang Wei and Chu Sheng plotted to assault Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao, so Yan Shaozhe killed Yang Wei and revealed his Super Douluo power.
• Yan Shaozhe let Zhang Lexuan decide Chu Sheng's fate, and she ordered him crippled rather than killed.
• Mu Changqing killed the helpless Chu Sheng with his Golden Dragon Claw, explaining that leaving him alive would endanger ordinary people.
• Yan Shaozhe led the group toward the Moonlit Night Demon Wolves' habitat, and Ma Xiaotao asked Mu Changqing whether killing caused him any psychological pressure.

Yan Shaozhe led the group into the Star Dou Great Forest to help Zhang Lexuan hunt a Soul Beast for her next Soul Ring. After she absorbed the ring and gained Lunar Eclipse Black Light, Yan Shaozhe gave her a fifty-thousand-year Dark Moon Demon Wolf left leg bone.

• Yan Shaozhe led the group to the Dark Moon Demon Wolves' habitat and instructed Elder Gong to cripple a fifty-thousand-year wolf while Zhang Lexuan delivered the final blow.
• Yan Shaozhe drew the Wolf Emperor and its guards away as Zhang Lexuan lured part of the pack into the woods, where Elder Gong ambushed and crippled the target wolf.
• Zhang Lexuan killed the crippled Dark Moon Demon Wolf and began absorbing its ten-thousand-year Soul Ring while Elder Gong kept watch.
• Mu Changqing found a left leg Soul Bone beneath the wolf's corpse, and Yan Shaozhe secured it while the group waited for Zhang Lexuan.
• After four hours, Zhang Lexuan finished absorbing the Soul Ring and revealed her Lunar Eclipse Black Light Soul Skill, which inflicted defense-ignoring damage and drained vitality and Soul Power.
• Yan Shaozhe praised Zhang Lexuan's area attack and gave her the Dark Moon Demon Wolf Soul Bone.

Ma Xiaotao obtained a thousand-year Wind Flame Falcon Soul Ring while Elder Gong and Zhang Lexuan took Mu Changqing to find a Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear for his second Soul Ring. They found two badly injured bears, and a cub hidden in the mother bear’s nest.

• Yan Shaozhe killed a Wind Flame Falcon, and Ma Xiaotao absorbed its thousand-year Soul Ring with him guarding against her evil fire.
• Elder Gong and Zhang Lexuan took Mu Changqing to a nearby cave where Elder Gong had previously seen two Darkgold Terrorclaw Bears.
• The three found one bear dead and the other gravely wounded, with a young cub hidden in the injured mother’s nest.
• Elder Gong cautiously approached the mother bear and appeared to communicate with her as she guarded her cub.

Mu Changqing absorbed the Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear’s thousand-year Soul Ring and External Soul Bone, gaining Dragon Blood Boiling and Golden Dragon Terrorclaw. After returning to Shrek Academy with three bear cubs, he headed to Elder Zhuang’s apartment, where Na’er welcomed him back.

• The Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear sacrificed itself to Mu Changqing, and he absorbed its thousand-year Soul Ring as the Golden Dragon King’s third seal began to stir.
• Mu Changqing fused the bear’s External Soul Bone with his Golden Dragon Claw and tested Golden Dragon Terrorclaw, which increased his attack range and power.
• Mu Changqing agreed to raise the three bear cubs, then joined Zhang Lexuan and the others on their return to Shrek Academy.
• Mu Changqing brought the cubs home, named them Huang Er, Huang San, and Huang Si, and asked Da Huang to care for them.
• After bathing, Mu Changqing went to Elder Zhuang’s apartment, where Na’er greeted him excitedly.