Chapter Summaries

Tang Feng and Zhu Zhuqing traveled together to Suotuo City, where they arrived at the Rose Hotel and learned that Shrek Academy would hold admissions the next day. Tang Feng realized Zhu Zhuqing might be heading to Shrek as well and wondered whether she would join the group he knew from the original story.

• Tang Feng agreed to travel to Suotuo City with Zhu Zhuqing and carried her out of the waterfall cave using his Flame Dragon Wings.
• At Soul Hunting Town, Tang Feng bought Zhu Zhuqing a mask and bamboo hat to shield her from unwanted attention, then hired a carriage.
• Over twenty-five days, Tang Feng and Zhu Zhuqing traveled through the Balak Kingdom, stopping to rest and explore towns along the way.
• Tang Feng and Zhu Zhuqing reached Suotuo City and booked adjoining rooms at the Rose Hotel.
• The next day, Zhu Zhuqing asked a waiter where Shrek Academy was and learned that admissions would take place the following day.
• Tang Feng wondered whether Zhu Zhuqing was also going to Shrek and might become one of the Shrek Seven Monsters.

Tang Feng escorted Zhu Zhuqing toward Shrek Academy, where they witnessed her humiliation at the hands of the blond young man she had come to find. They reached Shrek’s shabby admissions line, where Tang Feng recognized Tang San and Xiao Wu and began considering the dangers of his interest in them.

• Tang Feng offered to escort Zhu Zhuqing to Shrek Academy, and she agreed.
• Zhu Zhuqing spotted the blond young man with twin sisters across the street; after he and the sisters fought Tang San and Xiao Wu inside the Rose Hotel, he left without looking back.
• Tang Feng and Zhu Zhuqing checked out the next morning and traveled from Suotuo City toward Shrek Academy, with Zhu Zhuqing thanking him for helping her.
• They found Shrek Academy in a shabby village and joined the admissions queue, where Tang Feng recognized Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• Tang Feng considered Xiao Wu’s value as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast but decided he could not act rashly because Tang Hao might be protecting them.

Tang Feng accompanied Zhu Zhuqing to apply to Shrek Academy, where she and three other talented students passed the entrance tests. He watched as the group began the fourth assessment, which was supervised by the academy’s vice dean, Zhao Wuji.

• Dai Mubai intimidated a father demanding his application fee back by releasing his three Soul Rings, and the father left with his son.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu passed with Level twenty-nine Soul Power, while a girl from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect passed with Level twenty-six Soul Power.
• Zhu Zhuqing removed her mask, passed with Level twenty-seven Soul Power, and Tang Feng entered the academy with her permission.
• Dai Mubai stopped Tang San and Xiao Wu from eating Oscar’s sausages after Oscar demonstrated the incantation for his food Martial Soul.
• Dai Mubai led the four students to the fourth assessment, where Zhao Wuji introduced himself as the academy’s vice dean and welcomed the four Little Monsters.

Zhao Wuji replaced Dai Mubai as examiner and challenged the four newcomers to last one incense stick against him. After Xiao Wu was injured and the first incense nearly burned out, Tang San challenged Zhao Wuji alone and began a second fight, leaving the outcome undecided.

• Zhao Wuji announced that the group would pass if anyone lasted one incense stick against him, and Dai Mubai warned them that Zhao Wuji was a level seventy-six Soul Saint.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing revealed their abilities and planned their approach while Tang Feng sensed a powerful presence nearby.
• Ning Rongrong supported the others as Tang San restrained Zhao Wuji, but Zhao Wuji broke free; he caught and threw Xiao Wu, then struck Zhu Zhuqing out of the battle area.
• Xiao Wu's Charm rebounded against Zhao Wuji and left her unconscious and injured; Tang Feng gave Zhu Zhuqing a Soul Recovery Pill, while Zhao Wuji declared Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong had passed.
• Tang San entrusted Xiao Wu to Ning Rongrong, demanded a solo rematch, and began the second assessment with Blue Silver Entanglement, which Zhao Wuji tore through.

Tang Feng decided to capture Xiao Wu during the coming trip to the Star Dou Great Forest, while Tang San and the others joined Shrek Academy and met its dean, Flender. The chapter left Tang Feng in Suotuo City, where Ning Rongrong approached him after slipping away from Flender’s training.

• Tang San fought Zhao Wuji with hidden weapons and the Clear Sky Hammer, and both were injured before Tang San detoxified Zhao Wuji and all four applicants passed Shrek Academy’s assessment.
• Tang Feng left the academy, judged the new students, and decided to capture Xiao Wu and make her his grandfather’s ninth Soul Ring, hoping to blame her disappearance on the Titan Giant Ape.
• Tang Feng planned to wait for Tang Hao to leave after Tang San enrolled, then follow the students to the Star Dou Great Forest and find a chance to seize Xiao Wu.
• The next morning, Xiao Wu defeated Ma Hongjun after finding him entangled with a girl, and Flender introduced himself as Shrek Academy’s dean and assigned Oscar and Ning Rongrong twenty laps.
• Ning Rongrong sneaked away from the run and found Tang Feng at a restaurant in Suotuo City, complaining that Flender’s training was just running laps.

Tang Feng shared a meal with Ning Rongrong, then flew to the Star Dou Great Forest and waited for Shrek Academy’s students. Flender brought the students to the Soto Great Soul Arena for their first lesson, and they registered for matches.

• Tang Feng denied pursuing Zhu Zhuqing and warned Ning Rongrong that her father and Flender likely knew she had left the academy.
• After eating, Ning Rongrong returned to Shrek while Tang Feng flew to a town near the Star Dou Great Forest and waited for the students.
• Flender confronted Ning Rongrong about skipping her assignment and leaving the academy; she admitted her mistake and said she had met Tang Feng for guidance, prompting Zhu Zhuqing to deny that he was pursuing her.
• Flender led Dai Mubai, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ma Hongjun, and Zhu Zhuqing to the Soto Great Soul Arena and explained its ranks and match rules.
• The students registered as Iron Soul Fighters, and Tang San paired with Xiao Wu for duo matches while the others signed up for solo matches.

After Dai Mubai’s conflict with Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong, Ning offered Zhu Zhuqing her support, while Zhu recalled the person who had once treated her with care. The next morning, Oscar arrived late with news that he had reached rank thirty, leaving the group astonished.

• Ma Hongjun left with the dean to deal with his Evil Fire, while Dai Mubai’s conversation with Zhu Zhuqing revealed their strained history.
• Dai Mubai sent Ning Rongrong flying after she mocked him, but he withdrew his Soul Power when Tang San intervened.
• Ning Rongrong visited Zhu Zhuqing, warned her about Dai Mubai, offered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support, and teased her about Tang Feng.
• Dai Mubai said he planned to visit the twins from before, while Zhu Zhuqing showed her disgust and ignored him.
• Flender began the group’s second lesson and sent Tang San to fetch Oscar, who arrived and announced that he had reached rank thirty.

Shrek Academy traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to help Oscar obtain his third Soul Ring, while Tang Feng secretly followed them. After Oscar gained a flight-related Soul Skill, Tang San reached rank thirty, and the group continued searching for his Soul Beast as Tang Feng waited nearby.

• Flender assigned the students to help Oscar obtain his third Soul Ring, and Zhao Wuji led them toward the Star Dou Great Forest the next morning.
• Tang Feng watched the group arrive at a hotel, where Dai Mubai, Xiao Wu, and the others clashed with students from Canghui Academy.
• Zhao Wuji's group entered the forest, subdued a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, and met Snake Granny Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran, who also sought the beast for Meng Yiran's third Soul Ring.
• Tang San fought Meng Yiran in Oscar's place and won, allowing Oscar to absorb the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent's Soul Ring and reach rank thirty-one.
• Tang San broke through to rank thirty, and the group spent two days searching for a suitable Soul Beast while Tang Feng secretly watched them.

Tang Feng captured Xiao Wu while Tang San stopped to claim a Man Faced Demon Spider’s Soul Ring, leaving Xiao Wu missing as Tang San faced a difficult absorption. Tang San defeated Meng Yiran in a Hidden Weapon contest, and she joined Shrek Academy before his absorption was complete.

• Tang Feng ambushed Xiao Wu on her way back, put her to sleep, and carried her away in the Wishful Hundred Treasure Purse.
• Tang San killed the injured Man Faced Demon Spider and prepared to absorb its Soul Ring instead of continuing his pursuit of Xiao Wu.
• Dragon Duke Meng Shu and Meng Yiran confronted Tang San over the spider, but Tang San refused to join their family and negotiated until Zhao Wuji arrived.
• Tang San beat Meng Yiran in a Hidden Weapon contest, and she joined Shrek Academy after the two bonded over their shared interest.
• Tang San began absorbing the overbearing Soul Ring while Meng Yiran returned from hunting her own Soul Ring, and Xiao Wu still did not return.

Tang San returned to Shrek Academy after absorbing a Soul Ring, while Tang Feng took the captured Xiao Wu to Suotuo City and began fighting in the arena. The chapter ended with Grandmaster Yu angrily confronting Zhao Wuji over Xiao Wu’s disappearance as Tang San grew closer to Meng Yiran through their shared interest in Hidden Weapons.

• Tang San woke after absorbing a Soul Ring and gained the Eight Spider Lances, then resolved to find Xiao Wu before Zhao Wuji and the others persuaded him to return to the academy.
• Tang Feng brought the sleeping Xiao Wu to a hotel in Suotuo City, registered for arena fights as Sun Xingzhe, and began honing his staff techniques.
• After the Shrek group returned to the academy, Flender privately reflected on the dangers of Soul Hunting, and Ning Rongrong asked Tang San about buying his Hidden Weapons for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Grandmaster Yu arrived at Flender’s office, learned that Xiao Wu had been taken by the Titan Giant Ape, and angrily blamed Zhao Wuji, who retorted and left.
• Tang San discussed his Hidden Weapons with Meng Yiran, who admired them and asked him about their uses.

Yu Xiaogang began training the Shrek students and reinforced Tang San’s leadership, while Tang Feng honed his fighting skills at the Soto Great Soul Arena. The chapter ended as Tang Feng entered the arena for a spotlight match against the powerful Tie Futu.

• Yu Xiaogang reunited with Tang San, examined his new abilities, and urged him to grow stronger after Xiao Wu’s death.
• Yu Xiaogang began intensive training for the Shrek students, setting Dai Mubai the task of defeating the other six and establishing Tang San as the team’s leader.
• Tang Feng completed thirty matches at the Soto Great Soul Arena with twenty-three wins and seven losses, earning three hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins while developing his third staff form.
• During the students’ day off, Meng Yiran joined Tang San’s Tang Sect, while Ning Rongrong took Zhu Zhuqing and Oscar to watch the arena matches.
• The arena announced Tang Feng’s spotlight match against level-forty-eight Power Attack System Soul Ancestor Tie Futu, and Tang Feng walked onto the stage.

Tang Feng won a brutal soul fight against Tie Futu, then joined Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Oscar for a celebratory dinner. The group learned Tang Feng was fifteen and level forty-eight, leaving Zhu Zhuqing quietly affected by the comparison to Dai Mubai.

• Tang Feng used the Golden Cudgel and his staff techniques to break Tie Futu's arm, forcing Tie Futu to surrender and securing the victory.
• Tang Feng collected twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins and met Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Oscar outside the Great Soul Arena.
• Ning Rongrong invited Tang Feng and the others to a lavish restaurant dinner to celebrate his win.
• Oscar thanked Tang Feng for helping him before and introduced himself, while Tang Feng said he had just turned fifteen.
• Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing were astonished to learn Tang Feng was level forty-eight, and Ning Rongrong compared him with Dai Mubai, who was level thirty-seven.

Tang Feng explained individualized training methods to Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Oscar, then described his staff techniques and the limits on teaching them. After Zhu Zhuqing revealed her arranged betrothal to Dai Mubai and the danger she had faced in Star Luo City, Ning Rongrong and Oscar promised to support her.

• Tang Feng recommended weighted rock climbing for Zhu Zhuqing and pressure training with Zhao Wuji's Gravity Squeeze for Ning Rongrong.
• Ning Rongrong praised Tang Feng's advice and offered to ask the dean to arrange special training.
• Tang Feng showed the Ruyi Jingu Bang and said anyone could learn its three staff forms, but outsiders could not be taught unless they joined his sect.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Tang Feng to team up with her at the Great Soul Arena, and Tang Feng stopped Ning Rongrong from teasing her about it because he believed she had a fiancé.
• Zhu Zhuqing revealed she was the second young lady of the Zhu Family, betrothed to Dai Mubai, and had endured attacks from her elder sister and the eldest prince after Dai Mubai fled.
• Ning Rongrong and Oscar comforted Zhu Zhuqing and pledged to stand by her.

Tang Feng partnered with Zhu Zhuqing in Soul Fighting while she and Ning Rongrong trained hard at Shrek Academy. After a month of growth, Tang Feng prepared to leave, having also recruited Oscar to his sect.

• Zhu Zhuqing declared she would defeat Dai Mubai herself and leave the Zhu Family, and Tang Feng agreed to team up with her for a month.
• Tang Feng escorted Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Oscar back to the academy, while Ning Rongrong teased him and shared Zhu Zhuqing's room location.
• Ning Rongrong persuaded Flender to let her, Oscar, and Zhu Zhuqing train under Zhao Wuji, while the other students continued their weighted runs.
• Zhu Zhuqing trained by climbing a cliff and fought alongside Tang Feng at the Soto Great Soul Arena, where they lost more matches than they won but improved their cultivation.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo discussed Ning Rongrong's training and whether she should return to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• A month later, Zhu Zhuqing had reached rank twenty-eight, Ning Rongrong rank twenty-seven, and Oscar rank thirty-two; Oscar agreed to join Tang Feng's sect, and Tang Feng prepared to leave with more than a million Gold Soul Coins in assets.

Tang Feng gave Zhu Zhuqing a Ghost Shadow Leopard Left Leg Bone and five-thousand-year whale rubber, helping her reach rank thirty and strengthen her body. He then took her by air to the Star Dou Great Forest to find a suitable Soul Ring.

• Tang Feng decided to give Zhu Zhuqing the Soul Bone and told her he would return to his sect the next day.
• Tang Feng gave Zhu Zhuqing the sixteen-thousand-year Ghost Shadow Leopard Left Leg Bone, which she absorbed to reach rank thirty and gain the Hell Ghost Shadow skill.
• Tang Feng gave Zhu Zhuqing five-thousand-year whale rubber to temper her body, and she emerged with stronger muscles, bones, and denser Soul Power.
• Tang Feng and Zhu Zhuqing left Suotuo City for the Star Dou Great Forest so she could seek a Soul Ring around three thousand years old.
• Tang Feng carried Zhu Zhuqing through the air with his dragon wings, and she asked what his Martial Soul was.

Tang Feng helped Zhu Zhuqing absorb a three-thousand-year Netherworld Ghost Leopard Soul Ring, then parted from her and left for the Clear Sky Sect. Back at Shrek Academy, Zhu Zhuqing rejected Dai Mubai’s attempt to control her, while Tang Feng sent a coded letter to the Breaking Clan before flying toward the sect.

• Tang Feng killed a Netherworld Ghost Leopard, and Zhu Zhuqing absorbed its Soul Ring to reach rank thirty-three and gain the Netherworld Shadow Clone skill.
• Tang Feng flew Zhu Zhuqing back to Suotuo City, confirmed that he was from the Clear Sky Sect, and warned that he might be gone for years or never return.
• Ning Rongrong teased Zhu Zhuqing about spending the night with Tang Feng, and Dai Mubai angrily confronted her.
• Zhu Zhuqing refused to answer Dai Mubai’s accusations and told him he had no say in her affairs before leaving with Ning Rongrong.
• Tang Feng checked out of the hotel, sent a coded letter to the Breaking Clan, and flew toward the Clear Sky Sect’s ancestral grounds.

Tang Feng returned to the Clear Sky Sect after five years away and reunited with his grandfather and the elders. After receiving a thirty-thousand-year Mighty Demon Ape right arm bone, he revealed that he had reached peak level forty-eight, leaving the elders astonished.

• Tang Feng flew back to the Clear Sky Sect and was recognized by Tang Long at the mountain gate.
• Tang Long led Tang Feng to the Hall of Quiet Reflection, explaining that Tang Lie had broken through to Level 90 and the elders were discussing a Soul Hunting trip.
• Tang Lie and the fifth elder warmly welcomed Tang Feng, and Tang Xiao thanked him for the Whale Rubber he had sent the sect.
• Tang Xiao rewarded Tang Feng with a thirty-thousand-year Mighty Demon Ape right arm bone for his contributions.
• Tang Feng told the elders that he had reached peak level forty-eight and mastered eighty-one strikes of the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, prompting Tang Zhen to ask if he was telling the truth.

Tang Feng returned to the Clear Sky Sect and revealed his extraordinary cultivation, external soul bone, and role in helping the sect grow stronger. He then presented an unconscious Xiao Wu, whom the elders recognized as a transformed hundred-thousand-year soul beast, as a grand gift for his grandfather.

• Tang Feng showed the elders his level-forty-eight cultivation, ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring, and Flame Dragon Wings, then recounted his years away from the sect.
• Tang Xiao and the elders praised Tang Feng and explained that whale rubber had helped strengthen the sect, whose leaders included five Titled Douluo and Tang Lie, who had just reached level ninety.
• Tang Feng asked about Tang Lie's planned ninth soul-ring hunt and announced that he had returned with a supreme treasure for his grandfather.
• Tang Feng produced an unconscious Xiao Wu from his Wishful Hundred Treasure Purse, and the six elders recognized her as a transformed hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
• Tang Lie stared at Tang Feng in shock and began asking what he had done.

Tang Feng gave the captured Xiao Wu and her hundred-thousand-year soul ring to his grandfather, Tang Lie, so the Clear Sky Sect could gain a stronger Titled Douluo. After Tang Lie absorbed the ring and rose to the peak of Level 92, he chose the title Blazing Sun Douluo in memory of his deceased brother Tang Yang.

• Tang Feng offered the captured Xiao Wu as a hundred-thousand-year soul ring for Tang Lie, and Tang Lie initially insisted that Tang Feng should keep the opportunity for himself.
• Tang Feng argued that the sect needed strength more urgently than he needed the soul ring, so Tang Xiao and the elders urged Tang Lie to accept it.
• Tang Lie killed Xiao Wu and absorbed her hundred-thousand-year soul ring, while the Soft Bone Rabbit's left leg bone fell to the table and Tang Lie gave it to Tang Feng.
• After twenty-four hours, Tang Lie completed the absorption, gained more than two levels of soul power, and reached the peak of Level 92.
• Tang Lie named himself Blazing Sun Douluo to honor his late brother Tang Yang.

Tang Feng distributed rare herbs to the Clear Sky Sect’s elders, explaining how each could strengthen them and help the sect recover. He then summoned five second-generation disciples who hoped the remaining herbs could help them break through, leaving their advancement still to come.

• Tang Lie reunited with Tang Feng, and the elders praised Tang Lie after learning that his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring granted powerful offensive and defensive skills.
• Tang Feng gave Thunder Spirit Fruits to Tang Xiao, Tang Zhen, and Tang Ming, and presented Earth Essence Lingzhi to the Fourth Elder and a Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Mushroom to the Fifth Elder.
• Tang Feng gave Tang Lie a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum to strengthen his body and support the life-force-consuming effects of his Soul Skills.
• Tang Feng offered lesser cultivation herbs for the sect’s Soul Douluo-level uncles, and Tang Xiao and Tang Zhen agreed to summon them.
• Tang Zhen brought five second-generation disciples into the secret chamber: Tang Ming and Tang Kun, both at rank eighty-eight, Tang Yu at rank eighty-five, and Tang Hui and Tang Zhi, both at rank eighty-one.