Chapter Summaries

Cao Yu rescued the Three-Eyed Golden Lion from Duke Lin, who had been trying to take her skull to heal two princes. After learning the Heaven Dou Empire’s reason for hunting her, Cao Yu realized they had also intended to transfer their misfortune onto him.

• Duke Lin attacked the wounded Three-Eyed Golden Lion, but Cao Yu arrived in time to save her and had his Shadow Clone seize Duke Lin.
• Cao Yu questioned Duke Lin, who admitted that he was from the Heaven Dou Empire and learned Cao Yu belonged to the Cao Clan.
• Duke Lin explained that the Heaven Dou Empire wanted the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s skull to give the two princes Spiritual Immunity and restore them to normal.
• Cao Yu recalled that the Emperor Auspicious Beast’s skull bone also carried the Judgment of Destiny skill and recognized that the hunters likely meant to transfer their misfortune to him.

Cao Yu subdued Duke Lin, killed the gravely wounded Man Faced Demon Spider, and received a guaranteed Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring absorption as a reward. With his grandfather reassured by the Shadow Clone’s nine red rings, Cao Yu absorbed the ring and defeated the spider’s phantom in his Sea of Consciousness.

• Cao Yu bound Duke Lin with Soul Power while the remaining fighters continued battling the Man Faced Demon Spider.
• A black-clad figure struck the six fighters down, leaving them severely injured with their Martial Souls sealed.
• Cao Yu killed the helpless Man Faced Demon Spider with the Attractiveness Holy Sword, and the system awarded him a guaranteed absorption and a Mental Attribute for his main Martial Soul.
• Cao Yu’s grandfather worried about him absorbing a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, but the Shadow Clone revealed nine red Soul Rings and eased his concern.
• Cao Yu absorbed the Soul Ring after golden light destroyed the Man Faced Demon Spider’s phantom in his Sea of Consciousness.

Di Tian and the other ferocious beasts reached the Emperor Auspicious Beast after Cao Yu absorbed his first Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and released the Heaven Dou Empire and Body Sect forces. Cao Yu then faced his grandfather’s warning about pursuing more young women.

• Di Tian led the ferocious beasts to the Emperor Auspicious Beast and judged Cao Yu and his nine Shadow Clones too dangerous to attack.
• Xiong Jun offered to test Cao Yu’s group, but Di Tian told him not to risk it.
• Cao Yu completed his first Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring absorption, astonishing the defeated Heaven Dou Empire forces.
• Cao Yu released Duke Lin and the others after warning them not to target the Cao Clan or the Emperor Auspicious Beast again, and Duke Lin promised to arrange a meeting with Princess Vina.
• Di Tian chose to prioritize rescuing the Emperor Auspicious Beast and let the Heaven Dou Empire and Body Sect forces leave.
• Cao Yu’s grandfather urged him to stop seeking more young women and said his three older sisters should be enough.

Cao Yu negotiated with Beast God Di Tian over the injured Three-Eyed Golden Lion, but Di Tian refused to trade the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. Cao Yu left with a promise of two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and a rare Soul Bone, while the Three-Eyed Golden Lion remained troubled by Di Tian's refusal.

• Cao Yu demanded that Di Tian trade the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm for the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and Di Tian refused.
• Cao Yu asked Di Tian to owe him a favor and provide two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts when he advanced to Soul Grandmaster and Soul Elder, and Di Tian agreed.
• Cao Yu's grandfather found the Man Faced Demon Spider's hundred-and-nine-thousand-year External Soul Bone, the Eight Spider Lances, and Cao Yu accepted it.
• Cao Yu and his companions left the Star Dou Great Forest, and Di Tian came down to comfort the injured Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion asked Di Tian why he had not traded the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm for it, and Di Tian said they needed both of them before carrying it back toward the Core Circle.

Cao Yu returned to Star Luo City after successfully obtaining his first Soul Ring, while the Cao Clan concealed its true age to protect him. His family and allies celebrated his advancement, and the chapter ended with the gathered fathers-in-law leaving after urging him to treat their daughters well.

• The old master told Star Luo City residents that Cao Yu had become a Soul Master with a roughly thousand-year Soul Ring, hiding its true age to protect him.
• Cao Yu promised Auntie Li that he would soon introduce river snail rice noodle soup and stinky tofu, while residents eagerly anticipated the new dishes.
• Cao Yu returned to the Cao Clan, where Xu Jiujiu, Tang Ya, and Ning Tian asked about his Soul Ring and celebrated his achievement.
• Cao Yu's fathers-in-law brought gifts and drank with Cao Xiang and the old master at the Cao Clan.
• As they departed, Sect Master Ning, Tang Yichuan, and Xu Jiawei told Cao Yu to treat Ning Tian, Tang Ya, and Xu Jiujiu well, and Cao Yu promised he would.

Cao Yu endured his family’s lavish, medicinal-herb-laden breakfast before checking in and receiving a Soul Bone Fusion Platform. The system then assigned him quests to rescue Huo Yuhao and his mother from the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion and help Jiang Nannan’s gravely ill mother.

• Cao Yu’s family insisted he eat a huge meal of nourishing food, leaving him too stuffed to stand comfortably.
• Cao Yu checked in and received 200,000 Gold Soul Coins, two Soul Power Enhancement Cards, and a Soul Bone Fusion Platform.
• Cao Yu placed five Soul Bones into the platform and activated it.
• The system announced that Huo Yuhao and Huo Yun'er were suffering abuse at the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion and that Jiang Nannan’s mother urgently needed a Black Tortoise Divine Pill.
• The system told Cao Yu to rescue Huo Yuhao and his mother and help Jiang Nannan’s mother before the Black Tortoise Sect’s steward discovered Jiang Nannan in ten days.

Cao Yu set out for the Dou Ling Empire to reach Jiang Nannan and deal with the Black Tortoise Sect before time ran out. He flew through the Star Dou Great Forest’s Core Circle, greeted the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Xiong Jun, and continued toward his destination without rescuing the imprisoned Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

• Cao Yu stored his newly obtained Red-Eyed Golden Dragon External Soul Bone, which he could not yet use, and decided to save his Soul Power Enhancement Cards for later.
• Cao Yu chose to head to the Dou Ling Empire to stop the Black Tortoise Sect, then told his family he was leaving to gain experience.
• Cao Yu used an Experience Card and had a Shadow Clone carry him and the remaining nine clones rapidly toward the Dou Ling Empire.
• Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts noticed Cao Yu and his companions crossing the Core Circle, while Xiong Jun backed down after recognizing them.
• Cao Yu greeted the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and reminded Xiong Jun of his promise to provide a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, then continued onward without helping the imprisoned Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

After reaching Black Tortoise Sect territory, Cao Yu learned that Steward Liu was recruiting an untouched maiden for Xu Sanshi’s upcoming bloodline awakening and lured Liu and his guards into an alley. Cao Yu and his black-clad accomplice subdued the guards and began searching them, while Steward Liu threatened them with the Black Tortoise Sect’s revenge.

• Jiang Nannan cared for her ill mother before leaving for her restaurant job.
• Cao Yu arrived in the slums of Black Tortoise Sect territory and heard locals condemn the sect’s exploitation of poor girls.
• Steward Liu announced that the sect would pay four hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins for an untouched maiden for Xu Sanshi’s bloodline awakening.
• Cao Yu’s black-clad accomplice led Steward Liu and his guards into narrow alleys, where Cao Yu revealed himself and declared he was robbing them.
• The black-clad man knocked down and bound the Soul King guards, while Cao Yu searched the group and Steward Liu angrily invoked the Black Tortoise Sect.

Cao Yu forced the Black Tortoise Sect to hand over its Black Tortoise Divine Pills, then paid the sect master for them and left. He later found a restaurant and recognized the server, Jiang Nannan, as the beauty he had been seeking.

• Cao Yu searched Steward Liu and his companions for Black Tortoise Divine Pills but found none, then flew with them to the Black Tortoise Sect.
• Cao Yu used the Shadow Clone’s overwhelming pressure to make the Black Tortoise Sect’s sect master surrender its entire stock of Black Tortoise Divine Pills.
• Cao Yu intimidated the sect master into calling him handsome, then gave him ten million Gold Soul Coins before departing.
• The sect master warned Xu Sanshi not to ask what he shouldn’t and told him to build a good relationship with Cao Yu if they met again.
• Cao Yu found a restaurant, ordered roast chicken and wine, and recognized the server as Jiang Nannan.

Cao Yu cured Jiang Nannan’s mother with a Black Tortoise Divine Pill and brought them from the Dou Ling Empire to the Cao Clan estate. After returning, he reunited with Xu Jiujiu, Tang Ya, and Ning Tian, who became suspicious when Jiang Nannan asked about working for him.

• Cao Yu gave Jiang Nannan’s mother a Black Tortoise Divine Pill, and she recovered a few days later.
• Cao Yu took Jiang Nannan and her mother from the Dou Ling Empire to the Star Luo Empire, passing through the Core Circle of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• A trapped big white worm shouted for help as Cao Yu’s group flew past the Ferocious Beasts without stopping.
• After Cao Yu returned to the Cao Clan, Tang Ya hugged him from behind, and Xu Jiujiu and Ning Tian tickled her.
• Jiang Nannan asked Cao Yu where the shop was where she would work, prompting Xu Jiujiu, Tang Ya, and Ning Tian to question him about her.

Cao Yu brought Xu Tianshui and the other Guardian Douluo to the White Tiger Duke's Mansion to ask for two people, while a nine-year-old child endured abuse inside. The Duke's household was alerted to their arrival, and they waited for the White Tiger Duke.

• Cao Yu arranged work and lodging for Jiang Nannan and her mother at the Cao Hotpot Restaurant, and Jiang Nannan vowed to repay him.
• Cao Yu visited the Star Luo Imperial Family and asked Xu Tianshui, Cheng Gang, Liu Kongzhu, and Lu Xuanshui to accompany him to the White Tiger Duke's Mansion.
• A woman and the mansion's servants mocked and mistreated a nine-year-old child who knelt injured on the floor.
• Cao Yu and the Douluo arrived at the mansion, where Xu Tianshui warned Cao Yu against killing or driving anyone insane.
• A mansion attendant recognized Cao Yu and the Douluo and hurried to notify the White Tiger Duke.

Cao Yu confronted the White Tiger Duke, Dai Hao, about Huo Yuhao and his mother, exposing the duchess’s abuse and forcing Dai Hao to let them leave. Huo Yuhao accepted Cao Yu’s offer of safety and work, though his resentment toward Dai Hao remained.

• Cao Yu asked Dai Hao to let him take Dai Yuhao and his mother away, and Dai Hao agreed as long as they wished to leave.
• The duchess brought Huo Yun'er and her nine-year-old son before the gathered guests, and Dai Hao realized Huo Yuhao was his child.
• Huo Yuhao rejected Dai Hao as his father and insisted his surname was Huo.
• Cao Yu exposed the duchess’s lie about Huo Yuhao’s whip scars and demanded that Dai Hao honor his promise.
• Cao Yu pressured Dai Hao into agreeing to let Huo Yuhao and Huo Yun'er leave if they wanted to.
• Huo Yuhao accepted Cao Yu’s offer to take him and his mother somewhere safe.

Cao Yu rescued Huo Yun'er and Huo Yuhao from the White Tiger Duke's Mansion and arranged work and care for them, while stirring up a scandal about Dai Hao and the duchess. He then visited Jiang Nannan at his hotpot restaurant, teased her with a magic trick, and left her intrigued.

• Huo Yuhao accused the duchess of having Huo Yun'er's legs crippled and abusing them, and Cao Yu promised to protect them and provide for them.
• Cao Yu examined Huo Yun'er's injuries, found they could be healed, and had his Shadow Clone support her as they left the White Tiger Duke's Mansion.
• Dai Hao berated the duchess for hiding his son and abusing Huo Yun'er, and she retorted about his affair with a servant before their argument was overheard by the visitors.
• Cao Yu brought Huo Yuhao to the Cao River Snail Rice Noodle Shop for a job and arranged for him to care for his mother at the Cao Clan residence.
• Cao Yu visited Jiang Nannan at his hotpot restaurant and used a string trick to draw her close, then left after complimenting her soft hand.

Cao Yu received rewards for completing his quests, used the Protagonist's Halo, and prepared to take Huo Yuhao to Shrek Academy. Tang San noticed the changes in the mortal world and considered sending his daughter there, while Cao Yu left his family and allies to protect the Cao Clan and Tang Sect.

• The system awarded Cao Yu 56.89 million Gold Soul Coins, two Soul Power Enhancement Cards, the Protagonist's Halo, and three Black Pallbearers Experience Cards, including one designated for the Duchess.
• Cao Yu decided to use the Protagonist's Halo but to save the card targeting the Duchess until the White Tiger Duke left for war.
• Tang San sensed a rising star reviving the Tang Sect and decided his daughter should go to the mortal world, with Cao Yu as her Martial Soul Fusion partner.
• Two years later, Cao Yu set out for Shrek Academy with Huo Yuhao, whose soul power had reached rank eighteen.
• Cao Yu's family and allies saw them off, and Cheng Gang promised to protect the Cao Clan and Tang Sect.

Cao Yu used the Black Pallbearers Experience Card to abduct the duchess, then traveled with Huo Yuhao toward Shrek and learned of quests to find Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and fuse with Electrolux. He entered the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, where Sky Dream Ice Silkworm arrived and spoke to him.

• Cao Yu's Black Pallbearers Experience Card sent six black men to carry the duchess away in a coffin and dump her in Star Luo City's waste disposal area.
• Cao Yu and Huo Yuhao grilled snakehead fish together, and Cao Yu suggested opening a shop selling grilled fish and river snail rice noodles near Shrek Academy.
• Cao Yu received quests to find Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and fuse with him, and to fuse with Electrolux.
• Cao Yu left Huo Yuhao, entered the Star Dou Great Forest's outskirts, equipped Sage's Sanctuary, and released his Gold Soul Coin Martial Soul's Mental Attribute.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm appeared and told Cao Yu he had finally met a human with a Mental Attribute.

Cao Yu recruited the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm as a million-year Soul Ring and fused with Electrolux, completing his main quests. The fusion mutated his Gold Soul Coin Martial Soul into the Treasure-Felling Coin and raised his cultivation to rank 36.

• Cao Yu met the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and persuaded him that he had predicted his escape rather than abandoning him.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm fused with Cao Yu, but a strange dark current entered him and expelled the silkworm as Electrolux began to speak.
• The system announced that Cao Yu had completed both main quests and rewarded him with Soul Coins, the Nebula Set, and the Weak Immobilization Technique.
• Cao Yu fused with the brilliant gold million-year Soul Ring, and his mental power spread across a hundred li.
• Cao Yu discovered that his Martial Soul had mutated into the Treasure-Felling Coin, which could force targets to drop treasures, and that his cultivation had reached rank 36.

Cao Yu and Huo Yuhao reached Shrek City and entered Shrek Academy, where Cao Yu reunited with Tang Ya, Ning Tian, and Jiang Nannan. As they toured the campus on registration day, Cao Yu declared that he could fund Soul Tool research by hiring others, leaving the group to continue into the academy.

• Cao Yu told the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that the mysterious power was his Big Bro System and gave his name as Cao Yu.
• Several days later, Cao Yu and Huo Yuhao arrived in Shrek City and entered Shrek Academy through its eastern gate.
• Tang Ya, Ning Tian, and Jiang Nannan welcomed Cao Yu and escorted him and Huo Yuhao through the academy.
• Tang Ya and the others showed Cao Yu Sea God Lake, Shrek Square, and the teaching buildings, explaining the academy's grades and Soul Tool Department.
• Cao Yu said he could spend money to hire researchers for Soul Tools and start a company instead of researching them himself.

Cao Yu registered at Shrek Academy with Huo Yuhao and looked forward to meeting his new roommate in Room 108. At the dormitory, Mu En recognized Cao Yu’s clan and arranged nearby rooms for his Shadow Clones to guard him.

• Cao Yu decided to fund Soul Tool research and explained companies and scientific researchers to Tang Ya.
• Cao Yu and Huo Yuhao paid their fees, received their uniforms, badges, and dormitory keys, and learned they were assigned to Zhou Qi’s class.
• Cao Yu saw that he had been assigned Room 108 and eagerly anticipated meeting his roommate.
• Cao Yu and Huo Yuhao met Mu En at the dormitory entrance, where Mu En identified Cao Yu as a member of the Cao Clan of Star Luo City.
• Mu En told Cao Yu that his Shadow Clones had been given accommodation beside Room 108, then directed Cao Yu and Huo Yuhao to their rooms and warned them to stay out of the girls’ dormitory.

Cao Yu settled into Shrek Academy as Tang Ya, Jiang Nannan, and Ning Tian cleaned his dorm and welcomed him. After discovering the cramped, seatless cafeteria, he returned to his room disappointed by Shrek's stinginess.

• Xuan Zi had declined to recruit the black-clad figures, believing they were Cao Clan death warriors, and Shrek chose to cultivate friendly ties with them instead.
• Cao Yu parted from Huo Yuhao and followed Tang Ya and the others to Room 108, where they insisted on cleaning while he waited outside.
• An academy worker gave Cao Yu the prepared room key and explained that the larger neighboring room had been readied for the seniors.
• Cao Yu bought daily necessities and chilled drinks at the student supply shop, then returned to find Tang Ya and the others had finished cleaning.
• Cao Yu gave the women drinks, and Ning Tian kissed his cheek before Tang Ya followed her example.
• Tang Ya and the others took Cao Yu to the cafeteria, where he was disappointed to find no seats and a rule against taking food outside; he ate and returned to the dormitory alone.

Cao Yu showed Tian Meng that a Soul Power Enhancement Card could instantly raise his Soul Power, then went with Huo Yuhao to breakfast at Shrek. He arranged to open food shops near the academy and left the old man to connect him with someone to discuss the price.

• Cao Yu used a Soul Power Enhancement Card to raise his Soul Power by one level, astonishing Tian Meng.
• Cao Yu and Huo Yuhao went to Shrek’s cafeteria, where Cao Yu bought an expensive breakfast and proposed opening food shops nearby with Huo Yuhao as manager.
• Cao Yu explained that he would limit the shops’ customers and that the Cao Clan’s ties with Shrek would prevent the academy from objecting.
• Cao Yu asked the old man whether the shops outside the city gates were managed by the academy, and the old man agreed to arrange a discussion about the price.
• Cao Yu promised the old man free meals at the shops.