Chapter Summaries

Toji, a boy with immense physical strength but no Soul Power, worked to support his sick parents while Shrek Soul Kings investigated his unusual Martial Soul. After returning home and falling asleep, he awoke to the stench of blood and found three black-robed figures devouring his parents.

• Toji sold a cartload of coal to a noblewoman, who regretted that his strength could not make him a Soul Master, while her daughter Zhang Lexuan invited him to play.
• Three Soul Kings from Shrek Academy's Inspection Corps visited Toji's home, tested him, and confirmed that his Body Martial Soul had no Soul Power.
• The Soul Kings warned Toji's parents about three Evil Soul Masters in the area and gave them signal buttons, then left after criticizing Toji for not bowing.
• Toji returned to his room, went to sleep, and later woke to a strong smell of blood.
• Toji opened his bedroom door to warn his parents and saw three black-robed figures crouched over their corpses, devouring them.

After finding his parents murdered by Evil Soul Masters, Toji fought back despite having no Soul Power and summoned the Shrek Inspection Corps. The Corps arrived as he beat one attacker to death, then knocked him unconscious when he could not be pulled away from the corpse.

• Toji discovered his parents' remains and resolved to kill the Evil Soul Masters who had murdered them.
• Toji dodged an attack, slipped into the kitchen, and severed a Soul Elder Evil Soul Master's arm with a cleaver.
• Toji pressed the Soul Tool button, alerting the Shrek Inspection Corps, then evaded attacks from the three weakened Evil Soul Masters.
• The Evil Soul Masters fled, and two of them broke their injured companion's leg and left him behind as Toji chased them.
• Toji caught the Soul Elder Evil Soul Master and beat him to death while the other two escaped.
• The Shrek Inspection Corps arrived and pulled Toji away from the corpse before knocking him unconscious.

After Toji’s parents were killed, three Shrek Soul Kings sold him to a Soul Fighting Arena boss rather than deal with him themselves. Toji accepted the boss’s offer to fight for food and pay while secretly planning to steal his wealth, grow stronger, and take revenge on the Soul Kings.

• Three Soul Kings agreed to sell the unconscious Toji to a Soul Fighting Arena contact and take a share of the profits.
• Toji pretended to remain unconscious as the Soul Kings transported him, then woke a month later in a dungeon, weak and starving.
• The hooked-nosed arena boss confronted Toji and offered him food, lodging, support, and three Gold Soul Coins a month in exchange for fighting to kill opponents and staying alive.
• Toji accepted the deal and ate, while secretly planning to rob the boss, build his strength, and use his connections to reach Shrek Academy and avenge himself on the Soul Kings.

After seven days in the dungeon, Toji pushed his body through brutal training until Liang Wu interrupted him and tested his claims about growing stronger through exercise. Liang Wu led him to a Soul Fighting arena and ordered him to fight a Ten-Year Soul Beast, leaving Toji facing a deadly trial.

• Toji trained with a heavy iron bed on his back, hoping to break through his limits for a third time.
• Liang Wu stopped Toji and questioned him about how his training made him stronger.
• Toji claimed he could kill a Soul Elder and explained that his parents had raised him by training and feeding him well.
• Liang Wu led Toji through the dungeon and into a vast Soul Fighting arena.
• Liang Wu told Toji to fight a Ten-Year Soul Beast and promised rewards if Toji killed it with a dazzling performance.

Toji accepted Liang Wu’s offer of food, lodging, and training, then fought a ten-year wolf-type Soul Beast in the Soul Fighting Arena. After discovering his physique could withstand its bite, he killed it with repeated slams and gained confidence in his Martial Soul.

• Toji accepted Liang Wu’s offer so he could build strength and eventually return to Heaven Dou City to protect Zhang Lexuan’s family.
• Toji entered the Soul Fighting Arena and faced a massive ten-year wolf-type Soul Beast released from an iron cage.
• The wolf wounded Toji’s shoulder and drove him toward the edge of the arena with a relentless series of attacks.
• Toji charged the wolf, blocked its bite with his arm, and repeatedly smashed it into the ground until it died.
• Liang Wu praised Toji’s strength, paid him three Gold Soul Coins, and offered to provide food and a suitable training place.

Toji secured a dedicated training space, intense training equipment, nutritious food, and lessons about Soul Beasts from Liang Wu in exchange for fighting in the Soul Fighting Arena. He prepared to use Liang Wu’s resources to grow stronger while hiding his plans for revenge and keeping his own intentions concealed.

• Toji asked Liang Wu for eight hours of daily training, a dedicated training area, challenging weights, and nutritious food, and Liang Wu agreed.
• Liang Wu planned to publicize Toji’s official match against a Hundred-Year Soul Beast and expand the betting pool.
• Liang Wu took Toji to a luxurious restaurant, where Toji ate high-quality Soul Beast meat and felt its energy strengthen and refresh him.
• Toji asked to learn about Soul Beasts before his match in three days, and Liang Wu arranged for someone to teach him starting the next day.
• Toji resolved to use Liang Wu’s resources to grow stronger, seek revenge on the two Evil Soul Masters and three members of Shrek’s Inspection Corps, and help Zhang Lexuan’s family.
• Toji decided to conceal his intentions from Liang Wu, avoid growing stronger too quickly, and stay alive in the Soul Fighting Arena.

At fourteen, Toji defeated and tore apart a Thousand-Year Earth Bear in the Soul Fighting Arena, using his pain-triggered Unyielding Fortitude to keep fighting despite severe injuries. After the victory, he asked Liang Wu for time off to return to Heaven Dou City and visit the Zhang Family, and left with a bonus of one hundred Gold Soul Coins.

• Toji faced a Thousand-Year Earth Bear in the Soul Fighting Arena, where spectators bet on whether he could win.
• Toji endured a storm of stones, suffered severe leg wounds, and charged the Earth Bear despite his injuries.
• Toji overpowered the Earth Bear and tore it apart with his bare hands, stunning the crowd.
• Backstage, Toji's injuries began to heal as Unyielding Fortitude strengthened him when he was hurt.
• Toji asked Liang Wu for time off to visit the Zhang Family in Heaven Dou City, and Liang Wu approved and gave him one hundred Gold Soul Coins.

Toji returned to Heaven Dou City after five years and went to Zhang Lexuan’s home, where he found it under attack. He killed the intruders and revealed himself to Mother Zhang, who recognized him as the boy who had disappeared years earlier.

• Toji left Liang Wu’s Soul Fighting Arena with his savings and prepared to buy Soul Tools, while Liang Wu secretly sent two Soul Kings to follow him.
• Liang Wu revealed that he had arranged Toji’s sale and believed the Zhang Family was too vulnerable to help him.
• Toji reached Zhang Lexuan’s residence and found signs of bloodshed and an ongoing battle inside.
• Mother Zhang hid eleven-year-old Zhang Lexuan beneath a bed as three Soul Masters broke into the room.
• Toji burst through a window and killed the three attackers with his saber before they could harm Mother Zhang or Zhang Lexuan.
• Toji told Mother Zhang who he was, and she recognized him despite his disappearance five years earlier.

Toji reunited with Mother Zhang and Zhang Lexuan after saving them from the Zhang Family’s attackers, then fought to lead them out. He left the five Soul Ancestors at the back gate dead, while Mother Zhang and Zhang Lexuan watched in shock at his strength.

• Toji revealed himself to Mother Zhang and reunited with Zhang Lexuan, who asked about her father.
• Toji promised to protect Mother Zhang, Zhang Lexuan, and her uncle as attackers closed in.
• Toji fought through the courtyard, killing several Soul Masters while Mother Zhang and Zhang Lexuan ran for the back gate.
• Five Soul Ancestors blocked the back gate, and Toji protected the pair by cutting apart their Soul Skills.
• After his saber shattered, Toji replaced it and killed all five Soul Ancestors with successive attacks.

Toji returned to the Zhang residence and joined the battle against the Soul Emperor poisoning Father Zhang. After Father Zhang helped break the Soul Emperor’s defenses, the enemy unleashed his Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Skill, leaving Father Zhang gravely ill as Toji urged him to escape.

• Toji told Zhang Lexuan and Mother Zhang to hide while he went to rescue Father Zhang.
• Toji found Father Zhang struggling in the poisonous fog against a level-sixty-six Soul Emperor.
• Toji’s saber failed to break the Soul Emperor’s protective Soul Power, but his kick interrupted the enemy and let Father Zhang’s Moonfall strike land.
• Toji proved immune to the Soul Emperor’s poison and stabbed him after Father Zhang dispersed his protective Soul Power.
• The Soul Emperor unleashed his Sixth Soul Skill, filling the hall with poison that badly injured Father Zhang, and Toji told him to leave while Toji held the enemy off.

Toji fought the Soul Emperor in the hall after Zhang Lexuan's father escaped, then used his poison immunity and concealment to force the injured enemy to surrender. He left with an antidote and poison, while the Soul Emperor fled.

• Zhang Lexuan's father left the hall after Toji urged him to escape and promised to support the fight from outside.
• Toji evaded the Soul Emperor's poisonous mist and concealed himself, leaving his opponent unable to sense or find him.
• The Soul Emperor mistook Toji for a powerful expert and offered compensation in exchange for his life.
• Toji held a knife to the Soul Emperor's neck and took an antidote and a supply of poison pills.
• Toji warned the Soul Emperor to stop underestimating people whose Soul Power he could not sense, then let him flee.

Toji escaped the Zhang residence with the antidote and rescued Father Zhang, but two of Liang Wu’s Soul King bodyguards took Mother Zhang and Zhang Lexuan hostage. While Toji and Father Zhang coordinated to distract them, one bodyguard was stabbed from behind.

• Toji gave Father Zhang an antidote pill and helped him escape the Zhang residence through the back gate.
• Father Zhang recovered some of his strength and learned that his rescuer was Toji, whom he had known as a child.
• Toji and Father Zhang found Mother Zhang and Zhang Lexuan held hostage by Liang Wu’s two Soul King bodyguards.
• The bodyguards demanded that Father Zhang cripple his Martial Soul, and he demanded they swear to release his family.
• As the bodyguards began swearing, a blade pierced one of them from behind, cutting through his Soul Power defense.

Toji rescued Zhang Lexuan and her parents from two Soul Kings, then helped them escape to a secluded place outside Heaven Dou City. As Zhang Lexuan grew closer to him, Toji sensed someone nearby and drew his blade.

• Toji rescued Mother Zhang and Zhang Lexuan from the Soul Kings, then helped Father Zhang defeat them and killed them with a blade.
• Toji led the Zhang family out of Heaven Dou City and settled them in a secluded spot where Father Zhang recovered.
• Zhang Lexuan thanked Toji and recalled how she had missed him during his five years away.
• Toji teased Zhang Lexuan about wanting to live off her in the future, and she blushed at his joke.
• Toji sensed someone nearby, drew his blade, and demanded that they come out.

A Shrek Academy teacher offered to recruit Zhang Lexuan after discovering her exceptional talent and investigated Toji’s unusual physical strength. Zhang Lexuan was assured she could enter Shrek, while Toji’s admission remained uncertain, and he supported her going without him.

• Father Zhang met a powerful middle-aged man who introduced himself as a Shrek Academy teacher and offered help.
• The teacher tested Zhang Lexuan and found she had Innate Full Soul Power and had already reached rank twenty.
• Zhang Lexuan asked whether Toji could join Shrek, and the teacher found no Soul Power in him but confirmed his physical strength rivaled a Soul King’s.
• The teacher said he would report Toji’s unusual condition to Shrek, since he could not decide whether to recommend him.
• Toji told Zhang Lexuan that he had not planned to join Shrek and encouraged her to attend.

Zhang Lexuan left with a Shrek teacher while Toji stayed behind with her parents and planned to kill Liang Wu. At the Body Sect, Du Busi learned that a child named Shen had once shown extraordinary potential before losing all his Soul Power.

• Zhang Lexuan kissed Toji goodbye and left for Shrek with the middle-aged teacher, who warned her to part ways with Toji because they belonged to different worlds.
• Father Zhang and Mother Zhang stayed behind with Toji, who told them he intended to kill Liang Wu, the Soul Fighting Arena owner.
• Father Zhang agreed to help Toji take down Liang Wu and manage his gray-market businesses afterward.
• At the Body Sect, a disciple told Du Busi that eight years earlier he had awakened the Martial Soul of a child surnamed Shen, who showed signs of Innate Full Soul Power before losing it.
• Du Busi berated the disciple for concealing the child's potential and losing track of him, saying he could have become a Limit Douluo.

Du Busi ordered a search for Shen after learning a disciple had hidden the child’s rare Martial Soul potential. Meanwhile, Toji and Zhang Lexuan’s father ambushed Liang Wu, and Toji struck when Liang Wu’s defenses fell.

• Du Busi condemned a disciple for concealing Shen’s Martial Soul awakening and ordered the sect to search for him.
• Du Busi said he would personally search for Shen and made the disciple lead the way to investigate the child’s former home.
• Toji and Zhang Lexuan’s father entered the Soul Fighting Arena to assassinate Liang Wu, but Liang Wu sensed them and confronted them.
• Zhang Lexuan’s father fought Liang Wu while Toji coated his short blade with poison.
• Zhang Lexuan’s father wounded Liang Wu and broke through his protective Soul Power, giving Toji an opening to attack.

Toji defeated Liang Wu with Father Zhang’s help, then forced him to surrender his Soul Fighting Arena and assets in exchange for an antidote. Liang Wu led them to the vault, where Toji saw the wealth he had seized.

• Toji poisoned Liang Wu with a short blade and helped Father Zhang bring him down.
• Toji offered Liang Wu an antidote in exchange for his obedience and control of the Soul Fighting Arena and Liang Wu’s assets.
• Liang Wu accepted the deal and swallowed the antidote, while Toji warned that it would only work for one year.
• Toji assigned Father Zhang to manage the money and keep watch over Liang Wu.
• Liang Wu led Toji and Father Zhang to the arena’s vault, which held about thirty million Gold Soul Coins, treasures, Soul Tools, and rare materials.

Toji took control of Liang Wu’s fortune and ordered him to lure one of the Shrek disciples who had sold Toji five years earlier. Seven days later, Toji arrived at the Heaven Dou Auction House to buy Soul Tools and prepare to face the disciple.

• Toji chose Liang Wu’s level-six Heaven-Breaking Sword and ordered Uncle Zhang to store nearly all the vault’s wealth, leaving Liang Wu only a little.
• Toji ordered Liang Wu to keep the Soul Fighting Arena running, provide him with food and training, and contact the three Shrek disciples who had sold him.
• Toji told Liang Wu to lure the weakest disciple to come alone and warned him against seeking help from Shrek; Uncle Zhang was assigned to watch Liang Wu.
• Seven days later, Toji went to the Heaven Dou Auction House in Heaven Dou City with tens of millions of Gold Soul Coins to seek Soul Tools and treasures for his planned fight.

Toji attended an auction, secretly bought a ten-thousand-year Whale Rubber bargain, and bid on a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Right Palm Bone that the Soul Emperor had been sent to retrieve. The Soul Emperor’s mission was threatened when Toji made the first bid on the Soul Bone.

• Toji met the poison-using Soul Emperor at the auction house, and the wary Soul Emperor sat beside him during the auction.
• Toji watched several valuable Soul Tools and Soul Bones go to other bidders without making an offer.
• Toji recognized the Thousand Year Whale Rubber as ten-thousand-year-quality material and won it for five thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• The auctioneer presented a Ten Thousand Year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Right Palm Bone and warned that even a level seventy-nine Soul Saint had crippled his hand trying to absorb it.
• The Soul Emperor prepared to bid on the Soul Bone for his lord, but Toji raised his paddle and offered five million two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.

Toji won the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Right Palm Bone and Whale Rubber at auction, then evaded the Soul Masters hoping to rob him. As he tried to leave Heaven Dou City, a group searching for him stopped him at the gate, and Toji denied knowing himself.

• Toji outbid the Soul Emperor and won the Soul Bone for thirteen million Gold Soul Coins.
• Toji collected the Soul Bone and Whale Rubber, then used his Body Martial Soul's concealment skill to slip away from the auction-house crowd.
• Toji reached the city gate and realized that a group of powerful Soul Masters was asking passersby about him.
• Toji joined the crowd and denied knowing Toji when a young man questioned him.
• The young man stopped Toji from leaving and told him to wait.