Chapter Summaries

Qi Ling offered Dugu Bo three ways to treat the toxins poisoning his body, then persuaded him to choose a treatment that involved boiling him in a cauldron. Dugu Bo swallowed a poison bead to hold Qi Ling responsible for his safety and left, while Qi Ling and Tang San prepared to gather herbs.

• Qi Ling presented Dugu Bo with three treatment plans, including one that would cure him at the cost of his cultivation and a slower option that would preserve it.
• Qi Ling explained that his third plan would force Dugu Bo’s toxins into a Soul Bone and could cure his suffering while increasing his Soul Power.
• Dugu Bo chose the third plan after Qi Ling claimed it required less than two months and promised substantial benefits.
• Qi Ling brought out a large cauldron and told Dugu Bo that he would be boiled in a medicinal mixture for forty-nine days.
• Dugu Bo made Qi Ling swallow his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor poison bead as a safeguard, then left to return the next day.
• Qi Ling told Tang San to help gather the herbs needed to stew Dugu Bo.

Qi Ling and Tang San treated Dugu Bo in a medicinal solution for forty-nine days, while Qi Ling collected the matured Yin Yang Harmony Life and Death Lotus. Dugu Bo recovered and grew stronger, but he refused to let them leave until he had seen the treatment’s lasting effects and his granddaughter’s poison was cured.

• Qi Ling and Tang San prepared the medicine and sealed Dugu Bo in a boiler submerged in the Yang Spring for forty-nine days.
• Qi Ling collected the two seeds of the fully matured Yin Yang Harmony Life and Death Lotus while Tang San continued absorbing the Immortal Herbs’ medicinal power.
• Qi Ling and Tang San opened the boiler and woke Dugu Bo, who said his pain was gone and his Soul Power was nearing a breakthrough.
• Qi Ling asked Dugu Bo to let them return, but Dugu Bo insisted that Dugu Yan still needed treatment.
• Dugu Bo delayed bringing Dugu Yan, saying he would wait two or three months to judge the results of his own treatment.

Qi Ling and Tang San spent half a year cultivating and studying herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, growing close to Dugu Bo. As they prepared to leave, Qi Ling invited Dugu Bo to become an honorary adviser at Shrek Academy and explained his plan to cure Dugu Yan by strengthening her constitution with herbs.

• Tang San absorbed two Immortal Herbs and reached Soul Power rank thirty-seven, while Qi Ling reached rank thirty-eight with help from the well's spiritual energy and Dugu Bo's core bead.
• Dugu Bo said he would let Qi Ling and Tang San leave after they cured Dugu Yan's poison, and admitted he was reluctant to part with them.
• Qi Ling invited Dugu Bo to join Shrek Academy, and Dugu Bo agreed to become an honorary adviser without teaching or taking an active post.
• Tang San gave Dugu Bo a Mother-Child Soul-Chasing Life-Taking Orb, while Qi Ling promised an herbal treatment plan for Dugu Yan.
• Qi Ling explained that he would use herbs to improve Dugu Yan's constitution so her body could withstand her toxins.

Qi Ling offered Dugu Yan a risky treatment to transform her body by balancing her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison with three deadly immortal herbs, and she chose to trust him. After Dugu Bo left them alone, Qi Ling prepared to begin the treatment while Dugu Yan misunderstood what preparations he meant.

• Dugu Bo agreed to let Dugu Yan choose between a safe treatment and Qi Ling's fifty-percent-chance method, which could greatly increase her power.
• Dugu Yan reunited with Qi Ling and chose the risky treatment, saying she trusted him.
• Qi Ling explained that three deadly immortal herbs would combine with Dugu Yan's poison to create a Woeful Poison Body.
• Dugu Bo left with Tang San so Qi Ling could perform the treatment in private.
• Dugu Yan mistook Qi Ling's preparations for an invitation to undress and become intimate, and Qi Ling corrected her.

Qi Ling gave Dugu Yan the Queen’s Diadem and guided her through a dangerous treatment to strengthen her Jade Phosphorous Venomous Serpent Martial Soul. After she emerged from the icy spring, she remained warm but was not breathing, leaving her fate uncertain.

• Qi Ling contracted with Dugu Yan and received a Starry Sky Barrier Admission Ticket, a level 5 Soul Tool, and a special Soul Tool.
• Qi Ling gave Dugu Yan the Queen’s Diadem, taught her to connect with the Life-Bound Divine Artifact, and warned her that the treatment had only a fifty-percent chance of success.
• Dugu Yan chose to proceed, swallowed the powdered medicinal herbs mixed with her Snake Core and poison, and entered the icy spring.
• Dugu Bo returned with Tang San and threatened Qi Ling when he saw Dugu Yan frozen in the spring.
• Cracks spread through the ice, and Qi Ling pulled Dugu Yan out with the Immortal-Binding Rope; the ice shattered, but she was not breathing.

Dugu Yan awakened after her evolution with a woeful poison body, greatly increased Soul Power, and a transformed appearance. Qi Ling and Tang San returned to Shrek Academy with Dugu Bo, who agreed to serve as its senior adviser.

• Qi Ling revived Dugu Yan with his blood, and she awoke after successfully completing her evolution.
• Dugu Yan discovered her new appearance and found her Soul Power had reached rank thirty-nine, close to rank forty.
• Dugu Bo privately urged Dugu Yan to use a secret remedy on Qi Ling, while Qi Ling felt an ominous chill.
• Dugu Bo took the exhausted Dugu Yan back to Heaven Dou Academy, while Qi Ling and Tang San gathered herbs and headed to Shrek Academy with Dugu Bo.
• Flender, Grandmaster, Liu Erlong, and the other teachers prepared to face Dugu Bo until Qi Ling announced that he had come to serve as Shrek Academy's senior adviser.

Qi Ling and Tang San returned to Shrek Academy with Dugu Bo, who agreed to serve as an adviser. Qi Ling reunited with Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing while learning how much the academy’s students had progressed during his absence.

• Grandmaster reassured Flender that Dugu Bo would honor his promise, and Flender welcomed Dugu Bo as an adviser at Shrek Academy.
• Qi Ling asked after the others, and Grandmaster explained that Dai Mubai was nearing rank forty and the rest had trained hard while Qi Ling and Tang San were away.
• Qi Ling revealed that he had reached rank thirty-eight and Tang San rank thirty-seven, surprising Grandmaster with their progress.
• Grandmaster brought Qi Ling and Tang San to the training grounds, where Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing recognized Qi Ling and rushed to embrace him.

Tang San and Qi Ling returned to the academy with carefully selected immortal-grade medicinal herbs for their friends. Tang San began handing them out, while Ma Hongjun awaited the herb chosen to address his Evil Fire.

• Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing clung to Qi Ling and made him promise he would stay and let them hug him every day.
• Tang San told Grandmaster that he and Qi Ling had brought medicinal herbs from Dugu Bo's collection, and Grandmaster called Dai Mubai back from secluded cultivation.
• At Liu Erlong's former residence, Tang San gave Dai Mubai a singular velvet sky chrysanthemum to aid his cultivation and strengthen his body.
• Tang San gave Oscar an eight-petal immortal orchid, which could support his cultivation up to rank seventy.
• Tang San presented Ma Hongjun with a cockscomb phoenix sunflower to address the impurities in his Evil Fire.

Tang San and Qi Ling gave the Shrek companions immortal herbs chosen for their abilities and Martial Souls. Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu received Qi Ling’s gifts, and Xiao Wu warned him not to disappear again.

• Tang San gave Ma Hongjun a cockscomb phoenix sunflower to purify the Evil Fire in his body.
• Tang San told Ning Rongrong that Qi Ling had prepared gifts for her, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu.
• Qi Ling gave Ning Rongrong a Dragon Blood Aromatic Silk Beauty, which he had cultivated with his dragon blood, and explained how to absorb it.
• Qi Ling gave Zhu Zhuqing a Crimson Countenance Blood Begonia, which she happily accepted.
• Qi Ling gave Xiao Wu an All-Pervading Muscle and Bone Grass, and she joked that she would use her Eight-Stage Throw on him if he disappeared again.

Qi Ling gave Grandmaster a Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma after explaining that the three joined Lovesick Heartbreak Red flowers required three people who loved the same person to pick them. Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing successfully picked the flowers, revealing their shared feelings for Qi Ling, and chose to keep them rather than consume them. The group prepared to absorb their Immortal Herbs, and Tang San revealed the herb he had chosen for himself.

• Qi Ling explained the Lovesick Heartbreak Red legend and gave Grandmaster a Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma instead of the difficult-to-pick flower.
• Xiao Wu invited Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing to pick the three joined flowers with her, and all three succeeded by spitting blood onto them.
• Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing kept their flowers as treasured tokens rather than eating them.
• Qi Ling said the group would absorb their Immortal Herbs, and Tang San revealed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew he had selected to improve his Purple Demon Eye.

Qi Ling watched the Shrek group absorb their Immortal Herbs, noting their transformations while waiting to see whether Tang San would discover Xiao Wu’s identity. Xiao Wu, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Dai Mubai woke with major improvements, while the others continued absorbing their herbs.

• Qi Ling watched the eight herb-eaters transform, including Dai Mubai’s tiger-like changes, Ning Rongrong’s radiant pagoda, Zhu Zhuqing’s pink mist, and the impurities expelled by Ma Hongjun and Grandmaster.
• Xiao Wu woke first, tested her newfound flexibility, and told Qi Ling her Soul Power had risen four levels to level thirty-seven.
• Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Dai Mubai finished absorbing their herbs and woke from meditation.
• Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire was purified and his Soul Power rose to level thirty-six; Dai Mubai broke through level forty, and Oscar gained five levels to reach level thirty-eight.

Oscar, Ning Rongrong, Grandmaster, Zhu Zhuqing, and Tang San completed absorbing their medicinal herbs and gained new abilities or power. The chapter ended with Qi Ling affirming his bond with Tang San and Xiao Wu after Tang San realized Qi Ling knew their secret.

• Oscar reached rank thirty-eight, Ning Rongrong reached rank thirty-seven, and Grandmaster rose to rank thirty-five after absorbing their herbs.
• Ning Rongrong discovered that her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda had become a nine-story Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda with a dragon engraved on it.
• Zhu Zhuqing awakened with an alluring presence that vanished when she noticed the others staring at her.
• Tang San awakened with his Purple Demon Eye mastered, then recognized Xiao Wu's true identity before Qi Ling stopped him with a slap.
• Qi Ling told Tang San he had always known about him and Xiao Wu, and that he regarded them as his younger siblings regardless.
• Qi Ling gave Tang San a third slap, and Xiao Wu came over and asked whether he was bullying him.

After the others continued refining their immortal herbs, Dugu Bo brought Qi Ling to advise Dugu Yan on her fourth Soul Ring after she reached level forty. Qi Ling recommended three poisonous Soul Beasts, impressing them both, and Dugu Bo hinted at a plan involving Qi Ling that left him wary.

• Tang San dodged Oscar and Ma Hongjun’s excited embrace, while Zhu Zhuqing thanked Qi Ling for the flower and told him she would show her bewitching side only to him.
• The group spent several days cultivating in the cabin as Zhao Wuji and Lu Qibin guarded them, while Qi Ling meditated without an immortal herb to refine.
• Dugu Bo told Qi Ling that Dugu Yan had reached level forty and wanted his advice on her fourth Soul Ring, then took him to meet her.
• Dugu Yan greeted Qi Ling affectionately and insisted he advise her despite Dugu Bo’s protests.
• Qi Ling explained that Dugu Yan should seek a Soul Beast offering both control and deadly poison, and recommended the Paralysis Landmine Spider, Deadly Poison Sword Water Fish, and Willow Leaf Centipede.
• Dugu Bo praised Qi Ling’s Soul Beast knowledge and hinted that a matter involving Qi Ling might now be possible, making Qi Ling suspect a scheme.

Dugu Bo persuaded Qi Ling to teach at Heaven Dou Academy, and Flender confirmed that he had already agreed to the arrangement. Qi Ling accepted the situation reluctantly and gave Dugu Yan a Spirit Ascension Pill before she left to hunt for a Soul Ring.

• Dugu Bo explained that Heaven Dou Academy needed capable teachers and asked Qi Ling to help, revealing that Flender had already agreed to send him.
• Dugu Yan encouraged Qi Ling to join her school, but Qi Ling initially refused.
• Dugu Bo left with Dugu Yan to hunt for a Soul Ring, and Qi Ling gave her a Spirit Ascension Pill that could increase the age limit of absorbable Soul Rings.
• Qi Ling confronted Flender, who admitted he had accepted Dugu Bo's sponsorship and argued that Qi Ling could gather intelligence on the Imperial Fighting Team.
• Flender escaped through the window and told Qi Ling to report to Heaven Dou Academy next week as an honorary external teacher.

After choosing to teach at Heaven Dou Academy while continuing his studies at Shrek Academy, Qi Ling founded Dragon's Glory. He and Tang San agreed to begin building the organization as a student council at Shrek Academy and planned to ask Flender for permission.

• Qi Ling chose to teach at Heaven Dou Academy and received the qualification to establish an organization.
• Qi Ling named his faction Dragon's Glory, which began with three members and bonuses to members' cultivation speed and attributes.
• Qi Ling called Tang San to his room and asked him to join Dragon's Glory, and Tang San agreed.
• Qi Ling proposed creating a student council at Shrek Academy to recruit students into the faction.
• Qi Ling and Tang San decided to ask Flender for permission to establish the student council.

Qi Ling sought Flender’s approval to form a student council and learned he would need to win a school-wide election to become its president. On his first day in the advanced class, he drew the hostility of Tai Long, the academy’s top student, and baited him into a confrontation.

• Qi Ling and Xiao San asked Flender to establish a student council, and Flender set a school-wide election for its president one week later.
• Qi Ling, Xiao Wu, Tang San, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Zhu Zhuqing joined the advanced class while Ning Rongrong was away and Dai Mubai left with Flender and Liu Erlong to obtain his fourth Soul Ring.
• Qi Ling noticed the male students’ hostility after Xiao Wu pulled him into the seat beside her, while Tai Long and several young men approached them.
• Tai Long claimed no one was allowed to sit beside Xiao Wu and called himself the academy’s top student, prompting Qi Ling to mock him and invite the group to help him up.

Qi Ling challenged Tai Long to prove his strength, then let the Great Strength Gorilla Soul Master attack his Golden Sacred Dragon Armor. Tai Long's strongest punch failed to move Qi Ling, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Tai Long and his companions failed to lift Qi Ling, so Qi Ling challenged Tai Long to lift one of his feet.
• Tai Long and Qi Ling revealed their Martial Souls and Soul Master levels, with Qi Ling at level thirty-eight and Tai Long at level thirty-seven.
• Tai Long demanded a one-on-one fight, and Qi Ling agreed, activating his Golden Sacred Dragon Armor and daring Tai Long to make him move one step.
• Tai Long struck Qi Ling with Gravity Fist, but Qi Ling's feet did not shift at all.

Qi Ling defeated Tai Long in class and learned that Zhu Zhuqing had many suitors, including the talented Mo Lin. Zhu Zhuqing rejected Mo Lin and claimed Qi Ling was the person she liked, leaving Qi Ling caught off guard.

• Tai Long attacked Qi Ling, but Qi Ling stayed rooted in place and knocked him unconscious with a touch.
• Shao Xin began class, and Tai Long retreated without challenging Qi Ling again.
• Xiao Wu told Qi Ling that Zhu Zhuqing was the most popular girl among the students.
• Mo Lin asked Zhu Zhuqing to have a meal with him, but she rejected him and said she already liked someone.
• Zhu Zhuqing took Qi Ling's arm and told Mo Lin that Qi Ling was the person she liked.

Qi Ling accepted Mo Lin’s speed challenge and caught her almost immediately, then discovered that the student was a girl. Mo Lin ran off threatening to tell Liu Erlong, leaving Qi Ling worried about how his master’s wife would react.

• Mo Lin accused Qi Ling of threatening Zhu Zhuqing and challenged him to a contest of speed.
• Mo Lin used her Black Jade Brocade-Furred Rat Martial Soul and hid in a secret room, but Qi Ling quickly found and tagged her.
• Mo Lin lunged at Qi Ling in frustration, and he pinned her down after a struggle.
• Qi Ling realized Mo Lin was a girl and released her after telling her not to scream.
• Mo Lin fled, threatening to tell Teacher Liu Erlong, while Qi Ling worried about the consequences.

Qi Ling established the Three Talents Return to Origin Array at Shrek Academy, giving Dragon's Glory its first base and a way to boost and defend its members. After setting it up, he encountered the mysterious woman from the Star Dou Great Forest and invited her to eat.

• Qi Ling learned that Mo Lin was a girl and teased Zhu Zhuqing about having a female admirer.
• Qi Ling sent Xiao Wu to the city with Xiao San while he stayed behind to set up Dragon's Glory's base at Shrek Academy.
• Qi Ling installed the Three Talents Array at eighteen locations around the academy, activating its cultivation-speed benefit and enabling the Three Talents Return to Origin Array.
• Qi Ling finished the base and went to find Xiao San and Xiao Wu, but spotted the mysterious woman from the Star Dou Great Forest on the street.
• Qi Ling invited the mysterious woman to eat and took her to a humble roadside eatery.