Chapter Summaries

Chu Feng and Tang San returned from rescuing Xiao Wu, who stayed behind in a secret realm to cultivate, then led the group back into the Star Dou Great Forest to seek Soul Rings. As they traveled, Chu Feng discussed Dai Mubai’s past treatment of Zhu Zhuqing and learned Ning Rongrong’s father might come after her.

• Chu Feng told Oscar and the others that Xiao Wu was safe and was cultivating in a secret realm before returning.
• Chu Feng reassured Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing that they would return to the forest for Soul Rings, then ordered his base relocated to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• That afternoon, Chu Feng and the group entered the forest without the injured Zhao Wuji.
• Chu Feng told Ma Hongjun that Zhu Zhuqing had reason to resent Dai Mubai because he had fled and left her to face the Star Luo Imperial Family’s dangers alone.
• Ning Rongrong warned Chu Feng that her father might come after receiving her letter, and Chu Feng said he was welcome to come.

Chu Feng teased Ning Rongrong about her father wanting him as a son-in-law, then helped her find a suitable Soul Beast for a Soul Ring. The group restrained a Starlight Spirit Deer while Ning Rongrong read how to form a Contract Soul Ring.

• Ning Rongrong bragged that Chu Feng should call her Sister Rongrong, but Chu Feng joked that he feared Ning Fengzhi would want him as the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's son-in-law and ran off.
• Ning Rongrong chased Chu Feng until he stopped after spotting a Starlight Spirit Deer in the woods.
• Chu Feng identified the deer as a Soul Beast over five thousand years old and said it would suit Ning Rongrong, but she hesitated to kill it.
• Chu Feng gave Ning Rongrong the book Contract Soul Ring and told her to follow its instructions while the others handled the deer.
• Tang San used his third Soul Skill, Blue Silver Myriad Life Bind, to restrain the Starlight Spirit Deer, which struggled against the regenerating Blue Silver Grass.
• Ma Hongjun and the others arrived and asked when Tang San had obtained a third Soul Skill.

Ning Rongrong approached a captured Starlight Spirit Deer and persuaded it to become her contract Soul Beast. Chu Feng performed the Contract Method for them, while Zhu Zhuqing learned about contract Soul Rings and accepted Dai Mubai’s book.

• Ning Rongrong learned that contract Soul Beasts grew stronger with their partners and asked Chu Feng to help her catch the Starlight Spirit Deer, though he warned that it had to agree willingly.
• Dai Mubai explained contract Soul Rings to Zhu Zhuqing and gave her his copy of the book; she thanked him and became interested in obtaining one.
• Ning Rongrong offered the Starlight Spirit Deer food, beautiful sights, and a safe home, then added a warning from Chu Feng until it lowered its head in acceptance.
• Ning Rongrong asked Chu Feng to perform the Contract Method, and he made the Starlight Spirit Deer her contract Soul Beast.
• Oscar, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun compared their experiences with Tang San, who confirmed that his third Soul Ring was also a contract Soul Ring.

Ning Rongrong successfully formed a Contract Soul Ring with a Starlight Spirit Deer and gained an External Soul Bone, while Chu Feng prepared to find Zhu Zhuqing a Contract Soul Beast. Elsewhere, Xiao Wu arranged for Er Ming to capture Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts for Chu Feng’s soldiers, who were developing the area around the lake.

• Ning Rongrong completed the contract ritual, gained a Thousand-Year Soul Ring and an External Soul Bone, and showed her Starlight Spirit Deer to Zhu Zhuqing.
• Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun revealed their External Soul Bones, while Tang San kept his Eight Spider Lances hidden.
• Ning Rongrong promised to reward Chu Feng and swore to keep Contract Soul Rings secret along with the others.
• Chu Feng led the group into the forest to find a suitable Contract Soul Beast for Zhu Zhuqing, while Tang San wondered how Xiao Wu was doing.
• A soldier asked Xiao Wu for Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts as experimental subjects, and she agreed to have Er Ming catch some.
• Xiao Wu noticed Chu Feng’s soldiers were building up the lakeside area, and the Sky Azure Bull Python surfaced to survey the changes.

Chu Feng and the others rested in the forest while searching for a Soul Beast suitable for Zhu Zhuqing, then encountered a Shadow Night Lynx. Zhu Zhuqing fought it alone as Chu Feng and the others sealed off the area, and Chu Feng warned her that the beast was at least five thousand years old.

• Chu Feng teased Oscar about his disgusting soul incantation, and the group ate Oscar's sausages to restore their stamina.
• Tang San spotted a Shadow Night Lynx, and Chu Feng buffed Zhu Zhuqing before she pursued it.
• Zhu Zhuqing battled the fast, elusive Shadow Night Lynx, while Tang San used buried Blue Silver Grass to bind it after Chu Feng warned her of an attack.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked to fight the Shadow Night Lynx herself, and Chu Feng agreed while telling the others to seal off the area.
• Dai Mubai regretted how he had treated Zhu Zhuqing and vowed not to let her suffer again.
• Chu Feng warned Zhu Zhuqing that the Shadow Night Lynx was at least five thousand years old after it sent her crashing into a tree.

Zhu Zhuqing defeated the Shadow Night Lynx with Ning Rongrong’s support and formed a contract with it, gaining a Contract Soul Ring and a right leg Soul Bone. As the Shrek members prepared to return, Chu Feng kept his own method of obtaining Soul Rings secret.

• Ning Rongrong boosted Zhu Zhuqing’s Soul Power, allowing her to wound the Shadow Night Lynx and take control of their fight.
• Zhu Zhuqing struck the Shadow Night Lynx down with Netherworld Hundred Claws, then agreed to make it her Contract Soul Beast.
• Chu Feng helped Zhu Zhuqing form the contract, and she gained a Contract Soul Ring and a right leg Soul Bone.
• Zhu Zhuqing thanked her friends, while Ning Rongrong and Dai Mubai met her Shadow Night Lynx, Xiao Ying.
• The system rewarded Chu Feng with the Complete Martial Dao Manual, which he decided to give Tang San to practice.
• Chu Feng said his way of obtaining Soul Rings was different, and the group set off back together.

After returning to Shrek Academy, Chu Feng was confronted by Yu Xiaogang, who challenged him to a contest of Soul Master theory and was thrown out. Yu Xiaogang left determined to find a way back into the academy and undermine Chu Feng.

• A black-robed figure sensed a mysterious fluctuation that made the Angel Martial Soul tremble, but fled when the Titan Giant Ape roared nearby.
• Chu Feng brought the exhausted group back to Shrek Academy, where Yu Xiaogang stopped them and called Chu Feng a scourge who wasted talent.
• Yu Xiaogang challenged Chu Feng to a one-on-one contest, then clarified that he meant a contest of Soul Master theory.
• Chu Feng rejected Yu Xiaogang's challenge, called his ten great Soul Master theories garbage, and had the gatekeepers carry him away.
• The gatekeepers dumped Yu Xiaogang on a village road and warned him not to follow them.
• Yu Xiaogang resolved to get back into Shrek Academy and considered asking Bibi Dong and Spirit Hall for help.

Tang Hao identified himself to Yu Xiaogang and flew off with him, while Chu Feng began the Shrek Seven Devils’ next stage of training by assigning each student tailored Martial Dao secret techniques. He left them studying manuals designed to address their weaknesses and develop Self-Created Soul Skills.

• Tang Hao told Yu Xiaogang that he was Tang San’s father, then grabbed him and flew into the sky.
• Chu Feng summoned the students after their rest and announced individual special training based on their shortcomings.
• Chu Feng explained that he would teach tailored Martial Dao secret techniques that the students could use to develop Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Dai Mubai collected manuals for Xingyi Tiger Form Fist and Ground Boxing, which suited his fighting style and mobility needs.
• Tang San and the others praised Chu Feng’s manuals, and Chu Feng boasted that cultivating as a Soul Master was easy for a genius like him.

Chu Feng met Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Bone Douluo Gu Rong when they visited Shrek Academy after Ning Rongrong wrote to them. He rejected Ning Fengzhi’s offer to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and defended Rongrong’s demanding training, leaving the three elders to consider his argument.

• Chu Feng gave Zhao Wuji a secret manual and promised to help improve his Soul Power so he could eventually obtain a Contract Soul Ring.
• Chu Feng went to Flender’s office and found Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong waiting there.
• Ning Fengzhi praised Chu Feng and invited him to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but Chu Feng said he preferred to stay at Shrek Academy.
• Gu Rong and Chen Xin objected to Rongrong’s hardship and strenuous training, and Chu Feng argued that she needed to learn to withstand danger.
• Chu Feng told the elders that protecting Rongrong meant teaching her to stand firm rather than sheltering her forever.

Ning Fengzhi and the elders left without visiting Ning Rongrong so her training would not be disrupted. Chu Feng began teaching Ning Rongrong to move while splitting her attention and supporting her teammates, and she continued practicing despite his simulated interruptions.

• Ning Fengzhi defended Chu Feng’s actions and praised the group for escaping the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and Chen Xin decided not to visit Ning Rongrong, then left with Flender to return to the sect.
• Chu Feng told Ning Rongrong to practice moving while using her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and distributing enhancements.
• Ning Rongrong struggled to move around the wooden stakes while buffing Chu Feng, and her Soul Power scattered.
• Chu Feng advised Ning Rongrong to establish rules for her attention and use the secret manual’s breathing technique to calm herself.
• Ning Rongrong resumed practicing the Eight Trigrams Steps, but Chu Feng disrupted her with a Soul Skill to simulate an enemy attack, and she angrily tried again.

Ning Fengzhi tried to support Shrek Academy with donations, but Flender refused because the academy already had everything it needed and would not accept outside investment. After Chu Feng trained the students, he took Tang San into a guarded building's basement, where masked people waited.

• Ning Fengzhi offered to donate buildings and mimicry cultivation grounds, but Flender said Shrek Academy already had them and rejected all outside investment.
• Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and Chen Xin watched Ning Rongrong and the other students train before leaving Shrek Academy disappointed.
• Chu Feng instructed Tang San and the others to adapt their fighting styles and corrected their mistakes until nightfall.
• Chu Feng took Tang San into a restricted academy building and led him down to a basement occupied by white-clothed, masked people.

Chu Feng brought Tang San to the Soul Guidance Research and Development Lab and showed him weapons that surpassed his hidden weapons. He invited Tang San to join his research team, and Tang San accepted.

• Chu Feng led Tang San through the lab, where Tang San saw its research equipment and wondered whether they were developing hidden weapons.
• Tang San showed Chu Feng his Sleeve Arrow, and Chu Feng explained that their Soul Guidance Sleeve Arrow used ordinary materials and could threaten a Soul Elder.
• Chu Feng showed Tang San a heavy standard-issue soul guidance weapon and said its Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell could kill a Titled Douluo with one shot.
• Tang San grew alarmed at the secret weapons and asked Chu Feng what he wanted from him.
• Chu Feng invited Tang San to join his team and research Soul Guidance Technology, and Tang San accepted and bowed to mark his decision.

Tang San joined Chu Feng’s team and learned about Battle Armor, a Soul Guidance Technology that could greatly enhance a Soul Master’s power. Chu Feng gave him a communicator and promised the Battle Armor named Balance as a welcome gift once Tang San became a Soul King.

• Tang San agreed to join Chu Feng’s team, and Chu Feng promised him a welcome gift when he reached Soul King rank.
• Chu Feng showed Tang San the One-Word Battle Armor Balance, explaining that it was made for Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls and could help a Five-Ring Soul King defeat a Seven-Ring Soul Sage.
• Chu Feng explained that Battle Armor worked best when its wearer participated in its design and forging, and Tang San looked forward to using it once he became a Soul King.
• The system told Chu Feng that his borrowed power let him use Battle Armor too, easing his frustration that he had none.
• Chu Feng gave Tang San a Soul Guidance Communicator and showed him how to use its interface to contact him.

Tang San received Xiao Wu’s contact information and spoke with her through a Soul Guidance Communicator. Chu Feng then discovered that the institute’s deputy director had halted research on the Soul Guidance Pistol and summoned Wang Er to explain.

• Tang San learned that he would earn 3,000 Gold Soul Coins a month as a grade-ten researcher, but a Soul Guidance Communicator cost 100,000 Gold Soul Coins.
• Chu Feng told Tang San that Xiao Wu already had a Soul Guidance Communicator and sent her contact channel to him.
• Tang San contacted Xiao Wu and anxiously asked whether she was safe while Chu Feng left them to talk.
• Chu Feng reviewed the research institute’s progress and found that development of the Soul Guidance Pistol had been stopped.
• A researcher said Wang Er had ordered the halt because the world was not ready for such a weapon, and Chu Feng demanded that Wang Er be brought to him.

Chu Feng confronted Wang Er for halting the Soul Guidance Pistol project, then learned that Spirit Hall was investigating their organization because of its gunpowder purchases. He ordered the researchers to make their own gunpowder for now and promised to address the organization’s staffing shortage, leaving Wang Er with a new assistant to train.

• Chu Feng demanded that Wang Er explain why he had halted development of the Soul Guidance Pistol, and Wang Er warned that its simple design could be copied and provoke a continent-wide conflict.
• Wang Er told Chu Feng that Spirit Hall had begun investigating them after tracing their large gunpowder purchases.
• Chu Feng ordered Wang Er to stop buying ready-made gunpowder, manufacture it from raw materials, and focus research on developing more powerful gunpowder.
• Wang Er offered to give up his deputy director position so he could focus on research, but Chu Feng told him to keep it until he found a successor.
• Wang Er asked Chu Feng to recruit more people, and Chu Feng said he had brought an assistant for Wang Er to train in Soul Guidance Technology.

Chu Feng brought Tang San into the Soul Guidance Research Institute and planned for Wang Er to teach him Soul Guidance Technology. The next morning, Xiao Wu returned to training, and Chu Feng put everyone back to work.

• Chu Feng told Wang Er that Tang San would study Soul Guidance Technology under him, and warned Wang Er to consult him before making future decisions.
• Chu Feng interrupted Tang San’s affectionate call with Xiao Wu, then led him out of the secret base and explained which Shrek members knew about the organization.
• Tang San resolved to prove himself as the first member of the Soul Guidance Research Institute and hurried back to continue talking with Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu reunited with Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Tang San, and the others at the training grounds the next morning.
• Xiao Wu insisted on training, and Chu Feng assigned everyone manuals and cultivation instructions while telling Tang San to stop distracting her.

Ning Rongrong finished Chu Feng’s first training plan ahead of the others and mocked them for falling behind. Chu Feng proposed a Shrek Academy match, and the students grew eager to compete when he offered the first set of Battle Armor made by Tang San as the prize.

• Ning Rongrong completed her training, and Chu Feng praised her before granting her a day to rest.
• Chu Feng found that Dai Mubai, Oscar, and the others had not finished their harder training plans, and Ning Rongrong teased them about their techniques.
• Dai Mubai confronted Ning Rongrong, but she hid behind Zhu Zhuqing, who scolded him for frightening her.
• Chu Feng proposed a two-on-two match between Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing against Oscar and Dai Mubai.
• Chu Feng announced that the winning team would receive the first set of Battle Armor Tang San made, catching everyone’s attention.

Chu Feng offered the winners of a two-on-two battle the chance to develop Number Zero Battle Armor with Tang San. Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing fought Oscar and Dai Mubai in the arena, while Ma Hongjun arranged to battle Tang San afterward.

• Tang San began developing a version of Battle Armor that low-level Soul Masters could wear, and Chu Feng promised the winning pair a chance to make Number Zero Battle Armor with him.
• Oscar and Dai Mubai accepted Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing's challenge, and Chu Feng led everyone to the reinforced training arena.
• Ning Rongrong boosted Zhu Zhuqing, who summoned Xiao Ying and launched an immediate attack on Oscar and Dai Mubai.
• Oscar used his Flying Speed Mushroom to take himself and Dai Mubai into the air, then summoned his Cloud-Winged Phantom-Feathered Sparrow to watch for Zhu Zhuqing's hidden companion.
• Dai Mubai met Zhu Zhuqing's Netherworld Sky-Rending Slash with White Tiger Fierce Light Wave, and their Soul Skills collided in a powerful blast.
• Ma Hongjun asked to fight Tang San next, and Tang San agreed to test his recent training against him.

Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing fought fiercely on the training ground, with their Contract Soul Beasts clashing as Ning Rongrong supported Zhu Zhuqing. Zhu Zhuqing endured Dai Mubai’s White Tiger Meteor Shower and launched an all-out attack, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Dai Mubai summoned the Thunderclap White Tiger, while Zhu Zhuqing and the Shadow Night Lynx vanished into shadow to evade its attack.
• Ning Rongrong summoned the Starlight Spirit Deer and used its shield to block the Thunderclap White Tiger, then teased it into targeting her.
• The Shadow Night Lynx and Zhu Zhuqing ambushed the Thunderclap White Tiger, but Oscar warned it in time; the beasts then clashed with lightning and shadow attacks.
• Zhu Zhuqing attacked Dai Mubai with Hell Stab and Netherworld Hundred Claws, but his White Tiger Vajra Transformation withstood her strikes.
• Dai Mubai unleashed White Tiger Meteor Shower and injured Zhu Zhuqing, who called for Ning Rongrong’s full amplification and pressed her attack despite the falling meteors.
• The Shadow Night Lynx also abandoned defense and charged the Thunderclap White Tiger as Zhu Zhuqing unleashed her strongest attacks against Dai Mubai.

Zhu Zhuqing pushed Dai Mubai to concede, and Chu Feng healed her and Ning Rongrong after the spar. As Zhu Zhuqing’s hostility toward Dai Mubai eased slightly, the group prepared for another match until Flender arrived with news that Yu Xiaogang was causing trouble in Suotuo City.

• Zhu Zhuqing launched a desperate attack, and Dai Mubai withdrew his Soul Power and conceded rather than risk seriously injuring her.
• Chu Feng used Holy Light to treat Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong, while Dai Mubai supported Zhuqing and noticed her softened attitude toward him.
• Ning Rongrong praised Zhuqing’s performance, and Chu Feng let their Contract Soul Beasts play on the battlefield.
• Oscar asked about getting Number Zero Battle Armor, and Ma Hongjun challenged Tang San for a chance to earn a share.
• Flender arrived and told Chu Feng that Yu Xiaogang was stirring up trouble in Suotuo City.