Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaogang smeared Shrek Academy while offering free soul-theory consultations in Suotuo City, and Flender brought Chu Feng and the others to confront him. They discovered Yu Xiaogang was telling the crowd that Shrek was incompetent and had beaten him, while Chu Feng held his companions back to hear what else he would say.

• Flender told Chu Feng and the Shrek students that Yu Xiaogang had been insulting the academy and its teachers in Suotuo City.
• Chu Feng decided to go to Suotuo City with the others, and Flender led them to the crowded central square.
• The group saw Yu Xiaogang giving free soul-theory consultations beneath a banner proclaiming him the continent's foremost grandmaster of soul master theory.
• Flender used a soul-tool loudspeaker so they could hear Yu Xiaogang tell a woman that Shrek Academy knew only fighting and had a twelve-year-old child teaching.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed Shrek Academy had beaten him and showed bruises on his arm, while Ning Rongrong denied it and Chu Feng stopped her from confronting him.

Yu Xiaogang publicly smeared Shrek Academy, turning a crowd against Flender and the students when they confronted him. Chu Feng stopped the group from arguing, leaving them facing hostile suspicion while Yu Xiaogang believed his scheme was succeeding.

• Yu Xiaogang told a middle-aged woman that Shrek Academy bullied people and urged her to spread his claims, pleased that his smear campaign was working.
• Flender confronted Yu Xiaogang, and their argument exposed their past rivalry over Liu Erlong to the Shrek students.
• Ning Rongrong and Oscar speculated about Flender's history with Liu Erlong until Chu Feng redirected the group to confront Yu Xiaogang's slander.
• Yu Xiaogang called the Shrek group dangerous in front of the crowd, and bystanders began treating them with suspicion and contempt.
• Ma Hongjun moved to defend the academy, but Chu Feng restrained him, recognizing that arguing would play into Yu Xiaogang's public-opinion strategy.

Chu Feng confronted Yu Xiaogang’s accusations against Shrek Academy and demanded evidence, turning the crowd against him when he could provide none. Yu Xiaogang challenged Chu Feng to a contest on Martial Soul ring configurations, and they agreed to compete at Suotuo Lecture Hall, with Chu Feng paying for the venue.

• Yu Xiaogang urged the crowd to report Shrek Academy and have Spirit Hall investigate, but Chu Feng demanded proof of his claims.
• Chu Feng called Yu Xiaogang a slanderer and an evil Soul Master, and the crowd began accusing Yu Xiaogang when he failed to produce evidence.
• Yu Xiaogang tried to recover by challenging Chu Feng to compete in Soul Master theory, claiming a loss would prove his accusations false.
• Chu Feng accepted and said Yu Xiaogang would go to prison if he lost.
• Yu Xiaogang chose Martial Soul ring configurations as the contest topic and named Suotuo Lecture Hall as the venue.
• Chu Feng agreed to pay the lecture hall fee and mocked Yu Xiaogang for being broke.

Chu Feng brought Yu Xiaogang and a crowd to the Suotuo Soul Master Lecture Hall to publicly challenge his Soul Master Theory. After Yu Xiaogang defended his maxim about weak martial souls, Chu Feng asked how to assign soul rings to a martial soul made of two jin of chicken shit.

• Chu Feng offered to pay the crowd's admission and booked the lecture hall for a day, impressing manager Sun Yu with his spending.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived with the crowd and agreed to let Chu Feng ask the first question.
• Yu Xiaogang declared that there were no trash martial souls, only trash Soul Masters, and cited his own determination despite his martial soul's flaw.
• Chu Feng agreed with Yu Xiaogang, then asked how to configure soul rings for a martial soul of two jin of chicken shit.

Chu Feng challenged Yu Xiaogang to configure soul rings for a two-pounds-of-chicken-shit martial soul, then began laying out an answer. He left Yu Xiaogang and the audience stunned by proposing a Slime soul ring that could make the chicken shit split endlessly.

• Chu Feng repeated his question about choosing soul rings for a two-pounds-of-chicken-shit martial soul, and Yu Xiaogang insisted that no such martial soul existed.
• Chu Feng challenged Yu Xiaogang's claim that there were no trash martial souls and demanded to know how a Soul Master with that martial soul could avoid becoming trash.
• Tang San admitted he could not think of a soul ring configuration, while Yu Xiaogang realized that failing to answer could cost him the comparison and his reputation.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed there could be no soul ring configuration for the martial soul, and Chu Feng offered to provide one; Yu Xiaogang agreed that doing so would mean Chu Feng won.
• Chu Feng described the martial soul's sticky, foul-smelling, adhesive properties and proposed a three-hundred-year-old Slime as its first soul ring, granting endless splitting and independent control of each clump.

Chu Feng proposed a bizarre Soul Ring configuration for a chicken shit Martial Soul, forcing Yu Xiaogang to admit he had lost their round. Yu Xiaogang then asked how someone with his defective Martial Soul could break through level thirty, and Chu Feng claimed he knew the solution.

• Chu Feng described Soul Rings that could turn a chicken shit Martial Soul into a powerful Control System Martial Soul, leaving Yu Xiaogang and the audience stunned.
• Yu Xiaogang first rejected Chu Feng's theory, but the audience agreed with Chu Feng, and Yu Xiaogang admitted defeat.
• Yu Xiaogang hesitated over his next question before asking how someone with his own Martial Soul could break through level thirty.
• Chu Feng said he knew how to solve the problem, and Yu Xiaogang reacted in disbelief.

Chu Feng explained that Yu Xiaogang’s mutated Martial Soul and his own Soul Ring choices had kept him from breaking through level 30, then outlined a risky way to reach Soul Elder. The hall sided with Chu Feng after Yu Xiaogang could not refute his theory, and Chu Feng demanded to know whether Yu Xiaogang would go to prison willingly.

• Chu Feng told Yu Xiaogang that his Martial Soul had mutated and severed its bloodline pathway, and that a Ten-Year Lightning-Patterned Shrew could have helped reconnect it.
• Chu Feng described using Soul Rings from lightning-attribute beasts to build a temporary bloodline bridge that could let Yu Xiaogang break through level 29; Yu Xiaogang acknowledged the risks but could not deny the plan might work.
• Tang San praised Chu Feng’s approach, while Xiao Wu questioned why a weak Soul Beast would make a good Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang fell silent after admitting Chu Feng had answered his challenge, and Chu Feng told the hall that Yu Xiaogang had slandered Shrek Academy.
• The people in the hall applauded Chu Feng and praised him, and he asked Yu Xiaogang whether he would go to prison himself or be sent there.

After defeating Yu Xiaogang, Chu Feng had him taken to prison and led the Shrek group to Suotuo City's Great Arena. He prepared them for real Soul Master combat and the Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, where Oscar declared they would win the championship.

• Chu Feng ordered Sun Yu to have Yu Xiaogang carried to Suotuo City's administrative office and imprisoned.
• Tang San asked Chu Feng to teach him Soul Master Theory, and Chu Feng directed him to the organization's library.
• Chu Feng took the Shrek group sightseeing through Suotuo City and then led them to the Great Arena for registration and Soul Power testing.
• After the group received Iron Soul Badges, Chu Feng told them they would train through arena battles to develop their combat instincts and coordination for the upcoming tournament.
• Oscar confidently predicted that the Shrek group would win the championship.

Chu Feng warned the Shrek group not to underestimate their opponents and sent them to earn Gold Soul Fighting Badges in Suotuo City. He arranged their pairings, required them to fight under masks and aliases, and housed them in his organization’s luxury hotel while he prepared to handle other business.

• Chu Feng reminded the Shrek group that Soul Kings under twenty-five could enter the tournament and ordered them to stay cautious.
• Chu Feng required the group to earn Gold Soul Fighting Badges in team and individual matches, with Ning Rongrong and Oscar competing in two-on-two matches.
• Xiao Wu paired with Tang San, Ning Rongrong with Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar with Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun decided to team up with Oscar.
• Chu Feng told everyone to wear masks and use aliases at the Soul Fighting Arena to conceal their identities.
• Chu Feng brought the group to his luxury hotel in Suotuo City, explained that it served as an organizational contact point, and told them to focus on getting stronger.
• Ning Rongrong stopped Chu Feng to talk, and he raised a hand and told her she was still young.

Ning Rongrong proposed that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect cooperate with Chu Feng's organization to protect the sect, and Chu Feng reassured her that it would be safe if it did not oppose them. At the Great Soul Arena, the Shrek teams won their matches quickly, while Chu Feng prepared to attend to other matters and was gone by morning.

• Ning Rongrong told Chu Feng she wanted the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to cooperate with his organization so the sect could survive.
• Chu Feng said Ning Rongrong's father would need to negotiate, and promised the organization would not harm the sect if it did not stand in their way.
• Chu Feng brought the Shrek group to the Great Soul Arena, where spectators recognized their growing fame from the previous day's lecture.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu, Dai Mubai and Oscar, and Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong each defeated their opponents swiftly.
• Chu Feng told Flender to watch over the Shrek Seven Devils, then disappeared from his room before Tang San and the others arrived the next morning.

Chu Feng went to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to claim its resources and complete a system mission, but Dugu Yan attacked him before he could enter. After Chu Feng subdued her and explained that he wanted to partner with Dugu Bo, Dugu Bo appeared and demanded to know what Chu Feng could offer.

• Chu Feng reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where the system assigned him a mission to touch its core within a year.
• Dugu Yan accused Chu Feng of spying on her grandfather’s territory and attacked him with poisonous mist.
• Chu Feng used spirit vines and Life Absorption to bind Dugu Yan and drain her strength.
• Chu Feng told Dugu Yan he had come to discuss a partnership with Dugu Bo and had something the Titled Douluo needed.
• Dugu Bo appeared behind Chu Feng, tried to corrode the vines binding Dugu Yan, and demanded to know what Chu Feng could offer.

Chu Feng confronted Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, claiming he could cure their illnesses and proposing a deal. After disabling their soul power and forcing Dugu Bo to face his worsening condition, Chu Feng offered him a toxin-suppressing solution, which Dugu Bo drank despite Dugu Yan’s suspicion.

• Dugu Bo arrived after Dugu Yan was freed and questioned Chu Feng about why he had come to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Chu Feng said he could cure Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo, warning that Dugu Bo was nearing death from his illness.
• Chu Feng activated a Soul Power Sealing Device that drained the pair’s soul power and left them unable to move.
• Chu Feng threatened them with a High-Level Soul Guidance Bomb, then explained that he wanted to cooperate rather than harm them.
• Chu Feng offered Dugu Bo a toxin-suppressing solution, and Dugu Bo drank it despite Dugu Yan warning him not to.

Chu Feng suppressed Dugu Bo’s poison and secured his agreement to join the organization in exchange for a cure. He headed into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well alone to gather herbs, leaving Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan waiting.

• Dugu Bo felt the suppressant take effect, and Chu Feng explained that it would last only a month before the toxins flared up again.
• Dugu Bo tried to bargain, but Chu Feng threatened to leave; Dugu Bo then agreed to join Chu Feng’s organization after hearing it was legitimate.
• Dugu Yan worried about Dugu Bo leaving Heaven Dou Royal Academy, but Dugu Bo dismissed the academy’s likely objections and accepted Chu Feng as the organization’s leader.
• Chu Feng said he needed herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to cure Dugu Bo, and Dugu Bo let him use them.
• Dugu Yan asked to accompany Chu Feng, but Dugu Bo told her to let him go alone; Chu Feng leaped toward the well while Dugu Bo said he might be able to cure their poison.

Chu Feng entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, found its hidden core space, and absorbed its power until he broke through to level 41. He left planning to strengthen Tang San and the others with immortal herbs and harder training.

• Chu Feng asked the system where the core was and learned it lay in a space beneath the pool, accessible by breaking through a barrier with Soul Power.
• Chu Feng plunged into the pool, used his companions' badges to withstand the opposing forces of ice and fire, and reached the bottom.
• Chu Feng channeled Soul Power into the rock wall, and the system opened a passage into the core space.
• Chu Feng absorbed the red-and-blue glow in the core space and broke through to level 41, gaining the Contract Soul Beast-Spirit Wood Monkey as his fourth Soul Ring.
• Chu Feng considered taking the immortal herbs back to strengthen Tang San and the others, and thought about sending them to Slaughter City to train.
• In Suotuo City, the Shrek Seven Devils sneezed during a Soul Fighting match, while Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun charged toward their opponents and Ning Rongrong was teased about missing Chu Feng.

Chu Feng learned that his next advancement mission would take him to Qiankun Asking Love Valley on the distant Sun Moon Continent, then prepared treatment for Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan. The treatment cured both of them, though its effects sent them running to relieve themselves.

• Chu Feng learned that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could support his cultivation for only three hours and that his next mission was to gain access to Qiankun Asking Love Valley on the Sun Moon Continent.
• Chu Feng gathered Immortal Herbs and prepared a treatment solution for Dugu Bo’s poison.
• Dugu Bo distrusted the foul-smelling solution but drank it, then ran off to relieve himself as it took effect.
• Chu Feng stopped Dugu Yan from chasing after her grandfather and explained that the treatment had cured him.
• Dugu Yan drank her own dose, felt its effects, and hurried back to their residence.

After curing Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, Chu Feng accepted the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as a gift and recruited Dugu Bo into his organization. Dugu Yan refused to join, and Chu Feng prepared to collect immortal herbs before leaving Sunset Forest.

• Dugu Bo offered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to Chu Feng and received a second-class combatant position in the organization’s Battle Hall.
• Dugu Yan returned feeling fully healed and apologized to Chu Feng for attacking him.
• Dugu Bo urged Dugu Yan to join the organization, but she refused because she was a student at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and wanted to stay with Yu Tianheng.
• Chu Feng stopped Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan’s argument and asked whether Dugu Bo was ready to leave; Dugu Bo agreed to go with him.
• Chu Feng headed toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to collect immortal herbs for the Shrek Seven Devils before leaving Sunset Forest.

Chu Feng returned to Suotuo City with Dugu Bo, who had joined his organization, and brought him to Shrek Academy’s box at the Great Soul Arena. As Tang San’s team prepared to face the Imperial Fighting Team, Dugu Bo realized his granddaughter Dugu Yan was among their opponents.

• Chu Feng told Dugu Bo that his organization aimed to change the world and gathered useful information during their journey to Suotuo City.
• Chu Feng took Dugu Bo to the Great Soul Arena, where Flender learned that the Poison Douluo had joined the organization.
• Flender explained that Tang San’s team had won all its matches for over a month and was about to face the Imperial Fighting Team.
• Dugu Bo recognized the Imperial Fighting Team as his granddaughter Dugu Yan’s team and hurried to watch the match.
• Chu Feng watched Tang San and the others and promised to reward them if they defeated the Imperial Fighting Team.

The Shrek Seven Devils began their match against the Imperial Fighting Team after Tang San sensed Chu Feng watching from the stands. Tang San and Ma Hongjun countered their opponents’ tactics, leaving Dugu Yan’s poison neutralized and Xiao Wu attacking her.

• Tang San sensed Chu Feng’s return, and the Shrek Seven Devils resolved to win the match while Chu Feng watched from the private box.
• Dugu Yan refused to explain her sudden increase in strength or Dugu Bo’s departure when Yu Tianheng questioned her.
• The match began, and Tang San restrained Yu Tianheng with Blue Silver Grass before using his Spider Spears to clash with Yu Tianheng’s Thunder Dragon Claw.
• Dai Mubai went after the twin tortoise brothers while Ma Hongjun blocked Dugu Yan and used realgar wine with his Phoenix Fire Line to dissolve her poisonous mist.
• Dugu Yan ducked Yu Tianheng’s warning and avoided Xiao Wu’s powerful kick as Ma Hongjun complained that Xiao Wu had stolen his opponent.

The Shrek team gained the upper hand against the Imperial Fighting Team as Tang San restrained Yu Tianheng and Dai Mubai prepared his ultimate attack. The chapter ended with Dai Mubai unleashing White Tiger Meteor Shower and a blazing orb of light bearing down on Yu Tianheng.

• Dugu Yan called Yu Feng and Osler to help her, but Zhu Zhuqing kept Osler occupied and knocked him away with Hell White Claw.
• Dai Mubai struck the Shi Mo brothers with White Tiger Fierce Light Wave, leaving them nearly eliminated and exposing Ye Lingling.
• Yu Tianheng activated Thunderous Fury, but Tang San trapped him with Blue Silver Entanglement and Blue Silver Myriad Life Bind.
• Dai Mubai threw the Shi Mo brothers off the platform and confronted Ye Lingling, then blocked a poison arrow from Dugu Yan.
• Tang San and the Shrek members withdrew while Oscar gave them Flying Mushrooms and Ning Rongrong amplified Dai Mubai.
• Dai Mubai blocked Yu Tianheng’s attack and unleashed White Tiger Meteor Shower, sending a blazing orb toward him.

Dai Mubai and the Shrek group overwhelmed the Imperial Fighting Team, forcing Yu Tianheng to concede. Back in the private room, Dugu Bo considered bringing Dugu Yan to Shrek Academy, while Chu Feng reunited with his companions and praised their victory.

• Dai Mubai unleashed a barrage of White Tiger Meteors that battered the Imperial Fighting Team until Yu Tianheng conceded.
• Qin Ming arrived, told Yu Tianheng and his teammates to review the defeat, and led them away.
• Dugu Bo asked whether Dugu Yan could join Shrek Academy, but Flender said the academy would not accept students until next year.
• The Shrek Seven Devils rushed to greet Chu Feng, who praised their performance against Heaven Dou Royal Academy's team.
• Flender introduced Dugu Bo as the future teacher at Shrek Academy and explained that Dugu Yan was his granddaughter.