Chapter Summaries

Dai Mubai appreciated Shao Xin’s kindness, inspected his information, and discovered the teacher’s favorability had risen to 65%. After returning from the Star Dou Great Forest, Dai Mubai told Oscar and Ma Hongjun that he had reached Soul Power Level 35, leaving them astonished.

• Dai Mubai thanked Shao Xin for the meal and reflected on how much he respected the Shrek teachers compared with Yu Xiaogang.
• Dai Mubai scanned Shao Xin’s personal information and learned that the Level 71 Food System Soul Saint had a 65% favorability rating toward him.
• Dai Mubai decided to raise the five Shrek teachers’ favorability so they might accompany him to the Star Luo Empire when he left Heaven Dou.
• Oscar and Ma Hongjun asked Dai Mubai about his trip to the Star Dou Great Forest, his Soul Rings, and his cultivation.
• Dai Mubai revealed that he had reached Soul Power Level 35, shocking Oscar and Ma Hongjun.

Dai Mubai explained why his first three Soul Rings were purple-purple-black and offered Ma Hongjun ways to address his Evil Fire. He then told Oscar that his cultivation could be improved, but had yet to explain the specific methods.

• Dai Mubai explained that his Soul Power had risen after he absorbed three Soul Rings, and that his purple-purple-black configuration reflected his level when he reacquired his Soul Rings.
• Ma Hongjun and Oscar reacted with disbelief to Dai Mubai's Soul Ring ages, and Dai Mubai urged them not to envy him because they had excellent potential too.
• Ma Hongjun complained that cultivating worsened his Evil Fire, while Oscar said food-type Soul Masters cultivated slowly.
• Dai Mubai suggested purifying Ma Hongjun's Evil Fire with rare herbs or completing his Martial Soul's mutation by absorbing a Soul Ring from a phoenix-bloodline Soul Beast.
• Dai Mubai told Oscar that his Innate Full Soul Power meant his cultivation was not especially slow and began listing ways to improve it, including mimicry environments, medicinal baths, and heavenly treasures.

Dai Mubai encouraged Oscar to make use of his Food-Type Soul Master abilities and pursue combat skills, while promising to help Ma Hongjun with his Evil Fire and cultivation. Oscar and Ma Hongjun pledged to follow Dai Mubai, and Oscar's favorability toward him reached 80%.

• Dai Mubai told Oscar that Food-Type Soul Masters were in high demand and urged him to sell his sausages to earn money.
• Dai Mubai suggested Oscar could develop offensive Self-Created Soul Skills and seek a Mirror Shadow Beast or Silver Ying Beast Soul Ring for combat abilities.
• Dai Mubai encouraged Oscar and Ma Hongjun to train, promising to help Ma Hongjun with his Evil Fire and cultivation problems.
• Ma Hongjun and Oscar pledged to follow Dai Mubai, who welcomed them and told them to work with Flender to obtain medicinal herbs.
• Oscar's favorability toward Dai Mubai increased by five points, reaching 80%.

After Dai Mubai advised Ma Hongjun and Oscar on cultivation, their favorability rose, and Oscar’s reached the threshold for a Favorability Treasure Chest. Dai Mubai opened the chest and discovered a concept-level consumable called Intestine Enhancement, whose purpose left him baffled.

• Dai Mubai gave Ma Hongjun and Oscar cultivation advice, and both became more grateful to him.
• Ma Hongjun’s favorability toward Dai Mubai rose to 78%, while Oscar’s rose to 80%.
• Dai Mubai received a basic Favorability Treasure Chest associated with Oscar and returned to his room to open it.
• The chest revealed a pill, a token, and a sausage-shaped item that Dai Mubai identified as Intestine Enhancement.
• Dai Mubai read that Intestine Enhancement could permanently improve the performance of intestinal organs and wondered what practical use it had.

Dai Mubai examined the treasures from Oscar’s Favorability Treasure Chest and discovered an unrestricted Innate Full Soul Pill and a token that could permanently modify a Food-Type Soul Master’s incantation. He decided not to use the token on Oscar yet, hoping to save the favor for later and keep the token’s existence secret.

• Dai Mubai examined the Innate Full Soul Pill and realized anyone could use it to gain Innate Full Soul Power talent.
• Dai Mubai learned that the Food Soul Incantation Modification Token could permanently change a Food-Type Soul Master’s incantation without any limit on uses.
• Dai Mubai reasoned that Oscar’s obscene incantations had caused the token to appear in Oscar’s Favorability Treasure Chest.
• Dai Mubai considered using the token against a hostile Food-Type Soul Master but recognized its potential value for helping Oscar.
• Dai Mubai decided not to change Oscar’s incantations yet so he could build Oscar’s favorability further and conceal the token’s existence.

Dai Mubai assessed the treasures from Oscar's Favorability Treasure Chest, used the Intestine Enhancement, and cultivated instead of sleeping. He remained focused on reaching Soul King while deciding whether to save the Innate Full Soul Pill for Zhu Zhuqing or use it on himself.

• Dai Mubai decided to hold the Food Soul Incantation Modification Token until Oscar trusted him more, and considered saving the Innate Full Soul Pill for Zhu Zhuqing or himself rather than Oscar or Ma Hongjun.
• Dai Mubai used the Intestine Enhancement, which sent its energy into his body.
• Dai Mubai bathed, went to bed, and meditated with the White Tiger Meditation Method instead of sleeping, driven by the Star Luo Imperial succession contest and his goal of reaching level fifty.
• Dai Mubai's information panel showed him at level 35 with three Soul Rings and two External Soul Bones after his recent hunts in the Star Dou Great Forest.

While cultivating, Dai Mubai realized Flender’s favorability had risen because of his advice to Ma Hongjun, then considered the risks of returning to the Star Luo Empire. He remained committed to seeking greater support there, but worried his father might use him and Dai Weisi as rivals rather than make his path easier.

• Dai Mubai received a system notification that Flender’s favorability toward him had increased by three points.
• Dai Mubai attributed the increase to his cultivation advice for Oscar and Ma Hongjun, especially his proposed solutions to Ma Hongjun’s Martial Soul mutation and Evil Fire.
• Dai Mubai decided that helping Ma Hongjun could raise Flender’s favorability indirectly and looked forward to earning another Favorability Treasure Chest.
• Dai Mubai resumed meditation to stabilize his Soul Power after gaining five levels from hunting Soul Beasts and obtaining his first three Soul Rings.
• Dai Mubai considered returning to the Star Luo Empire with Shrek Academy and worried that his father might keep Dai Weisi as his rival, creating obstacles instead of giving him support.

Dai Mubai weighed the reasons to delay returning to the Star Luo Empire, deciding he needed to gather resources, strengthen his ties at Shrek Academy, and stabilize his cultivation first. After a night of meditation, he woke at dawn with firmer control over his Soul Power and quietly left the dormitory.

• Dai Mubai considered staying in the Heaven Dou Empire until he had built strength and raised the Shrek teachers’ and students’ favorability enough to trust them as allies.
• Dai Mubai resolved to seek opportunities in the Heaven Dou Empire, including Liu Erlong, Ah Yin’s Soul Bone, and the Immortal Herbs at Dugu Bo’s medicinal garden.
• Dai Mubai entered deep meditation to stabilize his recently increased Soul Power and planned to improve his skills while keeping a low profile.
• Dai Mubai cultivated through the night, strengthening his control over his Soul Power while Ma Hongjun slept in the dormitory.
• Dai Mubai woke before sunrise, quietly left the room, and took in the misty village surrounding Shrek Academy.

Dai Mubai ran around Shrek Academy’s village, then began training his Soul Skills and considering how to improve and develop them. He planned to separate the defensive effects of White Tiger Heavenly Dipper Defense so he could use them individually.

• Dai Mubai suppressed his wish to live peacefully in the village and ran ten laps around it without using Soul Power.
• After finishing his morning run, Dai Mubai went to the practical combat ground to train his recently acquired Soul Skills.
• Dai Mubai reflected that Soul Masters should practice and develop their Soul Skills rather than keep them hidden as trump cards.
• Dai Mubai reviewed his four Soul Skills and planned to train White Tiger Heavenly Dipper Defense by separating its physical, energy, and mental defenses.

Dai Mubai considered how to improve his first-ring skills through training and compared the attributes of White Tiger Holy Light Blast with his former White Tiger Fierce Light Wave. He concluded that the Holy Light Tiger’s pure, sacred light energy could counter dark and evil opponents, while the chapter left the skills’ relative power dependent on their Soul Beasts’ attributes and age.

• Dai Mubai planned to refine White Tiger Heavenly Dipper Defense so he could adjust its physical, energy, and mental protections to different opponents.
• Dai Mubai decided to train White Tiger Mountain-Shaking Charge to shorten its charging time, while treating it primarily as an offensive skill.
• Dai Mubai distinguished basic improvements in proficiency from genuine development, which he believed White Tiger Holy Light Blast had greater potential for.
• Dai Mubai compared the Fierce Light Tiger’s blazing light-and-fire attacks with the Holy Light Tiger’s purer light energy and sacred attribute.
• Dai Mubai noted that Holy Light Tiger skills could better suppress dark-element Soul Masters and evil Soul Masters, though neither tiger’s attacks were invariably stronger in every circumstance.

Dai Mubai considered how to develop the White Tiger Holy Light Blast through energy compression and shaping, while recognizing that he needed to master his earlier soul skills first. He began training White Tiger Mountain-Shaking Charge at the combat training ground.

• Dai Mubai considered ways to evolve White Tiger Holy Light Blast into ranged, rapid-fire, or more powerful attacks through energy shaping and compression.
• Dai Mubai resolved to train his First Soul Ring skills before developing White Tiger Holy Light Blast, and to strengthen his body for White Tiger Vajra Body.
• Dai Mubai arrived at the combat training ground, activated his Evil Eye White Tiger Martial Soul, and used White Tiger Mountain-Shaking Charge.

Dai Mubai practiced the White Tiger Mountain-Shaking Charge, gradually gaining control of it and stabilizing and increasing his Soul Power. As the academy’s teachers admired his renewed diligence, Lu Qibin considered assessing Dai Mubai’s character and deciding whether to support his claim to the Star Luo throne; after training, Dai Mubai woke Ma Hongjun for breakfast.

• Dai Mubai’s first attempt at the White Tiger Mountain-Shaking Charge sent him crashing into and snapping a linden tree at the training ground’s edge.
• Flender, Li Yusong, Shao Xin, and Lu Qibin witnessed Dai Mubai’s training and admired his renewed diligence; Lu Qibin considered assessing him as a potential contender for the Star Luo throne.
• Dai Mubai repeatedly practiced the charge, improving his control, stabilizing his Soul Power, and increasing his cultivation.
• After his two-hour workout, Dai Mubai washed, changed, and kicked Ma Hongjun’s bed to wake him for breakfast.

Dai Mubai told Ma Hongjun he had a theory that might reduce the effects of his Evil Fire and took him to breakfast before training. At the cafeteria, Oscar showed off his newly groomed appearance, and Shao Xin served the group tiger-meat porridge while praising Dai Mubai’s hard work and warning the others not to lead him astray.

• Dai Mubai woke Ma Hongjun and said he wanted to test a theory that could lessen his Evil Fire’s effects.
• Ma Hongjun eagerly got dressed and followed Dai Mubai to the cafeteria, where they found Oscar already waiting with a newly groomed look.
• Ma Hongjun teased Oscar about his appearance, and the two bickered until Dai Mubai told them to eat and prepare for training.
• Shao Xin served porridge made with a thousand-year Holy Light Tiger and a ten-thousand-year Diamond Tiger, then filled Dai Mubai’s bowl after hearing he had trained before dawn.
• Shao Xin praised Dai Mubai’s diligence and warned Oscar and Ma Hongjun not to lead him astray, leaving Ma Hongjun inwardly protesting the favoritism.

Dai Mubai proposed testing whether his Evil Eye White Tiger could suppress the Evil Fire produced by Ma Hongjun’s Martial Soul. After breakfast, Ma Hongjun began cultivating so Dai Mubai could see whether the method worked, leaving its results unknown.

• Dai Mubai explained that his mutated White Tiger Martial Soul could ward off evil and suppress baleful forces, and suggested it might reduce Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire.
• Flender welcomed the idea and reminded Dai Mubai that his earlier suggestions—finding a phoenix-descended Soul Beast or rare herbs—could also help Ma Hongjun.
• Dai Mubai denied seeking gratitude and agreed to try the method, while Flender and Ma Hongjun eagerly awaited the result.
• Flender brought Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun back to the dormitory and told Ma Hongjun to cultivate and signal when the Evil Fire began forming.
• Ma Hongjun meditated, knowing that unchecked Evil Fire could consume him, rupture his meridians, and kill him.

Dai Mubai tried to help Ma Hongjun control the Evil Fire in his Phoenix Martial Soul, but the Evil Eye White Tiger could not suppress it without risking harm. Dai Mubai instead intimidated the Martial Soul with his Demonic Weapon Tiger Soul and found the Evil Fire’s lust-based power, which he intended to devour for his own advancement.

• Ma Hongjun began cultivating as Flender and Oscar watched, then warned them that Evil Fire was building inside him.
• Dai Mubai used his Evil Eye White Tiger to try to suppress Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire, but Ma Hongjun cried out in pain as his Martial Soul resisted.
• Dai Mubai withdrew the White Tiger and secretly activated the Demonic Weapon Tiger Soul, whose pressure subdued Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire Phoenix.
• Dai Mubai examined the core of Ma Hongjun’s Martial Soul and identified the bewitching power as the Evil Power of the Original Sin of Lust.
• Dai Mubai recognized Ma Hongjun’s potential to purify his Phoenix Flame and possibly qualify for the God of Fire’s inheritance.

Dai Mubai used his Devouring authority to draw the Evil Fire out of Ma Hongjun’s meridians, easing the pain caused by his incomplete Martial Soul mutation while absorbing the fire’s power. Ma Hongjun enjoyed comfortable cultivation for the first time, and Dai Mubai discovered the Evil Fire also contained some of Ma Hongjun’s cultivated Soul Power.

• Dai Mubai decided to train Ma Hongjun properly and use his Evil Fire to help advance Dai Mubai’s Martial Soul.
• Dai Mubai sensed that Ma Hongjun’s incomplete Evil Fire Phoenix mutation sent harmful Evil Fire through his meridians during cultivation.
• Dai Mubai avoided devouring the Evil Fire Phoenix’s origin and instead activated the Demonic Weapon Tiger Soul Martial Soul’s Devouring authority.
• Dai Mubai drew the Evil Fire from Ma Hongjun’s meridians, and Ma Hongjun’s pain gave way to relief as he continued cultivating.
• Dai Mubai found that Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire contained both the Evil Power of the Original Sin of Lust and some of Ma Hongjun’s Soul Power.

Dai Mubai devoured and cleared the Evil Fire from Ma Hongjun’s meridians, helping him break through to Soul Power level 22 and freeing him from its torment. Flender and Ma Hongjun thanked Dai Mubai, while his Evil Eye White Tiger grew stronger from absorbing the fire’s power.

• Dai Mubai spent nearly half an hour devouring the Evil Fire in Ma Hongjun’s meridians, gaining Soul Power and strengthening his Evil Eye White Tiger.
• Ma Hongjun broke through to level 22 after the Evil Fire stopped restraining his cultivation.
• Flender examined Ma Hongjun and confirmed that the Evil Fire had been completely cleared away.
• Ma Hongjun and Flender thanked Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun vowed to follow his orders.
• Dai Mubai’s Evil Eye White Tiger reappeared with darker stripes after absorbing the Evil Power of Lust.

Dai Mubai cleared the Evil Fire from Ma Hongjun’s meridians, strengthening his own Martial Soul and Soul Power while earning Ma Hongjun and Flender’s gratitude. He explained that the treatment was temporary, and the three left the lasting cure to future Soul Rings or rare treasures as Dai Mubai wondered what his new treasure chests contained.

• Dai Mubai’s help raised Ma Hongjun and Flender’s favorability to 88%, earning him a Basic Favorability Treasure Chest from each of them.
• Ma Hongjun and Flender became even more grateful after mistaking Dai Mubai’s excitement over the rewards for happiness at helping Ma Hongjun, raising their favorability to 89%.
• Dai Mubai explained that Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire would return with cultivation and that a phoenix-blood Soul Ring or rare natural treasure could address its root cause.
• Ma Hongjun accepted the temporary relief, while Flender promised to help him seek a suitable Soul Ring or the rare herbs Dai Mubai had named.
• Dai Mubai wondered what rewards the two Favorability Treasure Chests would contain.

Dai Mubai opened Flender’s Basic Favorability Treasure Chest and received three cyan orbs containing skills. He considered how the skills could strengthen him, though each overlapped with abilities he already possessed.

• Ma Hongjun told Flender he would return to cultivating and seek him out when his Evil Fire built up again.
• Flender left Dai Mubai and Oscar, concerned about protecting Dai Mubai’s talent and identity as the Star Luo Empire’s third prince.
• Dai Mubai opened Flender’s treasure chest inside the system space and found three cyan orbs.
• Dai Mubai identified the skills as Eye of Insight, Wind of Detection, and Wind-Blessed Swift Movement.
• Dai Mubai judged that the skills were useful but less valuable to him because they overlapped with his existing perception and movement abilities.

Dai Mubai fused the three skills from Flender’s Favorability Treasure Chest into his Heavenly Dipper Vertical Eye and Heavenly Dipper Bug Soul Ring, strengthening them. He then opened Ma Hongjun’s Favorability Treasure Chest and saw two pills and a fiery orange-red ball of light, which he suspected might be one of Ma Hongjun’s Soul Skills.

• Dai Mubai decided to fuse Eye of Insight into his Heavenly Dipper Vertical Eye External Soul Bone and the two wind skills into his Heavenly Dipper Bug Soul Ring.
• The fused Eye of Insight grew more powerful, while Wind of Detection’s range increased to three hundred meters and Wind-Blessed Swift Movement’s speed boost rose to 100%.
• Dai Mubai opened Ma Hongjun’s Favorability Treasure Chest, revealing two pills and a fiery orange-red ball of light.
• Dai Mubai suspected the ball of light was a Soul Skill from Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul, possibly Phoenix Fire Line or Phoenix Bathed in Fire.