Chapter Summaries

Hu Jiu told Tang San that Tang Hao was a Titled Douluo who had beaten Flander bare-handed, then revealed that his evolved Martial Soul could help other Martial Souls evolve. He discussed seeking a powerful strengthening effect for his Fifth Soul Ring with Tang San.

• Hu Jiu told Tang San that Tang Hao had nine Soul Rings and had defeated Flander without using his Martial Soul or Soul Power.
• Tang San asked whether Hu Jiu had spoken with Tang Hao, and Hu Jiu recounted that Tang Hao had asked him to care for Tang San and promised him a Self-Created Soul Skill.
• Hu Jiu showed Tang San his evolved Hu Shen Martial Soul and explained that it could help other Martial Souls evolve, though the effect was weak.
• Tang San said Hu Jiu's ability might suit his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, and Hu Jiu joked that Tang San could repay him with more Immortal Herbs.
• Hu Jiu said he wanted an explosive strengthening effect from his Fifth Soul Ring, preferably one that could help his teammates.

Hu Jiu and Xiao Wu reached the center of the Star Dou Great Forest, where they reunited with Da Ming and Er Ming. Hu Jiu discovered that his evolved Martial Soul could affect Da Ming’s bloodline, while Er Ming went to catch the Soul Beasts Hu Jiu needed for his Fifth Soul Ring, and Xiao Wu prepared to condense her own Soul Ring.

• Hu Jiu and Xiao Wu traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest and met Er Ming, who escorted them to Da Ming’s lake.
• Da Ming was surprised that Hu Jiu had reached Rank 50, and Hu Jiu explained that his cultivation-assisted Soul Ring had helped him progress quickly.
• Hu Jiu gave Da Ming a Hu Shen, and Da Ming felt his bloodline boil with the possibility of evolution.
• Da Ming asked Hu Jiu for more Hu Shen, and Hu Jiu made several to share with him and Er Ming.
• Er Ming offered to catch the Soul Beasts Hu Jiu needed and left to find them.
• Xiao Wu began preparing to condense her Soul Ring and see how the Lovesick Heartbreak Red affected her level.

Xiao Wu condensed her Fourth Soul Ring from Lovesick Heartbreak Red and rose to level 48. Er Ming brought Hu Jiu two Soul Beasts to choose from for his next soul ring, and Hu Jiu weighed the safer option of absorbing one within his limits.

• Xiao Wu condensed a purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring and her Soul Power rose from level 41 to level 48.
• Xiao Wu thanked Lovesick Heartbreak Red for its power, and Hu Jiu suggested she ask Little San for another Immortal Herb later.
• Er Ming returned with a Green Eyed Demon Ape and a Great Strength Vajra Bear for Hu Jiu to choose from.
• Hu Jiu considered the benefits of both Soul Beasts and decided he would prefer a soul ring under twelve thousand years for safety.

Hu Jiu killed a Great Strength Vajra Bear and absorbed its ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, reaching level 53 and gaining the Berserk Hu Shen skill. He and Xiao Wu compared their new Soul Skills, leaving Hu Jiu aware that his External Soul Bones had also evolved.

• Hu Jiu chose the eleven-thousand-three-hundred-year Great Strength Vajra Bear and killed it with his Meteor Hammer while Er Ming restrained it.
• Hu Jiu absorbed the bear's black Soul Ring, resisting its violent Soul Power and Mental Shock over three hours.
• Hu Jiu checked his AFK Panel, saw that his Fifth Soul Ring Idle Slot had activated, and told Xiao Wu he had reached level 53.
• Hu Jiu described Berserk Hu Shen, which increased All Attributes by roughly thirty-four percent for fifteen minutes and stacked with other auxiliary effects.
• Xiao Wu revealed that her Invincible Golden Body made her immune to attacks and doubled her strength, but consumed about half her current Soul Power.

Hu Jiu tested his evolved External Tongue Bone and Eight Spider Lances in the Star Dou Great Forest, gaining a powerful new attack and wings that were beginning to develop flight. While staying in the forest with Xiao Wu, he also worked on advancing Rasengan by drawing inspiration from Naruto techniques and considering a poison-based variation.

• Hu Jiu used his new Tongue's Touch skill to extend an enormous energy tongue that shattered a giant tree, confirming the External Tongue Bone's offensive power.
• Hu Jiu found that his Eight Spider Lances had begun evolving toward wings, renamed them the Eight Spider Wings, and predicted they might let him fly after further evolution.
• Hu Jiu and Xiao Wu stayed in the Star Dou Great Forest for several days and left supplies of Evolved Hu Shen and Cultivation Hu Shen for Da Ming and Er Ming.
• Hu Jiu reviewed the AFK Panel's progress for his max-level skills and decided to use his free time to improve Rasengan.
• Hu Jiu considered developing Rasengan variations and wondered whether he could adapt Wind Style: Rasengan into Poison Style: Spiral Pill.

Hu Jiu worked on developing a poison-infused Rasengan before returning to Shrek Academy with Xiao Wu. Zhao Wuji challenged him to a spar, and Hu Jiu and Xiao Wu began the fight by activating their boosting Soul Skills.

• Hu Jiu experimented with drawing poison from his Eight Spider Wings into his hands, advancing the Rasengan’s progress on the AFK Panel.
• Hu Jiu and Xiao Wu left for Heaven Dou City, with Hu Jiu planning to visit the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and obtain its treasures.
• Hu Jiu and Xiao Wu returned to Shrek Academy, where Zhao Wuji praised Hu Jiu’s level and insisted on fighting him.
• Hu Jiu asked Xiao Wu to team up against Zhao Wuji, and Flender, Liu Erlong, and the Shrek Team followed them to watch.
• Hu Jiu gave Xiao Wu a Berserk Hu Shen and activated his Fifth Soul Ring, boosting both their attributes before the fight began.

Hu Jiu and Xiao Wu fought Zhao Wuji, then used a martial soul fusion skill that let them match and gradually suppress him in close combat. The battle ended in a stalemate, with Flender predicting Zhao Wuji could not beat them without using his Martial Soul Avatar.

• Hu Jiu and Xiao Wu attacked Zhao Wuji with their soul skills, but his defenses withstood their blows.
• Hu Jiu and Xiao Wu fused their martial souls, transforming into the five-meter-tall Moon Goddess.
• The Moon Goddess evaded Zhao Wuji’s Great Vajra Roar with Hu Jiu’s Teleportation and met his strength in a direct clash.
• Hu Jiu and Xiao Wu used their agility, strange footwork, and height advantage to gain the upper hand in close combat.
• Flender watched the stalemate and said Zhao Wuji could not defeat their fusion skill without using his Martial Soul Avatar.

Hu Jiu and Xiao Wu used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to defeat Zhao Wuji in a fierce training match at Shrek Academy. Their victory left Flender and Liu Erlong looking ahead to the Soul Master Tournament, while the training ground lay in ruins.

• Liu Erlong and Flender reminisced about the Golden Iron Triangle, and Liu Erlong said she had accepted that the Grandmaster had not contacted her in twenty years.
• Zhao Wuji trapped Hu Jiu and Xiao Wu's Moon Goddess with Gravity Squeeze and Gravity Enhancement, believing he had won.
• Hu Jiu and Xiao Wu activated Invincible Golden Body and launched a giant Rasengan at Zhao Wuji, blasting a large crater into the training ground.
• Zhao Wuji rose injured, accepted Hu Jiu's Sacred Light Ginseng, and recovered further with Oscar's Recovery Great Sausage.
• Xiao Wu celebrated the victory, and Liu Erlong and Flender praised the pair and predicted Shrek Academy would gain fame at the Soul Master Tournament.
• Zhao Wuji said he was proud of his powerful students, while Ma Hongjun hid behind Dai Mubai and protested when Zhao Wuji compared him to them.

After assessing Shrek’s strength, Hu Jiu traveled to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to cultivate and seek its Dragon Pills. There he learned Tang San had already obtained a Fourth Soul Ring, and criticized the Blue Silver Cage before suggesting stronger elemental options for future rings.

• Hu Jiu gauged his strength against Zhao Wuji and learned Dai Mubai and Ning Rongrong had gained new Soul Rings and levels.
• Ning Rongrong returned to Shrek Academy as the heir to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Xiao Wu defeated Dai Mubai in a fight.
• Hu Jiu left Shrek Academy with cultivation herbs and flew with Flender’s Cat Eagle Martial Soul to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Hu Jiu found that Tang San had absorbed his Fourth Soul Ring with Dugu Bo’s help and demonstrated the Blue Silver Cage.
• Hu Jiu dismissed the Blue Silver Cage as redundant and advised Tang San to seek metal- or lightning-attribute Soul Rings for his Blue Silver Grass.

Hu Jiu trained at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, improving his physical strength and developing a toxin-infused Rasengan with Tang San’s help. After Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass showed signs of evolution, Hu Jiu returned to Shrek Academy and found Flender watching Liu Erlong, where Flender admitted she loved Xiao Gang.

• Hu Jiu endured the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s harsh environment and worked with Tang San to add Eight Spider Lances toxin to the Rasengan.
• Tang San showed Hu Jiu that his Blue Silver Grass had grown brighter, tougher, and easier to control after taking Hu Jiu’s Hu Shen.
• Hu Jiu noticed Tang San’s appearance had also subtly changed and wondered if the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had affected him.
• Hu Jiu returned to Shrek Academy, sensed Xiao Wu at Liu Erlong’s villa, and found Flender watching the villa from the woods.
• Hu Jiu teased Flender about being lovesick, and Flender admitted that Liu Erlong loved Xiao Gang.

Hu Jiu explained to Flender that repeated use of Martial Soul Fusion Skills could deepen the users’ feelings, then returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and perfected his poisonous Spiral Pill. Dugu Bo judged the attack powerful enough to threaten a Soul Emperor.

• Hu Jiu told Flender that Martial Soul Fusion Skills required heart-to-heart connection and that using them repeatedly could strengthen the users’ affection.
• Flender realized the theory might explain his bond with Grandmaster and Liu Erlong, and Hu Jiu suggested he try using a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Liu Erlong.
• Hu Jiu reunited with Xiao Wu at Shrek Academy, stayed for several days, then returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to cultivate.
• Half a month later, Hu Jiu demonstrated his Poison Style: Spiral Pill to Tang San, blasting and poisoning a large crater in the valley wall.
• Dugu Bo appeared and said Hu Jiu’s attack could threaten even a Soul Emperor.

After completing Poison Style: Spiral Pill, Hu Jiu assigned Hand Blade to his AFK Panel while Shrek's Seven Devils grew stronger during their stay at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. The chapter ended with Xiao Wu becoming Shrek's second Soul King after condensing an exceptionally powerful Fifth Soul Ring.

• Hu Jiu completed Poison Style: Spiral Pill, unlocked its knowledge, and began cultivating Hand Blade in the newly vacant Fifth Idle Slot.
• After more than half a year at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, the members of Shrek's Seven Devils had greatly increased their Soul levels, and Ning Rongrong's Spirit had evolved into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Hu Jiu and Xiao Wu visited Holy Soul Village, where Hu Jiu gave Old Jack, Hu Rui, and Emma life-extending herbs chosen with Tang San's help.
• Hu Jiu and Xiao Wu traveled to Star Dou Great Forest, where Xiao Wu condensed a Fifth Soul Ring of over 21,300 years and became Shrek's second Soul King.

Hu Jiu continued training to reach the Dragon Pill at the bottom of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while Tang San refined medicinal pills instead of focusing on cultivation. The chapter ended with Tang San preparing his hidden weapon, King of Hell's Invitation, which Hu Jiu could not use.

• Xiao Wu's Bone Soft Lock was shown to restrain opponents and leave them stiff for five seconds after release.
• Hu Jiu entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to search for the Dragon Pill but returned after reaching 180 meters, one meter farther than the day before.
• Tang San spent his time refining medicinal pills from the rare herbs around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, leaving his cultivation behind Dai Mubai's.
• Hu Jiu teased Tang San about being only level 44 while Dai Mubai had reached level 48, and Tang San promised to cultivate more after finishing one last task.
• Tang San revealed that he was refining King of Hell's Invitation and told Hu Jiu that he could not use it without the required techniques.

Tang San completed refining the lethal hidden weapon King of Hell's Invitation while Hu Jiu continued trying to reach the Dragon Pill in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After seeing the weapon's danger, Dugu Bo dismissed its usefulness against a Titled Douluo, and Tang San explained how he could conceal and launch it.

• Hu Jiu worried Tang San would leave before he could claim the Dragon Pill, then endured another painful dive into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dugu Bo visited Tang San, whose treatment had nearly cured the poison in Dugu Bo's body.
• Tang San finished refining the King of Hell's Invitation from forty-nine poisonous herbs and revealed its three black needles.
• Hu Jiu remarked that the poison could overwhelm his Sacred Light Recovery, while Dugu Bo doubted the needles could threaten a Titled Douluo.
• Tang San explained how his techniques concealed the weapon's danger and let him attack unseen, then asked Dugu Bo why he had come.

Tang San finished treating Dugu Bo and received a Ruyi Brocade Bag, while Hu Jiu reminded him not to leave before securing the Dragon Pill. Tang San then brought up Dugu Bo’s remaining promises, leaving their departure and Dugu Yan’s treatment unsettled.

• Dugu Bo retrieved the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor Pill from Tang San and said Tang San’s treatment was nearly finished.
• Dugu Bo offered to set Tang San up with Dugu Yan, but Tang San refused and pointed out that she seemed to like the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s heir.
• Dugu Bo gave Tang San a Ruyi Brocade Bag that could store living things, and Tang San used it to store the Nine-Sectioned Jade Snake.
• Tang San gave Dugu Bo two Mother-Child Soul Chasing Life Seizing Gall and demonstrated their power, but refused to give him more.
• Tang San asked Dugu Bo whether he remembered the other three conditions he had promised, and Dugu Bo asked if Tang San had decided on the other two.

Tang San negotiated with Dugu Bo to take herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and secure Dugu Bo’s support for Shrek Academy. After Tang San stripped the garden bare, Hu Jiu stayed behind to cultivate and pursue the Dragon Pill.

• Tang San asked to take herbs as his second condition, and Dugu Bo agreed after Tang San explained he only needed Dugu Bo to lend his name to Shrek Academy.
• Dugu Bo planned to return to the academy with Tang San and Hu Jiu, but Hu Jiu stayed behind to cultivate and told Tang San to reassure Xiao Wu he would return within two months.
• Dugu Bo gave Hu Jiu a Poison-Avoiding Pill and allowed Tang San three days to collect herbs.
• Three days later, Dugu Bo found his herb garden devastated, while Tang San fled and insisted he had followed permission to take whatever he wanted.
• Hu Jiu planned to keep cultivating at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and take its Dragon Pill, even if doing so destroyed the well.

Hu Jiu found the Dragon Pill beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, but touching it caused its power to overwhelm him. The AFK Panel absorbed both Dragon Pills and gave him the Ice and Fire Domain, leaving him alive with a new ability that could grow stronger over time.

• Hu Jiu used his Eight Spider Lances to dig through the hardened soil beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and uncovered a Dragon Bone.
• Hu Jiu dug through a hollow in the bone and touched the icy-blue Dragon Pill, causing the well to tremble and making him lose consciousness.
• The icy-blue Dragon Pill began freezing Hu Jiu, but a fiery-red Dragon Pill appeared and spread heat through the other half of his body.
• The AFK Panel absorbed both Dragon Pills, restored Hu Jiu's body, and gained a New Idle Slot containing the Ice and Fire Domain.
• Hu Jiu awoke and learned that the Ice and Fire Domain granted resistance to ice and fire, drained enemies' Soul Power, let him wield both elements, and accelerated plant growth.

Hu Jiu tested the Ice and Fire Domain he gained from the Dragon Pill, discovering that he could command flames, ice, and accelerated plant growth. After returning to Shrek Academy, he was summoned by Tang San, who revealed that his Purple Demon Eye had advanced and prepared to discuss something privately.

• Hu Jiu unleashed the Ice and Fire Domain and demonstrated its power to create devastating fire and ice attacks and rapidly grow plants.
• Hu Jiu noted that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was weakening after he took its Dragon Pill, then returned to Heaven Dou City and Shrek Academy.
• Xiao Wu and the others happily welcomed Hu Jiu back to Shrek Academy.
• Tang San asked to speak with Hu Jiu alone, and Xiao Wu stayed behind after Hu Jiu reassured her.
• Tang San told Hu Jiu that an Immortal Herb called Gazing at Autumn Waters had advanced his Purple Demon Eye beyond Micro-Perception to Mustard Seed.

Tang San told Hu Jiu that Xiao Wu was a Soul Beast, then realized Hu Jiu knew more about his own origins and inferred that his mother was Blue Silver Grass. Back at the academy, Hu Jiu learned that Liu Erlong and Flender had successfully performed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill together.

• Tang San revealed that his Purple Demon Eye showed Xiao Wu was a Soul Beast, but Hu Jiu said it did not change how he saw her or Tang San.
• Tang San pressed Hu Jiu about his mother, and Hu Jiu hinted that Tang San could learn the truth by thinking about his martial soul.
• Tang San recalled his father's words about protecting the grass with the hammer and realized his mother was connected to Blue Silver Grass.
• Dai Laoda brought Hu Jiu two sets of the academy's green-and-yellow School Uniforms and said classes would resume the next day.
• Xiao Wu told Hu Jiu that Liu Erlong had accepted her as a goddaughter and that Flender and Liu Erlong had recently performed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Hu Jiu attended his first proper class at Shrek Academy and learned its class structure while teasing his friends. After students glared at him because Xiao Wu held his arm, Hu Jiu challenged them and ordered Dai Mubai to make the class submit, leaving Dai Mubai facing Tailong.

• Hu Jiu asked about Dugu Bo and learned he had left a few days earlier.
• Xiao Wu explained the academy's classes and graduation examinations while the group joked about their cultivation and romantic prospects.
• Hu Jiu discovered that Fatty was the weakest of the Shrek Seven Devils and threatened to ask a teacher to give him special training.
• Hu Jiu noticed hostile students staring at him and Xiao Wu, then challenged them to step forward.
• Hu Jiu told Dai Mubai to make the class submit, and Dai Mubai confronted Tailong, offering him three chances to attack.