Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yi hunted water-attribute Soul Beasts to support Li Lingyu’s research into the Mystic Water Pill while training his combat skills and tempering his organs. After catching his tenth Ten-Year Soul Beast, he earned an achievement that increased the age of any Soul Ring he fused with by ten years.

• Jiang Yi defeated a Hundred-Year Mysterious Water Buffalo and found a glowing broken horn on its corpse.
• Li Lingyu identified the horn as a likely ingredient of the Mystic Water Pill after its powder released a familiar fragrance when heated.
• Li Lingyu explained that he had abandoned trying to decipher the Mystic Water Pill’s formula and wanted instead to develop a different pill.
• Jiang Yi spent the following days gathering Soul Beasts with Li Lingyu and tempering his organs.
• Jiang Yi captured a Water Longhorn Beetle, then received the Ten-Year Soul Beast Collector achievement and its Soul Ring age bonus.

Jiang Yi killed a 350-year-old War Tiger and became one Hundred-Year Soul Beast short of testing whether a new achievement would appear. The next morning, he entered the Mysterious Water Forest and killed a sleeping Black-Armored Crocodile with Li Lingyu’s dagger.

• Jiang Yi imagined using a possible Hundred-Year Soul Beast Collector achievement to strengthen his first Soul Ring to a thousand years.
• Jiang Yi used Grass Trip and a barrage of Soul Power-coated punches to kill a 350-year-old War Tiger, bringing his total of hunted Hundred-Year Soul Beasts to eight.
• Jiang Yi returned to camp to recover and planned to hunt two more Hundred-Year Soul Beasts the next day.
• Jiang Yi entered the forest at dawn and found a dormant, roughly hundred-year-old Black-Armored Crocodile.
• Jiang Yi used Li Lingyu’s Level 3 Soul Tool dagger to pierce the crocodile’s head and kill it.

Jiang Yi killed his tenth hundred-year soul beast and gained an achievement that would add a hundred years to a Soul Ring after fusion. After four months of training, he attempted to break through to level ten by drawing on Blue Silver Grass life force, while Jiang Nannan longed for his promised visit; the chapter ended as Jiang Yi’s bottleneck cracked and his body continued to bleed.

• Jiang Yi lured a hundred-year Jade Spirit Fish into swallowing his Blue Silver Grass, then dragged it from the stream and killed it.
• The system awarded Jiang Yi the Hundred-Year Soul Beast Collector achievement, whose reward would add a hundred years to a successfully fused Soul Ring.
• Jiang Yi focused on tempering his five internal organs, while Li Lingyu prepared medicinal ingredients for his treatment.
• At Shrek Academy, Jiang Nannan missed Jiang Yi and wondered when he would keep his promise to visit her.
• In the Mysterious Water Forest, Jiang Yi began another breakthrough attempt as Li Lingyu stood guard and Blue Silver Grass life force flowed into him.
• Jiang Yi intensified his assault on the level-ten bottleneck, which cracked as blood seeped from his body.

Jiang Yi broke through to rank ten, triggering achievements that increased his Soul Power, Innate Soul Power, cultivation speed, and strengthened his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul. After recovering, he began considering his First Soul Ring, with a thousand-year ring now within reach.

• Jiang Yi shattered his bottleneck and collapsed, and Blue Silver Grass healed him by giving up its vitality.
• Li Lingyu and Aunt Rou watched over Jiang Yi as he recovered, and he woke to find his Soul Power had reached rank thirteen.
• Jiang Yi checked his Custom Achievement System and received rewards that raised his Innate Soul Power, improved his Soul Power, and granted the Barrier Destroyer talent and Heart of Arduous Cultivation title.
• Jiang Yi tested his evolved Blue Silver Grass and discovered gold lines on its leaves, greater strength and flexibility, and a much faster normal cultivation speed.
• After a week, Jiang Yi’s injuries had healed, and he prepared to choose his First Soul Ring, considering a thousand-year ring because of his strengthened body and increased age limit.

Jiang Yi and Li Lingyu searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a suitable First Soul Ring, and Jiang Yi chose an Ancient Hemlock after they failed to find a Tree of Life. Jiang Yi killed a roughly nine-hundred-year-old Ancient Hemlock and began absorbing its Soul Ring as night fell.

• Jiang Yi explained his Soul Ring choices to Li Lingyu, and they traveled separately to the Star Dou Great Forest before entering together.
• Jiang Yi remembered that Huo Yuhao was still suffering in the White Tiger Duke's Mansion and resolved to grow stronger before the story began.
• After three hours of searching without finding a Tree of Life, Li Lingyu led Jiang Yi northwest to look for an Ancient Hemlock.
• Jiang Yi insisted on a Soul Ring at least eight hundred and ninety years old, and Li Lingyu found an Ancient Hemlock estimated to be around nine hundred years old.
• Li Lingyu broke through the Ancient Hemlock's bark, and Jiang Yi stabbed its Life Core, killed it, and began absorbing its Soul Ring as the forest grew dark.

Jiang Yi transformed his Blue Silver Grass with the thousand-year First Soul Ring and traveled with Li Lingyu toward Shrek Academy. The chapter left Jiang Nannan shopping in Shrek City while Jiang Yi and his teacher arrived nearby.

• Jiang Yi's fused Soul Ring changed from yellow to purple, raising his Soul Power to level sixteen, and Li Lingyu agreed to keep the change secret.
• Jiang Yi's Blue Silver Grass grew tougher and stronger, and his first Soul Skill, Hemlock Power, let it heal and regenerate while greatly boosting its strength.
• Li Lingyu tested Jiang Yi's Soul Skill, praised its power, and agreed to visit Shrek Academy with him.
• Jiang Yi and Li Lingyu left the Star Dou Great Forest and traveled toward Shrek, where Jiang Nannan eagerly prepared for the upcoming holiday.
• Jiang Nannan went shopping with a lively girl, while Jiang Yi arrived in Shrek City and noticed its prosperity and visiting Sun Moon Empire merchants.

Jiang Yi reunited with Jiang Nannan in Shrek City after overcoming his Soul Power bottleneck, while Li Lingyu asked Wang Yan to arrange Jiang Yi’s immediate admission to Shrek Academy. Wang Yan agreed to help and arranged to meet Jiang Yi the next morning after learning that his First Soul Ring was a thousand-year ring.

• Li Lingyu sent Jiang Yi to find Jiang Nannan while he went to meet his old friend Wang Yan.
• Jiang Yi found Jiang Nannan and reunited with her outside Shrek Academy, where she realized he had succeeded in breaking through his bottleneck.
• Jiang Nannan introduced Jiang Yi to her roommate, Tang Ya, and then led him away from the crowded east gate to talk privately.
• Li Lingyu asked Wang Yan to help his eleven-year-old disciple enroll at Shrek Academy immediately, and Wang Yan initially worried about the academy’s strict rules.
• Li Lingyu revealed that Jiang Yi had a thousand-year First Soul Ring despite having only one Martial Soul, Blue Silver Grass, and Soul Power at level sixteen.
• Wang Yan agreed to help Jiang Yi enroll and arranged to meet him at the Shrek Hotel at nine the next morning.

Jiang Yi reunited with Jiang Nannan in Shrek City and learned that Li Lingyu had arranged for him to seek early admission to Shrek Academy. After Wang Yan secured Elder Xuan’s approval to assess Jiang Yi, Wang Yan met him at the hotel and offered to be called Teacher.

• Jiang Yi and Jiang Nannan shared a meal, and Jiang Nannan told him she had won first place in the freshmen competition.
• Jiang Nannan kissed Jiang Yi on the cheek under the moonlight before returning to Shrek Academy.
• Li Lingyu told Jiang Yi that Wang Yan would assess him the next morning and might help him skip Shrek’s first year.
• Wang Yan persuaded Elder Xuan that Jiang Yi’s thousand-year First Soul Ring and Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul made him a monster worth admitting early.
• Jiang Yi met Wang Yan in the hotel lobby, confirmed his identity, and introduced himself as Li Lingyu’s disciple.

Jiang Yi demonstrated his mutated Blue Silver Grass and thousand-year First Soul Ring to Wang Yan, securing early admission to Shrek Academy. After Xuan Zi secretly tested his strength, Jiang Yi gained an achievement that improved his spiritual power, while Li Lingyu learned that Xuan Zi approved of his disciple but warned him to leave Shrek City soon.

• Jiang Yi showed Wang Yan his mutated Blue Silver Grass and thousand-year Ancient Hemlock Soul Ring, and Wang Yan agreed to arrange his early admission with an advancement assessment next year.
• A mysterious dark figure attacked Jiang Yi in the forest, but Jiang Yi resisted briefly before the figure vanished without injuring him.
• Xuan Zi met Li Lingyu at a tavern, praised Jiang Yi's talent, promised Shrek would nurture him, and warned Li Lingyu that Lin Huiqun might kill him if he stayed in Shrek City.
• Jiang Yi deduced that Xuan Zi had tested him and received the An Ant's Palm Strike achievement, which increased his spiritual power purity and resilience by twenty percent.
• Jiang Yi returned to the hotel, where Li Lingyu told him to go back and cultivate.

Jiang Yi enrolled at Shrek Academy early and skipped the first year after demonstrating his thousand-year First Soul Ring. He joined Class One, where Jiang Nannan welcomed him as her classmate, and she asked how he had arranged his late enrollment.

• Jiang Yi suspected Li Lingyu had been driven out of Shrek Academy after a failed experiment, but wondered whether the academy might hold a grudge against him too.
• Wang Yan escorted Jiang Yi to the academic affairs office, where Du Weilun examined his enrollment order and asked to see his abilities.
• Jiang Yi revealed his thousand-year First Soul Ring, convincing Du Weilun to approve his enrollment and assign him to Class One.
• Wang Yan introduced Jiang Yi to Lin Yu, who accepted him into her class on the semester's last day.
• Jiang Nannan invited Jiang Yi to sit beside her, and he revealed that joining her class was the surprise he had promised.
• After class, Jiang Nannan took Jiang Yi to a secluded corner and asked how he had managed to enroll so late.

After returning to Spirit Mountain City, Jiang Yi tested whether his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul could earn him another achievement by sharing Soul Power with a vast field of grass. He succeeded in forming a network with more than ten thousand blades of Blue Silver Grass and gained abilities to synchronize Soul Power and assimilate ordinary plants.

• Jiang Yi and Jiang Nannan left Shrek Academy with Li Lingyu and returned to Spirit Mountain City, where Aunt Rou joyfully welcomed Jiang Nannan home.
• After resting for three days, Jiang Yi went to a field of Blue Silver Grass outside the city to search for a new achievement.
• Jiang Yi channeled Soul Power through his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, causing nearby grass to glow, grow faster, and receive his energy.
• As Jiang Yi neared exhaustion, more than ten thousand blades of Blue Silver Grass resonated with him and circulated Soul Power back into his body.
• Jiang Yi earned the achievement I Am Blue Silver, Blue Silver Is Me, which granted Soul Power Synchronization and increased plant Soul Beasts’ favorability while giving his Blue Silver Grass the ability to assimilate ordinary plants.

Jiang Yi confirmed that his Blue Silver Grass cultivation should focus on rapidly creating fields of grass to maximize his achievements, then gained a new healing-related achievement after feeding his grass to Soft Bone Rabbits. He began planning to use Life Essence to treat Aunt Rou and Li Lingyu, and invited Li Lingyu to spend New Year's Eve with his family.

• Jiang Yi decided to seek a Second Soul Ring skill that could rapidly grow Blue Silver Grass, letting him create a powerful domain and make full use of his achievements.
• Jiang Yi used Life Infection to grow Blue Silver Grass in the courtyard, then worried about Aunt Rou's heart condition and considered asking Li Lingyu for help obtaining a Black Tortoise Divine Pill.
• Jiang Yi and Jiang Nannan visited Li Lingyu, who was studying Soft Bone Rabbits and their bloodlines to help with Jiang Nannan's future Soul Ring.
• Jiang Yi fed the Soft Bone Rabbits his Blue Silver Grass, and their wounds healed as they ate, earning him the Walking Healing Medicine achievement and the abilities Beast-Luring Medicinal Fragrance and Essence Extraction.
• Jiang Yi decided to extract Life Essence to treat Aunt Rou and Li Lingyu, then invited Li Lingyu to join his family for New Year's Eve dinner.

Jiang Yi used life essence extracted from Blue Silver Grass to cure Aunt Rou’s congenital heart deficiency, then offered the remaining portion to Li Lingyu to test whether it could heal his training-related injuries. Li Lingyu was fascinated by the substance and prepared to try it.

• Jiang Yi extracted life essence from Blue Silver Grass over more than twenty days, taking care not to drain the plants.
• Jiang Yi gave Aunt Rou the life essence, and it healed her heart deficiency and other accumulated injuries.
• Aunt Rou woke feeling healthier and younger, and Jiang Nannan noticed her improved appearance.
• Jiang Yi and Jiang Nannan celebrated New Year’s Eve with Aunt Rou, and Li Lingyu joined their dinner.
• Jiang Yi visited Li Lingyu on New Year’s Day and offered him the remaining life essence to test on his injuries.

Jiang Yi, Jiang Nannan, and Aunt Rou traveled to Azure Village for a New Year visit, but screams announced an attack by an Evil Soul Master. Jiang Yi sensed the danger and used the Blue Silver Grass to witness the massacre as the attacker pursued fleeing villagers.

• Jiang Yi drove Aunt Rou and Jiang Nannan from Spirit Mountain City toward Azure Village for their annual New Year visit.
• Village Chief Qiaona heard screams at the village entrance and ordered the villagers to shelter while Wang Hu led the patrol team to investigate.
• Jiang Yi heard the distant screams, told Jiang Nannan and Aunt Rou to remain in the carriage, and connected his spiritual power to the Blue Silver Grass.
• Jiang Yi saw a blood-red middle-aged man drain one villager’s blood and kill another as three villagers, including a child, fled.
• The Evil Soul Master chased the fleeing villagers and attacked them while Jiang Yi watched through the Blue Silver Grass.

Jiang Yi used Blue Silver Grass to rescue villagers from a two-ring Evil Soul Master and sent Jiang Nannan and Aunt Rou to fetch help while he headed for Azure Village. The attacker broke free and resumed his pursuit, unaware that Jiang Yi was still approaching.

• The blood-red middle-aged man killed villagers and chased Xiaoli and her child until Jiang Yi’s Blue Silver Grass tripped him, caught the child, and urged the survivors to run.
• Jiang Yi recognized the attacker as a two-ring Evil Soul Master with a Vampire Bat Martial Soul and told Jiang Nannan to take Aunt Rou to Spirit Mountain City for help.
• Jiang Nannan and Aunt Rou left for the city, and Jiang Yi rushed toward Azure Village.
• Wang Hu gave the child to Xiao Zhou, then carried the exhausted Xiaoli as they tried to escape the attacker.
• The middle-aged man broke free of the Blue Silver Grass, caught up with Wang Hu and Xiaoli, and was tripped again by another strand of grass.
• Unable to find whoever was controlling the grass, the middle-aged man decided to resume hunting the villagers before the garrison arrived.

Jiang Yi killed the Evil Soul Master who attacked Azure Village and gained the golden Holy Mark achievement, then helped the village’s children awaken their Martial Souls. Three days later, with none of the three children awakening Soul Power, Jiang Yi prepared to leave Azure Village and return to school.

• Jiang Yi broke free of the middle-aged Evil Soul Master’s attacks and trapped him with Blue Silver Grass before killing him.
• Jiang Yi searched the area, confirmed that no other Evil Soul Masters were nearby, and received the Demon-Slaying Reserve achievement and its Holy Mark reward.
• Li Lingyu arrived, and Jiang Yi told Village Chief Qiaona and the villagers that the threat had been dealt with.
• Jiang Yi decided to help Azure Village’s children awaken their Martial Souls, and Qiaona brought the eligible children to him.
• Three days later, Jiang Yi had helped three children awaken their Martial Souls, but none had Soul Power; he asked Li Lingyu to check on Azure Village after they returned to Spirit Mountain City.

Jiang Yi returned to Shrek Academy, settled into his dorm, and reunited with Jiang Nannan, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya as the new term began. Their teacher announced that the advancement assessment would start that afternoon with individual fights against Soul Beasts in the Beast Dueling Area.

• Jiang Yi and Jiang Nannan arrived at Shrek Academy, where Jiang Yi found his assigned dorm room empty and cleaned it with his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
• Jiang Yi waited downstairs the next morning and met Jiang Nannan, Tang Ya, and Bei Bei before they went to breakfast and their new classes.
• Xu Sanshi introduced Ruan Qingjun to Bei Bei and said she could seek help from either of them; Jiang Yi suspected she would help Xu Sanshi awaken his bloodline.
• Lin Yu told Class One that students would first face individual assessments and that three to seven students would later be chosen for the class assessment.
• Lin Yu explained that each student would fight a Soul Beast aged between one hundred and one thousand years, with sixty points required to pass, and said the assessment would begin that afternoon.

Jiang Yi attended Shrek Academy’s second-year advancement assessment as teachers and students watched to see what his unusual admission and mutated Martial Soul could do. After Bei Bei defeated an eight-hundred-year Lie Yan Tiger, Jiang Nannan chose to challenge a thousand-year Soul Beast and faced a Black-Eyed Bear.

• Lin Yu questioned whether Jiang Yi’s level sixteen Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul had real ability behind his exceptional admission.
• Wang Yan watched the assessment, curious about Jiang Yi’s Martial Soul Mutation and worried because he did not know Jiang Yi’s fighting strength.
• Bei Bei challenged an eight-hundred-year Lie Yan Tiger and defeated it with his lightning Soul Skills, earning full base points and fifty technique points.
• Jiang Nannan entered the arena and chose to challenge a thousand-year Soul Beast.
• A Black-Eyed Bear emerged, and Jiang Nannan completed Martial Soul Possession as the beast charged toward her.

Jiang Nannan passed her assessment using a Soul Tool, then Jiang Yi faced a thousand-year Blood-Red Baboon and revealed his unusual Blue Silver Grass and thousand-year First Soul Ring. He began overpowering the beast, which activated Bloodthirst and charged again, leaving their fight ongoing.

• Jiang Nannan used a class-three offensive Soul Tool to defeat the Black-Eyed Bear, but Du Weilun deducted thirty points for her using it.
• Jiang Nannan returned to Jiang Yi and said he had been right about using a Soul Tool, while the other class one students completed their assessments.
• Jiang Yi chose to challenge a thousand-year Soul Beast and entered the arena to face a Blood-Red Baboon.
• Jiang Yi summoned Blue Silver Grass with a thousand-year First Soul Ring, astonishing Bei Bei, Lin Yu, and Tang Ya.
• Jiang Yi's Blue Silver vines restrained and struck the Blood-Red Baboon until it activated Bloodthirst and tore through the vines.
• Jiang Yi blocked the Blood-Red Baboon's charge with a hardened Blue Silver shield, then reshaped his vines into sharp spears and attacked as the beast tried to dodge and defend itself.

Jiang Yi defeated a thousand-year Blood-Red Baboon and earned a perfect score, shocking the audience and drawing Tang Ya and Bei Bei’s attention to his Blue Silver Grass. When Bei Bei asked how to cultivate it, Jiang Yi began explaining that its strength lay in overwhelming opponents with numbers.

• Jiang Yi bound and strangled the Blood-Red Baboon unconscious with his Blue Silver Grass vines.
• Du Weilun awarded Jiang Yi a perfect score of one hundred and fifty points for defeating the Soul Beast and displaying exceptional control and fighting power.
• Tang Ya was shaken by Jiang Yi’s powerful Blue Silver Grass, while Bei Bei decided to ask him how he cultivated it.
• Xu Sanshi introduced himself to Jiang Yi and asked to be friends, then left to find Ruan Qingjun.
• Bei Bei asked Jiang Yi to teach Tang Ya his cultivation method, and Jiang Yi agreed before explaining that Blue Silver Grass fought best through sheer numbers.