Chapter Summaries

Tang San gave Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu Sleeve Swords, and the three sworn siblings named their future organization the Tang Sect. After spending the rest of the holiday helping Old Jack, they returned to Nuoding Academy and resumed training, where Xiao Wu learned Waist Bow and Wang Xingyu continued practicing Life Drain.

• Tang San gave Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu Sleeve Swords and explained how the hidden weapons worked.
• Wang Xingyu suggested the Tang School, Xiao Wu proposed the Tang Sect, and Tang San agreed to the name Tang Sect.
• Xiao Wu reminded Wang Xingyu that Tang San was their eldest sworn brother, but Tang San let Wang Xingyu keep calling him Little San.
• During the rest of the holiday, Xiao Wu, Wang Xingyu, and Tang San helped Old Jack with chores and shared mung bean soup.
• When the holiday ended, the three returned to Nuoding Academy and resumed their cultivation and practice.
• Xiao Wu learned Waist Bow, while Wang Xingyu repeatedly practiced Life Drain with Blue Silver Grass.

Wang Xingyu, Tang San, and Xiao Wu discovered that linking all three of their Blue Silver Grass strands created a self-sustaining Soul Power cycle that improved their cultivation. After Tang San reached level twenty, Grandmaster recommended a Second Soul Ring, but the three ignored him and Wang Xingyu told him to improve his own cultivation first.

• Wang Xingyu, Tang San, and Xiao Wu experimented with cultivating while connected by Blue Silver Grass, then formed a triangle that made their Soul Power circulate in a stable loop.
• Wang Xingyu tested the cycle with Wang Sheng and other students, finding that it worked best with Tang San and Xiao Wu and improved all three of their Soul Power.
• The three kept cultivating through their connections over the changing seasons, refining their abilities as Wang Xingyu’s cultivation speed nearly doubled and Tang San and Xiao Wu’s Soul Power grew denser.
• Tang San told Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu that he had reached level twenty and needed a Second Soul Ring, while Xiao Wu said she was close to that level too.
• Grandmaster advised Tang San to hunt a roughly six-hundred-year Ghost Vine for the Soul Skill Parasite, but Wang Xingyu, Tang San, and Xiao Wu walked past him.
• Wang Xingyu told Grandmaster to focus on improving himself and suggested he find dragon-type Soul Beast meat or blood instead of feeding on radishes.

Wang Xingyu proposed that Tang San absorb a thousand-year Offshoot Vine Soul Ring by using the Triangle Cycle to share its impact among himself, Tang San, and Xiao Wu. Dean Fang agreed to help hunt the Soul Beast and promised to interrupt the absorption if the trio were in danger.

• Wang Xingyu told Tang San that an Offshoot Vine Soul Ring could expand the reach of his Blue Silver Grass control.
• Wang Xingyu proposed a thousand-year Soul Ring and explained that the Triangle Cycle might divide its impact among the three of them.
• Tang San decided the potential strength of the Soul Ring was worth the risk, and Xiao Wu agreed to take part.
• Wang Xingyu, Tang San, and Xiao Wu demonstrated the Triangle Cycle to Dean Fang, who agreed to help with the hunt and stop the absorption if necessary.
• Dean Fang told the three to meet him at the city gate the next morning and find a mercenary group themselves.

Wang Xingyu, Tang San, and Xiao Wu joined Dean Fang and the Iron Rock Mercenary Group to hunt a thousand-year Offshoot Vine, which Tang San absorbed as his Second Soul Ring with help from their triangular circuit. The group returned after Tang San reached level twenty-one and demonstrated his new vine-splitting skill, while Wang Xingyu realized their circuit could help share the strain of absorbing future Soul Rings.

• Dean Fang led the group into the Soul Hunting Forest after Wang Xingyu sensed a thousand-year Offshoot Vine ahead.
• The group fought the multiplying vines until Dean Fang and Tang San restrained and nearly severed the main vine, allowing Tang San to finish it and claim its purple Soul Ring.
• Wang Xingyu connected his Blue Silver Grass to nearby plants and the others, channeling borrowed life force and Soul Power through the triangular circuit to help Tang San absorb the ring.
• Tang San absorbed the thousand-year Soul Ring, reached level twenty-one, and used his new Offshoot skill to split his vines and crush a dead tree.
• Dean Fang and the Iron Rock Mercenary Group departed, and Wang Xingyu, Tang San, and Xiao Wu discussed how the triangular circuit could support future Soul Ring absorption.

Xiao Wu gained her thousand-year Second Soul Ring, and Wang Xingyu later obtained his own through their triangular Soul Power circulation. After seven years at Nuoding Academy, the three graduated and left together, with Wang Xingyu deciding their next destination would be Shrek.

• Xiao Wu found the corpse of a thousand-year Soul Beast on the back mountain and used the triangular circulation to gain a thousand-year Second Soul Ring and the Moonfall skill.
• Over the next two years, Wang Xingyu saved enough money to buy Xiao Wu a pink Storage Soul Tool, while she quickly filled it with her belongings.
• Wang Xingyu reached level twenty, absorbed a thousand-year dandelion Soul Ring with Tang San and Xiao Wu’s help, and gained the Flying Fluff support skill.
• Dean Fang and Tie Yan praised the trio’s complementary abilities, and Wang Xingyu paid Tie Yan for the Soul Beast hunt.
• Wang Xingyu bought Tang San a larger Storage Soul Tool and took Tang San’s old storage pouch in exchange.
• Wang Xingyu, Tang San, and Xiao Wu graduated from Nuoding Academy, and Wang Xingyu chose Shrek as their next destination.

Wang Xingyu, Tang San, and Xiao Wu traveled to Suotuo City on their way to Shrek Academy, where Tang San bought a rare Plate Crystal and clashed with Dai Mubai over a hotel room. The chapter ended with the three sharing the Rose Hotel’s single available room after Tang San and Dai Mubai fought to a draw.

• Wang Xingyu chose to accompany Tang San and Xiao Wu to Shrek Academy, believing Tang San should keep to his destined path.
• Tang San spotted a Plate Crystal in Flender’s shop, and Wang Xingyu bargained Flender down to sixty Gold Soul Coins.
• Wang Xingyu booked the Rose Hotel’s last room for the three of them, only for Dai Mubai to demand it back.
• Tang San countered Dai Mubai’s probing moves and revealed his Blue Silver Grass and thousand-year Second Soul Ring.
• Tang San and Dai Mubai exchanged attacks until neither could gain the upper hand, then agreed to a draw.
• Wang Xingyu took the room key, and Tang San sat on the bed examining the Plate Crystal.

Wang Xingyu, Tang San, and Xiao Wu reached Shrek Academy and demonstrated that they met its demanding entrance standards. After Tang San revealed a Dragon Whisker Needle, the three were sent directly to the fourth round, where they faced an unknown challenge that Wang Xingyu knew would be a fight against Zhao Wuji.

• Tang San fashioned a Dragon Whisker Needle from Hair Gold and explained how it could burrow into a victim's flesh.
• Wang Xingyu, Tang San, and Xiao Wu arrived at Shrek Academy, where Li Yusong rejected an applicant and demonstrated his Soul Emperor strength.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu proved they were twelve years old and level twenty-nine, earning exemptions from the second and third rounds.
• Wang Xingyu revealed his yellow first Soul Ring and thousand-year purple second Soul Ring, and Li Yusong also sent him directly to the fourth round.
• Dai Mubai led Wang Xingyu, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and a girl Wang Xingyu suspected was Ning Rongrong toward the fourth round, which he knew would test them against Zhao Wuji.

Wang Xingyu, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong faced Zhao Wuji in Shrek Academy’s fourth test, relying on coordinated attacks against the powerful Soul Saint. Zhao Wuji endured their opening assault and announced that he would get serious while the incense was still burning.

• Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Wang Xingyu ate Oscar’s sausages despite Dai Mubai warning them about Oscar’s soul incantation, and Dai Mubai led the group to meet Zhu Zhuqing.
• Zhao Wuji set the fourth test’s rules and revealed his level-seventy-six Great Strength Vajra Bear Martial Soul and seven Soul Rings.
• Tang San organized the team’s tactics as each student described their abilities, and Ning Rongrong prepared to boost them with her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Tang San and Wang Xingyu attacked Zhao Wuji with Blue Silver Grass while Wang Xingyu drained his Soul Power, and Xiao Wu’s combo knocked Zhao Wuji down without injuring him.
• Zhu Zhuqing attacked Zhao Wuji from the flank, and Tang San and Wang Xingyu helped pull the support fighters out of danger when Zhao Wuji charged them.
• Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Tang San briefly forced Zhao Wuji to one knee, but Zhao Wuji used his Fifth Soul Skill, Gravity Squeeze, to blast the attackers away and declared that he would get serious.

Wang Xingyu and Tang San combined their Blue Silver Grass skills and hidden weapons to fight Zhao Wuji during the Shrek entrance test. The incense burned out before Zhao Wuji could finish his attack, and he declared the group had passed.

• Tang San used Offshoot while Wang Xingyu's Flying Fluff sustained the multiplying vines, but Zhao Wuji broke free with his sixth Soul Skill.
• Wang Xingyu gathered the others' Soul Power and channeled it into Tang San, who attacked Zhao Wuji with hidden weapons and Dragon Whisker Needles.
• Zhao Wuji dragged Tang San close with Gravity Squeeze as Tang San revealed the Clear Sky Hammer, but Wang Xingyu called the test over when the incense burned out.
• Zhao Wuji declared the group had passed, and Tang San removed the Dragon Whisker Needles from his shoulder.
• Xiao Wu congratulated Tang San as the group recovered from the battle.

Wang Xingyu, Tang San, and Xiao Wu explained how their linked cultivation let them share the pressure of thousand-year Soul Rings, then met Ma Hongjun while exploring the village. After Ma Hongjun invited them to try his aunt’s baked flatbread, Wang Xingyu returned to the dorm with Tang San and suggested they go watch a show that night.

• Wang Xingyu linked himself, Tang San, and Xiao Wu with Blue Silver Grass and explained how their shared cultivation helped them bear the pressure of thousand-year Soul Rings.
• The three explored the village and found Ma Hongjun gripping Cuihua’s arm; Tang San made him release her, and Xiao Wu defeated him in a fight.
• Wang Xingyu recognized Ma Hongjun as a Shrek student with an Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul, and Cuihua ran away while Ma Hongjun watched in silence.
• Ma Hongjun accepted Wang Xingyu’s help to his feet, learned the newcomers’ names, and invited them to try his aunt’s baked flatbread.
• After returning to the dorm, Wang Xingyu asked Tang San if he wanted to go watch a show that night.

Wang Xingyu took Tang San to witness Tang Hao defeat Zhao Wuji before revealing himself to his son. The next morning, Tang San, Wang Xingyu, and Xiao Wu joined the other students at the training ground.

• Wang Xingyu and Tang San hid in a tree and watched Tang Hao beat Zhao Wuji without using Soul Power or Soul Skills.
• Tang Hao revealed himself, reunited with Tang San, and told him that he had been nearby all along before leaving into the night.
• Wang Xingyu, Tang San, and Xiao Wu ate breakfast, with Oscar providing them sausages.
• At the training ground, Wang Xingyu observed the students' interactions and asked Ma Hongjun what was wrong with his expression.

Wang Xingyu and the Shrek students faced Flender’s first lesson, exposing Ning Rongrong’s truancy and leaving her to decide whether to stay. That evening, Flender took the students to Suotuo City’s Great Soul Arena to begin their training and set rules for their matches.

• Ma Hongjun pointed out that he and Wang Xingyu were the only Shrek commanders without troops, and Wang Xingyu realized he had overlooked the issue.
• Flender ordered the students to run twenty laps; Ning Rongrong skipped the run, so Flender punished Oscar with extra laps for lying about her.
• Flender confronted Ning Rongrong and listed the other students’ strengths, after which she ran out of the village.
• Wang Xingyu told Oscar that Ning Rongrong had left, and Oscar quietly drank the water Wang Xingyu gave him.
• Flender led the students to the Great Soul Arena in Suotuo City and required them to earn Silver Soul Badges through one-on-one matches.
• Flender barred Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Wang Xingyu from teaming up, and Ma Hongjun asked how the students should pair off.

Xiao Wu, Tang San, and Wang Xingyu fought solo matches before Wang Xingyu and Ma Hongjun entered a two-on-two battle. After they won, Wang Xingyu used his Blue Silver Grass to draw off Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire, leaving Ma Hongjun stable but burning Wang Xingyu’s hand.

• Xiao Wu defeated her strength-type opponent in seconds with Moon Shadow and Waist Bow.
• Tang San restrained Zhu Zhuqing with Blue Silver Grass until she surrendered, then released her unharmed.
• Wang Xingyu wore down his hammer-wielding opponent with repeated Life Drain and won after the man gave up.
• Wang Xingyu and Ma Hongjun drained and pressured their two hammer-wielding opponents until both surrendered.
• Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire flared after the match, so Wang Xingyu drew most of it into his Blue Silver Grass, which burned and exploded; Ma Hongjun recovered while Wang Xingyu’s palm was left with burn marks.

After Ma Hongjun and Wang Xingyu’s successful match, the Soul Fighting Arena registered them as the Fat Fish Combination, while Wang Xingyu offered to help control Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire. At Shrek Academy, Dai Mubai’s clash with Ning Rongrong ended with Oscar rejecting her too, leaving her alone at the gate.

• Ma Hongjun proposed grand names for his partnership with Wang Xingyu, but the arena staff registered them as the Fat Fish Combination after hearing the group’s suggestions.
• Wang Xingyu offered to draw out Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire in the future and promised to introduce him to Bai Chenxiang if he earned her respect.
• At Shrek Academy’s entrance, Dai Mubai blasted Ning Rongrong and Oscar backward with his Soul Power, but Wang Xingyu caught them with Blue Silver Grass and Tang San calmed Dai Mubai.
• Ning Rongrong demanded that Wang Xingyu kill Dai Mubai for ten thousand Gold Soul Coins, but Wang Xingyu refused and stopped her from asking Tang San for help.
• Ning Rongrong asked Oscar to help her, but Oscar told her she was not suited to Shrek and went inside, leaving her alone at the gate.

Ning Rongrong joined the others in eating Oscar’s sausages, and Flender learned that Oscar had reached level thirty. Wang Xingyu, Tang San, and Xiao Wu tested Zhao Wuji’s Gravity Enhancement for physical training and found that it improved their Triangle Cycle cultivation; Flender then made gravity training part of Shrek’s daily curriculum.

• Ning Rongrong bit into Oscar’s sausage with unusual intensity, while the others ate theirs as Flender required.
• Flender discovered that Oscar had reached level thirty and announced plans to help him obtain a Third Soul Ring the next day.
• Wang Xingyu, Tang San, and Xiao Wu asked Zhao Wuji to use Gravity Enhancement for training and endured half an hour of pressure without resisting it with Soul Power.
• Wang Xingyu linked Tang San and Xiao Wu with Blue Silver Grass, and the three found that their Triangle Cycle circulated Soul Power more quickly after gravity training.
• Flender observed their cultivation and added gravity training to Shrek’s daily curriculum, then gathered the other students for their first session.
• Zhao Wuji spread Gravity Enhancement across the group and adjusted the pressure for each student while maintaining the field.

The Shrek group traveled toward the Star Dou Great Forest to help Oscar obtain his Third Soul Ring, but a clash with Canghui Academy students escalated into a fight with their teacher, Ye Zhiqiu. Zhao Wuji ended the confrontation with one slap, and the group returned to bed before continuing their journey.

• Zhao Wuji led the Shrek group toward the Star Dou Great Forest, and they stopped for dinner in a town along the way.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun prepared to provoke Canghui Academy, but Tang San argued against bullying weaker opponents; then the Canghui students insulted Wang Xingyu and Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu and Dai Mubai defeated the eight Canghui students, and Ye Zhiqiu intervened before challenging the Shrek group outside.
• Wang Xingyu, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and the others fought Ye Zhiqiu to a stalemate until Zhao Wuji arrived.
• Ye Zhiqiu charged Zhao Wuji, who knocked him down with a single slap, then ordered the Shrek group back to bed.

Wang Xingyu’s group found a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent for Oscar, but Snake Granny and Meng Yiran claimed they had tracked and wounded it first. Tang San fought Meng Yiran to decide who would get the Soul Ring, and the duel ended in a contest of strength over her Serpent Cane.

• Wang Xingyu detected a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, and the group subdued it so Oscar could claim its Soul Ring.
• Snake Granny and Meng Yiran arrived, claimed they had found and wounded the serpent first, and demanded it be handed over.
• Wang Xingyu proposed that Tang San duel Meng Yiran to decide who would get the Soul Ring, and Tang San revealed he had just reached level thirty.
• Tang San dodged Meng Yiran’s attacks and escaped her Serpent Body ability, then grabbed her Serpent Cane with his Mysterious Jade Hand.
• Tang San and Meng Yiran each held one end of the Serpent Cane and began a direct contest of strength.

Tang San and Wang Xingyu defeated Meng Yiran in a Soul Power contest, allowing Oscar to absorb the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent's Soul Ring. While the group searched for Tang San's Soul Ring, the Titan Giant Ape attacked, seized Xiao Wu, and dragged Wang Xingyu after her as Tang San raced into the forest in pursuit.

• Tang San overpowered Meng Yiran, and Wang Xingyu caught and treated her after her Soul Power exploded; Snake Granny conceded the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent to them.
• Oscar absorbed the serpent's Soul Ring and gained a Mushroom Sausage that let its user fly at a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent's speed for one minute.
• Wang Xingyu sensed the nearby Soul Beasts had fled, and Zhao Wuji spotted the Titan Giant Ape approaching the group.
• Wang Xingyu channeled the group's Soul Power through Ning Rongrong, who boosted Zhao Wuji as he fought the Titan Giant Ape and bought time for everyone to fly away.
• The Titan Giant Ape caught Xiao Wu and carried her off, while Wang Xingyu's Blue Silver Grass tethered him to her; Tang San raced into the forest after them.

Tang San pursued the Titan Giant Ape after it carried off Xiao Wu and Wang Xingyu, but a Man Faced Demon Spider blocked his path. After killing it, he began absorbing its Soul Ring while Wang Xingyu and Tang Hao watched nearby.

• Zhao Wuji returned to the clearing, learned that Tang San had chased after Xiao Wu and Wang Xingyu, and set off with the others to find them.
• Tang San raced through the forest, remembering his bond with Xiao Wu and Wang Xingyu as he searched for them.
• A Man Faced Demon Spider attacked Tang San, and he trapped it briefly with Blue Silver Grass before it dragged him back with poisonous silk.
• Tang San used the Godly Zhuge Crossbow to shoot bolts into the spider's abdomen, killing it and leaving behind a purple Soul Ring.
• Exhausted and wounded, Tang San began absorbing the Soul Ring while Wang Xingyu told Tang Hao that he wanted the spider's Soul Bone.

Tang San gained an external Soul Bone while absorbing the Man Faced Demon Spider’s Soul Ring, and Wang Xingyu tried to bargain with Tang Hao for the Blue Silver Emperor’s Soul Bone. After Tang San finished absorbing both, the Dragon Duke confronted the Shrek group and challenged them to a throwing-knife contest, leaving Tang San eager to settle things and search for Xiao Wu and Wang Xingyu.

• Tang Hao recognized the eight spider legs that emerged from Tang San as an external Soul Bone, and Wang Xingyu explained its rarity and growth potential.
• Wang Xingyu asked Tang Hao for the Blue Silver Emperor’s Soul Bone, but Tang Hao refused because it had been left for Tang San by his mother.
• Ma Hongjun and the other Shrek members arrived, saw Tang San’s spider legs, and waited while he finished absorbing the Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• The Dragon Duke arrived with Meng Yiran and Snake Granny Chao Tianxiang, demanded compensation for the Man Faced Demon Spider, and proposed a throwing-knife contest.
• Tang San apologized for taking the spider, declined to argue, and prepared to settle the dispute quickly; Meng Yiran accepted the contest.