Chapter Summaries

Ling Bai helped Xu Jiujiu obtain her fifth soul ring from the Radiant Star Silver Wolf, then fled with her when the Radiant Light Wolf Emperor attacked to avenge its child. The blast illuminated the Eternal Night Land and brought the Nether Shadow Wolf Emperor face-to-face with its rival.

• Ling Bai defeated the Ten Thousand Year Radiant Star Silver Wolf and handed it to Xu Jiujiu, who killed it and absorbed its black soul ring.
• Xu Jiujiu awoke two hours later with her Star Crown’s fifth soul ring and her Soul Power at level fifty-one.
• Ling Bai sensed danger and carried Xu Jiujiu away as a massive beam of light erupted from the Eternal Day Zone.
• The Radiant Light Wolf Emperor unleashed Brilliant Holy Light across the Eternal Night Zone, and Ling Bai used a thin white membrane as the attack struck.
• The Radiant Light Wolf Emperor confronted the Nether Shadow Wolf Emperor, who accused it of trespassing in his territory.

After surviving the Nether Shadow Wolf Emperor’s attack, Ling Bai and Xu Jiujiu escaped the Eternal Night Land and discussed how she could repay him. Xu Jiujiu invited him to Star Luo City, but Ling Bai headed back to Shrek Academy, leaving her offer open.

• The Radiant Light Wolf Emperor told the Nether Shadow Wolf Emperor that Radiant Star had died, and the Nether Shadow Wolf Emperor ordered dark soul beasts to investigate the murder.
• Ling Bai and Xu Jiujiu emerged alive from the Tianmeng Iceworm Slough after the Wolf Emperors left, and Xu Jiujiu offered him a choice of treasure from the Star Luo Empire’s royal treasury as compensation.
• Ling Bai and Xu Jiujiu hurried out of the Youyao Forest and paused to enjoy the sunset.
• Xu Jiujiu invited Ling Bai to return to Star Luo City with her and promised him a place at the Princess’s residence, but Ling Bai said farewell and set off for Shrek Academy.

Ling Bai returned to Shrek Academy with a barely living Ten Thousand Year Medusa and completed the Red-Level task, while Du Gu Lin submitted proof that she had killed the Wolf Bandit leader. As Du Gu Lin dissected Medusa to obtain a Soul Ring, she discovered a Ten Thousand Year Medusa Head Soul Bone.

• Ling Bai met Du Gu Lin at Shrek Academy, and she told him that she had wiped out the Wolf Bandits after arriving too late to save their victims.
• Du Gu Lin submitted the Wolf Bandit leader’s head to Old Li and passed her freshman task.
• Ling Bai presented the badly injured Medusa, and Old Li verified it was a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast before announcing that Ling Bai’s Red-Level task was complete.
• Old Li rushed off to report Ling Bai’s achievement to the Sea God Pavilion elders, while Du Gu Lin asked to use Medusa as the source of her Fifth Soul Ring.
• Ling Bai asked Du Gu Lin to dissect Medusa for an experiment, and she discovered a Ten Thousand Year Medusa Head Soul Bone inside its skull.

Ling Bai obtained Du Gu Lin’s Ten Thousand Year Medusa Soul Bone, then arrived in time to watch Ning Tian’s team lose its semifinal against Huo Yuhao’s team. The defeat left Ning Tian humiliated when she realized Ling Bai had witnessed it, and she ran away from the arena.

• Ling Bai accepted Du Gu Lin’s Medusa skull bone and left the Inner Academy Assessment Hall for the Outer Academy.
• Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Nanmen Yun'er faced Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao in the freshman assessment semifinals.
• Wang Dong and Nanmen Yun'er attacked the opposing team’s key fighters, but Xiao Xiao blocked Nanmen Yun'er while Wu Feng clashed with Wang Dong.
• Huo Yuhao struck Ning Tian with Soul Shock, interrupting her support and causing Wu Feng and Nanmen Yun'er to be knocked out of bounds.
• Ning Tian saw Ling Bai in the stands after her team lost, then jumped from the platform and ran away.

After Ning Tian’s defeat left her devastated, Ling Bai comforted her and urged her to pursue Soul Tools so she could stop relying on others for the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s strength. Ning Tian agreed, and Du Weilun took her to meet Qian Duoduo in the Soul Guidance Department.

• Wu Feng told Ling Bai that Ning Tian had disappeared, and Ling Bai reassured her before flying away to find Ning Tian in an alley near Shrek City’s western gate.
• Ling Bai comforted Ning Tian, then took her to climb Chunming Mountain and watch the sunrise.
• At the summit, Ling Bai challenged Ning Tian to consider the weakness of relying on battle Soul Masters and urged her to cultivate Soul Tools as well.
• Ning Tian agreed to pursue Soul Tools, and Ling Bai brought her to Du Weilun to ask for a teacher.
• Du Weilun initially rejected the idea, but Ning Tian appealed to him by explaining her sect’s need for greater fighting strength, and he agreed to take her to Qian Duoduo.

Ning Tian proved her talent for Soul Tools by crafting three acceleration core formations, earning Xian Liner’s acceptance as her personal disciple. As Xian Liner began teaching her, Ning Tian entrusted Ling Bai with meeting the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s hidden guards, and declared her ambition to become her own mountain.

• Du Weilun brought Ning Tian to the Soul Guidance Department and proposed that she study Soul Tools while remaining in the Spirit Soul Department.
• Ning Tian used Heart Separation Control to carve three acceleration core formations at once, revealing her Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and her status as an eleven-year-old three-ring Soul Elder.
• Xian Liner accepted Ning Tian as her personal disciple and gave her a seventh-level Charged Soul Guidance Shield as an apprenticeship gift.
• Ning Tian told Ling Bai to meet the sect’s hidden guards at Shrek City’s East City Gate that night while she began lessons with Xian Liner.
• Ling Bai left to get lunch with Qian Fufu, while Ning Tian told Xian Liner she wanted to become her own mountain.

Ling Bai and Ning Tian collected cultivation treasures, and Ning Tian began studying Soul Tools under Xian Liner. After Zhou Yi demanded that Shrek’s first-years be disciplined, Du Weilun enlisted Ling Bai to challenge the entire first-year cohort, and Ling Bai agreed for reasons connected to Ning Tian and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.

• Ling Bai received the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s cultivation treasures and planned gifts for Ning Tian’s teachers and friends.
• Ning Tian told Ling Bai that Xian Liner had accepted her as a core disciple of the Soul Guidance Department and would teach her Soul Tools each day.
• Zhou Yi demanded that Du Weilun suppress the first-years’ attitudes and threatened to handle the students herself if he did not act.
• Ling Bai and Ning Tian calmed Du Weilun and heard his concerns about Zhou Yi’s harsh teaching methods.
• Du Weilun persuaded Ling Bai to face the first-years in a disciplinary Soul Duel, and Ling Bai proposed challenging all first-year students instead of just Class One.
• Ling Bai agreed to help Du Weilun and privately resolved to help Ning Tian and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect reclaim their dignity.

Du Weilun set Ling Bai against 450 first-year students, offering core disciple status and a Ten Thousand Year Medusa Head Soul Bone to anyone who defeated him. Ling Bai overwhelmed the students with his Six-Winged Angel, but after he broke Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu’s Hell White Tiger, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong launched their Golden Road fusion skill at him.

• Du Weilun introduced Ling Bai as an eleven-year-old four-ring Inner Academy student and challenged the first-years to defeat him for core disciple status.
• Ling Bai offered a Ten Thousand Year Medusa Head Soul Bone as a prize, and Du Weilun wagered a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone with Zhou Yi over whether Ling Bai could win.
• Wang Dong charged Ling Bai first, but Ling Bai’s Angel Domain suppressed the flying students and his Myriad Bladed Radiance swept across the arena.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu used their Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill against Ling Bai, but he broke through it with his Angel Holy Sword and knocked Dai Huabin unconscious.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong combined their Spirit Eyes and Light Goddess Butterfly into the Golden Road and fired it at Ling Bai.

Ling Bai defeated the first-years’ strongest Martial Soul Fusion Skills and overcame Wang Dong’s desperate attack, leaving the Soul Arena with only Ning Tian and Wu Feng still standing. He offered the Ten Thousand Year Medusa Head Soul Bone to Ning Tian, who unexpectedly took it, and placed it on her head.

• Ling Bai used Sacred Dragon True Form to break Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’s Golden Road, leaving Huo Yuhao unconscious and Wang Dong furious.
• Xiao Xiao persuaded Wang Dong to rally the survivors, and Wang Dong revealed her Clear Sky Hammer as Cao Jinxuan, Zhou Sichen, Xie Huanyue, Huang Chutian, and Xiao Xiao helped her attack Ling Bai.
• Ling Bai’s Radiant Spirit Array and Evil-warding Slash defeated the group, knocking Wang Dong unconscious and scattering their attacks.
• Ling Bai offered the Ten Thousand Year Medusa Head Soul Bone to Huang Chutian and Zhou Sichen, who refused or were knocked away, while Xiao Xiao admitted defeat and Wu Feng was beaten.
• Ning Tian playfully reached for the soul bone and unexpectedly took it, so Ling Bai placed it on her head and called her his little princess.

Ling Bai defeated Shrek’s first-year students, helped Ning Tian reclaim her confidence, and received a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone from Du Weilun after Zhou Yi was removed from the Spirit Soul Department. By Sea God Lake, Wu Feng asked Ling Bai to train her, and he agreed to give her nightly combat lessons.

• Ling Bai gave Ning Tian the Medusa Skull and encouraged her to face the Seven Monsters Reserve Team in the next tournament.
• Teacher Li healed the defeated students, and Du Weilun announced they would challenge Ling Bai again the following year or leave Shrek.
• Du Weilun forced Zhou Yi to transfer to the Soul Guidance Department and collected her Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone wager.
• Du Weilun gave Ling Bai a Ten-Thousand-Year Mad Rhinoceros Right Leg Soul Bone as payment for the demonstration.
• Wu Feng collapsed after running laps around Sea God Lake and begged Ling Bai to teach her how to grow stronger.
• Ling Bai agreed to train Wu Feng in actual combat for two hours each night, and Wu Feng vowed to surpass him.

Ling Bai attended the Seven Monsters Challenge Tournament, where he defeated Chen Zifeng in a swordsmanship duel after agreeing to fight without Soul Power or Soul Skills. He revealed that he had learned his sword art from Sword Saint Chen Xin, while Du Gu Lin’s unexplained absence left Ling Bai wondering whether something had happened to her.

• Ling Bai arrived at the sealed Inner Court Soul Arena for the Seven Monsters Challenge Tournament and spoke with Ma Xiaotao and Chu Qingtian.
• When Du Gu Lin failed to arrive before the deadline, Xuan Zi counted her as having withdrawn, and the tournament began.
• Tai Xing challenged Dai Yueheng, Ma Xiaotao chose Qian Fufu, and Ling Bai selected Chen Zifeng as his opponent.
• Chen Zifeng proposed a swordsmanship match with Soul Power and Soul Skills sealed, and Ling Bai accepted.
• Ling Bai and Chen Zifeng exchanged a hundred sword strikes in the rain before Ling Bai defeated him and showed mercy.
• When Chen Zifeng asked who had taught him his sword art, Ling Bai named Sword Saint Chen Xin of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.

Ling Bai helped select the Shrek Seven Monsters prepare for the tournament and discovered Dugu Lin was suffering a severe backlash from her Jade Phosphorous Absolute Poison. He eased her pain for the night, but she urged him to become stronger so he could enter a mysterious place.

• Ling Bai defeated Chen Zifeng with the Seven Kill Sword Technique, and Xuan Zi named the seven tournament representatives.
• Xuan Zi arranged a seven-versus-five sparring match against Zhang Lexuan, Han Ruoruo, Wu Ming, Gu Fan, and Hua Yao, who thoroughly defeated the Seven Monsters.
• Qian Duoduo and Xian Liner argued over Qian Fufu's loss and decided to focus on the Extreme Individual Soldier plan instead of confronting Yan Shaozhe.
• Ling Bai visited Dugu Lin and found her suffering a Jade Phosphorous Absolute Poison backlash that he believed was nearly impossible to cure.
• Ling Bai gave Dugu Lin sacred power to ease her symptoms, and she asked him to become stronger because he would need to enter a certain place.

Ling Bai and the Shrek Seven Monsters finally defeated three Inner Academy seniors through a coordinated ambush, though Zhang Lexuan then crushed them in a solo fight. During the academy break, Ling Bai joined Han Ruoruo, Wu Ming, and Chu Qingtian on a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain Soul Rings, and the four prepared a meal before entering.

• Ling Bai and the Shrek Seven Monsters coordinated their attacks to defeat Wu Ming, Hua Yao, and Gu Fan after five months of training, but Zhang Lexuan defeated all seven with her Martial Soul Avatar.
• Elder Xuan announced the academy break, and Han Ruoruo revealed that she had reached rank eighty and proposed that she, Ling Bai, Wu Ming, and Chu Qingtian hunt for Soul Rings in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ling Bai, Han Ruoruo, Wu Ming, and Chu Qingtian left Shrek Academy and reached the forest's outer area, where Han Ruoruo ordered everyone to rest before entering.
• Chu Qingtian secretly offered Wu Ming a fruit he had saved for her, but she stayed focused on cooking; Wu Ming then served the group her Fragrant Chicken Wings Rice.

Ling Bai and his companions entered the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for suitable soul rings, fought off a Void Demonic Leopard, and reached the outer edge of the Core Region. During their first watch at night, Ling Bai sensed an enormous threat beneath the ground, and a Thousand Jun Ant Swarm erupted from a pit.

• Han Ruoruo, Wu Ming, Chu Qingtian, and Ling Bai described the soul rings they sought before entering the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Han Ruoruo led the group into the Mixed Zone, where Ling Bai sensed a thirty-thousand-year Void Demonic Leopard approaching Chu Qingtian's flank.
• The Void Demonic Leopard ambushed Ling Bai, but he blocked its attack before Han Ruoruo restrained it and Wu Ming and Chu Qingtian killed it.
• The group continued toward the Core Region, fought off attacking soul beasts, and made camp near its outer edge for the night.
• During the first watch, Ling Bai detected a vast number of soul beasts approaching underground, and a Thousand Jun Ant Swarm burst from an enormous pit.

Wu Ming, Han Ruoruo, Chu Qingtian, and Ling Bai fought a Mutated Thousand Jun Ant King before a seventy-thousand-year Sun Scorching Fire Dragon ambushed them. They defeated the dragon, and Ling Bai absorbed its Soul Ring and extracted a crimson torso Soul Bone.

• Wu Ming burned through the Thousand Jun Ant Swarm and wounded the Mutated Thousand Jun Ant King, but the ant landed on and destroyed their tent.
• Wu Ming chased the fleeing ant king, and the group followed her into the forest, where the Sun Scorching Fire Dragon ambushed them and injured her.
• Han Ruoruo restrained the Sun Scorching Fire Dragon with her Shaking Gold Avatar while Chu Qingtian and Ling Bai attacked it.
• Wu Ming and Ling Bai joined the assault, and the Sun Scorching Fire Dragon died after Ling Bai's Sacred Dragon True Form struck it.
• Ling Bai absorbed the dragon's Soul Ring and extracted its seventy-thousand-year torso Soul Bone.

After Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming were injured, the group began leaving the Star Dou Great Forest but discovered two scorpions and a Pink Empress fighting nearby. They killed the soul beasts to obtain suitable soul rings, but Wu Ming and Chu Qingtian were still absorbing theirs when a powerful Azure Lion Azure Sky Beast appeared.

• Ling Bai and Chu Qingtian divided the Burning Sun Fire Dragon’s remains, and Han Ruoruo decided the group should leave the Star Dou Great Forest once Wu Ming returned.
• The group spotted a fifty-thousand-year Earth King coupled with a Ten Thousand Year Purple Lightning Scorpion, then learned a pack led by a thirty-thousand-year Pink Empress was approaching.
• The Pink Empress attacked the unfaithful pair, but the Earth King defeated it while the Purple Lightning Scorpion slaughtered much of its pack.
• Ling Bai, Han Ruoruo, Wu Ming, and Chu Qingtian ambushed and killed the Earth King and Purple Lightning Scorpion; Wu Ming and Chu Qingtian began absorbing their soul rings.
• While Wu Ming and Chu Qingtian remained occupied, an Azure Lion Azure Sky Beast arrived at the lake, and Han Ruoruo recognized that the group had entered its territory.

Ling Bai returned to help Han Ruoruo fight the ninety-thousand-year Azure Lion Azure Sky Beast, revealing his Death Prison Spider Emperor martial soul and using the Pink Lady soul rings he had devoured to challenge it. After the beast and Ling Bai struck each other with fatal blows, Ling Bai survived and Han Ruoruo killed the beast; she then asked him if he had anything to say to her.

• Han Ruoruo stayed behind to hold off the Azure Lion Azure Sky Beast while Ling Bai carried Wu Ming and Chu Qingtian to safety.
• Ling Bai left the injured Wu Ming and Chu Qingtian behind a defensive array and returned to the battlefield to help Han Ruoruo.
• Ling Bai revealed his Death Prison Spider Emperor martial soul and devoured the Pink Lady soul rings to gain power, while Han Ruoruo countered the beast's control skill.
• Ling Bai and Han Ruoruo attacked the Azure Lion Azure Sky Beast together, and Ling Bai's scythe and the beast's tentacles pierced each other's hearts.
• Ling Bai regenerated from his wound, and Han Ruoruo killed the weakened beast with her Shaking Gold Rope.
• Han Ruoruo refused to absorb the beast's soul ring immediately and asked Ling Bai if he had anything to say to her.

After discovering Ling Bai’s Death Prison Spider Emperor martial soul, Han Ruoruo chose to keep it secret after he promised to resist its evil influence. The injured group recovered and began leaving the Star Dou Great Forest, where Ling Bai and Han Ruoruo took the first watch together.

• Han Ruoruo questioned Ling Bai about killing innocents to cultivate, and he said he had never killed a human and would keep resisting the Death Prison Spider Emperor’s evil power.
• Han Ruoruo promised to conceal Ling Bai’s secret and made him seal his promise with a pinky promise before treating his injuries on her lap.
• Wu Ming and Chu Qingtian found the group, and Han Ruoruo hid the Death Prison Spider Emperor’s details while explaining that Ling Bai had used a damaging secret technique to save them.
• Han Ruoruo absorbed the Azure Lion Azure Sky Beast’s Ninety Thousand Year soul ring, and the four began withdrawing from the Star Dou Great Forest with three of them injured.
• That night, Ling Bai took the first watch, and Han Ruoruo joined him to keep watch and hear about the freshman inspection mission he and Chu Qingtian planned to accept.

Ling Bai received a red-level surveillance mission to deal with a Calamity Snow Demon near the Far North, while Huo Yuhao planned to travel north with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to gain strength. Ling Bai then met Ning Tian and Wu Feng, and the three prepared to leave Shrek together.

• Han Ruoruo warned Ling Bai to recover carefully and take his surveillance mission seriously before Wu Ming dragged her away.
• Old Li assigned Pan Tao a white-level Man Faced Demon Spider mission, Du Gu Lin a black-level mission to kill Xue Wang, and Chu Qingtian a black-level Evil Soul Master mission.
• Old Li gave Ling Bai the red-level mission to capture or kill a thirty-thousand-year Calamity Snow Demon that had ravaged fields near Dragon City.
• Huo Yuhao panicked about his upcoming advancement assessment, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm promised to take him to the Far North to raise his strength and obtain a second ice spirit.
• Ling Bai met Ning Tian and Wu Feng outside the girls' dormitory, and Ning Tian said she had hired a carriage so they could go home together.

Ning Fengya welcomed Ling Bai, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng back to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and praised their achievements at Shrek Academy. Their reunion was interrupted by the Body Sect’s First Elder, Chen Hu, who demanded a marriage alliance and then proposed marrying Ning Fengya himself.

• Ning Fengya ordered Wu Yan to protect the sect’s rare-metal shipments after the losses were blamed on the Body Sect.
• Ling Bai, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng returned to the council hall, where Ning Fengya praised their progress and offered them access to a secret technique in the All Under Heaven Vault.
• Wu Yan announced that the Body Sect’s First Elder had arrived, and Ning Fengya summoned Chen Hu and his three companions into the council hall.
• Chen Hu introduced his disciple Chen Yu and demanded that Ning Tian marry him to unite the two sects.
• Wu Feng tried to attack Chen Yu after he insulted Ning Tian, but Ling Bai and Wu Yan restrained her.
• After Ning Fengya rejected the marriage demand, Chen Hu proposed that she marry him and bring the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect as her dowry.