Recaps

Ji Lin passed Shrek Academy’s entrance test with a Soul Power Level of thirty-nine, and Zhang Lexuan guided him through the academy and completed his registration. He learned he had been assigned to Freshman Class One, whose homeroom teacher was Zhou Yi, and worried about her reputation.

• Ji Lin passed the entrance test, and Zhang Lexuan took him on a tour of Shrek Academy.
• Zhang Lexuan introduced Ji Lin to the statues of the Golden Iron Triangle and the first-generation Shrek Seven Devils, then explained the academy’s divisions and Sea God Lake.
• Zhang Lexuan showed Ji Lin the teaching buildings and explained how their colors marked student grades and how much space the Martial Soul Department occupied compared with the Soul Tool Department.
• Ji Lin registered at the freshmen teaching building, paid his tuition, and received his dormitory key, uniforms, and freshman badge.
• Ji Lin saw that he had been assigned to Freshman Class One, taught by Zhou Yi, and worried about her personality and teaching methods.

Ji Lin moved into the freshmen dormitory at Shrek Academy with Zhang Lexuan’s help, and she returned to the Inner Court after they ate. Left alone, Ji Lin settled in and wondered who his roommate would be, especially whether Princess Tang or Wang Qiuer might appear.

• Zhang Lexuan introduced Ji Lin to Mu En, who checked Ji Lin’s badge and dormitory key and directed him to Dormitory 108.
• Mu En reflected on Zhang Lexuan ending their old engagement agreement and on Bei Bei’s relationship with Tang Ya.
• Zhang Lexuan helped Ji Lin air out and clean his dusty dormitory before taking him to the freshmen cafeteria for a meal.
• Zhang Lexuan returned to the Inner Court, while Ji Lin made his bed and prepared to cultivate.
• Ji Lin wondered whether Princess Tang would become his roommate and amused himself by imagining Wang Dong'er meeting Wang Qiuer.

Ji Lin met his new roommate, Huo Yuhao, at Shrek Academy while Di Tian learned that the Imperial Beast had fled the Star Dou Great Forest. The Imperial Beast, now living as Wang Qiuer, enrolled at Shrek and headed to the new student dormitories.

• Huo Yuhao arrived at the dormitory and met Ji Lin, who told him they had crossed paths in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Di Tian learned from Scarlet King that the Imperial Beast had taken human form and gone into human society, while Bi Ji urged him to let her return on her own.
• Wang Qiuer reached Shrek Academy, where she passed a Soul Power test that caused the testing crystal ball to explode.
• Wang Qiuer presented a purchased Recommendation Letter, completed her registration, and entered the new student dormitory building.

Wang Dong'er arrived at Shrek Academy and discovered her roommate, Wang Qiuer, looked almost exactly like her. After losing a physical fight, Wang Dong'er reluctantly called Wang Qiuer big sister and resolved to train until she could defeat her.

• Wang Dong'er registered at Shrek Academy and found Wang Qiuer cleaning their shared dormitory.
• Wang Dong'er insisted Wang Qiuer was her separated younger sister and challenged her to a fight to decide who would be the big sister.
• Wang Qiuer evaded Wang Dong'er's attacks, caught her ankle, and forced her to surrender and call her big sister.
• An old man at the dormitory entrance told Wang Dong'er she had been outmatched in combat experience, physical strength, and Soul Power Level.
• Wang Dong'er thanked the old man and decided to cultivate diligently so she could defeat Wang Qiuer and make her call her big sister.

Ji Lin and Huo Yuhao cultivated while the new students arrived at Shrek Academy, where Ji Lin, Wang Qiuer, Wang Dong'er, and Huo Yuhao all entered Freshman Class One. The chapter ended with their homeroom teacher, Zhou Yi, warning the class that only those who passed her assessments would remain.

• Ji Lin watched Wang Qiuer defeat Wang Dong'er outside the dormitory, then returned to cultivating Void Sword Qi as Huo Yuhao practiced the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• Ji Lin and Huo Yuhao cultivated over the next two days, and Ji Lin encountered Wang Qiuer and Wang Dong'er in the cafeteria without revealing that he recognized Wang Qiuer.
• Ji Lin reminded Huo Yuhao that class was about to begin and went to Freshman Class One, where Wang Qiuer and Wang Dong'er also took seats.
• Huo Yuhao arrived before the bell and found a seat elsewhere because the students around Ji Lin had filled the nearby seats.
• Zhou Yi introduced herself as the homeroom teacher and told the class that she would not let any trash pass her assessment.

Zhou Yi forced the freshmen to run one hundred laps as their first assessment and explained Shrek Academy’s rules for student fights. Wang Qiuer and Wang Dong'er joined the runners after Zhou Yi ordered them to share the punishment, and the class raced to finish before the deadline.

• Zhou Yi ordered every student except Wang Qiuer and Wang Dong'er to run one hundred laps, threatening to expel anyone who refused and revealing her six Soul Rings.
• Ji Lin joined the other freshmen in running, deciding that challenging Zhou Yi over a minor punishment was not worth using Shrek Academy’s favor.
• Zhou Yi praised Wang Qiuer and Wang Dong'er for fighting, explained the academy’s rules on combat, then ordered them to complete the same hundred laps.
• Wang Qiuer pulled Wang Dong'er out of the classroom before she could argue with Zhou Yi, and the two joined the runners at Shrek Plaza.
• Several boys tried to approach Wang Qiuer and Wang Dong'er, but they ignored them and hurried to make up for their delayed start.

Ji Lin, Wang Qiuer, Wang Dong'er, and the rest of Zhou Yi's class completed a hundred-lap run, after which Zhou Yi expelled nine students for cutting corners. The remaining students hurried to change and return to class, wary of their strict teacher.

• Wang Qiuer and Wang Dong'er caught up with Ji Lin and ran behind him as the class completed its hundred laps.
• Ji Lin, Wang Qiuer, and Wang Dong'er finished first, while Huo Yuhao pushed through exhaustion and completed the run before time ran out.
• Zhou Yi named Cheng Cheng, Qiu Jianrao, Tang Dao, Shangguan Chentian, Lin Zeyu, Zhuge Yun, Tailong, Tang Ling, and Yun Xiaopiao, then expelled them for failing to run all one hundred laps.
• Tailong challenged Zhou Yi, who explained that he had walked the first two laps and therefore fallen short.
• The nine expelled students went to the Academic Affairs Office to complain, while Zhou Yi sent the remaining students to change before class.

Ji Lin returned to class with Huo Yuhao and listened as Zhou Yi defended Huo Yuhao’s special admission before teaching the class about attack, defense, and Soul Tools. The lesson left the students with Zhou Yi’s warning that physical strength and soul rings remained essential to survival.

• On the way back to the dormitory, Ji Lin introduced himself to Wang Dong'er and Wang Qiuer, then teased them about being sisters until Wang Dong'er hurried away in irritation.
• After changing, Ji Lin and Huo Yuhao returned to class, where Zhou Yi noted that all ninety-one remaining students were present.
• Zhou Yi had Huo Yuhao state his Soul Power Level and explained that he was specially admitted, while warning that he could still be expelled if he failed his assigned work.
• Zhou Yi asked Ji Lin which soul master systems favored attack or defense, and he explained how Soul Tools blurred the distinction.
• Zhou Yi taught that Soul Tools could broaden a soul master’s capabilities but could not make up for weak physical qualities, which remained vital to battlefield survival.

Zhou Yi began physical training for Freshman Class One and named Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer as class monitor and vice class monitor after revealing their exceptional cultivation. Huo Yuhao learned he might join the Soul Tool Department if he failed his advancement exam, while Wang Dong'er resolved to catch up with Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer.

• Zhou Yi dismissed the morning class and took Huo Yuhao to meet Fan Yu, who offered him a possible place in the Soul Tool Department if he failed his end-of-term exam.
• Ji Lin invited Wang Qiuer and Wang Dong'er to lunch, then promised to support Huo Yuhao when he started selling grilled fish.
• Zhou Yi assembled the class at Shrek Plaza and appointed Ji Lin class monitor because he had the highest cultivation.
• Ji Lin displayed his one yellow and two purple soul rings, startling the students and discouraging anyone from challenging him.
• Zhou Yi named Wang Qiuer vice class monitor, and Wang Qiuer revealed the same extraordinary soul ring configuration.
• Wang Dong'er silently resolved to cultivate harder after seeing how far Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer had surpassed her.

Zhou Yi made First-Year Class One run laps in heavy Iron Clothes, threatening to expel the student who completed the fewest. Huo Yuhao endured far beyond his apparent limits, inspiring the exhausted class to return to the track as the dismissal bell approached.

• Zhou Yi assigned the students Iron Clothes and ordered them to run until the dismissal bell, warning that the last-place student would be expelled.
• Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer led the run while Huo Yuhao fell behind, and Ji Lin urged him to regulate his breathing and keep going.
• As students collapsed from exhaustion, Huo Yuhao pushed past his limits and improved his Mysterious Heaven Skill under the strain.
• Only Ji Lin, Wang Qiuer, and Huo Yuhao remained running before Wang Dong'er also collapsed, then got back up and rejoined them.
• Moved by Huo Yuhao's perseverance, Wang Dong'er and the other students returned to the track and resumed running.

After Huo Yuhao and his classmates endured Zhou Yi’s punishing physical training, a Soul Saint healed their injuries and Zhou Yi announced that no students would be expelled. Ji Lin later joined Wang Qiuer and Wang Dong'er at Huo Yuhao’s grilled-fish stall, where they were won over by his cooking.

• Huo Yuhao collapsed after the dismissal bell, and Ji Lin caught him as Zhou Yi summoned a white-robed Soul Saint to heal the ninety-one students.
• The Soul Saint used his Life Tree Martial Soul to restore the students’ bodies, leaving their depleted Soul Power untouched.
• Zhou Yi announced that no one would be eliminated and dismissed the class with advice to reflect on the training.
• Tang Ya called Huo Yuhao to join her at his grilled-fish stall, while Ji Lin invited Wang Qiuer and Wang Dong'er to go along.
• Ji Lin, Wang Qiuer, and Wang Dong'er bought Huo Yuhao’s grilled fish, praised its taste, and agreed to return often.

Ji Lin watched Jiang Nannan bargain for Huo Yuhao’s grilled fish before Xu Sanshi tried to take the fish reserved for Tang Ya, prompting Bei Bei to challenge him to a match for the Mysterious Water Pill. At the Soul Fighting Area, Ji Lin met up with Huo Yuhao and Tang Ya, who recognized him, and Tang Ya invited Wang Dong’er to join the Tang Sect, but Wang Dong’er declined.

• Jiang Nannan asked Huo Yuhao for grilled fish and tried to negotiate the price, but he told her they were sold out.
• Xu Sanshi tried to take Tang Ya’s reserved fish, and Bei Bei and Tang Ya stopped him before Bei Bei provoked him into a Soul Fighting match.
• Ji Lin took Wang Qiuer and Wang Dong’er to the Soul Fighting Area to watch Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi fight.
• Huo Yuhao and Tang Ya arrived, and Tang Ya recognized Ji Lin from their meeting in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tang Ya introduced herself as the Tang Sect’s sect master and invited Wang Dong’er to join, but Wang Dong’er declined because she already belonged to a sect.

Ji Lin revealed that he had sealed away the spirit sense in Wang Dong'er, then watched Bei Bei defeat Xu Sanshi in a Soul Fighting match. Afterward, Bei Bei gave Huo Yuhao the Mysterious Water Pill he had won, and Ji Lin explained its rarity and benefits.

• Ji Lin recalled using a Spirit Seal Card on Wang Dong'er to absorb and seal the spirit sense in her mind.
• Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi fought in the arena, using their Martial Souls and Soul Skills in a closely matched battle.
• Bei Bei used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to get past Xu Sanshi's shield and win the match.
• Bei Bei collected the Mysterious Water Pill from Xu Sanshi and gave it to Huo Yuhao.
• Ji Lin explained that the pill could raise Soul Power and cleanse the meridians and transform the marrow, leaving Huo Yuhao moved by Bei Bei's generosity.

Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer walked beside Sea God Lake and silently acknowledged each other’s identities and reasons for coming to the human world. Their walk turned into a fight when they encountered Ma Xiaotao in a berserk state, and Ji Lin protected Wang Qiuer as they struggled against her attacks.

• Ji Lin suggested that Wang Qiuer walk with him beside Sea God Lake, where she confronted him about his identity and he promised not to report her.
• Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer agreed to enjoy academy life and continued walking together by the lake.
• Ji Lin spotted a red figure racing across the lake and recognized her as Ma Xiaotao, who was berserk.
• Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer attacked Ma Xiaotao together, but she countered them and injured Wang Qiuer with a powerful blow.
• Ji Lin carried Wang Qiuer clear of Ma Xiaotao’s flame pillar, then used his Remaining Fire and Fire Element Manipulation soul skills to shield them from her fireball.

Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer discovered they could perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill and used it to defeat the berserk Ma Xiaotao. After Yan Shaozhe apologized and arranged treatment, Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer agreed to keep the incident quiet and left for class.

• Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer fused their auras, combining their Martial Souls into a Golden Dragon-empowered form with Ji Lin as the primary force.
• Ji Lin struck Ma Xiaotao with a Golden Dragon of flame, defeated her Fire Phoenix form, and sent her plunging into Sea God Lake.
• Yan Shaozhe and other Shrek Academy figures arrived, and Teacher Li used his Life Tree Martial Soul to treat Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer.
• Yan Shaozhe apologized for Ma Xiaotao's actions and asked Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer not to speak about the incident.
• Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer accepted the apology, agreed to keep the incident quiet, and left to return to class.

Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer named their Martial Soul Fusion Skill Eternal Blazing Sun and agreed to cultivate together, while Ma Xiaotao awoke after the fusion skill drained her Soul Power and cleared some of her Evil Fire. Yan Shaozhe warned her about the danger and insisted she needed someone with an Ultimate Ice Martial Soul, leaving Ma Xiaotao resisting the idea of marriage.

• Ji Lin suggested the name Eternal Blazing Sun for his and Wang Qiuer's Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and she agreed to cultivate with him.
• Mu En witnessed their return and recognized their fusion as one of Ultimate attributes.
• The academy delivered cultivation resources, including Soul Ascension Pills, to Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer as compensation.
• Ma Xiaotao awoke in a secret chamber, and Yan Shaozhe explained that her Soul Power and some of her Evil Fire had been cleared during the incident by Sea God Lake.
• Yan Shaozhe told Ma Xiaotao to stop cultivating and said she needed a suitable partner with an Ultimate Ice-attribute Martial Soul, but she refused to marry someone she did not like.

After breaking through to level forty, Ji Lin received permission to leave Shrek Academy and obtain his fourth soul ring. Before heading to the Star Dou Great Forest, he met Xu Jiujiu in Star Luo City and received a Level 9 Soul Tool containing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast embryo.

• Ji Lin broke through the level-forty bottleneck, and Zhou Yi brought him to Du Weilun to request leave before the New Student Assessment.
• Du Weilun approved Ji Lin's leave, and Ji Lin said goodbye to his classmates before meeting Chi Yuan at Shrek City's east gate.
• Ji Lin and Chi Yuan traveled to Star Luo City at Xu Jiujiu's request.
• Xu Jiujiu told Ji Lin that her elder brother had given her a sealed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast embryo for Ji Lin to use, which could grant him a second martial soul or a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and soul bone.
• Xu Jiujiu handed Ji Lin the Level 9 Soul Tool, the Platform of Gods, and urged him to fuse with the embryo only when he was certain.

Ji Lin prepared to use the Snow Empress embryo as his second martial soul and enlisted Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to help restrain her. He and Chi Yuan remained in a hidden cave, ready to release the embryo and persuade the weakened Snow Empress to cooperate.

• Ji Lin accepted Xu Jiujiu’s Platform of Gods and promised not to act recklessly before leaving with Chi Yuan for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ji Lin awakened Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and told him he had obtained the Snow Empress embryo, hoping to make her his second martial soul.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm objected because he wanted Ji Lin to choose the Ice Empress, whom he hoped to save.
• Ji Lin proposed that the Ice Empress could later become his Wisdom Soul Ring, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm agreed to help persuade the Snow Empress.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm promised to restrain the Snow Empress as soon as Ji Lin released her from the Platform of Gods.

Ji Lin and Tian Meng trapped Snow Empress in the Platform of Gods and tried to persuade her to make a deal by offering her a chance to survive. Tian Meng proposed helping a human become a god, but Snow Empress had only begun to hear his argument when the chapter ended.

• Ji Lin opened the Platform of Gods, and Tian Meng trapped Snow Empress inside a white membrane as she emerged in the form of a little girl.
• Ji Lin explained that he had not been the human who sealed and sold Snow Empress, then asked her to consider a deal, but she declared that all humans deserved to die.
• Ji Lin introduced Tian Meng, and Snow Empress recognized him as the lucky ice silkworm who had once surpassed her in total cultivation.
• Tian Meng recounted his long struggle to survive and argued that neither he nor Snow Empress wanted to die.
• Tian Meng proposed God Creation by helping a human become a god, and Snow Empress listened as he began explaining humanity's potential.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm persuaded Snow Empress to become Ji Lin’s second martial soul by promising a chance at godhood and warning that refusal meant losing her intelligence and life. Snow Empress agreed, though she hesitated when asked to release her spiritual origin.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm argued that Ji Lin’s talent and support gave him a chance to become a god, and said Snow Empress’s help would raise that chance above fifty percent.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm threatened to turn Snow Empress into an ordinary soul ring if she refused, and Snow Empress reluctantly yielded.
• Ji Lin promised Snow Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm their freedom after he became a god, and Snow Empress agreed to become his second martial soul.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm asked Snow Empress to release her spiritual origin before he freed her, and Snow Empress hesitated over surrendering control.

Snow Empress released her spiritual origin and entered Ji Lin, agreeing to become his Wisdom Soul Ring. She and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm planned to strengthen Ji Lin with her Soul Bone before fusing her soul and ring, then began the painful process.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm swore an oath to help Snow Empress become a Wisdom Soul Ring, and she released her spiritual origin.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm absorbed Snow Empress's spiritual origin and returned to Ji Lin's body.
• Snow Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm agreed that Ji Lin's body needed strengthening before the full fusion and chose to fuse her Soul Bone first.
• Snow Empress warned Ji Lin that transforming his spine, ribs, and sternum would cause immense pain, and Ji Lin agreed to endure it.
• Snow Empress began numbing Ji Lin with cold and prepared to fuse her Soul Bone while he remained conscious.

Ji Lin endured the painful fusion of the Snow Empress’s true form into his torso bone, with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the Snow Empress protecting him as the Soul Bone took shape. The fusion continued as the torment shifted into alternating waves of extreme cold and heat.

• The Snow Empress’s true form entered Ji Lin’s body, subjecting his flesh, bones, and soul to intense cold and pain.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm protected Ji Lin’s Sea of Consciousness, while the Snow Empress eased his pain and guided the fusion.
• Chi Yuan stood guard as Ji Lin endured the agony without passing out, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm withdrew his Mental Power to let Ji Lin temper his will.
• The Snow Empress’s power fused into Ji Lin’s Torso Bone, while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the Snow Empress sealed most of her power and protected Ji Lin’s body.
• Ji Lin’s pain changed as his torso bones began alternating between extreme cold and extreme heat.

Ji Lin endured the final, excruciating stage of fusing the Snow Empress's soul bone, while the Snow Empress sealed its power in his bone marrow. The ordeal pushed Ji Lin's Void Sword Qi and Mental Power into new realms, and his Sea of Consciousness expanded from a lake into an ocean.

• Ji Lin endured alternating extremes of cold and heat as the Snow Empress's power strengthened his body and blood and qi.
• The Snow Empress warned Ji Lin that the soul bone's final fusion would be even more painful, and Ji Lin vowed to endure it.
• The Snow Empress began sealing the soul bone's power in Ji Lin's bone marrow, causing unbearable itching throughout his body.
• Ji Lin endured the agony by silently reciting the Sword Heart Incantation, breaking through with his Void Sword Qi and Mental Power.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm supplied pure spiritual power to help Ji Lin complete his breakthrough into the Spirit Sea Realm.

Ji Lin completed his fusion with the Snow Empress, gaining a second Martial Soul and a seven-hundred-thousand-year soul ring. The Snow Empress survived the process but fell asleep, while Ji Lin learned about the four Soul Skills she had granted him.

• After recovering from the Soul Bone fusion, Ji Lin checked on the Snow Empress, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm urged them to begin the Martial Soul Fusion.
• The Snow Empress burned her source as Sky Dream Ice Silkworm protected both her spiritual source and Ji Lin’s Sea of Consciousness during the fusion.
• Chi Yuan guarded the cave while icy mist filled it, and Ji Lin emerged with the Snow Empress’s blood-red soul ring and the Heavenly Snow Woman as his second Martial Soul.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained that the Snow Empress was safe but exhausted and asleep, and that Ji Lin’s improved physique could withstand a soul ring from a thirty-thousand-year soul beast.
• Ji Lin sensed the Snow Empress’s four Soul Skills, including Above Heaven, Below Earth, I Alone Am Supreme, which froze space and consciousness within a hundred-meter radius.

Ji Lin returned to Shrek Academy in time for the New Student Assessment after obtaining his fourth Soul Skill. Zhou Yi explained the assessment’s team-battle format and asked students to choose their cultivation directions, leaving Ji Lin ready to display his twin martial souls.

• Zhou Yi announced that the New Student Assessment would begin the next day, and Wang Qiuer worried that Ji Lin might not return in time.
• Ji Lin arrived back in class, distributed assessment papers, and signaled Wang Qiuer that he had returned safely.
• Ji Lin wrote down “Assault Control Battle Soul Master” as his cultivation direction and decided not to hide his second martial soul from Shrek Academy.
• Zhou Yi explained that every student would take part in team battles, with three students per team and at most one Assault System Battle Soul Master.