Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming underwent Blue Tyrant Academy’s assessment and revealed that he was a Level 62 Soul Emperor, earning an exemption from the practical test. Meanwhile, the Black Market circulated fully nude photos of Yu Xiaogang after he failed to repay Billion Zero Workshop, leaving his private images exposed.

• Flender asked Qin Ming to go first in the Blue Tyrant Academy assessment.
• Qin Ming released his Martial Soul and six Soul Rings, identifying himself as a Level 62 Blazing Fire Azure Wolf Battle Soul Emperor.
• The three assessment teachers recognized Qin Ming’s strength and exempted him from the practical test under the academy’s rules.
• Black Market channels circulated fully nude photos of Yu Xiaogang after he failed to repay Billion Zero Workshop.

Billion Zero Workshop searched Suotuo City for Yu Xiaogang and found a possible lead through Director Liu. At Blue Tyrant Academy, Qin Ming and the Shrek Academy teachers impressed the evaluators with their strength, and Yin Shu introduced himself respectfully.

• Billion Zero Workshop spread photos of Yu Xiaogang around Suotuo City but found no trace of him.
• Billion Zero Workshop learned that Yu Xiaogang had been seen with Liu Da and considered questioning the hospital director about his whereabouts.
• Qin Ming revealed that he was thirty-four years old and level sixty-two, astonishing the three Blue Tyrant Academy evaluators.
• Flender prompted the Shrek Academy teachers to reveal their martial souls and levels, showing two Soul Emperors and three Soul Saints.
• Yin Shu introduced himself as a level fifty-four Power Attack System Battle Soul Master and bowed respectfully to the Shrek Academy teachers.

Yin Shu led Flender and the Shrek Academy teachers through the forest to meet Blue Tyrant Academy’s dean, who lived in a secluded cottage. When the dean saw Flender, she dropped her watering can and froze.

• Yin Shu offered to bring the Shrek Academy teachers to the dean so she could determine their ranks and benefits.
• Yin Shu explained that the dean preferred living alone in the forest and handled only major academy matters.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji stopped when they heard a sorrowful song that Flender recognized.
• The group passed a sign marking important academy grounds and arrived at a cottage beside a small lake.
• The dean turned toward the visitors, saw Flender, and dropped her watering can in shock.

Flender and the teachers of Flender Academy arrived at Liu Erlong’s academy seeking a place to make a living, and Liu Erlong welcomed them. Seeing Flender again stirred old memories, but Yu Xiaogang was absent, and Liu Erlong learned that Heaven Dou Royal Academy had driven them out.

• Yin Shu told Liu Erlong that several Soul Masters had come to apply, including six above level sixty.
• Liu Erlong recognized Flender and greeted him as the final corner of their Golden Iron Octagon, while Flender asked whether she had been well.
• Flender explained that his group had come to make a living after being driven out of Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Liu Erlong reacted angrily.
• Liu Erlong introduced the teachers and students of her academy to the people from Flender Academy.

Liu Erlong offered Blue Tyrant Academy to Flender and the others, announcing that it would become Shrek Academy, while Yu Xiaogang arrived to apply for a teaching post. The chapter left Flender eager for news of Xiaogang as Yu Xiaogang began his visit to the academy.

• Liu Erlong invited Flender and the others to stay at Blue Tyrant Academy and said the academy would be renamed Shrek.
• Liu Erlong asked Teacher Yin Shu to announce a meeting of teachers and students for the next day.
• Flender asked Liu Erlong whether she had heard any news about Yu Xiaogang.
• Zuo Zhenyue and Tang Ba arrived at Blue Tyrant Academy, where a staff member asked if Yu Xiaogang was applying to be a teacher.
• Yu Xiaogang said he had come to apply as a teacher and introduced the child with him as his disciple.

Yu Xiaogang tried to qualify as a teacher at Blue Tyrant Academy so Tang San could study there, but his Level 29 Soul Power fell short of the requirement. They were instead considered for janitor positions while Liu Erlong showed the Shrek group around the academy.

• The receptionist teacher offered Yu Xiaogang and Tang San an assessment, with a teaching position potentially allowing Tang San to attend classes.
• The testing teacher explained that applicants needed to be above Level 40 and last ten minutes in a spar.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed his Level 29 Soul Power and argued that his theoretical knowledge made him suitable to teach, but the testing teacher rejected his application.
• Yu Xiaogang asked whether he and Tang San could take the two available janitor positions, and the testing teacher told them to wait while he handled the dean's tasks.
• Liu Erlong showed the Shrek group around Blue Tyrant Academy and explained its facilities and commoner students' diligent cultivation.

Liu Erlong welcomed Shrek Academy to Blue Tyrant Academy, explained its reputation and facilities, and handed its management to Flender as the school prepared to become Shrek. Yu Xiaogang and Tang San settled into separate staff quarters, leaving Yu Xiaogang unable to see Liu Erlong.

• Liu Erlong described Blue Tyrant Academy's tournament results and left future teaching responsibilities to Flender.
• Liu Erlong explained the academy's standing as a respected institution that had fostered commoner Soul Masters.
• Liu Erlong hosted the Shrek group for lunch, answered their questions, showed them around, and arranged their accommodations.
• Flender gathered the Shrek group and told them to rest before beginning work at the academy the next day.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San settled into staff dormitories separate from Liu Erlong and the Shrek group, so Yu Xiaogang could not see Liu Erlong.

Yu Xiaogang was brought before Liu Erlong at Blue Tyrant Academy after two Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan experts investigated reports that he was hiding there. Liu Erlong recognized him and broke down with emotion, while Yu Xiaogang remained unable to speak.

• The Suotuo City Billion Zero Workshop master learned that Yu Xiaogang had gone to Heaven Dou City and sent a team with his information and private photographs to the headquarters there.
• Two Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan experts heard that someone resembling the wanted suspect had appeared at Blue Tyrant Academy and went to investigate.
• Liu Erlong allowed her subordinates to bring the academy's two new janitors, Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, before the visitors.
• Yu Xiaogang froze when he saw Liu Erlong, who trembled and wept as she asked whether he was really Xiaogang.
• Liu Erlong asked Yu Xiaogang why he still would not speak to her, but he struggled to answer and remained silent.

Yu Xiaogang reunited with Liu Erlong and brought his disciple Tang San to her academy after they were driven out of Heaven Dou Royal Academy. When two Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan members tried to take Yu Xiaogang in over stolen clan money, his protest accidentally revealed that he had taken three hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.

• Yu Xiaogang introduced Tang San to Liu Erlong and explained that they had come looking for work at her academy.
• Liu Erlong learned that Yu Xiaogang and Tang San had been driven out of Heaven Dou Royal Academy and offered them a place to stay.
• Two Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan members presented a Clan Enforcement Hall Search Warrant and demanded that Yu Xiaogang cooperate.
• The clan members grabbed Yu Xiaogang, but Liu Erlong blocked them and challenged their right to arrest him.
• One clan member accused Yu Xiaogang of stealing five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, and Yu Xiaogang blurted out that he had taken only three hundred thousand.

Yu Xiaogang escaped being taken away by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan after Liu Erlong paid his debt, but Billion Zero Workshop spread his old debtor photo across Heaven Dou City. Tang San found the photo and brought it to Yu Xiaogang, who realized the workshop had kept a copy.

• The two men from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan accused Yu Xiaogang of stealing three hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, and he could not produce the money.
• Liu Erlong gave the men a black card with three hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, and they left without taking Yu Xiaogang.
• The people from Billion Zero Workshop searched the Black Market headquarters for Yu Xiaogang, then circulated his mysterious photo across Heaven Dou City.
• Tang San found Yu Xiaogang's photo while visiting blacksmith shops and brought it back to show him.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized the photo from his first loan and angrily wondered why Billion Zero Workshop had spread it.

Liu Erlong paid off Yu Xiaogang’s debt and bought up his intimate photos, but kept them for herself. Nearly half a year later, Shrek prepared for the upcoming tournament as Flender briefed the starters and Yu Xiaogang trained the reserves.

• Yu Xiaogang went to Liu Erlong for money, but she had already seen his photos and promised to handle the problem.
• Liu Erlong paid Yu Xiaogang’s debt, stopped Billion Zero Workshop from distributing the photos, and bought back roughly five thousand copies across Heaven Dou City.
• Liu Erlong refused to destroy the photos and kept them to admire, leaving Yu Xiaogang to accept her decision.
• Nearly half a year passed, and Shrek’s students rose above level 40 except Tang San, who reached Level 35; the tournament was now seven days away.
• Flender gathered the seven starters to explain the tournament rules while Yu Xiaogang trained five reserve members and praised Tang San’s progress.

Yu Xiaogang regularly bought pills and herbs to raise Tang San’s Soul Power as Tang trained with Shrek’s substitute members. Tang San became interested in Jiang Zhu, but she kept her distance, while he struggled with the widening gap between his strength and the other core members’ levels.

• Yu Xiaogang became a regular at the Heaven Dou Grand Auction House, purchasing pills and herbs for Tang San.
• Flender told the substitute members, including Tang San, that they would get opportunities to compete in the preliminary matches, and placed their training under Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang San grew attracted to Jiang Zhu but noticed that she deliberately kept her distance from him.
• Tang San worried that Ye Xian and the others had pulled farther ahead in Soul Power despite his use of pills.
• The Shrek Team chose to rotate four core members for the preliminary matches to ensure the team qualified.

Shrek Academy prepared its tournament lineup, with Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Xiao Wu selected while Zhu Zhuqing remained in reserve and Ye Xian and Ning Rongrong sat out the Preliminary Competition. Several days later, the Heaven Dou Empire Division’s tournament opening ceremony drew a vast crowd to Heaven Dou City, where Ning Rongrong marveled at the turnout.

• Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Xiao Wu were chosen to compete, while Zhu Zhuqing was kept in reserve and Ye Xian and Ning Rongrong declined to enter the Preliminary Competition.
• The Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena was renovated into a venue seating eighty thousand spectators, and it became the site of the Heaven Dou Division’s Preliminary Competition.
• Spectators and nobles flocked to Heaven Dou City for the tournament, prompting the city to deploy five thousand soldiers to maintain order.
• Ning Rongrong exclaimed at the enormous crowd gathered for the opening ceremony.

Shrek Academy's team entered the tournament arena in Flender's hideous, ad-covered uniforms and attracted widespread ridicule. The students could only endure the mockery as they stood among the crowd.

• Ye Xian and the Shrek team arrived at the tournament in their shit-green uniforms bearing a huge Monster Shrek emblem and advertising notices.
• The chapter explained that Flender had ordered the uniforms and promised the team a third of any advertising revenue.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji avoided wearing the team uniforms, while the Shrek students accepted them partly because the academy needed money.
• Spectators mocked the uniforms and the Shrek team, leaving the students embarrassed.

Shrek Academy’s team arrived at the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena for the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament’s opening ceremony, drawing unwanted attention because of their bizarre uniforms. They reached the competitors’ rest area and planned to ask Flender to remove the advertising from their uniforms before the next day.

• Ye Xian and the other Shrek members covered their faces as they made their way through the crowd, while Flender and Zhao Wuji walked ahead.
• The Shrek group squeezed into the arena among teams wearing elaborate uniforms and finally relaxed in the competitors’ rest area.
• Ma Hongjun removed his mask and complained that he would not wear the humiliating uniform for the next match.
• Ye Xian reassured the team that they were unlikely to compete that day and suggested discussing the uniforms with Flender, at least removing the words on their backs.

As the Soul Master Academy teams waited for the opening ceremony, Shrek Academy clashed verbally with Canghui Academy. Dai Mubai stopped Ma Hongjun from throwing a punch, but the Canghui students surrounded Shrek after Dai Mubai insulted them.

• Flender told Shrek Academy that registration was complete and urged the students to keep their spirits up for the championship.
• A Canghui Academy student mocked Shrek, and Ma Hongjun recognized the academy from their earlier encounter.
• Ma Hongjun prepared to punch the taunting student, but Dai Mubai stopped him and reminded him that fighting was forbidden before the matches.
• The Canghui students surrounded Shrek, and Dai Mubai called them stray dogs while asserting that self-defense was allowed.

Shrek Academy encountered Shi Nian, the powerful and vindictive Canghui Academy master, after he silenced his students and led them away. Flender warned Shrek about Shi Nian’s illusion-based Martial Soul before leaving for the stands, and Shrek was left as the last team to enter the opening ceremony.

• Ma Hongjun mocked Canghui Academy until Shi Nian arrived and ordered his students to leave.
• Flender identified Shi Nian and warned Shrek Academy that his Lingering Dream Martial Soul created deadly illusions.
• Flender told Ye Xian to lead the team into the opening ceremony, then went to the stands.
• Tournament staff ignored Shrek Academy until every other team had entered, then led Shrek into the passage.

The Shrek Team entered the massive arena to jeers over their unusual outfits and boastful slogan, while Dai Mubai and Tang San tried to hold back their anger. As the teams gathered, Gu Xian spotted Snow Star Prince in the VIP stand.

• The host introduced the Shrek Team as the final entrants and announced their slogan, Champions Without Opponents, drawing laughter and jeers from the crowd.
• Dai Mubai clenched his fists, but Oscar urged him to wait for the matches, and Dai Mubai calmed himself for the team’s sake.
• Tang San grew confident in his strength and imagined taking revenge on Yu Tianheng, unaware that Yu Tianheng had become far stronger than him.
• The academies assembled in the arena, and Gu Xian recognized Snow Star Prince in the VIP stand.

Ye Xian observed the VIP guests at the tournament, including Emperor Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, and a Platinum Bishop, before the emperor officially opened the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament. The tournament began with the emperor urging the competitors to fight for the empire’s glory, though Ye Xian noticed that his smile seemed forced.

• Ye Xian recognized Emperor Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, and a Platinum Bishop seated in the VIP section.
• Ning Fengzhi noticed Ye Xian, smiled, and nodded to him.
• Emperor Xue Ye stood and officially declared the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament open.
• Emperor Xue Ye urged the participating Soul Masters to display their strength and bring glory to the empire.
• Ye Xian noticed that Emperor Xue Ye’s smile seemed forced.

Ning Fengzhi praised the young Soul Masters and hinted that he favored an unnamed team to win the tournament, prompting speculation among the audience. The opening ceremony then moved to the first-round draw, which Salas began.

• Ning Fengzhi addressed the tournament participants and urged them to bring glory to the Empire and their academies.
• Ning Fengzhi said he favored a team other than Heaven Dou Royal Academy's first team but refused to reveal its identity.
• The Platinum Bishop beside Xue Ye opened his eyes and searched the participating teams for the team Ning Fengzhi had mentioned.
• The audience debated which team Ning Fengzhi favored, while he returned to his seat.
• The host announced Salas would draw the first-round match, and Salas rose and began drawing lots.