Recaps

Fors Wall effortlessly withstood the Black-Eyed Golden Dragon King’s pressure during Shrek Academy’s entrance assessment, earning full marks while the other six students struggled. After learning the exam’s scoring rules, Fors chose to continue immediately despite Cang Jingkong’s warning about later tests requiring teammates.

• Fors resisted the dragon pressure with her Spiritual Power while the other six students gradually collapsed or lost their ability to stand.
• Cang Jingkong and Elder Li emerged from beside a stone pillar, and Elder Li recognized Fors as a powerful Mental System Soul Master.
• Elder Li awarded Fors full marks and scored the other students according to how long they had endured the pressure.
• Cang Jingkong explained that the entrance examination had ten rounds, with sixty points required to pass, and declined to reveal the later tests.
• After the other six students chose to rest, Fors told Cang Jingkong that she wanted to continue the assessment.

Fors entered the second assessment, which transported her into an arena to face a powerful Crimson Flame Tiger. She defeated it effortlessly with recorded abilities and returned to the hall, where the assessment’s strange illusion left her wondering about Shrek Academy’s research.

• Fors followed Cang Jingkong to the next checkpoint and waited in a hall as silver patterns and a night sky transformed the surroundings.
• Fors revealed four black Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, astonishing Cang Jingkong, then summoned her Book of Records.
• Fors appeared in a Beast Arena and identified her opponent as a Crimson Flame Tiger at least two thousand years old.
• Fors evaded the tiger’s pounce, then used Gravity Domain and a swamp to pin it down before freezing it with the Fireball still forming in its mouth.
• The arena vanished and Fors returned to the hall, where she considered the experience a unique Shrek Academy research project.

Fors Wall impressed Cang Jingkong by revealing four Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and earning full marks after killing a powerful Crimson Flame Tiger. She also passed the dangerous Guillotine Gate trial in an instant, leaving Cang Jingkong dumbfounded.

• Cang Jingkong saw Fors's four Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and judged her an extraordinary candidate for Shrek Academy.
• Cang Jingkong awarded Fors full marks for killing the over-two-thousand-year-old Crimson Flame Tiger and offered her a chance to rest.
• Fors declined to rest and followed Cang Jingkong to the Guillotine Gate trial, where she chose the row with six fast-falling blades.
• Fors used the Thunder Claw Dragon's Lightning Embodiment to pass through all six gates instantly.
• Fors asked Cang Jingkong whether she had earned full marks, and Cang Jingkong stared at her in shock.

Fors cleared the Guillotine Gate in four seconds, then reached a specialty assessment at Shrek Academy. She revealed four genuine Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, leaving the examiners stunned by her unprecedented strength.

• Fors transformed into lightning and cleared the Guillotine Gate in four seconds, earning full marks from Cang Jingkong.
• Cang Jingkong led Fors upstairs to a room decorated with Soul Tool blueprints and told her to wait for the specialty assessment.
• Cang Jingkong returned with three examiners, including Cai Yue'er, and they told Fors to demonstrate her strongest specialty.
• Fors raised her hand and revealed four Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings without summoning her Martial Soul.
• Cai Yue'er sensed the rings and realized Fors's Spiritual Power had to be at least at the Spiritual Sea Realm and her body was no weaker than a Soul Saint's.

Fors demonstrated her extraordinary abilities to Cai Yue'er and the Shrek Academy examiners, revealing that her talent far exceeded their expectations. She unveiled control of all five elements, leaving Cai Yue'er stunned and eager to recruit her.

• Cai Yue'er judged Fors's four Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings extraordinary and decided she qualified for Shrek Academy's Inner Courtyard.
• Fors released Spiritual Power at the Spiritual Abyss Realm, shocking Cang Jingkong and the examiners.
• Fors manifested a Nine-Petaled Green Elemental Flower and then added a Red Elemental Flower, demonstrating control over Wood and Fire.
• Fors added Earth, Gold, and Water elemental lotuses, merging all five into a unified display that drew Soul Power from the void.
• Cai Yue'er recognized Fors's Five Elements Mutual Generation and Heart of Elements, but Fors continued her demonstration.

Fors demonstrated unprecedented control by fusing all Nine Elements during her Shrek Academy examination. After impressing the examiners, she refused Cai Yue'er’s offer to become her disciple because Cai was not the strongest person in the world.

• Fors fused the Five Elements, then added Wind and Thunder before joining Light and Darkness into a Nine Elements lotus.
• Fors threw the lotus, whose elements erupted and then dissipated safely in a shower of light.
• Fors asked the examiners for her score, and Cai Yue'er offered to take her as a disciple.
• Fors questioned Cai Yue'er’s strength and refused the offer, insisting she would only accept the strongest person in the world as her master.
• Cai Yue'er grew angry and stormed away after the others failed to persuade Fors.

Fors rejected Elder Cai’s offer to become her disciple and received zero points on the fifth assessment, leaving her at risk of failing the entrance trials. Cang Jingkong briefed her on the remaining tests, but Fors earned only one point in the appetite trial.

• Cang Jingkong tried to explain Fors’s rejection to Elder Cai, but Elder Cai left in anger, and Fors said choosing a master required care.
• Elder Cai gave Fors zero points on the fifth assessment and declared that she would need to pass despite the two zeros to enter the Outer Courtyard.
• Cang Jingkong reassured Fors and revealed the requirements of the remaining assessments, including that the sixth tested appetite.
• Fors ate two steamed buns and asked to be graded, earning one point despite Cang Jingkong’s encouragement to try harder.

Elder Cai ordered Fors’s upcoming assessments made easier so Shrek Academy could recruit her, while Fors forfeited the endurance trial and moved on to comprehensive combat. Cang Jingkong appeared to reveal the opponents’ strengths as Fors prepared to choose one.

• Elder Cai admired Fors’s defiance and instructed that her remaining assessments be made as easy as possible so she would enter Shrek Academy.
• Fors forfeited the endurance test, leaving her with thirty-one points, and chose to proceed to the comprehensive combat assessment.
• Cang Jingkong explained that Fors had to select one of ten Shrek students and survive their fight for more than ten minutes to pass.
• A middle-aged man whispered to Cang Jingkong, who then described the ten opponents’ abilities and rankings where Fors could hear her.
• Fors suspected Cang Jingkong was manipulating the opponent-selection process behind the scenes.

Fors ignored Cang Jingkong’s advice and chose Student No. 1, Yuanen, for her match at Shrek Academy. She instantly defeated him, leaving the other students stunned by her four black Soul Rings and overwhelming strength.

• Cang Jingkong urged Fors to choose Student No. 10, but Fors insisted on challenging Student No. 1.
• Yuanen activated his thousand-year Spirit Skill and swung his enlarged arms at Fors.
• Fors caught Yuanen’s attack, revealed four black Soul Rings, and knocked him unconscious with a strike to the arena floor.
• The Shrek students realized that Fors had instantly defeated their strongest student and fell silent when she called them weak.

Fors Wall reached the Ninth Trial of Shrek Academy’s entrance assessment but forfeited it, claiming severe claustrophobia. At the Three Halls Joint Trial, Zhuo Shi offered her eight points, but Fors tried to leave and then demanded that he stop dragging things out.

• Cang Jingkong announced that Fors Wall had won her match against Student No. 1 for ten points.
• Fors forfeited the Ninth Trial, saying she had severe claustrophobia, and Cang Jingkong took her to meet three academy elders.
• Fors called the elders “old men” and urged them to announce her score.
• Zhuo Shi reviewed Fors’s results, made up points she had lost in the fourth trial, and said her total was fifty-one points.
• Zhuo Shi offered Fors eight points in the Tenth Trial, but Fors turned to leave.
• Zhuo Shi stopped Fors, and she called him an old geezer for dragging out the conversation.

After Fors Wall rejected Cai Yue'er's attempt to manipulate her exam and recruit her, Cai Yue'er tried to recruit Gu Yue during the delayed makeup exam. Gu Yue refused to enter the Inner Courtyard unless Tang Wulin and the others could join her, leaving Cai Yue'er frustrated and regretting how she had treated Fors Wall.

• Cai Yue'er revealed herself to Zhuo Shi and Xu Miao, then argued with them over her plan to humble Fors Wall and recruit her as a disciple.
• Shen Yi led Nan Fusheng, Tang Wulin, and the others to take their makeup exam, where the group passed the first three trials and Nan Fusheng earned eight bonus points and a perfect score.
• During the fourth trial, Gu Yue formed a four-element lotus and attacked Cai Yue'er, who dissolved it with her moonlight and offered Gu Yue direct entry to the Inner Courtyard.
• Gu Yue refused Cai Yue'er's offer to become her disciple, then said she would only enter the Inner Courtyard if Tang Wulin and the others could go with her.
• Cai Yue'er rejected Gu Yue's condition and left, regretting that her earlier behavior toward Fors Wall had made recruiting her unlikely.

Nan Fusheng and his companions endured Shrek Academy’s entrance trials despite Cai Yue’er repeatedly lowering their scores, and they ultimately gained admission after Tang Wulin completed Spirit Refinement. Zhuo Shi then noticed Tang Wulin absorbing his Soul Power, while Gu Yue remained focused on him, and Wu Changkong was forgiven and allowed to stay at the academy as Zhuo Shi’s handyman.

• Cai Yue’er gave Nan Fusheng and the others zero points in the Fifth Trial, but they earned points in the remaining trials, including a perfect score in the Sixth Trial.
• Xie Xie chose Yuanen Yehui as his opponent in the Eighth Trial and was badly beaten, while Nan Fusheng defeated his opponent by using his Spiritual Power.
• Cai Yue’er gave Gu Yue one point in the Tenth Trial, then she and Zhuo Shi demanded that Tang Wulin retake the Fifth Trial and reach the level of a Fifth-Rank Professional for Gu Yue to pass.
• Tang Wulin completed Spirit Refinement and fainted, but the group passed the final trial and all five entered Shrek Academy.
• Zhuo Shi discovered that Tang Wulin was absorbing his Soul Power, while Cai Yue’er warned Gu Yue about the academy’s standards and Battle Armor Master requirement.
• Zhuo Shi forgave Wu Changkong and let him stay as a handyman, and Nan Fusheng and the others thanked their Grandmaster.

Zhuo Shi warned Nan Fusheng and the others that they had to become One-word Battle Armor Masters by age twenty to enter Shrek Academy’s Inner Courtyard, then told them about a powerful freshman who had defied Elder Cai. After the group settled on Sea God Island, Nan Fusheng considered his hidden purpose for entering the academy and the danger of drawing Ah Yin’s attention.

• Zhuo Shi told Nan Fusheng and the others that they would enroll as Outer Courtyard Work-Study Students and had to become One-word Battle Armor Masters by age twenty to qualify for the Inner Courtyard.
• Zhuo Shi said a female freshman could defeat most Grade Two students, described her confrontation with Elder Cai, and refused to reveal her abilities to Tang Wulin.
• Zhuo Shi assigned Tang Wulin full enrollment marks and told Shen Yi to register the group and exchange information with Cang Jingkong.
• Wu Changkong supported Zhuo Shi upstairs, and Shen Yi explained to Xu Xiaoyan that their conflict had arisen from a difference in ideals and unfortunate coincidences.
• Nan Fusheng woke in his room, judged that his Doppelganger could not sense anything useful about the Golden Ancient Tree, and resolved to wait until he could act without alerting Ah Yin.

Shen Yi brought Nan Fusheng and the other four to enroll at Shrek Academy as Work-Study Students, explaining their demanding duties and tuition requirements. They learned that a mysterious new student with a Martial Soul listed as “book” had defeated Yuanen, then received their first assignment: cleaning Lingbing Plaza before nightfall.

• Shen Yi escorted the five students from Sea God Island to the Outer Courtyard, where she explained that Work-Study Students paid tuition by completing tasks assigned by the Academic Affairs Office.
• Cang Jingkong enrolled the five students in New Student Class One and told Shen Yi that a new student with a Martial Soul listed as “book” had defeated Yuanen within three moves.
• Cang Jingkong revealed that Xie Xie had chosen Yuanen as his opponent, and Gu Yue asked about the meaning of Work-Study Students.
• Cang Jingkong gave the five students their Dark Green School Uniforms and ordered them to clean Lingbing Plaza before nightfall or lose credits.
• Shen Yi led the newly enrolled Work-Study Students toward their dormitory area.

Nan Fusheng considered whether to change pathways while preparing to gather his Doppelgangers for advice. That night, Fors and the other Doppelgangers were summoned to a platform, where the First Fu Sheng Assembly began.

• Nan Fusheng reviewed his growth as a Parasite and considered how to advance to Error Sequence Three without knowing its Ritual.
• Nan Fusheng decided to gather his Doppelgangers to discuss his advancement, noting that Qiangu Bubai gave him his most stable Anchors.
• Fu Sheng No. 1 complained about the harsh Work-Study Student dormitory conditions before entering Meditation.
• Fors went to sleep alone in her dormitory and awoke on a gigantic platform surrounded by unfamiliar but familiar figures.
• Fors and the figure facing her recognized each other as Doppelgangers, and Nan Fusheng declared the First Fu Sheng Assembly open.

Nan Fusheng held the First Fu Sheng Assembly to discuss his future advancement and the doppelgangers’ plans. They chose to stay on their current pathway and debated how to act as a Mentor of Deceit, ending with an argument about the Spirit Pagoda’s Soul Spirit prices and lottery odds.

• Nan Fusheng opened the assembly, and the doppelgangers joked about what to call it before he explained its purpose.
• The doppelgangers discussed focusing on Sequence advancement, Soul Power cultivation, and increasing their numbers, while Nan Fusheng confirmed his Parasitism slots were full.
• Duan Xuan and others proposed switching to The Fool pathway, but Leng Mian warned that the change could endanger the doppelgangers and their role as Anchors.
• Nan Fusheng agreed to remain on his current pathway, and the group discussed possible acting methods for Mentor of Deceit.
• Fors suggested teaching Spirit Pagoda employees to deceive customers, but Qiangu Bubai and Leng Mian rejected price-gouging as impractical.
• The Time Worm Soul Spirit learned how little the Spirit Pagoda paid to produce Soul Spirits and how unlikely a Century Soul Spirit draw was, then complained about the odds.

After ending the assembly, Nan Fusheng considered using his Fourth Soul Skill and Doppelgangers to gain fame and stabilize his Anchors of humanity. He inspected the infected Evil Soul Master he had kept as a test subject and prepared to test the plan, while his fifth and sixth Soul Spirits remained unfinished.

• Shenwei Kamui and Lu Fa proposed challenging Tang Wulin and his classmates publicly so the Doppelgangers could gain fame and Audience emotions.
• Nan Fusheng ended the meeting, then summoned his Martial Soul and explained that his Fourth Soul Skill, Mourning Rage Virus, infected people and magnified their malice.
• Nan Fusheng decided to call the infected Ocasers and considered having his Doppelgangers kill them to build a reputation, while remaining wary of the Federation's response.
• Nan Fusheng examined an infected Evil Soul Master captured by Qiangu Bubai, whose Carrion Mushroom Martial Soul had evolved into a Resentful Soul Mushroom as he rose from Three Rings to Soul King in three years.
• Nan Fusheng decided to use the Ocaser as a test subject and noted that he still needed to produce his fifth Soul Spirit and find a way to create his sixth.

Nan Fusheng took over Fu Sheng No. 1’s body for Shrek Academy’s opening day and was assigned to the first-year class alongside Fors and the others. After classes ended, Fors dragged him away, leaving Xu Xiaoyan behind as his friends tried to reassure her.

• Nan Fusheng decided to watch the Doppelganger’s progress at Shrek Academy while keeping his own identity and power hidden.
• Nan Fusheng took over Fu Sheng No. 1’s consciousness on the day of Shrek Academy’s Opening Ceremony and attended the opening assembly.
• Cai Yue’er assigned Fors Wall, Gu Yue, Xu Xiaoyan, Tang Wulin, Nan Fusheng, and Xie Xie seats together at the front of the classroom.
• Shen Yi explained the academy’s rules, and classes continued through the morning without a break.
• Fors seized Nan Fusheng and dragged him away after class, while Xu Xiaoyan watched in surprise.
• Xie Xie, Tang Wulin, and Gu Yue tried to reassure Xu Xiaoyan, and Gu Yue called men good-for-nothings.

Nan Fusheng tried to explain his relationship with Fors after she provoked Xu Xiaoyan, Gu Yue, and Xie Xie. The group then spotted Tang Wulin offering blacksmithing work in exchange for a year's worth of meals, and Xu Xiaoyan teased Nan Fusheng about living off a woman.

• Nan Fusheng and Fors discussed her lack of plans for Shrek Academy, and Fors joked that she would freeload at his home if she were expelled.
• Fors left after drawing Xu Xiaoyan, Gu Yue, and Xie Xie's attention to Nan Fusheng's promise to support her for life.
• Nan Fusheng insisted that Fors had only been teasing him, while Xu Xiaoyan questioned when they had become close enough to use each other's names.
• Xie Xie pointed out Tang Wulin standing outside the cafeteria with a sign offering First-Grade Thousand Refinement metal in exchange for a year's worth of meals.
• Xu Xiaoyan remarked that Tang Wulin could not live off a woman, leaving Nan Fusheng coughing at her jab.

Cai Yue'er named Fors Wall class monitor without a contest, provoking the new students to challenge her. She sent the class to the Grand Martial Arena for a free-for-all, where the last three standing would become the class monitor and Vice Class Monitors.

• Shen Yi announced that the class would elect seven cadre members, and Cai Yue'er explained their duties, rewards, and graduation benefits.
• Cai Yue'er appointed Fors Wall class monitor, and Wu Sidu questioned why Fors did not have to compete.
• Cai Yue'er declared that none of the new students could defeat Fors, and Fors called her an old witch before challenging the class to fight her together.
• Wu Sidu challenged Fors, but Cai Yue'er stopped them from fighting in the classroom and ordered a class-wide free-for-all in the Grand Martial Arena.
• Cai Yue'er said the last person standing would become class monitor and the second- and third-to-last would become Vice Class Monitors.

Cai Yue'er explained that she had singled out Fors to pressure her, while the new students formed teams for the class monitor melee. After fifteen minutes, the 103 students entered a circular hall that seemed too cramped for a fight.

• Shen Yi questioned whether Cai Yue'er had made Fors a target, and Cai Yue'er said pressure would bring out Fors's potential.
• Luo Guixing invited Fors to join his team, but she refused and he wished her luck in the melee.
• Nan Fusheng received Tang Wulin's signal to split up, while Xie Xie formed the Pick-up Team and Xu Xiaoyan joined Luo Guixing's team.
• Tang Wulin teamed up with Gu Yue and another student, while Nan Fusheng, Fors, and Wu Sidu chose to fight alone.
• Shen Yi and Wu Changkong led all 103 students into a circular hall that appeared too small for combat.

Nan Fusheng entered the virtual forest for the class monitor selection and defeated Zheng Long and Zheng Hu by controlling them with his mental ability. Zheng Yiran recognized him as a Mental System Soul Master and faced him alone.

• Shen Yi had the students enter Simulation Pods to begin the virtual trial.
• Nan Fusheng entered the forest openly and sensed several nearby auras.
• Zheng Yiran sent Zheng Long and Zheng Hu to attack Nan Fusheng.
• Nan Fusheng used Gate to swallow the brothers’ poison attack, then controlled them with Spirit Body Threads until they kicked each other and vanished.
• Zheng Yiran realized Nan Fusheng was a Mental System Soul Master, and Nan Fusheng confirmed it.

Nan Fusheng used his mental abilities to overcome Zheng Qiaran’s poison-based close-range attack and eliminate him from the match. After Zheng Qiaran vanished, Nan Fusheng was left facing the remaining opponents.

• Nan Fusheng identified himself to Zheng Qiaran, who introduced himself as the thirtieth-ranked genius and launched an attack.
• Zheng Qiaran charged through the poison mist and coiled around Nan Fusheng, trying to strike him with his poisoned hand and Soul Spirit.
• Nan Fusheng immobilized Zheng Qiaran and his Soul Spirit with mental control, then made the Soul Spirit bite Zheng Qiaran’s arm.
• Nan Fusheng controlled Zheng Qiaran as he slid off and fell, causing him to touch the ground and vanish from the match.

Nan Fusheng encountered Fors Wall in the forest and was swiftly defeated, then agreed to join her as she vowed to steamroll the competition. Meanwhile, Tang Wulin considered the strongest new students and recognized that Fors’s reputation was backed by formidable strength.

• Nan Fusheng saw Fors Wall blast another student away and prepare to challenge him.
• Cai Yue'er and Wu Changkong discussed Nan Fusheng's Spiritual Power and Tang Wulin's leadership, while Cai Yue'er identified Fors Wall as the strongest new student.
• Nan Fusheng attacked Fors with Spirit Body Threads, but Fors vanished and drove him into the ground with a single move.
• Nan Fusheng surrendered, refused Fors's demand that he kneel and call her Queen, and accepted her offer to carry him.
• Fors declared that she would defeat anyone in her way and establish herself as the class's big sister.
• Tang Wulin learned about the five highly ranked students from Yang Nianxia and reflected on Fors Wall's strength.

Nan Fusheng and Fors Wall were transported into a crowded encounter after the arena shrank, where Fors Wall’s Five-Colored Lotus unleashed devastating power. The attack eliminated Yang Nianxia and left a massive hollow in the terrain.

• Yang Nianxia told Tang Wulin that Fors Wall was not listed among the Teenage Genius List, though he thought she might match Wu Sidu in strength.
• After the competition had run for half an hour, the terrain shrank and transported Nan Fusheng and Fors Wall into an area occupied by Luo Guixing’s team, Tang Wulin’s team, Wu Sidu, and others.
• Wu Sidu charged at Fors Wall, while Luo Guixing ordered his team to clear the battlefield; Yang Nianxia ran toward Fors Wall and Tang Wulin followed.
• Nan Fusheng signaled Tang Wulin to flee, and Tang Wulin warned Gu Yue before they both ran.
• Fors Wall threw a Five-Colored Lotus, prompting Wu Sidu to turn and flee; Yang Nianxia was caught in the lotus’s expanding light and eliminated.
• The Five-Colored Light of Dissolution faded, revealing a hollow more than fifty meters wide and roughly five meters deep.