Chapter Summaries

Nan Fusheng and Xu Xiaoyan trapped Ye Xinglan while Xie Xie joined Tang Wulin's assault on Fors. After Fors knocked Tang Wulin and Xie Xie away, Gu Yue appeared behind her and launched the team's true killing move.

• Xu Xiaoyan used Star Wheel Ice Chain to restrain Ye Xinglan, allowing Nan Fusheng's tentacles to bind and weaken her with Virus.
• Xie Xie struck at Fors with his clones and combined Light Dragon Storm attacks, but Fors shattered the arena floor, found his Original Body, and punched him away.
• Fors overpowered Tang Wulin in their clash, though his Golden Dragon Claw forced her to erase its energy with Five Elements Divine Light.
• Gu Yue appeared behind Fors and struck with a palm flashing with five colors, revealing the team's true killing move.

Gu Yue attacked Fors with fused elemental strikes, but Fors repeatedly stopped or evaded them using her mastery of space. The chapter ended with Fors appearing directly in front of Gu Yue and placing a hand on her chest.

• Gu Yue struck Fors with five fused elements, but an invisible Spatial Barrier stopped her palm short.
• Fors explained that Gu Yue had misjudged her defenses and anticipated her plan to keep her occupied before launching another powerful attack.
• Gu Yue launched another elemental strike, but Fors appeared behind her and declared that Gu Yue's attacks could not reach her.
• Gu Yue predicted Fors's next reappearance and followed with Teleportation, but her close-range strike still hit only air.
• Fors challenged Gu Yue for keeping her distance, then appeared in front of her and gently touched her chest.

Tang Wulin and Gu Yue unleashed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill against Fors after their attacks failed to defeat her. Fors survived the clash using a Battle Armor component and remained standing as Tang Wulin and Gu Yue fell.

• Fors dodged Gu Yue's attacks and struck Tang Wulin's weakened Golden Dragon Shocks the Heavens aside with Five Elements Divine Light.
• Gu Yue caught Tang Wulin, and her words encouraged him to continue fighting rather than admit defeat.
• As Tang Wulin prepared a final strike, Gu Yue embraced him from behind and merged her seven-colored power into his body, triggering a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Tang Wulin, transformed into a three-meter-tall seven-colored dragon form, clashed with Fors, who gathered her powers for a counterattack.
• The clash left Tang Wulin and Gu Yue on the ground while Fors stood on the Sparring Platform, revealing a Battle Armor component on her left arm.

Fors's team won the Class One selection tournament, and her strength reshaped her classmates' view of her and Nan Fusheng. Three days later, First Grade Class One faced Grade Two Class One in a team battle exchange, with Cai Yue'er watching and Contribution Points offered as a reward.

• Wu Changkong confirmed that Tang Wulin and Gu Yue had only been knocked unconscious, announced Nan Fusheng's team as the winners, and selected Fors's team to represent the class against Grade Two Class One.
• Holy Spirit Douluo healed Tang Wulin and the others, praised Fors, and left to speak with Yueyue.
• After the match, First Grade Class One students recognized Nan Fusheng's strength and Tang Wulin's Spirit Alloy forging ability, while Wu Sidu resolved to defeat Nan Fusheng before challenging Fors.
• Three days later, Cai Yue'er announced that the winning side in the exchange between First Grade Class One and Grade Two Class One would receive Contribution Points.
• The two classes gathered at the Sparring Arena, where Yuanen Yehui stood at the front of Grade Two Class One and First Grade Class One remained divided among its strongest students.

The exchange between Grade One and Grade Two reached its final team battle, with Fors, Nan Fusheng, and Xu Xiaoyan facing Yuanen Yehui and Yue Zhengyu. Yuanen transformed into her Giant Demon Titan and charged Fors, leaving the fight poised to begin in earnest.

• Tang Wulin won the Forging match, Gu Yue drew the Battle Armor design match, and Grade One narrowly lost the production and repair matches.
• Shen Yi announced that Grade One would send three fighters and Grade Two two, and Yuanen Yehui chose Yue Zhengyu as her partner.
• Fors led Nan Fusheng and Xu Xiaoyan onto the stage, while Yuanen warned Fors she would not hold back and assigned Yue Zhengyu to face the other two.
• At Shen Yi's signal, Yuanen released her Titan Giant Ape Martial Soul and used Giant Demon Titan, combining its power with the Golden Baboon's Bloodthirsty Berserk before charging Fors.

Yuanen Yehui fought Fors in the arena but was overwhelmed by her strength, Battle Armor, and abilities. Fors defeated Yuanen and then turned on Yue Zhengyu, leaving him to face her next.

• Yuanen Yehui transformed into her Giant Demon Titan form and charged Fors, who revealed four Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and a Battle Armor component.
• Fors and Yuanen clashed, and Fors's strength and Five Elements Divine Light sent Yuanen crashing into the barrier.
• Fors evaded Yuanen's Air Cannon with her Space Ability, then dragged the unconscious Yuanen into the arena barrier.
• Fors challenged Yue Zhengyu, who summoned his Angel Martial Soul and tried to negotiate.
• Fors struck Yue Zhengyu with Holy Angel Descent and drove him headfirst into the ground.

After First Grade Class One won the Selection Tournament, Yuanen Yehui’s classmates comforted her while Yue Zhengyu was left behind. In the Tianhai Sea Area, Nan Fusheng and Qiangu Bubai awaited a colossal creature named August, which rose from the ocean.

• Shen Yi confirmed Yue Zhengyu was unconscious, and the Holy Spirit Douluo healed him and Yuanen Yehui before announcing First Grade Class One’s victory.
• Grade Two Class One students praised and comforted Yuanen Yehui, then escorted her to the Medical Room, leaving Yue Zhengyu behind.
• Nan Fusheng and Qiangu Bubai waited above the Tianhai Sea Area in a Black-Grade Mecha for a powerful creature to arrive.
• Fog and strange murmuring covered the sea as a gigantic, tentacled creature rose from the ocean.
• Nan Fusheng greeted the creature as August and remarked that its appearance had changed again.

Nan Fusheng met August, his Chimera Soul Beast Doppelganger, and learned how it had grown into a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in just three years. August showed him the Life Energy sphere Nan Fusheng had come for, along with several valuable Spirit Bones.

• Nan Fusheng criticized August’s monstrous appearance, while August explained that its form was suited to fighting in the Ocean.
• The chapter recounted how August and Leviathan were the only two of more than ten Chimera Soul Beast Doppelgangers to survive three years in the dangerous Ocean.
• August had grown from a Hundred-Year Tyrant Octopus into a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast by rapidly adapting and devouring prey.
• August pulled out several Spirit Bones and a sphere filled with Life Energy from the Soul Beasts it had hunted.
• Nan Fusheng reached for the Life Energy sphere, the reason he had come to meet August.

Nan Fusheng learned how August became a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and gained his monstrous humanoid form, then converted Spirit Bones into energy after confirming that his body could not absorb them. He left August as a powerful ocean hunting helper and kept the Life Energy for his own cultivation.

• August told Nan Fusheng that he had absorbed one-third of the Life Energy and explained that he had advanced by hunting Soul Beasts and absorbing energy purified by the Time Worm.
• August revealed that he had encountered Mermaids while nearing one hundred thousand years of cultivation and learned that a mysterious Soul Beast had killed the Sea Princess and driven the Mermaid survivors from the Far North.
• August said that devouring the Mermaids had changed his body into a Cthulhu-like form, and Nan Fusheng judged him powerful enough to help hunt ocean Soul Beasts for Life Energy.
• Nan Fusheng sealed the Life Energy sphere inside his body and used Time Worms to consume several Spirit Bones, turning them to dust.
• Nan Fusheng recalled that his body rejected Spirit Bones because it was advancing toward divinehood, though Shenwei and Lu Fa could still absorb them.

Nan Fusheng and his classmates learned the rules for Shrek Academy’s Final Exam, which required them to reach Ming Capital and defeat stronger opponents without money or supplies. After setting out alone, the students began looking for ways to fund their journeys, while Gu Yue and Ye Xinglan robbed a student outside the Academy gates.

• Nan Fusheng asked August whether he had faced a Heavenly Tribulation when he became a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and August said he could use Nan Fusheng’s power to fool the next one.
• Shen Yi announced that five students would be eliminated unless they traveled to Ming Capital within fifteen days, passed through at least ten cities, and defeated opponents at least five ranks stronger without outside help.
• Shen Yi and Wu Changkong collected the students’ Storage Soul Tools before the class departed from Lingbing Plaza.
• Xu Xiaoyan returned to seek money from senior students, Xie Xie went off to perform, Xu Lizhi planned to sell buns, and Tang Wulin planned to earn money through the Blacksmith Association.
• Gu Yue and Ye Xinglan demanded one hundred thousand Federal Coins from a Grade Two student, while Xu Lizhi persuaded him to buy buns; they then beat him and took the money he had agreed to lend.

Fors accepted Lightning Mike’s bet and defeated him, winning one hundred thousand Federal Coins without having to repay them. Meanwhile, Nan Fusheng went to Shrek Academy’s Snack Street and demanded payment at a barbecue shop.

• An upperclassman offered Ye Xinglan and Gu Yue a chance to borrow more money, but they left with what they had already borrowed.
• Fors asked Mike for the same amount as Ye Xinglan and Gu Yue, then agreed to a bet: she would win one hundred thousand Federal Coins if she stopped him from reaching the Academy gate.
• Mike revealed his Soul King cultivation and One-word Battle Armor, then charged at Fors using his Lightning Leopard Martial Soul.
• Fors revealed four Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and Battle Armor, grabbed Mike, and slammed his head into the ground.
• Fors woke Mike and collected the Federal Coins he had promised.
• Nan Fusheng went to a barbecue shop on Shrek Academy’s Snack Street and demanded payment.

Nan Fusheng boarded a soul train bound for Heaven Dou City and discovered that Tang Wulin and his doppelganger Lu Fa were aboard as well. As Tang Wulin was caught traveling without a ticket, Nan Fusheng brought two more people onto the train, leaving his planned disruption ready to unfold.

• Nan Fusheng bought a ticket and boarded the train to Heaven Dou City after hearing a commotion about a snake at the station.
• Nan Fusheng found Tang Wulin in the dining car and recognized that the rumored soul train accidents might begin again.
• Nan Fusheng spotted his doppelganger Lu Fa, who was returning to Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy after gaining a Soul Spirit, a Fourth Soul Ring, and an External Soul Bone.
• Nan Fusheng decided to teleport other people aboard through his doppelganger while the train traveled.
• Train staff caught Tang Wulin without a ticket and led him away, while Nan Fusheng sensed two auras appear aboard the train.

Nan Fusheng’s plan to use a staged disturbance for Lu Fa’s benefit went awry when masked bandits seized the Soul Train and took hostages. The bandits demanded the Federation release their arrested comrades and threatened to detonate bombs in the first five carriages, while the train conductor negotiated for more time.

• Nan Fusheng sensed disturbances in several carriages and realized the train was under a coordinated terrorist attack.
• A bandit shot a middle-aged passenger who challenged the attackers, then ordered passengers from Carriage No. 5 into Carriage No. 4 while keeping Nan Fusheng and Lu Fa behind as hostages.
• The bandit leader threatened Lu Fa at gunpoint, but Lu Fa ignored him and remained unharmed.
• The bandit leader demanded that the Federation release people arrested twenty days earlier and warned that bombs in the first five carriages would explode in thirty minutes.
• The train conductor told the bandits that headquarters could agree to their demands but needed about an hour for approval, and she asked them to extend the timer.

Nan Fusheng stayed disguised as a hostage while Mo Lan negotiated with the bandits to exchange herself for the passengers. The bandits released the elderly, women, and children, and Nan Fusheng reached Carriage No. 6, where he planned to continue directing events from behind the scenes.

• Nan Fusheng told Lu Fa through Telepathy that he had figured out the bandits’ objective and would have Baru act soon.
• Mo Lan identified herself as the train conductor and offered to become a hostage in exchange for the release of elderly passengers, women, and children.
• The bandit leader verified Mo Lan’s identity online and agreed to release ten hostages first, including Lu Fa.
• Mo Lan surrendered her weapon and entered Carriage No. 5 as a hostage, prompting the bandits to release more elderly passengers, women, and children.
• Nan Fusheng was released with the other minors and safely reached Carriage No. 6.

The Purple Freak attacked the bandits aboard the Soul Train, killing Number Three and Number Six and absorbing their blood. After revealing himself as a Soul King wearing One-word Battle Armor, he left the bandit leader convinced he was an Evil Soul Master.

• Mo Lan accused the bandit leader of breaking his promise when Carriage No. 4 stayed silent, and the leader sent Number Six to investigate.
• Number Six found the Purple Freak among the bloodied bodies in Carriage No. 4, and the Purple Freak killed Number Three.
• Number Six threatened the Purple Freak with a hostage, but the Purple Freak killed them both with a blade.
• The bandit leader blamed Mo Lan for the deaths and threatened to detonate bombs on the Soul Train.
• The Purple Freak absorbed the blood on the floor and revealed five Soul Rings and One-word Battle Armor, leading the bandit leader to recognize him as an Evil Soul Master.

Evil Soul Master Baru terrorized the train passengers and demanded that Mo Lan have sex with a young passenger in exchange for sparing someone. As Mo Lan faced his threat, Tang Wulin arrived and clung to her, pretending to be her younger brother.

• The bandit leader tried to frighten Baru into leaving, while Mo Lan offered to meet his demands.
• Baru revealed that he was an Evil Soul Master and told Mo Lan that most of the passengers in Carriage No. 4 were unconscious.
• Baru demanded that Mo Lan have sex with a randomly chosen young passenger, then killed a young man when she refused.
• Baru threatened another passenger, and Mo Lan agreed to his demand despite the security captain's protests.
• Tang Wulin ran in from Carriage No. 6, embraced Mo Lan, and begged her not to let the villains hurt her.

Baru exposed Tang Wulin’s attempt to rescue the hostages, attacked him, and killed a hostage after Tang Wulin defended himself. He then offered to release hostages if Tang Wulin played his obscene game, and Mo Lan and Tang Wulin refused.

• Baru taunted Mo Lan and threatened a hostage, prompting her to start removing her uniform to protect the others.
• Tang Wulin broke free and charged Baru, who unleashed a blade strike at him.
• Tang Wulin blocked the attack with Blue Silver Grass and his Golden Dragon Claw, then realized Baru had attacked without knowing his identity.
• Baru killed the hostage and mocked Tang Wulin, while the bandit leader learned that Tang Wulin was a Shrek Academy Soul Elder.
• Baru challenged Tang Wulin to choose a male passenger for an obscene act in exchange for releasing hostages, and Mo Lan shielded Tang Wulin before he refused.

Baru used hostages to force Tang Wulin, Mo Lan, and the bandit leader into a sexual act, threatening to kill people if they refused. After Mo Lan chose Tang Wulin, Baru allowed all three to act together, leaving Tang Wulin facing the coercion.

• Baru used his Resentful Soul Spore skill to drain a hostage to death and demanded that Tang Wulin and Mo Lan comply with his order.
• Tang Wulin arranged for Carriage No. 6 to be disconnected, while the Security Captain volunteered to remain behind as a hostage.
• Baru threatened to kill hostages in groups of ten and demanded that the bandit leader participate as well.
• The bandit leader tried to force Tang Wulin, but Mo Lan chose Tang Wulin as her partner, prompting Tang Wulin to knock the bandit leader away.
• Baru said Tang Wulin, Mo Lan, and the bandit leader could all act together to satisfy his demand.

Lu Fa arrived on the hostage-filled Soul Train and killed the Evil Soul Master Baru, ending the threat to the passengers. He revealed his One-word Battle Armor, Xiu, and left Mo Lan to summon help.

• Baru threatened to kill the hostages unless the bandit leader attacked Tang Wulin, and Mo Lan tried to shield Tang Wulin.
• Lu Fa appeared and dismissed Baru’s threats as a farce, provoking Baru to make the hostages’ mushrooms swell.
• Lu Fa summoned his One-word Battle Armor, Xiu, and used it to smash Baru’s armor and kill him.
• The mushrooms dissipated after Baru died, and Lu Fa used silver-purple lightning to kill the bandit leader and the remaining bandits.
• Lu Fa told Mo Lan to call for rescuers and identified himself as a One-word Battle Armor Master.

After Lu Fa, Nan Fusheng, and Tang Wulin helped save the Soul Train, the survivors and officials thanked them while the authorities concealed the Evil Soul Master’s role in the attack. Mo Wu met Lu Fa and learned that Tang Wulin and Nan Fusheng had already left, while their instructor Wu Changkong searched for them.

• Mo Lan thanked Lu Fa for saving the Soul Train, and Lu Fa credited Nan Fusheng with helping him arrive in time.
• After reaching Heaven Dou City, Tang Wulin learned Nan Fusheng had teleported Lu Fa to the train using a spatial marker, and the authorities reported the attack as a bandit raid.
• Lu Fa remained in Heaven Dou City to receive recognition, while Tang Wulin took Nan Fusheng away so their Final Exam would not be delayed.
• Mo Wu urged Mo Lan to quit her dangerous job as a Soul Train Conductor, but she refused, and he thanked Lu Fa for saving her.
• Lu Fa asked Mo Wu to take him to the Blacksmith Association, then noticed Wu Changkong had entered the room unnoticed.
• Wu Changkong learned Tang Wulin and Nan Fusheng had already left and went to search for them.