Chapter Summaries

Tang Wulin and his team agreed to challenge the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy for extra exam points, with Wu Changkong warning that a loss would make them fail. At the academy gates, Wu Changkong publicly provoked the students into a match, and a middle-aged man led the team inside, confident his academy would win.

• Ye Xinglan proposed holding the final exam round at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy, and Tang Wulin agreed.
• Wu Changkong joined the team and offered each of the five students full marks and ten extra points if they won, but warned that losing would mean failure and his resignation.
• Tang Wulin and the others reached Ming Capital and went to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy with Wu Changkong.
• Wu Changkong used a Soul Tool Amplifier to challenge the academy's strongest students under twenty, then left Tang Wulin holding the device as its recorded taunt played repeatedly.
• A blond middle-aged man confronted Tang Wulin and led the team inside, believing his academy's current class was the strongest in a thousand years.

Ao Hongchen prepared Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy for a heavily publicized match against Shrek Academy, while Shenwei and four teammates entered the Great Soul Arena to face Tang Wulin and the others. The match was about to begin before a massive crowd, with Shenwei confident he could defeat the opposition alone.

• Ao Hongchen decided to teach Lu Fa whether or not Lu Fa agreed to become his disciple, and planned to persuade him to focus on blacksmithing.
• Ao Hongchen chose Xue Liushuang, Weng Daimin, Jian Mochen, and Kuang Zhantian to join Shenwei, and told Dang Hongchen to warn them not to underestimate Shrek Academy.
• Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy publicized the match across the Federation and arranged to host it in its enormous Great Soul Arena.
• Xue Liushuang asked Shenwei about tactics, but Shenwei declared that he would defeat the opponents by himself.
• Dang Hongchen reminded the team to take the match seriously, then sent them toward the arena as the crowd roared and cheered for Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy.

Tang Wulin and four Shrek Academy students faced Kamui and the World-Shaking Seven Stars in a hostile arena, but Kamui stopped the crowd from abusing them. After the referee explained the rules and both teams traded taunts, the match began with the teams in triangular formations.

• Tang Wulin released his golden ring and blood essence as the crowd’s hostility overwhelmed the Shrek team.
• Kamui silenced the audience with Lightning Flash and told them he would not accept a victory earned through despicable methods.
• Dang Hongchen raised a soundproof barrier, explained that the match would continue until one side was defeated unless someone faced severe harm, and accepted Tang Wulin’s taunts.
• Tang Wulin and Kamui introduced their teams, then both sides retreated and formed triangular battle formations.
• Dang Hongchen started the match between Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy.

Shenwei overwhelmed Tang Wulin with lightning and brute force, despite Tang Wulin’s confidence that his Golden Dragon King bloodline would suppress him. The chapter left Tang Wulin badly electrocuted as Gu Yue and the others rushed to help.

• Tang Wulin and Shenwei charged at each other while their teammates watched.
• Shenwei revealed four black ten-thousand-year Soul Rings and used Thunder Dragon Power to strengthen himself.
• Shenwei’s lightning and punch broke through Tang Wulin’s attack, sending him flying and electrocuting him.
• Shenwei chased Tang Wulin and struck him in the face, leaving him reeling and foaming at the mouth.
• Gu Yue teleported to catch Tang Wulin, but the residual lightning shocked her too.

Shenwei overwhelmed Shrek’s team with his speed and strength, knocking Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and then Ye Xinglan out of the fight. Gu Yue attacked him while teleporting, and Shenwei turned his attention to eliminating her.

• Shenwei charred Tang Wulin unconscious, then evaded Gu Yue’s counterattack and hurled Ye Xinglan aside.
• Shenwei dodged Xie Xie’s daggers and kicked him into the arena barrier, knocking him unconscious; Dang Hongchen had Tang Wulin and Xie Xie taken out for treatment.
• Gu Yue and Ye Xinglan regrouped with Xu Lizhi while the audience cheered Shenwei, and Shenwei stopped Xue Liushuang and the other Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy fighters from joining the battle.
• Xu Lizhi gave Gu Yue and Ye Xinglan buns to boost their attributes, and the two attacked Shenwei together.
• Shenwei overpowered Ye Xinglan’s sword strike, forced her to one knee, and kicked her away as Gu Yue attacked him with repeated elemental hand seals.
• Shenwei declared that he would eliminate Gu Yue and challenged her to see whether her teleportation or his speed was faster.

Shenwei used his Myriad Phenomena Thunder Domain to counter Gu Yue’s teleportation and defeat her, then eliminated Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi. The World-Shaking Seven Stars won as the crowd celebrated Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy’s victory.

• Shenwei expanded his Myriad Phenomena Thunder Domain across the arena and used its lightning to pursue Gu Yue wherever she teleported.
• Shenwei struck Gu Yue with his Dragon Claw, and their collision briefly weakened the Dragon Transformation on his claw.
• Shenwei caught Gu Yue repeatedly and knocked her unconscious with a punch to the abdomen.
• Ye Xinglan charged Shenwei after Gu Yue was eliminated, but he knocked her and Xu Lizhi off the arena.
• Dang Hongchen declared the World-Shaking Seven Stars victorious, and the crowd in Ming Capital cheered for Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy.

Tang Wulin and his companions left Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy after Shenwei defeated them, only for Shenwei to announce that the World-Shaking Seven Stars would challenge Shrek Academy. Wu Changkong accepted the challenge and took the defeated students back, while Tang Wulin blamed himself for their loss.

• Tang Wulin and the others left the academy after losing to Shenwei, but found a crowd gathered to see the World-Shaking Seven Stars.
• Shenwei asked Tang Wulin whether they were Shrek Academy’s weakest students, and Tang Wulin affirmed it to downplay the defeat.
• Shenwei announced that the World-Shaking Seven Stars would visit Shrek Academy and challenge them when their captain returned.
• Wu Changkong arrived in a Soul-Powered Car, accepted the challenge, and took Tang Wulin and his companions back to Shrek Academy.
• Shenwei’s recording of the exchange spread across Ming Capital and the Soul Network as Tang Wulin confessed his regret to Wu Changkong.

After Tang Wulin’s team failed its assessment against Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy, Wu Changkong told them they had to retake it. Shen Yi told Nan Fusheng’s group about the defeat and offered extra points if they challenged the academy, and Fors agreed to go there as their assessment endpoint.

• Wu Changkong comforted Tang Wulin’s team after their loss and explained that they had to retake the assessment within the same time limit.
• Shen Yi learned that Wu Changkong’s team had failed against Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy and told Nan Fusheng’s group about it aboard the Soul Train.
• Nan Fusheng asked whether Shen Yi wanted his group to challenge the academy, and she offered full marks and fifty extra points each if they won.
• Fors agreed to challenge Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy, and Nan Fusheng said they would head there after the train arrived.
• Nan Fusheng contacted Shenwei and told him to leave the academy rather than risk exposing their abilities against Fors.

Fors, Nan Fusheng, and their companions arrived at Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy to challenge it after Shenwei’s team had defeated Shrek’s previous challengers. With Shenwei unavailable, Long Chen volunteered to represent his team.

• Shen Yi drove Nan Fusheng, Fors, Xu Xiaoyan, and herself to Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy in a High-altitude Flying Car.
• Fors announced that she was a Shrek Academy student and challenged the academy, drawing a crowd eager to see another match.
• A blond-haired teacher accepted the challenge, confirmed the challengers’ average age was fourteen, and said the match would be broadcast live throughout Ming Capital.
• Fors took Shen Yi’s communicator and told Cai Yue'er that she intended to challenge the academy; Cai Yue'er gave her permission before hanging up.
• Dang Hongchen learned Shenwei was away, so Long Chen volunteered to take his place in the match.

Cai Yue'er concealed Fors's talent from the Sea God Pavilion and planned to take her as a disciple, while deciding that Fors's challenge against the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy could benefit her either way. Fors, Nan Fusheng, and Xu Xiaoyan entered the packed Great Soul Arena to face the hostile crowd, and the match was about to begin.

• Cai Yue'er recalled hiding Fors's information so other Pavilion Elders would not claim her, and resolved to make Fors her disciple.
• Cai Yue'er accepted Fors's challenge against the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy, believing either a victory or defeat could work to her advantage.
• The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy's middle-aged representative led Nan Fusheng and the others through a Soul Power-enhancing chamber to the Great Soul Arena waiting area.
• Fors led Nan Fusheng and Xu Xiaoyan into the arena after they agreed she could have some fun in the match.
• The trio faced a nearly full arena as spectators jeered at Shrek Academy, and a voice announced that the match was about to begin.

Long Chen entered the live match against Fors Wall, Nan Fusheng, and Xu Xiaoyan determined to prove himself as a member of the World-Shaking Seven Stars. He charged at Fors with his strongest abilities, only to panic when she revealed four black Soul Rings.

• More than 100,000 spectators gathered in the Great Soul Arena to watch the match between Shrek and Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy.
• Fors Wall, Nan Fusheng, and Xu Xiaoyan introduced themselves to Long Chen, Xue Liushuang, and Weng Daimin before taking their positions.
• Long Chen recalled his earlier defeats and resolved to use the broadcast match to make a name for himself while Lu Fa and Shenwei were absent.
• After Dang Hongchen started the match, Long Chen charged at Fors and used his Dragon Roar, Dragon Power, and Dragon Claw Soul Skills.
• Long Chen declared that his rise had come, then saw Fors reveal four black Soul Rings and shouted for her not to come closer.

Fors overwhelmed the World-Shaking Seven Stars team, defeating Long Chen with a mental attack and overcoming Xue Liushuang and Weng Daimin’s Ice and Snow Goddess fusion. Dang Hongchen intervened, and Fors asked the referee to declare the match over less than a minute after it began.

• Fors revealed four Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, prompting the Presidium to order an investigation into her background.
• Long Chen charged Fors, but her Spiritual Shockwave knocked him unconscious before he could reach her.
• Xue Liushuang and Weng Daimin fused into the Ice and Snow Goddess and attacked Fors, Nan Fusheng, and Xiaoyan with sword beams.
• Fors blocked the sword beams with a Spatial Barrier and formed an Eight-Element Holy Sword.
• Fors shattered the Ice and Snow Goddess’s sword and held her holy sword at Xue Liushuang’s neck, causing Xue Liushuang and Weng Daimin to separate.
• Dang Hongchen intervened, and Fors asked him to announce the match’s result.

Fors defeated Long Chen and two other members of the World-Shaking Seven Stars in under a minute, prompting a surge of interest in a possible clash with Shenwei and Lu Fa. At a meeting, Ao Hongchen assessed Fors as an exceptionally powerful fighter, leaving the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy leaders uncertain whether their top students could defeat her.

• Dang Hongchen declared Shrek Academy the winner after Fors defeated Long Chen, then carried the unconscious Long Chen to the Treatment Room.
• Fors silenced the stunned spectators and left the arena with Nan Fusheng and Xu Xiaoyan as Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy students reconsidered Shrek Academy's strength.
• The arena battle fueled public interest in a showdown between Fors and Shenwei, and Shen Yi picked up the three Shrek students in a flying car.
• Ao Hongchen told the academy leaders that Fors could control at least eight elements and had Spiritual Abyss Realm Spiritual Power approaching ten thousand.
• The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy leaders questioned whether Lu Fa and Shenwei could defeat Fors and whether Shrek had more students of comparable strength.

Nan Fusheng awakened the Divine Tree and made it his fifth Soul Spirit, gaining the ability to animate inanimate objects. The chapter left him considering how far the power could reach while wondering whether its unsettling effects pointed him toward becoming an evil god.

• Fors embraced Xu Xiaoyan and spent the next five days tormenting her while Xu Xiaoyan supervised her cultivation.
• Shen Yi announced the end of the semester, and five students with the lowest Final Exam scores were expelled from Shrek Academy.
• Xu Xiaoyan left for Eastsea City, while Nan Fusheng stayed at the academy and returned his consciousness to his Original Body in Skysea City.
• Nan Fusheng fed a White Light Orb to the Divine Tree, which had grown into a powerful Soul Beast after he moved it from Qiangu Bubai's backyard to the ocean.
• With Qiangu Bubai's help, Nan Fusheng made the Divine Tree his fifth Soul Spirit and gained the fifth soul skill Inorganic Rebirth.
• Nan Fusheng tested Inorganic Rebirth by animating the earth around him, then withdrew its vitality and wondered whether the ability could someday affect an entire continent.

Nan Fusheng discovered that his fifth soul skill could create living metals, and he and Lu Fa tested whether one could become a Doppelganger. Lu Fa then demonstrated astonishing forging skill at the Heaven Dou City Blacksmith Association, where his Spirit Refinement was nearing completion in record time.

• Nan Fusheng examined metals brought to life by his fifth soul skill and decided to seek Lu Fa’s assessment in Heaven Dou City.
• Nan Fusheng used Parasitism on the living Sink Silver, and it spoke, confirming that it had become one of their Doppelgangers.
• Nan Fusheng and Lu Fa went to the Heaven Dou City Blacksmith Association so Lu Fa could test the metal and draw God Craftsman Zhen Hua’s attention.
• Lu Fa began forging ordinary Sink Silver on the public platform, stunning onlookers with four ten-thousand-year Soul Rings and powerful strikes.
• Lu Fa achieved perfect Thousand Refinement with Spirit and began Spirit Refinement, causing the metal to gain spirituality in only three minutes.

Lu Fa completed Spirit Refinement on Sink Silver in five minutes, then attempted Soul Refinement before the Blacksmith Association’s God Craftsman, Zhen Hua. He achieved Soul Forging Echo and Solidification but failed Soul Awakening, and revealed that he was fourteen and Kong Xuan’s registered disciple.

• Lu Fa’s Sink Silver completed Spirit Refinement in five minutes, and he continued forging while the surrounding blacksmiths watched in awe.
• Zhen Hua sensed the forging and went downstairs with an old man in a chef’s uniform to investigate.
• Lu Fa infused the Sink Silver with his bloodline aura and soul, producing Soul Forging Echoes and forcing it back onto the table when it tried to escape.
• Lu Fa completed Soul Forging Solidification and attempted Soul Awakening, but the Sink Silver fell silent before the process could succeed.
• Zhen Hua encouraged Lu Fa, then asked his age and master; Lu Fa identified himself as Kong Xuan’s registered disciple and said he was fourteen.

Lu Fa registered his blacksmith rank at the Heaven Dou City Blacksmith Association, where Zhen Hua discovered his Half-Step Soul Refinement talent and decided to recruit him from Kong Xuan. After learning of Zhen Hua and Kong Xuan’s feud, Lu Fa challenged the association’s blacksmiths on his teacher’s behalf.

• Zhen Hua brought Lu Fa to the association’s top floor and learned that he was Kong Xuan’s registered disciple, while Mu Ye asked whether Lu Fa had joined a faction.
• Mu Ye served Lu Fa a lavish meal, and Zhen Hua called Kong Xuan to confirm Lu Fa’s status and persuade him to hand the boy over as a disciple.
• Zhen Hua decided to poach Lu Fa for his own lineage, believing the young blacksmith could become the next God Craftsman.
• Lu Fa asked Smith about the feud between Zhen Hua and Kong Xuan, and Zhen Hua interrupted before Smith could reveal more.
• After Zhen Hua claimed Kong Xuan had asked him to look after Lu Fa, Lu Fa challenged every blacksmith in the Heaven Dou City Blacksmith Association except Zhen Hua.

Zhen Hua and Mu Ye tested Lu Fa’s remarkable bloodline and cultivation, then tried to recruit him while supporting his blacksmithing future. Lu Fa advanced to level forty-four, declined to join a faction, and left with a Soul Refinement badge and Rare Metals.

• Zhen Hua advised Lu Fa to strengthen his cultivation before pursuing Soul Refinement and arranged to contact him through Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy.
• Mu Ye served Lu Fa a Deep Sea Emperor Crab and Blood Clams, and Lu Fa’s Soul Power surged as he ate them.
• Lu Fa meditated and broke through to level forty-four while Zhen Hua and Mu Ye questioned Smith about his background.
• Zhen Hua and Mu Ye sensed Lu Fa’s extraordinary bloodline, and Mu Ye invited him to become his disciple, but Lu Fa declined to join a faction.
• Zhen Hua gave Lu Fa a six-star Blacksmith Badge engraved with Soul Refinement arrays and a Storage Ring holding twenty-five types of Rare Metal.
• Zhen Hua arranged for Lu Fa to leave through the back door to avoid attention.

Zhen Hua and Mu Ye learned of Lu Fa’s difficult past, while Lu Fa forged self-aware Battle Armor from Fusheng Brand metal and prepared to return to school. At a Sea God Pavilion meeting, Yun Ming approved a joint effort to hunt Evil Soul Masters and heard that Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy had challenged Shrek Academy.

• Zhen Hua stopped Mu Ye from taking Lu Fa as a disciple until Lu Fa finished academy, then showed him a file detailing Lu Fa’s talent and hardship-filled upbringing.
• Nan Fusheng and Lu Fa returned to Skysea City, where Nan Fusheng distributed the White Light Orb’s energy among his Doppelgangers and Lu Fa’s cultivation rose to Rank 47.
• Lu Fa discovered that Fusheng Brand metal enabled perfect fusion and spent more than twenty days forging self-aware Battle Armor for Cai Xukun.
• Nan Fusheng sent Lu Fa, Shenwei, and Fors back to school, and Shenwei said he would challenge Shrek Academy to test the armor.
• Nan Fusheng learned that Tang Wulin had broken his fourth seal and encountered Na'er, while Xiao Huohuo expanded his barbecue business with Nan Fusheng’s help.
• At the Sea God Pavilion meeting, Cai Yue'er reported Evil Soul Master attacks, and Yun Ming approved cooperation with the Federation and Tang Sect before Cai Yue'er presented Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy’s challenge.

Shrek Academy accepted Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy’s exchange and forging challenges, while its elders debated Fors Wall’s future. Tang Wulin’s team defeated Wu Sidu’s team in the class monitor contest, leaving Tang Wulin poised to take the position as Fors remained the grade’s strongest student.

• Cai Yue'er told the Sea God Pavilion that Lu Fa, a fourteen-year-old captain of the World-Shaking Seven Stars, had challenged Feng Wuyu to a forging contest, and Feng Wuyu chose Tang Wulin to represent him.
• Cai Yue'er showed the elders footage and information about Fors Wall, prompting them to argue over who should take her as a successor.
• Yun Ming ordered the elders not to disturb Fors before she entered the Inner Courtyard and turned the discussion to the Evil Soul Masters.
• Shen Yi announced that the students would begin attempting to produce One-word Battle Armor, and students gathered to watch Tang Wulin's team challenge Wu Sidu's team.
• Tang Wulin broke his fourth seal and gained Golden Dragon Tyrant Body, then teamed with Gu Yue and Ye Xinglan to defeat Wu Sidu's team.
• The students recognized that Tang Wulin would likely become class monitor, while Fors remained the strongest student in the grade.