Chapter Summaries

After Shenwei Kamui and the Tianzun Squad defeated Lin Pingzhi’s team, Tianhai Academy’s Dean Yue Buqun agreed that Shenwei Kamui, Lu Fa, and Fors Wall should leave Skysea City for a larger stage. Nan Fusheng then asked the three what they planned to do next and reflected on how he had created Shenwei Kamui.

• Shenwei Kamui, Lu Fa, and Fors Wall left the arena after the referee declared the Tianzun Squad victorious.
• Yue Buqun and a middle-aged teacher discussed the trio’s overwhelming talent and agreed they should go to Shrek Academy rather than remain at Tianhai Academy.
• Nan Fusheng asked Shenwei Kamui, Lu Fa, and Fors Wall where they planned to go next.
• Nan Fusheng recalled that his Soul Power had reached Level 45 and that he had fused with his fourth Soul Spirit over the past three years.
• Nan Fusheng explained how he created Shenwei Kamui by combining his blood, rare thunder-based materials, and a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Spirit.

Nan Fusheng’s doppelgangers chose different paths as they prepared to leave Tianhai Academy: Shenwei Kamui and Lu Fa headed for Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy, while Fors Wall chose Shrek Academy. The chapter ended with Shenwei declaring that he wanted to defeat Shrek and shatter its undefeated myth.

• Shenwei Kamui and Lu Fa rejected Shrek Academy and decided to attend Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy, while Fors Wall chose Shrek Academy.
• The chapter explained Fors Wall’s Book of Records Martial Soul, its limits, and her plan to record powerful abilities from Soul Beasts.
• Yue Buqun praised Shenwei Kamui, Lu Fa, and Fors Wall as Tianhai Academy’s strongest geniuses and wished them well as they prepared to leave.
• Yue Buqun asked Shenwei Kamui and Lu Fa to reconsider Shrek, but Shenwei said he wanted to defeat Shrek as a student from another academy and break its undefeated myth.

Fors Wall arrived in Shrek City ahead of Shrek Academy’s entrance assessment and contacted Nan Fusheng for help finding a place to stay. She checked into the same hotel as Nan Fusheng and his companions, then visited him in his room.

• Fors Wall reached Shrek City alone and asked Fu Sheng No. 1 for help, learning that Nan Fusheng had taken over his consciousness.
• Nan Fusheng sent Fors the hotel’s location after refusing to pick her up.
• Fors checked into an old hotel near the Soul Train station and paid half the price of a double room.
• Fors visited Nan Fusheng, who told her Xie Xie was in the room while the others had gone out to eat with Tang Wulin.
• Fors and Nan Fusheng sat together and communicated through their mental connection.

Nan Fusheng sent Fors Wall away after she teased him, and she introduced herself to the returning Zero Class students as someone he had helped. Wu Changkong recognized her formidable cultivation and Spiritual Power, while Xie Xie warned Nan Fusheng to stay faithful because he hoped he would pair with Xu Xiaoyan.

• Nan Fusheng told Fors Wall that he and Tang Wulin would likely enroll as Work-Study Students, then tried to send her back to her room.
• Fors Wall teased Nan Fusheng by offering him a little lick of her feet, but he pushed her out and made her put her shoes back on.
• Xu Xiaoyan, Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Gu Yue, and Wu Changkong returned, and Fors Wall explained that Nan Fusheng had helped her find a hotel.
• Wu Changkong said Fors Wall had at least four rings and Spiritual Power far beyond the students', then encouraged them to cultivate.
• Xie Xie checked that the hotel walls were soundproof, warned Nan Fusheng against fickleness, and privately hoped he would end up with Xu Xiaoyan.

Fors Wall traveled to Shrek Academy to apply and was admitted into the assessment group with six other applicants. Cang Jingkong guided them through the academy’s historic Main Teaching Building and into a hall where a towering Black Dragon mural overwhelmed the other students.

• After Tang Wulin entered Deep Meditation, the Zero Class members chose to wait for him, while Fors went to Shrek Academy to apply.
• Fors arrived during the crowded admissions season, presented her recommendation letter, and followed Guide Teacher Cang Jingkong into the academy with six other applicants.
• Cang Jingkong introduced Lingbing Plaza, its statue of Huo Yuhao, and the statues commemorating Inner Courtyard disciples.
• Cang Jingkong led the applicants through Shrek Building and explained that its murals depicted events from the academy’s history.
• The group entered a circular hall and felt immense pressure as they looked up at a mural of a golden-eyed Black Dragon.

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.