Chapter Summaries

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.

Nan Fusheng’s Five Elements Divine Light devastated Luo Guixing’s team, while Wu Sidu survived by switching Martial Souls and revealed her Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill. The chapter ended as her Hell White Tiger attacked Fors.

• Xie Xie watched Nan Fusheng’s Five Elements Divine Light erase Yang Nianxia and eliminate most of Luo Guixing’s team.
• Wu Sidu survived the attack by switching Martial Souls and using the White Tiger Protection Barrier.
• Wu Sidu charged at Fors, who challenged her to show the strength of Youming Wu Siduo.
• Wu Sidu fused her Hell Spirit Cat and White Tiger Martial Souls into the Hell White Tiger, a Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• The Hell White Tiger appeared before Fors and swung its paw down at her.

Fors Wall defeated Wu Sidu’s Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill with her strength and Roar of the Five-Colored Dragon. When Luo Guixing tried to teleport his team away, the spatial energy went out of control and exploded, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Fors Wall caught the Hell White Tiger’s paws and overpowered Wu Sidu in a contest of strength.
• Fors Wall fired Roar of the Five-Colored Dragon, destroying the Hell White Tiger and ending Wu Sidu’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Fors Wall turned her attention toward Luo Guixing and his group, and Luo Guixing recognized that they could not defeat her head-on.
• Luo Guixing used spatial power to teleport himself, Xu Xiaoyan, the Fire Bird Spirit Master, and the Support-type Spirit Master away.
• The spatial energy around Luo Guixing’s team became chaotic and exploded, cracking the sky and forcing nearby Tang Wulin and the others to flee.

Fors defeated Luo Guixing and his teammates with her control of space, then chose to rest rather than fight Tang Wulin's group. Tang Wulin and the others waited for the final battle, while Tang Wulin speculated that Fors might have a Five-Colored Dragon Martial Soul.

• Fors disrupted Luo Guixing's Space Ability, and the resulting Space Turbulence eliminated Luo Guixing, the Fire Bird Spirit Master, and the Support-type Spirit Master.
• Xu Xiaoyan escaped the Spatial Power and surrendered, while Fors told Tang Wulin and Gu Yue she would save their fight for the final battle.
• Fors made a wooden stump and sat beside Nan Fusheng, revealing to Tang Wulin's group that they were teammates.
• Tang Wulin decided to wait with his group and let other opponents test Fors, while Gu Yue insisted she wanted to fight Fors at her strongest.
• Xie Xie asked about Fors's Martial Soul, and Tang Wulin speculated that she might possess a Five-Colored Dragon Martial Soul.

Gu Yue identified Fors as a powerful wielder of Space and elemental control and vowed to defeat her. The final melee began with twelve contestants gathered in a forest arena, where Fors revealed four Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and instantly killed Xu Yucheng’s two companions with a spiritual attack.

• Gu Yue told Tang Wulin and the others that Fors could control Space as well as the Five Elements, and she insisted she would win their coming fight.
• Shen Yi announced that twelve contestants remained and teleported them into a circular Blue Silver Grass arena in the forest.
• Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, Nan Fusheng, Fors, Xu Yucheng, his two companions, and three injured contestants appeared together in the arena.
• Fors challenged the others to attack her together and told Xu Yucheng she had defeated Wu Sidu.
• Xu Yucheng released his Dark Demon Scythe while his two companions charged Fors, but Fors revealed four Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and killed them with Soul Shattering Explosion.

Xu Yucheng fought Fors’s three coordinated Spirit Masters but was captured by Nan Fusheng’s control ability. Tang Wulin’s group prepared to fight Fors and Nan Fusheng, with Gu Yue facing Fors and Tang Wulin assigned to Xu Yucheng.

• Fors taunted Xu Yucheng, who chose to fight despite recognizing her overwhelming strength.
• Three Crimson Flame Lion Spirit Masters attacked Xu Yucheng in close coordination, but he defeated them with his Dark Demon Scythe.
• Nan Fusheng revealed that he had controlled Xu Yucheng, leaving him unable to move.
• Tang Wulin assigned Gu Yue to face Fors and planned for the others to confront Nan Fusheng and Xu Yucheng.
• Xu Xiaoyan attacked Nan Fusheng with an Ice Wheel, and the controlled Xu Yucheng blocked it for him.
• Xu Xiaoyan insisted Tang Wulin fight Xu Yucheng while she and Xie Xie dealt with Nan Fusheng.

Tang Wulin struggled to reach the controlled Xu Yucheng while Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan failed to corner Nan Fusheng. Meanwhile, Gu Yue approached Fors, who challenged her to come closer.

• Tang Wulin attacked Nan Fusheng and Xu Yucheng with Blue Silver Grass, but Xu Yucheng swept the vines aside with his Dark Demon Scythe.
• Tang Wulin used Golden Dragon Body to break free from the scythe’s pressure and close in on Xu Yucheng, but Xu Yucheng’s reckless counterattack sent him flying back.
• Tang Wulin and Xu Yucheng reached a stalemate, while Tang Wulin realized he needed better long-range attacks.
• Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan tried to attack Nan Fusheng, but he evaded them with his Gate ability and waited for Fors to defeat Gu Yue.
• Gu Yue approached Fors and said she would defeat her, and Fors walked toward Gu Yue in response.

Fors battled Gu Yue, overwhelming her with superior control of elemental attacks and disrupting her attempts to defend herself. As Gu Yue fled the barrage, she recognized the familiar feeling of being toyed with and realized Fors was treating her the way she had once treated Xie Xie.

• Gu Yue attacked Fors with an ice spike combining Ice, Space, and Fire Elements, but Fors countered it with a matching spike.
• Gu Yue used an earth wall and Space Teleportation to evade Fors's counterattack, though spatial interference limited her escape.
• Fors prevented Gu Yue from controlling Earth Element and sent a dense swarm of Ice Spikes after her, forcing her to teleport away.
• Fors launched a second swarm and disrupted Gu Yue's Spatial Transfer, so Gu Yue ran using Wind Element while searching for a weakness.
• Gu Yue realized Fors was toying with her just as she had once toyed with Xie Xie.

Gu Yue unleashed an uncontrollable Blizzard against Fors, expecting her to face it head-on, but Fors seized control of the storm and turned it back on Gu Yue. As the Blizzard swallowed Gu Yue, a strange azure creature emerged and swallowed her whole.

• Gu Yue realized Fors had deliberately held back her earlier Ice Spikes and space interference to provoke her into a decisive attack.
• Gu Yue formed a powerful Blizzard by combining the Wind and Water Elements, then sent it toward Fors as it grew beyond her control.
• Nan Fusheng controlled Xu Yucheng into the Blizzard, where Xu Yucheng vanished in a streak of light.
• Gu Yue warned Tang Wulin and the others to get away, while Fors declared the Blizzard was not enough and demonstrated her Element Manipulation.
• Fors halted the Blizzard and turned it toward Gu Yue, then a deep-azure creature burst from the storm and swallowed her.

Fors eliminated Gu Yue and Tang Wulin with overwhelming force during the selection, leaving Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan unable to challenge her. After the students returned from the simulation pods, they greeted Fors as their class monitor.

• Fors used her Ultimate Ice to seize control of Gu Yue’s Blizzard and eliminate her, prompting Tang Wulin to charge at Fors in grief and anger.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan decided to fight Fors, but she rushed Tang Wulin and defeated him with a single punch.
• Xie Xie froze when Fors challenged him, until Nan Fusheng appeared and reminded them that only four people remained.
• The simulation ended, and Nan Fusheng and Fors emerged from their pods to face the gathered students.
• The students greeted Fors in unison as their class monitor while Zheng Yiran, Yang Nianxia, Xu Yucheng, Luo Guixing, and Wu Sidu watched her.

Fors refused to become a class cadre, and Nan Fusheng also declined the class monitor position, leaving Cai Yue'er to reconsider who could lead New Student Class One. Cai Yue'er weighed the remaining candidates as the class representative selection came to a close.

• The students greeted Fors and Nan Fusheng as class monitor candidates, impressed by their performances in the selection.
• Cai Yue'er asked Fors and Nan Fusheng to decide who would be class monitor and who would be Vice Class Monitor.
• Fors refused to take any class cadre position, despite Cai Yue'er reminding her about its benefits.
• Nan Fusheng also declined, saying Fors had shown mercy and he was not strong enough for the class monitor position.
• Cai Yue'er privately considered Xu Xiaoyan and Xie Xie poor choices and thought the leadership roles should go to Fors, Nan Fusheng, Gu Yue, or Wu Sidu.