Chapter Summaries

Wu Liang welcomed Explosion Team to Shrek Academy and revealed the Water of the River of Oblivion, which could remove Soul Rings without erasing their skills. With Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Grandmaster transferring Soul Power, the Bai Sisters and Hou Zhu reforged their first Soul Rings at much higher ages, cementing Explosion Team’s place as Shrek Team Three.

• Wu Liang treated Explosion Team to drinks after they joined Shrek Academy, and the next day Grandmaster introduced them to Team Two.
• Grandmaster explained that the Bai Sisters shared an eighty-year Twin Soul Beast Soul Ring and that Hou Zhu’s ten-year first Soul Ring had limited his potential.
• Wu Liang offered the three a way to wash away their first Soul Rings while keeping their soul skills, and they agreed.
• Wu Liang used a drop of Water of the River of Oblivion on each of them as Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Grandmaster transferred Soul Power to rebuild their Soul Rings.
• The Bai Sisters gained yellow Soul Rings tinged with purple, while Hou Zhu’s first Soul Ring became a thousand-year purple one.
• Hou Zhu celebrated his stronger soul skill, and Explosion Team officially became Shrek Team Three after the teachers helped them.

The Master assessed the Third Team’s soul skills and recommended directions for their future development before setting training plans for the academy’s teams. He granted the newcomers a day to explore Shrek Academy, and the students split up to show them around or practice.

• Bai Niao, Hou Ying, Hou Zhu, the Bai Sisters, Hou Xi, and Bai Wa described their soul skills, and the Master evaluated their abilities and suggested future Soul Rings or training paths.
• The Master ordered the First and Third Teams to continue weighted training and sparring, but gave the Third Team one day off to become familiar with the campus.
• The First Team’s girls rushed toward Suotuo City with members of the Third and Second Teams, while Oscar led the remaining newcomers toward the village cafeteria.
• Wu Liang, Bai Qi, and Neilbas went to their temporary training ground to practice sword techniques.
• Ma Hongjun followed Dai Mubai and the girls, staying close to Xiao Yanzi, while Wu Liang reflected on their relationship and chose not to interfere.

Wu Liang trained and worried over Kanna and Shadow’s feelings, then welcomed the Explosion Team into Shrek and shared the academy’s lavish meals with them. The chapter ended with the Master and Flender discussing the team’s destroyed village and the failures of Spirit Hall and other factions to protect or nurture its young survivors.

• Wu Liang asked Bai Qi whether Kanna had stopped speaking of marriage because he had hurt her, and confessed that he was confused by Shadow’s affection as well.
• Bai Qi explained that he wanted only to train and grow stronger alongside Wu Liang, prompting Wu Liang to abandon their heart-to-heart and resume studying the Selfless Sword Intent.
• The Explosion Team joined the Shrek students for lunch, where its members sampled Wu Liang’s strengthening food and learned how casually the older students and the Master behaved around him.
• Wu Liang woke from a nap, carried Fei Ling back to her room, and returned to sword training with Bai Qi.
• Flender gave the Master the investigation report confirming that the Explosion Team’s village had been destroyed and that Spirit Hall had ignored the villagers’ plea for help.
• The Master concluded that small factions had exploited the survivors instead of nurturing them, and learned that rich young men had targeted the Bai Sisters and Bai Niao.

After returning from vacation, Wu Liang found Team One away obtaining Soul Rings and helped Team Three's male members begin sword training. A week later, Team One returned successfully, while Team Three's boys chose to keep training with Wu Liang and Bai Qi instead of following Master’s basic physical training.

• Wu Liang processed Kanna's final two Soul Bones into a necklace and bracelet, completing her jewelry set.
• Wu Liang learned that Ma Hongjun, two other members, and Xiao Yanzi had gone to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain Soul Rings after reaching level thirty.
• Hou Xi asked to train in swordsmanship, and Wu Liang gave him an Executioner's Blade and directed him to learn greatsword techniques from Bai Qi.
• Hou Zhu trained under Wu Liang, while Hou Xi, Bai Wa, and Hou Ying trained with greatswords under Bai Qi.
• Team One returned from the Star Dou Great Forest with their Soul Ring trip successful.
• Bai Niao told Master that Team Three's male members wanted to train swordsmanship with Wu Liang and Bai Qi, and Master agreed to adjust their training.

Wu Liang assessed Team One and Team Three after Team One defeated them again, then accompanied the Master to register Blazing Martial Soul for a team battle. At the Soto Grand Spirit Arena, the attendant realized Ma Hongjun had once rescued her, and Manager Ao welcomed the team's return.

• The Master described Ma Hongjun's, Ning Rongrong's, and Zhu Zhuqing's new soul skills, while Wu Liang explained that the Double Experience Potion had boosted cultivation for a month and planned to give the last two bottles to Xiao Yanzi.
• Wu Liang watched Team One defeat Team Three again and gave both teams detailed advice about their tactics and individual performances.
• The Master announced that he would register the students for a team battle at the Soto Grand Spirit Arena that night.
• Wu Liang and the Master went to register Blazing Martial Soul, and the attendant recognized the badge and summoned her supervisor.
• Wu Liang reminded the attendant that Ma Hongjun had rescued her after she was harassed, and Manager Ao arrived excitedly to welcome Blazing Martial Soul back.

Manager Ao recruited Blazing Martial Soul to fight the Royal Fight Team, a powerful Silver Soul Fighter team from Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and the Master accepted for the sake of his students’ training. After Wu Liang identified the opponents and explained their Soul Skills, the team began preparing for the difficult group battle.

• Manager Ao asked the Master to have Blazing Martial Soul fight the winning Silver Soul Fighter team, and offered them ten thousand Gold Soul Coins plus a hundred thousand if they won.
• The Master agreed after learning that all three members who had been below Soul Elder had advanced during the team’s time in Star Dou Great Forest.
• Wu Liang recognized the opponents as the Royal Fight Team from Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and the Master reacted to Captain Yu Tianheng’s profile.
• The Master gathered Shrek’s students and teachers to review the Royal Fight Team’s seven members and their Soul Ring configurations.
• Wu Liang described the opponents’ Soul Skills, warning the team about Dugu Yan’s poison, the Shi Brothers’ combined defenses, and Osler’s Ghost Leopard Clone.

Shrek’s Blazing Martial Soul Team prepared to face the Royal Fight Team, with Wu Liang explaining the opponents’ abilities and tactics. The Royal Fight Team received warnings not to underestimate them or seriously injure them, but Teacher Qin withheld his reasons until after the battle.

• Wu Liang outlined how Shrek should counter the Royal Fight Team, urging them to target Ye Lingling early and beware Dugu Yan’s poison and the Shi Brothers’ defense.
• The Master told Tang San not to use his Hidden Weapons and allowed him to use the Eight Spider Lances only if the battle turned dire.
• Ning Rongrong explained that Ye Lingling’s Nine Heart Begonia could heal the whole team, making her an essential early target.
• Teacher Qin gave Yu Tianheng’s team information about Shrek and warned them that Thousand Hands Shura was dangerous despite his Blue Silver Grass martial soul.
• Dugu Yan dismissed the threat, but Teacher Qin ordered the team not to kill or cripple their opponents and told her to cure anyone she poisoned.

The Blazing Martial Soul Team faced Yu Tianheng’s Royal Fight Team in a spirit battle, concealing their strength until the match began. Xiao Wu eliminated Ye Lingling and escaped Dugu Yan’s poison, leaving the battle underway with the teams separated by a cloud of poison mist.

• Kabuto introduced the Royal Fight Team and the Blazing Martial Soul Team before both sides entered the arena.
• Yu Tianheng realized the Blazing Martial Soul Team had misled them about its strength, while Tang San and Ning Rongrong prepared their planned opening attacks.
• After Kabuto started the match, Dai Mubai engaged Yu Tianheng, Ning Rongrong boosted Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu, and Ma Hongjun blocked Yu Feng.
• Xiao Wu used the Shi Brothers’ spinning shells to approach Ye Lingling, then teleported behind her and threw her off the platform.
• Dugu Yan released her purple poison at Xiao Wu, who used Oscar’s antidote sausage and teleported back to Tang San.

Tang San broke Dugu Yan’s poison and helped Blazing Martial Soul defeat the Royal Fight Team, whose surrender left Qin Ming to reveal his connection to Shrek Academy. The chapter ended with Yu Tianheng and his teammates stunned to learn that Qin Ming had once studied there.

• Tang San combined water from two waterskins with Dai Mubai’s White Tiger Light Wave and Ma Hongjun’s Phoenix Fire Wire to burn away Dugu Yan’s poison mist.
• Tang San restrained the Shi Brothers while the Blazing Martial Soul team countered the Royal Fight Team, and Ma Hongjun knocked Yu Feng out of the arena.
• Dai Mubai provoked Yu Tianheng into using Dragon’s Wrath, then joined Zhu Zhuqing in performing the Martial Soul Fusion Skill Hell White Tiger.
• Hell White Tiger defeated Yu Tianheng and blasted the Shi Brothers and Osler from the arena, after which Dugu Yan surrendered to Tang San.
• Qin Ming reassured the defeated Royal Fight Team and revealed to Yu Tianheng that he had once been a student of Shrek Academy.

After the Royal Fight Team lost to Shrek, Qin Ming and the defeated students visited the Shrek lounge, where they met its teams and learned how far behind its young members were. Yu Tianheng reunited with his uncle Grandmaster and discovered Kanna was his adopted sister, though Kanna was less than thrilled to call him her brother.

• Qin Ming told the Royal Fight Team to learn from its defeat, then brought Yu Tianheng and his teammates to meet Shrek.
• Grandmaster praised Team One for passing their training test, and Flender introduced Qin Ming and the Royal Fight Team to Shrek's students.
• Yu Tianheng recognized Grandmaster as his uncle and urged him to return home, but Grandmaster said he had let the past go.
• Qin Ming and the Royal Fight Team were stunned to learn that Wu Liang was thirteen and level forty-three, while Shrek Team Two's other members were also thirteen-year-old Soul Elders.
• Wu Liang criticized the Royal Fight Team's mistakes, and Yu Tianheng accepted the criticism and vowed they would not be careless again.
• Grandmaster introduced Kanna as his adopted daughter, and Yu Tianheng happily welcomed her as his little sister while Kanna joked that he should call her big sister.

Grandmaster and Flender considered moving Shrek Academy’s students to Heaven Dou Royal Academy to secure tournament slots and mimicry cultivation grounds, but Wu Liang proposed Blue Tyrant Academy instead. Grandmaster agreed after learning Liu Erlong led it, and Wu Liang asked Qin Ming to pass Dugu Bo a message about treating his and Dugu Yan’s problems.

• Wu Liang treated the academy and Royal Fight Team to an extravagant feast, while Grandmaster and Yu Tianheng talked through the night.
• Grandmaster told Qin Ming he wanted Shrek’s students to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy for its tournament slots and mimicry cultivation grounds, while Shrek’s teachers continued to educate them.
• Flender objected to the move, but Wu Liang suggested Blue Tyrant Academy, which had the resources Shrek needed and would be less likely to mistreat its students.
• Wu Liang revealed that Liu Erlong led Blue Tyrant Academy and urged Grandmaster to face his feelings for her; Grandmaster agreed to pursue the move there.
• Wu Liang asked Qin Ming to tell Dugu Yan to send Dugu Bo a message inviting him to seek help after Blue Tyrant Academy became Shrek Academy, and Qin Ming agreed.

Flender announced that Shrek Academy would join Blue Tyrant Academy to qualify for the All-Continent Soul Master Tournament, and Wu Liang gave Xiao Wu a Soul Bone hair clip that concealed her Soul Beast aura. After two months of preparation, the group left Shrek and began traveling toward Heaven Dou City, where Wu Liang hoped to meet Bibi Dong.

• Flender told the teachers and students that they would join Blue Tyrant Academy and depart in two months to gain tournament qualification.
• Xiao Wu worried that her identity as a transformed Soul Beast would be exposed, so Wu Liang gave her a rabbit-head hair clip made from a Soul Bone to conceal her aura.
• During the two-month wait, Xiao Yanzi reached level thirty-four, while Tang San completed a batch of Hidden Weapons and gave everyone Flying God Claws.
• Flender, Grandmaster, and the others left Shrek Academy and set out for Blue Tyrant Academy near Heaven Dou City.
• Flender urged the group to keep up as they began their journey, and Wu Liang led the others after him.

Grandmaster sent Blazing Martial Soul to face the stronger Fiend Team and permitted Tang San’s teammates to use his Hidden Weapons. The team won instantly with the Godly Zhuge Crossbows, but their first experience of killing people left most of them sick and shaken.

• At the Silves Grand Spirit Arena, Grandmaster registered Blazing Martial Soul for a higher-level battle against the Fiend Team and explained that he wanted them to test Tang San’s Hidden Weapons.
• Tang San planned a surprise attack, and Flender wagered one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins on Blazing Martial Soul.
• As the Fiend Team taunted the crowd and failed to notice their opponents drawing weapons, Tang San’s team aimed their Godly Zhuge Crossbows.
• Blazing Martial Soul fired at the unprepared Fiend Team and killed all seven members, securing an immediate victory.
• After the battle, the team returned to the preparation room, where most members vomited and Grandmaster told them they had to overcome the reality of killing.

After Shrek Team One struggled to cope with killing for the first time, Wu Liang urged them to accept the dangers of being Spirit Masters. The group reached Blue Tyrant Academy to seek work and enrollment, where Qin Ming revealed that Prince Xue Xing had forced him out of Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

• Tang San told Wu Liang that Shrek Team One had killed people, and Wu Liang used his own killing intent to show the students that he had faced violence before.
• Flender helped the students reframe their actions as saving innocent people, and the group continued traveling toward Heaven Dou City.
• Ning Rongrong recognized a recruitment notice for Blue Tyrant Academy and led the group to the academy.
• Wu Liang told the receptionist to inform the dean that Flender had arrived, identifying him as the Flying Horn of the Golden Triangle.
• Qin Ming appeared at Blue Tyrant Academy and explained that Prince Xue Xing had removed him from Heaven Dou Royal Academy after blaming him for the students' lost spirit battles.

The Shrek group arrived at Blue Tyrant Academy to secure eligibility for next year’s grand event, and Liu Erlong reunited with Yu Xiaogang before agreeing to hand the academy over to Flender. The chapter ended with the teachers and students registering their astonishing Spirit levels, leaving Liu Erlong and Teacher Yin Shu stunned by the academy’s new members.

• Qin Ming told Wu Liang that Dugu Yan had informed her grandfather about his request and promised to find out whether he would come to Heaven Dou City.
• Liu Erlong learned that Flender had arrived with the Shrek group, rushed to greet him, and embraced Yu Xiaogang, who promised he would not run away again.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that the group needed Blue Tyrant Academy’s qualifications for next year’s grand event, and Liu Erlong offered the academy to Flender, who agreed to rename it Shrek Academy.
• Flender, Zhao Wuji, Yu Xiaogang, and the other Shrek teachers registered their Spirit and Soul Power levels with Teacher Yin Shu.
• Wu Liang led the Shrek students in presenting their teams and Spirit levels, astonishing Liu Erlong and Teacher Yin Shu with their strength and ages.

After arriving at Liu Erlong’s academy, the teachers and students settled in while Liu Erlong and the master spoke about their reunion and the children they had come to regard as their own. Unable to sleep, Wu Liang opened five check-in boxes, gained a Revival Coin and a pet egg, and hatched Thor, a talking Shiba Inu who became his bound pet.

• Flender assigned everyone to rest in the dormitories, while Liu Erlong took the master on a walk around the academy.
• At the lake, the master told Liu Erlong that he regarded Tang San and Wu Liang as his sons and Kanna as his adopted daughter, and said he was happy they had reunited.
• Wu Liang opened five monthly check-in boxes and received a Revival Coin, points, Soul Crystals, pet food, and a pet egg.
• Wu Liang incubated the egg and obtained Thor, a Shiba Inu who introduced himself as the God of Thunder but could summon only weak sparks.
• Seria explained that Thor’s attacks against Wu Liang were nullified and that he could grow stronger by leveling up; Wu Liang used an owner command to make Thor call him Master.
• Thor accepted that he had been transported to the Douluo Continent, then forgot his grief when Wu Liang offered him a bone-shaped biscuit.

Wu Liang met Dugu Bo at the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire and negotiated access to the herb garden in exchange for treating Dugu Bo’s poison. After curing him and giving him a potion for his granddaughter, Wu Liang gathered herbs and left with Dugu Bo to return to Blue Tyrant Academy.

• Dugu Bo summoned Wu Liang from the academy and brought him to the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire.
• Wu Liang offered to treat Dugu Bo in exchange for permission to cultivate at the herb garden and use its herbs, and Dugu Bo agreed after recognizing the Sky City Mark.
• Wu Liang redirected Dugu Bo’s accumulated toxins into his Soul Bones, then gave him a Shining Globe potion that purified his body.
• Wu Liang gave Dugu Bo another potion and explained how his granddaughter could clear her own toxins without enduring the same painful treatment.
• Dugu Bo granted Wu Liang the herb garden, and Wu Liang collected several herbs before leaving with Thor and Dugu Bo for the academy.

Wu Liang distributed immortal herbs and potions tailored to the martial spirits and needs of the people at the academy, allowing them to begin cultivating with their gifts. After preparing everyone else, he drank his own potion and entered cultivation.

• Wu Liang gave Ma Hongjun the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower and explained how to absorb it, and Ma Hongjun began cultivating.
• Wu Liang gave Tang San the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, Ning Rongrong the Aromatic Silk Beauty, Oscar the Eight Petal Immortal Orchid, and several others their prepared herbs.
• Xiao Wu, Master, Liu Erlong, and Zhu Zhuqing each gained the recognition of a Lovesick Heartbreak Red by proving their devotion to the people they loved.
• Wu Liang gave Dai Mubai the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and distributed suitable immortal herbs to Flender and the teachers.
• The third team took Exploding Beans, Yu Yan drank Spirit Enhancement Fluid, and Wu Liang's own team received enhanced potions.
• Wu Liang had Seria set an alert, drank his potion, and began cultivating.

Wu Liang and the others awakened after taking immortal herbs, gaining major breakthroughs and strengthened abilities. Liu Erlong then announced that Blue Tyrant Academy would become Shrek Academy under Flender’s leadership, and its sign was replaced.

• Wu Liang, Team Two, Xiao Yanzi, and the academy’s teachers awakened with major increases in Soul Power and improved abilities.
• The Explosion Team learned their Martial Souls had gained a self-destruction trait, while Grandmaster and Liu Erlong gained a mutated Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun awakened with changes from their herbs, including Ning Rongrong’s Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and Ma Hongjun’s Fire Phoenix wings.
• Yin Shu told Liu Erlong that the teachers and students had assembled, and the group went to the academy plaza.
• Liu Erlong announced that Blue Tyrant Academy would be renamed Shrek Academy and that Flender would become its headmaster.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji replaced Blue Tyrant Academy’s sign with the Shrek Academy plaque.

Flender led Shrek’s students and teachers into Sunset Forest to hunt Soul Beasts, making the trip part of their graduation examination and preparation for the Advanced Spirit Master Tournament. Wu Liang took charge after the teachers split off, and by evening Xiao Yanzi and Bai Niao had obtained their fourth Soul Rings.

• Flender announced that the Soul Beast hunt would serve as the first stage of graduation and that the students were expected to handle the hunts themselves.
• The group set off for Sunset Forest, with Wu Liang teasing Thor along the way and later asking the four teachers to continue without them.
• After the teachers headed toward the inner region, Wu Liang led the students through the forest, capturing suitable Soul Beasts and avoiding or driving away others.
• Xiao Yanzi obtained a fourth Soul Ring from an owl that had fallen asleep from a tree, gaining the Rapid Lock skill with night vision and a guaranteed-hit effect.
• Bai Niao obtained a five-thousand-five-hundred-year Soul Ring from a flamingo and gained the Fire Feather Cut skill.