Chapter Summaries

Lin Xingyu and his teammates faced the eighth trial’s combat matches, where Lin defeated Yuanen Yehui and most of the group earned ten points. They entered the ninth trial, a survival test in a Spirit Ascension Platform-like environment, while Cai Yue'er and Zhuo Shi raised its difficulty to the highest level to assess their character.

• Shen Yi explained the combat trial, and Lin Xingyu assigned the team’s opponents, choosing Yuanen Yehui for himself.
• Tang Wulin wore down his opponent and won, then Lin Xingyu overwhelmed Yuanen Yehui with a series of powerful punches and knocked her out of the arena.
• Ye Xingmo eliminated Xie Xie, while Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan won their matches; Lin Xingyu, Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, and Xu Xiaoyan earned ten points each, and Xie Xie earned eight.
• Shen Yi led the group into the ninth trial, a survival challenge involving real soul beasts and real Soul Rings, and the five students entered their metal cabinets.
• Cai Yue'er and Zhuo Shi arrived, discussed the students’ prospects, and set the ninth trial to its highest difficulty to test their character.

Lin Xingyu and his companions faced Shrek Academy’s Integrity Trial, where an illusion tempted them with two precious Soul Bones. They shared the rewards fairly, passed the test with full marks, and left Lin Xingyu expecting trouble from the tenth trial.

• Lin Xingyu recognized the ninth trial’s spiritual influence and resisted it with High-Dimensional Vision while his companions searched the empty forest.
• The group followed the sounds of battle to a valley, where a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion killed each other.
• Lin Xingyu proposed giving the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear’s External Soul Bone to Tang Wulin and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s Head Bone to Xu Xiaoyan, and Gu Yue and Xie Xie accepted the distribution.
• As Tang Wulin and Xu Xiaoyan reached for the Soul Bones, the scene turned illusory and the group awoke from the trial.
• Shen Yi revealed that the trial’s events and rewards had been fake, and she announced that everyone had earned ten points.

During the final assessment, Cai Yue'er gave Gu Yue a negative score, prompting Lin Xingyu and the rest of the team to refuse enrollment and prepare to leave Shrek Academy. The elders tried to persuade them to stay, but Lin Xingyu demanded more than a score reversal as the chapter ended.

• Zhuo Shi offered to take Lin Xingyu as his disciple, but Lin Xingyu refused and received ten points; Tang Wulin also received ten, Xie Xie seven, and Xu Xiaoyan nine.
• Cai Yue'er gave Gu Yue a negative five-point evaluation and declared that she could not enroll, despite her passing the assessment.
• Lin Xingyu challenged Cai Yue'er's decision and said he would leave with Gu Yue; Xu Xiaoyan, Xie Xie, and Tang Wulin each chose to leave with the team.
• Zhuo Shi and the others tried to persuade the students to reconsider, and Cai Yue'er admitted that Gu Yue should have received ten points.
• Lin Xingyu rejected their attempt to settle the matter with a corrected score and demanded compensation for the unfair treatment and emotional harm.

Elder Li negotiated compensation for Lin Xingyu and his companions after Cai Yue'er wronged Gu Yue. The group secured an apology, Contribution Points, help obtaining compatible Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirits, and protection from unreasonable demands, while their request to replace Cai Yue'er as homeroom teacher was rejected.

• Elder Li stepped in to negotiate after Cai Yue'er nearly erupted, and Lin Xingyu asked her to apologize to Gu Yue.
• Elder Li agreed to compensate each of the four students with 350,000 Contribution Points for the 35 points deducted from Gu Yue.
• Lin Xingyu demanded a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone for Gu Yue, but Elder Li refused and offered to help the students obtain compatible Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirits instead.
• Lin Xingyu's request to replace Cai Yue'er as their future homeroom teacher was rejected, so he negotiated a privilege allowing them to disregard obviously unreasonable demands.
• Cai Yue'er agreed to the privilege, and she apologized to Gu Yue.

Lin Xingyu and his friends enrolled at Shrek Academy, reunited with old classmates, and watched Yue Zhengyu confront Yuanen Yehui before an enforcer stopped them. The next day, Shen Yi introduced the new students to the academy’s demanding rules and began a lesson on battle armor.

• Shen Yi guided the students through enrollment, explained their tuition benefits, and showed them to their dorms.
• Lin Xingyu reunited with Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi, and the group ate together until the cafeteria supervisor imposed meal limits.
• Wu Changkong reunited with Zhuo Shi, knelt before his former teacher, and agreed to teach in the Outer Court.
• Lin Xingyu and his friends watched Yue Zhengyu confront Yuanen Yehui, but a Shrek City Enforcer separated them before they could fight.
• Shen Yi explained Class One, First Grade’s rules, Contribution Points, assessments, and elimination system, then introduced battle armor.

Shen Yi taught the students about Battle Armor Masters and their secondary professions, while Lin Xingyu realized his personally nurtured armor was developing unusual resonance with his martial soul. Wu Changkong revealed that Lin Xingyu had been chosen as the presumed class president, and Lin Xingyu’s public display of his strength set up a week-later election match.

• Shen Yi explained how battle armor developed, why its wearer needed to help manufacture it, and how the four secondary professions contributed to becoming a Battle Armor Master.
• Lin Xingyu recognized that his blood essence and Soul Power had made his One-Word Battle Armor components resonate with his martial soul and might let them advance toward Two-Word Battle Armor.
• Wu Changkong announced that the class would elect officers through a match and called Lin Xingyu forward to introduce himself.
• Lin Xingyu revealed that he was a forty-sixth-rank Assault System Battle Soul Sect, shocking Wu Sidao and the other students.
• Shen Yi warned the students that they could cooperate to challenge Lin Xingyu, while Lin Xingyu confidently accepted the coming competition.
• After class, Lin Xingyu bet Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, and Gu Yue that he would take first place in the selection match.

Lin Xingyu explored Shrek Academy’s simulated training grounds to find the environments best suited to his martial soul, while his classmates cultivated to strengthen themselves. Wu Changkong then brought Grade One Class One to begin the election in an illusory space, where Lin Xingyu became interested in the technology behind it.

• Lin Xingyu considered recruiting Wu Sidao but decided to wait until after the election, then tested several simulated environments and found that a Dark Gold room filled with armor and weapons suited him best.
• Lin Xingyu experimented with elemental training grounds and found he was most sensitive to space, stars, and wind, while Gu Yue, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan focused on cultivation.
• Over the next week, Lin Xingyu confirmed that the armor-filled room was his best training environment as his classmates spent their free time cultivating.
• Wu Changkong led Grade One Class One to a circular hall and explained that the students would fight in an illusory space to choose the final person in the election.
• Lin Xingyu studied the hall’s Soul Guide Arrays and considered the illusory-space technology’s potential for domains and experiments.

Lin Xingyu entered the forest examination alone and used his overwhelming swordsmanship and field-wide pressure to eliminate many students. The remaining top students gathered to challenge him as Tang Wulin and the others arrived nearby.

• Lin Xingyu entered the forest, headed for its center, and eliminated seven classmates with a single sword strike.
• Lin Xingyu climbed a slope and used his Spiritual Power and magnetic field to sense and pressure students across the examination field.
• Wu Sidao, Yang Nianxia, Xu Yucheng, Luo Guixing, and Zheng Yiran gathered to confront Lin Xingyu, while Tang Wulin and the other three appeared nearby.
• Lin Xingyu stood where everyone could see his four Black Soul Rings and watched the assembled challengers react.

Lin Xingyu faced the assembled Shrek students as the shrinking field forced everyone toward him, then overwhelmed them with a single massive attack and continued eliminating the survivors. After defeating Wu Sidao and Luo Guixing, he stood as the dominant remaining fighter in the field.

• Tang Wulin's group decided to guard the rear while Yang Nianxia rallied the students to attack Lin Xingyu together.
• Lin Xingyu unleashed a storm of Platinum weapons that eliminated most of the attackers, while Wu Sidao, Yang Nianxia, Luo Guixing, and a few others survived.
• Lin Xingyu slashed Yang Nianxia and Xu Yucheng out of the field, leaving Wu Sidao and Luo Guixing as his main opponents.
• Wu Sidao attacked Lin Xingyu while Luo Guixing used spatial abilities, but Lin Xingyu disrupted their moves and eliminated Luo Guixing.
• Lin Xingyu struck Wu Sidao through the heart, and she disappeared in a streak of white light.

Lin Xingyu dominated the class assessment, became Class One of Grade One’s class monitor, and later approached Yuanen Yehui to ask for her blood for research into her Fallen Angel martial soul. Yuanen stopped to hear him out after he hinted that he knew her martial soul had an external power.

• Lin Xingyu defeated Wu Sidao and Luo Guixing, then the remaining students chose to withdraw rather than challenge him.
• Shen Yi announced Lin Xingyu as class monitor and appointed Gu Yue and Wu Sidao as vice class monitors; Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, and Xie Xie took secondary profession committee positions.
• Lin Xingyu left the hall and later encountered Yuanen Yehui near the Work-Study Student Dormitory.
• Lin Xingyu asked Yuanen Yehui for some blood to study her Fallen Angel martial soul, and she initially refused.
• Lin Xingyu hinted that Yuanen Yehui's martial soul had an external power, prompting her to return and ask what he knew.

Lin Xingyu and Yuanen Yehui discussed the demonic power connected to her bloodline and agreed to research it together. After learning about Lin Xingyu’s side-profession skills, Yuanen also asked him to help with her battle armor, while he kept her blood as a potential source of power.

• Lin Xingyu explained how he recognized Yuanen Yehui and described the powerful external force connected to her Soul Rings.
• At a hotel, Yuanen agreed to provide blood for Lin Xingyu’s research in exchange for sharing the experiment’s findings, and she revealed the Demon Great Lord’s seed would open the Demon Gate at rank ninety.
• Lin Xingyu and Yuanen established the Demonic Power Research Institute, with Yuanen providing raw materials and Lin Xingyu providing funds.
• Yuanen learned Lin Xingyu was a Sixth-Grade Mecha Designer and a Fifth-Grade Forging Master, Mecha Manufacturer, and Mecha Repair Master, then asked him to help design her battle armor.
• Lin Xingyu agreed to process materials for Yuanen’s battle armor and sealed away her blood, considering whether it could serve as a tonic and help him draw out more power.

Lin Xingyu cultivated through the night and reconsidered how advanced Soul Masters might develop Soul Cores. The new term began with Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi joining the class, and Lin Xingyu organized the students’ secondary-profession assignments before discovering Xu Lizhi was his new roommate.

• Lin Xingyu cultivated in the Simulated Training Ground, formed Soul Power and qi-blood vortices, and considered martial-soul-centered cultivation as an alternative to Soul Cores.
• Shen Yi introduced Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi as new classmates, and Wu Changkong began teaching the class about mecha manufacturing.
• Ye Xinglan took Xie Xie’s class committee position, and Lin Xingyu assigned students to secondary-profession associations while revealing his Level 5 Mecha Manufacturer badge.
• Lin Xingyu returned to his dormitory and found that Xu Lizhi was his roommate.

Lin Xingyu enjoyed a meal with Xu Lizhi and continued cultivating as Tang Wulin advanced to rank thirty-one. Back in the dormitory, Lin Xingyu spent time with Aya, who had solidified and helped purify metal while reading stories.

• Xu Lizhi took Lin Xingyu to a noodle shop, where Lin Xingyu paid for their meal and decided to visit often for the nourishing food.
• Two weeks passed, Tang Wulin returned from an absence with surging qi and blood and Soul Power at rank thirty-one, and Gu Yue ended the remaining class-cadre challenges with multi-element fusion.
• Lin Xingyu returned to the dormitory and gave Aya storybooks after she eagerly approached him.
• Lin Xingyu used Heaven and Earth Furnace to purify metal into exceptionally pure Thousand Forges First Grade raw material, earning Zhen Hua's approval and advice to keep practicing.
• Lin Xingyu taught Aya to purify metal in exchange for telling her stories, while his quiet Thunderclap Hellvine Soul Spirit stayed close to him.

Lin Xingyu visited the Blacksmith's Association in Shrek City, where Mu Ye advised him on his cultivation and Zhen Hua introduced him to Mu Chen. After Lin Xingyu demonstrated his extraordinary metal-purifying Soul Skill, Zhen Hua gave him the Star Iron he had prepared.

• Lin Xingyu answered Zhen Hua's call and went to the Blacksmith's Association in Shrek City.
• Mu Ye advised Lin Xingyu to condense a Vitality Soul Core first and answered his cultivation questions.
• Zhen Hua introduced Lin Xingyu to his junior brother Mu Chen, who managed the local Blacksmith's Association.
• Lin Xingyu purified Sinking Silver with his Heaven and Earth Furnace Soul Skill, producing metal with more than nine feet of Spirit Light.
• Zhen Hua handed Lin Xingyu a box of Star Iron that he had Soul Forged and infused with as much Power of Stars as possible.

Lin Xingyu showed Zhen Hua the nine star-infused metals he had received, and Zhen Hua advised him to develop his Star Attribute without adding too many acquired attributes. Lin Xingyu also revealed his four-metal Blood Silver Fusion Forging progress, earning Zhen Hua’s praise before they continued training late into the night.

• Lin Xingyu examined the nine brilliant metals, then stored them after Zhen Hua urged him to look them over later.
• Zhen Hua explained the vast potential of the Power of Stars and warned Lin Xingyu against adding too many acquired attributes to his martial soul.
• Lin Xingyu handed Zhen Hua two pieces of Blood Silver made by fusing Sinking Silver, Demon Silver, Platinum, and Flame Gold.
• Zhen Hua judged the fusion rate to be nearly ninety-seven or ninety-eight percent and said Lin Xingyu’s skill was technically at Sixth-Grade level, though he lacked the required range of formulas for certification.
• Zhen Hua told Lin Xingyu to practice other Fusion Forging formulas and taught him forging techniques until late at night.

After learning forging and Mecha Manufacturing, Lin Xingyu returned to school and used nine pieces of Star Iron to acquire the Star Attribute. Zhen Hua and Mu Ye returned to Heaven Dou City, while Zhen Hua reflected on his limits and Lin Xingyu's potential.

• Mu Ye taught Lin Xingyu Mecha Manufacturing through the night and tried unsuccessfully to persuade him to build mechas.
• Zhen Hua and Mu Ye discussed Lin Xingyu's growth, the pressures on a Divine Craftsman, and Zhen Hua's hope that Lin Xingyu could realize his ambitions for forging.
• Zhen Hua and Mu Ye departed for Heaven Dou City, and Lin Xingyu resumed his cultivation after returning to school.
• Lin Xingyu entered the Simulated Training Ground and used his Heaven and Earth Furnace to refine nine pieces of Star Iron.
• The Star Attribute stabilized in Lin Xingyu, drawing down the Power of Stars and slightly accelerating his Meditation Method.

Lin Xingyu refined the Power of Stars to improve his Soul Power and Spiritual Power, then used Thunderclap to automatically maintain the flow of starlight into his Sea of Consciousness. After school, Yuanen Yehui visited him to avoid Yue Zhengyu and brought up another favor she wanted to ask.

• Lin Xingyu found that drawing in the Power of Stars strengthened his Soul Power and improved his Spiritual Power by at least ten percent.
• Lin Xingyu transferred Thunderclap into his Bright Moon and had it control the Power of Stars, creating a more automatic cultivation method.
• Lin Xingyu considered strengthening his Starfall Characteristic and building a complete Star Chart in his Sea of Consciousness, while Aya nervously kept her distance.
• After school, Yuanen Yehui came to Lin Xingyu's dorm to avoid Yue Zhengyu, who was looking for the Soul Master with the Fallen Angel martial soul.
• Lin Xingyu told Yuanen Yehui that her Battle Armor blueprints were finished and that she would need to provide the forged metal.
• Yuanen Yehui began to ask Lin Xingyu for another favor, and he reminded her that they were partners, not that he was a wishing machine.

Yuanen Yehui asked Lin Xingyu to help her obtain a Soul Spirit Tower Rush spot, and he agreed to contact Gu Yue. The next day, Wu Changkong put Lin Xingyu in charge of selecting Class 1's team for an upcoming exchange with the second grade, leaving the class waiting to see whom he would choose.

• Yuanen Yehui asked Lin Xingyu to arrange a Soul Spirit Tower Rush spot through Gu Yue, and he agreed to ask her while Yuanen prepared the materials for him to forge.
• Lin Xingyu teased Yuanen Yehui about her disguise and advised her to match her clothes to the voice she used.
• Wu Changkong announced that first grade would hold a comprehensive exchange with second grade in two weeks, including a seven-on-seven battle, with credits and Contribution Points awarded for strong performances.
• After students registered, Wu Changkong gave Lin Xingyu authority to choose Class 1's team and ordered him to win against second grade and then seek a match with third grade.
• The class offered no objections as Lin Xingyu surveyed the students, including confident Wu Sidao, subdued Luo Guixing, and nervous Ye Xinglan.

Lin Xingyu selected seven students for the class team competition and allowed others to challenge them without his participation. After he left to meet Yuanen Yehui, Luo Guixing formed a rival team with Yang Nianxia, Xu Yucheng, Zheng Yiran, Zhang Yangzi, and Wang Jinxi, and the class began preparing for the challenge.

• Lin Xingyu chose Wu Sidao and Ye Xinglan for his team, alongside Gu Yue, Tang Wulin, Xu Xiaoyan, and Xie Xie.
• Lin Xingyu said challengers could face the selected students in a six-on-six match, and then left for his planned Soul Spirit Tower challenge with Yuanen Yehui.
• Tang Wulin suggested the selected team share their abilities and coordinate before facing challengers.
• Luo Guixing recruited Yang Nianxia, Xu Yucheng, Zheng Yiran, Zhang Yangzi, and Wang Jinxi to form a rival team.
• Zhang Yangzi warned that Tang Wulin's high-level Dragon Bloodline could limit their martial soul fusion skill, while Luo Guixing planned for the team to block Tang Wulin.
• The students planned to arrange a challenge time and ask Wu Changkong and Shen Yi to witness it.

Lin Xingyu accompanied Yuanen Yehui into the Soul Spirit Tower to help her find a Soul Spirit. They cleared the first floor quickly and continued to the second floor without absorbing the offered Wind Wolf.

• Lin Xingyu met Yuanen Yehui, and the two traveled to Spirit Pagoda headquarters using proof Gu Yue had given them.
• Lin Xingyu and Yuanen Yehui entered the Soul Spirit Tower, where Lin Xingyu observed its structure and the real battles inside its virtual floors.
• Yuanen Yehui proposed they conserve Soul Power and rush through the early floors, and Lin Xingyu agreed.
• Lin Xingyu used Magnetic Field Power and Glazed True Fire to swiftly defeat more than a hundred Wind Wolves on the first floor.
• Lin Xingyu and Yuanen Yehui declined the Thousand-Year Wind Wolf and proceeded to the second floor.