Chapter Summaries

Di Tian confronted Mu En and Xuan Zi over Little Prison and Zhang Lexuan, then challenged Mu En to fight while Jiang Ming struggled against Di Tian’s Darkness Power. After the clash, Mu En returned unharmed and protected Jiang Ming from Di Tian’s attempt to probe his Sea of Consciousness.

• Di Tian questioned Jiang Ming’s ability to absorb Darkness Power, and Mu En said it came from a special Spirit Bone and could not be replicated.
• Di Tian seized Zhang Lexuan and demanded an answer for her killing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, but Mu En recognized that Di Tian did not intend to kill her.
• Jiang Ming angrily demanded that Di Tian release Zhang Lexuan, but Di Tian suppressed him with his cultivation aura until Mu En calmed him with Light Power.
• Di Tian challenged Mu En to test his strength, and the two vanished to fight while Xuan Zi gathered and protected the students.
• Jiang Ming continued resisting Di Tian’s Darkness Power as Little Dark absorbed it, and Mu En returned to block Di Tian’s Spiritual Power from probing Jiang Ming’s Sea of Consciousness.

Jiang Ming woke in Sea God Pavilion after six days unconscious, still unable to move because Di Tian’s Darkness Power remained inside him. Zhang Lexuan stayed by his bedside, and Mu En came to examine him, leaving Jiang Ming startled by how much older his teacher looked.

• Zhang Lexuan carried the unconscious Jiang Ming back to Shrek Academy with the others after they left the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Jiang Ming resisted Di Tian’s Darkness Power in a confused vision of his previous life and remembered Sister Lexuan, realizing that the darkness had nearly pulled him into the abyss.
• Jiang Ming woke in Sea God Pavilion and learned from Little Spirit that Little Dark was undergoing its Hundred-Thousand-Year evolution and that everyone had returned safely.
• Little Spirit told Jiang Ming he had been unconscious for six days, and Jiang Ming realized he would remain unable to move until Little Dark absorbed more of the Darkness Power.
• Zhang Lexuan woke beside Jiang Ming, confirmed that darkness still filled his body, and went to fetch Mu En.
• Mu En arrived at Jiang Ming’s bedside, and Jiang Ming was shocked by how much older his teacher’s aura seemed.

Jiang Ming recovered as Little Dark’s hundred-thousand-year evolution neared completion, and Mu En’s fading life continued to weigh on him and Zhang Lexuan. Little Dark completed its evolution, leaving Jiang Ming poised to break through his Level Seventy bottleneck.

• Mu En visited Jiang Ming, confirmed Little Dark’s evolution had begun, and left after asking Zhang Lexuan to care for him.
• Jiang Ming rested while Zhang Lexuan stayed by his side, and Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er visited during his recovery.
• Xuan Zi returned the two fallen students’ bodies to their families and remained dispirited with grief and self-blame.
• As the Darkness Power faded, Jiang Ming regained control of his body and told Yan Shaozhe that his Level Seventy bottleneck had loosened.
• Jiang Ming challenged Yan Shaozhe to spar, but Yan Shaozhe declined until Jiang Ming’s cultivation breakthrough.
• Little Dark completed its evolution, and a white soul ring raised the Book of Spirits Martial Soul’s ratio to six red and one white.

Jiang Ming’s seventh Spirit, Little Yellow, emerged with an earthy Power of Earth, and his six evolved Spirits began raising its Ten-Year Soul Ring. With Jiang Ming’s help, Little Yellow’s ring reached the Hundred-Thousand-Year level in less than a day.

• Zhang Lexuan was surprised when Jiang Ming gained another white Ten-Year Soul Ring.
• The Book of Spirits opened its seventh page, and Little Yellow appeared with the Power of Earth.
• Jiang Ming wondered how Little Yellow might evolve and briefly imagined a future child with Zhang Lexuan.
• Little Spirit explained that all seven Spirits needed hundred-thousand-year cultivation to activate the Martial Soul Avatar, and the six Spirits poured their energy into Little Yellow’s Soul Ring.
• Jiang Ming joined the energy infusion, and Little Yellow’s Soul Ring evolved from Ten-Year to Hundred-Thousand-Year in less than a day.

Jiang Ming watched Little Yellow complete its Hundred-Thousand-Year evolution, which caused the Book of Spirits to undergo a major change and become impossible to open. He broke through the Level Seventy bottleneck to Level Seventy-One and eagerly took Zhang Lexuan to cultivate, while a young man with Rank Eleven Soul Power headed toward Shrek Academy.

• Jiang Ming chatted with Zhang Lexuan about his powerful martial souls and learned that his storybooks were selling well while his card games mainly appealed to ordinary people.
• Little Yellow's soul ring turned red as it completed its Hundred-Thousand-Year evolution, and Little Light said the Spirits would need to sleep for a while.
• The six Spirits entered the Book of Spirits with Little Yellow, but Jiang Ming found he could no longer open it as it underwent a major change.
• Jiang Ming sensed that he had reached Level Seventy-One and realized he had broken through the bottleneck, allowing him to cultivate again.
• Jiang Ming pulled Zhang Lexuan away to cultivate, while a young man with Rank Eleven Soul Power walked toward Shrek Academy.

Jiang Ming and Zhang Lexuan trained together before Jiang Ming was recruited to oversee the Outer Court’s new-freshman military training. At the academy, Bei Bei and Tang Ya recognized Jiang Ming’s name on the instructor list and worried that Huo Yuhao would face his punishing Hell Week.

• Jiang Ming practiced Tai Chi with Soul Power and taught Zhang Lexuan the movements.
• Yan Shaozhe added Jiang Ming to the military training instructor list and summoned him to the Outer Court.
• Bei Bei and Tang Ya saw Jiang Ming at the top of the list and warned Huo Yuhao that military training would be brutal.
• Bei Bei and Tang Ya urged Huo Yuhao not to volunteer for Hell Week, unaware that some students could be assigned to it.

Jiang Ming began Shrek’s military training and singled out Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong after they arrived just as the bell rang. When his Soul Power Pressure revealed Huo Yuhao’s unusually weak cultivation, Jiang Ming discovered he had only Level 11 Soul Power and wondered how he had been admitted.

• Jiang Ming delayed the start of military training until the class bell rang and played cards with two instructors while the new students waited.
• Jiang Ming called Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong to the front of the formation, then organized the new students into five classes.
• Jiang Ming began training by having the instructors release Soul Power Pressure that forced many students to summon their Martial Souls.
• Jiang Ming raised the pressure on Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong to Level 11, noticing Wang Dong’s two soul rings and Huo Yuhao’s single white Ten-Year Soul Ring.
• Jiang Ming found that Huo Yuhao had only Level 11 Soul Power and questioned how he had met the Outer Court’s enrollment requirement.

During Shrek Academy’s military training, Jiang Ming tested the freshmen with Soul Power Pressure and became impressed by Huo Yuhao’s determination. After Huo Yuhao endured the trial and stood up, Jiang Ming forcibly opened his meridians to aid his cultivation, leaving him unconscious.

• Jiang Ming learned Huo Yuhao had entered through the Tang Sect’s special admission slot and reduced the pressure on him to level 10.
• Several freshmen fainted during the ten-minute test, but Huo Yuhao endured it without giving up.
• After the pressure ended, Huo Yuhao slowly stood up within Jiang Ming’s one-minute deadline while Wang Dong objected to Jiang Ming’s treatment of him.
• Jiang Ming struck Huo Yuhao’s back and used his power to open blocked meridians, causing Huo Yuhao to faint as the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sensed the benefits.
• Jiang Ming told an instructor to take Huo Yuhao to wash and recover, then challenged Wang Dong to hit him without using Soul Power.

Jiang Ming challenged Wang Dong to fight without soul power and effortlessly withstood her first two soul skills. He revealed that his clothes were woven from Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Silkworm Silk, leaving Wang Dong stunned as she still had one move remaining.

• Jiang Ming offered Wang Dong three free moves in a fight without soul power, and she accepted.
• Wang Dong attacked with Butterfly God's Light, but Jiang Ming emerged unharmed and his clothes were untouched.
• Wang Dong used Wing Guillotine, but the strike failed to move Jiang Ming and nearly sent her tumbling instead.
• Jiang Ming said his clothes were woven from Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Silkworm Silk, shocking Wang Dong with their extravagant material.

Jiang Ming defeated Wang Dong after letting her make three moves, then challenged the rest of the freshmen without drawing a response. As Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao were taken to the Infirmary, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Huo Yuhao that Jiang Ming's clothes were made from Ice Silkworm Silk and that his palm strike had carried a remarkable power.

• Wang Dong complained that Jiang Ming's Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Silkworm Silk clothes made their fight unfair, so Jiang Ming took off his outer garment and let her use her final move.
• Wang Dong attacked with Butterfly God's Light, but Jiang Ming jumped clear of the blast and then struck her out of the air three times before carrying her down.
• Jiang Ming offered the freshmen exemption from military training and guaranteed Inner Court admission if they beat him, but no one stepped forward.
• Jiang Ming asked Zhang Lexuan to take Wang Dong to the Infirmary, while he sat down to read; Zhang Lexuan bathed Wang Dong, and a male instructor washed the unconscious Huo Yuhao nearby.
• In his Sea of Consciousness, Huo Yuhao asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm whether Jiang Ming was a Soul Beast, and Sky Dream clarified that Jiang Ming's clothes carried the aura of Ice Silkworms and praised the power in his palm strike.

Jiang Ming helped Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong clear their meridians, then added a challenge to the military training that let students raise the Soul Power Pressure on themselves. Dai Huabin stepped forward to take part.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Huo Yuhao that Jiang Ming's palm strike had cleared his meridians and helped his Soul Power rise by a level.
• Jiang Ming waited for Huo Yuhao to wake, while Zhang Lexuan watched over Wang Dong and reassured her that the instructors would keep her disguise secret.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong realized Jiang Ming had cleared their meridians, then hurried back to the square when he called them.
• Jiang Ming announced that students could raise their own Soul Power Pressure, despite the challenge not being in the training plan.
• Dai Huabin stepped forward to show off his cultivation as a Soul Elder.

Jiang Ming intensified the freshmen’s military training and identified students with exceptional abilities, adding them to his Hell Week Training List. After the exhausted freshmen showed clear improvement, he considered what to put them through during Hell Week.

• Jiang Ming raised the Soul Power Pressure for freshmen who volunteered for a greater challenge and told Zhang Lexuan to help watch the formation.
• Jiang Ming singled out Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Dai Huabin, Xie Huanyue, and Ning Tian, then asked whether anyone had Twin Martial Souls or a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Four girls stepped forward: Xiaoxiao had Twin Martial Souls, Zhu Lu and Dai Huabin had the Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo also had a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Jiang Ming raised the pressure to twenty levels for the exceptional freshmen, had the fusion-skill partners resist together, and eased Xiaoxiao’s discomfort with a gentle force.
• After military training ended, the freshmen received Ice Pattern Melons, Roasted Chicken Legs, and diluted Water of Life, and felt that their bodies and soul power had improved.
• Jiang Ming wrote Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Xiaoxiao, Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, Xie Huanyue, Ning Tian, Lan Susu, and Lan Luoluo on the Hell Week Training List and began planning their training.

Jiang Ming continued the freshmen’s military training, pushing them under Soul Power Pressure while teasing them with food and treating the instructors and trainees to refreshments. After twenty-three days of ordinary training, the freshmen faced the start of Hell Week.

• Jiang Ming personally trained the selected candidates while the other freshmen endured level-ten Soul Power Pressure and worked on their Martial Soul Fusion Skills.
• Jiang Ming set up a grill under a parasol and had a fire-controlling instructor maintain Soul Power Pressure while cooking for the instructors.
• Jiang Ming taunted Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and the others with Ice Pattern Melon, provoking Wang Dong until Huo Yuhao and Xiaoxiao held her back.
• Zhang Lexuan asked Jiang Ming to stop teasing the freshmen, and he had watermelon and warm milk tea brought out for them.
• After twenty-three days of ordinary military training, Jiang Ming and the freshmen moved on to Hell Week.

Jiang Ming ended military training and recruited more than thirty new students for a week of Hell Week, covering Huo Yuhao’s fee. He brought them to the training base, where Dai Yueheng warned them about the dorms; after midnight, Jiang Ming raided the students’ rooms with smoke bombs.

• Jiang Ming announced the end of military training and opened registration for Hell Week, then named twenty students who had to participate.
• Huo Yuhao lacked the registration fee, so Jiang Ming offered to cover it, and more than thirty new students signed up.
• At dusk, Jiang Ming led the Hell Week participants to the training base, where Dai Yueheng showed them their dormitories.
• Dai Yueheng warned the students that it was best to sleep with their eyes open, though they did not understand his meaning.
• After midnight, Jiang Ming entered the boys’ and girls’ dormitories and threw smoke bombs while shouting for everyone to get up.

Jiang Ming began Hell Week by ambushing the new students with smoke bombs and Soul Rays, then forced them into a nighttime werewolf game. Huo Yuhao’s team won the first round, and after twelve rounds the exhausted students finally saw dawn.

• Jiang Ming and the instructors attacked the dormitories with smoke bombs and Soul Rays, while Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong escaped through a window.
• Jiang Ming started nighttime training and explained a werewolf game in which three werewolves had to hit a secretly chosen lamb within ten minutes.
• Huo Yuhao identified Ning Tian as the lamb and tricked her into lowering her guard before he and Wang Dong shot her, winning the first round with seconds to spare.
• Jiang Ming began another round immediately, and the students continued playing through the night.
• After twelve rounds, dawn arrived, and Xiaoxiao nearly cried with relief at being alive.

Jiang Ming put the freshmen through Hell Week, rewarding the Werewolf game winners and punishing the losers with thousand-meter freefalls before teaching them to use Soul Tools. After seven days of grueling training, the freshmen crept toward the instructors’ dormitory to take revenge, unaware that Jiang Ming and the other instructors were watching them.

• Jiang Ming gave the exhausted freshmen half an hour to shower, eat, or rest, then punished six latecomers with thousand-meter freefalls and tapped their acupoints to help them recover.
• Jiang Ming used his Werewolf game records to send the losing freshmen skyward and gave the winners Rank 1 Soul Rays as rewards.
• Wang Dong refused to learn about Soul Tools, and Jiang Ming told her to reconsider; meanwhile, he discovered Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection Share and praised his potential for Soul Tool research.
• Jiang Ming and the other instructors trained the freshmen through six more days of demanding exercises, then let them sleep well on the final night of Hell Week.
• Dai Huabin, Xie Huanyue, and Ning Tian led the freshmen in a plan to ambush the instructors with Smoke Bombs and Soul Rays, while Jiang Ming and the other instructors watched from atop the Dormitory Building.

Jiang Ming and the instructors ambushed the students after they attacked the instructors’ dormitory with Smoke Bombs, then fought them without using Martial Souls or Soul Power. Jiang Ming defeated Huo Yuhao’s group and questioned how a one-ring soul master could use so many soul skills.

• Huo Yuhao realized the instructors’ dormitory was a trap and led Wang Dong and Xiaoxiao in retreat.
• Jiang Ming revealed the instructors’ ambush, tossed one student into the air, and ordered the other seven to attack the crowd.
• Gongyang Mo took a student’s Rank 1 Soul Ray and used it to send him flying while the instructors battled the other students.
• Dai Yueheng chased Dai Huabin, Ning Tian enhanced her allies, and Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, Chen Zifeng, Xixi, and Yao Haoxuan fought the students in their own ways.
• Jiang Ming faced Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiaoxiao, knocked all three down, and asked Huo Yuhao how he had used Spiritual Shock as a one-ring soul master.

Jiang Ming’s instructors put the first-year students through the final stages of Hell Week, including a night raid and an explosive run back to Shrek Academy. After Jiang Ming ended the training and handed out badges, Huo Yuhao asked how strong the instructors were, prompting them to prepare to reveal their Martial Souls.

• Jiang Ming explained that the instructors had deliberately allowed the students to raid their dormitory, then sent the exhausted students back to rest while the instructors cleaned up the smoke-filled base.
• At dawn, Jiang Ming and seven instructors pursued the students toward Shrek Academy with Soul Rays and bombs, while the students worked together to dodge and block the attacks.
• Xie Huanyue protected and helped a fellow student keep running as the group pushed toward the academy gates.
• The students reached Shrek Academy within the allotted time, and Jiang Ming gave each of them a badge and declared Hell Week over.
• Huo Yuhao asked Jiang Ming how strong the instructors were, and Jiang Ming told his companions to release their Martial Souls.

Jiang Ming shocked the freshmen by revealing his Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm realized one had come from a beast with at least two-hundred-thousand-year cultivation. Back at the Inner Court, Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen competed for Jiang Ming’s attention until Zhang Lexuan took them aside for a private talk and sent him away to clean the house.

• Jiang Ming and the instructors revealed their Martial Souls and Soul Rings, stunning Huo Yuhao and the other freshmen with their strength and Jiang Ming’s two red rings.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm spotted two golden lines on Jiang Ming’s Sixth Soul Ring and concluded its source had possessed at least two-hundred-thousand-year cultivation.
• Jiang Ming urged his teammates to break through before the tournament and declared their future team would be the strongest in its history.
• Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen each grabbed one of Jiang Ming’s arms, and Zhang Lexuan arrived to find them in a tense standoff.
• Zhang Lexuan ordered Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen to follow her for a private talk and told Jiang Ming to clean the house.

Jiang Ming wondered what Zhang Lexuan had told Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen, but she kept the conversation secret after they shared breakfast. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong rushed to class, where Zhou Yi sent the other students to run laps and asked the Hell Week participants about their training.

• Jiang Ming speculated that Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, and Ling Luochen might fight, but Zhang Lexuan returned with the two women on good terms and invited them to breakfast.
• Ma Xiaotao praised Zhang Lexuan's porridge, and Jiang Ming felt awkward eating with the two guests; afterward, Zhang Lexuan refused to tell him what they had discussed.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong hurried to the New Student Teaching Building after washing separately and arrived just as the class bell rang.
• Zhou Yi introduced herself as the head teacher, ordered the class to run one hundred laps around Shrek Plaza, and kept the Hell Week participants behind.
• Zhou Yi asked the Hell Week participants about their seven days of training, and Huo Yuhao said he had gained a lot.