Chapter Summaries

Ye Cheng watched Zhao Wuji beat Tang San and reflected on why he believed Tang San’s future actions were genuine rather than fabricated in the Future Video. After Zhao Wuji unexpectedly announced that Tang San, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong had passed, they officially joined Shrek Academy, though Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong remained unimpressed.

• Zhao Wuji used Martial Soul Possession and defeated Tang San, while Zhu Zhuqing suffered a dislocated hand and Ning Rongrong was left unharmed.
• Ye Cheng approved of Zhao Wuji’s beating of Tang San and concluded that Tang San’s later villainous conduct reflected his true nature.
• Ye Cheng explained that he used the Question and Answer System’s deductions to make his Future Video an adaptation of plausible events rather than a malicious distortion.
• Tang San felt regretful after the defeat, Zhu Zhuqing was both confused and relieved, and Ning Rongrong remained indifferent about leaving Shrek Academy.
• Zhao Wuji announced that Tang San, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong had passed and officially joined Shrek Academy.

The Five Great God Kings investigated why Douluo Continent had broken free of the God Realm’s control and suspected the missing Silver Dragon King was responsible. They left the cause unresolved, with Douluo Continent’s image still blurred on the Light Screen.

• Asura told the Five Great God Kings that Douluo Continent had escaped the God Realm’s control six days earlier.
• God of Destruction suspected that remnants of the Dragon God had caused the anomaly.
• The God Kings recalled how the Dragon God had led the Divine Beasts in a war against them and was defeated after they fought him together.
• The wounded Dragon God split into the Golden Dragon King and the Silver Dragon King, who inherited his powers and supreme godheads separately.
• The God Kings sealed the Golden Dragon King inside a Dragon Cocoon, while the Silver Dragon King escaped into the Space-Time Turbulence and vanished.

The Five Great God Kings used the God Realm Central Hub to investigate the anomaly obscuring their view of the Douluo Continent. Ye Cheng’s system repelled their attack and absorbed some of its energy, leaving him to suspect the God Realm had finally reacted to the system.

• The God of Asura told the other God Kings that he could not uncover the source of the anomaly and suspected it came from beyond their Star Territory.
• The Five Great God Kings agreed to pool the full power of the God Realm Central Hub and send it toward the Douluo Continent, accepting the risk of destroying the world.
• Ye Cheng’s system detected the invading energy, activated its defenses, and absorbed the residue, raising the Live Stream Spoiler System’s absorption progress to 58.4%.
• Ye Cheng checked his system panel and realized that the unknown energy might have come from the God Realm.
• Ye Cheng reasoned that the system had blocked the God Realm’s perception of the Douluo Continent and that the God Realm had now acted to investigate.

Ye Cheng concluded that the system could shield Douluo Continent from the God Realm and decided to hide his connection to the Q&A videos. In the God Realm, the Five Great God Kings suffered devastating losses after confronting the mysterious power, then agreed to send low-ranking gods to Douluo Continent to investigate.

• Ye Cheng reasoned that the system had repelled the God Realm’s interference and decided to keep his identity as its host secret.
• Ye Cheng resolved to choose other people as subjects for future Q&A videos so the releases would not point back to him.
• God of Asura and the other four God Kings recovered from the shock of the mysterious power overwhelming them through the God Realm Central Hub.
• God of Destruction revealed that the encounter had consumed more than ninety-nine percent of the God Realm Central Hub’s power, forcing the Five Great God Kings to stay and stabilize the God Realm.
• God of Evil questioned what to do about Douluo Continent, and Goddess of Life proposed sending Low-level God Officers there to investigate.
• The other four God Kings agreed with Goddess of Life and decided to send the low-ranking gods despite the rules against interfering with lower realms.

Ye Cheng learned that the God Realm had sent five Divine Officials to investigate Douluo Continent and decided to keep them under surveillance so they could mislead the Five God Kings. After the officials reported their findings, the wary God Kings ordered them to investigate the mysterious Question and Answer Space without revealing themselves.

• The Five God Kings sent five low-ranking Divine Officials through a Space Passage to scout Douluo Continent, attaching a wisp of Divine Sense to each one.
• The system detected the outsiders, found them no threat, and placed them under surveillance; Ye Cheng identified them as Divine Officials.
• Ye Cheng chose not to confront the officials, planning instead to let them carry false information back to the God Realm and possibly lure the God Kings to Douluo Continent.
• The Divine Officials searched locals' memories and reported that the Question and Answer Space granted rewards for correct answers and punishments for wrong ones.
• The Five God Kings concluded that the mysterious power surpassed the God Realm and ordered the Divine Officials to investigate quietly while hiding their identities.

Tang Hao confronted Zhao Wuji outside Shrek Academy, accusing him of bullying Lan Wu and demanding a fight. Flender arrived to support Zhao Wuji, but Ye Cheng appeared before the confrontation could begin.

• Tang Hao secretly summoned Zhao Wuji from his residence and led him into a forest outside Shrek Academy.
• Tang Hao revealed himself and challenged Zhao Wuji, who recognized him and hurriedly paid his respects.
• Tang Hao accused Zhao Wuji of bullying Lan Wu and advanced on him with his hammer.
• Tang Hao sensed another presence, and Flender appeared beside Zhao Wuji and greeted him.
• Ye Cheng appeared, drawing everyone’s attention, and Zhao Wuji and Flender bowed to him.

Ye Cheng, displeased with Tang Hao’s weakness and neglect of his family, challenged him to a sparring match. Tang Hao accepted, hoping to learn how Ye Cheng cultivated Twin Martial Souls and use that knowledge to help Tang San.

• Ye Cheng told Tang Hao they had only met in reality once, while Tang Hao remained wary of him.
• Ye Cheng reflected on Tang Hao’s despair after his wife’s sacrifice and judged him for abandoning revenge and strength.
• Ye Cheng challenged Tang Hao to spar and test the Clear Sky Sect’s techniques.
• Tang Hao accepted the match, hoping to observe the secrets of Ye Cheng’s Twin Martial Souls cultivation for Tang San’s sake.

Ye Cheng overwhelmed Tang Hao in a spar, defeating him without using his Martial Soul or soul skills. He chose to spare Tang Hao and left him collapsed on the ground.

• Flender and Zhao Wuji watched Ye Cheng casually batter Tang Hao with Soul Power, then quietly moved away to avoid being caught witnessing the humiliation.
• Ye Cheng questioned why Tang Hao had not used Ring Burst, while Tang Hao judged Ye Cheng far stronger than Qian Daoliu and continued defending himself.
• When Tang Hao refused to fight back, Ye Cheng stopped and decided he had no reason to kill or cripple him.
• Ye Cheng left the devastated area, and Tang Hao collapsed, gasping for breath.

Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing found Shrek Academy’s breakfast inadequate before meeting Tang San, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar in the cafeteria. The newcomers introduced themselves, and Dai Mubai began calling Tang San Lan Wu after Tang San rejected Xiao Wu.

• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing ate the academy’s sparse breakfast and privately questioned whether the academy could provide for its students.
• Ma Hongjun noticed Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, and Dai Mubai warned him to control his Evil Fire.
• Dai Mubai introduced Ma Hongjun and Oscar, explaining that Ma Hongjun’s Martial Soul was a Phoenix and Oscar’s was sausage.
• Dai Mubai suggested calling Tang San Xiao Wu, but Tang San asked him to use his name, so Dai Mubai settled on Lan Wu.
• Ning Rongrong invited the others to call her Rong Rong, while Zhu Zhuqing gave her name and left the cafeteria.
• Ma Hongjun teased Dai Mubai about Zhu Zhuqing ignoring him, and Dai Mubai stayed silent rather than reveal why.

Flender welcomed the new students to Shrek Academy and explained that its lessons would focus on using their Martial Souls in battle. He sent Oscar and Ning Rongrong to run twenty laps for physical training, while Tang San stayed behind to observe.

• Flender gathered the students, welcomed the three newcomers, and told Dai Mubai to explain the academy's rules to them.
• Flender dismissed most of the students and kept Oscar and Ning Rongrong to discuss how support-type Soul Masters could survive and assist their comrades.
• Flender assigned Oscar and Ning Rongrong twenty laps around the village as physical training, and Oscar led Ning Rongrong off to run.

Ning Rongrong abandoned Flender’s impossible running assignment and went to Suotuo City for lunch. At a restaurant, she sensed a powerful familiarity with a lone man and sat across from him, finally seeing his face.

• Ning Rongrong realized Flender had set her an impossible task to curb her arrogance and decided to stop running.
• Ning Rongrong left Oscar and headed to Suotuo City, while Oscar continued running and planned to tell Flender she had finished.
• Ning Rongrong chose an upscale restaurant in the city and entered for a meal.
• Ning Rongrong spotted a lone man whose presence stirred an intense sense of familiarity, approached him, and asked to sit.
• The man agreed, and Ning Rongrong sat opposite him and saw his face.

Ning Rongrong and Ye Cheng bonded over a meal, while Flender confronted Ning Rongrong and Oscar at Shrek Academy over their failure to follow his orders. Ning Rongrong rejected Flender’s authority and disdainfully challenged the academy, leaving her place there in doubt.

• Ning Rongrong and Ye Cheng finished their meal and chatted warmly, with Ning Rongrong naturally calling him “Brother.”
• Flender learned that Oscar and Ning Rongrong had not both completed their assigned twenty laps, so he ordered Oscar to run another twenty for lying.
• Flender questioned Ning Rongrong about her assignment, and she admitted she had gone to Suotuo City instead of finishing it.
• Flender accused Ning Rongrong of breaking academy rules and offered her the choice to leave or prove she deserved to stay.
• Ning Rongrong called Flender a mere Soul Sage and said she had no interest in remaining at his academy.

After Flender took the students to Suotuo City’s Soul Arena for practical combat, Zhu Zhuqing decided Shrek Academy had nothing special to offer and left at dawn. Outside the city, Ning Rongrong appeared behind her, smiling.

• Ning Rongrong rejected Flender’s criticism and left Shrek Academy, while Flender ordered the remaining students to follow his rules.
• Zhu Zhuqing considered leaving but went with Flender and the others to Suotuo City’s Soul Arena for their first practical combat lesson.
• After the spirit battle, Zhu Zhuqing concluded that Shrek’s training was ordinary and spent the night packing her belongings.
• Zhu Zhuqing left the academy at dawn and reached Suotuo City, where Ning Rongrong called out to her from behind.

Ning Rongrong persuaded Zhu Zhuqing to join her at a prestigious academy, while Ye Cheng razed Tyrant Dragon City to build a new White Cloud City where he could finally settle. He planned to rule the city as an uncrowned king.

• Zhu Zhuqing confirmed that she had left Shrek Academy and said she might seek another Advanced Soul Master Academy.
• Ning Rongrong invited Zhu Zhuqing to join her at an academy with the best teachers and resources, and Zhu Zhuqing eagerly agreed.
• Ye Cheng looked over Tyrant Dragon City and destroyed it with countless streaks of sword light.
• Ye Cheng decided to rebuild White Cloud City in the style of Ancient Bejing City, with a City Lord Manor modeled after the Forbidden City.
• Ye Cheng planned to make the new city his home and rule it independently of any nation.

Ye Cheng planned how to rebuild White Cloud City, deciding that the four great clans could provide the expertise while he supplied the money. Unable to rely on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect or auction his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, he resolved to seek soul bones in the Soul Beast Forest using his Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda’s appraisal ability.

• Ye Cheng considered hiring professionals to rebuild White Cloud City, but rejected materializing the city through a Future Video because people would notice something was wrong.
• Ye Cheng refused to ask the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for help, then considered recruiting or hiring the four great clans for their construction, medicine, reconnaissance, and forging skills.
• Ye Cheng looked for ways to raise money, dismissed auctioning his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, and regretted not taking soul bones from Tang Hao.
• Ye Cheng decided against going after Tang Hao and stealing his soul bones, choosing instead to seek soul beasts with soul bones in the Soul Beast Forest.
• Ye Cheng recognized that his Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda could reveal detailed information about soul bones, Soul Tools, and herbs.

Ning Rongrong brought Zhu Zhuqing to meet Ye Cheng and asked him to take her as a student and disciple. After initially rejecting Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Cheng reconsidered and accepted her provisionally, warning that he could expel her if her performance disappointed him.

• Ye Cheng used Space Transfer to travel to Suotuo City as Ning Rongrong led Zhu Zhuqing to his courtyard.
• Ning Rongrong introduced Zhu Zhuqing to Ye Cheng and asked him to accept her into the Soul Master Academy he planned to establish.
• Ye Cheng told Zhu Zhuqing that he saw no reason to make her his disciple, leaving her devastated.
• Ning Rongrong argued that Ye Cheng's future self had accepted Zhu Zhuqing, so he must have overlooked her strengths.
• Ye Cheng agreed to take Zhu Zhuqing as his disciple for now, but warned that he would expel her if she failed to satisfy him.

Zhu Zhuqing became Ye Cheng’s disciple, and he offered her a safe cultivation path or a dangerous method that could break her limits. She chose the dangerous path, seeking the strength to control her own fate.

• Zhu Zhuqing offered Ye Cheng tea, and he formally accepted her as his disciple.
• Ye Cheng explained that normal cultivation could take Zhu Zhuqing to Soul Douluo, while an unconventional path might let her reach Titled Douluo but carried a high risk of death.
• Zhu Zhuqing weighed the safety of the first choice against the freedom and power the second could bring.
• Zhu Zhuqing chose the dangerous path because she wanted the ability to control her own fate.
• Ye Cheng approved her decision and promised to grant her wish.

Ye Cheng took Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong toward the Star Dou Great Forest to find the soul beast that could transform Zhu Zhuqing’s martial soul, but stopped at a nearby town for the night and supplies. He concealed his famous face as they entered town to avoid unwanted attention.

• Ye Cheng decided Zhu Zhuqing needed her martial soul fundamentally changed before she consumed an Immortal Herb, and took her and Ning Rongrong toward the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a special soul beast.
• Ye Cheng carried the two girls on a giant Sword Qi Flying Sword, protecting them with a Soul Power barrier as they flew toward the forest.
• As night approached, Ye Cheng landed near a small town so the group could rest and buy supplies before entering the forest the next day.
• Ye Cheng disguised his face with Dream Bubble, explaining to Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing that his fame brought unwanted attention and made people afraid to take his money.

Ye Cheng, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing stopped at an inn before entering the Star Dou Great Forest, where they encountered Shrek Academy and Canghui Academy. After Dai Mubai attacked a Canghui student, Zhu Zhuqing felt relieved that she had left Shrek.

• Ye Cheng took Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing to an inn to rest and prepare for their trip into the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ning Rongrong recounted her grievances with Shrek Academy while Tang San, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Zhao Wuji arrived without noticing them.
• Ma Hongjun leered at a Canghui Academy student, and Dai Mubai insulted the academy, prompting its teacher to send a student toward their table.
• A Canghui student tried to spill food on Dai Mubai and then secretly kicked his chair, but Dai Mubai struck him and sent him flying into his companions.
• Zhu Zhuqing watched Dai Mubai's provocation and felt fortunate that she had left Shrek Academy.

Ye Cheng took Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing into the Star Dou Great Forest for a leisurely soul-beast hunt and warned them to stay alert despite his protection. After the girls grew tired from walking through the dense forest, he cleared a campsite so they could rest and cook.

• After the restaurant incident, Ye Cheng, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing bought camping supplies and set out for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• At the forest’s edge, Ye Cheng warned the girls that its wild soul beasts could be far more dangerous than captive ones, and they agreed to remain vigilant.
• Ye Cheng led the group through the dense forest, using his power to part the plants and Dream Bubble to conceal them from weaker soul beasts.
• When Ning Rongrong asked to rest, Ye Cheng cleared a large campsite, and the girls prepared a meal.