Chapter Summaries

Class Zero welcomed Xu Xiaoyan and began preparing for the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition, while Meng Li took Gu Yue to an amusement park. Back at the dormitory, Meng Li planned to develop smartphones and games, then arranged to pitch the idea to Zhou Hansheng.

• Tang Wulin welcomed Xu Xiaoyan to Class Zero after the students sparred, and Long Hengxu told Wu Changkong that the academy would enter them in the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition.
• Wu Changkong scheduled three training matches a day against himself and asked Xu Xiaoyan to stay behind, while Meng Li planned how the group would attack him.
• Meng Li and Gu Yue skipped further strategy discussions to visit an amusement park, where Gu Yue rode attractions and especially enjoyed the carousel.
• Meng Li drafted a proposal for smartphones and applications, including a five-versus-five game called "King of Soul Fighting," and called Zhou Hansheng to arrange a meeting at the company's Eastsea branch.

Meng Li sought help from Zhou Hansheng to find the missing Na'er, then sparred with Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan alongside Gu Yue. After his team lost under the agreed restrictions, Meng Li refused to reveal his martial soul, and Gu Yue followed him back to the dormitory.

• Meng Li planned to ask Zhou Hansheng to help locate Na'er, who had been missing for more than half a year.
• Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, and Tang Wulin challenged Meng Li to a nighttime spar, with Gu Yue joining his team and both sides agreeing that Meng Li would suppress his strength.
• Meng Li and Gu Yue fought Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan; Meng Li's Judgment briefly immobilized Xie Xie, while Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan battled separately.
• Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon Claw threatened Meng Li, but Gu Yue moved to protect him, and Meng Li freed himself from Xu Xiaoyan's ice chains before stepping in front of Gu Yue and being eliminated.
• Gu Yue surrendered after Meng Li left the field, giving Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan their first victory over the Li Yue Combination.
• Meng Li explained that his soul skill could remove control effects but refused to reveal his martial soul, then returned to the dormitory with Gu Yue.

Meng Li presented Zhou Hansheng with designs for a new Soul Tool Communicator and software, securing a ten-percent equity stake in New Soul Tool Technology Company. After Meng Li left, the masked woman overseeing Zhou’s group ordered Long Canhua to investigate Sea God Island and Na'er while keeping Meng Li safe.

• Meng Li met Zhou Hansheng and his subordinates at a hotel, where Zhou reviewed Meng Li’s proposal for a handheld Soul Tool Communicator.
• Zhou Hansheng agreed to cooperate and gave Meng Li a ten-percent equity transfer, which Meng Li signed after a lawyer checked the contract.
• Meng Li revealed a second proposal covering software concepts, including the game "King of Soul Fighting," then left the gathering early.
• After Meng Li departed, Zhou Hansheng and his group met the masked woman, who read the proposals and told Yu to handle them.
• The masked woman sent Long Canhua to Sea God Island to investigate Na'er and ordered the group to watch Meng Li closely and keep him safe.

Class Zero traveled from Eastsea City to Skysea City to compete in the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition. The chapter ended with Gu Yue waking after sleeping on Meng Li’s shoulder as their bus arrived.

• Class Zero learned they would compete in the five-person team event at the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition, and Meng Li agreed to help the academy.
• Wu Changkong and Long Hengxu led the students to Eastsea Plaza, where Xie Xie provoked Xu Xiaoyu and Mu Xi pulled Tang Wulin aside.
• The students boarded the bus, and Gu Yue fell asleep against Meng Li’s shoulder while Tang Wulin and Xie Xie secretly took photos.
• After the four-hour ride, Gu Yue woke up, noticed everyone watching her, and apologized for falling asleep on Meng Li.

Meng Li and his companions relaxed in Tianhai before the Grand Competition, and Meng Li captivated a crowd by recounting Tang San’s history. Gu Yue reflected on her feelings for Meng Li, while the chapter ended with Mo Ling and a girl searching for a hotel.

• Meng Li soaked in the hotel bathtub while Xie Xie waited, then invited their friends to go out for food.
• Meng Li, Wu Changkong, Gu Yue, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan ate grilled skewers by the beach while Tang Wulin remained away.
• Xie Xie asked Meng Li about Tang San, and Meng Li told the group detailed stories about Tang San, the Tang Sect, and the Sea God's Nine Trials.
• After returning to the hotel, Gu Yue admitted to Xu Xiaoyan that she and Meng Li were closer than ordinary friends, but she was unsure whether she liked him.
• Xie Xie begged Meng Li to continue his stories until Meng Li told him to sleep, while Mo Ling and a tall girl searched for a hotel.

At the opening ceremony, Meng Li met Mo Ling and Xu Lizhi before publicly extorting Ye Xinglan over a dried fish. Ye Xinglan paid him and left with Xu Lizhi, warning Meng Li that they might meet in the competition.

• Mo Ling got lost while trying to find the hotel, then asked Meng Li whether he would sell Murasa, but Meng Li refused.
• Meng Li attended the opening ceremony with Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue, and learned that Shrek Academy experts would take part in an exhibition match.
• Tang Wulin gave a hungry Xu Lizhi a dried fish, and the two began chatting until Ye Xinglan came to fetch Xu Lizhi.
• Meng Li blocked Xu Lizhi and demanded 18,888 Federal Coins for the dried fish, then loudly accused Ye Xinglan of refusing to pay.
• Ye Xinglan gave Meng Li 20,000 Federal Coins, threatened to meet him in the competition, and left with Xu Lizhi while Meng Li counted the money.

Meng Li and Tang Wulin watched Shrek Academy defeat the previous Tianhai Grand Competition champions, then faced Ye Xinglan and six fellow students when they demanded Ye Xinglan's money back. Meng Li defeated all seven with his Martial Soul and soul skills, leaving the Shrek students unconscious and asking whether they still wanted the money.

• After Meng Li let the men leave with their money, he and Tang Wulin watched Shrek Academy defeat the previous Tianhai Grand Competition champions in a minute.
• That evening, Ye Xinglan and six Shrek students surrounded Meng Li, Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue and demanded that Meng Li return Ye Xinglan's money.
• Meng Li used his Judgment soul skill to freeze the Shrek senior brother, then struck him down with a lightning attack.
• As Gu Yue created water droplets around the other six Shrek students, Meng Li used Thunder's Might to electrify and defeat them.
• Meng Li stood unharmed and asked the unconscious Shrek students whether they still wanted their money.

Meng Li dominated the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition, winning the youth individual championship and helping Eastsea Class Zero advance in the team competition. The opposing team arrived too late and was disqualified, while Mo Ling’s memory problems worsened and Meng Li became known as the Scoundrel Path Person.

• Shen Yi urged Wu Changkong to face his past, and Wu Changkong admitted he had visited someone in Heaven Dou and might ask Meng Li to join Shrek Academy.
• Meng Li told Xie Xie that he missed home, then easily won his individual and team matches in the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition.
• Ye Xinglan challenged Meng Li again, but he defeated her with one strike and sent her off the arena.
• Meng Li won the individual championship, Gu Yue took second place, and Tang Wulin finished third.
• The opposing team led by Mo Ling arrived thirty minutes late and was disqualified, leaving Eastsea Class Zero the team competition winners.
• Mo Ling drank tea at the hotel with Zhou Hansheng, then Tianhai Academy claimed first place in the youth team competition as Meng Li’s infamy spread.

After the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition, Meng Li and Gu Yue declined Shen Yi’s invitation to join Shrek Academy, but three years later they prepared to take its entrance assessment. On the eve of their departure, Meng Li compensated Eastsea Academy and received a Shrek Academy card from Zhou Hansheng.

• Shen Yi invited Meng Li and Gu Yue to Shrek Academy, but they declined because Meng Li had signed a contract with Eastsea Academy.
• Meng Li and Gu Yue continued researching soul spirits together, with Gu Yue asking for a month of meals as payment.
• Three years later, Gu Yue brought Meng Li a cake for his fourteenth birthday and told him that he and the others would take Shrek Academy’s entrance assessment.
• Meng Li decided to compensate Eastsea Academy for the resources it had invested in them, and Long Hengxu accepted the money after Meng Li insisted.
• Zhou Hansheng gave Meng Li a metal card marked Shrek Academy before Meng Li left for the academy.

Meng Li and his friends arrived in Shrek City and prepared for Shrek Academy's entrance examination. When Tang Wulin fell into a coma before the exam, the group refused to go ahead without him, and Shen Yi arrived to wait with them while Wu Changkong worked at the academy.

• Meng Li traveled from Eastsea City to Shrek City with Gu Yue, Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, and Tang Wulin, and noticed Spirit Pagoda's headquarters on the way.
• Meng Li paid for everyone to have separate hotel rooms, and the group spent the next few days exploring the city while Tang Wulin was away with Wu Changkong.
• On the eve of the entrance examination, Tang Wulin fell into a prolonged coma while attempting to awaken his bloodline.
• Wu Changkong asked Shen Yi to postpone the examination, but she said the academy's rules did not allow it, so he proposed that the other students take it first.
• Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, Meng Li, and Gu Yue refused to take the examination without Tang Wulin, and Wu Changkong left with Shen Yi to return to the academy.
• On the morning of the examination, Shen Yi came to the hotel and said they would wait for Tang Wulin to wake up.

Meng Li and the others learned that Shen Yi was Wu Changkong’s junior martial sister, then joined her on the trip to Shrek Academy after Tang Wulin woke from absorbing the Golden Dragon King Essence. The group reached the academy and learned their late arrival meant a harder assessment and work-study status, before encountering a mural of a terrifying black dragon.

• Shen Yi told Meng Li and the others that Wu Changkong was her senior martial brother, and they called her Martial Aunt.
• Tang Wulin woke after three hours of absorbing the Golden Dragon King Essence and learned that Wu Changkong had created an opportunity for them to take the exam despite their lateness.
• Shen Yi drove the group to Shrek Academy and explained that their assessment would be harder and that successful candidates would have to work for Shrek Contribution Points as work-study students.
• Meng Li remembered the card Zhou Hansheng had given him and wondered whether it contained Shrek Contribution Points.
• The group entered a circular hall in Shrek Building, where the others felt pressure from a lifelike mural depicting an enormous black dragon.

Meng Li and the others completed three Shrek Academy entrance assessments, while Meng Li’s unusual power drew Elder Li’s suspicion and Shen Yi’s favoritism. The group reached the fourth assessment, where Elder Cai and two other examiners arrived and asked who would go first.

• Meng Li’s gaze ignited the black dragon mural, prompting Elder Li to award him and Tang Wulin ten points and the others eight, while suspecting Meng Li had an extraordinary bloodline.
• Shen Yi led the group into a simulated arena, where Gu Yue restrained a three-thousand-year-old Earth Demon Rhinoceros and Meng Li knocked it unconscious; Shen Yi gave everyone full marks.
• During the adaptability test, Meng Li jammed and destroyed the guillotine blades, then carried Gu Yue across the course with the group and earned ten points.
• Shen Yi brought the group to the fourth assessment, where Elder Cai arrived with two other examiners and asked who would go first.

Xu Xiaoyan, Xie Xie, Tang Wulin, and Gu Yue demonstrated their specialties before Elder Cai, who offered Gu Yue a place in the Inner Court and asked her to become her disciple. When Meng Li asked Elder Cai to take him in too, she challenged him to move her with a punch, then reneged on her promise after he sent her flying.

• Xu Xiaoyan revealed her Star Wheel Ice Staff, and Xie Xie demonstrated his Twin Martial Souls and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.
• Tang Wulin showcased his strength with a Golden Dragon Claw punch, which Elder Cai had to counter with Soul Power.
• Gu Yue demonstrated precise control of the earth, water, wind, and fire elements, impressing Elder Cai, who offered her direct entry to the Inner Court and asked her to become her disciple.
• Gu Yue said she would only decide after Meng Li took his test, so Elder Cai challenged him to move her and promised to take him in if he succeeded.
• Meng Li punched Elder Cai hard enough to send her crashing into an ancient wall, but she declared that he still had to continue the assessment and gave the group zero points for the round.
• Gu Yue bristled at Elder Cai's treatment of Meng Li, but he stopped her from escalating the confrontation.

Meng Li and his companions continued the Shrek Academy assessment, overcoming the food and endurance tests before facing last year’s students in combat. After the others chose individual opponents, Meng Li challenged all ten at once, and Elder Cai approved.

• Gu Yue accepted zero points for the fourth and fifth tests but resolved to remember her grudge against Elder Cai.
• Tang Wulin and the others passed the steamed-bun test, while Meng Li carried four hundred jin and completed the doubled endurance test in fifty-nine minutes.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Gu Yue, and Xu Xiaoyan each fought a chosen opponent; Xie Xie lost to Number Two, while the others won.
• Number Two asked to fight Meng Li because his presence filled her with dread, but Meng Li declared that he wanted to fight all ten students.
• Elder Cai agreed to let Meng Li face all ten, pleased to set a challenge for him.

Meng Li challenged ten Shrek students alone and defeated the nine who fought him by using his Sacred Winged Angel Martial Soul and powerful soul skills. After the assessment, Number Two was revealed as Yuanen Yehui, whose Fallen Angel Martial Soul had reacted to Meng Li’s angel.

• Shen Yi agreed to let Meng Li face all ten opponents, but stopped the assessment when Number Two trembled in fear of his Martial Soul.
• Meng Li summoned the Spear of Myth and fought the nine students, disabling several with his spear, wings, and replicated abilities.
• Meng Li used his Fourth Soul Skill, Sanction, to defeat the six opponents still standing, and Shen Yi ended the match.
• Yuanen Yehui watched Meng Li and was revealed to possess the Titan Giant Ape and Fallen Angel Martial Souls.
• The assessment official gave Meng Li, Gu Yue, Xu Xiaoyan, and Tang Wulin full marks, while Xie Xie received zero; Xu Xiaoyan praised Meng Li and drew Gu Yue’s jealous attention.

During the ninth assessment, Meng Li and Gu Yue forfeited while Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan entered the forest trial. Outside, Elder Cai tried to recruit Meng Li and Gu Yue, but Meng Li invoked his ties to Zhu Shi and challenged Elder Cai again, ending with a second punch that sent her flying.

• Meng Li forfeited the survival assessment because he could not face real soul beasts, and Gu Yue also withdrew, while Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan continued.
• Elder Cai praised Meng Li and Gu Yue, declared that she wanted them as disciples, and asked them to become her students.
• Gu Yue refused, and Meng Li declined because he already had a master named Leng from the Spirit Pagoda.
• Meng Li reminded Zhu Shi that he was Zhu Shi's disciple's grandson and complained that Elder Cai had unfairly withheld their scores.
• Elder Cai challenged Meng Li to make her move once, promising to restore his scores if he succeeded.
• Meng Li shattered Elder Cai's Soul Power shield with his first punch and followed with a second punch that sent her flying.

Zhuo Shi intervened after Elder Cai collapsed, restored the students’ deducted points, and became absorbed in Meng Li’s game before meeting his estranged disciple Wu Changkong. After accepting the students as work-study students, Zhuo Shi allowed Wu Changkong to stay with him as a servant.

• Meng Li asked whether Elder Cai would honor her promise, and Zhuo Shi ordered Shen Yi to restore the students’ twenty points after Elder Cai passed out.
• Zhuo Shi played King of Soul Fighting, misunderstood a teammate’s complaint about his equipment, and bought all three hundred skins.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan arrived and bowed to Zhuo Shi, who made them wait until his match ended.
• Zhuo Shi reunited with Wu Changkong, who knelt and apologized, and Zhuo Shi acknowledged his granddisciples.
• Zhuo Shi brought the group to his cabin and ordered Shen Yi to register the students as Outer Court work-study students.
• Wu Changkong asked to stay and care for Zhuo Shi, who agreed on the condition that Wu Changkong serve him.

Meng Li objected to Shrek Academy’s harsh work-study conditions and secured separate dorm rooms for the five students. He confirmed Zhou Hansheng’s card held usable Shrek Contribution Points and began planning paid work to improve their living conditions.

• Meng Li lost sleep because Zhu Shi played games late into the night, then rejected the fishy black steamed buns at breakfast.
• Shen Yi took Meng Li, Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, Xu Xiaoyan, and Xie Xie to enroll as work-study students and assigned them to clean Spirit Ice Plaza before nightfall.
• After seeing their dilapidated shared dormitory, Meng Li declared he would quit and insisted the five students take separate rooms in the empty buildings nearby.
• Gu Yue, Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, and finally Tang Wulin followed Meng Li as he claimed rooms for each of them.
• Meng Li tested Zhou Hansheng’s card at a supermarket, confirmed it worked, and told Gu Yue he had more Shrek Contribution Points than he could spend.
• Meng Li wrote up paid offers for cleaning rooms and making furniture, and Gu Yue became hopeful about improving their situation.

Meng Li hired students to clean and build a house for his group, then agreed to repay the academy for using its land and rooms. He also promised to cover the group’s meals while keeping the source of his growing Shrek Contribution Points secret.

• Meng Li hired Yang Xiangping to clean Ice Spirit Plaza for two hundred Shrek Contribution Points and hired Zhao Cailong and Zeng Zhi to build a house.
• Meng Li and Gu Yue recruited students to renovate the group’s five rooms, and Meng Li told Xie Xie that he could solve academy expenses with Contribution Points.
• A teacher accused Meng Li’s group of appropriating academy property and demanded an explanation.
• Meng Li agreed to repay fifty thousand Shrek Contribution Points within a year, signed an IOU, and accepted a three-year lease for the land and rooms.
• Meng Li promised to cover his friends’ meals, limited Tang Wulin’s daily food allowance, and worried that Zhou Hansheng’s unusual Contribution Card might draw scrutiny.

Meng Li arranged paid cleaning work for Yang Xiangping, then spent time with Gu Yue and their friends before Yue Zhengyu suddenly declared him his big brother. The chapter ended with Meng Li leaving, while Yue Zhengyu obediently stood where he had been told and the waitress revealed herself to be Number Two.

• Meng Li hired Yang Xiangping to clean Ice Spirit Plaza for three hundred contribution points a day and told her not to claim the official assignment.
• Meng Li collected the official cleaning reward, then told Tang Wulin to help forge his battle armor instead of taking the cleaning work.
• Meng Li, Gu Yue, Tang Wulin, and their friends ate at the cafeteria and visited a drink bar, where Xie Xie told Tang Wulin about the Sea God Fate Blind Date Convention.
• Yue Zhengyu rushed over, clung to Meng Li, and insisted that Meng Li was the light-filled figure he had been searching for.
• Yue Zhengyu recognized the waitress as an Evil Soul Master and urged Meng Li to capture her, but Meng Li told him not to disturb her while she worked.
• Meng Li left with Gu Yue, while Yue Zhengyu stayed in place because Meng Li had told him to stand there; Meng Li also identified the waitress as Number Two.