Chapter Summaries

Shi Yueyi confronted Flender for using Spirit Hall's name while cheating customers, and Ghost Leopard Douluo overpowered him. She ordered Flender taken to Spirit Hall's prison and his shop placed under branch authority.

• Flender challenged Shi Yueyi and demanded compensation, while Qin Ming realized she was Spirit Hall's Saintess.
• Ghost Leopard Douluo appeared and repeatedly attacked Flender, leaving him injured and terrified.
• Shi Yueyi told Qin Ming that Flender's fraud threatened Spirit Hall's reputation, not Shrek Academy.
• Shi Yueyi ordered Ghost Leopard Douluo to take Flender to Spirit Hall's prison and investigate how much he had swindled.
• Ghost Leopard Douluo agreed to seize the shop and have a Spirit Hall Branch executive take it over.

Shi Yueyi had Flender arrested for defrauding people while using Spirit Hall’s name, then sentenced him to repay the money through soul battles and a massive fine. She learned that Shrek Academy would begin enrollment in five days and planned to visit with Qin Ming.

• Ghost Leopard Douluo and Shi Yueyi brought Flender to the Spirit Hall Branch, where a healer treated his superficial injuries.
• Bishop Jones reported that Flender had used the Spirit Hall name for nineteen years and spent the money he swindled on Shrek Academy and Ma Hongjun.
• Shi Yueyi ordered Flender to earn back the stolen money through soul battles and fined him thirty-eight million Gold Soul Coins for impersonating Spirit Hall.
• Ghost Leopard Douluo took Flender to prison, where he was to wait a month before fighting life-or-death betting matches in the Great Soul Arena.
• Flender told Shi Yueyi that Shrek Academy’s enrollment began on June first, and she said she and Qin Ming would visit.

Tang San and Xiao Wu arrived in Suotuo City after Tang San spent years earning money to secure Yu Xiaogang’s release, then encountered Dai Mubai at the Rose Hotel. Shi Yueyi watched their reunion and suspected the group had begun to realize something was unusual.

• Tang San and Xiao Wu reached Suotuo City, where Tang San explained that he had earned money through blacksmithing to meet Yu Xiaogang’s prison reform quota.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu checked into the Rose Hotel and agreed to take its last room after Dai Mubai arrived with two twins and claimed it was reserved for him.
• Tang San and Dai Mubai fought briefly, and Dai Mubai left after telling them about Shrek Academy.
• Shi Yueyi watched the encounter from upstairs and used an image to observe Tang San and Xiao Wu after they entered their room.
• Tang San told Xiao Wu that Dai Mubai seemed to share their situation but was reluctant to admit it directly.

Shi Yueyi learned that Tang San and Xiao Wu were being monitored, while Tang San discovered that the crystal he needed had been destroyed. He and Xiao Wu decided to register at Shrek Academy the next day and face the problems there together.

• Shi Yueyi learned that Snake Lance Douluo had installed surveillance in Dai Mubai’s room at the Rose Hotel, and she ordered the owner to keep gathering information on Dai Mubai.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu discussed gathering materials for Dragon Beard Needles and making battle armor before leaving the hotel.
• Tang San discovered that Flender’s shop had been shut down and that the multicolored crystal he had ordered was reportedly smashed; the Spirit Hall deacon and his accomplice were secretly Ghost Douluo and Ghost Leopard Douluo in disguise.
• Tang San realized that major changes had occurred while he and Xiao Wu were isolated in Nuoding City, and Xiao Wu encouraged him to meet their companions at Shrek Academy.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu comforted each other and resolved to register at Shrek Academy the next day, trusting that they could find solutions to Zhao Wuji and Spirit Hall.

Shi Yueyi and Qin Ming went to inspect Shrek Academy while Qian Renxue absorbed a God-Bestowed Soul Ring and considered whether to continue the Angel trials. At Shrek’s registration line, Dai Mubai threatened a family seeking a refund, but a sudden bolt of lightning struck him.

• Shi Yueyi told Qin Ming they would visit Shrek Academy and gave him a Soul Guiding Mask so they could see the academy as it truly was.
• Qian Renxue absorbed a two-hundred-thousand-year God-Bestowed Soul Ring and received Angel's Fifth Trial, which required her to challenge the Worship Elders outside Six Wings Mountain within one day.
• Shi Yueyi encouraged Qian Renxue to treat the divine trials as guidance and supported her choice to pursue her own path to godhood.
• Shi Yueyi and disguised Qin Ming arrived at Shrek Academy, where Shi Yueyi learned that a family had been misled about the academy by a Spirit Hall shop owner who had since been arrested.
• Li Yusong rejected a thirteen-year-old applicant and refused to refund his registration fee, so Dai Mubai threatened the family and demanded they fight him.
• A bolt of lightning struck Dai Mubai as he showed off, and Qin Ming joked that showing off got people struck by lightning.

Shi Yueyi challenged Shrek Academy over its refusal to return rejected students’ registration fees and exposed Li Yusong’s claim that a graduate had become a Spirit Hall elder as a lie. The confrontation ended with Shi Yueyi punching Li Yusong and declaring that the academy should close.

• A mysterious lightning bolt blackened Dai Mubai, while parents whose children had been rejected cheered at the sight.
• Li Yusong released his six soul rings and used his aura to hurt several protesting students and parents as he defended Shrek Academy’s admission rules.
• Shi Yueyi and the youth who had spoken with her accused the academy of keeping fees from rejected applicants and called it a scam.
• Li Yusong claimed that one of Shrek Academy’s graduates was a powerful Spirit Hall elder, and Shi Yueyi challenged him to provide the person’s name.
• Shi Yueyi pointed out that the claimed elder’s position was implausible and warned that Spirit Hall executed people who impersonated its elders, making Tang San realize she meant Yu Xiaogang.
• When Li Yusong threatened Shi Yueyi and demanded that Spirit Hall come cause trouble, she punched him flying and said the academy should shut down.

Shi Yueyi killed Li Yusong after overpowering him and stripping him of control over his Martial Soul. When Zhao Wuji attacked her in revenge, she stopped his blow and confronted him about escaping Spirit Hall's encirclement.

• Shi Yueyi's punch sent Li Yusong crashing through the academy sign and into Oscar's sausage stall, while Tang San suspected she had anticipated where he would land.
• Li Yusong attacked Shi Yueyi with his Dragon-Patterned Staff, but she seized it, suppressed his Martial Soul, shattered his wrist, and killed him with the staff.
• Tang San recognized that Li Yusong's death showed history was changing, then urged Xiao Wu to enter Shrek Academy with him.
• Oscar and Zhao Wuji rushed to Li Yusong's body, and Dai Mubai identified Shi Yueyi as his killer.
• Zhao Wuji attacked Shi Yueyi with his Mighty Vajra Bear, but she halted his blow and asked whether he was the Zhao Wuji who had escaped Spirit Hall's bishop-led encirclement.

Shi Yueyi exposed Shrek Academy’s extortion and ordered Zhao Wuji to repay the students and raise twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins for Spirit Hall by year’s end. She renamed the academy the Slime Factory, then sensed Ning Rongrong approaching.

• Shi Yueyi’s soul rings and strength stunned the crowd, and people identified her as Spirit Hall’s Saintess.
• Ghost Douluo seized Zhao Wuji and explained his past conflict with Spirit Hall over heavenly treasures.
• Shi Yueyi ordered Zhao Wuji to return the students’ money and deliver twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins to the Spirit Hall branch by year’s end, after which Shrek Academy would be dissolved.
• Shi Yueyi ordered Zhao Wuji and Dai Mubai to rename the academy the Slime Factory and hang its new sign at the village entrance.
• Shi Yueyi sensed Ning Rongrong nearing the academy.

After Spirit Hall forced Shrek to surrender, Tang San and Xiao Wu stayed while Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing joined the academy. Zhu Zhuqing’s conversation with Ning Rongrong left her and Dai Mubai wondering whether they were the only ones who had reincarnated.

• Shi Yueyi offered the other students help finding new academies, then left with Ghost Douluo and Qin Ming as Zhao Wuji, Dai Mubai, Tang San, and Xiao Wu remained at Shrek.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu chose to stay, passed Zhao Wuji’s entrance test, and were welcomed by Dai Mubai.
• Ning Rongrong arrived, nearly left over the academy’s changed name, and agreed to join after the others persuaded her; Oscar greeted her as the Nine-Colored Goddess.
• Zhu Zhuqing arrived, and Tang San signaled Dai Mubai that she seemed to have reincarnated as expected.
• Ning Rongrong denied having a husband, prompting Zhu Zhuqing and Dai Mubai to wonder whether only they had reincarnated.

Tang San and the others began Zhao Wuji’s test, but Zhao Wuji’s forceful attacks injured Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu. Tang San deliberately fought back to protect Xiao Wu, while Ning Rongrong questioned whether this was truly Shrek.

• Ning Rongrong revealed that her Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda could boost everyone’s strength and speed, and Zhao Wuji set the group a test of enduring one incense stick under his attacks.
• Ning Rongrong used Soul Tool Combat Boots to evade Zhao Wuji’s attack, while Tang San and the others dodged and counterattacked.
• Zhao Wuji unleashed his first soul skill, blasting Zhu Zhuqing into the air and injuring Xiao Wu as she faced him head-on.
• Tang San, furious that Xiao Wu had been hurt, used Blue Silver Grass and Bone Penetrating Nails against Zhao Wuji, then punched him in the face.
• Zhao Wuji retaliated with his Great Strength Vajra Palm, sending Tang San crashing to the ground, and Ning Rongrong cried out that the test made no sense for Shrek.

Zhao Wuji taught the Shrek students to stand together, while Ning Rongrong’s advanced Soul Tools unsettled Tang San. Outside the academy, Ghost Leopard Douluo found Tang Hao and broke his remaining leg on Shi Yueyi’s orders, leaving him unconscious.

• Zhao Wuji told the students they had to work as a team and had Oscar feed Tang San a Recovery Sausage.
• Ning Rongrong gave Zhu Zhuqing a Milk Bottle Soul Tool, prompting Tang San to worry that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would no longer need his Hidden Weapons.
• Tang San passed out from his injuries while privately reassuring himself that his battle armor and Hidden Weapons would keep his plans viable.
• Tang Hao watched his injured son from the forest and vowed to avenge him, but Ghost Leopard Douluo ambushed him and covered his mouth.
• Ghost Leopard Douluo broke Tang Hao’s remaining leg under Shi Yueyi’s orders, and Zhao Wuji mistook the faint sound for another rat sneaking into the village.

Tang San woke in the Shrek Academy dormitory and learned about Ma Hongjun’s worsening evil fire and Oscar’s uncertainty about Ning Rongrong. Meanwhile, Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing discussed Spirit Hall’s movements and the Four Clans’ surrender as Ning Rongrong secretly listened, leaving the academy’s old friends unaware of her presence.

• Tang San woke and spoke with Oscar, who explained that Ma Hongjun’s evil fire had worsened and that Ning Rongrong had not returned with them.
• Tang San said Ma Hongjun’s problem might be solved through a Second Awakening, while Oscar hoped to learn more about Rongrong from Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing met privately and discussed reports that Ning Rongrong might have been with Spirit Hall in Gengxin City.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Xiao Wu that the Four Clans had surrendered to Spirit Hall, formed the Four Forms Sect, and lost Titan, and she urged Xiao Wu not to burden Tang San with the news immediately.
• Zhu Zhuqing explained that she was postponing judgment on Dai Mubai despite his promiscuity, and Ning Rongrong secretly listened before crossing Zhu Zhuqing off her list of people to win over.

Shi Yueyi learned that Tang Hao escaped by digging through the ground and ordered Ghost Douluo to follow him, while she summoned Flender after receiving Ning Rongrong’s request. At Shrek Academy, Tang San and Xiao Wu reunited with Ma Hongjun, and Flender began physical training for Ning Rongrong and Oscar.

• Ghost Leopard Douluo told Shi Yueyi that Tang Hao had treated his wounds, climbed into a vat, and escaped by digging through the ground with his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Shi Yueyi instructed Ghost Douluo to keep watching Tang Hao and summoned Flender after learning Ning Rongrong wanted him to go to Shrek Academy.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu met Ma Hongjun, who explained that his Evil Fire problem had changed after he resolved it the previous night.
• Tang San promised Ma Hongjun that immortal herbs and the second awakening method might help complete his martial soul.
• Flender returned to Shrek Academy and assigned Ning Rongrong and Oscar to run twenty laps around the village for physical conditioning.

Flender confronted Oscar and Ning Rongrong over their use of Soul Tools, but Ning Rongrong challenged his rules and Shrek Academy’s training. When Flender ordered her to stay behind and reflect, she left the academy instead.

• Flender ordered Oscar to run another twenty laps because he had supported Ning Rongrong, accusing her of using a Soul Tool to cheat.
• Ning Rongrong argued with Flender about Soul Tools, the lack of mimetic cultivation chambers, and the academy’s harsh training.
• Oscar defended Soul Tools, and Tang San proposed that the seven students form a team for the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament.
• Flender sent Ning Rongrong to reflect while taking the others to the Great Soul Arena in Suotuo City for combat training.
• Ning Rongrong refused to stay at Shrek Academy and walked away.

Ning Rongrong argued with Flender and tried to recruit Oscar to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Tang San attempted to mediate by defending Soul Tools and Soul Master cultivation. After Ning Rongrong exposed Tang San's ten-year Second Soul Ring and rejected his appeal to teamwork, she made one final offer to Oscar, who had not yet answered.

• Flender insulted Ning Rongrong and claimed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would be destroyed by her, prompting her to ask Oscar to join her sect.
• Ning Rongrong offered Oscar Soul Tool Bombs, help from Titled Douluo, and knowledge of a rare Mirror Beast suited to his martial soul.
• Tang San tried to reconcile Ning Rongrong and Flender, then revealed his Soul Rings at Flender's urging.
• Ning Rongrong mocked Tang San's ten-year Second Soul Ring and rejected his claim that his misfortune showed the importance of having a team.
• Xiao Wu defended Tang San, but Ning Rongrong threatened to call Grandpa Sword before making Oscar a final offer of systematic support-type cultivation methods.

Ning Rongrong rejected Oscar and left Shrek Academy, where she wounded Dai Mubai with a Soul Tool before departing with Shi Yueyi for Spirit Hall. There, Rongrong explained that she had deliberately provoked Dai Mubai to draw out his hidden guards and expected Oscar to warn them.

• Ning Rongrong refused Oscar's request and walked away from Shrek Academy, prompting Dai Mubai to threaten her.
• Dai Mubai attacked Ning Rongrong, and she shot him with a Soul Tool, severely injuring him.
• Shi Yueyi arrived with Bishop Jones, ordered Flender to take the Shrek students to the Great Soul Arena, and invited Ning Rongrong to Spirit Hall.
• Flender told Tang San and the others that he owed Spirit Hall money and had to repay it through Soul Arena fights.
• At Spirit Hall, Ning Rongrong told Shi Yueyi that she expected Oscar to come looking for her and had injured Dai Mubai to provoke his hidden guards into acting.

Shi Yueyi kept the Heart of the Sea God while Ning Rongrong stayed at Spirit Hall, prompting the Sea God to send Bo Saixi and two Titled Douluo to retrieve it. As Qian Renxue prepared for her next trial, the Shrek Seven Devils finished a night of soul battles to help Flender repay his debts, and Oscar secretly headed toward the Spirit Hall Branch.

• Qingqing returned to Shi Yueyi wearing the Heart of the Sea God, which she used to balance the snake’s yin nature after its evolution.
• The Sea God ordered Bo Saixi to send two ninth-rank Titled Douluo to find the stolen Heart of the Sea God and kill anyone from Spirit Hall holding it.
• Bo Saixi gave Sea Star Douluo and Sea Illusion Douluo the Sea God’s blessing and sent them to retrieve the relic.
• Qian Renxue sensed the Sea God’s divine presence and ordered guards to protect Shi Yueyi while she prepared to enter seclusion for her trial.
• The Shrek Seven Devils completed a night of soul battles with Flender, and Tang San promised Zhu Zhuqing he would help Dai Mubai recover.
• Oscar separated from the others and slipped toward the Spirit Hall Branch instead of going straight to the clinic.

Oscar registered his breakthrough to level thirty at Spirit Hall and warned them about an ambush, while Ning Rongrong and Shi Yueyi used his concern to further draw him away from Shrek. Shi Yueyi learned that Shrek would hunt for soul beasts the next day and planned to kill the Sky Azure Bull Python before confronting the captured guards.

• Dai Mubai's deathsworn guards prepared to attack Ning Rongrong after learning he had been seriously injured.
• Oscar registered at Spirit Hall and warned its deacon that people were lying in wait nearby.
• Shi Yueyi told Bishop Jones that she knew about the four hidden attackers and ordered him not to alarm Oscar.
• Ning Rongrong and Shi Yueyi planned to make Oscar increasingly anxious and use Tang San's Eight Spider Lances as another blow against Shrek.
• Shi Yueyi decided to hunt the Sky Azure Bull Python for its soul ring, soul bone, and abilities, while Ghost Leopard Douluo brought the captured guards to her.

Shi Yueyi drugged and altered the memories of Dai Mubai’s guards so they would report that he had become a eunuch. Back at Shrek Academy, Tang San reassured his companions and prepared them to pursue the Man Faced Demon Spider soul ring and the Eight Spider Lances.

• Shi Yueyi used medicine and her second soul skill to make Dai Mubai’s four guards obey her plan to spread news about his condition to the Star Luo Empire.
• Dai Mubai returned to Shrek Academy with Oscar and Zhao Wuji, and Tang San promised he would try to cure him in the future.
• Zhu Zhuqing warned Dai Mubai to silence his guards, and he hurried off to find them.
• Oscar announced he had reached level thirty, prompting the group to plan a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest for soul rings.
• Tang San assured Xiao Wu that his Flawless Golden Body could withstand an over-limit soul ring and gave Ma Hongjun a booklet to help suppress his evil fire.
• Tang San and the others expressed confidence in their plan to obtain the Eight Spider Lances and overcome Spirit Hall.

Shi Yueyi sent Ghost Douluo to find and seal Blue Silver Valley so she could set a trap for Tang San’s awakening, while Qian Renxue assigned Sea Turtle Douluo to accompany her. At a hotel near the Star Dou Great Forest, Dai Mubai’s group provoked Canghui Academy, and a young man insulted Dai Mubai as a eunuch, sparking a confrontation.

• Shi Yueyi ordered Ghost Douluo to return with Chrysanthemum Douluo, locate Blue Silver Valley, and keep Tang Hao from entering it.
• Shi Yueyi learned that Qian Renxue had sent Sea Turtle Douluo to accompany her, and she set out with Ghost Leopard Douluo and Snake Spear Douluo.
• Zhao Wuji and the Shrek group reached a town near the Star Dou Great Forest and settled into a hotel.
• Tang San resolved to target Canghui Academy, recalling the harm he had inflicted on its students and teacher in their previous encounter.
• Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai loudly mocked Canghui Academy after its members entered the hotel, and a young man retaliated by calling Dai Mubai a eunuch.