Chapter Summaries

Shrek Academy's injured team members left the Reserve Team anxious about competing with an incomplete roster, while Wang Yan and Bei Bei tried to reassure them with the possibility of reinforcements. Back at Shrek, Elder Xuan faced a grave Sea God Pavilion Meeting, and Qian Duoduo blamed him for nearly getting Chen Ping killed.

• Wang Yan told the Reserve Team that Dai Yueheng and Yao Haoxuan needed time to recover, while Yao Haoxuan joked to lift the students' spirits.
• Ning Tian and Bei Bei encouraged the Reserve Team to hold on until reinforcements arrived, though Wang Yan privately doubted the academy could send any.
• A White-Robed Elder reported to Elder Xuan that the injured students were stable, their Seas of Consciousness had been hurt but not shattered, and Huo Yuhao could suppress Xiaotao's Evil Fire.
• Yan Shaozhe escorted Elder Xuan to a Sea God Pavilion Meeting, where the academy's leaders gathered in a grave atmosphere.
• Qian Duoduo recalled how Chen Ping's preparations had saved him and grew furious with Elder Xuan for nearly getting his disciple killed.

At a Sea God Pavilion Meeting, Elder Xuan took responsibility for the disastrous mission and tried to resign and remove his Soul Bones. Mu En angrily stopped him, condemned his attempt to flee accountability, and ordered him to teach in the Outer Courtyard after the tournament.

• Qian Duoduo and Xian Liner learned that Chen Ping had used Qian Duoduo's name to equip the Inner Court Students with defensive soul guidance devices, which helped save them.
• Elder Xuan proposed resigning from his positions, leaving the Sea God Pavilion, surrendering his authority and property, and accepting punishment for the mission's failure.
• Elder Xuan knelt before Mu En, blamed his own negligence, and admitted Chen Ping's actions had prevented the mission from ending with eight corpses.
• Elder Xuan tried to claw out his Soul Bones, but Mu En struck him across the room to stop him.
• Mu En scolded Elder Xuan for trying to escape responsibility and ordered him to teach in the Outer Courtyard after the tournament.

Mu En reprimanded Xuan Zi over the failed mission and warned the Sea God Pavilion Elders that his death was approaching. He ordered Shrek to equip its Inner Courtyard students with defensive and flying Soul Tools, then learned Chen Ping had helped create the new flying device.

• Mu En threatened to expel Xuan Zi and report his failures to Senior Brother He, so Xuan Zi agreed to teach in the Outer Courtyard.
• Mu En told Xuan Zi to reflect on his mistakes, learn from Chen Ping's reconnaissance methods, and prepare to shoulder responsibility for Shrek after Mu En's death.
• Mu En ordered every Inner Courtyard student to use Defense Soul Tools and Flying Soul Guidance Devices, and told Xian Liner to enforce the policy.
• Qian Duoduo revealed that Chen Ping had designed the new Flying Soul Guidance Device and that he had credited Qian Duoduo to protect him.
• Mu En approved Qian Duoduo's decision and asked him and Chen Ping to prepare a report on the device's strategic value after Chen Ping returned.

Mu En forced Yan Shaozhe to accept reforms requiring the Martial Soul Department to pay for Soul Tools and let the tournament team compete without reinforcements. Meanwhile, Chen Ping and the others arrived at Star Luo City, where Xu Sanshi immediately angered the locals.

• Mu En confronted Yan Shaozhe over resisting Defense Soul Tools, then ordered the Martial Soul Department to repay its debt and compensate the Soul Guidance Department tenfold for seven tools.
• Mu En refused to send reinforcements to the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament and told the elders to let the Reserve Team compete on its own.
• Mu En ordered Lin Er to propose an exchange with Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy after the tournament and warned the elders to keep Chen Ping's role in creating the New Flying Soul Guidance Device secret.
• Chen Ping saw Star Luo City's massive walls and considered how they could withstand attacks, including bombardment by Soul Tools.
• Xu Sanshi mocked Star Luo City's square appearance, provoking angry glares from nearby citizens.

Chen Ping and the Shrek team prepared for the tournament while Wang Yan concealed how little support they would have. After revealing his unusual power with a punch that shattered the meeting room windows, Chen Ping left Wang Yan and Bei Bei stunned.

• Chen Ping and the others hurried Xu Sanshi into the Star Emperor Hotel before his remarks provoked a fight.
• Wang Yan reassured the reserve team that reinforcements could arrive later and explained that Shrek would compete first in the opening elimination round.
• After the other reserve members left, Wang Yan admitted that his confidence had been an act and that the team would receive little outside support.
• Bei Bei challenged Chen Ping to stop pretending to be relaxed, but Chen Ping said he could handle the next day's match alone.
• Chen Ping recalled his Scorpion Tiger trial, then threw a bow stance straight punch whose sonic boom shattered every meeting room window.

An explosion in Shrek Academy’s meeting room shattered the windows of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s room, prompting the rival team to seek a rules violation that could disqualify Shrek. Wang Yan apologized and offered compensation, leaving the hotel manager inclined to accept it rather than pursue the incident.

• An explosion shook the Star Emperor Hotel, shattering the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy meeting room’s windows.
• Ma Rulong identified Shrek’s meeting room as the likely source, and Ma Lao led the Sun Moon team toward it.
• Shrek’s Reserve Members and the Sun Moon students gathered as Star Luo officials surrounded Shrek’s meeting room.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen urged the manager to punish Shrek for breaking the rules.
• Wang Yan apologized, offered Gold Soul Coin Cards as compensation, and promised to pay for the hotel damage.
• The manager weighed the offer and decided that accepting it was more advantageous than pursuing the matter.

Wang Yan and the Star Emperor Hotel manager tried to settle the explosion dispute, but Ma Lao insisted Shrek Academy answer for the disturbance and led a crowd into its meeting room. There they found Chen Ping bare-chested with a smoking, blood-red arm, and he calmly challenged the accusation that Shrek had violated tournament rules.

• The Star Emperor Hotel manager offered to compensate students whose cultivation had been affected, but Ma Lao objected to Wang Yan and the manager settling the dispute without Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Ma Lao invoked tournament rules against Soul Skills, Soul Tools, and Soul Fighting in official rest areas, then demanded that Shrek hand over the culprit.
• Wang Yan appeared to try to stop Ma Lao while secretly guiding him and the onlookers toward Shrek's meeting room.
• Ma Lao and students from the other academies followed him into the room, where they saw Bei Bei and Chen Ping, who was bare-chested with a huge, smoking red arm.
• Chen Ping opened his eyes and said that the tournament rules did not forbid students from casually throwing a couple of punches.

Chen Ping silenced the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy students by demonstrating his immense strength without using Soul Power. He left the room after they made way for him, while Ma Rulong demanded the detector records and Meng Hongchen watched him with a flush on her face.

• The female manager recognized Chen Ping as the Shrek student who had asked about the Soul Power Fluctuation Detector.
• Meng Hongchen mocked Chen Ping's claim that one punch had shattered the top-floor meeting-room glass, and he corrected her without looking at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy students.
• Chen Ping crushed a piece of Adamantine into a metal sphere with his bare hand, frightening Ma Rulong and the other Soul Masters.
• Chen Ping told the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy students to move, and they cleared a path for him to leave the meeting room.
• Xiao Hongchen picked up the crushed Adamantine while Ma Rulong demanded the seventh-floor detector records; Meng Hongchen watched Chen Ping's back and blushed.

Chen Ping used Blood Qi Power to demonstrate immense physical strength without triggering the Soul Power Fluctuation Detector, embarrassing Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy at Star Emperor Hotel. He then collapsed into sleep to recover before the tournament, having revealed only a fraction of his team’s abilities.

• Xiao Hongchen failed to bend the adamantine ball Chen Ping had squeezed, while Ma Rulong confirmed that the detector had recorded no Soul Power Fluctuation from Chen Ping’s punch.
• Wang Yan defended Chen Ping, arranged compensation for the disturbance, and traded barbs with Ma Lao as Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy left.
• Chen Ping returned to his room, drank nourishing supplements, and fell asleep to recover the Blood Qi Power he had spent.
• Chen Ping recalled that Blood Qi Power was separate from Soul Power, could briefly multiply his physical might, and recovered best through sleep and potent supplements.
• Chen Ping had used the hotel demonstration to test Blood Qi Power and conceal his team’s full strength ahead of the tournament.

After Chen Ping’s display of strength stirred the tournament teams, Shrek’s reputation spread throughout the Star Emperor Hotel. On the morning of the elimination tournament, the teams assembled at Star Luo Square, where spectators noticed Shrek’s unusually young lineup and opponents dreaded facing them.

• Ma Rulong asked Xiao Hongchen whether Chen Ping’s Adamantine ball was genuine, and Xiao Hongchen confirmed it was an impurity-free ingot compressed by hand.
• Ma Lao dismissed the possibility that Chen Ping’s physical strength matched a Soul King’s Soul Skill, while Meng Hongchen suggested his strength might be exceptional because he came from Shrek.
• Bei Bei’s Recording of Chen Ping compressing the Adamantine spread through the tournament teams, fueling rumors about Shrek’s new monster.
• Star Luo City sealed the streets around Star Luo Square as soldiers prepared for the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament’s opening elimination round.
• Chen Ping and six other Shrek students arrived in the contestants’ area with Wang Yan, and the other academies feared drawing Shrek as their opponent.

Chen Ping used rumors and a public display of confidence to make Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy fear Shrek before their opening Elimination Tournament match. The Shrek Reserve Team entered the arena as the crowd cheered, leaving their opponents and spectators uncertain about what would happen next.

• The Star Luo Emperor opened the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Tournament before the assembled teams and spectators.
• The host announced that Shrek Academy would face Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy in the first Elimination Tournament match.
• Chen Ping reassured the Shrek Reserve Team that rumors about their exploits would unsettle opponents and make their strength seem unpredictable.
• Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy's seven members reluctantly took the arena, afraid of Chen Ping's rumored strength.
• Chen Ping led the Reserve Team onto the arena, where their casual manner puzzled the crowd.

Chen Ping faced Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy alone in Shrek's opening elimination match, while his teammates' teasing made their opponents increasingly afraid of him. The match was about to begin with Chen Ping yawning onstage and Shrek's other six members showing little interest in fighting.

• Xu Jiawei and the spectators were surprised to see Chen Ping lead Shrek's team onto the stage, while Tianling's students recognized him from rumors about the previous day.
• Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Wu Feng, Ning Tian, and He Caitou implied that Chen Ping would fight all seven opponents by himself, frightening the Tianling team.
• The referee explained the elimination-match rules and ordered both teams to their starting positions; Shrek's other six members barely retreated and chatted among themselves.
• As the spectators watched, Shrek's six teammates left Chen Ping alone onstage, while Heavenly Spirit Academy formed up and Chen Ping yawned before the referee could start the match.

Chen Ping challenged Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy to withstand one punch each, then demonstrated his overwhelming physical strength by cracking the arena platform without using Soul Power. The Tianling students panicked, with some fleeing and others fainting, leaving the match effectively over.

• Chen Ping urged the referee to start the match and faced all seven Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy students alone.
• Chen Ping told the Tianling students to take one punch each and warned that he would avoid Soul Skills so the referee could protect them.
• Chen Ping punched the Soul Arena platform, creating a twenty-meter web of cracks and shaking the arena without using Soul Power.
• Xiao Hongchen and Ma Rulong watched the destruction through a Soul Power Fluctuation Detector and feared Chen Ping's strength.
• Chen Ping approached the Tianling students, and one Soul Elder forfeited and fled while the others panicked, ran, or fainted.

Chen Ping defeated Heavenly Spirit Academy with a devastating Earthquake Ripple Fist, secretly shattering the bones in both his arms and using the Life Carving Knife to repair them. After the referee announced the match’s end, Chen Ping addressed the stunned crowd and welcomed them to the tournament.

• Chen Ping's Earthquake Ripple Fist sent Heavenly Spirit Academy's students fleeing or unconscious and left him with shattered arm bones.
• Chen Ping hid his injuries while absorbing life force from the Life Carving Knife, as spectators mistook his grin and composure for supreme confidence.
• The referee, terrified by Chen Ping's apparent power, forgot to announce the result until Chen Ping reminded him.
• Heavenly Spirit Academy's teachers retrieved their students, and the competition's Soul Masters withdrew their protective Soul Power.
• After his arm bones had partially reconnected, Chen Ping waved to the crowd and welcomed them to the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Tournament.

Chen Ping overwhelmed his opponent with a single devastating punch, then left the arena supported by Ning Tian and Wu Feng. He collapsed from the effort and slept for two days before waking in their hotel room.

• Chen Ping defeated his opponent with one punch and joked to his companions about their lost bets while secretly asking Ning Tian and Wu Feng to support him.
• Chen Ping and the Shrek team left the arena, prompting Xu Jiawei to order an investigation into Chen Ping and a brocade-clad man to condemn him for embracing Ning Tian and Wu Feng.
• Xiao Hongchen broke down over Chen Ping's strength, unable to believe anyone could outshine him.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng carried the exhausted Chen Ping to their room, where he fell asleep; Wang Yan later arranged a keycard, and the two girls stayed in Chen Ping's room overnight.
• Chen Ping woke after sleeping for two days and one night, as Ning Tian scolded Wu Feng for loudly calling to him.

Ning Tian and Wu Feng returned to retrieve Ning Tian’s pleated dress while Chen Ping pretended to sleep, but their search tickled him and exposed that he was awake. After Wu Feng teased the embarrassed pair, Chen Ping and Ning Tian joined forces to tickle her, leaving the room even more awkward and ambiguous.

• Ning Tian and Wu Feng returned to their room to retrieve Ning Tian’s dress while Chen Ping lay on the bed.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng pushed Chen Ping aside and searched around him, unaware he was awake and pretending to sleep.
• Ning Tian reached beneath Chen Ping to free the dress, tickled his waist, and made him burst into laughter.
• Ning Tian blamed Wu Feng for the awkward situation, while Chen Ping explained that he had only just woken up.
• Wu Feng teased Chen Ping and Ning Tian, so they grabbed her and tickled her until she begged for mercy.

Wang Yan praised the Reserve Team’s success and prepared tactics for the Round Robin, which began the next day. When Wang Yan proposed using He Caitou’s cigars to secretly gain an advantage, Chen Ping condemned cheating, leaving Wang Yan chastened and the team resolved to compete honestly.

• Wang Yan told the team that Yao Haoxuan was recovering quickly enough to possibly compete in the third match.
• Wang Yan reported that Chen Ping’s performance had made other academies believe he could defeat entire teams alone.
• Wang Yan reviewed the Round Robin schedule and asked Bei Bei and the others to explain their Soul Skills so he could plan tactics.
• Wang Yan suggested that the team secretly use He Caitou’s cigars to stack their support effects during the Two-Two-Three Format.
• Chen Ping called the plan cheating and reminded Wang Yan that Shrek’s Reserve Team had been asked to show how far it could go.
• Wang Yan recognized his mistake and felt relieved that Chen Ping had stopped him from crossing the line.

Wang Yan apologized for his earlier mistake, while Chen Ping humiliated Xiao Hongchen in the corridor. As the round-robin matches began, Shrek’s team entered amid a roaring crowd, and a wine-red-haired girl watched Chen Ping with an unsettling interest.

• Wang Yan admitted that he had been wrong about cheating and apologized to the Shrek Team, asking them to correct him in the future.
• Xiao Hongchen challenged Chen Ping, who mocked him as an unimpressive Five Ring Soul King and left him furious.
• Chen Ping reflected on the students killed in the elimination matches and the compensation their families received, concluding that without Shrek’s resources he would never have been worth that price.
• The round-robin matches began, and the spectators and rival academies gathered to watch Shrek’s first match.
• Chen Ping entered at the front of the Shrek Team, noticed Xiao Hongchen watching him fearfully, and saw a wine-red-haired girl stare at him as if he were prey.

Chen Ping entered Shrek Academy’s one-on-one match against Yunluo Academy, intending to use the bout to preserve his teammates’ hidden abilities. His opponent, Ma Yingjun, begged him for mercy, and Chen Ping prepared to test his Flying Soul Guidance Devices instead of fighting seriously.

• The tournament host announced that Shrek Academy would face Yunluo Academy, and Bei Bei drew the Individual Elimination Match format.
• Chen Ping volunteered as Shrek’s first contestant, explaining to Wang Yan and the others that a one-on-one match suited their bluffing tactics.
• Ma Yingjun recognized Chen Ping and pleaded with him to go easy, praising his victory over the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Chen Ping put on Flying Soul Guidance Devices and told Ma Yingjun he only needed to collect maneuverability data for a research assignment.
• Ma Yingjun gladly backed away, while Yunluo Academy’s strategy was to avoid injuries against Chen Ping.

Chen Ping fought Ma Yingjun in the arena, effortlessly dodging his barrage and revealing the astonishing maneuverability of Shrek’s new Flying Soul Guidance Device. Ma Yingjun attempted a low-altitude counterattack, but the crowd’s astonishment made him realize something had gone wrong.

• Ma Yingjun armed himself with Soul Tools and opened fire as soon as the referee began the match.
• Chen Ping dodged the barrage with sharp aerial maneuvers, prompting Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s members to recognize the exceptional performance of his Flying Soul Guidance Device.
• Ma Yingjun overloaded his weapons and fired again, hoping to land a hit so he could later boast that he had been evenly matched with Chen Ping.
• As Chen Ping approached, Ma Yingjun discarded his weapons and flew close to the arena floor to evade Chen Ping’s dive and counterattack.
• Ma Yingjun thought his maneuver had worked, but the crowd’s astonished cries made him suspect that something was wrong.