Chapter Summaries

After Chen Ping received 8,800 Scholar Points for helping remove Zhou Yi, Mu En recognized his potential as a future Shrek Martial Soul Department Director. Mu En then agreed to attend a Sea God Pavilion Meeting, and Shrek's Elders began gathering at the golden ancient tree.

• Chen Ping gained 8,800 Scholar Points and planned to use them for a new Staff Technique and intensive training before the tournament.
• Mu En praised Chen Ping's character and administrative ability, and considered reserving Du Weilun's director position for him.
• Mu En reflected that Chen Ping could have exposed Zhou Yi's misconduct and prevented the cover-up if he had been the Outer Courtyard director.
• Mu En agreed to attend a Sea God Pavilion Meeting to help clean up Shrek Academy.
• Elders across Shrek Academy vanished from their posts or emerged from seclusion and hurried toward the golden ancient tree.

Chen Ping helped Wang Yan prepare official announcements as Shrek Academy prepared to judge Zhou Yi and the staff who had concealed her wrongdoing. At the Sea God Pavilion meeting, Mu En called for the execution of Zhou Yi and the teachers who aided her, leaving Qian Duoduo unable to defend her.

• Wang Yan prepared follow-up announcements about Zhou Yi and the academy officials who had helped cover up her actions, while Chen Ping offered to write them.
• Wang Yan warned Chen Ping that Shrek Academy wielded power beyond that of an ordinary school, and Chen Ping recognized its political influence.
• At the Sea God Pavilion meeting, Mu En urged the Elders to consider the scandal’s severity and proposed killing the chief culprits to quell public outrage.
• Mu En specified that Zhou Yi and the teachers who helped conceal the truth would be executed, but Fan Yu would not be among them.
• Qian Duoduo tried to speak up for Zhou Yi because of Fan Yu, but Mu En deliberately cut off his plea, and Qian Duoduo sat down in defeat.

Mu En argued that Shrek should cultivate Chen Ping as a future administrative leader, and Xuan Zi agreed to test Chen Ping’s character by informing Wang Yan of the Sea God Pavilion’s decision. Chen Ping learned that Zhou Yi would be executed and struggled with the weight of having helped bring about her death.

• Mu En told Xuan Zi that Chen Ping’s clean background and abilities made him worth cultivating, despite the recommendation to kill him during the meeting.
• Xuan Zi agreed to tell Wang Yan the meeting’s result and use the opportunity to probe Chen Ping’s character.
• Xuan Zi informed Wang Yan that the Sea God Pavilion had decided Zhou Yi and the academy bureaucrats who covered for her had to be held responsible.
• Chen Ping reacted with shock as he considered Zhou Yi’s crimes and realized he had personally helped send her to her death.
• Chen Ping recognized that Shrek could not be understood as an ordinary school and that he needed to accept its different nature.

Fan Yu confronted the consequences of Zhou Yi’s crimes and begged Qian Duoduo to spare her, despite Qian Duoduo’s fury. Qian Duoduo told Fan Yu to seek help from Chen Ping, leaving Zhou Yi’s fate unresolved.

• Qian Duoduo condemned Fan Yu for failing to recognize Zhou Yi’s crimes and ordered him out of the office.
• Du Weilun arrived and said he expected to lose his positions after Zhou Yi’s case was handled, and Fan Yu knelt to apologize to him.
• Fan Yu offered to resign from his academy posts if Zhou Yi’s life could be spared.
• Qian Duoduo rebuked Fan Yu by citing the students harmed by Zhou Yi and accused him of abusing his authority to protect her.
• Fan Yu broke down in tears and pleaded that Zhou Yi was his wife, while Qian Duoduo said he had already pleaded at the Sea God Pavilion.
• Qian Duoduo told Fan Yu to beg Chen Ping if he wanted Zhou Yi to live, even in a state worse than death, then vanished.

After helping sentence Zhou Yi, Chen Ping struggled with the knowledge that his actions could lead to her execution. Mu En offered him a third option and revealed a timid man nearby, leaving Chen Ping to grasp his plan for dealing with Zhou Yi and others.

• Chen Ping returned from Wang Yan's office shaken by the prospect that Zhou Yi and other officials could be executed under the sentence he had written.
• Mu En stopped Chen Ping from retreating to his dormitory and explained that his distress showed his respect for life and his reluctance to wield power recklessly.
• Mu En accurately described Chen Ping's conflict over Zhou Yi's fate and his willingness to let unfamiliar officials face judgment.
• Mu En proposed crippling Zhou Yi's Soul Power and leaving her to survive as a beggar in Shrek City instead of executing her.
• Chen Ping noticed a timid, robust man nearby and realized Mu En was planning to resolve three matters with one move.

Chen Ping accepted Mu En’s plan to leave Zhou Yi alive but powerless, while Shrek Academy publicly announced her punishment and measures to help the students she had harmed. Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong celebrated the decision and set out to see Chen Ping, whose role in drafting the official notice had filled his massage shop with visitors.

• Mu En arranged for Zhou Yi to lose her cultivation and remain confined in Shrek City, leaving Fan Yu at Shrek and giving Chen Ping room to carry out the plan.
• Chen Ping agreed to grant Fan Yu’s request, though he doubted Fan Yu understood what Zhou Yi wanted.
• The day before the New Student Competition, Shrek Academy posted its findings on Zhou Yi’s misconduct, abolished her cultivation, and barred her from the academy and from receiving help.
• Wang Dong cheered the notice, while Huo Yuhao read that the academy would bring a Medical Immortal from the Star Luo Empire to treat the harmed students.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong decided to visit Chen Ping, whose drafted notice had been posted unchanged and whose Massage Shop was packed.

Chen Ping's shop drew a crowd of students eager to support him after evidence exposed Zhou Yi, while Zhou Yi was held in Shrek's secret chamber. Fan Yu rejected Zhou Yi and ended their relationship, leaving her to spend her life in repentance.

• Students surrounded Chen Ping's shop and eagerly loaded money onto their cards to support him.
• Xie Huanyue joined the crowd and paid five thousand Gold Soul Coins instead of asking Chen Ping to fill his card.
• Zhou Yi ranted in the secret chamber and begged Fan Yu to rescue her when he arrived with Qian Duoduo.
• Qian Duoduo confronted Zhou Yi about her betrayal of those who had treated her well, but Zhou Yi showed no remorse.
• Fan Yu told Zhou Yi their relationship was over, explained that he had secured her life, and said she must repent while he atoned to the academy and the students.

Qian Duoduo crippled Zhou Yi and prepared to expel her from Shrek Academy, while Mu Jin gave Freshman Class Nine time off and organized teams for the New Student Competition. Chen Ping, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng formed a team, leaving Nanmen Yun'er disappointed that she had missed her chance to join them.

• Qian Duoduo used his Titled Douluo pressure to destroy Zhou Yi's cultivation and ordered that she be chained and forced to wander Shrek City under guard.
• Mu Jin taught her afternoon class as usual, then gave Freshman Class Nine the rest of the afternoon off and asked students to submit their cultivation plans.
• Chen Ping chose Power Attack System as his cultivation direction despite considering whether his fighting style was closer to Control System.
• Mu Jin announced that Wu Feng, Ning Tian, and Chen Ping would form the first group for the New Student Competition.
• Nanmen Yun'er regretted that she had not joined the team of Wu Feng, Ning Tian, and Chen Ping.

Mu Jin explained the New Student Competition’s elimination rules and encouraged Class Nine by predicting that more than half its students could advance. After class, Chen Ping proposed relying on Wu Feng’s strength to win their matches while keeping the team’s tactics hidden.

• Mu Jin explained that students would compete in groups, with each team fighting at least ten matches and needing six wins to basically secure advancement.
• Mu Jin said the top sixty-four teams would enter the Elimination Tournament and that the academy might retain more than half of Class Nine.
• After class, Wu Feng asked Chen Ping what tactics their team would use for the competition.
• Chen Ping suggested sending Wu Feng to charge at opponents with Dragon Chariot, arguing that many teams would be weaker and their team could conceal its other strengths.
• Ning Tian agreed that Wu Feng could fight alone to help hide Chen Ping’s and Ning Tian’s abilities.

Chen Ping, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian prepared for the Freshman Assessment and were assigned their first match against New Student Class Three. The assessment began with their opponents forming a protective formation, leaving the battle poised to start.

• Chen Ping practiced his Flowery Staff before heading to the Assessment Area.
• Chen Ping found Ning Tian and Wu Feng in the Thirty-Third District, where six teams were assigned to compete.
• Wang Yan reminded the freshmen not to cripple or seriously injure their opponents and announced the first match.
• Chen Ping, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian faced Ouyang Junyi, Chen Junfeng, and Zhao Haochen from New Student Class Three.
• After Wang Yan declared the assessment begun, the three boys released their Martial Souls and formed an inverted triangle around Zhao Haochen.

Wu Feng charged ahead alone and quickly defeated Zhao Haochen, Ouyang Junyi, and Chen Junfeng by stealing Zhao Haochen’s summoned chicken legs and using their boosts. Wang Yan declared Chen Ping’s team the winner, leaving the other teams in the Thirty-Third District anxious about facing them.

• After Wang Yan began the assessment, Wu Feng Dragonified and charged across the arena before Ouyang Junyi and Chen Junfeng could react.
• Ouyang Junyi and Chen Junfeng rolled aside, exposing Zhao Haochen, who summoned braised chicken legs for his teammates.
• Wu Feng snatched the chicken legs, ate them to gain strength, and knocked Zhao Haochen out of the arena.
• Ouyang Junyi and Chen Junfeng attacked Wu Feng with a coordinated cross-strike, but she dodged them and slapped both out of the arena.
• Wang Yan announced Chen Ping’s team’s victory, and the other teams in the Thirty-Third District worried about facing them.

Wu Feng dominated the Thirty-Third District matches, while Chen Ping and Ning Tian tested the effects of a Food System Soul Master’s chicken leg and Ning Tian’s Speed Boost. By the end of the second day, every opposing team had decided to forfeit rather than face Wu Feng.

• Wu Feng defeated Ouyang Junyi and two other Lesser Soul Masters in a one-against-three, then shared Braised Chicken Legs with Chen Ping and Ning Tian.
• Wang Yan recorded the result and judged that Chen Ping’s team had a chance to contend for the championship.
• Chen Ping ate the Speed Boost chicken leg and estimated that it increased his speed by nearly thirty percent, prompting Ning Tian to defend her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s support abilities.
• Wu Feng continued winning the next day, and Ning Tian’s forty-percent Speed Boost helped her overwhelm a team that tried to gang up on her.
• After Wu Feng struck one stubborn opponent across the butt and left him in tears, every team in the Thirty-Third District chose to forfeit against Chen Ping’s team.

Chen Ping's team won five matches in a row after their opponents forfeited, making them the Thirty-Third District's seeded champions. As they relaxed at the Massage Shop, Chen Ping noticed a despondent Xu Sanshi and went over to him.

• Teams forfeited rather than risk revealing their trump cards against Chen Ping's team, and Chen Ping, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng passed the day playing Fight the Landlord between matches.
• Ning Tian used a string of bombs to win five hundred gold soul coins from Chen Ping.
• Wang Yan congratulated the team on five consecutive wins and warned that their matches would grow harder after the next drawing of lots.
• Wu Feng suggested sticking to their strategy, but Chen Ping said they should wait to see who their opponents were before deciding.
• At the Massage Shop, Chen Ping spotted a listless Xu Sanshi soaking his feet and walked over to him.

Chen Ping encountered Xu Sanshi being forced to help Ma Xiao Tao suppress her Evil Fire. After Ma Xiao Tao explained the danger it posed, Chen Ping suggested restraining herself with Deep Sea Dark Silver.

• Chen Ping found Xu Sanshi exhausted from helping Ma Xiao Tao suppress her Evil Fire and learned she intended to take him again.
• Ma Xiao Tao recognized Chen Ping as the person she had nearly hurt before and gave him a brief apology.
• Xu Sanshi begged Ma Xiao Tao to spare him because he had no Soul Power left, but she paid another Lesser Soul Master to give up his seat.
• Ma Xiao Tao soaked her feet in ice water, melting the ice as she explained that her Evil Fire had caused her to lose control and miss the Continental Advanced Soul Master Competition as a Reserve Member.
• Chen Ping asked Ma Xiao Tao why she did not use restraints made of Deep Sea Dark Silver to prevent herself from hurting people.

Chen Ping advised Ma Xiao Tao on managing her Evil Fire and proposed several stronger remedies that were difficult to obtain. He offered her a new shop package to try, leaving open the possibility of treating her more fully later.

• Chen Ping explained the causes of Evil Fire and advised Ma Xiao Tao to use honeysuckle and chrysanthemum remedies and control her anger.
• Chen Ping asked Su Xiang to add an iced-tea, cold-compress, and foot-soak package to the shop's services for 188 Gold Soul Coins per session.
• Chen Ping listed rare ingredients that could suppress or purify Ma Xiao Tao's Evil Fire, but she had no access to them.
• Chen Ping encouraged Ma Xiao Tao to try his new package the next day, while planning to profit from a longer-term deal.

Class Nine continued winning through its superior stamina, and Chen Ping's team entered the sixth round as the seeded team in Thirty-Third District. Chen Ping's group faced Huang Chutian's Team, whose Martial Soul Fusion Skill he intended to counter by keeping the three teammates apart, and the match began with Huang Chutian transforming and the Lan sisters preparing their hair.

• Class Nine's students used their extra stamina to earn victories, while no Class Nine team had been eliminated after losing all five rounds.
• Teacher Wang Yan announced that Chen Ping's team would face Huang Chutian's Team in the first match of the sixth round.
• Chen Ping reminded Ning Tian and Wu Feng to spread out, avoid revealing their trump cards, and have Ning Tian leave the Soul Arena if the match went badly.
• Chen Ping's team and Huang Chutian's Team introduced themselves, and Chen Ping's claim that he already knew all about them made the Lan sisters suspect Huang Chutian had leaked their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• After Teacher Wang Yan started the assessment, Huang Chutian released his Martial Soul and transformed, while the Lan sisters' hair rose and unfurled above them.

Wu Feng and Chen Ping fought Huang Chutian and the Lan Sisters, who trapped Wu Feng with their Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Chen Ping used his Touch Dragon Staff to tangle the sisters’ hair and bind all three opponents, leaving Wu Feng free to knock Huang Chutian unconscious.

• Wu Feng and Chen Ping attacked Huang Chutian from both sides, and Wu Feng’s Dragon’s Fire forced the Lan Sisters to redirect their blue hair toward Chen Ping.
• Ning Tian boosted Wu Feng and Chen Ping’s speed, but the Lan Sisters joined hands and used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to trap Wu Feng in a resilient hair net.
• Chen Ping extended and spun his Touch Dragon Staff, tangling the Lan Sisters’ hair and binding them along with Huang Chutian.
• Wu Feng burned through her hair bindings and punched Huang Chutian unconscious.

Chen Ping's team defeated Huang Chutian's Team and went on to win all ten matches in the round robin, with Wu Feng named MVP. Wang Yan reported the results to Xuan Zi, who praised Chen Ping's ingenuity and questioned Wang Yan's doubts about his nephew's ability.

• Teacher Li treated Huang Chutian, who woke and exchanged bitter looks with the Lan Sisters after their Martial Soul Fusion Skill had been broken by Chen Ping's team.
• Chen Ping's team left the arena in good condition, while Huang Chutian's Team lost its second match after the other teams targeted it.
• The remaining teams avoided direct clashes with Chen Ping's team, which won its next four matches with ease.
• Chen Ping's team representing Freshman Class Nine finished the round robin with Ten Wins, and Wu Feng received the MVP award.
• Wang Yan presented Xuan Zi with a report on the students' results, and Xuan Zi praised Chen Ping's performance and defended his ability to lead Wu Feng and Ning Tian.

Elder Xuan praised Chen Ping’s martial skill and moved to keep him in the Martial Soul Department, while arranging for Chen Ping and Huo Yuhao to face each other in the tournament. The next day, Mu Jin announced that all thirty-three teams from Freshman Class Nine had advanced.

• Elder Xuan said Chen Ping’s performance had earned him a Reserve Core Disciple seat and refused to let the Soul Guidance Department claim him.
• Wang Yan told Elder Xuan that Qian Duoduo had requested Core Disciple slots for Chen Ping and Huo Yuhao.
• Elder Xuan asked Wang Yan to change the tournament format so Chen Ping and Huo Yuhao would fight, and arranged to watch the assessment.
• Mu Jin told Freshman Class Nine that all thirty-three teams had advanced after the three-month assessment.

Freshman Class Nine celebrated after all ninety-nine students passed the examinations, earning the class and Mu Jin recognition for their unprecedented results. Mu Jin warned them to prepare for the Promotion Tournament, praised Chen Ping, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng for achieving ten wins, and told Chen Ping to stay after class for a gift.

• Freshman Class Nine celebrated as Mu Jin confirmed that every student had passed and advanced in the examinations.
• Mu Jin explained that the class had set records for its full participation and pass rate, and she received public praise from the academy.
• Mu Jin urged the students to keep working hard for the Promotion Tournament and noted that twelve of the class's thirty-three teams had reached the top sixty-four.
• Mu Jin announced that Chen Ping, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng had achieved ten wins, and the class applauded them.
• Mu Jin explained the Promotion Tournament rule for undefeated teams, then summoned Chen Ping to stay after class for a gift.