Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong defeated Ning Tian’s team and advanced to the Finals, while Xuan Zi assigned Huo Yuhao to the Soul Engineer Department as a Core Disciple. After the match, Chen Junting hinted to Ning Tian that Wang Dong might be a girl, leaving her intrigued.

• Ning Tian escaped the Golden Path with her Tearing Wind Wings, but Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Dugu Xin overwhelmed her, sending the Huo Yuhao Team to the Finals.
• Qian Duoduo feared losing Huo Yuhao to the Martial Soul Department, but Xuan Zi agreed to let him join the Soul Engineer Department.
• Yan Shaozhe removed Huo Yuhao’s Martial Soul Department Core Disciple and Reserve Core Disciple status, and Du Weilun arranged for him to become a Soul Engineer Department Core Disciple.
• Ning Tian admitted defeat to Wu Feng and praised Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, while Chen Junting comforted her after the match.
• Ning Tian regretted that Wang Dong had joined the Tang Sect, and Chen Junting asked her to consider what if Wang Dong were a girl.

Chen Junting revealed to Ning Tian that Wang Dong was actually Wang Dong'er, then helped prepare her team for the Freshman Assessment final. After Ning Tian’s team defeated the injured Dai Huabin Team for third place, Chen Junting and Huo Yuhao’s teams entered the arena for the final.

• Chen Junting showed Ning Tian a book describing the Light Goddess Butterfly Martial Soul, and she realized Wang Dong was a girl named Wang Dong'er.
• Chen Junting told Ning Tian to keep Wang Dong'er's secret, and Ning Tian agreed before riding on his back as they hurried to the cafeteria.
• Mu Jin praised Class Nine, and Chen Junting told Ning Tian that Dai Huabin's team was injured and could not reuse its Martial Soul Fusion Skill soon.
• Huo Yuhao worried that his team had no way to challenge Chen Junting after using its Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but Chen Junting urged them to fight rather than give up.
• Wu Feng and Ning Tian defeated the injured Dai Huabin Team to claim third place in the Freshman Assessment.
• Chen Junting, Qin Lan, and Gao Ming faced Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Dugu Xin in the final, whose rules allowed unrestricted attacks within the arena.

Huo Yuhao’s team fought Chen Junting’s team, but Chen Junting’s swordsmanship countered their opening tactics and revealed his Body-Sword Unity. With their Martial Soul Fusion Skill still recovering, Huo Yuhao asked the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to help him and Wang Dong form it again, intending to admit defeat afterward; the chapter ended as their combined attack struck Chen Junting’s Kill Character.

• Chen Junting’s Sword Momentum disrupted Wang Dong and shattered Huo Yuhao’s Soul Shock, while Gao Ming empowered Chen Junting and Qin Lan with the Ruyi Plate’s lights.
• Qin Lan attacked Wang Dong, who revealed her Clear Sky Hammer and used it to escape their assault; Chen Junting’s sword then shattered the thrown hammer into black light.
• Xin filled the arena with black mist as Huo Yuhao’s team continued its plan, but Chen Junting countered Wang Dong’s attacks and revealed Body-Sword Unity.
• Chen Junting sent six sword beams wrapped in black mist and poison toward Huo Yuhao’s team, prompting Huo Yuhao to ask Wang Dong to trust him.
• Huo Yuhao asked the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to help him and Wang Dong restore their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, promising to admit defeat after using it.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong formed a huge, dazzling eye that fired a two-colored beam at Chen Junting’s Kill Character.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong lost their assessment match to Chen Junting, but Freshman Class Nine claimed all three top spots and celebrated together. At dinner, Mu Jin announced that the students would become Core Disciples or reserves, while Huo Yuhao had been transferred to the Soul Engineer Department as a Core Disciple.

• Chen Junting avoided Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’s Golden Path attack, and Huo Yuhao surrendered before the referee declared Chen Junting’s team victorious.
• Chen Junting comforted Huo Yuhao after the match, and Mu Jin celebrated Class Nine’s sweep of the top three spots by taking the students to dinner.
• At the hotel, Wang Dong asked Huo Yuhao how she had bypassed the Martial Soul Fusion Skill’s cooldown, but Mu Jin announced that all nine students would become Core Disciples or reserves.
• Mu Jin explained that Huo Yuhao had instead been transferred to the Soul Engineer Department as a Core Disciple and could still study with the Martial Soul Department.
• After dinner, Mu Jin learned that someone had already paid the bill and decided to find Chen Junting and Ning Tian to give them an item.

Shrek Academy announced the Freshman Assessment results, rewards, and Core Disciple selections before assigning the freshmen to classes. Huo Yuhao became a Soul Engineer Department Core Disciple, while Dugu Xin’s status remained unexplained as the ceremony ended with the class assignments.

• Du Weilun announced Ning Tian’s team in third place, Wang Dong’s team in second, and Chen Junting’s team as the undefeated champions, awarding each top-three team assistance in obtaining a suitable soul ring and Chen Junting’s team an additional confidential reward.
• Du Weilun named Chen Junting, Wang Dong, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng as Martial Soul Department Core Disciples, while Qin Lan, Gao Ming, Nanmen Yuner, Dai Huabin, and Zhu Lu received Reserve Core Disciple status.
• Chen Junting and his friends worried when Dugu Xin’s name appeared on neither list, but Dugu Xin said he had already spoken privately with the academy and pointed out that Fan Yu was preparing an announcement for Huo Yuhao.
• Fan Yu announced that Huo Yuhao had become an Outer Academy Soul Engineer Department Core Disciple while remaining in the Martial Soul Department, stunning the crowd and humiliating Dai Huabin.
• Shrek Academy divided the freshmen into four classes, with Mu Jin and Wang Yan assigned to teach Class One.

After receiving Shrek Academy’s Freshman Assessment reward, Chen Junting gave the Soul Bones to Qin Lan and Gao Ming, judging each one suited them better than him. The two accepted his invitation to join the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, advancing his goal of recruiting them.

• Du Weilun gave Chen Junting, Qin Lan, and Gao Ming an eight-thousand-year Ethereal Demonic Leopard Left Leg Soul Bone as their team reward.
• Chen Junting gave the Soul Bone to Qin Lan, explaining that Qin Lan’s Ethereal Ghost Leopard Martial Soul made him the best match for it.
• Chen Junting gave Gao Ming a Secret Method Soul Right Leg Bone that Mu Jin had entrusted to him and Ning Tian.
• Gao Ming asked whether an Auxiliary Soul Master could join the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and Qin Lan showed that he shared the interest.
• Chen Junting welcomed both of them into the sect, and Qin Lan and Gao Ming agreed to join.

Chen Junting became Class One’s Assault System Class Monitor and learned that Dugu Xin planned to leave school after first year. Later, Chen Junting told Ning Tian he had decided to help Dugu Xin, and she agreed he should give him the means to do so before the holiday.

• After Qin Lan left to absorb his Soul Bone, Chen Junting requested leave for him and went to Class One.
• Wang Yan held the Assault System Class Monitor election, and Chen Junting won by a wide margin over Dai Huabin.
• Chen Junting accepted the position but told Cao Jinxuan to handle class matters, planning to be a hands-off manager.
• That evening, Dugu Xin told the group he would withdraw from school after first year, leaving Huo Yuhao and the others without an explanation.
• On the walk back, Chen Junting told Ning Tian he had decided to help Dugu Xin, and she urged him to give him the help before the holiday.

Chen Junting spent months studying formations and finally created the Gathering Yuan Formation with Electrolux’s guidance. The formation gathered primordial qi within a small area, and Dugu Xin noticed its effect.

• Chen Junting trained and studied while handling his class monitor duties, and Huo Yuhao continued his studies in both academy departments.
• After seven months, Chen Junting attempted to inscribe a formation with his Seven Kills Sword as Electrolux guided him and Dugu Xin watched.
• When the nearly completed Formation Diagram began to tremble, Chen Junting reinforced it with more runes until it stabilized.
• Electrolux congratulated Chen Junting on creating his first formation, the Gathering Yuan Formation, which doubled the primordial qi within a one-meter radius.
• Dugu Xin stepped into the formation, sensed the denser qi, and asked Chen Junting what he had been working on.

Chen Junting tested the Gathering Yuan Formation with Electrolux’s help and used it to break through to Rank 40. He also learned why Huo Yuhao’s Soul Hunting Application remained unapproved and considered ways to make the formation easier to use.

• Chen Junting explained that he had developed the Gathering Yuan Formation after studying the Core Soul Guidance Array, and asked Dugu Xin to keep it secret.
• Electrolux explained that he had prolonged the formation’s duration, then demonstrated a more stable version and said Chen Junting’s cultivation and spiritual power were not yet strong enough to sustain it.
• Chen Junting used the Gathering Yuan Formation with his Mimicry Training Soul Tool and broke through to Rank 40 overnight.
• Chen Junting learned that the academy was delaying Huo Yuhao’s Soul Hunting Application until enough people could form a team, and considered inscribing the formation onto metal to make it easier to deploy.
• Chen Junting noticed Wu Feng had reached Rank 30, and she confirmed she would apply to go soul hunting.

Chen Junting and Wu Feng applied to join a Soul Hunt after reaching ranks 40 and 30, and Chen Junting requested rare, dangerous soul beasts for his rings. Yan Shaozhe approved the hunt and supplied a map for finding a Golden Demon Bird, leaving the pair to prepare for a team expedition the next day.

• Chen Junting and Wu Feng visited Mu Jin, who confirmed their Soul Power ranks and approved their Soul Hunt applications.
• Chen Junting told Du Weilun that he wanted a Ten-Thousand-Year Dark Golden Claw Bear or an Emerald Demon Bird for his fourth soul ring, while Wu Feng requested a fire-attribute Sub-Dragon Species.
• Du Weilun warned Chen Junting about the Emerald Demon Bird's rarity and danger, then agreed to lead the team and consulted Yan Shaozhe.
• Yan Shaozhe honored the academy's promise, showed Du Weilun a map and information about the Golden Demon Bird, and assigned Zhao Gang to join the operation.
• Du Weilun told Chen Junting and Wu Feng to prepare for a Soul Hunt the next day with Huo Yhao and two Martial Soul Department seniors.

Chen Junting, Wu Feng, and Huo Yuhao joined the Shrek Outer Academy Soul Hunt Operation, where the group gathered with Beibei, Xu Sanshi, and He Caitou. As Du Weilun and Zhao Gang prepared to lead them into the Star Dou Forest, Wang Yan warned them about the dangers and Chen Junting discussed Huo Yuhao’s recommended Soul Beasts.

• Wang Yan asked Chen Junting, Wu Feng, and Huo Yuhao to stay after class, and Huo Yuhao told Chen Junting that he was already a first-and-a-half-rank Soul Engineer.
• Chen Junting explained that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had studied Huo Yuhao’s profile and recommended the Illusion Butterfly for his Second Soul Skill.
• Wang Yan led the three students to Shrek Plaza and warned them that Chen Junting’s planned hunts involved super Soul Beasts at least ten thousand years old.
• Xu Sanshi and Beibei welcomed Chen Junting, Wu Feng, and Huo Yuhao, and they became acquainted with He Caitou.
• Du Weilun arrived with Zhao Gang to lead the Soul Hunt Operation, while Huo Yuhao wondered whether he could visit the Far North Land during the holidays.

Chen Junting and the Shrek Academy students entered Star Dou Forest to hunt for Soul Rings, with Huo Yuhao insisting he could absorb a thousand-year Soul Ring despite Zhao Gang's warnings. After the group entered the Mixed Zone, a Netherworld Wolf Pack ambushed them, and they prepared to let Huo Yuhao absorb the pack's leader.

• Du Weilun led the group toward Star Dou Forest, and Zhao Gang warned them to rest before entering the forest the next morning.
• The group discussed their Soul Ring requirements, and Chen Junting named a Golden Demon Bird between ten thousand and twenty thousand years old as his target.
• Beibei assigned scouting and defensive roles as the group traveled through the Outer Zone and entered the dark Mixed Zone.
• Huo Yuhao detected a Netherworld Wolf Pack preparing an ambush and asked to absorb the thousand-year pack leader's Soul Ring.
• Chen Junting supported Huo Yuhao's decision, and Zhao Gang reluctantly agreed to let him try while the teachers stayed ready to intervene.

Huo Yuhao and the others ambushed a Netherworld Wolf Pack and fought its five-thousand-year Blazing Netherworld Wolf. The pack fled after suffering heavy losses, leaving its wounded leader behind, but an unknown figure approached before He Caitou could finish it off.

• Huo Yuhao shared his Spiritual Detection with the group as Chen Junting prepared them for the Netherworld Wolf Pack’s ambush.
• Xu Sanshi formed a shield barrier while He Caitou unleashed a barrage of Soul Guidance Cannons, devastating the wolves.
• The Blazing Netherworld Wolf rallied the survivors, and Chen Junting identified it as a suitable Soul Beast for He Caitou.
• Beibei and Chen Junting attacked the pack, but the Blazing Netherworld Wolf tried to flee and then unleashed a wave of fire.
• Xu Sanshi extinguished the flames with his Power of Profound Nether, leaving the wounded wolf king behind as the rest of the pack escaped.
• As Chen Junting prepared to have He Caitou kill the Blazing Netherworld Wolf, Huo Yuhao detected someone approaching.

Chen Junting and the others defeated a pair of Twin Soul Beasts, then Beibei and Wu Feng absorbed their Soul Rings. Wu Feng survived the over-limit Soul Ring, and the chapter ended with Chen Junting enclosing her in a wooden cage after she woke and discovered her clothes were missing.

• Chen Junting identified the attackers as the Twin Soul Beasts Blazing Fire Dragon and Electric Light Thunder Dragon, whose Soul Rings suited Beibei and Wu Feng.
• Chen Junting, Huo Yuhao, Xu Sanshi, He Caitou, and Beibei attacked the dragons, but the beasts joined forces and unleashed their Twin Combination Skill, Flame Thunder Explosive Vortex.
• Chen Junting combined Sword Qi with Beibei's lightning and Wu Feng's flames to break the vortex and defeat both dragons, allowing Beibei and Wu Feng to obtain purple Soul Rings.
• Beibei finished absorbing his Soul Ring and advanced to Rank 41, while Wu Feng endured the violent energy of the Blazing Fire Dragon's over-limit Soul Ring.
• After Wu Feng's aura settled, Chen Junting enclosed her in a wooden cage and told Huo Yuhao not to use Spiritual Detection; Wu Feng then woke and demanded to know where her clothes had gone.

While searching the Star Dou Forest for the Golden Demon Bird, Chen Junting’s group discussed what made a Soul Master evil and decided to seek other Soul Rings before resuming the search. On the ninth day, they found several dead Evil Soul Masters, and Du Weilun went to investigate the signs of a nearby fight.

• After several days without finding the Golden Demon Bird, Chen Junting proposed finding Soul Rings for Xu Sanshi and Huo Yuhao first, then returning to the search or hunting a Dark Golden Claw Bear.
• Huo Yuhao asked what qualified a Soul Master as an Evil Soul Master, and Beibei argued that evil conduct and cultivation methods—not a Martial Soul alone—defined one.
• Xu Sanshi raised the Bone Dragon Martial Soul as an example, prompting Chen Junting to explain why labeling a Martial Soul evil did not automatically make its user an Evil Soul Master.
• On the ninth day, Du Weilun and Zhao Gang sensed a faint sinister aura in a darker part of the forest, and Du Weilun hurried ahead to investigate.
• The group found several corpses of Evil Soul Masters scattered near signs of a fight, and Du Weilun examined them while Zhao Gang guarded the others.

Du Weilun and the students encountered the Golden Demon Bird that had killed the Evil Soul Masters, then subdued it and let Chen Junting absorb its ten-thousand-year Soul Ring. Chen Junting survived the Soul Shock, reached level 42, and became a Soul Ancestor.

• Du Weilun found the Evil Soul Masters dead with their brains devoured, suspected a Golden Demon Bird, and returned to regroup with the students.
• Chen Junting deduced that a fast-flying Soul Beast had killed the Evil Soul Masters, and Du Weilun led everyone to investigate the bodies.
• The Golden Demon Bird ambushed Du Weilun, then attacked Huo Yuhao, but Zhao Gang slowed it with his gravity skills and Du Weilun knocked it unconscious.
• Chen Junting absorbed the Golden Demon Bird's ten-thousand-year Soul Ring and withstood its Soul Shock.
• Chen Junting completed the absorption, gained a fourth Soul Ring, and advanced to level 42 as a Soul Ancestor.

In the Sea of Spirit, Electrolux guided Chen Junting to reconsider how Soul Rings and soul skills were formed, drawing connections to patterns, arrays, and Soul Tools. Chen Junting understood that this insight could broaden his future research, though Electrolux left him to explore the idea through experience.

• Electrolux pulled Chen Junting into the Sea of Spirit after he absorbed a Soul Ring and asked how Chen Junting believed Soul Rings were formed.
• Chen Junting proposed that Soul Power, Bloodline Power, and mental power combined to create Soul Rings and grant soul skills.
• Electrolux showed Chen Junting a Soul Ring he had carved from Gold of Life energy using mental power and Magic Rune patterns, then explained that Soul Beast rings carried life imprints while other kinds could have different origins.
• Electrolux prompted Chen Junting to consider patterns in Soul Rings, Soul Bones, and the world’s rules, and Chen Junting realized patterns could underlie soul skills just as they did Soul Tools.
• Chen Junting concluded that his future study of arrays could include Soul Rings and Soul Bones, and imagined that the same approach might make Artificial Soul Rings and Artificial Soul Bones possible.

After waking from absorbing his ten-thousand-year soul ring, Chen Junting joined the search of the nine Evil Soul Masters’ corpses and found damaged drawings that appeared to depict a Core Soul Guidance Array. Du Weilun collected the drawings and evidence for the academy, leaving the group to burn the corpses while the drawing’s purpose remained unknown.

• Chen Junting woke after worrying Wu Feng, Huo Yuhao, Du Weilun, and the others, then revealed his black ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring to Wu Feng.
• Du Weilun ordered the students to search the nine Evil Soul Masters’ corpses carefully and preserve their belongings for investigation.
• Chen Junting found a damaged drawing made from Millennium Ice Silkworm Silk, and Huo Yuhao examined it but could not identify its pattern.
• Wu Feng found a matching piece, and Chen Junting fitted the two drawings together to reveal a circular pattern that he memorized.
• Du Weilun collected the drawings and Storage Soul Tools, then ordered Wu Feng to burn the corpses.

Chen Junting and the others returned to Shrek Academy after completing their soul hunt, and the students canceled their leave before splitting up. Back at his dorm, Chen Junting studied a strange pattern from a blueprint until Mu Jin invited him to lunch, leaving his work interrupted.

• After finding the Golden Demon Bird and dealing with the Evil Soul Masters, Du Weilun led the group back to Shrek Academy, where Xu Sanshi and Huo Yuhao had obtained suitable soul rings.
• Du Weilun told the students to cancel their leave and resume classes that afternoon, then hurried away with Zhao Gang to report the Evil Soul Masters matter.
• Ning Tian congratulated the students on their breakthroughs and processed their leave cancellations, after which they separated for their departments and dormitories.
• Chen Junting copied a pattern from the tattered blueprint and asked Electrolux whether it was dangerous; Electrolux told him to try it without worry.
• Mu Jin arrived at Chen Junting's dorm, invited him to lunch in Huo Yuhao City, and watched as he put the blueprint away before they left together.

Yan Shaozhe pieced together the Evil Soul Masters’ drawings, but the final sheet exploded, deepening the academy’s concern about the threat they posed. By Sea God Lake, Ning Tian arranged a farewell banquet for Zhao Gangxin, where Chen Junting realized she had a plan concerning his withdrawal and Soul Bone.

• Yan Shaozhe studied the damaged drawings and told Du Weilun and Zhao Gang to record the patterns he reconstructed for Qian Duoduo.
• The final drawing exploded when Yan Shaozhe pieced it together, and Du Weilun took the recorded patterns to bring before the academy’s Senior Elders.
• Ning Tian told Chen Junting she wanted to hold a farewell banquet for Zhao Gangxin before the academy vacation began.
• Chen Junting agreed to a small gathering, and Ning Tian offered Zhao Gangxin the support of the Four Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• At the banquet, Zhao Gangxin drank with the others while Wu Feng drunkenly complained about his decision to withdraw from school.