Chapter Summaries

With the Final Exam approaching, the students looked for ways to earn money, and Ye Xinglan and Gu Yue resorted to robbing students at the academy gate. Xu Lizhi joined in by selling buns to a student who hoped they would help him escape, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Gu You offered to forge Spirit Metal for the others at half price, and the students dispersed to find ways to earn money for the Final Exam.
• Xu Xiaoyan went looking for someone to charm, Xie Xie set off to perform on the streets, and Tang Wulin planned to earn money by forging metal.
• Xu Lizhi sold buns at the academy gate while Ye Xinglan and Gu Yue demanded one hundred thousand Federation Coins from a returning student to let him pass.
• Ye Xinglan drew her Stargod Sword and challenged the student to fight if he refused to pay, so he reluctantly agreed to hand over the money.
• Xu Lizhi urged the student to buy Bloodthirsty Bean Paste and Agile Meat Buns to boost his strength and help him rush past the girls.

Ye Xinglan, Xu Lizhi, and Gu Yue extorted money from Xia Lekong while Gu You boarded a train for Heaven Dou City. The train was hijacked en route, and the Train Chief prepared to confront the armed criminals, who demanded the release of prisoners arrested twenty days earlier.

• Xu Lizhi's buns boosted his speed, but Ye Xinglan and the others stopped and robbed him; Ye Xinglan learned he was Xia Lekong from Second Year, Class One and promised to repay him.
• Gu You boarded a Soul Guide Train bound for Heaven Dou City, while Xu Lizhi, Ye Xinglan, and Gu Yue arrived too late and split up to travel separately.
• A staff member alerted the Train Chief that six criminals had hijacked the train with guns, a cannon, and bombs.
• The Train Chief ordered Cars Six through Sixteen detached, took a Soul Guide Handgun, and went to confront the hijackers.
• The Train Chief offered to negotiate, and the criminals demanded that the Federation release people arrested twenty days earlier.

Train Chief Mo Lan negotiated with the criminals who had taken over the train, trading herself as a hostage for the release of elderly people, women, and children. Just as a criminal fired at her, Gu You appeared and saved her, leaving both Mo Lan and the criminals stunned.

• The criminals demanded that the Federation release their captured comrades and threatened to detonate bombs planted in the first five carriages.
• Mo Lan persuaded the criminals to extend the bomb timer to one hour and agreed to become their hostage in exchange for releasing vulnerable passengers.
• The criminals released ten hostages, and Mo Lan handed over her weapon before entering Carriage Five unarmed.
• A criminal pressed a gun to Mo Lan's forehead and fired, but Gu You appeared in a flash of purple light and saved her.
• Mo Lan urged Gu You to run, but he calmly faced the criminals and called himself their daddy.

After saving Mo Lan from the hijacked train, Gu You left for Heaven Dou City to seek a strong opponent, while his rescue spread through the city. Wu Changkong came to stop Mo Wu from searching for Gu You, but an Evil Soul Master called the Plague Envoy appeared and attacked them.

• Gu You thanked Mo Lan, accepted her month-long all-Federation Soul Guide High-Speed Rail pass, and headed to the Blacksmith Association in Heaven Dou City.
• Mo Wu learned that Gu You had saved Mo Lan and discovered that the young man came from Shrek Academy.
• Wu Changkong appeared before Mo Wu and told him not to search for Gu You.
• Wu Changkong sensed a hidden intruder and pulled Mo Wu away from the corner where the Plague Envoy emerged.
• The Plague Envoy revealed himself as a seven-ring Evil Soul Master and spread green plague mist through the room.
• Wu Changkong fought back with his Frost Sword, but the Plague Envoy unleashed a burst of green light that threatened Mo Wu.

Wu Changkong rescued Mo Wu from an Evil Soul Master in Heaven Dou City, while Gu You attended Zhen Hua’s lecture on alloy forging at the Blacksmith Association. Zhen Hua began explaining a technique to make alloy forging easier and more successful.

• Wu Changkong struck down the room with Frost-Ice Whisper, but the Evil Soul Master escaped through a hole in the ground.
• Heaven Dou City’s mecha guards surrounded Wu Changkong, and Mo Wu identified him as a Shrek Academy teacher who had rescued him.
• Wu Changkong recognized the attacker as an Evil Soul Master and decided the incident had to be reported to Shrek Academy.
• Zhen Hua invited Gu You to join him, and they went to the Blacksmith Association’s first-floor hall for the president’s lecture.
• Zhen Hua explained a method of selecting a medium to help different metals fuse during alloy forging.

Gu You demonstrated his fusion-forging skill for the blacksmiths gathered to hear Zhen Hua’s lecture, producing sacred-grade Jade Silver whose fusion gained spirit. Afterward, he shared a lavish meal with Zhen Hua, and the chapter left the chef studying Gu You after he ate six Crimson Jade Shrimp without any apparent reaction.

• Zhen Hua introduced Gu You as his disciple and sent him to answer the audience’s questions with a demonstration.
• Gu You used twin hammers to forge Jade Silver to sacred-grade Thousand Forgings, then fusion-forged it until it gained spirit.
• The audience applauded Gu You’s work, and he left with Zhen Hua for a meal.
• Zhen Hua and Gu You ate rare dishes, including Thousand-Year Earth Dragon Tendon and Moonlight Rice.
• The chef served Gu You six Crimson Jade Shrimp, but Gu You showed no unusual reaction after eating them.

Gu You entered the Blacksmith Association’s Void Breaking Domain with Zhen Hua to spar against Xie Yinling, an eighty-third-level Soul Douluo. Gu You trapped Xie Yinling with Dragon God's Grip, but Xie Yinling revealed his Two-Word Battle Armor as the fight continued.

• Zhen Hua explained that the Void Breaking Domain stored the Blacksmith Association’s treasures and hosted confidential discussions, then brought Gu You inside.
• Zhen Hua introduced Gu You to Xie Yinling, a twenty-two-year-old Soul Douluo with a Divine Eagle Martial Soul.
• Xie Yinling released eight Soul Rings, while Gu You answered with five unusual Blood Essence Soul Rings.
• Gu You leaped toward Xie Yinling, who took flight, but Dragon God's Grip appeared behind him and trapped him.
• Xie Yinling called out Mighty Eagle and revealed that he wore Two-Word Battle Armor.

Gu You defeated Xie Yinling in a brief battle, then joined his companions and Wu Changkong for their final exam. At the Heaven Dou City Spirit Pagoda, Gu Yue learned that the organization would not help with their request, leaving the group to handle the matter themselves.

• Gu You used his battle armor to overpower Xie Yinling and ended their match by severing his connection to his armor.
• Zhen Hua praised Gu You, gave him a card and a storage ring containing rare metals and fusion-forging medium, and left with him.
• Wu Changkong told Gu You that Evil Soul Masters had arranged the high-speed rail attack and that he would accompany the team during their final exam.
• Gu You reunited with Gu Yue and the others, and they headed to the Heaven Dou City Spirit Pagoda after Gu Yue said it was their next destination.
• Xu Lizhi learned that Gu You had eaten Crimson Jade Shrimp from the Blood Sea Trench and lamented that he had never tasted it.
• A Spirit Pagoda representative told Gu Yue that the organization would not help with her request, citing its rules and Heavenly Phoenix Douluo's instruction.

Gu Yue and her companions challenged Sun Runyu outside the Heaven Dou Spirit Pagoda and swiftly overwhelmed the five-ring Soul King. Gu You paid Sun Runyu off, but Gu Yue expected the Spirit Pagoda’s enforcement team to arrive soon.

• Sun Runyu left the Heaven Dou Spirit Pagoda delighted with his new Soul Spirit and increased strength.
• Gu Yue’s group confronted Sun Runyu, and Ye Xinglan attacked after Gu Yue ordered the others to fight.
• Gu Yue’s Elemental Tide disrupted Sun Runyu’s water-based attacks while the group coordinated their assault.
• Xu Xiaoyan’s Starlight Chains immobilized Sun Runyu as Ye Xinglan and another companion held weapons at him.
• Gu You apologized and gave Sun Runyu Thousand Refinement metal, but Ye Xinglan objected that it was not enough for the group.
• Gu Yue warned that the Spirit Pagoda’s enforcement team would soon arrive and began to consider how to deal with them.

Gu You and his companions clashed with a Spirit Pagoda law enforcement squad after Soul Power use triggered an alarm. Gu You fled to draw away the purple mecha while the others attacked the two yellow mecha, and the Spirit Pagoda alarms sounded as Ye Xinglan unleashed a powerful strike.

• Three law enforcement mecha arrived at the Heaven Dou Spirit Pagoda, including a purple personal mecha and two yellow mecha.
• Ye Xinglan blamed Gu You for the alarm, and the officer ordered him to come with them.
• Gu You pretended to fear a fine, then spread his Dragon Wings and fled toward Ye Xinglan, drawing the purple mecha after him.
• Ye Xinglan attacked one yellow mecha while Gu Yue sent a fireball at the other, and Xie Xie vanished as Xu Xiaoyan formed an ice spear.
• Ye Xinglan destroyed the yellow mecha's right arm with her Stargod Sword and unleashed her third Soul Skill, setting off alarms at the Spirit Pagoda.

Gu You and the others defeated three Spirit Pagoda mechas, passed their trial, and fled as the city went on high alert after a terrorist attack. With the train station closed, the group escaped by car while Spirit Pagoda officials tried to suppress the incident and discussed the youths’ examination across ten cities.

• Gu Yue and the others disabled the three mechas, then fled when more Spirit Pagoda personnel arrived.
• Wu Changkong met the group at a beverage shop and confirmed that they had passed the trial.
• The group changed into local clothes, but found the Soul Guide Train station closed because of the terrorist attack.
• Gu You drove a Soul Guidance Automobile away from the station with Xie Xie teaching him as they went.
• The Spirit Pagoda’s officials reviewed the battle, reprimanded the enforcement brigade, and decided to keep the incident quiet.
• Gu You asked his companions to talk about their wishes, inviting Ye Xinglan to speak first.

Gu You and his companions traveled between cities seeking opponents for their examinations, while discussing their ambitions and the Shrek Seven Devils. After the Spirit Pagoda tracked them down and blocked the highway with mechas, Gu You told everyone not to be afraid as he drove toward the roadside barrier.

• Ye Xinglan said she wanted to remain at Shrek Academy, while Xu Xiaoyan described her wish for a quiet life and Xie Xie aimed to become one of the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Gu You drove the group to Tianling City, where they rested before searching for examination opponents.
• Gu You failed to find a Soul Sage in Tianling City, while Gu Yue and the others continued completing their examinations against Soul King opponents with One-Word Battle Armor.
• More than twenty Spirit Pagoda mechas blocked the highway, revealing that the Spirit Pagoda had found the group after five examinations.
• Gu You slammed the accelerator and steered toward the roadside barrier as the others cried out, telling them not to be afraid.

After helping the Shrek group escape Spirit Pagoda mechas, Gu You rejoined them in Tianding City and led them to challenge Tianding Starry Sky Academy’s strongest team under twenty. The crowd questioned whether they were truly from Shrek, and Gu You revealed unusual Blood Essence Soul Rings to prove his power.

• Gu You stayed behind to stop the Spirit Pagoda mechas, defeated them, tied their pilots to a tree, and caught up with the Shrek group after running nearly two hundred kilometers.
• In Tianding City, the group learned about Tianding Starry Sky Academy, a renowned school that trained flying Soul Engineers and Mecha Masters.
• Gu You and the others raised a banner outside the academy, announcing their challenge to its strongest team under twenty.
• When a young man asked Gu You to prove they were from Shrek, Gu You revealed purple-gold and purple-blue Blood Essence Soul Rings, stunning the crowd.

Gu You and the Shrek Academy students entered Tianding Soul Master Academy to find strong opponents for their trial, and director Li Zhilong agreed to arrange a team battle. They reached the Star Observation Platform and waited for their opponents, with Gu You beginning to examine its Soul Guide Array.

• Gu You showed five Blood Essence Soul Rings, startling the Tianding students, and told Li Zhilong that his group had come to fight stronger opponents as part of an academy trial.
• Li Zhilong, a former Shrek Academy outer-court student, agreed to find the strongest team under twenty for them to face.
• Gu You asked Tianding to send a Soul Sage contestant, leaving Li Zhilong stunned.
• Li Zhilong brought the group to the Star Observation Platform, where he explained how its Soul Guide Array drew stellar power for cultivation.
• The students examined the platform's rare-metal walls and immense latent energy as they waited for Tianding's team.

Gu You’s Shrek team met Tianding Starry Sky Soul Master Academy for a sparring match against Li Zhilong, an eighty-sixth-level Battle Soul Master. As the Star Observation Platform activated, Xu Xiaoyan manifested an unusually powerful response to its Star Power, and the match began.

• Li Zhilong introduced Tianding Starry Sky Soul Master Academy’s six students and revealed his level as an eighty-sixth-level Battle Soul Master, sixteen levels above Gu You.
• Gu You introduced himself as a seventieth-level Battle Soul Master and assessed the opposing team’s control-type Soul Masters as a threat.
• Both teams took their starting positions, and the teachers activated the Star Observation Platform’s barrier, filling the arena with starry energy that boosted the Tianding students.
• Xu Xiaoyan became surrounded by dense golden mist as she absorbed Star Power, astonishing Li Zhilong.
• The referee started the match, and three Shrek students charged forward at high speed.

Gu You’s team fought Li Zhilong and the students of Tianding Starry Sky Soul Master Academy, and Gu You’s Purple Gold Annihilation Kill defeated the six students. As Li Zhilong unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar, Xuan Shi intervened, and Gu You transformed into his Purple Emperor True Body and attacked Li Zhilong.

• Xiao Tiantian and the other Tianding students took to the air while Li Zhilong revealed eight black Soul Rings and swept the arena with stardust.
• Gu You ordered his companions off the stage, then struck the Tianding students with Purple Gold Annihilation Kill, leaving them and Li Zhilong injured.
• Li Zhilong activated his Martial Soul Avatar, and the referee called for the match to stop as the arena shook.
• Xuan Shi appeared and watched as Gu You transformed into his Purple Emperor True Body and charged Li Zhilong before he could use his Battle Armor.
• Gu You’s Dragon God's Grip emerged as he continued fighting Li Zhilong’s stardust-formed true body.

Gu You defeated Li Zhilong, while Xu Xiaoyan underwent a strange transformation after absorbing the Star Observation Platform’s stellar power. As the group reached their final assessment stop at Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy in Mingdu, Wu Changkong promised bonus points if they won.

• Gu You used his fourth Blood Essence Soul Ring to survive Li Zhilong’s Star Dust Blast, then broke through Li Zhilong’s defense and sent him crashing into Xuan Shi’s barrier.
• Xu Xiaoyan absorbed the Star Observation Platform’s stellar power for over an hour, and her Star Wheel Ice Staff turned gold as 365 points of light appeared on her body.
• The group chose Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy for their final assessment despite its hostility toward Shrek Academy.
• Wu Changkong offered the six others full marks and ten extra points each if Gu You won, and Gu You immediately accepted.
• Gu You and the others entered Mingdu, where Xu Xiaoyan spotted high-altitude flying cars and dozens of mechas patrolling near the highway exit.

Gu You and the others fled an identity check, followed Wu Changkong through Mingdu, and watched him challenge the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy. The academy accepted the challenge and asked the group to state their ages, leaving Gu You to explain that he was a special case.

• Gu You ordered the group to abandon their vehicle and flee when they feared a highway identity check, and they boarded a bus into Mingdu.
• The group followed Wu Changkong across several buses and arrived at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.
• Wu Changkong used a loudspeaker to challenge the academy's strongest members under twenty on behalf of the six Shrek students.
• A blond middle-aged man accepted the challenge and led the group into the academy, where he said they would not take advantage of the visitors' ages.
• Gu You said the others averaged fourteen, and when the man asked his age, Gu You began explaining that he was special.

Gu You’s challenge to Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy became a Union-wide spectacle, and Shrek Academy’s team prepared to compete in the academy’s Great Soul Arena. The chapter left them entering the packed stadium as the match was about to begin.

• Gu You requested a separate match against a Soul Douluo-level Soul Master, and Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy publicized the contest across the Union as the Soul Master World's Youth Summit Battle.
• Wu Changkong told Shen Yi he had helped escalate the challenge, and Shen Yi and the academy’s higher-ups urged him to ensure Shrek’s team won.
• After waiting two hours, Gu Yue led the team toward the match while Gu You said he would appear in the decisive second match.
• The team saw an ancient mural depicting a Shrek Academy youth among people in old Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy uniforms.
• Gu Yue sealed the team inside an ice barrier to block the hostile crowd’s noise, then let it melt when they were called to enter.
• The team stepped into the enormous Great Soul Arena, where tens of thousands of spectators awaited the match.

The Shrek group defeated Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy in a public match, with Gu Yue turning the first bout around and Gu You’s overwhelming Soul Rings forcing his opponent to withdraw. After celebrating and preparing to part for the holiday, Gu You booked a trip to Heaven Dou City to attend a once-in-a-thousand-years auction.

• The Shrek group entered the Great Soul Arena and faced Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy under rules that allowed the referee to intervene only when a contestant risked severe harm or death.
• Long Chen revealed his Light Holy Dragon Martial Soul and powerful Soul Rings as the first match began.
• Gu Yue fused seven elements through the Elemental Heart and unleashed a nuclear-like blast, securing victory for Shrek and seriously injuring the opposing students.
• Gu You faced Long Batian, whose Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul and level seventy-five cultivation could not overcome Gu You’s intimidating Soul Rings, and Long Batian withdrew.
• The Shrek group escaped the crowds with Gu Yue’s Spatial Teleportation, celebrated their victory, and discussed their coming holiday separation.
• Gu You booked a ticket to Heaven Dou City for a grand auction and returned to Shrek Academy to hear the end-of-semester graduation address.