Chapter Summaries

Qin Ze explained that Shrek Academy planned to share the method for condensing soul rings with the continent’s major powers, and Ning Guanqing agreed to visit Shrek Academy for the discussion. Qin Ze then used Myriad Things Return to Spring at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, leaving its training grounds renewed and their World Origin Energy greatly increased.

• Qin Ze told Ning Guanqing that Shrek Academy intended to share its soul-ring-condensing method with the continent’s sects and royal families.
• Ning Guanqing decided to travel to Shrek Academy in four months, while recognizing that soul-beast protections would be needed.
• Qin Ze proposed using Azure Dragon Power to increase the World Origin Energy within the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and Ning Guanqing agreed.
• Qin Ze demonstrated Myriad Things Return to Spring at the sect’s Mimicry Training Ground as more than a thousand young disciples watched.
• Qin Ze’s life-giving rain nourished the plants, increased the region’s World Origin Energy, and made their souls feel gratitude toward him.

Qin Ze returned to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and transformed its Mimicry Training Ground, greatly improving the disciples’ cultivation. After reuniting with his friends and joining Ning Guanqing’s family for dinner, Wang Dong’er felt down while hearing about Ning Tian’s happy childhood.

• Qin Ze enhanced the Mimicry Training Ground, and the disciples discovered their cultivation had become much faster.
• The sect announced Qin Ze’s return, while Xiao Kuangdao explained that he had hung Qin Ze’s portrait in the mission hall and started a discussion with Ning Guanqing about serious matters.
• Qin Ze visited Ning Tian’s room, found a note saying Di Yue Li and the others had gone shopping, and later saw them return with many new clothes.
• Ning Tian invited Qin Ze and the others to eat at her parents’ courtyard, where Ning Guanqing and Bai Yuli were preparing dinner.
• Wang Dong’er asked whether Ning Tian’s parents cooked for themselves, and Ning Tian described their happy family traditions; Wang Dong’er looked down, so Ning Tian linked arms with her and offered to show her the garden.

During a visit to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, Qin Ze asked Ning Tian to help him prepare roses so he could confess to Di Yue Li at the Sea God's Affinity Blind Date. After returning to Shrek Academy, he resumed cultivation and monitored the political turmoil surrounding Xu Tianran and Ju Zi.

• Qin Ze privately asked Ning Tian to help him get roses for his planned confession to Di Yue Li, and Wang Dong'er asked how he would arrange them.
• Ning Guanqing and Bai Yuli hosted the group for dinner, where Xiao Kuangdao and Zhang Shengtian challenged each other to drink and Qin Ze ended up washing the dishes.
• Qin Ze and his companions spent about twenty days at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, then returned to Shrek Academy shortly before school started.
• Wang Dong'er returned to wearing women's clothes, surprising Bei Bei and the others, while Qin Ze and Xu San Shi asked Bei Bei for advice on confessing to the girls they liked.
• Qin Ze followed events on the continent and noted that the duchy that had pursued Ju Zi was destroyed, Zhao Yang was killed, and Xu Tianran's political offensive intensified after Ju Zi was badly injured.

Qin Ze warned the Sea God Pavilion that Mingde Hall was cooperating with Evil Soul Masters and that Long Xiaoyao and Zhang Peng might appear when Shrek’s exchange students returned. Mu En decided to accompany Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er despite the danger to his health, while Xuan Zi planned to follow secretly.

• Qian Duoduo agreed to make Qin Ze a rapid-fire shell launcher and brought him to a Sea God Pavilion meeting about the self-condensation method.
• Mu En proposed sending Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er to bring Shrek’s exchange students home, and Qin Ze warned that Mingde Hall could use Evil Soul Masters to attack them.
• Qin Ze said his Power of Destiny had shown him Long Xiaoyao and another figure resembling Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng in a glimpse of the future.
• Mu En decided that he, Yan Shaozhe, and Xian Lin'er would go retrieve the students in three days, despite Qin Ze’s warning that a fight could trigger the baleful energy in Mu En’s body.
• Xuan Zi agreed to Mu En’s plan but privately resolved to follow him with Elder Song and Elder Lin.

Mu En and the Senior Elders agreed to let young disciples from visiting factions join the Sea God's Affinity Blind Date, while Qin Ze prepared roses for the gathering. Xu San Shi realized he had little time to plan a confession for Jiang Nan Nan and turned to Xiao Ya for advice, dismissing Bei Bei’s help.

• Mu En proposed holding the faction discussion after the Sea God's Affinity Blind Date, and Qin Ze suggested inviting young women from visiting factions to participate.
• Yan Shaozhe, Qian Duoduo, and the Senior Elders supported Qin Ze’s idea, and Mu En decided that young men and women from all factions could join.
• Qin Ze collected a garden full of roses from Wu Qingyang at the Nine Treasures Auction House.
• Bei Bei and Xu San Shi helped Qin Ze place rose petals into ice-blue spheres, which Qin Ze stored in spatial rings.
• Xu San Shi worried that he had not prepared a confession for Jiang Nan Nan, then decided to ask Xiao Ya for advice and told Bei Bei he was useless now.

Qin Ze and the others welcomed He Caitou and the exchange students back to Shrek Academy, where He Caitou reunited with his friends and confronted his roommate Pu Xuan. Meanwhile, Mu En returned with Huo Yu Hao and the others after meeting Long Xiaoyao, troubled by their conversation.

• Qin Ze collected the special Soul Tool Shell Launcher from Qian Duoduo, and they went to the academy gate to await Fan Yu and the returning exchange students.
• Qian Duoduo welcomed Fan Yu and the students back, while He Caitou reunited with Bei Bei, Xu San Shi, and Qin Ze over cigars and a meal.
• Bei Bei asked He Caitou whether he liked anyone, and He Caitou returned to his dorm to ask Pu Xuan if he was a girl.
• Pu Xuan told He Caitou, “I'm a damn real man!”
• Mu En confronted Zhang Peng when the Scorpion Tiger Douluo ambushed Yan Shaozhe's group, and Long Xiaoyao arrived before taking Zhang Peng away.
• Mu En brought Huo Yu Hao, the two deans, and the three Senior Elders back toward Shrek City, still subdued after speaking with Long Xiaoyao.

Huo Yuhao was rewarded with a place in the Inner Court and a reserve seat in the Sea God Pavilion after returning valuable blueprints to Shrek Academy. As powerful guests gathered for the Sea God's Affinity Blind Date, Shrek prepared to demonstrate and spread the Self-Condensing Soul Ring Method afterward.

• Mu En granted Huo Yuhao a place in the Inner Court and a reserve Sea God Pavilion seat for his service to the academy.
• Du Busi and Ao Tian prepared to travel to Shrek Academy with Vena, while Xu Jiujiu and other delegations also set out from across the empires.
• Shrek's male Inner Court students celebrated the upcoming Sea God's Affinity Blind Date, and Huo Yuhao's friends took him out drinking after his return.
• Yan Shaozhe reported that all fifteen soldiers tested had successfully self-condensed soul rings, and Mu En planned to demonstrate the method after the blind date.
• Delegations began arriving at Shrek City, and Chu Qingtian, Xu San Shi, Bei Bei, Qin Ze, and He Caitou watched from the city wall as the deans went to welcome them.

The Profound Nether Sect arrived at Shrek Academy, where Xu San Shi reunited with his father and sister, Xu Yuyan. Chen Dongjie immediately tried to court Xu Yuyan, and more invited factions arrived ahead of the upcoming events.

• Xu San Shi recognized his father, Xu Qing'an, and elder sister, Xu Yuyan, among the first visitors from the Profound Nether Sect.
• Xu Yuyan went up to the city wall, where Chen Dongjie introduced himself and openly admitted his interest in courting her.
• Xu San Shi led Xu Yuyan away, while Chen Dongjie decided he would become Xu San Shi's future brother-in-law.
• More than twelve invited factions, including the Holy Dragon Sect, arrived in Shrek City and were escorted to their prepared hotel.

Qin Ze welcomed representatives from the Star Luo and Heaven Soul Imperial Families and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect to Shrek Academy. After the visitors entered the academy, their elders gathered at Sea God Pavilion, where Ning Guanqing asked Mu En whether Shrek’s prepared method was complete.

• Qin Ze waited with Yan Shaozhe and the other deans until Xu Jiujiu’s group and the other delegations arrived together.
• Yan Shaozhe and the other deans welcomed Shattering Star Douluo Yang Chao’an, Du Busi, Xiao Kuangdao, and Ning Guanqing, then arranged for the younger visitors to enter the academy.
• Xu Jiujiu greeted Qin Ze, who told her that the girls were preparing for the Sea God's Affinity Blind Date, drawing the newcomers’ interest.
• Qin Ze learned that Long Aotian was Du Busi’s disciple, and Long Aotian said his teacher had regretted not taking Qin Ze as a disciple.
• Qin Ze parted from the visitors as they went to their lodgings, while Xian Lin'er led the elders to Sea God Pavilion to meet Mu En and Xuan Zi.
• Ning Guanqing asked Mu En whether Shrek Academy’s prepared method was complete.

Shrek Academy gathered major powers to reveal the Self-Condensing Soul Ring Method and discuss the threat posed by the Sun Moon Empire. At the banquet, Yan Shaozhe began explaining the danger of relying on dwindling high-age soul beasts, but had not yet disclosed the method.

• Mu En confirmed that the academy would announce the Self-Condensing Soul Ring Method at the banquet, and Du Busi and Shattering Star Douluo accepted that it was real.
• Ning Guanqing proposed discussing the upcoming Soul Fighting Competition in the Sun Moon Empire, and the leaders agreed to plan for possible trouble there.
• Shrek Academy held a banquet for more than a hundred and fifty guests, including over twenty Titled Douluo, while Qin Ze and Xu San Shi joined the students.
• Yan Shaozhe told the assembled powers that high-age soul beasts were becoming scarce and asked what would happen if they were all hunted to extinction.

Yan Shaozhe revealed that Shrek Academy had found a way to obtain soul rings without hunting soul beasts and showed proof to the gathered leaders. After promising a full demonstration in two days, he announced that outsiders could attend the Sea God's Affinity Blind Date the next day.

• Yan Shaozhe announced that Shrek Academy had found a method to obtain soul rings without hunting soul beasts, and Xuan Zi guaranteed the claim on behalf of the Sea God Pavilion.
• At Fire Leopard Douluo's request, Yan Shaozhe brought in fifteen city defense soldiers, whose self-condensed soul rings the gathered experts examined and found to contain no soul beast aura.
• Yan Shaozhe arranged a banquet for the soldiers and announced that Shrek Academy would demonstrate the soul-ring condensation process the day after tomorrow.
• Yan Shaozhe invited the gathered outsiders to watch the Sea God's Affinity Blind Date, and Xu Yuyan encouraged Xu San Shi to pursue the girl he liked.

Qin Ze met Long Aotian and learned the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum had raised Long Aotian’s martial soul potential to the Gold rank, giving the Body Sect a successor. As the Sea God’s Affinity Blind Date approached, Qin Ze spent the day with his friends, while Di Yue Li waited anxiously for the evening event.

• Du Busi introduced Qin Ze to Long Aotian and explained that Long Aotian had received the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.
• Long Aotian thanked Qin Ze and promised to repay his kindness, while Qin Ze recognized that the herb had changed Long Aotian’s martial soul potential.
• Qin Ze returned to the dormitory, where Di Yue Li refused to tell him the event’s rules and nervously anticipated the next night.
• Qin Ze met Bei Bei, Xu San Shi, Yu He Caitou, and Huo Yu Hao by Sea God Lake, and they joked about Yu He Caitou’s thunderous snoring and their missing dorm rooms.
• Bei Bei explained the evening’s procedures over lunch, then left to review the program with the Senior Disciple Sister.

Qin Ze, Huo Yu Hao, and He Caitou gathered at Sea God Lake for Shrek Academy’s Sea God's Affinity Blind Date, where visiting guests and academy elders watched. As the event began, the male students prepared to race for positions near the veiled female students.

• Long Aotian, Vena, Mu Xue, Xu Jiujiu, and Xu Yuyan arrived with permission to watch, and the group encouraged the participants before leaving for Sea God Lake.
• Qin Ze, Xu San Shi, Huo Yu Hao, and He Caitou changed and joined the male students waiting by the lake as guests and elders arrived on two pleasure boats.
• Nineteen veiled female students appeared on golden pillars of light, followed by Bei Bei and Senior Disciple Sister, who welcomed everyone and explained the event’s rules.
• Senior Disciple Sister counted down and announced the start as Qin Ze told Huo Yu Hao and He Caitou to get ready.

Qin Ze used his speed and darkness ability to claim a water lily as the Sea God's Affinity Blind Date began. Xu San Shi successfully removed Jiang Nannan’s bamboo hat without provoking her, leaving the male students surprised by their warm exchange.

• Qin Ze darkened the contestants’ vision, raced ahead, and took a water lily while saving the first spot for Xu San Shi.
• Xu San Shi used Mysterious Nether Swap to switch places with a senior and claim the first position.
• Bei Bei and Zhang Lexuan announced the start of the Heart-to-Heart Affection round and reminded the contestants of the rules.
• Xu San Shi rode his Mysterious Nether Turtle Shell Shield to Jiang Nannan and gently removed her bamboo hat.
• Jiang Nannan blushed and gave Xu San Shi a light kick, and he returned to the male students to their astonishment before turning to Qin Ze.

Qin Ze used his domain to remove ten female students’ bamboo hats, then revealed Di Yue Li and embraced her before leaving her for the next part of the event. Ye Liu attempted to drench the girls with his swan martial soul, but Ma Xiaotao and Wu Ming stopped him, while Qin Ze reinforced the ice beneath the female students.

• Qin Ze unleashed his Dark Demon Domain and removed the bamboo hats of ten female students, stunning the spectators.
• Qin Ze created ice platforms for the female students and removed Di Yue Li’s bamboo hat, then embraced her and kissed her forehead.
• Ye Liu tried to splash water over the female students with his swan martial soul and was jointly taught a lesson by Ma Xiaotao and Wu Ming.
• Qin Ze reinforced the ice beneath the female students to keep Ma Xiaotao and Wu Ming’s attack from melting it.

The Sea God's Affinity Blind Date continued as the male students competed to remove veils and win the female students' votes. After two rounds, twenty boys remained, and Qin Ze drew the first spot for the next round of self-introductions.

• Chu Qingtian removed Wu Ming's veil, Huo Yu Hao removed Wang Dong'er's veil with her permission, and He Caitou used a Fixed Soul Cannon to remove three veils.
• The first round ended with Ma Xiaotao and Han Ruo Ruo still veiled, while thirty male students remained after several were eliminated or fell into the water.
• In the second round, all nineteen girls left their lights on for Qin Ze, setting a new record, while Xie Huan Yue received no lights and was eliminated.
• Xu San Shi received six lights, including Jiang Nannan's, and Huo Yu Hao received eight; ten male students were eliminated, leaving twenty.
• Zhang Lexuan and Bei Bei introduced the third round, in which the boys would make self-introductions and the girls would make final choices.
• Qin Ze drew lot number one for the self-introductions and noticed that Di Yue Li had drawn number five.

During the third round of Sea God Fate, Qin Ze staged an elaborate confession for Di Yue Li on Sea God Lake. Di Yue Li accepted his ice crystal rose and agreed to be his girlfriend.

• Qin Ze introduced himself as a sixteen-and-a-half-year-old rank sixty-eight Soul Emperor, an honorary elder of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and a Shrek Academy instructor, astonishing the guests.
• Qin Ze asked for time to confess to Di Yue Li, then recalled their shared memories and declared how much she meant to him.
• Qin Ze set off a display of flower petals that formed Di Yue Li's portrait above Sea God Lake.
• Qin Ze shaped the lake's surface into ice crystal flowers, walked across it, and offered Di Yue Li a red ice crystal rose.
• Di Yue Li accepted the rose and agreed to be Qin Ze's girlfriend.

Qin Ze and Di Yue Li kissed after his romantic declaration, then the male students continued their introductions at the matchmaking event. Xu San Shi confessed to Jiang Nannan, and she kissed him in response, while Tang Ya watched from afar.

• Qin Ze and Di Yue Li embraced and kissed as rose petals swirled around them, then Qin Ze returned to the male students’ line.
• Vena looked to Long Aotian expectantly, while Chu Qingtian and the other male students made their declarations; Huo Yu Hao and He Caitou drew attention with their abilities.
• Xu San Shi confessed his love to Jiang Nannan and offered her red tulips, promising to cherish her.
• Jiang Nannan kissed Xu San Shi before he could finish his vow, and the male students erupted in celebration.
• Tang Ya watched the couple through a telescope and remarked that she would no longer be able to tease Xu San Shi as a “Licking Turtle.”

The fourth round of the Sea God's Affinity Blind Date began, and female students started choosing the male students they admired. Ning Tian surprised everyone by choosing Qin Ze, leaving the event poised for his response.

• Zhang Lexuan announced that female students would choose partners and that any unchosen male students would be eliminated.
• Hua Yao introduced herself and chose Gu Fan, while Wang Dong'er chose Huo Yu Hao; Qin Ze nudged Huo Yu Hao into hugging her.
• Xiao Xiao forfeited her choice and left Sea God Lake.
• Ning Tian revealed that she possessed the rare Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul, then glided toward Qin Ze and stopped in front of him.

During the Sea God Lake matchmaking segment, Wu Ming chose Chu Qingtian, who first tried to avoid her but then confessed that he wanted to pursue her. Wu Ming accepted his apology and left with him, while Ma Xiaotao withdrew and flew off to watch the event.

• Ning Tian joined Qin Ze and teased that he could not have Yue Li without a price.
• Wu Ming introduced herself as the Golden Crow Saintess and chose Chu Qingtian from the male students.
• Chu Qingtian pushed his water lily toward Wu Ming and fell into the lake, making her believe he had rejected her.
• Seeing Wu Ming's tears, Chu Qingtian asked Zhang Lexuan for a chance to pursue Wu Ming and swore he would not deceive her.
• Wu Ming took Chu Qingtian with her as they withdrew from the event, and Ma Xiaotao also withdrew to watch from the pleasure boats.