Chapter Summaries

Wu Yang Jin, Tang Wu Lin, and their teammates defeated the Big Five, then celebrated their victory together. Wu Zhangkong and Shen Yi received Ya Li’s praise and learned that Wu Yang Jin had credited them with helping him.

• Wu Yang Jin and Tang Wu Lin defeated Luo Guixing, then Wu Yang Jin beat Yang Nianxia in a final head-on clash.
• The team celebrated their victory, and Wu Yang Jin embraced Tang Wu Lin before Gu Yue and the others joined them.
• Gu Yue thanked Ye Xinglan for supporting the battle, and Wu Yang Jin brought Ye Xinglan onto the stage to praise her work on his battle armor.
• Na'er reunited with Wu Yang Jin and met Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi.
• Ya Li praised Wu Yang Jin, Tang Wu Lin, and their teammates, then told Wu Zhangkong and Shen Yi that Wu Yang Jin had credited them with helping him.
• Wu Zhangkong stepped onto the stage and called for everyone to quiet down.

After winning the class selection tournament, Wu Yang Jin's team chose Yang Nianxia and Wu Si Duo to complete its ten-person roster for the challenge match against Second Year Class One. Yue Zhengyu visited to ask about their Spirit Alloy One-Word Dou Armor, and Yuan En Yehui arrived, revealing her strained relationship with him.

• Wu Zhangkong gave the victorious team the option to add up to two students, and Wu Yang Jin said they would choose Yang Nianxia and Wu Si Duo.
• Yang Nianxia eagerly accepted Wu Yang Jin's invitation, and Wu Si Duo agreed to join the team and give it her all.
• Wu Zhangkong confirmed that Yang Nianxia and Wu Si Duo completed the first year's ten-person team for the challenge match against the second year.
• Yue Zhengyu visited the dormitory to congratulate the team and ask about its Spirit Alloy version of One-Word Dou Armor.
• Yuan En Yehui arrived, frowned when she saw Yue Zhengyu, and made clear that they still did not get along.

Yuan En Yehui asked Tang Wu Lin, Wu Yang Jin, and Gu Yue to help with her Battle Armor, while the students prepared for their class competition. On the day of the match, Cai Lao announced that she would attend and that the winning side would receive a large batch of Contribution Points.

• Yuan En Yehui asked for help designing and making her Battle Armor, and Gu Yue said she needed to advance to an intermediate Level Five designer first.
• Wu Yang Jin and the others trained with their newly joined teammates, Wu Si Duo and Yang Nianxia, before the competition.
• Yang Nianxia told the group that teachers might attend the match, and Wu Si Duo named Cai Lao and Silver Moon Douluo as possible guests.
• Cai Lao arrived, announced that she would watch the contest between the two classes, and promised a large Contribution Point reward for the winners.
• Cai Lao ordered the teachers and students to make their preparations and leave for the competition.

The first- and second-year students gathered for their match, with Yuan En Yehui leading the second-year team and Tang Wu Lin’s classmates preparing to compete. Feng Wuyu and Zhe Shi arrived and loudly quarreled before Ya Li and Cai Yue'er told them to behave and watch.

• The first-year students discussed the second-year team’s strength as Yuan En Yehui and Yue Zhengyu stood out among their opponents.
• Ya Li and Cai Yue'er arrived with other teachers, prompting speculation about the match’s importance and who else might attend.
• Feng Wuyu and Zhe Shi entered the arena arguing over their disciples and granddisciples, Tang Wu Lin and Wu Yang Jin.
• Ya Li stopped the two men and explained that she had come to referee the match.
• Cai Yue'er ordered Feng Wuyu and Zhe Shi to stay quiet or leave, but the pair resumed bickering and challenged each other to spar.

First Year and Second Year competed in four individual exchange matches before choosing teams for the final battle. With First Year trailing, Wu Yang Jin announced that Class One would send seven people into the team battle.

• Na'er stopped Feng Wuyu and Zhe Shi from arguing, and Mu Chen and Mu Xi arrived to watch the exchange.
• Tang Wu Lin defeated He Xiao Peng in the forging match by achieving Spirit Refinement.
• Gu Yue drew with Bai Han Ying in Mecha Design, while Luo Guixing lost the Mecha Manufacturing match and Yuan En Yehui narrowly defeated Wu Si Duo in Mecha Repair.
• Wu Yang Jin and Tang Wu Lin reconsidered their team battle lineup after watching the matches and decided to send seven people.
• Yuan En Yehui was surprised by First Year, Class One's choice to field seven participants.

First Year, Class One and Second Year began a seven-on-seven match, with Wu Yang Jin and Tang Wu Lin leading their team through coordinated attacks. The first years gained an early advantage, but Yang Nianxia was launched into the air after being hit by spiritual attacks and stepping on an explosive trap.

• Shen Yi announced the seven-on-seven match, and both classes assembled their teams and formations.
• Wu Yang Jin and Tang Wu Lin coordinated a surprise attack that injured Yuan En Yehui and briefly disrupted her advance.
• Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan unleashed a joint Ice and Snow Storm as Wu Si Duo and Yang Nianxia charged the second-year backline.
• Wu Yang Jin clashed with Yuan En Yehui and forced her back, while Duan Hun Xiao played his xiao and disoriented the first years.
• Wu Yang Jin countered with Asura Golden Eyes, and Yang Nianxia sent an unfamiliar second-year student flying with his hammer.
• Bai Han Ying and Duan Hun Xiao struck Yang Nianxia with spiritual attacks, and an explosive trap blasted him into the air.

The two teams traded eliminations as their battle shifted rapidly, and Wu Yang Jin began an unexpected breakthrough in the middle of the match. With Wu Yang Jin unable to fight, Tang Wu Lin’s team defended until Wu Si Duo eliminated Yue Zhengyu, while Yuan En Yehui and He Xiao Peng pressed Tang Wu Lin.

• Yuan En Yehui and Yue Zhengyu eliminated Yang Nianxia after his surprise counterattack failed.
• Yuan En Yehui knocked out Ye Xinglan, but Ye Xinglan’s stored Stargod Sword eliminated Ye Xing Mo and brought the match back to five-on-five.
• Wu Yang Jin pinned Yuan En Yehui and attacked Yue Zhengyu, but He Xiao Peng took the hit; Gu Yue teleported Wu Yang Jin away as he began breaking through to Soul King.
• The teams continued fighting without pausing the match, and Tang Wu Lin’s side defended while Wu Yang Jin sat out.
• Wu Si Duo unleashed the Hell White Tiger, used Gu Yue’s support to attack Yue Zhengyu, and eliminated him.
• Yuan En Yehui entered her Berserk state as He Xiao Peng attacked at full strength, leaving Tang Wu Lin struggling until Wu Si Duo hurried to help.

Wu Yang Jin broke through to Soul King and used a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Gu Yue, transforming into a powerful figure who was recognized as the Ancestor of All Things. With Yuan En Yehui left alone against him, the match was poised for its final clash.

• Wu Si Duo repeatedly protected Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan from Yuan En Yehui, but was eventually knocked off the platform.
• Gu Yue teleported Xu Xiaoyan away, and Wu Yang Jin awakened in time to block Yuan En Yehui’s strike after breaking through to Soul King.
• Wu Yang Jin revealed his enhanced Emperor Spirit skill and sent Yuan En Yehui flying, then thanked Gu Yue and his teammates.
• Gu Yue and Wu Yang Jin embraced and activated a Martial Soul Fusion Skill; during the fusion, they briefly called each other Gu Yue Na and Long Shuang Han.
• Their fusion produced a figure recognized by Ya Li as the Ancestor of All Things, who quickly overwhelmed the opposing team and left Yuan En Yehui alone against him.

Wu Yang Jin and Gu Yue's Martial Soul Fusion Skill defeated Yuan En Yehui and won the first-year challenge, but they both fell unconscious afterward. After recovering together with Na'er, Wu Yang Jin reunited with his classmates as Shrek Academy announced that five students would be eliminated in the first-semester final exams.

• Wu Yang Jin and Gu Yue unleashed the Dragon of All Things, forcing Holy Spirit Douluo Yali and Silver Moon Douluo to intervene before Ya Li declared First Year, Class One the winners.
• Wu Yang Jin and Gu Yue were sent to their dormitory, where they slept for three or four days while Na'er stayed with them and kept others away.
• Wu Yang Jin woke to find Gu Yue and Na'er hugging him, and the three later joined Tang Wu Lin, Xie Xie, and their classmates.
• Yuan En Yehui, Mu Xi, Mu Chen, Wu Si Duo, Yang Nianxia, and others visited Wu Yang Jin as life returned to normal after the match.
• Shen Yi announced that five students would be eliminated in the first-semester final exams, prompting the class to worry about their places.

Shen Yi announced the final examination rules and offered the students a chance to form two randomly assigned teams led by Gu Yue and Wu Yang Jin. After the teams were drawn, Cai Lao and Shen Yi discussed the examination preparations, while Leng Yaozhu confronted Cai Lao over Gu Yue and Wu Yang Jin.

• Yang Nianxia worried that five students would be eliminated, and Shen Yi explained that passing students could give away Points at the cost of making entry to the Inner Court harder.
• Shen Yi announced that students had fifteen days to travel through at least ten cities to Mingdu, defeat stronger opponents, and return without their belongings or outside help.
• Shen Yi revealed that students could draw lots to join one of two teams, led by Gu Yue and Wu Yang Jin, but team members would face tougher challenges.
• The draw placed Hu Meier, Tang Wu Lin, Xu Lizhi, and Yang Nianxia with Gu Yue, and Xu Xiaoyan, Ye Xinglan, Wu Si Duo, and Xie Xie with Wu Yang Jin.
• Cai Lao and Shen Yi discussed the preparations and strict searches, and Leng Yaozhu arrived to argue that Gu Yue was her disciple and Wu Yang Jin should not be taken from her.

Wu Yang Jin and Tang Wu Lin planned how their classmates would earn money and travel during the exam, but Wu Zhangkong forbade them from bringing any belongings. After the group split up to find money, Gu Yue, Ye Xinglan, and Wu Si Duo began their attempted roadside robbery.

• Wu Yang Jin and Tang Wu Lin discussed travel routes and ways for their classmates to earn money, including forging, selling buns, borrowing, and performing.
• Wu Zhangkong told the students they could bring nothing except themselves and the clothes they wore, forbidding even forging hammers.
• Xu Xiaoyan went to seek money from an upperclassman, Xie Xie left to perform, and Xu Lizhi began making buns.
• Gu Yue, Ye Xinglan, and Wu Si Duo prepared to rob passersby while Wu Yang Jin, Tang Wu Lin, and Yang Nianxia stayed to watch.
• Ye Xinglan and Gu Yue attempted to demand 150,000 Federal currency from a second-year student despite having no convincing robbery setup.

Wu Yang Jin, Wu Si Duo, and their classmates found ways to raise money for the exam after learning they could not use the associations. Wu Yang Jin and Xu Xiaoyan gathered one million together, and their group prepared to board the train before spotting Tang Wu Lin.

• Ye Xinglan, Wu Si Duo, and Gu Yue pressured a male student into lending them money, while Xu Lizhi sold him meat buns to bolster his courage.
• Mu Xi told Wu Yang Jin, Tang Wu Lin, and Yang Nianxia that the academy had barred exam takers from earning money through the associations, so they split up to find other funds.
• Wu Yang Jin caught Yue Zhengyu and got him to hand over 500,000, promising to repay him after the exam.
• Wu Yang Jin met Xu Xiaoyan at the station, where she said she had borrowed 500,000 from seniors, bringing their combined funds to one million.
• Wu Si Duo joined Wu Yang Jin and Xu Xiaoyan, and the three bought train tickets before spotting Tang Wu Lin nearby.

Tang Wu Lin, unable to afford a ticket, reunited with Wu Yang Jin, Wu Si Duo, and Xu Xiaoyan aboard the train after they created a distraction to help him board. When the attendant discovered Tang Wu Lin had no ticket or money, he ordered all four of them to come with him.

• Wu Yang Jin, Wu Si Duo, and Xu Xiaoyan spotted Tang Wu Lin at the station and used a staged monster scare to distract the staff while boarding the train.
• The three found Tang Wu Lin aboard, and he admitted he had no money; Wu Yang Jin said he had earned five hundred thousand and offered to help him later.
• Wu Yang Jin bought Tang Wu Lin five large portions of food, and Tang Wu Lin eagerly ate them.
• The ticket attendant checked the group’s tickets, and Tang Wu Lin confessed he had none and could not pay for one.
• The attendant sternly told Tang Wu Lin and the other three to come with him.

Tang Wu Lin and his friends convinced the Train Conductor that they were Shrek Academy students on an exam, and she waived his fare and gave him money and a month-long train pass. Their relief ended when an alarm reported criminals attempting to hijack the train.

• The train attendant brought Tang Wu Lin, Wu Yang Jin, Wu Si Duo, and Xu Xiaoyan to the duty room over Tang Wu Lin's unpaid fare.
• Wu Yang Jin and Tang Wu Lin explained that they were Shrek Academy students taking a harsh final exam, and Tang Wu Lin offered to repay double the fare.
• Tang Wu Lin and his friends released their soul rings to prove their identities, convincing the Train Conductor and attendant.
• The Train Conductor waived Tang Wu Lin's fare, arranged a month-long Federation train pass, and gave him thirty thousand in Federation currency.
• An alarm sounded, and a communicator message summoned the Train Conductor to Carriage Five because criminals were trying to hijack the train.

The train conductor armed herself and confronted six criminals who had seized the train and threatened passengers with timed bombs. As reinforcements remained distant and the criminals demanded the release of their captured allies, Wu Yang Jin prepared to disobey orders and help.

• The train conductor ordered her attendants to arm themselves and go to Car Five, then told Wu Yang Jin and the others to stay behind.
• Wu Yang Jin planned to freeze their section after the conductor’s group moved away and asked Wu Si Duo and Xu Xiaoyan to help with a plan.
• The Security Captain told the train conductor that six criminals had seized the cars ahead with powerful weapons and bombs attached to the train.
• The train conductor ordered Cars Six through Sixteen detached and called on the criminals to negotiate without harming hostages.
• The criminals demanded the Federal Government release people captured twenty days earlier and threatened to detonate bombs in thirty minutes.
• The Security Captain said headquarters could not respond in time and reinforcements would take about twenty minutes to arrive.

Mo Lan negotiated with the train hijackers and became their hostage so they would release elderly people, women, and children. As Tang Wu Lin, Wu Yang Jin, and the others began their operation, they unexpectedly entered the hostage carriage and put Mo Lan’s plan at risk.

• Mo Lan persuaded the hijackers to extend the bomb timer to one hour and offered herself as a hostage in exchange for the release of vulnerable passengers.
• The hijackers released ten hostages, then accepted Mo Lan as their hostage and held a Soul Guidance Ray Gun to her forehead.
• Wu Yang Jin told Tang Wu Lin that Mo Lan had entered the carriage and confirmed that their operation could begin.
• Mo Lan entered the carriage, where a criminal said only forty minutes remained and demanded the group’s sincerity.
• Wu Yang Jin, Xu Xiaoyan, and others arrived from Carriage Six, and Mo Lan denied the hijackers’ teasing claims about their family relationships.

Wu Yang Jin, Tang Wu Lin, and Xu Xiaoyan infiltrated the hijackers’ hostage car and began taking them down while Wu Si Duo handled the bombs. The hijacker leader took Mo Lan hostage but was killed by Wu Si Duo, and the group discovered another suspicious person among the hostages.

• The hijacker leader ordered Wu Yang Jin and the others into another train car and threatened to kill hostages every five minutes.
• Wu Yang Jin and Tang Wu Lin learned that the hijackers had killed resisting hostages, then determined there were only a few enemies in the car.
• Tang Wu Lin spread Blue Silver Grass while Wu Yang Jin and Xu Xiaoyan helped kill or restrain the hijackers guarding them.
• The group fought the remaining hijackers, but their leader took Mo Lan hostage and struck her with his gun.
• Wu Yang Jin pretended to surrender while Wu Si Duo appeared behind the leader and killed him.
• Wu Si Duo reported that she had thrown out the cluster bombs and exposed a suspicious person hiding among the hostages.

Wu Yang Jin and the others helped stop the train hijacking and slipped away before the commendation. When Mo Wu and Shen Yi encountered the Plague Bringer, Wu Yang Jin arrived as the mecha troops closed in.

• Wu Yang Jin, Wu Si Duo, Tang Wu Lin, and Xu Xiaoyan helped rescue passengers and disarmed the timed bomb with the security guards.
• The group waited in the lounge after the train arrived, then secretly left after Old Long told Wu Yang Jin to pretend to go and return later.
• Mo Wu arrived to thank the children for saving his daughter, but learned they were gone and met Shen Yi, their Shrek Academy examiner.
• The Plague Bringer emerged from a hidden door and attacked Shen Yi and Mo Wu with green poison mist, while Shen Yi fought back with her mimosa Martial Soul.
• Mecha troops arrived, the door froze and shattered, and Wu Yang Jin entered to confront the Plague Bringer.

Wu Yang Jin, possessed by the Ice Empress, defeated the Plague Bringer and then joined Tang Wu Lin, Wu Si Duo, and Xu Xiaoyan on a trip to the Forging Master Association. Meanwhile, Na Nali grew curious about the child who defeated the Evil Soul Master, and the four friends were denied forging missions without professional badges.

• The Ice Empress possessed Wu Yang Jin, dispersed the Plague Bringer’s poison, froze him, and trapped him in repeated Ice Explosions.
• Shen Yi checked on Wu Yang Jin and scolded him for acting recklessly, while Mo Wu thanked the children and offered them a reward.
• Shen Yi warned Tang Wu Lin not to help Wu Yang Jin during their separate examinations, and Wu Yang Jin invited Tang Wu Lin, Wu Si Duo, and Xu Xiaoyan to the Forging Master Association.
• Na Nali heard that a thirteen-year-old with Five Rings had defeated the Plague Bringer and recalled meeting a mysterious consciousness when she was young.
• At the Heaven Dou Forging Master Association, a staff member refused to let the four accept missions without badges and mocked their claim to be highly skilled young Forging Masters.

Wu Yang Jin and Tang Wu Lin attended Divine Craftsman Zhen Hua’s forging lecture and demonstrated their exceptional skill by successfully completing Fusion Forging with spirit. Zhen Hua welcomed them and their companions, offered to help find opponents in Heaven Dou City, and took them to his private cafeteria, where Wu Yang Jin and Tang Wu Lin astonished the chef with their appetites.

• Wu Yang Jin, Tang Wu Lin, and their companions rushed to hear Zhen Hua lecture at the Forging Master Association.
• After the lecture, Tang Wu Lin and Wu Yang Jin asked to demonstrate Fusion Forging, and Zhen Hua provided materials and his own forging hammers.
• Tang Wu Lin and Wu Yang Jin successfully completed Fusion Forging with spirit, surprising the gathered Forging Masters and Zhen Hua.
• Wu Yang Jin revealed that he and Tang Wu Lin were fourteen-year-old Fifth-Level Forging Masters trained by Mang Tian, Mu Chen, and Feng Wuyu.
• Zhen Hua spoke with Wu Yang Jin and Tang Wu Lin, offered to pay Tang Wu Lin and help them find opponents in Heaven Dou City, then invited the group to eat.
• Wu Yang Jin and Tang Wu Lin devoured the dishes at Zhen Hua’s private cafeteria and asked the astonished chef for more.