Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaogang and Tang San failed to enter Heaven Dou Royal Academy, so Yu Xiaogang spotted a recruitment notice for Lan Ba Advanced Spirit Master Academy and decided to seek food and lodging there. He did not know that the Shrek Academy group was also preparing to visit the academy.

• Heaven Dou Royal Academy students mistook Yu Xiaogang and Tang San for impostors and drove them away with a Soul Skill.
• Yu Xiaogang planned to clean himself and Tang San up before trying to enter the academy again, and took Tang San into Heaven Dou City to beg in the meantime.
• At the city gate, Yu Xiaogang saw a Lan Dian Overlord Sect wanted notice offering five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins for his capture, but realized his disguise kept the crowd from recognizing him.
• Yu Xiaogang read Lan Ba Advanced Spirit Master Academy's recruitment notice and learned it offered food and lodging as well as jobs for Soul Ancestors and cleaners.
• Yu Xiaogang decided that Lan Ba Advanced Spirit Master Academy could provide for him and Tang San, unaware that the Shrek Academy group was also preparing to visit it.

Flender's group arrived at Blue Tyrant Academy to apply for teaching positions, and Qin Ming's display of power secured them an exemption from further tests. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang's completely naked photo was distributed through every black market channel in Suotuo City.

• Flender told the Blue Tyrant Academy receptionist that the adults were applying for teaching jobs and hoped their disciples could enroll as students.
• A receptionist led Flender's group to the testing hall, where three Spirit Masters explained the assessment requirements.
• Qin Ming released his Martial Soul and revealed that he was a Level 62 Blazing Fire Wolf Battle Spirit Emperor.
• The lead examiner waived Qin Ming's practical test under the Academy's rule exempting Spirit Masters above level 60 from additional tests.
• In Suotuo City's black market, Yi Ling Fang released Yu Xiaogang's completely naked photo through every channel after he failed to repay a debt.

Yi Ling Fang pursued Yu Xiaogang while Shrek Academy’s teachers impressed Blue Tyrant Academy with their strength and were brought to meet its dean. At the secluded cottage, the dean recognized Flender and dropped her watering can.

• Yi Ling Fang traced Yu Xiaogang’s possible whereabouts to his contact with Director Liu and planned to question him if their search failed.
• Qin Ming told Blue Tyrant Academy’s assessors that he was thirty-four and Level 62, astonishing them.
• Flender and the other Shrek Academy teachers revealed their spirit ranks and rings, leaving the assessors stunned.
• Yin Shu led the Shrek group through the forest to meet Blue Tyrant Academy’s dean, who lived in seclusion.
• The dean saw Flender, froze, and dropped her watering can.

Flender and the Shrek Academy group arrived at Blue Tyrant Academy and reunited with its headmaster, Liu Erlong, who offered them the academy and planned to rename it Shrek. Liu Erlong asked after Yu Xiaogang, unaware that he and Tang San had just arrived to apply for a teaching position.

• Liu Erlong recognized Flender and learned that Heaven Dou Royal Academy had driven the Shrek group out.
• Liu Erlong invited the group to stay, placed Blue Tyrant Academy under Flender's control, and announced that it would be renamed Shrek.
• Liu Erlong asked Flender whether he had heard from Yu Xiaogang, and Flender said Yu Xiaogang might arrive in a few days.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San arrived at Blue Tyrant Academy, where Yu Xiaogang applied for a teaching position and requested that Tang San be admitted as his student.

Yu Xiaogang and Tang San failed to qualify as teachers at Blue Tyrant Academy and were hired as janitors instead. Liu Erlong welcomed the Shrek Academy group and handed the academy over to Flender, while Yu Xiaogang and Tang San settled in a separate staff dormitory where Yu Xiaogang could not see Liu Erlong.

• Yu Xiaogang discovered he did not meet Blue Tyrant Academy’s teacher requirements, but persuaded the testing teacher to hire him and Tang San as janitors.
• Liu Erlong showed the Shrek Academy group around Blue Tyrant Academy and explained its history and achievements.
• Liu Erlong treated the group to lunch, answered their questions, toured the academy with them, and arranged their accommodations.
• Flender held a meeting and told the group to rest before beginning work at the academy the next day.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San settled into separate staff quarters, leaving Yu Xiaogang unable to see Liu Erlong.

Dugu Bo abducted Gu Xuan after his granddaughter’s team was defeated, but Gu Xuan gained the Top-tier Alchemy System while imprisoned and learned that Dugu Bo’s poison was harming him. The chapter ended with Gu Xuan confronting Dugu Bo about symptoms caused by his own poison.

• Dugu Bo appeared before Gu Xuan in the academy forest and knocked him unconscious, while Liu Erlong and Flender sensed the disturbance and searched for him.
• Gu Xuan awoke in a dark cavern, where Dugu Bo questioned him about defeating Dugu Yan’s team and threatened him with his poison.
• The Top-tier Alchemy System activated, granting Gu Xuan immunity to all poisons and the ability to refine one suitable pill per day; it also revealed that Dugu Bo needed a Hundred Poisons Pill.
• Gu Xuan told Dugu Bo that his poison had seeped into his bones and asked whether rainy weather caused numb, itchy ribs that worsened at noon and midnight.

Gu Xuan revealed that Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan were suffering from a deadly poison and claimed he could cure them. Dugu Bo challenged Gu Xuan to prepare antidotes and survive three poisons within a day, unaware that Gu Xuan had become immune to all poison.

• Gu Xuan described Dugu Bo’s worsening poison symptoms, shocking him with details of his secret suffering.
• Gu Xuan warned that Dugu Yan had inherited the poison and might suffer even worse, prompting Dugu Bo to ask whether Gu Xuan could cure them.
• Dugu Bo offered to spare Gu Xuan and grant him three favors if he cured them, but Gu Xuan demanded a poison oath before trusting him.
• Dugu Bo challenged Gu Xuan to prepare antidotes from his herb garden and withstand three poisons within a day, or die.
• Gu Xuan accepted the challenge, confident in his new immunity to poison, and followed Dugu Bo toward the herb garden.

Gu Xuan followed Dugu Bo to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and used its presence to raise Dugu Bo’s confidence in his ability to cure him. Meanwhile, the Fang Master learned that Gu Xuan had gone to Heaven Dou City and ordered Yi Ling Fang’s headquarters there to be contacted.

• Dugu Bo led Gu Xuan down into a hidden basin containing the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Gu Xuan recognized the spring and told Dugu Bo it raised his chance of curing Dugu Bo’s poison to eighty percent.
• Dugu Bo allowed Gu Xuan to use the medicinal herbs around the spring but warned him not to touch the two pools and gave him until dawn the day after tomorrow to pass his test.
• The Fang Master learned that Gu Xuan had gone to Heaven Dou City and ordered his subordinate to contact Yi Ling Fang headquarters there.

Gu Xuan explored the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and identified its rare medicinal treasures, then began carefully harvesting them. Meanwhile, four Yi Ling Fang members set out for Heaven Dou City with Yu Xiaogang’s files and private photos.

• Four Yi Ling Fang members from Suotuo City set out for Heaven Dou City with Yu Xiaogang’s files and private photos.
• After the system confirmed the area was safe, Gu Xuan approached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and inspected its rare plants.
• Gu Xuan recognized Aromatic Silk Beauty and learned that its fragrance suppressed poisons within its pink barrier.
• As dawn arrived, Gu Xuan used a dagger to cut down the poisonous Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and retreated from its chill.
• Gu Xuan hurried to the Scorching Sun Spring to target a fiery-red plant resembling a cabbage.

Gu Xuan harvested and consumed the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, then continued gathering immortal herbs. When he encountered Dugu Bo fighting Flender and Liu Erlong, Gu Xuan invoked Dugu Bo’s promise and used the possibility of curing Dugu Yan’s poison to defuse the confrontation.

• Gu Xuan used his Extreme Cold Domain to harvest the Infernal Delicate Apricot and brought it together with the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass.
• Gu Xuan ate both herbs, whose opposing effects were balanced, and absorbed their energy as his body alternated between blue and red.
• After recovering, Gu Xuan kept harvesting immortal herbs to take with him.
• Gu Xuan followed the sound of fighting and found Flender and Liu Erlong facing Dugu Bo after a clash.
• Gu Xuan asked Dugu Bo to let the two go as the first of his promised three favors, then told them Dugu Bo had only been testing him and teaching him about Poison Spirits.
• Gu Xuan reminded Dugu Bo that he had found a way to remove Dugu Yan’s snake poison, and Dugu Bo agreed to discuss it later while letting the confrontation end peacefully.

Dugu Bo let Gu Xuan stay with him to study poison, while Flender and Liu Erlong left after securing permission to visit. Back at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Dugu Bo began testing Gu Xuan with his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison, but Gu Xuan remained confident it could not harm him.

• Dugu Bo praised Flender and Liu Erlong for risking their lives for a friend and agreed to take Gu Xuan as his student for a few months.
• Flender and Liu Erlong accepted Dugu Bo's offer, received pills to protect them from his poison formation, and departed.
• At the foot of the mountain, Flender and Liu Erlong suspected something unusual but concluded Gu Xuan was not in immediate danger.
• Dugu Bo returned with Gu Xuan to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and questioned him about eating one of its powerful herbs.
• Dugu Bo enveloped Gu Xuan in green poison mist, but Gu Xuan mocked the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison as too weak to affect him.

Gu Xuan passed Dugu Bo’s poison tests, surviving the Nine-section Jadeite’s bite and resisting the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor’s venom. Meanwhile, two Lan Dian Overlord Sect experts in Heaven Dou City heard that someone resembling the wanted man had appeared at Blue Tyrant Academy.

• Dugu Bo tested Gu Xuan with green poison mist, but Gu Xuan remained unharmed.
• Dugu Bo made the Nine-section Jadeite bite Gu Xuan, whose arm quickly recovered as the snake fainted.
• Dugu Bo used his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor venom on Gu Xuan, but red and white light stopped it from spreading and forced it out.
• Dugu Bo guessed Gu Xuan had gained poison resistance by eating herbs near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Two Lan Dian Overlord Sect experts received word that someone resembling the wanted man had appeared at Blue Tyrant Academy.

Gu Xuan told Dugu Bo that he had consumed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot and proposed refining pills to detoxify him. Meanwhile, Liu Erlong reunited with Yu Xiaogang at Blue Tyrant Academy, where two Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect men tried to arrest him, and Yu Xiaogang accidentally admitted to taking three hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.

• Gu Xuan explained to Dugu Bo that the two rare herbs could remove his poison but would also dissolve his poison cultivation, then suggested refining suitable herbs into pills.
• Two men from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect told Liu Erlong they suspected a janitor at her academy and asked to meet him.
• Liu Erlong recognized Yu Xiaogang when he and Tang San were brought before her, and she invited both master and disciple to stay at the academy.
• The two sect men presented a search warrant and tried to take Yu Xiaogang back to the sect, but Liu Erlong challenged their authority to arrest him.
• When one man said Yu Xiaogang had stolen five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, Yu Xiaogang blurted out that he had taken only three hundred thousand.

Yu Xiaogang’s debts and private photos caused a scandal in Heaven Dou City, and Liu Erlong paid his debts and bought back the photos to keep for herself. Three months later, Gu Xuan returned to Shrek Academy with Dugu Bo, whose treatment was mostly complete, and Flender asked whether Dugu Bo had troubled him.

• Yu Xiaogang admitted he had taken three hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins from the Lan Dian Overlord Sect, and Liu Erlong paid the sect members so they would leave him alone.
• Yi Ling Fang spread Yu Xiaogang’s private photos across Heaven Dou City after failing to locate him, and Tang San found one and showed it to him.
• Liu Erlong arranged repayment of Yu Xiaogang’s ten-thousand-Gold-Soul-Coin debt and bought back the distributed photos, keeping them to admire in private.
• Three months later, Gu Xuan returned to Shrek Academy with Dugu Bo, whose poison had been cured by eighty percent.
• Flender and the other teachers came to the academy gates to meet them, and Flender asked Gu Xuan whether Dugu Bo had made things difficult for him.

Dugu Bo joined Shrek Academy as an advisor, and Gu Xuan gave the students Top-tier Immortal Pills that greatly increased their strength. With the Spirit Master Tournament approaching, Flender explained its rules and why killing opponents was forbidden.

• Gu Xuan told Flender that Dugu Bo had agreed to advise Shrek Academy, and Flender welcomed him and arranged a place for him to rest.
• Gu Xuan distributed Top-tier Immortal Pills to the other six Shrek students, raising their ranks above 40 while Tang San remained at rank 35; Gu Xuan had reached rank 54.
• Flender gathered the Shrek members and began explaining the tournament rules with seven days left before it began.
• Flender said contestants had to be under twenty-five, matches required seven participants, and killing opponents could get an academy expelled.
• Dai Mubai questioned the no-killing rule, and Flender explained that the tournament aimed to recruit talented young Spirit Masters and protect them.

Yu Xiaogang trained Tang San and the four Shrek substitute members while Tang San grew confident about his chances with Jiang Zhu. Flender explained the tournament rules and format, leaving the team aware that Shrek would compete under Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team Two.

• Yu Xiaogang raised Tang San's Soul Power to rank 35 in three months by buying spirit medicines and herbs with Liu Erlong's money.
• Tang San trained with Tailong, Huang Yuan, Jing Ling, and Jiang Zhu, and became attracted to Jiang Zhu despite her keeping her distance.
• Flender explained that the tournament barred outside supplies and weapons, and that support or healing Soul Masters had to compete to replenish teammates.
• Flender explained that Shrek would enter the Preliminaries as Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team Two, while the main team advanced directly to the final stage.
• Flender outlined the regional Qualifying Rounds and said the Preliminaries would use a single round-robin team battle format.

Flender explained the Qualifying Rounds and Grand Finals formats, then instructed Shrek Academy to conserve its strength during the preliminaries. He put Gu Xuan in charge of tactics and team selection as the competitors began a month of training.

• Flender explained the tournament’s stages, including the Qualifying Rounds, the byes in the Grand Finals, and the battles that would decide the top three.
• Oscar asked where the thirty-third Grand Finals team came from, and Flender explained that Spirit Hall had a third Seed Team that had won two of the previous three tournaments.
• Flender said Ning Rongrong would miss the preliminaries for special training and that the five substitute members, including Tang San, would compete alongside no more than three regular members at a time.
• Dai Mubai asked whether Shrek was conserving its strength at the risk of losing, and Flender told the team to hide its abilities from stronger future opponents.
• Flender assigned Gu Xuan responsibility for field tactics and choosing competitors, and Shrek’s team began a month of training together.

Tang San struggled with the gap between his Soul Power and Gu Xuan and the others, while Shrek Team finalized its tournament lineup. At the Heaven Dou division's opening ceremony, the team arrived in embarrassing uniforms designed by Flender, and the story left them facing the huge crowd in the arena.

• Tang San coordinated the substitute members in training but brooded over how Gu Xuan and the others had reached level 40 while he remained at level 35.
• Shrek Team chose Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Xiao Wu to rotate through the Qualifying Rounds, while Zhu Zhuqing stayed in reserve and Gu Xuan and Ning Rongrong planned not to compete.
• Three days later, Heaven Dou City held the opening ceremony at its renovated Great Spirit Dueling Arena, which drew a massive crowd of spectators and talent-seeking nobles.
• Ning Rongrong marveled at the crowd as Shrek Team and its substitutes tried to hide their faces in Flender's ugly green uniforms bearing advertising slogans.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji avoided wearing the uniforms, while Flender defended them as mental-resilience training and promised the students a share of any advertising revenue.

Shrek Academy arrived at the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament in humiliating uniforms and endured ridicule from the crowd. After registering, the students clashed with Canghui Academy, and Dai Mubai stopped Ma Hongjun from throwing a punch.

• Gu Xuan and the Shrek students covered their faces as spectators mocked their uniforms, while Flender and Zhao Wuji tried to distance themselves from the group.
• The Shrek team entered the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Dueling Arena and complained about wearing their embarrassing uniforms, and Gu Xuan suggested asking Flender to remove the advertisements before the next match.
• Flender confirmed that registration was complete and urged the students to act like a team aiming for the championship.
• A Canghui Academy student insulted Shrek's uniforms, and Ma Hongjun fired back before moving to punch him.
• Dai Mubai called Ma Hongjun back, stopping his fist in midair.

Shrek Academy faced Canghui Academy in the tournament rest area, where Flender warned them about Shi Nian and his dangerous illusion Martial Soul, Remnant Dream. After Shrek entered last to jeers from the crowd, Tang San grew confident that he could defeat Yu Tianheng, unaware that Yu Tianheng had become far stronger.

• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun traded insults with the Canghui Academy students until their teacher, Shi Nian, arrived and led them away.
• Flender identified Shi Nian and warned Shrek Academy that his Remnant Dream Martial Soul could trap opponents in illusions and make them harm themselves.
• Tournament staff brought Shrek Academy into the arena last, where the announcer introduced their team and their slogan, Champions Without Opponents, to a jeering crowd.
• Oscar calmed Dai Mubai, who restrained himself to avoid harming the team's interests.
• Tang San believed his improved strength would let him face Yu Tianheng and avenge his past humiliation, unaware Yu Tianheng had reached level 40.