Chapter Summaries

Fan Yu learned the extent of Zhou Yi’s abuse of students and resigned from his academy positions, then confronted her in the Detention Room as she refused to repent. Yan Shaozhe judged Zhou Yi guilty and shattered her meridians, leaving her fate in the academy’s hands.

• Fan Yu read the records of Zhou Yi’s misconduct, felt ashamed of having shielded her, and told Qian Duoduo he would resign and accept punishment.
• Fan Yu confronted Zhou Yi in the Detention Room, but she insisted that her teaching methods were not wrong.
• Fan Yu left in despair and wept outside the room while Yan Shaozhe questioned Zhou Yi about her treatment of students.
• Zhou Yi admitted to her actions without showing remorse, and Yan Shaozhe shattered the meridians throughout her body with a strike to her dantian.

Qian Duoduo destroyed Zhou Yi’s meridians and martial soul, while Fan Yu accepted a chance to atone for his and Zhou Yi’s harm to the students. At the dormitory, Qian Chaoguang learned that students had rallied to defend him with a joint petition, and their support broke through his emotional reserve.

• Qian Duoduo crippled Zhou Yi and told her she would be remembered as a stain on Shrek’s history.
• Yan Shaozhe left to check on the Inspection Team and said Qian Chaoguang’s reward would come with Zhou Yi’s verdict.
• Qian Duoduo urged Fan Yu to spend the rest of his life making amends, and Fan Yu agreed to atone.
• Wang Dong and students brought Qian Chaoguang a petition signed by classmates and senior students, pledging to withdraw if the academy shielded Zhou Yi.
• Qian Chaoguang read the petition, stored it carefully, and felt the students’ support break through his coldness.

After Qian Chaoguang assured his classmates that the academy would punish Zhou Yi without expelling them, they celebrated by carrying him through Shrek Academy while he tried to flee. Meanwhile, the Inspection Team uncovered widespread corruption in the Outer Academy and began planning the investigation’s aftermath.

• Qian Chaoguang thanked his classmates for standing up for him, then reassured them that Zhou Yi would be dealt with and they would not be expelled.
• Wang Dong and the other students cheered, lifted Qian Chaoguang into the air, and chased him through Shrek Academy until teachers stopped the commotion.
• Back in the dormitory, Wang Dong scolded Qian Chaoguang for making her worry, and they traded teasing remarks.
• Qian Duoduo, Yan Shaozhe, and Fan Yu reviewed reports that revealed extensive misconduct in the Outer Academy, particularly within the Martial Soul Department.
• Qian Duoduo urged Yan Shaozhe to screen Zhou Yi’s former students, prepare an official explanation, and compensate those who had been harmed.

Yan Shaozhe questioned Qian Chaoguang’s motives, but Qian Duoduo explained that the academy’s teacher trusted him and secured his place in the Soul Tool Department. The next morning, Wang Yan replaced Zhou Yi as Freshman Class One’s head teacher and announced a class-wide physical examination for the afternoon.

• Yan Shaozhe questioned how Qian Chaoguang had uncovered evidence against Zhou Yi and raised the possibility that he was a Sun Moon Empire agent.
• Qian Duoduo said he and their teacher trusted Qian Chaoguang, then reserved him a place in the Soul Tool Department as a Core Disciple.
• Qian Duoduo told Yan Shaozhe that Huo Yutong was also his disciple and had already received Core Disciple identification.
• Qian Chaoguang entered Freshman Class One to applause, and Wang Yan introduced himself as the class’s new head teacher.
• Wang Yan spoke warmly to the students and announced an afternoon physical data examination.

Qian Chaoguang received Light Source Liquid from Wang Yan and learned it could improve a light-attribute Soul Master's Martial Soul and potential. He drank it in the dormitory, where its power began to merge with his body.

• Wang Yan asked Qian Chaoguang to stay behind and gave him a private reward for reporting Zhou Yi.
• Qian Chaoguang and Wang Dong discussed a change in his Extreme Ice Light Martial Soul and examined the Light Source Liquid.
• Wang Dong explained that Light Source Liquid could improve Qian Chaoguang's foundation and raise his potential.
• Qian Chaoguang drank the Light Source Liquid, whose intense heat spread through his body and began merging with it.

Qian Chaoguang’s Light Source Liquid stalled because it could neither improve his already exceptional body nor fuse with Extreme Ice Light, awakening Electrolux in his Sea of Consciousness. Electrolux identified the cause and took control of Qian Chaoguang’s body to resolve it.

• The Light Source Liquid stopped absorbing into Qian Chaoguang, leaving him glowing and unable to use it.
• Qian Chaoguang asked the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm for help, but it could not identify the Light Source Liquid.
• Electrolux awakened when he sensed the Light Source Liquid’s pure light and life energy, then introduced himself to Qian Chaoguang.
• Electrolux explained that he had arrived in this world as a remnant of Divine Sense and had been recovering in Qian Chaoguang’s Sea of Consciousness.
• After inspecting Qian Chaoguang, Electrolux said the foreign light was incompatible with him and took control of his body.

Qian Chaoguang recovered after Electrolux extracted the Light Element from his body, and the remaining life energy raised his cultivation from rank fifteen to rank eighteen. Later, Wang Yan introduced Freshman Class One to his new fitness testing program, and he approached Qian Chaoguang as the students completed their tests.

• Electrolux left a bead of concentrated Light Element in Qian Chaoguang's Sea of Consciousness and told him to refine the remaining life energy himself.
• Qian Chaoguang woke with his cultivation raised to rank eighteen and teased Wang Dong about their debt of one hundred thirty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Wang Yan brought Freshman Class One to a new training ground filled with equipment he had developed.
• Wang Yan explained that he would use physical fitness tests to design individual training courses, and Qian Chaoguang helped distribute the forms.
• While the students completed their tests, Wang Yan approached Qian Chaoguang, who had not yet been tested.

Qian Chaoguang spoke with Wang Yan about the academy’s investigation into Zhou Yi and offered to share his family’s physical-training knowledge and equipment designs. Wang Yan tried to refuse the offer, leaving Qian Chaoguang’s plans to pass on the material unresolved.

• Wang Yan told Qian Chaoguang that the Zhou Yi investigation had exposed more than a dozen parasites and prompted a major reshuffle in the Outer Academy.
• Qian Chaoguang asked Wang Yan about physical training and invoked his claimed Hidden Family background.
• Qian Chaoguang offered to write down his family’s training methods and equipment blueprints for Wang Yan’s research and teaching.
• Wang Yan objected that Qian Chaoguang should not give away his family’s accumulated knowledge as a gift.

Qian Chaoguang gave Wang Yan knowledge about systematic exercise and training, hoping it would be shared to benefit others, and agreed to help design plans for the students. A week after Zhou Yi's outburst, Shrek punished her and Fan Yu while keeping both connected to the academy in different ways.

• Qian Chaoguang contrasted Tang San's secrecy with the ancient sages who shared useful knowledge and decided to pass his exercise and training knowledge to Wang Yan.
• Qian Chaoguang gave Wang Yan the material and asked him to spread it, and Wang Yan agreed that sharing knowledge was part of being a teacher and scholar.
• Wang Yan asked Qian Chaoguang to help research and design training plans for the students, and Qian Chaoguang accepted.
• Freshman Class One completed its special testing, which Qian Chaoguang skipped to focus on his own training.
• Shrek abolished Zhou Yi's Soul Power and placed her under house arrest while publicly claiming she had been expelled.
• Shrek stripped Fan Yu of his positions, honors, and rewards but retained him as an ordinary researcher for the Soul Tool Department's Limit Individual Soldier Plan.

The Zhou Yi Incident ended with punishments for Zhou Yi and other former Shrek teachers, while Qian Chaoguang focused on helping Wang Yan improve Freshman Class One’s training. Over the following two-plus months, the students made rapid progress as Qian Chaoguang kept a low profile and excelled in his studies.

• More than a dozen former Shrek teachers received punishments, while Du Wilun and the Outer Academy Dean were penalized for inadequate supervision; rumors said Yan Shaozhe was also severely punished.
• Qian Chaoguang told Wang Yan that he had done what he believed was right and had a clear conscience about the Zhou Yi Incident.
• Qian Chaoguang and Wang Yan designed personalized training equipment and programs, which the Logistics Department quickly produced for Freshman Class One.
• The Class One students improved in fitness, cultivation, and combat experience, while Wang Dong advanced two levels and nearly reached Level 24.
• Qian Chaoguang avoided attention as grateful students sought him out, and a former victim of Zhou Yi thanked him with over a hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and a Storage Soul Tool.
• Qian Chaoguang earned praise from his teachers and lent his detailed class notes to classmates who needed help.

Qian Chaoguang continued his cultivation and playful bickering with Wang Dong as Freshman Class One prepared for its first assessment. Wang Yan suspended physical training to explain the assessment and gave Qian Chaoguang personalized evaluation forms to distribute.

• Qian Chaoguang estimated he would reach Rank 20 before the school year ended and planned his cultivation for the remaining months.
• Qian Chaoguang teased Wang Dong after their morning training, and they bickered before he left their room.
• Huo Yutong noticed Qian Chaoguang and Wang Dong's increasingly friendly rivalry and reflected on how Freshman Class One had grown more united.
• Wang Yan announced that the students' first assessment would begin the next day and suspended physical training to explain its key points.
• Wang Yan asked Qian Chaoguang to distribute forms containing each student's test results and personalized cultivation recommendations.

Wang Yan explained the freshman assessment and assigned Qian Chaoguang, Huo Yutong, and Wang Dong to the same team, leaving the two rivals unhappy with the pairing. Wang Dong revealed she needed first place in the competition to join the Tang Sect, but believed Qian Chaoguang’s strength made that impossible.

• Wang Yan explained that the 3v3 freshman assessment would eliminate all but the top 150 teams, with the top 64 entering the elimination rounds.
• Wang Yan praised Song Qinghan for refusing a chance to enter the Soul Tool Department directly and choosing to compete alongside his classmates.
• Wang Yan assigned Qian Chaoguang, Huo Yutong, and Wang Dong to Group One, prompting Qian Chaoguang and Wang Dong to complain about each other.
• The students submitted their cultivation directions and left without requesting changes to their teams.
• Qian Chaoguang teased Wang Dong about Xiao Xiao wanting to join her team, and Wang Dong said she needed first place to join the Tang Sect but doubted she could beat him.

Wang Yan learned that Qian Chaoguang could use Light Share to enhance Wang Dong’s light-attribute abilities and encouraged the three students to compete for the New Student Competition championship. On the way back, Qian Chaoguang dismissed the need for tactics against weaker teams, and Wang Dong learned that their teacher had banned him from using his dangerous blade.

• Wang Yan reviewed Huo Yutong’s control-and-support path, Wang Dong’s assault-type path, and Qian Chaoguang’s form.
• Qian Chaoguang demonstrated Light Share, which infused Wang Dong’s soul skills with Extreme Ice Light and let him adjust them remotely through Light Mimicry.
• Wang Yan praised the ability and told the three students to rest and prepare for the New Student Competition.
• Wang Dong asked Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong to discuss tactics, but Qian Chaoguang argued that their strength made planning unnecessary against weaker teams.
• Wang Dong worried that Qian Chaoguang might kill someone with his blade, and Huo Yutong explained that their teacher had forbidden him from using it because it was too dangerous.

As the New Student Competition approached, Qian Chaoguang explained why Wang Dong had to compete alone and revealed that he and Huo Yutong were a couple, leaving Wang Dong stunned. The three later arrived at the assessment grounds and were assigned to Zone 33.

• Qian Chaoguang told Wang Dong to fight alone so they could hide their strength, then listed several powerful rival teams he had learned about while she slept.
• Wang Yan announced the competition schedule and urged the students to remain at the academy after the assessment.
• Huo Yutong defended Qian Chaoguang when Wang Dong called him a money-grubber, and Qian Chaoguang kissed Huo Yutong and admitted they were childhood sweethearts.
• Wang Dong realized she had been the lightbulb between Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong and remained dazed until the competition began.
• Qian Chaoguang, Huo Yutong, and Wang Dong arrived at the assessment grounds and drew lots that placed all three in Zone 33.

Qian Chaoguang, Huo Yutong, and Wang Dong began their freshman assessment match against Ouyang Junyi’s team, using their abilities to disrupt and outmaneuver their opponents. Wang Dong charged Ouyang Junyi with Huo Yutong’s Lock On guiding her, while the opposing team had already lost one member to confusion.

• Teacher Li announced the assessment rules and called Qian Chaoguang’s team to face Ouyang Junyi’s team.
• Qian Chaoguang used Extreme Ice Light—Light Share to buff Wang Dong and sent her charging forward.
• Huo Yutong confused Zhao Haochen, causing him to interrupt his Soul Skill and slap Chen Junfeng.
• Ouyang Junyi warned his teammates that Huo Yutong’s ability could control minds and charged at Wang Dong.
• Chen Junfeng knocked out Zhao Haochen, while Huo Yutong used Lock On to show Wang Dong the attack trajectories of Ouyang Junyi and Chen Junfeng.

Wang Dong defeated Class Three’s team with support from Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong, whose hidden abilities guided and strengthened her attacks. Class One then completed the first round without a single loss under Wang Yan and Qian Chaoguang’s training, and the new student assessment continued.

• Wang Dong used her enhanced guillotine blades to defeat Ouyang Junyi and Chen Junfeng, while Huo Yutong’s Lock On helped keep Chen Junfeng pinned.
• Teacher Li announced a victory for Class One, and the spectators credited Wang Dong’s strength without realizing how Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong had supported her.
• Wang Dong celebrated with Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong, who joked that their tactic was like putting a dog on a leash and called it the Raising Pigs Style.
• Ouyang Junyi, Chen Junfeng, and their third teammate recovered and left the field, while Teacher Li wondered why Qian Chaoguang was registered as a Control Type soul master.
• Class One passed the first assessment round as a group without a defeat, thanks to the training method developed by Wang Yan and Qian Chaoguang.

Qian Chaoguang's team won five consecutive freshman matches, often earning forfeits after opponents saw their strength, and Teacher Li warned them that tougher teams awaited. As they left the arena, they encountered Ma Xiaotao, whose Evil Fire seemed to ease slightly near Qian Chaoguang.

• Qian Chaoguang, Huo Yutong, and Wang Dong quickly won their matches as other freshmen surrendered, securing five consecutive victories.
• Teacher Li warned the three that their strong record meant they would face powerful teams in the next draw.
• On the way back, Qian Chaoguang told Wang Dong to fight alone if possible and offered to treat the group to dinner using a signed IOU.
• The trio met Xu Sanshi and Ma Xiaotao outside the Assessment Area, and Xu Sanshi nervously identified them for her.
• Ma Xiaotao sensed a faint coolness around Qian Chaoguang that seemed to calm her Evil Fire, then dismissed Xu Sanshi.

Ma Xiaotao confronted Qian Chaoguang about the strange icy power that had stopped her Evil Fire, but he denied having a guardian and claimed the power had been his own. When she attacked to force the truth from him, Qian Chaoguang fought back with his Extreme Ice Light, and his blade broke through her Flame Wings.

• Ma Xiaotao sent Wang Dong and Huo Yutong away so she could speak with Qian Chaoguang alone.
• Qian Chaoguang challenged Ma Xiaotao's intimidation and told her that the Cockcomb Phoenix Sunflower was the recorded cure for her Evil Fire.
• Ma Xiaotao demanded to know about the icy power that had affected her at Sea God Lake, and Qian Chaoguang claimed it had been his own doing.
• Ma Xiaotao refused to believe Qian Chaoguang and erupted into flames, trapping him inside her Flame Wings.
• Qian Chaoguang released his Bloodline Power and Extreme Ice Light, then slashed through Ma Xiaotao's fiery enclosure.

Qian Chaoguang broke through Ma Xiaotao’s flames, earning her respect and ending their fight once she learned no one had been backing him. He then confronted her for burning him and demanded an apology and compensation, leaving Ma Xiaotao to decide what would preserve her pride.

• Qian Chaoguang used a burst of power to break through Ma Xiaotao’s Flame Cage despite their enormous difference in strength.
• Ma Xiaotao admired his courage, and the two stopped fighting after she realized his earlier suppression of her had been a coincidence.
• Qian Chaoguang revealed that Qian Duoduo was his teacher and criticized the Martial Soul Department, making Ma Xiaotao’s flames rise again.
• Ma Xiaotao stopped herself from attacking when teachers and students nearby could witness her breaking school rules.
• Qian Chaoguang demanded that Ma Xiaotao apologize and compensate him for burning him, leaving her unable to walk away without risking trouble and losing face.

Qian Chaoguang accepted a supposedly worthless Hair Crystal from Ma Xiaotao, recognizing its future value as Titanium Crystal, and celebrated his windfall with Huo Yutong and Wang Dong. The three returned to the freshman assessment, where they faced Huang Chutian and the Lan Sisters, and Wang Dong rushed their team before they had finished preparing.

• Ma Xiaotao offered Qian Chaoguang a large Plate Crystal as compensation, and he took it while recognizing its hidden value to his forging.
• Qian Chaoguang realized the crystal could become Titanium Gold and reinforce Spiritual Metal items, then treated Huo Yutong and Wang Dong to an extravagant meal.
• Qian Chaoguang's team returned to Zone 33 as its seeded team and drew Huang Chutian's team for their sixth assessment match.
• Qian Chaoguang warned Huo Yutong and Wang Dong about the Lan Sisters' Martial Soul Fusion Skill and reminded them of their strategy.
• After the match began, Wang Dong charged while Huang Chutian and the Lan Sisters released their Martial Souls, reaching Huang Chutian just as he completed his transformation.