Chapter Summaries

Yun Mu effortlessly defeated Luo Guixing, Wu Sidao, Yang Nianxia, Zheng Yixin, and Xu Yucheng in a five-on-one arena fight, then fully restored them with his Life Energy. The five stood recovered but stunned as Yun Mu dismissed their abilities.

• Xu Yucheng joined Luo Guixing, Wu Sidao, Yang Nianxia, and Zheng Yixin in surrounding Yun Mu.
• The five attacked together, but Yun Mu's Life Sword Rain healed him while draining their Soul Power and suppressing their assaults.
• Yun Mu unleashed Sword Domain: Fleeting Splendor, sealed the arena with sword intent, and knocked all five opponents down.
• Yun Mu used Withering Bones Forge Edge to restore the five opponents' Soul Power, strength, and injuries completely.
• Yun Mu told the recovered five that their abilities were not enough to warm him up.

Yun Mu watched Tang Wulin win the first-year class monitor position and moved into the working student dormitory to stay near his friends, especially Gu Yue. Yue Zhengyu dismissed Yun Mu’s claim that he was Shrek’s new Outer Court Dean, while Yun Mu hinted at his plans concerning Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon King bloodline.

• Yun Mu watched the freshmen’s competition, where Tang Wulin’s combat skill secured him the class monitor position and Gu Yue, Wu Sidao, and Luo Guixing took the other class committee posts.
• Yun Mu decided to move beside the working student dormitories so he could stay close to Gu Yue and his other friends, while privately considering whether his Martial Soul could strip away Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon King bloodline.
• Yue Zhengyu challenged Yun Mu’s claim that he was the new Outer Court Dean, promising to drink a beverage upside down if it was true.
• Yun Mu settled into an empty dorm room, where Gu Yue brought him snacks and praised Tang Wulin’s performance in the competition.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Yuanen Yehui visited Yun Mu, and Yue Zhengyu pressed him to prove his claim about being Dean.
• Yun Mu praised Tang Wulin’s handling of the Clear Sky Hammer.

Yun Mu settled into life at Shrek Academy while Tang Wulin plotted a deal with Yue Zhengyu and attended a lesson on mecha manufacturing. After class, Feng Wu Yu again tried to recruit Tang Wulin as his apprentice, dragging him to the forging room to make his case.

• Tang Wulin eagerly asked Yun Mu to spar, and Yun Mu agreed to go to the training grounds later while Yuanen Yehui warned them not to damage the dorm.
• Tang Wulin spotted Yue Zhengyu and planned to fleece him by selling him Starfall Iron.
• Yun Mu cultivated alone, tempering and compressing his Soul Power until his reserves increased.
• Yun Mu attended Wu Changkong's class on mecha manufacturing and its core fields, then saw Feng Wu Yu rush off to confront Tang Wulin about becoming his apprentice.
• Feng Wu Yu dragged Tang Wulin to the forging room and promised that studying under him could lead to Spirit Forging within three years and make Tang Wulin a star of Shrek's Forging Department within five.

Tang Wulin refused Feng Wu Yu's offer to become his forging student, and Zhuo Shi took him away. That night, Yue Zhengyu mistook Yuanen Yehui for an Evil Soul Master and fought her until Yun Mu subdued them both and took them to his office.

• Tang Wulin told Feng Wu Yu that he already had a master, and Zhuo Shi arrived and dragged him away after Yun Mu called for help.
• Chen Xinjie brought Long Yeyue to speak with Yun Ming, who agreed to their proposal.
• Yue Zhengyu heard a noise at night, spotted Yuanen Yehui behind a screen, and challenged her as an Evil Soul Master.
• Yue Zhengyu and Yuanen Yehui fought with their Holy Angel and Fallen Angel Martial Souls until Yun Mu arrived and froze their weapons in midair.
• Yun Mu drained Yue Zhengyu and Yuanen Yehui's Soul Power and ordered them to come with him to his office.

Yun Mu settled a nighttime confrontation between Yue Zhengyu and Yuanen Yehui, revealing his authority as Shrek Academy’s Outer Court Dean. He punished Yue Zhengyu for injuring Yuanen Yehui, healed them both, and sent them away.

• Yun Mu had Enforcement Squad members escort Yue Zhengyu and Yuanen Yehui to his office while Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, and Xu Xiaoyan watched from outside.
• Yue Zhengyu accused Yuanen Yehui of being an Evil Soul Master, and she explained that she had only gone out to bathe.
• Yuanen Yehui identified herself and showed Yun Mu her student ID, shocking Yue Zhengyu and the students outside.
• Yun Mu used his Soul Power to restrain and injure Yue Zhengyu and Yuanen Yehui, warned them not to cause trouble, and fined Yue Zhengyu ten thousand contribution points.
• Yun Mu explained that an evil-attribute Martial Soul did not make its user an Evil Soul Master, then healed both students with his cyan longsword.
• Yue Zhengyu and Yuanen Yehui left the office, while Tang Wulin and the others admired Yun Mu’s authority.

Yun Mu took his students to the small cafeteria after scolding Yue Zhengyu and Yuanen Yehui, where the cook revealed they were the first students the Dean had ever brought there. Yue Zhengyu and Yuanen Yehui joined them, and Yun Mu began addressing their fight.

• Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan teased Yun Mu about how fiercely he had scolded Yue Zhengyu and Yuanen Yehui.
• Yun Mu invited the group to the cafeteria and ordered a meal, while Tang Wulin added extra portions of spicy rabbit meat.
• The cook told the students they were the first students Yun Mu had ever brought to the small cafeteria.
• Yue Zhengyu and Yuanen Yehui followed the group inside, and Yun Mu invited them to sit with the others.
• Yun Mu told Yue Zhengyu and Yuanen Yehui that they had both been at fault in the earlier fight.

Yun Mu calmed Yue Zhengyu and Yuanen Yehui’s quarrel over dinner, then heard that Tang Wulin’s class planned to make One-word Battle Armor instead of Mechas. He insisted on forging Gu Yue’s Battle Armor himself and began hammering a metal blank in the forging room.

• Yun Mu stopped Yue Zhengyu and Yuanen Yehui from arguing and warned them against fighting privately again.
• Yue Zhengyu and Yuanen Yehui accepted Yun Mu’s warning, and Tang Wulin helped restore the cheerful mood at dinner.
• The next morning, Wu Changkong assigned the work-study students to build Mechas and compete in a Mecha assessment, while the class set its sights on One-word Battle Armor.
• Tang Wulin called Yun Mu to ask about forging Battle Armor, and Yun Mu said he would forge Gu Yue’s armor himself.
• Yun Mu went to the forging room and began striking a red-hot metal blank with his Mysterious Iron hammer.

Gu Yue received Leng Yaozhu’s support for pursuing Yun Mu, then joined him in the forging room to work on a breastplate he had made for her. Yun Mu revealed that the array patterns on his own Battle Armor had appeared on his body by themselves, leaving Gu Yue impressed.

• Leng Yaozhu recognized that Gu Yue liked Yun Mu and encouraged her to go find him, while recalling her own past feelings for Yun Ming.
• Mu Chen visited Tang Wulin and suggested he take Feng Wu Yu as his teacher because Mu Chen could not defeat him.
• Gu Yue admired the breastplate Yun Mu had forged for her, and he asked her to carve its Battle Armor array patterns.
• While Gu Yue worked, Yun Mu said the patterns on his own Battle Armor had drilled into his body on their own.
• Gu Yue reacted with admiration, and Yun Mu smiled, suspecting she was pretending to be carefree.

After Gu Yue finished carving the breastplate, Yun Mu returned to his room and found Feng Wu Yu waiting there, determined to make Tang Wulin his apprentice. Feng Wu Yu flew off with Tang Wulin to help him break through Rank 40 and show him the path of forging.

• Gu Yue completed the breastplate’s array patterns, and she and Yun Mu walked back to the dormitories together.
• Yun Mu found Feng Wu Yu in his room and learned that Feng Wu Yu wanted to discover what would persuade Tang Wulin to become his apprentice.
• Yun Mu told Feng Wu Yu that Mu Chen had come and that Tang Wulin would probably agree to the apprenticeship.
• Yun Mu pushed Feng Wu Yu toward Tang Wulin’s dormitory, and Feng Wu Yu hurried over to fetch him.
• Feng Wu Yu carried the bewildered Tang Wulin into the night sky and promised to help him break through Rank 40 and teach him the true path of forging.

Yun Mu attended a Sea God Pavilion meeting after explaining Tang Wulin’s absence, where the elders argued over transferring Inner Court disciples without Two-word Battle Armor to the Outer Court. Yun Ming and Ya Li postponed the decision until the next meeting, leaving the proposal unresolved.

• Yun Mu reflected on his recent breakthrough to Soul King rank fifty-five and planned to request leave for the missing Tang Wulin.
• Yun Mu told Wu Changkong that Old Madman had taken Tang Wulin and that he had requested leave for him.
• Yun Mu attended the Sea God Pavilion meeting and saw a proposal to transfer Inner Court disciples lacking Two-word Battle Armor to the Outer Court.
• Yun Mu told Zhuo Shi that Old Madman had taken Tang Wulin, prompting Zhuo Shi to accuse him of wanting Tang Wulin as his final disciple.
• The Sea God Pavilion elders split into opposing camps and argued over the transfer proposal.
• Yun Ming and Ya Li stopped the argument and postponed discussion until the next meeting.

Yun Mu supported Shrek’s plan to send inner court disciples out for hardship, then received the Golden Ancient Tree’s life seed after its Origin Spirit warned him of Shrek’s future destruction. After three days beneath the tree, Yun Mu awoke stronger and found his Soul Power had transformed into a balanced pattern around a silver core.

• Yun Mu told Yun Ming he supported the proposal to temper inner court disciples outside Shrek, and Yun Ming agreed it should be implemented soon.
• Yun Mu stayed beneath the Golden Ancient Tree to cultivate while Wu Changkong handled his work.
• The Golden Ancient Tree’s Origin Spirit appeared to Yun Mu, warned that flames and death would engulf Shrek, and asked him to accept its seed.
• Yun Mu examined the emerald seed with his Soul Power, confirmed it was the Golden Ancient Tree’s pure life origin, and kept it close to him.
• After three days, Yun Mu awoke at level fifty-six and discovered his green and purple Soul Power had formed a taiji bagua pattern around a silver center.

After recovering for three days, Yun Mu joined the practical combat class and challenged the students to last two incense sticks against him for full marks. Tang Wulin and the class committee confronted him, and the chapter ended as Tang Wulin launched the opening attack.

• Yun Mu felt his power surge, then headed to the outer court for the weekly practical combat class.
• Shen Yi announced that students would face her and Teacher Wu, but Yun Mu added himself as a mandatory opponent and sat arrogantly on the sparring platform.
• Shen Yi made the class committee go first and set a two-incense-stick survival challenge against Yun Mu for full marks.
• Luo Guixing asked Tang Wulin about Yun Mu's Soul Skills, and Gu Yue warned that his Third Soul Skill could pierce defenses and spatial barriers.
• Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, Luo Guixing, and Wu Sidao surrounded Yun Mu on the platform as his Sword of Life appeared with five black Soul Rings and flickering chains.
• Tang Wulin opened the fight by activating his Blue Silver King Martial Soul and using his First Soul Skill, Blue Silver Strangulation.

Yun Mu faced Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, Luo Guixing, and Wu Sidao in a battle designed to bring out their potential. His Life Sword skills restored the four while weakening them, and his Sword Domain: Fleeting Splendor defeated them, leaving Yun Mu in control of the arena.

• Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, Luo Guixing, and Wu Sidao launched a coordinated attack against Yun Mu, but his Withering Bones Forge Edge neutralized their moves and freed him from Luo Guixing's Spatial Imprisonment.
• Yun Mu used Life Sword Rain to replenish the four students' Soul Power while weakening their bodies and abilities.
• Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, Luo Guixing, and Wu Sidao renewed their attack with stronger, coordinated Soul Skills, and Yun Mu approved of their growing potential.
• Yun Mu invoked Sword Domain: Fleeting Splendor, filling the arena with flowers and sword phantoms that pierced through all four students' defenses.
• Yun Mu's sword phantoms sent Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, Luo Guixing, and Wu Sidao flying; they survived but could no longer fight, and Luo Guixing recognized the domain's overwhelming power.

Yun Mu finished testing student groups in the arena, healing and correcting them before sending them off. He then began sparring with Wu Changkong and Shen Yi, whose attacks his strengthened Martial Souls easily countered.

• Yun Mu healed the four students he had defeated and sent them off the arena as the two-incense-stick limit ended.
• Yun Mu tested the following groups, giving them chances to show their abilities and pointing out their mistakes.
• Yun Mu invited Wu Changkong and Shen Yi to spar so the students could observe real combat.
• Wu Changkong attacked Yun Mu with Frost Mark, but Yun Mu's Withering Bones Forge Edge dissolved the icy sword threads.
• Shen Yi sent her Mimosa vines at Yun Mu, but his Tree of Destruction and Withering Entanglement withered them.
• Wu Changkong struck with Sky Frost Slash, and Yun Mu answered with Life Sword Rain, weakening Wu Changkong while restoring his own Soul Power.

Yun Mu defeated Wu Changkong and Shen Yi, then healed everyone in the arena and left them to continue class. In his office, he discovered a silver chain within the Sword of Life and suspected it represented Order, which could give him the foundation to create a God Realm.

• Yun Mu used his Sword of Life and Tree of Destruction skills to defeat Wu Changkong and Shen Yi, leaving them badly injured.
• Yun Mu activated Compassion for the Suffering to heal everyone in the arena, then told them to sit and cultivate.
• Yun Mu told Wu Changkong and Shen Yi that strong peers would be motivated to work harder despite the gap, then left the class in their hands.
• Yun Mu returned to his office and noticed an illusory silver chain inside the Sword of Life.
• Yun Mu wondered whether the chain represented Order and realized that Life, destruction, and Order might give him the foundation to create a God Realm.

Yun Mu forged a piece of Gu Yue’s Battle Armor and agreed to join her friends in a Spirit Pagoda challenge. That night, the group cultivated in Yun Mu’s dormitory, where a faint silver glow and a rotating Eight Trigrams diagram appeared around him.

• Yun Mu finished forging a Thousand Forging First Grade metal piece and brought Gu Yue to discuss how to design it for her Battle Armor.
• Yun Mu promised to bring a reliable senior student to help with Tang Wulin and the others’ Battle Armor designs.
• Gu Yue invited Yun Mu to join their planned Spirit Pagoda challenge, and he agreed to help the group fight monsters.
• Gu Yue asked if she could cultivate beside Yun Mu, and he invited her and the others to cultivate together in his dormitory.
• As the group meditated late into the night, a pale silver glow appeared around Yun Mu, followed by green and purple power forming a rotating Eight Trigrams diagram.

Yun Mu's cultivation nourished the dormitory but crushed Old Tang's hard-won progress back to square one. The next morning, Yun Mu attended a Sea God Pavilion meeting where the Elders continued arguing over the Inner Court Disciples issue.

• Yun Mu's Power of Creation spread through the dormitory, benefiting everyone except Old Tang, who lost his progress and returned to maggot form.
• Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan begged Yun Mu to let them cultivate beside him again, and he told them they could return that night.
• Yun Mu went to Sea God Pavilion for a meeting and learned Zhuo Shi supported the proposal under discussion.
• Yun Mu reflected on his plans to repay those who had cared for him by helping them become gods.
• Yun Mu found the Elders divided into two arguing factions over the Inner Court Disciples issue, and Yun Ming called for quiet.

Yun Mu agreed to join Tang Wulin and the others in the tower challenge, and the group spent the days preparing before traveling to Spirit Pagoda. The chapter ended as Yun Mu arrived at the Spirit Pagoda headquarters for the first time.

• Yun Ming confirmed the decision to Xu Lizhi, who resolved to complete his Two-word Battle Armor despite leaving the inner court.
• Yun Mu agreed to join Tang Wulin and the others for the tower challenge and urged Xie Xie to return to cultivation.
• Yun Mu and his companions followed their usual routine of classes, cultivation, and Battle Armor study, while Yun Mu earned his Level 7 Blacksmith certificate.
• Yun Mu, Gu Yue, Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Yue Zhengyu, Xu Xiaoyan, and Yuanen Yehui rode together to the tower challenge.
• Yun Mu arrived at Spirit Pagoda's headquarters and reflected that it was his first visit there.

Gu Yue led Yun Mu and the Shrek Academy group through the Spirit Pagoda headquarters, where her status earned them special treatment. They reached a high observation platform and were welcomed by a red-haired woman, as Tang Wulin quietly worried that his resemblance to Tang Wutong might trouble Yun Mu.

• Spirit Pagoda staff welcomed Gu Yue and the Shrek Academy group with exceptional courtesy and escorted them through a private passage.
• Yun Mu wondered where Na'er was, while Xu Xiaoyan spotted Tang Wutong's portrait and remarked that she looked strikingly like Tang Wulin.
• Tang Wulin worried that his connection to Tang Wutong would upset Yun Mu, but Yun Mu calmly urged the group to focus on challenging the tower.
• Gu Yue took the group up a Red Elevator, and Yue Zhengyu realized she had access to an elevator reserved for Spirit Pagoda upper management.
• The group admired the Spirit Pagoda's observation platform above the clouds before Gu Yue led them through a Silver Gate to meet a red-haired woman, who welcomed them.

Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Yun Mu, Gu Yue, and their companions entered the Spirit Pagoda Tower and rapidly cleared its first seven floors. On the ninth floor, they faced four powerful Ice Bears, and Yun Mu restored the group’s strength with his Life Sword Rain as the battle began.

• Leng Yaozhu welcomed Yun Mu and the Shrek disciples, explained the Spirit Pagoda Tower’s entrance, and watched them enter.
• Yun Mu and the others appeared before an ancient pagoda in a vast white space and entered its first floor.
• Tang Wulin used Blue Silver Grass and his Clear Sky Hammer to defeat the Wind Wolves on the first floor.
• Xie Xie defeated eight Flame Magic Lions on the second floor, and the group cleared the guardians of the following floors with little difficulty.
• On the ninth floor, four Ice Bears confronted the group, whose earlier exertion had begun to wear them down.
• Yun Mu used his second Soul Skill, Life Sword Rain, to restore everyone’s Soul Power and dispel their fatigue.