Chapter Summaries

Grade One Class One and Grade Two Class One competed in a series of exchanges, with Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, and Su Hao winning or drawing the first four rounds for Grade One. The chapter ended as Shen Yi announced the final team battle and Grade One chose to send four participants.

• Su Hao showed Tang Wulin and the others his completed Battle Armor, while the class grew friendlier toward Tang Wulin's group.
• Three days later, Cai Yuer announced that she would watch the contest between the two classes and that the winning side would receive Contribution Points.
• Grade One Class One and Grade Two Class One gathered at the Sparring Arena, where Yuanen Yehui led the older, more unified class.
• Tang Wulin won the forging exchange, Gu Yue drew the Battle Armor design exchange, and Su Hao won the crafting and repair exchanges for Grade One.
• Shen Yi announced that the final exchange would be a team battle, and Grade One Class One chose four participants.

Grade One and Grade Two began their team match, with Yuanen Yehui charging at Su Hao while the Grade Two team launched a coordinated attack. The chapter left the outcome undecided as Duan Hunxiao’s flute skill disrupted most of Grade One.

• Yuanen Yehui selected He Xiaopeng, Duan Hunxiao, and Yue Zhengyu to represent Grade Two against Su Hao’s team.
• Yali and Elder Cai discussed each class’s strengths, and Yali agreed to referee the match.
• Yuanen Yehui and Su Hao faced off with their auras before Shen Yi started the match.
• Yuanen Yehui transformed into her Troll Titan form and charged at Su Hao, while Yue Zhengyu and He Xiaopeng attacked Grade One’s other students.
• Duan Hunxiao played his flute and caused everyone on Grade One’s side except Su Hao and Ping Nan to feel dizzy.

Su Hao and Yuanen Yehui traded increasingly powerful blows as both teams fought across the arena. Su Hao held a slight advantage, while Yuanen Yehui activated her Fourth Soul Skill and prepared to face him in a golden Troll Titan form.

• Su Hao punched Yuanen Yehui back, but she retaliated with an Air Cannon as Duan Hunxiao tried to disrupt Su Hao with his flute.
• Su Hao erased the interference, shattered Yuanen Yehui's Air Cannon, and used his gaze to stop Duan Hunxiao from playing until he collapsed and left the stage.
• He Xiaopeng broke Yun Duo's Freezing Beam, while Ping Nan's Spiritual Blade struck He Xiaopeng and left him dizzy; Yue Zhengyu attacked Yun Duo, but Su Hao teleported her out of danger.
• Su Hao and Yuanen Yehui exchanged heavy blows, and Su Hao gradually gained a narrow advantage while sensing the Law of Strength become smoother within him.
• Yuanen Yehui activated Titan Strength, then unleashed her Fourth Soul Skill as her body shrank, her arms grew thicker, and her fur turned gold.

Yuanen Yehui unleashed her Fourth Soul Skill and clashed head-on with Su Hao, then tried to eliminate his teammates while she still had strength. Lu Cheng and He Xiaopeng were eliminated in the exchange, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Yuanen Yehui activated her Fourth Soul Skill and met Su Hao's Law of Strength with a powerful punch, but the clash broke her right arm and sent her flying.
• Yuanen Yehui recovered and fired an Air Cannon toward Yun Duo and the other two, determined to eliminate Su Hao's teammates before her Troll Titan form expired.
• He Xiaopeng attacked Ping Nan with his Eight-Edged Plum Blossom Bright Silver Hammer, using Shock Blast to disrupt space around them.
• Lu Cheng assisted Ping Nan and Yun Duo, then left the stage as Yuanen Yehui's Air Cannon struck the ground where he had been.
• Ping Nan attacked He Xiaopeng with his Third Soul Skill while Yun Duo fired a Freezing Beam, and He Xiaopeng was eliminated after the beam hit him.

Su Hao defeated Yue Zhengyu and Yuanen Yehui in the competition, while Yuanen’s stubborn fight earned the respect of Shrek’s elders. Ya Li recognized Su Hao’s Heavenly Dao Martial Soul from an ancient book but could not recall its history, leaving the elders to search the academy library for answers.

• Yue Zhengyu eliminated Yun Duo, then Yuanen Yehui attacked Su Hao and exchanged blows with him.
• Yue Zhengyu unleashed Judgment, but Su Hao absorbed its light with Five Elements Separation and eliminated him with Dark Gold Dreadclaw.
• Yuanen Yehui repeatedly got back up and charged Su Hao until her Berserk skill wore off and she collapsed unconscious.
• Ya Li confirmed Yuanen would recover after about a week, while Feng Wuya praised Su Hao and Zhuo Shi considered recruiting him.
• Ya Li recalled that an ancient book connected the Heavenly Dao Martial Soul to a previous wielder who rose quickly and disappeared quickly, prompting the elders to search the academy library.

As the first semester at Shrek Academy ended, Shen Yi announced a fifteen-day Final Exam requiring students to travel to Mingdu and defeat stronger opponents without resources or assistance. The students were left to prepare for a dangerous test that could eliminate five classmates.

• Su Hao forged a Light Shadow Steed by modifying it with his Phantom Leopard Soul Spirit and Light and Fire Element Metal.
• Shen Yi announced that five students would be eliminated unless the class reached the passing line, and that students could donate excess points at the cost of their own Inner Court prospects.
• Shen Yi explained that students had fifteen days to reach Mingdu, passing through at least ten cities and defeating an opponent five cultivation levels above them in each city.
• Shen Yi said students must leave behind their Storage Soul Tools, Communication Soul Tools, resources, and money, while academy teachers followed secretly without intervening.
• Shen Yi warned that students who failed to complete the journey and return within fifteen days would fail and lose half their points.

Grade One Class One received a demanding Final Exam that required each student to travel alone, earn money, and defeat stronger opponents across ten cities. After the students set out, Gu Yue and Ye Xinglan raised travel funds by robbing a student outside the academy.

• Shen Yi announced that students had to complete the Final Exam alone, while Elder Cai and Shen Yi discussed how the academy would prevent them from cheating.
• Elder Cai recalled arguing with Tianfeng over Gu Yue and Su Hao, then left his office by stepping into the void.
• Wu Changkong and Shen Yi confiscated the students’ belongings before the class departed from Shrek Academy.
• Xu Xiaoyan, Xie Xie, Xu Lizi, and Tang Wulin chose different ways to earn money, while Gu Yue and Ye Xinglan borrowed money by threatening a Grade Two student.
• Xu Lizi persuaded the student to buy his buns, but Gu Yue and Ye Xinglan beat him after he tried to enter the academy.
• Ye Xinglan and Gu Yue declined to challenge a powerful upperclassman and left after deciding they had borrowed enough money.

Su Hao was barred from using his Light Shadow Steed or earning money through Shrek City associations, so he headed to Heaven Dou City by riding atop a Soul Guide Train with Shen Yi. When the train was seized by armed hijackers threatening hostages with bombs, Su Hao recognized a chance to board the train properly as the conductor ordered everyone into Carriage No. 6.

• Shen Yi stopped Su Hao from using the Light Shadow Steed and told him he could not earn money through associations in Shrek City.
• Su Hao decided to reach Heaven Dou City by flying alongside the Soul Guide Train and went to the station with Shen Yi.
• Su Hao jumped onto the train roof, and Shen Yi joined him as the train prepared to depart.
• Tang Wulin rushed onto the train during a commotion over a snake and recalled his golden Little Snake.
• Hijackers announced that they held hostages and had planted Soul Tool Cluster Bombs in the first five carriages, demanding the release of captured people.
• The conductor learned that headquarters could not respond within thirty minutes and ordered all personnel to retreat into Carriage No. 6.

Su Hao and Shen Yi joined the train staff as they negotiated with the hijackers, and Su Hao revealed that there were more robbers and casualties than the staff had realized. Conductor Mo Lan exchanged herself for the release of elderly people, women, and children, leaving her inside carriage No. 5 at gunpoint.

• Su Hao and Shen Yi entered carriage No. 5 and identified themselves to the security captain.
• Su Hao told Shen Yi that nine robbers were involved, one was disguised as a hostage, and civilians had likely been killed.
• Mo Lan negotiated for the release of elderly people, women, and children in exchange for becoming a hostage.
• The hijackers released ten hostages, and Mo Lan surrendered her Soul Tool Ray Gun before entering carriage No. 5.
• A robber pressed a Soul Tool Ray Gun to Mo Lan's forehead as she asked for the remaining elderly people, women, and children to be released.

Tang Wulin and Su Hao were taken hostage after Mo Lan and the security captain arranged to disconnect the rear train carriages. In Carriage No. 4, Tang Wulin spotted corpses in Carriage No. 3, and Su Hao told him there were nine hijackers aboard.

• Mo Lan agreed to release more than a hundred passengers, but Tang Wulin ran to her and called her his big sister.
• The security captain joined Mo Lan as a hostage while the rear carriages disconnected; a hijacker seized Su Hao during the confusion.
• The hijacker leader ordered Tang Wulin and Su Hao taken to Carriage No. 4 and threatened to kill ten hostages every five minutes.
• Tang Wulin observed the hijackers and hostages, then saw that Carriage No. 3 was covered in blood and filled with corpses.
• Su Hao quietly told Tang Wulin that nine hijackers were on the train, and Number Three kicked Tang Wulin for speaking aloud.

Su Hao and Tang Wulin launched their plan to stop the train robbers and dispose of the bombs. After separating the front carriages and taking down several criminals, Su Hao entered the remaining carriage, where Mo Lan was being held at gunpoint.

• Su Hao identified a ninth robber hiding among the hostages and explained the plan to Tang Wulin.
• Tang Wulin released his Martial Soul as Su Hao disarmed three robbers and used Blue Silver Grass to incapacitate them.
• Su Hao removed the three bombs from Carriage No. 4 and knocked unconscious another robber who entered.
• Su Hao severed the connection to Carriage No. 5, allowing the engine and front carriages carrying most of the hostages to escape.
• Su Hao used his Battle Armor and Mind Power to repel another robber before charging into the next carriage, where the remaining criminals held Mo Lan at gunpoint.
• Su Hao blocked the criminals' Ray Gun fire with metal plates as he pressed his attack.

Su Hao and Tang Wulin stopped the train hijackers, rescued Mo Lan and the passengers, and captured the last criminal. After slipping away before they could be honored, Su Hao explained Evil Soul Masters to Tang Wulin.

• Su Hao used the Soul Tool Cannon to strike a criminal, while the leader took Mo Lan hostage and threatened to detonate a bomb.
• Tang Wulin stunned the leader with the Purple Demon Eye, allowing Mo Lan to seize the Detonator as Su Hao killed him.
• Su Hao blocked an attack from the ninth criminal, threw the cluster bomb from the train, and Jin Yu bound the hidden attacker for the passengers to subdue.
• The Federation’s upper ranks took notice of Su Hao, while Su Hao and Tang Wulin slipped away from the station lounge to avoid a ceremony and let Tang Wulin take his exams.
• Tang Wulin asked why people treated lives so cruelly, and Su Hao warned him about Evil Soul Masters who cultivated with blood, bones, and souls.

Su Hao explained how Evil Soul Masters arose and hinted that the person who destroyed their prison had a shocking identity, leaving Tang Wulin determined to uncover the truth. Su Hao then went to the Heaven Dou Blacksmith Association to seek a mission, but learned he needed a badge and was directed to register for an assessment.

• Su Hao told Tang Wulin that prejudice and circumstance created many Evil Soul Masters, and that someone destroyed the prison where they had been contained.
• Tang Wulin vowed to smash the prison destroyer's statue, while Su Hao said the person's identity could shock the Federation and two other continents.
• Su Hao told Tang Wulin he would learn the truth as a Titled Douluo and face two choices, then flew away as Tang Wulin wondered whether he was connected to the mysterious person.
• Su Hao reflected that he hoped Tang Wulin would not side with Tang San, then headed to the Heaven Dou Blacksmith Association to earn travel money.
• Su Hao asked to accept a Level 5 mission without his badge, but the staff member refused and directed him to the second-floor rank certification area to register for an assessment.
• A broadcast announced that the President would arrive in five minutes to give a half-hour blacksmithing lecture in the first-floor hall.

Su Hao attended a lecture at the Heaven Dou City Blacksmith Association and learned that its visiting President was the continent’s only Divine Craftsman. As the crowd gathered, he found Tang Wulin beside him, and the two watched the legendary blacksmith arrive.

• A staff member told Su Hao that the Association’s President was the continent’s only Divine Craftsman and that he would give a lecture.
• Su Hao followed the staff member to the packed first-floor hall and used Mind Power to reach the front of the crowd.
• Tang Wulin squeezed into the spot beside Su Hao, and the two quietly discussed why blacksmithing commissions could pay better for the time involved.
• The blacksmiths cheered as the President entered the inner circle, and Su Hao observed the legendary Divine Craftsman.

Divine Craftsman Zhen Hua lectured the Blacksmiths on a technique for Fusion Forging, inspiring Tang Wulin to try it himself. Zhen Hua lent Tang Wulin his Spirit Forging Hammers and promised them to him if he succeeded, as Tang Wulin prepared to demonstrate.

• Zhen Hua greeted the Blacksmiths and began explaining how his technique could make Fusion Forging easier and more successful.
• Tang Wulin listened intently, recognized how the lesson complemented his own insights, and called out his approval.
• Zhen Hua noticed Tang Wulin and encouraged him, and Tang Wulin asked to try Fusion Forging onstage.
• Tang Wulin requested Heavy Silver, Sky Star Iron, and Sky Moon Essence powder, then set the metals in the Forging Table and adjusted the heat.
• Zhen Hua lent Tang Wulin his Spirit Forging Hammers and said he would give them to him if Tang Wulin succeeded.

Tang Wulin impressed Divine Craftsman Zhen Hua by forging Star Silver into Divine Metal, while Su Hao revealed his confidence and traded an unknown metal for travel money. The chapter ended with Zhen Hua examining the rare metal Su Hao had produced from a Spatial Rift.

• Tang Wulin lifted Zhen Hua's heavy Cloud Gold Forging Hammers and completed Hundred Refinements, Thousand Refinements, and Fusion Forging on Star Silver.
• Tang Wulin introduced himself as Mu Chen's fourteen-year-old Level 5 disciple, and Zhen Hua let him keep the Star Silver and offered him the Cloud Gold Hammers.
• Tang Wulin asked Zhen Hua to pay cash for the hammers, then brought Su Hao along to meet him.
• Su Hao told Zhen Hua he was a Level 5 Blacksmith and asked for travel expenses after the academy confiscated his Blacksmith Medal.
• Su Hao took Zhen Hua and Tang Wulin to a private office, opened a Spatial Rift, and gave Zhen Hua an unknown Rare Metal in exchange for one million five hundred thousand Federal Coins.

Zhen Hua arranged for Su Hao to complete his Heaven Dou City assessment by fighting Xie Yinling, a rank 44 Soul Master. Su Hao swiftly defeated him and left Xie Yinling unable to identify his Martial Soul.

• Zhen Hua asked Su Hao's rank and arranged a rank 44 opponent for his assessment.
• Zhen Hua introduced Su Hao and Tang Wulin to Xie Yinling, and Su Hao volunteered to fight first.
• Xie Yinling revealed his eagle Martial Soul and took to the air as Su Hao charged and followed him upward.
• Su Hao used suction and golden rings to bind Xie Yinling, deflected his Eagle Wing Slash, and tapped his chest to stop his Soul Power.
• Su Hao released Xie Yinling and apologized, while Xie Yinling accepted his swift defeat without discovering Su Hao's Martial Soul.

Su Hao and Tang Wulin completed their matches at the Blacksmith Association, where Zhen Hua invited Su Hao to learn Heavenly Forging techniques. Su Hao reunited with his teachers and companions, then accompanied Gu Yue to the Spirit Pagoda, where Heavenly Phoenix Douluo refused to help with her assessment.

• Su Hao defeated Xie Yinling, and Tang Wulin also beat her in his match.
• Zhen Hua invited Su Hao to visit and learn Heavenly Forging techniques, then took Tang Wulin upstairs.
• Su Hao met Wu Changkong and Shen Yi, who explained that teachers would accompany the students during their Final Exams after Evil Soul Masters attacked a train.
• Gu Yue joined Su Hao for her assessment, chose the Heaven Dou City Spirit Pagoda, and traveled there with Su Hao and Shen Yi.
• A Spirit Pagoda official told Gu Yue that Heavenly Phoenix Douluo had refused to help with her exam, so Gu Yue left with Su Hao and Shen Yi.

Su Hao proposed using a no-risk million-Federal-Coin Gambling Match to attract stronger Soul Masters for Gu Yue to challenge, and they set up their offer outside the Tiandou Spirit Pagoda. Li Musheng, a newly advanced Level 51 Soul King, approached them to check whether he qualified.

• Su Hao suggested offering money to challenge higher-level Soul Masters, and Teacher Shen questioned whether anyone would be interested or meet Gu Yue’s requirements.
• Su Hao explained that greed and the chance to win one million Federal Coins without risking anything would attract challengers, and he offered money he had earned at the Blacksmith Association.
• Su Hao and Gu Yue prepared a sign and loudspeaker announcing that Gu Yue would challenge Soul Masters between Level 43 and Level 55 for a million-coin reward.
• Li Musheng left the Tiandou Spirit Pagoda pleased with his new third Soul Spirit and his breakthrough to Level 51.
• Li Musheng approached Su Hao and Gu Yue, asked whether the reward was genuine, and introduced himself as a Level 51 Soul Master.

Gu Yue defeated Li Musheng in a one-sided match, then Su Hao teleported their group away when mecha arrived at the Spirit Pagoda. They planned to travel to Heavenly Spirit City, but the Soul Guide Train station had closed, leaving them to consider driving instead.

• Gu Yue used Elemental Tide and her control over the elements to overwhelm Li Musheng, then let him out of the ground after the match ended.
• Shen Yi confirmed Gu Yue had passed Heaven Dou City and asked where she planned to go next.
• Three mecha approached the Spirit Pagoda, so Su Hao teleported himself, Gu Yue, and Shen Yi to a secluded alley in Heaven Dou City.
• Su Hao chose Heavenly Spirit City as their next destination, but they found the Soul Guide Train station temporarily closed after the terrorist attack.
• Su Hao proposed checking car dealers to decide whether they should buy or rent a car.