Chapter Summaries

Ye Chen and Tang Ya met Huo Yuhao outside the Star Dou Great Forest before Huo Yuhao entered alone to hunt for his first Soul Ring. After the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm became his intelligent Soul Ring, Electrolux’s remnant soul diverted from Huo Yuhao to Ye Chen, who secretly took him in; Ye Chen and Tang Ya then continued searching for a suitable fourth Soul Ring for her.

• Tang Ya bought and ate Huo Yuhao’s grilled fish, learned his name, and invited him to become her chef, but he declined and entered the Star Dou Great Forest alone.
• Huo Yuhao nearly died fighting a ten-year Wind Baboon, then met the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, which became his intelligent Soul Ring.
• Electrolux’s remnant soul descended into the Star Dou Great Forest and sensed Ye Chen’s Light Aura, changing course toward him.
• Ye Chen briefly blanked Tang Ya’s mind and took Electrolux’s remnant soul into his own mind without her noticing.
• Ye Chen and Tang Ya set out to find an Emerald Heart Vine for Tang Ya’s fourth Soul Ring.

Ye Chen and Tang Ya found an Emerald Heart Vine in the Primeval Ancient Forest, where Tang Ya absorbed its Soul Ring and became a four-ring Soul Ancestor. Their affectionate moment was interrupted when a crocodile broke through Ye Chen’s trap, provoking Tang Ya to kill it.

• Ye Chen and Tang Ya searched the Primeval Ancient Forest and found a four-thousand-year Emerald Heart Vine beside a life-filled lake.
• Ye Chen used his Fourth Soul Skill, Mad Waterfall Stab, to trap dozens of thousand-year Soul Beasts in the lake.
• Ye Chen subdued the Emerald Heart Vine, and Tang Ya drained its life force to obtain its purple Soul Ring.
• Tang Ya absorbed the Soul Ring and became a four-ring Soul Ancestor, then kissed Ye Chen on the cheek.
• A crocodile broke through Ye Chen’s Water Tai Chi Array, and Tang Ya killed it with her Third Soul Skill, Bone Gnawing Strangler.

Ye Chen watched Tang Ya demonstrate her Fourth Soul Skill, Grass World Descent, and learned how her Blue Silver Grass had grown stronger through the Life Path. After playfully stopping her from binding him, he promised her an enormous opportunity involving the Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul.

• Tang Ya drained the crocodile beast and returned to Ye Chen, still angry that it had interrupted her chance to bind him.
• Tang Ya demonstrated Grass World Descent, which created a field of unusually powerful Blue Silver Grass that drained Ye Chen's Soul Power.
• Tang Ya explained that her fourth Soul Ring and years of replenishing life essence had greatly improved her Martial Soul and that her skill could grow into a vast sea of grass.
• Ye Chen recognized Tang Ya's progress on the Life Path, then used Light Soul Power to make her grass retreat when she tried to bind him.
• Ye Chen promised Tang Ya an enormous opportunity and brought up the Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul, whose Blue Silver Domain could rival Super Martial Souls.

Ye Chen returned to Shrek Academy after obtaining his fourth Soul Ring, but Mu En insisted that he enroll in the Outer Court and assigned him a dormitory. There, Ye Chen met his roommate Wang Dong, whose arrogant rules immediately set the two against each other.

• Tang Ya fantasized about gaining a Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul, and Ye Chen confidently told her she would find out in a few years.
• After returning to Shrek Academy, Ye Chen learned that Mu En had already registered him for the Outer Court and would serve as his dorm supervisor.
• Mu En led Ye Chen to the dormitory, gave him his badge and key, and warned him not to bully his roommate.
• Ye Chen found Wang Dong in their room and recognized him, while Wang Dong laid down a list of demands for living together.
• Ye Chen rejected Wang Dong's demands, and Wang Dong threatened to beat him out of the dorm.

Ye Chen challenged Wang Dong to a duel over their dorm rules and easily overpowered her despite refusing to summon his Martial Soul. The chapter left Wang Dong attacking with her first Soul Skill, Wing Guillotine, while Ye Chen raised both middle fingers toward the incoming blades.

• Ye Chen provoked Wang Dong into agreeing that the loser would handle the dorm's dirty and tiring chores, then followed her outside to duel.
• Wang Dong summoned her Light Goddess Butterfly Martial Soul, while Ye Chen refused to release his own.
• Wang Dong charged and kicked at Ye Chen, but he caught her ankle, lifted her into a split, and threw her more than ten meters away.
• Wang Dong refused to admit defeat and unleashed her first Soul Skill, Wing Guillotine, sending two golden blades of light at Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen calmly extended both middle fingers toward Wang Dong's incoming blades, leaving her confused and unsettled by the gesture.

Ye Chen defeated Wang Dong in a fight and made her clean their dormitory, then Mu En confirmed that Wang Dong was a girl disguised as a boy. Wang Dong finished cleaning and settled into the shared room while Ye Chen went to sleep.

• Wang Dong attacked Ye Chen with her Second Soul Skill, but he controlled the Light Elements and slammed her to the ground.
• Wang Dong accepted that she had lost and agreed to take responsibility for cleaning the dormitory.
• Mu En questioned Ye Chen after the fight, and Ye Chen explained that Wang Dong's Light Goddess Butterfly showed she was a girl disguised as a boy.
• Mu En told Ye Chen to bully Wang Dong less, then teased him about sharing a dormitory with her.
• Wang Dong cleaned the room while Ye Chen unpacked his bedding and ordered her to clean his bed more thoroughly.
• Wang Dong finished cleaning, unpacked her many belongings, and lay down to rest.

Ye Chen gave Wang Dong a roasted Soft Bone Rabbit, hoping to teach him to cook it for his family and sect. Wang Dong accepted Ye Chen as a friend and promised to make a rabbit banquet for his elders; later, he sensed his own Power of Light resonating with Ye Chen’s as Ye Chen meditated.

• Ye Chen took Soft Bone Rabbits from Elder Gong’s area, roasted three, and saved one to give Wang Dong.
• Wang Dong accepted Ye Chen’s roasted rabbit and, after eating it, agreed to become his friend.
• Ye Chen suggested Wang Dong learn to roast rabbit for his family, and Wang Dong promised to make a banquet for everyone in his sect.
• Wang Dong went to bathe while Ye Chen meditated, surrounded by the Power of Light.
• After his bath, Wang Dong sensed the Power of Light in his body resonating with Ye Chen’s aura.

Wang Dong was drawn to Ye Chen’s Light Soul Power and asked him to resonate with her so she could cultivate faster. He agreed to give her ten minutes a day in exchange for doing his dorm chores, and Wang Dong lay awake afterward wondering about her growing fascination with him.

• Wang Dong approached Ye Chen while he meditated, and their Light Soul Powers resonated until Ye Chen stopped them.
• Wang Dong pleaded for more resonance, and Ye Chen offered ten minutes a day in exchange for her washing his clothes and straightening his blankets.
• Wang Dong accepted the deal, and Ye Chen let her resonate with him for ten minutes before refusing to continue.
• Wang Dong stayed awake watching Ye Chen and wondered about his strength, his Light Soul Power, and the fragrance that drew her close to him.

Ye Chen met Huo Yuhao at Shrek Academy and learned he had enrolled in the Soul Tool Department under the academy’s reforms. Their conversation was interrupted by Huo Yuhao’s bizarre roommate, A Wei, who turned out to be kind and afraid of the dark.

• Ye Chen recalled how his advice to Mu En had led Shrek Academy to abolish recommendation letters and expand support for the Soul Tool Department.
• Ye Chen ran into Huo Yuhao, who explained that his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul had helped him enter Shrek through the Soul Tool Department.
• Huo Yuhao asked about Ye Chen’s cultivation, but Ye Chen said he was neither a Soul Grandmaster nor a Soul Elder, leaving Huo Yuhao to assume their levels were close.
• A Wei arrived to find Huo Yuhao, shocking Ye Chen with his unusual appearance.
• Huo Yuhao told Ye Chen that A Wei was a considerate roommate who helped him with chores and meals, but feared the dark and shared a bed with him.

Huo Yuhao introduced A Wei to Ye Chen before leaving to cultivate and pursue revenge against the Duke's Manor. Ye Chen spent the day shopping, sightseeing, and taking photos with Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan, then returned to his dormitory after the women kissed him goodbye.

• Huo Yuhao introduced A Wei to Ye Chen, then said farewell so he could return to meditating and cultivating.
• Ye Chen met Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan at the Shrek Academy gates and admired their dark-themed and purple outfits.
• Ye Chen took Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan around Shrek City to shop, eat snacks, and pose for photographs.
• Ye Chen looked through the day's photos with Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan as the sun set, and they asked him to print the pictures.
• Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan kissed Ye Chen goodbye before entering their dormitory, and Ye Chen hurried back to his own dormitory to deal with someone waiting there.

Ye Chen returned to the dormitory and disciplined Wang Dong for demanding that he spend all his time with her, then rewarded her with extra Soul Power Resonance. After several days of cultivation, Shrek Academy's recruitment ended and classes were about to begin.

• Ye Chen returned to the dormitory, where Wang Dong smelled two girls on him and angrily demanded that he keep her company.
• Ye Chen seized Wang Dong and punished her until she admitted her mistake, then offered her twenty minutes of Soul Power Resonance.
• Ye Chen and Wang Dong cultivated together, and over the next few days Wang Dong followed his example and worked toward becoming a Soul Elder.
• When Shrek Academy officially opened, Ye Chen woke Wang Dong, who complained that he had hit her butt again and demanded extra time that night.

Ye Chen went to class with Wang Dong, where he met homeroom teacher Wang Yan and spotted Huo Yuhao, A Wei, and Xiao Xiao. Xiao Xiao blushed after Ye Chen smiled at her, leaving him to wonder whether she had fallen for him.

• Ye Chen greeted Mu En, then told Wang Dong that Mu En was his grandfather, prompting her to pinch him in embarrassment.
• Ye Chen and Wang Dong sat in class, where a girl asked Ye Chen to be friends and Wang Dong rejected her for him.
• Wang Yan introduced himself as the students' homeroom teacher.
• Ye Chen recognized A Wei and Huo Yuhao, then noticed Xiao Xiao watching him shyly.
• Ye Chen smiled at Xiao Xiao, and she secretly wondered whether she might be about to find romance.

Ye Chen watched his classmates introduce themselves under Wang Yan, who encouraged their ambitions and showed particular interest in Huo Yuhao and A Wei’s Body Martial Souls. The introductions reached Wang Dong, whose stated goal was to defeat Ye Chen, leaving Wang Yan with suspicions about her Light Goddess Butterfly.

• Ye Chen recalled how he and Mu En reformed Shrek Academy, assigning Zhou Yi to the Inspection Team to hunt Evil Soul Masters rather than expelling her.
• Wang Yan asked the class to introduce themselves and encouraged Zhang Xiaofan to pursue his dream of becoming an assault-type Battle Soul Master.
• Huo Yuhao introduced himself as an eleven-level Soul Master who wanted revenge, while A Wei described his dream of building a city without restraints; Wang Yan praised them and studied their Body Martial Souls with interest.
• Xiao Xiao introduced herself as a twenty-first-level Soul Grandmaster who wanted to become a control-type Battle Soul Master, drawing admiration from her classmates.
• Wang Dong introduced herself as a twenty-fourth-level Battle Soul Master and named defeating Ye Chen as her short-term goal, prompting Wang Yan to notice the significance of her Light Goddess Butterfly Martial Soul without exposing her disguise.

Ye Chen revealed that he had already reached Soul Ancestor at level forty-six, shocking the freshmen and Wang Yan. Wang Yan praised Ye Chen’s potential and explained that the freshmen would compete in an assessment in three months for rewards and a chance to enter Zero Class, a program Ye Chen had devised.

• Wang Dong said her short-term goal was to defeat Ye Chen, leaving Huo Yuhao wondering about Ye Chen’s true strength.
• Ye Chen introduced himself as a level-forty-six Soul Ancestor with the Aurora Sword Martial Soul, stunning the class.
• Huo Yuhao realized Ye Chen was far stronger than he had assumed, while Wang Dong was shocked by how much stronger Ye Chen was than her.
• Wang Yan calmed the students, declared that Ye Chen could become a figure at the pinnacle of the Soul Master world, and recorded the students’ information.
• Wang Yan told the freshmen to prepare for their first assessment in three months, where outstanding students could earn rewards and enter Zero Class.
• Ye Chen recognized Zero Class as a program he had devised years earlier and paid little attention to Wang Yan’s explanation.

Wang Yan explained Shrek Academy’s points system and how Soul Duels let students win points to exchange for cultivation resources. He then led the freshmen to the Gravity Training Room, where they would train until noon.

• Wang Yan told the freshmen that points could buy treasures and simulated-environment cultivation time, and that students earned points by challenging stronger opponents to Soul Duels.
• Zhang Xiaofan asked how the rules could help him improve, while Wang Dong asked how Ye Chen could earn points as a Soul Ancestor.
• Wang Yan explained that Soul Duels could be fought across the Outer Court, including against Inner Court students, and then taught a theory lesson on Martial Souls and Soul Rings.
• Wang Yan brought the freshmen to the Gravity Training Room and explained that its increasing gravity made it a limited weekly cultivation resource.

Wang Yan brought the freshmen into the Gravity Training Room to strengthen their bodies and Soul Power. Ye Chen reached the center of the black-line zone to train, while the others struggled to keep up and confronted the vast gap between them.

• Wang Yan explained the benefits of gravity training and led the freshmen into the training room for three hours.
• Wang Dong learned Ye Chen was a level forty-six Soul Ancestor and entered the gravity zone alongside him.
• Ye Chen passed through the white-, yellow-, and purple-line zones and reached the center of the black-line zone.
• Wang Yan observed Huo Yuhao reach the yellow-line zone despite his low Soul Power Level, while Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong also advanced.
• Ye Chen began strenuous exercises at the center, astonishing the other freshmen; Wang Dong resolved to reach the purple-line zone.

Wang Dong trained in the Purple Line Zone, then visited Mu En with fruit and health supplements and explained her past fight with Ye Chen. She left pleased that Mu En now saw her as a well-behaved friend of his grandson.

• Wang Dong used her Light Goddess Butterfly to reach the edge of the Purple Line Zone and trained there for three hours.
• Wang Yan ended the morning training, and the exhausted students went to lunch.
• Wang Dong told Ye Chen she had urgent business, then went to Shrek City to buy fruit and health supplements for Mu En.
• Wang Dong gave Mu En the gifts and explained that she had fought Ye Chen only because her family had told her to act fierce.
• Mu En praised Wang Dong and urged her to rest before afternoon classes, and she returned to her dormitory feeling pleased.

Wang Dong hid his identity from Ye Chen after Ye Chen accidentally saw his bare back, then asked about Ye Chen’s family. Ye Chen explained that Mu En had adopted him and that he did not know who his parents were.

• Mu En watched Wang Dong leave and decided to let Ye Chen handle his romantic entanglements.
• Wang Dong returned to the dorm, showered, and accidentally stepped out without clothes while Ye Chen was waking up.
• Ye Chen saw Wang Dong’s bare back, but Wang Dong was relieved when Ye Chen only commented on his fair skin.
• Wang Dong asked why Ye Chen and Mu En had different surnames, and Ye Chen explained that Mu En was his adoptive grandfather.
• Ye Chen told Wang Dong that he did not know who his parents were.

Ye Chen comforted Wang Dong by teasing her, then left her practical combat class to visit Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan. He reunited with Jiang Nannan, who ran into his arms and told him she had missed him.

• Wang Dong told Ye Chen she had never known her parents, and he comforted her while privately hoping she would never learn Tang San's role in her past.
• Ye Chen teased Wang Dong by telling her to call him dad, and she bit him before declaring she would beat him into a pig head.
• Ye Chen subdued Wang Dong when she attacked him, then calmed her by promising her an extra half hour that night.
• Ye Chen skipped the practical combat class, leaving Wang Dong to attend it alone.
• Ye Chen went to find Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan, and Jiang Nannan rushed into his arms and told him she had missed him.

Ye Chen skipped the freshmen’s practical combat class and walked around campus with Jiang Nannan and Tang Ya, provoking gossip among their classmates. Xu Sanshi confronted him over Jiang Nannan and challenged him to a duel, but Ye Chen refused, leaving Xu Sanshi taunting him as a coward.

• Ye Chen told Jiang Nannan and Tang Ya that the freshmen’s practical combat class was too boring, then took both girls’ hands and left with them.
• Students watched the three leave, and one student quietly walked out of the classroom after them.
• Xu Sanshi rushed up to Ye Chen, accused him of being unworthy of Jiang Nannan, and demanded a duel to decide who would leave her.
• Jiang Nannan rejected Xu Sanshi and told him she could be with whoever she liked.
• Ye Chen soothed Jiang Nannan and refused to waste time on Xu Sanshi, who sneered that Ye Chen was afraid and unable to protect her.