Chapter Summaries

Mu En forced the Xuanming Sect to sacrifice Xu Yi’s branch and seal its gates for ten years after Xu Sanshi’s assassination attempt against Ye Chen. Three months later, Ye Chen’s peaceful days at Shrek continued as Xiao Xiao worried about the upcoming new student assessment.

• Mu En demanded that the Xuanming Sect cut off Xu Sanshi’s branch and close its gates for ten years, threatening Xu Yin with his strength as a Limit Douluo.
• Xu Yi accepted responsibility for Xu Sanshi’s actions and killed himself, and Xu Yin agreed to carry out Mu En’s demands.
• Mu En returned to Shrek Academy, confident that the Xuanming Sect would not defy him.
• Ye Chen enjoyed a peaceful life at Shrek, while Ma Xiaotao became gentler with him after their night together.
• Three months passed, and Xiao Xiao told Ye Chen she was nervous about the upcoming new student assessment; he reassured her that she would pass.

Xiao Xiao brought Ye Chen breakfast before Wang Yan explained the new student assessment and its team rules. The students hoped to team up with Ye Chen, but Wang Yan announced that the academy had banned him from competing because his Soul Power Level was too high.

• Xiao Xiao gave Ye Chen a breakfast lunchbox, and he accepted it while Wang Dong grew anxious about Xiao Xiao's feelings for him.
• Wang Yan explained that students had to pass the combat-focused new student assessment to enter Shrek Academy's first year.
• Wang Yan told Huo Yuhao and A Wei that they could enter the Soul Tool Department without taking part, and instructed the other students to form teams of three.
• Wang Yan announced that the top three teams could earn generous rewards, including a chance to obtain a soul bone.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao both asked to team up with Ye Chen, but Wang Yan said the academy had banned him from competing because his Soul Power Level was too high.

Ye Chen was barred from the freshman assessment, so Wang Dong worried about finding a way to win without him. Back at their dormitory, Ye Chen gave her a five-thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear External Soul Bone and explained that he had rejected it for himself, leaving his own path focused on completing his Five Elements Attributes.

• Wang Yan announced that Ye Chen could not compete in the freshman assessment, disappointing Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao.
• On the way back to their dormitory, Wang Dong fretted about competing without Ye Chen, and he promised her a way to grow stronger quickly.
• Ye Chen explained that Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao would need extra strength to overcome Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu's Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Ye Chen showed Wang Dong a golden External Soul Bone from a five-thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and gave it to her.
• Ye Chen reflected that he had chosen not to absorb the Soul Bone, believing his Emperor's path and future Five Elements cycle mattered more than collecting techniques.

Ye Chen gave Wang Dong a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear External Soul Bone and helped her absorb it. Wang Dong successfully fused with the bone, then collapsed unconscious in Ye Chen’s arms.

• Ye Chen explained the strength of the five-thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear External Soul Bone and offered it to Wang Dong.
• Wang Dong accepted the precious gift after Ye Chen teased her about repaying him and warned her that absorption would be painful.
• Wang Dong prepared herself, and Ye Chen pressed the glowing right palm bone against her hand while supporting her with his Light Soul Power.
• Wang Dong endured the pain, resolved to surpass Ye Chen, and refined the External Soul Bone until she fused with it perfectly.
• Wang Dong celebrated her success, then lost her strength and fainted in Ye Chen’s arms.

After absorbing the Dark Gold Dreadclaw right palm bone, Wang Dong tested its power and promised Ye Chen a surprise. She returned to her original female appearance and revealed herself to Ye Chen, who embraced her.

• Wang Dong woke from his coma with his Soul Power at level twenty-seven and tested the Dark Gold Dreadclaw by slicing Ye Chen's iron chest in half.
• Ye Chen returned, forgave Wang Dong for damaging the chest, and gave her roasted Kun to eat.
• Wang Dong told Ye Chen she would surprise him that night, then changed back to her original appearance before a mirror.
• Ye Chen returned to the dormitory and found Wang Dong dressed in a pink dress and white silk stockings.
• Wang Dong asked Ye Chen if she was pretty, and he praised her before wrapping his arms around her waist.

Wang Dong worried that revealing she was a girl would separate her from Ye Chen, but he reassured her and the two shared an intimate night of Soul Power Resonance. The next morning, Wang Dong disguised herself as a boy again, still convinced that Ye Chen was the only one who knew her secret.

• Wang Dong asked Ye Chen whether she would have to leave their shared dorm, and he promised she could stay with him.
• Ye Chen carried Wang Dong to the bed and began Soul Power Resonance with her, while she reluctantly accepted his affectionate teasing.
• The next morning, Ye Chen tickled Wang Dong awake with cotton thread, and she kicked him off the bed.
• Wang Dong used her disguise technique to turn back into a young man, and Ye Chen praised how convincingly it changed her appearance and voice.
• Wang Dong claimed that only a Limit Douluo observing her closely could see through her disguise, while Ye Chen kept quiet about Mu En, Wang Yan, and Jiang Nannan knowing her secret.

Ye Chen began training Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao’s newly formed team for the freshman assessment, exposing their poor coordination in a practice battle. He left them with a clearer understanding of their roles and spent the afternoon teaching them team combat fundamentals.

• Wang Dong tried to lean against Ye Chen on the way to class, but he pulled away and flicked her forehead when she threatened him.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao formed an assessment team with Xiao Xiao’s shy roommate, a support-type Soul Master.
• Ye Chen faced the three girls in the training room as they attacked without coordinating, and he quickly bypassed Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao to knock their support teammate off balance.
• Ye Chen criticized Wang Dong for charging without a plan, Xiao Xiao for lacking battlefield awareness, and both for failing to protect their support teammate.
• Wang Dong admitted her mistakes, and Ye Chen spent the afternoon teaching the team their roles, how to initiate battles, and when to attack.

After training, Ye Chen took Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao camping by Sea God Lake, then left to meet Ma Xiaotao for their planned intimate cultivation. Ma Xiaotao surprised him with a strawberry and cream dessert, leaving him stunned.

• Ye Chen invited Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao to borrow soul beasts for a lakeside meal, where Xiao Xiao eagerly enjoyed his cooking.
• After the gathering, Ye Chen left Wang Dong and hurried to Ma Xiaotao's house for their appointment.
• Ma Xiaotao greeted Ye Chen in a bunny girl outfit and teased him about arriving late.
• Ye Chen and Ma Xiaotao headed to her cultivation area, where she said she had prepared dessert for him.
• Ma Xiaotao returned holding a strawberry in her mouth above a cream-covered fruit, leaving Ye Chen dumbfounded.

Ye Chen and Ma Xiaotao spent an intimate night and morning together, with Ye Chen praising her martial arts progress. Ma Xiaotao then told him she was leaving Shrek Academy on an Inner Court mission to hunt Evil Soul Masters, and Ye Chen saw her off.

• Ye Chen helped Ma Xiaotao train and praised how much her martial arts had improved.
• Ye Chen and Ma Xiaotao spent the night together and continued their intimacy into the morning.
• Ma Xiaotao dressed and told Ye Chen she was leaving Shrek Academy for an Inner Court mission.
• Ma Xiaotao explained that Evil Soul Masters had become more active and that she would hunt them to protect the people of the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
• Ye Chen urged Ma Xiaotao to be careful, and she promised to return safely before they said goodbye.

Ye Chen returned to the dormitory and reconciled with Wang Dong before she left for her freshman assessment match. Later, Zhang Lexuan returned and took Ye Chen to Shrek City for dinner, while Wang Dong prepared a surprise outfit for him back at the dormitory.

• Ye Chen returned to the dormitory, teased Wang Dong, and promised to let her bully him that night if she dressed as a girl.
• Wang Dong hurried off to her freshman assessment match, and Ye Chen stayed behind to cultivate until evening.
• Ye Chen met Zhang Lexuan on the road, and she invited him to dinner and arranged for them to stay at a hotel.
• Wang Dong returned to the empty dormitory and put on the girl’s outfit and white stockings she had bought for Ye Chen.
• Zhang Lexuan used her Black Card to book the hotel’s best open-roof suite and order its highest-grade candlelit dinner.

Zhang Lexuan and Ye Chen shared a candlelit dinner in a luxurious hotel suite, where the wine left Zhang Lexuan tipsy and inspired her to dance for him beneath the stars. Ye Chen praised her performance, and she learned that he loved it.

• The hotel manager escorted Zhang Lexuan and Ye Chen to a gilded top-floor suite after Zhang presented a Black Card she had borrowed from the Sea God Pavilion Elders.
• Zhang Lexuan and Ye Chen ordered dinner, drank soul-master red wine, and chatted about cultivation, daily life, and missions.
• After half an hour, Zhang Lexuan became flushed and dazed, denied that she was drunk, and offered to dance for Ye Chen.
• Zhang Lexuan danced barefoot beneath the stars on the balcony while Ye Chen watched and admired her performance.
• Zhang Lexuan asked whether Ye Chen liked her dance, and he praised it as unrivaled and said he had enjoyed it immensely.

Ye Chen and Zhang Lexuan spent the night together after she drunkenly confessed her desire for him, while Wang Dong waited in vain for him to return. The next morning, Zhang Lexuan woke beside Ye Chen, accepted his declaration that she was his woman, and kissed him again.

• Zhang Lexuan kissed Ye Chen and urged him to stop holding back, and he carried her to bed.
• Ye Chen forgot his promise to Wang Dong and spent the night with Zhang Lexuan.
• Wang Dong waited for Ye Chen until three in the morning, then angrily punched her pillow and fell asleep.
• Zhang Lexuan woke close to noon, remembered seducing Ye Chen, and felt no regret about their night together.
• Ye Chen told Zhang Lexuan she was his woman, and she kissed him and agreed when he wanted more.

Ye Chen returned to Shrek Academy after spending the night with Zhang Lexuan, then faced Wang Dong, whom he had stood up. He kissed Wang Dong to stop her from taking revenge, and she gradually stopped resisting.

• Zhang Lexuan asked Ye Chen to help her bathe, then dressed in a gray dress, stockings, and heels and asked what he thought of her appearance.
• Ye Chen praised Zhang Lexuan, and the two ate lunch before returning to Shrek Academy and parting at the gates.
• Ye Chen remembered that he had stood Wang Dong up and returned to their dormitory, where he found her still asleep.
• Wang Dong woke up, bit Ye Chen in anger for leaving her waiting, and tried to attack him again.
• Ye Chen picked Wang Dong up and kissed her, and she gradually became immersed in the kiss.

Ye Chen reconciled with Wang Dong, promised to make up for their missed Soul Power Resonance, and roasted Kun for her. More than half a month later, Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao advanced to the elimination rounds, and Zhang Lexuan invited Ye Chen to hunt Evil Soul Masters with her.

• Ye Chen kissed Wang Dong and soothed her anger, and she agreed to forgive him if he made up for their missed resonance that night.
• Wang Dong changed out of her outfit to save it for later, then left to compete after asking Ye Chen to roast Kun for her.
• Ye Chen cultivated, stole several Kun from his Ingredient Breeding Area, and roasted them for Wang Dong.
• That night, Ye Chen carried Wang Dong to bed to fulfill his promise of Soul Power Resonance.
• More than half a month later, Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao's team advanced to the elimination rounds among the sixty-four remaining teams.
• Zhang Lexuan told Ye Chen she was going to hunt Evil Soul Masters and asked him to come with her.

Ye Chen agreed to accompany Zhang Lexuan on a mission to hunt Evil Soul Masters and received Mu En’s permission to leave Shrek Academy. He told Wang Dong that he would be gone for weeks or months, leaving her reluctant to part with him.

• Zhang Lexuan invited Ye Chen to join her mission against a group of Evil Soul Masters, and he agreed.
• Ye Chen and Zhang Lexuan decided to set out the next day.
• Ye Chen told Mu En about the mission, and Mu En approved while advising him to follow Zhang Lexuan’s judgment.
• Ye Chen returned to the dormitory and reunited with Wang Dong.
• Ye Chen told Wang Dong he might be away for half a month to several months, and she begged him not to leave.
• Ye Chen told Wang Dong that a longer separation would make their next reunion happier.

Ye Chen prepared to leave Shrek Academy with Zhang Lexuan to eliminate Evil Soul Masters, while Xian Lin'er agreed to protect him from the shadows. Zhang Lexuan introduced him to their third teammate, her close friend Han Ruoruo, and Han immediately teased her about Ye Chen.

• Wang Dong begged Ye Chen to kiss her before their upcoming separation, and they spent the night together.
• Ye Chen left the dormitory the next morning and met Zhang Lexuan and Xian Lin'er before their mission.
• Xian Lin'er said she would stay hidden and step in only if Ye Chen faced danger.
• Zhang Lexuan explained that Han Ruoruo would join them as their third teammate and led Ye Chen to meet her.
• Han Ruoruo greeted Zhang Lexuan and teased her about bringing along her little lover.

Han Ruoruo recognized Ye Chen as Zhang Lexuan’s sworn younger brother and was shocked to see them holding hands. After hearing about the Evil Soul Masters’ movements, she challenged Ye Chen to a spar to test Zhang Lexuan’s claim about his strength, and the chapter left them fighting as Ye Chen broke her Mind Lock.

• Han Ruoruo recognized Ye Chen and privately wondered whether Zhang Lexuan had become romantically involved with her much younger sworn brother.
• Han Ruoruo reported that two groups of Evil Soul Masters were moving toward a major city in the Star Luo Empire, and Zhang Lexuan decided the mission might be more difficult than expected.
• Han Ruoruo questioned Zhang Lexuan about bringing Ye Chen on the mission, and Zhang Lexuan claimed Ye Chen could defeat her.
• Han Ruoruo accepted Zhang Lexuan’s proposal for a Soul Duel with Ye Chen, and Zhang Lexuan refereed.
• Ye Chen summoned his Emperor Aurora Sword and revealed four golden Soul Rings; Han Ruoruo used Mind Lock, but Ye Chen’s golden radiance shattered it.

Ye Chen defeated Han Ruoruo in a spar by cutting through her Shaking Gold Rope and overpowering her Shaking Gold True Body with Ring Fusion. He then prepared to accompany Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo to Yong'an City of the Star Dou Empire to stop the Evil Soul Masters.

• Han Ruoruo summoned her Shaking Gold Rope, but Ye Chen severed it with the Emperor Aurora Sword.
• Han Ruoruo used her Shaking Gold True Body to surround Ye Chen with ropes, and he countered by merging his four Soul Rings and striking her with a massive golden energy blade.
• Han Ruoruo gave up the fight, and Zhang Lexuan teased her about being the weakest of their trio.
• Zhang Lexuan told Ye Chen that they were heading to Yong'an City of the Star Dou Empire to stop the Evil Soul Masters.
• Zhang Lexuan gave Ye Chen a mission ring, and he bound it to himself with a drop of blood.

Ye Chen, Zhang Lexuan, and Han Ruoruo tracked a group of Evil Soul Masters to a cave near Yong'an City. After discovering the gruesome remains of their victims, Ye Chen confronted the group, and both sides prepared to fight.

• Ye Chen, Zhang Lexuan, and Han Ruoruo flew to the mountains near Yong'an City to search for Evil Soul Masters.
• Zhang Lexuan identified a Wenlan Tree whose recently removed heartwood suggested that nearby Evil Soul Masters had taken it.
• Han Ruoruo found footprints and bloodstains, and the three followed the trail to a cave at the bottom of a slope.
• Inside the cave, Ye Chen, Zhang Lexuan, and Han Ruoruo saw human skins hanging from the walls and an infant's corpse pierced onto a stalagmite.
• Ye Chen summoned his Emperor Aurora Sword and released the Power of Light as the Evil Soul Masters noticed them and summoned their Martial Souls.

Ye Chen confronted a cave full of Evil Soul Masters, relying on his Emperor Aurora Sword and light power despite being outnumbered and having fewer Soul Rings. He cut through their ranks as his battle spirit intensified, while Han Ruoruo guarded the cave entrance.

• Ye Chen showed his four golden Soul Rings to provoke the Evil Soul Masters, then told Han Ruoruo to stay back and watch.
• A five-ring Evil Soul King charged Ye Chen, but Ye Chen severed his sword and wounded him, leaving him to suffer as the Power of Light eroded his body.
• The Evil Soul Masters attacked Ye Chen together, hoping their Soul Emperors and Soul Sage could overwhelm him.
• Ye Chen filled the cave with Light Aura and wounded the Soul Kings with single strikes and the Soul Emperors with a few more, growing more courageous as he fought.