Chapter Summaries

Zhu Zhuqing discovered Dai Mubai’s betrayal, then accepted Su Mo’s offer to become his disciple and agreed to enroll at Shrek Academy. The next morning, Su Mo, Xiao Wu, and Tang San reached the academy and were shocked by its rundown appearance.

• Zhu Zhuqing saw Dai Mubai leaving a hotel with two women and decided she would rely on her own strength.
• Su Mo contacted Zhu Zhuqing through a postcard, took her as his disciple, and told her to apply to Shrek Academy.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu ate and shopped in Suotuo City, then joined Tang San the next morning to travel toward Shrek.
• The trio found Shrek Academy in a village and stared in disbelief at its shabby entrance.

Su Mo, Tang San, and Xiao Wu reached the front of Shrek Academy’s registration line, where Tang San and Su Mo impressed the examiner with their soul rings. The chapter ended with the examiner estimating Su Mo’s second ring at over three thousand five hundred years old.

• The old man rejected applicants for failing Shrek Academy’s age and soul-ring requirements, driving most of the line away.
• Xiao Wu complained that the academy’s strict rules and poor attitude made it seem like it was swindling applicants.
• Tang San paid the fees for himself, Su Mo, and Xiao Wu, and all three passed the age check.
• Tang San revealed a yellow and purple pair of soul rings, and the old man accepted him as a monster.
• Su Mo revealed two purple soul rings, and the old man identified Su Mo’s first ring as at least two thousand years old and asked how he had absorbed ten-thousand-year whale glue as a Soul Scholar.
• Su Mo explained that he had absorbed the whale glue in small portions, and the old man estimated that his second ring was at least three thousand five hundred years old.

Su Mo, Xiao Wu, and Tang San entered Shrek Academy, where their unusual Soul Rings impressed the staff and applicants. After Oscar’s sausage trick was interrupted and his soul skill unexpectedly worked without an incantation, Dai Mubai escorted the trio—and then Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing—past the second test, prompting complaints from the waiting applicants.

• Su Mo revealed that his first two Soul Rings were thousands of years old, and Xiao Wu also displayed two thousand-year rings, while Tang San’s blue silver grass ring drew less admiration.
• Dai Mubai brought Su Mo, Xiao Wu, and Tang San into Shrek Academy and directed them to queue for the second test.
• Tang San bought three sausages from Oscar, but Dai Mubai warned him about them and asked Oscar to make a fresh one, revealing that Oscar’s soul skill now worked without its incantation.
• Dai Mubai took Tang San, Su Mo, and Xiao Wu directly to the fourth test, and Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing followed them.
• The applicants in line protested that the group had been allowed to skip the tests.

Su Mo, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing all demonstrated rank twenty-nine soul power and advanced to Shrek Academy’s fourth trial. When Zhao Wuji set a one-incense-stick survival test, Su Mo revealed that he could fly, leaving Zhao Wuji helpless to stop him.

• Tang San, Su Mo, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing each tested at rank twenty-nine, astonishing the other applicants and the teacher.
• Dai Mubai led the five to the fourth trial, where Zhao Wuji announced that they had to work together to last against him for one incense stick’s time.
• Su Mo said the test would be easy, prompting Zhao Wuji to challenge his confidence.
• Su Mo activated a hidden Soul Bone Skill and rose into the air, surprising the group and frustrating Zhao Wuji.

Su Mo and the others prepared to face Zhao Wuji’s combat trial after learning about his overwhelming strength and coordinating their roles. As the new incense stick was lit, Ning Rongrong began supporting the group, while Su Mo prepared to surprise Zhao Wuji.

• Su Mo tried to pass the trial by flying and waiting out the time, but Zhao Wuji declared that flying was forbidden and required the group to fight him.
• Dai Mubai explained Zhao Wuji’s strength and the group introduced their martial souls and abilities; Ning Rongrong revealed that her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda could boost speed and strength.
• Tang San proposed that he hold Zhao Wuji in front while Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing attacked from the flanks, leaving Su Mo’s role undisclosed.
• Su Mo told the group he would give Zhao Wuji a shock, and Dai Mubai began the trial by lighting a new incense stick.
• Ning Rongrong started chanting her support skill, but Su Mo moved even faster.

Su Mo intimidated Zhao Wuji by pretending to be a Titled Douluo, then demonstrated his power by transforming Shrek Academy’s grounds into a vast forest. Zhao Wuji conceded and agreed to pause the assessment while Su Mo’s companions and the other applicants struggled to understand what they had witnessed.

• Su Mo revealed nine soul rings, including three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, and convinced Zhao Wuji that he was a Titled Douluo.
• Zhao Wuji apologized and asked why Su Mo had come to Shrek Academy, while Su Mo claimed he had accompanied a youngster and wanted to spar.
• Xiao Wu and Tang San realized Su Mo was bluffing, and Zhao Wuji grew furious when he understood he had been tricked.
• Su Mo used Wood Release: Nativity of a World of Trees to cover Shrek Academy in a primeval forest, leaving everyone stunned.
• Zhao Wuji accepted that Su Mo’s power was real, apologized again, and stood still for the time it took an incense stick to burn while Su Mo let the assessment continue afterward.

Su Mo used Tian Meng’s Wood Release: Advent of a World of Trees to bluff Zhao Wuji, but the technique lasted only half an incense stick. When Zhao Wuji realized he had been fooled and attacked, Su Mo escaped with Xiao Wu, leaving Tang San and the others to face the furious Soul Saint.

• Tian Meng warned Su Mo that Advent of a World of Trees could last only half an incense stick before exhausting his soul power.
• When Su Mo’s forest vanished, Zhao Wuji realized he had been tricked and attacked him with his third and fifth soul skills.
• Xiao Wu used her first soul skill to carry Su Mo to a distant cabin roof, while Su Mo said the others could handle the remaining half of the assessment.
• Tang San stepped forward to face Zhao Wuji, and Ning Rongrong boosted his strength and speed as Zhu Zhuqing prepared to support him.
• Tang San discovered that he had to recite Oscar-like soul incantations to summon his Blue Silver Whip as Zhao Wuji charged at him.

Tang San faced Zhao Wuji in Shrek Academy’s test, but Zhao Wuji’s assault left him unconscious before the incense burned out. Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing passed the test by retrieving and quickly burning the incense, while Su Mo secretly influenced Zhao Wuji’s emotions.

• Tang San whipped Zhao Wuji until Zhao Wuji used Gravity Enhancement and Gravity Compression, then slapped Tang San repeatedly.
• Tang San retaliated with his Blue Silver Thorn Whip, but Zhao Wuji reflected the lashes with Immovable Bright King Body.
• Su Mo used Emotion Control to intensify Zhao Wuji’s wariness and anger as Tang San prepared to fight seriously.
• Zhao Wuji used Position Tracking and Great Strength Vajra Palm to strike Tang San unconscious, but Dai Mubai’s plea made him stop.
• Ning Rongrong revealed that the incense had burned out after Zhu Zhuqing retrieved it, and Zhao Wuji declared that the group had passed.
• Xiao Wu brought Su Mo back, and Su Mo helped Tang San up while privately enjoying his injuries.

After Tang San recovered from his injuries, Su Mo built a villa for the new students, who settled into their rooms. Tang San woke that night and discovered Oscar’s soul-skill side effect had transferred to him.

• Oscar made recovery sausages, and Dai Mubai fed them to the unconscious Tang San until his injuries healed.
• Zhao Wuji sent Dai Mubai to take the new students to their lodgings, where Zhu Zhuqing denied being the Zhu Family’s Zhu Zhuqing from the Star Luo Empire.
• Su Mo took responsibility for the ruined dormitories and summoned a three-story villa with his Wood Release technique.
• The students chose roommates and rooms in the villa, with Su Mo sharing with Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing sharing with Ning Rongrong.
• Tang San woke in a room he shared with Oscar and learned that Oscar’s soul-skill incantation had transferred to him.

Su Mo secretly provoked Zhao Wuji by imitating the earlier encounter with a powerful stranger, while using Emotional Control to make Zhao Wuji mistake Tang Hao for him. Tang Hao defeated Zhao Wuji, and Flender identified him as the Haotian Douluo, leaving Zhao Wuji terrified that he had harmed Tang San.

• Su Mo detected Zhao Wuji brooding over the day's assessment and plotting to put the new students through harsh training.
• Su Mo summoned Zhao Wuji to a grove by imitating an eerie voice, then watched as Tang Hao appeared in black robes and revealed nine soul rings.
• Su Mo used Emotional Control to reduce Zhao Wuji's fear and strengthen his suspicion that the black-robed man was Su Mo in disguise.
• Zhao Wuji charged Tang Hao, believing he had seen through Su Mo's trick, but Tang Hao kicked him through two trees.
• Tang Hao advanced on the injured Zhao Wuji, and Flender appeared and respectfully addressed him as Your Excellency Haotian.
• Zhao Wuji realized Tang Hao was the Clear Sky Douluo and feared he had angered him by beating Tang San.