Chapter Summaries

Tang Wulin and Tang Wuyang said goodbye to Ouyang Zixin and Mu Xi before leaving Eastsea City for Shrek Academy. On the train, Tang Wuyang reflected on their departure and his approaching Third Seal breakthrough while comforting the sleeping Gu Yue.

• Tang Wulin and Tang Wuyang sneaked into the Girls' Dormitory, where Ouyang Zixin told them that Mu Xi had been unhappy about their departure.
• Tang Wulin confessed that he liked Ouyang Zixin, who gently treated his words as the affection of a younger friend and wished the brothers a safe journey.
• Tang Wuyang and Tang Wulin told Mu Xi they had come to say goodbye, thanked her, and left; Mu Xi cried after they were gone.
• Tang Wuyang reassured Gu Yue that he was only feeling sentimental about leaving Mu Xi, and Tang Wulin stopped Xie Xie from pressing him about it.
• On the train to Shrek City, Tang Wuyang considered his coming Third Seal breakthrough and gently soothed Gu Yue when she stirred in her sleep.

Tang Wuyang arrived in Shrek City with Zero Class and secretly underwent a bloodline breakthrough after Gu Yue used her Silver Scales to draw out his Seals. He entered Deep Meditation in Wu Changkong’s room, while Tang Wulin was also recovering from his own breakthrough.

• Zero Class arrived in Shrek City, and Wu Changkong settled the students into a small hotel near the train station.
• Gu Yue visited Tang Wuyang and secretly used her Silver Scales to draw out his Seals, accelerating his Golden Dragon King bloodline.
• Wu Changkong took Tang Wulin out to obtain his final Spirit Item, and Tang Wulin later began breaking through in the hotel.
• Tang Wuyang sensed that his Third Seal was about to break and asked Wu Changkong to guard him.
• Tang Wuyang shattered the Third Seal, developed Golden patterns and scales across his body, and entered Deep Meditation as Wu Changkong separated him from Tang Wulin.

Wu Changkong asked Shen Yi to delay Shrek Academy’s exams because Tang Wuyang and Tang Wulin were in Deep Meditation, but she said the rules made that impossible. He decided to return to Shrek Academy and plead for his students, while Gu Yue and Xie Xie showed they would give up their own chances rather than leave their friends behind.

• Shen Yi recalled Tang Wulin’s Blue Silver Emperor bloodline and Gu Yue’s impressive elemental control as she met Wu Changkong in Shrek City.
• Wu Changkong explained that Tang Wuyang and Tang Wulin were in Deep Meditation and asked to postpone the exam, but Shen Yi said the academy could not change its schedule for them.
• Gu Yue offered to give up her exam qualification for Tang Wuyang, then declared she would not attend Shrek Academy without him; Wu Changkong told her he would handle the matter.
• After leaving the room, Xie Xie told Xu Xiaoyan he would also skip the exam if Tang Wuyang and Tang Wulin could not take it, and Xu Xiaoyan agreed that their friends mattered more.
• Wu Changkong chose to return to Shrek Academy with Shen Yi and plead for his students, then entered the academy’s Inner City with her.

Wu Changkong returned to Shrek Inner Court and knelt outside while Shen Yi told him that their Teacher refused to see him but allowed him to keep kneeling. Meanwhile, Tang Wuyang and Tang Wulin woke from Deep Meditation, and Shen Yi led their companions toward the delayed Shrek Academy Assessment.

• Wu Changkong asked Shen Yi about their Teacher, then ran to Shrek Inner Court and knelt before its entrance.
• Shen Yi returned and told Wu Changkong that Teacher would not see him but had said to let him kneel there.
• As the Assessment deadline passed, Xie Xie, Gu Yue, and Xu Xiaoyan waited for Tang Wuyang and Tang Wulin to wake.
• Shen Yi arrived and told Xu Xiaoyan that Wu Changkong had secured the group an opportunity to take a more difficult Assessment once the two boys woke.
• Tang Wuyang absorbed his Third Seal and woke, and Tang Wulin soon emerged from the bathroom; both learned they were late but could still take the Assessment.
• Shen Yi led the group toward the academy, while Gu Yue gave Tang Wuyang food and the Brothers apologized for delaying their companions.

Shen Yi brought Zero Class into Shrek Academy for their entrance assessment, where Tang Wuyang’s bloodline aura overcame the pressure of a powerful dragon mural. The group earned their first assessment scores and followed Shen Yi onward.

• Shen Yi drove Tang Wuyang, Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan through a hidden gate into Shrek Inner City and explained that, because they were late, they would face a stricter assessment and could only enter as work-study students.
• Shen Yi led the group through Shrek Building and described its history before bringing them to a hall beneath a mural of the Golden Eyed Black Dragon King.
• The mural’s pressure made Xu Xiaoyan and Xie Xie stagger, but Tang Wulin caught Xie Xie and Tang Wuyang supported Xu Xiaoyan.
• Tang Wuyang’s bloodline awakened, covering his right side in golden scales and releasing an aura that weakened the mural’s pressure; a crack appeared in the painted dragon.
• Shen Yi returned with Old Man Li, who awarded Tang Wuyang full marks and gave the other four eight points for the assessment.
• Shen Yi explained the scoring system and led the five toward the next assessment.

Tang Wuyang and his companions entered the Second Exam, where they faced a powerful Earth Demon Rhinoceros in a colosseum-like arena. After coordinating their abilities to create an opening, Tang Wuyang pierced the beast’s armor and severed its central nervous system.

• Tang Wuyang led the Five people into the Second Exam, where the hall transformed into a nighttime arena and they appeared before an Earth Demon Rhinoceros.
• Tang Wuyang and his companions formed a combat plan, with Gu Yue softening the ground, Tang Wulin restraining the beast, and Xie Xie attacking from the side.
• Tang Wuyang clashed with the Earth Demon Rhinoceros and used an Ice Chain to maneuver, while the beast unleashed its paralyzing War Stomp.
• Tang Wuyang activated his Blood Essence Soul Ring as the beast countered with Earth Thorns, and Gu Yue helped him evade them with an Ice Surface.
• Xie Xie distracted the Earth Demon Rhinoceros with Dual Dragon Avatar, and Xu Xiaoyan bound it with Star Wheel Chains.
• Tang Wuyang struck the Earth Demon Rhinoceros’s neck with his Golden Dragon Claw, shattering its armor and severing its central nervous system.

Tang Wuyang and his companions completed the Colosseum exam by killing an Earth Demon Rhinoceros, then faced a gauntlet of falling guillotines. Tang Wuyang used his Golden Dragon Claw to lift the blades and lead the group through in fourteen seconds, leaving them to continue the assessment with their strength largely preserved.

• Tang Wuyang returned from the Colosseum, and Shen Yi awarded him, Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan ten points each and Gu Yue eight for killing the Earth Demon Rhinoceros.
• Shen Yi led the group to the third exam, where they had to cross six Guillotine Gates under a strict time limit.
• Gu Yue tested a falling guillotine and judged its force, then helped Xu Xiaoyan overcome her fear by offering to support the blades with earth element control.
• Tang Wuyang carried Gu Yue through the gates and used his Golden Dragon Claw to catch and lift each falling guillotine.
• The group completed the route in fourteen seconds, and Tang Wuyang stopped Gu Yue from wasting more Soul Power after proving he could handle the blades himself.

Tang Wuyang and his friends passed the earlier assessments with perfect scores and began demonstrating their specialties before Shrek Academy’s examiners. Xie Xie and Tang Wulin received advice on their weaknesses, while the assessment continued with Gu Yue still waiting to show her abilities.

• Gu Yue stayed on Tang Wuyang’s back after the assessment, and the group followed Shen Yi to the specialty assessment room.
• Tang Wuyang advised his teammates on what to demonstrate, then chose Xie Xie to go first.
• Xie Xie demonstrated his three avatars and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and the Old Woman identified flaws in his control and Spirit Power.
• Xu Xiaoyan explained that her Martial Soul changed at night and that her Star Wheel Ice Staff had starlight abilities with Absolute Validity.
• Tang Wulin demonstrated his Blue Silver Grass and Holy Dragon Spear, and the Old Woman advised him to develop his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline and improve his spear technique.

Tang Wuyang demonstrated his Golden Dragon bloodline and strength to the Shrek Academy examiners, but the Old Woman easily overpowered him. Gu Yue then began her examination and displayed remarkable control of earth, water, wind, and fire, leaving the examiners astonished.

• Tang Wuyang revealed a golden bloodline Soul Ring and used Golden Dragon Body, prompting the Old Woman to recognize his Golden Dragon bloodline.
• The Old Woman challenged Tang Wuyang to hit her, then deflected his first two punches and sent him crashing into a wall with his strongest Golden Dragon Claw strike.
• Tang Wuyang recovered with Gu Yue's help, sat down to restore his strength, and Gu Yue stepped forward to begin her demonstration.
• Gu Yue shaped earth and water into overlapping elemental flowers, impressing the examiners with her control of two elements.
• Gu Yue added wind and then fire, demonstrating control of all four fundamental elements as the examiners watched in astonishment.

Gu Yue demonstrated control of four elements and attracted the attention of Silver Moon Douluo Cai Yue'er, but refused her offer of direct entry to the Inner Court because Cai had struck Tang Wuyang. Cai retaliated by giving the team zero points in two assessments, leaving their chance of passing the entrance exam uncertain.

• Gu Yue formed a four-element flower, then used her Space Attribute to send it toward Cai Yue'er, who revealed herself as a Nine Ring Title Douluo and dissolved it with her moonlight.
• Cai offered to take Gu Yue as her disciple and admit her directly to the Inner Court, but Gu Yue refused because Cai had hit Tang Wuyang.
• Gu Yue insisted she would go wherever her teammates went, and Tang Wuyang accepted her decision despite the lost opportunity.
• Shen Yi told the team that Cai had awarded all five of them zero points in the fourth assessment and that the score barred them from Inner Court entry.
• Cai gave the team zero points again in the fifth assessment, while Shen Yi explained that they needed more than sixty points across ten assessments to enter the Outer Court.
• After leaving, Cai privately admitted she wanted to temper the students and expected Gu Yue to eventually ask her for help.

Tang Wuyang and his companions passed Shrek Academy’s eating assessment with perfect scores, then tackled the endurance round. After seven assessments, Tang Wuyang had fifty points, but Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan still needed strong results in the final three rounds to avoid elimination.

• Tang Wuyang ate 105 steamed buns and finished the remaining buns from his teammates’ trays, earning a perfect score for the sixth round alongside the others.
• Old Cai learned that the group had earned perfect scores in the eating round and noted Tang Wuyang’s extraordinary appetite.
• Tang Wuyang advised Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan to complete only the ten-thousand-meter run, while he, Tang Wulin, and Xie Xie completed all three endurance tests.
• Tang Wuyang finished the endurance assessment in thirty minutes, while Tang Wulin and Xie Xie also earned perfect scores and Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan completed the run.
• Shen Yi reported the group’s totals after seven rounds: Tang Wuyang had fifty points, Tang Wulin and Xie Xie had forty-eight each, Xu Xiaoyan had forty, and Gu Yue had thirty-eight.

Tang Wuyang faced Number Ten Student, a fast Snow Leopard Soul Master, in the comprehensive combat assessment and endured her attacks while studying her abilities. He continued to focus on surviving the match and stalling for time as their battle remained unresolved.

• Tang Wuyang arranged the students’ order and strategy, telling everyone to choose opponents carefully and Xiaoyan to wait until nightfall.
• Xie Xie chose No. 2 Student, Xu Xiaoyan chose No. 6 Student, Gu Yue chose No. 1, Tang Wulin chose Number Seven, and Tang Wuyang chose Number Ten.
• Number Ten Student revealed her Snow Leopard Martial Soul and attacked Tang Wuyang with freezing Snowflakes and a Snow Leopard Claw.
• Tang Wuyang used Ice Chains, Ice Spikes, his golden scales, and Purple Demon Eyes to withstand her attacks and resist their freezing and stunning effects.
• Number Ten Student used a Snow Leopard as bait and rushed Tang Wuyang, but he was knocked away and she had to evade the Ice Chains closing around her.

Tang Wuyang defeated Number Ten Student after enduring her attacks and luring her into close combat, then Tang Wulin won his match against Number Seven Student using his spear and Swap ability. Tang Wuyang began meditating while Tang Wulin’s victory secured another result for their group.

• Tang Wuyang stalled Number Ten Student with Ice Shields until she attacked at close range, then used his restored bloodline strength and Purple Demon Eyes to defeat her.
• Shen Yi awarded Tang Wuyang ten points, and he returned to his Partners and meditated to recover.
• Tang Wulin began his match against Number Seven Student, using Blue Silver Grass to delay the opponent’s advance.
• Tang Wulin took to the air with his Wings, then used the Holy Dragon Spear and Swap to outmaneuver Number Seven Student.
• Tang Wulin struck with his spear and held its tip to Number Seven Student’s throat, earning the victory.

Xie Xie challenged the No. 2 Student and was overwhelmed by the stronger fighter’s power, unusual skills, and defense before Shen Yi rescued him. After Tang Wulin and Tang Wuyang explained how he could have fought more strategically, Gu Yue began her match against the No. 1 Student.

• Xie Xie fought the No. 2 Student, whose enormous transformation and devastating attacks forced Xie Xie to rely on his avatars to evade.
• The No. 2 Student used Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon to divert Xie Xie’s attacks, then blasted his avatars away and pursued him.
• Shen Yi pulled Xie Xie out of danger, ending the five-minute match in the No. 2 Student’s victory.
• Tang Wuyang and Tang Wulin told Xie Xie he could have spread his avatars out and used his stamina to outlast his opponent, and Xie Xie realized his mistake.
• Gu Yue entered the arena to face the No. 1 Student as Shen Yi started the third match.

Gu Yue won her assessment match with a fast elemental counterattack, then Xu Xiaoyan used Tang Wulin’s idea and a concealed hammer to defeat No. 6 Student. Xu Xiaoyan earned ten points, leaving her and the others with perfect scores except Xie Xie.

• Gu Yue summoned wind-and-ice attacks that overwhelmed No. 1 Student’s Lion Mastiff and forced Shen Yi to protect him, earning Gu Yue ten points and raising her total to forty-eight.
• Before Xu Xiaoyan’s assessment, Tang Wulin gave her the Sinking Silver Ring and explained how to retrieve the Thousand Refinements Tungsten Steel Hammer inside it.
• Xu Xiaoyan pretended to struggle with the heavy hammer while using her Ice Blade, Ice Spear, and Purple Demon Eyes to distract No. 6 Student and set up her attack.
• Xu Xiaoyan’s Star Wheel Chains immobilized No. 6 Student as the hammer fell, and Shen Yi stopped it just above his head.
• Xu Xiaoyan earned ten points, joining Tang Wuyang, Tang Wulin, and Gu Yue among the students with perfect scores.

Tang Wuyang and his companions began the Ninth Item, a survival assessment in a forest where they cautiously prepared for danger. After a terrifying roar drew them to a valley, they discovered a colossal Dark Gold Fear Claw Bear fighting another enormous Soul Beast.

• Shen Yi led the five students into the Ninth Item, where they entered a forest together for a survival assessment.
• Zhuo Shi ordered the assessment to use its highest level while Silver Moon Douluo argued that Gu Yue should become her student.
• Tang Wuyang led the group to a hill, where they ate and recovered for two hours without encountering any Soul Beasts.
• As evening approached, a distant roar frightened the group, and a second roar gave Tang Wuyang an inexplicable feeling of closeness.
• Tang Wuyang and his companions followed the roars to a valley and saw a giant Dark Gold Fear Claw Bear battling another enormous Soul Beast.

Tang Wuyang and his companions discovered that the golden Soul Beast battling a Ten-Thousand-Year Dark Gold Fear Claw Bear was the legendary Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. After the beasts left, they explored a likely den and encountered a young Three-Eyed Golden Lion, which Tang Wuyang fought to a standstill.

• Tang Wuyang watched the two powerful Soul Beasts battle while Xie Xie identified the golden one as the Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• After the giant beasts fought their way out of sight, Tang Wuyang led the group down into the Valley to explore.
• The companions found a dark cave that Xie Xie suspected belonged to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and they entered it.
• A young Three-Eyed Golden Lion sprang at the group, and Tang Wuyang blocked its attack with his Golden Dragon Fear Claw.
• Xie Xie explained that the young beast's unopened third eye meant it was not yet at its full power, while Tang Wuyang judged that he could contend with it.

Tang Wuyang and his team defeated a Young Three-Eyed Golden Lion but each gave up the chance to claim her Soul Bone, and Xu Xiaoyan urged them to spare her. After the Adult Three-Eyed Golden Lion returned and engulfed them, the team woke in the Metal Room, relieved to see the mother and child reunited and certain they had made the right choice.

• Tang Wuyang and his companions fought the Young Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and Tang Wuyang struck her unconscious with his Golden Dragon Claw.
• Tang Wuyang, Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue each yielded the valuable Soul Bone, and Xu Xiaoyan refused it as well, asking the team to spare the young beast.
• Gu Yue healed the Young Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and Tang Wuyang led the team toward the cave entrance.
• The Adult Three-Eyed Golden Lion returned, froze the team, and engulfed them in Golden Flame as they affirmed they had no regrets.
• Tang Wuyang and his companions awoke in the Metal Room and watched the Young Three-Eyed Golden Lion reunite with her mother.
• Tang Wuyang gathered his partners, and all five stacked their hands together, declaring that they had no regrets.

Shen Yi explained that the Ninth Stage tested character, then the Three Halls Trial exposed a dispute over Gu Yue’s admission. Tang Wuyang and his friends rejected Old Cai’s coercive offer and prepared to leave, but the white-haired elder revealed he was their Great-Grandmaster.

• Shen Yi revealed that the Ninth Stage’s true test was whether the team would give up the simulated Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s rewards, and awarded them full marks for choosing friendship and showing kindness to Soul Beasts.
• At the Three Halls Trial, the elders admitted Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan, while Old Cai gave Gu Yue one point and left her short of the passing score.
• Old Cai offered Gu Yue admission if she accepted him as her master, prompting Tang Wuyang to challenge the academy’s fairness and renounce his own admission.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan chose to leave with Tang Wuyang, and Gu Yue rejected Old Cai’s offer as well.
• The white-haired elder ordered them out, but Shen Yi revealed he was Teacher Wu’s teacher and their Great-Grandmaster.

Tang Wuyang accepted a make-up forging exam to earn full marks and help Gu Yue enter Shrek Academy. He began attempting Spirit Forging with Sinking Silver, leaving the examiners impressed by his skill as his test continued.

• Xu Xiaoyan persuaded Zhuo Shi to stand up for the students, and Zhuo Shi agreed to help them enter Shrek Academy.
• Old Cai offered Tang Wuyang a chance to make up his Fifth Round score by earning full marks in a level-five Second Profession assessment.
• Tang Wuyang accepted the Spirit Forging exam despite having only twenty-nine levels of Soul Power and no experience with Spirit Forging.
• Tang Wuyang chose Sinking Silver and prepared to forge while the Three Elders and his companions watched.
• Tang Wuyang struck the metal with his paired Thousand Refinements Sinking Silver Hammers, demonstrating a precise and unusual technique that impressed Zhuo Shi and Old Cai.