Chapter Summaries

Ye Mu outlined reforms to integrate Martial Soul and Soul Tool research, address Soul Beast depletion, and make Shrek economically self-sufficient. The Elders approved the plans, and Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo agreed to lead the new Research and Innovation Institute.

• Ye Mu proposed creating the Research and Innovation Institute to coordinate Martial Soul research, Soul Tool development, and pill forging, with students from combat and research tracks training across both fields.
• Ye Mu called for research into peaceful coexistence with Soul Beasts and ways to meet Soul Ring demand while using fewer of them.
• Ye Mu proposed the Shrek Industrial Alliance, commercial ventures, and purchases of mines and medicinal gardens to reduce the academy’s reliance on outside funding and supplies.
• Ye Mu explained that rechargeable Soul Power crystals could let ordinary people use civilian Soul Tools, giving Qian Duoduo a new research direction.
• Ye Mu appointed Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo to lead the Research and Innovation Institute, and both accepted without objection from the Elders.

Ye Mu proposed a tiered combat force and layered defenses to strengthen Shrek Academy’s security, and the Elders accepted his plans. He then began the sixth reform, turning to the academy’s culture and heritage.

• Ye Mu proposed standing, reserve, and backup forces, with graduated disciples obligated to aid Shrek during a catastrophic crisis.
• Ye Mu excluded Xuanzi from the standing forces, citing his danger to others, and Xuanzi reluctantly accepted.
• Ye Mu outlined four defensive layers, underground shelters, and twelve concealed warning posts around Shrek City; Yan Shaozhe agreed that such precautions were necessary.
• The discussion moved to the sixth reform, as Ye Mu began explaining how to rebuild Shrek Academy’s spiritual foundation.

Ye Mu proposed reforms to strengthen Shrek Academy’s culture, legacy, and moral standards, then outlined a plan to expand its influence across the continent. Xuanzi accepted responsibility for overseeing the cultural reforms as the meeting moved on to external expansion.

• Ye Mu proposed teaching Shrek’s history to new students and defining its motto through talent, will, and responsibility.
• Ye Mu called for honor medals, a heroes’ monument, and a tiered archive to preserve and reward the academy’s legacy.
• Ye Mu proposed moral education and strict punishments for disciples who committed serious offenses or colluded with Evil Soul Masters.
• Ye Mu appointed Xuanzi to oversee the reforms, and Xuanzi accepted the task seriously.
• Ye Mu proposed establishing branch academies and partnerships with sects, merchant associations, and local governments across the continent.

Ye Mu presented Shrek’s final reforms, proposing neutrality in imperial wars, continent-wide public service, and safeguards to help the academy survive catastrophic threats and adapt over time. The Elders approved his plans, and Mu En watched them accept Ye Mu’s leadership.

• Ye Mu proposed that Shrek stay neutral in imperial conflicts while leading an alliance against the Holy Spirit Cult and providing humanitarian aid.
• Ye Mu recommended free schools for commoners and a relief fund for struggling or injured Soul Masters, winning the Elders’ approval.
• Ye Mu outlined a ten-thousand-year contingency plan with hidden inheritance sites, long-term strategic reserves, and regular reviews of Shrek’s systems.
• Qian Duoduo, Xian Lin'er, and the other Elders applauded Ye Mu, while Mu En watched with satisfaction.

Ye Mu’s reforms were posted across Shrek Plaza, where students and teachers were stunned by the academy’s new benefits, point exchanges, and training rules. The crowd was still discovering the reforms as Inner Disciples learned they would undergo military-style training twice a week.

• After presenting the reforms, Ye Mu shut off the livestream and left the Sea God Pavilion with Mu En, Ma Xiaotao, and Zhang Lexuan.
• Xian Lin'er bragged about Ye Mu to Cai Mei'er, then Qian Duoduo led her out of the meeting hall; Cai Mei'er reflected that Xian Lin'er had moved on from her past relationship with Yan Shaozhe.
• Eight reform notice boards appeared at Shrek Plaza the next morning, bearing the Sea God Pavilion seal and Ye Mu's signature.
• Students and teachers crowded around the boards and reacted with disbelief to the new welfare benefits, support for poor students, and rewards for Inner Disciples.
• Inner Disciples discovered they could exchange points for valuable benefits, including Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones and cultivation opportunities.
• The crowd learned that Inner Disciples would now undergo military-style training twice a week.

Shrek Academy’s reforms took hold, improving morale and bringing students and teachers together across departments. Ye Mu and Mu En recognized the academy’s renewed vitality and the influence its graduates could lend it, while the outside world had yet to react.

• Students and teachers discussed the new point system, character assessments, and special recruitment for Soul Tool talents, while Xiao Hongchen considered the reforms and prepared to send them to his grandfather.
• Shrek implemented cross-department courses, prompting students to collaborate on new Soul Tool designs and teachers to expand their lesson preparation.
• Mu En observed that students seemed happier and praised the effect of Ye Mu’s reforms, and Ye Mu said having a clear path forward gave people vitality.
• Mu En warned that other factions would eventually learn about the reforms, but Ye Mu said Shrek’s graduates and their newly restored ties to the academy would discourage anyone from acting against it.

Ye Mu told Mu En that the Spirit Soul system could make Soul Beasts and Soul Masters partners, and that Di Tian had agreed to cooperate. Shrek’s reforms spread across the continent, drawing the attention of the Star Luo and Sun Moon empires as Xu Tianran called for Ju Zi.

• Ye Mu explained to Mu En that he had created the Spirit Soul system and reached an agreement with Di Tian to reduce conflict between humans and Soul Beasts.
• Mu En agreed to help establish protected breeding areas, and Ye Mu planned to finalize the system with Di Tian before announcing it to other forces.
• News of Shrek’s reforms spread across the continent within half a month.
• Xu Jiawei and Dai Hao discussed how Shrek’s reforms could draw Star Luo’s promising students and considered recruiting Star Luo-born Shrek graduates.
• Xu Tianran read Shrek’s reform outline in the Ming Capital Imperial Palace and called Ju Zi.

Xu Tianran, Du Busi, and Zhongli Wu considered Shrek’s reforms and chose to avoid confronting it while watching how other powers responded. Over the next few months, Ye Mu’s changes transformed the academy, drew graduates and retired Elders back, and strengthened Shrek.

• Ju Zi told Xu Tianran that Shrek’s reforms made it more sensible to cooperate than to oppose it, and Xu Tianran ordered a considerate congratulatory letter sent to Shrek.
• Du Busi heard that Shrek’s graduate benefits could gather its far-flung alumni into a powerful force, then agreed to wait and see how other empires reacted.
• Zhongli Wu called Shrek newly dangerous, rejected an immediate attack, and burned the report about its reforms.
• Shrek’s Points System drove students to train before dawn as points could be exchanged for resources, guidance, and Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones.
• Xian Lin'er oversaw the expansion of the Soul Tool Department into a five-story Research and Development Department and workshop complex, where students worked on new Soul Tools.
• Graduates, former Inner Court Elders, and other alumni returned to Shrek, bringing resources, experience, connections, and their families.

The Outer Court and Sea God Pavilion changed as students and Elders worked harder, while Bibi Dong led Spirit Hall’s invasion of the Star Luo Empire. As Spirit Hall forces entered Star Luo City, Mo Xiong Douluo was ordered to spare the Zhu Family, and he began identifying members of the royal family for capture.

• Outer Court students pushed themselves to enter the Inner Court Preparatory Camp, and several talented or impoverished youths earned recognition.
• Elder Song took on two poor students, and the other Elders began teaching, joining research and patrols, and contributing resources.
• Bibi Dong watched the assault on Star Luo City and told Ju Douluo to protect the Zhu Family for Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhuyun’s sake.
• Mo Xiong Douluo entered the imperial palace after the Star Luo Emperor and Empress had been killed and the Hell White Tigers defeated.
• Ju Douluo relayed Bibi Dong’s order, and Mo Xiong Douluo began selecting royal family members from a roster before noticing one belonged to the Zhu Family.

Bibi Dong’s forces took Star Luo City, and she rewarded Mo Xiong Douluo for leading the assault before heading to visit the Zhu Family. Mo Xiong, Ju Douluo, and Ghost Douluo began rounding up the city’s nobles for their recorded crimes.

• Mo Xiong Douluo confirmed that Star Luo City had fallen and that the Zhu Family captives had been kept safe.
• Bibi Dong entered Star Luo City with the Soul Master Legion, while the commoners watched with curiosity and the nobles hid.
• Bibi Dong awarded Mo Xiong Douluo a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Soul and went to visit the Zhu Family.
• Mo Xiong Douluo, Ju Douluo, and Ghost Douluo led Soul Masters into the inner district to arrest nobles identified in Spirit Hall’s records.
• The soldiers dragged out a count who had driven debtors to their deaths, a duke who had killed a vendor, and a father-and-son pair who swindled independent Soul Masters.

Mo Xiong Douluo oversaw the purge of Star Luo’s nobles as the Spirit Hall Empire seized the city and confiscated their wealth. Bibi Dong spared the Zhu Family in exchange for eighty percent of its assets, and its head agreed to pay.

• Mo Xiong Douluo read names from the Brocade Guard list as nobles were executed and their assets confiscated, while commoners watched in Star Luo Plaza.
• The Spirit Hall Empire repeated the purge across captured cities, and its flags replaced Star Luo’s banners in the capital.
• Bibi Dong visited the Zhu Family estate and demanded eighty percent of its assets in exchange for the lives of the family, sparing them for Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhuyun’s sake.
• The Zhu Family head accepted the demand and ordered a young clansman to fetch the warehouse ledgers.

Ye Mu introduced the Spirit Soul system at a Shrek Academy meeting, claiming it would let soul masters gain multiple Soul Rings through contracts with soul beasts without killing them. The chapter ended with the council stunned by his proposal.

• Spirit Hall restored order in Star Luo City, waived its entrance fee, and cut grain prices by releasing confiscated stores.
• Ghost Leopard Douluo captured more cities as Spirit Hall's armies advanced through the collapsing Star Luo Empire.
• Bibi Dong reviewed reports confirming the empire's remaining resistance was nearly defeated.
• Ye Mu gathered Shrek's council and warned that soul beasts could be hunted to extinction, threatening the soul master system.
• Ye Mu revealed that his Spirit Soul system let soul masters contract with soul beasts to obtain multiple Soul Rings without hunting them.

Ye Mu revealed that the Spirit Soul system could let Soul Masters gain Soul Rings without killing spirit beasts, and proved its potential by summoning his Million Year Spirit Soul, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. He announced plans to build Spirit Soul Pagodas with Di Tian’s cooperation, leaving Shrek’s leaders eager to put the system into practice.

• Xian Lin'er asked whether a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Soul could provide five 100,000-Year Soul Rings, and Ye Mu confirmed it.
• Ye Mu summoned Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and revealed that the Million Year Spirit Beast was his Spirit Soul and had provided all his Soul Rings.
• Qian Duoduo and Yan Shaozhe sensed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s powerful Spiritual Power and accepted that he was a genuine Million Year Spirit Beast.
• Ye Mu said he planned to build Spirit Soul Pagodas in Shrek City and near the Star Dou Great Forest, with Di Tian’s cooperation.
• Ye Mu explained that equal Spirit Soul Contracts would let spirit beasts survive while Soul Masters gained Soul Rings, then said Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Souls would be available through the points shop.
• After Ye Mu left, the others eagerly prepared to earn points so they could exchange for Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Souls.

Shrek Academy built Spirit Soul Pagodas around Shrek City and the Star Dou Great Forest, then announced a spirit soul system that let Soul Masters obtain Soul Rings through equal contracts with Soul Beasts. The students reacted with shock and excitement, while one senior wondered whether Pavilion Master Ye Mu was still human.

• Shrek Academy and its Soul Beasts coordinated the construction of more than a dozen Spirit Soul Pagodas around the forest’s outskirts.
• Students across the academy speculated about the towers’ purpose while the Sea God Pavilion kept the project secret.
• The Sea God Pavilion posted an announcement explaining the spirit soul system, its contract process, and the Soul Rings spirit souls provided.
• Outer and Inner Court students celebrated the chance to obtain Soul Rings without killing Soul Beasts.
• A senior student stared at the announcement and asked whether Pavilion Master Ye Mu was still human.

Shrek’s Spirit Soul system spread across the continent, prompting empires, sects, and independent cultivators to seek access to it. Ye Mu left the major powers’ letters unanswered for now, telling Ma Xiaotao to make them wait.

• Shrek announced the Spirit Soul system, and news of the Spirit Soul Pagodas spread rapidly across the continent.
• The Heaven Dou emperor ordered ministers to negotiate with Shrek after realizing Spirit Souls threatened the royal family’s influence over Soul Masters.
• Jing Hongchen concluded that the Sun Moon Empire could neither seize nor reproduce the system and ordered a delegation to seek cooperation.
• Several neutral sects joined forces to approach Shrek through Xuanzi, while independent cultivators flocked to Shrek City to use the pagodas.
• Ye Mu showed Ma Xiaotao the probing letters from major powers and told her to make their senders wait in line.

The Spirit Soul Pagodas opened in Shrek City, and students and teachers lined up to form Spirit Soul Contracts while checking their points and Spiritual Power. Ye Mu and Zhang Lexuan received reports that contracts were already being completed, with most new contractors leaving happily.

• The Spirit Soul Pagodas opened in Shrek City, drawing long lines of students and teachers eager to form contracts.
• Students discussed Spirit Soul compatibility and the Inner Disciples debated which Spirit Souls they wanted to contract.
• People checked the point costs, and some headed to the mission hall to earn more points before returning.
• Staff tested applicants' Spiritual Power, sending those who failed to train in the academy's cultivation rooms.
• A senior student emerged with a thousand-year wind-attribute soul spirit and a new thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Zhang Lexuan told Ye Mu that many contracts had been completed and that most people leaving the tower were smiling.

Ye Mu dismissed Ma Xiaotao’s concern that spirit soul contracts would strengthen rival factions, arguing that absolute strength mattered more than armies. Ten thousand years later, Bibi Dong oversaw the Spirit Hall Empire’s unification and began rebuilding its government, while considering how its wartime system might fare in peacetime.

• Ye Mu told Ma Xiaotao that rival factions could sign spirit soul contracts because overwhelming strength would make their armies irrelevant.
• Bibi Dong received the report that Ghost Leopard Douluo’s forces had defeated the last Star Luo army, completing the empire’s unification.
• Bibi Dong used Ye Mu’s institutional manuals to reorganize the former Star Luo Empire, strip nobles of governing power, and suppress resistance.
• Bibi Dong expanded free elementary schools and Spirit Soul Pagodas across the empire, making education and spirit souls more accessible to commoners.
• Bibi Dong adapted Ye Mu’s policies to local conditions and wondered whether the empire’s centralized wartime administration would suit peacetime.

Jing Hongchen escaped the Sun Moon Empire after realizing the new emperor planned to purge the Hongchen Family, and Kong Deming let him go. Ye Mu expected Jing Hongchen to seek refuge at Shrek and planned to recruit him to advance Shrek’s Soul Tool development.

• Jing Hongchen burned the letters signaling his impending political demotion, packed only personal essentials, and left the imperial palace before dawn.
• Kong Deming learned Jing Hongchen had fled without taking state secrets, chose not to pursue him, and accepted that they might become enemies on the battlefield.
• Ma Xiaotao told Ye Mu and Zhang Lexuan that Jing Hongchen had left the Sun Moon Empire, and Zhang Lexuan predicted he would come to Shrek to be near Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen.
• Ye Mu said Jing Hongchen could help Shrek close the gap in Soul Tool research and manufacturing, while Ma Xiaotao questioned whether he would cooperate.
• Ye Mu proposed that Jing Hongchen earn a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Soul by making significant contributions to Shrek’s Soul Tool system.

Ye Mu welcomed Jing Hongchen to Shrek Academy after arranging his safe release, and Jing reunited with Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen. After the siblings left, Jing met Ye Mu in the Sea God Pavilion to discuss the reason for his invitation.

• Ye Mu told Zhang Lexuan to inform Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen that Jing Hongchen had escaped safely and that they should wait without worry.
• Ye Mu, Meng Hongchen, and Xiao Hongchen waited at Shrek Academy's gates and welcomed Jing Hongchen when he arrived.
• Jing Hongchen reassured Meng Hongchen that he would not return to the Sun Moon Empire and encouraged Xiao Hongchen after learning he liked a girl at Shrek.
• Ye Mu took Jing Hongchen to the Sea God Pavilion after the siblings departed, and Jing asked what Ye Mu wanted to discuss.

Ye Mu persuaded Jing Hongchen to teach Shrek Soul Tool knowledge by offering a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Soul, and Jing Hongchen accepted. Days later, Ye Mu restarted his livestream, where Wang Dong'er, Meng Hongchen, and others learned about the gathering across different eras.

• Ye Mu offered Jing Hongchen a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Soul in exchange for helping Shrek develop its Soul Tool knowledge, and Jing Hongchen agreed.
• Jing Hongchen decided to give the Spirit Soul to Xiao Hongchen and committed to teaching Shrek while acknowledging it would take years to match the Sun Moon Empire.
• Ye Mu arranged Spirit Soul rewards for Soul Tool researchers who developed or improved Soul Tools.
• Ye Mu started a livestream again, and Wang Dong'er, Meng Hongchen, and other newcomers joined.
• The livestream participants explained that many of them came from ten thousand years earlier and that Ye Mu, the Angel God, and the Rakshasa God were there too.