Chapter Summaries

Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy students overwhelmed Shrek's assessment with ruthless, efficient fighting, while Situ Xuan waited beneath a towering tree for worthy opponents. Wu Zhangkong explained that Situ Xuan had turned the free-for-all into a trap, and a strong challenger was approaching him.

• Sun Moon students eliminated Shrek contestants with precise, lethal attacks, rapidly reducing the number of students remaining.
• Shen Yi and Wu Zhangkong watched the battle and judged the Sun Moon students' combat style exceptionally dangerous.
• Shen Yi spotted Situ Xuan resting beneath a tree, and Wu Zhangkong explained that he was waiting for capable enemies to find him.
• Wu Zhangkong recalled how Situ Xuan used to attract opponents on the Spirit Ascension Platform by gathering spiritual power halos around himself.
• Situ Xuan sensed a strong opponent approaching the tree and smiled faintly.

Wang Dongchen, Lily, and Jiang Xiujie fought through Shrek students in the forest, each driven by lessons they had learned from Situ Xuan’s brutal training. They headed toward the giant tree, intent on proving their growth before him.

• Wang Dongchen defeated a Shrek student by striking a gap in his Soul Power circulation and continued toward the giant tree.
• Lily used her Moon Cold Blade and movement technique to defeat an Agility Attack System Soul Master, then pressed onward.
• Jiang Xiujie recalled how Situ Xuan had exposed the weakness in his strength and how he had trained to improve.
• Jiang Xiujie shattered a control Soul Skill and punched his opponent into white light as he advanced toward the giant tree.

Qi Jiayou, Tao Huanli, and the other Crow cadres fought through the shrinking battlefield to reach Situ Xuan, whose calm anticipation gave way to fierce battle intent. As the final melee began, the five Crows charged him together while he prepared to face them using only his body and perfected Black Heart Evil Palm.

• Qi Jiayou overcame his opponent with the Long Rainbow Halberd and resolved to challenge Situ Xuan.
• Tao Huanli froze an approaching opponent and advanced toward Situ Xuan, eager to pit her cold against his heat.
• Situ Xuan eliminated another Shrek student as Shen Yi announced that fourteen remained and the terrain was shrinking.
• The fighters gathered in the final clearing, where Wang Dongchen, Lily, Jiang Xiujie, Qi Jiayou, and Tao Huanli faced Situ Xuan.
• Wang Dongchen told the Shrek students to stay out of the way, and the five Crow cadres attacked Situ Xuan from every direction.
• Situ Xuan unleashed the fourth level of Black Heart Evil Palm and met Wang Dongchen's first strike with a faster, more domineering palm.

Situ Xuan fought off the five Crows’ coordinated assault and reached a breakthrough under their pressure. He mastered the fifth layer of the Black Heart Evil Palm, Hundred Evils Return to Origin, and prepared to counterattack.

• Situ Xuan exchanged blows with Wang Dongchen, Lily, Jiang Xiujie, and Qi Jiayou while Tao Huanli used ice to restrict his movements.
• Tao Huanli’s ice and the others’ attacks nearly trapped Situ Xuan, but he shattered the ice and escaped their coordinated assault.
• Situ Xuan traded a blow with Jiang Xiujie, injuring him with Malevolent Qi while taking a strike to his own back.
• As all five Crows renewed their attacks, Situ Xuan sensed different forms of Malevolent Qi and broke through to the fifth layer, Hundred Evils Return to Origin.
• Situ Xuan faced the five Crows with his newly transformed power and declared that it was his turn.

Situ Xuan unleashed the full power of Hundred Evils Return to Origin and defeated all five Crow executives in a one-sided fight. He then faced Tang Wulin's remaining group but dismissed them, saying he had no interest in becoming class monitor or vice monitor.

• Situ Xuan charged Jiang Xiujie head-on and knocked him out with one punch.
• Situ Xuan crushed Wang Dongchen's wrist and struck him down before he could recover.
• Situ Xuan overwhelmed Lily, Qi Jiayou, and Tao Huanli with his fists and kicks, leaving all five Crow executives defeated.
• Situ Xuan turned toward Tang Wulin's group, who were the only other students left on the field.
• Situ Xuan told the group he had no interest in the class monitor or vice monitor positions.

Situ Xuan withdrew from the simulation, leaving Tang Wulin and the other finalists humiliated by his contempt for their competition. After he returned to his body and planned his next training goals, the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy students celebrated the simulation’s combat, while Yuanen Yehui lamented that Wang Dongchen had killed her in passing.

• Situ Xuan resonated with his Simulation Pod and withdrew from the battlefield, forfeiting the competition.
• Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, Wu Sidu, Xu Yucheng, and the other remaining finalists felt humiliated by Situ Xuan’s departure and disregard for them.
• Wu Zhangkong told Shen Yi that Situ Xuan had the right to leave, while Situ Xuan emerged from his pod and decided to improve his body tempering and movement techniques.
• The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy students praised the thrill of fighting without restraint in the simulation.
• Yuanen Yehui told Lily that Wang Dongchen had killed her off in passing.

Yuanen Yehui confronted her frustration at being casually eliminated by Wang Dongchen, and Lily helped him understand that his lack of seriousness had shown disrespect. Wang Dongchen promised to treat Yuanen as a worthy opponent in future fights, leaving her feeling recognized and eager for the challenge.

• Yuanen Yehui explained that Wang Dongchen had eliminated her in passing during the simulated battle, making her feel he had not regarded her as a real opponent.
• Lily laughed at first, then confronted Wang Dongchen and struck him for casually killing Yehui.
• Wang Dongchen realized that his dismissive attitude, rather than the attack itself, had offended Yehui.
• Wang Dongchen apologized by promising to fight seriously whenever Yuanen Yehui was not clearly his teammate.
• Yuanen Yehui accepted his promise, and Lily approved as the tension between them eased.

Wu Sidu confronted Situ Xuan and challenged him because she felt he had dismissed the Shrek students during the simulated battle. She openly admitted she expected to lose, leaving the Crows and the onlookers wondering why she still insisted on challenging him.

• Wu Sidu strode into the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy's ranks and challenged Situ Xuan.
• Wang Dongchen, Lily, and Jiang Xiujie moved into guarded positions to protect Situ Xuan as the Crows watched Wu Sidu closely.
• Situ Xuan asked Wu Sidu why she wanted to challenge him, and she said his treatment of the Shrek students during the simulation had angered her.
• Situ Xuan silenced the Sun Moon students' mocking comments with a gesture and asked whether Wu Sidu was challenging him because she thought he had looked down on her.
• Wu Sidu said she knew she would lose and could not match Situ Xuan, stunning the onlookers.

Wu Sidu declared that she would become Situ Xuan’s enemy, and he tested her resolve by unleashing his primal Malevolent Qi and Blood Qi. The chapter left her trembling under the pressure but refusing to back down.

• Wu Sidu declared that she would one day become Situ Xuan’s enemy, earning the respect of Lily, Wang Dongchen, and the Crow officers.
• Situ Xuan asked Wu Sidu whether she was certain she wanted to become his enemy.
• Situ Xuan released an overwhelming aura of Malevolent Qi and Blood Qi that alarmed the students and instructors around him.
• Wu Sidu endured the pressure, dug her nails into her palms, and kept glaring at Situ Xuan without retreating.

Wu Sidu stood her ground when Situ Xuan warned he would fight without restraint, and the two formally accepted each other as opponents. Situ Xuan agreed to begin their battle immediately.

• Situ Xuan warned Wu Sidu that if she became his enemy, he would not hold back.
• Wu Sidu steadied herself and declared that she was Situ Xuan’s opponent as a member of Shrek Academy, Class One-One.
• Situ Xuan withdrew his pressure, solemnly accepted Wu Sidu’s challenge, and named himself as a fourth-year student of Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy.
• Wu Sidu asked when they would start, and Situ Xuan answered, “Now.”

Situ Xuan defeated Wu Sidu with one punch, leaving the Shrek students stunned and questioning the gap between the academies. Back in his room, he reflected on Shrek's confidence and loyalty while judging its teaching system inferior to Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy's.

• Situ Xuan struck Wu Sidu before she could react, and she collapsed with her Soul Power disrupted.
• Situ Xuan left the training ground with the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy students as Shrek students rushed Wu Sidu to the infirmary.
• The Crows recalled Situ Xuan's past victories, then dispersed for extra training and planned to discuss Shrek's teaching methods after dinner.
• Situ Xuan returned to his dormitory and reflected on the fearless confidence he had seen in Wu Sidu, Tang Wulin, and the other Shrek students.
• Situ Xuan compared Shrek's facilities and teaching methods with those of Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy and found Shrek's system crude and inefficient.

Situ Xuan reflected on Shrek Academy’s brutal talent-selection system and concluded that its dominance came from monopolizing gifted students, not superior teaching. After Wu Sidu’s defeat exposed the human cost of that system, he left questioning what the loss would mean to her but focused on the systemic divide between Shrek and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy.

• Situ Xuan reviewed Shrek’s enrollment and graduation figures and saw how its harsh competition eliminated most students while concentrating resources on a small number of survivors.
• Situ Xuan concluded that Shrek’s reputation and power formed a self-reinforcing monopoly that drew in talent and used its strongest graduates to attract the next generation.
• Situ Xuan considered how Wu Sidu’s abilities would have been nurtured at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy but would face fierce competition and limited guidance at Shrek.
• Situ Xuan recalled Wu Sidu collapsing after their fight and wondered whether her defeat would strengthen her or make her question Shrek’s beliefs.
• Situ Xuan looked across Sea God Lake at Shrek’s illuminated buildings and concluded that the gap between the academies lay in their systems, not their teaching standards.

Situ Xuan concluded that Shrek Academy preserved the privileges of the powerful and resolved to find and exploit its weakness. Yue Zhengyu told Tang Wulin he had blocked a Fallen Angel student from finding work and planned to move into the Work-Study Student Dormitory to investigate her.

• Situ Xuan decided the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy's exchange program should expose Shrek Academy's weaknesses and undermine its prestige.
• Yue Zhengyu confronted Tang Wulin and insisted that a Fallen Angel martial soul made its bearer dangerous.
• Yue Zhengyu admitted he had arranged for shops in Shrek City to refuse the student's business, leaving her reliant on cheap cafeteria meals.
• Yue Zhengyu said he had sensed the student's dark aura and that she had escaped into the company of Situ Xuan and other Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy students.
• Tang Wulin said Situ Xuan had been his classmate at Eastsea Academy and defended him after Yue Zhengyu mentioned his fight with Wu Sidu.
• Yue Zhengyu revealed he had applied to become a work-study student and would move into the dormitory the next day to find the Fallen Angel student.

Yue Zhengyu confronted Tang Wulin and the others at the Work-Study Student Dormitory, insisting he was moving in to pursue Yuanen Yehui. Yuanen walked past them openly on her way to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy Dormitory Area, leaving Yue Zhengyu stunned and Tang Wulin to point out that she had never taken him seriously.

• Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, and Gu Yue challenged Yue Zhengyu over his accusations against Yuanen Yehui and his claim that he was upholding justice.
• Yue Zhengyu told Tang Wulin and the others that he had applied to become a work-study student and pressed them to reveal where Yuanen Yehui lived.
• Yuanen Yehui emerged from the shadows in her female appearance and walked past Yue Zhengyu without acknowledging him, heading toward the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy Dormitory Area.
• Yue Zhengyu realized Yuanen had not bothered to disguise herself, and Tang Wulin told him she had never taken him seriously.
• Tang Wulin welcomed Yue Zhengyu to the Work-Study Student Dormitory and went inside, leaving Yue Zhengyu alone under the moonlight.

Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy provoked Shrek Academy by displaying a plaque declaring its outer court students nothing special and inviting challengers to fight its students. Li Qingfeng answered the insult by challenging the plaque, leaving the confrontation about to begin.

• Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy displayed a provocative plaque in Shrek Academy's No. 7 Training Hall and arranged Crow students to defend three platforms against challengers.
• Shrek students crowded the hall in anger as Situ Xuan sat silently beneath the plaque.
• Zhao Hu demanded to know whether Situ Xuan had come to exchange knowledge or provoke Shrek.
• Li Qingfeng calmed Zhao Hu, declared that Shrek would smash the plaque, and challenged Situ Xuan to defend it.

Situ Xuan faced Li Qingfeng in a challenge over the plaque and revealed four Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings. He survived Li Qingfeng’s strongest attack and shattered his defensive barrier, then began a Sheath Breaker strike as Li Qingfeng retreated.

• Situ Xuan told Li Qingfeng that he had to survive ten minutes under him, and their battle began.
• Situ Xuan revealed four pitch-black Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings, shocking the crowd and Li Qingfeng.
• Li Qingfeng unleashed Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin, but Situ Xuan stood unharmed beneath the sword qi.
• Situ Xuan rushed Li Qingfeng and broke through his Sword Qi Body Protection barrier with a single fist.
• Situ Xuan turned his fist into a two-finger strike and used Eight Extremes Heaven: Second Form: Sheath Breaker.

Situ Xuan overwhelmed Li Qingfeng in their challenge, defeating him without revealing his full strength. Li Qingfeng refused to give up and launched every soul skill at once in an attempt to last the required ten minutes.

• Li Qingfeng's sword cracked under Situ Xuan's finger, but Li Qingfeng used Sword Shadow Clone to scatter and confuse him.
• Situ Xuan sensed Li Qingfeng's true position and battered him with North Star Hundred Rending Fists, disarming and disabling him.
• Li Qingfeng unleashed Sword Qi Body Protection, but Situ Xuan predicted his movements, disrupted his breathing and Soul Power, and cut his uniform without seriously injuring him.
• Situ Xuan told Li Qingfeng that seven minutes remained, and Li Qingfeng picked up his damaged sword and insisted on fighting again.
• Li Qingfeng activated all five soul skills simultaneously as Situ Xuan walked toward him.

Situ Xuan defeated Li Qingfeng without using his full strength, giving Shrek a crushing defeat on the first day of the Ten Blood-Colored Suns. On the other arenas, Crow students won with precise movement and close-combat skill, demonstrating Situ Xuan’s approach to fighting.

• Situ Xuan walked through Li Qingfeng’s attacks and defeated him after three minutes and fifteen seconds, then called for the next challenger.
• A Shadow Cat Crow student defeated a Flame Lion Shrek student in three seconds by tripping him and pinning him without using a Soul Skill.
• A Rock Turtle Crow student blew a Thunder War Hammer Shrek student’s attack off course with a breath and knocked him out with a punch.
• Shrek’s students recognized that the Crows treated Soul Skills as tools and relied on physical skill, technique, will, and combat instinct.

For four days, Situ Xuan and the Crow students continued defeating Shrek challengers, leaving the students demoralized and afraid. As the challenge went on, Shrek’s Outer Court administrators and teachers gathered in a tense conference room.

• A crow student defeated third-year Ji Xiangwan on the Primary Arena, bringing Shrek’s tally there to seven losses and no wins that day.
• A fifth-year Shrek student barely won on the Intermediate Arena but suffered serious injuries, while the High-Level Arena remained empty.
• The chapter recounted how Situ Xuan had defeated a sixth-year elite and then two Soul Kings, causing challengers to avoid the High-Level Arena.
• Shrek students watched the defeats with growing helplessness and questioned whether Shrek was inferior to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy.
• More than a dozen Outer Court administrators and teachers assembled in a tense conference room, where the director of academic affairs sat at the head of the table.

Shrek Academy’s teachers struggled to respond as Situ Xuan and the Crows continued defeating Outer Court students in No. 7 Training Hall. The dean chose to wait for a turning point, while Situ Xuan ended the day’s challenge period and surveyed his recovering teammates.

• Teachers reported that Shrek students were losing confidence after repeated defeats by the Crows.
• Feng Wuyu explained that Situ Xuan relied on lethal combat skills and a fighting style unlike conventional Soul Master methods.
• The dean rejected shutting down No. 7 Training Hall because it would damage Shrek Academy’s reputation, and Peng Yunze had legally rented it for a semester.
• Feng Wuyu said Inner Court disciples could defeat Situ Xuan, but they refused to intervene, leaving the teachers with no immediate solution.
• The dean urged the teachers to wait and believe the Outer Court students could recover from defeat.
• Situ Xuan ended the challenge period and saw one Crow student bandaging an injury while another recovered Soul Power.