Chapter Summaries

After the confrontation at Shrek Academy, Situ Xuan left with Mu Ye and the Sun Moon Academy students, remembering those who had wronged him and vowing to settle the debt when he was strong enough. On the train back, Yuanen Yehui reflected on Shrek’s treatment of her and what she had witnessed that day.

• Zhen Hua praised Situ Xuan for standing firm, warned him not to be too rigid, and offered to help him with forging.
• Mu Ye told Situ Xuan to be careful at Shrek after offending Yun Ming, then praised his refusal to kneel and welcomed the Crow students into the Body Sect as outer disciples.
• Situ Xuan ended the exchange and led the group back to Sun Moon Academy, while silently remembering Yun Ming, Cai Yue'er, Tang Wulin, and Wu Sidu as people he would confront when he had enough strength.
• On the Soul Guidance Train, Situ Xuan regulated his injuries, Lily sent encrypted messages, and Mu Ye, Zhen Hua, and Peng Yunze discussed the confrontation in private.
• Yuanen Yehui recalled the injustice she had faced at Shrek and reflected on Cai Yue'er, Yun Ming, and the academy’s treatment of outsiders.

Yuanen Yehui accepted her place among Situ Xuan’s Crows as their train neared Mingdu. Situ Xuan ordered the group to strengthen Sun Moon Academy and prepare for Shrek’s retaliation, leaving them ready to make the capital their new base and future battlefield.

• Yuanen Yehui reflected on Shrek’s injustice and felt a growing sense of belonging with Situ Xuan and the Crows.
• Wang Dongchen and Lily warned Situ Xuan that Shrek was shaping public opinion against them and might target them in its freshmen assessment.
• Situ Xuan ordered Wang Dongchen to unify the Crows and challenge Sun Moon Academy’s fifth- and sixth-year students, while Lily expanded intelligence gathering and preserved evidence.
• Situ Xuan told Yuanen Yehui to train her Twin Martial Souls openly and prepare for future combat.
• Situ Xuan urged the Crows to turn their anger at Shrek into strength as the train arrived at Mingdu East Station.

Situ Xuan returned to Mingdu with the Crow students, determined to build their future at Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy. At the Spirit Pagoda headquarters, Leng Yaozhu confronted Qiangu Dongfeng over his public opposition to Shrek and his offer to recruit Situ Xuan, while Qiangu defended his actions by accusing Shrek of treating the Spirit Pagoda as subordinate.

• Situ Xuan arrived in Mingdu with Mu Ye, Zhen Hua, Peng Yunze, and the Crow students, whose unity and resolve impressed those waiting at the station.
• Situ Xuan led the group toward Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy and declared, "We're back."
• At the Spirit Pagoda headquarters, Leng Yaozhu demanded to know why Qiangu Dongfeng had challenged Shrek publicly and reached out to Situ Xuan.
• Leng Yaozhu argued that Shrek and the Spirit Pagoda shared a longstanding bond dating back to Huo Yuhao and should have faced the crisis together.
• Qiangu Dongfeng rejected appeals to their history and argued that Yun Ming's actions showed Shrek did not regard the Spirit Pagoda as an equal partner.

Qiangu Dongfeng and Leng Yaozhu clashed over the Spirit Pagoda’s stance toward Shrek and its recruitment of Situ Xuan, exposing his jealousy of Yun Ming. Leng Yaozhu left after he threatened her, while Qiangu Dongfeng remained alone, concealing unease beneath his anger.

• Leng Yaozhu urged Qiangu Dongfeng not to abandon the Spirit Pagoda’s ties with Shrek or support those provoking it.
• Qiangu Dongfeng defended recruiting Situ Xuan and condemned Shrek, revealing his resentment toward Yun Ming and the academy.
• Leng Yaozhu accused Qiangu Dongfeng of acting from jealousy, including jealousy over Yun Ming’s relationship with her.
• Qiangu Dongfeng smashed the council table, pressured Leng Yaozhu with his power, and ordered her to stop challenging his decisions.
• Leng Yaozhu warned Qiangu Dongfeng that he would regret his actions and left the council hall.
• Qiangu Dongfeng stood alone beside the shattered table, his fury fading as shame, hostility, and unease remained.

After Qiangu Dongfeng vowed to continue his conflict with Shrek, Situ Xuan trained alone at Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy, driven to overcome the power and status that had constrained him. He remained immersed in his martial practice, refining his body and clearing his mind of outside distractions.

• Qiangu Dongfeng declared that he had no regrets and vowed that his struggle against Shrek and Yun Ming had only begun.
• Situ Xuan went to his private training ground instead of returning to his dormitory.
• Situ Xuan activated his four black Soul Rings, each of which enhanced his physical constitution.
• Remembering Yun Ming's pressure, Cai Yue'er's arrogance, and the judgments of others, Situ Xuan resolved to grow strong enough to protect what he wanted.
• Situ Xuan practiced the Immortal Wind Cloud Body Technique, striking targets and refining his techniques through intense physical training.
• As his movements slowed and grew more controlled, Situ Xuan focused entirely on his body's movements and the flow of his strength.

Situ Xuan experienced a breakthrough in martial understanding, blending his learned techniques into instinctive control of his body and power. He began adapting to his body anew, laying the foundation for his own martial path.

• Situ Xuan's Soul Tool readings fell as he struck the alloy target with finely controlled force that sent ripples across its surface.
• Situ Xuan fused the principles of Fist of the North Star, Black Heart Evil Palm, Immortal Wind Cloud Body Technique, and Eight Extremes Heaven into his movements.
• Situ Xuan demonstrated precise, varied applications of force, from silent footwork to attacks that pierced walls and struck beyond targets.
• Situ Xuan concluded that Immortal Wind Cloud Body was the foundation of his evolving body, while his other martial arts served as techniques for applying its power.
• Situ Xuan released a newly condensed aura and slowly practiced integrating his force control into basic movements.

Situ Xuan refined his martial control during training, using fluid, efficient movements that made his strength even more formidable. Yuanen Yehui watched him with unexpected fascination, then approached him under the pretext of discussing the Sun Moon Competitive Point System launch.

• Situ Xuan practiced varied techniques, refining his control of penetrating, vibrational, cutting, and hidden force.
• Situ Xuan stopped training and left for the shower while Yuanen Yehui watched, overwhelmed by her attraction to him.
• Situ Xuan returned in clean training clothes and noticed Yuanen Yehui waiting by the entrance.
• Yuanen Yehui asked Situ Xuan about arrangements for launching the Sun Moon Competitive Point System against the fifth years the next day, and he invited her inside to talk.

Situ Xuan urged Yuanen Yehui to stop hiding her abilities and show her full potential at Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy. Yuanen Yehui accepted his guidance and left determined to work hard and attend the meeting the next day.

• Situ Xuan told Yuanen Yehui that Sun Moon would support her with cultivation resources if she demonstrated her strength and potential and obeyed the rules.
• Yuanen Yehui reflected on how she had hidden her gender, Fallen Angel Martial Soul, and desire for strength at Shrek and after transferring to Sun Moon.
• Yuanen Yehui promised Situ Xuan that she would work hard.
• Yuanen Yehui confirmed that she would go to the meeting point on time the next day, then left the training field feeling newly determined.

The fifth- and sixth-year students at Sun Moon Academy struggled against Situ Xuan’s Crows, who had spent a month defeating them and taking their resources through the competitive point system. Their leaders gathered to decide whether to resist or submit, and Ma Hongyu was stunned when asked to take the lead.

• The Crows repeatedly challenged fifth- and sixth-year students, winning most matches and draining their points and resource privileges.
• Twenty-two fifth- and sixth-year Class Monitors and Grade Leaders gathered in an abandoned storage room after another round of arena battles.
• The fifth-year Class Two monitor asked the Grade Leaders to take the lead in resisting the Crows or admitting defeat.
• The students considered their failed counterattacks and feared Situ Xuan’s strength, leaving submission as their only apparent option.
• Ma Hongyu pointed at himself and asked, “M-Me?” when the room suggested he take the lead.

Ma Hongyu proposed that the fifth-year students surrender rather than keep losing to Situ Xuan’s first-year Crows, exposing how badly the new academy order had shaken their confidence. His classmates erupted in protest, leaving the room divided over whether to keep fighting.

• Ma Hongyu reflected on how Situ Xuan’s strength and rules had united the younger students while leaving the older students unable to resist their challenges.
• Seeing his classmates’ exhaustion and uncertainty, Ma Hongyu suggested that they surrender.
• The fifth-year students erupted in outrage, while Leng Shuang quietly considered surrender a way to stop their losses.
• The Class Monitor of fifth-year Class Three struck an iron cabinet and challenged Ma Hongyu’s courage, accusing Situ Xuan of frightening him.

Ma Hongyu faced pressure from the fifth-year class monitors to challenge Situ Xuan, but he defended his reluctance by recounting Situ Xuan’s past victories over older students. The room fell silent after Ma Hongyu challenged his loudest critic to fight Situ Xuan himself.

• The Class Monitor of Class Five and the Violent Rock Bear class monitor accused Ma Hongyu of lacking backbone for considering surrendering to Situ Xuan.
• Ma Hongyu recalled how Situ Xuan had defeated top fifth- and sixth-year students in the Academy-wide Hegemony Tournament, including injuring Lei Ba badly enough to keep him in bed for two months.
• Ma Hongyu declared that he would challenge Situ Xuan if the Violent Rock Bear class monitor agreed to fight next if Ma Hongyu lost.
• The Violent Rock Bear class monitor fell silent, and the other class monitors avoided Ma Hongyu’s gaze.

Ma Hongyu quit his Fifth Grade Leader position and decided to pledge allegiance to Situ Xuan, leaving the other Class Monitors to confront the end of the old order. At six in the morning, two hundred Crow elites continued their brutal no-rules combat training.

• Ma Hongyu accused the other Class Monitors of hiding behind tradition and pushing him to test Situ Xuan’s power for them.
• Ma Hongyu announced he was quitting as Fifth Grade Leader and would go to the Student Council building the next morning to pledge allegiance to Situ Xuan.
• Ma Hongyu left the storage room, and Leng Shuang and the other Class Monitors remained behind in silence and uncertainty.
• At six in the morning, two hundred Crow elites fought in a no-rules combat session in Sun Moon Academy’s largest Training Room.

Situ Xuan returned to the Training Room and challenged all two hundred elite Crow members at once. As the battle began, he overwhelmed several senior students, and the fight remained underway.

• Situ Xuan entered the Training Room, climbed onto the arena, and challenged the two hundred Crow members with his signature gesture.
• Wang Dongchen, Qi Jiayou, Lily, Tao Huanli, Jiang Xiujie, Yuanen Yehui, and the other Crow members charged Situ Xuan.
• Situ Xuan used Wind Shadow Step and struck Wang Dongchen, then disarmed Qi Jiayou and threw him into Jiang Xiujie.
• Situ Xuan evaded Lily’s blade and elbowed her aside, then told the attackers they were not strong enough.
• Tao Huanli struck Situ Xuan’s shoulder with her tiger claw, but he recovered quickly and swept her off the arena with a kick.

Situ Xuan fought nearly two hundred Crow elites in a brutal melee, enduring serious wounds while defeating them one by one. The chapter ended with him standing alone on the platform as the exhausted students looked on.

• Situ Xuan met Yuanen Yehui’s Titan Giant Ape form head-on and defeated her with a barrage of strikes.
• Students swarmed Situ Xuan, pinned him down, and battered him, but he broke free and drove them back.
• Situ Xuan ordered the remaining Crows to continue, and they charged him again, inflicting more wounds as he fought them.
• Situ Xuan battled the students until the last one standing fell, leaving him alone on the platform amid the injured Crow elites.

Situ Xuan’s bloody Morning Lesson revealed the fighting strength and fanaticism of the Crows to the visiting upperclassmen. Ma Hongyu rejected the planned negotiations and admitted defeat before Situ Xuan.

• Situ Xuan recalled how his three years of brutal dawn training had turned the Crows into hardened fighters who followed his path willingly.
• Ma Hongyu, Leng Shuang, and eighteen other Class Monitors entered the Training Room and saw the injured Crows still eager to fight.
• The upperclassmen felt intimidated by the Crows’ bloodied appearance and fierce fighting spirit, while Leng Shuang noticed their unusual endurance and recovery.
• A sixth-year Class Monitor began to raise the upperclassmen’s complaint about Situ Xuan’s point-plundering, but Situ Xuan kept his attention on Ma Hongyu.
• Ma Hongyu walked to the arena, knelt before Situ Xuan, and declared that he admitted defeat.

After Ma Hongyu knelt and pledged himself to Situ Xuan’s path, Situ Xuan appointed him to reshape the fifth-years and demanded that the nineteen fifth- and sixth-year Class Monitors challenge him if they wanted the Crows to stop. The chapter ended with the Class Monitors facing his offer and fearing the fight.

• A fifth-year Class Monitor reacted with disbelief when Ma Hongyu, the fifth-year Grade Leader, knelt before Situ Xuan and submitted.
• Ma Hongyu explained that he had abandoned his excuses after seeing Situ Xuan and the Crows pursue strength through pain, and said he wanted to follow their path.
• The Crows accepted Ma Hongyu’s resolve, and Situ Xuan ordered him to recruit and train at least twenty fifth-years qualified to enter the Crows within a month.
• Situ Xuan asked the nineteen Class Monitors what they wanted, then offered to end the challenges and apologize if they could defeat him by any means.
• The Class Monitors looked at one another in fear, unwilling to face Situ Xuan after seeing his bloody condition and the battered Crows.

Situ Xuan forced the fifth- and sixth-year class monitors to accept Crow’s rule that strength determined who received resources, then left the Training Room. The battered Crow students received treatment as Leng Shuang and the monitors departed, leaving the school’s hierarchy poised for change.

• Situ Xuan declared that fifth- and sixth-year students had to prove their strength to keep receiving resources or face elimination, and he told Ma Hongyu to bring selected students to train at five each morning.
• The nineteen class monitors left the Training Room with Leng Shuang, who began wondering whether she should abandon her old ways and follow Situ Xuan’s example.
• After Situ Xuan left, the injured Crow students traded complaints and helped one another, while Yuanen Yehui shared healing pills from the Titan Family.
• Teacher Li and more than thirty healing-type teachers arrived, assessed the students’ injuries, and arranged stretchers or sent them to the infirmary.

Ma Hongyu brutally screened fifth-year students on Situ Xuan’s orders, selecting twenty-five fighters for Crow. He brought them to the Training Room for an assessment against more than two hundred Crow elites.

• Ma Hongyu attacked students in the weakest fifth-year class and challenged them to prove their strength, defeating the class and selecting Zhao Tieshan, Lin Ying, and Su Man.
• Over the next three days, Ma Hongyu fought through the fifth-year classes and chose twenty-five students with resilience, fighting spirit, or potential for Crow.
• Ma Hongyu gathered the twenty-five candidates outside the Training Room at five in the morning and told them to fight anyone inside until they passed or were defeated.
• The candidates entered and found more than two hundred Crow elites waiting, many still bearing injuries from the previous day’s Morning Lesson.

Situ Xuan tested twenty-five fifth-year students by pitting them against the Crow elites, who crushed them in ten minutes. The battered students accepted the Crows’ rules and Ma Hongyu’s leadership, while the elites immediately began fighting one another.

• Situ Xuan ordered more than two hundred Crow elites to attack the twenty-five fifth-year students, overwhelming their attempts to fight back with soul skills.
• Zhao Tieshan, Lin Ying, Su Man, and the other fifth-years were defeated and left unable to stand within ten minutes.
• The Crow students treated the injured fifth-years and gave them medicine, leaving them shocked and eager to grow stronger.
• Situ Xuan laid out the Crows’ three rules, and none of the fifth-years chose to leave.
• Situ Xuan assigned Ma Hongyu to lead the fifth-years and told him they must last twenty minutes in the Training Room after one month.
• The Crow elites began fighting one another as soon as the fifth-years accepted the rules.

Situ Xuan defeated the sixth-year elites and brought the Spirit Department under his control. He gathered every student to announce changes to the final exam, beginning with a Shrek Academy trial as an example.

• Situ Xuan and the Crows defeated the sixth-year elites, including Leng Shuang, in a brutal melee.
• A month later, Situ Xuan summoned more than two thousand three hundred Spirit Department students to the Central Grand Playground.
• Situ Xuan announced that final exams would no longer include theory assessments, spirit skill demonstrations, or arena sparring.
• Wang Dongchen silenced the students who reacted to the announcement by sweeping them with his intimidating gaze.
• Situ Xuan described Shrek Academy's first-year final exam, which required students to travel from Shrek City to Mingdu while defeating stronger opponents in at least ten cities.