Chapter Summaries

After a month of brutal training under Situ Xuan, Freshman Class One learned to fight more effectively but became exhausted and resentful. Lin Shiyin announced that the Sun Moon Competitive Point System had begun, and Situ Xuan calmly anticipated what was coming.

• Situ Xuan led his exhausted students through the corridor after morning training, while Class One members snapped at acquaintances who tried to speak with them.
• Situ Xuan considered the students' resentment a sign that his training was working and continued toward class without reacting to the whispers around them.
• Lin Shiyin announced that all first-year students had to earn at least twenty competition points by semester's end or face penalties, including possible advice to withdraw.
• Lin Shiyin explained that high-ranking students could earn rewards such as cultivation resources, advanced guidance, access to mimetic cultivation grounds, and a chance to exchange for rare soul bones.
• After Lin Shiyin dismissed class, the students debated the new rules and rewards while Situ Xuan said the point system had finally begun.

After the academy announced its Competition Points system, Situ Xuan demanded that every student in Class One earn at least forty points and declared he would take first place among the first-years. To seize the initiative against upper-year rivals, he went to challenge Year Two Class One and barged into their classroom.

• Situ Xuan ordered every student in Class One to earn at least forty Competition Points before the semester ended.
• Situ Xuan offered dissenting students a chance to lower their requirement by lasting three minutes against him in practical combat training.
• Situ Xuan announced that he would take first place in Competition Points among the first-years.
• Situ Xuan went to Year Two Class One, pushed open its classroom door, and drew the students' hostile attention.

Situ Xuan challenged Xiao Chen, the Class Monitor of Year Two Class One, to a ten-point fight that afternoon, deliberately drawing attention to himself so he could battle freely. As he ordered his own class to hurry to the Soul Fighting Area, his classmates remained resentful and reluctant to watch.

• Situ Xuan entered Year Two Class One and challenged Xiao Chen to a designated competition at the Soul Fighting Area after classes, wagering ten Competition Points.
• Xiao Chen accepted the challenge while his classmates mocked Situ Xuan, unaware that he welcomed the chance to fight a powerful opponent.
• Situ Xuan left, focused on the battle rather than the Student Council's and factions' schemes, and eagerly anticipated fighting Xiao Chen.
• That afternoon, Situ Xuan appeared at the entrance to Class One-One and ordered his reluctant classmates to hurry up.

Situ Xuan led his exhausted class to the Spirit Fighting Arena to challenge Xiao Chen, where upper-year students mocked them. Class one erupted in furious defiance, and Situ Xuan faced Xiao Chen as the arena fell quiet.

• Situ Xuan led class one through the academy toward the Spirit Fighting Arena, drawing wary looks from other students.
• Class one entered the arena, where second-year students mocked Situ Xuan and his classmates.
• A burly student from class one shouted back at the loudest heckler, and the rest of the class joined in with furious challenges and insults.
• The upper-year students fell silent and were intimidated by class one's unified, ferocious response.
• Situ Xuan looked toward Xiao Chen on the main stage and said his crows could not wait any longer.

Situ Xuan knocked second-year Class Monitor Xiao Chen unconscious with a single slap, igniting the fighting spirit of his first-year Class One. He then challenged any third-year Class Monitor to step forward, leaving the upperclassmen under pressure to answer.

• Situ Xuan overwhelmed Xiao Chen with his aura and knocked him out with one slap as soon as the match began.
• The stunned arena fell silent, while Class One erupted in excitement and called to challenge the upperclassmen.
• Situ Xuan recognized that his classmates were not yet strong enough to defeat the older students, but welcomed their growing ferocity and unity.
• Situ Xuan silenced Class One and publicly challenged any third-year Class Monitor to face him, warning that he would call someone out himself if no one volunteered.

Situ Xuan challenged the third years after defeating Xiao Chen, then overwhelmed Third-Year Class Seven monitor Chen Feng without using a soul skill. His taunt left the senior students silent, with anger rising beneath their humiliation.

• Situ Xuan openly challenged the third-year class monitors, and Freshman Class One roared its support.
• Chen Feng of Third-Year Class Seven accepted the challenge and attacked Situ Xuan with his Wind Blade Slash soul skill.
• Situ Xuan dodged Chen Feng’s wind blades, closed the distance, broke through his guard, and choked him unconscious.
• Situ Xuan shouted, “Who. Else. Is there—?!” as the senior students remained silent and their humiliation began turning to fury.

Situ Xuan defeated a succession of second- and third-year challengers in the Spirit Fighting Arena, then condemned the older students for standing by. He led Freshman Class One away, leaving the academy’s students divided and the witnesses shaken.

• Wan Zehua charged Situ Xuan and was swiftly knocked out of the fight.
• Wei Zhixian and a succession of other second- and third-year students challenged Situ Xuan, but he defeated them one by one.
• Situ Xuan acknowledged the challengers’ courage and declared that the fighting was over.
• Situ Xuan called the fourth-year and older students worse for watching without stepping forward, and none dared answer him.
• Situ Xuan returned to Freshman Class One and led the group away as the crowd parted.

After the battle, Freshman Class One struggled with conflicting feelings toward Situ Xuan, resenting his ruthless methods while admiring his strength and defiance. Situ Xuan ignored their reactions and continued his punishing training and cultivation, supported by the Body Sect and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy.

• Freshman Class One students felt ashamed and exhilarated as they realized they had joined Situ Xuan in humiliating the upperclassmen.
• The students grew wary of Situ Xuan but also admired how he broke the upperclassmen's isolation trap through overwhelming victories.
• Situ Xuan noticed the students' conflicted looks but offered no explanation or reassurance.
• Situ Xuan kept leading the class through daily drills while pushing himself through extreme body-tempering exercises with the Fist of the North Star.
• At night, Situ Xuan endured the painful cultivation of the Black Heart Evil Palm and used medicinal baths to recover and cultivate the Immortal Wind Cloud Body Technique.

After two weeks of brutal training under Situ Xuan, Freshman Class One grew stronger and began moving through the academy with an intimidating presence. Situ Xuan then ordered them to defeat the other nine classes and unify the first year by the end of the month.

• Situ Xuan’s relentless training pushed Freshman Class One to improve their strength, endurance, and combat instincts over two weeks.
• Freshman Class One gathered into a formidable group and drew wary looks from students as they crossed the academy.
• Situ Xuan ordered the class to begin Competitive Soul Fighting and defeat students from the other nine classes.
• Situ Xuan set the goal of unifying the first year within a month and demanded that each student earn at least ten Competitive Points beyond the basic twenty.
• Freshman Class One roared its agreement and embraced Situ Xuan’s plan to challenge the other classes.

Situ Xuan’s Class One students provoked students across the academy into named challenges, igniting widespread fights. Dean Yang Shuiyun rejected the Academic Council directors’ demands to punish Situ Xuan and allowed the fighting to continue.

• Class One students challenged students from other classes and all found opponents, who headed with them toward the Soul Fighting Area.
• Three Academic Council directors accused Situ Xuan of disrupting academy order and demanded that he be punished.
• Peng Yunze defended Situ Xuan, arguing that the students had broken no academy rules, and argued with the directors.
• Yang Shuiyun reflected on the academy’s decline compared with Shrek and declared that the renewed fighting spirit benefited the academy.
• Yang Shuiyun ordered the matter closed, and the directors dropped their objections as the student clashes continued with the academy’s approval.

Situ Xuan drove Freshman Class One to impose a violent new order on the first year, and Class Two and Class Three eventually submitted rather than face them. As Class One gained dominance, its students began to feel a twisted sense of recognition and belonging under Situ Xuan’s rule.

• Class One students relentlessly challenged students from other classes, using Situ Xuan’s brutal fighting style to win and rapidly improve.
• Class Two and Class Three’s influential students privately agreed they could not keep resisting, and Class Two’s monitor decided to speak to Situ Xuan.
• Representatives of Class Two and Class Three told Situ Xuan they would abide by the new order, and he dismissed them with a casual wave.
• Class One’s victories made Situ Xuan’s prestige soar, and his students began to associate his violent rule with status and belonging.
• Situ Xuan tossed the Class Monitor Badge to Wang Dongchen, strengthening Class One’s sense of hierarchy and glory.

Wang Dongchen became Situ Xuan’s devoted lieutenant, outfitting Class One-One in matching crow coats and taking charge of its internal affairs. After Classes Two and Three joined Situ Xuan’s system, he expanded dawn training into brutal group challenges, leaving the new trainees beaten while the original Class One members watched with eager excitement.

• Wang Dongchen embraced Situ Xuan as his savior and became his most fanatical supporter, defending his rule and leading the charge in battles.
• Wang Dongchen commissioned thirty-seven black coats bearing crow emblems, with a blood-red sun on Situ Xuan’s coat, and Situ Xuan appointed him to handle Class One’s internal affairs.
• Seventy-two trainees from Classes Two and Three were absorbed into Situ Xuan’s system, expanding his dawn training to more than a hundred participants.
• Situ Xuan made trainees challenge him alone or in groups, defeating them with physical skill and offering blunt corrections as they fell.
• Class Two and Three trainees suspected Situ Xuan was punishing them to secure his rule, while the original Class One members watched their suffering with growing excitement.

Situ Xuan moved the students’ brutal training to a larger abandoned Mecha hangar and organized it into tiers, with Class One students training the new recruits. Class Two and Class Three students began to understand the resolve behind Class One’s strength, while their own special training continued under the threat of one-sided beatings.

• Wang Dongchen led the thirty-seven Class One students in a fierce group battle against Situ Xuan, and the Class Two and Class Three students watched them keep fighting through serious injuries.
• The Class Two and Class Three students realized that Class One’s strength came from its willingness to endure pain and risk injury, and some began to yearn to follow the same path.
• Situ Xuan asked Vice Principal Peng Yunze for a larger training ground, and Peng Yunze gave him the abandoned East District Mecha hangar while warning him not to let anyone die.
• Situ Xuan personally trained the Class One core and a few promising students, then assigned the seventy-two new recruits to Class One students for practical sparring that was largely one-sided beatings.

Class One’s brutal beatings forced the younger students to adapt, while Situ Xuan’s influence continued to spread through the academy. At a Student Council meeting, the upper-year representatives plotted to suppress him, but the second- and third-years rejected their personal attacks and stood against them.

• Class One students relentlessly beat and mocked the students of Class Two and Class Three, forcing them to sharpen their combat instincts and fear Situ Xuan’s group.
• Xu Zifeng chaired a meeting of upper-year representatives to discuss how to contain Situ Xuan, who was absent because he had collected all the first-year Class Monitor Badges.
• Fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-year students condemned Situ Xuan and proposed restrictions, with some attacking his background and dead parents.
• Second- and third-year representatives stayed silent, uncomfortable with the upper years’ slander despite their own defeat by Situ Xuan.
• When challenged, the third-year Grade Leader declared that they would not stoop to slandering someone behind his back, provoking a tense confrontation and earning support from his peers.

Xu Zifeng proposed an Academy-wide Hegemony Tournament to break the academy’s stagnant power structure, with the winning class’s Class Monitor earning the Student Council presidency. After a month and a half of Situ Xuan unifying the first grade, the tournament began, leaving Situ Xuan’s class facing fifth-grade Class Three in the opening round.

• Xu Zifeng ended a divisive Student Council meeting and decided to use Situ Xuan’s upheaval to push for change at the academy.
• Xu Zifeng proposed making the Student Council presidency the prize of a class-based elimination tournament, and Peng Yunze agreed to support him.
• Xu Zifeng and Peng Yunze announced the tournament, which offered the winning class priority access to academy resources and a Mingde Hall recommendation qualification.
• Situ Xuan unified all ten first-grade classes over the next month and a half, training seven hundred students into a coordinated force.
• At the tournament’s opening, Yang Shuiyun announced the matchups, and Situ Xuan’s first-grade class prepared to face fifth-grade Class Three on Arena One.

Situ Xuan and his injured first-year teammates faced Class Three of the fifth year in the arena. After his teammates were overwhelmed, Situ Xuan unleashed his fury, defeated all seven opponents, and left the silent crowd wondering who would challenge him next.

• Lin Xiao and two Soul Ancestors attacked Situ Xuan while four others fought Wang Dongchen and the remaining first-years.
• Situ Xuan endured the assault, crippled two Soul Ancestors with close-quarters strikes, and was wounded by their counterattacks.
• As Lin Xiao pressed his attack and Wang Dongchen's team neared defeat, Situ Xuan's fury strengthened his Black Wind and activated Evil Aura Body Protection.
• Situ Xuan broke Lin Xiao's arms with a combined palm and finger attack, then used afterimages and precise strikes to defeat the remaining four Soul Ancestors.
• Class Three of the fifth year was completely defeated, and Situ Xuan stood over the arena as the stunned venue fell silent.

Situ Xuan led First-Year Class One to defeat Fifth-Year Class Three, then left the arena with his injured teammates as the academy watched. In the Education Committee’s viewing room, his victory stirred old ambitions among the staff, though a director close to the Lin family warned that his ruthless methods could bring trouble.

• Situ Xuan endured the injuries of battle as the referee declared First-Year Class One the winner.
• Wang Dongchen and his teammates celebrated their victory, crediting Situ Xuan for opening the way to win.
• Situ Xuan supported the most severely injured teammate and led the group from the arena, leaving the senior students stunned.
• Yang Shuiyun and Peng Yunze watched Situ Xuan leave, while Zhang Tao reconsidered his earlier doubts about him.
• The department heads reflected on how the academy’s aristocratic rivalries had stifled their former ideals as Situ Xuan’s defiance stirred them.
• A director close to the Lin family warned that Situ Xuan’s heavy malevolent qi and ruthless methods could bring trouble to the academy.

Yang Shuiyun defended Situ Xuan’s victory and urged the teachers to remember their duty to Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy. Situ Xuan’s class reached the tournament’s top eight as the only first-year team left, and he promised his classmates they would keep fighting.

• Peng Yunze defended Situ Xuan’s ruthless fighting style, and Yang Shuiyun reminded the teachers that they were guardians of the academy before serving their aristocratic families.
• Situ Xuan crushed Class Three of Grade Three in three minutes and seventeen seconds, then defeated Class Seven of Grade Three even faster the next day.
• The other first-year classes fought fiercely but were eliminated, leaving Situ Xuan’s class as the first-year division’s sole team in the top eight.
• Situ Xuan told his discouraged teammates to watch them, and the first-years rallied behind him with renewed cheers.

Situ Xuan completed the third turn of the Immortal Wind Cloud Body Technique, tempering his bones and strengthening his physical power before the quarterfinals. His team then drew Class One of Grade Five, led by Level 53 Soul King Lei Dong, as their first opponent.

• Situ Xuan used the Immortal Wind Medicinal Bath to complete Cloud Body Third Turn: Bone Tempering and purge impurities from his body.
• Situ Xuan recognized that his stronger physique would help him face the quarterfinals, despite his Soul Power Level remaining unchanged.
• On the fourth day, the Academy-wide Hegemony Tournament quarterfinals began as the first-years gathered to support Situ Xuan and his team.
• The draw matched Class One of Grade One against Class One of Grade Five, whose captain Lei Dong wielded the Thunder Giant Axe and had reached Level 53 Soul King.

Situ Xuan’s team faced Lei Dong’s fifth-year team, and Situ Xuan fought through Lei Dong’s powerful attacks while his teammates tied down two Soul Ancestors. After defeating the other two Soul Ancestors, Situ Xuan stood ready to face Lei Dong alone.

• Situ Xuan led his team onto the arena to face Lei Dong’s team, whose leader revealed five Soul Rings, including a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Lei Dong attacked with his Thunder Protection and Wild Thunder Slash, but Situ Xuan evaded the blow and struck the axe hard enough to numb Lei Dong’s arm.
• Wang Dongchen and the other five teammates engaged two Soul Ancestors, while Situ Xuan fought Lei Dong and the remaining opponents.
• Situ Xuan disabled one Soul Ancestor with Two-Finger Vacuum Hold, then survived Lei Dong’s fifth Soul Skill and defeated the Soul Ancestor who had raised stone spikes.
• Situ Xuan faced Lei Dong after both of Lei Dong’s Soul Ancestor support fighters were defeated and declared that it was his turn.