Chapter Summaries

Situ Xuan was cornered by Lei Dong and two Soul Ancestors until he reached a breakthrough in Wind Shadow Step and used Wind Flash to turn the fight around. He defeated Lei Dong with a modified Beidou Hundred Rending Fists, leaving the arena’s outcome decided.

• Lei Dong used Thunderstorm Domain and Thunderbolt Assault to suppress Situ Xuan while two Soul Ancestors attacked him from the flanks.
• Situ Xuan entered a state of heightened perception and realized Wind Shadow Step could let him observe and guide air currents.
• Situ Xuan broke through to Wind Shadow Step’s Wind Flash and evaded Lei Dong’s axe and the Soul Ancestors’ attacks with a sudden displacement.
• Situ Xuan struck Lei Dong with a modified Beidou Hundred Rending Fists, cracking his Thunder Giant Axe and sending him crashing into the arena barrier.
• The crowd erupted as Lei Dong remained unable to rise, and Situ Xuan looked to the referee with the outcome decided.

After Situ Xuan defeated Lei Dong and Grade Five’s team, he returned to the lounge and broke through to Soul Elder, gaining a third soul ring from Black Tiger Xuan Sha. He began consolidating his new power as he prepared for the semifinals.

• The remaining Soul Ancestors from Grade Five conceded after Lei Dong was defeated, and the referee declared Grade One the winner.
• Situ Xuan realized his Wind Shadow Step had reached a new level of insight and sensed his Soul Power bottleneck weakening.
• Peng Yunze praised Situ Xuan and urged him to rest before the next match.
• In the private lounge, Situ Xuan broke through to level thirty and became a Soul Elder.
• Black Tiger Xuan Sha manifested as a tiger cub, then merged with Situ Xuan and granted him a third purple soul ring.
• Situ Xuan sensed his new soul skill and began consolidating his breakthrough before the semifinals.

Situ Xuan faced fourth-year class one alone because his injured teammates needed rest, then used overwhelming speed and strength to defeat their captain and attack the rest of the team. The match continued with the other opponents falling to his relentless assault.

• The bracket paired first-year class one against fourth-year class one, and Situ Xuan entered the arena alone because Wang Dongchen and the others were too injured to fight.
• Situ Xuan told Lin Feng that he could defeat the full team by himself, and the match began with fourth-year class one's seven Soul Masters activating their Martial Souls.
• Situ Xuan vanished into a burst of wind, appeared before Lin Feng, and shattered the captain's Wind Eagle Protection with North Star Hundred Rending Fists.
• Situ Xuan knocked Lin Feng unconscious with a barrage of punches, then used Wind Shadow Step—Wind Flash to attack the rest of fourth-year class one.
• Situ Xuan broke one opponent's knuckles and arm, shattered another's shoulder blade, and yanked a Control System Soul Ancestor's vines to slam the Soul Master into the ground.

Situ Xuan overwhelmed all seven members of Fourth-Year class one, sending First-Year class one into the finals. After the students celebrated his victory and recalled the brutal training behind his strength, Situ Xuan rested while they awaited the sixth-year match.

• Situ Xuan defeated all seven Fourth-Year class one fighters in moments, leaving them unconscious and unable to fight.
• The referee declared First-Year class one the winner and announced that they had advanced to the finals.
• First-year students cheered for Situ Xuan and reflected on the punishing training that had forged his strength.
• Situ Xuan accepted water and a towel from his classmates, then sat down to rest while waiting for the sixth-year match.

At the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy’s tournament final, twelve-year-old Situ Xuan faced the seven-member sixth-year class one team alone. The match began with Situ Xuan charging through their formation, but the two Control System Soul Kings struck back with binding skills.

• Mu Ye, Zhen Hua, and A Ruhuan watched from the VIP seats as the crowd focused on Situ Xuan.
• The referee announced the final between sixth-year class one and first-year class one’s Situ Xuan.
• The seven opponents released their soul rings, and Situ Xuan revealed his three purple rings before charging at them.
• Situ Xuan used Wind Shadow Step: Wind Flash to appear at the formation’s flank and attack the airborne Agility Attack System Soul Ancestor.
• Situ Xuan’s punch forced the Power Attack System Soul King back, then the two Control System Soul Kings used Mud Swamp Entrapment and Gravity Cage.

Situ Xuan was overwhelmed by sixth-year class one's coordinated battle formation and badly wounded, but he refused to surrender. He invoked Roaring Forest Black Tiger Transformation and fused with the Black Tiger Xuan Sha, revealing a more primal and powerful form.

• Situ Xuan endured a combined assault from the seven-person formation but was blasted across the arena and seriously wounded.
• Sixth-year class one's members advanced in formation and urged Situ Xuan to admit defeat, saying they had prepared for his abilities.
• Situ Xuan rose despite his injuries and challenged his opponents, asking whether they had ever seen him at his peak.
• Situ Xuan chanted as Malevolent Qi and Black Wind gathered into a giant Black Tiger phantom.
• The Black Tiger phantom swallowed Situ Xuan, and he emerged transformed through Roaring Forest Black Tiger Transformation.

Situ Xuan pushed his Roaring Forest Black Tiger Transformation and Malevolent Qi Flooding the Body to their limits, fighting Class One’s seven remaining fighters. He defeated five but collapsed from his wounds and backlash, leaving the captain and support-type Soul Ancestor facing him as the arena waited to see who would fall first.

• Situ Xuan flooded his body with Malevolent Qi and charged into Class One’s formation, killing one Soul Ancestor with Black Tiger Steals Heart and disabling another with Two-Finger Vacuum Hold.
• Situ Xuan endured attacks from Class One’s fighters, then struck the airborne Agility Attack Soul Ancestor with Beidou Flying Guard Fist and knocked him down.
• With his Sha Gang shattered and his body badly wounded, Situ Xuan rose to meet the final four fighters and targeted the two Control Soul Kings.
• Situ Xuan knocked down the last Control Soul King, but the captain’s shield cut a deep wound across his chest, forcing him to his knee as his transformation ended and Malevolent Qi backlash began.
• Only the captain and support-type Soul Ancestor remained standing, and the silent arena waited to see whether Situ Xuan or the two fighters would act first.

Situ Xuan pretended to be near death to lure Qi Chenze within striking distance, then unleashed his final attack. The blow knocked Qi Chenze and Cheng Ruifeng unconscious, leaving the match’s outcome to be determined.

• Qi Chenze hesitated to approach Situ Xuan, fearing a desperate counterattack, while Cheng Ruifeng cowered behind him.
• Qi Chenze ordered Cheng Ruifeng to boost him and advanced toward the apparently exhausted Situ Xuan.
• Situ Xuan lifted his head and revealed that he had been waiting for Qi Chenze to come closer.
• Situ Xuan used the Big Dipper Heaven-Breaking Fist to strike Qi Chenze and send the impact through him into Cheng Ruifeng.
• Qi Chenze and Cheng Ruifeng were thrown to the edge of the arena and lost consciousness.

After a brutal final left Qi Chenze, Cheng Ruifeng, and Situ Xuan near death, healing instructors stabilized all three. Yang Shuiyun announced Situ Xuan as the victor, but the Qi and Cheng Families and Mu Ye still threatened a larger conflict.

• Healing instructors rushed onto the arena and used powerful soul skills to preserve Qi Chenze, Cheng Ruifeng, and Situ Xuan.
• The instructors stabilized all three, though Situ Xuan’s severe wounds and damaged meridians left him facing a long recovery.
• Yang Shuiyun arrived and silenced the arena with his authority as the academy president and a Federation Super Douluo.
• Yang Shuiyun declared Situ Xuan the victor of the tournament final.
• Yang Shuiyun’s announcement quieted the immediate uproar, but the Qi Family, Cheng Family, and Mu Ye still foreshadowed further trouble.

Recovering from his battle with Qi Chenze, Situ Xuan rejected concern over his reckless victory and focused on healing and becoming stronger. Academy leaders urged him to reform the Student Council, but he remained uninterested in saving the academy.

• Mu Ye visited Situ Xuan, warned that the Malevolent Qi could have ruined his foundation, and praised him for winning without disgracing the Body Sect.
• Situ Xuan resolved that his strength was still insufficient and circulated the Immortal Wind Cloud Body Technique to repair his meridians.
• Yang Shuiyun visited Situ Xuan and encouraged him to recover because the academy needed talents like him.
• Peng Yunze urged Situ Xuan to take up the Student Council's burden and oppose the academy's factional corruption.
• Xu Zifeng admitted the Student Council presidency was powerless and asked Situ Xuan to break the deadlock.
• Situ Xuan dismissed the idea of becoming the academy's savior and continued enjoying fruit while recovering.

Three years after the Academy-wide Hegemony Tournament, Situ Xuan had grown into a formidable fighter and established the Crow Empire as a dominant force among the academy’s lower-year students. After completing his training, he went to Dean Yang Shuiyun’s office at the dean’s request.

• Situ Xuan trained his Lost Tracking Steps in the Xun Wind Realm’s violent winds and tenfold gravity.
• Wang Dongchen gave Situ Xuan a towel and energy supplement, then told him Dean Yang Shuiyun wanted to see him.
• Situ Xuan walked through the academy as students greeted him and members of the Crow Empire with respect.
• The Crow Empire’s combat-focused training had spread through the lower years, and Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy had gained unprecedented representation on the Continental Genius Ranking.
• Situ Xuan headed to Dean Yang Shuiyun’s office with Wang Dongchen following close behind.

Situ Xuan learned that the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy would begin a joint teaching program with Shrek Academy and was assigned to lead the first exchange team. He eagerly accepted the chance to show Shrek what the academy’s “mad dogs” could do.

• Yang Shuiyun and Peng Yunze discussed how Situ Xuan’s training methods had transformed the academy’s students and eased the deans’ workload.
• Yang Shuiyun told Situ Xuan that the academy would begin a joint teaching program with Shrek Academy, alternating campuses each term.
• Situ Xuan recognized that the deans wanted him to lead a team to challenge Shrek Academy and eagerly agreed.
• Yang Shuiyun put Situ Xuan in charge of selecting fewer than twenty students from the Crow Empire and told him to show Shrek the meaning of Crow Facing the Sun.
• Situ Xuan left to prepare the team as Yang Shuiyun and Peng Yunze anticipated the exchange would make the continent notice their academy again.

Situ Xuan cultivated the Fourth Turn of the Immortal Wind Cloud Body Technique and reflected on how his formulas helped Mu Ye begin rebuilding the Body Sect. That night, the Bronze Book presented the mysterious phantom he had fought hundreds of times instead of revealing a new martial art.

• Situ Xuan endured the medicinal bath and used the Cloud Heart Art to broaden his meridians and refine his Soul Power.
• Situ Xuan recalled giving Mu Ye two medicinal bath formulas two years earlier, giving the Body Sect a safer way to develop Body Martial Souls.
• Mu Ye recruited promising youths and used the improved baths and targeted training to help several disciples achieve second awakenings.
• Situ Xuan finished absorbing the bath, considered the Body Sect's revival a valuable alliance, and looked forward to visiting Shrek Academy.
• Situ Xuan entered the Bronze Book's blank world, where the phantom he had fought 548 times appeared instead of a new martial art.

Situ Xuan continued his mindscape training, seeking to integrate Eight Extremes Heaven with his existing martial arts into a combat system of his own. In the 549th battle, he wounded the phantom for the first time, then charged forward again as his fighting spirit intensified.

• Situ Xuan recalled how Eight Extremes Heaven had overwhelmed his other techniques and how 548 nights of battles had taught him to adapt its principles rather than imitate its moves.
• Situ Xuan began the 549th battle, evading Sheath Breaker and redirecting the phantom’s attack before it unleashed Blade Chaos Thunder.
• Situ Xuan endured Blade Chaos Thunder with Sha Gang and disrupted its trajectory with Darkness Overcasting Heaven and Earth.
• Situ Xuan used Burning Step and a precise finger strike against the phantom’s Rock Body, then lifted it with Earth Cage Domain.
• Situ Xuan struck the phantom with Sui Ba, cracking its defense, and charged again as his battle instincts grew stronger through injury.

Situ Xuan fought the phantom harder than ever before and, for the first time, cracked its ultimate attack. After the battle, the phantom revealed that it knew Situ Xuan was from a different world.

• Situ Xuan used a series of martial techniques to break through the phantom’s defenses and wound it.
• The phantom began gathering power for Eight Extremes Heaven · Eighth Form · Meteor Assault, and Situ Xuan charged in with his ultimate Black Heart Evil Palm technique.
• Situ Xuan’s palm struck a weak point in the meteor, cracking it and ending the energy storm.
• The wounded phantom sat down instead of attacking, and Situ Xuan joined it, realizing he had finally shaken his opponent.
• The phantom told Situ Xuan that it knew he was not from the same world as it.

The phantom taught Situ Xuan that the ultimate fighting technique meant combining Eight Extremes Heaven with his own abilities to create a personal combat style. Before vanishing, it demonstrated four profound forms and urged him to discover his own “skyline.”

• The phantom explained that Situ Xuan should blend Eight Extremes Heaven with his Fist of the North Star and Black Heart Evil Palm to forge a unique combat model.
• The phantom said it would teach Situ Xuan three profound forms of its own and one created by his senior brother.
• The phantom demonstrated Azure Heaven Cross, Crimson Lotus Phoenix Dance, and Aurora Dragon Roar.
• The phantom demonstrated Golden Skyline, the profound form created by Situ Xuan’s senior brother, and said it could imitate only eighty percent of it.
• The phantom told Situ Xuan to remember the forms’ true meaning without being bound by their shapes, then vanished.

Situ Xuan arrived in Shrek City with students from the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy for a semester-long joint teaching program and unexpectedly reunited with Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Gu Yue, Xu Xiaoyan, and Wu Zhangkong. The chapter ended when Peng Yunze returned furious and ordered everyone to abandon the program and go back to Mingdu.

• Situ Xuan and Peng Yunze led thirty students from the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy into Shrek City and settled at a hotel arranged by Shrek Academy.
• Situ Xuan dismissed the students to rest or explore, then decided to walk around the city himself.
• Situ Xuan met Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Gu Yue, Xu Xiaoyan, and Wu Zhangkong at the hotel entrance and explained that he was representing his academy in a semester-long joint teaching program.
• Peng Yunze returned in a fury and ordered Situ Xuan to call everyone back, pack up, and return to Mingdu.

After Shrek Academy demanded that the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy’s exchange students take an entrance assessment, Peng Yunze was outraged, but Situ Xuan resolved to accept the challenge and prove their worth. Wu Zhangkong acknowledged Shrek’s misconduct and said he would report it to his teacher in the Inner Court.

• Peng Yunze told Situ Xuan that Shrek Academy had required their exchange students to take an entrance assessment and insulted them with its warning.
• Situ Xuan stopped Peng Yunze from leaving and ordered Wang Dongchen to assemble all the students for the assessment.
• Situ Xuan vowed to use Shrek’s assessment to crush its pride and defend the reputation of their academy and federation.
• Wu Zhangkong admitted that Shrek had failed to act fairly and promised to report the incident to his teacher when he visited the Inner Court.

Wu Zhangkong promised to appeal Shrek’s humiliating assessment demand to the Inner Court, while Situ Xuan chose to accept the assessment and prepare the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy students for battle. Wu Zhangkong agreed to stay at Peng Yunze’s hotel as he pursued an explanation, leaving the students braced for the contest and uncertain about Shrek.

• Wu Zhangkong assured Peng Yunze that he would seek justice through Shrek’s higher-ups, and Peng Yunze agreed to wait for an explanation before deciding whether to end the exchange.
• Situ Xuan accepted Shrek’s assessment and ordered Wang Dongchen to gather the students and prepare for battle.
• Tang Wulin resolved to earn admission to Shrek through his own strength, regardless of the academy’s internal affairs.
• Wu Zhangkong left to contact the Inner Court, but Peng Yunze invited him and the four students to stay at his hotel while he investigated who had proposed the assessment.
• Wu Zhangkong accepted Peng Yunze’s offer and promised to do his utmost to resolve the matter.

After Wu Zhangkong arranged rooms for the Eastsea Academy students, Tang Wulin and his friends saw a fierce group of Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy students arrive at the hotel. Their unease grew, and Gu Yue and Xie Xie decided to go down to the lobby despite Wu Zhangkong's instruction to wait.

• Wu Zhangkong accepted Peng Yunze's arrangements and led Tang Wulin and the others to their rooms while Situ Xuan watched the streets and Peng Yunze reported the situation to Mingdu.
• Tang Wulin reminded his companions to stay in the room, and the group reflected on how the officials' discriminatory remarks had shaken their view of Shrek Academy.
• Xie Xie spotted about twenty Sun Moon Academy students in blood-red crow-emblem uniforms, and Gu Yue sensed their dangerous, battle-focused aura.
• The students looked up at Tang Wulin and his friends with cold hostility before entering the hotel, leaving the group shaken.
• Xie Xie insisted on going to the lobby, and Gu Yue agreed, saying they should see for themselves what was happening downstairs.