Chapter Summaries

Da Ming and Er Ming’s attempt to enroll Wang Dong'er while disguising her as a boy was exposed by Cai Yue'er, who let her stay only if they escorted her to and from the academy each day. As the three prepared to leave, Qian Duoduo recognized Da Ming and Er Ming and wondered why they had brought Wang Dong'er to this Shrek Academy instead of his own.

• Cai Yue'er rejected Da Ming’s excuse for disguising Wang Dong'er and threatened to send her away.
• Da Ming and Er Ming begged Cai Yue'er to let Wang Dong'er stay, and she required them to escort her to school every day.
• Da Ming and Er Ming agreed to commute with Wang Dong'er, and Cai Yue'er told them to bring her back for class the next morning.
• Qian Duoduo, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya arrived as Da Ming, Er Ming, and Wang Dong'er headed out.
• Qian Duoduo recognized Da Ming and Er Ming and wondered why they had enrolled Wang Dong'er at this Shrek Academy.

Qian Duoduo confronted Da Ming and Er Ming after learning they had brought Xiao Qi to the new Shrek Academy instead of joining his own, and the argument escalated into a clash of auras. It left Qian Duoduo facing Er Ming’s overwhelming Rank 98 pressure as a voice warned that private fighting was forbidden within Shrek Academy.

• Qian Duoduo asked Da Ming and Er Ming why they had changed their minds about joining Shrek Academy, while Er Ming barely remembered him and brushed off his questions.
• Qian Duoduo blocked Er Ming’s path and demanded an explanation, so Er Ming said Shrek Academy was trash and did not deserve Xiao Qi.
• Qian Duoduo grew furious and let his Title Douluo aura emerge, while Bei Bei tried to calm him down.
• Er Ming challenged Qian Duoduo to spar and released Rank 98 Super Douluo pressure that overwhelmed Qian Duoduo’s aura.
• A voice from afar warned that private fighting was forbidden within Shrek Academy.

Zhang Yang brought Da Ming, Er Ming, and Qian Duoduo to the Enforcement Office after their display of Soul Power violated Shrek Academy rules. Er Ming was fined ten thousand Gold Soul Coins and, unable to pay, agreed to stay in the Confinement Room while Da Ming secretly planned to rob Qian Duoduo and use the money to redeem him.

• Zhang Yang used a Soul Tool to confirm the group had violated academy rules and ordered them to make a record at the Enforcement Office.
• After recording their statements, Zhang Yang fined each person ten thousand Gold Soul Coins for releasing Title Douluo-level pressure on campus.
• Er Ming protested that the fine was too high and said they lacked the money, so Zhang Yang threatened to confine him until someone paid.
• Qian Duoduo smugly brought out several bags of Gold Soul Coins and mocked Er Ming while paying his own fine.
• Da Ming signaled that they should rob Qian Duoduo later, and Er Ming pretended to accept confinement while agreeing to wait for his brother to redeem him.

Qian Duoduo tried to meet the dean of the academy holding Shrek personnel, but Zhang Yang refused him without an appointment and insisted that someone with greater authority make the request. The argument escalated until Zhang Yang offered Qian Duoduo a fight as the price of getting the meeting reported.

• After Da Ming left with Wang Dong'er, Er Ming remained locked in the Confinement Room, and Bei Bei reminded Qian Duoduo to focus on Mu En's task.
• Qian Duoduo told Zhang Yang he represented Shrek Academy and demanded to meet the academy's dean, but Zhang Yang asked whether he had an appointment.
• Zhang Yang called Qian Duoduo's academy a pirated Shrek Academy, angering Qian Duoduo, who demanded that Zhang Yang report his request to the dean.
• Zhang Yang said only the person with the most authority at Shrek Academy was qualified to arrange a meeting, prompting Qian Duoduo and Bei Bei to realize he meant Mu En.
• After Qian Duoduo insisted he would meet the dean, Zhang Yang challenged him to fight, offering to report the request if Qian Duoduo won and warning he would be confined if he lost.

Qian Duoduo accepted Zhang Yang’s wager, confident that his higher level and Soul Tools would secure an easy victory. Zhang Yang revealed three hundred-thousand-year soul rings and defeated him with one attack, leaving Qian Duoduo badly injured on the arena floor.

• Qian Duoduo learned Zhang Yang was level ninety-two and agreed to fight him, asking whether Soul Tools could be used.
• Zhang Yang, Qian Duoduo, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya went to the academy’s Soul Fighting Arena.
• Qian Duoduo revealed his Black Dragon Shield martial soul and prepared a Soul Tool cannon, while Zhang Yang summoned his Dark Phantom Eagle and displayed three hundred-thousand-year soul rings.
• Qian Duoduo unleashed his Black Dragon True Form and charged his cannon, but Zhang Yang vanished and struck with his eighth soul skill, Demon Eagle Sky-Ripping Claw.
• Zhang Yang shattered Qian Duoduo’s shield, destroyed his Soul Tool, and sent him crashing into the arena barrier, where he lay injured.

Bei Bei watched Zhang Yang imprison Qian Duoduo despite his offer to pay, then left Shrek Academy with Tang Ya. He worried about explaining the latest capture to Mu En and wondered whether every Shrek teacher he brought would end up locked away.

• Lin Feng received system rewards after Qian Duoduo, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya grew more favorable toward Shrek Academy as Monster Academy.
• Zhang Yang defeated Qian Duoduo and dragged him toward the Confinement Room despite Qian Duoduo offering thirty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Bei Bei asked Zhang Yang to make an exception, but Zhang Yang said Bei Bei could take Qian Duoduo only if he defeated him.
• Bei Bei and Tang Ya met Shen Yi, who drove them back to the surface near Star Dou Forest.
• Tang Ya asked Bei Bei how they would explain Qian Duoduo's imprisonment to Mu En, and Bei Bei feared Mu En's reaction.

Zhang Yang imprisoned Qian Duoduo alongside Yan Shaozhe, Xuan Zi, and Er Ming, leaving the captives to wonder who could secure their release. Qian Duoduo said Mu En had sent him to negotiate, and Xuan Zi eagerly anticipated Mu En’s arrival while the others feared his reaction.

• Zhang Yang brought the battered Qian Duoduo into the Confinement Room, fitted him with a Soul Power-restricting collar, and locked him in an empty cell.
• Yan Shaozhe recognized Qian Duoduo, while Er Ming laughed at his capture before realizing he might no longer have a way to get out.
• Qian Duoduo claimed he had been ambushed, and Xuan Zi boasted that he had fought five Super Douluo, defeated three, and lost only after exhausting his Soul Power.
• Yan Shaozhe learned that Mu En had sent Qian Duoduo to negotiate and feared there was no one left to rescue them.
• Qian Duoduo reassured Yan Shaozhe that Bei Bei and Tang Ya could alert Mu En, and Xuan Zi looked forward to Mu En arriving to punish the academy.

Bei Bei and Tang Ya ran into Da Ming on their way back, and he robbed Bei Bei to raise money to ransom Er Ming. They returned to Shrek Academy and told Mu En that Qian Duoduo had also been imprisoned, leaving Mu En to go meet the New Shrek Academy’s dean personally.

• Da Ming stopped Bei Bei and Tang Ya in the forest and learned that Qian Duoduo had been locked in the Confinement Room.
• Da Ming demanded money from Bei Bei, took his six thousand Gold Soul Coins, and left to rescue Er Ming.
• Bei Bei and Tang Ya hurried back to Shrek Academy to report what had happened to Mu En.
• Bei Bei told Mu En that Qian Duoduo had failed to rescue Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe and had been imprisoned too.
• Mu En heard that the New Shrek Academy required him to meet its dean personally and agreed to go himself.

Huo Yuhao explored his luxurious Shrek Academy dorm and discovered the valuable items in his enrollment gift pack, deepening his respect for the academy. Meanwhile, Lin Feng received a system reward of thousands of Artificial Soul Spirits after Huo Yuhao’s recognition of Shrek Academy increased.

• Huo Yuhao entered his comfortable dorm room and marveled at its luxury with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• Huo Yuhao opened the Storage Soul Tool Shen Yi had given him and found school uniforms, two jade bottles, a black steamed bun, and ten thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Huo Yuhao read that the bottles contained a Mystic Water Pill and a Soul Ascension Pill, and learned that the bun was made from Deep Sea Demon Whale meat.
• Huo Yuhao vowed to cultivate harder to repay the academy for its generous gifts.
• Lin Feng received 10,000 Century Soul Spirits, 10,000 Millennium Soul Spirits, and 1,000 Ten-Thousand Year Soul Spirits from the system.

Da Ming freed Er Ming by paying Zhang Yang, and Shen Yi welcomed Wang Dong'er as a Shrek Academy student. After the academy’s generous enrollment gifts improved their opinion of Shrek, Lin Feng received rewards that included Tang Wulin as a new student.

• Da Ming paid Zhang Yang ten thousand Gold Soul Coins, securing Er Ming’s release from the Confinement Room while Qian Duoduo remained imprisoned.
• Shen Yi gave Wang Dong'er an enrollment gift package and assured Da Ming and Er Ming that the academy would provide her student benefits despite their conflict with Elder Cai.
• At Da Ming’s rented home, Wang Dong'er opened the package, and Da Ming and Er Ming discovered that it contained powerful pills and a Black Steamed Bun made from Deep Sea Demon Whale meat.
• Da Ming reconsidered sending Wang Dong'er to Shrek Academy after seeing the gifts, and Wang Dong'er grew eager to attend classes.
• Lin Feng received system rewards for the increased recognition of Da Ming, Er Ming, and Wang Dong'er, including Bei Xin, fire-attribute Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, and Tang Wulin as a newly enrolled student.

Huo Yuhao arrived for his first class at Shrek Academy and met his new classmates, including Tang Wulin and Wang Dong'er. Teacher Shen Yi introduced herself and stunned the class by revealing a hundred-thousand-year soul ring, upgraded by Lin Feng the night before.

• Huo Yuhao woke energized after cultivating and eating a Black Steamed Bun, then headed to the teaching building for class.
• Tang Wulin welcomed Huo Yuhao and introduced him to Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, Yang Nianxia, Wei Xiaofeng, Wu Siduo, and Luo Guixing.
• Wang Dong'er entered with her hair down, felt an inexplicable familiarity toward Tang Wulin, and took a seat by the window.
• Shen Yi and Wu Zhangkong entered the classroom, and Shen Yi introduced herself as the students' homeroom teacher alongside Wu Zhangkong.
• Shen Yi revealed her seven-ring Soul Saint cultivation and a red hundred-thousand-year soul ring, shocking the students.
• The story's system rewarded increases in Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong'er, and Xi Er's recognition of Shrek Academy with various items.

Shen Yi introduced herself as a Two-Word Battle Armor Master and demonstrated how battle armor could greatly increase a soul master's strength. Huo Yuhao then asked about her unusual soul-ring configuration and Lin Feng's nine hundred-thousand-year soul rings, leaving the class waiting for an explanation.

• Shen Yi explained that Battle Armor Masters combined armor with their Martial Souls and could gain strength equivalent to fighting opponents twenty levels higher.
• Shen Yi described the cultivation requirements for One-Word and Two-Word Battle Armor and explained how each could let its wearer challenge stronger soul masters.
• Shen Yi summoned her jade-green battle armor, filling the classroom with its powerful aura of life, then dismissed it.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm urged Huo Yuhao to ask about Shen Yi's soul rings after noticing their unusual ages.
• Huo Yuhao asked Shen Yi why she had three purple, three black, and one red soul ring, and brought up Lin Feng's nine hundred-thousand-year soul rings, prompting the class to focus on her.

Shen Yi explained that Shrek Academy’s Spirit Ascension Platform could raise soul ring ages, astonishing the students and strengthening their belief in the academy. As the students reacted, Lin Feng received several system rewards, and Shen Yi had yet to explain soul spirits.

• Shen Yi told the class that spiritual power and physical strength limited the age of soul rings Soul Masters could absorb, then revealed her first two rings had once been yellow.
• Shen Yi introduced the Spirit Ascension Platform, explaining that simulated soul beasts released energy that could increase soul ring age from hundred-year to even hundred-thousand-year levels.
• Huo Yuhao and the other students were astonished by the technology, and Huo Yuhao recognized why Shen Yi and Dean Lin had unusual soul ring configurations.
• Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao became more convinced that choosing Shrek Academy was the right decision, while Lin Feng received rewards including artificial soul spirit technology, Spirit Ascension Platforms, mechas, and technicians.
• Lin Feng realized Shen Yi had not yet introduced the academy’s most important subject: soul spirits.

Shen Yi explained that students could use Contribution Points to enter the Spirit Ascension Platform and promised the new class a free trial after class affairs were settled. She appointed experienced students to four technical committee posts, leaving the class monitor, three vice monitors, and Soul Tool Production Committee Member positions open as Huo Yuhao worried about his chances.

• Shen Yi explained that students earned Contribution Points through academy missions and said the new students could visit the Spirit Ascension Platform for free after class affairs were handled.
• Shen Yi announced that class officers would receive monthly Contribution Points and listed one class monitor, three vice monitors, and five technical committee posts.
• The students were confused by the mecha and technical positions, and Huo Yuhao worried that he lacked the skills and strength to compete for them.
• Shen Yi appointed Wu Siduo as Mecha Repair Committee Member, Luo Guixing as Mecha Manufacturing Committee Member, Yang Nianxia as Forging Committee Member, and Xu Xiaoyan as Mecha Design Committee Member.
• Huo Yuhao nervously considered the remaining officer positions and doubted he could win one or qualify for the Soul Tool Production Committee Member post.

Shen Yi appointed Huo Yuhao as Soul Tool Production Committee Member, and he accepted after she explained why she trusted his potential. She then announced a free-for-all assessment to choose the class monitor and three vice monitors, leaving Wang Dong'er determined to win.

• Shen Yi named Huo Yuhao Soul Tool Production Committee Member, but he protested that he knew nothing about Soul Tools and had no right to take the position.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm urged Huo Yuhao to accept for the Contribution Points and cultivation resources, while Huo Yuhao insisted that taking a role he could not fulfill would violate his principles.
• Shen Yi explained that Huo Yuhao's Spirit Eye gave him an advantage in Soul Tool production and that the position could be reassigned after the semester.
• Huo Yuhao accepted the position and promised Shen Yi that he would study hard.
• Shen Yi announced a virtual free-for-all, with the last four students standing becoming class monitor and vice monitors, and Wang Dong'er resolved to become class monitor.

Shen Yi brought the class to a virtual training hall and explained that the students would fight for class officer positions in a simulated free-for-all. Wang Dong'er formed a team with Xiao Xiao and Xi Er, then set her sights on Tang Wulin's group as the trial began.

• Shen Yi took the twenty-seven eligible students to a hall and revealed Virtual Pods that replicated their abilities for safe combat simulations.
• Shen Yi announced that only the final four students would become class officers and gave the participants three minutes to form teams.
• Wang Dong'er accepted Xiao Xiao, a two-ring control-type Soul Grandmaster, and Xi Er, an assault-type battle soul master, as teammates.
• Wang Dong'er saw Tang Wulin team up with Xie Xie and another boy, and she decided to take Xie Xie down after he declared that Tang Wulin would become class monitor.
• Shen Yi ended the preparation period, and Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, and Xi Er entered neighboring Virtual Pods.

Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, and Xi Er entered a realistic virtual forest for the class president selection and began eliminating their opponents. Outside the simulation, Shen Yi explained the virtual pods’ training capabilities to Huo Yuhao, while Lin Feng received rewards for increasing students’ recognition of Shrek Academy.

• Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, and Xi Er regrouped in the virtual forest and prepared for ambushes.
• Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao defeated three one-ring Soul Masters, who vanished into specks of light.
• Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, and Xi Er agreed to hunt down the remaining students and compete for the class leadership positions.
• Shen Yi explained to Huo Yuhao that the virtual pods could simulate dangerous environments, safe combat, and battles against soul beasts.
• Lin Feng received the Three Lives Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, a 200,000-year increase to all his soul rings, and the experience and knowledge of a level-ten Soul Engineer.

Wang Dong'er’s team watched Xie Xie, Tang Wulin, and Wei Xiaofeng eliminate another group, then were forced into a direct confrontation as the virtual forest shrank. Wang Dong'er’s ambush on Wei Xiaofeng failed when Tang Wulin pulled him out of danger with Blue Silver Grass.

• Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, and Xi Er hid and watched Xie Xie lure three opponents into an ambush by Tang Wulin and Wei Xiaofeng, who helped him eliminate them.
• The remaining contestants dropped to six, and Teacher Shen forced them together by shrinking the forest.
• Wang Dong'er decided her team would feint an attack on Xie Xie and target Wei Xiaofeng instead.
• Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, and Xi Er launched their attack, but Tang Wulin used Blue Silver Grass to pull Wei Xiaofeng out of Wang Dong'er's reach.

Wang Dong'er accepted Xie Xie's offer of a one-on-one duel against Tang Wulin, hoping to win the class monitor position. After her attacks failed to hurt him, Tang Wulin used his thousand-year Blue Silver Grass soul ring to bind her and slam her to the ground, eliminating her.

• Xie Xie proposed that Wang Dong'er duel Tang Wulin, promising that his team would surrender if she won.
• Wang Dong'er revealed her thousand-year second soul ring and attacked Tang Wulin with Wing Guillotine and Butterfly Goddess Light, but his golden dragon claw blocked both attacks.
• Wang Dong'er took to the air to search for an opening, while Tang Wulin revealed his purple first soul ring.
• Tang Wulin used Entangle to bind Wang Dong'er in Blue Silver Grass and drag her down, eliminating her.

Tang Wulin's team won the virtual combat, and the class officers were selected with Tang Wulin as class monitor and Wang Dong'er as a vice class monitor. Meanwhile, Mu En, Bei Bei, and Elder Lin reached the sky above the Star Dou Forest and discovered a massive Floating Island.

• Tang Wulin apologized to Wang Dong'er for fighting her ruthlessly, explaining that he had treated the battle seriously because she was strong.
• Shen Yi appointed Tang Wulin class monitor and named Xie Xie and Xiao Feng vice class monitors for belonging to the winning team.
• Xiao Xiao and Xi Er declined the remaining vice class monitor position and recommended Wang Dong'er, who accepted it and vowed to surpass Tang Wulin.
• Mu En, Bei Bei, and Elder Lin flew above the Star Dou Forest to make contact with the unknown Shrek Academy while keeping their approach low-profile.
• Elder Lin carried Mu En and Bei Bei through the clouds, where they spotted an enormous Floating Island.