Recaps

Cao Yan joined Nuoding Academy, defeated Grandmaster and Tang San, and won Xiao Wu’s trust while gaining the Guardian Spirit Yu Jin. He left Tang San without the Mandala Snake soul ring, and Tang San prepared to try absorbing a ten-year Lone Bamboo instead.

• Cao Yan arrived in the Star Dou Great Forest, received level ninety-nine Soul Power from the system, and defeated a 99,999-year Man Faced Demon Spider with one punch.
• Cao Yan joined Nuoding Academy after humiliating Grandmaster and Tang San, then received the Guardian Spirit Martial Soul Yu Jin from the system.
• Cao Yan became the boss of Seventh Dorm, welcomed Xiao Wu, and defeated Xiao Chenyu after he mocked the Work-Study Students.
• Cao Yan and Xiao Wu grew closer as he shared his bedding and meals with her, while the system gave Cao Yan the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record techniques and Soul Chasing Life Taking Yama's Post.
• Cao Yan attended class with Xiao Wu and accepted a system quest to prevent Tang San from obtaining a hundred-year soul ring.
• At Soul Hunting Forest, Cao Yan confronted Grandmaster and Tang San as Tang San prepared to absorb a Mandala Snake’s soul ring.
• Cao Yan had Yu Jin destroy the Mandala Snake’s soul ring and knocked Tang San away, leaving Tang San devastated.
• Tang San expelled the snake’s venom from Grandmaster’s arm, then agreed to try absorbing a ten-year Lone Bamboo soul ring.

Cao Yan protected Xiao Wu from Tang San and Tang Hao, then used Tang Hao's final request to revive Ah Yin. After Tang Hao died and Ah Yin learned the truth about his betrayal, she joined Cao Yan before leaving for the Star Dou Great Forest, while Cao Yan prepared to absorb a God-Bestowed Soul Ring.

• Cao Yan gave Xiao Wu hidden weapons and promised to protect her, while their closeness grew.
• Tang San attacked Cao Yan over the Mandala Snake, but Xiao Wu defeated him with her greater strength and Cao Yan later left him beaten.
• Tang Hao confronted Cao Yan, but Cao Yan struck him with Soul Chasing Life Taking Yama's Post and poisoned him.
• Cao Yan visited the dying Tang Hao, who confessed his betrayal of Ah Yin, gave him a map to her hiding place, and asked him to return her Soul Ring.
• Tang Hao died after writing Ah Yin a letter, and Cao Yan found her Blue Silver Emperor form and used her Soul Bone and Soul Ring to revive her.
• Cao Yan gave Ah Yin Tang Hao's letter and told her how he had died, and Ah Yin mourned the betrayal before choosing to stay with Cao Yan.
• Ah Yin and Cao Yan spent the night together, then she left for the Star Dou Great Forest and said she expected to reach Titled Douluo level within three years.
• The system announced that Cao Yan's brother had obtained the Ring of the Fire God, and Cao Yan decided to absorb the God-Bestowed Soul Ring.

Cao Yan gained the Fire God’s inheritance, began a relationship with Xiao Wu, and later set out with her for Shrek Academy. Along the way, he humiliated Dai Mubai at the Rose Hotel and learned that Dai Mubai’s identity had been exposed.

• Cao Yan endured the Fire God’s trial and absorbed a Hundred-Thousand-Year God-Bestowed Soul Ring, then accepted the Investiture of the Gods List while rejecting the Fire God’s second-class divine position.
• Tang San and Grandmaster tried to make Xiao Wu Grandmaster’s disciple, but Wang Sheng fought Tang San and Grandmaster injured the work-study students while pressuring Xiao Wu.
• Cao Yan rescued Xiao Wu, and Director Su expelled Grandmaster and Tang San after hearing what they had done.
• Cao Yan and Xiao Wu became a couple, and Xiao Wu accepted that Cao Yan might love other girls as well.
• Grandmaster told Tang San that Tang Hao was Clear Sky Douluo and identified the Clear Sky Hammer, then promised to train Tang San as six years passed.
• Cao Yan and Xiao Wu traveled toward Shrek Academy, where Dai Mubai confronted them at the Rose Hotel and Cao Yan defeated him without revealing his true strength.
• Manager Wang made Dai Mubai kneel and apologize to Cao Yan, then revealed Dai Mubai was the Third Imperial Prince and that Dai Weisi had offered a marquis title and five million Gold Soul Coins for information about him.

Cao Yan reached Shrek Academy and overwhelmed its examiners, defeating Zhao Wuji and revealing a 100,000-year Soul Ring and Pure Yang Flame. He became Shrek’s headmaster and set his sights on building influence, while Ning Rongrong began a secret, insincere arrangement with Oscar as she remained interested in Cao Yan.

• Cao Yan intervened when Dai Mubai was beaten by an angry crowd, then left him alive and returned to the Rose Hotel with Xiao Wu.
• Cao Yan and Xiao Wu reached Shrek Academy, where Cao Yan reunited with Tang San and met Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Cao Yan refused to reveal his abilities during the entrance test, summoned Yu Jin, and defeated Li Yusong before facing Zhao Wuji.
• Cao Yan fought Zhao Wuji alone, shattered his defenses, and finally sent him crashing through buildings with a powerful punch.
• Ning Rongrong invited Cao Yan to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but he demanded that she become his woman, and she angrily rejected him.
• Cao Yan revealed his 100,000-year Soul Ring and Pure Yang Flame, charged the witnesses for their silence, and claimed to Zhao Wuji that he had level-99 Soul Power.
• Flender yielded the headmaster position to Cao Yan, who appointed Zhao Wuji Vice Dean and declared plans to restore Shrek Academy and expand his influence.
• Oscar pursued Ning Rongrong, who agreed to let him prove himself while privately treating him as a diversion and hoping to win Cao Yan over.