Chapter Summaries

Cai Yue'er punished Tang Linyuan and Class Zero with zero points out of resentment for their past victory over Shrek, but Tang Linyuan rejected her pressure and led his friends away. His White Jade Token then revealed the Heaven Propping inscription and summoned a powerful white-robed phantom, leaving Cai Yue'er terrified.

• Cai Yue'er recognized Tang Linyuan and gave him and all of Class Zero zero points for the fourth and fifth trials because she resented their humiliation of Shrek three years earlier.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Gu Yue, and Xu Xiaoyan reacted with fury, but Tang Linyuan remained calm and resisted Cai Yue'er's Super Douluo pressure with his Spear Intent.
• Tang Linyuan declared that Class Zero would leave Shrek, and his companions followed him toward the hall doors without hesitation.
• Cai Yue'er threatened that Class Zero would never enter Shrek if they left, then noticed the Heaven Propping inscription on Tang Linyuan's falling White Jade Token.
• The White Jade Token opened spatial rifts and summoned a white-robed phantom whose supreme pressure overwhelmed Cai Yue'er and the examiners.

Yun Ming learned how Cai Yue'er had abused her authority during Class Zero's examination and stripped her of her positions, but Tang Linyuan insisted on completing the specialty test with a spear strike. The chapter ended as Tang Linyuan summoned the Tyrant Profound Divine Spear and revealed five hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings before the stunned Cai Yue'er.

• Tang Linyuan told Yun Ming that Cai Yue'er had rejected Class Zero and voided their results, and a chief examiner recounted the examination in detail.
• Yun Ming crushed Cai Yue'er to the floor and removed her as dean of Shrek's Outer Court and from the Sea God Pavilion.
• Tang Linyuan challenged Cai Yue'er to withstand one spear strike without Battle Armor, and she accepted in hopes of preserving her status.
• Cai Yue'er prepared her defenses while Tang Linyuan summoned the Tyrant Profound Divine Spear.
• Tang Linyuan revealed five red hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings, shocking Cai Yue'er and everyone else in the hall.

Tang Linyuan unleashed five Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and reunited with Xiao Mo to empower his Tyrant Profound Divine Spear. He shattered Cai Yue'er's Martial Soul Avatar and pinned her to the examination hall wall, leaving her gravely wounded as the hall fell silent.

• Tang Linyuan shattered and absorbed the energy of five Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, greatly amplifying his spear.
• Tang Linyuan summoned Xiao Mo, who returned to the Tyrant Profound Divine Spear as its Spear Spirit.
• Cai Yue'er raised layered defenses and activated her Martial Soul Avatar to face Tang Linyuan's attack.
• Tang Linyuan threw the Tyrant Profound Divine Spear with his Sky-Splitting World-Breaker technique, breaking through Cai Yue'er's shields and shattering her Martial Soul Avatar.
• Cai Yue'er deflected the spear slightly with her ninth Soul Ring, but it pierced her left chest and pinned her to the hall wall.

Tang Linyuan rejected Yun Ming’s offer to bypass the remaining assessments, and Class Zero left the ruined hall after passing the fourth assessment with full marks. On the way to the fifth assessment, Shen Yi realized Tang Linyuan’s master was Pavilion Master Yun Ming, shocking his classmates.

• Yun Ming ordered Cai Yue'er taken to Sea God Island for treatment and removed her as Outer Court Dean.
• Yun Ming offered Class Zero direct admission to the Inner Court, but Tang Linyuan insisted on continuing the examinations, so Yun Ming declared they had passed the fourth assessment with full marks.
• Shen Yi entered the wrecked hall and saw Cai Yue'er impaled; Tang Linyuan recalled his spear, and Shen Yi led Class Zero toward the fifth assessment.
• Tang Linyuan asked Xie Xie to explain the confrontation, and Xie Xie described Yun Ming appearing from the White Jade Tablet and stripping Cai Yue'er of her position.
• Shen Yi realized Tang Linyuan's master was Pavilion Master Yun Ming, leaving Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, Xu Xiaoyan, and Xie Xie stunned.

Shen Yi led Class Zero to Shrek’s fifth trial, which tested their secondary professions, and the students displayed astonishing skill across Mecha manufacturing, design, and forging. After Tang Wulin earned full marks with a supreme-quality Spirit Refinement, Tang Linyuan approached the examination area, leaving his own assessment about to begin.

• Shen Yi brought Class Zero to the fifth-trial hall and explained that the examination tested forging, design, manufacturing, and repair skills needed to create Battle Armor.
• Xie Xie manufactured a Level 3 Mecha Core Drive Shaft and received full marks.
• Xu Xiaoyan designed a Level 3 Energy Gathering Array and earned full marks, then Gu Yue engraved a Level 4 multi-element core array and also received full marks.
• Tang Wulin forged Sinking Silver into supreme-quality Spirit Forged Deep Silver, astonishing Feng Wuyu and earning full marks.
• Tang Linyuan withdrew his hands from his pockets and walked toward the center of the hall for his assessment.

Tang Linyuan completed the fifth assessment by forging four incompatible metals into a supreme Four-Color Divine Foundation Alloy, leaving the examiners stunned as he asked Shen Yi to announce the results.

• Tang Linyuan selected Sinking Silver, Blazing Red Copper, Cold Star Meteorite Iron, and Void Titanium for his forging demonstration.
• Tang Linyuan used his spiritual power, bloodline energy, and heavy hammers to fuse the four metals into a Thousand Refinement Grade One alloy.
• Tang Linyuan awakened the alloy's spirit, raising its spiritual radiance beyond ten feet before the energy settled back into the metal.
• Feng Wuyu tested the alloy, found a fusion rate of 98.7%, and identified it as a supreme Divine Foundation Alloy.
• Tang Linyuan told Shen Yi that his fifth assessment demonstration was complete and asked her to announce the results.

Tang Linyuan’s extraordinary Divine Foundation Alloy impressed Feng Wuyu so deeply that the Eight-Star Saint Craftsman could not score it and recommended him for direct entry into Shrek’s Inner Court. After learning Tang Linyuan and Tang Wulin were heirs to Zhen Hua and Mu Chen’s forging legacies, Feng Wuyu invited them to exchange ideas, and Shen Yi led Class Zero onward to the sixth round.

• Shen Yi recovered from her shock and prompted Feng Wuyu to continue the assessment.
• Feng Wuyu declared he could not score Tang Linyuan’s 98.7% Four Metal Divine Foundations alloy and recommended him for direct entry into the Inner Court.
• Tang Linyuan revealed that Divine Craftsman Zhen Hua was his master and that Mu Chen had taught Tang Wulin.
• Feng Wuyu abandoned his hopes of taking the boys as disciples and invited them to discuss forging with him as equals.
• Feng Wuyu took the alloy and rushed away to study it, while the other examiners withdrew from the hall.
• Shen Yi gave everyone full marks for the fifth round and led Class Zero toward the sixth; Tang Wulin resolved to catch up with his brother.

Class Zero took the sixth Shrek Academy trial, a willpower test involving special buns that expanded painfully in the stomach. Tang Wulin ate 175 buns by himself to secure full marks for the team, and Shen Yi led them onward to the seventh trial.

• Shen Yi explained that the team needed to eat 175 special buns for full marks, and confirmed that the rules allowed one team member to eat on behalf of the others.
• Tang Wulin began eating, driven by hunger after the previous trials and his immense energy needs.
• Tang Wulin rapidly ate 100 buns without any stomach distension, then complained that they were too small and lacked nutrition.
• Tang Linyuan promised to take Tang Wulin to a high-end restaurant after the exam, and Tang Wulin resumed eating with renewed enthusiasm.
• Tang Wulin finished 175 buns, earning full marks for all five Class Zero members, and Shen Yi led the group toward the seventh trial.

Class Zero completed the seventh Shrek Academy assessment, an endurance test, with all five members earning perfect scores. Shen Yi sent them to rest for ten minutes before the eighth round.

• Shen Yi announced that examinees had to run ten kilometers, complete one thousand weighted squats, and do one thousand pull-ups to pass the endurance assessment.
• Tang Linyuan ran ten kilometers in one minute, broke the treadmill, then finished the squats and pull-ups in two minutes each for a perfect score.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue completed the three challenges in twenty, thirty, and forty minutes respectively, each earning a perfect score.
• Xu Xiaoyan completed all three challenges in fifty-three minutes and forty seconds, and Tang Wulin and Tang Linyuan helped her through her exhaustion.
• Shen Yi recorded perfect scores for all five Class Zero members and told them to rest before the eighth round.

Tang Linyuan chose Yuan'en Yehui for the comprehensive combat assessment and revealed the vast difference in their strength. He stopped her empowered Titan Giant Ape strike with one hand, then crushed her Martial Soul Possession and left her unable to fight.

• Shen Yi explained that each Class Zero student would face a second-year student in a one-on-one combat assessment.
• Tang Linyuan skipped the lottery and chose Number Two, Yuan'en Yehui, whose disguise and troubled past he recognized.
• Yuan'en Yehui activated her Titan Giant Ape Martial Soul Possession and strengthened herself with Vajra Titan and Titan Strength.
• Tang Linyuan caught Yuan'en Yehui's full-force punch with one hand without releasing his Martial Soul or using a Soul Skill.
• Tang Linyuan crushed the defensive armor on Yuan'en Yehui's fist and forcibly returned her Titan arm to its original form, leaving her stunned and unable to fight.

Class Zero dominated the eighth trial as Tang Linyuan, Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, Xu Xiaoyan, and Xie Xie each defeated their opponents and earned full marks. After inviting Yuan'en Yehui to seek his companions when she needed them, Tang Linyuan and the others followed Shen Yi toward the ninth trial.

• Yuan'en Yehui conceded to Tang Linyuan after he overwhelmed her strength, and he invited her to find him when she needed companions.
• Tang Wulin defeated the Snow Leopard Martial Soul student with his Golden Dragon Claw and earned ten points.
• Gu Yue forced student number one to concede by sending Ice Spikes through folded space to threaten his vital points.
• Xu Xiaoyan bound student number six with Absolute Establishment, rendering his reflective defense useless.
• Xie Xie defeated student number nine by slipping past his heavy sword and placing a dagger at his throat.
• Class Zero swept the eighth trial with full marks, and Shen Yi led them toward the ninth trial.

Class Zero entered Shrek’s survival simulation and encountered a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and a Three-Eyed Golden Lion. Tang Linyuan killed both beasts with his spear, discovered the simulation could not reproduce their true abilities, and headed back to his teammates.

• Shen Yi explained the survival trial, and Tang Linyuan led Class Zero into the Simulation Pods.
• The team entered a primeval forest simulation and heard two powerful Soul Beasts fighting nearby.
• Tang Linyuan ordered Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Gu Yue, and Xu Xiaoyan to find a dry cave while he confronted the beasts.
• Tang Linyuan blocked the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear’s attack and ground down the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s Light of Fate, then recognized that both beasts lacked their true abilities.
• Tang Linyuan used Black Hole: Immeasurable to erase the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and Star Sundial: Karma Severing to erase the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Finding no Soul Bones or other loot, Tang Linyuan dismissed the simulation as a pauper system and walked back toward his teammates.

Tang Linyuan exposed the simulated Three-Eyed Golden Lion as part of Shrek’s test of Class Zero’s honesty and unity, earning the team full marks on the ninth trial. Shen Yi led them to the final Three Halls Joint Trial, where they found only two examiners seated instead of the expected three.

• Tang Linyuan found Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Gu Yue, and Xu Xiaoyan guarding a juvenile Three-Eyed Golden Lion and explained that the beast and its promised Fate Skull were part of a simulation.
• The cave and forest collapsed, and Tang Linyuan and the others emerged from their Simulation Pods as Shen Yi revealed that the ninth trial tested whether they would resist greed and betrayal.
• Shen Yi awarded every Class Zero member full marks for passing the Denial Trial, and Tang Linyuan and his teammates prepared for the final assessment.
• Shen Yi led Class Zero to the top floor and explained that three Inner Court elders would evaluate their prior trials, backgrounds, and Martial Soul potential.
• Tang Linyuan and the others entered the hall for the Three Halls Joint Trial and saw only two figures seated in the examiners’ chairs.

Red Dragon Douluo Zhuo Shi reviewed Class Zero’s first nine assessment stages and discovered that all five students had earned perfect scores. Shen Yi showed him Tang Linyuan’s battle against Cai Yue'er and revealed that Yun Ming had made Tang his direct disciple, leaving Zhuo Shi too shaken to address him.

• Zhuo Shi prepared to favor his grand-disciples as he reviewed the five students’ assessment records.
• Shen Yi presented the score summary, revealing that Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, and Tang Linyuan had each scored ninety points across the first nine stages.
• Shen Yi warned Zhuo Shi not to treat Tang Linyuan as his grand-disciple and sent him a memory of Tang defeating Cai Yue'er with one spear.
• Shen Yi revealed that Yun Ming had removed Cai Yue'er from her posts, named Tang his direct disciple, and given him the Heaven Propping White Jade Token.
• Zhuo Shi feared the consequences of calling Tang his grand-disciple and fell silent, unable to find an opening remark.

Class Zero passed Shrek Academy’s final admissions trial with perfect scores, and Shen Yi led them across Sea God Lake to Sea God Island at Zhuo Shi’s instruction. The group reached a courtyard there, bound for the residence of their grandmaster, the Red Dragon Douluo.

• Zhuo Shi canceled the final questioning trial and gave every member of Class Zero a perfect score, officially admitting them to Shrek Academy.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan celebrated their success while Tang Linyuan calmly acknowledged Zhuo Shi.
• Shen Yi led the five students away from the Outer Court dormitories and revealed that they were heading to Sea God Lake.
• Shen Yi told Class Zero that their grandmaster had instructed them to visit his residence on Sea God Island.
• Shen Yi rowed the group across Sea God Lake, and they landed on Sea God Island before following a stone path toward a courtyard.

Class Zero visited Wu Zhangkong at his residence and caught him cooking in a pink floral apron, then told him they had earned perfect scores on every stage of Shrek Academy's freshman examination. Before Shen Yi could explain the examination's extraordinary events, Zhuo Shi arrived, eager to meet the students and Tang Linyuan.

• Shen Yi led Class Zero to Wu Zhangkong's courtyard, where they found him cooking in a pink floral apron and laughed at the sight.
• Wu Zhangkong removed the apron, regained his composure, and asked how Class Zero had performed in the freshman examination.
• Xie Xie told Wu Zhangkong that all five students had earned full marks through the first nine stages and received perfect scores on the tenth stage, giving them a total of one hundred points.
• Wu Zhangkong asked Shen Yi what had happened during the examination, and she prepared to explain Tang Linyuan's confrontation with Cai Yue'er and Yun Ming's intervention.
• Zhuo Shi kicked open the courtyard gate, entered, and warmly greeted the five students as he came to meet them and Tang Linyuan.

Zhuo Shi reunited with Wu Zhangkong and treated Class Zero to a lavish dinner before testing Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon King bloodline. Impressed by Tang Wulin’s strength, Zhuo Shi offered to teach him the Red Dragon Nine Styles and began with its first style.

• Zhuo Shi welcomed Class Zero, but stopped Tang Linyuan from calling him Grandmaster and asked him to use Elder Zhuo instead.
• Zhuo Shi scolded Wu Zhangkong for standing aside, then told him to join the meal in recognition of his teaching.
• Tang Wulin devoured the feast, and Zhuo Shi concluded that his golden scales came from a powerful True Dragon bloodline.
• After dinner, Zhuo Shi tested Tang Wulin’s attacks and praised his bloodline while criticizing his crude use of power.
• Zhuo Shi offered to teach Tang Wulin the Red Dragon Nine Styles, and Tang Wulin accepted before Zhuo Shi began teaching Red Dragon Shakes the Heavens.

Tang Linyuan was summoned by Yun Ming to attend the Sea God Pavilion Conference, where the fallout from his attack on Cai Yue'er and Yun Ming’s decision to remove her would be addressed. Zhuo Shi warned him that powerful allies of Cai Yue'er might oppose him, and Tang Linyuan set off for the meeting.

• Tang Linyuan recalled how Zhuo Shi had exhausted Class Zero with intensive training, then let the sleeping Tang Wulin rest after the previous day's trials.
• Tang Linyuan received Yun Ming’s message summoning him to the Sea God Pavilion Conference and suspected the meeting would address Cai Yue'er’s removal and his introduction as Yun Ming’s direct disciple.
• Tang Linyuan encountered Zhuo Shi, who had dressed for the conference and warned that Cai Yue'er’s former students and associates might make trouble.
• Tang Linyuan told Zhuo Shi he would remain courteous as long as the elders spoke properly, and Zhuo Shi accompanied him toward the meeting.

Tang Linyuan attended an emergency Sea God Pavilion meeting as Yun Ming's personal disciple and sat beside the Pavilion Master, shocking the elders. After Long Yeyue arrived, Yun Ming opened deliberations on Cai Yue'er's abuse of authority and his decision to remove her from her posts.

• Zhuo Shi brought Tang Linyuan into Sea God Pavilion, where the elders scrutinized the freshman's composure and spiritual power.
• Yun Ming invited Tang Linyuan to sit beside him and revealed that the youth was his personal disciple, startling the elders and Feng Wuyu.
• Tang Linyuan took the seat beside Yun Ming as more Pavilion Elders arrived and learned his identity.
• Long Yeyue entered, exchanged a steady gaze with Tang Linyuan, and took her seat at Yun Ming's left.
• Yun Ming opened the emergency meeting to deliberate Cai Yue'er's abuse of authority during the freshman assessment and his decision to strip her of her positions.

Yun Ming removed Cai Yue'er from her positions and used Thought Materialization to show the elders what happened during the freshman assessment. The projection reached Tang Linyuan's approach to the examination platform, just before the conflict that led to Cai Yue'er's injuries.

• Yun Ming announced that Cai Yue'er had been stripped of her positions, leaving the elders confused about the reasons.
• Feng Wuyu suspected that Tang Linyuan had inflicted Cai Yue'er's spear wound, while Zhuo Shi stayed conspicuously silent.
• Yun Ming manifested the assessment as a projection so the elders could review the events themselves.
• The elders watched Xie Xie's stealth display and Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon Bloodline and Blood Essence Soul Ring impress the specialists.
• The projection showed Gu Yue's performance and Cai Yue'er lowering her score after Gu Yue rejected her offer of discipleship.
• Tang Linyuan stepped toward the examination platform as the elders sensed the coming conflict.