Chapter Summaries

After Lin Yaoyang fought back against Zhou Yi, the academy’s deans intervened and promised to handle the incident fairly. That evening, Lin Yaoyang went to the dean of studies’ office and found Yan Shaozhe waiting with Du Weilun.

• Lin Yaoyang refused Zhou Yi’s order to extinguish his flames and condemned her harsh treatment of the students.
• Du Weilun arrived, challenged Zhou Yi for suppressing and attacking Lin Yaoyang, and asked whether Lin Yaoyang was hurt.
• Yan Shaozhe arrived, ordered teachers to extinguish Zhou Yi’s flames, and told her to tend to her injuries while he investigated.
• Yan Shaozhe reassured Lin Yaoyang that the academy would handle the matter fairly, and Wang Dong followed Lin Yaoyang out of the classroom.
• Lin Yaoyang told Wang Dong he was too valuable for the academy to let Zhou Yi cripple him and said he might have beaten her anyway.
• That evening, Lin Yaoyang answered Du Weilun’s summons and found Du Weilun and Yan Shaozhe waiting in the dean of studies’ office.

Yan Shaozhe met with Lin Yaoyang, confirmed Zhou Yi had been expelled, and gave him a gold card with a limit of fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins as compensation. Lin Yaoyang returned to the dormitory and told Wang Dong what had happened.

• Yan Shaozhe told Lin Yaoyang that Zhou Yi had been expelled and that another teacher would take over his class.
• Yan Shaozhe gave Lin Yaoyang a gold card with a limit of fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins and offered to help him hunt Soul Beasts after he reached Soul King.
• After Lin Yaoyang left, Du Weilun described him as arrogant, steady, clever, and sly, while Yan Shaozhe discussed finding his weaknesses and desires.
• Wang Dong asked Lin Yaoyang about the meeting, and he told her Zhou Yi had been expelled and showed her the compensation card.
• Wang Dong was astonished by the card's limit and privately admired Lin Yaoyang.

Lin Yaoyang attended his first official class with Wang Dong, where the students followed his lead and Mu Jin appointed him class monitor. That evening, he took Wang Dong to the busy street outside Shrek Academy to buy food.

• Lin Yaoyang entered Class One with Wang Dong, and the students admired him for standing up to Zhou Yi.
• Mu Jin introduced herself as the homeroom teacher and asked the students to introduce themselves, but they waited until Lin Yaoyang spoke before taking turns.
• Mu Jin appointed Lin Yaoyang class monitor, and he chose Wang Dong as vice class monitor, calling her Little Wang.
• After classes, Lin Yaoyang took Wang Dong out through Shrek Academy's eastern gate to buy food from the bustling street vendors.
• Wang Dong eagerly tried snacks from several stalls while Lin Yaoyang paid and reminded her to eat more slowly.

Lin Yaoyang and Wang Dong visited Huo Yuhao’s grilled-fish stall, where Lin Yaoyang encouraged him and helped attract customers. Jiang Nannan arrived and reunited warmly with Lin Yaoyang, while Wang Dong wondered whether they were more than friends; the chapter ended with an angry customer confronting Huo Yuhao over the last two fish.

• Lin Yaoyang and Wang Dong found Huo Yuhao selling grilled fish, and Lin Yaoyang reassured him that there was nothing shameful about earning money.
• Lin Yaoyang bought three grilled fish with a Gold Soul Coin, and he and Wang Dong praised the food as customers gathered around the stall.
• Jiang Nannan recognized Lin Yaoyang, sat with him, and introduced curiosity among her friends about their relationship.
• Wang Dong asked whether Jiang Nannan was Lin Yaoyang’s girlfriend, and Lin Yaoyang said she was his friend.
• A customer demanded a grilled fish after Huo Yuhao said the last two were reserved, then angrily challenged him for refusing to sell.

Lin Yaoyang stopped Huo Yuhao from using Spirit Detection to help Bei Bei, then spent the next morning with Wang Dong by Sea God Lake. When Ma Xiaotao charged ashore in a fit of uncontrolled Evil Fire, Lin Yaoyang accused her of being an Evil Soul Master, provoking her into an even more violent rampage as students called for teachers.

• Xu Sanshi challenged Bei Bei to a Soul Fighting match after confronting Tang Ya and Huo Yuhao, while Jiang Nannan rejected Xu Sanshi and went to watch with Lin Yaoyang and Wang Dong.
• Lin Yaoyang noticed Huo Yuhao preparing to use Spirit Detection to assist Bei Bei and quietly warned him not to cheat.
• Lin Yaoyang walked Jiang Nannan back to her dormitory, then continued toward his own dormitory with Wang Dong, who questioned his relationship with Jiang Nannan.
• Lin Yaoyang and Wang Dong visited Sea God Lake the next morning, where Ma Xiaotao raced across the water and knocked Wang Dong unconscious with the heat of her uncontrolled flames.
• Lin Yaoyang caught Wang Dong, summoned his armor and sword, and publicly accused Ma Xiaotao of being an Evil Soul Master, worsening her frenzy and prompting nearby students to call for teachers.

Lin Yaoyang fought the rampaging Ma Xiaotao while holding the unconscious Wang Dong, then accused her of being an Evil Soul Master and pressed Dean Yan to kill her. Yan Shaozhe knocked Ma Xiaotao unconscious to stop her, but Lin Yaoyang continued demanding her death.

• Ma Xiaotao lost control of her Evil Fire and attacked Lin Yaoyang, who protected Wang Dong and revealed his four Soul Rings.
• Lin Yaoyang used Aurora Sword Dance to launch five blades at Ma Xiaotao, but Yan Shaozhe intervened and destroyed the blades, suffering cuts to his palm.
• Lin Yaoyang called Ma Xiaotao an Evil Soul Master and said she had nearly killed Wang Dong, while Yan Shaozhe tried to explain and calm her.
• Ma Xiaotao attacked Yan Shaozhe with a Phoenix Fire Beam, and Lin Yaoyang urged the crowd to demand her execution.
• Yan Shaozhe struck Ma Xiaotao unconscious and caught her, but Lin Yaoyang again demanded that he kill her.

Lin Yaoyang protected the unconscious Wang Dong after Ma Xiaotao lost control, insisting to Dean Yan Shaozhe that she was an Evil Soul Master. The academy paid compensation, while Lin privately revealed that he had deliberately made the incident public and left Wang Dong resting in their dormitory.

• Lin Yaoyang confronted Yan Shaozhe while carrying Wang Dong and accused Ma Xiaotao of being an Evil Soul Master who had injured his roommate.
• Yan Shaozhe dismissed the onlooking students and explained that Ma Xiaotao was an Inner Court senior whose Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul sometimes made her lose control.
• Lin Yaoyang demanded an explanation for Wang Dong's injuries, and Yan Shaozhe promised compensation; Lin then carried Wang Dong back to the dormitory.
• Lin Yaoyang confirmed Wang Dong was safe and reflected that he had deliberately stayed to fight Ma Xiaotao and publicly branded her an Evil Soul Master.
• A teacher delivered two gold cards as compensation, and Lin Yaoyang accepted them before dismissing the teacher.

Lin Yaoyang told Wang Dong that an Evil Soul Master had attacked them and criticized Yan Shaozhe for protecting his disciple, Ma Xiaotao. After accepting the academy’s compensation, Wang Dong went with Lin Yaoyang to Shrek City, while Yan Shaozhe confronted the remorseful Ma Xiaotao about losing control again.

• Wang Dong woke in the dormitory and learned from Lin Yaoyang that an Evil Soul Master had attacked them and that Yan Shaozhe had stopped him from killing her.
• Lin Yaoyang explained that the Evil Soul Master was Yan Shaozhe’s disciple, whose cultivation had gone wrong, and criticized the academy’s leaders for sparing her.
• Lin Yaoyang gave Wang Dong one of two gold cards containing a limit of a hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins each as the academy’s compensation.
• Wang Dong put away her gold card and invited Lin Yaoyang to Shrek City for a meal before they left the dormitory together.
• Yan Shaozhe visited Ma Xiaotao at Lakeheart Island, where she apologized for losing control and injuring a student.

Yan Shaozhe told Ma Xiaotao that Lin Yaoyang might possess Ultimate Fire and suggested bringing him in as her junior disciple to help counter her Evil Fire. Three months later, Lin Yaoyang and Wang Dong faced the Freshman Assessment team selection, and Xiao Xiao asked to join them.

• Yan Shaozhe urged Ma Xiaotao to find an Ultimate Ice Soul Master, then revealed that Lin Yaoyang seemed to possess Ultimate Fire and proposed making him her junior disciple.
• Lin Yaoyang spent three peaceful months studying and cultivating, reaching rank 43 while the Grey Bead remained silent.
• Mu Jin announced that the Freshman Assessment would begin the next day, with three-person teams competing for advancement and prizes.
• Wang Dong asked Lin Yaoyang to find a third teammate, while Lin Yaoyang noticed Huo Yuhao and wondered who would team up with him.
• Xiao Xiao asked to join Lin Yaoyang and Wang Dong, but Wang Dong urgently objected and could not explain why.

Mu Jin saw the potential in Huo Yuhao’s spiritual detection soul skill and offered him a chance to enter the Soul Tool Department. Huo Yuhao was left weighing the unfamiliar path after class, while Lin Yaoyang approached him.

• Wang Dong grew flustered when Lin Yaoyang teased her about being jealous, then denied that she liked him.
• Lin Yaoyang agreed to form a team with Xiao Xiao for the Freshman Assessment, leaving Wang Dong quiet beside them.
• Mu Jin asked Huo Yuhao about his role and first soul skill, then experienced the extraordinary clarity of his spiritual detection ability.
• Mu Jin offered to recommend Huo Yuhao for the Soul Tool Department and asked him to decide by that afternoon.
• Huo Yuhao returned to his seat and pondered Mu Jin’s offer as Lin Yaoyang approached him after class.

Lin Yaoyang advised Huo Yuhao to seek training from the Body Sect because of his Spirit Eye Body Martial Soul, leaving Huo Yuhao torn between that opportunity and his loyalty to the Tang Sect. Afterward, Lin Yaoyang ate with Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong, whose jealousy grew as she watched them talk.

• Lin Yaoyang asked Huo Yuhao about his teammates and discouraged him from making the Soul Tool Department his main path.
• Lin Yaoyang told Huo Yuhao that the Body Sect specialized in Body Martial Souls and could help awaken his Spirit Eye's potential, recommending he visit after the freshmen assessment.
• Huo Yuhao hesitated because he had recently joined the Tang Sect and felt indebted to Tang Ya and Bei Bei.
• Wang Dong waited outside the classroom, then regretted mentioning Xiao Xiao when Lin Yaoyang went back to invite her to lunch.
• Lin Yaoyang ate beside Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong by Sea God Lake while Wang Dong watched their friendly conversation and grew jealous.

Huo Yuhao weighed Mu Jin’s offer to join the Soul Tool Department against Lin Yaoyang’s suggestion to seek out the Body Sect. After hearing Tang Ya and Bei Bei support his staying at Shrek, he chose the safer path and went to Mu Jin’s office.

• Lin Yaoyang, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Dong dismissed the need to plan tactics for the Freshman Assessment as they headed back to the dormitories.
• Huo Yuhao told Tang Ya and Bei Bei that Mu Jin had offered him direct admission to the Soul Tool Department, and Tang Ya encouraged him to accept and help the Tang Sect.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that Lin Yaoyang had suggested the Body Sect, and Tang Ya warned him that its cultivation methods were dangerous while insisting he remain with the Tang Sect at Shrek.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm urged Huo Yuhao to choose the Body Sect to develop his Body Martial Soul’s potential.
• Huo Yuhao decided the Soul Tool Department was the safest way to remain at Shrek and went to Mu Jin’s office that afternoon.

Huo Yuhao joined the Soul Tool Department after Mu Jin introduced him to Fan Yu, while Zhou Yi continued to mistreat students there. The next morning, Lin Yaoyang’s team faced Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Nanmen Yun’er in the freshman assessment, and Ning Tian tried to befriend him before the match began.

• Huo Yuhao asked Mu Jin to recommend him to the Soul Tool Department, and Fan Yu agreed to take him on after seeing his potential.
• Mu Jin criticized Zhou Yi’s harsh treatment of students and persuaded Fan Yu to have dinner with her.
• Fan Yu showed Huo Yuhao around the laboratory, while Huo Yuhao worried he might have to study under Zhou Yi again.
• Lin Yaoyang, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao arrived at Zone 24 for their first freshman assessment match against Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Nanmen Yun’er.
• Ning Tian greeted Lin Yaoyang and asked whether he had time to talk later, making Wu Feng uncomfortable.

Lin Yaoyang’s team swept Ning Tian’s team in the assessment match, with Lin knocking Wu Feng and Nanmen Yun'er out of the arena before Ning Tian surrendered. After several more easy victories, Lin decided Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao should fight first in their next match.

• At the start of the match, Lin Yaoyang punched Nanmen Yun'er out of the arena before she could use a soul skill.
• Lin Yaoyang sent Wu Feng out of bounds with another punch, interrupting Ning Tian as she tried to buff her teammate.
• Ning Tian dismissed her Martial Soul and surrendered, giving Lin Yaoyang’s team the win.
• Ning Tian asked Lin Yaoyang to have a meal with her after the assessment, and he replied that they could talk about it later.
• After several days of easy matches, Lin Yaoyang told Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao to fight first in their next match, promising to step in if they struggled.

Lin Yaoyang's team won the Freshman Assessment, and the academy rewarded them with a Soul Bone. Yan Shaozhe then asked Lin Yaoyang to become his final disciple, but Lin Yaoyang dismissed the offer as a joke.

• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao won several matches together, while Lin Yaoyang carried the team past tougher opponents without revealing his abilities.
• Lin Yaoyang's team finished the Freshman Assessment undefeated in first place, ahead of Dai Huabin's and Huang Chutian's teams.
• Du Weilun named the top three teams' nine students core disciples and announced an additional reward for Lin Yaoyang's team.
• Yan Shaozhe presented the team with the Empty Bright Demon Leopard Left Leg Bone, which Wang Dong received.
• Yan Shaozhe offered to take Lin Yaoyang as his final disciple, and Lin Yaoyang said the joke was not funny.

Lin Yaoyang refused Yan Shaozhe’s offer of mentorship and lavish cultivation resources, insisting he could rely on his own family and abilities. After leaving the office, he gave the academy’s Soul Bone to Xiao Xiao, who accepted it as Wang Dong encouraged her.

• Yan Shaozhe offered Lin Yaoyang personal guidance, rare Soul Rings and Soul Bones, and guaranteed Inner Court admission for Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Jiang Nannan.
• Lin Yaoyang declined, saying his family could provide what he needed and that he and his friends could earn Inner Court admission themselves.
• Yan Shaozhe told Du Weilun that Lin Yaoyang’s refusal showed the offer had not been enough and that the boy was more complicated than he had thought.
• In the corridor, Lin Yaoyang dismissed Wang Dong’s concerns and said he could achieve the promised goals on his own.
• Lin Yaoyang gave the Soul Bone to Xiao Xiao because it suited her control-type Martial Soul, and Wang Dong urged her to accept it.

After the Freshman Assessment, Lin Yaoyang was named assault-type class monitor, while Xiao Xiao became control-type class monitor. At the Sea God Pavilion Meeting, Yan Shaozhe revealed Lin Yaoyang’s possible dual Ultimate attributes and said the academy needed to keep him, but Lin Yaoyang had refused to become his disciple.

• Wang Yan named Lin Yaoyang the assault-type class monitor and Xiao Xiao the control-type class monitor.
• Dai Huabin recalled Lin Yaoyang defeating his team and resolved not to provoke him for now.
• Yan Shaozhe told the Sea God Pavilion elders that a freshman possessed Ultimate Fire and might also possess Ultimate Light.
• Yan Shaozhe said Lin Yaoyang could become a pillar of Shrek for centuries and revealed that Lin Yaoyang had refused his offer of apprenticeship.

At a Sea God Pavilion Meeting, Yan Shaozhe proposed drawing Lin Yaoyang closer to Shrek by placing him in the Inner Court and using his ties to female students, while Xian Lin'er objected. Mu En approved the selection plan but warned Yan Shaozhe not to approach Lin Yaoyang again for now, then learned of Ma Xiaotao’s clash with him and was left worried.

• Xuan Zi mocked Yan Shaozhe’s failed attempt to recruit Lin Yaoyang, and Mu En said Lin Yaoyang might be moved by sincere treatment despite his pride.
• Yan Shaozhe reported that Lin Yaoyang had refused offers of a Hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring and Soul Bone, citing a Titled Douluo in his family, whose background Shrek could not uncover.
• Yan Shaozhe proposed using Lin Yaoyang’s connections with female students to draw him closer to Shrek, prompting Xian Lin'er to angrily object.
• Elder Lin supported the idea of a female Inner Court student becoming Lin Yaoyang’s partner, while Yan Shaozhe suggested a selection competition that would admit him directly to the Inner Court.
• Mu En approved Yan Shaozhe’s plan but told him to stay away from Lin Yaoyang for the time being.
• Yan Shaozhe told Mu En how Ma Xiaotao had lost control and fought Lin Yaoyang, and Mu En sighed alone after Yan Shaozhe left.

Mu En released Zhang Lexuan from her oath to Bei Bei and urged her to choose her own life, then asked her to consider replacing Bei Bei with Lin Yaoyang to help secure Shrek’s future. Zhang Lexuan remained kneeling in shock after Mu En left, with her decision unresolved.

• Mu En summoned Zhang Lexuan and learned that her cultivation had reached level seventy-eight.
• Mu En told Zhang Lexuan she no longer had to keep her oath to Bei Bei, but she insisted that remaining bound by it was her own choice.
• Mu En asked Zhang Lexuan to replace Bei Bei with someone else, and she asked whom he meant.
• Mu En named Lin Yaoyang, a new student with Ultimate Fire and Ultimate Light, as the person he wanted her to approach.
• Mu En left Zhang Lexuan the choice of whether to accept, and she remained kneeling after he walked away.

Mu En regretted binding Zhang Lexuan to an oath as a child and returned the choice to her, ending his involvement with Bei Bei. Lin Yaoyang developed a prototype sword technique and later met Zhang Lexuan, who had come looking for him.

• Mu En recalled making Zhang Lexuan swear to become Bei Bei's child bride and regretted that the oath had shackled her for years.
• Mu En decided to let Zhang Lexuan choose freely and end the matter between him and Bei Bei, while hoping to keep Lin Yaoyang at Shrek Academy.
• Lin Yaoyang practiced the Snow Empress's sword forms in the grove and created a fleeting sword-shaped flame with Ultimate Fire and Ultimate Light.
• Lin Yaoyang told Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Jiang Nannan that the sword technique was only a prototype, then considered asking to cultivate inside the Golden Tree.
• Zhang Lexuan stopped Lin Yaoyang and his companions on the school path and said she was looking for him.