Chapter Summaries

Xu Mengqing earned ten points for his Martial Soul display but remained determined to seek Yun Ming as his master despite Cai Yue'er’s warning. He proceeded with his companions to the second assessment, where they had to demonstrate a professional skill.

• Xu Mengqing formed a silver spear from Blue Silver Grass, and Cai Yue'er awarded him ten points for his Twin Martial Souls and control of the grass.
• Xu Mengqing declined Cai Yue'er's offer to become her personal disciple and left to take the next assessment.
• A student guided Xu Mengqing and his two companions to a room of professional workstations and explained the scoring rules for their second profession.
• Xu Mengqing completed the assessment and received ten points, then waited at the side of the grounds.

Xu Mengqing and the others completed the food and endurance assessments, then prepared to choose their opponents for the comprehensive combat round. Xu Mengqing recommended a battle order that would let Xu Xiaoyan fight last.

• Xu Mengqing left his Spirit Construction design blueprint with the examiner and waited for the others to finish their assessments.
• The five members of Class Zero completed the steamed-bun assessment with full marks after Tang Wulin ate nearly a hundred buns.
• Xu Mengqing, Gu Yuena, Xie Xie, and Tang Wulin earned full marks in the endurance assessment, while Xu Xiaoyan earned two points.
• The group entered the arena for the comprehensive combat assessment and learned they had to choose opponents from ten Shrek students.
• Xu Mengqing advised that Xu Xiaoyan go last and set the battle order as Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Gu Yuena, and himself.

Xu Mengqing used his Five-Clawed Golden Dragon's Energy Perception to assess the senior students and advise Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan before their tests began. After Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yuena completed their matches, Xu Mengqing faced Student Number Two, Tai Long, and revealed two crimson-gold Spirit Rings as their battle began.

• Xu Mengqing sensed the remaining students' auras and quietly advised Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan on their opponents.
• Tang Wulin defeated the Snow Leopard girl with his Golden Dragon Claw after nearly thirty minutes and earned ten points, while Xie Xie lasted thirteen minutes against Student Number Seven and earned seven points.
• Gu Yuena defeated Student Number One in a few moves and earned ten points, surprising the Shrek Academy students.
• Xu Mengqing faced Student Number Two, whom he identified as a Beast Martial Soul Spirit Master, and promised to defeat him in one move.
• Student Number Two, Tai Long, transformed with his Vajra Divine Ape Martial Soul and attacked Xu Mengqing with Vajra Divine Ape Fist.
• Xu Mengqing activated his Five-Clawed Golden Dragon Possession and Golden Dragon Battle Armor, revealing two crimson-gold Spirit Rings and beginning to circulate his blood power.

Xu Mengqing defeated Tai Long with his Golden Dragon Battle Armor, and the five Class Zero students completed the first eight assessment stages with strong scores. They entered the ninth stage, a survival test in an environment like the Spirit Ascension Platform, while Cai Yue'er and Zhuo Shi discussed their prospects.

• Xu Mengqing activated his Golden Dragon Battle Armor, stopped Tai Long's full-force punch, and forced him to concede before striking him.
• Xu Xiaoyan tricked her opponent and won, and the five students finished the eight stages with scores of eighty, seventy-nine, seventy-eight, sixty-six, and sixty-seven.
• The guide student explained that the ninth assessment tested survival and teamwork, with real Spirit Beasts and possible Spirit Rings or other spoils.
• Shen Yi sent Xu Mengqing, Gu Yue, Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan into metal drawers to begin the ninth assessment.
• Cai Yue'er and Zhuo Shi arrived, praised the students' performance, and lamented that Gu Yuena's ties to the Spirit Pagoda made her unlikely to stay at the academy.

Shrek Academy’s elders set the five-member Class Zero team’s ninth trial to its highest difficulty, then sent them into a forest survival assessment. After encountering two powerful Spirit Beasts fighting in a valley, the team entered to search for possible treasures.

• Zhuo Shi ordered Shen Yi to set the five students’ assessment to the highest difficulty while discussing Xu Mengqing, Gu Yuena, and changes to the Inner Court.
• Xu Mengqing gathered Class Zero in the forest, and the team set up a treehouse and waited through the day without encountering any Spirit Beasts.
• A pair of roars frightened the team, so Xu Mengqing led them toward their source with Holy Dragon's Blessing protecting them.
• Xu Mengqing spotted a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear fighting the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and the beasts soon chased each other away from the valley.
• Xie Xie proposed searching the valley for treasure, and Tang Wulin led the group down with Blue Silver Grass.

Xu Mengqing and the others explored a cave in the valley and found a juvenile Three-Eyed Golden Lion. After Xu Mengqing and Tang Wulin declined the chance to claim its Spirit Bone, Xie Xie also withdrew, leaving Gu Yuena and Xu Xiaoyan to decide what to do.

• Xu Mengqing sensed a cave in the valley, and the group headed toward it after two colossal Spirit Beasts fought and moved away.
• Tang Wulin used Blue Silver Grass vines to lower the group into the damaged valley, where they cautiously searched the cave and passed through a chamber filled with gems.
• A juvenile Three-Eyed Golden Lion attacked the group, and Xu Mengqing restrained her with Blue Silver Grass.
• Xu Mengqing explained the beast's Eye of Destiny and the Spirit Bone it could yield, but he and Tang Wulin declined to claim it.
• Xie Xie also gave up the Spirit Bone, leaving Gu Yuena and Xu Xiaoyan to decide who would take the juvenile Three-Eyed Golden Lion.

Xu Mengqing and the others gave up the simulated Three-Eyed Golden Lion Spirit Bone, but the adult Three-Eyed Golden Lion returned and ended their illusion. Shen Yi revealed that the ninth test had been designed to judge their character, and the group learned that the Spirit Bone and Spirit Ring were only simulated.

• Gu Yuena, Xu Mengqing, Tang Wulin, and Xie Xie gave up the Spirit Bone for Xu Xiaoyan, but Xu Xiaoyan also refused it because she could not bear to kill the young Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Xu Mengqing led the group toward the cave exit, where the adult Three-Eyed Golden Lion froze them and engulfed them in golden flames.
• Xu Mengqing and the others woke in their metal drawers and watched the adult Three-Eyed Golden Lion free its child and reunite with it.
• Shen Yi praised the group's choices and explained that the ninth test evaluated their patience, courage, and character, especially how they handled the simulated Spirit Ring and Spirit Bone.
• Shen Yi told Tang Wulin and the others that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and its Spirit Bone had been simulated, since the real Emperor Auspicious Beast had appeared only once in nearly twenty thousand years.

Shen Yi praised Class Zero for choosing compassion in the ninth assessment, and the academy’s three elders evaluated the five students in the final round. All five were admitted to Shrek Academy, and Shen Yi then asked them to take her to Teacher Wu.

• Shen Yi explained that the ninth assessment tested the students’ humanity and awarded Class Zero full marks for refusing to kill the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Shen Yi led the five students to the rooftop, where Cai Yue'er, Zhuo Shi, and Elder Li conducted the tenth assessment.
• Cai Yue'er admitted Xu Mengqing with a score of ninety-nine and Gu Yuena with ninety-eight, then admitted Tang Wulin with ninety-six.
• Cai Yue'er admitted Xie Xie with eighty-two and Xu Xiaoyan with eighty-four, officially accepting all five students into Shrek Academy.
• After dinner and registration, Shen Yi asked the five students to take her to see Teacher Wu, and they left the academy together.

After Class Zero was accepted into Shrek Academy, Wu Zhangkong learned he had been appointed an assistant instructor and the students settled into their new dormitories. Shen Yi then brought them to Sea God Island to meet Zhuo Shi, leaving them before the grandmaster.

• Xie Xie told Wu Zhangkong that the students had been accepted, and Shen Yi informed him that the academy had approved his appointment as an assistant instructor.
• Shen Yi explained that Shrek Academy would require Inner Court students to reach One-Word Battle Armor Master rank, so the children would study in the Outer Court without taking an Inner Court assessment.
• Xu Mengqing and the others completed enrollment, received student cards and supplies, and learned that contribution points served as the academy's main currency.
• The students moved into separate apartment-style dormitories, where Xu Mengqing was relieved that he could cultivate privately in the Holy Dragon Pearl Space.
• Shen Yi led the students through the Inner Court and used Spatial Teleportation to bring them to Sea God Island.
• The group entered a wooden house and met Zhuo Shi, the Red Dragon Douluo and Wu Zhangkong's master.

Zhuo Shi advised Class Zero before the students explored Shrek Academy and encountered Yuanen Yehui and Yue Zhengyu at a Beverage Bar. Yue Zhengyu tried to obtain Yuanen Yehui’s private communication number, then ordered his butler to negotiate buying the bar after its owner refused to reveal it.

• Zhuo Shi welcomed Class Zero, offered cultivation and Battle Armor advice, and treated Tang Wulin to Black Steamed Buns.
• Shen Yi guided the group off Sea God Island, and Class Zero explored Shrek Academy before Tang Wulin and Xu Mengqing were warned that free meals were limited to ten portions each.
• Xu Mengqing suggested continuing their tour, and the group entered a Beverage Bar where Yuanen Yehui served them.
• Yue Zhengyu demanded Yuanen Yehui’s communication number, but the manager and owner refused to disclose her private information.
• Yue Zhengyu summoned Sun Bo and told him to negotiate buying the Beverage Bar, and the owner went aside with the butler after seeing his golden card.

Yue Zhengyu pursued Yuanen Yehui after mistaking her Fallen Angel Martial Soul for proof that she was an Evil Soul Master. A Shrek Law Enforcer stopped their confrontation, and Yuanen Yehui presented her verified work-study identity.

• Yue Zhengyu bought Boss Yang’s beverage bar and ordered him to obtain Yuanen Yehui’s contact information.
• Yuanen Yehui quit her job and tried to leave, but Yue Zhengyu followed her, prompting Xie Xie to intervene.
• Yue Zhengyu revealed his Angel Family identity and flew after Yuanen Yehui; Xu Mengqing, Gu Yuena, and Xu Xiaoyan followed.
• Yue Zhengyu and Yuanen Yehui displayed their opposing angel wings, and he used holy light to expose her hiding place in darkness.
• A Shrek Law Enforcer appeared and suppressed their fight, while Yuanen Yehui showed him her Academy-verified work-study card.

Xu Mengqing watched Yuanen Yehui leave after Shrek Academy confirmed she was a work-study student, then returned to the Holy Dragon Pearl Space and found that Big Yellow and the other animals had wrecked his herb garden. After punishing and healing them, he harvested the mature herbs and wondered how to use them.

• A Shrek official confirmed Yuanen Yehui was a work-study student and dismissed Yue Zhengyu’s accusation, after which she taunted Yue Zhengyu and left.
• Xu Mengqing and the others returned to their dormitory, realized Xie Xie was missing, and assumed he would find his way back.
• Xu Mengqing entered the Holy Dragon Pearl Space and found Big Yellow sleeping in his ruined herb garden.
• Xu Mengqing punished Big Yellow, Little Parrot, and two rabbits for trampling the herbs, then healed their wounds.
• Xu Mengqing considered the effects of Dragon Kin and harvested the mature spirit herbs, but did not know how to use them.

Xu Mengqing boiled together incompatible spiritual herbs and relied on the Heaven-Swallowing Cauldron to refine their poisonous mixture. He reached level 40, absorbed another portion of the Dragon Blood, and gained a third Spirit Ring with two new Spirit Skills.

• Xu Mengqing called Wu Zhangkong to request leave, then gathered spiritual herbs and boiled them into a foul medicinal soup.
• Xu Mengqing drank the soup and endured its violent medicinal energy as the Heaven-Swallowing Cauldron purified it while life force and Dragon Blood helped repair and transform his body.
• Xu Mengqing absorbed the medicinal energy, reached level 40, and absorbed the third portion of energy sealed within the Dragon Blood.
• Xu Mengqing gained a third reddish-gold Spirit Ring for his Five-Clawed Golden Dragon Martial Soul and discovered the Spirit Skills Holy Annihilation Dragon Breath and Holy Dragon Gaze.

After two days of refining spiritual herbs in the Holy Dragon Pearl Space, Xu Mengqing tested his Holy Dragon Gaze, apologized to his worried friends, and joined them for Shrek Academy’s opening ceremony. The chapter ended as Silver Moon Douluo Cai Yue'er was introduced to give her speech.

• Xu Mengqing washed the impurities from his body, then used Holy Dragon Gaze on Big Yellow and frightened it and the other animals before calming Big Yellow with life Soul Power.
• Xu Mengqing trapped Big Yellow, Little Parrot, and the two rabbits in a Blue Silver King vine cage, then returned to his dormitory.
• Tang Wulin told Xu Mengqing that his two-day seclusion had worried everyone, and Xu Mengqing apologized and agreed to treat the group to a meal.
• Xu Mengqing learned that Shrek’s new term began that day and went with Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, and Gu Yuena to breakfast.
• Students and teachers gathered at Lingbing Plaza for the opening ceremony, where Cai Yue'er was introduced as the Outer Court dean and prepared to speak.

Cai Yue'er and Shen Yi explained Shrek Academy’s strict standards, elimination rules, and study system to the first-year freshmen. The students settled into their classroom and prepared to begin formal classes the next day.

• Cai Yue'er warned the freshmen that Shrek Academy expelled students who failed examinations and set deadlines for completing Battle Armor.
• Cai Yue'er announced that she would personally teach the freshmen with standards more than twice as strict as those of previous classes.
• Shen Yi seated the freshmen, placing Xu Mengqing at the front with Gu Yuena and Tang Wulin beside him.
• Cai Yue'er told the class that cultivation and future achievement depended on each student, then left Shen Yi in charge.
• Shen Yi explained the academy’s rules, including Contribution Points, attendance requirements, and the bottom-five elimination system.

Tang Wulin agreed to forge a piece of first-grade Thousand Refinement for Yuanen in exchange for contribution points, but a powerful red-haired man abruptly took him away. Xu Mengqing and the others went to explore the lively mission center without him.

• Xu Mengqing led Class Zero to the cafeteria, where Tang Wulin worried that ordinary meals would consume too many contribution points to satisfy his appetite.
• Yuanen introduced herself and offered Tang Wulin 1,100 contribution points for a piece of first-grade Thousand Refinement, and he accepted despite the transaction fee.
• As Tang Wulin and Yuanen prepared to find a forging table, a formidable red-haired man entered the cafeteria, called for Tang Wulin, and took him away.
• Yuanen left to seek another chance to complete the deal, while Xu Mengqing, Xu Xiaoyan, and Xie Xie headed to the mission center.
• Xu Mengqing noticed the mission center's service windows and ticket-dispensing machines, and suggested the group look there.

Xu Mengqing and his friends activated their task-center accounts, accepted tasks, and went to join Shrek Academy’s Mecha Association. Their badges astonished the receptionist, who began directing them through the membership process.

• Xu Mengqing accepted a task to repair a Level 5 soul guidance core array and collected its materials at Window 9.
• Gu Yuena accepted a task worth one thousand contribution points, while Xu Xiaoyan accepted a five-thousand-point task recruiting Control System Spirit Masters for Teacher Ruolin’s selection.
• Xu Mengqing, Gu Yuena, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan visited the Mecha Association to join.
• The receptionist was shocked by Xu Mengqing’s Level 5 and Gu Yuena’s Level 4 badges, then arranged for Xie Xie to register with the Manufacturer Association and led the others to the Designer Association office.
• A boy wearing glasses greeted the receptionist when she entered the Designer Association office with Xu Mengqing and the others.

Gu Yuena, Xu Mengqing, and Xu Xiaoyan applied to join the Shrek Mecha Design Association, where their exceptional mecha design ranks drew astonishment and President Yan tried to recruit Xu Mengqing. After learning Xu Mengqing was already Yang Tian’s disciple, President Yan withdrew his offer, and the three completed their membership applications.

• Senior Wang introduced Gu Yuena as a Level 4 Mecha Designer, and Four-Eyes verified her badge as genuine.
• Senior Wang revealed that Xu Mengqing was a Level 5 Mecha Designer, prompting Four-Eyes to rush off and fetch President Yan and the freshman assessment proctor.
• President Yan praised Xu Mengqing’s assessment blueprints and offered to take him as his personal disciple.
• Xu Mengqing declined, explaining that Yang Tian was already his teacher, and President Yan offered to help him with mecha design in the future.
• Xu Mengqing, Gu Yuena, and Xu Xiaoyan signed their forms and became members of the Shrek Mecha Design Association.

Shen Yi taught the first-year students about Battle Armor, its ranks, forging, and components, explaining how becoming a Battle Armor Master shaped their path at Shrek Academy. The lesson ended with the students taking notes as Shen Yi continued her lecture; class officer elections remained to come.

• Shen Yi introduced the lesson’s two tasks: explaining Battle Armor Masters and electing first-year class officers.
• Shen Yi described graduation and Inner Court admission requirements, and stressed the importance of students’ secondary professions.
• Shen Yi explained that Battle Armor differed from mechas and that Two-Word Battle Armor could merge with a Spirit Master’s body and Martial Soul.
• Shen Yi outlined the powers and forging materials of One-Word through Four-Word Battle Armor.
• Shen Yi listed the eleven components of a complete Battle Armor set and its usual forging order while students took notes.

Shen Yi explained the requirements and process for forging battle armor before describing the class officer election and its rewards. She appointed Xu Mengqing as the design representative, drawing mixed reactions from his classmates.

• Shen Yi explained the four secondary professions related to battle armor and outlined the four steps for forging it.
• Shen Yi described the seven class officer positions, how students would be chosen, and the contribution points and other benefits they offered.
• Shen Yi announced Xu Mengqing as the design representative and asked him to introduce himself to the class.
• Xu Mengqing stood and turned to face his classmates, impressing the girls while the male students reacted with less friendliness.