Chapter Summaries

Di Tian confronted a nearly identical Dragon King version of himself, who claimed the right to rule Star Dou Great Forest. Their matching Myriad Dragon Flame techniques clashed, leaving Di Tian stunned and at a disadvantage as the chapter ended with him wary of escalating the fight near the forest’s core.

• Di Tian demanded to know who the Dragon King version of himself was and warned him to stop impersonating him.
• The Dragon King version of Di Tian declared that he would control Star Dou Great Forest and command all soul beasts.
• Di Tian suspected his opponent might be an Ice Silkworm skilled in disguise, but decided to test him with Myriad Dragon Flame.
• The Dragon King version of Di Tian covered himself in silver-white armor and answered with an identical Myriad Dragon Flame.
• The two attacks collided, and Di Tian was forced back, realizing his opponent was stronger and fearing the consequences of a larger battle.

Di Tian confronted Di Tian (Dragon King Version) over serving Shrek Academy, and their disagreement nearly escalated into a fight with the Dragon God's Claw. Gu Yuena stopped them and ordered Di Tian to bring the newcomer to her, while the system rewarded the host as several soul beasts recognized Shrek Academy as Monster Academy.

• Di Tian (Dragon King Version) identified himself as Shrek Academy's Soul Beast Development Department head, confusing Scarlet King and the others and alarming Xiao Wu.
• Di Tian condemned Di Tian (Dragon King Version) for serving humans, but the latter defended Dean Lin Feng and Shrek Academy as the soul beasts' hope for the future.
• When Di Tian asked what would happen if he disagreed, Di Tian (Dragon King Version) formed his Dragon God's Claw, and Di Tian prepared to counter with his own.
• Gu Yuena ordered Di Tian to stop and bring Di Tian (Dragon King Version) to her for a discussion.
• The system awarded the host Gu Yue, Heavy Ion Ray, Dragon King Version Da Ming and Er Ming, and Na'er as key figures recognized Shrek Academy as Monster Academy.

Er Ming returned to Xiao Wu and Da Ming, recounting how Shrek Academy had captured and mistreated him, while Xiao Wu asked whether he had seen Tang San. At the Lake of Life, the Silver Dragon King agreed to entrust the soul beast race’s revival to Di Tian (Dragon King version), leaving Di Tian to cooperate with him despite his doubts.

• Scarlet King suppressed his urge to attack Da Ming after Di Tian (Dragon King version) arrived and considered the risks of offending him.
• Xiao Wu reunited with Er Ming, who said a man had defeated him and Shrek Academy had imprisoned and beaten him.
• Da Ming welcomed Er Ming back, and Er Ming told Xiao Wu he did not know Tang San.
• Di Tian (Dragon King version) told the Silver Dragon King that she was too injured to lead the soul beasts, and Di Tian challenged his refusal to call her Master.
• Di Tian (Dragon King version) promised he could ensure the soul beast race’s revival, and the Silver Dragon King entrusted its future to him.
• The Silver Dragon King told Di Tian to cooperate with Di Tian (Dragon King version), and Di Tian obeyed.

The freshman tournament’s final free-for-all began in the Virtual Space, with Tang Wulin facing sixteen other students. Although Xie Xie, Dai Yun’er, and Xu Xiaoyan offered to fight alongside him, Tang Wulin chose to take them all on alone.

• The students entered the Virtual Space, where the tournament’s free-for-alls narrowed down to a final match with seventeen participants, including Tang Wulin, Ye Xinglan, Dai Yun’er, Xu Xiaoyan, Xie Xie, and Wu Siduo.
• Ning Fengzhi regretted that Ning Rongrong had been eliminated by Wu Siduo after winning twice, while Chen Xin considered how an auxiliary Soul Master might have fared with a combat partner.
• Tang Wulin revealed his golden dragon scales as the final match began, prompting Yang Nianxia to suggest that the others join forces against him.
• Xie Xie, Dai Yun’er, and Xu Xiaoyan each offered to fight alongside Tang Wulin, while Xie Xie claimed they would take first and second place.
• Tang Wulin thanked them but refused their help, and Xie Xie asked in disbelief whether he intended to face all sixteen opponents alone.
• Xie Xie switched into battle mode and said that they would not hold back.

Tang Wulin faced sixteen opponents alone and revealed a pair of five-ton hammers that let him overwhelm most of the group. The match continued with seven opponents still standing against him.

• Yan doubted Tang Wulin could defeat all sixteen opponents, while Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo believed he had not yet shown his full strength.
• Xu Xiaoyan arranged for the team to attack together after controlling Tang Wulin, and Ye Xinglan warned him she would not hold back.
• Tang Wulin produced two enormous hammers, and Fang'er explained that they were weapons weighing over five tons, not another Martial Soul.
• Xie Xie warned Xu Xiaoyan to retreat, but Tang Wulin charged in and eliminated several opponents with sweeping hammer strikes.
• Tang Wulin reduced the group from sixteen opponents to seven, leaving the remaining fighters and spectators stunned by his strength.

Tang Wulin defeated his opponents in the one-against-sixteen arena match by overwhelming them with his strength and defense. After eliminating Ye Xinglan, he stood victorious while Flender wondered whether Tang San was making a mistake by wanting to spar with him.

• Xu Xiaoyan restrained Tang Wulin with starlight while Ye Xinglan, Wu Siduo, and Xie Xie attacked, but his defenses stopped their strikes.
• Tang Wulin threw his massive hammers, knocking Yang Nianxia out and injuring Dai Yun'er as she helped Xu Xiaoyan evade.
• Tang Wulin struck Wu Siduo and Xie Xie, reducing the opponents remaining in the arena to four.
• Xu Xiaoyan restrained Tang Wulin again, and Ye Xinglan broke through his defense with Sword God Slash, but Tang Wulin eliminated Xu Xiaoyan and Dai Yun'er.
• Tang Wulin disarmed Ye Xinglan with his hammers and knocked her out, winning the one-against-sixteen match.
• Flender watched Tang Wulin's victory and worried that Tang San would be crushed in their planned spar.

After Tang Wulin’s overwhelming victory, Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation and the empire’s leaders recognized the gulf between him and Shrek Academy’s students. The chapter ended as Fang'er began the awards ceremony.

• Yan, Hu Liena, and Xie Yue watched Tang Wulin put away his hammer and admitted they could not match his strength.
• Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo concluded that Shrek Academy’s students were extraordinarily powerful, and Qian Daoliu wondered whether they might all become gods.
• The Star Luo Empire Emperor threatened to execute Dai Weisi if he provoked Shrek Academy again, and Dai Weisi fearfully agreed.
• Emperor Xue Ye remained anxious because Xue Qinghe was still missing and could not meet Shrek Academy’s talented students.
• Fang'er announced that the awards ceremony would begin.

Ning Rongrong hoped the competition rewards would help her afford an Aromatic Silk Beauty, while Fang'er announced the top-ten prizes. Ye Qingxuan received a full set of seven Fifty Thousand Year Soul Bones, and Dai Mubai asked Flender how he could survive.

• Ning Rongrong regretted missing the finals but hoped her competition reward would help her exchange for an Aromatic Silk Beauty.
• Fang'er announced that the top ten would receive prizes on-site and named Ye Qingxuan as tenth place.
• Fang'er revealed Ye Qingxuan's reward: fifty thousand Contribution Points, a Black-Grade Mecha, a rank-seven Soul Tool, and seven Fifty Thousand Year Soul Bones, including an External Soul Bone.
• Ma Hongjun shouted that he wanted the Soul Bones, and Flender smacked him to make him quiet down.
• Dai Mubai thought the Soul Bones could help him deal with Dai Weisi and asked Flender what he needed to do to survive.
• Flender told Dai Mubai to cultivate well, but Dai Mubai's hope dimmed.

Fang'er announced the freshman tournament rewards, revealing extraordinary Soul Bones, mechas, and Soul Tools for the top ten, with Tang Wulin receiving the grand prize. Lin Feng then gave the audience Soul Ascension Pills, while Qian Daoliu reconsidered Qian Renxue’s future and Xue Ye hurried back to find Qinghe.

• Fang'er announced the rankings and rewards, including Tang Wulin’s full set of Three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, three hundred thousand Contribution Points, a Red-Grade Mecha, and two Level-Nine Soul Tools.
• The audience reacted with shock to the rewards, and Qian Daoliu wondered how Shrek Academy had obtained so many powerful Soul Bones without angering the being in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Lin Feng distributed Soul Ascension Pills to the audience and explained that each could help a Soul Master advance from level thirty to level thirty-one, with each person able to benefit from only one.
• As the audience dispersed, many people decided to send their juniors to Shrek Academy, while Qian Daoliu weighed whether Qian Renxue should study there after her trial.
• Xue Ye rushed back to the Heaven Dou Empire, wondering where Qinghe was.

Yu Xiaogang and Tang San traveled to Sunset Forest seeking the Blue Silver King, while pledging to rely only on each other. After Tang San’s poisonous mist drove off a pack of soul beasts, Yu Xiaogang collapsed from inhaling it, and a faint voice from the Blue Silver Grass warned that the king had come too late.

• Yu Xiaogang vowed to repay the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan for humiliating him, and Tang San promised to protect his teacher once he grew stronger.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San entered Sunset Forest to find the Blue Silver King and awaken Tang San’s bloodline.
• Tang San sensed a faint, familiar aura and tried searching through the Blue Silver Grass, but found no useful information.
• A pack of thousand-year Iron-Spine Wolves and Purple Shadow Martens surrounded them, and Yu Xiaogang ordered Tang San to fight.
• Tang San spread poisonous mist that drove the soul beasts away, but Yu Xiaogang collapsed after inhaling it.
• As Tang San struggled to find a way to detoxify Yu Xiaogang, his Blue Silver Grass conveyed the words, “King... you came too late...”

Tang San learned that a new Blue Silver Emperor had been born, seemingly ending his chance to evolve, but received a one-year test that could still offer him benefits. While carrying the poisoned Yu Xiaogang through Sunset Forest, Tang San fled pursuing Soul Beasts and stumbled upon what appeared to be the real Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

• A mysterious voice told Tang San that a new Emperor had already been born, and he blamed Tang Wulin for taking his chance to evolve his Blue Silver Grass.
• Yu Xiaogang groaned and asked Tang San to take him for treatment, so Tang San carried him away from the clearing.
• The voice revealed that Tang San still had Blue Silver Emperor blood and could return when seeking his next Soul Ring, but he had to reach Rank 40 within one year.
• Tang San agreed to the test and ran through Sunset Forest with Yu Xiaogang on his back, pursued by Soul Beasts and eventually losing his way.
• Tang San reached a clearing and recognized the lake of fire and ice as the real Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

Tang San discovered that the third Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well was real, used herbs to treat Yu Xiaogang’s poisoning, and found a Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma that might help his teacher break through rank thirty. As Tang San planned to use the garden’s poisonous herbs to make King of Hell's Invitation, someone accused him of stealing from Shrek Academy’s herb garden.

• Tang San checked that he was not trapped in an illusory world and realized he had found the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well again.
• Tang San gathered ordinary detoxifying herbs and applied them to Yu Xiaogang, whose condition improved enough for him to sit up.
• Tang San identified a Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma and told Yu Xiaogang it might help him break through rank thirty.
• Yu Xiaogang thanked Tang San and rested while Tang San surveyed the Immortal Herbs and considered using poisonous plants to make King of Hell's Invitation.
• An angry voice shouted at Tang San for trespassing in Shrek Academy’s herb garden and stealing its plants.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang tried to steal herbs from Shrek Academy’s Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, but Dugu Bo caught them and punished them. Tang San fled with Yu Xiaogang, doubting the promise that something good would happen when he reached level forty.

• Dugu Bo confronted Tang San at the herb garden, and Tang San apologized while Yu Xiaogang trembled nearby.
• Dugu Bo recognized Yu Xiaogang as the man who had insulted Shrek Academy and poisoned his legs, leaving him unable to feel them.
• Dugu Bo spared Tang San but planted dormant poison in his body, warning him that it would bring worse than death by dawn if untreated.
• Tang San carried Yu Xiaogang toward the forest's edge and vowed to remember the humiliation, while questioning whether the mysterious voice's promise was a trap.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang became lost and poisoned while fleeing through Sunset Forest, until Yang Wudi found them and brought them to his herb-filled house. As Yang Wudi left to prepare treatment, Yu Xiaogang warned Tang San to hide his Clear Sky Sect identity.

• Tang San struggled to carry the wounded Yu Xiaogang through Sunset Forest while Dugu Bo's poison began to affect him.
• Tang San fell from exhaustion, and he and Yu Xiaogang called out to a passing old man for help.
• The old man identified himself as Yang Wudi, agreed to treat them for a fee, and carried them to his house.
• Yang Wudi left the two men inside, and Yu Xiaogang warned Tang San not to reveal that he belonged to the Clear Sky Sect.

After the competition, Wu Zhangkong praised the students and announced that their assigned masters would be revealed in fifteen days. Ning Rongrong celebrated evolving her Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda into a Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and worried about whether she would be selected; fifteen days later, the students gathered anxiously as Wu Zhangkong entered to announce the results.

• Wu Zhangkong praised the students' assessment results and teased Xie Xie for losing to Tang Wulin in the championship match.
• Ning Rongrong used her Contribution Points to obtain the Aromatic Silk Beauty and evolved her Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda into a Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Rongrong wondered whether she would be chosen as a disciple, and Wu Zhangkong assured the students that each would be assigned a suitable teacher, with the results due in fifteen days.
• Fifteen days later, the students gathered anxiously in the classroom, and Wu Zhangkong entered as they waited for the master assignments to be announced.

Wu Zhangkong announced the students' teacher assignments at branch academies and revealed that the academy's teleportation array would let them travel between locations in under a minute. He then led the class into a Virtual Space to meet new sparring opponents, where a youth resembling an older Tang Wulin appeared.

• Wu Zhangkong showed the teacher assignments, revealing that Tang Wulin would study under Mu Ye at the Spirit City Branch and that students would be assigned to academies in other cities.
• Wu Zhangkong told the class that the academy's teleportation array would make travel between branches take less than a minute.
• Xie Xie teased Wu Zhangkong about missing the class, so Wu Zhangkong threatened him with five hundred laps in weighted gear.
• Wu Zhangkong led the students to Virtual Pods and brought them into a large arena in the Virtual Space.
• Wu Zhangkong said new opponents would arrive, and the students saw a slender youth who looked like an older Tang Wulin.

The grown-up students arrived to provide the younger group with special training, and Ning Tian began teaching Ning Rongrong and Ye Zhi how to enhance their Soul Spirits. She demonstrated by buffing her Holy Light Spirit Deer, which instantly defeated a full-powered Tang Hao.

• Grown-up versions of Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Wu Siduo, Yang Nianxia, Luo Guixing, and others emerged, and Xie Xie announced that his future self was the Spacetime God.
• Grown-up Tang Wulin explained that the academy had requested the group to provide special training.
• Ning Tian called Ning Rongrong and Ye Zhi over and said she would teach them techniques related to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Tian summoned her Holy Light Spirit Deer and explained that the training would enhance their Soul Spirits.
• Ning Tian buffed the Holy Light Spirit Deer with a strength enhancement, and it killed nine-ring Tang Hao with a single spear strike.

Ning Tian explained how Soul Spirits could develop their own offensive skills, while grown-up Xie Xie and Huo Yuhao demonstrated their power. The group prepared to train with Huo Yuhao's Spirit Detection Sharing, and everyone turned their attention to the still-unrevealed strength of grown-up Tang Wulin.

• Ning Tian told Ning Rongrong and Ye Zhi that the Holy Light Spirit Deer's offensive ability was a Self-Created Soul Skill developed through communication and understanding.
• Grown-up Xie Xie released his aura to impress everyone, then bragged to grown-up Tang Wulin about showing off in front of his past self.
• Huo Yuhao used Spirit Detection Sharing to heighten everyone's perception and thinking.
• Huo Yuhao summoned Tang Hao and killed him with a spiritual needle that pierced his Sea of Spirit.
• Huo Yuhao offered to maintain Spirit Detection Sharing during the group's training, and everyone wondered how strong grown-up Tang Wulin was.

The grown-up Tang Wulin demonstrated his Dragon God's Claw and explained that he had fused the Golden Dragon King and Silver Dragon King bloodlines. He then began teaching Tang Wulin to use Law Power, starting with a technique he had simplified for Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon King Bloodline.

• The grown-up Tang Wulin revealed his nine-colored Dragon God's Claw, whose bloodline aura overwhelmed Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and the others.
• The grown-up Tang Wulin explained that his Dragon God Bloodline came from the peaceful fusion of the Golden Dragon King and Silver Dragon King bloodlines.
• The grown-up Tang Wulin ended the demonstration and sent his companions to find targets for their teaching, while Huo Yuhao continued supporting them with Spirit Detection Sharing.
• Ning Rongrong asked Huo Yuhao whether he knew them, and he replied that he knew their future selves before she apologized and left.
• The grown-up Tang Wulin began teaching Tang Wulin Law Power and demonstrated the simplified technique Banish All Laws, Dragon God Breaks, scattering Tang Wulin's spiritual power with a punch.

After a month of training with their future selves, Ning Rongrong traveled to Shrek Academy in Heaven Dou City, where Ya Li gave her permission to visit her family. On her way to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, she encountered Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, and Yang Wudi and began wondering about their connection.

• The month-long training ended, and the students parted from their future selves and senior brothers and sisters.
• Ning Rongrong and Ye Zhi arrived at Shrek Academy in Heaven Dou City and met Ya Li, who offered to show them around.
• Ya Li recognized Ning Rongrong as a member of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and gave her permission to visit her family.
• Ning Rongrong set out for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, eager to show her father her Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and see Grandpa Bone.
• Ning Rongrong spotted Tang San pushing Yu Xiaogang in a wheelchair beside Yang Wudi and wondered why the Breaking Clan leader was walking with Tang San.