Chapter Summaries

Before the Freshman Assessment, Jiang Yue ran his counseling room and earned money while Xie Huanyue repeatedly visited to eat his cooking. The assessment began with Jiang Yue’s hastily assembled team, and they won their first match without him needing to fight.

• Jiang Yue scolded Xie Huanyue for treating his counseling room like a restaurant, then told him the shop would close during the Freshman Assessment.
• Jiang Yue explained that he had teamed up with two capable Soul Grandmasters and aimed to win the championship Soul Bone.
• Jiang Yue brought his teammates to the assessment, where Zhou Yi warned the freshmen to fight seriously and avoid cheating.
• Jiang Yue’s teammates handled their opponents while Jiang Yue watched from the edge of the stage.
• Jiang Yue’s team defeated the opposing team, and Zhou Yi announced their victory.

During the Freshman Assessment, Jiang Yue watched the Lan Sisters defeat Wang Dong's team with their Heavenly Net Martial Soul Fusion Skill before his own team faced Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Huo Yuhao. Jiang Yue revealed that he was a Soul Elder with a Thousand-Year second Soul Ring and asked Wang Dong's team to concede.

• On the third day of the Freshman Assessment, Wang Yan encouraged Jiang Yue and the other students to compete for Elimination Round rewards and core disciple status.
• Jiang Yue noticed Wang Dong's team, including Xiao Xiao and Huo Yuhao, and the Lan Sisters, Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo, among the teams gathering for their matches.
• Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Huo Yuhao fought Huang Chutian's team, but Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo used their Heavenly Net Martial Soul Fusion Skill to trap all three and win the match.
• After Jiang Yue's team defeated its first opponents without needing him, Wang Yan announced that Jiang Yue, Lu Bei, and Zuo Fan would face Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Huo Yuhao.
• Jiang Yue stepped forward and revealed his silver longsword and three Soul Rings—yellow, purple, and purple—then asked Wang Dong's team to concede and conserve their Soul Power.

Jiang Yue dominated Wang Dong’s team in the freshman exam, using his sword’s new soul-skill effect to interrupt her Butterfly Goddess Light and eliminate her teammates. Wang Dong was defeated, and Wang Yan declared Jiang Yue’s Class Five team the winner.

• Wang Dong attacked Jiang Yue, but his left-handed swordsmanship and Mental Power strike suppressed her and caused her to fall from the air.
• Jiang Yue’s sword interrupted Wang Dong’s charged Butterfly Goddess Light, and he blocked Xiao Xiao’s Soul-Calming Cauldron with his bare hand.
• Jiang Yue revealed that his first soul ring could interrupt enemies struck by the Passionate Sword, then swiftly eliminated Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao.
• Jiang Yue drove Wang Dong into the air with thrown stones, dodged her diving attack, and struck her with the flat of his sword.
• Wang Yan caught Wang Dong, announced Jiang Yue’s Class Five team as the winner, and Wang Dong went to recover.

Jiang Yue’s team completed the Freshman Assessment round-robin with a perfect record, while Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Huo Yuhao advanced with eight wins. After Wang Yan reported Jiang Yue’s abilities to Xuan Zi, Xuan Zi suspected Jiang Yue had Twin Martial Souls and asked Wang Yan to reserve him a place in the Outer Court.

• Jiang Yue’s team won all ten round-robin matches, and Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Huo Yuhao recovered from their losses and prepared for the elimination rounds.
• Huo Yuhao vowed to become a core disciple of the Martial Soul Department, leaving Jiang Yue puzzled because Fan Yu had already offered him a promising path in the Soul Guidance Department.
• Jiang Yue left Shrek Academy for the counseling office and saw Wang Yan excitedly question Huo Yuhao about his Body Martial Soul.
• Wang Yan told Xuan Zi about the promising freshmen, and Xuan Zi dismissed the Lan Sisters’ hair martial souls while noting Huo Yuhao’s eyes had greater potential.
• After hearing about Jiang Yue’s thousand-year second Soul Ring and barehanded strength, Xuan Zi guessed he possessed Twin Martial Souls and told Wang Yan to ask Yan Shaozhe to save him a spot.

After the round-robin matches, Jiang Yue received the complete Distraction Control Technique from Ning Tian and agreed to monitor Wu Feng after the class assignments. Their new arrangement began tensely when Wu Feng rejected being controlled and stormed out, leaving Ning Tian to consider Jiang Yue’s warning about her feelings.

• The round-robin results became final, half of the freshmen had been expelled, and the students prepared for the Elimination Round.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng visited Jiang Yue’s counseling room, where Ning Tian gave him the complete Distraction Control Technique and the sect’s cultivation notes.
• Ning Tian offered Jiang Yue five thousand Gold Soul Coins per month to keep an eye on Wu Feng, and Jiang Yue accepted with conditions.
• Wu Feng refused to let anyone but Ning Tian control her, argued with Ning Tian, and stormed out of the room.
• Jiang Yue warned Ning Tian about Wu Feng’s feelings and charged her separately for counseling.

Jiang Yue helped Wu Feng recover from her heartbreak over Ning Tian and urged her to grow strong enough to choose her own future. After Wu Feng and Ning Tian left together, Jiang Yue began studying the Distraction Control Technique and practiced its first exercise before the elimination tournament.

• Wu Feng cried over Ning Tian until Jiang Yue teased her and helped her regain her composure.
• Wu Feng admitted she wanted to stay with Ning Tian, and Jiang Yue advised her to improve herself rather than interfere with Ning Tian's choices.
• Wu Feng resolved to work hard and promised to show her true strength in the elimination tournament.
• Jiang Yue returned to his dormitory, memorized the Distraction Control Technique booklet, and practiced drawing a circle with one hand and a square with the other.
• Jiang Yue stopped practicing to rest before the elimination tournament and noticed Mu En lying by the dormitory entrance.

Mu En guided Jiang Yue through the Three Apertures Heart realm of the Distraction Control Technique, helping him wield three swords and glimpse its threshold. Mu En then told Zhang Lexuan that he was considering Jiang Yue as a final disciple, but would first observe his character.

• Mu En watched Jiang Yue practice the Distraction Control Technique and offered to guide him.
• Mu En used his Mental Power to help Jiang Yue divide his consciousness into three streams and sense separate things.
• Jiang Yue wielded the Passionate Sword, Joy Sword, and Anger Sword in a complex three-sword routine before exhausting himself and reflecting on the experience.
• Mu En explained that the Distraction Control Technique depended on control and told Jiang Yue to return to his dormitory.
• Mu En visited Zhang Lexuan and checked on her health, then told her he had met a talented child he might take as his final disciple.
• Mu En decided to observe Jiang Yue's character before choosing him as a disciple, while wondering why Jiang Yue's Soul Power pathways felt familiar.

Jiang Yue continued cultivating his sword control and prepared for the Freshman Assessment elimination rounds, where his team advanced to the top sixteen. Wu Feng warned him that Zhou Yi might become his homeroom teacher and target him, while Dai Huabin declared that he would win the assessment and provoked the other Soul Elders.

• Jiang Yue practiced controlling three Qing Swords and considered how he would need to strengthen his Mental Power to manage more swords and obtain a suitable fourth Soul Ring.
• After a night of cultivation, Jiang Yue went to the assessment area as the elimination rounds began, and his team won both matches to enter the top sixteen.
• Xie Huanyue approached Jiang Yue to praise his cooking and promised to fight seriously if their teams met.
• Wu Feng told Jiang Yue that Zhou Yi would likely become First Year Class One's homeroom teacher and might single him out, and Jiang Yue suspected Fan Yu had helped arrange it.
• Dai Huabin insulted Jiang Yue and Wu Feng, vowed to win the Freshman Assessment, and angered the other Soul Elder contestants who gathered around Jiang Yue.

Jiang Yue's team faced Xie Huanyue's team in the round of sixteen, where Jiang Yue used his swords and soul skills to overcome the opposing trio. Jiang Yue's team won and advanced to the quarterfinals.

• Wu Feng criticized Dai Huabin, while Ning Tian and Jiang Yue pointed out her own poor reputation.
• Du Weilun announced the draws, pairing Jiang Yue's team with Xie Huanyue's team for the first battle between the freshmen Soul Masters.
• Jiang Yue and Xie Huanyue agreed to fight seriously, while Xie Huanyue said their match should not affect his visits for meals or their plan to beat Dai Huabin.
• Xie Huanyue pressured Jiang Yue as the Luo brothers fought Zuo Fan and Lu Bei, but Jiang Yue used the Sorrow Sword to harass the brothers and disrupt their momentum.
• Jiang Yue activated Live and Die Together, linking the opponents' emotions and pain, then cut through Xie Huanyue's defenses and forced him to stop fighting.
• Jiang Yue's team defeated Xie Huanyue's team and advanced to the quarterfinals.

Jiang Yue and his team advanced to the quarterfinals, while Ning Tian’s team defeated Wang Dong’s team after Xiao Xiao revealed her second Martial Soul. After the assessment, Jiang Yue encountered an unfamiliar figure at his counseling office whose emotions were extraordinarily intense and tangled.

• Jiang Yue treated Xie Huanyue and his teammates after defeating them, and Xie Huanyue wished him luck in winning the championship.
• Dai Huabin finished his match and left after seeing Jiang Yue, while Ning Tian’s team gained the advantage against Wang Dong’s team with her support.
• Xiao Xiao revealed her second Martial Soul, prompting Wang Yan to accuse Zhou Yi of letting her attach a Soul Ring to it prematurely.
• Ning Tian ordered Wu Feng and Nanmen Yun’er to attack, and they eliminated Xiao Xiao, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong to win the match.
• Wang Dong left the assessment area resentful toward Huo Yuhao and Zhou Yi, while Jiang Yue met an unfamiliar figure with overwhelming emotional fluctuations outside his office.

Jiang Yue met Zhang Lexuan, an Inner Court disciple seeking help with her complicated emotions, and his cooking lifted her spirits and triggered signs of a Soul Power breakthrough. The next day, Jiang Yue’s team drew Ning Tian’s team for the Freshman Assessment semifinal, and both sides prepared to fight.

• Zhang Lexuan visited Jiang Yue’s Psychological Counseling Room, and Jiang Yue invited her to wait while he prepared dinner.
• Jiang Yue cooked for Zhang Lexuan and his friends, and the meal eased their moods and left Zhang Lexuan feeling joyful.
• Zhang Lexuan sensed that her Soul Power was about to break through, paid Jiang Yue, and hurried away to seize the opportunity.
• Jiang Yue learned that his team had reached the final four, then joined the other finalists for the draw overseen by Yan Shaozhe.
• Jiang Yue’s team was matched against Ning Tian’s team in the semifinal, and both teams released their martial souls and Soul Rings.

Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo argued over whether Huo Yuhao or Jiang Yue should join the Soul Guidance Department, while Jiang Yue advanced in the Freshman Assessment semifinals. Jiang Yue defeated Ning Tian’s team and promised to win the championship, leaving him set to face Dai Huabin.

• Du Weilun told Yan Shaozhe that Jiang Yue had a verified recommendation from Maple Leaf City and was a Mental Attribute Soul Master, prompting Yan Shaozhe to consider the cost of granting him a Soul Ring hunting reward.
• Qian Duoduo asked Yan Shaozhe to let Huo Yuhao join the Soul Guidance Department, but Yan Shaozhe refused after learning that Huo Yuhao, not Jiang Yue, was the level-fifteen Tang Sect recruit with an eye martial soul.
• Jiang Yue opened the semifinal by charging Ning Tian’s team, and his mental ability drove Wu Feng and Nanmen Yun'er into a furious attack that ended with them crashing into each other.
• Ning Tian’s attempt to dispel the effect failed, and Jiang Yue’s third Soul Ring redirected her enhancements and took control of Wu Feng’s active soul skills.
• Jiang Yue used the borrowed enhancements and Wu Feng’s power to defeat her teammates, forcing Ning Tian to surrender, then told her he would win the championship and face Dai Huabin.

Yan Shaozhe refused to trade Martial Soul Department students or tournament slots with Qian Duoduo, while Jiang Yue’s team faced Dai Huabin’s team in the Freshman Assessment final. Jiang Yue disrupted Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu’s bond as they activated the Hell White Tiger, leaving their Martial Soul Fusion Skill unstable.

• Yan Shaozhe rejected Qian Duoduo’s demand for Jiang Yue and refused to give the Soul Guidance Department any tournament slots, saying it would have to wait until Jiang Yue’s third year to recruit him.
• The two Freshman Class Five teams met in the final, where Dai Huabin entered the match wary of Jiang Yue and Zuo Fan and Lu Bei charged at Zhu Lu and Cui Yajie.
• Jiang Yue’s emotional control helped Zuo Fan and Lu Bei resist Cui Yajie’s charm, while his swords turned the fight against Zhu Lu and Cui Yajie.
• Jiang Yue interrupted Dai Huabin’s second soul skill, causing the White Tiger Fierce Light Wave to explode in his mouth and injure him.
• Zhu Lu and Dai Huabin began their Hell White Tiger fusion, but Jiang Yue’s soul skill made Zhu Lu sense Dai Huabin’s lack of love for her, and their giant white tiger appeared unstable.

Jiang Yue defeated Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu’s Hell White Tiger, leading his team to win the Freshman Assessment. After the academy announced the winners and core disciples, Du Weilun summoned Jiang Yue, Lu Bei, and Zuo Fan to reveal their special reward, but first said he needed to speak with Jiang Yue.

• Jiang Yue redirected the weakening Hell White Tiger toward Cui Yajie, and the referee rescued her, eliminating her from the match.
• Jiang Yue used his Passionate Sword and Sorrow Sword to disrupt and split apart the Hell White Tiger, then knocked Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu unconscious.
• Jiang Yue’s team was declared champion, and the members joked about their limited contributions while celebrating the win.
• Du Weilun announced the top three teams, core disciples, Soul Ring assistance, and an additional reward for Jiang Yue’s team.
• Du Weilun brought Jiang Yue, Lu Bei, and Zuo Fan to his office and presented a unique prize, saying he needed to speak with Jiang Yue before they opened it.

Jiang Yue learned that Shrek Academy would not use his Freshman Assessment reward to find a Ten-Thousand-Year Mental Attribute Soul Beast, though he received a Void Demon Leopard Left Leg Bone as the special reward. He brought the incomplete Soul Bone to Ning Tian for appraisal, and she estimated it was worth several hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.

• Du Weilun told Jiang Yue that Yan Shaozhe would limit his Soul Beast reward to a Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and offered to help him hunt a Mental Attribute Soul Beast below twenty thousand years old.
• Du Weilun revealed the Void Demon Leopard Left Leg Bone, and Zuo Fan and Lu Bei let Jiang Yue keep it along with its aura-concealing pouch.
• Jiang Yue entered Class One, where Wang Yan held a class monitor election; Jiang Yue withdrew, and Wang Dong and Cao Jinxuan were elected.
• Jiang Yue visited Ning Tian in Class Three and asked her to appraise and possibly buy the Soul Bone.
• Ning Tian confirmed the Soul Bone was genuine and estimated that, despite its age and damage, it was worth several hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.

Jiang Yue sold the Void Demon Leopard Left Leg Bone to Ning Tian for cash and cultivation resources while Yan Shaozhe explained why he had withheld Jiang Yue’s promised Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring. Huo Yuhao worried about his cultivation and promotion assessment but committed to studying Soul Tools, and the chapter ended with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm awakening and asking when Jiang Yue would visit the Extreme North.

• Jiang Yue sold Ning Tian the Void Demon Leopard Left Leg Bone for one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins in cash and additional cultivation resources.
• Yan Shaozhe told Du Weilun that he had withheld a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring to give Sea God Pavilion elders a chance to recruit Jiang Yue as a disciple.
• Huo Yuhao worried that he could not reach Soul Grandmaster level in time for the promotion assessment, but told Tang Ya and Bei Bei that he would study Soul Tools under Fan Yu.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm awoke in Jiang Yue’s Sea of Spirit and asked when he planned to go to the Extreme North.
• Jiang Yue postponed the trip, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm accepted that they would wait for another opportunity.

Jiang Yue prepared for a ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring as he trained through eight months at Shrek Academy and reached level forty. When vacation began, he set out for Star Luo City, hoping to obtain the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife.

• Jiang Yue asked Tian Meng to help him kill a ten-thousand-year Mental Attribute soul beast for his fourth Soul Ring, and Tian Meng agreed before returning to sleep.
• Jiang Yue cultivated steadily for eight months, reached level-forty Quasi Soul Ancestor, and delayed taking a Soul Ring to improve his physical constitution.
• Wang Yan dismissed First-Year Class One for vacation and warned the students to train for the next year's Upgrade Assessment.
• Jiang Yue teased Wang Dong about her slow cultivation and Dai Huabin's attention, then left her to think about confronting Dai Huabin.
• Zhang Lexuan thanked Jiang Yue for helping her recover her state of mind, and Jiang Yue departed for Star Luo City to seek the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife.

Jiang Yue reached Star Luo City and applied for auction bidding rights at the Starlight Auction House so he could obtain the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife. When staff discovered he was a twelve-year-old Rank 40 Soul Master, they alerted Princess Xu Jiujiu, who went to meet him and considered recruiting him for the Star Luo Empire.

• Jiang Yue traveled to Star Luo City, entered using his Shrek Academy emblem, and rested at a hotel.
• Jiang Yue found the Starlight Auction House and realized he lacked the qualifications to bid, so he applied and submitted his identity and assets information.
• Jiang Yue tested at Rank 40, astonishing the staff, who expedited his application and escorted him to a reception room.
• A black-ranked auctioneer informed Xu Jiujiu about Jiang Yue's age and cultivation, and Xu Jiujiu went to meet him, thinking the Star Luo Empire should recruit him.

Jiang Yue bought the cursed Spirit Devouring Carving Knife from Xu Jiujiu and brought it back to his hotel, hoping to use its baleful aura to wake Electrolux. The aura instead endangered his Sea of Spirit, and Tian Meng woke in time to shield him as the chapter ended with Tian Meng scolding him.

• Jiang Yue convinced Xu Jiujiu to sell him the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife directly for eighty thousand Gold Soul Coins and received a VIP card.
• Xu Jiujiu sent people to investigate Jiang Yue’s background after he left the Starlight Auction House.
• Jiang Yue opened the knife’s box at his hotel and called for Electrolux, who remained asleep.
• Jiang Yue grabbed the knife to draw its baleful aura into his mind, but the resulting pain woke Tian Meng, who protected Jiang Yue’s Sea of Spirit.
• Tian Meng rebuked Jiang Yue for taking the risk without warning him.

Jiang Yue and Dream Iceworm awakened Electrolux by directing the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife’s curse toward the gray pearl in Jiang Yue’s Sea of Spirit. Electrolux purified the Living Gold and began fusing it with Jiang Yue, leaving him with a stronger body and a newly named Living Blade.

• Jiang Yue explained to Dream Iceworm that the gray pearl held a fragment of Divine Sense and could help their god-making plan, so Dream Iceworm agreed to help awaken it.
• Dream Iceworm drove the carving knife’s baleful aura into the gray pearl, which dispersed the curse and awakened Electrolux.
• Electrolux recognized the pearl as Living Gold, took control of Jiang Yue’s body, and purified the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife until it became the Blade of Life’s Watch.
• Electrolux returned control to Jiang Yue and told him to press the Living Blade to his forehead so the fusion could begin.
• The Living Blade flooded Jiang Yue’s body with Life Force, expelling impurities and greatly improving his physical constitution and ability to withstand older soul rings.