Chapter Summaries

After learning that Shrek Academy had seized Xu Tianming, Xu Tianran mobilized the Sun Moon Empire’s forces and threatened war to prevent his brother’s removal. At Prince Yan's Palace, he arrived with reinforcements and confronted Mu En, leaving the standoff poised to escalate.

• Kong Deming told Xu Tianran that Shrek Academy had taken control of Xu Tianming and threatened his position if he failed to intervene.
• Xu Tianran ordered the empire to enter Level One combat readiness, aimed Class 9 fixed soul tool shells at Shrek City, sealed Mingdu, and summoned the Worship Hall worshippers.
• At Prince Yan's Palace, Mu En insisted he only wanted to take Xu Tianming to study at Shrek Academy, while Kong Deming accused him of acting like a bandit.
• Xu Tianran arrived above the palace with more than a dozen Titled Douluo-level powerhouses and reassured Xu Tianming that he would not let anyone take him.
• Xu Tianran warned Mu En that the Sun Moon Empire would fight Shrek Academy to the death if Xu Tianming were harmed.

Xu Tianming negotiated with Mu En, who admitted he was determined to take him back to Shrek Academy and promised to consider his demands. Xu Tianming agreed to discuss going but insisted Mu En first explain what kind of organization Shrek Academy was, then called someone out of his bedroom.

• Mu En released his soul power suppression on Xu Tianming and apologized, while Xu Tianming offered to end the dispute if Mu En left.
• Mu En admitted he intended to bring Xu Tianming to Shrek Academy and invited him to make reasonable requests.
• Xu Tianming said he might go to Shrek Academy but demanded an explanation about the academy first.
• Xu Tianming looked toward his bedroom and called someone out to meet Shrek Academy's elders.

Zhang Lexuan explained why Xu Tianming had kept her in the Prince's Residence, prompting Mu En to thank Xu Tianming and give him a Sea God Token. Xu Tianming then raised Dai Yueheng's conduct, showing Mu En a recording of his threats and attempted assassination.

• Zhang Lexuan left her room after Xu Tianming called for her in front of Mu En and the Sun-Moon Imperial Family.
• Zhang Lexuan recounted how Xu Tianming had saved her and her companions from evil soul masters and kept her in the Prince's Residence after a misunderstanding.
• Mu En thanked Xu Tianming and gave him a Sea God Token that granted one unconditional request of Shrek Academy.
• Xu Tianming asked Zhang Lexuan to bring Dai Yueheng over, then showed Mu En a recording of Dai Yueheng threatening the prince and attempting to assassinate him.
• Mu En apologized for Shrek Academy's failure to educate Dai Yueheng properly and said he believed the student had acted on impulse.

Xu Tianming kept Dai Yueheng detained while Mu En negotiated with him, then demanded an explanation for Ma Xiaotao’s actions at the prince’s estate. After Xu Tianming used Mavuika’s power to wake Ma Xiaotao briefly, she explained that she had come to rescue Dai Yueheng, but Xu Tianming pressed her about how she entered and the missing maids.

• Mu En offered compensation, but Xu Tianming said Dai Yueheng would remain detained until the Star Luo Empire gave the Sun Moon Empire a satisfactory explanation.
• Xu Tianming raised a final matter concerning the unconscious Ma Xiaotao and asked Mu En to let him wake her so she could explain herself.
• Xu Tianming used Mavuika’s power to awaken Ma Xiaotao, and Mu En observed the strange power flowing through her.
• At Mu En’s command, Ma Xiaotao explained that she had infiltrated the prince’s estate to rescue Dai Yueheng.
• Xu Tianming accused Ma Xiaotao of glossing over important details and demanded to know how she entered and where she had taken the missing maids.

Mu En confronted Ma Xiaotao over kidnapping maids from Xu Tianming’s estate, then learned she had also intervened to protect Nana, an evil soul master. Xu Tianming demanded Shrek Academy explain a string of incidents that made it appear connected to evil soul masters.

• Mu En pressed Ma Xiaotao to tell the truth, and she admitted she had locked Xu Tianming’s maids in a cave; Xu Tianran sent a consecrator to check on them.
• Xu Tianming asked why Ma Xiaotao had attacked him, and she claimed she had been protecting an innocent girl from his servants.
• Xu Tianming brought Nana before the group and ordered her to reveal her martial soul; Mu En’s pressure forced Nana’s Ghost martial soul and evil soul power to emerge.
• Ma Xiaotao realized she had fought to protect an evil soul master and collapsed after spitting blood.
• Xu Tianming cited the students’ repeated incidents and demanded that Mu En provide an explanation for Shrek Academy.

Mu En offered Xu Tianming a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and soul bone to persuade him to join Shrek Academy, and Xu Tianming negotiated additional protections and access to the academy’s resources. Xu Tianming agreed to go after settling his affairs, while Ma Xiaotao was left stunned by Mu En’s concessions.

• Mu En apologized to Xu Tianming and offered him a hundred-thousand-year soul bone of his choice and help hunting a hundred-thousand-year soul beast if he enrolled at Shrek Academy.
• Xu Tianming said the offer was not enough and asked whether he would retain his freedom and be allowed to leave the academy grounds.
• Mu En promised Xu Tianming could go wherever he pleased outside class hours, but required him to complete six years in the outer court before withdrawing or advancing early.
• Xu Tianming secured Mu En’s promise to protect him in Shrek City, uphold justice if academy seniors mistreated him, and grant him unconditional access to cultivation resources.
• Xu Tianming agreed to go to Shrek Academy after settling his affairs and stated that Mu En’s failure to fulfill any condition would release him from his promise.
• Mu En accepted the terms, and Ma Xiaotao felt bewildered by how different the agreement was from the Shrek Academy she knew.

After Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire worsened, Mu En asked Xu Tianming to suppress it, and Xu Tianming agreed to stabilize her for seven days. Xu Tianming planned to demand meaningful compensation for helping her in the future, while Kong Deming and Xu Tianran prepared for his arrival at Shrek Academy.

• Ma Xiaotao collapsed as her evil fire worsened, and Mu En realized he could no longer keep it under control.
• Mu En asked Xu Tianming to use his power to help Ma Xiaotao, and Xu Tianming agreed while warning that his help would only be temporary.
• Xu Tianming used Mavuika’s power to stabilize Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire for seven days, and Ma Xiaotao apologized and promised to repay him.
• Xu Tianming arranged temporary rooms for Ma Xiaotao and Mu En, then told Kong Deming and Xu Tianran that their timely arrival had protected him from a major loss.
• Kong Deming urged Xu Tianming to stand up for himself at Shrek Academy and assured him that the Sun Moon Empire would support him.

Xu Tianming’s family learned that Nana had been forced by the Holy Ghost Cult to infiltrate the prince’s residence, and Xu Tianran ordered her execution. Meng Hongchen intervened, giving Nana a chance to explain that the cult held her parents’ souls; she then asked Xu Tianming to help Nana.

• Xu Tianming reassured Kong Deming and Xu Tianran that he would attend Shrek Academy while remaining loyal to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Tianran questioned Nana about entering the prince’s residence, learned she had been sent by the Holy Ghost Cult, and ordered guards to drag her away for execution.
• Meng Hongchen stopped the guards and pleaded for Nana, while Jing Hongchen warned her about challenging the crown prince’s order.
• Xu Tianran paused the execution and gave Nana three minutes to explain herself.
• Nana revealed that evil soul masters controlled her parents’ souls, and Meng Hongchen asked Xu Tianming to help her.

Xu Tianming rescued Nana’s parents’ souls from a Holy Ghost Cult hideout, freed Nana from the cult’s control, and took her into his service. Before leaving for Shrek Academy with Mu En, he agreed to bring Meng Hongchen and Ye Guyi along, then considered taking more people.

• After learning from Nana that a Soul Emperor and dozens of evil soul masters were holding her parents’ souls, Xu Tianming surrounded their hideout with experts and defeated them.
• Columbina used moonlight to purify the imprisoned souls and Nana’s martial soul, freeing her parents and removing the evil power that marked Nana as an evil soul master.
• Nana renewed her offer to serve Xu Tianming, who settled her parents and brought her to the prince’s residence as his personal maid.
• The night before his departure with Mu En for Shrek Academy, Meng Hongchen asked to accompany Xu Tianming, and he agreed.
• Ye Guyi also asked to go to Shrek Academy, and Xu Tianming approved before considering bringing a few more people.

Yan Shaozhe stopped Xu Tianming and Meng Hongchen outside Shrek City, looking for an excuse to vent his frustration after waiting all day for Mu En. He used his status and the city guards to confront Xu Tianming, while Xu Tianming recognized their attempt to provoke him.

• Yan Shaozhe waited at Shrek City's East Gate for Mu En and the young genius he was bringing back.
• Xu Tianming rode toward the city with Meng Hongchen on his soul tool motorcycle, and Yan Shaozhe slowed it with his soul power.
• Yan Shaozhe accused Xu Tianming of reckless driving, but Xu Tianming challenged his motives and refused to be intimidated.
• Yan Shaozhe prompted the city guard captain to intervene, and the captain rebuked Xu Tianming for offending a senior elder of Shrek Academy.
• Xu Tianming suppressed a smile, realizing that Yan Shaozhe and the guards had taken his bait.

Yan Shaozhe tested Xu Tianming with escalating Soul Power pressure and discovered the boy had extraordinary talent, deciding to recruit him as his direct disciple. Before he could ease the confrontation, Mu En arrived and angrily confronted him.

• Xu Tianming demanded that Yan Shaozhe apologize, then mocked him for using weak Soul Power pressure.
• Yan Shaozhe increased his pressure from Soul Ancestor to Soul King and Soul Emperor levels, while Xu Tianming endured it and wondered why Mu En had not arrived.
• Xu Tianming summoned his Radiant Sun Martial Soul under Yan Shaozhe's level 66 pressure, revealing that his Soul Power was only level 44.
• Yan Shaozhe recognized Xu Tianming as a monster of a talent and decided to recruit him as his direct disciple.
• Mu En appeared and furiously shouted at Yan Shaozhe, leaving him stunned.

Xu Tianming accused Mu En and Yan Shaozhe of staging a confrontation to make him trust Shrek Academy, then tried to leave. Mu En struck Yan Shaozhe unconscious to prove the incident was not an act and promised Xu Tianming he could leave once he learned the truth.

• Meng Hongchen checked that Xu Tianming was unharmed after Yan Shaozhe’s Soul Power pressure ended.
• Mu En arrived, berated Yan Shaozhe for bullying Xu Tianming, and made him apologize.
• Xu Tianming accused Mu En and Yan Shaozhe of staging the confrontation to manipulate him into trusting Shrek Academy.
• Xu Tianming prepared to leave, so Mu En struck Yan Shaozhe and sent him crashing to the ground in front of the motorcycle.
• Mu En told Xu Tianming he could ask the girls at his residence about Mu En’s movements and promised not to stop him if he still wanted to leave.

After Yan Shaozhe attacked Xu Tianming, Mu En punished him and negotiated compensation to convince Xu Tianming to enroll at Shrek Academy. The chapter left Yan Shaozhe demoted and without pay, with his salary assigned to fund a personal guard for Xu Tianming.

• Ma Xiaotao found Yan Shaozhe unconscious, woke him, and heard him claim that he had simply fallen.
• After speaking with Ye Guyi and the others, Xu Tianming concluded that Mu En had not arranged the incident and demanded an explanation before enrolling.
• Mu En removed Yan Shaozhe as Dean of the Martial Soul Academy and appointed Cai Meier in his place.
• Xu Tianming rejected the dismissal as inadequate and asked Shrek Academy to house and pay a Title Douluo sent from the Sun Moon Empire to guard him.
• Mu En revised Yan Shaozhe's punishment to demotion as Vice Dean and revoked his salary to pay for Xu Tianming's compensation.

Xu Tianming and the girls completed their enrollment at Shrek Academy after Yan Shaozhe apologized for his treatment of them. The chapter ended with Xu Tianming taking the girls to the teachers’ apartments to claim better accommodations.

• Xu Tianming led the group away to complete their enrollment, while Mu En scolded Yan Shaozhe for offending the talented newcomers.
• Ma Xiaotao told Yan Shaozhe that Xu Tianming had defeated her despite being a lower rank, and Mu En confirmed her account.
• Yan Shaozhe apologized to Mu En, who sent him to help process the newcomers’ enrollment.
• With Yan Shaozhe’s assistance, Xu Tianming and the girls finished the enrollment procedures in less than two hours.
• Xu Tianming led the girls to the teachers’ apartments instead of the student dormitories.

Xu Tianming woke beside Zhang Lexuan after an exhausting night that raised her Soul Power to Rank 73, while Meng Hongchen waited outside to walk with him to class. He kept Zhang Lexuan’s presence secret by telling Meng Hongchen and the others to go ahead, and Ye Guyi led them away.

• Zhang Lexuan returned to her dorm feeling lonely, then hurried to Room 502 after Xu Tianming summoned her.
• Xu Tianming poured excessive Kuuvahki into Zhang Lexuan during cultivation, helping her advance from Rank 72 to Rank 73 before they both fell asleep from exhaustion.
• Meng Hongchen came to Room 502 the next morning and called for Xu Tianming to go to their first Shrek Academy class together.
• Xu Tianming told Meng Hongchen to go ahead because he wanted more sleep, hiding Zhang Lexuan in his room.
• Ye Guyi persuaded Meng Hongchen and the others to leave for class and said they would ask for leave on Xu Tianming’s behalf.

Xu Tianming avoided being discovered by Meng Hongchen and warned Zhang Lexuan to honor their agreement before going to shower. Meanwhile, Meng Hongchen and the other girls began their first day at Shrek Academy, where they joined different freshman classes and drew attention from their classmates.

• Ye Guyi helped Meng Hongchen and the other girls decide to ask their teacher for leave for Xu Tianming, letting him stay in bed without being discovered.
• Zhang Lexuan awoke with her Soul Power settled, and Xu Tianming warned her that returning to Shrek Academy did not void their agreement.
• Xu Tianming told Zhang Lexuan to tidy the bed and herself, then went to shower while she watched him leave.
• Meng Hongchen and the other girls entered Shrek Academy's white teaching building, attracting a crowd of curious students.
• Meng Hongchen and Xiao Xiao joined Class One, while Ye Guyi, Jiang Nannan, and Nana joined Class Two.
• Bei Bei briefly looked at Meng Hongchen and Xiao Xiao before turning his attention back to Tang Ya.

Xu Sanshi tried to charm the newcomer Jiang Nannan, but she mocked his advances in front of Class Two. Despite the class’s laughter, Xu Sanshi persisted and declared that he would keep pursuing her.

• Jiang Nannan and Nana entered Class Two and sat near Xu Sanshi, who immediately believed he had fallen in love with Jiang Nannan.
• Xu Sanshi introduced himself to Jiang Nannan and bragged about his strength, but she ignored him and spoke to Nana instead.
• Xu Sanshi assumed Jiang Nannan was shy and told her she need not feel inferior about becoming friends with him.
• Jiang Nannan asked whether Xu Sanshi’s martial soul was a toad, then mocked him for wanting to eat swan meat; the class erupted in laughter.
• Xu Sanshi silently noted the students who mocked him, suppressed his anger, and told Jiang Nannan he would follow her until she accepted him.

Mu Jin reprimanded Class Two and let Xu Sanshi avoid further punishment by promising to win the end-of-month assessment, then asked Jiang Nannan and Nana to introduce themselves. In Class One, Zhou Yi noticed that only three of the four expected transfer students had arrived.

• Mu Jin silenced Class Two, threatened tougher exams, and warned Xu Sanshi for harassing a new student.
• Class Two students blamed Xu Sanshi, and Mu Jin told him to explain himself or face a report to the Academic Affairs Office.
• Xu Sanshi admitted fault and promised to take first place in the end-of-month assessment, so Mu Jin sent him back to his seat.
• Mu Jin asked Jiang Nannan and Nana to introduce themselves to Class Two.
• Zhou Yi entered Class One and noticed that only three of the four transfer students expected by the Academic Affairs Office were present.

Meng Hongchen, Ye Guyi, and Xiao Xiao introduced themselves to Class One, but Zhou Yi threatened to expel their sick companion and used her Soul Emperor pressure to silence Ye Guyi. The classroom door was suddenly kicked open, interrupting Zhou Yi’s ultimatum.

• Zhou Yi ordered Meng Hongchen, Ye Guyi, and Xiao Xiao to introduce themselves to Class One.
• Meng Hongchen asked Zhou Yi for leave on behalf of their ill companion, and Zhou Yi declared him expelled.
• Ye Guyi challenged Zhou Yi for threatening to expel someone over missing class.
• Zhou Yi released her six soul rings, suppressed the class, and demanded that Ye Guyi choose whether to leave with her companion.
• Someone suddenly kicked open the classroom door.

Xu Tianming confronted Zhou Yi after she oppressed Ye Guyi, and Zhou Yi attacked him with lethal force. He dodged her blows and struck back with heavenly fire, then prepared to finish her with the Judgment Sword as Fan Yu was summoned.

• Xu Tianming arrived and condemned Zhou Yi for using her strength to oppress Ye Guyi.
• Zhou Yi's Soul Power pressure failed to harm Xu Tianming, so she attacked him with her fourth soul skill.
• Xu Tianming dodged Zhou Yi's strike, which smashed through the classroom wall, and challenged her to fight outside.
• Wang Yan sent a teacher to fetch Fan Yu while Zhou Yi pursued Xu Tianming into the plaza.
• Xu Tianming hit Zhou Yi from behind with heavenly fire, burning away her disguise and outer clothing.
• Xu Tianming converted his stored battle intent into Soul Power, enchanted the Judgment Sword, and unleashed "Hear the Sun's Roar!"