Recaps

Yue Ling joined Shrek Academy, formed a team with Ma Xiaotao and Gongyang Mo, and led them through the freshman assessment. After winning their round-robin tournament undefeated, they advanced through the first elimination match as the Hundred Flowers Record began to stir again.

• Yue Ling avenged his parents by killing the Evil Soul Master, then became Xuan Zi’s disciple and vowed to hunt Evil Soul Masters.
• Yue Ling chose a Golden Winged Eagle for his second Spirit Ring, endured its dangerous absorption, and developed strength linked to Indestructible Diamond.
• After years of training with Xuan Zi, Zhang Lexuan, and Mu En, Yue Ling enrolled at Shrek Academy and met his roommate Gongyang Mo.
• Yue Ling and Gongyang Mo fought Ma Xiaotao, then became friends with her after Yan Shaozhe intervened and Ma Xiaotao agreed to join their assessment team.
• Yue Ling defeated Liu Tianhua in a class duel, and he, Ma Xiaotao, and Gongyang Mo settled into Wu Ya’s demanding training routine.
• Yue Ling promised he could cure Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire and transform her Martial Soul, while the trio registered for the freshman assessment as a team.
• Yue Ling’s team defeated Freshman Class 2 and won every match in the round-robin tournament, qualifying undefeated for the knockout rounds.
• After the Hundred Flowers Record briefly glowed, Yue Ling’s team quickly defeated three Two-Ring Soul Grandmasters in the first elimination round and advanced to the top thirty-two.

Yue Ling’s team won the Freshman Elimination Tournament, but the final awakened the Evil Soul Master Remnant Soul inside him. After Mu En sealed it temporarily, Yue Ling recovered, received a Spirit Bone, and began shaping a stronger close-combat path.

• Yue Ling, Ma Xiaotao, and Gongyang Mo advanced through the tournament, defeating Dai Yueheng’s team in the semifinal to reach the final.
• During the final, the opposing team’s Nightmare Cage forced Yue Ling to relive his parents’ deaths, allowing the Remnant Soul to seize control and unleash its power.
• Lovesick Heartbreak Red awakened in Yue Ling’s Spirit Sea, absorbed the Remnant Soul’s hatred into a blood-red Spirit Ring, and helped Yue Ling regain control as his domain trapped the arena in illusions.
• Xuan Zi carried the exhausted Yue Ling away, and Mu En sealed the weakened Remnant Soul with the Golden Ancient Tree’s power while warning that Yue Ling would eventually have to overcome it himself.
• Shrek declared Yue Ling’s team the tournament champions, and Ma Xiaotao and Gongyang Mo received Spirit Bones on behalf of their absent teammate.
• After Yue Ling recovered, Ma Xiaotao brought him the Ten-Thousand-Year Mountain-Sinking Earth Gravity Left Leg Bone and shared breakfast with him.
• Yue Ling absorbed the Spirit Bone, reached level thirty-eight, and resolved to develop his chrysanthemum Martial Soul into a fighting style that combined control and powerful close-range attacks.

Yue Ling gained his fourth Spirit Ring and survived the Remnant Soul’s memories as he returned to the Shrek Outer Court. His advancement assessment ended with him defeating a thousand-year Earth King through his Martial Soul, Spirit Bone, and powerful physique.

• Yue Ling trained toward Soul Ancestor while Mu En and Xuan Zi planned to send him to the Outer Court to strengthen his mind against the Remnant Soul.
• Yue Ling and Zhang Lexuan grew distant after jealousy and awkwardness strained their friendship, while Yue Ling continued cultivating and eventually broke through to rank forty.
• Xuan Zi took Yue Ling to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Yue Ling fought soul beasts and rejected an offer to join Zhengtian Academy before Xuan Zi drove the academy’s teachers away.
• Xuan Zi led Yue Ling to a Titan Ant colony, where Yue Ling chose and killed a Titan Ant Emperor with more than twelve thousand years of cultivation.
• Yue Ling endured the Spirit Ring’s violent energy and resentment, raising his Soul Power to rank forty-three and transforming his Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum into a close-combat weapon.
• Yue Ling absorbed the Remnant Soul’s memories, enduring nightmares that strengthened his mental resilience, then returned to the Outer Court and reunited with Gongyang Mo.
• Yue Ling entered the second-year advancement assessment and revealed four Spirit Rings, including a ten-thousand-year ring, before the Earth King’s lava attack left the crowd fearing for him.
• Yue Ling survived the magma with his Indestructible Diamond protection, then overwhelmed the Earth King with his physique and killed it with his bare hands.

Yue Ling accompanied Zhang Lexuan into the Star Dou Great Forest, where the Silvermoon Roland and Moon Parasol Tree transformed his fifth Spirit Ring and granted him new abilities. Back at Shrek, he explored the Hundred Flowers Record and learned that the Holy Spirit Cult still watched the academy as he prepared to try out for the reserve team.

• Yue Ling defeated Dai Yueheng in a match for the Class One monitor position, nearly killing him before Wang Yan intervened, and later advanced to Rank 50 and obtained a fifth Spirit Ring from a Silvermoon Roland.
• Yue Ling and Zhang Lexuan investigated a Silver Moon Skywolf King, fought it, and fled into a hidden underground chamber after it summoned its pack.
• Yue Ling approached the Silvermoon Roland beneath the Moon Parasol Tree, and the Hundred Flowers Record awakened as both plants joined the energy surrounding him.
• The Silvermoon Roland formed Yue Ling’s ten-thousand-year fifth Spirit Ring, while the Moon Parasol Tree became a Spirit Immunity Guardian Skull and their remaining origins entered a golden crown in his Spirit Sea.
• Gong Changlong and Shrek’s experts held off the Silver Moon Wolves as Yue Ling absorbed the plants’ power, reached Rank 53, and later planted their seeds to calm the cavern’s Plant Soul Beasts.
• Yue Ling returned to Shrek with Zhang Lexuan, discovered that the golden crown let him hear plants, and found the green humanoid remnant soul still sealed in his Spirit Sea.
• Yue Ling read newly accessible entries in the Hundred Flowers Record while Ye Xishui learned that Shrek had sealed a remnant soul and ordered Wan Hun to watch the academy.
• Gongyang Mo told Yue Ling that Shrek had selected its Seven Monsters and would hold a reserve-team free-for-all, and Yue Ling decided to compete while avoiding the Soul Master Tournament.