Chapter Summaries

Twelve-year-old Yuwen Tuo was trapped in Shrek Academy and forced by Ma Xiaotao to let her drain his soul power to control her evil fire. After Ma Xiaotao insisted he would never leave, Yuwen Tuo concealed his hope of escaping and continued to look for a way out.

• Shrek Academy’s history and its distinction between the outer and inner academies were described as Yuwen Tuo’s unusual place in the inner academy was introduced.
• Ma Xiaotao drained Yuwen Tuo’s power during cultivation, reducing his rank from twenty to seventeen, and threatened him when he complained.
• Ma Xiaotao told Yuwen Tuo she would eventually compensate him but forbade him from trying to leave Shrek.
• Ling Luochen confronted Ma Xiaotao, arguing that Yuwen Tuo hated her and had his own ambitions beyond Shrek.
• Ma Xiaotao declared that Yuwen Tuo would never leave because Shrek was his home, while Yuwen Tuo secretly kept his hope alive.

Yuwen Tuo recalled how he had transmigrated twice, first becoming Xiao Tuo, a fragment of the Xuanyuan Sword, and helping his master stop the Tears of the Sky. After two powerful strangers took his weakened soul, he awoke in Douluo Continent.

• Xiao Tuo became Yuwen Tuo’s disciple and trained in Dao Arts and swordsmanship, showing exceptional talent in both martial and heavenly fortune.
• Yuwen Tuo offered Xiao Tuo his surname, and Xiao Tuo accepted the name Yuwen Tuo, deepening their bond like that of father and son.
• When the Scarlet Piercer Star arrived, Xiao Tuo helped Yuwen Tuo gather the five artifacts, persuade Chen Jingchou to cooperate, and seal the Tears of the Sky.
• As the Demon Lord overwhelmed Yuwen Tuo and Chen Jingchou, Xiao Tuo sacrificed himself and merged with the Xuanyuan Sword, enabling Yuwen Tuo to defeat the Demon Lord and seal the crisis.
• After the battle, two powerful people emerged from the sealed Tears of the Sky and took Xiao Tuo’s weakened soul away.
• Xiao Tuo awoke in Douluo Continent after transmigrating for a second time.

After losing the village that raised him to Evil Soul Masters, Xiao Tuo survived alone and prepared for his Martial Soul Awakening. His awakening revealed a Fire Element Martial Soul and soul power strong enough to shatter the testing stone, while another Martial Soul remained hidden.

• Evil Soul Masters slaughtered Xiao Tuo's village while he was fishing, and he swore to avenge the villagers.
• Xiao Tuo survived alone, adapted his cultivation to the continent's lack of spiritual energy, and saved money for Martial Soul Awakening.
• At age six, Xiao Tuo paid for an awakening conducted by Su Yunlang, a level-twenty-three Soul Grandmaster with a Lone Wolf Martial Soul.
• During the awakening, Xiao Tuo sensed that he had Twin Martial Souls and concealed one, revealing only a pure Fire Element Martial Soul.
• Su Yunlang tested Xiao Tuo's soul power, and the testing stone cracked and exploded under the force of his power.

After his Martial Soul awakening revealed an apparent Innate Level 20, Xiao Tuo was detained in the City Lord's Mansion and recommended to Shrek Academy. Alone in his room, he discovered that his Noble Carriage Sword had a Soul Ring, leaving him uncertain how it had come to this world.

• Su Yunlang measured Xiao Tuo's soul power at Level 20, and Xiao Tuo wondered why it exceeded the expected limit for a newly awakened Martial Soul.
• Su Yunlang persuaded Xiao Tuo to meet the city lord, who used Xiao Tuo's age and lack of parents to keep him at the City Lord's Mansion and send a letter to Shrek Academy.
• A maid brought Xiao Tuo to a luxurious guest room, where he resolved to seek a way to leave and reflected on why he did not want to join Shrek or the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xiao Tuo summoned the Noble Carriage Sword and found a yellow Soul Ring around it, realizing that the ring explained his apparent Level 20 soul power.
• Xiao Tuo questioned how the Noble Carriage Sword and its Soul Ring had appeared, and whether the sword was truly the same one he remembered.

Xiao Tuo was taken to Shrek Academy despite wanting to attend the Heaven Dou Empire's Royal Academy, and he met Dean Yan Shaozhe and Vice Dean Cai Meier. After Yan Shaozhe examined Xiao Tuo's Fire Elephant Power, two powerful figures appeared, including Yan Shaozhe's teacher.

• Xiao Tuo decided that his unknown bloodline Martial Soul mattered little compared with avenging the village elders killed by Evil Soul Masters.
• The City Lord, Ma Sino, brought Xiao Tuo to Shrek Academy after receiving an order from the Sea God Pavilion and hoped to earn a reward for finding him.
• Xiao Tuo met Yan Shaozhe and Cai Meier, then said he wanted to attend the Heaven Dou Empire's Royal Academy to serve his country.
• Yan Shaozhe accepted Xiao Tuo's explanation without forcing an immediate decision and asked to see his Martial Soul.
• Yan Shaozhe examined the Fire Elephant Power, sensed an unusual ultimate power in its flames, and ordered Ma Sino to take Xiao Tuo to the dormitory.
• Two figures appeared from the shadows, and Yan Shaozhe greeted one as his teacher and the other as Xuan Zi.

Shrek's leaders discovered that Xiao Tuo's Supreme Pure Fire could purify Ma Xiaotao's evil fire, but using it would ruin his Martial Soul, and they decided the sacrifice was worthwhile. Unaware of their plan, Xiao Tuo began cultivating Divine Fire Doppelganger in his dormitory.

• Mu En explained that Xiao Tuo's Supreme Pure Fire was supremely pure rather than supremely powerful, and that cultivation would contaminate and weaken it.
• Yan Shaozhe learned that Xiao Tuo's flames could purify Ma Xiaotao's evil fire, potentially allowing her Fire Phoenix to evolve into an Ultimate Fire Phoenix.
• Cai Meier objected that using Xiao Tuo would destroy his Martial Soul, but Mu En and Xuan Zi agreed to compensate him and proceed for Ma Xiaotao's sake.
• City Lord Ma Sino left Xiao Tuo in the dormitory, where Xiao Tuo began cultivating the Fire Attribute art Divine Fire Doppelganger.

At Shrek Academy, Yuwen Tuo purified Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire but discovered that their linked Soul Power had drained his cultivation from level twenty to level ten. Ma Xiaotao refused to let him leave, promising to protect and compensate him as he helped her remove the evil fire.

• Yan Shaozhe brought Ma Xiaotao, suffering an evil-fire flare-up, to Yuwen Tuo’s room and urged her to rely on him.
• Ma Xiaotao embraced Yuwen Tuo, and his Fire Elephant Power absorbed and purified some of her evil fire through the night.
• After they woke, Ma Xiaotao claimed Yuwen Tuo as the person who would help cure her and promised to compensate him.
• Yuwen Tuo discovered that their connected Soul Power had drained his cultivation to level ten and angrily accused Shrek of exploiting him.
• Ma Xiaotao knocked Yuwen Tuo back with gentle Soul Power and insisted he remain at the academy under her protection.

After six years of being forced to let Ma Xiaotao absorb his Cultivation Power, Yuwen Tuo heard two mysterious figures in his Sea of Consciousness reveal that his slow growth was an opportunity and that his sword and soul ring held hidden secrets. Ling Luochen's encouragement helped him understand their words, and he discovered a way to cultivate his martial soul and eventually leave Shrek.

• Yuwen Tuo recalled how Ma Xiaotao absorbed his cultivated power and prevented him from absorbing soul rings, while he resolved to survive and seek revenge on the Evil Soul Masters and Shrek.
• Six years later, Yuwen Tuo was only Level 17 when a mysterious ding led him to two sword-bearing figures in his Sea of Consciousness.
• The figures told Yuwen Tuo not to give up, said his soul power had continued growing, and warned that his sword was not truly the Noble Carriage Sword and that his soul ring had brought his soul to this world.
• Ling Luochen told Yuwen Tuo he could attend the outer court with new students and encouraged him to keep cultivating, prompting him to recognize the connection to the mysterious figures' words.
• Yuwen Tuo guided his Mental Power into the soul ring of his second martial soul and realized how to cultivate it and find a way to leave Shrek.

After Shrek released Yuwen Tuo from six years of confinement, Mu En and Yan Shaozhe discussed his potential and their desire to keep him at the academy. Yuwen Tuo resolved to pursue strength without being ruled by hatred, then went with Gong Changlong to choose his first Soul Beast.

• Mu En told Yan Shaozhe that Yuwen Tuo’s Supreme Pure Fire might have the potential to become Ultimate Fire, but they would wait to see whether he chose to join Shrek’s Inner Academy.
• Yuwen Tuo reflected on his master’s role in restoring his soul and vowed to fulfill his wishes while eventually reclaiming every debt of hatred.
• Gong Changlong introduced himself to Yuwen Tuo and said he had been ordered to take him to the Beast Fighting Arena to select a hundred-year Soul Beast for his First Soul Ring.
• Yuwen Tuo accepted the academy’s Soul Beast selection, and Gong Changlong defended the strength and safety of the captive-raised beasts.

Yuwen Tuo revealed that he had secretly cultivated to Level 17 with Innate Super Soul Power, and Gong Changlong tested his strength before agreeing to let him choose an eight-hundred-year Soul Beast. Gong Changlong then found him a Flame Blade Demon as a potential first Soul Ring.

• Gong Changlong brought Yuwen Tuo to the Beast Fighting Arena and offered him a Soul Beast around four hundred years old.
• Yuwen Tuo insisted that he could handle an eight-hundred-year Soul Ring and endured Gong Changlong's Soul Power pressure.
• Yuwen Tuo explained that his seventeen levels of Soul Power were all Innate Soul Power, tempered over time by Ma Xiaotao's evil fire.
• Under Gong Changlong's pressure, Yuwen Tuo broke through to Level 18 and impressed the Beast King.
• Gong Changlong approved an eight-hundred-year Soul Ring and found Yuwen Tuo a humanoid Fire Attribute Soul Beast called a Flame Blade Demon.

Yuwen Tuo obtained his first soul ring, an over-limit ring from a Flame Blade Demon, and reached level twenty. After Gong Changlong refused to let him hunt a second ring, Yuwen Tuo left to register at Shrek Academy and encountered Tang Ya, Bei Bei, and Huo Yuhao at the eastern gate.

• Yuwen Tuo killed the immobilized Flame Blade Demon with a self-created fire technique and absorbed its soul ring.
• Yuwen Tuo's Noble Carriage Sword shattered the soul ring's resentment, allowing him to absorb the ring and advance to level twenty.
• Yuwen Tuo asked Gong Changlong for a second soul ring, but Gong Changlong told him to consolidate his cultivation first.
• Yuwen Tuo left the Beast Fighting Arena and headed to the outer court to complete his enrollment registration.
• Yuwen Tuo heard Tang Ya and Bei Bei speaking with Huo Yuhao at Shrek City's eastern gate and recognized them.

Yuwen Tuo reflected on losing the chance to take Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and resolved to enroll at Shrek while avoiding Tang San’s attention. As Huo Yuhao learned about the academy’s inner ranks, Yuwen Tuo heard a mysterious young woman address him from behind.

• Yuwen Tuo accepted that Shrek’s imprisonment had ruined his plan to intercept Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and decided not to risk drawing Tang San’s attention.
• Tang Ya warned Huo Yuhao that surviving Shrek’s elimination process and reaching the inner academy would require hard work.
• Bei Bei described the inner academy’s powerful students, while Tang Ya mentioned an unregistered boy rumored to be a senior sister’s kept man.
• Yuwen Tuo recognized that the rumor referred to him and stayed back in line, intending to enroll and make a name for himself.
• An unseen young woman spoke to Yuwen Tuo from behind, and he wondered at her profound cultivation.

Yuwen Tuo met Xiao Xiao while registering for Shrek Academy, and she invited him to team up for the New Student Assessment. They revealed their Martial Souls at the registration desk, where Xiao Xiao’s two-ring talent stood out while Yuwen Tuo’s one-ring Fire Element Martial Soul drew little attention.

• Yuwen Tuo recognized the petite green-haired girl as Xiao Xiao and teased her before introducing himself.
• Xiao Xiao introduced herself as an eleven-year-old, level-twenty-two, two-ring Control-Support Soul Grandmaster and invited Yuwen Tuo to take the New Student Assessment with her.
• Yuwen Tuo and Xiao Xiao joined the registration line after Huo Yuhao registered using the Tang Sect’s test-exempt admission slot.
• The registration teacher confirmed that Yuwen Tuo and Xiao Xiao met the age requirement and asked them to reveal their Martial Souls.
• Xiao Xiao summoned her Three Lives Soul-Quelling Cauldron with two yellow rings, while Yuwen Tuo revealed his Fire Element Martial Soul with one ring.

Huo Yuhao learned that Yuwen Tuo possessed astonishing Mental Power, while Yuwen Tuo and Xiao Xiao entered Shrek Academy and admired its founders. The chapter ended with Yuwen Tuo dismissing Tang Ya’s criticism and leaving with Xiao Xiao for the dormitories.

• Xiao Xiao registered by displaying her Soul-Quelling Cauldron, and Bei Bei praised her talent while Tang Ya considered recruiting her for the Tang Sect.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Huo Yuhao that Yuwen Tuo’s Mental Power was more than three times his own, astonishing Huo Yuhao.
• Yuwen Tuo and Xiao Xiao passed Huo Yuhao, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya without exchanging greetings, then entered Shrek Academy.
• Xiao Xiao excitedly described the first generation of the Shrek Seven Devils, while Yuwen Tuo said he admired his master more than Tang San.
• Tang Ya objected to Yuwen Tuo’s claim, but he ignored her and left with Xiao Xiao for the dormitories, leaving Tang Ya fuming.

Xiao Xiao and Yuwen Tuo registered at Shrek Academy and received their dormitory keys and badges. Yuwen Tuo passed the elderly Mu En without recognizing him, while Huo Yuhao greeted Mu En respectfully and entered the dormitory.

• Xiao Xiao explained Shrek Academy’s color-coded teaching buildings as she and Yuwen Tuo crossed the campus.
• Xiao Xiao and Yuwen Tuo completed enrollment, paid their tuition, and received dormitory keys and new student badges.
• Xiao Xiao invited Yuwen Tuo to dinner, and they parted to put away their luggage.
• Yuwen Tuo passed Mu En at the dormitory entrance and privately resolved that Mu En must suffer an unnatural death before he could feel avenged.
• Huo Yuhao showed Mu En his new student identification, learned his dormitory room, and thanked him politely.

Yuwen Tuo rejected Ma Xiaotao’s offer to protect and care for him, while she used his Supreme Pure Fire to purge most of her lingering evil fire. When he asked whether she would let him leave after reaching Soul Saint, Ma Xiaotao refused and resolved to keep him with her.

• Yuwen Tuo entered his private dormitory and learned that Ma Xiaotao had arranged the single room for him.
• Ma Xiaotao offered to protect Yuwen Tuo for life, but he told her to leave and said he wanted never to see her again.
• Ma Xiaotao shut the dormitory doors and windows and had Yuwen Tuo help dispel the last of her evil fire through their flames overnight.
• Yuwen Tuo observed that Ma Xiaotao was close to level seventy and asked whether she would release him once she completed her Ultimate Fire.
• Ma Xiaotao angrily told Yuwen Tuo he would never leave, then left the dormitory determined to keep him with her.

Yuwen Tuo met Xiao Xiao after she worried that his lost soul power meant he had suffered a cultivation deviation. She revealed her Nine Phoenix Dancing Flute and played for him, and he guided her through a duet and began teaching her another piece.

• Xiao Xiao confronted Yuwen Tuo for missing their dinner, then worried when he said he had fallen from level twenty to level nineteen.
• Xiao Xiao led Yuwen Tuo to a secluded grove and revealed that she wielded the Nine Phoenix Dancing Flute as her second martial soul.
• Xiao Xiao played a calming melody for Yuwen Tuo, who joined in with a leaf and corrected the tune.
• Xiao Xiao and Yuwen Tuo played a duet, and she praised his musical skill after following his guidance.
• Yuwen Tuo began teaching Xiao Xiao a piece from the Meng Chun Six Melodies, helping her find the rhythm.

Yuwen Tuo taught Xiao Xiao the Su Lü Heart Method, and she discovered that the music helped her cultivate Soul Power. The two learned they were assigned to New Student Class One with Zhou Yi as their teacher, and Xiao Xiao celebrated that they would be classmates.

• Xiao Xiao noticed her Soul Power circulating as she played the tune Yuwen Tuo taught her, and he explained that it was the Su Lü Heart Method.
• Yuwen Tuo described his master and his master's wife, Dugu Ningke, who had taught him the Heavenly Sound Sect's musical heart methods.
• Yuwen Tuo decided to teach Xiao Xiao only the basic method for now and hoped she would eventually seek out his future faction for the advanced techniques.
• Xiao Xiao dragged Yuwen Tuo to see the class assignments and learned that she had been placed in New Student Class One under Zhou Yi.
• Xiao Xiao found Yuwen Tuo's name in the same class and jumped for joy, while the other students realized she had only cared about being assigned with him.

On the first day at Martial Soul Academy, Zhou Yi tested her new students by ordering everyone who had not fought to run one hundred laps or be expelled. Yuwen Tuo welcomed the harsh punishment, while the class erupted in protest.

• Huo Yuhao and Yuwen Tuo reached class just before the deadline, and Xiao Xiao hurried them to their seats.
• Zhou Yi introduced herself as the class’s temporary homeroom teacher and called weak students trash and idiots.
• Zhou Yi asked everyone who had fought since registration to stand, and Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong were the only students who rose.
• Xiao Xiao admired Wang Dong’s looks but decided she preferred Yuwen Tuo’s masculine bearing and musical skill.
• Zhou Yi ordered everyone else to run one hundred laps around Shrek Plaza or be expelled, and Yuwen Tuo eagerly welcomed the prospect.

Zhou Yi ordered the freshmen to run a hundred laps, but made a private exception for Yuwen Tuo, who chose to accompany Xiao Xiao. As they ran, Yuwen Tuo taught Xiao Xiao more of the Su Lü Heart Method, and she became increasingly determined to win his affection.

• Zhou Yi used her authority and soul rings to force the class to begin a timed hundred-lap run, warning that anyone who failed would be expelled.
• Yuwen Tuo refused to run until Zhou Yi privately agreed not to interfere with him, then left to keep Xiao Xiao company.
• Xiao Xiao believed Yuwen Tuo had come out to protect her from expulsion, while he guided her breathing with the Su Lü Heart Method as they ran.
• After seventy laps, Xiao Xiao's stamina remained strong and her Soul Power had increased, so Yuwen Tuo explained the method's five-tone principles.
• Yuwen Tuo and Xiao Xiao continued running alongside Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao resolved to pursue Yuwen Tuo while Wang Dong drew the other students' attention.