Chapter Summaries

Lin Yan badly injured Zhou Yi during a match, and the instructors restrained her when she tried to attack him afterward. Du Weilun began weighing how to handle the incident, but Teacher Fan Yu arrived in a fury.

• Lin Yan struck Zhou Yi with Thunderous Bagua, leaving her chest badly bloodied and shocking the spectators.
• Zhou Yi tried to take revenge on Lin Yan, but the referee and more than ten instructors subdued her and sent her to the infirmary.
• The referee escorted Lin Yan, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya to Du Weilun’s office to discuss the incident.
• Lin Yan, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya insisted they had followed the match rules, while Du Weilun hesitated over how to handle Zhou Yi’s injury.
• Teacher Fan Yu barged into Du Weilun’s office, drawing everyone’s attention.

After Lin Yan and his companions defeated Zhou Yi in the combat test, Fan Yu tried to punish them, but Yan Shaozhe ruled that they had broken no rules and settled the dispute. The three passed the test and received Soul Ascension Pills, while Lin Yan realized he needed to find a way to strengthen his mental power.

• Fan Yu confronted Du Weilun and tried to seize Lin Yan and the others, accusing them of harming Zhou Yi.
• Du Weilun explained that Zhou Yi had injured herself through carelessness, and Yan Shaozhe arrived and heard the full account.
• Yan Shaozhe rebuked Fan Yu, promised to arrange treatment for Zhou Yi, and ended the dispute.
• Lin Yan, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya passed the combat test and each received a Soul Ascension Pill.
• Lin Yan told Bei Bei and Tang Ya that using Thunderous Bagua had drained his mental power, then considered finding a Spirit Bone that could enhance it.

Lin Yan settled into Shrek Academy and began a punishing morning run using his Gravity Domain. At Sea God Lake, he and a passing figure recognized each other and both froze.

• Lin Yan and Bei Bei returned to the dormitory with Tang Ya, who asked if they were friends, and Bei Bei denied liking her.
• Lin Yan and Bei Bei cleaned their dormitory, then Lin Yan slept deeply to recover his mental power.
• At dawn, Lin Yan went out alone to train, activated his Gravity Domain, and ran along a secluded path while a hidden observer praised his talent and diligence.
• Lin Yan ran a lap around Sea God Lake, rested with preserved soul beast meat and water, and continued running after recovering.
• Lin Yan dismissed his Gravity Control Domain when he noticed a figure approaching, and the two froze as they recognized each other.

Lin Yan reunited with Jiang Nannan at Shrek Academy after helping her and her teacher in the Star Dou Great Forest, and she invited him to breakfast to thank him. Their meal ended up being Lin Yan’s treat after he ordered more dishes than Jiang Nannan could afford.

• Lin Yan recognized Jiang Nannan as the girl he had helped in the Star Dou Great Forest, and they introduced themselves at Shrek Academy.
• Jiang Nannan thanked Lin Yan and asked why he was soaked; he said he had fallen into Sea God Lake while running.
• Lin Yan and Jiang Nannan walked to the cafeteria and discussed their ages and Soul Power, revealing that Jiang Nannan had reached level twenty-three after months of waiting for her second Spirit Ring.
• Lin Yan ordered twelve expensive dishes before realizing Jiang Nannan had meant to treat him, then offered to pay and invited her to eat.

After using a Soul Ascension Pill, Lin Yan improved his soul power and continued training for his goal of obtaining a ten-thousand-year fourth Spirit Ring. He met Zhang Lexuan, Han Ruoruo, and Wu Ming beside Sea God Lake, and Zhang Lexuan offered to show him a secluded training spot.

• Lin Yan and Bei Bei each absorbed a Soul Ascension Pill, reaching roughly levels thirty-three and twenty-seven.
• Lin Yan predicted his future cultivation progress, then continued meditating and training to prepare for his fourth Spirit Ring.
• While jogging beside Sea God Lake under his Gravity Domain, Lin Yan met Zhang Lexuan, Han Ruoruo, and Wu Ming as they left for a mission.
• Lin Yan asked Zhang Lexuan where he could train without interruptions, and she offered to take him to the back mountain while Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming waited.

Lin Yan secured permission to train on Back Mountain and kept up an intense cultivation routine while Shrek Academy assigned him to Freshman Class 2, apart from Bei Bei. On the first day of class, he entered the classroom as Xia Yuan approached Jiang Nannan, and an arriving figure drew the girls’ attention.

• Zhang Lexuan brought Lin Yan to Back Mountain, where Granny She allowed him to train on the condition that he stay away from the medicinal gardens.
• Lin Yan followed a demanding daily training and meditation schedule while Jiang Nannan waited for him by Sea God Lake.
• Lin Yan and Bei Bei learned that Bei Bei had been assigned to Freshman Class 1 and Lin Yan to Freshman Class 2.
• After Shrek’s recruitment season ended, Lin Yan trained on Back Mountain before heading to his first class.
• In Class 2, Xia Yuan introduced himself to Jiang Nannan and asked to be her deskmate, but another figure entered and caught the girls’ attention.

Lin Yan joined Class 2, where Jiang Nannan chose to sit beside him and shared her fruit juice with him. Their new homeroom teacher, Yan Hongyu, began class by announcing a class-wide sparring match to assess the freshmen and choose a class monitor.

• Lin Yan entered the Class 2 classroom and took an empty seat while Jiang Nannan left Xia Yuan to sit beside him.
• Lin Yan ate Soul Beast jerky, and Jiang Nannan offered him fruit juice; she blushed after he drank from her flask.
• Yan Hongyu entered the classroom, introduced herself as the homeroom teacher, and won the freshmen's attention.
• Yan Hongyu announced a sparring match to assess the class and select a class monitor, and Xia Yuan glared at Lin Yan with fighting spirit.

Yan Hongyu held sparring matches for Class 2's Battle Soul Masters to assess their abilities and choose a class monitor. After several fights, Xia Yuan chose Lin Yan as his opponent, leaving Lin Yan wondering why he had been challenged.

• Yan Hongyu separated the Support-Type Soul Masters and explained the rules for the friendly matches.
• Guo Yu defeated Fang Qiang with her speed and Storm Slash, and Yan Hongyu stopped the fight so a healer could treat him.
• Lin Yan watched the successive matches closely to learn about his classmates' Martial Souls and fighting styles.
• When Yan Hongyu called Xia Yuan and Wu Feng, Xia Yuan asked to choose his opponent and challenged Lin Yan.
• Lin Yan accepted that Xia Yuan was pointing at him and guessed the challenge came from jealousy over his handsome face.

At Shrek Academy's Soul Fighting Arena, Lin Yan accepted Xia Yuan's challenge and revealed that he was a Level 33 Battle Soul Elder. He defeated Xia Yuan in two strikes without using Soul Skills, leaving the Class 2 students stunned and Xia Yuan humbled.

• Xia Yuan challenged Lin Yan and revealed his Level 21 cultivation and Earth-Splitting Tiger Martial Soul.
• Lin Yan introduced himself as a Level 33 Battle Soul Elder and revealed his Black Demon Mace and three Spirit Rings.
• Lin Yan offered to fight without Soul Skills, and Xia Yuan accepted the terms.
• Xia Yuan activated Savage Tiger Strength and attacked, but Lin Yan overpowered him with two lightning-charged strikes.
• Yan Hongyu ended the match, and Xia Yuan returned to his place in shame as the students regarded Lin Yan with awe and admiration.

Lin Yan refused the class monitor position, then joined Yan Hongyu for lunch after learning she held a grudge against Zhou Yi. He returned to class, accepted Jiang Nannan’s homemade juice, and spent the afternoon training in the Back Mountain, planning to make up for lost cultivation time at night.

• After Lin Yan declined the class monitor position, Yan Hongyu asked whether he had injured Zhou Yi and told him she held a personal grudge against her.
• Yan Hongyu treated Lin Yan to lunch, where he ate nearly a full table of medicinal cuisine and left her with a bill of one thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Lin Yan returned to his dormitory, meditated, and later arrived at class, where Jiang Nannan gave him homemade fruit juice.
• After the afternoon lesson ended, Lin Yan went alone to the Back Mountain to train his body and planned to spend most of the night meditating.

Lin Yan encountered Ma Xiaotao suppressing her evil fire in a cold spring, but her fire erupted before he could retreat. His second martial soul activated on its own and calmed her evil fire, leaving Lin Yan weakened as he slipped away.

• Lin Yan followed a strange feeling from his second martial soul to an ice-attribute medicinal garden and found Ma Xiaotao in a cold spring.
• Lin Yan recognized Ma Xiaotao and sensed that his Great Buddha Martial Soul instinctively repelled her evil fire.
• Ma Xiaotao's phoenix martial soul erupted, and Lin Yan briefly lost control of his body as his second martial soul possessed him.
• Golden light spread from Lin Yan and suppressed Ma Xiaotao's evil fire, transforming her phoenix's aura before it vanished.
• Lin Yan withdrew his second martial soul, found himself drained, and left the back mountain without telling anyone what had happened.
• A golden light arrived after Lin Yan left, and an unidentified man pulled Ma Xiaotao from the dried spring and confirmed she was safe.

Yan Shaozhe discovered that an unknown force had suppressed Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire, while Lin Yan realized his Second Martial Soul had acted on its own and wondered about its abilities. Back at the dormitory, Lin Yan noticed his strength had improved, and Bei Bei returned after helping Tang Ya.

• Ma Xiaotao woke in the Back Mountain and realized her Evil Fire had been completely suppressed, though Yan Shaozhe denied helping her.
• Ma Xiaotao recalled that an unfamiliar force had subdued her erupting Evil Fire, and Yan Shaozhe questioned She Yunxiang, who concealed Lin Yan’s visit.
• Lin Yan reasoned that his Second Martial Soul had reacted to Ma Xiaotao’s evil attribute and might possess an innate ability to suppress it.
• Lin Yan returned to the dormitory, replenished his energy, and noticed his physique and strength seemed to have improved.
• Bei Bei returned after helping Tang Ya, and Lin Yan teased him about whether they were dating.

Lin Yan’s gravity training broke through the rooftop and dropped him into a sixth-year girl’s bath, where the blue-haired Soul Ancestor attacked him. He fled into the corridor as the other students stared and the girl called for them to catch him.

• Lin Yan trained on the Outer Court dormitory roof using Gravity Domain until the ceiling cracked beneath him.
• Lin Yan fell into a girls’ dormitory bathroom and found a blue-haired senior student bathing there.
• The girl screamed, threw soap at Lin Yan, changed clothes, and attacked him with an iron rod.
• The blue-haired girl released her Martial Soul and sent an ice python after Lin Yan, who ran through her bedroom as the attack smashed the door and wall.
• Lin Yan escaped into the corridor, where the sixth-year girls stared at him, and the blue-haired girl shouted, “Catch the pervert!”

Lin Yan was caught leaving the girls’ dormitory and accused of being a lecher, though the incident had begun as an accident while he trained with his Spirit Bone. At the Academic Affairs Office, he tried to prove his account by recreating the accident, only to break through the floor and discover two people kissing below.

• A blue-haired girl screamed, and the girls’ dormitory supervisor caught Lin Yan as he tried to flee, then escorted him through the school while students watched.
• At the Academic Affairs Office, Du Weilun heard the supervisor’s account, and Ling Luochen claimed Lin Yan had broken through her roof and entered her room.
• Lin Yan said he had accidentally broken the roof while training with his Spirit Bone, then demonstrated its gravity ability to the staff and Ling Luochen.
• Lin Yan increased gravity on himself and did push-ups, but the office floor cracked and he fell through, where he saw two people kissing.

Lin Yan accidentally fell into Fan Yu and Zhou Yi's office, provoking their anger before Yan Shaozhe intervened and ruled the incident a misunderstanding. The academy dropped the matter apart from requiring Lin Yan to pay for repairs, while Ling Luochen warned him to keep what he had seen secret.

• Lin Yan crashed into Fan Yu and Zhou Yi's office, recognized them kissing, and hurried back upstairs as they pursued him.
• Fan Yu and Zhou Yi confronted Lin Yan in Du Weilun's office, but Yan Shaozhe arrived and ordered them to leave.
• Yan Shaozhe dismissed the dormitory incident as an accident, and Lin Yan apologized to Ling Luochen while agreeing to pay for the damage.
• Ling Luochen warned Lin Yan not to reveal what he had seen, and Lin Yan returned to his dormitory amid rumors and told the crowd the academy had confirmed it was a misunderstanding.

After the academy cleared Lin Yan of the dormitory accusation, rumors still followed him, and Jiang Nannan continued to trust and defend him. Bei Bei took Lin Yan to Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan’s fruit-juice stall, where Lin Yan spotted the student who had thrown oranges at him and prepared to confront him.

• Lin Yan told Bei Bei about the dormitory misunderstanding and worried that the rumors had ruined his reputation.
• Jiang Nannan defended Lin Yan in Class 2, and Yan Hongyu warned the class not to spread the cleared-up rumor.
• Bei Bei pulled Lin Yan out of the dormitory and invited him to support Tang Ya’s business; Lin Yan declined joining the Tang Sect because of his grandmother’s wishes for the Nine Treasure Glazed Sect.
• Lin Yan and Bei Bei found Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan selling fruit juice, and Jiang Nannan reassured Lin Yan that she believed he had been wrongly accused.
• While wandering the market, Lin Yan recognized the student who had thrown oranges at him during the accusation and decided to teach him a lesson.

Lin Yan confronted students spreading rumors about him outside Shrek Academy and defeated one who attacked him, revealing his exceptional cultivation. He left the crowd warned against repeating the rumors.

• Lin Yan demanded an apology from a student who called him a pervert, then slapped mixed noodles over the student's head when he refused.
• When the student attacked, Lin Yan dodged his punch, countered his leg sweep, and knocked him to the ground with a palm strike.
• The student released his black bear Martial Soul and charged Lin Yan, who summoned his Spiked Club and bloodied the student's hand with one blow.
• The onlookers saw Lin Yan's one yellow and two purple Spirit Rings and realized he was a young Soul Elder.
• Lin Yan threatened the student and warned everyone not to spread rumors about him again, and the crowd stayed silent.

After returning to training in the Back Mountain, Lin Yan helped Zhang Lexuan learn about Bei Bei and Tang Ya’s relationship and spent time with her over pastries. The chapter ended when Ma Xiaotao approached them across Sea God Lake.

• Lin Yan returned to the Back Mountain after rumors about his fight died down, and She Yunxiang let him enter.
• A month later, Lin Yan found Zhang Lexuan watching Bei Bei and Tang Ya walk together and told her about Tang Ya and Bei Bei’s apparent feelings for her.
• Zhang Lexuan chose not to interrupt Bei Bei and Tang Ya, then shared pastries made with Azure Jade Grass with Lin Yan.
• Zhang Lexuan revealed that she was a Level seventy-nine Soul Sage and discussed how long it might take her to break through.
• Ma Xiaotao appeared, walking across Sea God Lake toward Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan.

Ma Xiaotao summoned Zhang Lexuan, then questioned Lin Yan about how he knew her and challenged him to a fight after he provoked her. They headed to the Soul Arena, where the outcome of their match remained unresolved.

• Ma Xiaotao crossed Sea God Lake and told Zhang Lexuan that Yan Shaozhe was looking for her.
• After Zhang Lexuan left, Ma Xiaotao questioned Lin Yan about his familiar aura and how he knew her nickname, and Lin Yan blamed Zhang Lexuan for telling him.
• Ma Xiaotao asked Lin Yan about his relationship with Zhang Lexuan, but he refused to answer.
• Lin Yan and Ma Xiaotao argued over whether she could beat him while suppressing her cultivation to the Soul Elder realm, then agreed to fight.
• Lin Yan and Ma Xiaotao arrived at Shrek Academy's Soul Arena to begin their match.

Lin Yan and Ma Xiaotao registered a Soul Arena match, with Ma Xiaotao agreeing to suppress her cultivation to his level. Their unusual matchup drew a packed crowd, and the chapter ended as Lin Yan entered the arena for the fight.

• Lin Yan assured the registration staff that he had agreed to fight Ma Xiaotao voluntarily and registered the match with her.
• Ma Xiaotao explained that the academy would advertise their match and split the spectators’ entrance fees between itself and the winner.
• The broadcast announcing freshman Lin Yan’s match against Inner Court student Ma Xiaotao drew a crowd, and Ling Luochen hurried to watch.
• Lin Yan surveyed the packed stands, considered the humiliation Ma Xiaotao would face if she lost, and walked into the arena when the bell rang.