Chapter Summaries

Second-Year Class 1 began its advancement assessment by having students choose opponents from among the upperclassmen. Class monitor Xu Huan defeated fourth-year Ji Xingming with his spiritual abilities, revealing the strength of his illusion-based Soul Skill.

• Class 1 gathered in the Soul Arena, where Xu Huan chose a Soul Elder opponent for his assessment.
• Xu Huan drew Ji Xingming of Fourth-Year Class 1, whom Lin Yan recognized as someone he had previously defeated.
• Ji Xingming introduced himself as a Level 38 assault-type Soul Elder, while Xu Huan identified himself as a Level 34 control-type Soul Elder.
• Xu Huan used Dreamlike Wings to fly and Dazing Light to disorient Ji Xingming before striking him with Illusory Light.
• Ji Xingming fell into an illusion and lost the ability to fight, so the referee declared Xu Huan the winner and the judges awarded him full marks.

Jiang Nannan defeated Peng Gang in the advancement assessment by using Charm to catch him off guard, while Bei Bei drew Xu Sanshi as his opponent. Lin Yan recognized Xu Sanshi and thought about Jiang Nannan’s future predicament, resolving that she should be able to choose her own path.

• Lin Yan explained to Bei Bei that mental-defense Soul Tools could counter Xu Huan’s illusions, though students could not use Soul Tools in matches.
• Jiang Nannan faced third-year Peng Gang and used Charm to distract him before throwing him to the ground with Waist Bow.
• The judges awarded Jiang Nannan eight points and gave Peng Gang a severe warning for failing to release his Martial Soul.
• Bei Bei entered the arena and drew Xu Sanshi, a third-year Soul Elder.
• Lin Yan recognized Xu Sanshi and considered how he might help Jiang Nannan avoid being forced into a future decision.

Bei Bei defeated Xu Sanshi in a Soul Arena match by breaking through his formidable Xuanming Turtle defenses with his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon's enhanced power. Xu Sanshi vowed to challenge him again in a year, while Lin Yan realized Xu Sanshi's Black Tortoise bloodline had yet to awaken.

• Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi introduced their ranks and Martial Souls before beginning their duel.
• Xu Sanshi used his shield and Soul Skills to withstand Bei Bei's attacks and repel him with a barrier.
• Bei Bei activated Thunderous Wrath and Dragon Transformation, then smashed through Xu Sanshi's strengthened barrier.
• Xu Sanshi conceded and promised to challenge Bei Bei again in a year, and Bei Bei accepted.
• Lin Yan recognized that Xu Sanshi's Black Tortoise bloodline had not yet awakened and anticipated it would awaken in a year.

Lin Yan chose to challenge a Soul Ancestor for his Advancement Assessment and drew Xixi, a fast agility-attack fighter whose cultivation was eleven levels higher. Xixi’s speed and attacks put Lin Yan at a disadvantage, and the chapter left them still fighting.

• After Bei Bei defeated Xu Sanshi, all four judges gave Bei Bei a perfect score for his Advancement Assessment.
• Lin Yan chose a Soul Ancestor as his opponent and drew Xixi, a sixth-year student and forty-eighth-level agility-attack Soul Ancestor.
• Xixi introduced her Lightning Leopard Martial Soul and immediately used her speed to attack Lin Yan, who blocked her first strike with his Black Demon Mace.
• Xixi activated her first Soul Skill, moved too quickly for Lin Yan to track by sight, and cut his shoulder while evading his counterattack.
• Lin Yan recognized that the Black Demon Mace’s slow speed left him vulnerable to agility-attack opponents like Xixi.

Lin Yan used his Gravity Domain and Thunderous Bagua to defeat the sixth-year Soul Ancestor Xixi in the Advancement Assessment, earning perfect scores from all four judges. After the assessment, which all Class 1 students passed, Du Weilun called Lin Yan to his office.

• Lin Yan activated his Gravity Domain to suppress Xixi’s speed, but she used her Lightning Clone to escape his attack.
• Xixi combined her second and fourth Soul Skills into a powerful lightning strike, and Lin Yan countered with Thunderous Bagua.
• Lin Yan’s Thunderous Bagua overwhelmed Xixi and sent her crashing to the platform, where she could not get back up.
• The judges awarded Lin Yan the maximum score, and Bei Bei and Jiang Nannan congratulated him.
• All Class 1 students passed the Advancement Assessment, and Du Weilun called Lin Yan to his office.

After Lin Yan passed the Advancement Assessment, Yan Shaozhe summoned him and invited him to skip directly into Shrek's Inner Court. Lin Yan learned that Inner Court offered greater resources and training but also involved dangerous missions, and he was left weighing the offer.

• Every student in Class 1 passed the Advancement Assessment, and the second-year curriculum began the next day.
• Yan Hongyu took Lin Yan to Du Weilun's office, where Yan Shaozhe asked about the technique Lin Yan had used to defeat Xixi.
• Lin Yan explained that Thunderous Bagua fused spiritual power and Soul Power but was an innate ability of his Martial Soul, then demonstrated it for Yan Shaozhe and Du Weilun.
• Yan Shaozhe invited Lin Yan to skip grades and enter the Inner Court, saying Lin Yan had met its admission standards.
• Lin Yan considered the Inner Court's superior training and resources against the danger of Shrek Inspection Corps missions, and Yan Shaozhe explained that Lin Yan would not receive missions until he reached Soul King cultivation.

Lin Yan accepted Yan Shaozhe’s offer to enter Shrek Academy’s Inner Court and prepared to leave the Outer Court. The next morning, he joined six other students heading to the Inner Court and met Yao Haoxuan.

• Yan Shaozhe told Lin Yan he would not have to take Shrek Inspection Corps missions until he reached Soul King cultivation, and Lin Yan agreed to enter the Inner Court.
• Lin Yan told Yan Hongyu he would leave for the Inner Court the next day, and she congratulated him and asked him not to forget her.
• Lin Yan told Bei Bei about his admission, then shared a farewell meal with Bei Bei, Jiang Nannan, Li Keke, and Tang Ya.
• A teacher escorted Lin Yan to meet six other incoming Inner Court students, including Xixi and Ling Luochen, whom he had encountered during the Advancement Assessment.
• Yao Haoxuan introduced himself to Lin Yan after learning he was the second-year student specially admitted to the Inner Court.

Lin Yan entered Shrek Academy’s Inner Court and was summoned to Sea God Pavilion, where Mu En asked him to become his disciple. After accepting, Lin Yan toured the Inner Court with Zhang Lexuan and received a residence beside hers.

• Lin Yan and the other newly qualified students crossed Sea God Lake and arrived on Sea God Island, where Zhang Lexuan and Wu Ming welcomed them.
• Zhang Lexuan took Lin Yan to Sea God Pavilion, where Mu En revealed that he wanted to accept Lin Yan as his disciple because of his Martial Soul’s ability to fuse Soul Power and spiritual power.
• Lin Yan accepted Mu En as his teacher and agreed to return to Sea God Pavilion the next day.
• Zhang Lexuan showed Lin Yan the Inner Court facilities, including the Library Pavilion and rankings at the Soul Arena, where she was first on the Heaven Ranking.
• Zhang Lexuan completed Lin Yan’s enrollment and arranged for him to live in a pavilion beside her residence.

Mu En helped Lin Yan examine his mysterious Second Martial Soul and guided him to meditate inside the Sea God Pavilion to find a path suited to himself. There, the Will of the Golden Ancient Tree revealed that Tang San had imprisoned Ah Yin inside it and asked Lin Yan to free her, leaving Lin Yan alarmed by the danger of interfering with Tang San’s plans.

• Mu En identified Lin Yan’s Second Martial Soul as a Body Martial Soul and promised to ask Du Busi about its connection to the Body Sect.
• Mu En brought Lin Yan to a hidden room in the Sea God Pavilion, where the Golden Ancient Tree’s power drew him into a consciousness space.
• The Will of the Golden Ancient Tree told Lin Yan that Tang San had captured it and forced Ah Yin back into Blue Silver Emperor form.
• Lin Yan saw memories of Tang San using his golden trident to place Ah Yin inside the Golden Ancient Tree.
• The Golden Ancient Tree asked Lin Yan to remove Ah Yin, but Lin Yan feared that helping it would provoke Tang San.

Lin Yan negotiated with the Golden Ancient Tree, which offered its origin essence in exchange for his future help removing the Blue Silver Emperor from its body. After agreeing and asking it to open his Spiritual Sea, Lin Yan began the deal as a golden tree’s phantom appeared over Shrek City, leaving Mu En unable to reach him.

• Lin Yan refused to help the Golden Ancient Tree until it revealed that it sensed a god’s aura in his Spiritual Sea, where the missing Lightning Soul might be hiding.
• The Golden Ancient Tree offered its origin essence to cleanse Lin Yan’s body, improve his talent, create a Super Spirit Ring, and potentially evolve his Great Buddha Martial Soul.
• When Lin Yan hesitated over becoming an enemy of Tang San, the Golden Ancient Tree threatened to erase his consciousness, and Lin Yan agreed to the trade on the condition that it open his Spiritual Sea.
• The Golden Ancient Tree assured Lin Yan that the sleeping Blue Silver Emperor would not notice the deal, and Lin Yan told it to begin.
• A golden phantom of the Golden Ancient Tree appeared above the Sea God Pavilion and spread ripples across Shrek City, while Mu En failed to contact the tree or enter Lin Yan’s sealed cultivation chamber.

Lin Yan absorbed the Golden Ancient Tree’s origin, opened his Spiritual Sea, and received a golden first Spirit Ring for his Second Martial Soul. The chapter ended with Mu En stunned by the ring’s possible God-Level status.

• Mu En and the elders investigated the Golden Ancient Tree’s disturbance while Lin Yan absorbed its power beneath the Sea God Pavilion.
• Lin Yan opened his Spiritual Sea, found the Lightning Soul within it, and failed to touch it because an invisible barrier repelled him.
• The Golden Ancient Tree refined Lin Yan’s body and condensed his first Spirit Ring for his Second Martial Soul as his Great Buddha Martial Soul changed.
• Mu En entered the room after the disturbance stopped and discovered that Lin Yan had reached Soul Ancestor.
• Lin Yan revealed his transformed Great Buddha Martial Soul and golden Spirit Ring, leaving Mu En to wonder if it was God-Level.

After absorbing the Golden Ancient Tree’s Spirit Ring, Lin Yan demonstrated its powerful Soul Skill and discussed his changed Martial Soul with Mu En. He declared that his goal was godhood, while Mu En explained how difficult it was to reach the divine realm without inheriting a Divine Position.

• Lin Yan told Mu En that his golden Spirit Ring had granted him Heavenly Demon Subjugation and Golden Tree Realm Descends.
• Lin Yan used Heavenly Demon Subjugation, and Mu En judged it strong enough to severely wound a Soul King and instantly kill a Soul Ancestor.
• Lin Yan asked whether the tree that appeared within his Martial Soul meant he had undergone a Second Awakening, and Mu En said only the Body Sect could determine that.
• Mu En told Lin Yan to join the Inner Court’s upcoming Soul-Hunting Operation and obtain his fourth Spirit Ring.
• Lin Yan said his path was godhood, and Mu En explained that reaching level one hundred alone was far harder than inheriting a Divine Position.

After the Golden Ancient Tree transformed Lin Yan, he discovered that his Great Buddha Martial Soul could fuse with Zhang Lexuan’s Moon Martial Soul. The two left Shrek City to test their newly formed Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Mu En warned Lin Yan that becoming a god would be extremely difficult, and Lin Yan vowed to keep pursuing that path.
• Lin Yan returned to his residence to cultivate and examine the changes the Golden Ancient Tree had brought him.
• Zhang Lexuan brought Lin Yan food, and he told her what had happened at the Sea God Pavilion.
• Lin Yan showed Zhang Lexuan his Great Buddha Martial Soul, and they sensed their Soul Powers drawing together.
• Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan clasped hands and circulated their Soul Power, discovering that their Martial Souls could fuse.
• Zhang Lexuan and Lin Yan left the academy and headed into the wilderness to test the fusion skill.

Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan discovered and tested their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, naming it Prayer of the Moonlit Divine Buddha. After Xuan Zi arrived, he offered to let them attack him so he could assess its power.

• Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan combined their Martial Souls and summoned a golden Buddha beneath a massive full moon.
• Their attack blasted a crater more than a hundred meters deep, and they named the Fusion Skill Prayer of the Moonlit Divine Buddha.
• Xuan Zi arrived after sensing the disturbance, and Zhang Lexuan told him about their Fusion Skill.
• Xuan Zi examined the destruction and asked Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan to use the skill on him so he could judge its strength.
• Zhang Lexuan hesitated, but Xuan Zi assured them that the attack could not injure him unless they were both Titled Douluo.

Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan tested their newly discovered Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Prayer of the Moonlit Divine Buddha, against Xuan Zi. Mu En arrived after the battle and urged them to keep practicing the powerful technique.

• Lin Yan admitted to Xuan Zi that he had Twin Martial Souls but kept the Golden Spirit Ring secret, citing Mu En’s instructions.
• Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan unleashed Prayer of the Moonlit Divine Buddha against Xuan Zi, who used his Martial Soul Possession and nine Spirit Rings to withstand it.
• The attack devastated the surrounding ground, but Xuan Zi’s barrier held, and he judged the fusion skill’s power equivalent to the ninth Soul Skill of an ordinary ninety-third-level Titled Douluo.
• Mu En arrived and heard Xuan Zi’s assessment that the skill could become nearly invincible once Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan reached the Titled Douluo realm.
• Mu En told Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan to make time to study and master their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Lin Yan continued purifying Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire while keeping his Merit secret, then prepared with Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao for the Inner Court’s Soul-Hunting Operation in the Star Dou Great Forest. As the team gathered, Zhang Lexuan asked Ma Xiaotao to watch over Lin Yan because he had the lowest cultivation among them.

• Lin Yan purified Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire, absorbed the resulting golden Merit motes, and refused to explain them when she asked.
• Lin Yan worried that the coming Soul-Hunting Operation might repeat the disaster caused by Xuan Zi’s mistake and resolved to stay vigilant.
• Lin Yan visited Zhang Lexuan to cultivate together before the operation, and she let him in despite advising him to rest.
• The next morning, Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan met Ma Xiaotao and headed to the Inner Court plaza together.
• Zhang Lexuan asked Ma Xiaotao to protect Lin Yan during the dangerous mission, and Ma Xiaotao agreed.

Zhang Lexuan led thirteen Inner Court students, including Lin Yan, on a Soul-Hunting Operation to Star Dou Great Forest under Xuan Zi’s supervision. At the forest’s outskirts, the team began introducing their abilities and Spirit Ring needs before entering the dangerous Central Area.

• Zhang Lexuan introduced Lin Yan as her younger brother and a specially admitted Inner Court student as the participants gathered.
• Xuan Zi warned that the students had to obtain Spirit Rings through cooperation and that he would fail them if he had to intervene.
• Zhang Lexuan took command, and the thirteen students traveled on foot to the outskirts of Star Dou Great Forest.
• Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo outlined the mission and introduced their abilities before the other students presented themselves.
• Lin Yan noticed that Lei Ze’s Thunder Bird stirred the lightning power within him and recognized Gongyang Mo as a future support member of Shrek Academy’s tournament team.

Lin Yan explained why he could absorb a twelve-thousand-year fourth Spirit Ring, and Zhang Lexuan led the Shrek group into the Star Dou Great Forest. After a cautious journey, the group reached the Central Zone and found two enormous Soul Beasts entwined in a basin.

• Lin Yan said he needed a fourth Spirit Ring of around twelve thousand years and explained that his physique and spiritual power let him withstand one.
• Zhang Lexuan confirmed that the academy's elders, including Mu En, had examined Lin Yan and approved his plan.
• Zhang Lexuan distributed scent-masking powder and organized the group into a battle formation before they entered the forest.
• The Shrek group crossed the Outer and Mixed Zones, avoiding unnecessary killing as they drove away Soul Beasts that blocked their path.
• Zhang Lexuan warned everyone to be careful as they entered the Central Zone, where Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts lived.
• The group spotted two enormous Soul Beasts entwined in a muddy basin and reacted with strange expressions.

Shrek’s group found a male and female Nether Poison Python and planned to claim their Spirit Rings, with Qu Lin targeting the female and Gongyang Mo the male. Zhang Lexuan lured the female out while Han Ruoruo restrained the male, and the group began attacking the separated snakes.

• Zhang Lexuan detected two Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts in a basin and led the group closer to identify them as a mating pair of Nether Poison Pythons.
• Qu Lin volunteered to claim the female Nether Poison Python’s Spirit Ring, and Zhang Lexuan explained that the male’s attribute-enhancement ability suited Gongyang Mo.
• Zhang Lexuan assigned the group to separate and defeat the snakes, then attacked the pair to lure the female out of the basin.
• The female Nether Poison Python charged at Zhang Lexuan’s group and sprayed poisonous mist, while Han Ruoruo bound the male with her Flashing Gold Rope.
• Lei Ze attacked the restrained male with a massive sphere of lightning.

Shrek’s Inner Court team defeated a pair of Nether Poison Pythons, and Qu Lin and Gongyang Mo absorbed their Spirit Rings. During the night watch, Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan saw a blazing fireball streak toward their camp.

• Wu Ming, Ma Xiaotao, and Lei Ze attacked the male Nether Poison Python in the basin while Lian Fang and Wei Ping burned away the female snake’s poison mist.
• Liu Mang blocked the female snake’s path and joined Lian Fang and Wei Ping in defeating it, while Lei Ze dragged the defeated male snake from the basin.
• Qu Lin and Gongyang Mo absorbed the female and male snakes’ Spirit Rings, gaining the abilities they had sought.
• The team camped by the snakes’ nest and took turns keeping watch through the night.
• During Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan’s midnight watch, a blazing fireball flew toward the camp with a sharp bird cry.