Chapter Summaries

After Lia defeated Huo Wu and became captain of the Blazing Fire Academy team, Feng Xiaotian was shaken by the gap between their discipline and strength. Drawn to Lia, he followed her to a secluded grove, where she confronted him and asked what he wanted.

• Lia defeated Huo Wu with precise use of her soul skills, leaving Feng Xiaotian ashamed of his own lack of effort.
• Feng Xiaotian became fascinated by Lia and compared her brilliance with Huo Wu's, but hesitated to approach her.
• Lia left the training grounds after winning the captaincy and considered the greater resources and tournament opportunities it would bring.
• Lia sensed someone following her and recognized the masked figure as a student from Godwind Academy.
• Lia stopped in a secluded grove and asked Feng Xiaotian why he had been following her.

After Lia defeated Blazing Fire Academy’s designated captain and vice-captain, Feng Xiaotian approached her and asked to be friends. They introduced themselves formally, and Lia agreed.

• Feng Xiaotian awkwardly asked Lia to be friends, then introduced himself as a member of Godwind Academy.
• Lia recognized Feng Xiaotian’s martial soul and self-created soul skill from the information sheets and praised his skill.
• Feng Xiaotian thanked Lia for her recognition and removed his mask before formally introducing himself.
• Lia introduced herself as Blazing Fire Academy’s current captain, and she and Feng Xiaotian agreed that they were friends.

Lia gave Feng Xiaotian her dormitory address before returning to wash up. At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Qin Ming defended his decision to add Suotuo City to the team's training route by revealing that he had graduated from the academy there.

• Lia told Feng Xiaotian she lived in Building Seven, Room 307, and he left after saying goodbye.
• The Heaven Dou Royal Academy Education Committee summoned Qin Ming to question why he had added Suotuo City to the training route.
• Qin Ming objected to being questioned, while Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhilin explained their concerns for the team's safety.
• Qin Ming insisted that the academy near Suotuo City was outstanding and revealed that he had graduated from it, stunning the committee members.

Qin Ming persuaded the Heaven Dou Royal Academy's education committee to let the team visit Shrek Academy in Suotuo City, despite its lack of official registration. The committee agreed with strict safety precautions, leaving Qin Ming responsible for accompanying the students throughout the visit.

• Meng Shenji asked Qin Ming about his alma mater, and Qin Ming explained that Shrek Academy was unregistered but accepted only exceptionally talented students.
• Qin Ming described Shrek Academy's practical teaching and powerful faculty, including headmaster Flender, a level seventy-eight Soul Sage.
• Qin Ming argued that sparring with Shrek's experienced students would help the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team grow through real combat.
• Meng Shenji agreed to the visit on the condition that Qin Ming stay with the team and two Soul Emperor guards secretly protect them.
• Qin Ming accepted the conditions and promised to ensure every student's safety.

Ma Hongjun struggled to keep pace with his fellow students after they advanced to Soul Elder, and his hard training made the Evil Fire in his body flare up more often. As he left Shrek Academy for Suotuo City, a lost middle-aged man stopped him to ask for directions.

• Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing obtained their third Soul Rings, leaving Ma Hongjun as the only student still below Soul Elder rank.
• Ma Hongjun began cultivating desperately, but his stronger Soul Power caused his Evil Fire to accumulate faster and require more frequent release.
• Ma Hongjun decided to go to Suotuo City, worried that the cost of managing his Evil Fire would exhaust his remaining Gold Soul Coins.
• Ma Hongjun passed Flender's lit office and then encountered a middle-aged man with a crumpled map at a fork in the road.
• The middle-aged man addressed Ma Hongjun, who stopped and answered impatiently.

Yu Xiaogang arrived at Shrek Academy to see his old friend Flender and check on Tang San and Cinderella. After surveying the academy’s run-down grounds, he reunited with Flender at the headmaster’s office.

• Yu Xiaogang asked Ma Hongjun for directions to Shrek Academy, and Ma Hongjun sent him toward its rundown buildings.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized Ma Hongjun as the possessor of the Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul but set aside his interest to focus on Tang San and Cinderella.
• Yu Xiaogang recalled his recent visit to Heaven Dou City, where he met Yu Yuanzhen, obtained pills refined by Ge Duo, and learned about Ge Duo’s research.
• Yu Xiaogang reached Shrek Academy and was shocked by its battered gate, dilapidated buildings, and neglected training ground.
• Yu Xiaogang knocked on Flender’s office door, and Flender opened it in surprise and invited him inside.

Yu Xiaogang visited Flender at Shrek Academy after resigning from his job, explaining that he had come to see Tang San and Xian Di and to address the academy’s poor conditions. He offered to help train Shrek’s students, leaving Flender to consider a way to improve the school.

• Yu Xiaogang told Flender that he had resigned and come to see his students, Tang San and Xian Di.
• Flender realized Yu Xiaogang had trained the two gifted students and acknowledged their extraordinary talent.
• Yu Xiaogang criticized Shrek Academy’s inadequate buildings, training grounds, dormitories, and lack of a proper library.
• Yu Xiaogang offered to help Flender train every student at Shrek Academy.

Yu Xiaogang persuaded Flender to let him join Shrek Academy and put his cultivation theories into practice. He began planning to improve the students’ training and help them attempt stronger Soul Rings.

• Yu Xiaogang argued that his expertise could help Shrek’s students grow stronger and raise the academy’s reputation.
• Flender welcomed Yu Xiaogang to Shrek Academy after Yu Xiaogang said he wanted a clean environment and to guide Tang San and Cinderella.
• Yu Xiaogang declined compensation and asked Flender to compile detailed information about every student so he could create individual training plans.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that Tang San and Cinderella were exceptional cases but promised to help other students reach their limits and attempt higher-year Soul Rings.
• Yu Xiaogang gave Flender pills from Ge Duo to support the students’ physical strength and Soul Ring absorption, then said he wanted to prove his theories at Shrek.

Yu Xiaogang agreed to join Shrek Academy and asked Flender about Tang San and Cinderella, then visited Cinderella the next morning to explain that he would oversee the students’ training. He told her he planned to focus on nurturing her and Tang San, leaving his visit open to their response.

• Flender told Yu Xiaogang about the hotel conflict and Zhao Wuji’s unexplained injury, while withholding Zhao Wuji’s role in provoking Tang San and Cinderella.
• Yu Xiaogang said he did not know Tang San’s methods, agreed to meet the siblings, and asked Flender to arrange lodging.
• After Flender left, Yu Xiaogang privately touched a jade vial of pills he had prepared for Tang San and Cinderella.
• The next morning, Yu Xiaogang visited Cinderella’s cabin and learned that Tang San was cultivating next door.
• Yu Xiaogang told Cinderella he would stay at Shrek Academy, direct all students’ training plans, and focus on nurturing her and Tang San.

Yu Xiaogang joined Tang San and Cinderella for breakfast at Shrek Academy and announced that he would stay to train the students. He assigned them specialized training plans, while Tang San remained wary of him.

• Tang San entered the cabin and greeted Yu Xiaogang, keeping his distance and watching him cautiously.
• Cinderella invited Yu Xiaogang to share breakfast with her and Tang San, and they went to the cafeteria to eat food delivered from a nearby village.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San and Cinderella that Flender had agreed to let him stay at Shrek Academy and train its students.
• Yu Xiaogang assigned the two students weighted morning training, then prescribed Soul Power control for Tang San and burst-power training for Cinderella.

Rapunzel reflected on her complicated feelings toward Ge Duo, who had found her three months earlier and confined her at the Icefire Yin Yang Well to use her healing hair. Ge Duo entered the Crystal House to check on Rapunzel, leaving their tense reunion unresolved.

• Rapunzel recalled hiding from Ge Duo and watching her activities through the fairy-tale characters' communication interface.
• Three months earlier, Ge Duo found Rapunzel painting in a border town and took her to the Icefire Yin Yang Well.
• Ge Duo confined Rapunzel within an energy barrier around the Crystal House and used her hair's healing power for potion-making.
• Ge Duo entered the Crystal House with a jade tray of bottles and tools and asked Rapunzel how she felt.
• Rapunzel answered that she was fine.

Ge Duo cut a foot of Rapunzel’s hair to use as a catalyst for her potions, then treated the cut ends and described their relationship as a practical exchange. Rapunzel accepted the arrangement and left to see the Moonlight Flowers, while Ge Duo prepared to brew pills for Ning Fengzhi.

• Ge Duo cut a foot of Rapunzel’s hair and placed it in a jade box for potion-making.
• Ge Duo treated Rapunzel’s cut hair with ointment to stop its life energy from leaking away.
• Rapunzel asked why Ge Duo had found her, and Ge Duo said she needed her hair and offered protection, shelter, and food in exchange.
• Ge Duo told Rapunzel to rest before she brewed Soul Power Breakthrough Pills requested by Ning Fengzhi of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ge Duo suggested Rapunzel visit the blooming Moonlight Flowers, and Rapunzel left the crystal house.

Rapunzel reflected on her captivity at the Icefire Yin Yang Well and her limited prospects for escape, while Ge Duo prepared a commissioned alchemy batch using Rapunzel’s hair as a catalyst. The chapter ended as Rapunzel put the hair into the furnace and its flames suddenly surged.

• Rapunzel checked her system and saw that her Soul Power was level 35 and she had only 1,207 Reputation Points.
• Rapunzel returned to the crystal house and went to sleep while Ge Duo continued studying an ancient tome, then quietly watched her sleeping.
• The next morning, Ge Duo told Rapunzel that she was refining pills for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect using rare ingredients and Rapunzel’s hair.
• Rapunzel placed the cut strand of her hair in the alchemy furnace, causing its flames to leap violently.

Ge Duo urged Rapunzel to stop hiding and build Reputation Points by joining Heaven Dou Royal Academy. She planned to take Rapunzel there in three days and arrange for her to enroll directly in Heaven Dou Team One alongside Snow White.

• Ge Duo finished refining three pills with Rapunzel's hair and said the hair made them at least thirty percent better than ordinary pills.
• Ge Duo learned Rapunzel had only 1,207 Reputation Points and compared her progress unfavorably with Eva, Ursula, and Cinderella.
• Ge Duo told Rapunzel to become visible in the world and said her hair was an innate gift that could help her grow stronger.
• Ge Duo decided Rapunzel would join Heaven Dou Team One and become Snow White's teammate.
• Ge Duo showed Rapunzel a map of Heaven Dou City and said she would take her to Heaven Dou Royal Academy in three days to arrange her enrollment.

Ge Duo confronted Rapunzel about her role as one of Lin Wan’s summons and urged her to earn Reputation Points instead of hiding. Rapunzel remained shaken as Ge Duo revealed that bringing her to the Icefire Yin Yang Well had been meant to force her to face reality.

• Rapunzel hesitated about stepping into the spotlight, but Ge Duo told her she needed to act and remember why they had been summoned.
• Ge Duo explained that the fairy-tale characters were Lin Wan’s summons and that their missions to earn Reputation Points supported their survival and strengthened their host.
• Ge Duo criticized Rapunzel for having barely over a thousand Reputation Points while the others advanced, and warned that Lin Wan might eventually consider her value negligible.
• Ge Duo seized Rapunzel’s wrist and hair, pointing out that Rapunzel’s healing abilities could help her gain reputation more effectively than drawing portraits or supplying medicinal ingredients.
• Ge Duo said she had brought Rapunzel to the Icefire Yin Yang Well and cut her hair to force her to face reality.

Ge Duo forced Rapunzel to accept her plan to make her a celebrated student at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and use her reputation to gain resources. The next morning, Ge Duo brought Rapunzel into Heaven Dou City and led her toward the academy.

• Ge Duo told Rapunzel she intended to control her appearances and battles to build her reputation and promote her potions and cultivation methods.
• Rapunzel agreed to Ge Duo's plan after Ge Duo threatened to cast her out of the Icefire Yin Yang Well without protection.
• Ge Duo dressed Rapunzel as her student and used a spatial portal to take them near Heaven Dou City.
• Ge Duo presented a token from the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, and the city guards let them enter without inspection.
• Ge Duo led Rapunzel through Heaven Dou City toward Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

Ge Duo brought Rapunzel to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and introduced her to the education committee as a twelve-year-old student with rank-thirty-five Soul Power. Rapunzel demonstrated her Golden Long Hair Martial Soul and its healing ability, while Ge Duo hinted that it could do more.

• Ge Duo and Rapunzel entered Heaven Dou Royal Academy and were escorted to the education committee's office.
• Ge Duo introduced Rapunzel to Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhilin, explaining her age, Soul Power, and Golden Long Hair Martial Soul.
• Rapunzel summoned her Martial Soul and revealed its three Soul Rings, astonishing the committee members with its life energy.
• Rapunzel used her first Soul Skill, Healing Hair, to heal a cut on her wrist without leaving a scar.
• Ge Duo explained that Rapunzel's hair could heal wounds and nourish damaged meridians and organs, then hinted that her abilities went further.

Rapunzel demonstrated that her second soul skill could turn her hair into powerful, precise bindings, impressing the Heaven Dou Team One committee members with her control abilities as well as her healing. At Ge Duo’s request, she then revealed her third soul skill, Light of Mirror Lake, forming a barrier of floating mirror-like discs whose purpose remained unclear.

• Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhilin questioned whether Rapunzel’s healing alone justified a place on Heaven Dou Team One.
• Ge Duo asked Rapunzel to demonstrate her second soul skill, Tenacious Bind.
• Rapunzel used her metallic, controllable hair to bind and break a wing off a heavy stone eagle sculpture.
• Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhilin recognized Tenacious Bind as a powerful field-control ability that complemented Rapunzel’s healing.
• Ge Duo asked Rapunzel to show her third soul skill, and Rapunzel formed a barrier of floating mirror-like discs with Light of Mirror Lake.
• Meng Shenji wondered whether Light of Mirror Lake was a defensive soul skill.

Rapunzel demonstrated that her Light of Mirror Lake could defend against and redirect powerful energy attacks, convincing the commissioners she qualified for Heaven Dou Team One. They accepted her as a substitute player, and Rapunzel agreed to the evaluation period.

• Rapunzel asked Bai Baoshan to test her mirror barrier with a Soul Elder-level attack, and the barrier refracted the beam into a wall.
• Rapunzel showed that her mirrors could redirect, disperse, weaken, and partially reflect energy attacks, then neutralized Bai Baoshan's stronger Soul Ancestor-level strike.
• Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhilin praised Rapunzel's healing, control, and defensive abilities and unanimously deemed her qualified for Heaven Dou Team One.
• Bai Baoshan and Zhilin explained that team regulations required Rapunzel to begin as a substitute because Ye Lingling and Ning Rongrong already held support positions.
• Ge Duo approved the arrangement, and Rapunzel said she was willing to join as a substitute.

Rapunzel joined the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team as a substitute, while Lin Wan faced nine powerful opponents in a Slaughter City deathmatch. The chapter ended as the nine contestants surrounded Lin Wan and prepared to attack.

• Meng Shenji officially accepted Rapunzel as a substitute on the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team, and Bai Baoshan took her to complete the arrangements.
• Ge Duo stayed behind to discuss matters privately with Meng Shenji and the other committee members, while Rapunzel left with Bai Baoshan.
• In Slaughter City, the Hell Slaughter Arena announced a deathmatch featuring Lin Wan, who had won sixty-seven consecutive matches, and nine other contestants.
• The nine opponents agreed to target Lin Wan first, then surrounded him when the deathmatch began.