Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen and Gongyang Mo defeated Dai Yueheng’s team, securing Ma Xiaotao’s team a 3–2 victory. When Ma Xiaotao offered Lu Chen the right to name a demand, he looked past Dai Huabin toward Ling Luochen.

• Lu Chen protected Gongyang Mo from Dai Yueheng’s White Tiger Meteor Rain by cutting through the attack.
• Dai Yueheng launched his White Tiger Annihilation Strike, and Lu Chen met it with his dragon-transformed arm and Atomic Thunderbolt Light-Speed Fist.
• Gongyang Mo healed Lu Chen, and Dai Yueheng conceded; Fan Yu announced that Ma Xiaotao’s team had won 3–2.
• Dai Yueheng praised Lu Chen and accepted the bet, while Ma Xiaotao gave Lu Chen the right to choose a demand.
• Dai Huabin threatened Lu Chen, but Dai Yueheng silenced him; Lu Chen ignored Dai Huabin and turned his gaze to Ling Luochen.

After winning the wager, Lu Chen reconciled Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen, then received permission to use the gravity training room. Ma Xiaotao flirted with him afterward, but she brushed off her serious confession as a joke and left him uncertain about her feelings.

• Lu Chen asked Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen to set aside their feud, and Ling Luochen agreed to shake hands with Ma Xiaotao.
• Ling Luochen and Dai Yueheng left the arena, and Fan Yu praised Lu Chen’s test results and offered him access to the gravity training room.
• Fan Yu explained that Lu Chen’s clash with Zhou Yi had helped her let go of her Inner Court obsession, then left with He Caitou.
• Gongyang Mo led the others away so Ma Xiaotao could speak privately with Lu Chen.
• Ma Xiaotao teased Lu Chen about marrying him, then said she would accept being a concubine if it meant being with him.
• Ma Xiaotao claimed she had only been teasing and left, while Lu Chen wondered whether her words had been sincere.

Lu Chen returned to the repaired Gravity Training Room, where Ling Luochen had been waiting to experience his Ultimate Ice again. After finishing his training, he demonstrated Hyorinmaru's Shikai at Sea God Lake, blanketing the area in snow and ice as students fled the cold.

• He Caitou told Lu Chen that the Gravity Training Room had been repaired, and Lu Chen invited Wang Dong to train there with him.
• Wang Dong declined, saying he, Xiao Xiao, and Huo Yuhao had team training planned and promised Lu Chen a surprise.
• Lu Chen found Ling Luochen waiting in the Gravity Training Room, where she asked to experience his Ultimate Ice again.
• Lu Chen completed his physical training under threefold gravity while Ling Luochen watched.
• Lu Chen and Ling Luochen went to Sea God Lake, where he released Hyorinmaru's Shikai and spread snow and ice across the lake and its surroundings.
• Students caught in Lu Chen's snowfall noticed their soul power slowing and hurried away from the icy area.

Ling Luochen discovered that her ice-elemental martial soul resonated with Lu Chen’s Hyorinmaru and proposed marriage, but Lu Chen rejected her because he loved Qian Renxue. Back at the dormitories, he reunited with Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao, and agreed to spar with them.

• Ling Luochen sensed that her martial soul was compatible with Lu Chen’s Hyorinmaru and asked him to marry her when he came of age.
• Lu Chen refused, explaining that he already loved Qian Renxue, while Ling Luochen said she would work to cultivate feelings for him.
• Lu Chen returned to the dormitories, where Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao had just finished training.
• Xiao Xiao and Huo Yuhao wondered why Wang Dong paid such close attention to Lu Chen.
• Wang Dong challenged Lu Chen, and Lu Chen agreed to spar with Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao.

Lu Chen defeated Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao in a training match by using icy mist to disrupt Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection. Back in the dormitory, he told Wang Dong that Ling Luochen had proposed marrying him when he became an adult, and Wang Dong was relieved to learn he had refused.

• Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao coordinated their attacks against Lu Chen, using Spiritual Detection and Spiritual Sharing to track him.
• Lu Chen spread icy mist across the battlefield, disrupting Huo Yuhao’s Mental Power, then knocked Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong, and Huo Yuhao out of the ring.
• Lu Chen advised Huo Yuhao to wrap his Mental Power with Soul Power to make his Spiritual Detection more resistant to interference.
• After returning to the dormitory, Lu Chen told Wang Dong that his Martial Soul had resonated with Ling Luochen’s and that she had asked to marry him when he became an adult.
• Wang Dong asked whether Lu Chen had agreed, and he said he had rejected Ling Luochen; Wang Dong was visibly relieved before heading to bed.

Lu Chen left the Gravity Training Room after Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen fought over him, then went to the Inner Court to see Qian Renxue. Zhang Lexuan said Qian Renxue did not want to see him at her residence and led him to a private Light Element Training Ground.

• Ling Luochen brought Lu Chen water and offered to wipe his sweat, but Ma Xiaotao arrived and challenged her.
• Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen argued over Lu Chen, each claiming a place in his life, until Lu Chen broke free and left.
• Wang Dong caught up with Lu Chen, who said he was heading to the Inner Court, and they parted ways.
• Lu Chen went to Zhang Lexuan's residence to see Qian Renxue, but Zhang Lexuan led him instead to a secluded Light Element Training Ground.

Lu Chen faced Qian Renxue’s anger after rumors about him and other girls made her fear losing him. After they fought and reconciled, Lu Chen kissed her, but Qian Renxue still said he needed to give her a proper confession.

• Xian Liner warned Lu Chen not to make Qian Renxue cry again and left them alone in the training ground.
• Qian Renxue challenged Lu Chen to a fight, and they battled until she held a light blade against his chest.
• Lu Chen admitted he trusted Qian Renxue and could not bear to use Golden Arrow on her, prompting her to embrace him and confess her fears.
• Qian Renxue fell asleep in Lu Chen’s arms and woke after dark, embarrassed that she had spent the afternoon with him.
• Lu Chen stumbled onto Qian Renxue when his legs went numb, and they kissed; she insisted it did not count as becoming a couple without a proper confession.

Lu Chen and Qian Renxue teased each other after kissing, then discussed his Freshman Assessment and her astonishing cultivation progress. Qian Renxue agreed to watch his match, and she left the training ground after giving him a quick kiss on the cheek.

• Qian Renxue accused Lu Chen of being an experienced kisser, and he insisted it was his first kiss.
• Lu Chen told Qian Renxue he was level 35 and planned to win the Freshman Assessment, while she warned him not to underestimate Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu.
• Qian Renxue agreed to watch Lu Chen's match if she had no other business.
• Qian Renxue revealed she had reached level 45, shocking Lu Chen with how quickly she had advanced.
• Qian Renxue kissed Lu Chen on the cheek, then left the training ground after he teased her to do it again.

After warning Lu Chen about a possible evil soul master in Shrek City, Qian Renxue left him to cultivate, and he reached rank thirty-six before the freshman assessment. The system’s refreshed shop gave Lu Chen Observation Haki, a Qian Daoliu combat puppet, and a Saint Squad Summoning Card, leaving him with new ways to sense danger, survive crises, and build a faction.

• Qian Renxue warned Lu Chen that she had sensed a repellent dark presence in Shrek City and suspected an evil soul master had arrived.
• Lu Chen cultivated in a light-type mimicry chamber until he broke through to rank thirty-six, then received notice that the monthly shop had refreshed.
• Lu Chen bought Observation Haki and successfully used it to sense everything within one hundred meters.
• Lu Chen purchased a Qian Daoliu combat puppet that could summon the rank-99 Limit Douluo to fight for five minutes, though it might lose control if emotionally provoked.
• Lu Chen bought the Saint Squad Summoning Card and learned it would summon five obedient spirit masters with Cloth martial souls, including one guaranteed Golden Cloth.

Lu Chen learned that demand for pills and Tang Sect Hidden Weapons had surged ahead of the Freshman Assessment, then discovered that crows were watching Shrek City in a coordinated surveillance network. He finished refining a large batch of pills while monitoring the watchers and ended the chapter preparing to use the Saint Squad Summoning Card.

• Tang Ya told Lu Chen that the Qi Gathering Pills and Tang Sect Hidden Weapons had sold out, and she gave him materials to make more pills.
• Lu Chen left Shrek Academy and used Observation Haki to spot crows positioned throughout Shrek City, apparently keeping watch on Xiaoxue.
• Lu Chen returned to his rented courtyard and refined two hundred Body Tempering Pills and five hundred Qi Gathering Pills while monitoring his surroundings.
• Lu Chen took out the Saint Squad Summoning Card.

Lu Chen summoned Shion, El Cid, Aquila Marin, Canes Venatici idian, and Ophiuchus Shaina, then ordered them to help establish the Sanctuary. He planned to bait the Evil Soul Masters watching Shrek City into attacking him so the Saints could strike back and locate their strongholds.

• Lu Chen used his card to summon Shion and El Cid as Gold Saints and Marin, idian, and Shaina as Silver Saints.
• Lu Chen learned that Shion was a Level-91 Titled Douluo and El Cid was a Level-96 Super Douluo, and the Saints pledged to serve him as Pope.
• Lu Chen told Shion that Evil Soul Masters were surveilling Shrek City and planned to leave the city alone to lure them into attacking.
• Lu Chen assigned Shion to locate and protect him, El Cid to lead the assault, and idian, Marin, and Shaina to track the enemies and seal off their escape routes.

Lu Chen lured Crow Douluo Wuyun’s ambush outside Shrek City and used Hyorinmaru and the Sagittarius Gold Cloth to defeat most of the attackers. The battle continued as the wounded Spirit Emperor’s strength faltered under the spreading cold.

• Lu Chen left Shrek City while Wuyun watched him through a crow-feather water mirror and sent five Evil Soul Masters to kill him.
• Lu Chen froze the monitoring crows, donned the Sagittarius Gold Cloth, and vanished into the night, disrupting the ambush’s guidance.
• Lu Chen struck the ambushers with a gilded arrow, blasting off the Spirit Emperor’s arm, then froze and killed the three Spirit Ancestors with Hyorinmaru.
• The Spirit Emperor unleashed his Withered Bone Soul-Devouring Spear, but Lu Chen dodged the attack and hid while taking Huiling Pills.
• Cold seeped into the Spirit Emperor through his wounds as he tried to retreat, and Lu Chen used Freeze: Frost Dragon.

Lu Chen killed a Spirit Emperor and used himself as bait to lure Crow Douluo into a trap near Shrek City. With Aries Shion blocking Crow Douluo’s attack and El Cid cutting through his black cloud form, Lu Chen’s allies killed the level ninety-five Titled Douluo and prepared to eliminate the remaining Evil Soul Masters.

• Lu Chen froze and killed the wounded Spirit Emperor with Hyorinmaru and a Golden Arrow.
• Crow Douluo arrived, attacked Lu Chen, and discovered Aries Shion had blocked his assault with Crystal Wall.
• Crow Douluo tried to flee, but El Cid intercepted him and cut apart his black cloud form.
• El Cid killed Crow Douluo Wuyun with another Excalibur strike.
• Lu Chen ordered Shion to clean up and collect valuables, and told El Cid to have Idian eliminate the remaining Evil Soul Masters.

Lu Chen told Qian Renxue he had cleared most of the Evil Soul Masters lurking in Shrek City and gave her scrolls to cultivate Flash Step and Observation Haki. Qian Renxue thanked him with an unexpected kiss before retreating indoors.

• Shion reported that the Evil Soul Masters outside the city had been cleared, and Lu Chen had food prepared before returning to Shrek Academy.
• Lu Chen brought breakfast to Qian Renxue, and Zhang Lexuan joined them after insisting on receiving a portion too.
• Lu Chen asked Qian Renxue to sense the remaining evil auras, then admitted he had lured out and defeated many Evil Soul Masters the previous night.
• Qian Renxue scolded Lu Chen for acting alone and asked him to include her in future operations, and he promised to do so.
• Lu Chen gave Qian Renxue cultivation scrolls for Flash Step and Observation Haki, and she kissed him before going inside.

The Freshman Assessment began, and Lu Chen waited for his first match in Zone One. Ma Xiaotao came to see him, apologized for her argument with Ling Luochen, and left when Zhang Lexuan and Qian Renxue arrived.

• Lu Chen told Wang Dong that he had drawn Zone One, and she claimed their team had a trump card for the assessment.
• Lu Chen waited at the examination area, where Fan Yu explained that he was serving as an examiner.
• Ma Xiaotao arrived looking weak, apologized to Lu Chen, and cheered him up after he teased her about being fierce and unreasonable.
• Lu Chen told Ma Xiaotao he would help suppress her Evil Fire after the assessment.
• When Zhang Lexuan and Qian Renxue approached, Ma Xiaotao excused herself and left.

Lu Chen dominated his freshman assessment without summoning his martial soul, winning one match and receiving two forfeits. With his assessments finished, he planned to watch Huo Yuhao and the others compete before hosting a feast at his courtyard.

• Qian Renxue and Zhang Lexuan joined Lu Chen before his first assessment match, and Qian Renxue urged him to be careful.
• Lu Chen defeated Zhou Yan, Lin Fei, and Xu Hao without using his martial soul after offering them victory if they could make him summon it.
• Lu Chen received two more wins when his next opponents forfeited, leaving him with three points and his assessments complete.
• Lu Chen invited Qian Renxue and Zhang Lexuan to watch Huo Yuhao and the others compete, then join him for dinner at his courtyard.

Lu Chen and Qian Renxue met up with Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Dong after their successful exams, and Qian Renxue thanked them for caring for Lu Chen by giving them pills. The group then set out to find Tang Ya, while Zhang Lexuan subtly reacted to hearing her name.

• Lu Chen, Qian Renxue, and Zhang Lexuan found Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Dong after the trio won three exam matches.
• Lu Chen praised Wang Dong for her performance, while Wang Dong hid her jealousy at seeing Qian Renxue link arms with him.
• Qian Renxue thanked Xiao Xiao and Huo Yuhao for looking after Lu Chen and gave them Whale Glue Body Tempering Pills, then gave Wang Dong a Soul Ascension Pill.
• Lu Chen introduced Zhang Lexuan as Shrek Academy's Inner Court First Senior Sister and a level-82 Soul Douluo.
• Xiao Xiao told the group that Tang Ya was in the twelfth examination area, and Zhang Lexuan trembled slightly when she heard Tang Ya's name.

After celebrating the Freshman Assessment with friends, Lu Chen helped Ma Xiaotao suppress her Evil Fire and insisted Qian Renxue would help eliminate it completely before the break. Ma Xiaotao resisted accepting Qian Renxue’s help, leaving their disagreement unresolved as Lu Chen departed.

• Lu Chen hosted a barbecue for his friends, and he beat Huo Yuhao in a grilling contest.
• Lu Chen and Qian Renxue walked back together, and she told him she would be busy training for the Inner Court Elimination Tournament.
• Lu Chen visited Ma Xiaotao and used his Ultimate Ice Soul Power to suppress her Evil Fire.
• Lu Chen offered to arrange for Qian Renxue to eliminate Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire during the break, but Ma Xiaotao stubbornly refused.
• Lu Chen warned Ma Xiaotao that the Evil Fire could damage her foundation and insisted Qian Renxue would help before the break, then left.

After the freshman assessment, Lu Chen recruited eliminated student Sun Yi for the faction he had built outside Shrek Academy. Sun Yi accepted and arrived at the given address with his two teammates, Lin Wei and Su Man.

• Freshmen gathered around the rankings, where Lu Chen, Dai Huabin's group, Huo Yuhao's group, and Zhou Sichen's group were tied for first, while Class 1 of First-Years placed eight teams in the top sixty-four.
• Dai Huabin stared resentfully at Huo Yuhao's name, while Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong, and Huo Yuhao celebrated their group's undefeated record and invited Lu Chen to celebrate.
• Lu Chen visited eliminated Sun Yi in his dormitory and offered him cultivation resources and expert guidance if he joined Lu Chen's outside faction.
• Sun Yi accepted Lu Chen's offer and received an address, with permission to bring his partners along.
• That night, Sun Yi went to the address in the western suburbs with his teammates Lin Wei and Su Man.

Sun Yi, Lin Wei, and Su Man arrived at Sanctuary after being introduced by Lu Chen and met the powerful Saints who would guide them. Aries Shion revealed he was an eighteen-year-old, level-91 Titled Douluo, and Sun Yi left with idian to begin his training under El Cid’s patronage.

• Sun Yi presented Lu Chen’s note to Aquila Marin, who confirmed it and brought the three newcomers into Sanctuary’s courtyard.
• idian introduced himself, Shaina, and Marin as Spirit Emperors, then heard the newcomers’ names, ages, Martial Souls, and ranks.
• Shaina chose Su Man as her student, Marin took Lin Wei, and idian prepared to guide Sun Yi.
• El Cid and Aries Shion arrived, and Shion introduced himself as a level-91 Titled Douluo temporarily overseeing Sanctuary.
• Su Man asked when Shion had become a Titled Douluo, and he answered that he was eighteen, shocking the three newcomers.
• idian took the three to rest and told Sun Yi that El Cid had taken an interest in him; Sun Yi vowed not to disappoint his teacher.