Chapter Summaries

Ning Rongrong recovered from a drunken blackout while Bai Yu prepared to return to the academy, where Flender learned that Li Changkong was watching Shrek Academy over its debt. Meanwhile, the Imperial Fighting Team won a match, and Qin Ming learned that Shrek Academy and Flender were active in Suotuo City.

• Ning Rongrong remembered the events of the previous night when Bai Yu entered, then joined him, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing in preparing to return to the academy.
• Li Changkong confronted Flender about the first payment on his fifty-thousand-Gold-Soul-Coin loan and offered to send men to monitor the unsettled area around Shrek Academy.
• Flender told Yu Xiaogang that Li Changkong was watching them because the academy had been mortgaged, but said they still planned to flee when they found the right opportunity.
• The Imperial Fighting Team defeated its opponent, and Dugu Yan taunted him before Yu Tianheng told her to control her temper.
• Yu Tianheng found Dugu Yan confronting two burly men, who praised the Shrek Seven Devils and mentioned Flender; Qin Ming recognized Shrek Academy as his alma mater and decided to investigate.

Ma Hongjun broke through to level thirty, while Yu Xiaogang began cultivating in the latrine after Bai Yu altered the plot. Flender led the others to the Star Dou Great Forest to find Ma Hongjun’s Third Soul Ring, whose new skill sent him diving toward animal dung.

• Ma Hongjun returned with Dai Mubai and announced that he had broken through to level thirty after cultivating through sex.
• Bai Yu changed Yu Xiaogang’s plan to sleep in the study, causing him to fall into the cesspit while studying in the latrine.
• Yu Xiaogang declared that he would cultivate in the latrine until he became a Soul Elder, and Tang San joined him, claiming his dog martial soul would benefit from the environment.
• Flender took Bai Yu, Dai Mubai, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ma Hongjun to the Star Dou Great Forest while Tang San and Yu Xiaogang stayed behind.
• After Ma Hongjun absorbed his Third Soul Ring, Bai Yu changed his third soul skill to “Phoenix Wings Lick and Soar,” and Ma Hongjun flew toward a pile of animal dung.

After Ma Hongjun’s soul-skill side effect disgusted the girls, Qin Ming offered to bring Shrek Academy’s teachers and students to Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Flender planned their covert departure from the academy, which Li Changkong’s soldiers were watching.

• Xiao Wu and the other girls saw Ma Hongjun eating filth in the forest and ran back to the academy in disgust.
• Bai Yu told Tang San and Yu Xiaogang what had happened, then explained that he had recruited a bandit with Parasitism and Sensing into the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Qin Ming reunited with Flender and offered to recommend Shrek Academy’s teachers and students for admission to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• The girls decided to join the group, and Qin Ming told everyone to meet at Suotuo City’s gates at noon the day after tomorrow.
• Flender told the teachers to leave in small groups under the pretense of taking students on training trips, while he and Zhao Wuji stayed behind to mislead Li Changkong’s soldiers.

Qin Ming discovered what he mistook for scandalous relationships among Shrek’s teachers and students, then led Flender’s group toward Heaven Dou Royal Academy while worrying about his decision. At the meeting point, Yu Tianheng and Gu Du Yan discussed Shrek’s reputation, and Flender arranged for Qin Ming to share a carriage with him and Yu Xiaogang.

• Unable to sleep, Qin Ming saw Tang San cultivating in a latrine and hurried away, suspecting something was wrong with him.
• Outside Flender’s office, Qin Ming overheard Flender and Yu Xiaogang’s intimate exchange and fled in shock.
• Qin Ming later saw Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun kissing against a tree, then left Shrek before dawn and sent a report to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• On the third day, Yu Tianheng and Gu Du Yan discussed Shrek’s strength and conflicting rumors about who had killed a Soul King.
• Qin Ming greeted Flender’s group at the carriages, but Flender insisted that Qin Ming ride with him and Yu Xiaogang after a coachman ran off with diarrhea.

Bai Yu provoked Dugu Yan during the journey to Heaven Dou City and accepted her challenge after the Shrek group arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Just as they prepared to fight, someone insulted the newcomers and told them to leave.

• Dugu Yan repeatedly tried to provoke Bai Yu in the carriage, but he ignored her and then promised to fight her at the academy.
• Bai Yu asked Yu Tianheng about the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and the rumors surrounding a Spirit King’s death in Suotuo City.
• The group reached Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Dugu Yan challenged Bai Yu to a one-on-one duel.
• Bai Yu said he could defeat Dugu Yan without summoning his Spirit and offered to let her attack three times first.
• Flender permitted the duel after Bai Yu reassured him, but an irritating voice called the Shrek group connection cases and ordered them to leave.

Shrek Academy’s arrival at Heaven Dou Royal Academy led to a confrontation between Bai Yu and Dugu Yan, which ended with her poisoned by her own attack. The Education Committee welcomed the Shrek group and explained the academy’s rank system and the Heaven Dou-level treatment they would receive if they joined.

• Xue Beng and his followers mocked Shrek, and Dai Mubai knocked Xue Beng unconscious before Flender punished him to shield him.
• Dugu Yan attacked Bai Yu with her Jade Phosphor Purple Poison, but his Poison Spider Demon Armor reflected the poison and left her gasping.
• Bai Baoshan stopped the fight, restored Dugu Yan, reprimanded the students, and escorted Shrek’s group to the Education Committee.
• Bai Baoshan introduced Meng Shenji and Zhi Lin as Spirit Douluo members of the Education Committee.
• Zhi Lin explained Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s student and teacher ranks and offered the Shrek group Heaven Dou-level treatment if they joined.

Prince Xue Xing and Dugu Bo blocked Shrek Academy from joining Heaven Dou Royal Academy and forced Bai Yu into a dangerous fight with Dugu Yan. Bai Yu accepted Dugu Bo’s terms, leaving his fate to the coming match.

• Prince Xue Xing arrived with Xue Beng and Dugu Bo, rejected Shrek’s entry into Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and demanded that its students endure an incense stick’s worth of Dugu Bo’s attacks.
• Dugu Bo revealed himself as a Titled Douluo, overwhelmed Shrek’s fighters and the education committee members, and Flender prepared to leave with his people.
• Dugu Yan found her grandfather and identified Bai Yu as the person who had made her poison backfire.
• Dugu Bo ordered Bai Yu to fight Dugu Yan, requiring him to give her three moves and threatening to kill him if he lost.
• Ning Rongrong invoked the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s authority, but Dugu Bo dismissed her claim and insisted that strength determined who could negotiate.
• Dugu Yan privately considered asking Dugu Bo to spare Bai Yu if she won, but Bai Yu accepted the terms.

Bai Yu accepted Dugu Bo’s challenge to fight Dugu Yan, promising to defeat her without activating his Martial Soul. After his Soul Bone repelled her poison and he dodged her attacks through the three moves he had to grant her, the duel remained unresolved.

• Dugu Bo led Bai Yu and the others to the academy arena, where a crowd gathered to watch Bai Yu face Dugu Yan.
• Bai Yu told Dugu Yan he would defeat her without activating his Martial Soul, and Zhi Lin began the spar as referee.
• Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphor Red Poison rebounded when it touched Bai Yu’s Poison Spider Demon Armor, which Dugu Bo identified as an External Soul Bone.
• Dugu Yan attacked with her sword, but Bai Yu dodged her strikes and caught her ankle before she kicked him back.
• Bai Yu announced that Dugu Yan had used all three of her granted moves while she panted and wondered whether he had activated his Martial Soul.

Bai Yu defeated Dugu Yan with explosives, provoking Dugu Bo to demand that Heaven Dou Royal Academy choose between him and Shrek. The academy's leaders tried to negotiate, but Yu Xiaogang refused to let Shrek split up, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• Bai Yu hurled explosive black balls at Dugu Yan, knocking her unconscious and leaving her covered in smoke and soot.
• Dugu Bo confronted Bai Yu, but Shrek's teachers and Heaven Dou Royal Academy's education committee members stood against him.
• Dugu Bo threatened to leave the academy unless Shrek was expelled, and Prince Xue Xing departed to consult his advisers.
• Flender announced that Shrek would leave rather than accept the humiliation, prompting the education committee members to call a meeting.
• Meng Shenji suggested keeping only a few people from Shrek, but Yu Xiaogang rejected the compromise and insisted that Shrek would stay together.

Emperor Xue Ye and Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s committee debated whether to keep Bai Yu despite the risk of losing Dugu Bo, while Qian Renxue arranged for Prince Xue Yang to protect him. Dugu Yan asked her grandfather to let Bai Yu stay as her rival, and Xue Yang arrived to defend Bai Yu just as Dugu Yan approached.

• Prince Xue Xing reported Bai Yu’s victory over Dugu Yan to Emperor Xue Ye, and the academy committee debated whether Bai Yu’s potential justified risking Dugu Bo’s departure.
• Qian Renxue learned that Bai Yu had an External Soul Bone and a feud with Xue Beng’s branch, then sent her confidant to alert Prince Xue Yang.
• Dugu Yan woke and asked Dugu Bo to keep Bai Yu at the academy so she could use him as a benchmark and challenge him again.
• Flender prepared to leave with the Shrek group, but Princes Xue Xing and Xue Yang arrived, one intending to expel Bai Yu and the other to keep him.
• Prince Xue Yang declared that he would protect Bai Yu, and Prince Xue Xing pointed out that Dugu Yan had arrived.

Dugu Yan revealed that she had persuaded Dugu Bo to let Shrek stay at Heaven Dou Royal Academy so she could challenge Bai Yu again. On Bai Yu’s first morning in Class One, he provoked the Imperial Fighting Team over the seating arrangement, and the Crown Prince’s arrival interrupted the confrontation.

• Dugu Yan told Bai Yu she had asked Dugu Bo to let Shrek remain at the academy so she could eventually defeat him, and Bai Yu encouraged her to keep improving.
• Zhi Lin took the Shrek students to complete their enrollment and assigned them luxurious dormitories, where they stayed in to cultivate.
• Xue Qinghe checked the updated class schedule, found Bai Yu’s first class, and planned to visit the academy the next morning.
• The Shrek students were divided among four Heaven Dou-level classes, with Bai Yu and Dai Mubai placed in Class One alongside the Imperial Fighting Team.
• Bai Yu challenged the Imperial Fighting Team’s established seating order, angering its members and prompting six of them to surround him.
• A voice announced that the Crown Prince had arrived, interrupting the standoff.

Xue Qinghe visited the Heaven Dou Royal Academy classroom, where Bai Yu challenged the Crown Prince’s right to a student’s seat and rejected a lesson centered on imperial elites. After class, the Human Emperor Banner’s response to Bai Yu’s defense of ordinary people left him curious, but Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling stopped him before he could investigate.

• Xue Qinghe entered the classroom, and Bai Yu took Yu Tianheng’s seat, arguing that seats should be assigned by strength because the classroom was a battlefield for warriors.
• Xue Qinghe accepted Bai Yu’s reasoning and sat beside Ye Lingling while the Soul Saint teacher began the lesson.
• Bai Yu refused to name the empire’s elite Soul Masters as its true pillars and argued that ordinary people sustained the empire, causing the Human Emperor Banner to stir.
• The Shi Brothers and Osler mocked Bai Yu, while Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Xue Qinghe considered his words.
• After Xue Qinghe left and the class ended, Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling stopped Bai Yu as he prepared to investigate the Human Emperor Banner.

Bai Yu explained to Dugu Yan, Yu Tianheng, and Ye Lingling how ordinary people supported a nation through logistics, labor, and resistance, challenging their assumptions about nobles and Soul Masters. Xue Qinghe’s aide overheard the discussion and reported it to the Crown Prince, who ordered Bai Yu brought to him immediately.

• Dugu Yan, Yu Tianheng, and Ye Lingling questioned Bai Yu about the value of ordinary people in war, and he explained how they could sustain armies and disrupt an invading force.
• Bai Yu challenged the students to consider how ordinary people supported noble families and powerful Soul Masters, leaving Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling thoughtful while Yu Tianheng fell silent.
• Bai Yu continued debating with the three students, and their tense relationship turned into a lively academic discussion.
• Xue Qinghe’s trusted aide overheard Bai Yu’s theories and, moved by his own commoner background, hurried to report the conversation to the Crown Prince.
• Xue Qinghe listened in silence before ordering his aide to bring Bai Yu to the Eastern Palace at once.

Bai Yu proposed a work-for-relief plan to Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, and negotiated a nominal post while remaining at Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Their meeting ended when Bai Yu went to investigate a clash involving Dai Mubai, Yu Tianheng, and Dugu Yan.

• Xue Qinghe asked Bai Yu how the empire should aid disaster-stricken refugees, and Bai Yu recommended paying them to build roads, dikes, and settlements.
• Bai Yu warned that the plan required strict oversight to prevent embezzlement and exploitation.
• Xue Qinghe offered to advance Bai Yu's Soul Power and appoint him Crown Prince's Companion, but Bai Yu declined a formal court position and accepted a nominal post and a token.
• A trusted aide reported that Dai Mubai had provoked Dugu Yan and nearly fought Yu Tianheng, so Bai Yu went to the scene.
• Bai Yu arrived to find Dai Mubai and Dugu Yan already on the arena.

Dai Mubai challenged Gu Du Yan to a duel, and their fight ended with Dai Mubai exposed as a eunuch. Tang San tried to secretly help Dai Mubai, but Bai Yu altered events so Tang San ate stones and collapsed.

• Dai Mubai picked a fight with a Heavenly Supreme student, and Gu Du Yan stepped in before agreeing to duel him.
• Gu Du Yan and Dai Mubai fought evenly, until Gu Du Yan unleashed his paralyzing poison and both fighters continued attacking through the mist.
• Tang San threw stones at Gu Du Yan, but they struck Dai Mubai's knee, letting Gu Du Yan knock him into the air and cut his belt so his pants fell down.
• The students saw that Dai Mubai had no bulge beneath his underwear, and Xue Beng laughed that he was a eunuch.
• Tang San tried to attack Gu Du Yan with more stones, but Bai Yu altered the outcome and Tang San stuffed them into his mouth, spat them out bloodied, and collapsed.

Tang San knocked out most of his teeth after inexplicably chewing rocks during Dai Mubai’s challenge match with Gu Du Yan. While Flender worried about Tang Hao’s reaction, Zhao Wuji arrived with news that Ma Hongjun and Oscar had been arrested for groping female students.

• Zhi Lin learned Tang San had eaten rocks himself, and the school doctor said he would recover after resting despite losing many teeth.
• Bai Yu and Dai Mubai carried the unconscious Tang San toward the dormitory as Gu Du Yan celebrated her victory and then withdrew her taunt about Shrek after Bai Yu looked back.
• Ma Hongjun and Oscar groped two female students, but a witness told the teachers what they had done.
• Flender heard Bai Yu explain how Tang San had injured himself and worried that Tang Hao might come after him.
• Zhao Wuji burst in and told Flender that Ma Hongjun and Oscar had been arrested for groping girls.

Flender accepted Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s punishment of Ma Hongjun and Oscar, while Tang San woke and tried to reassure Dai Mubai after his own humiliating injury. Bai Yu then used his editing ability to alter the events in the confinement classroom, leaving Ma Hongjun and Oscar approaching their horrified teacher.

• Meng Shenji sentenced Ma Hongjun and Oscar to disciplinary marks and seven days of confinement, and Flender accepted the punishment.
• Tang San woke with most of his teeth shattered and told Dai Mubai that he had caused a distraction to protect him from becoming a laughingstock.
• Dai Mubai told Tang San that Ma Hongjun and Oscar had been confined for groping, and the two went with Bai Yu to visit them.
• Bai Yu changed the classroom scene so Ma Hongjun and Oscar knelt before their female teacher and then tried to approach her after she fell.
• Ma Hongjun and Oscar reached toward their waistbands and told the frightened teacher not to be afraid.

Bai Yu challenged Yu Tianheng to a death match at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, arguing that Yu Tianheng’s gentle guidance failed to earn respect. The academy gathered to watch as the two prepared to settle who stood at the top.

• After Flender went to negotiate with the Education Committee, Bai Yu wandered to the arena and watched Yu Tianheng defeat several students in guided matches.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling defended Yu Tianheng’s approach, but Bai Yu criticized it and bet that he could defeat Yu Tianheng without summoning his martial soul.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling accepted Bai Yu’s bet, and Bai Yu stepped onto the arena to challenge Yu Tianheng.
• As students and teachers gathered to watch, Meng Shenji offered to referee and asked whether they wanted a sparring match or a death match.
• Bai Yu demanded a death match and provoked Yu Tianheng by saying that a loss would make everyone at Heaven Dou Royal Academy look like trash; Yu Tianheng accepted.

Bai Yu defeated Yu Tianheng in a public arena match using a Flashbang and smoke, then challenged the onlookers to test themselves against him. He left Yu Tianheng with a warning to keep training, while Tang San was knocked unconscious by Yu Tianheng’s redirected attack.

• Yu Tianheng cautiously gathered lightning while Bai Yu stayed still, and Tang San watched, confident that Bai Yu had more tricks than Yu Tianheng could handle.
• Bai Yu stunned Yu Tianheng with a Flashbang, dodged his unfinished lightning attack, and blocked his second soul skill with the Human Emperor Banner.
• As Yu Tianheng attacked with Thunder Dragon Claw, Bai Yu altered the attack’s target to Tang San, and smoke filled the arena.
• Yu Tianheng’s dragon claw swept Tang San into a tree, knocking him unconscious, while Bai Yu sent Yu Tianheng flying off the arena and won the match.
• Bai Yu challenged the crowd to fight him, but no one stepped forward, and he told Yu Tianheng to train harder before walking away.

After defeating Yu Tianheng, Bai Yu explained to Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling that he was a Support System Soul Master who had relied on handmade weapons, and urged them to keep growing stronger. Meanwhile, Dai Mubai challenged Yu Tianheng to a fight, and Bai Yu left Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling with a new impression of him.

• Yu Tianheng accepted his loss to Bai Yu and stood to continue training as Dai Mubai arrived and found Tang San unconscious in a tree.
• Dai Mubai accused Yu Tianheng of targeting them and challenged him to a fight, which Yu Tianheng accepted despite Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling's objections.
• Bai Yu returned and told Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling he had not meant to humiliate them, explaining that he was a Support System Soul Master and had used handmade weapons to win.
• Bai Yu showed them his weapons, reminded them they owed him a request, and encouraged them to keep training and not lose their resolve.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling interpreted Bai Yu's brief, serious expression as evidence of a painful past, and their anger toward him turned into sympathy and admiration.