Chapter Summaries

Shrek entered its final preliminary match against Skywater Academy, with a perfect record at stake and Zhang Tianyu eager to face the team. Skywater’s freezing attack failed to affect him, and its two previously hidden members powered up Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu for their next move.

• Shrek won all twenty-six preliminary matches, and every opponent after its matches with Spirit Hall forfeited until Skywater Academy chose to fight in the final round.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed that Skywater had two members who had not appeared in earlier matches, and Xiao Wu agreed to let Zhang Tianyu compete to protect Shrek’s perfect record.
• The teams took the arena as Shui Yue’er, Xue Wu, and Shui Bing’er openly showed their admiration for Zhang Tianyu, while Xiao Wu objected to their flirting.
• Shui Bing’er apologized for her academy teacher’s earlier interference in Shrek’s match against the Blazing Fire Team, and both sides released their martial souls.
• Shui Bing’er’s freezing attack immobilized Shrek’s other fighters but melted away harmlessly before Zhang Tianyu.
• Skywater’s two hidden members sent ice energy into Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu, causing their power and aura to surge as they prepared their next attack.

Zhang Tianyu faced Skywater Academy’s amplified Ice-Snow Fluttering Martial Soul Fusion Skill after his teammates left the arena. Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu launched their attack, convinced it could heavily injure even a Soul Saint, while Zhang Tianyu remained alone before the blizzard.

• Two new Skywater Academy members amplified Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu, temporarily raising their strength to the level of Soul Kings at the cost of their vitality.
• Shui Bing’er’s Ice Seal failed to affect Zhang Tianyu, and Zhang used Huangquan to free the Shrek members she had frozen.
• Xue Wu’s dance summoned a storm of rain that Zhang’s weather control kept from affecting either team, and the rain turned into ice and snow.
• Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu completed their amplified Ice-Snow Fluttering Martial Soul Fusion Skill and sent its blizzard toward Shrek.
• Zhang Tianyu told his teammates to leave the arena, and every member of Shrek stepped down, leaving him alone to face the attack.

Zhang Tianyu faced Skywater Academy’s enhanced Martial Soul Fusion Skill alone and shattered its Ice Phoenix with one sword strike. After explaining that he had used a method stronger than a soul skill, he asked Shui Bing'er whether she wanted to continue, and she conceded defeat.

• The Shrek Academy team watched from the stands as Zhang Tianyu prepared to face Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu’s attack alone.
• Shui Bing'er triggered the Ice Phoenix state, sending the powerful Ice Phoenix toward Zhang Tianyu while he stood his ground.
• Zhang Tianyu struck once with Biluo disguised as his sword, breaking the Ice Phoenix and leaving Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu stunned.
• Zhang Tianyu praised Skywater Academy’s strength and told Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu that he had used a method stronger than a soul skill.
• Shui Bing'er decided not to continue the match after their strongest attack was broken.

After Shrek defeated Skywater Academy, Zhang Tianyu received rewards and a new mission to sabotage Tang San, then joined his teammates in celebrating their perfect qualifier record. When it was Tang San’s turn to address the crowd, he unexpectedly spoke in an exaggeratedly coy voice, leaving the arena stunned.

• Shui Bing'er conceded defeat, and Xue Wu asked Zhang Tianyu about his level and whether he had a girlfriend.
• Zhang Tianyu praised Skywater Academy, left the stage, and received missions, rewards, and a level increase to 91.
• Shrek Team was invited to the central arena as the first team to win every qualifier match, where Emperor Xue Ye praised its achievement.
• Zhang Tianyu and Dai Mubai credited Shrek’s success to teamwork while addressing the crowd.
• Tang San covered his face and spoke in a coy, cutesy voice, shocking the audience and bewildering Shrek Team.

Tang San behaved in an unnaturally coquettish way during Shrek’s qualifier closing ceremony, leaving his teammates and the dignitaries baffled. The Soul Tool was removed and the ceremony ended, but Zhang Tianyu suspected Tang San had been targeted, while the others struggled to explain his behavior.

• Tang San spoke in a squeaky, flirtatious voice onstage, and Ma Hongjun and the gathered dignitaries were stunned.
• Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Yu Xiaogang suspected someone had affected Tang San, while spectators criticized him and worried his behavior reflected on Shrek.
• Emperor Xue Ye had Tang San’s sound-amplifying Soul Tool removed, then gave closing remarks and sent Shrek Team off the stage.
• Xiao Wu, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun confronted Tang San, but he insisted nothing was wrong and praised Zhang Tianyu.
• Zhang Tianyu said Tang San might have been targeted despite the lack of any apparent opportunity, and Xiao Wu warned Tang San not to go too far.

After Shrek Academy celebrated its perfect Preliminary Tournament record, Tang San’s strange jiazi voice and confusing behavior made the team flee the arena and worry that someone had targeted him again. They returned to a heroes’ welcome at the academy, where Tang San stayed silent as instructed.

• Xiao Wu charged at Tang San after he spoke in a strange voice, but Ning Rongrong, Ye Lingling, and Zhu Zhuqing restrained her while the others told Tang San to stop talking.
• Dai Mubai urged the team to leave the arena before making a scene, and Flender hurried everyone into the carriage.
• In the carriage, Yu Xiaogang identified the [High-Quality Human Jiazi] effect and concluded that an unseen force had targeted Tang San again.
• Ning Rongrong wondered why Sword Douluo and the other experts at the arena had not noticed anyone affecting Tang San.
• Flender told Tang San to remain silent before the team got out to greet the cheering Shrek Academy teachers and students.
• Tang San stayed quiet as the team walked the red carpet, while Flender sent the team members back to their dorms to rest.

Zhang Tianyu and Flender sought help from the powerful beings in the Academy Forest after someone humiliated Tang San, but Feilian’s soul-sensing revealed that no powerful outsider had entered the academy. Flender left suspecting an academy traitor, while Feilian offered to watch for intruders and Zhang Tianyu worried that his clones had exposed him.

• A hidden voice shouted that Tang San’s pants were ripped, leaving Tang San confused and the Shrek Academy group embarrassed.
• Flender ordered an investigation, but Zhao Wuji and Qin Ming found no one who could identify the unfamiliar voice.
• Flender ordered teachers to patrol the academy and went with Zhang Tianyu to ask the secluded powerful figures for help.
• Feilian said no new powerful soul imprints had entered the academy and explained that illusions and clones could evade his Soul Catcher.
• Feilian, the Poison Flame Overlord, and the Scarlet Blood Demon Lord promised to alert Flender to powerful intruders and intervene if necessary.
• After leaving the Academy Forest, Zhang Tianyu carefully asked Flender what he was thinking.

Flender began suspecting Zhang Tianyu and Xiao Wu of secretly causing the misfortunes that had followed Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, but he found no evidence and chose not to confront Zhang Tianyu. He and Yu Xiaogang compared their suspicions, leaving the identity of the culprit unresolved.

• Flender traced the suspected mole back to Nuoding Academy and realized Zhang Tianyu and Xiao Wu were the only people who had followed Tang San and Yu Xiaogang from there to Heaven Dou City.
• Zhang Tianyu recognized that Flender suspected him and discussed with the system how he might have to protect Tang San from Spirit Hall on the way to Spirit City.
• Flender returned to the Academy, refused to tell Zhao Wuji his suspicions, and ordered the teachers to watch for unusual activity and strangers.
• Flender considered Zhang Tianyu's loyalty and lack of motive, then decided Xiao Wu seemed more suspicious because of her unexplained origins and improbable luck finding soul beasts.
• Flender visited Yu Xiaogang, who said he had secretly observed Zhang Tianyu and Xiao Wu before but had found no evidence against either of them.

Flender and Yu Xiaogang reconsidered their suspicions of Zhang Tianyu and Xiao Wu, while Zhang Tianyu saw another month before the Qualifying Tournament as an opportunity to target Yu Xiaogang again. Qian Renxue visited Shrek Academy and learned that Zhang Tianyu had joined Spirit Hall and hoped to become Pope, giving her an idea for recruiting him.

• Flender and Yu Xiaogang questioned whether Zhang Tianyu and Xiao Wu could have caused the strange incidents, then agreed to watch them for a month and keep their suspicions secret.
• Zhang Tianyu realized the Qualifying Tournament was still a month away and considered targeting Yu Xiaogang and approaching Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue visited Shrek Academy, apologized that her investigation into Tang San's strange experiences had found no leads, and asked to speak with Zhang Tianyu privately.
• Qian Renxue asked whether Zhang Tianyu had agreed to join Spirit Hall, and he explained that he had joined after Hu Liena invited him.
• Zhang Tianyu told Qian Renxue he hoped to become Pope, and she saw a way to use that ambition to bring him under her command.

Qian Renxue realized Zhang Tianyu planned to become Bibi Dong’s disciple and resolved to recruit him without revealing her identity. During training, Yu Xiaogang unexpectedly began speaking in the same irritating, flirtatious manner as Tang San, leaving everyone baffled and Zhao Wuji furious.

• Zhang Tianyu told Qian Renxue he could become the current Pope’s disciple to pursue the position of Pope, and she feared losing him to Bibi Dong.
• Qian Renxue returned to the Imperial Palace, weighed revealing her identity against risking her fifteen-year plan, and settled on a solution.
• During training, Yu Xiaogang persuaded the others to let Tang San speak, then joined Tang San in using an exaggerated, flirtatious tone.
• Zhang Tianyu realized he had not used the item that could cause Yu Xiaogang’s behavior and wondered why Yu Xiaogang had changed.
• Yu Xiaogang kept teasing Zhao Wuji until Zhao Wuji roared at him to shut up.

Zhang Tianyu realized that the [High-Quality Human Jiazi] had spread its effects to Yu Xiaogang, who could no longer hear the strange voice or remember Tang San speaking that way. Zhao Wuji nearly attacked Yu Xiaogang before Flender arrived, but Yu Xiaogang remained confused and kept speaking in the cutesy voice.

• Zhang Tianyu understood that people who liked the jiazi way of speaking could catch the effect for three days, while direct use lasted seven days.
• Yu Xiaogang denied knowing what Tang San was experiencing, and Zhao Wuji lunged at him in anger.
• Zhang Tianyu, Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun restrained Zhao Wuji while Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing went to fetch Flender.
• Flender arrived and saw the group restraining Zhao Wuji, then asked why Yu Xiaogang had also become affected.
• Yu Xiaogang addressed Flender in the cutesy voice and remained unaware that anything was wrong.

Yu Xiaogang and Tang San recovered from the Jiazi effect after Zhang Tianyu suspended it, but Oscar and Ma Hongjun then began speaking in the same squeaky, cutesy voice. Zhang Tianyu received a new mission to trick Yu Xiaogang personally, while the academy faced another possible infection.

• Zhao Wuji left after Yu Xiaogang's altered speech enraged him, and Flender questioned Yu Xiaogang before asking the others what had happened.
• Flender and Zhang Tianyu consulted Feilian, who admitted his Soul Catcher might not detect a powerful outsider, then returned to the training ground with no solution but to wait.
• Zhang Tianyu suspended the Jiazi effect, and Tang San and Yu Xiaogang returned to normal the next day; he completed one mission and received a new mission to trick Yu Xiaogang himself.
• Zhao Wuji apologized to Yu Xiaogang, and Tang San asked what had happened while Oscar and Ma Hongjun imitated his former cutesy voice.
• Oscar and Ma Hongjun continued speaking in squeaky voices despite warnings, and Zhang Tianyu realized they had been infected too.

Zhang Tianyu and the others identified how the Jiazi voice effect spread, then prepared for the Qualifying Tournament as Zhang planned his approach to Qian Renxue and Spirit Hall. Qian Renxue met him privately, proposed an alliance against Spirit Hall and the Star Luo Empire, and revealed her true appearance, leaving Zhang unsure of her intentions.

• Zhang Tianyu and Dai Mubai realized that tolerating or imitating Tang San's Jiazi voice had caused others to act abnormally, and they warned everyone not to repeat it.
• Ning Rongrong decided against trying the voice, while Zhang Tianyu resolved to study the Tricking Items; Oscar and Ma Hongjun returned to normal the next morning.
• The group resumed training for the Qualifying Tournament as Zhang Tianyu considered how to clear Flender's suspicions and secretly pursue his plans involving Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong.
• Qian Renxue arrived at Shrek Academy and invited Zhang Tianyu to dinner, where she suggested they join forces to defeat Spirit Hall and the Star Luo Empire.
• Qian Renxue argued that a male and female ruler could share power, then shed Xue Qinghe's appearance and revealed her true identity; Zhang Tianyu wondered whether she intended to charm and kill him.

Qian Renxue revealed her female form to Zhang Tianyu and invented the identity of Xue Qingrou to recruit his help against Xue Beng and Xue Xing. Zhang Tianyu decided to keep her uncertain while continuing to train with the academy team, but Ma Hongjun’s stunned reaction at the end left everyone staring at something unexpected.

• Qian Renxue told Zhang Tianyu that she was Xue Qingrou, a princess with a transformation Martial Soul, and asked him to help protect the Heaven Dou Empire from Xue Beng and Prince Xue Xing.
• Qian Renxue offered Zhang Tianyu the empire’s support for his future ambitions and warned him that the Pope had a child; Zhang Tianyu pretended to hesitate and called her “Xuezi.”
• Zhang Tianyu decided to leave Qian Renxue waiting for his answer as he returned to the academy.
• Zhang Tianyu discussed the Qualifying Tournament with Yu Xiaogang, then took over the team’s training from Zhao Wuji and pushed everyone to exhaustion.
• Ma Hongjun suddenly stopped on the way to the cafeteria, and the others followed his gaze with bewildered expressions.

Yu Xiaogang’s companions found him eating grass and brought him to the cafeteria, where his warped perceptions made him insult the food and offend the staff. The Shrek group managed to restrain him, but they were left unsure how to keep him from causing another scene.

• Dai Mubai, Tang San, and Zhang Tianyu discovered Yu Xiaogang eating grass and washed his face and hands after forcing him to spit it out.
• The group brought Yu Xiaogang to the cafeteria, where he mistook it for a toilet and loudly complained about its smell.
• Tang San and Dai Mubai tried to quiet Yu Xiaogang and took him to a corner table while the others bought dinner.
• Yu Xiaogang recoiled from the meal and accused Tang San of serving him shit, angering the diners and cafeteria workers.
• Tang San apologized while Dai Mubai and Zhang Tianyu restrained Yu Xiaogang, and the group considered sending him outside despite the risk that he would eat grass again.

Yu Xiaogang was afflicted by an effect that made ordinary food look and smell repulsive and made weeds and dirt seem delicious, so he fled the cafeteria and ate grass near the training field. Tang San and Flender searched for him, while Zhang Tianyu and the Shrek students arrived at the scene and stepped forward to help.

• Yu Xiaogang refused Tang San’s offer to take him to Flender and hurried out of the cafeteria, leaving Tang San unable to catch up with him.
• The students discussed Yu Xiaogang’s sudden behavior, while Zhang Tianyu knew that the Pica Inducer made food seem disgusting and inedible substances seem like delicacies.
• Tang San found Flender and explained Yu Xiaogang’s condition, so Flender stopped eating and went with Tang San to search for him.
• Dai Mubai and the others left the cafeteria and learned from Zhang Tianyu that Tang San and Flender had gone looking for Yu Xiaogang.
• The students heard that someone was lying down and eating grass, found Yu Xiaogang surrounded by onlookers, and followed Zhang Tianyu and Dai Mubai in stepping forward to help him.

Zhang Tianyu and the others found Yu Xiaogang eating garbage and learned that he mistook restaurants for restrooms and normal food for disgusting things. Flender tried to make him eat a chicken drumstick, but Yu Xiaogang called it donkey shit, leaving Tang San to prepare to force his mouth open.

• Zhang Tianyu and Dai Mubai stopped Yu Xiaogang from eating garbage and dragged him away from the crowd.
• Flender took Yu Xiaogang outside the academy and confirmed that he mistook a restaurant for a restroom, while Tang San ate food nearby.
• Flender concluded that Yu Xiaogang had again been affected by someone or something and said they would have to wait for him to recover.
• Flender tried to feed Yu Xiaogang a chicken drumstick, but Yu Xiaogang called it donkey shit and refused to open his mouth.
• Flender ordered Tang San to pry Yu Xiaogang's mouth open, and Tang San apologized to his teacher before acting.

Yu Xiaogang’s companions tried to make him eat normal food, but the attempt made him violently ill. Zhang Tianyu proposed disguising normal ingredients as disgusting food, while Yu Xiaogang’s pica drove him to attempt suicide—then mistook his noose for a giant sausage and began eating it.

• Tang San tapped Yu Xiaogang’s acupoints so Flender could force a chicken leg into his mouth, but Yu Xiaogang vomited and blamed them for tormenting him.
• Flender explained that Yu Xiaogang had begun rejecting normal food and eating grass and garbage, and Zhang Tianyu suggested making ordinary ingredients look and smell disgusting.
• Flender returned to the academy cafeteria to have the cooks prepare disgusting food, while Yu Xiaogang went to his dormitory and struggled to sleep.
• Yu Xiaogang set up a noose and put it around his neck, prompting Zhang Tianyu to panic as he watched through the Friend List’s Observe function.
• Yu Xiaogang stopped himself from hanging and bit through the hemp rope, mistaking it for a Plum Big Sausage under the Pica Inducer’s effects.

Zhang Tianyu’s [Pica Inducer] made Yu Xiaogang eat grass, dirt, trash, and a meter and twenty centimeters of hemp rope, leaving him painfully constipated. Flender and Zhao Wuji barged into the bathroom after mistaking his screams for something more alarming, then hurriedly left when they realized what he was doing.

• Yu Xiaogang ate the hemp rope, drank water, and fell asleep while Zhang Tianyu watched over him.
• The next morning, Zhang Tianyu heard Yu Xiaogang screaming in the bathroom and realized he was constipated from eating indigestible things.
• Other teachers heard Yu Xiaogang’s screams and gathered outside his dormitory to check on him.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji arrived, heard Yu Xiaogang insist he was fine, and then secretly entered the dormitory to investigate.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji burst into the bathroom, mistook Yu Xiaogang’s grunting for eating shit, and then realized he was trying to defecate.
• Zhao Wuji quickly left, and Flender prepared to leave after Yu Xiaogang angrily demanded to know what they were doing.

Zhang Tianyu used a Diarrhea Worm to torment Yu Xiaogang, who then mistook swill for his special breakfast and ate it in front of Flender. Meanwhile, Zhang Tianyu completed his quest, reached level 92, and obtained a powerful time-based Soul Bone skill.

• Flender left Yu Xiaogang alone in the restroom, and Zhang Tianyu used a Diarrhea Worm to bring back Yu Xiaogang’s painful urge to defecate.
• Yu Xiaogang repeatedly rushed back to the restroom and later discovered that sitting down caused him unbearable pain, but he hid his suspicions about the sausage he had eaten from Flender.
• Flender took Yu Xiaogang to the cafeteria for a special breakfast, where Yu Xiaogang eagerly ate from the wrong barrels.
• Cafeteria workers told Flender that Yu Xiaogang had eaten swill, leaving Flender stunned.
• Zhang Tianyu received quest rewards, reached level 92, and obtained the Canghai Yueming Left Leg Bone with its time-based skill, The Seas Turn to Mulberry Fields.