Chapter Summaries

Tang San considered leaving the academy because he feared his bad luck was harming his friends, but Zhang Tianyu and the others reassured him and began investigating the people behind the incidents. Zhang Tianyu unlocked his Second Martial Soul’s Fifth Soul Skill and found progress on his self-tricking task, then staged a fall that Tang San mistook for another sign of his bad luck.

• Tang San said he might leave to avoid bringing trouble to his friends, but Zhang Tianyu, Dai Mubai, Xiao Wu, Ma Hongjun, and the others told him the incidents were not his fault.
• Zhang Tianyu proposed asking the imperial family to investigate, while Flender said Yu Xiaogang had gone to Spirit City with Teacher Lu and Teacher Li to consult Spirit Hall’s Magnetic Spirit Master.
• Zhang Tianyu completed a task, unlocked the Fifth Soul Skill of his Second Martial Soul, Sword of Blasphemy, and discovered that his Confession of the Innocent task was already 12% complete.
• The system explained that Zhang Tianyu could raise the task’s progress by tricking himself more harshly, and he decided to put on a convincing act.
• After school, Zhang Tianyu staged a fall near the cafeteria ditch and used Huangquan to catch himself, while Tang San warned him not to move in case he slipped again.
• Zhang Tianyu, Xiao Wu, and Dai Mubai reassured Tang San that the greasy ground had caused the slip, though Tang San remained downcast.

Zhang Tianyu worried that his schemes had driven Tang San and Yu Xiaogang into depression, then planned to exploit Yu Xiaogang’s upcoming meeting with Bibi Dong. After Zhang Tianyu suffered another mysterious accident, his friends suspected Duan Yujia and decided to question her.

• Zhang Tianyu reflected on Tang San and Yu Xiaogang’s despair and secretly celebrated having brought them to this state.
• Zhang Tianyu tracked Yu Xiaogang’s journey to Spirit City and set an alert so he could interfere when Yu Xiaogang approached Bibi Dong.
• Zhang Tianyu slipped on the stairs, but his Cloud Wild Crane Soul Bone caught him before he fell.
• Dai Mubai and the others suspected Duan Yujia might have caused Zhang Tianyu’s bad luck through an unknown Curse Spirit Master.
• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong wanted to confront Duan Yujia, while Zhang Tianyu cautioned that they had no evidence yet.

Zhang Tianyu and the others discovered that Duan Yujia had trapped Xiao Wu and her companions with a Goulan boss and his guards, and Zhang suspected the men had help inside the academy. He sensed danger from the apparently weak group, then considered that an Unknown Existence had brought Tang San into the world and might now be reacting to Zhang’s interference.

• Zhang Tianyu and the others followed Xiao Wu and her companions after they went to confront Duan Yujia.
• Duan Yujia brought a Goulan boss and his guards to the academy, where they blocked Xiao Wu and the others near the western wall.
• Zhang Tianyu stopped Dai Mubai and the others from rushing in, sent Ma Hongjun to alert Flender and Zhao Wuji, and suspected the intruders had an insider’s support.
• Zhang Tianyu checked the Live Map but sensed that the guards posed a danger beyond their apparent strength.
• Zhang Tianyu reasoned that an Unknown Existence had brought Tang San into the world and might be responding to his disruption of Tang San’s fate.

Zhang Tianyu was confronted by a mysterious presence that erased him from everyone’s awareness, then watched Duan Yujia die inexplicably after Shrek’s Four Beauties tried to question her. As the group left to investigate, he wondered whether completing the Mystery of Time quests would let him fight the Unknown Existence.

• Flender and Zhao Wuji subdued the five Spirit Masters who had come to kidnap the students, while Zhang Tianyu heard a mysterious voice warn him to stay cautious.
• The system told Zhang Tianyu that the presence had briefly erased him from everyone’s awareness, then he concealed his alarm when Xiao Wu and the others approached.
• Flender expelled Duan Yujia for bringing outsiders to harm her fellow students, and Shrek’s Four Beauties confronted her about the attempted kidnapping and Curse Spirit Masters.
• Zhang Tianyu used Huangquan to discover that Duan Yujia was already dead, and Flender returned to examine her body and take charge of the matter.
• Zhang Tianyu dismissed the possibility that Tang San had poisoned Duan Yujia and asked the system whether completing the Mystery of Time quests would let him fight the Unknown Existence; the system said it was unsure.

Zhang Tianyu learned that The System could not identify the unknown being behind the [Mystery of Time] quests, then set his sights on the dangerous next task at Lake of Life. He tried a new way to pitfall himself by sleeping naked, and Xiao Wu discovered his habit when she went to wake him.

• The System explained that it could not assess the unknown being’s strength or determine how it compared with the powerful figures Zhang Tianyu had seen in the starry sky.
• Xiao Wu asked Tang San whether Duan Yujia had died from poison, and Zhang Tianyu proposed that unseen brain damage could have caused her death.
• The Shrek Academy group set aside Duan Yujia’s death while Zhang Tianyu focused on completing quests and considered how to pitfall himself in a new way.
• Zhang Tianyu reviewed the next [Mystery of Time] quest, which required him to face Di Tian and Gu Yuena at Lake of Life, and resolved to grow stronger.
• Xiao Wu went to wake Zhang Tianyu, lifted his blanket, and ran out in embarrassment after discovering he slept without clothes.
• Dai Mubai teased Xiao Wu about what she had seen, while Tang San failed to understand the others’ jokes.

After a training accident left Zhang Tianyu naked in front of four girls, his mission progress failed to increase, and he confronted The System over its rule that men could not be victims of such a mishap. The System changed its rules after Zhang Tianyu threatened to quit, while the girls were left embarrassed and Dai Mubai and Tang San wondered what had happened.

• Xiao Wu and the other girls teased Zhang Tianyu about Xiao Wu lifting his blanket, while Zhang Tianyu asked The System whether Tang San had romantic feelings for him.
• The group trained in the Lava Zone to prepare for the Soul Master Tournament, but they stopped to rest when the heat overwhelmed everyone except Zhang Tianyu.
• A control-panel malfunction split the ground and engulfed Zhang Tianyu in lava, but Huangquan protected him while the lava burned away his clothes.
• The four girls saw Zhang Tianyu naked, and he flew away to find somewhere to change as Dai Mubai and Tang San arrived after shutting down the training ground.
• Zhang Tianyu argued that the incident should count toward his mission progress and threatened to quit, so The System apologized and changed its rules to uphold absolute egalitarianism.

Zhang Tianyu took the group to the Battle Soul Arena for practice and used his martial soul’s new disguise to conceal his identity. After his companions won their matches, he entered the arena as Master Yi and faced Eve, a water-element opponent whose power the system identified as poisonous.

• Zhang Tianyu continued training with the girls and showed how Ye Lingling’s Nine Heart Begonia rapidly healed wounds during their Lava Zone simulation.
• Zhang Tianyu proposed that the group fight at the Battle Soul Arena, and they registered under aliases, with everyone adopting new code names.
• Zhang Tianyu disguised his martial soul as the sky-blue sword Biluo and claimed his mutation let him conceal his identity and use self-created soul skills.
• Xiao Wu, Tang San, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dai Mubai each won their individual matches at the Battle Soul Arena.
• Zhang Tianyu entered Arena No. 7 as Master Yi and faced Eve, a rank 47 Battle Soul Master with a Water Magic Staff.
• The match began, and the system warned Zhang Tianyu that Eve’s water-element power was poisonous as he raised Biluo.

Zhang Tianyu fought Eve in the arena, deliberately turning his Thunder Sword against himself to complete a mission before discovering that Eve's voice matched the mysterious entity he had encountered. After she displayed extraordinary power and recognized his sword, Eve conceded, leaving Zhang Tianyu uncertain about who she really was.

• Xiao Wu explained that Zhang Tianyu's Thunder Sword could paralyze one target as he began fighting Eve, whose Water Magic Staff held up against Biluo in close combat.
• Zhang Tianyu secretly made his Thunder Half-Moon curve back and strike him, completing his mission while the audience and Shrek Academy mistook the incident for sabotage or a mistake.
• Eve spoke in the eerie voice Zhang Tianyu associated with an Unknown Existence, prompting him to suspect she was possessed and consider revealing his twin Martial Souls.
• The system told Zhang Tianyu to keep fighting without lifting his suppression or revealing his twin Martial Souls, and he resumed the battle against Eve.
• Eve summoned a Water Dragon with her second soul skill, but Zhang Tianyu shattered it with one slash and Eve recognized the power of his sword before conceding.

Zhang Tianyu received a mission to sabotage Yu Xiaogang from afar when Yu Xiaogang arrived in Spirit City. During their reunion, Yu Xiaogang revealed that he was jealous because Qian Xunji had chosen Bibi Dong, leaving Bibi Dong shocked to realize the man she had never forgotten might be gay.

• Eve conceded her spirit battle after Zhang Tianyu's soul skill went out of control, and he reassured his worried companions before their team battle went smoothly.
• Zhang Tianyu waited for Yu Xiaogang to arrive in Spirit City, then received a mission to sabotage him without killing him and lower Bibi Dong's favorability toward him if possible.
• Zhang Tianyu used the system to give Yu Xiaogang another month under the effects of the HOMO Effect Capsule.
• Bibi Dong admitted Yu Xiaogang to her hall and sent Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo away after they were unsettled by his leering gaze.
• Yu Xiaogang told Bibi Dong he was jealous that Qian Xunji had chosen her, and Bibi Dong realized he was jealous over Qian Xunji rather than over her.

Bibi Dong heard Yu Xiaogang confess that his past relationships with her and Liu Erlong had been schemes to keep Flender and Qian Xunji close, and she lost what affection she had for him. She then refused to reveal how she handled Twin Martial Souls, accusing him of taking credit for others’ ideas and challenging his reputation as a master theorist.

• Bibi Dong initially suspected Yu Xiaogang’s claims about his romantic tastes were a ploy to protect Liu Erlong, but Yu Xiaogang admitted he had pursued Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong to keep Qian Xunji and Flender from them.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed that he had loved Flender, resented the prospect of Flender leaving after his marriage to Liu Erlong, and was grateful that Yu Luomian had prevented the wedding.
• Bibi Dong concluded that Yu Xiaogang had manipulated her feelings, abandoned her lingering guilt and affection, and agreed to arrange a meeting with the Magnetic Spirit Master after Yu Xiaogang asked about magnetic attacks at his academy.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Bibi Dong how she had overcome the Twin Martial Souls cultivation problem so he could help his disciple, but she refused and accused him of trying to pass off her knowledge as his own.
• Yu Xiaogang denied stealing credit, and Bibi Dong challenged his claim by questioning the origins and consistency of his Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul theories.

Bibi Dong dismantled Yu Xiaogang’s arguments and refused to help him further, while Zhang Tianyu completed a mission and unlocked a powerful second Martial Soul skill. As Yu Xiaogang traveled away from Spirit City, he began to realize that his outburst had been out of character.

• Bibi Dong challenged Yu Xiaogang’s claim about worthless Martial Souls by pointing out that he had chosen Tang San, who had Twin Martial Souls, over the low-level Zhang Tianyu.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Bibi Dong to arrange a meeting with the Magnetic Spirit Master, and she ended their personal connection while keeping his elder status.
• Yu Xiaogang learned how magnetic Soul Skills could be countered, then failed to get an audience with Bibi Dong to ask about Twin Martial Souls before leaving Spirit City.
• Zhang Tianyu received doubled mission rewards after Bibi Dong’s Favorability toward Yu Xiaogang fell to freezing point, and he unlocked the Sixth Soul Skill of his Second Martial Soul, Sword of Celestial Phenomena.
• A day later, Yu Xiaogang stopped on the road and asked Li Yusong and Lu Qibin why he had said things that were not like him.

Yu Xiaogang returned to Spirit City to explain his hurtful words to Bibi Dong, but his excuses only convinced her that they revealed his true feelings. Their argument escalated as Yu Xiaogang challenged Bibi Dong’s attitude and authority, leaving him openly defying her in the Pope’s Palace.

• After realizing that an item had affected his behavior, Yu Xiaogang turned back toward Spirit City to explain himself to Bibi Dong.
• Zhang Tianyu received a new mission to pitfall Yu Xiaogang and earn rewards, with an additional bonus if Bibi Dong’s hatred of him increased.
• Twenty-five hours later, Yu Xiaogang arrived in Spirit City and requested another audience with Bibi Dong, who agreed to hear him once more.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed that someone had controlled him and made him say things he did not mean, but Bibi Dong argued that his words exposed his true feelings and refused to accept his excuses.
• Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong argued over their past relationship and his treatment of her, until Bibi Dong warned him to mind his attitude.
• Yu Xiaogang accused Bibi Dong of acting as though becoming Pope let her do whatever she wanted, while she silently grew angrier.

Yu Xiaogang’s rage drove him to insult Bibi Dong and Spirit Hall’s elders, so Ju and Gui expelled him from Spirit City. Li Yusong and Lu Qibin dragged him away and endured his angry outbursts on the road, unaware that Zhang Tianyu had caused them with an item; they reached a town and left Yu Xiaogang at the gate while they went to buy supplies.

• Yu Xiaogang insulted Bibi Dong by claiming she owed her position to a man, and Bibi Dong ordered Ju and Gui to throw him out of Spirit City.
• Ju and Gui gagged Yu Xiaogang, hurled him from the city wall, and threatened him when he continued insulting them.
• Li Yusong and Lu Qibin restrained Yu Xiaogang and hurried him away before he could provoke Ju and Gui further.
• As the three walked toward the next town, Yu Xiaogang kept berating Li Yusong and Lu Qibin, while they tried to explain the danger of insulting Spirit Hall on its own territory.
• The narration revealed that Zhang Tianyu had used Samuel’s Purple Grape to put Yu Xiaogang into an anger-driven, irrational state.
• Li Yusong and Lu Qibin reached the first town with Yu Xiaogang, left him waiting at the gate, and went to buy horses and provisions.

Li Yusong and Lu Qibin rescued Yu Xiaogang after he provoked and was beaten by Soul Masters, then tried to stop him from returning to Spirit City to apologize to Bibi Dong. In Heaven Dou City, Zhang Tianyu received doubled mission rewards and unlocked his Seventh Soul Skill, Heaven and Earth Sword.

• Li Yusong and Lu Qibin found Yu Xiaogang beaten at the town entrance and persuaded the five Soul Masters to leave him with them.
• At a clinic, a healing Soul Master treated Yu Xiaogang’s broken arm and rib, crooked nose, and other injuries, including bite marks on his buttocks.
• After being healed, Yu Xiaogang raged about taking revenge, while the teachers placated him and continued their journey back toward the academy.
• When the twenty-four-hour effect ended, Yu Xiaogang decided to return to Spirit City and explain himself to the Pope, but Li Yusong and Lu Qibin convinced him to seek the dean’s instructions first.
• Zhang Tianyu received doubled rewards for completing the [Hell Has No Gate, Yet You Walk In] mission and unlocked the Seventh Soul Skill, Heaven and Earth Sword.

Zhang Tianyu gained a powerful seventh Soul Skill that fused his Martial Souls and greatly enhanced his abilities, while he resolved to reach Titled Douluo before pursuing the Mystery of Time mission. After Shrek Academy’s exhausted teachers returned, Qian Renxue arrived to see him.

• Zhang Tianyu discovered that his seventh Soul Skill fused his Martial Souls into the Sword of Heaven and Earth, granting temporary invulnerability and a one-sword killing ability while enhancing his other Soul Skills.
• Zhang Tianyu’s First Martial Soul Soul Skills grew stronger, and he gained Sword Qi Shadow, which negated an attack and created a powerful clone to retaliate.
• Zhang Tianyu decided to reach level 90 and obtain more Soul Skills before entering the Star Dou Great Forest’s core to continue the Mystery of Time mission.
• Yu Xiaogang, Li Yusong, and Lu Qibin returned to Shrek Academy exhausted, and Flender took Yu Xiaogang to his office while Zhang Tianyu decided to postpone tricking him again.
• Qian Renxue arrived at the academy gates to see Zhang Tianyu, and the Shrek students recognized her carriage.

Zhang Tianyu met Qian Renxue for drinks, where she tried to uncover what happened in Death Valley while he deliberately made the truth sound like drunken nonsense. He revealed that the Dead Sea had vanished after he encountered an inheritance from the God of Starry Sky, but Qian Renxue dismissed his story as fabricated.

• Dai Mubai, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and the others hoped Zhang Tianyu could persuade the royal family to investigate the fraud that had cost Tang San his money.
• Qian Renxue told Zhang Tianyu that the royal family had found no leads on the fraudsters, while Zhang Tianyu privately laughed because his clones had vanished without a trace.
• Qian Renxue invited Zhang Tianyu to Jinbi Hotel and used drinks and questions to probe his experiences in Death Valley, suspecting he had subdued its three overlords and caused the Dead Sea and Rebirth Cliff to disappear.
• Zhang Tianyu boasted that the three Death Valley overlords obeyed him, and Qian Renxue doubted his claims while trying to steer him toward the Dead Sea.
• Zhang Tianyu claimed he had made the Dead Sea disappear and described encountering the God of Starry Sky’s inheritance and a trial involving grotesque tentacles that transformed into people in the starry sky.
• Qian Renxue dismissed Zhang Tianyu’s account as nonsense and stopped believing he would reveal reliable information.

After drinking with Qian Renxue, Zhang Tianyu pretended to pass out while she personally helped him back to the carriage. As she watched over him, Qian Renxue felt an unfamiliar sense of affection and peace, while Zhang Tianyu privately believed he had turned her scheme against her.

• Zhang Tianyu drank seventeen jars of liquor, impressing Qian Renxue with his enormous alcohol tolerance before collapsing as if unconscious.
• Qian Renxue refused her subordinates’ help and personally supported Zhang Tianyu out of the hotel and toward the carriage.
• While carrying Zhang Tianyu, Qian Renxue blushed as his hands rubbed against her disguised body, unaware that he had secretly opened his eyes.
• Zhang Tianyu grabbed Qian Renxue in the carriage and mistook her head for a wine jar, so she moved his hands and settled him on the seat.
• Qian Renxue watched Zhang Tianyu sleep and felt an unfamiliar sense of peace before catching herself and withdrawing her gaze.

Qian Renxue realized she was developing feelings for Zhang Tianyu, then learned Hu Liena had arrived in Heaven Dou City and vowed not to let her steal him. Back at the dormitory, Xiao Wu grieved over Zhang Tianyu’s relationships with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, while he pretended to sleep; the chapter ended when he opened his eyes and met Xiao Wu’s gaze.

• Qian Renxue watched the unconscious Zhang Tianyu and struggled to deny that she liked him.
• Xue Qinghe returned Zhang Tianyu to the academy, where Xiao Wu and the others noticed his blush while helping him from the carriage.
• Snake Lance Douluo told Qian Renxue that Hu Liena had arrived in Heaven Dou City, and Qian Renxue ordered him to watch her.
• Xiao Wu stayed behind with Zhang Tianyu, cried as she wondered why he had become involved with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, and kissed him while he pretended to be asleep.
• Zhang Tianyu opened his eyes to check whether Xiao Wu was kissing him and found her staring directly at him.

Zhang Tianyu’s reaction to Xiao Wu calling him a “skinny dog” revealed his impressive muscles, and the two reconciled as she admitted she feared losing him. The story then shifted to Spirit Hall’s interest in Zhang Tianyu and Bibi Dong’s suspicion that he might be the powerful swordsman known as Kakashi.

• Xiao Wu woke Zhang Tianyu, who pretended to be drunk, but her “skinny dog” jab triggered memories of his gym training and made him burst out of his clothes with muscle.
• Zhang Tianyu demanded that Xiao Wu call him Brother Tianyu, then went to the bathroom after she agreed.
• Xiao Wu stayed with Zhang Tianyu and confessed that she was afraid of losing him; he comforted her and promised not to leave.
• Dai Mubai arrived the next morning to find their dormitory empty and wondered if they had gone outside together.
• The narration explained that Spirit Hall had tracked Zhang Tianyu since his unusual martial soul mutation, and Bibi Dong became especially interested after he defeated a stronger Time Soul Master.
• Bibi Dong considered whether Zhang Tianyu was the mysterious swordsman Kakashi, but his recorded rank seemed far below the strength Hu Liena had reported.

Qian Renxue and Hu Liena both went to Shrek Academy to meet Zhang Tianyu, and Hu Liena recognized him as Kakashi, the man who had saved her in Death Valley. Hu Liena embraced him after he admitted his identity, while Qian Renxue watched with barely contained jealousy.

• Qian Renxue and Hu Liena arrived at Shrek Academy at the same time to find Zhang Tianyu.
• Zhang Tianyu left Xiao Wu and Dai Mubai, then spoke with Qian Renxue about his cautious approach to relationships.
• Hu Liena recognized Zhang Tianyu by his eyes and scent and confronted him about being Kakashi.
• Zhang Tianyu admitted he was Kakashi but said he did not plan to join Spirit Hall before finishing his studies.
• Hu Liena rushed into Zhang Tianyu's arms, and Qian Renxue watched in jealousy before Zhang Tianyu pushed Hu Liena away.