Chapter Summaries

Wang Dong led his team through the freshman tournament, overwhelming their opponents and winning the championship. After the victory, he focused on growing stronger and planned to seek Soul Rings and Immortal Herbs to change future tragedies.

• Wang Dong used the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer to force Xie Huanyue to surrender after sixty strikes, and Xie Huanyue's teammates surrendered as well.
• Wang Dong's team defeated Ning Tian's team in under ten seconds, and Ning Tian surrendered after Wang Dong knocked her teammates out of the arena.
• Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao helped Wang Dong's team dominate the quarterfinals and semifinals, advancing them to the final.
• Wang Dong defeated the three Soul Grandmasters in the final with the Soft-Boned Charm Rabbit's Instantaneous Shift and Eight-Stage Throw, securing the championship for his team.
• During the awards ceremony, Wang Dong considered seeking a third Soul Ring and visiting the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for Immortal Herbs.

Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao declined the championship soul bone, allowing Xiao Xiao to receive it. The next day, Shrek Academy confirmed the freshmen core disciples, granting Huo Yuhao only temporary privileges and leaving him stung by the decision.

• Dai Huabin, Xie Huanyue, and Ning Tian watched Wang Dong's team receive the championship award after their own teams missed the top three.
• Yan Shaozhe presented Wang Dong's team with a Void Spirit Demon Leopard Left Leg Bone, but Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao refused it and gave it to Xiao Xiao.
• Xiao Xiao embraced Wang Dong and tearfully promised to support him, while Huo Yuhao watched with a strange expression.
• Du Weilun announced the core disciples, naming Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao official disciples and giving Huo Yuhao only temporary core disciple privileges.
• Huo Yuhao lowered his head and gripped his clothes as Dai Huabin mocked his temporary status.

Wang Dong publicly challenged Shrek Academy’s decision to deny Huo Yuhao full Core Disciple status, condemning its rules and threatening to leave. Huo Yuhao stood with him, and Mu En appeared as tensions peaked.

• Wang Dong objected to Huo Yuhao receiving only temporary Core Disciple benefits and argued that Dai Huabin’s early elimination made his full status unfair.
• Wang Dong denounced Shrek Academy for judging students by soul power and failing to support their talents, angering the senior officials.
• Xuan Zi confronted Wang Dong, who said he would withdraw rather than accept the academy’s treatment.
• Huo Yuhao joined Wang Dong and vowed to leave with him if Wang Dong left.
• Mu En appeared through Spiritual Manifestation, and the senior officials bowed to the Sea God Pavilion Master.

Mu En praised Wang Dong for confronting Shrek Academy’s flaws, apologized on the academy’s behalf, and made Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao his disciples. He led them to Sea God Lake, entrusting them with the chance to help reform the academy.

• Mu En praised Wang Dong’s criticism of Shrek Academy and made Huo Yuhao an official core disciple.
• Mu En asked Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao to become his disciples and take on the burden of reforming Shrek Academy.
• Dai Huabin grew jealous, while Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, and Du Weilun were left speechless by Mu En’s decision.
• Mu En apologized to the gathered students, and Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao agreed to become his disciples.
• Mu En led Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao through a bamboo grove to Sea God Lake.

Mu En apologized to Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao for Shrek Academy’s failings, promised reform, and began personally training them. After half a month of progress, Wang Dong hurried toward Huo Yuhao and encountered Ma Xiaotao burning with flames and sprinting out of control across Sea God Lake.

• Mu En privately apologized to Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao, acknowledged Shrek Academy’s problems, and promised to reform it.
• Mu En accepted Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao as his disciples, taught Wang Dong Sovereign's Descent, and gave Huo Yuhao spiritual cultivation guidance and access to a rich cultivation area in Sea God Lake.
• Wang Dong mastered most of the first stage of Sovereign's Descent in half a month while Huo Yuhao continued cultivating near the lake’s center.
• Wang Dong set out to check on Huo Yuhao and saw Ma Xiaotao racing uncontrollably across Sea God Lake toward her, engulfed in crimson flames and crying that she was hot.

Ma Xiaotao lost control of her evil fire and clung to Huo Yuhao, then Wang Dong, seeking the ice aura she needed to suppress it. Wang Dong’s Golden Dragon King blood calmed and began purifying Ma Xiaotao’s fire, but Wang Dong collapsed as Ma Xiaotao’s martial soul started to transform.

• Ma Xiaotao sensed Huo Yuhao’s faint ice aura and embraced her, scorching her while absorbing the aura.
• Wang Dong tore Ma Xiaotao away from Huo Yuhao, but Ma Xiaotao immediately latched onto Wang Dong instead.
• Wang Dong pressed her bleeding finger to Ma Xiaotao’s lips, and her Golden Dragon King blood suppressed the evil fire.
• Ma Xiaotao seized Wang Dong’s finger and sucked her blood as her evil fire was purified and her martial soul began to evolve.
• Wang Dong passed out while Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, and Mu En watched Ma Xiaotao’s transformation.

After waking from two days unconscious from blood loss, Wang Dong learned his blood was purifying Ma Xiaotao’s Martial Soul and asked to share a dormitory with Huo Yuhao so they could cultivate Haodong Power together. Yan Shaozhe approved after Huo Yuhao agreed, leaving the two of them set to room together.

• Wang Dong woke after two days and found Huo Yuhao asleep beside his bed; she woke, cried with relief, and told him Ma Xiaotao was still unconscious.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire was being suppressed and her Martial Soul purified by Wang Dong’s blood, and Yan Shaozhe thanked him for helping his disciple.
• Xuan Zi apologized for his earlier words and offered to help Wang Dong with matters that did not violate principles.
• Wang Dong asked for a single-occupancy dormitory so he and Huo Yuhao could cultivate their hundred-percent Martial Soul Fusion and Haodong Power together.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to room with Wang Dong, and Yan Shaozhe approved the arrangement as an exception.