Chapter Summaries

Bai Ye used a Blood Bodhi to restore his Soul Power and spent over three hours helping Meng Yiran absorb the Man Faced Demon Spider’s soul ring, though she did not gain the Eight Spider Lances. After returning to Shrek Academy, he faced Xiao Wu, who asked whether he knew her true identity as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

• Bai Ye ate a Blood Bodhi and used its medicinal power to restore his Soul Power while treating Meng Yiran.
• Meng Yiran successfully absorbed the Man Faced Demon Spider’s soul ring, but did not obtain the Eight Spider Lances.
• Dragon Duke Meng Shu and Snake Dowager Chao Tianxiang renewed their allegiance to Bai Ye, and Meng Shu agreed to send Meng Yiran to Shrek Academy.
• Bai Ye and the Shrek Academy group left the Star Dou Great Forest, stayed overnight in a town, and returned to the academy the following evening.
• Xiao Wu visited Bai Ye and asked whether he knew she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form; Bai Ye admitted that he did.

Bai Ye revealed that he and Xiao Wu had known Yu Xiaogang at Nuoding Academy, where Yu Xiaogang had repeatedly failed to persuade Xiao Wu to become his disciple. Yu Xiaogang had come to Shrek Academy hoping to find a genius to prove his theory, and he was embarrassed to discover Bai Ye and Xiao Wu there.

• Flender was surprised when Bai Ye said he knew Yu Xiaogang from Nuoding Academy.
• Bai Ye’s words reminded Yu Xiaogang of his rejected attempts to make Bai Ye and Xiao Wu his disciples, leaving him embarrassed.
• Yu Xiaogang had repeatedly pursued Xiao Wu as a disciple at Nuoding Academy and become a laughingstock there.
• After Xiao Wu graduated, Yu Xiaogang decided to visit Flender at Shrek Academy to find a genius who could prove his spirit martial theory.
• Yu Xiaogang discovered that Bai Ye was a teacher at Shrek Academy and that Xiao Wu was there too, though neither had come because of him.

Yu Xiaogang joined Shrek Academy as a teacher and observed Bai Ye’s martial soul theory lesson before planning to take Oscar as his disciple. After waiting until Xiao Wu had left, he approached Oscar and Ma Hongjun.

• Flender introduced Yu Xiaogang as the new teacher and began training with three laps around the village.
• Bai Ye and Yu Xiaogang divided their teaching duties, with Bai Ye focusing on martial souls and Yu Xiaogang on soul beasts.
• Yu Xiaogang sat in on Bai Ye’s lesson because he had no teaching experience.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Flender about Oscar and planned to recruit him while Xiao Wu was absent.
• After Xiao Wu left the dining hall with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, Yu Xiaogang followed Oscar and Ma Hongjun and called out to them.

Yu Xiaogang urged Oscar to become his disciple, promising to guide his development into the continent’s number one food-type Title Douluo. Oscar politely refused, leaving Yu Xiaogang frustrated and wondering why his offer had failed.

• Yu Xiaogang worried that Xiao Wu had turned Oscar against him.
• Yu Xiaogang offered to take Oscar as his disciple and promised to help him become the continent’s number one food-type Title Douluo.
• Oscar thanked Yu Xiaogang but tactfully declined to take a master.
• Yu Xiaogang hid his disappointment and told Oscar he could seek help with cultivation later.
• Yu Xiaogang privately wondered why Oscar had not accepted his offer.

Yu Xiaogang ordered the students to run ten weighted round trips between Shrek Academy and Suotuo City without Soul Power or soul skills, claiming the plan was tailored to their abilities. Bai Ye challenged his reasoning, leaving Yu Xiaogang humiliated and angry.

• Yu Xiaogang told the students to run ten weighted round trips between Shrek Academy and Suotuo City without using Soul Power or soul skills.
• Xiao Wu objected that the training was too difficult, but Yu Xiaogang insisted he had calculated the workload to maximize its effect.
• Bai Ye privately criticized Yu Xiaogang for devising the plan without enough experience or data about the students' physical limits.
• Bai Ye publicly questioned how Yu Xiaogang had assessed everyone's stamina and warned that the training was too difficult to produce good results.
• Yu Xiaogang felt humiliated and enraged by Bai Ye's challenge.

After more than half a month, Dai Mubai finally returned to Star Luo Imperial City, determined to take revenge on Bai Ye and Shrek Academy. Penniless and unable to prove his identity, he was beaten at the city gates before a stranger paid his entry tax.

• Flender made Bai Ye responsible for training the students and reduced Yu Xiaogang to an assistant, leaving Yu Xiaogang resentful.
• Dai Mubai reached Star Luo Imperial City after limping for more than half a month, his hatred for Bai Ye and Shrek Academy stronger than ever.
• Two gate soldiers mocked Dai Mubai when he claimed to be the Third Prince and beat him because he could not pay the entry tax.
• An elderly man paid Dai Mubai's entry tax, and Dai Mubai thanked him and promised to repay him before entering the city.

Bai Ye’s training proved more efficient than Yu Xiaogang’s, deepening Yu Xiaogang’s resentment. The Star Luo Empire’s representatives arrived to avenge Dai Mubai and demanded Bai Ye and Shrek’s teachers submit to punishment or die.

• Zhao Wuji used his gravity soul skill to push the students through their training while Bai Ye observed.
• Yu Xiaogang outwardly cooperated with Bai Ye’s methods but resented him for undermining his chance to take Oscar as a disciple.
• Bai Ye, Zhao Wuji, and Shrek’s other teachers sensed powerful strangers approaching and gathered at the training ground to protect the students.
• Zhu Zhuyun identified herself and her group as representatives of the Star Luo Empire, seeking revenge for Dai Mubai.
• Flender defended the academy’s punishment of Dai Mubai, but a golden-haired man claimed Dai Mubai had been framed and demanded Bai Ye’s surrender and the teachers’ self-inflicted crippling, threatening them with death.

Bai Ye ordered the Ruthless Great Emperor Puppet to attack the assembled Spirit Sages. Zhu Zhuyun was left alive, frozen in terror.

• Bai Ye commanded the Ruthless Great Emperor Puppet to act.
• The puppet raised a hand and unleashed a surge of Soul Power.
• The attack killed the assembled Spirit Sages.
• Zhu Zhuyun remained standing, too terrified to move.

Dai Tianfeng and the Nether Duke's Mansion decided to negotiate with Bai Ye to secure Zhu Zhuyun's release. The Star Luo Empire sought to recover its eldest prince's fiancée after Dai Mubai's failures had already caused them heavy losses.

• Dai Mubai had become useless and caused heavy losses for the Star Luo Imperial Family and the Nether Duke's Mansion.
• Dai Tianfeng and the Nether Duke's Mansion confirmed that Zhu Zhuyun was unharmed.
• They decided to send people to Shrek Academy to negotiate with Bai Ye and find a way to release Zhu Zhuyun.

Zhu Zhuyun offered Bai Ye any price if he helped her become Empress of the Star Luo Empire, proposing an alliance against the Heaven Dou Empire. Bai Ye understood that she was offering herself and accepted the prospect, leaving their arrangement to be tested.

• Zhu Zhuyun proposed that the Star Luo Empire and Spirit Hall unite to destroy the Heaven Dou Empire and divide its lands.
• Bai Ye said the future promise was not enough and questioned whether Zhu Zhuyun would honor it.
• Zhu Zhuyun admitted she would pay any price and wrapped her arms around Bai Ye's neck.
• Bai Ye understood Zhu Zhuyun's implication and smiled at the prospect of helping her become empress.

Bai Ye negotiated with Supervisor Ao to have the Shrek Seven Devils Team fight the Imperial Dou Team, and Yu Xiaogang agreed after reviewing their information. The group accepted the offer and went to a VIP lounge to prepare.

• Supervisor Ao offered each Shrek Seven Devils member five hundred Gold Soul Coins to participate and an additional ten thousand if they won.
• Yu Xiaogang requested and reviewed the Imperial Dou Team's information, reacting when he saw Yu Tianheng's details.
• Yu Xiaogang agreed to the fight, and Bai Ye accepted while requesting time and a place for the team to prepare.
• Supervisor Ao arranged forfeits for the team's other scheduled battles and directed them to Lounge Number Three.
• Bai Ye and Yu Xiaogang found Xiao Wu and the others, then went with them to the prepared lounge.

Qing Lin used her Seven-Colored Illusory Qi to create five clones of herself, leaving Shi Mo and Shi Mo unable to identify the real one as all six charged at them.

• Qing Lin's Seven-Colored Illusory Qi enveloped her.
• Qing Lin condensed the Qi into five identical clones.
• Shi Mo and Shi Mo realized the Spirit Fighting Arena's records listed no clone-type skills among Qing Lin's three spirit skills.
• Shi Mo and Shi Mo sweated anxiously as they faced six charging Qing Lins and could not tell which was real.

Yu Xiaogang proposed that the Shrek Team and possibly Shrek Academy join Heaven Dou Royal Academy, arguing that Shrek lacked the resources and eligibility to meet the students’ needs. Flender reluctantly accepted Yu Xiaogang’s negotiations as a possible future for the school and his old companions.

• During dinner, Qin Ming said he wished he could bring Shrek’s students to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang told Qin Ming that the students could join Heaven Dou Royal Academy, pointing out that Shrek lacked the money for a Spirit Mimicry Training Ground and could not enter the All Continent Spirit Master Academy Elite Competition.
• Yu Xiaogang offered to let the Shrek Team, or even Shrek Academy itself, join Heaven Dou Royal Academy if Qin Ming met his conditions.
• Flender considered the academy’s financial difficulties and the likelihood that Meng Yiran and Bai Ye would eventually leave.
• Flender tacitly approved Yu Xiaogang’s negotiations with Qin Ming.

Tang San rescued Dai Mubai from two men who tried to take advantage of him while he was drunk, and the two became close friends. Dai Mubai invited Tang San to live with him and promised to help him enter Star Luo Royal Academy, while Tang San vowed to help Dai Mubai take revenge on Bai Ye and Zhu Zhuqing and Shrek Academy.

• Tang San summoned his Blue Silver Grass martial soul and scared off A Yang and A Long as they tried to take Dai Mubai away.
• Tang San moved the unconscious Dai Mubai to a safer spot and rested nearby until morning.
• Dai Mubai woke up in the park, and Tang San explained how he had rescued him the previous night.
• Dai Mubai thanked Tang San, invited him to stay at his house, and offered to get him into Star Luo Royal Academy without tuition.
• Tang San and Dai Mubai shared their circumstances, pledged to help each other, and became true brothers.

Bai Ye traveled with Flender and the others to Blue Tyrant Academy, where the system unexpectedly gave him a Moonlight Treasure Box. The group reached the academy’s back mountain and discovered that its dean was Liu Erlong, whose song made Yu Xiaogang try to flee.

• After hearing about Blue Tyrant Academy from Qin Ming, Yu Xiaogang and the others agreed to visit, while Bai Ye worried that Liu Erlong still loved Yu Xiaogang.
• The system responded to Bai Ye’s doubts by granting him a Moonlight Treasure Box.
• After Flender tore down the academy’s recruitment notice, Qin Ming led the group to Blue Tyrant Academy, where Yin Shu tested their Soul Power and agreed to take them to meet the dean.
• Yin Shu led the group through the academy and into its back mountain, explaining that the dean lived in a quiet place there.
• When Liu Erlong’s sorrowful song came from the cottage, Yu Xiaogang tried to run, but Flender stopped him and urged him to face her after twenty years.

Liu Erlong rushed into Bai Ye’s arms, saying she had finally waited for him, while Yu Xiaogang and Flender watched in shock. Yu Xiaogang realized Liu Erlong had not been waiting for him, and his attempt to impress Oscar fell apart.

• Liu Erlong saw Bai Ye and threw herself into his arms, saying she had finally waited for him.
• Bai Ye was dumbfounded because he was only twelve and had never known Liu Erlong.
• Yu Xiaogang froze when he realized Liu Erlong had not been waiting for him.
• Flender watched in surprise as Yu Xiaogang’s face turned pale and livid.

Bai Ye subdued Dugu Bo and went with him to inspect the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in Sunset Forest. He reached the mist-covered valley where the well’s icy blue and fiery red glow was visible through the fog.

• Dugu Bo knelt and begged Bai Ye for mercy after being overpowered.
• Bai Ye reassured Zhao Wuji that he was unharmed and said he would leave with Dugu Bo to discuss something.
• Bai Ye told Dugu Bo to call him Young Master and had him lead the way to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Bai Ye used Phoenix Dance Six Illusions to scale the mountain and enter the mist-covered valley.
• Bai Ye spotted the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s blue and red glow at the center of the valley.

Bai Ye used the Ancestor Stone to remove the Clear Jade Poison from Dugu Bo, condensing it into a Poison Pill and freeing him from the family’s hereditary affliction. Dugu Bo thanked Bai Ye for saving the Clear Jade Snake Family from extinction.

• Bai Ye realized the Ancestor Stone meant he no longer needed to compensate Dugu Bo with soul bones to cure the Clear Jade Poison.
• Dugu Bo led Bai Ye to Dugu Manor, where Bai Ye extracted the poison from Dugu Bo and condensed it into a Poison Pill.
• Bai Ye kept the Poison Pill, recognizing that its venom could be deadly even to powerful soul masters.
• Dugu Bo knelt before Bai Ye in gratitude, recalling that the Clear Jade Poison had killed generations of his family, including his son.

Dugu Bo tried to persuade Dugu Yan to be with Bai Ye, arguing that he was a better match than Yu Tianheng. He offered to accept Yu Tianheng if he proved his commitment by proposing marriage through his sect or eloping with Dugu Yan.

• Dugu Bo said he would not let Dugu Yan become someone else's concubine and claimed Yu Tianheng was unworthy of her compared with Bai Ye.
• Dugu Yan accused Dugu Bo of trying to use her to curry favor with Bai Ye and cried that he had betrayed her trust.
• Dugu Bo explained that he had once tolerated Dugu Yan's relationship with Yu Tianheng because he worried about her future, but now believed Bai Ye was more suitable.
• Dugu Bo proposed a bet: he would accept Yu Tianheng if Yu Tianheng arranged a formal marriage proposal naming Dugu Yan his principal wife or eloped with her; otherwise, Dugu Yan would follow his wishes.

Yu Tianheng rejected Dugu Yan’s proposal to elope, ending their relationship. Furious and seeking revenge, Dugu Yan turned to Bai Ye and planned to make Yu Tianheng witness her birthday celebration with him.

• Dugu Yan asked Yu Tianheng to elope, but he refused because he could not abandon his family and feared her Clear Jade Poison could affect their children.
• Dugu Yan accused Yu Tianheng of lacking love and resenting her family’s poison, then left the special training camp in anger.
• Dugu Yan confronted Bai Ye, who said he had not known Dugu Bo wanted to separate her from Yu Tianheng.
• Dugu Yan agreed to be Bai Ye’s woman if he helped her take revenge on Yu Tianheng.
• Dugu Yan planned to invite Yu Tianheng to her birthday party and have Bai Ye help her make him jealous.