Chapter Summaries

After Jiang Hai’s team advanced to the semifinals, Du Weilun praised Sun Yunhai’s tactics and made the Illusionist a First Year Core Disciple. Jiang Hai prepared for the next round, then drew Dai Huabin’s team as his opponent and exchanged threats with Dai Huabin.

• Du Weilun defended the team’s victory as a demonstration of Sun Yunhai’s abilities and named the Illusionist a First Year Core Disciple who would receive special training.
• The semifinalists were Jiang Hai’s team, Huo Yuhao’s team, Zhou Sichen’s team, and Dai Huabin’s team, with two teams from Freshman Class One reaching the top four.
• Ma Xiaotao warned Jiang Hai that Dai Huabin’s team could use a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, then gave him a black carp to cook before they entered the Bronze Coffin to cultivate.
• Jiang Hai drew number two, while Huo Yuhao and Zhou Sichen drew number one, leaving Dai Huabin’s team as Jiang Hai’s semifinal opponent.
• Dai Huabin dismissed Jiang Hai’s tactics and threatened him, and Jiang Hai answered that he would make Dai Huabin pay for people he disliked and for a younger brother of his.

Jiang Hai’s team faced Dai Huabin’s team in the semifinal, while their teachers placed a four-Soul-Bone wager on whether the final would feature two Freshman Class One teams. Jiang Hai and Chen Yong countered Dai Huabin’s team’s attacks, and the match continued with all three opponents still in the fight.

• Zhou Yi wagered two Soul Bones that the final would be between two Freshman Class One teams, and Mu Jin joined her while Liu Cheng and Teacher Zhao accepted.
• Jiang Hai, Chen Yong, and Sun Yunhai began their semifinal against Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, and Cui Yajie.
• Jiang Hai rushed forward and resisted Cui Yajie’s Charm with the Bronze Coffin’s evil-suppressing aura.
• Jiang Hai summoned the Bronze Coffin and struck it to knock Zhu Lu away from her Netherworld Assault.
• Chen Yong used Bear Dominates the World to pressure Zhu Lu, while Cui Yajie intervened and pulled her back.
• Jiang Hai lifted the Bronze Coffin to block Dai Huabin’s White Tiger Fierce Light Wave.

Jiang Hai used his innate strength and Bronze Coffin to withstand Dai Huabin’s attacks, while Chen Yong and Sun Yunhai gained the upper hand against Zhu Lu and Cui Yajie. The battles continued, with Dai Huabin’s momentum fading and Cui Yajie defeated.

• Jiang Hai overpowered Dai Huabin in a clash of strength, and Zhou Yi revealed that Jiang Hai had been born with divine strength and wielded a martial soul weighing at least a thousand jin.
• Dai Huabin used his White Tiger soul skills and sent the Bronze Coffin flying back, but Jiang Hai caught it and blocked his White Tiger Fierce Light Wave with Diamond Body.
• Dai Huabin recognized the royal beast aura from Jiang Hai’s Diamond Tiger King soul ring and attacked him in a jealous frenzy, but Jiang Hai held firm as Dai Huabin’s aura began to wane.
• Huo Yuhao watched Jiang Hai fight, while Wang Dong mistakenly thought he was worried about their afternoon match and tried to reassure him.
• Sun Yunhai’s cloud illusions helped Chen Yong pressure Zhu Lu and Cui Yajie, and Chen Yong defeated Cui Yajie, leaving Zhu Lu under greater pressure.

Jiang Hai faced Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu’s Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill after sending Chen Yong and Sun Yunhai off the arena. He defeated the fused beast with repeated blows from the Bronze Coffin, and Du Weilun declared him the winner.

• Dai Huabin fused with Zhu Lu to form the Hell White Tiger, leaving Jiang Hai to face their Martial Soul Fusion Skill alone.
• Jiang Hai ordered Chen Yong and Sun Yunhai off the arena, and Sun Yunhai persuaded Chen Yong to trust him and leave.
• Jiang Hai leaped above the Hell White Tiger and struck it with the Bronze Coffin, but the tiger remained standing while Jiang Hai’s arm bled.
• Jiang Hai’s Bronze Coffin ignited with purplish-red phoenix evil fire, and he repeatedly battered the Hell White Tiger as Ma Xiaotao’s soul power drained away.
• The Hell White Tiger dissipated, revealing pale and dazed Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu, and Du Weilun caught the coffin before announcing Jiang Hai’s victory.

Jiang Hai defeated Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu, but Liu Cheng accused him of being an Evil Soul Master to challenge the result. Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan defended Jiang Hai, and Dean Yan Shaozhe arrived as the academy weighed Dai Huabin’s fate.

• Jiang Hai shattered Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Du Weilun intervened before they were crushed by the bronze coffin.
• Liu Cheng accused Jiang Hai of being an Evil Soul Master, but Zhou Yi and Wang Yan condemned the accusation and called for consequences for Liu Cheng and Dai Huabin.
• Du Weilun suspended Liu Cheng for a year and expelled Dai Huabin, prompting Dai Yueheng to offer the academy a million Gold Soul Coins and a soul bone in exchange for another chance for his brother.
• Ma Xiaotao revealed that Jiang Hai shared the origin of her evil fire and was being watched by her teacher, while Zhang Lexuan said she had brought Jiang Hai to Shrek Academy.
• Yan Shaozhe, the Shrek Academy dean and a Level 97 Titled Douluo, appeared, and Ma Xiaotao greeted him as her teacher.

After Jiang Hai defeated Dai Huabin, Shrek Academy punished Liu Cheng and ordered the White Tiger Duke's Mansion to compensate Jiang Hai with a forty-thousand-year-old Soul Bone. Jiang Hai recovered from his injuries and prepared for the freshmen final against Huo Yuhao's team, whose promised surprise he guessed might be a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Yan Shaozhe confirmed Jiang Hai was not an Evil Soul Master, punished Liu Cheng, and ordered Dai Yueheng to deliver a forty-thousand-year-old White Tiger Left Arm Bone to Jiang Hai within three days.
• Dai Yueheng struck Dai Huabin and warned him that his conduct had nearly made a powerful enemy of the White Tiger Duke's Mansion.
• Yu Die healed Jiang Hai's injured arm, and Jiang Hai told Chen Yong that Zhang Lexuan had set him on his path.
• Jiang Hai warned Chen Yong and Sun Yunhai that Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection and Spiritual Sharing could counter Sun Yunhai's Seven-Colored Cloud Illusion.
• Jiang Hai, Chen Yong, and Sun Yunhai met Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao for the final, and Jiang Hai guessed that their surprise was a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao’s team prepared to face Jiang Hai’s team in the Freshman Assessment final while the academy leaders debated their strengths. Qian Duoduo revealed that one of the six finalists wanted to study Soul Tools, and Yan Shaozhe demanded to know whether that student was Huo Yuhao.

• Wang Dong accused Jiang Hai of bluffing, and Xiao Xiao teased Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao about their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Yan Shaozhe, Zhou Yi, and Du Weilun discussed the six finalists’ abilities and predicted the final, with Du Weilun favoring Jiang Hai’s team and Zhou Yi unsure.
• Qian Duoduo arrived with Fan Yu and proposed a wager that would let him recruit a qualifying student into the Soul Tool Department.
• Qian Duoduo said one of the six finalists had already asked to study Soul Tools under Fan Yu, prompting Yan Shaozhe to demand the student’s identity.
• Yan Shaozhe asked whether the student was Huo Yuhao.

Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo wagered over Jiang Hai’s future, then the finals began with Jiang Hai’s team facing Huo Yuhao’s. The match left Jiang Hai and Huo Yuhao both reeling from their clash, while Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong struggled against Jiang Hai’s cloud phantoms.

• Qian Duoduo revealed that Jiang Hai was interested in Soul Tools, and Yan Shaozhe agreed to bet fifty high-explosive Soul Tool shells against letting Qian choose a student if he lost.
• The referee opened the finals under relaxed rules, and Jiang Hai led Chen Yong and Sun Yunhai toward Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao.
• Xiao Xiao slowed Jiang Hai’s team and attacked with her cauldrons, but Jiang Hai broke through the field and sent nine cloud phantoms forward while Chen Yong struck back.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Interference to redirect Wang Dong’s Butterfly Wing Guillotine, and Jiang Hai countered by swinging his Bronze Coffin at Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao.
• Xiao Xiao blocked the coffin with her merged cauldron, but Jiang Hai knocked her backward; Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Shock then struck Jiang Hai and badly rebounded on Huo Yuhao.
• Wang Dong attacked with Butterfly God’s Light as Jiang Hai shielded himself with the Bronze Coffin, while Huo Yuhao struggled to fend off the surviving cloud phantoms.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill against Jiang Hai, but his Golden Coffin endured the attack and secured his team the Freshman Assessment championship. The three exhausted fighters were healed, and Zhou Yi comforted Huo Yuhao after his team’s defeat.

• Xiao Xiao slowed Jiang Hai while Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong performed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, startling the spectators.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’s blue-gold attack struck Jiang Hai’s Bronze Coffin, which vanished and revealed a Golden Coffin that withstood the blast.
• Jiang Hai emerged injured and exhausted, and Huo Yuhao conceded; the referee declared Jiang Hai, Sun Yunhai, and Chen Yong the champions.
• A white-robed teacher used a golden ancient tree to stabilize Jiang Hai, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong.
• Zhou Yi comforted Huo Yuhao and told him not to lose heart after the defeat.

After the Freshman Assessment, Jiang Hai received the White Tiger Left Arm Soul Bone promised by the Dai Family and chose to store it rather than absorb it. He prepared to hunt for his second Soul Ring after the next day’s class assignment ceremony, then began cultivating beside Sea God Lake.

• Qian Duoduo and Yan Shaozhe settled their dispute over Jiang Hai, while Qian Duoduo ordered Fan Yu not to let Huo Yuhao become a Core Disciple and to discourage Jiang Hai from studying Soul Tools.
• Ma Xiaotao checked that Jiang Hai had recovered from the assessment and arranged to take him hunting for a Soul Beast after the class assignment ceremony.
• Jiang Hai and his companions celebrated their victory beside Sea God Lake, where Zhang Lexuan joined them and later spoke privately with him.
• Zhang Lexuan gave Jiang Hai the White Tiger Left Arm Soul Bone and warned him that the White Tiger Family might seek it back; Jiang Hai stored it in his Bronze Coffin instead of absorbing it.
• Zhang Lexuan told Jiang Hai that she would take him and Ma Xiaotao to hunt Soul Beasts after the following morning’s class assignments, and Jiang Hai ended the night cultivating at the lakebed.

At the Freshman Assessment awards ceremony, Jiang Hai’s team won first place and received a secret special reward, while Huo Yuhao was initially left off the core disciple list. Jiang Hai challenged the decision on Huo Yuhao’s behalf, and Du Weilun revoked Jiang Hai’s core disciple status, placing him under the same provisional terms as Huo Yuhao and several others.

• Jiang Hai’s team won the Freshman Assessment, and Du Weilun announced rewards for the top three teams, including a secret special reward for Jiang Hai, Chen Yong, and Sun Yunhai.
• Du Weilun named thirteen students as core disciples, but Huo Yuhao and Dai Huabin were not among them.
• Jiang Hai objected to the list and asked whether he could give his core disciple place to someone else, prompting Du Weilun to explain that places could not be transferred.
• Zhou Yi urged Jiang Hai to return to his place and said the academy would explain its decision about Huo Yuhao.
• Du Weilun granted Huo Yuhao, Dai Huabin, and three other students provisional core disciple privileges for the rest of the year, subject to their performance.
• Du Weilun revoked Jiang Hai’s core disciple status and placed him under the same provisional conditions as the newly named students.

Jiang Hai accepted provisional core disciple status and encouraged Huo Yuhao to prove himself through hard work. After the freshmen were assigned to classes, Du Weilun gave Jiang Hai, Chen Yong, and Sun Yunhai a Golden Power Right Arm Bone and left them to decide who would absorb it.

• Jiang Hai accepted losing his core disciple spot for the year, while Huo Yuhao questioned why Jiang Hai had fought for him.
• Jiang Hai urged Huo Yuhao and the other students to work hard and rise above others, inspiring Huo Yuhao to promise he would do so.
• The academy assigned the freshmen to four classes, placing Jiang Hai, Chen Yong, Sun Yunhai, and Ning Tian in Class Three.
• Du Weilun explained the academy's decision about Huo Yuhao's core disciple prospects and reassured Jiang Hai that he could earn the status in his second year.
• Du Weilun presented the three teammates with a Golden Power Right Arm Bone from a ten-thousand-year-old Golden Giant Elephant and warned them to keep it secret.

After winning the Freshman Assessment, Jiang Hai gave the Golden Power soul bone to Chen Yong, explaining that he already had a White Tiger soul bone. Their new teacher, Mu Jin, then presented them with a ghost-attribute soul bone for Sun Yunhai and warned them to keep their soul bones secret; the story left the three preparing to return and fuse with them.

• Chen Yong and Sun Yunhai urged Jiang Hai to take the Golden Power soul bone, but Jiang Hai gave it to Chen Yong and showed them the White Tiger Left Arm Soul Bone he had received from Zhang Lexuan.
• Mu Jin summoned Jiang Hai, Chen Yong, and Sun Yunhai to her office, offered to help with their studies and cultivation, and joked with Chen Yong about finding a girlfriend.
• Mu Jin gave them a ghost-attribute Left Leg Soul Bone that she had won from Liu Cheng’s homeroom teacher and suggested that Sun Yunhai absorb it.
• Jiang Hai told Mu Jin that the academy had awarded them another soul bone and the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion had compensated him with one, leaving Sun Yunhai as the only teammate without a soul bone.
• Mu Jin warned Jiang Hai about the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion and told all three to keep their soul bones secret as they prepared to leave.

Jiang Hai and Huo Yuhao accompanied Zhou Yi to the Soul Tool Department, where Zhou Yi awarded Huo Yuhao an artificial soul bone and Fan Yu agreed to test Jiang Hai’s aptitude for soul tools. Jiang Hai eagerly faced the prospect of studying them, but Fan Yu warned that he would only teach him if he had talent.

• Chen Yong, Sun Yunhai, and Jiang Hai joked about Wu Feng and Ning Tian before meeting Zhou Yi and Huo Yuhao in the teaching area.
• Jiang Hai asked Zhou Yi to take him to the Soul Tool Department, and she brought him and Huo Yuhao along while explaining that she had won a soul bone in a bet.
• Zhou Yi described the Secret Method Soul Bone and offered it to Huo Yuhao, who accepted it after Jiang Hai refused it.
• Zhou Yi took Jiang Hai and Huo Yuhao to the Soul Tool Testing Area, where Jiang Hai felt excited by the metal-scented surroundings.
• Fan Yu told Jiang Hai he could observe the Soul Tool Department but would only teach him if he showed talent.

Fan Yu showed Huo Yuhao and Jiang Hai the destructive power of Soul Tools and tested their interest in the field. After Jiang Hai questioned their range, recoil, and design, Fan Yu offered to consider teaching him and Huo Yuhao if they answered one more question.

• Fan Yu tested Huo Yuhao’s improved Spiritual Detection and invited him and Jiang Hai to the testing grounds with He Caitou.
• He Caitou demonstrated his Soul Tools by destroying iron balls with volleys of Soul Guidance Rays, impressing Huo Yuhao.
• Jiang Hai asked about the Soul Tools’ range and challenged their effectiveness, prompting Fan Yu to fire a powerful Fixed-Load Soul Tool at a moving target.
• Jiang Hai questioned the launcher’s recoil and silently considered how more advanced weapons could threaten ordinary people, while Fan Yu judged his engineering instincts promising.
• Fan Yu offered to consider teaching Jiang Hai and Huo Yuhao about Soul Tools if they satisfied him with their answers to one more question.

Jiang Hai explained that soul tools should be studied as tools capable of transforming ordinary life, not merely as weapons, while Fan Yu refused to take him as a disciple but gave him access to the Soul Tool Department. Fan Yu accepted Huo Yuhao as his disciple, and Huo Yuhao began imagining how hidden weapons and soul tools might help ordinary people.

• Huo Yuhao described soul tools as powerful weapons that could broaden soul masters’ abilities, while Jiang Hai called them tools and urged systematic research into their principles and everyday uses.
• Jiang Hai asked whether soul engineers had considered making soul tools for ordinary people, and Fan Yu said Shrek Academy prioritized protecting humanity and declined to guide him as a disciple.
• Fan Yu gave Jiang Hai an iron token granting access to nonconfidential materials, public areas, and teachers’ lessons in the Soul Tool Department.
• Fan Yu formally accepted Huo Yuhao as his second and final disciple and named him a core disciple of the Soul Tool Department.
• Fan Yu admitted that making soul tools usable by people without soul power was extremely difficult, prompting Huo Yuhao to consider combining Tang Sect Hidden Weapons with soul tools.

Jiang Hai returned to First Year Class Three, where Zhu Tianming introduced himself and assigned the class its first lesson: a battle in which Jiang Hai faced the rest of the students. The fight began with Chen Yong heavily enhanced and Jiang Hai weakened, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Jiang Hai joined First Year Class Three, and Zhu Tianming appointed him class monitor and Sun Yunhai course representative.
• Zhu Tianming led the class to the Soul Fighting Zone and ordered everyone to help Chen Yong defeat Jiang Hai, with running laps as the penalty for losing.
• Jiang Hai rushed a student at the start of the battle, and Zhu Tianming eliminated Liu Wen.
• Chen Yong charged Jiang Hai while Ning Tian and other students boosted Chen Yong and cast weakening effects on Jiang Hai.
• Sun Yunhai used Seven-Colored Cloud Illusion and Nine Cloud Bodies to split Chen Yong into nine bodies, obscuring the real one from Jiang Hai.

Jiang Hai fought all forty-seven support system Soul Masters in a battle royale, eliminating thirty-six before exhaustion ended the contest. Zhu Tianming sent the survivors running their penalty laps, while Wang Yan decided Class One needed harsher training too.

• Jiang Hai fought through the support students’ coordinated Soul Skills, using his Bronze Coffin and Diamond Body while eliminating opponents.
• Jiang Nannan, Xu Sanshi, Wang Yan, and students from Class One watched as Zhu Tianming defended the battle royale as a way to reveal potential.
• The support students improved their coordination under pressure, and Jiang Hai’s combat instincts and control of his strength grew.
• Jiang Hai defeated Chen Yong and kept fighting until he had eliminated thirty-six students, but he finally collapsed from exhaustion.
• Zhu Tianming ordered the eleven survivors to run thirty-six laps, doubled Chen Yong’s penalty to seventy-two, and assigned Jiang Hai one hundred and ten laps.
• Wang Yan resolved to find opportunities to toughen Class One, unaware that the students’ amusement at Class Three’s punishment was about to give way to their own anxiety.

Jiang Hai joined Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan on an expedition into the Star Dou Great Forest to seek soul rings, despite the dangers of hunting in its northwestern region. After reaching the Mixed Circle, he and Ma Xiaotao split from Zhang Lexuan, and Jiang Hai concealed Ma Xiaotao inside his Bronze Coffin so his own search would not be hindered by her intimidating aura.

• After recovering from the previous day's training, Jiang Hai asked Mu Jin for leave and met Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan at Sea God Lake.
• Zhang Lexuan warned Jiang Hai that their hunt for Ma Xiaotao's seventh ring would be dangerous, but he chose to come along and said he could absorb a soul ring of about four thousand years.
• Jiang Hai, Ma Xiaotao, and Zhang Lexuan traveled to the northwestern Star Dou Great Forest and crossed into the Mixed Circle.
• Zhang Lexuan agreed to split up so they could search more efficiently, and Ma Xiaotao led Jiang Hai in another direction.
• When Ma Xiaotao's aura seemed to scare away the soul beasts, Jiang Hai offered to conceal her inside his World-Suppressing Bronze Coffin.
• Ma Xiaotao climbed into the coffin, and Jiang Hai carried it alone deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest.

Jiang Hai fought a four-thousand-year Crystal Glazed Python while carrying Ma Xiaotao in the Bronze Coffin, then clashed with Xu Jiujiu and Xu Ting'er after killing it. Zhang Lexuan arrived and revealed that she and Ma Xiaotao were from Shrek Academy, bringing the confrontation with Huang Jinxu to a tense standstill.

• Jiang Hai used Ma Xiaotao's intimidating aura to drive away soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest and fought off a Great Strength Gorilla.
• A Crystal Glazed Python attacked Jiang Hai, and Xu Jiujiu urged Huang Jinxu to save him, but Jiang Hai wounded the beast with the Bronze Coffin.
• Jiang Hai killed the python despite Xu Jiujiu asking him to leave it for her companion, and its purple soul ring appeared.
• Xu Ting'er attacked Jiang Hai for killing the python, and Ma Xiaotao emerged from the Bronze Coffin to defend him before Huang Jinxu stopped their flames.
• Zhang Lexuan arrived, introduced herself as a Shrek Academy Inner Court disciple, and faced Huang Jinxu with her Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.