Chapter Summaries

Dai Youheng arranged a wager between Huo Yuhao and Dai Huabin, with an Ice Arrow Pig Soul Bone at stake, while Huo Yuhao added a public kowtow penalty. At the assessment grounds, Dai Youheng saw Shrek’s deans presiding and heard Gong Changlong announce the rules.

• Dai Huabin accepted Dai Youheng’s wager, staking a Soul Bone against Huo Yuhao’s side.
• Huo Yuhao thanked Dai Youheng, while Wang Dong complained that Dai Youheng had stopped bringing breakfast and Xiao Xiao thanked him for preventing her leg bone from being wagered.
• Dai Youheng revealed through his thoughts that he had intervened to profit from the Soul Bone, and Zhou Yi watched without stopping the wager.
• On assessment day, Huo Yuhao challenged Dai Huabin to add three public kowtows to the wager, and Dai Huabin agreed.
• Dai Youheng spotted Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo presiding at the Beast Arena as Gong Changlong began announcing the assessment rules.

Huo Yuhao used the Ice Empress's ultimate ice aura to incapacitate every soul beast in the assessment arena, forcing the test to be postponed. In Dai Youheng's Sea of Consciousness, the Snow Empress learned about the Ice Empress's bond with Huo Yuhao and accepted Dai Youheng's promise not to attack him unless he became a threat.

• Huo Yuhao chose to challenge a hundred-year soul beast, and Dai Huabin mocked his choice.
• Huo Yuhao released the Ice Empress's aura, making the Wind Wolf and every other soul beast in the arena collapse in terror.
• The Snow Empress recognized the Ice Empress's aura, and Dai Youheng explained how the Ice Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had joined Huo Yuhao's path to godhood.
• The Snow Empress asked whether Dai Youheng would attack Huo Yuhao as a future rival, and Dai Youheng said he would kill him if he became a threat.
• The Snow Empress accepted Dai Youheng's position, while Yan Shaozhe suspended the assessment until the soul beasts recovered.

After Huo Yuhao won the suspended assessment, Dai Huabin paid his wager and proposed a new contest with higher stakes, which Dai Youheng agreed to support. Yan Shaozhe summoned Huo Yuhao to the dean’s office after suspecting he had twin martial souls and an ultimate attribute.

• Huo Yuhao demanded that Dai Huabin honor their wager, and Dai Huabin handed over a Thousand-Year left arm soul bone to Dai Youheng.
• Dai Huabin knelt before Huo Yuhao and kowtowed three times, then challenged him to a new wager involving the soul bones, three million Gold Soul Coins, more kowtows, and an apology.
• Huo Yuhao said he could not wager the soul bones without Dai Youheng’s consent, and Dai Youheng agreed to put them at stake in support of him.
• Dai Huabin insulted and threatened Dai Youheng, who remained composed as the confrontation ended.
• Yan Shaozhe summoned Huo Yuhao to the dean’s office, intending to bring him back to the Martial Soul Department after discovering his possible twin martial souls and ultimate attribute.

Dai Youheng's support for Huo Yuhao sparked rumors and a public betting frenzy, drawing Dai Yueheng's anger over the family's reputation. Dai Youheng defied his eldest brother and refused to return Dai Huabin's soul bone.

• The academy postponed the advancement assessment for three days while the Beast Arena's soul beasts recovered.
• Rumors spread that Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo had fought over Huo Yuhao, and Dai Youheng bet one million gold soul coins on Huo Yuhao to win his wager with Dai Huabin.
• Dai Yueheng confronted Dai Youheng in his dormitory over the wager, the soul bone, and the shame he believed the dispute brought on the Dai Family.
• Dai Youheng challenged Dai Yueheng's concern for family harmony, cited Dai Huabin's past bullying, and refused to return the soul bone.

Dai Youheng rejected Dai Yueheng’s threats, then watched the second assessment decide the wager between Dai Huabin’s team and Huo Yuhao’s team. Huo Yuhao’s perfect score won the match by one point, leaving Dai Youheng anticipating his prize money and soul bone.

• Dai Youheng dismissed Dai Yueheng’s threat to report him to Duke Dai Hao, and Dai Yueheng left in anger.
• Dai Huabin changed the wager to compare the teams’ combined assessment scores, and Huo Yuhao agreed to the new terms.
• Wang Dong scored 110 and Xiao Xiao scored 96, while Zhu Lu scored 100 and Cui Yajie scored 110.
• Dai Huabin killed a Thousand-Year Wind Tiger and received 145 points, putting his team ahead by 149 points before Huo Yuhao’s turn.
• Huo Yuhao defeated a Thousand-Year Flame Lion with his Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion martial soul and earned 150 points, giving his team a one-point victory.
• Dai Youheng looked forward to collecting the soul bone and three million Gold Soul Coins and spending them at Shrek City’s Treasure Appraisal Fair.

Dai Youheng chose to pass the advancement assessment rather than risk provoking the Dai Family, and defeated a thousand-year Ironclad Rhino with a penetrating palm strike. Yan Shaozhe awarded him full marks, leaving the arena astonished by his skill.

• Dai Youheng decided to complete the assessment while concealing his second martial soul and hidden power.
• Dai Youheng used his Evil Shadow Demon Tiger martial soul and dodged the Ironclad Rhino’s charge.
• Dai Youheng struck the rhino with a corrosive palm force that damaged its organs and brought it down.
• Gong Changlong treated the rhino and praised Dai Youheng’s penetrating technique.
• Yan Shaozhe awarded Dai Youheng 150 points and full marks, and Dai Youheng left the arena having changed the students’ opinion of him.

Dai Huabin paid Dai Youheng the Ten Thousand Year Head Soul Bone and three million Gold Soul Coins he had wagered, then left Shrek Academy to arrange Huo Yuhao’s assassination and reclaim Dai Youheng’s Soul Bones. Dai Youheng anticipated the plot and remained confident he could redirect the danger toward Huo Yuhao.

• Dai Huabin kowtowed to Huo Yuhao, admitted he was wrong, and paid Dai Youheng his Soul Bone and three million Gold Soul Coins.
• Dai Huabin rejected Zhu Lu’s defense of him and declared that Dai Youheng was not his family, while Dai Youheng mocked him for losing the wager.
• Dai Youheng counted his fortune at over thirteen million Gold Soul Coins and considered spending it at the upcoming Treasure Appraisal Fair.
• Dai Huabin smashed a wall in a secluded path and vowed to kill Huo Yuhao and reclaim the three Soul Bones from Dai Youheng.
• Dai Huabin ordered Zhu Lu to request his leave, then left to contact people who handled dirty work.
• Dai Youheng realized what Dai Huabin intended and decided he could shift the danger onto Huo Yuhao.

Dai Youheng went with Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, where Xu Sanshi confronted him over a gift he had once given Jiang Nannan. Dai Youheng brushed Xu aside and entered the pavilion, while Xu held back from escalating the clash and resolved to challenge him at the upcoming core disciple selections.

• Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo brought Dai Youheng an invitation to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion and pulled him along to the fair.
• Dai Youheng, Lan Susu, and Lan Luoluo arrived at the crowded pavilion and began browsing its treasures.
• Xu Sanshi asked Bei Bei what to buy for Jiang Nannan, then spotted Dai Youheng and went over to confront him.
• Xu Sanshi demanded to know what Dai Youheng had given Jiang Nannan, and Dai Youheng jokingly named a hundred Mystic Water Pills and a hundred Black Tortoise Pills.
• Dai Youheng pushed Xu Sanshi aside and entered the pavilion, prompting Jiang Nannan to defend him and Bei Bei to restrain Xu Sanshi.
• Xu Sanshi calmed down because they were in the Treasure Gathering Pavilion and decided to settle things with Dai Youheng at the core disciple selections.

Dai Youheng visited the Treasure Gathering Pavilion with the Lan sisters and bought a mislabeled piece of ten-thousand-year whale glue and three Soul Ascension Pills. He gave two pills to the sisters, then continued touring the pavilion while considering how he might trade the incompatible Golden Earth Dragon King Soul Bone.

• Dai Youheng ignored the pavilion’s Soul Tools and Soul Bones and recognized a black lump labeled as spoiled thousand-year whale rubber as valuable ten-thousand-year whale glue.
• Dai Youheng bought the whale glue for six thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Dai Youheng bought three Soul Ascension Pills and gave one each to Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo, who accepted them gratefully.
• Dai Youheng examined the Golden Earth Dragon King Soul Bone and decided its attributes were unsuitable for him, so he would trade or sell it.

Dai Youheng stayed at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion instead of accompanying Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, hoping to avoid the ambush he expected Dai Huabin to arrange. He then learned that an Ice Crystal Snow Lotus could protect him while absorbing a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and decided to buy it.

• Huo Yuhao used his academy privilege to buy Wang Dong a Golden Earth Dragon King Left Arm Bone, and Dai Youheng declined to leave the pavilion with them.
• Dai Youheng watched Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong depart, intending to stay until the danger from Dai Huabin's assassins had passed.
• The Treasure Gathering Pavilion displayed an Ice Crystal Snow Lotus priced at nine million five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• The Snow Empress explained that the lotus could protect Dai Youheng's body and soul while he absorbed a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, allowing him to take in its power without sealing it.
• Dai Youheng immediately offered to buy the Ice Crystal Snow Lotus, despite Lan Luoluo questioning its price and unknown effects.

Dai Youheng bought an Ice Crystal Snow Lotus to protect himself while absorbing a soul ring beyond his limits, despite Elder Lin's advice to save it for later. Suspecting Dai Huabin had arranged another ambush, he stayed overnight in Shrek City, leaving the would-be attacker waiting outside the academy route.

• Elder Lin explained the Ice Crystal Snow Lotus's protective effects and advised Dai Youheng to save it for a stronger soul ring at rank seventy.
• Dai Youheng bought the lotus and planned to combine it with the Snow Empress's soul skills to attempt absorbing a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Dai Youheng chose to stay in a city-center hotel rather than return to the academy, causing Dai Huabin's Soul King ambusher to wait outside all night.
• Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo misunderstood Dai Youheng's intentions at the hotel, but he booked separate rooms and told them to take their Soul Ascension Pills.

Dai Youheng consumed ten-thousand-year whale glue and a Soul Ascension Pill together, breaking through rank thirty-nine and pushing toward rank forty. Next door, Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo made a pact to pursue him without letting their feelings damage their sisterly bond, then began cultivating with their pills.

• Dai Youheng gave Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo the key to their twin room, then secured his own room with a simple ward.
• Dai Youheng swallowed the whale glue and Soul Ascension Pill together and used his cultivation technique to refine their medicinal energy.
• Dai Youheng broke through the bottleneck at rank thirty-nine and continued advancing toward rank forty.
• Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo admitted they were developing feelings for Dai Youheng and agreed that neither would resent the other over whom he chose.
• Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo each swallowed a Soul Ascension Pill and began cultivating.

Dai Youheng reached level forty and planned to use the upcoming Core Disciple Selection to leave Shrek Academy and seek a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and other treasures. Ma Xiaotao abducted Huo Yuhao to suppress her evil fire, while Dai Huabin vowed to settle his scores with Huo Yuhao and Dai Youheng during the selection.

• Dai Youheng broke through to level forty and decided to deliberately lose the Core Disciple Selection so he could seek opportunities in Star Luo City.
• Dai Youheng returned to the academy with Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo, and learned that Lan Susu had reached level thirty.
• Ma Xiaotao seized Huo Yuhao and flew away with him, seeking his ultimate ice to counter her evil fire.
• Dai Youheng chose not to offer Ma Xiaotao his Snow Soul Condensing Ice Pill, wary that helping her would cost him his freedom.
• Dai Huabin learned that both his assassination and ambush plans had failed, then vowed to confront Huo Yuhao and Dai Youheng in the Core Disciple Selection.

The second-year core disciples joined the selection for the Shrek Seven Devils’ reserve team, which Xuan Zi announced would be a no-rules free-for-all. As the shifting maze separated the contestants, Dai Youheng planned to use the chaos to get himself eliminated while provoking Dai Huabin and Xu Sanshi.

• Zhou Yi led thirteen second-year core disciples to the Soul Fighting Zone, where they joined the older students and He Caitou for the selection.
• Yan Shaozhe introduced the twenty-seven contestants to Xuan Zi, who set the test as a free-for-all in which the last seven standing would advance.
• Stone walls rose to create a shifting maze that separated the contestants and would eventually force them into a central showdown.
• Dai Youheng chose not to seek out the Lan sisters and instead wandered alone, hoping to stir up trouble before getting eliminated.
• Dai Huabin found Dai Youheng and chased him, but a rising wall blocked his way; Dai Youheng then set his sights on finding Xu Sanshi.

Dai Youheng joined Jiang Nannan’s fight against Mu Shengsheng and Gui Jiankui, then swiftly defeated Gui Jiankui by breaking through her control skill and attacking at close range. He turned to the stunned Jiang Nannan and told her he had not let her down.

• Dai Youheng found Jiang Nannan defending herself against Mu Shengsheng and Gui Jiankui, then rushed to help her.
• Gui Jiankui used Void-Sky Ghost Sunflower Capture on Dai Youheng, but he broke through it with Evil Shadow Soul-Rending Claw and Demon Tiger Body.
• Dai Youheng struck Gui Jiankui, slammed her into the ground, and kicked her unconscious.
• The arena announced that Gui Jiankui had been eliminated by Dai Youheng, and Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo praised his combat awareness while noting the danger of his evil attributes.
• Dai Youheng faced Mu Shengsheng and told Jiang Nannan that he had not let her down.

Dai Youheng manipulated Xu Sanshi’s jealousy by telling Jiang Nannan a sympathetic story about his family, turning her against Xu Sanshi. After Xu Sanshi attacked, Dai Youheng led him through the maze while pretending to retreat, setting up an unknown next step.

• Jiang Nannan eliminated Mu Shengsheng after Dai Youheng helped her against Gui Jiankui and Mu Shengsheng.
• Xu Sanshi found Jiang Nannan and Dai Youheng together, and accused Dai Youheng of pursuing her for selfish reasons.
• Dai Youheng claimed he had befriended others to secure allies because his family oppressed him, prompting Jiang Nannan to protect him and order Xu Sanshi away.
• Xu Sanshi used Black Tortoise Swap to exchange places with Jiang Nannan, then attacked Dai Youheng as a stone wall separated Jiang Nannan from them.
• Dai Youheng appeared to flee Xu Sanshi through the maze while carefully guiding the furious senior along a chosen route.

Dai Youheng lured Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu into waiting in ambush while he fought Xu Sanshi, then revealed powerful coordinated Soul Skills and struck through Xu Sanshi’s shield formation. The chapter ended with Xu Sanshi reeling from the penetrating blow as the battle continued.

• Dai Youheng used his observations of the shifting maze to seek out Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu while Xu Sanshi pursued him.
• Dai Youheng staged a desperate confrontation with Xu Sanshi, prompting Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu to hide nearby and wait for both fighters to weaken.
• Dai Youheng activated Demon Tiger Body and Shadow Surge together, greatly boosting his abilities and drawing Xuan Zi’s attention.
• Xu Sanshi used Mysterious Underworld Quake, but Dai Youheng slipped into the shadows and avoided its full impact.
• Xu Sanshi formed a defensive barrier with Mysterious Underworld Shield Formation, but Dai Youheng struck through it with his concentrated palm force and injured him internally.

Dai Youheng defeated Xu Sanshi, then allowed Dai Huabin to eliminate him as part of a plan to remove both men from the contest and help Dai Huabin advance. The teachers accepted the outcome, and Dai Youheng reflected that his elimination had achieved his goals.

• Dai Youheng used Shadow Stealth to interrupt Xu Sanshi's Black Tortoise Awakening and knock him unconscious, eliminating him from the assessment.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu ambushed the apparently exhausted Dai Youheng, and Dai Huabin was credited with eliminating him.
• Huo Yuhao inferred that Dai Huabin had attacked his brother after the fight and vowed to avenge Dai Youheng.
• Cai Mei'er questioned the free-for-all selection method, but Xuan Zi defended the rules and refused to change the result.
• Dai Youheng listened from the treatment area and concluded that his plan had worked, since Xu Sanshi was out and Dai Huabin had advanced.

Huo Yuhao’s group used a coordinated tactic to secure the final spots in the Shrek Seven Devils Reserve Team, while Dai Huabin advanced after Zhu Lu conceded. The new team was left divided, and Huo Yuhao apologized to Dai Youheng for failing to avenge Dai Huabin’s ambush.

• Huo Yuhao directed his companions to lure eight opponents into a line, where he and Wang Dong defeated them with Withering in Splendor, Golden Road.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu returned to find Huo Yuhao’s group waiting; Zhu Lu conceded, leaving exactly seven contestants.
• Xuan Zi announced Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, He Caitou, Bei Bei, Jiang Nannan, and Dai Huabin as the new reserve team.
• Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo complained that Dai Youheng had been unfairly eliminated, while he remained unconcerned and focused on his plans beyond the academy.
• Huo Yuhao apologized to Dai Youheng for failing to eliminate Dai Huabin, and Dai Youheng reassured him that there would be other chances for revenge.

After the selection match, Shrek’s Reserve Team struggled with Xu Sanshi’s interference and the conflict between Dai Huabin and Huo Yuhao, so Xuan Zi chose Zhu Lu as the substitute. Dai Youheng avoided being pulled into the team and persuaded Zhou Yi to approve leave so he could clear his head.

• Jiang Nannan apologized to Dai Youheng for the trouble caused by Xu Sanshi, while Huo Yuhao promised to defeat Dai Huabin for him.
• Xu Sanshi disrupted the Reserve Team’s training by pursuing Jiang Nannan, while Dai Huabin rejected Huo Yuhao’s leadership and Spiritual Detection Sharing.
• Xuan Zi chose Zhu Lu as the substitute because she ranked eighth and could use Hell White Tiger with Dai Huabin.
• Dai Youheng felt relieved that he was not selected and asked Zhou Yi for leave to recover his composure.
• Zhou Yi approved Dai Youheng’s leave and told him to stay safe and return on time.