Chapter Summaries

The mysterious voice revealed that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion shared the Golden Dragon King's bloodline and named her Gu Qingqiu, while explaining that Ye Xixuan was the Douluo Plane's child of destiny. Back at Shrek Academy, Mu En reflected on Ye Xixuan's potential and his own plans for the academy's future.

• Di Tian knelt as a mysterious voice appeared at the core of the Star Dou Great Forest, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion recognized it as a familiar presence.
• The voice explained that it had created the Three-Eyed Golden Lion from the Golden Dragon King's bloodline and gave her the name Gu Qingqiu.
• The voice told Di Tian that Ye Xixuan was the Douluo Plane's only child of destiny and might be its last hope, leaving Di Tian to question why the plane's consciousness was weakening.
• Mu En returned to the Sea God Pavilion, where Xuan Zi asked where he had been, and Mu En said he had seen something interesting.
• Mu En reflected that Ye Xixuan's encounters in the Star Dou Great Forest confirmed his extraordinary destiny and considered how Zhang Lexuan could bind him to Shrek Academy's future.

After returning to Shrek Academy, Ye Xixuan explained Tang Ya’s martial soul mutation to Mu En and sought a way to manage its devouring trait. Mu En sent him to Zhang Lexuan for help, where she noticed that Ye Xixuan had changed.

• Ye Xixuan and Tang Ya returned to Shrek Academy after Tang Ya’s evil qi had been purged and Ye Xixuan’s cultivation had advanced to rank thirty-seven.
• Tang Ya left to prepare for her fourth-year promotion assessment, while Ye Xixuan went to the Sea God Pavilion to speak with Mu En.
• Mu En confirmed Tang Ya’s condition was manageable and suggested finding a soul bone that could store soul power to contain what her martial soul absorbed.
• Ye Xixuan offered his ten-thousand-year Light Cyclops head soul bone in exchange for a suitable one, and Mu En advised him to ask Zhang Lexuan to arrange a trade.
• Ye Xixuan found Zhang Lexuan in the Sea God Pavilion Library, and she told him he seemed to have changed.

Ye Xixuan confessed his feelings for Tang Ya to Zhang Lexuan, who accepted the situation and offered to help him manage their relationship. After registering at Shrek Academy and meeting his roommate Huang Chutian, Ye Xixuan encountered Tang Wutong, who introduced herself.

• Ye Xixuan told Zhang Lexuan about what had happened with Tang Ya and admitted that he liked her.
• Zhang Lexuan invited Ye Xixuan to show her what Tang Ya had taught him, and they spent the night together in the Library.
• Zhang Lexuan offered to trade Ye Xixuan's ten-thousand-year Light Cyclops Head Soul Bone for a suitable Soul Bone for Tang Ya and urged him to register for classes.
• Ye Xixuan enrolled in the Outer Court, was assigned to Freshman Class Seven, and met his roommate Huang Chutian in Room 301.
• Ye Xixuan and Huang Chutian went to the cafeteria, where Tang Wutong approached Ye Xixuan and told him her name.

Ye Xixuan met Tang Wutong, whose interest in him seemed tied to his rare constitution and her father’s attention, while he worried about becoming entangled with the Tang family. After breakfast, he returned to the dormitory to cultivate, leaving Huang Chutian intimidated by the strength of his aura.

• Ye Xixuan recognized Tang Wutong as a potential link to God King Tang and wondered whether he could keep his distance from her.
• Ye Xixuan pretended not to know Tang Wutong, introduced himself, and shook her hand, frustrating her despite her willingness to respond.
• Tang Wutong told Ye Xixuan that they were different from the others, then left when he acted as if he did not understand.
• Xiao Xiao shyly introduced herself to Ye Xixuan before following Tang Wutong, and Huang Chutian later teased Ye Xixuan about choosing between the two girls.
• Ye Xixuan and Huang Chutian returned to their dormitory and cultivated, and Huang Chutian became frightened by Ye Xixuan’s powerful aura.

Ye Xixuan began classes in Freshman Class Seven, where he met the Lan sisters and watched events unfold outside. In Shrek Square, Tang Wutong challenged Zhou Yi’s teaching, and a powerful man intervened when Zhou Yi threatened to expel him.

• Ye Xixuan and Huang Chutian arrived late for breakfast and went to Freshman Class Seven, where Ye Xixuan met Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo.
• Lan Luoluo and Lan Susu gave Ye Xixuan pastries, while Huang Chutian helped himself to some of Lan Luoluo’s snacks.
• Ye Xixuan and the students in Class Seven noticed Tang Wutong confronting Zhou Yi in Shrek Square.
• Tang Wutong criticized Zhou Yi’s running-based teaching and revealed three purple soul rings.
• Zhou Yi threatened to expel Tang Wutong and released her soul power, but a burly man appeared and suppressed her aura, declaring Tang Wutong the Clear Sky Sect's Young Sect Master.

Tang Wutong’s Titled Douluo bodyguard confronted Zhou Yi at Shrek Academy over her abuse of authority. Cai Mei'er dismissed Zhou Yi, and Tang Wutong stayed at the academy as her bodyguard departed.

• A black-clad Titled Douluo arrived with Tang Wutong and overwhelmed Zhou Yi with his aura, while students and teachers gathered to watch.
• Du Weilun questioned the intruder, who challenged the academy over Zhou Yi’s authority to expel students.
• Fan Yu supported Zhou Yi as she insisted she had done nothing wrong, but Cai Mei'er formally dismissed her from the Martial Soul Department.
• Tang Wutong accepted the academy’s decision, sent her bodyguard away with a message for her fathers, and left with Cai Mei'er.
• Zhou Yi saw the crowds who had witnessed the confrontation and kept protesting as Fan Yu told her to stop dwelling on right and wrong.

Shrek Academy expelled Zhou Yi after the conflict involving Tang Wutong, while students speculated about Tang Wutong’s background and her interest in Ye Xixuan. Tang Wutong declined Cai Mei'er’s offer to join Ye Xixuan’s class, insisting that he would eventually understand they were the only ones of their kind.

• Cai Mei'er upheld the decision to remove Zhou Yi, and Fan Yu took the distraught teacher home.
• Xu Sanshi told Tang Ya and the others that Tang Wutong was rumored to have approached Ye Xixuan, leaving Tang Ya subdued.
• Fourth-year students were summoned to the Soul Dueling Area for their Promotion Assessment, while Freshman Class Seven met its new teacher, Nan Ruyao.
• Cai Mei'er offered to transfer Tang Wutong into Ye Xixuan’s class and provide a better cultivation environment, but Tang Wutong refused.
• Cai Mei'er recalled Mu En’s instruction that Ye Xixuan belonged to Shrek Academy alone.

Ye Xixuan met with Ling Luochеn and Nan Ruyao, then encountered Tang Ya and Tang Wutong at the freshman canteen. He told Tang Ya he barely knew Tang Wutong, leaving Tang Wutong furious.

• Nan Ruyao called Ye Xixuan to her office, where he found Ling Luochеn waiting for him.
• Ling Luochеn introduced Ye Xixuan to Nan Ruyao as his homeroom teacher and gave him a lunchbox to take for dinner.
• Ye Xixuan asked Nan Ruyao about her connection to the Earth Dragon Sect, then left the office with the lunchbox.
• Tang Ya and Tang Wutong met at the freshman canteen, where Tang Ya introduced herself as the Tang Sect's current Sect Master.
• Ye Xixuan arrived, took Tang Ya's hand, and said he had met Tang Wutong once but did not really know her, making Tang Wutong angrily protest.

Ye Xixuan rejected Tang Wutong’s claim that they belonged together and reaffirmed his support for Tang Ya. He then discovered that Tang Ya’s negative emotions stirred the evil qi in her Martial Soul Origin and helped absorb it, leaving them together by Sea God Lake.

• Ye Xixuan challenged Tang Wutong’s assumption that he was destined to be with her and left with Tang Ya.
• Tang Wutong vowed to prove at the Freshman Assessment that she was the right choice for Ye Xixuan.
• Mu En awakened in the Sea God Pavilion and declared that Shrek would remain Shrek’s own.
• Tang Ya embraced Ye Xixuan and explained that extreme negative emotions seemed to increase the evil qi in her Martial Soul Origin.
• Ye Xixuan absorbed Tang Ya’s evil qi for two hours, then shared lunch with her by Sea God Lake.

Zhang Lexuan met Tang Ya and gave her a thirty-thousand-year Ghost King Vine right arm soul bone that Ye Xixuan had arranged in exchange. After Ye Xixuan left, Zhang Lexuan urged Tang Ya to be understanding of him, but Tang Ya’s remark about a “bad woman” left Zhang Lexuan wondering if she fit that description.

• Zhang Lexuan arrived by Sea God Lake and explained that Dai Yueheng had exchanged a thirty-thousand-year Ghost King Vine soul bone for Ye Xixuan’s Light Cyclops head soul bone.
• Tang Ya woke, met Zhang Lexuan, and agreed to work hard to enter Shrek Academy’s inner court.
• Zhang Lexuan presented Tang Ya with the Ghost King Vine right arm bone, whose Soul Power Siphon skill matched Tang Ya’s martial soul.
• Tang Ya hinted to Zhang Lexuan about a private reward for Ye Xixuan, prompting him to leave for class while the two women continued talking.
• Zhang Lexuan advised Tang Ya to understand Ye Xixuan’s future responsibilities, and Tang Ya replied that only a bad woman could cause him to wrong her, making Zhang Lexuan wonder if she was that woman.

Xu Sanshi showed off his newly awakened Black Tortoise Shield and its ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring during the fourth-year Promotion Assessment. Ye Xixuan returned to class, where Tang Wutong and Huo Yuhao settled into their new classroom routines.

• Xu Sanshi revealed his evolved Black Tortoise Shield and four Soul Rings, including a ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring, then left the platform after his teacher threatened to invalidate his assessment.
• Jiang Nannan asked Ye Xixuan about Tang Wutong and Xiaoya, and Bei Bei agreed to speak to the teacher about Xiaoya's leave.
• Xu Sanshi teased Ye Xixuan about his Martial Soul and kept his fiancée's identity secret while mentioning she would compete in the tournament a year later.
• Ye Xixuan returned to Freshman Class Seven, where Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo had saved him a seat.
• Wang Yan began teaching Freshman Class One, where Tang Wutong kept her distance from the other students and Huo Yuhao listened attentively.

Vina demonstrated the four soul skills from the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s million-year soul ring and revealed her formless ice-attribute second martial soul to Du Busi. Du Busi confirmed that she should seek an Ice Jade Scorpion soul ring, but advised her to strengthen her spiritual power and physique first.

• Vina greeted Du Busi at the Heaven Dou imperial palace, and he asked to see the effects of her four soul skills.
• Vina demonstrated Spiritual Detection and Spiritual Sharing, astonishing Du Busi with the range and detail of the perception they provided.
• Vina used Soul Shock and Spiritual Interference on Du Busi.
• Vina revealed her formless ice-attribute second martial soul, and Du Busi confirmed that an Ice Jade Scorpion was the right soul beast for it.
• Vina asked whether she should go to the Far North, and Du Busi advised her to first strengthen her spiritual power and physique so she could absorb a soul ring from an Ice Jade Scorpion with at least ten thousand years of cultivation.

Du Busi revealed the Body Sect’s plan to bring a rare darkness-attribute genius from Shrek Academy back to the sect and arrange his engagement to Vina, binding the Body Sect to the Heaven Dou Empire. At Shrek, Nan Ruyao announced the upcoming Promotion Assessment and began forming freshman teams.

• Du Busi told Vina that the Body Sect had found a Night Family genius at Shrek Academy who possessed a darkness-attribute Body Martial Soul and could receive the Legacy Seed.
• Du Busi proposed that Vina become engaged to the Night Family genius, and Vina accepted the plan as her responsibility as a princess and Body Sect disciple.
• Du Busi said Long Ao Tian would be engaged to Mu Xue of the Snow Demon Sect to strengthen alliances against the Sun Moon Empire.
• Huo Yuhao continued studying at Shrek Academy and selling grilled fish outside Shrek City to cover his living expenses.
• Nan Ruyao announced that the Promotion Assessment would begin the next day and explained its team-battle rules and elimination stakes.
• Nan Ruyao assigned Ye Xixuan, Lan Susu, and Lan Luoluo to the first group, then continued forming teams.

Ye Xixuan showed Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo his terrifying soul ring configuration, leaving the sisters shocked. Outside the academy, Tang Wutong confronted him and grew angry when he ignored her invitation to join Xu Sanshi and Huo Yuhao for grilled fish.

• Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo asked Ye Xixuan to explain his martial soul and cultivation, and he took them to the woods.
• Ye Xixuan revealed his soul ring configuration, shocking the Lan sisters, who followed him back to the East City Gate in a daze.
• Tang Wutong blocked Ye Xixuan’s path, and Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo excused themselves and left.
• Xu Sanshi invited Ye Xixuan and Tang Wutong to eat grilled fish at Huo Yuhao’s stall.
• Tang Wutong rejected Xu Sanshi’s invitation, but Ye Xixuan sat down to eat, prompting Tang Wutong to follow and sit beside him.

Tang Wutong clashed with Ye Xixuan at Huo Yuhao’s grilled fish stall, while Tang Ya used her Martial Soul to weaken Xu Sanshi after suspecting him of bad behavior. The Freshman Assessment began the next day, and Ye Xixuan’s team won easily before he spotted Huo Yuhao and a familiar-looking blond boy.

• Tang Wutong argued with Ye Xixuan and left after promising he would understand during the Freshman Assessment.
• Tang Ya drained Xu Sanshi’s blood energy with her mutated Martial Soul and had him pay for more grilled fish.
• Tang Ya encouraged Huo Yuhao to pass the assessment so she could keep eating his grilled fish, while Jiang Nannan felt envious of her closeness with Ye Xixuan.
• Ye Xixuan’s team of Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo defeated their opponents, who each had only one soul ring.
• After the match, Ye Xixuan spotted Huo Yuhao and a blond boy who resembled Dai Yueheng.

Huo Yuhao faced Dai Huabin in the Freshman Assessment, but his hatred and the clash between their Martial Soul auras led Dai Huabin to overwhelm his team and knock him unconscious. Huo Yuhao was left defeated on the arena floor.

• Huo Yuhao recognized Dai Huabin as the enemy he hated when their teams entered the arena.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Deterrence while Jin Nianyun and Jin Nianzhao attacked Dai Huabin's team.
• Dai Huabin's White Tiger bloodline reacted to Huo Yuhao's Golden Lion King aura, and he revealed that he was a three-ring Soul Elder.
• Dai Huabin charged through Jin Nianyun and Jin Nianzhao, with the referee intervening before he injured them.
• Dai Huabin kicked Huo Yuhao in the chin, knocking him unconscious and sending him crashing to the ground.

Ye Xixuan's team advanced undefeated to the Freshman Assessment knockout rounds, where they drew Dai Huabin's team as their first opponents. Ye Xixuan revealed rank-thirty-seven soul power and a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring as the match began, leaving Dai Huabin and the others stunned.

• Dai Huabin left Huo Yuhao unconscious after their match, and Huo Yuhao missed the rest of the round-robin assessment.
• Ye Xixuan's team won all ten round-robin matches without Ye Xixuan needing to fight.
• Du Weilun began the knockout rounds, and Ye Xixuan drew Dai Huabin's team as his team's first opponents.
• Dai Huabin introduced himself as a rank-thirty-four Power Attack System Battle Soul Master, while Ye Xixuan revealed he was rank thirty-seven.
• Ye Xixuan released his dark aura and displayed purple, purple, and black soul rings, shocking Dai Huabin and his teammates.

Ye Xixuan overwhelmed Dai Huabin in the freshman arena, then defeated the Hell White Tiger formed by Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu. The battle ended with Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu badly weakened and Dai Huabin staring up at Ye Xixuan in despair.

• Ye Xixuan revealed a ten-thousand-year third soul ring, and his aura left Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, and Cui Yajie struggling to resist.
• Dai Huabin charged Ye Xixuan, but Ye Xixuan blocked his claws, punched him into the ground, and kicked him away.
• Dai Huabin ordered Zhu Lu to use Hell White Tiger, and the two fused into the enormous winged beast while Cui Yajie stayed back.
• Ye Xixuan summoned his Dark Demon Sword and struck the Hell White Tiger down, weakening its aura.
• Dai Huabin fired Cyclops Aurora from the Hell White Tiger, but Ye Xixuan split the beam and then cleaved the fused beast in two.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu fell from the fusion, feeble and pale, as Dai Huabin looked up at Ye Xixuan in despair.

Ye Xixuan defeated Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu’s team in the Freshman Assessment, drawing attention from Ning Tian, Wu Feng, Tang Wutong, and others. Huo Yuhao, ordered to leave Shrek Academy, watched Ye Xixuan’s victory and departed consumed by resentment and resolve.

• Ye Xixuan asked Cui Yajie whether she wanted to continue, and she surrendered, securing his team’s victory.
• Nan Ruyao, Mu Jin, and Wang Yan discussed Ye Xixuan’s talent, while Du Weilun took pride in his accomplishments.
• Ning Tian watched Ye Xixuan with interest, and Wu Feng tried to reassure her that their team could still win against him.
• Tang Wutong declared she would handle Ye Xixuan if they met, while Ye Xixuan’s attention remained on Huo Yuhao outside the assessment area.
• Huo Yuhao learned he had missed the remaining matches and was ordered to leave Shrek Academy, then walked away vowing to become stronger.

Ye Xixuan’s team defeated Ning Tian’s team in the round of thirty-two after he knocked Wu Feng unconscious with a Shadow Arrow, prompting Ning Tian to surrender. Ning Tian revealed that she intended to recruit Ye Xixuan for the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect at any cost, and Wu Feng fell silent when Ning Tian included herself and the sect’s resources in that price.

• Ning Tian drew Ye Xixuan’s team as her opponent, and she, Wu Feng, and Nanmen Yun’er entered the arena to face him and the Lan sisters.
• Wu Feng attacked Ye Xixuan with her Red Dragon martial soul, but he shot her down with a Shadow Arrow that shattered her scales and left her unconscious.
• The Lan sisters trapped Nanmen Yun’er with their Hair Net while Ye Xixuan’s gaze unnerved Ning Tian, who surrendered the match.
• Ye Xixuan withdrew the dark soul power from Wu Feng and told Ning Tian that Wu Feng would recover after two days of rest.
• Ning Tian told Wu Feng that she believed Ye Xixuan was the sole survivor of the Night Family and that the sect must recruit him at any cost.
• Wu Feng asked whether that cost included Ning Tian, and Ning Tian affirmed that she and everything belonging to the sect could be offered.