Recaps

Xu Cheng rescued Tang Ya from the toxic miasma, then destroyed the poisonous flowers guarding the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. He reached the pool with Tang Ya and Ma Xiaotao and confronted the immortal herbs, freezing the aromatic silk beauty as a threat.

• Xu Cheng agreed to revive the Tang Sect, then absorbed Tang Ya’s toxic miasma and calmed it with his flame.
• Xu Cheng identified the jade phosphorus seven-absolute flowers as the source of Sunset Forest’s toxic miasma and attacked them with high-explosive shells, ultimate ice, and Ice Explosion.
• Xu Cheng destroyed the poisonous flowers, earning a system reward that awakened his martial soul into double pupils.
• At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, the immortal herbs wondered whether Xu Cheng had come to test them, but he froze the aromatic silk beauty and warned that he could make the surrounding plants explode.

Xu Cheng confronted the immortal herbs about the Sunset Forest’s drained spiritual energy and learned that Tang San had built the hidden garden for his descendants. After exposing Tang San to Ma Xiaotao, Xu Cheng arranged a cockscomb phoenix sunflower sacrifice for her and sought help finding the formation’s core.

• Ma Xiaotao condemned the valley’s hidden garden for drawing spiritual energy from the Sunset Forest and leaving heaps of dead bodies outside.
• Xu Cheng learned from Youyou and Jiaojiao that Tang San had created the formation, and Tang Ya told Ma Xiaotao that Tang San was not the noble hero Shrek Academy revered.
• Xu Cheng explained that Ma Xiaotao could use a cockscomb phoenix sunflower to resolve her evil fire, and one flower volunteered to sacrifice itself for her.
• Xu Cheng told Tang Ya to choose an immortal herb for her fifth Soul Ring, then called Electrolux to help locate the formation’s core.

Zhongli Wu ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to search Shrek City for potential recruits, while Ye Xishui reflected on Mu En’s return. At Shrek, Tang San became Xuan Zi’s disciple in hopes of rescuing someone from Di Tian, but Xuan Zi refused and left him to begin training in the Outer Court.

• Zhongli Wu told Nangong Wan to gather information on Shrek students with devouring, slaughtering, or evil abilities, and Ye Xishui contemplated Mu En’s impending death.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao returned to Shrek Academy to complete exchange-student arrangements, where Xuan Zi asked Xiao Xiao to become his disciple.
• Tang San volunteered to become Xuan Zi’s disciple, and Wang Dong confirmed his twin martial souls and innate full soul power.
• Tang San asked Xuan Zi to rescue someone held by Di Tian, but Xuan Zi refused because the mission was too dangerous and could provoke the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xuan Zi left Tang San instructions to join the Outer Court and begin cultivation, disrupting Tang San’s plans to contact Ah Yin.

Ning Tian prepared to join Shrek’s exchange delegation to the Sun Moon Empire while weighing her sect’s future and its bitter history with Tang San. In the Sunset Forest, Xu Cheng and Ma Xiaotao discovered that a hidden formation was draining the empire’s dragon vein, and Electrolux destroyed it.

• Ning Tian read the exchange-student list, learned she would travel with Zhang Lexuan and other Shrek students, and accepted the journey for her family’s sake.
• Ning Tian reflected on the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s decline and its resentment toward Ning Rongrong and Tang San for failing to repay the sect’s sacrifices.
• Xu Cheng awakened with strengthened double Blood Eyes, while Ma Xiaotao emerged from the barrier with her evil fire fully integrated into her power.
• Elder Yi identified the valley as a formation that absorbed spiritual energy and severed a golden dragon near the center of a country.
• Electrolux revealed and shattered the formation, allowing the Sunset Forest to come alive.

Xu Cheng approved the production of a hundred first-generation mecha and ordered work on a stronger second generation, while Huo Lei secured most of the new machines for the Fire Phoenix Corps. At the Sun Moon Imperial Academy, Ma Xiaotao reunited with the supposedly dead Chen Zifeng and heard why he had rejected Shrek and chosen to remain under Xu Cheng’s influence.

• Xu Cheng inspected Mingde Hall’s first-generation mecha, and Xiao Bai dismissed its basic artificial intelligence as inferior to her own capabilities.
• Xu Cheng ordered Mingde Hall to produce a hundred first-generation mecha, allocating seventy to the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Corps and thirty to Evil Lord, and to develop a second-generation model.
• Huo Lei thanked Xu Cheng for the allocation, expecting the seventy mecha to greatly strengthen her four-battalion corps.
• Xu Cheng recalled how Ma Xiaotao had resolved her evil fire and how Youyou planned to conceal the revitalized Sunset Forest while allowing worthy visitors to undergo trials.
• Ma Xiaotao encountered Chen Zifeng at the Sun Moon Imperial Academy and learned he had survived, received a mechanical arm from Xu Cheng, and advanced to Soul Emperor.
• Chen Zifeng told Ma Xiaotao he would not return to Shrek, citing the academy’s treatment of his family and former students, and said he trusted Xu Cheng’s efforts against evil soul masters more.

Xu Cheng learned that soul rings formed when a soul beast’s spiritual energy became gray qi and combined with soul power, while Elder Cheng explained that artificial spiritual energy and age control remained unsolved challenges. At Shrek, Wang Dong openly defied Zhou Yi, condemned her teaching, and walked out of class.

• Elder Cheng told Xu Cheng that accumulated spiritual energy transformed into gray qi at a soul beast’s death and combined with soul power to form a soul ring.
• Xu Cheng inferred that soul power acted as a catalyst, and Elder Cheng confirmed that artificial spiritual energy and control over its age were still needed to make artificial soul rings.
• Zhou Yi questioned Class One about Shrek Academy’s longevity, and Wang Dong answered insolently while classmates discussed her upcoming exchange to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Zhou Yi punished Zhou Sichen and Cao Jinxuan with weighted laps, then insulted Wang Dong and grabbed at her.
• Wang Dong rebuked Zhou Yi for her lack of talent and teaching ability, slapped away her hand, and left the classroom.

Wang Dong humiliated Tang San and left Zhou Yi’s classroom, while Xu Cheng’s forces uncovered an illicit weapons deal outside Mingdu. The chapter ended with the patrol captain and his men surrounded and ordered taken away for interrogation.

• Tang San ordered Wang Dong to apologize to Zhou Yi, but Wang Dong demanded to know who he was.
• Wang Dong pinned Tang San beneath her foot, recalled saving him when he was crippled, and kicked him beside Zhou Yi.
• Wang Dong dismissed Zhou Yi’s Soul Emperor pressure, predicted she would be no match for her in five years, and left to cheers from students in the corridor.
• Outside Mingdu, a black-clad woman inspected a shipment of Mecha and Soul Tools from a City Defense Army captain, who said the Missile was unavailable.
• The woman revealed the Fire Phoenix Corps insignia, prompting Xu Cheng’s female soldiers to surround the smugglers.
• Xu Cheng ordered the captain and his men taken away and commanded his forces to uncover everyone behind the deal.

Xu Cheng exposed a black-market trafficking network reaching into Mingde Hall and Military Headquarters, then used the crackdown to reshape the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps and weaken Xu Jiran and Xu Tianran. The chapter ended with Shi Xing declaring the Military Intelligence Bureau’s authority to his subordinates.

• Xu Cheng told Xu Zhen that officials and students from Mingde Hall had trafficked Soul Tools and that evidence implicated senior figures in Military Headquarters.
• Xu Cheng said he would spare some suspects, suppress others, and execute those who had leaked advanced weapons technology to the original Three Kingdoms.
• The deputy commander of the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps was executed, while some arrested officers were released and others were convicted and killed.
• Military Headquarters appointed an Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps battalion commander as acting deputy commander of the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps, shifting the court’s balance of power.
• Xu Jiran learned that the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps had abandoned him, spat blood, and collapsed; Xu Tianran learned that two of his planted commanders had been arrested, with one killed resisting.
• Shi Xing announced to his subordinates that the Military Intelligence Bureau had special imperial authorization to act first and report later.

Mu En met with Shrek’s exchange students before their departure and urged Zhang Lexuan to secretly copy the Sun Moon Empire’s advanced soul tool blueprints. He also pressed Bei Bei to devote himself to Shrek and encouraged him to grow closer to Zhang Lexuan, but she agreed to end their arranged match and left burdened by the theft plan and thoughts of Ma Xiaotao.

• Mu En sent the students into separate rooms, then accepted Qian Duoduo’s plan to have Zhang Lexuan copy Sun Moon Empire missile and mecha blueprints with a concealed Soul Tool Replicator.
• Mu En told Bei Bei to shoulder responsibility for Shrek, oppose Tang Ya’s allegiance to the Sun Moon Empire and Holy Spirit Cult, and build a relationship with Zhang Lexuan.
• Mu En spoke privately with Zhang Lexuan, who agreed to cancel her arranged match with Bei Bei.
• Mu En gave Zhang Lexuan two soul tool rings and asked her to copy advanced Sun Moon Empire technology, leaving her troubled by the request.
• Zhang Lexuan thought about Ma Xiaotao and wondered whether she would recognize her when they met again.

Long Xiaoyao read Mu En’s request to protect Bei Bei, while Xu Cheng arranged Shrek and Sun Moon Academy’s exchange and advanced military research in the Sun Moon Empire. He sent Ju Zi to command a mecha battalion in the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Corps, leaving Keke and Zi Mu to watch her depart.

• Long Xiaoyao read Mu En’s letter asking him to care for Bei Bei and resolved to keep Bei Bei alive in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Yan Shaozhe and Jing Hongchen met in Maple Leaf City with the Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Imperial Academy exchange students, while the two sides addressed the prospect of inspection missions.
• Xu Cheng asked Xuan Ziwen to develop the All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool into a faster, heavier mobile gun platform and promised it funding and resources.
• Ju Zi told Keke and Zi Mu that Xu Cheng had arranged for her to command a mecha battalion in the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Corps.
• Ju Zi prepared to leave as Keke lamented that she could not join the corps and Zi Mu struggled with his feelings for her.
• Xu Cheng and Xuan Ziwen emerged from the Laboratory while Ju Zi was saying goodbye to Keke and Zi Mu.

Ju Zi and Xu Cheng spent an intimate stretch of time together on the way to her army camp, while Ma Xiaotao waited angrily outside. Later, Xu Cheng welcomed Shrek’s exchange students to Mingdu, where Zhang Lexuan’s examination revealed that she carried a high-grade Mingde Hall soul tool.

• Xuan Ziwen sent Ju Zi off with Xu Cheng and announced that he would treat Keke and Zi Mu to hot pot.
• Tang San decided to keep waiting rather than risk contacting his lower-realm counterpart and revealing himself to Goodness and Evil.
• Ju Zi pushed Xu Cheng down in the car and demanded they make it quick, but Ma Xiaotao ended up guarding the vehicle for hours before Ju Zi emerged.
• Xu Cheng invited Ma Xiaotao to see Shrek’s exchange students, and Jing Hongchen brought the group safely to Mingdu aboard his advanced flying soul tool.
• Xu Cheng greeted the exchange students at Mingde Hall and examined Zhang Lexuan, whose physical strength approached that of a Titled Douluo.
• The examination scanner sounded an alarm, indicating that Zhang Lexuan had a high-grade soul tool from Mingde Hall.

Shrek Academy tested Zhang Lexuan and the other students before Xiao Hongchen and the Sun Moon Empire exchange students began classes under Zhou Yi. The exchange students faced exhausting runs and a biased history lesson, while their poor fit for the Martial Soul Department's Inner Court standards disrupted Zhou Yi's elite-class plans.

• Xu Cheng noticed Zhang Lexuan's nervous reaction after the testing machine malfunctioned, and Lin Jiayi blamed Mingde Hall and offered another machine.
• The students completed their tests, revealing that Shrek's Martial Soul Department students had strong physical abilities while most Soul Tool Department students performed poorly.
• Zhou Yi sent Xiao Hongchen, Lin Xi, Ma Rulong, and the other exchange students running instead of teaching them on their first day.
• Zhou Yi assigned the class a history lesson from a textbook that praised Shrek, then ordered the students to run fifty weighted laps and threatened to withhold food from whoever finished last.
• Zhou Yi brooded over the exchange students because several Level 5 Soul Engineers did not meet the Martial Soul Department's Inner Court standards, disrupting her plans for the sixth-grade class.

Huo Yuhao continued cultivating at the Body Sect and learned how much Xu Cheng had done for him, while Huo Feng successfully tested a new mecha under Ju Zi’s command. Xu Cheng discovered Zhang Lexuan’s concealed recording ring and prepared to use Shrek’s attempt to steal Mingde Hall’s secrets against them.

• Huo Yuhao reached Level 29 after four months of intense cultivation, and Du Busi told him Xu Cheng had known his identity and still supported him.
• Du Busi said Huo Yuhao could leave for the Sun Moon Empire after reaching Soul Ancestor, though he expected Xu Cheng might come to collect him.
• Huo Feng demonstrated the mecha’s stealth, targeting, weapons, and defenses before Huo Qing, Ju Zi, and the gathered soldiers.
• Huo Qing encouraged Ju Zi in her new battalion command, and Ju Zi resolved to prove herself.
• Xu Cheng found Zhang Lexuan’s concealed ring and realized it was meant to copy Mingde Hall’s secrets, then considered exposing Shrek’s scheme.

Xu Cheng shifted his film studio toward Soul Master blockbusters while the Sun Moon Empire exchange students investigated Zhou Yi’s harsh training methods. Meanwhile, Zhang Lexuan infiltrated Mingde Hall and began copying its Missile blueprints, unaware that Xu Cheng had arranged her access and was monitoring her.

• Xu Cheng told the young director to make Soul Master combat films and handed him a manuscript titled “Tang San Crosses into Another World.”
• Xiao Hongchen and the exchange students challenged Zhou Yi’s training, suspected it left students with hidden injuries, and planned to investigate her history and contact A Cheng.
• Xu Cheng’s people let Zhang Lexuan enter Mingde Hall under his instructions, and Xu Cheng discovered that the fake blueprints she carried had been poorly made.
• Zhang Lexuan used the blueprints to reach an underground laboratory, found the Missile and its design blueprints, and started copying them.

Zhang Lexuan stole confidential data from Mingde Hall, but Jing Hongchen caught up with her after Xu Cheng helped her escape. When she and Xu Cheng unexpectedly fused their martial souls, they unleashed a colossal form against Jing Hongchen.

• Zhang Lexuan copied Mingde Hall's data but discovered that the exit password had stopped working before she escaped in an elevator with Xu Cheng as her hostage.
• Xu Cheng helped Zhang Lexuan pass the guards and fooled Jing Hongchen by claiming she was a newly recruited Holy Spirit Cult Saintess named Ma Xiaotao.
• Jing Hongchen attacked Zhang Lexuan on a dark street, and she demanded soul power from Xu Cheng while using him as a shield.
• Xu Cheng and Zhang Lexuan's soul powers fused, revealing an unexpected Martial Soul Fusion as they embraced.
• Xu Cheng and Zhang Lexuan transformed into a giant surrounded by gold and silver light, and Xu Cheng prepared to punch Jing Hongchen.

After a clash with Jing Hongchen, Xu Cheng and Zhang Lexuan recovered together, leaving her puzzled by their Martial Soul Fusion and his repeated use of “Auntie.” At the border, Ju Zi led the Fire Phoenix Corps’ new mecha battalion amid escalating clashes between Sun Moon and Star Luo forces.

• Jing Hongchen broke free of the attack, recognized that Xu Cheng and Zhang Lexuan had deliberately staged his capture, and ordered a level-one alert after they escaped.
• Zhang Lexuan carried the exhausted Xu Cheng to her dormitory, cared for him, and was pulled into his arms as their soul power circulated together through the night.
• Xu Cheng left the next morning without explaining why he had called Zhang Lexuan “Auntie,” while she concluded that his usual demeanor concealed his true intentions.
• Soldiers stationed in the Mingdou Mountain Range envied the Fire Phoenix Corps for receiving seventy mechas and additional strength from Xu Cheng’s approval.
• Ju Zi led the new mecha battalion as she reflected on how border clashes had killed twenty people and injured seventy in a month.

Tang San’s weakness and self-righteousness turned Class 21 against him, while Zhou Sichen and the others exposed his behavior to Zhou Yi. Meanwhile, Ma Rulong and Xiao Hongchen investigated the students Zhou Yi had allegedly ruined through her training and considered contacting them.

• Zhou Yi berated Tang San after he collapsed during physical training, then left the exhausted Class 21 students to recover.
• Zhou Sichen confronted Tang San over his bootlicking, and a fight broke out after Tang San threatened to report him; Cao Jinxuan and other students joined in while supposedly separating them.
• Tang San accused Zhou Sichen of insulting Zhou Yi, but Zhou Sichen claimed Tang San had threatened and insulted her, and the class backed his account; Zhou Yi dismissed everyone without investigating further.
• Ma Rulong, Lin Xi, Xiao Hongchen, and Li Yan discussed a list of former students allegedly left injured and stunted by Zhou Yi’s training, and Xiao Hongchen said he could contact them.
• Tang San ate cheap vegetable porridge alone while Zhou Sichen and Cao Jinxuan loudly ordered rabbit dishes, and he planned to seek Immortal Herbs from Xuan Zi so he could endure the training while his classmates suffered lasting damage.

Xu Cheng challenged Shrek's Martial Soul Department students to abandon their contempt for soul tools and demonstrated how easily he could defeat Chu Qingtian. He agreed to teach the exchange students and left with Zhang Lexuan to speak in his office.

• Lin Jiayi told Xu Cheng that only Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Ning Tian were taking his soul-tool lessons seriously, and Xu Cheng offered the students access to the Practical Control Soul Tool Department.
• Xu Cheng confronted the class about its disdain for soul tools, then appeared beside Chu Qingtian before the Soul Emperor could react and warned him that he was too weak.
• Zhang Lexuan explained that Xu Cheng's speed outclassed Chu Qingtian, and Xu Cheng argued that soul tools could let a Soul King wield strength comparable to a Titled Douluo.
• Zhang Lexuan asked Xu Cheng to serve as their instructor, and he agreed before telling the students to approach learning without arrogance.
• Xu Cheng ended the lesson and asked Zhang Lexuan to come with him, and she agreed while hiding her flushed face from the class.

Xu Cheng revealed to Zhang Lexuan that she might be his missing aunt, then used their soul-power compatibility and her sympathy for his lonely childhood to draw her closer. Meanwhile, Shrek Academy’s attempt to copy Sun Moon Empire soul-tool designs failed, and Xu Cheng began teaching the exchange students; Zhang Lexuan returned for extra lessons, and the chapter ended with her and Xu Cheng becoming intimate.

• Xu Cheng told Zhang Lexuan that a missing daughter of Prince Xu Baili might be her, and promised to keep the possibility secret from Shrek Academy.
• Xu Cheng persuaded Zhang Lexuan to cultivate with him in his office, and she left after falling asleep in his arms but considered returning.
• Qian Duoduo’s copied soul-tool craft failed its first test, and Mu En argued that Shrek needed to train students rather than expect to surpass the Sun Moon Empire immediately.
• Xu Cheng taught Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, and Mo Xuan about soul-tool core arrays while Zhang Lexuan struggled with her own lesson.
• Zhang Lexuan followed Xu Cheng to his office for extra lessons, and he claimed she had to pay him before they became intimate.

Qian Duoduo and Bai Xuan discovered that the blueprints’ altered soul-tool inscriptions made them question the foundations of soul-tool science, while Mu En concluded Shrek had received discarded designs that exposed its technological gap with the Sun Moon Empire. Xu Cheng spent the morning with Zhang Lexuan, then left to teach the exchange students as Yan Shaozhe resolved to oppose the Sun Moon Empire students’ plans concerning Zhou Yi.

• Qian Duoduo’s experiments with the blueprints failed, and he nearly killed himself before Yan Shaozhe stopped him and brought the matter to the Sea God Pavilion.
• Mu En had Bai Xuan reproduce a soul tool from the blueprints; after trying to make another in Qian Duoduo’s office, Bai Xuan experienced the same collapse in confidence and said that soul-tool science no longer existed.
• Bai Xuan explained that the blueprints’ device appeared designed to interfere with soul-tool formations, and Mu En concluded the designs were discarded drafts that demonstrated the Sun Moon Empire’s superiority.
• Mu En decided Shrek should publicly punish Zhou Yi to restore the great clans’ trust, but Yan Shaozhe left determined to prevent the Sun Moon Empire students from disrupting the Martial Soul Department.
• Xu Cheng and Zhang Lexuan spent the morning together in his office, and she kissed him to keep Wang Dong from discovering her there.
• Xu Cheng left to teach the exchange students about soul tools, while Zhang Lexuan watched him go with growing attachment.

Xu Jiawei struggled to fund Star Luo’s soul-tool development as disasters and aristocratic obstruction drained the treasury, while Ju Zi won permission to seek military merits. At the Sun Moon Imperial Academy, Xu Cheng taught Shrek’s students and began removing the seal on Wang Dong, knowing the procedure could alert the powerful figure who had placed it.

• Xu Jiawei doubled the Soul Tool Department’s funding despite the finance minister’s warnings, then ordered disaster relief stopped because the empire could not afford it.
• Xu Jiawei told Xu Jiujiu that her future would be a political marriage, and she accepted that her family and country came before love.
• Ju Zi persuaded Huo Qing to let her take part in the escalating border clashes so she could earn military achievements.
• Xu Cheng taught Shrek’s students about soul-tool core arrays and explained that the Sun Moon Empire’s long history of research put its technology far beyond theirs.
• Xu Cheng summoned Electrolux to examine Wang Dong’s seal, and Electrolux warned that removing it would alert the living figure who had placed the curse.
• Xu Cheng chose to proceed, and Electrolux formed an array around Wang Dong as the pale-blue phantom behind her screamed.

Xu Cheng freed Wang Dong'er from Tang San's seal, while Ning Tian's report persuaded the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect to send disciples to the Sun Moon Empire. Ju Zi led the Fire Phoenix Corps on a covert strike into Star Luo territory, aiming to destroy enemy infrastructure and build military merit.

• Xu Cheng and Electrolux destroyed Tang San's remnant soul and broke Wang Dong'er's seal, allowing her to use soul tools and leaving her overwhelmed with relief.
• Da Ming sensed that Wang Dong'er's seal had shattered and planned to report to the God King before investigating the Sun Moon Empire with Er Ming.
• Xu Cheng explained the forbidden curse to Zhang Lexuan, then the two resumed their intimate relationship.
• Ning Tian told Ning Hao that the Sun Moon Empire's students and education impressed her, and argued that Shrek's arrogance left the Original Continent's Three Kingdoms vulnerable.
• Ning Hao decided to send talented Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect disciples to enroll in the Sun Moon Empire, while Elder Zhu carried the message.
• Ju Zi led the Fire Phoenix Corps Mecha Battalion past the Mingdou Mountain Range defenses and ordered the soldiers to prepare for a fast-moving campaign of destruction in Star Luo territory.

Xu Cheng received Electrolux’s necromancy inheritance and experimented with undead magic in the demiplane, while the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect transferred its students to the Sun Moon Imperial Academy and enraged Yan Shaozhe. At Shrek Academy, Xiao Hongchen and his companions confronted Zhou Yi, ending with Xiao calling her a talentless teacher.

• Electrolux brought Xu Cheng to his Undead World, gave him the core framework for necromancy, and warned him about Douluo Continent’s soul-ring advancement system.
• Xu Cheng enlarged a Skeleton Soldier, summoned more undead, and unleashed Repulsive Force before taking control of the demiplane.
• Du Weilun told Yan Shaozhe that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had sent students to the Sun Moon Imperial Academy and that its other disciples had left Shrek; Yan severed cooperation with the sect.
• Jing Hongchen welcomed Ning Hao and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect children to the Sun Moon Imperial Academy.
• Xiao Hongchen, Ji Juechen, and their companions confronted Zhou Yi during class, and Xiao called her talentless and incapable of teaching students.

Tang San persuaded Xuan Zi to take him to Sunset Forest in search of immortal herbs, then brought him to confront Zhou Yi for neglecting and mistreating him. Meanwhile, Xiao Hongchen exposed the lasting harm Zhou Yi had caused her former students, but Yan Shaozhe tried to cover it up; Xuan Zi then beat Zhou Yi and ordered her expelled, leaving Yan Shaozhe to seek Mu En’s help and get turned away.

• Tang San told Xuan Zi that Sunset Forest held immortal herbs and that an ancient Clear Sky Sect text recorded their location, so Xuan Zi agreed to take him there and first brought him to Class One to confront Zhou Yi.
• Xiao Hongchen criticized Zhou Yi’s teaching methods, and Yan Shaozhe arrived, defended her record, and demanded that the exchange students apologize.
• Xiao Hongchen read out evidence that Zhou Yi’s former students had suffered injuries, been expelled, joined the Holy Spirit Cult, or died by suicide, but Yan Shaozhe threatened the witnesses and ordered them to keep quiet.
• Xuan Zi arrived with Tang San, slapped Zhou Yi repeatedly, and ordered Yan Shaozhe to expel her from Shrek Academy.
• Yan Shaozhe went to Mu En for help, but Mu En blamed him for the trouble and sent him out of the Sea God Pavilion.

Tang San searched the Sunset Forest with Xuan Zi for the poison-shrouded treasure land but found it unexpectedly thriving, while Shrek Academy suffered a mass exodus of prominent families after Yan Shaozhe protected Zhou Yi. The chapter leaves Ju Zi’s force preparing to strike at the White Tiger Duke and Xu Cheng openly declaring Zhang Lexuan his wife.

• Tang San accompanied Xuan Zi into the Sunset Forest to find the treasure land, but they found no poison miasma, and Xuan Zi offered him no cultivation guidance before Tang San went to seek soul beasts alone.
• Du Weilun told Yan Shaozhe that prominent families were withdrawing their students from Shrek Academy and enrolling them at Sun Moon Imperial Academy and Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy after Yan protected Zhou Yi; Xian Lin'er warned Yan not to retaliate against the Sun Moon students.
• Xu Cheng and Jing Hongchen discussed the families moving to the Sun Moon Empire, including the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, Ye Wanwan, Yu Tianlong, and Nan Qiuqiu, and Xu Cheng revealed that Wang Dong was the Clear Sky Sect’s heir.
• Ju Zi’s troops disrupted communications and supplies across several Star Luo Empire provinces, and Ju Zi planned to punish the White Tiger Duke while avenging Huo Yuhao’s mother without starting a war.
• Zhang Lexuan reunited with Ma Xiaotao and Chen Zifeng at the Sun Moon academy, learned why they had not returned to Shrek, and Xu Cheng pulled her into his arms and called her his wife.