Chapter Summaries

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.

Xu Cheng intervened when the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape tried to take Wang Dong from the Sun Moon Empire, and Wang Dong accepted his offer to become his disciple. He marked her and gave the brothers a stark choice, leaving the standoff poised to turn into a fight.

• Chen Zifeng fled, while Zhang Lexuan affirmed her feelings for Xu Cheng and worried about their future after her exchange ended.
• Ma Xiaotao recounted how she had been captured and imprisoned by the Holy Spirit Cult, and Xu Cheng identified Zhongli Wu as the leader of the operation.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape arrived to take Wang Dong, but Sun Moon Empire forces surrounded them and refused to clear a path.
• Xu Cheng revealed the brothers' identities and history with Tang San, then offered Wang Dong his protection by asking her to become his disciple; she accepted.
• Xu Cheng marked Wang Dong, summoned Kong Deming, Ye Cheng, and other powerful allies, and told the brothers they could leave only if they left Wang Dong behind or killed her.

Xu Cheng rescued Wang Dong from Da Ming and Er Ming, then entrusted her to Kong Deming while the beasts withdrew. In the Star Dou Great Forest, the Silver Dragon King drove off Da Ming and Er Ming, and the Auspicious Beast asked to visit the human world to oversee Xu Cheng’s artificial soul-ring research.

• The Sky Azure Bull Python ordered the Titan Giant Ape to release Wang Dong, and Xu Cheng caught her before asking Kong Deming to protect her.
• Xu Cheng told Ye Cheng that he had not found Ye Guyi, and Ye Cheng accepted that he would have to keep waiting.
• The Auspicious Beast decided she wanted to become human and planned to leave the Star Dou Great Forest under the pretext of supervising Xu Cheng’s artificial soul-ring research.
• Da Ming and Er Ming demanded the soul fragment from Di Tian, but the Silver Dragon King ordered them away and challenged Tang San to come retrieve it himself.
• The Auspicious Beast approached the Silver Dragon King and asked to go to the human world to urge Xu Cheng to develop artificial soul rings faster.

The Auspicious Beast won the Silver Dragon King's permission to leave the Star Dou Great Forest and meet Xu Cheng, while Ju Zi's forces seized the White Tiger Duke's Mansion and sought the location of the Dai family's ancestral graves. Xu Cheng brought Zhang Lexuan to the imperial banquet, where a noble boy injured an attendant, prompting Xu Cheng to consider the punishments he would impose after taking the throne.

• The Auspicious Beast compared Di Tian to the witch from Rapunzel, and the Silver Dragon King let her leave with a protective scale to serve as a liaison with Xu Cheng.
• Ju Zi's mechas cleared the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, and Ju Zi demanded that the White Tiger Duchess reveal where the family's ancestral graves were.
• Xu Cheng encouraged Zhang Lexuan to attend the banquet and meet her blood relatives, then helped her prepare for the event.
• Xu Xiaofeng and his companions injured an attendant during a cruel bet at the imperial banquet, while the guests stayed silent.
• Shi Xing told Xu Cheng that the injured attendant belonged to his forces, and Xu Cheng promised to handle the matter as his car headed to the palace.
• Xu Cheng reflected on the Sun Moon Empire's nobles' abuse of commoners and resolved that some people would die after he took the throne.

At the Imperial Palace banquet, Xu Cheng punished Xu Xiaofeng and Xu Shi for causing trouble, then publicly rebuked the prime minister and forced him to stab himself. Xu Zhen backed Xu Cheng and accepted the prime minister’s resignation, while Xu Jiangnian concluded that Xu Cheng’s actions had warned and won over those present.

• Xu Cheng stopped a fat guest from striking an attendant, confronted Xu Xiaofeng, and lifted Xu Shi into the air before Xu Jiangnian intervened to save him.
• Xu Tianzhen urged Xu Cheng to kill the unruly young nobles, but he told her to focus on being a princess.
• After the banquet began, Xu Cheng reported the nobles’ disorder to Xu Zhen and challenged the prime minister over his grandson’s conduct.
• Xu Cheng made the prime minister stab himself, and Xu Zhen imposed a five-year stipend forfeiture on Xu Cheng while allowing the prime minister to retire.
• Xu Jiangnian told Xu Shi that Xu Cheng could have killed him and explained that the prince’s actions were both a warning and an attempt to win favor.

Xu Cheng learned that Zhang Lexuan was the missing daughter of the Xu family, while a raid on the White Tiger Duke’s ancestral graves brought the Star Luo Empire and Sun Moon Empire to the brink of war. After Ju Zi returned safely and Xu Cheng rejected Xu Jiawei’s demands, Xu Jiawei sought an alliance, but Shrek gave him only an ambiguous promise.

• Xu Cheng told Xu Jiangnian that his missing sister was alive at Shrek Academy, and Zhang Lexuan revealed herself as Xu Mingxuan and reunited with her brother.
• Xu Cheng directed a film about Tang San’s life and planned to pause production until he could find convincing ways to portray powerful soul beasts.
• A messenger reported that Ju Zi’s forces had attacked the White Tiger Duke’s mansion and destroyed his family’s ancestral graves, prompting Dai Hao to threaten action and Xu Jiawei to pursue diplomacy.
• Xu Cheng learned that Ju Zi had escaped capture, seriously wounded a Titled Douluo, and returned to camp, then ordered a defiant response to Xu Jiawei’s demands.
• Xu Jiawei called for an alliance with the other countries and Shrek Academy, but Du Weilun replied that Shrek might join someday without giving a timeline.