Recaps

Mu Jin asked his students why extreme Soul Master team strategies were gaining popularity again, and Chen Ping explained how Soul Tools could compensate for their weaknesses. Mu Jin was impressed by Chen Ping’s knowledge and wondered how an eleven-year-old could answer so expertly.

• Mu Jin discussed different Soul Master team strategies and asked why extreme lineups had regained interest.
• Ning Tian suggested that the renewed interest was connected to Soul Engineers and Soul Tools.
• Mu Jin called on Chen Ping, who explained that Soul Tools could give extreme teams control, defense, and ranged attacks to offset their weaknesses.
• Chen Ping questioned whether a lineup supported by Soul Tools could still be called extreme, leaving Mu Jin impressed.

Chen Ping earned Academic Genius Points during Mu Jin’s lesson on soul tools, while Huo Yuhao struggled to finish Zhou Yi’s hundred-lap punishment. Wang Dong carried him through the final laps, but the field erupted into chaos and Chen Ping realized his changes to the past had left Huo Yuhao without the cultivation support that might have kept him safe.

• Chen Ping earned 140 Academic Genius Points by listening, answering Mu Jin’s questions, and continuing to cultivate during class.
• Mu Jin encouraged Class Nine to use soul tools, arguing that they would become essential companions for soul masters.
• Huo Yuhao fell far behind during Zhou Yi’s hundred-lap run, while Zhou Yi refused to give him water and blamed him for his struggle.
• Wang Dong used her Light Goddess Butterfly wings to carry Huo Yuhao through his remaining laps before the deadline.
• Chen Ping noticed blood on the field, Wang Dong, and Huo Yuhao, then realized his changes had kept Huo Yuhao from joining the Tang Sect and learning the Mysterious Heaven Skill.

A white-clad Soul Saint healed Huo Yuhao enough to stabilize him and explained that he had suffered internal injuries, but Zhou Yi still expelled the nine students who had failed to finish the run. After the students left to complain, the other homeroom teachers confronted Zhou Yi for driving Huo Yuhao to collapse and silencing anyone who questioned her.

• Mu Jin left his classroom and went to the field, where a white-clad Soul Saint used his cypress martial soul to treat Huo Yuhao and warned Wang Dong that Huo Yuhao needed rest and food to restore his strength.
• The Soul Saint left without acknowledging Zhou Yi, and Zhou Yi ordered the nine students she had singled out to leave despite their expectation that she would reconsider.
• Tai Long challenged Zhou Yi over Huo Yuhao finishing the run only with help, but Zhou Yi insisted that the result was all that mattered and threatened to cripple the students' Martial Souls.
• The nine expelled students went to the academic affairs office to lodge a complaint while Huo Yuhao remained in severe pain.
• Zhou Yi used her Lion's Roar to drive away the watching students, prompting Mu Jin and the other homeroom teachers to step forward and challenge her conduct.

Mu Jin and the other teachers challenged Zhou Yi over her treatment of students and her claim to authority. Chen Ping realized the Freshman Competition would decide who became the freshmen’s year director and resolved to win first place to avoid falling under Zhou Yi’s control, though he worried that victory might not stop her.

• Mu Jin criticized Zhou Yi for pressuring students and ordering freshmen from other classes around before she was year director.
• A male teacher confronted Zhou Yi about making Huo Yuhao cough up blood and urged her to submit a teaching incident report.
• Chen Ping watched as Ning Tian and Wu Feng joined him in observing the teachers’ confrontation.
• Chen Ping inferred that the Freshman Competition would determine both the top class’s teacher and the freshmen’s year director.
• Chen Ping decided his class had to win first place so he would not be subjected to Zhou Yi’s teaching, but he still feared she might become year director anyway.

Chen Ping decided to find a way to use Zhou Yi’s abuse of power against her, then began selling massages to exhausted students. His first customer’s reaction drew a crowd, while Chen Ping hinted that his service had a more expensive next step.

• Chen Ping judged that Zhou Yi’s influence made confronting her dangerous, but resolved to try to remove her rather than wait until he gained power.
• Zhou Yi dismissed Class One and warned the students that she would punish anyone who defied her orders.
• Chen Ping headed to the playground, where he spotted an exhausted chubby boy and offered him a low-cost massage.
• The boy accepted a five-minute massage for one Silver Soul Coin, and Chen Ping’s technique quickly eased the tension in his calves.
• Chen Ping stopped after the five minutes and privately thought that the Coiling Dragon Sect’s one-stop service would cost extra.

Chen Ping massaged Class One students while encouraging their resentment of Zhou Yi and hinting at a future massage and supplement business. He left his plan to unite the incoming year against Zhou Yi to develop gradually, then promoted Purple Sweet Potato Spirit supplements.

• Chen Ping massaged the chubby boy, whose aches eased, drawing other Class One students to try the massage.
• While massaging the students, Chen Ping told them that Zhou Yi had expelled most of a third-year class and suggested she targeted weaker students.
• The Class One students began to doubt Zhou Yi and shared resentment, while Chen Ping decided to plant a seed and build broader opposition over time.
• Chen Ping invited the students to visit his planned massage shop in Class Nine and advertised supplements, including Purple Sweet Potato Spirit, which turned users purple after running.

Chen Ping planned to earn most of his money by selling supplements through a massage shop, after discovering that his system could not teach him advanced pill-making or healing techniques. He agreed to sell supplements to Wang Dong for her roommate Huo Yuhao, leaving him with a possible way to keep track of their development and complicate Tang San’s plans.

• Chen Ping explained that massages would attract customers, while his supplements would provide the main profits and protect his business from imitators.
• A student from Class One asked whether Chen Ping’s supplements could improve running, convincing him that his sales plan was gaining traction.
• Wang Dong stopped Chen Ping and demanded that he deliver supplements to her dorm room for her roommate.
• Chen Ping refused to deliver the supplements and told Wang Dong to find him in Class Nine or visit his future shop.
• Wang Dong restrained her temper and asked where Chen Ping lived so she could collect the medicine.
• Chen Ping gave Wang Dong his dorm room number and agreed to sell her supplements, hoping to stay connected to her and Huo Yuhao.

Chen Ping used a medicinal supplement and Movement Meditation to turn Mu Jin’s long-distance running class into an intense physical breakthrough. After completing 188 laps, he slowed down, while Wu Feng left with a stitch after pushing herself to keep up.

• Mu Jin assigned the students individual lap quotas and coached them as they ran.
• Chen Ping, fueled by a medicinal stew he had prepared at noon, ran at full speed while Movement Meditation accelerated his cultivation.
• Wu Feng became competitive after Chen Ping repeatedly lapped her and increased her pace until she was sprinting ahead of the other students.
• Chen Ping’s blood thickened and his body began manifesting blood vitality as he ran past his assigned 85 laps.
• Chen Ping continued to 188 laps before slowing as his food and medicine were spent, while Wu Feng left the Playground clutching her side with a stitch.