Chapter Summaries

The Shrek Reserve Team tried to steady themselves for the tournament while Dai Yueheng and Yao Haoxuan recovered from their injuries. Back at Shrek Academy, Xuan Zi faced a somber Sea God Pavilion Meeting as Qian Duoduo blamed him for nearly getting Chen Ping killed.

• Wang Yan reassured the Outer Court students that Dai Yueheng and Yao Haoxuan needed about half a month to recover, while Yao Haoxuan joked to lift their spirits.
• Ning Tian and Bei Bei encouraged the Reserve Team with the possibility of reinforcements, though Wang Yan privately doubted the academy could send any.
• At Shrek Academy, a white-robed old man reported that the injured students were stable, their seas of consciousness had been hurt but not destroyed, and Huo Yuhao had easily suppressed Xiaotao's evil fire.
• Xuan Zi joined Yan Shaozhe and the academy leaders at a Sea God Pavilion Meeting, appearing forlorn over the incident.
• Qian Duoduo recalled how Chen Ping had barely survived and angrily blamed Xuan Zi's negligence for putting his disciple in danger.

At a Sea God Pavilion meeting, Xuan Zi accepted responsibility for the disastrous Inspection Corps mission and tried to resign and mutilate himself. Mu En angrily stopped him, condemned his attempt to flee his mistakes, and ordered him to teach in the Outer Court after the tournament.

• The Soul Tool Department learned Chen Ping had used its stored defensive soul tools to protect the Inner Court students, likely earning the department a major favor from Elder Mu.
• Xuan Zi announced he would resign his posts, leave the Sea God Pavilion, and surrender his possessions to atone for his failures.
• Yan Shaozhe defended Xuan Zi, but Xuan Zi knelt before Elder Mu and confessed that his negligence had nearly cost the academy its students.
• Xuan Zi tried to gouge out his own soul bones, and Mu En struck him away with a burst of golden light.
• Mu En rebuked Xuan Zi for trying to desert after making a mistake and ordered him to teach at the Outer Court once the tournament ended.

Mu En forced Xuan Zi to accept a post teaching in the Outer Court, then urged him to learn from Chen Ping and prepare to lead Shrek after Mu En’s death. He also ordered Shrek’s Inner Court students to use defensive and flying soul tools, and learned that Chen Ping had designed a new flying soul tool.

• Mu En threatened to expel Xuan Zi from Shrek and complain to his senior brother, so Xuan Zi agreed to teach in the Outer Court.
• Mu En told Xuan Zi to reflect on his failures, study Chen Ping’s methods, and prepare to shoulder Shrek’s burdens after Mu En returned to the tree.
• Mu En ordered every Inner Court student to use defensive and flying soul tools, overruling Yan Shaozhe’s attempt to object.
• Mu En praised the Soul Tool Department’s defensive equipment and asked Qian Duoduo to prepare a report on its new flying soul tool.
• Qian Duoduo revealed that Chen Ping had designed the flying soul tool, and Mu En asked Qian Duoduo and Chen Ping to analyze its strategic value together.

Mu En forced the Sea God Pavilion to accept defensive soul tools and challenged Shrek’s fixation on tradition and honor, then chose to let the Reserve Team compete without reinforcements. Meanwhile, Chen Ping and his companions reached Star Luo City, where Xu Sanshi insulted its imposing walls and angered nearby citizens.

• Mu En confronted Yan Shaozhe over his opposition to defensive soul tools and demanded that the Inner Court pay for its purchases and compensate the Soul Tool Department tenfold for seven defensive soul tools.
• Yan Shaozhe reluctantly agreed, and Mu En declared that Inner Court students must use soul tools and that Yan Shaozhe should step down if he clung to old conventions.
• Mu En rejected sending reinforcements to the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament and entrusted the Reserve Team to compete on its own.
• Mu En ordered Lin'er to arrange an exchange with the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy and warned the elders to keep Chen Ping’s new flying soul tool secret.
• Chen Ping and his companions arrived at Star Luo City and marveled at its enormous walls.
• Xu Sanshi mocked Star Luo City’s square walls, provoking the anger of nearby citizens.

Shrek Academy’s reserve team prepared for the tournament while Wang Yan hid his doubts to protect their morale. Chen Ping revealed a mysterious power beyond soul power by unleashing a punch that shattered every conference-room window.

• Chen Ping and the others took Xu Sanshi into the Star Emperor Hotel after he angered people with his remarks.
• Wang Yan reassured the reserve team that reinforcements could join later and explained the tournament’s opening knockout round.
• After the other students left, Wang Yan admitted that his confidence had been an act and that the reserve team would likely face opponents of similar strength without further reinforcements.
• Bei Bei mistook Chen Ping’s calm for another attempt to bolster morale, but Chen Ping recalled his fight against a five-thousand-year Scorpion Tiger and gathered a pale red power around his fist.
• Chen Ping threw a Lunge Punch that created a sonic boom and shattered every conference-room window.

After a powerful blast shook the Star Emperor Hotel, Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s students gathered outside Shrek’s conference room. Wang Yan admitted Shrek was responsible, offered compensation, and eased the hotel manager’s concerns, while Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen pushed for punishment.

• An explosion shattered the windows in the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s conference room, and Ma Rulong recognized that it had come from Shrek’s conference room.
• Shrek’s reserve members and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s students gathered outside the damaged room as Star Luo Empire officials arrived.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen accused Shrek of breaking the tournament rules and urged the manager to handle the incident impartially.
• Wang Yan apologized on Shrek’s behalf, offered gold soul coin cards to compensate disturbed students, and promised to pay for hotel damage.
• The manager reconsidered pursuing the matter after Wang Yan offered compensation and decided to accept Shrek’s proposal.

Elder Ma challenged Shrek Academy to account for the explosion at the Star Emperor Hotel, refusing to accept Wang Yan and the hotel manager’s proposed settlement. Wang Yan steered the crowd into Shrek’s conference room, where they found Chen Ping bare-chested and apparently ready to explain the damage as a few punches.

• The Star Emperor Hotel manager offered compensation to students whose cultivation had been disturbed, but Elder Ma objected to Shrek and the hotel settling the incident without the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Elder Ma cited tournament rules against Soul Skills, Soul Tools, and Soul Fighting in the accommodation area, then demanded that Shrek hand over the culprit.
• Wang Yan tried to stop Elder Ma while secretly guiding the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and the watching students into Shrek’s conference room.
• The crowd saw Bei Bei and bare-chested Chen Ping, whose swollen, crimson right arm drew their attention; the room showed no clear signs of fighting or an explosion.
• Chen Ping opened his eyes and said the tournament rules did not forbid a student from casually throwing a couple of punches.

Chen Ping silenced the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy students by crushing adamantine with his bare hand, demonstrating his strength without using soul power. He left the conference room while Ma Rulong demanded the detector records and Meng Hongchen watched him with a faint blush.

• The supervisor recognized Chen Ping as the Shrek student who had asked about the soul power fluctuation detector.
• Meng Hongchen and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy students mocked Chen Ping's claim that one punch had shattered the conference-room windows, and Chen Ping corrected her that he had thrown only one punch.
• Chen Ping walked toward Meng Hongchen, prompting Xiao Hongchen and Ma Rulong to move in front of her.
• Chen Ping crushed a piece of adamantine into a ball with his bare hand, stunning the assembled Soul Masters and making the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy students part to let him pass.
• After Chen Ping left, Xiao Hongchen examined the metal ball and Ma Rulong demanded the seventh-floor detector records, while Meng Hongchen watched Chen Ping's retreating figure and blushed.

Chen Ping used his blood qi to demonstrate overwhelming physical strength at the Star Emperor Hotel, embarrassing the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and concealing the true extent of his team's abilities. Afterward, he returned to his room to recover the blood qi he would need for the tournament the next day.

• Xiao Hongchen failed to move the ball of adamantine Chen Ping had squeezed, while Ma Rulong's detector showed no soul power fluctuations from Chen Ping's punch.
• Wang Yan argued that Chen Ping had not violated tournament rules and offered compensation, while Elder Ma led the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy group away.
• The female supervisor arranged repairs and compensation for Shrek Academy, leaving the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy group feeling ignored.
• Chen Ping drank potent supplements and went to sleep after his blood-qi-fueled display left him severely weakened.
• Chen Ping recalled how years of body tempering had nurtured blood qi he could concentrate to multiply his physical strength, and he had used the display to mislead rival teams about Shrek Academy's capabilities.

After Chen Ping’s feat of squeezing adamantine into a ball spread through the tournament teams, Shrek Academy arrived for the first knockout round under heightened scrutiny. The story left the young Shrek team waiting in the competitors’ area as other academies feared drawing them.

• Elder Ma doubted Chen Ping could crush genuine adamantine through physical strength alone, while Xiao Hongchen confirmed the metal was pure and had been squeezed by hand.
• Meng Hongchen admitted that Chen Ping’s strength made Shrek’s reputation believable, prompting Xiao Hongchen to worry that she was attracted to him.
• News of Chen Ping’s feat and a recording of it spread through the Star Emperor Hotel and reached nearly all the tournament teams.
• Xu Jiawei arranged the tournament arena before the imperial city, where the emperor and officials could watch the opening knockout matches.
• Chen Ping and six other Shrek students waited with Wang Yan in the competitors’ area, and the other academies feared facing them.

At the tournament’s opening ceremony, Chen Ping reassured Shrek Academy’s Reserve Team that his rumors and intimidation plan would make their opponents fear them. As Shrek entered its first knockout match against Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy, its opponents were already visibly terrified, while Chen Ping and his teammates acted casually before the watching crowd.

• The Star Luo Emperor declared the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament open, and the host announced Shrek Academy’s first match against Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy.
• Chen Ping told Shrek’s Reserve Team that rumors about their strength had spread among all 133 teams and urged them to carry out his plan.
• The seven Tianling competitors struggled to reach the stage and lined up awkwardly because they feared Chen Ping’s rumored feats of strength.
• Chen Ping explained that he had spent Gold Soul Coins to spread praise of Shrek and build its image as invincible.
• Chen Ping led Shrek onto the stage, followed by the other six Reserve Team members, who appeared so casual that spectators wondered if they were taking the match seriously.

Chen Ping and Shrek’s reserve team faced Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy in the tournament’s first knockout match. Shrek’s teammates left Chen Ping alone on the stage, while their boasts and indifference made Tianling’s students fear the unknown as the referee prepared to start.

• Shrek’s reserve team entered the arena with Chen Ping, alarming the Tianling students who recognized him from the previous day’s rumors.
• Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Wu Feng, Ning Tian, and He Caitou teased Tianling’s team by implying Chen Ping would fight them alone and defeat them quickly.
• The referee explained the team-battle rules and ordered both teams to retreat to opposite ends of the field.
• Shrek’s six reserve members strolled off the arena, leaving Chen Ping facing Tianling’s seven students by himself.
• Tianling’s students formed their formation as Chen Ping yawned, and the referee hesitated with his hand still raised.

Chen Ping challenged all seven Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy students to withstand one punch, then shattered the arena floor with a blow powered by physical strength alone. Terrified by the display, the Tianling team fled or fainted, leaving Chen Ping’s challenge unanswered.

• Chen Ping faced the seven Tianling Academy members and told them to take one punch each, promising to leave the stage if any of them endured it.
• Chen Ping punched the arena floor, shaking the venue and leaving a web of cracks nearly twenty meters wide.
• Xiao Hongchen and Ma Rulong watched the destruction through a Soul Power fluctuation detector and feared Chen Ping’s strength.
• Chen Ping walked toward the Tianling team and asked who wanted to take his punch first.
• One Tianling student forfeited and fled, prompting the others to panic, run away, or faint.

Chen Ping overwhelmed Tianling Academy with a single Earthquake Vibration Fist, secretly breaking his own arm in the process. After healing enough to reveal his hand, he addressed the stunned crowd as the tournament’s opening match ended.

• Chen Ping concealed his shattered arm while using the Living Being Carving Knife’s life force to repair it, as spectators mistook his strained grin for confidence.
• His punch terrified Tianling Academy’s students and referee, while the audience believed Chen Ping was an invincible physical fighter.
• Chen Ping urged the stunned referee to announce the result, and Tianling’s teachers carried their unconscious students off the arena.
• The spectators gaped at the damage to the arena and Shrek Academy’s calm team as the match was declared over.
• After his arm’s bones had barely rejoined, Chen Ping greeted the audience and welcomed them to the tournament.

Chen Ping concealed his exhaustion after his one-punch victory with Ning Tian and Wu Feng's help, while his performance prompted investigations and shattered Xiao Hongchen's confidence. He slept in the two young women's hotel room for two days and a night before waking.

• Chen Ping asked Ning Tian and Wu Feng through Sound Transmission to support him and conceal his weakness as Shrek's Reserve Team left the arena.
• Xu Jiawei ordered an investigation into Chen Ping's background, while a middle-aged man from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect demanded an investigation after seeing him embrace Ning Tian and Wu Feng.
• Xiao Hongchen struggled to accept Chen Ping's overwhelming strength and doubted his own standing as a prodigy.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng brought Chen Ping to their hotel room, where he fell asleep after severely overdrawing his Blood Qi.
• Wang Yan obtained a spare key card for Chen Ping's room, allowing Ning Tian and Wu Feng to stay there while Chen Ping occupied their bed.
• Chen Ping woke after two days and a night, and Ning Tian scolded and tickled Wu Feng for calling out loudly when they returned.

Ning Tian and Wu Feng sneaked into Chen Ping’s room to retrieve Ning Tian’s dress, only to discover Chen Ping was awake and the situation grew embarrassing. After Wu Feng teased them, Chen Ping and Ning Tian teamed up to tickle her, leaving the room with a romantic awkwardness between Chen Ping and Ning Tian.

• Ning Tian brought Wu Feng into Chen Ping’s room to retrieve her pleated dress without waking him.
• Wu Feng helped Ning Tian roll Chen Ping aside while Ning Tian searched the bed for her dress.
• Ning Tian found the dress trapped beneath Chen Ping and tickled his waist while trying to pull it free, causing him to reveal he was awake.
• Ning Tian blamed Wu Feng, and Wu Feng teased Chen Ping and Ning Tian about the dress.
• Chen Ping suggested that he and Ning Tian punish Wu Feng, and they tickled her until she begged for mercy.

Wang Yan reported that Yao Haoxuan might return for the Reserve Team’s second round-robin match and reviewed the team’s prospects and tactics. Chen Ping stopped Wang Yan from considering a rule-breaking strategy, leaving Wang Yan remorseful but relieved.

• Wang Yan told the Reserve Team that Yao Haoxuan’s injuries were healing quickly enough that he might compete in their second round-robin match.
• Wang Yan said Chen Ping’s overwhelming first-match victory had convinced other academies that Shrek’s Reserve Team was exceptionally powerful.
• Wang Yan reviewed the other academies’ matches and asked Bei Bei and the others to explain their Soul Skills so he could plan for the round-robin stage.
• After learning that Ning Tian’s and He Caitou’s support effects could stack, Wang Yan suggested that the team secretly use He Caitou’s Cigars during matches.
• Chen Ping objected that cheating would dishonor the team, reminding Wang Yan that Shrek had asked the Reserve Team to show how far it could go.
• Wang Yan recognized that his suggestion could mislead the students and felt remorseful and relieved that Chen Ping had stopped him.

Wang Yan apologized for his mistake, while Chen Ping humiliated Xiao Hongchen after the meeting. As the tournament entered its round-robin stage, Chen Ping led Shrek Academy into the arena and noticed a strange, predatory look from the wine-red-haired girl beside Xiao Hongchen.

• Wang Yan admitted he was wrong to condone cheating and apologized to his students, who respected him more for it.
• Xiao Hongchen challenged Chen Ping, but Chen Ping mocked his strength and compared him to the defeated students from Tianling Academy.
• Chen Ping reflected that without Shrek Academy's resources, he might never have qualified for the tournament and would not have been worth the compensation paid for a dead student.
• The first knockout round ended after more than a dozen students died, and spectators and competing academies gathered to watch Shrek Academy's first round-robin match.
• Chen Ping led Shrek Academy into Star Luo Plaza and noticed the wine-red-haired girl beside Xiao Hongchen staring at him like a hunter looking at prey.

Shrek Academy faced Yunluo Academy in a one-on-one knockout match, and Chen Ping volunteered to compete first so he could preserve his teammates’ trump cards while bluffing their opponents. The chapter ended with Ma Yingjun eagerly accepting Chen Ping’s promise to use the match to test flying soul tools, while Yunluo’s team hoped to avoid injury by yielding.

• The host announced Shrek Academy’s matchup with Yunluo Advanced Soul Engineer Academy, and Bei Bei went onstage to draw the format.
• The captains drew an individual knockout match, and Chen Ping stepped forward as Shrek’s first competitor.
• Wang Yan and the others learned through sound transmission that Chen Ping intended to use the match to keep Shrek’s trump cards hidden and continue his bluffing strategy.
• Yunluo’s first competitor, Ma Yingjun, nervously recognized Chen Ping and begged him to go easy, admitting he was a fan who had watched a recording of Chen Ping forcing back the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Chen Ping put on flying soul tools and told Ma Yingjun he only needed to test their maneuverability, and Ma happily agreed while Yunluo’s team sought to avoid injuries.

Ma Yingjun tried to survive Chen Ping’s arena challenge long enough to claim they had been evenly matched, but Chen Ping effortlessly dodged his barrage with an unusually agile Flying Soul Tool. Ma Yingjun launched a surprise ground-level glide to evade Chen Ping’s dive, and the crowd’s astonished cries left him wondering what had happened.

• Ma Yingjun armed himself with Soul Tools and opened fire as Chen Ping swept across the arena on his Flying Soul Tool.
• Chen Ping easily evaded Ma Yingjun’s Soul Guidance Rays and Soul Cannons, while spectators from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy noticed his Flying Soul Tool’s extraordinary maneuverability.
• Ma Yingjun unleashed one final volley, shed his other Soul Tools, and skimmed along the arena floor to avoid Chen Ping’s dive.
• The audience cried out in astonishment, and Ma Yingjun realized their reaction might not be about his maneuver.