Chapter Summaries

Chen Ping prepared to deliver a reserved serving of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall to a new student at Shrek Academy. The chapter ended with Ning Tian and Xiao Feng heading to the dormitory, where Xiao Feng blushed while holding Ning Tian’s hand.

• Chen Ping reflected on Mu En’s reputation and watched Xuan Zi leave across Sea God Lake.
• A student called Chen Ping to arrange pickup of her reserved serving, and he agreed to meet her at the dormitory entrance.
• Ning Tian told Xiao Feng they would settle into the dormitory and officially register the next day.
• Ning Tian asked Xiao Feng to stop calling her young mistress and call her Sister Tian instead.
• Xiao Feng took Ning Tian’s hand and blushed, unaware that Ning Tian had not noticed her reaction.

Chen Ping followed Ning Tian and Wu Feng through Shrek Academy, unaware that Wu Feng suspected him of stalking them. When he tried to pass them, Wu Feng attacked, and the chapter ended with Chen Ping facing both girls’ soul rings and realizing he was outmatched.

• Chen Ping headed after Ning Tian and Wu Feng while thinking about his growing savings and a Mystic Water Pill.
• Wu Feng warned Ning Tian that Chen Ping was following them, but Ning Tian dismissed her concerns until they saw he had stayed behind them for a long time.
• As the girls neared their dorm, Chen Ping quickened his pace to overtake them, and Wu Feng released Ning Tian and kicked at him.
• Wu Feng transformed and attacked Chen Ping with her dragon-scaled arm, while Chen Ping dodged and readied his Insect Staff - Touch Dragon.
• Chen Ping saw Wu Feng's two yellow soul rings, then discovered Ning Tian also had two, leaving him alarmed at facing both girls.

Chen Ping fought off Wu Feng and Ning Tian by stealing Ning Tian’s speed boosts and using his staff to vault over Wu Feng. After arguing over whether Shrek’s dormitories were coed, he told the girls about a white-bearded old man lying outside the supposed girls’ dormitory and dared them to confront him.

• Wu Feng attacked Chen Ping with Dragon’s Fire while Ning Tian summoned her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to support her.
• Chen Ping distracted the girls by shouting for Teacher Li, then used his staff to vault over Wu Feng and intercept Ning Tian’s speed boost.
• Chen Ping repeatedly stole Ning Tian’s speed enhancements, enraging Wu Feng, who activated her Dragon’s Wrath but still could not catch him.
• Chen Ping jabbed Wu Feng with his staff and argued that Shrek’s dormitories were coed, while Wu Feng and Ning Tian insisted he was heading toward the girls’ dormitory.
• Chen Ping told the girls that a white-bearded old man lay outside the supposed girls’ dormitory and challenged them to beat him up.

Chen Ping confronted Wu Feng and Ning Tian after they attacked him, then discovered that a misunderstanding about the dormitory had begun with his own misleading reply. He settled the matter for a thousand gold soul coins and let them leave, while the two girls remained curious about how a One-Ring Soul Master had stayed at Shrek.

• Chen Ping revealed his Hundred-Year Soul Ring and threatened to report Wu Feng and Ning Tian for their attack, while a white-bearded old man secretly watched.
• Chen Ping showed Wu Feng and Ning Tian that the dormitory building housed both male and female students, and listed the four disciplinary violations they had committed.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng explained that Bei Bei had connected them with Chen Ping to order food, and Chen Ping realized his reply had reinforced their mistaken belief that the building was a girls' dormitory.
• Chen Ping demanded a thousand gold soul coins for the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, accepted the payment, and let Ning Tian erase the Recording Pearl's footage.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng left after Ning Tian suggested meeting again with Bei Bei, still wondering how Chen Ping had remained at Shrek as a One-Ring Soul Master.

Chen Ping reached level fifteen and worried about his chances in Shrek’s Freshman Competition before delivering Buddha Jumps Over the Wall to Mu En. Mu En teased Chen Ping into promising to take first place in his exams and asked him to bring more food in the future.

• Chen Ping reached level fifteen, compared his cultivation with Ning Tian and Wu Feng, and worried that he could not compete against three-ring Soul Elders without Soul Tools.
• Chen Ping hurried to Shrek’s dormitory to deliver Xuan Zi’s takeout to Mu En.
• Chen Ping told Mu En that Xuan Zi had ordered the nourishing Buddha Jumps Over the Wall for him, while Mu En revealed he knew Chen Ping had been bad-mouthing him.
• Chen Ping claimed children who ate the dish came first in their exams, so Mu En challenged him to prove it and threatened to confront him if he failed.
• Mu En sent Chen Ping away and told him to bring Buddha Jumps Over the Wall directly to him in the future.

Mu En praised Chen Ping’s medicinal cooking and ordered someone to investigate his background. Chen Ping weighed his chances in the freshman tournament and hoped to be placed with powerful teammates as he looked ahead to academy life.

• Mu En savored Chen Ping’s Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, recognized its benefits, and decided to investigate Chen Ping’s background.
• Chen Ping considered the teams and Martial Soul Fusion Skills that could threaten his bid for first place in the freshman tournament.
• Chen Ping concluded that teaming up with Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu would give him the best chance, though he also saw possibilities with Huo Gua or the Blue Sisters.
• Chen Ping’s worries eased as he anticipated the tournament and considered unlocking powerful supplement formulas from the system.

Chen Ping returned to Shrek Academy, collected his monthly stipend, and completed the registration process for his new student dormitory. After cleaning his cramped room, he wondered whether his roommate would tolerate the conditions or move elsewhere.

• Chen Ping considered ways to obtain dragon blood for his cultivation before heading to Shrek Academy the next morning.
• Bei Bei and Tang Ya welcomed Chen Ping at the gates while earning credits by greeting new students.
• Chen Ping collected his monthly Gold Soul Coin stipend and suspected that academy officials resented paying it out.
• Chen Ping paid ten Gold Soul Coins, received his dormitory key and uniform, and greeted Mu En before entering the dormitory.
• Chen Ping cleaned his small, dusty room and wondered whether his roommate would move elsewhere because of the cramped conditions.

Chen Ping learned that he had been assigned to Mu Jin’s Freshman Class Nine, then shared his cafeteria table and meal with a poor, skinny freshman. He discovered the boy was Huo Yuhao, whose future would soon intersect with Chen Ping’s business and bring him into conflict with Zhou Yi.

• Chen Ping checked the class noticeboard and found that he had been assigned to Mu Jin’s Freshman Class Nine rather than Zhou Yi’s Class One.
• Chen Ping secured a large helping of Crystal White Jade Rice at Window Eight and invited a thin boy eating alone to share his table.
• The boy introduced himself as Huo Yuhao and said he planned to sell grilled fish outside the academy.
• Chen Ping recognized Huo Yuhao and considered offering him supplements, unaware that Huo Yuhao would soon become one of his customers.
• Chen Ping’s presence at Shrek would eventually draw him into conflict with Zhou Yi despite his efforts to avoid the academy’s major upheavals.

Chen Ping arrived early at Freshman Class Nine and began studying, setting off a chain reaction that spread through the freshman classrooms. The chapter ended with Zhou Yi confronting the noisy students of Class One and declaring them all trash.

• Chen Ping enjoyed having his dorm room to himself, then went early to Class Nine and chose a front-row seat.
• Chen Ping reviewed his textbook and found that Five Years of Soul Hunting, Three Years of Simulation covered much of the material.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng saw Chen Ping studying and joined him, prompting the other Class Nine students to open their books as well.
• The studying spread from Class Ten through the freshman classrooms until nearly every class was quietly reading.
• Zhou Yi arrived at the corridor, called the students in Class One noisy, and announced that every student in her class was trash.

Mu Jin introduced himself as the friendly homeroom teacher of Class Nine, contrasting his approach with Zhou Yi’s harsh treatment of Class One. He began the school year’s first lesson on Soul Masters and Soul Tools, leaving the freshmen learning about an Unranked Recording Pearl.

• Mu Jin greeted Class Nine and explained that he preferred making friends with his students, unlike Zhou Yi.
• Zhou Yi ordered nearly a hundred Class One students to run a hundred laps around Shrek Square or face expulsion.
• Mu Jin praised Chen Ping for arriving early and studying, then encouraged Ning Tian and Wu Feng for studying too.
• Mu Jin wrote “Soul Master, Soul Engineer, Soul Tool” on the blackboard and began explaining the three terms.
• Mu Jin revealed that a Recording Pearl, an Unranked Soul Tool, had let him learn about events in the classroom.

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.