Chapter Summaries

Lin Ye paid Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong’s registration fees as they passed Shrek Academy’s entrance tests, while Ning Rongrong revealed her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul. Lin Ye clarified that he had no intention of enrolling, then learned that the successful applicants would face another test and questioned Shrek Academy’s worth.

• Lin Ye paid the registration fees for Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong, increasing Dai Mubai’s suspicions about Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing’s relationship.
• Zhu Zhuqing passed the age and Soul Ring tests after summoning her Nether Spirit Cat Martial Soul and showing two Hundred-Year Soul Rings.
• Ning Rongrong passed the age test and revealed her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul, surprising the old man and Lin Ye.
• Ning Rongrong privately considered using her status as the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect master's daughter to win Lin Ye’s attention.
• Lin Ye told the old man he was not registering, and the old man sent the successful applicants with Mubai to the next test.
• Lin Ye was surprised Shrek Academy had another test and privately criticized the academy’s poor resources and demanding admissions standards.

Dai Mubai led the newly registered students into Shrek Academy and left to prepare their next test. While they waited, Lin Ye bought and sampled Oscar’s Soul Power sausages, finding them tasty and useful for his cultivation.

• Dai Mubai brought Tang San, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Lin Ye into the village and told them to wait while he fetched something.
• Oscar arrived selling sausages, and his soft voice surprised Lin Ye and the others because he looked like a heavily bearded older man.
• Tang San bought one large sausage and one cured sausage after Oscar protested being called an uncle and claimed he was fourteen.
• Lin Ye bought all the sausages remaining on Oscar’s cart and discovered that they contained Soul Power.
• Lin Ye praised Oscar’s sausages for their taste and effects and said he would buy them again if he had the chance.

Lin Ye hired Oscar to supply sausages and defended the quality of Oscar’s Soul Power food when Dai Mubai warned the others away because of Oscar’s embarrassing soul incantation. Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong tried the food, while Oscar was moved by Lin Ye’s support.

• Lin Ye offered Oscar one thousand Gold Soul Coins a month to deliver three hundred big sausages and three hundred little cured sausages, and Oscar accepted.
• Dai Mubai confronted Oscar for selling sausages at the academy and insisted that he demonstrate his soul incantation to Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• Oscar summoned a sausage with the incantation “I Have a Big Sausage,” causing Xiao Wu to throw away the food she had nearly eaten.
• Lin Ye argued that the sausages’ benefits mattered more than their embarrassing incantation and criticized the group for rejecting a Food System Soul Master’s food.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong took sausages from Lin Ye and began eating them, and Oscar thanked Lin Ye for speaking up for him.

Lin Ye reunited with Tang San and Xiao Wu at Shrek Academy, then listened as Dai Mubai explained the second assessment. Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing tested their Soul Power and qualified to skip ahead, while Zhu Zhuqing reflected on Lin Ye’s far greater strength.

• Tang San and Xiao Wu recognized Lin Ye, who said he had forgotten Grandmaster’s instruction to come to Shrek Academy.
• Dai Mubai learned that Lin Ye knew Tang San and Xiao Wu, and assumed Lin Ye was a commoner.
• Dai Mubai explained that applicants with Soul Power above rank twenty-five could proceed directly to the final test.
• Xiao Wu tested at rank twenty-nine Soul Power, and Ning Rongrong tested at rank twenty-seven.
• Zhu Zhuqing tested at rank twenty-nine Soul Power, prompting Ning Rongrong’s jealousy as Zhu Zhuqing compared herself with Lin Ye, who had reached rank fifty-four.

Dai Mubai explained Shrek Academy’s four admission trials and led Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Lin Ye to the final assessment. Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing questioned what the academy could offer its demanding applicants, and Teacher Zhao announced that the last trial would test their combat ability.

• Dai Mubai explained that Shrek Academy tested applicants’ age, Soul Power, martial-soul development, and control before a final trial.
• Lin Ye judged Shrek Academy’s high admissions standards to be mismatched with its poor facilities, while Zhu Zhuqing reconsidered why she would attend.
• Dai Mubai led the group to a training field and summoned Teacher Zhao for the final assessment.
• Teacher Zhao noticed that four applicants had skipped the first two trials and said they must prove their combat ability to enter Shrek Academy.

Zhao Wuji set the four applicants a combat test against himself, prompting Dai Mubai to explain the powerful teacher’s abilities and past as the Immovable King. As Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing introduced themselves and began preparing, Dai Mubai suddenly recognized Zhu Zhuqing’s name.

• Zhao Wuji announced that the four applicants had to endure his attacks for one incense stick’s time, while limiting himself to Soul Power below rank thirty and his first two soul rings.
• Dai Mubai explained that Zhao Wuji was a rank seventy-six Soul Sage with the Mighty Vajra Bear Martial Soul, and Ning Rongrong recalled his conflict with Spirit Hall and escape from sixteen bishops.
• Lin Ye reacted angrily to Zhao Wuji’s history with Spirit Hall but suppressed his urge to retaliate so he could keep his identity as Spirit Hall’s Holy Son concealed.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing introduced their Martial Souls and ranks as the group prepared to plan for the test.
• Dai Mubai heard Zhu Zhuqing’s name and abruptly froze as he recognized it.

Dai Mubai realized Zhu Zhuqing was his fiancée and grew jealous of her closeness to Lin Ye, while Tang San, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong began their assessment battle against Zhao Wuji. The chapter ended as Zhu Zhuqing aimed a claw strike at Zhao Wuji’s eyes.

• Dai Mubai recognized Zhu Zhuqing as his fiancée and silently fumed as he watched her beside Lin Ye.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong used the time Zhao Wuji gave them to plan their assessment strategy.
• Lin Ye sat aside with Tangyuan while Dai Mubai tore up weeds and brooded over Zhu Zhuqing and Lin Ye.
• Ning Rongrong boosted Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing, and Tang San restrained Zhao Wuji with Blue Silver Grass.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing attacked Zhao Wuji, but his defenses shrugged off their strikes.
• Xiao Wu flung Zhao Wuji through the air, and Zhu Zhuqing leaped into his path to stab toward his eyes.

Zhao Wuji repelled Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing with his Martial Soul and first Soul Skill, and Lin Ye caught the injured Zhu Zhuqing before Dai Mubai could. Dai Mubai’s anger at Lin Ye intensified, and he accidentally revealed to Ma Hongjun that Zhu Zhuqing was his fiancée.

• Tang San rebound Zhao Wuji’s attempt to break free by using Parasitism to bind him again.
• Zhao Wuji activated Martial Soul Possession and Immovable Bright King Body, blasting Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing away.
• Tang San caught Xiao Wu, while Lin Ye caught the injured Zhu Zhuqing and sent Dai Mubai stumbling aside.
• Ma Hongjun saw Lin Ye holding Zhu Zhuqing and assumed they were a couple, provoking Dai Mubai.
• Dai Mubai angrily told Ma Hongjun that Zhu Zhuqing was his fiancée, then realized he had revealed their relationship.

After Zhao Wuji’s test left Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu injured, Lin Ye healed them and condemned the unfair assessment. He turned on Zhao Wuji, setting up a confrontation at the academy.

• Ma Hongjun secretly enjoyed learning that Dai Mubai had been cheated on, then bargained with him for five visits to Heaven on Earth each month in exchange for keeping quiet.
• Lin Ye caught the unconscious Zhu Zhuqing after knocking Dai Mubai away and blamed Shrek Academy for making a Soul Elder’s combat test unfairly dangerous.
• Lin Ye healed Zhu Zhuqing with his Nine Spirit Immortal Begonia Martial Soul, then asked Ning Rongrong to watch over her.
• Lin Ye healed Xiao Wu, who woke beside Tang San, while Zhao Wuji criticized the group for wasting time and asked whether they would continue the test.
• Lin Ye angrily called Zhao Wuji shameless for using soul skills against the four Soul Grand Masters during the assessment.

Lin Ye condemned Zhao Wuji for injuring the applicants and unfairly testing them, then stood his ground when Zhao Wuji attacked. Lin Ye’s full-strength punch sent Zhao Wuji flying, leaving the training field stunned.

• Lin Ye angrily accused Zhao Wuji of bullying the four Soul Grand Masters and criticized Shrek Academy’s entrance test.
• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu reacted with admiration, gratitude, warmth, and excitement as Lin Ye defended them, while Dai Mubai grew increasingly jealous and furious.
• Zhao Wuji refused to admit fault and instead roared at Lin Ye for insulting Shrek Academy.
• When Zhao Wuji charged and swung his bear paw at him, Lin Ye punched him with nearly thirty thousand jin of force.
• Lin Ye’s punch sent Zhao Wuji flying, and the training field fell silent.

Lin Ye challenged Zhao Wuji over Shrek Academy’s treatment of its students and revealed his five-ring Soul King cultivation and powerful soul-ring configuration. After boosting his strength with soul skills and a soul bone, Lin Ye overwhelmed Zhao Wuji and left him helpless beneath a brutal assault.

• Lin Ye sent Zhao Wuji flying with a punch and criticized Shrek Academy for demanding much from students while offering poor conditions.
• Zhao Wuji dismissed Lin Ye’s healing-type Martial Soul, while the others worried that Lin Ye might be at a disadvantage.
• Lin Ye summoned the Nine Spirit Immortal Begonia and revealed five soul rings, including three ten-thousand-year rings.
• Lin Ye activated two soul skills and the Bloodthirsty Berserk soul bone, then used Phoenix Dance Six Illusions to attack Zhao Wuji.
• Lin Ye repeatedly struck and kicked Zhao Wuji, leaving him unable to retaliate and crying out in pain.

Lin Ye continued beating Zhao Wuji until Zhao Wuji unleashed his soul skills and Martial Soul Avatar to overpower him. Lin Ye broke free of Zhao Wuji’s gravity techniques with his Diamond Overlord Body and smashed him into the ground.

• Lin Ye battered Zhao Wuji across the training ground until Zhao Wuji activated his Immovable Bright King Body and repelled him.
• Zhao Wuji used Positioning Tracking, then powered up with Great Strength Adamantine Palm, Manxiong Possession, and Martial Soul Avatar.
• Zhao Wuji used Gravity Enhancement and Gravity Compression to restrain and pull Lin Ye toward him.
• Lin Ye activated Diamond Overlord Body, broke free of the gravity effects, and increased his strength beyond Zhao Wuji’s.
• Lin Ye struck Zhao Wuji with a powerful punch and smashed him into the ground.

Lin Ye used his newly enhanced speed to overwhelm Zhao Wuji with a relentless barrage of punches. Zhao Wuji finally broke down and admitted he was wrong.

• Lin Ye and Zhao Wuji argued after Zhao Wuji climbed out of the pit, and Zhao Wuji refused to admit fault.
• Lin Ye activated the Nine Spirit Immortal Begonia’s third soul skill, Ghost Shadow, and greatly increased his speed.
• Lin Ye vanished from Zhao Wuji’s sight and struck him before he could react.
• Lin Ye unleashed a storm of punches that kept Zhao Wuji airborne and overwhelmed his defenses.
• Zhao Wuji cried out in pain and finally shouted that he was wrong.

Lin Ye defeated Zhao Wuji and secured Zhu Zhuqing’s place at Shrek Academy, then left with Tangyuan entrusted to her. Outside the village, Golden Crocodile Douluo revealed that he had found a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

• Lin Ye beat Zhao Wuji into submission, and Zhao Wuji agreed that the students had passed the assessment.
• Lin Ye warned Zhao Wuji to control his temper and told Zhu Zhuqing she could leave Shrek Academy or seek him out whenever she wished.
• Lin Ye left Tangyuan with Zhu Zhuqing and departed, while Dai Mubai avoided confronting them and Ma Hongjun feared provoking Lin Ye’s associates.
• After Lin Ye left Shrek Academy, Zhao Wuji dispelled his Martial Soul Avatar and complained of his injuries, then singled out Ma Hongjun when the others watched him.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo appeared beside Lin Ye outside the village and announced that he had found a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

Golden Crocodile Douluo explained that Xiao Wu was a juvenile, human-form Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and urged Lin Ye to claim her soul ring and soul bone. Lin Ye could not agree to kill Xiao Wu or let Spirit Hall take her, so he persuaded Golden Crocodile Douluo to keep her identity secret while he considered what to do.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo explained how Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts could transform into humans, and that experts above Soul Douluo level could detect them before they reached level sixty.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo identified Xiao Wu as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Charm Rabbit and urged Lin Ye to capture her for her soul ring and soul bone.
• Lin Ye admitted he could not bring himself to kill Xiao Wu because they had known each other since childhood.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo suggested that the Pope or Holy Maiden could take Xiao Wu’s soul ring, but Lin Ye refused to let anyone else kill her.
• Lin Ye asked Golden Crocodile Douluo not to inform Spirit Hall Headquarters and to leave Xiao Wu alone until Lin Ye reached level sixty; Golden Crocodile Douluo agreed.

After learning Xiao Wu was a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, Lin Ye struggled with what to do and tried to ease his troubled mind through training at the Violet Grand Hotel. At Shrek Academy, Dai Mubai took the new students to their shabby dormitories, where Oscar revealed that Lin Ye had hired him to make sausages.

• Lin Ye returned to the Violet Grand Hotel, weighed whether to kill Xiao Wu or let Spirit Hall hunt her, and trained with the Dragon-Elephant methods to calm himself.
• Zhao Wuji sent Dai Mubai to guide Tang San, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong to the dormitories, and Dai Mubai reluctantly complied because he feared Lin Ye.
• Dai Mubai assigned the students to the wooden huts, and Ning Rongrong complained about their poor condition while Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing went with her to their shared room.
• On the way to dinner, Ma Hongjun asked Oscar why he had been making sausages, and Oscar said Lin Ye had hired him for one thousand Gold Soul Coins a month to make one hundred sausages and cured sausages daily.
• Ma Hongjun reacted with surprise when Oscar named Lin Ye as his new client.

Zhu Zhuqing and the others adjusted to Shrek Academy’s poor conditions while she prepared to use Lin Ye’s Twin Magic Tools to investigate Dai Mubai. She sent Tangyuan to hide in Dai Mubai’s cabin, setting up her plan to see his true nature.

• Ma Hongjun warned Oscar about Lin Ye’s strength and told him not to pursue Ning Rongrong or Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing were disappointed by Shrek Academy’s meager food and lack of cultivation resources, but they ate with the others.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu cleaned and settled into their wooden hut for the night.
• Ning Rongrong noticed the two patterned snail shells on Zhu Zhuqing’s bed, and Zhu Zhuqing called them lucky charms.
• Zhu Zhuqing explained through the Twin Magic Tools that Tangyuan should sneak into Dai Mubai’s cabin and hide there, then sent it off with a reward.

Zhu Zhuqing overheard Dai Mubai explain that he had fled his family’s deadly succession struggle to enjoy his remaining years, and she decided to determine her own fate without him. The next evening, Lin Ye and Xie Lin won their fifteenth straight team match before Lin Ye heard a familiar voice near the arena and went to investigate.

• Tangyuan secretly entered Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun’s cabin while Zhu Zhuqing listened through their shared senses.
• Dai Mubai told Ma Hongjun that he and Zhu Zhuqing were engaged through a political marriage and that he had left home to escape a deadly succession struggle he expected to lose.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun went out together to seek amusement, and Zhu Zhuqing decided she no longer wanted anything to do with Dai Mubai.
• Lin Ye agreed to join Xie Lin and Su Ying at the Soto Great Spirit Arena, where Lin Ye and Xie Lin won their fifteenth consecutive team match.
• After the group parted ways, Lin Ye heard a familiar cold voice telling Dean Flender to move aside and went toward it.

After the students finished their spirit battles, Zhu Zhuqing decided to leave Shrek Academy after seeing Dai Mubai’s behavior. Flender tried to stop her, but Lin Ye arrived and challenged anyone who dared to stand in her way.

• Flender and Zhao Wuji discussed Shrek Academy’s hopes for the next All-Continent Soul Master Academy Elite Exchange Tournament and Flender insisted Zhu Zhuqing must stay.
• The students finished their spirit battles, and Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai received permission to go out for the night.
• Zhu Zhuqing called Dai Mubai disgusting and told Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong she was leaving Shrek Academy.
• Flender blocked Zhu Zhuqing and refused to let her withdraw, despite Zhao Wuji urging him to let her go.
• Lin Ye arrived and declared that no one would stop Zhu Zhuqing.

Lin Ye confronted Flender when he refused to let Zhu Zhuqing leave Shrek Academy, then used his Lightning Falcon Wings to stop Flender from pursuing her. The chapter ended with Lin Ye punching Flender out of the sky.

• Lin Ye defended Zhu Zhuqing's right to withdraw, but Flender insisted that Shrek Academy would not let her leave.
• Lin Ye moved Zhu Zhuqing behind him and urged her to go, while Flender activated his Four-Eyed Owl Martial Soul and took to the air after her.
• Lin Ye summoned the Nine Spirit Immortal Begonia, enhanced himself, and used his Symbiotic Battle Suit to manifest Lightning Falcon Wings.
• Lin Ye intercepted Flender in midair, but Flender tried to fly past him and continue after Zhu Zhuqing.
• Lin Ye caught up with Flender and punched him out of the sky.