Recaps

Jiang Nannan joined Lu Yu’s cultivation group after explaining how his advice had helped her use Soul Tools, and Lu Yu demonstrated that his Soul Power could fuse with others to speed cultivation. The next morning, he and his companions arrived early at Freshman Class One, where he assessed the students and found Wang Dong had the class’s second-highest Soul Power Level.

• Jiang Nannan asked to learn from Lu Yu, and Tang Ya teased her about joining after refusing the Tang Sect; Jiang Nannan explained that Lu Yu had advised her to supplement her Soft Bone Rabbit with Soul Tools.
• Lu Yu helped Xiao Xiao and Jiang Nannan cultivate, and both discovered that his Soul Power fusion doubled their Soul Power circulation speed.
• Tang Ya and Huo Yutong asked to cultivate with Lu Yu, but he arranged to teach Xiao Xiao and Jiang Nannan the Mysterious Heaven Skill first and promised to learn Heart Separation Control before cultivating with everyone together.
• Lu Yu, Xiao Xiao, and Jiang Nannan reached Freshman Class One early the next day, where Lu Yu surveyed his classmates’ Martial Souls and spotted Wang Dong using an alias.
• Lu Yu found that he and his companions and Wang Dong had the class’s best Martial Souls, and that Wang Dong ranked second in Soul Power Level at twenty-one; a stern, elderly teacher then entered the classroom.

Zhou Yi punished Class One with a hundred laps and expelled nine students for skipping some, prompting Lu Yu to suspect Shrek’s standards and investigate its favoritism. After disguising himself, he told the expelled students that Zhou Yi was protected by her connections, and Tai Long asked whether Lu Yu had a way to help them.

• Zhou Yi introduced herself as Class One’s homeroom teacher, ordered everyone except Wang Dong to run a hundred laps, and threatened expulsion for disobedience.
• Lu Yu had Huo Yutong and Xiao Xiao sprint until their stamina ran out, then cultivate with the Mysterious Heaven Skill as they continued running.
• Zhou Yi expelled Tai Long and eight other students for skipping laps, and Lu Yu questioned her teaching and Shrek’s treatment of students.
• Lu Yu used Simulation to disguise his appearance, stopped the nine students, and told them Zhou Yi had a record of mass expulsions and protection from a senior Outer Court figure.
• Tai Long asked Lu Yu whether he had a way to help them remain at Shrek.

Lu Yu encouraged Class One to challenge Zhou Yi’s abusive teaching, while Wang Dong confronted Zhou Yi and prompted Wang Yan to punish her with the Sea God Token. The next day, Wang Dong approached Lu Yu without explaining herself.

• Lu Yu told the students that they had to help themselves and suggested they complain to a retired academy higher-up about Zhou Yi.
• Tai Long rallied Class One to sign a joint complaint against Zhou Yi, while Lu Yu, Xiao Xiao, and their companion returned to the dorm to cultivate.
• Zhou Yi expelled three late students, then expelled Wang Dong when she defended them.
• Wang Dong revealed her Clear Sky Hammer and challenged Zhou Yi, who prepared to attack her.
• Wang Yan stopped Zhou Yi and used the Sea God Token to strip her of her duties and sentence her to a year of confinement.
• The next day, Wang Dong approached Lu Yu with her nose in the air, and Lu Yu asked if she had a fever.

Lu Yu arranged for Xiao Xiao to defeat Wang Dong in a fight over a dorm bed, then met Ning Tian to receive pills and a cultivation manual from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. The chapter left Lu Yu with additional rare pills as Ning Tian explained which sect medicines could raise Soul Power.

• Wang Dong claimed Lu Yu's bed and challenged Huo Yutong and Xiao Xiao to fight for it, while Lu Yu sent Xiao Xiao to face her.
• Xiao Xiao used her improved Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron to defeat Wang Dong, who left the fight bruised and doubted her Light Goddess Butterfly martial soul.
• Wang Dong resolved to train for the Freshman Tournament and ask her fathers for secret medicines, then fell asleep in class while Wang Yan left her alone.
• Lu Yu met Ning Tian, who delivered six Mystic Water Pills, five Soul Ascension Pills, and the Heart Separation Control Method manual with her personal insights.
• Ning Tian refused Lu Yu's payment and gave him two more bottles of pills, explaining that the sect's rare Seven Treasures and Nine Treasures Pills were reserved for core members.

Lu Yu proposed that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect fund his development of a Soul Tool that could evolve dragon-type Martial Souls, in exchange for a 50,000-Year Soul Bone if successful. After signing a contract and accepting the pills Ning Tian offered, he asked Elder Yi to help research the design, leaving Elder Yi to revise it and inflate the estimated cost.

• Lu Yu offered to develop a Dragon Bloodline Purifier that could strengthen and evolve dragon-type Martial Souls, and Wu Feng challenged his claims before he persuaded her to step aside.
• Ning Tian agreed to fund the research and provide an intact 10,000-Year Dragon Blood Bat, while Lu Yu requested a 50,000-Year Soul Bone if the Soul Tool was completed.
• Ning Tian gave Lu Yu the pills as a gift, and the two signed a contract for the deal.
• Lu Yu brought the blueprint to Elder Yi and persuaded him to help with the research in exchange for the expendable materials.
• Elder Yi examined the blueprint, revised it, and increased the estimated cost.

Lu Yu visited Shrek's Soul Tool Department with Huo Yutong and demonstrated how her Spiritual Detection Sharing could make a fixed Soul Cannon accurate enough for combat. Fan Yu offered Huo Yutong a core disciple position, but Lu Yu declined the Soul Tool Department's benefits in favor of pursuing a core disciple position in the Martial Soul Department.

• Lu Yu brought Huo Yutong to the Soul Tool Department and recruited the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to help with Soul Tool research.
• At the testing grounds, Tian Zhen used Huo Yutong's Spiritual Detection Sharing to hit a flying disc with a fixed Soul Cannon.
• Fan Yu arrived and offered Huo Yutong a core disciple position in the Soul Tool Department, along with free access to resources and Soul Tool facilities.
• Lu Yu asked about joining the department, then rejected its benefits because he believed the Martial Soul Department offered better prospects.

Lu Yu accepted Fan Yu’s bet, demonstrated his soul-tool skill, and became a certified Level 3 Soul Engineer and a core disciple of the Soul Tool Department alongside his companion. After they left, Tian Zhen revealed that she was actually Xu Tianzhen, a Sun Moon Empire princess in hiding, and feared Lu Yu’s companion might have discovered her secret.

• Fan Yu bet that Lu Yu would not become a Martial Soul Department core disciple and offered him Soul Tool Department resources if he made a Level 3 Soul Tool.
• Lu Yu carved a stable Soul Guidance Ray core array in just over ten minutes, earning Level 3 certification and core disciple status for himself and his companion.
• Tian Zhen showed Lu Yu and his companion their new workshops and warned them not to test soul tools there.
• After they left, Tian Zhen suspected that Lu Yu’s companion’s soul skill could scan through soul-power interference and might have revealed her identity.
• Tian Zhen was revealed to be Xu Tianzhen, a disguised princess of the Sun Moon Empire who sought revenge and feared becoming Shrek Academy’s pawn.

Xu Tianzhen tried to determine whether Lu Yu knew she was a woman disguised as a man, but his cryptic behavior made her believe he had uncovered her identity. After Lu Yu successfully carved an unfamiliar Soul Tool array, Xu Tianzhen invited him to a secluded place, while he agreed to follow her.

• Xu Tianzhen tested Lu Yu with flirtatious gestures, but he kept reading a blank-looking book, which she took as a sign that he knew her secret.
• Xu Tianzhen considered imprisoning or poisoning Lu Yu, then questioned him about the wordless book and his unexpected physical strength.
• Lu Yu carved an unfamiliar Core Array into a Soul Tool casing, and Xu Tianzhen mistook it for secret technology from the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Tianzhen offered to take Lu Yu to a quiet place to test the Soul Tool, and Lu Yu agreed to go with her.

Lu Yu tested his Hypnosis App Soul Tool on Xu Tianzhen and discovered she was a fugitive princess of the Sun Moon Empire hiding at Shrek Academy. After learning her secrets, he altered her memories so she trusted him and would follow his guidance.

• Xu Tianzhen went with Lu Yu to a deserted spot beside Sea God Lake, confident she could defeat him with her strength and Soul Tools.
• Lu Yu used Spiritual Prison to trap Xu Tianzhen and strip her of her Soul Tools, then activated the Hypnosis App.
• Under hypnosis, Xu Tianzhen revealed she was the former emperor’s daughter, had fled a palace coup, and planned to use Shrek Academy’s strength to seek revenge and claim the throne.
• Lu Yu made Xu Tianzhen believe she was lovesick, trusted him with her identity and Twin Martial Souls, and would follow his advice on her cultivation.
• Lu Yu deactivated the Hypnosis App, and Xu Tianzhen gradually regained her clarity.

Lu Yu and Xu Tianzhen survived an uncontrolled Evil Fire Phoenix at Sea God Lake, then parted after Xu Tianzhen declined to seek compensation from Shrek. Elder Yi secretly restored Xu Tianzhen’s memories, but she later moved into Lu Yu’s Manufacturing Room to help him forge.

• Elder Yi warned Lu Yu of danger, then hid in the Gold of Life as an out-of-control six-ring Evil Fire Phoenix charged at Lu Yu and Xu Tianzhen.
• Lu Yu used his Sun Martial Soul and several defensive abilities to protect himself and Xu Tianzhen from the phoenix’s flames.
• After they escaped the lake, Lu Yu returned Xu Tianzhen’s Soul Tools, and she refused to seek compensation because she feared Shrek would punish her.
• Xu Tianzhen asked to help Lu Yu, and after he joked that she could hammer metal once a week, she stormed off while secretly hoping he would ask her to do it for free.
• Elder Yi lifted Xu Tianzhen’s soul restriction, restoring her memories of Lu Yu’s hypnosis, and she angrily accused him of tricking her.
• Xu Tianzhen began appearing in Lu Yu’s Manufacturing Room every day and moved all her belongings there to help him forge.

Lu Yu helped Xiao Xiao obtain a two-thousand-year Soul Ring and unlock her second Soul Skill, then challenged her confidence by comparing her with Jiang Nannan. He began considering a different way to improve Xiao Xiao and asked whether she wanted to be a mother.

• Lu Yu met Xiao Xiao and her father, then reassured him that Xiao Xiao could safely absorb the Mountain-Earth Baxia Turtle’s two-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Xiao Xiao absorbed the ring and gained Cauldron's Weight, which strengthened her cauldrons and became more powerful when they merged.
• Lu Yu absorbed Xiao Xiao’s three rings, and Xiao Xiao celebrated reaching level 22 while declaring that their team would win the freshman tournament.
• Lu Yu criticized Xiao Xiao’s cultivation progress and told her to challenge Jiang Nannan, but Xiao Xiao admitted she had no answer to Jiang Nannan’s teleportation and Soul Tools.
• After Xiao Xiao pointed out that Jiang Nannan also received Lu Yu’s guidance and had a higher level, Lu Yu considered another approach and asked whether she wanted to be a mother.

Lu Yu guided Xiao Xiao to cultivate the maternal disposition required by her Nine-Phoenix Ceremonial Flute, then his group spent two months raising their soul power. As Shrek's freshman team assessment approached, Lu Yu formed a team with Huo Yutong and Xiao Xiao, while the returning Wang Dong challenged him and vowed to move back into the dorm after beating him.

• Lu Yu told Xiao Xiao to cultivate her second martial soul's maternal disposition by treating him, Huo Yutong, Jiang Nannan, and Tang Ya like her children, and Jiang Nannan encouraged her as a strict mother.
• Over two months, Lu Yu and his companions improved their cultivation: Lu Yu and Xiao Xiao reached rank 28, Jiang Nannan reached rank 39, and Tang Ya reached rank 33.
• Wang Yan explained the three-person team format and points rules for Shrek's Freshman Assessment, and Lu Yu, Huo Yutong, and Xiao Xiao chose to team up.
• Wang Dong returned with the aura of a Soul Elder and invited Lu Yu to team up, but he declined because Xiao Xiao was stronger and their team could only include one power attack system Soul Master.
• Wang Dong teamed up with Tai Long and Shangguan Chentian, then told Lu Yu she would beat him and move back into the dorm.

Lu Yu’s team advanced through the Freshman Assessment as Xiao Xiao overwhelmed their opponents, while Lu Yu grew wary of Wang Dong and the pills tied to Tang San. On the third day, they faced Huang Chutian and the twin sisters Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo, whose nearly identical Martial Soul Fragments suggested a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Wang Dong offered Lu Yu Sea Emperor Pills, and he declined them in exchange for information about the secluded Clear Sky Sect.
• Lu Yu told Xiao Xiao and Huo Yutong that Wang Dong was a girl and warned them to avoid being alone with her or accepting anything she offered.
• Xiao Xiao’s team met Ouyang Junyi, Chen Junfeng, and Zhao Haochen in their first assessment match, and the three opponents surrendered after seeing her thousand-year second Soul Ring.
• With Huo Yutong’s Spiritual Detection helping her, Xiao Xiao won all four of the team’s matches on the second day.
• On the third day, Lu Yu’s team faced Huang Chutian and the twin sisters Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo, and Lu Yu recognized that the twins’ similar Martial Soul Fragments indicated a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Lu Yu defeated Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo’s team, collected their Martial Soul Fragments, and discovered that their hair Martial Souls could fuse with each other and might also synthesize with his Blue Silver Grass. After testing several skills, he began experimenting with the hair Martial Soul and Blue Silver Grass alongside Xiao Xiao and Huo Yutong.

• Lu Yu used Xiao Xiao’s Soul-Suppressing Cauldrons and his Blue Silver whip to defeat Lan Susu and bind Lan Luoluo, while Huang Chutian was knocked unconscious.
• Lu Yu collected the Lan sisters’ Martial Soul Fragments and sensed that their two hair Martial Souls could trigger a Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Lu Yu noticed that his Blue Silver Grass and the hair Martial Soul also showed signs of synthesis, but postponed experimenting and completed four more matches.
• Lu Yu brought Xiao Xiao and Huo Yutong to a grove to test his abilities, and Xiao Xiao agreed to spar after he promised not to use Blue Silver Parasite Thorn.
• Xiao Xiao’s Soul-Suppressing Cauldron shattered Lu Yu’s Blue Silver Entanglement, so Lu Yu merged the hair Martial Soul into his Blue Silver Grass and made its strands finer.

Lu Yu tested how his Blue Silver Grass imitated the Hair Martial Soul, demonstrating a powerful fusion skill before revealing part of his Martial Soul's secret to Huo Yutong. After the round-robin tournament, the elimination draw paired Lu Yu's team against Wang Dong's team, and Lu Yu warned Xiao Xiao that Wang Dong might be hiding her true strength.

• Lu Yu used hair-thin Blue Silver Grass to trap Xiao Xiao's Soul-Suppressing Cauldrons, then demonstrated the fusion skill Blue Silver Grass-Heavenly Net.
• Huo Yutong recognized similarities between Lu Yu's Blue Silver Grass and the Hair Martial Souls, and Lu Yu explained that defeating opponents let him imitate one of their abilities.
• Huo Yutong privately asked Lu Yu about his Martial Soul, and he revealed that it simulated Soul Ring skills and could simulate two at once.
• Freshman Class One passed twenty-six teams through the round-robin tournament, the highest pass rate among the freshman classes.
• At the elimination tournament draw, Lu Yu's team was paired against Wang Dong's team, and Lu Yu cautioned Xiao Xiao that Wang Dong might be concealing her Third Soul Ring.

Lu Yu and his teammates faced Wang Dong’s team in the Elimination Tournament, where Xiao Xiao challenged Wang Dong and Lu Yu swiftly defeated Tai Long with a flood of Blue Silver Grass. The fight left Lu Yu’s unusual Martial Soul noticed by Du Weilun, though he doubted it was worth cultivating.

• Wang Dong taunted Lu Yu and Xiao Xiao before the two freshman teams entered the arena.
• Xiao Xiao claimed Wang Dong as her opponent, and the referee started the match as Shangguan Chentian buffed Wang Dong and Tai Long with his Command Drum.
• Tai Long charged Lu Yu while Wang Dong flew toward Xiao Xiao, and Lu Yu summoned a vast field of Blue Silver Grass.
• Tai Long used Rending Claw to cut through the grass, but Lu Yu’s vines multiplied and bound him until he could no longer move.
• Du Weilun praised Lu Yu’s clean victory but judged that his mutated Blue Silver Grass still had little cultivation value.

Xiao Xiao defeated Wang Dong despite Wang Dong revealing her third Soul Ring, winning the match for Lu Yu's team. Afterward, Wang Dong accepted her loss and offered to answer Lu Yu's questions about the Clear Sky Sect.

• Wang Dong used Butterfly God's Light and a fusion Soul Skill, but Xiao Xiao's Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron blocked both attacks.
• Wang Dong revealed she had become a three-ring Soul Elder and attacked with Butterfly God Slash, but Xiao Xiao's Cauldron's Weight Tremor shattered every slash.
• Xiao Xiao surrounded Wang Dong with her divided cauldrons and defeated her, after which the referee declared Lu Yu's team the winner.
• Xiao Xiao sought Lu Yu's praise, then Huo Yutong comforted her and Lu Yu advised her to build confidence by fighting stronger opponents.
• Wang Dong approached Xiao Xiao after waking, said she would win next time, and offered to tell Lu Yu what she knew about the Clear Sky Sect.

Lu Yu maneuvered Wang Dong into asking the Clear Sky Sect about ways to increase soul ring lifespans, hoping to copy the Clear Sky Hammer’s traits and strengthen his martial soul. After warning Huo Yutong away from several divine inheritances, Lu Yu’s group won its match, and Huo Yutong reacted violently to a blond youth with double pupils.

• Lu Yu persuaded Wang Dong to swear she would keep her promise before asking her to investigate ways to increase soul ring lifespans.
• Wang Dong wondered whether increased soul ring lifespans could let her add soul rings to her Clear Sky Hammer, while Xiao Xiao mistook Wang Dong’s glance for mockery of her height.
• Lu Yu speculated that the Clear Sky Sect might hold Tang San’s Sea God Inheritance, but privately treated Tang San as a potential enemy.
• Lu Yu told Huo Yutong that he did not want the Sea God Inheritance and warned her not to pursue several named divine positions.
• Freshman Class Nine won its match, and Huo Yutong trembled and clenched her fists when she saw a blond youth with two pupils in each azure eye.

Huo Yutong recalled how Dai Huabin’s abuse had led to her mother’s death, and Lu Yu and Xiao Xiao promised to help her take revenge. After advancing through the preliminary matches, Lu Yu’s team faced Dai Huabin’s team in the championship match.

• Huo Yutong remembered Dai Huabin ordering guards to beat her and her mother, whose injuries and overwork soon led to her death.
• Lu Yu comforted Huo Yutong and promised she would get revenge, while Xiao Xiao vowed to help her destroy the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion.
• Lu Yu suggested tormenting Dai Huabin by letting him attempt a Martial Soul Fusion Skill but preventing him from activating it, and Huo Yutong understood how that could threaten his claim to the dukedom.
• Lu Yu’s team defeated Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Nanmen Yun’er, then won two more matches with Xiao Xiao’s Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron.
• The championship match between Lu Yu’s team from Class One and Dai Huabin’s team from Class Five arrived.

Yan Shaozhe assessed the finalist teams and tried to limit how many students would receive core disciple resources, while Qian Duoduo sought to recruit promising students for the Soul Tool Department. The chapter ended with Yan Shaozhe refusing to let the rival department claim students his own department might reject.

• Yan Shaozhe learned about the Class Five finalists and ruled out giving Cui Yajie a core disciple spot because the Dai Family already had two.
• Du Weilun explained that Class One reached the finals after Wang Yan replaced Zhou Yi, and Yan Shaozhe demanded punishment for the admissions error that placed a genius there.
• Yan Shaozhe recognized Xiao Xiao, Lu Yu, and Huo Yutong as the Class One finalists and remembered that he had approved a Thousand-Year Soul Bone as the prize.
• Qian Duoduo congratulated Yan Shaozhe on the many promising students and offered to take several for the Soul Tool Department.
• Yan Shaozhe rejected Qian Duoduo's requests and insisted that even students he did not want as core disciples would not be handed to the Soul Tool Department.

Lu Yu, Huo Yutong, and Xiao Xiao faced Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, and Cui Yajie in the final match, where Lu Yu’s Blue Silver Grass countered their attacks. The battle ended with Zhu Lu suddenly drenched in blood after she tore through Lu Yu’s grass.

• Dai Huabin charged Huo Yutong, but Xiao Xiao blocked him with her Soul-Suppressing Cauldrons.
• Dai Huabin sent Zhu Lu and Cui Yajie around the cauldrons to attack Lu Yu and Huo Yutong.
• Cui Yajie’s Charm failed to affect Lu Yu and Huo Yutong, while it only briefly distracted Xiao Xiao.
• Lu Yu trapped Cui Yajie with Blue Silver Entanglement and caught Zhu Lu in Blue Silver Grass hidden between the arena’s paving bricks.
• Zhu Lu used Hell Stab and Netherworld Hundred Claws to shred the Blue Silver Grass, but countless jets of blood erupted from her body.

Lu Yu’s team defeated Dai Huabin’s team after Lu Yu’s parasitic seeds prevented Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu from using their Martial Soul Fusion Skill. The chapter ended with C-Class One declared the winner and Qian Duoduo teasing Yan Shaozhe about gaining two core disciples.

• Dai Huabin ordered Zhu Lu to endure her injuries and destroy Lu Yu’s parasitic seeds, so she mutilated herself while retreating across the arena.
• Lu Yu enclosed Zhu Lu in Blue Silver Grass, but Dai Huabin destroyed it and revived her, then tried to fuse their martial souls.
• Lu Yu’s dormant Hell Spirit Cat Soul Power in Zhu Lu blocked the fusion, and Dai Huabin attacked alone after slapping Zhu Lu unconscious.
• Xiao Xiao struck Dai Huabin with her Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, knocking him out and securing C-Class One’s victory.
• Qian Duoduo congratulated Yan Shaozhe on supposedly gaining two more core disciples.

After Lu Yu, Huo Yutong, and Xiao Xiao won the New Student Competition, Yan Shaozhe tried to deny them proper recognition, while Mu En praised their talents and offered generous support. Mu En ended the chapter convinced that Shrek had found worthy successors.

• Yan Shaozhe excluded Lu Yu from core disciple status, named eleven other students as core disciples, and threatened to expel the championship team's remaining members if they protested.
• Dai Huabin left the arena humiliated after Xiao Xiao defeated him, while Huo Yutong celebrated the first step in her revenge.
• Lu Yu, Huo Yutong, and Xiao Xiao grilled fish outside their dormitory and shared it with Mu En, who praised Huo Yutong's Spiritual Detection Sharing and recognized Lu Yu's ability to absorb martial soul traits.
• Mu En urged the three winners to use Shrek's meal subsidy and gave them a card that could raise their Treasure Appreciation Pavilion credit limit to twenty million for soul bone purchases.
• Mu En watched the three geniuses leave and decided that Shrek had successors.

Mu En assessed Lu Yu as a promising successor for Shrek and questioned him about Soul Tools, the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and his teaching business. Satisfied with Lu Yu’s character and abilities, Mu En decided to teach him one of his signature moves.

• Mu En lamented Shrek’s failure to produce a Limit Douluo across several generations and urged Lu Yu and the others to consider Soul Tools.
• Lu Yu explained that Soul Tools could be learned early but were best used after cultivation slowed, and Mu En agreed with his reasoning.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng visited Lu Yu, confirmed that their sect had found the Soul Beast he wanted, and asked for grilled fish.
• Lu Yu told Mu En that he was developing a Soul Tool for the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect in exchange for a 50,000-year Soul Bone.
• Mu En asked why Lu Yu sold his knowledge cheaply, and Lu Yu explained that he used affordable lessons to build a reputation before earning money from wealthy clients.
• Satisfied with Lu Yu’s character, talent, and experience, Mu En offered to teach him one of his signature techniques.

Mu En demonstrated his Self-Created Soul Skill, Ruling the World, and Lu Yu, Huo Yutong, and Xiao Xiao each gained insight from it. Lu Yu agreed to remain at Shrek Academy as long as it did not let him down, and the next morning Du Weilun began announcing the freshman assessment results and rewards.

• Mu En used Ruling the World to show Lu Yu, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao the force of his emotion-infused Soul Skill.
• Lu Yu recovered first and produced a similar effect with a punch, astonishing Mu En; Huo Yutong and Xiao Xiao later gained their own insights.
• Xiao Xiao realized her compatibility with her Martial Souls had improved and remembered that Huo Yutong had wanted to be her mother.
• Lu Yu thanked Mu En and promised not to let Shrek Academy down if it did not let him down.
• The next morning, Du Weilun gathered the freshmen and teachers, and Fan Yu silently warned Lu Yu to stay calm.
• Du Weilun announced that he would reveal the top three in the freshman assessment and their rewards.