Chapter Summaries

Lu Yu defeated the blue-haired girl who had tried to impose rules on their shared dorm, then absorbed her Clear Sky Hammer martial soul fragment. He learned the academy did not know why her family had arranged for her to live in the boys' dorm, and Mu En allowed Lu Yu to bring girls back as long as nobody was killed.

• The blue-haired girl demanded that Lu Yu follow her dorm rules, and he recognized her Light Goddess Butterfly, Clear Sky Hammer, and Sea God martial souls.
• Lu Yu challenged the girl to a fight over who would leave the dorm, and they drew a crowd outside.
• The girl charged with her butterfly wings, but Lu Yu restrained her with Blue Silver Grass and threatened to disfigure her face.
• The girl surrendered, and Lu Yu absorbed her Clear Sky Hammer fragment before she left with her head lowered.
• Lu Yu asked Mu En why the academy had let a girl into the boys' dorm, and Mu En said her family had requested it without explaining why.
• Lu Yu asked whether he could bring girls back to the dorm, and Mu En agreed as long as nobody was killed.

Lu Yu tested how his Clear Sky Hammer and Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron worked together, then discussed Tian Meng’s plan to help Huo Yutong obtain a Ferocious Beast’s Soul Ring and Soul Bone. He agreed to the Far North plan and decided to strengthen himself before their trip.

• Lu Yu tested the Clear Sky Hammer’s attraction and force-breaking traits on hard metal, then merged it into the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron and found that the cauldron gained its traits while retaining its remote control and splitting abilities.
• Huo Yutong told Lu Yu that Tian Meng wanted to discuss something with him, and Tian Meng proposed making a four-hundred-thousand-year Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Huo Yutong’s first Soul Ring.
• Lu Yu questioned whether ultimate ice would hinder Huo Yutong’s cultivation, but accepted Tian Meng’s plan after considering the Ice God’s inheritance.
• Tian Meng said they would go to the Far North when Huo Yutong reached rank twenty and claimed he could teleport away if he failed to persuade the Ice Empress.
• Lu Yu planned to reach rank thirty before the trip and decided to seek additional pills from a wealthy woman.

Lu Yu invited Ning Tian to dinner and agreed to advise her sect’s recruits on soul ring configurations in exchange for help buying pills. After dinner, a dispute over Huo Yutong’s grilled fish brought Xu Sanshi and Jiang Jiang into conflict with the group, ending with Jiang Jiang being struck by a blue silver whip.

• Lu Yu invited Ning Tian to eat thousand-year soul beast meat and asked her to help the group buy pills without side effects.
• Ning Tian gave Lu Yu a notebook of her sect’s recruits, and he quickly wrote recommended soul rings and predicted skills for more than a dozen martial souls.
• Ning Tian left with Wu Feng to send Lu Yu’s recommendations to her family for verification.
• Tang Ya, Huo Yutong, Xiao Xiao, and Lu Yu ate grilled fish together after dinner, and Xiao Xiao agreed to learn Tang Sect techniques from Tang Ya.
• Xu Sanshi grabbed the remaining grilled fish and gave half to Jiang Jiang, but a blue silver whip suddenly struck Jiang Jiang across the face.

After Xu Sanshi challenged Tang Ya to a wager match, Lu Yu took control of her body and arranged a large bet on her victory. The chapter ended as Lu Yu faced Xu Sanshi in the Soul Fighting Arena, confident he would win.

• Xu Sanshi attacked Tang Ya after Jiang Jiang was slapped, but Jiang Nannan stepped in to protect Tang Ya and Lu Yu.
• Bei Bei stopped the confrontation from escalating, and Tang Ya accepted Xu Sanshi’s challenge to a wager match after Lu Yu promised to fight using her body.
• Lu Yu set odds on Tang Ya winning and collected a large pool of bets backing Xu Sanshi.
• Jiang Nannan thanked Lu Yu for helping her mother and shared what she knew about Xu Sanshi’s soul skills.
• Lu Yu entered Tang Ya’s Sea of Consciousness, took control of her body, and prepared to face Xu Sanshi in the arena.

Tang Ya defeated Xu Sanshi in the arena by trapping him with Blue Silver Grass and hidden weapons, while Lu Yu collected the wager and a Black Tortoise Shield Martial Soul Fragment. After reviewing the fight with Huo Yutong and Xiao Xiao, Lu Yu agreed to let Tang Ya use the Mysterious Heaven Skill in exchange for learning from her, and Jiang Nannan asked to join them at the dorm.

• Tang Ya’s Blue Silver Grass restrained Xu Sanshi, while the spectators accused him of throwing the match and demanded their money back.
• Xu Sanshi used Xuanming Displacement to swap places with Tang Ya, but poisoned hidden weapons hidden in the Blue Silver sofa struck him when he stood up.
• The referee declared Tang Ya the winner, and Lu Yu used Huo Yutong’s Simulation skill to collect four hundred thousand gold soul coins and take the Black Tortoise Shield Martial Soul Fragment.
• Lu Yu reviewed Xu Sanshi’s mistakes with Huo Yutong and Xiao Xiao, warning them not to reveal their skills or underestimate opponents.
• Tang Ya asked to return to Lu Yu’s dorm and trade use of the Mysterious Heaven Skill for what he knew; after Lu Yu agreed, Jiang Nannan also asked to go with them.

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.