Chapter Summaries

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.

At the Freshman Assessment awards ceremony, Lu Yu expected the champions to receive a special prize and become Core Disciples. The academy instead announced a different team name, offered modest rewards, and left Lu Yu off the Core Disciple list, revealing that Fan Yu had warned him too late.

• Du Weilun called the third-place Team Zhou Sichen and runner-up Team Dai Huabin to receive their awards, while Dai Huabin remained resentful over his defeat and his damaged Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Du Weilun announced the champions as Team Xiao Xiao, prompting Lu Yu to question the changed team name while Fan Yu tried to signal him to stay calm.
• The academy offered every member of the top three teams one request for help obtaining a suitable Soul Ring and promised the champions an additional special gift.
• Du Weilun listed the new Core Disciples, including Xiao Xiao but not Lu Yu, and Lu Yu realized Fan Yu had known he would be left out.

Lu Yu suspected Shrek's core disciple changes were part of a succession struggle and considered leaving now that he had gained the resources he wanted. After class assignments, Xiao Xiao received a soul bone as her championship reward and found it was only about a thousand years old.

• Lu Yu reasoned that Shrek's sudden rule change might be a plot against him and decided he had little reason to stay at the academy.
• Du Weilun assigned classes after Yan Shaozhe rejected his list of prospective core disciples, leaving the champion team without core disciple slots.
• Yan Shaozhe had agreed to Dai Huabin's request to exclude Xiao Xiao in exchange for a deal with the Dai Family.
• Mu En woke from a nightmare about Lu Yu and the girls leaving Shrek, then went back to sleep believing they would stay.
• Du Weilun gave Xiao Xiao her championship reward and said she could only use the soul bone herself.
• Xiao Xiao opened the pouch and discovered the soul bone appeared to be only a thousand years old.

Xiao Xiao rejected Shrek Academy’s thousand-year soul bone reward and told Lu Yu she wanted to leave. At the Soul Tool Department, Qian Duoduo criticized the Martial Soul Department and explained how Shrek had raised Yan Shaozhe, whose early rise to rank 95 had drawn Lu Yu’s attention.

• Du Weilun offered Xiao Xiao a thousand-year Voidlight Demon Leopard soul bone and a credit limit, but Xiao Xiao refused the bone and returned it.
• Xiao Xiao decided Shrek Academy had insulted her and asked Lu Yu to help her run away.
• Lu Yu agreed to leave after giving Fan Yu soul tool blueprints and leaving Martial Soul Cultivation Secret Methods with Fan Yu and Mu En.
• Fan Yu introduced Lu Yu to Qian Duoduo, who criticized Du Weilun and Yan Shaozhe and described the Soul Tool Department’s treatment of students.
• Lu Yu recognized Yan Shaozhe as the Bright Phoenix Douluo and asked how he had become so powerful; Qian Duoduo explained that Shrek had groomed him as a successor.

Lu Yu weighed whether Shrek Academy could support his plans and agreed to remain in its Soul Tool Department for now. Qian Duoduo, buoyed by Mu En’s support for Lu Yu, left to visit Mu En and mock Yan Shaozhe.

• Qian Duoduo explained that Shrek had heavily supported Yan Shaozhe, and Lu Yu concluded that Yan’s influence would obstruct his plans to advance the commoner faith route through Shrek.
• Lu Yu considered using the Sun Moon Empire to promote the commoner route, but decided to travel to the original Douluo Three Kingdoms first to learn more about its situation.
• Lu Yu agreed to remain a student of the Soul Tool Department while he stayed at Shrek, and Qian Duoduo offered him unlimited rare metals.
• Lu Yu told Qian Duoduo that Mu En had given him and the others soul bones over fifty thousand years old, prompting Qian Duoduo to celebrate Mu En’s investment in Lu Yu.
• Qian Duoduo left to visit Mu En and planned to mock Yan Shaozhe, believing Mu En would soon rebuke him for making things difficult for Lu Yu and the others.

Lu Yu prepared to leave Shrek and gave Xu Tianzhen a soul-ring plan and instructions to deliver his soul-tool research manual to Fan Yu. Huo Yutong and Xiao Xiao gathered Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan to prepare to leave, but Mu En stopped them at the dormitory entrance.

• Lu Yu finished writing a soul-tool research manual for Fan Yu and decided to evacuate Shrek that night.
• Xu Tianzhen tried to persuade Lu Yu to stay, but he used the Hypnosis App on her and explained his soul-ring plan.
• Lu Yu told Xu Tianzhen to keep his departure secret and give the manual to Fan Yu, then prepared to strengthen her body and spiritual power.
• Huo Yutong and Xiao Xiao brought Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan to the dormitory to pack, but Mu En asked where they were going during class time.

Huo Yutong, Xiao Xiao, Tang Ya, and Jiang Nannan tried to leave Shrek without Mu En discovering their plans, but their packed dorm room exposed them. Huo Yutong made Mu En believe Lu Yu had been wronged, and the furious Dragon God Douluo prepared to intervene before she revealed that Lu Yu had cheated.

• Xiao Xiao told Mu En that the girls were helping Lu Yu test a new Soul Tool, while Tang Ya got him to approve a three-day leave.
• Mu En used his Spiritual Power to inspect Lu Yu's dorm room and realized the girls had packed everything, suspecting Lu Yu was leaving Shrek.
• Jiang Nannan guessed that Lu Yu was leaving, while Huo Yutong decided to keep Mu En from stopping them.
• Huo Yutong burst into tears and implied that something terrible had happened to Lu Yu, making Mu En unleash his Radiant Sacred Dragon and vow to see justice done.
• Huo Yutong finally told Mu En that Lu Yu had cheated.

Lu Yu finished whipping Xu Tianzhen while Huo Yutong and the others mistook the sounds from the workshop for an intimate encounter, causing Huo Yutong to awaken an emotion soul skill. Lu Yu and the girls left Shrek Academy, while Mu En returned with Soul Bones only to discover they had already gone.

• Huo Yutong, Xiao Xiao, Jiang Nannan, and Tang Ya pretended to eavesdrop outside Lu Yu's workshop, while Tian Meng created misleading sounds and trapped Huo Yutong with Spiritual Prison.
• Huo Yutong's jealousy triggered an emotion soul skill that affected Xiao Xiao, Jiang Nannan, and Tang Ya, and Mu En mistook the scene for proof that Lu Yu was with someone inside.
• Lu Yu finished whipping Xu Tianzhen, learned what Tian Meng had done, and agreed to keep the truth from Huo Yutong until she mastered her soul skill.
• Jiang Nannan, Tang Ya, and Xu Tianzhen chose to leave with Lu Yu, and the group slipped out of Shrek Academy toward Shu Han.
• Mu En stole Soul Bones from the treasury and flew back to the Soul Tool Department, unaware that Lu Yu and the others had already left Shrek City.

Lu Yu left Shrek Academy with his companions and reached the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s Star Dou Great Forest branch, where Elder Chen welcomed him to a newly prepared Soul Tool Workshop. The workshop occupied an entire building, though Lu Yu was unsure whether the sect’s purchased equipment would meet his needs.

• Mu En found the Soul Tool Department corridor empty, then went to Lu Yu’s dormitory and discovered he was gone.
• Lu Yu and his companions left a letter for Ning Tian and traveled by Soul Beast Carriage to the sect’s branch in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Elder Chen, a rank-95 Seven Kill Sword Super Douluo, greeted Lu Yu and led him to the workshop.
• Lu Yu learned that the sect had renovated its former branch headquarters and assigned the entire building to his workshop.
• The sect’s Soul Engineers had struggled to understand Lu Yu’s research, then bought every kind of Soul Tool equipment they could find to prepare for him.
• Lu Yu followed Elder Chen inside and wondered whether the mostly market-bought equipment would be adequate.

Lu Yu accepted the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s offer after discovering its collection of soul guidance devices, including a Level 8 Soul Power Recovery Platform that could let him and Elder Yi make stronger soul tools. At Shrek, Ning Tian prepared to return to the sect with Wu Feng, while Mu En waited for Lu Yu, unaware that he had already left.

• Lu Yu agreed to stay with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect after Elder Chen promised him access to its soul guidance devices and equipment.
• Lu Yu showed Elder Yi the Level 8 Soul Power Recovery Platform, and Elder Yi eagerly offered to help him make soul tools.
• Ning Tian packed her belongings after receiving word that Lu Yu had joined the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and she decided to return with Wu Feng.
• Ning Tian warned Wu Feng to stay quiet about Lu Yu’s departure so Mu En would not learn that Shrek’s talent had been poached.
• Mu En waited outside Shrek’s dormitory for Lu Yu, mistakenly thinking he had stayed at an inn, and complained about the chicken leg he had stolen from Xuan Zi.

Lu Yu completed the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s Dragon Bloodline Purifier and chose a rare Soul Bone for Xiao Xiao. After Ning Tian confirmed they were hiding near the Star Dou Great Forest, Mu En woke to find Lu Yu gone and worried that he had lost his successor.

• Lu Yu finished the Class Five Dragon Bloodline Purifier using Elder Yi’s research and told Elder Chen it was ready for inspection.
• Lu Yu chose the sixty-thousand-year-old Emperor Black Jade Flood Dragon Left Leg Bone for Xiao Xiao, despite its restrictive absorption requirements.
• Lu Yu outlined his plans to pursue the Ice Empress, compete in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament, restore the Mysterious Heaven Skill, and seek godly inheritances.
• Ning Tian told Lu Yu that she had covered their tracks and that they were hiding near the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Mu En woke from a nap, found Lu Yu missing from his dormitory, and struggled to believe that Lu Yu had left Shrek Academy.