Chapter Summaries

After waking blind in Shrek Academy, Su Xian believed he was stranded in a mountain village and asked for help reaching a hospital. Mu En suspected the book Su Xian carried was tied to the Divine Realm and ordered the Sea God Pavilion Elders to pretend to be villagers while they investigated him.

• Mu En and the Sea God Pavilion Elders examined Su Xian’s smartphone, identity card, and book, which revealed secrets about Tang San and Shrek Academy.
• Elder Zhuang reported that spatial turbulence had damaged Su Xian’s optic nerves and left a blood clot in his brain; Su Xian soon woke blind.
• Su Xian mistook Mu En and the others for village officials and asked for an ambulance, a hospital, and a brain CT scan.
• Mu En stopped Xuan Zi from searching Su Xian’s soul, fearing the book and Su Xian’s arrival might involve a contest among the gods.
• Mu En told Su Xian that rain and mudslides had cut off the roads, and Su Xian asked him to find his backpack and the book he considered leisure reading.
• Mu En ordered Yan Shaozhe to build a dilapidated village and have the Sea God Pavilion Elders pose as villagers to learn the secrets behind the book.

Mu En questioned Su Xian about the story of Douluo Continent, hoping to learn about the future. Su Xian's criticism of Xuan Zi's failures left Xuan Zi shaken and questioning whether he could prevent the tragedies he had heard about.

• Mu En and Yan Shaozhe discussed the possibility that Su Xian's knowledge came from a book, then Mu En returned to question him while Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe listened in secret.
• Su Xian explained that his phone needed charging, and Mu En pretended the village had no electricity.
• At Mu En's prompting, Su Xian described Shrek Academy and condemned Xuan Zi for abandoning students in the Star Dou Great Forest, where more than half of the Inner Court's geniuses died.
• Su Xian recounted a future tournament disaster in which Xuan Zi failed to protect the team from an Evil Soul Master's attack, killing one student and crippling another.
• Xuan Zi realized the events Su Xian described matched his own plans, and his Soul Power nearly went berserk as his heart of cultivation faltered.
• Mu En removed Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe from the room, while Su Xian wondered why the village chief had abruptly left.

After Su Xian’s revelations about a future disaster left Xuan Zi shaken, Mu En persuaded him and Yan Shaozhe to use Su Xian’s knowledge to prevent it. The next morning, Su Xian told a dark joke mocking Yu Xiaogang, leaving Mu En, Xuan Zi, and Yan Shaozhe speechless.

• Xuan Zi feared that the future deaths and injuries Su Xian had described would make him a sinner again, but Mu En reminded him the events had not happened yet.
• Mu En told Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe to question Su Xian for details about the Death Messenger and Shrek’s future.
• Xuan Zi spent the night unable to sleep, while Su Xian worried about his blindness and strange surroundings before drifting off under a luxurious quilt.
• Mu En brought Su Xian breakfast the next morning, while Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe secretly listened outside the door.
• Su Xian told a joke claiming Yu Xiaogang’s success depended on Tang San carrying him, leaving Mu En, Xuan Zi, and Yan Shaozhe stunned.

Su Xian criticized Shrek Academy’s teaching methods and its leaders while eating the nourishing food Mu En brought him. After Su Xian demanded students for his science lessons, Mu En ordered Yan Shaozhe to bring two young core disciples disguised as village children so he could test Su Xian’s ideas.

• Yan Shaozhe nearly stormed into Su Xian’s room after hearing him mock Shrek, but Xuan Zi and Mu En restrained him.
• Su Xian complained about the bitter porridge and hard bun before criticizing Shrek for claiming credit for gifted students and neglecting soul-tool education.
• Su Xian accused Yan Shaozhe of opposing soul tools and predicted that he would abandon his pride to recruit Huo Yuhao.
• Su Xian rebuked Mu En for failing to arrange lessons and demanded two quick-witted children to teach science.
• Mu En told Yan Shaozhe to find two young, talented core disciples and disguise them as inexperienced village children for Su Xian’s afternoon lesson.

Mu En ordered Yan Shaozhe to gather information from Su Xian before the young man regained his sight, while the elders resolved to tolerate his insults for Shrek’s future. Yan Shaozhe brought Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi to pose as village children A-Bei and A-Shi for Su Xian’s lessons.

• Yan Shaozhe admitted he would try to recruit a talented student from the Soul Tool Department, and Mu En agreed that Su Xian’s criticism of Shrek’s double standards was justified.
• Elder Zhuang warned that Su Xian might stop sharing future knowledge once his sight returned, so Mu En ordered the elders to honor him and extract what they could beforehand.
• Mu En told Yan Shaozhe to bring two clever Outer Court boys to meet Su Xian as village children, warning them not to reveal their identities or upset him.
• Yan Shaozhe interrupted Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi’s fight, took them to the hills, and ordered them to dress as A-Bei and A-Shi, children from Niulai Village.

Su Xian warned Mu En and the Shrek elders that Xuan Zi’s reckless leadership would cause deaths and injuries during a future mission, exposing Shrek’s lack of safety precautions. Mu En ordered Yan Shaozhe to lead Shrek’s elite teachers to destroy the Death Messengers’ base in the Ming Dou Mountain Range before the tragedy could happen.

• Xian Lin'er demanded the Rare Metals quota that Yan Shaozhe had cut, and Mu En granted her request before abruptly ending the meeting.
• Mu En, Yan Shaozhe, and Xuan Zi went to the mountain cabin, where Su Xian explained that Shrek’s planned mission against the Death Messengers would end with Yao Haoxuan dead and Chen Zifeng crippled.
• Su Xian condemned Xuan Zi’s decision to leave students fighting in a cave and criticized Shrek for neglecting basic safety planning.
• Xuan Zi realized that he would likely make the same reckless choice without Su Xian’s warning, while Yan Shaozhe and Mu En were shaken by the criticism.
• Mu En ordered Yan Shaozhe to assemble elite teachers from both departments and lead an immediate, no-holds-barred assault on the Death Messengers’ base.

Su Xian explained Shrek’s failings and the Sun Moon Empire’s technological threat to Mu En, prompting the Sea God Pavilion Master to increase support for Soul Tool research while preserving Martial Soul orthodoxy. Mu En then ordered an operation in the Ming Dou Mountain Range and an investigation into the new student Huo Yuhao.

• Yan Shaozhe ordered the Inner Court Law Enforcement Corps to assemble for a mission at the Ming Dou Mountain Range, while Xian Lin'er secretly followed him and Mu En.
• Su Xian criticized Shrek’s handling of Xuan Zi’s past failure and warned that its rejection of Soul Tools left it vulnerable to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Su Xian described Huo Yuhao’s future Spirit Pagoda and praised Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er’s Soul Tool research, thrilling Xian Lin'er outside the room.
• Xian Lin'er urged Mu En to shift Shrek’s resources toward Soul Tools, and Mu En doubled the Soul Tool Department’s allocation and required Inner Court disciples to take basic courses.
• Mu En reaffirmed Martial Soul cultivation as Shrek’s foundation, ordered Yan Shaozhe to eliminate a threat in the Ming Dou Mountain Range, and told Xian Lin'er to support Qian Duoduo’s research.
• Mu En ordered an investigation into new student Huo Yuhao so Shrek could begin cultivating him.

Su Xian began teaching Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and Mu En basic physics, and his lessons unexpectedly inspired the two students and shook Mu En’s understanding of cultivation. Meanwhile, Yan Shaozhe vented his anger by destroying the Death Messenger and his Evil Soul Master group, leaving a crater in the Ming Dou Mountain Range.

• Mu En brought Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi to meet Su Xian, who tested them by asking why a ripe apple fell to the ground.
• Bei Bei attributed the apple’s fall to an earth-attribute magnetic field, while Xu Sanshi blamed the laws of heaven and earth; Su Xian dismissed both explanations and introduced basic physics.
• Su Xian explained Newton’s Third Law, prompting Xu Sanshi to recognize its connection to the Xuanming Sect’s defensive technique and meditate on it.
• Su Xian taught the Law of Conservation of Energy, which led Mu En to reconsider how light and dark soul power might interact and ask to learn more physics.
• Yan Shaozhe attacked the Death Messenger and his Evil Soul Master group in the Ming Dou Mountain Range, incinerating them and their cave with a pillar of golden fire.

Su Xian argued that organizations and historical figures could be both beneficial and harmful, leaving Shrek’s leaders stunned by his predictions about the future. Qian Duoduo could not answer him, while Mu En silently questioned whether Shrek’s record of justice could withstand history’s judgment.

• Mu En brought Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, and Qian Duoduo to visit Su Xian, who was being kept in a village house while his eyes healed.
• Su Xian criticized Shrek Academy for suppressing technology and leaving the lower realm behind, prompting Qian Duoduo to burst into the room and defend Shrek.
• Mu En introduced Qian Duoduo to Su Xian as the village Party secretary Ayimo Niu, and Su Xian called him Uncle Mo Niu.
• Su Xian explained that Shrek could be heroic in fighting Evil Soul Masters yet thuggish in suppressing technology, and that the Sun Moon Empire could be villainous while still improving ordinary people's lives.
• Su Xian revealed that Huo Yuhao would create the Spirit Pagoda and that it would later become corrupt, then described Ju Zi as both a war criminal and a conqueror who unified the continent.
• Qian Duoduo fell speechless, while Mu En wondered whether Shrek's justice could endure the judgment of history.

Su Xian exposed Yan Shaozhe’s past affairs and his treatment of Ma Xiaotao, humiliating him while Qian Duoduo and Mu En listened. Yan Shaozhe took out his fury on a boulder, and Mu En told Su Xian the noise was a wild boar so he would not discover what was happening.

• Qian Duoduo defended Shrek’s leaders, but Su Xian called Yan Shaozhe a hypocrite and described his relationships with Xian Lin'er and Cai Mei'er.
• Su Xian said Qian Duoduo had married Xian Lin'er after Yan Shaozhe drove her away, and mocked him as a cleanup guy.
• Su Xian accused Yan Shaozhe of suggesting Ma Xiaotao use Yin-Yang Complementarity with Huo Yuhao to treat her Evil Fire Phoenix backlash.
• Yan Shaozhe, listening outside with Xian Lin'er, lost control of his anger and began punching a boulder.
• When the pounding shook the cabin, Mu En told Su Xian that a wild boar was ramming a pigpen gate.
• Su Xian warned Mu En not to kill the protected animal, while Xian Lin'er struggled to suppress her laughter at Yan Shaozhe.

Mu En and Zhang Lexuan questioned Su Xian about why Shrek failed to keep the Spirit Pagoda under its control, and Su Xian blamed Shrek’s compromises and Yan Shaozhe’s weakness. Yan Shaozhe overheard the insults from outside the cabin and struggled to keep from confronting Su Xian.

• Yan Shaozhe raged over Su Xian’s earlier insults while Xuan Zi tried to calm him outside the cabin.
• Mu En recorded Su Xian’s explanations of unfamiliar terms as Su Xian taught Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi.
• Zhang Lexuan asked why Shrek had allowed Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Pagoda to become independent.
• Su Xian condemned Shrek’s leaders for sharing control of artificial soul spirit technology and blamed Yan Shaozhe for failing to oppose them.
• Yan Shaozhe became furious as Su Xian called him useless and said Huo Yuhao should have sacrificed him to consecrate the Spirit Pagoda’s banner.
• Xuan Zi restrained Yan Shaozhe while Zhang Lexuan, Bei Bei, and Xu Sanshi struggled to suppress their laughter.

Su Xian explained how competitive hiring and KPI evaluations could reform the Spirit Pagoda, then savaged Yan Shaozhe as an ineffectual puppet. Yan Shaozhe tried to storm the cabin, but Xuan Zi, Qian Duoduo, and Xian Lin'er restrained him while Mu En concealed the commotion from Su Xian.

• Zhang Lexuan asked Su Xian how he would prevent the Spirit Pagoda from becoming corrupt, and he proposed open recruitment, term limits, and performance evaluations tied to commoners' welfare.
• Su Xian argued that leaders should be held accountable for artificial soul spirit affordability and living conditions, impressing Zhang Lexuan and Mu En.
• Su Xian mocked Yan Shaozhe as a complacent, controllable failure, and Yan Shaozhe crushed his sound-transmission soul tool in anger.
• Yan Shaozhe charged toward the cabin, but Xuan Zi, Qian Duoduo, and Xian Lin'er pinned him down and dragged him away.
• Su Xian heard the struggle outside and asked why it sounded like a pig being slaughtered, so Mu En claimed a wild boar had fallen into a hunter's trap.

Zhang Lexuan questioned Shrek’s martial-soul orthodoxy and, with Mu En’s support, resolved to advance reforms by consulting Teacher Su. The next morning, she disguised herself and Cai Mei'er and took her toward the back mountain to reveal the reason for Yan Shaozhe’s strange behavior.

• Yan Shaozhe’s humiliation over a blind young man’s insults left him furious with staff and calling himself rotten mud, confusing Cai Mei'er.
• Xu Sanshi used physics-based force dissipation to rebound Bei Bei’s attack, and Bei Bei eagerly began analyzing the technique scientifically.
• Zhang Lexuan challenged Elder Song and Elder Zhuang over the Martial Soul Department’s suppression of soul tools, then quietly accepted Elder Song’s rebuke.
• Zhang Lexuan told Mu En that Shrek needed reform and proposed disguising its institutional problems as novel plot holes to ask Teacher Su for solutions; Mu En approved.
• Zhang Lexuan stopped Cai Mei'er on the way to the Sea God Pavilion, gave her shabby clothes, and invited her to the back mountain to hear the truth about Yan Shaozhe.

Zhang Lexuan used Su Xian’s candid criticisms to turn Mu En against Shrek’s conservative leaders and expose the elders obstructing reform. Yan Shaozhe and Elder Song realized she was using Su Xian as a borrowed knife to undermine their faction.

• Mu En, Zhang Lexuan, Cai Mei'er, and Bei Bei disguised themselves as villagers and brought chicken soup to Su Xian.
• Zhang Lexuan prompted Su Xian to discuss Shrek’s succession, and he condemned Mu En for arranging Zhang Lexuan’s childhood betrothal to Bei Bei.
• Su Xian argued that Shrek’s leaders resisted Soul Tool reform to protect their own power and interests.
• At Zhang Lexuan’s request, Su Xian named Yan Shaozhe, Elder Song, and Elder Zhuang as conservative figures blocking reform.
• Yan Shaozhe and Elder Song overheard Su Xian’s accusations and realized Zhang Lexuan was using him to damage their faction’s standing with Mu En.

Su Xian warned that Shrek would be destroyed ten thousand years later when its contempt for Soul Tools left it vulnerable to a catastrophic attack, and Mu En resolved to change the academy’s course. Mu En left the cabin with killing intent, setting Shrek Academy’s great purge in motion.

• Zhang Lexuan pressed Su Xian to identify the conservatives resisting reforms, and Su Xian named Yan Shaozhe, Elder Song, and the faction controlling most of Shrek’s resources.
• Su Xian described how two Level Twelve God-Slaying Fixed Soul Cannon Shells would destroy Shrek City, killing millions and annihilating the Golden Tree, Sea God Island, and Yun Ming.
• Su Xian blamed Shrek’s future destruction on its leaders’ arrogance and suppression of Soul Tools, leaving those inside and outside the cabin horrified and grief-stricken.
• Mu En wept as he imagined the catastrophe and concluded that Shrek had to abandon orthodoxy to prevent its destruction.
• Mu En left the cabin with tears on his face and killing intent, while Elder Song and Yan Shaozhe fell to their knees; Shrek Academy’s great purge began.

After witnessing a vision of Shrek’s nuclear destruction, Mu En rebuked its leaders for obstructing reform and ordered Zhang Lexuan to launch performance appraisals and purge the Martial Soul Department of corrupt, anti-reform teachers. Yan Shaozhe’s proposed gradual approach spared the academy from immediate upheaval, but Mu En’s first purge threatened to dismantle Yan’s power base.

• Mu En angrily warned Yan Shaozhe, Elder Song, and the other elders that their infighting could doom Shrek and millions of civilians to destruction.
• Zhang Lexuan accused Yan Shaozhe and Elder Song of obstructing the Soul Tool Department and cited Su Xian’s prediction that they were leading conservatives.
• Yan Shaozhe argued that sudden reforms could split Shrek, and Elder Zhuang backed his proposal for gradual change through performance appraisals and competition for positions.
• Mu En accepted the gradual approach but appointed Zhang Lexuan a Sea God Pavilion Special Envoy and ordered her to investigate and immediately expel idle, corrupt, and anti-reform Martial Soul Department teachers.
• Mu En threatened to strip the Martial Souls of any senior member who obstructed the purge, leaving Yan Shaozhe realizing that his followers and influence could be swiftly destroyed.

Zhang Lexuan purged underperforming and prejudiced Martial Soul Department instructors, then sought Teacher Su for a strategy to help Shrek catch up with the Sun Moon Empire. Su Xian proposed ocean exploration and industrialized mass production of Soul Tools, leaving Mu En and Zhang Lexuan convinced that his ideas could reshape Shrek.

• Zhang Lexuan dismissed dozens of Martial Soul Department instructors while Yan Shaozhe reluctantly supported her, and academy staff began currying favor with the Soul Tool Department.
• Troubled that the purge alone could not change Shrek, Zhang Lexuan went to hear Teacher Su’s advice on breaking the academy’s strategic deadlock.
• Su Xian told Mu En that Shrek should launch an Age of Exploration, build soul-powered steel ships, and seek rare metals and resources overseas.
• Su Xian urged Shrek to industrialize Soul Tool production with standardized parts and assembly lines, then arm large forces of ordinary people with mass-produced weapons.
• Mu En eagerly recorded Su Xian’s proposals for Shrek’s classified files, while Zhang Lexuan recognized a path toward the academy’s renewal.

Su Xian grew suspicious of the strangely quiet Niulai Village and demanded to walk around and teach its children. To keep him from discovering that the village was a Shrek fabrication, Mu En ordered Shrek’s leaders and disciples to build a convincing fake village overnight.

• Su Xian questioned Niulai Village’s lack of activity and told Mu En he would leave the courtyard and teach a class the next morning.
• After Su Xian shut the door, Mu En rushed to the Sea God Pavilion and told Yan Shaozhe, Zhang Lexuan, Qian Duoduo, and the other leaders that their disguise was at risk.
• Yan Shaozhe wanted to reveal their identities, but Zhang Lexuan warned that Su Xian might hide or falsify future knowledge if they frightened him.
• Mu En decided to preserve the deception and ordered high-ranking Soul Masters to build shabby houses and a school on the back mountain overnight.
• Mu En assigned Zhang Lexuan to recruit disciples to act as villagers and children, Qian Duoduo to create tractor and loudspeaker sounds, and others to imitate dogs and roosters.

Shrek Academy prepared a secret fake village for Teacher Su’s lessons, but the Sea God Pavilion struggled to find trusted children and villagers to play its residents. Zhang Lexuan claimed all the roles for Shrek’s elite students, provoking the elders and leaving Yan Shaozhe despondent.

• Mu En ordered high-ranking Soul Masters to build a shabby Niulai Village, while Zhang Lexuan reported that the village was nearly ready but lacked actors.
• Yan Shaozhe proposed hiring children from the slums, but Xian Lin'er and Mu En rejected the idea because outsiders might reveal Teacher Su’s secrets.
• The elders began competing to recruit their own descendants for the coveted roles after realizing the children could learn from Teacher Su.
• Zhang Lexuan proposed assigning the Outer Court’s promising students and the Inner Court’s elite members to all the roles, claiming she would supervise them.
• Elder Zhuang and Qian Duoduo accused Zhang Lexuan of keeping the opportunity for her faction, while Yan Shaozhe lamented that Ma Xiaotao had been assigned a role.

Shrek’s disciples disguised themselves as Niulai Village residents to convince the blind Su Xian that he had reached a remote village. After he accepted the deception, Su Xian began his first lesson by promising to explain the universe, science, and the origins of world-destroying powers.

• Mu En and Zhang Lexuan assigned Shrek’s disciples rustic roles and made them change into shabby village clothes.
• Su Xian heard staged tractor, loudspeaker, dog, and rooster sounds and concluded that he was in Niulai Village.
• Mu En led the disguised disciples to visit Su Xian, who welcomed them as his students and fellow villagers.
• Su Xian switched on his tablet, and Qian Duoduo and the others mistook it for a divine-grade Soul Tool from the future.
• Su Xian announced that his first lesson would cover the universe, science, and the source of catastrophic powers, while Shrek’s assembled experts sat ready to listen.