Recaps

Xue Na and Zhu Zhuqing passed Shrek Academy’s entrance test, while Dai Mubai recognized Zhu Zhuqing as his fiancée and tried to avoid her. Su Yu asked to apply as a teacher, and he and the others proceeded to the academy’s final test.

• Xue Na revealed her lightning martial soul and three soul rings, and Li Yusong eagerly admitted her.
• Zhu Zhuqing revealed her Nether Civet Martial Soul and two soul rings, passed the test, and stood apart from Ning Rongrong and Xue Na.
• Dai Mubai recognized Zhu Zhuqing as his fiancée and shifted aside to avoid her, while she remained distant and did not approach him.
• Su Yu told Li Yusong that he was too old to enroll and wanted to apply as a teacher; Li Yusong agreed to let the dean assess him.
• Su Yu and the others followed Dai Mubai to the final test, where a powerfully built man sat in the square.

Zhao Wuji set the five new students a final entrance test: they had to withstand his attacks for one stick of incense, and the group chose Xue Na to lead them. The battle began with Ning Rongrong boosting her teammates, while Su Yu remained an applicant for a teaching position.

• Dai Mubai introduced Zhao Wuji, who revealed himself as a level seventy-six Soul Saint and set the five students a one-stick-of-incense survival test.
• Ning Rongrong recognized Zhao Wuji as the Immovable Wisdom King, and Dai Mubai warned the students about his strength and defense.
• The five introduced their Martial Souls and abilities, then agreed that Xue Na would direct the group.
• Zhao Wuji lit the incense and challenged the students to begin.
• Ning Rongrong activated her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and granted strength, speed, and defense boosts to her teammates.

Xue Na, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Tang San coordinated their attacks against Zhao Wuji, but his powerful defense withstood their strikes. Zhao Wuji escalated the test with his Gravity Enhancement and targeted Tang San with a powerful palm strike.

• Xue Na entered her lightning state and struck Zhao Wuji with lightning spheres, scorching his chest but failing to break his defense.
• Tang San restrained Zhao Wuji with Blue Silver Grass while Xiao Wu kicked him and Zhu Zhuqing attacked his back with Netherworld Hundred Claws.
• Xue Na hit Zhao Wuji with stronger lightning spheres as Tang San pulled him off balance, knocking him to the ground and numbing part of his body.
• Zhao Wuji activated Gravity Enhancement, weighing down Xue Na, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Zhao Wuji used Great Strength Vajra Palm and swept his enlarged palm toward the immobilized Tang San.

Tang San and his companions coordinated their attacks against Zhao Wuji, using Blue Silver Grass, lightning, and close combat to injure and restrain him briefly. Zhao Wuji broke free and repelled Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing, leaving the fight ongoing.

• Tang San used Blue Silver Grass to cushion Zhao Wuji's palm strike, but the blow still injured him.
• Tang San bound Zhao Wuji with parasitic seeds and Blue Silver Grass, while Ning Rongrong strengthened the vines with her enhancement.
• Xue Na struck Zhao Wuji with her third Soul Skill, Extreme Lightning Chidori, numbing his arms and scorching his skin.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing attacked Zhao Wuji while he was weakened, with Xiao Wu distracting him and Zhu Zhuqing clawing his arms.
• Zhao Wuji broke free of Tang San's vines and unleashed a shock wave that sent Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing flying back.

Xue Na, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong worked together to withstand Zhao Wuji's attack until the incense burned out, passing the assessment. After Flender arrived, he approached Su Yu and asked whether he was the young man applying for a teaching position.

• Zhao Wuji used Position Tracking to mark Tang San with a honey scent and relentlessly pursued him despite the others’ attacks.
• Xue Na and Ning Rongrong helped Tang San evade Zhao Wuji, while Tang San and Xue Na used Blue Silver Grass and lightning to create cover.
• Zhao Wuji struck Tang San through the smoke, sending him flying and making him cough up blood, but he had held back enough to avoid harming Tang San’s foundation.
• Zhao Wuji declared that the five youngsters had passed after they lasted through the incense and showed strong coordination.
• Flender and Li Yusong arrived, and Flender approached Su Yu to ask if he was applying for a teaching position.

Su Yu revealed his Sharingan as his Martial Soul and challenged Zhao Wuji to prove his strength. He struck Zhao Wuji with a sudden teleporting attack, and the two continued their spar with Zhao Wuji recognizing Su Yu as a formidable opponent.

• Ning Rongrong recognized Flender as the man who had sold her a worthless stone, and Su Yu calmed her before asking Flender to let him spar with Zhao Wuji.
• Su Yu revealed his Sharingan and claimed to be a Soul Saint, surprising Flender, Li Yusong, and Zhao Wuji.
• Zhao Wuji agreed to fight Su Yu and summoned his Great Strength Vajra Bear Martial Soul and seven Soul Rings.
• Su Yu threw a kunai, teleported to Zhao Wuji, and punched him hard enough to make him bleed and stagger.
• Zhao Wuji attacked with a defensive barrier and a sweeping arm strike, but Su Yu cut his arm with his kunai and retreated.
• Zhao Wuji acknowledged Su Yu's speed and weapon, saying he had finally met his match.

Su Yu used the Flying Thunder God Technique to evade Zhao Wuji’s increasingly powerful Soul Skills, then revealed Susanoo’s skeletal form to withstand Zhao Wuji’s strongest palm strike. Zhao Wuji was left stunned as Susanoo began forming a skeletal arm around Su Yu.

• Zhao Wuji activated his first and second Soul Skills and charged Su Yu, but Su Yu teleported behind him and struck his back with a kunai-assisted palm attack.
• Zhao Wuji used Gravity Enhancement and Gravitational Compression, but Su Yu evaded the field by teleporting to his marked kunai.
• Zhao Wuji unleashed his Great Strength Vajra Roar, but Su Yu’s powerful Spiritual Power resisted the mental assault.
• Zhao Wuji anticipated Su Yu’s next teleport and struck him with the Great Strength Vajra Palm.
• Susanoo’s blood-red skeletal frame appeared around Su Yu and blocked Zhao Wuji’s attack without cracking.
• Zhao Wuji stared in disbelief as a skeletal arm and hand began forming from Susanoo’s frame.

Su Yu defeated Zhao Wuji and was accepted as a teacher at Shrek Academy, then used Wood Release to build a courtyard home for Ning Rongrong and Xue Na. The chapter ended with the two girls happily exploring their new home and choosing rooms.

• Su Yu struck Zhao Wuji with his skeletal arm, and Zhao Wuji conceded defeat.
• Su Yu apologized to Zhao Wuji and asked Flender to let him join Shrek Academy as a teacher.
• Flender welcomed Su Yu but showed him the academy's shabby teachers' quarters.
• Ning Rongrong and Xue Na visited Su Yu and asked him to build them a better place to live.
• Su Yu used Wood Release: Four-Pillar House Technique to create a six-room courtyard, and Ning Rongrong and Xue Na eagerly explored it.

Su Yu built a courtyard for Ning Rongrong and the other girls, who agreed to move in together. The next day, Ning Rongrong challenged Ma Hongjun for harassing Cuihua, and Xue Na prepared to fight him as Ning Rongrong mocked his Evil Fire Phoenix as a barnyard chicken.

• Flender and the others arrived and were shocked to find a courtyard that Su Yu had created instantly.
• Ning Rongrong asked Su Yu to let Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing move into the courtyard, and he agreed.
• The girls began settling into their new home together.
• The next day, Ning Rongrong confronted Ma Hongjun as he pestered Cuihua, who escaped while he was distracted.
• Ma Hongjun turned his unwanted attention toward Ning Rongrong and Xue Na, prompting Xue Na to step forward with purple lightning.
• Ma Hongjun summoned his Evil Fire Phoenix and challenged Xue Na, while Ning Rongrong laughed and called his phantom a barnyard chicken.

Ning Rongrong’s teasing of Ma Hongjun escalated into a fight, and Su Yu protected Xue Na from Ma Hongjun’s explosive Soul Skill. Dai Mubai arrived and revealed that the girl Ning Rongrong thought Ma Hongjun was bullying was actually his girlfriend.

• Ma Hongjun attacked Ning Rongrong with Phoenix Fire Line, but Xue Na blocked it with lightning.
• Ma Hongjun used Phoenix of Rebirth after Ning Rongrong continued mocking his Martial Soul, and Su Yu shielded Xue Na from its explosion with Susanoo.
• Ning Rongrong rebuked Ma Hongjun for using a dangerous attack, and he admitted he had only meant to scare them.
• Dai Mubai arrived, and Ning Rongrong explained the confrontation while apologizing for mocking Ma Hongjun’s Martial Soul.
• Dai Mubai told Ning Rongrong that Ma Hongjun was a Shrek student and that the girl she thought he had bullied was his girlfriend.

Dai Mubai explained that Ma Hongjun’s mutated Evil Fire Phoenix caused uncontrollable urges, easing the girls’ anger, and Su Yu led them to the academy square. There, they found Tang San eating Oscar’s sausages before class.

• Dai Mubai explained that Ma Hongjun’s Martial Soul mutation gave him evil fire that he had to vent, and Ning Rongrong and the others calmed down.
• Su Yu sent everyone to the square for class, while Dai Mubai told Ma Hongjun that Su Yu was a Soul Saint who had defeated Teacher Zhao.
• Dai Mubai warned Ma Hongjun to stay away from Zhu Zhuqing and revealed that she was his fiancée.
• Su Yu and the girls reached the square and found Tang San eating sausages at Oscar’s cart.
• Oscar insisted he was not an uncle and offered Xiao Wu one of his freshly made sausages.

Oscar tried to sell his sausages to the new students before Dai Mubai made him demonstrate his Soul Skill, and Flender welcomed the students and introduced Su Yu as a new teacher. Later, Ning Rongrong told Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xue Na that she had been engaged to Su Yu since childhood, leaving Xiao Wu curious about what he was like as a boy.

• Xiao Wu refused Oscar's sausage and mistook him for an uncle, while Tang San bought sausages and praised their taste.
• Dai Mubai ordered Oscar to demonstrate his First Soul Skill, and Oscar conjured a Big Sausage before being warned not to sell food inside the academy.
• Flender welcomed the five new Little Monsters, introduced Su Yu as a new teacher, canceled training for the day, and ordered each student to pay one hundred Gold Soul Coins.
• That afternoon, Xiao Wu asked Ning Rongrong why she called Su Yu Husband-Brother, and Ning Rongrong explained that they had known each other since she was six and had been engaged since then.
• Xiao Wu asked whether Su Yu had been as cool and reserved as a child.

Ning Rongrong reminisced about how her husband supported her and declared she would never marry anyone else. The next day, Flender began the students’ training with a twenty-lap run, and the exhausted girls finished while Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar lagged behind.

• Ning Rongrong recalled how her husband comforted her and helped her master Heart Separation Control when she was a child.
• Ning Rongrong told Xiao Wu she would stay with her dear husband for life and marry no one else.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun arrived late to training after going out the night before, and Flender assigned them five extra laps each.
• Flender ordered the students to run twenty laps around the academy, while Su Yu watched.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, Xue Na, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong kept ahead as Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar struggled behind.
• Ning Rongrong and Xue Na finished their laps exhausted and rested on the ground.

After a tiring run, Su Yu used his Special Soul Skill to bring Ning Rongrong, Xue Na, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing back to their courtyard and encouraged them to bathe and rest. Ning Rongrong teased him about their closeness, then reunited with him after her bath, and he dried her hair while she leaned against him.

• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing rested after the run, and Ning Rongrong asked Su Yu to carry her.
• Su Yu used his Special Soul Skill to transport Xue Na, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong to their courtyard.
• Su Yu carried Ning Rongrong to her room and told her to bathe, insisting he should respect proper boundaries as she teased him.
• Ning Rongrong bathed while Xue Na urged Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing to do the same.
• After an hour, Ning Rongrong found Su Yu waiting in the courtyard, and he sat her on his lap and dried her hair.

Su Yu tended to Ning Rongrong’s blistered feet before Flender brought the Shrek students to the Soto Great Soul Arena for combat training. The students registered to fight, with Flender setting the goal of earning Silver Soul Badges before graduation.

• Su Yu applied ointment to Ning Rongrong’s blisters and told her to rest.
• Flender led the Shrek students to a tea shop near the Soto Great Soul Arena and explained that their lesson would be actual combat.
• Flender set the students the requirement of earning Silver Soul Badges before graduation.
• Dai Mubai revealed his record of fifty-six matches, twenty-nine wins, twenty-seven losses, and two points, while Ma Hongjun reported thirty-three matches and nine points.
• Flender took the students to register for Soul Fighting, and Xiao Wu eagerly reacted to the reward for victories.

Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing registered for Soul Fighting, while Ning Rongrong and Xue Na revealed they had already become Silver Soul Fighters as a team. Their next match began at the Soto Great Soul Arena, where the crowd doubted their support-and-attacker pairing against the Tiger Leopard Team.

• Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing filled out registration forms, while Ning Rongrong and Xue Na showed Flender their Silver Soul Badges.
• Ning Rongrong and Xue Na explained that they had earned their badges by fighting Two-Person Soul Fighting matches together during an earlier trip.
• Flender told the registered students to compete for practice, then left the Little Monsters in Su Yu's care as the matches began.
• The host, Little Spirit Rabbit, announced the Tiger Leopard Team and the Nine Treasure Purple Lightning Combination for a Silver-level Two-Person Soul Fighting match.
• Ning Rongrong and Xue Na took the platform against the Tiger Leopard Team, while spectators questioned their pairing and predicted their defeat.

Xue Na and Ning Rongrong fought the Tiger Leopard Team in a two-on-two Soul Fighting match, using Ning Rongrong’s boosts and Xue Na’s lightning skills to counter their opponents’ attacks. As the two Soul Elders launched a coordinated assault, Xue Na unleashed her Extreme Lightning Chidori and engulfed them in lightning.

• The tiger Soul Elder charged Xue Na while the leopard Soul Elder tried to flank Ning Rongrong, but Xue Na punched the tiger back and Ning Rongrong boosted her with the Nine Treasures.
• Xue Na trapped Ning Rongrong inside a Violet Lightning Cage, then shocked the leopard Soul Elder and broke his Soul Power shield with a lightning-charged punch.
• The tiger Soul Elder interrupted Xue Na’s follow-up attack, and the two opponents agreed to fight together despite the leopard Soul Elder’s injuries.
• The tiger Soul Elder used Tiger's Roar Heaven as the leopard Soul Elder used Ghost Leopard Charge to attack Xue Na from both sides.
• Xue Na unleashed Extreme Lightning Chidori, sending a Violet Lightning Golden Eagle into both Soul Elders and engulfing them in purple lightning.

Xue Na and Ning Rongrong defeated the Tiger and Leopard Combination with a powerful lightning attack, then Xiao Wu began her match against the four-win Savage Bull A Bao. Xiao Wu and A Bao summoned their martial spirits and prepared to fight.

• Xue Na and Ning Rongrong won their match after Xue Na's lightning attack knocked out the Tiger and Leopard Combination.
• Xue Na credited Ning Rongrong's amplification for helping her defeat both opponents with one ground-based Soul Skill.
• Xiao Wu was called to Arena Three to face Savage Bull A Bao, who had won four consecutive matches.
• A Bao worried that he might hurt Xiao Wu, but she insisted on fighting and challenged him to take her seriously.
• Xiao Wu and A Bao each activated Martial Soul Possession and revealed two yellow Soul Rings.

Xiao Wu used her agility and fighting skill to challenge Abao’s strength and defenses in the arena. After surprising him with a kick to the chin, she began using her Charm Soul Skill.

• Xiao Wu struck Abao’s crossed arms with a powerful kick, making him acknowledge her skill.
• Abao used his First Soul Skill, Man-Bull Charge, but Xiao Wu dodged his charge and attacked his lower back and the back of his head.
• Abao activated his Second Soul Skill, Man-Bull Bodyguard, and endured Xiao Wu’s rapid kicks behind a tough black barrier.
• Xiao Wu tricked Abao into raising his arms, then planted her hands on the arena floor and kicked him in the chin.
• Xiao Wu activated her Second Soul Skill, Charm, while Abao reeled from the blow.

Xiao Wu defeated A Bao in her first Soto Soul Fighting Arena match, and Shrek’s next round began with Zhu Zhuqing and Tang San facing separate opponents. Zhu Zhuqing launched a counterattack against Zhang San on platform eight, leaving their fight underway.

• Xiao Wu used her charm to disorient A Bao, who fell off the platform unconscious and lost to her.
• The crowd celebrated Xiao Wu’s victory, and Tang San checked that she was unharmed before she proudly showed him her points token and five Gold Soul Coins.
• Su Yu noticed that the opponents and platforms differed from his memories of the original events.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Tang San headed to separate platforms, where Zhu Zhuqing faced the Gale Demon Wolf soul master Zhang San.
• Zhang San charged at Zhu Zhuqing with his Wolf Spirit skill, and she dodged and attacked his flank with Netherworld Hundred Claws.

Zhu Zhuqing defeated Zhang San in her opening Soul Fighting match with her speed and claw attacks. Meanwhile, Tang San lost to an opponent with a Lava Beast Martial Soul after his Blue Silver Grass failed to reach him.

• Zhang San charged at Zhu Zhuqing, but she wounded his flank and shoulder with Netherworld Hundred Claws.
• Zhang San used his Second Soul Skill, Wild Wolf Assault, to pursue Zhu Zhuqing, but she evaded him and countered with Hell Stab and another claw attack.
• The announcer declared Zhu Zhuqing the winner after Zhang San fell and could no longer fight.
• Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Xue Na congratulated Zhu Zhuqing as she left the platform.
• Tang San's opponent used Lava Possession to surround himself with flames, preventing Tang San's Blue Silver Grass from reaching him.
• Tang San was knocked off the platform and lost his first Soul Fighting match.

After the Shrek students finished their Soul Fighting matches, Ma Hongjun left to visit Flender’s shop, and Dai Mubai explained that he went to brothels to relieve his martial soul’s evil fire. Dai Mubai’s attempt to distinguish himself from Ma Hongjun only made Zhu Zhuqing more disgusted, while Ning Rongrong revealed that Dai Mubai had gone to a hotel with twin sisters.

• Tang San, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Xue Na, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun competed in more Soul Fighting matches, with Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and Tang San winning their later bouts.
• Su Yu led the group out of the Suotuo City Great Soul Fighting Arena, and Ma Hongjun said he was going to Flender’s shop.
• Dai Mubai told the others that Ma Hongjun went to brothels because his martial soul’s flaw made him need to release his evil fire.
• Zhu Zhuqing reacted with disgust to Dai Mubai’s explanation, while Ning Rongrong and Xue Na defended Su Yu as someone who never visited such places.
• Dai Mubai claimed his taste was better than Ma Hongjun’s, and Ning Rongrong teased him about being especially fond of twins.
• Ning Rongrong told Zhu Zhuqing that Dai Mubai had gone to a hotel with twin sisters on their first day in Suotuo City and had tried to take the room they had booked.

Ning Rongrong exposed Dai Mubai’s past behavior to Zhu Zhuqing, who rejected his attempts to explain and left him behind. Later, Su Yu and the two girls found Zhu Zhuqing sitting alone in a tree near the academy, and Su Yu told Ning Rongrong that keeping the truth from someone could hurt them.

• Ning Rongrong recounted Dai Mubai’s past misconduct, prompting Zhu Zhuqing to distance herself from her fiancé.
• Dai Mubai grabbed Zhu Zhuqing’s wrist and tried to persuade her that he had changed, but she called his behavior disgusting and walked away.
• Dai Mubai grew furious and raised a hand against Zhu Zhuqing, but Su Yu stopped him and made him lower it.
• Su Yu left with Ning Rongrong and Xue Na, while Dai Mubai headed deeper into Suotuo City with the twins on his mind.
• After dinner, Su Yu, Ning Rongrong, and Xue Na saw Zhu Zhuqing sitting alone in a tree near the academy.
• Ning Rongrong wondered if she had upset Zhu Zhuqing, and Su Yu told her that concealing things could hurt someone.

Su Yu fed Zhu Zhuqing and asked whether she wanted to end her engagement to Dai Mubai. She admitted she did, and Su Yu said he could help, but not yet, before revealing his connection to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Spirit Hall’s marriage agreement.

• Su Yu caught Zhu Zhuqing returning late, offered her leftover rice, and she ate before thanking him.
• Su Yu deduced that Zhu Zhuqing was tied to the Zhu Family and Dai Mubai was the Star Luo Empire’s third prince.
• Su Yu asked whether Zhu Zhuqing wanted to break off her engagement, and she said she did despite her families’ thousand-year agreement.
• Su Yu promised to help Zhu Zhuqing end the engagement later and reminded her that Rongrong was the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s young sect master.
• Su Yu mentioned the sect’s marriage agreement with Spirit Hall, prompting Zhu Zhuqing to realize he was Spirit Hall’s Saint Son.

Su Yu revealed that he was Spirit Hall’s Saint Son and offered to help Zhu Zhuqing break her engagement in exchange for her becoming his woman and governing the Star Luo Empire for him. After Zhu Zhuqing accepted, Su Yu completed a system mission and used the Heart of Nature to transform his Wood Release Martial Soul, breaking through to level eighty and forming a Soul Ring.

• Su Yu showed Zhu Zhuqing his Saint Son token and promised to help her break her engagement within six years.
• Su Yu told Zhu Zhuqing he wanted her to become his woman and eventually govern the Star Luo Empire, and she chose to follow him.
• Su Yu placed a Flying Thunder God Mark on Zhu Zhuqing’s wrist and asked her to call him big brother before she went to bed.
• Su Yu traveled to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and received the Heart of Nature as the reward for completing his mission.
• Su Yu merged the Heart of Nature with his Wood Release Martial Soul, drawing life essence from Sunset Forest and breaking through to level eighty.
• The gathered life essence condensed into a Soul Ring before Su Yu.