Chapter Summaries

Meng Shenji outlined Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s system and offered the Shrek teachers generous positions and allowances, with the students receiving top-tier status and resources. Flender was deeply tempted but hesitated over whether accepting would cost Shrek its identity, and Meng Shenji waited for his answer.

• Meng Shenji praised Shrek’s students and said the academy would respect the teachers’ freedom, though he would not allow them to take students away at any time without a reasonable reason.
• Qin Ming explained Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s student and teacher tiers and its administration by three Education Committee members.
• Meng Shenji offered to make the Shrek students Heaven Dou Grade Students and give every Shrek teacher Heaven Dou Grade Teacher treatment plus a monthly allowance of six thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Meng Shenji offered Flender the post of Inner Court Vice Dean with a monthly allowance of ten thousand Gold Soul Coins, while Yu Xiaogang urged him to accept.
• Flender weighed the rewards against his attachment to Shrek and remained silent as Meng Shenji waited for his decision.

Flender refused Meng Shenji’s offer to absorb Shrek Academy into Heaven Dou Royal Academy, insisting that he would not let Shrek disappear. Meng Shenji then tried to recruit the students individually, and after Yu Xiaogang ordered him to accept, Tang San agreed to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

• Yu Xiaogang angrily pressed Flender to accept Meng Shenji’s generous offer, but Flender refused after weighing the decision.
• Flender told Meng Shenji that joining Heaven Dou Royal Academy would mean Shrek Academy eventually disappeared, and announced that Shrek would leave that day.
• Meng Shenji tried to persuade Tang San, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar to stay at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, offering resources, a place on the Second Team, and the chance of a noble title.
• Dai Mubai and Tang San initially declared that they would remain loyal to Shrek Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang quietly ordered Tang San to accept Meng Shenji’s offer, and Tang San agreed to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

Tang San, Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun chose to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy, leaving Flender and the remaining Shrek Academy members devastated. Qin Ming apologized and promised to support the former students as Flender led Shrek away.

• Yu Xiaogang agreed to stay at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, hoping its records might help Luo Sanpao evolve, and Tang San chose to stay as well.
• Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun each agreed to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while Flender accepted their decision and said Shrek Academy would leave.
• Flender walked out of the hall in grief, and Qin Ming followed to apologize for how events had turned out.
• Qin Ming promised Flender he would always support Shrek Academy, and Flender asked him to look after the younger students who had stayed behind.
• Flender led the remaining members of Shrek Academy away from Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

After Shrek Academy’s students left for Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Su Yu suggested that Flender take the group to Blue Tyrant Academy, whose dean was Flender’s old companion Liu Erlong. The group reached the academy and encountered a clerk at its recruitment desk.

• Zhao Wuji angrily condemned the students for leaving Shrek Academy, while Flender said they had to choose their own paths.
• Su Yu told Flender that Blue Tyrant Academy could provide the official affiliation Shrek needed for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament.
• Su Yu revealed that Blue Tyrant Academy’s dean was Liu Erlong, stirring Flender’s memories of their years together in the Golden Iron Triangle.
• Flender decided to visit Blue Tyrant Academy, then asked Su Yu for directions after walking the wrong way.
• Su Yu led Flender and the others to Blue Tyrant Academy, where a man at the recruitment desk asked if they had come to apply as teachers.

Flender and his companions applied for teaching positions at Blue Tyrant Academy and revealed their formidable abilities during the assessment. Yin Shu offered to take them to the dean, leaving Flender excited at the prospect of seeing Sister Erlong.

• Flender told the academy staff that he and his companions wanted teaching positions and hoped their students could enroll, but Yin Shu explained the enrollment rules and led them to the teacher assessment.
• The examiners said candidates above level fifty had to last ten minutes against one of them, and Flender initially dismissed the test as unnecessary.
• Flender, Li Yusong, Lu Qibin, Shao Xin, and Zhao Wuji revealed that they were all Soul Emperors or Soul Saints, impressing the examiners.
• Ning Rongrong and the other girls displayed their martial souls, revealing that three were Soul Elders and the fourth was level twenty-nine.
• Su Yu declared that he was an eighty-one-level Soul Douluo and used his Mangekyō Sharingan to make everyone see eight soul rings.
• Yin Shu said the academy could not assess their ranks and offered to take them to the dean, while Flender looked forward to seeing Sister Erlong.

Flender and his companions visited the secluded home of Blue Tyrant Academy’s dean, Liu Erlong, who reunited warmly with him after many years. Liu Erlong began explaining how she returned to her clan and founded the academy, leaving her story unfinished.

• Yin Shu led Flender and the others through the forest to find the academy’s dean, who lived in a secluded cottage beside a lake.
• Flender recognized the melancholy song as Liu Erlong’s and grew apprehensive as they approached her home.
• Yin Shu introduced the visitors as experienced teachers applying for positions at the academy.
• Liu Erlong recognized Flender, hurried over, and embraced him warmly.
• Liu Erlong asked Flender how he had come to Heaven Dou City and Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Liu Erlong explained that after returning to her clan, she learned that Heaven Dou Royal Academy excluded commoner children and began recounting what happened next.

Flender reunited with Liu Erlong and told her how Shrek Academy had lost its students and arrived at Blue Tyrant Academy. Liu Erlong agreed to rename the academy Shrek and let Flender manage it as dean, then welcomed his students and offered them a feast.

• Liu Erlong explained that she had founded Blue Tyrant Academy to teach commoners and asked Flender where he had been.
• Flender described Shrek Academy’s merger with Heaven Dou Royal Academy, the loss of its students, and the group’s arrival at Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Liu Erlong offered to rename Blue Tyrant Academy Shrek Academy and make Flender its dean, but Flender insisted she remain dean while he served as vice dean.
• Liu Erlong accepted Flender’s compromise and invited Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Rongrong, and Xue Na to call her Sister Erlong.
• Liu Erlong offered to host a welcoming feast, and Flender nervously suggested they skip it because of the cost.

Liu Erlong welcomed Flender and the Shrek group with a lavish meal at Blue Tyrant Academy, and they settled in over the following week. Su Yu then pursued a system mission to win over Tang Yuehua and the Four Single-Attribute Clans, arriving at Moonlight Pavilion to meet Tang Yuehua.

• Liu Erlong persuaded Flender to accept a feast and hosted the Shrek group at Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Flender and Liu Erlong reminisced about their past while the students and Zhao Wuji enjoyed the meal.
• After a week, Su Yu received a mission to win over Tang Yuehua and the Four Single-Attribute Clans in exchange for a pair of same-origin Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Su Yu decided to seek Tang Yuehua's help with the clans and traveled to Moonlight Pavilion in Heaven Dou City.
• The chapter described Tang Yuehua's Ruyi Ring, her inability to cultivate, and how she founded Moonlight Pavilion, which became a prestigious academy for nobles.
• Su Yu arrived at Moonlight Pavilion and considered enrolling there to approach Tang Yuehua.

Su Yu visited Tang Yuehua at the Moonlight Pavilion after arranging the meeting through Salas. After tea and polite introductions, he told her he had come to ask for her help with an important matter.

• Su Yu asked Salas whether he had made the arrangements, and Salas led him into the Moonlight Pavilion.
• Salas escorted Su Yu to the top floor, identified Tang Yuehua’s room, and left him outside the door.
• Tang Yuehua welcomed Su Yu, and they exchanged courteous greetings before sitting down together.
• Tang Yuehua served Su Yu the Pavilion’s Azure Cliff Dew, which he praised.
• Su Yu grew grave and told Tang Yuehua that he had come to ask for her help with an important matter.

Su Yu pretended to suffer from a heart demon to persuade Tang Yuehua to help him, and she agreed to let him stay at Moonlight Pavilion. After he left, Tang Yuehua reflected on their awkward, affectionate encounter, while the chapter revealed Su Yu had no heart demon at all.

• Su Yu told Tang Yuehua that cultivation had caused him heart pressure, aching meridians, and near-deviation, and begged her to resolve his heart demon.
• Bibi Dong sneezed while reviewing dossiers and suspected Su Yu was talking about her, lamenting that he had not visited.
• Tang Yuehua agreed to help Su Yu and suggested he stay in Moonlight Pavilion's quiet rear courtyard to settle his mind.
• Su Yu grabbed Tang Yuehua's hand in gratitude, and she stroked his head before they both awkwardly let go.
• Tang Yuehua watched Su Yu leave and smiled at the memory of his reddened ears.
• The chapter revealed that Su Yu had no heart demon.

Su Yu settled into Moonlight Pavilion, where Tang Yuehua visited with pastries and listened as he described his fears about failing Spirit Hall and disappointing his teacher. She used her Noble Domain to soothe his Heart Demon, and they grew closer as he asked her to call him Xiao Yu and offered to call her Sister Yuehua.

• Aude welcomed Su Yu to Moonlight Pavilion and showed him to his prepared room.
• Tang Yuehua brought pastries to Su Yu, stumbled into his arms when he opened the door, and accepted his invitation to sit with him.
• Su Yu described his fear of losing his standing and disappointing his teacher, asking Tang Yuehua whether his Heart Demon could be cured.
• Tang Yuehua activated her Ruyi Ring and Noble Domain, easing Su Yu's gloom and calming his nerves.
• Su Yu apologized for calling Tang Yuehua Sister Yuehua, but she welcomed the familiar address, and he asked her to call him Xiao Yu.

Su Yu comforted Tang Yuehua over her inability to cultivate and gave her a Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma to help her break through her bottleneck. After she ate it, a surge of energy overwhelmed her, and Su Yu began guiding her Soul Power.

• Su Yu reassured Tang Yuehua that her innate domain suggested her Martial Soul had great potential and promised to protect her.
• Su Yu remembered that Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma had helped Yu Xiaogang resume cultivation and offered the herb to Tang Yuehua.
• Tang Yuehua initially refused the precious herb, but Su Yu persuaded her to accept it by insisting he wanted her as his big sister.
• Tang Yuehua ate the Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma and felt its energy surge through her body.
• When Tang Yuehua admitted she did not know how to guide the energy, Su Yu took her hand and began channeling his Soul Power into her.

Su Yu helped Tang Yuehua break through her long-stagnant soul power to level ten, and she eagerly prepared to obtain a soul ring. The chapter ended with Tang Yuehua and Su Yu setting out from the Moonlight Pavilion, accompanied by Steward Aude’s well wishes.

• Su Yu guided Tang Yuehua’s soul power until it broke through to level ten.
• Tang Yuehua tearfully thanked Su Yu, who promised to help her continue improving and take her to obtain a soul ring.
• The next morning, Tang Yuehua dressed in combat clothes and urged Su Yu to leave for the soul ring.
• Su Yu and Tang Yuehua met Steward Aude, who had prepared their carriage and wished Tang Yuehua success.

Su Yu escorted Tang Yuehua to Sunset Forest to find a suitable first Soul Ring for her Ruyi Ring. After reassuring her and searching the forest, he captured a Golden Lion and judged it a good match for her.

• Chief Steward Aude saw Su Yu and Tang Yuehua off as they left for Sunset Forest.
• Su Yu and Tang Yuehua entered the forest, where a thousand-year Shadow Rat frightened Tang Yuehua before Su Yu drove it away.
• Tang Yuehua asked for a strength-type Soul Ring and said she wanted to avoid spider Soul Beasts.
• Su Yu used the Mind's Eye of the Kagura to search the forest and carried Tang Yuehua toward a suitable Soul Beast.
• Su Yu restrained a Golden Lion with branches and told Tang Yuehua that its strength, speed, and pure Soul Power made it suitable for her.

Tang Yuehua absorbed the Golden Lion’s Soul Ring, reached level nineteen, and gained the Golden Blessing support skill. A week later, while pushing herself through all-night cultivation, she nearly fell and Su Yu caught her.

• Tang Yuehua killed the Golden Lion and absorbed its Yellow Soul Ring, advancing to level nineteen with the help of the Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma’s medicinal potency.
• Tang Yuehua revealed that Golden Blessing increased one person’s strength and speed by forty percent, and Su Yu promised to protect her.
• Su Yu and Tang Yuehua returned to Heaven Dou City, where she treated his Heart Demon until it had mostly healed over the following week.
• Tang Yuehua cultivated through another night and told Su Yu she was close to level twenty and absorbing her Second Soul Ring.
• Tang Yuehua lost her balance as she stood, and Su Yu caught her around the waist.

Su Yu helped Tang Yuehua recover from numb legs caused by overlong cultivation and urged her to take better care of herself. After another seven days, she had reached Soul Power level twenty and gained a second soul ring, while her music lessons helped Su Yu’s heart demon dissipate; the chapter ended with her performing a new dance to his guqin accompaniment.

• Su Yu massaged Tang Yuehua’s numb leg and warned her not to overexert herself cultivating.
• Tang Yuehua promised to be more careful, and Su Yu arranged for the maids to prepare her a hot bath.
• Over the next seven days, Tang Yuehua broke through to Soul Power level twenty and obtained her second soul ring with Su Yu’s help.
• Tang Yuehua’s guqin lessons helped Su Yu’s heart demon completely dissipate.
• Tang Yuehua dressed in a pale purple gown and performed her newly choreographed dance while Su Yu played the guqin.

Su Yu and Tang Yuehua traveled to Longxing City to seek the Defense Clan’s support, with Su Yu planning to win the Four Single-Attribute Clans over. They arrived at the Defense Clan’s residence and were left waiting after asking to meet its chief.

• Tang Yuehua agreed to help Su Yu approach the Four Single-Attribute Clans despite her doubts about bridging their resentment toward Spirit Hall.
• Su Yu and Tang Yuehua shared an intimate moment before traveling to Longxing City, where the Defense Clan had relocated.
• During the carriage ride, Tang Yuehua complained that Su Yu had fallen asleep, and he massaged her wrist to soothe it.
• Su Yu said he planned to defeat the Four Great Clans’ chiefs so they would submit to them.
• Su Yu introduced himself and Tang Yuehua to the Defense Clan’s disciples and asked to speak with its chief.
• A disciple went to announce their arrival, and a tall old man soon came out.

Tang Yuehua and Su Yu visited the Defense Clan, where Niu Gao welcomed them and learned Su Yu's name. Tang Yuehua apologized for the Clear Sky Sect's past treatment of the Four Great Clans, and Niu Gao explained that he held her blameless while condemning Tang Hao and Tang Xiao.

• Niu Gao greeted Tang Yuehua and led her and Su Yu into the Defense Clan's reception hall.
• Tang Yuehua teased Su Yu as a rascal, and Niu Gao wondered if the two were romantically involved.
• Su Yu introduced himself to Niu Gao, who noticed he could not sense any soul power from him.
• Niu Gao asked whether Tang Yuehua had come to discuss an important matter and made clear the Defense Clan did not want to return to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Yuehua apologized for her brothers' actions, and Niu Gao said she was not responsible for the clan's suffering.
• Niu Gao recalled the old sect master's kindness and criticized Tang Hao for his death and Tang Xiao for his timid leadership.

Tang Yuehua asked Niu Gao to bring the Defense Clan under Su Yu’s command, and Niu Gao demanded that Su Yu prove his strength by defeating him. As their duel began, Su Yu revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and formed a complete blood-red skeletal armor around himself, leaving Niu Gao stunned.

• Niu Gao sensed that Tang Yuehua had reached level twenty-three and learned that Su Yu had helped her cultivate.
• Tang Yuehua asked Niu Gao to place the Defense Clan under Su Yu’s command and assured him that Su Yu was powerful enough to defeat him.
• Niu Gao challenged Su Yu, promising that the Defense Clan would submit if Su Yu won.
• Su Yu calmly endured Niu Gao’s Soul Douluo pressure, and they moved to the training grounds to fight.
• Niu Gao avoided looking into Su Yu’s Mangekyō Sharingan and covered himself in soul-power armor.
• Su Yu released blood-red soul power and formed a complete skeletal armor around himself, shocking Niu Gao.

Su Yu defeated Niu Gao in a duel, earning the Defense Clan’s submission, then revealed he was Spirit Hall’s Saint Son and offered Niu Gao the option of serving Tang Yuehua instead. Niu Gao was left weighing the offer against the clan’s strained position and its history with Spirit Hall.

• Su Yu’s Susanoo broke Niu Gao’s defense barrier, countered his charge, and hurled him into the Training Ground wall.
• Su Yu helped the injured Niu Gao up and healed him with his soul power.
• Niu Gao accepted defeat, pledged the Defense Clan’s service to Su Yu, and the clan disciples bowed.
• Su Yu revealed that he was Spirit Hall’s Saint Son, prompting Niu Gao to recognize him.
• Su Yu acknowledged Spirit Hall’s past treatment of the Four Single-Attribute Clans and asked whether Niu Gao would serve Tang Yuehua instead; Niu Gao hesitated over the offer.