Chapter Summaries

Lu Ren absorbed a Ten-Thousand-Year Scorpion King’s Soul Ring, reached level 42, and considered how to use his growing power to disrupt Shrek and gain resources from the Sun Moon Empire. At the forest’s outskirts, he overheard Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and Tang Ya discussing the robber targeting Shrek students, then approached the two boys from behind.

• Lu Ren defeated a Ten-Thousand-Year Scorpion King with Black Flash and absorbed its Soul Ring, becoming a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor at level 42.
• Lu Ren recalled how he had robbed Shrek students who tried to take a Soul Beast from him, and the system revealed that the Ten Shadows Cursed Technique would unlock at seven rings, with Six Eyes and Limitless at nine.
• Lu Ren planned to stay near the Star Dou Great Forest for a chance to gain a path to godhood, then stir up trouble at Shrek and seek benefits from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.
• Lu Ren overheard Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and Tang Ya discussing the robber who targeted Shrek students and learned that Bei Bei had brought Xu Sanshi along for protection.
• Lu Ren sneaked behind Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi, placed a hand on each boy’s shoulder, and asked if they had been looking for him.

Lu Ren ambushed Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi, overwhelmed them and Tang Ya, and demanded their valuables as a protection fee. After seeing him shatter Xu Sanshi’s shield, Bei Bei surrendered and handed over everything he owned.

• Lu Ren caught Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi discussing him and restrained them with his physical strength as Tang Ya attacked with Blue Silver Grass.
• Lu Ren cut through Tang Ya’s vines and sent her flying, then withstood Bei Bei’s and Xu Sanshi’s Soul Skills without being harmed.
• Lu Ren demanded their valuables, but Bei Bei refused and attacked again while Xu Sanshi charged at him.
• Lu Ren’s slash cut down trees and shattered Xu Sanshi’s shield, leaving Xu Sanshi injured and unable to rise.
• Bei Bei surrendered, agreed to hand over everything he owned, and Xu Sanshi called him a traitor.

Lu Ren robbed Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi in the Star Dou Great Forest, taunted Tang Ya about the Tang Sect, and gained Cursed Energy from their anger. After Electrolux’s remnant soul entered his Sea of Consciousness, Lu Ren decided to head for Shrek and change the story’s course.

• Lu Ren took Bei Bei’s Storage Soul Tool, dismissed the Tang Sect weapons and manuals inside as worthless, and returned them while mocking Tang Ya’s leadership and the sect’s decline.
• Lu Ren robbed Xu Sanshi of his Storage Soul Tool and Mystic Water Pills, then left the three Shrek disciples behind with a warning to bring more valuables next time.
• Bei Bei restrained Tang Ya and explained that the group could not defeat Lu Ren, while Xu Sanshi vowed to report the assault and the three decided to return to the academy after Tang Ya hunted for a Soul Ring.
• As Lu Ren walked deeper into the forest, the disciples’ negative emotions became Cursed Energy, and a gray stream of Qi entered his Sea of Consciousness as Electrolux’s remnant soul.
• Lu Ren recognized Electrolux as a major opportunity, rejected the risk of taking the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and resolved to cause trouble at Shrek and disrupt the original story involving Wang Dong’er.

Lu Ren used a Mystic Water Pill to raise his Soul Power to level 43, then followed Bei Bei, Tang Ya, Xu Sanshi, and Huo Yuhao to Shrek City. He knocked Xu Sanshi unconscious, stole his sixth-year uniform, and entered Shrek Academy through the eastern gate, leaving his next move unknown.

• Lu Ren swallowed a Mystic Water Pill and discovered that his Soul Power had risen to level 43.
• Lu Ren spotted Huo Yuhao with Bei Bei, Tang Ya, and Xu Sanshi as they headed for Shrek City, then followed them to the eastern gate.
• Lu Ren seized Xu Sanshi and dragged him into a secluded alley, where a Black Flash from his casual punch knocked Xu Sanshi unconscious.
• Lu Ren changed into Xu Sanshi's black sixth-year uniform and covered Xu Sanshi with spare clothing.
• Lu Ren walked past the Shrek Academy gate guards without showing identification, and they let him enter after he told them to scram.

At Shrek Academy, Lu Ren exposed Wang Dong'er as a girl during freshman registration and forced the staff to assign her a room in the girls' dormitory. He left for the Sun Moon Empire, while Tang San sensed an unexpected change involving Wu Tong in the lower realm.

• Lu Ren noticed Wang Dong'er in the registration line and took her dormitory key before she could receive it.
• Lu Ren used Wang Dong'er's Light Goddess Butterfly Martial Soul and Soul Power fluctuations to publicly reveal that she was a girl, then threatened to verify it by tearing off her clothes.
• Lu Ren ordered the registrar to report Wang Dong'er and assign her a room in the girls' dormitory; Wang Dong'er took the key and left after demanding Lu Ren's name.
• Lu Ren revealed that he intended to disrupt Wang Dong'er's connection with Huo Yuhao, then left Shrek for the Sun Moon Empire.
• Tang San sensed a change involving Wu Tong and began calculating what had happened.

Lu Ren reached Mingdu and sought entry to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, planning to prove his value as a powerful soul master. After beating Wang Shaojie to force the academy to take notice, he met Director of Education Lin Jiayi at the gates.

• Lu Ren arrived in Mingdu at level forty-four and sensed that the city's abundant cursed energy could help his cultivation.
• Lu Ren decided to approach the academy by demonstrating his strength and stopped Wang Shaojie to ask him to summon the director of education.
• Lu Ren revealed his four soul rings and struck Wang Shaojie with a Black Flash, then forced him to go inside for help.
• Wang Shaojie returned with a teacher, but Lu Ren persuaded the teacher to fetch Director Lin Jiayi instead.
• Lin Jiayi came out to meet Lu Ren, who greeted him with a smile.

Lu Ren sought admission to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, claiming he would help it defeat Shrek in the upcoming Continental Soul Master Tournament. Lin Jiayi approved his admission pending tests, then reported his extraordinary soul ring configuration to Jing Hongchen, who went to inspect him himself.

• Lu Ren introduced himself to Lin Jiayi and requested admission, revealing his two-purple, two-black soul ring configuration and his goal of helping the academy defeat Shrek.
• Lin Jiayi approved Lu Ren’s admission subject to testing and sent students to take him to the physical testing room.
• Lin Jiayi reported Lu Ren’s rank, soul rings, and defeat of Wang Shaojie to Jing Hongchen.
• Jing Hongchen questioned Lu Ren’s unknown origins and arranged for his soul power, bone age, and martial soul to be examined.
• Jing Hongchen went with Lin Jiayi to see Lu Ren, intrigued by his talent and the possibility that he could help the Sun Moon Empire defeat Shrek.

Lu Ren underwent the academy’s physical test, revealing a body the testing instrument could not measure and an astonishing fifty-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring. Jing Hongchen suspected Lu Ren had another purpose for choosing the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, then invited him to his office to investigate his background and discuss their cooperation.

• Lu Ren surrendered his Storage Soul Tool and followed the academy staff into the Physical Testing Room for his examination.
• The test recorded Lu Ren’s Soul Power at level forty-four, his bone age at fourteen, and his Soul Ring Configuration up to a fifty-thousand-year fourth ring, while his physical strength and resilience registered as unknown.
• The testing instrument malfunctioned during the scan, leaving staff stunned by Lu Ren’s unmeasurable physical stats and extraordinary Soul Ring Configuration.
• Jing Hongchen praised Lin Jiayi for bringing Lu Ren to the academy, then ordered an investigation into Lu Ren’s identity, background, and motives.
• Jing Hongchen entered the testing room, praised Lu Ren’s results, and invited him to his office to discuss admission benefits, resources, and their agreement to defeat Shrek in the tournament.

Lu Ren negotiated with Jing Hongchen for a place at Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, offering to help defeat Shrek in exchange for a hundred thousand year Soul Bone. He argued that his future as a Limit Douluo would benefit the academy and the Sun Moon Empire, leaving Jing Hongchen visibly stirred by his ambition.

• Jing Hongchen questioned why Lu Ren had chosen Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy over Shrek, and Lu Ren claimed Shrek students had bullied him in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Lu Ren said he wanted the academy’s resources and a safe place to cultivate, and offered to help it win the Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament against Shrek.
• Lu Ren proposed that if he failed to help the academy defeat Shrek, he would do whatever Jing Hongchen demanded; in return for success, he asked for a hundred thousand year Soul Bone.
• Jing Hongchen refused to promise a hundred thousand year Soul Bone and offered a Level 9 Soul Tool instead, but Lu Ren argued that his future strength would make him a valuable ally.
• Lu Ren declared that he would become a Limit Douluo, and Jing Hongchen found himself unable to dismiss the boy’s confidence.

Lu Ren negotiated with Jing Hongchen for a chance to earn a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone by proving himself in an academy arena challenge. Jing Hongchen enlisted Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to challenge Lu Ren the next day, while Xiao Hongchen vowed to put him in his place.

• Lu Ren and Jing Hongchen agreed that Jing would seek a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone from the imperial family if Lu Ren proved he could help defeat Shrek Academy at the tournament.
• Jing Hongchen required Lu Ren to prove he was the strongest person under twenty at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, and Lu Ren proposed defending an arena against challengers in waves.
• Jing Hongchen arranged a top-grade single dormitory for Lu Ren and warned him not to embarrass him in the arena.
• Jing Hongchen summoned Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, explained Lu Ren's unusual Soul Rings, and told them to enter the challenge.
• Xiao Hongchen agreed to face Lu Ren and said he would teach him that the academy was no place for a stray cat or dog.

Xiao Hongchen vowed to defeat Lu Ren in a public sparring match, while Meng Hongchen wondered why their grandfather valued the newcomer. At the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s crowded testing grounds, Lu Ren entered the ring as the students prepared to challenge him, and Xiao Hongchen remained confident he would expose him.

• Meng Hongchen asked Xiao Hongchen whether he could teach Lu Ren a lesson, and Xiao Hongchen said he would defeat him the next day.
• Lu Ren saw that Jing Hongchen had turned the test into a public event, with rewards promised to anyone who defeated him.
• Students gathered in the testing grounds and discussed Lu Ren’s strength and the prizes for winning the challenge.
• Lin Jiayi announced the sparring exchange and introduced Lu Ren as the academy’s specially recruited new student.
• Jing Hongchen told Lu Ren that the event was arranged to test his abilities, and Lu Ren entered the arena before the assembled crowd.
• Meng Hongchen sensed something unusual about Lu Ren’s presence, while Xiao Hongchen said he would test him himself.

Lu Ren dominated his first arena match against Xia Xuanchen without activating his Martial Soul, slicing apart Xia’s Soul Tools and deflecting his Soul Cannon shells. After Lu Ren won, Xiao Hongchen watched him in shock.

• Lin Jiayi opened registration for students who wanted to challenge Lu Ren, and Xia Xuanchen signed up as the first opponent.
• Xuan Ziwen began refereeing as Lu Ren and Xia Xuanchen took their positions in the trial grounds.
• Lu Ren silently sliced Xia Xuanchen’s Soul Guidance Ray and defensive shield in half without moving his hands from his pockets.
• Xia Xuanchen fired a Soul Guidance Vibration Cannon and a high-explosive shell, and Lu Ren deflected both with invisible slashes.
• Lu Ren struck Xia Xuanchen out of bounds without injuring him, and Xuan Ziwen declared Lu Ren the winner.
• Xiao Hongchen leaned forward in shock after witnessing Lu Ren deflect the high-explosive shell.

Lu Ren faced Xiao Hongchen in the second match and effortlessly destroyed his Soul Tool barrage before knocking him into the spectator stands. Xiao Hongchen lay motionless in the wreckage as the stunned audience watched Lu Ren.

• Meng Hongchen and Xuan Ziwen watched Lu Ren after his victory over Xia Xuanchen, while Lin Jiayi called for the next challenger.
• Xiao Hongchen entered the arena, introduced himself as a rank-forty-nine Soul Ancestor, and began the second match against Lu Ren.
• Xiao Hongchen summoned 128 Grade 4 Soul Cannons and aimed them all at Lu Ren.
• Lu Ren's invisible slashes cut every cannon barrel in half before Xiao Hongchen could fire.
• Lu Ren struck Xiao Hongchen with Black Flash, sending him through three rows of seats and leaving him motionless in the fourth row.

Lu Ren defeated Xiao Hongchen with a single punch, then faced Meng Hongchen in the next match. Meng Hongchen’s poisonous mist had no effect on him, leaving her shocked as the fight continued.

• Lu Ren shattered Xiao Hongchen’s Soul Cannons and knocked him unconscious with a single punch.
• Jing Hongchen explained that Xiao Hongchen was unharmed and encouraged Meng Hongchen to learn from Lu Ren before the tournament.
• Meng Hongchen entered the arena and introduced herself to Lu Ren before their match began.
• Meng Hongchen revealed her Vermilion Clear Ice Toad Martial Soul and released poisonous mist at Lu Ren.
• Lu Ren remained unaffected by the poison, and Meng Hongchen realized her attack had failed.

Lu Ren defeated challenger after challenger at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy without activating his martial soul, eventually winning seventy-seven matches in a row. Impressed by his strength and endurance, Jing Hongchen summoned Ji Juechen to test him next.

• Lu Ren defeated Meng Hongchen with invisible slashes, then gently guided her off the competition platform; she thanked him as he walked away.
• Lu Ren won thirty-six consecutive matches against academy elites, never moving from his spot or activating his martial soul, while Xuan Ziwen studied his abilities.
• Jing Hongchen ordered Lin Jiayi to send Level 6 Soul Engineers from the Illustrious Virtue Hall to test Lu Ren, but Lu Ren continued winning.
• By afternoon, Lu Ren had reached seventy-seven consecutive victories, defeating Soul Engineers up to Level 6 without showing fatigue.
• Jing Hongchen told Lin Jiayi to fetch Ji Juechen so he could challenge Lu Ren.

Lu Ren faced Ji Juechen, a powerful Soul Emperor whose swordsmanship forced him to reveal his Blood Manipulation technique. Lu Ren shattered Ji Juechen’s sword with a Black Flash and healed his own wound, leaving Ji Juechen defeated and his sword broken.

• Ji Juechen arrived at the arena at Jing Hongchen’s request and challenged Lu Ren, revealing his six Soul Rings and sword-fusion cultivation method.
• Lu Ren activated Blood Manipulation: Flowing Red Scale, boosting his combat abilities as the spectators and Jing Hongchen watched.
• Lu Ren charged Ji Juechen, and their attacks collided in an explosive clash.
• Lu Ren’s Black Flash shattered Ji Juechen’s Heavenly Meteoric Iron Sword and forced him back, leaving him wounded and stunned.
• Lu Ren healed the cut on his knuckles with Reverse Cursed Technique and told Ji Juechen to come back with a better sword next time.

After defeating Ji Juechen and winning all seventy-eight matches, Lu Ren became the focus of the arena’s admiration. Jing Hongchen learned that Shrek Academy was searching for Lu Ren, ordered the academy to conceal him, then confronted him about his past at Shrek and questioned whether he had revealed his Soul Rings there on purpose.

• Ji Juechen admitted defeat, bowed to Lu Ren, and left the platform with his broken sword hilt.
• Jing Hongchen ended the competition and announced that nobody had earned the admission qualification or rare metal rewards.
• Lin Jiayi told Jing Hongchen that Shrek was searching for Lu Ren, claimed him as its disciple, and had no enrollment record for him, though Lu Ren had appeared at the academy and shown his Soul Rings.
• Jing Hongchen ordered Lin Jiayi to keep Shrek’s people occupied and prevent them from discovering that Lu Ren was at the academy.
• Jing Hongchen confronted Lu Ren about displaying his Soul Rings at Shrek, and Lu Ren explained that he had only moved around the Outer Court.
• Jing Hongchen accused Lu Ren of deliberately displaying his Soul Rings at Shrek.

Lu Ren secured Jing Hongchen’s protection and a promise of a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, while Jing Hongchen began to suspect he might be a Shrek spy. At Shrek, Mu En warned Xuan Zi that forcing Lu Ren to join would only deepen his dislike of the academy.

• Lu Ren asked Jing Hongchen for a Soul Tool that could summon him if Xuan Zi came after him, and Jing Hongchen gave him a location-tracking sphere that activated only when Lu Ren injected Soul Power.
• Jing Hongchen agreed to Lu Ren’s deal and promised to find him a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone after the tournament, then wondered whether Lu Ren was a Shrek spy.
• At Shrek, Xuan Zi asked Mu En why he had let Lu Ren leave, recounting how Lu Ren exposed Wang Dong'er’s disguise and revealed his powerful Soul Rings.
• Mu En told Xuan Zi that Shrek had failed to notice Lu Ren in time and warned that forcing him to join would make him hate the academy more.
• Mu En said Shrek had to resolve Lu Ren’s poor impression of them before trying to recruit him, and Xuan Zi bowed in acknowledgment.

Xuan Zi vowed to find Mu En and force him to explain his rejection of Shrek, while Lu Ren advanced to Soul Power Level 45 in Mingdu. Electrolux awakened in Lu Ren’s Sea of Consciousness and explained how his remnant soul had taken refuge there.

• Xuan Zi declared that Shrek had defended the continent and resolved to investigate Mu En and drag him back for an explanation.
• Lu Ren absorbed the negative energy from his defeated opponents and broke through to Soul Power Level 45.
• An aged voice spoke from Lu Ren’s Sea of Consciousness, revealing that Electrolux had awakened.
• Lu Ren questioned Electrolux about his identity and presence, and Electrolux explained that his dying divine consciousness had crossed into Lu Ren’s world and been drawn to his negative-energy cultivation.
• Electrolux distinguished his undead-origin power from Lu Ren’s cursed energy and assured him that he would not try to possess his body.

Lu Ren negotiated a partnership with Electrolux, who taught him to refine and control Cursed Energy in exchange for a share of it. After a night of training, Lu Ren planned to increase his energy supply and prepare to claim the Ice Empress before Huo Yuhao reached the Far North.

• Lu Ren voiced his distrust of Electrolux and secured his agreement to coexist and help him.
• Electrolux introduced himself and taught Lu Ren how to sense, compress, and precisely control Cursed Energy.
• Lu Ren trained through the night and improved his control of Cursed Energy.
• Electrolux explained that sharing Cursed Energy would keep him conscious, and Lu Ren agreed on the condition that Electrolux help him.
• Lu Ren left his dorm, considered the threat of Xuan Zi and the protection of Jing Hongchen and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, and planned to pursue the Ice Empress before Huo Yuhao in six months.