Chapter Summaries

Tang San and Xiao Wu passed Shrek Academy’s admission test, while Ning Rongrong arrived hoping to enroll and prove herself. She rejected the idea of attending Heavenly Dragon Academy, which her father had planned for her, and chose Shrek because it accepted monsters.

• Tang San lunged at the people who insulted him, but Li Yusong stopped him and warned the hecklers away with his Soul Emperor pressure.
• Ning Rongrong watched Tang San and decided Shrek Academy would be a good place to hide from her father and find a powerful follower.
• Xiao Wu introduced herself as a ten-year-old with rank 24 Soul Power, surprising Ning Rongrong, who had rank 20.
• Li Yusong accepted Ning Rongrong after checking her bone age, then asked why she had chosen Shrek Academy.
• Ning Rongrong said she found Shrek interesting and privately reflected that she would rather run away than attend Heavenly Dragon Academy.

At Heavenly Dragon Academy, the Soul Tool students’ experiments produced setbacks and breakthroughs, and Long Qianming helped Kong Minghai simplify his Soul Armor design. He then sent eleven students to obtain Soul Rings and announced the academy’s tournament opportunity, leaving the students eager to claim team places.

• Ning Rongrong entered Shrek Academy after Li Yusong stopped trying to dissuade her.
• Kong Minghai and Ros fled another laboratory explosion, and Ros reported progress toward a Class 3 Soul Cannon.
• Long Qianming advised Kong Minghai to simplify the Soul Armor by focusing on a few core functions, clarifying the project’s direction.
• Long Qianming told Kong Minghai, Ros, and Lu Chuan and eight other students to join an expedition to obtain Soul Rings.
• Long Qianming announced that Spirit Hall would host the tournament in four years and that Heavenly Dragon Academy still had three regular and three substitute team places available.

Long Qianming led seventy-five students and twelve teachers to the Star Dou Great Forest for a Soul Hunting Plan, where aging Soul Beasts sacrificed themselves to provide suitable Soul Rings. The group witnessed dozens of sacrifices and multiple Soul Bones falling, though the chapter ended before they finished collecting them.

• Long Qianming told the students that official team members needed to reach rank 37 Soul Power and named Long Xiaoyao, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling as selected members.
• Long Qianming promised the Soul Engineering Class two starting-member slots and announced that the academy's Soul Hunting Plan would set out within two days.
• Bi Ji gathered aging, powerful-bloodline Soul Beasts near the boundary between the mixed and core zones and arranged for Yao Ling and his clan to monitor the area.
• Long Qianming led the students and teachers to the Star Dou Great Forest on Rayquaza and guided them to the gathered Soul Beasts.
• After the students chose suitable Soul Beasts, the beasts rose and sacrificed themselves, sending their Soul Rings to the students.
• The teachers recognized the mass sacrifices and spotted multiple Soul Bones falling from the Soul Beasts.