Chapter Summaries

Lin Qianyi, Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao faced Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, and Cui Yajie in a fierce team battle. Huo Yuhao knocked Cui Yajie unconscious, and Zhu Lu and Dai Huabin prepared to use the Netherworld White Tiger.

• Before the match, Huo Yuhao’s hatred of Dai Huabin stirred, but Lin Qianyi and Wang Dong urged him to stay calm.
• After the referee started the match, Dai Huabin attacked Lin Qianyi while Zhu Lu and Cui Yajie engaged the others; Xiao Xiao and Huo Yuhao helped counter their assaults.
• Zhu Lu attacked Huo Yuhao, and Lin Qianyi was hurt when Dai Huabin exploited her momentary distraction, but she recovered and staggered him with Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon.
• Xiao Xiao slowed Cui Yajie with her Nine Phoenix Auspicious Flute, allowing Huo Yuhao to strike her with Soul Impact and knock her unconscious.
• Lin Qianyi hit Dai Huabin with Azure Luan's Flying Feathers, and after he defended himself with White Tiger Bodyguard Shield, Zhu Lu urged him to use the Netherworld White Tiger.

Lin Qianyi’s team won the freshman assessment, earning Core Disciple status for Lin Qianyi, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao, while Huo Yuhao received only temporary Core Disciple treatment. The group joined the Tang Sect, chose their fields of study, and learned they might receive a Soul Bone as their prize before the new term’s class assignments were announced.

• Lin Qianyi, Xiao Xiao, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong fought Dai Mubai and Zhu Lu’s Hell White Tiger until Yan Shaozhe intervened and declared Lin Qianyi’s team the champions.
• Yan Shaozhe named Lin Qianyi, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao Core Disciples, while Huo Yuhao received temporary Core Disciple treatment instead.
• Huo Yuhao grilled fish with Lin Qianyi, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Tang Ya, and Beibei, and Tang Ya welcomed Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao into the Tang Sect.
• Lin Qianyi, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Dong chose the Martial Soul Department, while Huo Yuhao decided to study in the Soul Tool Department.
• Tang Ya told the group their championship reward might be a Soul Bone, and the next morning the freshmen received their class assignments with Zhou Yi and Wang Yan as their Homeroom Teachers.
• Lin Qianyi, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao were listed as Core Disciples, while Huo Yuhao appeared only among those temporarily receiving Core Disciple treatment.

After the freshman assessment, Huo Yuhao and his teammates received a soul bone from Yan Shaozhe and decided to give it to Xiao Xiao. Zhou Yi then arrived with another reward for the champions and praised their team spirit.

• Huo Yuhao accepted Yan Shaozhe's reassurance about not becoming a Core Disciple and promised to keep working hard.
• Yan Shaozhe gave the team a Void-Mind Demonic Leopard Left Leg Bone and warned them to keep the reward secret.
• Lin Qianyi, Wang Dong, and Huo Yuhao each declined the soul bone, and the team agreed that Xiao Xiao should receive it.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong that he had accepted the academy's decision and would prove himself through his efforts.
• Zhou Yi praised Huo Yuhao's perspective, gave the group another reward, and approved their choice to distribute the soul bone to Xiao Xiao.

Zhou Yi explained the benefits of a Secret Method Soul Bone, then brought Huo Yuhao and Lin Qianyi to meet Fan Yu in the Soul Tool Department. After witnessing Huo Yuhao's expanding Mental Detection Share and He Caitou's powerful Soul Tool Cannon, Fan Yu offered to take both students as disciples.

• Zhou Yi explained that the Secret Method Soul Bone permanently boosted Soul Power by five percent, and Huo Yuhao accepted it after Wang Dong and Lin Qianyi declined.
• Zhou Yi reminded Huo Yuhao to balance cultivation and Soul Tools, and encouraged Lin Qianyi to consider studying Soul Tools.
• Fan Yu praised Huo Yuhao and Lin Qianyi, then asked Huo Yuhao to demonstrate his Spiritual Detection.
• Huo Yuhao expanded Mental Detection Share from a fifty-meter diameter to one hundred and twenty meters, impressing Fan Yu, Zhou Yi, and Lin Qianyi.
• Fan Yu asked He Caitou to demonstrate a Soul Tool Battle Soul Master's power, and He Caitou's Soul Tool Cannon forced Lin Qianyi to defend and retreat.
• Fan Yu explained the cannon's full potential and offered to take Huo Yuhao and Lin Qianyi as disciples.

Huo Yuhao became Fan Yu’s Personal Disciple and a Core Disciple of the Soul Tool Department, while Lin Qianyi asked for time to decide. Back in class, Huo Yuhao accepted Wu Feng’s challenge after she objected to his candidacy for class monitor.

• Huo Yuhao accepted Fan Yu as his teacher and became a Core Disciple of the Soul Tool Department, while Lin Qianyi received a badge but deferred her decision.
• Zhou Yi advised Huo Yuhao to have Wang Dong tell Dean Yan Shaozhe about their martial soul fusion skill and briefly revealed her young appearance to Huo Yuhao and Lin Qianyi.
• Wang Yan began the class monitor election, and Wu Feng objected to Huo Yuhao running because he had only one Ten-Year Soul Ring.
• Wang Dong and Lin Qianyi defended Huo Yuhao, and Wang Yan stopped Wang Dong from fighting Wu Feng.
• Huo Yuhao accepted Wu Feng’s challenge after deciding he could not back down from her contempt and his classmates’ doubts.

Huo Yuhao defeated Wu Feng after a mysterious gray phantom appeared, then recovered from his injuries with Wang Dong nearby. In class, Zhou Yi named him main class monitor and Lin Qianyi and Wang Dong rotating vice monitors, prompting objections that Lin Qianyi calmly countered.

• Lin Qianyi urged Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao to respect Huo Yuhao's choice to fight Wu Feng.
• Huo Yuhao overcame Wu Feng's attacks, but a gray phantom appeared behind him and frightened her into fainting before he collapsed from exhaustion.
• Wang Yan took Huo Yuhao back to the dormitory, and Zhou Yi scolded Wang Yan before checking on Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao woke the next day and went to class with Wang Dong, where Lin Qianyi and Xiao Xiao checked on him.
• Zhou Yi sent Huang Chutian outside for being slow to stand, then appointed Huo Yuhao main class monitor and Lin Qianyi and Wang Dong rotating vice monitors.
• Zhu Lu and Dai Huabin objected to Huo Yuhao's appointment, but Lin Qianyi defended the choice and challenged their reasoning.

Lin Qianyi left the academy to seek a suitable soul beast after her Soul Power reached level forty, while Zhou Yi secured another chance to teach her class. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Lin Qianyi began fighting a thirty-six-thousand-year-old Wind Shadow Falcon and searched for an opening to defeat it.

• Zhou Yi defended her strict teaching methods to Yan Shaozhe, who agreed to keep her if she guided at least five students from Class One into the Inner Court.
• As summer vacation approached, Zhou Yi warned the class about the upcoming Promotion Assessment, and Lin Qianyi, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong discussed continuing as a team.
• Lin Qianyi left the academy for the Star Dou Great Forest after reaching level forty Soul Power and said goodbye to Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong.
• A thirty-six-thousand-year-old Wind Shadow Falcon attacked Lin Qianyi in the forest, and she summoned the Azure Luan to face it.
• Lin Qianyi dodged the falcon's attacks with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, used Blazing Feather Pierce and Azure Luan Bodyguard, and watched for an opening.

Lin Qianyi obtained her fourth soul ring, defeated three Evil Soul Masters, and returned to the academy, where she declined special treatment for the Promotion Assessment. When Huo Yuhao went missing before the assessment, Wang Dong and the others grew worried, and Lin Qianyi tried to reassure her.

• Lin Qianyi absorbed a thirty-thousand-year soul ring, reached level 42, and gained the fourth soul skill Azure Luan Storm.
• Lin Qianyi used Azure Luan Storm and Azure Luan Feather Thorn to kill three Evil Soul Masters, then took a token from one of them.
• Lin Qianyi returned to the academy and told Zhou Yi and Wang Yan she had reached level 44 after absorbing her fourth soul ring.
• Lin Qianyi refused Dean Yan's offer to skip the Promotion Assessment, and Zhou Yi explained the assessment and advised her to learn when to retreat.
• When Huo Yuhao failed to return, Zhou Yi discovered he had misled teachers about who would accompany him, while Wang Dong and the others could not find him.
• Lin Qianyi reassured Wang Dong as she worried that Huo Yuhao lacked offensive abilities and might be in danger.

Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy after her martial soul recovered and explained that she had gained a second martial soul, the Ice Scorpion. After Dai Huabin challenged her over breaking school rules, he proposed a bet on the Promotion Assessment, while Zhou Yi appeared at the cafeteria entrance.

• Huo Yuhao returned to the dormitory, where Wang Dong angrily confronted her for disappearing and lying, then demanded she explain herself to Zhou Yi.
• Huo Yuhao told Zhou Yi and Fan Yu that she had feared her martial soul was shattering, but awakened in the north with new Soul Power and an Ice Scorpion second martial soul.
• Huo Yuhao demonstrated the Ice Scorpion's soul skill, and Zhou Yi recognized its ultimate ice attribute before letting the students leave.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to treat Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Lin Qianyi to breakfast for a week, then met Tang Ya and Beibei in the cafeteria.
• Zhu Lu mocked Huo Yuhao for supposedly breaking school rules, and Lin Qianyi rebuked her before Dai Huabin attacked and Xiao Xiao blocked him.
• Dai Huabin challenged Huo Yuhao to a Promotion Assessment bet, wagering the prize from the freshman assessment, as Zhou Yi appeared at the cafeteria entrance and Lin Qianyi considered using the dispute to break the stalemate.

Huo Yuhao avoided punishment when Fan Yu proved he had been working for the Soul Tool Department. At the Promotion Assessment, Lin Qianyi defeated a twenty-thousand-year Purple Flame Leopard and earned full marks, leaving Dai Huabin and his companions resentful.

• Dai Huabin demanded that Xiao Xiao give him her soul bone if she lost their bet, but Zhou Yi stopped the confrontation and ordered them to apologize.
• Mu Jin came to take Huo Yuhao away for violating school rules, but Fan Yu showed his second-class Soul Engineer badge and certificates from Qian Duoduo and Yan Shaozhe, then accepted responsibility for Huo Yuhao’s lateness.
• At the Promotion Assessment, Huo Yuhao and Dai Huabin reaffirmed their bet that the loser would kneel and apologize in public.
• Lin Qianyi chose to challenge a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, then faced the twenty-thousand-year Purple Flame Leopard.
• Lin Qianyi dodged the leopard’s pounce and defeated it with her Phoenix Sky-Rending Slash, earning a perfect score of 150 points.
• Dai Huabin and his companions watched Lin Qianyi return to Huo Yuhao with jealousy.

Huo Yuhao’s simulated Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings stunned the academy and sparked a dispute over which department would claim him, while Wang Dong and Dai Huabin completed their Promotion Assessments. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao choosing a Thousand-Year Soul Beast for his own assessment.

• Huo Yuhao used his Simulation Soul Skill to show two false Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, frightening his opponent and prompting Yan Shaozhe to investigate his twin martial souls.
• Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo argued over Huo Yuhao’s department until Xian Lin'er proposed a Sea God Conference to decide the matter.
• Wang Dong defeated a Thousand-Year Bloodthirsty Demonic Bear and scored 110 points, while Dai Huabin scored 145 points after killing his opponent and was ordered to pay compensation.
• Huo Yuhao’s group compared their assessment scores, and Wang Dong said he needed a perfect score to surpass Dai Huabin.
• Huo Yuhao chose a Thousand-Year Soul Beast for his assessment despite the others’ mockery and Gong Changlong’s warning about risking another beast’s life.

Huo Yuhao earned a perfect score by defeating a Flame Lion, and Dai Huabin honored his bet by kneeling and apologizing. At a Sea God Pavilion meeting, the elders argued over whether Huo Yuhao and Lin Qianyi should belong to the Martial Soul Department or the Soul Tool Department, until Mu En proposed making an exception for the two gifted students.

• Huo Yuhao used Ice Emperor's Protection to repel the Flame Lion and received a perfect score, tying with Lin Qianyi for first place.
• Lin Qianyi and Wang Dong confronted Dai Huabin's group, and Dai Huabin knelt and apologized as promised while Zhu Lu and Cui Yajie made angry threats.
• Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo argued over which department should claim Huo Yuhao and Lin Qianyi at a Sea God Pavilion meeting.
• Xuan Zi supported the Martial Soul Department, while Xian Lin'er vowed to personally nurture the two students in the Soul Tool Department and Cai Mei'er insisted her department would not give them up.
• Mu En asked the elders to recall Shrek Academy's motto and suggested making an exception for the exceptionally gifted Huo Yuhao and Lin Qianyi.

Mu En approved Lin Qianyi and Huo Yuhao as Core Disciples in both Shrek Academy departments, and they passed the Soul Tool Promotion Assessment. While celebrating at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, the three friends were attacked by a man in black, and Lin Qianyi helped them escape the carriage.

• Mu En persuaded Yan Shaozhe and the others to let Lin Qianyi and Huo Yuhao study as Core Disciples in both departments.
• Lin Qianyi and Huo Yuhao passed the Soul Tool Promotion Assessment with outstanding performances.
• Wang Dong took Lin Qianyi and Huo Yuhao to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, where each received a special credit privilege from the Academy.
• Lin Qianyi sensed danger as the three left, and a man in black attacked her with a dagger.
• Lin Qianyi evaded the strike and hit the attacker with her elbow, allowing the three to jump from the carriage.

Lin Qianyi, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong fought off black-clad attackers while escaping to Shrek Academy, where Ma Xiaotao helped defeat the pursuers. The next morning, Lin Qianyi suppressed Ma Xiaotao’s dangerously flaring evil fire, leaving herself nearly drained of Soul Power.

• Lin Qianyi distracted the attackers so Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong could flee, then killed two Soul Kings with her Azure Luan Storm and feather blades.
• Huo Yuhao used Eternal Frozen Domain to hold back the remaining pursuers as the group rushed toward Shrek Academy.
• At the academy gates, Lin Qianyi blocked a black-clad man’s attack, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong severely injured him with their Golden Path Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Ma Xiaotao drove off the other attackers.
• Yan Shaozhe and Elder Lin discussed Lin Qianyi’s strength and the Domain Power they had witnessed, then ordered an investigation into the attack.
• The next morning, Ma Xiaotao brought Lin Qianyi to the Sea God Lake Shore and asked her to suppress her flaring evil fire.
• Lin Qianyi subdued Ma Xiaotao’s unusually violent evil fire but was left exhausted with nearly depleted Soul Power.

Lin Qianyi and Huo Yuhao entered Shrek Academy’s early Shrek Seven Devils selection, a maze free-for-all in which the last seven standing would win. Lin joined forces with Beibei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, He Caitou, Xiao Xiao, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong against Dai Huabin’s larger group, and the chapter ended as Dai Huabin attacked Huo Yuhao.

• Ma Xiaotao helped Lin Qianyi recover after she spent too much Soul Power, and Zhou Yi later told Lin Qianyi and Huo Yuhao they had to place in the top seven.
• Xuan Zi announced a free-for-all selection in a shifting maze, with the last seven students standing declared the winners.
• Lin Qianyi found Beibei, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan, helped them fend off opponents, and protected Jiang Nannan from a sneak attack.
• Dai Huabin approached Beibei and Xu Sanshi with an offer to team up, but He Caitou and Xiao Xiao confronted him over targeting Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong joined Lin Qianyi’s group, and Lin proposed a plan to counter Dai Huabin’s larger team.
• After the maze gates reopened, Dai Huabin charged at Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao, Lin Qianyi, and their teammates used coordinated tactics to win the arena match, impressing Xuan Zi, who then brought them to meet the Inner Court Shrek Seven Devils. Xuan Zi arranged a friendly match between teams led by Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng, leaving the chapter with both sides selected.

• Lin Qianyi slowed the opponents with Ice Butterfly Domain, allowing Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong to defeat them with Path of Gold and leave eight competitors standing.
• Xuan Zi praised the team and questioned Lin Qianyi and Huo Yuhao about their tactics before testing Huo Yuhao's Mental Detection Share.
• After several days of instruction, Huo Yuhao reached Rank 26, Xiao Xiao reached Rank 29, and Lin Qianyi reached Rank 44.
• Xuan Zi took the students to Sea God Lake, where the Inner Court Shrek Seven Devils arrived and introduced themselves.
• The students introduced themselves, and Huo Yuhao reacted strongly when Dai Yueheng gave his name.
• Xuan Zi assigned a friendly match, selecting Ma Xiaotao's team of Xixi, Gongyang Mo, Lin Qianyi, Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Beibei, and He Caitou against Dai Yueheng's team of Chen Zifeng, Ling Luochen, Yao Haoxuan, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, and Xiao Xiao.

Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng led their teams in a fierce friendly match, where Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’s Golden Path helped decide the first round. Xuan Zi then rearranged the teams, placing Lin Qianyi, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong with Dai Yueheng as the next match was set up.

• Ma Xiaotao assigned tactics while Dai Yueheng planned with his teammates, and Xuan Zi started the friendly match.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection, then summoned his Ice Scorpion to freeze Ling Luochen and eliminate her.
• Xiao Xiao, Yao Haoxuan, and Lin Qianyi used their soul skills to pressure the opposing side as the battle reached a stalemate.
• Dai Yueheng and Ma Xiaotao clashed with their meteor shower skills, and Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong unleashed Golden Path against Dai Yueheng.
• Xuan Zi reassigned the fighters, sending Lin Qianyi, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong to Dai Yueheng’s side and Jiang Nannan and Xu Sanshi to Ma Xiaotao’s group.

Huo Yuhao and Lin Qianyi joined their teammates in a fierce match against Ma Xiaotao’s side, using Mental Detection Share, Ultimate Ice, and coordinated attacks to challenge the stronger opponents. The battle remained unresolved as Ma Xiaotao unleashed her evil fire and Dai Huabin launched White Tiger Annihilation Kill.

• Huo Yuhao shared his Mental Detection with the team as Xu Sanshi and Jiang Nannan charged, and Lin Qianyi joined Xiao Xiao to meet them.
• Huo Yuhao infused Ling Luochen’s ice with Ultimate Ice, allowing her to unleash Extreme Ice Domain against Ma Xiaotao.
• Lin Qianyi used her Ice Crystal Butterfly and Azure Luan Thousand Feathers to attack Ma Xiaotao and Xixi, while Huo Yuhao’s Mental Interference opened a chance to strike.
• Ling Luochen trapped several opponents with Ice Prison, and the teams coordinated attacks that slowed and pressured Ma Xiaotao’s side.
• Dai Yueheng and Chen Zifeng pressed Ma Xiaotao, but she unleashed her evil fire while Dai Huabin attacked with White Tiger Annihilation Kill.

Dai Yueheng’s team defeated the opposing side in a training match, and Elder Xuan appointed the reserve team’s leaders before explaining the danger and responsibility of joining Shrek’s Inspection Corps. The students chose to accept their first mission in the Mingdou Mountain Range, where Evil Soul Masters were active.

• Dai Yueheng’s team won after Huo Yuhao’s Extreme Ice helped Ling Luochen freeze Ma Xiaotao and He Caitou, and Xixi realized that Lin Qianyi, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao had Twin Martial Souls.
• Elder Xuan named Huo Yuhao the reserve team’s primary control Soul Master, Beibei its captain, and Lin Qianyi its vice-captain.
• Elder Xuan warned the students that Inner Court membership and the Inspection Corps carried grave responsibilities, and Lin Qianyi and the others affirmed that they would not withdraw.
• Elder Xuan told the group that their first Inspection Corps mission would take them to the Mingdou Mountain Range to deal with the threat of Evil Soul Masters.

The Inspection Corps prepared to hunt the Death Messenger and his Death Legion near the Ming Dou Mountain Range, with Lin Qianyi proposing a plan to lure the bandits into an ambush. After traveling and resting overnight, the group arrived at the Star Luo Empire's military camp.

• The eight students agreed to join the Inspection Corps and received rings containing their equipment.
• Ma Xiaotao explained the mission to eliminate the Death Legion, and Lin Qianyi suggested using bait to draw the bandits into a prepared ambush.
• Ma Xiaotao assigned senior students to escort the younger ones, and Dai Yueheng reassured Huo Yuhao about his younger brother before explaining Evil Soul Masters.
• The group flew toward their destination, rested in a sheltered valley, and shared Huo Yuhao's grilled fish.
• The group reached the Star Luo Empire's military camp, where Xuan Zi told them to go inside.