Chapter Summaries

Ling Bai arrived at Shrek Academy’s inner court, chose a secluded house, and rejected Du Gu Lin’s advances. After a neighboring resident’s screams kept him awake, he went to complain and found a burly young man clutching a shield beneath a red-haired beauty.

• Ling Bai reached Sea God Island first with the Six-Winged Angel’s speed, and Zhang Lexuan told him the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s shadow guards could not enter the academy.
• Zhang Lexuan arranged houses for the new students, and Ling Bai asked for a quiet residence while Du Gu Lin invited him to live beside her.
• Ling Bai rejected Du Gu Lin and suspected she was interested in the Six-Winged Angel’s abilities rather than him.
• Zhang Lexuan gave Ling Bai a house opposite another residence, and Ling Bai settled in for the night.
• A neighboring man’s loud cries kept Ling Bai awake, so he went to ask for quiet and found a burly young man holding a black shield with a red-haired beauty standing on it.

Ling Bai fought Ma Xiaotao after interrupting her treatment for evil fire, using Angel Domain and his Six-Winged Angel skills to withstand her increasingly powerful attacks. As Ma Xiaotao launched Phoenix Piercing Cloud Strike, Ling Bai summoned countless sacred blades and revealed his fourth soul skill, Myriad Bladed Radiance.

• Ling Bai fled after discovering Ma Xiaotao and Xu Sanshi, but Ma Xiaotao stopped him with a Phoenix Fire Line and Xu Sanshi escaped into Sea God Lake.
• Ling Bai activated Angel Domain and broke Ma Xiaotao’s flame barrier with Evil-warding Slash before binding her with Radiant Spirit Array.
• Ma Xiaotao broke free with Phoenix Nirvana and Phoenix Wings Soaring, then traded attacks with Ling Bai in the air while the Dean and Old Li watched.
• Ma Xiaotao used an advanced Phoenix Howling Sky Strike, but Ling Bai blocked it with Radiant Spirit Array · Storm and Radiant Spirit Array · Defense.
• Ma Xiaotao unleashed Phoenix Piercing Cloud Strike, and Ling Bai gathered countless sacred blades before calling out Myriad Bladed Radiance.

Ling Bai defeated Ma Xiaotao’s Phoenix Piercing Cloud Strike with Myriad Bladed Radiance, then used holy sword energy to suppress her out-of-control evil fire. Ma Xiaotao’s fire subsided, and she thanked Ling Bai before fainting.

• Ling Bai unleashed Myriad Bladed Radiance and shattered Ma Xiaotao’s Phoenix Piercing Cloud Strike, sending her into Sea God Lake.
• Ling Bai pulled Ma Xiaotao from the lake as her evil fire surged and left her too exhausted to swim back.
• Ma Xiaotao began tearing at her clothes in agony, and Ling Bai restrained her to keep her from hurting herself.
• Ling Bai sent holy sword energy through Ma Xiaotao’s meridians and cut away the evil fire despite its resistance.
• Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire subsided, and she thanked Ling Bai before fainting.

Ling Bai subdued Ma Xiaotao during her Phoenix Evil Fire outbreak, then confronted Yan Shaozhe when the dean finally arrived. After playfully exaggerating his injuries to secure compensation, Ling Bai identified himself as a member of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and Yan Shaozhe left with Ma Xiaotao while promising to consider further rewards.

• Ling Bai carried the unconscious Ma Xiaotao to Sea God Lake after using nearly all his techniques to subdue her.
• Yan Shaozhe arrived and introduced himself as the Spirit Soul Department dean and Ma Xiaotao's personal disciple's teacher.
• Ling Bai pretended to be gravely injured and implied the academy should compensate him for protecting Ma Xiaotao.
• Yan Shaozhe gave Ling Bai three Soul Nurturing Pills, and Ling Bai revealed he came from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Yan Shaozhe asked after Jian Mu, then took Ma Xiaotao away and told Ling Bai to rest while he considered further compensation.

After Ling Bai suppressed Ma Xiaotao’s Phoenix Evil Fire, Yan Shaozhe realized the Six-Winged Angel could keep it at bay for about a year and considered recruiting Ling Bai as Shrek Academy’s future leader. The next morning, Ling Bai met Han Ruoruo, who teased him for calling Zhang Lexuan Eldest Senior Sister but addressing her only as Senior Sister.

• Yan Shaozhe scolded Ma Xiaotao for hiding that her evil fire was getting out of control and explained that Ling Bai’s intervention had eased it.
• Yan Shaozhe confirmed that Ling Bai’s ultimate holiness had removed Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire and could protect her for about a year.
• Yan Shaozhe regretted that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had claimed Ling Bai and imagined him becoming master of Sea God Pavilion and marrying Ma Xiaotao, but she rejected the idea.
• Ma Xiaotao returned to her residence and noticed that the room opposite hers was dark.
• Ling Bai spent the night sleeping in a tree beside Sea God Lake, then returned to his house at dawn.
• Han Ruoruo introduced herself as Ling Bai’s inner academy guide and teased him for using a different title for her than for Zhang Lexuan.

Han Ruoruo guided Ling Bai around Sea God Island, explaining the Inner Academy and giving him his uniform and badge. After they reached the cafeteria for breakfast, Ling Bai learned that Inner Academy meals were free.

• Han Ruoruo told Ling Bai that Dean Yan had stopped the senior students from intervening in his fight with Ma Xiaotao because it was a test.
• Han Ruoruo gave Ling Bai his Inner Academy badge and red uniforms, and he changed into one before joining her for breakfast.
• Han Ruoruo explained the Inner Academy's graduation requirements, annual assessments, upcoming freshman assessment, and library to Ling Bai on their way across Sea God Island.
• Ling Bai ordered buns and porridge at the cafeteria, and Han Ruoruo ordered the same from Uncle Mo.
• Ling Bai asked why Uncle Mo had not charged him, and Uncle Mo told him the Inner Academy cafeteria was free.

Han Ruoruo showed Ling Bai around the inner academy, where he learned about its facilities and soul battle system. After registering for his first match, Ling Bai discovered that his opponent was Ling Luochen.

• Han Ruoruo explained that inner academy students had their expenses waived because of their responsibilities, and she took Ling Bai on a tour of Sea God Island.
• Elder Xuan noticed Ling Bai after seeing him leave the cafeteria, where Ling Bai and Han Ruoruo had shared breakfast.
• Han Ruoruo explained the Soul Arena’s badge system, and Ling Bai met Wu Ming and Chu Qingtian while Hua Yao and Gu Fan fought.
• Ling Bai decided to enter a soul battle, and a staff member matched him against the yellow-badge student Ling Luochen.

Ling Bai faced Ling Luochen in the Soul Arena and used his Six-Winged Angel’s domain to overcome her powerful Elemental Ice. As Ling Bai pressed his advantage, Ling Luochen refused to surrender and prepared one last attack.

• Hua Yao defeated Gu Fan, then accepted his invitation to the Mimetic Cultivation Zone.
• Ling Bai entered the Soul Arena to face Ling Luochen, while Ma Xiaotao, Wu Ming, Han Ruoruo, and Chu Qingtian watched.
• Ling Luochen unleashed her fifth soul skill, Ice Sky Fury, covering the arena in freezing wind and snow.
• Ling Bai revealed his Six-Winged Angel and split Ling Luochen’s attack and the dark clouds with Evil-warding Slash.
• Ling Bai explained that his Angel Domain purified Ling Luochen’s ice, while Ling Luochen tightened her grip on her staff and launched another attack.

Ling Bai defeated Ling Luochen in the Soul Arena, then accepted a challenge from Du Gu Lin, whose deadly Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison gave her a way to surpass her limits. The match began with Du Gu Lin transforming and activating a self-created skill, leaving Ling Bai facing her empowered form.

• Ling Bai shattered Ling Luochen’s Ice Staff, defeated her, and earned doubled Soul Arena points.
• Du Gu Lin challenged Ling Bai, and he accepted; Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe regretted that her poison had prevented her from becoming one of the Shrek Seven Monsters.
• Du Gu Lin proposed a bet with suggestive stakes, while Chu Qingtian warned Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo that Du Gu Lin was exceptionally powerful and dangerous.
• Ling Bai taunted Du Gu Lin about the serpent poison in her body, and she attacked him with venom that corroded the arena floor.
• Du Gu Lin stabbed herself in the chest and activated her self-created Soul Skill, Poison to the Bone Marrow, which greatly increased all her attributes.

Du Gu Lin unleashed Jade Phosphorous Absolute Poison against Ling Bai, revealing that she had united five deadly poisons despite the lethal cost to her body. The poison rain overwhelmed the Soul Arena, but Xuan Zi judged it only half a step into ultimate poison as Ling Bai’s Angel Domain began suppressing it.

• Du Gu Lin explained that Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison had poisoned her since before birth and that she was not expected to live past twenty-five, then attacked Ling Bai with her first soul skill.
• Ling Bai cut apart Du Gu Lin’s Jade Serpent with his Angel Holy Sword, but she revealed the Jade Phosphorous Scorpion, Centipede, Toad, and Gecko and merged them with her serpent to form Jade Phosphorous Absolute Poison.
• Du Gu Lin used her fourth soul skill to unleash poisonous rain, which dimmed Ling Bai’s Angel Domain and flooded the Soul Arena with a toxic pool.
• The referee raised a soul tool barrier to contain the poison as students began trying to leave, and Chu Qingtian explained that no Outer Academy student had fought Du Gu Lin since her breakthrough to four rings.
• Xuan Zi observed that Ling Bai’s Angel Domain was suppressing the poison rain and concluded that Du Gu Lin’s poison was only half a step into ultimate poison, though her attributes ranked second only to Ling Bai’s.

Ling Bai defeated Du Gu Lin in the Soul Arena by using his Angel Domain and Sacred Dragon True Form against her Jade Phosphorous Absolute Poison. After fulfilling her oath, he covered her with his school uniform and gave her time to dress before dispersing the Angel Domain.

• Du Gu Lin unleashed Venomous Stream from her Heavenly Poison Nether Pool, and Ling Bai defended against the poison with the Radiant Spirit Array.
• Ling Bai opened his Angel Domain and used Radiant Spirit Array · Storm to destroy Du Gu Lin's venomous snakes.
• Du Gu Lin used Supple Water Serpent Body to merge with the poison pool, evade Ling Bai's attack, and reappear unharmed by physical strikes.
• Ling Bai summoned the Sacred Dragon True Form, which crashed into the Heavenly Poison Nether Pool and destroyed it with blazing heat and sacred power.
• Du Gu Lin conceded defeat, and Ling Bai draped his red school uniform over her before telling her he would disperse the Angel Domain in two minutes.

Ling Bai defeated Du Gu Lin, explored the Inner Academy, and discovered that the Golden Tree’s light could help suppress the Death Prison Spider Emperor’s evil god power. Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe offered to make him Xuan Zi’s final disciple, but Ling Bai refused because he already had a teacher.

• Ling Bai defeated Du Gu Lin, while Chu Qingtian bragged to Wu Ming about lasting longer against Ling Bai and provoked her into challenging him.
• Han Ruoruo explained that Ling Bai could threaten the positions of the next Shrek Seven Monsters and took him to the Mimetic Cultivation Zone, where Electrolux identified a Golden Tree branch as a potential aid.
• Ling Bai cultivated with Han Ruoruo, then encountered Xuan Zi, who tested his strength with a chicken bone and found his physical abilities comparable to a Soul Emperor’s.
• Yan Shaozhe revealed that he and Xuan Zi had planned to make Ling Bai Xuan Zi’s final disciple and successor.
• Ling Bai thanked Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe but refused the offer, saying he already had a teacher.

Ling Bai rejected Xuan Zi’s offer to make him his final disciple, explaining that he would not abandon the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect after all it had invested in him. Yan Shaozhe accepted his refusal and promised to help him, leaving Ling Bai asking for a room inside the Golden Tree.

• Yan Shaozhe offered Ling Bai a Titled Douluo breakthrough, Academy resources, soul bones, and support while promising not to interfere with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ling Bai said Zhou LaoTou was his teacher and described the sect’s years of support, including rare ingredients and Ming Huang Pills.
• Ling Bai explained that he would stand by the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect if it fought the Body Sect, so Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe fell silent about recruiting him.
• Yan Shaozhe offered to resolve any future difficulty Ling Bai faced, and Ling Bai asked to change rooms.
• Ling Bai requested a room inside the Golden Tree, leaving Yan Shaozhe shocked.

Ling Bai asked to live within the Golden Tree so he could use its power to suppress the Death Prison Spider Emperor, and Yan Shaozhe sought Dragon God Douluo Mu En’s approval. Mu En agreed, recognizing Ling Bai as Jian Mu Douluo Zhou JiRen’s direct disciple and honoring the favor Zhou JiRen had once done for Shrek Academy.

• Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi told Ling Bai that only Mu En could approve a room in the Golden Tree, and Yan Shaozhe agreed to ask him.
• Ling Bai apologized to Xuan Zi for refusing to become his disciple, and Xuan Zi left disappointed.
• Yan Shaozhe visited Mu En in the Sea God Pavilion and explained Ling Bai’s talent, background, and request.
• Yan Shaozhe argued that Ling Bai could secure Shrek Academy’s future, but Mu En reminded him that the academy remained neutral and Ling Bai belonged to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Mu En approved Ling Bai’s request, citing Zhou JiRen’s past help against the Body Sect and the academy’s debt to him.

Elder Mu explained that Zhou JiRen’s declining lifespan left the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect vulnerable to the Body Sect, and he arranged for Ling Bai to live beside Bei Bei in the Golden Tree. The next morning, Ling Bai explored the Inner Academy library but was denied access to its second floor before a woman handed him a book.

• Yan Shaozhe learned that Zhou JiRen had fought Du Busi alone and that his failing health threatened the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Elder Mu asked Yan Shaozhe to place Ling Bai’s room beside Bei Bei’s in the Golden Tree so they could grow close as friends and rivals.
• After leaving Sea God Pavilion, Yan Shaozhe resolved to use his own methods to keep Ling Bai at Shrek as a future heir.
• Ling Bai ate breakfast at the cafeteria, then went to the Inner Academy library seeking useful ancient texts.
• The library’s access system rejected Ling Bai’s badge at the second-floor entrance, and a woman placed a large black book in his hands for her senior sister.

Ling Bai and Han Ruoruo visited the Inner Academy Library, where they discussed the value of reading and studied in companionable silence. After Ling Bai opened a book about evil soul masters, he asked Han Ruoruo what she would choose if she awakened an Evil Spirit.

• Ling Bai found that his clearance did not let him enter the library’s restricted second floor, so Han Ruoruo used her red-level clearance to bring him inside.
• Han Ruoruo explained that she had recorded the library’s voice prompt and shared her belief that soul masters should keep learning.
• Ling Bai and Han Ruoruo debated whether Inner Academy students should continue studying books, then settled down to read together.
• Ling Bai struggled to continue reading Chronicles of the Mainland Evil Soul Masters and asked Han Ruoruo what she would choose if she awakened an Evil Spirit.

Han Ruoruo told Ling Bai she would resist an Evil Spirit rather than let it corrupt her, then took him to explore Shrek City. The chapter ended when they noticed an Azure Crystal Soul Power tester outside a noodle shop and read its message about kindness, honesty, and cultivation.

• Han Ruoruo told Ling Bai that she would fight an Evil Spirit for her whole life and remain clean as long as she did not betray her soul.
• Han Ruoruo took Ling Bai out to eat, and they passed Qian Fufu trying to court Ling Luochen with roses and Soul Tools before Ling Luochen froze the flowers and rejected him.
• Han Ruoruo led Ling Bai into Shrek City, where they explored the busy streets and sampled snacks while she paid for everything.
• Ling Bai and Han Ruoruo stopped at the Little Elephant Noodle Shop and examined an Azure Crystal Soul Power tester and its message about kindness, honesty, and cultivation.

Ling Bai and Han Ruoruo ate at Xie Huanyue’s family noodle shop and reflected on the auntie’s belief that character mattered more than Soul Power. After leaving, they followed the smell of grilled fish to a stall where they found Jiang Nannan.

• Ling Bai and Han Ruoruo entered the Little Elephant Noodle Shop and ordered noodles and braised meat.
• The auntie explained that she valued kind and honest soul masters more than those with great Soul Power, and she treated the two Shrek students to extra food.
• Xie Huanyue came back for lunch, and Ling Bai and Han Ruoruo recognized him as the noodle shop owner's son.
• Ling Bai and Han Ruoruo left the shop and followed the aroma of grilled fish to Little Huo Grilled Fish.
• Ling Bai took Han Ruoruo to the stall, where they stopped behind Jiang Nannan.

Huo Yuhao opened a grilled fish stall with Tang Ya’s help and drew a crowd of eager customers. When Xu Sanshi tried to take the last fish for Jiang Nannan, Ling Bai caught him and left him fearing the worst.

• Tang Ya helped Huo Yuhao set up Little Huo Grilled Fish, set his prices, and asked him to save two fish for her.
• Huo Yuhao opened the stall, and the fish’s aroma and taste quickly drew a long line of customers.
• Jiang Nannan asked about the price, then apologized and turned to leave when Huo Yuhao refused to bargain.
• Xu Sanshi threw a Gold Soul Coin at the grill and grabbed the last two fish, saying he was buying them for Jiang Nannan.
• Ling Bai lifted Xu Sanshi by the collar and stopped his Soul Power, leaving Xu Sanshi terrified when he recognized him.

Ling Bai stopped Xu Sanshi from taking Huo Yuhao’s grilled fish and extorted two Mystic Water Pills from him before Bei Bei and Tang Ya confronted Xu Sanshi over bullying their junior. Ling Bai, Han Ruoruo, Tang Ya, and Huo Yuhao then went to watch Xu Sanshi and Bei Bei fight in the Soul Arena.

• Xu Sanshi tried to excuse taking the grilled fish, but Ling Bai threatened him and demanded an explanation.
• Xu Sanshi admitted fault and gave Ling Bai two Mystic Water Pills to settle the dispute and make up for upsetting Han Ruoruo.
• Bei Bei and Tang Ya arrived and demanded compensation from Xu Sanshi for bullying Huo Yuhao, then Bei Bei challenged him to a fight in the Soul Arena.
• Xu Sanshi asked Jiang Nannan to cheer for him, but she rejected him, and Bei Bei dragged him away to fight.
• Tang Ya and Huo Yuhao thanked Ling Bai for helping them, and Ling Bai invited them to watch the fight.