Chapter Summaries

Nan Xuanyu and Qian Lei trained on Senluo Star, where Nan Xuanyu’s cultivation nearly drained the Ice and Fire Twofold Pool but also enriched the surrounding nursery. After a month of training, they returned to Shrek Academy, and Nan Xuanyu called Nana before she suddenly appeared beside him.

• Nan Xuanyu’s cultivation greatly strengthened him and the Treasure Hunting Beast, but the Ice and Fire Twofold Pool’s energy and temperature dropped, so Er Ming stopped his training.
• The Treasure Hunting Beast explained that refining Chaos Water had released energy that nourished the nursery, and Er Ming agreed to let it help harvest the rapidly growing spirit herbs.
• Jinni learned how to harvest the heavenly treasures while Er Ming taught Nan Xuanyu and Qian Lei the Titan Divine Fist.
• After a month, Nan Xuanyu and Qian Lei left Senluo Star and returned to Shrek Academy.
• Nan Xuanyu called Nana and said he missed her before hanging up; Nana wondered why he had stopped calling her Teacher and appeared beside him.

Nan Xuanyu returned from Senluo Star and fell asleep in Nana’s arms after telling her about his trip. Yuan En Huihui chose to become a girl, and Tang Yuge welcomed her as a sister as Huihui admitted her feelings for Nan Xuanyu.

• Nan Xuanyu reunited with Nana, described his month on Senluo Star, and fell asleep while resting on her lap.
• Yuan En Huihui struggled to choose whether to become a man or a woman before reaching eighteen, while Tang Yuge urged him to decide soon.
• After thinking of Nan Xuanyu, Yuan En Huihui entered the meditation room and emerged as a girl.
• Yuan En Huihui asked Tang Yuge to buy her women’s clothes, and Tang Yuge brought her many outfits and welcomed her as a sister.
• Yuan En Huihui denied liking Nan Xuanyu, then pointed out that Tang Yuge also liked him.

Nan Xuanyu set out for Senluo Star with Elder Tree to use three Immortal Herbs and break through to the eighth ring at the Ice and Fire Twofold Pool. After three days of meditation, his Ancestral Dragon Bloodline erupted with immense power, and his breakthrough began in a spectacular display that left the valley trembling.

• Yuan En Huihui told Tang Yuge she liked Nan Xuanyu and proposed that they compete fairly, even suggesting they could both marry him.
• Nan Xuanyu woke from a nap on Nana's lap, then went to Tang Zhenhua to arrange the purchase of three Immortal Herbs for his breakthrough.
• The academy convened a Sea God Pavilion meeting and made a special exception to sell Nan Xuanyu the herbs, while Elder Tree agreed to guard and assist him.
• Elder Tree took Nan Xuanyu to Senluo Star, where Da Ming and Er Ming joined him at the Ice and Fire Twofold Pool and Nan Xuanyu began his breakthrough using Everlasting Fruits.
• After three days, a golden energy dragon burst from the pool, suppressing the guardians with Nan Xuanyu's Ancestral Dragon Bloodline as the springs erupted.

Nan Xuanyu absorbed three hundred-thousand-year Immortal Herbs and the energy of the Ice and Fire Twofold Pool, undergoing an immense breakthrough. Da Ming, Er Ming, and Elder Tree saw his eight Nine-Colored Golden-Edged Soul Rings and realized his power was approaching the God-tier.

• Elder Tree released a hundred-thousand-year Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, and a giant golden dragon phantom appeared over the Ice and Fire Twofold Pool before diving into it.
• The pool’s energy and the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum flowed into Nan Xuanyu, while the Treasure Hunting Beast regained a solid form.
• The Treasure Hunting Beast brought out the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, and their energy tempered Nan Xuanyu from within as the pool refined him from outside.
• Nan Xuanyu’s Soul Core repeatedly shattered and reformed as his Soul Power surged, and the Ice and Fire Twofold Pool nearly dried up.
• Da Ming and Er Ming recognized Nan Xuanyu’s eight Nine-Colored Golden-Edged Soul Rings as nearly God-tier, while his pressure forced them and Elder Tree to retreat with Jinni and Golden King.
• Elder Tree became so excited by Nan Xuanyu’s breakthrough that Er Ming helped him calm down.

Da Ming and Er Ming recognized Nan Xuanyu’s connection to the Dragon God and hoped he could revive it, breaking the restriction that kept Soul Beasts from becoming gods. They agreed to conceal his potential and protect him, while Elder Tree worried about the enormous resources his growth would require.

• Da Ming and Er Ming sensed that Nan Xuanyu’s bloodline was connected to the Dragon God and discussed how its revival could let Soul Beasts become gods.
• Er Ming grabbed Elder Tree and warned him to keep Nan Xuanyu’s potential secret so hostile forces would not target him.
• Da Ming calmed Er Ming and explained that Nan Xuanyu’s human heritage could make him a different, more powerful Dragon God.
• Elder Tree accepted the need to protect Nan Xuanyu as the Eternal Tree’s chosen Life School heir.
• Da Ming asked Elder Tree to help keep Nan Xuanyu hidden, and Elder Tree agreed while worrying about the vast resources his future breakthroughs would consume.
• Er Ming compared Nan Xuanyu’s potential to Tang Wulin’s and wondered whether Tang Wulin was still alive.

Nan Xuanyu completed his breakthrough to rank eighty-one, becoming an Eight-ring Soul Douluo and gaining the Power of Destruction, while the Treasure Hunting Beast concealed his extraordinary Soul Rings. Da Ming and Elder Tree warned him to protect the secret and seek a safer place for his next breakthrough.

• Da Ming and Elder Tree agreed that Nan Xuanyu’s powerful bloodline made him someone they needed to protect.
• The Treasure Hunting Beast disguised Nan Xuanyu’s eight Nine-Colored Golden-Edged Soul Rings as black rings after the three god-level powerhouses saw their true colors.
• Nan Xuanyu awakened from meditation at rank eighty-one and demonstrated his mastery of eight elements, including the newly acquired Power of Destruction.
• Nan Xuanyu thanked Da Ming, Er Ming, and Elder Tree, then accepted their advice to avoid draining the Ice and Fire Twofold Pool again.
• Da Ming left Er Ming to guard the pool and took Nan Xuanyu and Elder Tree away, while Elder Tree told Nan Xuanyu to keep his Soul Rings’ true appearance secret.

Nan Xuanyu visited a hidden Tang Sect and Shrek Academy base, where Da Ming and Elder Tree introduced the Ecological Warship project and its purpose. He received an Emerald Demon Warship and discovered that it could merge with his abilities and evolve.

• Nan Xuanyu agreed to stay cautious as Da Ming led him and Elder Tree through a concealed passage into an underground cavern.
• Da Ming and Elder Tree showed Nan Xuanyu a huge, lifeless Silver Armored Roc being prepared as an Ecological Warship.
• Elder Tree and Da Ming explained that the joint project would let Soul Beasts travel among the stars and help Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect build strength beyond Federation control.
• Elder Tree told Nan Xuanyu that, as the future successor of the Life School, he would take part in the project and explained how the warships mimicked their source Soul Beasts.
• Da Ming gave Nan Xuanyu an Emerald Demon Warship, which merged with his aura, Soul Power, martial soul, and bloodline and could imitate his soul skills.
• Da Ming explained that Ecological Warships were living beings capable of growth and evolution.

After learning that Nan Xuanyu had reached Eight-ring Soul Douluo with eight Quasi God-tier Soul Rings and extraordinary bloodlines, Shrek Academy’s leaders ordered his abilities kept secret and arranged for Tang Sect to help him enter the Spirit Pagoda’s advanced Holy Spirit Platform. The meeting also addressed a possible Dragon Horse Galaxy conspiracy, and the chapter ended with Nan Xuanyu welcoming Dong Qianqiu back at his dormitory.

• Elder Tree showed Nan Xuanyu an Ecological Warship, then arranged for him to return to the Home Planet.
• The Master of the Sea God Pavilion told Shrek’s leaders that Nan Xuanyu had broken through to Eight-ring Soul Douluo and possessed eight Quasi God-tier Soul Rings.
• The Master of the Sea God Pavilion ordered Shrek to conceal Nan Xuanyu’s abilities and protect him, while Meng Fei agreed to help him enter the Spirit Pagoda’s advanced Holy Spirit Platform.
• Meng Fei warned that the Dragon Horse Galaxy might be planning a conspiracy, and the Master of the Sea God Pavilion said she would alert the Federation about the Chokepoint Wormhole.
• Nan Xuanyu returned to Shrek Academy, announced his breakthrough, and went to his dormitory, where he pulled Dong Qianqiu into his arms.

Nan Xuanyu reunited with Dong Qianqiu, who brought him the Two-character Battle Armor she had made for him. He tested the armor and learned that she had named his “Dragon Demon” and her own “Dragon Yu.”

• Nan Xuanyu embraced Dong Qianqiu, who was exhausted from training and had recently advanced to the seventh ring.
• Nan Xuanyu carried Dong Qianqiu toward the bedroom, but she misunderstood his intentions and pulled away.
• Dong Qianqiu gave Nan Xuanyu his finished Two-character Battle Armor, and he put it on to test its fit and abilities.
• Nan Xuanyu noticed the name “Dragon Demon” on his armor, and Dong Qianqiu told him her own armor was named “Dragon Yu.”

Nan Xuanyu reunited with his friends after breaking through, and they celebrated with hotpot before heading toward an auction. Lan Mengqin then tearfully told him that her mother was seriously ill.

• Nan Xuanyu arrived at the academy gates with Dong Qianqiu and greeted Yuan En Huihui, who had fully become a girl after making her choice.
• Dong Qianqiu grew jealous of Yuan En Huihui's closeness to Nan Xuanyu and kept an eye on her as the group teased Nan Xuanyu about his improved appearance.
• Nan Xuanyu and the others ate hotpot together, then strolled toward the auction.
• Dong Qianqiu jumped onto Nan Xuanyu's back, and she and Yuan En Huihui argued over who had a claim on him.
• Lan Mengqin clutched Nan Xuanyu's sleeve, burst into tears, and told him that her mother was seriously ill.

Lan Mengqin revealed that her mother was dying from their clan’s hereditary Heavenly Cripple Bloodline, and Bi Ji explained that the defect had already erupted beyond ordinary treatment. Nan Xuanyu offered two drops of God-tier Life Essence from the Eternal Tree, leaving Bi Ji stunned and Lan Mengqin hopeful that her mother could be saved.

• Lan Mengqin broke down in Nan Xuanyu’s arms and explained that her mother was gravely ill, while she was expected to inherit the clan leadership and leave Shrek Academy.
• Dong Qianqiu and Tang Yuge comforted Lan Mengqin and suggested seeking help from their teachers and the academy’s powerful experts.
• Bi Ji appeared and explained that her fusion with Lan Mengqin was gradually repairing Lan Mengqin’s hidden Heavenly Cripple Bloodline defect, but her mother’s erupted condition was far harder to treat.
• Bi Ji said the Eternal Tree’s life energy could extend Lan Mengqin’s mother’s life but could not easily cure her, and that using the tree’s origin power was not a simple option.
• Nan Xuanyu gave Bi Ji a small bottle containing two drops of God-tier Life Essence from the Eternal Tree, stunning Bi Ji and filling Lan Mengqin with hope.

Nan Xuanyu gave Lan Mengqin two drops of the Eternal Tree’s God-tier Life Essence to save her mother, and Lan Mengqin accepted him as her boyfriend. After her mother was healed, Lan Mengqin thanked Nan Xuanyu and reaffirmed that she would devote her life to him.

• Lan Mengqin offered to marry Nan Xuanyu if he saved her mother, and he gave her two drops of God-tier Life Essence.
• Bi Ji explained the Life Essence’s value and advised Lan Mengqin to bring her mother to Shrek Academy for treatment.
• Lan Mengqin returned one drop to Nan Xuanyu, then left to bring her mother while the others prepared for their graduation examination.
• Nan Xuanyu continued cultivating and forging, trained the Thirty-Three Sky Wings in the Simulation Pod, and visited Nana through spatial passages.
• Lan Mengqin brought her mother back, and Nan Xuanyu, Elder Tree, and Bi Ji used one drop of Life Essence to restore her mother’s vitality.
• Lan Mengqin cried with relief, thanked Nan Xuanyu, and kissed him before running off.

Nan Xuanyu entered the Spirit Pagoda’s Advanced Spirit Ascension Platform and learned from the Treasure Hunting Beast that it was formed from a God Realm fragment. As a Tang Sect information attack disrupted the Spirit Pagoda, Nan Xuanyu encountered a powerful Red-tailed Scorpion and struck it with the Titan Divine Fist.

• Lan Mengqin’s mother offered her hand to Nan Xuanyu after learning he had saved her with Life Essence, leaving him confused.
• The academy authorized Nan Xuanyu to enter the Spirit Pagoda’s Advanced Spirit Ascension Platform, where he appeared in a forest modeled on the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Hundreds of Tang Sect personnel launched an information attack on the Spirit Pagoda, triggering alarms and disabling surveillance in the Advanced Spirit Ascension Platform.
• The Treasure Hunting Beast explained that the Spirit Ascension Platform was a God Realm fragment containing Immortal Spirit Qi and that such fragments had been absorbing energy from the Home Planet.
• Nan Xuanyu encountered a Red-tailed Scorpion with more than fifty thousand years of cultivation and shattered its poisonous projectiles with the Titan Divine Fist, blasting open a black hole in space.

Nan Xuanyu discovered that his combat strength had reached god level and absorbed energy from powerful Soul Beasts in the Spirit Ascension Platform. After he annihilated a Three-character Battle Armor Master, a system problem forced the injured man to leave the Advanced Spirit Ascension Platform.

• Nan Xuanyu killed the Red-tailed Scorpion with one punch and, with the Treasure Hunting Beast's help, absorbed its energy into his bloodline.
• Nan Xuanyu used his Two-character Battle Armor to hunt Soul Beasts and strengthened his dragon core by absorbing their energy.
• A Three-character Battle Armor Master attacked Nan Xuanyu with his Crimson Flame Lion abilities, but Nan Xuanyu froze and shattered the entire area, killing him.
• Nan Xuanyu absorbed the Battle Armor Master's energy and decided to wait openly for more challengers to attack him.
• The Spirit Pagoda staff warned a trembling man to leave the Advanced Spirit Ascension Platform because its internal data stream had a problem; the man said Nan Xuanyu's freezing attack had nearly killed him.

Nan Xuanyu unleashed the Power of Destruction inside the advanced Spirit Ascension Platform, causing a massive blast before exiting and pretending he had nearly died. Wang Tianyu told him the Spirit Pagoda had retaliated against the Tang Sect and Shrek’s information attack, and Nan Xuanyu admitted he had tested his destructive power.

• Lin Tian regretted his impulsive actions after losing all his energy and suffering a brutal death in the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Nan Xuanyu killed a Blue Demon Bird with a dragon claw, and the Treasure Hunting Beast explained that absorbing it would let it transform into a Blue Demon Bird.
• Nan Xuanyu formed a huge sphere of the Power of Destruction and detonated it in the forest, destroying everything in its path and harming nearby Soul Beasts.
• Nan Xuanyu pressed the exit button, pretended to be badly weakened, and left the Spirit Pagoda after a female doctor caught him.
• Nan Xuanyu contacted Pavilion Master Wang and met him at Sea God Lake, where Wang Tianyu warned that the Spirit Pagoda’s god-level experts had nearly located the Tang Sect during their counterattack.
• Nan Xuanyu told Wang Tianyu that he had only tried out the Power of Destruction.

Nan Xuanyu and his classmates began their graduation exams after the Spirit Pagoda dropped its investigation into the attack on its information network. After the class passed the Star Battle assessment, Nan Xuanyu and the other candidates entered the Seven Sacred Abyss for their character assessment, arriving at the Eternal Tree with Nan Xuanyu feeling a powerful affinity for it.

• Wang Tianyu warned Nan Xuanyu not to leave the academy after seeing the destructive orb, then departed while Nan Xuanyu relaxed in Sea God Lake.
• The Spirit Pagoda temporarily closed the Advanced Spirit Ascension Platform, and the academy announced the graduation exam requirements and assessments.
• Nan Xuanyu led all thirty-three students through the Star Battle assessment in the Chaotic Starfield, and the class completed the mission successfully.
• Nan Xuanyu and the other six Shrek Seven Devils candidates began their character assessment in the Seven Sacred Abyss.
• Wang Tianyu brought the group to the Eternal Tree, where Nan Xuanyu's Ancestral Dragon Bloodline vortex stirred and he sensed a special summons.

The Shrek Seven Devils candidates entered the Seven Sacred Abyss for their assessment, while Tang Zhenhua tried to enter as well to prove his sincerity to Ying Luohong. Ying Luohong stopped him and embraced him, but Tang Zhenhua refused to explain the truth behind their old misunderstanding.

• Wang Tianyu opened the Seven Sacred Abyss and sent Nan Xuanyu, Tang Yuge, Yuan En Huihui, Bai Xiuxiu, Lan Mengqin, Liu Feng, and Qian Lei into the whirlpool for their assessment.
• Tang Zhenhua announced that he would enter the abyss and asked Wang Tianyu and Ying Luohong to witness his experiences.
• As Tang Zhenhua jumped into the whirlpool, Ying Luohong pulled him back and clung to him in tears.
• Xiao Qi left the boat, giving Ying Luohong and Tang Zhenhua privacy as they embraced.
• Ying Luohong admitted that she still cared about Tang Zhenhua and asked whether someone had influenced him during their old misunderstanding.
• Tang Zhenhua said he would not shift responsibility to the other woman and insisted that the past had been his fault.

Ying Luohong reconciled with Tang Zhenhua and revealed that Ding Zhuohan was their son. Meanwhile, Nan Xuanyu began the Seven Sacred Abyss assessment, passed its first trial, and quickly answered the second trial’s question about desire.

• Ying Luohong told Tang Zhenhua that Ding Zhuohan was their son, and the two reconciled.
• Ying Luohong said she had kept Ding Zhuohan’s parentage secret and hoped he would enter the Inner Court and reach god rank.
• Nan Xuanyu entered the Seven Sacred Abyss and began the first assessment, which required him to sleep and then climb out of bed.
• Nan Xuanyu woke, resisted the urge to keep sleeping, and passed the first assessment while absorbing Life Energy and the Power of Destruction.
• An elderly woman asked Nan Xuanyu whether he could control his desires, and he answered before she declared that he had passed.

Nan Xuanyu passed the Seven Sacred Abyss tests so quickly that the Seven Old Demons feared his power to absorb Life Energy and destruction energy. After the others emerged, their strange reactions suggested their tests had been far more personal, and Tang Yuge returned weak and pale.

• Nan Xuanyu passed a series of questions from the Seven Old Demons and was sent back to Sea God Lake, where he absorbed Life Energy as he headed to shore.
• The Seven Old Demons complained that Nan Xuanyu had nearly damaged their space by absorbing its energies, then hurried to pass Lan Mengqin and the others so he would not return.
• Qian Lei, Liu Feng, Lan Mengqin, Dong Qianqiu, and Yuan En Huihui emerged from the lake and told Nan Xuanyu their tests had been roughly similar, though he had experienced almost nothing.
• Dong Qianqiu flew away in tears, while Yuan En Huihui shyly praised Nan Xuanyu and ran back to the dormitories.
• Lan Mengqin blushed and said she had dreamed about Nan Xuanyu, but Tang Yuge then fell from the air and Nan Xuanyu caught her.
• Tang Yuge said she was fine and went to her dormitory, ignoring Yuan En Huihui, while Lan Mengqin and Nan Xuanyu worried that something had happened to her.

Tang Yuge learned that Yuan En Fengyu was not her biological father and that her mother had been unfaithful, leaving her overwhelmed with guilt over how she had treated him and Yuan En Huihui. Yuan En Fengyu began explaining the circumstances behind the family’s history, revealing that his own choices helped lead to Tang Ximeng’s marriage to him.

• Wang Tianyu learned that Nan Xuanyu and the others had cleared the Seven Sacred Abyss trial in two days and went to report it to the Sea God Pavilion.
• Yuan En Huihui learned the truth about Tang Yuge’s origins and rushed to comfort her.
• Tang Ximeng confirmed that Tang Yuge was not Yuan En Fengyu’s biological daughter, and Tang Yuge broke down over having blamed him and Yuan En Huihui.
• Yuan En Fengyu arrived, apologized, and said he had always treated Tang Yuge as his own daughter.
• Yuan En Fengyu explained that he had pursued Tang Ximeng, arranged her engagement to him after rescuing her missing father, and married her after she believed Tang Yuge’s biological father had died.
• Yuan En Fengyu recounted that Tang Yuge’s biological father returned on the wedding day, after Tang Ximeng told him she was already pregnant.