Chapter Summaries

Yu Zhen intervened with his Black-Grade Mecha to protect Yu Nanyuan and capture the Frost Ice Sea Serpent. With the danger over, Xu Xiaoyu asked Xu Xingwei to give Xu Xiaoyan a soul bone, while Yu Zhen planned to make the captured beast a soul spirit for Yu Nanyuan.

• The Frost Ice Sea Serpent unleashed Frost Ice Breath, but Yu Zhen arrived in his Black-Grade Mecha and blocked the attack with a Soul Guidance Barrier.
• Yu Zhen reassured Yu Nanyuan and took charge as the cruise ship’s Soul Masters gathered and Mu Chen decided not to intervene.
• After seeing Xu Xiaoyan safe, Xu Xiaoyu asked Xu Xingwei to give her a soul bone so she could better protect herself.
• Yu Zhen trapped the Frost Ice Sea Serpent in a Chain Cage, pulled it out of the sea, and used his Thunder Spider soul spirit to paralyze it.
• Yu Zhen captured the beast alive and intended to have the Spirit Pagoda turn it into a soul spirit for Yu Nanyuan’s second Unsubmissive Soul Spirit slot.

After the cruise ship returned safely to Donghai Port, Yu Nanyuan reflected on his weakness against the Ten Thousand Year Frost Ice Sea Serpent and decided to resume learning to make soul guidance devices. He returned to the laboratory he had abandoned after his parents failed to come home, intending to build a foundation for becoming a powerful Battle Armor Master.

• The Donghai Chamber of Commerce apologized and promised compensation after the attack, and the cruise ship returned to port with Yu Zhen escorting it and restraining the Ten Thousand Year Frost Ice Sea Serpent.
• Xu Xingwei thanked Yu Nanyuan for protecting Xu Xiaoyan, while Ouyang Zixin praised Yu Nanyuan and Mu Xi quietly withdrew after hearing them.
• The cruise ship reached Donghai Port, where Xu Xingwei and Xu Xiaoyu left with the sleeping Xu Xiaoyan and Yu Zhen took the serpent to the Donghai Spirit Transfer Pagoda.
• Yu Nanyuan returned home and entered the soul-guidance-device laboratory he had abandoned after Yu Heng and Nan Xi never came back.
• Yu Nanyuan decided to resume making soul guidance devices as preparation for becoming a powerful Battle Armor Master.

Yu Nanyuan began pursuing Soul Engineering alongside his plans to become a Battle Armor Master, while Yu Zhen supported his choices and prepared him for the next three years. Yu Zhen hinted that someone connected to the academy and “that place” could influence Yu Nanyuan’s future.

• Yu Nanyuan used his Void Chains to improve and complete the Core Arrays he had begun engraving before awakening his Martial Soul.
• Yu Zhen reflected on Yu Nanyuan’s chosen path and quietly closed the laboratory door while Yu Nanyuan worked through the night.
• Yu Zhen told Yu Nanyuan he could skip Primary Soul Master Academy, and they agreed he would enter Donghai Academy’s Intermediate Division at age nine.
• Yu Zhen gave Yu Nanyuan a three-thousand-year-old Winter Snow Lotus and explained how to use its petals to temper his body and Soul Power.
• Yu Nanyuan told Yu Zhen he wanted to become a Battle Armor Master, and Yu Zhen hinted that the academy had a Battle Armor Master from “that place.”

Three years later, Yu Nanyuan had become a skilled Mecha designer and a Two-Ring Great Soul Master, and he tested an improved Electric Rod before heading to the Donghai Spirit Transfer Pagoda. His Soul Ring Years had reached 1,500 each, but raising them further would require strengthening his body, and Yu Zhen had begun searching for suitable Natural Treasures.

• Yu Nanyuan completed a Level Three Electric Rod that could fire a Thunder Arrow-like attack up to thirty meters and briefly paralyze a Three-Ring Soul Venerable.
• After receiving Xiao Li's call, Yu Nanyuan leaped from his balcony and used his silver chain ability to slow his descent and land safely.
• Yu Nanyuan reflected on his stalled progress toward level twenty-six and then asked Xiao Li to drive him to the Donghai Spirit Transfer Pagoda.
• Yu Nanyuan continued to rely on repeated fights in the Primary Spirit Ascension Platform to raise both Soul Ring Years to 1,500.
• Yu Nanyuan recognized that his body would limit further Soul Ring growth, while Yu Zhen searched for Natural Treasures similar to Whale Rubber.

Yu Nanyuan entered the Spirit Ascension Platform to test his new Second Soul Skill, Void Piercing. He defeated a flock of Azure Birds and left the forest around him quiet.

• Yu Nanyuan arrived at the Donghai Spirit Transfer Pagoda and went underground to enter the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Yu Nanyuan used his Silver Chains to climb above the forest canopy despite Yan Ge warning the staff to prepare for a rescue.
• An Azure Bird flock attacked Yu Nanyuan with waves of Wind Blades.
• Yu Nanyuan activated his Second Soul Skill, Void Piercing, and used spatial cutting to destroy the Wind Blades and pierce the Azure Birds.
• The Azure Birds turned into yellow points of light, and the forest around Yu Nanyuan fell quiet.

Yu Nanyuan used Silver Wing and his Void Chains to hunt soul beasts throughout the Primary Spirit Ascension Platform, steadily increasing his Soul Rings’ Year Limits. After killing a sixth Thousand Year Soul Beast and nearing his limits, he left the platform as his Soul Power bottleneck began to loosen.

• Yu Nanyuan summoned Silver Wing, then returned to the forest after the Silver Wing Void Piercing Snake consumed the energy left by the Azure Birds.
• Yu Nanyuan killed a Wind Baboon with his knee and used his Void Chains to strike down the fleeing members of its group.
• Yu Nanyuan continued hunting as he went deeper into the platform, using his martial soul’s spatial abilities to overpower soul beasts.
• Yu Nanyuan killed a Millennium Unicorn Demon Rhino, bringing his total of slain Thousand Year Soul Beasts to six.
• Yu Nanyuan felt his Soul Rings’ Year Limits could reach two thousand years and sensed his bottleneck loosening, so he pressed the exit button.

After raising his Soul Power to level twenty-six, Yu Nanyuan met Xu Xiaoyan at Wutong Academy and encouraged her to choose her own path. The chapter ended with Xu Xiaoyan asking whether she could truly follow her wishes as they looked out over the moonlit sea.

• Yu Nanyuan finished meditating in the Soul Guidance Car and broke through to Soul Power level twenty-six.
• Yu Nanyuan went to Wutong Academy to pick up Xu Xiaoyan and discuss her choice between continuing there and attending Eastsea Academy.
• Xu Xiaoyan learned that Yu Nanyuan had broken through and grew quiet as she considered her future.
• Yu Nanyuan told Xu Xiaoyan she did not have to pursue the life others called successful and should follow her own heart.
• On Wutong Mountain, Xu Xiaoyan asked Yu Nanyuan whether she could really follow her wishes, and he assured her she could.

Yu Nanyuan used the Silver Wing Void Piercing Snake to draw down starlight and help Xu Xiaoyan evolve her Martial Soul. Xu Xiaoyan’s new Star Staff was confirmed, and she began consolidating its origin as Eastsea Academy started school.

• The Silver Wing Void Piercing Snake absorbed Space Attribute Elements high above the ground and fed some Soul Power back to Yu Nanyuan.
• Yu Nanyuan had the snake open Space Rifts so starlight could bathe Xu Xiaoyan and help her Martial Soul evolve.
• Xu Xiaoyan absorbed Star Power for more than two hours, transforming her Star Wheel Ice Staff into a golden staff with a starry interior.
• Yu Nanyuan brought Xu Xiaoyan to Wutong Mountain and called Xu Xingwei to tell him her Martial Soul had evolved.
• Xu Xingwei arrived and confirmed Xu Xiaoyan now had a pure Star Staff Martial Soul, which she would need time to consolidate as Eastsea Academy began school.

Yu Nanyuan enrolled at Donghai Academy and learned that Wu Zhangkong would teach First Grade Class Five, though he chose to enter Class One instead. At the dormitory building, he briefly passed Tang Wulin without recognizing him.

• Yu Zhen explained that Wu Zhangkong had been transferred to the Intermediate Academy Department and recommended him as a teacher for Yu Nanyuan.
• Yu Zhen offered to place Yu Nanyuan in Class Five, but Yu Nanyuan asked to be assigned to Class One and chose to report on his own.
• Yu Zhen watched Yu Nanyuan leave and wondered whether anyone besides Xu Xiaoyan could reach him.
• Tang Wulin completed his admission procedures and carried his belongings to the dormitory building.
• Yu Nanyuan passed Tang Wulin at the dormitory entrance, and Tang Wulin shyly moved aside for him.

Yu Nanyuan moved into Eastsea Academy’s dormitory and met his three roommates, Zhang Yangzi, Wang Jinxi, and Wei Xiaofeng. As they left for lunch, a boy named Zhou Changxi was hurled from a second-floor dormitory window, revealing that a fight had already broken out nearby.

• Yu Nanyuan arrived at his assigned dormitory and met Zhang Yangzi, Wang Jinxi, and Wei Xiaofeng.
• Wei Xiaofeng complained about the dormitory and questioned Yu Nanyuan’s background, but Yu Nanyuan calmly introduced himself and settled in.
• Zhang Yangzi invited Yu Nanyuan to join him, Wang Jinxi, and Wei Xiaofeng for lunch, and Yu Nanyuan accepted.
• As the four boys left the dormitory building, Zhou Changxi flew out of a second-floor window and crashed in front of them.
• Zhang Yangzi stared in shock as Zhou Changxi groaned in pain, surprised that students were fighting before classes began.

Yu Nanyuan settled into academy life, met Tang Wulin amid a dormitory fight and a cafeteria eating spectacle, and learned about Donghai Academy’s promising teacher. At the opening ceremony, Yu Nanyuan and his dormmates were assigned to Class One, while Tang Wulin and the students from the fight ended up in Class Five.

• Tang Wulin fought Zhou Changxi and Xie Xie in Dorm 205, and teachers summoned the students involved to Dean of Instruction Long Hengxu’s office.
• Yu Nanyuan, Zhang Yangzi, Wang Jinxi, and Wei Xiaofeng ate Grade A meals and discussed Donghai Academy’s new teacher Ye Yingluo, who had reached Soul King level and once applied to Shrek Academy.
• Yu Nanyuan and the others saw Tang Wulin eating dozens of buns in the cafeteria, and Wei Xiaofeng mocked him as a rice bucket.
• Yu Nanyuan got along with his three dormmates that night, and Donghai Academy held its opening ceremony the next morning.
• Long Hengxu assigned Yu Nanyuan, Zhang Yangzi, Wang Jinxi, and Wei Xiaofeng to Class One, while Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Zhou Changxi, and Yun Xiao were placed in Class Five.

Tang Wulin and the other punished students joined the lowest-ranked Freshman Class Five, where Wu Zhangkong became their homeroom teacher. In Class One, Ye Yingluo introduced the students and Ding Zhenzhu demonstrated the unusual appraisal ability of his Green Light Mirror Martial Soul.

• Long Hengxu dismissed the new students after assigning Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Zhou Changxi, and Yun Xiao to Freshman Class Five.
• Wu Zhangkong led Class Five away, while Ye Yingluo and Ye Yingrong watched him and Ye Yingluo vowed to make him pay for rejecting her.
• Ye Yingluo brought Freshman Class One to its classroom and told the students to introduce themselves and their cultivation goals.
• Ding Zhenzhu introduced his rank-fifteen Soul Power and his ambition to become a Mecha Repairer, and Ye Yingluo explained that the Advanced Division had reserved him for its Mecha Repair Department.
• Ding Zhenzhu used his Appraisal soul skill to reveal detailed information about a classmate, surprising the students with the Green Light Mirror's ability.

Freshman Class One heard the students introduce their Martial Souls and soul power, and Yu Nanyuan stunned the class with his level twenty-six cultivation at age nine. Ye Yingluo then took the students to an indoor training field for their first combat lesson.

• Ye Yingluo explained that Ding Zhenzhu’s mutated Soul Skill could appraise and read information in precise mecha and Soul Tool parts.
• Lei Ge introduced his White Scale Horse Martial Soul and level eighteen soul power, while imagining himself becoming Sacred Dragon Douluo.
• Wei Xiaofeng, Wang Jinxi, and Zhang Yangzi revealed that they were level twenty-one or twenty-two Two-Ring Great Soul Masters, surprising their classmates.
• Yu Nanyuan introduced his Void Chains Martial Soul and level twenty-six soul power, leaving the class and Ye Yingluo stunned.
• Ye Yingluo announced one-on-one elimination matches and led Freshman Class One to Indoor Training Field Number One.

Yu Nanyuan defeated Lei Ge in the first practical combat match, revealing how quickly his battle instincts could overwhelm an opponent. After the fight, Zhang Yangzi remained determined to face Yu Nanyuan and discover the difference in their strength.

• Zhang Yangzi asked Yu Nanyuan not to hold back when they faced each other, and Yu Nanyuan agreed.
• Ye Yingluo announced the first match as Yu Nanyuan versus Lei Ge and told the students to show their full strength.
• Lei Ge used his White Scale Horse Martial Soul, a Hundred-Year Soul Spirit, and his first soul skill, Holy Radiance, to flood the field with blinding light.
• Yu Nanyuan used his Spiritual Power to track Lei Ge, swiftly took him down, and pinned his neck while twisting his arms behind his back.
• Yu Nanyuan released Lei Ge and apologized for going too hard; Lei Ge accepted the loss, while Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi watched with grave expressions.

Yu Nanyuan advanced through the first round and faced Wang Jinxi in the second, where he used precise timing and apparent space-based movement to defeat him. The chapter ended with Yu Nanyuan holding his weapon at Wang Jinxi’s throat.

• Ye Yingluo recognized Yu Nanyuan’s combat instincts and Spirit Sea Realm spiritual power, and resolved to make him stronger than Wu Zhangkong.
• Yu Nanyuan helped Lei Ge off the field and asked him to call him by his name, while Wei Xiaofeng advanced by defeating Xuan Ning.
• Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi advanced easily, and Ye Yingluo paired Yu Nanyuan against Wang Jinxi in the second round.
• Wang Jinxi used Bone Soul Conversion to evade Yu Nanyuan’s first strike, but Yu Nanyuan spotted the skill’s timing flaw and struck him from behind.
• Yu Nanyuan appeared to use space-based movement, knocked Wang Jinxi down, and held his weapon to Wang Jinxi’s throat.

Yu Nanyuan defeated Wang Jinxi and advanced through the matches to face Zhang Yangzi in the final. He overwhelmed Zhang Yangzi with his Silver Wing Void Piercing Snake and Void Impalement, leaving Zhang Yangzi defeated as the chapter ended.

• Yu Nanyuan defeated Wang Jinxi, who acknowledged his strength and promised to challenge him again.
• Zhang Yangzi and Wei Xiaofeng won their matches, then Zhang Yangzi edged out Wei Xiaofeng in the third round while Yu Nanyuan easily won his bout.
• After recovering his Soul Power, Zhang Yangzi faced Yu Nanyuan in the final and opened with Darkness Canopy.
• Yu Nanyuan cut through the Darkness Canopy with Void Chains and summoned the Silver Wing Void Piercing Snake, revealing his two Thousand-Year Soul Rings.
• Zhang Yangzi used Eagle Strikes the Sky to charge at Yu Nanyuan, but Yu Nanyuan's Void Impalement pierced his wings and imprisoned him in midair.
• Ye Yingluo moved to intervene, but Yu Nanyuan's chains vanished before they could strike Zhang Yangzi, and Yu Nanyuan landed unharmed.

Yu Nanyuan defeated Zhang Yangzi in their practical combat class, then joined his classmates for an afternoon outing while keeping his Martial Soul Ability secret. The chapter ended with a mysterious girl and her companions sensing an aura near Eastsea City.

• Ye Yingluo helped Zhang Yangzi recover after Yu Nanyuan won their duel, and Zhang Yangzi accepted his defeat and befriended Yu Nanyuan.
• Ye Yingluo told Freshman Class One to keep Yu Nanyuan's Martial Soul Ability confidential ahead of the academy's Promotion Tournament.
• Zhang Yangzi invited Yu Nanyuan, Wang Jinxi, and Wei Xiaofeng out, and Yu Nanyuan also invited Lei Ge to join them.
• Yu Nanyuan saw Tang Wulin and Xie Xie heading toward Donghai Park and anticipated the events that would awaken Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon King Bloodline.
• A black-haired girl and her companions sensed an aura in the direction of Eastsea City, and the girl reacted with shock.

Tang Wulin and Xie Xie's duel ended when Tang Wulin's hidden power awakened, revealing a Golden Trident rune and a mysterious presence that confronted the Soul Beast Clan. The black-haired girl confirmed that the sealed being had fallen and its Divine Core was inside Tang Wulin.

• Xie Xie avoided Tang Wulin's Blue Silver Grass, blasted it apart with Light Dragon Blade, and stabbed Tang Wulin in the shoulder.
• Tang Wulin roared in anger as his eyes turned scarlet, and a terrifying pressure knocked him and Xie Xie unconscious.
• A burly man sensed Tang Wulin's powerful Bloodline Aura and prepared to take him away, but a Golden Trident rune appeared on Tang Wulin's forehead and froze the man's soul power.
• Tang Wulin rose with blue-gold eyes and warned the black-robed middle-aged man and the others to withdraw and preserve the Soul Beast Clan's inheritance.
• The black-robed middle-aged man attacked with a pitch-black dragon claw, and Tang Wulin summoned a Golden Trident that sealed off the area.
• The black-haired girl confirmed that the sealed being had fallen and its Divine Core was inside Tang Wulin.

Tang Wulin’s confrontation with the Soul Beasts ended in a retreat, while Gu Yue learned that Tang San had sealed the Golden Dragon King’s bloodline inside a human. Gu Yue and Na’er agreed to pursue the bloodline in Eastsea City, though Gu Yue remained uncertain about the Douluo Plane Spirit’s pull.

• Tang Wulin failed to reach Tang Hao through Divine Sense and realized his ten-thousand-year plan had suffered another setback.
• Gu Yue returned to the eastern coast of Eastsea City with the wounded Di Tian, Xiong Jun, and the other Soul Beasts.
• Gu Yue said Tang San had sealed the bloodline power from the fallen Divine Core inside a human, then ordered Bi Ji to treat the wounded and Ten Thousand Demon King to investigate and seize the bloodline if possible.
• Gu Yue discussed the Douluo Plane Spirit and Tang San’s interference with Na’er, who argued that human emotions had brought her into existence.
• Gu Yue decided to stay in Eastsea City and seek a chance to extract the bloodline from its human host.

Yu Nanyuan and his companions went fishing by the sea, where he used an Electric Rod to stun a school of fish and accidentally struck Gu Yue in the water. Their encounter triggered Yu Nanyuan’s Martial Soul and left him terrified, while Gu Yue felt an inexplicable closeness to him before Na'er challenged her about her feelings.

• Yu Nanyuan, Zhang Yangzi, Wei Xiaofeng, and Wang Jinxi admired the sunset and prepared to catch fish near Eastsea City.
• Zhang Yangzi sent his Dark Demon Eagle to search for fish, but it found nothing near the shore.
• Yu Nanyuan used an Electric Rod to stun fish across a wide area of seawater.
• Gu Yue cried out nearby, and Zhang Yangzi, Wei Xiaofeng, and Wang Jinxi fled, leaving Yu Nanyuan to face her.
• Yu Nanyuan recognized Gu Yue and felt his Martial Soul react as it had when he faced Tang Wulin.
• Na'er told Gu Yue that her human feelings made it unlikely she would kill Tang Wulin, and Gu Yue rebuked her before vanishing in a flash of silver light.