Chapter Summaries

After Eastsea Academy’s Class Zero defeated Shrek Academy, the match spread across the Sun Moon Federation, and Yu Nanyuan and Gu Yue gained prominent places on the Young Talent List. At a tense Shrek Academy meeting, Ye Xinglan offered to withdraw and take responsibility, but Shen Yi rejected the idea.

• On the walk back to the hotel, Wu Zhangkong revealed that he had not completed his studies at Shrek Academy’s Inner Court, while Tang Wulin wondered whether Long Bing was connected to it.
• Long Huantian and Lu Zhenpeng discussed Shrek Academy’s defeat and recognized that the match had become a contest among powerful political forces.
• Sun Moon Television Station rebroadcast the match as the End of the Undefeated Myth, and the Spirit Pagoda ranked Yu Nanyuan ninth and Gu Yue twenty-seventh on the Young Talent List.
• Shen Yi realized that Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and the Spirit Pagoda had helped publicize Shrek Academy’s defeat, while Shrek Team watched the coverage in silence.
• Ye Xinglan stood and offered to withdraw from the academy, but Shen Yi told her that leaving would not restore the academy’s reputation.

After Shrek Academy’s televised defeat, Yu Nanyuan and his teammates discussed the backlash before Wu Zhangkong set Yu Nanyuan the goal of reaching the top of the Young Talent List. Later, Ye Xinglan went to Yu Nanyuan’s room to ask him to help restore Shrek’s reputation, while Xu Lizhi followed and overheard them.

• Xie Xie, Zhang Yangzi, and Wang Jinxi discussed the Young Talent List with their companions after the match’s broadcast damaged Shrek Academy’s reputation.
• Wu Zhangkong defended the team’s victory, sent four students to rest, and told Yu Nanyuan and Gu Yue that Dean Yu would take them back to Eastsea Academy the next day.
• Wu Zhangkong challenged Yu Nanyuan to reach the top of the Young Talent List within five years, and Yu Nanyuan replied that he could do it in three.
• Xu Xiaoyan stayed late talking with Yu Nanyuan about their childhood memories before returning to her room.
• Ye Xinglan, feeling guilty about Shrek’s defeat, went to Yu Nanyuan and asked him to claim he was destined to join Shrek’s Inner Court so the academy could salvage its reputation.
• Yu Nanyuan mocked Ye Xinglan’s request, while Xu Lizhi arrived outside the room and saw them together.

After Shrek Academy’s defeat, Ye Xinglan begged Yu Nanyuan to restore the academy’s reputation, but he told her the only direct way was to defeat him. Shrek’s leaders chose not to interfere with Yu Nanyuan’s growth, while Class Zero returned to Donghai Academy and disappeared from public view as two and a half years passed.

• Ye Xinglan knelt before Yu Nanyuan and offered to do anything for Shrek Academy, but he rejected her proposal and said she would have to defeat him to restore the academy’s reputation.
• Xu Lizhi saw Ye Xinglan leave Yu Nanyuan’s room with reddened knees and mistakenly believed Yu Nanyuan had abused her.
• Shen Yi learned from Shrek Academy’s leadership that the defeat was to be treated as a lesson, while Zhuo Shi wondered whether Wu Zhangkong was with her.
• Yun Ming told the Sea God’s Pavilion Elders that no one should interfere with Yu Nanyuan’s growth, and Ya Li offered to visit the Spirit Pagoda herself.
• Yu Nanyuan, Gu Yue, and Xu Xiaoyan returned early to Donghai Academy, while Tang Wulin’s team reached the top four and Donghai Academy’s seven-person team made the final.
• Class Zero vanished from public view after the competition, Donghai Academy prospered, and two and a half years passed.

Yu Nanyuan refined his spear intent by resisting the typhoon and a massive wave with his own power, then hurried back to Eastsea Academy. There, he reunited with Gu Yue and took her by the hand, leaving them to walk together through the empty campus.

• Yu Nanyuan stood above the sea and demonstrated the early form of Unity of Heaven and Man while reflecting on his cultivation and decision to seek a new Second Soul Spirit.
• Yu Nanyuan used his spear intent to create a windless zone, split a towering wave, and then rode the Silver Wing Void Piercing Snake back toward Eastsea City.
• Yu Nanyuan noticed the time on his Soul Guidance Communicator and realized he had kept Gu Yue waiting at Eastsea Academy.
• Yu Nanyuan apologized to Gu Yue, took her hand, and led her out of the classroom for a walk across campus.

As a typhoon approached Eastsea City, Yu Nanyuan drove Gu Yue to the Donghai Spirit Transfer Pagoda and told her he would leave for Shrek City afterward to obtain a Soul Spirit. He returned home to find Xu Xiaoyan waiting, while both she and Yu Nanyuan were left quietly troubled by their feelings.

• Yu Nanyuan drove Gu Yue to the Donghai Spirit Transfer Pagoda and explained that he would travel to Shrek City with Teacher Wu after the typhoon passed.
• Yu Nanyuan patted Gu Yue's thigh, angering and humiliating her, then apologized and drove on.
• Gu Yue called her teacher, Sky Phoenix Douluo Leng Yaozhu, and planned to ask her to choose a compatible Soul Spirit for Yu Nanyuan.
• Yu Nanyuan returned home and found Xu Xiaoyan making dinner; she admitted she had come over to avoid being bored during the typhoon.
• Yu Nanyuan asked Xu Xiaoyan about the hairband she had left in his car, and she hurried back to the kitchen, troubled by his growing closeness with Gu Yue.

Yu Nanyuan and Wu Zhangkong traveled from Eastsea City to Shrek City so Yu Nanyuan could pursue the Young Talent List and visit the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters. There, they met Leng Yaozhu, who introduced herself as Gu Yue’s teacher.

• Xu Xiaoyan cooked dinner with Yu Nanyuan, and he firmly reassured her that they would not be separated.
• Yu Nanyuan told Xu Xiaoyan he would use the final half year of his agreement with Wu Zhangkong to reach the top of the Young Talent List.
• After the typhoon passed, Yu Nanyuan and Wu Zhangkong boarded a Soul Guidance Train for Shrek City, where Wu Zhangkong asked about Yu Nanyuan’s three Level Five Mecha Sub-Professions.
• Yu Nanyuan and Wu Zhangkong arrived in Shrek City and headed to the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters to register.
• Leng Yaozhu, the Spirit Pagoda’s Vice Pagoda Master and Gu Yue’s teacher, approached Yu Nanyuan and introduced herself.

Leng Yaozhu brought Yu Nanyuan to the Spirit Transfer Pagoda’s Soul Spirit Tower and offered him a rare Evil Eye Tyrant soul spirit with Mental and Space attributes. Yu Nanyuan accepted the opportunity to begin fusion as Leng Yaozhu prepared to suppress the soul spirit’s Mental Origin.

• Leng Yaozhu welcomed Yu Nanyuan and Wu Zhangkong, then took Yu Nanyuan directly to the Soul Spirit Tower instead of making him challenge its floors.
• Leng Yaozhu opened direct access to the seventy-second floor, where Yu Nanyuan resisted an Evil Eye Tyrant’s mental illusion without her help.
• Leng Yaozhu explained that the twenty-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant had a pure bloodline and an innate Space-attribute mutation, and said Gu Yue’s connection had given Yu Nanyuan the chance to claim it.
• Yu Nanyuan agreed to attempt the soul spirit fusion, and Leng Yaozhu began preparing to suppress the Evil Eye Tyrant’s Mental Origin.

After fusing with the Evil Eye Tyrant, Yu Nanyuan reached the Spirit Abyss Realm and traveled with Wu Zhangkong to Shrek Academy. He publicly challenged everyone on Shrek’s Young Talent List, and Shrek students and teachers came out to face him.

• Leng Yaozhu oversaw Yu Nanyuan’s smooth fusion with the Evil Eye Tyrant, which became his Fourth Soul Ring and manifested from his brow.
• Yu Nanyuan entered Deep Meditation, and the Evil Eye Tyrant’s Mental Origin raised his Spiritual Power to the Spirit Abyss Realm.
• Three days later, Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi left Shrek Inner Court while Yu Nanyuan and Wu Zhangkong arrived at Shrek Academy’s eastern gate.
• Yu Nanyuan announced that he challenged everyone on Shrek Academy’s Young Talent List, stunning the two Outer Court students on guard.
• Long Xiu and Song Lin brought students from their classes to the gate, where Yu Nanyuan calmly requested a battle.

Yu Nanyuan challenged Shrek Academy and faced its students at the Sparring Arena, where his first opponent, Duan Hunxiao, fell unconscious before Yu Nanyuan even released his martial soul. He left the assembled students with a calm “Next,” as Wu Zhangkong returned to his former academy.

• Yu Nanyuan announced his challenge at Shrek Academy, unsettling students who remembered his victory over their team at the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition.
• Wu Rui warned Li Qiankun and Mo Jue that Yu Nanyuan could not be judged by ordinary standards, while Song Lin and Long Xiu accepted the challenge and led the students to the Sparring Arena.
• Song Lin and Long Xiu recognized Wu Zhangkong, who entered Shrek Academy with Yu Nanyuan, visibly affected by his return.
• At the arena, Yu Nanyuan provoked the students by inviting them to attack him all at once, and Long Xiu selected Duan Hunxiao as his first opponent.
• Duan Hunxiao attacked Yu Nanyuan with flute-based sound and spiritual skills, but Yu Nanyuan left him unconscious with a sudden spiritual attack and called for the next challenger.

Yu Nanyuan defeated Duan Hunxiao and Yuanen Yehui, revealing overwhelming spiritual power and a new ability that let him use the powers of other powerful bloodlines and martial souls. After Yuanen Yehui conceded to protect her Fallen Angel secret, Yu Nanyuan challenged Li Qiankun and Mo Jue to face him together.

• Yu Nanyuan defeated Duan Hunxiao with a mental backlash, and Song Lin identified his Spiritual Power as being at the Spirit Abyss Realm.
• Yuanen Yehui challenged Yu Nanyuan, who used Void Chains and Spirit Shock before revealing Void Contract and matching her Titan Giant Ape strength.
• Yu Nanyuan countered Yuanen Yehui's Air Cannons with his Absolute Vacuum Domain and fought her in close combat without using his soul skills.
• Yu Nanyuan triggered Yuanen Yehui's Fallen Angel Martial Soul, and she admitted defeat to keep her second martial soul secret.
• Yu Nanyuan invited Li Qiankun and Mo Jue to fight him together.

Yu Nanyuan faced Shrek Academy’s top Outer Court students, Li Qiankun and Mo Jue, and overwhelmed them with his mental abilities and Fourth Soul Skill, Dimensional Prison. Mo Jue conceded defeat, while the Sea God’s Pavilion elders watched Yu Nanyuan’s power with shock.

• Sea God's Pavilion Master Yun Ming arrived with Ya Li and the elders, then ordered Li Qiankun and Mo Jue to fight Yu Nanyuan together.
• Mo Jue and Li Qiankun revealed their martial souls and four-thousand-year soul rings, but Yu Nanyuan stunned them by showing he was a Four-Ring Soul Elder with a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Mo Jue attacked with her Fourth Soul Skill, Curse Spear, but Yu Nanyuan’s Evil Eye and Spiritual Power Field resisted her curses and disrupted Li Qiankun’s attack.
• Yu Nanyuan deployed his Fourth Soul Skill, Dimensional Prison, and used Air Ban to knock Mo Jue down and pull her in front of him.
• Mo Jue admitted defeat, and the Sea God's Pavilion elders reacted with shock to Yu Nanyuan’s domain-like control over space.

Yu Nanyuan defeated Li Qiankun with a spear strike that combined Soul Power, Spiritual Power, and Spear Intent, astonishing the Sea God's Pavilion elders and prompting Yun Ming to consider him as a possible successor. The battle ended with Li Qiankun defeated and Yu Nanyuan standing in a wondrous state on the arena.

• The Sea God's Pavilion elders recognized similarities between Yu Nanyuan's abilities and Yun Ming's, while Yun Ming recalled giving up an Evil Eye Tyrant Soul Spirit years earlier.
• Li Qiankun donned his One-Word Battle Armor and unleashed four enlarged Qiankun Balls at Yu Nanyuan.
• Yu Nanyuan used Dimensional Partition to withstand Li Qiankun's attack, then gathered Soul Power, Spiritual Power, and Spear Intent into a powerful spear strike.
• Yu Nanyuan's strike pierced through Li Qiankun's four Qiankun Balls and shattered his Martial Soul, while Cai Yue'er shielded him from the ensuing impact.
• Yun Ming and Ya Li watched Yu Nanyuan with renewed interest as he stood on the arena, and Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi arrived in time to witness the aftermath.

Yu Nanyuan entered Deep Meditation after demonstrating his overwhelming Spear Intent, while Shrek Academy’s leaders recognized his talent and guarded his enlightenment. After three days, he awoke to meet Na'er, as Wu Zhangkong reconciled with Zhuo Shi and agreed to return with his grand-disciples in six months.

• Cai Yue'er and the Sea God's Pavilion Elders witnessed Yu Nanyuan’s Spear Intent, and Yun Ming praised his talent while saying the academy needed him more than he needed it.
• Cai Yue'er arranged for the Sparring Arena to be guarded while Yu Nanyuan remained in Deep Meditation, and Ye Xinglan struggled with the gap between their strength.
• Wu Zhangkong knelt before Zhuo Shi, admitted his past mistake, and asked to stay at the academy; Zhuo Shi told him to bring his grand-disciples back when the academy recruited students in half a year.
• Na'er learned that Yu Nanyuan had arrived at Shrek Academy and argued with the voice in her mind about whether she should approach him.
• After three days, Yu Nanyuan awoke from Deep Meditation, and Na'er introduced herself and offered to take him to see her teacher.

Yu Nanyuan visited Sea God's Pavilion with Na'er after she encouraged him to become Yun Ming's disciple. Yun Ming formally accepted Yu Nanyuan as his disciple, and Ya Li welcomed him as part of their family.

• Na'er escorted Yu Nanyuan through Shrek Academy's Inner Court and told him Yun Ming wanted to take him as a closed-door disciple.
• Yu Nanyuan summoned the Silver Wing Void Piercing Snake to carry them across Sea God Lake, and Na'er clung to him during the flight.
• Ya Li noticed Na'er's closeness to Yu Nanyuan and left the two men alone at Sea God's Pavilion.
• Yun Ming offered to teach Yu Nanyuan to reach the Spear's Pinnacle, and Yu Nanyuan accepted him as his master.
• Ya Li and Na'er congratulated Yun Ming, and Ya Li told Yu Nanyuan that she and Yun Ming would treat him and Na'er as their children.

Yun Ming made Yu Nanyuan his disciple and arranged six months of daily instruction before Yu Nanyuan took Shrek Academy’s entrance assessment. Na’er flirted with Yu Nanyuan as she led him around Sea God Island, while Gu Yue erupted in anger at the Donghai Spirit Transfer Pagoda.

• Yun Ming explained to Yu Nanyuan why the Spirit Transfer Pagoda had concealed his challenge to Shrek Academy and warned him that strength ultimately shaped the rules.
• Yun Ming told Yu Nanyuan to study with him at Sea God's Pavilion every day for six months, then return with his Eastsea Academy classmates to take Shrek Academy’s Admission Assessment.
• Ya Li questioned whether Yu Nanyuan could handle the powerful soul skills of the soul bones Yun Ming intended to give him, and Yun Ming predicted he would form a top-tier Space Attribute Soul Core early.
• Na’er called Yu Nanyuan her junior brother, clung to him, and had him carry her down from the cliff while Yun Ming and Ya Li watched.
• Yun Ming and Ya Li discussed Na’er's closeness to Yu Nanyuan and their own past rivalry over love.
• Gu Yue swept the items from a desk at Donghai Spirit Transfer Pagoda and angrily demanded an explanation, while a teasing voice answered her.

Yu Nanyuan stayed with Na'er on Sea God Island, where they sparred with matching Space Attribute spears and grew closer. After seven days of training under Yun Ming, Yu Nanyuan prepared to return to Eastsea City with Wu Zhangkong.

• Na'er brought Yu Nanyuan to her home on Sea God Island, carried him inside, and gave him Black Mantou that restored his strength and helped his soul power approach rank forty-two.
• Na'er and Yu Nanyuan sparred with their Silver Dragon Spear and Phantom Divine Spear, discovering that their weapons shared Teleport and spatial abilities.
• Yu Nanyuan and Na'er fought until their soul power ran out, and Na'er leaned against him beneath the moon.
• Yun Ming personally guided Yu Nanyuan through seven days of cultivation, while Yu Nanyuan exceeded the demanding goals Yun Ming set.
• Yu Nanyuan bought special spiritual items for Tang Wulin in Shrek City, who would repay him by forging Rare Metal.
• After seven days, Yu Nanyuan and Wu Zhangkong prepared to return to Eastsea City.

Yu Nanyuan left Sea God Island with Wu Zhangkong after Yun Ming taught him Shrek Academy’s inherited techniques and publicly marked him as his successor. On the train back to Eastsea City, Yu Nanyuan planned to visit Gu Yue first, while Na'er remained on the island determined to pursue him.

• Na'er spent Yu Nanyuan’s final night on Sea God Island close to him, while she and Gu Yue silently competed over his affection.
• Yun Ming taught Yu Nanyuan a self-created spear technique and Reign Over The World, confirming him as the next Sea God's Pavilion Master's Heir.
• Yun Ming, Ya Li, Na'er, and the Sea God's Pavilion elders saw Yu Nanyuan and Wu Zhangkong off from Sea God Island.
• Ya Li urged Na'er to be certain of her feelings for Yu Nanyuan, and Na'er firmly declared that she loved him.
• On the train to Eastsea City, Yu Nanyuan gave Wu Zhangkong spiritual items for Tang Wulin and decided to visit Gu Yue at the Donghai Spirit Transfer Pagoda.

Yu Nanyuan reunited with Gu Yue in Eastsea City and brought her into the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform to test his strength and help Silverwing advance. After effortlessly killing a Tyrant Gold Bear with his spatially enhanced Tear Sky Claw, he and Gu Yue continued deeper into the forest, where she asked whether he had really been thinking nonsense.

• Yu Nanyuan called Ji Hongyu, learned that Gu Yue was at Donghai Spirit Transfer Pagoda and in a poor mood, then went to see her.
• Gu Yue acted jealous about Yu Nanyuan's time with Na'er, but softened when he thanked her for helping him obtain a Soul Spirit.
• Yu Nanyuan told Gu Yue about his experiences at Shrek Academy and invited her into the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform to test his strength and help Silverwing advance.
• Yu Nanyuan and Gu Yue entered separate sealed cabins and materialized in the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform's forest.
• Yu Nanyuan killed a seven-thousand-year Tyrant Gold Bear with his spatially enhanced Tear Sky Claw, and he and Gu Yue headed deeper into the forest.
• Gu Yue asked Yu Nanyuan whether he had really been thinking nonsense.

Yu Nanyuan and Gu Yue explored the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform, where Yu Nanyuan used his spatial and mental abilities to defeat powerful Soul Beasts. The chapter left them facing the aftermath of wiping out a King Kong Baboon troop, with their Soul Ring Year Limits nearing nine thousand years.

• Yu Nanyuan and Gu Yue traveled through the platform, and he used Spirit Shock to kill five Azure Shadow Snakes that ambushed them.
• Yu Nanyuan carried Gu Yue deeper into the forest, where she later fought a powerful Thousand Year Soul Beast herself.
• Yu Nanyuan sensed a group of King Kong Baboons, including a leader over twelve meters tall, and prepared to fight them for their Spiritual Energy.
• The leading King Kong Baboon attacked, but Yu Nanyuan blocked its strike with Dimensional Partition.
• The King Kong Baboons went berserk, and Yu Nanyuan trapped them in Dimensional Prisons before using Spirit Shock to destroy them.

Yu Zhen agreed to let Class Zero apply to Shrek Academy, while Tang Wulin received the spirit items Yu Nanyuan had brought back and decided to seek Wu Zhangkong’s protection. At the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform, Yu Nanyuan tested his new Thousand Evil Gaze Light before he and Gu Yue left.

• Yu Zhen accepted Wu Zhangkong’s plan to bring Class Zero to Shrek Academy’s admission assessment and said the academy would support their applications.
• Wu Zhangkong gave Tang Wulin the two Thousand Year Spirit Items Yu Nanyuan had sent, and Tang Wulin decided to reveal part of his bloodline secret to Wu Zhangkong.
• Tang Wulin invited Yu Nanyuan and the others to dinner to thank Yu Nanyuan for his help.
• Yu Nanyuan finished fighting the King Kong Baboons and found that his first three Soul Rings had reached the nine-thousand-year level.
• Yu Nanyuan used Thousand Evil Gaze Light, wiping out living things within two kilometers and exhausting his Soul Power.
• Yu Nanyuan and Gu Yue activated their SOS Signal Devices and left the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform.