Chapter Summaries

Qian Gu Die Ting and Leng Yang Jun discussed how Spirit Pagoda could unveil Rank 2 Soul Armor while preparing for the reactions to stronger versions in the future. Gu Yuena reflected on her rise within Spirit Pagoda and her distant home in the Star Dou Great Forest, where Xiong Jun remained.

• Qian Gu Die Ting classified the Soul Armor research as a red-level secret and required approval for new experiment participants.
• Qian Gu Die Ting proposed debuting Rank 2 Soul Armor at the upcoming competition, and he and Leng Yang Jun considered how rival factions might respond.
• Qian Gu Die Ting planned to use the unveiling to extend Spirit Pagoda's influence and test reactions before introducing Rank 3 and Rank 4 Soul Armor.
• Gu Yuena looked toward the Star Dou Great Forest and told Qian Gu Huang Yu that it was her home.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu suggested bringing Xiong Jun out of the forest, but Gu Yuena refused because she feared he would ruin things.
• Qian Gu Yuena and Qian Gu Huang Yu joked that Gu Yuena's rise to future Tower Master could inspire an autobiography subtitled “Being an official is more thrilling than being a bottom.”

Qian Gu Huang Yu explained to Gu Yuena why they should share credit for the Soul Armor project to win support within the Spirit Pagoda. They decided to include Di Tian and others in the project’s rewards as they prepared to strengthen their influence.

• Qian Gu Huang Yu told Gu Yuena that the Qian Gu Family and Spirit Pagoda would expect a share of the Soul Armor research’s credit.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu explained that sharing benefits would win allies and help them rise, while keeping a low profile until the right moment.
• Gu Yuena understood that Qian Gu Huang Yu wanted to unite more of the Spirit Pagoda behind them by sharing the project’s credit.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu said they should proactively distribute credit while keeping their own names at the top of the project’s merit record.
• Gu Yuena proposed including Di Tian and others, and Qian Gu Huang Yu agreed.

Qian Gu Die Ting gathered Qian Gu Huang Yu, Gu Yuena, Qian Ren Xue, and others to announce that they would represent the Spirit Pagoda at the Sun Moon Federation Youth Advanced Soul Master Competition in three months. He explained the competition’s events and how the major powers hosted them, leaving Qian Gu Huang Yu facing her reluctant entry into a world-famous competition.

• Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena continued researching Soul Armor, while their Soul Spirits successfully endured armor made through Spirit Forging, Soul Forging, and melt forging.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng summoned Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena to the training grounds, where they met Qian Gu Ren Xue and the others.
• Qian Ren Xue told Qian Gu Huang Yu that she had returned from Shrek to train with her teammates for an upcoming competition.
• Gu Yuena identified the event as the Sun Moon Federation Youth Advanced Soul Master Competition, and Qian Gu Huang Yu recalled its reputation as a legendary competition.
• Qian Gu Die Ting announced that the group would represent the Spirit Pagoda at the Federation Grand Competition in three months.
• Qian Gu Die Ting described the competition’s events and explained which major powers hosted them.

Qian Gu Die Ting explained the Federation Grand Competition’s format and revealed that the seven present would represent Spirit Pagoda. He described Shrek’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone prize, and Qian Ren Xue assessed the strength of Shrek’s team.

• Qian Gu Die Ting explained that the open-registration competition used chaotic preliminary rounds, with top teams advancing and major factions holding direct-entry quotas.
• Qian Gu Die Ting said Tang Sect had no independent quota, but Shrek’s team could represent both groups, then confirmed that the seven present would compete for Spirit Pagoda.
• Qian Gu Die Ting warned that preliminaries began in a month and announced Shrek’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone prize for the Seven-on-Seven champions.
• Qian Ren Xue said Shrek’s Seven Devils were strong and listed several members’ ages and cultivation ranks, while Qian Gu Huang Yu pointed out that she had not yet reached rank sixty.
• Qian Ren Xue dismissed concern about Qian Gu Huang Yu’s cultivation rank, and Gu Yuena teased Leng Yulai after she noted that she was also only a five-ring Soul Master.

The Spirit Pagoda members discussed Shrek’s likely strength and the tournament rewards, then settled their team assignments for the group competitions. Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena planned to compete in two-on-two, while Qian Gu Die Ting revealed the Soul Spirit battle prize was an Orange Soul Spirit.

• Qian Ren Xue told Qian Gu Huang Yu that Yun Ming was Shrek’s remaining member and was eighteen, prompting concern that he might already be a Soul Sage.
• Qian Gu Die Ting announced that Tang Sect offered two Immortal Herbs to the two-on-two champions, and Qian Ren Xue explained that Beddon had given her Burning Gel instead of an Immortal Herb.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu promised to help Qian Ren Xue win an Immortal Herb and chose Gu Yuena as her two-on-two partner.
• Leng Yao Zhu and Leng Yulai formed another two-on-two team, while Qian Gu Dong Feng and Qian Gu Qing Feng were assigned the third team.
• Qian Gu Die Ting said the One-on-One champion would receive Three-word Battle Armor and revealed that the Soul Spirit battle prize was an Orange Soul Spirit.

Qian Gu Die Ting announced that the Spirit Pagoda would use the Federation Grand Competition’s Soul Spirit Battle to debut Soul Armor, with Qian Gu Huang Yu representing the Pagoda. He assigned the group’s competition roles, while Qian Gu Huang Yu’s suggestion to sell guaranteed admission quotas left everyone stunned.

• Qian Gu Die Ting revealed that the Soul Spirit Battle champion would receive an Orange Soul Spirit, using the prize to show confidence in the Spirit Pagoda’s victory and promote Soul Armor.
• Qian Gu Die Ting told Qian Gu Huang Yu to forge Rank 3 Soul Armor for her Soul Spirits, and she explained that Thunderclap Nether Vine and Mountain Dragon could withstand it.
• Qian Gu Die Ting assigned the group to compete in the One-on-One and entrusted the forging competition to Qian Gu Qing Feng.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu suggested giving the Spirit Pagoda’s guaranteed admission quotas to friendly factions or selling them for profit, and Qian Gu Dong Feng questioned whether she misunderstood the Pagoda’s wealth.

Qian Gu Huang Yu and his companions entered the Spirit Ascension Platform together and found themselves in a dangerous swamp. After Qian Ren Xue killed a Bloodtooth Black Crocodile, enormous tentacles reached for Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena.

• The group finalized their teams for the competitions, with Qian Gu Huang Yu representing the Spirit Pagoda in the Soul Spirit battles and Qian Gu Qing Feng entering the forging competition.
• Qian Ren Xue suggested that the seven train together, and Qian Gu Huang Yu led them into the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Qian Gu Die Ting sent all seven to the same location, where Qian Gu Huang Yu, Gu Yuena, and Qian Ren Xue stayed airborne while the other four fell into the swamp.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu pulled Qian Gu Dong Feng, Qian Gu Qing Feng, Leng Yao Zhu, and Leng Yulai from the water as a Bloodtooth Black Crocodile attacked.
• Qian Ren Xue killed the three-thousand-year Bloodtooth Black Crocodile with her Sky Burning Sacred Divine Sword.
• Enormous tentacles emerged from the black water and grabbed toward Qian Gu Huang Yu and Gu Yuena.

Qian Gu Huang Yu and his companions escaped a ten-thousand-year Ghost Face White Squid and reached a small island in the swamp. Qian Gu Dong Feng blamed Shrek for the swamp’s dangers, while the chapter explained how Shrek’s retaliation had led the Spirit Pagoda to make its Spirit Ascension Platforms resemble swamps.

• After Qian Gu Huang Yu rescued Qian Gu Dong Feng and the others, a ten-thousand-year Ghost Face White Squid attacked him and Gu Yuena.
• Gu Yuena knocked the squid’s tentacles aside with flaming boulders, and Qian Gu Huang Yu struck its consciousness with Soul Punishing Eyes.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu’s group fled, with Gu Yuena guiding them to a small island and Qian Gu Huang Yu carrying Leng Yao Zhu and Leng Yulai.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng cursed Shrek after landing, upset that Qian Gu Huang Yu had to rescue him in front of Little Sister.
• The chapter recounted how Yun Ming, Cao Dezhi, and Zang Xin attacked throughout the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform, prompting Qian Gu Die Ting to have the headquarters platforms imitate swamps.

Qian Gu Huang Yu and her companions rested on a safe island in the revamped Spirit Ascension Platform before preparing to cross its dangerous swamp. She used her newly developed Resurrection Lightning to revive a dead tree and grow it into a sturdy giant, leaving the group with suitable material for a boat.

• Qian Gu Die Ting’s dangerous swamp overhaul drove Yun Ming, Cao Dezhi, and Shrek Academy’s students away from the Spirit Ascension Platform and cut its revenue in half.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu, Gu Yuena, Qian Ren Xue, and the others reached a safe island, where Leng Yulai complained about their drenched clothes and Leng Yao Zhu explained how Spirit Pagoda had added the resting area.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu told Gu Yuena and Leng Yulai to scout from the sky while the others built a boat.
• Qian Gu Qing Feng found that the island’s dead trees were too fragile to build a stable raft, but Qian Gu Huang Yu used white lightning to bring one back to life and rapidly strengthen it.
• Leng Yao Zhu praised Qian Gu Huang Yu’s control of her Soul Power Vortex, and Qian Gu Huang Yu’s companions learned that the life-infused lightning was her newly developed Resurrection Lightning.

Qian Gu Huang Yu’s group built a raft and traveled down the Black River, defeating attacking Soul Beasts along the way. They decided to seek out the eighty-thousand-year Ghost Face White Squid, unaware that a pair of scarlet eyes was watching them from the forest.

• Qian Ren Xue teased Qian Gu Huang Yu about using Resurrection Lightning to revive a tree, then cut the tree into logs with the Sky Burning Sacred Divine Sword.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng and Qian Gu Qing Feng built a wooden raft, and the seven rested before setting off down the Black River.
• Gu Yuena took the front of the raft to control the current while the others took positions to guard against danger; Qian Gu Huang Yu stayed in the middle, claiming she was a support Soul Master.
• The group fought off attacking Soul Beasts, and Qian Gu Huang Yu used Gravity Ray to take first place on the kill leaderboard.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng suggested finding the Ghost Face White Squid, but Qian Gu Huang Yu proposed challenging the eighty-thousand-year guardian instead, and the group agreed.
• Gu Yuena turned the raft toward the guardian’s location as a pair of scarlet eyes watched them from the forest.

Qian Gu Huang Yu and his companions encountered the Eighty-Thousand-Year Ghost Face White Squid in the depths of the Spirit Ascension Platform and fought to bring the enormous Soul Beast out of the river. The squid was injured and thrown onto a glacier, where the battle continued.

• Gu Yuena warned the group that they had entered the Ghost Face White Squid's territory, and Qian Ren Xue noted how far they had traveled without encountering another Soul Beast.
• Leng Yulai spotted the squid's tentacles rising from the river as it surrounded the raft and fired a barrage of Crimson Rays.
• Qian Ren Xue used Holy Dragon Roar to disrupt the Crimson Rays, allowing the group to evade the attack.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu detected the squid and used Ghidorah's golden rays and the Gravity Ray to drag it from the river.
• Gu Yuena froze the resulting wave into a glacier, and Qian Gu Huang Yu smashed the injured squid onto it before Gu Yuena shattered the ice.

Leng Yao Zhu used Phoenix Bathed in Fire, empowered by Gu Yuena’s Elemental Blessing, to break through the Ghost Face White Squid’s spiritual rays and badly injure it. The squid survived, but it was left smaller and missing several tentacles as the group regrouped.

• Gu Yuena turned the shattered glacier into ice blades that wounded the airborne Ghost Face White Squid.
• Leng Yao Zhu activated Phoenix Bathed in Fire and transformed into a Heavenly Phoenix, while the squid attacked her with scarlet spiritual rays and black water.
• Leng Yao Zhu charged through the rays, struck the squid with her phoenix claws, and detonated the Heavenly Phoenix to engulf it in flame.
• Leng Yao Zhu retreated to Qian Gu Huang Yu and the others, then thanked Gu Yuena for enhancing her fire element.
• Leng Yulai asked for a chance to fight next, and Qian Gu Huang Yu told her to wait for notification.
• The Ghost Face White Squid reappeared, reduced in size with several tentacles burned off.

Qian Gu Huang Yu and her allies attacked the Ghost Face White Squid as it was driven away from the Black River, but a powerful black figure suddenly appeared and threatened the group. The chapter ended with Qian Gu Huang Yu rushing to help Leng Yulai as Gu Yuena’s attempt to teleport her away failed.

• Qian Gu Dong Feng struck the Ghost Face White Squid with the Coiled Dragon Staff, launching it away from the Black River.
• Leng Yulai used her Dark Phoenix Feather and Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix to slow and wound the squid with sword qi.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu began summoning lightning from the thunderclouds while Leng Yulai continued attacking the squid.
• A black figure emerged beside the squid and fired black-and-red light blades at Leng Yulai and the others.
• Qian Ren Xue’s sacred light blades failed to stop the attack, and Gu Yuena could not teleport Leng Yulai because the figure contested her control over space.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu halted her lightning summoning and flew to support Leng Yulai.

Qian Gu Huang Yu and the others fought off the black-and-red light blades and identified their attacker as a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. The group prepared to strike the predatory soul beast, while Qian Gu Huang Yu remained confident in her strength.

• Leng Yulai’s sword qi failed to stop the incoming light blades, so Qian Gu Huang Yu rescued her and detonated a Black Hole to block them.
• Qian Gu Qing Feng, aided by Gu Yuena and Leng Yao Zhu, defended the group and stopped the remaining light blades.
• Qian Ren Xue identified the attacker’s power as ultimate evil, and the black figure revealed itself as a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu recognized the tiger and dismissed it as a potential soul spirit, while Qian Ren Xue and Gu Yuena regarded it as a dangerous enemy of angels and soul beasts.
• The group resolved to hit the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger hard.

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger seized control of the thunderclouds and attacked Qian Gu Huang Yu’s group while trying to devour the wounded Ghost Face White Squid. As the tiger prepared to finish its prey, a vast white presence descended from above.

• Leng Yulai recognized the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger as an unexpected Spirit Ascension Platform soul beast, and Gu Yuena explained that soul beasts there could be randomly generated.
• Qian Ren Xue warned that the tiger possessed six attributes and formidable bloodline, while Qian Gu Huang Yu revealed it had taken control of the thunderclouds when she went to save Leng Yulai.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger unleashed Dark Evil Lightning at Qian Gu Huang Yu and the others, who struggled to withstand the attack.
• The tiger stabbed the recovering Ghost Face White Squid with its Evil God's Hook and struck its head, hoping to devour it and reach one hundred thousand years of cultivation.
• A terrifying aura descended from the sky, and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger looked up as a vast expanse of white filled its vision.

Qian Ren Xue’s seraphim cleared a path through the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s lightning while Gu Yuena contested its control over space, allowing Qian Gu Huang Yu’s group to strike with Starfall Heavenly Execution. The tiger survived behind Evil God's Protection, but the blast weakened it and dispersed the swamp’s mist.

• Qian Gu Huang Yu’s Starfall Heavenly Execution descended on the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and the Ghost Face White Squid, but the tiger tried to teleport away with its prey.
• Qian Ren Xue summoned eight seraphim with Dance of the Seraphim, and they scattered the Dark Demon Evil Lightning.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu and the others followed Leng Yulai’s Black Phoenix through the cleared skies, concealed by Dark Sky Curtain.
• Gu Yuena contested the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger for control of space as Starfall Heavenly Execution engulfed it and the Ghost Face White Squid.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger survived with Evil God's Protection, then emerged weakened as the swamp’s mist cleared.

Qian Gu Huang Yu and her companions killed the Ghost Face White Squid, then joined forces to trap and badly injure the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. The tiger activated Evil God Arena against Qian Gu Huang Yu, but she remained confident because her Gate of Babylon was unaffected.

• Qian Gu Huang Yu and the others killed the Ghost Face White Squid, leaving behind its 80,000-Year Right Arm Bone and thwarting the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's plan.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger charged at the group, but Qian Ren Xue trapped it in her Blazing Heaven Spirit Locking Array, allowing the others to attack it for five seconds.
• The injured tiger burned its bloodline to seize control of space from Gu Yuena and teleported in front of Qian Gu Huang Yu.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger used its Evil God's Hook to open a Black Hole, but Qian Gu Huang Yu's Ghidorah struck it with Proton Shriek, shattering its left forelimb and right wing.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger activated Evil God Arena, shrinking Qian Gu Huang Yu and weakening her Soul Power, but she realized her Gate of Babylon still worked.

Qian Gu Huang Yu entered the Life and Death Arena with the Gate of Babylon but without her companions, martial soul, or soul skills. She defeated the weakened Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and began binding it with a contract of her own design.

• Qian Gu Huang Yu found that she had returned to her six-year-old body and could not reach Electrolux, Di Xuan, or Tai Kun, though the Gate of Babylon remained with her.
• The arena announced that the fight would end only when one side died, and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger charged as soon as the restrictions lifted.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu used Durandal to pierce the tiger's forelimb, then fired treasures from the Gate of Babylon that riddled its body with wounds.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu demanded that the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger submit or die, and the tiger prostrated itself before her.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu restrained the tiger and used a modified soul spirit contract to begin turning it into black light.

Qian Gu Huang Yu returned from the Evil God Arena after defeating and contracting Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. She explained that she would keep it as a Contracted Beast Spirit rather than a soul spirit, preserving King Ghidorah’s chance to evolve into Star Eater Ghidorah.

• Qian Gu Huang Yu returned safely to the Spirit Ascension Platform, and Gu Yuena checked her over while the others gathered around.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu and her companions left the Spirit Ascension Platform without taking the Ghost Face White Squid soul bone, then met Qian Gu Die Ting outside.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu revealed that she had subdued Dark Demon Evil God Tiger using an improved soul spirit contract spell and named it her Contracted Beast Spirit.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu rejected making Dark Demon Evil God Tiger her soul spirit because its evil power could push King Ghidorah toward Caesar Ghidorah and prevent its evolution into Star Eater Ghidorah.

Qian Gu Huang Yu received Electrolux’s praise for her new spirit-soul contract spell, which could turn soul beasts from the Spirit Ascension Platform into spirit souls. Qian Gu Die Ting urged her to prioritize her cultivation and Soul Armor research, while privately planning to control the technology and claim credit for the invention.

• Qian Gu Huang Yu asked Electrolux to evaluate her spell, and he praised her necromancy while suggesting minor improvements.
• Tai Kun and Di Xuan overwhelmed the injured Dark Demon Evil God Tiger in Qian Gu Huang Yu’s Sea of Souls.
• Qian Gu Huang Yu explained that contracting Spirit Ascension Platform soul beasts required more Soul Power and Spiritual Power and further trials.
• Qian Gu Die Ting told Qian Gu Huang Yu to focus on cultivation and Soul Armor, which he considered more valuable than the new contract spell.
• After everyone left, Qian Gu Die Ting planned to keep Soul Armor research tightly controlled and secure a third-author credit for himself.