Chapter Summaries

Lin Xingyu and Class Zero defeated Shrek Academy’s team, bringing them widespread fame and attracting powerful support for Eastsea Academy. After Wu Changkong took the students home, the school decided to limit their public appearances while providing more resources for their training.

• The referee announced Class Zero’s victory over Shrek Academy, and Shen Yi treated both teams before inviting Lin Xingyu’s group to apply to Shrek Academy.
• Wu Changkong took Class Zero out of Skysea City, assuring them that their admission spots at Shrek Academy were secure.
• Shen Yi comforted the defeated Shrek students as they prepared to return to Shrek Academy, while Long Huantian learned that further action now belonged to the Federation.
• Federation broadcasts showed Class Zero’s victory across the continent, and Yu Zhen welcomed the students back to Eastsea Academy.
• Yu Zhen told Wu Changkong that Eastsea Academy would provide more resources and keep Class Zero out of the public eye for a while, a plan Wu Changkong supported.

After Shrek Academy’s defeat by Lin Xingyu’s team drew attention across the continent, the Sea God Pavilion decided to assign Zhuo Shi responsibility for the students and suppress the publicity. Lin Xingyu and Gu Yue were named to the Spirit Pagoda’s Young Genius Ranking, and Lin Xingyu received a month’s leave to travel with his Body Sect teacher, Mu Ye.

• Shen Yi reported the defeat to the Sea God Pavilion, where Yun Ming assigned Zhuo Shi to handle the students and ordered the academy to contain the public discussion.
• Xie Xie told the team that Lin Xingyu ranked tenth and Gu Yue thirtieth on the Spirit Pagoda’s Young Genius Ranking, and the group teased one another on the way back to their dormitories.
• Duanmu Yan informed Lin Xingyu that his authority had risen to level five and that new equipment and a list of top-grade Soul Spirits had been sent to him.
• Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect mobilized to reduce coverage of the defeat, while Lin Xingyu assessed his Blood Replacement progress and agreed to Mu Ye’s request for a month-long trip.
• Lin Xingyu asked Wu Changkong for leave to travel with his Body Sect teacher, and Wu Changkong approved after explaining the sect’s long history to the curious students.

Wu Changkong approved leave for Lin Xingyu to join the Body Sect and Xu Xiaoyan to visit Star Gazing Platforms in other cities. Mu Ye took Lin Xingyu toward the Body Sect’s hidden mountain grounds, and they arrived at its snowy mountain gate.

• Wu Changkong explained the Body Sect’s history and agreed to Lin Xingyu’s request for a month of leave.
• Xu Xiaoyan asked for a month of leave to visit Star Gazing Platforms, and Wu Changkong approved it.
• Lin Xingyu and Xu Xiaoyan left, while Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue stayed behind with Wu Changkong.
• Mu Ye met Lin Xingyu outside the school, gave him a Soul Tool sports car, and took him toward the Body Sect near Heaven Dou City.
• Mu Ye led Lin Xingyu through the snowy mountains and told him they had reached the Body Sect’s mountain gate.

Lin Xingyu joined Mu Ye at the Body Sect, learned why the sect had declined, and met his senior brother A Ruheng. Mu Ye brought him to a stone house covered in Soul Tool Arrays, where Lin Xingyu realized the arrays sealed and refined something below.

• Lin Xingyu entered the Body Sect, received a soul device with sect information, and paid respects in the Ancestral Hall with Mu Ye.
• Mu Ye explained how the Body Sect had declined through losses, the spread of Second Awakening methods, reliance on True Body Martial Souls, and failures with its Innate Secret Method.
• Lin Xingyu promised to help restore the sect, and Mu Ye said he would take him to the sect's Secret Realm the next day.
• Lin Xingyu met A Ruheng, his senior brother, and agreed that Mu Ye could teach him some of Lin Xingyu's secret methods.
• Mu Ye led Lin Xingyu to a stone house covered in Soul Tool Arrays, and Lin Xingyu identified patterns that appeared to seal and refine something beneath it.

Mu Ye took Lin Xingyu into the Body Sect’s abandoned Ring Ascension grounds and explained how its ancestors had killed soul beasts to create phantoms and improve Soul Rings. Lin Xingyu retrieved two matching Soul Bones from an ancient sect master’s tomb, then learned the tombs had been built in hopes their occupants would become phantoms; as they left, something touched his shoulder in the darkness.

• Mu Ye led Lin Xingyu into the underground chamber, where soul beast phantoms attacked and Lin Xingyu destroyed one with his bloodline-powered sword.
• Mu Ye explained the Body Sect’s old Ring Ascension method, the slaughter of soul beasts, and the origins of the phantoms and the abandoned chamber.
• Mu Ye brought Lin Xingyu to an ancestor’s tomb, where Lin Xingyu opened the coffin and took two matching leg Soul Bones.
• As they returned, Mu Ye explained that some elders had chosen burial there hoping to become phantoms, and a cold gust darkened their surroundings.
• Lin Xingyu felt a hand settle on his shoulder and a cool breeze brush his ear.

Lin Xingyu learned how the Body Sect’s ancestors had become Wraiths in their failed pursuit of eternal life, then received and absorbed two rare Mirage Dragon leg Soul Bones from Mu Ye. He discovered he could nurture the bones with Soul Power and Bloodline Power, and tested their powerful mist and spatial abilities.

• Mu Ye explained that the ancestors transformed into Wraiths but eventually lost their reason, and Lin Xingyu left the cemetery newly resolved to pursue strength and eternal life.
• Mu Ye gave Lin Xingyu a matching pair of roughly ninety-thousand-year Mirage Dragon leg Soul Bones, including one that wielded the Power of Space.
• Lin Xingyu absorbed the Soul Bones and used High-Dimensional Vision to guide Soul Power and Bloodline Power through them, discovering he could nurture and increase their age.
• Lin Xingyu awakened the right leg bone’s Mirage Mist skill, which suppressed enemies, drained their Soul Power, and could briefly turn him into mist.
• Lin Xingyu awakened the left leg bone’s Spatial Teleportation skill, which let him teleport within a hundred meters or travel to a prepared Spatial Beacon, including through Mirage Mist.

Lin Xingyu tested the concealment and spatial teleportation abilities of his new soul bones while Mu Ye advised him on using them to stay safe. Meanwhile, Xu Xiaoyan meditated at Destined Star Soul Master Academy’s Star Gazing Platform, where her extraordinary affinity for stellar power astonished everyone.

• Lin Xingyu used his War Fog soul skill to hide from Mu Ye, who said it could briefly confuse even a Titled Douluo and help Lin Xingyu escape.
• Lin Xingyu demonstrated Spatial Teleportation by placing a Spatial Beacon on a rooftop and jumping back to it from nearly ten kilometers away; he said he could maintain up to three beacons within his Spiritual Power’s range.
• Mu Ye praised the soul skills and urged Lin Xingyu to leave Spatial Beacons whenever possible so he could flee danger.
• While Lin Xingyu was away, Wu Changkong put Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue through harsh training, while Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi joined Haifeng Academy’s special class.
• Father Xu brought Xu Xiaoyan to Destined Star Soul Master Academy’s Star Gazing Platform, where she meditated as stellar power descended.
• Xu Xiaoyan’s affinity for the Power of Stars produced a dense golden mist around her, astonishing Li Zhilong and drawing the attention of the students on the platform.

Xu Xiaoyan completed her Star Wheel Ice Staff’s evolution at Destined Star Soul Master Academy but chose to return to Eastsea City. Tang Wulin worried about catching up to Lin Xingyu and obtaining the spiritual items he needed, while Lin Xingyu’s examination revealed that his Martial Soul resembled the Nether White Tiger and could be cultivated like a True Body Martial Soul.

• Xu Xiaoyan absorbed the Star Gazing Platform’s starlight, evolved her Martial Soul into a pure Star Staff, and reached rank twenty.
• Li Zhilong invited Xu Xiaoyan to study at Destined Star Soul Master Academy, but she chose to stay in Eastsea City for now and later returned there with Father Xu.
• Tang Wulin asked Old Tang how long it would take to match Lin Xingyu’s strength, and Old Tang advised him to get closer to Lin Xingyu and seek an introduction to the Body Sect.
• Lin Xingyu explained his Martial Soul’s changes to Mu Ye, who examined him with a Soul Tool and found his Martial Soul resembled the Nether White Tiger.
• Mu Ye told Lin Xingyu that he could use the cultivation method for a True Body Martial Soul and should continue body training to strengthen his Martial Soul.

Mu Ye taught Lin Xingyu how to temper his body and explained the potential of True Body Martial Souls, while warning that a second awakening would be premature. Before Lin Xingyu returned to Eastsea City, Zhen Hua gave him seven linked Rank 9 defensive Soul Tools designed to protect him and teleport him away from danger.

• Mu Ye explained True Body Martial Souls' second awakening and advised Lin Xingyu to wait until his body had matured before attempting one.
• Mu Ye trained Lin Xingyu on a snowy mountain, teaching him to temper his body with the natural environment as Lin Xingyu practiced combining blood essence and Soul Power.
• Mu Ye took Lin Xingyu to Heaven Dou City, where Zhen Hua gave him seven linked Rank 9 Soul Tools that could block a fatal attack and teleport him to safety.
• Lin Xingyu spent the day at Zhen Hua's home studying skills with Zhen Hua and Mu Ye before Mu Ye cooked dinner.
• The next day, Mu Ye flew Lin Xingyu back to Eastsea City and then returned to Heaven Dou City.

After returning to Eastsea City, Lin Xingyu reunited with Class Zero, agreed to help Tang Wulin find a Thousand-Year Sinew Vine, and resumed his cultivation. Two and a half years later, he discovered his Sword Intent during a typhoon and demonstrated its power by splitting the sea.

• Lin Xingyu returned home, told Lin Cheng about his achievements and new backing, then went back to Eastsea Academy and reunited with Class Zero.
• Xu Xiaoyan explained that her Martial Soul had evolved, while Lin Xingyu shared a little about his recent gains.
• Tang Wulin asked Lin Xingyu about the Body Sect’s bloodline research and requested help finding a Thousand-Year Sinew Vine; Lin Xingyu agreed to search for one.
• Lin Xingyu resumed his daily cultivation, and two and a half years passed as he grew and continued trying to comprehend Sword Intent.
• During a typhoon, Lin Xingyu watched a small boat disappear at sea and realized his pursuit was freedom from constraint and the power to act according to his will.
• Lin Xingyu comprehended Sword Intent—Life and Death Control, stopped the wind and rain around him, and split the sea with one strike.

Lin Xingyu returned to Eastsea Academy after breaking through to the Spirit Abyss Realm, where he reunited with Class Zero and learned of their progress over the holiday. Gu Yue also returned after deciding to continue school under Leng Yaozhu’s mentorship, while Tang Wulin revealed his improved bloodline and new strength.

• Lin Xingyu’s Spiritual Power broke through to the Spirit Abyss Realm, giving him perfect recall of his memories, and he returned to Eastsea City after resting.
• Lin Xingyu arrived at Eastsea Academy and learned from Xu Xiaoyan that Tang Wulin and Xie Xie were sparring while Gu Yue had not yet returned.
• Gu Yue told Leng Yaozhu she planned to attend Eastsea Academy for her final term before going to Shrek Academy, then left the Spirit Pagoda for school.
• Lin Xingyu found Tang Wulin defeating Xie Xie with the strength gained after breaking his second seal.
• Tang Wulin thanked Lin Xingyu for helping him obtain spiritual herbs, while Lin Xingyu teased Xie Xie for losing despite his cultivation advantage.

Lin Xingyu treated the Class Zero students to dinner before Wu Changkong began their final semester at Eastsea Academy with combat training. Lin Xingyu easily defeated the others in a restricted spar, and Wu Changkong questioned Tang Wulin about his new golden soul ring.

• Lin Xingyu invited Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, and Gu Yue to dinner before their classes began.
• Wu Changkong told Class Zero that he expected them to enter Shrek Academy next semester and began their final semester of training.
• Wu Changkong ordered Lin Xingyu to fight Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Gu Yue, and Xu Xiaoyan while using only his First Soul Skill.
• Lin Xingyu used Sword Intent to defeat Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, and Xu Xiaoyan, while Aya defeated Xie Xie.
• Wu Changkong explained how the others could better resist Sword Intent and asked Tang Wulin whether his new golden soul ring came from his bloodline mutation.

Tang Wulin asked Lin Xingyu to help the group make One-Word Battle Armor components before their Shrek Academy entrance exam, and Lin Xingyu agreed and assigned everyone their roles. Back in his dorm, Lin Xingyu discovered that his transformed first Soul Skill, Heaven and Earth Furnace, let him improve a metal’s acquired characteristic through cultivation.

• Tang Wulin asked Lin Xingyu to help the group create battle armor components for their upcoming Shrek Academy entrance exam, and Lin Xingyu agreed.
• Xie Xie explained that the group would make ordinary One-Word Battle Armor components mainly to practice their secondary professions.
• Lin Xingyu assigned Tang Wulin to provide metals, Gu Yue to design the right forearm armor, and Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan to assist with manufacturing.
• Gu Yue agreed to finish designs for the group’s first components within half a month, and Tang Wulin said he could provide the required metals.
• After returning to his dorm, Lin Xingyu used Heaven and Earth Furnace and found that he could improve a metal’s acquired characteristic through cultivation without refining more metal.

Lin Xingyu’s Soul Skills and traits strengthened as he cultivated, while Gu Yue completed Battle Armor component designs for Class Zero. The group began making Tang Wulin’s right-hand armor, and Lin Xingyu finished engraving it before Tang Wulin’s blood activated the piece.

• Lin Xingyu reflected on his four complementary traits and the changes to his Soul Skills, including Glazed True Fire’s destructive effects and Mysterious Gold Armor’s ability to enhance and control nearby armor and weapons.
• Gu Yue presented Battle Armor designs for the Class Zero members and explained their concepts, while Lin Xingyu agreed to begin manufacturing a component the next day.
• Xie Xie considered how joining Class Zero had advanced his prospects and decided to keep learning from Lin Xingyu.
• Class Zero gathered in Tang Wulin’s room, where Lin Xingyu examined Tang Wulin’s Thousand Forges First Grade metal and asked Xie Xie to choose a place for the first cut.
• Lin Xingyu engraved Soul Guide Arrays onto Tang Wulin’s right-hand armor for four hours, then Tang Wulin splashed his blood on it and the piece glowed with golden light.

Lin Xingyu helped Class Zero make battle armor, and Wu Changkong advised them on improving its compatibility and preparing for Shrek Academy. After completing their studies at Eastsea Academy, the five students received their Graduation Certificates and prepared to move on.

• Tang Wulin tested his Right Hand Armor, which amplified his vitality and strength, and Lin Xingyu planned to make two armor components for each student.
• Over the following months, Lin Xingyu made battle armor for Class Zero, while Xu Xiaoyan and Xie Xie reached their limits wearing two pieces and Tang Wulin and Gu Yue continued adding armor.
• Wu Changkong discovered their work, explained battle armor compatibility, and recommended that they complete and adapt to ordinary One-Word Battle Armor before pursuing a full set.
• By mid-June, Class Zero had armor for their limbs, and their enhanced combat skills let them fight Lin Xingyu nearly evenly in practical combat class.
• Wu Changkong exempted them from their final exam and announced that he would take them to collect their Graduation Certificates.
• Yu Zhen and Long Hengxu bid farewell to Class Zero, and the five students graduated from Eastsea Academy after Tang Wulin became a Soul Elder.

Lin Xingyu spent his three-day break reconnecting with Lin Cheng, who gave him a sealed gift, before leaving Eastsea City with Class Zero for Shrek Academy. The group arrived in Shrek City by train, ready to begin their journey there.

• Wu Changkong gave Class Zero three days off before they gathered to travel to Shrek Academy.
• Lin Xingyu returned home, where Lin Cheng gave him a sealed box and discussed moving the family business to Mingdu.
• Lin Xingyu reviewed his skills and plans for perfect Battle Armor, then discovered that Lin Cheng's gift contained ten-thousand-year Whale Rubber.
• Lin Cheng said goodbye as Lin Xingyu left for the station and joined Wu Changkong and Class Zero on the train.
• During the journey, Lin Xingyu encouraged Xie Xie and the others about their chances of entering Shrek Academy, and the train arrived in Shrek City the next morning.

Lin Xingyu and his companions arrived in Shrek City a week before the Shrek Academy entrance exam, and Xu Xiaoyan spent an outing with him while Wu Changkong contacted Shen Yi. The group spent the following days cultivating as the academy finalized its examiners.

• Wu Changkong brought Lin Xingyu and the others to a historic hotel in Shrek City and told them they could spend the days before the exam as they wished.
• Xu Xiaoyan invited Lin Xingyu out, and the two visited Shrek Academy’s entrance, explored an amusement park, played mystery scripts, and walked through the city.
• Xie Xie encouraged Tang Wulin to stay behind and cultivate, saying Xu Xiaoyan seemed interested in Lin Xingyu.
• Wu Changkong called Shen Yi, who visited him and urged him to return to Shrek Academy and make peace with Zhuo Shi.
• Lin Xingyu returned to find Shen Yi speaking with Wu Changkong, then meditated with him after Shen Yi left.
• Shrek Academy confirmed Zhuo Shi, Cai Yue'er, and Elder Li as the examiners for the upcoming admissions assessment.

Lin Xingyu and his companions began the Shrek Academy entrance assessment, earning strong marks when they resisted Di Tian’s Dragon Might. They entered a Spiritual Power trial in a magically recreated Ancient Great Soul Arena.

• Wu Changkong took the candidates to breakfast before Shen Yi drove them to Shrek Academy for the entrance assessment.
• The group passed the age and Soul Power checks, waited while other candidates were tested, and then followed Shen Yi into the first trial.
• Lin Xingyu, Gu Yue, and Tang Wulin each earned full marks for resisting the Dragon Might mural, while Xie Xie received eight points.
• Shen Yi led the group to the Spiritual Power trial, where the hall transformed into the Ancient Great Soul Arena and Lin Xingyu told Tang Wulin to bind the team together with Blue Silver Grass.

Lin Xingyu and his teammates earned full marks in the second and third Shrek assessments by defeating two Earth Demon Rhinoceroses and passing the Guillotine Gates. During the specialties assessment, Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan demonstrated their abilities, and Gu Yue displayed control over five elements.

• Lin Xingyu and Tang Wulin led the group in defeating two Earth Demon Rhinoceroses, earning full marks in the Beast Fighting Arena.
• Lin Xingyu and Tang Wulin took turns catching the Guillotine Gates while the group crossed in nine seconds, earning full marks.
• Shen Yi brought Cai Yue'er and two other examiners to assess the group’s specialties, and Lin Xingyu chose Xie Xie to demonstrate first.
• Xie Xie displayed his twin martial souls and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and Cai Yue'er advised him to improve his Spiritual Power.
• Xu Xiaoyan demonstrated her Absolute Certainty Star Staff, and a middle-aged examiner confirmed the effect of her Star Wheel Chain.
• Gu Yue created a flower by combining five elements, impressing the examiners with her Elemental Control.

Gu Yue rejected Cai Yue'er's offer of discipleship, angering the examiner, who gave the group zero points on two assessments. Lin Xingyu kept the team focused as they passed the appetite trial and began the endurance trial, where they assessed how many tasks each could finish.

• Cai Yue'er offered to take Gu Yue as her disciple, but Gu Yue refused because she was already Leng Yaozhu's disciple.
• Cai Yue'er gave the group zero points on their fourth and fifth assessments, while Lin Xingyu calmed his teammates and urged them to continue.
• The group passed the appetite trial by sharing the food, with Tang Wulin and Lin Xingyu eating extra portions for their teammates.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue said they could complete all three endurance tasks within an hour, while Xu Xiaoyan expected to finish two.