Chapter Summaries

Lin Xingyu swept through the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platforms of nine cities over several months, raising each soul ring to nearly forty thousand years and improving his soul power and Spiritual Power. Back in Heaven Dou City, Mu Ye announced that he was about to thoroughly refine Little Red, and asked Lin Xingyu and Zhen Hua to observe the process.

• Lin Xingyu killed the Crimson Fire Ape, then considered how to raise his soul rings toward fifty thousand years without exhausting the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Lin Xingyu swept Heaven Dou City's Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform for seven days, sparing the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts at its center before leaving to visit other cities.
• Lin Xingyu traveled through nine cities over two months, raising his soul rings to nearly forty thousand years and increasing his soul power and Spiritual Power.
• After visiting the Spirit Pagoda's eighteen branch towers, Lin Xingyu returned to Heaven Dou City and told Mu Ye that his journey had gone smoothly.
• Mu Ye told Lin Xingyu that he and Zhen Hua would observe as he thoroughly refined Little Red, which he expected to complete his Soul Spirit and increase his strength.

Mu Ye fused with his Mecha, Little Red, and broke through the bottlenecks in his Soul Power, Bloodline Power, and Spiritual Power. He left the mountains close to Quasi-God strength and believed he could soon help the Body Sect rise again.

• Mu Ye trained in a remote mountain range while Lin Xingyu and Zhen Hua watched and discussed his years of preparation and the powerful Mecha he had nurtured.
• Mu Ye's Bloodline Power linked with Little Red's, drawing the Mecha's blood energy into a dragon and causing strange weather that prompted Governor Mo Wu to send subordinates north to investigate.
• Mu Ye summoned Little Red, awakened his martial soul a second time, and fused with the Mecha in a burst of golden-red light.
• The fusion raised Mu Ye's Soul Power to the peak of rank ninety-eight and his Bloodline Power to the level of a Limit Douluo.
• Mu Ye's Spiritual Power broke through to the Spirit Domain Realm, and the combined amplification of his Battle Armor and Mecha brought his aura close to Quasi-God strength.
• Mu Ye anticipated reaching Limit Douluo and Demigod soon, and believed he could lead the Body Sect's revival.

Mu Ye broke through his cultivation bottleneck, transforming Little Red into a unified, living mecha, and returned to Heaven Dou City with Lin Xingyu and Zhen Hua. He planned to stabilize his gains before pursuing a third soul core, while preparing to give Lin Xingyu the Body Sect’s Martial Soul Second Awakening.

• A squad of twelve mechas investigated the northern phenomenon, and its captain sent Chen Risheng and Xiao Mu to scout from opposite sides.
• Mu Ye completed his breakthrough, then flew back to Heaven Dou City with Lin Xingyu and Zhen Hua inside Little Red.
• Zhen Hua and Lin Xingyu examined Little Red and found that its parts and spirituality had unified, giving the mecha a life-like quality.
• Mu Ye explained soul-core methods and said he planned to form a resonant third soul core focused on Spiritual Power after stabilizing his breakthrough.
• Mu Ye told Lin Xingyu he would teach him the Body Sect’s fundamentals and perform his Martial Soul Second Awakening.

Mu Ye took Lin Xingyu to the Storm Sea Region for the Body Sect’s Martial Soul Second Awakening and subjected him to brutal deep-sea survival training. After Lin Xingyu passed out, his Life Gold healed the damage, leaving Mu Ye astonished and prompting Lin Xingyu to explain the vitality in his chest.

• Mu Ye and Lin Xingyu shared a Ten-thousand-year Fish Dragon feast, and Mu Ye warned Zhen Hua that his safety might be at risk while they were away.
• Mu Ye flew Lin Xingyu to Skysea City and took him aboard the Qingning Hao, bound for the harsh Storm Sea Region.
• Mu Ye kicked Lin Xingyu into the sea, scattered his Soul Power and Bloodline Power, and dragged him through repeated deep dives and violent ascents to push his body to its limits.
• Lin Xingyu passed out from the ordeal, and Mu Ye placed him in medicinal liquid before discovering that a pure vitality from Lin Xingyu’s Soul Core had healed his injuries.
• After Lin Xingyu woke, he told Mu Ye that the vitality was something he had obtained by chance and that Mu Ye could regard it as Life Gold.

Mu Ye extended Lin Xingyu’s Martial Soul Second Awakening training after discovering that Life Gold could help repair the damage, and Lin Xingyu endured increasingly brutal deep-sea cultivation that strengthened him. On the forty-ninth day, Mu Ye began making him fight deep-sea Soul Beasts, leaving Lin Xingyu bracing for another opponent in the Storm Sea Region.

• Mu Ye explained that second-awakening training could damage a person’s origin, then revised Lin Xingyu’s medicine plan to reduce each dose and extend the training period because Lin Xingyu had Life Gold.
• Lin Xingyu ate the Soul Beast meat Mu Ye brought him as he recovered from training that pushed his body, Soul Power, and spirit to their limits.
• During the deep-sea training, Lin Xingyu broke through his Soul Power on the seventh day, and crimson-gold light appeared on the twelfth day as his potential began to emerge.
• On the thirty-sixth day, Mu Ye brought the ship into the Storm Sea Region and began pressing Lin Xingyu into its turbulent, whirlpool-filled waters.
• On the forty-ninth day, Mu Ye started bringing deep-sea Soul Beasts to fight Lin Xingyu, who struggled against increasingly powerful opponents and sensed another creature approaching.

Lin Xingyu fought a thirty-thousand-year Blood Jade Octopus in the deep sea and broke through his limits, completing his Martial Soul Second Awakening. After recovering with Mu Ye’s help, he described the awakening’s comprehensive amplification, though he and Mu Ye were unsure whether it had reached Silver or Gold Rank.

• Lin Xingyu faced a thirty-thousand-year Blood Jade Octopus at the eight-thousand-meter seabed and used his domain, spatial teleportation, and weapon to attack it.
• As his strength and time underwater ran low, Lin Xingyu entered Blood Qi State and fought the octopus at close range, breaking through a boundary and killing it with repeated punches.
• Mu Ye brought the exhausted Lin Xingyu to the surface, treated him with medicinal baths, and watched his Martial Soul Second Awakening take shape as his Crimson Gold Dharma Form absorbed his powers.
• After waking hungry, Lin Xingyu ate the Blood Jade Octopus meat Mu Ye prepared and recovered some vitality and Life Origin Liquid.
• Lin Xingyu told Mu Ye that the awakening had fused his martial soul’s traits and enhanced him comprehensively, while he remained uncertain whether it had reached Silver or Gold Rank.
• Mu Ye asked Lin Xingyu to summon his martial soul so he could examine it.

Lin Xingyu learned that his martial soul awakening was nearing Gold Rank and continued training with Mu Ye as they traveled through the Storm Sea Region. They discovered a Mysterious Crystal Coral sea, then crossed the Extreme North Land toward Heaven Dou City, where Lin Xingyu found a flood of messages waiting for him.

• Mu Ye explained that Lin Xingyu could force a Gold Rank awakening at the cost of his life force, while waiting would let him reach it naturally as he grew stronger.
• Lin Xingyu recovered for two days, then resumed harsh training at sea while Mu Ye guided him through the Storm Sea Region.
• Mu Ye found a hidden sea of blood-red coral and gave Lin Xingyu a thirty-thousand-year Mysterious Crystal Coral, marking the location as a potential sect secret base.
• After a month of training, Lin Xingyu and Mu Ye left the Storm Sea Region and reached the Extreme North Land, then set off for Heaven Dou City.
• As Lin Xingyu's Communication Soul Device reconnected, he received nearly one hundred and fifty messages from Xu Xiaoyan, along with messages from Wu Changkong, Yuanen Yehui, and Lin Cheng.

Lin Xingyu answered messages from his friends and Wu Changkong before joining Mu Ye in investigating a hidden Evil Soul Masters' base. He slaughtered the cultists inside, killed their two Soul Saints, and discovered their Rank 9 Sealing Tower as Mu Ye watched in approval.

• Lin Xingyu replied to his companions and apologized to Wu Changkong for leaving him waiting.
• Mu Ye noticed signs of habitation in the mountains and found a hidden cavern containing an Evil Soul Masters' base.
• Mu Ye reported that the base held two Soul Saints and told Lin Xingyu to fight them while he guarded the area.
• Lin Xingyu ambushed the cultists, killed the short, sturdy man and the tall, thin Soul Saint, and collected their souls and spoils.
• Lin Xingyu shut down the tower-shaped Soul Tool and identified it as the Federation-forbidden Rank 9 Sealing Tower.

Lin Xingyu released the souls imprisoned by the Holy Spirit Cult and left Mu Ye behind to watch for investigators. After reuniting with Mu Ye in Blue Ice City, Lin Xingyu learned that his teacher had run into a Quasi-God.

• Lin Xingyu destroyed the Holy Spirit Cult's Soul Tools and freed more than ten thousand human and Soul Beast souls, burning away the vicious ones with Glazed True Fire.
• Mu Ye stayed behind to ambush anyone investigating the stronghold, while Lin Xingyu traveled south toward Blue Ice City.
• At Shrek Academy, Wu Changkong contacted Lin Xingyu about his repeated absences, while Xu Xiaoyan and Yuanen Yehui reacted to his message and continued their cultivation.
• Lin Xingyu waited in Blue Ice City for Mu Ye and bought Mysterious Crystal Coral as gifts for his companions.
• Mu Ye arrived on the third day looking battered, then hurriedly left with Lin Xingyu and admitted he had encountered a Quasi-God.

Mu Ye recounted how he destroyed Holy Spirit Cult strongholds, killed Wrathful Ghost, and escaped the Ghost Emperor, while Lin Xingyu silently resolved to settle accounts with the Ghost Emperor. Back in Heaven Dou City, Zhen Hua began teaching Lin Xingyu Soul Forging and demonstrated the technique, leaving Lin Xingyu deeply shaken.

• Mu Ye ambushed Wrathful Ghost at a Holy Spirit Cult stronghold, but Wrathful Ghost fled and called for help.
• Mu Ye pursued Wrathful Ghost, destroyed another stronghold, then killed him before encountering the Quasi-God-level Ghost Emperor and withdrawing.
• Mu Ye told Lin Xingyu about his encounter with the Ghost Emperor, and Lin Xingyu privately marked the Ghost Emperor as someone to confront later.
• In Heaven Dou City, Zhen Hua offered to teach Lin Xingyu Soul Forging and explained that it required using one's own Essence, Qi, and Spirit without external means.
• Zhen Hua forged Jade Silver with three thousand hammer strikes to complete Soul Forging, and Lin Xingyu watched in astonishment.

After studying Zhen Hua's Soul Forging, Lin Xingyu successfully Soul Forged a Spirited Alloy on his first attempt and spent a month learning more techniques from him. He then prepared to return to Shrek Academy for final exams, while Zhen Hua agreed to seek an Immortal Herb that could improve Lin Xingyu's Spiritual Power and spring water from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Lin Xingyu watched Zhen Hua Soul Forge and concluded that he had grasped the process and was close to attempting it himself.
• Seven days later, Lin Xingyu fused six metals into a Spirited Alloy and completed resonance, solidification, and soul awakening in a single Soul Forging attempt.
• Zhen Hua praised Lin Xingyu's achievement, predicted he could become the youngest Divine Craftsman, and kept him for a month of further forging instruction.
• Lin Xingyu said goodbye to Zhen Hua and prepared to return to Shrek Academy for final exams after receiving warning letters from Wu Changkong.
• Zhen Hua offered to trade with the Tang Sect for an Immortal Herb, and Lin Xingyu requested one that improved Spiritual Power as well as spring water from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Lin Xingyu returned to Shrek Academy, reunited with his classmates, and learned that their upcoming final exam would take place in the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform during the Rampage Period. The chapter ended with Shen Yi explaining the exam’s requirements and warning students to stay within their spiritual-energy limits.

• Lin Xingyu returned to Shrek Academy and told Wu Changkong he planned to stay and cultivate; Wu Changkong assigned him to the academy’s upcoming Rampage Period assessment and advised him to form a team.
• Lin Xingyu considered a possible trip to Star Luo Continent and planned to leave a mark in Dragon Valley for a later visit.
• Lin Xingyu reunited with Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, Gu Yue, Tang Wulin, Ye Xinglan, and Wu Sidao, apologized for leaving class duties to them, and gave them Mysterious Crystal Coral before treating them to a meal.
• Seven days later, Shen Yi announced that the class’s final exam would take place in the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform during the Rampage Period, with teams of up to seven students.
• Shen Yi told the students they had to hunt Soul Beasts with a total age of at least ten thousand years and survive for twelve hours, and warned them to withdraw if they reached their spiritual-energy limits.

Lin Xingyu organized his classmates for the Spirit Ascension Platform assessment, then led his team into the Rampage Period and overwhelmed a five-thousand-year Earth Demon Rhinoceros. As he continued sweeping through Soul Beasts, Wu Changkong, Shen Yi, and Leng Yaozhu watched his extraordinary strength and potential.

• Lin Xingyu arranged teams for the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform assessment and told students to distribute their stronger members evenly.
• Shen Yi and Wu Changkong led Class One, Grade One to the Spirit Pagoda, where Leng Yaozhu received them and sent them to their entry rooms.
• Lin Xingyu formed a team with Wang Jinxi, Zhang Yangzi, and four other students, then had Zhang Yangzi scout the area.
• Lin Xingyu located a five-thousand-year Earth Demon Rhinoceros and stopped, overturned, and wounded it in a direct clash before Wang Jinxi finished it.
• Wu Changkong and Shen Yi discussed Lin Xingyu's overwhelming strength, while Leng Yaozhu reviewed his assessment image and focused her attention on him.
• Lin Xingyu continued sweeping through the Spirit Ascension Platform, crushing Soul Beasts with his physique, Spiritual Power, and Magnetic Field Power.

Lin Xingyu reunited with Tang Wulin’s group and led them through the Spirit Ascension Platform, rapidly accumulating Spiritual Power. After five Soul Emperors tried to rob them, Lin Xingyu ordered his teammates to engage the attackers while he charged their leader.

• Lin Xingyu found Tang Wulin’s group and combined the teams to hunt Soul Beasts more efficiently.
• The team completed their basic Spiritual Power objectives, and Lin Xingyu accumulated more than five thousand years of Spiritual Power.
• After twelve hours, five Soul Emperors confronted the team and demanded that they surrender their Spiritual Power.
• Lin Xingyu assigned his teammates to hold off the attackers and charged the Golden Lion Soul Emperor.
• Lin Xingyu suppressed the Golden Lion Soul Emperor and pierced his intercepting arm with his spear.

Lin Xingyu defeated the Golden Lion Soul Emperor and helped his teammates overcome the other Soul Emperors in the Spirit Ascension Platform. After collecting the defeated opponents’ spirit energy, he led the exhausted group away to rest and recover.

• Lin Xingyu pierced and killed the Golden Lion Soul Emperor after overpowering his defenses and surviving his final roar.
• The remaining Soul Emperors saw their leader fall, while Wang Jinxi, Zhang Yangzi, Wu Sidao, Ye Xinglan, Gu Yue, Xu Xiaoyan, Tang Wulin, and Xie Xie held their opponents at bay.
• Lin Xingyu and Xu Xiaoyan helped Ye Xinglan trap and defeat the Ice Spear Soul Emperor with coordinated attacks.
• Lin Xingyu bombarded the Black Eagle Soul Emperor with summoned weapons, and Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi’s Dark Demon Dragon Eagle avoided the attack as he fell and was eliminated.
• The group defeated Wu Sidao’s opponent and then the Green Leaf Dragon Soul Emperor, gaining enough spirit energy to match two hours of their usual gains.
• Lin Xingyu led the team away to rest and recover after the battle.

Lin Xingyu led his classmates through the Spirit Ascension Platform’s Rampage Period, then learned he had been selected for an academy trip to the Star Luo Continent. As he planned his holiday, Zhen Hua called him to the Heaven Dou City Blacksmith's Association because challengers were blocking its entrance.

• Xu Lizhi gave Lin Xingyu’s group Recovery Meat Buns, and the students compared how much spiritual energy they could still absorb.
• Lin Xingyu joined forces with Luo Guixing’s team and gathered nearly all the remaining First-Year Class One students, making their group too formidable for other teams to challenge.
• After five days, the students began leaving the Spirit Ascension Platform; Lin Xingyu, Gu Yue, and Tang Wulin stayed until the Rampage Period ended, and Lin Xingyu left without confronting the central guardian.
• Wu Changkong told Lin Xingyu he could enter the Inner Court after an assessment but would also join an academy mission to the Star Luo Continent, and he asked Lin Xingyu to bring Wu Sidao along.
• After his final exam, Lin Xingyu planned to visit Eastsea City, but Zhen Hua summoned him to the Heaven Dou City Blacksmith's Association to deal with challengers blocking the entrance.

Lin Xingyu arrived at the Heaven Dou City Blacksmith's Association and confronted Chang Gongyan and Lin Yuhan after Lin Yuhan won five forging matches. He demonstrated his skill by Spirit Forging six metals and Fusion Forging them with a 95 percent fusion rate, leaving the challenge's result poised in his favor.

• Lin Xingyu flew to Heaven Dou City wearing his newly made Battle Armor and arrived at the Blacksmith's Association.
• Lin Xingyu learned that Lin Yuhan had won five matches against the association's young forgers, then challenged her to match the quality of a forging he would complete within three days.
• Lin Xingyu Spirit Forged Azure Gestation Copper and five other metals in succession, impressing the gathered forgers.
• Lin Xingyu Fusion Forged all six Spirit-Forged metals together, achieving a 95 percent fusion rate.

Lin Xingyu forged Divine Alloy and stunned the Blacksmith’s Association, but a hidden assassin attacked Zhen Hua during the celebration. After Mu Ye pursued the attacker, Zhen Hua questioned Chang Gongyan and learned that a mysterious Level Eight Saint Craftsman named Ning Fengzhi had provoked the challenge.

• Lin Xingyu forged Divine Alloy through an improvised Fusion Forge, and Chang Gongyan admitted defeat as Lin Yuhan admired his talent.
• A hidden assassin struck at Zhen Hua, but Zhen Hua escaped with his defensive Soul Tools while Lin Xingyu and Mu Ye attacked the assailant.
• Mu Ye pursued the wounded assassin as Zhen Hua restrained Chang Gongyan and his group, then took them to his office.
• Zhen Hua questioned Chang Gongyan, who explained that his Star Luo delegation had come for a Federation exchange and had been challenged by a mysterious Level Eight Saint Craftsman calling himself Ning Fengzhi.

After a Holy Spirit Cult assassin failed to kill Zhen Hua, Mu Ye tracked him down and defeated him, exposing the threat to Zhen Hua and his circle. Lin Xingyu learned that he would soon travel to Star Luo Continent as an exchange student, and Zhen Hua rewarded him with a rare medicinal herb before he returned to Shrek City.

• Zhen Hua kept Chang Gongyan and Lin Yuhan at the Blacksmith's Association while the investigation into the attack continued.
• The wounded black-robed assassin restored his injuries and planned to target Lin Xingyu to threaten Zhen Hua.
• Mu Ye caught up with the assassin outside Heaven Dou City and defeated the rank ninety-six Evil Soul Master, identifying him as a member of the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Chang Gongyan recalled that the Saint Forger posing as Ning Fengzhi had carried a cold, sinister aura, and Mu Ye warned that the cult might have allies behind the scenes.
• Mu Ye told Lin Xingyu to stay cautious, then agreed to accompany him to Star Luo Continent when Lin Xingyu revealed the academy had assigned him there as an exchange student.
• Zhen Hua gave Lin Xingyu a roughly thousand-year-old Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, and Lin Xingyu remained in Heaven Dou City until he returned to Shrek City.

Lin Xingyu reunited with Xu Xiaoyan, shared a meal with her, Gu Yue, and Wu Sidao, then learned that he and several classmates had been chosen for a year-long exchange on Star Luo Continent. The group prepared to leave soon, and Wu Sidao explained her clan’s distant ties to the Star Luo Dai Clan.

• Xu Xiaoyan delivered Lin Xingyu money and spiritual items from Lin Cheng, then invited him to eat at a new barbecue shop.
• Lin Xingyu and Xu Xiaoyan met Gu Yue and Wu Sidao at the crowded shop, where Wu Sidao teased Lin Xingyu about neglecting their team and they playfully kicked each other under the table.
• Wu Changkong told Lin Xingyu, Gu Yue, Wu Sidao, Tang Wulin, Xu Xiaoyan, Ye Xinglan, Xu Lizhi, and Xie Xie that they had been selected for a year-long exchange on Star Luo Continent.
• Wu Changkong explained that the exchange would offer access to unfamiliar ores, powerful soul beasts, and other resources, while warning that students there could challenge them.
• Wu Sidao told Lin Xingyu and the others that her family and the Star Luo Dai Clan shared an ancestor but had split several thousand years ago.